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'4 THE OREGON STATESMAN: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1020. The Oregon Statesman Issued Dally Except Monday by i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 216 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon 'CP MEMBER OP 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 newp published herein. R. J. Hendricks. . Stephen A. Stone. Ralph Glover. . . Frank Jaskeskl. . DAILY STATESMAN, week, 60 cents a DAILY STATESMAN, month. For three The care of your eyes is our vocation in life. Henry E. Morris & Co. Eyesight Specialists 305 State St. Phone 239 . .Manager . . .Managing Editor Cashier .Manager Job Dept. erred by carrier in Salem and suburbs, IS cents 4 month. by mall, $6 a year; $3 for six months; 60 cents a months or more, paid in advance, at rate of $5 year. (THE: PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, will be sent a year to any one paying a year In advance to the Dally ' Statesman.) SUNDAY STATESMAN. $1 a year; 60 cents for six months; 26 cents for three months I U VTTWT V OTlTPariW U,n,1 In vn ilT.narii Mfttnni TllMdlTl and Fridays, $1 a yeir (if not paid In advance, 1.26); 60 cents for six months; 25 centsf for three months. as a party. 1 ney goi inio me men in 1861-65, but are getting out of it a bit. KinR Victor Emmanuel of Italy announces that he will visit the Unit ed States ttrls summer. If so, we hope he will take the people of the country Into his confidence and make a diagram of the Fiume situation. TELEPHONES: 1 Business Office, 23. j Circulation Department. 683. f Job Department, 6S3. THE CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER WRITERS ARE MANIFESTLY UNGRATEFUL. Entered at the Postofflce In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. ! 17. 1920. THE GREATEST NEED OF THE UNITED STATES Portland. Or., Feb Editor Statesman: Your quotation from the Los An geles (Calif.) Times concerning the two sets of triplets in the Living stone family of Albany, Oregon, which appeared in your Sunday is sue on page four, was followed by a very much needed comment. If there was only one town in the Unit ed States named Albany, then the The greatest need of the United States right now is a President .-"j a . a 1 1 " 1 t 1 wim a ievei neau; wun a souna mina in a sounu douj An1 o rtnalnactt! a1rrir ict Tk t flf "VVft cli in crtvn 4 A V S. A VlVlt WW w M AAA V I . - w ' There has been a loss of some 20 per cent, from the high point omission of the name of the state in of gold holdings reached durihg the war in the hands of our Fed- which that town was situated would era! Reserve Systeni. 1 be justified; but since there are 18 The gold holdings are now down to less than $2,000,000 ; and, states in the union in which then what is more, they are still going down. is a town of that name. It would Where is the gold going? eem as if the omission of the state It is going to China and Japan and the Central and South in Mch this particular Albany was American countries whose rice and tea and copra and raw silk located was not purely accidental. and beans and chocjolate and coffee ;and hides and many other ar- And thl3 remands me of an ex ticles, raw and manufactured, we are buyingin larger value volume perlence that I had 40 years ago. In than we are selling iour products of all kinds to them. doing some research work in connec- Th .linlflnfP nf! fmrlA is nirainst no tion with Oregon history a reference So far as those countries are concerned. was found to a dIary cf p- Ed , The volume of ttetde in our dealings with Europe i tremendously wards, then on file In the state 11 in favor of ns but Europe can pay only promises. . She has nothing brary of California at Sacramento. else with which to ttiake up the balance. Mr- awards. u win oe rememoerea. This is an alarmine situation. came to Oregon in the fall of 1834 It needs brains !of an international order : men of erreat vision with Rer- Jafton Lee and was 'Itb : And a chief executiv with mori than "sirmlp traek" miml aim almost four years at the Metbo- There would be no dangerous breakers ahead, if we had men or the right calibre on guard. As it stands now, as we are drifting, and going around in cir cles, and bickering nd quarreling, and playing peanut politics, and selling away our birthright of leadership for a mess of pottage and a bag, of peanuts, it Is a situation to wring the souls of men who must stand and watjeh our proud Ship of State disgustingly drifting in xne aoiarums. Let us not be too hasty in our judgment. Possibly the thugs who robbed the Monmouth bank were looking for money to invest' iu oieia rcai eiate, n ih an awiui temptation. ..... ' S ' " No doubt most readers of The Statesman noticed the communi-j