The Oregon daily journal., January 30, 1921, Page 14, Image 14

FRENCH SOCIALISTS
HAVE TURNED RED
BY THREE TO ONE
Conditions of Third Internationale
Are Accepted by Majority; Split
- Does Not Weaken Radicals.
By William Ivy
XimoMi CorrtMiendrnt of Tha Orrcon Journal
Par i, Jan. 2 9.Th French So
cialists have gone Bolshevik by over
three to on e. accepting the condi
tions of Lenin for entrance Into the
third Internationale. - The minority
have seceded and will maintain a
separate party.
Time alone will tell- whether the So
cialist movement in France is weakened
or strengtnened by this maneuver. Nu
merically, of course, the majority party
Am weaker than the old "unified" group
and -Its representation in parliament is
reduced to a mere handful. On the
other hand, the party is now truly uni
fied in the sense of having a program
to which alt its members subscribe, and
its action in future will not fee .governed
by compromise. , -' '
Add to this the advantage '"of having
the Communists of Russia," Germany,
Italy and other t European countries
closely allied with it, to say nothing; of
the famous ' "secret organisations
which the Moscow program comprises,
and it looks as if the extremist were
in -a stronger position than before the
split. At any rate, the Lenin doctrine
'that division and not union .makes the:
strength of the working . class move
ment is fulfilled.
Nobody is quite sure, of course, what
the "secret organisations" of the Com- i
munis ts in France will amount to,
.Given the temper of the government, as
revealed in a hastily " called cabinet
meeting immediately after the result of
the convention's vote was known, they
may amount to a good deal. Generally
speaking, secret and Illegal organiza
tion will be resorted to in the degree
'that open organisation is Outlawed. If
the government clamps down the lid on
Communist propaganda conducted open
ly, the Communists will carry on by
clandestine means.
Epitaphs on the political career of
"Woodrow Wilson are the vogue in the
European press just now. It would be
fair to apply to these Judgments the
epigram that G. K. Chesterton applied
to the critics of Bernard Shaw. "Either
they do ' not understand biro," Bald
Chesterton, "or they agree with him. I
am the only one who understands him,
and I do not agree with him."
A. study of Wilson's work by one who
understands him and his purposes, and
; at the eame time disagrees with him,
; would be refreshing. As yet there has
,: been little written on the subject be
tween the extremes of adulation and in-
vective.
Some of ' the European critics think
that most of Europe's present troubles
are due to Wilson's domination of the
i peace conference. Others think they
; are dye to his failure to dominate it. .
Occupation of the Ruhr as a means
I of coercing Germany grows more and
1 more likely. It has long been apparent
J that the choice lay between thir course
J and a frank revision of the treaty of
Versailles. ...... ' '
Although the British government will
' tv o frM tianrl tn ITrlnrA in thi TT1 af
ter, it is pretty certain that British
: troops will not participate, except pos
sibly a few battalions in a representa
; tive capacity. Lloyd George has a
; marked distaste for maneuver, as well
he might, given the temper of labor
land the precarious state of internal af
fairs generally.
I Even the Freneh government, if it
takes this step, will do' so with much
greater reluctance than would have
been the case a few months ago. Qer-
deliver coal to France, together with
the fact that the winter has been mild
and business fairly prosperous, has
ttmulated pacificists sentiments in the
French republic. A severe winter, with
i a coal shortage, unemployment and hun
" ger, would have put the people in a
belligerent frame of mind, but it is hard
.if or them- to get excited about the dis
armament of the German "defense" or
ganisations. Chorus Girls Found
Among Most Moral
Class in New York
.? . (By United Nam)
I New York. Jan. 29. John Smith, the
"'Clerk, and Henry Jones, the chauffeur,
ara pretty' tough persona. So is Mary,
. the waitress and Nellie the cook. But
; little Dotty Frontage, the dimpled kneed
.'' eanseuse in front or rear row of the
. f ootlight follies, is a highly respectable
.lady who minds her own business and
doesn't get into the tolls of the law.
John J. Lyons, secretary of state, has
classified all the convictions of the past,
year, and has stumbled on some sur
prising facts about ourselves. Mote here
-that editors, reporters, "Journalists"
(whoever they may be), and others of
-the literary world, are not spared, al-
t Uself fairly well.
But getting back to the' chorus, one
:C lone girl came to grief during the year.
