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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1920)
The Oregon Statesman Iasa4 Dally Except Monday by . TUB STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 115 8. Commercial St, Salem, Oregon MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclaiirely entitled to the use for republication f all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news poblisbed herein. R. J. Hendricks... ................ ...... v. ............. Stephen A. Stone. J .Managing .Editor Ralph Clorer... Cashier Frank Jaskoskl.. Manager Job Dept. OA1LT STATESMAN, serred by carrier la Salem and suburbs, 11 cents -week. 10 cents a month. CAILY STATESMAN, by mall, 16 a year; $3 for six months; 80 cents a month. For three months or more, paid in adrance. at rate of If year. (THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, will be sent a year to any on paying a year la adrance to the Dally aONDAT STATESMAN. $1 a year; II cents for six months j 21 cents for three months. , ' WXEKLT STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections. Tuesdays and Fridays, 11 a year (If not paid la adrance, 11.21); 10 cents for six months; 21 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: ! Business Office, 21. Circulation Department, III. i Job Department, III. Entered at the Postof rice la Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. HATS OFF TO MARION CO UNTY? BANKERS sale. Hats off to the bankers of Marion county I I Marion county has $170,000 worth of market roads bonds for -Bids are being advertised for now, to be received up to 12 o'clock on July 15th. '. ( This is the first batch of $850,000 of market roads bonds .voted by the people of Marion county, and they are to draw five and a half per cent interest; and, under the authority of the mandate given by the vote, they cannot be sold for less than par. The bonds are to be sold in denominations of $50 and multiples thereof, in order to make their sale a popular one. These bonds would all have been grabbed up a few years ago. perhaps most of them above par; but of late the bond market has been off, and m fact away off, and Oregon state road bonds, which were selling higher than any other bonds in the United States, un to some months ago,' have lately been going away below par and the commission has had to sell them at whatever prices the bond buyers offered, in order to get money to carry on the contracts already made. So it was evident that the Marion county market roads bonds would surely not sell at all to outside bidders. Not that thy are nfitgood; absolutely, good five and a half m wwmmj. 'va v aw Bjviivi wuu vujuo vau UV UllCl Alt bale present condition of the bond market They can get bonds that they can pass on. to their customers at a profit that will earn a higher in terest than five and a half per cent. - r The bankers of Marion county, realizing this, got together a few days ago and agreed to take the whole $170,000 worth at par, to pass on to Jheir customersn-or all of the $170,000 issue not taken by other parties.--w v-i.; ;;r;n :-; : ; ;- - - : -i This is surely magnanimous 7 : ! The bonds are to be taken in proportion to the resources of the various banks of Marion county.; This will mean about $58,000 for the Ladd &. Bnh bank. Th nflipr Kalm hnnlra wll slice of the $170,000 issue,1 and so will the larger banks at Silverton, wooaburn, tay ton, Jefferson, Aurora, etc.. and some of the smaller ill . 1 A , ms ii ' , uuum wm get umir, iovy worm ana up. ; ' i - v But the sacrifice is .as great for the small banks as for the large ones, in proportion to their resources, for with the present demand M At At ! i '.i il . . m 11 r luoney m me ounying uisincis tney can get o per cent xor an the money they can loan. One of the smaller banks, however, will be able to pass on to customers all of its allotment, and Derhans wil call for more, for customers; so it is possible that before long all the Donas may be taicen by customers of the banks. " i However, the banks run this risk. S And it is a fine thing f or our people to "be able to say to the worm inn Marion nnntv marlror miH. hnnH. o m .f nn. i.j .11 u - :n a- i i. nllCh a Snirit ni rWVrirntmn in- Mannn nnrrfv m a nm.t aeint . . . r 'J - lor to is county, . . . . i H is a fine thing. Jt should be encouraged. Carried out to the fullest extent, in eivincr solid backing to every forward looking movement, this spirit will make Marion county self sufficient; independent ; absolutely certain of symmetrical and steady growth.. : - . . - ; This would be a stabilizer of eeneral Tjrosrerity. Carried to the limit, no WOrth V rntrnrHU Tipr wmilrl llr f ir 1 hj n,Mtiiirv funds lor legitimate needs and reasonable expansion. - Again, cats on to tne Marion county bangers I The Democrats found the prohibition blunderbuss was loaded go they let