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GSteepit Issued Dally Except Monday by TI1K RTATK8MAX I'UBLISHIVU COMPACT ,' 216 8. Commercial St.. Salem. Oregon Portland Office. 627 Board of Trade Building. - Phone Automata 827-59) JEMBKR OF THE A8SOCIATKI) PItKHS Thfl IACltMi Prill la a.Mn.l..!. . . V ". w v - - - mm v- yonii; lUUliru I lUT UIH3 1UI irjIUU- Ucatlon of. all new. dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thli paper and also the local news published herein. j R. J. Hendricks..... Itesben A. 8tone.. t Ralph Glover ; frank Jaakoskl DAILY STATESMAN, served by r cents a week, 5 cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mail. In advance. IS a year. $3 for sis oontns. 91.50 for three months. SO cents a month, in Marion sfd Polk counties; outside of these counties, $7 a year. $3.50 for six months. $1.75 for three months, 0 cents a month. When not Bald in idflllM. 60 wnti a ur rMIMnn.l tH PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, will be sent a year to anyone paying a year in advance to the I Daily Statesman. IUNDAY STATESMAN, f 1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 40 : cent for three months; 25 cents for 2 months; 15 cents for I one month. WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections. Tuesdays 1 and Fridays, $1 a year (if not paid in advance, fl.26); 50 i cents for six months; 25 cents tor three months. .TELEPHONES: i l Business Office, 22. Circulation Department, 581 Job Department, 583 Society Editor, 10 Entered at the Postofflce in Salem, OREGON GOES L Oregon went over the top er loyalty to the ideals for way to defend civilization - And recorded the redemption of her pledges to stand by hem should they return home. And Salem, trip ritv with the romrwinv which rpwmndpd Jirst to the colors wnen tne war alarms sounded, was in line, as was expected she would be. ... The decision of the voters of this state to stand by the ideals of patriotism and gratitude will redound to her credit, Jail down the years. ( It was a little thing for this great state to put her credit behind the boys who offered their all, in order that they may borrow money with which to build homes and improve their .farms . A little thing in comparison to what these men did and were ready to do. I r ' It was the spirit of the doing that will count for the glory and the good of this state in future years. -It is reported that the army seeds, several thousand second lieutenants. Possibly (or the dancing Season. This Is getting to be a country of per cents. We have a 3 per cent Immigration, nd a one-bait ot 1 per cent Velstead act. , Emma Goldman says she wants lo come back to the United States ind diet "Don't know; but we would favor letting ber return it the will enter Into au agreement to die. Eichange. ; ' There 'were 91,000 - snakes killed la India last year. But with j the coming of prohibition, as pre dicted by Pussyfoot Johnson, there should be quite a reduction 15 the number hereafter. Ev Mont Itellly, a 'well known Kansas man, has been appointed governor of, Porto Rico. Is that the same Itellly they spoke of so highly and kept the hotel in the bid song? i - T1t seems to, be admitted that our export trade must be revived and maintained, but a friend at the writer's elbow thinks the time will be dlstapt if it ever comes when the shower bath trade with Russia will amount to much. ! i : : ' Former Postmaster General .Burleson is In Europe trying to dispose of the Texas cotton crop, but be Is finding that conditions j there are not conducive to large sales at a satisfactory price. The .question ot credits Is the stumbl ing block.' - " I President Harding is holding a ' S M . t series oi coherences wun repre- If $' j 1. . j j "IF WE HAD ONLY SAVED" e THERE are some folks in Marion and Polk Counties who are sighing be cause they didn't acquire the saving habit some years ago when times were more prosperous. However, it is never too late io start And a verv small amount, makns vnn i depositor at the United States National UnltedSfatesH . SALEM THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON Statesman Manager Managing Editor , Cashier Manager Job Dept. carrier In Salem and auburbs. 15 Oregon, as second class matter. OVER THE TOP again yesterday ; reaffirmed which her 34,500 men marched tentative bankers and business men on the financial situation, llq does not claim to know It all and Is seeking advice from those In a position to give it. Which I.4 another difference between the present occupant of the White House and his predecessor. When- President Hsrding re turned from, Nw York his first Inquiry was not about congress, the League of Nations or whether the blgh cost or living bad been reduced during his absence, but In relation to the baseball scores. It Is not generally known, but at one time President Harding backed a ball team in Marion. PAYIXU THE PRICE. The good old V. S. A. is an al most unattainable paradise for some yearning peoples and when we read ttafe awful prlce some Chinamen are prepared to pay to gain an entrance to the land of freedom, we must realize our happy fortune. Five Chinamen, denied legal en try Into this country, recently took fearful chances. They came across the sea. smuggled under the most crowded and wretched conditions, landed in Mexico just below the border more dead than alive, and then proceeded to un dertake a dreadful march across the desert, avoiding