F a rm
T o p ic s
S H E E P C A R E IS
F U L L -T IM E JO B
A NAME FOR THE
MOTHER-IN-LAW
“ Did you see,” asked Senator
Dumm, “where a group of women
recently voted for a change in the
term ‘mother-in-law’?”
“I did,” replied Representative
Dummer. “They voted to change
it to kin-mother, the big sillies.”
“The foolish season is here ahead
of time,” said the senator, “ and win
ter must be nearly over. There
are many names I could call the
old girl, but kin-mother is not
among ’em.”
“What was the big idea, anyhow?”
asked Dummer. “ Were the moth
REX ELLIS
ers-in-law complaining?”
“ Mothers-in-law are always com
SENATOR REX ELLIS plaining,”
snapped the senator. “Do
From Umatilla, Union and
you see this bruise over my eye?”
Morrow Counties
“I do,” said Dummer. “How
Republican Candidate for
come?”
“From walking up to my wife’s
U. S. CONGRESS
old lady and saying, ‘Hello, kin-
To the People of Eastern Oregon- mother’; that’s how I got it. She
Repeal Farm Truclc Law
thought I said something else, and
When I first went to Salem as
state senator, the farmers of Oregon
could not use their trucks to help out
a neighbor, and if they owned a truck
they were not allowed to hire it out,
under penalty of fine and imprison
ment. Through my efforts and my
senate bill repealing such laws, a
farmer may now use his truck for
hire in practically any way he pleas
es.
when I tried to explain she said
Old People’s Friend
I raised the price of liquor and ad mother-in-law was good enough for
ded $3,000,000 additional money for her, and it would have to be good
old-age assistance. While we need enough for me.”
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still more money for this worthy
"I noticed that there were many
cause, three million dollars will pur
chase some additional comfort for my other names suggested before the
elderly friends.
final vote,” said Dummer.
For American Farmers
“One of ’em was ‘Blitzkrieg Moth
I think it is a crime that we allow er.’ ” laughed the senator. “I rath
the importation of turkeys, cattle and er liked that one. It will linger in
dairy products to come in from for my memory long after I have for
eign countries in competition with gotten all about ‘kin-mother.’ But do
our eastern Oregon farmers.
you know what I think is called for
Opposes Communism
Speaking of communism. Senator now?”
“No.”
Ellis had this to say: “As Christ
“A new name for mothers-in-law
symbolized the noblest and highest
conception of spiritual conception, so to call their sons-in-law and daugh
does Stalin or communism represent ters-in-law.”
“Haven't our mothers - in - law
the lowest form of materialism. The
two, therefore, are as opposite as the enough names for them already?”
poles and their teachings stand as asked Dummer.
far apart as the sky from the earth.
“I mean something printable;
To Stalin or communism, man at his something that can be used in po
best is merely an intelligent animal lite society,” argued the senator.
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of no more importance than the beast
of the field. To Christ, man was the
“How about asking her to call you
noblest handiwork of God. This a kin-son?” asked Dummer.
country has gone a long way in
“She would re
Christianity and the Holy Bible. I taliate
by calling
pledge you that if elected I will nev
me a kin-bum and
er forsake this Holy Book.”
I pledge you that if you send me say she misun
to Washington as congressman from d e rsto o d m e,”
the Eastern Oregon district, I will barked Senator
work, plan, connive and fight for Dumm.
“ Couldn’t she
your best interests.
REX ELLIS
just call you a
(Paid Adv.)
kin-guy or a kin-
sap ?” ask e d
Dummer.
“She might be
glad to,” said the senator.
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“Will anything come of the whole
business?” asked Dummer.
“Nothing whatever,” declared
Senator Dumm. “A man never re
fers to his mother-in-law as his
mother-in-law, anyhow. He either
calls her ‘that woman,’ ‘old iron
sides,’ ‘the crackdown’ or 'the fam
ily static.’ ”
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“ Do you know what I call mine?”
asked Dummer.
“What?”
“The Roman Galley,” declared
Dummer.
“Why?” asked the senator, a bit
puzzled.
“ Because she is always putting in
her oar,” concluded Representative
Dummer, dodging a chair.
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For Robert Taft, as fisherman,
I simply cannot root;
He fishes in high-polished shoes
And in a business suit.
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Add similes: as uncomfortable as
a skiing enthusiast on a Caribbean
cruise.
