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FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 31.1920 TIIE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON. Us'ied Daily Except Monday by T1IR ST ATfiSMAX PUBLISHING COMPANY 216 S. Commercial St., Salem; Oregon (Portland Office, 704 Spal4lHjBBuildiug Phone Main 1118) 4 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AiBociated Preaa la exclusively entitled to the uae for repub lication of all newa dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited ta thla paper and also the Vocal news published herein. r ' R. J. Hendricks , . . . 4 V'M"?er Rtephen A. Stone , . .. . .Managing Editor Ralph Clover . . . . i -Cashier Prank Jaskoskl. ..... ... . . .Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 16 nta a woofer. & conta a month. DAILY 8TATESMAN, by mall. In advance, 6 year, $3 for aU months. $1.50 for three months. In Marlon and Polk counties; $7 a year. 13.50 for alx months. $1.76 for three months, out side of these conntles. When not paid in advance, 60 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 Dally Btateaman. . . w .ft SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.60 a year; 76 centa for alx months, 40 eents for three months. ' .... WEEKLY STATESMAN. Issued In two alx-pase ecUo. Tuesdays and Fridays. $1 a year (if not paid In advance, $1.25); 60 cents for six months; 26 cents, for three months. ceipt for a bond from ANY bond housp without taking recurlty for the delivery of the bond. In the cas ,of at least two of the banks mentioned among the-. Marlon county list, the purchase was for customers, and security was. tak en; and this probably applies to all of them. In the case of a big bank at Oaklandj Cal., It is now rt vealed that all the bonds bought for customers have ben delivered but the Interim certificates bad not been returned ! When all the facts are known, it will no doubt be found that ro'en who have trusted their banks and reliable brokers in buying bonds have lost nothing. The losersif there are cny losers in the end, will no doubt be the ones '; who acted in dependently and did not take all the precautions generally1 made by experienced brokers. bankers and TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 683. Job Department, 683. Society Editor 106. THE FIRST AND SECOND MOX- DAYS IX DECEMBER. Entered at the Postotflce In Salem. Oregon, aa second clasa matter. ! Congressman a X. McArthur cf the Second Oregon district, is the author of two' proposed am endments to the constitution, re cently introduced in the house of representatives. Both aim to re duce the time which now elapses between the election of the pres ident, senators and ' representa- their oaths upon the ais- and, the on the con-wait rrvrnmic ifin TRITE WORDS FROM A COMPETITOR Uliiiuxuwu m.tJ D,iVi;cv1;ny rnmmnv. Salem. Oregon Gaui tlemen I have just read your editorial relating to the im- tires in congress and the date nortflnce to the lozanberry grower oi ine wmaraeuc w ipon wmcu mc, i JX.tinn nf the Phez riant, and I desire to commend of office and enter u, 1 fnrcpful stlDDOrt Of the loganbe&y industry. charge of their duties. ' X-aL- rv nf renditions it will require the united As the constitution BMJDort of all canning plants and juice plants to take care laws now ProTide. the president nf the 1921 croD of loganberries. The industry will not only assumes control of the executive tippd 100 Der cent support irom tne rnez company uui, ufuiu u' L"c every other company that has. been handling loganberries. March 4. four months after in o7der tfmarket successfully the crop of 1921. r people have elected him chiei If this vision of the marketing conditions is correct, you ecutive, and senators and lw in unrinir urjon the loganberry grower gressmen are compelled to that growing the crop is only half of his business; that it is until the first Monday in Decem eaS Important to find a market after the crop is grown ber of the following year a de !SUt"yJi H . lay of .13 months, before they are . ! T iHrmpnt that the loganberry growers of the able to participate in national Willamette valley can do nothing better than to call a meet- legislation, unless the president ing of all the groVers with a view of rendering every possible m the meantime sees fit to call a 9Utanee to the f nez uompany, proviaeu, uj. tuwoc, w - . - S-Cf Vtrulv. ' "Xo other Civilised country; uw"c .T W.H .PAULHAIHUS, President, declares Mr. McArthur. "tolerates tx.ii., WQh Tlpmhpr 291 1920. the grotesque, conditions which ujruFt - Uurroiind the election and inaueu- No one connected with the Phez Company knew any- ration of the president of the thinSbSl 3St bf the above letter terday. United states and ti Action and Hw!h. Paulhamus, the author, is the outetanding qualification of represenUtives figure of the fruit industry in Washington. He is president d senators ! of the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers Canning Co., doing As objections to our present t business running