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T1IE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORtflNG, MAY 29, 1921 luued Dally Except Monday by TIIK STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 B. Commercial St.. Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatl 627-59) ' - MKMBER OF THE ABHOCIATKI) FHKHH " The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication oC all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Stephen A. Stone Ralph Glorer Manager .Managing Editor Caahler wivb , csahlei Frank Jaakoakl Manager Job Dept DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a wWk, S cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by, mall. In advance. $S a year, $3 for six ' nonths, $1.60, for three months. 50 cents a month, in Marlon i , and Polk counties; outside of these counties. $7 a year. $3.50 l for six months, $1.75 for three months, 10 cents a month. When ' not paid in advance. 50 eents a year additional. THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, t will be sent a year to anyone paying a year in advance to the Pally Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN. $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 40 ; cents for three months; 25 cents for 2 months; 16 cents for one month. WEEKLY STATESMAN, issued in two six-page sections, Tuesdays . - j and Fridays, $1 a year (If not paid tn advance, $1.26); 60 ; cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department. 583 Job Department, 6$ 3 Society Editor, 10 Entered at the Postoftlce in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. THE OTHER FELLOW (Copyrighted by the San Jose Mercury) ( Most of us are so inordinately selfish that we habitually think only of our own ambitions and interests and of those especially connected with us by the -ties of affection. We have little or no interest in the great mass of mankind either individually, or collectively. Still less do we feel anv call to . do our part in making the world or the individuals in it wiser or happier or better. Xet the truth is that the whole world of mankind is so linked together that no part of it can be se riously affected without affecting every other part to the re motest corners of the earth. The great war and its after ef fects should teach every man this lesson. What is true in this regard of the world 4s much more true of the nation and most emphatically true of every local community. . , As individual men and women make up communities, na tions, the wprld, individuals in the last analysis are the im portant things in every social, national or world problem. As the, condition of the, sewer of one home may produce typhoid in the family occupying it and from them the disease may spread to the entire neighborhood, so other diseased, ignor ant and; immoral conditions in individuals vitally affect the community, the nation, the world. Enlightened self-interest should, therefore, prompt every one of us to the liveliest in terest in' our fellow men, no matter where they live. Whenever you have done a real good to a fellow being you have not only helped him, you have helped the commu nity, the nation, the .world. More important' to you, you have helped yourself. You have strengthened and somewhat de veloped the best that is in you. The prosperity of every man adds to the, prosperity of the community, his increase in knowledge adds to its intelligence, and his development of moral -or spiritual strength augments its moral or spiritual riches, in all of which you share. . You are therefore not only vitally concerned in all that affects your neighbor, but you have a duty, to him as well as to yourself, which enlightened self-interest; as well as moral or spiritual considerations, . should prompt you to conscientiously discharge. . 1 How few oi us really know the other fellow ! People may even, live together for years under, the same roof and really never know each other. It is so hard to catch the other fel low's viewpoint, to understand his difficulties, struggles and condition to come sympathetically into touch with his real life! - Yet how otherwise are we to do our duty to him or to ourselves or to the community? If we really knew the men and women around us, most of our animosities and prejudices Would drop away from us. We should find in everyone, even the most ignorant and the lowest, much that is lovable, ad mirable. If. others do not measure up to our standard in all respects, it would be well to remember that we ourselves come very far from realizing in our own lives our ideals. ; "There is none perfect; no, not one; all have gone out of the Way."?: - W- . Besides, men and women, are what they are largely be cause of things for which they are not responsible. Heredity, environment; early associations and training, opportunity- who shall say how much these things have to do with the de velopment of character and the shaping of the lives of men and women? Most drunkards, criminals and outcasts are either born, like poets, or they are made by environment or association before they come to maturity. If we look at these ihings in their true light, we shall find occasion for pity and sympathy much more often than justification for animosity, condemnation- or hatred. No man was ever made better by hating or condemning him. W)wt.erring humanity needs today as always is love and sympathetic helpfulness ; the stimulation of good impuls es and: hope; the strengthening of the will; and"real knowl. edge oz tne eiiect oi evil me and conduct. And because a man has' many faults, because he has made one bad