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VOL XV
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1921.
STICK TO YOUR
OWN HOME TOWN
The prosperity of a state as a the citizens and children as a whole
whole depends upon the prosperity of can plant trees along the streets and
each individual part of it. It is not highways running through the town
sufficient that the larger cities and in beautifying public or semi­
should increase in population and in public places'
the volume of business transactions.
I don’t claim that this can be done
It is of equal, if not greater, import­ all in one year, but it can be started,
ance that every small community in­ and if this progressive movement is
crease in population, in production carried on, It will not be long before
and in general business.
that town is entirly changed and has
If every rural community can pro­ become a thing of beauty and a de-
duce more, can procure more settled, light to those who live in it, and to
more residents, it will mean more lo­ those who pass through it.
cal prosperity, a greater buying pow­
Now, as to increasing the business
er, and will add to the wholesale of that town. Let every store keeper
business and general commerce of the practically throw all his goods out on
larger cities, hence the entire state the side walk, clean up his store, fix
will advance and prosper.
his shelves and his show windows,
It is the aim of the Pacific paint them, if necessary, and kalso­
Northwest Tourist Association to de­ mine the store, and then put them
velop every portion of the state back in a systemized and methodical
from within as well as from without. manner so that to his customers and
There is no better way of doing this to strangers his store has taken on
than to seek to create a forward the appearance and attractiveness of
movement in every community, no any store it size in the larger cities
matter how small it may be.
Let him sell as far as he can at the
The starting point for such move­ same prices that the people would
ments is to have every person al­ have to pay elsewhere. Let him car­
ready in the smaller communities de­ ry an up-to-date line of goods, even
termine to stick to his own home though his quanities may be very
town, to grow up with it, and to be­ small, but wherever he has a small
come a booster for it. It is better to line of goods, let him put the great­
be a prominent citizen in your own est possible stress on the fact that he
community than to lose your identity can procure in the shortest possible
in a big city. If we can eradicate time anything that he does not hap­
from the minds of the residents, and pen to have In stock, just as well as
particularly of the children, the idea if the people themselves, and much
that there are greater opportunities, better in fact, ordered it from the
and that It is pleasanter to live in a mail order house.
large city than in their own home
Wherever possible let the store
town, the foundation of the future keeper put someone younger than
prosperity of that town is already himself, or some other person, behind
laid.
the counter for as many hours as
There is a grave and fundamental possible during the day and let him
danger not only to the well being of drive out amongst the farmers and
the smaller communities, but to the country residents, make their ac­
state as a whole, if this attitude of quaintances, tell them that he has an
mind is not changed, a danger so up-to-date attractive store, that to
great that when it is seriously con­ buy from him means the up-building
sidered, it is appalling.
of the community in which they live,
During the trip east I heard one and /that more prosperity in their
speaker make the statement that community means more prosperity
ninety years ago the population of for the people he is calling upon, the
the United States in the larger cities increase in the value of their real es­
was 4 1-2 per cent of the whole, and tate and of their holdings, so that he
95 1-2 per cent in the smaller cities and they can be one in the up-build­
and rural districts. Twenty years ing of the trade and business of
ago the largest cities had grown to their own community.
33 per cent, while today they have 50
Improve the hotels and restaur­
per cent. It Is estimated that If this ants, no matter how small they may
rate of exodus from the country dis­ be; let them get a reputation for put­
trict into the larger cities is main­ ting up a first class meal, no matter
tained, in twenty years 80 per cent how simple and how plain it may be;
of the entire population will be In let it be good and appetizing. If
the larger cities, leaving the rural your hotel is not adequate, see that
towns and districts almost without a new one is promoted and built be­
population. He also stated that in cause the tourist travel of the future
a public school In one of the smaller is going to be sufficient to make a
cities all the boys and girls who con­ first class hotel that Is suitable to the
templated remaining there always needs of a community, pay a reason­
were asked to put up their hands. able return on the investment.
