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THE OREGON STATESMAN i ftrXDAT. MAY 9, IIKJO. The Oregon Statesman Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 216 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication if all news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendncks. . Manager Stephen A. Stone. .Managing Editor Ralph Gloyer Cashier Frank Jaskoskl. , Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier to Salem and suburbalS eenU week. SO cents a month. . TAILT 8TATESMAN. by mall, SC a year; fitor tlx months; SO cents a month. For three months or more, paid in Advance, at rate of $S 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.) ONDAT STATESMAN. $1 V year; SO cents for tlx months; 2S cents fot three months. -WEEKLY STATESMAN, issued In two six-pace sections Tuesdays and Fridays. $1 a year (if not paid in advance, $1.M); SO cents for six months; 2S cents for three months. ELEPHONES: Business Office, 22. Circulation Department. S82. Job Department. SS2. Entered at the Postof tie in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. Announcement We have become asKociated with Dm. M. C. Kindley ami H. L. Kteeves under the firm name of HENRY E. MORRIS CO. Eyesight Specialists Rooms 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, Hank of Commerce Building. We will he in our new location Monday, May 10 HENRY E. MORRIS & CO. Formerly of 305 State Street t i will mak-3 hard spring poet3. sledding tor the MAKE SALEM THE FLOWER CITY OF THE COAST Editor Statesman: Travellers who have been all over the west frequently are heard to say that Salem is the most beautiful city on the Pacific coast.' It is not boasting to say that no western city has as fine a grouping Our idea of the tero of excitement is the proposed trial by the allies of the e-kalser with the defendant many miles away. ' Don't hear so much about Article X these days. The Republicans re- of public buildings, with such fine large park spaces and so pic- fused to give President Wilson tbreo turesqnely set to natural and imported trees and shrubbery. fives for it When it comes to flowers our city attracts some, attention. The comment of Mr. Weed, who lectured at the city library, and Shades of Bobby Burns! The condemned planting our parkings with the Caroline lestout rose, Scottish Tvade Union congress has has attracted wide attention. While he may be right from some J resolved aeainst liquor. Tam O'Sban- standard of landscape gardening, we believe that for our wide streets I ter. bring out the old mere! and large .blocks, the custom of planting hedges of this grandest of all shrub roses, that brings two blooms a year, eaeh extending over See no mention of the name of two months, or -practically four months of rarely beautiful flowers, Albert Sidney Burleson for presl should not be abandoned on account fof the criticism of 3Ir. Weed dent. On the platform, -he kept us All he said was in line with what ean be read in any work on cut of mall." he would be invincible. landscape gardening. So he ha authority. The war agencies ought to cnt But we have the rases and they are their own best argument.- in'r Pr rolls. They have long ago They speak to the eye in the language of flowers that touches outlived their usefulness if they ever the heart and warms the soul of the beholder into admiration an. hd nT. which is a disputed ques- pnthnsiflsm. - v ' .. lion. snd prlvsie life. They would male a fin combination if they could be drstied tor.ethr. iiuniKit tiiisuh. Same ilmr the Gideons, who to it that there's a Hlble In eacn hotel guest room, are going to fit It ro that the roan who makes the ho tel rates Las one, too. ivtroit Times. TIIF.Y KfcLIMW KTHIKK. Half the preachers of America draw less than SIS a eek. It Is fortunate that they look to rich re wards In the hereafter. That helps them to retain contented minds In the fare of rising markets In thin world. Bat " t ain't fair.- I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I with Roysl Canadian mooaated po- Itr. Tb td for such a nolle fore. Mr. King ld. was emphaJIid by In lormstka sslned on a rnt tour mad by Mr. King wlih Charts Rat lr. ppeclal iiciomi agent sf Hi. Paul. "From Information gahend on our trip." ld Mr. King. "It l ap parent thai enilerabl liquor la carried eru the tn.rd-r la rosl rsr Tbe shipments are bard la ral at Krrrie. I. C. and csrrt1 into tb I'nlteJ Siate tla Eaaiporl. Id-bo. and Gateway. Mont. roar latbr Hea malalnlRg more tbaa 70 bottles of Can J. a a wbUkey were brought to Great Fall recently. Tbey mere confiscated at Kafttport and Gateway. UMATILLA THIi MUK PENDLETON. Or.. May C Uraa f Ilia, roaaty farmers are settlai nor ambitious tbsa ever. Coaaty Agrnt llenalon estimate that be tween 2i snd le new silos are to be erected In bis district la 1920. nrr I A New Yorker bought a Bible the other day tor $3700. If the price of Bibles goes up it may add to the high" cost of dying. You will be surprised at the num ber of substitutes for sugar that may be 'made at home when you read the Salem slogan pagea of The States man of next