slip, "THAT THESE DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN" f RATITUDE is becoming in man or VJ nation, particlarly gratitude that culminates in action. .The United States National Bank, in .common with all good citizens, offers its meed of gratitude to those who died to perpetuate, freedomin this land, or others. May we emulate their virtues, and rein- MA ... it. 1 1. . ..... vaiiwie meir loyalty to a high ideal. MedStotesNalMaiBanO ! ' SALEM, ORCOON shall our hearts condemn him to perdition and make it hard er for him to regain his feet and strive again to walk the up ward way? This is no plea for maudlin sentimentalism in dealing with wrong or evil doers, but it is a plea for a dif ferent spirit toward the sinner. We may hate the sin, with out hating the sinner. The spirit of self-righteousness and criticism that many men and women exhibit almost universally toward others is not only most disgusting to all right thinking people, but it dries up the springs of the spirit ; it makes one cynical, hard, uncharitable perhaps snobbish and undemocratic. It gives him such a wrong and perverted idea of human life that no matter how bad he himself becomes or what evil he does, he justifies himself by the thought that anyhow he is as good as his neighbors. School yourself not to think, and especially not to speak, evil of anyone. If you cannot say something good of another, say nothing. You will thus not only be contributing to the peace and harmony of the community in which you live, but you will be strengthening all the softer, sweeter, more beau tiful and lovable characteristics in yourself and building up the kingdom of harmony, of heaven, within you. "If we knew the cares and crosses Crowded round our neighbor's way; If we knew his little losses, Sorely grievous day by day ; Would we then so often chide him For the lack of thrift and gain, Leaving on his heart a shadow, Leaving on our hearts a stain ? "If we knewjhe silent story . Quivering through the hearts of pain, 5 Would our human hearts dare doom them Back to haunts of vice and shame? Life has many a tangled crossing, Joy has many breaks of woe, And the cheeks tear-washed are whitest, This the blessed angels know. "Let us reach within our bosoms For the key to other lives, And with love to erring natures Cherish good that stiU survives ; So that when our disrobed spirits Soar to realms of light again. We may have the blest fruition Of unselfish love to men." Are you wearing a Flanders poppy? Not too late to plant broccoli; but nearly too late. Get your seed, at once. Sermons by telephones are the latest. In such eases, bow ao they take up the collection? How do they pass the plate by wire? Secretary of Labor Davis told a Boston audience last Sunday that he is going to "try to be a human secretary and to follow the Golden Rule." That is a good slogan for success. Governor Harding of the Fede ral Reserve bank la an original genius. He says that the only people who- hare solved all their problems are in the cemeteries. And, judging by the inscriptions on the tmbstones, they disposed of everything. The slogan editor has asked a number of poultry people to help cut on the poultry slogan for next Thursday. But there are others, and he wants to hear from all of them who can help to prove that the Salem district is the best poultry country in the world. It Is important. The Associated Press reports that allied officials are much con cerned for the safety of Constan tinople, where "operations by bsndlts are assuming serious pro portions." Mustapha Kemal's Na tionalists declare this eruption of banditry is being encouraged by the Greeks, who seek an excuse for seizing the city of the sultans. The Greeks, on the other hand, blame Bulgarian chiefs for it. Brigadier General Harrington, commander of the,, allied forces, finds the situation so grave that he baa gone to London to lay the matter before the British author ities. It is likely to be a forlorn mission, unless something most unexpected should happen, such, for Instance, as the realization by the British government that the time has come to settle this nasty Turkish problem in the way it should have been settled long ago It will probably never occur to or. at least, never be admitted by Great Britain and the other powers responsible for the timid handling of the Turk that' the present trouble is a natural out come of their shuffling conduct. A city so persistently misgoverned aa Conatantinople has been Is FUlimt UATES May 29, Said; Vcmorial Sunday May 30. Mondar Memorial day. May 31. Taraday Sod tor wital of pablie apcakmr department. Willanette BiTeraity. Program, Knorh Arden. Stranaa muaic. ' Job 8. Friday Annua! aenior p'ay Jon 7. Tueaday A art ton aalo of blooded JereT at ataU fair rrnnixU. Jane 3. Friday. Annual atndeat re fill I of School of Wuir of Willamette nniremitr at First Method iat rharrh Jane 8, and 10. Portland Roae festival. Jano 14. Tueaday EIk annual flaf day prorram. Juno 15 to 39 Oregon National guard enrampaeata at Camp Lewis and Fort Sterona. June IS, Taurtday 49th Reunion of Ore ton Pioneer stsoeiattno. Jane 16, Thnrtlay Oregon Pionoor association meeting in Portland. Jano IT. Friday High school gradu ation nereiaea. Hirh grhool. Jnno IT, Friday Annual Iowa sienie. State fate crwmHa . . . - Juno tft. Mondar S,kJ ,Wh. Jnlv S3. RatanUv u..:-- - Bnaday aehoo picnic, auto fail gronnda. naturally a magnet for all sorts of outlaws. The fact that is plain to all de cent people of the world is that the Turk ought to be Jarred loose from any authority whatever in Europe. He has no business