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SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 5, 1921 t XEa J&Z.KlJiX fliAlik)iUiU1. CAliIiU. - aaaBaa. aa " issued Dailjr Except Monday, by THR STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY J 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 704 Spalding Building. Phone Maia lll) MKMHEIl OF THE ASSOCIATED PUESS : 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. . . . , -Mf er Btephen A. Stone.............. Managing Editor Ralph Olorer Frank Jaskoski. . i.. . Manager Job Dept. X DAILY STATESMAN, serred by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a week. 65 cents a mon -DAILY STATESMAN, by mail, t adrance. $6 a year. S3 for six months, $1.50 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 la advance, 60 cents a ' year additional. ' , THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, wi. be rent a year to any one paying a year In advance to the ' Daily Statesman. ... SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.M a year; 75 cents for aix months. 40 cents for three months. . WEEKLY STATESMAN. Issued In two six-page "nfc ' and Fridays. $1 a year (If not paid In advance, $1.25); 60 cents . for six months; 25 cents for three months. Why all this excitement about Fomebody wanting to "control' the Democratic party? It is bound for nowhere in particular. The Salem slogea editor wants to go strong on onions next Thurs day; and will, if the onion meu will help as they should. The poultry men may go ahead with their plans for great com mercial plants in the Salem dis trict. Tbt-y are goinj; to have piotection. ( It is low hinted that our old friend. Dr. Sun Yat Sen. ha3 hitched up with the llolsheviki. There murt he money In the game or Dr. S. Y. fea would not be in it. 11: LE PHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department. 683. Job Department, 6S3. Society Editor 106. Entered at the Postofflce In Salem. Oregon, as second classjnatter. AGAIN, TO THE CHERRY GROWERS! Editor Statesman: . . The Royal Ann cherry growers of the Salem district win be interested in , the contents of a telegram I have received this morning from a dealer of imported cherries in brine lo cated in New York City, covering the present situation. I refrain from giving the name of the sender of the message, as doing so would not increase the value of the information. The message is in reply to letters addressed by me for the purpose of ascertaining what the manteis are oncw,i that are used for the same purpose. as the Royal Ann in the production of the maraschino., -f "Your letters 15th and 24th inquiring for 5,000 barrels cherries we will be glad to quote you more diligently in about a month. At present nave on hand 200 barrels of number three size which is the small size, count about eight hundred cherries per 1 gallon sound stock. If you want tnis smpmem tn i barrels holding about three hundred, pounds each .1 will make price five cents per pound f. o. b. New . York net cash against delivery, subject to confirma - tioh from me. The emergency tariff bill now before ' Congress putting duty of four cents per pound on ' cherries has resulted in many packers making spot purchases." V T"3 telegram indicates that at the present time Royal Ann cherries suitable for maraschino making can be pur chased in New York City, barrels furnished free, at 5c per pound net contents of cherries in each barrel. In my judgment the cherry growers should get active ly back of the good work that Senator McNary and other western Senators and Representatives are doing in behalf of the cherry grower of the Pacific Northwest. Very truly, W. II. PAULHAMUS. President. Piiyallup, Wash., Feb. 2 , 192i: One day Herbert Hcovcr Is to be a member of the Harding cab inet. . The nest he hadn't a look 'ii. It would soeni that both the 'riends and the enemies or Her itor! are working overliine. Soup houses are leinn opened It Toledo, Ohio. That sounds nin th" record in the last Cleveland administration. Thank the goo'i Iord. we will toon be rid or the Wood row' Wilson hanp-ovvra.) . In 'ess than another month. The prices of California raisin- have increased 36 per cent the past year. That means wad of noney ror the rabin-grape grow ers in the San Joaquin valley. Los Angeles Times, if the panic stricken independent prune grow ers would only chirk up and get l little sand in their craws, or ai: quickly unload at their starva tion prices and get out of the way. prune prices also would quickly get onto the up grade, and all the prunes would be old. ' Mr Paulhamus, who is president of the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers Canning Co., operating in a very large way in both Washington and Oregon, has been