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l'AGF FOUR THE GAZKTTE-TIMES. liKITXER, OREGON, THURSDAY, ATEIL 13, 1922. 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 All Work Guaranteed The Byers Chop Mill Kormrlj SCHEMPF MILL) STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil You Will Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here To the Automobile Public Have the NO NOK self-adjusting bearing bolts installed, and eliminate your bearing trou- bles. 'They have been tested and give perfect satisfaction. Made for all cars and trucks. WE SELL ZEROLENE OILS 15c per quart. Over 5 gallon quantities 57VjC J per gallon. Differential and transmis- sions filled at 15c per pound, j Fell Bros. X 1 Block East of Hotel. Auto Repair Shop. i Tells By Wireless How To Make Lightning (Lyj in unrHim iiwk nmmi ft 4 j 1 , Dr. Charles P. Steinmetr, conceded to be the foremost authority in the world upon electricity and who announced recently the artificial production of lightning in his laboratory, was prevailed upon to tell about his new discovery over the wireless telephone last week. H talked from station WGY, which is located at Schenectady, N. Y.He ,was heard in many far distant station. not a buyers' strike, it was the prac tical exclusion of that third of our people who live by the land, and a good buying third it has always been. That third is now practically out of the markers and the amount of un employment just about corresponds to what would be needed to supply the farmers' trade if he could afford to buy. Viewed from another angle, it re quires in normal times about one la borer to provide the goods which a farmer will consume, when the farmer is driven out of the markets of course the laborer which ordinarily supplies him is thrown out of employ ment, and that is what has now happened. It is a rather marked coincidence that the number of men suposed to be out of employment is almost exactly the number of farmers on American farms. Is This a Remedy? There can be nothing like general prosperity until this gulf between the country and the town is either filled up or bridged over. The farmer Community Service ONE ACRE Of DATS IS ONE DAY'S PAY Because These Two Are Equal In Value Hard Times Are Upon Us, Says Educator j Head of University of Illinois Gives Some Startling Facts for Your Consideration By Eugene Davenport. Editor's Note Eugene Daven port, dean of the College of Agricul ture of the University of Illinois, be- lieves every word that he has written to be the exact truth. He is in close touch with agricultural conditions throughout the United States. He is also a man thoroughly familiar with the laws of domestic economy. His conclusions may not agree with what you believe but to many they will be a revelation. A great gulf has formed between the country and the town due to the fact that the price of farm products has dropped to the neighborhood of pre-war values while the prices of manufactured products, which the farmer normally will buy, have re mained at war time levels or but slightly below. The farmer has no means of in creasing the price of his output for it depends entirely upon the principle of supply and demand and the ability of his purchasers to pay. He has al- FSSrtrSHE "IF" in life is either a triumph or a defeat. . U4J we are PreParel fr a situation, ka&Sk we triumph. IF we are unprepared, it means defeat. Now there is one essential in which every bus iness, or individual need be prepared. It is in a good banking connection. Many folks (even some business firms) think of a bank only as a place to deposit money for fafe keeping. This, of course, should be the last consideration. First, good banking connections place at the command of the customer valuable knowledge and experience of men specialized in business affairs. They also put him in a position to receive the financial asistance and active co-operation of all departments of a commercial banking ser vice. So be it either a small individual saving de posit which will draw 4 per cent interest or the opening of a new business account, we wel come you and place at your convenience all the modern banking facilities of this institution. FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK ways depended upon Europe to han dle the surplus, and the buying power of that people is growing gradually less month by month. In our own country, the unemployment of mil lions in anything like productive en terprise, and the double manning of many essential industries, such as mining, has forced the cost of pro duction of non-agricultural goods en tirely out of the farmers reach. While the farmer is entirely depen dent for prices upon the law of sup ply and demand and the ability of his buyers to pay, organized labor has claimed that it would surrender none of the advantages that it has gained during the war, and it is leaving no stone unturned to maintain the