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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1921)
J THE ======================================= -HAY- I I HERMISTON THE HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. HERMISTON HERALD Published every Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company. M. C. Athey, Editor ____________________ Entered as second-class matter, December .. 1906, at the postomice at Hermiston, Oregon | : a ■ ■ STACKERS Build Now : You have the time now. You won’t have when irri- gation starts. # : : : STACKER : MATERIAL ■ S S " I Is at Bottom Prices We have complete mater- ial bills in stock now. • ■ ■ ■ : # : 3 # . ■ : Tum A-Lum Lumber Co. j I R. A. Brownson, Mgr. ■ PHONE 111 • ====================================== WE QUOTE YOU Shorts, 80 pound sack ................................. $1.75 Mill Run, 80 pound sack.............................. 1.65 Bran, 60 pound sack ... ....................... 1.25 Middlings, 100 pound sack . ....... 3.50 Rolled Barley, 70 pound sack....................- 1.75 Rolled Oats, 60 pound sack ....................... 1.75 Corn, per hundred . ........................................ 2.25 All feed at special price in ton lots. Olympia Scratch Food, per hundred ........ 4.00 Olympia Egg Mash, per hundred ............. 4.00 Dorit forget Devonsnire Cloth at 40 cents per yard is very good value at this time. Dress Ginghams at 30c per yard—good values. Hermiston Produce & Supply Co. Why Eat Meat BECAUSE^ healthy and full of vitality and pep, and enables you to keep up the strenuous red blooded pace at which the world is now moving. Meat of quality does it; iCs the kind we sell City Meat Market MOONEY & SIKEY. Prop. Subscription Rates: One Year, 12.00; Six Months, $1 00 TO SENATOR HARDING On March 4, Mr. Harding, you will be inaugurated president of the United States. You will then be come the world’s foremost citizen, and the power at your command will be unlimited, far greater than that of any other civilized ruler on this earth. We believe that you have the wel fare of all of our people at heart, and that it is your earnest desire to do that which is best for them. In this belief we beseech you, Mr. Harding, to use your great influence and power in an effort to devise a more satisfactory means of marketing farm product. The horde of middlemen and spec ulators who are fattening upon the life blood of a hundred million peo ple will oppose your efforts in this direction. They do not want a more direct route from producer to ulti mate consumer, because it would cur tail their ill gotten gains. But we believe the welfare of the great mass of people is dearer to your heart than is that of the men who are nullifying the law of supply and demand. We believe that It is within your power to place the law upon the statute books of our country that wil give the farmer a fair price for his products,-and yet afford the con sumer an opportunity to buy them without paying extortionate prices. The elimination by federal law of all speculation in foodstufs, and the reduction of the number of hands through which the food must pass, will, we believe, solve this difficult problem. No reasonable person could object to a price that is regu lated solely by the law of supply and demand. If you accomplish this one re- form only during your four years of office the American people will be thrice blessed that you were elected their president. WHAT’S YOUR IDEA? Everyone has an idea of some kind or other which he simply can’t lose— that is, if he has a mind capable of formulating one. It is usually a fixed idea, and is comes to him in his business hours, in his moments of relaxation, in his dreams and sometimes it will intrude itself Into the Sunday worship. Even the most sublime flights of oratory from the lips of the minister can’t keep that idea in subjection. Why? Because the human mind is always groping In search of an opportunity for improvement. The hen could deposit her egg on the ground if she would. But she dosen't. She must have a better place, and if man does not provide for her with nests she goes out and makes one for herself. Often she dosen't like the nest man provides for her. Then she hunts until she finds one to her liking. It is her dominant idea, and she can’t lose it. Man is the same. He may have myriads of ideas flit ting In and out of his brain, but there is always one which overshad ows all others. Sometimes fortune is kind to him and he is able to realize on his idea— to capitalize it to the benefit of him self and mankind. Capitalizing ideas has made America a great country, and its in habitants a people noted throughout the world for their progressiveness. Ideas have done much for our own town, and for its people, and for our countryside. Perhaps some of those were devel oped in your own fertile brain, and were passed on to others, and im proved. and put into execution for our common good. Everywhere we look, werything we see, is the result of someone’s idea for developing ideas has made this town what it is. But we have not reached the limit, in fact, we have only scratched the surface. Every normal brain in our midst contains some Idea that would be of benefit to the community if it were only given the light of publicity. What is yours? Possibly It has been revolving around under your hat for years waiting for an opportunity to break out. and expand, and produce some thing worth while. Why cage it up longer? This is your home. The Herald is your paper. Our people are your people, and you are ours, and that which benefits one will benefit all. Make it public. Others may be able to add a finishing touch here, and there, until it is dressed up Into a monument of community enterprise and progressiveness. Given time and nourishment, the tiniest of roots will grow into giant trees. It may be so with that Idea you are secreting in your brain. Let It out. Others are waiting to hear It. and we are waiting to give It publicity. TREE PLANTING ON PROJECT The Herald is keenly Interested in the efforts to encourage tree-planting n the Project. We are especially anxious to receive and publish letters and articles from the project resi- lents. Give of your experience. Boost the game. When we first