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THE DALLES DAILY CHRONICLE, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 19?1.
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THE DAILY CHRONICLE,
Established 1890 Tho Dalle. Ore.'
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by the Chronicle Publishing company Ino
Ben n. t,ltfln
Alvln Li. Hucklln .
.General Manager
Editor ,
Knttrrd In The Dalles postoffloe as
second class mil t tor.
United I'res.s and United News Service
Member ot Audit Hureau of Circulations I
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HIGH OR LOW
Strikes flaring In miTny cities
throughout tho United States owing
to attempted reductions In wages,
mako one wonder just where nil tho
turmoil is to end.
This la a period of transition from
war timo prices and war time wages
to tho saner levels of peace time. The
struggle in industry seems to be to
dotcrmino which shall drop first,
prices of necessities or wages.
Despite assertions that the cost of
living has come down, there are evi
dences to clinch tho belief that it has
not been reduced to any extent. In
short, reductions in a few foodstuffs
and a few lines of clothing have been
swallowed up In carfares and freights
and gas rates and telephono rates and
a hundred other prices every ultimate
consumer must meet in order to live.
Furthermore, rents, which consti
tute a big part of one's living costs,
have not como down appreciably.
They aro at tho old war lovel. On tho
other hand taxes have so risen that
landlords in tho very nature of tilings
cannot bring routs down to former
low lovels.
Tho fact romains that prices havo
not tobogganed as announced. Tho
reductions havo been offsot by in
creases and most things have remain
ed nt war price,
Couplod with this stationary level
of prices, certain producors find them
selves out of a market for their wares,
owing to state of foreign exchange,
over stocked market, rail rates increas
ed and cost of production.
Out of all the mad complexity
comoB this fact. How high shall wages
bo? Should they bo reduced?
II f prices do not come down, wago3
must remain high In order thai men
may live In a kind of comfort and
decency.
Tho mix-up In the building buslnois
Is a case in point.
Cost of lumbor has been cut, ac
cording to official figures, from 50
to (55 porcont. Tho prices aro back
to normal.
Hut the other costs ot building have
nut come down. Other material prices
have not. slumped ami labor, which
makcii up a big part of tho coat of
building, is drawing high wages,
Oonsoijuontly this country, In diro
need of more business blocks and
more homes, is not building thorn. The
workers of tho building trades find
themselves out of jobs, Persons who
propose to build will not pay tho high
wngoa represented In tho cost of build
lug. Which then la bettor, for labor to
accept cuts in wages and secure
steady employment, or to koop to tho
high lovel of wages and bo Idle most
of tho time?
If wages are cut and consequently
tho cost of building is noticeably re
duced, It stands to reason that this
country will enjoy a building boom of
Mich gigantic proportions that every
hstiiio mechanic will bo employed
Hteadlly for th next several years.
Tho domand Is pressing. Only tho
lilgli cost deters,
In short there Is a point lu wages
or in prices which reached discour
ages buying of workmanship or com
modities. If wugos haw reached that
point they must be reduced, If prices
have reached that point they must be
reduced,
It Is obvious that It Is better to
work for lower wages and sell goods
for lower prices, if by doing so, ono is
employed constantly and if goods find
a ready market.
I'M LOSING HIM
"I'm losing him." This is a heart
cry that rises 'In every community in
thla country. Sometimes, "I'm losing
her," is substituted,
lit is a terrible thing to lose your
wife or your husband and to'ssit by
day by day and see him or her torn
further and furlhor away and bo help-
loss apparently to prevent the trug
'edy. Some days ago we talked with a lo
cal woman who confided that Bhe was
losing her husband. She is an nttmc
tltve woman, tho kind who is very
capable of holding a husband. But
sho is not doing so.
Why Isn't sho doing so? She'd al
most givo her hopes of heaven to
know. Why aren't many wives and
husbands throughout tho United
States holding their mates?
Truly, it is ono thing to catch a
man or a woman and quite another
to hold them nftor they aro caught
and committed to matrimony.
