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THK OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 23. 1020. i Issued DaTly" Except Monday by J THK STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 S. Coramwrrtal St.. Salem, Oregon (Portland Office. 704 Spalding Building.; Phone Main 1116) . MKM11KH OF THK ASSOCIATE! Pit ESS 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. the work. There appear to be some reason to the American peo- many men of many minds as to just what ought to be done. It !s a condition that stumps the wisest. Our advice would be to unload Woodrow Wilson but we may be wrong. Exchange. It. J. Hendricks.. Stephen A. Stone. Ralph Glorer. . . . Frank Jaskoski . . 1 ' " " 1 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. 1 6 a year, 3 for six - months. $1.60 for three months. In Marion and Polk counties; $7 a year, 13.50 for six months, $1.75 for three months, out side" 'of these counties. When not paid in advance, 50 cents a year additional. - I THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, wi. be sent a year to any one paying a year In advance to the Dally Statesman. i ; SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.50ia year; 75 cents for six months; 40 cents for three months. i J WEEKLY STATESMAN, issued 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. it is announced that the price of lumber will not drop. Hut it is the duty of everyone who can possibly do so to contribute to the building activity. The only way to relieve the house short age is to have more houses. Sim ple, isn't it? "Never touched us" will be the record in Salem, if all the for ward looking forces pull together and no one gets cold feet. This with reference to the laying off of men In the industries of many eastern cities. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 583. Job Department, ; 583. Society Editor 106. 4 Entered at the Postofflce in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. SOME THINGS CAN AND OTHERS CANNOT WATT This 13 a good apple country, for the right varieties of apples, cultivated by the right varieties of apple men. Help the Salem Flogan man to prove it, in Thurs day's Statesman. It is up to you. It is your duty. i ! Some things in the process of Salem's sure growth into a large and prosperous city can wait And some things cannot wait. . , 1 The undeveloped water power in the Salem district, in the projecti already marked out, amounting to 103,218 horse power, with several times that much not yet marked out or a. little further away, but which can be made available here by hydro electric development I This can wait. y- Its development is bound to come in time. The more rapid development of the flax and hemp indus tries, highly desirable, can wait. The flax industry is now on a solid basis, and it is sure to have a great future; 'and it is pretty sure to grow from this time on in such a way as to surprise most of our people. It is bound, in the course of time, to become perhaps the CTeatest of all our industries. 'V The Drune indsutrv. the walnut and filbert, and dairying and many other industries, which are sure to become continually greater in the Salem district All these and many others can wait the regular processes of development and improvement. They are fully launched on their way, and need only more intelligent and industrious jmen to push them along the lines already marked out and sure of results. ' . I But the proper facilities for taking care of our surplus cherries, strawberries and other fruits and berries, andjthe surplus crops of perishable vegetables y. " These cannot wait. ; ; Not without! the riski of great losses each year, such as was the case with' our surplus cherries last summer, and our vege tables that were lost m the freeze of last December. Either one of which losses represented enough money to pay for the construction in Salem of a large cold storage plant A 1200,000 to $250,000 plant, , sufficiently large to insure this district aeainst the repetition of such losses. It is unthinkable that we should fly in the face of fortune by neglect, and only wake up to our folly when the losses are rcDe&ted. asram and again - , - . To the great injury of this district as a great fruit district and a grtat vegetable country. The storage and handling charges will pay the interest on the bonds for the moneV necessary to build such a plant, .ana iney win aiso proviue a sinKiug iunu iu retire a senai issue. But the district or the city must put its credit behind the bonds . Just as the state of Oregon puts its credit behind the road bonds; and has never had to pay a cent on them and never Will.