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M A R C H ,1
K t'K A L E N T E R P R IS E
W e sell you Floor Covering and
Furniture for less than any mail order
HALSEY I)eaIer HUDSON
GARAGE in & ESSEX
house.
C a rs
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Good trade« allowed
We sell tira« for Jess than you can buy theta (or from any
mall order bouse
Wrecking Shop
Parts
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connection
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FURNITURE
O i l IT EXCHANGE
422 W. First at., Albany.
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We sell only
GOOD
It is treacherous weather for baby chicks.
A reliable brooder will take all the worry
and much of the loss out of raising chicks.
We have both coal and oil brooders,
reasonable in price and guaranteed.
F U R N IT U R E
Compare our prices before purchasing
F o rtm illerFcoMPANYE
Attractive Home Furnishings
Gasco Briquettes,
Albany, Oregon
$1.35 a cwt-.
p V gpx"
QUAIITV
W hat Our Exchanges
Say on the Subject
Harrisburg Sends Away Ten te Fifteen Thousand
Dollars Kevery Month to Mail Order
Houses...Halsey How Much?
(H arrisburg Bulletin)
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(Wasco News-Enterprise)
Tliis is tin' season of the yeiu
Encroachments of mail ordei
when the big mail order houses, houses upon the trade of local
send out their regular annual stores has long been the subject
supply of catalogs.The Oakland ol concern to home merchants
paper says th at one day last and will continue to be, no doubt
week 25 sacks were dumped off indefinitely.
Of late the bell-ringer, who
in th at town— and no doubt goes from house to house taking
every town in the country receiv orders for his wares, has becom
ed a share of them. Ju st think another formidable competitor
for a moment what it means to in certain lines.
If the home m erchant is to
a community the size of Harris
hold his own against these en
burg and vicinity to be drained
croachments, he m ust fight and
every month of from $10,000 to light hard.
$15,000, sent to the mail ordei
Satisfactory goods, reasonable
houses in Chicago, Portland and prices and advertising are th t
other big cities. Not much wond weapons he m ust use to hold his
e r it causes hard times, as mon own. They are the same weapon?
his outside
competitors use
ey sent out of the count .y to against him.
mail order houses never finds its
The three m ust go hand in
way back again—it is gone for hand. Satisfactory goods will not
ever. One thing can be truthfully- alone secure the business with
said about the mail order houses out reasonable prices: both to
— they are constant and liberal gether will not draw th e ful
advertisers—and it is the vig measure of trade without advei
orous and constnnt advertise! tising. First have the goods and
who gets the business. There i.i values—then tell the public
no stronger argum ent in favoi about them through your local
newspaper,
of advertising.
As was said to the Americai
Retailers’ Association recently
(Scio Tribune)
by T. K. Kelly of Minneapolis.
Albany’s spring style show
“It has become the habit ol
drew a large number of our peo the American people to do prac
pie
FYiday
night. - If
any tically all . their shopping througl
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—
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reader cannot find what he or j the newspapers and the newspa
she wants in Scio, then go to A1 . per® iji America to day have too
Iwny. Keep your purchases in great an economic force to need
Linn county, if possible.
J any recommendations.”
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» III v M E I
There’s a dangerous risk
in restless sleep!
OOR h e a lth is often paused b y p oorsleep;
If y o u lie on a sagging b ed spring w hich
cram p s y o u r m uscles an d tw ists y o u r spine,
y o u c a n n o t fu lly elim inate fatig u e poisons
from y o u r system . W hy gam ble o n a sagging
bedspring t h a t causes restless sleep a n d
broken h e a lth ? S w itch to R om e Q u a lity D e
L u x e , T h e B ed sp rin g L uxurious. T h is bed-
sp rin g su p p o rts th e body jn p erfect balance,
lets ev ery m uscle relax and induces sound,
w holesom e sleep.
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So h o nestly a n d su b sta n tia lly b u ilt t h a t th ey
k eep th eir resilience for a lifetim e. B u y them
fo r econom y a s well as h e a lth . All sizes
carried iu stock by ys.
D. H. STURTEVANT
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
it satisfleti with a «mall profit o i a large and growing buslnas*.
