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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1921)
THE ======================================== HERMISTON TH E HERALD, HERMISTON, HERMISTON ÖREGÖN. 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 Subscription Rates: One Year, 12.00; Six Months, $1 00 Bargain Day At the Tum-A-Lum Several tons of slack coal. Will sell this at $4.00 per ton while it lasts, An extra well built WAGON HOUSE For Sale Either with or without the wagon Size of house 9x16 feet. This was built to live in, and it' is lined with beaver board. Any one needing such a house can get A Bargain Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co R. A. Brownion, Mgr ' PHONE 111 CLEAN-UP DAY, APRIL 8TH The Commercial Club is organiz ing for a successful Clean-up Day April 8th. No argument was requir ed to convince the members of the Club that a clean-up was necessary. The streets and alleys are littered with paper and trash. Vacant lots are covered with weeds and debris. Nicely kept lawns and carefully tended premises are hidden by the ugliness of the neglected lots and streets adjoining. A visiting official of the State Chamber of Commerce recently stood up before a meeting of the Commercial Club and praised cur fine trees, enterprising men and beautiful women, and then roasted us quite heartily for the Ugly, neg lected appearance of the city. With the great change being wrought by the street and sidewalk work a good thorough clean-up will make Hermis ton look quite different. Every man in the city should keep the date open and enlist in the good cause. The ladies of the Commun ity Club will serve a lunch to the workers and there will be a breaking of ranks only long enough to satisfy the Inner man with the repast pro vided. A captain will be appointed for each block and he will lay out the work and organize his forces to effectively clean-up his district. This is arbor day in the schools and the children will join effectivly in the campaign. One of thse occasions where all join in a cooperative effort to do a good thing. It is rumored that some men have urged their women folks to early ef forts around the place, hoping there- by to escape service on April 8th. They will be dissapointed. There will be a day’s hard work in store for them on that day. All you need is a little civic pride and some sort of an implement of grace. . IS THIS A SQUARE DEAL? ALFALFA SEED 99.36 Pure Oregon Standard Germination 25c Per Lb GRIMM ALFALFA SEED Per pound 60c Hermiston Produce & Supply Co. EAT GOOD MEAT EAT THE SAME KIND THAT WE EAT BUY WHERE YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT Just Received Shipment of Canned Salmon 2 Cans 25c City Meat Market MOONEY & SIKEY, Prop.. The war department and certain civilian agencies are fostering a plan to establish a series of citizens’ mili tary training camps in this country. It is understood that the government will furnish transportation, subsis tence and uniforms, while the stud ents would be required to devote his time free of charge. The main ob ject of these camps would be to edu cate the public up to the necessity of universal military training, which congress has so far refused to sanc tion. On the surface of this would ap pear to be a praiseworthy move. But is It? The rich man's son and the young man In comfortable circum stances can afford to devote a month of his time to attending these camps therefore be in line for a commissinn In the army at once in the event of war. • The young man who is poor, who can not afford to lose the time from his business without compensation, has no hope of attaining such a camp no matter how many natural qualifi cations he might possess that go in to making of an acceptable army of ficer. Buck private in the ranks is the prize that awaits him. Yet he must pay his proportion of taxes for the purpose of maintaining these camps for the benefit of those who are more fortunately situated. If it is necessary to maintain training camps in order to educate men for responsible positions In time of war there should be no favoritism shown. The transportation, uniforms and subsistence furnished by the govern- Aient are paid by all the people. If congress desires to be fair In the matter, It will pay each man who at- tends a reasonable sum to compens ate him for the time he loses from his business—at least, an amount equal to the pay of a second lieutenant, the lowest commissioned grade tn the army. Then the privelege of attend ing the camps should be apportioned out to several states and counties In proportion to population, the local authorities to make the selections from those who apply. • If congress Is not willing to do this, or something equally fair, then It should do nothing at all and there should be no camps, unless private individuals desire to conduct them entirely at their own expense. To give the subject a purely local appli- cation, how many young men are In a position to give a month of their time free of charge for the purpose of providing greater security for all of the people. This country is not out of the woods of war. It will need défend ere for many years to come, it will need many men competent to step Into commissioned ranks, But In organizing the campe that produce these officers we should give every | section and every class of our cltie- enry an equal opportunity and a square deal. If congress will add the item of compensation ,to the appropriation for these camps, together with pro visions for an apportionment of at tendance the plan would be ideal and patriotic, and would meet with pop ular approval. But to spend the money of all the people for the bene fit of the more fortunate ones is un democratic and un-American. LANSING FLAYS LEAGUE Robert Lansing, former Secretary of State, until dismissed by Presi dent Wilson for calling meeting of the cabinet when his chief was phys ically unable to do so, has given his honest opinion of the peace treaty and league of nations covenant as re corded in his dairy in Paris and just published. He says: The terms of peace were yesterday delivered to the German plenipoten tiaries, and for the first time in these days of feverish rush of prepration there is time to consider the treaty as a complete document. “The impression made by it is one of dissapointment, of regret and of depression. The terms of peace ap pear immeasurably harsh and humili ating, while many of them seem co me impossible of performance. “The league of nations created by the treaty is relied upon to preserve the artificai structure which has ben erected by compromise of the con flicting interests of the Great Powers and to prevent the germination of the seeds of war which are sown in so many articles and which under nor mal conditions would soon bear fruit The league might as well attempt to prevent the growth of plant in a tropical jungle. Wars will come sooner or later. “It must be admitted in honesty that the league is an instrumentality of the mighty to check the normal growth of national power and nation al aspriations among those who have been rendered impotent by defeat. Examine the treaty and you will find peoples delivered against their will Into the hands of those whom they hate, while their economic resources are torn from them and given to others: Resentment and bitterness. If not desperation, are bound to be the consequences of such provisions. It may be years before these oppress ed people are able to throw off the yoke but as sure as the day follows night the time will come when they will make the effort. “This war was fought by the Unit ed States to destroy forever the con ditions which produceed it. Those conditions have not been destroyed. They have been supplanted by other conditions equally productive of hat red, jelousy and suspicion. In place of the Triple Alliance and the Enten te has arisin the Quintuple Alliance which is to rule the world. The vict ors in this war intend to impose their combined will upon the vanquished and to subordinate all interests to their own. “It is true that to please the aroused public opinion of mankind and to respond to the idealism of the moralist they have surrounded the new alliance with a halo and called it ‘the league of nations.’ but what ever it may be called or however It may be disguised it is an alliance of the Five Great Military Powers. “It Is useless to close our eyes to the fact that the powers to compel obedience by the exercise of the unit ed strength of the five is the funda mental principal of the league. Jus tice is secondary. Might is primary. “The league as now constituted will be the prey of greed and intri gue; and the law of unanimity of the council, which may offer a restraint, will be broken or rendered the organ ization powerless. It is called upon to stami as just what is unjust. “We have a treaty of peace, but it will not bring permanent peace be cause it Is founded upon the shift ing sands of self-interest. "The obnoxious things in the treaty were due to secret diplomacy. The President should have stuck rig idly to his principles, which he has not.” The man without an idea hasn't the room in his head to hold those of others. There is no occasion for hiding your smile, brother. It is not sub ject to the income tax. Any man can acquire the habit of saving If he has anything to save. The person who keeps a record of his successes and failures is gen- erally the one who has the least fail ures to record. Si ELIMINATE THE GUESSWORK Correct Construction Demands That You Build Frotn 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. 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