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Thursday, August 12, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON Washington D ig ig e est u s T j j h l National Topics Interpreted By W ILLIAM BRUCKART NATIONAL PRESS BlOG W ASHINGTON D C iin JoH PULLETS FED WELL WILL LAY IN FALL a b o u t This Business of Golf. niììiriiii Washington.—The government’s a silver certificate occupies exactly ■liver policy again is attracting at the same place in our currency tention. Several structure as does a bill that is backed by gold or one that is is S tiv e r th in g s h a v e Question caused it. First sued by the Federal Reserve banks. a m o n g t h e s e Therefore, it seems to me to be a things is the matter of rising prices fair statement to say that the whole tor foods and other necessaries of currency structure is tainted by this life, but attention seems to have deluge of silver certificates now and centered on the silver question heretofore coming from the Treas again as a result of the Treasury’s ury. And it is equally a fact newly arranged agreement to trade that prices of every kind are going some of its gold for some of the to increase exactly in accordance or in ratio with the new money that Chinese silver. Probably the silver question is not is put out from the Treasury. I do not know how long it will be as widely discussed as it might be because it is a complex subject and until the voters wake up to the ne there are not too many people who cessity for repeal of the silver act. It probably will not be long before understand it and its implications. I cannot refrain at this time, how there is a wave of public indigna ever, from recalling that when the tion against the policy if the aver silver act of 1934 was passed, I age person realizes that the pro wrote in these columns a prediction gram is actually a tax upon the that the country sooner or later American public. Surely, if the sil would regret that legislation. I re ver policy were labeled, “ tax to sup peat the statement now and I do port the silver program,” the atti not believe it will be long until the tude of the country would change average citizen will recognize what overnight. That really should be the silver policy is doing to most the name of the Silver Act of 1934 of us. I mean by that, it will not because that is its effect. The tax be long until Mr. John Q. Public results from the fact that the Treas will understand that the silver poli ury is paying foreign producers as cy has a lot to do with the high well as American producers prices prices he is paying for his pound of for silver that are higher than the bacon, his slice of beefsteak or a value of the silver warrants. This thousand and one items that he buys means that any article of silver that at the grocery store. He will feel you buy in a store costs you more it, too, when he seeks to buy a new than it would if silver producers suit of clothes or a new pair of abroad and in the United States shoes. There can be no argument were not being subsidized. The ad about it: The affect of inflation ditional cost is a tax on every buyer brought about by a perfectly ridicu just as much as though you had paid the tax directly into the Treas lous silver policy is upon us. Early in July, the Chinese minis ury. It may be interesting to know that ter of finance visited Washington and called personally at the Treas the Treasury has issued nearly ury to express the appreciation of eight-hundred million in silver cer the Chinese government for the sat tificates. In addition something like isfactory conclusion of negotiations seven million silver dollars have that enable the Chinese to give the been coined, and these still re American Treasury silver for gold. main in the package in which they It was the usual diplomatic courte were wrapped at the mints. Be sy. At the same time, however, sides all these, there is silver bul the visit of the Chinese minister lion that cost $375,000,000 piled up served to awaken America to the in the Treasury. Silver certificates fact that the Treasury has been go can be issued against this. The silver act of 1934 provided ing along, buying silver from for eign countries in order to maintain that the Treasury could buy one an arbitrary price which the Wash dollar’s worth of silver to three dol ington administration contended lars’ worth of gold for what is called should be the world price for silver. reserve purposes. On the basis of This price is forty-five cents an the gold now held, the Treasury ounce, and it is a most profitable can buy under that law a total of price for silver producers in Mexico $4,125,000,000 in silver. At the pres and Canada and some other foreign ent time Treasury records show we countries. It is not as profitable, have silver reserves amounting to however, as the price the Treasury around $2,600,000,000. These figures pays to American producers—which show, or ought to show, how much is seventy-seven and one-half cents inflation lies ahead—how much higher prices may go—unless some an ounce. But, one may ask, what has this thing is done to restore a sound thing to do with the cost of beef currency policy in the United