THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
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WASHINGTON D C
Washington. — As the political
campaign waxes warmer, it be-
,
comes
painfully
Mud Slinging evident that the
Ahead
fight in 1936 for
the suffrage of the
people is going to be very dirty.
It is going to be bitter and there is
no way now apparent that such a
characteristic can be avoided.
I do not believe that either Gov
ernor Landon, the Republican can
didate, or President Roosevelt,
seeking re-election as a Democrat,
can prevent the hurling of invec
tives that are going to be very
close to mud-slinging. Naturally the
President of the United States sel
dom makes a mud-slinging speech
and Governor Landon personally is
a mild-mannered man who believes
in discussing issues rather than in
dividuals, but the intentions or the
desires of these two candidates can
not control the bitterness that is, to
my mind, certain to be found in this
campaign in a large measure.
As typical of the sort of thing to
which I have referred is the recent
speech of Secretary Ickes who, in
a national radio broadcast, became
quite ill-tempered in his attack on
Governor Landon. Mr. Ickes is not
known for his composure anyway
and when he gets heated up on any
subject he is likely to be guilty of
remarks that are not becoming to
an official of our government or any
other.
I have not the slightest doubt that
before the campaign has proceeded
much further there will be similar
speeches attacking Mr. Roosevelt
personally and that, while Governor
Landon may not approve, there will
be unworthy charges hurled at the
President.
Mr. Ickes skated pretty close to
the line in his attack on Governor
Landon by various adroit phrases
which were designed to create the
impression that the Republican can
didate was either ignorant or dis
honest. I do not know Governor
Landon personally but I can offer
this thought: No man is going to
be nominated by any political party
in a national convention, nominated
by acclamation, unless his record
is pretty clear. For Mr. Ickes to
say, therefore, in effect, that Gov
ernor Landon had sold out to “Wall
Street” was not the sort of cam
paign discussion likely to produce
confidence among all the people in
their government. It is compara
ble, in my opinion, to a charge that
the President of the United States,
who advertises himself continually
as a friend of the common man,
was guilty of increasing his own per
sonal fortune through presidential
acts—and every one knows this is
not true. But to get back to the
theme song of the Ickes’ speech, it
seems to me that the tragedy of his
radio pronouncement lies in the fact
throughout his discussion he was
preaching class hatred. Every one
knows, of course, attacks on “Wall
Street” are very common in any
political campaign.
The dema
gogues use it every hour of every
day everywhere they can find any
one to listen to them. It is ridicu
lous, but it has happened for a good
many years. So when Mr. Ickes
made the charge that Governor
Landon was either unwittingly or
knowingly leading a “rich man’s
fight” against President Roosevelt
he was descending to a rather low
level of campaigning.
• * *
I have seen indications of a re
action against the Ickes’ speech in
another way. John
May Caute Hamilton, the Re-
Showdown
publican national
chairman, on his
recent organization tour of the west
ern states, propounded the inquiry
that seeks to identify the "econom
ic royalists” about which President
Roosevelt spoke several weeks ago.
If the Roosevelt campaigners con
tinue this class hatred propaganda,
I rather suspect from what Mr.
Hamilton said in his speeches there
will be a perfect barrage of de
mands to know the names of these
economic royalists. It may not
seem important; indeed, it seems
like it probably is inconsequential,
but if the Republicans let down a
barrage on the President of the
United States, he is likely to be
put in a bad corner.
Without attempting to forecast
what the Republican opposition is
likely to say, I can recall as an
observer close to the wheels of gov
ernment during the Roosevelt re
gime that Mr. Roosevelt frequently
was a guest on the Astor yacht and
that one of his chief advisors for
many ' months was the multimil
lionaire, Bernard M. Baruch. It
seems also that a very rich man,
Henry L. Doherty, was in charge of
the nation-wide dance program
held on the President's birthday and
Mr. Doherty, be .t said, is head of
one of the great utility chains.
These are just samples. It may
be good politics for the President
to encourage these attacks without
approving them, but those of us who
knew the late Louis McHenry Howe,
are convinced that he never would
have agreed to that sort of attack,
had he been alive and serving as
the President’s closest political ad
visor as he did for a quarter of a
century.
