T he HERMISTON H erald
VOL. XII
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE 29. 1918
RECLAIM MORE IRRIGABLE
LAND FOR OUR SOLDIERS
RIVETING GANG CLAIMS THE U. S. RECORD
to
secretary Lane has asked for a spec-
ial appropriation of $2,000 000 to be
?
used io making investigation of the
I feasibility of various proposed plans
for irrigating new
projects. The
United Stales is already preparing for
I the reconstruction period, and projects
Cecil Kelly received a letter a few
that will provide labor for the return- days ago from his brother Harry, who
ling soldiers and also homesand a tract after enlistment was sent to Columbia
of Und will be given the special at University, New York state, to serve
tention of the government.
an apprenticeship in the department ol
Mr Newell will present all the data that institution that has todo with the
available to the secretary of the inter mechanical opera'ion of Liberty motore
ior on all lands now needing additional for flying machines and also submarine
water under the Umatilla river and chasers, in which is conveyed the in
also other lands that have no water formation that he has completed the
supply at all. The plan involves the course and was being transferred to the
construction of reservoir sites, either Standard Motor factory at Jersey City
by direct appropriation of the govern In the letter is given some facts con
lional Floy Sex
ASSE) #) Con g
ment or under the Smith-Chamberlain cerning the great propelling power
ON F89 IF •
bill, which will store water for what- contained in the little sub chaser and
ever district is in need of more water. also in that of the Liberty motor, all
The remarkable precedent set by the builders of the Tuckahoe has stimu
E. P. Dodd is preparing a booklet of which gives the reader an insight
lated a general spirit of competition in the shipyards of the country. Rivet
giving a digest of the government’s into the wonderful and costly equip ing gangs are everywhere being encouraged by bonuses and by their own zeal
plans and all the general facts now ment of these war craft. Here is hi
to make record marks. This riveting gang of the Bethlehe Shipbuilding
available on the subject. It will men interesting letter:
corporation, Fore River shipyards, Quincy, Mass., claims the United States
tion the possible reservoir sites and
“On the sub chaser, which is 110 record for riveting, having driven 2,805 rivets in nine hours.
the areas of land that can be reached feet long, there are three main six
by the Umatilla. The Teel project cylinder, 220 horse power engines and
kill also come under the government’s three propellers. Added to these is a
program. After these projects are in two-cylinder ten horse power motor
vestigated they will be adopted which drives the air compressor, bilge
Everybody is buying. Hermiston District must buy $15,000.00 in stamps
wherever feasible for immediate con- and fire pumps and the electric gener
within
the next six months
How much is your share? $20 00 for each member
struction after the war.
ator. We start the small engine off
of the family, including the baby, and enough more to make up for the unfortunate
It will be an important industrial the storage batteries, using the dyn
neighbor whom you know cannot buy this amount. If he can buy but has not
program for the people of the west end amo as a motor. There are two sec-
done so, see him at once, as this is an obligation this community owes and as each
of the county to carry out, and the lions of storage batteries of 16 cells
community in the United States is doing the same, there is no one to pass it on to.
b Here it communities should get to each, making 132 cells in all. There
Everyone in this district must buy through the Hermiston postoffice, as getting
gether in a big effort to induce the are about 30 switches and half a dozen
them any other place the amount will not be credited to this district.
government to adopt the whole plan of variable resistances to manipulate
Buy yours today and then see your neighbor.
storing enough waler t > supply abund- The main engines have direct connec-
knee for all the lands possible for irri cion to the propellers, They have two
ration under the Umatilla river or the sets of cams for each cylinder. They
eel project, the W estern Laid and can be reversed from full speed ahead
Furnish projects and all lands lying to full speed astern in five to ten sec-
adjacent.
SELF-MADE EXILES
onds. There are eight cams for each
cylinder, making 48 on each engine.