-' . The thing to do is to get this matter before the people of the district or the city in the proper form And do it now. in order that the surplus perishable fruits and vegetables that canrAt be taken care of in any other way may be insured against losses in the future. The reduction of working forc es in many of the eastern cities is going on. The high priced laborers, who spent their surplus in silk shirts and automobiles are likely to regret it. The pendulum is swinging back it always does. But the Pacific coast will be al most immune, if the forward looking forces are active. There Is plenty of work for all who want to work on this coast if only the men and the jobs can be gotten together and no one gets cold feet, and the knockers are suppressed. ENFORCING THE LAWS. The death rate In the United' Eta tea in 1919 is the lowest on record. Of course, this does not include the decease of the es teemed Democratic party. . Secretary Burleson says his coast-to-coast air mail service! is working finely. Now he might put in some of his valuable time on the land mail service between the oceans. . If the Republican vote c$n tinnea to Increase in the southern states it will soon be necessary to relnaugnrate the reign of the bight-riders and other means of suppressing the opposition vote that were in vogue in the 70s. There will be more material for another "Clansman." Now it is proposed to set aside a portion or Caliiornia as a sane tuary for wild animals. It will have to be quite extensive to ac commodate all the Democrats who bet on Cox. Los Angeles Times. Tne Democrats are now very busy arranging for the recon struction of the party, and Col. Bryan insists' upon being con sulted. But there is objection from every direction to allowing him to have anything to do with !f' 1 - Thrift Takes Thought o NE doesn't get thrifty just un consciously. He's got to exert thought and effort all of the time. A pocketful of cash doesn't in fluence any great degree of considera tion when the spirit moves one to spend. But one of those pocket check books from the United States National Bank DOES cause you to do a little thinking. 3E "Practice your counsels." cried Corneille, "or give them not to nue!" Such is the cist of tie re-! ply that the Communists of Eu rope make to Americans who preach the virtue of observing the written law. Radical periodicals oming to the United Statse are filled with comments on the fail ure of the American government to enforce and the people to ob serve the eighteenth amendment. They say that the people of this country are one-quarter Pur- tans and three-quarters hypo crites. One has but to turn to the col umns of our own newspapers to find ample justification for this foreign, reflection. - In at least halt the territory of the United States the eighteenth amendment 13 violated with hUarity and. 'gen erally, with Impunity. In a few sections the federal enforcement officers have been doing their duty and in others they have aided and abetted In the manu facture and sale of Intoxicating liquor. Adherents of the doctrine of personal liberty have attempted to make a virtue of violating the anti-liquor 'laws. Because they do not agree with the spirit of the Volstead act they are seeking to set themselves above the law. Politics has intervened to weaken a rigid enforcement and a nnint has been reached where the Am erican people, once proud of their observance of the laws of their own making, may come to be re garded as a nation of law-break-, eds. It is to be hoped that one of the first acts of the new admin istration will be to punish those who violate the provisions of the Volstead act with the same rigor that law-breakers in general are punisnea. it individuals are to be permitted to put themselves above certain laws the time will surely arrive when groups will set themselves above all laws. maer certain conditions the flames of anarchy lighted by an alcohol lamp might well devour American institutions. - Citizens are within their rights when they discuss the terms of the Volstead act. Tttey have the right to hold that it never should have been put upon the statute books; but they have neither the legal nor the moral right to violate a sin gle one of its terms so long as it remains the law of the land. Congress passed the Volstead act, and congress can amend or repeal it. Public sentiment may come to favor a modification oui pudmc sentiment will never approve violations of the act while