That ia why you cannot save miner on a purehass by sending
your ord«r abroad, lust price goals
and compare with
IB
1 bora
1 0 (0
figure* alaewLere.
I TURTEVANT
S
i ERVICE
S atisfaction
We Invite a
Comparison
W* carry a pretty complete stock of general merchandise.
We have to buy these goods and so do the mail order housts and
other dealers in large cities. \V ‘ make a percentage. So do they.
That percentage we put in circulation in Halsey. They don’t
Our homes are in Halsey, Their* are not.
W’e pay taxes in Halley. They do not.
We are iuteresteu in schools, churches, lodges and othsr.
activities in Halsey. They are not.
Come in and compare the good* iu our stock with the descrip
lion o| those outsiders offer. Then compare the price*.
You may find that your money will go a* far in buyir g what
you want her* without going aa far lo he returned to circulation.
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G O O D S * -'
for the proposed campaign of 131$
after 4,000,000 soldiers bad already
been takes.
Mach h at been said about the pro«
teertng ef labor. It Is an unjust aeeu
aatloa. It Is only fftlr to say that this
.« •d itto s was prim arily brought about
throngh the Inexperience of the organ
Isatloa w ithin our own governmental
departments and by the furious bid
ding of mualtlona makers and ship
builders for services. That altuatloa
together w ith tba Increased prlc«s of
the things that labor haJ te buy with
the rweiiits of Its work, made it Inert
table that labor must get blgbar
wagea.
Bo it became snldent that tha price
fixing program had to go even fur
lhar, and tha W ar Industries Baard
whan tha Armistice came, was pro
eeedlng with a campaign to fix the
prioea e f all tba basic things that la
bar bad to buy. Soma had previously
been fixed. I epeak of labor in a much
broader sansa than manual labor, for
the unorganised »«-called "w hite col
la r” part of our community— elarks,
teachers, government employeos, pro
fessional men— were less able to meet
the aitnation than labor in the nar
row er sansa For tbs protection and
re lie f of inch groups eertaln plans
wars devlaed. • To illustrate—
Curing the final phase of” the WbrtJ
War no man or corporation or institu
tion could raise money without tha
tpprovai of the Capital Issues Comm it
tee of the Treasury Departm ent, which
committee in turn would not perm it
the borrowing of money unless tha
War Industries Board approved the
use to which it was to be p u t Thus
the City of New York was not perm it
ted to spend «8,000,609 for tha build
ing of schools. The City of Philadel
phia was prevented from making im
provements that In peace tim e would
have been necessary, bat In war time
were net.
Various states, counties
and cities, and a vast number of pri
vate concerns, were denied the use
of money and materials for purposes
not necessary for the winning of the
war. Each part of the community had
tp adjust Its wants to the whole great
undertaking.
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TH E
B E D S P R IN G
Th> " D , Lwc«’ way to sleep
N o te .
1700NTZQ
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By BERNARD M. FARUCH
R r ? r < n lti f r o m T K t I t ¡ a n tic M c n tM y .
for l o t
m oney
P. P A P M A N Prop.
m
Taking the Profit
Out of War
L U X U R IO U S
T he wrong way to sleep
There It only on* tcnuln« Rom« Quali r y De Luxe
* n d *• *•
pnly by Th« Rome Companv, W« fieli
ta« geauUA« tu^l i .vujnm ^iJ it (vc bc^iih/ul tl««p.
Hill & Co.
It Pays to Be Good
FOR SALE
Baby Grand Chevrolet
A u.ovie picture girl, home to
<ee her (oiks, was told by her dad I
2 Ford Coupes
that he couldn't get the mortgage
1926 Jewett Touring
renewed on the old home place,
“ How much is It? ”
I Ford Truck, 1 ton
Dad ausweied : "«000.”
She reached down into her
H ighw ay G arage
stocking, pulled out a roll ol
money and handed him eix 1500 First and Baker
Albany, Ore.
Oilia.
HOWARD RRIGLEY
Dad looked at her roll end said
*' Bessie, have you beau a good
girl in Hollywood? ’’
” Well, Dad," she eaid,' ” to gel
roll like mins in Hollywood a
girl would have to he good,”
Iij yeur svstem of Catarrh ot Deafneu
W'e hear much about rolled caused by Catarrh.