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Mr. Dewey says the time has
come for us to tighten our belts.
But too many Americans think
their belts are tight when it's
merely indigestion.
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CAN YOU REMEMBER—
Away back when an icebox looked
like an icebox?
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Walt Disney's “ Pinnochio” is
all right. The trouble, however,
is that it encourages too many
other animated cartoonists.
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THE PROOF
I know when winter's on the lag
And going to the dogs:
It's then my mail is flooded with
Those fishing catalogues.
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ISN’T IT SO?
Manhattan, so all the records show.
In books and public prints
Was settled 300 years ago . . .
And hasn’t been settled since!
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Avery Giles.
ASSISTS
UNION PACIFIC
R A11 R l) A D
"Tobacco Road” has run to long
it must be a federal project.
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Attention.
Mr.
Farley!
I
ran
•cross a postage stamp the other
day with George Washington on it.
Milt the Berle.
Winter Protection of Ewes
Pays Dividends.
By L. K. BEAR
Lambs may not gambol in the
springtime if their owners do some
gambling in the winter by failing
to give the ewe flock enough atten
tion to insure the production of a
healthy lamb crop, according to ex
periments in animal husbandry at
Ohio State university.
The ewe has two tasks to perform
in producing a good lamb and a
fair clip of wool, and she cannot
succeed unless the raw materials
needed are supplied by the flock
owner. Ewes will go through the
winter in good shape with only home
grown roughages until six or eight
weeks before lambing.
However, there are vast differ
ences in roughages. Good legume
hay provides the protein needed by
the ewes but timothy hay and corn
stalks do not. Farm ers also should
remember this winter that corn
stalks and leaves have had their
usual feeding value reduced by un
usual fall weather.
Protein supplement in the form of
linseed meal, cottonseed oil meal,
soybean oil meal, or whole soybeans
should be fed to ewes which do not
get legume hay.
Shepherds are cautioned to re
member that a mature ewe needs
about a gallon of water daily, al
though some people think sheep re
quire little or no water. Farmers
who buy sheep tonics and compel
their flocks to drink from filthy wa
tering places are spending money
uselessly.
Calcium can be furnished the
ewes in the form of finely ground
limestone. Loose salt placed in
troughs permits the ewes to get this
necessity without breaking teeth in
gnawing a supply from salt blocks.
The ewe flocks have difficulty
enough performing their two tasks
of lamb and wool production with
out supporting a horde of internal
parasites. The parasites can be re
moved by treatments described in
the bulletin previously mentioned.
Drifted Soil Regions
Are Easily Restored
Harnessing the wind to undo its
own damage gets results at less ex
pense than doing the job mechan
ically, experiments where wind ero
sion has formed dunes indicate.
Once a dune has formed a sharp
crest, the tendency is for it to grow
higher and higher. But concentrat
ing the wind cuts the crest and
moves the sand until it is shallow
enough for planting to crops that
will check blowing.
One of the simplest and least ex
pensive methods is to fill gunny-
sacks with the dune sand and set
them fairly close together on the
crest. This concentrates the wind,
and as the crest lowers, the sack*
sink and continue the work. Drag
poles drawn by two teams, one on
the crest of the dunes and one on
the lee slope also loosen the sand on
the crest and break the sharp ridge.
So. too, do one-way disk outfits.
Dunes usually are surrounded by
areas wind-stripped down to the
hard subsoil which will not grow
crops. Deep-listing these eroded
areas catches considerable sand as
the wind moves it away from the
dunes. When the hard clay and the
freshly deposited sand are mixed,
cropping possibilities are improved.
Deep-listing also catches and holds
rainfall.
Lowering the dunes, and mixing
sand with clay in nearby areas, are
only the first of essential steps. The
next important step is to stimulate
plant growth. Until plants start to
grow, these blown areas are still in
critical conditions. Crops of drouth-
resistant plants such as sorghums
or native weeds cut the sweep of the
winds and their roots bind the sandy
soil.
'GERONIMO' PACKS
ACTION A N D THRILLS
“Geronimo”—there was a cry to
stop a sturdy heart when, in the days
of his gory glory, that roaring, rag
ing, revengeful savage roamed and
raided the Great Southwest he want
ed for his own.
“Geronimo”—there is a motion pic
ture to race your pulse as the exploits
of this last great Indian enemy cram
the screen with action and romance
of giant proportions.
