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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
AmsrIea,s PoaItIon,Altere ,i..

In the last decades, though, Amer
lea has changed from a self-con-
tanned and self-suf1icient nation to
one that now must look across the
waters for many of its needs, Our
manufacturers must look across the
sea both for markets and raw ma
terials; our agricultural sections
must sell their surplus to other ma
tions.
If we are to keep our industries
going, we must make sure Of a steady
flow of those materials which we
need and must insure prompt and
continuous delivery of manufactured
wares and raw materials which we
wish to give in exchange for that
which we buy.
Thus the manufacturer can see,
In the changing conditions America
finds itself. that in the ultimate his
very life may be dependent on the
existence of an American merchant
marine. No less interest has the
farmer. His interest in the merchant
marine is evidenced by the cry of the
sixteen great agricultural states,
ranging from our central valleys to
the Pacific, with population of over
forty million people, for the develop
ment of the Great Lakes-St. Law
renee waterway the Lake to the Gulf
waterway, and the widening and
deepening of our rivers, including
the Mississippi. intended to bring
the seacoast thousand miles nearer
to the valleys of production
Thus the farmer admits the very
essential necessity to his prosperity
of water carriage abroad. Even the
most ardent prepayment of our inland
waterway development can no longer
feel there is any possibility Of sue
cess to the venture unless we have
assurance of ships under oar own
flag.
Subsidy Comparable To Tariff.
The world has completely changed
in consequence of the late war; and,
no nations needs have changed more
than Americas. Therefore, the old
arguments that existed against the
necessity Of merchant marine, no
longer hold. But unfortunately mil
lions, including the farmer, have not
had time or opportunity to develop
the facts as to, the changed condi,
tions and changed needs. "
1t is often asked by those who are
living In the shadows of other days,
why the farmer should be required
ito contribute to subsidy for ships,
when the product of the farm re-
mains unsubsidized. Such. Of course.
Us far from the fact; because. in the
protection given by the tariff, the
farmer. like the manufacturer anG
all Q. US, &c subsidized, and yer.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04

properly, to the extent of our needs
Subsidy for ships is the identical
thing that tariff protection Is to home
production. Fsf
At the. bearings held by the joint
COMMITTEES pfsthe Senate and House
I'm relation to the proposed subsidy
legislation. Mr.. j. r. Howard, Presi-
dent OF the American Farm Bureau
Federation, testified that while hfs
association was opposed to subsidies
in principle, and certainly to sub
sides save for limited period
(Which is the view of the Harding
Administrator careful study by
experts appointed by the Federation
had led him to testify in behalf of
and to urge the enactment of the
legislation proposed for the mer-
chant marine.
Merchant marine rates." said Mr.
Howard, "are just as important as
railroad rates to the farmer. The
farmer may not always realize this
fact, because ne is able to visualize
the rail transportation and does not
frequently come in contact with
ocean traffic. 1t is distinct factor,
however, in the price of his COM
modities. for the surplus of our
crops sold abroad largely sets the
price of those commodities in this
country"
Farmer vitality Concerned.
Mr. Howard averred that 90 pel
cent. of our wheat and sc per cent
of our cotton is exported. He figured
closely the cost of substituting agri
cultural cargoes under the Act, and
estimated it would amount to an
average of one-fourth of cent
bushel on wheat and six cents a bale
on cotton. Said Mr.. Howard, '"rhe
subsidy will be q guarantee against
loss from failure to reach markets
regularly and when markets are best.
Marketing is today the farmers chief
problem. The ship subsidy is our
best insurance for the marketing Of
the farmers exportable surplus"
Whether 1t be from the standpoint
that the farmer will have s:rpluses
which, If their transportation abroad
is not assured, will back up on him
to the destruction of his prices; or
whether ultimately he will have no
surplus and relies on the prosperity
of the American workers in other
callings, the establishment of mer
chant marine has become OF prime
importance.
In the next and concluding article
of this series shall undertake to
discuss how the Government pro-
poses to insure the needed sea car
riage.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04

principle makes in strength brings
nearer the time when approved means
Of applying it will be devised. Kan
sas' so-called "Court" of Industrial
Relations is only one way of applying
it. Better ways are, Of course, pos
sibie. Canada has simple law un-
der which any widespread strike on
its rail lines has been avoided for
many years and Canada has had its
periods of imitation and defiation sim
liar to our own. However, condi-
tons in Canada have not been COM
plicated by belief that powerful in
terests had combined, not merely to
oppose specific union detectives that
may be tenable or untenable, accord
ing to the time, but TO destroy union
organization. Unfortunately there is
such belief among some in this
country.
Just what particular mechanism is
substituted for the strike in combat
ing industrial wrong or fancied indus
trial wrong may not make so much
difference when the country arrives at
the conviction that the substitution
must be made, at least, in industries
whose continuance is indispensable to
the public.-Globe-D
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04

