Thursday, April 8, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Enchanting Gifts
of Lacy Crochet
NEWS NOTES OF
THE NORTHWEST
Departed Spirits.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF —
Continued failure of medi
ums to claim the reward offered
by the late Harry Houdini, who
provided a test for proof of
By L. L. STEVENSON
communication with the spirit
He's known to judges, governors,
world, makes me think of a senators,
police and others of high
thing that happened at the first and low degree,
including hundreds
seance ever held down in my of boys, as Uncle Floyd. He isn’t a
large man physically but there is
neck of the woods.
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spirits of departed dear ones to
order. A lanky youth
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swered the voice.
“Paw, air you in heaven?”
Seemingly startled, the ghostly ap
parition hesitated a moment be
fore giving what might be taken
for an affirmative sound.
“Paw, air you an angel?” de
manded the son.
Again an embarrassing delay,
then a diffident mumble.
“A regular angel with wings and
everything?”
Once more a low grunt.
“Say, Paw,” cried the youth, perk
ing up, “whut do you measure from
tip to tip?”
• • •
Matrimonial Adventures.
ERETOFORE some of the au
thorities have held that the first
two years were the hardest in matri
monial adventures, but the peak of
the danger period for married coup
les is now set at the sixth year by
Los Angeles’ city attorney. On the
side he runs a bureau for handling
the funds assessed for family sup
port against separated or delinquent
parents. So he ought to know about
it, if anybody does.
Well, personally, I always did
have the theory that no woman
could stand any man for more than
five years unless she got numb.
After that it's just a long-distance
endurance test on her side—and per
haps sometimes on both sides.
• • •
Senatorial Shifts.
JAMING no names, a little bird
- just in from Washington whis
pers that one senator, under the in
fluence of alternating psychic waves
or something, already has shifted
three times on the plan to make
the Supreme court over. First he
was against it, then for it, then
against it again, and is now threat
ening to change once more. They’ll
be taking bets on him at Lloyd's
next.
Once in a while we get a states
man who reminds you of a hunk
of country butter in an icebox—
takes the flavor of everything near
by, but not improved by any one of
’em.
• • •
Maine’s Statesmen.
‘THERE is but one answer to the
- attitude assumed by both of
Maine's senators, who show a pro
nounced inclination to balk at what
ever the New Deal calls for in con
gress and especially at the plan to
mold the Supreme court somewhat
closer to the boy scout model.
If these here foreigners don’t like
this country, why don’t they go back
where they came from?
• • •
The Game of Poker.
ALIFORNIA'S attorney general
decides that draw poker, unless
played as a percentage game, is not
gambling.
Had he gone deeper into the sub
ject, he might have ruled that draw
poker, as generally played nowa
days. is not even a game. What vet
eran would call it anything except a
sacrilege against an ancient and
once honorable sport when folks are
free to introduce at will such abom
inations as deuces wild or one-eyed
jacks or barber’s itch or spit in
the ocean?
•
To draw honest cards; to try to
play the other fellow's chances as
well as your own; to try to figure
when to raise and when to call and
when to quit; to try to pick the right
moment for bluffing, since the bluff
is the real soul of the thing—that's
poker, my masters, an American-
born pastime, hallowed with age,
ennobled by usage, beloved of the
fathers.
IRVIN S. COBB.
O-WNU Service
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'Seeing' Bridge
The only bridge in the world that
can “see" has been completed at
Kincardine, Scotland. Equipped
with three electric "eyes,” the huge
swinging center span automatical
ly aligns itself with the roadway
when closed. All three “eyes” are
located on one end of the swinging
span, says the Washington Post.
One sees the span does not over
shoot the mark, another that it does
not undershoot, and the third
watches for the dead central posi
tion. The 1,500-ton span is so
delicately poised on the central
pivot that only two 50-horsepower
electric motors are needed to swing
it open to river traffic.
something big about him. His eyes
are bright and clear, and his iron-
gray hair grows thick. He's prob
ably in his late forties but his heart
is that of a boy. His name is Floyd
Starr. When he was a baby of
three, he heard his family discuss
ing a man who had adopted a lot of
children, John Harvey Kellogg. Hav
ing learned, through a question,
what "adopted” meant, the baby
announced that when he grew up he
would adopt a lot of children. The
remark caused a laugh. When Starr
was graduated from Albion college
and the question of his career arose,
he repeated that he intended to
adopt a lot of children. There was
another laugh. But he meant it.
