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EXCESS PROFIT LAW ANCIENT OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Atlantic City, N. J.— Delay in trans forming national operations and ex penditures in the United States to a peace time basis “ is chargeable to the failure of the senate to confirm the peace treaty and enable the president to put the country on a constructive peace basis and reorganize govern mental operations,” Daniel C. Roper, ex-commissioner of internal revenue, told the United States chamber of Event« o f Noted People, Government« commerce Monday night. He attack and Pacific Northwest, and Other ed the excess profits law as having Things Worth Knowing. Five hundred French troops are re ported to have been wiped out in the evacuation of Urfa, in the northwest part of Mesopotamia. Details are lack ing. STATE N EW S 1 IN BRIEF. Treaty Defeat Blamed for Unsettled Business Conditions. "outlived its usefulness.” Mr. Itoper attacked the tax laws and said congress appropriated $25,- 000,000 for administration of internal Methodist Episcopal Confer ence Stand Firm. SCH O O L' DAYS Salem.—Miss Pauline Kline, of Cor vallis, will be reappointed as a mem ber of the board of inspectors of child labor when her present term expires on May 21, according to announcement made by Governor Olcott. Roseburg.— Cold weather in early April damaged the peach crop mater ially. It is believed that not more than half a normal crop will be harvested. Peaches are the only fruit damaged according to fruitgrowers. Church to Fight Unflinchingly Every Salem.— Plans for the banquet which Reactionary Move Whether win be held on the closing day of the Within or Without. Oregon Jersey breeders’ jubilee to be held here early in May have been com pleted, and it is predicted that more Des Moines. Ia. — Declarations than 200 persons interested in this against lawlessness, “ confusion and industry will be in attendance. SWEATSHOPS SCORED revenue laws and that taxpayers paid anarchy,” and devotion to orderly gov Medford.—A deal has just been com nearly $100,000,000 in an endeavor to ernment was expressed Sunday at the pleted by which the farm bureau of Methodist Episcopal quadrennial con Jackson county in its expansion cam abide by these laws. J. W. Alexander, secretary of com ference in the address to the 34 paign takes over the two warehouses A retroactive tax on war profits has merce, declared his department was bishops delivered by Bishop William and six lots adjacent to the Southern been definitely agreed on by house Prin Pacific railroad tracks, from the handicapped by insufficient funds and F. McDowell of Washington. democrats and insurgent republicans some work of the bureaus would of ciples for which the church should Rogue River Co-operative Fruit asso to raise funds for soldier relief legis ciation. The consideration was $12, necessity be abandoned or neglected stand were set forth in the address. lation. A reactionary spirit in the church 400. because of the shortage. He reiterated he was not receiving will cause it to lose its leadership in Salem.— Sugar prices, together with Fiume is again severely blocked by proper co-operation from the state de the “ forward moving world,” the bish the high cost of labor and the loss of land and sea, following a raid by d’An- op declared. fruits caused by last winter’s freeze nunzio’s soldiers on Abbazia, west of partment and said commercial at The address did not discuss or rec taches should be taken from under will play an important part in the that city, where 45 horses were stolen ommend specific acts of church legis control of the state department and sale of this year’s crop of loganberries from the regular troops. placed under the department of com lation, but dealt with the relation of in the Willamette valley, according to the church to the religious, social and Edith Kelley Gould, of New York, merce. statements made by prominent fruit economic conditions of the world to Discussion of labor’s relation to who last week brought suit for separ growers at a meeting held here re day. ation against Frank Jay Gould, has capital began with the railroad group cently. “ Foundations are disturbed. Eco filed summonses in a suit for divorce, when speakers urged an organized Salem.—London buyers who have nomic, social and industrial conditions effort to combat the control it was al naming two co-respondents. been in Marion county for several days are volcanic. They go far beneath leged union labor has assumed over mere questions of wages, hours and have closed a number of contracts The New York assembly Monday railway operation. concurred with the senate in the pas R. H. Angell, banker, of Roanoke, profits,” the bishop said. “ They reach whereby they will pay 50 cents a pound By EDGAR A. GUEST sage of the Donahue-Lockwood bill, Va., declared "union labor is in control the roots of organized life, the basis for hops, subject to fall delivery. For next year’s crop the buyers have of The bill Is intended to give salary in of the railways absolutely and if we of government itself. T H E COOKIE-LADY. DID Y O U D RE A M O F M U RD E R? “ Everywhere free institutions are fered 40 cents and for the following creases to the teachers of the state. wait a little while they will have a strangle hold on us from which we threatened. The church must not fail season’s crop an offer of 35 cents has T IS a curious fact that while the She-Isi gentle kind and fair in the effort to preserve them. We been made. Government charges involving vio cannot extricate ourselves.” most eminently correct person may And theres sllver ln her halr’ She has known the touch of sorrow. lation of pure food laws were upheld Labor has made the challenge and cannot give sympathy or approval to Albany.