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About Semi-weekly Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1910-1915 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1914)
PAGE FOUR SEMI-WEEK LV BAftbOtf RECOflnEil. FlrilMY, DEC, ii. loll WHY OPTIMISM? EUROPE'S war finds its echo in America's inudstry. What contrast could be greater; on the one shore of the Atlantic all activity seemingly destructive in purpose ; on the other shore, every energy directed along constructive lines; absolute waste of life and property as opposed to production of wealth and betterment of life. Even though it is at a distance that we view the ter rible disaster that threatens the whole coninent of Europe optimism seems a lost art. Yet sooner or later this epoch of catastrophe must be followed by a period of repair, and the longer this period is delayed the greater will be the needs involved in the reconstruction and replacement. Where war has torn down at terrific speed, peace must build up slowly. The interruption of international trade stopped our exports of cotton and copper and out imports of dye-stuffs and potash, whereby several important industries were wellnigh paralyzed. Yet startling as has been this dis turbance of the whole balance of industry, certai nfunda mental facts and laws remain for us to build upon and indeed the lower course of foundation stones for opti mism has already been laid. Evidece of business betterment is before us on every hand, and the reasons for optimism are many. The Unit ed States farmer has harvested a five billion dollar crop and there is high-price market for all our surplus food stuffs ; already our grain is pouring across the Atlantic. The millions of men who are fighting are not working, and yet these hordes of soldiers must be clothed and equip ped as well as fed. Foreign orders have started factory operations which at once tends to relieve the stagnation in the steam coal trade, the steel situation lias turned from serious depression to rapid improvement, and the whole mineral industry may soon expect to share in this general business improvement. Today the financial horizon is so nearly cloudless that the profits of bad weather have little upon which to base their predictions. The new federal banking system makes the money reserves mobile as never before, and cx tention of credit is now possible, without the veto power remaining in the hands of a small group of big men. Still another erason for belief in business betterment is the recognition, now becoming widespread, of the general in terdependence of big business and the general public. On the one side, the people are realizing that the yare and have been in reality,, the silent partner in big business, and now that there has come the promise of some regula tion that will in large part prevent monopolistic centrali zation, the people are interested in getting their share of returns that can come onlv with oneration at. a nrnfil On the other hand, the managers of the large corporations, the trustes of the investing public, are beginning to see that a certain financial security goes with public confi- uunee, itnu mai me auituae to tlie public so tersely ex pressed 30 years ago by a pioneer in railroad financint does not pay dividends today. Secretary Redfield recoonizes three nnrinds ness condition as naturally following the declaration of war on Aiigusi i last those of shock, stimulation and readjustment. These three must be expected to affect in ter war was declared, the exportation of wheat felt the n 1 vx Alto -I J , 1 1 n ohuuh. ami uiousanas or carloads accumulated at Eastern ports. With cotton the period of shock has been longer, w.v, iiuumuuji uj. uApun nas now Degun. With cop per the resumption of sales to Europe seem slow in com ing, but come ii. must, for in the modern world, whether at war or peace, the red metal is a necessity of life As- we look toward the south we find that our com .merce with South America for thel ast four vmw w been one-sided to the extent of an unfavorable annual uaae oaiance averaging more than 80 millions of dol Innn 'PK i. .. J i.V 11 ... A mat me oaiance or. trade is against the United States in two of the three "A. B. C." countries snouid be taken only as an invitation to export more, and una ou minions suggests the chance for further develop ment oi trade relations. We need meat and hides from Aregntma, tin ore from Bolivia, rubber and coffee from Brazil and Venezuela, nitrate from Chile, platinum from Columbia, cacao from Ecuador, wool from Peru and Ur uguay. What can we export in exchange ? To increase industrial prosperity this country needs to export finished rather than crude products and to im port raw materials rather than manufactures. Better ment of industrial conditions can come best through ex pansion of manufacturing. The increase of the element of labor in the product exported will mean that we are notjiarlering away our heritage of natural resources but rather that we are using these resources as a basis som ply for the expenditure of labor, which renews itself. Coming dow to bottom facts, the United States will profit bye European war only as the nation makes larg er andMser use of its resources. Foreign markets in the mam can new on anu new only as the quantity ar uality of the "Made in America" product rivals that of the goods ottered by the other producing nations. The buyer, .whether he bo in the Far Eifst or in South America, wants the most and tho bout for his money. Yet it would geom a safe rule of national conduct Dial indunti-y should be gin lit homo, and thomfuro every Industrial opportunity in A morion should bo Improved. If 'tlifno up;)oitunIlIutf two raootfnlfod and jfntwd .yry ,m. f nm jiujujgu in iim!nwl:ttr!in front uMr i ;.. oil smith, a . " LODGE DIRECTORY Masonic. Bandon Lodge, No. 130, A. P. & A. M. Stated communications first Saturday after tho full moon of each month. Special communications Master Masons cordially invited. WALTER SABIN, W. M. C. E. BOWMAN, Sec. Eastern Stnr. Occidental Chapter, No. 45, O. E. S., meets Saturday evenings before and after stated communications of Masonic lodge. Visiting members cordially invited to attend. L. KATE ROSA, W. M. ROSA BINGAMAN, Socretar-y Rcbukah Ocean Rebckah Lodge, Noi 12G, I. 0. 0. P., meets second and fourth Tuesdays at I. 0. 0. P. hall. Tran cicut members cordially invited. ELVA MILLER, N. G. MINERVA LEWIN, Secretary. I .0. 0. F. Bandon Lodge, No. 133, I. 0. 0. P., meets every Wednesday evening. Visiting brothers in good standing cordially invited. D. C. KAY, N. G. L. I. WHEELER. Secretnry. Knights of Pythias. Delphi Lodge, No. G4, Knights of Pythias. Meets every Monday ev ening at Knights hall. Visiting knights invited to attend. ERNEST SIDWELL, C. C. U. N. HARRINGTON, K. of R. S. W. O. W. "With Charity Towards All" Seaside Camp, No. 212, W. 0 W. moots Tuesdays, K. of P. hall, 8 p. m. Visitors arc assured a hot wel come. By order of W. A. KELLER, C. C. C. M. GAGE, Clerk. Loyal Order of Moose. Meets Thursday evenings in I. 0. O. P. hall. Transciont Moose cord ially invited. Something doing ev ery Thursday. 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