visited Hermiston we were attracted by the trees. They gave the city an appearance of com fort and livableness. The ordinary small city in the desert has about one wind-broken, famished, starved tree in front of the post-office. That it survives the punishment handed 't as a hitching-post and feed-stable is proof that trees properly cared for would flourish. Tree-planting is an indication of a high state of civilization. Only a people of culture and ideals regard the future. He who plants a tree serves the future. No finer monument can any man, woman or child erect than to plant a tree. In the early days of the pro tect our most enthusiastic planter of trees was Col. Newport. He lived to enjoy many of them. But the writer would rather have just one of the many graceful, living monuments the Colonel left us than some day lie under a great column of cold, dead granite. Everybody! Young and Old! Plant Trees! Now! Plant for pleasure! Plant for profit! But plant ’em! 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. Pay for what you get. Secure your money’s worth. IS BEND LIKE PORTLAND? The city of Bend, In central Ore gon, one of the best advertised cities In the state, and one of the most pro gressive cities, has shown by her late actions that she is absolutely oppos ed to the Greater Deschutes Irriga tion project, which will irrigate thousands of acres of central Oregon land, including the great North Unit which comprises 100,000 acres of some of the best land In the country and an ideal section to irrigate. Bend has protested. She says that the saw mills need the water in the river for logging operations, so that her two large mills can always have enough water to float the logs; also that she depends upon the water for her electric power. She has made other objections from time to time. Every-onee-in-a-while, Bend slips in 1 knock against this great irrigation project. Is Bend, this great adver tised city, this great progressive little city, getting like Portland who’s slogan is: “If we can’t get it, KNOCK.” The objections that Bend has made are the most ridiculous we have ever heard. But, the truth is slowly coming out. Bend wants the water for irrigation purposes near her city, and does not want the water to go to the North Unit. Bend is getting big enough to try to grab everything, and starve the little cities near her. In fact. Bend dominates Central Ore gon, and she will be able to kill the North Unit If she keeps up the splen did KNOCKING system already em- ployed. But while Bend is doing this, people who know the situation, will put Bend back 50 years as sure as God Almighty grows little apples. Bend will be able to kill the North Unit. There is no doubt about that. But when she does, she will put up on her soul the stain of robbing one f the best sections of Oregon from a I veil hood that nothing but the water Bend refuses to let them have will uve them. Does Bend want this course? _ , STAY AT HOME Don t go to the big cities in search of fortune. The rent hogs will at you up. Owners of large city houses and apartment buildings have developed mto the greediest blood suckers the world has ever known. Apartment that rented for $40 and $45 a month 1 year ago are now $75 and 1100. By noving time (Mayl) they will prob able be given another boost. If you go from the country to the big city you must rent a room and lake your meals at restaurants, or nay a small fortune for hotel accom modations. If you rent a room the rent will be in porportion to the amount the people pay for the apart ment. Your meals will be equally high, and by the time you have coughed up to these two tunes you will not have much left, regardless of the high wages offered. The rent hogs are not satisfied with their pound of flesh. They want the whole carcass, and at the rate they are going they will soon have It devoured. This is a good town In which to live, and there are no whole carcass es exacted. The same applies to our farms. Stay at home and prosper. Baseball players are becoming quite and eminently respectable since Judge Landis undertook the job of teaching them the A-B-C’c of honesty and decency. In time they may even If you want to change your wife’s learn to respect themselves. opinion, just tell her that her dear est friend thinks excatly as she does. If you want to see a first-class bout without paying admission just RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT hang out a British flag In an Irish Whereas: The all wise Father of neighborhood. the Universe has seen fit to take from our midst the beloved daughter With the advent of longer dresses of our brother Chas. G. Gilliam and our city friends ought to be able to Wife recognize their own wives when they Therefore be it Resolved: That meet them. Vineyard Lodge No. 206 I. O. O. F extend them their heart felt sym Don’t try to tell the other fellow pathy and be it further Resolved: his business. He may ask you if you That a copy of this resolution be sent have any of your own. to the parents, one copy to be pub lished in the Hermiston Herald and a The price of gasoline however, con- copy to be spread upon the minutes tinues lighter than air. It won’t of the Lodge. come down. J. A. Reeves. W. A. Botkins It’s no use growling at the weather T. H. Gaither man. He can always hand us back Committee worse than we send. Inland Empire Lumber Company Phone 331 « The Yard of Best Quality " H. M. STRAW. MGR. Exclusive Representativej of National Builders Bureau SEE HITT CONFECTIONERY STATIONERY Delicious Wholesome Confectionery -FOR- GUNS —and— AMMUNITION Tasty Stationery For Women A FULL LINE News stand 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. CASHand CARRY Yellow and white cornmeal, sack........... ..... ....... 50c Hominy... —...... :____ 55c Rolled Oats______ ______ __________ _______ 78c Pure N. Y. Buckwheat___________ ____ - 48c Skookum pancake flour................. _ 48c and 90c Mazóla and Wesson Oil, quart........ ......... 80c Crepe toilet paper, per roll.. i 9c Hershey cocoa — —---------------- --------- 27c, 50c Rovai Club coffee, pound___________ Hill Bros, coffee, per lb “99” bulk coffee, 3 pounds- . . . - 50c FO, 60. 2$1.00 PHELPS cash GROCERY -Phone 413 - Butter Wrappers Printed Neatly at This Office