indefatigable in his efforts to get protection for our cherry growers. ' Every cherry grower ought, by all means, to help. If Mr. Paulhamus has read the article on this -page in The Statesman of yesterday, containing an interview with our Congressman Hawley, as no doubt-he has, he will be heartened by what Mr. Hawley said. Our cherry growers are going to have protection, nd likely in tUne for the growing crop, and in the regular tariff bill. .': ' ' 1 . But that is no good reason for the slowing up 6f the ef forts of all concerned, on behalf both of the proposed emer gency tariff bill and a sufficiently high rate in the regular biI1-" '. . ' - ' - : ' " ::,-" , There is real danger, as The Statesman has said and reiterated, that a lot of strawberries and cherries will go to waste in the Salem district the coming season; and no one can be ro very sure, at this time, that a great many thou sands or perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of loganberries will not go to waste,-too. There is imperative need of a cold storage -plant in Salem; and a very, very large one, and then several more large ones. AmLwho is there to say that there is not need of a much greater cannery and jam and jelly plant than we have now; than any we have now ; than all of them together, and all the additions planned for all of them? Salem is surrounded by the greatest fruit district in the world; but this city will not realize the full benefits of this situation till facilities are provided for tak ing care of all the fruit that will be grown this year, and the much greater amounts that will be grown in the years of the future. Salem must look ahead; ten years; yes, twenty years and more. The flax plant at the peniten tiary has been too successful, and it has too many possibilities of tremendous success and great profits, directly ;and Indirectly. Hence it must be killed, accord ing to the 3x1 statesmen. But it will not be killed; or if it is killed it will come to life again. The 3x4 statesmen flit across, the stage and hare their brief hour of authority and then vanish. The state of Oregon ought to spin flax twine for the fishermen and sack twine for the farmers, and this will be done, sooner or later; and ought to have been done before this. THE FLAX lXDlSTKY. (Capital Journal. Salem.) Inspired by ulterior " political motives, a malicious and mislead ing attack in being made upon the legislature for the passage of the Davey bill (H. B. 81), which Is erroneously labeled an effort "to 'i ill the flax industry." The bill aims at nothing of the fort. It merely authorizes the board tl control to sell the peni tentiary equipment of the flax plant at such time as "private capital has developed at a suit able pWcc or suitable rlacns with Ii. the state of Oregon, flax mills or plants of such fize, capacity and general financial soundness ab will ia the fnlure properly handle and dispone of the prod ucts of flax fields within th-s state of Oregon." Until such private plants are erected, the prison will continue in the flax industry, though it i not an Ideal prison Industry and the static should not attempt to compete with 'ifn ;ronviet labor with private capital and labor, nor will private capital engage in the flax industry as long as the state is a competitor. The Davey bill, which wa drawn ap after thorough study of the . situation, and unanimously approved by the Marion county delegation, merely carries into ef fect the governor's recommenda tion in his message to the legis lature, which was as follows: "I would continue the op eration of the prison flax plant to handle the crop on the inside cf the walls, but would do so only until such time as there has become es tablished and in actual oper ation a privately owned planL. of sufficient magnitude and soundness to give assurance that all of the flax crop will be taken care of through that medium. When such time comes I believe the pris on flax plant should be dis continued and the state re alize as much . as It may from the rale of the plant. I sug gest that this legislature authorize the board of con trol to take such steps at any time t-uch a plantyis actually in working operation and ready to handle the crop. My reason for this Is based upon the belier that those who would be willing to finance a new private venture may he standing aloof, unwilling to come in and compete agaiust a state plant. If it were written upon the stat ute books that whenever pri vate capital shows Its good fa'th toward the industry tnat the state retire from It, an impetus would be given to private capital to develop the industry here cn a large f-ci-lf. It is important that we cpact laws for me en couragement of private In vestments, and I believe such a law. granting