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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Thursday, December 17, 1936 OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected lor Our Readers — Ashland—The longest and heav- lest tomato season on record is re ported here tor this year. Moro—About 50,000 acres of Sher man county range land will be put under the government's range pro gram. North Ben d—Instruments and equipment to outfit a new drum and bugle corps in the North Bend Boy Scout troop are on hand. The things were donated by the local Kiwanis club. Medford—Maintaining the ratio of growth of almost 2 to 1 over last year, Medford’s building permits for November totaled $22,835 as com- compared with $13,950 for last No vember. The Dalles—An underwater cav ern in the basalt bluff on the Colum bia river west of this city presented an unexpected and unwelcome prob lem to contractors for the $18,000 Port of The Dalles oil dock. Divers will explore the cavern before work is started. Klamath Falls—R oss Aubrey, state-federal potato inspector, has announced that 977 carloads of po tatoes were shipped out of the Klam ath basin during November. This is a jump of 350 carloads over last No vember. Heaviest shipments Went out of Tulelake, Malin, Adams Point and Stukel. Medford—An unspecified but "substantial” sum was paid by Tom Mix, well-known Western movie star and circus celebrity, to settle a dam age suit brought by Harvey Deck, Gold Hill prospector. Deck claimed he suffered injuries last spring when Mix accidentally lassoed him during a performance. Milton-Freewater—A t h r e e-d a y survey of teaching methods was made in McLaughlin union high school, one of the 200 accredited schools in the nation to be chosen as a model school, last week. This survey will be followed by another in the spring to determine the progress of students in aptitude tests. Athena—It’s swell fodder for the cows, but for the cows’ owners— pooey! That is the situation around Athena these days, and will be until all ensilage from the fall pea crop is eaten up. It seems that the ensilage has all the fragrance of a wet goat, and when the stuff is trucked through the burghers look for the nearest air-conditioned basement. Hood River—Newell Brothers of Parkdale, to fulfill conditions of their contract with the forest serv ice, must log selectively their newly acquired tract of timber in Upper Hood River valley. Approximately 3,000,000 feet of mature timber will he cut at the rate of about 1,000,- 000 feet annually. Only mature trees ■will be felled, saplings and imma ture trees to be left standing and undamaged as a nucleus for mature timber at some future time. Because In the past they have seen forest lands stripped of everything cuttable. Hood River residents are following this project with considerable inter- «st. Salem—Five smaller electric con cerns were allowed to merge with the Portland General Electric com pany in an order issued last week by Frank C. MMcColioch, state utility commissioners. Concerns affected are the Yamhill Electric company, Mol alla Electric company. Electric Appli ance & Construction company. Elec tric Supplies and Contracting com pany, and the Clackamas Power & irrigation company. Reduction of ov erhead costs and concentration of activities of the concerns under one supervision were major considera tions of the merger. EXPERT URGES SOY PLANTING Salem—Planting of soy beans in certain parts of Oregon as a stable and annue, crop was urged by George E. Merwin, Empire Oil and Food Products company, Portland, when he appeared before the state board of control here this week. The more than 50 different uses of the bean, including its use in the manufacture of oils, soaps, paints and varnishes, and wallpapers, are some of the rea sons advanced by Merwin in his pre sentation. The proposal was referred to the state agricultural department and ex tension division of Oregon State col lege with authority to carry out the program through county agents. Eugene—With 160 pin-ball ma- chines in operation here, Eugene now has doubled its crop of the “skill" games. Owners of. the contraptions predicted an appreciable shrinkage when license fees were hoisted, but the "play has gone on.” Tillamook—State highway survey ors are running lines in the eastern section adjoining Tillamook with a view to widening the roadway leav ing town to connect with the Wilson River road and to making a wide, straight entrance Into town. TkntlanlUkoöÖ IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Tales and UNDAY I cHooL Lesson S Traditions from American Political History By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Our Good Will Ambassador everly hills , calif .