THE GAZETTE-TIMES. IIEFFNER, OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1922.
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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
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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".
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"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
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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. OVIAIT - DICK JOHNS
At Universal Garage
Heppner, Oregon
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Henry Ford, is the new U. S. Sena
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Truman H. Newberry seat, the office
to' which Ford aspired against New
berry in the now famous election
scandals, which finally resulted in
Newberry's resignation this month.
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WM. McMURRAY, General Passenger
Agent, Portland, Oregon