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.
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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.
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Quilt of Applique Is
Popular; Easy to Do
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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.
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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
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long as needed.
Ask your druggist for SALICON.
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Be Sure They Properly
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VOUR kidneys are constantly filter-
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tended—fail to remove impurities that
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Then you may suffer nagging back
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urination, getting up at night, puffiness
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Providence Plus Defective Drain Save Child’s Life.
But what was this? 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.”
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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. The octopus put up a
fight during which it lost two of its
arms and its lunch, a large crab up
on which it had been feeding.
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