Paramount cast this powerful sto
ry which starts Sunday at the Oasis
theatre with people who know how
to play their roles to the hilt. Pres
ton Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy De-
vine, William Henry, Ralph Morgan
and Chief Thunder Cloud contribute
vivid portrayals.
With its basis in fact and its fact
running faster than fiction, “Gero
nimo” brings to the screen a fascinat
ing chapter of American history that
begins when the United States ceded
from Mexico the land which was to
make up the states of New Mexico
and Arizona. The government ac
quired not only trackless wilds, but a
troublesome tribe of Apache Indians
unwilling to surrender the country.
A punitive expedition undertaken
by the American Army discovers
Geronimo is a relentless and wily foe.
It is only after several thrilling
battles are fought and unprecedented
sabotage is uncovered that Geronimo
is taken.
There’s a Stepped-Up Tempo in
the Hayfield Today
It looks like the haying season is going to
be shorter this year. And one reason is the
new McCormick - Deering Tractor Mowers,
designed to match the speed and perform
ance of the new Farmall Tractors. With
these new mowers, it will be possible and
practical to cut a swath at speeds up to five
miles an hour. Come in and see them.
Pendleton Grain Growers Inc.
PENDLETO N, OREGON
Townsendites do not believe there
is any other answer to the present
unemployment except the Townsend
plan. That is the reason they are
ready to stake the chance for this
bill upon a direct vote. The time has
come for action.
Another meeting of the local club
will be at the Legion hall Friday,
May 10. More important flashes
TOWNSEND CLUB
will be read and you are welcome to
all the meetings.
NEWS
Another Townsend dance is being
By MRS. JOE UDETY
planned for May 18 in the Columbia
At the Columbia club house a very hall.
convincing demonstration of the
proof of the working features of the
Townsend plan shown on colored
charts together with a Townsend lec
S
SEASIDE INVITES
ture given by Mrs. Clara Ingledice,
brought over 100 interested people
CITY OFFICIALS
to the meeting, and those who didn’t
PORTLAND, OREGON
see and hear this program sure
Mayor F. C. McKenzie and the missed a treat.
A very encouraging flash direct
city officials of Hermiston have been
invited by Mayor Theodore Dichter from Washington congressmen, dated
of Seaside to attend the 15th annual May 3, that 154 congressmen have
convention of the League of Oregon signed our discharge petition.
A bulletin from Dr. Townsend—
Cities May 23 and 24 in Seaside.
Invitations to attend the Oregon Marshalling all possible strength to
Finance Officers’ association confer push ahead the signing of the dis
ence to be held May 22 in conjunc charge petition, I have ordered three
tion with the League meeting have top flight national representatives to
been mailed to all local government Washington, D. C., to assist the staff
finance officers by city recorder there by visiting congressmen and
urging them to sign the petition. I
Gault Patton of Seaside.
According to an announcement to want that petition signed with the
day by William Hall, acting execu necessary 218 names if it is human
tive secretary of the League, partici ly possible. We can brook no delay.
pation by Oregon city officials in Action now, talk later. If I have to
open forum sessions on problems of pull every national representative in
rural fire protection, municipal fi the country in here to help, I will do
nance, city planning, zoning, public ! it if it becomes necessary. Our bill
employees retirement, municipal in must be brought to the floor of the
surance, recreation, traffic control ; House.
and public health will feature the an
nual meeting.
New sections are being organized
this year for special groups in the
League including city attorneys, mu
nicipally owned utility managers,
civil service commissioners and air
port managers.
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Dean John F. Cunningham. Ohio
State university, says a speaker who
asked his audience the difference
between a good farmer and a poor
farmer received the reply, "The
good farmer sits and thinks and the
poor farmer just sits.”
• • •
The Federal Crop Insurance cor
poration has forecast that during
the second year of its operation
more than 300,000 insurance con
tracts on the 1940 wheat crop will
be in force.
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Fruit areas are usually near large
bodies of water because the tem
perature is more uniform and the
growing season is longer than in
other areas.
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Radiant Romance Storrs, a 16-
year-old Jersey cow, has established
a new lifetime record for her breed
in the U. S. She has produced near
ly 140 times the milk equivalent of
her own weight, and seven times
her weight in butterfat. She is
owned by the University of Connec
ticut.
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