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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON Washington D ig e s t á National Topics Interpreted By W ILLIA M BRUCKART N A TIO N A L PRESS BLOG, W A S H IN G T O N , 0 C « S R 1 Thursday, June 3, 1937 NEWS NOTES OF what THE NORTHWEST thinks .about: A Brief Summary of Event* of Special Interest to Oregon, Washington and Idaho Communities. Poor Lo’s Revival. S MCMINNVILLE, Ore.— Water and tight commission refunding bonds of $38,000 have been sold at 2 ft per cent, interest, bainglng a premium of 29 cents on each $100. WEISER, Ida.— Construction of a new factory in which apple baskets pea hampers and crates for small fruits and vegetables will be manu factured, Is projected at Weiser. FILER, Ida. — Charles W. Merkle, blind, has gone fishing with a free license— first issued in Idaho under a new statute that exempts the sight less from paying the regular $2 fee. MARSHFIELD, Ore.— First steps toward creation of a Coos - Curry County Chamber of Commerce have been taken at a regular bi-monthly meeting of the Coos County chamber. TWIN FALLS, Ida.— Among im mediate building projects at Twin Falls are a seven-story hotel to cost $300,000, and a three-story $125,000 addtion to an existing hotel struc ture. KENNEWICK, Wash. — H o m e- grown strawberries, the first of the season, appeared early last week in Kennewick markets. Berries in large quantities are being shipped out this week. RITZVILLE, Wash.— Efforts to make Palouse falls, 49 miles south of Fitzville, a state park have been re newed by the Washtucna Commercial club and the Ritzville Junior Cham ber of Commerce. CHELAN, Wash. — The federal power commission heard arguments June 3, on an application for ap proval of the sale of the Chelan Elec tric company to the Washington Water Power company. BOISE, Ida.— Adequate irrigation water for 1,000,000 acres in South western Idaho, is forecast by the Uni ted States weather bureau, with ‘‘the Boise project expected to be short, the supply estimated at about 65 per cent of normal.” ASTORIA, Ore.— Real estate In Clatsop county is reported as continu ing its active movement, with brok ers reporting Increased inquiries and with prospects for an active selling period rapidly developing. Sales of county-owned lands continued on a large scale. BOISE, Ida. — More than 200« Southern Idahoans have recevied tick fever treatment, it is announced by the state bacteriological laboratory. Sheepherders and vacationists in the hills are the main recipients of the the preventative for the malady known commonly as Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Washington.—I have frequently natural result was that our own mentioned in these columns t h e workers were thrown out of jobs problems t h a t and the refining industry was run Uusinet» have confronted ning at barely two-thirds of its Problem » and continue t o capacity. confront the com To show by figures what has hap merce and industry of the United pened: Imports of sugar, ready for States. However one may regard table use came from Cuba to the the ethics of the business interests amount of about one thousand tons of the nation, I think everyone must in 1925. In 1933, more than five admit that business has its prob hundred thousand tons of refined lems that are just as serious as the sugar was imported. It has grown Job of earning a living is to you or some since and for every ton im me. This has been especially true ported, naturally the refining plants during the period of the depression of this country have had their vol and it is equally true at this stage ume reduced. • • • of economic recovery. Business, moreover, is affected to The President wants legislation a greater extent than you or me by that is fair to all interests but it any governmental policy that is pur _ . ... seems that some sued or any legislation that is en F air to A ll of those interests acted by congress or by state In terest» are desirous of us legislative bodies. In consequence, ing cheap foreign it seems to be a fair statement to labor in preference to American say that business lives by the will labor and they are fighting the Pres and the whim of the elected rep ident’s bill. It is too early to fore resentatives whether those repre cast what is going to happen but sentatives be local, state or na there is every evidence that Ameri tional. can owned sugar companies in some Those observations should dem of these foreign areas are doing onstrate fully the importance of one their utmost to kill the legislation piece of legislation now pending in which would substantially reduce congress. I refer to the so called the importations of this refined permanent sugar bill. Seldom in sugar. history, I believe, has a single unit Now there is a question of foreign of industry found itself in a position policy that is involved and that part where it is so utterly dependent of the situation in congress con upon federal policy for its existence cerns the State department. The as is the case now with those eight home industry, of course, concerns een or twenty plants that refine the Department of Agriculture but about seventy-five per cent of all there is the Department of the In the sugar we use on our tables terior also to be considered because and otherwise in this nation. of the insular territories over which The situation, succinctly, is