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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1920)
The Oregon Statesman Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for republication ff all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited, in this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks. Manner Stephen A. Stone. .Managing Editor Ralph Glover.... Cashier Frank Jaskoskl Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs. IS cents a week. 10 cents a month. DAILY STATE8MAN, by mall, S6 a year; $3 lor six months; SO cents a -. month. For threa month a or more, nald In advance, at rate of $S year. (THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, will . be sent a. rear to ibt onW navlna- a rear in advance to the Dally Statesman.) JONDAY STATESMAN, tl a rear: SO cents for six months l IS cents for thrM monthi. avvirr.T btivouiw umui i a(T.mr bat tl Otis TneadaTB and , Fridays. $1 a year '(If not paid in advance, tl.U); 60 cents tor six months; 2 S cents for three months. THE NEW "CON"-TENDER TELEPHONES: i Business Office, 22. Circulation Department. SS2. ; Job Department, S83. Entered at the Postoftlce in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. WOOLENS AS WELL AS WOOLS COMING While the ereat majority of the woolen mills of the United States are either running only three days a week or are shut down entirely, or are preDarine to do one" or the other, with thousands of men and women out of employment, foreign manufacturers are sending woolen goods to the markets of the United States in larger and larger volume. In the eleven months period ending May 31, witness: $38,007 ,634 worth of manufactured woolens came from foreign shores to this country, against $12,121,373 worth for the eleven months of the pre ceding year.. Woolen cloths, 4,561,765 pounds, against 1,437,744 pounds a year -ago. .--V .. , . Carpets, 950,688 square yards, against 220,482 the year before. Woolen yarns, 1,749,339 pounds, against 491,732 pounds the year before. . And so it goes. That is what Wilson Democratic free trade, under the camou flage of a "tariff for revenue only," is doing to the woolen industry for the small duties charged on manufactures of wool, produced with foreign cheap labor and calculated in foreign cheap money, are practically free trade. All raw wools are absolutely free of duty. f Without an adequate protective tariff, the woolen mills of the United States cannot run and pay anything approaching the present wage scales of their operatives. There must be a Republican administration at Washington, if all the woolen goods used in this country are not to be bought from foreign mills. ' : . - '-..' t .Beginning tomorrow morning, and running through eighteen is sues, The Statesman will publish "Growing Up With Warren Hard ing, an intimate record of the life of the Republican candidate for President, by the great writer, Jack Warwick, the only man ef that caliber able to write such a story the only man of that stamp who did grow up with Warren Harding. This series of articles Js"being syndicated by the New York Evening Post, and The Statesman has secured the right to publish it in, Salem. The articles will be read by every one, because of their intense human interest, and they should be studied, too, on account of the. insight they will give into the events that have made up the life and character of the next Pres ident of the United States. ' I ; - Hayes Bros., who own several hundred acres of the Lake Labish beaver dam lands north of Salem, which they are clearing and de .veloping into wonderfully productive tracts, are also the publishers of the San Jose Mercury, one of the leading California daily papers. They have been running in their paper for a long time a Sunday ser mon, written by a San Jose writer of signal ability. It has attracted wide attention, and now they are syndicating this feature. E. A. Hayes was in Salem a few days ago, and The Statesman made ar rangements with him for this copyrighted feature. The first article will appear in The Statesman of tomorrow, under the heading, "The World's Present Need." We predict that every one will want, to read these articles, whether they agree with what is in them or not Marion county proves over and over again that she is the greatest cow country in the world. And she ' is going to keep right on doing this, " year alter year. And now Governor Cox Is busy, on his notification address. Like Sen ator Harding, he can have the stuff fet up- in his own printing office and read the proof at his leisure. It's great to be an editor. ber of prescriptions which regrflar physicians may issue . each month. get a pocket full of candy. Now it requires a hand full of mckles to get pound of fugar. We are governed too muchj in our humble judgment. Exchange. The Increase In the number of marriage licenses in Los Angeles is en indication that a lot of folks are etrongly in favor of the indeterminate-sentence law. Lod Angeles Times. voter will want to shut his eyes and ears, vote for Harding, and pray for the best. There - has