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HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
THE
HERMISTON
HERALD
Published every Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern
Oregon's
IDLE DOLLARS
In every community there
are thousands of idle and
unproductive dollars. Idle
dollars may represent value
but they have no value to
their owners nor the com
munity until they are put
in motion.
Today there is a pleasant and profitable
job for every dollar in the land. Homes
are needed—homes which will make
better citizens, better neighborhoods, a
better town—homes which will con
tribute indirectly to the welfare of
every man, woman and child in this
community.
Loans for home-building
are good investments. You
can select your loan and
keep in close touch with it.
We shall be glad to furnish further in
formation.
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co
R. A. Brownson, Mgr.
phone 111
We are prepared to take care of your wants in
Winter Footwear
RUBBERS—For Men, Women and Children
We are showing a few choice patterns of the
CELEBRATED
Pendleton Indian Robes
Just the thing for Christmas Presents
You notice our window display on
Felt Slippers
in a few days. These are priced right and very
suitable for Christmas Gifts.
CANDY and NUTS
Will be in good supply for the season’s demands
Nothing finer for a friend than a nice box of
Davenport’s Chocolates
The Name DAVENPORT Guarantees Quality
Hermiston Produce &
Supply Co.
great
irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald
when you know that your family will be provided
for in case you are suddenly taken away. Provide
for them at once by securing a policy in
THE MUTUAL UFE INSURANCE CO., of New York
C. H. SKINNER, Resident Agent
Harman & Muelker
BLACKSMITHS
Horse Shoeing, Wagon Work,
Truck and Jitney Bodies
We Make Automobile Springs
SUCCESSOR TO J. L. STORK
it
Company.
GET THE FACTS
M. C. Athey, Editor
Enterea as second-class matter. December » 1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon
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•
AS THE EDITOR SEES IT
LOOKING AHEAD
•
We are not going to have a panic
■ in this country. We believe that all
■ I danger of such has passed.
•
But we will in all probability soon
• have a period of business depression.
■ That is to be expected.
•
Producers can not afford to con-
• tinue paying the high wages they are
■ now paying without keeping prices
■ up—and that they can not afford to
• do, because the public is refusing
• to buy.
■ Now the result.
•
The employing class (capitalists,
• if you care to term them such) are
■ curtailing production and are laying
• off men in large numbers. They will
• continue to do so until production is
• at a minimum. In some cases mills
■ may close down entirely. This action
• will gradually extend to all parts of
the country and into all lines of in-
dustry.
The millions of employees who are
thus thrown out of work can not af-
ford to remain idle for any great
length of time, They and their fam-
ilies must eat.
In time necessities will force them
back into the shops at reduced wages,
and production will start up again,
with a reasonable profit for the pro
ducer and a considerable reduction
in price to the consumer. The lab
oring man will be no worse off in the
end, because his living expenses will
be reduced in proportion to the re
duction in his wages.
Two material facts stand out
above everything else.
First, the public will not Ton g con-
tinue to buy at present prices, ex-
cept actual necessities.
Second, prices can not be reduced
to any great extent until the cost of
labor comes down.
We may never return to a pre-
war basis, but the above will be the
method adopted by the capitalists to
return production to something like
normal conditions.
We may be wrong in our predic
tion, but this is as we see it, based
upon existing conditions.
PROVIDENCE TO THE RESCUE
All over this country there has
been wailing and lamenting over the
scarcity of coal, and over the fact
that in many places there is no coal
to be had—above ground.
Coal barons have been rubbing
their hands in glee at the prospect of
exorbitant profits when the pinch of
winter drives desperate householders
to pay any price to prevent freezing
to death.
Newspapers for months have been
full of detailed accounts of juggling
and profiteering in coal. Facts were
laid bare in the hope that public
prosecutors would punish the offend
ers.
Prosecutors, jarred into the open
by the exposurer, talked largely.
vowed dire punishments. and did
practically nothing, except to pinch
an occasional “small fry.”
It began to look as If millions
would have to be gouged or let their
families freeze for there is coal in
abundance under the ground.