it alone. , Egg day In the United States is August 21, according to the de cree of Petaluma, Cal. Everybody is supposed to eat eggs on that day. It is unanimous up this way, if we can get the price of the eggs. (hoes were purchased more for ser vile than . style, who regarded silk boss as a special occasion luxury, hare of late cultivated expensive tastes and come to regard what were once the occasional luxuries as im perative necessities. strikes for higher wages are more often brought to meet the higher cost! of luxuries than to meet the nigner necessary cost of living. Tb consumer himself has become an ex pensive person, for jwhom nothing but the best will, do. j He mast have more pay, not to provide food or more clothing, but to provide more expensive food .and more elaborate clothing. F In the. women's departments of Industry that is particularly notlce- ble.j No matter what her walk In life, the average woman (always ex ceptions, of course) regards silk stockings at a minimum of 12.50 a pair,; fashionable and expensive shoes, fanciful silk gowns, modish hats, silk underwear et al, as posi tively essential to her well-being. few years ago these women were wearing modest apparel -and Inci dentally looking Joist as attractive in it. A strikers' meeting nowadays Is usually made up of people, male or female, who are dressing and liv ing to a much higher standard today than j they would have dreamed of few years ago. The higher the cost of things the more elaborate are their . cravings. So they must have higher pay to meet their more expensive tastes, the higher pay automatically making the tastes more 'expensive every time. We cannot repeat too often that the cost of living ultimately rests with ; the consumer Without the consumers' recklessness and extrav agance there can be precious little profiteering. So long as the con sumer regards himself Individually as a privileged person whose cove- tousness must -be assuaged, no mat ter what the 'price, that price is' going to remain as high as the trat fie will bear. The old law of supply and demand Is still working over time. Where is the man among us who won't charge as much as he can get for his product, whether that product be his labor or a commod ity? When there is a surplus of labor, down go wages. When there is a surplus of production and a shortage of demand, down go prices Increased production Is necessary. but Increased economy is demanded If our tastes persist in keeping pace with production,! if our wants and cravings increase with every extra nickel we can cull, we have no one but ourselves to blame if the seller makes hay while the sun smnes ana Mr. Bryan says every Democrat is a slap at the White House. A Chicago man declares that the reason the worker's efficiency has fallen so low is because "the worker HA.kl.fLllA.i.Arlr 41imI mmmom tm orably." Give him back I his beer, he suggests, ind he will do a full day's work, "Let's try him first with neer-bcer. If he produces near work we'll think it over, Kansas City Star. ." The price of sugar has taken a third drop In a week. A wholesale price of 123.50 a hundred pounds in ' small lots : In Portland is now an , nbunced. ' That is going in the right direction. But that price should be cut In two, and then some. Every- I FUTURE DATES July I. SaturdayFtrat mall-carrrlng airplane to arrir la Salem. July J. Saturday MaHon county Re publican central eoramittee mta. July S to 11 Annual convention f vnriaiian cnurcn at Turner. July (. Monday Salem bualaeaa nouaea cloae In observance of Indev pendeneo day. July S to itSummer school for ra- ral pastors at Willamette wnlvaralt. July S to to Annual encampment of Oreron aatlonal Guard, Infantry and nclneera at Camp Lewla. artillery at July ISj Fntardar Rararaln rv July S Thurad.y County court to open oiaa on miQ oonaa. July IS to S4 Salem Chantauona. July 22. 21 and I 8tate lka eos , Tefiii jf rai..m . . t Augutt t to 14 Buyers week conven tion in Portland. September 17 to October 3 Oreron state talr. . thing above 1 5 a hundred pounds is velvet for the Mormon sugar trust A few years ago. at II a hundred pounds, the Mormon sugar trust could annually clear the total cost of one of it factories, favorably lo cated for getting the raw materials, Raw materials and labor costs are higher now; but they are not high enough to justify a wholesale price of half of 123.50 a hundred pounds In Portland. The Salem district wtli .be Independent of the Mormon sugar trust, and other . sugar profiteers when the beets are raised for a fac tory here and this, will come. It must come. The Salem Commercial club ought to get behind this project and stay behind it till it is brought to a successful consummation. And it would not take a very long time to accomplish this. RAISING OUR STANDARDS. (Los Anglees Times.) The high cost of living and the high tastes of the liver