There is a situation in the fed
eral government that threatens to
be quite nasty. I
Probe
refer to the row
that has devel
G-Men
oped between the
Department of Justice bureau of
investigation (the G-men) and the
Treasury’s secret service corps. It
is all very much under cover, quite
secret, but the row has come to
the surface sufficiently to result in
a demotion of two long-time mem
bers of the secret service.
J. Edgar Hoover has been well
press-agented as chief of the G-men.
Joseph E. Murphy has had almost
no advertising as assistant chief of
the Treasury secret service in
which he has served for more than
a quarter of a century. Mr. Mur
phy and one of his subordinates
have been reduced in rank, their
record stained for life.
The two departments have kept
the facts well covered up. It seems
that something was going on among
the G-men that the Treasury secret
service thought they ought to know
about. They conducted their own
inquiry, their own investigation into
the other staff of investigators. That
is as much as has been made public
except Secretary Morgenthau’s an
nouncement of the demotion order.
I have known each of these men
equally twenty years. Each is en
titled to the utmost respect. But
each operates along an entirely dif
ferent line—Hoover with some will
ingness for publicity; Murphy with
an absolute policy of never letting
his name get into the papers. It
is unfortunate that Joe Murphy was
the goat.
The board of governors of the
Federal Reserve system took an ac
tion recently that
Action
probably is quite
mystifying to the
Mystifies
average
person,
They ordered all of the banks of
the country which are members of
the Federal Reserve system to keep
a deposit reserve with the Federal
Reserve banks 15 per cent greater
than ever has been required before.
With the technical phases of re
serve requirements and the me
chanical operation of this particular
order, I think we need not be very
much concerned. But with the prin
ciple upon which this action is tak
en I think every one with a bank
account, however small, ought to be
vitally interested. They ought to
be interested for the very simple
reason that this action illustrates
better than any words I can write
how far the centralization of control
of the banking structure has gone.
This action was taken under the
National Banking act of 1935, a
statute that has been frequently
criticised as a “political banking
act.”
In the instance I have just re
ported, the change in the reserve
requirements probably will have no
serious reaction on us as individu
als. It probably will not hurt the
banks because few banks in the
country have had calls for loans
in any quantity since business is at
such a low level. But the point is
that under this law, the Federal
Reserve board of governors can
alter banking conditions over night.
It can issue new rules and regula
tions that are wholly impossible of
understanding by the average indi
vidual, but which are almost riot
ous in their effect upon the manage
ment of individual banks through-
out the country.
To state this proposition in anoth
er way, may I describe it in the
terms of a private business enter
prise. If a storekeeper in a small
town were subjected to regulation
from Washington and the regulatory
power in the federal government
had such discretionary authority as
the Federal Reserve board of gov
ernors, could that storekeeper evei
feel that he was managing his own
business? I think not. Then, in the
case of the Federal Reserve board
of governors, it must be added that
the president of the board is Marri-
ner S. Eccles who is known far and
wide for his radical ideas about
banking. It can be further said that
Mr. Eccles has the ear of President
Roosevelt. This has been criticised
many times of course where oppo
nents of the Roosevelt banking poli
cies have contended that the banks
can be utilized in any way the ad
ministration desires to use them. As
an illustration of this, the federal
government has been borrowing bil
lions. Most banks are chock full
of government securities. While I
do not say it has happened, yet be-
cause I do not believe it has hap
pened yet, nevertheless there is
a possibility that government bor
rowings can be forced on the banks
under such conditions. That is the
course of action that has ruined the
currency in half a dozen European
nations
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Halfway — The city of Halfway,
Baker county, will soon be entirely
out of debt. The city treasurer has
money on hand to take up the last
87,00 bond issue for the water sys
tem.
Salem
—
Reports
filed
with
the
state game warden on the number of
Chinese pheasants raised by amateurs
show and increase over last fall. Out
of a total of 1608 eggs supplied by
the commission, 995 were hatched
and 667 birds were raised to maturity
and liberated.
