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irBTiVOTtD MATY TRTPUNfl, MreDFOTET),' ORKfiOy; TUESDAY. NOVEMBER ' 2h lf)2?'
TURKEY NOT SO
IE
that It curried one half of the nation's
deep soa commerce would not exceed
thirty millions annually.
;;,l.ArSAXNE, Nov. 21. (By Assoc!
nfol I'resa). Richard Washburn Child,
American ambassador to Italy, and
Joseph C. Grew, American minister to
Switzerland, who are acting as obser
vers at the Near East conference, con
ferred with Premier Poincaro of
France today.
LAF8ANNE, Nov. 21. (fly Associ
ated Press). Delenates to the Lau
sanne conference with the preliminary
oratory concerning the ciose relations
of Great Britain, France and Italy be
hind them, faced this morning the real
tost of the strength of ttie ties which
spokesmen for the threo powers havo
insisted existed among them.
jBmet Pasha and his associates of
the Turkish delegation to the. confer
mco appear less confident than when
they arrived, and the feeling is grow
ing that they will reduce their pro
gram materially In the hope of restor
ing poane and re establishing trade re
lations with the outside world. It Is
becoming evident that they are begin
ning to realize that It was Greece and
not the great powers of Europe which
they defeated in their recent success
ful campaign about Smyrna.
E. C. ROOT'S VIOLIN
j A robbery which occurred last Fri
day night In tho Ed IJInus Mont mar
kot and Root's Music shop was kept
quiet by the police department until
tuday, the police and tho victims
thinking that the less said about the
Incident the more chances of catch
ing, the culprit.
Entrance was made to Binn's
butcher shop through a screened wln
dpw In the rear of the eslubllBhmcnt
and 30 cents In change was taken
f.om the cash register.
v.Tho robber or robbers then enter
ed through the rear door of the ran-
qjc. aliop by cutting out tho glass,
reaching through the nole ana turn
ins tho key. A violin, belonging to
Mr- K C. Root privately, not for
saw and highly valuod, was taken
S3, far no clue to tho Identity of tho
thief has been obetalncd.
BROOKLYN 8LAYER DEATH
i HOUSE CHECKER PLAYER
OS8INING. N. Y. 1 f. N. S.) Ray
m'onfl Collins, of Brooklyn, convicted
of murder and an Inmate of the Sing
filng death house, is champion checkei
Player thoro. Prlsonors call their
moves from celt to cell, each square of
their boards being numbered.
PLEADS FOR MERCHANT MARINE
(Continued from page one.)
of the shipping board flcot Mr. Hani
Ins said there was the unavoidable
task of wiping out a fifty million dollar
annual loss and losses aggregating
"many hundreds of millions" In worn
out; sacrificed or scrapped shipping.
Ho called attention that tho govern
ment ships wore being worn out with.
out any provision for roplncoment and
that a program of surrender and sacrt
fice and the liquidation which ho de
clared would be inevitable unless the
proposed legislation were enacted
would cost scores of billions.
The cost of tho proposed legislation
Riving direct aid, he said, with ocean
carrying maintained at the present
average, would not roach $20,000,000
a year, and the maximum direct nld If
American shipping were so promoted
GIRL NOW WELL
AND STRONG
Daughter Took Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound
as Mother Advised
. 'Wauseon, Ohio. "My daughter al-
1 1 t.n.tianliaanr1 lnrr.achi at for.
wavH nu uumaviiv Him -r. -' -
HBBMHBBHUHaaMas m nariiuta nnn dAll In
not be on her feet at
those times. We read
about 1-ycJiaE. Pink
ham's Vegetable
Compound doing
girls so much good
so she began to take
it Thnt in two vesrs
ago and she is a dif
ferent gin since men
ntiln tn Hn nnv worlc
she wants to do al-
tVinnnrh ahA la Mf ill
careful not to do heavy work and so
well and strong. We recommend Lydia
nl mothers with ailing daughters, and I
eive you permission to publish this let
. Sir as a testimonial." Mrs. A.M. Biirk
.IIOLDER, Route No. 2, Box 1, Wauseon,
(Ohio.
Something out of batanco will affect
-the finest clock, causing it to gain or
lose. The proper adjustment made, all
Well. SO ' W'V .women, ouuwj
trouble may upset you completely.