In authority there. Constantinople should be under a mandate of the civilized nations. LET GEORGE DO IT. The government of the United States has sent many distinguish ed men to represent it at the Court of St. James, but now and then a queer fish has turned op at this high post. There, for in stance, was General Schefick, whom President Grant selected to replace John L. Motley, the' his torian, as ambassador. General Scbenck was an expert poker play er, and as one of his diplomatic duties initiated members of the royal family into the subtleties of this noble game. His enemies went so far as to intimate that the general made this instruction unduly expensive to his eminent pupils. At any rate, there was a scandal over this "poker playing ambassador, and he had to be re called. The Philadelphia Press is un generous enough to say: "Now we have another queer fish at the post in the person of George Har vey, whose chief distinction has always been his reckless abuse of those whom he didn't like. In no respect, except possibly a fin ancial one. is be qualified for the place. Harvey has made his first false step. Others are likely to follow it rapidly." What does the Philadelphia Press mean by "possibly a finan cial one?" Col. Harvey drives a Ford though be wears a stove pipe hat through the streets of London. While he was suffering from long-eared loco complicated with the foot and mouth disease at bis first public appearance in London, he is on the way to re covery And he has great ability and will prove a very useful servant of his country in the most im portant of all our diplomatic po sitions. But he is no shrinking violet, and he will not be backward about going forward, 'regardless or the danger of breaking moth-eaten precedents. By making a fool of himself once In a while he will show that he is also human, and a regular fellow. Let George do It. The Ameri can people do not care many tin kers' imprecations for the preced ents of the archaic diplomacy of the European courts as they were before the historic horse-laugh was given to the Hohenzollerns and Hapaburgs and other hellions and hangers-on of moribund mon archy . any way. A TEST FOR MR. EDISON. With all due respect for a very distinguished gentleman. It must be said that Mr. Edison's method of. measuring Intelligence. If turned against himself, might easily and swiftly register him smong the nincompoops. Suppose, for example, that Mr. Edison Is pantopon' honor this morning not to esort to the ref- erence library and li then con fronted not with a hundred and fifty test questions, but only with the subjoined ten. with 10 min utes In which to overhaul his memory cells: ll) Where was trip Serbonian bop and what entire armies were sunk therein? (2) Who wrote "Mary had a iittle lamb?'' (3 In what town In Illinois did Abraham Lincoln deliver hU longest speech in the debate with Douglas? (4) Where is Sidl Bou Said? (5) Give the text of the Curse of Ernulphus. (6) What was the date of the Invention of the ordinary cart wheel? (7) What is a bannalanna? (8) When and why was the digram ma dropped? (9) How many white beans, on the average, to the bushel? (10) Who struck William Pat terson, and why? There is no greater humbug than what is called "research work" In matters of this sort. Dictionary and cyclopaedia and phrase book hunting is not real research work. Yet fiv? minutes With the card index and book shelves ofte i;ive to a preten tious Individual a sense of gene ral information and a fancied proprietorship n epec'.al knowl edge which 20 years of Important and original study may not in duce. We shall not think lent- highly of Mr. Edison's mentality that is a word in fashion If he frank ly confesses that without recourse to adventitious aid he must flunk on every one of the ten. The principle is simple enough and obvioui enough. The wis employer will try to ascertain the quality of the1 intelligence rather than the mere contents of the memory of those on whose assist ance he expects to depend; the sharpness of the blade of the plane, not the bulk of the pile of Khavlngs. New York Herald. A PARTING PLEASANTRY One day there came to the clin ic at a Philadelphia hospital a negress with a broken Jaw. The surgeon, intent on discovering the exact nature and extent of the in Jury, asked numerom questions, to all of which the negress re turned exasive answers. Finally she admitted she was "hit with a object." "Was It a large object?" aaked the physician. "Tollable large." "Was H a hard object or a soft object?" "Tol'able hard." "Was it coming rapidly or slowly?" "Tol'able fast." Then her patience exhausted, she exclaimed: "To tel de truf, doctor, I was jes nach-ly kick' in de face by a gemman friend." The young lady across the way says when her daughter grows up the is going to have her learn to play on the linoleum. .' .. . - ! r - X; SAVE MONEY Cgi YOUR DENTAL WOR Why pay more when you can get high class dentistry at a price that is within ; reason ALL OPERATIONS PAINLESS Plates $15,00 1 Crowns (anterior) gold or; porcelain $6.00 Crowns (posterior) .. .$7.00 i Oold Fillings, up from $2.00 Porcelain Fillings S2.5 Bridge work, gold or porce lain $fl.oo to $7.00 Sliver Filling, up from fl.OO Cement Fillings. .... .91.00 Removing Nerve $2.50 Cleaning Teeth 91.00 Extractions Painless. .91.00 ALL WORK GUARANTEED DR. ALK j SWENNES DENTISTS EXAMINATIONS FREE Phone 1500 SALEM, OREGON 204-5 Cray Building Corner State and Liberty Streets Oyer Hartman Bros. Jewelry Store Know Your Eyes ', Do you know the con dition of your vision? 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