Thursday, October 1, 1936
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Washington.
Washington.—It has been exceed General Cummings. The Attorney
ingly interesting to watch the prog- General made some public threats
.
ress of the Demo- that he would seek to indict those
Campaign
cratic and Reprb- who were responsible for distribu-
Ittuet
1 i c a n campaign tion of this information, aiming
commi ttees in that a federal law had been violat
their efforts to shape and join the ed. Being attorney general of the
issues upon which the electorate will United States, any statement from
choose the next occupant of the him got wide distribution.
But the Republicans, recognizing
White House. There has been a
tremendous amount of hauling and the potentialities of this situation,
filling, each side coming forth with issued a challenge to Mr. Cum
trial balloons in an effort to And out mings to proceed with his threat of
what it is that will attract the most indictments. Their publicity state
interest among the voters and to de ment on the point was just as viru
termine what particular matters af lent as that of any red-blooded
ford the best vehicle on which they American boy who says to his play-
mate, “I dare you to!”
■can ride into office.
Well, the rejoinder of the Repub
From the beginning of this year,
President Roosevelt has been trying licans rather put Mr. Cummings on
to shape his issue on the basis of a the spot.
I presume probably the threat
single question—whether the Ameri
can people in dollars and cents are and the resulting challenge still
better off then they were when he would have amounted to nothing
took office. I think admittedly that except that the method employed
if Mr. Roosevelt could force that by the Republicans capitalized on
question into the center of the stage that threat by accusing the attor
and make it the real issue, he would ney general of seeking to prevent
have very little campaigning to do. free speech and to prohibit discus
But the trouble is Mr. Roosevelt sion of campaign issues. If there
has been unable to accomplish his is one thing that the American peo
purpose and no little credit for his ple resent, it is any attempt by a
threat to force a joinder of issues governmental agency of whatever
on this point is due to the Republi character it may be that seeks to
can leadership. The Republican stifle discussion. They look upon
managers simply will not be led it as a sign of dictatorship. Some
. into that trap. Thus, we must look where in their veins still courses the
elsewhere to see what the real is virus that overthrew King George
sues are, or are likely to be, in this in the birth of this nation.
campaign decision.
That is why the Cummings threat
It has nearly always been true is so important.
* * •
that the issues prominent early in
the campaign have proved not to
President Roosevelt announced
be the issues at all near the end of the other day that he is preparing
a political battle. This year prom
to start reorgani-
Too Many zation of the fed-
ises to be no exception. Political
leaders attempt to figure out the
Agencie»
eral administra
proposition upon which their oppo
tive agencies. He
nents are most vulnerable and ob said he had arrived at the conclu
viously this figuring takes place in sion that such a course was neces
advance. It has to happen that way sary because there has been over
in order that methods of attack can lapping in function and jurisdiction
be arranged in advance.
among the many agencies created
The New Dealers thought they by the New Deal. It is the second
could smoke out the Republicans by time that the President has pro
shouting far and wide that the peo posed reorganization of the govern
ple as a whole are better off than mental units and his new announce
they were when Mr. Roosevelt took ment promises to attract as much
office. But, again, it was a case attention as did his original an
where political strategy did not nouncement which was made when
work. Even though many hundred he was a candidate during the 1932
thousands of people are better off, presidential campaign.
the fact remains that there are
For a long time, it has been plain
some twenty million persons receiv ly evident to observers in Washing
ing relief in one form or another ton that New Deal agencies were
and the further fact remains that literally falling over one another
there are somewhere between nine and that many of them were con
million and ten million workers stantly in conflict with others be
without jobs. Consequently, Mr. cause the laws or executive orders,
Roosevelt’s question whether people chiefly the executive orders, by
were better off in dollars and cents which these agencies were created,
did not quite click.
did not clarify their jurisdiction or
In the meantime, the Republicans their function.
have found what they believe to be
A good deal of this trouble ob
a very vulnerable spot in the New viously had its origin in the haste
Deal armor and they are shooting that characterized the early efforts
at it with machine-gun rapidity. of the Roosevelt administration to
This question, this spot, centers establish machinery by which prob
around taxation. The Republicans lems of the depression could be
apparently thought at the start of solved or alleviated. It always hap
the fight that Democratic waste of pens that when governmental agen
federal money and the vast debt cies are created in such haste, ri
that was piled up would force a re diculous situations result. It was
vulsion of feeling against New Deal the case during the World war and
policies. So they started out on it has been the case during the New
that campaign horse. But they Deal’s efforts to solve depression
found that the question of taxation problems under the emergency pow
over-shadowed the other, even ers granted by congress. The truth
though the taxation about which the seems to be that there is more over-
Republicans are talking has been lapping, more conflict, now than
an offspring of the alleged waste of there was during the World war.
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the party in power.
