Thursday, March 18, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
0
National Topica Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington.—It has always been
said that politics makes strange
bedfellows. Histo-
Strange
ry has shown this
Bedfellow
statement to be
true because in
every political battle one can. note
unusual combinations, odd types
working together, personal enemies
fighting side by side—in truth, bed
fellows for the time being.
Never has the truth of this old
adage been better demonstrated,
however, than in the current politi
cal fight that was precipitated by
President Roosevelt’s demand that
congress pass a law which will al
low the Chief Executive to add six
new members to the Supreme court
of the United States. The real con
gressional fight on the President’s
bold move has not yet gained full
headway. But time enough has
elapsed since Mr. Roosevelt offered
his history-making demand for
power to add enough judges to the
Supreme court, judges of his own
selection, to give him a majority,
that those close to the congressional
scene are now in a position to pre
dict probably the most heated con
troversy since the days immediately
preceding the Civil war.
Already, it can be stated, one can
see senators and representatives
who are known for their liberal
views standing side by side with
hard-boiled conservatives in opposi
tion to the President’s plan, which
they describe as a move “to pack
the Supreme court.” Likewise one
can see conservative Democrats
from the old South following Presi
dent Roosevelt and joining hands
secretively with the wildest radicals
in the senate. One will see Demo
crats and conservative Republicans
in earnest conversation planning
ways and means to halt the Presi
dent’s drive for control of the court
and at the same time one can see
radical Republicans planning with
Democrats in support of the pro
gram—strange bedfellows, every
one.
While this condition is interesting,
it is by far less striking as I watch
the proceedings than the extreme
bitterness that is now developing.
While, as I said, the controversy is
hardly under way, there is even
now personal animosity evident in
the senate to a degree that I never
have seen before. I had the privi
lege of observing the famous
League of Nations fight at close
range. There was personal bitter
ness in that senate battle. Old
friendships were crushed and close
relationships torn asunder. Yet, I
think that the current controversy
is likely to cause the League of Na
tions bitterness to pale into insig
nificance. In other words, there lies
ahead for the congress a raging fire
that is bound to destroy political
lives and political ambitions. Which
lives and which ambitions depend, I
think, upon the answer which the
country’s citizens give to the now
direct question:
Are we to have a system of courts
and judges, independent and free of
politics, or are we to have puppets
that will do the bidding of political
masters?
• • •
I said above that the result of the
Supreme court battle in congress
will
be
deter-
Up to the
mined by the atti-
People
tude of the coun
try. It is vital that
the citizens realize this fact. Since
President Roosevelt made no men
tion during the campaign for re-
election in 1936 of plans to reform
the Supreme court, there has been
no public expression on the subject.
There will not be another opportu
nity for the voters to express their
views until November, 1938. The
only way, then, open to those who
want to express an opinion for or
against the court change is by send
ing their views to their congress
men and senators. Conversations
that I have had with members of
the house and the senate convinces
me that the representatives and
senators will appreciate word as to
how their constituents feel.
Further evidence of the desire of
congressmen and senators to know
the feelings of the voters is given in
the tremendous propaganda that is
going on. Friends and foes of the
Supreme court reform program are
on the air nightly; scarcely a day
goes by that some senator and usu
ally several of them and numerous
congressmen participate in debate
or issue statements concerning the
great controversy, and from the tre
mendous source of propaganda sup
ply at the command of the Presi
dent come countless statements and
interviews and radio speeches prais
ing the President’s plan. Even the
President himself has made one of
his famous “fireside chats" telling |
why he should be given the new |
power.
In the meantime—and some more
strange bedfellows—we find the
most peculiar cross currents operat
ing. Among some of the religious
groups, there are many who fear
that the court packing plan will void
constitutional guarantees of re
ligious freedom. They fear even
tual control of the churches by the
state, having in mind, no doubt |
what has happened to religious 1
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
Lebanan—Charles Lindeman has
offered to purchase the old horse-
drawn grader of the city of Lebanon
and will use it for farm terracing.
Klamath Falls—Potato shipments
from the Klamath basin for this sea
son up to March 1 totaled 5418 car-
loads, more than the entire Oregon
state shipments up to that date.
Wheeler—Silverside eggs are now
hatching at the state hatchery on
Foley creek. Fifty thousand of the
little fish hatched last Monday and
more are comin
very day. Three
million are suppeso ; to be the "turn
out’’ for the quantity of eggs planted.
