THE HERMISTON
HERALD, HERMISTON,
OREGON.
WHOLE WORLD CRAVES MUSIC
Longing for Sweet Sounds Would
Seem to Indicate That the Na­
tions Are Recovering.
Your Silent Salesman
That nations are individuals in min-
tature has been proven so often that
It has long ago become a truism ; but
perhaps It has never been indicated
more effectively than In the present
attitude of the nations of war-shat­
tered Europe toward music.
From
England, France, Belgium and Italy,
not less than from Germany, Austria
and even Russia, comes the same story
through the mouths of trustworthy ob­
servers returning to this country, as
well as through other news channels.
"Europe Is mad for music,” they all
say. “No other words will describe
the craving that has seized these coun­
tries for all its forms.”
There are
tragedies which at their cruelest take
from the individual all solace, not to
mention any delight. In the loveliest
of arts. “I shall hate sweet music my
whole life long,” wrote Swinburne in
the bitterness of disillusionment, and
happy is that human being who has
not at least once in his life touched
the supreme height of agony when to
hear music is an unbearable thing,
But as with man so with countries in
which disillusionment, far worse than
bereavement, has yet followed elose
on Its footsteps.
One of the first
signs of an ability to take up life once
more in healthy human fashion, is a
returning willingness, even a longing,
for the Joys of music. And when the
flower of charity blooms once more
In the soul laid waste by hatred, mu­
sic is not far off, in races as In indi­
viduals.—Montreal Herald.
WON
LOVE
OF
But First Bullfight Must Have Been
Trying to Nervee of Young
Queen of Spain.
When Queen Victoria of Spain was
married to Alphonso one of the fea­
tures of the weddng festivities was a
bullfight. The bullfight to Spain is
far more Important than the baseball
game of the United States is to its
eliizens, and the very life and soul of
the people Is woven Into Its traditions.
The queen, a pretty, young, protected
English girl whose viewpoint of life
was the same as other young girls of
the higher classes of England, was
privately Informed that not only must
she attend the fight, but under no cir­
cumstances must she exhibit fear or
disgust.
The fight was staged with the ut­
most magnificence and was opened by
the entry of two fiery black bulls. The
first bull killed a horse or two before
It was put to death. The second bull
was then driven about, tortured and
abused, and finally lured directly in
front of the royal box, where a poor
old decrepit horse, blindfolded and
drugged until It was hardly able to
stand, was left. The bull, stabbed
with a spear, charged the horse, driv­
ing Its horns again and again into the
wretched beast until It fell, a mass of
horror, to the ground. The queen did
not change color or flinch, although
she must have been sick to the point
of fainting. The populace greeted her
calm with cheers.
Rival of the Potato.
The first carload of American-grown
dasheens, introduced Into this country
to supplement the potato, arrived on
the New York market recently, and be­
cause of the limited quantities shipped
and the demand they sold as high as
15 cents a pound. The dasheens were
grown on the east coast of Florida,
The Trinidad dasheen, which Is a
particularly fine variety of the taro.
Is one of 46.000 foreign plants intro-
duced into the United States by the
Department of Agriculture. It was
brought here In the belief that It would
yield the South a tuber crop which
could be used to supplement the po­
tato.
It contains 50 per cent moro
protein than the potato, according to
the Department of Agriculture.
Hie Mission Wasted.
An Irishman made his way to a
country Jail and asked to be allowed
to see the governor.
On being ushered Into that function­
ary’s presence he begged for the favor
of an Interview with a prisoner who
was to suffer the extreme penalty of
the law In the course of the morning.
“No, my man." said the governor,
“you cannot see the prisoner. He’s
to be executed In half an hour, and
visitors are not permitted to see a
prisoner on the day of execution. But
what might be your business with
him?"
"Shure, sor," answered Pat, “It’s .
his birthday, and I was after wishing
him many happy returns.”.
Forms
Under gross income a farmer is re­
quired to include all proceeds derived
Thousands of farmers whose net
income for 1920 equaled or exceeded* from the sale of farm products
the exemptions of $1,000 for single whether produced on a farm or pur­
When he ex­
persons and 82,000 for married per­ chased for resale.
sons will be required to file on or changes his produce for groceries,
before March 15, 1921, income tax clothing, or other merchandise he
must include in his income the value
returns for the year 1920.
