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THE OREGON STATESMAN; 'SALEM OREGON. SATURDAY MORNINGS NOVEifBEU 13, 1D20" I)c Giteptt statesman - .-. Issued Daily Except Monday by Til K STATESMAN r I HUSHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (I-ortland Office. 704 Spalding Building. Phone Main 1116) MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED ' PRESS ) 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. R. J. Hendricks. Stephen A. Stone Ralph Glover. Frank Jaskoski. . Manager . . . .Managing Editor Cashier . . .Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier in Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mail, in advance. 16 a year, $3 for six months. 11.50 for three months, In Marion and Polk counties; '97 a year, 3.50 for six months, $1.75 for three months, out side of these counties. When not paid in advance, 50 cents a year additional. THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, wi'. be sent a year to any lone paying a year In advance to the Daily Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 40 cents for three months. ") S WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issue4 In two six-page sections, Tuesdays and Fridays. $1 a year (If not paid in advance, $1.25); 60 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months.' wavs their love of country and their willingness to serve, evenl . ' . . . . ..... . 1 t ! to the laying down of their lives, lor American lueais, are not lniiifari.stic. They want an efficient small United States anny and an efficient state military organization, and they are willing to support these, and to have seme sort of military training in ail educational institutions ' ,. But they d not want, this nation turned into an armed camp, like uermany Mas, and Uke tne omy uicai mai would satisfy the higher-ups inthe militaristic cult with whom Senator Chamberlain was in so much favor. TELEPHONES: Buslness,Office, 23. Circulation Department. 583. ; ' Job Department, 583. Society Editor 106. j Entered at the Postoffice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. SOB STUFF AND SOME OTHER THINGS As to the second proposition, that Oswald West is still alive ami kicking . Everybody in Oregon knows it. And "they kiioWthe. frail of the joIitical serpent of the Chamberlain-West-Oicott combination that has so often deliv ered a large numbir of the Republican votes over to the Demicratic camp. , This was done in several if not all of the Salem precincts at the last election. There is no doubt whatever that Senator Chamberlain received a lafge projortioii of the votes of the men and women on the payrolls of the Oregon state govern ment. Oswald West is still alive and kicking, and he is still playing the-old 'game, and will still attempt to play it, in future primaries and elections. That is his political right I - And the Republicans cf Oregon who are true to their party affiliations do not need the warning of the Oregon oter. But neither are they to be blamed if thev fail to ween over the fate of any of the minions of the West-Chamberlain- Olcott obhgarchy who happen to fall by the wayside in the ong contest that has left its marks on Oregon political history And which obligarchy is "still alive and kicking." "We hate to see George Ei Chamberlain defeated, and feel partly guilty of having caused that result. Only the conviction that it was vitally important to have a Republican Senate could have impelled us to have recommended voting against George, the best Democrat of them all, but still a democrat. ' "Oswald West is still alive and kicking, so don t imagine that the Republicans of Oregon are going to have every little thinor their own wav." The above two paragraphs are, from the Oregon Voter of last week. j ' ; The first paragraph is a part of the sob stulf; that nas been going the rounds of the pressr from the Oregonian down to some cross-roads sheets. One of the sob stuff articles, in the Oregonian, might have th rpailor. lmfl hi been a stranerer. to the conclusion that Pennsylvania avenue at Washington was running rivulets of . - r. . tealding tears over the defeat Senator Chamberlain. ' - He will me missed in some circles in Washington. He will surely be missed by the South, whose interests lie so well served during the war, from his exalted position as chairman of the powerful committee on military affairs of the upper nouse. ; And he will be missed