this discrer tionary power to the board or control might haro a high ly Kaltilary effect bring ing a material amount of new capital into Oregon." It will thus be seen that in stead of killing the flax Industry, he effect of the bill will be to stimulate; it. The prison plant ias served a useful purpose In proving the commercial value of our Oregon product and attract ng attention of the flax Industry to the state3. It has shown that the industry can be made profit able to investors and the bill pro vides an incentive to Euch Inves tors by assurance that the state wi! withdraw from the industry when private capital enters the field, and not remain In unfair :ompetition. With the present buildings and equipment at the penitentiary, all talk of building up a great flax spinning plant Is nonsense. The necessary machinery would re quire an immense Investment, the importation and employment of skilled operators, and new prison facilities involving an expendi ture the taxpayers would not sanc tion. The project has teen con sidered many times both by state executives and legislators, and abandoned as impractical. 1 : I ' For the s,tate to engage on an extensive-scale in the business of pinning and' manufacturing flax would effectually retard the de velopment of the Industry com mercially and close the door per manently to the private invest ment in the industry. Instead of censure, the legislature Is entitled to commendation for Its action ii encouraging the development f what should eventually become i great industry and a great as ?et. to Oregon. .11 tti rt of urh folderol I the second grade. Here at heme . ' vm. .ah A mnnfMnr Tntatd flour or starch, thereby IIminat- For Robert Crawford, superin tendent of the penitentiary plant.- told the writer a thort two months ago that there was enough money in U flax fund now, or material on hand to bring enough money, to buy the spinning ma chinery for spinning twines for the fishermen; and Robert Craw ford said at the same time that the plant could, within itself, soon earn enough money to make it modern, and thus very much more efficient; and to work up all the by-products, as for lnstanc3 the low grade tow and' the cHaff, and make It much more profitable. The men who furnish the flax straw know all this And every man familiar with the plant knows It - And they know also that it 13 childish (to say the least) to as sert that the competition of the penitentiary plant would have anything whatever to do even to a feather's weight in keeping out other plants There is nothing to all that absolutely nothing If the real friends of the flax industry could be convinced of the absolute sincerity of the writer In the Journal, and abso lutely sure that he was certain of his grounds, they would be quite trilling to rest the case here. In that case, let the box factory bill now before the legislature be smothered or killed. i I it . ITS "PAY" WHICH MAKES PROSPERITY KEEP Oregon's pay envelopes filled and there will be no such thing as business stagnation. The Workman's pay depends upon the public's patron age. Buy home products and you'll keep our factory furnace fires burning. Spend your money at home and it will stay home making your account at the United States National Bank grow ever larger. FUTCItK MATES. Saturday Linevlm'a II Prune wet ia EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE The jattack above referred to has been iuade by The Stati-s- lua n ; . I in t it is not malicious, unless rrne nope oi saving tne lire or a grca industry for Oregon may bo .ailed malicious- And the writer firmly believej it Is not misleading, for very many reasons, running back for long time, and having a num ber of current very suspicious cir cumstances And he knows it is not politi cal. Absolutely not. He cares a thousand limes more for the fu ture of the flax Industry in ,Ore gon than he cares who has any state ofrice, or all the state of fices only wishing the men hold ing the offices might always be honest and able and statesman like and itbove the petty jealous ies and narrow and small bicker ings that; they should be too big and broad to' harbor and practice at any time; much less when clothed with brief official author ity. " &ALELM ORIOOtt Frbruary . 11, birthday. FrVruary 1 4 to Or-eon. rVbmary 1. Moa4a BxWtbaTl. Willaroetta a Cinlty of Idaho, at Moim. February 13 and 1. Taraday sad MMdi Raktball. Willamott va Whitman, at. Walla Walla. Fehraary 17. Tbrdar Bktba'l. Will.mcuf . Walla Walla T. M. C. A. at Walla Walla. robrnar 1. Tne4ay TMat. Palrm tiiah k-bw!. affirmative . Albany, nrjt ativ at bich whnol SiVm, negative '. Al'anv, aff irraxtiTP, at Alfr. ' Pehraar 1 aa4 19. Pridar sad Pat rdaT Ba,ktball. WVlamotte a. Go a taga. at ponaa. K-Umarjr 'it. To radar Baaketbalt. Uillamrtts vt. Idaho, at Ka'Ti. IVKrnary 82, Tuesday Waaaiagtoa'e birtlHar. ' i Fertiary tl aa-t S5. Tbaraday aad Trx ? Hakketball. Wataaaette ea. Wkitmaa at Sab-a.. Marh 4 ad K Friday aod Satarday Rali.bll, Willamette va. U. ( O- at t-VKene. Ar.nl 15. Fridaf Baaeball. Willamette , t-. ef at Salem. April SamrHay Raaehalt. WllUm et'e r, I'. f at Kncene. Mmw 2". 