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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. NEWS NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST A Brief Summary of Events of Special Interest to Oregon, Washington and Idaho Communities. 5 about: Curing Stuttering. FARM 1 TOPICS | POULTRYMEN SAVE HIN LEE, ARIZ.—Away up TIME BY SCHEDULE here in the Indian country comes a newspaper, saying MOSCOW, Ida.—Surplus labor In Time-Table Program Offered Northern Idaho, according to offic some expert at correcting hu man utterance has turned up by an Expert. ial report, is rapidly being absorbed with a cure for stuttering. by lumber and mining camps. YAKIMA, Wash. — Plans for or ganizing junior fire departments In Yakima county schools are under discussion by the county school fire prevention committee. OLYMPIA, Wash— Building per- mits in round numbers were valued for the state, in April, at >1,800,000, a climb of more than >800,000 over the same month a year ago. BOISE, Ida. — Idaho received $43,889,624 for all emergency pro grams during the two-year period ending March 31, according to W. T. Lockwood, Idaho director of the emergency council. MORO, Ore. — The Presbyterian church at Moro will on July 10 cele brate Its 60th anniversary. Many of the records of the meeting at which the church was organized have been preserved. ALMIRA, Wash,—The municipal water system is now in action, fol lowing three years of effort. The town pump will furnish 60 gallons a minute. A tank and standpipe hold a 60,000-gallon reserve. BOISE, Ida.—Spring field work, of approximately 60 men began re cently on several projects of the general land survey In Idaho. Sur veys for the Taylor grazing admini stration will be the principal work. HERMISTON, Ore. — Carpenters here are busier than they have been for several years. Some new con struction is in progress, but remod eling and repair work Is almost city wide. At least half a dozen stores and other business locations are be ing given new fronts. MOSCOW, Ida.—A survey conduc ted in the Inland Empire shows that farmers are holding about 700 cars of peas. Last year the surplus com modity corporation purchased more than 250 cars of peas in this sec tion, helping to reduce the surplus. This year's holdings are above nor- mal. GRANTS PASS, Ore.—An Inven tion that may become an important contribution to the safety of motor ing has been perfected by T. W. Gruetter. It is an attachment de signed for automobile exhaust pipes to burn carbon Into oxide gas be fore it escapes Into the air to threat en lives and health of drivers, pas sengers and mechanics. KELSO, Wash.—Motion pictures to be shown in Kelso must be ap proved by the “League of Decency," the city council decided when it heard requests from a committee for creation of a board of censorship. The council and Mayor Chinn are not In favor of a censorship board, but instructed City Attorney William Stuart to draw an ordinance cover ing the regulation of films. PASCO, Wash.—Presidential ap proval of >9,806,000—about >20 per capita—during the last year for li quor and beer. During the year end ed May 1, James Stewart, director of the state beer and malt tax bureau, reported today that 4,768,640 gal lons of beer had been consumed. Dale Clements, auditor of the state liquor control commission, reported that during the year ended April 1, hard liquor and wine sales totaled >3.845,996. DAM HARD ON STEEL COULEE DAM. Wash.—So exten sive is the jackhammer work at Grand Coulee dam site, now at Its peak, that about 2000 feet of steel from the ends of the bits Is eaten away In the process of drilling and sharpening every day, the bureau of reclamation reported today. More than 14,000 pieces of drill- steel are being sharpened each day in the five blast furnaces In the sharpening shed. BAN TIPSY TRIBESMEN THE DALLES Ore.—Tipsy tribes men, who come to Colilo falls to fish, will have to go back to the reservation before they fall into the Columbia and drown. Warm Springs, Umatilla and Yakima Indian offic ials ruled last week. The confed erated tribees who annualyy dip out Chinook salmon, passed this protec tive resolution. Night fishing will bo banned and the fishermen must be roped to the shore. ASTORIA, Ore_Since 1862, first year of complete weather records at Astoria, last month's total rainfall of 10.68 Inches has been exceeded only twice tn April—in 1893, with 13.39 inches, and In 1917, with 10.78. THE DALLES, Ore.—The federal power commission has joined the forest service in unfavorable action against the application of The Dalles to use Lost Lake, in Hood Rive, county tor Increasing the city’s mu- nicipal water supply. But why? By his own admission, nearly all stutterers can sing and most of them can swear fluently, thus providing superior emotional outlets in two directions. One of the smartest criminal lawyers I know deliberately cultivated a natural impediment in his speech. In court room debates it gave him more time to think up either Irvin S. Cobb the right questions or to figure out the right answers. And one of the most charming voices I ever heard belonged to a Louisiana girl whose soft southern accents were fascinatingly inter rupted at intervals by a sudden stammer—like unexpected ripples in a gently flowing brook. * * • How to Relax. R EFORE I started out