For Circuit Judge:
I. N. THRELKELD
Of st. Francois County
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
THE OBSOLETE
STRIKE WEAPON

The railroad strike, as we'll as the
coal strike, must come to an end some
time. The rejection by the meeting
Of railroad executives of President
Harding's proposed terms of rail set
Element, owing to dissatisfaction with
the proviso as to priority rights, is
but one incident in negotiations that
will run their course in due season and
result sooner or later in an adjust
ment. Of some significance is the
fact that the President, from a dis
interested standpoint, approved the
contention of the men as to priority
rights and that the failure to accept
the White House terms was due to a
determined attitude on the part of the
railroads, rather than the strikers. Of
particular interest is the renewed ex-
preston of Mr.. Harding's purpose,
though abandoning effort for special
legislation adapted to the conditions
of the two labor disputes now having
effects on national scale, to perse-
we're in his intention, for permanent
laws fitting the conditions of such
emergencies as the one that has now
arisen.
The subject was illuminatingly dis
cussed in the presidential message last
December and has furnished ground
for much hopeful expectation since.
Permanent legislation which would
run in advance of the crystalized SEN
timent of the country on the subject
might only defer the hope of peace
full adjustments and particularly
would hasty, improved legislation,
framed to meet the needs of parti-
cular emergency, be likely to arouse
antagonism and do more harm than
good. But we may believe that the
instructive exhibit of damage to all
interests, including the vital interests
of the public, which is again present
ed in the two pending strikes, is help
ing to prepare a substantial body Of
opinion which will support reasonable
legislation in the future and that the
various lines along which solution
of the problem of the present dis
putes is sought all may have part in
developing and perfecting a future
permanent technique in strike settle
ment.
Undoubtedly the feeling that the
strike isean obsolete weapon is grow
ing among all divisionspof. society, ev-
en- that division which has relied on il
in the past as the agency of final re-
sort in protecting its rights and adj
vancing its welfare. OF large mean
ing was the recorded Judgment a few
days ago of representative English
labor body, that the strike had out
lived its usefulness. Long years must
elapse before the gains of the coal
strike, even if its detectives are &C.
complished, will compensate for the
losses the strikers have incurred. The
same thing will be true of the rail
strike If it continues. And in what
light as means of industrial war;
fare do those strikes appear which, af-
ter lamentable losses and suffering to
strikers, end in total failure?
Industrial peace, like international
peace, is indorsed in principle by
many schools of thought. 1t IS when
an effective mechanism preserving the
peace is sought that serious difference
es develop, and still every advance the
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
ELVINS

