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r THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON PAGE SIX A n d iro n * a C ooking Need In O ld A m e ric a n H om e* P R I N T IN G OF THE BETTER KIND • WE ARE FULLY EQUIPPED TO HANDLE YOUR MOST EXACTING JOB. WE OFFER, TOO, A FULL ART SERVICE AND THUS GIVE YOU MATERIAL SUIT ED TO YOUR NEEDS . . . FOR LESS MONEY. LET US QUOTE ON YOUR NEXT PRINTING JOB.................................. HERALD OFFICE LA IR D CHOSEN D .A .R . DELEGATE GERALD KELLER ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ General Blacksmitfiing Horseshoeing Oregon GOO R O O M S • S E N S IB IE R A TE S H. S. BULLDOGS SEASON SCORES (From The Won 7 Hermiston 13 Hermiston 13 Hermiston B Hermiston 18 Hermiston 22 Hermiston 21 H ermiston 15 Hermiston S Hermiston I Hermiston 20 Hermiston 11 Hermiston 33 Hermiston 29 Hermiston 17 Hermiston 26 Hermiston 24 Herm iston 13 Herm iston 12 Hermiston 17 H ermiston 27 Bulldog) Lost 13 U m atilla 14 Pendleton 28 Pendleton 32 A thena 32 Heppner 16 Boardm an 20 Irrigon 23 U m atilla 14 Mac-Hi 35 Boardm an 9 Helix 27 W a-Hi B 25 Heppner 23 Mac-Hi 28 Wa-Hi 27 Helix 12 Pendleton 21 Pendleton 28 A thena 23 Irrigon 24 The Easiest Way to Fill Your Needs NO FURTHER THAN YOUR PHONE IS THE SIMPLEST WAY TO ADVER TISE FOR THOSE THINGS YOU NEED AND ARE HARD TO LOCATE. OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMNS OFFER YOU THE LEAST EXPENSIVE SERVICE YOU CAN BUY. GIVE THEM A TRIAL . . CALL 51 - The Herald Shows Them How He Does It For two centuries American homes were dependent for both (From the In d u strial Review) cooking and heating on wood-burn Some of the most potentially Im ing fireplaces, writes Thomas Ham p o rtan t news often fails to m ake the ilton Ormsbee in the American Col front page. This was dem onstrated lector. Andirons were essential and a short tim e ago when the president must have been part of the neces sary equipment brought over by the appointed a commission to study the first settlers, although no specific subject of a federal career service. mention is made of them. We do In the w ords of a team of W ashing find in the inventory of Governor ton colum nists, Alsop and K ltner, Winthrop's estate, dated February th is should “ shine like the tra d i 17, 1649, “2 pairs andirons—one tional good deed in a n aughty world. pound, ten shillings.'’ Four years Yet, instead of shining, it has passed later a list of the household furnish ings of Captain Tyng, of Boston, in stran g ely u n noticed.” Bureaucracy, in the view of most cludes “ a great paire of Brass and political economists, is the imposing irons.” Just when andirons were first b arrier th a t stan d s square and u n made in the American colonies is moving in th e way of any movement hard to say, but those of wrought to reform and improve th e adm inis iron were probably produced for lo trativ e side of governm ent. And cal needs almost as soon as the first bureaucracy is the direct resu lt of blacksmiths set up their forges. It our long-entrenched patronage sys is a m atter of record that about 1640 Joseph Jenks, the first New England tem, w hereby politicians in power iron master, had a foundry at Lynn, pay oft th e ir obligations and in Mass., and that two years later directly or directly feath er th e ir John Winthrop, son of the governor own nests by appointing th e ir of Massachusetts Bay colony, was friends and backers, and th eir sis operating a smelting furnace at Sau ters and th e ir cousins and th e ir gus. aunts, to federal jobs. It has been There were many other early ef believed in W ashington for some forts at mining and smelting iron in the various colonies, some of which time th a t th e president has been continued throughout the Colonial th in k in g about ways and means of TONY ACCETTA (left), U. S. period and until the richer deposits doing som ething about te arin g down professional all-around bait- and of ore were discovered around Pitts this b arrier, and establishing an fly-casting champion, discusses the burgh. Clearly there was an ample American career service patterned fine points of the art with Kenneth supply of native iron from 1650 on. more or less afte r the justly-fam ed A. Reid (center), general manager Unfortunately, the blacksmiths of British civil service. The app o in t of the Izaak Walton League of the Colonial period, who sometimes m ent of th e commission seems to be America, and William S. McLean, decorated their more pretentious a tangible s ta rt