THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1021
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GOVERNOR OLCOTT AND THE FLAX INDUSTRY
jv ThY Statesman wishes to frankly commend Governor 01
cott for his actions concerning what appeared to be a crisis
in theflax, industry, as related, to the conduct of the flax
plant at the Penitentiary.
' The authorities of the Penitentiary woke up a few morn
ings ago and found they had contracts on their hands with
35 farmers to grow 731 acres of flax
j And no money in sight to pay for this flax when it shall
be delivered.: It may come to $61,000; and it may come to as
high, as $80,000, with a bumper crop.
i Governor Olcott made no attempt to pass the buck. . He
is the head of thePenitentiary ; it was on his authority that
the contracts were made, though they were made in the name
of the Board of Control. But they were made, and more than
half the seed had been sown, and the ground was ready for
the rest ' ;
V And Governor Olcott showed no disposition to shift the
blame for the situation onto other shoulders; if any thing
was to blame it was" his own sanguine expectation that the
matter could be handled,' on the showing of $75,310 worth of
flax products on hand the first of the year.
So all the contracting farmers were called to the capitol
yesterday, and all the cards were laid on the table.
The whole conclusion of the matter is that the farmers
will go ahead with their flax growing unless one or two may
decide to hot take the risk and if there are any such no at
tempt will be made to hold them to their contracts. Those
who deliver; their flax this "slimmer will be given vouchers
showing the quantity delivered and the contract prices agreed
And they may use these vouchers on which to secure ac
commodations if they wish; and all four of the Salem banks
are committed to -a policy of preference and liberality in ex
tending accommodations to their customers in such cases;
as are some of the bankers in the small cities around which
flax Is grown!
J The flax plant will work up the product as fast as pos
sible,' and. make payments prorata as fast as money is avail
able ; ., ,V., " . -'J- " '. .
- And, - even - at the7 presentabnonrially low prices, the
farmers will get all their money, by the end of next year
f . And there rwill be left" just about what there is now;
something over $20,000 worth of flax products, or something
over. $20,000 in cash, in case it shall have all been worked
j And the Legislature will be asked to authorize the pay
ment from the flax funds of 6 per cent interest to the grow
ers on their vouchers; which no one will have authority to
pay till then or without such authorization.
The Statesman believes the showing will be very much
better than indicated; because we believe the prices for flax
products will be very much higher throughout the latter part
of this yea'r and all of next year than they are now.
HARVEY AND THE SENATORS
I It -"would be as politically profitable, and rather better
morals,-!! the few Senators who have just erupted over the
confirmation of Col. Harvey to be Ambassador to Great Brit
ain on the ground that it was "a direct slap at Wilson, to
beat the. tom-tom and raise the war-yell because twice two
is four or because the minute is longer than the second.
i The verdict in thee last election was, to get as far as pos
sible from the regime of the past eight years
s And Harvey is none too far.
! JIarvey was the prophet who foresaw if he did not in
deed actually create Wilson President. As such, he deserves
just -what his work was worth. Harvey is an implacable
friend as well as enemy. His incredibly virulent fight against
Roosevelt probably gave the election to Wilson; who was
then his best friend.
j But the Wilson type of mind could not brook even un
bridled, insistent and advisory friendship; he demanded that
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WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE A
BANK ACCOUNT BENEFIT OF
; FINANCIAL ADVICE
TF more men took their banker into
A their confidence, before investing,
there would be fewer financial trage
dies. The banker is the community's
financial specialist; his advice is valu
t able.
The United States National Bank can
save you time, worry, and perhaps mon
- ey. if you consult ns as to mnnpv mat.
x tr ' . .. .
ters. we are aiwaya glad to have our
depositors talk over their financial dif-
iicuuies witn us.
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Harvey cease championing his cause, and follow the Wilson
train, if at all, wearing a muzzle and with gyves on hand and
foot. Harvey, who was a free man with an exalted sense of
friendship values, spurned this order to trail in the dust of
the Wilson triumph. He said, "The man who is false to the
personal friendship that made him, is false m All things
American and I'm through!"
