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OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 28, 1921
l)c (Btcqon Statesman
Issued Dally ExceDt Mondav hv
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
215 S. Commercial St.. Salem. Oregon
(Portland Office, 704 Spalding Building. Phone Main 1116)
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Society Editor, 106
emplove. the printer, the apple picker, the manufacturer, the
merchant, to every man who works or invests capital or in
telligence or brawn in a business, that he shall make a profit
in face of any extraneous social conditions that may arise.
We're all an integral, essential part of Society why not
make the guarantee unanimous?.
But a profit guarantee carries with it a sting in its other
end almost everything has "another end!" in the recipro
cal obligation to establish a price limitation that will take
care of the other fellow. A five-dollar wage, a fifty-dollar
minimum for a suit of clothes, two bits for an ice cream soda,
half a dollar for a movie, three hundred dollars for a bindel,
fifteen dollar sugar, three-dollar overalls, forty cent gasoline
these fixed prices are as logical as gravitation, in the wake
of a profit guarantee for the farmer or any other class. It
is an interminable round-robin circle; as endless and profit
less as a pop-eyed pup chasing his tail he'll never stop un
til he gets tired and then he just stops, and that's the end
ot it : he's a sane pup until the fit comes over him again.
The way the Idaho farmers took that $5-a-ton loss from
the railroad, as a matter of right rather than thankft;' privi
lege, gives one pais. Maybe we want only . haritv, r envn
-i aft and not equal justice when wp t?!k price guarantees
in a land of free competition.
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Entered at the Postoffice in Salem. Oregon, as second class matter.
SALEM OUGHT TO BECOME THE WESTFIELD OF
OREGON, THE CHAUTAUQUA GRAPE BELT OF
THE PACIFIC COAST
' The above words constituted the heading of the leading
editorial of the Salem Sloean issue of The Statesman of a
year ago
1 i And they are reproduced now for the purpose of reaf
firming the statement they carry
I f And now fortified by a mass of new facts, which will be
found on the Slogan pages of this issue.
i; In the year past there has been a great deal of interest
irt grape growing here; and there is now more interest than
ever before: and some of the friends of The Statesman are
kind enough to attribute the new interest to the articles in
this newspaper.
I i It is needless to say that this is gratifying; for thai
is the purpose of the Salem Slogan issues to concentrate at
tention upon our most important basic industries; to secure
as! largely as possible the specializing of our people on the
things they can grow and which they can do best.
! I - There can be no question of the great prosperity of the
Salem district and the great and substantial growth of Sa
lem as a city of this course shall be followed
I The farmers producing the crops in all lines best suited
to, our soils and our general conditions, and the commercial
CEnter providing the marketing and manufacturing and ship
ping and merchandising facilities.
j Our people cannot make a great success of the European
gxapes that is, our people of the Salem district
I ! But they carj grow as good grapes of the Vitis Labrusca.
or Northern Fok varieties, the Concord kinds, the grape juice
kinds, as can be produced anywhere, and as many pounds
to the acre ! V ';! ' ......
j j And they Are beginning to give larger attention to this
industry, as they should.
j; j This branch of horticultureiwill not be sufficiently de
veloped here till there are great grape juice factories in Sa
lem, as there should be.
Prof. W. S. Brown, of-the Oregon Agricultural College,
confirms this view, in a letter written yesterday, and print
ed in this issue, and the College is now preparing a bulletin
on grape growing, which will be the first bulletin of the kind
issued by that institution. ' '
t In all the plantings in the Salem district, chief attention
should be paid to the Concord varieties, for two reasons.
First, they are the kinds best adapted to our soils. Second.
they are the kinds needed in jelly and jam manufacturing
and in grape juice manufacturing. Ihe more of the Ameri
can varieties of grapes our farmers grow, the nearer they
wUT approach the coming time of extensive grape juice man
ufacturing, and when that time comes there will be a good
market for all the large or small plantings of the right kinds
(Jniw iur- ':rap'9
And ;thw tlic crap- juice kinds.
