GATE CITY JOURNAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932.
j Jordan Valley Monday.
the state. He was ridiculed but he landed in the executive
ROBT. D. LYTLE
Dehorning, branding and irrigating
j are the chief occupations of the sea
A tto rn e y a n d C o u n selo r a t L aw
chair.
son as it is too wet far other farm wort
May we quote, for the entertainment or intrrest of our
Flret National Bank Building
C r j i *iianfjrvi cacis ti-3h* *a*t
readers, a few of the sayings which will bring him a bit of
Phone 66
week from Marglng where he has been
HOOVER'S WAGE PLAN
glory, if not the presidential nomination.
feeding sheep at the Colin McLeod
vr. r. AND ALMA McLINO, PublUher»
Vale
Oregon
President
Hoover's
plan
for
a
five-
ranch.
W. 8. Brown. Owner
Civilization begins and ends with the plow.
day week and payless vacations should
Qeorge Howton of Caldwell, our reg-
It’s much more important right now to know where to be adopted In preference to the Mc ular
vegetable man. was In the valley
Subscription. Year ...........................1150
Duffie program for a flat cut of 11 per Tuesday on his way to California. How-
get a square meal than where to get a drink.
Subscrpitlon. 8 Months ----------- ---- 75c
in the salaries of federal em ton Is going down over the I.O.N. and
The trouble with our government now is that it is too cent
ployes. The cut can follow, if It be if the road will permit he will return
Entered at the Post Office at Nysss, Oregon, as Second Class Mat tar
powerful for the weak and too weak for the strong.
comes necessary, but the federal gov this way with a load of fruit and veg
AUTOMOBILE
This country never will recover until the farmer recov ernment should take this opportunity etables.
of encouraging the shorter working
REPAIRING
Clyde Stul ts has been a visitor In
ers.
ALFALFA BILL MURRAY
week.
Caldwell
the
past
week.______________
The failure of the banks did not break the farmer any
Since Alfalfa Bill Murray took his sudden and unex more than the thermometer produced the blizzard. It was In other words. If the federal gov
ernment goes on a five-day basis, the ¡Jilllllllllllllllllfi
plained departure from Oregon last week, we’ve read no the other way about.
Ignitlon Generator and Starter
movement in private industry will be
Work
given a boost, and the boost will be
end of criticism and reams of conjectures but we all have
timely. It is better to have all our pop
Just East from Depot
to admit that Alfalfa Bill is different and a bit deep. He
ulation employed part time than to
PLANT A TREE
have the lucky section laboring regular
NYSSA, OREGON
dc isn’t seem to be a policy man and is somewhat refresh
hours and the rest unemployed, fright
Rooms, Board and Bath
Arbor
Day
in
1932
has
a
special
significance,
for
this
J.
M
Robertson
R. A. Conant
ing.
and gradually more desperate.
2
$2.50 per day
year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Wash ened
With long vacations and a five-day
We have been told that Alfalfa Bill had a fight in Okla ington, who was a planter of trees. This anniversary is be week .there would be leisure which
and
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homa, his native state. He was not a son of the rich. He had ing commemorated all over the United States by a gigantic those with sufficient ingenuity could “ u Rheumatism
Nervous
Cases
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use for Increasing their Income. This
no money with which to finance an expensive campaign tree-planting campaign, in which Oregon is joining.
also would be true in private industry.
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for the office of governor. So he hitch-hiked his way over
The dates of Arbor Day in Oregon are the second Friday But where wages were cut without any £ Dr. D. A. SEXTON 5 5
JOE
JAY
SMITH
in February for the western part of the state and the sec reduction in hours, the unhappy work 5 VALE, OREGON
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would have no escape from the trap.
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— Washington, Arbor Day is usually the first Friday in May. tional money, for growing a garden or
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Tree-planting festivals are probably as old as civiliza whatever else he might desire to do
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tion. Sacred trees and groves, planted avenues and road to help himself and his family. It would
seem
the
part
of
kindness
and
wisdom
sides, shaded academic walks, and memorial trees were to cut the working week and increase
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common long before America was discovered. Arbor Day, the vacations before the direct cut is
Without Cost
FOR
BEAUTY
WORK
as such, however, is purely American in origin, and grew put into effect. City, county and state
SWAN BREAD, Baked in Nyssa
s
employes
are
more
highly
paid
(in
the
"See Smith First"
out of conditions peculiar to the great plains of the west, a order named), and are better able to
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country practically treeless over much of its area, but sup stand the knife.—Oregonian.
