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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON PAGE TWO , .'¡i 1 Every once In a while some natura' or economic disaster drives the one crop farmer» of a district Into diver Published every Thursday at Hermls- '»¡ficatlon, and the result is alway: ton, Umatilla County, Oregon, by Lreater prosperity and stability, no. Pauline M. Stoop and Alfred Qulrlng, ¡only for the farmer but for all th Publishers people of his district or state. ®Ijr ^tnntaiiin ^rralh Entered as Second Class Matter December, 1906, Umatilla County. Oregon. Subscription Rates: One Y ea r.................................... Six Mouths ................................ Three Months ................... ....... *2.00 *1.00 .. .50 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. St. Luke 19:10 Three Kinds of Farmers No Dole The effort In Congress to pauper Ize vast numbers of Americans bj voting monoy from the public fundi as a free gift seems to have failed The time-tried American method o relieving economic distress by pri vate charity is working out. Th< Red Cross has the drought-relief sit uatlon well in hand and the peopli of the United States have responder in full to its appeal for funds. Such money as has been approprl a ted from the public treasury to the relief of the farmers who ar> compelled to make a fresh start li life because of the drought will b. made available to them on term; which will not sacrifice their self respect nor render them objects o Government charity. There are t lew In every community who wouh rather get something without work ing for it than to do an honest day'i work, and they are usually the oner who are most vociferous in their de mands for help. But the time hat not yet come when any considerable portion of Americans are ready ti confess that they cannot suppor. themselves, and are willing to live in idleness at the expense of thcii fellow-citizens. Farm Board results in cutting down ' agricultural acreage in all of the sta ple crops, the Board will i^ave Jus tified its existence and Its cost if It' accomplishes nothing else. And with acreage reduced and a tariff high enough to keep foreign foodstuffs out ot the country, the farmer's pro blem will be solved. ♦ Principal Events of the Week Assembled for Information of Our Readers. THE MARKETS MINNEHAHA NEWS NOTES O OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERÄL INTEREST P ortlan d ❖ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ < Many of the Hermiston men havej been fishing for steelheads near the Jam, M. T. Malott caught two large steelheads Friday. Donald Jackson returned from Cor vallis Sunday where he attended the Oregon State Educational Exposition, i He was sent by the high school as a representative. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Strietel have returned home after a short visit at the W. H. Starr home. W. G. Rodda and Bill were in Pen dleton on business Friday. R. H. Thom left Monday for a two weeks vacation in California. Mrs. M. T. Matott and daughters and Mrs. J. V. Allen were Pendleton visitors Friday. Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Pennock spent Wednesday in Penleton. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Root and son Vernon were Sunday visitors at the M. E. Root home. They are residents of Boardman. Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, *8c; soft white, western white. 66c; hard winter, northern spring, western red. 63c. Hay—Buying price, f. o b Portland: Alfalfa. *17.50@18; valley timothy. *17.50; eastern Oregon timothy. *19® »20; clover, H ; oat hay. »14; oats and vetch, «13.50014. Butterfat—19® 22c. Eggs—Ranch, 12® 20c. Cattle—Steers, good, *8.50@9.10. Hogs—Good to choice, J9.OO®9.25. Lambs—Good to choice, J6.75@7.25 Seattle Wheat—8oft white, western white, 66c; northern spring, hard winter, western red, 64c; bluestem, 67c. Eggs—Ranch, 9® 18c. Butterfat—24c. Cattle—Choice steers, *7.7508.50. Hogs—Good to choice, *9® 9.25. Lambs—Choice, *6.50®7. Spokane Cattle—Steers, good, *7.50 0 8.25. Hogs—Good to choice, *8.65. Lambs—Medium to good.