States. steak, ham and eggs or shoes? • • • I hope I may be able to explain Some Democrats who are not too it as I have watched the picture un fold and to explain it in a manner friendly with Postmaster General Jim Farley, along that those unacquainted with high Just G ood, with the Republi- finance may see the thing in its true Clean Fun cans in congress, light. are having fun • • • First of all, the policy of the ad these days with the Democratic Na ministration that has brought bil- tional committee. They are also lions of gold into succeeding, it appears, in making H ow It the Treasury to be President Roosevelt’s political seat W orks stored as so much uncomfortably warm. Nothing will dead weight has come of it except that the subject resulted in many thousands of will fill many newspaper columns of shares of stock in American cor attack and defense as the politicians porations or their bonds being shoot back and forth. To review the situation, it should bought by foreigners who gave gold in payment. President Roosevelt be recalled that the Democratic Na early in his administration insisted tional committee found itself in debt that gold should not be in circula to the tune of about $650,000 at the tion as money. Consequently, the end of the 1936 campaign. Some Treasury has so much gold that it bright mind in the Democratic Na has had to build separate store tional committee conceived the idea houses to protect it. Now, we are of selling Democratic campaign sending some of that gold to China handbooks to corporations at $250 in trade for China’s silver. I think per book, or more, as a means of most everyone will agree that the raising money. To make the book attractive, a silver is just as useless because we have no need for it in our currency single sheet bearing the autograph structure. People do not want to of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was carry silver dollars around in their inserted. Hundreds of corporations were solicited, and hundreds bought pockets. Assuming that the exchange was the books—theoretically, because of simply an even trade of two ob the autograph of the President. Mr. jects, neither of which was usable to Roosevelt stated he did not know us, one probably could dismiss the he was autographing the blank matter with a wave of the hand. sheets for the purpose for which Regrettably, such is not the case. they were used. Republican Leader Snell, of New The additional silver frankly is add ing to our troubles because of the York, introduced a resolution in the Silver Act of 1934 which permits the house of representatives, propos Treasury to issue currency—silver ing an Investigation of the sale of these books to corporations. He con one-dollar bills—against it. So, instead of being sterilized and tended that it was a violation of the ■tored away in vaults, the silver ac corrupt practices act. Mr. Snell remained determined, cession results in a prompt increase in the amount of currency in circu however, and sought to harrass the lation. That action tends to increase New Deal further by asking Attor the excess reserve—unused money ney General Cummings for an offi —of the banking system. As this cial opinion. At the same time, he money becomes available for cir read on the floor of the house a long culation, its value necessarily and list of corporations who had bought obviously is cheapened. Or, to say the "souvenirs” of the 1936 cam it another way, the things you buy paign, together with a list of prices with money become of greater value they had paid. These facts cut deeply into the because it takes more of these pieces of currency to buy the same Democrats who are seeking to pro quantity of food or clothes or shoes. tect Chairman Farley and the Dem • • • ocratic National committee wiggled Authorities will disagree with the and squirmed. Nevertheless, Mr. above statement to the extent that Snell may as well have butted his w ii “U *tinds °* cur- head against a stone wall since he Some W ill rency have not got no further than Representa D isagree b e e n expanded tive Rayburn, the house Democratic (which m e a n s leader, would have gotten, if Mr inflated) by the issuing of silver Snell had been majority, instead of certificates That is true. But we minority, leader. © Western Newspaper Union. must be realistic and recognize that AKLAND, CALIF.—As I sit writing this, I look out where elderly gentlemen, tent on relaxing, may be seen tensing themselves up tighter than a cocked wolf-trap, and then staggering toward the clubhouse with every nerve standing on end and screaming for help and highballs. O I smile at them, for I am one who has given up golf. You might even go so far as to say golf gave me up. I tried and tried, but I never broke a ty phoid patient’s tem perature chart — never got below 102. I spent so much time climbing into sand-traps and out again that people be gan thinking I was a new kind of her mit, living by pref Irvin S. Cobb erence in bunkers— the old man of the link beds, they'd be calling me next. And I used to slice so far into the rough that, looking for my ball, I penetrated jungles where the foot of man hadn’t trod since the early