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porting a, flourishing agriculture and with a soil and
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Nyssa, Ore.
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climate well able to nourish tree growth..
Even more beautiful and more important to the national GRASS GROWS SLOW
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well-being than the trees of street and park are the great
IN JORDAN VALLEY
forests of Douglas fir, hemlock, cedar and pine. An abun
dant supply of timber has always had a basic influence on Sheavllle—Warm rains and sunshine
the development of the American nation, and has con have
taken off the snow except on the
Nyssa, Ore.
tributed to its high standards of living.
higher hills and north hill sides, but the
MILK BREAD
Arbor Day gives school children a chance to plant for nights are so cold that grass is mak
ing slow growth and feed is poor.
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A great many bands of sheep are
Voice of the Press
THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
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coming into the valley for late lambing
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and shearing. They will go on to the
LESS COUNTIES—LESS COST?
forest reserve.
The state of Oregon would be broken up into eight div Mr. Ebe was a business visitor at
isions under the county consolidation plan of U. L. Upson Sheaville Monday to see about shear- I
of Portland, who declares local government would be sim ing.
plified and carried on more economically than by the pres Mrs. J. S. Fenwick and little daugh
ters were guests at the home of Mrs. j
ent system of 36 counties.
Tressa Scott in Jordan Valley a few j
Counties were laid out in horse-and-wagon days when days last week.
travel was limited, he explains, but now with the speed Miss Elizabeth Scott was home from
school near Boise for a few days
and facility of the automobile larger units could easily be her
vacation last week.
overned with economy. Thirty-six sets of enforcement of- The crew working on the Haines res
icers would be abolished and their work hr v .died by the ervoir was laid off several days owing
breakdown of the caterpillar.
state police, while highway and engineering duties of to Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Haylett were In
counties would be placed with the state highway commis
sion, under the Upson plan. Mr. Upson believes that $10,-
000,000 to $15,000,000 annually would be saved to tax
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ers under the plan.
‘T , pson suggests that district boundaries be made to fol
low county lines t,o avoid confusion in the description of
records and deeds. The plan also calls for complete revis
ion of local and state government (but nothing is said
about the cost of this). Each district would elect 3 com
missioners who would serve as representatives in the state
legislature and with one senator from each district would
constitute the entire legislative body of the state. All ad
ministrative officers would be reduced f rom 36 to eight
under the plan. The trouble with most plans is that it takes
too much money to work them out.
Upson’s plan shows Malheur and Harney in one district.
It-might be all right if the county seat remained in Mal
heur.
Although airplane fares are one-half what they were
three years ago, aeriel travel is still too high to suit us
conservatives.
Congress, if made up of its severest critics, might do
worse.
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It may be because Russia’s 5-year plan does not work
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and ourselves guarantee them fo r life!
The time has come when the world can be glad that
Germany’s grand old field marshal won a victory.
Y ou expect m ileage from Kelly-
Legionnaires at the Portland reunion in September can
again sleep on army equipment if they want to. Senator
Steiwer is putting a bill through Congress to authorize
loaning the cots. It has passed the Senate. Oregon wants
everybody to feel at home during the convention.
A leaky roof can run you into no end of interior
repair bills.
You can repair and remodel for less money this
year. Get our estimate.
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M ow , yo u can bu y
Herb Hoover draws as much pay as Babe Ruth but he’s
in danger of only one put-out.
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COMMENTS BY CLARK WOOD
Although the rival parties are painting each other black
each would prefer that after November the other be blue.
“COVER UP”
LUNCH
M ilk is Safe Food
Dr. R. L. Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, said:
“Nutrition is the most basic of all human respon
sibilities and the human race depends upon the
good dairy cow for its permanence. Milk is a
safe food.
Use More Of It
There is No Substitute for Shelton Milk
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