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PAOK FOUR THE G AZKTTIvTlM F.S. IIEITXKK. OKKGOX. THURSDAY. AriiTL 27, 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 Here to War on Ganclestme. Freemasons The Byers Chop Mill Foratrl7 SI HEMPP-S 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 3k i x 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 570 pel gallon. Differential and transmis sions filled at 15c per pound. Fell Bros. "4 i fellow can carry our freights cheaper than we can do it profitably to our selves, he does not and will not do so, ' save when it suits his pleasure to kill 'off American competition through a rate war. The past year has seen j great cargoes of American cereals going abroard in ships flying for eign flags while a great fleet of our own has been lving idle and piling up an enormous expense on all of the people.' The owners of these for eign ships have been in a position to underbid not only the United States Shipping Board's rate but also those of private American operators. Dur ing the war, owing to conditions then existing, the foreign owner was quick to make a rate so high that American products found their way to market only with the greatest difficulty, or not at all. The war taught us all of us that it was not cheaper at any price David Reid (left). Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Scot land: loseoh Inglis (centre), Past Grand Senior Warden and John A. Forrest, representing the Supreme Council of Scotland, have arrived in New York on their way to Utah, having been called to testify in connection with a Clandestine Grand Lodge of Masons which is oper atine from everv State and from which bogus masonic lodges have obtained charters in all parts of the country. Masons of both the York and Scottish rites in every jurisdiction in the Union are now active in an effort to stamp out clandestine masonry -wherever it shows its head. Community Service I HARDING S GREATEST AMBITION 1 Block East of Hotel. Auto Repair Shop. Big Business And You Some folks have the hazy idea that big busi ness means wealth rolling in through the avenue of BIG PROFITS. It is not so. Big business is based upon the sound fundamental of safe and sane investment. If it isn't it isn't long known as big business. Take the safest of all interest rates, 4, and put it to work on dollars and it will pile up wealth at an amazing speed. Big business means that more dollars or more men are at work but whether it be dol lars or men they are governed by a safe and sane business fundamental an honest profit or a reasonable interest return on the investment. But $10 to work for you at 4'o and in a very short time it has doubled itself. The more money you put to work the bigger the returns and it is soon BIG BUSINESS. And all the while you will be operating under the safest of all interest rates, 4 Per Cent FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Declared to Be the Restoration Of the American Flag on Seven Seas of Commerce By Atherton Brownell. Editor's Note Atherton Brown ell, the author of the following ar ticle, is a journalist and author of wide reputation, who has, for many years, made a study of Foreign Trade ,J l.(,, II.,,,',. Ae EAUnr nf American Industries he paid special attention to these subjects. j Chairman Lasker of the United States Shipping Board revealed a near state secret, perhaps, in a re cent public address, when he quoted President Harding as having said to him prior to election, "My great am bition is to come into history as the president in whose administration the American merchant marine was put back on the seven seas." All of Mr. Harding's predecessors of recent years have cherished a sim ilar ambition, possibly with a lesser degree of earnestness, and all of them have failed of the accomplish ment. Each and all of them have had to meet from a large part of the country and mostly from the inland sections either general apathy to wards the purpose or actual hostility to it; supplemented in the seaboard states by a subtle propaganda against it that has undoubtedly been inspired and backed by our chief maritime rivals. For it is not gallantry on the part of the great foreign trading nations that causes them to be un- Did vou ever go a-fishin' on a sun- nv afternoon, when the crick's alive with suckers say about the fust of June with a plug o" Star tobacker an a can or two ot oau, wacii uuc a nothin' much a-doin' to prevent yer stayin' late? Did you bait yer hook deliberate, with yer heart a-beatin' swift, as you thought about the suck er that yer pole would hardly lift? Did you slide the bobber upward, with a swellin' in yer soul, an' shoot 'er out ker-zip, into