THE OREGON STATESMAN; 'SALEM OREGON.
SATURDAY MORNINGS NOVEifBEU 13, 1D20"
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wavs their love of country and their willingness to serve, evenl
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. "
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Havn
Scouts?
yu helped ih
I'.oy
And
Cro5S?
have you
hclp-d tbs Ke
And have you bought any Phez
preferred tstock?
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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