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THK OREGON STATESMAN, SaLRM. OREGON. TUESDAY MORNING, pnCEMBKR 14. 1920 Wtyt (teegtfn Statesman i i . i , ; r . , . . ,J - Issued Daily Except Monday by : . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.VTAXY 21 J S. Commercial St., Salem. Oregon (Portland Office. 704 Spalding Building. Phone Main 1116) M KM UK It OF THE ASSOCIATED PIIESS 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 ;. Manager Stephen A. Stone ....... 1 ....... Managing Editor lUlph Olorer Cashier Frank Jaskoski . .-..!....' Manager Job Dept. a"l. There are precedents for that sort of nonaction by the w-n-ate. The Democrats in 1912-T3 played - the g&in against Presi dent Ta:t. prir guild Kepubll- DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier in Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. I DAILY STATESMAN, by mail. In advance. $6 a year, 3 for sbt months. $1.50 for three months, in Marlon and Polk counties; $7 a year, 13.50 for six months, $1.75 for th-ee 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, wl'".-be sent a year to any one paying a year in advance to the Dally Statesman. 8CNDAY STATESMAN, $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 40 cents for three months. 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. 'The burning of the old Salem. JIass., custom house, reiuemWr ?cl as once the vorkshoi of Nathan iel Hawthorne, destroy; a famous relic of erly America. Fortun ately few of tho city's rich treas ures of colonial :. rc hit tare wt-re v'ftii-" rf the f-eat fire of eitt cr ten yiirj n?u. As many as DO. 000 school chil dren a day are fed in Chicago for three and five cents a meal, the money thus received paying tlie entire cost of the lood. The "overhead" items are paid for by the city or contributed fre. Here is a light in the dark places rf the hizh cost of living. TELEPHONES: Business Office. 23. Circulation Department, 583. Job Department, 583. Society Editor 106. Entered at the Postofflce in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. PROTECTION MEANS FREE TRADE IN SOME THINGS United States Senator Curtis of Kansas is in favor of putting an emergency tariff law into force that will bring in a billion dollars a year in revenue - About three times the present revenue. The first thing to be considered is the matter of pro tection to domestic productive industry; to our capital and labor ' . And after that is accomplished there should be free trade in non competitive goods and materials . For protection contemplates free trade in that class of imports In order that the consumer in this country may have the benefit of the lowest possible prices. In the case of non competitive gobds there are no do mestic products to be protected and the interests of the con sumer ought in this respect to have first consideration. He will have to pay a high enough price in any event, for there is no domestic industry to compete with the foreign, and hence prices are determined abroad, not in this country, as is the case with competing products. However,' as there is great need of revenue, there can be no objection to a strictly revenue tariff on non competitive goods which would be substantially equal to the cost to the customs of passing them f For free goods have to be classified and examined just the same as dutiable goods. This is necessary to determine whether or not they are dutiable. It will not suffice to accept the statements on the in voice and entry, for, unfortunately, such documents have on ly too often been found to be misleading and fraudulent. Were all importers and foreign shippers honest, the administra tion of the customs service would be a simple matter. Also therearise constantly differences of opinion and in terpretation of the tariff laws and promulgations and classifi cations and valuations. - - v ? - - Therefore,! in view of the present emergency, it might not be inequitable to demand that non competitive goods pay their own way into the United States by means of a nominal revenue tariff, say not to exceed five per centum,; ad valorem. This would a little more than cover the cost of passing the goods through the custom houses and would no.t greatly add to the cost to the consumer . And at the same time it would add to the revenue. ' ' However, the main thing now is not the Yaising of a billion dollars a year revenue 1 " The main thing is ample protection to American produc ers, to American labor, against ruinous foreign competition - And . if the accomplishment of that object will at the same time produce a billion dollars a year in revenues at the custom houses, all well and good. Y t v If it will not do so the first year,,this will surely be one of its beneficial effects before long , 1 ' And this ought to be done quickly And The Statesman thinks it should be done not only early but often ?