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THE OREGON STATESMAN': SATCTtDAY, OCTOnER 25, 1919. THE OREGON STATESMAN Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COltPAJTI ; 216 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRES6 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication t all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. , R. J. Hendricks Manager Stephen A. Stone. .Managing Editor Ralph Glover. . .Cashier Frank Jaskoski. . . . . . .Manager Job Dept. DAiLI siAibdMAiM, serrea 07 carrier m omcui uu buuui u, ccuu m week, 60 cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mail, $6 a year; $3 for six months; 60 cents a month. For three months or mere, paid In advance, at rate of $6 year. eUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; 60 cents for six months; 26 cents for ' three months. ' ; WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page secUons Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year (if not paid In advance, $1.26); 60 cents tor six months; 26 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 683. Job Department, 683. Entered at the Postof flee In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. HOW ABOUT THE INVESTOR? i Commenting 011 the profit-fixing clause in the Cummins railroad bill, the New York Time says editorially: "The question of what rate capital shall work at is as much beyong legislation as the wage at which a man shall work. If the dollar does not like the wage fixed for it, it will not work any more than a man, and there is no way of making a dollar work any more than a man. Rather, there is less, for a dollar can be put in safe deposit for an indefinite time and remain a dollar, whereas a man must starve. The idea that there should be a standard profit is as wrong as that Congress should fix it." ' - I The Times (New York) points out further that the 5V per cent, profit fixed in the bill is hardly different from the. going rate of mortgage money arid that, in tlie present market, the railways could not sell stock at the mortgage rate, neither could many railways command mlortgage rate for new bonds. I When the Cummins bill was introduced, it was very generally jobserved that a fatal defect in its form was that no encouragement (was offered to investors in railway securities. The employees were protected; the public was protected; the politicians were; given three new commissions; but the dollar was le)ft to take all the risk and the only profit permitted was "the going rate for mortgage money:" - f Under such conditions a careful investor would put his morv?y into mortgages.! lie there secures protection against loss and his profit is always; at the maximum possible in railway securities. The defect is one that can be remedied, and MUST be remedied if the pre-war standard of the railways is to be re-established. WE CAN FIT YOUR EYES With Proper Glasses Henry E. Morris & Co. Eyesight Specialists 303 State Street SALEM PARTIES TO A BARGAIN There is no! great objection to collective bargaining, but it must be collective that is, made by the persons who are concerned with its terms and who are parties to it. Collective bargaining through representation of rank outsiders is not Collective bargaining at all. A man does noi wish to call in some stranger from the next town to decide how much pin money he shall give his wife. Salem started out to be a strikeless city. If rank outsiders were tabu now and iorevermore, this reputation might be maintained un blemished. And it would be worth a great deal to this city, in a thousand differentsays measured in money, and in satisfaction and peace of mind. . Give us a Salem slogan on flax. jmake it unanimous, in our opinion. . , - lit puts the people and Johnson en of the covenant for reference. They would be convinced of a fact which most people know already. The Hoover speech was delivered by a man who knew what he -was talking about, while the Johnson address was uttered by a man who did no. know what he was talking about. The Hoover speech was predicate on a degree of knowledge of the v ar situation and its aftermath not pos sessed by "any other American. John son has never given any evidence of more than a schoolboy knowledge of foreign affairs, while all of his speeches have been replete with pu erile prejudices directed against oth er nations.- Sacramento Union. JUST AS GOOD. The housewife tells us that In cooking under a prohibition form of government apple elder with a little beard on it is used instead of brandy, rum and other tangle-teasers. Thus far we have been unable to notice the difference, but perhaps it's be cause we haven't had anything more deadly than mince pie. Exchange. . SLOW WORK. If it can't be done before, the sen ate should by all means celebrate Peace Day -November 11 by rati fying the peace treaty. The United States is now supposed to be in peace almost a long, as we were in war, yet we have it not officially. ' Did you ever see a set of slow pokes to match up with the United States senate? NEEDS THE MONEY. ; Of course, the; American Legion Is not in polltlcs-i-yet. Why not rejer to this country as The United Strikes of America?" Sir Thomas Lipton has sent anoth er challen ;e for the America's cup. Is the tea trade languishing? - What has become of the proposi tion to have a six-months labor truce in this, country, when, everybody would forget all about Striking and speed up production? Ot ; course, thliarrangement would knock out of a job the professional agitator, but they "never would be missed.". rapport, so to speak. Exchange. Send all your Salem slogan copies of The Statesman east; and buy back numbers, and send them too. UP IX TI1K AIR. When Hiram Johnson was asked about his alleged candidacy for the Republican presidential nominaion he said he "had not' interest In the matter whatever." That ought to This professor who is going 50, 000 feet up in the air may not be able to talk with the people of Mars, but be should at least be able to get in touch with the high cost of living. JOHXSOX AND HOOVER. But the last chance for a Johnson triumph in San Francisco flickered when Herbert Hoover addressed his own people at Stanford on the league of nations. We would only ask that honest doubters of the league should spread the Hoover and Johnson speeches before them wjth a copy The postmaster at St. Loui3 tells the congressional committee that he will have to have $12,000 instead of $8000 ; a year in order to properly maintain the