the old swimmin' MAY BE FUTURE QUEEN OF ENGLAND willing that the United States should go to market carrying her heavy ex ports in her own market-baskets. Every nation that aspires to a dom inating influence in the markets of the world, and a control of those mar kets in the interests of its own ex porters, has found it to be good na tional policy to make the operation of ships under its own flags attractive to private operators through liberal government aids in the form of sub sidies. We alone, of all the great trading nations, with our eyes here tofore turned to the interior develop ment of our resources, and hitherto caring little for the rest of the world, have resolutely and with fixed con sistency of purpose in our legislation of more than half a century, pursued a course so exactly the opposite that we have virtually penalized the oper ation of American ships when engag ed in overseas trade. Under a pro tective tariff we have protected our farms from foreign competition. Un-' der prohibitive laws we have protect ed our coastwise traffic from the same. Our Great Lakes shipping has had the protection of natural bar riers. But when it comes to Ameri can ships on the broad seas, exposed to the full force of competition from the cheaper-built, cheaper-operated and subsidized foreign ships, we have not only left them unaided but have actually handicapped them by bur densome and restrictive legislation. The Lesson of the World War. If President Harding's ambition is to be achieved it will be because of the lesson we have learned through the World War. "If the other fellow will carry our freight cheaper than we can carry them for ourselves, why not let him do it?" has been a stock argument for years against any gov ernment policy towards our own ships similar to that adopted by our successful rivals. To which the ans wer really is that while the other ,.. .... Dempsey Sails For Foreign Battles f ' . r . . . . r i ukUT$U2 V J Quanta , .jwvlcl Champion Jack Dempsey has sailed to other shores in quest of battle, the first title holder since John L. Sullivan to visit foreign lands. It Is expected Dempsey will engage in bouts at Paris and London although no definite announcement of matches has yet been made. Cable reporls say the engage ment of l.ady Mary Cambridge to the Prince ol Wales is to be an nounced soon. She is a cousin to the l'rince. to be dependent upon our commercial rivals for access to the markets of the world. It taught us that it was not cheaper at any price to depend for our outlet upon the willingness or ability of those whose interests were not necessarily ours to give us ocean transportation. Our exports rotted or rusted at the piers because of the lack of ships. Rates that would have been prohibitive under any other cir cumstances were grudgingly paid by us because we could do nothing else. We were not independent; we were in a vassalage of our own supine cre ation. The Cost of Maritime Vassalage, This vassalage, continuing through a full century of time, has cost our people an unimaginable sum of mon ey, which has been paid out of our own pockets into the pockets of oth ers for doing for us what we might tade Jcte tMv "I THINK I CAM BEAT IT ACROSSV HAS BEEN THE LAST THOUGHT OP MANY BOOBS. fOPrf?!GHT i')?f? run AUTO rr.' - r. wF1 SWEET Up home m MA Tit VM ui i A06 Tu6 M 1 1 HRI6MT BEFORE AA AUOIEAICE - j f ULH"46 ' $Kr THfeV SA,IV - JifT -fucv uieoe 7 Poem ty Uncle John hole? Did you set there, like a dum my, fightin' skeeters, gnats, and ants, while the mud was soakin' deeper through derned old greasy pants, an' weren't it mortifyin' when you landed home that night, an' had to tell the fellers that you never got a bite? well have done for ourselves. Dur ing this period we have paid to for eign ocean carriers for taking our goods to market a sum equivalent to more than $25 for every minute that has elapsed since the beginning of the Christian era. It is money that we might well have kept within the national family to be used for the de velopment of national family pros perity and welfare. Paid to others, it has been tribute that we have per mitted to be levied upon ourselves because of our negligence and short sightedness. The full realization of this did not come to our people until the harsh alarm of war smote upon our ears, and the spectacle of a world in arms opened our eyes to the fact that we could not live in a splendid isolation and still enjoy the benefits of trade with the world. In addition to this awakening, add ed to this new knowledge that has come to us, President Harding's great ambition will be furthered by the fact that as a previous president once said "it is a condition and not