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HOO0 RI VE R COUNTY SUN
THE BONNEVILLE DAM
CHRONICLE
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Official paper of city of Cascade
Locks, Oregon.
Official publication for American
Legion post No. 88, Bonneville, Ore.
Entered as second class matter at
the postoffice at Hood River, Ore­
gon, under the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
JOHN H. TRAVIS...................Editor
Published every Friday in the
Interests of the Bonneville Dam area
by the Sun Publishing Company, Inc.
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
News items or ads may be left
at the Cascade Drug Company
In Cascade Locks, or at the Roose­
velt Inn In Bonneville.
Wednesday afternoon I am In
Cascade Locks and Wednesday
night I may be reached at the
Roosevelt Inn In Bonneville. Oth-
times .'all us collect at Hood River
3701.
—Jack Travis.
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W H Y DO W O M E N W ORK?
At some time or^another during the past
half-dozen years possibly almost every male
citizen has found himself asking why so
many women and girls are at work while the
male unemployment rolls have mounted into
the millions. Much criticism has accompanied
the query, the old belief that "woman’s place
is in the home" still prevailing.
N ow reliable figures are available as to
why women work, and local readers will be
interested in them.
In a group of 12,000
higher paid women workers, with an average
income of $1,300 a year, less than 10 percent
of the number had no dependents. One out of
every three supported households ranging
from two to seven persons.
In the lower
paid group, girls averaging about $950 a
year, two out of every three reported they
were virtually the sole support of at least one
other person than themselves.
If the sur­
veys resulting in these figures are to be taken
in a real cross-section of the millions of
women gainfully employed in this country,
then it is evident that the great bulk of our
women workers get their jobs because they
have to do so. They are the sole support of
themselves and others dependent on them.
The common idea that most women work
because they want "pin money” with which
to procure more clothes and more luxuries
does not hold up under this new survey. The
one prime answer to why they work seems to
be "Because they have to.”
the greatest percentage of increase in the
Boy Scouts last year was in the smaller towns
and villages of the country. There is a need
now for more men who will interest them­
selves in directing the teenage boy’s energies
in the right direction. W e know of no more
helpful thing to which any local man could
turn his hand and as much of his time as he
can conveniently Spare.
RAH FOR T H E C O U N T R Y
The well-being of this great nation— and
for that matter, every nation— is upheld by
the people of the country districts
W e take
great pride in our cities — in their wealth,
their buildings, their splendor. But make no
JUDGE NOT
We should judge with greater kind­
ness if we only understood
Things of which we guess in blind­
ness. We should find a lot of
good
In our poorest, weakest brother were
his thoughts and motives known:
We should understand each other,
and less harshness would be
shown.
Actions speak so all can hear them,
but the motives are concealed:
We should better judge—or clear
them—were the inmost thoughts
revealed.
There are plenty faults, we find
them when we search for them
with care.
Search for goodness, and behind
them find some jewels rich and
rare.
mistake about it— the city is a sycophant of Motes perchance obscure the vision
of your brother's eye today,
the country. It could not live, if the support
But think not it is your mission to
remove the motes away
of the country were withdrawn. If it gets
While an entire beam finds lodgment
any bread or meat, that is the product of the
in the organs of your sight;
country. If it is rich, that wealth has been Never take your place in judgment
till you learn to judge aright.
produced by the country.
The Congress
—T. E. Morgensen
does well to pat the farmer on the back.
The nation is also dependent upon the
country in upholding its moral standards.
Land Transactions
The festering sores of democracy are found
mvw w w w w w w w w
in the city. Crime abounds there. It is the
Alice Downing to Ole Nelson, war­
ranty deed, conveys Lots 4 and 17
home of the goon and the crook. Life con­
Blk. 33, Hood River Proper.
ditions there are artificial. The city resident
A. W. and Bertha Sutton to Clyde
A. and Helen G. Putnam, deed, con­
is usually cramped in a fifty-foot lot. Houses
strung along in a string broken only by the veys SE% SE»4, Sec. 17, T 1 S R 10
EWM, except north 10 acres and
cross street.
Yet the man on the street
south 10 acres—about 4 miles SE of
Parkdale.
scarcely knows his next door neighbor, while
Delbert A. and Alice D. Norton to
the chap across the street might as well live Archie Couville, quit claim deed,
conveys Lot 5, block 2, Moody Addi­
in the next state as far as real contact goes.
tion to Cascade Locks, in SWi4 Sec.