here, feel- — ing somewhat jumpy after wrestling a radio program for six months, Jimmy Swinnerton, the art ist, who’s one of the most devoted friends these high mesas ever had, advised me to try stretching out on the desert sands as a measure for health and complete relaxation and a general toning up. “Just lie down perfectly flat,” he said. Then he took another look at my figure. "Anyway, lie down,” he said. So today I tried it. Another friend, John Kirk, the famous Indian trad er, helped me pick out a suitable spot on the Navajo reservation that was forty miles from the nearest habitation. But the site I chose was already pre-empted by a scorpion with a fretful stinger and an irritable dis position that seemed to resent be ing crowded. So I got right up again. In fact, I got up so swiftly that Kirk said it was impossible to follow the movement with the hu man eye. It was like magic, he said. Speed Crazed Drivers. HY the hurry, Sonny Boy? I see you almost daily. You're roaring through populous streets or skidding on hairpin turns or whirl ing at sixty perilous miles an hour around the kinked and snaky twists of mountain roads like some de moniac bug racing along the spine of a coiled rattler. If I am one to say, you probably have primed yourself for this sense less speeding on that most danger ous of all mixed tipples—the fear some combination of alcohol and gasoline. Or perhaps, like the blind mule of the folklore tale, you just naturally don’t care a dern. One thing is plain: Despite the high per centage of mortality your breed is on the increase. So, again, echoing the question which the coroner must frequently ask at the inquest, why the hurry, Sonny Boy? It can’t be that anybody wants you back at the place where you’ve been or that anybody else will be glad to see you at the place where you're going. Really now, Sonny Boy, what is all the hurry about? By J. C. Taylor, Associate Extension Poul- tryman, New Jersey College of Agri- culture.—WNU Service. By organizing the day’s work and following a time schedule, labor ef ficiency on the poultry farm, one of the essential factors in its success ful operation, can be greatly in creased. A poultryman will find he can ac complish more work during the day by following a schedule and such a plan is especially valuable during the spring months when incubation and brooding, in addition to caring for the laying flock, keep most poul trymen busy from early morning until night. A daily schedule or “time-table” for doing routine work is also one step toward reducing labor costs. The following guide is offered to or ganizing a work schedule to suit the needs of individual poultry farms: 6:00—8:00 a. m.—Feed and water all stock. 8:00-11:00 a. m.—Clean houses, cultivate yards and pack eggs. 11:00-12:00 m.—Feed green feed and collect eggs. 12:00-1:00 p. m.—Lunch hour. 1:00-2:00 p. m.—Water all stock. 2:00-4:00 p. m.—Same work as from 8:00 to 11:00 a. m. 4:00-6:00 p. m.—Feed and collect eggs. Poultrymen who have not used a work schedule will find it rather dif ficult to adopt at first, but those who do follow the plan will be well re paid in time saved. Another step in labor efficiency on the poultry farm is the use of labor- saving equipment. Automatic water fountains in the laying houses and water piped to the range are labor- saving and should be found on all farms. A properly constructed catching crate can reduce the labor of culling or catching broilers and pullets at least one-half. Feed and litter carriers in long houses are another means of lowering the labor requirements on the poultry farm. Expert Computes Value of Farm Women’s Labor A farm woman’s labor over a pe riod of thirty years is worth more than $50,000, Miss Julia Newton of the Farm Credit administration told farm women at a convention held recently in Indianapolis. In thirty years she would prepare 235,425 meals, for which labor at 15 cents a meal would reach the stag gering total of more than $35,000. Some of the other services the farm woman renders over a thirty-five year period, and their labor worth are: Garments, 3,190, at 50 cents each, $1,595; 35,400 loaves of bread at 5 cents each, $1,770 ; 5,930 cakes, at 10 cents each, $593; 7,960 pies, at 5 cents each, $398; preparing 1,256 bushels of vegetables, at 50 cents a bushel, $762; canning 3,625 jars of fruit, at 25 cents a jar, $906; wash ing 177,525 pieces of laundry, at 3 cents each, $5,331, and 35,640 hours of sweeping, dusting, and cleaning at 10 cents an hour, $3,564. In the Feedlot Nine good-sized eggs are equal to a pound. • • • Geese are never troubled with lice, blackhead or roup. * • * To carry the 3,000,000 eggs sent to New England relief agencies re quired 20 freight cars. « • • An unhealthy, poorly developed hen or pullet is seldom profitable herself, and she may serve as a carrier of disease to the rest of the laying flock. • • • Pullets of light breeds normally reach maturity and begin laying at four-and-one-half to five-months. Heavy breeds require six to six- and-one-half months. • • • Swarming is an evil in modern beekeeping and must be controlled or if possible prevented if profitable honey crops are to be harvested. • • • It requires, on the average, 45.1 lbs. of ice to cool a 10-gallon can of milk from 90 degrees to 38.5 degrees Fahrenheit. • • • Oat yields may be