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Publish«« «very Thursday * t B a r.
mistos, U m a tilla County, Oregon by
Joseph 8. H arvey, editor and man-
aper.
Entered as second c la w m a tter
December, 1«««. a t the poatofflee at
Herm iston. U m a tilla County, Oregon.
WHERE U. S. SPENDS
MILLIONS FOR NUTS
H a lf a Million Ton. Pur-
chased Abroad.
prorlnc« and started off to r Fenchow.
The America» reached Ma dentlnatlon
only to be Informed that the walnut
tree«, as a m atter of fact, were 25
miles farther on. Although the nnts
were sim ilar to the English walnut of
California, the Bear M ate baa no such
walnut trees to show as the Investiga­
tor found deep In China.
“in another part o f the world
tongues are wagging over a new and
probably Important development In
the nut trade. Beside the northern
tributaries of the sprawling Amazon
grows a palm tree which produces the
babassu nut.
Probably the babassu
gave Inspiration for the phraae, *a
hard nut to crack.’ Its spherical shell,
about the site of a baseball, has been
known to withstand six tons' pressure!
The prize for the strong man who can
crack a babassu Is n group of nnt
meats the size and shape of shelled
B razil nets. Each nut meat w ill burn
readily and ran he used as a wickless
candle. Babassu meat is 66 per cent
oil. which Is said to he the only nut
oil that ran be substituted for coco-
nnt olL
“ To Americans must come much
credit for putting nnt growing on a
business basis. The walnnt orchard,
the pecan orchard and the almond or­
chard are largely American Institu­
tions.
Coconut Puts Lather In Lather
“Almonds are grown all around the
Mediterranean basin, but the United
States gets her chief supplies from
Ita ly and Spain.
Anatolia, Syria,
Greece and North Africa ship to north­
ern Europe. The Orient also looks to
the Mediterranean for almonds. Prac­
tically the entire Italian supply of
shelled almonds goes to India, where It
Is an essential to some of the famous
Indian dishes.
"Recent exposures of cream dilution
with coconut fat in New York city
give some hint to the uses of the coco­
nut. Its role as an edible nut Is small
compared to Its part In the modern
Industrial scheme as maker of oleo­
margarine, soap and salad oil and can­
dles. It also Is widely used In shav­
ing cream manufacture to Im part a
lather-producing quality.
“An nll-Importnnt nut which Is not
edible is the palm nut. The African
Gold Coast ships thousands of tons an­
nually to the United States for soap,
randies, coloring for butter substitutes,
heat-resistant paints, shoe polish and
for luhrlcatldh of cutting tools.
"The tin plate industry Is one 61
the heaviest buyers of palm nuts. Palm
oil Is essential to the making of thnt
necessity of modern- civilization, the
tin can. Thin sheet Iron a fter being
passed Into Its batli of molten tin
must be brought through pnlm oil,
floating on the hot metal, when It
•merges with Its shiny tin cout."
Washington— A government agency
states that nnts mast be added to the
list of supplies for which the United
Subscription Bates
States Is dependent upon the world.
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One Y ear
Last year America bought for alxiut
«1.0« J W 000.000 a h alf mlllloo tons of nats
Six Months .
or nut products. Including chestnuts,
walnuts, coconuts, and copra, palm
HOW MANY?
nut oil and pecans, Brasil nut«, al­
Mr. Fred Boult who is the hired monds. Alberta and peanuts. The i>ea-
boss of one of the Portland news­ nut. which Is classified as ■ nut by
papers— its name does not matter the government, accounted for 3G.000
because It is hardly ever seen in this tons. “The nut tree has not been
part of the state except just before taken seriously by Americana until re­
years." says a bulletin of the
an election—recently took a swing cent
National Deographle society from Its
at country editors. He expressed headquarters In Washington.
pity for them and incidently pictured
“The Indian and the pioneer re­
the country editor as a man who spected Ils gifts, but for many years
could not collect his bills and had to a nut tree existed In America only to
swap subscriptions for eggs in order provide a happy outlet for the excess
to keep the wolf from the old home­ energy of small hoys In the fall.
"America would be Importing many
stead.
more tons of nuts but for the fact
His attack on the editors of the that Americans have gone In for nnt
state, because a number of them ex­ crops within the last twenty years.
pressed a preference for Frederick Pe< an orchards have been planti-d In
Steiwer for United States senator, Florida. Georgia and other southern
amounts to nothing. The attack was states; walnut and almond orchards
charcteristic of Mr. Boalt and the havo been planted In California. Tbs
policy of the string of newspapers peai lit, of course, Is a new world
of which his in Portland happens to native by birth, and a standby In V ir­
ginia and the South.
