THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
National Press Building
Washington. — The Associated
Press carried a dispatch from Mos-
«e
. cow a few days
Social Detente’ ago that had
in Rustia more in it than
just the an
nouncement that certain opposition
ists among the Soviet leaders were
tc be executed. The dispatch re
ported that 16 confessed conspira
tors against the Soviet state were
sentenced to death by the firing
squad as the “highest measure of
social defense” of a government.
It reported a new stage in the so-
called progress of Communism in
the Russian state. For the first
time since the Bolsheviks came into
power they ordered the death penal
ty for some of the leaders who
marched in the Revolution of Octo
ber, 1917.
So we have a clean sweep now of
the men who sat next to the dicta
tor, Lenin; the men who were his
closest advisors in council are out
of the way, and in their place re
mains the extensively practical and
strong-willed executive, Stalin, who
has in this instance declined to al
low theory to interfere with e condi
tion.
Here is the picture. Leon Trotsky
in exile and under sentence of death
if he returns into Russia. Zinoviev
shot to death. Kamenev also exe
cuted by a firing squad (he will be
remembered as an outstanding pil
lar of Bolshevism). Tomsky, a sui
cide. Rykov, Bukahrin and Rodek
under investigation by the dreadful
Ogpu. A hated secret service is
looking into the records of Sokokni-
kov and Pyotakov. The latter two
have been important advisors to Stal
in. But what is all of this about?
The answer is simple. While these
men wore charged with plotting the
murder of Stalin, with conspiracy,
beneath it all lies the thirst of men
for power. Through all of this since
the fall of the Russian empire and
the execution of Czar Nicholas,
the Communists have pushed for
ward. The strongest of them have
traveled. That is the why of Stalin.
Yet as most always happens under
any circumstance where the will of
a few men runs free, they have in
flicted to the last degree the power
that they have gathered unto them
selves. In so doing they have not
failed to reserve unto themselves
such considerations as they thought
necessary—a perfectly human trait
of character answerable only where
a whim becomes a will and there
is power to carry it out.
Between Stalin, who was able to
enforce his will, and Trotsky, who
dwelt in the starry heavens of the
ories and dreams, there is only a
theoretical difference. Each want
ed Communism. Trotsky consid
ered the problem in the terms of
world revolution; Stalin thought of
it as the Russian state and recog
nized his capacity to carry his plans
through in that jurisdiction. So the
Stalin-Trotsky feud, as it has turned
out to be, has become ferocious and
any one who has gone contrary-
even entertained thoughts contrary
to the will of the mighty Stalin—
committed a sin against the state.
And a sin against the Russian state
under Stalin means to disappear.
It seems to me there is an im
portant lesson for the American
people in that situ-
Letton for ation.
Stalin,
Americans along with Hitler
and Mussolini, is
always right. It matters not what
the people may desire, what their
philosophy of life and living may be,
how they propose to encourage or
accept responsibility for self-gov
ernment, the dictatorship continues.
Many times in these columns I
have criticized bureaucracy in the
federal government. There are so
many bureaucrats in Washington
now that some one has bitterly de
scribed them as locusts. It may
seem quite a jump from bureauc
racy to dictatorship but the differ
ence actually is very small. When
the people of the United States con
cede to the federal government such
rights as the federal government
attempted to exercise in NRA and
even to a greater extent in the AAA,
they are taking the first step to
grant to a centralized government
the authority that leads to absolute
control of the person and every
thing that person does.
There are conditions undoubtedly
that need to be remedied before our
form of government is anything like
perfect. There is always to be con
sidered changing conditions and
the changing whims of people them
selves. But I entertain the con
viction that so long as the Ameri
can people are unwilling to accord
increasing powers to the federal
government, the nation as a whole
will go forward, civilization will
progress and we will enjoy having
a government.
The transfer of William C. Bullitt
from his recent post as ambassador
to Russia to a sim-
Bullitt t ilar assignment in
Big Job France upon the
resignation of Am
bassador Straus has occasioned
but very little comment, but it
seems to me in view of all condi
tions and circumstances that it
should attract attention. He will
take up the job as the chief Ameri
can diplomat at Paris in most
troublesome times, the most dif
ficult, perhaps, that have confronted
an American diplomat anywhere
since the days of 191. to 1916. Ap
pointment of Mr. Bullitt then, it
would appear, is a move that calls
into consideration not only the con
ditions which he will meet as our
ambassador but also his qualifica
tions for the job.