Fifty per cent of them did. He ask­
If there is a newspaper in the com­
ed those who contemplated at some munity, let the businessmen support
future time leaving their home town it. Don’t let Its existence depend up­
and district to live in the larger on outside advertising which lures
cities to raise their hands, and 85 per business away to other centers, but
cent of them raised their hands.
see to it that it carries every inch of
He also stated that the business advertising that business men and
of these rural districts, through the local corporations can stand so that
activities of the mail order houses, its readers may be educated and in­
was going to the larger cities not In formed of the possibilities of doing
their own state, but to other states business at home.
of the Union, in the same proportion.
Buy your paint, your varnish, the
Our association wishes to inaugu­ materials and tools required In the
rate a campaign throughout this improvements I have suggested, in
state and the state of Washington your home city, and bought by your
that will stop this exodus of popula- dealers from wholesalers in your own
tion and of business, and I believe state, and manufactured, if possible,
that remedies can be applied which within the state.
will effectually do this.
Now, as to making the town more
I have already suggested one, and desirable as a place in which to live
that is by having the citizens them­ for the young people. Let this com­
selves become more loyal and bigger mittee invite a few of the most prom­
boosters for their home town. I sug­ inent women in the town and district
gest that they, in turn, commence a to form one or more social clubs by
campaign in their towns for a clean­ which the women may become ac­
er, a more atractive, a more up-to- quainted with each other, may inaug­
date town, and that they be the spon­ urate social parties, social teas, little
sors for a development movement dances, the dances that are whole-
such as they have never yet attempt­ some, in private houses rather than
ed; that they endeavor at the same in public halls, where the children
time to make It attractive to the may be safe and enjoy friendships
young people and children, to try one with another, friendships which
and teach them that there is no bet­ once formed may last a lifetime, and
ter place in which to live and in which may do more than anything
which to enjoy life than with their else to keep them in their home
parents and amongst their friends in towns.
their own home town and district.
Let the whole community inaugu­
I am going to take the liberty to rate athletic sports, establish tennis
suggest some of the means by which courts, bowling greens, baseball and
this can be done.
football grounds and have their
If there is not a live commercial youngsters playing at something In
organization or other public body in an organized and healthy way. Keep
existence, let the citizens I have re­ their minds and their bodies busy,
ferred to immediately see that there either at work or at play, from day­
is one. If the town has only three light to dark.
or four hundred Inhabitants let the
And, then, let each one of these
business men, the clergymen, the communities intermingle with their
school teachers and others get to­ neighbors, all having the same
gether and form a representative thought: the same ideas, the same ob­
committee that will take up the work jects and institute an Interchange
which usually falls to a commercial of sociai features by having combin-
organization, and to go further than ed dances, combined parties, so that
that, to commence a movement to they will add variety and change to
make that town as far as they pos­ their weekly social life, and institute
sibly can, the most attractive in the friendly competition in athletics, ten­
state.
nis, etc., between picked groups
There are many ways which will from each community.
suggest themselves to such a com­
Just a word to the farmers of these
mittee. I might mention just two or communities. How many of their
three. The painting of their homes children are looking forward to leav­
and stores that require paint, the ing home for the same cause I have
cleaning up of every yard and every mentioned? I wish I could take
vacant lot which needs it, the some of them into the rural districts
straightening of all fences that are of England where in many of the
good and the renewing of all fences counties, such as Devonshire, for in-
that are dilapidated and an eyesore, stance, the country life is the most
the planting of every front yard I desirable of any life in the Old count­
with shrubs, or flowers, and offering ry, where the homes are most at­
of small prizes for the best Improve­ tractive and the children have their
ment that has been made during the own tennis courts, their own parti­
year In all maters of this kind.
cular work on the farm within reas­
The committee might appoint an onable hours There is nothing that
Arbor Day and have the schools de­ has destroyed country life more than
clare a holliday of that day by which to make the children work from day-
Governor Says
Modern Crank
Eat More Prunes
Case Service
To the people of the state of Oregon:
The prune industry is one of the
greatest horticultural industries with
in the State of Oregon. Nearly
forty thousand acres of our finest ag­
ricultural lands are planted with
prun trees. Last year, despite ad
verse weather conditions, thirty mil­
lion pounds of prunes were harvest­
ed in the state. Of this number but
eight million have been sold. The
twenty-two million pounds unsold
represent an enormous asset to the
State of Oregon if they can be mov­
ed and placed in the hands of con
umers. The fact that they are ly­
ing idle jeopardizes this enormous
industry. The people of the State
of Oregon should give widest cooper
ation to the prune growers to meet
the grave situation.
