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-f - THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 26, 1920. 1 ?. )t CGte&crn Statesman .-!,'. j Issued Daily Except Monday by Vf. TlIE STATESMAN. PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 704 Spalding Building. Phone Main 1116) r i MEMBER OF TlIE ASSOCIATED, PRESS The Associated Prss 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. T Hi J. Hendricks... J- ..Manager Stephen A. Stone. . .Managing Editor i could have bought enough turkey for the whole Rockefeller family dinner with that much money. Chicago has declaied war on the saloons. We thought that war was fought and won years ago. Hack ward Chicago. Wondjer if they know yet that the vWorld ar has ended? Ralph GloTer. Prank Jaskoski. . . . .Cashier Manager; Job Dept. And most of us were thankful over our Thanksgiving goose or pork roast this year; , DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. . DAILY STATESMAN, by mail, in advance, $6 a year, $3 for six months. $1.60, for :hree months. In Marion and Polk counties; 7 a year, 3t$hlor six months, $1.75 for thee 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 one 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. i WEEKLY STATESMAN. Issued In two six-page sections, Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year (If not paid in advance, $1.25); 50 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: i Business Office, 23, i Circulation Department. 583. Job Department, 583. Society Editor 10 6., Entered at the Postoffice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. There is one great flaw In Vis count Grey's suggestion that Ire land be left to fight it out. The Irish never tire of a stout fight, and thus, the fracas might go on forever. Turkey and Russia have united tc liberate India, Egypt and Mor occo. Sounds like an offer of fin ancial succor from a pauper. The' Thanksgiving turkey sale was reported the smallest in years. Strange. We thought the new crop of war millionaires at l-ast would all plunge on turkey this time. valuable four-legged citizen, to pay nothing of the value of his pelt when he is snuffed out. . But it is not advisable to accost a skunk in a boisterous and ex uberant manner. He should be bandied gingerly. lie is extreme ly sensitive and it isn't even safe t stick out one's tongue at him. He is rather quick to lesent an insult and it makes him peevish to disturb his slumber by swatting LIni over the nose with a poker. Neither should he be mistaken fcr the family cat. To be sud denly picked up and coddled is foreign to his likinp. He likes to move about in his own way and on his own time, and a per son who attempts to Fn n of them up on the screen porch with a saucer of milk does so at his own risk. A skunk farm may be a fine thing, but we hope no one starts me on ' the next forty to ours. TWENTY-NINE SALEMS. DANGER TO OUR ROYAL ANN CHERRIES The interview with Hon. TV, II. Paulhamus, president of the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers Canning Co., published in The Statesman of this morning ought to command the imme diate and persistent attention of all of our people, whether they raise Roval Ann cherries or are merely interested in the prosperity of Salam and the Salem district and of the whole country. . , Italian cherries are being shipped into the United btates in barrels and sold for marasehino manufacture at prices so low as to make it impossible for our growers oljoyai Ann rurripa to eoTonpte. Under the present Democratic Underwood free trade tariff law .fruits "not advanced" are admitted free of. duty. n nf tariff law administration "not advanced" means not advanced all in the process of manu These Italian cherries, even under the present. Democratic free trade law, ought to pay a duty of 1 eent a pound, l.ney - would hav naid a dutv of 2 cents a pound under the Payne- Aldrich tariff law that was in force up to the time the Under wood law took effect, Oct. 3, 19K- ' That is. thev would now pay 1 cent a pound and would - have paid 2 cents a pound duty under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law 1 "With a favorable administration "With an honest administration ? With rlt view to the protection of our own growers instead Af view n favorintf the foreien growers and shippers y- For there was a clause in the Payne-Aldrich law and there Is the same paragraph in the present law covering "Fruits, edible, when dried, dessicated, evaporaieu or ruarAAau ANY MANNER, not specifically provided for." f ' These barreled white Italian cherries are prepared in some manner not specifically provided Tor , Or thev would not keep; they would spoil in the process pf shipment and storage before they were advanced into the maraschino ; form of manuiactunng. " . There is a tig difference in the administration of any i tariff law, as to whether