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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
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City Meat Market
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M. C. Athey, Editor
Entered as second-class matter, December • 1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon
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“Marriage is a game of give and
take,” says a model wife. There
Clean-up—look up—stay up!
being no model husbands, we are un
It is only a matter of a few weeks able to record their views.
when spring cleaning will be with
us again.
It is hinted that the league of na
Let’s be ready for it. Improve up tions may discuss the Irish question.
on the work of past years, and make But it is unlikely anything new can
this town a place of beauty.
be said on the subject.
Let’s make it everybody’s day.
If everybody leaves It for some
Yes, we are an advocate of univers
body else to do nothing will be done al disarmament, provided it begins
except in a prefunctory manner, but with our American crop of theives,
if we all “go to it” with a determi thugs and holdup men.
nation to excel it will only require a
small amount of work on the part of
No, this country is not short on
each individual.
money. The only shortage that ex
The logical way to do a thing is to ists is in the ability of certain peo
pitch right in and stick to it until it ple to get hold of it.
is done, and then hold it there—
don’t allow any slipping or sliding
France has invented a new gun
back to the old level.
capable of shooting two hundred
Mediocre results may be good miles, and not a thing to shoot at.
enough for some localities, but they What luck!
are not satisfactory to the people of
this town. We want something bet
Most any man can save money if
ter, something out of the ordinary,
quite in keeping with the thrift and he wants to, provided he does not
travel the pace of a millionaire on the
intelligence of our community.
Why can’t we have a general wage of a laborer.
spring cleanup day, when every citi
Railroads of the country are plan
zen will get out and put the polish
on our town—remove the debrie ning for a reduction in the wage
from certain streets, clean up back to begin at the bottom and forget to
alleys and unused thoroughfares, and reach the top.
place the stamp of cleanliness, sani
Every day brings forth new prob
tation and beauty upon the whole
lems for us to face, but night usual
community?
No one objects to closing the bus ly comes before we can get around
iness houses for a day In order to to It.
hold a town picnic or other celebra
A hearty laugh is like a ray of
tion. That is a common occurrence
all over the country, and everybody sunshine on a winter day. Can you
qualify for the compliment?
has a gala time.
But who ever heard of a town
closing up business in order to take
One of the best forms of life in
a municipal bath?
surance is the use of a tooth brush
It’s a good move for this town to morning, noon and night.
inaugurate.
We’re for a cleanup holiday, with
At least one thing can be said in
everybody in action.
favor of American profiteers. They
Are you? Say *‘yes.”
are experts in their line.
EVERYBODY'S DAY
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.
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H M. STRAW. MGR.
Herbert Hoover says he can "see
no reason why the United States
should cancel the war debts of the
allies when they are spending more
for armament than it would take to
pay the principal and interest."
Hoover said a mouth full, and we
pass it along. That ten billion dol
lars the allies owe us would feed a
good many hungry Americans in
these days of unemployment. Just
because we are a rich nation is no
reason why we should sit complacent
ly and watch other countries de
fault their obligations to us.
There seems to be a tendency on
the part of many people to continu
ally criticise others of their acquaint
ances. It isn’t done with the inten
tion of doing harm to the person
criticised—at least not always—
but is simply a case of seeing the
worst side of human nature when the
brighter side could be view to much
better advantage. None of us are
perfect—not even the critics them
selves—but we would all be better
citizens if we were to confine our
selves to recognizing and fostering
the good in humanity Instead of stir
ring up the bad.
If you would be happy, just for
get the things that make you unhap
py. Simple, isn’t it?
A popular man seldom talks about
himself. That makes him more
popular.
It is more blessed to give than to
receive, especially if it is a licking.
A woman who nags should never
complain when her husband scolds.
nSHIN’
By Edgar A. Guest
Fishin’ teaches me a lot!
There’s no sure an’ certain spot
Where I’ll always catch a mess,
Have to hunt it, more or less;
Sometimes strike it right away,
And there’ll come another day
When I’ll have to work like sin
’Fore I get a big one In;
Change the bait, an’ move along,
Where the current’s not so strong
Or the wind can’t get a sweep
Or the pools aren’t quite so deep,
Till at last I chance to light
On a place where they will bite.
