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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, ITEPFXER ORE.. THURSDAY, AUG. 10. 1918
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XO KEASOX FOR CONCEIT.
In exports and imports, the United
States now leads the world. Recent
figures show that this country has re
cently done a combined export and
Import business totalling $6,500,000,
000. War orders filled in this coun-
to show preMimaMy their lig
nvs are correct ti:at ute I'.ave c:i;-v-rcd
i.ii'iS.OOO pri-v-uers of war. the
:reat proportion of which. I'.ave come
:'r,mi Russia. Some half million are
1 rciich ami SO.'HH are British. The
Tuetonic allies also hold 431.000
s-.juare kilometers of foreign soil. All
of Belgium, save "00 square miles, is
governed as a Herman province: 11,-
'o square miles of French territory
are held and all of Poland, together
itli a considerable section of Wes
tern Russia are in German hands. It
iil thus be seen that Germany and
'ier allies, Austria and Bulgaria,, have
:. tremendous lead over their foeman
rt the end of the first two years.
With the single exception of the in
asion of East Prussia by the Rus
sians in the early stages of the war,
no foe has yet set foot on German
soil. It is true than the French hold
a small corner of Alsace and Lorraine
but in as much as these provinces
were wrested from France less than
forty years ago, it can hardly be con
sidered that Germany has been iu
vailed.
Opposed to this, the Germans ad
mit that the allies have captured
1.695,000 men, the greater number
of which have been Austrians. How
try for the beligerent nations of EuT many Germans remain prisoners in
rope have placed the United States the hands of the enemy is not stated.
at the head of the list for export and Nor naye an5' yast number of Turks
import business. England has taken bfn, capturf d' " l13 een estimat-
ed that perhaps half a million Ger
a back seat. mans are prisoners in the hands of
let we should not be too proud, the enemy. Taking Germany's own
The very countries which we have j figures for it, therefore, that country
now excelled are the verv ones who 'is not in a ver' Sod position to invite
. , . .. . ; reprisals from the English. There
est slaughter the world has wit
nessed. England, France, and Ger
many alike are so interlocked in the
throes of warfare that their com
merce could do nothing else but
dwindle. Germany especially,
through the blockade of her enemies,
has been powerless to maintain a
trade intercourse with other nations.
Consequently the United States has
seen a great increase in ocean com
merce. But we should not be too
proud or conceited.
1 When we stop to consider the ad-
are more German prisioners in Eng
land at the present time than tfiere
areEnglish prisioners in Germany, so
it will be seen that if it comes to a
question of killing prisioners for the
j purpose of being avenged on the
enemy, the British have the best of it.
THIS $0,000,000,000 COUNTRY.
(New York Times)
What we are doing in equipping
and sustaining European armies is
nothing compared with what we
could do for ourselves if an enemy
were at our coasts. If the world in
I arms attemDted to war on us thev
vantage we have had during the past j would lark what they cannot get elg.
two years, it is but logical that this ' where in their present dire need,
country should step out and take i This is as true of economic war us of
hostilities. If the industrial world
what the benighted nations on the
battle scourged continent were un
able to grasp the cream of interna
tional trade.
The honor would be far greater hi
yeas cf peace. Commercialized
America would have dene well to dis
play this growth in a peaceful year.
Let us not be too conceited nor take
too much glory in a success that has
come about through the misfortune
of nations who are now facing the
greatest calamity that has ever yet
visited the people of the Earth.
GETTING IX DEBT.
T6 those whose hours of waking
and whose dreams have, been filled
with the night mares of an overwhel
ming indebtedness, who has experien
ced the swift approach of the date of
a maturity of a note, the recom
mendations to follow may seem radi
cal. We advise young men to get in
debt. But understand, we would
o.ualify the bare statement, and tell
the young man just starting in life,
not to plunge.
But with this qualification, we will
say, "Young man get into debt." Go
to any average community and take a
canvass of the elderly, conservative
business man? Ask them the experi
ence of their youth, and you will find
that most of them are graduates of
the college of hard knocks, that early
in life they gained a conception of the
value of a dollar by having to make
their own living; that they were in
debt by the time they reached their
majority. It is perhaps fortunate for
the young man, of the right make up,
to be thrown into debt at this earlv
period of life. Dr. David Starr Jor-
besides ourselves divided itself, into
two host'';: camps neither could make
war on the other witn-ut our sup
plies. We would trade, with both of
the economic alliances, equally the
Paris alliance of. the entente and the
customs-union of Germanic Europe.
In business every nation is a neutrpl
to every other. We should trade
where we found our profit, just as the
business men of the two combinations
in restraint cf trade would trade with
each other, and are doing so now
whenever they they can escape
punishment. The various councils
of nations which have met to make
political alliances have failed be
cause they were based either on the
wrong sort of politics or ecomics or
both. When the parliment of man
meets it is usually thought that it
will be concerned chiefly with laws.
International economics is more im
portant than international law.
While the world is fairly agreed
about international law the world
has not advanced beyond the stage of
war in economics.
AMERICANISM.
We would not be surprised that
citizens of one nation fail to under
stand the people of another nation,
speaking a different tongue, when we
see how many Americans whose
grandfathers were citizens of this
country completely fail to understand
the United States. They may have
lived in it most of their lives, traveled
across it and up and down it; yet cer
tain concrete proofs that it isn't Eng
land, or France or Germany or Italy
surprise and pain them. They inter
pret them as meaning that it is try-
dan, president-emeritus of Stanford ling to be England or France or Ger
University, says that the boy who has many and failing in the attempt,
to work "his wav through college is The United States is officially neu-
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tral as to the European war and will
more fortunate than the lad
father's money pays his way.
