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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Thursday, October 22, 1936
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
National Topic* Interpreted
by William Bruckart
National Press Building
Washington.—Some time ago I re­
ported in these columns that Mr.
.
Roosevelt had sent
Six Men, a commission to
Six Views Europe to study
consumer co - op­
eratives. I said at that time that
the commission was likely to find
itself unable to reach an agreement
concerning a report to the President
on the consumer co-operatives and
that in the event they were able to
reach an agreement, the publica­
tion of their findings would be de­
layed until after the election.
The commission has returned to
this country and has gone through
its labor pains to the end that there
are six different views, an opinion
by each of the six different com­
missioners concerning the value or
lack of it that consumer co-opera­
tives have.
But it is important to know de­
velopments concerning this commis­
sion because it appears that by en­
gaging in an investigation of the
consumer co-operatives, the Presi­
dent has awakened a number of
different interests in our own coun­
try to the fact that there are some
kinds of co-operatives which are
not helpful. The fuss stirred up by
failure of the six commissioners to
reach an agreement makes it seem
unlikely that there will be any una­
nimity of opinion in congress if and
when Mr. Roosevelt attempts to
gain action in a legislative way to
encourage creation of these co-op­
eratives. In other words, if a move
is made in congress, or if the Chief
Executive attempts to force con­
gress to enact legislation favorable
to consumer co-operatives, we are
likely to see a vigorous legislative
battle. Personally, I hope that hap­
pens. Unless that end materializes,
there is every likelihood that the
average person who has not access
to full information will be inclined
to favor consumer co-operatives,
without realizing he is lending his
influence, whatever it may be, to
fostering institutions that in the end
are certain to cause heartaches and
financial losses.
I am in a position to say that the
one thing upon which the Presi­
dent’s commissioners were able to
agree was that consum er co-op­
eratives in Europe constitute the
focal point for radicalism. Not a
single consumer co-operative was
found, I am told, that was not con­
trolled, managed or inspired by radi­
cals of one breed or another, mainly,
communists. These hotbeds of radi­
calism constitute “pressure groups”
that have been able to impress gov­
ernments in the various countries of
an ability and an influence that do
not actually exist with them. That
is to say, these groups, like minority
groups everywhere, are cohesively
organized and they are vocal, in
addition. The result is they have
been able to force upon peoples in
many countries restrictions over
private and independent initiative,
or to gain for themselves exemp­
tions and privileges not accorded to
others. The result is an obvious
alignment of peoples into fresh fac­
tions, the tendencies of which are
dangerous.
It may be news to many persons
that we have consumer co-opera-
tives in this coun-
Tugwell s try and that these
Activities agencies or units
already are being
fostered by the United States gov­
ernment. I refer to the activities of
Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell, who
has installed in the resettlement col­
onies various and sundry consumer
co-operatives. It may be news as
well to many to learn that Mr. Tug-
well has spent almost two million
dollars in financing these co - op­
eratives to get them started. And
the third bit of news respecting
this circumstance is that a book
written by James Peter Warbasse is
being used as a guide for the crea­
tion of these consumer co-operatives
in federal resettlement projects.
Now, the name of James Peter
Warbasse may not seem important.
Many persons have written books,
but there are not many volumes ex­
tant in the United States that ad­
vocate changes in the form of our
government. Yet, there are proposi­
tions in the volume to which I have
referred which do just that and
these books, as I have said, are
serving more or less as a guide for
the people whom Professor Tugwell
has “resettled.”
With this brief presentation of the
facts, it seems to me it does not
take much imagination to see the
basis upon which the promoters of
the consumer co - operatives are
building their structure in this coun­
try. Taking these facts into con­
sideration with the information
brought back by those who made
the study for Mr. Roosevelt, it is
made to appear at least that a for­
eign link is somehow or other being
forged, and that link, I believe, is
designed as a fundamental unit in
the general radical program to
change the form of our government
as well as the form of our national
life. I can arrive at no other con­
clusion.