With his savings and a family in
heritance he purchased a 640-acre
farm near Albion. The farm became
the Starr Commonwealth for Boys.
• • •
Boys “who nobody wants” go to
the Starr Commonwealth.
When
they arrive, they are from eight to
fourteen years old. They come from
courts, from slums, from a great
many other places. The only re
quirement is that they be normal
mentally. The average stay at the
Commonwealth is three years. They
then go out to other homes or into
the world. The Commonwealth
came into existence 24 years ago.
Since its inception it has had 700
graduates. Some of the raw ma
terial was looked on as pretty hope
less by all except Uncle Floyd. One
boy had stolen five automobiles in
an afternoon. Two “baby bandits”
had 57 “crimes” charged against
them, from theft to burning a
church. Uncle Floyd’s idea is that
there is no such a thing as a “bad
boy.” There are no bolts, bars,
or uniforms at the Commonwealth.
Every boy is on his honor. When
one of his boys slips, Uncle Floyd
pleads that not the boys but he, be
given another chance.
Something about the 700 alumni:
One is a mining engineer and part
owner of a gold mine. One is an
aviator. Several are student fliers.
One is a surveyor. Several are
teachers. Many are farmers and
many industrial and business work
ers. One is an authority on fish
life and another the director of the
largest medical museum in the
world, while still another is a bank
executive and another an author
now in China working on his third
book. The Floyd Commonwealth is
the only corrective institution in the
world with an alumni association.
Once a year the graduates gather
for a dinner. They do more than
that—they help the new graduates
get a start. Uncle Floyd was in
New York recently speaking before
various organizations about his
boys. He hasn’t a dime—he turned
over all his possessions to the Com
monwealth. But he has been called
the “richest man in Albion.” And
talking with him brought the feel
ing the territory had been too lim
ited.
• • •
Charles Martin, young advertis
ing executive, got into an automo
bile wreck the other evening while
returning from Philadelphia. When
he finally reached his apartment,
he found that he’d had a visit from
robbers during his absence. He was
checking up on his loss when some
intoxicated friends happened in and
in a spirit of play—destroyed con
siderable of what the thieves hadn’t
taken. When all the excitement fi
nally came to an end, Martin went
to bed too excited to write his stint,
“Thrill of the Week.”
• • •
A woman annoyed one of those
tea room fortune tellers no end the
other afternoon by asking questions
and being extremely fussy during
the reading. Finally the exasperat
ed fortune teller brought the read
ing to an end by sharply informing
the fussy woman that she was due
for some extremely bad luck. With
that the fussy one informed the
fortune teller that she had made
an error about who was to have the
bad luck. In other words, she fired
her, the tea leaves not having in
formed the fortune teller that the
fussy one owned the place.
• • •
The other evening your cor
respondent observed a tall, well set
up, well dressed young man saun
ter down one of those swanky es
tablishments where prices bring
back memories of prohibition. When
informed that a highball sold for a
minimum of 50 cents, the young man
asked as to the price of plain soda.
The haughty bartender informed
him that the tariff was a quarter.
Then the young man wanted to know
how much a glass of water would
cost and when told nothing at all,
replied that that was what he would
take. Not only did he get it but
when the girl came along with the
hors d'oeuvres, he took three caviar
sandwiches and a napkin—and thus
ate and drank on the house.
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A Brief Summary of Events
of Special Interest to
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho Communities.
oka NOGA N,
Wash. — Okanogan
county’s first dairy herd improve
ment association was formed last
week at Ellisforde by 35 dairymen
from the Oroville-Tonasket area.
WOODBURN, Ore — Headquarters
of the North Pacific Nut Growers Co-
operative association will be estab
lished here within 30 days, accord
ing to a decision by the board of di
rectors.
LIND, Wash.—A meeting of the
Big Bend district. Boy Scouts, was
held here last week. A dinner in the
Hotel Central was attended by repre
sentatives from Ritzville, Sprague
and Lind and visitors from Odessa.