Mrs. H. E. Black was Flat River
visitor Tuesday.
Glenwood Thomure was a visitor in
Flat River Tuesday.
Miss Joyce Robinson visited Mrs.
James Maxim, of Flat River, Tuesday,
Miss Esther Black was visitor in
Flat River Wednesday. bpa
Mrs. Marvin Yount, who occupied a
home near Main street, sold her prop
erty and left for st. Louis. She con-
templates going to Colorado.
Charley Taylor is, on the sick list.
Mrs. Geo. Black was a visitor in
Flat River Tuesday.
Sam Doss, of Desloge, was bust
ness visitor in Elvins Thursday.
Allan Black is on the sick list.
Mrs. Elmer Limbaugh, of Flat Riv-
err, is making her mother, Mrs. Henry
Rhule, a three weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Black returned
from St. Louis and are making their
home here.
DIR. w. C. Reece proprietor of the
Payton hotel, died Friday night.
DR.. ]. L. Eaton, of Bismarck, was in
Elvins Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Whaley were
Desloge visitors Thursday.
Roy Sizemore, formerly of Elvins,
is here making preparations to buy
the Elvins theatre.
Mrs. T. M. Swearington, Of River
mines, was visitor here Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Tinsley and two
daughters, Flossie and Helen, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lynch, of Doe Run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert White, Of
Collinsville, ILL.,, visited relatives here
Friday.
rabb Johnson died of pneumonia
Friday night about Z o'clock.
L. N. Beard and daughter, of Bis
marck, visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Black Friday.
Quite a number of mad dogs have
been reported in the neighborhood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Polite and their
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert White,
motored to Bonnie Terre Friday night.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Sykes,
Saturday, boy, who has been named
Orville Earl. >i
Mrs. Cleve Ross and two daughters,
Pauline and Alline, of Rivermines,
visited in Elvins Saturday night.
The small son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Reese died Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Polite, of Ell
wins, Mr.. and. Mrs. Hubert White of
Collinsville, ILL.,, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Hood and Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
Beard of Bonnie Terre, motored to
Hunt ford to spend Saturday night
fishing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Propst. of
Pennington Junction, visited in Elvins
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom johnson visited
friends at Iron Mountain Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Yamnitz and
daughters, Ethel, Audrey and Ruby,
attended the picnic at Patton, in Boil
niger county, last week.
Ralph Yannitz and number of his
friends attended the Patton picnic.
The Methodist Sunday school had an
attendance of 317. Twenty-one peo-
Pile were baptized Sunday.
Jake Conrad, Mrs. Tom Conrad and
Mrs. M. Yount motored to the picnic
at Patton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Crabdree and
little daughter, Doris, motored to
River Creek Sunday. N'@ s
The ball game between Marquard
and st. Joe Lead Sunday resulted In
a victory for the visiting team. The
score was 5 to A. gajf
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
ARTICLE 5.

Modern civilization is an economic
one. The basis of all economic CIV
,ilization is transportation. Coal and
oil may be only momentarily basic
fuels; it is possible some other fuel
may be discovered. Fuel in one
form or another will always be basic
to transportation, and transportation
In one form or another is basic to
exchange of goods.
In my first article undertook to
demonstrate how, up to the time OF
the Civil War, America, had develop
ed a strong merchant marine, and to
sketch the conditions surrounding
our practical disappearance from the
sea between the time of the Civil
War and the World War.
During this latter period we were
d self-suficient and self-contained
nation, having need of world trade
only in small measure for the dispo.
bition of surpluses and to pay with
them the moneys borrowed for our
development. Our creditors were
largely the leading maritime nations
Iof the world, and they sent their
ships to receive the goods in pay.
ment of what we owed them.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
Baptist Church

Sunday School begins promptly at
$3.50. Be on time and get the full ben
eft OF the service. If the superintend-
ent were as late as some of heapupils
what time would we be able to start
the service? Come on time. 1t will
please the superintendent, yourfeach-
err and you will be pleased with your
self. Aee
Preaching service at IL o'clock. Sub.
ject: Giving God Our Best"
Union services at the Monarch Sun
day night q arel91 fa,N
Junior B. Y. P. U. at 2 o'clock.
Senior b. K. ,Ps u lat q o'clock.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
ut 8 O'clock .ssges tsg
G. C. Greenway, Pastor.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
SOUTHEAST MO. STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Cape Girardeau, Mo.

COURSES Offers full professional for training of teachers
grade public school Also regular classical
leading of Bachelor Arts Specialized Ag
rcuae Art Domestic Science Manual Arts and all branches of
Music
EQUIPMENT Seven modern buildings Excellent library adequate
laboratories Training School Gymnasium for and for
q
ADVANTAGES Cape Girardegu city with
pride Best entertainments Supervised athletics. Fine
spa for lowest costs Fees $500 for the No
tuition Board and $500 month VII D7sr351 s5s
FAN semester opens September H.
Catalog upon request
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
DEMOCRATIC TICKET

