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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1921)
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22,' 1021 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON i issued Dally Except Monday by Till? STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY J 21S S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon . Portland Office, 704 Spaldin Building. Phone Main 111.) MEMBEIt OP TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Presa Is exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of alii news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this pjperiand also the local news publUhed herein. R. J. Hendrlcli. Stephen A. Stone . naipn Giover. ........ ' r V S Frank Jaskoskl .Manager Job Dept. ..........Manager ....... .Managing Editor Cashier DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and inbarbi, 15 cent a week, 6S eents a monfi. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall, fj advance,- IS a year, 13 for six months. $1.60 for three months. In Marlon and Polk counties; 17 a year, IJ.BO for six months, 11.78 for three months, out side of these counties. When not paid In adrance, 60 cents a year additional. ... . tttt Dirivin unurrrFaTV the treat western weekly farm paper. wi be dent a year to any one paying a year In adrance to the Dally Statesman. 4. SUNDAY STATESMAN. $1.60 a year; 76 cents for six months; 40 WEEKLY STATESMAN,! issued In two six-page sections, Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year (If not paid In adrance. $1.26); 60 cents v for six months; 25 cents for three months. Is contemplating the politicians from a different angle than he ever enjoyed. And in his time he has been something of a politic Ian himself. The money supply bills under the new arrangement In congress are now In the hands of a single committee, instead of eight or nine, and there is already trou ble over It, engineered by those who are not getting what they want in the way of appropria tions. Divided authority over appropriation bills was introduced many years ago to punish Samuel J. Randall, a protective tariff Democrat from Pennsylvania. The. Democrats did not like his unorthodox tariff views. The punishment of Randall has prob ably cost the taxpayers of the country hundreds of millions of dollars. ' ' TELEPHONES: Business Office, 22. Circulation Department, 6 IS. Job Department. 683. Society Editor 106. Entered at the Postotflce In Salem. Oregon, as second claaa matter. 'T , i l ... ' . RADB1TICAL YEARS. k A PROBLEM FOR THE SMALL TOWNS ' A the market road program in Marion county proceeds, a problem develops for the small towns . As, for instance: - 4, . The market road running from Salem to Turner, then to : Aumsville, and then on to Stayton, will no doubt all be fin ished this year and perhaps it will be extended by next fall to a point t?eyond Stayton. . . .. ' But the market road paving stops at the city limiU or each one of the towns. ; For instance, through Turner there will be a hiatus of summer dust and winter mud for a half mile or more '.. . . . , And at Aumsville there! will be such a hiatus in the pav ing of a mile and a half; for it is a mile and a half through that town, i - - ... . , - . Stayton is saving up her road money, with an idea of at , ; tempting to get the street through the town paved, to join up with the county market road there. , . The situation cannot be remedied at the present time. ' The county market roads were marked out by the vote on bonds to build them, and the county authorities have no pow er to extend the paved market roads into or through the towns. ' . ; The larger towns can assess the abutting property, or in some other way get the paving done. But the small towns would find this much more difficult if not altogether impos sible. If they undertook to sell their bonds for the paving ' of their streets, or attempted to operate under the Bancroft plan, assessing the cost to abutting property, they wouia ' probably be unable to fjnd buyers for their bonds. I . It is too early to spend a great deal or time in worrying over this situation at the present time, it is a blessed thing to. get the main county roads paved to the city limits of the ' towns of Marion county f', But after this program shall have been fully carried out, i taking this year and the three years following to finish the great taskj no doubt there willin some manner be found, a "way out for the small towns; for by that time the general public will by force of circumstances be enlisted in the prob lem, along with the property holders in the small towns. What is the answer to the drawing out of the session of the Oregon Legislature? Is a forty day session not long ''enough' for the increased .and increasing business of this state? - ! V " . " It is scarcely conceivable that gambling is to be allowed to be resumed at the races of the Oregon State Fair, under any sort of a subterfuge. Gambling is gambling, under any ' kind of a name; and it robs weak people of their money and is not good for the public morale. There promises to be a rush on the trams outbound from Wash ington in the rery near future. We are getting back to the old times. The margin of increase of the salary of the Janitor over "the college professor Is growing e mai ler with the passage of time. After Match 4 two Ohio men will run things In this country ' Warren G. Harding as president, and Kenesaw Mountain Landis as bigh priest pf baseball. The' North Marion County Growers' association has fixed the minimum price for loganberries at '7 cents, ; raspberries 12 cents, strawberries! 