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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1919)
& THE ONTARIO ARGUS, ONTARIO. OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 31, 19J9. G i i I f SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES HOUSE DREAMJGHOSTS Receptacles Crammed With Fake Securities Represent ing Wasted Millions. Washington If tho wifoty iloposlt boxes of tho Unltod StatoB could rIvo up tholr dead storoB of fake sccurl tlos, enough wasted money would bo disclosed to stagger tho Imagination. If a man expects his financial barrel to flit np, he has got to stop up tho leaks la It. This Is tho keynote of n message sent by William Mather Lewis, director of the parings divis ion of the Treasury Department, .1 tho Twelfth District savings directors urging them to impress the wisdom ol holding government sscnrltlcs. "Thousands of people In the United SIMM or losing thtlr hard-earned savings every day because they lack knowledge of financial dealing," con tinned Ur. Lenli. Untold numbers of fnuo sthenic promoters and reglmonts of Inrostnient sharks, becnuse of this popuC t Ignorance, nre pointing out ehort reads to big fortunes to thorn whose Liberty llonds and War Sav ings Stamps they hope to sccttro In oicbaig for beautifully embossed but nbtolately worthless stock certificates. Tkeio lakers know the vnlue of gov era BMnrlll.i, Tkey are anxious to nit tkess, fr they figure that they will be ssMlag at par nnd nbovo. "Taoy knew tkat following the Civil War Ike war Issues of government no cnrllUstsoon were above par, and that there U well-informed person today wke dees not believe that the Liberty Iloads will sell well abovo par, long beret their Maturity. "But tktlr victims do not know theso fatls, and so they trado the best se curities la the world for some wild-cat that premises a high rate of Interest. What their ekances are of getting stung 1 Itlselratti' by the fact that In fleerija ont of 116 applications from a eeilata tyee of company to sell stock In that stale, only two have been able to Meet ike requirements undor tho bluegCy taw and were given pormlts. "'The other HI are probably operat ing sMewhore where the going Is bet tyr. it the Amer'-an people would give to tke matter of spending and In vot(ent money It per cent of the Ihosght they devote to making It, the hfgh st et living v.ould be greatly do .feastul. Reckloss spending and fool ish lavsstmont aro elements In tho present situation which can only be remedied by tho rank and fllo of our peenle. "is long as easy monoy Is In ovl duueu, tho profltoor nnd tho shark will prosper." l-Mpr w. b. tc-t "DON'T BE A GOOF" A Chicago doctor, on his way to vbUt a patient the other day, wn splashed with mud by n passing truck. Io wiped the mlro nway With his nalfcrblf, which wus thus removed trom olive service, nnd entered u fur tilskmn store to bsy a new one, lie bad plsatf qf handsome nnd service thl kaatkorokUU nt borne, Wbut he wanted was a clean handkorchlof for (mMeMate use at a cost of not inejeljtjwi fc seats. 'I want a In handkorchlof," be ta'A i rho clerk. ''ere are seate very ulco bandkor chleit f a good quality," said the cleft?, osonktg a box. "lHr live mo a half dozen,' def4a the deeter, not asking thi prfsl. Tke handkerchiefs were wrCi f th he asked: siieif" WLL.ka i.U.n " Mid the clerk. I 'Was ttae," ald the doctor tell lag f tke MiKloM Afterward "I V-fc &" ave waa net tu", H WBI K00' MatHi net have kke serve to wake ti.t eWk wiwrap tke handkerohlefs an gJfv bAat oa tor (0 cents, which wa'e what t roaMf wanted. He was afoli ft elerk wo.U think blui cheap. Wn yea let someone tell you what ya"'i4n ha mi hew usck you sbaU 'Vj'fcT it ye are dvlag the strongest kJJ tk aid t Ui profiteers. So long ft & bar rgrdlss of pric and re gnjJlvM t-f aetnal ntede the profiteers VJ Tr. m wis hu will now put every teM he apar In War Saving sTaMu and every dollar he can spare In Treastiff Having Certificates. When they mature In 1924 he wilt find thatnet only has his money earned 4.27 per cent, but his dollar has Increased In value possibly as much as 100 per cent- WAS ONE GOLD WATCH AHEAD Incident In Lord Maeaulaa Life Which Probably He Was Quite Willing to Foroet Hero Is nn nmuslng story of Macau lay, as told by Lady Logan In her reminiscences! "Lord Miicnulny wns In Home tho winter wo were thero with tho ma hnrnjnh. They had ono very good story about him going tho round of tin Lngllsh colony, which wns told ur by an attache of tho Hrltlsh em bassy. Llko nil strangers, he went by moonlight to sco tho Coliseum nuil, nsi wns proper