KENNEWICK, Wash.—With time
at hand for the blooming of fruit
trees here, apricots are found to be
entirely killed by the winter’s cold.
Horticultural Inspector Glenn Nag-
ley has revealed. The peach crop will
be light, and cherry crop fair,
POST FALLS, Ida.—The winners
In the declamatory contest held re
cently were Charles Coffey, oratori
cal; Winifred Kildow, humorous;
and Doris Swisher, dramatics. They
will meet the winners from other
schools at a later date at Coeur
d’Alene.
REPUBLIC, Wash.—M. E. Alex
ander, new proprietor of the Repub
lic Telephone company, has an
nounced new rates, from $1 to $2
lower than under the old system.
Residence phonee for a four-party
line will be $2 a month, business
phones $3 a month.
MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore.—Jas
M. Burgess, superintendent of
school has obtained Chancellor
schools has obtained Chancellor
Frederick M. Hunter, head of the
Oregon state system of higher edu
cation, to speak at the commence
ment exercises in May.
KAMIAH, Ida.—Commissioner of
Public Works Ira Taylor has called
for blds to be opened April 6 in Boise
on construction of roadbed and
drainage structures, including a 102-
foot concrete bridge on 2.871 miles
of the Lewis and Clark highway be
tween Kamiah and Greer in Lewis
county.
EUGENE, Ore.—Dr. John F. Bo-
vard, dean of the school of physical
education at the University of Ore
gon, has accepted a position on the
faculty of thé University of Califor
nia at Los Angeles and will leave
here July 1, it was announced by
Dr. C. Valentine Boyer, university
president.
BOISE, Ida.—Law Enforcement
Commissioner John L. Balderston
said, "it does not appear at this time
that any moratorium will be' needed
to postpone beyond April 1 the
deadline for obtaining automobile
license plates.” No moratorium was
granted last year, but during depres
sion years, it was from 30 to 60 days.
SANDPOINT, Ida. — Dorsey F.
Sawyer Jr., through his guardian,
D. F. Dorsey, filed suit in district
court here last week against Lyle
and Darrel Doolittle, Priest River
loggers and truckers for $23,753
damages for injuries sustained when
a log rolled off the defendant’s
truck, seriously injuring Sawyer
and resulting in the amputation of
a leg.
“CHINK” CHARMS CHICKS
SOUTH BEND, Wash.—A romance
between a China pheasant and a flock
of bantam hens has Deputy Sheriff
Al Hultgren watching and wonder
ing. Some time ago Hultgren’s neigh
bor, S. T. Brewster, released a doozen
pen-raised Chinese pheasants. One
of the roosters has returned and dis
played a marked Interest in Brew
ster’s bantam hens.
"The bantams have fallen had for
the big pheasant,” Hultgren ob
served. "It’s a real romance and
we're wondering just what the re
sult will be.”
GRAND JURY SESSION SET
PENDLETON, Ore. — Pendleton
will see its first United States grand
Jury session in many years when the
Pendleton term of federal court opens
April 6. Thirty men have been se
lected to serve. They will have some
12 or 15 cases to consider, according
to United States Attorney Carl Do-
naugh. Some 20 cases, including
charges of theft, sale of liquor to In
dians, narcotics and fraud, will be
tried during the Pendleton term.
Because the court opens on the
first Tuesday of the month, setting
of the monthly calendar here will
be postponed until April 12, Federal
Judge Fee said.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.—A can-
vass of the entire Klamath and Tule
Lake potato distlcts shows that not
over 750 carloads of potatoes are left.
Of these about 25 carloads are seed
potatoes. The bulk of the shipments
goes to Los Angeles.
CHELAN, Wash.—The Lake Che
lan reclamation district has sent a
crew into the mountains to get the
different creeks Into the flume. The
water for Irrigation purposes is de
rived from eight creeks and Is stored
at Antilion lake for use next August
National Topics Interpreted
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WASHINGTON, D C
Washington—Throughout history,
unsound economic policies have had
.
a way of demon-
Experience
strating their un
as a Teacher soundness by the
results that even
tually become understandable to the
rank and file of the people. Like
wise, throughout history the rank
and file of the people have learned
their lesson each time and have
avoided burning their fingers a sec
ond time. That is, fingers were not
burned a second time until a new
generation came along and refused
to examine and take into account
the lessons of experience.
