Thursday, April 1, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Records Help in
'Happy Bluebirds'
Motifs for Linens
Improving Sheep
NEWS NOTES OF
THE NORTHWEST
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by William Bruckart
Systematic Check Is Urged
to Produce Better Wool
and Mutton.
A Brief Summary of Events
of Special Interest to
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho Communities.
By L. K. Bear. Animal Husbandry Special-
ist. Ohio State University.—WNU Service.
One Une of pencil work a year
for each ewe in the farm flock may
help materiality in improving the re
turns from wool and mutton, as
a written record is a great aid in
culling inferior animals.
Profits from sheep depend a great
deal upon producing lambs and
wool which will bring top market
prices and that is impossible if the
breeding flock lacks uniformity.
Fine wool ewes should shear from
10 to 14 pounds of wool which will
grade Delaine or fine combing, and
coarse wools should shear 8 to 11
pounds that will grade as combing
wool.
Records kept at shearing time
will furnish a basis for taking out of
the flock those ewes which have
light fleeces or which produce wool
of a poorer grade than the flock
average. The owner of the flock
knows, at shearing time which ewes
should be discarded but it is doubt
ful if he can remember the fleece
weights unless a written record is
kept or the culls are marked.
Many of the light lambs that are
not ready for market when the oth
ers are ready for sale are late
lambs caused by shy breeding ewes
or they are unthrifty lambs from
ewes which are poor milkers. Ewes
in either of these classifications
should be discarded, and, again, a
written record will help in identi
fying the culls.
Simple record forms that provide
means for keeping a check on each
ewe in the flock have been prepared
by the departments of animal hus
bandry and rural economics. One
line across the sheet provides space
for all the records needed on a ewe
for a year. County agricultural
agents can supply these flock rec
ord forms upon request.
“Benefit” Promises.
Washington.—Immediately after
the armistice in 1918, the country
was suddenly awakened to the fact
that living costs were extraordinari
ly high. It was a
Living condition that
Cott» struck close home
to e V e r y o n e. It
was a condition that developed an un
usual emotion. There followed, nat
urally, a wave that engulfed hun
dreds of thousands of people who
felt that they were being subjected
to high prices that were unjustified.
Most people will remember how
"H. C. L.” became an expression as
common and one that figured in as
many puns and jokes and wise
cracks as the alphabetical agencies
common now to the New Deal. It
was a type of propaganda that came
along spontaneously because the
condition affected so many people.
The reason I have recalled that
circumstance is because we are
again headed straight into another
era of “H. C. L.” We have not
reached the top of living costs by
any means. It takes more than a
fortune teller or crystal gazer to
predict what is going to happen in
the way of increased commodity
prices. Suffice it to say, however,
that a "vicious cycle” has started
whirling and in the midst of the situ
ation stands a very confused con
sumer, representative of all of the
people in the United States.
There undoubtedly will be an in
crease in the propaganda concern
ing living costs again. Indeed, there
already is a rather far-flung propa
ganda which results from the in
creased cost of living but it is di
rected rather on a slant and not
pointed accurately into the heart of
the condition now confronting us.
Undoubtedly a great many people
have not thought of the frequent and
recurring attacks on business and
business practices as having any
thing to do with the increased liv
ing costs. But the truth is that this
type of propaganda springs directly
from the sporadic cries that are
coming from many localities about
the higher prices—complaints that
the dollar does not go very far in
buying food across the grocery
counter.
It seems to me that it is time for
some calm thinking about this situa
tion. It seems to me further that
public officials everywhere ought to
be honest enough to analyze the situ
ation and tell the public what the
real causes are. If this is not done,
there again will be undoubtedly a
perfect deluge of propaganda in pro
test against high living costs and the
bulk of the people who suffer from
these increased costs will not know
the reason any more than they un
derstood the reasons that brought
about a counterpart of the present
outlook back in 1918 and 1919.
• • •
In any examination of an eco
nomic condition, one must dig con
siderably
below
Seeking the surface to find
the Cause the factors that
have operated to
bring about the results visible to
the eye. Such is certainly the case
In the present situation. One can
not fairly say that the present boom
ing prices in food have just hap
pened. In truth, things never hap
pen; they are brought about. They
have been brought about in the pres
ent circumstance by factors that
date back to 1933 and include nu
merous governmental policies that
have been initiated since that time.
The trained economist will de
scribe present conditions as due to
inflation—which indeed they are.
But inflation is such an all-inclusive
term that the real story lies hidden.
