TOE HERMISTON HERALD, HEUMISTON, OREGON.
THE
H E R M IS T O N
HERALD
Published every Thursday a t Hermiston. Umatilla C o u n ty, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern
Oregon's great irrigated alfalfa tields, by the Herald Publishing Company.
unseen audience, and invited them to
send in questions by teleg rap h or
m ail, w hich they answ ered the next
n ig h t by w ireless telephone. One
droll .listen er in D etroit h eard every
th in g except the passing of th e plate,
but he sen t in his co n trib u tio n by
mall.
Does th e w ireless telephone m ean,
th en , th a t th e C h ristian congrega
tion w ill even tu ally disappear? The
C ontinent (P resb y terian ) th in k s th at
q u ite possibly th is question may soon
pass from sem i-jocular b a n te r of the
preachers and churches in to a very
grave problem of C h ristian org an iza
tion. It has no doubt, how ever, th at
“ in th e long ru n th e apostolic in
ju n ctio n not to forsake th e assem b
lin g of them selves to g eth er would
ju stify its essential dem ands upon
even th e most m odern of C h ristian s.”
FARMERS’ PROBLEMS
(C ontinued from last w eek)
self sufficient and did not depend upo
B E R N A R D M A IN W A R I N G , E D IT O R
or care very much, what the great
E n u r e d » . sccoiid-ei»»» i n . U r r , L M -e m b er . iHort, a t th e pò» tolti ce a t H e r n ia u m . Oregon
world was doing. The result is that
the agricultural group is almost as
Subscription Rates: One Year, < 2 .0 0 ; Six M onths, i l 0 0
much at a disadvaiUage In dealing with
other economic groups as the jay farm
Joints
of
im
perfect
tra
c
ts
w
as
the
SALVAGING THE, STARVING
er of the funny pages in the hands of
cause of m any a tra in w reck and loss
HEEDS
sleek urban confidence men, who sell
him acreage hi Central P ark or the
Depression in the live stock indus- of thousands of lives.
The sam e effect is produced on
Ciiicngo city hall. The leaders of the
ry , couplet! w ith a long h ard w inter,
farmers thoroughly understand this,
m otor vehicles by th e continuous
has caused an unusual am ount of su f
anil they are intelligently striving to
ja r h en speeding over a concret su r
ferin g and starv atio n am ong cattle,
integrate their industry so that it will
face highw ay w ith m in u te ro u g h
sheep and horses on th e ruuge aud
he on an equal footing with other busi
ness.
nesses.
heavy losses.
A utom obiles and tru ck s crystalllza
As an example of integration, take
T he Oregon H um ane Society has
th e fin est steel front v ib ra tio n s caus
the steel Industry, In which the model
m ade a survey of conditions in some
ed by going a t high speed over at. im
Is the United States Steel Corporation,
of the biggest range counties, and has
with Its iron mines, its coal mines. Its
s e n t officers to inv estig ate sm aller perfect surfaced road.
lake and rail transportation, Its ocean
Not only will th e best steel c ry s ta l
bands in the valley counties of w est
vessels, its by-product coke ovens, its
lize a t th e point of shock, b u t th e con
e rn Oregon.
blast furnaces. Its open hearth and
crete Itself will crum ble from th e Im
In many instances it has been the
*
* Bessemer furnaces, its rolling mills. Its
p act rtn a rigid g ranulous surface.
tube mills and other manufacturing
custom and alm ost a tra d itio n to let
♦
NEWS
OF
NEIGHBORING
♦ processes that are enrried to the high
C alifornia has laid 3,000 m iles of
herd s russle in the snow an d w inter
TOWNS
« est degree of finished production com
tig id surface concrete roads, b u t 30 ♦
If they can, w hile the ow ners live in
♦ patihle with the large trade it has
percent of th is m ileage is sh attered , ♦
com fort in some w arm er clim ate
built up. All this Is generally conced
and 1500 miles will be resurfaced.
from th e profits of the stock.