still hover dangerously above their base. But one observes that. , while there is plenty of . indignation at the greed of the seller and the cost of things, there is still no strong disposition to conform the consumer's standards to his pre-war level. The average consumer has raised his standard of living with every leap of prices. Thousands of people whose tastes were formerly, modest,' whose tables were piam and wholesome, whose to promulgate the Americanism of George Washington did their durn dest to hamper and impede the pro gress of America in the World war. That doesn't seera Wahlngtonlan. There are a lot of things said and done in the name of George that be 'wouldn't stand for if be were alive today. For one thtng it would not be necessary to take out Incor poration papera In order "to re-dedicate the Republican party to the autte of human freedom." The good old dedication would do. rbssibly George might not be able to understand how the cause' of hu man freedom could be advanced by 'dooming forever all alliances with foreign powers,' as these incorpor ators demand. Committing political indiscretions in the nam) of George Washington is becoming a favorite sport of some of our would-be political leaders. reaps greed. ,the advantage jof our own We can never get ahead of the game that way. Yet that la ex actly what almost everyone is try ing to do. We hear loud walls from various human sections of the com munity as each offers its particular claim to increased remuneration yet investigation will show that these people have nearly ail raised their standard of tastes axtt living with the rise in prices, that nearly all of j them are better fed, better dressed, "better loused than they were when prices were at the pre war level. (There always are ex ceptions.) Tastes as well as prices must get back to the pre-war level and the former must lead the way. No fun damental and permanent relief can be gained by forever raising wages so long; as we continue forever rais ing our tastes and standards. The dog cannot consume his own tall, no matter how dizzily he may twirl. That new joke about the newly poor has precious little real significance. The newly poor are chiefly poor be cause they have adopted the stand ards oft the pre-war rich. If every family would honestly and conscien tiously reduce Its demands to the level of five years ago and cut out all the newly acquired extravagances and frills, prices would soon re spond, bank accounts accrue and the newly poor would become Inde pendent! in a short space of tlfe. THE NOULE ART. I In the course, ot one month three separate dramatic critics in Paris re ceived corporal . punishment for bit ter criticisms of players. Jane Mar nac, a pretty commedlenne, and Madeline Ccrller, a musical comedy songstress, both dealt their respec tive critics public blows with violent effect, while .Alphonse. Francs;, an actor, served another in the same way. In each case the public ap peared to sympathize with the play ers against the critics. ? ICarpentier methods seem popular over there; but It Is an embarrassing innovation, especially when the la dies take to it. In these cases both the ladies are said to have produced remarkable fighting form and estab lished knock-out blows. And they both look petite and feminine. Unjust! criticism, indulged for the display of dubious journalistic rel ents. Is indefensible, and from all accounts thew three writers all seem to have received what they deserved. All the same, the theatrical profes sion can be very temperamental, and it might be desirable for our critics to adopt breastplates if -the vogue becomes fashionable over here. Ac tors love press cuttings where, is the one that does not horde them up and Inflict them on the unwary? And they can't expect them always to effuse fulsome flattery. A HOMELAND FOR JEWH. ! Acceptance by Great Britain of the mandate for Palestine is considered so important and 'significant 'that some of the Jews j of the United States have been arranging great cel ebrations to commemorate it. There Is reason for this enthusiasm because the British action means that the land once spoken of as flowing with milk and honey will become the homeland for the future Jewish na tion. The Jews realize that the time is not ripe for the government of Palestine to be handed over to them. They did not ask for it at the peace conference, but they did suggest that Great Britain be given the man date and 'hat the fundamental prin ciple of its government rtaall be the re-establishment of Palestine as the Jewish national borne. This will be done, and it is a matter of such extreme gratification to the Zion ists that the celebration idea is sure to be general all over the country, and all over the world. The-British will have no soft snap In Palestine. The Turks, whose army they drove from the Holy Land, and the Arabs, who claim