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An Appeal to the American Pec
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liu as III Chi 11a. i
w.ih slui iitU'ii. We have no cstiieiK-e i
ill Kuiu'C, wlU'ie IM'llUS, d StUtlM !
uitti buto;.ic i-hifeue aie lau.g. e J
e i;o w ui st, as in tastem Europe, j
uln-re invasion? and armed clashes a.eJ
in Cv i. slant y: ogress. I
Ve have no aum figure of hunger !
stalking thruugli Amerua, eluu-hmg nt 1
the thieats vt helpless and dying- chil
dren, as in A nr. tin. a and in many Euro
pean countries, We have no thousands
of refugees wandering in the moun
tains, beset by winter snows on the one
hand and by armed fues on the other,
as in Caucasus.
In comparison, we are living in a ha
ven of refuge, shielded from the storms
of the world. The most of those who
are worrying are thinking about whe
ther business in the new year is going
to be guod or medium or bad. And be
cause we are thinking so much about
that and so little about the abundance
and good fortune with which we aie
enviruiu-d, we are ourselves causing
business to halt and hesitate. That is
what Mr. Hoover means when he says
half our troubles are psychological
Thus, the man w ho is buying raw
material and converting it into a fin
ished product is wondering if there will
be a demand for his output. He is
waiting. The jobber, who is taking
that output and distributing it to the
retailers, is wondering about what de
mand there will be. He is waiting. The
retailer is wondering what demand
there will be from consumers. He is
waiting. And so it is a temporary wait
all around to see what is going to hap
pen. Meanmhile, money is tight be
cause of the abundance of our goods
and products. We hold more than one
third of the world's gold and the debts
that other nations owe us couldn't be
paid with the other two thirds.
Kut our farmers are holding about
60 per cent of their last harvest and the
banks are extending them enormous
credits. The banks are carrying tre
mendous credits in financing our ex
ports, this year amounting to IS, 000,
000,000, constituting the largest export
business and one of the largest finan
cial transactions in the history of man.
Public and private enterprise in Europe
is now and for several years has been
getting credit from our bank3 and with
the proceeds has been buying American
goods, . involving long-time operations
and straining heavily the colossal cash
resources of America. It is thus that
the very bigness of our business and
the abundance of our material re
sources make money tight
We are exporting twice as much In
goods and products to other nations as
we are buying from other nations, and
our exports are increasing. They total
eifcht billions this year. They were 7.9
billions in 1&19, six billions in 1918 and
were an average of but 2.3 billions be
fore the war. No country ever had so
enormous a trade balance. No country
ever did such a colossal international
business. It is a process in gathering
wealth almost beyond the dreams of
avarice.
The people never had so much money,
Saving deposits are nearly doubled.
There are now 20,000,000 savings ac
counts against 13.000,000 before the
war. Somebody, thought there was a
run on a New York bank recently. The
long line in waiting turned out to be
an army of people buying liberty bonds
and Victory notes. The bank deposits
of America have in six years risen to
fiipures beyond the power of mind to
c-mprehend. The riiarkeiing of foreign
bonds in the United States and the
enormous business created by pur
chases of the securities by persons or
dinarily catalogued as among the
masses is one ijf the signs of widely
diffused financial power, There are now
half a doren bond houses in Portland
to the oi. e or two here five or six years
No peopU wn:e ever so blessed ma
terially iiuii jspiritually. In any other
country what we call hard times would
be looked upon us overflowing prosper
ity. It is a psychology of cowardice and
timidity that does most to contribute
to suUi iinxiety as may exist.
In the presidential campaign we were
told that we were living under the
worst government on earth, under the
worst conditions of any country in the
world and that our miseries were be
yond description. It was the humbug
and buncombe cf politicians, but a lot
of people believed it.
They were toid that they needed a
change, and. following that advice
they carried their discontent to the bal
lot box, expecting a great wave of easy
money and glittering profits w-ould roll
over the country, No such thing hap
pened, because America has absorbed
mo! of the wealth of the woild and,
after leaping harvests of profits be
yond anything known to history, still
has that wealth as a basis of continued
profit -making. When we find out, as
we sunn will, that politicians and their
alamity howling are a pest and not a
product of fact we will nil come bark
to our wonted buoyant optimism and
be rtnular Americans again, with the
American spirit of hope and dash and
confidence.
I o u lit, hesitation, cowardice, fore
bodings and timidity never accom
plished anything worth while In Ameri
ca. If he bad listened to such impulses,
.HfTiTPNon never would have sent Lewis
and Clark into the Oregon country, or
made thf Louisiana purchase If the
colonists had been cowardly or timid or
halting, there would have bfcen no Dec
laration of Independence
Americans who refuse to view the
new year with buoyancy should be sen
tenced tn Hpend a term of months in
China, or Ormany, or Armenia, or Ver
bis, or Turkey, or Mexico, or Russia.
