PAGV, TJCTTT 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 iniiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiii IT- Ji 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.' 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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. 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