Oregon City—Reaching figurative
ly for the last stick of timber, mills
and logging camps in the Highland-
Viola area are speeding operations as
timber in the area is rapidly dis
appearing. Two mill operators were
dismantling their plants last week,
and several others will finish up this
summer.
Astoria — A concentrated drive
against smuggling is anticipated here
following the arrival last week of two
38-foot coast guard picket boats. The
trim craft were shipped to Portland
from the east on the steamer Mem
phis City and were towed here. They
will be overhauled before being
placed in use. The boats are capable
of 26 knots.
National Press Building
groups in Germany and Soviet Rus
sia.
Editorials from the Catholic press
are being circulated privately
among many legislators and against |
these are some Protestant preach-1
ers who take the position that the
Supreme court is out of date and
ought to be reformed. Numerous
Jewish leaders are opposing the re-
form but among the Jews are many
who feel that President Roosevelt
is right.
Then there is the split among the
farm leaders. I refer to farm or
ganizations with national spokes
men. Some are for the change and
some against it.
Uppermost in the minds of all of
the opponents seems to be a funda
mental fear that to change the
court will open the door through
which dictators may walk. To il
lustrate the type of statements com
ing forth from observers of national
reputation as regards this point, I
am going to quote from a recent ex
pression by the distinguished colum
nist, Westbrook Pegler. Lately he
wrote :
“All of a sudden, Mr. Roosevelt
discovers that the Supreme court is
largely senile and demands quick
action on a proposal which, if adopt
ed, would create an easy precedent
for the most cynical packing of the
Newberg—A local soil conserva
Supreme court by someone of the tion association was organized here
type of Huey Long or Warren Hard with the following officers and di
ing, Mussolini or Hitler in years to rectors: H. J. Swain, chairman; E. S.
come. It might not be many years Strother, vice chairman; Kenneth
either . . . All dictators pack the Fendali, secretary; Earl Smith, trea
courts by legal means as a pre surer; and Thomas Price, director.
liminary to the promulgation of The organization, which will be aided
their dictatorial laws. After th., it by the federal soil conservation serv
is comparatively easy to take ove ,
because the courts belong to the ice recently located in Newberg, will
work towards the prevention of soil
dictator and do as he orders.”
erosion on farms In this section.
There can be no question, of
Lakeview—The Oregon State high
course, that the thing Mr. Roose
velt proposes to have congress do way commission has authorized pur
for him is legal. Since, however, it chase of a strip of land along the
is legal in this instance, it will be Fremont highway near Summer Lake
legal, of course, for someone else postoffice, on which will be erected
to come along after Mr. Roosevelt a historical marker, according to
and pack the court with men of his word received here by the chamber
own choosing, men who will decide of commerce. A sign will be placed
questions as the then President de there stating that General Fremont
sires them to decide. There is no and Kit Carson descended from the
limit to what may come if once the Summer Lake rim at the point in De
door is opened. Senator Wheeler, cember, 1843 en route from The
the Montana Democrat who has Dalles to Fort Sutter, California.
long been outstanding in the liberal
Klamath Falls—Deaths of scores
character of views he holds, has
added to this thought the expres of deer against a fence along the
sion that if the door is to be opened, Southern Pacific’s Modoc line right-
the people must do it—not the con of-way, In the lava beds country,
gress that was elected without vot across the state line will be investi
ers having heard the proposition gated by J. S. Hunter, chief of the
mentioned.
California bureau of game conserva
• • •
tion. Klamath County Commissioner
As the fight of packing the Su Roy Taber, on his return here from
preme court waxes warmer, one California, said he conferred with
,
,
can not help not- Hunter. Klamath persons reported
They Make
ing how even seeing eight deer killed when they
Mistake»
clever politicians ran against the fence as a train
make
mistakes. passed.
There are many who believe that
Estacada—That magic phrase,
Mr. Roosevelt made a grievous er
ror in proposing revision of the Su “There’s gold in them thar hills,” is
preme court in the fashion he chose once again the incentive of local pros
while there are others who say that pectors whose gold-seeking lust was
he was elected by such a tremen fanned Into flame by announcement
dous majority that he will have the that the state is to grubstake miners.
people behind him regardless of the For years rumors have been circu
character of proposition advanced lated that there is much gold is inese
to congress.
pars and also this section has ir
It is interesting to note how many mysterious "lost mine.” Now th -
congressmen and senators are dodg miners are able to got a grubstake
ing the issue. Their silence is posi from the state and are preparing to
tively thunderous because they do use Estacada as a base to go into the
not know how the people back home mountains east of here.
feel about the general proposition.
