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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1920)
THE OREGON STATESMAN: THURSDAY. APRIL 15, 1B20. The Oregon Statesman Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBHSHLXa COMPANY 216 K Commercial St., Salem. Oregon . - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , The Associated Press Is exclnslrely entitled to the use for republication of all. news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news pnbUshed herein. v R. J. Hendricks. .... .. Manager Stephen A. Stone. .Managing Editor Ralph Glover. ................ Cashier Prank Jaskoskl ......Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, serred by carrier In Salem and suburbs. IE 'cents a nvK, wv nan m man m. - ttj u-ii, 0 m . iu( tu iuuuiB. , vv .va month. For three 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 & year in adrance to the Dally Statesman.) - SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; (0 cents for six months; ZS cents for three months. ' WEEKLY STATESMAN. liana In tvn ili-nifi aectloas TnesdaTS and Fridays, f 1 a year (It not paid In adrance, I1.2S); SO cents for six months; 2 i cents for three months. - TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department. (82. -, Job Department, 582. Entered at the Postoftice In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. MOBS LEGUMES AND MOEE LITE FOB THE SALEM DISTRICT DO YOU STUDY? Constant study is a strain on the eyes, and in most cases an un comfortable duty. We can make It easier for you. HENRY L MORRIS & CO. Eyesight . Specialist . 305 State Street SALEM Phone 239 ' Legume cAmes down to'ns from a Greek word which meant to speak, or to gather. Legumes are the pod plants, like peas, beans, etc., that may be gathered. We have from the same root word the word legend, a thing spoken, gathered. ' Legumes are very important for the Salem district, for a number of ..reasons, the most important being these: They -mysteriously extract that vital thing, nitrogen, from the air and place it in the soil, to give life to plants. Notrogen makes the. leaves green. There is no plant life without nitrogen. , They ut humus in the soil, making it friable, workable, fruitful. -They make a cover or green manure crop for the small fruits and the' tree fruits and nuts. - -They make a feed as a soiling crop that is invaluable for live stock. ... They make the richest hay crop known. They make excellent silo crops, when properly mixed with other The sweet; clovers make a bee pasture that is beyond estimate in value to the orchardist , For the orchardist must have bees to polleuize his fruit blos soms -.' ' ." V , ' ;l '.::V And bees must have bee pasture. ' . ; Chapters are written by the observing men of the United States Department of .Agriculture and of the Agricultural College Experi ment Stations, and others, on the nodules on the rootlets of the le guminous plants; the diminutive animal forms, the bacteria that mysteriously gather from its inexhaustible sources in the air the life giving nitrogen and fix it in the soil for the benefit of plant life; withnnt Iwhieh trier wmilri b no tlant life. - For a long, long time, in the memory of men yet young, the farmers of hr Willamette valley though! they ;eouldvnot;successfully raise clover; thought the summers were too dry, etc. It has been. proved that this is a great clover country; 1 -jThat we can raise all kinds of clovers; . And, in favored localities, alfalfa; i ' - And that we can raise the vetches and field peas, literally, "till the cows come home." Two things ought to be Especially dwelt upon and accentuated and hammered, in and harped upon till the very welkin rings with the jazz and the zip and the zest of it, right now: First, the orchardists must have cover crops; al the orchard- ists.' See what Sam II. Brown, the greatest loganberry man in the world, says about vetches as a cover crop in his loganberry plantatibn near Oervais. He has used vetches, and he has found that this treat ment of his soil makes it rich and friable. The vetches put" the bloom on the berrv bushes and the royal purple into the fruit. It is no experiment with him. Sam Brown knows. . iV Second, and once more, there must be more of the sweet clovers grown for the bees, For bee pasture. And there must be more bdes. ' f ., . , i The sweet clover is a good crop for all the other uses f clover, too; and bee keeping is profitable in itself, and interesting and in structive work. V So there are several profits and several pleasures, directly and indirectly, in sweet ciover raising ana uce Keeping. r : jWhat our people need is rotation, co-operation and team work, 'till nlnno ilnu-n the line. The farmers must have it on their farms, and they must have it in connection with the factories in the city. 1 'If complete co-operation, team work, intelligent and intensive cultivation of the soil and entire co-operation with the manufac- turers and market men can be had nere, mere win oe uuuaeci arouna nitv life in the United States and the wide world. The natural ' - . - . 