Milton—Eddie Buck and Bill Glea
son thought they had a good idea
while on a recent fishing trip. They
buried several cans of beans in the
remains of a camp fire and the cans
exploded, showering fire on their
pack sacks. Their bedding was about
all that was left and one blanket had
20 holes in it.
Salem—The Oregon liquor control
commission reports a net profit of
8111,177 in its stores last month on
gross sales of $589,437. Since the
state went into the liquor business
two and one-half years ago $2,982,-
426 has been turned over to unem
ployment relief.
Salcrn—It is not likely that there
will be any material reduction in Ore
gon Insurance rates during the next
year, Hugh Earle, state Insurance
commissioner has reported to Gover
nor Martin, although he hoped to
bring about a few minor decreases,
An increase in some of the more haz-
ardous classifications of property
may be expected, he said.
Salem — Because the three Wil-
lamette valley flax retting and
scutching plants have bought more
flax than they will be able to process,
the state board of control has agreed
to purchase their surplus and put It
through the penitentiary plant. The
board offered to buy pulled flax up
to May 1, 1937 at $25 per ton and
threshed flax straw at $23.50.
Sweet Home—It didn't put the
lumber back into its original tree, but
when all the electric-motored ma
chinery in the Sweet Home sawmills
began to run backward, enough
other things did happen to give em-
ployes plenty to talk about for time
to come. The trouble started when
the current into Sweet Home had
been shut off for a short time. When
service was restored and a sawyer
started a board through, the sawdust
flew up in his face and the board did
peculiar antics. Upon investigation
it was found a mistake had been
made in the hook-up, causing all
equipment to run backwards. Elec-
trie appliances acted peculiarly, re-
frigerators in some instances de-
frosted.
WHOA ALL TRAINS
Grants Pass — Fortunately the
trains run but once a week. A boy
led a horse over the municipally fi
nanced California and Oregon Coast
railroad bridge near town. Its hind
feet were caught between the ties—
then its fore feet. An auto wrecker
was called to extricate the animal.
FOREST FIRE LOSS SMALL
Salem—Although Oregon has had
virtually no forest fire loss this year
and the record from April 1 to Au
gust 15 has been the best since the
state forestray department was or
ganized in 1911, Governor Martin
has closed another 88,000 acres of
timberland until October 15.
In the last four and one-half
months, only 3292 fires have been
reported. A total of 125' fires burned
less than one-quarter of an acre, 161
covered up to ten acres and only 45
raged over more than ten acres.
GETS HIS COYOTE
Dothan—Frank Ingram of Dothan
In southern Douglas county is a coy
ote hunter and gets his varmints one
way or another. The prize way to
get them is revealed In a recent let
ter received by the county clerk:
“1 am sending under separate
cover, one coyote hide. Please mark
same for bounty and destroy the hide.
I will send affidavit as soon as I can
get same signed. This coyote was
bayed in my kitchen. I went out
with my dogs and left the door to
my house open. The dogs took up
the trail and when I returned they
had the coyote behind my cupboard
in my kitchen. Believe it or not.”
Hood River — Postmaster J. D.
Lucas has announced that postal re
ceipts, not Including money order
business, at the Hood River office
during July amounted to a 20 per
cent, increase over the figures for
July, 1335.
Eugene — Breaking all previous
records for the plant. the Eugene
Fruit Growers association cannery,
now running at peak, is putting out
15,000 cases of produce per day.
During this peak period 1400 persons
are employed.
Srirbleb.
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SUNDAY I
about :
The Campaign Blues
S ANTA
MONICA, CALIF —
What with Roosevelt taking
over the ancient Hamiltonian
theory of centralized authority
and Landon promising to restore
the Jeffersonian principle of state
sovereignty the campaign is in
“high.”
What with Farley undertaking to
organize the Negro-voters of the
north for Roosevelt and the other
side claiming to be hopeful of car
rying Florida with the aid of white
votes; what with Andy Jackson
turning over in his grave and James
G. Blaine stirring fretfully under
the sod, it seems the most appro
priate campaign selections would
be for the Democratic orchestra to
render “John Brown’s Body” and
the Republican quartet to sing
“Bonny Blue Flag,” with special
emphasis upon the stirring line,
“Hurrah, Hurrah, for Southern
Rights, Hurrah!”
