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.
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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.
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Geese are never troubled with
lice, blackhead or roup.
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To carry the 3,000,000 eggs sent to
New England relief agencies re
quired 20 freight cars.
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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.
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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.
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Swarming is an evil in modern
beekeeping and must be controlled
or if possible prevented if profitable
honey crops are to be harvested.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.