THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
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J l t x
Washington
u ig e s T
N a tio n a l Topics In te rp re te d
By W ILLIAM BRUCKART A ÿ m f f c k
N A T IO N A L PRESS B lD G
Thursday, July 29, 1937
Way Back When
By JEA N N E
jK w h /i
about
Semi-Nude Fashions.
WALT DISNEY WAS A MAIL
CARRIER
WS
H AT are the secret am bitions
tic u la rly those whose occupations
ANTA MONICA, CALIF— are
m echanical o r lonesome enough
Clothes may not make the to allow th e ir m inds to d r ift often
man, but leaving them off cer into the re a lm s of fantasy?
them. Mr. Roosevelt then came for
ward with a second set of reasons, tainly makes him foolish. And
Walt Disney is an e xam ple
Born
namely, that the Supreme court as that goes double for the women. in Chicago in 1901, his first job was
W A S H IN G T O N
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Washington.—Many times in these
columns I have had occasion to
write in praise of
G reat Leader Senator joe Rob- at present constituted could not and
as a m a il c a rrie r there, at the age
Whence arises the present-day de of
Patiea On
inson of Arkansas would not hold some of his social lusion
sixteen
As a little boy he liked
that
going
about
dressed
at
the
Democratic legislation constitutional. That set of half-mast enchances
to draw , and he liked to d ra w ani
leader in the senate. His magnifi reasons was knocked into a cocked
m a ls ; but the fam ous cre a to r of
attractiveness of
Railroads Burrow Under New York City.
cent qualities, his capacity as
M ickey Mouse had to m ake a liv in g
hat when the Supreme court upheld the
statesman and the regard with the Washington state minimum the average adult?
d e live rin g m a il. He had no chance
which he was held by Republicans wage law, the Wagner labor rela Our forbears of the
to express his cre a tiv e genius un
and Democrats alike were such that tions act and the social security Victorian era wore
t il a fte r the W orld w a r, when he
too
much
for
health
further praise from this pen would taxes. Then came the resignation
obtained a job as a co m m e rcia l
be of little value. Suffice it to say of Justice Van Devanter. Justice or happiness o r
a rtis t in Kansas C ity In his garage,
cleanliness.
But
isn’t
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
est telephone numbers in New York
that in Joe Robinson’s death the na' Van Devanter was one of the men
he experim ented w ith anim ated
Washington, D. C.— W N U Service.
it
worse
to
offend
city. In addition to outside lines,
tion is the loser because “he fought whom Mr. Roosevelt had in mind
newsreels called “ Local Happen
ALTHOUGH
it
celebrated
its
the
eye
all
through
130 branch ticket offices in Manhat
the good fight.”
as unwilling and unlikely to see so
in g s." w hich he sold to Kansas C ity
A twenty-fifth anniversary in tan, Brooklyn and Newark are con
But Senator Robinson’s sudden cial legislation through the same the lingering sum
death a few days ago has precipi glasses as Mr. Roosevelt saw the mer by not wearing
1935, the Pennsylvania station nected with the central reservation
enough to cover up
by private wires.
tated a political condition of gravest situation in the country.
in New York still is the largest bureau
the blotches, t h e
In a spacious gallery from 15 to
importance. Although none of us
The Van Devanter resignation blemishes, the bulges Irvin S. Cobb
in
the
world.
20 clerks sit before a series of aper
who knew him nor those with whom gave the President an opportunity to
Walk around it and you have tures like old-time village post-office
he was associated in an official appoint a new member to the court. and the bloats that come with ma
capacity could have foreseen his It also gave the senate an opportu turity? Sun baths should be taken
tram ped half a mile, with no boxes, except that these cases are
sudden death, I think it is proper to nity to burst forth with expressions on a doctor’s prescription, not at the
more sight of train or track than mounted to move along a track
comer
of
First
and
Main.
clerk to clerk.
say that the passing of Joe Robin of its own ideas concerning the type
you would encounter about the from
Women old enough to know bet
son may have more far-reaching in of man who should succeed Justice
In the boxes are piled the reser
Vatican or the Louvre.
fluence upon his country’s history Van Devanter and the senators were ter are the worst offenders, seems
vation cards, the kind the Pullman
The station really is an eight-acre conductor always is fingering Just
than all of his long and distin not backward in promoting the name like. If only they’d stop to con
sider
that
the
snail,
which
is
naked,
platform, with a mammoth super before the train leaves; in each
guished career in public life. That of the Democratic leader, Senator
structure, bridging the Manhattan pigeonhole are marked-up cards for
is to say, fate possibly has turned Robinson. But Mr. Roosevelt thus would lose in any beauty contest
mouths of two tunnels. Some trains 60 days ahead.
in this instance to the role it some far has failed to fill the vacancy, against the butterfly, which wears
run through these tunnels for seven
times plays—the role of master and this failure has been interpret all the regalia the traffic will standi
Lights Govern Conversation.
