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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON. TriXDAY MWtXINO. OCTOIIKR 2ft. 1)C (Btnx Statesman and on Tuesday evening next it will be high ' tide. Good night, ames Mtddleton Cox! : Issued Daily Exvept Monday by v THE STATESMAN PI ULISHIXG COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon . (Portland Office, 704 Spalding BuUdlng. Phone Main 1116) MEMBER OFj THE AOCIATED l'KKSS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled --to! the use for repub lication of all news dispatches credited'., to it or not! otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news .published herein. , . Manager "change. . . i ...Managing Editor m - . Cashier . .1. ........ Jm ....... .Manager Job Dept Cox in his public speeches in like a man running for constable in a small town: 'He is reckless in statement, shifty in argument. He is too small a man to be pres ident of the United States and. confidentially, be never will be. It. J. Hendricks. Stephen A. Stone. . Ralph Glover. . .... 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That town ca3t 4 04 votes in the September election, every one for the Republican can- Hitherto Castle Hill, with 100 Republicans and one lone Democratic ballot, held the Pine Tree state record. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 583. Job Department, 583. Society Editor 106. Entered at the Postoffice In Salem. Oregon, as second class matter. . a. 1 - ' - If you want to keep every will ing worker employed at good wages, you must vote the Repub lican ticket straight. That will mean a protective tariff and "a business administration that will maintain a high range of prosper ity and progress in ithe United States. That is what we all ought to want. AGAIN, THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE Major Kenedict croweil. a warm admirer or President son and for a long time a respon sible official of the administra firm nftpn lirinp artino' tpcrotarv ?. 4i.it ti, inn nnn tr. oivinnn useless! . . ... . It is Ulgiuy luipuriaui; twiww " "vr ' or war during .Newton p. Haters Democratic seat warmers on trie govermueu i pa, i w wwu,'u absence, has declared himself ..nt " f ' .' i i . - Istronelv for IHardlntr and CooL. : . . .... . i . " i i i " It is highly important that the throttling iaxes ic reuueeu idge and the ejection-of a Re- ' It Wrhfv imnnrtant that a business auminisirauon miduiu ibkc DtlbHcan conera , -..C". --,- --- AV7l " " the place of the bungling memous m an uqianuaius i musu- ington " . . . ... . I The election of Cox to the pres- Highly important that our. loreign reuuiuus uc micu.guu.j hdeney would be followed by an looked after, and our mercnani marine tiicuuiagcu other bitter, protracted and alto tccted . . ', , I gether futile and upsetting strug- Hiehly important that wantou waste be stoppca eerywuere le to ratify the WIlson League. in the envemment's business I without thf rlrht ktnri ftt respr. . . . .1,1 i . .1 - . 1 ' Highly important mat mere ue a wu 6wi uu u iVations . and in the end the work Start. ; , r' . l must be gone all over again or But it is still more important that our people nave empioj -1 abandoned. There is no possible merit t eonrl vasres - ' 1 I chance for thi ratification nf the Four times as important as that capital snoum oe promauiy i Wilson League and its backers employed i though that is also highly important I ought to know that. , Because labor, is four times as greai in us magnuuue; iu ... . it irmn-nOXrpr CaDltai - I Tho Utr loiio In Ihla mnalrn And unemployment or low wages wouui mean Dreaa lines, ,s tne Urm ,sgue But the soup houses, riot and ruin. . .. ' . . pie generally think the big issue And our labor cannot be empiojeu ai guuu - u the Wilson administration- revision of the tariff laws.; -Labor must have protection. and a great majorIly ot the peo It is the bread anu butter issue. I ni of the t'm'toH states win hnw No man who reeards his wife and children, or who wishes that thev think the h ' had ... . . , . . i i. e l his neighbors to have looa to rat anu cioiniug iu wear, cau ai- enough of it. And that will set ford to disregard this issue. . Itle the tariff Issue, too. if the And no man can anora to stop at oimg iur diuiuS duu Toterg will make lt a complete Cool id fire. . I iob. and not fortet to