UEWuUIlHliU lIUNLl
For Congress, Thirteenth District:
j. SCOTT WOLFF
of Festus.
For Circuit Judge:
PETER H. HUCK
of Ste. Genevieve
For State Senator:
w. A, BROOKSHIRE
Of Pennington
For Representative:
HIRAM C. JOHNSON
For Collector:
J.E. BREWER.
For County Clerk:
MARVIN w. CROWDER.
For Circuit Clerk:
J. C. HEIFNER
For Probate Judge:
C. P. WILSON,
For Prosecuting Attorney:
PHILIP S. COLE, Jr.,
For Recorder of Deeds:
HENRY NJ. O'BANNON.
For Presiding Judge County Court:
]. H. ORTEN
For Judge County Court-First
District:
BEN B. BISCH
For Judge County Court-Second
District:
J. W. BOSWELL,
For Constable of st. Francois
Townships,
WILL J. BRUETT
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES
For Circuit Judge:
1. N. THRELKELD
of st. Francois County
For Probate Judge:
KOSSUTH C. WEBER.
For Collector:
GEO. N. MACKLEY
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
BIG MERCHANT
MARINE ASSET
TO midwest

FARMERS INTEREST IN AssUR-
ING EXPORT MARKET NOW AS
KEEN AS MANUFACTURERS,
SAYS SHIPPING BOARD CHAIR.
MAN. FARM FEDERATION HEAD
SEES INSURANCE TO AGRlcuL-
TuRAL SECTIONS IN SHIPPING
AIp MEASURE.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
attendance urged.

Preaching service at II a. m.
Officers meeting at 2:30 p. m.
Golden Rule society at p.m.
Let's all work together and prevent
the entrance of Mr.. Summer Slump.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04

Note: This is the fifth OF series
of articles on the American Merchant
Marine by the Chairman of the Ship
ping Board,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES
Christian Church

Services for Lords Day, Aug. 9Th:
Bible school at s:45 a. m. A full
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-08-04
THE

! FOREIGN Advertising Representative
THE ANEF2tCA JAN PRESS AsSCCiATiON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Wisconsin Expects
To Greet 10000
AT Rally Of SD
Red Arrow Field Day Aug.
% at Madison VIII At
tract Veterans From All
Parts; Big Parking Space

MADISON, Wis, Aug. 12.-Interna-
tional greetings will be exchanged
when the lacrosse teams enter Camp
Randall Field, on August. 90, the occa-
sion being the Red Arrow field day.
staged by all Wisconsin in honor of
the 32d Division Veterans Association
reunion.
An attendance of 10000 seems as
cured, based upon the advance seat
sales to others than members of the
division, who are admitted free. The
last of the 5000 seats on the ex-service
mems side Of the field went on sale in
dozen places in this city to-day. AS
a result of Mayor kittleson's request
for cooperation from the mayors of
wisconsin many reservations are being
received. 1t is expected that 10000 ex-
service men will meet in Madison, and
mat number of seats has been reserved
for them by the citizens committee.
Those who have not received the
Identification certificate, which entities
them to the benefit of reduced fare
on all railroads, should communicate
with the Red Arrow headquarters, this
city. In all, $4,000 of these certificates
were mailed out last week, but it is
likely that some were missed, as it is
dltncult to keep a close check on the
movements of 50 large a group of men.
those who motor to Madison may OBJ
tain definite information on the con-
dition of all roads in the United States
by writing to the road and travel bu-
reau of the Association of Commerce
of this city. Ten blocks in the heart
of the city have been reserved for the
parking of out-of-town cars, and ad-
ditional facilities are available in the
fourteen parks of the city and at the
two free-camp sites. Professor w. S.
Marshall, in charge of the automobile
service station, promises that ample
parking space viii Lc provided for all
who come to the city
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13

tai without being benefited. Because
Of his mental arrangement he was four
times "farmed out" to contract asy-
lums.
OCarroll explains his mental trou-
bic by telling how poison in his blood.
caused by the gas, affected his mind
when it failed to escape through skin
eruptions
81 didn't know much about it until
woke up in straitjacket," he writes.
In the last three years, O'Carroll
says, besides the four asylums, he has
been In several different hospitals. In
one where there was lack of doctors
and nurses. there We're so many other
poor devils to De cared for" he writes.
that the doctors began giving him NOR
phlne to relieve his suffering and keep
him quiet.
When it was found he had become
addicted to the drug habit, he saws, he
was quickly discharged from the hos
pltal lest blame should rest upon the
authorities. When at last he was
forced to leave the Marine Hospital on
Staten Island because he was being sun
Piled with drugs by fellow patients he
returned to Helmetta, N. j., and yir-
tuaily alone in shack in the woods.
with an occasional visit from Red
Cross nurse, fought away the drug
habit.
O'Carroll writes that although i'll and
IN debt his government allowance was
discontinued last March. The files
show that he had been reinstated TO
the monthly amount Of sos under q
temporary rating ene. year ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Gassed Veteran Fights for
Health Alone i'm Jersey Shack