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In this wav S;il-ni will bcromo
a trapo prnwinp ci-iit'r. as it
should l-ei-oii!"
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ThTf is a Concord trap' in'
down on the Clyd l.aFolUi't
dare at Wheatland that is 1 ."i
inrh'1 in diameter at the fork.
nd that has produced 2 'j tons
f crapes in a single yeaj". Ought
i his prape vme not to have a
piace in the liail or came tor
rees-' One such crape vine would
;o far towards Fupportine a fam
ly ju mod-it circumstances on a
lailii.
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Kvery farmer in the Salem dis-
' i irt oucht to have a tew rape
vines, of the Concord variety. !)
will be helninr himself and his
tha
may be made from this time on.
PRICE GUARANTEES
A reduction of $5 a ton on freight for alfalfa hay from
Idaho to the hayless Middle Cast was recently made by the
Union Pacific system. It amounted to adding the full a
ton to the sale value of the Idaho farm product, hundreds of
thousands of tons.
It had been demonstrated that under the older freight
rate, the hay could not be sold so the railroad made the re
duction. Freight men say that it doesn't pay their expenses
the more they ship the more they lose; but they're trying
to! keep the producer alive.
yjWho is going to reimburse the railroad for this loss?
For j if it is a public service, perhaps a profit ought to be
guaranteed.
jlf anyone at all, it will have to be that overworked, dis
tressed person, Society at Large, who may well enough be
asked to guarantee to them as to the farmer, the railroad
t of the last meal of a starving
family in North Monan. A youne
Chinese mother smii her husband
one day to a wealthy triend and
neighbor to borrow a little "Kao
liang. " Alter he returned with
the ma n. she cooked a warm meal
and invited him to come and eat.
When th1 me.it was half finished,
she to d Vim that it was poisoned.
Iler husband took the news iuiet
!y and waited with her for the end
to come This : tol niiht be inul
t pijed a t h on sail Ifild in China's
'"Valley of Sorrow."
.Many have asked the very per
tinent question. "What has the
Ch nese Kovet nment done to re
lieve this s t u.i t ion and "What
interest have the local Chinese
shown in the welfare of their fellow-countrymen?"
Although un
able to raiso the whole $200.
iiiMj.niMi required to tide over the
fainit(0-stri( ken people, they are
nevertheless doinjr everything pos
sible and have set a lofty example
of service and liberat'civing. Shan
Cha alone has collected $1.50.
'"10 and set as an objective $5,
iioo.oiio Civil servants throimh-
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teams, or "mush" across Broad
Pass eighty-four miles to the end
of the road being built south from
Fairbanks and Nenana. Freight
also 18 handled via the Broad Pass,
the government engineers having
introduced army caterpillar trac
tors which have packed down a
boulevard In the snow between
the ends of steel.
Farming along the line of the
railroad is expected to be stimu
lated by completion of tha line.
Officials say land settlers by the
hundreds are asking about farm
lands, there being about 100. 000
acres awaiting settlement in the
Matanuska valley and in the Ta
nana valley, both on the railroad.
In the Tanana. No. 1 hard wheat
is being raised and milled into
flour by a new plant at Fairbanks.
Mixed farming is also proving suc
cessful. Incoming farmers are warned
that they will have to clear the
lands of small spruce and poplar
growth, without taproots. fhice
the land is cleared, they are told,
it will grow every variety of hardy
vegetable, and is suitable to sheep,
hog and poultry raising and will
prove a splendid berry and dairy
ing country.
Fifty-Dollar Prize For
Deschutes County Comes
inn Tit. ..no -i- inn fiii'V .mi!V i-luWJlS Wltft
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Barnes circus, which comes to Salem Saturday, iviay
two performances
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ramily and his children's children.
nd he will be helping his home out the Celestial Republic are vol
-itv to g"t into the crape juice ! untarily donating a fixed percen-
husiness on a large scale.