' So the chorus leads all the rest. Eighty-.
' nine waitresses, 79 cooks, $3 domestics,
17 housekeepers, four laundresses, three
milliners, . five -seamstresses and four
teachers were convicted.
' As for the men, 381 chauffeurs and 381
Z clerks were found guilty.
5 Piano movers, bricklayers, boxers,
freight handlers, hackmen and pavers,
" like editors, reporters, publishers and
:.' composite, lost but one man each, and
.; only one steeplejack fell from grace.
Finally, four lawyers, one law clerk
and one process server came into conflict
' with the law, In company with four po
licemen, two patrolmen and one deteo-
ttve.
There is a distinct office-holding class.
. The multitude recognises its fitness for
the. work as readily as it recognises any
ether kind of talent. -
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Straub! Reads
Educator at U, 'of 0. Has Taught
Language 40 Years; De
lights Bootblacks.
University of Oregon., Jan. 29. For
more than two-score years Professor
John Straub, dean i of men. has been
teaching Greek at the University Of Ore.
gon and In that time he has taught 40,
000 classes, according to figures recently
compiled. He is still adding to this rec
ord at the rate of several hundred a
year. - j
Forty, times, from cover to cover, he
haa taught first year Greek, the An
abasis, Homer, the New Testament, and
Plato, with archaeology thrown in for a
thousand weeks or eo. He tells the
Greek bootblacks of Eugene in their own
tongue to shine his shoes. Students won
der how one head can hold so many con
jugations and declensions. He reads
Greek for fun. t ; .. v '
Ministers scattered all over the' North
west learned from Professor Straub how
to read their Greek testaments, for the
students at the Eugene Bible university
for many years have been coming to
him for their Greek.
When ho first came to the university,
back in the seventies, but one building,
a faculty of a half dozen, and something
like a hundred students comprised the
institution. He occasionally taught, in
addition to his own classes, - the classes
of former President Johnson, while the
latter stepped out i across the campus
and shot enough ducks for the two of
them. - It is a far call from that day to
this. Deady Hall is still there, to be
sure, but it no longer stands in archi
tectural solitude and the duck marshes
and ducks are no longer to be found.
But In one way things are much the
eame. Professor Straub knew all the
students then, knows nearly'all of them
now and he knows almost all who have
come and gone in the long Interval. The
capacious memory that never forgets a
conjugation ' or declension, : also never
forgets the face of a student or an alum
nus- of the University of Oregon. '
He bag had his fun as he has gone
along,' and has played his practical
Jokes. -One student, a 'shark in short
hand, was accustomed to write out his
translations between the lines. Professor
Straub, who also knows shorthand, got
hold of the book) and substituted a
phraseology on the order of "Peck's Bad
Boy," much to the embarassment and
discomfiture of the student and the de
light of the class. r
When he first came to the university,
he intended to write books, but he holds
the rich heritage of friendships resulting
from nearly a half century of teaching
to be far more- valuable than his name
on the backs of many volumes.
Each spring he haa many more calls
to deliver commencement addresses at
high school graduations all over the
state than he can possibly fill. One yea r
European Press Comment
What Is Harding's Foreign Policy, Asks Brussels- Paper
Why Bolshevism Is Sweeping Italy -Europe's War
Debts Burdensome Ben Franklin's Snuff Box.
What Is Harding : '
Driving At? i -
THE European press is puzzled as to
Just what the new American admin
istration is planning with respect to for
eign policy and a league or "association"
of nationa The Independence Beige, a
liberal paper of Brussels that is a great
admirer of America, has this to say :
"The news that comes to us from New
York about the League of Nations and
the intentions of the United States are
strange and difficult to understand.
"Presidentelect Harding Is supposed
to have, a project for the peace of the
world, a project destined to replace the
League of Nations. We are told that
Harding's idea is that this present world
association contains too many members
and too many interests outside of its es
sential aim for it to become an insUfu
tion of common utility.
"Does our information produce faith
fully the Intentions and ideas of Hard
ing? Probably not. i For it is difficult to
understand the practical aide of the crit
icism. A league of nations, however or
ganized, must surely always be com
prised of as many members as there are
states represented.
"Beyond this, only vague indications
are given of the project of 5Ii Harding.
