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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 193« Washington Digest • National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART NATIONAL PRESS BLDG WASHINGTON, D C Washington.—There seems to be little doubt any longer that Presi- dent Roosevelt is To Lure getting ready to Farm Vote spring a new sur prise among his many surprises and that he will employ it to wean away as much of the farm vote from Governor Landon of Kansas as is possible. The President usually has a card up his sleeve, one that he can pull out with a flourish and one that, on the surface at least, carries very convincing prospects in the particu lar line he has chosen. In this instance, it seems rather well established that you may ex pect the President to come forward shortly with a brand new proposi tion for greater co-operative effort between the farmers and the city consumers. He is likely to pre sent this new proposition—some of his critics have been unkind enough to describe it as a new rabbit from the hat—in a dressing that will be quite alluring. It is not clear yet just when the new plan will be of fered by the President and his New Deal associates, but the guess can be made that it will come in time to permit a full exposition of the program by the New Dealers in advance of election. By the same token, it is apparent that the Presi dent’s 1936 promises for the farm ers will be disclosed late enough so that the Republicans will have little time to pick it to pieces. The tip-off on the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is developing another farm program comes in Mr. Sec retary Wallace’s latest book "Whose Constitution.” Of course, the secretary’s observations may not be charged directly to the Pres ident. Nevertheless, it is the opin ion of many of us who have watched the New Deal wheels go around that the secretary of agri culture usually leads the procession in offering new suggestions for New Deal activities. Secretary Wallace is a candid man and his frankness continuous ly has been of an engaging sort. For the reason that he is of this type, I think it can be said usually that his views reflect what is going on beneath the surface. That is, his views ordinarily serve as a trial balloon, whether the secretary re alizes it or not, and if they are watched closely, an accurate fore cast of what is coming may be made. It might have been that the sec retary’s book would have escaped attention as a vehicle carrying a message from the inner circle of New Dealers except for one line that was tucked away in the Dem ocratic platform, or the platform adopted by the Philadelphia con vention. The sentence in the platform with which the secretary’s book may properly be connected reads: “We will act to secure to the consumer fair value, honest sales and a de creasing spread between the price he pays and the price the producer receives.” Some observers here have linked that proposition with a thought that Mr. Roosevelt proposes to organize not only co-operatives among the farmers but to link those co-opera tives with similar co-operatives among the consumers. The convic tion held by these individuals is that Mr. Roosevelt, astute politi cian that he is, is seeking to kill two birds with one stone. In other words, they contend that his plan will be thrown out as an induce ment for the farmers to support his policies and re-elect him and that when he deals with the voters in great industrial areas he will point out to them the possibility of cheaper food in this manner. It is to be remembered in con nection with the reported new farm program that Mr. Roosevelt has sent a commission to Europe to study the co-operative idea. There has been no fanfare, no blare of trumpets about the departure of these men, each being an avowed New Dealer and each one being thoroughly dependable. That is, they are men who can be depended upon to present the facts they gath er in true New Deal light. They have been in Europe now about a month. It is expected they will re main at least one month longer. If, then, they take a month to write that we can expect another New Deal farm program, based upon the co-operative idea, to emerge from the White House around Oc tober 1. It is just 30 days from that date to the election. • • • We now have had acceptance speeches by both Mr. Roosevelt and . Governor Landon, Campaign his opponent. To I true* the extent that the keynote speeches of the national con ventions indicate the trend cf mind of the party workers and to the ex tent that the acceptance speeches tell in a way the deeply root ed views of the candidates, the is sues of the campaign are drawn. Of course, it has frequently been ri a (aaant the case that the issues of July are not the issues that decide the elec tion in November. There are those students of politics who are saying this year that the questions dis cussed by President Roosevelt and Governor Landon in their accept ance speeches are going to have very little to do with the decision of the voters three months hence. I can report