Lately, we have seen another
such demonstration. We have seen
both the results and the refusal of
current leaders to profit by exper
iences of the past.
I refer particularly to conditions
involving United States bonds,
Those who have followed market
quotations must recognize that Unit
ed States bonds and other securities
issued by the treasury have suffered
from fluctuations in prices that por
tend, if, indeed, they do not prove
that federal financial policies of the
last four years were unsound. There
was propaganda from official quar
ters during one of the periods of
sagging prices that the condition
resulted from market manipulations
and the activities of “tipsters.” Sto
ries to this effect came directly
out of the treasury although they
did not carry the identity of the
official who made the statements.
The whole circumstance must be
considered together, however, if one
is to arrive at any sort of a con
clusion concerning the true state
of affairs. One must think of the
total amount of government secur
ities outstanding — something like
thirty-four-billions—and one must
recognize as well what is going on
in commerce and industry. In addi
tion to these factors, attention must
be given to conditions of the last
several years when the Roosevelt
administration was engaged — and
still is engaged — in the great
est orgy of spending that our na
tion ever has known. When you
add up these various factors, you
get an answer which seems to me
to be irrefutable.
In the first place, no nation nor
any of its individuals can go on
indefinitely spending money when
it does not have that money. That is,
it cannot spend more than its in
come over any extended period
without suffering bad results. Our
nation did that. It made up the
difference between its income and
its spending by borrowing. It gave
government bonds to those from
whom it borrowed, evidence of its
debt. The immediate result of this
condition was that there are mil
lions upon millions of government
bonds held by banks, corporations
and individuals. These bonds bear
an exceedingly low rate of interest.
It is only natural that anyone
with money to lend will look for the
highest interest rate they can get.
If they happen to hold government
bonds, those bonds will be dumped
in favor of securities paying higher
returns. That has happened to some
extent already.
• * *
It is to be remembered as well
that these bonds were issued in the
currency of the
Supply and devalued dollar,
Demand the fifty-nine cent
dollar as meas
ured by the value of gold.
Now, the law of supply and de
mand that has always operated and
which always will operate places
a basic value upon commodities,
upon the services of labor. It is op
erating again and has brought about
a greater demand for commodities,
the things we need to eat or to wear
and the countless items of modern
day living. The prices of these,
measured in present currency, are
higher because it takes almost two
of the present day dollars to buy
the same quantity as formerly could
be purchased with the dollar that
was good for one-hundred cents in
gold. The answer to this is that most
of us can not help regarding gold
as a commodity having a stable
value. So, we see a result in this
direction.
Labor, too, is demanding mere of
the fifty-nine cent dollars for its
share of production. It has a right
to do so. If you measure wages as
you measure commodity values,
and it seems to me there can be on
ly one yardstick, then labor is justi
fied in asking for higher pay.
Again, a result of tinkering with
the currency becomes evident be
cause labor is forced to pay more
for what it buys as a result of the
reduction in the dollar's gold value.
Then, finally, I am quite con
vinced that in addition to the fac
tors I have discussed as having
weight in causing fluctuation of gov
ernment bond prices, no one can
deny the influence that is being ex
erted by the radical labor element
throughout the strikes that have
been promoted.
These strikes have done more
than just violate law by unjustified
and unwarranted seizure of the prop
erty of other persons. They have
developed among the strikers them
selves a resentment against every
one who owns a farm or a home or
a business.
The tragedy of this condition, to
leave the subject of currency for
a moment, is that the strikes show
how little respect for law and order
exists among a segment of our pop
ulation. It is not only a tragedy. It
is a dangerous sign and unless
somewhere in our nation, govern
ment asserts its authority and pro
tects rights, we may possibly be
faced with a circumstance in which
our nation will be held together
again only by use of army guns.
