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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Control of Lice on Cattle Urged Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected tor Our Readers Long-Haired Stock Suffers From Insects ; Breed in Cold Weather. about: Privacy for the Windsors. ANTA MONICA, CALIF — "In order to live quietly and escape as much public attention as possible—” I’m quoting the dispatch—"the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson, following their marriage, will seek a se cluded residence in the United States.” S Astoria—Army engineers have ap proved a $191,000 allotment for re pair and rebuilding of dikes at Brownsmead, farmers In that com munity were informed. The work, however, will be contingent on pas sage of the appropriations bill in con gress. Corvallis—) Examination of grain sown before the severe weather of The idea is not new. Hoping to this winter shows that the fall-sown kill Stanford White in some very grain in the Alsea valley is almost an entire loss. This will mean a hard remote secret _______ nook, Harry Thaw spring for the dairymen who were picked out a New depending on fall-sown green feed for York roof garden on F t their herds, according to farmers in the first night of a this community. big musical comedy. Ontario—Who cut off Peter Rab- And only lately one bit’s ears and why? James I. Diven, of our movie queens, 3. foreman of a CCC crew working on striving to get away a rodent-control project, pondered from it all, put on 201 the question until he learned neigh all her portable jew- boring Harney county pays a bounty elry and went to the toy Mel on rabbit ears. Many of the 58 “bun Broadway preview nies” killed by CCC lads at a ranch of one of those colos- irvin S. Cobb sal, titanic, gigantic, near Vale were shorn of ears. mastodonte superscreen epics, only La Grande—This city's bonded in to come forth complaining that one debtedness was reduced 177,000 dur could never flee to the most private ing 1936, according to the report of of hiding places without being an the auditors, leaving the bonded in noyed by crowds. debtedness at $455,000. The general So America is certainly the right debt of the city was reduced to $117,- place for the newlyweds’ honey- 000, the water department debt to moon—where nobody will stare at $148,000 and the improvement bonds them, or follow them, or yell at debt was reduced to 1190,000. them or ask for autographs or pho Klamath Falls—Elimination of the tographs or interviews or try to entire Sun mountain grade on The teat their clothes off for souvenirs. Dalles-California highway will be ef Why, just off-hand, I can think fected by re-location of a unit of the of fully three spots where famous highway, according to Earl C. Rey folks may enjoy such immunity— nolds, secretary of the Chamber of Mount McKinley in the winter, Commerce. Contracts will be let ni Death Valley in the summer and May by the state highway commis Alcatraz island all the year round. sion for construction of the unit. Vale—Vale was the Mecca last Giving Up Earl Browder. week for horse traders at the annual years it has been my regular horse auction of the Vale Sale Yards. - 7 OR custom to give up something More than 1000 buyers from Eastern during Lent. Last year I gave up Oregon and Southern Idaho were in boiled turnips—I never eat boiled the city for the all-day event. Horses turnips, anyhow—and jokes about offered for sale were high grade and Mae West. practically all brought good prices. The year before, I gave up “An Highest priced team sold for $300, thony Adverse” (at page 2,749) and another brought $295. Best price nearly all Little Theater move for a horse was $152.50. ments. The year before I gave up Prescott—Grade school children Upton Sinclair as my spiritual guide here have found a way to earn money in matters political. for playground equipment. They For this year I decided to give up gather local news for a weekly paper. Mr. Earl Browder. I don't quarrel With the proceeds this year they are with his sincerity. He happens, buying basketball and baseball equip though, to be the outstanding expo ment. Last year they started a fund, nent in America of the communist which was added to by the Prescott movement, which has done so much Community club and the Clark & Wil for human happiness and human son Lumber company, and used to progress in the countries that tried it, such as Russia. purchase a school piano. Albany—Two Linn county 4-H club fairs instead of one are in store | Victory Dinners. for the boys and girls and the gen HO says New Dealers aren’t eral public of the county this year, j smart business men? That The club leaders determined that | $100 victory dinner means a clear scheduling of the entire fair during profit of $94.70, figuring the food at the school sessions has rendered cer $5 a head and the combined tain exhibits difficult to obtain, and speeches at 30 cents, which, even if that ft would be more expedient to | they average up to most after-din hold a section of the