And so we would say to that class
of young men, who through ecessity
are nut thrown into debt, accure some
obligation, assume the responsibility
of a d"bt, buy a piece of property.
Thus there will be a call for your
earning.-;. The lesson of the value
of money will come to,you at some
stage of life. It is better that you
learn It early.
In making your plans, in assuming
your debtedness, do not plunge.
Keep your head above the water, and ning Post.
overwhelming indehtendess. Next -
avoid those haunting worries of an We have no fault to find with the
Christmas : eems a long way off. way n which our city marshal has eft
Give your note, maturing on Christ- force(i the dog muzzling ordinance,
mas week and see how swiftly time Every stray dog that has visited town
flies. So in assuming your debted- j for any Iengtn o( tlme and lett ns
nesB anticape the dates on which I muzzle at home, has silently and
your notes are coming due and be mysteriously disappeared. Undoubt-
go very far to avoid any war, not be
cause it is more devoted to profits
than any other nation nor because it
lacks spirit or sinews of genuine pa
triotism, but simply because it has
some intelligence. For two years tho
chief ibject before the United States,
no doubt involving the highest ser
vice it could render mankind, was to
take the advantage of its position by
just staying sane. Americans who do
not understand that do not under
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It is reported that 84,000 bushels
of wheat were contracted for at $1.00
per bushel in Heppner Saturday. The
market shows every Indication of
growing stronger.
It doesn't seem absolutely neces
sary that, governments should be such
frauds as they are. Our government!
for example, in offering the new pos
tal guide at reduced prices to the pub
lic, states in italics that "postage
stamps will not be accepted." And
yet, the government by its action
forces ordinary people to accept that
sort of currency. By refusing to pro
vide the people with a suitable paper
currency for mail-order purposes, Un
cle Sam drives the people to the U3e
of postage-stamps in the making of
small remittances by mail. Stamps,
as we all know, are totally unsuitable
for use as currency; they often be
come stuck together and publishers
and others suffer large losses in con
sequence. Uncle Sam will not take
back his own stamps, or accept them
as money; moreover he will not rec
ignize any that are torn or defaced,
and he tacitly forbids the use of
stamps as currency. The effort seems
to be to make just as much trouble
and expense as possible to the citi
zens. A sort of paper currency pri
marily for mailing purposes could
easily be provided by the government,
and it would be one of the greatest
benefits that could possibly be con
ferred on the people. Farmers and
merchants could then market articles
through the mails by parcel-post
without all the present rigamarole.
When people have to go to all the
trouble and expense of a money-order,
for a small sum, it operates as a
discouragement and tax on the free
interchange of products. Most other
civilized countries have a fractional
paper currency, and it is found most
convenient for the people. But this
country is a half-century behind the
times in this regard, just as it was in
regard to the parcel-post. We boast
of our progressiveness, but we are
more backward than China about
some things. Pathfinder.
FAIR CHOOSES COLORS
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SEPTEMBER 14, 15, 16, 1916
THREE BIG GALA DAYS
Entertaining Educational Amusing
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Thursday and Friday Herbert Munter, the aviator, will give an exhibition of inter
est. He does some of the most thrilling stunts ever dared by any other aviator, such
as the "Tommy Trot," Figure Eight," and his "Dive of Death."
able to meet them. If you plunge
those dates may come as swiftly
as days of condemnation set by the
judges in sentencing to capital pun
ishment guilty prisoners. Hood Riv
er Glacier.
THK SPOILS OF WAR.
Feora, (111.) Star. In casting up
the account of the first two years of
the war in Europe, the Germanic al
lies have every reason to be proud of
the result. So far as figures go every
advantage lies with them. They are
edly when the great rabbles scourge
has been entirely, overcome, the ca
nine element of our population will
again be given their freedom.
Flour, which is made from wheat,
advances twenty cents per barrel. Of
courxe this necessitates an increase of
100 per cent In the cost of bread.
"Consistency, thou art a jewel."
Are you getting ready for the
Fourth Annual Morrow County Fair?
Five weeks is a short time in this
busy season of the year.
The Morrow County Fair Board
has chosen orange and black as the
official colors of the organization
and this will be the main color
scheme in the decorative effect during
the next county fair. Every business
house in town will be decked in these
colors and a big effort will be made
to cover the main streets with orange
and black bunting.
Heretofore little attention has been
given to decorating, The board be
lieves the decorations will add a great
deal to the success of the three days.
Decorators are urged to get their or
der for bunting in early. It may be
purchased through any of the local
dry goods stores.
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UP TO THEIR USUAL STANDARD AND WE BELIEVE, BETTER THAN BE- T
FORE. New sheds will be erected for stock, assuring exhibitors a safe place for their V
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THE ELKS' BAND of La Grande
will furnish music for our Fair, and after hearing them we think you will say they are
the best that ever came to Morrow County.
Other free attractions of merit will be provided by the Fair Management in the way of
concessions. We are going to have a merry-go-round, Ferris Wheel and are promised
a Dog and Pony Show, African Jungle and many other good, clean amusements.
THE AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL AND OTHER FEATURES WILL BE
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stock. Especial pains will be taken to provide safe stalls for stallions.
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MAKE YOUR PLANS EARLY TO BE HERE AND BRING THE FOLKS ALONG. A
We Promise the Greatest Fair Ever, i
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