WELFARE WORKER NAMED
There are others who have come
out boldly for one reason or an
Baker—A child welfare worker
other in support of the plan and has been assigned to the Balter coun
there are some 33 or more in the ty relief committee to make a more
senate who have determined their Intensive and specialized approach to
position already and are ready to child welfare problems, according to
fight to the finish to stop passage Miss Margaret Kearns, social serv
of such a law.
ice supervisor of the county commit
Then there was the mistake which tee.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Miss Adams, formerly a worker
Democratic leader, made in the sen wit"
e Multnomah county chil
ate the other day. He vigorously dren’s careau, will work with the
denounced what he termed propa local committee.
ganda and a conspiracy to defeat
CROP SHOWING GOOD
the President’s plan. He alled at
Corvallis—-Crops introduced by
tention to much newspaper and edi
torial comment in opposition and ac the Oregon State college extension
cused all of those people indiscrimi service have shown a marked Increase
nately with being part of a gigantic in acreage during the past ten years,
conspiracy against the court pack. E. R. Jackson, agronomist, has re
The humor of the Robinson out ported in a survey of the counties.
Grimm alfalfa, once rare west of
burst seemed not to be apparent to
the otherwise kindly mannered sen the Cascades, jumped from an acre
ator whom I very much admire. age of 3310 In western Oregon In
What he did by an hour-long attack 1926 to 42,585 five years later. La
in the senate was to re-emphasize dino clover Increased from 134 to
all of the criticism of the Presi 16,254 acres, sweet clover from 583
dent’s plan.
to 6175 and Austrian winter peas
One might refer in this connec from 50 to 27,350. The most import
tion also to the explosive type of ant change east of the Cascades has
speech made by Harry Hopkins, re been In crested wheat grass, increas
lief administrator. Of course, ev ing from a test lot status to 30.000 !
eryone knows that Mr. Hopkins has | acres last year. Oregon led In seed
made his life's work that of looking production in this grass with 89.444
after suffering humanity. He is on pounds.
the government pay roll in such a
job. Mr. Hopkins attacked all op
Eugene—Work of assessing prop
position to the President’s plan be
cause he said it was in the interest erty in Lane county has started tn
of humanity to do so. The relief the several districts Assessor Welby
administrator made his appeal di Stevens has announced. Instructions
rect to all of those receiving federal in the assessment of personal prop
money through relief rolls and that erty was given the deputies at a re
obviously will be taken up by oppo cent meeting.
nents of the President’s plan who
Klamath Falls—Although no final
undoubtedly will say as some al plans have been made for the open
ready have hinted that Mr. Hop ing of between 400 and 500 acres of
kins is trying to muster relief land In the Tule Lake district, the
classes to bring pressure upon con bureau of reclamation ia taking ten-
gress.
© Western Newspaper Union.
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
lative steps with the idea of receiv
ing applications next September.
Twilight of Knee Pants.
MONICA, CALIF. -
Since our diplomatic group
S ANTA
must shed the half-portion
breeches they’ve been wearing
at official functions abroad,
that means others present will
quit mistaking them for foot
men and start in again mistak
ing them for waiters, as for
merly.
But the under-rigging doesn’t
make so much difference anyhow.
In the best plenipo-
tentiarying circles,
it’s the top dressing
that counts — the
gold - plated cocked
hat; the dress coat
loaded with bullion;
the bosom crossed
with broad ribbons;
the lapels and the
throat latch so deco
rated with medals
that, alongside one
thus costumed, Sol Irvin S. Cobb
omon in all his glory
would look absolutely nude.
End of the Holdout Season.
HE baseball season couldn’t
start off properly unless a cer
tain catastrophe impended before
hand. Every self-respecting player
who made a hit last year insists
on more salary for this year, else
he’ll never spit in the palm of an
other glove. This makes him a hold
out. The manager declares the play
er will take what’s offered him and
not a cent more. This makes him
a manager.
But fear not, little one. They’ll
all be in there when the governor
or the mayor or somebody winds up
to launch the first game and tosses
the ball nearly eighteen feet in the
general direction of the continent of
North America.
• • *
Changing Style Capitals.
OLLYWOOD and not Paris is
now the world center for fash
ions, if you can believe Hollywood—
and not Paris.
At any rate, both for men and
women, we do originate many style
creations which, in the best movie
circles, frequently make the women
look mannish and the men look ef
feminate, maybe that’s the desired
effect; an oldtimer wouldn’t know
about that.
