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ST AND AR D OIL COMPANY
(Canforata)
EXPERTS
der to Tia Juana, driving Into Yose
mite and to the Big Trees.
Wtth the appronch of the rainy I
Published every Thursday at Her- season they find that traveling has !
in In ton, Umatilla County, Oregon by lost its flavor, and they return to i
Raymond Crowder, Editor and Man the apartment. "Father” becomes
ager.
restless. He has spent active year« ,
Entered as second clans matter, directing his own business or follow
December 190« at the poetoffice at ing a trade, and the placid sameness 1
Hermiston, Oregon.
of the days bring a restlessness. He
wanders about the streets seeking
Subscription Bate*
companionship and some diversion |
Por One Veer ___;.___________ *1.00 for the hours. He finds a court of
Por Six Months ____________ «1.00 picturesque bungalows under con
Payable In A dvance.
struction, and becoming Interested
offers to help with the painting.
"TIN CAN TOURISTS" TERRIFYING He explains that the money "doesn’t
CALIFORNIA
mtnn much to him,” but he hates
being Idle and will be willing to
The following from the Literary work at a reasonable figure, which
Digest, given an Idea of the grent In
usually means about half scale
flux of tourists Into CnUfornla:
Naturally this single offer wouldn't
With ‘‘their household goods piled
high on the little enr, their children flood the labor market, but there
tucked In unbelievably r.,aal places, are thousands of "fathers” In every
and the dog riding Joyously on the profession who are doing the same
running board,” Innumerable penni thing. The flivver tourist finds that
less Invader« are swarming Into the his expected place has been usurp
Golden State. Their capital, we are ed, that the man to whom "money
told, "consists of a dirty dollar bill doesn’t mean much," but who "has
and a dirty Hhlrt, and they have no to keep busy,” is given the prefer
Intention of changing either.” To ence.
As the writer points ont, "these
California's dismay, “the light
two Bre not the only typee of visi
conquest shines In their eyes."
Margorte L. Poole Informs us In the tors California has," for multitudes
New York World, they "expect to "come from all parts of the world
He miaton,
pick golden oranges from convenient with well filled pockete, who revel
Oregon
groves and to find the acquisition of In the sunshine during the winter
months, enjoy the sports In the
gold as easy." Indeed—■
These successors to the covered mountains, the beautiful Inns, the
wagon pioneers are responding to a golf courses, the excellent roads and
call directed to their more prosperous the happy holiday spirit that per
brothers. The California of Bret vades— for those with money.” But
Harte Is ever before them, nnd they these, naturally, "have little In com
see shining pictures of their triumph mon with the Invaders,” who "face
out where even the "persecuted nearly as many difficulties as the
LEGION THFATER
Chinamen became wealthy In a few pioneers of the covered wagon days."
The writer continues:
years ”
SUNDAY
Felling their property In their
How rude the awakening. How
M
onday
quickly the light of anticipation Is home town, they take the proceeds ,
B O N N fR S
replaced by that of desperation. They which they feel sure "will be more
find that orange» aren’t given for thnn enough until Harry can get
the asking, that they are "four bits work In California," and hllthely
a doxen,” that work Is scarce, the begin the long trek. They have a
Influx of skilled men having caused "good" aecond hand car, four new
the supply to far exceed the demand, tires and an extra that "hasn’t been
and that men In nearly every trade used much.” The machine Is bulg
are working for half the scale, and ing with clothes, provisions, camp
ing equipment and bits of brlc-a brae
glad to get that.
(AU White)
Of tourRe the ndvertlsempnts aren't with which Elisabeth Just couldn’t
false. There are opportunities in part. From a brace on the ton
California, and fortunes are being swings the canary cage, a constant
Band, O rcheit a
made every day, but not by these menace to the heads of the passen-
Music, Songs, Laughs
"Flivver Magellans." Oranges are ers and the dog la provided for be- I
given awry, hut, In the expensive cause "the children would miss him
Featuring
Inns where great baskets of them io much."
stand ready for the tourists who are
Amid the cheers of the neighbors
glad to pay for these courtesies who In their Innermost hearts envy
’"Hard H errted Hannah”
Gold Is still being taken from the the adventure, the start is made, j
and her Radio Girls
mountains a» In the days of Bret But soon unexiferted ^expenditures
Harte, hut the operations are dir arise. The gasoline supply must be :
ected by million dolar corporations replenished at stations to which the
There la land to be had for a few fuel Is hauled over miles of desert 1
eenls an acre, but who can carry road, and It Is appalling to find that j
7:30 P. M.
water In a barrel thirty miles and the prices range from 50 centa to >
atlll find time lo "dry farm."
«1.00 a ga-llon. Perhaps an axle ’
It Is true that "not all of the aiito- crystallite« and then the family must j
Ists are penniless." but—
camp In the beat of the desert, I
the real like rent.
Those with capital really add to where It often reaches 118 degree".
