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
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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.