37 aad 2 -Baehart; Willam ette v Whitman, at- Walla Waila fKrtoher I. H.tard.y tear.Ue) rv,ihall. Willamette va. O. A. C at (.orTa'li. .Vaeenbrr 1 1. Friday tltmlt rT.',KVi. w' Whitmam. at The writer in the CapiUl Jour nal has evidently mistaken the author of the articles in Ths ftatestnan. , This writer will say that If he coud believe in the absolute sin cerity of the statements In the Capital Journal, quoted above, he would be entirely satisfied And wwould the farmers rais ing the I tax And so would Mrs. W. p. Lord, i.ow In Washington wnrkinar for a duty un flax and hemp prod ucts And so would all the other friends or Oregon progress who have Imtii working long and earnestly to build up a great flax and hemp industry In this state. They would all l. willing to rest their rase hen. Hut none of them would ad-, mil that it Ik "nonsense" to talk f building up a great flax spin ning plant at the, penitentiary: November 3 . Tfeia-al.v nr m,t . 1. 1 .. vs. iimuM. h. ( Saieja, '"""'qulre an "immense Investment,' Editor Statesman: Being interested in this part of the country and desiring to see things move forward that will be of benefit, to this section, I desire :o draw the attention of the Sa lem Commercial club to some new fasts in recent development of dehydration plants. In arriving at the following conclusions. and deductions, I ami greatly indebted to Processor Mc Kct, who had charge of war search records for food; also the chemical war board's report on foods and their value, and my Own sruall knowledge of chemis try and air. . r . It Salem is to grow, she must be the same as any other city, that is. by the maintaining of the production and conservation of new wealth, and ones a produc tion Is built up adjoining any new I'nslness center, it is up to that cemter to look-after ihe saving of .the product. If the producer ran. get this, it is an inducement tor him to bend forth all his e' Torts to Increase his production, as he knows he haj a stabilize! market. . Having analyzed the above facts, we dare to make an asser tion tha: all vegetables and fruit.i contain a great deal of water, for instance, the. potato contains about 73 per cent of water, a to mato over 90 per cent, ard fruits all the way from 60 per cent up vard. This being the casg. the Ilea Is to arrange some way to preserve the nutriment part of the foods without deploying its prjpertle. and yet eliminate the wafer. It is self-explanatory and today we know that the vacuum proc-s is In its infancy and has come to stay. In no way do I want to detract frcm your tplendid achievements 'n the way of cannery plants. They are wonderrul, but during ; rar cherry teaxon Jiere last yar. you see they fe'l down, and, bad you hem prepared, you would nave made a market tor every cherry grower anc1 had a product to havj helped ft-ed the world. For example, you take that of the tomato. know everybody likes the tomato fresh, but If you can't secure It this way, you do the text best thing, buy canned to matoes. We'll say a case of two dozen cans of tomatoes costs $4. Now. the canner for this product in these 2 4 cans, has paid about 40 cents; therefore, the consumer must pay an additional sum or $3.60, and for what? Some tin. probably a box and 90 per cent of water. Carry this on out. You must pay the excessive, yes. pirat ical freight rates demanded to day; you conceive this great han dicap, yet the experimental bu reau demonstrated that canned tomatoes were not one bit more palatable or nourishing than care fully dried tomatoes 60 pounds In one and 2' pounds in the other. In. other words, we could nan die on one car a drlM prod uct, and it would require 20 cars to handle the canned product. One thing we do and can grow in mis beautiful valley Is the potato. .The entire potato crop in me unitea Mates was estimated ar. jvO.UiO.ooo bushels and will be greater this year. yet. accord ing to the government report, 10 per cent of the. 1919 crop did not measure up to the. marketable r.auuara or me freicht ratM were so high that they could not be transported with any safety of prom. iience. may b left in tne ground to rot. Therefore, let's make arrangement tn elim inate this 70 per cent or water and save the rood for the hungry world. Yon say this Is an pnrin. eering problem; that s true. Hut it is your duty as an organiza tion (commercial club) to employ the