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The Oregon Statesman 3 Issued Dailv xceDt UondiT h TIIB STATESMAN I'LliLISHIXO COMPANY 21( S. Commercial St, Salem, Oregon. . MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatchels credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein R. J. Hendricks. Stephen: A. Stone. Ralph Glover W. a Sqoler i., Frank Jaskoskl..... 4 ........... . Manager .....Managing Editor Cashier ..Advertising Manager ...Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, IS cents a week, SO cents ai month. DAILY STATESMAN by mail, $8 a year; $3 for six months; SO cents a month. For three! months or more, paid In advance, at rate ot $5 a year. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; 60 cents for alx months; 26 cents for three months. WEEKLY 8TATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections. Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a yeah 60 cents tor six months; 26 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office. 23 Circulation Department, 683. Job Department, 6 S3. Entered at the Poatof fice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. RECKLESS SENATORS AND AIRCRAFT SITUATION -1 i 2 One of the meittbers of the United States Senate said, a few days ago, in a speecl in the upper branch of Congress, that $040, " 000,000 for aircraft "has been worse than squandered." lie might have said, as he did say by inference, that $G40,000,- 000 has been stolen. , That is a sample of some of the reckless speech of the members of that body, who Ire above the reach of libel laws, v They can say what they please, without fear of being called to account, excepting by other members of the Senate, or by that body acting as a whole. The editor of the Scientific American, Mr. Walker, and his associates, close students and observers of such matters, recently ; made a thorough investigation of the aircraft situation. IT What did they find T i They found that the program is three months behind. Behind whatt J v , ' ! , Behind the time promised by over enthusiastic heads of de partments. . Three months later in being carried through than the original time table specified. . . That is a good deal, t Three months is not a long time, regarded as a section of eternity. 1 n It is a long time in, ar. I But it is not enough to discourage the country ;' not enough to warrant such reckless statements in the United States Senate, i The concluding words of the article above mentioned, jn the Scientific American, are as follows: awtv ww xtgaiu iu laic; ajitui i.jr iiiuivt auu iiic vti repeated statement that the "motor is a failure," and that "quantity-production has broken down," we take! this opportunity to say that both of these statements i are absolutely false. : . ; - It is true that the work of bringing the motor to j the stage in which it would be ready for production in quantity, and of providing the machine tools, gages, etc., for quantity production have taken longeer than ,was suggested.- Even at that, the time consumed in proportion to the difficulty of the task that has been ac complished, has been remarkably short. The public disappointment has been due to over-sanguine prediction ! by men who did not know, men who,were not familiar with the magnitude of the task. - - -1 Speaking from first-hand knowledge after a person al investigation by members of our staff conducted at Washington and at Detroit, we! are in a position to say, first, that the Liberty motor, as it stands today, is a distinct success ; secondly, that its production in quan tity has commenced and is proceeding at an accelerating rate; thirdly that these motors, as turned out by quantity-production methods, are standing up to the gov ernment tests, which, by the way, are more severe than those to which the best type ot foreign motors are sub jected; and lastly, that, not only will our aviation ser vice possess the lightest motor for its power, hut a more ; powerful motor than any other in existence today. Therefore, we are glad of this opportunity, speaking with first-hand knowledge, to tell the American public that, though the delay amounting to about three months is p : ; greatly to be deplored, the country will witness, from - . ; t I now on, a rate of output of motors and planesj that will , t , go far to compensate for past disappointments, c The Statesman has reason to know that there is anaeceler ating speed now in the forwarding and training of men for air fighting; and in the functioning of all the work j of getting the spruce for the planes to the places where it will goi into the battle . machines. ' . ' j . . . . j Three months behind schedule is the aircraft program; but 'it will catch up; and the American eagles of the air will from now on take an increasing proportion of the struggle for world democracy r above the clouds, and become every day a greater factor in bring ing the final victory that is sure to crown the standards of decency and order and good faith and a lasting peace on earth and good will among all men. : . , . j 1 ) I The bottling up of Zeehrugge and Ostend may! mean more to the world han yet appears. It may mean the complete elimination of -the German submarine menace. For it is officially announced that, by the 15th of this month (in four days more), there will be completed n the North Sea