MS «- Sratewt, Ar m r «0 *Mrf
«locking* these days. That Hoi
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, Ohio
lywood girl’s roll was the right
tyle.
H a ll’s C a ta r r h
Medicine
TUSSING & TUSSING
LAWYERS
Halsey and Brownsville
Oregon
BARBER
SHOP
Firsl-class Work
J. W
STEPHENSON.
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T here have been a great many bills
introduced into Congress on the sub
ject of Industrial mobilisation, some
sponsored by great organizations like
the Amerioan Lag loo, and others by
nawspapera and publicists. But It ia
surprising how little knowledge there
yas aa tba part of those who drew up
the bills of tha practicability and fea
sibility of an mobilizing our resources
that it would be Impossible to make
as much profit la w ar as In tim e of
peace.
Take into consideration the
fact that the following things wore be
ing don« in 1918: —
Oeneral Crowder, who was in charge
of the draft, had asked the chairman
pf the W a r Industries Board where he
eenld obtain additional men needed
for the Array In France with the least
possible dislocation of- the war maklnz
lndnstrial civilian machinery, and we
were In the process of replacing male
labor with women. By a system of
priorities the Board was allocating to
our own Arm y and Navy, to the Adies
and to the essential war industries tne
things they required. It was making
p riority rulings aa to transportation,
and they were being follow eiFont by
the Railroad Adm inistrator. Tha Fuel
Adm inistrator distributed fuel only on
the rulings of the W a r Industries
Board
The Board was engaged in
disentangling and removing tha many
conflicts and competitive efforts In
volved In labor and buildings that had
prevtonsly occurred because of lack of
aay eo-ordlnatlhg agency. It was allo
cating power and making regulations
for the hitching up of scattered units
of power. I t was changing munitions
orders from songestad to leas congest
ed district«, n had actually carried
into effect aa order that no building
Involving 12.500 or more could ba un
dertaken without the approval of tba
W a r Industries Board. No steel, no
cement, no m aterial of any kind could
ha used for any pnrpoaa whatsoever
unless the W a r Industries Board per
m itted It. No steel tompatty could
sell over five tons of steel unless ap-
proved by tbe Dlreoter ef Steel. The
Treasury would not permit th t raising
ef m e aty for any Industrial or finan
cial operation unless it was approved
by the W ar Industries Board
The
President leaned an order that no com
mandeering should ba done by the
Arm y, Navy, Shipping Board or Food
Administration without the approval
ef the ch* Irma a of (ha W ar Industries
Board. Every raw m aterial industry,
and Indeed practically «very Industry
la the country, was organised through
sppotatment of committees, sad none
of these Industrie« would do any busi
ness except under the rultncs promul
gated by tha Board. Standardtsatloa
In «vary Industry was rapidly proceed
lag. These rslings wars mad« known
through tba leauano« of official bulle
tins at Irregular Intervals aad were
distributed by the preaa
We were
endeavoring to arrange it an that tha
U h lln g fo re « wera to r see tv, U e a *
things which they needed and no
■tere. ao that w hatever was not ae-
taally required at tha front was le ft
to civilian parposes
Industries were
curtailed, but never destroyed: skele
tonised. bnt never killed. Indeed, the
ase of mea, money aad m aterials was
rapidly being brou»bt into exactly
that condition which I have previously
slated to ba necessary in cas* of an
other war.
If, In addition to th l*. the President
la the future has the auth ority to fix
prices and distribution of m aterials
aad labor, rent, and tha usa of man
power, transportation, fnel and a ll the
things nsoeesary for tha conduct of
tba war. any rise In prices w ill he pre
vented, even in anticipation of war.
There are many who claim that w ar
la caused p rim arily by the destre of
profit. 1 am not one of those. But if
there Is anything in this contention
this p la i w ill remove the possibility of
anybody urging war aa a means o f
making p r o lti. Even if there are no
men who desire war aa a means ot
making profit, the fact that profits
wonld be lees In war than in peace,
and wealth and resources would be di
rected by the government, m ight bar«
some active deterring Influence on
men of great resources. Instead ot
being passive, they m ight become ao-
live advocate« of peace.