In an effort to spur and encour
age production and aid recovery,
President Roosevelt devalued the
dollar. He reduced its gold value.
During 1933 and 1934 there came
numerous pieces of legislation in
cluding the NRA and the AAA, each
designed to foster increased prices
and to build up the level of wages
for industrial workers.
Subsequently, President Roosevelt
sponsored legislation which had as
its end and aim federal control of
wages for workers. This legislation
sought to give the federal govern
ment power to force business in
terests to recognize labor unions
and to accept labor union scales of
pay—all to the end that labor should
be paid a greater percentage of the
returns received by business.
• • •
There came also legislation de
signed to increase the price of sil
ver and the United
Then Came states Treasury
Strikes
was directed by
this law to buy
millions of ounces of silver and to
use that silver in our currency. In
the meantime and recurring almost
constantly the New Deal adminis
tration, from President Roosevelt on
down, maintained a barrage of at
tacks on business interests seek
ing wider employment of labor at
increased wages. Coupled with these
attacks was violent criticism of
banks and bankers. They were
charged with being an obstacle to
recovery because they were not
lending money. It did not matter to
the critics that no one wanted to
borrow money; the criticisms were
continued because loans simply
were not being made and no exami
nation of the reason why loans were
not being made ever was under-1
taken.
Next in the chain of events and
still continuing came labor troubles.
The New Deal avowedly was on the
side of labor and against employers.
Strikes followed in increasing num
bers.
The results of this combination |
of factors and circumstances now 1
are showing. Considered from any
angle, one can not fail to see why
they constitute a cycle of events
that lead to higher prices.
When the dollar was cheaper by
devaluation, more dollars were re
quired to feed a family than had
been required before. Workers felt
this sting They demanded more
dollars in pay for their work. Pres
sure from the New Deal administra
tion together with labor’s use of
the strike weapon forced business
to pay higher wages.
But, jusiness must live. It can
not live unless it gets back its costs
of production. Agriculture can not
subsist unless it receives a reason
able price for its production. Nei
ther agriculture nor industry will
go ahead unless there is a reward
in the shape of a profit. Conse
quently, neither agriculture nor in
dustry is going to absorb these in
creased costs alone. The natural
and the only way it has to get back
those expenditures is by charging
higher prices to the buyers of those
products. Thus, we have the com
plete cycle—and the consumer, as
usual, is the goat. The consumer
pays and if that consumer be not
in a position to enforce a higher
return for the services he renders,
he is caught between the upper
and nether millstones. It appears
that the consumer is fast getting
himself into the grip of that vise.
* • •
In connection with this increasing
price level, and the dangers inher-
,
ent in the general
Credit situation, I think I
Eccles credit ought to be
given to President
Eccles, of the Federal Reserve
board of governors, for the bold
statement he made a few days ago.
Mr. Eccles warned the country very
frankly what the dangers are in a
situation where labor continues to
clamor for a greater share of the
profits of commerce and industry
and where labor’s leadership seeks
to take advantage of the inability of
employers to protect themselves.
The Eccles statement took occa
sion to link labor’s position with the
general money market and the ef
fect labor’s position is having on
the country as a whole. He re
ferred to the demands of some la
bor leaders for a working week of
30 hours and while not completely
discarding that theory, he gave the
very definite impression that shorter
hours do not constitute a solution
for our present problem.
"Increased wages and shorter
hours,” said Mr. Eccles, "when they
limit or actually reduce production
are not at this time ih the interest
of the public in general or in the
real interest of the workers them
selves. When wage increases are
passed along to the public, and par
ticularly when industries take ad
vantage of any existing situation to
increase prices far beyond in
creased labor costs, such action is
shortsighted and an indefensible
policy from every standpoint.
“Wage increases and shorter
hours are justified and wholly de
sirable when they result from in
creasing production per capita and
represent a better distribution of
the profits of industry. When they
retard and restrict production and
cause price inflation, they result in
throwing the buying power of the
various groups in the entire econ
omy out of balance, working a par
ticular hardship upon agriculture,
the unorganized workers, the recipi
ents of fixed incomes and all con
sumers.
“The upward spiral of wages and
prices into inflationary price levels
can be as disastrous as the down
ward spiral of deflation. If such
conditions develop, the government
should intervene in the public inter
est by taking such action as is nec
essary to corect the abuses.
