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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. IIEFFNER, OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1922. PAGE POUR Would Ycu Be a Human Tee for Golf Bali? L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery' Work All parlies interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed lr. L. Phillips, of Coronado Beach. CaH.. balanced a golf ball on hu pipe and permitted Bob Simpson, California champion, to drive it off, so confident was he in the professionals accuracy. WooM yxm do it? gllillllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIMIIIIIIIIg ! A. M. EDWARDS WELL DRILLER, Box 14, Lexington, Ore. Up-to-date traction drilling outfit, equipped for all sizes of hole I and depths. Write for contract and terms. Can furnish you f CHALLENGE SELF-OILING WINDMILL I all steel. Light Running, Simple, Strong, Durable. 3 fiHIIIIIItlllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIItllllllUllllllllllltR Pioneer Employment Co. With Two Big Offices PENDLETON AND PORTLAND Is prepared to handle the business of Eastern Oregon better than ever before Our Specialties Farms, Mills, Camps, Hotels, Garages, Etc. WIRE Bl'SH ORDERS AT Ol"R EXPEJfg Partlaa OMf Pet 0M 14 H. SecMS it. 11 it. Only Employment Office in Eastern Oregon with Connections in Portland The Byers Chop Mill (Formerly SCHEMPP"S MILL) STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT We handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil You Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here Mm LOOKING AHEAD NATION'S industrial situa tion shows itself, as a rule, in the statements issued by the banks of the country. Thus, periods of prosperity are marked by increases in commercial as well as sav ings deposits. Periods of readjustment, with their accompanying problems of un employment, show themselves in a de cline of commercial deposits and a slight change of savings deposits. And as times become better and the future looms big with possibilities, bank deposits grow again and business comes to life. As we look ahead the best advice that this bank can give is: "GET YOUR FINANCES WELL IN HAND. BUILD UP YOUR CHECKING AC COUNT. PREPARE YOURSELF TO MEET OPPORTUNITY WITH A CASH RESERVE AND CREDIT POS SIBILITIES." FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Heppner Oregon my- I By ROBERT E. SMITH, Lumbermens Trust Co., President Portland. In an effort to gauge actual local business conditions, our bank this week made a fairly thorough canvass of business men of Portland. Men in many lines of business, including hardware, groceries, shoes, books and stationery, jewelry, implements, auto mobiles and department stores were interviewed, as were also railroad and street railway officials, managers of the electric light and gas com panies, and a number of leading bankers. The general conclusion drawn from their reports is that business is very satisfactory. Al most every line reported an increase over the business of last year, and .almost all are looking forward to at least the beginning o 1923 with hope, if not with entire confidence. The head of a large department store reported the holiday trade opening up very well indeed. He said that his business throughout the store had shown a nice gain over that of last year. A Prominent jeweler reported that if his sales continued to hold up through December as they had start ed, he would do 100 per cent more business this month than he did in December of last year. Business all around with him has been the best during the year just closing that it has been for many a year. A large book and stationery firm reported about a fifteen per cent in crease in its this year's business over that of last year. The wholesale end of this business is better than it has been for two years pa?t, due to the replenishment of lowered stocks. Collections are fair. A wholesale grocer said that he had had a very good fall trade indeed, but that it had slackened as it always does at this season of the year. Hardware dealers are finding their j trade very good indeed for this time of year. Ii fact, one dealer said that compared with previous years his firm is doing an excellent business and he finds prospects bright for the first six months of next year. The manager of a large shoe store finds business going along in a very satisfactory manner, though buying is still being done on a small scale. He is anticipating a good increase in the soring trade, but there still seems to be a tendency to hold back, he says, to see what is going to happen. Ihe eastern market Bhows a tendency to advance prices. In the implement line, business is exceedingly dull. It is always quiet at this season, but the financial con dition of the farmers this year makes the buying of implements almost impossible. Automobiles are having a seasonal spell of quiet just now, but throughout the year the business has been excellent. In the packing plants, business has shown an increase over that of last year. Cattle prices to tne iarmers are just about the same as last year, out hogs are 25 per cent higher and sheep and lambs are from 25 to 30 per cent higher. The outlook for the farmer seems to be more hopeful than it was a year ago. The street railway company shows an increase in traffic over last year, and its business has been uniformly good. All the public utility companies report business as excellent. Many new installations have been and are still being made, and former consum ers are increasing their consumption steadily. The railroads, too, both from freight and passenger ends, report that the year has been uniformly good, in spite of harassment by strikes, and that the present flow of travel to the South is heavier than it was at this time last year. Labor headquarters stated that the unemployment situation is much better than it was a year ago, al though of course at this time of year there is bound to be some unemploy ment. The Salvation Army reported about the same volume of calls for charity as that of last year. Although conditions are far from stable, the banks reported business as very satisfactory, just at present. be prevented through establishment Washington of a "tribunal to which railway labor and managers may ap peal respecting questions of wages lul working conditions. In the ad- .licatton of such o. faculties the Railroad Labor Board Is handicapped bv the fact that it represents three nterests, the roads, the workers and he public. A body which exclusively represents the public wauld better serve general interest in the settle ment of such problems, lhat the public interest should be paramount and controlling in the settlement of trikes the President implies in this paraRraph: Since the government assumes to safeguard his (the worker's) inter- ts while employed in an essential public service, the security of society itself demands his retirement from the service shall not be so timed and reuied as to etfect the destruction of that service." The message mentions the natton- wide' scandal in prohibition enforce ment