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I'ACJFi TWO THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HErrXER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 1922. ornuisnc view of YIIYIUI. World's Greatest Engineer and Economic Expert Points to New Prosperity Return to Normal Conditions Is Matter of Mutual Aid, Is His Assertion " By John Hays Hammond. Editor's Note ohn Hays Ham mond, often mentioned as the world's greatest engineer, and one time men tioned as the probable Secretary of Commerce in President Harding's cabinet, is in addition to being a gre.it engineer a highly developed economic expert and authorty on in ternational problems. His conten tions as outlined in the following ar ticle give food for ttwught and the more they are studied the more pos sibilities are open for the average man to absorb. - The world just now seems to be deep in the slough of despond and nations in working out their own economic salvation seem to be trying to pull themselves out of the mire by their bootstraps. If they would adopt a policy of mutual helpfulness and reciprocity and exert themselves to extricate their neighbors, nations could soon again reach terra firma and thenceforth the road to that seemingly elusive normalcy to which we aspire would be safe to travel with only the ordinary obstacles in cident to the onward march of civ ilization. This would be the spirit of enlightened self-interest, which until the coming of the millenium, is the only dependable motive for the co-operation of nations, or of individuals, and the only enduring basis for international or for indus trial peace. The spirit of enlightened self-interest presupposes the recognition of the principle of economic interde pendence. One must emphasize the qualification of intelligent self-interest, for unintelligent self-interest is largely responsible for lack of re medial co-operation. There could be more useful campaign of educa tion than to impress upon every class of every community its dependence for well-being upon the general wel fare. This is not a preachment of an ideal, nor merely the enunciation of an ethical principle, but is the aim to develop the power conception of that great underlying principle which inevitably must be the guide in human relations. This concep tion does not in any way imply the subordination of high ethical stand ards to expediency. Mutual Benefits. In order to attain co-operative en deavor essential to national industrial efficiency, we must recognize the in terdependence of the industries of the country and the mutuality of interests. We must realize for ex ample the dependence of agricul ture on the prosperity of the manu facturing industry, for in the manu facturing centers it finds its best market, and that conversely all in dustries are benefitted by the pros perity of the fanners, since more than fifty per cent of the country's purchasing power is derived from the products of the farms. We must realize that the tariff is an economic and not a political prob lem and that it should be treated accordingly in tariff legislation, and that the keynote of our economic and fiscal legislation must ever be to preserve unimpaired the integrity of our domestic industries and the purchasing power of our incompara ble home market a market which absorbs more than ninety per cent of the products of American labor, in value twice that of the total trade of the entire world. We must realize that in the build ing up of an American Merchant Marine, which is indispensable to the adequate development of our foreign trade, there must be no provincial ism; that for example, our great mid dle west, which contributes almost one half of the total exports of the United States, is as much a benefic iary of an American Merchant Mar ine as are our seaboard states. As to Immigration. It is important that a definitive policy be established, and that the admission of immigrants be chiefly determined by the labor required to supply the needs of our domestic market, plus the relatively small per centage of prolucts destined for ex port. It is better in the long run to suffer from a temporary lack of la bor than to face the danger of a con gested labor market and consequent unemployment with resulting social distress. There has been great improve ment in the labor situation, not only in this country but abroad, within recent months. Productivity has in creased very considerably, although by nc means has it reached the de gree of efficiency essential to in dustrial prosperity upon which the welfare of labor itself is dependent. The temper of the American people today is to pay labor so large a part of the profits of industry as can be done consistently with the healthy j development of the industries them-; selves. In this American display both! sense of justice and appreciation of j the need to maintain a high standard of living among wage earners in ori Jer to insure that high standard of citizenship which is essential to the securiy and prosperity of a demo cratic form of government. But la bor must realize that even so rich a nation as ours would inevitably soon become bankrupt if the cost of pro duction exceeds the value of the product. Especially if we are to suc cessfully compete in our overseas trade, which affords employment for a large part of our labor, we must develop the highest possible efficien cy of the wage earner, representing as labor does so large a share in the :ost of the production. The Inevitable Right. All intelligent citizens now agree that what our government could and should do, apart from its action in regard to national defense and kin dred matters, may be expressed in a single phrase; it can see that the gates of opportunity are kept open for its citizens along the whole length of every road that crosses our political and industrial life. In other words, it can assure to all men and women a chance to work and win ac cording to their talent and diligence and moral fibre, and can guard the paths to success from obstruction of trickery, fraud, oppression, or mon opoly. But the function of government is not to guarantee equality of reward for inequality of service. No in alienable right is guaranteed a cit izen to unearned increment in the fruits of industry. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." All a government can do in this respect, even a paternal government is to give equality of opportunity. It is of vital importance to the United States that the Genoa Con ference, or some future economic conference of world powers, take such action as will re-establish the confidence of investors in foreign securities. Repudiation on the part of any of the great powers of their financial obligations to other nations, especially obligations contracted be fore the war, would greatly militate against the interests of the United States, in that it would deter Amer icans from the investment of capital in the industrial reconstrucion of Europe and in the development of the resources of the backward na tions as well, upon which America in common with other commercial nations depends for future markets. "Turn to the Right" Is America's Greatest Comedy Clean, Sparkling Play of Winchell Smith and John E. H.ixard Giren at Chautauqua by Keighley Player, of New York City Play I Declared to Bo a Powerful sermon The good rains over the most of Morow county's wheat belt the past week failed to reach out to the Cecil section and crops there are begin-1 ning o need moisture quite badly. A drive down the highway to that point on Sunday afternoon revealed the fact that the hay farmers are a busy bunch right now and getting their first cutting of alfalfa into the stacks. As a matter of fact these people are not caring to have rain come for a few days, when they will be done with the cutting and stack ing of the first crop. STRAYED One bay horse, white strip on face, nose and hind leg; brand BO on shoulder, XN on front 'eet. Liberal reward. Notify Geo. L. Wurster, R. F. D., Echo, Oregon. y lff Mr m I 1 1 miWmA ft f W; ' -m "Turn to the Right," declared by competent New York theatrical critics to be America' greatest comedy, will be one of the feature a tractions at Chau tauqua. It is to be presented here under the direction of Win. Keighley. well-known New York actor-producer, with a company of well-known Broadway players. The story was written by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard, and la "sweet as honey," clean, wholesome, with a sparkling humor that Is Irreslst ible. It Is the story of an erring boy's regeneration through the Christian Influence of his old-fushioned mother. An honest-hearted, exuberant youth leaves his country home to seek the city's riches. He returns stamped with a prison record. 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