“The remedy for a price inflation
when the country has unused man
power, natural resources and capi
tal, is through more, not less pro
duction, through an orderly, bal
anced use of these three funda
mental factors and not by creating
a needless, artificial shortage of any |
one of them.”
Thus we have brought into bold
relief a criticism of the final factor |
entering into the present increasing
price level. I refer to the artificial
shortage in food products that re
sulted from the ridiculous crop con
trol program that was accomplished .
through AAA. We are now paying i
the price for the destruction of I
6,000,000 little pigs.
I said at the beginning of this |
discussion that a calm examination
of the factors involved was neces
sary now if it ever were necessary
in history.
• Western Newspaper Union.
Vale, Ore.— Eighty-five per cent of
the 80,000 acres of new lands In the
Vale and Owyhee projects has been
settled. Settlers continue to pour in.
Offices at Vale and Ontario receive
between 500 and 600 inquiries a
month.
Moscow, lila.—Representing 75 of
the county’s more than 100 school
districts, Latah trustees met here this
afternoon, talked school problems
and conditions and re-elected last
year’s officers. Superintendent Da
vid Ross and Fred Gertje, president,
led the discussions.
Grants Pass, Ore.—The packed
pear crop of the Rogue River valley
for last year has been largely mar
keted. All Boses and Cornice have
been sold. Only 35,000 to 40,000
boxes of D’Anjous and 60,000 to
65,000 Winter Nells remain in stor
age plants.
Kelso, Wash.—Cowlitz county's ad-
diton to its courthouse, for which
Ray Weatherby, Longview architect,
has completed preliminary plans, will
more than double the size of the
structure. It would be four stories
in height Instead of three, as with the
existing building.
Grand Coulee Dam, Wash.—When
concrete placing really gets under
way, the company will be placing
“mud” in the forms of the dam in
what probably will be all-time world
record speed, it was believed, when
government engineers aid that the
schedule will call for 400,000 yards
of concrete a month.
Lewiston, Ida.—Fire destroyed the
second story of a downtown building
and menaced other structures in the
heart of Lewiston’s business district
late last week. Fire Chief Marion
Plerstorff estimated the damage at
between $75,000 and $8 0,0 0 0. Origin
of the blaze was not determined im
mediately.
Sandpoint, Ida.—Work will com
mence next week on the Church
street underpass, the district office of
the bureau of highways reports. The
underpass is a $24,000 project. A
$40,000 road project at Turner bay
calling for construction of fills and
approaches will start early next week,
the officials said.
Tillamook, Ore. — Traveling de
luxe—and part way in their own
special train—17 of Tillamook coun
ty's Guernsey and Holstein "infants”
—average 10 days old—have been
shipped to Malad, Ida. C. H. Berg
strom, county agent, received the or
ders, and the calves were shipped to
County Agent D. E. Warren at Malad,
who will distribute the babies to
dairymen there.
Grants Pass, Ore.—Wholesale mar
keting of the approximately 14,000,-
000 gladioli bulbs produced In the
Rogue River valley in 1936 is vir
tually complete, as growers are pre
paring to plant this month for the
1937 season. Value of last year’s
crop is about the same as the pre
vious year—between $250,000 and
$300,000—it was reported by H. O.
Plummer, president of the Grants
Pass Gladiolus society.
INDIANS MAINTAIN SUIT
Lewiston, Ida.—Representatives ot
Nez Perce Indians met here before
District Judge Miles S. Johnson and
signed a renewal of their agreement
with Attorney F. M. Goodwin, Wash
ington, D. C., to represent them in
the $3,000,000 suit against the Uni
ted States government for alleged
violations of the treaties of 1855,
1863 and 1893.
The case now is on the docket of
the United States court of appeals.
Goodwin was first assistant secretary
of the interior under President Cool
idge.
SEAL PATROL LEAVES
Astoria, Ore.—The coastguard cut
ter Onondoga, watchdog of one of
the largest families in the animal
kingdom, the thousands of lazily
trekking seals migrating to their mid
night sun resort in Alaska, has gone
on the seal patrol. For 30 miles
along the Oregon and Washington
coast, the migrating seals stretch out
as they frolic on their way north.
This year the Onondaga will escort
the colony only to Juan de Fuca
where another coastguard vessel con
tinues the vigil against poachers
which prey on the valuable fur ani
mal if the opportunity arises. For-
merly the Onodaga proceeded to the
summer home of the seals at Pribi-
loft island.
