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Thursday, April 22, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. ===================== NEWS NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST Digest National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART -NATIONAL PRESS BLDG WASHINGTON. D C Washington.—Many spineless offi plenty of grapevines by which word cials of the federal government could have been sent to the Mich were horribly igan governor and, I truly believe, inutt Curb shocked the other that if there had been a request for federal troops, there would have Lewi» day when several hundred farmers been a distinct change in the at took matters into their own hands titude of Labor Leader Lewis al and drove a bunch of sit-down most overnight. Further, I have heard from plenty strikers out of the great Hershey chocolate plants in Pennsylvania. of lawyers in the house and senate They thought it was terrible that that the decision that no federal law men who were striking for higher was being violated was wholly wages should be beaten and slugged questionable. Those lawyers were as the farmers at Hershey, Pennsyl quite convinced that Mr. Roosevelt vania, treated the sit-down strikers. had federal statutes at his com The strikers had closed the choco mand to use as the basis for ac late plants, thus cutting off the tion in the various sit down strikes— daily market for thousands of gal if he seriously wanted to get mixed up in the labor row. lons of milk. Then, I am reminded of the very Fortunately for the country the number of these spineless creatures, frequent attacks which were forth charged with official responsibility, coming from the White House and is very few. But I mention the fact other New Deal spokesmen when because therein is a key to some of employers and banks and business the things that have been happen generally failed to measure up to ing In the Roosevelt administra New Deal demands in the recovery tion’s treatment of the labor dis programs. The President spoke with emphasis on those occasions. He turbances. ► I believe no one can support vi has been completely silent in the olence but there can be no doubt current situation. • • • that the federal government is charged with responsibility for pro And he has been able to maintain tecting rights. Rights are possessed silence through protection given him by everyone under our Constitution by political ma- and under our form of government Kept neuvering in the and when a handful of individuals Silent senate. As an in assume to disregard the rights of stance of this, let others it becomes something more me cite the efforts of Senator than a situation about which soft McNary of Oregon, the so-called Re words and tears for the down-trod publican leader, in the senate, who den worker are required. attempted to put the question di The importance of the action of rectly to the President. He sought, the farmers at Hershey, Pennsyl when the senate was floundering vania, cannot be minimized. It is and dodging over a resolution con a straw that points which way the demning sit down strikes, to change wind blows. It means that unless the form of the resolution from one the headlong and unrestrained ac needing only concurrence of the tions of John L. Lewis and his labor house to a joint resolution which is agitators are curbed, sooner or later a measure that requires the signa we will pay with blood; we will ture of the President. Majority pay with lives of citizens because Leader Robinson was quick to block the American people always have that maneuvering. No one needs to insisted and always will insist upon tell you, of course, that Mr. Roose a square deal. velt did not want to have that reso In treating of conditions within lution come to him. the country, it is well always to So, as a second instance of fed avoid inflammatory declarations. I eral government sissiness, we see hope I am never guilty of unfair a subservient majority of New Deal ness in anything I write. But the ers adopting a resolution which said cold fact is that, in this country, in effect, "You naughty boys! You the time has arrived when govern know it is wrong to indulge in sit ment must make a choice between down strikes, to take possession of its functions as government and al other people’s property, and we are lowing autocracy of labor leaders going to slap you on the wrist for to destroy the rights and property it.” Well, that was a declaration of of the other millions of our popula policy but when the resolution was tion. Labor has its rights and they before the senate they could not must be protected, but it is equally resist the temptation to denounce important that the rights of those business because they charged it who are not members of any union, was unfair to labor. who want to work, who own prop Then, we have another circum erty, be protected. Thus far in the stance. Representative Dies, a Tex present labor controversy, it must as Democrat, proposed a resolution be said that the Roosevelt admin in the house for an