fair in the spring ner speeches, is indeed a high valu- I and a second section In the late sum- ation. nier. Back in Andy Jackson's day you Hood River—With a tax roll for you could pay off a campaign deficit 1937 of $429,333, Hood River coun with hoop poles and coon pelts. And ty’s assessments are less by $15,000 in Thomas Jefferson’s time the than those of the previous year, when strongest pack mule in Virginia collections were, according to Sheriff couldn’t tote $100 worth of vittles. John Sheldrake, surprisingly good. So, naturally Jeffersonian simplic For the first time In several years, ity and Jacksonian thrift will be the county assessor has lowered the extolled. valuations of a number of orchards Presumably the Republicans will to brings them more into line with follow suit with a nonvictory din depreciation, caused through dam ner or donation shower for John Needy aged and dead trees and lower crop Hamilton’s hope chest. guests will wear Liberty Leaguers’ production. old clothes, while the idea of hav DEATH PENALTY CHANGED ing Canada annex Maine and Ver Salem—The state senate has given mont will be strongly opposed. Its approval to a house bill which Congressman Ham Fish will substitutes lethal gas for the noose speak—such being his habit—un- as the method of inflicting the death lese, for economy’s sake, they penalty at the state prison. switch his name around hind part Senator Duncan In explaining the before and serve him as two bill told his colleagues that the gas courses. chamber was preferred by state of • • • ficials and the warden of the peni Signs of Spring. tentiary. It was, he declared, the () UT here the first sign of spring more humane method. Costs of the X is not the birds coming back. necessary equipment to make the Mainly, our birds don’t flit away. change at the prison, he said, would They go mute awhile, being practi not be more than a few hundred dol cally the only residents that even lars. temporarily refrain from bragging about the climate, or, in case of a GAME STUDY MADE snap, explaining that this is Enterprise— Wild life on the Wal cold very unusual. lowa National Forest is the subject of With us the herald of spring is a study by Supervisor Rolland Huff the surf-bather—that hardy adven and recently submitted to the re turer who plunges in and comes gional forest office. The figures are forth as blue as an Easter egg and estimates, based on the best informa as deflated-looking as a toy balloon tion at hand, and show 1400 elk, 50 on the morning after circus day. Be mountain sheep. 14,000 mule deer, cause the Pacific is never what 550 brown or black bear, 4600 coy you’d call a real cozy ocean and otes, 550 wildcats, 6 mountain lions, especially it isn’t following a chill- 9500 porcupines. some winter. It Is estimated that 420 deer were We make fun of the bathing suits killed last year by 1700 hunters, and our mothers wore. But middle-aged 1300 deer were killed by predatory persons of both sexes disporting on animals. the beach in the modern skimpies present a morbid, not to say grue Tillamook—The last commercial some, spectacle, except to students pickup of Steelhead salmon by gill- of the adult human leg, including netterà for the season was made last the slabby-shanked, the full-calfed, week. Commercial season will not the bowed, the double-jointed, the open again until May 15. With net- buckled, the knock-kneed, the spav ined, the ankle-sprung, the heavy- tens closing operations. hocked, the varicose-veined, the | Heppner—The 1937 program was fur-bearing, etc., etc. explained here by N. E. Dodd, chair Sometimes a fellow gets to think man of the state committee for the ing that right young babies and raw agricultural conservation plan. The oysters are almost the only things election of officers was held with that should ever be exhibited on the E. H. Miller re-elected president of half-shell the county association and chairman IRVIN 8. COBB of the county committee. cwiu Service 149979 9 I * “ face." ST .Pah 1 e Kronsiti PAA *** W By E. J. Perry. Extension Dairyman. New Jersey College of Agriculture. WNU Service. Lice breed most rapidly in cold weather on long-haired livestock and frequent examination of dairy cattle and prompt treatment of in fested animals are necessary to pre vent the pests from retarding growth of young stock and reduc ing the milk flow in the producing herd. Although the presence of lice on long-haired live stock is nearly uni versal, their prevalence depends a great deal upon the state of nutri tion of the animal and the extent to which the owner will tolerate the parasites. The two main groups of lice af fecting cattle are the sucking lice and the biting lice. Of the two forms, the sucking lice are the more injurious. The three common species are the short-nosed, suck ing blue louse, the long-nosed, suck ing blue louse, and the biting red louse. Sucking lice are large in size and have pointed heads and blue bodies, while the biting louse is smaller with a yellowish-white body and a broad, round, reddish head. A