But even though it’s for their own
miles, from New Jersey to Long
strategist.
ed by the opposition among the good,
Before
each clerk is a series of
you can’t tell ’em. If some
Island, under the Hudson and East ten red lights
The question may be asked: Why President’s own party as an unwill
and ten green lights.
rivers, pausing beneath the station The green lights
does the death of one man become ingness to select anyone but a radi body started the fad of going at
denote a ticket
the
game
while
practically
nude,
but
never
emerging
into
the
day
so important?
cal for the highest court. In any inside of two weeks mumblepeg
office call; the red lights an outside
light
or
night
glow
of
New
York
The answer is simple. Joe Robin event, those opposed to the court
call direct from a passenger.
city.
son was the field marshal for the bill contend that the President’s de would be the national pastime—un
A green light flashes.
Northbound trains pass the most
Roosevelt administration. Particu lay constitutes only another reason til somebody else thought up a game moving picture theaters He fol
“Lower ten, K7, 3 p. m. Chicago.
these with a series of fairy complex traffic corner in the world
larly, he was the field marshal in why he should accept “the inevi to be played by folks without a lowed
Today. Ticket 7,492. Right.”
tales
for
local
clubs
and
church
stitch
on.
Or
anyhow,
just
a
stitch
for
above
the
train
tunnel,
at
Her
the greatest legislative battle to table defeat” of the court revision
In very different tone and tempo
gatherings.
here and there.
ald square, in the order named, are
reach the floors of congress since program.
is
the next response to a red light,
•
•
•
This
modest
success
prompted
the Sixth avenue subway, the Hud
the days of slavery, and this coin
When it became apparent that the
him to try Hollywood, where he son-Manhattan tubes, the street-lev an individual who must have expla
Doctoring Movie Scripts.
cided with the daring adventure of original
bill for six new justices T T SUALLY they lay these yarns started in an unpretentious little el bus lines and the Sixth avenue nation of price, type of accommoda
an epochal administration.
could not be passed because the
on Mr. Sam Goldwyn, who building far from the big studios. elevated. Imagine an airplane over tion, daylight time in summer, and
President Roosevelt leaned upon Democratic-dominated senate judi
thrives
upon them and goes right There he created “Oswald, the head, and it would be perfectly a “thank you.”
Senator Robinson to put through the ciary committee reported the bill
No switchboard operator inter
Rabbit,” but after making 26 sub
senate a bill that would permit the with a scathing denunciation, the on turning out successes, his motto jects, he and his backer separated. feasible for six vehicles to pass that venes in the 10,000 or sometimes
being,
“What’s
grammar
as
be
intersection
at
one
time.
Chief Executive to appoint addition late Senator Robinson astutely of
many more calls that come in daily.
The backer owned the rights to
Half MilUon Tickets a Month.
al justices of his own choosing to fered a substitute bill in the nature tween friends so long as the box "Oswald, the Rabbit” which is still
An automatic selector, worked out
office
shows
results?”
But,
for
a
It
takes
a
staff
of
76
men
to
sell
membership in the Supreme court of a compromise. This substitute
with the New York Telephone com
being shown in the theaters, and
of the United States. He leaned bore the authorship of Senators Lo change, this one is ascribed to an Disney was left without his most tickets at Pennsylvania station. In pany engineers, routes these calls
upon the Arkansas senator for many gan of Kentucky and Hatch of New other producer, who proudly de promising character. Out of this a normal month they sold 553;204 from ten lines out of the selector
other things as well, but it seems Mexico. Even the substitute which scribes himself as a self-made man, adversity was b o r n “ Mickey tickets for $1,595,280.60. The months room to ten “positions” at the “card
to be the consensus of opinion that provided for one additional judge a which, according to his critics, is Mouse” and the “Silly Sympho- of Easter, Christmas and Labor day tables” in the reservation bureau.
raise that volume by a third or
Mr. Roosevelt’s administration may year until the Supreme court num relieving the Creator of a consider-
If one operator is busy, the “se
s _,
more.