City life is artificial. It is not so in the
12 T 2 NR 7 EWM.
Frank J. and Zata Moran to Jack
country nor in the country town. The man
and Myrtle G. Flaucher, warrenty
on the country road knows all his neighbors.
deed, conveys tract in Sec. 12, T 2 N
R 7 EWM, just north of block 3,
In the country town he speaks to the man he
Cascade Locks.
meets and likely calls him by his first name.
Hazel L. and Allen L. Stansell to
Here people are not mere residents to each
Richard D. Krug, conveys S 50 ft.
lot 4, block 3, Parkhurst Addition.
other, but neighbors. There is less oppor­
Richard D. Krug to Hazel S. and
tunity for a country boy or girl to go wrong,
Allen L. Stansell, quit claim deed,
and less of them do so. Life’s atmosphere is conveys S. 50 ft. lot 4, block 3, Park­
better and so morals rate much higher in the hurst Addition, estate by entireties.
H. C. and Glenna Wilbur to L. L.,
country community.
and Edna Amoth, warranty deed,
The country need not foster any inferiority
complex in comparing itself with the city.
The man in the city may be "clever,” but his
habitation is surrounded with evil and his
wealth has been produced by other hands.
Wholesome life and untainted wealth is found
in the country. ’Rah for it!
Good old days were those when young
people worked hard to support the old folks.
Now the idea is to pension the old folks so
they can support the youngsters.
A wife never worries about a husband’s
thirst when she is away on a visit, but she
will worry herself sick for fear he will forget
to water the fern.”
THE DANGEROUS AGE
The enormous increase in crime among the
teen-age boys of this country, as shown by
statistics gathered over the past few years
has revealed a situation that is as great an
indictment against adults as it is against the
boys.
The teen-age boy is no worse by nature
than he was 25, 50 or 100 years ago. He is
exactly the same bundle of nerves, energy,
and animal spirit, subject to the same power­
ful and bewildering urges. But he is living
in a different world than existed a half-cen­
tury ago. And a large part of our adult popu­
lation has failed to realize that this different
environment for youth calls for different
treatment of youth.
For one reason or another, the home and
the school have in many ways failed to
measure up to their new responsibilities to
youth. This realization is coming to towns
like ours the same as it is to the larger cities.
Proof of this is found in the fast-growing
agencies to direct boys’ play through such
organizations as the Boy Scouts, through
organized sports, through better playgrounds.
Smaller towns arc commencing to get these
things now, and it is interesting to note that
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1938
Since spanking has gone out of style a lot
of parents have to take it out on each other
instead of the children.
It may be difficult for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven, but it's just as tough
for a poor man to hang around on earth.
The easiest way to tell the difference
between a fact and a theory is to remember
that a fact doesn’t need a lot of eight-cylinder
words to put it over.
It’s a good idea to have things right where
you want them when you need them, but that
doesn’t work out in regard to parking space.
Fear is uppermost in the heart of almost
every American politician today— fear that he
won’t be re-elected.
The chief drawback about being a bachelor
is it is often difficult to find someone to tie
up a sore thumb.
A politician is a man who is never satisfied
to keep his hands in his own pockets.
conveys all lot 2, block 13, Cascade
Locks Addition.
Stephen A. and Sophie Bren to
C. F. and Helen Allegre, conveys 18
acres in SW% NE»4 Sec. 24, T 2 NR
10 EWM. The purpose of deed being
to remove cloud from title of above
land caused by erroneous desc. of
Tract No. 2 in deed dated Mar. 23,
135, Vol. 24, page 520—Pine Grove.
D. H. and Winnie M. Beers to
Earl and Kathryn Ashbaugh, war­
ranty deed, conveys 3/4 acres in lot
9 of Folt’ss Subdivision of Odell,
tract being 141.3 feetx227 ft —Odell.
A. S. and Ethel Keir to Clofford C.
and B e r t h a Anderson, warranty
deed, conveys strip 12 ft. long and
25 ft. wide along Anderson tract on
west in lot 1, A. P. A.,—Hood River.
FARMERS REPAY FSA LOANS
Oregon farmers rank high in the
nation as good credit risks, judged
by repayments on Farm Security
loans for livestock, feed, seed and
cooperative facilities, made to help
farm families w i t h o u t available
credit to become permanently self-
supporting, according to Cliford L.
Smith, state rehabilitation director,
Corvallis.
Loan aid totaling $1,866,00, togeth­
er with farm and home plans that
assure maximum production of food
needs on the farm and repayment of
the loan over a period of years, has
been extended to 2,469 farm families
in the state, many on or near a
relief status.