increased as much as one-half of the entire crop if the seed is treated properly for smut, advises C. R. Cross, Okla homa A. and M. College agronomist. • • • In most areas it is as dangerous to apply lime without making a soil test as it is to take for granted that no lime is needed. • • • Western farmers report a large acreage of winter wheat but say that a great deal of this will be used only for pasture. Civilization’s Predicament. FEEL it my duty to call atten tion to the following warning, re cently published: “The earth is degenerating in these latter days. . . bribery and corruption abound. . . the children no longer obey their parents. . . it is evident that the end of the world is approaching!” However, it should be added that this prediction is not, as might be assumed from its familiar ring, the utterance of some inspired ob server of the present moment. It is a translation from an Assyrian tablet, dated 2800 B. C. So, if the fulfillment of the doleful prophecy has been delayed for 4,- 737 years it seems reasonable to assume that it may be some months yet before civilization flies all to pieces. • • • Waning States' Rights. S I watch commonwealth after commonwealth below the Ma son and Dixon line tumbling over one another to embrace centralized authority in exchange for federal funds for local projects. I’m re minded of a trip which a friend of mine out here just made. He's a descendant of the Lees and he decided to pay a pious pilgrim age to the last remaining strong hold of the late Southern Confed eracy. So he went to the only two states that voted last fall for states’ rights, making his headquarters in the ghost city of Passamaquoddy. He reports that, in both Maine and Vermont, the secession senti ment is getting stronger all the time Sheep were the only farm animals and that there's a growing tendency to name boys for Jeff Davis rather present in larger numbers on farms of the United States on January 1, than Ethan Allen or Neal B Dow. 1937, than were present a year pre IRVIN S. COBB. viously. ©-WNU Service. A • • • Thursday, May 20, 1937 DAMS IN SIERRAS TO WIPE OUT TOWN Project Will Reverse River and Check Floods. Redding, Cal.—High in the Sierra watershed, this thriving community National Topics Interpreted awaits actual construction on the Central Valleys project, California’s By WILLIAM BRUCKART $170,000,000 solution to its greatest NATIONAL PRESS BLDG. WASHINGTON, 0 C - problem—winter floods and summer water shortage. Completion of preliminary surveys Washington.—President Roosevelt, There have been a good many and selection of near-by Kennett as the focal dam site have been an from the time he was Assistant Sec- millions of citizens of the United retary of the Navy . , States come onto nounced. Building in the Wilson ad- Look at this earth since Magnitude of the project almost the Navy ministration, has the Facte the armistice of staggers the imagination. Greater always been re 1918. Among these than the famed Boulder Canyon dam development, the Central Valleys garded as a friend of the military are undoubtedly many who will project includes plans for a 500- forces of the United States. He has learn of the present neutrality law mile waterway from the upper Sac never been a fanatic about his posi with a feeling of safety; who will ramento river, down through the tion but has held consistently to the think that nothing now can happen Sacramento and San Joaquin val view that the military services must and their mothers, wives and sweet leys to the great citrus fruit regions be protected against continuing po hearts will feel they need not worry litical attack which would destroy about the time when these younger of southern California. usefulness. Likewise, Mr. generations of men will have to The valleys lie midway between their has constantly argued for march away, with drums beating the Sierra range and the Pacific a Roosevelt policy of building up the army, and flags flying, never to return. coast, and San Francisco and Los navy and marine corps. For their peace of mind, the pres Angeles lean heavily upon their Since he has been in the White ent neutrality law certainly is help productivity. House, Mr. Roosevelt has taken ful. My suggestion is, however, that Project to Pay Out. care always to see that sound poli they look the facts in the face. When A self-liquidating undertaking, the cies of development were invoked one of these overt acts is commit project will repay federal loans by as regards the military services and ted, in we will go regardless of the sale of water and power. his interest in the navy in this di neutrality law. I might advert to some of the The 420-foot dam at Kennett at rection has been marked. In con the headwaters of the Sacramento sequence, the President has brought things that happened between 1914 river will impound 3,000,000 acre about a program of building in the and April 6, 1917. President Wil feet of water, half as much as the navy that, examined from any an son, a sincere advocate of peace, combined total of California’s 750 gle, must be considered as having did the best he could to prevent our other dams, assuring a year-round established a splendid first line of participation in the World war. It controlled river flow. The dam will defense for our country. Whether was a matter that actually