well stand or fall by the success or bered eleven members has received abla responsibility and putting the 1 nl®
Today,
Walt
Disney
employs
a
Printed tickets ready for sale, lector” shunts the call to another,
failure of his program to reorganize the same bitter criticism that char blame where the blame belongs. staff of artists to draw his charac-
lighting the red or green signal to
the judiciary of the United States. acterized the first measure. Many They also say no self-made man ters but he is, himself, the voice of 150,000,000 of them, are stored in a denote its origin. In an average 24
should
stop
with
the
job
only
partly
room
where
they
are
guarded
like
It seems further that if the Presi members of the senate say they will
Mickey Mouse.
notes in the United States treasury. hours 63 clerks are employed in
dent fails to obtain congressional fight it as long as they would have finished. But then Hollywood is full
• • •
Some of these tinted, water shifts to make some 8,000 reser
approval for this plan which would fought the original because it will of parties trying to push Humpty
PICTURE MAGNATE WAS A
vations for berths, chairs, compart
marked
slips are worth a hundred ments
give the President domination over give the Chief Executive control of Dumpty off the wall.
PEDDLER
or drawing rooms.
dollars
and
more
when
stamped.
the court system of the country, he the Supreme court just as the ear
As the tale runs, this gentleman
What
They Leave on Trains.
Beside each seller’s grilled win
entered the conference chamber at IT ’S fun for the young man who
will have lost control of the legisla lier one would have done.
dow
is
a
rack
from
which
he
flicks
Perhaps
the high light of “human
his
studio
and
as,
with
a
kingly
tive branch of the government for
• was born to be president of his
• • •
the remainder of his term. Few
gesture, he laid down a fat sheaf rich father’s company: a month in out tickets with familiar nonrha interest” in the station is the lost
President Roosevelt vetoed a little of typewritten pages, said to the the shop, a month clerking, and lance. These racks are mounted and found storeroom. There are
Presidents have been able to carry
stored and ticketed some several
on successfully without the co-oper known and little discussed bill the assembled intellects of his staff:
then general manager. But consid on wheels and have folding fronts hundred
different items, enough
c,
d
> other day. It was
ation of the legislative branch.
“Jumpmen, in all my experience er the discouragement and heart and locks.
btar Koute known as “H. R.
Each seller has his own rack and stock for an East Side second-hand
in the picture business this is what aches of the boy too poor for an
It is too early, of course, to say
Bill Vetoed 4408, An Act to you might call unique. Here is ab adequate education, too poor for key. When he goes off duty, he store.
whether the death of Senator Robin
Provide for the solutely, posstiffly the only poifect nourishing food or decent clothing, rolls his rack back of the line,
The articles recently included a
son means defeat for the court pack
ing program. Nevertheless, most Renewal of Star-Route Contracts at script I have ever read in my ontire too poor to meet people with influ locks it, and deposits the key in basket of spectacles, skis, two
of the astute political observers in Four Year Intervals.” The title, of life. I tell you that before we start ence. That such boys, possessing the cashier’s safe. The tickets are cats, a bootblack’s outfit, books in
Washington—indeed, many of the course, will mean little to most of altering it.”
only courage, ambition and brains, charged out to him and he must six languages, a pair of crutches,
• • •
President’s own party in the senate those who read these lines. But,
can
still rise in America is this return the unsold quota and the three sets of false teeth, a restive
terrier, dozens of umbrellas, tennis
Strikes Versus Wars.
—believe that the passing of the this was a bill intended to do justice
country’s strongest defense against money for those he sold.
Selling Tickets Is Final Step.
racquets, more than twoscore wom
Democratic leader was a fatal blow to those underprivileged classes r \ ID you ever notice how like a fascism and communism.
The station cashier’s office is like en’s coats, piles of gloves, a fresh
war is a strike?
to the President’s power in con about which Mr. Roosevelt has often
William Fox was born 1879 in
The operator and his operatives Tulchva, Hungary, son of a small a bank. You may have noticed that sirloin steak (sad harbinger of do
gress. This results from the fact spoken in his fireside chats over
that Joe Robinson was able to mold the radio. The men who would have are the shock troops that suffer the shopkeeper who extracte.’ teeth as a when you pay for meals on a dining mestic recrimination) and $20,000
together many groups and cliques benefited by this piece of legis heaviest casualties. The owner risks side-line. The family moved to car you always receive crisp, new worth of bonds about to be returned
and hold them by the sheer power lation were the star route carriers of his profits and perhaps his market America when William was nine bills in change. The cashier must by special messenger.