— The road over the Cascade in dreams commit the most criminal But the smile of her Is sweet; in 49 out of 50 cases recently decided we should accept it, for this fight bolshevism, whether of the red-handed mo«ntains by way of the Santiam pass actions the sleep of real criminals is in federal courts, it is announced by which has been thrust on us must be mob or the soft-handed sentimentalist; will be improved from Cascadia to generally peaceful and their dreams, And sometimes it seems to. are to anarchy, whether of the street or Fish Lake in the next few weeks so if they have any, are of the most in- That her mission is to be the bureau of Chemistry, department fought out sometime,” he said. The gracious cookie-lady occuous character. Santa de Santis, of agriculture. He asserted he was not antagonistic of the chair. hat autos may travel without difficulty To the youngsters of the street. the Italian investigator, has made a “ Between the destructive radical and Governor Olcott of Oregon, together to union labor, nor to working men, the unyielding reactionary; between this summer to Fish lake and Clear wide study of the sleep and dreams A1I the children in the block with many other state officials and but he was opposed to "anything like tho anarchist, tho bomb-thrower, the lake, which are near the summit of of criminals and as a result states it Daily stand beside the crock the mountains about 77 miles south is a rule that the sleep even of mur- employes, appeared at their desks the dictatory Plumb plan.” Where she keeps the sugar cookies The chamber of commerce should red terror on one hand and the rock- east of Albany. derers is dreamless or haunted by ln- That the little folks enjoy, Monday dressed in khaki suits and ribbed contender for special privilege other garments intended to swat the make recommendations to both na feudal brutality and domination of Albany.— The construction of a new nocent visions. Thus the condemned And no morning passes o’er tional conventions in favor of platform criminal ln his cell may be dreaming Tfmt a tapping at her door high cost of living. railroad bridge at Albany to carry of green fields and village bells while Doesn’t warn her of the visit planks against union labor domina wealth on the other; between wild rad trains of the Albany-Yaquina branch the upright judge who condemned him „ (,pl..n|n iptip hnv More than 4000 of the Czecho slovak tion. The party that will lead us to icalism and inhuman stand-patism; be of the Southern Pacific across the is committing manslaughter in dream- " tween autocracy at the top and an soldiers repatriated from Siberia have salvation is the party that will save She has made him feel that he archy at the bottom; between tyranny Willamette river has been resumed. land. been debarked at Triitete, 9745jare en us front this trouble.” These facts are dead against the Has a natural right to be This work was begun last summer but The report of the committee, which of wealth and tryanny of strength, the route and 6612 remain in Vladivostok, In her kitchen when she’s baking was not completed before high water. conceptions of the poets and novelists church of Jesus Christ must this day awaiting transportation, Secretary Ba was adopted, declared "railroads are and confonn rather to W. S. Gilbert’s Pies and cakes and ginger bread, It is expected that the bridge will be entitled to receive from shippers and hold a steady course, speak in clear statement regarding the “ capacity for And each night to me he brings ker announced Monday. finished successfully this summer. tones and minister to order, stability passengers rates that will pay them Innocent enjoyment” of the felon All the protfy, tender things The rivers and harbors bill was Salem.— H. G. Schulderman has is when not engaged In his employ- About little by-gone children a living wage for services performed and righteousness. Those who array passed Monday by the senate after it That the cookie-lady said. and it is the duty of the public to in class against class, man against man in sued a warning to the public against ment” rather than with Hood’s poem, had been amended so as to make the sist that its representatives shall es any manner are foes, not friends of having any dealings with certain for The Dream o f Eugene Aram.” So total $24,000,000 as against the $12,- eign companies' or associations com you nre not necessarily criminally in- ,l*1’ (lenr. cookie-lady sweet tablish a transportation policy that is society.” dined because you dream o f killing ^Iay you Uoautlfy our street 000,000 in the house bill and $20,000,- In pointing out a great need of the monly known as “ declarations of trust” some one sound from a business standpoint.” With your kind and gentle presence 000 recommended by tho senate com The foreign commerce group adopt church for ministers, Bishop McDowell or “common law trusts,” unless an The mystics regard a drenra of mur- Many more glad years, I pray; merce committee. investigation has first been made with der rather unfavorably. I f you see ^ ay ed resolutions offered by William C declared; ^ ie s be bright above you, “ The protestant church as a whole reference to the legal and financial others committing murder It Is a sign ^ s you ve fought our babes to love Supporters of Essad Pasha, former Redfield, ex-secretary of commerce, has never been wise or adequate in status of the corporations or associa that you will shortly be called upon to you provisional president of Albania, have that the trade embargo against Russia its care or thought of youth. answer for the misdeeds of others say ^ ou scar their hearts with sor- tions. be lifted and relations between citi occupied Tirana, Albania, and over ‘We do not now abate one jot or some, while others declare that it only row thrown the Albanian government, says zens of tho United States and Russia Salem.