only on a consensus among political authorities on this point. That consensus seems to be that Mr. Landon is going to stick to discussion of the major problems as he sees them and that Mr. Roosevelt’s strategy will be governed entirely by whatever changes take place in campaign conditions. In other words, these writers in Washington who have gone through many a harried political battle, seem to feel that Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign strategy is going to be exactly Mke the policies he has fol lowed in his present administra tion. By that I mean, to quote the President's own words, that “If one thing fails, we will try something else.” There is the conviction among these same writers that Governor Landon will resort to no oratorical flourishes nor will he employ any of the tactics that Mr. Roosevelt has so often used in his fireside radio chats. Further, it is quite evi dent, I believe, that Governor Lan don will make the burden of his plea to the American people an ap peal to restore what he considers to be the American form of govern ment. It was quite obvious from his acceptance speech, as it has been evident in some of his pre campaign pronouncements, that he favors the common sense idea in government management and that he will permit nothing to swerve him from that course. But it should be said, it seems to me, that if Governor Landon is able to maintain that plane throughout his campaign, he will be deserving of great commenda tion. There are many observers here who believe he has undertaken a task of the most difficult kind. The governor has built up or others have built up around him an at mosphere of simplicity. It has reached a high pitch. The ques tion is—can he keep the campaign attuned to that pitch from now un til November? If he does, he will surprise a great many observers. • • * Lately, I have heard through un derground channels that Democrat- ic Chairman Far- F arley ley is getting a Irked little irked at the methods em ployed by the youthful J ohi. Ham ilton, who is chairman of the Re publicans. “Big Jim” has taken a leave of absence as postmaster general, you will remember, in or der to devote his time to re-elect ing President Roosevelt. He is now in a position to battle and, judging by his record, he can be expected to carry on a vigorous fight. That makes it all the more surprising to know that "Big Jim” has grown a little bit peevish as a result of tne nudging and the razing that the red-headed Republican chair man has been handing him. Six weeks elapsed between the nomination of Governor Landon and the date of his formal notifica tion. During this time, Mr. Ham ilton alone had to carry the Repub lican ball. He made numerous speeches and minced no words in any of them. He struck out straight from the shoulder at Mr. Farley. During that time, Mr. Hamilton really had no one firing back at him. It was exactly the same condition as obtained befor? the Republicans had selected a candi date and Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Farley had no one to fight back at them. The test for Mr. Hamil ton, therefore, will come when Mr. Farley gets into action and the Democratic campaign is fully un der way. He is young in national politics and some of the success of the Republican campaign is going to depend upon how Mr. Hamilton conducts himself, when Mr. Farley starts jibing and knocking down the Republican chairman's ears in the heat of battle. There is another phase of the campaign that is going to be inter esting to watch. For three years, Mr. Roosevelt has had open chan nels on the radio, has had the ut most freedom in picking his spots for delivering new pronouncements or his appeals for patience by the people. But that time has passed insofar as the President is con cerned. He is now confronted with competition. What I am trying to say is that everywhere and every time the President speaks, he will speak with the knowledge that a fighting opposition is ready to leap on every word and every proposal that he makes. This is an entirely different circumstance than any Mr. Roosevelt has faced since he entered the White House March 4, 1933. © Western Newspaper Union, OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST HEADLINE HUNTER Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected tor Our Readers McMinnville—Places on the Lin field college honor roll for spring semester were won by 53 students, of whom three received straight A grades. J. K. Riley, registrar, re leased the information. Klamath Falls — Weed-Klamath highway has been opened to one-way traffic again after having been blocked by debris sent down the slope of Mount Shasta at Whitney J creek. Train service on Southern Pacific's Cascade line is also re sumed. [ay) Quilt of Applique Is Popular; Easy to Do N iveNTuterz CLUB “Death's Back Window” By FLOYD GIBBONS ELL, sir, here’s another candidate for the girl’s dormitory of the Adventurers’ club. What I mean, the ladies have been bust ing in here so fast that I wonder if we're not going to have to throw a couple of the men out to make room