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I have known of numerous in
I doubt that the taxation issue stances where one agency, under
would have been as important as it
authority given it
,
is proving to be
Much by the President,
Err in
had not the New
Confutian
has promulgated
Strategy
Dealers made a
rules and regula
mistake in politi tions having the force of law that
cal strategy. This mistake, it may did not conform to rules and regu
be said in passing, illustrates how lations dealing with the same mat
very minor things influence the ulti ters but coming from another unit
mate result in politics to a greater of government. In addition, I have
extent perhaps than in any other seen different interpretations placed
activity of American national life. on the same statute or the same
The mistake which I refer to was regulation by two different agencies.
made by Attorney General Cum In consequence, the citizen whose
mings.
business practices or personal af
The story of the circumstance fairs were touched by government
chronologically is something like edict found himself prohibited from
this: The Republicans from their doing a particular thing on the one
headquarters in Chicago began call hand and ordered to do it on the
ing attention to increased tax bur other.
dens in connection with their ex
Thus, it would seem that it is high
posure of the increase of more than time for something to be done about
thirteen billion dollars in the coun re-organization. It would seem
try's debt. They pointed out how, equally to be high time for elimina
if the Roosevelt administration had tion of some of the extra red tape
not wasted money, preparations of government which has been
would not have to be made for rais wound about the private lives of
ing the taxes and how, if this waste American citizens by the New Deal.
had not occurred, tax increases Goodness knows, there was plenty of
which we already have had would red tape before the New Deal ;it
not have taken place.
certainly is worse now than it was
As a part of the demonstration of before.
increased taxation the Republicans
The thing that seemed to interest
issued campaign literature item most of the writing fraternity in
izing the amount of taxes each and Washington, however, was not so
every one of us pays on the com much the alleviation of the condi
mon every-day necessities of life. tions which I have mentioned, but
They showed how each loaf of the political aspects of the presi
bread, each pair of shoes, each dential announcement that new re-
pork-chop, among other things, organization plans were under con
bears so much tax which all of us sideration. Some of these writers
pay in buying those necessities of who are critical of the New Deal
went back to the 1932 campaign
life.
Probably the distribution of this records and dragged out to public
campaign literature by the Repub view Mr. Roosevelt’s promises re
licans would not have stirred up so specting governmental complexi
much fuss in and of itself had it ties.
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not been tor the action of Attorney
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our Readers
Eagle Creek—A recent check re
vealed that the 800 foot tunnel here
through Tooth Rock had reached the
230 foot mark.
Astoria—The restoration of the
pictorial frieze on the Astoria col
umn is nearly completed. The cost
of restoration is $5500.
Salem—Recent statistics show an
Increase of 10,000 farms in Oregon
since 1930. There also has been a
trend away from sheep toward cattle
raising.
Newport—City officials announced
that the dedication of the Yaquina
Bay bridge, last of the five Oregon
coast bridges, would be held Octo
ber 3 and 4.
Portland—The cost of operating
the city government in 1935 was 25
cents per capita lower than in 1934,
with estimates that It will be lower
still for 1936.
Klamath Falls—A $150,000 wood
treating plant will be established
here by the American Lumber &
Treating company. From 35 to 40
men will be employed.
Crater Lake—A new record for
the number of visitors was reached
this season when a check up showed
that a total’of 170,469 had visited
the park this season.
Astoria—J i m m 1 e Reed Is the
youngest mountain climber here or
anywhere. The 41 year old young
ster recently climbed Saddle moun
tain under his own power.
Woodburn—The Ray-Maling can
nery is running full blast employing
about 1500 on a daily payroll of
about $8000. Pears, prunes and late
blackberries are being canned.
Salem—Governor Martin has ap
pealed directly to President Roose
velt for allocation of federal funds
for the purchase of forest tracts In
Oregon for forest preservation.
Raker—Plans for the opening of
the Stoddard Lumber company mill
here have been announced. About
40 men in the mill and as many more
in the woods will be employed.
Albany—Linn county farmers re
cently received a warning that win
ter was drawing nigh. Frost nipped
tomatoes, sweet corn and other ten
der vegetation In the lowlands.
Klamath Falls—About ten cars of
potatoes daily have been pouring
from the Klamath basin. Yields are
from 150 to 300 sacks to the acre,
with prices averaging close to $1.50.
Salem—One million cases of Mar-
ion county prunes will be canned
here it was estimated recently. Only
the physical ability of the plants to
put up the pack will limit the out
put.
Mosier—Republican cherries here
tofore regarded as a necessary evil,
are increasing in value to local ranch
ers and may partly supplant other
tree crops if their use as maraschinos
continues.
Dallas—The new $45,000 city hall
is nearly completed. It occupies the
same site as the seventy year old
building that it replaces, and will
house the city departments and the
federal re-employment service.