9 cents, and goose berries 7 cents, for the coming crop. That! looks pretty good But the Salem slogan editor has been telling you for many, many months to raise more raspberries; especially Muhger black raspber ries, which persist here, year af ter year, and do not persist in any other section. The bee business In the Salem district is on a boom. But the industry should hare a much big ger boom. See the Salem slogan pages of The Statesman on Thursday. And in the meantime. It is your duty to tell the slogan editor, if you know anything of value about bee keeping. President-elect Harding is learning the presidential Job from the Inside and seeing it as no man possibly can until he has been elected to the office. He Is compelled to tearch men's mo tives as he never has before. He 'i "', ': ' psS ) P ... J ! . t '-I .i M'l! NX HOME INDUSTRY BEGINS AT HOME WHEN considering home products and payrolls begin in Salem. If our local merchants, tradesman, manu facturers and fanners can supply your needs, why go elsewhere? Most of the money you pay them comes back to you with interest. If it isn't made or sold in Salem, or grown nearby be sure it IS in Oregon. United States National bank accounts help home industry thrive, too, by the way. , ) (Los Angeles Times.) Some hgihbrow is always try ing to get a corner on the crepe market. Maltbus studied economics for many years and finally delivered himself of the mirthful doctrine that population would increase throughout the world so much more rapidly tnan the rooa on which to sustain it that the only escape from the dilemma would be in wholesale suicide or in the kindly advent of many plagues and wars and famines, which he, in a sunny moment, called "cor rectives." In an effort to be really cherrful he predicted that cature would be generous In sup plying those correctives. He dif fered from most what's-the-users. howerer, in that he finally killed himself, thereby making at least a partial recompense for all his utterances. . Socrates studied human nature as few men ever did and came to tli? conclusion that the only wise men are those who know that they and all other men are fools. He was so bored with existence In the most enlightened commun ity of his age that he eventually drank hemlock rather than take advantage of the opportunity to flee from Athens or to stay and argue it out with the Athenians for his life. Dr. Lawsoa has , Just informed us that the .coast range is Jazz ing back and forth In a threat ening manner, -and adds that sooner or laterall of the ranges will get the same sneaky feeling and will begin one-stepping It over everything. It does not take a rery clever mathematician to say how long the people of this earth would last if they were forced to become the spectators at a "Jitney crawl" of all the mountain ranges, with individual peaks doing the castle walk and with the little hills, weary of merely "skipping like young lambs," going Into the wild aban don of the bunny hug or the turk key trot. Then, of course, we always bare with us the scientist who tells us how rapidly the sun is cooling and how certain we are to freeze here within a few million years if we are not burned as a result of star collisions in the meanwhile. But the most depressing fore cast of all comes from Milwau kee, once famous for better things. Prof. Charles Kirschoff of that city announces with all the finality of an astrologer that "the conjunction of certain stars names wisely withheld) with the moon" will result In flooding the earth with twins and triplets and quadruplets and half-dozens and so on ad the poorhouse. Besides such a pronouncement all of tha grief-stricken utter ances of ancient and modern times seems light and trivial Governor Stevens weeping for the forty fat commissions that look up and must be ted and at the same time shedding tears for the plight of the purse of the poor taxpayer is in the light-comedy class when compared with the Kirschoff forecast. And yet Got ernor Stereos is not In the least comical, as he insists in his own behalf. Eren Charlie Schwab, wiping bis eyes orer the careless ness of the Bethlehem Steel com pany with government checks for little sums like S100.000 and $249,000 each, loses some of his tragic effect when one things of what this rtress agent for the stork is saying in Milwaukee. Picture the great American FUTfJRK toATZa. family (we will wonder, then, why we ever called it great In the palmy days of only six to a doz en children to each couple) of the future in the light of these fore casts. After he has ushered In assort ed triplets and quadruplets the family physician will next walk out smilingly to the nerrous fa ther with the stereotyped an nouncement: "Congratulations, it's a boy and seven girls!" It we have a housing problem now, what will we have in these six rabbitical years that are ahead of us? Also, what are we going to do with people who hare been offering all kinds of rewards for those who will do their part toward stopping race suicide? Probably the best punishment would be to make them become the nursemaids for those count less babies. It would be nothing but right to make a bonfire of the books by some meddlesome bachelor who has for years been urging other people to have hosts of children and let him tell three sets of half a dozen each fairy stories and put them all to bed. pulseless folk . tottering to the) grave. But if they can do what they hare done under the incu bus of 180 pounds of beefsteak every year, what could they not accomplish if they would onlr leave meat alone? NEW T LITTLE EVA. Methodists in Wisconsin are asking a law to forbid girls under 1G from playing Little Era on the stage. Eridently they don't even know what they are about. All the Eras we have, ever seen have been a perfect 26, not only in bust measure, but