Or they might even be sent to Great
ynKr and or-rialf million children In Eastern and CVmrnl Europe
no alternative to disaster between now and next harvest ex
vi A::.ervsn a!d. For months these most hp!r!?vs sufferers in the
track ef war have been admitted te America a fe'.ai ;aiu::s only if
t::;i::.-:i;iv undernourished, and liavt recftiei American medicai i:J only
If de;vrate!y threatened by death from d'sease.
One 5 cent hot American meal today baa saved a thousand lives.
Winter I? closing down. The money of mnuy nations Is valueless out
side their own boundaries. Economic and crop conditions make fa n ne.
with its terrible train of diseases, a certain visitor until next harvest. Inev
itably the helpless children will suffer most No child car. prow to health
and sanity on the pitiful makeshifts for food with which millions of Euro
pean adults must content Iheraselrea this winter. It is obvious that the
remedy can come only from outside,
America saved 6,000.000 European children winter before lash Nor
mal recuperation cut the need nearly In half last year, but unusual condi
tions have resulted in scant shrinkage of child destitution during the
twelvemonth Just past The response of America must now decide whether
3.500.0X) of these charges, in acu:e distress, shall begin to be turned aw ay
In January from more than 17,000 asylums, hospitals, clinics and feeding
stations dependent on American support There would be no tragedy tn
history so sweeping or so destructive of those who can deserve no evil.
The undersigned organizations, working among every race and creed,
many engaged also in other forms of relief, agree Unanimously that th
plight of these helpless children should have complete priority in over
seas charity until the situation is met This is an issue without politic"
and without rv! I clous lines. There can be no danger of pauperization,
for the $r.000,(0 for child food, and the $10,000,000 for medlcul service
that we seek, will relieve only the critical cases. The medical supplies,
of course, must be att unqualified gift, but for every American dollar used
in child-feeding, the governments and communities aided furnish two dol
lars In the form of transportation, rent, labor, clerical help, cash contri
butions and such food supplies as are locally obtainable.
America has not failed in the past tn great heartedness. She lm
never had a more poignant call than this. Contributions should ,e turned
over io the local committees which are now being formed fur this national
collection, or sent to Franklin K. Lane. Treasurer, Uuaruntv Trust Co
New York City.
EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNCIL
Herbert Hoover, Chairman
Comprising!
American Relief Administration, by
Kipar R!ek.rd Pi rector
American Cross, by Livingston
Farrand. Chairman
American Friends Service Committee
(Quakers), by Rufus M. Jonea,
Chairman
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,
by Felix M. Uan-urg. Chairman
Franklin K. Lane, Treasurer
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
in America, by Arthur J. Brown
Knirhts of Columbus by James A
Flaherty. 8uprmt. Knlsht
I. M. C. A., by C. V Hlbbarrt. Inter
national Committee
' . c A hv Ml Sarah S.
National Board
Lyon.
to bo pi.
hi ih.
Prof. Klemme Here Jan. 12
For Patron-Teachers Meeting i
, ; pupils
i.iH'iHHUi K't the same day l'tof
will deliver an address to the
f the s hool, and then In thy
evening he will appear at the high
school auditorium and deliver a Uvture
on a popular subjeet. A rare treat is
in store for our people when Prof
Klein :ne appears here under the aus
pices of the Patron-Teaehers Assoela
tUm.
! The next regular meeting of the
1 Patron-Teachers Association will oocm
at the tush school auditorium on Wed
nesday afternoon, January 1', and J
: leading feature on the pros ram will be
I an address by Prof. Klemme of the
: 1 ell iit ham, Washington, State Nor
j mat, upon a popular theme pertaining
I to educational matters. Perhaps not
niany of our people have been privil-
eijed to hear Prof. Klemme, but some
J have as he has appeared here in the
past on the program of the county in-
i stitute. and he was also at Pendleton ; tinstone, pastor of the Christian church,
in the joint institute this fall and 1st who otuc
highly spoken of by all who listened
to him on these occasions
Every patron of the school and tht
public at large are cordially invited
STKSDKU- It A H1HHK.
lloy Stender and Juanita Crabtree.
young people of the Cecft neighborhood,
were married in this city on Thursday,
December SO. at the home of W. O. Li
d. Mr. Stender is a son of
Henry Stender, extensive farmer resid
ing north of lone, and the young people
will make this place their home which
Hov has leased and w ill hereafter farm.
