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TIIE OltECO STATESMAXi WKDXEADAT, MARCH 17. 102O. I! i The Oregon - ' Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 216 3. Commercial St, Salem, Oregon 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 news published herein. R. J. Hendricks. 8tephen A. Stone. Ralph Glorer.... Frank Jaskoskl. . DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier in Salem and suburbs, IS cents a week, SO cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall, $6 a year; $3 tor six months; SO cento a month. For three months or more, paid in adrance, 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 ad ranee to the Dally Statesman.) SUNDAY STATESMAN. $1 a year; SO 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 adrance, 11.25); SO cents for six months; 2 S cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 22. Circulation Department. SIS. Job Department, S83. Entered at the Postofflce In Salem, NEVES HAD ONE Jim Ham Lewis, chief of the dudes and head rainbow chaser of the United States, gays that he wouldn't be surprised if. the Demo cratic National Convention after casting its complimentary ballots for various candidates would nominate Wilson by acclamation, de spite anything he could say or do. i This possibility will be concededj by many, but it would be a ease of the Democracy kissing goodbye to the country for a long farewell. After the evidences of autocracy that the President has indicated no great number of voters would consent to a third-term candidate of any kind The country has never had one and never will. In the continued pursuit of its anti-prohibition campaign the New York World concedes that the blessed old saloon can never come back. The saloon question it regards as settled. What the World is now fighting against, it appears, is the legal definition of "intoxicating" as any drink with an alcoholic content of more than one-half or 1 per cent. Toe World says that is a he there will be no liberty in America until cur beer, lawfully sold, be comes at least 2.50 in alcoholic potency. The country is threatened with Congresses overturned, political parties half ruined and adminisr trations wrecked on. the great issue of 2.50 against half of 1 per cent The extent to which motor vehicles are supplanting the horse on farms is Tirnlilemfltipftl 'th. .T)nrfmnt nf Atrriotilt , , . - .......... , - clare, after a recent survey, which disclosed that at least 50,000 farm ers in the conntrv nwn mntnr triloba whih their nw nn their firmc Passenger cars and trailers were excluded. In many cases the intro- a!- a? 1 - a uucnuii vi a true, on a iarm indicates provision ior increased hauling rather than an actual reduction in the number of horses used. Horses on arms reached their maximum in 1913, and since then have been grouuany decreasing, 'lneir number 109.000. a decrease of 373.000 head , horse market' is regarded as unsettled and the future equally uncer 4! ': im. i i .. . . . . . iaiu. sue. uest, ueraana aurinor ine It is not beyond the possibilities will be Wood and Underwood. In latter would be so far Underwood a magnifying glass. ' . If Salem Will ffet btlSV. riffht ready to work up a large acreage wen on ner way towards reaming ter oi me worm. Not too late yet to tell what you , know about beans. . Jt required 111 years to make the United States dry. Can the wets hope to break that record? . , There will be a symposium on beans In .The Statesman of tomor row, on the Salem slogan pages, that would make a Boston man en vious. . - . . - . - v- We would all like to reflect that Germany's troubles are not our "funeral." But every nation in the world is tha concern of every other, Ja. these enlightened and progressive days, and win be still more so as the size of the earth shrinks, as es timated in terms of rapid communi cation and transportation. David Lloyd George says that the English government never contem plated turning over the West Indies to the United States for the debts A MAN OF T HE man who has a bank account and makes use of its conveniences in . transacting his business not only benefits thereby, but repre sents himself as businesslike to others. The advantages of choosing a bank like the United States National are many and varied. Statesman .Manager .Managing Editor Cashier Manager Job Dept. Oregon, as second class matter. AND NEVER WILL and if truth is holy it follows that on January 1 this year was 21, frnm Jintmrv 1 lt v.f Tl, last vear nas rteen in the snnth that the candidates for President the split that would follow the .that he would not be visible with now. she ean have several f aetniie