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DAILY STATESMAN, served -by carrier In Salem and suburbs, IS cents a week. 50 cents a month." DAILY STATESMAN, by mail. $6 a year; $3 tor six months; 50 centa a month. For three months or more, paid in advance, at rate of 5 year. SUNDAY STATESMAN, 1 1 a year; 50 cents for tlx months; 25 centa for three months. ' WEEKLY STATESMAN. Issued Jn two six-page sections Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year (if not paid In advance, $1.25); 50 centa for aix ,'- months; 26 centa for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department. 583." Job Department, 683. will not have much sympathy for him on account of his wabbling and cowardly attitude durins the recent war, whenje kowtowed to the Hun Junkers whenever occasion required It. ' ' CIUPLIX AS A HItJHFLYEIt Entered at the Postofflce In Salem, Oregon, as aecond class matter. SENATOR LODGE. (Los Angeles Times.) lion. Henry Cabot Lodge, United States Senator from Massa chusetts, is. opposed W the League of Nations. Scholar and patriot - though he is, Sir. Lodge can see no cause for the United States to follow the call of world destiny. Strange to say, he does not see that the League of Nations is the inevitable development of the world situation, and that by entering into it in the Spirit that we entered the var we saerifice nothing of value and gain mueh; that, thereby, we shall be in a position to become the5 foremost nation of the earth,-the greatest power for good; that by taking our place at the head of the great nations of the world our nation, and people will gain a prestige such as no nation has had before, and which we can acauire in no other way. Mr. Lodge wants us to go back to our prewar isolation, to turn aside from the path of national destiny, and to remain as we were before tthe world became what it is today. ; Unfortunate it is that Mr. Lodge should take such a stand, for his influence is ereat and his reputation as a statesman is high. But it is worthy of note that Mr. Lodge is following in the footsteps of. his - -mm in a 1 T" i.a - predecessors, pi iormer senators ana ivepresentaiives in . vongreBs from his State. For it is one of the extraordinary facts of American history that the leading opposition to nearly every move for. national expansion has come from the State of Massachusetts, the State wherein started, the Revolution the birthplace of American free dom; Not that the people of the Bay State have lacked patriotism. Far from it. Nor havehey, placed upon that great virtue the same V narrow mteiretatiorttiiafiave their official representatives in Con gress. However, the historical fact should be pointed out that their Congressmen And Senators have generally been conspicuous on the wrong side when the call of expansion has sounded, and that Senator Lodge is following so closely along the same path. ' When first we sought to add domain to the territory of the nation, at the close of the Revolution, Congressman Josiah Quincy of Massa chusetts worked himself into a frenzy in his denunciation of the Louisiana Purchase, declaring that its consummation would afford just grounds for a dissolution of the Union. ' ' ' "m Daniel Webster -opposed the .annexation of Texas, and the opposi tion, of which he was a leader, forced the Polk administration to abandon tentative plans for a much greater expansion in Mexico. When we look at the present Condition "of the territory which we then annexed, at the peace and prosperity under our rule of the , natives of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and California, and, con trast! it. with the unhappy, lot of those left under Mexican rule; we can hardly help a. feeling of regret that Webster and his fellow Op ponents of manifest destiny should have had the influence they had. But when we see Webster opposing even the comparatively limited expansion provided by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, DECLAR ING CALIFORNIA to be "a place unfit for human habiUtion.M the intervening, territory, worthless, and seeking to deprive us of the 'magnificent territory from which we have since carved six entire States, viz.", California.' Arizona. New Mexico. Colorado. Utah and Nevada, and parti of several other States our respect for Webster's statesmanship drops to a low point and we feel glad that the State ai, jicut Him lu iuc ocuic was not, ue aommant power ot tne1 naion. H :;- ,-;.':,;.