louse passes its whole life on the animal. It lays eggs on the hair near the skin, where they hatch in about two weeks, and then two weeks later the young females be gin laying eggs. The locations pre ferred by sucking lice are the head, the sides of the neck, the back and the inner surface of the thighs. The biting lice are usually on the withers and the base of the tail but they may be discovered on oth er body parts. Among the common symptoms are rubbing, licking, restlessness and loss of hair. A thorough spraying or wash with four to five per cent creolin solu tion or any of the coal tar prepara tions is effective in controlling lice. Nicotine sulphate also destroys lice when diluted with water so that the solution contains not less than five one-hundredths of one per cent of nicotine. Raw linseed oil can also be used to great advantage and can be applied in cold weather. One pint, when put on with a stiff bursh, will treat four or five cows. Since it is difficult to destroy the eggs, there should be at least two appli cations at 16-day intervals to make sure that all newly hatched lice will be killed. The animals should be inspected for a time after the sec ond application to determine wheth er a third one is necessary. Vigor ous daily grooming with a stiff brush is an important step against infestation. Time Is Ripe to Plan Home Vegetable Garden It is time to think about home vegetable gardens, says Lee A. Somers, extension specialist in veg etable gardening, College of Agri culture, University of Illinois. In listing the secrets of success in the production of vegetables in the home garden, Somers asserts that it pays to locate the garden in a spot that is fertile, well drained and free from shading. It is also important that the size of the plot be sufficient to permit ample plant ings of a full assortment of vegetables without crowding. Orders for seeds, fertilizers, fun gicides and insecticides may well be placed in advance of the planting season. It is recommended that seed selection be limited to the best va rieties and to most vigorous seeds and plants of these varieties. As soon as the garden is planned, the seed order can be placed with a reliable seed house. Much garden seed is planted far too deep, Somers believes, and also suggests that a thought be given this spring to the timeliness of ap plying insect control measures and to keeping ahead of the weeds by frequent shallow cultivation. Thursday, March 11, 1937 Washington JlouseJiold • © Quciion/ I To make lace look new, squeeze i n hot, soapy water, then in cold I vater, and then in milk to stiffen t. Press on the wrong side with ' i fairly hot iron. By WILLIAM BRUCKART V ASHINGTON, D C Washington.—Many times in these columns, I have called attention to the confusion that More has come to be so much a part of Confuaion the federal gov- ernment’s general administration. I have talked about the bluster and the ballyhoo and the cross purposes at which so many pieces of the New Deal program have operated, and another outstanding example of this condition now appears. Two governmental agencies, one a strictly New Deal agency, the other with a beginning in the Hoover administration, find themselves working directly in opposition to each other—and in the end taxpay ers will pay. It is not the fault of the Home Owners Loan corporation that it finds itself in a position where it is going to be landlord to something like 160,000 pieces of real estate— largely homes. When the government went into the business of loaning money on private residence it had experience upon which to base its program. Many years ago the farm loan sys tem was organized with none too happy results. In the late days of the Hoover administration, howev er, three or four politicians were able to drive through the legislation creating a system of government loans on residences as distinguished from farms. I predicted in these columns some three years ago that the govern ment, through the HOLC, was going to be the proud possessor of a lot of real estate. My statements at that time were based upon what I had seen happen in the case of the loans on farms. The article brought me direct criticism from two or three places in the government—but at this time I can report that the HOLC, before another year passes, will own something like 160,000 homes. It is always difficult for a mort gage or bank institution, privately owned, to dispose of property which it has been forced to repossess through default of the borrowers. It is much more difficult for the fed eral government to dispose of that type of property, try as it may to get rid of the parcels. So, we find one governmental agency serving as a landlord on a wholesale scale and with signs por- tending moves by politicians that will in the end cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. These politicians are proposing leg islation in congress to cut the in terest rate on the loans now in default and other loans as well ; the principal of the loans on the defaulted mortgages and they