vot out - He must vote for Stanfield, to make sure tnat we will nave the Democratic members of the a Republican administration throughout I senate One that will eive us a clean sweep and a protective tariif. J.n nian.wnaojes iruuiuuuwiu xujt Cau1Ui Thursday's Salem slocan nares ana soup nouses j . . .... I of The Statesman will show re- For Chamberlamiis a: Democrat, and he will yote witn his Uarkahi frnBTM $n th n9T in. party, which declares; in its piattorm ior a tariu ior revenue dustry in the Salem district In only, wnicn is iree iraue unuer iaic preiruws; mcu is a "e.lthe past year. And remarkable because a tanil icr revenue oniy is neuner a tarui nor uoes n growth. This is now the greatest produce revenue. 1 fiber flax district In the United LThaf 13 the big thmg nest Tuesday I States, and it will from now on 1 Bread and butter for yourselves and your Children and j'our I be much greater, and it should. neighbor's children, and a decent wage that will allow of an I right now, be at least twenty American standard of living. times as big as it is. Going to ) Everv other issue is dwarfed by the supreme importance of jbe that, too, and more. If you .1? ' 1 1 tt 1 I in llllS issue. icau ueip me oaieiu Slogan eauor it is your duty to do so. There THE VARMINT COX SEES I 's nothing more important to Sa lem than the development of the ! Ilev. Dr. C. E. Cline of. Portland, president of the Oregon I flax industry. Conference Methodist Historical Society, was in Salem yesterday arranging1 preliminaries for the unveiling of the life size oil J , When Judge Hughes made his painting of Jason Lee this afternoon, and, in aceoKlance with his J report of the aircraft scandal he pious custom, called on The Statesman. ; - I recommended that Colonel Deeds On being asked, W hat do you think of Air. Cox s method, charge of construction, be dis- seeing so many . ariui tilings about .the senate and Jlr. imissea ironi me service, me re- llarding?" j commendation was indorsed by "Well," said Mr..ClineT "Cox is like -the pioneer hunter in he attorney general, but Deeds Kentucky, Mho saw up in a tree top an awful varmint, at which .I1 a i)Ul1 ith the Ohio Demo- he shot and shot ; and come to find out itivas only a louse lodged I crats and nothing was done. The in his own eyebrow." J senate committee has dug up the information that among the items Cox "gets his" from the editor of the Saturday ravening Dresentvi to the Cox committee Post. ' fact is. Cox is a very casv mark. He is constantly ex-1 ,n "Ohio in 1916 was one of S21, .... , . j. . . .'. . - " I ft ft A pnnl rihtit4l hv t ha lluvlnn company of which Deeds was a stockholder and drector and for which he was a censed of securing contracts while in the air. service. That money helped elect Cox governor of Ohio. The tifore the lid is lifted the worse Is the stench Engineering Co., a concern with a nation wide business. The book let gives a survey of building con ditions and costs of material and labor throughout the country. There is not much in the re sult of the -purvey to encourage those who are waiting for lower building costs. The following are some ex cerpts from the concluding par agraphs: "The prices of building materi als and labor are controlled by economic law supply and de mand. "The present abnormal demand for building materials is due to curtailment in the normal amount of building during the war; to a 10 per ceni increase of popula tion since the war began; to a shifting of population from rural tlq- urban centers. "There is a startling similarity of 'opinion among building ma terial manufacturers to the ef fect that the real peak of build ing material prices will not be reached until about the spring of 1921. From that period a price plateau, is. due to develop,, at which quotations may be expect ed to rule with almost unbroken fidelity for an indefinite time. "Hy 1922 reason may be thrown to the winds and construction will be forced, and real estate, houses and construction may be higher than In 1920." The in formation is given for what it is worth. The Statesman still believes that the shortage of houses for people to live in will persist for a long time in Salem. And The Statesman also be lieves that the only way to get relief that will be constructive and lasting is through local build- ng and loan associations. Make the one