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Show I fHE DESERET - . AXWS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21 1922 bo attracted. If tureens attends as we hope It will, the government outlay la Legislation to Promote Merchant Mar ine of United State Urged by Pr esident in Address to Congress returned, the inspiration of opportun-itto earn remains, and American transportation by sea is established. Other Mat tea Cfrra Aid. Though differing In detail, It la net mora In proportion to their population and capacity than other great nations have done In aiding the establishment of their merchant marines, and it le timely to recall that we gave hem our commerce to aid In their upbuilding. while the Amerioan task now la to upbuild and establish In the face of their most active competition. Indeed, the American development will have to overcome every obstacle which may be put in our path, except as internation. tl comity forbids Concern ab ut our policy Is not limited to our own domain, though the Interest abroad is of very differing character, I hope It Is seem-'- f $ sy It, because it must be the maritime nations of the worldsaid, are accord with the opposition here to the pending meaaurp. They a perfect to ouch an attitude. When we right look from their viewpoint we can understand. But I wish atfess the American viewpoint. Ours should be the viewpoint from which one sees American carriers at eea, the dependence of American commerA. and American veesela for American reli-lh vent war. Some of the 1V?!Z ,eton .ot war-- must bq, learned and again, but our shipping Ch tO Wr to ,ffc,d from the memory this or future generations Shlpplag Ubw il lak. Me eo manr month, eimrth hr, t y WASHINOTgI of President H K . 11 The tost establishment 'of a dependable merencourage, rdinga address to Co- - chant marine, whereas the and press follovn: the dument of private ownership 31 embers of Congress: plication of individual Initiative would make for a permanent creation, ready Late last Feb ttary I reported to jro a and answerable at all times to the relative to th Americas merchant needs of tha nation. marine, and commended legislation DeteHamtftea le Great, which the ease1 tlve branch of tfe But I have not properly portrayed all current losses to the public this the eminent deem essential to pr&toote We are wearing Nout ourselvee our merchant rine and with It our year. without any provision for replacement. national welfar Other problems were We are having these lossee through deterioration now, and are charging pressing and o Lher questions pending, nothing against our capital account. and for one re ison or another, which But the losses are there, and regretably need not be rec ted, the suggested under government operation larger relation bae no under than private control. Only a few favorable feco mmendatlon beyond the years of continued losses on capital acby wHI count make thesqloasea through house commltte The committee has alone to exceed the fifty given the ques :ln a full and 1 pains, depreciation millions a year now drawn to cover and taking Inquiry and study hope that its favors! 1q report speedily wilt losses In operation. The gloomy picture of losses does not be given the fo ce of the law. It nilt be Helpful m clearing the end even there. Notwithstanding the known war cost 1$ three billions of If start frank the nkh atmosphere dollars for. this present tonnage I wilt nit ion divided opinion an 4 U is no nw not venture to appraise lta cash value oppof tiiou. It may as well be confessed today. txper.enCe. Likproposals bae d.wdede now time that in the iar clllcd as'at some later he executive Vmfreis- vari7us' previous mad to build In establishing ship- otruee to disc use a permit to trxn.f.r, rush resolute s'ons Perhaps organise, 0 s never was and 1 yards wherever men would before, Cjr'1 meant to continueforeign to, expend government money when we am very sure thj need for decisive them quite shipbuilders overnight Won dec i4 v o f 1 Service. He xenon never made without regard to previous occupations w as so urgent L ,or transfer on the fore. we builded often or poorly, a ,ha pursuits, W , are not nrj w dealing with a y such be transfer, htbor-eoe- r on ijnenry, we have a prob- vary poorly. Moreover, we constructformulated programmer to provide a profit elone lem which is on of grim actuality. We aed without any on . f merchant marine. not Wirt for are facing Insistent conditions, out"' of curaev A Wsr Essergeisey, which will com A. either additions! snd nor to I nathe and Thelhmlon Is made to re- dlffu war . losses and The emergency Impelled tfigering government that in nood 'rr.D.clence tional Impotence on the seas or elee cry was for ships, any kind of ships. Conxrees Uw condition the unfurling eur-- 1 the flag on a great The error Is recalled In regret rather ?onndr"1 American mereikant marine commen- than criticism. The point is that our la,hor on American ships surate with our fcomtaercial importance, fleet costing approximately three blL n,en ,h world over pp..ns. o