1 1 ' i ' 1 3 ' resources are here. Tne Knowieage is aireaay ai nanu. on, where khe was supposed to havs been condemned by a soviet local rouncil and stabbed to death.. ' But it now comes out that a daughter of a peasant, who served in the royal household, exchanged tlotlng with he grand duchess and took her place inthe prison, and the . royal prisoner was permit ted to depart on the supposition that she was the maid. The peasant girl (with a devotion dear to the heart of a Shakespeare or a Cornielle) suffered the Indignities that the Bol shevlkl took a malignant delight in inflicting on royalty and went hero ically to her death without rey eat ing her secret. The sister of the czar was found by Red tross workers in a hovel in southern Russia, lirlng the life of a peasant and devoting her whole time to relieving the suffering of those about her.: Her identity was accidentally discovered, much to her regret. She declined to leave Russia and seek safety in a more civilised. country, asserting that she owed her life to "her people." She Is still In territory occupied by the Bolshevik!, where she Is working to relieve the distress which the Bol shevik regime has caused. Knowing that her life hangs on the whim of the slayers of the rest of her family, she Insists on staying and accepting the common lot. Such devotion may serve to alter the verdict of other peoples concern ing the personality of the Roman offs. The empress refused a safe conduct to Germany at the time the B rest-Li toTsk treaty was signed, pre ferring prison and death with her husband to freedom in exile. The czar himself refused to be a party to a plot for his escape, holding that It would be beneath his dignity to violate the laws of his country, even though those laws were enforced more often violated by a govern ment composed of thieves, criminals and murderers. "East is east and west Is west. Tradition was stronger in the Ro manoffs than love of life. Seventeen members of the royal family have been slain by the Bolshevlkl. Trot zky is reported by one of his former aides, whose 'disgust was . greater than his lust for power, to have boasted that he had stifled the royal breed, that none of the blood of the Romanoffs would be left to head a monarchical revolt. And Trotxky has now in his power one who es caped ' the general massacre. The Grand Duchess Olga apparent ly courts martyrdom. Mysticism is strong in the Russian character. She may be sustained by the belief that a Divine power will not permit her family to become extinct. But, whatever the motive, the influence of her example will not be lost on the world outside of Russia, perhaps i- 1AST OF T1IE R03IAXOFFS. Despite the efforts of the Bolshe-: frlki to exterminate the breed of the -Romanoffs, It appears that the Grand Duchess Olga, through the devotion of a peasant maid, has es caped the general slaughter. Sister of the cxr. she was sent with the other Romanoffs to a Russian pris- - "BALANCED RATIONS" flHEN such a thing was first proposed in regard to feeding livestock, the' theory was considered absurd. Still some were ven turesome enonghi to "try anything once," as they said. i Now to know what and when to feed cattle, hogs, chickens, etc, has become a science which most farmers practice. . The United States National Bank, has also helped along that line-fas its Pig Club results prove. Sal em j I Orton. j I not on the Russian people them selves. A rerolt against Bolshevist atrocities is already sweeping' Rus sia. There are deeds' which even tyrants cannot commit with Impun ity. Yill Trotsky dare again to strike? , FUTURE DATES. i tiumtnt octexjr. ference of Interchurcb World More- uirnL Anril IT. f(attipl. irTUk.t. k.t... Willamette univeraitr and Collec of Pujtet Sound. April IS. Sunday Baseball, Salem Senators vs. Moosejaw. April is. Monday Lads and Dads m..ilfi a lLt r April 19. Monday Moving; pictures sau svauss; vn AIUKK Dy XleCK10K Lew in. Alaskan traveltr Anrit 2ft TullllV.PrtaletUst M - Mwvea ivi VOtri riAMa . . w " , va iiiurcvv bouse. at si -k ... April toursoay tiaoy clinic at Commrril ploh April IS. Friday Howard Krarta n era, isnupemp arcniiect or fort land io aaareaa baletn Art learue at public library. . April 23. Friday Debate between wuiaraeiu university and Pacific unt veraity. tertainment at armory tinder auspices Willamette university and McMinnville CAtl.BT. ApriSO and May 1 "Awakenlnr Of paaicani upcra uouae. noapltal benefit. Mf s"twpdJr May day and junior eng m. nismriie univeraity. May X to May Second annual Ore son Jeraer jubilee. May . Thursday Banquet of Jersey cattle breeders at Marion hotel. May it. Friday Debate between iiiioifut university and Ureron Ac ricultural cnllr JL"T 11 to 1' Mf r' conference In Kalem . IyJ.;iTu,,jr,,,trco,,:1t Mar II a nrl ISVl..ik i convention of Oreron State Association Of Mar Plumbers. Ii 8a tern May Is. Tuesday Pacific Coumt A4 i. n'Miii exruraion parse a a . M.tuMa William Howard i mil apeaaa at armory. June II to 17 Officers -hoo!s iregon national Guard ana rort Stevens. tnw at Vancouver June It and ?A v.tl.i tour motorcycle event im Salem. jiuiy s to SO Annual encampment of vrrron national uuard. Infantry and Kinra at camp lewis. artillery at Fort Stevens. . June 12. 