into the mUlions annually; and this con sy.tem, he charges that often leg c is thpriicipal competitor of the Phez Company in the kiatj and xecutive au hority lberry market and the small fruit market generally. aw Emitted to remain m the loganberry piulhamus knowSf better than any one else, per- of jpoiiticai part.es and i. ! . hartheessityclth lJ. Deny surplus ui me xutuxc. - Down in Texas, a few days ago, Col. Green, son of Hetty ! Green, shipped in a couple of hundred thousand dollars and i stood in the front room of the competing bank of his town and paid out the money to his competing bank's depositors as I long" as they came for it; for there was a run on the com ! peting bank. 4 That is the new spirit i The spirit of live and help live ! That does not merely say live and let live ! ; The spirit of Mr. Paulhamua and Mr. Green, that is do ing more than any other one thing to stabilize things in this country, and that will do more than any other one thing to make the years of the future in the United States the most ! prosperous this country and this world have ever seen, and the most happy. set an example of luxurious ex travagance, which la most repre hensible, especially as our own aristocracy is ruined. The Amer icans 'are capturing our movie and flooding the music halls with American slang. American shop keepers are buying up shops to such an extent that soon there won't be an (individual shop In Oxford street or Regent street. American newspapers are dump ins their surplus Issues in London at prices below their cosff pro duction. If this goes on England will soon become an annex of the United States. Ve have read in an American novel that after a concert or ball given by a millionaire at Xew- pcrt the host and first violin rat down to supper tosether and Ulked. over old times at school. without the slightest sense oi in congruity or allusion to their dif ferent places in life. That could not hannen in this country, at least not yet. Englishmen are too sensible tos pretend to ignore distinctions which, though not dispensations of Providence, are facts. London Saturday Review. But It will be possible for such things as the Xewport incident to happen in England when England becomes civilized. She needs Am ericanization' more than any other one thing, - l' I VALUE IN THE GOOD EXAMPLE In these days of deficiency appropriations and the high cost of government generally When it keeps the average taxpayer busy figuring in his share of the burden It is refreshing to note in the biennial report of the Mil itary Department of the state that it will cross the .tape at the end of the biennium with a surplus instead of a deficiency. There is food for thought in what-Colonel White has ac complished in the past six months with the finances of his department,- since his report shows that a greatly increased programme has been placed upon him . V Creating a large bureau to establish official war records of the 35,000 men who served from Oregon; reorganizing the citizen soldiery of the state and sending the whole force for periods of field training to Camp Lewis. And no doubt the high cost of everything hit his de partment! just as it has hit everyone else. The (outstanding feature, however, is that he got through even though his department faced a crisis earlier in the year, for, as we recall it, the State Military Staff stood out for a $10,000 deficiency appropriation last spring. Since he has put through an increased programme and is turning back $5000 from Naval Militia funds it would be in teresting to know how -it was done ' ' Interesting, and also profitable, if his recipe could be learned and put into practice by officialdom everywhere. ; Possibly the $15,000 difference between a $10,000 de ficit and the $5000 surplus he has returned will not greatly reduce taxes, although it will help. The chief value to the taxpayer is the example he has set in sound administration of an important state department. All ready. for 1921, and let's make it a busy year.' Xo doubt . President Wilson is yet of the opinion that Colonel tryan ought to be knocked into a cocked hat. It Is proposed to amend the constitution so as to remove the age limit on the presidency. Un der the preeent law of the land a candidate for the high office must be 35 years of age. That bars out the ladies. There Is a greater demand on the local building and loan asso ciation for money for new build ings than In any past j ear at this season. The association could put out or reliable security now two or thee times its present re ceipts; around though they are running $50,000 a year. Salem is going to grow more in 1921 than It did in 1920; and that will be going some. This Is official. The indiscriminate giving out it Portland of the names of hold ers of interim receipts for bonds of the wrecked bond house of Morris Bros, is calculated to do some harm. Take the case of T. K. Ford of Salem, who is credited with about twice the number of interim receipts which he has for his customers