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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1921)
THE RRMISTON THE 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 Have Finishe Our Inventory and are now pricing onr Merchandise upon the basis of replacements—which we believe is the true policy of conducting a business. We do not believe you would be interested in the purchase of parasols at this season of the year, no matter at what price named. We are offering you Seasonable goods at present values in all our lines. And the quality we have always tried to maintain knowing full well that the discriminating purchasers appreciate this service. We do not pretend to meet any and all prices named and only promise to give you full value for your money in everything we deal in, feeling that this is the legitimate function of the retail mer chants. WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS ON THIS BASIS. Hermiston Produce & Supply Co. ■ w SATISFACTION There is a satisfying pleasure every housewife feels in preparing a meal from good wholesome materials. Makeshift foods are unsatisfactory as well as unwholesome. Our Meats Satisfy They give the necessary buoyancy and vigor to the system. And they cost no more than the other kind. City Meat Market MOONEY & SIKEY, Prop. HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. HERMISTON HERALD Published every Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, In the heart at Eastern Oregon's great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company. M. G. Athey, Editor nterea as second class matter, December . 1906, at the postofice at Hermiston, Oregon • Y Subscription Rates: One Year, »2.00; Six Months, $1 00 NEED OF THE HOUB SQUALID PORTO RICAN TOWN If you are inclined to be pessimis Ponce, a city on the south coast o: tic as to the future, forget it. The Porto Rico, gives the false impression i country is in need of something bet of being a larger city than the capital ter than pessimism at this time—and loosely strewn as It Is over a dusty, this community is a part of this flat plain and overflowing in hovels of decreasing size into the low foothills country. behind. It is tbe most extensive town, of readjustment This is a period in Porto Rico, and, like many of those and reconstruction. and no country around tbe coast, lies back, a few miles can survive such a time without ser from the sea. for fear of pirates In ious disagreements, dissention and the olden days, with a street-car serv Ice to its shipping suburb of Ponce confusion. We are undergoing our share of Playa, Airplants festoon Ita telephone It now, and there will be more to fol wires, and its mosquitoes are so ag low before we can hope to become gressive that to dine in its principal our normal selves again. .hotel is to wage a constant battle, We of this town are but an atom while to disrobe and enter a bath- as compared to the whole country, room Is a perilous undertaking, ac but the welfare of the nation is as cording to Harry A. Franck In the sacred to us as it is to the residents Century. Puerta de Tierra, once nothing of the* greatest metropolis in the more than the “land gate” Its name land. Implies, is almost a city of itself, a We should each strive to do our pathetic town of many shacks built of utmost toward stableizing conditions tin and dry goods boxes, spreading and restoring commerce to a level down and across rhe railroad ro rhe where it can be maintained with jus swampy bay. Naked babies play In tbe mud. and mothers with pitifully tice and safety. small cups scurry to milk shops In an Those are the three paramount re effort to get the precious food for their infants. quirements of the day. They rep resent the only manner in which it is LET THEM START IN EARLY possible to continue prosperity with out first undergoing a disastrous per- Here’s a Writer Who Advocates Hav ing the Children Select Their iod of financial and commercial de- Vocations When Young. pression. It is apparent that with a few ex- We heard the other day of a child ceptions the country as a whole un- who had begun to write poetry at the derstands and appreciates the situ age of five. It must be quite a shock ation fairly well, and is disposed to to the parents to realize so soon that take such action as necessity re their hope and pride will never have quires. to worry over an income tax blank. Let it be said that we of this com On the other hand, finding out the munity are among those who are pa truth early in life will save them many triotically endeavoring to bring or disappointments and considerable ex der out of confusion—that we have pense. They can begin at once to save money by sending the child to the a clear perception of the duty of the barber’s. hour and a determination to perform The child ought to be very easy to that duty. amuse. Give it a piece of paper and It is not necessary that we become a pencil, and let it rave. For If a niggardly in our expenditures, or child begins to be a poet at the age that we deprive ourselves of any of of five. It stanza reason that the child the necessities or reasonable luxu will go, from bad to verse. There is ries of life. The situation does not nothing that parents can do with a born poet but admit it. call for such an extreme. In some respects It would be an ad But produce—economise—save. vantage to the human race if all That means not only the return children indicated their future career to a sane commercial standard in the at the age of five. There would be immediate future, but a far greater fewer plumbers trying to play the pi and better country in the years to ano, and fewer ribbon clerks trying to win lawsuits. come. A child who. at five, smashes every thing In sight ought to be trained for WHAT OF TOMORROW! Wall street, and one that seemed in Just how great is the patriotism clined to swallow everything should of this country, and how strong a make a good congressman.