THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.*
T H E L H E R M IS T O N
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Published every Thursday at Hermiston, Umatilla Cuusty, Oregon, lr£the«heart of Eastern
Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company.
BERNARD MAINWARING, EDITOR
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Subscription Kates: One Year, (2.00; Si» Months, (1 00
KO TAX COT
A fter due deliberation the county
court has decided to adopt the budget
prepured by the budget committee.
Thia means th a t the recommendations
pf the U m atilla county taxpayers’
league will not be accepted and th a t
the proposed tax cu t w ill not be
made.
The levy for sta te and county p u r
poses was 15.5 mills last year and
will be 17 mills next year. The in
crease Is partly for sta te purposes and
partly for the Til Taylor m urder re
ward.
The county is paying a lot of mon
ey in taxes and the burden Is very
heavy to all. Some have believed it
necessary to reduce th a t burden even
a t the expenie of doing aw ay w ith
some of the useful activities of the
county governm ent. O thers Insist
ed th a t the tim e has not come to go
buck and they prevailed.
This paper believed and still be-
llvcs th a t the proposed tux cut woulo
have been a bad thing. It oppose»
the elim ination of the county agent
home dem onstration ugen and It op
posed the proposal to reduce the fu n i
available for county roads.
If the budget could be cut w ithout
g rea ter loss to the county we were for
such a cut. The county court feels
th a t such a cut cannot be made and
t is probably rig h t. At any rate we
^re going ahead in th e same con-
trac tiv e way we have alw ays gone
head and It is not likely th a t we will
egret it. B ut the county officers and
others who get public money should
be Impressed w ith the taxpayers pos
tton. He Is w illing to pay th e costs
)Ut he w ants good service and his
»ubllc servants Bhould see th a t he
,ets It.
WHEN
N ew port (N. H. ) A rgus and
Spectator
When th e stom ach stops digestin’ to
save the gastric juices.
W hen the hangm an falls to hang ’em
to save wear on the nooses.
When the m erchant burns th e tallow
dip to save his kilow atts,
Vnd th e housewife cooks in china to
save the tins and pots,
When the h u n ter shoots w ith peanuts
to save expensive bullets.
Mid the fam er keeps his hens nine
years to save ’im raising p u llets—-
Then ’tls timo the p rudent m erchan
diser finds th a t he is wise,
When he saves his h ard slmoleons and
doesn’t advertise.
f tivea of the U m atilla County Taxpay-
rrs’ League In recent convention as
sembled a t Pendleton, we do not a l
together approve of its acts. We
consider It wholly wrong In recom
mending to the county court th a t the
office of county ag ric u ltu rist be abol
ished. The present able and active
holder of th a t position, Mr. Fred
Bennion, is engaged in constructive
work of positive v d u e to U m atilla
county many tim es the am ount of his
salary. To dispense w ith his services
In order to save a few thousand dol
lars a year will be a step backw ard
th a t U m atilla county cannot afford.
In the single Instance of the develop
m ent of the seeed potato on W eston
m ountain, and th is Is only one of his
many-sided and ever-useful activities,
Mr. Bennion will have added and in
fact is adding to U m atilla county’s
resources productive w ealth com
pared to which his salary is a mere
bagatelle. In view of the fact th a t
num erous largely-signed petitions
will come to the court from every
section of th e county u rg in g th a t Mr.
Bennion be retained, and th e fact
th a t the proposal to abolish his office
was approved at th e taxpayers’ m eet
ing by only a slig h t m argin and ob
viously w ilhout careful consideration
we feel th a t the county court will be
wholly Justified In keeping th is fa ith
ful and com petent serv an t on th e
payroll. Parsim ony, although m as
querading as economy, w ill never get
us anyw here.
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You who have been waiting for lower prices
before you laid that hardwood floor, renewed
those old walls and ceilings, re-roofed the house
or barn, or built the garage—this message is
directed to you.
Do you know that lumber and building
material prices are down 50 per cent?
Do you know that you can repair or re
model cheaper than at any time in the past ffve
years?
Do you realize that every day you wait not
only inconveniences you but cost you real money?
Building material prices may come down
more—we think not—but every day you delay
in getting the new garage deprives you of the
use of it, and causes you to pay out money for
garage rent.
Every day you delay roofing the barn and
the home, makes your property more liable to
damage from storm. Every day you put off in
side repairs the trouble increases and the total
expense becomes greater.
Do your repairing and remodeling at the
present bargain prices and get the benefit now.
Come in today and let us figure your job.
Begin getting the benefit now.
JOURNALISTIC DISCRETION
B irm ingham A ge-H erald
"I presum e you occasionally point j
out to your neighbors th e erro r of
th eir w ays?”
‘‘No, said the editor of th e Chig-
gersville Clarion. ‘‘W hen I was *a
younger man I w as p retty good in a
rough-and-tuinble aru g m en t but hard
work and close confinem ent have
made me physically u n fit for th a t
sort of exercise. Nowadays when I
w ant to pour vitrio l on somebody I
pick out a public ch a racter so far
removed from Chiggersville th a t none
of my readers will feel like dropping |
into the sanctum and try in g to use
¡no fo r’a floor mop.”
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be six -ten th s of a mill higher th an
last year’s. Somebody ought to show
the tax spenders th e road back to nor
malcy.— Eugene Register.
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come up to the stan d ard set. And It Is
a pleasure to know, as we all do, th a t
w ithout reference to the set observ
ances of any p articu la r week the
teaching of Americanism Is going on
In them all the time.— Bend Bulletin.
As those m entioned for the gbver-
nor Job are on the increase, It begins
to look like politics was being played
from most all corners of th e stats.
Each new man m entioned has some
th in g to say about taxes, know ing
th a t to be a popular topic all th e tim e
But it is an old, aw ful old, gag to
spring year a fte r year.— A urora Ob
server.
If to he under fire en titled them to
com pensation various county officials
would certainly be earn in g the salary
increases they d idn’t get.— A thena
Press.
L et’s Junk the navies of the world
and then le t’s beat a few sw ords in to
plowshares. L et’s get rid of th e navy
and the arm y both. If one is useless
tho other Is needless.— Benton Coun
ty Courier.
A fter reading reports of storm
dam age In various p arts of the N o rth
west and th e closing of the Columbia
highw ay by snow and ice for an In •
definite tim e, everyone fo rtu n ate
enough to live In th is community
Bhould be very th a n k fu l.— W heeler
R eporter.
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The trouble w ith a lot of wives is
th a t, if given rope enough, they skip
it.— B urlington News.
Our idea of a rich man is one who
can smoke a fifteen-cent cigar w ith
I o u t w ishing it had been given to him.
— Dallas News.
The woman w ho once spanked her
son for sm oking cig arettes now
ipar.ks her grandson for stealin g her
cjgarettes.— Johnstow n Democrat.
A bull may not be very In tellig en t
but he understood the red flag long
before the rest of th e world.— W heel
ing Intelligencer.
A nother reason why we try to do
the lion’s share of the w ork Is be
cause lions don’t work..—Dallas
News.
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opportunity to waste
your money on trasky merchandise.
We invite you one and all to come in and look
us over and verify our statements.
This has always been the policy of this concern
BUILD IN THE SPRING
All indications show that
lumber prices have reach
ed rock bottom. There
are so many new homes
needed that it is * * ly rea
sonable t > exp<; i j .u-
ing costs to inc. « .,ne ' ;th
spring demand.
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tract for the ma.
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