for them. Zigzag—A pioneer’s bear trap was Now don’t get nervous, fellows. I was only kidding when I said discovered in the woods near Govern ment Camp by Larry Espinosa, for that. There’s room enough for four billion people in this club of ours, est service sign man, and his crew and at last reports there were only two billion in the world. Unless of CCC boys. The trap, a yoke-like the Martians or the people from the moon get to flooding in here in contraption, was identified by Wil liam Faubion as one he and O. O. large numbers, there'll be room enough for everybody. But I’ll admit I get a little nervous when I see the girls put ting it over on the men in this adventuring business. Adventur ing was once a job for men and men only. But what I’m scared of now is that some dame like Shirley Temple will grab my meal ticket and I’ll have to hunt up a job washing dishes or minding a baby. Yocum set some 50 years ago. Corvallis—George Y. Martin has been recommended as superintendent of the printing plant at Oregon State college to the state board of higher education by George W. Peavy, col lege president, and approved by F. M. Hunter, chancellor. Martin at present is head of the plant at South Dakota State. Window Boxes Don’t Make a Hit With Mary. Pattern 1191 You can have good luck tokens 'round you year in, year out, If you make this Bluebird quilt, and such a simple one it is too, in easy applique, with each bird all in one patch. You may make the birds uniform in color, or vary them by using up colorful scraps. Thus using but three ma terials. Pattern 1191 comes to you with complete, simple instructions for cutting, sewing and finishing, to gether with yardage chart, dia gram of quilt to help arrange the blocks for single and double bed size, and a diagram of block which serves as a guide for plac ing the patches and suggests con trasting materials. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Nee dlecraft Department, 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. And speaking of babies, that brings us around to today’s Distin guished Adventurer-lady—Mrs. Mary Donohue of The Bronx, N. Y. Mary has a baby, and the baby had an adventure. The baby isn’t much of a hand at writing—it’s only three now—so Mary sent the yarn in herself. After all it was more of an adventure for Mary than it was for the child. The baby wasn’t quite old enough to know what was going on. It happened on Septembei 10, 1934. Then, Mary and her family were living in a comfortable home on the fourth floor of an apartment house. The place was nicely fixed up, even to a window box on the sill in the living room. And about that Kindnesses Practiced window box—well—that’s the main part of the story. Small kindnesses, small cour Whenever Mary sees a window box now, she gets a queer, sickish feeling inside her, no matter how beautiful the flowers are in it, for it tesies, small considerations, hab reminds her of the murderous one in her own home, and brings her itually practiced in our social in back to that terrible September morning when she saw her youngest tercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display child—her eighteen-month-old baby—plunge to certain death. of great talents and accomplish Baby Climbs Into an Adventure All His Own. ments.—M. A. Kelty. It was eight o’clock in the morning, and Mary was mighty busy. She has five other children, and this was the first day of school. There were a million and one things that had to be done for those other kids on this Dallas—Prune growers here elect ed J. G. Hogg and Harry Webb of Dallas as directors of the Oregon Prune Control, Inc. L. R. Price, N. T. Guy and T. A. Dunn were chosen members of the executive committee. Members present voted unanimously to go ahead with organization of the control group. Florence—The Siuslaw Pioneer as- sociation, in its annual meeting last week at the Main River grange hall, Cushman, was attended bv 50 mem bers. A basket dinner, songs, spe cial numbers and early-day tales comprised the program following the business session at which Mrs. Ken neth McCornack was elected presi- dent. Lakeview — Purchase of 100,000 acres of privately owned land in the Hart mountain area was agreed up on at a meeting of stockmen and gov ernment officials. The tract would become a game refuge. Ira Gabriel- son, chief of federal biological sur vey, and F. R. Carpenter, director of grazing, department of the interior, met with state leaders here. EASE the BAD DAYS Enterprise—Shortage of water in Wallowa valley has become a serious problem for farmers depending on irrigation. Owners of farms under the ditches coming from Wallowa lake met recently in the office of Max Wilson, secretary of the Asso ciated Ditch companies, at Joseph. All recognized the fact they will be on short allowance for the rest of the season. The Baby Plummeted Four Stories to the Ground special morning. They had to have an extra good washing, now that the vacation days were over. They had to be fed a little earlier, and packed off with their new notebooks and pencil boxes under their arms. Mary