the greatest mine field in naval history, 'enclosing 121,782 square miles. This means that no German sub marines will be able to get out of the river Elbe or the Kiel canal past Heligoland, without being trapped and destroyed and if none can get oat of the harbors of Ostend or Zeebrugge, the history of the frightfulness of German U-boats will be over, for this war. It will mean, also, that the war itself will be over, before very Ion: for i,-n :ii i i . . . - - me ucrwau pcupic wm nave oeen sinppea oi every nope or vic tory, and will see certain defeat ahead. And their morale will be broken, or it will be so near the breaking point that a- small wind ' of adversity, sure to come, will smash it completely. ' rtrrtHRH dates -Mar 11. Sunday Mother's Day. Mar IT. Friday -Cvimary nemfaat lasr election. May to, Monday Red Cross drive 1R-ina, . j. 1 ''May IS. Thursday. Richmond P. Kobson peaks at Armory. ,.; YMay 17. Friday Wiilamtt Gle ; Club, opera house. . -,t . May SO to J 7 Second Red Cross war fund cam paten. May it and Wednesday and Thursday War conference ia Portland. J?P l ', ,B4 Mtau rang, entlon la Balem. June I. Saturday Total eclipse t vun June 14. Friday Hirh School rad- vJnne 14. yridayFlas day. - June 14. Friday Hlsh School eom i mencement aercises. &on. l7' ;Mondr Annual school June tO, Thursday. Reunion of Ore ron Pionr associ.tn. Portland. Aumist ;2. ,J7 and tS Western Wil. nut Orower-'t As-oclatJOn to ' Zr nut Crovea of Willamette valley. Bottling season on the Belgian coast. . I Th traditions of the British navy are being justified. -Perhaps there are other chapters to follow. The Germans will! hare to take their submarine bases in out of the wet Looks like rain.! No ships have been sunk off the coast of France in the last three months. All honor to the American navr. which Is on the watch there. "If Cermanr does1 not achieve peace, there will be a revolution says a traveler at Copenhagen who has, Just returned from a tour of tho central empires. He means two rev oluttons. one for Austria and vbe other for Germany. Over in Utah the Mormon church advises all widows to marry again. It used to be that the advice of that organization .was to marry dftener. But that Is reformej now. French peasants are plowing and planting within two and a half miles of the greatest battle in histo-y. They wear gas masks while they work In their fields and gardens. That is French thrift for you. The Canadian and British recruit ing officers are around again. They are after all the aavilable men In the United States. These men may still enlist. In a little while it will be too late to enlist. They the will be drafted. Dull market In Wall street yester day, and made more bullish j the further bottling up of Ostend. The highest prices on record were quot ed. Steel common went to 109!. A few years back this stock was go ing begging at 10 to 11 cents. The financial circles probably have some private tips." - Any way, their buoy ancy sounds good. Like an echo out of the past comes word of the popularity of "Annif Laurie" , with the British soldiers. "It is the queen of songs in the trenches. says Sir Alexander Mac kenzie as quoted by the London Chronicle. The men who fought un der the "Iron Duke" were bound In to deeper fellowship by singing '"An nie Laurie." and It Is well that its vogue should abide. Some idea of the labor situation In and around New York may be de rived from the fact that a few days ago the New York World published 37 columns of "Help wanted male' advertisements, as aaginst four col umns of "Situations wanted male." and sixteen columns of "Help wanted female" as against three-fourths or a column of "Situations wanted female. - ! Vermont's commissioner ; of agri culture, E. S. Brigham, of SL Albans, has . been in Washington consulting with Secretary of Agriculture Hous ton and Food .Administrator Hoover, and takes home adivce to the fann ers of his state that has application throughout the country. Commis sioner Brigham urges dairymen ; to check the tendency to kill off .cattle because present 'conditions are not all that could be desired. To meet the "nigh prices ot grain the farmers are advised to raise more of their owa feed. It may be well to do away with unprofitable cows, but a larger number, ot heifer calves should he saved. The world will have Increas ing need of any surplus dairy pro ducts w may' have in this country. It requires Courage and will power to tide over present difficulties, but those who do this will profit In the end. As the St. Albans Messenger puts it: "The farmer who keeps his good stock will have no reason to regret it when the balance sheet cov ering a period of years is struck." THE ALL-HIGHEST SUFFERS. There is no other tragedy of the war that quite equals the heart lac erations orthat good and benevolent man the German em peror. We are informed by the Berliner Lokal-An-zelger, a newspaper qualified to speak officially about the All-Highest, that on his recent visit to the battlefield near Queant, His Majes ty's silence was broken only once when he remarked - to an officer, "What have I not done to preserve the world from these horrors! j To be sure. The world might have escaped all of it had it quietly submitted to German domination. All this has come about through an unholy resistance to kultur. Th heathen in their blindness would