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THE OREGON 6TATES3IAJT: WEDNESDAY, Al GUST 13, 1910.
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THE OREGON
Issued Dally Except Monday by
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING! COMPANY
215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon
MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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f all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper
nalso the local news published herein.
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Entered at the Postof f ice in Salem,
WILLIAM HOWARD
"We should not let the soviet system gain even a toe
hold in America."
"While I have not gone into the subject with the
thoroughness to warrant a final judgment, I will say that
from what I do know, it seems to me that the men are
requesting a greater increase than the percentage of increase
in tbe cost of living warrants. Thus, it appears they are
asking more than they are entitled to receive."
The two paragraphs quoted above are the words of William IIow
ard Taft, in an interview by an Associated Press reporter.
Tbe first paragraph refers to the proposition of the presidents
of the great railroad brotherhoods that the Government should buy
the railroads, and thus eliminate private capital; and that the rail
roads should then be turned over to the railroad unions to be run,
under a "tripartite" agreement representing the Government, the
people, and the unions.
Which, of course, would be the entering wedge of the soviet sys
tem. Indeed, it would be that from the start.
The second, paragraph refers to the strikes and threatened
strikes of some or all of the railroad unions for higher wages.
. . The important thing is that William Howard Taft speaks out
from the shoulder. T
Per curiam.
. ' Without his ear to the ground. '
As one having authority.
He says what he thinks is right because he thinks it is right,
and not for public applause.
He does the same with regard to the League of Nations.
And with regard to the negro riots.
And he was for a League of Nations years before many of its
chief advocates who are now in the limelight had announced them-
selves; before most of them had formulated their opinions in their
minds; single-track and otherwise.
William Howard Taft is the outstanding forward looking states
. v man of the world. , f
,.. He knows he is right and then goes ahead.
He is brave enough now to take the lead and tell the railroad
laborers that the whole cheese is not for those who grab first;
That fair play for all, with no favoritism to any man or group
or section, is the American doctrine;
In short, that this is not Russia; , .
. And that we have not all gone crazy; yet. . '"
4 Some one defined a statesman as a dead politician.
But William Howard Taft is a statesman while he lives.
ViU And in the gd Pinion of ali the American people who are
100 per cent. American, he should stand high when compared with
the time servers and trimmers and wobblers, like Brvan and Borah
and Johnson and Poindexter and all that blooming bucolic and bom
bastic bunch of blatant blathevskites.
Watch Salem grow.
.If you thtak Salem is not grow
ing, you go' house hunting.
Partly, too, the war was to make
the world safe for the democratic
Prince of Wales.
Flour Is down; but It will hare
to com down some more, and stay
down awhile, before the bakers can
safely make great reductions.
If America keeps out of this league
tt nations J here will he one made up
of Germany, Russia and Japan. Un
cle Sam couldn't get much peace
aad ' ease out of that. Exchange.
(Sure thing.)
The municipal appropriation for
Chicago for the fiscal year begin
ning jury j. readies tne enormous
total of $115,000,000. A lot of peo
ple are paying more to lire in Chi
cago than it is worth.
i ne own-your-own-home move
ment in this town is becoming an
, epidemic. It ought to be eacou raged
It Is getting so now that it ns neces
sary fof a man to own his home or
he is called upon by the agent and
told that he must move, that the
place is sold. Los Angeles Times.
baiem, should - organize this move-
meat. Something will have, to be
done t) get more dweltlii built
, . here.
..-The Eccles interests will develop
riiTt nR DATKS.
Anraxt II. IS. and 18 Elks lUti
convention at Klamath Falla.
September 22-27 Kit -eighth Ore
! atat fair
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Sanitation and Quality
Purity of Home Baking
io Dark Corners
Come in and watch us
Sanitation is the Watchword.
Greatest Improvement in Baking in the Past Fifty Years
BAKE-R1TE SANITARY BREAD CO.
457 State Street
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Oregon, as second class matter.
TAFT, STATESMAN
their timber holdings 1a Columbia,
Clatsop and Tillamook counties, by
building railroads and sawmills. And
there are a number of other big
projects of the kind in process of de
velopment over towards Tillamook
bay.. ,
GLORIOUS RCREKCHERS.
Two hundred years ago Daniel De
foe wrote:
"I take It upon me to make t,uch
bold assertion that the world is mis
taken in its practice about women.
I cannot think God Almighty made
them such glorious creatures with
souls capable of the same accomp
lishments with men and all to be
only stewards of our houses, cooks
and slaves."