♦ * *
To get back then to the bond
market it seems to me there is a
closely knit skein
Unsound of conditions that
Ground prove where our
government has
gone into unsound ground. It can be
pointed out how the tinkering with
the currency has carried through
to the ultimate consumer and the
wage worker. It can be shown how
the national government has dis
regarded the rights of part of the
population and favored another part
of the population and in doing so
has created a class hatred which is
liable to cause trouble in the nation
for the next fifty years.
Notwithstanding the lessons to be
learned from these experiences we
observe how the same mistake is
being made in another way. I refer
now to the attitude of administra
tion leaders who are supporting
President Roosevelt’s program to
add six justices of his own choosing
to the Supreme court of the United
States. Throughout the argument
that has come from proponents of
the President’s packing plan there
runs a constant and recurring ap
peal that if we can only have six
new justices in the Supreme court
we can do all of the things that are
necessary to bring about labor
peace and complete business recov
ery.
Disregarding the merit or demerit
of this argument, it seems to me
one cannot help looking somewhat
into the future and determining on
the basis of experience of the past
what may happen if the Supreme
court is emasculated as the Presi
dent proposes.
I said earlier in this article that
there has grown up a tremendous
disrespect for law. The continued
prattle about the necessity for “new
blood” in the Supreme court is sim
ply and frankly another step in the
direction of a government by men
and not a government by law.
It is to be recalled that Mr. Roose
velt was given by his rubber stamp
congress more power than any
President of the United States ever
has exercised before. I do not make
the charge that the difficulties that
I have attempted to analyze above
resulted directly from according the
Chief Executive so much power.
But history surely teaches the les
son that where one man has so
much power available he always
makes more mistakes than where
that power is exercised by the prop
erly appointed or elected represent
atives of the masses of the people.
I recall a homely saying, often
heard in my youth, that two heads
are better than one even though
one may be a cabbage head. I am
quite convinced that the 435 mem
bers of the house of representa
tives and the 96 members of the
senate have more wisdom collective
ly than one man.
Adverting again to the questions
of currency and prices, we have
only to look across the Atlantic
ocean and see what happened in
Italy, in Russia and in Germany
where one man attempted to estab
lish his own ideas on the currency.
From what I have heard from offi
cial sources, it must be true that in
those three countries I mentioned,
there are billions of pieces of paper
money that are worth altogether
little more than the cash value of
the paper on your walls. It al
ways has worked out that way.
• • •
Some of the business interests of
the country apparently are taking
time by the fore-
Take Time lock and adjusting
by Forelock themselves to con
ditions where the
government is by men and not by
law. A few days ago the distilled
spirits institute announced that it
had elected W. Forbes Morgan as
its president. Mr. Morgan, an uncle
by marriage of Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, resigned as treasurer of
the Democratic National commit
tee to enter the employment of the
liquor interests. While there was no
official announcement concerning
Mr. Morgan's salary, the gossip per
sists that he is to be paid something
like five-hundred-thousand dollars
for five years’ work in his new job.
His election raises two questions:
What can Mr. Morgan do for the
liquor industry that is worth so
much money and, secondly, wheth
er the selection of Mr. Morgan does
not show how stupid business in
terests can be.
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His own misdeeds often return
to the author of them.—Seneca.
Radiant Sunshine
Those who bring sunshine to the
lives of others cannot keep it from
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Injuring Friendship
He takes the greatest ornament
from friendship, who takes mod
esty from it.—Cicero.
Ideals of a Nation
The strength and greatness of a
nation do not lie in the sinews of
its people, nor in the money bags of
its traders, nor in the glibness of
its orators, but in the devotion of
its citizens to a lofty ideal of public
and private duty, in the love for all
that is true and good and beauti
ful, and the hatred of all that is
false, evil, mean and ugly; in their
strenuous pursuit of knowledge, and
their readiness to apply it to the
making of life larger, fuller and
happier for all.
Bow Other Half Lives
Riis House, on the lower East
Side of New York, was founded
many years ago by Jacob Riis,
newspaper man, author and reform
er. Throughout his life he devoted
his time and effort to improving the
lot of the needy. The settlement
takes care of the educational, recre
ational and health needs of thou
sands of persons, young and old,
located in the tenement districts of
New York.
WNU—13
14—37
Tax That’s Collected
Someone wants to tax sin Well,
‘sn‘t it taxed?