N. P. Jensen, form erly m anager of ed to be to the advantage of the con
In tw o years 500 m iles have been
T he best stockm en find it pays to
resurfaced w ith a bitum inous shock th e cream ery for the Oregon D airy sumer. Nor d' es the steel corporation
not allow anim als to go to th e sta rv
Inconsiderately dump Its products on
absorbing cushion and o th er states m en’s league a t S tanfield, has leased
ation point, alth o u g h m any have ex
the market. On the contrary, it so
i the build in g and equipm ent from the acts that it is frequently a stabilizing
pre re q u irin g shock absorbers.
hausted all cred it and m any of the
S
tanfield
cream
ery
company,
and
has
The fatlq u e of a new concrete su r
influence, as is often tile case with oth
herds a re m ortgaged an d some are
face, th e w ear and tear-o n tires, th e h ired E rn est M arti, a cheese m aker, er large organizations. It is m aster of
tak en over on the debt.
to tak e charge, and th e w ork started Its distribution as well us of Its pro
In such cases the c a ttle m ortgage fin al cry stalizatio n of stru c tu re of
Feb. 1. Swiss brick and Swiss block duction. If prices gre not satisfactory
both
steel
and
concrete,
are
facts
of
com panies are liable u n d er the law
cheese w ill be made and a fine brand the pioducts nre held back or produc
such
common
everyday
observations
for failu re to get feed to th e stock,
I of cream ery b u tte r.— S tan field S tan d tion is reduced or suspended. It is not
and some have been induced to buy th a t o rd in ary intelligence o u g h t to
compelled to send » year’s work to the
ard.
market at one time and take whatever
large qu an tities of bay in d ifferen t dem and th e n o n -jarin g surface in
h ig h w ay construction.
sections of the state.
W ith th ia issue, th e Crook County it can get under such circumstances.
j P u b lish in g Company, a corporation It has one selling policy and its own
Some large live stock operators ex
export departm ent. Neither are the
pect losses from ten to th irty per
of local people, assum e th e ow ner grades and qualities of steel determin
THE GOSPEL BY WIRELESS
cent In w in te rin g anim als, and It
ship
of
th
e
C
entral
Oregonian.
ed at the caprice of the buyer, nor does
L iterary Digest
seems to be considered a re g u lar fea_
Guy L afo llette, for tw elve years the Intter hold the scales. In this sin
P
reach
in
g
by
w
ireless
is
m
ore
th
an
tu re of the business, involving .losses
Identified jW ith ■th e Crook County gle integration of the steel corporation
a p assing fad, for already, we are as
in a h ard w in ter of m illions.
I Jo u rn al, w ill be ed ito r and m anager is represented about 40 per cent of the
sured,
it
has
proved
en
tirely
p
ra
c
tic
I of th e paper, and W B. R ussell, for steel production of America. The rest
In Lake, H arney, M alheur and
K lam ath counties unu su al effo rts are able for a man to sit a t home— even ' four years w ith th e same publication Is mostly in the hands of a few large
m ade by ca ttle and sheepm en to get for th a t m atter, to lie in bed if he is will be in ch arg e of th e m echanical companies. In ordinary times the
steel corporation, by example, stabilizes
th e ir stock to the hay, or th e hay to so disposed— and h ear to th e m in u t end of the business.— P rineville, Ore. all steel prices. If this is permissible
est
d
etail
all
th
a
t
his
ears
could
g
a
th
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th e stock, but in spite of th is the
H eppner Is h av in g a th ree days (it Is even desirable, because stable
losses are going to reach high fig er if he were actu a lly presen t a t the
and fqlr prices ore essential to solid
services.
More
th
a
n
th
is,
w
ith
the
“ F arm ers’ C h au tau q u a” th is w4tek and continued prosperity) why would
ures.