by Oswald West, who was enabled from a state of very modest means to attain to a position of at least comparative affluence, in doing work that should have been attended to by Senator Chamberlain, in the regular order of his official duties. At least, that is the opinion held by larze numbers of people in Oregon!, who have every good wish for the financial well-being of Mr. West, but are not willing to join in the sob chorus or .to acknowledge that they have been guilty of any great crime in aiding and abetting in the send ing to the United States Senate of a man of their own political faith, who, on account of the faet that he is U Republican, will likely be more7 useful to his constituents than any one of the opposite political faith could possibly be- - Even acknowledging, which they do, that Senator Cham berlain is a man of great soeial attainments and is possessed of qualities that endear him to many. In common with the rest of our people, what the Repub licans of Oregon need,, and a majority of them voted for, is a man in the United States Senate from Oregon who will re member that he is an Oregonian first, and still none the less an American citizen devoted to the highest ideals of the whole country v And so remembering, will j work? for the best interests of his constituency. J 1 The faci that Senator Chamberlain has let the interests of the country as a whole (and especially of the South) dim hw enthusiasm for his. own state is well illustrated by an incident of his recent campaign, when he was making a speak ing and hand-shaking and baby-kissing tour of eastern Oregon, trying to show the Republicans that they should vote for him. The party came to a place overlooking a beautiful valley, Kiuiling in the abundance of wonderful productivity, and Senator Chamberlain, held in awed admiration at the sight, said he did not know Oregon had such a valley. lie was informed that he was looking into Idaho, at the lands under an irrigation project of that state. The stretches ' of barren waste on the other sidewere Oregon or at least that little corner of Oregon that was waiting for the same kind of development a v Waiting for a worker in Congress whose sympathies were not so all-inclusive or nation-wide as to absorb all his energies -i Waiting for a man in the high- councils of the federal government who would work for his own state first. f- ir is admitted that there will be another Democratic candidate in 1924. 1 I If Edison scan produce that Cs vice to communicate with the dead he might tr$ it on Cox. President-elect Irarding say he is un bossed. That is a mighty brave thing for a married man to claim. i r Strawberries will be the4alem slogan subject for The States man of next Thursday. This is the greatest strawberry country in the world, and the slogan edi tor has got to prove It. If you can help him. it is your duty as t loyal Salemite to do so -rk'ow. not after the edition is out.'! If you lire or have a suae in Salem or the Salem district, and can afford to do so, and have not yet bought some of that Phez Company preferred stock, you have not done your duty. That is the most important dutv right now before the people of this section. It is in the nature of a blanket insurance policy for the everlasting prosperity of. this district. ian code, or the metaphysics of Aristotle, and no more. So with the League Issue cutt ing no figure, and thr Republican candidate stirring absolutely no popular enthusiasm, we must look elsewhere to account for the tremendous vote polled, and the landslide for Harding. That rea son can scarcely be said to be the weakness of the Democratic can didate. Although Cox is not the type of man that the majority of people would j(ke to aee In the presidency, lie had no profound uiircio ana was more a man of the masses than his opponentT He had the advantage of the backing of the administration wnn an mai tne power of fede ral organization implies. He had Lis own successful political career oehind him, added to the appeal that his election would mean an euaorsement ot Wilson and' all of the policies for which he standi why then his overwhelming de feat? Much as some people would de sire to have it otherwise, the sole issue oas oeen Wilson, and the Democratic conduct of the war nd the problems growing but of it. Hut orlnciDAllv. Wii An ar V " i ACCOUNTING FOIl THE LAMU SIJDE. and wholly unjust dismissal of fecretary Lansing was knottier