- '-H '. .' Charles Sumner, Webster successor inl the United States Senate, opposed the very suggestion that we should take steps to acquire Cuba, a question often debated during the 50's, and since then we have had to fight an international war to free the island from Spanish rule. Sumner successfully fought the efforts of President Johnson to acquire the Danish West Indies. As a result, we have had to pay $25,000000 to ieep these islands from falling into the hands of Germany. Sumner also opposed" the purchase of Alaska, . fortunately , without success. : - ' ; i f After the Spanish War, Sentaor Hoar of Massachusetts held up ; for months the ratification of the treaty of Paris, which freed Cuba and gave us Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. - Mr. Lodge apparently takes his place beside Quincy, Webster, Sumner and noar as an opponent of national progress. Should he succeed at this critical time in fastening their policy of isolation and contraction upon the nation, the consequencs will be most nnfortu-nate-p-perhaps a world calamity. ,k ' . All's well that ends well. The cuckoo senators of the round robin are being shown the place where they get off and everybody will be satisfied and the goose will hang highj The covenant of the League of Nations has been amended some- and it will be amended some more. The cuckoo senators will claim they did it; with their .uuc ruuna room ana there will be victory enough to go around; all around the wide earth. And the r with a whoop that will reach to the altitude.of the highest airplane circus. All of which will be gratifying. Bui if the original covenant ypVf uouung tern Die would Have happened. The Constitution of the United States was finallv ndnnt the expedient of , promising immediate amendments, which resulted !?!! ' V1?. Ven Ame.ndraents' constituting wjiat was known as the jJi LrlUi. al! MH n December 15, 1791. If the final draft of the constitution Of tbie Leatrue of Natinn iiaii lw as to need no niore amendments in the same length of time as the Constitution of be United States has had, it will be. more satisfac- xaJ7. ?nan ?ne. woria now, has a right to expect. ' -Two anniversaries for last week were allowed in lm notice. y The Alaska purchase was consummated March 30 1867-fifty-two years ago last Sunday; Japan was opened by Commodore' crix March; 31, 1854; sixty-three years ago last Monday. A short period, measured m historic time. But a lot' of water has run down the beautiful Willamette river during those years. '. ; Charley Chaplin has been one ot the ' men in thi movies without the dubious reputation of a -highflyer." SoLe: , sedate, half-pathetic little Charley that is, on iho screen with his duck-waddle walk, he has encircled the globe and made every body love him. But Charley has goae not wrong, exactly, but into the highflying busi ness. ' . He has turned airplane owner, and proposes to establish an air line be tween Los Angeles and Catalina. And" there Is no funny business about - it. The passengers . are not to' . be smeared with custard pie nor drop ped, head first through seventeen floors of a skyscraper into tubs of water. Nope.. This is strictly busi ness. And here's hoping that Char ley makes as much money out of air planes as he has out, of hte duck waddle." Catalina Island has bee a purchas ed by Mr. Wrlgley, the chewing gum millionaire, and it will be exploit ed as a great resort. The venture of Charley Chaplin in taking a flyer into high flying as a commercial proposition its a straw showing what Is going, on In that field, and what may be exepct ed to go oq tideflnitely. The navigation of the air Is bound to become very rapidly one of the big things of a world that has tre mendously expanded. IMMIGRATION AXD NATIONALITY others and having become a lanued proprietor, ceased to be a menace of any kind; and sj strangely did the race prejudice die out that American whites' began even to boa3t of In dian descent, so subtly was' it in- - -f - - i tterwoven with coveled property In land. Today three of mixed blood prefer to assert their Indian d ascent rather than be mistaken for half Italians or half -Mexicans. It was not until eighty years af ter the first naturalization ! law of 1790 that tbe negro was admitted to citizenship. In July, 1870, con gress provided that "the naturali zation laws are hereby extended to aliens of African navtivity a.id to persons of African descent." ! It was apparently supposed at the time ot its passing that the provision re moved all .'race discrimination from our naturalization laws. Three yeara later a Chinese was naturalized in New York; and about fourteen hua dred have since becon.e citizens. Then came, up the labor question; the flooding of the Pacific coast with cheap and efficient oriental workmen, who were evidently a men ace to our institutions. By 1882 congress had passed a law suspend ing Chinese immigration for . ten yeara; and it was followed by more drastic 'legislation. Tbe ' weaknes of the Chinese covern nent,' notor iously 'incapable of looking after the interests of its subjects abroad, al lowed -this special and discriminat ing legislation to pasa with mere in effective protests. The naturaliza tion laws have thus dealt exclusive ly with three classes f persoas: "free white persons. always admis sible; persons of African birth or descent," admitted by the law of 1870; and Chinese." The: subse quent extension of the terra "Chi nese" to mean "of Mongolian race" is a pure assumption of our inter preters of the law. i " As it happens, while outwardly alike, , yet in natioaal ideals: and in labor from .the dangers of unregu lated immigration. All ignominious race dlccrim! na tion would disappear. Why adait non-Caucasians like