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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1921)
THE POLK COUNTY POST MUST PAY HIGH Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. ntered second class matter March 26, 1918, at the postotlice at Independence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. as CLYDE T. ECKER Editor and Publisher. Subscription Rates: THREE MONTHS SIX MONTHS ONE YEAR L alea s otherwise provided lor, subscriptions w ill 50c. $1.00 $2.00 be stopped a t ex p iratio n Harding to Give Effect To Jones Marine Act Washington—One of the early acts o f the Hard ing administiation will be to put into effect the jones Act for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine. This act was finally approved by President Wilson June .S, 1920. It provided for the ap pointment of a new shipping board to cons’st of seven members. The President, however, did not send in their names to the Senate until after electijn. By that time the Senate had become convinced by a majority oi seven millions of votes that the people were not in tavo. ol the confirma tion of Democratic office holders. So the Wilson nominees were not confirmed and on March 4 their appointments expired. With the appoint ment of a new boad, four of them Republicans and three of them Democrats, the law will go into effect. In the new law it is stated as a national policy “ that it is necessary for the national detense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce, that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion ot its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or naval emergency, ultimately to be owned and operated privately by ci izens of the United States; and it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to do whatever may be necessary to develop and encourage the maintenance of such a mer chant marine, and, in so far as may not be incon sistent with the provisions o f this act, the United States Shipping Board shall in the disposition of vessels and shipping property as hereinafter pro vided, in the making of rules and regulations, and in the administration of the shipping laws, keep alway» in view this purpose and object as the primary end to be attained.’ ’ Arthur Wells Hails Troni Danville Says Two National Celebrities Came Out of That Illinois Town— “ Me and Uncle J oe" p n n n iA A R A h T A lUll i H U v l U f l l u European Countries Tax Ameri cans Equivalent of $10, the Rate Here. LESS FOR OTHER TOURISTS P re s id e n t M itc h e ll o f th e R ed S ta r L in e Su g g e e tt A c tio n by the U nited S ta te s C h a m b e r o f C o m m e rce — P e a s a n ts Go B a c k to L a n d . New York.—According to 1‘ercy V. <J. Mitchell, president of the Bed Star Hue and g e n e r a l m anager of the Inter national M ercantile M arine company In Belgium, the charge of $10 for an American vise on passports Is not only a tax upon Immigrants who have to pay the high rate of exchange, hut also upon American business men abroad. ‘‘Since the charge for a vise has beeu raised from $2 to $10,” said Mr. Mitchell, “the countries in Europe have retaliated by making Am ericans pay the same am ount. They have arranged to base their charges for u vise on a sliding scale. For example, I have to pay 175 francs for my vise at the Bel gian consulate because I am an Amer ican, while an Englishman bus only to pay 10 francs, which is a big differ ence when a man Is accompanied by members of Ills family. A ll A re D o ing It . "Since tlie war Europe has been split up into a num ber of small countries, and each of them is charging Ameri cans the equivalent of $10 in United States currency. A business man has to pass from one country to another to get anywhere, and In each case he has to pay heavily because the State de- : partm ent In W ashington, without any reason that I have been able to learn, has raised the fee to $10. “The citizen of the United States has to puy $10 for his passport in the drst place, aud then to pay another $10 to return from abroud, and the same j amount for the countries he visits on the continent. Why the United States Chamber of Commerce 1ms not taken j up this question, which is so Important j to American business men traveling through Europe, I am at a loss to un- derstaud. T o u r is t T r a v e l H it . been blasted to pieces by shells unu bombs, the avenues approaching It be ing ruined. Dixmude, where the severe fighting took place at the bridgehead on the Yser, was to a great extent demolished also, but the people had started to re turn there In the summer of 1919 and build on the ruins of their former J homes. The Belgian peasant loves his country aud does not want to go j abroad to live, Mr. Mitchell added. m The Independence National Bank Established .1889 AN ACCOUNT iu a commercial bank is the most convenient aid to modem business. It systema tizes payments, is a check on all expenditures and shows you just where you stand each month. Open one with us today. It will pay you to do so. Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P. ira D. Mix, Cashier VV. U. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Butler Tomorrow May Be Too Late Better Be Safe — There are few people w ith p er fect vision, w ithout even the slight defects th a t can be m ea sured by the Opthalm ascope. —There are many people with good vision, with such small defects as would not interfere with normal sight, —There is still another class of people w ith such defects or in cipient trouble th a t sooner or latar develops into poor vision. — YOU belong in ONE of these three classes; it is w orth your tim e and trouble to And out W HICH one. An exam ination is the safe way, and we are aure you would rath e r be safe than sorry. MORRIS Optical Co. Get Right God Special MEETINGS a t Baptist Church -Beg I i n n i n g - SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL 10 and Every Night at 7:45 o’clock Eyesight Specialists 204 to 211 Bank of Commerce Bldg. except Saturday until May 1 SALEM, OKE GON "In addition It will also Interfere 1 Largest, Most Modern, with tourist travel In the summer, Oregon’s Beit Equipped Exclusive which had already decreased consider- ! Optical Eatabllshment ably through the Increase in passen ger fares made necessary by the high cost of operation of the steam ships, In | creased wages, food, fuel, etc.” Mr. Mitchell said the Belgian govern ment was putting the peasants hack on l he land In Flanders, and In place of the small cottages with earthen floors which were demolished by the Uermun guns they were erecting neat, small houses w ith tiled floors and modern sanitary conveniences. From what he had heard recently In Brussels before sailing for New York, the government would not rebuild Nleuport, the former fashionable seashore resort, as It had D r. S . J. T h e Ir is h E v a n g e lis t ” BEGINS SUNDAY, APRIL 17th-=C0ME *6 ' $ 10.00 puts a Piano inthehome TO REALIZE THE MOST MONEY We buy everything you want to sell aud sell everything you want to buy. Cash or trade. Bring in everything you want to sell and I will sell it for you on a commission. Th ink of It! For the trifling: sum of ten dollars you can have a beautiful piano installed in your home. This instrument is perfect both in cabinet and tone and at the ridiculously sm all first pay- ment, you cannot afford to be without a piano in your home. The succeeding: payments are just as easy. For full particulars MAX GOLDMAN TIME CARD Valley & Siletz Railroad Motor Leaves independence Daily 10:50 a. m. Motor Leaves Independence Daily E xcept Sunday 4:10 p. m. Motor Arrives Independence, Daily 9:60 a. nt. Motor A rrives Independence, Daily E xcept Sunday 3:50 p. m. Freight service daily except Sunday, Leave Independence 7-30 a. m. L. E. WATSON, Supt SWOPE & SWOPE LAWYERS Olile« over Craven A Walker s Stör« Independence, Arthur Wells, the three-hundred pound member of the Apollo Duo, halls from Danville, III., home of Uncle Joe Cannon, and he smilingly says that Danville has produced Iwo national celebrities- “ine and Joe." Both a r e n a * tlonal Institutions. A rthur Well* Is ns wldel) known In the Chautauqua world as Unci« Joe Is in W ashington. For seventeen years he headed the famous Apollo Concert Company, known all over the United State*. He comes to Chau tauqua this year w ith Mr*. Wells ulone. They present tw o musical program s M varied In character that It might well trouble a company of Hve or six peo ple to duplicate tbeui Oregon F. W. Leonard Address Boot and Shoe Maker Hand Sewed Work Men s Work Only First door South Indepcnd ncs National Bank m AV-367, Polk County Post Independence. Oregon