There are many people who are, for
various reasons, afraid to discuss tha
subject during peace tim e and piefes
to wait for war. There are also some
great manufacturers who oppose any
such plan becauae they were seriously
interfered with during the war time.
Indeed, It has been the experience ot
some of thoee responsible for the In
dustrial mobilization In the W orld
W a r to remain the object* qf veq,
omouz attack begun during the tim e
that the aaoeeeltlaa ot the nation made
it Im perative to control activities and
profita. Soins critics were prom inent
manufacturers, who said:
"T e ll us
what the government wants and we
w ill fill the orders, but don’t Interfere
with the aale of the part of our prod
uct that the government does hr»
want to use " T hat was unthinkable.
President W ilson decreed that fa ir
One of them provided that manufac
turers. Jobbers and retailers of shoes
could make and sell shoes only of a
specified quality at a fixed price, e*<
fectlve July, 1919
No ou* who did
pot «ave h eard of the W a r Industries
Board In his window could sell shoes,
and only the standardized shoes could
be sold. No Jobber or m anufacturer
would sell shoes to anybody who did
not have this card. The shoes were
to be stamped Class A, B or C and had
to be of the quality prescribed and
«old at the price fixed. The country
was so organized In every district that
there could be Im m ediately reported
to Washington the paw « of any shoe
retailer who did not-parry ant the reg
ulations of the W a r Industries Board
as to price and quality. Through re
strictions on his labor, money, ra w
m aterials and transportation no man
ufacturer would h are been perm itted
to sell to any dealer violating the reg
ulations. The Arm istloe stopped tha
execution o f this plan.
Another plan of thia nature: T he
m anufacturers of m en’» and v o n a » 1«
wearing apparel had In 1918 been call
ed to W ashington, together w ith the
retailors of various goods, and notified
that regulations would have to be
made In regard to re ta il prices and
standardization o f clothing.
The rulings by the board were made
known through the Issuance of official
bulletin« at irregu lar tntarvalz and
were widely distributed by tha pre««,
which co-operated in this most neoes-
sary work w ith a whole-hearted pur
pose that gave to the orders of the
W’ar Industries Board the instant and
broad circulation they required
M r. Hoover already was doing moch
to perfect h b control of food products
and prices. There was also talk of
fixing rents, and la some cities this
was don«.
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If we were to start. In the event of
another war. at the place where we
* e r e Industrially when ths W orld W a r
ended, tha President, acting through
an agency sim ilar to the W a r Indus
tries Board, would have the right to
flx prices of all things as of a date
previous to the declaration of war
* f , l r P*“ 0« ‘ " " « re la -
Oonship among the varions activitiea
« the aarton
It would tra Illegal to
thJn te ’ "’ H ? ” ■ r* nt a‘ * " T 0 ,h ” ‘
a
pri<' “
B t‘ " m would ba
h»rP
° . #Tery agency of inflation
te? it? lh * h“ rtfn l Pi®eess started Aa
intelligent control of the flow of men.
money and materials would be lm-
posed, instead of having the blind pau-
Ic heretofore ensuing on the first an-
° * th * frBBt,e demands of
war. The D raft Board would have be-
m k te l
rUl? g’ ° f the p rio ritr rora’
n - I d , «r *
r v ’ r" h th# “ « » » ‘ ed
needs of every business and profes-
»Ion la Its relationship ta the conduct
of the war, and men wonld he seleet
ed accordingly
The D raft Board
X
«dv.°re lDt* IIIg “ nt1’ ’ daolde. with
the advice of the p riority committee,
many of the problems with w h ich I»
were n eed L ” »*11
»ho
ere needed for expert industrial war
again * n V” “ br’D,,n«
the win ? “• ' " * • • • • •< * necessary to
te ’ e l
rS '
W ,r wo’ ld * ’ « r -
th
The Draft Board would have
that Information b«fore IL
" • price fixing com mittee would make
•n y necessary adjustments, as was
done during the war. V ad er the ny,.
tern used la 131| ,beae „rice.
made public and adjusted e v .rv t h , 2
— u m ^ o r 1^
d - e .r had hie day in
wb^ PT¿
«an.
(Cootinncd oo page 8)
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