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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON. TTiITOSPAY MORXIXO. SEPTEMBER 9, 1920 Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPAXY 215 S. Commercial St.. Salem. Oregon NECESSARY CAUTION " MEMBER OF THE A NSOCI ATEI PRESS The Aisoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republi cation of all new dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper ana atso me-wti uwrmz.z.2111r - , Stephen A- Stone Cashier ipATr.Li:::::::::::::::::::.... Manager job Dept. r l. , . DAILY STATESMAN. served by carrier in Salem and suburbs. 15 cents a week. 50 cents a month. nAILY STATESMAN, by mall. $6 a year; $3 for six months 50 cents a month. For three months or more, paid In advance, at rate of IS year. THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, will be ent a year to any one paying & year in advance to the Dally Statesman.) . SUNDAY STATESMAN. $1 a year; 60 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 advance. 11.25); 60 cent for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: f MERCY ! - Jack! Vhy Yout OLD GAS-MASK I'M GOIHG 10 UY To WADE through that Speech by cox Business Office, 23. Circulation Department. 583. Job Department. 683. Entered at the Postoffice in Salem. Oregon, as second class matter. SALEM IS A GRAIN, MARKET CENTER y' . . . - 1 The growing; of wheathas been carried .on so long that the plant is not known in the wild state, but botanists believe it had its home in the central parts of Asia. Its cultivation fM harV of recorded historv. and it has formed the prin- rinal breadstuff of all civilized nations. The Bible and the! Egyptian ana t,nmese recoras lesiuy iu u: uiuujuiior ui cultivation. Wheat, next to rice, is the most largely used of any grain .The United States is the greatest grower; Great Britain produces the largest amount to the acre. Barley is more widely distributed than any other grain. "And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled," is recorded in Exo dus 9.31, the oldest record of this grainwhich is the most distributed of anv Grain, irrowine as hieh as 14.000 feet above sea level. Rye is the basis of the black bread of northern Europe; but it is also a profitable crop in other parts of the world, including the Salem district. , The growing of. oats is a very ancient art, reaching its perfection, perhaps, in Scotlanduntil it has lately been found that the Willamette valley product is superior to mil others, for milling purposes ; for high class breakfast foods. And the Willamette valley oats run higher in weight than any other; not even excepting the Scotch product. Car load lots of the Willamette valley oats are constantly going to the Eastern breakfast food factories, whose mana- nrora Viovo fMinV rmf Vit orroaf ciirwrifvri tv ff tVl TtmdfMlt flf ..." thia apctinn for their nurnoses. This fact furnishes the basis for a suggestion that ought to be heeded by our fanners who produce this premier product of the world. They should organize to get better prices, and at the same time to furnish a still better product. Better methods of selection and cultivation, and grading, will accomplish this together with our superior soil and climate for the growing of a superior grain of this kind for the purposes named. " - Advertising will help; and the leading breakfast food manufacturers would soon come to this. It would be money in their pockets to exploit the best oats raised in the world Willamette valley oats. . . r- i W Vi. Newsy Notes of State Industrial Growth Drivers9 License Permits Are Totaled by Secretary Morattention should be paid, too, by the farmers of the Salem district, to the production of more and better wheat. barley, and rye always in rotation" with clover and other legumesand corn and other crops. Saleiri is already a considerable grain market. It should be a better and a bigger one, and this will come about with the intelligent co-operation of the farmers. In this connection. Dr. T. N. Carver, of the United States Department of Agriculture, once told the story of an aged savage who, after having lived in civilized communities most of his life, returned in his, old age to his native tribe, saying that he had tried civilization for 40 years and it wasn't worth the trouble. Much of the philosophy of civilization is summed up in that remark. Civilization consists largely in taking trouble. Genius, in the individual, has been said to consist in the capacity for taking infinite pains in one's work. It is this capacity which marks the superior race as well as the superior individual; They who find the taking of pains too burdensome to be bprne, will naturally decide that civiliza tion is not worth the trouble. They who do not find it so very burdensome Jo "take pains, will naturally decide that civilization is worth the trouble, and will therefore become civilized. This principle applies to every stage of civiliaztion and progress. The greatest advancement is made by those who are capable of taking greatest pains. It applies especially to agricultural progress. It is more trouble to select seed, and to select it in the field than in the bin. It is more trouble to test cows than not to test them, to keep accounts than not to keep them, to di ersify or rotate crops than not to diversify or rotate, to mix fertilizers intelligently than to buy them already mixed, to co-operate with one's pigheaded neighbors, especially if one is hiniself a little pig-headed, than to go it alone. ' . it s also more profitable. In all these and a multitude of other cases it is found that it pays to take trouble. There is probably no part of the farmer's business where tnis needs to be so much emphasized as in his buying and selling. It is so much less trouble to buy all one's