It is to be remembered, first,
that the post of ambassador to Paris
is the second highest in rank among
our foreign diplomats. It is a post
that always has called for about
the best that our nation can turn
out in the way of tactful representa
tion even though we always count
the assignment to London as the No.
1 ranking post. The reason is that
we seldom, if ever, have had, the
problems to deal with in the case
of the London government that con
tinuously arise between the United
States and France. We always have
been friendly with France in mod
ern times, but it can not be denied
that there has been constant fric
tion between the two peoples. The
same has not been true concerning
Anglo-American relations. Hence,
the job at Paris has always been
regarded as more difficult than that
at London.
As for Mr. Bullitt’s capacity,
there is a general feeling that he
is not an outstanding diplomat. He
has achieved success in some lines,
yet I believe the consensus is that
in so far as his recent service at
Moscow is concerned, the Russians
can claim much greater success in
dealing with the United States than
we can in dealing with the Soviet.
Those of us who were present as
observers in Washington during the
days when Foreign Commissar Lit
vinov met with President Roosevelt
in the series of conferences that re
sulted in recognition of the Union of
Soviet Socialistic Republics can not
fail to recall how Mr. Bullitt la
bored to accomplish that recogni
tion. It will be recalled as well that
Mr. Bullitt insisted throughout these
negotiations how tra's would follow
recognition. He 1 -ged that the 13-
year old policy of non-recognition,
held by Wilson, Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover, should be cast aside
in the interest of trade, predicting a
great flow of commerce between
the nations. President Roosevelt
eventually made that the real basis
for granting recognition.
None of the predicted trade has
come about. None will be possible
until the Soviet finds means of pay
ing for American goods. Ameri
can business men are a bit old fash
ioned. They want to be paid for
what they sell.
After what some critics have
called Mr. Bullitt’s “dismal failure”
at Moscow, he is promoted to the
French post. The selection comes
at a time when French internal
politics are boiling. It comes like-
wise at a time when the Washing
ton government is striving to ex
pand American exports and when it
is hoped that there will not be a fur
ther decline in outbound shipments
such as official figures of the De
partment of Commerce show has
taken place in trade with Russia.
• • •
Senator James Couzens of Michi
gan who is up for re-election this
fall has sort of up-
Uptett set the apple cart
Apple Cart for the Republi-
c a n s, although
they profess not to be particularly
worried. The senior senator from
Michigan has always served in the
senate as a Republican but now
he makes the announcement that he
is going to support President Roose
velt for re-election and that brings
the senator’s regularity as a Re
publican into question.
Senator Couzens has been a pow
erful man politically in Michigan in
years past. He has served his city,
Detroit, and his state and the na
tion in a distinguished way. Ob
viously, such service builds up an
important political following but,
according to superficial indication,
no one knows exactly how much re
mains of that following. This state
ment assumes that the senator’s
strength is not as great as it used to
be and all current information sup
ports that view. Yet, in politics,
nothing is certain and that is the
reason why Senator Couzens's ac
tion has proved disturbing.
Former Gov. Wilbur M. Brucker
is seeking the Republican nomina
tion for the senate in Michigan and
thus the incumbent has his diffi
culties in getting the nomination be
cause the Democrats will have a
candidate of their own. Be it said
in favor of Senator Couzens, how
ever, he was fair with the voters of
his party by announcing before the
primaries what his attitude would
be respecting the presidential can
didates and his sincerity in this re
gard may have some effect. On
the other hand, it is difficult to say
how dyed-in-the-wool Republicans
can remain with Senator Couzens
after an announcement by which he
virtually has read himself out of the
party.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Briet Resume ot Happenings
of the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
Salem—Marion county churchmen
circulated petitions for a local option
vote on prohibition on the coming
ballot in November.
Molalla—A recent forest fire near
here now under control was reported
incendiary by the state forester. Ar
rests will probably result.
Oregon City — Thirty thousand
Steelhead fingerlings were released
in the Clackamus headwaters as the
first move to restore it as one of the
foremost streams of the country.