It is said that he is going to hold a con
ference for the purpose of studying the
problem of disarmament, But this is
just what the League of Nations Is do
ing. It is said further that this com
mission is to give a clear definition of
what constitutes violation of rights or
the usurpation of sovereignty of another
nation, and that this definition is to
serve as a moral law with no other sanc
tion than public opinion.
"The -dispatch was widely read here.
The effect it produced was that, if the
League of Nations was to be replaced by
something else, that this international
court would have to he considered as a
means of making this moral law respect
ed, it being based on the judgment of
the world. And again Harding is sup
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the high school at Juneau. Alaska, was
included in the list. w . '
posed to be of the opinion that a proc
lamation of the great powers of their
fundamental principles of international
morals would cause as a logical conse
quence the reduction of contingent and
armaments. .-; ; . i ;"
"We must repeat. It is very doubtful
if these supposed ideas of Harding are at
all exact. For the new president really
to have such ideas, he would have to ig
nore, or at least to have forgotten, recent
history. What the telegram from New
Tork proposes is a recommencement of
the famous conferences of The Hague.
In the course of these conferences high
principles and moral law were made. But
this did not prevent Germany from re
fusing the court of arbitration, or from
starting the war, nor from violating all
the conventions adopted at The Hague,
which had also no ether sanction .than
public opinion. : it
i "It Harding were' to reduce to each
proportions what victory haa given to
the allies at the price of so much sacri
fice, he would not r cognize the work and
sacrifices of his own country, he would
not recognize the greatness of his coun
try's part In coming into the war so that
this war should be the last and that right
should retgrn, in the name of this right
he is supposed to say today: "We will
do nothing more for the rule of right ex
cept make a moral law and for the ob
servance of it count on the judgment of
the world.'
."Such an attitude seems to us impos
sible and improbable. A nation does not
contradict itself in this way, does not
thus relinquish the heroio part which it
has played.
"We persist In believing that the Amer
ican campaign against the ratification of
the tceaty of Versailles and the League
of Nations was inspired by internal polit
ical motives directed against Mr. Wilson.
Now that Mr, Wilson is no longer in
power and the Republican party has
elected its president, it is naturally not
possibly suddenly to adhere to an or
ganization which it haa been fighting
against. Certain modifications, amend
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is what is being tried at this moment.
But it would be impossible to think of
proposing seriously solutions of the kind
mentioned above, which would be equal
to a platonic statement of principles
without any serious effort or practical
action. - - .,
"But we know by experience that it
does not do to hasten in taking Amer
ican sews as definitive. Telegrams from
New York te the Kuropean papers are
often the fruits of imagination, or they
have been altered with too much seal.
"Let us wait. It is not tin March that
Harding is to succeed Wilson. Not until
then sli all we know if he is really hostile
to the League, or it be is trying to find
some form which will permit of . the
United States Joining."
The Unrest - -
in Italy '
GONTINUING his articles on the Ital
ian Socialist crisis, the correspondent
of the Independence Beige say; .
"During the war, and while Italy was
taking-part in the conflict, there was the
same social upheaval as in the other
belligerent countries. All energies were
concentrated on making war material ;
there was the same moving of the rural
populations to industrial centers, to the
towns where skilled labor was wanted
and well paid. The same social and
economic changes ensued. The same
causes ended in the same effects.
"M. Giolittl, the Italian ex-preraler,
had occasion to recall this . later in a
speech which he held at the senate (Sep
tember 26, X920). He said: 'During the
war special Industries have been created
which had one client only, the state, and
the manufacturers consented to raise Sal
aries while doubling the selling prices to
the state.' ; .
"These were ' grave words, because it
was an affirmation by the premier that
the manufacturers had consented to raise
the salaries, in doubling this augmenta
tion for their own profit at the expense
of the state. What a huge sum such a
proceeding must have brought to the
manufacturers can easily be guessed.
"Of course, labor did not igndre this.
In spite of the high salaries, the situa
tion of the workmen became more and
more difficult as the war went on, and
the cost of living continually increased.
To quiet and appease all discontent, the
most irrealizable promises were made:
but those .to whom they were I made
looked upon them as rights. They
counted on being compensated, and re
compensated for their work as soon as
the war was over and won. But in real
ity there was much worse famine and
misery than before the war. 'People
have been thinking.' said M. Glolrtti.
that as soon as the war was over, the
effects of it would also stop at once, and
that life would continue as 1 did bofere.