brought give to 800,000 acres of settled lands one favors a big navy or a small about his re-election in 1916 because flood protection valued at $14,000,- navy, I think it must be admitted his campaign leaders used the slo 000 and assure year-round river nav that the navy is the first line of de gan, “He kept us out of war.” igation valued at $15,000,000. fense and so the President, being Events came through with such Spectacular engineering feats fully acquainted with developments startling speed, however, that a throughout the world, has seen to it month after he was inaugurated for will be necessary. The main line of the Southern that our navy shall be in a strong his second term, he was standing on Pacific must be rerouted and U. S. position as our first line of defense. the rostrum before a joint session highway 99 will be radically re It may be, as some critics of the of congress asking for immediate vamped. President contend, that the hun passage of a resolution placing our Kennett itself will be at the bot dreds of millions expended under country in the war on the side of tom of a huge lake, with the water’s Mr. Roosevelt’s policies constituted the Allies and against Germany and surface far above the present roof- too much of a fund in this direction ; the Central Powers. Two days later tops. that we have no need for a navy as we were formally in the fight and A double-deck bridge, with the large as that now contemplated, and then, once we were made a bellig world's tallest piers, will carry au that the creation of a large navy in erent by the decision of our govern tomobile and railroad traffic far dicated a policy of aggression by ment, it became “a war to make above the Pitt river. the United States. My own feeling the world safe for democracy.” I think I need not review all of is that these objections are not well River Boats to Ply. River boats, a joy to the hearts founded. The turbulent situation in the various slogans that were em of sentimentalists and a source of international relations, both in Eu ployed in the national propaganda profit to business men, again will rope and in Asia, seems to warrant to solidify our nation behind its mil reach Red Bluff, sixty miles south a definite move on the part of the itary forces. There were many of of here, from Sacramento and San United States to be equipped. In them. The nation was ninety-five other words, who is there that would per cent behind the government in Francisco. Inland encroachment of salt wa wish our nation again to be caught a war to end all wars. Hundreds ter from the San Francisco bay area without any worthwhile fighting upon hundreds of millions of dollars will be halted. Aridity in the San units ready for action as we were were borrowed from our citizens in 1917? Further, although we are who bought, first, liberty bonds and Joaquin valley will be checked. At the top of the San Joaquin a peaceful nation, we must avoid a later, victory bonds. For the first watershed, the 4,000-foot Friant dam repetition of the 1917 conditions be time in later history of our nation will become the longest concrete cause we can not afford the waste we had a tremendous national debt, dam in the world, making the San of money that characterized the more than ten billions of which were Joaquin river run backward and building up of our armed forces at loaned to those nations with which we were associated in the war. The carrying much needed irrigation wa that time. • • • remainder of these funds was spent ter over step dams under pressure. One reason for the comments that like money in the hands of a drunk From a national viewpoint inter en sailor, ashore for the first time est centers on the project because I have just made on the navy and in the year. Nor is there criticism President Roose- its completion will mean assurance to be made of that spending be Neutrality velt’s policies is of water normalcy in an area from Law the fact that we cause we were not prepared for which are drawn the country’s have a new neu war. choicest specialty crops of raisins, So, while I do not now foresee our figs, olives, prunes, citrus fruits, trality law. It was passed just a participation in any conflict within day ahead of the expiration of the vegetables and cotton. temporary neutrality law that was the next few years, I am quite con The big job will require: that Mr. Roosevelt has pur More than 7,000,000 cubic yards of operative during the past year or vinced sued an absolutely sound program concrete; 28,809,000 pounds of rein so. This new law probably is as good in advocating a strong navy and a forcing steel; 114,543,000 pounds of structural steel; 6,496,000 barrels of as any neutrality law that can be strong army. It will serve us well cement; 38,311,000 cubic yards of written. It represents the work of and will cost us very much less excavation and 186,224,000 man- men in congress who are very se than if this building up process had rious in their desires to create ma to be accomplished overnight as it hours of labor. chinery that will keep us out of war, was in 1917. It may be surprising or at least will slow down our en to a good many people to know that Fort on Wheels Is Pride our army at present ranks as num try into international conflict. of Milwaukee Policemen It lays down prohibitions against ber 17 in the list of armies of na Milwaukee.