Nevertheless,
be one. But he did a gross injustice America still must look abroad for
to country people. His inference nuts, especially those produced In the
that country editors give both sub­ tropics.
scriptions and advertising space for
“ Where does America shop for nnt
nothing, or what they can get, is meets? She goes to Tobago, Trlnklsd,
silly as well as false. Country peo­ Jamaica, the Philippines and South
ple will stack up equally with urban Seas for coconuts; she goes to Brazil
residents when it comes to meeting for Brazil nuts and babassu nuts; to
Lagos, Liberia, and Sierra Leone for
obligations.
palm nuts; to Italy and Spain for ab
Mr. Boalt's statements about coun­ ninida, filberts and plgnolla nnts; te
try newspapers and editors are not 8yria and Palestine for plstache nuts;
given in good faith anyhow. One and to France for English walnuts and
statement of his was that “if he (the chestnuts. Walnuts also come from
country editor) ever had it, he long China. Italy, Spain, and Chile In some
ago lost the habit of independent po­ quantities.
On the T ra il of the Elusive W alnut.
litical thinking” and------------- “ never
An American Investigator went to
had guts enough to dictate to any­ the Orient to study the Chinese walnut
body.”
f Industry. Ills experience throws light
Mr. Boalt's paper is for Stanfield. on the odd sources of our nut meats.
The other day the editor of the Her­ Shanghai, he knew, was the main
ald noticed in his mail a copy of shipping point for millions of ponnds
Mr. Boalt’s paper. He was surprised, of walnut meats coming to the United
because he certainly never subscrib­ States. A rriving there he called on
the exporters and asked how to find
ed. He went to the postoffice to the Chinese walnut orchards. No one
enter a refusal to accept the paper, i knew. They came from the Interior.
and the postmaster said that the label That was enough for the exporter*
showed that the paper had been paid But the American found s Chinese as­
for and that the editor of the Herald sistant who told him that the walnuts
could not be charged for it. So, so! tume from Talyuanfn, capital of
M a k in g I t fo r H im
Country editor* can’t think and Shansi province.
“ 'Strunge,' the American Investigator
“What's Helen doing?”
have no guts, eh? Is the reason for
said to himself when he reached Tal-
“Making a shrimp salad.”
the courageous stand of Mr. Boalt yuanfu, 'there are no walnut trees In
" I didn't know we hud any shrimp
for Stanfield due to the fact that sight.’ But he was soon put right by 1« the bouse.”
the Stanfield forces have bought a a citizen who told him thnt the wal­
"W e haven't, but there's one going
nice big block of subscriptions to nut trees were exnctly 100 miles far- to call on her this evening.”
there
on,
at
Fenchow.
He
obtained
broadcast over the state before elec­
one of the IS motor ears In Shansi
tion?
And how many “starving” country
editors would like to exchange their i
present status for a reportial job on
Mr. Boalt’s paper? Wages on his ,
sheet are reputed to be darn slim,
except for the executives.
Don’t all rush at once!
CANCER SPECIALIST
ABBAM METHOD
OF BLOOD TESTING AND TBEATMENT
G rand Canyon yield»
Pre-Dinosaur Fossils
Dr. B. B. Brundage
New finds o f footprints of reptiles
left In soft amid at least 25,006,1X10
years ago have been made In mnd-
atone 1,800 feet down from the rhn of
the Grand canyon. Thia Is the great
eat depth In the canyon at which such
prints have been found.
The level at which the fossil plants
and reptiles have been found belongs
to the latter part of the carboniferous
period, or the time when the great
eonl beds of the world were being
formed, nnd was a few million years
before the famous reign of the dlno-
•aura.
One specimen shows a row of tracks
very much like mouse tracks Im­
pressed In a small slHb of red stone,
and in among the tiny footprints Is a
wavy line which represents the track
of the animal's tall. Other exhibits
»how prints larger than a mail's hand,
Indicating that some of the reptilian
creature« of this age may have lie-
come UN large as crocodiles. No hones
of these creatures have been found In
the Grand canyon, lliough some lames
of reptiles making aliullnr tracks have
been found elsewhere.— New York
World.
PENDLETON, 0B E G 0N
ttregon has reported 19M 41 vehicle
registrations to the bureau ot public
roads In Washington. D. C„ for the
first a ll month» of the present year,
an Increase of I per cent over the
same period of I M .
The gain In
motor conveyance! In that state has
not qnlte kept pace w ith (bat for the
eonntry as a whole, which was at the
rat« of 10.8 per cent.
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Nap-A-Tan
Unseen Sources
Long Life
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Trade Builders
T h e basic sources of automobile
value are not always apparent to
the eye.
Boots and Shoes for men and boys.
AH new stock and all rebuilding work guaranteed.
A motor car, like a house, may
L O O K a great deal more substan­
tial than it really is.
American Shoe Shop
Because of thin difficulty, more and
more thousands are turning to Dodge
B ro th e rs p ro d u c t fo r insurance
against disappointment.
