THE
The Hermiston Herald
Leftover Sandwiches.
Sometimes after a party there are
issued Each Saturday by
sandwiches left over. Here is an excel
lent way of using them up: Make a
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OREGON batter exactly like you use for pan-
HERMISTON
cakes and add to it either sugar or
Entered as second -class matter, December •alt, according to whether the sand-
». 1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon wichen are sweet or savory.
Then
each sandwich is dipped in the batter
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HERMISTON
HERALD,
BIRDLAND DANCE HALLS.
Playhouses and Gardana of the Austra-
lian Bower Birds.
HERMISTON, OREGON
WHY WE ARE
AT WAR WITH
GERMANY
There are several species of bower
birds, chief among them tbe Satin and
tbe Newton. The Saain bower bird is
the heat known. When the bowers
By
were first discovered it was supposed
EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS
that they were playhouses built by tbe
Executive Head, History Depart-
native children, but as a matter of fact
ment
they are tbe dance balls of birdland.
Leland Stanford Junior University
Tbe nests are built In tbe trees and
have no connection with the play-
Telltale Tommy.
houses. The male birds build these lat
GREAT SOCIAL PROBLEM.
object of this war is to deliver
Tommy- Do you go to bed very early, ter and gather every bright and shin- the “The
free peoples of the world from the
log object they can find to adorn the menace and the actual power of a vast
To Get Men Rightly to Adjust Them- Mrs. Peck?
Mrs. Peck—Yes, Tommy; sometimes entrance to the bower. When it is com military establishment controlled by an
solves to All Other Men.
Irresponsible government, which, having
-when
I feel tired.
pleted, according to one who has secretly planned to dominate the world,
Our great social problem is bow to
“You wouldn’t go so early If you were watched them, little "at homes” are proceeded to carry out the plan without
make tbe tuan at the bottom loom so
either to the sacred obligations
given daily, at whic h the males meet regard
of treaty or the long-established prac-
large and seem so important that all married to my father, would you?”
tices and long-cherished principles of in
"Oh.
Tommy,
you
funny
boy!
Why
and
pay
their
court
to
their
ladyloves,
other men will cease to think of him as
action and honor; . . . This
not ?”
now bowing and scraping, now playing ternational
power Is not the German people.
It Is
a thing and treat him as a person.
"'Cause
my
father
told
mother
that
the
ruthless
master of the German peo
hide and seek through the bower and
The real social problem out of which
... It la our buainess to see to
If lie were your husband he'd make you now doing au absurdly dignified dance ■ ple.
It that the history of the rest of the
other minor problems grow and of
sit uv!— Exchange.
world Is no longer left to Its handling.
for their edification.
which they are really only aggravated
Newton's bower bird decorates Its —President Wilson, August 27, 1917.
symptoms Is tbe world old problem of
Guard Your Habits.
WE FIGHT FOR GOOD FAITH
bower with fresh flowers every day,
the right relation between persons.
We are creatures of habit We suc- and if a visiting male bird wants to
This is a fundamental issue and to
“The faith of treaties Is the only
ceed or fall as we acquire good habits tight all be has to do is to disturb one
solve It would solve all these minor
or bad ones, and we acquire good hab of these flowers. The master of the solid foundation on which a Temple
manifestations. Tbe friendly relation
of Peace can be built up.” (James
of men is therefore not alone the gist ita as easily as bad ones. That is a bower proceeds with the painful duty Bryce.) Good faith between nations,
fact.
Most
people
don't
believe
this.
of teaching him how to behave In com
of the race problem, but it is the gist
Only those who (Ind it out succeed In pany, while the remainder of the party as between men, is the one and only
-of all social problems.
safeguard from a return to barbarism.
life.— Herbert Spencer.
raise a great racket, but never inter | Without it brute force, sheer might.
The age long struggle has been how
fere. A naturalist studying them dis ! must rule. Without it there Is no
to get men rightly to adjust themselves
arranged one of their flowers, but each security in human relations—no se
Some New Uses For Yeast.
to all other men.
