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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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you have tried for your cough, chest
cold or bronchial irritation, you can
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Serious trouble may be brewing and
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kidneys/
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