here; and Is not credited In the first report with holding security for all of them, which he does. In all his long years of business ner?T Mf.'FoTa has never accepted an Interim re- The period of depression and un certainty between the ' electins and the time when the victorious party assumes control of national affairs should be prevented. As an instance of the harm which may come to the country as a re sult of those . long delays, Mr, - a McArthur cites , the vacillating policy of President Buchanan fol lowing Lincoln's first election Had Llncohr been able to take his seat In December following his election," he asserts, "the civil war migbt have been averted." The first of Congressman Mo Arthur's amendments fixes the first Tuesday after the first .Mon day in Xovember as election day. and provides; that the terms of service of senators and represen tatives shall begin on the first Hon day in December of the. same year, instead of March 4th of the following, year. It automatically abolishes the short session of con gress, and makes impossible any legislation by so-called "lame ducks" oj political parties repu diated at the polls. The second amendment pro vides that presidential terms shall begin on the second Monday in December, or about ' five weeks following the election and one week following the meeting of congress. 1 That week is needed, in the opinion 'of the author of the amendment, to canvass the vote for president and vice pres ident, and to elect those officials in case there is no majority in the electoral college. The amend ment, further orovides that the electoral vote shall be canvassed by the speaker of the house in stead of by the president of the senate, and, in case no candidate gets a majority, that the house shall elect by individual mem bership vote instead of by states as at present. '"I am prompted to introduce these amendments." stated Con gressman" McArthur, "only be cause of my wish to bring about progressive and economical ad ministration and legislation. I am not at all sanguine that they will be considered at the present session, but I am Introducing tiem for the purpose of focusing public attention on what I con sider very important questions, and trust that the resulting dis cussions will produce results later on." ; . i - . ..." a little sermox by ye pastoh. Take It from ye pa3tor. Young feller: The human soul crave trust more than any other thing. Just as soon as you put confidence in a man and convince him that you believe In him without a par ticle of distrust at that very moment he enters Into his great est period of efficient accom plishment. The best way to get the most out of any friend or worker Is to trust birr, uust a soon as an employer begins to I trust an employe just as soon as 1 an employe begins to trust his employer at that moment a strong organization begins. It Is the same in the xourse of the everyday. . The people that we trust are the people who trust us. Mutual trust is mutual hap piness. No one can be unhappy or useless who trusts. It is natu ral tn trnit Tt ta tinnatnml aot I to trust. Human life begins by I i trusting. The child at first trusts I everyone. Every happy relation ship starts with co-operative trust. Ihe only" thing that can mar or pry -trust from its hinges is sus picion. In the work of this day every day whenever you are tempted to distrust, to criticise, to envy bring this little word into use trust. i Arkansaw Thomas Cat,. .-Etl THE CITY COW. Down In New York state the ancient city of Jamestown has established a municipal milk plant after voting bonds dftf 150, 000 for that purpose. Before the taxpayers are through they may ind that they are being milked to supply lhe; plant. Who gets the cream? CLEANING UP. Voters of Kansas are going to cast their ballots In the churches, schools and libraries instead of the livery stables, pool rooms and garages. That Is what giving the vote to women baa done toward brightening up election day in the Sunflower state. . GROWING TIRED. France still has a standing army of 880.000 men and they are afraid that the Germans will not I give them much chance to sit down. AXXEXIXG GREAT BRITAIN The Americanization of this country is becoming a serious matter.; Rich American women niarry our Impoverished peers and FUTURE HATES. January 1, 1 and 3 Ietarra in Sxlro and at atat inatitations by Pr. Joha Steel. - January 4. Tuesday Coronation of I Kinr Bine, armory. January IX, VdnrN- Open Fornm meetinr of Commercial club. January 14. Friday Basketball. Wil lamette a. O. A. C. at Salem. January 19 and SO, Wednesday and Thursday Annual institute T. W. C. A. January 20 and 21. Thursday and Fri day Basketball, WiUametto vs. U. of O. at Salem. January 2". Friday Trianrutar inter- seholastie debate. SaJem, Staytoa and Oregon City hijh schools com pet inc. January 2 i GO Interstate, conven tion of t. M. C. A. in Salem. I February 3. Thursday - Duroc day, show and sale, state fair rround. February 12. Saturday Lincoln's birthday. February 14. Monday Basketball