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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1920)
HE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON WATER FIRST AID SAVES UVES OR VEST COAST Scarcity of Telephone Equipment As new subscribers a number of individuals have recently placed orders with us for telephones. Old subscribers have asked for service at new locations. They have been told by cur representatives that immediate compliance with their desires was impossible owing to lack of "telephone facilities” in a s particular locality. "Why," one will say. “The poles and wires are on the street and the house is al ready wired.” We wish that the problem were as simple as it sounds. may be in use in giving service to others. ed to telephones already installed. There may be poles and wire, but every wire There may be a cable, but every circuit in It may be assign There may be spare wires and circuits and no switchboard apparat us at the central office to which they can be connected. There may even be sections of switchboards but not available for operation on account of the lack of necessary accessories such as ringing keys, re- Alter Red Cross first aid activities in the Northwest division this year have been chiefly devoted to “water first aid” instruction and organization. Several units of Swimmers have been organ ized and trained in communities on the sound and western rivers, and rescues have already result ed from the Red Cross work. lays, etc. The reason for the shortage of telephone equipment is simple. Government purposes and for industries properly favored by the Government. When the man on the street-is ask ed for his annual Red Cross dues of $1 during Roll Call week, November 1 to 26, he will, know that half of that dollar stays in his own communi- tÿ. If he has done an average amount of Red Cross reading he will know that a small slice out of the other 50 cents is appropriated to “disaster re lief.” But unless he is ene of the excep tionally few he will not know what “disaster relief” has meant to the world during the life of the American Red Cross, nor will he realize what small slices of dollars will do If there are enough of them. In the Northwestern Division, time after time the relief organization has met its crisis and has stood the test. Twice in Oregon in December of 1919 —at Mosier when fire left families destitute and again when the Marsh field chapter cared for survivors and recovered bodies of the dead from the wrecked schooner “Chanslor” — the test was met. In 1920 came the land slide at Juneau, Alaska, and the hotel fire at Klamath Falls, Oregon. More people learned that "disaster relief’ means things in the lives of men. In the 38 years since its incorpora tion up to June of 1919, the American Red Cross had participated in 180 dis aster relief expeditions. It directed the expenditure of approximately $12, 500,000. Before the organisation had attained its present large membership funds often ware raised through pop ular subscription for such large dis- asters as the Mississippi floods and cyclones,of 1882 and 1883, the Texas famine, the Armenian massacres of 1893 and 1894, the Martinique volcano eruption and many others. A list of all the Red Cross relief werk in times of fire, flood and famine would take pages. Long before the organisation under the stress of war and war’s results had grown into the lives of millions, disaster relief was one of Its foremost activities. The Congressional Charter under which the Red Cross has operated since 1905 sets forth as one of the chief purposes of the organisation: "to continue and carry on a system of • • • relief and to apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fires, floods and other great national calamities.'* And now, with its wonderful organ isation of chapters, branches and aux- iliaries reaching to the farthermost parts of the nation, its members In strueted and ready for action when the occasion arises, Red Croes “dis- aster relief" has become accident in surance for the world. OBJECTIVE! even current demands have been delayed. tising produces advertising—just that, nothing more. Advertising for the sake of mer At the same time with this abnormal situation with reference to materials there exists an unprece dented demand for telephone service, and even under these circumstances our record is one of fulfill ment of demand. In the first eight months of this y ear we have added 6863 telephones in the State of Oregon. In the eight months prior to our declaration of war we gained 2655 telephones. We desire to give service as much as the patron wishes to receive it. W e desire to promptly comply with the suggestio'ns of public authorities who have taken a proper Interest in the situation. We are facing abnormal conditions but we will—of necessity, gradually—overcome our difficulties. chandising produces business—if it is handled the right way. But advertisers sometimes forget that. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company They make appropriations, 0. K. copy, and plunge in... They call it advertising. It is—but it is not mer Little Known of Frogs. chandising. For they have made advertising an end. And in merchandising it is not an end. end. it is the means to an The real objective of an ad-, vertising campaign is always— TO SELL GOODS. The HERALD is the greatest med ium to merchandise your goods you can possibly select. ers are responsive, Along the rivers and streams In some parts of Texas, and around the margins of ponds and lakes, we meet with great beds of the water hya- cinths, says the American Forestry Magazine. Their delicate white flow- era and dark green leaves present a picture of floral luxuriance not very Where they grow, easily forgotten, one should be on the lookout for va- rious species of reptiles or batra- chians. and their habits and appear- anees In nature carefully observed We know very little about some' of the forms, and science will welcome any new facts' in regard to them. Some of the frogs and toads, for ex ample, are not only very rare in collec tions. but we are practically lacking in any field notes upon their exact distribution and habits. HERALD read and grasp your message with intelligence, Ton have HOTEL. x a responsive, well-defined market SEWARD from the Umatilla project people, and Only a Snack! After a frugal little lunch in a coun try hotel the millionaire who was tour ing the country In his sixty horse power car, called for his bill. “Yes, sir," replied the waiter promptly.. “Four sandwiches and a glass of cider, you had, sir. That will “Wait a minuter" interrupted the motorist. “There’s' my chauffeur some where. What has he had?” “Oh, I know about him, sir,” replied the waiter. “He says he’s just had a snack—an omelette, grilled trout, lamb cutlets and peas, iced coffee, a half- crown cigar and a bottle of claret, sir.”—London Answers. Gasoline Substitute. “Motor alcohol," a substitute for gasoline, made from molasses on’the Hawaiian sugar plantations, which has been allowed to run to waste or burned for the recovery of potash. Is a new automobile fuel which It Is said gives more power, greater in lieage. easier starting, and more freedom from carbon than gasoline. Hawaii has molasses enough available to pro duce 9,000,000 gallons of “moti r al cohol ’—enough for all the au tomo biles ou the islands. Armenian an Ancient Tongue. The Armenian tongue, however, much it has changed in the course of centu ries, is descended from the language that Priam and Hector spoke. The Ar menians hail, like the Homeric Tro- Jans, from Thrace, which subsequently became incorporated in the Byzantine or eastern Roman empire. Erzerum, capital of Armenia, has retained the deathless name of Rome, It was founded In the year 415. by Theodosh us, a sebastos, that Is, emperor, of eastern Rome. He called It Theo doslopolis; but Its native name Is Er erum, or Armenian Rome.”—Emetti Hartwitz in Asia Magazine. I A Fix Indeed. She—Pm In an awful fix! Just ft cyl My husband has received anonymous letter Informing him something I did before marriage! He—The best thing you can doll confess. She—That’s just It ! He won’t I me read the letter—and 1 don’t to what to confess! Read the classified ads. You find something you want. the HERALD carries your story ina dignified manner. The people read, and digest it thoroughly, and the ad- Two of the most homelike hotels In Portland, located in the heart of the shopping and theatre district. All Oregon Electric trains stop at are little money-makers for the own the Seward Hotel, the House of Cheer. Excellent dining room in connection. The Hotel Cornelius, the House of Welcome, is only two ers of establishments who insert them short blocks from the Seward. Our brown busses meet all trains.Rates vertisements appearing in its columns $1.50 HERALD advertising is not only RED CROSS SUNDAY SCHEDULED HERE II NOVEMBER activities of the. Rod Crocs, Including somewhat detailed Information regard- The lac, metal parts and other articles not generally associated in the public mind with telephone service. and up. W. C. CULBERTSON, Prop. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinn SPECIAL According to plans considerable time at these special services is to bo devoted to discussion of peace-time Every business concern is having similar experiences. manufacturers of telephone equipment have been bending every effort to fill our orders, but they in turn are meeting the same difficulties in securing rubber, paper, silk, glass, porcelain, tin, thread, shel advertising; it is merchandising. Arrangements are being made here, according to information from division 'headquarters of the Rod Cross, for the observance locally of “Red Crono Roll Call Sunday," in November, Gun erally throughout the nation a day haa boon set anide in honor of the organisation, with special services in Sunday Schools and young people’s meetings as well as special sermons. Since the war with the unexpectedly prolonged problems of reconstruction, production and delivery of materials needed to meet Advertising for the iahe of adver DISASTER RELIEF PROVES BEST NATIONAL INSURANCE During the war period we were un able to maintain our reserve or stock plant as the same materials we use were required and taken for Herald Publishing Company = ELECTRIC FIXTURES = = AND APPLIANCES = = Phone 139 = riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii The French Restaurant BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY STRICTLY FIRST CLASS Hohbach Bros., Proprietors ned. No subscriptions will bo asked, unless spoetai arrangements should & ake housework a pleasure! Every woman enjoys housework if nicely painted floors, neat wood work anc! attractive furniture give her half a chance to keep them neat and clean. . That’s w hy she insists upon the timely application of B-H Paints and Varnis'ies. They bring back the new appearance and make possible the "something accomplished” feeling which ma res the day’s work worth while. See that the B.ss-Hueter label is on the can that yout buy I There is a special B-H product for every use- all easy-prending; long-lived; made tor. Novele From Serial Stories. The ingenuity of members of the Junior Red Cross at Boise, Idaho, haa developed a custom which their elders are beginning to copy. For patients In the public health service hospitals who do not like to read serial maga- clipping current serials and binding them, thus providing after publication has been completed, novels for the treatment. 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