Thursday, January 14, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Skiing Draws Winter Visitors to Lake Placid
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
Redmond—A 11 h o u g h all other
Washington. — When President may have to be revised later, but WPA work has been discontinued in
Roosevelt took office for his first that does not excuse the rather care Central Oregon, a crew of about a
term, one of the less practices that have grown up dozen men are still at work on the
About outstanding obser- in the calculation of relief expendi Redmond airport. The project will
Money
vations that he tures. It does not exclude the ne be kept active until the airport has
made was to the cessity for a real protection against been made safe for use.
effect that the American people heedless spending nor does it pre
Pendleton—A. D. Molohon, execu
“feared fear” and of this condition vent the formulation of intelligent tive under the Taylor grazing act,
was born instability. It was a re policies.
be one of the chief speaker; at
Individually, I do not quite under will annual
markable statement and the truth
convention of the Ore -on
of it may not now even be denied. stand why the administration should the
It accurately presented one of the fuss about a few millions of print Woolgrowers association at Ontario
fundamental influences disturbing ing bills and toss out half a billion January 12 and 13, W. A. Holt, Pen-
American life and if that psychology or three-quarters of a billion, as the dleton, secretary, announced Monday
could have been completely swept case may be, with reckless abandon morning.
away, I believe things would have when such tossing is done without
Nehalem—Mrs. Marian Rich found
any evident continuity of sound pol a baby skunk feeding with her male
been different now.
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As I remember, I commented at icy.
house cat the other day and since
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that time upon the new President’s
then the two have become insepar
remark. Subsequently, I called at
I referred to Secretary Wallace’s able companions. Although Mrs. Rich
tention to the conditions of admin spending proclivities. Mr. Wallace admits
she doesn't like the newcomer,
istration policy under the New Deal
has been going the friendship appears permanent.
A group who are enjoying the popular winter sport at Lake Placid. N. Y. Left to right: Miss Edith L.
that were necessarily causing a con
Wallace
about the country
tinuation of that “fear of fear” in Talks Money lately talking of The cat and skunk go forth on a Januschek of Peiping, China; Miss Nancy Page Carveth of Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Dorothy Trumbridge of
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jean Stanhope of New York city; Victoria Nebeker of Los Angeles; Nancy Perkins of
stead of calming the nation's
the necessity for stroll each night.
Baltimore; and Marie Carveth of Niagara Falls, N. Y.
nerves.
soil conservation and the payment
Newport—Carl W. Mays, ex-big
i As Mr. Roosevelt closes his first of a subsidy to farmers to accom league baseball pitcher, will develop
term and begins his second tenure, plish that end. He has been talking a sportsmen’s resort on the Corval
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HELPS UNEMPLOYED
Big Demand for Windsor Souvenirs
I believe it is entirely proper again about money in sums as large as a lis-Waldport highway along the Al
to advert to his significant and billion dollars a year for crop in sea river, where Steelhead fishing Is
truthful observation of 1933. We surance—a program in furtherance
can look at this picture only in of Mr. Wallace’s “ever normal excellent. A 140-acre farm purchased
from Dick Evans, spanning the river,
retrospect, regrettable as it is that granary” idea.
at*.
will be improved immediately. A
we cannot see into the future. It
In theory, there is much to be
would then seem to be an entirely said in favor of spreading unpredict lodge costing $20,000 will be con
permissible thing to do to examine able losses of farming through in structed, and boats, launches and
the basis of Mr. Roosevelt’s obser surance. A large part of the dis equipment will be added. Cabins and
vation and see what has been done tress found in agricultural regions accommodations will be available in
to correct the condition about which is due to the destruction of crops a few weeks.
he complained.
by causes over which the farmers
Salem—More than 18,000 acres of
I shall not attempt to go into the have no control. If the consaquences burned over timber lands in Coos and
various phases of the four-year of these hazards could be minimized Curry counties have now been re-
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term. Indeed, I think it is neither by adjusting losses over wide areas, seeded to forage grasses, according
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advisable nor necessary to analyze and by using the surplus of one
to
W.
A.
Hazelwood,
airplane
pilot
conditions beyond those that are year to offset the shortage of the
basic, fundamental, in our national next, one major farm problem in charge of the reseeding operations.