Thursday. The queen of all flowers is made a braid and border, in Bam Simpson's poetic language, for miles of walks and no city in America or the world can rival Salem as a city of flowers, which distinction is given us by these matchless parkings so hastily condemned by Mr. Weed, : The Salem Floral Society is making a drive for 5000 members, at one dollar each, to be expended on beautiful shrubbery, for odd and neglected corners of our city now lying wild and unimproved. But we may rest assured that Caroline Testout, our glorious shawflower; wilt nctte disturbed but will preside along our streets in increasing displays. The state and the city and county deserve credit for co-operating with citizens. The school district could do a great deal more in beautifying the school grounds. . Having voted Salem the Gladiolus City, there are still four to six weeks to set out the bulbs of this noble Roman show flower, and thousands should be .planted. Bulbs can still be bought from such growers as Crissey at Bull Run, Diener at Kentfield, California, and .others.;- '' . .'!'-' . ' A' few dollars should be spared by every flower lover of Salem, uMiu. an me unves, io et uut a uea Qt inaaioius. ana aaa to me ,in..t.(.'t th. t-m t... Mn lame or balem as a flower city. Why should we not have annually a J ightinr over them for many a year vuip uvw, Kittuiuiu aiiuw, aim an ins snow, in wnicn air. v eeqiand the matter Is not yet settled couiu neip usi it wouia aavenise us as no other one enterprise could advertise us and would multiply the wealth and beauty of our city. Let us unite to make Salem the Flower City of the Pacific ' coast. -i-"-, , .. -.- - :. COL. E. HOFER. Scheerer Co. are working fully 2000 men and have been during the war and since. Their factory Is situated in the back country and they have had little or no trouble with strikes From the windows of this factory you can loo over and see the nioun tains of Switterland. "Enough has been salj by Ameri can manufacturers in this line and they 'are becoming discouraged by the tardy action of the senate which is going to put them in rreclsely the same position they were before the war started.- with a loss to Ameri can manufacturers of their machin ery, tools, and worst of hll. of their trsined men. "I think it should be settled quick ly, one way or the other, in fairness to the American manufacturer whom you called to Washington In n emergency when the senate found that the country was fitted with poor equipment in the way of surgi cal Instruments. The conditions were so bad. that the navy was com celled to buy obsolete cases 25 to SO years' old. "Why; not remedy a condition when it is known? A revolution is reported' in the vicinity of Mt. Ararat, where the ark landed. What do you Noah about that? AFTER THE BACON". The German government has ar ranged for the purchase of $50,000,- 000 worth -of American bacon. No body waa able to bring any home end they simply hare to have it. There is an ' intetrchurch move rnent on foot to raise 1400,000,000 to inculcate the "true Christian fun damentals." But what are the "fun- T1IK SMITHY. Boost for beautiful Salem. m S The Mormon sugar trut Is up sgalnirt Uncle Sam for profiteering. That may take some kinks out of the high prices of sugsr. S S The Statesman of next Thursday. In tbe Salem slogan pages, will tell of a number of ways for tbe people of this section to kirk out from under tbe robber beet sugar barons. S The Salem Rotarlans are going to get behind a project to beautify tbe grounds along North Mill creek on North Summer street. Tbere Is a chance tbere to make a beautiful three-acre park, and with such a con summation a way will be shown for a number of other nnsightly places along Salem's creek and lirer banks to be msde beauty spot a. S When North Summer Ptreet la paved through to tbe Fair Grenada road, which will be this summer. most of the Pacific highway traffic will go that way: and It will be an asset to tbe city to have that part of Summer street as presentable as pos sible to tbe thousands of elsitors wno will pass that way. Federal Police to Check Border liquor Smuggling GREAT FALLS. Mont.. May C Immediate formation of a federal po lice automobile force to patrol tbe Canadian border la an ertort to check tbe smuggling of liquor lato Montana and Idaho has been recom mended to tbe customs bureau at Washington by A. J. King, collector of customs at Great Falls. Mr. King says be msde the recommendation some time ago at the request of other federal officials. He suggested that tbe force consist of at least six men. equipped with high power automo biles and authorised to co-operate The fathers of both Hoover and Lowden were village blacksmiths in communities within a few miles of cne anoth?r in Iowa and Minnesota. That is a strain from which spring many Americans successful in public "DOWN ON THE FARM" Caskets CotttamArms and Munitions for Mexico IJOUGLA3. Aria.. Msy S Tb weight of a shipment of raakete to Tuckoii. Ari.. from ! Angeles, teaulted indlncovery of 21. rounds of ammunition and the arreM of Tgnaclo Soto, a Douglas merchant cbariced wl'b conspiracy to send am munition into Metlco. FAIOIKILH IllStXll'lUGKIl NEW YORK. Msy t. Labor con ditions and high prices have- discour aged the farmers of North Dakota and as a lesutt tbe wheat and po tato crops will be considerably be low normal this year, according to Governor L. J. Frasler. who arrived here today. Only about CO. per eat of the normal wb'est acreage Is b Ing planted, he said, while high prices for potatoes for seed par- May Jewelry -Who first b40Us the Lglt at day In ftprlag's set flowery of May. Aad wrs an Essraid aa life. w,ft.