investigation of istration and the governors of most sit down strikes. Mr. Dies was will of the states have fallen short in ing to condemn sit down strikes their sworn duty. but he wanted to know what the There has been much praise ac facts were. Very quickly, many of corded Governor Murphy of Mich the weak-kneed boys on the floor igan for "settling” the strikes in of the house smelled a thorough-go the automobile plants. Yet, I cannot ing inquiry into labor organizations help wondering whether the term generally, into political activities of "settlement" is correct when strik labor groups, into racketeering ers thumbed their noses at the where local labor organizations are courts and when law enforcement in the hands of irresponsible or officers were told by their superiors scheming radicals. So, the house to hold off the execution of court sneaked out from under and, as decrees. It seems to me that we, as painlessly as possible, dodged this a nation, will have cause to regret issue by depositing the Dies resolu "settlements" of that kind for a tion on the table from which, of good many years to come. course, it will never be withdrawn. • • * I called these policies political I am inclining to the belief that cowardice in an earlier statement there is only one word capable of in this article. All of the elements describing the at- seem to me to be present to justify Political titude of the Roos- that description. But there is an Cowardice evelt administra other phase of the whole situation. tion i n dealing It concerns the future of the poli with strikers of the sit down charac ticians who have run away from ter. Labor has a weapon in the the real issue this time. I am quite strike and it is entitled to use that convinced it will rise up to hold weapon because too many business them in the not too distant future. interests have refused to be fair. • • • But when labor abuses, instead of In the course of the discussion of uses, the weapon available to it, the labor controversy, I adverted on then the time has come to call them several occasions to account just as business interests Talk of t0 the politics that are called to account when they vio Third Term is imbedded in the late laws. The difference is that the situation. There is ranks of labor involve millions of so much of politics in the picture votes whereas, the ranks of business | that one hears in the under current involve only a comparatively small around Washington a discussion of number of votes. Therefore, by any I President Roosevelt's future plans. line of reasoning I have been able It is curious, but it appears possible, to follow through, it seems to me that Mr. Roosevelt may be forced that the federal government’s posi to run for a third term. Such a tion thus far can properly be de course obviously would break all scribed as political cowardice. precedents, but Mr. Roosevelt likes There are a number of reasons to break precedents. why I think this term is appro He has stated on several oc priate. First, there was the famous casions his ambition to leave the night conference when Mr. Roose White House in 1940 with the nation velt returned from his Georgia va at peace and economically prosper cation and talked things over with ous. This observation has been re the house and senate New Deal peated whenever the opportunity leaders. They emerged from that was propitious. On the last occa- 1 meeting with the President, saying aion, there were a number of ob that the federal government could servers in Washington who sus do nothing; that no federal laws tained the same reaction to the de had been violated and that no re claration, namely, that perhaps— quest had come from any proper and only perhaps—Mr. Roosevelt authority for federal government in had a yearning in his heart to serve | tervention. another four years after his pres- I It makes one laugh, such state ent term expires. One writer, noted | ments as these. If President Roose for his direct expressions, observed velt and his administration had de that only by constantly referring sired to curb sit down strikes, does to his future retirement could the anyone believe that he could not President invite groups to interest have conveyed word to Governor themselves in demanding him to Murphy of Michigan that he was run for a third term. willing to help? I think there are e Western Newspaper Union. Ask Me Another • *-,-4-0 A Brief Summary of Events of Special Interest to Oregon, Washington and Idaho Communities. A General Quiz © Bell Syndicate. — WNU Service. . ................................... ■■■■■■■ 1. What is a Dutch auction? 2. In what countries is slavery still practiced? 3. What is the world’s record of weight carried by man? 4. Does a watch gain time at PAYETTE, Ida—Payette’s annual night? Apple Blossom festival will featur« 5. What is the highest price a two-day celebration this year. May ever paid for a book at auction? 3 and 4. 6. In what part of the world WEISER, Ida.