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THE - BIORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1921 LOI CICELLAT1 OPPOSED BY BANKER Emery Olmstead Says Allies Should Pay Debts. QUICK ACTION IS URGED 50-Year Xotes Sng-gested as One 3iethxJ by Which America Can Stabilize World Credit. WTiether or not the Unltc-d States government should cancel the loana made to the allies during: the war, aggregating- approximately 110,000, 000,000. is one of the livest topics of the day in financial circles all over the country. It is a question that presents many important phases and undoubtedly will receive special at tention as soon as the Hardin? fi-d ministration goes into power. There have been many rumors and state ments as to what will transpire, but to date there has been no official declaration of policy on this score. Emery Olmstead, president of the Northwestern National bank of Port land, is emphatically of the opinion that to cancel the loans would be snout unwise. It would, he contends, prove a poor policy, viewed from many ansles. but most of all from the standpoint of the allies them elves. leather than take such ac tion, he ausrests the issuance of long-time notes, backed by the United (states government, to be Bold to the people on proper terms. "It does not seem to me possible that any of our allies would care for the United States government to can cel the loans." said Mr. Olmstead. "It would savor entirely too much of charity and would injure their difr tiity and standing, it seems to me. "What 1 would like to see is for our government to issue long-time notes 60 years, if necessary and sell them to the people on a guarantee. That would cive our allies ample time in which to readjust their finances without working a hardship. "It seems to me that some such plan as that would be a whole lot better for our allies and every one concerned than to cancel the loans. International credit is a very impor tant thing, and to treat such a subject as charity would. I think, be a very bed policy all around. Some solution of the problem will have to be worked ' out as quickly as possible by the Harding administration, for it is necessary that there be prompt dis position of the question before the nations can arrive at a sound finan cial basis. hi;h Interest-bearing securities of de sirable types is rapidly passing." More than $500,000 of the $1,000,000 Issue of 8 per cent five - year gold notes of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company have been eold to Oregon people, according to an nouncement by Franklin T. Griffith, president, yesterday. "Within the first five days of the sale we have disposed of more than half of the issue," said Mr. Griffith. "There Is keen Interest In the issue, and so far the pople have shown that they are willing, if afforded, an op portunity, to put their money into home investments, such as our cor poration." . The lobby of the Ladd & Tilton bank was the scene of a big dance last Thursday night, when members of the Ladd Bank club carried out the unique idea of having their "party" right at home. Officers and members refused admittance to dull care. W. E. Ferguson, cartoonist, created much amusement by his clever caricatures. Refreshments were served on the mezzanine floor. AD CLUB TO BOOST 1 PROOUGTS City-Wide Campaign Planned for This Afternoon. PUBLIC URGED TO HELP A. L. Mills, president of the First National bank of Portland, will be in New York this week to assist in or ganizing the foreign finance corpora tion which is to extend large credits to countries overseas, and thereby as sist In building up the foreign trade of the United States. He will return to Portland about March 4. Mark Skinner, vice-president of the Northwestern National bank, has just returned from a visit to his former home in St. Paul. He learned from conversations with leading financiers of the middle west that there has been but little change for the better since last October. Crop movements have been insignificant. It will re quire time and patience on the part of all concerned, he said, to bring a return to normal conditions. Merchants of Portland Will Asked to Induce Patrons' to Use Home-Made Goods. Be John Burke, formerly treasurer of the United States, has joined the firm of Kardos & Co., and it is now known as Kardos & Burke, headquarters of which are 32 Broadway, with branches In Chicago. Pittsburg and Philadel phia. Mr. Burke, who ia a brother of Judge Thomas Carrick Burke, long a resident of Portland, but now of New Tork, is writing editorials for a fi nancial bulletin issued by bio com pany. Following is the "lead" editorial In the latest issue of the bulletin, headed Optimism Without Exuberance": "Sanity Is the watchword. Sane methods, sound thought, constructive ideas, conscientious worir with a fair return for a fair effort or risk, is the keynote of the present and the foun dation upon which the outlook for the future is based. The necessary clip ping of the ragged edges in the busi ness structure is going on. Those In dustries whose paralyzation was car ried too far through the fear of a general demoralisation are recovering the