The Hermiston herald., January 12, 1922, Image 3

^THE HEBM ISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
COUNTRY PAPER
GUARDSNATION
Rises Promptly and Capably to
Every Emergency.
IS NOT ALWAYS APPRECIATED
Ccmenti Interest! of M aw of Popula­
tion— Avoiding Sensationalism, in
Its Clean Wholesomeness Is Its Ap­
peal to Beit Class of Citizens—
Country Press a National Power.
By W R IG H T A. PATTERSON.
The country communities—the vil­
lage, the small town and the smull
city—are the hackbone of the Ameri
cah nation. They are the communities
to which the nation turns in time of
distress and emergency. They are
even more than the backbone of the
nation. They are the bulwark of our
modern civilization. Just at the close
of the World war. Sir. Balfour, for­
eign minister of Great Britain, said to
the writer in London that the entire
civilized world must look to the small
towns of America to preserve.for the
world the civilization that It had taken
centuries w build, because the smull
towns represented a substantial solid­
ity that the tremendous upheaval of
the war had not affected, and it was
only such a foundation that would
preserve the structure of civilization.
The cement that keeps the people of
these country communities together,
working and thinking along uniformly
sane and safe lines, that makes of
them that ‘‘substantial solidity” on
which world civilization can- rely for
a foundation, is the country press—
the village, the small town and the
small city newspaper.
Country Paper Wholesome.
wnose nands the fute of the' BUT rested
listened to the country press because
they realized that the welfare of these
country communities represented the
best interests of the nation as a
whole, and the bill was killed.
During our participation In the
World war the country press stood
stanchly and unselfishly back of the
nation. It did nothing to create dis­
sension among the people during the
time of emergency, but It did carry to
its readers a continuous message of
patriotism and national unity. In each
community It wiped away much of
factional lines, and created au atmos­
phere of intense Americanism that
welded the American people together
regardless of pjace of birth or an­
cestry.
Ths Boozer's Fiancee.
B ell R inging Quartet Win« W ith Sweet-
Toned Chimes and M elodious Son;
T h ese F o u r G if t e d L a d s R in g a n d S in g T h e ir W a y In t o H e a r ts o f H e a r e r s —
C a r r y S e v e n ty -fiv e S w iss H a n d b e lls .
Pendleton and
Umatilla Stage
Country Press Deserves Well.
The country press deserves well of
the people of the nation, ar.d especial­
ly of the people of the country com­
munities. Individually these papers
mny not be large in size as compared
with the city papers, but quantity is
not the measure of their value. They
are worth both directly and indirect­
ly far more than their subscription
price. For that price they bring to
you each week the news of your
friends and acquaintances. To those
who have left the country home to go
either to the city or to some other
country home, the country newspaper
Is a welcome weekly letter that keeps
them In touch with friends and for­
mer associates. To those at home It
carries the news of their friends and
neighbors. It records the births and
deaths, the marriages, the comings
nnd goings of those In whom you are
interested. It furnishes the medium
of publicity through which work for a
better and stronger community is
maintained. It voices the consensus
of opinion of the community to the
representatives In the halls of the
stnte nnd national legislators. It Is
the paper of, for and by the people
of the villages, the towns and the
small cities.
No country paper worthy of the
name ever seeks the support of the
people of Its community on any other
ground than that of giving more than
full value for all that It receives. You
aid yourself, your community, your
stnte nnd the nation when you support
and read your own "Home Town
Paper.”
THEATRES
H E R M IS T O N
U M A T IL L A
Umatilla Friday
Hermiston Saturday
JAMES OLIVER
CURWOODS
LEAVE
8:00 12:00 4:00
Pendleton
9:15 1:15 5:15
Echo
Stanfield
9:30 1:35 5:35
9:55 1:55 5:55
Herrn latón
Into Umatilla 10:15 2:15 6:15
Value Not Always Understood.
But the people of the cities do not
always understand the value of the
country press. With the increased de­
mand for war supplies there came a
demand for a decrease in the con­
sumption of the ordinary needs of
peace time. Among the things the
consumption of which must be cut
was paper. A city man was at the
heud of the department that regulated
the use of paper, and he felt It ad­
visable to so limit the amount of pa­
per available for the country press as
to seriously cripple all of these pa­
pers,, and to have entirely closed many
of them. It was the privilege of the
writer to present the case of the coun­
try press to this man, and it did not
take him long to see that the govern­
ment could tot afford to in any con­
siderable degree cripple an Institution
that represented so much of national
good as did these country newspa­
pers.
The country newspaper goes to Its
readers devoid of that sensationalism
that is so prominent In the metropoli­
tan papers. It carries to its renders
the news items that represent the joys
and sorrows of their friends nnd
neighbors, and keeps the hearts of the
people of the community beating in
unison. It goes to its renders with
that sane nnd kindly advice on local,
state, national and world problems;
advice that is the result of thought
and study beside the hearthstones of
the nation, and not in the selfish marts,
of trade or the brightllghts of city
frivolity. It goes with the influence
of a known and respected member of
the community—its editor back of its
every word, its every opinion. It goes
to a people, the people of the country
communities and the farms, that are
more capable of thinking along sane,
unselfish and practical lines than nre
those who nre surrounded by ■ the
selfish nnd many times evil Influences
of the large cities.