, '.' Lydia E. Finkham'a VegeUble Com.
lile and disagreeable symptoms will
'aisappear as they did In the case of Mrs.
a Mothers - it & worthy of your con-
Qdencc
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. The text
of President Harding's address to con
gress follows In part:
Members of the congress:
Late last February I reimrted o you
relative to the American merchant ma
rine and recommended legislation
which the executive branch of the
government deemed essential to pro
mote our merchant marine and with it
I our national welfare. Other problems
j were pressing and other questions
i pending, and for one reason or another
which need not be recited, the suggest
ed legislation has not progressed be
yond a favorable recommendation by
the house committee. The committee
has glveu the question a full and pains
taking Inquiry and study, and I hope
that Its favorable report speedily will
be given the force of law.
It will be helpful In clearing the at
mosphere if we start with the frank
recognition of divided opinion and de
termlned opposition. It is no new ex
perience. Llko proposals have divided
the congress on various previous occa
sions. I'erhaps a mora resolute hostility
nover was manifest before, nnd I am
very suro the need for decisive action
decisive favorable action never
was bo urgent before.
Not a Theory
We Bro not now dealing with a pol
Icy founded on theory, we have a prob
lem which is one of grim actuality.
We are finding conditions out of which
will come either additional and stag
gerlng government losses nnd national
lmpotonce on tho seas or elso the un
furling of tho flag of a great American
merchant marine commensurate with
our commercial importance, to serve
as carrier of our cargoes in peaco and
meet the necessities of our dofenso in
war.
Thore Is no thought here nnd now
to magnify the relation of a merchant
marine to our national defense. It is
enough to. recall that we entered the
world war almost wholly dependent on
our allies for transportation by sea.
We expended approximately throe bil
lions, feverishly, extravagantly, waste
fully nnd Unpractically. Out of our
eagerness to mnke up for the omis
sions of peaco and to meet the war
emergency, we builded and otherwise
acquired the vast merchant fleet
which the government owns today.
Not to Build But Keep
In the simplest way I can say it, our
immediate problom is not to build and
support a merchant marine which I
hold to be ono of the highest and most
worthy aspirations of any great peo
ple; our problom is to deal with what
we now possess. Our problom Is to
relieve the public treasury of the
strain It Is already mooting.
Cost 16 Million a Month
Tho war construction nnd the later
completion of war contracts, where
completion was believed to be the
greater economy to the public treasury
loft us approximately 13,200,000 gross
tonnage in Blilps. Tho figures are
nearer 12,000,000 tons now, owing to
the scrapping of the wooden fleet
More than half this tonnage is government-owned,
and approximately 2 250.-
000 tons are undor govornmont opara
tion In one form or another. The net
loss to the United States treasury
Bums actually taken therofrom in this
govornmont oporation averaged ap
proximately $10,000,000 per month dur
ing the year prior to tho assumption
of responsibility of the present admin
Istratlon.
Losses Reduced
A constant warfaro on tho loss of
publlo funds and the draft to Borvico
of cnpablo buslnoss management and
exporloncod operating directors havo
resulted In applied efficiency and on
forced cconomlc's. . It Is very gratify
ing to ronort the diminishing of tho
lossos to $1,000,000 por month, or a
total of $50,000,000 n year; but It is
Intolorablo that the government should
continue n policy from which so enor
mous a treasury loss Is the inevitable
outcome This loss, moreover, attends
operation of less than a third of the
government-owned fleet.