This wag a great mistake.'
"The masses of the people reason very
simply i they will not allow that it is
impossible to keep promises which have
been made, especially , when they have
been taught to have perfect faith in the
author of the promises. They also have a
very primitive idee of justice and right.
They do not understand the complexity
of social relations, but Judge simply, the
plain and apparent fact. 'Since the war,'
says Giolittl, the workmen have seen so
much wealth gained at the cost of others
and shown. with great ostentation,'
"Italy has had many profiteers. The
masses, to whom so much was promised,
and nothing kept, reasoned very simply
as in other countries they said re
venge must be taken on those who had
profiteered by the war. But how were
they to "do it? By lawful means? They
knew It would be impossible to act
quickly, knowing the delays and the ob
stacles which the law .would put In their
way; it would also have been foolish to
believe that these profiteers would allow
themselves to be deprived of anything.
They possessed too many means of re
sistance, legal and otherwise. What was
to be done, then? Take revolutionary
measures? Would It not seem to the
masses, with their primitive judgment,
that this was the best way, especially
when they had seen that the law was al
most powerless to help them? This is not
to be a comment or an opinion, but mere
ly an objective statement of facts.
Must Cancel
Europe's Debts
TTiRANCISCO NITTI. former Italian
JP prime minister, writes In the Mat-tino-
of Naples that there is no hope of
saving Europe unless the United States
agrees to write off the war debts of
France and Italy. His artjcle follows :
"The. situation of Europe becomes
worse every day. Europe la passing
through a moral and economic crisis.
"No intelligent man in Europe can be
lieve seriously that the peace treaties as
they stand can reestablish the life of
Europe. To believe that conquered, dis
armed people are going to work for their
conquerors for an uncertain number of
years Is not only a moral aberration, but
an economic illusion which will soon fall
to pieces. -.
Thei situation of Europe inevitably re
acts on the United States.
'The -war was won not only by the
military valor of the allied troops, but
also : and especially by the action of
Great Britain and of the United States.
The greatest ally of the war was hunger
in the Central empires and fn Turkey.
It Is only now that the great sacrifices,
the tremendous abstinence and the awful
misery to which these countries were
condemned are becoming known.
. "The war has completely changed the
position of the United States toward Eu
rope. Before the war she was a debtor;
today she is a creditor and a Creditor
for enormous sums.
'Never has a country in the history of
the modern world had such a position as
the United States today ; it is for her to
know how to profit by it Constructions
raised after the war are not durable ;
they will, most of them, fall ; other more-
durable edifices must come In their
Chicago and Xew Tork narkots In a
Paving Plant Sage Cheerful
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Keeps " Wukkin an' Thinkin "
Jess Thornton Happy Because He
Has Health and Vppetite for --
Wife's Savory Victuals.
Jess Thornton, sage of the municipal
paving plant. Is an idealist of the prac
tical sort, j His practical philosophy Is
summed up in- his terse Baying: "Yes.
suh, Ah sho' believes In thinkin', but I
Jes' keeps on wukkin whilst I'm think
in'." : With the assistance of his wife. Thorn
ton baa jV kep a-wukkin' an' a-think-ln'
" until, . at the age of 54. he has a
modest, though comfortable, home at
East Eighty-eighth and East Taylor
streets, and owns other property In the
city. All paid for in honest toil, which
to Jess is a pleasure, no matter ' what
others may think of pick andabove!
work. : I".'
"What does Ah think about? Wei ,
suh. Ah lights mah pipe, picks up mah
shovel--elsewise it's mah pick an' Ah
goes to wukkin' an' thinkin'.
"Ah jes' goes to thinkin': Jess Thorn
ton, you sho' ah lucky. Heah you got
a good wife a heap too good fo yo'
an' yo boy went over to Prance an' mos'
scaehed the life o uteri the kaiser an'
the Lawd spaehed him to come back
home. An heah yo' Is wukkin' right
along when lots of folks is sick -or crip
pled er can't git no job. An' yo' don't
have fo mind nobody's business but yo'
own. Jes s'posin' yo was mayoh or
governoh or sumpin'. -
"Weill suh. Ah bahdly. gtts to thinkin'
good befoah its time to go home an'
take on a lot of victuals thet can t be
beat by no mayob's or governob's' or
anybody's cook." -
And that is the philosophy of the sage
of the municipal paving plant.
place. The new president of the United
States will find himself fronted with the
problem of Europe in the best position I
possiDie tor preparing a proper soiuiton.