tow ard th is end. director of advertising for the andirons with an incised design, had Fisher Body division of General The job th is commission has been not the forethought to mark them Motors, following a preview of with the date of production. Also, given requires first calibre minds. as shapes and patterns did not And it has them. It consists of two change rapidly, many of the andirons members of the Supreme Court, J u s do get results. And some of them, made in the more remote country tices Reed and F ra n k fu rte r; the A t districts as late as the early years torney-G eneral, F ra n k M urphy; a such as Sir Robert V an sitta rt of the of the Nineteenth century adhered well-known in d u stria list. G eneral Foreign Office, become even more powerful and more sought after to the lines and proportions of the Wood of Sears-R oebuck; a d istin g Colonial period. than cabinet members. (From The Bulldog) Alma Laird, a member of the sen ior class, was elected to represent th e high school in a citizenship con test sponsored by the D aughters of the A merican Revolution. One s tu dent from each high school in the sta te is chosen and the name sub Famous P acer D an Patch m itted to Salem w here the governor W a * N atio n al C eleb rity of the sta te will draw a name, en In his day Dan Patch was a na titlin g the individual to a free trip tional celebrity. He was a pacer, to W ashington, D. C., w ith a repre and the first horse ever to do a mile sentative from every sta te in the in harness under 2 minutes. To understand the immense interest in union. Alma will receive a trip to him it is necessary to recall that Salem, regardless of w hether or not in 1905, when he paced the mile in she gets to travel to W ashington. 1:5514, the automobile was still an The high school faculty selected experiment. To the American peo three girls from th e senior class, ple, the possession of a horse and (From The Bulldog) and members of the senior class buggy was a mark of respectability, "B urn in g up” the N orthw est Con and to have a bit of blood between voted on which one of th e three should get to go to the sta te capitol. ference w ith his sensational first the shafts, or a fast, spanking team, year play, Gerald Keller of H erm is .was a social distinction, observes a ton has definitely won a sta rtin g writer in the Kansas City Times. That was the reason why nearly berth on the Pacific U niversity hoop every farm home, and many a city squad. Keller climaxed his high scoring home, in those days had a picture of Shop under new m anagem ent and Dan Patch on the wall. We can against P o rtlan d U niversity last 1 remember that old picture yet. It in new location. week by scoring 22 points to pace was a famous chromo and showed Equipped to Go Out to Ranch for all scorers. Gerald is th e fastest the noted bay fairly flying along, man on the squad and one of the every foot off the ground, the spokes of the sulky behind him a blur, and cleverest ball handlers. the driver leaning forward, his arms STANFIELD BLACKSMITH SHOP Back of Brown’s G arage taut on the reins, the very personi Stanfield FEDERAL CAREER SERVICE SUGGESTED THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939. fication of speed. It was a thrilling picture, and one understandable to every one as it would not be in this day of steering wheels and foot throttles. uished engineer, Gano D unn; a for mer civil service commissioner, Leonard W hite, and a T reasury ad m in istrativ e expert, W. H. McReyn olds. All of these men, it Is said, have long been interested in im proving th e governm ent service. Under th e E nglish plan, the real work of th e governm ent is done by men who hold th e ir jobs all th e ir w orking lives, and a re then retired on adequate pensions. They cannot be discharged, save for reasons of dishonesty or incompetence. A change in th e party-in-pow er does not affect them a t all, and so they can afford to be politically non p artisan. U sually they en ter the ser vice as soon as they leave school or university, and they are subjected to the most rigorous tra in in g in th e ir repective fields. Prom otions are based so far as it is hum anly possible on ability and efficiency. They don’t get the publicity— they ernm ent, as everyone knows, poli tics reign supreme. A change in ad m in istratio n resu lts in an imm ediate hegira of the supplanted, and an ad vance on W ashington by th e victors In the United States, we have desiring th e spoils. The inevitable used the career