N YSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, THURS., NOV. 11, 1937
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ST. P A U L ’S E PISC O PAL CHURCH
Rev. Stanley Moore, Pastor
Church
Services
every
morning at 9:30 o’clock.
Sunday
Sunay School will meet at 10:30
each Sunday morning.
TH E N A T IO N A L A N TH E M
A N D TH E ENEM Y—
Kerm it A. Ecklebarger. Pastor
WE READ: “ Let your light so shine
before men that they may see your
good works, and glcrlfy your Father
which Is In heaven." Beloved, this
"is one real way one can show love
to God by doing good.
10:00 A. M. Sunday School For
the whole family.
11:00 A. M. Morning Worship.
Theme: The Acid Test.
7:45 P. M. Young People C.E.
Juniors: 5th and 8th grades. Sen
iors: High school and college ages.
Adults Question Hour.
830 P. M. Evangelistic
Service.
Theme: Who W ill Go.
Wednesday Evening Prayer meet-
Two Minute
Sermons
SU ND AY SCHOOL
Meets In Kingman Kolony school
house Sunday at 1:00 p. m.
Floyd E. White, pastor
K IN G M A N K O L O N Y
C O M M U N IT Y CHURCH
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K IN G M A N K O L O N Y L.D.S.
C O M M U N IT Y CHURCH
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Evening service 7:30 p. m.
N a magazine article not long ago the
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author was advocating the ommission o f the
word “ Enemy” , from the national anthem.
tng at 8:00 p. m. L e t’s come out and
join In with us In Prayer and study
of Oods word.
M E TH O D IST
L. D. S. CHURCH
Luther Fife, Bishop
Evidently the writer had n e v e r waited
throughout a long night trying to pierce the en
veloping darkness for a faint glimpse of Old
Glory still waving. Nor thrilled at the first faint
rays o f a new dawn with the sight o f it still there.
This could be'the only excuse for such internat
ionalism manifesed in his writing.
This song was written during our war with
England in 1812 and every English person knows
as does everyone in this country that the two
nations were at war. Not only then, but also pre
viously when we won our independence. True
their version of it is a bit different than ours, but
that is to be expected. The fact still remains how
ever that we were at war and they know and we
know it, Then why this necessity o f camouflage.
And why should they or any other nation with
whom we have fought and are now at peace ob
ject to this impersonal word enemy.
Rather is it not to the credit o f both that
after great bitterness, peace between us now
exists and that those things which caused the
strife have been ironed out and we again carry
on in our daily international life as brother na
tions trying to understand each others problems
and having the same ultimate goal in view? A
world wide peace with a goodly place for each
man within his own national borders to work
out his daily problems. Surely men with the
depth and breadth of understanding necessary
to be their nation’s representatives o f whatever
country, can find no cause for embarassment in
our national anthem when viewed in this light.
Let it be the way it was written by one who
throughout a long dark night, as prisoner on an
enemy’s ship watched for the first faint signs of
his flag, the stars and the stripes, through the
rocket’s red glare and with the dawn, thrilled
when he saw it still there.
Only the strong, men like he, and those in
later wars w ho’ have listened in filthy prison
camps for a crumb of news from their own lines,
those who have lain with buddies wounded
unto death in mud filled shell holes made by
enemy guns or stood knee deep in the mire o f
trenches with their own guns ready and their
bayonets bared through out a long night have
offered their last drop o f life ’s blood aboard
their country’s battlesnip, as at Manilla Bay,
that this flag might not come down. Or courag
eous women who month after month have
watched dailv bulletins for lists o f wounded,
missing and dead with a prayer on their lips that
the name for which they searched might not be
there.
Then when guns had ceased their firing, had
watched with the throngs at the curbs, search
ing, searching, and thinking and praying that
maybe in that first carriage behind a horse
drawn caison, bearing an oblong wooden box,
flag draped. Let these say.
Or men, who all the years since our last ex
perience with an enemy, have lain bed ridden,
blinded, crippled and have watched life with all
o f its fullness pass them by. Ask them. They do
not regreti Rather would they do it gain. Pass
through hell itself to carry on and follow blindly
that same flag, that through their sacrifice it
might continue to wave out on the breeze and
that the country for which it stands, might still
carry on.
