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DAttt EAST O&fcdftlttAft, WbrttfctOW, oftfcCOtf, "FRIDAY fivitflNO, JULY 29, lMl. Testifying in'BIacIv Sox" Case Announcement tut)Itah4 Pally anA Rcml-Wfckly, at Ptndirtnn. Ornon, by the EAST OKEUUllNlAN FUBUSHIXQ CO. Entered at thu pnat orfic at IVndle lon, Oregon, aa aoeond clui nail mat It. ON BALE IH OTIfER CITIE3 tmparlal Hotri N'rwa Stand, Portland. OS f ILK AT Chlcaro TturfRu, u Hccurlty Building, Waahlnirton, D. C, Kurcau 601 Four- Urnth Btrret, N. W. Mtn tft the AaMlatr4 Pra. Tha Aorlatd lra ia excluaively ntltlfd to ti m for republication of All newa dtapatrhra credited to It or ot otherwise credited In thla paper and lao the local newa puhllxhed herein. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE) ' Dally, ona year, by mall ., Daily, aix month, by mail Daily, three montha. by mall Daily, one month by mall . Daily, one year by carrier Daily, aix montha by carrier .. Daily, three montha by carrier naiiy, one monin, ty carrier Semi-Weekly. 1 year by mail - Semi-Weekly, six months by mail 1.00 Semi-Weekly, three montha by mail .St Telephone ..C.0 . 3.00 - l.So - .SO . 1.50 .. S.75 1.95 .. .5 1. 00 PA'S IXST IUCTIOXS If It's a dinner or a dance, a wedding , An or a small affair. Ma tells Pa what to say an' do an" how to act when they get there; the wouldn't think of starting out to mlndle with the social swim Unless she'd taken Pa aside an' prop erly Instructed him. Remember please," she saya to him, '' "the hostess has some claims on you, Po not stay In the smoking room the way you very often do. An" oh, I hope for goodness' sake to night you will not start to tell Those very old an' silly Jokes you somehow seem to like so well. If Sirs. Ponsonby Is there, I hope to her you will be nice. Pay her some slight attention please. although it Is a sacrifice. (Copyright, 1921 ilon't forge you're, getting old an' almost ready tar the shell. Don't moon around the pretty girls an' make a fool out of yourself. "There will be many strangers there, be careful of your speech an' take Good care.tonU.-ht you don't commit your customary f ooifrh break; Just one word more if there should be some woman there you thing too fat. To dance with her you're duty-bound, I want you to remember that!" Pa says he hopes that Ma an' he will die together, so that when They start for heaven she'll be along to properly instruct him then; He says if he must go alone to mingle with the angel throng, Iu spite of all he's learned on earth, whate'er he does it will be wrone. by fidgar A. Guest.) NO PROSPERITY BARRIER WANTED ft J : -r- y ' iff N - Her Is Bill Burns on the stand at the trial in Chicago of White Sox hall players charged with throwing the 11 World Series to the On- r in no u tteaa. sums saia tnac ne nad acted aa "go-between" f-rr vuu iiiajrera ana a cuqu ox ganiDlers. the FROM THE PEOPLE L: r : 1) fTHE desire of the country is for completion of the readjust- mem process, in tnis iarrmng region as eisewnere tne , wish of all is for stability. That calls for cost reductions and for markets that can be depended upon. The biggest men ace along this line at present is the Fordney tariff bill. That sounds strange. It sounds like political talk, but stranger than ever is the fact that the objection to the tariff this year is not based on politics. The situation is thus reviewed with considerable fairness by the New York World : Outside of the republican majority in congress and a small circle of expect at beneficiaries the Fordaey tariff is without friends. For the most part the great business interests do not want it and regard It as a grave menace ts the foreign trade of the country. Labor shows no en thusiasm for it. The financial interests are hostile to it and believe it is wholly mischievous. Republican newspapers have been no less vigorous than demo cratic newspapers In attacking its provisions. Opposition would be still strong, er but for the general belief that the senate will promptly lay aside Mr. Ford tiey's masterpiece and take up the pressing question of tax revision. Taking it as a whole, the Fordney bill Is uie worst piece of tariff legislation that ever commanded the sapport of the house of representatives. Other tar iff bills have been bad in spots, but this bill was drafted in ntter disregard of the economic condition of the country, and even its d efensible schedules are obscured by the vicious provision for American valuation which will impose a. tariff upon a tariff and make it impossible for any importer to know in ad vance what duties he will have to pay. A more ingenious method of stifling tiade and promoting extortion has never been devised. The issue that ts raised by the Fordney tariff is not one between protection and a tariff for revenue but between rational protection and indefensible pro tection. Ever sine the armistice the country has been struggling to destroy in