This judgment of a Da'aiel who
was a regular Robinson Crusoe for
pioneering is interesting, but slavery
has never been a matter of sex. Mea
were slaves to beaming orbs as early
as women were to mailed fists. But
Daniel was right when he said that
the glorious creatures were capable
of the same accomplishments as men.
Any man who has lost his job to a
skirt can ring up his ghost aad tell
him that. "..
TAFT EARNESTLY DISCUSSES
IUOT8.
(By William Howard Taft.)
The migration of southern negroes
to the northern cities, induced by the
prospects cf tKy Mru- vri-ii and
stimulated by southern discrimina
tion in educational facilities and In
he a.li:.inis;.-ion of jtir:r? jas cre
ated a congeston and a lack of prop
er housing in such cities. Then the
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take brows advice
Have j-our wife consult us about
those headaches
HENRY E. MORRIS & CO.
Opposite Ladd & Bush Bank
305 State Street SALEM
Phone 239. Night calls 1963
stories of the treatment of the col
ored troops in France, some of them
unfortunately true, have been given
widespread publicity among negroes
in this country. Some official com
munication from American head
quarters warning foreign officers
against social familiarity with Amer
ican negro officers, though subse
quently disavowed by the command
er in chief, were printed and widely
circulated by the colored press. Edi
torials dwelt on the heartlessness of
race prejudice which persisted evea
when negroes were shedding their
life's blood for their country and
which even the government they
were dying to save was encouraging.
Negro leaders are divided Into two
classes there are those who feel as
deeply as they can the injustice and
heart misery arising from race pre
judice, ind they would restraia as
far as possible by legislation and ex
ecutive action such Injustice. But
they believe that the real way to
ameliorate conditions is to educate
the negro for life by vocational and
character training and by thus in
creasing his value to his community
a'ad himself to moderate and neutral
ize such prejudice. They preach and
cultivate self-restraint by the negro
and self-betterment. They deprecate
mfuch the inflaming of the souls of
colored men against the white race.
even when there are at hand well-es
tablished facts justifying Indigna
tion and a deep se'ase of wrong.
There are others, educated men.
wlio, with no restraint, have poured
out their agony of soul and sense of
outrage in addresses and editorials
and aroused their fellow-negro e as
they never have been roused before.
The lynchings. those horrible exhi
bitions of blood lust, agaiast which
all good people are joining in appar
ently hopeless, protest, have led to
desperation among the blacks. The
retired negro soldier, used to arms,
returning from the war environment,
reeentiag the ingratitude lie sees in
all of this, is prompted to "direct
action" to remedy his.wrongs. He
has heard much of "direct action"
from other groups seeking redress
of their grievances. The general un
rest is in harmony with his Impulses.
On the ether side, we have those
who look with suspicion on any
source from which the supply of la
bor can be Increased. The lower In
the scale of latelligence the stronger
their feeling against a race they
glory in calling inferior.
Then the minute there Is an out
break, the lawless and the criminals,
coming out into the open like cock
roaches at night, join in the quarrel
with avidity and divide by color.
Thus the riot begianing in a single
quarrel develops formidable propor
tions. . Innocent people of both races,
frightened by reports, arm them
selves for protection and we have a
situation deplorable indeed.
The evidence seems to show, as Is
usually the case, that In Chicago
the whites were the aggressors and
displayed man's inhumanity to man
in stoaing a negro lad into a watery
rrave because he had passed a sup
posed line of segregation between
white and negro bathers on a city
beach. Soon, however, both sides
were guilty of lawless assaults and
murder. But of course the negroes
suffered the more. They always do.
Dr. Moton. the wise and able head
of Tuskegee. anticipating the possi
bility of such distressing outbreaks.
described, . in a commencement ad
dress at Hampton last May. a state
of things at Birmingham some weeks
before. He said that rumors spread
that the negroes of the neighborhood
were getting amis and drilling with
the purpose of attacking the whites
on a certain Saturday night. -It gave
him and others great concern. They
investigated. They could find no
basis for the report of such a plan
But they did find that negroes and
white men' alike, stirred by the re
ports, were arndng themselves and
that the suply of small arms and
ammunition in the shops in Binning
ham had been completely exhausted.
A committee of leading white men
and colored mea met and did every
thing possible to allay alarm, and
the dreaded Saturday night passed
without incident or outbreak.