It was no white livered internationalist wish
ing to save embarassment to another nation’s
diplomat over such a trival thing as to suggest
that we strike from our national anthem a word
that alters its whole spirit. The spirit that put
this nation, our country, these United States into
the history o f this universe and into the front
ranks o f a world’s progress, neither will they
keep it there.
Rather it will always be, as it ever has been,
the man with courage to brave the winter with
bleeding feet, with cold and sickness and hung
er as they did at Valley Forge. Men who have the
guts to go over the top with bared bayonets to
meet an enemy with bayonets, equally as bare
and perhaps with jagged edges as well.
Men who gave their all and count it no loss
that through dark nights or the dazzling sun of
noontide, their flag, ours, yours and mine may
interested.—La signed the petition for a lodge at
this place. Election of officers re
sulted as follows: Robert vanOllse,
W M.; B. F. Farmers, S.W.; W. Lee
SPECIAL SESSION
Blodgett, J. W ; W. J. Boydell,
Editorial oplnionsl as seen
treasurer; A. C Palmer, secretary;
The weather In Washington may
yy other editors. The opinions
A. T. Boydell. S. D. T. F. Coward,
have
cooled
o
ff
since
August
when
expressed may or may not
D.; L. Spier, SS; P J. Phillips, J.
agree with the policy of The
j congress adjourned but It Is yet to J.
S.
be
determined
whether
the
con
Oate City Journal.
gressmen, themselves, have cooled
their tempers or not. Being called
Current Events of the Week
back in special sesslos will not be
In November 1910
very popular whh men who want
W H A T ! DIVIDENDS?
to stay h:m e and campaign for re-
Explosion
of a
gasoline
tank
There has been a lot of yelping election. which Is what most of them
caused a $35,000 fire at Salem, Ore.
about business being "ruined” by the have been doing
since
coming
The patent office at Washington Is
new deal tactics of President Roose home.—Moro Journal.
velt and his "wrecking crew."
swamped with Inventions of ap
We admit we were taken In by a j
pliances for aerial navigation.
lot of the noise. Now Chrysler I THE SAME APPLIE S TO N YS SA
A resident o f south west China
Motors. General Motors, Internat
declares the empire Is ripe for re
Streets Wthout Names
ional Nickel have started the extra
bellion ,and only a spark Is needed
dividend parade with announcement
The streets of Council are un to start It.
of highest earnings since 1929.
adorned with names to guide the
The entire police reserve of New
These are the folks supposed to stranger about
tewn and to the York City, numbering about 9,000
have been
practically
ruined by strangers this is a disadvantage.
men, were ordered held In readiness
labor troubles. Seems like the mere W hile is it true Council is not so
to answer riot calls on account of
they pay labor, the
more money large that one would be in any
the express drivers’ strike.
they make.
danger o f getting lost and needing
Sarah Bernhardt arrived In New
Pin most o f the big business critics the police to get oriented again, yet
York City for a long theatrical en
down and they will admit they have it is a disadvantage to tell a strang
gagement In this country. She was
been making more money as the er cr even some not so strange thf
greeted by a delegation of suffra
new deal policies progress— not les6. way about town. T o try and describ
gettes with hugs and kisses and her
where
So-and-So
lives,
so
many
Now W all street experts,
after
path was strewn with flowers.
blocks
mumbling about “ hesitancy, and dis blocks south and so many
Bryan will enter the political cam
trust of government
policies" are e3st of such-and-such a place is a
blushlngly . admitting the
recent poor way of telling one coming to paign at his own expense his first
where
another is to be speech being made at Lincoln Neb.
stock market slump was technical— inquire
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By Floyd E. White
Pastor Methodist Community
Church
to harmonize those
Grande Review.
Sunday 8chocl 10 o’clock. D. R.
DeGross, superinntendent. Mrs. J.
Poage, junior superintendent. Mrs.
Dave Beers, primary superintendent.
Morning worship 11:15. Sermon
theme: The Bible, A Lamp Unto
Our Feet.
Epworth League 7 o’clock. Faye
that Is it was designed to wipe out
Smith, president.
little traders and to get back nearer
Evening worship 8 o’clock.
a sound basis.