to- service ad ca rrier of our cargoee-HHows, is worth only a fraction of that f higher costs ot 1 t peace and meet the necessities ot our cost today. Whatever that fraction may 00r tl rankly re- i defence no we have m war, be, the truth remains that for Ubor on rK,'r.!andaM under to sell the in which market ships p Mwmt vrTe.J. f.h established. Here Drain, our present policy, snd a program of that when Co- There Is no ought here snd now surrender snd sacrifice and the liquida- grres MU these standards It I, fair to magnify the relation- - of merchant tion whreb Is Inevitable unless the neVknd ov',rnm,nt hW In maintain marine to our atlonal defense. It is pending legislation Is sanctioned, will hronLh.mt world competition Is nough to. reca I that we entered the cost scores of millions more the same high level or un- -i world war airao t wholly dependent on the Is When the question asked, why lines are so firmly es- our Allies for ransportatlon by sea. Insistence for the merchant marine act faCB wortd '.ha monh:? WaivWe expanded i proxlmately three m- Pis answer now? The apparent. waate-tlcallljns. feverishly ing evdry Inspiration which lies in Out of our constructive plan for maintaining our Cssdmu fuiiy and impr Prmail leaves. e up for the omissions flag on the commercial highways of the n!faTLnar dt'"eagerness to m tn detail the f peace and meet the wsr emer- sees, waiving the prudence in safe a .d provision of the pending policy bill we acbundled snd otherwise gency another $3,600,000.-00hen prevlou-l- v addressing against guarding you. I for- quired the vast merchant fleet which madness if wsr ever again impels, In '"dividual T0""' the government owns today. we have the unavoidable task of wip- rjrhnec:P''V,'n" not a few In option hi the simple t wayT can. say It, our out a $50 000,666 annual loss In hnV.. r have expressed per- immediate problem is nbt to build and ing operation and losses aggregating fnany " the purposes of sac. '""a' ,7'r,pj',.h' support merchant shipping. Which I hundreds of millions In worn-ou- t. 5iMwand uttered a TmM to be one i if the highest and most I rtf iced or scrapped shipping. Then the about ,be sentimentdiarouragw of their orthy aspiratlf ns of any great neoplt; supreme humiliation, the admission thar would be most we the United States our America once coS.!J,T.r I .ur problem is to deal with what maaaur of such possess. Ot r problem is to relieve eminent among the maritime nations the public tree mry of the drain it It of the world fs Incapable' of asserting hsve Its national importanre must fate depend on geographical the seas already meetlnff. Let us omit particu Itself In the peace triumphs on me v e r ','al seem lars about the fivensied to rMUP,,1"nalVPrnf-l'would world. of the It partisan did full as well as when we own the ships ing loftier K,ra.nkIy 1 ,hlnk lould have free done in the anxious and humiliating support and con-- 7 fail in the genius and capacity to ,aIV to effect the circumstances Let ue past from the turn their prows toward the marts of drslgned moment the it !ar'r bod'h the nation that merely relationship between the world. a merchant mar1 ne. and a commercial 1' ,0,l.baat, impressions of Three Coarse of Action. nation of ,h harmonfied let ue suppose Aye, apinng Vorft ?u This problem esnnot longer be Jg isn?r.i for a moment t that with f.U 'nformsd conyte absurdity flon'l ind one 61.664.666 66 experience snd with ?rd. attempted aolotlon efforts of all the n,"d the incalculable osts in lives and treat- - longer be people will come ff the greater republic. no be will to set decisively Commercial eminence on ure which- mat be chargeable to our Congress the seas, amdisastrous than adverse action ple agencies for the promotion inability promptly to apply our potency less are of courses action Three possible carrying of our foreign commerce end which God fofrbld happening again ere let us momenta! ily Ignore all of these snd thechoice among thVn Is no longer Importance to the people of and turn to n te the mere business to be avoided. th th Mississippi and Missouri The first is constructive eract the l problem, the pri c tlcal question of h the Arat northwest and the under which I firmly lars and cents which we are con- - lendingan bill American merchant marine, Rockv mountain ft ntc than to th M.a fronted. nJutrla! commun-Hicand owned operated privately privately IllllMI Monthly. i building inland a thousand miles but serving all the people and always The wsr cons ruction and the later available to the government In any or more, it la a common cause with Its o omomnly shared, as oea treti where emngeaey - may be cstablthed a on w4H completion fall In the national viewpoint and completion was believed to be - the maintained. nve in the In confines selfcontinue seoond obstructive The Is greater econom. to the public treasury, narrowness, community the tun of thla eft us approx! ately 13,200.006 groom government operations and attending ishness or will have paused Its meridian, tonnage in shlpa. The figures are government losses