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i t THE ORKUOX fcTATESMANj TIIUKSIAY, APRIL 3. 1010 m t 3 THE OREGON STATESMAN T Issued Dally Except Monday bv THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 , 1 ' " 216 S. Commercial St.. Salem, Oregon - : - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published hvrein. R..J. Hendricks...,. Stephen A. Stone. . . . Ralph Glover. ..... W..C. Squier . . . . . Frank Jaskoski. " 1 v 7 V-Kn Th u.I,"rr.." Duuu.uo, i. cruu. I vfk SO rnts a month DAILY STATESMAN, by mail. a year; $3 for six. months; 50 cents a month. For three months or more paid in advance, at rate of J 5 year. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; 60 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. ' WEEKLY STATESMAN, issued In two six-page sections Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year (if not paid in advance, f 1.25); 50 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: ; Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 683. Job Department, 683. Entered at the postoff Ice In Salem, SENATOR CAPPER FOR THE LEAGUE. " (Senator Capper of Kansas in the Topeka Capital.) I believe Kansas is overwhelmingly for a League of Nations. I am emphatically for it, because I believe it to be a great step to ward an enduring peace which is the hope of the world, and whieh the world must and will have. The people are now demanding that for which they gave freely all that Humanity has to give and for which our boys died in France. It is unthinkable they will be con ; tent with less., . :.: 1 .,' . ; . J . . '- . The principle-and the idea are right. -.Our isolation is no longer possible. ' Real progress , ill the movement to prevent war and to stop mili tary rivalry is America's demand, r ' 1 have no. sympathy with the contention that a league agreement will tend to involve us inwar instead of keeping us out of war. I beljeve the war:weary people of ;bothxcontinents will support a mili tary and an economic boycott against the first nation which attempts to destroy another or to again ruthlessly plunge the. world into wan ,-That means there must be an international, organization and agree ment.' : ". " ' ' ' . u:;--- - - - -, for. strict eeonomv in cnvernmpntfll of private extravagance and supported by genuine saving and con: kj J "J! erad,c servative investment, should insure early resumotion of urosDerons K."' ifcnt insurance I conditions.". The quoted words make up the closing paragraph of the current weekly financial letter of Ilenry Clews, the Wall Street authority.: The country is all right, if there is plenty of pep, and courage and co-operation. , v . f v iThcreis one exception. Every United States Senator on the round robin exeept Borah is released from his implied pledge to not vote to ratify the covenant of the League of Nations, because it has been and is Joeing -amended. Borah; is hopelessly hopeless, having said 4 he 1 vouldn 't support a lea gue of nations guaranteed by the Re deemer o mankind. There is only , one of the Borah kind in cap tivity. It is well. - ; - . -.: . . . . . . ; -sv . Soviet is Russian for council.' The Soviets are the district eouncil mcn, or city dads. Under Bolsheyikism, they are assistant assassins in putting Socialism into aeutal operation. t : i r ' V Dr. 'Andrew Craham Bell foresees the time when one can have breakfast jn Ilolypke, Mass., and supper in Ireland. The world is shriveling up. 4 i--;--vA-''-'-?.---r,.y,r..r.:--.:.--, .' The governor of Minnesota .last week signed a bill giving women the right " to vote . for presidential electors. The tide Is rising fast. i f " ' v.' r.. . " : . The amount Germany is to. pay may "act be eet down specifically In the peace treaty; it may, not be def initely known for years and years', after, all the' damage - claims .shall have been filed.: That methodwould take off some of the sting, perhap, tor1 the Germans. , An International conference on the war's lessons, on the health, edu cation and work of children h S3 been called by the department of labor to meet at Washington the week 'of May e iuder the ausplcei of the chil dren's bureau. This is a bit of the sort of Internationalism which can well be revived . : ' ' - . Secretary , Wilson's announcement that "every alien taken into custody under this (deportation) act shall have his case considered on Its own rneiU before it is finally disposed of"; i reassuring. The law should be enforced without fear f or; favor, but suspicion of drumhead procedure would tend to defeat the real purpose of the law. Bound volumes of! the various