Because It Is so essential in the mak time he did it the bower master rear curity, even, for life itself. To keep
flight adjustment to other men would
mean In the economic realm that no ing of bread and beer most of us think ranged It with great care.—National j one’s word, when once given, that le
capitalist would want to beat down that yeast is useful for nothing else. Geographic Magazine.
i the evidence of the progress of civ
below a living wage the laborer who Hut the Berlin Institute of Fermenta-
| ilization, and the test of it.
Industries
calls
attention
to
the
five
Impeachment
Cases.
made production possible. It would
Hence the case of Belgium becomes
that
valuable
flavoring
extracts
Although one president of the United the single greatest German offense
mean that no laborer would want more fact
wages and shorter hours than tbe con- and tonica can be obtained from It and States (Johnson), one cabinet officer against civilization in this war. At
a relatively large percentage of mus- (Belknap), six United States Judges
, dltlon of production would stand.
first, in our American ignorance of
Right adjustment between men would ile building matter. Its remaining con and eight governors of states have world conditions, we did not see this
stituent,
a
mass
of
cellulose,
can
be
been impeached since the foundation We do see it now; more and more we
mean that no landlord would be will
ing to live easy off rents of houses used to make a very hard mass, known of the republic, only one senator, Wil realize that until the crime against
which made health and happiness im- as ernolith. an excellent noninflam- liam Blount of Tennessee, has been ar Belgium is atoned for, there can be
possible to the occupant. It would ma ble substitute for celluloid.— Popu raigned before the bar of the house of no peace, and no hope of a world
congress to which he was elected. Of
mean In return that no tenant would lar Science Monthly.
at peace.
the eight governors impeached one was
demand more than that for which be
What the the facts? • By treaties
The Pulse Beat.
acquit d. In three cases the charges
gave a just return, and be would pro-
signed in 1815, and again in 1831, and
The
readiest
and
roughest
estimate
were
dropped,
one
was
permitted
to
y artect the interest of his landlord ns he
of time Is the pulse bent. It is sad to resign, and three were removed. Three still again in 1839, this last revision
— would protect his own interest.
being in effect in 1914, it was agreed
Right adjustment would mean In all know that the human pulse beat Is not of the impeached Judges were removed, “Belgium shall form a perpetually
walks of life the rule of right, not the exactly sixty to the minute. That is and three were acquitted. Both Presi
one of the faulty disarrangements of dent Johnson and Secretary Belknap neutral state. The five powers guar
rule of might. Southern Workman.
life. But It comes pretty close. And were acquitted. Politically the last antee to It this perpetual neutrality,
the rough and ready calculator of the named impeachment cases were the as also the inviolability of its ter
Logical Conclusion.
ritory.” These five powers were Aus
"Electric wires must be quick tern time between the flash of lightning most important the United States has | tria, France, Great Britain, Russia
and
the
thunder
depends
on
his
pulse
experienced.
—
Argonaut.
pered."
and Prussia. By such treaties the
when he cannot see tils watch. To the
"Why?"
New York’s Subways.
neutral state was pledged to defend
“Because It seems so dangerous to ordinary mini a second is a pulse beat
More than 2,000 trains start each day In arms the neutrality of its terri-
—
London
Chronicle.
cross them."- Baltimore American.
from the terminals of New York's st >- | tory; and each of the great powers
way systems. They are run on sched- pledged Itself not only not to march
Comprehensive
Business.
No Hangings.
ules as carefully prepared and as close troops into or through the neutral
"I suppose you built up your colos
Him How did you like the stage
ly timed as those of a trunk line rail state, but also to aid her, in case
sal
fortune
by
attending
strictly
to
hangings in Unit Shakespeare show?
road.
her territory were violated.
He There weren't no hangings, y’ your of . business.'
Between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 per- | The world, thinking no nation so
“
Yes,
replied
Mr.
Dustin
Stax.