Under the above caption appears an editorial in last week's Saturday Even
The camshaft slides forward and astern
ing Post that is worthy of reproduction, being applicable in a degree to this as well
to go ahead or back. The inlet valves
as nearly ail other communities in the United States as the great war with Ger
work automatically; the ignition is
many progresses:
make and break. On each cylinder
"Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives disclose in nearly every community cer
there are two exhaust arms (ahead and
tain obstinate slackers
They are so few nowadays that they at once become
Relatives of soldiers named in casu- back), two air valve cams and two
notorious and are pointed out—like the man with the rubber ear and the armless
ilty lists forwarded from France ordi igniter calms and two compression re
boy—dismal freaks standing in sharp contrast to normal humanity.
barily are notified within 24 hours after lease cams. The stroke is 11 inches,
“Very rarely are they pro-German. Pro-Germanism does not advertise itself
receipt of the lists, according to a with a ten inch bore. The oiler on
now in that conspicuous way. Mostly they are grouches and sponges. Their
simple psychology is that of a pig in a clover patch
While the feeding is good,
tilement authorized by the war de- each engine has 17 pumps. They have
partment. A “statistical division” with an engine mounted just like it is on a
nothing less than the impact of a rock against the ribs or of a scantling on the
I staff of officers and a corps of steno- boat, with the propeller in a big tank
spinal column will inspire them to move on. So long as somebody else will keep
-
the boat going they will neither bale nor row. They are the cross-grained, bilious
[raphers gives all its time to the of water.
"The engine room force consists ol
sort which nurses all real or fancied grievances against the community in general.
maintenance of files of so diers' names
"Small as their number is, they raise an irritating problem. The community’s
ind addresses. This division notifies nine men—a chief, two firsts and six
seconds, and oilers. I'm sure to make
relatives.
feeling toward them is like the feeling of men who have been volunteering to put
out a fire toward the able-bodied citizen who refused to lend a hand but perched
A copy of the roster of each contin first, and maybe chief. I've been recom
on a horse block at a safe distance and watched their efforts with amused interest.
rent sailing to join the Expeditionary mended by two of the instructors foi
The inclination to throw a brick in his direction is strong and natural. But it must
orces is filedin card index fashion, chief but my eye is against me. If I
itch card bearing the name of one was 25 or 26 years old I would be sure
be resisted
"There is nothing to be done with these obstinate slackers except to let them
toldier, his organization, and the name of it. I may get it any * ay. The Lib
extensively alone. No man can thrive on the contempt of the community in which
ind address of parent or other relative erty motor is a wonderful piece of
" friend designated by him to be noti- mechanism. It is 12 cylinder and 300
he lives. They must find that out. The man who is well able to lend a hand now
and refuses to do it voluntarily exiles himself from the sympathy and respect of
ied. When a casualty list is received to 400 horse power. It has a horse
his neighbors. Let his own judgment upon himself as an exile stand in the future."
ruin Gen Pershing each name cabled power for every four pounds of weight
“If you ever enlist, Cecil, register
rom the American Expeditionary force
$ listed with the emergency address as machinist’s mate for the gas engine
‘ file in the card index. As rapidly course at Columbia University. Per-
8 the new list with emergency ad- sonally, however, I’d rather you would OY
tresses is built up the telegraph clerks not enlist just yet, as you are needed
with the folks at home."
et duplicates
Since the above was written letters
While relatives are generally in re-
hot of information within 24 hours closely following have been received |
Hier the cables' are received, delays from Mr. Kelly by his parents and sis
ire sometimes due to clerical errors ter Yudetb, in which he said that it |
aused by the fact that names must might be that he would be on his way
ass through so many hands in France to France as one of the crew of a sub
The Umatilla County Patriotic Ser occasionally in the paper« of the county
Ind io America, incorrect emergency chaser by the time the notes were re vice
league, cooperating with various and Information may be placed on them
dresses turned in by soldiers, remov- ceived at the family home here.
agencies, is making an effort to obtain and mailed to M. R. Chessman, secre
1 of families to addresses other than
a record of every man and woman in tary, Pendleton, Ore. At the office of
nose .isted, and the occasional neces-
| the service of either the United States the league a card index will be kept
hi for cabling back toGeneral Persh-
or any of her allies in the great war, where this information will be avail-
p to verify a name orto obtain an
whether in the army or navy. To do able. It is due these men, that the
ddress.
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this, especially in case of men who country may seep in touch with them
Aside from these four causes of de-
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, ’ have or will volunteer and in keeping and that recognition of their services
h the only reason for the failure of
The new pension bill recently passed | track or the addresses and advance- may be given when possible, that this
elatives to receive word at once is by congress which raises the amounts
record be made as full and complete
pilitary consideration, Gen. Persh- now being paid to the compartively ment of men who have gone, the co- as possible. No one must be over-
of friends and relatives is
Pi may, at his discretion, withhold a few surviving civil war veterans will operation
be printed looked.
asualty list until he is positive it will benefit the only two now resident in essential. Blanks will
ave no military value to the enemy. this community.