Boise, Ida.—Lewis Williams, com
missioner of welfare for six years,
was appointed director ot charitable
institutions.. Under provisions of an
act of the last legislature, the govern
or becomes commissioner of the de-
partment.
Yakima, Wash.—A month ago a
baby elk was killed by a logging
truck in the upper Naches district.
The baby’s mother would not budge
from the spot where the calf was
struck. Last Sunday the mother elk
died ot a broken heart.
Bluebirds are for happiness—so
runs the legend. This dainty pat
tern in 10-to-the-inch crosses will
add a cheery touch indeed to your
towels, pillow cases, scarfs or
cloths. Do these simple motifs in
ANTA MONICA, CALIF —
Maybe “benefits” are being
overdone—indeed, some are
rackets wearing the mask of
charity—but even so, if a good
trouper has promised to show
up, you’d think he would prove
he’s a good trouper by showing
up.
There have been cases out
here when there were listed
enough notables to make a whole
constellation of stars, but what
resulted was a milky way of
amateurs and unknowns.
S
Those last-minute alibis for non-
appearance are not always true
ones. The real facts
may be :
A night club cutup
has been unexpect
edly taken sober
and so isn’t funny.
A darling of the
screen thinks he did
enough when he al
lowed the use of his
name, so he spends
the evening congen
ially posing for pro
file photographs.
Irvin S. Cobb
An actor is busy
trying to decide whether he’ll sell
his yacht and buy a racing stable
or sell his racing stable and buy a
yacht.
An actress suddenly remembers
she has an engagement over the
Arizona line to be married some
more.
Staying at home to post up the
diary used to be an excuse, but
dairy-keeping is now out—oh, abso
lutely!
• • •
Talking Fish.
PROF. ISAAC GINSBURG of the
- United States bureau of fisheries
solemnly vows he has heard those
tiny aquatic creatures known as sea-
horses communicating with one
another by speech and he suspects
other species do the same thing.
Undoubtedly so. I can confirm
this discovery by a story Drury
Underwood used to repeat. Drury
said a gentleman ordered whitefish
in a Chicago restaurant. When the
portion arrived the patron sniffed
at it and then, in a confidential un
dertone, began talking, seemingly
to himself.
The waiter ranged up.
“Anything wrong, sir?” he in
quired.
"Oh, no,” said the patron, “I was
just talking to the fish.”
“Talking?”
“Certainly. I said to him; ‘Well,
how’re tricks out in Lake Michi
gan?” And he said: ‘I wouldn’t
know. It’s been so long since I left
there I can t remember anything
about it.’ ”
• • •
The Race to Arms.
TALY sees Britain’s bet of $7,500,-
000,000 to be spent on war de
fense during the next five years, and
raises it by decreeing militariza
tion of all classes between the ages
of eighteen and fifty-five, which
means a trained fighting force of
8,000,000 ready for immediate mobi
lization, adding as a side wager
the promise of “total sacrifice, if
required, of civil necessities. . . for
attainment of maximum. . . mili
tary needs.”
This means, of course, that
France and Germany and Russia
must chip in with taller stacks than
before, and thus the merry game
goes on until some nation, in des
peration, calls some other nation’s
bluff and all go down together in a
welter of blood and bankruptcy and
stark brutality.
The world has been 5,000 years
patching together the covering
called civilization, but experience
shows that this sorry garment may
be rent to tatters in an hour.
• • •
Maniacs and Motors.
ispatches ten of a slaying
automobile which chased a cit
izen clear up on the sidewalk and
nailed him. This is a plain breach
of the ethics governing our most
popular national pastime—that of
mowing down the innocent by
stander.
Among our outstanding motor ma
niacs it has already been agreed
that once a foot passenger reaches
the pavement, he is out of bounds
and cannot be put back in play un
til somebody shoves him into the
roadway again. Otherwise the pe
destrian class would speedily be ex-
terminated, whereas its members
are valuable for target practice
when an operator is building up
to the point where he is qualified
to sideswipe a car full of women
and children while going seventy
miles an hour, or meet a fast train
on equal terms at a grade cross
ing.
By all means let us clarify the
rules so that the sport of destroying
human life on the highroads shall
not suffer through the overzeal of
amateur homicides. Remember our
proud boast that we lead all the
world in traffic horrors.
Seeds Should Be Kept
Dry While in Storage
Crop seeds protected from damp
ness in storage will have a better
chance of germinating and produc
ing strong plants even when handi
capped by unfavorable weather.