revelation of the Wilson relat'on ship to the" oyster. It would take too much rpacc to detail the many WU-on mis takes in the conduct of the war. His keeping of the senior major general and ablext American sol dier. Leonard Wood, stuck in the Kansas mud. out of motives be lieved to be political and his ne glect to call any Republicans into war counril, although mote than half of the people were of that political faith, accounts largely, now, for tne intense partisan ran cor against him. Two rears aro. at the height of the war enthusiasm, be asked the people for a Democratic congress. They elected a Republican con pre. The effect of this wa to u:ake him more narrowly partisan than ever. Although the consti tution vests joint power in the tenate to make treaties, be point edly ignored the renate anl brought back from Paris, a treaty. insisting upon its ratification without the dotting or an "i" or the crossing of a "t." Rather than make a single concession. he kept the country out of peace for IS months, and demanded a 'solemn referendum. which was given yesterday. The result is evidence that the American peo ple do not share his hypnosis tor the Wilson League of Nations. No brief analysis could do more than touch upon the main points of the political situation. It would take a volume to discuss inter national relations in all their breadth. The lesson of this de feat is that any man. however great.. who hypnotizes himself into the belief that heu a political demigod and the sole oraVle of national destiny, is in for a fall at the hands of the American vo ter. ' ' American business Interests have suffered much at the bands of the administration, and the7 t'irn with relief tp the prospect of a change. Harding Is not a boiomon. nor a Napoleon, or Alex ander the Great, but he Is broad enough to realize that American government is a task that calls for the co-operation of the best brains ot the nation, and is not an affair for the dictation of any one man. I r" " . Senator Chamberlain took a high place, in the estimation cf the Genaral Staff militarists, in demanding universal military service in this country ,. But the great majority of tne people of Oregon, while they re patriotic; and while they have shown in ten thousand (The San Francisco Journal.) The early returns are running so strongly in favor of Harding that there appearsto be no doubt of his election by a sweeping ma jority. If the first figures com ing over the wire as this is writ ten are a fair indication of the total, the majority will be by far the greatest In the history of the Republican party. This is in line with the frequently expressed forecast of the Journal. Some elaboration of the reasons for the result may not be without inter est to the unbiased reader. The campaign has " been prac tically devoid of enthusiasmand the Republican party, by a series or unfavorable circumstances, nominated the weakest candidate before its convention. The one big issue, of which so much had been expected ly both sides, failed, largely, to enlist the In terest of the public. TheLeague of Nations, in the nooular mind remained a highly technical ab stract and academic idea j suitable for debating societies and learned dissertations, but far removed from that heart of the nation which f resident Wilson pictured as breaking-over its rejection. Sam Blythe well says, that the "gene ral public takes as much interest in the academic idea of a League of Nations as it does in the Justin- come ine man you want n m to be. Salem is to have a waking np on the eniorcement ci ;ne dry law. Ssleni does not need it much: tiere is very little viola tion here. Rut . the thaking np will do noi barm. When 'have you seen a man in Salem undttr the influuecc of booze? ' The Indirect taxes la Oregon collected by the Insurance de-1 partment, over f5o.000 for two years, sounds ftrefty good. It has not been very long since that mm would have matte quite splash In provldlnc fo.f th expenses of the state government. " V. w It will be the tCsty of the legis lature this winter to hunt for new ways of gettfzi; money from indirect taxation: and. Indeed, some on ought to be busy cow in the matter. j V j If the farmers of Marion and Polk county could get all the men i n uu ic uui ui rm p turn I ii reasonable wazes. acd could pend on thm. they cculd ithem in clearing land and ae-iIttrittTrr-p ... cutting !S-CN. v m VA- 1 wood, and In other work. That is. ; TKC rrrri..VT 'rZT-'- At a'l who are tramping or stealinr ! 