same price levels as heretofore, the argu ment being that the cost of living has not decreased. This argument ig nores the fact that a very large ele ment in the cost of production is the double manning of the industries, as in mining and the very low efficiency in production, as in building; both of which overload production with un necessary costs, even to such an ex tent that the laborer cannot himself buy his own product. The Buyer's Strike. Conditions have become such that it now requires an acre of oats or a half acre of corn to pay for one day's labor of the mechanic. This being the case, the farmer cannot build buildings, or buy machinery or any other manufactured product not forc ed upon him by absolute necessity. Shoes are costing almost as much as in the war months, even though a dead animal is no longer worth skin ning. When this discrepancy be came acute, the farmer was forced out of retail trade, What happened was called a buyers' strike. It was GERMAN ENVOY BEGINS DUTIES AT CAPITAL Mr. K. l.ang, German charge d'affaires at Washington, is now daily at his desk, marking the re sumption of official relations be tween the German Republic and the t-'nited States. vST Poem ky A FRIENDLY CALL. Howdy, Gineral Come right in an' set awhile with us. ... I reckon you ain't anxious now, to stop anoth er fuss so, come on in an' have a cheer, an' pass the time of day. . . . An' tell a feller what you know of happenin's, by the way. . . . 1 rickollect in days gone by, we used to call you "John" you know, I'm half-way sorry that them good old days is gone? An' I ketch my self a-wishin' in spite of all yer fame, that there hadn't been no bloody war an' John was still yer name. . . . Yes he was mine. . . . That fair haired boy, with eyes of deepest blue. ... I reckon, Gineral, he was mighty nigh as tall as you. ... I'm glad to hear ye say it, though I grievo about it some. ... He led a charge at Argonne. . . . John I'm mighty glad you come! the work may go around. The country has ignored this situa tion long enough. The time has come when the situation must be squarely faced and squarely met. Both produc tion and transportation are now prac tically under the control of organized labor, which is being badly led and by the same class of people which has attempted, though unsuccessfully, to gain control of farmers. As the matter stands today, farm ers are going ahead producing for the worlds open markets; and until labor and capital are willing to do the same, this gulf between the coun try and the town will continue and will grow deeper and wider. ect To Proye Morvich Greatest Horse Exp t$ 4, m :-i Tno:uiiiiiu ' -' j f& - , K,::m 7 ' When "Man-of-War" was retired in 1920, as an un defeated three-year-old, with the greatest speed record ever estab lished by horse flesh, it .was pre dicted it would lie many days before a horse would be bred to lower those records. Last season as a t wo - year - old, Morvich equalled many of Man-of-War's two-year-old records, and beat others. This vear. it is ( predicted, he will prove himself the fastest horse ever bred. He is owned by Benjamin filock, an Eastern horse breeder. This picture shows Morvich being led to the stables after run ning a half mile in 48 seconds in training at the Jamaica, Long Island, track last week. is powerless because he has no means of increasing the price of his own product. The city must do it by foregoing undue speculations, by ac cepting a reasonable wage, by being willing to work every day for a reas onable length of time, as the farmer does and by turning out a full day's work for a full day's pay. No other policy will bridge this gulf. No other policy will produce manufactured goods at a price which anybody but a rich man can afford to pay. When labor is engaged at the production of necessities at a cost which most men cannot meet, then something is wrong with our eco nomic production, and that is the case now. The farmer can get along without the city, but the city cannot get along without the farmer, and the country as a whole cannot prosper until the city and the country work together. The key to the solution of this im possible situation is a better day's work on the part of people generally engaged in the productive industries and a reversal of the policy of extort as large a wage as possible for nom inal time producing as little as pos sible during that time in order that OFTEN THE TROUBLE "WITH A BEAU IS THAT HE W )NT STAY TIED. CWTIIIGHT tOft PVB. AUrocAJtm SIRV. CO, I llll ' Z 7 ' " ' vv f ww,Y! stop it! You'ne ALwAvr " ft A IIP 1 O .1 ?f? VVW yjWSS'"aA0OUT SOMETHING! CAN'T j HOME I Oa'va n sti agree I1U1IIL 1 . p OU. mk ANYTHING? s' , (BUT, VE DO A6REE) ll -S"HE WANTS THE ) DADDY- J 9 ? f V KIDDIE CAR AND MRS. ROOSEVELT IS . HOME AGAIN P Us ' X - V'i t 5 v 0 ti A Y BIG IMPROVEMENTS BY TKERAILROADS May Be Regarded as Encour aging Signs of Returning Prosperity. UllTOfASKft