It is not, therefore, a (juestlon of
adding now treasury burdens to main
tnln our shipping: we are paying these
burdens now It Is not a questlop of
contracting an outlay to support our
merchant shipping bocauso we are
paying already. I nm not asking your
authorization or a new and (.dried draft
on tho public treasury; I nm appealing
for a program to diminish the burden
wo are already bonrlng
Losses Not Constructive
And the pity of It Is that our present
expenditure In losses is not construc
tive. It looks to no future nttaln
montB. It is utterly ineffective In the
establishment of a dependable mer
chant marine, whereas tlio encourage
ment of prlvnte ownership' nnd the
application of individual initiative
would make for a permanent creation
ready and answerable nt nil times to
tho needs of tho nation. Hut I have
not properly portrayed all the current
losses to the public this year. We nre
wearing out our ships without any pro
visions for replacement. V e are hav
ing these losses through deterioration
now and are charging nothing against
our capital account. Hut the lossos
are there and regrettably larger under
government operation than under pri
vate control. Only a fow years of con
tinued losses on capital account will
mako theso losses through deprecia
tion alone to exceed the $50,000,000 a
year now drawn to cover losses In op
eration. Tho gloomy picture of losses docs
not end even there. Notwithstanding
the known war cost In three billions
of dollars for the present tonnage. I
will not venture to appraise its cash
value today. It may as well be con
fessed now as nt some later time thnt
In the mad rush to build, In establish
ing shipyards whorcvor men would
organize to spend government money
when we made ship builders overnight
quite without regard to previous occu
pations or pursuits, we buil-.k-u ixxjily,
often very poorly. Moreover, we con
structed without any formulated pro
gram for a merchant marine.
The point is that our fleet, costing
approximately three billions, is worth
only a fraction of that cost today.
Whatever that fraction may be, the
truth remains that we have no market
In which to sell the ships under our
present policy and a program of sur
render and sacrifice and the liquida
tion, which Is Inevitable unless the
pending- legislation Is sanctioned,
which cost scores of millions more.
When the question" is asked, why the
Insistence for tho merchant marine
act' mow, the answer is apparent.
Waiving every Inspiration which lieB
in a, constructive plan for maintaining
our flag on the commercial highways
of (the seas, waiving tho prudence in
safeguarding against another $3,000,
000,000 madness if war ever again lm
pols, we have the unavoidable task of
wiping our a $50,000,000 annual loss in
operation and losses aggregating
many hundreds of millions in worn
out, sacrificed or scrapped shipping.
Then the supreme humiliation, tho ad
mission that the United States our
America once eminent among the
maritime nations of tho world is In
cnpuble of asserting Itself In the peace
triumphs on the seas of the world. It
would seem to mo doubly humiliating
when wo own the ships and fall in the
genius nnd capacity to turn their
prows toward the marts of the world.
This" problem cannot longer be
Ignored. Its attempted solution can
not longer be postponed. The failure
of congress to act decisively will be no
less disastrous than adverse action.
Three courses of action are possible
and the choice among them is no lon
ger to bo avoided. The first is con
structive enact the pending bill,
under which I firmly believe an Amer
ican merchant marine, privately owned
and privately operated, but serving nil
tho people and always Available to the
government In emergency, may be
established and maintained.
The second is obstructive continue
government operations and attending
government losses and discourage pri
vate enterprise by government compe
tition, under which losses are met by
the public treasury, nnd witness the
continued losses and deteriorations
until the colossal failure ends in sheer
exhaustion.
Tho third is destructive involving
the sacrifice of our ships abroad, or
tho scrapping of them nt home, the
surrender of our aspirations and the
confession of our impotence to tho
world in general and our humiliation
before tho competing world in particu
lar. Surrender Impossible
A choice among the three is Inevit
able. It is unbelievable that the Amer
ican people or the congress which ex
presses their power will consent to
surrender and destruction. It is equal
ly unbelievable thnt our people and
tho congress which translates their
wishes into action will longer sustain
a program of obstruction and attend
ing losses to tho treasury.
I have come to urge tho constructive
alternative, to reassert an American
we will, I have come to ask you to
relieve the responsible administrative
branch of the government from n pro
gram upon which failure nnd hopeless
ness and staggering losses are written
for every page, unil let us turn n pro
gram of assured shipping to Berve
us In war und to give guaranty to our
commercial imortance in peace.
Government Aid, Not Subsidy
I know full well the hostility in the
popular mind to the word "subsidy,"
It is stressed by the opposition ami
associated with "special privilege," by
those who are unfailing advocates of
government, aid whenever vast num
bers are directly concerned. "Govern
ment nld" would bo a fairer term than
"subsidy" in defining what we are
socking to do for our merchant marine
and the interests nre those of all the
people, even though tho nld goes to the
fow who serve.