Dampness in storage has a tend
ency to start the germinating proc
ess, and this weakens the seed, ex
plained Dr. R. F. Poole, plant path
ologist with the North Carolina Ag
ricultural Experiment station.
Irish potatoes stored in banks
should be aired frequently to pre
vent decay.
Corn, small grain, and other seed
should be kept in lead-proof build
ings with adequate ventilation to
prevent the accumulation of too
much moisture.
However, this does not mean that
the seed should be openly exposed
to infestation by insect pests, Dr.
Poole cautioned.
Goats for Food
In some sections of the United
States many goats of the milk type,
especially kids, are annually con
sumed, states a writer in the Mis-
couri Farmer. In some parts of the
South kids are considered as a deli
cacy and are in demand. They are
sold for slaughter when from 8 to
12 weeks of age. The flesh of young
goats, or kids, is palatable and has
a flavor suggesting lamb. If properly
cooked, the meat from a mature
milk goat is also good eating, pro
vided the animal has been properly
fed and is in good condition. The
prices of goats sold on the market
for slaughter are always consider
ably less than those received for
sheep. Goats do not fatten and car
ry flesh like sheep.
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Salt for Asparagus
IRVIN S. COBB.
Fattern 1315
natural color, or two shades of
one color. Pattern 1315 contains a
transfer pattern of two motifs 5%
by 12% inches; two motifs 6 by
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inches ; color suggestions ; illustra
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rial requirements.
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
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Write plainly your name, ad
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"Quotations"
—v—
For all the cruelty and stupidity
in the world today, man has not
done so badly in so brief a period.—
Henry Morgenthau.
There can be no permanence for
a nation whose people have only a
selfish interest in its welfare.— John
J. Pershing.
The people today no longer get
their excitement from reading po
etry—they get it from machines go
ing fast.— John Masefield.
The old-fashioned boyhood ideals
are what will keep this country go
ing.— Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It is vain to trust in wrong; as
much of evil, so much of loss, is the
formula of human history.— Theo
dore Parker.
War’s Object in a Word
When, in the year 1800, war be
tween Britain and France was at its
bitterest, an English statesman was
challenged in parliament to define
in one sentence the object of the
war “without any ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’
and special pleading ambiguity.”
He returned this answer, an answer
that might be given today: "I know
not whether I can do it in one sen
tence, but I can state it in one word.
It is ‘security’—security against
a danger.”
Some Odd Tricks
Once there lived an Austrian em
press who drank mare's milk to en
hance her ability as an equestri
enne, an American clergyman who
wore a heavy veil during the great
er part of his life to atone for the
accidental killing of a friend, and
an English millionaire who put a
horse in solitary confinement for
life, in a pitch-dark stall, to punish
the animal for losing a race.—Col-
lier’s Weekly.
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At one time gardeners felt that
unless salt was applied to asparagus
beds they could not look for best
results, but it has been demonstrat
ed beyond question that it is not
necessary. Its application, how
ever, will do no harm and it will
certainly keep ordinary weeds from
growing. As much as 500 pounds to
the acre may be used, but whether
this will kill couch grass I cannot
say, says a grower in the Montreal
Herald. Apply in spring. If rhubarb
plants are lifted and divided i n
spring, no stalks should be picked
from them during that summer.
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Infant Artichoke Industry
A plant for the processing of Je
rusalem artichokes into food prod
ucts and eventually (it is hoped)
into power alcohol is being erected
at Gering, Nebraska. Farmers and
businessmen of the region are re
ported to be interested in the pos
sibilities of this crop because of its
ability to withstand drought.—
Country Home Magazine.
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SLEEP SOUNDLY
Lack of exercise and injudicious eating
make stomachs acid. You must neu
tralize stomach acids if you would sleep
soundly all night and wake up feeling
refreshed and really fit.
Balanced Ration Pays
A comparison of a herd feeding
a balanced ration and one feed
ing com alone was made with the
following results in the Linn No. 3,
Iowa, C. T. A., writes Otto Bruns,
tester, in Hoard’s Dairyman. A herd
that was fed a balanced ration was
also fed according to individual pro
duction, and produced butterfat at
a cost of 11.5 cents per pound. The
herd that was fed com alone had
a production cost of 24.9 cents per
pound, a difference of 13.4 cents.
TAKE MILNESIAS
Milnesia, the original milk of magnesia
in wafer form, neutralizes stomach acid.
Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk
of magnesia. Thin, crunchy, mint-flavor,
tasty. 20c, 35c & 60c at drug stores.