13 and tt-Mmperial conclave ot Myatle Snrine in Portland. June tt. Wednesday imperial con clave of Mystic Shrfne to viait June U. 25 and ZS Portland Hose .t!!'-2;i2i M-tate Elks con .......... n I lcl. , 8EMOR WRANGLERS. t Some day some able-bodied candi date will run for president on platform which includes a demand for a constitutional amendment abol ishing the United States senate and he will get about all the votes there are. t With Borah. Reed and some oth ers advertising it, (the, senate has oecome to tne popular mina tne greatest collection of common scolds 'ever assembled since the witches of Odonto had their fiery festival. Exchange. i OlTl COSTLY CENSUS. It shouli be possible to contrive more economical method ot taking the United States census during the next ten years. That Is one ot the things effete Europe, certainly Great Britain, France, Germany and even Russia, do better than the United States. In Great Britain they get it all over in one day. with full responsi bility on the citizen. And It costs them vastly leas per capita than our hectic system. The forms are delivered by mall a full week prior to the set date and must be filled in by the responsible house holder of every building and resi dence enumerating every human be ing sleeping on the premises on the given night. Few souls are over looked and the forms are collected by a comparatively small staff of people, frequently the mall carriers In scattered districts. This plan also catches the transient, for, no mat ter where the traveler sleeps, he is counted in that household for that particular" night. All the returns have to be la during the next two days and enumerators are' able to record the resulting figure within a week. Our own system Is unsatisfactory. as well as expensive, and call tor altogether too much argent appeal. and the delay Is against all our vaunted American' celerity. COUXTINOTIfE COST. The Britons, too,' are counting the cost ot peace. The British entourge at the Paris conference consisted ot 24 deegates, diplomats and clerks. They -occupied five hotels and the total bill exceeded I2.SOO.000. Yet it was argued in London that the American delegation, although fill ing but one hot ll. had spent more money. The Americana never were pikers when traveling, especially in Paris. But the price of peace is almost as distressing as war and have we got it when we get it? bETTLIXG UIV Congress will have to appropriate $120,000,000 to, cover the final de ficit in the government operation of the railroads incidental to turning the lines back to the owners. Some thing over S30u.000.000 has aready been paid to cover former shortage. These sums relate only to the de ficit in operating expenses. They take no account of the obligation ot the government to return the prop erties in as good physical condition as When taken. That may require years of time and billions of dol lars to adjust. t if the government had continued in the business in an other generation we would have neither a government nor a railroad. Neither could have withstood the strain ot the other. THH CLEAN-UP MAN. Surgeon General Gorgas. who made Panama safe for democracy and swatted the fy out ot Cnba, has made a five-year engagement with the government ot Peru at $15,000 a year and expenses and will put In execution a sanitary program to fu migate and purify that Latin repub lic. The Peruvians couldn't do better than to make blm dictator for . a while. , They would have a country that would shine like pollshel silver and even the Chileans would be forced to admire. As a clean-up man Gen eral Gorgas is America's best. WHITE HOUSE LAUV. The suffragists are willing to fur nish the nation with a president, but the material suggested uoesn't cre ate much enthusiasm. Just like th men folks. The wrong ones are after the Jobs. Judge The police say that, yon and your wife had some words. Prisoner 1 had some but didn't get a chance to use them. MOTHER! 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The pleasure of coming home, at the end of a long trip to piping hot dinner readv to serve, can only be appreciated by those who have experienced it. MISS GRACE BOGUE hi the Westernhouse Company, is Dem onotrating how it can be done AT OUR STORE 237 N. LIBERTY ST. v .3 . a - . Today, Tomorrow and Saturday 1:30 to 5 P.M. PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY on arn bottle-; Vou tnt ray "01