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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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FREE TO CUSTOMERS
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Pay for what you get.
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