and discourage pri- republic our and larger nearer 12.56d.60n) tons now, owing to the vate enterprise by government aspirations the approaching twilight.will shrivel petition, under which lenses are met by In But scrapping of this wooden fleet. let ua momentarily put aside than half this eonnage is government the publle treasury, snd witness the !! aplHng and inspiring view owned and approximately 2 250 060 tone continued lossee snd deterioration are under goverlnment operation In one til the colossal failure ends to sheer Ti'?AbIu5fr n5putable fact of thepoint loss millions a year under form or another!. Ih net loss to the exhaustion. I nited States The tMrd Is destructive Involving operation remains: likewise government sums actually tha fast treasury the diminishing capital account, the enortiken therefrona in this government the sacrifice of our ships abroad or surscrapping of them st home, the con- mous war expenditure, to which we operation avwraged approximately render our the and of aeptrstlons, HA0ftK0 per .Nnonth during the year fession of our impotence to the world wera forced bacaose- w had wot ' encouraged and builded as our Jlrior lo the asstkmptlon of reaponslbil-- j genernl. and our humiliation before commerce expanded In peace. Here are ity by the preent administration. A. In fasts to deal with, not fancies wrought the competing world in partictlsr. on this loss of pub-constant warfare out of our political and economic disOne Cesns Mast Be Taken. Oic funds, snd time draft to service of The abolitfon- - of the annual business management and A choice among the three 4e tnevl-tabl- e. putes, capable It is unbelievable that the Amer- loss, and the bst salvage of the capiexperienced perViting directors, have resulted in apphAd efficiency and en-j- ican people or the Tongress which ex- tal account are fo coheern to all the forced economics It is very gratify presses their power will consent to people. diminution of the surrender snd destruction. It Is equal Would Aid Li ing to report , to 000. j: losses M. r "of $10,000,060 06 per month or a total ly unbelievable that our people and the It la my firm beliefPolicy, that the coma I year; but it is Intol- Congress which translates their wishes bined savings of operating losses and erable that the rovernment should con into action will ionser sustain a proof the capital account mue a pohrv f om which so enormous gram of obstruction snd attending the protection through more sales of to the treasury. treasury los tn the inevitable out- - losses our war built oradvantageous d 1 have come to urge the construcmme. This lo m, moreover, attends ship, because of the favorable policy Ameran to reassert le s than a third of the tive alternative, operation of the pending bill will establish, which 1 have will come to ask more ican we will. government-ow- ) ed fleet. than pay every dollar administo the relieve you responsible 1 in government aid for 25 years expended Dfilrrs tr Eliminate Lean, to come from the of branch trative government It should be kept In mind that the L! Tt Is not. there for, a question of a nroaram uoon which failure and sum of flv millions anv burdens to maintain lv$g new hopelessness and staggering losses are approximate nually paid for the transport of ocean shipping, we are paying these written for every pegs, and let ue mails U;our no new la iM burdens now. t is not a question of turn to a program of assured shipping expenditure. It should loan fund to contracting an outlay to support our to serve us in war snd io give guar- be kept in mind that the .wmerchant ahipp g. because we re anty to our commercial independence encourage building Is not new It la th law already, enacted by the am not asktng ?pour in neace. unanimous Congreve jicw .and added Lrat - t knew full weiP th bestttKy fit the Is only included In the pending bill public trl saury: 1 am appealing popular mind to, the weed subsidy-- ' It in to order lA amend so as to assure the Z for a program diminish the burden It Is stressed bv the opposition and of a exaction e are already iiearing. minimum interest rate associated privilege1'- by the government, whereas the exWhrenr your d xeouuve government those bho wiUt'spectal are unfailing advocates of by knows of publl expenditures aggre- government isting law leaves the grant of building aid whenever vast num- loans It mlilibons which subject to any whim of favorgating fifty annually, Governare dlrerwy concerned. rb!teve could be reduced by half bers ment aid would he a fairer term than itism. It a b kept In mind also that should of chang policv. your sjthrourh what we are there are assured of public "subsidy to In defining limitation of the f errment would dp for our merchant ma- government Jidrust if such a hange were not com seeking and the Interests are those of all with ocean proposal. Ths F root aid gnended, nay, if ,t were not Insistently rine, at our carrying even the people, though the aid goes present participation maintained Verged. will not reach 20 And the pity o it Is that our present to