that it has supervision. On the surface, President Roosevelt has recom it is made to appear that the sec mended to congress that it adopt retaries of these three executive legislation of a permanent character departments are at loggerheads “ to protect the interest of each over what shall be done and as far group concerned,” and assure as I can see none of the three is meanwhile that the interest of the paying much attention to protection consumer shall have due considera of the refining people who have tion. Pursuant to the President’s been caught between the upper and proposal of March 1, last, the house nether millstones. My conversations committee on agriculture is work with members of the house com ing out a piece of legislation which mittee who have studied the prob seeks to reconcile the differences lem backward and forward con of all the various interests a n d vinces me that congress had better make thereby a permanent policy for once do its own reasoning and which this country may follow as pay less attention to the three cab regards sugar. inet members, each of whom is It must be remembered that the seeking to push forward the in United States imports something terests of his own department. like seventy-eight per cent of all The whole situation can be the sugar it consumes. The other summed up in one statement; if twenty-two per cent is produced congress wants to preserve the sug by our sugar beet and sugar cane ar refining industry in this country farmers—a consequential industry (an industry that is more than two worthy of protection from its gov hundred years old) it can do so by ernment but still quite unable to providing a low limitation on the satisfy demands for the commodity. amount of refined sugar that can Some of the sugar we import comes be imported and it can protect the from Puerto Rico; some comes from cane and beet growers of the United Hawaii; some from the Philippines, States by establishing a quota of but the bulk comes from Cuba. WOODBURN, Ore. — Wages for imports of both raw and refined Since Puerto Rico and Hawaii are sugar small enough to permit the picking both strawberries and logan insular territories of our nation, home market to absorb the com berries were fixed at 1 M cents per they must receive consideration as plete output of the American cane pound, with % -cent bonus when the an integral part of our nation. The and beet growers. Wodburn Berry Growers’ Co-opera Philippines are no longer a pos I reach that conclusion because I tive association held its semi-annual session and yet there is something am an American who believes in meeting last week. No prices for of a fatherly interest, or should be, a self-sufficiency of American in picking raspberries or gooseberries on our part. With reference to Cuba, dustry as far as it is possible to go. was set. the United States long has attempt I take the position further because ed to help the islands economically no other leading country in t h e YAKIMA, Wash.— In the only elec and politically in order to insure world fails to protect its home in tion contest of the Washington State the independence which our nation dustry in the handling of sugar. Parent-Teachers' Association, which helped them to establish. chooses some of its officers each con Nearly everyone has realized late So it is seen that we have in the ly that prices are climbing at an vention year, Mrs. W. H. Hall of En tiat defeated Mrs. Gail Clevenger of sugar problem questions involving . alarming rate. Dam In the race for third vice (1) a home indus Price» This has gone on Coulee president. Mrs. Clevenger was nomi T h ere’» try; (2) an indus C lim bin g over a period of nated from the floor of the conven try in an insular S ugar about two years possession; (3) an and there is nothing on the horizon tion and failed of election by but s nation newly born to indicate that the top has been few votes. industry in and which we are trying to lead reached or that prices are becom Into a position of complete inde ing stabilized. You and I feel it, SCHOOL FUNDS DIVIDED pendence and solvency, and (4) of course, directly in what we pay SOUTH BEND, Wash.— A total of the maintenance of our chief source for the things we buy—shoes or $11,271.81, Including $10,417.78 of sugar supply in a nation for clothing, food, furniture, and es atata funds and $854.03 county, was which our government yet feels sentials for the household. Included in the May apportionment to somewhat responsible. The situation is a bit disturbing Pacific county schools, it was an That summary indicates the com for several reasons. For one thing, nounced last week by County Super plexity of the general problem to if prices continue to skyrocket, soon intendent C. D. Davis. be dealt with in the current legisla er or later we are going to be con Raymond received the largest tion but the picture omits a most fronted with another condition like share, $2562.16; followed by South important unit in the industry. I re that of 1929 and no one can doubt Bend with $1651.60; Ilwaoe with fer again to those plants who must that if prices get too high, a tail refine the sugar and must make spin will follow. If there is another $1413.98. and Valley with 1394.46. it ready for home use or other tailspin like that of 1929, I am afraid NUDIST SITE EYED consumption. that this nation as such is likely to JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — T w o To make the picture complete, it go to pieces. ought to be recalled that for sev Numerous factors are at work to ¿sniping sites bordering the Apple- eral years we have had a tempo cause the price increases. New gate river west of here are reported rary law which fixed the amount Deal policies were formulated, first under consideration for a proposed of sugar that could be imported. It of all, with the idea of raising prices nudist camp this summer. was managed through what is called to bring us out of the depression. A group of men and women from a quota system; that is, the law President Roosevelt contended it Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass provided authority for the secretary had to be that way. visited the areas this week, the own of agriculture to prescribe how His program to force prices high ers said, and reported they were mak much sugar could come in from er has been eminently successful. ing plans to establish a camp in the eaeh of the regions that I have In fact, it has been too successful district for married couples. The described. This had the effect of and in that lies one of the grave visitors said a club had already been stabilizing sugar prices and guar dangers. Effective means of control formed and that plans are under way anteeing to the cane and beet grow are lacking and there is every pos- ; for renting a camp site. ers of the United States a depend sibility that the upward movement i able market. But it had another ef may reach the stage where it will ; MEDFORD, Orc.— Dr. C. I. Drnrn- fect which was shown by the opera fall of its own weight. nond, Jackson county health phyal- tion of the law, an effect not so Another cause of the price infla- ' ¿lan, reports the second rase of ty painfully evident when the law was tion has been the labor movement. enacted. This effect was to encour Throughout the nation, organized la phoid fever this year, believed to age the refining of sugar in the bor has been demanding higher have come through drinking from areas outside of the United States and higher wages. I think there in Irrigation ditch. A total of eigh» where the bulk of it was grown. In can be no doubt but that labor is rases was reported last year. consequence of that, our own sugar entitled to higher wages than ob SPOKANE, Wash — All available refiners began to suffer and they tained during the depresssion. But continued to suffer because refiners in many cases, according to gov •Ingle men in the Spokane Wl’A dis operating in Cuba or Hawaii, to ernment records, the demands of trict have been assigned to summer mention two examples, were able organized labor have been so great work In the Idaho forests and still to employ labor that cost about as to constitute a burden on indus there Is a demand for 100 more men, which wilt have to be supplied fror* one-fourth as much as the standard try which it cannot carry. »ther Washington WPA districts. of wages paid in this country. The • W estern N tw r p a p e t Union. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Despite the blessings of civilization which we have be stowed upon them, including diseases, whisky, soda pop, and $2 overalls, the American In dians are increasing. This should give our red brothers cause for worry. Suppose they got so numerous that we gave this coun try back to them? Already we are in debted to these orig inal inhabitants for q u in in e , cocaine, c o t t o n , chocolate, to b a c c o , c o rn , b e a n s , squashes pumpkins, grape fruit, huckleberries and hundreds of oth er remedial drugs Irvin Cobb or foodstuffs. More over, an eminent authority says the curative methods of the old medi cine man had values which in many respects excelled what the white man has produced and suggests our scientists might well adopt certain aspects of the aborigine’s plan. What if we did that very thing and then, by the way of exchange, invit ed the tribesmen to take over such trifling problems as an unbalanced budget, our European debts, sit- down strikes and the younger gen eration? • • • Cleaning up the Stage. EJAVING lost their licenses, four- teen burlesque houses in New York won’t ever get them back if the officials keep their word about it. With this example to go by, au thorities might next try the idea of cleaning up the legitimate stage there — the spawning - place and breeding ground of shows which filthy lines and filthier scenes are freely offered to pop-eyed audiences recruited from what we call our best families. Poisoning the moral atmosphere of the theater appears to be the favorite sport of a new school of dramatists who, when they were little boys, had their mouths washed out with soap for using dirty words, yet never got over the habit. Landing a Giant Tuna in Nova Scotia. whales do not disdain to feed upon the herring. S ONE stands on the sea Thus the shallow banks off New- shore at the full of the tide England, especially Georges and and looks out over the swell Browns Banks, at the entrance t® ing floods surging in from the the Gulf of Maine, as well as the distant horizon, his feet are on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, far threshold of an enormous empire, ther away, form a veritable nurs so vast in extent and population ery for the important food fishes of that the achievements