in age. Tha Humane society doesn't hare to worry about our Little Evas and It Is not at all necessary for: the Methodists to follow up. Exchange. Henry Ford says that good bt sin ess for the firm or Individ ual Is apt to be bad business for the country. The way he fig ures it is that the good business spoils the spirit of humanity In the business man. ' He neglects courtesy and forgets the ameni ties of salesmanship. When bus ness Is dull a merchant or man ufacturer will be at some pains to sell things. He will indicate some kindness to a possible cus tomer and will show that he can still be polite. But when, business Is brisk and people are buyin everything in sight the merchant is overbearing and arrogant. H-s demands advanced prices and gives in return damaged goods and inefficient service. Compe tition and dull business are good stimulants for commercial infla tion. Some day we shall see Henry out on the road trying to sell his own road rabbits and then we will know the world is better, even if business Is bad. SA1XM O3S0C3 GOOD AND BAD BUSINESS. THE MEAT EATEKS. BITS FOR BREAKFAST I : Washington's birthday. Another near-spring day yester day. This may be the last day of the present session of the legislature; but it may be a rery long day. There is likely to be a great deal of activity in building at the state fair grounds this year, and If all the building' projects that are now on the tapis for Salem mature,, 921 is going to lay It orer anr cast year In the history of this city. S There is a proposition for the United States to buy the British West Indies for $4,277,000; the amount of the war debt of Great Britain to this country . Would not that be the greatest real es tate transaction in history, in point of price paid? The loganberry growers of northern Marion county are to ask a minimum of 7 cents a pound for the coming crop. Being so modest they will likely get it. A high an thority said yesterday that they hay hare to take 6 cents, but he would not be surprised to see cents the ruling price. Things are going throngh the legislature so fast now that one is bewildered in attempting to keep up with the procession. But there will be plenty of time to refer lot of the bills to the people, in case they are found too raw. HIGHWAY BILL Measure Re-Enacting Gov ernment Contingency Cl?.use The third Roosevelt Highway measure of this session oi tne legislature will be Introduced in the house today. It will declare the proposed Roosevelt highway state highway to which state highway funds may be applied, but re-enacts the clause of the original act ot the 11919 special election making the application ot state funds contingent upon the government matching the money dollar for dollar. R. A. Booth, chairman or the state highway commission, is in accord with the bill. i . All members of ithe highway commission are in agreement with the committee on roads and highways on the highway district bill, a measure also on the Roose velt highway program. While the importance of this measure may be decreased to some extent by the new bill to be introduced today, it will apply to all parts of the state and is considered as a convenient act to hare on the statute books. j This measure enables parts of counties, any entire county or any group of contiguous 'counties to torm a municipal corporation for road construction purposes. Am endments hare been, made where by boundaries of the proposed dis trict must be submitted to the highway commission for approv al; also so the commission would bo apprised of the routes of pro posed roads and would make the surreys before glring approral. A question has arisen whether in the rote on the: formation of districts non-taxpayers should be allowed to rote. Senator Hall, chairman of tbe senate commit tee, believes thsy should. The commission is inclined to believe the ballot should be confined to taxpayers, fearing that interests opposed might organize thetr em ployes against a proposed district and defeat it. wny is it that the young wo men Insist on hirilnr thlr x r Nobody asked them to. Get tfcricxxfclly bcucttt frca I i vk this low-cost aid to v eppctlte cad d&sstloa III VV It keeps teetacfclte I I A brestb Cwtet 1 1 - MdtDTTCCt V deer 1 j smoies . JrA ttter 11 , I) BIV U. DIM XT Take it the world over and the annual consumption of mea amounts to 39 pounds per capita Here in these United States, bow- ever, the figures rises to 180 pounds a head. The American i3 the world's champion meat eater. The- average citizen ot the United States will every year cat much more than his weight in red beef. The Englishman is supposed to be a terror in the meat line, but he only takes on an average ot 120 pounds a year. Of course. the regetarian will insist that the Americana are the lowest typ of civilization and are a feeble. KEEP LOOKING YOUNG It's Easy-If You Know Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets The secret of keeping young is to feel young to do this you must watch your fiver and bowels there's no need of having a sallow complexion dark rings under your eyes pimples a bilious look in your lacedull- eyes with no sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety per cent of all sickness comes from inactive bowels and liver. . . Dr. Edwards, a well-known physician m Ohio, perfected a vegetable com pound mixed will olive oil to acton the liver and bowels, which he gave to his patients for years. ' Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the sub stitute for calomel are gentle in their action yet always effective. They bnni? about that natural buoyancy which all should enjoy by toning up the liver and dearinsr the system of impurities. 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