not accept the salvation that was preached to them from the altar of Potsdam, and now civilization is drenched In blood and the mission ary wrings his pious ands ln an guish. ' . It is a deplorable spectacle thus to witness the suffering ot a gener ous and noble nature, especially when we know that the whole tra gedy could be ended at once by the unconditional surrender of the Unit ed States, France. Great Britain and Italy to Germany. New York World. MATCHES: AX OBJECT LESSOX. (American Economist) Editor Aemrlcan Economist: My wife spilled two boxes of matches 1000 matches of American make on the floor. Would I pick them up and put them back lit the boxes? I did. They had to be laid in all one way. it took me about forty minutes. While thus engaged I . recalled a cartoon of some weeks ago in the American Economist which showed a room full of Ja panese girls, ranging from 6 to 10 years, engaged in packing matches in small boxes. - The legend said that these children SAVES WOMEN ' : FROM TORTURE Put a few drops on a touchy corn, then lift corn out with fingers Your high heels have put corns on your toes and calluses on the bot tom of yourfeet. but why care now? Fort a few cents you can get a quarter ounce of the magic drug rteezone tecently discovered by a Cincinnati genius. Apply a few drops upon a tender. aching corn and instantly, yes im mediately, all soreness disappears and shortly you will find the corn so loose that you lift it out. root and all. with the fingers. Just think! Not one bit of pain before applying freezone or after wards. It doesn't even Irritate the. (unrounding skin. Hard corns, soft corns or corns be tween the1 toes, also harden calluses on bottom of the feet just seem to shrivel up and fall off without-hurt ing a particle. It Is almost magical It Is a compound made from ether says a well known druggist here. received 4 cents a day In wages, and the picture Included the richly-dressed owner of the plant -rubbing his hands in satisfaction and saying: "With wages at 4 . cents a day It is cheaper than labor-saving machinery would be." At the Japanese rate 6f four-tenths of a cent per hour my pay for packing those thou sand matches would have been . about three-tenths of a cent. With matches on the free list of the'-Underwood Free-Trade Tar iff, and with labor paid at the Japanest rate, it struck me that American match producers have a very unfair chance to compete with Japan, and that we ought to get back a Protective Tariff right off, without waiting for the war to end. And matches. I believe, are not the only things which Japan is selling u$ cheap er than we can make them for. ourselves while paying ten to twenty times the wages paid in Japan. Yours very truly, F. E. Touston. Saginaw, Mich. April 20. 191 S. In this slaple and homely illustra tion ot the unfair competition per mitted and promoted by the Under wood free trade tariff there is an object lesson which includes In lti scope for more than the item of matches. The lesson relates to a large line ' of competitive products which the Orient with its cheap labor is fending to the country which pays the" highest wages in the world- ten to twenty times the wages paid in Japan. x Probably the writer of the above letter had not thought much about this Oriental competition until his task of repacking a thou sand matches recalled the cartoon In the American Economist, There is much to think about in this connec tion. Every patriotic American wno wants his country to be prosperous land powqrful 'should be thinking . AM A about the foreign competition mai displaces American labor and Indus try by permlsaion of our free trade administration and congress. Smash the Underwood tariff! BITS FOR BREAKFAST I . Beautiful May days. S Gutzom Borglum Is a sculptor. S 1- He should sculpt, and let the air plant business alone.. S S At least, it looks somewhat that way now. The bottling up of Ostend and Zee brugge probably means a Dig cnap ter in the war. U V S In connection with the mining or the North sea. . i Probably the U-boats are playing their last engagement of frightful ness. Pope asks for prayers for peace on June 29. By that time Germany may need the prayers. And Austria needs them now. -m -W May be Premier Clemenceau of France, when he said he wanted to live six months more to witness the ending of the war, spoke more by the ...,1 th.m th rout of the world, or moat of It. knew. The net about Germany is tightening. It has been figured out that the reason why the Inhabitants of the small town are more cordial than those who live in the large cities is that they ahve fewer opportunites ror "putting on lugs" in a place where everybody knows all about them. In a big town, if a man can get the, price he may Invest in a cutaway coat and a silk hat and the neighbors will thing he is a Vander biit out for an airing as soon as he gets a few blocks from home. In a mall town everybody belongs to the "I-Knew-Him-Wben" club. A German (correspondent for a German paper has recorded for the delectation of its readers the daily routine of the all highest. It may be learned that every afternoon he picks fresh violets to send to his frao. and that promptly at 1 o'clock he dines on soup. It is very touch ing Indeed to discover that the man who loosened his brutes on the wom en and children of Belgium and France, picks violets