This drifting apart doesn't come
at first. At first tho man and the
woman aro happy in each other's love.
But. as time goes on their intorests
chnngo. Tho man seos u different
world from the world his wife sees,
Ho acquires different views by his
different experiences than those his
wifo comes to hold.
Kach has boon Impressed bf- differ
I ont sots of circumstances and each
thoreforo Is subtly changed, They do
j not progress together. Tho man and
tho woman whose tastes wero alike
In tho beginning find they havo drift
, od apart. They find they havo no nut-
tual tastes loft. They havo nothln,-,
t in common to hold them together,
nonco tho mere words of the wed
ding vow avail little,
j So tho husband and tho wlfo, man
ried and living undor the samo roof
perhaps are not one as tho law and
church acclaim. They aro two ana
they can no more bo merged. Their
very Idoas havo no affinity. How
then can their bodies and their souls
bo as ono?
Quito ofton nftor marriage makes
the man and the woman husband and
wlfo, the husband forgets tho little
niceties of dross and manner. He asks
himself what's tho use of running for
a street car after he catches it. He
j forgets his wife's birthday or tlu
wedding anniversary. Ho doesn't
bring homo flowers or candy, He
reads the paper Instead ot tolling his
wlfo how sweet she looks. Ho doesn't
manifest tho Interest of a lover.
, And tho wifo begins to slump In
I planned attractiveness. She doesn't
wear tho dress her husband likes or
the lavaller he's fond of, She doesn't
do her hair the way ho thinks It
makes her a wlnsomo angel, She's
' cross when he gets home trom a try-
mg day of business, She knows she
shouldn't be. Years ago she wouldn't
have boon. Sho would have held her-
celt In check. But her husband know
!io 1ms a nasty temper. So what's tV
use of concealing the true fact any
longer.
Judges and welfare workers and
others in touch with the situation
give a few tips on how to hold your
husband and your wife. Intrigue them
always. Keep them stimulated. Appeal
to them by the subtle tricks which
you used to practice. Of course you're
married, but both of you are human
and red-blooded. And above all keep
up. If your husband is interested in
some line, you be interested in it, for
his sako at any rate. And if your wife
Ta interested in some line, you be in
terested in it, for her sake.
row together, not apart. Then
there will be fewer heart cries or,
"I'm losing him," and "I'm losing her.'
THEY DON'T HAVE TO SELL
With wheat quotations down bo
that no profit to tho farmer is repre
sented in the figures, with local wheat
holdings, snugly housed in elevators,
it would appear that u period of de
pression was upon us.
Tho farmer cannot sell wheat, It is
true, ard consequently the business
game is slowed down a bit.
Yet in all this there is cause for re
joicing. The farmers do not have to
sell their wheat. They are holding it.
Havo you considered this phase of the
matter?
Suppose this situation had develop
ed 10 years ago in 'Wasco county. At
that time lew farmers, Indeed, could
have secured the financial backing to
hold their wheat. Their notes would
nave como due, their debts would
have pllod up skyhlgh, and In order
to liquidate, they would have had o
sell their wheat crops at the market
figure. They would have had to pocket
tremendous losses in order to meot
thoir obligations.
iUut what a different situation we
find today. Farmers, it is true cannot
sell their wheat. Some of them are
short of ready cash. But they nre not
compellod to let go. They aro weather
ing tho serious market lull, Thoy aro
ablo to finance themselves or secure
strong financial backing.
Tho whole matter resolves Itselt
Into this: Wasco county wheat repre
sents sufficient wealth to carry It in
warehouses even though at this time
it canuot be converted into actual
dollars.
Tho very fact that farmers are hold
ing thoir wheat nnd are not compelled
to sell at tromendous loss shows that
Wasco county is financially sound
and that the present slight depression
will pass as does a bad dream.
IT'S REASONABLE.
What do you think about Thomas
A. Edison's device to communicate
with the spirit world?
You believe the aged Inventor
craiy do you?