— What better salesman of good will and brotherly understanding could we send to our great sister republics in the lower half of this hemisphere than our own Presi dent, who carries for his samples his personality and his spoken vords? FRANK E. HAGEN B If, in the past, we looked mainly to the old world for our markets, it is certain that in the future we $ must increasingly cultivate the Latin stocks of the new world, on a con tinent whose incred ible natural resourc es are for a great part still virgin and nations who must be cured of persisting beliefs that the Irvin S. Cobb Monroe doctrine is, for them, a threat and not a shield. If yesterday was Europe’s and today is North America’s then sure ly the promise of tomorrow belongs to South America. Tugweil’s New Job. NJ OW that brother Tugwell, almost - the last surviving lobe of the original brain trust, has left the government flat, folks are wonder ing how he’ll make out in his new hue. Don’t worry, anybody. To some, the molasses business might b e sticky, but it offers no obstacles to a young gentleman who wrote and, what’s more, had published, a poem with this deathless refrain: “I will now roll up my sleeves and remake America.” Mark the words, in six months he’ll be an outstanding popcornballs baron, and inside of a year the acknowledged taffy-kisses king of North America. And pretty soon we’ll be ‘lasses-conscious to a point where the effect will be that the entire country is paved with fresh fly-paper. I wouldn’t be surprised to see us using caramels for currency. And as for peanut brittle—well, I’ve al ready started hoarding. Il Duce’s Son-in-law. HEN Mussolini let the word percolate that he was groom ing that new son-in-law to fill his dictatorial boots he must have meant what he hinted at. Because latest photographs show the heir apparent with his jaw also thrust forward, his brows also knit in menacing frown, and his plumpis.h bosom inflated until his medals stand forth like carnival tags on a mar quee. The likeness to the original model ’s so perfect that II Duce could use a picture of the young man for a hand mirror. Ornithologically, it seems fitting that Italy, having kicked the dove of peace in the pants, should cher ish the pouter pigeon pose to typify defiance. W * * * The Language of Lawyers. $ REGRET I didn’t think this up - first — some dirty plagiarist is always thinking up something be fore I get around to doing so. But I feel it my duty to help spread it around, .especially since it was a lawyer who wrote it. I’m quoting him: “If a layman gives an orange to you he simply says: ‘Have an or ange.’ But when a lawyer puts the transaction in legal form he writes: *1 hereby give and convey all and singular, my estate and interests, right, title, claim and advantages of and in said orange, together with all its rind, juice, pulp and pips, and all rights and advantages there in, with full power to bite, cut, suck and otherwise to eat the same or give the same away with or without the rind, skin, juice, pulp or pips, anything hereinbefore or hereinafter or in any other means of whatever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstand ing.’ And then another lawyer comes along and takes it away from you.” • * • Underdone Movie Hams. MEDICAL journal reports that a preventative has been found for trichina. But I’m afraid it’s too late to do anything for some of our Hollywood actor-folk, trichina being a thing common to under done hams. A lot of us who came out here as greenhorns and went to cutting up didoes for the scree: have an alibi. When the movie c -tics ac cuse us of having contracted the dis ease of bad acting, our defense is that we’d been exposed to it. Yet the films have produced a grand crop of good actors, out of very raw material, too, sometimes. And they keep right on doing so, notwithstanding that every now and then the popular fancy picks on some male beauty with a set of educated eyelashes and the win- some trick of a languishing glance IRVIN S. COBB. A SCOTT WATSON Lesson for December 20 THE LADY CANDIDATE EVER hear of Mrs. Belva Lock wood of New York? She was the woman who was twice a candi date for the presidency of tre Unit ed States on the Equal Suffrage ticket. That she was defeated on both occasions is beside the point. The record shows that she was per haps the most stalwart of the early-day advocates of "emancipa tion” in all its forms for the love lier sex. And she accomplished most for them. In 1882, two years before her likenesses were seen on presiden tial banners, Mrs. Lockwood ob tained the admission of women to the Supreme Court of the United States. It was the culmination of a five-year battle, launched at the Suffrage convention in Lincoln hall, Washington, in 1877. Mrs. Lockwood was a practicing attorney herself. For three years she had been empowered to ap pear before the Supreme Court of the District but was barred from the United States body by lack of precedent. She established the precedent. But it required a fol low - up campaign of briefs, speeches and bills to obtain the de sired end. The speech of Mrs. Lockwood at the 1877 convention was convincing to her hearers. Contrary to cur rent recollections of the mascu line type of woman who first de manded political equality, she is described in a convention report as entirely feminine. As an ex ample: Mrs. Lockwood wore a vel vet dress and train. Mrs. Lockwood was a candidate in 1888 as well as in 1884. She was active in public life almost to the day of her death in 1917, when eighty-seven years old. After wom en were allowed before the United States Supreme Court she cham pioned the right of Negro lawyers to appear there. Then she shoul dered legal cudgels for the Indi ans, went as a peace commission er to Europe, engaged in a score of other worthwhile activities. BALLOTS OF HATE HE presence this year of a na tionally known newspaper pub lisher on the ticket of a major politi cal party has excited -interest in the part newspaper