we have big enough to supply the needed funds; or organize another one to help; or teveral others. The one we have, however, is entirely sound; economical in its methods; pays good returns to shareholders, and has never yet had to foreclose on a piece of property. BITS FOR BREAKFAST Jason Lee day in Salem Only a few more days The the joyous news of a sweeping Republican victory will thrill the country and the world.! V And a business activity will at once start that will make it the mopt prosperous and progressive period in the history of the United States. , Liberty bonds will be worth par. and a stability will be put un der the whole United States that will lift this country to the first place among the nations ot the earth, absolutely. S Some Republican friends of the writer are inclined to take cu-m grano sails, or even wtih a couple of grains ot salt, the statements that, are coming out of Eastern Oregon that the bunchgrassers are going to vote two to one Tor Har ding and Stanfield ' But there may be some sur prises in store, for the people over there have been hard hit by the Democratic free trade law, and they are mighty anxious to get back onto solid earth, under a pol icy of protection. Life long Democrats are coming out in large numbers for Harding and Stanfield and an administra tion that will save the sheep men and the cattle men and all the rest from bankruptcy or a period of very hard sledding which they see ahead under a Democratic ad ministration. I The tpaklrr iRfnohltrem Bnllv n tonicht. A I KAN UU lil h t ctJiJT l J. " "-""k.Aiitbtti, 4; j ornrr ocneaotca i omgiu treit , r"inwi . i;j y . sa -mm Le ti C. R. reck of Portland, - pott.' comin.nifr of the American le- t-nA r ..tv An oil philosopher one? wrote that a woman wanM onlr thre-; things in thl. world: Her tave. 1 hr man and h-r bary. Nw that "her man ' has her the '-' Turner at a Republican rait to'.rn"u':h thread U tfM lot t.he m ill be mu-h letter rr ' be!J in the iMr.lc hall at "that 1 1 s I tvi. pared to t.eep dow-i hizh - which might confiscate her cave; J ' . ' better prepare! to protect her ha-j by by rniav.np social temptation-, nil 11 W 11 J I 111 II llfl s-sas? r," ':;!fflore 1 nan 3)ouo,uUU.ul) be "her man's" equal ; t ho.nej- ' t I Paid to Policy Holders and be'ore the publi. t la t,l Ihil th.r4 ! IT. flr"! pernons. jm0 of whom are sctors living. In Lo Angelas and irkin ; th?ir living In the movlnr p'ctnre , game. These people are "cOn" 1 and are subject to call from h manarers who ar prodn.-n mk films for th big Mars. They ar. tvaid 17 a day. when they worV The nianarers k?eo an lndx t-' . liv us since orpa nidation without a single fMiirprotiii r illay. A oiiit t rcu.cuH-r in placing our next p.ly. Tne r.ianarors Kp an inn- . w all persons available and In what Jf Jkm Ar capacity they are tet suiteJ. A l ill large numter of former Royal II lit fLJ II JJLw Northwest Mounted p'ice ar cn 'y Jf It . the extra 1IM. bc.ida a nu"ib-r I of freaks" for sicial occasion. TJattip Office c,r5JL. Insurance Company TIIK XEWHPAI-KKS IlKLPKD. )osin himself for a well deserved kick. Vote a pa i nst Chamberlain and bread linen and soup houses. One country, one flag and one language ought, to be good enough for America. If you want to get rjd ot the 'Wilson administration and you surely .do ypu must also vote against Chamberlain. leino- Cbairman White of the Dei cratic national committee, says the "tide is turning' So U Is, liKTTEH Kl'ILI) X()V (?) (0 pi U- c . AV. "When will building cots le lower?" These words make the title of a booklet that has been I prepared by the Fuller Industrial BILLION AND A HALF CASH IN POCKET HAT'S what the sum total would be if half the people in America carried an average of $28 cash per person:. n you conceive of l,5tK),(CK),()00 beins withdrawn from the channels cf business Well many people do carry that much. Do you! : - ! A ltiitcd States National CHECKBOOK in just as convenient and a lot more con structive to use. -.. A m k M JJ .S FUTURE DATES. ORtOON Orfiil.rr 2fl. TueIar VnreUin? nt pmntinn or Jmxnn I .rr i-i ha'I of rrpre spntstiTni in klal eanitol. Ortoher Thursdir Kuff'nid clinir t Commerr il rlnb. (V-tohr-r 2, KridT Adlrni l urmorr hy C-oneressioan Willilm S. Brnnrtt f York. NoTpmlr 2. Toi.Iji I.lrnrinrr'i Little S.vaiphnnr Orrhrstm at irmnrr. NoTPmber 6. Satnrdar Poothall Wit. tainptt ti. Pacific UoiTrnitf at Torast OrT. , NTfWr G amt 7.' SatnHar - an4 Sun- ; day Aranal rnrrntiii Marion Coun- tv llirUtiaa KnlTor I'nion. "irt Con- ! srvj;atirnal rhnrra. opinirr II and 12. 