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H. S. BULLDOGS
SEASON SCORES
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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
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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.
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