RECORD OF ENLISTMENT
The advance is based on age and
Age.
length of service, and as B. F. Strohm | Name ...............
has attained the age of 75 and served a Home Address
(City)
certain length of time in the civil war
(Street )
his pension will be raised from $22 50
Married...
per month to «32 50. While Mr. Fisher, Occupation Before War..
Where
..
Reading of the arrest in another the other local veteran of that memor E atered Service When ...
ir of the state of a family that had able war. has not yet reached his sev Branch of Service.............
een caught hoarding flour
made entieth year, nevertheless his long
1 kind of quizzical as to the status of service in that war will be the means Transfers
‘e situation here. In our rounds of of advancing the amount of his pen Rank....
(Include promotions and dates)
’ Stores to ascertain bow much flour sion quite alitile above what it is now
I
I
EXPECTS TO BE ON
SUB CHASER SOON
REMEMBER THIS IS W. S. S. WEEK
OTIFYING RELATIVES
OF ALL CASUALTIES
COUNTY
RECORD OF MEN IN WAR
RAISE IN PENSION FOR
CIVIL WAR VETERANS
AS HERMISTON ANY
HOARDERS OF FLOUR?
* people of this community had
red we found that 500 pounds
re
had
n turned over to the Farmers' Ex-
nge, approximately IIO pounds to
elps Cash Grocery, 225 pounds to
‘ Her niston Produce A Supply Co.
During the past week the allies
have been smashing into the Huns on
the western front and the Austrians
that crossed the Piave river have
been repulsed with heavy losses by the
Italian armies. Reports are that the
10 pound- to Kingsley’s store.
" a pound has as yet been returned American troops are beginning to pul
' the store of R. C Challis.
in sledge-hammer blows.
Nearest relative..
Address......................
Relationship
Present Address.......
Signature of Informant .................................................................
‘
Friends and relatives of boys in service are asked to All out above and
to M. R- Chessman, secretary, Pendleton, Ore.
Phone 123
mall
NO. 41
EARLY DAY FREIGHTER
NOW 0. Ä. C. PROFESSOR
J. B. Horner, professor of history in
the Oregon Agricultural college, came
to Hermiston Wednesday on a mission
of extension wo k. Professor Horn r
was an Eastern Oregon boy who earn-
ed a portion of his funds to carry him
The Hermiston Commercial Club re ‘through college by freighting with
ceived a few days ago a book of photo oxen from Umatilla to Baker City and
pictures of the scenic wonders of Ore other mining points in the days before
gon and California which it prizes the railroads came.
He expressed
very dearly, ina-much as it was sent considerable surprise when he dropped
as a souvenir to the organization by off the train at Hermiston and took in
the Hermiston boys in the Umatilla the odor of clover, alfalfa and locust
county draft of the second contingent leaves instead of ihe scent of sage
now in training at Fort McDowell, Cal- brush, and saw great locomotives rac
ifornia. e
tog where only the jack rabbit used to
Memory of these boys will always be be.
cherished by club members, who will
Professor Horner is meeting young
ardently watch for valorious acts and men and women throughout Eastern
brave deeds on their part when they Oregon who expect to attend the Ore-
go across the pond to face the enemy. gon Agricultural college next year.
To show appreciation of the exem He says the college has already sent
plary thoughtfulness of these patriotic about 1200 roen to the war, and Is
young men, whose names are Milton equipping others as rapidly as po si-
Longhorn, Dwight Sellers, Anthony ble The young man who enters the
Drolshagen, Roscoe Fisher and Emery war wiihout training draws a wage of
Hancok, Secretary Prime has been in $30 per month, while the trained man
structed to write them a letter of draws a salary four or five times as
thanks and good cheer on behalf of the large from the outset. This is be
club members.
cause Uncle Sam regards trained boys
worth four or five times as much in
his service as untrained boys. Further
more, the secretary of war has ar
ranged to leave these boys in college
until their training is complete, uu-
less the unexpected should come.