of flax grown in 1921, and will be ner manifest destiny the flax cen due this country. The denial of the premier was hardly necessary. When did England ever give up any of her territorial possessions? She would rather owe us the money. And there was the old-fashioned doctor who mixed a lot of herbs with a good quality of whisky and sold it for a spring tonic. What has be come of him? The covenant situation in Wash ington changes with the hours, but we believe that everything will still come out in the wash. -Los Angeles Times. It is a blessed thing to be optimistic, any way. The criticism by Admiral Sims in regard to the failure of the navy to get into the war properly ought to act as a stimulant to those In au thority to see to it that the disas trous experience Is never repeated The strictures of the bluff old sea dog are based on a half century in AFFAIRS Eyes dim? What Is the reason? Find the cause, and the remedy na turally suggests Itself; but do not put It off. . Delays are dangerous. If your eyes need attention HENRY L MORRIS Eyesight SpecUlUC 305 State Street the service and should be taken to heart by the government. If Admiral Sims is to be court- martialed we may know something about the inside management of the American nary during the war. And the country will be glad to have the Information. President Wilson Is having some trouble to secure a commissioner of internal revense to take the place of Daniel S. Rfper. Nobody seems to want the job to have and to hold until next March. Barney Iiaruch says that price con trol was the only thing that saved the country from a wild debauch of the profiteers. Wonder what Bar ney thinks has been going on in these United States the past 18 months Certainly, some profiteers got about all the money and are still getting. Baruch ought to revise his statement. .J . GET BUSY. The government's Industrial cen sus Is now under full head. This is the time for people to show some Industry. No loafing on the Job while Uncle Sam la tabulating his industrial strength. SEEKING 8UBSTTTUTKS. Wouldn't It be great if some chem 1st would tlnd out how the weeds that grow so abundantly and luxuri ously could be converted into paper pulp? That Iwould tbe something worth while. Ex-Secretary Lane wants experi mentation to go on until a reason able substitute for wood pulp be found and the future of the Ameri can magazines and newspapers be made more certain. MEDICINAL PURPOSES. r An eastern physician who was writing an average of more than 100 prescriptions a day for liquor forv medicinal purposes now finds himself under arrest and heldNby a $5000 bond. When he ws arrested there were 15 men in his office, all of them coughing. rrhe doctor admitted that he had charged from $1 to $10 for a pre scription according to the patient's cough, f Whether the man who coughed the loudest paid the most is not stated, but the presumption Is that he received the earliest at tention and the largest supply and therefore, must have paid for It. Mental healers and druglesa propa gandists have cut into the prescrip tion business of the physicians, but the prohibition law which encourag es the writing of orders for boose will help a blt-and save some poor old practitioners from starving to death. But the trouble Is that some of them want to overdo It. MUST CUT DEEPER. The army of fighters has praetl cally been demobilized, but the forces of those who get government Jobs are still pretty well Intact, ac cording to Washington correspon dents. It has always proved a hard task, after wars, to reduce the bat talions of civil servants employed temporarily to meet emergencies The Democrats conducted the recent conflict in the usual wasteful way; to tbe Republicans has fallen the un pleasant task of wielding the prun ing knife. They are meeting with a good deal of opposition, especially froln heads of departments at the national capital, who are using all their . Influence td maintain Jtheix forces at wartime strength. The chiefs are backed up by all who fear being severed from their positions. These number about 200.000. Their pay has to be provided by the taxpayers, who naturally look to congress to relieve them of the levy as quickly as possible. When tbe heads of departments refuse to reduce tbe number of their employes there Is only one way of bringing them to time and that Is by refusing to appropriate money to par the salaries. This course has been adopted in a number of Instan- FUTURE DATES. Mar -U and IS Nineteenth annual convention of Oregon Bute Association f Mr numbers, in Ralem. March IS. Tve-dajr w. C T. IT. to r.w.rt WlUard Memorial and N'l Dow dir. r.r.l IB U - w , Willamette University. .M?h ! Monday Willamette de Bate tryout for women. Vr' T raM f Worn-?IL- Rwbllran club at armory. Willamette va. College of pu- " " 'i bt money on ret Snnail A .VJLiU-u?"r":Btem11- 8lm Sen- 8eptt.n,bri to October Z Oregon ces by the congressional committees. but It would seem as If the legis lators must go at their necessary ask more boldly. . in these days of the high cost of living it may seem hard to relieve people of their po sitions, even thoiiKh tht-y are not necessary. But Just as the soldiers hsd to come back and take their chances of re-employment, so those who wnt Into the service of the government as civilians must, make up their minds to the Inevitable.