mound builders. That’s how I add ed many rare specimens to my col lection of Indian relics. But the last straw was when a Scotch professional, after morbidly watching my form, told me that at any rate there was one thing about me which was correct—I did have on golf stockings! • • • Congressional Boldness. ARNING to pet lovers: If you ’ ’ own guinea pigs or tame rab bits or trained seals or such-like gen tle creatures, try to keep the word from them that some of the majority members of the lower branch of con gress actually threatened to defy their master’s voice. The senate always has been known as the world’s greatest delib erative body—and, week by week and month by month don’t those elder statesmen know how to delib erate! But these last few years the house has earned the reputation of being the most docile legislative outfit since Aesop’s King Stork ruled over the synod of the frogs. So should the news ever spread among the lesser creatures, hither to so placid and biddable, that an example had been set at Washington, there’s no telling when the Bel gian hares will start rampaging and the singing mice will begin acting up rough and the grubworms will gang against the big old woodpeck er. • • • Professional Orators. E HAVE in Southern Califor- ’ ’ nia a professional orator who long ago discovered that the most dulcet music on earth was the sound of his own voice. He'll speak any where at the drop of the hat and provide the hat. What’s worse, this coast-defender of ours labors under the delusion that, if he shouts at the top of his voice, his eloquence will be all the more forceful. The only way to avoid meeting him at dinner is to eat at an owl wagon. But the other night, at an important banquet, he strangely was missing from the ar ray of speakers at the head table. One guest turned in amazement to his neighbor: “Where’s Blank?” he inquired, naming the absentee. “Didn’t you hear?" answered the other. “He busted a couple of ear drums.” “Whose?” said the first fellow. • • • Foes of Nazidom. 'T ' HE veteran Rabbi Stephen Wise Careful Summer Attention Pays Good Returns. in By l H. H. Alp, E x te n sio n Pou ltrym an, Unl- v e rslty o f Illin o is.—WNU S erv ice. Cheapest of all ways to feed pullets this summer will be to feed them well. Egg production n e x t September and October will depend on the summer feeding. Experience has demonstrated that worms and disease thrive best in poorly fed flocks, and that good pullets are | never raised by making scaven gers out of them during July and August. Prospects look favorable for egg prices next fall because many peo ple will attempt to economize on feed. Such a practice will make the feed used doubly expensive. A ration which has given good results with pullets after they are eight weeks old is the one made of a starting mash and ground grain. For each 200 pullets two range feed ers are recommended; one contain ing starting mash and the other a coarsely ground grain mixture of equal parts of corn, wheat and oats. Grinding the grain has a tendency to insure greater consumption of it and less of the mash. Some poultry- men are making a practice of clos ing, for a part of the day, the feeder containing the mash, especially if there is a tendency toward too early sexual maturity of the pullets. This ration in combination with a good clean green range such as al falfa, plenty of clean drinking water and some protection from ex treme heat should go a long way toward developing pullets of normal growth, free from worms and ready to lay next fall when egg prices are expected to be high. Despite the fact that most laying flocks are laying well at this time of year, the need for careful cull ing should be noted. Every bird not laying and not having any value as a future breeder will consume about 20 cents worth of feed a month. Gully Control Varies With Local Conditions Farmers keep in mind economy, effectiveness, and permanence when they build soil-saving check dams, earth fills or diversion ditches to control gullies, says T. B. Cham bers of the Soil Conservation serv ice. Check dams of straw, poles and logs, woven wire, and loose rock serve their purpose well, al though they do not last as well as dams of well-laid rock or concrete and earth. Gullies waste millions of tons of valuable soil every year. SCS men on more than 140 demonstration areas are showing farmers how gul lies can be prevented and checked. Control varies because climate, soils, and cropping methods vary in different parts of the country, but farmers will find one or more of three methods effective. In practically all sections of the country gully sides may be plant ed to grass, shrubbery, or trees. Once established, the vegetation slows the flow of “little waters” aft er rains and holds the soil. Choice of grasses, trees, or shrubs for such plantings is a question which may be referred to county agents or SCS specialists on demonstration areas. When gullies drain a fair-sized watershed, run-off can be retarded by the right crops and contour farm ing. Terraces or diversion ditches take care of excess run-off. Where the volume of run-off is high, earth, masonry, or concrete dams may be