a theory that confronts us." Hastily and with characteristic and feverish energy, at a great and excessive cost owing to the dire nature of the emer gency, we brought a great fleet of merchant ships into existence. The total cost of that fleet was in the neighborhood of three and one-half billion dollars. Today a portion of that fleet is in operation at a loss either by the United States Shipping Board or under private ownership or operation. The rest is lying idle, earning nothing, growing older and deteriorating, while we continue to pay this vast tribute to foreign ships for performing the service our own ships were built to perform. The monthly loss on operation of that part of our fleet that is in use, and for upkeep of that larger part that is idle, is about sixteen million dollars a month, or one hundred and ninety two millions of dollars annually. By no legislative legerdemain can we ever recover the war cost of this fleet, but its total loss is not a nec essity nor is its continued idleness inevitable. Under the pending legis lation that embodies President Hard ing's idea of the realization of his great ambition, a salvage of about 20 per cent or seven hundred millions of dollars will be made possible through the sale of these ships to pri vate owners at prices that will place them upon a parity as to first cost with their foreign competitors. By so doing, and by taking them in useful and profitable service, the monthly loss of sixteen million dollars will be wiped out. In place of which it is proposed to grant direct aids to these ships engaged in defending our com merce on the trade routes of the world that mav amount to as much as thirty-four million dollars a year in A BAD BOY t L - i fe : .t NmW ' X' I - v W - Babe"Rutli Here is shown the mighty Babe Ruth paying in full for his barn-i storming trip last spring. He mustj sit idle until May 20, when Judgei Limdis, baseball czar, will again let' bim play. subventions. The total cost per year for all aids is estimated at from thir ty to fifty million dollars, and cannot exceed the latter amount. This in place of a present annual loss of one hundred and ninety-two million and a "frozen credit" of seven hundred mil lion. The indirect aids will have their reflex directly upon every farm and industry in the United States. LAUNDRYING: All kinds or cur tains and draperies, at reasonable prices. Fifth house north of Feder ated church. Mrs. J. W. Luntsford. 2tp. FOR SALE A Deen'ng 2-man combine, practically new has cut but 260 acres. Call on B. F. Doh erty at Sand Hollow ranch. tf. I have for sale cheap, 6 young work horse's broke this spring. For further information see S, L. Steph ens, Lexington, Oregon. 2t. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Bcymer were visitors in Pendleton on Friday and Saturday. i fy Rev. M A. MATTHEWS D.D..LL. D. THE CHURCH CHEA1 Church support is an obligation. Church attendance is a duty. Wor ship is absolutely essential. And every honest man and women dis charges these duties and obliga tions every week. Contributions of time, talent, thought, and in terest are demanded. It is an honor to give. It is an honor, privilege, and duty to give. We are God's stewards. AH we have has been entrusted to us. It is our duty to support the church. The Christian church has created and added fifty cents of every dol lar's worth of property in America. Every time one gets to church he should make an honest, con scientious contribution to the great work of the church. When the collection plate reaches one his honor, sincerity, integrity, and character are immediately tested and when he, because he imagines no eye sees him, puts upon the plate pennies when he ought to put pounds brands himself before God and the Bar of God as a thief. He is perfectly willing to pay any extravagant sum to go to a filthy mm theatre, questionable show, or suggestive screen production, and then go into the House of God and lay upon the plate pennies. He owes God everything. The average churchgoer today is a church cheat, robbing God, scaring his conscience, and leav ing unpaid his honest obligations. The spirit of cheating soon fast ens itself upon some men, and they become so dishonest that they actually stay away from church in order to avoid the test to which their characters will be put. The average churchgoer in America gives three cents per Sunday for the greatest blessing ever bestow ed upon mankind. Therefore, the average church cheat will have to face the Bar of Judgment and be branded as a church fraud robbing God, depriving the church of her dues, and preventing the spread of the gospel and the blessings of salvation to thousands. Oregon 42k Heppner