wherever he Is and sends them to the kaiserin when all she needs do to get as big a bouquet as she pleases is to send to the imperial conservatory. w suspect that the kaiser merely plucked violets once or twice, for publication. Los Angeles Times. SECRETARY IS STATE AUDITOR Authority Is Constitutional, Attorney General Rules for Medford Man In the opinion of Attorney General Brown some of the tentative provi sions Included under the heading "Urpartment of Fln.n" In th-i im posed new scheme or r ta:e-government drawn up by the or.oll Jitlon commission are in conf!ie with the state constitution. A opinion writ ten by the attorney general yester day for John II. Carkln of Medford fs addressed particularly to the ques tion whether the duties of auditor of the state's accountants can be sep arated from the office of secretary of state. One of the principles of the consolidation commission as set forth at Its meeting in Salem last March Is not to Interfere with he state constitution. Brown's opinion cites a similar eft fort made by the Wisconsin legisla ture to create the office. of comp troller which was overruled by the supreme court. The opinion recalls that the first law passed by the first Oregon legislature, in 1859. was to carry Into effect the powers, auth ority 'and duties or ithe governor, secretary of state and state treas urer. The constitution as a living instrument is. shown to date from the preceding February and the In strument is quoted to show that It confers the powers of auditor upon the secretary of state. At the con clusion of his opinion Mr. Brown says or the first bill passed by the legis lature, that carrying Into effect the authority of the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer: "The bill was introduced In the I senate by one of the leading mem bers of the constitutional convention. It is a historical fact that members of the Oregon constitutional conven tion were statesmen of great ability and lawyers of much learning, wide experience and pre-eminently quali fied to draft a constitution. Nor is there any question but that the men who prepared the bill defining the duties of the secretary of state, knew the meaning of the provision that he. the secretary of state, shall by virtue of his office be auditor of public accounts." In g Bach's "rasFJoa According to Matthew" will be sung. Thursday afternoon the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra will give a program. Dur Inr the remained or the week there will be glfen performances of still maa Kelley's -Pilriim's. Progre Rossinl's "Stabat Mater" and Wolf. Ferrari's -New Life." Purity Clve lWer. There are still manv persons ia the world that need to be lmpresed with the fact that the purer the Mood is the greater is the power of the system to remove disease and t!ie less the liability to contract it Persons whose blood is in good con dition are much less llkelr to take cold or to be long troubled with It, or to catch any contagious or Infec tious disease, than are those whose blood is Impure and therefore im poverished, and lacking In vitality. The best medicine for purifying the blood is Hood's Sarsaparilla. and persons suffering from any blood dis ease or any want of tone in the sys tem are urged to give this medicine a trial. It is especially useful at this time of year. 3L1Y WIN WHITE STATL 'KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. May 11, Every one of the forty-two precincts ia Klamath County has won an hoa or flag In the liberty loan drive a&d there Is a strong possibility that tie ccunty has won a white star for doubling Its quota. The total num ber of subscribers in Klamath county is believed to hare been about 2.509. MUSIC FESTIVAL JfOW OX. CINCINNATI. O.. May 7. Music lovers from numerous states are here to attend the biennial Cincinnati May Festival, one of the oldest nd most prominent affairs of 1U kind in America. More than ordinary inter- t ia manifested In the festival this year, owing party to the exceptionally attractive program ana partly 10 me ATtnearance of a new conductor in the person of Eugene Ysaye, theYamous Beleian violinist. The festival opens In Music Hall this evening with a performance of Haydn's "Seasons. Tomorrow even- 1 , - . ) if j 7 BRUCE DENNIS For REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN I believe a political committee should : elect candidates, not select them.' The Republican party is 100 per cent American. Its business now is to help win the war. Let us Join together and make the Republican party in Oregon a real, live, active institution "or all members Instead of a closely woven Personal Machine. rv PORTLAND CLOAKOITGOSTOCKTOPI'S ' Uncle Sam says:- wjf DO YOUR BIT Make Potatoes Save Wheat BE A"P0TATRI0T'' THE FEDERAL FOOD ADMINISTRATOR HAS DESIGNATED THE WEEK OF MAY - 13TH-18TH AS "PO-TATO WEEK" . WE ARE OFFERING A 10 Day Special NOW ON , Absolutely free OF POTATOES -1 m DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME WITH EVERY PURCHASE OF A HELP US DO OUR "Brr" AND DO YOURS BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY. THE WHEAT HAS EMBARKED FOR SERVICE IN EUROPE. THE POTATOES ARE SERVING HERE AS A HOME GUARD ' "v ' - .$15.00 AND UP COATS. $10.00 AND UP SUITS. DRESSES. .$12.75 AND TJP WAISTS, SKIRTS, MILLINERY PORTLAND CLOAK & SUIT CO, AT STOCKTON'S COURT AND COMMERCIAL STREETS