over-deflated ground, and activi ties are seeking a level commensu rate with their real position. "Those industries extraordinarily overextended have taken the worst of their medicine and are beginning to feel better already. A few that fought against the tide are realising one by one that they are no exception to th general readjustment rule, and are slowly but surely swinging into line In short, the ship that pitched and rolled on dangerous seas is slowly gaining its equilibrium as calmer w iters are being reached. "Not that the good ship Business has stopped its Bwaying altogether. The sea is still choppy and in some places actually rough, but the worst of the storm seems over, and a safe journey to Port Prosperity seems as sured. Jolts and set-backs are natu ral and are expected, and while we do not expect to travel at the dan gerous pace set during 1919 and the early part of 1920. the tiaveling will be slower but the destination reached with less trouble and worry. "General business conditions un doubtedly show distinct improvement in most lines, but the resumption of activities is being undertaken cau tiously. Buying consists of purchase for current needs. Factoiy operations are being undertaken to hold organl sations together. This business may not be profitable but It at least lays the foundation for further construe tive work," Dunns the last few weeks eco- eomic conditions have so clarified that it is possible to forecast condi tions affecting bonds with fair ac curacy. Reports received directly by the Lumbermena Trust company from hundreds of banks throughout the country, as well as information com piled by leading financial writers. In alcate that there Is every liklihood of an advance of high-price bonds and an active market as well this year, according to James Lynch, vice-president of the bank. Although the price advances will probably not be great, students of the market are practically a unit in de claring that the trend will be up ward and should continue for some time to come. "An active bond market and advancing- prices can be expected as a direct result of liquldition and de flation in industrial and mercantile lines," said Mr. Lynch. This defla tion, while painful to many, is at the same time relypsing considerable capital for use outside these lines. With costs cut aanywhere from 20 to 60 per cent, for example, a merchant can carry his normal stock with just that much less capital outlay. This of course, has a direct effect upon the credit demands and interest rates, in response to the old rule of supply and demand. "Incidentally, It brings two factors into play. Insofar aa affects bonds. Ibe first is the natural desire of in vestors to secure their money and a good interest return; the second is the tendency to Invest the low-priced dollar in securities with a view of enjoying the Increase in the purchase power of such Investment income later. "In short, the Investor has begun to look about for securities that will steadily grow in buying power. In this oonnection, there is a marked tendency on the part of investors to seek long-term, high-yielding bonds. They are acting apparently on - the well-founded belief that the period of j CENTRALIAN IS HONORED Klery H. Holesapple Rescues Sol dier, Braving Bullet Storm. CKNTRALIA, Wwh Feb. 20 (Special.) Elery H. Holesapple, who is visiting at the nome of George Wooton at Dryad, has Just received a citation from tne war department for "gallantry In action." On Octo ber 5, 191S. during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the soldier and three com rades volunteered to traverse a bul let-swept field and rescue a wounded doughboy. Holesapple's three com rades were killed and he himself se verely wounded, but the man they rescued is alive today. Holesapple went to France with the 161st infantry. He took part in four major and two minor engagements, and after the armistice was signed went into Germany with the array of occupation. SHRINERS TO GIVE BALL Members of Hood River Club Will Entertain This Spring. HOOD RIVER. Or., Feb. 20. (Spe cial.) George H. McMullan, president of the Hood River Shrine club, who returned yesterday from a conference with Potentate Grant of Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Port land, stated that members of the local club would be hosts at a ball here the last week of March or the first week of April. A meeting of the local nobles will be held the middle of the week to set a definite date. Mr. Grant, accompanied by the Al Kader chanters, and many members of Al Kader temple and their wives will be guests of the local Shrine club for the party. KALAMA SEEKS SCHOOLS Business Men Also Desire Big Mu nicipal Building. KALAMA. Wash.. Feb. 20. (Spe cial.) The Business Men's club took up the matter of obtaining better schoolhouses at their meeting Monday night. Plans to build a new high school building and to remodel the old building were discusse-. Speakers said that a large munici pal building was needed. A committee was appointed to con fer with the Northern Pacific railway officials about a new statu -.. The club will assist at banquet for the American Legion members who will gather here Saturday, Feb ruary 26, from all over the southwest to attend a conference. 