flation, liquidate war prices and get backto a reasonable basis in costs. Along comes Mr. Fordney, who frames a tariff for the especial benefit of profiteers, undertakes to increase the cost of living again, gives the control of duties into the hands of price-manipulators, menaces the foreign trade of the country, t.ivltes reprisals from countries which are the best customers of the United States and tells the American people that the way to oe prosperous is to erect insuperable barriers to prosperity. It is doubtful if even the supposed beneficiaries will profit as they think they will, should the bill pass. In most lines of business the first requisite for success is a prosperous condition throughout the country a a whole. High tariff or no tariff no sheepman ever made money out of wool when the nation as a vhole was depressed because there is then no buying power. When the country is prosperous the wool business is likely to be food, tariff or bo tariff, because there is buying power. Doubt less the same facts apply equally well in other lines. .If so then the goal to work for is the prosperity of the people as a whole. Yet it is being freely predicted that we will get no such results if the Fordney bill passes. If the objections to the bill came mere ly from democratic politicians their arguments might be subject to discount but the critics are by no means confined to demo crats. The chief objections in fact are raised by financial men who ask how we can restore world stability by acting like we were a debtor nation when in reality we have become the world's greatest creditor nation. Europe now owes the United Mates in interest alone an annual payment that exceeds the tmount we formerly Daid Europe for all purposes. The facts are the very reverse of what they wre in prewar days and these facts must be recognized. It is no time to worry however because the concensus of opinion is that the senate will take most of the sting out of the Fordney bill. 1 NORMALCY VS. OBLIGATION "I1LTTIC11 THAN PITCH." MEACHAM, Or., July 29. , Editor East Oregontan: I read a couple of accounts in your paper a few days ago that I just couldent help writing you about. Now I am a poor writer and a worse speeler oing to being sorter short on this edu cation thing. But when I am reading I cant help thingin Xow the first ac count I-spoke of w as something about a big moonshine still the Sheriff had just brought out of McKie Creek in the mts near Meacham. It also states that they found a lot of good drinking licker along with the still, and I did not see any mention of it in yonr lost and found column either. But. the next day you had a little something in your editorial about where the U. S. gov wusent doing the right thing by leaving it up to the individual states to pay for the servises of the boys that had just successfuly staged a big sham battle over In Europe. It goes on fur ther to state that it was the gov not the states that they were' fitihtin' for. And after reading this second account I couldent help thinking what might happen to the U. & gov if it was to de clare war and all the states renutinod nutral. And I also wondered if it wouldent be easier to pay the bonis of what few soldiers that would come from a thinly populatied west than to pay taxes to the gov for a bonis of a Lhlcklcy pouplated east. Then I tried to guess what would happen to a state like Cal if It were to delare war on Japan and the 1". S. gov remained nutral. Of corse it would be different in Oregon as the native Oregoniuns and us natrelized Jlousourians could probably lick them any way. So aft er reading both accounts one follow ing the other I concluded that prohly the editor must have been one of the possie that h.d brought in the still and being a modist American wouldent want any praise for his services and forgot to say he was along. Now as I never write any of these omnibuss letters I am sinin you my name at the bottem of this so you can have some idea who it is from. But being as I am a subscriber of yourn I ask you to do me a favor and tare it of as soon. as youur done readin this. Because while I got a good enough name I know you wouldent want some critis to hitch It along side yourn In frendly coraspond enee. I said I was a subscriber of your paper. I am but I have only been one two veek3. But I have been read ing the E. O. for about ten years but never subscribi'd for it before oing to the fart that I have always been where someone else took it. And I did not ivant to waste any good money on news see'n as I had chewen tobacca and overalls to buy and Id maDy get stuck fer a game of seven up ever two or tree weeks. And anyway I was al ways willin to let the fellow that took it read it first, as they want much in It anyway and sometimes he would tell me what the newa was and save me doing a lot of difficult readin. But since I am up here in the mts and no one seems to take