Tartars. Tu, Perslan3. Mexicans, Zulus and Hot tentots a'ad exclude other non-Can-casians merely because they come across the Pacific? In doing away with this 'differential treatment of Asiatics, which carries with it un told possibilities of futire wars and unpleasant entanglements, no dan ger would be incurred of large im migration from Asia. ON A 5 PER CENT. RATE THE PERMISSIBLE IMMIGRATION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE WOULD BE FOR MANY YEARS UNDER TWO THOUSAND A YEAR, A NUMBER SMALLER THAN THAT WHICH NOW COMES YEARLY. The pamphlet Is the re sult, exideatly, of much grave and solid thought and endeavor, and its proposals cannot be lightly pushed aside. ! LEST WK FOI'GET! The tumult and the shouting dies The captains and the kings depart Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice. An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God ot hosts, be with ns yet. Lest we forget lest we forget! The American Spirit Vanity or Common-Sense . Chapter II. E.R. PARKER (riioitMhikti) - 1 I BITS FOR BREAKFAST A vexatious problem of the day. ranking before many others fu im portance. Is the recognition and dif ferentiation of vaatibnality. Mixed with it, but by no means identical I many vital ways, no two people are In its - scope, is the dlatinctutn, of more unlike than the Japanese and race. These are burning iseuea and the Chinese. The Japanese fabsorb may be blazing. ed ! Chinese" civilization fourteen In Europe, up . to the nineteenth I hundred years ago, but they never century, nationalities had been de-1 became Chinese in race or Vaational nied . their proper development, and dynastic reasons had divided peo ples. During the century many peo ple asserted themselves nationally. notably Germany, Italy . and Hun gary; and yet,. ia the very assertion of their right to national life, the dominant race, claiming to be the "nation, was guilty of grave Injus tices to other racial elements which were included in the national com munity. . rl;;J . Today one of the serious questions before theC peace conferences' is the ideals. The two languages are so unlike that they even belong to dif ferent categories of language; one being monosyllabllc, the other agglu tinative. With the cult or the sword despised in China-,, Japan has become a powerful entity as' a nation; sho has the national instinct. She has a logical right to ask why this il licit interpretation of "Chinese" as meaning "of Mongolians! race' should hamper her relations with the .Washington? government; why laws that were largely due to the seeming indifference of the . states-1 supineness of an effete Peking despot- men or Italy to the demands : or a new nationality, the Jugo-Slavs, clalminng a right to a seahoard. The Hungarians, afte- having won ! a' victory in the assertion of their nationality. under Kossuth and the liberal peoples of the world hailed him as a hero- have I een strange ly unjust to the other races ruled from Budapest. And resurgent Poland, weleomlng the dawn of a new national life, un der favorable auspices, has befn badly with its anti-Jewish pogroms. The United States began its na tional life remote from dynastic and national issues and opened its doors: freely to immigrants from Europe; there was no Industrial Asia at the time. It was hampered, however. from the outset by a race question, that of the negro. Desiring to estab lish a ' uniform rule of naturaliza tion" congress passed a law the first law dealing with naturalization In March 26. 1790, providing that "Any alien being a free white per son who shall have redded within the limits and under thfeurtsdictlon ism should be supposed to-have a world significance, extendfat; to all the peoples of a great continent. As If Asia were the only continent, moreover, that sends ns nndesiraaJe Immigrants! L The naturalization laws of Japan are by no means liberal, but they are at least on a logical baaU.and do not discriminate. The call today in this great republic of ours is em phatically for a thorough ; revision of our unsatisfactory naturalization laws, made in haphazard faah'on to meet particular conditions. All thoughtful citizens admit the need of safeguarding the country against the admission of aliens, from what ever continent,, who refuse to ba as similated; who remain dangeronsly foreign in their habiti anl idea la The proposals contained In a re?nt pamphlet . entitled "A NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR THE REOULA TION OF IMMIGRATION AND THE AMERICANIZATION OF IMMI GRANTS," which has been published by the National Committee for Con structive Immigration Legislation, onne Lnited states for the term of j are well worth the most caiefrl two years may be admitted to , be- study, They movf' in the direction come a citizen tnereor." With the of placinr the nroblen of immlcra negro waa excluded at the same time the Indian, as not capable of exer cising the duties and responsibili ties of citizenship. . within half a .century the Indian having settled down in his various nations Cherokee. Choctaw and the Chicago wanted to exhibit her horrible thirst, of water in Lake. Michigan. But there is plenty -The Dutch look Holland, and the Germans carried Chicaeo. the Berlin of America. Salem, is to have the second larg est garage 1a Oregon. It is next to the office of The Statesman. . ' 1 - ' - : :.