- With the frequent amendment of a schedule or an item . at a time, as needed for both protection, and revenue but more especially the former. i And in this way the tariff, ought to be taken, out of politics . ' , Absolutely, i h It is a business question, and it ought tobe divorced entirely irom both politics, and sectionalism. i balem is fully able to back the buildincr oT a cold storacre plant and warehouse: and it need never cost the taxpayers a rea cent, ; it can be made to pay interest on the bonds to build it, and to provide a sinking fund for retiring the bonds, And this ought to be done, and done quickly. The London Athenaeum, which concedes that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are in their k?nd certain of Immortality," neverthe less finds that Mark Twain was a very crude and very likable dctermlnist of the kind on? hears on Sunday afternoons in Hyde park. Just how severe this may be is a little uncertain. Bernard Shaw was once a soap-boxer. Too many books are being pub lished, Lowell Brentano, the New- York publisher, told the authors' league of America a few daa ago; it is Impossible to advertise them all adequately. To support the literary market authors must reduce their bptput. No doubt many writers would be glad to write less if a way could be found to remunerate them for the books they leave unwritten. GREECE AND THE ALLIES. From Flume comes the cheer ing news that "the state of war will not proceed." It has gone as - far as It well conld without being translated from poetry into t rn prose. Two Pittsburgh men who re ported to the police that they had .teen robbed by holdup men at a card party have been arrested fur gambling. The holdup ucn haven't reported yet. !' T One of our most important basic industries is and will always be dairying. Read the reasons on Thursday, and help the Satn slogan qditor if you can- todayrjor tomorrow. , J Historians with a taste for the bizarre will tind a congenial theme in tracing the consequen ces of the death of the king of Greece from the bite of a pet monkey. The absurd legend was invented that he had been assas sinated, the monkey having, been infected by the conspirators with a deadly disease, but the Venl zelists obviously did not desire his death, and to suspect the roy alists of murdering the king would be going rather far even for , the scandal-mongers; there seems to be no doubt that the official account of the affair was true. His death had sensational po litical consequencesfor the reas on that it. reopened the question of the return of King Constantine who through the pressure of the allies had been deposed "when Greece entered the war. To what extent Constantine was pro-Ger man has been the subject of much controversy, but his queen was the German emperor's sister, and i there was a strong pro-German element at court and in the Greek army, many of the officers being of Germain training and convinced that the Germany army was in vincible. , . i For Greece as for Italy par ticipation in the war on the Ger man side would have been ruin ous because of the control of the Mediterranean by the entente fleets, and King Constantine's policy at first did not go beyond neutrality. Th entry of Bulgaria into the war made neutrality ex tremely difficult to maintain, and Greece was under pressure from both sides, whUe the Venizelists. who had ambitious plans for a greater Greece, were ready even for revolution in order to get the nation into the war on the side of the allies. After the failure at uampon me allies landed an army on Greek territory at Sa Ionica for a campaign " against Bulgaria, and Constantine's gov ernment, unable to prevent this infraction of neutrality, balanced U by allowing the Bulgarians to seize the frontier forts and to oc cupy the territory of strategic Im portance. To make' King Constantine's poriilon untenable, the Ules bloi'hadid Greece and .aslted the Venizelists in lomentins revolu tion. The kin was obliged t3 leave the country, and the allies (hose a harmles3 youth as his Mioofsor. tho real power being in the hands of the very able prime m'nifter VenizeJos. The" country, however, did not go over whole heartedly to the side of the Venizelists. Kini? Constan tine's supporters remained loyal, and as time went on they drew to the.'r side those who rebelled against the premier's autocratic rule and were disillusioned in re gard to the war. Ine result was seeh in the recent election in whkh Venizelos was cverwhelm Ingly defeated and in which the return of Constantine was clearly foreshadowed. The decision for a popular vote