*5®6. (From Autocaster Service) One of the drawbacks to any dis cussion of the farmer and his prob lems is the uncertainty as to what sort of farming is under discussion. There are three different types of farmer, and in almost every part of the United States all three are to be found side by side. The most widely-dlstrltrtited type is what may be called the “non-com mercial" farmer, the great group with whom farming is not so much a business as a mode of living. This type raises no considerable amount of any one “money crop," but grows on his own land the means of subsis tence for his family and, counting out the eggs, butter or other market The Swenson sawmill south of Ven ❖ <• eta started operations after a shut able produce traded in town for store No Ground For Fear ♦ COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES * down of several weeks. goods, handles very little cash In the It Is useless to deny that the pre ♦ ♦ course of a year. Earl Weaver, Sams valley rancher, sent state of mind of many American! t « 4 « « « <> <• « < . « « « ❖ « The group of farmers who are is fear of what the future may bring Mr. and Mrs. It. L. Addleman re-1 reports a vein of coal discovered on specialists, “onc-crop" farmers. Is Fear seems to be prevalent in al cetved a telegram Monday which bore j his property. He was digging a well, probably the largest numerically and public thinking on economics today the sad news of the death of their Motor vehicle registration fees for in acrcago under fence. They are People are afraid that things are no soh-ln-law, Axel Fisher, of Tacoma, the first six months of the present business men, in the broad sense, pro going to "come back,"that someho' Washington. Mrs. Addleman. Mrs. I fiscal year to January 1 totaled *6,- ducing nothing but u single commo we have lost our stride as a natio. Lela Montgomery and Mr. and Mrs. ; 192,386.58. dity which they sell or hope to sell and are not going to be able to gel Herbert Hall left by auto Monday , RopOrts that platinum, gold and sil- for money, and growing nothing, or going again at the old pace. Then evenlng for Tacoma, to he with Mrs. ver are being taken from Gales creek almost nothing, which they them is more money now in savings bankt Fisher. at Forest Grove's back door has the selves consume. The single crop may than ever before In history. Mucl Mrs. S. Saunders and son of W alla. town agog be cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn, oran of it has been put there In the P;if> t'\v a||a spent Saturday and Sunday The Roosevelt highway south of Sea ges, apples, celery or potatoes, de year because people were afraid to with the Savage family, side was blocked recently for 300 feet pending upon location. Dependent spend It. Merchants have been a- Mr and Mrg. y/m . Miksle Mr. Mrs. Wm. upon their money returns from the wer® ( by a landslide. It took about ten days fraid to replenish their stocks, for Sunday s ,lnday guests at the Chas Lynch , single rash crop for everything which i to remove the debris. fear prices would go down still far home. they e it and wear, these are the first Enrollment at the University of ther. Individuals have been afraid Mr. and Mrs. Lomlc Hall of W alla, to feel ¿he effect nt a general busi ' that conditions were going to get Walla visited the home folks Sun-1 O re*« reached “ ness depression and are constantly at 3266 for the winter term, an increase continually worse. day. the merry of competition and over Arthur Martin, accompanied by hir i of 73 over last year. There is nothing In our history to production in their staple crops. This sister Leah and Lois Moore, motored i Mrs. Esther Silver was Injured fa- Is the type of farmer at whose relief warrant such fears. The only way to Walla Walla Friday and returned tally when she was thrown from a log to judge the future is by the past. most of the political remedies for on the beach near Devils lake recent- All of our past history reveals a suc Sunday afternoon. agricultural ills are aimed. Mr. and Mrs. II. Edwnrds and son ly. The log rolled on her. cession of forward steps, never p The happiest farmers are the third backward one. The pace has slack E. 0 Edwards and granddaughter j Stockholder* pf the St. Helens Co- class, those whose farming operations enod at times, as it has slackened in Erma Potter were dinner guests at operative Creamery association have coinbin.? those of the other two. tho pust eighteen months, but the I the J. E. Kallyburton home Sunday, voted to join the Lower Columbia Val They livo off the soil and can con movement has always been forward. I • Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Harris, W. II. ley Co-operative Dairy association. tribute to live