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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.
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Tells By Wireless How To Make Lightning
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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.
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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
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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.
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DADDY- J 9 ? f V KIDDIE CAR AND
MRS. ROOSEVELT IS
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BIG IMPROVEMENTS
BY TKERAILROADS
May Be Regarded as Encour
aging Signs of Returning
Prosperity.
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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
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