H erm isto n , O reg o n
T h e years have proved, and each
y e a r p ro ves an ew , th a t Dodge
Brothers are as deeply concerned
w ith the U N S E E N goodness of their
motor car as w ith the seen.
D o m estic L aundry
W ith the approach of hot w eather o u r service In ta k in g care
of your la u n d ry worries has an added uppeal th a t can h ard ly be
resisted by the fa m ily In w hich the h e a lth and w e ll being of the
housewife receives consideration. F o r a nom inal charge a ll the
drudgery of wash day and iro n in g day can be banished from you r
home and done by u« w ith the most modern m a ch in ery possible to
T h e m ile a g e it w ill d e liv e r, the
safety it w ill provide, the expense and
trouble it w ill save the owner over
a period of years, are quite as im­
portant to Dodge Brothers as the
more obvious details of equipment
and style.
T o u rin g C a r
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Our S erv ice is
Satisfactory
A t H e r m is to n
SCHILLER. P e n d le to n , O r e g o n
J . G. PEARSON,
Black & White Garage, Hermiston
D o d g e - B r o th e - r s
MOTOR
Is proven by the larg e lis t o f satisfied customers we serve every
week in this te rrito ry .
W e welcome new customers.
W h e th e r I t Is fin is h in g w ork, rough d ry w ork o r T h r tf-T - S e r­
vice you seek, you are bound to b t satisfied If the old reliab le
Domestic L au n d ry handles it.
Domestic Laundry Inc.
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VOTE AGAIN
HIGHER TAX
Oregon’s total bonded debt is already
$166,000,000
VOTE
FOR
HENRY J.
TAYLOR
Spot M ade Famous by
Genius o f Alexander
The site of the most brilliant coup
of Alexander the Great's campaign in
India has been located by the emi­
nent archeologist, s ir Aurel Stein, ac­
cording to dhqMtchsa received In this
country.
In a section of the hills of U|i|tei
Swat known as Torw al, near the
northern frontier, Sir Aurel lielleves
that he lias Identified the site of the
■ forlreas of Aortion, captured from the
wurtlke hill trlla-a by Alexander In 327
B. C. According to the eianaleul Ills
torians the stronghold was perched on
a rock over the river Indus and had
eveu resisted the attacks of the legen­
dary Hercules.
The particular features o f the rough
and rocky regions which suggealed
this site are »aid to agree more cloae-
ly with the aeconnl of (lie Greek Ida
torlan Arrian than a previous tenta­
tive location at kiahahan. The stra
teglc value of this hill country his
been appreciated and utilized by petty
chieftains down to the present day.
and It la only recently that conditions
have been sufficiently nettled to allow
archeological exploration.
WE SELL
Candidate for Senator, 19th
Senatorial District,
comprising Umatilla, Union and Morrow Counties.
He was elected to this office four years ago and has served
his district faith fu lly. He resides at Pendleton, was born
in Missouri, moved w ith his parents to California in 1864.
educated in public schools, came to U m atilla county 47 years
asro and has been a farm er ever since, owns large wheat
farm, was school director 30 years, city councilman o f Pen­
dleton five years, has been a director in Inland Em pire Bank
ever since its organization, is a member o f Elks, W. 0 . W .,
and I. O. 0 . F .; was Grand Master I. 0 - 0 . F. 1913 and 1914;
Grand Representative, 1914 and 1915; is now serving his 9th
year as trustee of I. 0 . 0 . F- Home at Portland.
H IS P L A T F O R M : I f elected, he will, during his term of
office, faith fu lly and honestly fu lfill his official duties with
the least possible expensd to tax payers. He favors a rea­
sonable and just income tax, normal school in Eastern Ore­
gon, the completion o f all state highways and retirem ent o
bonds as they mature; the perpetuity o f the Pendleton
Round-up, proper legislation for protection o f labor, abol­
ishment o f useless commissions and reduced license for used
automobiles. He has no pet bills, no private or secret int­
erests to serve, and stands on his record as Senator for 1923
and 1925 sessions o f the Lecislative Assembly. H e believes
in a square deal for all persons.
(PsM Adv.)
It« per capita state debt is the highest in the Union
The Housewives’ Council “Water and Power” Amendment would
permit a new political board to issue $53,000,000 more bonds, or an
increase of 32 per cent to start state adventure in irrigation and power.
VOTE 337 X NO
Against an issue of $53,000,000 of new bonds
Against an unlimited amount of new taxes
Agaiust creating a board of politician-dictators
Against enrolling a new army of public officials
Against paralyzing industry by bureaucratic despotism.
Against revolutionizing our form of government.
Against a wild joy ride without brakes at your expense.
In Self-defense
Vote 337 X NO! in November
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