Palestine as part of their new state, look with no pleasure upon the new order of things. Emir Feisal, son of the king ot the Hed jaz' and ruler of Syria, has not stamped out his ambition to include Jerusalem in his country. Mustapah Kemal, leader of the Turkish Na tionalists, has already-tried to get Feisal to dispute England's position, but the Arab leader Is a man of much .sagacity, and, disappointed though he Is at the turn events have taken, he shows no desire to get into trouble with the lion of the north. In addition' to these matters France recently made territorial clakns which, if acceded to, would affect tne boundaries of Palestine. These and other problems will have to be willed by the British. t'XJLINU OFF. The Armours have just completed a single refrigerating plant with a capacity equivalent to a thousand tons' of Ice a day. and where It is said to be possible to maintain a zero temperature all' the year round. That wouldn't be a bad place to send some of these feverish Reds for stor age while awaiting deportation. Louis Post doesn't seem able to get them out of tbe country very fast and a lot of them have spoiled on bis bands while awaiting transpor tation. Jf these fiery Reds could be kept on ice in a massive plant like this until their ship was ready, some of them might be cooled down below the explosive, point and made per manently safe. A cold storage plant would be even better than a jail for some offenders. Our -judges might assume more latitude for the gene ral good. In0n nf tl k.i " " "","u,u tor surplus thark The loan hark. the proflterln hark and several other specie, of the bird hive mighty tough bides, but after they have been throw., tne tannery they become sufficiently pliable for use as sole leather n least. " - - . - ' I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I I SKINNING SHARKS. . A ship equipped with a special seine 600' feet in length has taken as high as 200 sharks In a single day off the Gulf of Mexico.' Each shark will furnish from 25 to 40 square feet of a leather that Is suit able for fine shoes, as well as a num ber of special purposes. One south ern tannery, Is taking care of 500 bhark skins a week. The sharks of the deep could ease the leather market quite a bit if they were all rounded up. It might be that all would be glad to engage In the bu- Tlio crown prince leads. "a But be is far from Victory. S S Tbe ebon steeds chap their bits. S ir only there were another crowa of thorns and cross of gold ,lt wouil be all over quickly.1 . But the old gag has long, wavy, whit whiskers. ' There Is a field of growing and blooming flax opposite the home of Mrs. W. P. Lord on South High and Mission streets In Salem, that is a thing of Increasing beauty these days. The field of flax belongs to Mrs. Lord. In the morning the bine flowers of tbe flax are out In all their glory, but they close up for a night's sleep in the afternoon. This riax field is worth .going a long way to see, and It is representative of a lot of other luxuriant fields in the Salem district, that in their flores cent glory and verdant beauty give promise of the greatest industry in Oregon, when the ingenuity and en terprise of man yokes up with the provisions of nature for linen mills here, furnishing the royal purple and fine linens unexcelled for the world'a markets. : ' A recent visitor to Seattle tells of an experience . which one meets so persistently at the business, counters there that it indicates a prevailing custom. He says that, in making-a purchase or paying a bill whereia the making of change is necessary a mistake of 5 to 10 cents is made, if the error Is discovered . and correc tion insisted upon the demand is re luctantly complied with, but the ex pectations seems to prevail that the little rake-off will not be noticed.. or that nloet persons will not think it worth while to kick about It. It, Is a petty form of profiteering that Is unworthy of a big city, r . IN WASHINGTON'S NAME. The Willianv Hale Thompson wing of Chicago Republicans, who iought the League of Nations and Governor Lowden Sin the convention, are not going to leave the party. They think they have accomplished something already and they are going to con tinue along . the lines ot Herbert Hoover's affvice and "reform" the party from within. With tDat pur pose in tnlnd they have legally in corporated themselves as "the pro American wing of the Republican party," and a charter has been duly granted under the laws ot Illinois. The purpose, according to the pre amble, lsj'lo revive and promulgate the Americanism ot George Wash ington; to resist the aggressions of organized! wealth and to re-dedicate the Republican party to the cause of human freedom and the welfare of the American people." Fine business! Something to which almost any of us can bid a cheer. 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