11lurHr KriHjr Stat penitrntiarr Tnimtrrl bow. orvmbrr 11 to 25 Kr4 Crnii mil call. - NoTambr 11. TanradaT Football S.. lam aijl araool ti. ileifmoTille. at Sa lem. NoifmW IS. Tnavdar TnatKall R.. lara high aehool . lallaa hich arhool. at Salm. Norambrr IS. Tharadar PiwttHalt Wil. I latnatto l. Collp!; of Pnni Knmil .1 Taroms: Norambpr 20. SatordaT rWhalI Sa lem hich aehovl ts. Kngena k i -h a-bool, at T.ugene. Aovember 2A. Raturdav TnAt1..ft K,. lUm bish acliool . tojena hi;h arhooL at Koiena. NnTambar Tkunulir-'Aik.l1 v:i. lametta Whitman rotlrga. at SalVm. .Aotr :j. Thyra-laT Vootball. Sa Iroi high arhonl . Tbo Pallet hirh ooU at The Dl!-. . 1 - . . w The following letter Is much appreciated by The Statesman force, every member of which is sympathetic with the great cause The letter explains itself: "Editor Statesman: " recall that during the past year you nave oeen one ot tne editors most interested in the near eastern problem, and especi ally helpful in getting the situ ation before the public. 'I have just returned from the heart of Armenia and would give a great deal for the power to lend you my eye so that you could visualize some of the re sults accomplished through your co-operation. "You would be Uiprcssed first of all by the vast numbers who gathered In every city .o express their gratitude for what has been done for them during, the past year. At leaat a ball million peo pie are living today who would have perished bad it not been for such assistance. "iou would be impressed, too I am sure, by the evidence o thrift and industry; and by the heroic efforts at recuperation un tier almost insiijerable handicaps but most of all you .would be thrilled by the thousands upon thousonds of 'children war or phans, rendered homeless by massacre and deportation now cared "for in near cast relief or-r-hanages. These children are the hope of the Xew Near East. The vision of the future as re f'ected in their races would ban ish any misKiings J as to thy worth-whileuess ot your work. "This saving of a nation would have been utterly impossible without the co-operation that you and other editors give in keej ing the facts before the public. In the name of those whom I have soen aud talked with. I thank you for the altruism that has moved you. Sincerely your. "C. V. Vickrey." (Mr. ickrey is secretary of the Near East Uclief. with head quarters at 1 Madison avenue. New York. The letter Is dated Oct. 19.) Wa WUl Vota Oar Liberties Back or aeren yeara are'e bad a king Who rulea thim mightr nation: Through peace and war he' a been a rtar from hi exalted at at ion. f'hotna: I.il.ertr. we'll ot it bark, Lilierty, r.ow mind Jou: Keeji your voting well -intact And Liberty will find you. And now thia etar would turn tba trick And throw hia mantle orer One Jimmy Co, a wily foa. Who a be th nation a lover. Chora : Liberty. wll vote il bark. I.ilerty. now oiiod yon: Keep yowr Toting wil lot art And Liberty will find yon. Tbia Cos he rrira or Harding down. tteranae. bo aaya he's tied dint- On mare hard rath and filthy traih loan uemocrat arc aneddmg." Choma: Liberty. wH oto it kaek, ' ', Liberty, now mind ytm. j Keep yoar voting well intact , And Liberty oil! find yota. Bat let him rare and apLt hia throat .na nat hia beat antnendar He II find at !at he a lern outelaaaed Aa preatdeatial timber. Choma : Harding i the man we want. Hardine, aaro wo'll win him; Coy U tho one we'll awat. And tare aa gaaa wa'll'akia him. Onr Harding ataada on his front porrh taiaa 01 living ianea; Explalnr th learae. witKoot faligao rnia 11 a narmiol ti'attea. Choraa: Jfarding ia the man wo want. Harding, an re wo'll win him; Coay ia tho one we'll swat. ' And sure aa gnn we'll aaia him. Tev Hardin; wanta hia rabinet 10 Help him gnide tho aalwa. And hill the plan wherein one maa Aaaumrs lh world a aalvstioa. Choraa : Harding i the man we want. , . Cannot do without him: Coay ia tae or.e we'll swat. And aure as guns wo'll rout him. It was with a rreat dal ofJ personal pleasure that I read the announcement in th Statpsmrn a few days an or tne aprrranc; In the near futur of Fn tU-rc-; Warde In Salem under the M.