supplies at retail as they are needed than to clan ahead and hnv.nt wholesale, and to sell one's products at wholesale and in bulk to the nearest buyer than to work out a better marketing scheme, that this practice of buying everything at retail and selling everything at wholesale has become almost universal. It takes a very rich soil, or very hard work on the farmer's part, or both, to make up the losses resulting from this sys tem. The farmer is becoming, almost in the same sense as the manufacturer, a buyer of raw material such a3 fertilizers. seeds, feeds, machinery, live stock, etc. What manufacturer would expect to prosper if he depended upon the retail stores to supply him with his raw materials as they were needed and at retail prices? How many manufacturers would expect to prosper if they did not have selling agencies but waited for buyers to come -around and offer to buy their products after they were finished? - Of almost equal importance is the question of making the farm.. garden, poultry yard, orchard, and dairy support the farmer's family. All these thinars require the taking of trouble. It is less trouble to put all one's time on a money crop, to haul it to town and sell it, and to haul home from the store everything which the family consumes than to give attention to gardens, fruits, poultry, pigs, and cows. It is also less profitable. The products which the farmer's family consumes are sold to the best market in the world. The farmer should credit to the garden, the orchard, the poultry yard, the cow, and the pig-pen the retail prices which he Would otherwise pay for food, not half so good, bought at retail. Needless to say, these things must be carefully planned and managed. That requires the taking of trouble. Farmers who are not competent, or willing, to take Daln3 in planning and managing these parts of their business will probably do quite as well by going on the old wav of hauline Lall their stuff to market and hauling home again the goods wnicn tne iamny consumes. But their lack of prosperity will be due to the fact that, like the aged savage already re- that the new fashion, if it must come, will take it a time And now the Taitais are all "het up" over tbo high cost cf living. It Is a common grievance that appears to make the whole world akin. Both the leading parties have indorsed the national budget plan There Is nothing lo da now but to ret something to put Into the budget. S A Texas widow says that her last ropoal was from r movie fan who said be neJd some on to console him on account of the marriage of Mary rickford V . The population of .he United States Is made up mostly of tbois who make and sell automobiles, those who buy and use them those who produce moving pic tures and those who stand in line to pay to see them shorn n. This is a mad world, my masters. f No. Owendolin. that pale-faced young man with the far-away look la his eyes is not spiritual-minded t all he is merely a clgarette- amoker. , It is claimed the Los Angeles ta some of the farthest beer In the country and that it is neces sary to drink enough to float battleship to develop any kick Los Angeles Times. Forty-four borne runs hy Babe Ruth four - eleven - forty - four, I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I Your Fortune Some day, perh'aps sooner than you anticipate, your family may come into outright possession of that fortune of yours. HAVE YOU DENIED THEM the wise provisions, only possible in a Will, for Its permanent benefit lo them? Have you taken teps to place the RIGHT MANAGEMENT in charge when you step out? , I Let us talk this matter over ith you. Capital National Bank TRUST DEPARTMENT SALEM :: OREGON ' Best oats in the world. That is something to make Sa lem feel her oats. And there Is a chance to Rive the Willamette valley a great deal of advertising, and the erowers much profit, through the raising of still better oats by Improving on the best oats produced in the world. m m It will not go against the grain to make Salem a great grain mar. ket, either. S Some one says Cox Is the first millionaire and- the first choice of Tammany Hall ever nominated for the presidency of the United States. He is certainly the first nomi nee of a major party to appeal to the Reds, as he did on Tuesday In the Dakotas. .speaking to the Non partisan League bunch, and tell A million trees planted, a to tal of 1.340.000 seedlings, prin cipally Douglas fir. were planted on the forests of Oregon and Washington In the liscal year t-nding June 30. according to a report which has Just bn com pleted by the United States forest service. At a conservative estimate. Oregon's four hundred and fifty billion feet of standing Umber is worth $500,000,000 on the rtuuip. Harvested and cut Into lumber, its value is Increased 20 fold and becomes ten billion dol lars. ..Millers are to be allowed to ship 48,000 pounds, minimum carloads. Co-oieratIve momevent neces sary to revive dairy ' Industry. Production declines. lien Employes of two lumber l companies receive $42,000 bon uses In 1920. Farm labor continues very scarce as laborers are at summer resorts. Sheridan Contract let for a 4000 fruit packing plant. Toledo Government spruce holdings, sawmill and two log ging roads sold for $2,400,000. Drain cannery leased and will operate this season. Education act gives 4 300 ex- soldiers $529,087 bonus. La Grande O. W. R. & N. Co. adds 10 large Mallet locomotives here. The Dalles to have electrically Illuminated preat white way. Nyffca to have large commun ity park. Portland to have new three- story fire station. East St. Johns to have cross- arm plant, turning out carload daily. Klamath Falls Mint Industry yields 60 pounds to acre, worth $900. Contract let for bridge across Molalla riv.er at Dickey prairie. Grants Pass to have Carnegie library. One hundred banks In cattle livestock. Albany to Junction state high way to cost $1.