Condon—A total of 588,700 bush
els of wheat has been either shipped
through or stored 1 n terminals here.
It is estimated that about 700,000
bushels will be brought to this term
inal before the season closes.
Monmouth — Two representatives
of the Russian government recently
interviewed sheep breeders here.
They are in the west to buy 2000
head of Rommey Marsh rams and are
inspecting all Pacific Coast flocks.
Salem—Receipt of a check for
$279,679 from one of the major oil
companies not only set a new mark
for individual receipts but placed the
August gasoline tax to a new high.
The total tax for August was $1,-
136,680 on nearly 23,000,000 mil
lions of gasoline.
FIRE HAZARD NOT OVER
Rend — Recent reports from De
schutes national forest lookouts of
dense clouds of smoke rolling over
the Santiam divide into central Ore
gon, reducing visibility to a few
miles. Extra lookouts were posted
and men put out to patrol the for
est.
For the first time this year the
Three Sisters were not visible from
Bend, the humidity was dangerously
low and a stiff wind was whipping
through the woods. Much concern
was felt over the hazardous condi
tions.
Medford — State Labor Commis
sioner Gram was asked to come to
Medford recently to settle a dispute
In which eight lumber mill worker*
claim more than $7000 due them for
work In a local mill last summer.
Eugene— A bout 28,000 sheep that
have been grazing in the Willamette
national forest are being moved to
market according to forest officials.
Most of them have been contracted
for delivery In Bend early in Octo
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The Passing of Thalberg.
OLLYWOOD,CALIF — Big
an industry as the moving
picture industry is, the death of
one slender, shy, frail man has
stunned it. The old guard of this
business has lost its little corporal
and the second generation of pro
ducing talent is left with a yawn
ing gap where yesterday there
loomed a leader who was both a
pioneer and a progressive.
Irving Thalberg was an authentic
genius of the films — a master
showman, a deft in
terpreter of that
tricky art which
finds i t s medium
through story and
camera and screen.
It will be long be
fore they breed an
other Thalberg out
here. For men of
his brain, his ener-
gy, his pathflnding
instincts don’t come
in sets, don’t often Irvin S. Cobb
come singly.
The name Napoleon has been
overworked to describe ability with
in some small body, but here, to
the limits of his own craft, was not
only a Napoleon but a Daniel Boone
and a Balzac all polled in one.
Payroll Patriots.
COME low industrial royalist has
• been checking up on the sisters
and the cousins and the aunts of
New Dealers who are on the federal
payroll. We call that nepotism
when the opposition does it, or fam
ily love when one of our own crowd
is guilty.
‘Twould seem Dixieland leads in
this display of domestic affection.
The champion is Senator Smith of
South Carolina. There were all
sorts of delegates at the Demo
cratic national convention, but he
was the only walking delegate —
walked out twice, and each time
walked right back again. He has
five relatives drawing salaries from
Uncle Sam. Even Uncle Jack Gar
ner, the sphinx of Texas, has
three.
This looks like an improvement
on the old southern system, when
kinfolks dropped in for a week-end
and stayed the rest of their lives.
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Summer Annoyances.
F VEN in sun - kicked California,
— summer is on its last legs. This
one will go down in history as the
summer which produced handies,
knock-knocks; the dust storm and
the campaign speech, these two be
ing interchangeable terms in most
cases; likewise the seventeen-year
locust and the gentleman who was
in active charge of our Olympic
team’s trip to Berlin. People were
seriously annoyed in other ways,
too.
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Political Geysers.
(‘AN it be we made a mistake
— by plowing under cotton instead
of orators?
That famous phenomenon of na
ture in Yellowstone park, which
spouts at such frequent intervals
ought to be getting uneasy. Any
moment it may lose its name of
old faithful and become known as
the Junior John Hamilton geyser.
And Secretary Ickes certainly is
qualifying as the minute-man of the
new revolution — or oftener than
that, if there's an audience. Colonel
Knox isn’t doing so badly, either.
In the modern version of “the spirit
of ’76,” he’s the one who’s beating
so hard on the eardrum. Still, it's
a grand thing — but surprising —
to find a newspaper editor who talks
forcibly on his feet instead of writ
ing feebly on his seat.
On the other hand, Uncle Jack
Garner continues to be the ideal
back-seat driver — the one who
hasn’t said a single word during
the entire trip.
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Dictators and Shirt Tails.
T ET’S see. Among others, we
— now have the blue shirts in
Ireland, the brown shirts in Ger
many, the red shirts in Russia, and,
of course, the black shirts in Italy,
which seems the most practical of
all because you don’t need to wash
a black shirt for months and
months.