any papers I thought it might be a good idea to su:scribe as I believe a feller ought to know a little somtin thats going on fer the sake of argument. Then it klmla pays to be posted now and then. Chances is if them moonshiners had read the E. O. they would have knowod the herif was conien up and could have holesaled out and not got pinched. And probly if Grant Co. had a paper like the E. O. they wouldent be watin for Umatilla to build em a road. T)o I l:ke your paper? Sure I do. It Is the best little sheet this side of the Mosuri river and Is a heap bettern pitch to start fires with. 1 will close now wishing ytu hick and trusting you will epecafe these few remarks I hope to remain a subscriber of the 11 O. P. S. If this is any good to you use it but withhold name. IU.sp. Yours (Name Withheld.) This store will place in stock during month of August a complete line of r - Women's Misses, Growing Girls and v;xv.:.:';' Children's Shoes Selected styles and newest fashions in footwear from well known manufacture. Quality shoes with intrinsic value. 21 MS MO 1 i (From the Dally Hast Oregonian, July 28. 1893.) Misses Anna and Nancy Cameron entertained friends with a lawn party Friday evening at their home across the river. About thirty young guests were present and "danced by the light of the moon" until the hour for dis persal came. A party of pleasure seekers enjoyed a day's outing, Friday, ut Thorn Hol low, where they picnicked, and fished for the finny trout. The expedition started on the early morning's train and returned in the evening. In the party were 'Mrs. 3. P. Bushee, Mrs.' W. In the meantime the advance guard of the fa mous C. P. FORD SHOES FOR WOMEN has t arrived showing the newest Fall 'models' in Ox fords, Lace Boots and Pumps . in the various'; shades of brown, also black. Alt C, P. shoes are guaranteed. Ford; These shoes were recently bought at the new and lowest prices known for a good many ears and are priced accordingly. . May we show them) to you? Phone 127 For Quick Special Deliveries. The store ' that sells for Less because it sells for cash. yllLJi 1 Poorly adjusted or in correct glasses are inex cusable get them right here. ' 1 '"' FtHMCTOM """" American National Ban UuUding. B ' -raw r. , , ,t-"f i'ViS'iv " j M. Beagle, Mrs. John Vert, Mrs. J. W. Crawford and Miss Crawford, Mrs. H. Home and children, Mrs. Webb, Miss Kdlth Failing. Miss Lottie Roberts; Messers Jesse Failing, W. H. Carmine ahd J. A. Guyer. . . Thomas Thompson returned this morning from a business trip to Port land. Mayor Alexander, who has been to Portland on business, returned this mernfng. v rn HE duty of the nation, to its defenders, will remain a I burden on the public conscience until that duty is ful- JL filled." savs an editorial in the current issue of the Am erican Legion Weekly anent the recent action of congress in re comitting the adjusted compensation bill at behest of President Harding. ( But for the opposition of President Harding," the editorial Bets out," the compensation bill undoubtedly would have become law at this session. The consequences of the president's action cannot now be fortold. Nothing is settled until it is settled right Therefore the question of equalizing the economic disadvan tages suffered by the men who served their country is not set tled. i "In the meantime the United States stands as a country which has refused to meet an obligation, and the most ungrate ful of nations. Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, Belgium, Italy all have adopted compensation meas ures. Onlv America can not afford assistance to its soldiers. Only America has not regarded the economic rehabilitation of r. -i -- a: i i lis ex-service men as a primary step iu uauuuai owuuuauuiL Only America has forgotten. "The American Legion must believe that it will become ap nurent to the American people that President Harding in his re ourkable message tset forth no reason whatsoever to justify the ncnate in delaying action on a bill so vital alike to the well-being ot the men who served their country and the country itself, it must express the fenr, too, that normalcy cannot be attained by ignoring obligation ! DOINGS OF THE DUFFS THE CLERK NEVER LOST AN ARGUMENT BY ALLMAN i ; ' ' ' ' - . , , I TOM THIS IS M , PM, fTx - ' VM T'5 LEAKtHS tM HERE1, l.-i'r,,' 'j awful stor m! myA- $z m, t.Hij, SJM shut the mr Ai I Wru7o dom ' THE FIRST HATIOML BAtlK of Pendleton aCTEDCIlAl. 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Bring your tires to us and we will cheerfully estimate the cost of any work to be done. In many cases we find people discard ing old tires that have thousands of miles of ser vice in them. It will save you money to take ad vantage of our repair department. Simpson-Sturgis ,For Service Phone 651 . ' . .. '. Pendleton, Ore' ' 223 E. Court St. ' Golden Rule Hotel Building If J I- 1 i. k4 i r HPSfaSw J a .a. ..ua w-a t I