- 1 The Emerald is ewe tie net highly prtad ef g stoats. Ita magaifVreat eir has rightly ba eoassnd u the color of fresh gran la spring, aad la hnsi? tfc. stoa far eicels all oin grca gems. 1 For Msy birth Ukraa. soa piece of jewelry coatsiaiag aa Emerald Is most s?rpru! I Our stock HI probably ford a aelectloa of ankfe last raited for tbe eccaasL oat the bole market Is at er command for aay Essersil Ire. elry that yon assy desire. 1 Lily of the Valley ts the ad birth flower. 7 GARDNER & KEEKZ fUleea's Mo RetUUe Jewsscrs nsMl Optlriastt Ijom. together van the daam In nau ana potato beetle- m. hate reduced tbe potato arresr. I 1 TODAY LIE EE IT MEET ME AT MILLER'S We are too busy REMODELING And Modernixlnz Our Store To Write Adj. II (I Good Goods. QLJ)- So far but few, if any, delegates to the San Francisco convention hav? been Instructed. What a fallow field for tho working of the Wilson steamroller! -" "THE GYPSY TRAIL" a Really, the; Democrats ought to Insist that Colonel Bryan deposit his monkey wrench with the doorman.' Two of the candidates presidency -6t Mexico have race. No such good luck United States. for the quit the in these The newspaper publishers have agreed not to use more white paper this year than they did last. This The Santlam mining district Is getting a great deal of attention now more than ever before from tbe big men in that line. The States man has reason to know this, on ac count of Inquiries that- have come to this -paper since the mining slo gan issue was published. Salem is going to be a mining center; and it is not going to be very long now. If the wagon roads Into the mines near the junction of the Little North Fork of the Santiam and Gold creek could be completed, just a few miles of it, tbe time of tbe actual ship ment of ores would be very near. NOTICE Agreeable to the action of the Stock Holders of the Salera Fruit Union at a meeting held on May 1st, 1920. ' The Board of Directors of the Salem Fruit Union are now ready to enter into negotiations wjth intending purchasers for the sale of the assets of the Salem Fruit Union. LADD & BUSH, BANKERS ' EfUbliahed 1868 ' . General' Banking Boglnea ; Office Honrs from 10 a, m. to 3 p. it. Send me your name and address and I will send you a prospectus of the SILVER KING MINE C Chappen Hotel Bligh ' Salea, Orecu SLIWilCAL IN8TRUHEXTS MUST BK PKOTECTED, OR THE ' GERMANS WILL HAVE WO.V THE WAR. (American Economist.) The following letter, which was sent fcy Fred M. Haslam. of Fred Haslam it Co.. to several United States senators, illustrates the seri ous menace which confronts the sur gical' Instrument industry which was deTeloped during and on account of the war. It is universally conceded that dyestuffs should hate adequate protection as a , measure of Justice and as a measure of national pre paredness in ease of another war. There are exactly the same reasons why the surgical instrument indus try should . receive , adequate pro tection, .a fact which we believe fully recognized by the congress. Mr, Ilaslam'a; letter, which covers the situation very fully, reads as fol lows: ' J have just received a letter from cne of oar western traveling men and he Is very much put out be cause his salea are falling off. He states that his competitor from the Kny-Scheerer Co. states that they lave 1500,600 worth of goods from Germany and that they will soon reach the 12,000,000 mark. Mlf something is not done qulcklr with tariff bill H. R. 785.N a great victory will have been won by the Germans and why this should be 1 a puttie. We hope that the senate fully realizes the situation. "I visltvd Tuttlingen about month ago and found that the Jetter- lllilliilllllllillllffl We have a number of used cars in stock that are really good buys. One Model 490 Chevrolet Touring, overhauled in our own shop, repainted, looks like new, and guaranteed same as a new one for $700 EASY TERMS Another one just like it and in the same condition $700 One Model 490 Touring, good tires, just the car for long hard trips to the mountains, and a rcal - ; ; $400 Several Fords from $350 up The car situation is at a point where the dealer does not know whether he will receive new cars from this date on, to anywhere near supply the demand. Unless the railroad situation clears within the next few days new cars will be something of the past and prices of used cars will increase. You can purchase a used car at this time at a real bargain and now is the time to acL SALEIV1 AUTOMOBILE CO. F. G. Delano Salem Dallas A. L Eoff i n