Fishin’ teaches me to wait
Patiently an’ try my bait;
Lets me know on many a day
I can’t always have my way.
Things aren’t going to suit my whim,
I must stick with patience grim
If I know that I am right ? ?
Fil at last they start to bite;
Times I’ve hooked a beauty, and
Worked a half hour to land
Him alongside o’ the boat.
Then he’s spit it from his throat,
lumped the hook an’ got away—
It is barely possible that within But that didn’t spoil my day.
the next hundred years congress will
right then from mister fish
do something to alleviate the deplor I Learned
can’t always have my wish;
able condition of disabled veterans Things
won’t go the way I choose,
of the world war. The fact that the There are
I’m bound to lose,
vets will all be dead then should be Times I’m times
about to win,
of some slight interest to our dear An’ I think just
prize is in
representatives in Washington. It Reach o’ me, the
somehow
I find
won’t cost so much. There is sel
the fates have changed my mind
dom any individual profit in being a That
So it is with life, I guess.
humanitarian, and gratitude appears Mixed with failure an’ success.
to be only money deep.
Gain and loss are bound to fall
In proportions to us all;
One of the first acts of the new Patient, we must work an’ plan
congress should be a revision of our lust like every fisherman.
immigration laws. With more than
three million men now out of em
ployment In this country one begins BOTANISTS LEARN FACTS
THAT HELP AGRICULTURE
to wonder how the hundreds of
thousands pouring in from Europe
are going to earn an honest living
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
There is nothing to be gained by vallis,—How expensive crop failure
turning America into an internation may be averted by noting the char
al poor farm.
acter of plants that grow on untried
land as indications of crop possibilit
A Chicago paper avers that “given ies, was one of the scores of valuable
a pickle and a few moments of undis points brought out by botanists at
turbed time, a woman can solve any the recent meeting of the American
problem on earth.” Give ’em a bar Association for the Advancement of
rel, brother, give ’em a barrel, and Science.
An instance cited by H. C. Cowles,
elect ’em all to congress. Just now
the country is sorely in need of an plant ocologist at the University of
Chicago, showed that failure to note
army of solvers.
the native vegetation on a proposed
banana farm at Miami, Fla., led to
French bachelors are to be taxed failure.
The plant life showed the
to aid the babies of the benedicts, Cypress soil
type, not the Cuban on
says a news item. But don’t rush which the crop flourishes.
precipitately Into matrimony, young
scientific truths brought out
man. Take time, make a wise at Many
the convention application in Ore
selection, and keep what you get. gon.
says W E. Lawrence, of the O.
This is not France.
A. C. experiment station, who was
one of the three Oregon represent-
The dollar, we are told. Is slow atives.
Soil alkalinity of acidity, soil plant
ly but surely regaining its old time
purchasing power. And In time, we food materials and moisture condi
presume. It will wake up and begin tion can be largely determined in ad
vance by the character of the veget
to purchase again.
ation.
Of the 2400 scientists in attend
Certain sections of the country are ance <00 were botanists, interested
much concerned over why a woman In crop science, this was the largest
closes her eyes when she is being body of botany specialists ever as
kissed But speaking from experi- sembled at any time of place.
enee, we are unable to speak
The Botanical Abstracts Is publish
ed by a board of scientists for re
It Is openly hinted that labor and viewing In English, the Information
capital will soon be pulling together, contained In scientific publications
but nothing is Mid as to whether In any language anywhere. This Is
they will both be pulling In the same j the only publication of Its kind in the
. world.
direction.
There is said to be more crime in
the United States today than at any
other time in the history of the
country. And we have more aliens
who are opposed to law and order
than at any other time. It Is time
for us to take a kindergarten course
in common sense and learn a few of
the needed lessons.
No government
is so strong as to be immune from
undermining by secret forces oppos
ed to it.
Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau
1.8. Hirel
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