Vale—By means of a siphon, four
and a half miles long, water from the
new Owyhee reservoir is being car
ried across Malheur valley and Into
the canals of the Owyhee project on
Dead Ox flat.
Salem—Salem. Klamath Falls, Eu
gene and Pendleton will all have
traffic surveys with a view to adopt
an uniform traffic regulation system
!n all Oregon cities.
Klamath Falls — Eradication has
been completed of poisonous tall lark
spur on 200 acres of grazing land In
the Varney Creek section of the
Klamath cattle and horse range, by
the national forest service.
Portland—Word has been received
here that Oregon’s mineral ou put for
1935 was $1,966,685, an increase of
$750,610 over 1934. Of further in
terest is that the output ot minerals
in 1931 totaled only $319,703.
Salem—The State Racing Commis
sion funds were increased by $11,800
resulting from the recent dog races
held in Portland. These funds are
allocated for the support of Pacific
International Exposition, Oregon
State fair and county fairs.
Oregon City—An old bedstead
with rope springs was displayed at
the Territorial Days celebration here
recently. It was once the property
of Joseph Meek, first United States
Marshall for the Oregon country, and
now belongs to Mrs. Ivy of West Linn.
Milton-Freewater — The 1936
prune crop comes to a close with a
total of about 700 carloads having
been shipped. Growers will receive
$32.50 or more a ton, which was the
price set at the beginning of the
season by the Blue Mountain Prune
Growers’ cooperative.
Klamath Falls—The highest price
for barley since the World War is
reported here. Two dollars and 16
and one-fourth cents per hundred
weight was paid recently for Hann
chen. Nearly all the barley of the
Tulelake district has been reported
sold.
Warrenton—A yield of from $75
to $100 per acre is expected by D.
M. Moore on his 18 acre tract of
Rustica, a tobacco plant high In nico
tine content. Part of the crop will
be dried for nicotine dust, used in
fighting plant disease; and the re
mainder will be harvested green for
use in nicotine sprays.
Wallowa — The Bowman-Hicks
Lumber company here owns enough
standing timber to keep the Wallowa
mill operating at full capacity eight
hours a day for 27 years, Sundays
alone excepted, according to H. N.
Ashby, general western manager for
the company. Full capacity is recog
nized to be 55,000 feet, the normal
eight hour cutting average.
DROUTH AREA COWS HERE
Salem — Oregon ranchers have
purchased approximately 4000 feeder
cows from the drouth areas of east
ern Montana and Wyoming already
this year.
Most of these cows were bought
outright at prices below quotations
of previous years. A large percentage
are pastured in the Klamath and
Lake areas and will be placed on
the market later In the year.
SALMON SEASON DISASTROUS
Astoria—More lives were lost dur
ing the fishing season which just
ended than in any year since the
days of sailing craft when storms
took such tragic toll. Seven gill-
nettere were claimed while on the
river. High mortality has been at
tributed to hazardous attempts for
fish on the bar when salmon were
scarce elsewhere. The hauls have
been the lowest in years while prices
have been the best since 1930. Four
Astorians collapsed in their boats
from heart failure due to over exer
tion; and three were drowned, two
in a storm, and the third from falling
overboard with an anchor as its chain
iulled his clothing. Loss of gear
was unusually heavy.
Salem—The first applications for
state bank charters since 1928 have
been made by Bend and Baker busi
nessmen for two new financial insti
tutions. The last state bank char
tered was in Seaside eight years ago.
Bend—The Shevlin-Hixon lumber
yards were the scene of a spectacu
lar accident recently when 17 empty
logging cars were derailed by split
ting a switch. No one was injured.
Several cars crashed into a concrete
building but it withstood the force
of the crash.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Foreign Words
and Phrases
SUNDAY I
CHOOL Lesson
Apres nous le deluge. (F.) Aft-
ei us the deluge (attributed to
Madame de Pompadour, in refer
ence to signs of an approaching
revolution).
Bordereaux. (F.) A marginal
note; a memorandum.
Chef-d’oeuvre (F.) A master
piece.
De nihilo nihil fit. (L.) Nothing
comes from nothing.
En deshabille.(F.) In undress.
Ne plus ultra. (L.) Nothing be
yond; the utmost; perfection.