it remains in force. - Foreign radicals can point with pie as a nation of law-breakers so long as the Volstead act is sub ject to open and continued viola tions. ;' ' If frequent and flagrant viola tion of the Volstead act are per mitted to continue, a new socket will be fitted ip the torch of radicalism. A little investigation discloses that the class which Violates the Volstead act is com posed largely of those who have taken a wicked pleasure in violat ing traffic laws : on the public highways. The peed demon Is i.early always a crude violator of the Volstead act as well. A class of rpoits has developed in this country who consider It an honor to have violated the laws regulating the speed of vehicles' and those forbidding the manu facture and sale of intoxicating liquors. t Strict and uniform observance of all laws was formerly charac teristic of the American people. It is one of the distinguishing traits that formerly caused for eigners to marvel. Immigrants who came from countries that had suffered for centuries from political oppres sion could not understand the in dignation that the average Am erican felt In -beholding another breaking the law. Foreign-born anarchists have been striving for a generation to destroy In American workmen that hereditary respect for the law; but they have not been able to make much head way. If these workmen observe a privileged and wealthy rlass breaking one set of laws they will accept it as justification to break another set. There can be no hair-way house in the observance of laws; there can be no compromise with those who refuse observance . because they object to the spirit of the act. The executive department of the government must not be per mitted to nullify laws which the legislative department has enact ed; neither nvust the people, hav ing once through their represen tatives approved an act, be per mitted to. violate its provisions; for they possess at all times the rower to repeal through their representatives any act to which sufficient majority of them are opposed. If the Volstead act Is "cruelly and unusually" drastic, a rigid and impartial enforcement is the turest way to secure its repeal; If It is satisfactory to a majority of the people of the country It is the moral and patriotic duty of the minority to submit to what is considered the greatest good by the greatest number. for their admit that the rate fancy love nests is too iiifh it must be so. It would be a fine idea if th landloid would fix the price of the bridal chamber at the old rate of $- a duy and then Ket if there U a correspond ing Loom in the marriage market. At this Fame meeting of boui fares there was another surprise. The delegates were all taken over to Kills Islaud and the immigra tion commissioner served a very satisfactory dinner that he showed could be. put on the table at Zj cent 3 a head. There was a soup that some of the landlords would put on their own cards at at least 50 cents a portion, and the tpread might have done duty for a J 2 table d'hote dinner if served with the splendor - usual to tome of their hostelries. But it was fill ing and appetizing and It could be done for a quarter. The average bonifaee of today uh not think it possible that a regular meal can be built for 2.1 cents; but one of the greatest hotel fortunes of Los Angeles, ac cording to the Times of that city, rrose'from the fame of Its Sun day chicken dinners for a quar ter. "Them were the, good old days." Now the hat-check boy sneers at a tip of less than that sum. The modern hotel is a palace, and it is conducted on the hypo thesis that there Is nothing in the world but money, and that it all reaches the hotel coffers In time. flay, with a SaturJay half-hohday. 1 1 rinting trade U const fluted in Fither this, cr reen hours an 1 ! Salvia an l rnerally In cities of twenty rumutts fit days In the! this :z. th.. main Inj3tic of week, or six nights in th" -fc. it 1m- 41-hour wet-k lies In the a J In the printing trad. a th ' ditional overtime, cr pric and a halt or doable or trtblt prV, ork that it entails. ."ot very acquaintance e . fiU-nd. Don't forret that. O nlwtft SALEM SasssSSr OREGON FUTLRK DATES. Xovember It f 25 R4 Croti roll can. KsTrinbcr 25. TanrtdaT Football. Wtl lainetta a. Whitman rollrga. at Balrm. - NoTnnbcr 23, Tharariar Football Sa em kiffc a-hnoI tb. Tka Dalle kicb ohooL at Tna DaHa. November 25, Thursday Tbanitrot meot by Great Shirley Conm-t Mnnn, at armory, mnder aoapia of Aaeriraa legion. December B, Hand ay Special school Wtioa . Deremher 7, Tuesday A naval oWtioa