Seeding of the area, which is done
economic and political structure.
would be solved. But, as matters
For that reason, and because of now stand, there is a natural tend from a plane, Is costing the farmers
recent developments of administra ency to regard this move with a of the area only 20 cents an acre in
tive policy, I am writing something skeptical eye. This is necessary be addition to the cost of the seed. The
about money in this report to you.
cause, like so many theories, the plane from which the reseeding is
The Scripture quotation is: “The Wallace crop insurance, ever nor being done was purchased by the
love of money is the root of all mal granary plan seems to omit farmers and is being paid for out of
evil.” In treating of the subject of the one element that is necessary the 20-cent-per-acre cost.
money from our practical stand to be included. If this proposition
Astoria—Fish packing has contin
point, “the love of money” takes is to be successful, there simply
Baron Nuffield, who is Sir Wil
ued
in light quantities throughout the
on quite an unusual definition. For, can be no doubt that it must have
liam Morris, head of a vast manu
fall
and
winter
here
for
the
first
time
may I point out in candor, there almost unanimous support. It does
Professor Steinberger is seen at work in his London studio on statu facturing organization including au
never has been a national admin not have it and never will. The in several years. River Silvers and ettes of the duke of Windsor, for which there is now a tremendous tomobile plants, export companies,
Steelhead
are
now
being
processed.
istration, so far as my research reason is that it calls upon the
demand. Thousands of such statuettes had been made for Edward’s a publishing house and affiliated
goes, that has so thoroughly loved government to pay part or all of What salmon are caught pass on to coronation, and when he abdicated London business men groaned in subsidiaries, donated $10,000,000 to
the spending of money. I believe the cost and human nature inevit the fresh fish market, where they anticipation of writing off terrific losses on stock that they could not sell. stimulate employment in Great
Mr. Roosevelt himself enjoys it but ably resents taking from one to give command a high price. Considerable Instead of diminishing, the demand for the Edward figures has increased. Britain’s “depressed areas.”
part-time employment has been pro
Mr. Roosevelt is not the chief of to another.
fender of his administration in this
Mr. Wallace's ideas were adopted vided for cannery workers in hand
regard. The two men whose rec by the President’s crop insurance ling of winter fish. Generally can
EX-PRIVATE IS GENERAL
Bernie Bierman Made Coaches’ Prexy
ords stand out with an absurd will committee. That committee was neries close late in the fall after the
ingness to throw money around as supposed to have the interest of ag last of ocean troll Silversides have
I used to throw pebbles when I riculture at heart. Its recommen been mild-cured and canned.
was a boy on a Missouri farm are dations indicate that it had not only
Grants Pass—Dr. Samuel B. Os
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Harry Hopkins, Works Progress ad such an interest but an even greater
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ministrator, and Secretary Wallace, interest, namely, making sure that good of Portland assumed his duties
of the Department of Agriculture. the farmers were given everything. this week at head of the new Jose
I am quite convinced that Mr. Hop
From all of the discussions that phine county health unit, recently
kins is the worse of the two. My I have heard, I believe it is quite approved for 1937 by the county
conclusion is based on a conviction apparent that the committee went court. Doctor Osgood was appointed
that Mr. Hopkins is the more waste too far. It went so far, indeed, upon the recommendation of Dr.
ful. I am afraid that when the his that it is arousing resentment from Frederick D. Stricker, state health
tory of this great depression is set the consumers who think that they officer. He was in Grants Pass last
down in the cold light of facts as will have to pay the bill. There week conferring with the court mem
they will appear a quarter of a cen fore, by proposing a program that is bers and officials of the local Red
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tury from now, Mr. Hopkins will too extreme, the crop insurance Cross chapter, prior to taking over
ay one ye •
Sir
have a place in that spotlight that committee and Mr. Wallace have the work on January 1. Doctor Os
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will not do credit to the hundreds forced a cleavage between producer good recently studied in the Univers
Si,■
nd
of people who have the real welfare and consumer and that is likely to ity of California public health admin
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of the poor at heart.
result in a renewal of warfare be istration department, and was pre
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tween these two segments of our viously at the University of Oregon
The latest development concern national life. It will cause a re Medical school in Portland, where
ing Mr. Hopkins in his public state- vival of an age-old quarrel instead he taught bio-chemistry for five years.
ment that there of a healing of old wounds.