system in b u t one resu lt is waste, inefficiency, and du branch of governm ent— S tate De plication of effort. The most b ril partm en t. A young man w ishing to lia n t departm ent head, if his de en ter the foreign service m ust have p artm en t is filled w ith incom petent a b etter-th an -av erag e education and or lazy political favorites, is ob background, and m ust go th ro u g h a viously stym ied. stiff tra in in g in the g eneralities of No m atter w hat the com m ittee de diplomacy. A fter th a t he is given cides, any move to place the govern a stiffer tra in in g in the p articu lar m ent service on a career basis is diplom atic field he wishes to en certain to meet w ith much congres ter— F ar E ast, South America. Cen sional opposition. The patronage tra l Europe, etc. These are the men system is too old and too strongly who have kept th is governm ent intrenched to make its abandonm ent functioning abroad — and by and easy. On th e oth er hand, the g reat large, say those who know, they w ealth of dispassionate opinion is in have done a splendid Job. I t ’s an ' favor of the career system — even open secret th a t many an Ambassa- [ though there would undoubtedly be dor has been kept from m aking differences over p articu la rs in any ruinous m istakes by th e advice of I definite plan— and it may be th a t some secretary or counsellor-of-j congress will be eventually forced embassy who knew the ropes and the by public pressure to m ake a move pitfalls. in th a t direction, even though it In th e o th er d epartm ents of g o v -, does It relu ctan tly . Treasure Island Gets Ford No. 27,000,000 ‘Trust in God, Keep Powder Dry’ The saying, “Trust in God and keep your powder dry" is attributed to Oliver Cromwell. It is supposed to have originated during one of his campaigns in Ireland in 1649 or 1650. According to tradition, Cromwell made an irqpassioned address to hi* “Ironsides” when they were about to attack the enemy who had taken position on the opposite side of the river. He concluded his speech with the admonition: “Put your trust in God, but mind to keep your powder dry.” This tradition is vouched for by Edward Hayes in his "Ballads of Ireland,” which was published in 1855. The compiler comments on the subject in a note under the bal lad “Oliver’s Advice,” which was written in 1834 by Colonel Blacker, a British officer. Each stanza of Blacker’s ballad ends with the line “Put your trust in God, my boy*, and keep your powder dry.” Cochineal Insects of One Sex The Cochineal industry which sup plies the coloring in rouges and lip sticks is centered mainly in the Ca nary islands. The coloring is ob tained from the cochineal bug; “Coccus cacti” to zoologists, says London Tit-Bits Magazine. It has a reddish tinted, fat, wrinkly body, tortoise shaped and about half the size of a grape. Cochineal insects are all of one sex—mothers. In spite of the fact that they are all identically alike, they reproduce with great rapidity, fresh genera tions arising within a few hours. The dye obtained from these insects brought great prosperity to the is lands until chemists discovered ani line dyes and brought the islands to the verge of bankruptcy. No dye known to science is so safe when used on the human skin as cochineal. Dead Buried in Urns Macassar is the capital of Celebes, a large, queerly-shaped island with numerous great bays. The water- i fall at Bantimoeroen >* the main attraction there. A pagan ceme tery supplies the local interest for the visitor. In ancient times the natives used to bury their dead in great covered urns, wherein the corpse was placed in a sitting posi tion. The custom was for the be reaved to sit daily beside these grave s.onea, which still remain. “Let’s Go Fishing”, n ew 2 - reel sound motion picture produced by the automobile body-building or ganization and starring the cham pion. The film, which presents a comprehensive lesson in fishing and bait casting with emphasis upon . sportsmanship, will be made avail able without charge to groups expressing a desire to exhibit it. ae fAe R ic h m o n d B ra n ch p l a n t o f th a F ord M o to r C o m p a n y < G o Aten G ato Zn torna f xana/ AzpowMom j—rr— ñrr c o m in g crow d in C o u rt o f FaciBca. in c lu d in g a ¡903 F o rd < B illy H u jh a o n ; low er W t— I a la n d C u t lar, d r i n a oar o d th a U t e m b t f Una; tom ar r i d h t ta n a r a l aalaa m a n a g e r, F ord, tu rn a o ra r car haya to T h a oar tr ill ba a p a r t a t ahi J. R. 4 X A