In shack in the woods near Hell
meta, N. j., a World War veteran,
gassed and wounded, is fighting to re-
gain his health after curing himself of
the morphine habit contracted while
in crowded government hospital.
HIS letter of appeal for aid in OBJ
tanning government help, sent to the
national headquarters OF the American
Legion in indianapolis, and official cor
respondence in the files there show
facts that cause Claude J. Harris. ma
tlonal service officer of the Legion, 10
declare it to be one of the most xitiful
cases on record.
The veteran, Francis P. O'Carroll.
says In his appeal that unless some
thing is done in his behalf he will COM
nit suicide. The Legion has taken the
case up with the Veterans Bureau in
washington, urging immediate action.
Inc story CLEANED from the CORE
spordence shows that O'Carroll served
with the French and British forces
from August, 1914, until he was dis
charged IN 1917, after being wounded
ard gassed
When the United States entered the
war he enlisted and was sent to Camp
hancock, Augusta, Ga, his overseas
experience making him very valuable
Tor training Americans. Under the
strain his reason became impaired and
1t was found he was suffering from a
painful form of eczema caused by his
having been gassed.
he was sent from hospital to hospi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Choose Your Own Bunk. >
Legion Visitors Are Told
Big hotels, Boarding Houses
and Pullman Cars Are TO Care
for New Orleans Guests

Every man to his own taste in
hunks" says V. A. W. Steger, chair
man Of the housing committee OF the
American Legion national convention.
to be held in New Orleans next Octo-
Der. Convention visitors will be housed
N variety Of ways.
While tie bulk Of the crowd will
choose the hotels and rooms in New
Orleans homes, there will. be an op-
portunity for substantial percentage
20 remain on the Pullman cars and the
steamboats, and ocean liners which
bring them to the convention city.
MIR. Steger has obtained hotel rate
of s1.5o day without bath and $3.50
a day with bath. More than $4,000 visi-
tors can be housed in the Pullman
cities. which will be provided with ali
conveniences Of modern hotel. A
special arrangement with railroads will
enable the convention guest to i've on
his Pullman car for about So a day
and uniformly low rate will also pre-.
vail IN New Orleans homes.
Those doughboys who prefer to re-
turn to the barracks life for five days
may he quartered in New OrIeans's
Slo..ooo'ooo army supply base and in
various halls and lodge rooms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Mexican Post
OF Legion VIII
Have O1ntposts
Talnpico Body Decides to Es-
tabiish Branches to Keep
Members Informed in
Area Of 100 Square Miles

In an effort to keep informed its 259
members scattered in an area Of more
than 100 square miles, Tampico Post
/, of Tampico, Mexico, has hit upon
a novel scheme. 1t is the plan of
the post to establish outposts. with
the main headquarters governing. The
establishment of these outposts is the
result Of unusual conditions which
must be met in the Tampico district.
The post is the largest in foreign
country.
"The Foreign Legionnaire," the post
publication. in its last issue, discuss
ing the outposts, says:
"Men are in Tuxpam, 100 kilometers
south; sea-loading stations of the
various oil companies, 80 kilometers
field and in the Panuco district. 1t is
not considered feasible to establish
pests at these high points because of
the uncertainty of the length of stay
Of men who are sent there by the oil
companies. 1t has been found, how
ever, that there is, as rule, ffteen
men at a number Of places in the field.
transportation difficulties make it i'm
possible fer them to come to Tampico
for post meetings. SO as to allow these
groups to have voice in Legion af-
fairs, and especially to maintain serv-
ice work, it was decided at the regu-
lar monthly meeting Of Tampico Post
to authorize the formation of outposts.
mo. l is to be located at Palo
Blanco, on the gulf coast, and will take
in men at the sea-loading station of
the Texas Company, La Atlantica, Cor
tez Island Oil and Transport, Interna-
tional, Transcontinental, and Agwi oil
companies. These outposts will be al
lowed to elect such officers as they
deem necessary for the conduct of af-
fairs Of the outpost, as we'll as to
make such regulations as they may
care to so long as their rules do not
conflict with the constitution of the
American Legion or the constitution
and bylaws of Tampico Post"