I hereby designate the week from
February 14th to February 19th, in-
elusive, as Prune Week within this
state. I call upon the good spirit
of our people to Join in a movement
to assist this great industry, not only
for the good of the industry itself,
but for the good of the people of the
state as a whole. I urge that every
home In Oregon take advantage of
the opportunity which is presented
by the prune growers to become well
stocked with this nourshing and
healthy fruit. I ask cooperation
from hotels, grocers, restaurants, or
from any source which may give as-
istance and I also bespeak the hearty
Kooperation of the press, which is al­
ways freely given in the furtherance
of every proper and beneficial move­
ment. This is a serious situation in­
volving the welfare of thousands of
our best citizens. Prompt and hearty
response from the people of Oregon
in the purchase of one of our great­
est home products will relieve the
situation and bring about a quick
betterment of conditions. I am cer­
tain the appeal of the prune growers
will not be in vain.
Very sincerely yours,
BEN W. OLCOTT.
Governor
A Market For
Alfalfa Hay
E. B. Fitts
.Alfalfa hay is selling at much low­
er prices than for several years. In
fact in some of the alfalfa growing
sections the market is glutted with
no outlet in sight. Just previous to
the war a material start had been
made In dairying In some of the alfal­
fa growing districts but with the ad­
vent of higher prices for hay and of
a labor shortage there was a stam­
pede to sell the dairy cows and to
take what seemed like easier money
in raising and selling hay. Now
with conditions returning again to
normal the dairy cow looms large on
the horizon as the best market for
this important erop. The alfalfa
grower who kept his cows, received
good prices for his hay during war
times and now has a position of vant­
age as he still has a good market for
his crop.
A good cow will yield 60 to. 75
pounds of butterfat for each ton of
alfalfa hay eaten and In addition
1000 pounds of skim milk valuable
as a feed for calves, hogs or poultry.
Marketing hay in the concentrated
form of dairy products, pork and eggs
saves cost of handling and transport­
ation and is true conservation.
Good cows can now be bought at a
very reasonable figure and alfalfa
growers should give careful study to
the opportunity of building up a per­
manent market for their hay and an
important new industry in their com­
munity through engaging in the
dairy business.
The monthly pay check will prove
a real asset and the farm will become
increasingly fertile.
light to dark without any hope of re­
muneration, and without any home
amusements or recreation.
In these days of electricity, when
by clubbing together farmers that
are fairly close to each other may
procure electric light. In these days
of the phonograph, when each home
may have an orchestra for the little
family dance, in these days of the au­
tomobile when the whole family can
run into a city, even twenty miles
distance, to a picture show or other
amusements, in three-quarters or an
hour’s time, there should be no diffi­
culty tn making community life In
the states of Oregon and Washington,
and in the province of British Colum­
bia the most desirable and the most
attractive of any other life.
I have briefly sketched a few of
the things which might be done to
develop the home town and the rural
district. Many others will suggest
themselves to my audience and to the
people at large.
And now. where does this associa­
tion come In in assisting to develop
the home town and the rural dis­
trict from the outside?
Why, gentlemen, every time a fam­
ily in an automobile, or on foot, or
who arrive by train, come into, or
pass through that little town, they
will fall In love with it, they will say.
this is the cleanest, the brightest, the
most attractive town I have been In.
I want to stay here a little while, I
want to see the surrounding country
"The average motorist.” said Mr.
J. E. Balsley, District Sales Manager
of the Standard Oil Company, today,
“knows that he should have his
crankcase cleaned every so often, but
he doesn't know exactly why. It’s
not the most pleasant Job, and he lets
it go, usually, as long as he can. Aft­
er all. the reasons for keeping an au­
tomobile crankcase clean are simple,
and mighty convincing.