catiou in yesterday's Salem Slogan pages from C. Thiessen of Jeffer son. A friend tells the writer that Mr. Thiessen is a man who is now very well to do ; with a fine farm j. and that he paid for the farm with money realized from the potatoes he raised and sold; and then some. And Mr. Thiessen is not the only man in the Jefferson neighbor- I 9J22"1" dist mission north of Salem, the site of which is now owned by Alex La- Follett. Very soon after the Oregon Historical society was organized on December 17, 1898. and the duty of gathering source material for future use devolred upon me,i wrote to the librarian of the state library of Cali fornia for a certified copy of the P. L. Edwards diary, supposing that it was still in manuscript form. In a few days a printed copy of the diary was recelTed, but to my great sur prise it did not contain any reference to his life in Oregon. Of course, it is possible that he did not keep diary while he was in Oregon; but the presumption is very strong that noou who na paid tor his land from the sales of his potatoes grown -7" on the land. It takes work and patience and intelligence; but V n T.u Vl there Is monev in nntfltnP. in i;.trLt.,i would naturally be regarded by . j- t w ... ...... mtu, wan. jioi.i, Jiiuuvy. 1 The farmers ori the River Road, north of Salem, arc now or ganized, in their effort to have the electric light and power lines extended through tfieir district. They will do themselves and the country and the city a great turn if they go ahead and carrv the luaiier 10 a successiui conclusion. one having the diary .keeping habit as important as any portion of his subsequent career. These instances, together with oth ers that might be mentioned, sug gests the thought that from the standpoint of the average newspaper man of California very little happens in the Pacific Northwest the origi- v It has been established by officers' testimony before the House committee investigaline war expenses that nnc nrivatji ina.ivm-ta.itiv was awarded the distinguished service medal bestowed hv the board nal ';?re,g(m Country" that Is worth ui oiucers on seven out 01 eight JMajor Generals in the army. It thus was made clear why the other 1,999,999 fighting privates of the hue were denied the decoration, but it is still a mysterv as to ,.U..i ..... ii ....11.. : .1 . ... . niiai, ivan me iiiaiiey wuti me eighth .Major uencral. Some building booni In Salem. Let 'er buck. j Th sultan of Turkey now says he tried to end thej war yes, by fighting his darndest. The public debt of Mexico fs giv en as about $212,000000. It would require the payment of a lot of ran soms to settle that. There should be no trouble In mak ing both ends meet j in the Arctic regions. We have seen no advance in the price of blubber. King George says he ts In favor of the regulation of the liquor traf tic. It always has been regulated In a way in England. The recommend ation may mean much! or little. What do you know about bees? Ever get stung? Tell The States man all you know about the indus try1, for the Salem ' slogan Issue of next Thursday. f day. Memorial Day and Independence Day fall on Sunday this year. Ain't it tough? mentioning, apparently forgetting that the influence of Oregonians in California and in congress was a powerful factor in causing it to be admitted to the Union as a state on September 9, 1850. George IL.Himes. Curator and Asst. Secretary of the Oregon Historical Society. have seen employed and through which a successful physician had treated more than three (300) hun dred cases without a death, is as fol lows: Orange Juice: Cut an orange in half and extract the juice, mix this juice with a glass of cold water and drink. Repeat every two or three hours. Internal Bath: Take a quart of warm water, add a teaspoonful of salt, allow it to dissolve, then use it as an enema. If chills begin take an enema, morning, noon and night, and once a day thereafter. Capsicum: Capsicum is ordinary red pepper. Take one grain every two hours during the chill stags. Hot Foot Bath: During the early stage, the patient sat on the bed well covered with blankets, and the feet soaked in hot mustard water for five minutes at a time, several times a day. For Acidity: In some cases the condition of the system was found to be very acid. In these cases one half a teaspoonful of Bicarbonate 01 boda (plain baking soda) vat. added to four (4) ounces of water. this used as an enema, but was re tained instead of passed off. Fain: In case there was severe pain; especially over the back, hot compresses were used if patient lived in the country. If in the city clotTis were wrung out of hot water, placed over the area of pain and an electric pad placed over the cloths and tept on until' relief was obtained, then sponged