“
But
boob! He killed 'em with a sword.—
I made It my business to keep inform sons ride each day on the subway. base as to break its word, was com-
Cornell Widow.
ed as to what the other people were This is more than twice the number pletely taken by surprise by the at
carried daily by nil the trains on the tack on Belgium. But we know now
Men who are low and are falling do doing.”—Washington Star.
entire Pennsylvania railroad system.
from Oerman »tatements, that German
not revolt. It Is men who, although
Nearly two thirds of the New York military plans had for years intended
Unkind.
they may be low, are rising who re-
She- What do you suppose Harold users of the subway are carried during to break this pledge. German rulers
3 volt.—W. O. Sumner.
meant by sending me those flowers? the morning and evening rush hours.— lied as to this consistently, and lied
up to the Irut day. On the morning
Also She lie probably meant to imply Rapid Transit.
before the German troops advanced
Sound Advice.
that you were a dead one. -Jack o'Lan
the German minister assured Belgium
"Is there no way of stopping these tern.
Not His Language.
cyclones?" naked a man of the traveler
Lord Robson, at one of the dinners of she need feel no alarm, and in the
Paradoxical.
who was recounting Ills experiences tn
the Glamorgan society, told the story evening of that same day he delivered
"The truth lies somewhere.”
far countries
of a Welsh witness in a Glamorgan- his ultimatum.
The world has never seen so com
"Strange conduct. Hint, for the shire case who, having been sworn to
"No,” replied the narrator. "The
speak the truth, the whole truth and plete a denial of the binding effect
best way Is to go right along with truth.”— Baltimore American
’em." - Exchange.
nothing but the truth, was asked If he of the pledged word. Why has Ger-
The Allies have been keeping could speak English or would like an many so lost sight of the principle
he replied; “I can , of honor among nations? Her own
Whenever you can look at yourself
Interpreter.
the enemy on the move backward speak
some English, but I cannot speak ( answer reveals the cause; it is again
aud he satisfied you should begin to
all week, and have captured the truth, the whole truth, and nothing 'the plea of might. “The fato that Bel
suspect yourself of moral blindness.
gium has called down upon herself
but the truth.'-- St. James' Gazette.
1 many hundreds of them.
(note the hypocrisy of this) Is hard
but not too hard, .
for the
destinies of the immortal great na
tions stand so high that they can
not but have the right, in case of
need, to stride over existencies that
can not defend themselves."
(Pro
fessor Oncken.)
When the British
Minister at Berlin notified the Ger
man Chancellor that Great Britain
C.
7
was in honor bound to defend Bel
glum's neutrality, the latter argued
that this was “Terrible,” a war “Just
for a word—'neutrality'—Just for a
scrap of paper." The pitiful—get. the
terrible—»igniflcance of such utter
enrei, it that Germans believe them
justified.
“If I am asked what we are fight-
Ing for." said Prime Minister As-
quitti. “I can reply In two sentences.
In the first place, to fulfill an obliga
tion . . . not only of law. but of
and continues for two weeks, ending Saturday evening, August 31.
honor, which no self-respecting man
Regardless of merchandise shortages, regardless of high wholesale prices, re could possibly have repudiated; sec
ondly, to vindicate the principle . .
gardless of any and all conditions, we have brought down prices on summer goods that
small nationalities are not to be
erushed. In defiance of international
to a point that must compel their immediate and complete
good faith."
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—V C a direct guarantor
America,
was not
like Great Britain, of the neutrality
1
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of Belgium, 11
though In _____
various
con
j ventions (of which Germany also was
and these present
are now taking up the space they will have to occupy a signer) we pledged to the main
| tenance of the world principle of "good
faith." But every nation was attacked
The lowest prices quoted on 1918 merchandise will be in effect during this sale
i when Germany broke faith "The law
protecting Belgium which was vio
lated was our law and the law of
every other civilized country. . . It
was our safeguard against the necee
sity of maintaining great armaments
Our intereit in having it maintained
the law of nations teat a »u hitan
is included. Qualities are absolutely dependable. Styles are faultless. Assort as
tini, rateable, permanent interest."
(Elihu Root I
ments are excellent
In the hope of an enduring peace. In
Not one element is lacking to prevent this from being the most important and
the hope of an advancing civilisation
we can not forget Belgium. In the
far reaching August Cleanup Sale in our history.
hope for unmolested self-development
the sense of our own security nec
this Nomatter what you are doing it will pay you to lay of a day and come to | In essary
to progress we must not forget
Belgium, until her wrongs are righted
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Having suppressed the Salvation
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the Kaiser has given up all hope
of salvation just as his subjects
began to get suspicious.
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