In n historian mill n pnet, that tho spirit of the centuries might have full swny with in his soul, he went nlonc. As lie stood nipt nnd gnzlng In the shadow of tho arches a limn brushed rudely by Jostling hlin roughly. Willi great presence of mind. Mr. Macnulny ns ho then was felt at onco for his watch. It was gone. The thief wns Mill In view. Promptly the historian gave chnse, and, taking the law Into hli own hands iib might one of the heroes of ancient Home whoso deeds he set forth, he promptly knocked him down nnd repossessed himself of his property. . "Fearing that other criminals might be about, the Kngllshmnn nt once re turned to his hotel, to find, to his sur-( prise, his own watch ticking comfort ably on his dressing tnhlo nml n strange gold watch In his waistcoat pocket. Horrified nt his first success ful coup as n footpnd, he hurried off to the bureau do pnllco to give up his booty, whero ho wns confronted by an excited foreigner, vehemently de scribing the nutrngo of which ho hnd tccn n victim." "OLD DUFFER" WAS ADMITTED Distinguished Citizen, Wanting to See Horace Qreeley, Irreverently An nounced by Office Doy. A citizen of Wnterhury wrote n let ter to the ltepubllcnn of Hint city a day or two ago nsklng for Information nhout Hornco Greeley, who ho was, etc. That ho wished to learn moro shout the great Jotirnnllst ilocs him credit, but wo aro surprised there Is a innn In Wnterhury cnpnhlo of writing letters to nowspupers who didn't know about Mr. Greeley already. This reminds mo of n story told by the Into Charles A. Dana. Ono day whllo Mr. Greeley was reigning ns edi tor of the Tribune, ho was purlieu Isily busy, and gavo explicit orders to his office boy not o admit an) body to his room. Later on tho olllco boy announced to Mr. Greeley thero was nn "old duffer" outsldo clamoring for an Interview with tho editor. Mr. Greeley asked tho boy who It wns, to which the boy replied ho didn't know, but thnt he wore n soiled linen dus ter, curried 11 enrnct-hng of Jho enrly seventies t)pe, nnd mnilo n Idg fuss. because ho couldn't sco tno editor or tho Tribune. "Well," replied Mr. Oreo ley, "If ho Is so Insistent you had bet ter nsk tho fellow his nnmo, nnd then I will decide whether ho can enmo In." The boy went back and returned In n few minutes bringing tho Information thnt tho "old duffer" wns Henry Wilson of Ilostnn who hnppeneil nt thnt time to bo tho vice president of tho United States. Ho saw Mr. Greeley. Hart ford Courant. 1BTT9 W. ft. (Lt Tips on How to Cut H. C. L. ,'tSarsy own luneh. Mart yourself. , ,Filek own shoes, , BjBok a pip. , Clean owe. hat. , I30 own shampooing. , , 1 Buy W. i. . "A dollar down and a dollar a week" swells failure. A dollar a week In W. 1S, 8. apMs success. There nr 1.JW.080 dependent wage ,earr in th UnlUd States because thy culd not Or would not save during tholr working days. The support ol these cestn S20,000,000 a year. Save. I 1 Oolf Will 8urvlve. It tins been held In some expert clr ek'S that golf never could become the game baseball Is, because golf lacks s picturesque language. This view overlooks the fact that baseball ac quired Its language by slow degrees, snd ouly reuched Its present perfec tion through tho long labors of de voted philologists nnd etymologists. Tho language grew, llko love, by what It fed ou. aive golf and the sport writers time 1 . 11 ill .l.Ilma InnffllMf-n t aBU IM "III yivuum w w..w- for that game as copious, refulgent, and learned ns now distinguishes tho wor popular gamo. Already we do ted th beginnings. We read of Mr. Ilockenkamp's play Thursday that by "sluklng n horrlplllntlng putt of -15 feet" he finished 0 up. Wt havo heard of -15-foot putts be fore, but It must bo admitted It adds to th wonderment of one to know that It v.as horrlplllatlng. This Is an en couraging beginning nnd convinces us that golf Is going to sunlve. Kansas City Star. Queer Coincidence. Ono of u pnrty whereof Charles Darwin was n member was speaking c tha imrthnunko of Tucnhunno, In northern Chile, on which occasion the father had lost nil his property nnd the narrator himself hnd barely es caped with his life. Then, writes Dnr win, there ensued n curious colncl ,i,.L a rsi-rmun. nno of the party, got up, saying he would never sit In a room In those countries with tho door shut, as, owing to his hnvlng dono so, he once nearly lost his llfo at Soplnpo. Accordingly, he opened tho door, ISo sooner had he dono so than he cried out. "Hero It comes ngalol" and an other shock ensued, The whole party escaped. In 1900. 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