the few who serve. millions a year and the maximum disees is not construd-t- o Internal AU Met Pretested. expenditure in rect aid. If our shipping Is go proit looks no future If moted that we carry aid ta ft fair term our fronts. It Is ut Ineffective in the and Igovernment seas commerce, will not exceed 36 milthink it Is to apply to izationeXaggregating $75,000,000 to pro- lions annually At the very maximum mote good roads for market higbwaye. of outlay we should be saving 26 milIt ns eqnally fit to bo applied to the lions of our present annual operating establishment and maintenance of Inis. If the maximum U ever reached A n tertian market highways on the the establishment of our merchant sbas aid is the marine wfll have been definitely reIf government 4rne4 definition to forty corded and the government-owne- d fleet proper millions annually expended to Improve fortunately liquidated. refer to tho constructive action of to-- f " and maintain inland waterways tn aid Lees. Avert Mast day which offers the only U Isof 'making our "'wartime m-- 1 From this point of view It la the promise tion for a p ended assistance to estabof ships the foundation ofi incontestable wisdom of busine- aherltance agency simple lish and maintain ocean of commerce in peae highways dealing to save all that Is andgreat an where there is actual commerce to be ss-like added guaranty of service possible of the annual loss and avoid a hen It ia necessary t our national carried. be lost to the defense. But call tt subsidy since there are the millions sure to account sacIn capital those who prefer to appeal to mistak- governments Thus far I have been urging govBut there la a bigen prejudice rather then make frank rificing our fleet. to American shipping broader, more Inspiring view- ernment in aid and logical argument. We might so ger. mind tvory lntfri of our T.'i a patriotic viewpoint having I aye, point, call the annual toms of fifty millions u helper of producing population, which wo are paying now without promine, factory, or farm, bcc&ue j test by those who most abhor, we pending commerce is the foremost as well call that a "subsidy. If of every nation in the ond might thought Vk Your Fr lends They Know o 1 am proposing to cut in half, aptoday. I believe In government aid beproximately. and to the saving thus Thousands of have would be .affected there added millions IvM to blame people bloodcomingly bestowed. We have aided incorn agony, upon millions of further savings dustry through our tariff, we have paon, etc. Tri nming and tratlng, - In aided railway transportation land through ending losses on capital so count government capital out of tho and loans: w have aided the grants conatrurtton of market roads and the public treasury, always remember and there would be at least the promimprovement of Inland waterwajs. we have aided reclamation and irrigation ise and tho prospect of tho trmanent and the development of waterpower; oetabltehment of tbft needed, merchant we have loaned for eeed rraint in e of marine. The mixture Tea Sage f of harvests. We expend M Favor to Close Vatereoto. and Sulphur' for darkening gray, anticipation in Investigation and experitrillions Is streaked and faded hair grandI challenge every Insinuation of fato mentation promote a common beneand folks are again fit. vored lntoreea and the- enrichment of mother a recipe, a limited few are th diusing it to keep their hair a good, rect though the epeciel few at the expense of tho even beneficiaries. We have loaned le quite sensible, as public treasury. I am. first of all, ap- we arecolor, which of million to promote the living in an age when a youth- hundreds pealing to Save tho treasury. Perhaps ful appearance American It haa of marketing good. ia of the greatest ad all been the unlimited bestowal of government and highly commendable, aid might justify the apprehension of vantage. worth wbHe. though, we don't have epeciel favoring, hut the pending bilk theNowadays, troublesome task of gathering the Farmer le Sufferer. the first ever proposed which carried such a provision automatically, guards sage and the mutay vnixipg at home. At the present moment the Amerie All stores tell bethe or drug enrichment can farmer le the chief sufferer from against perpetuated stowal. It provide that shipping lines product. Improved by the addition ot the cruel readjustments which follow Ingredients, called Wyeth's Sage war's inflations, Snd befitting govreceiving government aid must have other and their actual Investment and their oper Sulphur Compound." It le very ernment aid to our farmers ta highly because nobody can discover essential to our national ating expenses audited by the govern- popular "welfare. No that government aid will only bo It haa been applied, (limply moisten peoplo may safely boast a good forment, In comb or a soft, brush with tt and tune which the farmer does not share. the your until earns and pi ring merely makes shipping enterprise matter w rse. Millions of ethers foldper cent on actual capital employed, draw this through your heir, 