the high ways. Two, of their number were found near death, while three just managed tq get to help help which must! inevitably mean that all their privations will have been In vain, siftce they will be re turned to China under our immi gration laws. The story; of their sufferings Is pitiful, and; many others are said to have died in the desert. And OREGON ; ttoiudBank 7 it isn't a new story; men barred under our laws have been taking th se ghastly chances for many years now, risking certain suffer ing and almost certain death for the chance to start life anew In the land of their dreams. And men, American men, have been convicted time and again for en gaging in this nefarious contra band trade, profiting cruelly at the expense of simple-minded alien, who rarely realize the hM eous price they may be called' upon to pay. There can be no punishment too severe for the contraband traders who profit at so bitter a price to their victims. IlltVAN AMI FLORIDA. Col. Hryan says that between his voting in the stale of Nebras ka and living In the state of Flor ida he has been in a state of sus pended animation That is the titate where the Democrats be long, but Col. Hryan has hardly given us a chance to suspect it concerning himself. Now, how ever, he is going to consolidate himself. Instead of making a home in Hollywood, as threatened Mr. Hryan will declare his legal residence In Florida, where he al teady has something cf a palace. He may yet close bis career as a Democratic senator from the Fouth. As a prohibitionist also he would be the recognized cham pion of Florida water. Anyhow, he will be no longer in a state of suspended animation. If you ask what state he hails from, our an swer It shall be: He hails from Me-o-me-o-ml. in the state of Flor-l-dee. THE IU'KK'S PRIDE. The Duke of Hamilton is quot ed as declaring that he is more proud of the prowess of his son and beir. Lord Clydesdale, as an amateur boxer than of any of his possessions. The young ' peer, not yet 18, is by way of becoming one of the finest amateur boxers of the day and has a particularly fine physique not in the least like our traditional cartoons f the effete aristocrat. And another athletic boxing ex pert is young Lord Knebworth. son of the Earl of Lytton. So In crisis neither of these young scions of the peerage will have to depend upon an American mar riage to salvage bis fortune tbey will come over and flgbt lack Dempsey instead and then they will know what popularity really means. But things are coming to a pretty pass if these young aristo crats compete in the field against pugilists. Is there to be no ex clusive field left in which the man of modest origin may shine? FOUR SOCIAL POISON'S." Sir James Cantlie. a surgeon of distinction In England, has been amusing himself and disturbing his audiences with a series of pub lic lectures. His latest talk at the Tobacco Trades exhibition in London only partly pleased Its promoters . To bacco, he said, was perhaps the least harmful of the four social poisons alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco. He told people If they must smoke, to systematize It especially women and "never vary your quantity of tobacco, and never go to bed for an hour after your last smoke. It's the bed time cigarette that is deadly." His greater condemnation of al cohol, tea and coffee has left the Britisher indignant. Alcohol may be a trifle poisonous, especially the stuff they are profiteering on nowadays. Coffee, well possibly just a coupcon, since few British ers know how to make the stuff. But tea the great national bev erage ye gods, what have they left? Then again the Britisher has taken much unction to his soul because the Americans have rot ten teeth from eating too much Ice cream, drinking too much ice water, freezing their digestive pro cesses. But now comes Sir James to assure them that British teeth are rotten through taking their food too hot. Dyspepsia, he says, is a disgrace to any family, but the only difference between the Americans end the English Is that the former admit their dyspepsia and the British deny It. And again the Britishers' na tional claims as fresh air disci ples. "Pshaw! There has never FUTURE DATES Jnr n, 9 Dii 10. Portland Rt fetiI Jun 14. TnrxUr Elk annas) flag da? prog-ram. Jon 15. WrdnwHa? Minnnota av icv-talma turtnir Sut fair crmiaHs Jr 15 to 17 Annual rn-aafinmt SpanUh war rrtrran at Aotnna ' 1 In 2 rtre" Vat Ion al fiard ix-nrj.in.nu at Camp Uwh aad Fert 8trna. Jb IS. Thnmitar 49th Rvnioa f Orrn Pwawr aasoriatino. Jnn is, Thora'tiT Orgna Tioaar IWT'viatinn Bf.lij in FrtlaBt Ji 17. riiajr High arhool craia Hirh Rrknet J IT, FrHav Aannal lwa pfc-aie. mat fair KronnHa Jnaa so, Mn4v StsmI allien JtilT 5J ftalarsar -Marl rotint MAn arhnnl rl,. mtm jr frnnaHa Jnljr 25 to 31 Salea Chantrtqua. been any fresh air In this hall for 20 years," snorted Sir James, who proceeded to assure them that they did not know the first thing about proper ventilation. But perhaps his worst affront to British susceptibilities was on the subject of female clothes. He said: "The fewer clothes you wear, the higher your tempera ture. Those younx women you claim to be insufficiently clad are not cold, they are hot. Men wear too much clothing. Babies are wrapped up too much." On the whole Sir James Cant lie is not as popular as he was. riNAMKS IMPROVING. Following Is a paragraph from the current weekly financial letter of Henry Clews, the