"Lubricating systems of automo­
biles are almost universally of the
circulating type. The amount of oil
pumped always exceeds the actual
amount required for lubrication by
the bearing surfaces. The surplus
flows back to the main reservoir to be
again circulated by the pump. As
the oil circulates, and as it rests in
the crankcase, it becomes contaminât
ed by fuel that works past the pistons
by carbon that forms on and falls
from the under side of the piston
heads, by road dust that is sucked in
through the breather pipe, by water,
a product of combustion, which may
work past the pistons and mix with
the oil and metallic particles which
are the result of the wear and tear
of operation. With the first move­
ment of the engine the process of oil
contamination begins and it increas-
s as operation continues until the oil
becomes charged with dirt and loses
its lubrication value.
"To keep the engine running at its
best, change the oil in the crankcase
as often as themanufacturer's in­
struction book says It should be
changed. However, it is not suffici-,
ent to simply drain out the old oil for
that leaves deposits of dirt and badly
contaminated oil in the crankcase to
impair immediately the efficiency of
the new supply of oil when it is pour­
ed into the crankcase. The whole op­
eration must be most thorough.
“Cleaning the crankcase is a
troubesome job to the average motor­
ist. For this reason regular clean­
ing of the crankcase was often neg­
lected.
"To remedy this condition and to
add to the efficiency and life of auto­
mobile engines, the Standard Oil Co.
is sponsoring a new crankcase clean­
ing service, cooperation with high
class garages throughout the Pacific
Coast. This new service is indicat­
ed on the sign that identifies garages
where this service is to be had. Mod­
ern Crank Case Cleaning Service. The
service is simple, but according to our
lubrication expert it is most thorough
and exceedingly efficient. Just three
operations are necessary to give this
service; drain off the old oil, flush
out the crankcase with Calol Flush­
ing oil, and refill the crankcase with
fresh oil of the correct grade for the
engine. It’s a while-you-wait service
too.
"Modern Crank Case Cleaning Ser­
vice is a new step toward keeping en­
gines fit. for steady service; it means
obviously, better engine preformance
and longer engine life.
NO. 21
“COAL OIL JOHNNY," SPEND­
THRIFT, DIES IN POVERTY
•
Permanent Tree
:: Planting ::
By C. D. Porter
Having been asked to say some­
thing about the different phases con­
nected with tree planting, have
thought it best and most appropri­
ate to call attention to some of the
more important things that should
not be lost sight of where the plant­
ings to be made are along public
thoroughfares. And to continually
bear in mind that not as the excep­
tion but as the rule, public work
should be preformed with the same
conscientious exacitude as used in
individual and corporate enterprises.
The intelligent choice of variety
will be considered first, not. perhaps,
because it should take first place, but
because there must be a beginning.
There are several varieties of trees
from which a choice could be made.
All of them having more or less merit
but equaling the stately and long
life ELM. There are several kinds
of elms but the one most suitable for
the purpose, to my way of thinking
is what is known among planters as
the umbrella elm. So called from
their top spread having the appear­
ance of an opened umbrella.
i'o elect where the planting shall
be made. It must be born in mind
that the place selected to make the
planting has merit because of its ap-
aptation for use by the general pub­
lic.
The space alloted to the individual.
There must be given to each indivu-
al tree a generous allowance of space
for the spreading of its top. An elm
at forty or fifty years old will mea­
sure accross its top five to one hund­
red feet. The spreading of the
branches of a tree cannot be inter­
fered with by planting trees too
closely and thereby crowding. The
tree that it is wished to make Ihe per­
minant one, should at all times have
plenty of room that it may have
the full benefit of light and air
which are so essential to its perfect
development. The individuals
which are intended to be made per-
manant planting should not be plant
ed closer together than forty feet.