10-CENT FARE HELD LOSS Tacoma Company, However, Says It Contemplates Xo Lift. TACOMA, Wash.. Feb. 10 (Spe cial.) Although statistics compiled by the Tacoma Railway & Power company at the end of six months under the present 10-cent cash, 8- cent ticket street-car fare system showed that the company was riot making enough above operating ex penses to pay interest on Its indebt edness. Manager Sullivan stated that the company did not contemplate asking for an increase in fares. An effort will be made by the com pany to get more persons to ride in the street cars. The sale of Oregon products and manufactured goods In Portland will be boosted as the result of a city' wide canvass to be put over this afternoon by the Portland Ad club as a feature of which every merchant in the city will be visited by teams representing that organization, and urged to co-operate in encouraging the general public in patronizing the home manufacturer, and thus keeping Oregon smokestacks smoking. The campaign, it is predicted, will mean that any business depression and unemployment from which this city may be suffering will be effect ually done away with, and Portland put on the map as the most prosper ous city in the country. Portland, it is admitted, has suf fered less from the lull in business and the unemployment than any other city of the west, but the Port land Ad club and Portland business men are not satisfied with that. They hope to get the general public behind the local manufacturer in such a manner that not only will the pros perity of Portland be advertised all over the world, but that the name of this city will go out as the most de sirable for the establishment of sew factories. Manufacturing to Be Developed. "Portland is now starting on period of manufacturing develop ment of an unusual character," sa'd E. A. Clark, head of the Ad club com mittce. "With the proper co-opera tion of the general public we can make this development continue until this city will be supreme as the Industrial center of the Pacific north west." The campaign today will begin after the meeting of the members' forum of the Chamber of Commerce. The Portland Ad club members will lunch en masse at that time with the Chamber of Commerce and following the lunch will be distributed in teams throughout the city for the intensive canvass. Members of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Associated In dustries of Oregon have also been invited to participate in the cam paife-n. City Divided Into Precinct. The committee in charge has dis tricted the city according to pre cincts. and a team will be sent to operate in each of - these districts. Every merchant will be called upon and asked to encourage among his customers the use of Oregon manu factured goods, quality and price being equal. No merchant will be asked to boost the sale of an Oregon product which he considers inferior in quality, or which is higher in price than articles of other manufacture. The benefit to be derived from sup porting the consumption of Oregon products and thereby keeping Oregon payrolls at a maximum, will be point ed out to the merchant. The fact that the prosperity of the industrial and working classes goes hand in hand with the general business pros perity of the city and state will be put up to him, and he will be asked to sign a communication agreeing to co-operate in the big plan of selling Oregon products throughout the city and to the state at large. Talk Declared Insufficient. In addition each merchant will be questioned with reference to the vol ume of home made goods he is al ready handling and the varieties of products, the plan being to use the Information with a view to'putting on the market as never before the Oregon-manufactured articles. "We talk a lot about supporting the home manufacturer and stimulat ing prosperity, but that is not enough," said Mr. Clark. "Now Is the time to act. If we can get every merchant in the city solidly behind the movement for the sale of Oregon goods, and have the co-operation of the general public to such an extent that they will ask for the Oregon product when they make their pur chsses, we need no longer wait for a return of prosperity and employ ment We will have it.' It is up to us as residents of Portland and Ore gon whether we want good business conditions or mediocre business con ditions, and whether we want all our men employed or only part of them." Committee Heads Move. It Is estimated that it will require but two or three hours today to make the complete canvass of the city and put the matter definitely up to every Portland merchant. The success of the campaign will depend largely on the manner in which the merchants and the general public co-operate in the movement Today's campaign is in tne hands of an Ad dub committee consisting of E. A. Clark, R. A. Volheim, E. C. Johnson, A. V. Wells, Vernon C. Scott, Tom Gerber, C. A. Houghtaling, A. G. Clark and Ira Wight. CHEESE OUTPUT CLIMBS TILLAMOOK PRODUCES 6,434,. 