with cool water and covered welt with blankets. (Very hot water bottle may be used In place of elec trio pad). Abnormal Temperature: When the temperature reached 103 or more a tepid bath, followed by a rub, was given. , Pnenmonia: The great fear of all has been pneumonia, yet where this very simple treatment was followed there was not a single death. Chop or grate onions very fine, mix with less than an equal part of rye flour and make into a poultice Apply over the chest in form of pout tice and over this an electric pad A simple treatment but wholly effi cient. Cough: In cases where the sys tem is sub-acid, a mixture of equal parts of lemon juice and honey, well mixed. A teaspoonful every hour or two proves successful. When the system is super-acid equal parts of orange juice and hon ey well mixed. A teaspoonful every hour or two will bring similar re sults. Diet: With the very 'first symp toms of the disease all solid foods should be absolutely prohibited and the diet limited to fruit juices, and nothing but fruit juices. As the temperature lowers, broths may be given; 'these may be of meat oatmeal, wheat, whole rice. etc.. but no solid food until the system has reached a normal temperature, then the patient may be gradually started with semi-solid food. The above may be termed a drug less treatment but it is certainly safe, sane and sensible one. More over, it Is one through which not single patient has been lost. Yours very truly, Portland Health Chautauqua Portland Health Chautauqua meets every Monday evening. Selling Hlrsch Hall. West Park and Wash ington streets. You are cordially I if vited to become a member of this society. graft. But how they have boosted he price of whitewash. S 'm S This is the day when the school' children write the essays. Hops Marion or Polk county may have a winner in the e?ay contest o go to Washington. Now it is boosted up to 1 150.000. That is what the new Salem hospi tal building is to cost. It will be an ornament to Salem, and it will fill a place that is now sadly vacant in the needs of this section. Shall we trythoye titled Germans n a Job lot or von at a time? S -U That Salem building boom is fully on the way. and growing with cumu lative strength. They're rock In k the financial boat in Europe. S Americanism ought not to be debatable question. S Uncle Tom's Cabin has been pic- turlzed. Thus the. world do movie. it isn t necessary to wear rflk shirts in order to feel the pressure of the high cost of living. But where some people manage to get the snirts is as much of an enigma as that oth er question, where do they all get their automobiles? r- With the increased price of cigars there is not so much miscellaneous' giving away of the weed. Queer, too, it is about the only form of in creased expenditure in which the av erage man has so far in this reign of high prices shown good horse sense. Sundays, the could boast of Thus persons February has five first time the month, so many since 1880. under 40 years of age have not teen a February with five Sundays, and persons under 68 have seen but one. Another thing, Washington's birth- Didn t know there was so much money in potatoes, did you? And there is still more money in the In dustry, if all our farmers will raise spuds witb a college education. And they can do it and top the markets of the United States. We are expecting almost anythjng at the hands of the Democratic par ty In the presidential ticket, but we shall be surprised if a soldier is se lected. The Democrats were never very strong on the soldier business ) We THE KING 8 j The Car of No RrsrH Wl!l be on exhibition at Ibo 1'orlUml .U Wiow. Don't fall to nee it were trl,W, to ecar floor space at the Salem auto nhow and inne your special attention to our Portland exhibit SILVERT0N AUTO CO SILVEHTOV. ORKGOX Distributors for Marion and Polk ninnti.. A "FLU" TREATMENT. (The following circular has been sent to The Statesman by H. A. Stockdale, 412 Panama building, Portland, for the publicity commit tee of the Portland Health Chautau qua. The Statesman passes it along for what it is worth:) "Flu" Treatment. This treatment is indorsed by the Portland Healtfc Chautauqua: It is a well known fact that fear is the forerunner of many diseases. The recent publicity given the "flu" without at the same time submitting sufficient preventives or a treatment of the disease, has developed in a great many minds a state of fear not conducive to good move the veil of mystery n be no fear. The "flu" n overaccumulation of atter in the body. The JEXT herein described will eliminate this waste very quickly and effectively. Bureau of Human Welfare, "Bev erly Hall." Quakertown, Pa., says In "Reconstruction" that, one of the most successful treatments that we FITTRK