men have tak en as candidates in the past. One of them who was very ac tive was Horace Greeley of New York Tribune fame, a candidate of the "Liberal Republicans” and en dorsed by the Democrats to oppose the reelection of Grant in 1872. Greeley was made a presidential candidate by a reform group of Republicans which had found its nucleus in Missouri with the elec tion of one of its leaders as gover nor and later held a national con vention at Cincinnati. The Cincinnati convention ex pected its candidate and platform to be accepted by the Democratic organization, sadly broken up by the disenfranchisement of south erners in the wake of the Civil war. So everyone was amazed when Greeley was named presidential candidate. During the war, Greeley, a chronic sufferer from nervous dis orders, had been erratic in his editorial positions, shifted them frequently—always with the belief that he was expressing what most people wanted. While the South was still under arms, he had declared with great passion that the war should not end while slavery existed, yet pe titioned Lincoln to appoint him commissioner to arrange a peace. The result of all this was that he was threatened throughout the South and thoroughly hated there. Yet after the war he signed the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. When the Democrats met ut Bal timore a little more than two months after Greeley’s nomination they adopted the Greeley ticket be cause they felt it their only means of opposing Grant. A small group, it is true, broke away from the main body of Dem ocrats, held a second convention in September at Louisville and placed a third ticket in the field. Grant didn't fuss around with the election. He won overwhelmingly. It was the first time since the Civ il war that all the states voted and Grant carried all but six of them, getting 272 electoral votes. The states Grant didn’t win— Missouri, Maryland, Georgia, Ken tucky, Tennessee and Texas, were fairly representative of the terri tory which hated Greeley But Greeley died before the results were known. These states would have given him 66 votes had he lived. Decorating for Christmas— THE SUPREME GIFT OF LOVE Christmas Lesson LESSON TEXT—I John fcT-lt. GOLDEN TEXT—Glory to God tn the highest, and on earth peace, good will to ward men. Luke 2:14. PRIMARY TOPIC — Why Christmas Comes. JUNIOR TOPIC — Immanuel—God With Us. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Why Jesus Came to Earth. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— The Greatest Gift ot AU. “1 heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men." T I | I I 1 I ' | | I I Thus sang America’s well-beloved Longfellow. But at once his honest heart began to question—“Is there peace on earth? Are not men and nations striving against each oth er in hatred and violence?” Were he alive today he might ask his questions with even greater fear and sadness. How blessed then that as follow ers of the Christ we are again per mitted to stand at the lowly man ger in Bethlehem town and rejoice anew that “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). Let us all who bear his precious name covenant together to “keep Christ in Christmas,” and in the giving of gifts remember God’s great gift. Let no home fail to have read on Christmas day the Bible story of the Incarnation (Luke 2:1-20). The lesson for this Christmas Sun day has been well chosen from the First Epistle of John. The “Apostle of Love” is our teacher as we con sider God’s supreme gift of love. We note first of all I. Its Origin (I John 4:7, 8). “God is love.” In other words, love is not merely one of his char acteristics, but of the very essence of his being. He not only loves, but he is love. Therefore only those who know him can truly love, and those who have not love do not know him. II. Its Manifestation (w. 9, 10). “We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” God’s love “sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.” Let us be sure to emphasize that Christmas cele brates the coming of the Saviour into the world. III. Its Results (w. 11-19). 1. Love between men (v. 11). This verse presents an absolutely irrefutable argument. If God could love us, surely we should love one another. 2. Fellowship with God (vv. 12-16). No man has ever seen God, but God is manifested in the lives of men who, because they have taken his Son as their Saviour (v. 14), and have confessed him as such before the world (v. 15), have come into perfect fellowship with God. Only through such lives • will the world know God’s love. 3. Boldness in the Lord (vv. 17, 18). It is tragically true that even on Christmas day when we speak of peace and good will, it is a fact that men and women outside of Christ are his enemies and must look in fear toward a day of judgment. But how different for those who know Christ as Saviour. Perfect love, God’s love, has cast out all fear and they may face with boldness even the day of judgment. If any reader of these lines lacks this holy boldness, why not make this Christmas season a time of spiritual “nativity”—take the Christ of Bethlehem and Calvary as your Saviour just now! 4. Appreciation of his love (v. 19). Love begets love. God's love for us moves us deeply and we love him. He loved us “while we were yet sinners” (Rom. 5:8). Much more then, being saved, we should love him, and love the brethren. (See I John 4:20, 21.) So “let us keep the feast, not with . . . the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleav- ened bread of sincerity and truth” (I Cor. 5:8). Then we may indeed wish one another A Joyous ChristmasJ Real Poverty Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and rai- ment, a thing much more imag inary than real. The shame of pov- erty—the shame of being thought poor—it is a great and fatal weak- ness, though arising in this coun- try from the fashions of the times themselves. © Western Newspaper Union. Faith in Our Fellow Man It is better to suffer wrong than Explains Lightning Why certain trees are more apt to to do it, and happier to be some- be struck by lightning is explained i times cheated than not to trust.