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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. NEWS NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington. — Although it has been three weeks since the Supreme court of the Unit- Wagner Act ed States upheld Decisions the Wagner labor relations act, I doubt that there is more than a mere handful of people in this na tion who are able to comprehend the full significance of those decisions of the highest court. The chances are, if our present form of govern ment remains and we continue to adhere to our Constitution, the full import of the so-called Wagner act decisions (there were five of them) will not be discovered within a quarter of a century. No decision of the Supreme court in several decades contains the wide range of potentialities found in the decisions of April 12 and it may well be that the findings of the court at that time will constitute a turning point in United States history. There are so many potentialities to be found in the Wagner act de cisions that one may reasonably ex press a doubt whether states have any rights left. Likewise, one may express a doubt whether labor and the friends of labor have won or lost in the determination by the high court that the National Labor Relations board has power to com pel an employer to deal with a ma jority of his workers, organized into union form. Above and beyond these phases lies another, namely, the question whether the United States congress does not have power to legislate strikes out of existence. First, I am convinced in review ing the court’s action that there has been a tremendous amount of mis information spread about the find ings of the court. Never in my period of service in Washington have I seen so many different con structions placed upon an official act. We have seen and heard un measured criticism of the court for turning business over to the labor unions ; we have witnessed a renew al of attacks on the Supreme court because it did not go far enough to the radical side in granting pow er to congress and the President, and we have been deluged with talk of what can now be done in a legis lative way to carry out Mr. Roose velt’s theme song, “The More Abun dant Life.” The truth is, however, that the Supreme court in deciding the Wagner act cases actually re stated in a clarified manner a posi tion the court took twelve years ago. It was in 1925 that the court decid ed the so-called second Coronado coal mining case. In that opinion, the court laid down the rule, al though it was obscured, that ob stacles to production constituted an interference with interstate com merce. In the cases this month, the court reaffirmed and restated that very theory of law and government, because it declared in the Jones and Laughlin Steel company case that failure of the employer to permit settlement of the strike through an official agency of the government constituted interference with inter- state commerce. Hitherto, the con ception of interstate commerce gen erally has been limited to trans portation of goods or communica tion across state lines. To show the similiarity, it is nec essary only to recall that striking miners attempted to close en trances to the Coronado mines in Colorado. The cases went to the Supreme court which held that ille gal attempts to close the mines con stituted an interference with ship ment of the products into interstate commerce. So, I am quite con vinced that the job the Supreme court did in this instance and as far as it relates to the orgy of New Deal theories consists only of clari fying the legal definition of inter state commerce. Laymen are not concerned with legal technicalities, nor do they understand them, but they do understand facts and it was facts in the Jones-Laughlin case up on which the court predicated its decision notwithstanding the wild acclaim by New Dealers for the “enlightened” construction of the Constitution in that opinion. • • • Any attempt to point out what the Wagner act decisions mean and how far they go is Antes at bound to lead into Ditcuteion a maze of compli cated discussion. I have no intention of getting my self so entangled despite the de grees in law that I hold. I am a firm believer in the declaration that human nature works out its prob lems after the manner of slow and orderly development. But there are certain circum stances connected with the present court rulings and conditions of this day that may probably be discussed without becoming involved in de spised legal technicalities. I mentioned earlier that if the court, as it did, could find that ob struction of production constituted interference with interstate com merce, it seems quite obvious that interference may come from em ployees as well as employers. It is a fact, therefore, that when the steel company here concerned re fused to obey the mandate of the 00100/70 IHIIIIP BOSTON’S "? BOOKS A Brief Summary of Events of Special Interest to Oregon, Washington and Idaho Communities. BURLEY, Ida.—Beet growers of National Labor Relations board it Surley, Oakley, Rupert and Paul will DRELLY prevented a settlement of a strike. receive a total of $62,125 aa their if Has (PAR «RUS$83 It must be a fact, therefore, that first participating payment for their a strike of the sit-down type con 1936 crop of beets. stitutes interference with production GRANGEVILLE, Ida_Joseph W. and consequently interferes with in terstate commerce. The next con snd Louie P. Klapprich, brothers, clusion, and it seems perfectly ob have sold their 400 acres of wheat vious, is that if congress can legis land near Cottonwood to Leander J. late against employer and prevent Wimhoff for $30,000. him from interfering with interstate ROSEBURG, Ore.