independently and com There is not a single reason for . the ! Moore, Ina Moore and Eulene McBee A determined effort is being made fortably yenr in and year out, except bellef thut our economic progress ha if Walla Walla, spent Monday with by the Bend police department to en for natural catastrophes such as stopped or that we are going back W. E. Moore and family. They motor force the ordinance against throwing floods or drought. They grow enough ward. On the contrary, all tho sign: ed to Portland Tuesday, paper and other refuse upon public or of one or more cash crops to figure point In the other direction. Then Jaunlta Wella visited Sunday eve- private property. as important factors In the produce la no ground for fear. n * g with Erma Potter. Motor vehicle fatalities In Oregon markets, but failure in any one year J, E. Halleyburton attended an in 1930 aggregated 280, as against to cash in on such crops or livestock American Legion meeting In Heppner 239 in 1929. Figures were released Farm Belief does not reduce them to penury or Saturday. at Salem recently by Hal E. Hoss, plunge them Into debt. There la talk In Congress of at Mrs. Herman Hurst spent Tuesday secretary of state. For forty years and more the Uni ncroase ot 50 per cent In the tarlf forenoon visiting school. ted States end the various State de in all agricultural products. Tha John H. Maxwell, farmer ot the Marlon Ott Is absent from school partments of agriculture, ss well as world go a long way toward helptnr Ross Lane district near Medford, has on account of illness. the agricultural colleges have been the farmers who have something ti Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Luttrell visited a freak at his stock ranch—a S-month- preaching the gospel of diversified «11 this yoar. The whole world 1 Saturday at the Chas Lynch home. , old calf with mule hoofs. The calf farming In the one-crop regions. n the sain estate of agriculture ’ Mrs. Chas Lynch, who has been ill is otherwise normal. ivcrproductlon ns wc are, and every The Portland office of the United for several days Is able to be about iody Is trying to dump surplus grain States biological survey has received again. otton, potatoes, fruits, wool, suga: There will be a basket social in a shipment of 100 pounds of strych >nd other agricultural commodltiei connection with the local declama nine to be used in the war against in us. tory contest Monday evening, Febru rodents and predatory animals. If wc are to have a tariff wall, bj Albert Hoffman, 16, of Central ary 23. Everyone welcome. all means make one as high for thi Point died from wounds received Miss Glea Slas spent the week-end farmer as for the manufacturer. In whon a war souvenir exploded. The with her parents in Athena. dustry has had more than its shart boy had picked up what he thought Mrs. R. H. Stockard was called to was a piece of metal and hammered if protection In the past; It is thi Bend, Oregon, last week to assist in armor's turn now. IL Another encouraging sign of bet the eare of Mrs. Paul Stockard, who In the Interest of economy the coun ter times ahead for the farmer Is th« Is quite ill. / cil ot Cottage Grove has reduced sal agreement whlrh wheat growers ii Mrs. Jackson Ilarr who has been aries of city employes. The cuts range 'ho Texas wheat belt, another grou confined to her homo by an attack from 35 to 10 per cent. The night in Couth Dakota, still another grmr jf flu is able to be about again. police officer was the only one not in the Pacific Northwest, are makn reduced. Chicago police stopped a suspici themselves, to reduce their when Experiments will be conducted by acreage by 40 per cent. It Is encour ous looking automobile, but discover Dr. Miller of the United States de aging because It is the first, as fa> ed that what they thought was a wo partment of agriculture at the Bentley :s we can recall, that any consider man being abducted was only a de walnut grove, near Dundee. In an ef able body of growers haa started la partment store window dummy. fort to combat the bacterial bllgbt- telllgent self-help on sound economic Don't put off your Shoe Repair Parley Young of Concord, N. H., I ing of nuts. principles. The cry of the farmer hat *as uninjured after a speeding train, A. C. Barnes ot Prineville recently — Shoes Dyed All Cold been so much that of wanting some had clipped off the radiator, hood, had trouble with his radio receiving body else to