The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-04
MALONE KEEPS UP
 WINNING STREAK
Defeats Ellis at Subway Parlors-At Newspaper
 Club Tonight

| Billiard parlors by score of POO to 172. Malone showed superiority throughout al- though under handicap, as he played balk line against Ellis straight rail. Both are professionals
 1 Tonight MT. Malone will appear at the Birmingham Newspaper club, where he will meet any two players at billiards or | pool Friday night he will stage ex- hibition at the Southern club, where he will also meet any two members of that 1 club at billiards or pool.
 MT. Malone stated last night that he l was especially anxious to meet w. H. 1 Morgan, said to be champion all round 1 billiardist in the state. These two have met previously, according to MT Malone and Morgan was defeated. An effort is 1 being made to arrange the match.
 ~----~~~-~-~~------ the best possible conditions. There can not be any disproportion about that. If | you draw your sap and your vitality from all quarters. then the more sap and vitality there Is in you the more l there is in the commonwealth as a whole. | and every time you life at all you life the whole level of manufacturing and mer- cantile enterprise.
 Learn Great Deal
 
 you cannot boost the United tSates in | that way without understanding the Uni ted States. You learn a great deal. l agreed with a colleague of mine in the | cabinet the other day that we had never attended in our lives before & school to compare with that we were now attend ing for the purpose of gaining liberal education.
 "Of course I learn a great many things that are not so. But the interesting thing about it is this: Things that are not so do not match. If you hear enough of them you see there is no pattern whatever; it is a crazy quilt. Whereas the truth always matches piece for piece, with other parts of the truth.
 I "No man can lie consistently, and he I cannot lie about everything if he talks | to you long. So that I would guarantee l that if enough liars talked to you, you would get the truth.
 "I had somewhat that experience about | Mexico, and that was about the only way in which I learned anything that was so, for there have been vivid imagina- tions and many special interests which have depicted things as they wished me to believe them to be.
 ''Now, seriously, the task of this body
 is to match all the facts of business
 throughout the country. and see the vast
 and consistent pattern of them. That
 is the reason-and I think you are to be
 congratulated upon the fact-that you
 cannot do this thing without common
 counsel.
 VI have asked myself, before I came
 here tonight. what relation you could bear
 to the government of the United States
 and what relation the government could
 bear to you. There are two aspects and
 activities of the government with which
 you will naturally come into most direct
 contact.
 Power of Inquiry
 t'The first is the governments power of inquiry-systematic and disinterested
 inquiry-and it's power of scientific as-
 sistance. You get an illustration of the l. latter. for example, in the department of
 agriculture Has it occurred to you, wonder, that we are just on the eve oi
 a time when our department of agricul-
 ture will be of infinite importance to the
 whole world?
 "The government of the United States |, is very properly a great instrumentality
 of inquiry and information. One thing
 we are just beginning to do that we eign and domestic commerce. We ought long ago to have had our bureau of for eign and domestic commrec. We ought
 long ago to have sent the best eyes of the government out in the world where the opportunities and openings of Amer ican commerce and American genius were , to be found. Men who were not sent out as the particular agents of any set of commercial industries in the United States, but who wore eyes for the whole ! community.
 But there are other ways, of using the | government of the United States. ways that have long been tried, though not
 always with conspicuous success or for } tunate results. You can use the gov | ernment of the United States by inf1uenc. ing its legislation. That has been very ' active industry, but it has not always : been managed in the interest of the whole
 people. It is very instructive and usefu 2 for the government of the United States to have such means as you are ready : to supply for getting a sort of consensus of opinion which proceeds from no par. : ticular quarter, and originates with nc } particular interest, because information
 is the very foundation of all right actior in legislation.
 l, "There is a specific matter about 1 which l. for one, want your advice. Let | me say. if I may say it without dis respect that I do not think you are prepared to give it right away. You will have to make some rather eX- tended inquiries before you are ready to give it. What l am thinking of is competition in foreign markets as be- tween the merchants of different na- tions.
 q speak of the subject with cer- tain degree of hesitation, because ths thing farthest from my thought is talk ing advantage of nations now disabled from playing the full part in that com | petition, and seeking a sudden selfisf | adyantage because they are for ths time being disabled. Pray believe me that we ought to eliminate all tha' | Ilthought from our minds and consider | this matter as if we and the other ma tions of the world were in the norma circumstances of commerce. There 1! a normal circumstance of commerce II
 which we are apparently at disad vantage.
 Antitrust Laws
 "Our antitrust laws apparently-I sa! | apparently because I see the Attorne, General is present and am not sure am right-the antitrust laws of tn United States apparently make it illega for merchants in the United States t i, form combinations for the purpose o
 strengthening themselves in taking ad
 vantages of the opportunities of for
 eign competition. This is very seri
 ous matter for this reason: There are some corporations an,
 some firms, for all know. whose bust | ness is great enough and whose TO sources are abundant enough to enabl
 them to establish selling agencies fl | foreign countries, to enable them to ex tend the long credits which in some case are necessary in order to keep the trad they desire; which enables them, il other words, to organize their bushes in foreign territory in a way which tn . smaller man cannot afford to do. Hi 1>l (