CHOOL Lesson
By REV HAROLD L LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago
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Lesson for September 6
TURNING TO THE GENTILES
LESSON TEXT—Acts 14:8-13, 1». 20;
Romans 10:8-15.
GOLDEN TEXT—I have set thee for
a light of the Gentiles, that thou
shouldest be for salvation unto the
uttermost part of the earth. Acts 13:47.
PRIMARY TOPIC—What Happened In
Lystra.
JUNIOR TOPIC—When the Gospel
Came to Lystra.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—Trials and Triumphs of Mission-
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Christianity Facing Other Religions.
The progress of the first mis
sionary journey into gentile terri
tory had brought Paul and Bar
nabas from Cyprus to Antioch of
Pisidia in Asia Minor, where Paul
preached with great power. Per
secution by leading Jews then led
them to go on to Iconium where
they tarried for a long time preach
Doping the Geegees.
DESPITE revelations that some of ing “the word of grace” in the
Next
— America’s most prized race face of many difficulties.
they
came
to
Lystra,
in
which
city
horses have repeatedly been doped,
one of the state racing boards rein we consider first the experiences
stated a trainer found guilty of this of
I. The Messengers (Acts 14:8-
foul and crooked _____ _
13,
19, 20).
cruel practice. So Fesogrin
They were immediately faced
our
commissioner a*"
th
to the interna - g
" to with the case of a man crippled
tional antinarcotic E
wow from birth — outwardly hopeless,
conference at Ge- r, Rwrk t but having that inward faith which
He
neva is disgusted, d y
e Paul at once recognized.
Maybe because
e.ae speaks, and God works in mighty
1. Power (vv. 8-10).
I’m hopelessly g ... tat
Faith releases the unlimited
old - fashioned, I
power of an infinite God. It did
still prefer that a
in Lystra almost nineteen hundred
horse should b e
years ago. It does today wherever
trained on the turf
men believe God. The miracle of
and not at a drug Irvin S. Cobb
healing which took place created
store. Nowadays the
a sensation which resulted in great
fellow who prowls the paddock just
2, Popularity (vv. 11-13).
before a race is liable either to go
The heathen people were looking
to sleep suddenly or go to bucking. for an incarnation of their gods.
It depends on whether the geegee The supreme god in their mytho
he sniffs has been drugged to lose logy was Jupiter, and his chief
or drugged to win.
attendant was Mercury. In Paul
and Barnabas they thought they
Hollywood Dog Days
saw these two gods, and began to
‘TOURISTS to the Hollywood sec- give them acclaim and honor.
- tor come during a dullish inter
The flesh loves popularity.
Few
lude. The diary of Miss Astor has temptations are so appealing and
been closed, and the next chapter so treacherous to the Christian
in the love-life of John Barrymore worker as a desire for popularity.
has not been opened.
Paul and Barnabas might have
It might be said for Miss Astor’s argued that such public esteem
output, before the court shut it off, would help them in their later proc
that it was well-written and caused lamation of the gospel. Or they
the public eagerly to await further might have fallen into the specious
disclosures. Certain parties may fallacy of those who say that the
have gone out of town, but they approach to the heathen is by way
all left word where the paper was of an appreciation of their reli
to be sent. Hereafter, for a series gions, and by an adaptation of gos
of such purely personal confessions, pel truth to their philosophies.
it might be well to begin each in
True servants of God like Paul
stallment like this:
and Barnabas were not to be mis
“May it please your honor and led into either of these pitfalls.
my precious pettykins.”
They vehemently turn away the
false popularity and earnestly urge
Praising John Hamilton
the people to "turn from these
HEARD John Hamilton speak to a vanities to the living God.” Such
selected group of his own folks, faithful and self-denying witness to
and please don’t laugh when I say the gospel is greatly needed.
that the individual he most reminds
There followed at once a star
me of—in engaging personality, in tling change in the attitude of the
sound sense—is the rival national people. The fanatical Gentiles are
chairman, Jim Farley.
joined and stirred up by equally
Without comparing these two as fanatical Jews who had followed
to past records or future prospects, the missionaries, and we soon find
I figure they’re temperamentally them meeting
3. Persecution (vv. 19, 20).
alike in various ways—notably in
Fickle and short-lived is popu-
not getting unduly excited or nastily
larity with men. Let us labor to
vindicative.