In subterranean corridors, far
of his lovable personality in a co the mails—the service that dates and sometimes his plant. The work months old. and settled in an East have on hand these “fresh” bills
back to the stagecoach days of er gives up his wages, frequently Side tenement district of New York for stewards. Some $3,000 in below the station tracks, may be
hesive, workable unit.
The country never will know how America and the service from I his job, occasionally his life
city. His first job was at the age of “ones” are enough five days of the piled hundreds of pigeon crates. As
well and faithfully Joe Robinson which originated the Postal depart
Stockholders see dividends van- nine, when his father, who was out week, but on Saturdays, Sundays, many as 3,200 crates of homers
fought for the President and his ment's famous phrase, “the mai’s ishing and investments shrinking. of work, made stove blacking in and holidays he must have a stock have been shipped in a month, as
far as a thousand miles, to be re
policies. I have said in these col must go through.” The star route Citizens see their communities dis their small tenement and William of $7,000 or $8,000 in ones alone.
Selling tickets, however, is only leased by baggagemasters for races
umns heretofore and I repeat that is the only means by which a good rupted. Women and children go on peddled it from door to door in the
the final step in a series of events. back to home lofts.
I do not believe Senator Robinson many thousand persons are able to short rations, many a time go ac
“When does the next train leave
Other strange shipments come
favored all of the New Deal poli receive mails on anything like a tually hungry. For, as in a war,
for Topeka, Kan.?” “What connec through the station for baggage or
cies, in his heart. He was progres modern basis because this service the innocent non-combatants bear
tions do I make for Chicago?” express cars—baby alligators, pedi
sive but he had sound ideas; he reaches the out-of-the-way inland most grievous burdens.
“What is the fare?”
greed chicks, honeybees, game,
stood by the President and the New towns where railroads are not yet
Those who really garner in the
Only a small fraction of such thousands of crates of “mail order
Deal with courage and capacity, but and possibly never will be in opera spoils—professional agitators; finan
questions are asked in person at eggs” and bullion cargoes accom
on many occasions, I have reason tion.
cial buzzards eager to seize on
the conspicuous information booths. panied by 25 or 30 armed men.
I watched this legislation go bankrupted industries; lawyers with
to believe, he fought for those prin
Normally 20 clerks are on duty at
Saturday nights from 75 to 80
ciples because he believed he through the house without dissent their writs and their injunctions;
a time answering some 700 tele trucks race with their loads of Sun
should either fight as a member of ing vote; I saw Senator McKellar, imported thugs masquerading, for
phone calls an hour.
day papers to catch the baggage
his party or retire. Further, he Democrat, of Tennessee, attack the one side or the other as honest
The peak of this year’s inquiries cars attached to the “paper trains.”
knew that if he would retire he bill in vicious language and then I mechanics—these might be likened
exceeded 1,100 in one hour before One newspaper’s early Sunday edi
would not have the opportunity nor saw the senate pass it by a vote of to stay-at-home diplomats and profit
Labor day. Forty-four clerks work tion goes to press at 9:10 p. m. and
the influence to persuade the radi nearly two to one.
eers and hired mercenaries who
in shifts to dispense information. is loaded on a train leaving at 9:50.
cal wing of the New Dealers to pro
In addition, I know that the rep induce friendly nations to turn en
If you watch the smooth operation If the driver gets held up by a
pose reasonable policies. In other resentatives of these little known emies so they may gain their own
of the soundproof telephone room single traffic light the stationmaster
words, the late Democratic leader carriers (little known except to selfish ends.
not once will you see a clerk con must hold the train.
was attempting to be a leader in those whom they directly serve)
After it’s over, we realize that
sult a timetable. They are too cum
fact as well as in name and many had tried for a number of years to almost any strike might have been
Handling the Mail.
bersome and tell too little.
are the indications where he was obtain a basis of pay that will let averted had common sense and
Some
150 carloads of mail are
Foolish Questions Come Often.
able to pull the theorists and the them live. They finally were able common justice ruled, rather than
handled in and out of this station ev
Instead,
the
information
chief
radical New Dealers back from the to convince Postmaster General greed and entrenched stubbornness
ery day. If the sacks were piled
brink of political destruction.