are seeking means by which those in default may have unlimited time in which to make the payments in a way that, superficially at least, makes the proposals appear actu ally as an outright gift to those who have bought homes under the government loan plan. There is no way to tell now what will happen to these various pro posals. Undoubtedly, most of them will fall by the wayside and re ceive no consideration in congress. Yet, on the basis of observation of many such movements, it does not seem far wrong to guess that the politicians in congress will accom plish something in the way of re duction of these debts where the defaulters bring pressure to bear on the home town political ma chines. people encouraged to place them selves in debt. I cannot criticize the housing ad ministration policy any more than I can criticize the program of the HOLC. The point is that there is simply no co-ordination in govern ment policies as they concern these two agencies, and consequently, one group is building new homes and an other is taking over old homes for which the buyers have been unable to pay. In my humble opinion, it does not make good sense. I have heard considerable talk among influential New Dealers to the effect that new homes will sell more easily than the old ones and therefore the housing administration plans are held to be justified. Yet, it does seem to be a perfectly nat ural and logical thing that new homes become old homes as time elapses and there are many who believe that the government, be cause it has guaranteed the loans on new homes, will have to take over a large percentage of them as well. That is; it will have to take over at least a normal percentage because whether the loans are made by private financing companies or by the government, a considerable number of buyers are unable to ful fill their obligations. It is not al ways the fault of the buyers. Sick ness, loss of jobs or a thousand and one other circumstances may de velop that prevents the buyer of a home from carrying through his cherished dream of own the roof over his head. It is the way of life that a certain percentage will, and of necessity must, fall by the way side. One gallon of coffee will serve 15 medium sized cups. The size hat would accompany a dessert after a dinner. Horseradish Sauce — This con- liment gives the tang to hot roast beef. Mix together two tables- spoonfuls of grated horseradish, one tablespoonful of brown sugar, a good pinch of salt, a teaspoon- ful of made mustard and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Lastly, add a quarter-pint of cream, or the yolk of an egg and a little milk. Don’t treat your stockings care- essly. Put them on carefully, and be sure that feet and leg seams are straight. The slightest twist vili alter the position of reinforced splicings, and wrinkles always run nto holes. When blankets are to be washed ’or the first time they should be leaked over night in cold water and then rinsed. This is to re- nove the sulphur used in bleach- ng. After this they should b e loused until clear in a lukewarm ather made with boiled soap and vater, and then rinsed well in :lear water. 5 Associated Newspapers.—WNU Service. Still Coughing? No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomul- sion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even If other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee Creomulsion and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv.) I never have been able to agree that the federal government has any business in the Wrong field of financing homes or extend Principle ing credit to indi viduals. I have always criticized Trifles Make Perfection the Hoover administration for cre Trifles make perfection, but per- ating the Reconstruction Finance corporation and the Roosevelt ad 'ection is no trifle.—Michelangelo. ministration for expanding its oper ations. The principle is wrong be cause it uses money either borrowed Bears Lonely by the government or paid into the By disposition bears are lonely Treasury by the taxpayers to fi animals, and males and females go nance, to build up, personal funds of together only during the mating individuals or corporations. period. It seems quite clear to me that the HOLC, following the experiences Balancing Paby of the farm loan system, justifies On the Oshima islands, near To the conclusion that the federal gov kyo, Japan, women carry their chil ernment cannot successfully engage dren in tubs on their heads. in that field. In the first instance, I think it is bad business for gov ernment to go beyond the protection of life, liberty and property, with That’s Greatness all the implications carried in those Grand ideas grandly realized three words as a governmental pol constitute greatness. icy. Further, and with much more emphasis, I am sure that any time government engages in that field it opens the way for politicians to be tempted, to be forced, to do things in a legislative way that cannot be justified as economically sound. Help Them Cleanse the Blood Earlier