In his talk Hamilton did not de please God rather than men.
Paul was stoned and left for
clare the American flag was in dan
ger, did not implore anyone to save dead, But God had not forgotten
the American home. He didn’t call him. He never forsakes his own.
the Republicans saints; didn’t call It is believed by many that even
the Democrats knaves or idiots. He while being stoned and near to
didn’t claim for his side a monopoly death, Paul was having the expe
of patriotism. Quite calmly he told rience which no other man ever
his hearers what points he thought had, and which he describes in
should be stressed by his party in II Cor. 12:2-5. Be that as it may,
this campaign—and poked fun at God miraculously brings him to
himself while poking fun at the life and full vigor at once, and the
messengers go on their way to
other crowd.
Derbe.
As they continue their
ministry we turn aside for a
Congressmen Versus Taxes
AGAINST my better judgment, glimpse into one of Paul's epistles
-- I’m trying to be cheered by the to consider
II. The Message (Rom. 10:8-15).
announcement of the present ma
The carrier of a message is im
jority leaders in congress that, look
ing forward to the next session, portant, but of far greater import
they behold no new taxes ahead. is the message that he carries.
But, after election, when the lads The word which Paul preached,
look closer, they’ll probably be able and which you and I must teach
and preach if we are faithful to
to behold quite a few.
That’s why a balanced budget is our calling is "the word of faith.”
like the idea of santa claus—some It is the glorious good news that
thing everybody talks about, but "Whosoever shall call upon the
nobody ever expects to see. Ex name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Reader, have you called on his
cepting when a campaign is on and
the voters are sort of flinching their name? Have you admitted your
need of salvation, and in your
galled backs under the load, a fa earnest desire to be saved have
vorite pastime of legislators, wher- you abandoned every trust in self-
ever found, is thinking up more righteousness or self-improvement
taxes to go along with the taxes and believed on him in your heart
the’ve already thunk up.
as your personal Saviour? If not,
They resist the craving for just “Now is the day of salvation.” If
so long, and then they notice some you have, it is your privilege and
previously overlooked dollars hiding your duty to confess him “with
behind the baseboard, and then— the mouth,” telling everywhere by
well, you might hire a henhawk to faithful life and testimony that
guard your henhouse, but could you Jesus still saves.
depend on his word?
IRVIN S. COBB
The Getting of Wisdom
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True wisdom is a thing very ex
traordinary. Happy are they that
Bermuda's Water Supply
In Bermuda all the roofs of the have it; and next to them, not those
houses are white because these many that think they have it, but
roofs are used to catch the rain as it those few that are sensible of their
falls. There is a strictly enforced own defects and imperfections, and
law that every house must have a know that they have it not.—Tillot
suitable water catch and storage son.
tank. Rain falling on the white roofs,
Money and Health
or into hillside catchments dug into
Money is the thing most envied
coral, is diverted to storage tanks
which are inspected and lime- but the least enjoyed. Health is the
thing most enjoyed, but the least
washed regularly.
envied.—Colton.
Foreign Words
and Phrases
•
A merveille. (F.) Wonderfully,
to perfection.
Boul'-Mich’. (F.) A familiar
corruption of the Boulevard St.
Michel, a famous street in the
Latin quarter of Paris.
Coup d'etat. (F.) A sudden
stroke of policy; a revolution.
Demi-monde. (F.) The “half
world”; women outside the social
pale.
Entremet. (F.) A dainty side
dish.
Fiat justifia, ruat coelum. (L.)
Let justice be done, though the
heavens fall.
Norn de guerre. (F.) Literally,
a war name; a pseudonym.
Petit-maitre. (F.) A dandy; a
fop.
To kalon. (Gr.) The beautiful;
the chief good.
Ultima ratio regum. (L.) The
last argument of kings, 1. e , war.
Vedi Napoli e poi mori. (It.)
See Naples and then die.
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