The su fferin g am ong horses on the aid of a w ireless o u tfit th e p reacher begin n in g Monday. Speakers from It be wrung for the farm ers to utilize
range is enough to m ake special a t can reach those who are unable to go O. A. C. and several Co-operative central agencies th a t would have simi
ten tio n to this u n fo rtu n a te anim al to ch u rch and, we are told, it may farm associations are on th e program . lar effects on agricultural products)
Something like that is what they are
necessary, and it is one of the g re a t prove to be an in valuable a d ju n c t to
F. T. George has received a reply aiming at.
est problem s in the w ork of hum ane th e ev an g elist who would preach to from H enry F ord to h is com m unica
Some farm ers favored by regional
an audience g re a te r th an th e church
education.
tion w ritte n 'th re e m onths ago re compactness and contiguity, such ns tile
roof
can
cover.
The
w
ireless
tele
H orses w ithout bran d s when in
g ard in g fin an cin g th e Teel district. citrus-fruit-ralsers of California, al
good condition are readily etalmed phone is now in use in b o th P itts - ' The le tte r sta te d th a t no action in ready have found a way legnlly to
b
u
rg
an
d
New
Y
ork,
acording
to
j
merge and sell their products inte
b u t once they get to the starv atio n
th is m a tte r could be tak en by Mr. j
point no ow ner w ill claim them , and several religious jo u rn als, and the Ford a t th is tim e, b u t th a t th e le tte r grally and in accordance with seasonal
and local demand, thus improving
th ey come down from the m ountains read in g of scrip tu re, th e pastoral would be placed on file.— Echo News their position nnd rendering the con
prayer, th e m usic of organ and choir
n earer town and have to be shot.
sumer a reliable service of ensured
H orses were found in bands ru s tl and every accent of th e serm on are | A m eeting w ill be held Monday quality, certain supply, and reasonable
cu
rried
to
th
e
telephonic
e
ar
of
every
to organize the Boy Scouts of Echo. and relatively steady prices. They
ing in the sage brush cou n try th a t
lies under a cru st of snow and ice, listen er w ho ow ns a w irelesss equip Seventeen boys of su itab le age have have not found It necessary to resort
paw ing th rough to th bare earth m ent and can a d ju st it to th e proper already expressed th e ir in ten tio n to to any special privilege, or to claim
u n til th e ir feet a re worn to the quick, w ave len g th . A w ireless o u tfit re join th e o rganization. I. M. P eter any exemption under the anti-trust
cen tly used by tw o F a u llst F ath ers son w ill be the scout m aster.— Echo legislation of the state or nation. With
and leaves tra ils of blood.
out removing local control, they have
who w ere co nducting m issionary ser News.
The H um ane Society h as enlisted
bnilt up a very efficient marketing
vices in Old St. P a tric k ’s C hurch in
the co-operation of some of th e big
agency. The grain, cotton, and to
P itts b u rg reached tw en ty S tates, we I Jim Jones, ru ra l m all c a rrie r out
c a ttle and sheep men like Wm. H an
bacco farmers, nnd the producers of
are told, and resulted in b rin g in g In of A thena, has a Rpan of little mule, hides nnd wool, because of their num
ley of B urns and one of tile S tanfields
several converts to th e church and not M issouri 1 mules, eith er. He bers nnd the vastness of their regions,
of U m atilla county and a conference
w hite "som e careless C atholics in fa r claim s to have driven a to ta l distance and for other reasons, have found
w ith stockm en is to be lietd.
aw ay tow ns outside th e city, h aving of 28,000 m iles d u rin g th e past five integration n more difficult task ;
though there are now some thousands
h eard th e in stru ctio n s on ’confession’ j years.— W eston Leader.
of farm er’s co-operative elevators,
EON-JABRING HIGHWAY
w ere led to receive th e sacram ents.