Britain, where fewer than half our
number of people must this year pay
taxes aggregating; $4,700,000,000, a per
capita ratio that would require pay
ment of 110,000.000,000 in the United
States. Or they might be sent to dis
tracted, unhappy Ireland, where anar
chy reigns, where poverty stalks and
where civil war in its worst form racks
and ruins the land and crucifies the
people.
Slats' Diary.
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Friday Ma ast pa to fix sum window
shades & pa sed he wood not start a
Job on a Friday.
He is very supersti
thus he hates 2 use
a word with the let
ter M in it because
it is the 13nd letter
in the alfabet.
Saturday pa at
last got 2 work on
the shades & hit his
nnger with a ham--ner.-fc.he
begun 2
ware like as if he
was kinda mad &
Ha skolded him &
sed he should ought
to be more care full
how he tawks at
home & pa replyed
4 sed Whats the
use of havelng a
home then.
Sunday Ma was
fixing sum chicken for dinner, on ac
count we had cumpany lor dinner, i
t her if it was 2 be fried & she sed
No I am going 2 cook smothered chick
en but I diddent eat enny. I want nun.
killed civilized.
Monday a ant of mine cum 2 see me
& ma & pa today & she kist me when
she cum in. They Is a lots of diffrunce
in kisses. When ma kisses me It makes
me feel nice and smooth all over
when Da kisses me I taste a pipe &
when Jane kist me that time I got dl
zy but when my ant kisses me it has
sent got no kick a tall.
Tuesday I saw pa putting a nlckle
away In the trunk today & I ast him
Why did he put it there, he sed he was
saveing sooveneers. I sed a nlckle was
sent a sooveneer & he sed Yes it is they
was once a time when It wood by 5 cts
worth of things.
Wednesday pa has got a brother
which is going 2 get married 2 sum
lady he knows & he has invited us 2
cum to the wedding & see him get mar
ried. Pa sed he thot Joe was mltey
foolish to pet, married, and ma rite
away sed Why ij he foolish. Pa sed 2
her He is so yung and hassent had no
experience In marriage.
Thursday We are not going 2 go 2
the wedding Ma sed 2 pa We will send
our regrets & pa sed It Issent enny use.
They will have a plenty before long.
rFree - thisYaSuable-i
Tim Hogan and Milady's
Makeup.
The honorable Tim Hogan, alderman
of Chicago, is going to have a law put
throprh against "cootie garago-f" and
"nickle hooks," which is Tim's and Chi
cago's cultured names for a style of
hair-dressing much affected by the
young woman of today.
We can't say that, as a masculine
person, we are much struck by the idea
of covering one's ears with the puff of
hair which the delicately refined Hon
orable Timothy calls a "cootie garage."
On the other hand, we do admire the
curl which to him is a "sickle hook"
any sort of a curl on a woman's head
sets our heart a-flutterlng. But what's
the difference whether masculine Indi
viduals like milady's stiles or not. She
has a right to wear what Bhe pleases
and dress how she likes, Just as much
ri(rht as men have to wear what they
please and dress how they like. Who
ever hears of proposed laws to prohib
it men from wearing huge collar up
around their ears? Or from wearing
those sickening Charlie Chaplin alleged
mustachlos?
And when you get down to brass
tacks there is Just as much foolishness
in man's getup as In woman's per
haps more.
What a howl would go up If Mrs.
Alderman Rrnlth proposed a law to fine
any man who polluted the atmosphere
with the stenchful odors his hair car
ried out of the barber shop? Or a law
to prohibit the lurid vest of commence?
Or n ordinance to compel men to wear
their breeches' buttons behind? Or an
other one to save Mr. Man from cut
ting his head off with a high stiff col
lar? Oh, rats with the Tlonorable Tim
Hogan!
Income Tax Shows America's
Prosperous Millions.
Well, folks, we are close up to the
income tax (bugaboo again Not that
we are not patriots; few of us there
are who will not readily contribute our
part to the government we own. But
somehow, It is human nature to feel
that, after we have paid our personal
taxes and our real estate taxes, we
have done pretty nearly enough.
But there is a more cheerful idea to
the whole thing. The statistics con
siderably belated of the income tax
returns for 1918 have been given out
by the U. S. Internal Revenue Depart
ment and they show an enormous gain
in the number of Just plain folks who
have become comfortable in the ma
terial things of this life. Almost exact
ly a million and a half people (which
represents almost a million and a half
families) reported incomes of between
J2000 and J3000 for the year. That is,
a gain of 76 per cent In the number who
earn from $40 to $55 per week in one
way or another. They paid an average
tax of $23.66 to Uncle Sam. The fact
that there was a decrease of some 5000
in annual incomes of $40,000 or over,
means nothing when we realize the 1m
portance of the former figures.