step In and help him. The motor, front wheels and headlights I set. Examination disclosed that a only p.ople who ran give the farmei of his car. mouse had found Its way into the any permanent help are the farmers Mrs. Sterling Neal of Columbus. working parts of the set, and hod themselves. If the educational cam O., slashed all the tires of her hus been elecrocuted. paign against overproduction Initia band’s automobile because he had Efforts to secure a new power life ted a year and a half ago by the pawned her shot gun. boat for the local coast guard star tion are to be continued by the Ban don chamber of commerce despite a discouraging response from Admiral Btllard, chief of the service. Y our Old Shoes Made N ew BOWMAN SHOESHOP Captain Malcolm Campbell «»( England tuccessfuffv smashed all work!*» records for speed Qil the ground in this strange-lookm, cor. which made ¿45 m.le, an |,ulK .t La/tvoa Bunch, Hvr.da The board of directors of the Med ford Irrigation district has decided to merge It, management with that of tbe Talent district, in the interest of econ omy. Olen Arnaptger will be general manager of the two districts. A record ot 17* pounds of butter- fat In 74 days Is tbe unusual record set by a Josephine county Gu?rnsey cow owned by J. C. Calhoun of Grants Pass. The average annual amount of butterfat produced in Oregon ie 173 pounds. It has heed announced by state dairy Inspector«, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1», 1931 .. ' r OREGON RANGE & LIVESTOCK Heavy taxpayers of Yamhill county are forming a branch of the Taxpay REPORT FOB FEBRURARY FIRST - i ' , ■ ' Gets New Home ers' Equalisation League of Oregon to obtain a more equitable equalization Oregon livestock is in very good of the tax on real property, now bear condition following favorable wea ing 80 per cent ot tbe tax burden. ther conditions during Januury, ac-1 Albany’s rainfall daring 1930 was al cording to tbe monthly livestock and , most a third less than the average range report of the United States D i-! during the last 15 years, F. M. French, vision of crop and livestock estimates. local United States weather observer, There has been little snow and very ' said. Tbe 1930 total was 26.66 Inches. mild weather. Feeding hks been li- ' mited. The lack of snow has resul- j The 15-year average is 39.18 inches. How to meet the crisis of the pres ted In a shortage of stock water and ent panicky condition of the dairy moisture is needed for spring grass products market occupied the chief as all ranges are very dry. Cattle place of attention at the 35th annual and sheep have wintered well with j meeting of the Oregon Dairymen’s as light losses. sociatlon held at Redmond recently. Oregon sheep are in fair to excel This Norwegia i Elk Hound pup, Retail business in Portland in ex lent flesh. The weather Is ideal for who hasn't a name yet, is the gift of cess of »211,000,000 is shown by the lambing. The condition of Oregon admirers to President Hoover. He will bureau of the census in the release cattle shows considerable increase | take the place of King Tut, the Presi dent's Belgian shepherd dog who died of the returns from the 1930 distribu recently. over last month. tion census now being compiled. The 1930 population of Portland is 301,890. Edward Clow, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clow of Uniondale, was in the McMinnville hospital recently with a fractured skull. The youth ran behind a barn while a blast in a stump was exploded. A piece of the stump was thrown over the barn, strik ing him on the head. Engineers appointed by the public service commission to study traffic conditions on the Pacific highway at the northern entrance of Albany have recommended an underground crossing that will serve both the Pacific and Hermiston, Oregon—Phone 100 the Santiam highway by eliminating existing grade crossings. Marion ccunty with an infant mor tality of only 35.3 per 1000 during 1929, is one of the most favored re gions in the entire nation in this respect, according to Dr. Vernon A. Douglas, county health officer. Births in the county during the year totaled 933, compared to 810 in 1929. The Oregon Packing company of Salem notified growers that no con tracts for pumpkin acreage will be taken for next year. The company generally took contracts for 3500 to 4000 tons of pumpkins at this time of the year. No pack will be made next year, however, directors