W hile in H eppner for a day o r so warehouses, creameries, and other en
SURFACES
Non-CatholicB in cities 400 miles
d u rin g th e week, E. M. H ulden, terprises of one sort and another, with
In th e old days of railro a d in g it aw ay w rote in for lite ra tu re b earing
Black horse farm er, w h o 'w ith his fam a turn-over of a billion dollers a year.
w as a common accident for a loco upon th e docrines of th e ch u rch .” I
ily is spending th e w in ter in P o rt They nre giving the farm ers business
m otive wheel to snap off from w hat N ight a fte r n ig h t d u rin g the services i
land, w as prevailed upon to announce experience and training, and, so far
w as called crystallized axle.
as they go, they meet the need of
say The In d ian a C atholic and Record
him self as a candidate for nom ina honest weighing and fair grading; but
The forever bum ping over the rail the P n u list F a th e rs address th e ir
tion to th e office of jo in t rep resen ta they do not meet the requirem ents of
tive from M orrow and U m atilla coun rationally adjusted marketing in any
large and fundamental way.
ties.— H eppner G azette-Tim es
The next step, which will be a pat
tern for other groups, is now being
I
prepared by the grain-raisers throngh
I ♦
the establishment of sales media which
! * BRIEF AND TO THE POINT ❖ shall hundle grain separately or col
I ♦
* lectively, as the Individual farm er may
elect. It is this step—the plnn of the
J
All Irelan d asks Is a fig h tin g Committee of Seventeen—which has
created ao much opposition and Is
I j chance.— W all S treet Jo u rn al.
thought by some to be In conflict with
the anti-trust laws. Though there Is
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W ill H ays h itches his wagon to now before congress a measure de
I several sta rs.— A shville Times.
signed to clear up doubt on this point,
the grain-producers are not relying on
•
A telephone pole never h its a mot- any immunity from anti-trust legisla
I or car except in self-defense.— Can- tion, They desire, nnd they are en
titled, to co-orrlliinle their efforts Just
I ton Press.
as effectively as the large business In
,
W h at m ost city governm ents need terests of tlie country have dene. In
I is a little uncivil service reform .— connection with the selling organiza
tions the United States Grain Growers
J New York T ribune.
Incorporated is drafting a scheme of
■ The rep th a t G erm any is g ettin g financing Instrum entalities and auxili
IB
I o u t of rep aratio n s is a bad one.— ary agencies which are Indispensable
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to the successful utilization of modern
|¡N o rfo lk V irg in ian -P ilo t.
business methods.
I
It is essential that the farm ers
I
Even though you keep on discharg-
I ing your duties, you never get rid of should proceed gradually with these
plans, and aim to avoid the error of
■ R. A. Brownson, Manager
j them.-—G reenville Piedm ont.
Phone 111
scrapping the existing marketing ma
1
W ar seems more and more wicked chinery, which has been go laboriously
as th e pro b ab ility of g e ttin g a p rofit built up by 1' ng experience, before
o u t of it grow s sm aller.— E rie Times. they have a tried and proved aubsti-
tnte or supplementary mechanism
We are w aitin g to see w h at a shil- They must be careful not to become
laly looks like w hen tu rn ed into a enmeshed in their own reforms and
lose the perspective of their place In
p ru n in g hook.-—Boston Shoe and the national system They must guard
L eather R eporter.
against fanatical devotion to new doc
trines, and should seek articulation
E v ery th in g is divided equally. Tho
with the general economic aystem
rich man has th e tw in-six and the rather than its reckless destruction as
poor m an has th e six tw ins.— New It relates to them.
York A m erican.