Willamette ts University of Idaho, at Moscow. February 15 and IS. Tuesday and Wednesday Basketball. Willamette vs. Whitman, at Walla Walla. February 17. Thursday Basketball, I WUIsmme vs. Walla Walla T. M. C. A, at Walla Walla. February 18 and 1 Friday and Rat-. urday Basketball, WVlamette vs. Coa- saca. ' at fepooan. February 22. Tuesday Basketball. Willamette vs. IdaH. at Salem. February 22. Tuesday Waak -arten's I Will sua . February 24 and 2V Thursday and Fri day Basketball, Willamette vs. w aitman a: Stkn. l!arh 4 and S, Friday and Saturday Basketball. t ilia met t vs. U. oi U.. St Eocene. ; April 15. Friday Baseball, Willamette vs. l. oi w., at salens. April IS, Saturday Baseball. WiUam-1 etfe vs. V. ef O.. v Eacene. way sn, a ana b a sens."-, wuiam-l ette vs. Whitman, at Walla Walla. October 1. Saturday (tentative Footbatl. Willamette vs. O. A. C, at I Carvallia. i November 11. Friday (tentative) Football, Willamette vs. Whitman, at Walla Walla. i Kovtmber 24. Thirsday (tentst'rve) Thaakerivmr day ' football. Willamette vs. Mnitnamah. at Salaas. it The Story of mm Wood is the best solid fuel for some purposes, coal for others, and COKE is the best for the rest THIS INCLUDES heating stoves and hot air furnaces that have grates. Hot water furnaces where the tube3 are not too far above the grates are also included. Large bakeries use great quantities of Coke because it is so clean and odorless- WHAT IS IT? It consists principally of the carbon content or portion of coal It is made by baking or roasting coal in silica clay ovens that are heated to 2,500 degrees. This high temperature drives out of the coal all of the oils and greases that make coal so dirty and disagreeable to handle. These oils are vaporized as they come out of the coal, and form the gas which is pumped out of the ovens, cleaned, purified and sent out to your home through pipes. . THERE IS NO SOOT IN COKE You can even handle it .without soiling your hands. Neither will you get slivers in your fingers or chips and sawdust on your floor. 42 per cent of coal is grease, oil and similar substances. ' THE BALANCE, 58 IS COKE It is, therefore easy to see why COKE is so jauch cleaner than coal. For the same reason it does not give off the dirty, foul-smelling smoke that is experience in the use of coal. YOUR WASHING WILL NEVER BE SOILED from sooty smoke while on the line if you and your neighbors use COKE. COKE IS HEAT 1 When you buy fuel you are really buying HEAT. Therefore, you are primarily interested in how much HEAT you get for your money. The British Thermal Unit (usually abbreviated B. T. U.) is the common unit of measurement of heat, just as the Pound and Ton are the common units of measurement of. weight. Therefore, you want to know when you are buying fuel: "Which fuel will give me the MOST B..T. U. per dollar." The amount of heat in a cord of wood or a ton of coal will vary over a considerable range, according to the kind and quality of wood or coal. t The amount of heat in COKE sold in Salem will vary but little, as there is but one kind and quality sold. - Following are the relative quantities: Kind of Fuel Millions of B.T.U. per cord or ton Minimum laximum Average Fir Wood 16 24 20 Lignite Coal 16 "18 17 Bituminous Coal 20 26 23 COKE . 26 : 28 27 . We showed above how many B. T. U- various kinds of fuel contained, and that COKE contained an average of 2J million B. T. U. per ton. The price of coke in 2-ton order is $11.25 j3er ton delivered . into the Tbasement or woodshed, within a half-mile from the gas , plant. Therefore, when you buy. Coke you get 27 divided by $11.25 or 2.4 million B. T. U. of HEAT for every dollar you spend- Divide the average B. T. U. in wood or coal, as shown above, . by the cost sawed, split and put in your basement, and see how many B. T. U. you are getting for a dollar. There are other things to be considered, too. THE EFFICIENT FUEL Coke requires very little draft to make it burn after it is well started, and this means that COKE in addition to having more heat units per dollar of cost, is more efficient than the other fuels because most of its heat is radiated through the sides of the stove or furnace instead of being sucked up the chimney by the draft THE STEADY HEAT FUEL WHY? Because a large quantity of it may be put in the furnace or stove at one time since it burns with so little draft, once it is Well started- This means you can put enough in the furnace in the morning to last all day in ordinary winter weather, and till noon, at least, on real cold days. Think how convenient that is and you have a STEADY HEAT all the time; because it burns best slowly. Coke must be burned differently from coal or wood, and we are always ready and willing to send one of our men, experienced in the use of coke, to any of our customers premises and show them how to get the best results from the use of it. ' Can be purchased and tried out in small quantities. PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO. 237 North liberty Street -s.