Public Tree Planting
Ft. Crook. Neb. "Coal Oil Johnny”
is dead. The most widely advertis­
ed spendthrift the country ever knew
died in poverty here where he was
tation agent for the Chicago. Burl-
ington and Quincy Railroad. In the
days of his prosperity he spent as
nuch as 8100,000 a day. And the
lays came around as regular as the
un. When he died he made about
13.00 a day and the pay car only
came around once a month.
Neither the oil that produced his
fortune, nor his money, nor the way
he spent it brought him luck or hap­
piness. He spent the last fifty years
of his life paying for the follies of his
youth, in poverty and toil.
John W. Steel, for that was his
real name, was born on a farm near
Sheakleyville, Pennsylvania, and, as
he was orphaned in his youth, he
went to live with his aunt the Widow
McClintock in Venango county, Penn.
Oil was struck on the McClintock
farm and the flow was leased on a
royalty basis. The Widow McClin­
tock knew farms but not oil and liv­
ed as she always had lived, putting
the money which rolled in Into a
big safe in her dining room. One
day when Johnny had failed to pro­
vide kindling, she threw a dipper full
of the fateful oil on the kitchen fire
and her interest in earthly affairs
ceased at once.
Johnny was sole heir and when the
big safe was opened he had over $500
000 in cash to play with. He ran
through his find faster than the oil
gushed from the wells. He practic­
ed every form of extravagance. He
bought hotels for a night. He de­
clined to ride In any vehicle which
he did not own and the country was
studded with cabs he had bought and
given back to their drivers after he
was through with them. He owned
a minstrel show and spent thousands
entertaining members of the company
But he did not have a good time. He
admitted it himself. In one Instance
he spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars to have a hotel clerk discharg­
ed and after his money was gone, the
hotel clerk got his Job back. When
his oil ran out, his money ran out too
and he spent the remainder of his
life in hard, grinding toll, paying for
the "fun" he had not had.
Coal Oil Johnny’s motto was:
“The only use for money Is to spend
It.” But the motto lasted no longer
than the money, for after hin brief
splurge lie could not get It to spend
The best use for money Is to save and
Invest It. Hed he put even a part
of his fortune or of his daily earnings
Into sound Government securities he
would have assured for himself a fu­
ture free from toll and the scorn of
those with whom he associated.
Fewer chanceo to save money and
Invest It safely and profitably exist­
ed In Coal OH Johnny’s youth than
exist today. Now Government Sav­
ing securities offer a safe and profit-
able means of providing for the fu­
ture and making it both safe and
happy. The *1 Treasury Saving
Stamps and the $25 Treasury Saving
Certificates are the safest and moat
convenient means for protecting that
which you earn and making it work
for and with you. They are especial­
ly adapted for the use of the wage
earners of America.
The age of the young tree or whip
and its nursery treatment are thing:
that should he known and considered
by tho prospective buyer.
Three or four year old whips of
trees, once transplanted, are perhaps
the best, that Is, they are considered
so by many of the best planters. An
elm, and as for that matter any other
tree, should not be headed back at
AMERICAN RED CROSS GIVES
PRIZES FOR FIRST AID any time in Its growth. The heading
back process weakens the individual
Walter James of Hillsdale, Oregon shortens its life and It never maker
is among those to whom cash prize Ihe vigorous and sturdy tree it would
awards have been made by the had nature been allowed her way.
American Red Cross for the best gen­
The uniformity of top and root
eral First Aid work performed dur­ growth is essential if the uniformity
ing the year 1920, according to an of the matured product Is desired.
announcement made public on Jan.
And finally, the selection of some
22. He was awarded third prize.
approved method with reference to
Mr. James who is an examiner in
the Red Cross Life Saving Corps ad­ spreading of roots at time of planting
ministered routine First Aid to a depth the crown should be planted
number of passengers who were se­ below the surface for different soils
verely injured in a head-on collision etc.
The Best Town on the Map
The above suggestions are all vi­
between two electric trains of the
Southern Pacific Co. near Hillsdale, tally essential and one is no less vital
(By John C. Wright)
Oregon on May 9, 1920. Ben C. Dey than another, if uniformity of growth
General Attorney of the Southern Pa­ of longivity and a pleasing appear­ It's not in distant Asia, in Egypt or
cific lines in Oregon, reported that ance of the plantings are desired.