necessary brains to carry this rut. Germany demonstrated the great values of dehydration plants during the war. There were over 2000 plants engaged In dehydrat ing potatoes, and every pound of thoee, desiccated potatoes was 100 per cent foodntatf. and by this process they were able to save all Ing ithe foreign market from which we now draw our supply. We must think of these new methods and try and grasp their possibilities. If you can, read the renort of Col.iJ. It. Muriin. head of the niedicai department of the U. S. A. during the war on meat, or Dr. K. George r am s worn. Men who did not want a second rcandal of '98 embalmed beef hanging over their heads, and. thank goodness, they have not, for they grasped the outstanding facts and so thoroughly learned their lesson they have made it possible to diy and preserve meats so that there is absolutely no chemical change made by th3 des iccation. This was how they hap pened to discover that it worked as well on vegetables and fruits as on meats, as thi vacuum pro cess restrained all the food quali ties without any chemical change that had been made under the ether processes of drying. Uriefly, Professor McKee of the engineering, department of Colum bia university worked out a sys- a- m a a 1. ' iein ana installed a piani rapauie of handling 200 pounds of meat a day of 24 hours. The plant con sisted of a vacuum drying oven, a vacuum pump.acondenser with the eHsentLal ;aigc and ther mometers and other accessories. It would take too long to set out the details, but the reuultg I want the people of this section to know. Ihe meats were dried quickly and represented 35 per cent of their former weight and by enclosing them In an ordinary cloth rack i and storing them away, they cured another 5 1 per cent In weight, and here is what he has to say: "Th meats so obtained, with a possible exception of surface contamination, are sterile- and rree from bacteria. ; They can be stored in wooden boxes, paper cartons or bagged and shipped to any climate in the world with out further consideration. The meat thus preserved underwent no chemical change- during the drying process nor while in stor age that is detectable by chemi cal test. Some of the meat after being exposed to the extreme va garies of New York climate for a year was found to be in the best condition." t - This should be enough to 'set you to thinking. Drawing fur ther conclusions from Professor McKee's report, a plant capable of handling 15,000 pounds of meat every 24 hours would cost $15,000. The floor space re quired would be 25x40 feet. A 150-ton plant a day would entail an expenditure of approximately $200,000. These things were brought out by mother necessity, war relief, and Is made possible here in our city" today by its hy dro electric power and your sur rounding rich territory, and we must learn that the city that helos the locality and country surround ing it is the chief city to draw di rect results. ' This is a little out of my line, but any further data that I can give you I will gladly do so at any time. Very truly yours. H. II. LOTZ. u m o o GOVERNMENT INSPECTED M CHANGE IX STYLE Comparatively few farmers wear chin whiskers or high topped boots, and the cartoonists should change ' tha plana and specifications of their rural resi dents. Arkansas Thomas Cat. Steusloff Bros.' Market. Court and Liberty Streets Phone 1528 . GOOD QUALITY FRESH BEEF 10c, 12':c 15c 11 ...22c lb. ..22c lb. YOUNG PORK SHOULD EE BOAST. . FEES II SIDE PORK COUNTRY SAUSAGE (PURE) on . . . (PORK) . . . . ... . aCiUC LB. Bulk Lard r Absolutely Pure ?J 22ctb VALLEY PACKING COMPANY CASCADE BRAND" HAMS, BACON, LARD, AND OTHER PRODUCTS " . ON SALE HERE " Complete Line . Choice Steer Beef PORK, VEAL & LAMB. ' ALL KINDS SMOKED MEATS , Sausages of All Kinds a Specialty STEUSLOFF BROS. MARKET . Salem, Oregon Classified Ads. in The Statesman Bring Results SATURDAY mm mm at SALEM COMMISSARY 13 pounds Cane Sugar $1.00 Snider's Catsup... 32c 20 pounds Best White Beans..... $1.00 " io pounds Best Rolled Oats 50c 10 pounds Best Japan Rice . .50c 5 pounds Best Bulk Macaroni .33c 3 pounds Best Pop Corn ; .25c 3 cakes Creme Oil Soap 25c 3 cans Dutch Cleanser'. 23c 1 package Sea Foam Powder 23c 2 cakes Bon-Ami .... 20c 1 pail No. 5 Valley Lard... ..93c 1 good Broom ..... .19c 4 cans good Corn . I cans zood Tomatoes. 43c 43c 3 large cans Del Monte Peaches..$1.00 1 pound Baker's Chocolate ..49c 1 lb. Ghiradellis Ground Chocolate 35c 3 cans Pink Salmon 30c 3 packages Jiffy Jell 27c 2 packages Lux 20c 25c 5 packages Best Matches. 1 large package Albers Oats. 2 package Post Toasties. ..25c ..25c Sweet Juicy Oranges 17c dozen California Soft Shell Walnuts ' 25c pound We Sell For Lees SALEM COMMISSARY 175 South Commercial Street