He will be able to influence peace with
the immense arms at bis disposition ; and
especially he will be able to contribute
toward the reeetablishment of normal
economic relations between peoples, for
withoutthese economic relatione there Is
no peace possible.
"But In order to succeed in this work
he must have the conviction that the re
organization of Europe is an Indispensa.
ble condition for the social peace and
greatness of the United States.
"In order that the American union
should attain its highest development,
she must not have ; before her a poor,
disunited Europe, but a democratic Eu
rope, in which work is the basis of life
and where justice is the source of inter
national relations.
"First of alL there Is the problem of
the debts of Europe, and this ought to be
solved at once. There is no doubt that
the private commercial debts ought to be
scrupulously paid by the tradesmen of
each country.
"But no one can possibly believe that
Germany, and the conquered countries
will be able to pay the indemnities re
quired Of them. StiU less is it pos!" 'e
to imagine that Italy and France, wi w
finances are exhausted by the war, will
be able to pay the debts Owed to the
American and English treasuries. The
United States might help England to pay
off her debts and then, in agreement
with England, find the most suitable so-4
lutlon for France and Italy.
H. G. Wells
Attacks Churchill
1,TH WELLS, in the London Sunday
If A Express, makes a biting reply
Mr. Churchill, "the running sore of waste
in our present government. "He ' has
smeared his eyes with human blood, he
remarks.
He ridicules Mr. Churchill's picture of
the golden capitalist "age before 1917,
when Bolsheviks "robbed the honest Jtus-
sian soldiers of the buoyant delight they
had hitherto found In going Into action
without rifles or artillery support and
with their aristocratic officers well in
the rear."
"It is just," he writes, "because Mr,
Churchill does not really believe in the
civilising forces of the world, and be
cause I do, that he is for stampeding
us all into this anti-Bolshevik crusade.
and I am for dealing with this very
limited and human gang in control of
Russia just as we deal with Mr. Church
ill's gang and every other form ef mis
chievous or incompetent publio activity-
patiently, with a steady, pressure toward
saner things."
He , concludes by suggesting - that
Churchill - should retire and take up
painting.
Ben Franklin's
Royal Snuff Box
A FRENCH correspondent of the New
XX Tork Herald (Paris edition) telle
some Interesting facts about the former
royal custom in France of presenting ex
pensive jeweled snuff boxes to ambassa
dors at the court. A list of the snuff
boxes thus distributed is preserved in
the French state -archives, and has been
made public down to 1786, though sub
sequent distributions are still a secret.
One of those figuring as a recipient Is
Monsieur Franklin, minister plenipoten
ttary of the United States of North
America, who, on June 7, 1715, received
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or "livre" (pound), as It was then called,
was worth considerably " more than In
these; days of depreciated exchange.)
What Franklin did with the snuff box
the correspondent 'knows not, but. ac
cording to the custom of the day, he was
no doubt expected to sell it In fact,
these presents were given as a rule mere
ly because . a corresponding sum --of
money could not properly be accepted by
an ambassador, and the recipients made
haste to the jeweler usually the one
who made the box and sold them at a
Slight reduction from the purchase price.
The records show one rather curious
case, where the Count de Vlrl, ambassa
dor of the king of Sardinia, received a
enuff box worth J8.940 "livres, In X77S.
which he promptly sold to the Jeweler
Solle (its maker) fori 25.500 ; two years
later the ambassador was again present
ed with the same box, and again sold It
to the jeweler for the same price.
The most expensive snuff box figuring
in the list was given to Marquis Scotti.
envoy of the Duke of Parma. It bore a
portrait of the king painted by Masse,
and was set with 42 brilliants and 15
pink diamonds. It cost the crown 129,
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BUYING SANELY"
Stocks Sufficient to Meet Actijal
Needs Purchased, and Goods
Are Being Closely Inspected.
By Westbrook Pegler 'f
TCaitod Newt Staff Comepoudmt
New York, Jan. 29, Having
cleared their ehelves of the stocks
laid in between the " peak of the
prices last Februwyand the begin
ning of the slump last July, the mer
chants of the United States are now
sendinr their buyers to the New
Tork markets with instruction to
contract for new ; stocks at sane
prices. It was necessary for most
of these -merchants to write off their
profits on great quantities of goods
and In some -cases to write off some
of the investment, selling below cost
in order to turn the stock into cash.