—Chicago pressure can it successfully with Herald and Examiner. stand? With the gates to our shores wide BLACK AND TAN open, and fifteen millions of Euro peans clamoring for admission, we may have that patriotism put to a test sooner than most people believe possible. Our social fabric is undermined with trouble makers now—people whose greatest aim in life is the de struction of government. When this avalanche of foreigners descends upon us who will be the first to reach them? Not the disciple of law and order. He will pursue his beaten path in the accumulation of riches, as has al ways been his custom. But the foreigner will not be ne- lected. The Persistent Society of Trouble- makers will be after him en masse. He will be buttonholed, and coddled, and filled with the imaginary evils of our system of government, and made to believe that by its destruc tion wealth will flow into bis hands It is not the honest laboring man we have to fear in this matter. He is a good American, believes in his country, and is willing to fight for it If occasion requires. But there is a class of professional agitators, who fatten upon the cre dulity of others, who will be the A typical soldier of the Royal Irish brains and the ringleaders In this campaign of vilification and destruc- Constabulary auxiliary corps In bis picturesque uniform and full equip ti venes«. i ment. He is one of the so-called Fifteen millions of foreigners! black and tans. How many of them, a year from the day they land, will be ready to His Trouble. smite the hand that feeds them? Young Tommy Tiddlesome timidly J.— v.l. -A, wfry." Akt" tieul the re ELIMINATE THE GUESSWORK Correct Construction Demands That You Build From Properly Prepared Plans Guessing at the total cost is expensive. Select a plan designed by architects of national reputa tion. Receive information in regard to definite cost of construction before you let the contract. PLANS AND MODERN BUILDING HELPS ARE FREE TO CUSTOMERS Get what you want. Secure your money’s worth. Inland Empire Lumber Company Phone 331 « The Yard of Best Quality ” H. M. «TRAW. MGR. Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau SEE 1. 1. Hirel HITT CONFECTIONERY STATIONERY • -FOR- GUNS AMMUNITION \ 1 Users of commercial fertilizers in Oregon are advised by the chemists of the state agricultural college to pur chase the high grade brands—run ning 14 per cent or more in plant food content. “The purchase of com mercial fertiliser is essentially tbe purchase of plant foods, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.” says tbe report in Commercial Fertilizers, In administrating the laws for sale of fertilisers In Oregon The report | gives the methods of computing the 1 plant food value of a properly labeled | commercial fertilizer. This enables ; the buyer to compare the commercial value of the various brands offered in Oregon markets. The department must report each year tn December , for the following year. approached the sturdy policeman on traffic duty not far from Tommy's school. “Please, Mr. Perliceman," he said, “do you lock up men who knock little boys aboutF He was a kind-hearted constable, and. pitying tbe youngster, placed his band on the boy's shoulder as he re- piled: “Yes, sonny. -wasn’t It a kind at comic opera government you were trying to run F "No," answered the ex-king. “That government never produced either the genuine profit nor the popular appre- ciation attaching to a regular comic Currespnndenre Statinnerg in white and beautiful tints News aland Cigars and Tobacco YOUR ORDER receives the careful attention of an expert cook when you eat at our Res taurant. We cater to the wants of the most particular people. No mat ter what you pay, you can be sure of getting pure, wholesome, unadulter ated foods at CITY BAKERY Hermiston, Oregon. Bring in Your Broken Parts and have them welded so you will be ready for work when spring comes Knerr’s Repair Shop First Door North of Hermiston Hotel INSURANCE Protect your home, busi ness and your property by securing a policy in a reliable company. C. H. SKINNER, Resident Agent What's your trouble?" “Well," answered Tommy, “will you come to school with me? I'm late again and teacher said the next timo I was late be would break his heaviest cane over my back."—Houston Post A Complete Line of A FULL UNE ss. s ie ’s Y) y..he High Grade Fertiliser Cheaper Pay for what you get. LIFE AUTOMOBILE FIRE Butter Wrappers Printed Neatly at This Office