The situation was desperate.
Then a new element entered—one
which reckons not of politicians, or
craven prosecutors, or profiteering or
graft.
That element was Providence.
Winter was pushed back. Summer
was pushed forward. The warm rays
of the suh enveloped the earth at a
time when icy blasts should be blow
ing and furnace fires should be roar-
Ing.
God, who created man, came to the
rescue when man demonstrated his
impotency to handle the situation.
But God is not a politician.
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We are all ready to criticise a
young girl If she becomes wild, or
giddy, or indiscreet. But wouldn’t
it be even better to look beneath the
surface, and consider the actions of
the parents who allowed her to travel
the dangerous path in the days of her
childhood?
Perhaps you have noticed the
newspaper accounts of the number of
young girls who are reported missing
in the big cities. In one big city
alone it averages two thousand a
year.
Many of these girls have drifted
in from the country towns and farms
in order to better their condition,
and have fallen an easy prey to the
vultures who are lying in wait for
them.
Most of these disappearances are
the result of the girls taking up with
strange men on the streets, or in the
parks, or the cafes.
But the girls are not always to
blame entirely for allowing them-
selves to be led astray. Often they
are the victims of neglect on the part
of their parents during the forma
tive period of their characters.
A hen never neglects its little
chicks until they are able to care for
themselves.
But some parents are not as care
ful or considerate as the mother hen.
They allow their girls to begin
running wild while yet In their ten
der years. This spirit of wildness,
ignored in infancy, grows with time
until it reaches the point where it is
beyond control.
And then the “port of missing
girls.”
Not all parents neglect the proper
training of their children, of course,
but too many for the public weal.
There are three fundamental principles that
regulate building costs:
LABOR COSTS
SUPPLY
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DEMAND
The laboring man’s standard of living is steadily im
proving and he will not be content to accept
smaller wages under existing conditions.
America’s forests are gradually being depleted and
the distance between the remaining timber
and the saw mills is becoming greater each
year.
The demand for lumber is greater than ever before.
Right now we are facing the serious condition
of a housing shortage of over 4,000,000
homes.
Inland Empire Lumber Company
Phone 331
" The Yard of Best Quality
H M STRAW. MGR.
Exclusive Representative» of National Builders Bureau
MORE PARCELS POST
xtension and development of the
parcels post would be an excellent
thing for this country. It would be
a potent factor In the elimination of
gambling and juggling in the neces
sities of life. It would reduce the
number of middle men who are fat
tening at the expense of the con
sumer.
These middle men and gamblers
who juggle the products before they
reach the retailer or consumer are
responsible for much of the skyrock
eting which has cursed this country
of late years. There is no end to
their rapacity.
With a practical extension of the
parcels post the retailer and the con
sumer could order the bulk of his
supplies direct from the manufactur
er or the farm.
Manufacturers and farmers could
sell their products as easily through
newsparer and magazine advertising
as they do now through the present
method of sending hordes of salesmen
throughout the country at enormous
expense, all of which is eventually
paid by the consumer.
Some day we will have a parcels
post that we can use as we should.
But in the meantime we will con
tinue to blunder along and feed a
horde of parasites who have fastened
themselves upon us.
We Americans are great on "pay
ing the freight.”
Foot ball has run its course, and
will now give way to basket ball.
Foot ball has had Its first good start
in Hermiston, and next year we can
be assured of a very good team, not
that we did not have one this year,
but next year the boys will have had
more experience, and we can step out
after bigger game.
Basket ball
games will be played this winter in
the Auditorium, and a double header
is scheduled for the opening night.
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protection.
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ing your stock and buildings,
and get my time proposition
on premiums.
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for Christmas
BETTER because it brings your New Edison now.
—or for Christmas.
BETTER because it finds the purchase money in
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BETTER because it systematises and simplifies
buving.
J. D. WATSON
CITY
RECORDER
NOTARY
PUBLIC
BETTER because it works on thrift principles, and
avoids a lump sum payment. It makes possession
easy.
Mitchell Drug Company
Hermiston, Oregon