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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.
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Established .1889
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convenient aid to modem business. It systema
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ira D. Mix, Cashier
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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
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W HICH one. An exam ination is
the safe way, and we are aure
you would rath e r be safe than
sorry.
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Optical Co.
Get Right
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a t
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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.
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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
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