There is still another phase of this
general proposition of consumer co-
operatives that
Another ought to be of in-
Phase terest to every
producer in this
country. Let us assume, for ex­
ample, that they were perfect in
organization and management; that
they prospered and expanded in
numbers and that they were ren­
dering genuine service to the peo­
ple. If that condition were to obtain,
does it not occur as a natural ques­
tion that with so much strength,
the consumer co-operatives would
eventually establish a class align­
ment between producer and con­
sumer? It seems to me that the
natural course of events would lead
to this end, and if it did lead to
this end I am afraid that because
there are more consumers than
there are producers, the producers
would get the dirty end of the deal.
They would be short-changed be­
cause they would be outnumbered.
This phase seems the more im­
portant because the food stores, food
fields generally, are the sectors in
which these consumer co-operatives
operate best. As a matter of fact,
the food field is the most fertile field
for experiments anyway and here
is quite apparently another experi­
ment that has fastened, or is fasten­
ing itself as a parasite upon the
agricultural industry of this country.
I know there has been some ar­
gument that the consumer co-op­
eratives are the answer to the effort
to destroy chain stores. That is not
so. Chain stores in foreign countries
have licked the co-operatives. They
have virtually destroyed them
where the co-operatives attempted
to drive the chain stores out of busi­
ness. It becomes important then to
recognize that while the United
States has many chain stores, it
has not now and never will have as
many chain stores as it has inde­
pendents.
Again, here is a threat to in­
dependent business men, particular­
ly to the small shop owner, whether
he be in a large city or in the thou­
sands of small towns and villages
where the owners of such stores
are important to their communities
and pillars of strength in our nation­
al society. If the consumer co-opera­
tives get going, I predict a further
decline in the number of independ­
ent merchandise houses through-
out the United States. For that rea­
son, if for none of the others that I
have outlined, it does seem impor­
tant that the consumer co-operatives
move in this country should be
stopped in its tracks and that those
responsible in an official way for en­
couraging this sort of thing should
be shorn of power.
• • •
It may seem a far cry from the
farm field to the price of beer as a
working man finds
Then
it, but there is a
There’s Beer direct connection
and recent devel­
opments again demonstrate the fact
that our whole economic structure
is quite closely related. There is an
increase coming in the price of beer.
Either the working man and others
who like beer are going to pay more
for it, or else they will get a smaller
glass. The answer is that ingredients
entering into the production of beer
have increased in price to such an
extent that, according to official
figures, the brewers are now paying
about $1.50 more for the things that
enter into the production of one
barrel of beer than they did when
the sale of beer again was
legalized.
This circumstance is significant
for the reason that it shows conclu­
sively how tampering with the cur­
rency upsets the generel balance
within our economic structure and
results sometimes in displacement
of markets and sometimes in dimi­
nution of sales. In the case of beer
it probably will result in a dis­
placement of markets, rather than
any decline in the amount of beer
consumed, despite the fact that the
ultimate consumer will be paying
more.
This condition is st interest to
agriculture generally because it has
always been contended by the pro­
ponents of open sale of beer and
whiskey that a substantial new out­
let for farm crops was made avail­
able by the repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment. Rather, it was a res­
toration of an old outlet that existed
before the Eighteenth amendment
was adopted. But there has been a
combination of circumstances, large­
ly the result of governmental mess­
ing, that has mitigated against the
farmers obtaining full benefit from
repeal. These may be enumerated as
follows: Devaluation of the dollar,
crop restriction under the Agricul­
tural Adjustment act, higher taxes,
and a tendency on the part of the
Roosevelt administration to increase
imports from abroad.
In the case of the devaluation of
the currency, the main purpose, as
announced by the Roosevelt admin-
istratien, was to increase prices. It
has had that effect and has made the
brewers pay more for the hope they
must import from abroad, and they
must import hops because our own
production is insufficient.
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Briel Resume ol Happenings
ot the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
Salem—There were 120,484 regis­
tered 'tourists during the first nine
months of this year, more than all
of 1935.
Medford—The only herd of Brown
Sv iss cattle In Southern Oregon is
being developed by Dr. I. D. Phipps
at his orchard near here.
Estacada—E. M. Latourette cap-
tured a 20 pound porcupine in his
garden near here a few days ago. He
released the big fellow after weigh­
ing him.
Merill—A record of 600 sacks to
the acre was turned in by Roy La
Prärie from his farm near Hager. It
is the largest yield ever for the Klam­
ath basin.
Salem—Life insurance annuities
and dividends are taxable under the
Oregon Intangibles income tax law
according to recent ruling of the state
supreme court.