Newest picture of Mrs. Edith Kcrmit Roosevelt, widow of the former President, who has returned frort Europe after an extended tour, and a visit to the grave of her son, tjuentin Roosevelt, who gave his life in an airplane battle in Franco during the war. The disbursement of fifteen million dollars, most of which will be paid out in Oregon and Washington during 1922, Is one of the encouraging slgm of returning prosperity. The Union Pacific System Is to add largely to Ita equipment, to relay portions of ita track witn rails of greater weight, to ballast anew its roadbed, to replace wooden bridges- with structures of steel, and construct a steel bridge bridge across the Columbia River be tween Walla Walla and Kennewlck, this one project to cost $1,500,000. An order for 4,500 new freight cars, to cost $10,000,000, and for 2,500 re frigerator cars at a cost of J8.750.000 was made public several weeks ago. The refrigerator cars are for the Pa cific Fruit Express, one-halt of which la owned by the U. P. System. General Manager O'Brien of the Oregon-Washington Railroad ft Naviga tion Company (Western unit of the Union Pacific System) has Just an nounced the setting aside of $5,000,000 for Improvements and additions on this unit of the System during 1922. Most of these millions will be ex pended In Oregon and Washington. The forest and the saw mills will supply all of the lumber which will be used In car construction and the army Of railroad workers will be enlarged until It will be of sufficient magnitude to complete the work. The money paid for material and labor will be put Into general circulation. Service will be Increased, labor in demand and business conditions improved by the millions to be spent by the great trans continental railroad. Finder of blue suit coat with gray collar, return to this office and re ceive reward. a6-2t. Shoe Repair Work E. N. Gonty Shoe store is now prepared to take care of all shoe repair work. There is a good man on the job. Bring your shoe troubles to Gonty. Adv. Rev. MA. MATTHEWS P.D..LL..D. The Non-Church Goer Why do men neglect church at tendance? lf you mean all men do not attend church you are in error. It is true that far too many stay away from divine worship. The following reasons can be as signed why certain classes neglect this important duty: FIRST: A seared Sabbath con science sends men to the golf links on the Holy Sabbath. SECOND: The gasoline mania causes thousands to take the fam ily, the dog, end the lunch basket into the automobile early Sab bath morning when they begin to break the Ten Commandments, the speed laws, the rules of dom estic tranquility and Sabbath ob servance. THIRD: Screenitis sends thou sands into the motion picture houses, where they make a pagan attack upon God's Holy Day. FOURTH: Laziness keeps thou sands at home wrapped in the bed clothes of indolence and filth too indolent, sloven and filthy to dress and attend divine worship. FIFTH: False conception of worship, or because the sermon is poor, or the minister worse than dead, they drift into the habit of neglecting church attendance. SIXTH: A large number of those, ho stay away do so because they are plain pagans; their edu cation is defective; their breeding is below the standard. They are just plain heathen. No well-bred, well-trained, modern, up-to-date man stays away from church ser vices. The bum, gambler, fraud, embezzler, outcast, loafer, and the scum of the earth stay away from church. Behold the crowd with which the non-church goer can be classed. SEVENTH: There are thou sands of business, professional, political, and official men who ne glect church because they are con scious of the fact that they are grossly sinful, selfish, conceited, and derelict in the performance of their duties. They dread to face the gospel mirror wherein they can behold their own faces over which is written the guilt. They know that if they face the gospel as expounded from God's infallible Word they will have to surrender their selfish, mean, con ceited business and professional attitude toward the church and the gospel. The conceited professional man tries to build for himself a code and produces a state of self-centered contentment, which he does not want disturbed by the courag eous presentation of the full gos pel of Jesus Christ. Men are ne glecting to attend church because they are afraid to face the judg ment gospel. . Men are staying at home or they are going on the fields of'pleasure or they are at tending to business because of their innate and overt and continu ed meanness. They are trying to, avoid the doctrine of responsibil ity, accountability, and judgment. They are foolish. Every sensible man ought to prepare to meet his God. Every desirable, worthy citizen ought to be found in his pew every Sunday morning wor shipping God and paying his hon est obligations to the church of Jesus Christ. Heppner Oregon h. S JL- 7-1 9