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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Dempsey Sails For Foreign Battles
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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