dignity of his position but so far he has refrained from making any stclke threat. If be should it is believed the government would have no trouble in ringing In a strikebreaker or two. SOLDIERS' PAY. Canada expects to Increase the pay of her private soldiers to $3 a day She doesn't need much of a standing army; but at that rate It will be about the best-paid one on earth and will displace the American army In that respect. Of course, there are Bolshevist forces that are supposed to be getting $60 a day, but they have to print their own money on presses and it takes a bale of It to buy a doughnut. When it comes to discussing organized armies they don't count. PEACE TIME RED CROSS FACES HUGE TASKS War Task Not Finished-Public Health Problems' Must Be Solved By Red Cross The American Red Cross, according to a statement Just issued from Wash ington, D. C, believes that its first duty is tajlnish its war task, one hun dred per cent. The Red Cross must also continue to carry on even hiore effectively than in the part. Its estab lished system of National and Inter national relief, in mitigating the suf fering caused by famine, fire, floods, and great national calamities. It mast also render every necessary service to the Army and Navy, and musf ccn tinue the work undertaken prior to the war In the field of nursing and First Aid. The responsibilities of the Red Cross are greatly increased as a result of the lessons taught by the war, the statement continues. Higher stand ards of responsibility .have been Set to prevent needkws suffering and loss of lif1!. The Rod Cross, with its tradi tions and its established organization. will aid in maintaining these stand ards by co-operating with all recog nized agencies engaged in conserving human life and happiness. Activities already authorized include the en couragement and support cf Public Health Nursing, educational classes In dietetics, home care of the sick, and First Aid, the extension of Red Crojss Home Service, an ' increased" Junior program, and co-operation In develop ing community health centers. j War time developments have given every community in the United States a recognized and organized center !! Red Cross activity through which the people of that community may. If they wish, serve themselves, with all the advantages of national leadership, a tlonal standards, national and Inter national contacts. It rests with the peo ple, of every community to determine for themselves Just how fully they have need of a movement which under the associated Red Cross Societies lis to express the effort of the -peoples of the world to free themselves frcro needless death and suffering through neighborly cooperation and service. latForester Says REGARDING HIS LOGGERS SHOES It has been our aim during our twenty-five years' experience in making this line, to produce a strictly hand-made shoe that would wear and be as near water proof as leather shoes could be manufactured. This necessitated the careful building of perfect lasts, the highest grade of workmanship, and the selection of the finest grades of leather, regardless of cost .Our name j Is our guarantee, as we stand ready to make good any defects in workmanship or quality. ; Carried in stock with calks and without calks, for sale only at U. S. War Savings, Campaign Watch " For Date QUALITY HIGHEST U.S. War Savings Campaign Watch For Date IVJOT TMVTTF.n ! ' ') A ' . !f 1 PEACE You're in mighty good com pany when, you belong to the Red Cross. So long, as there's sickness, suffering, disaster, the Red Cross must -stand by! 1 The II. C. of L. hasn't hit Red Cross memberships. They're still a dollar. , , If nine. million youngsters br lieve in the Red Cross, it mi have the -right idea. r.'J ' v - 1 , . . t r - . . 1 f 1 i 1 -4.- m v X- - " f t ' ' t 'I v. ' 1 t i ' 1 w . .. ' 1 s, Dr. Livingston Farrand. the great est authority on public health in.Amer ica. served in France as the had ol the fight against tuberculosis. He now succeeds Henry P. Davison as head of the American .Red Cross. Dr. Far rand recently visited Seattle. Spo kane and Portland and conferred with representatives of Red Cross Chap ters cf Alaska. Idaho, Oregcn and Washington. "The Red Cress faces problems in the post-war period more serious, if possible, than the problems of the war itself. Not a great amount of money, but the membership and hearty co-operation of every American, citizen is what is needed to help the Red Cross to solve these problems, which threaten our national vitality, and which, unless solved, will rub us of the fruits of victory," said Dr. Far rand. . "Tho Ktd Cross is" the Gospel in boots.-, : 11 rift i .1 1. . . Iih Salem Nan Bids on Sewer Construction at Dallas DALLAS, Or.. Oct. 23. (Special to The tSatesman.) Bids for the construction of the two sewer sys tems under consideration by the Dal las city council were opened this week at the rerular meetln r of tn council. The only bids received for both projects were presented by L. O. Herrold of Salem, bat owing to the bids being in excess of the esti mated cost of the sewers no action was taken. Another' meeting of the council will be held next Mondav night at which time the council wni decide whether to go ahead with tho improvement this season or wait tn- a I a a m 111 nrxi spring wnen 11 is oeuevea a better price can be obtained. Tho proposed sewer censtrnctioa consists of a sanitary sewer to be know as the Maple street sewer as 2 a storm aewer which will begin ea Falrview avenue in the western part I of the city a .nddraln the surface . waicr irora tne macadam and bar Brlg.-Gen. Drum 1s coming to this coast. He Is one of the several mil lion Americans whom the Germans could notbcat . . lira rrr kJkJ u 1 i t 00 Season Ticket Sale Ends Tuesday, Octo!cr 23. RjervtUonj at Armory, Tuesday, 8 A. M. 8 P. M. Frank S. Regan Chalk Lecture on "The Fool Tax Pajer Cecil Fannmg America's Most Famous Baritoao Dr. Frank 3ohn , " v 4 Lectures on German Reconstruction The Ricketts Glee Club . A Male Quartet The Chicago Recital Company A Mixed Quartet Full of Variety . The Katherine Carroll Smith Co. Z A Indies' Trio The Best Obtainable Mark Sullivan Formerly Editor cf Colliers' Weekly. Will Report on the Peace Conference ENTIRE COURSE FOR $2.00 Including Ecservations. Pay War Tax Whca Making; Reservations Tuesday. One Person Can Reserve Only Ten Tickets. Scats on sale at Varsity Book Store, Will's Music Store, ration's Book Store, Clarccy's Flor ist Shop, Hauscr Bros., Barnes Cash Store, Mitchells. . ?