on his return puts the allies In r.r. embarrassing position. In their note to the Greek govern ment the British. French and Italian premiers avoid threaten ing to employ force to prevent bis restoration, but they indicate that they would consider it a ratifica tion of hostile acts and "reserve to themselves complet? liberty in dealing with the situation thus created. In the British house of commons Bonar JLaw explains that the allies ''have no intention of resorting to a hostile action In the sense of force.' yet the lan guage of the note is distinctly menacing.. Although the allies declare that "they hare to wish o interfere." in the internal af fairs of Greece." they are in fact so interfering, and their action would be difficult to Justify under international law- if the powers I had not clung, rather too ten aciously, to the guardianship as mined when Greece was emanci pated from Turkish rule. Greece is now a real nation; fully capable of self-government, and fairly entitled to complete In dependence. The allies are giv ing too little heed to what the people of small countries want, tnd are returning to the vicious dynastic principles over which bo many wars have been waged. Simply as a matter of making Greece pro-entente rather tben pro-German this harsh rejection of the nation's choice is of dout t- ful wisdom; it is likely to alien ate rather than win the sympathy of the Greek people. However foolish the Greeks may be and they appear very foolish from the American viewpoint there is a great deal of precedent in favor of allowing them to run their own government; in favor of their self-determination, so long as they do not endanger the peace ot the world. i stamped. The order there Is to ; Then there "Sei into line", and It will persist I Ctliforn till t'hri.tnas unit turht4 lllliTr..., ria.? - - . . - - - . r . - - ..,. . - - . " i the New Year. Speaker 1'Latnp ( laik of Missouri, t .-! S i.U for O. Wrst; I all down and iut. hut ?;. IjI did it -nd quit all the raun They buyer- are out atier rasp-, i- .,r. Senator Ilatuiaz. ! U" rehJ fwr dolnr Ctamber- t t . i . e. u I. . t. i t a. ' iere la Senator pheUn of to L presented r.n an office k-(rout coantle to re-elect CLxm ia. Nugent of Idaho anlifi's iUtier. ir Presidentelect trU:n. lie vukU la b c atj ryart of Indiana: alo Harding to ton-idr! !-doinc o that the M-mtor ns'.v. h bm abl to give bin another jU eyj Th.re i BMkifig i.e. t,ir - .irr.nts. cherries, loganberries. etc.. etc.. of the next crop in the Salem district that w- can sell for cash the things produced on the laud here. It brings new mon ey every year, and every month in the year. It In a Gibraltar prosperity that nothing can shake. The Christmas spirit U taking, and the only pity is that it does not last the whole 363 days. in :!!. us paynnt of csHinet and hish routt official ot tat on 'railroad li th pue. voan for or STRAY THOrcilTS. Partlard. Or.. I-c. U. 1js - RECOM3IKXIKI TO SCHOOL CHILDREN ' This Is the season when cMl dren are subject to croup, colds and coughs. Reca C. Marchard, 36 Lawrence St.. Salem. Mass.. writes: "I used Foley's Honey and Tar with good results. I had a very bad cold and it gave me re lief at once, so I recommend it to every child that goes to school." This standatd, low priced medi cine loosens and clears mucus and phlegm, checks strangling cough ing, makes easy breathing, soothes and heals raw, inflamed mem branes, and stops tickling in throat. Sold everywhere. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE Other' IkrrYlng Democrats. Editor Statesman: I see that - the Oregonian's Wash! ngton correspondent Is deeply interested with some U. S. senators in finding some govern ment podtion for Senator Cham berlain; a cabinet or some equal ly important position suggested. Senator Chamberlain's cordial handshakes and Democratic votei strongly commend him to the reg istered Republicans who vote the Democratic ticket. While it is true that the senator was an ardent supporter of Gov ernor Cox, yet since the election be has discovered that he Is an intimate friend and admirer of President-elect Harding. Somer saults are his acme ot perfection, and he can make them to meet responsive greetings to suit the caste of tho crowds he meets. Mi4 SLIPPERS and HOSIERY LOT 1. Women Felt SIiHrs; fcift atso leather sole ... LOT Women Frit Sllrper. LjatlW s-!et. I'lf-IIoli'L-iy ri-. LOT .1 Women' lest Rrad Felt Slipper leather ("onifv sls $1.65 $1.95 $2.45 Silk IIo, In Hrown, Illaek ami Wl.ite $1.45 pr f air. $3.85 fancy lox i)t Thref I'airs" Children H.M'; s!