Wilson fell through the lamentable operation of his own
colossal egotism that knew no friendship or toleration or the
counsel of equals only the adulation of dupes, slaves, under
lings. Harvey helped to bring the revolution
And there are so few honest. Americans who think that
he did otherwise than exactly right, both in political expedi
ency and in personal and national retribution, that only a
few' fool Senators who ought to be Oslerized are raising a
0rtHarvey is brave, and capable, and loyal; they'd better
let him be! :
Flax growers: Sit tight.
We must grow more grapes.
See Salem slogan pages of The
Statesman of Thursday next.
Secretary Hughes will probably
be required te do a lot of Japan
ning on that Yap proposition.
T
Professor Einstein says that
space is limited. The professor
must have been an editor at one
time in his career.
Armistice day. may become a
national holiday if it can be de
termined just what sport blooms
best In November.
Old Doc Sun Yat Sen has been
named president of the Chinese
republic. Horrors, another "yel
low menace."
It looks as if the coming con
gress would legislate and not In
vestigate. The shores of the 66th
congress are strewn with the
wrecks of Inquiries.
The typhus fever Is reported as
raxing with deadly effect among
the Russians. So far. neither
Trotzky nor Lenlne has Issued a
proclamation to stop it.
President Harding says one of
the tasks of his life has always
been to help the down-and-outers.
Why doesn't he get busy, on the
esteemed Democratic party?
The theory of Newton has been
knocked into a cocked hat by the
movement of prices. Have you
noticed how much longer it takes
them to come, down that it did
to go up?
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The fact that the organisers of
the Nonpartisan league have been
treated to a dose of tar and feath
ers In Kansas has discouraged
them to the extent that they have
abandoned tbeig plans to come to
Oregon.' Glory be.
The flax growers who have con
tracts with the state of Oregon
to grow this product are going
right along about their business.
They will have to wait some time
for the last of their money for
their crop bnt the state of Ore
gon has never yet repudiated an
honest debt and never will; and
they will all finally get all their
money. And the flax Industry -will
this year be bigger than ever--three
times as big as ever If there
is a bumper crop and ready-for
greater things in the future which
are bound to come to it, in the
very nature of things.
Mrs. Harding is setting an ex
ample of economy in the furnish
ing of the White House. Under
the universal rule she would be
entitled to spend any amount of
money she desired for that pur
pose and congress would consent.
But she is going to get along with
the old furniture, supplementing
this with belongings taken from
her Wyoming avenne home and
from ber house in Marion. She
will save more than f 10,0 00 by
the operation. From Washington
and New York she could have or
dered a variety of costly things
and there would not hare been
the slightest objection or criticism.
BLACK AXD WHITE FUEL
Pseudo-scientists delight In di
viding the world's industrial pro
gress into different epochs, such
as the wooden age, the coal age,
the steel age, the gasoline age.
Accepting these general classifi
cations, we may surmise that the
world is now entering the hydro
electric "age the age la whlclUhe
future of a community will de
pend largely on the extent to
which it develops Its natural wa-
FUTURE DATES
Anrn IS. Tkarada Marina. Coast
0('drV bareaa rliai st CoamtrrUl
tab.
Vlav 4. WuUy. A pell Mab- la
ftmrert wita Virginia Raa, Moras, a
A.rrry.
8 J ' '"wlnsiva Assist eeaftr
af EranrriKal AjMcUtWa.
M. 7. ftatartar CrUbratiaa af
Founders' lav at Chanpoe-.
Vuf 7. Ratnrdur Marioa) Camatr
trtft mi and bwbiH tonraamrM.
May tJt ao4 SS RaaofcaM. Willaia
att; a. Wait"a. at Walla Walla
Jafu 1 a TkMil :
aaaariatioa rtin( ia Portland.
o. . ' rrwi.T Annual law pirafe.
Stale fair rronaAa.
OrhvSer Patartar tottva)
FwnaIL Willaaaatt mm A a r . iw
TUakartiM 4y. faataVtaiMssttS
vs. MaltauMk, a Balaam, . lt
MILWAUKEE'S FIRE DEPARTMEN1 USES MOlUSC.
ter power and turns it into heat
and energy by means of electric
dynamos and bigh-tension trans
mitters. Old King Coal has had his day.
The Queen of the Mists is as
cending the throne.