—Voters at the cit does the least rain fall? election, April 27 will decide as to is 7. Of what famous beauty was suance of $15,000 In bonds for con Menelaus the husband? struction of a community swimming 8. What is an oligarchy? pool. 9. What does “polytechnic” TOLEDO, Ore.—Edward W. Mil- mean? 1er, secretary of the Oregon Coast 10 In American politics what is Highway association, announced that a “favorite son”? the semi-annual meeting of that body 11. What is an animalcule? Rainy Season Bridge in Guatemala City. will be held here, April 18 and 19. 12. Who wrote the song “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”? Prepared by National Geographic Society, CHEWELAH, Wash.—Geo.rge M patio, mahogany floors and furni Washington, D. C.—WNÜ Service. Rasque, Spokane architect, has beer ture, and very high ceilings. HEN you enter Guatemala Answers If one remarks to the clerk that awarded a contract for designing • City, you are in the most the air seems a trifle chilly, “Yes, 1. It is an auction at which bids grade school building with eight populous place in all Cen- the winter is just beginning,” he are decreased instead of in rooms at Chewelah, to cost, esti- i trai America. With may a pop reply. creased until a minimum price is timated, $65,000. ulation of 120,000, including about “Winter? In the tropics? And reached. NYSSA, Ore.—Gordon Barrie, rep 6,000 foreigners, Guatemala City is in May? 2. No nation formally indorses resenting Adams & Leland of Boston a thriving metropolis of well-paved He explains that “winter” In Gua reports contracting for 23,000 fleecei streets, department stores, luxury temala is the rainy season, May to slave trading, but it is believed to exist in Abyssinia, China, Eritrea, in Lake and Harney counties at 39 shops, cafes, country clubs, busy October, a period of clouds, damp Hedjaz, Kufra, Liberia, Morocco, cents, the highest price paid for wool factories, garages, and modern ho ness, and dismal rains, although, he South Morocco, Rio de Oro, East in that area in 10 years. tels. Its motion picture theaters, hastens to add, “part of every day and West Sahara and South Tripo- SHOSHONE, Ida. — A flood ol showing mostly American “talkies” is fair and sunny.” In "summer,” U. poorly counterfeited nickels has de with Spanish subtitles, advertise November to April, there is little 3. A. P. McCarthy of St. Louis, scended upon several Shoshone busi with big electric signs overhanging or no rain, the sun shines through- Mo., carried 2,250 pounds on his out the day, and the people are back in 1898. ness houses. It seems that the lead the streets in Broadway style. At the capital’s covered central healthier and happier. 4. If the temperature is lower a coins were largely used for manipu market, the largest in the country, One may be awakened in the watch will gain. lating pinball machines. the array of foodstuffs, textiles, morning by the clamor of church 5. In 1927 Dr. A. S. Rosenbach ASHLAND, Ore.—Peach trees is utensils, furniture, and other com the Ashland district are three weeki modities is endless. Its long aisles, bells, the rumble of heavy oxcarts, paid $106,000 for a copy of the and the musical chimes of carriages Gutenberg Bible, which is said to behind the blooming schedule this and the streets adjoining the mar bearing worshipers to early mass. be the highest price ever paid year and may escape frost, accord ket building and cathedral, are al Guatemala City is compactly for a book at auction. ing to Mayor Wiley of Ashland. Lasi ways jammed with a noisy, restless built. Stand on the roof of one of 6. Arica, Chile, has the mini throng of merchants and buyers. year they were damaged by frost. its modern buildings and you see mum amount that has come un And the odors, strange, spicy and WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Walls a clean and pleasant community, der observation. The average Wallans who scoot about on the heavy! The fresh scents of vege most of whose white, blue, pink, rainfall for 17 years was only 0.02 new motor scooters must first secure tables and exotic flowers mingle and buff-colored houses and shops inch a year and there were only 3 automobile operator’s license and s with the greasy smell of cooking are one or two stories high. Only measurable showers within that motorcycle license, It was announced food, the aroma of roasted coffee, a few concrete business buildings time. I and the balmy fragrance of copal and stone church towers rise above 7. Helen of Troy. by Chief of Police J. F. Gemmell. incense. the prevailing flat, red-tiled roofs. 8. A form of government in KELSO, Wash. — The state ol Those with weak stomachs may Founded in the year the United which power is restricted to a few. Washington highway department as not like the appearance or odor of 9. Embracing many arts. sumed the responsibility for the freshly slaughtered meat. Nor will States declared its independence, maintenance of the bridge over the they find appetizing the leached Guatemala City is a comparative 10. A candidate backed at a na youngster among the communities tional convention chiefly by the Cowlitz river between east and west corn mash for tortillas; or arma of Latin America. Several times delegation from his own state. Kelso this week under terms of a re dillos roasted in their shells; or it has been damaged by earth- 11. An animal of microscopic cently enacted state law. crude brown sugar pressed into quakes, and in 1917 almost the en smallness. THE DALLES, Ore.