'taking Already thla Congress and the ad email strand at a time; by morning ministrative t laer. T$etsImmediately that wjien there than one know bew easily and end branch of the government ThAy - ft cent earning Is reached, half of' tho gray hair disappears, but what de- nave given willing ears to the kly shrivels snd peels 16 per agricul end call ises off in one piece, tho excese earnings must be applied to lights the ladle with, Wyeths Sage turah plea for post-wrelief, and your mooe r back if It fails, wear the repayment of the government aid and Sulphur Compound. Is that be- much nag been done which haa proven hlch haa been previously advanced. tides beautifully boss wit i comfort. Get a bottla darkening tho heir aelpfol. Admittedly It le not enough. Thus the possible earnings are limited "after a few applications. It aiao pro- - Our b - B. Lawrence A Co., Mfiv, credit systems, under government a very reasonable amount If capital duces that soft lustre and appearance provision must be promptend buxa trifle everywhere. to is U be risked and management U to of abundance which la ao attractive. ly and safely control, broadened to relieve our nt 'd r ,t occa-rnor- hoani-hamfe- -- fv. tU the" mn id j cr b- ,hr y. - i: ! jw doo-bl- war-tim- . 1 eotu J vsl-i?- v: dol-1t- be-ie- - it 'heti f eom-jlo- -- 4 poo-pl- re - y -- te war-seise- r j yvtf . bc-- f 2 one-ha- dp lf Gis-i- r Relieves Conns in 30 Seconds -- propee-destgn ex-- agricultural distress, tbef thia problem and'guch as reasonably pressing Importance dealt with in the snort session ' an I shall Invite your attention at early day. confine to chosen myself to the specific problem of dealing with our merchant marine because 1 have asked you to assemble two weeks In f the regularly rfsarre appointed time to expedite its consideration. The branch of the government tuuve m re to would feel itself let contemplate our yearly loss and attending failure to Accomplish If the conditions were not preRsed for your decision. More, 1 WITHSAGETEA JR eld-tim- ready-to-ue- ar Chi-Cos- ts fe1 myself lacking in oneern for. America a- - future .ii L - failed to1 atreee the beckoning opportui.n equip the United States to aMunie of nauun the befitting p4ae among the world whose commer vi insepto arable from the good fortune which rightfully all people aspire "would Fifty Candidates Taking Masonic Higher Degrees of wtem governors representing Gm Hfr. Telerson w itr fmfeaor to secure the adoption by the governors of western 'tale assembled against any reduction :n -- federal appropriations for highway construction of any nature. BETTER THIN CALOMEL Alexander Rankin McIntyre, thirty-secodegree Mason from Ogdn, di- Thousand Have Discovered rected the work this afternoon at the Dr. Edwards Olive Masonic temple when a elese of about 56 candidates from all parte of Utah - Tablets Are Harmbegan degree work designed to carry less Substitute.' thfm through the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rita of Freemasonry. Dr. Edward1 Olive Tablete-t- he The fourth dgree, that of secret master, was tho first conferred on the substitute for calomel are a mild but Sewell aure Frederick else. d Oeorge laxative, end their effect on the degree Mason, d reefed liver is almost instantaneous. These the Exemplification of the fifth dexree. t' n.t olive ootn., tablet are the re- m muter Durln the afterm-perfect determination he la expected to communicate to the.1"' ot Drto treat liver and bowel class the sixth, eighth with calomel. degrees and thin evening and tomorrow morning The The plegwmfMttte taMef do the good Klu of the Nine, the tenth degree. that calomel does, but have no bad Knight ETu of the Tiftecnth. and the after effect They don't injure tha fourteenth dtekreerHPVrfert Klut wU ha.jL rcetli like etronj nciuia or crlomef. conferred and the eleventh, twelfth hold take of the trouble and end thirteenth degrees communicated. They Work of the historical and religious quickly correct It. Why cure the liver includegrees fifteenth to eighteenth et th expenae of the teeth? Calomel sive. will begin Wednesday afternoon. aometlme, play havoc svlth the sum. - Tha reunion will be concluded with a So do atrong liquids. It ta beat not et to banquet in honor of the 122 da ealomeltf Det Drv Edwards the Meeonle tempi Friday evening Olive Tableta ita place.' after the 'thirty-secon- d degree ia conferred ( it le announced. Headaches, dullneat and that laxy feellnx come from constiiation and a liver. Take Dr Edwards' Peterson Leaves for Coast'. hen you feel losy and Olive Tabl-t- a clear" clouded brain heavy." They O. chairmen Ereston nf th IVteron: state reed commission, left today for and "perk tp" tha ap'nla. 1 cams Sea Frenclaco to attend th conference asd 30c. Advertisement, nd (i thirty-secon- - complaints Try it Free yourself from your cough and yocr cold. Disagreeable phlegm cleared away; acratchy, tender membranes soothed; cough checked; cold broken op. Nowoday--aa- k gist for yoor drug DAKfNGSKSrar a syrup for coughs&colds tk. -- ke ! i AA- ie'i u vr " - 1 |