Farley that unless they were paid and fomented hate. And the same is neighborhood. Later he sold candy works with card-index experts to and hauled along platforms passen
lozenges
at
the
Third
Street
dock
compile all information about sched gers would not have space to board
more money the number that would true of almost any war. For every
In view of the facts I have re go broke in carrying out their con real benefit to humanity came out and at Central park on Sundays. uled of all railroad, airplane, and trains. They are dropped through
ported and the observations I have tracts would be amazingly large. I of peace and arbitration, not out of At the age of fourteen, he was bus lines and all fares on visible trap doors beside mail cars where
forced by poverty to quit school. card files.
-
, o n made above, it be- have not the slightest doubt that this battle and destruction.
belts carry them to huge
He obtained a job in a clothing firm
Courf B i l l conies perfectly group ought to be paid more money
One file gives name of all im conveyer
And here's the final parallel: Ul and
separating tables.
rose
to
be
foreman
in
charge
portant golf clubs on Long Island
Doomed
plain that t h e
for the work they do because their timately, the supposed victor finds
There men assort the bags as
President is in a present basis of compensation is himself the actual loser. Tell me of lining cutting, at the magnificent and the nearest railroad station to they pour in and pitch them into
salary
oi
$8
per
week.
To
augment
each
club.
position where he can lose the pres shamefully low—so low that if they which army won any great strike—
chutes for other belts that run be
It takes poise, tact, resourceful neath the street to the city post
ent court battle with ease. In fact, were members of a labor union, or any great war—and I’ll tell you his earnings, he bought umbrellas
and
peddled
them
in
front
of
thea
there are many observers who be they would all go on strike.
who won the San Francisco fire and ters on rainy nights. With $1,600 ness, to answer some questions. As office adjoining, or to belts that
examples:
lieve the court legislation will have
connect with outgoing trains.
No change has been made in the the Galveston flood.
savings accumulated through many
“ Do I have a berth all to myself
to be abandoned and that congress basis of compensation or in the
IRVIN S. COBB.
Around special tracks, to which
privations,
he
started
a
cloth
ex
or
do
I
have
to
share
it?”
B —WNU Service.
will be quickly overwhelmed by that method of contracting for this serv
passengers
are not admitted, where
amining
and
shrinking
business,
"What hotels in Washington have mail cars await
annual desire of representatives and ice since it was organized in 1849,
loading, are spy
when he was twenty-one, and at swimming pools?”
Crater Lake in Oregon
senators to conclude their work and except in minor ways. Three quar
galleries from which postal inspec
the end of the second year invested
Crater
Lake
in
Oregon
has
the
adjourn.
“
My
husband
left
last
night
on
the
ters of a century or more is a long,
tors, unseen by the workers, may
Let us review the situation as re long time. The President's action most romantic geologic history of his profits in a nickelodeon or five- B. and O. Where is he going?”
watch the operation.
cent
motion
picture
house.
Twenty-
any
lake
in
the
United
States.
Its
“Have you any hay fever fares to
gards the court legislation. The in vetoing this legislation, therefore,
Nearly 150,000 sacks of mail a
President got off to a very bad is very difficult to understand. His rim was once the base of a volcanic five years later he headed the great New Hampshire?”
day, about 1,500 trunks and other
$200.000,000
corporation
which
bore
start when the original bill to add action is made the more inconsis mountain which collapsed and sank
These
'Phones
ARE
Busy.
checked baggage, 2,200 pieces of
six new justices to the Supreme tent, many persons believe, because into the earth. Later it cooled, his name, including a picture pro
“What time do I get a train to go hand baggage checked in parcel
ducing
company,
distributing
agen
springs
came
out
of
the
sides,
snow
court was presented. The original the additional cost to the govern
to Mr. Abram Walker's funeral at rooms and a thousand more pieces
reasons he gave for demanding the ment would be insufficient to main collected and it filled with water. It cies, and thousands of theaters Toms Ferry?”
- parcel lockers, from 20,000 to
throughout
the
United
States.
new power he sought were shat tain the smallest unit of the hun is 8 miles in diameter and con
“Should I dress and undress ir. 30,000 pieces of parcel post—these
Who knows for what high posi
tered within a few days after the dred New Deal agencies which the tains the bluest water known to ex
ist naturally today. There is no out tion that peddler who calls at your my berth or in the men's room?” are some of the operations that
draft of the bill reached the Capi President has created.
When you reserve a ticket by must not obtrude upon passenger
let
and no streams running into it door may be preparing. William
tol. He was forced to abandon
C Western Newspaper Union.
telephone
you call one of the busi comfort.
Fox
rose
from
the
same
start.
and yet the water is always fresh.
Travelers Rarely Realize Whirlwind
of Activity in Pennsylvania Station
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