i .m. i.i I THE OREGON! STATESMAN Issued Daily Exeept Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBIISHEXQ COMPANY ' .1118. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication f all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local newt published herein. R. J. Hendricks . . . Stephen A. Stone. ............... Ralph Glover. . W C. Squler. ..... Frank Jaskoski....... ....Manager ........ .Managing Editor ............ ......Cashier . . . . . Advertialna; Manager ...... .Manager Job, Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In. Salem and suburbs. It cenU a ' week, fa cents a month. . . ' , " DAILY STATESMAN. by mail. I -ion "It ..'for six months;" SO cents a month. For three months or more, paid In advance, at rate of SS year. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; SO cents for alx months; 25 cents for three months.' WEEKLY . STATESMAN, Issued tn two sia-page aectiona, Toeadaya and Fridays, SI a year (if not paid in advance, ii.s&n v cenia xor au ! months; 15 cents for three month. TELEPHONES t Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 68S. Job Department. 683. Entered at the Postpfflce in. Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. OUR VERY USEFUL ARMY More Than The Ordinary !UR service to you means that we offer you the expert skill of trained eyesight specialists. a; detailed scientific examination of your eyes, and the advantages of a complete and- modern laboratory for making your lenses. (The only place in Salem where lenses are actually ground from rough glass to fill your requirements.) It Goes Further In order that your glasses may be of continuous and. lasting comfort we are glad of the privilege of in specting them often and without charge, for any defect of adjustment made necessary by constant use. HENRY E. MORRIS & CO. Opposite Ladd & Bush Bank 305 State Street SALEM Phone 239. Night calls 1963 BITS FOR BREAKFAST managed to say,' 2-mutch " We are governed Our guardianship of the world seems to have begun rather ear lier than we had expected. President Wilson has informed the Senate that the 8,000 American troops in Siberia under command of Major General Graves mns be kept there until American rail- If President Wilson can head off way experts operating the trans-Siberian railway can be withdrawn, the profiteers, he will show himself An agreement with Japan makes this imperative, says me rresiaent. i rmiin we ve an neara No doubt, we will soon be called upon to protect tn eiepnant yei seen trails of Timbuctoo and the water buuaio pains ot oiam, wnue u 1A i TA pla e of The American army surely is going to see the world. Exchange. foreignerSilI Mexic5t under the p . wna wuuia vue auuve wiw uac Uf uu,uiu u, text that the foreIgner8 are 8tlrring John P. Stevens, once a well known resident and railroad build- up Tevolntion. , Does carranza want er of Oregon, and one of the builders of the, Panama Canal, was sent to jotJ the BUlclde cloD 4 k la OlDena Deiore XVUSSia uaa ueeu uciraveu uiiu mmj u"ua wi ""M inierventinn tnrv Germans and then drifted onto the roeks of Bolshevism. - Mr. Stevens was charged with putting the Siberian railroad into. running order and keeping it so under an agreement with the nations that wero at grips with the beast of Berlin. . -- , . : This was a military measure, calculated to help Russia. It. has turned out to. be? a humanitarian measure a means to guarantee a large part of the Russian people from starving. - Mr: - Stevens is still there, -with his commission, and still in charge of that great railroad system, which has been kept running. Mr) Stevens and the men tinder him are capable of doing great good in the- reconstruction, pf Russia in getting that country onto its feet under auspices of decency and order. . All the world now, even including Germany, ought to be inter ested in purging that greatest plague spot of earthy Russia. ' The real soldiers of the United States have had no other crit icism of the Russian policy of our country exceptng that it has not been made sufficiently definite and adequately strong, to accomplish its legitimate ends. P:. i , $ -TrVm iJ1' Sloven, in k fin'o f!Vir?stiati canflumflTi. arA ft crroof man . t: If be we in Russia, with ample JS loxees ana resources to assen,. mis aumoruy, it wouia De me Destisons are: thing that could happen to Russia, and the best thing lor all the "1st. The divergent views of bac- rest of the WOrlcL I i !, I terlologists as .to wnich germ ca,used ' For the" world lias" become "one 'great family. . . Plagua spots, ought not to be allowed to exist anywhere even in darkest Russia. . - . Nearly all the Republicans of the senate who have been Interviewed by President Wilson have declared themselves In tavor of ratification with reservations. Why not ratify. with reservations, and get the thing over? . . 