pa pers published by, soldic.s and sailors-will makean interesting -byT product of the war," but it will take a library of considerable size to hold them; Among the newest of them are the Daupblne . Doughboy, pub lished at Grenoble,; France, and the Barrage. - The latter is. as the front page aanoances, "putover" byv the 16th field artllle y. It is issued on German" soil in the town of.Polch, on a- branch , railroad running from Myen to Coblenz.. , J , , George W, Wlckersham, former at-torney-geaeral of the United States, went to Europe last December "de cidedly opposed, of pur country's be coming involved, In any 'entangling alliance with the nations of EuropeT sad i looking rupon .the idea of a" leaguel of nations with scepticism.' Wr. AVlfkersham came home a con vert; not otily "to the' Idea of th letgue of aation.' but to' the plan drifted by ik? commitlce of the Paris confereWe.. . -nt wasn't argu , robnt which convinced me.'! he says, "but a clearer, understan'llnj: of the faifcs." New York World. ........... .Manager . ... 4 ..... . .'. . . Managing Editor .Cashier .Advertising Manager ..... . . .Manager Job Dept. - : Oregon, as second class matter. finance nnrll wltli .at-manna STATE HEALTH INSURANCE . The movement far compulsory state health insurance, which was inaugurated in a. dozen or more states in 1916, has been making slow but steady progress. The first state i yet to put the new policy Lito law, though. ; there seems to be a very good prospect that New York will do so before the J present legis lature adjourns. At the Jpint hear ing the other day before the judi ciary committees some vigorous op position -was voiced by' representa tives or. manufacturers, business men and "400 physicians.' aiort (signifi cant, however, is the tact that or ganized labor, at first inclined to be opposed, is now almost unanimous In support of. the measure, while the medical men are. very far from being united in opposition. Among the supporters of tho pro posed legislation In New York are the national consumers league, the federation of 'women's clubs, the wo men's trade union league, the state suffrage association an; the Wom an's Christian Temperance union. It seems a fair inference ttat extension of the f ranchise to women will mean the hastening' of this advance in so cial insurance. The tadsstrial states lr nantnllv iVla. V 1 irv.J special Ohio state commission ha Just made a favorable report in sub-1 stantial agreement with the action1 " 8Un(ls TJiine-aneiat sacrifice u . ... . .. . tin ttHki. , ot the California, Massachusetts and New Jersey commissions.' Other com missions are sUlt ?xt work in Con necticut, . Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.. Governor rfmith ot New York in his Inaugural address strong ly urged health insur?nce3 legisla tion, following. the example 'if Gov ernor McCall In Massachusetts. Tho roll of publicists who are supporting the movement is growing rapidly. . The New York bills, which we:e l-repared With the co-operatJun of the American association for labor legislation and the Ameica.i medi cal sssociiation. provide for the In surance Of all persons regularly em ployed In the service of another un- Wer any contract of hire; with ccrtala exceptions, such, as public employes, superintendents ."and company offi cers. - Benefits iaclude medicate sur gical, dental and nursing attendance and supplies i and cash; paynit'nU or two-thirds ; or',, the insured person's ea.rnla8: nt x:eeding $i. a week and not more thaa 26 week 'fa on year.. The fjtnds for tho-.inaurance , . -. . ,' , . ; - . ; are contributed equally by employer and Insured, except that when earn ings are less than $9 a week the employer pays three-fourtha. The In dustrial commission, which la to ad minister the law. may .also require employer to pay the entirs preminci In cases where employment is ex cessively hazardous. The compulsory featu,; jow given practically 'universal in.ior .la ment as essential. As How t il Che ney of the Connecticut board of edu- canon notes in an article la tne At- lantic Monthly, this feature contrib- utcs four important, elements: It gives a true average of risk, insures economy in administration,, makes possible a higher degree of discip line, thus reducing malingering, und removes the suspicion and distrust which attach, in the minds of em ployes, to attempts of employers, philanthropists or commercial agen cies. The objection that compulsory Insurance will tead to lessen thrjrt Is little heard nowadays.' In th" reckoning with fact it 1 inescapable that the great majority of men re ceiving "living wages," save prac tically nothing, j As Mr. Cheney es JUmates It, a wage of 4 a da should be backed by a reserve of from 81 5 00 "to- $2000, the safety equivalent of an insurance premium of perhaps $10 to $15 annually un der the social insurance plan. Official estimates place the anim al loss in wages from sickness' in this country at about $500,000,000, the cost of medical attendance and supplies at approximately $130,000, 000 and the amount of dependency due-'to sickness at about sevea times that due to accident This liability is Individual? industrial and social and it is.' therefore, Bound In prin ciple that the insured, the employ er and the 'state should share in the burden. And not the least of the virtues .of health Insurance Is the lively probability that It will di rect new nad more enlightened at tention to causes and their eradica- have done. THE ARISTOCRATIC LID 'A New York dealer says he ex pects a revival of the silk, hat. He bases this dreadful prophecy on the present popularity of the funeral headpiece in. Paris, and the prospect of many European Uobles visiting this country after the peace treaty is signed. ;...,"' , There seems to be a natural affin ity, somehow, between diplomacy and high hats, as anybody can see by looking at the snapshots of the peace zone. Just why there should be a trail of such hats wherever statesmen and crowned heads pass through is not clear, any more thaa it is clear why they were ever adopt ed as distinctive badgers of under- takers, gentlemen of fashion, poli ticians, minstrels, professors, gam blers and judges. There was a time when no one could presume to be considered a "gentleman" unless he vore a "top per." 'Thanks to a generation of free-souled individuals who would rather be comfortable than genteel, the monstrosity has almost vanished. A New York purveyor to this lam entable style is quoted as saying that on the Saturday before Easter In 1898 he sold 628 silk lids. The dealer, being reverent in such mat ters, does not say "lids," but that Is what he means. And last year, thank heaven, be sSid oaly six! All democratic Americans owe it to themselves and their country to fight against any revival of this, pre tended badge of aristocracy. The heads of future generations must be made safe for democracy. If Presi dent Wilson bearded King George in Buckingham Palace with a plain "sir surely the rest of us can risk Our Jives, our fortunes a.ii , itt. v cred Honor to the extent of welcom ing tourist :x)yalty and statesman chip In our old familiar derbk3 and fedoras.' LEST VK f6i:GET: The tumult and the shouting hi. Tne capta,ns n the kings aepart ah numbie and a eontrlt lr Lord God of host be with us yet. Leatwe forget lest we forget! T BITS FOR BREAKFAST 1 , Still they come. Watch Salem grow. S The trophy rain haol the crowds. .It is a pity the sta could not have been longer in Salem. S They are about down to the cafe loir and nuts, and brass tacks, at the peace table. ' TheThe company is the name fi nally decided upon Tor the company that has put Salem and loganberries op the map, and in proceeding to place there Jellies and jam ad oth er trimmings of fruit products. It will be the "Phez line." That is short and awcet and apr-'-opriate. It all goes back to the original Pheas ant brand of prunes. w!Jh the beauti ful Denny pheasant as- the picture scheme. The reorganized company is a million and a hU concern, with assets and potential pep and push to make it a ten million dollar con cern, circling the round globe with the products that will all bear the name of Salem; Nothing could be of greater advertising value for Ore gon's beautiful capital clty. Wher ever people of good .taste' eat or drink, they wilt eat and drink to the glory and profit of Salem. Even as it was said by the psalmist of old. "I will life up mine eyrs to the hills, from whence cometh my help.' meaning the hills on which were built the ancient Sale.i, then and since .known as Jeru-salemi so will the hungry and thirsty under every sky think of Salem when they hun ger and thirst after the best things that are grown in the soil and ripen ed by the sun and prepared by the Ingenuity of man to satisfy the crav ings of the epicures of all the earth. IN A SOCIAL YAYf 1 Br Donnis lraii sikes FOLLOWING, the Tillicum club dance at Masonic hall Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Daue entertained informally at thir Home on Fir street. A brilUaot ef fect was achieved in the decorative scheme by the use of red carnations. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Fullerton. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Davis, Mr. and. Mrs. John Savage, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Perry, and Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Olson. ' j Honoring Miss Muriel Stejvcs and Miss Anna Packe'nham, v ho have left Salem, the former forja tour cf the states;'and the latter to go to her. home in Iioise, Idaho; a Tew of the . younger set participated in a picnic on Salem heights; Monday night. Toasting marshmailows was a feature of the evening's 'entertain ment. 4The picnickers were Anna Packen ham, Muriel Steeves. Mildred Gar rett. Charlotte Croisan. Marjorio Mlnton, Fay Peringer. I Winifred Eyre, Evelyn DeLong. Mildred Law son, Loren Basler. Ivan Corner. Paul Day, Lawrence Davies. Paul Flegel. Ralph Thomas, Russet Rarey, Ed win Socolofsky, and Raymond Rarey. Mrs. James Cooder will arrive shortly from Witchita, Kan., for an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. James Cooder. and family; She will also be entertained during her stay by her niece. Mrs. W. H. Prunk. and many excursions and sigh-seeing parties are planned for the pleasure of the visitor, who will stay through out the summer. - : Mrs. Gene Simpson and son. of Corvallis, came to Salem Monday and are the guests of friends in the capital city. ' i '. The Junior Guild of j St. Paul's church met Tuesdav at the home of Mrs. L. S. Geer, at 765 Marion street. . . 1 " ' ! Miss Eyla yalke. who for sever days was the guest of Miss Luclle Watson, returned Monday to Mon roe, where she is principal of the high school, i - ;.:''.. Members and friends of the Wo men's Home MIsionary society of the First Methodist church j were the guests of Mrs. U. G. Boyer at her home yesterday afternoon. A WOMAN'S TESTIMONY Mrs. Ettie Warren, a farmer's wife of Emmittsburg, Md.. openly de clares, how she has found health through reading a newspaper adver tisement of Lydia E.i Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. So great Is her relief after fifteen years of suffering that she asks to have this Informa tion published. Hearing on Governorship Will Be Held April 10 The state supreme court has set April 10 as the date for bearing Gov orner Olcott's mandamus petition against State Treasurer Hoff brought to compel Hoff to allow; the warrant for his salary as governor.' The sal ary was held up to give cause for a test caws to determine whether Mr. Olcott Is governor in fact or only acting governor, whether he has a right to reMgn as secretary of state and name his successor; and also to decide whether he shall serve as gov ernor through the entire unexpired term of the late Governor Withy combe. "SYRUP OF FIGS' IS ,CHUITS LAXATIVE Irak at tongue! Remove poison from stonywb, liver and bowels.' I Accept "California" Syrup of Figs only look for the name California on. the package, them you are sure your child is having the best and most harmless laxative or physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels. Children love its delicious frultr taste. Full directions for child's dose on each bottle, out fear. Give it Itb CTilHf "Tag Yes, I Made from Royal Contains No Alum Leaves No EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE (The StatMmaa la pleased to print commanictUooa upoa topics of fnermi laterat at any Urn. Thr la carcly any limit to the topics of KearaJ in terest." It la asked only that corre spondents refrain from personalities and use ear that Botbln be written of a libelous nature. Letters must have writer's name and address, though not necessarily for publication. Ed.) Katefy of Children To the Editor: On behalf or all parents or small children. I wish to make a plea for a reduction of "speeding" in city streets.- . In no other city have I seen the unlicensed speeding we see In Sa lem every day and the number of ac cidents is large in proportion. Little children will cross the streets to play In spite of everything and If a machine or motorcycle driven too rapidly for quick control, happens along just then, a tragedy results. As the mother of one energetic, small child. I find It impossible to put ten minutes of undivided atten tion on household affairs without looking to be sure she hasn't slipped away into the street. Fences do not exist and few families .can afford an enclosed playground which throws an immense responsibility on the mother when carelessly driven ma chines are numerous. The mother's responsibility is undoubted but it is rather cruel to speak of criminal negligence when a child U run over while his mother is In the house at her. many tasks, perhaps caring for younger