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Walter Stoltz and Fenator Mr-
Nary, on their farm below Sa-
em. are adding 'he acres a year
of filberts. Th are headed to-
"-prds th distinction of being the
filbert kings.
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By the way, where ;s the man
who will organize a rnmpanv to
tlant a hundred acres of filberts
n the Salem district. That would
fix Salem absolutely as the fil
bert center of the I'nited States.
ind it should be don';.
WD C I
ISE
HELP IH BELIEF
Portland Foreign Born Raise
$4,000 For Starving
Countrymen
(age of their monthly salaries.
The Chinese of Victoria have
raised (3,liiin and set as an objec
tive $5000. a group of high
minded Japanese business men in
Tokyo have given $ 15,000 apiece
to start a fund in Japan for their
starving neighbors in North
China.
Chinese people in the Cnted
States and other countries are
raising funds and sending food.
The Chinese people of Portland
have cabled $4000 and are raising
more.
Relief committees, com posed of
Chinese. American. Europeans-.
Canad ans and others are already
setting in motion the vest and
complicated machinery of relief
necessary to alleviate the suffer
ings of the famished millions, and
whenever possible, administering
the liberal g fts of the charitable
throughout the world in perma
nent and productive works.
These appalling facts. iu bald
est statement, make their own ap
peal. The force of that appeal
must not be. weakened by exhortation.
WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE A
BANK ACCOUNT
1 1 D0NT PAY IT TWICE
Vi A candled check constitutes a sufli-
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SHJ3te3
cient receipt for a paid bill. So the
man or woman with good judgment car
ries a checking account with a leading
bank as a matter of financial safety.
You will find hundreds of men and wo
menn in this community who pay their
monthly bills by check on the United
States National Bank. Put yourself
among these sensible people.
SALEM
StatesMmtalBanli 7
Tho fam ne region may be geo
graphically described as a recta a
gular plain with an area ot 120.
000 square miles, stretching from
a line drawn .".o miles south of
Pekin and Tientsin on the north
to Kai-feng-fu on the kouth (300
miles) and from the Shensi bills
on the west to Tsinanfu on the
?azt (4oii miles). This plain ir.
broken on its western extremity
by the Pei-Llng mountains, which
orm the border of Shansi and Ho
ion provinces. This repion com
arises the major portions of f i v
very populous provinces, viz., Ho
lan. Chili. Shantung. Shansi and
Shensi. and has so dense a popu
lation that it averages 4 50 to the
quare mile. Faced w th seeming
y unavoidable starvation, and
racked with typhus and famine fe
er. these millions of human bo
ngs in their hopeless ni'sery pre
sent a truly pitiable spectacle
Heartrending tales, from reli
ible sources. are reaching uv
laily. of fathers killing their ch I
tren because thev could not bear
!o hear their pitiful cries foi
'iread. and in turn taking their
"wn lives.
In some of the most severely af
fected regions, canals and rivers
'tave been choked with th bodies
f men and women who havt
-ouht a speedy end by drowning
-ather than linger on in agony
a t ik for the food that ha.
never come Horses and cattle
"veil dogs and cats. have been
on-iumcd, anil the famished na
Mves are seeking to derive nour
'shment Irom weeds and thistles
ind leaves of tree.. Famished
oarents. seeking to preserve their
wn lives, are selling their daugh
ters to a life of shame in ninn1
!aces the dead lie unburied in
roadside ditches, upon the fhres
holds of deserted courtyards, in
treets Htid market places, s leticed
by death.
Among the sufferers are loo.
000 men who served in Krance
during the war under Hritish ro
ors, and loo (too nior who served
"n other allied armies d"rinu the
conflict.