Wednesday evening choir rehear
Industrials can make a tot of
sal at 8 o ’clock.
noise when they feel hurt. But their
actions speak
louder
than their
words. Never mind what they say.
CHURCH OF TH E NAZARENE
Are their dividendt payments being
Pastor, Vern Martin
made? That is the question.—Boise
Sunday School at 10.00 a. m.
Capital News.
Morning Worship 11:00 a. m.
N.Y.P.S. at 7:30 P. M
Evangelistic 8:00 P M.
A B LO W A T W A R
W e are beginning an old fashion
When officials of over 300 big in
revival with Rev. F A. Powell. Come
and hear this able preacher each surance companies gathered in Lon
don recently and
resolved
that
evening.
henceforth no losses wl!l be paid on
property damaged through war, up
revolutions, it was the
which must develop and expand In risings or
hardest blow ever struck at war.
both realms o f life.
They assert if big business realizes
Spiritual birth moans ent|ince
It is not going to have its properties
Into a world in which we can see.
and munition stocks and war sup
The man who has woven over and
plies protected, then there isn't go
around himself a corverlng of self
ing to be enough profit In war to
ish purpose can not really see. The
warrant the gamble. Take the pro
realm of sight Is the vast outside,
fits out of war and the chance c f
reached as a man struggles away
starting one will be greatly lessened
from himself.
That realm cannot
When war beings to flatten instead
be known
till It is experienced. of fatten pocketbooks, there will be
Perhaps no better
illustration of a more general demand for peace.
this can be found than in the life
The Insurance men have hit the old
o f Nicodemus
First he came to
God o f W ar an awful rap, and hu
Jesus by night. The second time we manity owes them a debt o f grati
see him he Is not the man o f the tude for doing so.—Camas County
night, but of the day. Here he Courrier.
speaks In behalf o f Jesus before the
Sanhedrin, questioning them as to
A PLE A FOR R E S P O N S IB IL IT Y
their right to condem Jesus without
"Except a man be born anew, he
cannot see the Kingdom o f God."
John 3:3.
“ Except a man be born anew, or
from above,” our Lord said to Nlco-
demus, “ he cannot see the Kingdom
of Ood. Jesus is speaking of en
trance Into spiritual life.
In His
thought the Kingdom Is the realm
of life. The one great word In this first hearing his case.
The third
Fourth Gospel is the
word
life. time we see Nicodemus he stands
Jesus has come that men may have at the tomb of Jesus to do reverence
life and that they may have life to the departed leader.
fore abundantly. In this chapter,
Here is a beautiful picture of a
near the opening of the Gospel of man who was born Into the Spirit
life, we get Christ's though of en ual Kingdom and who grew and de
trance into life. T h e Kingdom of veloped Into as devoted a follower
Christ Is not an artificial kingdom. as were the desciples. And this Is a
Entrance does not come by legal natural condition of a spiritual life,
naturaliztlon or by merely formal for we cannot stop or stand still or
enlistment. It comes as all entrance else It will mean spiritual death.
to real life comes—by birth.
The address of William S. Knud-
sen, president of the General M ot j
ors Corporation, made before the
Associated Industries of Massach
usetts in Boston was a sensible
plea for labor*reponsibllity. He stat
ed that his organization found the
sit-down strikes and the direct
action of the Automobile Workers
o f America last winter injurious
and costly. But he was careful to a f
firm labor’s right to organize and
the manufacturers’ determination to
Jesus speaks very definitely about
abide by the law— in this case the
the birth Into the natural world aod
An Italian Belief
Wagner Labor Law. When business
also the spiritual world and he also
Rattling the keys in the pocket is restricts its criticism to labor ex
points out that in both types birth supposed. In Italy, to keep off the cesses and refrains from assailing
■‘E vil Eye.”