children. If we were to- enforce a peniten tiary sentence upon every driver who runs over a person while going at a high speed, would It not be apt to y .Silk Crt'iic ilc Chine... fieorRrtli Crejo Taffetas Satins' 416 State St. ( - ;4l'Vl ) If' tried' it, Mt back to Royal' This is the experience of most women who have been tempted to try so- ' calleM cheaper baking powders which almost always contain alum and often leave a bitter taste. - Absolutely Pure Cream of Tartar derived frbm grapes ' put a stop to speding? Or ror tho?e who consider this too drastic, a fine of 11000? If a well paid responsible officer In plain clothes could patrol the res idence' parts' of. for Instance, State. Court. Chemeketa and Center streets, with power to arrest and Impose, a fine of $100 dollars on each driver caught going over 20 miles an hour, he could more than earn a month's salary each day. Drivers speed for their own selfish pleasure and It Is .a just thing that they be forced to " obey the law which they will be' quick enough to do when they have to pay themselves for breaking It. ' ' 1 Mrs. It. F.Gorham. AGAINST THE COXSTITTTIOX Editor Statesman: ............ As per news reports, the state of Idaho has changed its lorm of gov ernment from "republican to 'so-called commission form. Under the coj stitntlou or the United States, a state cannot change Its form of govern ment after admittance into the un ion, without the consent of congress, and again every state Is guaranteed a republican form of government. A commission form Is not republican;' it Is kingly in form; instead of a single reigning monarch, there is a divided kingship. Each commission er is autocratic in his department. One of the objections urged against a republican form Is tho corrupting influences surrounding, .legislative halls, while the same corrupting in fluences, with increased opportuni ties and illusive sheltering, exist in the secret chambers of the commis sioners. Commissioner are trj more immune to lobby Influences than leg islations. The same governing pow er that , selects the one selects the other. , , A commission form Is only a sec ond degree kingcraft form, differing only In the mode -of selecting by election -or appointment. Instead of descent. W. II. ODELL. Portland. April 1. 1919. AX ECOXOMICAX, DEiaCHtrUls UOHT PLACE i NEW SPRING DRESSES MODELS OF DAINTINESS All you women wliu julmiiv .dresses Mssi-ssin daintiness will certainly fall in love with these new taffetas" gvorgettes, charmeuscs, creH de ehincH and satin.v s ; .k& If there is such n .thing as daintin, and refinement in a Kni.ent (which, no do.d.t, there is) ihu'lhrsc chaniiiiur dresses end dy these qualities to a high degree. They an- just the garments that would fit in fur .swell "dress-up" arrainv-aud the priee n.aku them values hard t resisi. , . i a i V.U sr. I II B I weat 1 i i r i WW 4 . 9 Bitter Tasto ' '111 MILLS GET. BIG LUMBER ORDERS Shipyards Will Use Output cf Western Oregon and West-' . era Washington PORTLAND. Or.; April 2. Order for 172.000.000 feet of Douglas Hr railroad ties are to be placed with the mills of western Oregon apd western Washington by various east ern railroads for delivery, within t'ua next six months, in wooden vessels now Idle In the waters of the Col ombia .river and Puget Sound, offi cials of the. West Coast Lumbermen's association declared here- today. Negotiations for the placement of thU business among the west coatt mills were In progress for several weeks, it was said, pending the de rision of the shipping board to per mit wood on hips to be ud for this purpose. The vessels will be loaded on the Columbia river. Willapa har bor. Grays harbor and Puget Round, sent through the Panama canal and 'unloaded on the Atlantic waboard. Some of the larger eastern railroad are purchasers of the ties under this arrangement, it was said. This great order, for ties will af ford mills In this territory a large volume of special cutting business, which Is expected to be a stabilizing influence la the lumber Industry. It Is estimated the movement of ties will require virtually all the jdle wooden ships now In the northwest ports.. Abundant Health is assured when there Is good blood In the veins. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the medicine to make good blood. Begin taking It bow. it is Just what the system needs at this time and will do you great good. Sharpens the appetite, steadies the nerves. TO TEADE1 .$15.00, $17.50, $22.50, $25 00 ; $25.00, $29.50, $33.00 .$15.00. $19.30, $22.50, $25.00, $29.50 .$19.50, $22.50, $25.00, $29.50, $35.00 Stats St. 1