-' BITS FOR BREAKFAST Put it over. S Speed It up. V Tbe hospital drive A strong pull will finish it. And it has got to be finished. The labor unions are coming through 100 per cent. Gasoline isup2 cents, distillate 2 cents, and coal oil 1 cent, .-.ccord- ng to Information received last night. That will put a cap sheaf on the high cost of living for most peo ple. The Standard Oil company made arrangements to lease tbe Keyes property, corner of Cottage and State streets the cornor opposite tbe southwest corner of Willson ave nue. The Keyes dwelling house to be moved to another location for a dwelling house. The city engineer gave tbe permit. Then the city council, at its meeting Monday night passed an ordinance requiring those wishing to build oil stations to get the consent . of property owners within 100 feet. And tbe mayor signed It. But the Standard Oil peo ple say that, so far as this oil sta tion project on Cottage and State street Is concerned, this Is ex post facto legislation and therefore of no effect. The city attorney holds differentlyand so the courts may have to decide. The Standard OH people say this proposed oil station would give three men permanent em ployment men who have already been engaged; who otherwise must be dismissed. The oil people say the different oil companies employ in Salem, all told, about 50 men With families; and they contend that they should not be shut out fr m building stations where they are needed. REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The Story of a Honeymoon A WoBderfnl Romance of Married life Wooderf ally Told by ADELE GARRISON CHAPTER 54 S WHAT HAPPENED IN THE HOME WHEN AN ANONYMOUS LET TER CAME TO MADGE. "Only one' letter for vou. Margar et, and such a queer looking thing. Kenny. I should almost be afraid It carried disease germs. It's so terri bly soiled." Cousin Agatha advanced toward me. her outstretched hand gingerly holding a letter whose appearance Justified her criticism. It was the cheanest ooasible sort of ninn and It looked as If It had been care fully rubbed In dust to get It as dirty as possible. I flushed resentfully, as I gener ally do at Cousin Azatha'a remarks. Her tone Intimated that I must have some extremely undesirable acquain tances somewhere, lint although l had no possible Idea as to the tender Of the letter, mr Pride wouldn't al low me to gratify her petty malice try telling her ao. She would hare taken It as a bit of deference on my part to her opinion. Therefore 1 slipped It Into the Docket of inr sweater without a second glsnce. and DAD! YOUR HAIR IS FALLING FAST "ItauiderW will rbeck that ugly dandruff and atop hair coming out. To stop falling hair at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruff, get a small bottle of "Dan derine"' at any drug or toilet coun ter for a few cents. Dour itttU tn your hand and rub It into the scalp. Aiier several applications the hair usually stops coming out and you can't find any dandruff soab n hair on your scalp shown new life, vigor, brightness, tairkneu and hiam color. ilk if (. Mr Mi I f ill ini I ill ' t ? I went on with tbe bit of mending 1 bad In my hands until I had a chan to slip away to my room. I didn't stop to analyze the in stinct thst msde me turn the key In the lock and lean against the door, breathing heavily as If I had been running hard. Instinctively I fH that within the greasy, dirty envel ope in my pocket wss some mesfsge of evil for me. I took It out and looked at the su perscription carefully: Mrs. Richard Graham. Chase avenue, Marvin. L. I. Chase avenue! Then It was from someone who knew that we hsd moved recently. The postmark was Hoboken. and I ransacked my mem ory to see If I could find any recol lection of any person from there, btt to no avail. Of course the sensible proceedure would have been to open the envelope at once aad find out what the letter contained, but an In definable reluctance made me post pone the opening as long as