As an aid to farmers the Bureau of the articles received and exchang­
of Internal Revenue has prepared a ed. Profit received from the sale ef
special form, 1040F, for recording farm land o rrent received for the ,
sales of live stock, produce, and a use thereof must also be included.
HE New Year will have
— to conform to some very
old rules which will continue
because they are good rules-
But that is no reason why
the New Year should put up
with old mistakes and
abuses. At its very thresh­
old we find every element of
prosperity present—the need
the men, the material—and
yet because of money condi­
tions there is a slow-up.
Either there ought to be
enough money to carry the
essential activities of the
country, or a curtailment of
money’s power to stop
things.
There is more
wealth than money; and as
long as real wealth is com­
pelled to wait on the fictitu-
ous wealth which is measur­
ed in gold, troubles will con-
tinue. Here is a task for
1921.
YOUR Stationery is
your silent sales-
man
Business men
and business institu
tions form opinions
about you and your
business from the ap­
pearance of your sta­
tionery.
Good stationery,
well printed, com
mands attention; de
mands respect.
POPULACE
Valuable Airplane Device.
Of all the inventions conceived dur­
ing the last decade. In the hope of de-
creasing the landing speed of air­
planes, none haw promised more In
preliminary tests than a device re-
cently evolved by the Uniteti States
bureau of standards. says Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
It Is nothing
more than a simple, variable-camber
rib. which Is used instead of the or­
dlnary rib. in the construction of one
pinne of a biplane, or of the top and
bottom planes of a triplane. One pe­
culiarity of construction is that the
nose of this flexible rig is fixed to
the front spar, while the tailpiece Is
rigid and slides on the rear spar. An­
other peculiarity la that the rib struc­
ture between the spars la normally
symmetrical, or uncambered, but Is
deformed by nonsymmetrical air pres­
sure until It becomes a rib of most
pronounced camber.
are
summary of income and expenses.
SPECIAL BLANKS FOR FAR­
This form should be attached to the
MERS TO MAKE OUT TAX
taxpayer’s Individual return on Form
1040 or 1040A.
Full instructions
Internal-Revenue Bureau Makes It
for making out the forms are con­
Easier to Fill Out
tained in each.
Hermiston Auto Co
A little help here and there, proventi a lot of wear and tear
Herald Printing
Is Quality Printing
Painless Parker
The Famous Dentist
COMMANDS ATTENTION; DEMANDS RESPECT
eople
living
a hundred miles
or more away
come to my offices
to have their teeth
fixed up. I make it
a rule* that those
from a distance
shall be waited
upon immediately
and their work be
completed first, so
they can go back home as
soon as possible.
Years ago I discovered how
to extract and fix teeth with­
out hurting, and was so -
successful that people I
called me “Painless” JIMI
Parker. My practice has I a
grown until I now have 2
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The Telephone Company
and Wages
Salaries and wages constitute 72 per cent of the expenses of this company.
It is our purpose to retain competent and experienced employees.
“the E. R. Parker System.”
If your teeth are bothering
you, and you want them put
in good shape without hurt­
ing and without pay-
7 ing ■ fancy price, come
L to our nearest office,
) which you will find
‘ located at
Out of every dollar
spent by the telephone company, 72 cents is turned over to its employees in the form of compensa-
tlon.
twenty-eight offices,
arid all my associ­
ates in these offices
have been taught
how to practice
painless dentistry
as well as I can do
it myself. We have
fixed up the teeth
of over a million
people, and call our
way of practicing
755 Main Street Pendleton
An effecient and contented
organisation la the main factor In good service.
The deficit in earnings which we have experienced in Oregon has been largely augmented by
necessary increases to our employees.
It will be of interest to our Oregon patrons to know what our
increased expense for salaries and wages in Oregon has been since 1916 as shown in one of the ex-
hibits filed with the Public Service Commission in connection with our recent application for an in­
crease In telephone rates.
Increase in wages of Plant employees, present over 1916
$307,000
Increase in wages of Traffic (operating) employees, present over 1916 .... 681,000
Increase in wages of Commercial employees, present over 1916
TOTAL ANNUAL INCREASE IN WAGES
98,000
11,086,000
Although these large increases in wages have been made they represent only approximately a
60 per cent increase over pre-war wages, as compared with increases of over 100 per cent in many
trades and occupations requiring no greater skill or preparation on the part of the worker.
We do
not think our employees’ wages should be reducedunder present conditions or under conditions now
possible to forecast.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co
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