DARKEY PREACHER HERE
Obsidian Black, an Ethiopian rr-
ligioso, made himself known Mon­
day on Hood River Streets. On a
busy down-town comer he proved
his three-fold talents, as an orator
elaborate, as a musician robusto,
and as a coin collector par excel­
lence. His mode of song was col­
orful and vigorous, but his manner
of sermon-dellvery was beyond all
description. Obsidian appeared to
he well along in years, hut not
lacking In vigor, and his speech,
quite audible several blocks away,
failed to convey to a hundred lis­
teners any semblance of thought
or coherence. He passed around
his tin bank to business houses
and collected nickels, and all in all,
proved quite a Blue Monday en­
tertainer.
be stronger if the first stitch is not
slipped when turning. Knit every
stitch.
Forum
Editor,
Bonneville Dam Chronicle:
I have read your editorial, “ The
Legion and War” in your last issue,
April 13, in which you commend the
Legion for its support of the bill “ to
prevent profiteering in time of war,
and to equalize the burdens of war,
and thus provide for the national
defence, and promote peace.” This
is House Bill 9604. A bill that would
do that ought to be enacted. How­
ever in the reading of the bill I find
that it does none of the things the
title says it does, unless it hopes to
do this by making the president a
dictator in time of war.
In it the president will have abso­
lute power to draft into military ser­
vice all persons between the ages of
21 and 31 for service over-seas; to
control wages and fix prices; to
license every “ public servive” which
includes all industries; to control all
farm organizations; to control the
radio and the press. The press,
though specifically exempted from
the licensing provisions, could be
controlled in other ways provided for
in the bill.
The Legion, in years past, has ad­
vocated the drafting and/or confis­
cating of wealth and property for
use of the nation in time of war,
quite obviously a more democratic
method than that of dictatorship
•provided in this bill. If we should
ever have a president with the desire
to become an absolute dictator, we
will have provided the means he
might use. Why take a chance on
such a thing happening? Why place
such a temptation in the way of any
person, by enacting such a bill? I
believe that if many of the support­
ers of this measure would give it a
careful, searching study, there would
be fewer who will continue to be
fooled by it.
Why not enact a bill safer, and
more in keeping with the American
tradition of democracy, s u c h as
House bill No. 9525 drafted by the
munitions inquiry committee.
It
provides for steeply graduated in­
come taxes which take 93 per cent of
incomes above $20,000 and a smaller
percentage of all inbomes above
$3,000 in time of war. Such a meas­
ure would be a great help to the end
of keeping us out of war.
Dick D. Morgan, (Farkdale)
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Meetings
M V nU V nU H H V V M M H H H m
American Legion,
Bonneville Post,
No. 88, second Tuesday of each
month at the Civic Auditorium,
Bonneville.
Bonneville Parent-Teachers Associa­
tion — First Wednesday every
month, study club at 1:30, regular
meeting at 2:30 in Bonneville grade
school auditorium.
Bonneville Rod & Gun Club— Fourth
Monday of each month at Civic
Auditorium, Bonneville.
Bridal Veil Lodge, No. 117, A.F. and
A.M. — School house, Latourelle
falls, second Saturday in each
month. Visiting Masons welcome.
Cascade Yacht Club—Thursday, cab­
in 8, Enquist addition. Everyone
welcome.
Cascade Locks Chamber of Com­
merce — Merrill's dining room,
Tuesdays, noon.
Cascade Locks City Council—Second
Monday of each month, city hall.
Cascade Locks Boy Scouts — High
school, Tuesdays. 8 P.M.
Bonneville Boy Scouts—Grade school
auditorium, Tuesdays, 7 P.M.
Cascade Locks Townsend Club—Odd
Fellows hall, first and third Fri­
days, 8 P.M
Rebekahs—Cascadla lodge. Cascade
Locks, first and third Wednesdays
of each month. Odd Fellows hall,
8 P.M.
Cascade Locks P.-T. A.: Meets in the
evening of the second Wednesday
of the month.
Port Commission—Second Thursday
of each month at City Hall, Cas­
cade Locks.
Damsite post. Veterans of Foreign
Wars — First and Third Mondays,
meeting room of administration
building. 8 P.M.
I. O. O. F. Cascade Lodge — Every
Monday night. Cascade Locks.
Troop 390, B. S. A. Grade school gym
every Friday. Cascade Locks.