necessary. These dams are most effective where a gully slope is comparatively gen tle and where they can be high enough to prevent further cutting back of the gully head. These dams also create reservoirs for live stock water and irrigation. With the Farmers Large eggs do not hatch so well 1 as small ones. • • • Nearly 900,000 tons of wheat was grown in Great Britain last season. • • • The University of California con ducts a large horse breeding farm. of New York has been reason ably outspoken in his views on Nazi treatment of his own co-religionists and the practitioners of other faiths as well. And one of the most ven erable prelates of the Catholic ♦ • • church in Europe, while discussing Poultry raising in America is the same subject, hasn’t exactly 1 rightly called "a billion dollar busi- pulled his punches, either. So what? A friend just back from i ness.” . . . abroad tells me that in Berlin he Non-layers of all ages should be heard a high government officer i carefully culled out of the flock un fiercely denounce these two distin til September 1. guished men. About the mildest • • • thing the speaker said about them The Department of Agriculture was that both were senile. Some says that the cost of keeping a farm how or other, the speech wasn’t horse, including cost of deprecia printed in the German papers— tion, is approximately $100 per year. • • • maybe by orders from on high. A summer shelter provides cheap, Well, far be it from this inno cent bystander to get into religious comfortable quarters for housing arguments and besides I have no yearling layers at the end of the first-hand knowledge as to the Chris I first laying year. • • • tian clergyman’s state of health, al The Rose Comb White Leghorn is though, judging by his utterances, there’s nothing particularly wrong | identical with the Single Comb with his mind. But I do know Rab White Leghorn except in the matter bi Wise, and, if he's in his dotage, : of the rose comb. • • • so is Shirley Temple. And I risk Eggs are imported into the United the assertion that he would be per fectly willing te have one foot in the States in the form of shell eggs; grave if he could have the other whole eggs, dried; whole eggs, froz en; dried and frozen yolks; and on Herr Hitler’s neck. dried albumen. IRVIN S. COBB © WNC Servlr*. Malaga, Spain, before shot and shell marred its beauty. Civil War Makes World Conscious of Modern Changes Felt in Spain survival of many local ways and prejudices that bend or break but IVIL war in Spain signal slowly. Irrestibly, however, the cities izes the startling changes put on a more modem dress and which have swept that ancient quicken their pace. Consider, hasti land in recent years. ly, some of the cities and towns In the swift rush of daily that have figured in recent war news, more is said of military news. leaders and their campaigns, of The New York of Spain. Take a look at Barcelona, the statesmen and changing gov ernments, than of the deep so New York of Spain. It is the largest city in the country, the most im cial and economic transform a portant financial and industrial cen tions behind the news, or the ter and by far the busiest seaport. character of this land and its The sun shines in air crisp and exhilarating as you stroll down the people. Long before King Alfonso fled, Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona’s most these changes were of course under important thoroughfare and indeed way, and because of them his mon one of the most interesting and modernistic streets in the world. archy failed. These transitions have gathered Fine motorcars (no trucks allowed momentum, until today this once on this wide avenue) stop and go romantic land of duennas, monas at modern American traffic signals. At the foot of the Paseo is the teries, bullfights and leisurely pas toral life has written a new and very heart of Barcelona—the Plaza dramatic chapter in its long history. de Cataluna—a large open space Where centuries-old country lanes filled with statues, fountains, flow and mountain trails used to wind, er beds, paved paths, and benches. Always animated, human streams fine new concrete roads now streak over the hills. To a large degree, flow in and out of its subway en men have exchanged their saddle trances. The Plaza, too, is the cen mules for flivvers, and the high ter of fierce turmoil in every politi wheeled, clumsy oxcart yields to cal upheaval. It is surrounded by large, ornate structures—banks, ho the whizzing motor truck. tels, and new telephone office build Señoritas Bob Their Hair. ing with copper-green tower, a Yan From the Bay of Biscay down to kee skyscraper indeed in a Spanish the blue Mediterranean, traditional metropolis! peasant costumes are being dis Flying at another corner is a wel carded and men are dressing in come sight for American eyes—the plain blue overalls. Black-eyed señ Stars and Stripes—indicating t h e oritas today lay away the time-hon splendid offices of the United States ored mantilla, get their hair bobbed consulate general. and hunt city jobs as typists, tele Use American Cash Registers. phone girls and shop clerks, as do Big signs advertise American au their