—Authorization commerce, it can legislate to pre vent the workers from interfering for 10,000 booklets explanatory of the resources of the Umpqua valley with interstate commerce. Browsing Among Books an Outdoor Sport in Boston. Now, we come to the point, men has been given jointly by the Doug Prepared by National Geographic Society, form part of the army of 2.000,000 las county court and the Roseburg tioned earlier, of the danger inherent Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. visitors, more or less, who flock in any situation where congress Chamber of Commerce. TUDY Boston from the high back to Boston each season and starts legislating on the question of POMEROY, Wash.—Work will be tower of the customhouse. It swarm out to the historic towns human rights. Congresses before gin soon on the Pataha Creek recrea looks down on that cobweb about it. They want to see the old this time have been fair and con tional project, under supervision of maze of narrow, crooked gresses hereafter may be fair in forestry officials. The dam contem streets which marks the “city lim places where their ancestors lived, enacting legislation dealing with the plated to create an artifical lake will its” of bygone days, when cows and spots famous in the annals of early days: Bunker Hill monument; delicate matter of human rights. be completed by July 1. grazed on the Common and clipper Faneuil hall; the site of the Boston But where is the assurance that KENNEWICK, Wash. — The city ships traded with China and Bom Tea Party; Old North church; Paul they will do so? How can we tell Revere’s house; the tomb of Mother council has renewed an old ordinance bay. but that at some future time a con In the shadow of modern struc Goose; the site of the Boston Mas calling for dog licenses. Residents gress subservient to big business tures squat many old-style shops sacre; the sacred codfish in the may decide to lay down ridiculous have complained that doga chase cars and “countinghouses,” already Statehouse; and near-by Plymouth rules about employment. It is pos keep people awake a night, despoil weather-beaten when John Hancock Rock, Concord, and Lexington, and sible, for example, that some con shrubbery, and lawns and scare chil was governor. To Boston these are the Witch House at Salem. gress may say that employers may dren. more than obsolete architecture; Today Boston prints more books not hire workers above fifty years HAILEY, Ida. — More than TOO they are symbols of her busy, au of age. They seem to have that deer are reported gathered i. the dacious youth when she built and than when she was pre-eminently a “literary center.” Manuscripts pour power—if they can make it appear Warm Springs district, north of here. sailed our first merchant fleet. in to her editors.- Novels, carloads that age becomes important to the They ara following the receding snow Modern Boston sprawls over more of dictionaries, and schoolbooks in maintenance of constant production. I admit this sounds ridiculous. line into the higher Sawtooth moun than 1,000 square miles and counts Spanish and English, Sanskrit and I intended that it should sound ridic tains. The sight has become an at some 2,300,000 people in her metro Eskimo, are shipped from here, of ulous. It has been mentioned as an traction for Sunday motorists from politan district. Much of that is in ten to markets as remote as Bag the pattern of other American cities. dad. extreme case to show what may be the lower country. But the old Boston, so like parts of Great Place for Book Printing. possible if these new powers are not GRANTS PASS, Ore.—School boy wisely used. It exemplifies, more police proved their effectiveness at ancient London, is unique in the Her Golden Age of letters, when over, what a factor uncertainty is the Grants Pass high school one night United States. Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Come down from the tower now Whittier, Holmes and Lowell used when too much power has been recently when they apprehended and granted any agency of the govern held for officers two youths seen and see how certain of these streets to frequent the Old Corner Book ment, be it national or state or lo stealing gasoline from automobiles are devoted to a particular enter Store, passed with the rise of New prise. This one smells of hides and cal. parked near the school while the oc leather; along that one you see only York as a market for manuscripts. • • • But curious visitors still seek out cupants were attending a play. the gilded signs of shoe manufactu- Emerson’s old home at Concord; Now, to touch up on some of the BOISE, Ida.—More and more, ac turers. One section smells of fish, they prowl through the country unsettled issues resulting from . the court’s pro- cording to State Bacteriologist Peter another of wool, and here is a wharf house of Louisa M. Alcott—admis Unsettled nouncement: son, the people of Idaho are coming fragrant with bananas. sion 25 cents—and drop a tear for Turn up the hill toward the vener “Little Women.” For another 2 5 Issues All that has to recognize the importance of tick been obtained un vaccine to prevent the Rocky Moun able Transcript, with its columns of cents they see the “House of Seven der the Wagner act decisions is tain fever. More than three times as genealogy, and you smell newsprint, Gables” at Salem. complete recognition of the right of many applications for tick vaccine fresh ink, roasting coffee, and sec In American letters Dana's “Two organized labor groups to bargain are on file as the department of pub ond-hand books stacked in the open Years Before the Mast,” Melville’s air—any book from Gray’s “Elegy” “Moby Dick” or “Typee,” and the collectively free from employer lic welfare has doses. to “Anthony Adverse.” domination. The principle of ma brilliant historical work of Prescott, BEND, Ore. — Efforts to preserve jority rule is laid down. An em Even the odd wording of sign Parkman, Fiske, and Bancroft must scenic strips of timber along the ployer must deal with the repre boards harks back to earlier days. long endure, as will other names, sentatives of a majority of his work Santiam and McKenzie highways in “Victualers License,” “Spa,” “Pro from Edward Everett Hale, author ers. The rights of the minority, the Sisters country, east of the Cas tection Department,” not fire depart of “The Man Without a Country,” whether that minority be a com cade divide, are now near realization. ment and street-car signs in quaint, and Julia Ward Howe, who wrote pany union or an independent union The secretary of agriculture has ap stilted English. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” are rather much overshadowed al proved a proposed exchange of fed Old trades cling to old places. The to Thoreau and John Boyle O’Reilly. though they can present t' *r griev eral stumpage for the roadside trees. Old Oyster House, live lobsters wrig From Boston still come important ances to the National La : Rela- I The exchange proposal is now in the gling in its window tanks, stands magazines for both adults and office of the secretary of interior for just as it was a hundred years ago. youths. But it is the stupendous tions board. It is in that situation that trouble final consideration. output of textbooks which as Aged Carver of Pipes. is foreseen. Most of the recent tonishes. SALEM, Ore.—Five hundred men Before a window at 30 Court street strikes have resulted from disputes are engaged in digging maple and You can imagine the volume when crowds watch a wrinkled artist over union recognition. Largely this laurel burls in Oregon and Washing carve pipes. At eighty-seven, wear you stop to think that between 25 union recognition question resulted and 30 million American children from the maneuverings and agita ton, making this industry one which ing no glasses, he works as skill alone are enrolled in schools; that tion by John L. Lewis and his Com is attracting considerable attention. fully as when he began, seventy they must have some 70,000,000 mittee for Industrial Organization. J. H. Van Winkle, operating in the years ago. Monk, Viking, and In books when schools open each Sep But it is not to be forgotten that Silverton and Jefferson areas, in dian heads, skulls, lions, dogs—he tember, and that Boston is one of the American Federation of Labor formed state employment officials. makes them all. Give him your picture and he the chief textbook-producing cen has several million members in its The burls, enlarged trunk and root will cut its likeness on a meer ters in the world. formations, are used in furniture craft unions. Thus, it can easily be World Center for Textbooks. foreseen that the National Labor manufacture and are valued at $25 schaum bowl. For a Kentucky horse- Relations board is going to be con- to $35 a ton. Most of them are ship man he carved the image of that “There are many schoolbooks,” rider ’ s favorite mount; he even fronted many times with a fight be ped to Los Angeles. said an official of a publishing com carved the “Battle of Bunker Hill” pany, “whose sales make that of tween the C. I. O. and the A. F. of WHEAT CROP UP with 50 brier figures on one big a popular novel look diminutive. L. Each one of these organizations BOISE, Ida.—Idaho's winter wheat pipe! They are handled not in dozens of will claim that it represents a ma Five workmen in pipe stores here boxes, but in carloads of 40,000 jority of the workers and, therefore, crop will amount to 12,656,000 bush abouts have a total service of more pounds each. is entitled to be the spokesman for els, 16 per cent more than a year ag, Richard C. Ross, federal statisti than 200 years. “A man is on trial all of an employer’s workers. “While some of our novels, ‘Uncle unÄ he has been here 25 years ” is Tom’s Cabin’ and ‘Rebecca of Sun- Most of us have seen how bitter cian, predicted recently. a favorite joke in one shop. The estimate is 8 per cent below nybrook Farm,’ for example, have internal labor rows can become. I Quietly another old sculptor am sure that most of my readers the five-year average, he added. Com works, making “ancient” idols, rel sold more than half a million each, will recall cases within their own bined stocks of wheat, corn and oats ics of the Stone Age, even a “petri our little school pamphlets such knowledge where carpenters and on farms on April 1 were estimated fied man” for a circus in Australia! as ‘Evangeline’ and ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish’ have sold at the bricklayers have fought it out over at 4,438,000 bushels, compared with Turn back and walk through the rate of a million a year. the question of which one was to do 5,846,000 in 1936. cathedral-like First National bank “The task of getting sufficient certain work in construction. It has and look at its compelling murals, schoolbooks ready to meet the sud FARM SURVEY DONE happened hundreds of times and dramatic themes of den demand every September, when LA GRANDE, Ore.—A farm sur with their each time bitter hatred has devel merchant adventures by land and oped. When the right to speak for vey of farm production in Union sea; or study the fascinating exhibit orders come in at the last minute by a whole body of employees becomes county over a period of several of historic ships’ models in the wire, means that publishers usually begin printing these books as long the question for determination, it years has been completed it was an State Street Trust company. as ten months ahead.” seems to me perfectly obvious that nounced by H. C. Avery, county Then talk with men whose fam “Books made in Boston are sent the controversy will develop into agent. ilies for generations have helped Representatives from the granges, one of white heat. And the labor , shape Boston’s destiny, and you be everywhere that English is used in board will have to decide which one the fruit growers, the livestock in gin to sense what significant events, schools,” said another publisher. should serve as the employees’ rep dustry and the county agents office affecting all America, are packed “More than that; in translation, they go to scores of foreign lands. Re resentative. In the meantime, the co-operated with Charles W. Smith in her 300 years of history. employer can have nothing to say. and E. R. Jackman of Corvallis in Boston cash and engineering skill cently orders came from Bagdad • • • completing the survey. built several of the great railway for thousands of our Craig’s ‘Path All of this may sound a bit fan systems of America. Chicago stock- ways in Science.’ Arabic transla TEACHERS' PAY SET tastic; it may sound as an attempt yards, to a large degree, were built tions of Breasted's ‘Ancient Times’ OLYMPIA. Wash.—School districts to borrow trouble. must in good faith endeavor to pay by men from Boston. She founded and a number of our other books rtx Hou"/ n is neither. The the great copper-mining industry in are used in the schools of Iraq. Not a minimum of $1200 yearly to all our West; she was the early home long ago we granted the govern and Wages situation is dis cussed for the teachers, even though this might in of many corporations, famous now ment of Iraq permission to translate reason that it is quite apparent some instance reduce the number of in the annals of finance, foreign Caldwell and Curtis’ ‘Introduction to there will be new attempts in con teachers employed, Attorney General trade, construction, and manufac Science’ into Arabic. “You know that the British Isles gress now to write legislation con- i Hamilton held. turing. The opinion was for State Superin It was Boston brains and money are a citadel of the classics. We trolling hours and wages Repre sentative Connery of Massachu tendent S. F. Atwood, who asked for that started the great telegraph and feel gratified, therefore, that our setts, speaking as chairman of the an interpretation of the new law pro telephone systems that now girdle series, ‘Latin for Today’ is now in house labor committee, declared viding teachers must be paid at least the globe. Miraculously, almost, wide use in Scotland and England. the other day that such legislation $100 monthly, unless the salaries ex she turned the jungles of Central These volumes are the authorized would be drafted and he entertained ceed 70 per cent of estimated reve America and the Caribbean isles books in New Zealand and at least into vast banana plantations, and one of the states of Australia, be no doubt that it would pass the nue of the district. built up the greatest fruit industry sides being much used in South Af house. Conditions in the senate are rica. different, but Mr. Connery's opin GOODING, Ida.—A total of 21,800 the world knows. “Latin America is today using From Boston went groups of ion must be accepted as worthwhile trees have been received from the in so far as the house is concerned. nursery at the University of Idaho thrifty, energetic men to share in carloads of Boston textbooks. They Thus, if congress undertakes such for Gooding county, of which 24,300 the conquest of the West. To Kansas, are Spanish readers, geographies, legislation it is confronted with the are for farmers and 500 are to be especially, many colonists were sent arithmetics, hygiene books, al necessity of doing something by planted on the local golf course by by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid gebras. geometries, and others. "In Ottawa I saw a wall map company to circumvent the rise of way of amendment of the Wagner the club. another slave state under the Kan with tiny flags that marked the act that will make union labor com sites of Indian schools; many were SPOKANE, Wash.—Every adult sas-Nebraska act. ply with federal regulation instead Lawrence. Kansas, is named for up within the Arctic Circle. All these of leaving the Wagner act one-sided Indian on the Spokane and Colville as it is. In other words, labor is reservation will receive $20 Im an old Boston family, and many a schools use our books. This summer entitled to its dues, to its fair share mediately to help with spring crop budding Midwest factory town drew we had to hurry one new book of profits, but it seems to me it is plantings. Authority for the payment its first artisans from that national through for publication early in Au also entitled to be as subservient to comes from the federal Indian bureau training school for skilled mechan gust so we “might get it to these schools before ice closed naviga law as those who pay the wages. in response to petitions for such aid ics which is New England. Descendants of these pioneers tion to the Far North.” • Western Newspaper Union. Thursday, April 29, 1937 Pleasing Types of Needlework to Do Add lacy crochet to dainty cross stitch, and what have you? A stunning decoration for your most prized scarfs, towels, pillow cases or whatever! However, either cross stitch or crochet may be used alone, if you wish, and both nel Pattern 5751 are easy as can be, even for “amateurs.” What could be more captivating than graceful sprays of full-blown roses, cross-stitched in color, with the border cro cheted! 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Strange Boys’ Names Boys have odd names on the Is land of Molokai, where Father Dam ien, the heroic Belgian priest, min istered to the lepers some 50 years ago. “Sit in the Cold,” "A-Fall- From-a-Horse” and “The Emetic” were some of their names. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB • -=-=-=--=-=-----======-======== • If they should make vs hate as they Our victory is lost. A war thats won by hate I think Is won at too great cost. TCAM