So maybe we’re too quick. The
alarmists among us are predicting
an early dictatorship here. At the
rate all the standard shares are
being snapped up, we’ll have to
think up a new color in shirts, and,
unless we hurry, there may not be
any new colors to think up, and
you can't have a dictatorship with
out a shirt to match — that's the
rule. Lavender hasn’t been taken
yet by anybody, but lavender seems
kind of sissy, and, while, a gravy
colored shirt might suit the careless
eater, it lacks zing, don't you think?
In any event, our shirt ought to
have a good long tail to it, be
cause, by that time, the American
taxpayer probably will have lost
his pants.
IRVIN 8. COBB
© Western Newspaper Union.
By REV. HAROLD L LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Lesson for October 4
THE MACEDONIAN CALL
LESSON TEXT — Acts
1» 4 - t5;
Romans 15:18-21.
GOLDEN TEXT—Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations.—Matthew 28:19.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Paul'» Wonderful
Dream.
JUNIOR TOPIC—God a Call to a New
Continent.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—A Cry for Help.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—The World's Need of Christ.
The roots of American life, cul
tural and religious, reach back in
to the European soil on which our
forefathers dwelt. The lesson be
fore us is therefore of peculiar in
terest, for it relates the first step
in the carrying of the gospel into
Europe, and ultimately to
America.
Paul, the missionary with a pas
tor’s heart, felt constrained to go
and visit the centers where he had
ministered on his first journey. As
he proceeded he was providentially
hindered and led by the Holy Spirit
to Troas. Here his next “step”
seemed for a time to be a “stop,”
but soon God in a vision called
him into Macedonia—and the gos
pel had come to Europe.
It is of interest to note that Paul,
as he thus began his second mis
sionary journey, was
I. Obedient to the Spirit (Acts
16:6-12).
He had certain plans in mind.
He set out with a purpose, but
he was willing to have his own
itinerary changed as the Holy
Spirit led. It is significant that the
guidance was negative as well as
positive. The stops as well as “the
steps of a good man are ordered
by the Lord” (Ps. 37:23). Chris
tians will do well to remember that
providential
hindering
circum
stances may be as much the lead
ing of God as the heavenly vision.
We are to be obedient to any guid
ance He gives but we are not to
be merely passive, but actively
submissive to His will. Paul was
about the Father’s business, not
idly waiting for the speaking of a
voice from heaven. It is to such
a man or woman that the Mace
donian call comes even in our day,
only now it comes from China,
India, South America, or Africa,
II. Faithful in Testimony (vv. 13,
14).
Paul, with his companion Silas,
Timothy who had joined them at
Lystra, and Luke (note that the
“they” of V. 8 becomes “we” in
V. 10) came to Philippi in Mace
donia, but they found no Mace
donian man waiting for them. Had
they been mistaken in their vision
and call?
True missionaries are not thus
easily discouraged. They had come
to be fishers of men. The fisher
man does not expect the fish to
come to him. He goes after them.
Paul soon discovered that there
was a place of prayer at the river,
evidently a gathering place of de
vout Jews for worship. There he
met the man of Macedonia who
turned out to be a woman. For
some reason the men were absent
from the place of prayer on that
all - important Sabbath morning.
Lydia was a woman of distinc
tion, business ability, and of high
moral character. But Paul knew
that even good people need to be
saved. He spoke the truth of God.
She accepted the message as God
opened her heart, and at once she
entered into
III. Fellowship in Service (v.15).
Lydia proved herself to be one
of that noble succession of women
who have served Christ and the
church. She and her household
shared in the ministry of Paul by
their Christian hospitality, thus
helping forward the missionaries.
Observe carefully that she was not
saved by her works, but that her
works followed naturally after her
salvation.
Turning now to one of the epis
tles of Paul we look at his exposi
tion of certain
IV. Fundamental Missionary
Principles (Rom. 19:18-21).
Those things which Christ had
wrought (Paul took no glory to
himself) through him Paul had
consistently directed into fields
where no one else had preached
the gospel.
The spirit of the missionary of
the cross is that of the pioneer,
pressing ever onward, taking new
land, not duplicating the work of
others, not jealous of their suc
cess, not seeking comfort or glory.
Men need the gospel; they are lost
without it. Let us press on into
the yet unoccupied territory.
Sorrow and Enjoyment
We are sent here, in one sense, to
bear and to suffer; but, in another,
to do and to enjoy. The active day
has its evening of repose; even pa
tient sufferance has its alleviations,
when there is a consolatory sense
of duty discharged__ Scott.
“Length” Li Horse Racing
In horse racing the measure of
Undermine the Character
a “length” is the distane from
Fear and gain are great pervert-
the tip of the nose to the base of
the tail. The average horse is over cr* of mankind, and where either
eight feet while running with neck prevail the judgment is violated.—
William Penn, in “Some Fruits of
outstretched.
Solitude.”
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