had just put the finishing touches on one of her little girls’ hair ribbons when she just happened to wonder what the baby was doing. It’s one of those hunches that pester a mother probably forty times a day. Most of the time they’re false alarms. But this one -wasn’t. Mary went to the living room to see if everything was all right—and everything wasn’t all right. There, in the window box, outside the window and four flights up from the ground, was the baby. He had climbed up there and stood looking over the line of back yards that stretched away down the block. And just as Mary entered the room she heard an ominous, crack ing sound FROM THE WINDOW BOX ON WHICH THE BABY WAS STANDING I Drain—Pioneer stage coach driv ers of Douglas county were honored recently when a monument in their memory was dedicated at the Para dise creek bridge on the Drain-Reeds port highway. The Sons and Daugh ters of Oregon Pioneers and the Douglas County association of Port land erected the monument on land donated by the state highway com mission. Baby and Window Box Plunge to the Ground. "I didn’t scream,” says Mary. "Instead I walked cautiously toward the open window, trying not to frighten him. My senses seemed to be leaving me. I took another step and reached out to catch him. But it was too late.” Yes. It was too late. Just as Mary reached, there was an other loud crack, and the window box went plummeting toward the earth. The baby went with it—down four stories in a clear drop to the ground. Mary CAN’T describe the emotions she felt then. No pen ever made could describe them. “When I saw my baby go, my heart went with him,” she says. And that’s the nearest she can come to telling us how she felt. “I rushed down the stairs,” she says, “I wanted to be the first to iold his little dead body in my arms. My eyes were unseeing—saw nothing but the space in front of me that led to my baby. I reached the cellar and started up the steps leading to the yard. Then I saw my nine-year-old daughter coming toward me with the baby in her arms. She had gotten there before me.” WORKERS RESENT THEFT Albany—“Workers”—in this case, honey bees—strongly resented the pillage of their hives by Norbert Heins, local bee man, and followed him to town last week. At his honey plant in the heart of Albany’s busi ness district, one swarm laid seige to the front door. A larger number discovered the back door and buzzed around it. ’ To make matters worse for Heins, some of the more irate in sects flew inside, where they literally made things hum. Undaunted by the closed doors and frigid welcome, the visitors kept their vigil on the honey all night and all the next day. The intermittent return of feminine disturbance la natural. It is not natural, however, for such •vents to be accompanied by aggravated femi- nine disorders, excessive, gripping, throbbing pain, and very bad days. Many women find that the pain is relieved and the bad days greatly eased by the regular use of SALICON during the upset period. 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The baby, instead of lying stiff and motionless in his sister’s arms, was crying lustily. "I took him in my arms,” says Mary. "I don’t want to try to express my feelings then. God alone knows how I felt to be holding my baby alive. For a while, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Then I saw what had happened.” And what had happened, boys and girls, was just this. It had rained for several days previous to the accident. The drainage of the yard was defective and water had collected. In some spots it was almost a foot deep, and it was into one of those spots the baby fell. And though Mary took him to a doctor and then to a hospital, no one was ever able to find a scratch on him. That's the story, boys and girls, of why Mary Donohue can’t stand the sight of a window box. It brings back too terrible a memory. "If I sound incoherent,” she says at the end of her letter, "it’s because I've been going through that ordeal all over again as I’ve been writing it.” ©-- WNu Service. TEST RESULTS PLEASE Corvallis—Dr. George M. Darrow, United States department of agri culture, here at the state college ex perimental station to supervise the recording of data concerning some 5000 hybrids of raspberries, logan berries, blackberries, youngberries and others, has expressed gratifica- tion at the progress of the work. He established the work in 1930 and 1931. Believing that some of the more promising of the new crosses may lead to important new varieties of berries for commercial production, Dr. Darrow points out the importance of the cross-breeding by showing that the work is the largest federal proj ect of its kind in the United States. Hermiston—The annual irrigation pioneer picnic was held recently at Columbia park, four miles east of here. Newport—Darwin Force, Eugene, caught an octopus with an arm- spread of six feet, three inches, near here last week. Thinking the crea- ture was some sort of sea shell as it lay in a shallow pool, Force tried to dislodge it. 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