it is administered m a manner friendly the interests of American capital and labor, or in the interest of foreitrn capital and labor. . ' I- There is a difference of millions in one schedule or one item millions in revenue derived i And still more difference in protection to American labor and capital - ') A few years ago, a promulgation of the United States Treasury Department as td when a skin became a hide when $ calf became a cow cost the United States $7,000,000 a year in revenue, Tor . several years . And, by the same sign, cost American farmers that much o: protection against foreign competition And did no one any good; excepting only the shoe manu facturing trust of New England. At another time, when attempts were being made to build up a diamond cutting industry in the United States, and when . raw; diamonds were admitted free (under the McKinley law) a single black mark on diamonds subjected them to a tariff duty, under an honest administration of the law And it transferred to the United States a great group o the highest paid workmen in the diamond industry. The black mark was the mark of cleavage, and men in Europe whojnade the -mark were receiving what was consid ered there at that time fabulous wages. . - Another instance: All the wool on the sheep skins was coming to the ports of this coast free the skins coining in as shearlings? also under the McKinley law. An honest ruling made the wool on the. camouflaged "shearlings" pay the 1 eeuts a pound duty, and gave the United States Treasury large , turns of money , ; And protected our American wool growers against ruinous foreign competition. I Since Rockefeller lias given another sixty-three million to charity, no doubt we may look for gasoline to go up another point or two. ought now to ' Mr. Paulhamus is right , Italian cherries, "prepared in any manner, be paying 1 cent a pound duty. ' And the duty ought to be raised to 2 cents a pound, as U was under, the Payne-Aldrich tariff law I And higherthan that, if that is not enough to give ful protection to our Royal Ann cherry growers Theright kind of a "response on the part of our people TTill bring this about ? . And, thanks to the voters of the United States, there wil be a Republican administration after Match 4th, clear down to the last' examiner in the offices of the Appraisers of the United States , And thece will be sympathetic administration of the righ iind of a tariff law passed by Congress And tlte sympathy will be for our own people, and not for the profiteering importers or the laborers of foreign coun tries who are receiving wages so low that our laborers would be pauperized if they were obliged to compete with them It was high time this country had a Republican admins tration. Almost half-past high time. The sum of $682,808 sliced off the state budget by the board of control doesn't mean, however, that the economy surgeons of the nest legislature have nothing left to operate on. Duty on wheat is sound practice, as upon other vast, products of American labor and production. That is, if ; we expect to keep up decent standards of existence for producers and laborers in Ameri ca. which can never be done If they are brought into direct and unrestricted competition with the oppressively cheap conditions of production j and labor In some other countries. only another month or six weeks and congressmen must go back to work after a brief six months rest. It may sound like a long vacation, tut the nubile needed It badly and has. enjoyed it immensely. An association has been formed In New York to make a nation wide drive to stop "commercial! zation of the Sabbath,1 Including baseball, movies and automobiles, No hint Is given in the plans as to the probable fate of the con tribution plate. SOMETHING TO CHEW ON. Washington gossip hints that the new owner of Catalina is be ing groomed for an ambassadcrlal position under the new adminls tration. It takes gum to keep the Jaws going. Bro. Wrigley stands highly with the new regime and can have what he chews. We will say. that he would make a fine director of the mint. Los Ange les Times. SAVE YOUR SKUNKS. The department of agriculture doesn't exactly urge the adoption of the skunk as a family pet, but it does assert that the fragrant polecat is the best wild animal friend the farmer has. Furthermore, the department favors the breeding and raising of skunks as a necessary measure to stabilizing the fur market. There are two or three skunk farms in the country that have been highly profitable, and the furs are un deniably more valuable and at tractive than the name implies. A maid arrayed In skunk skins may be quite fascinating. Like wise her cloak may have set grandpa back several hundred The plumage of a well-seasoned skunk is not fit decoration for a naro-umes party. It is fit for our oil-tank millionaires. The departmenturges judicious conservation