Therefore, the buyers who now; fill
such hotels as McAlpln and the
Pennsylvania are under Instructions
to take their time, inspect many
stocks and buy cautiously. ' i .
TABLES ABE TUBKEB
IL E- Wright, manager ef'the bureau
of education of the Bush Terminal Sales
company, representing lO.too manufac
turers, was amasea a year ago wnn
prices were up like the crest of a dead
fall sea. to observe buyers going through
the markets, giving contracts for great
quantities of merchandise, seemingly
likely without any regard for prices or
slump that was sure to come. A buyer's
only equipment then seemed to be a
blissful optimism and a fluent pea with
which to sign up orders.
They have brought their microscopes
this season and their modest orders are
distributed only after prloes have been
compared and the Quality of the goods
thoroughly inspected.
BCTEB BLAMELESS
The buyer was not to blame for what
was done last year the country had
rose bevond the silk shirt period and
was in the final stage of the spending
craze the silk underwear era. The test
of merchandise was not "how good," but
"is thleMhe most expensive T and buyers
came to New Tork to lay in stoats xor
that sort of a market.
Throughout the fall and early winter,
however, retailers have been easing that
stock across their counters, taking their
losses 'after the example of manufactur
ers and jobbers who found themselves in
a corresponding predicament, and now
the ehelves are clean, prices have been
adjusted and the markets are returning
to normalcy.
There are-'.more buyers at the Bush
terminal today than there were a year
ago. In the last six months there have
been more buyers than in the eame per
iod of 1919-1920. Most of those who used
to make two trips to New Tork Intend
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Considered From j
These Standpoints
Moderate pricing and the quality
of food, service 'arid surroundings,
the Portland Hotel should be your
favorite place to dine, I.
j Evening Dinner, $1.50
Noon Lunch- - - - - 75c
Richard W. Childs, Manager
i C. D. Schreiter, Asst. Mgr.
Ripe Olives
Potatoes
Lima Beans
Bread and Butter
or Milk- '
127 Broadway
to make six tripe a year hereafter, btry-
right on top of the. price situation. .
iney ere now purchasing for the
spring and early summer demand, but
most of these ordera cover only a frac
tion of the season's demands, and the
shippers will be back In a few weeks
to, take advantage of any further read
justment of prices On the remainder.
It Is a peculiarity of the market Just
new. but by no means a meter of condi
tions, that thw South wants great quantt-
.! ,of ncy goods, expensive toilet
articles and jewelry. Wholesale shop
pers from Southern states cannot ex
plain this demand but they are doing
their best to appease It.
The new prices for women's and chil
dren s clothing are from 40 to 60 per
C. ow tho of a year ko. A line
or children a dresses sold for 142 a dosen
in February, ljjo. Is offered at $1S a
dosen today, and another line, for girls
up to 14 years, which was 65 a dosen.
la now 28 a doien. Still another rtock
D, n reduced from 143 to $24. Men s
clothing, knit floods. underwear and
household goods, exeept kitchen utensils,
also are muph cheaper.
STOCKS Ot HASD
There are still, however, a number ef
stocks left with manufacturers which
mUSt be dinnoaed of kafnra h
can hope to start operations again with
an Den roaii Vlu. mnun ,.n...
worth of such merchandise will be turned
him uie marvel on February 1, at very
much reduced, prices, for the innpectlon
Merchandise people are strong for slo
gans, but singularly Inept at writing
good Ones. Tha rail rn artarg Vtava nna
however, that seems to fit the situation.
It is "Toot-toot t Olve 'em the bloak.
Jerry, and let's get out o' the yard."
A type Of WOman xinta ihn linnv,
erything that la mi no nn fin tnurn na
because she is Inquisitive, but because
people like to tell her.
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Money That You
Will Never See'
Again
Is the money spent for
things made elsewhere. Why
send It away where you
have no chance to , feel
or use it again T
TTalf the cost of a snft of
clothes is for wares. Have
your clothes made in Port
land ; get them just as
good and cheap and keep
your money working for
you at home. If you
, haven't the ready money,
Joy's system of letting you
"wear whileyou pay" makes
It easy and guarantees the
best at no advance over
lowest cash prices.
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