said. Oregon dairymen must develop and maintain an aggressive spirit if they are to curb the increased use of oleo- margerine and other dairy substitutes and a corresponding decrease in the use of butter and dairy products, J. D. Mickle, state dairy and food commis sioner, declared recently at Eugene. The finest hot cress buns ever. . Made in onr kitchens, ?nd The national forest service and Lane J with a flavor you’ve seldom tasted. Let us take care of your county will co-operate in building a advance order. Phone us today. road over the summit, between the headwaters of Indian creek and those of Ten Mile creek in the northwestern part of the county, it was announced. The county will obtain the right of way and the forest service will grade the road. All timber lands are to be assessed for fire protection, regardless of resi dent exemption, unless the specific areas to be exempted are designated Prices Very Favorable to the Producers and are patrolled by the owners, ac cording to a legal opinion handed down by the attorney-general at Salem re cently. The opinion was requested by VEAL AND HOGS ALSO WANTED AT ANY TIME the state forestry department. The construction of a telephone line into the Chetco river district has been announced by officials of the Siskiyou 140 FRONT STREET PORTIAND, OREGON national forest. Action taken by the forestry department in allowing resi dents of the district access to the gov ernment lines is a part of a plan which will afford better fire preven tion during the summer months. Milling facilities for the new *10,- TH E D A L L E S, OREGON 000 addition to the Farm Bureau Co operative warehouse at Hermiston WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER have been purchased, and will be in stalled within the next few days. When completed and ready for operation the Call and Leave Articles at Hitt’s Confectionery. warehouse will be one of the best of M AIL O R D E R S PR O M PT L Y F I L L E D its capacity in the northwest, with the best milling equipment available. Curry county’s tax levy for this year will be 23 mills, one-tenth of a mill • » • • • * » lower than for the past year and the lowest tax for many years. The coun ty commissioners feel highly pleased that they have been able to keep down the tax levy when there Is such great demand for public expenditures. Cur ry's levy is probably the lowest of any county in the state. The temperature of the water in the well being drilled at Lakeview to obtain hot water with which to heat the entire city jumped to 200 degrees when the bit reached a depth of 562 ( feet. One hotel, a hospital and three Dauntless Courage Was One of homes now are being heated by a well ' that was drilled several years ago. Washington’s Qualities If the present well will provide 1060 As a General, he feared no danger. As a President, he gallons a mlnnte at 200 degrees, that acted according to tthe dictates of his conscience regardless will be a sufficient amount to heat the of approval or disapproval. As a man, he courageously faced city of 200 Inhabitants. life and all its difficulties. 4 Hot Lunches :: Quick Service Sweets and Refreshing Drinks SPORTING GOODS HITT’S CONFECTIONER ¥ HERE TH EY ARE! H E R M IS T O N B A K E R Y FANCY CAPONS WANTED —: Ship at Once VIC & PHIL PRODUCE CO. W E B B E R ’S C L E A N E R S Feb. 24-25 Residents ot the upper Chetco river. ' in southern Curry county, where there are large areas of fertile bottom land and thousands of acres of grating, are i asking the county for an extension of the highway to a point ten miles farther up the river. Representatives of the Rogue River ▼alley fruit Industry will name a com mittee composed of three members of the traffic association and three mem bers of the Fruitgrowers' league to study the advisability of merging the league and traffic assoclatiou. Today few of us have our courage tried as Washington had his tried at Valley Forge. Modern life however is best lived by those who have courage enough to forego some of the fleeting pleasures of the present for the sake of future benefit. When you put aside a regular amount out of your income weekly, you are Justifying Washington's faith in the country that salutes him as its Father. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Hermiston Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits Over *50.000. F. B. Swayxe. Pres. - R. Alexander. Vice-Pres. - A. H. Norton. Cashier *
