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.
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Tales and
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Traditions
from American
Political
History
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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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
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If, in the past, we looked mainly
to the old world for our markets,
it is certain that
in the future we
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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.
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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.”
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.)
Without fear and without reproach.
Tour de force. (F.) A feat of
strength; a piece of sheer clever
ness.
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exhibitor who has used
many brands but who now
uses CLABBER GIRL,
exclusively.
ONLY
104
Your Grocer
Has It
CLABBER GIRL
BAKING POWDER
WHEN WARM SPELL COMES LOOK OUT FOR
SKIPPERS IN POORLY SMOKED MEAT
It penetrates every crevice and pore
of the meat surface. It positively
PREVENTS skippers, green mold,
rancidness, or hardening. And fla
vor? FIGARO-smoked meat Is the
finest you’ll ever eat
AND COSTS NOTHING I
11 Uipprrs." Ube tint of a fly, which hatch
in meal ml proper If imohed. (ir rally talar ted
During cold weather, keeping
meat on the farm is a simple mat
ter. But when hot summer cornea, or
a warm spell in winter, look out!
You suddenly find your meat, into
which so many hours of hard labor
and feed have been put, crawling
with "skippers"! This little worm
(shown In photo above) Is the
larva of a fly, which has laid its
eggs in the meat At the first warm
spell, they hatch.
But there are other troubles be
sides skippers. Green mold often de
velops, or rancidness near the bone.
The meat dries out, gets too hard
to eat.
ONLY ONE PREVENTIVE
Thorough smoking Is the only
known way to prevent all these
troubles. But how? Everyone knows
how uncertain the old smokehouse
method Is. Other so-called smoking
methods, or substitutes for smoking,
are likewise risky. How can you tell
whether or not the meat Is thor
oughly smoked? But if you want to
be absolutely SURE your meat will
come through the hot summer
months sweet and wholesome and
eatable, don’t take chances. Brush
every square Inch with FIGARO
Condensed Smoke. It Is a liquid ; and
THE
Actually FIGARO-smoking costs
you nothing. The average farm
loses 50 pounds of meat every year
through Improper smoking. At 30
cents per pound, that’s $15.00! To
protect your meat to guarantee ev
ery pound of it keeping perfectly,
will cost you less than one-third
cent per pound, the FIGARO way!
And using plain salt in the cure,
then brushing FIGARO on the meat
afterward, actually will cost you
only HALF the cost of using
“smoke salt.”
HAS SMOKED OVER TWO
BILLION POUNDS OF MEAT
More than 30
years ago, 8.
Eugene Col gin,
Texas farmer
boy, discovered
what it was In
the old smoke-
house that pre
served the meat.
This secret led
to condensing of
smoke In quanti
ties, and, with
certain additions
S. E. COLGIN, who
to improve the
ditcoverad FIGARO
flavor of the
meat, this Is FIGARO Condensed
Smoke. It has smoked more than
two billion pounds of meat since
that time. Yout dealer has FIGARO,
or can get it. The 32-oz. size smokes
500 pounds, and costs only $1.50;
the 16-oz. size smokes 250 pounds,
and costs only $1.00.—Adv.
FIGARO Co. DALLAS,TEX.
Manufacturers of Smoke Products
FIGARO Condensed Smoke Barbecue Smoke Sauce— Sausage Seasoning