- . ;Mayor Baker of Portland proposes a league of pacific coast states for advancing' the economic "and Indus trial Interests a bad Idea, strength. of this region. . Not In unity there is Madrid is under martial law and the ground ; la shaking : under the heels of King Alfonso. ' Americans tlon outside of race dfttiriraicatlon and race prejudice. Ttaco discrim! nation caused one of tLe most cal amltous of civil wars; It remains i dangerous element in int-rnaticnal affairs. It is working untold evils today, in Eastern Enr?pe;? why not guard against possible dangers here by framing wise legislation to meet the whole situation? The proposed regulations wuld deal with the 'situation, not only from the outlooks on the Pacific, but also from that on the Atlantic, re ducing immigration from Southera Europe especially L to manacaule proportions, rhi'e thorc tghty and permanently protecting the ' Pacific Coast States from all dangers of tm migration from Asia. Regulating all immigration on a strict percent age principle, say from S to 10 per cent, of those people already natur alized. It would call for the crea tion, of an Immigration - commission "to determine annually tne rale within the specified limits, -with : power to admit or exclude labor vo der exceptional circumstances and ta deal with other specified and excep tional "matters Jor Importance. In cluding the formulation of educa- Room 210 TJ. S. Natl Bank Bldg.ltlonal standards for naturalization." v pfaone 110. r j Its alm would be to protect American HEALTH WITHOUT DRUGS Health depends upon a normal supply of healthy blood. The blood supply depends upon the circulation or the blood. This circulation depends upon the normal functioning of the nervous system. Anything, there fore, that Interferes with with nerve function will affect the health. Con tracted muscles, displaced bones or other tissues, eye strain, and errors of diet are some of the things that interteve with nerve function and consequently with health. It is onr bosinesa to correct the conditions that interfere with normal nerve function. We are working at oar Dnsiness. " DR. A. SLAUGHTER Naturopath Trophy train today. V j Will be here three hours. S Commencing at 1:4. this after noon. - It will be at Commercial, and Trt(i atrpptu 1nat annth nf The ) Statesman office. I . m I There will be a crowd. They' will come from all over the country. : S Loganberry training Is commenc ing. There will be bu3y times on the farms from now on. April came in like a lamb. -Let us hop ror that kind' of -weather during most -of the month. The farmers need it. ' There Is every Indication that the brass tacks period of deliberations at the peace conference has come, and) that it will be all over but the aftermath within a very short time. S SCHOOL..'.. .. .. ..14 IIED ..? The Marlon county school fund apportionment for the various dis tricts is being prepared by County School Superintendent W. M. Smith. The apportionment thla year is ap proximately $1.10 per capita. i The school census fo. the county shows 12.152 children and or these 3650 are In Salem. Silverton. Wood- burn and Stayton are the next larg est towns In number of school chill- dren. Wonder what President .Wilson will do with the George Washing ton when he gets through with, it? Probably intern it at bis dear old Princeton home. Exchange. m There Is a movement on foot in Washington to send an -invitation to President Wilson asking him to make a short visit to tbe national capital RhU summer. . America Is always gracious to strangers. Ex 'I - V The censor la working over time la Paris, and American readers ot newspapers are only allowed to know such things as the hlghcocka- olrums allow them to know. What has .become of that promise that pitiless publicity . was . to mark the international gathering? S Must we dealcoholize literature with the coming or national prohi bition? Imagine Robert Burns. Charles Dickens and Omar Khayyam cut to suit the manner of "dry times! As for Dickens, what shall we do with the Cheetyble broth ers, old Fezziwig. Mr. Micawaber. Bob Cratchltt at his humble Christ mas dinner and others? We should have nothing left but Little Nell and. Paul Do m bey. Exchange. f" ,S V : With the coming of national pro hibition there will . nave to be something else to be substituted in the nation s social life. Why not keep the churches open seven days a week? They must attract and Inspire and render useful service. . St. Louis used to be known as the world's greatest brewing center, but ft has surrendered that alleged honor and is now known as the greatest fur renter in this country, competlnr We dentists call our occupation not business or a craft but a learned nrnfessioh." We don't wish to be in the class with merchants or skilled workers. ! But what are we'? Surely" we aren't friars, going around giving free ser vice. . ' -j