possible. I examined tbe handwriting care fully. It was evidently tbst or a person rather unused to writing, and the characters were rather shakily made. I looked more closely and decided that a child's hand had addressed the envelope. More puz zled than ever, I slowly slit the en velope and drew out the enclosure. What It Contained. It was a half sheet or the cheapest kind or note paper, absolutely blanX. evidently put In the envelope for tbe sole reason or protecting tbe short newspaper clipping It enclosed. The clipping was from a New York newsraper and bore the head ing. "Short Shrirt for Spanish Spy." The story bore a Paris date line and was tbe story or a man or mlzed German and Sninlih Mnii. ki W- w . mm fn. . . m (, V . . who had lived ror years In France wno nad been discovered In treas onable practices snd summarily exe cuted. There wss no name or Initial cn the clipping, but tbe words or the headline were underlined In red Ink drawn around the entire margin or tha clipping. Cousin Agatha Comments. I read the thing through and thea turned It over and over la my hands minutely examining it ror a trace that might suggest the Identity of the sender, but to no avail. It might have dropped from the clouds for sny evidence It betrayed or the hand that bad started It on Its mission. I was thoroughly puzzled, and al though I tried to deny It to myself, a bit frightened by this newspaper clipping sent In so strange a manner. I tried to reassure myseir with the srgument that perhaps the man spoken or In the dispatch was known to some other Mrs. Richard Graham, who might live la a village or Long Island with a name similar to Mar vin. But I knew, even as it riaihed In to my mind, thai It was a most far fetched, well-nigh possible explana tion. The clipping was meant rr me. Then I thought or a conversation th Durkees and Dicky and I had once had concerning my spy actlvl tl I hsd expressed a rather de cided oplnton that this country was honey-combed with them. AUred Durkee had laughed uproariously at my strictures, pretending that he would be afraid to come Into my houte any more, for rear that I would suspect him or treasonable ac tivities, and warning his mother with burlesqued solemnity to "m'nd her p's and q's" when she wss with me. or she'd rind herself marched off to prison. It must be Alfred Durkee who hsd sent me the clipping I decided with a sigh of relief, and started to tear It up and throw It Into my wsste basket. lint some Impulse made m lock It up la my desk Instead. And OH MAN! glad Indeed I was that I had done so. when the next day. Cousin Aga tha, with Inquisitive hatefalaeae .a her voice, said as the handed me an other grimy eavelope: "Ton really ought to tell your cor respondents to wash their hands. Margaret. (To be continued) Refore the war England Imported over SO per cent or the glass used In the country, but since the Impor tations were stopped she has boea able to produce enough for her own needs. DREAMLAND RINK Bind Maiie Wednesday, Saturday and Snnday Ertuhzt Ladiej Tttt Monday tad BETTltR READ Right here Everyday Always fresh Delay Try It Today BakevRite Sanitary Bakery 437 SUU 8trtet A New Idea in Dentistry NEW ideas nlwaya mccl with op position. Some arc opposed to dentists who advertise. Others oppose the idea of practicing tlcntbtry on n large scale. Still others look with disfavor upon any departure what ever from old methods. The E. R. Parker System In den tistry Is a new idea t!ut is not opposed when it is understood be cause its use gives the people belter dentistry for Ie.vi money. It is the ,w 'i ni. tirnuiu working IO- DO- riEXES Rether. each doing that kind of denLil work in which he is most skillc.L It is like the ih of on orchestra, where each man plays the instrument lie lus learned to play well. The E. It. Parker Sj-stcm b advertised so the people may know where their teeth can be skillfully carrd for nt prices they can aiTord to pay. You arc inCited to call und sec how the Parker idea lias Improved the practice of dentistry ia many diflirvnt ways. MM Silverton Plojer Heads University Hoop Sqzzi Eddie Dsrso of Sllvertoa has Vm-i elected captain of the basxetbO team f the CnfvtrsJty of Oref for the season of Iff S4 1121. Hi has held down the poet ef ferws1 for the last two seasons for the r versity team aad has two eonege li ters to Cls credit, if received a aaalmoua selection: for aU-cosjf. honors last season aetwtthsuasz be Is oae of the smallest p la yen ta the ros Terence Friday AfUrnocsi asd Tiiixxj Registered Dentists Using the E. R. PARKER SYSTEM Dr. D. M. Of den Dr. XL B. Miller Dr. F. V. Ortif . SUU and CcsimcrcUl EtrrtU rsn .1 T