From the black fuel of New
castle, which built the British
empire, science and business have
advanced to the white fuel of the
Rockies, the Cascades, the Sierra
Nevadas and the Coast Range, de
stined to revolutionize the Pacific
coast.
Water is accomplishing things
in America that never entered in
to the plans of the prohibitionists.
King Alcohol Is not the only an
cient monarch that water is de
throning. White fuel promises to do as
much for western America as
black fuel ever did for the island
empire across the sea, and at the
same time to save us from those
unfortunate industrial complica
tions that at the present day are
helping to hasten in Great Brit
ain the downfall of King Coal.
Perhaps It was for the Pacific
coast region a blessing tn dlsguisa
that it produced scant supplies ofJ
coal, bnt was granted as compen
sation "limitless mountains storing
abundance of white fuel. Per
haps It was not altogether a bless
ing for Great Britain that she was
overstocked with black fuel so
that, in the strength of he- eoaf
resources, she neglected to make
use of the thousands of streams
and water courses running to
waste in the Scottish and Welsh
mountains and the bills of Derby
shire and Cornwall.
If you figure how many men it
takes to produce a given quantity
of horse power by digging coal
from the earth and bow many
men it requires to produce the
Bade amount of, horse 'powef'by
harnessing a mountain stream
and add to these the difference tn
the cost between hauling the coal
over files of raijroada and trans
mitting the electric power over a
high-voltage wire you will begin
to realize the advantage this coast
has over England in employing
white instead of black fuel.
Furthermore, if England hadJ
developed her water power to any-4
thing like the same extent that
Oregon has developed hers, a
handful of red agitators would
not have been able to cripple Brit
ish industries by closing down the
coal mines. The mills ' of Lan
cashire and the factories of Shef
field and the lighting of London
could still have been carried on
by the turbine and dynamo col
lecting the water power from the
furthermost parts of the British
Isles. The big Welsh mountains
would have been a valuable help
to the little Welsh premier in his
present fight against anarchy.
So the physical features of this
coast region that made it a water
power instead of a coal country
have afforded her a flying start
for first honors In the new hydro
electric industrial era. Xo Red
peace disturbers can cripple her
by calling out. a million of men
she will never have to employ to
produce mechanical-energy equal
to that obtained from the coal
pita of Great Britain. Coal, of
course, will still be necessary; so
will oil and gasoline. But, as the
main source of heat and power
In the future, neither will he able
to compete for efficiency or hur
man convenience with the white
fuel of the mountain stream.
Salem, with over i5-,ooo horse
power of water within her immedi
rte territory, much of easily
and cheaply developed, is bound
to have a large place In the great
strides that are coming- soon In
this field.
IntvmatlooaL
This motorcyck", bonring eight extinKuishers and two fire
men, was recently jriven a successful lest in Milwai.ke, Wia.
It Is able to reach a blaze mnch sooner than even motor
drawn apparatus.
HOPELESS QUEST.
(Los Angeles Times.)
The school superintendent in
an eastern town is advertising
plteously In the papers for ''love
proof teachers. Wlth!n a few
weeks no less than five of the lady
teachers on his starf have desert
ed their desks for the matrimon
ial altar. Doubtless some of them
will regret it when the honey
moon has waned, but that doesn't
relieve the schools for the mo
ment. The superintendent fs
either taking on the iscant class
es himself or breaking tn new in
structors all the time. He Is get
ting peevish about It. It worries
htnu He awakens In the dead of
night to find himself crying fori
a love-proof teacher. But we fear
he is doomed to disappointment.
There is no Buch creature. Even
when a teacher has grown white
in the service and her nose is
worn to a point from much delv
ing in the past the love porm still
finds lodgment unler her corset,
and if a Locbinvar should happen
along she would buy him a horne
rather than have him miss his
stunt. There are school teachers
70 years old who would elops
with Tod Sloan. Even the prosy
atmosphere of a schoolroom can
hot completely stifle romance.
We fear the quest for "love
proof school teacher'' will be a
hopeless one. Of course, some
fcea&oned spinsters may tespond.
but they, loo, will prove fale
alarms when they hear the call.
They will desert their charges for
the matrimoniat noose at the first
beckoning. When one of these
blU-tfmer' get thetlove bugr she
has it bad.
XOTiQ VILJ.