of the our coasts, and thus connect man haughtiest rulers of mankind are kind by an interlacing food chain- dwarfed by comparison. with the microscopic plant life of Though fleets sail over its depth, these shallow waters. they make no significant impres The evolution of the animal world, sion upon this immense realm. as we know it, would have been The subjects of this empire impossible had these primitive- swarm through the waters in my plants not come into existence. riads totaling far greater numbers From such forms, also, all the high than all the life of the continental er land plants of the world origi world. In fact, scientific investiga nate. tions indicate that the oceans were The Intertidal Zone. the original abode of life on the As the open seas were peopled globe, and that the continents were from the oceanic shelf, so the fresh peopled from that inexhaustible res water streams and swamps received ervoir. parts of the overflow. Countless spe Geologists believe that the depres cies found food and a measure of sions now occupied by the oceans safety from enemies by creeping have been located in approximately into the area between the tides, their present positions during the where they acquired resistance to entire history of the earth, and that exposure to the open air at the in the foundations of the land masses tervals of low water. Here a rapid likewise have been situated nearly evolution took place, so that the as they are at the present time. intertidal zone became densely pop But during the great geological ulated with life. Finally, from fresh-water swamps periods, the ocean has repeatedly invaded their edges and even their on the one hand and from the upper interior basins, sometimes to an parts of the marine tidal zone on enormous extent, forming shallow the other, first plants and then ani mals invaded the land itself and epicontinental seas. Thus, all the continents of the produced the highly specialized world are bordered by a strip of types that now reign over it. North of Cape Cod, the coast of shallow sea, the continental shelf, which slopes gradually from the New England is predominantly high coast to depths varying from 100 to and rocky. Beginning with the head 1,000 fathoms at its outer edge. Be lands of Nahant, Marblehead, and yond this limit there is usually a Cape Ann, north of Boston, the cliffs more rapid gradient to the main are at first isolated to local regions, floor of the ocean—the continent with intervening stretches of sandy The Fate of Beauty Queens. beaches and flats. But from Port al slope. ÏUST as the weather gets warm so This world-wide shallow strip is land, in Casco Bay, northward, the J the contestants won’t catch any of major importance to the life of coast is an almost unbroken suc thing worse than sunburn, that out the seas. cession of granite cliffs, sloping break of annual monotony known as rock-ribbed promontories, and re North Atlantic Shelf. the beauty contest will stir the popu entrant bays and harbors, with oc This article deals especially with lace to heights of the utmost indif casional beaches. ference. There will be no dress re the mollusks and other small crea The tidal waters flowing from the hearsals beforehand. With beauty tures inhabiting the continental open sea are gradually confined by contests, it's the other way around, shelf which borders the Atlantic the narrowing outline of the Gulf of coast of North America from Nova And then when Miss Cherokee Scotia to New York, and includes Maine, which forces them to a pro Stripp or Miss Clear View has been the extensive New England fisher gressively increasing height, and reach a climax in the Bay of Fundy. hailed as America’s prize package ies. From Massachusetts Bay north to of loveliness, she will, if she runs A most remarkable stretch of true to form, put her clothes back shore this is. Its southern half is Portland, the tide rises nine feet. on and catch the next train for Cali of comparatively even contour, but, It continues to increase northward, fornia with the intention of starring beginning with the region of Cape until it becomes 18 feet at Eastport and 37 to 48 feet at the ends of the in the movies. Hatteras, the coast to the north two tapering horns which terminate On arrival, she will be pained to ward has subsided and is indented the Bay of Fundy, note that none of the studio heads with deep bays and irregularities, Here, too, there are interpolated is waiting at the station to sign her finally terminating in the long curv stretches beaches, flat points, and up; also that practically all the star ing and tapering indentation of the swampy of meadows, and these are ring jobs are being held by young Gulf of Maine. entirely covered at high tide. Na ladies who, in addition to good looks, The latter is the most noteworthy turally the width of the tidal zone have that desirable little thing feature of the coast, its wide mouth on the side of a vertical cliff is called personality. And next fall being guarded on either hand by measured exactly by the vertical she’ll be dealing ’em off the arm io Cape Cod and Cape Sable, and its rise and fall of the water. For ex a Hollywood hashery. inner reaches narrowing to a double ample, the cliffs that surround Bliss « • • apex in the Bay of Fundy. island, at the entrance of Passa- International Slickers. All this northern half of