We can furnish you good cooking apples. W inesaps a t $1.00
T here is som ething In the theory
per box. T his is the season of th e y ear we should a ll be e atin g
To take a tolerant an* sympathetic
th a t the w orld is fla t. It Is fla t on view of the farmer«’ strivings for bet
apples. O ranges are likely to be high th ro u g h th e season of 1922.
it:: back, b u t is going to tu rn over.— ter things Is n t to give n blanket
Toledo Blade.
endorsement to any specific plan, and
still less to applaud the vugartes of
W ith P ennsylvania sending Crow some of their leaders and groups.
and P epper to th e U nited S tates Sen Neither should we, on the other hand,
T ry a can of homemade Sorghum . 5 pounds $1.2$. S trictly pure.
ate, th e political menu appears com allow the froth c f bitter agitation,
T his leaves all your money on th e U m atilla project fo r these
false economies, and m istaken radical
p lete.— New York Call.
item s of common consum ption.
Ism to conceal the facts of the farm
In a way the trav elin g salesm an is era’ disadvantages, nnd the practlcabll. ’
ju s t now th e m ost independent of Ity of eliminating them by well-eon
men— he seldom tak es orders from sldered mpasiirps. It may be that the
fanners will not show the business
anybody.— K ansas City S tar,
sagacity and develop the wise leader
Now th a t th e drives for endow , ship to carry through sound ptana; but
Home produced Honey beats the Im ported S yrups and is cheaper
m ents have been p u t over, college hat possibility d<-»s not justify the
5 pounds 80c.
professors have begun criticizin g th e ' • I
C »tinned next week
new spapers ag ain .— New Y ork T rib
une.
HOUSE APPROVES $500,000
FOR UMATILLA PROJECT
W ashington. D. C., Feb. 8
E ast O regonian,
Pendleton, Oregon.
The house app ro p riatio n com m it
tee this m orning approved th e e sti
m ate of five hu n d red thousand dol
lars fo r the U m atilla project.
N. J. S nnott
The foregoing m essage from Con
gressm an S innott relates to th e bud
get for th e U m atilla project for the
coming year. However, th e view of
the project en g in eer’s office is th a t
the new s does not mean any money
w ill be available for the McKay dam
F unds for the McKay project aw ait
on receipt of money by the reclam a
tion fund. At th is tim e the outlook
fo r money for the McKay dam is not
hopeful.— E ast Oregonian.
trisa
'H IM
iiu f
Plan This Winter
BUILD IN THE SPRING
Crop Rotation Controls Crop Pests
One of the im m ediate benefits of
crop rotation is a b e tte r control of
crop pests. R otation is an im port
a n t m ethod advised for th e control
of nearly every Insect or disease a t
tack in g field or garden crops, and
w ith o u t it m any of the o th er help
fu l m easures are Ineffective.— O. A.
C. E xperim ent station.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Aids ■
Nature
Medicines th a t aid n atu re are al
ways most effectual. C ham berlain's
Cough Remedy acts on th is plan. It
allays the cough, relieves th e lungs,
aids expectoration, opens the secre
tions and aids n a tu re in restoring
the system to a h ealth y condition.
T housands have testified to its good
qualities. T ry it w hen you have a
cough or cold.
All indications show that
lumber prices have reach
ed rock bottom. There
are so many new homes
needed that it is only rea
sonable to expect build
ing costs to increase with
spring demand.
Select a design for your new home. Place the con
tract for the material r.ow. Build as soon
as the weather will permit.
Inland Empire Lumber C om pany
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best and it is the best.
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STORE NEWS
Apples
Sorghum
Home Produced Honey
Herm iston Produce &
Supply Co.
"TAc Bat of Good Stroke’
1 op of the United State«.
Harmony.
What aom* m r j wool)) like to know
la why. If girl* never put on long
dresses oow when they grow np, they
shouldn't keep on wearing hair rib
bons.—Boston Transcribe.
An aerial view of the top of Monnt
Rainier, the 14,W*1-foot peak of Wash
ington, was recently made. The avt- i
ato r was forced to make an ascent of ,
three miles to get the picture, and the
photograph abowa nna ot the oow ex
tinct volcano crater*.
it « : ime *0 many
ty|,
of numberless
U nion P acific S ystem
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