Is but the starting point o f growth
the principle of disciplined union
ism, it maintains an impregnable
position. Labor is then placed in the
position of having to show it can
still wave and their children and their children’s
eliminate these excesses.
children may still sing, “ The Star Spangled
T h e encouraging fact is that labor
banner, oh long may it wave.”
is already assuming this task. The
Ask these men and these women about the
automobile workers' union months
ago undertook to purge from its
word “ enemy.” It will not be stricken out but as
ranks many of the “ hot heads"
it is written so will the national anthem o f these
against whom Mr. Knudsen inveigh
United States remain.
ed T h at the Committtee for Indus
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trial Organization Is conscious of
the the validity of Mr. Knudsen's
A R M IS TIC E D A Y 1937—
protest is evidenced by the sudden
abandonment o f militant organiza
T the eleventh hour o f the eleventh month,
tion drives and its Increased re
liance upon the machinery of the
1918, the drums o f war were hushed in
Labor Board. Above all the
silence. A strange, weird stillness followed the Wagner
very fact that the C IO is today ne
Command— “ Cease firin g !” The roar o f artil
gotiating with the American Fed
eration of Labor suggests that It
lery, and o f rifle fire, and the sharp rattle o f ma
has been chastened and sobered by
chine guns died away. Peace had come at last.
public hostillity to its earlier ex
The most devastating war in human history was
cesses.
at an end.
Mr. Kundsen has every right to
expect labor to abandon
policies
And now, my Comrades, we pause with bow
that lead toward class warfare and
ed heads and remember. W e would honor our
industril unrest. Conversely labor
nation’s dead— our brave comrades “ who paid
has every right, once it has legalized
and disciplined Its methods, to ex
the last full measure o f devotion.” As true Am
pect business generally to co-oper
ericans they fought, and as brave Americans
ate in the process o f untranmmeled
they died. Enshrouded in our flag o f glory they
collective
bargaining—Christian
sleep as those who acted well their part. From
Science Monitor.
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failing hands they tossed to us the torch and
bade us hold it high. Destiny and Fame received
their gifts and kept them.
America is a nation o f idealists. The World
W ar proved i t Through blood and sweat and
and fire our fellow countrymen struggled to
realize certain great ideals. W e may have been
deluded by old world propaganda and hood
winked by clever, unscrupulous diplomacy. But
our purpose was right, and we found our souls
. in struggle.
Many bitter lesson have been learned from
the War. Nineteen years o f serious thought has
served to intensify our hatred o f o f war. Stand
ing here today we pledge to the living and the
dead our solemn choice— W E CHOOSE PEACE
— Rev. Willard A. Elkins, Chaplain, American
i Legion, Department of Oregon.
A NEW CONGRESS
A special session o f congress has
been called by President Roosevelt
The special session will be asked to
complete the program which was
not reached before adjournment last
August. Wages, hours and agricul
ture are the three things which the
president stated
would be given
special attention when the legisla
tors met again Labor agitation with
all its accompaniments has brought
the m atter o f
stages and
hours
strongly
Into the limelight In all
parts o f the nation There must be
some solution found to the problem
that will Insure protection to both
the worker and the employer In
their battle for existence Unless a
mutual ground Is found upon which
to meet it may be an endless task
By order o f President T a ft Hart
H. North has been removed from
his position as commissioner of im
migration at San Francisco.
found.
It seems that the main streets, at
last, are named and we have heard
their names a time or two, but they
are as strange to the ears o f Council
residents as they are to strangers
Why would it not be possible for
the village to have small signs
painted and placed to designate the
principal streets at least? The cost
would not be too great and the
benefits would certainly be great —
Adams County Leader.
Leonard Olson, a prominent Soc
ialist and I.W.W. speaker of Tacoma
will probably lose his citizenship for
denouncing the constitutlcn and the
government.
Roosevelt declares that the busi
ness men's fear o f him is caused by
false reports of W all street.
Lodge Meetings
G A M B LIN G
A great many people seem to
think that gambling in stocks and
bonds on the New York Exchange
affects the well being and pros
perity o f all the people. Maybe it
does. Very few newspaper men are
financiers and hence are not auth
orities on the question of how the
stock market affects their pocket-
books.
There are two classes of people,
however, that we are certain are
greatly affected by this business of
gambling in stocks and bends. The
first of these are the
ones who
control that market. Just how this Is
done, we do not know, not having
had any experience along that line.
But It is evident that some people
do get rich in this sort of gambling.
It Is also evident that when those
people gain, someone else loses.
The other class that is affected
are the suckers, without whom
there could be no winners.
I f gambling of this kind affects
the pocketbooks o f the large class
o f American
people who do not
gamble, then it is apparent that the
New Ycrk stock Exchange should
be abolished. W hy pass laws mak
ing poker playing a misdemeanor
and allow the big gamblers to oper
ate under legal protection?—Owy
hee Chronicle.