However, there’s a new hat out
here for masculine wear which fas
cinates me. It is a very woolly hat
—a nap on it like an old family
album — and the crown peaks up
in a most winsome way, and there’s
a rakish bunch of tail-feathers at
the back which makes it look as
though it might settle down any
minute and start laying. I think
they got the idea for it from the
duck-billed platypus.
• • •
Civilizing Ethiopia.
/CONQUERED Ethiopians attempt
— to assassinate their new over-
lord, Viceroy Graziani. Nobody is
killed, but several individuals get
bunged up.
So the conquerors arrest all na
tives of Addis Ababa in whose huts
weapons are found. They round up
2,000 “suspects” out of a total popu
lation of 90,000.
So promptly 1,800 of these black
prisoners are put to death in
batches. In former days the fir
ing squads would have worn them
selves to a frazzle in a rush job
of this sort, but no — well, who
would deny that the machine gun
is the crowning achievement of
white culture? Poison gas is also
much favored for pacifying rebel
lious savages, and plane-bombing
likewise has its advocates.
• • *
The Public's Short Memory.
A FINANCIER, whose exposed de-
-- vices are as a bad smell in
people’s nostrils, summarily is oust
ed from his high place and the
shadows swallow up his diminished
shape. A little time passes, and, lo,
in a new setting, he bobs up, an
envied if not an exalted personage.
So-called exclusive groups welcome
him in; newspapers quote him on
this and that; he basks again, like
some sleek and overfed lizard, in
the sunshine of folks’ tolerance—
yes, the admiration of some.
No evidence that he has repented
of his former practices; no sign of
intent to repay any broken victim
of those fiduciary operations The
private fortune which he took with
him when he quit is still all his.
And maybe there's the secret of
this magical restoration to the fa
vor of the multitude.
H
IRVIN S. COBB.
©— WNU Service.
Budapest Catacombs
The Budapest catacombs date
back to the days when the Fort of
Buda was held by the Turks, mark
ing the farthest fortified advance of
the forces of Islam into Christen
dom. They were probably intended
as avenues of escape for a belea
guered garrison, but they also have
fresh water wells in them, and some
of the chambers were used as re
positories for great numbers of hu
man skulls and bones, as in the
case of the catacombs at Rome.
By Elmo
Scott Watson
Two Blouses From
One Smart Pattern
© Western
Newspaper
Union
Great Father, Great Son
D AREL Y does a great father
—transmit his genius to his son.
Put the Hopkinsons of Philadelphia
were exceptions to that rule.
Francis Hopkinson, born in 1737,
was the first scholar entered at the
University of Pennsylvania (then
the College of Philadelphia) and
was graduated from its first class.
He held several positions of im
portance in Penn’s colony, then
moved to New Jersey. There he
was a member of the provincial
council until he was elected to the
Continental congress from New Jer
sey and thus became one of the
signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. But other facts make
him more notable than almost any
of the other 55 signers of that docu
ment.
He wrote an allegory in which he
recounted the wrongs of the colo
nies and did much to fan the spirit
of revolution. He wrote the famous
song “The Battle of the Kegs”
satirizing the British scare over an
attempt to blow up their ships with
a crude submarine invented by a
certain David Bushnell, and this
song became the favorite of Wash
ington’s soldiers.
But most important is the fact
that evidence exists which shows
that he was the designer of the first
Stars and Stripes as our national
flag (the Betsy Ross tradition to the
contrary notwithstanding) and that
he had a hand in designing the first
Great Seal of this nation.
His son, Joseph Hopkinson, born
in 1770, followed closely in his fa
ther’s footsteps. He also was grad
uated from the University of Penn
sylvania, studied law and held sev
eral positions in the state and fed
eral government. He helped found
the Philadelphia Academy of Fine
Arts, served as its president for
many years and was vice-president
of the American Philosophical soci
ety which his father had helped
found.
But he is best remembered for a
song which he wrote—thus emulat
ing his father again. It was “Hail
Columbia” which was the only na
tional song of this republic until
Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star
Spangled Banner.”
First “America’s Sweetheart”
ONG before a popular movie ac
tress was given the title of
L
“America’s Sweetheart” there was
another. Ask any man of fifty years
or upwards and he will tell you her
name. It was Annie Oakley.
She was born in a log cabin in
Darke county, Ohio, in 1866 and her
full name was Phoebe Anne Oakley
Mozee. Her father died when she
was six and one of the few posses
sions which he left was a Kentucky
long rifle. Little Anne, who was
something of a tomboy, soon began
using this weapon to help fill the
family larder with quail, squirrels
and rabbits. She became an un
usual markswoman and the fame
of her skill spread to Cincinnati
where hotel keepers had been buy
ing the game which she killed.