We become dentists not because -our fingers itch to pull out other people's teeth but to make a living. ' , The trouble is we desire to use onr occupation as a means to attain "class-distinction. We put dignity above common-sense and service. This is un-American. It leads to failure. There is a natural pride and sense of honor in all healthy men. It is the pride of workmanship. It impels artists, artisans, mechanics, to do their work welL Such pride is good. We can't have too much of it, But there is the pride of caste. That is bad. Unfortunately, we dentists hsrre too little good pride, and too much bad pride. Too often we htie our inefficiency and sloth be hind decorum. As though courtly manners could cure toothache I Among ourselves we say "We do these things to attract business." . ' ! y - That's just the point. We don't attract business that way. . Business came to me when I gave up professional Vanity. I went out among the people. I spoke their language. I shared their, troubles. I lightened (heir pain and burden. The only pride I felt was in good workmanship. My motto is: Good Service is Good Business. E. R. Parker System" you will find first-rate work in dentistry is done for exceedingly moderate fees. Under the .SYSTEM, Painless Parker Dentist State and Commercial Streets.- with London for the world prize. But the fur does not grow on the brew ers, as some folks mie,ht Imagine. S What we need In this country 'is j revival of good, old-fashioned Am erican sanity. And It might be well to suggest that the foreign agitators and German-trained college profes sors who don't believe In our brand of government can go back to th rountries where they came from and which perhaps they likebetter. Men are not welcome here who attempt ,rn7 undermine our institutions, r A Warning to feel tired before ex ertion is not laziness It's sign that the system lacks vitality, and need the tonie effect of Hood's Sarsapa rilla. Sufferers should not delay Get rid of that tired feeling by be ginning to take Hood's Sarsaparlll today. ............ , - With onr transportation facilities we axe able to pa; the highest cash price for ' " ' ' EGGS DRESSED MEATS POULTRY : ' A WILLATIETTE VALLEY TRANSFER CO. 171 South High Street. 1 Phone 1400 Four Free Scholarships TO ADVERTISE DIXIE: B READ WOMEN! DRY CLEAN THINGS AT HOME Try it! . For a few (dents you can dry clean everything. Save five to ten dollars quickly by dry cleaning everything In the home with gasoline that would be ruined by soap and water suits, coats, waists, silks, laces, gieves. shoes, furs, draperies, rugs everything! Place a gallon or more of gaso line in a dishpan or washboller, then put In the things to be dry cleaned, then wash them with Solvlte soap. Shortly -everything comes out look ing like new. Nothing fades, shrinks or wrinkles. Do not attempt to dry clean without Solvlte soap.- This gasoline soap Is the secret of all dry cleaning. " I A package of Solvite soap contain ing directions for home dry-clean ing, costs little at any drag store. Dry clean outdoors or , away from flame. To each of the four young men or young women who save the largest number of DIXIE BREAD WRAPPERS OR DIXIE BREAD LABELS we will give a ' SIX MONTHS SCHOLARSillP IX TI1E Capital Business College This is voUng contest: each Dixie Bread Wrapper or Dixie Bread Label counts for ten votea. All you need to do is to bring ?r f11,!1? wrPP?r r ltls to the Salem Baking Co.. successors to the Modern Bakery. 43 9 Court St, Salem. Place the name of the person for whom you wish to vote in an envelope with the wrappers or labels. The envelope will be dropped through a slot in a locked box. The key to this box will be in charge of a com mittee selected by the officers of the Salem Commercial Club.. This committee will have charge of counting the votes, and will make, 1a wATds after tn conte8t ! over. -The contest will close June 30. 1919, , at S p. m. All rotes must be In tbe box at precisely that . hour by Western Union time, j J NOTICE None of the employes (or members of their fam ilies) of the Salem Baking Co.. nor any of the faculty or stn- -dents now enrolled at the Capital Business College are eligi ble to enter this contest. ,r B.esIa "ow to aTe Dixie Bread Wrappers and: Labels. The oting Contest Is on. Either enter yourself, or If your school days are over help some young friend to enter V HANDICAPPED wlTo hindrances and obstacles placed In one's way. Tls a serious matter for one to be handicapped In tbe busi ness ot Me. yet this Is just what happens to young people who atart without a proper training for business. THE CAPITAL BC8IXESS COLLEGE " Is a school that affords a training to remove handicaps natural or otherwise, so that one jmay start ,a buslnesa life with the right chance of making good. One shqnld he prepared to do a rew things well. That Is the mission or this school to teach a few things well. Our graduates succeed. Call, let ua talk about a course. of study. Students may enter at any time. 1 Address all Inquiries to SoJem' Baking Co. 439 Court Street Successors to The Modern Bakery II l -J 'P