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It Happened
In Nyssa
Years Ago
Visiting Members Invited to Attend
VETERANS OF FO REIG N W ARS
Owyhee Post No. 3506
Meets: 2nd Friday at Legion Hall
Jacob K ollen.................Commander
Dwight Smith................... Adjutant
W. C. D u fffy...........Service O fficer
Auxiliary No. 3506
Meets; 2nd Friday at Legion Hall
Mrs. E. Cloninger............. President
Mrs. Chas. P aradis......... Secretary
I.O.O.F
Gate City Lodge No. 214
Meets:
Eagles Hall
Frank Bailey
Noble Grand
Don M. Graham................Secretary
Rebekah
Yellow Rose No. 202
Meets: 2nd and 4th Thursdays
Eagles Hall
Mrs. Blanche McClure, Noble Grand
Mrs. Frank Leuck............ Secretary
j
FR A TE R N A L ORDER OF EAGLES
Aerie No. 2134
I Meets: Every Wednesdy, Eagles Hall
Bernard F r o s t......Worthy President
Barry M iner.....................Secretary
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Auxiliary
Meets: 1st and 3rd Friday
Eagles Hall
Mrs. Chas. c,e:ick............ President
Mrs. Ronald
......... Secretary
Interesting bits of history
gleaned from the files of years
ago.
M ASO NIC LODGE
Golden Rule No. 147
Meets: Stated. 2nd Monday
Special. 4th Monday
Eagles Hall
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November 10 ,1910
Headlines: Democrats Win in
many States. Nyssa goes dry but
Malheur County is Wet. Nyssa Vote
Clcse. West Elected over Bowerman-
Assembly Candidate.
W. Lee Blodgett as secretary of
the Owyhee Irrigation District sent
an application to Secretary Balleng-
er for the data on the Owyhee River
that the government engineers col
lected sometime and this data will
be used by the district for the use
of the engineers.
The paper next week will tell you
about the Thanksgiving dinner.
Doctor Saraztn Is the proud pos
sessor of an automobile. He has a
chauffeur and is in every way up to
the times in automobillng.
Yesterday aftem con the ladies of
the Guild met at the home of Mrs
A. W Ward and were royally enter
tained.
Mrs J. W
Wills returned last
week from her visit with her
daughter In Lethbridge. Can.
C. E Cook of Keathey, Oregon, Is
visiting his brother Ar.hur at this
place
Grace Lackey visited her friends
In Nyssa Sunday.
Nyssa had some cement walks
laid this fall and It will be much
better walking around in the even
ing.
R<*ert van Oilse visited Ontario
Tuesday evening
Willard Lynch, who has been up
In Long Valley for several months
arrived last Saturday. He Is a wel-
rome prodigal
The Master Masons of Nyssa and
vicinity took steps toward the or
ganization of a Mason is Lodge in
Nvssa Oregon last night In the van
GUse hall Seventeen members have
Tuesday, 8 p. m.
Bernard Frost......................... W.M.
Leo Hollenberg ............ Secretary
B. B. Lienkaem per............
Tyler
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Eastern Star
O. E. S. No. 131
Meets: 1st and 3rd Monday
Eagles Hall
Mrs.
Mrs.
Bettle Forbes.... ............. W.M.
Hilda Tensen_______Secretary
AM E R IC AN LEG IO N
Nyssa Post No. 79
.
Meets: 1st and 3rd Thursday
Legion Hall
Harry Russell...............Commander
Louis P. Thomas -----
Adjutant
Auxiliary
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday
Legion Hall
Mrs
Sid Burbldge ..........President
CO M M ERCIAL CLUB
Meets: Every Wednesday noon
Schwelzer’s Cafe
A. L. Fletcher................... President
F. T. Morgan..................... Secretary
TOW NSEND
CLUB
Meets: 1st Friday
Homes of Members
D. R. DeGross...................President
Mrs. A. V. Pruyn................ Secretary
Secretary's of aU lodges or
clubs
are Invited to send In to this paper
the Information contained In
the
above cards. Changes In dates of
meetings or meeting halls must be
sent In by Monday before publica
tion.