The educated extremists among
the negro leaders must certainly see
that, however great - the Injustice
done to (heir race due to blind prej
udice, "direct action" is tbe worst
possible remedy. The more white
victims the greater the colored vic
tims will be. and in the end the
feeling out of which this evil has
con? will be increased and the slow
and steady Improvement in th agri
cultural and industrial status of th
negro shown by statistics will be ob
structed. Such leaders should use
every argument to quiet their fol
lowers and to condemn farther law
lessness as an offset to white out
rage. These who suffer from such
riots are often, one might almost
say usually, not participants la the
fighting,, but are bystanders who
happot to be in line of fi-e cither
through unwise curiosity or because
they can't help it. Meantime, peace
able, 3aw-ablding negroes are be
sieged in their own house where
they with difficulty secure nieded
food and s(ippl'n they go to their
occupations at the risk of th-ir lives.
Negro house-owners are threatened
with arson.
These riots have a lesson which
the whites should take to their souls.
It is that each -nc of us ha.t a re
sponsibility to the community in
dealing with our colored fellow-citizens.
Evc-y time a white man in
sults a negro, every time he conveys
by his conduct an overweening sense
of his race superiority to a 'negro he
contributes to the cause out of which
these race riots have come. No race
responds eo quickly to ryntpathctic
aid as the negro. No ace can be
made to forget or forgive past wrong
as easily by sincere cooperation and
protection.
A Salem I'nxluct
"Thelraa" Individual
5c everywhere.
Chocolates
I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I
Threatened rain yesterday.
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It would be good for the potatoes
and some other things.
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But the busy threshermen do no
want any rain; yet.
Salem's first brewery building Is
being torn down. Another land
mark going. It Is the old wooden
structure opposite the Salem Water
company's present office; the one
that is on the company's property.
corner of South Commercial and
Trade streets. The Salem "Water com
pany must give up Its present office.
which Is now owned by the company
building the ?&per milt. So a new
office building will be constructed
by the Salem Water company, an the
corner where the ancient brewery
building stands. Nothing definite as
to just what kind of a' building the
new one will be has been decided as
yet. It would be a good thing for
Salem if it were a large apartment
building. It would, help provide
dwelling places for our new people.
There ie a genuine project again
for a large and modern apartment
house in Salem; not the one that
loomed up a year or so ago but an
other one. And tbe old one may be
revived, too'. They wl not come
too fast. If .both materialize, and a
dozen others like them.
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Hals off to the ladie! You don't
hear of any of them bringing home
Hun husbands.
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It would take a darned bright
chemist to tell us what they are
making thicken pie out t" thts"
days.
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"With coffee advancing in price
may see some of the old-ias'.iiond
coffee extract that was so popular
during the war of the rebellion and
for some years afterward.
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Seen nothing about the seventeen
year locusts that were advertised to
put in an apparance about this time.
About the only "hoppers" of which
w? have any knowledge arHie by
who wont across in an airp'ane and
dirigible.
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Thousands of housewives !n this
city and vicinity are taking advan
tage of the present canning seas-on
to put away- fruit for consumption
during the coming lean months.
Therw is n- magic about canninn.
but It requires aa inilUl investtneut
n a pood deal of eni-r?y. cien
tific Instruction d:u'ns the early war
period established fruit canning as
a national function. It should h.
encouraged and perpetuated. Lo9
Angeles Times.
There Is a scarcity of tobacco in
England and one of the heavy Im
porters orfers as one reason the
larKC and increasing nnnVr of wo
men smokers.' lit- instanc.l the case
of two girls who were going away
on a littlj trip o? two or three weeks
and who took two thousand cia--ettes
which they "hoicd would see
theci through.'
Mrs. Rhetta Dorr of N"w York is
traveling around the country trying
to find out what women want in pol
itics. We should ray a lare hand
kerchief, a vanity bag containinly all
the well-known autlflcrs fr the
sex and a bottle of smelling salt.
But who do you imagine finances
such a trip? Kyhana.
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It is believed that the end ofthe
Ford libel suit and the acceptance
of the covenant or nations by the
senate will come on the same day.
Exchange .
Discolored or Spoiled
Skin Easily Peeled Off
Tb fre-kllrifir. lliwo1rln(j or rourh
eninw to which mn kin arr rufr.i t
M this fnn. may readily tw gotten
rid of. Ordinary tnrrrolizcd m,
poread lightly ovtr th f- twfor re
tiring nnt remnvwl In th mrninc
with iiomi and water, completfly twt1
off the dijifiRured ekln. You n-r-l not !
ret more than an ounce or the was
from your drtisarii't.