— Offers of 15 cents a pound ^ y °u ever £° away. The resolutions dis title of our hostility to liquor’s in for Willamette valley loganberries means that many hard struggles are a dispatch from Fiorina transmitted be resumed. before you and- it is a warning to L|fe ,s gt nn(1 wnpn j scnn lt describable crime against the world,” by the Exchange Telegraph corres claimed any intention to recognize the i n n , n tn n " n n ile n n m t nn 4 have been received by the owners of ‘watch l your step.” I T f f n you dream that I believe God tries to plan lt. the bishop said when discussing pro soviet government. pondent at Athens. three large tracts of this fruit in this you are committing murder yourself hibition. , . „ . . So that where he sends his babies, vicinity. The growers are not included look out for your reputation and con- In that neif,hhnrhoo(1 t0 dwpll World cable communication, it is in regard to church union the bishop Cost o f L iv in g Rises. |01W bpBUtv in the Marion'county pool and are free slder well the work you are now en- Qnp of rare Bm, asserted, will be revolutionized, by an asserted, “ the problem is far deeper m wvnrt 4 n IF n/ni m fhnr OAmn. Boston.—The average cost of living to dispose of their product independent gaged ln. I f you dream that some' Shall abide, whose sweetest duty and more significant than simply fus invention made by Major General Geo. for wage-earners advanced 7 per cent of the agreement reached at a meeting body Is murdering you suspect secret Is to be the cookie-lady ing two or more denominations and S. Squier, chief signal officer of the between November, 1919, and March of producers and buyers held here enemies and unforeseen dangers. In That the children love so well. much deeper than any plan of organiza army. By this invention it will be short, It Is a sort of warning dream (Copyright by Edgar A. Guest) 1920, according to a report made pub last Saturday tion. The motive for union must be to be on your guard. possible to talk by telephone to Eu --------O-------- lic by the national industrial confer Freud has devoted much attention Salem.— Lone Maple ranch, compris big enough to carry the movement, big rope, it is announced. « ence board. This makes a total of enough to last in all lands in all ing 128 acres, near Rosedale, a few to this dream and regards it as a de Five warships will be added to the 94.8 per cent since July, 1914, and of years.” miles south of Salem, was sold to sire left over from our infancy, a stored-away and forgotten relic of the Chilean navy as a result of negotia 21 per cent within one year, the re The address was devoted to answer Young & Matson, residents of Marion bnby mind before we had learned that tions between the Chilean and British port said. ing the question: “ What is our chief county. The consideration was $80,- lt was wrong to murder people. Ellis Food prices in March were 100 per government. Chile has decided to ac business at the present conference?” 000. Approximately 115 acres of the says: “ I f normal people dream of cept the offer by Great Britain of cent higher than before the war, ac By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS ranch is in bearing prunes, while five crime lt Is because they are more sen one dreadnought, four torpedo-boat de cording to 2000 dealers. Rents aver L iv in g Up 108 P e r Cent. acres is in pears. Besides a fine dwel-1 sitive nnd Imaginative and the sleep stroyers of 1800 tons each and a trans aged 48 per cent higher than in 1914, Washington, D. C.—Cost of living ling, the property is equipped with a ing consciousness Is strained to the ESUS' was a Carpenter. Cromwell and clothing advanced 177 per cent, figures In 14 American cities, obtained port. utmost to Invent n phnntasmal tragedy large drier and barn. was a Farmer. Washington was a according to figures furnished by 209 by the department of labor for Decem ndequnte to account for the wnves of Surveyor. Franklin was a Printer, Whether thero is one great universe, dealers. Salem.— Frank J. Jirak, until re emotion which beset it.” An interest- Lincoln was a Backwoodsman. To ber, 1919, as compared with December perhaps ten times as large as com cently stationed at Fort Stevens, ar ing thing about a murder drenm is get at great Character and mighty 1, 1914, put Detroit as the top of the monly believed, or a million "island” rived here Thursday to serve as ser thnt, as a rule, we experience no re- Achievement, you are invariably led U nderw ood M ade L eader. list with an increase of 108 per cent. universes similar to that of which the geant instructor of the Oregon national morse for our crime but much anxiety to the source o f it all—Honest Toll, Washington, D. C.