0 GERMS CAUSE DISEASE? Not' primarily The reasons for questioning the germ theory are giv en in the Canada Lancet of June. DR. S.C.STONE SELLS TO TYLER i Veteran Physician and Drag gist Disposes of Business in Salem The profiteer has 'ao friends. , W And at last war is being declared on him, all over the country. It Is high time the United States got down to brass tacks ana dscx U first principles. ?ret reparations are being down Los Angeles way to give the Pacific fleet a :oyal reception. S . The coming of the fleet is a great event, and deserves all the acclaim it will get. All la all. the Pacific fleet will number 201 ships, and the. muster roll numbers 43.000 men. When the Panama canal waa finished, this coast was promised this great fleet. The moving events that followed pre vented this. Now that the Pacific coast is coming into her own. it Is mighty big thing. The worlds greatest growth Is going to be oa the Pacific ocean, far all the years of the future and thU coming of the. Pacific fleet la Just a forerunner of mighty things that are on the way. S The members of the National Ed itorial association will be in Salem for thrw hnnra a. week from next Sunday morning, from to 9; S&0 I or them, oa their way to Crater lake. Salemitea must meet them, and show them around; and give them a lunch on the capltol grounds; rhlch is all being planned by the Salem Commercial club ana ine newspaper people of the city. Dr, C S.. Stone who for 23 years has been in the drug business in Sa lem, yesterday disposed of his store at 157 South Commercial street, where he recently moved, to J. F Tyler. who for more, than a year has been with the Perry Drug store. Dr. Stone retires from the drug business but will continue certain special lines of his practice as a physician. BRITAIN'S COMMERCE AT POINT OF DISASTER (Continued from page 1.) amounts to more tnan iwo ponu a wMk ind the number of tnese m the industrial towns of the midland is steadily increasing. Union Dictatorship Denounced Direct action by the workers I Dr. Stone has followed the profes- denounced by many public men as an effort to usurp the powers oi parlia ment and govern the country by a dictatorship of labor unions. La the disease. 2nd. .The- stronger claim of. the-l biochemic theory. 3rd; The absence of germs- at the' onset of disease fas the folio wine Raising wages that increase prices and thus add to 'the high cost I sample eases show). of living is like a cat .whirling around in. a circle after is taiL It () A man crossing a river broke gets nowhere. The people of the United States begin to realize this, throngh tne ice, was rescued; later including leaders in (Mtnpttmb tSS& SStJJ top.r ihe great need is to cut down the nign costs of living, in order There were none nreaent when the that thVdollar of wages majr be i worth more than fifty cents in the J pneumonia developed they appeared: necessities of life, instead of less than fifty cents, as now. I . h). . After an oyster supper some fol- sion of a physician and the oecupa tlon of a druggist in Oregon for more than A years. He was grad uated from the medical college of Willamette university in 1873, later taking port-graduate work in the .New York Polyclinic college. For time he practiced and owned half In terest in a drug store at Browns ville. Later he moved to Milton. Umatilla county, where he owned a store and practiced for 13 years. . . At Allltoa a young man who learned thed rug business under Dr. Stone was E. L. SmaTley, then a lad under 20. now a wealthy druggist of Walla Walla. From Milton Dr. Stone moved to Portland where he operated a drug store for three and a half years, and In June, 1896 he came to Salem where he was the first durggiat in tha state to estab lish-a -cash-business. For a period of five years Dr. Stone operated two stores In Salem, one a branch store at the location