Ther-"a no more effective way of
bantahlnr tan. freckle, liver upota.
n.oth patchea. or other cutaneoua d
fecta. Minute, almoat invialhle. ekin
particle come off each day. n the pro.
c-ia ltlf doesn't even temporarily
mar the f oinplex ion. and vou on a-.
ouirc a hraod n?w. Dotles eirlixlitv
IN A SOCIAL
WAY
Br niTII LESORE FISlIKIl
THE wedding of Miss Gertrude
A Brewer and Iluthyn Turney
took place yesterday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the parson ace ef the
Klr Methodist chnrch and the Rev.
II. N. Avison officiating. Superin
tendent A. Hall rnd Mrs. Hall were
the vltiif:Kje. Immediately after
th -r mony. Mr. and Mrs. Turney
left for a wrd'I'ng trip and upon
tl-.clr leiurn nill make their home at
the Chemawa Inrilpn Training w-hool
where tiiey arc both instructors in
music.
Little Kranfer Tolir.rl rb.d hr
erg,t;;:eni at the Oregon theatre
Monday night with a hichly apprecia
tive audience. This little miss of only
14 years is a real artist, rhe plav
with remarkable finish ami tech
nique. She enters Into the life of her
number? and gives to fach the fin
ish and expression that conves only
Irom the artl;. And the manner in
which fhe handles really ' difficult
pieces Is amazing. Her unaffected
ways delicht the hearers.
Mrs. John William Iraer. her
mother, and Miss Frances, who make
their home in Seattle have leen de
lightfully entertained during their
sojourn of a week in Salem, and
have made a large number of friends
who are loathe to we them depart
because they have found Mrs. I)ra
ger and MIs Frances !oth to be
charming people. Among the many
courtesies xhown them was the din
ner Tor which Mr. and Mrs. William
F. Draeer were hots Friday even
ing and later a tkle over the city.
Mrs. Drager and Miss France Tobl
zel left for Portland yotterday after
noon. Mrs. Alberta S. McMurphey. mem
ber of the Eugene board of education
has been appointed state director for
Oregon in the great nai ion-wide
campaign to combat un-American
radical doctrine bp the populariza
tion of the constitution of the Unit
ed States, being promoted by the Na
tional Security league and other
leading patriotic societies of the
country. This campaign will cul
minate in the celebration In all the
stages of "Constitution day" on Sep
tember 17, the anniversary of the
signing of the constitution.
Directors to supervise the cam
paign and the organization of "Con
etitutlon day" meetings have al
ready been appointed In 36 state.
Many leading citizens in all parts of
the country In both public and pri
vate lire are members of the two
general committees through which
the National SecurKy League and as
sociated societies are promoting this
campaign. These bodies are tho
constitutional celebrating organiza
tion committee, of which Dr. David
Jayne Hill, historian and diplomat,
ts chairman, and the constitutional
celepbration honorary committee,
which includes in its membership
the governors of 21 states and the
mayors of over 100 larges cities in
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Our prices cannot le duplicated
at the factory today
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all parts of the country.
Governor Olcott and Maor Raker,
of Portland, are members of the hon
orary committee.
A quiet parsonage wedding oc
curred last Sunday morning at 9
o'clock at the Flrstt Baptist parsonage-
when the Rev. G. F. Holt united
in marriage . Mlsa Luella Eaton
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Eaton who live seven miles north of
Salem and Alvin J. Van Cleave, eon
of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Van Cleave
who also reside north or Salem.
About twelve friends and relatives
were present for tbe ring ceremony
and Immediately the young people
left for a short wedding trip.
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Corporal Earl Dane has arrived In
Salem from Camp Lewis, where he
went for his discharge from the ser
vice soon after his arrival In the
states.
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Regular frKj.Ql
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we patronize it is this sort of
plant whose quality fool wear we
recommend to vou.
Sergeant and Mrs, Lewis McClar
en arrived in Salem Monday for a
short Stay before going to Portland
where-they will make their home.
The Rev. O. F. Holt and Mrs. Ho!t
received word yesterday from their
son. Lieutenant Herbert B. Holt who
has been In Belgium for some time,
that he was In Brest and with II.
000 other officers Is awmJUng to
start for the United State. Tat
Holts are expecting a telegram any
day announcing the arrival of Lies
tenant Holt In New York.
i cpauKiing remraea son
day night from a short tajr In New
port with her mother. Mrs. Charles
K. SpauMlng. who' l ' ummeiiog
there. Charles K. Spaulding will
leave today for Newport for two
weeks.
(Continued on page S)
Range. Special now. $76.50
Kange, Srxfial now... . .$7J.S5
Kangr. Social now $71.65
Kange. Special now. . . ..$g3.85
Range, SwcU now $55.95
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