Anhor. shivering on the bank:
"Come in, the water is fine? bu?
he does say: "Plunge in and get
It over with." All the bricks in
the row have got to topple alike,
and the sooner it is over wftij th.
beftcr. Orange Judd Farmer. '
BITS FOR BREAKFAST
There have been but two legal
executions in the territory of
Alaska since It has belonged to
the United States. Alaska doesn't
seem to be half as wild as th3
movies would make it.
MIST TIUVKL Tilt: KA.MK
PATH.
Slow-business, closed shops and
mills, reduced railroad operation,
wage cuts, strikes and unemploy
ment are met with in every di
rection. The farmer was made
the. goat six months ago, but the
rest are getting theirs now. And;
however much the farmer may
sympathize with ether people in
their troubles, he cannot forget
the fact that the rest must travel
the path that he was forced to
walk in before we shall reach the
level of economic equality that
must precede any return of pros
perity for anybody.
He does not call to capital and
Flax is all right
a "a. ,
The flax industry goes light
along. ft
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When Congressman Hawlejf Is
heard from, in the tariff billgthe
price of flax products will if Im
prove. You watch and see them
climb. : B
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Other districts of Oregon are
doing it making a succes of
building up poultry plants dh a
commercial scale. Salem must
hustle in this line if be expects
to lead, which she should. !-';
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"Syrup of Prunes" Is a 1 Jiew
Oregon product, being put up by
the Oregon Syrup of Prunes; com
pany, in which Hon. Seneca Fouts
of Portland is interested. Mr.
Fouts was In Salem a few (jays
ago. and Salem druggists will
carry the product, as they should.
There is a place for such a fero
dnct, and It will advertise Oregon
and Oregon prunes to the four
corners of the earth; and, in, its
modest way, help to make a mar
ket for the prunes of this state.
Syrup of Prunes is, a .laxative
preparation after the fashion: of
Svrup of Figs. It has passed all
the tests of qualitx. ang !t is truly
on the way towards fame ind,
the writer hones, fortune for, the
Oregon men who are behind vthe
Company, who conceived the great
idea and are pushing it. They
propose to keep it the best tiling
in the . world in its line,' and to
push It as fast as their resources
will permit. Their office if In
the Chamber of Cemmeree build
ing, Portland, room 80D. ! f.
Dinnerware and
Glassware
j WM. GAHLSD0RF
The Store of Housewares
j
135 N. Liberty St.
i M'DOWELL MARKET
j Where a Dollar Does Its
I Duty .
Phone 1421
173 So. Commercial St t
i McDowell's Service- -i
McDowell's Quality
j McDowell's Prices
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j Rolled Prime Ribs oV
Beef to Roast for Sat
I urday. lb,-.......... JI5c
1 Freshly Ground Ham-
i burg, lb 15c"
I The best Pure Pork Saus-.
age in the city, lb..0c -Our
own Sugar Cured
Breakfast Bacon, per
lb L ..0c
rOur own Pure Lard in
! 5's ..J75c,
jThis is our own and not a
i cheap product shipped'
in to deceive the 'pub-
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!Choice Mutton Legs, per
I lb .......,... i.20c -
'Mutton to Roast, lb. 15c
Mutton Stew 10c
; 3 lbs. for..... . 25c
Quality Bleats For Less '
lOpen Until 8:00 p. mv
ASOtM XVKOK prmntit
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SPECIAL ON CRISCO
9 lb. can, absolutely fresh
6 lb. can, absolutely fresh.....
3 lb. can absolutely fresh
Wesson's OiL pint ..... .............
Wesson Oil, quart
Wesson's OiL half gallon m
Wesson's OiL 1 gallon
Mazola OiL pint
Mazola Oil, quart......
Mazola OiL half gallon
Mazola Oil, I gallon
100 lbs. C. & H. Berry Sugar
11 lbs. C. & H. Berry Sugar
1 gallon Blue Karo
1 gallon Red Can Karo L
Best Valley Hour, sack..
Vim Flour.t:...
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- 76c
- $1.65
$2.15
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w iuc targcxi assorimeni qi canned gooas on
played in Waiamette valley at prices noi eqdaled in Oregon
The reason you always find our goods so new and fresli js because we
- . . . . . turn our stock so often . , ... . ;jI4!ilL..v.-