DATES. BITS FOR BREAKFAST Be Careful What Yon Wash Your Hair With Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali, which Is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is Mulsltled cocoanut oil shampoo, for this Is pure and entirely greaseless. It's very cheap and beats anything else an to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months Simply moisten the hair with wa ter and rub it in, about a teaspoon ful is all that is required. It makes an abundance of rich,' creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly, and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and venly, and is soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy, and easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and takes out every particle of dust, dirt and dandruff. FORMER SALEM WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Lydia M. Baker Dies at McMinnville After Few Days Illness Word was received in Salem yes terday of the death of Mrs. Lydia M. Maker, wife of Harley O. Baker, of Goldendale, Wash., which occurred Wednesday in McMinnville. She was 53 years old. She was a neice of George P. Litchfield of this city, and a daughter of G. C. Litchfield of Portland. With these she is sur vived by her husband, who wu for merly a well known resident of Sa lem, and by one son, Gilbert Baker, of Goldendale. The funeral services will be held today at 11 a. m. from the L. P. Lerch parlors in Portland with burial in the Mt. Scott cemetery. NAME "BAYER" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN Take Without Fear a Told "Bayer Packages," In which ia health. lie ana wiere ca 1 is due to waste iin TREATj February H, It and 10 Salem Auto mobile show. February 19. Thumday Children' eu entc tet at Commercial club. February i2, Sunday Washington's birthday. February 22. Kunday French enrrrn mnt award, through American ftion, memorial certificate to rela tive of poldtera who lt lives In war February iJ. Monday Federal inspec tion of Company M. National Guard of Oreeon. February 25. Wednesday Itijrh school alumn. meet for organization February IS. Wednesday Cherr City bakery to entertain RutarUm at banquet. - , September U to October 3 Oregon State fair. Auto show extended. V m Auto show closes Saturday night. The Salem auto show in pro nounced by all a great success. S Cummins says 92 investigations have shown no scandal, fraud or To break up a cold in the head, neck. back, or any part of body be sure you take only "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" with the safetly "Bayer Cross" on them. This is the genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for over 18 years. In each unbroken "Bayer" pack age are proper directions to safely relieve your Colds, Headache, Neu ralgia. Earache. Toothache. Rheuma tism. Sciatica. Lumbago. Neuritis and Pains generally. Handy tin boxes containing 12 tab lent cost only a few cents at any drug store also larger Bayer packages. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoceticacidester of Sallclylcacld. kkk and flips The newest up-to-date styles and leathers, with Louis or MilL tary Heels $6.85, $7.00 to $7.85 Women's Drown or Mark Kid I .are Shoe, LouU Heels $7.83 Women's Drown Calf, Lace Shu', Cloth Top to match f3J Women's ;rey Kid, Iice Shoe, .Military Heel fT Children's K Z Kknffem, sixes 8?s to 2, Talent with White Top 91.98 SALEM SAMPLE STORE .141 North Commercial Street C. J. BREIER CO. Ton do better here for less Keeping Young To keep ones faculties bright and alert is to remain young. To maintain a buoyant spirit is 'another foe to age but who can be at his best with bad vision? Most of life's interest centers in the eyes most pleasures come from exercising the eyes. ' Dimness Of Vision means a clouding over of the brightness of life age creeps quickly then. Enthusiasm, optimism and all the youthful qualities that accomplish things, fly before the chilling influence of indis tinct vision. Eyesight Unspoilt means that the latter half of life is like a second and richer youth. The faculties, matured by experience, are brought t perfection, and the individual achieves the utmost that is in him. i Keep your sight unspoilt,' and of all things possible you will have done the one most certain to contribute. Modern Sight Testing x conducted under ideal conditions with the aid of every proved facility that science has yet de vised. But the important thing is that every caller gets the benefit of our unique experience, coupled with separate in vestigations and consideration. DR. L. HALL WILSON Eyesight Specialist Fits Eyeglasses Correctly 210-211 U. S. National Bank BoUdin 01 THE AUTO SHOW SATURDAY It Will Continue Until Saturday Night D ANGE Among the Autos Saturday Night $1.00 Admission Ladies 25c J