—The cater- dirty blocks and balls. But vis tire city was destroyed. .It has lost 12. James Bland, a negro poet. pillars are on their way! This word itors are delighted with bright trop its Old World air, although it still of warning was flashed to Wasco ical fruits piled in artistic disar has many Moorish-type homes with county orchardlsts last week by W ray, graceful baskets and glazed iron-grilled windows and patios Wray Lawrence, county agent, after pottery, and gay textiles woven on aglow with flowers. an inspection tour had shown mil | primitive hand looms. Fascinating as is Guatemala City, Guatemalans are proud, and just however, it is but a prelude to that lions of the tiny insects now hatch ly so, of the fine coffee grown in native Guatemala which is older in ing. their highlands. Placards in Eng PENDLETON, Orc.—Six hundred lish and Spanish remind the visitor race, culture, and traditions. High parents and friends saw 175 Boy at every turn that “Guatemala in the Sierra Madre west and north Scouts and cubs do their stuff at the Grows the Best Coffee in the of the capital, pure-blooded Indians still dress as did their ancestors, Scout circus and round-up at Pendle j World.” worship their old gods as well as ton, the biggest event in Pendleton On the days when tourist trains the new, and live their lives al Scoutdom and the best staged, be arrive in Guatemala City, the de most unaffected by modern civil ON HOWERS • FRUITS cause of the new Vert Memoria) partment of agriculture holds open ization. VEGETABLES & SHRUBS gymnasium. ‘house. Small packages of freshly Until a few years ago, when the Demand original sealed EUGENE, Ore.—By the end of this roasted coffee, wrapped in glazed government launched an extensive bottles, from your dealer week Chief of Police Bergman of Eu paper, are presented to each visitor. road-building program, travel in the 3044 They are appropriate souvenirs of gene predicts every school youngster highlands of Guatemala was slow In Eugene who rides a bicycle will a nation which is the sixth most im and arduous. Now one may motor portant coffee grower in the world, Hasten Early from the capital westward to the have been examined by bike code au Hasten in the morning so that thorities and licensed to ride. En being exceeded only by Brazil, Co Mexican border and east to El Sal by evening thy work for the day forcement of the bicycle control or lombia, the Netherlands Indies, vador. | Venezuela and El Salvador. be accomplished. Motorin; Through the Country. dinance will then begin. The second most important ex Speeding along the floor of the BONNERS FERRY, Ida.—O. W port is the banana, grown in the Keller, a farmer near Naples, has a coastal plains bordering the Gulf of valley, one passes a steady stream of Indians and vehicles bound for record-breaking hen. Last week a Honduras and the Pacific. the markets of Guatemala City. thoroughbred Rhode Island Red laid Airport a Busy Spot. Stolid, earnest-faced men trot by at Nature can more quickly expel infection when an egg measuring eight Inches In aided by Internal medication of recognized merit One of the busiest spots today in a half run, their heads held rigid greatest circumference, and the fol by a tumpline across the forehead this busiest of Central American lowing day laid one measuring 10 Inches end to end. and 8% inches capitals is La Aurora airport. Here that supports the heavy loads on HAVE RECOGNIZED MERIT the trunk line of the Pan Amer their backs. For miles, they have in lateral circumference. ican Airways from Brownsville, been jogging along at this peculiar, BEND, Orc.—Preservation of scen Texas, to Panama connects with a forward-falling gait. In cacastes, ic strips of timber along ine Santiam half-dozen local air services to dis or wooden frames, they carry goods Helping Others and McKenzie highway near Sisters, tant parts of the republic. of all kinds—earthen jars, furniture, What do we live for, if it is not in western Deschutes county, ap Many who do not come to Guate bags of grain, or fresh vegetables. peared assured here with announce mala City by plane, come by boat, Their women hurry along beside to make life less difficult for each ment that the department of agricul and dock at San Jose, a sleepy little or behind them, arms swinging free other? ture has approved a proposed ex tropical port. Between steamers ly, their burdens on their heads. change of timber. The exchange plan this “back door” to Guatemala Sometimes it is a basket of live None Such Is now in the office of the secretary drowses in the shade of tall bread chickens, a fat roll of clothing, wov fruit trees and coconut palms, and en fabrics, or a bundle of firewood. “Contentment," said