But the influence of the country
newspaper goes far beyond the com­
munity In which It Is printed. Na­
tional legislators in the halls of con­
gress realize thnt this Influence is a
power to be reckoned with. That
when the country press speaks in uni­ RESEARCH WORK IN TROPICS
son on any national subject It is but
voicing the scntlmenjs of that mighty New York Zoological Society Has Sta­
force the people of the country com­
tion in British Guiana— Woman
munities. the people in whose hnnds,
Is Official Artist.
says Mr. Balfour, rests the destiny of
world civilization.
The two principal fields of activity
of the New York Zoological society are
Fights for Entire Country.
The country press represents and the zoological park in the Bronx and
fights for those things that are of the aquarium at the Battery. A third
value to the country communities, undertaking has been the successful es­
realizing thnt In doing so it is fighting tablishing of a tropical research sta­
for those things that ar« best for the tion in British Guiana. South America,
nation and for the world. It works under the directorship ..of William
and tights to upbuild the country com­ Beebe. This laboratory is situated in
munity, to prevent Its falling a prey bungalows at the edge of the tropical
to the selfish greed of the cities. It jungle, and although almost on the
champions the business, the social, the equator, the absence of files and mos­
educational, the agricultural, the in­ quitoes, the cool nights and the com­
dustrial Interests of the country com­ fortable living conditions make It an
munity not from nny selfish angle, but Ideal place for scientists and artists to
from the broader viewpoint of na- carry on research.
This last season 17 workers took ad­
ti >nal good.
Some three or four months ago vantage of the station. The official
there was before Congress a bill on artist of the expedition Is Miss Isabelle
which the press of the country was Cooper. This last year she executed
divided. The magazines, the big na­ over 300 water colors of creatures
tional weeklies, the farm press and such as Insects, fish, frogs, lizards,
the metropolitan daily papers were on snakes, hats and other organisms
one side and the country newspapers whose delicate coloring vanishes al­
were on the other side. The passage most Immediately after death. The
of the bill would mean creating an op­ subjects are all drawn from life, being
portunity for a greater centralization held In the hand and studied under a
of the merchandising of the nation in hand lens. The Intricacy of detail and
a few large cities with a consequent fidelity to thé natural coloration, to­
Injury to the small cities and towns, gether with the beauty of very real ar­
nnd to the people of these cities and tistic feeling, makes the paintings
towns and the farms surrounding worthy of comparison with the work
them. The country press fought for Of Japanese artist«.
the defeat of the bill, and in the end
Read the Wand Ada.
the members of_ the. committee In
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“Nomads of the
North”
LEAVE
8:00 12:00 4:00
Umatilla
8:20 12:20 4:20
Hermiston
Stanfield
8:45 12:45 4:45
9:00 1:00 6:00
Echo
Into Pendleton 10:15 2:15 6:15
Here they are—four lively young Americans—the members of the Bell
Kinging Malo Quartet. And they are in action, too—Just as they will be seen
here in the near future. These young musicians are clever vocalists, also,
and they sing and ring—and ring and sing—to your heart’s content. They
offer a program of brilliancy and snap and theirs Is one of the finest novelty
entertainment ever presented. Their traveling equipment consists of four
well-oiled sets of vocal cords nnd some seventy-five sweet-toned handbells.
Everywhere they have been a veritable sensation during their present tour.
At the Play Hou so Tuesday, Jan. 17
$10,000,000 FOR
NEW FREIGHT CARS
Union Pacific System Will
Build Them Ail With Lumbei
From Northwest Kills.
The Union Pacific system will ex­
pend immediately nearly $10,000,000
for increased freight car equipment,
according to announcement yesterday
through the local offices. This is
among the first announcements of
railway expenditures that is of impor­
tance to the Pacific northwest.
The contracts which require the ex­
penditure of the money call for the
building of 4500 new freight cars for
delivery the first six months of this
year. The contracts require the use
of lumber from this territory to enter
Into the construction of the cars.
Several million feet of fir lumber will
be used in building the cars. The
railway officials have specified that
the car builders who will erect them
in the east obtain this lumber from
mills on the Union Pacific line in this
section.
Of the 4500 cars, 2000 will be
double-sheathed 40-foot, 50-ton box
cars; 1500 will be special double-
sheathed 40-foot, 50-ton automobile
cars • for general service, including
movement of grain in'bulk, and 1000
are to be steel 50-foot, 50-ton automo­
bile cars suitable also for general
freight service.
The building of the special cars for
the carrying of bulk grain will be of
great benefit to the grain shippers of
this section. These cars will be tight
and moisture proof. It is planned to
keep them in service for shuttle serv­
ice back and forth from grain-loading
stations to railroad terminal and ship­
ping points at the time of year when
grain is moving in its greatest bulk.