(80.000. Ladd esUte builds five modern homes near Reed college. Portland district estimates 99.- 444.000 wheat yield for 1920. Hecpner Deposit of white al kali earth for road surface new industry here. Pendleton Terminal trackage at Reith. three miles west, to be doubled. Langlols and Port Orford will open union high schools this fall. Spring salmon pack at Colum bia river points 27.540.500 pounds; value of pack. $6,719,- 300. Highway completed betVn Hood River and Portland. Eugene University of Oregon to have a school of music build ing. Glenbraok mill .resuming oper ations ready to saw In October. Auburn Work on new $50. 000 hosiVtal to begin Immedi ately. Oregon's census shows growth of 110.520. Ballston 100 acres of clover estimated to yield 36.000 lbs. of clover seed, to bring $16,000. Banks to have new $32,000 Catholie church. - Astoria to have $3300 school building. Portland Northwestern Knit ting Mills decided upon this city as the location for Its plant, after looking over the entire Pacific coast. Applications for automobile drivers' licenses to the number of 120.000 have been received! at the secretary of state's office and 102.000 have been Issued. Scretary of State Kozer ex pects lo have the remainder of the licenses in the mail by about September 15. although oate can be fixed. do defl- FOR SALE Heaters ' ! Tu "CAPITAL JUTLAND' Center St. t,i. ... Stoves. 215 id w THE FARMER'S DAY YOU might say that every Fanner has his day. It comes when the Uborionj days of harvest are done and he sees his products marketed and the money in hand. Bnt what has made it possible for him and cultivate and harvest throughout months proceeding? Unless he has unlimited capital, you will ally find some good banking services that hare played an important part. to plant ; the long , J SALEM OREGON erred to, they have concluded that civilization and DrOf?res& n. mirht to h able to antlify r, - - are noi wortn tne trouble. But after all, when one once eeU accustomed to taking pains it ceases to be painful to keep on. it is oniy me Deginnmg rrom which we shrink. When one gets into the habit of keeDinc accounts, of ro tating and diversifying crops, of making the farm feed the iamuy, ana running co-operative enterprises, it is not half as much trouble as it was feared that it would be. The real test oi a man s quality is his ability to begin taking pains. FUTUKK I1ATKS. SrptemWr 10. Friiliy D. !ich C1 via. Prohibition rndilt fur vire-pmi-irnt, to pk im 8lo. September 13. MndT Mtls( of -orisU membership of Salem Commercial eloh. September 14. Taeadar Graad jary meet a. September 1 1. TdmJst Cherriaa metin. Heptemher 15. Wednetda Cberriaat SO to VaarOOTer. September 17 0. A. R. PuaitHattaa da open meeting. September 1. gatardar Moetiac of Marios County Rriub)iraa CVatral Com mittee. Salem. September IS, Saadar All eonntr pie ate, ander aanptre Mario Ooantj Com BnnitT Federal inn, Spwnra Landing. September 21. Taenday Cherriaa meeting. September 17. lo October Oreroa ttato fair. . , September 80. Tharvdar September fcabr clinie at Commercial claK Xovomber Z. TneadavEleettoa aav. October 4, Monday Salem schools them it is not his idea to prose cute radicals. W The Sew York Herald and Sun says of the "sluh fund" fiasco of Cox: "It has resulted in putting himself, his calibre, his character. bis personal fitness, at the front as 1 the main issue of the cam paign." S In losing Itev. U. N. Avison. Sa lem is parting with one of the most eloquent and most brainy pulpit orators she has ever had and this is said without disparage ment of many other able preachers of the past and present who have ; graced and now occupy our city I pulpits. Dr. Avison will be miased by many who arenot Included In the membership of the Methodist church. S Chief Justice Edward Dour las White has been eager to retire for a long time. He would have done so four years ago had Hughes been elected, but so great was White's dislike for President Wilson that he was unwilling to give him the privilege of filling this great place. Mr. White Is now in his 76th year. Boston Herald. V Bidders for the Hog Island ship yard must deposit a certified check for 11.000.000 with their bid in order to have it considered. That limits the bidders to the plumbers. Each separate photograph on a motion-picture film is under one square men in size. Tnls means that when the picture is thrown on a screen 20x22 feet In size it Is magnified more than 53,000 times. ' - The decision of the Portsmouth (N. H.) veteran firemen's associa tion to abandon the historic red shirt for the "sport" shirt threat ens a picturesque Institution which has nothing to do with revolution or "radlcamni." It Is to be hoped for the finals in the game of Ala bam a golf. "W The American Association of Toy Manufacturers assures the children that Santa Claus will get his Christmas supply at present prices . That Is certainly a little rift in the cloud of high prices. There Is a housing qnestion. of course, but everybody seen-s to have some place to stay. Will somebody kindly explain? Pat Oi've traced me ancestry back to an Irish king. Mike Sure that's alsy. What chanct has a dead man to defend himself? Detroit Free Press. lixbricatioiv mokes a gpod iinxck'bettejr Yon cannot expect maximum per formance and long service from your truck unless it is lubricated correctly. Correct Lubrication is a science. The recommendations of our Board of Lubrication Engineers embodied in the Zerolene Correct Lubrication Chart are designed to better the per formance and lengthen the life of trucks, tractors and automobiles. Get a Correct Lubrication Chart from your Zerolene distributor. 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