600 POCXDS DURIXG 1920.. Gain Over 1919 345,341 Pounds; Improving Quality Is Urged for Year's Goal. " The total output of cheese manu factured In Tillamook county last year was 6.434,600 pounds, according to the report of D. R. Tinnerstet, deputy dairy and food commissioner for Tillamook county. This output represents a gain over the 1919 out put of 345,341 pounds, according to Mr. Tinnerstet. In discussing the advancement of the dairy industry Mr. Tinnerstet said in his report: "The advancement of the dairy In dustry depends not only upon Im proving the dairy herds so as to get the highest producing cows, but also upon improvement of the methods employed in caring for the cows, barns, utensils and milk. A success ful dairyman not only alms at in creased production, but at all times strives to improve the quality of the product. "The most effective and at the same time instructive test to the dairy man is the sediment test which shows to the patron without argument the exact amount of sediment or dirt in each pint of milk he is delivering to the factory and is in dearly every instance a fair sample or proof of the cleanliness and sanitary condition of the. dairy from which it came." Mr. Tinnerstet reports that there are now 29 oheese factories in the Tillamook country of which 25 are operated under the supervision of thi Tillamook County Creamery associa tion. There are 698 dairies in th county and 13.590 dairy cows. XEW RUST REMOVER FOCXD Boad Department Chile's debt is one of the world's smallest. Unlike most governments, Chile has been decreasing; her . national debt instead of increasing; it. With a population of over 4,000,000 people, her debt averages about $40 per capita one of the lowest of any nation. America's debt is veri $200 per capita. For an Exceptional Strong Security and High Yield We Recommend s these x 20-Year 8 Gold Bonds REPUBLIC OF CHILE Payable in U. S. Gold Coin Due February, 1941. Are retirable at 110 up to 1931, and at 105 thereafter. PRICE 99 TO YIELD OVER 8 tkust Company BROADWAY AND OAK IS Newport Doctor Seeks Bucking lor Product. Dr. W. M. Berry of Newport, Or is in Portland in the effort to in terest some industrial establishments in a new rust remover which he has perfected as the result of experiments at his laboratory. Pieces of rusted Iron treated with hLs remover show that the rust is eaten cleanly away without damage to the iron. He says that the solu tion necessary for the removal ol rust can be manufactured so cheap that it could be used in large quan titles. He is registered at the Oregon. We Orrm aad Offer OREGON COUNTY BONDS GENERAL OBLIGATIONS. Serial Maturities Ranging From ISttS to 1835. ' PRICK: PAR TO NET e7. . laanlrles Invited. Carstens & Earles, Incorporated San Franrlseo Loa Ans;ele Entabllataed 1891. Ctrtramrat, Municipal and Corporation Bonds, u. B. naiionai uanK mac Portland, Orea-nn. Broadway 4108. Seattle Spokane CITY OF ENTERPRISE, OR. 6 General Obligation Imp. Bonds PRICE 99.00 uETLD 6.14 T0 7. Fish Plant in State Proposed. A fish dehydration plant for Ore- eon is proposed by A. F. Spawn of Vancouver, B. C, who is In the city conferring with officials of the Kiag's Food Products company and other business men of the city. He hopes to be able to interest Oregon men in the proposition. Mr. Spawn started food dehydration experiments many years ago and has worked out-a sys tem of his own. He is 80 years old. but ia planning for his fourth trip around the world in the interesU of food dehydration. Taxes Paid in Wheat, Plea. MADRID, Feb. 20. Farmers have sent a petition to the government re questing permission to pay their In come tax in produce instead of money, which they declare they lack. Liberal newspapers protest against such an arrangement, which, they say, would allow the farmers to reckon wheat at the prevailing high prices when pay ing their taxes, at the same time as sisting them to maintain on the Pub lic markets the extravagant war-time prices. The island of Guadeloupe is to have an electric railway 118 miles long, two waterfalls being harnessed to provide the power. as 'J 9 Dated Jan. 1, 1921 DENOM. $500 Due Jan. 1, 1921 to 1931. Ralph Schneelqch Co. MUHraWaAOT CORPORATION rWANIX LUMBEBMENB BUILDING POKTUIND, OREOW. 5 s I SI Protect the Business You Have! In a buyer's market, manufacturers and wholesalers should concentrate their effort on selling activities. Credits to those buyers whose financial and paying ability warrant it, can be made with greater confidence if the manufacturer or wholesaler has the Unlimited Policy of The American Company, which guaran tees to prevent, else pay, bad debt losses beyond the normal. There's no obligation in investigating, and you'll find our representatives courteous and to the point. May we have an interview? Please write or phone today. Paymtnts U PtbctixUdtrt rutr $10,000,000.00 X AMERICAN CREDIT-INDEMNITY CO. of NEW YORK E.M. TREAT, president ISSUES STANDARD UNUNITED POLICIES H. T. MacRILL, General Agent Board of Trade Bid?. Phone: Main 1179 Portland, Oregon RELIEF BANQUET PLATES ARE SOLD AT 100 EACH. American Committee to Aid Erin Gives Dinner in Chicago. Problems Are Discussed. CHICAGO. Feb. 20. Five hundred persons last night raised S50,0O0,for relief work In Ireland by paying $100 each for a dinner given by the Amer ican committee for relief in Ireland. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, in an address, said that while no Amer ican held any Ill-feeling against the English people or desired to create d'.ssentlon between England and the Lnited States, this country could not maintain a hands-off policy &b to Ireland. 'The Deoole of Ireland are passing through the valley of death," he said. More than 100 towns nave oeen burned and destroyed. Nearly a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of property has been confiscated. More than 200.000 men, women and child ren are in need. Industry has been destroyed. No American aares to tmmt or bringing about any Incident in re la (i o n b hlmitlHitwmildleiidtoserloiis Safes Save Treasure in Fire. ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 20. (Spe cial.) Two safes, their contents in tact, have been taken from the ruins of Thursday's fire at Elma. Mike Karazanas of the Tavern cafe, and Ford Bros., owners of a pool room. left the safes exposed to allow the contents to cool. Karazanas had sev eral thousand dollars in bonds in his safe. v Kelso Port Election March 19. KELSO, Wash., Feb. 20. (Special.) The board of county commissioners of Cowlitz county has set the date for the election to organize the Port of Kelso for Saturday, March 19. The voters of the district cast an over whelming majority for organization of the district in 1920, but because of technical errors the election was void. 6to8H MUNICIPAL BONDS CITY AND FARM MORTGAGES SHORT TERM COMMERCIAL PAPER We buy and sell Liberty Bonds. Western Bond & Mortgage Co. Gronnd Floor. Board of Trade Bids;. Main 113 80 Fonrtk St. misunderstanding between England and the United States. It is because we desire friendship between our na tion and Great Britain that we seek to impress on England the necessity of ending the unhappy state of Ire land. "But neither America or any other civilized nation can stand idly by and allow the conflagration to sweep through Ireland. The policy of 'hands off Is a policy of stagnation and death. "America cannot but feel a real concern and cannot complacently watch a situation in part of the world when millions of Americans of Irish blood will know no contentment or happiness until peace is restored and suffering ended among their kindred." There are about 40.000 square miles of virgin forest and about 20.000 square miles of second growth tim ber In the Philippines. We own and offer for immediate delivery: ADAMS COUNTY IDAHO GENERAL OBLIGATION 6 BONDS Due July 1, 1934-39 Income Tax Exempt PAR TO NET 6.00 A general obligation of a productive county which has a small debt and a wealth of natural resources. Call for Circular. Phone Broadway 5800. Portland KEELER BROTHERS Denver Investment Securities UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK BUILDING We own and offer for immediate delivery the fol- Sound Advice "High-grade, long-term railroad, industrial, public utility and government issues, which carry the best investment ratings, will, duringl92I, undergo a steady advance in price, and such advance will, disregarding temporary fluctuations, continue Well be yond the close of the present year." JOHN Moody's 1921 FORECAST. A complimentary copy of the Moody Fore cast, valuable and interesting to every investor. ' may be had upon application at our office. ATTRACTIVE LONG-TERM BONDS Public Utility ' Price Ohio Power Company 1st and Refunding 7s, due. January 1. 1951 95.25 Foreign Government Republic of Chile 8s, due February 1 . 1 94 1 99 . 00 Industrial Portland Flouring Mills Company 1 st Mort gage 8s. due February 1. 1936 100.00 Yield 7,4Q?o 8.10! 8.00 The Portland Flouring Mills issue of 15-year First-Mortgage 8s is particularly at tractive to investors seeking a local investment. The company is sound, long estab lished and the largest producer of flour in the Northwest It is a producer of es sentials, supplying food for millions. Ask today for additional information. h We offer the unsold portion I . .. of our allotment of i Republic of Chile j IZU-Ir. Sicking fund S s at GQ to yield a mini- I )J mum of 8.13 up g to a possible 20 F to accord with the I operation of the E sinking fund. a There will be retired annually B $1,200,000 by sinking fund pur- H chase or by lot at 110 the first H ten years and 105 the next ten H year a. SI SMJTH -HOUND FLOOH CAMP f Firm and tis GO. n -war B74 jjj I w I III lowing bonds: Rate Maturity Yield Adams County, Wash., Roads.... Gs 1925 6.00 Douglas County, Wash., Roads... 6s 1923 6.00 Crook County, Oregon, Roads. ... 6s 1928 6.00 Multnomah Co. Drainage Dist. No. 1 5 Vis 1938 6.00 British Columbia, Province of . 6s 1925 7.30 Manitoba, Province of 6s 1925 7.30 Greater Winnipeg Water Dist.... 5s 1923 8.00 Municipal Bond Department Commerce Mortgage Securities Company Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 91 Third Street Phone: Main 3067 7 $14,000 Farm Mortgage Notes NETTING 7 NETTING Secured by 300 Aerea Agricultural Land, All Tillable, in the Famoua WHITE NALMOX VALLEY. 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