MONUMENT TO U. S. WAR DOGS
W ill Stand in Only American Animal
Cemetery as Memorial to Battle­
field Messengers.
Enough Said.
Frequently a question contains Its
own answer Such a question was the
one put recently by a Kansas yonng
woman who had failed to qualify for
a position as teacher. Feeling that
she had not been considerately dealt
with, she wrote; “I think I am en­
titled to an exclamation ot why I
failed, anyway.”— B o sto n Transcript
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prjnrl T>A«r«?1fo
Sunday
Umatilla 3 p. m. Hermiston, 7 :1 5 -9 F.
Leaving Pendleton 8 a. ni. and
4 p. in.
Leaving Umatilla 8 a. m. and
4 p. m.
Fhone 868
722 Cottonwood
We Deliver Parcels at Way Points
PARES
Ranks Next to the United States and
Canada la Third, According to
Statistics.
P a n d l a t o n t o E c h o . S1.OO
P e n d le to n to S ta n fie ld , S I.15
P o n d le to n t o H e r m is t o n , S i.5 0
P o n d lo t o n t o U m a t i l l a , S I . 7 5
Winnipeg, Manitoba.—France ranks
second among the wheat-producing na­
tions of the world, according to figures
compiled by the International Insti­
tute of Agriculture here. The United
States is first. Canada is third. The
United States produced 740, Glia,900
bushels; France, 315,639,000, and Can-
ida, 294,388. These are the figures
shown.
The report states that this year's
harvest Is the third France has grown
since the armistice, and notes that
nothing could tell more eloquently than
this great harvest of the rehabilitation
of the sturdy French nation and Its
recovery from the desolation of war.
Station at Hotel Oregon and
Hotel Hrmiston
Fairbanks
— IN —
“ The Habit of
Happiness”
and
A n d y G u m p C a rto o n
No Show Wednesday
Tuesday, Jan. 17 _
^ T O E B ELL
PLAY H O U SE
Theatre
Much Money Spent for Coal.
One federal building in Wall street,
New York, now holds gold coin and
bullion having a value of $1,500,000,-
000. This is one fifth of all the gold
that has been produced iu tlie world
since tlie beginning of civilization.
Never before has so much of the pre­
cious yellow metal been collected lu one
place at one time. But great as Is
this enormous treasure which lies in
one of Uncle Sam’s assay offices. It
has only one half of the value of tlie
total quantity of coal purchased by
fuel consumers in the United States
in a single year.—Floyd W. Parsons,
In World's Work.
RINGERS”
QUARTETTE
Sing True
The Biggest Number of the
Lyceum Course
Come Early
Photographs Borealis.
A Norwegian scientist, M. Stormer,
was aide to have photographed, at sev­
eral points in his country, the aurorn
borealis seen last May, which upset
telegraph lines nnd cables, and provid­
ed a gorgeous display in many parts of
the world. Comparing these photo
graphs at the same time, he has cnlcu
Inted the height at which this aurorn
borealis was spread forth—namely.
312,/4 miles. Thus, since the aurora
boreulls is by proof an electrical llluml
nation of the rarefied air gases, the
earth's atmosphere extends nt least
that distance above the earth's surface.
Nexdore—Heavens I Is your house
afire?
Nnybor—No. Just sent for the de­
partment to come nnd water the
plants, that’s alt. My wife will be
home tomorrow.—Boston Transcript.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the many
friends for the beautiful flowers and
the kindness extended us during the
illness and death of our beloved wife
and mother, Mrs. Dora Rhodes.
Arthur Rhodes
Ida Rhodes
Chester Rhodes
Mr3. Schwante and family.
Ring True
8:15 P. M.
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hauling done
Back to Pre-war Prices
Coal $1 per Ton
Wood $1 per Cord
We make a specialty of long hauls.
Leave orders at Inland Empire Lumber Co.
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TWO TRIPS SUNDAY
FRANCE IS SECOND IN WHEAT
Needed Quick Help.
New York.—A monument to per­
petuate the memory of messenger
dogs that served on the battlefields of
France and Belgium is to be erected
In the dog cemetery at Hartsdale,
near White Plains, N. Y. The memor­
ial, It was announced by plot holders
will cost $2,500.
Designed by a well-known sculptor,
the monument Is to stand on a bowlder
overlooking a much-traveled motor
highway and will consist of a war dog
in heroic size, witli helmet and can­
teen of bronze. The Hartsdale ceme­
tery Is said to he the only animat
burial ground In the United States,
with the one In Purls Its only rival in
the world.
AW, WHAT’S THE USE
YOU LOVE YOUR M A S ttR M OR E THAN
A NY ONE E LS E IN IK E W O R L D -------
WSEN HE R E A D S YOU L t R IG H T
at H is F E E T
From an English Story—In her lax
uriant black tresses nestled a large, red
nose.
------- AND AFTt H Cuvt utUfcN
HIM AU. YOUR LOVE ANb DEVOTION
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