of the nation's skunks for the further reason that the animal lives largely on field mice, gophers, white grubs and other pests of the farm and field. If the farmer will keep his poultry behind a skunk-proof fence the animal i3 capable of do ing vastly more good than harm and can be made of real value to the ranch. Respect the skunk's own lair and approach him with '.actand he may be made Into a Some of the careless telegraph ic editors or. the country nave been bringing Salem. Oregon, into menvlable notoriety. In Salem. Ohio, an epidemic of typhoid fever has been raging. An Associated Press dispatch in The Statesman of Wednesday said he total number of cases there had reached 829; but that only seven new cases had developed the day before, and the epidemic was on the decline. Some of the telegraph editors nave been giving the news con cerning this epidemic the Salem. Oregon, date line. Salem, Oregon, has had no cases of typhoid for a number of years, excepting a few that were brought in from the outside. ' In looking up the Salems of the United States, in tracking iown the libel on Salem, Oregon, that was going the rounds. of the newspapers having careless tele graph editors or "wielders of the grape-vine scissors, it Is. found that Salem is a popular name for a city. There are 29 Salems In the United States. Each of the following states has a Salem: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho; Illinois. Indiana, Iowa. Kentucky. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts, Michigan, Missou ri. Nebraska, New Jersey, . New York, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklaho ma, Oregon. South Carolina. South Dakota. Texas, Utah, Virginia. West Virginia. Wisconsin and Wyoming.. Then there Is a Salem Station in North Carolina (Winston-Salem.) Then there are Salem jChapel, Salem Church and Salemburg. North Carolina, and Salem Depot, N. , H' Salem Center, X. V., and Salemville. Pa. Salem, Oregon, is the second largest Salem in the United States, with 18.000 or over peo ple; Salem. Mass., being the larg est, with 42.000. The third larg est Is Salem. Ohio, with 11.000. There are twelve Salems in the United States that have one or more newspapers. They are the Salems In the following states: Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa. Mas sachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska. New Jersey. New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia. llay-rauncefote treaty waa a scrap cf paper. Mr. Ilearft found it easier to support Mr. Hardiag on account of the toll plank in the platform and he will now ex icrt Mr. Ilardinu's administra tion to "deliver the goods.' The disruptive character of the proposed preferential tolls legis lation is apparent In Mr. llurton's announcement. Tarty line coulj not be maintained on either the Republican or the ' Democratic hide, judging by President .Wil son's experience in 1914. Itotb Champ Clark and Mr. Underwood fought the Democratic president on the issue. President Harding would doubtless be able to force the legislation he desired through both houses,. In view of the over whelming party majorities he will have to lean upon, but there will be a powerful public opinion ranged against him and It will find expon?nts in both parties In congress. The influence this Issue will have on the. selection of the Re publican secretary of state is al ready attracting attention. It may necessitate the elimination of Mr. Root.. That the framers of the Republican national platform did ibt decide to avoid raising the canal tells issue and let a sleep ing dog lie now seems most un fortunate. . two ex-United States senator from Ohio living Theodor 5 Hurton of Cleveland, elected op November 2. to th bout iron that city, and Charles F. Dick Akron, who Is out of pontic. One of the first jobs before th new congress will be a consldfr ation of the tax situation, not on ly with a view to lifting nome o the burden from the people, bu making a law that the ordinary man. ran understand without ex pert advice. Secietary Houston is of the opinion that the nation will face a continuation of th annaal tax bill of four billion dol lars for at least three year. Th situation Is not encouraging. ' Three rons of former president haves been elected to state legis latures Rusill II. Harrison. aor of Ilenjatnln Harrison, a repre sentative to the Indiana legisla ture from Marlon county; Itober Taft. son of William H. Tart. If the Ohio legislature from Hamil ton county; and Theodore Roo velt. Jr.. to the assembly of tn New York legislature from Nas sau county for a second term Young Taft is spoken of as tb probable speaker of the Obit house. the Ill-rated train of Wednesday night. J. W. McKlnney brought bom 2-year-old 49 (o from th Tbleen herd C Pocatello. Ida. Mayro McKinuejr brought home a 14 09 2-year-old bull from tb Edwardn Krothers herd. Fosll