— by Dr. W. J. Humphreys in the Kan Johnson. ■ sas City Star. “In general, the A Happy Man trees most likely to be struck are Happy is that man whose calling | those that have either an extensive Copyright.—WNU Service. root system like the locust, or deep is great and spirit humble.—De tap-roots like the pine, and this for mosthenes. Mansion Built in 1690 Built in 1690. the lovely old Co- I the very obvious reason that they An Ohjeet In Life lonial Wyck residence is the oldest ! are the best grounded and therefore, No man was ever so much de on the whole, offer the least electri in Germantown in Philadelphia. La ceived by another, as by himself.— fayette was entertained in the stat cal resistance.” Greville. ly old mansion. Some Handsome Window and Room Ornaments That Are Inexpensive V17 HILE windows may have »V been decorated for Christmas before now, the arrangements in doors seldom are made until the day before the holiday. The fresh ness of the beauty is wanted with out any diminution. If the novelty has worn off, some of the zest of Christmas is lost. This is so true that many homemakers refuse to have windows trimmed more than a day or so prior to Christmas. If you happen to be among this latter group, let me suggest that you take sprays of a tree that is misshapen and so very cheap and make a splashing bow of red crepe paper for each and hang one in every front window downstairs. Or have one in each downstairs win dow that is discernible from the street. if not, metal paint or green stain some of the little market baskets such as strawberries, brussels sprouts or tomatoes come in. Make a rope or lengths of paper braid for the handles, painted or stained to match the basket. If a length of picture wire has been wound with the strands of paper rope and braid, these handles will keep their shape when ends have been thrust inside the baskets close to their opposite sides. The handles can be wired or glued to the baskets. Bouquets. Bouquets of Christmas greens in vases can be put in rooms other than the living room and dining room, and give their beauty of Christmas about the house. Be sure to use vases and bowls that Ornamenting the Spray. have broad standards, lest the un You can dot the spray with holly even weight of the greens tips berries, or whatever you have in them over. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. addition to the green. Or you can dip popped corn in red stain or dye, and touch the kernels with glue and secure them to the sprays. These notes of red, with their irregular shapes, are intrigu ing, sometimes being mistaken for Hard Cash berries and sometimes for flow "Pay your taxes with a smile,” erets. advised Mrs. Gotrocks. Bank the Mantelpiece. “I should love to,” said Miss Bank the mantelpiece over the fireplace where the stockings are Comely, “but they insist on cash.” hung, using sprays of the green —Pearson’s Weekly. intermingled with holly, mistletoe, Good Fortune pine cones, bayberries, or silvered A man reprimanded his little or other metal painted motifs such as acorns, fine twigs with many son for eating nothing but cakes fronds, etc. When everything is at tea-time. “When I was your age, I got fixed to your fancy twine a string of wee colored Christmas tree nothing but bread and butter at electric lights through the greens. tea-time," he said. “You must be awfully glad you These will look ornamental by day and have a glamor when lighted came to live here, daddy,” ob- served the boy, brightly. during the evening. Christmas Greens Fill Baskets. Quite Agreeable Baskets filled with greens and "Once ought to be enough for me dotted with the novelty units lend notes of appropriate Christmas to ask for that $5 I lent you.” “Yes, I quite agree, and yet you decoration. Any small baskets will do for this purpose. There gen keep on at me!”—Stray Stories erally are some about a house, but Magazine. Foreign Words and Phrases _ w A cheval. (F.) On horseback. Cela va sans dire. (F.) That goes without saying; it is obvious. De bon augure. (F.) Propitious. Erinnerung (G.) A remem brance; a souvenir. Fortiter in re. (L.) With firm ness in action. Ignis fatuus. (L.) Will-o’-the- wisp. Lupus in fabula. (L.) The wolf in the fable ; long looked for, come at last. Pour encourager les autres. (F.) To encourage the others; Vol taire’s comment on the motives of the Englis. in executing Admiral Byng for cowardice. Non omnis moriar. (L.) I shall not wholly die. Respice finem. (L.) Look to the end. Sans peur et sans reproche. (F.) 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