And incidentally, there were 932,330
who have incomes from $3000 to $3000
a year a total of almost two and a
half million families In this country
that have from $2000 to $5000 a year to
live on. No other country on earth can
begin to compare with it.
Nor can any other country show 1,
500.000 people with Incomes of between
$1000 and $2000 a year, which is the
number reported at the bottom of the
tax.
Endeavor Watch Party and
Social Held at Lexington
The watch party and basket social
given Friday night by the Lexington V.
P. S. C. E. of the Christian church was
a decided success.
The entertainment consisted of s
"coon show," a motion picture show,
and several selections given by differ
ent members of the society. But the
best feature of the evening was the
"coon show." The darkles imitated to
perfection the old time negroes of the
Sunny South. Two amusing selections
were "The Story Without An End," and
"A Hard Shell Baptist Sermon to a
Hard Shell Baptist Congregation."
After the entertainment the baskets
were sold at auction, and there was
keen competition In the bidding, $61.00
being realized from the sale This mon
ey Is to be used In making a payment
on the Society's piano, and in putting
a concrete walk around the church
property.
At the hour of midnight, the passing
of the old year and the arrival of the
new was heralded by the ringing of the
bells of the town, after which all re
tired to their homes well satisfied with
the pleasant evening they had spent.
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"Twenty Lessons In Domestic Sci-
ence," by Mariori Cole Fisher has re- j
cently been received by us for review, i
This is a complete advanced course
In domestic science and home econom-;
ics boiled down to meet the require-;
ments of the housewife and the stu- j
dent '
The entire course consists of twenty '
practical lessons one hundred pages
filled with the most valuable informa- j
tion the housewife can possess here-,
tofore taught only In domestic science
schools.
Do you know the relative value of
food, which fruits to use for cooking,
what purpose salads serve, the correct
use of condiments, about proper kit-,
chen equipments, about U. S. Govern- j
ment's bulletins, how to reduce the i
high cost of living, how to promote and
protect your own and your families'
health, how to make housekeeping ;
simpler and more economical and pleas
ant by utilizing modern science In the j
home. j
This book, we note, Is priced at $2.00 i
per copy and from what we understand
It contains a complete $100.0(1 college '
course, condensed, and It Is practically
free to every housewife. j
Write the Home Economics Depart- ;
ment of the Calumet Baklnsr Powder i
Co., 4100-28 Fillmore St., Chicago, Ill
inois, for full particulars regarding the
book and how to secure it.
Painless Parker
The Famous Dentist
p;
iEOPLE living
a hundred miles
or more away
come to my olfices
to have their teeth
fixed up. I make it
a rule that those
from a distance
shall be waited
upon immediately
and their work be
completed first, so
they can go back home a
soon as possible.
Years ago I discovered hor
to extract and fix teeth with
out hurting, and was so
successful that people
called me "Painless"
Parker. My practice has
grown until I now have
twenty-eight offices,
and all my associ
ates in these offices
have been taught
how to practice
painless dentistry
as well as I can do
it myself. We have
fixed up the teeth
of over a million
people, and call our
way of practicing
"the E. R. Parker System."
If your teeth are bothering
you, and you want them put
'a good shape without hurt
ing and without pay
ing a fancy price, come
to our nearest office,
which you will find
located at ;
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This is the shell
that gets em
AS dealers in sporting goods, we want to do
xjl all we can to contribute to the success cf
your hunting season. Ve want to do more
than sell you our goods. We want you to
get your share of the game that is to be had in
this section.
For this reason we ai e recommending to your
use this season the famous Winchester Shells.
By the Winchester sys
tem of wadding, the shot
pattern is unbroken by es
caping ga3-blast or pieces
of wadding. The pellets
cover a 30-inch target so
thoroughly at 40 yards,
that no bird could get
through without being hit
three or four times.
We recommend these
shells to your use with
the utmost confidence,
feeling that whatever the
weather conditions may
be, these shells will play
true to form and give the
best results that can be
had from any shell on the
market
Come in today and look
over our new stock.
Gilliam & Bisbee
If You Want
eed Rye
You would do well to call on
Scott & McMillan
Warehouse Company
Lexington, Oregon
L. MONTERESTELLI
Marble and Granite
Works
PENDLETON, OREGON
Fine Monument and Cemetery Work
All parties interested in getting work in my line
should get my prices and estimates before
placing their orders
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