i vneraana. December , Wedaeaday Aasaal tie twn of Commercial etab. December 10, 11 and 12. Wetem Oreoa Older Bays ronfereare. Salem. December la. Tneaday Aaaaal alae- I TZ tiea) Salem BaaiaeM af leaf V!JL. IXVE AND APPETITES. At the national gathering of hotel men In New York the chair man of the exposition committee reported that the high price of bridal suites was putting a crimp Jn matrimony and he admitted that the fancy rates ought to be cut. This is a new one. We had never thought that lov ing couples were regrettfully. put ting off their union because the Waldorf-Castoria was asking $210 a day for a bridal chamber. If the leading hotel in any Ameri can city spoils a lot of marriages because Jt charges $12 a day extra, for the perfume of orange blossoms in Its choicest apart ments it should be known. Dut if the hotel men themselves PAY AS YOU ENTER. The only way In which work men can obtain a 44-hour week is by placing all Industry on a piece work basis. There are few busi nesses that can stand the payment of seven days' wages for five days work. Los Angeles Times. Perhaps. But they do have it in some places now. All the printers and pressmen in Salem have It, and some of them in Portland. A great deal more will be beard concerning the 4 4-hour week along about March 1st. The 44-hour week means eight hours a day for five days and four hours In the forenoon of Satur- BLESSED KIGHT. mmMmmmm Mw Crank Case Seroicefirliotorisfc YOU probably know that af ter a few weeks of driving your lubricating oil becomes dirty with carbon, road dust and fine particles of metal, which circulate through your engine and cacss unnecessary wear cn bearing: surfaces. And gasoline escapes past the pistons and dilutes the cil. Granted.There'3 nothing new about that tut Here's cn absolutely new way to get rid of this dirty, diluted oil and put your engine in line for better performance and longer life. It is called Modem Crank case Cleaning Service. Modem, because we use Calol Flushing OH, the new, scientific. thorough flushing agent that does not contaminate the fresh oil. Our skilled mechanics know how to clean ou t a crankcase with it correctly and quickly, at a nom inal cost to you. This service assures proper lu brication for your cleaned engine. We refill the crankcaso with fresh Zerolene of the correct grade. We recommend Modern Crankcase Cleaning Service as the latest word fcr better engine x operation and longer life for your car. TODAY: Bring in your car for Modem Crankcase Penning Service. The day hath pl.ri't of its wa " That thiM with ferreat alow. Dot' eh. the blesalnra of atk J Be far can aerer know. The shining moon and tariakliag star Accord jb mellow tune. And- with tho aorred calm of alfebt la- Uessedoesa torn mane. ' , The hjW laallo of the day . Heeler ts the hoars of urarer. Bat holy is night's atmotphera acre broken vows repair. The loviaf tiea the day an looted The eveoinz tide cements: The wrongful deeds the day eoadoaed Mfbt a quietude relents- , t The tight-strong nerres with cares opprest loag tor too Bight a release; With weariness the days depress. Bat Bight brings rest and peace. The errant truant of the day Tnrna hark ward to confess As sable aight pats on her robes la attitude to blesa. The family gathers 'roand the hearth. A picture of delight, 'Till Morpheus gently folds them in The arms of loving night. The rattle from a thousand hills. The florke from far-off plains Cnme to the nestling folds for rest When Bight sotnpremely reigns. Oh. humble sight, oh. queenly night I lore thy fond embrace; Xe pomp or pride or haughty glare ' Iestroys thy perfect grace. Oh, glurious day. oh. arduous day. Thy labors rail for rest. Then saintly night, like mother bird. W'.U draw as to her breast. Oh, mar the days be long or short. My lal.ors hard or light I long to ruddle in the arm Of mellow, soothing night. Yea. day baih glories all its ova. The ma a golden crown. Uut for pore Mesiednena 1 wait 'Till huly night comes 'round. w t Kn;nox 1 A. Davis, Auto Electric Repair Shop, 2590 Fairgrounds. 2 M.E.Jackson, Fairgrounds; r 3 Eyerly Bros., 246 State Street. 4 Advance Rumley Thresher Co., 263 N. Com'l. 5 Salem fire & Vulcanizing Co., 154 S. Com'l. i a 6 Liberty Garage, 444 Ferry Street. " ' Now if . M1 HjHB iliSi WBM Jj - , ,;.:t.'.yf , ..' .... .VI- ; - . ' J tmmmimmmM-mmmmto dtaaaBBBBjaBBswaaal-BWas -Added Attractions- Scenic and Comedy VAUDEVILLE "xManhattan Trio" . Three Boys Who Can Sing (Held Over by Popular Demand) v r: Cr rvi "IT3 Srpecbl for ThanksgiTini:. TTie Eleventh Comnundmenr 3E