of ther present Perry Drug store. Also for a time Dr. Stone and J. C. Perry were- Joint owners of a store at Sil verton. Mr. Tyler, purchaser In the deal' consummated yesterday, learned the drug business under Dr. Stone and has been with other local stores. SALEM SAMPLE STORE 141 North Commercial Do Your Trading Here and Save Women (Jrey Kid Lac Cloth Top, Military . Heel, $4X3 Urown Vamp with Cloth Top to match, Military or Louis Heels, all sizes. $4.93 White Canvas Lace, Low Heel, plain or cap toe, enam eled sole and heel ...... $1X9 White Canvas Mary Janes or rumps. Rubber sole, choice, $1.00 VICI KID JULIETS .. $1.65, $L89, $25 Women's White Fabric, Lace Shoes ..$2.83 to $3.95 Misses and Children a "Wis! Dresses in various styles acj materials 98c to $213 Children's Aprons......, Ladies' Auto Caps ! Ladies Hose 15c to tit Children's Hose. .23c to & Towels 12Ve Turkish Towels. .s Boys' Wash Suits $U3 Comforters $XC3 "Suit Cases.... $L75 to $ll3 Bags .$550 to $3IJ C. J. Br eier Company '' You Do Better Here For Less try and has gone back on its pledges to labor. Minister of renaionsJIodgo aald in parliament tonight: "It looks as It we are approaching a general election. Premier Lloyd George's famous policy of compromise, eo long suc cessful, appears to have reached t breaking point and Is certainly under going Its severest test.- No sooner Is one eruption cleared up than new one breaks out. The old leader of labor are preaching restraint and patience while reconstruction of the bor's answer la that the present par liament doea not represent the conn- war is being arranged and are warn lng the worklngmen that Great I tain's future- is Imperilled wales caa regain her foreign trade. Dnt tbe old leaders seem to t. lost their influence. And a new -; yonnger set. a maJoKfjr of them e spoken socialists, some of them t . even workiarmeo but socialist tL -its. are in the saddle. rcrtrnis dates. Aug-uit 11. IS. and 1C Elks Convention ml Klamath Valla. September S2-27 "Ujr-ibU C mm atai fair. The Texan who resfgn-ed his seat in the State Legislature be- ffSf. Ja IttZttZZS. canse of the' ratification of the federal suffrage amendment reminds J but were present later. . (c) Hurrying, a girt arrived at her shop sweating; as the shop was cold, she became very chilly; - next day complained of a sore throat, but no- Klebs-Loffler bacilli were found; later, when a diphtheretlc patch ap- onft of that bby whom we all Knew who wouldn't play if he couldn't uave uis own way. Women seem to be enjoying their new-found privileges and usurping man's ancient prerogatives in more ways than one. A New York man complains that" his wife has been losing all his wages I Pe?? .bacilli were present. at poiter. w i nero in escn case uw oacuu ioi- lowed tbe onset ox tne disease, T.1t . f 11. . 1 . ,to-death will bear him ghostly com.. .J YTJS paiy. Holland now says she wlllth ,n.fl. tMtimr tha -rm 'y Airplanes- are flyiag- over the An dea la. -South America, . .Nothing, too high for those birds. - It atrikea us- that .the campaign of 1920 Is already ' on. Exchange. Tou guessed it the. first time. William rHohenzollem . ought not to complain about: being compelled to go to the. Tower. Qt London.. There have been some mighty good men behind the walls of that historic pile, noj to mention a few women. The shade of- those, who went, therefrom. surrender the ex-kaiser. We thought I diphtheria, typhoid and' pneumonia so. Exchange. " The army food sale has not as yet reduced the high cost of living. Was anybody so foolish as to suppose it would t . Those who object to. the enfaree- ment of stringent prohibition laws are evidently of the opinion of the man described hy Artemus Ward, who. wJiea his head waa chopped off, 1 H The Old Reliable CHATER OAK RAIJGE , Money CaVtBuy a Better Range' Has Stood The Test Don't Waste" Money on a Cheap Stove Let Us Sell You a Charter Oak 'Frank -'-FV Richter - u - .ompieie nouse rurmsner Always A Square Deal at Richter's 387 Court SL Trade In Your Old Furniture - were made. The first test was whether the Klebs-Loffler bacilli would cause diphtheria, and about 50,000 were swallowed without any -resnlt; later. 100,000. 