in this article, I suggested of Harmful Body Waste the difficulty always surrounding Your kidneys are constantly filtering waste matter from the blood stream. But the sale of property that has been kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do not act as Nature intended—fail to re- taken back from the original pur move impurities that, if retained, may chasers. Officials of private mort poison the system and upset the whole body machinery. gage companies and other financial Symptoms may be nagging backache» institutions have grown many a persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness gray hair in their efforts to recover under the eyes—a feeling of nervous money loaned in cases where the anxiety and loss of pep and strength. Other signs of kidney or bladder dis borrowers have met with unfortu order may be burning, scanty or too nate circumstances. The govern frequent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt ment, finding itself in the position treatment is wiser than neglect. Use of the private lender insofar as re Doan’s Pillg. Doan'» have been winning new frienda for more than forty years. possession of property is concerned, They have a nation-wide reputation. has about one-half the chance of Are recommended by grateful people the country over. Ask your ntighwl liquidation that the private lender would have. And beyond that, there is too much chance for favoritism, scheming and even crookedness when the government attempts to do a job like the HOLC new is fac ing. I say that regardless of the honest purpose that I know char- acterizes the present HOLC man- agement. Now, concerning the other govern mental agency involved in the game of cross purposes Croat that I mentioned. I refer to the fed Purpoaea eral housing ad- ministration. Like the Home Own- ers Loan corporation, it is not the fault of the housing administration In the Feed Lot A prune is a plum that will dry that it finds itself in a tough spot. It is commanded by the President It may not have occurred to some without fermenting. and by congress to proceed with a but the fact that the federal govern- • • • gigantic housing program, to loan Per capita consumption of onions ment through the U. S. a HOLC will own all in the United States is 10 pounds a money on new homes wherever it can persuade contractors to build of these houses year. Taxpayer and individuals to buy. It is to be • • • which had to be remembered also that loans on Great Britain’s 1936 wheat crop taken back, means that the federal these properties are guaranteed — government becomes a taxpayer in was short of normal more than 300,- the legislation calls them insured every city, county and state where 000 tons. loans — and that makes the federal • • • it owns these homes. At the rate Culling trees as the poultryman housing administration liable in things are going and assuming that culls hens and the dairyman culls case the new home buyers fail to the ratio of delinquencies and de faults continue as they do for pri cows, is a need of the fruit grower. meet their commitments. • • • The housing administration an vate lending agencies, another four A twenty - nine year record at nounced its program to encourage years will see the HOLC in posses Iowa State college shows that the wholesale home building throughout sion of a minimum of 250,000 par sex ratio of 1.347 calves born was the nation only recently and it was cels of real estate. Of course. I by coincidence, I am sure, that the imagine, the local tax collectors will 112 males to 100 females. • • • housing program was announced al be glad to see the federal govern The finest grades of tobacco are most simultaneously with the deter ment taking over the property be grown in Massachusetts and Con mination by the HOLC to start fore cause they will then collect their closure proceedings in order to taxes. But where does that money necticut. • • • come from? Sooner or later, di- maintain its own solvency. Thus, to bring the picture to a rectly or indirectly, it comes from A 1935 Iowa agricultural census shows that a majority of Iowa farm focus, we find one governmental the taxpayers of the nation. It is operators have been on the land agency that has loaned hundreds of not a pleasant outlook. they now occupy more than five | millions of dollars on residences be And who knows but what there ing forced to foreclose in order to may be more decisions like that of years. • • • protect the money it has spent, at the Florida judge who refused to World production of wool this least in part, and a second govern grant the foreclosure plea of the year is expected to be about 3.250,- | mental agency entering the field si- HOLC attorneys on a twelve hun 000.000 pounds. This does not in multaneously with a gigantic pro dred dollar mortgage on the home clude the crops of Russia and gram in which more hundreds of of a carpenter. millions will be expended and more China. Watch Your Kidneys/ D oans P ills ALL COMFORTS AT RATES ALL CAN AFFORD BROADWAY & SALMON SALMON & PARK