A atory is told by a relief work
FUTURE DATES
OftCOOM
Mitrion "finn!
t ""mnrriii'
April 'JH, Thnrhdav -Cltil'f
reo'n piirau rlmi
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Mt 4 . WHnraHaT Ho rtnh it
"n-rrt with Virginia Ka. soprano, ai
Vrirnrv
May f to S in Iiiait - I nnua? ronfVr
nf KvnnzUr al AnA-iat irn
Mav 7. Saturday - - CrUt.ral ion of
Konnti-r' day at ChamiMx-c
Mar 7. SatiHr Marion CoHinU
tra-k m.f anfi Ka't.a-M tntirnamnt
Mar 2 37 lM 2H - R.nrhalt. W,llm
tt . WTwiin.it. at Waila Wa!!a
Jtin- IS. Thnradar Orrfnn Vtonerr
ftsorulinn H'whnj in Portland
.Itin 17. Krid( - Annual Intra i'-ni-.
Hlat fair eroiind
Ovtotwr 1 SatTirdav OfiiUiti"
footh.ti, Wi;;.iru g. o. a c it Cor
Xorohr J. Thoradar f tftr.tiT)
ThraagiTij 4-r. f.Hrthall, WtlUowtt
. Valtaa-nah. at FUlrm.
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RATES WILL DROP
Interior Country Will Pay
$25 Ton Over Govern
ment Road
road and down the Yukon rrom
White Horse.
When the railroad is complet
ed, time and cost will be saved.
(Joods .will lie shipped from Se
attle to Seward or Anchorage, the
seaport towns on the railroad and
will be carried by the line across
the mountains to Nenana and
Fail banks, two interior points
both on the Tahana river, a part
of the reat interior river high
way system.
Already on the portions of the
road completed mining operations
have increased. Fourteen outfits
will mine with hydraulic machin
ery this year on Cache creek,
three stamp mills recently were
erected on Willow Creek, and pla
cer work on Valdez. Green and
other rich creeks has been revived.
Government coal mines at Kska j
and Chickaloon, which are con
nected with the main railroad by
a branch line, have produced ap
proximately 100,000 tons piled
and ready for railroad and do
mestic use. The foundation for
a 1,000-ton capacity coal clean
ing plant is being laid at Sutton,
where the Eska and Chickaloon
branches come together and when
completed tho navy department
will be invited to fill bunkers and
begin distributing coal to Tacific
stations. Many new bituminous
coal .has been discovered by gov
ernment prospectors within re
cent weeks and is being developed.
Already. Alaskans who reside
in the interior are taking the new
"steel trail" over the mountains
in preference to the old routes out
of Cordova and Valdez. They
take the trains at Seward and An
chorage and ride to the end of
steel, at mile 2 75. From there
they take a stage, pulled by dog
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.1. A. Churchill, state superin
tendent of schools, is in receipt
of a check for $.".0 from the Stat '
Hankers' association which will
be awarded to Deschutes county
because it led last year in tho
per capita sales of thrirt stamps,
having a margin over all other
counties of the Btate. Mr.
cidine what county shall receive
the prize. The award to
chutes was made last fall.
Des-
Land Plaster
Now is the time to use
land plaster on your clo
ver, vetch, corn, etc.
Fertilizer
Use our High Grade Fer
tilizer on your corn, po
tatoes, gardens, lawns,
etc. It certainly increas
es the crop on any land
far in excess of the cost
of the fertilizer.
Alfalfa Jtay
Another car of that fan
cy hay now in stock
Poultry
Supplies
We have the most com
plete stock in the valley
today, including all kinds
of feed, grit, bone, shell,
charcoal, lice killers,
remedies, etc.
D. A. WHITE &
Sons
Phone 160. 255 State St.
ffiead The Classified Ads.-
iUCTI0lii SaTIE
Tomorrow, Friday, April 29th at
1:30 fam.
1749 North Front Street
1 range; 1 three-burner oil st0ye; 1 oven; 1 kitchen
cabinet; 1 safe; 1 heating stovaet; 1 organ; 1 bookcase and .
writing desk; 1 dresser; 1 ehiff&nier; 1 Axminlster rug; 1 in.
grain carpet; 3 iron beds, springs and mattresses; 3 rocken;
1 stand; 1 clock; 1 wringer; 1 ash board; 2 comodes; lv
lounge; fruit jars; dishes; pillows, etc.