Once a soldier, always a soldier,
FERN PROFITS HELP
Money
must be at least
No one can deny that the farmers,
for Relief
three-quarters of a as a class, have not been getting
Tillamook—Unemployed persons in is an old army belief, but once a
billion new money their fair share. From the attitude this county, augmented by some from private, now a general, is a para
appropriated for his relief work. of many thinking farmers, however, valley points, are taking advantage phrase that fits Brigadier-General |
President Roosevelt previously had I rather believe that agriculture of the market offered for ferns. Con Kenyon Joyce, whose new rank was
said he would ask congress for only would prefer to have a farm aid siderable demand for these occurred announced recently by President
half a billion. It is difficult to rec program which would permit it to before Christmas and it is hoped by Roosevelt. General Joyce, once a
oncile these two statements or the produce and sell to the cunsumers the gatherers that it will continue un ranker, now commands the “Presi- ;
reasons therefor. Some slipshod under harmonious conditions and til spring. During the Christmas dent’s Own” third cavalry troop at ,
Bernie Bierman, left, of Minnesota, new president of the National
thing has taken place or else Mr. regulations rather than get too trade, gatherers were paid 4 cents Fort Myer, Va. During the World [
war he won the D. S. C., Order of | Football Coaches’ association, is greeted, and welcomed to his post by
Hopkins again is indulging in his much and earn the hatred of the
for
a
bunch
of
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sword
ferns.
Some
the Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre Tuss McLaughrey, of Brown, the “passing” president. Bernie was elected
favorite sport of spending and wast masses who are to buy the farmers’
were shipped to Portland and some and the French Legion of Honor.
| at the annual convention of the coaches in New York city recently.
ing taxpayers’ money.
output.
Now, the figures reveal that re
To advert to the original theme, went to eastern markets.
Gatherers have been exceptionally
lief operations, as managed by Mr. Mr. Wallace likes to pass out mon
Hopkins, are costing about $165,- ey. He knows, as all others in pub busy in the vicinity of Lake Lytle,
000,000 a month. If Mr. Roosevelt lic life know, that the government Rockaway, Garabaldi and along the
intends to use only $500,000,000 for will be generous with agriculture Miami river.
relief, curtailment in sharp fashion and I am afraid that fact has
LONG RECORD NOTED
must take place. If no such cur caused the otherwise genial sec
Salem—Surviving seven complete
tailment is intended, even the Hop retary of agriculture to lose his per
kins figure is too small.
spective—to forget that he is foster changes of administration. Dr. Rob
Thus, we are brought face to face ing a program that will change tra ert E. Lee Steiner this week began
again with a question: What is to ditions and practices on the farms his 30th year as the head of one of
be the policy? I hear more and of America as surely as the sun the largest and most important of the
more discussion as congress gets shines.
state's institutions—the state hospi
under way that some definite state
Farmers are human as everyone tal for the insane which now houses
ment ought to be made, some com else is human. Some of them, like nearly 2500 patients. Dr. Steiner did
mitment given, so that the nation some of us. who must exist among not celebrate the event, but in polit
would know what it is proposed to do modern cliff dwellings of concrete ical history the reappointment by
with all of this money and how and steel, entertain a fear that a nine governors was considered unus
much of it is to be used.
policy of government payments
Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt re equivalent to a dole, may have the ual.When Steiner became head of the
cently spoke rather curtly to some effect in the end of destroying
of his departmental heads about rather than saving the business of institution in 1907 he set as his goal
"the better care of the insane.” Since
their printing bills. He thought they agriculture.
that time he has changed the func
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were too large and that money
tions from one of custodial for the I
should be saved in that direction.
insane to one of treatment and cure.
Now, it happens governmental
Our Early Watches
printing bills amount to no more
The first watches were produced
than a drop in the bucket when com in all sorts of fanciful designs, with
Coquille—Tax collections for 1986
pared to the waste that goes on in cases shaped like crosses or shells in Coos county now exceed 1936 bud
the enormous relief set-up of which or mandolins, says a writer in the get estimates by 3 per cent., officials
Mr. Hopkins is the head. It has Washington Star. A peculiar fash report.
been shown too many times to need ion was that of a watch-case shaped
Bend—Bend on July 1. start of
elaboration here.
like a skull, to remind the owner
Since Mr. Roosevelt has taken when he looked at it that time was the postal service fiscal year, will
note of the departmental printing fleeting and death was drawing become Oregon's 11th first-class post
bills, however, I would like to make near. The lovely and unlucky Mary office, it was announced thia week
the suggestion that there is no valid Queen of Scots had a skull-shaped when receipts from sales of stamps
reason any longer for excluding re watch, and in view of her death mounted well above the $45,000
lief appropriations from the regu on the headsman's block it was mark for the year. Heavy Christmas
lar estimates of expenditures as in gruesomely appropriate. Cavaliers business, with more than 19,000 let-
An interesting photo, showing the arrangement of accommodations in the new Soviet army two-seater
cluded in the annual budget. Like had swords and poniards with little tern canceled here In one day. boosted plane. Berths are arranged below the wings as shown. In recent tests, 16 persons were carried in this man-
many other items, the relief totals watches set into the hilts.
Bend into the first-class rating.
ner, including pilot and co-pilot.
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Trick Accommodations on New Soviet Plane