Ippissima verba (L.) The very
words.
Mens sana in corpore sano. (L.)
A sound mind in a sound body.
In hoc signo vinces. (L.) By
this sign thou wilt conquer. (Mot
to of Constantine.)
Wie Gewonnen, so zerronnen.
(Ger.) As won, so flown; "light
come, light go.”
By REV. HAROLD L LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for September 13
Honoring Amos 'n’ Andy.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF —
Amos ’n' Andy paid
S a Because
mythical visit to this communi
ty, the grateful populace will dedi
cate a bronze tablet in Palisades
park, which is not only a beauti
ful park but is regarded by some
enthusiastic citizens as being prac
tically the main entrance to the
Pacific ocean.
That’s California pride for you—
the kind that inspires us to pass
resolutions endors
ing the sunsets.
Well, I don’t be
lieve there’s a small
city in this country
that has finer sun-
sets than Santa
Monica. And when
better ones are
available for towns
of this size, Santa
Monica will have
them. Our boosters’
clubs will attend to Irvin Cobb,
that.
What I’m getting at, though, is
that any fellows who’ve given as
much joy to the world as Amos ’n’
Andy deserve a whole set of
plaques. If they don’t wear out,
thinking up their stuff until I get
tired of hearing it, they’ll go on
forever.
“Hello, Kingfish.”
Vocal Contortionists.
WHY must tenors make such
funny faces when they sing?
And why must a lady vocalist clutch
both hands to her tum-tum when
she reaches after a high note, as
though she’d just felt the first pangs
of cholera morbus? And why must
there ever be any professional pian
ist who also is a professional dan
druff fancier and looks as though
he should be gone over with one of
these sand-blasting machines that
they use to clean off office build
ings. Just ordinary soap and water
wouldn’t do.
And, oh, why does a basso in
sist on singing at great length of
the joys of life at the bottom of a
coal mine and, for an encore, ro-
hock me in the cra-hadle of the da-
heep until I’m as seasick as a cow?
Hasn’t anybody since Rutherford B.
Hayes was President, thought up a
new song for bassos? And isn’t any
body going to do so before the sands
of the desert grow cold? It looks
like years and years to wait.
France's Diplomatic Game.
HILE France was asking us to
enter into a “neutrality pact”
as regards Spain, it would appear
she even then was extending very
material “sympathies” to the loy
alist side. Anyhow, Italy thinks so,
and Germany, too. And now Portu
gal sprouts unrest and Great Brit
ain issues threats.
Since we already were neutral—
and, if we have any sense, will keep
on being as neutral as a stop-and-
go signal—America didn’t need to
enter any pacts. And if we continue
minding our own business we’ll
have neither a sick headache nor a
fresh batch of uncollectible foreign
loans when the present mess is
over.
The point is that France seem
ingly has been caught playing a
double diplomatic game.
W
Wholesale Mercy.
HO killed Cock Robin? Who
cares? Dead, isn’t he? His
widow and orphans can go on relief,
can’t they? But how about pretty
Boy Sparrow? There's the one to
think about—so young and so gifted
and ambitious.
The Women’s Aid Society for the
Freeing of Criminals—How soon
can we get that poor lad out into
the sunshine once more? He takes
aim so much better in the sun
shine. Must we wait until he breaks
out?
The state parole board—Not at
all, ladies, not at all. Just be pa
tient a little while, then leave it to
us.
Gov. Mushy J. Sapp—But why
wait? When I think of that bleak
Alcatraz and that hard-hearted Un
cle Sam I’m proud to have some
wholesome sentiment in my soul.
Pass me that pardon blank.
Pretty Boy Sparrow—Well, happy
days are here again. Say, I never
did like that canary much either.
Where's my tommy gun?
• • •
W
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The Wisdom of Frogs.
LADY naturalist at the Smith-
sonian in Washington has been
experimenting and she says that
frogs not only listen to political
speeches on the radio but, by their
croaks at the finish, indicate a deep
appreciation of same. This helps
to confirm an opinion I’ve had all
along, that the only end of a frog
which should command my entire
approval is the end the legs grow
on—especially when fried in crack
er crumbs.
On second thought, though, may
be the frog has more brains than
I’m giving him credit for. When
you applaud at the end of a broad-
cast there's no chance for an en
core.