-:ic-es of the Salem Lyceum crit.v. Frederick Warde stands! t kI-O' without a pHr aa a lr!uer .t Shakespearean roles. My recol lection of this eminent trap- xll.i i dates back about 2) year when I heard htm in the old Marsuam Grand theater. Portland, in '"In the Lion's Mouth." lletwer-n the second and third arts Mr. Ward? Tas called to the footlichtc Dressed In a magnificent rottnme. which displayed a perfect! Ivm. he cave a Fhort talk, in which J.e paid a compliment to hi leading lady. Mis Kssi? Tittle, whom was introducing to what he call-! the higher arts. One can't! help but tall in love with Warde wh n one observe his artistic flnlh. his mannerisms and clear enun ciation after long years of train ing. It would be interesting 10 hear what he has to say of the decline of his own role !; ih advent of the nut ion pictures. aVUMHTda.Fr CORRCTT riLOIC, tilth mm Won too aw CaVaUJCUCIaaMs. Portion ci, Ort. When I read a d s?atrh frnii The Dalles recently sia:ing a Ited skin Lad hit a whit r.vm im the head with a iKittle lKrau it- white man offered the IteJ.kir. a drink of firewater. I comuinr-M to entertain visions of tb mil leniiim'fast approaching. I w.vs chagrined to not that a a re ward tor the Ledskin's forcible rebuke h a. Jailed tnJ su' nuently fined flo for as-.i't. Considering tha years of IrlLuU- J tlon through which built the red man and th, wblt nan bae passed In teaching the white man not to sell firewater O the Indian. M ibi 1 en I man rot drink It. It seemed a long trid of accont pllshrnejt. and that in this r.nv ths Ind'an had been punished for drlng exe.ctly what h; rhonld have dope. Hut. 1U1. my cttle came tnmidlng dowr when I re read tb dispatch and foy.id tat th Indan didn't hi. t.i white man on th- herd wita the b3.:!- until "!-. he opened th fl.ik and found that tr.j hi br 'er was ling h t-M initial f te tha GENUINE and ONLY e CESSlittQ The Reliable Remedy for Colds. Grip and Influenza, the Merit of which is recognized by all civilized Nations. Be careful to avoid imitations. Ask for Grovo7G Price 30c on iox. So. romo and join tho Harding band Kor patriotie rally We'll about and amg and virt'ry tiring irvm mountain, hill and valley. Torna: Hardin; ia the man we want. Cannot do without him; C'ovy is the one we'll swat. And n re as guns we'il rout him. And Coolidce. to. we ll pull hin, throng. rrank Ktoeeli will hia p;t With Chamberlain confounded. t'horua : . HartTins i the man we want. Cool id -e. too. we'll need him ( hainlrlam haa had enough- Let Stanfield now aurred him. We ll sound a tor.in goo and strong Till Coay a rrowrf haa aam.ned And then we ll stand on solid Un I With Wi.toniMu bani-bed. Choma: MarHiiii.- i i, ,, ert Coolide. loo. oe'll need him. " haintirrlain haa had enough. Let St a n 1 1- !f4 n.. w . . 1 i. ' ! W X ui.j.iv .. MMaten l.le. anrn a man marries the cling- ! nm tins type 01 woman he thinks he Isn't Koine to be henpecked, and is apt to be fooI"d In several other ways. Arkansaw Thomas Adolph Zukor Presenb 0 sn ptTTaaw THF; (iK)I IMX)K. Ilishop Locke, formerly ot Los Angeles, but now of Manila, made an address before the World's Sunday school convention at To lio and reported that he had found that the Hible had become the best seller in Japan as well as in England. America and the rest of the world. The Hible is the spiritual and intellectual clearing house of the universe and brings multitudes together who would otherwise be Tar "apart. If people would all abide by its teachings the nations wouldn't have to put up barbed' wire and build forts. Los Ange Ie Times; ' ... - . Good Friends Merit Good Treatment Yonr eye ar your let friends and if tteat-l rlitbtly will Kive tju h lifetime of faithful service. Have Your Eyes Examined When in ne of any aid to vision, your eywi will ap preciate the I1KST. The say to determine your vision needs U to have your ev. examined NOW. MORRIS & KEENE OITIC.IL ft). Kyonilit SKiinlists 202-rii itank of Commerce Duilding SALKM ;: ORKC.O.V C ' 1 r.iiai.ii'r n wiag IE- ,i v " Lif- I w i K ' V in t fr m-' v -iir', 1 : t j x. I '.. ir rW'WMlf Xond 1 ? M W k . -s. ... ;v.''.; X I JSa.V ' " ) ' I X 1 y'y) Mi-". X If . --e- I aT I II rv- a: i I I I I 1, Bolh Are Ban-j'more! S.. Lin, ;:s lr. .Irkvll !wletI if iiiHiiii-vm:!it ,y s.i-iclv -wi vitije tJ.f ui ak iiinl r. 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