When she was fifteen a noted
sharpshooter named Frank E. But
ler came to Cincinnati. He was ac
customed to issue a challenge to all
comers in a shooting match. <This
challenge was taken up by one of
Anne’s hotel-keeping patrons who
urged her to shoot against Butler.
The girl not only won the match but
she won Butler’s heart as well and
a year or so later they were mar
ried. She began taking part in her
husband's shooting act and, being
a skilled showman, he pushed her
more and more into the limelight
and kept himself more and more in
the background.
Then “Buffalo Bill” Cody or
ganized his Wild West show and in
1885 the “Butler and Oakley” act
joined it. But it wasn’t long until
the second half of the act was the
whole act and as Annie Oakley she
started on the career which made
her the idol of Young America.
“Little Sure Shot” she was named
by the famous chief, Sitting Bull,
when he went out with Buffalo Bill’s
show and as “Little Sure Shot” she
became famous, not only through-
out America but all over Europe as
well.
When Cody took his show abroad
her marksmanship thrilled every
one who saw it—and that included
dukes, princes and kings.
One of her stunts was to use play
ing cards as targets and these
cards, punctured by her bullets, be
came treasured souvenirs. In those
days showmen who handed out free
passes always punched a hole or
two in them, thus saving a mis
count when the day’s proceeds were
counted. Once a baseball magnate
looked at a card which had been
so thoroughly perforated that little
was left. “Huh! Looks like Annie
Oakley’s shot at it!” he grunted.
And from that day free passes be
came “Annie Oakleys.”
The name of this remarkable
woman whose career came to an
end in 1926 is thus perpetuated in
our "slanguage.” But in the hearts
of thousands of Americans today,
the boys of yesteryear, it is en
shrined as “America s Sweetheart.”
Blouses, like crocuses, always
bloom early in the Spring,
and here are two versions that can
be made from the same pattern
that will brighten your wintry
wardrobe just like a pot of flowers
brightens a room. You can make
the dressier version, with charm
ing machine-tucked ruffing, out
of an airy organdie. And the
sportier blouse with revers and
two buttons and a plain-edged
peplum, will do nicely in a silk
crepe or crisp dimity or percale.
There’s bouffant charm in the
dropped swing peplum and the
big puffed sleeves.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1271-B
is available for sizes 12, 14, 16,
18 and 20. Corresponding bust
measurements 30, 32, 34, 36 and
38. The dressy blouse, size 16
(34), requires 2 yards 35-inch
fabric, plus 3 yards of machine
pleating and the sporty one 23
yards.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New
Montgomery Ave., San Francisco,
Calif. Pattern 15 cents (in coins).
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Looked Like a Queen
One of the most picturesque first
ladies of the land was Dolly Madi
son, who, at the inaugural cere
monies of President Madison,
“looked like a queen.” She had on
a pale, buff-colored velvet gown
made plain with a long train but
not the least trimming; a beauti
ful pearl necklace, earrings, and
bracelets. Her headdress was a tur
ban of the same colored velvet and
white satin from Paris, with two
superb plumes of bird of paradise
feathers. Dolly painted and pow
dered a little; she took snuff con
stantly from lava and platina boxes.
Refinement Bent
Decency arises from a natural
predilection for refinement.
How Many
Pennies Your
Child’s Life?
Don’t Try to "Save” on Home
Remedies—Ask Your Doctor
There is one point, on which prac
tically all doctors agree. That is:
Don’t give your child uninown remedies
without asking your doctor first.
All mothers know this. But some
times the instinct to save a few
pennies by buying “something just
as good” overcomes caution.
When it comes to the widely used
children’s remedy — “milk of mag
nesia” — many doctors for over half
a century have said “PHILLIPS.”
For Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia is the
standard of the world. Safe for chil
dren.
Keep this in mind, and say “PHIL
LIPS’ MILK OF MAGNESIA*
when you buy. Comes now, also in
tablet form. Get the form you prefer.
But see that what you get is labeled
“Genuine Phillips’ Milk of Mag
nesia.” 25, for a big box of the tablet*
at drug stores.
Also
in
TABLET FORM:
Each tiny tablet
.
is theequivalent
(‘-*
of • teaspoon-
ffr
ful
genuine
—
Phillips’ Milk—
of
of Magnesia,
me
P hillips ’ MACKLSI»