Ore., and a 11 So yearling heifer from the ratne herd. J. W. McKlnney said the Pa cific International shoved th bost agrregation of livestock vr assembled west of Chicago. lUMUKIl ELECTROCUTED SACRAMENTO. Cal Nov. 25. Charles Haafe. a rancher living near Folftom. was electrocuted to- 'day when his hand came In con tact with a barbed wire fence earryln a 1I.0V0 volt current f electricity. Investigation revealed that a high tension line had fallen across the Ince two mliM from the accident. McKlnney Brothers Bay Purebred at Big Show J. W. McKlnney and Mayro Mc Klnney of Turner arrived home from the Pacific International Livestock exposition at Portland with their two carloads of pure bred Herefords. on the night trait on Tuesday night Just ahead o Read the Classified Ads. USESULPHURTO HEALYOURSKBI flro&ew Oat KkJa a4 1uklu Ecarwus Helped Over Nigty For act'ghtly skin rattott rah or blotches on face, sk arms or body, yon do not have, u wait tor reLef from tor-tare r barraMtnent. declare) a noted sii tpecULst. Apply a little Meatl. Sulphur and Improvement shevi next day. Uecaue of Its gerta dectrcriai properties, nothing has ever t found to take the place of tt;4 sulphur preparation. The noat yon apply It healing beglna. Ot?j those who have had aas!(k:?T k'.a troubles can kaow the . light this Mentho-Snlpbar brtefx Even fiery. Itching eczema la ArU-t right up. Get a small Jar from aay gsoi drngglst and n It Lie cot cream. LADD tc BUSH BANKERS - EsUbiiihed 18CS General Banking Bnrinm Office Honrs from 10 a. m. to 3 p. to. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST MIL BURTON THE FIRST SURGENT. IN- Salem's football teams played In hard luck yesterday. But they did fine work, nevertheless. ; Italian cherries ara crowding our Royal Anns. It was high tjme we elected a Republican president and congress, believing in protection to American indus try. ' Keep your eyes on the flax In dustry In the Salem district, and Je sure that Salem would become a great city if she had no other resource.- And she has many; more than any other city under the shining sun. Think how ' nnthank tl we would have all felt If Cox had been elected. Count your bless ings. ': Butf after all. John D. should be warmly commended for giving away sixty-three million dollars on Thanksgiving day. Wrhy, he FUTURE DATES. yovemW 11 U 25 B4 Cross roll esU. .Aovtmber 5. Thorsd'av Football. Wil ainrtu vs. Whitmna eoUfg. at Salrm. Kavnaber 25. Thar!? Football. 8 ta hifh school rn. Tba Dalles . bigs rhool, at Ths Dalles. Noembr 25. Thorsdsy Tbaaksci'taf lav. wmbrr 1. WVrfnudsT Enttrtsia sent by Great Shirley Concert company - armory, snder auspiras of American 'egion. December , Monday Special school ilectios . December 7, Tneiday lansal tlectioa f Cberrians. December . Wednesday Aaanal else on of Commercial rlab. December 10. 11 and 1 2. Westers Oregon Older Boys' confer en re. 8alm. Decmber 14. TadaT Annaal clos tion Salem Bastks Men's leans. December 15. WedsesitaT War fth- ar's baxaar is armory. Congressman-elect Theodore E. Burton of. Cleveland, Ohio, has announced that, while he has no inclination to take issue with the next administration on any party policy, he will oppose In the next :cngress legislation designed to carry Into effect the plank in the party's platform demanding pre ferential treatment for American vessels In the Panama canal. Ir. Burton was a senator from Ohio when the tolls repeal act was I-assed and he stood with Senator Elihu Root in favor of that meas ure. Like Mr. Root, he believes hat the Hay-Pauncefote treaty forbids discrimination in tolls, but he also sees in preferential treatment of American shipping in the canal a cause of Interna tional friction dangerous to the friendliest international relations. The mystery of the canal tolls plank in the Republican national platform has yet to be cleared up. It wa3 adopted by the convention before Mr. Harding's nomination l.ad seemed', possible. Any other nominee would have been obliged tj face it. The fact that Mr. Har ding believes in it sincerely Is a mere happening throwing no light on the plank's origin. A writer in the Springfield Re publican thinks the increased prominence and power of Hearst suggests a partial explanation of the preferential tolls policy which Mr. Harding now stands for. He stys the plank was Inserted In the Republican platform as bait for the Hearst press. No one In the country fcught the tolls repeal act six years ago more bitterly than did Hearst. In hi view, the Wilson administration and con gress surrendered American rights to England; in bis view, also, the Hope you enjoyed IL S And have not the dark brown taste in your mouth. Some will be thankful that it is over. is Sure, we will have a way to protect our Royal Ann cherries, under a Republican administra tion. If we will act promptly, and in concert. Ford cars will go anywhere