Your view proves that you've been
reading the witty say lags of tke fin
ny men In the dally press. You per
haps don't know that these fellows
have to do this sort of thing for a
living play up the unusual and poke
tin p.t it. llanostly, these follows
have to eat just as any other human
being.
But let us get down to cold facts.
It has been established by tests that
the human mind directed by the eter
nal spirit which is the true I, can
send out thought messages. It has
been proved repeatedly that these
messages traveling upon ether waves
as any radio message, can be picked
up by other minds attuned and
trained. The pineal gland in the
brain is the wireless . apparatus of
the spirit. Science hasn't determin
ed its use. But its general appear
ance shows that it is delicately fash
ioned to receive impressions. In
some ways, sand grains in It for
example, It resembles the .human
ear.
It is the ear which detect mind
tressages.
Then, it Is pratty getioru'l; es
tablished that human mind can flnsh
a message on ether waves to a re
ceptive human mind. The transmis
sion of such messages Is presided
over by spirit which is the true I.
What Is to prevent the spirit dis
embodied communicating with a
spirit still in the body. The same
ether waves convey the message. The
same spirit sends them. It can be
done between minds in human bod
ies. Why then can It not be done
by one mind released from physl-
dally form and another still In the tern
of the spirit? The same prin
ciples, it seems reasonable to sup
pose, would accomplish this.
Oh, we are not urging spiritualism
or Yogi philosophy or anything else.
We are merely stating the propo
sition of spirit communicating with
spirit as reasonable.
Mr. Edison may have bit upon a
device so sensitive as to readily
take up the spirit messages which
might become lost in the void The
pineal glands in human brains have
not been developed. They don't func
tion as they should, largely from
lack of practice.
Mr. Edison is about to supply a
receiving apparatus which will do
the work which the pineal guand
doe's poorly or not at all, because of
continued disuse. .
Nothing very comical in Mr. Edi
son's proposition is there? Sounds
quite reasonable doesn't It?
Paint Creates Prosperity
Save the Surface and You Save All
The "run down" house (there is one near you) is fast
going to ruin merely because the owner unwisely neglects to
keep it protected with paint.
It costs more not to paint than to paint. Paint saves
the surface and protects the building from sun, rain, frost
and varying weather conditions that bring destruction.
Prosperity demands the protection of all exposed surfaces
with good paint.
ACME QUALITY
HOUSE PAINT
gives lasting protection and beauty.
It costs less because it takes less and lasts longer.
Call at our store and let us show you color samples and
assist you in selecting the proper color combinations that will
make your house appear to the best advantage.
LANE & SEXTON
Peoples Transfer Co.
QUICK DELIVERY SERVICE
EXPRESS AND DR. AY AGE
Furniture and Piano Moving
Stand at Glenn's Paint Store Main 3 .21
Residence Phone Red 1811
HARRY L. CLUFF
CRANDALL UNDERTAKING CO
Wasco The Dalles
LULU D. CRANDALL, Manager
rt Thomas, Assistant Manager
Licensed Embatmers, Established 1M7
Dufur
Woman Attendant
Mrs. M. J. Wlllerton
Telephone Red 1781
Motor Equipment
Telephones
Day Red 351
Night Red 3S2
J. H. Harper, Black '2152
Cut Flowers
The Time-Saver
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The Dollar-Saver
The Effort-Saver
Minutes, money and motion
are running a race to see
which is the most valuable.
Mr. Common People, multi
plied by many millions, is on
the lookout for ways to save
all three.
Read the advertising col
umns of your daily newspap
er. Here are the country's ad
vertised products worthy
goods up for inspection.
You may depend upon them
as good goods; for, if they
didn't "pass muster" they
they would not continue to
enjoy popularity. The public
would not buy them and the
newspapers would not take
their advertising, even if they
had the money to spend for it.
Choosing of merchan
dise through newspaper ad
vertising is buying reduced to
an efficiency basis.
When you go to your mer
chant or 'phone for goods to
be delivered there need be no
delay or indecision as in the
olden days. You buy with
your mind made up as to the
worth of goods that face the .
spotlight of public scrutiny
and are not found faulty.
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