and says that it must be cleaned up. To this end the President will call a conference of all state gover nors soon. "Rigorous and literal en forcement will concentrate public at tention on any requisite modification." The President suggested the ub- mission of an amendment to the Con- titution prohibiting child labor and recommended again an amendment restricting ta::-exempt securities. He defended the Administration s foreign policy, saying the "United States is insistent on American rights wherever they may be questioned and denies no rights of others in the as sertion of her own. He pointed out that the United States has furnished the world in the four-power pact a new plan for avoiding war. He sug gested that the United States should help rehabilitate foreign currency systems and facilitate commerce which "docs not drag us to the very levels of those we seek to lift up;' and he thinks that immigration res trictions should be augmented by re quiring foreign registration of aliens. The Pan-American Conference It is the hope of the President and Mr. Hughes that limitation of arma- The Presidents Message President Harding's second annual message to Congress delivered last week deals with urgent domestic pro blems in the frankest and most prac tical way. The President doubtless feels a certain challenge from the wordy Congress bloc and his message is courageously concrete and is not glazed with hard, slippery political generalities. He recommends that further relief be given agriculture by providing additional credit machi nery through the Federal Farm Loan Bureau, so that the farmer may not only borrow on his land but also on his products and thus draw up equal terms with producers in other industries. Special provision Is urged for livestock credits. So far as econo mic opportunities are concerned, the farmer has always been discriminat ed against, and such provisions would afford him some measure of relief. In addition to abnormally low prices, the farmer has had to face the burden of largely increased railroad rates. The President thinks that agriculture is entitled to lower rates, to be made up to the carriers by a readjustment of other tariffs, since agricultural products are the least able of all to bear the higher rates. This, however, Is only the beginning of the transportation problem, and th President thinks that the governmen must point the way to their solution The coordination of rail rates and rail wages ought to be confided to the same body instead of to two isolated bodies, as is now the case. The functions of the Railroad Labor Board really belong to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The fresl dent thinks that suspension of rail road operation through strikes should New Secretary of Legion Auxiliary Mist Bess B. Witlierholt, of Gal lipolis, O., new secretary of the American Legion Auxiliary. As sec retary of the umo department she tripled its memDersmp. "Big Six" Matty Sells Christmas Seal". FF7 r WW1''', "Big Six" Christy Mathewson, base ball'i greatest heio, who for two years 'has ought a winning fight against the white plague, is this Christmas season giving his time to helping sell Christmas Seats. ment, both on land and sea, will form one of the important topics of dis cussion at the Fan-American con ference which is to be held in Chile next March. Some of the nations have expressed themselves as desir ing to know the nature of the propos ed limitation before accepting this as an item on the agenda. In the case of the Washington eonfernce, a ratio was figured from the status quo which would leave the relative strengths of the American, Japanese and British fleets practically the same. The fact that twenty-one na tions will be represented at the Chil can conference will complicate mat ters considerably, and the task of formulating a plan acceptable to all twenty-one, between some of whom are the keenest of jealousies and ri valries, will be formidable one. The ultimate end aimed at is the QV Poem by 4 1 .MlSr TAKE HEART When the breeses blow contrary, an you're stranded on the beach, where there ain't a sign of light house, or a harbor in yer reach. Remember that we've all be there many a time! When you think yer lot is harder than yer mortal frame can stand. An' it's plainer every minnit that you're runnin' out of sand. It snakes me want to cheer ye with a soul-in-spirin' rhyme. Remember that we've all been there many a time! We got to have a sperit that is able to contend, if we'd reach the crown of glory that is jest around the bend. There never waa mountain-top that courage couldn't climb. Remember that we've all been there many a timet creation of an effective Pan-American League with a Pan-American Court, and besides there is keen necessity of standardisation in num erous commercial matters. Efforts toward co-operation, too, are to be fostered and ncouraged. Miss Doris Mahoney, a student this year at 0. A. C, is home to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mahoney Your Christmas Gifts Will Land Here Ii- This is only ohe table in a large room ol the "Gone Astray" de partment of 'the Postal Service where thousands of Christmas lockages arrive each year due to poor wrapping and addressing by the sender. Uncle Sam warns you -again tWf year through this newspaper to wrap '"vour gilt packages securely ana address tbem plainly tad accurately i3 iEii;:aw'Mo imcltettes by D.D. LL.D. " HOW MUCH SHALL I GIVE TO THE CHURCH? Church support is an obligation. Church attendance is a duty. Wor ship is absolutely essential. And every honest man and woman dis charges these duties and obligations every week. Contributions of time, talent, thought, and interest are de manded. It is an honor to give. It is an honor, privilege, and duty to give. We are God's stewards. All 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 dollar's worth of property in America. Every time one goes to church he should make an honest, conscienti ous contribution to the great work of the church. When the collection plate reaches one his honor, sincer ity, and character are immediately tested and when he, because he ima gines no eye sees him, puts upon the plate pennies when he ought to put pounds brundB himself before God and the Bar of God as a thief. He is perfectly willing to pay any extra vagant sum to go to a theatre, ques tionable show, or suggestive screen production, and then go into the Houe of God and lay upon the plate pennies. He owes God every thing. Many churchgoers today are church cheats, robbing God, searing their conscience, and leaving unpaid honest obligations. The spirit of cheating soon fastens 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 great est blessing ever bestowed upon man' kind. 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 he spread of the gospel and the bless ings of salvation to thousands. Big Cut In Overland Cars WILLYS-KNIGHT OVERLAND $1455 $666 We have taken the Morrow County Ag ency for the OVERLAND and WILLYS KNIGHT cars. Let us give you a demon stration. RAY M. 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