1 OrJ - ) j rides through the country at the . 1 tJ IrtUS tW "VV ipreponl titr.. A vat amount of' 3 ClSsilVimi 'work on the farms ot this section V ZrfT"r -- (has been neglected for lack of XZXiCZJl HlClT 'T competent and reliable help that ; . a m - a coall be had at iiv:nr war i 1 ! I i a' n IK- ' 1 Cls trim Aiw UniTcnal Ujlt and Power Plant Urht your aoa aad bint w trically. No rrore UB(frfi, '. .amrs to carry aboat acd clea. Iron your clothes eleftHeally more hot fires oa tot dy tB v ' your Irons. Pump yoir water electrically jr. more work oa that eld paB Xi7 ','- Cpa la or writ A - -. ou further InformiUca anl deaaJ ttration. " 12 No. Commercial Street co Salem Velia Co. T. C Wood, Dealer GIRLS AMI PAINT. WITH A CHECKBOOK YOU ARE EVEN BETTER "HEELED" WHY with a checkbook in your pocket, you can go the full limit of your bank; account if you are so inclined. You certainly couldn't pack all your money around With you that is, comfortably or safely. Then why not get on the modern side of j business and handle your financial transactions with a United States Na tional CHECKBOOK? SALEM T Q3COON u FUTLRE PATES. SWmW 11. 12 aii4 IS. Thnmr. rrtdy and Siturdiij- State proitntiar irmntel ahow. Norembr It to 23 BW Croat rolt ealt. Noremlr 14. Sundar Re& Croat roll call Sundar. Xrmbr 15. Vondar W. C T V drir. for 1123.009 childrea'a home'bt- November IS, Tneadar rHttttl. Sa "Salem cho, T- I ia aehool. at XoTmHer lajThoraar "Middy and Shirt da at hizh acbool. NoTmt..r 1. Thnradar Football. TTil. lametta g. CoUef of Pufet Soaad. at XoreaWr 19. Kridar trtor. hx Vilh jalraur ,. iUeffakson, .Irrtie iplorrr. at arfnory, N'ermiW !. Fridar ' 4:13 p m liltjalmnr fl-fnjan Vctarm at armour NoTFmbr 20. Satnrdif Knotball. B len i fcieh acaool nSa hijh cbooL at Knxne. . Koenbr 20. 8aUrday rotbalt ft, torn nish -hol . asena hirh arhoeL at Kagra. XoTmbr I-r. TTirdaT Footba'l. 'Wil Umtt raWbitmaa rctlrge. at falom. yrrmhr 23. Thuraar Football. Sa Irm Bigh nrhont a. Tfca Dallra kick Xwmbet S3. Tburaday Tbaakif iviag Vrrmhr 1. WVdnradar KaUrtaia ment br Grrat Sbir1r oarrrt rompanr at armory, voder aupir 0f Amrricaii IVreiabrr B, Jlonday Serial arliool c)rtia . - Pffwilwr 7, Tuesday laaaat lrtia of I nerrianv IrriBlr a. AV4n4ay Aaaual Imb ef ("imni'rrul Hub. Orrnih-r 14, TqrfT Annq.l Uoa buleia liaikt ilea's Iragna, Ice H:i usoa sever had a great pop ular backing such as that which supported Roosevelt. He was -.1 :ii.t puuucai accident, in the tlrst place, and a creation of circum stances afterwards. He obtained ms iirsi nomination as a last. re sort, out of the Daltlniote con vention, sweltering for days and worn out by the three-cornered tight between Champ Clark na lammany Hall. He owed his election to the Republl .au spiu Between Jioosevelt and Taft. in 1912. his vote being over a million in the minority. His second election was due albo to continuation of that Republican Muarrei, ana to the slogan "He kept us out of war." which car r Art teA.InB. a t m. . J,tv wih wua ine women vot ers of the wer Ovinr imth ww,a vt his elections to the accidents, of politics. and.Velng of a tempera nient the farthest removed from the qualities of popular leader ship, he was sustained, only by his own great Intellectual gifts and by the vast power of his po sition. Caught in the cyclone of war. he was raised to a hlc-h win. nacie or world prominence, in which position he displayed to great advantage his scholarly at tainments and his compelling lite rary style. No other president in jour history could equal him with the pen. His ideals are high and his theories are plausible, bit he lacked the quality necessary to put them over. His deeds never matched his words. Amos Pinchot said of him that he could beat any man living to say one thing, and mean another, and get away with it. He is totally devoid of the abil ity to do team work with othe- men. He must be the whole show or nothing. This gives him the appearance of intense selfishness, which is very destructive in poli tics. This quality has alienated from him the very men who mad? his political career possible. Col. Ceorge Harvey first discovered Woodrow Wilson pnd put him In the running for president. Hut in the mid-campaign, when Wil son believed that the Wall Street flavor of Harper's Weekly was burling him with the radicals of the west, he coldly threw Harvey down and flatly requested