Portland—More than 3000 boy
scouts were used to distribute 70,-
000 copies of the community chest
pamphlet “Worth Looking Into,"
during the drive here.
Corvallist—Financed by the sale
ot ice cream bars at college events,
a team of Oregon State college dairy
students attended the National Dairy
show at Dallas, Texas.
Portland—The Rose City again
bore out its name by taking top hon­
ors for municipal display for the sec­
ond consecutive year at the National
Rose Show at San Diego.
Nyssa—Malheur county ranchers
reported excellent returns from their
red clover seed crop. Up to $60 per
acre was realized from prices rang­
ing to 19 cents per pound.
Milwaukie—A 70 year old citizen
of Clackamas county was arrested
and fined for making “likker" In an
old fashioned wooden still. The still
was a typical Kentucky moonshin­
er’s still.
Talent—The main attraction at
the local pear and tomato show was
what was claimed to be “the world’s
largest pear pie,” weighing over 1000
pounds. Thirty boxes of pears went
into the making of the gigantic pas­
try.
Grants Pass—The development of
the mid-Pacific coast now indicates
that the harbor at Crescent City will
be improved. This will provide a port
for the ocean terminus of the new
railroad between Grants Pass and
Crescent City.
St. Helens—A drastic ordinance
designed to prevent those not city
residents from voting in city elections
has been passed by the council. Even
a member of the election board can
be prosecuted for not challenging in­
eligible voters.
Ontario — Ontario's utilities are
growing. Electric light consumers
have increased from 851 last year to
961 this year; telephone connections
are the highest in history; and the
city has 100 more water users than
two years ago.
The Dalles—The Dalles city offi­
cials feel that they are entitled to
some remuneration for their services
to the city, and as a result the No­
vember ballot will carry a proposal
to pay $25 monthly to the mayor and
$10 monthly to each councilman.
Salem—State Forester J. W. Fer­
guson has estimated that the recent
Coos-Curry fire burned approximate­
ly 100,000 acres. Very little dam­
age was done to the merchantable
stand, the kill being in areas of
trees up to ten Inches in diameter.
Salem—Eola school building a few
miles from here, is going modern
in a big way. The WPA constructed
building will switch the lights on and
off automatically according to the
amount of light needed. This is be­
lieved to be the first school in Ore­
gon with automatic light control.
Wheeler—Fishermen on Nehalem
and Tillamook bays believe that the
slack run of silversides this year is
due to the 1933 Tillamook fire which
caused creeks to be filled with lye
made from the ashes. The run of
Chinooks, a four year fish, was above
normal but the silversides are a three
year fish.
Klamath Falls—The state highway
commission has decided to relocate
The Dalles-California highway be­
tween Modoc Point and Klamath
Agency by swinging to the east
through Lobert. The possibility of
extending on north from Lobert
through Chiloquin and Kirk and then
joining with present road is also be­
ing pondered.
Portland—Oregon’s share of 8800
new families to the Northwest is
1900. These families are from the
most part drouth refugees from the
midwest and will further complicate
the state's relief problem for the com­
ing winter.
Salem—Oregon's strangest library
—SO volumes in a tent—is doing bus­
iness in fire-swept Bandon. The
books are from the Oregon State li­
brary and are loaned to refugees on
the gronnds that books are almost as
essential as food and shelter.
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SUNDAY I
CHOOL Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Talk oí the Quilting Bee
It’s most certainly the talk of
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apple pattern! And why wouldn’t
it be? With nearly all the patch
pieces the same width, you can
cut your fabric into strips and
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Lesson for October 25
CHRISTIANITY AS LOVE
LESSON TEXT— Acts 18:1-4; I Corinth-
Ians 13.
GOLDEN TEXT—And now abideth faith,
hope, charity (love), these three; but the
greatest of these is charity (love). I Cor.
13; 13.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Why Paul Was Not
Afraid.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Courage In the Night.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—What Christian Love Is and Does.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Love, the Law of Life.
By way of Athens the apostle Paul
and his co-workers came to Cor­
inth, one of the great commercial
and social centers of Greece. It
was a city known for its magnifi­
cent architecture and its patronage
of the fine arts, but even more
widely known for its abandonment
to vice and wickedness. Here Paul,
the apostle of faith, demonstrated
that his faith was rooted in love,
and it was to the Christians who
were dwelling in this infamous spot
of corruption that he addressed his
supremely pure and beautiful dis­
course on love.