been a great deal of talk about legislation providing against the disability of the presi dent, but nobody suggests anything to help out the vice, president when be casts a shoe or goes a bit lame. THE CALL OF THE WILD. There is one thing in which the Democratic and Republican candi dates can get together in the Inter est of peace and order. Neither Harding nor Cox will agree to turn Eugene Debs loose on the country. Free speech is one thing, but Debs goes farther and throws it away. AS DEAR AS DIRT. In a Chicago investigation it was found that some of the potatoes marketed carried as high as twenty pounds of dirt to the sack. It was also disclosed that before the spuds reached the table six different per sons had handled them with an aver age or 35. cents profit per. nunared for each one.. At this rate the dirt that went with - t4em brought a higher price than was ever obtained for any of Gotham's most, precious real estate. Realty brokers may sen land by the square foot, but the po tato kings are selling it by the ounce and rettinc Jewelers' prices, at that. FINDIXC2 1 1 OMRS. It. Is now reported thai there are some ten thousand empty houses or apartments in Chicago. A lot of the city dwellers are helping out on the farms and In the rural districts and it helps in the housing problems of the big city as well. South African natives tregarded Oom Paul as being absolutely bullet proof. H s a Record Breaker Valley Motor Company 1 Roadster 3 Touring Cars 3 Sedans 1 Truck 2 Used Cars ALL FORDS, needless to say Wednesday's business goes to proye two thlnjs FIRST The popularity of THE UNIVERSAL CAR t SECOND That closed Cars are being recognized, and forging to the front aiMSJVBl 111111 SlS, Ford Sedan Why shouldn't closed Cars take the lead? They are classy; convenient; easy to handle; economical in tip-keep; have self starters; afford protection from dust and heat in Rummer, and in winter the driving rains and cold is completely shut out yet there is "Open vision' to all ocea panU. - We can make immediate deliveries Valley Motor Co INSIST ON GENUINE JOED PASTS FITS THE PAKT. The . sale of . 10,000 barrels of . whiskey in Chicago in a single day for medicinal purposes would in dicate that a great deal of sickness is expected. The government Is also urged to raise the limit on the num- Tell The Statesman what you know about sheep breeding. For the Salem slogan pages of next Thursday's paper. It is important that there should be some sheep on every farm in the Salem district. Now watch the Democratic Hou dinl - try to slip the record of the party the last seven years under the Wilson spasm up his sleeve so that voters will not see it until after the election. Parley P. Christensen, the gink who was put up by the so-called Farmer-Labor party, has bad his picture taken wearing a Palm Beach suit and white kid Ehoes. This is the uniform of all political farm-laborers. Their brows are wet from the perspiration of fervid speech and their hands are worn from the car esses of the manicure girl or from contact with the steering wheel of the limousine when the chauffeur a off duty. As a first-class farmer and laborer Parley is a fourth-class awyer. At that, he is an ideal can didate for the windjammers who nominated him. "We can recall when we could take nickel to the corner grocery aid A SUMMER OF SAVING A LOT of Salem youngster are pro: jua putting in tneir tune this summer on JnitedS jobs of various sorts. And many of them are tucking away the earnings in Savings Ac counts here at the United States National Bank too. If every boy. and girl could ;,';. learn the lesson of saving 1 early in life, there would be less financial difficulties in after years. Salem fitablv I V I SMStates NationaIBan7 KKST ASSURED. Life insurance companies of this country wrote nearly nine billion dollars of new insurance last year. which is a world's record and almost 50 per cent over tbe previous year. The Americans may at least face the future with a good deal of assur ance. WHAT IS AS ISSUE? Looks as if every campaign orator would make up the big issue to suit himself and that meanwhile tbe vot ers will on their part think and vote as they darn please. The man who wants to talk about tbe League of Nations will find that the audience Is more worried over the price of shoes, and the stem- winder who wants Ireland for the Irish will discover that the crowd wants Hoboken. Milwaukee. Klam ath Falls and Astoria for the wets. The man who says he can put his finger on the burning Issue Is sure to be a punk guesser. The average ORtOON FUTURE DATES Auruit S Tknrulii -t..ia- Veteran's association meeting at Silver Aurnst to It Buyers' week een- September 4. a. and Stat eonven iion i Axtiaaa loorea, Salem. Kniiih r.ni.. v v m September 17 to October I Urrroa tata fatr. November Tuesday Election day. 490 CHEVROLET TOURING CAR 3 After Today, Saturday, July 31 it f at 10 o'clock pm., no more of these popular CARS will be sold at the above price. Monday morning August 2nd the price will advance horn $26 to $30 SALEM AUTOMOBILE CO. F. G. Delano A. I. Eoff