him to d-jsisl ironi his support, with no thanks for what he had done be fore. The second crucial emerg ency came when Kryan'swung th? convention to Wilson and made his nomination possible. Uryan got his reward, such as it was. but when the time came WiIon also dropped him like a hot potato. These arc typical inMances which clearly show wjiy few men low a leader iike that. The abroft The director of physical edu cation In New Jersey says it would be a great thing if the h I gh school girls -would sprint Instead of paint. They, could get almost as high a color and it would be nat ural and healthful lnsteadLof be ing artificial and repellant. He says that the modern girls not only do not run. but are forget ting ow to walk. They can do a little feverish fox trclllLg in a hot room or can ride arourd nighU in a closed limousine, but cannot walk a mile in 'the broaJ sunlight because or their feet and complexion. They can go the pace, tut not in a desirabe way. It a girl can accustom herself to doing one hundred yards In IS seconds she won't have to worry about ber color or her corns. A painted woman Is bad enough. rut a Hand-decorated school girl is a Might and a blot. That'r what' he cays. CXDKU TIIK HA.V Under another department rul ing no word suggestive of booze can be U!ed m connect'on with a beverage. Krfn a label of ns.ar tter is impossible. The rtttff can be called near sometMr.g. but not rear beer. Neither N it permitted to iiientio.! a 'rew laRer jit. half-and-half or stjut. llock is impossible. anU TiNnci in forbid den. Anything that recall the aays when the breweries wcr? working overtime is now outlawed and. if a man want to udvertis urms out a new ur:nK h may Dot even hint ;. the foam that t.nce gurgled front the keg. In order to niaia the world tale for tlemocra'cy it may be nrcsjry to h'cish Ihe porter from llr. Pull rran's cars. tiik i;i:kat vimvm Knnt llamson. the Norwegian nAV.II.I k n . . ... n.i suu iuri. wno won iniH years Nobel prize for literature, was a conductor on the HaUteact street car line In Chlc-?. in the days when mu'.es furnished Ihe motive power. Following a t.iule in Halstead street doem't cxaellr seem like fit training for a pet. but yon ran never tell whero genius i goiiis to bmt fortn. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST - Havn Scouts? yu helped ih I'.oy And Cro5S? have you hclp-d tbs Ke And have you bought any Phez preferred tstock? ". V Through the Hoy Srouls organ iuliouou can help that bo be- HARDWARE STO RE Opens Today Oar store has now been thoroughly remodeled zoods received end ererythinj; ar. ranged for our opening. We will carry a Complete Stock New Goods While oar slock will not be the lirgesl in Salem it will all be absolutely new, asi will include quality goods in I1 hardware lines. Builders Hardware. PainU, Oils, Varnish, Glass, Stores, Ranges, Granite, Alumlnnm and Pjrex Ware Etc $10.00 FOR BEST SLOGAN To the person submitting the bttst slogan for cur business, to be used in our adrer tbing, etc., we will give a cash prize of $10.00. AH slogans must be delivered to ocr store, or deposited in the mail cn or before November 30. ..Slogans must not con tain over six words. This contet.t U open to all whether customers or not. Each contestant may submit as many slogans as desired. DOUGIlTOf! & MILLER, HARDWARE 286 North Commercial (Formerly Dairies Cash Store) Citizens'Law-Enforcement MASS MEETING at METHODIST CHURCH 3 P.M. SUNDAY, November 14th, 1920 Under Auspices Law and Order Department Anti-Saloon League of Oregon Tki " the beginning of a State and Nation wide camjuign for Law Knforccraent. Will the people of Salem join us in forcing the law breaker (boot-legger) out of business? Attend the great Ma Meeting. Address by HON. CAPTAIN FRANK EBBERT of Wasnington, D. C Subject: -Law Enforcement and Its Relation to the Success of Prohibition" A Great Topic A Great Speaker Hear Him Address by W. J. HERWIG, Portland, Superintendent, Anti-Saloon League of Oregon Subject: "The Law Enforcement Campaign in Oregon Get a Dig Stick In the words of Lincoln : 1 1 ! Iit5VeJiran rcmernlr that to violate the law i. to trample cn the Jiffi ;lTJ!f0rJ Uw cverj- American mother " V::: , ?"ai rau, cn.r?r aPI let it t taught in the school. anil nlm-Tn-ir.- i -OI,cKes ; iei it be written in primen.. spelling books HtivS SSE ? Preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in the 1 EVERYBODY '-WELCOME EVERYBODY COME