0 c°° ' r n *
To buy seems the only sensible
the hardships of that class. Th< while a passing motorist carries
Surmounting these
difficulties
wealthier arrive In larger care, with word to the nearest garage thirty ,h*Jr eventually arrive In the "prom, thing, and most of the precious capi
neatly parked suitcase» on the run mile, awey. The towing charges ,M'd land " T*>e Hny fortune has tal goes toward the first payment cn
nlng boards and large trunks strap are beyond belief, and the automobile dwindled rapidly en route but It "their own little home."
ped on the rear. They stop at the parts are much higher than In the seems to be sufficient until work Is
By this time search for employ
auto camps along the way, hut rail home town.
procured. There is a frantic hunt ment has heroine serious, the situa
at a hotel occasionally for a "real
One family limped across the ,nr «ring quarters while the family tion assuming Its true proportions.
rest "
Mojave desert on two bare rims af- resides In an auto camp at 25 cents The lack of factories where skilled
Arriving In Southern California, er seven tires had blown out. John a day.
labor I, needed Is sudd.-nly discover
they take a small apartment “not hadn't learned that on the desert ' Then a animoth tongued realtor ed. A week’s work here and there
nearly a* nice, you know, as our one carries a minimum amount of ¡Informs them that a little bungalow keeps the pantry partially stocked,
place back home" They drive to air, because of the heat expansion | ’’out where property values are hut the Instalment, on the house are
the various places of Inn rest, seeing and that drivers of experience reet bound to rise within the next year” piling up. The flivver Is sacrificed
the missions, venturing over the bor during the f i ., and travf| durjng | rat, >e bought for "»200 down and to ««ve the home. Inadequate trana-
ty riu U itu u i r r a l i i
When anything goes
wrong with your Igni
tion, Starting or Light
ing System, bring it to
us. We have modern
testing equipment and
expert mechanics enab
ling us to render
When you have a
iob in our line give
it to the home prin
ter. The salesman
from an out-of-
town concern may
In waging your battle with the
give you an oily
house fly start early and make
line of “bunk” but
it successful by using the screen
the home printer is
doors and window screens of
entitled to your job
work. The dollar
Inland Empire Lumber Co.
you spend here
will some day re-
We have just received our new
turn to you. The
stock in and would be pleased
dollar you send
to show them to you.
3 away is gone for-
" ever. Our prices
are standard. If it
■ is to be printed we
Inland Empire Lumber Company
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can do it. Let us
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“ The Yard of Best Qaality”
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H. M. STRAW. MGR.
Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau
HERALD
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Special To Close Out!!
IM PLEM ENTS
Johnston Mowers
Was $105.00, Now $65.00 Cash
John Deere Mowers
Was $105.00, Now $90.00 Cash
John Deere Hay Rakes
Efficient Service at Low Cost
Was $65.00, Now $52.50 Cash
JOHN SCHIMKE
Side Delivery Rake
Was 135.00, Now $60.00
One Ford Delivery Car Cheap
LEGION THEATRE
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Dixieland
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Helen Lewis
Free Band Concert
’ HERMISTON
Two One-Horse Cultivators
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At less than wholesale
Jumbo Dain Buck Ra e
Second hand, $45.00 Cash
One Dain Senior Stacker .
Used One Year, $125.00 Cash
M A N Y O T H E R IT E M S
The Farm Bureau will handle repair parts
for Johnston Mowers when we leave here
SAPPERS INC.
portation fccilltleg from the tract
where he little house Is situated be
come a factor In the problem of Job
hunting.
When things seem blackest there
is an attempt to sell the home toob-
tnin the equity and promised profit,
hut the “bottom has dropped out of
the boom"—temporarily of course.
The payments must be met or their
shelter will automatically return to
the real estate company. In deapera.
tton the man turns to the employ
ment agencies, known as "slave mar
kets," where he find, long llnee
ahead of him. With a stifling of
pride he determines to go to work
with a pick and shovel. He finds
that there are thousands of Mexicans
who fill this need and that the
Japanese and Hindoos are hired ex
clusively, In. many sections, to pl«k
H ER M ISTO N
OREGON
oranges. Eventually his name more school facilities for the child
goes to swell the flies of the social
worker, or his family is the subject ren of the floating population who
of one of the dally appeals in the share in no way the burden of the
California’s standard of
local papers for help for "a deserv taxes.
education
|8 exceptionally high and
ing family, stranded by unusual cir
It coats an astonishing amount to
cumstances."
maintain the standard.
How does the incursion of "tin
The boosters who are backing tho
can tourists" affect the native Cali
advertising campaign are appalled at
fornian? Thus, we are told:
Because of the man who Is w ill the results of their labors. Their
ing to work for half scale, the nat arguments have been successful.
ive laborer faces the same discourag Their pictures have been painted In
ing fact» that confront the flivver living colors. They have attracted
tourist. He must work for what he thousands of people. But with the
can get or go Into the northern part thousands who have come to lnveat,
of the state where the invasion to make fortunes In the new country,
seems not to have reached such pro- J to take advantage of the openings
which are offered, there has rolled
portions
To the property owner the situs- j Into the State, on flat tlrea and
tlou la lamentable, for he Is called nicked rims, the flivver tourist horde
upon eoch year to provide more and 1 and California la facing the problem
of uttltiinf it, newest acquisition,