IRVIN 8. COBB.
©— WNU Service.
THE COUNCIL IN JERUSALEM
LESSON TEXT—Act» 15:22-29; Gala-
tians 2:1. 2, 9, 10.
GOLDEN TEXT — For ye, brethren,
were called for freedom; only use not
your freedom for an occasion to the
flesh, but through love be servants one
to another.
PRIMARY TOPIC —How to Settle a
Quarrel.
JUNIOR TOPIC—How to Settle a Dis
pute.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—What Is Christian Living?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—How to Live as a Christian.
Although the first council at
Jerusalem (Acts 11) had decided
that “to the Gentiles also hath God
granted repentance unto life, the
question did not stay settled, for
there were persistent Judaizing
teachers who now contended that
even though the Gentiles could be
saved, they had to come into the
church by way of Judaism and
fulfill the Jewish rite of circumci
sion. This raised the vital and
fundamental question of
I. Grace versus Law (Acts 15:1).
The entire future of the gospel
ministry was in a sense depend
ent on the solution of this problem.
Christianity is the only religious
faith in the world that presents
justification by grace, all others
follow the path of works.
The
question now was, shall works of
the law be mingled with grace —
can Jesus Christ alone save men,
or is salvation through Jesus
Christ, plus something else. How
was such a serious question to be
settled? Should argument and
strife be permitted to go on until
the stronger party prevailed? Bet
ter judgment indicated the desir
ability of
II. Council Rather Than Contro
versy (vv. 2-21).
There may be times when it be
comes the duty of the Christian
worker to take an uncompromis
ing stand for the truth of God and
refuse to be moved, come what
may. But certainly there should
be no such spirit in dealing with
differing interpretations of Scrip
ture on the part of sincere and
earnest Christian brethren.
The question was honestly and
carefully considered by the second
council at Jerusalem, with the re
sult that there was a
III. Vindication of the Preachers
of God's Grace (Acts 15:22-29;
Gal. 2:1, 2, 9, 10).
After presenting a plain disavow
al of those who had troubled them
and subverted their souls (what a
serious thing it is to teach error
concerning God’s Word!), the
council being of one accord gave
recognition to Paul and Barnabas
as men who had "hazarded their
lives for the name of the Lord
Jesus.”
No man should think more highly
of himself than he ought. Humility
is a Christian grace which well
befits a sinner saved by grace. But
the Bible abounds with admonitions
to honor one another, to recognize
the laborer as being worthy of his
hire, to give recognition to those
who are over us in the Lord. How
long is it since you or your church
comforted and encouraged some
faithful teacher, preacher, mission
ary, or other Christian worker, by
giving such recognition as the
council at Jerusalem gave to Paul
and Barnabas?
The final decision of the council
is sent not only by Paul and Bar
nabas, but also by a committee
from Jerusalem, a gracious gesture
of fellowship. Courtesy is not out
of place in dealing with even such
difficult things as controversies on
Christian doctrine — in fact it
should be most in place in such
a situation. But as a matter of
record they also sent
IV. A Letter Which Brought
Great Joy (Acts 15:23, 31).
After addressing the Gentiles as
“brethren,” this letter, which has
been well called "the Magna
Charta of Christian liberty,” re
viewed briefly the history of the
matter, disposed of the subverters,
commended Paul and Barnabas
and then without mentioning cir
cumcision at all puts upon the Gen
tiles "no greater burden than the
necessary things.” And what were
these? Purity of life, as those who
were enjoying Christian liberty.
The law of Moses need not be kept
as a ground of salvation. They
were saved by grace. But grace
can never be the cloak of careless
living, nor can liberty in Christ
be interpreted as license to live in
sin. We are set free in Chrict, not
that we may sin, but that we may
"go and sin no more.”
Following an Ideal
Blessed is he who carries within
himself a God, an ideal, and who
obeys it; ideal of art, ideal of sci
ence, ideal of the gospel virtues;
therein lie the springs of great
thoughts and great actions; they all
reflect light from the Infinite.—Pas
teur.
Our Own Pleasures
It is only a poor sort of happiness
that could ever come by caring very
much about our own narrow pleas
ures.—Georee Eliot.
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