the At maquoddy bay, are exposed for 22 D UMORS persist that the United lantic seaboard is a succession of feet from the top of the barnacle States, Great Britain and drowned valleys, and its topography frieze that marks the high-tide limit France are preparing for eventual and geological history indicate that to the water level at low tide. agreements on monetary stabiliza it has subsided beneath the waves Crowded With Life. tion, tariff and trade adjustments, of the sea during relatively recent This region between the tides is price-fixing of essential commodi times. On ¿he other hand, the even teeming with life, both plant and ties—and, believe it or not, brethren outline of the coast from Hatteras anfmal, in crowded array. On the and sistren—a settlement of the de south to Florida shows no evidence vertical granite walls of Bliss island, faulted foreign debts owed to us. of such sinking. the various species are arranged in The oceanic shelf to the 100-fath- overlapping zones, with the conspic Maybe it’s significant—or, if you want to be broadminded and char om line widens rapidly to the north uous white band of rock barnacles. Below this, the rockweeds hang in itable about it, merely a coincidence ward, reaching its greatest extent —that every dispatch from Euro off the Gulf of Maine, where it is thick, gracefully festooned clusters down to the low-water mark. pean sources on this matter lists the approximately 400 miles wide. The central floor of the Gulf of Concealed beneath the rockweed, debts last. And, verily I say unto you, that’s exactly when and where Maine is an ancient river valley to and succeeding the base of the which the river systems, represent barnacle zone, the rocks a r e they will come—last. I seem to see the big three gath ed by those now existent, contribut covered with a dense layer of young ered at the council table for the ed their drainage, to be emptied in black mussels. Among them are closely crowded final session and La Belle France to the prehistoric sea by a single moving that, everything else having channel and mouth still traceable groups of the common dog whelk, been arranged to the satisfaction of on the sea floor at the edge of the feeding upon the mussels, and lay shelf. ing their graceful vase-shaped egg the majority present and the hour continental Throughout this extensive and cases, tinted rose and yellow, in being late, the detail of those debts comparatively shallow oceanic mosaiclike patches in the crevices. be put over to some future date. margin, well illuminated by the The latter mollusks secrete a pur John Bull seconds the motion. Mo sun’s rays, conditions are favorable ple dye, formerly used by the In tion carried by a vote of 2 to 1, Uncle an enormous development of the dians for coloring their deerskin Sam being feebly recorded in the for marine plants on which sea ani garments. They are related to the negative. mals feed: namely, the microscopic murex of the Phoenicians, from • • • diatoms, one-celled algae, and the which that people derived the fa A Sense of Humor. mous royal purple, later arrogated larger seaweeds. rXAMON RUNYON, who, being by the Roman emperors for their Nursery for Food Fishes. wise, should know better, re personal U3e. Here numerous streams empty opens the issue of whether many The dog whelk has a thick shell people have a sense of humor. This their loads of silt, rich in nitrates, with a characteristic spindle-shaped phosphates, and other chemicals provokes somebody to inquire what opening. It is extremely variable in needed for plant food. The strong color, size, and sculpture along the is humor, anyhow? I stand by this definition: Humor tides rushing into the narrowing New England shore. is tragedy standing on its head with channel from the open sea keep The common periwinkle creeps the water stirred with upwelling everywhere over the rockweed from its pants tom. currents plentifully supplied with Lots of folks think s .je of hu the low-water mark to the highest part of the barnacle zone and even mor is predicated on the ability to oxygen. Hordes of small crustaceans, the upon the bare rocks far above it. laugh at other folks, which is wrong. A real sense of humor is based on copepods, feed upon this plant life. This remarkable sea snail can stand our ability to laugh at ourselves. At certain seasons they swarm in exposure to the open air longer than You have to say, not as Puck did, these waters in numbers so vast eny other marine creature of the "What fools these mortals be,” but, that they give the sea a reddish northern coast. color for miles. It is in a transitional state of “What fools we mortals be.” These tiny creatures are ricn In evolution toward terrestrial life, That's why few women have a true sense of humor. Usually a woman, oils and are greedily devoured by for its gill seems to be on the point even a witty woman, takes herself large schools of mackerel, herring, of being replaced by a lung. It has alewives, and shad. Bluefish, cod, a very wide range, being found on so seriously, she can never regard hake, and haddock pursue and de both sides of the Atlantic. In Eng herself unseriously. vour the smaller fishes, and even land it is the common “ winkle” IRVIN 8. CORB. the huge finback and humpback sold in markets. R-WMUi Prep spared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.— W N U Service.