sisters in many lands. New thinking, as well as new tomobiles. Indeed, three-fourths of machines, changes the way of Span all cars in the Plaza are of familiar ish life. Bullfighting still goes on, make. There is a large American but now the intrepid toreadors be bank a few doors up the street; in long to a labor union! You may still bookstores are displays of American find guitars and fandangos, for Span fountain pens, and in the tobacco iards are ever a music-loving peo shops even chewing gum! All these business houses use ple, and possibly you may find here and there a lovesick couple American adding machines a n d mooning at each other through an cash registers, and the offices hum old iron-barred window. More and with American typewriters. Many more, however, the radio super of the fine new apartment buildings sedes the guitar and the girl has are equipped with American doors come out from behind the historic and electric refrigerators. Here grillwork and gone to the movies “foreign trade” is a pulsing thing with her sweetheart—or to the street far removed from the dry statistics of our commerce. barricades to fight with him’ “ Rambla” really means a dry One fact to grasp, in understand ing the social muddle here, is that ravine, but in Barcelona the word Spain is divided into 50 provinces; is used to designate a wider street and not so many years ago it was or boulevard. The original fascinat commonly said that it also had 50 ing Rambla of Barcelona is like no different national dances and cos other thoroughfare in the world! It tumes, together with almost as is a long, straight avenue with a wide promenade for pedestrians in many dialects. Comparatively sudden advent of the center and is lined with tall new high-speed roads, faster vehi plane trees. Busy stores flank the Rambla cles, speeches and news broadcast by air, and the breakdown of church from end to end, interspersed with influence, all combine now to dis theaters, cinemas, an ancient sipate this old conservative provin church or two and a large number cial spirit. Thus has Spain been of cafes. Under bright, wide awn turned into a milling, restless land. ings that canopy the sidewalks and For the first time country and town shade the little tables, idlers sit and life are freely blended, and the watch the lifeblood of the metrop peasant can hear the exciting talk olis stream up and down its main of city radicals and revolutionaries artery—streaming at a much quick that yesteryear came only as a tempo since recent shooting started! Like the Paris boulevards, each remote murmur. Spain is now becoming so mod section of the Rambla bears a dif ernized that busses of every kind ferent name. First come ornamental and color race along from village kiosks displaying an amazing va to village, from town to city. Till riety of newspapers and magazines a few years ago, many country in every European language. Then people never journeyed more than comes the bird market. Arranged in 20 miles from home in their lives. cages of all sizes along the prom Now by cheap, or even free, rides in enade is a bewildering show of yel war times, they travel all over the low and brown canaries, gray par rots from western Africa, green country! ones from Brazil, tiny parakeets, Political Parties Are Many. all setting up a lively chatter.. With the rise of the republic New World Gives Way. came, of course, more liberty of The next section is the brightest speech and action; but, bom of the of all—the Rambla de las Flores. 50 provinces and their 50 different Here open-air flower stalls, bossed ways of thinking, came also wide by black-haired peasant women, of- division of opinion and action. er flowers of every color and shade. Political parties of all shades Love of flowers is one point at least sprang up in great variety and num upon which all divergent political ber. Certain factions held that prog parties can agree! ress should be attained gradually Following the flower stalls come through education of the masses— more kiosks where one may pro masses as yet untrained in the art cure ice cream or soft drinks. Build of government. This is obviously a ings begin to look older now—the slow process and one would suppose New World gives way to the Old— that in a romantic "land of manana” and finally we come out into the a slow process would be accept wide water front, with its ornate customshouse, the tall statue to Co able. But the manana idea is another lumbus, and the palm-lined Paseo of those old Spanish customs so de Colon. To the right, in the shadow rapidly disappearing; many now de of the huge, somber stone barracks, mand a quicker approach, a faster is a long double line of bookstalls. Sloping up on the right of the har progress. Thus a peek at Spain of today bor is the high hill of Montjuich, reveals a startling modernity of with a sinister old fort upon its crest. thought, civilization and up-to-the- In turbulent days of riots and minute comforts and contrivances, strikes, executions of ringleaders superimposed upon the stubborn take place here. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. 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