The first portion of our lesson
finds Paul at Corinth, and provides
an introduction to the study of the
love chapter from I Corinthians by
showing from his experience that
I. Love Is a Fact, Not a Theory
(Acts 18:1-4).
The man whom we now recognize
as perhaps the greatest preacher
and teacher of Christian truth who
ever followed the Lord Jesus Christ
“came to Corinth.” That great and
busy city in all probability knew
nothing of his arrival and cared
nothing for his message. No one
met the distinguished messenger of
God and received him into a home
of comfort and honor.
But God had not forgotten him.
For we read that Paul “found a
certain Jew”—a convert to Christ,
and his noble wife, and “abode with
them.” Persecution had sent Aquila
to Corinth, and he was there for
Paul to find.
And the humility of loving service
expresses itself further in the fact
that the one who was to bring
Corinth the glorious message of the
gospel did so at his own cost. He
labored with his hands at the trade
which he, as every Jewish boy,
had been taught by his father.
Christianity does not ask, “What
will ye give me?” but “Hov much
can I give?”
In his first letter to the church
which grew up at Corinth we find
the enexhaustibly rich chapter in
which Paul so fittingly describes
true Christian love. It is impossible
in any short discussion of this pas­
sage to make a complete study of it,
but we note
II. Four Truths About Love (I
Cor. 13:1-13).
1. Love is superior to the other
graces (vv. 1-3).
Life has many excellent gifts and
men seek after them. How do they
compare with love? Glowing elo­
quence, the far-seeing eye of the
prophet, mountain - moving faith,
self-sacrifice—without love they all
lose their worth; in fact they are
nothing. All the attainments of men
apart from Christ are vain and
empty.
2. Love is necessary to the other
graces (w. 4-7).
There is a sense in which love
is not so much a grace in itself
as the underlying and motivating
power, which shows in every fine
and noble expression of Christian
character. Study these verses to
see how patiently and unselfishly
love works.
3. Love is permanent; other
graces fail (w. 8-12).
Some gifts will cease, for there
will no longer be any need for
them. They are temporary in their
value or simply a means to an
end. But love—it began with God
in eternity and will go on with
him through eternity. Why then do
we labor and seek after these other
graces so diligently and neglect the
one grace which is above them all,
for
4. Love is supreme (v. 13).
Even over those other graces
which with love will abide, namely,
faith and hope, love stands su­
preme. It is the fundamental of
all fundamentals. Without it all else
is empty and futile. And let us
remember, this is not pious theory;
it is fact and to be translated into
daily life.
What It Is All About
When from the human heart the
cry goes up “What is it all about?"
it is no true answer to look only
at that part of experience which
comes to us through certain sen­
sory organs, and reply: “It is
about atoms and chaos ; it is about
the universe of fiery globes mov­
ing on to impending gloom; it is
about non-computative algebra,"
but rather it is about a spirit in
which truth has its shrine, with
Pattern 5591
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In pattern 5591 you will find
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for cutting, sewing and finishing,
together with yardage chart,
diagram of quilt to help arrange
the blocks for single and double
bed size, and a diagram of block
When ironing ecru linens al­
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Ironing them on the right side
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rub briskly.
• • •
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• • •
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An Odious Quality
Conceit is the most contemptible
and one of the most odious qualities
in the world. It is vanity driven
from all other shifts, and forced to
appeal to itself for admiration.—
Hazlitt.
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In washing painted woodwork is to continue in a state of child­
use a pail of lukewarm water to hood all our days.—Plutarch.
which has been added about five
tablespoons of kerosene oil. Wipe
with a dry, clean cloth.
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EYE-SAVING
Cover small delphinium plants
with excelsior or pine boughs be­
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fore putting on dried leaves. They
do not pack or stay damp as
leaves do.
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Common Sense
Common sense in one view is the
most uncommon sense. While it is
extremely rare in possession, the
recognition of it is universal. All
men feel it, though few men have
it.—H. N. Hudson.
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Hardships
Wounds and hardships provoke
our courage, and when our fortunes
are at the lowest, our wits and
minds are commonly at the best.
—Charron.
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