Japan.
the good judgement, exhibited by
It’s not in France nor Russia nor
DR.
LOUIS
ALBERT
BANKS
Walter James, and his tireless efforts
on the Isle of Man;
extending over several hours, entitl­
WILL LECTURE IN HERMISTON
It's not in Greece nor Italy, nor tar
ed him to the greatest possible com­
mendation. Dr. George Parrish.
away as Nome—
Dr. Louis Albert Banks will lec­
City Health Officer of Portland, Ore­ ture at the Baptist church. Wednes­ It's In the country where you live—
gon also reported to the Red Cross day, February 9th.
the town you call your home.
the efficiency of the First Aid work
Dr. Banks Is known from the At­
preformed by Mr. James at the time lantic to the Pacific as a great pastor Be always glad to praise it up, no
of the wreck.
matter where you are;
and a successful evangelist.
He has written and published more Be ready to defend its name and
and eventually they will say, this is books than any busy evangelist of his
spread It near and far;
years.
where I want to live.
And
when you hear some knocker
He has fought the beverage liquor
California, Florida, and other tour­ traffic from very beginning of his
knock, respond at every rap:
ist states don’t rely altogether upon ministry.
“The town where I am living is the
their natural scenery for their at­
At last his opposition to the traffic
tractiveness to strangers and the peo­ that destroys men became such a con­ • best one on the map."
ple of these states know this. They suming passion with him that he
depend upon the home life, the at­ gave up his work as a pastor-evange­ If any town in which you dwell Is
tractiveness of their cities, towns and list and for years his clear brain and
backward, dull or slow.
villages to lure the people to stay eloquent tongue have been used in
there and to become permanent resi­ advocacy of Prohibition all over the Why don't you try the boosting plan
dents.
and help to make it grow?
United States.
The Pacific Northwest Tourist As­
He Is an orator of the mighty, ag­ Il's little use to villify, to kick and
sociation Is spending a small revenue gressive and convincing type. His
run It down—
compared with the objects for which volleys of logic fairly make the liqu­
Such antics never build a shack, nor
It exists. In the most effective pub­ or men tremble.
ever made a town.
licity that is being carried on today
Ills Is a big soul, a big brain, a big
in the United States. It is attract­ body, with a big faith In the ultimate If you would have your burg become
ing thousands of people every year, success of a big crusade.
a busy, growing mart,
Throughout the West, where he
both by automobile, by .train and by
Just
put your shoulder to the wheel
steamship, into Oregon, Washington has spent the most of his public min­
and help It get a start;
and British Columbia. It is for us istry, he Is universally popular, and
to sell our states while they are here, the announcement of his name Is suf­ And let this little motto be enshrined
and there is no better way of selling ficient to bring the multitudes to
beneath your cap.
them than to impress upon our visit­ hear him.
The lecture platform contains no "The town where I am living is the
ors the one truth which we all be-
best one on the map.”
lieve, that there Is no other place in more able, popular and successful a
• he United States or In Canada in speaker. He has been one of the
—Compliments of Sapper's Ink.
which life Is so well worth living as truly great leaders In the Prohibi­
It Is tn Oregon. Washington and Brit­ tion reform. He has the sunny face,
ish Columbia. If the ideas I have the sparkling eye. the hearty laugh,
A Colored lady upon returning a
ventured to submit to you are carried that puts his audience In the same pair of silk stockings was asked i!
out, this fact and this truth will be happy humor.
Dr. Banks has many times Imperil­ they had i't come up to her expecta­
more empathic than it has ever been
before, and we will soom have a very ed his life In his fight against the tions. She replied, “No, but they
much larger population and a very liquor traffic, and once was shot was long enuff."
much increased prosperity through- down by an Infuriated saloonist.
—Compliments of Sapper’s Ink.
- Admission free to this lecture.
out this beautiful land of ours.
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