ClayBiby,
174 9 N. Front St.
W. F. Wrighi
Auctioneer,
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CAN WE IGNORE
APPEAL?
THIS
ANCMOKAGK. Alasa. Mar. 2H
Kates on freight consigner to
interior Alaska points will be re
duced from around f.15n a ton.
he present pi ice. to within $25 a
ton. when the government rail- j
road from tidewater to the "in !
-ide" is completed next spring, ill
is estimator here. i
As a result, a sreat deal of
'Mining machinery will he shipped ;
to the inteilor. it is thought, and!
nar.v dredge and frozen plater i
areas will be enabled to resume,
lcration At present the high i
freight rates on supplies and ma
chinery make it impossible to op- ;
rate at a profit.
For years much of the freight j
for Fairbanks, Nenana. Fort Gib- j
hon. Ruby and other interior I
points has been sent by teams 1
ver trails from the seaport town.i
tf Valdez and Cordova. During
he summer some shipments went j
in by the long wter route from
Seattle I,, st. Michaels and up the
Yukon Kier system, while otro-r!
consignments uere billed via So- :
attle to SkagAay. across the
mountains on the White pass rail !
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PIMPLY! WELL, DON'T BE
People Notice It. Drive Them
Off with Dr. Edwards'
Olive Tablets
A pimply fare will not cmb.-imss vou
much loncer i( y-u cet a package of
Ih. Edward-' 'live 1 abMi. I he skin
rboidd i c;n t clir aiicr you have
taken the tablets a fcw nights.
Cleanse the Nond, LovcU and liver
with IH. l-dwaH.." Olive 1 al,!L.s. the
successful subs-nut.- -x caSrnr! ; there's i
no scktxs? or pam nttrr t.ikir.j them.
Ir. Edwnris' ( hvc '1 aSicts do thnt
which calomel docs, nnd p.M as effec
tively, but their a tion i rcntlc and
cafe iastead f severe ami imtatine.
No one who tak'S f'liv.- Tablets is
ever cursed ur.h a 'Virrk I rwn tustc."
a hnH hrnnlh t rli.'l I, I. ., !
leenriR. nmrfipation. t-r; i ! liver. Lad
dispositin or f im-ly f ir-.
Olive Tablet nr-"a p' rely vegetable
compound mixed with cvvc rw': you will
know them by their oliv color.
I)r. lidwarda spent years ?tivng jia
ticnts afilicted with bvr and lwcl
complaints, and Olive Tab! n arc the.
immensely cfTct ti vc result . 1 ak one or
two nightly fw a we? k
better you feel and luok. 15c and 30c.
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A nation is starving. A nation that
is America's best friend
15,000,000 Starving!
40,000 of whom are Christian. 200,
C00 of these boys from this area
fought in France (or the same cause
that our boys fought for. You will
be called on today and tomorrow to
give to this cause.
Can you conscientiously turn this ap
peal down?
Copyright by Inderwood & I'nderwood
FATTENED FOR MARKET
Children from the Famine area of Northern China are fattened
as we would fatten cattle and then offered for sale in the mar
ket by speculators, who of for them from 20c each up. So great
is the extent, of the famine however, business is poor because
of the over-supply of babies.
Mothers and Fathers!
Does This Appeal To You?
Then Give Till It Hurts !
Things Ypu Can Do
1 cent will buy a; meal;
3 cents will save a life for a day;
$1.00 will save a life for a month;
$2.00 will save a mother and babe for
a month;
$5.00 will save a family for a month;
10.00 will save a mother and babe till
Harvest;
25.00 will save a family till Harvest.
Send Contributions to China-Near East Relief, Salem Commercial Club
S.B.Elliott ,
This space donated by Ladd & BushU. S. National HnnkA Friend
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