Furthermore young women are
The dining room of the Oregon hotel
is under new management and from training to occupy positions of trust
now on will be operated by Mr. and made vacant by the departure of the
Mrs. Vic'or Knight, former owners ot young men. The college thus far has
a large res'aurant at Philomath, O e- been unable to supply enough young
gon. These young people c ime well women for the demand.
recommended as be.ng II st class artists 1 The Oregon Agricultural College
in the culinary line, and already they under the supervision of President
have the dining room at the above Kerr end the board of regents is
hotel looking neat and inviting. They emphatically in the war and aiding
have given it the name of the Palm the young men and women of Oregon
to meet every demand made of them
Leaf Cafe
There
will be
The chink that operated the place by their country.
has departed for Portland. He was several new students next year in the
real willing to dispose of his interests Oregon Agricultural college from this
in the restaurant to Mr. and Mrs. locality. In all probability there will
Knight, for he had come to the con be nearly four thousand students in
clusion that the people of Hermi ton the college this year
Mr. Duan, of the Hermiston experi
bad but little use for edibles dished up
ment station, extended the college
by a Chinaman
every possible courtesy by aiding
Professor Horner, who left Thursday
for Milton and other Eastern Oregon
points.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
GETS SOUVENIR BOOK
WILL OPERATE OREGON
HOTEL DINING ROOM
TRY RAISING ALFALFA
SEED THIS SEASON GETTING ALONG FINE
IN HIS IDAHO HOME
J. H. Strohm is trying a new ex
périment this year or his ranch three
miles west of Hermiston, and present
indications are that it will be a com
plete success. Mr. Strohm has about
100 acres in a falfi, and just at the
time he was preparing for the first
cutting he changed his mind about
turning i into hay and decided to let
it grow for seed
Within the p st ten days the seed
has been setting very well and every
thing points to a heavy yield. Mr.
Strohm expects to begin harvesting
about two weeks hence, and the out-
come will be watched with interest by
ranchers of the project, many of whom
incline to the belief that raising
alfalfa for seed purposes will pay
better than raising it for fodder.
J. W. Emery, who Is in the Insurance
and real estate business at Nampa,
Idaho, left for home the middle of this
week after bavins passed ten days here
renew ing old friendships and attending
to personal business matters. It is just
about a year avo since himself and
family left Hermiston, and his many
friends were pleased to learn from him
that he is prospering in his present
location.
On his journey here he was accm-
panted as far as Lehm in Springs io the
Blue Mountains by Mrs. Emery, the
lady having remained there to take re
cupet alive treat ment while her hus-
band allended to his business affairs in
this neighborhood.
Enjoying Yearly Vacation
Mrs O P. Brigham and her daugh
ter Janice are now in Spokane enjoy
ing the beginning of a yearly vacational
pilgrimage that will last until Septem
ber 1-t.
They departed
yesterday
morning for the metropolis of the In
land Empire, where they will remain
for a time as guea'a at the Boone ave
nue home of Mrs. Julius Peterson, sis
ter of Mrs. Brigham, after which they
will journey to Portland, where Mr.
Brigham makes his beadquarters while
bolding the position of conductor on
the S. P. A- S railway.
WEATHER REPORT
The reclamation service weather
bureau report for the week ending
Thursday evening shows a maximum
of 100 degrees and minimum of 47, with
seven hundredths of an inch vre-
ci pi talion.
-I- RED CROSS +
Mrs J. I. Agnew was tue flrat to
"adopt” a Fret.ch war orphan. Olbera
were Mrs. H. M. Straw, Nancy and
Joe McNaught, Jan ce Brigham, Mrs.
H T. Fraser, T. P. Campbell, Thomas
Campiteli, F. B. Swayze, Hermiston
Honor Guard, Mrs. E. P. Dodd and
Mrs Warner, and Mrs. F. A. Phelps,
Mrs. P. B. Siscel and Mrs. Georgia
Henderson.
Umatilla County Chapter has been
asked for 20,000 forcep sponges by Au
gust 1. Hermiston has been assigned
one half the county quota, or 10,000.
As there is no sewing on band everyone
Ie asked to come and help make th se
dressings.
The Hermiston Red Croaa ladies
worked through I be hot weather and
Big July Draft Cail
have accomplished a groat deal. In
the last four weeks 100 sulle of under-
Oregon will send 1,350 more draft
men to Fort McDoweP, California, be wear were made, 10 sweaters and 625
tween the 5th and the 9 h of July. I' cellu-cotton pads.
la staled that General Crowder will
summon 124,525 white and colored
draft registrante during the month of
July, and other calls will run the total
up to 367,961, the largest ever called in
any one month.
Secretary of War Baker declares
there are enough meo tn elan <1 for
all present needs, and that the raising
of the draft age from 20 to 40 will
therefore be unnec ssary.