excepting over a locomotive en gine, v S If we are to have a cold stor age plant In Salem In time to do any good in preventing losses next season, we will have to be stir ourselves. -U It you are going to buy them early, it is time to get busy. S There will have to be drives and going over the top, as long as there are any starving child ren In the world. S AODody has yet referred to President-elect Harding as the Marionette. -W With the advance In passenger rates the local clairvoyants are not so often finding that a boot is Doing on a long journey." Jack Dempsey's press agent says he Is ready to fight anybodr who cares to be accommodated Of course, this cannot Includ i the Germans, for Jack had a chance at them and flunked. ta -w Another thing, if the samt car was exercised in choosiag a life partner as Is considered essential In selecting a business associate the divorce problem would. In large measure, settle Itself. n Paneho Villa is buying large quantities of farming Implement' in EI Pasp. Of course, if there should be several failures of the crop Pancho can go back to th old guerrilla game. Hi know that trade If he is a bit rusty a a farmer. Dempsey and Carpentier are tn be paid faOO.OOO for their com ing fistic contest. Half a million dollars Invested at 6 per cent would mean an annual Income of $30,000. How many clinics for the study and relief of disease might be established out 'of such a perpetual fund! How many ba bies might be given proper too1 and care on $20,000 a year! anything wrong? m When Frank B. Willis of Ohif takes his place in the Unit;1 States senate he will be one of th youngest mn ever elected from that state to the position, for Wil lis will not be 50 years old untn next year. There are now but FREE TO Pile Sufferers Don't Ba Cnt Until Tas Try This Yew Horn Cats Tbst Anysna Can Uas With out Discomfort or Loss sf Time. Sim- ply Chew Up s Plsaaaat Tasting Tab let Occasionally and Kid TosrsoU st Flits. Let Me Prove This Free My internal method for tbo treatment and permanent relief of piles is the cvr roct one. Thousands spon thonaands of a-rateful letters testify to this, and I want yon to try this method at my espeaae. No matter whether ir i f Lnt ' ataadinc or recent development. Whether it is enronic or scale, whether it is oc casional or permanent, yen ahonld send for this free trial treatment. No matter where yon lie no matter what yonr as or ocrapafton if yon are troubled with piles, my method will re lieTe yos promptly. I especially want to send it to tboao apparently bopeleaa cae where a!l forms of ointments. saWea. and ether local ap plications have failed. 1 want yos to rea'iie that mr weihoJ of trralinc piles is the one most depend ' able treatmeat. This liberal offer of free treatment is too important for yoa to neglect a sin tie dsy. Write now. Send so money Free Pile Remedy K. R. Tsge. 1123C 1-aie Bldg . Varahall Vieh. rlenao send free trial of yoar Urth. m. "aaw. W mm haW I aW p THINK what Oregon industries mean to YOU how they affect your job or business. Isn't it true that every man, woman and child in the state has been directly or indirectly benefited by the in- dustrial growth of Oregon? Oregon is rapidly becoming one'of the greatest manufacturing states of the west. The coast-wide and national fame of her products grows daily. Every dollar spent for home products increases just that much the development of the state adds just that much to the pres tige of "Oregon Made." . - Your loyal support plus the enterprise of Oregon manufact urers equals PROSPERITY. It's as simnle as 2 24. , BUY OREGON PRODUCTS Associated Industries cf Oregon " maa m m-wMi H mm m mm mMsmmmsmmmmsmmHmmmammmMMS li 1 Rosfrek & Greembaum DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, MILLINERY, SHOES, REDUCED PRICES whnwir s7dafS! yr P,r,ices om"t quotations by manufacturers auJ wholesalers, without calling it a sale. We sell standard merchandise at the new low level. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy Inkrtxtd!1 1,081 made' beauliful shades Zephyr, knitting- worsted asi n llLVcf iCT The hr!,.th?1 KLves W-etton. Girl' silk lisle hose 50c to 7Ce fi fc.2E ?kr. i i V?dl !nl c hndr'n's black hose, 35c a pair up. Doy.' extra heavy hose, sizes to 11, 50c to 70c a pair. Model Hrassiers. New low prices. 63c up.- R & G Corsets, popular numbers. Reasonable prices. Silk Camisoles, very good, only a dollar. i Althena Underwear, for Ladies and Children, new low prices. Dr. Denton's Sleeping Garments for Children. Ladies and Girls' coats at Reduced Prices. Millinery, nice new stIish hats at half price. Feathers, flowers and trimming at very low prices. Silk Velvets, high srade, great variety colors. $1.50 a yard. Boys' Suits at greatly reduced prices. Washington Shoes, for men and boys. Guaranteed. The best of Rubber Boots and Shoes. Guaranteed. 240 and 246 South Commercial Street