If government nld is a fair term
and' I think It is to apply to author
izations aggregating $75,000,000 to pro
mote good roads for markot facilities.
it Is equally fit to bo applied to the
establishment and maintenance of
American market highways on the I
sailed seas. If government aid is tho
proper definition for fifteen to r i -t ''
millions annually expended t- inrir -.
and maintain inland waterwajs i:i a 0
of commerce, it is a pr.jper riesjfci.a
tlon for u needed assistance lo estali-
iish and maintain ocean highways
where there Is actual commerce to be
carried.
It should be kept in mind that
there are assured limitations lo the
govern mc-nt aid proposed. The direct
aid with ocean carrying niaintaiiif-d
at our present pnrtU-ipation will not
reach twenty millions a year and the
maximum direct aid. If our Hhipping
Is so promoted that we carry one
half our deep sea commerce, will not
exceed thirty millions annually. At
the very maximum of outlay -we
should be saving twenty millions of
our present annual operating loss. If
the maximum is ever reached, the
establishment -of our merchant . ma
rine will have been definitely record
ed and the. government owned fleet
fortunately liquidated.
J believe In government aid becom
ingly bestowed. We have aided In
dus-try through ou- tiirlf.-.s; we have
aided railway transportation in land
grants and loans; we have aided the
construction of market roads and the
improvement C inland waterways
We have aided reclamation and Irri
gation and the development of water
power; we havo loaned for seed
grains in anticipation of harvests.
We expend mi-lions in investigation
and experimentation to promote a
common benefit, though a limited few
are the direct beneficiaries. We have
loaned hundreds of millions to pro
mote the marketing . of . American
goods. It hns .ill been commendable
and highly worth while
. . The l-'uriuers Trouble.
At tho present moment the Ameri
can farmer is the chief Bufferer from
the cruel readjustments which follow
war's inflations and befitting govern
ment aid to our farmers is highly es
sential to our national Welfare. No
people may safely boast a good for
tune which the farmer Uoctf not share.
Already this congress and the ad
ministrative branch of tho .govern
ment have given willing ear to the
agricultural plea for post-wnr relief
and much has been done, which lias'
proven helpful. Admittedly it is not
enough. Our credit systems, under
government provision and control,
must be promptly and safely broad
ened to relieve our agricultural dis
tress. To this problem and such others of
pressing Importance as reasonably
may be dealt with In the short session
I shall Invite your attention ut an
early dny.
I have chosen to confine myself
to the specific problem of dealing
with our merchant marine because I
have asked you to -. assemble two
weeks In advance of the regularly
appointed sttmor to expedite its con
sideration.' .'The; yxeeutivc branch- of
the government would feel itself re
miss to contemplate our yearly loss
and attending; failure to accomplish
if the condition's were not pressed for
your decision.' STore, I would feel my
self lacking in-eoncorn for America's
future If I fnilcM to stress tho reckon
ing oportunlty " to 'equip tho United
States to nssurhe a befitting plnce
among fortunes to which rightfully
all peoples aspire.
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g CJ Ounces for
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Knives! Knives! Knives!
In spite of the tariff, we are today putting on
an interesting sale of POCKET KNIVES of
all descriptions at 99c each. This sale
made in the face of AN ADVANCE of 50
on. all cutlery. " We believe that this is the
last chance you will ever have to buy
KNIVES at the old PRE-WAR RPICES.
HeaklVs Drug' SLbre
' Phone Eight-Eight-Four
109 E. Main
Christmas Cards
We find wo are badly over stocked on Christmas Cards. When a
merchant is over stocked there Is but one thing to do, cut the price
and reduce. While we took special care this year to select cards and
have a very fine assortment we feel we must clean up and not carry
several hundred dollars worth of cards over a year. We are willing
to lo3e the express charges and are pricing all cards at practically
cost. Our prices for a lime at least will be:
5c Cards will sell for 3c
10c Cards will sell for 6c
15c Cards will sell for 9c J
We have one lot of cards ranging in price from 5c to 25c, not
enough to catalog which are put out. your choice 5c.
The above prices do not include the specials such as to Sister,
Home, Son and Family, DiiRhtcr and Family.
Drother, Mother, Father, L'ncle, Aunt, Pastor, Teacher, Folks at
We do not let cuslomers handle our cards. They are on the
shelf and are selected by sample. This is the only way to Insure
clean cnnls, clean envelopes and envelops that fit and match tho
curds.
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