—Pride and joy of Mil the sale of hundreds of items by tions even though our country is one the largest and one of the richest waukee policemen is their glisten American citizens or American cor of ing new armored patrol car, the porations to any nation which the in the family of nations. My belief is that if our navy is largest of its type in the United President may hold to be a “bel made to rank with the greatest and States. ligerent” nation, which is the way They scrub, polish and dus. it diplomats describe a nation at war. plans are worked out as Mr. Roose velt is trying to work them out so almost daily. Their only complaint The law has a further important is that they never get a chance to and interesting provision. It re that our army will be possible of use it. The modernistic paddy-wag quires that if any belligerent wants expansion, taxpayers’ money will be on was purchased for emergencies to buy products in this country, much better spent than through but there hasn’t been an emergency commodities that are not prohibited boondoggling or wasted through useless development of theoretical big enough to fit the machine. by the neutrality law, it must come schemes. It is 22 feet, 7 inches long, 9 feet, to our shores and get them and • • • 8 inches high, and weighs 8,000 must pay for them before the boat As the battle over President pounds. It is so big that police had leaves. Thus, it has come about to tear out the door to get it into the that the new law is called the "cash Roosevelt’s proposal to pack the Su- . preme court of the garage. and carry” neutrality act. Supreme United States with Streamlined and equipped with That title sounds very satisfying. Court six new judges nearly every modern convenience, grows in heat, it the car has seats for 14 policemen, It sounds as though we will never make loans again as we did during becomes increasingly evident that with accommodations for at least the World war—loans never to be members of congress are looking to nine straphangers. The body is bullet-proof and so repaid except in some minor in the political aspects of the situation •re the windows. The wheels are stances—and that none of our ships to a greater extent than obtained in protected by shields which make it will become the targets of foreign the early stages of the fight. This virtually impossible to damage the gunboats because we are transport circumstance certainly is working tires with a bullet. It cannot be ing munitions of war to any bellig to the advantage of those who op overturned because its outer sur erent. Surely, this phase of the law pose the President’s scheme and it face is curbed, leaving no place will in a measure retard our en is interesting to look at the picture for a handhold. The position of the trance into any war and it will at from that angle. My observation of congressional motors makes possible mechanical the same time reduce the excite repairs without leaving the machine. ment in this country incident to activities in the past leads me to be The car is equipped with tear the manufacture and sale of muni lieve that every President must ex gas and submachine guns which tions of war because of the profits pect in his second term a certain may be fired through slots beneath accruing under such circumstances. amount of defection, a certain But, it strikes me that, after all, amount of running away, among the the windows. this neutrality law is likely to be a supporters who stood by him un rather futile gesture. Having ob flinchingly during his first term. Of Postal Guide Locates served governmental action over an course, most of his stalwarts will an Elusive Post Office extended period of years, I refuse stick by him through thick and thin myself. I will not say that but it always has happened that * Peck, Kan.—The postal guide to kid new neutrality act will keep us rather deep fringe of his party will from Washington finally has caught the out of war because, very definite begin to balk or duck when they up with its office here. reach the second lap and know that The directory had listed the post- ly, it will not. Let us see why. There are a the head of their party will not office as located in Sedgwic' coun thousand and one acts that a for seek election to a third term. The ty, although since 1933 it has been eign nation can do to insult our na reason must be quite obvious. All in Sumner county. The difficulty arises from the fact tional honor or damage our citizens members of the house and one-third that the main street of Peck divides and their commerce. These are of the senate membership have to the two counties. Location of the called “overt” acts. When an overt seek votes in their home districts office has been changed frequently act is committed, it is so easy to for every two years. With a President from one side of the street to the get about the high principles stated in his second term, the interest of other, although it always has re in the present neutrality law. It can these candidates for office must mained within a 300-foot radius of | be repealed and a declaration of turn to what their voters think rath war substituted for it almost within er than what the President thinks. the center of the town. • Western Newspaper Union. twenty-four hours.