-v MUsoh an.l Itnys. ut very attractive pr"" fr Xmas trade BUSTER . BROWN SHOE STORE 125 N. COMMERCIAL ST. A delegate from India tild the assembly at Geneva that tne prob lem of typhus in the East is some what graver than the Armenian problem. Thus far It has out- stripped all efforts to combat it. end a vigorous program will be seeded.' ' Salem will prove recreant to her duty as a market center she does not provide public cold flora ge and warehouse facilities here. "She cannot afford to be! thus recreant. Both profit and r.onor ue in the course of good service to our producers. - , - . ' The Salem slogan pages of The Statesman of Thursday will be devoted to our great cows. We lave the greatest Jerseys In the world, and we can produce the treatest cows of all other breeds. Irrsh matters .are growing worse and worse, and will probably get still much worse before they .get better. There is plenty of fault and cause for blame, on both sides; and it would be better for America if she remained out of the trouble. And better for the trouble, too. .. i The eighth American aircraft nanufacturing firm to fail since the armistice has just gone into the hands of a receiver, and the United States continues to la; behind the other great cations in the field which it opened to the world. - r j - firn.tr' Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., In urging that the senate reject all nominations sent tc It by President Wilson seems to overlook the two important facts :that" the senate is supposed to consider nominal ina on their merits and that the president's term does not expire until March 4. But the Bourne variety of par tisanship is not unlikely to pre- Fair and frosty. Can we be thankful enough? S Thankful that we lire In Salem and in the Willamette valley, and in the United States? "" In country where there are no reprisals; for reprisals are. awful things they visit punishment on the innocent and the guilty alike. S V Salem believes in Santa Claus as much as ever, and the holiday trade is taking on rush conditions. There is a lengthening queue at the Salem post off ice window where packages are weighed and INTRODUCING DOLLAR BILL FCTCRK Tf.vres. Dfffinlr, 15. Wrdn'xUr Ac nasi rlrrtien Sth Buitiet Mrn'i lmgur. December IS. Wdne ly War Vth r's baxaar ia armory. TWtrraiber 25. SataHar. Ctirlatvaa. Iecerabfr 27. alooday Saka ciub jf O. A. C. to (iv dance at Iraamlaad rink. . Janaary 10, MondayState let-Utatar niffi v. Janaarr 14. Friday Rakrtba!1. Wil laiwetfe t. O. A. I at S,lrm. Jaauarr CO and SI. Thordy a n't VH dajr Hatketbail, Willamrttc ts. t". of O. at Salrnj. February 12. Satarar LlncnTn'ai Mondar Baskvtball. I niTeri:y at Idaha, at birthday. tVbraary 14, Wlllante- a Jrbrnary lj and 16. Tur.djy and Wednnday Bankftbill. V. illamrtt r Whitman, at Walla Walla. .K?hramrj 1T- ThardaT Ba.kethaN. WiHamte . Walla Walla Y. II. C. A at Walla Walla. February is and 19. Fridar and Sat urday Ba.krtU.lU Willamette T. Goo xajca. at Sponane. Febroary 22. Taeadar BakketbalT. ni'lamette Idaho, at Salem. February 22, Taeda) Washington a BHIUIUT, February 24 aa 2. Tbarsday and Fri-1 day baakatball, Wiilanett . Wh.laiaa ! at Kalera. j Marrh 4 and 5. Fridar ard Satnrdar Rasketlta!-, WUlametle . f. f O,' at a-ugroe. Apnl 15. Fridir Baseball, Willamette ra. I . of at Salem. April 16. Satintar BaaebalL Willam ette a; f. of O.. at Eoeene. May 2. 27 and 2 Baseball. W.llam ette . Whitman, at Walla Wall Oetober 1. Satorday (tentstire) Football. illauietie ra. o 4 C at Corralli. Xorember 11. Friday (tentatire) vi-Tlla' Walla ,l!,m",e Ti" Wb-1"!. Noreaiber 24. Tbnrtd.y (tentatirr) Ihankinnr day football, Wiliamtlta va. Jialtnoioah, at Salem. The Optical Specialist . and Why You Go to Him The optical specialist Is the best friend your eyes will ever have. He can help yon keep your vision constantly at maximum efficiency, pro vided you give him an op portunity to examine them in time to prevent little fautB from developing Into real trouble. ilorris & Keene Optical Co. offer you their services as optical specialists. You can not secure more expert at tention for your eyes any where on the coast. You can not secure more 'exacting care in filling prescriptions for eyeglasses. All our glass es are ground in oir own lens-grinding department. Whatever your eyes, or the eyes of any member of your family, need, come to us. Our services are alway available. - MORNS & KEENE OPTICAL CO. 202-211 Bank of Com merce Building is. 1 For the last five years, "Dollar Bill" has been a puny looking mite. Sometimes we got so disgusted with him that we. told him he wasn't much force any more. But he's coming back strong. The way he's step ped into the store here and got to work is a wonder. So look for our ad in tomorrow's paper and see what a fellow he's grown to be. You'll be surprised and tickled, too when you see for yourself that he's a robust, husky lad at spues