Thursday, April 22, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
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NEWS NOTES OF
THE NORTHWEST
Digest
National Topics Interpreted
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
-NATIONAL
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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A Brief Summary of Events
of Special Interest to
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho Communities.
A General Quiz
© Bell Syndicate. — WNU Service.
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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
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