Uncle Eben “is of interior for final consideration. dan riches, but It’s jes' as hard carries on a desultory commerce Almost always a baby bobs up and better FETE DATES NAMED with the Indians of the coastal la down in a shawl slung across the to git.” WENATCHEE, Wash. — Friday, goons. mother’s back. Radium Costliest Commodity April 30, and Saturday. May 1, will Its dingy water front, ragged por Each tribe, and almost every vil be dates of Wenatchee’s 18th apple ters and fishermen, stifling heat, lage, in the highlands has a distinc Radium Is by far the most valuable blossom festival, Ray Michael, festi and main street pre-empted by rail tive costume. Designs have not commodity produced in the world. road tracks give no promise of changed in hundreds of years. To val director, announced. Protestant Missions in China Queen Janet Foster and Princesses the color and activity of Guate those who know the different cos Mary Armstrong and Betty Kelley mala's gay, modern capital, high tumes, the Indians of the highlands Protestant missions In China began toured north central Washington to up in the cool central plateau. might be carrying signs around with Robert Morrison in 1807. The first part of the 73-mile jour their necks reading, “I am from promote interest in the affair, which ney to Guatemala City follows a Solola,” or “I am from Chichicas- last year drew 25,000 visitors. gently rising plain, whose black vol tenango,” et cetera. SEWER PROJECT OKAYED canic soil is planted thickly in ba It is regrettable, however, that Your Own Business BONNERS FERRY, Ida—Resident nanas, sugar cane, cotton, cacao, many of these costumes are disap- of the south residential section were and fruit trees. Guatemala City is pearing. Native garb has been re in Your Own Home 12 proven formulas quickly made and jubilant over news from Washington nearly a mile above sea level, in placed by blue denim and cheap easily sold Send one dollar for book of last week, announcing allocation of the cool and healthful tierra tem imported cotton goods throughout formulas with complete instructions to — plada, or temperate zone, and the W. * W. CHEMICAL CO. ‘ $28,491 for a sewer project. This most of El Salvador, and these ma project is being sponsored by the train must gain most of this alti terials are now penetrating Guate P: O. Box 4123, Portland, Oregon mala. Under the harsh treatment town board under WPA. J. H. Cave, tude in the last fifty miles. Not far beyond Palin the line of the Indian's daily toil, such fab WPA engineer, recently perfected the plans. The project provides a trunk creeps through a narrow valley be rics are quickly reduced to tatters. e e • It Is the Unlike the half-naked aborigines line sewer for the large residential tween two towering peaks and comes out on the edge of mountain of the jungle lowlands, or the itin district on the south bench. The town will provide about rimmed Lake Amatitlon. For sev erant tradesmen and servants of $8000 for material, according to eral miles the railroad winds along the cities, the Indians of the high the shore, passing groups of In lands of Guatemala have main Mayor Frank Speece. dian women washing clothes in hot tained a proud semi-independence | springs at the water's edge. It is as farmers, weavers and pottery /′ ... that circulate among WALLA WALLA, Wash. — The a convenient laundry, for clothes makers. ourselves, in our own com Walla Walla college board of direct may be boiled in the springs and Conquered but never assimilated, munity, that in the end ors has approved final plans for an rinsed in the cold fresh water of the they are aristocrats among the na build our schools and auditorium-gymnasium on the col lake without taking a step! tive peoples of Central America, churches, pave our streets, The train approaches Guatemala and they are sufficiently well or lege grounds. 44 by 116 feet, with lay our sidewalks, increase City thi ugh verdant suburbs which ganized to make mass petitions to gallery seating capacity of 3000. give way to warehouses and rail the central government when local our farm values, attract SPOKANE, Wash. — A boat At road yards, indicatingthe commer- conditions demand it. They have more people to this section. maids and maid-aspirants have be- eia? activity of this busy Latin had much less contact with other Buying our merchandise gnn training at the WPA household American capital. races than Indians elsewhere have in our local stores means arts institute here. In how to serve had, and are not badly scourged “Winter” Means Rainy Season. table properly, prepare food, buy keeping our dollars st From the terminal, taxis whisk with alcohol. Consequently, they household necessities smartly and use visitors over smoothly paved streets have retained their self-respect and home to work for all of ut ranges and refrigerators and all lat to their hotel, frequently a grandi- are neither subservient nor cring- est kitchen and parlor gadgets. I ose structure with a glass-covered ing. W Black Leaf £40 KILLS INSECTS FOR COLDS Salicon Tablets DOLLARS 9
