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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1920)
HE HERMISTON THE HERMISTON OREGON. HERALD Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County. Oregon, in the heart of Eastern Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company. Are You Going to Order M. C. Athey, Editor For Irrigating and Draining Entered as second-class matter, December ». 1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon Concrete Blocks COAL Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.00; Six Months, $1 00 For Foundations and Building latter sfe’d Mayor Baker and Deputy MIDDLEMEN SEEK GOAT City Attorney Mackay on the prof MILK PROBE IS BIG JOKE iteering scoundrels! The distributors charged, and the The profiteers are laughing in their sleeves. A red herring has league has not denied, that the far been drawn across their trail, and mers sell milk to the condenseries the authorities and the public are in for less than the distributors have to pay. It may be true. What of it? full cry on a false scent. To have enough milk to supply We forgot to gnash our teeth when we pay 8 cents for a 5-cent the public’s need, the farmers must ride on a street car. We forget to produce at times, more than enough. cuss when we pay $16 for a $5 pair That is obvious. The P. R. L. & P. of shoes, or 15 cents for a 5-cent which sells electricity, likewise has . piece of pie, or $75 for a $30 suit of a “peak load.” But unlike electricity, milk that clothes. The public rath has been cleverly is not consumed does not return to diverted. The finger of accusation its source. It sours. It must be sold. points at—whom do you suppose? And a thing that must be sold loses hat patient, hard-working, long- its value in money. That is a nat ural law. offering soul—the farmer! The News holds no brief for the The farmer Is profiteering in milk! The Portland distributors say farmer. Our first concern is for the consumer. That being so, we’ve got so! You can understand that the pow- to remember that the farmer isn't erful distributors do not welcome a going to keep his herds unless he can co-operative movement among the make a decent profit. If he sends farmers. It might succeed! For his milk cows to the slaughter house for the first time the milk producers we’ll be In a pretty fix. As for the distributors, they per- are having, through the Oregon Dairymen’s League,'something to say form but a trivial service for which as to what they shall be paid for they are vastly overpaid. If you don’t believe it, consider Seattle. their product. The Portland distributors get 3 This talk of a federal grand jury cents a quart more than the Seattle investigation is a joke. If it is true, as the Portland dis distributors get. The Seattle distributors pay the tributors charge, that the league is guilty of price-fixing, the pot is cal •farmer 8 cents and take a profit of 5 cents. ling the kettle black. The Portland distributors pay the When the league was re-organized last spring, it was shown that the farmer 5 cents and take a profit of farmers were losing money on their 8 cents! The Oregon Dairymen’s League’s herds. In May the league notified the distributors that the price must books are open to show the cost of be increased, and. the distributors production. The Portland distributors can’t or asked that the rise be delayed until after Shrine week and the Fourth, in won’t show the cost of distribution. order that there might be no suspi —Portland Daily News. cion of profiteering. To this Presi dent Katz of the league agreed. THE MENACE OF LAND On July 1 the distributors raised MONOPOLY Single Tax would eventuate is a the price to the consumer 1 cent a quart. Neither this increase nor any gigantic government land monopoly part of it was passed on to the pro and hence is highly socialistic. It proves state and federal land ducers. Yet, when the farmers asked for a lordism, and like state ownership of better price from the distributors the railroads and industries, is purely socialistic. Beyond parks and reserves for the benefit of ail the people, the tenden cy in our country is to establish Phone Your Orders , small holdings. for all kinds of The accumula! ion of large tracts is .entirely due to the opportunity for land monopoly created by govern ment ownership. Stand at Siscel’s. Phone 262 Land grants, Spanish grants, great We are ready at any time to go any cattle ranges, and land script trad- where or haul anything. ing are all due to government oper- at ions. By putting nil the taxes onto W. B. BEASLEY land, as proposed by the Single tax, land monopoly by the government would be inevitable. Cement Brick For Chimneys MANUFACTURED BY Hermiston Cement Products Co HERMISTON, OREGON WANTED LISTINGS Of good tracts of land at Her miston, 5 to 40 acres. I have buyers for several farms at a reasonable price. George W. Elder Pendleton, Oregon 818 MAIN ST. 993 HERMISTON, Published every CEMENT PIPE phone HERALD, This is Panama Hat Weather We have some new styles $3.50 to $6. The better grades are genuine panama. THE NEWEST THING Transfer Work Medium Priced Parasols $2.25 to $3.50 The City Transfer SEASONABLE MERCHANDISE Phone 404 ORON 0, We have about 100 sacks of FELTHOUSE Shell Corn at 4c per pound The cheapest feed on the market now has the most complete baled hay transfer on the project. Large and small contracts taken at conservative prices. Hermiston Produce & Supply Co. Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiniiigiiiniin Prudence on Broadway “Prudence on Broadway” is a rat tling good film for Olive Thomas, who first won fame and fortune atop the Ziegfeld Roof, It is not only far above the ordinary in plot and rapid action, but is filled to overflowing with humorous moments. It is at these times that Miss Thomas is at her best. Francis McDonald, who did "such excellent work in Miss Thomas' “Toton” is admirable as the success ful lover, while the supporting cast of usual length includes a list of well-known Triangle players. "Prudence on Broadway will be shown at the Auditorium, Wednes day, July 28. &e*D Notice Phone 404 Modern Woodmen are requested to be present at regular meeting. Macks | hall, Saturday evening, July 24. W. R. Longhorn, Clerk J. S. West, Consul. Or wish you had next Winter Proposed freight advance means $1.25 additional cost. This ad vance liable to come before September. Telephone or Call Letting us know your favorite coal. We will get it for you for July and August delivery. How many tons? Let us know Inland Empire Lumber Company Phone 331 “The Yard of Best Quality” H. M. STRAW. MGR. HIGH SCHOOL MOVIE Gladys Hulette “HIGH SPEED” DR I Goc east )R í one D. 1 If you miss “High Speed” you will kick yourself when your neighbor tells you how good it was. SATURDAY, JULY 24 Prudence on Broadway .„with... OLIVE THOMAS A wonderful love story of a demure little Quaker girl For or 81 trad and ed 1 term will smal ance reg. Bow: Oreg WEDNESDAY EVENING. JULY 28 Full Line of Ladies’ Shoes = Make this Store Your Headquarters when in Umatilla Full Line of Girls’ and Boys’ and Small Children’s Sh es. WHEN YOU ARE IN TOWN DROP INTO OUR STORE AND LIS TEN TO JUST, ONE SELECTION ON THE The Oak Tan Shoo Store repairing to sufficiently well known and proven to need no comment. SEE HITT Mandell Phonograph prepay them back to you on short notice. The Oak Tan Shoe Store Hermiston, Oregon = iïlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIlIlllIlliiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiniinuitniHiiiY YOU WILL BE CONVINCED THAI IT IS JUST THE ONE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR Every Part Guaranteed Against Breaking During the Life of the CONFECTIONERY Suba Fnuntain And Machine PURE HAWAIIAN CANE MOLASSES velop -FOR- GUNS AU Popular Soft Drink» Price $165—10 Per Cent off for Cash ICE CREAM "SHADY BROOK” 75 PER CENT ALFALFA MEAL — 25 PER CENT MOLASSES BROWNELL’S STORE C. S. MCNAUGHT CO.. HERMISTON, ORE. Umatilla, Oregon AMMUNITION A FULL UNE I out < STATIONERY Send your orders by malt or express and we will Sam Rodgers, Proprietor R Dair in re In Cone» and Package» Cigm and Tobacco show of ot Call will 1