500,000 and a million more were swallowed,- and rn no case -did ! they cause any Ill-effect. The' second 'series of "tests was to" decide whether the Eberth bacillus would" cause " typhoid; "but each" test was . negative, even when millions were swallowed. The'third series' of tests showed that one could swallow a million "(and "over) pneumo-coccl without causing pneumonia, or any disturbance. The .investigations, covered about two years, and forty-five (45) dif ferent teats were made, giving an av erage or fifteen tests each. I per sonally tested each germ before al lowing the others to do so, and six persons (3 male, 3 female) knowing ly took part in tne tests, and in no case did any symptoms of the disease follow. The germs were swallowed ia each case, and were given in milk, water, bread - cheese,- meat,- head-cheese, ish,.and apples also tested on the tongue. Most of the cultures were rrrown by myself some from stock tubes fur nl&hed by Parke, Davis & Co., and one tube furnished by the -Teronto Board ot Health through one of their bacteriologists. As the tests were carefully made. mey prove mat tnere is not tne dan ger from ' germs that bacteriologists claim: they also may stimulate other Canadians to undertake further ex perimental work.. for the actual test on man decides the truth of the the ory. John B. Fraser. M. D. C Mm 414 Shelbourne, St., . Toronto. On tario." 'Know the Truth and the Truth I shall set you free" , . DR. A. SLAUGHTER ; Naturopath -; 210 U. S. National Bank handing Phone 110. LODGE OFFICIAL LOCATES HERE George L Cooper. Late Vice ' Consul in Pern, Makes Sa- lem Headquarters George S. Cooper,, who has' Just returned from Lima. Peru, South America; where he has been Ameri can vice-consul, has been appointed district deputy for the Modern Wood men of 'America, and will make his headquarters in Salem. Mr, Cooper has been in Peru for the last four an.d. a half years, and while there- made a special study of foreign trade apd. commerce. Mr. Cooper was for merly In the head office of the Mod- jern Woodnyu of America at Lincoln. Neb., for a period of five years. He JU.de.vote his lime to the field work of this organization in the counties of Polk. Marion, Linn. Lane, Denton. coos, Douglas, Jackson, osephine. .Klamath and Lake. Colonel Carle Abrams to Return to Salem Today Colonel Carle Abrams. former member of the state industrial acci dent commission, will return to Sa lem today after having been in Europe 20 months. He has been ac tively in thes ervice since the old Third Oregon, later the 112nd infan try, was called out in March, 1917. and went to Europe with the regi ment In, December,. 1917. Colonel Abrams, while In France and England, was in charge of var ious kinds of work, being at one time in command of 'all American troops in the Winchester. England, area and later in command of the base at Le Havre, . France. He was major in command .of the third battalion, old Third Oregon on the Mexican border in 1916 and is also a veteran ot the Spanish-American war where he served with the old Second Oregon. 62Z Traffic Accidents in "Month Reports Department .PORTLAND, July 31. A state ment from the traffic bureau of the police department for July, issued today showed 6. .22 traffic accidents occurred withia the city during the' month or 100 more than in any previous month on record. s Simple - Operation V Filled .Togemer The business of Swift & Company is the fitting together of many simple operations. No one thing in a packing business is particularly difficult for men trained, to do it; but no one thing is enougli" ' Thousands of other operations, pro perly performed.are nefcessary for the com pleted processes. And some one must fit together all these ousands of simple operations. ' ; . r The success with which a packing business performs its function of supplying the best possible meat products to the con sumer with , the greatest possible benefit to both him and the producer depends upon the energy, brains, experience, arid faith ful effort of the men trainedin the business.' Swift & Company turns the producer's live stock into meat for the consumer at a profit of only a fraction of a cent a pound, because it fits these operations together with the least waste, overlapping, and friction. x - Do you believe government direction could do it better? Let us end you a Swift "Dollar". It will interest you. Address Swift Ct Company, Union Stock Yards. Chicago, HL Swift & Company, U. S. 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