— Senator Under Norfolk, Va., ranked second with 107 earth Is a part, was discussed at Mon wood of Alabama was elected demo per cent, while Portland, Me., took guard under the direction of Adjutant- to escape its penalty. W illiam Dean ^ye are ap Toilers. And there is just day's session of the annual meoting Howells has remarked: ’In my as much dignity nnd honor back of cratic leader in the senate Monday at first honors by trailing the list with General White. Mr. Jirak came here dreams I am always less sorry for my the sweat of the man who digs with of tho National Academy of Sciences a conference of senate democrats. He a percentage of 91^4. Increases for under orders of the western depart misdeeds than Tor their possible dls- j,is shovel or wields with a hammer as In Washington. was unopposed, Senator Hitchcock of other cities were: Boston, 92; New ment of the army. Although he will covery. (Copyright) there is behind the brain of the man be compelled to travel over the entire Scores of persons were killod and Nebraska, acting leader since the York. 103; Philadelphia, 96; Baltimore, ■” O whose thoughts, trained and «rgan- state, be will make his headquarters 25,00 acres of valuable timber havo death of the late Senator Martin of 98; Savannah, 98; Jacksonville, Fla., Llte rally. ized, direct the energies of countless here. been destroyed by forest fires in the Virginia, having withdrawn from the 102; Mobile, Ala., 94; Houston, 101; “ He acted in such a way as actually workers, Salem.—The Famous Players-Lasky to drive his w ife from home.” The Glory and Reward of Toll He Kamo district, Hiroshima prefecture. fight last week. Chicago, 100; Cleveland, 95; Buffalo, Besides electing Mr. Underwood, the 102 “ You don’t say so !” ln the Working Spirit that prompts corporation, organized under the laws This was made known in a cablegram “ Yes; ln a limousine he gave her the smallest effort of a Man. of New York, has filed with J. H. from Toklo received in Honolulu, T. democrats discussed briefly solidarity This earth does not belong to the Schulderman, state corporation com for a birthday present." H , Monday by Ntppu Jiji, a Japanese of action generally. Z io n ist« a re G ra te fu l. -------- (V ---- people who inhabit lt. but to those missioner, certificate of increase of language newspaper. Washington, D. C.—Sir Auckland who, in Honest Toil, magnify Its Bene Priest« Going to China. Geddes. British ambassador, received capital stock from $1.000,000 to $22,- fits. You owe more to every man than Unless Canadian provinces can be 500.000. The Oregon Knitting Mills, Omaha. — Sixteen priests of the Sunday a delegation from the Zionist any man owes to you. We are all won through friendly effort to remove Catholic mission society will leave In organization of America, which called with headquarters in Portland, has Debtors—from the humblest to the export restrictions on pulp wood, con a few days for China. This is the to thank the British government on been incorporated by Max Green, greatest. Nor Is any one of us entire gress should use the "big stick” of I-Rnow-regrets beginning of a large Catholic mission behalf of the American' Jews for ac Adolph Phillips and Phillip Phillips. ly IndependenL In Honest Toil, how retaliatory legislation. Senator Under ever, every man earns and pays fo r ary undertaking in China. A depart cepting the mandate for Palestine The capital stock is $20,000. are-useless, bu^ wood, democrat. Alabama, declared be his Heritage. ure ceremony will be held Thursday which was awarded it by the supreme Salem.—The Union and Baker coun fore the house foreign afrairs commit it s - g u llt o n T e i The most Pitiful man on Earth Is at St. Cecilia's cathedral. council at San Remo. The ambassador ty forest fire patrol associations are to tee recently. the one with nothing to do. Wherghs, was invited to address an extraordin be divided into two separate organiza the Happiest man on Earth Is the one “ Hail, C olum bia !" Key. Edmund M. Mills, acting secre ary convention of the Zionist organ tions, according to F. A. Elliott, state with the most to do. tary for tho general conference of the "Hall, Columbia,” was written by ization in New York City May 9. forester, who returned here last week So long as yon have within you. Methodist Episcopal church which will Joseph Hopklnson, April 29, 1798. sound and Intact, the scorea o f marvel from La Grande and Baker where he open Saturday at Des Moines, la., when the United States was threat ous Instruments for Labor and Serv Peoria, 111.— Federal prohibition of attended a meeting of the association. ice ln your Hands, F eet Eyes, Ears. stated that the conference probably ened with a war with France. It was ficers Sunday night seized 11,000 gal Mr. Elliott says the people of eastern Mouth— each overlorded by a Master would revise the ban on amusement«, composed to the air of the “ Presi lons of mash to be used for making Oregon are much interested In forest Creation—Your Brain—Complain not changing It from a mandatory act in dent's March,” for a young actor and whiskey on a farm near here. It Is fire prevention and more men will be that there Is nothing for You In Hon the book of discipline to a word of singer In the Philadelphia theater, and claimed this is the largest still seized placed ln the field there this year than est Toll. There Is everything In It. KPitjHvs»- fid vice. became at once highly popular. In the country. ever before. There Is nothing for you outsHIe o f it. Ju á t F o lk s H oneft T oil . -M ILITANT-M AR to MEET The-youth I-once thought-shiftless AND WHO IN0W0WNSHALF TH E S T R E E T !