Wall Street authority: Not only has the federal re serve system continued to develop increasing strength, additions of gold as compared with last year's holdings at the corresponding rate showing an increase of f 448, 000.000. but there has been a steady liquidation of paper se cured by long term obligations. Governor Harding of the federal reserve board, who has recently made a visit to the agricultural regions of the southern and west ern states, reports a better con dition of farm financing. Re duction of acreage of cotton and gradual Increase in demand for the staple promises higher prices and consequently greater ability to liquidate the obligations In curred by owners of cotton at banks. Recovery of wheat by about 20 per cent on the cash market above low figures shows that the agricultural situation with respect to this product is rapidly being stabilized and the effect has been to improve quite materially the position of those banks which have made advances with wheat as security. Never theless, it is true that there will continue to be large drafts upon bank resources as the season con tinues, the resources of financial centers being necessarily used to assist institutions in other parts of the country which are in need ot funds for raising and market ing the current crop." BITS FOR BREAKFAST Salem went over the top V Went over the top, as she al ways does. Our boys who marched away to oirer their lives for the defence of civilisation will feel that a great majority of the people of Oregon means what they said. S The soldier loan bill goes through with flying colors but all the rest, probably, have fallen by the wayside. S Now there will be 1000 new bouses in the towns and new Im provements on the farms of Mar lon county. S H. H. Lots, of the Lotz-Larsen Mining company, in the Santlam district, was In Salem on Monday. He reports that the bridge his company has built across Gold creek Is finished. It is 80 feet hlgb above the water. The road, clear up to the mine. Is all finished but 400 to 500 feet. Now, if the county will renulld the bridge across Stack creek, and put their part of the road In repair, this company will very soon be ready for ore shipments. S S There are still four ounces of broccoli seed left in Oregon; and it is in Salem enough to plant two more acres. It is at 267 South Church street, and It may be bad for two simoleons. Get it and plant it. today. It may make you $500 to $800. Dead Fish Cause Painter To Call Help of Police To be working up in the air on a bridge in the glare of the mid day sun is not the most pleasant place in the world to be at best, but when one is not' a vulture and is forced to hover over a pile of dead fish wU, it doesn't smell lire roses, that's all. That Is the way A. J. Ander son. 1475 North Commercial street, felt about it oMnday when he sent word to the police. He was explicit in stating the fish were dad ones. Now, if who ever put them there had been thoughtful and seen to it that the fish were alive, how much more considerate it would have been. The police did not say whether they had gathered up the fish or not: they at least showed a sym pathetic understanding of the sit uation by making it a matter of history on their records. No, the Police Didn't Go In Water, But Wanted to The day van hot. The water In the creek sent out a challenge which three small boys on South Twelfth street could not resist, yesterday. Fo they shed thir garments and plunged in. min'n the regulation adornment. Th' police were notified, and went 'o Investigate. Though they did not do likewise, there was a sympa thetic note in their tones as thev rently remonstrated with the boys urging them to be a little more discreet In the future. We never could understand wh7 as the Indians had no rnt to pay. they were so wild. Ex change. , z i it JOKER SEEN IN NEW RATE Lewis Declares Reduction By Railroads in Reality Only 3 Cents ADJUSTMENT NECESSARY Former Attempt to With draw Privilege Halted by Federal Commission In making a reduction of S cents a box on apples shipped to the Atlantic seaboard, and then withdrawing the privilege of stor ing while in transit, the railroad? have Included a fine Joker in their announcement of a reduction on apple rates of from $1.66 to the new rate of $1.50 a hundred, ac cording to C. I. Lewis, assistant manager of the Oregon Growers Cooperative association. smrinr while in transit means the privilege of shipping on a through rate car lots of apples and storing them at such points as Tulsa, omana, tjunaio or . ara Falls. The fruit 4 then held In storage awaiting the consum ing market and then lorwaraeu are New Gray PUMPS WW I and WEDNESDAY MORNING. amm lmm sssssss ssssis ssm sns . , ., -,m i . -r - with a through rate charge, and not a local rate. Storage 3i-rMiu-y. Lazge shippers of fruit have found it nect-ssary to store at con venient points In the east, and there hold ready for quick ship ments to the consuming market. In the new rate offered, railroads withdraw this privilege of stor ing, or make an additional charge of 5 cents a box If placed In stor- About one year azo, railroads attempted to withdraw this priv ilege of storage in transit, but th.e growers were unstained by the interstate commerce commission. During the past yar the Ore gon Growers Cooperative associa tion held fruit in storage at Sev eral cities In the east and at ch point, as Tulsa and Omaha. When conditions justified, the fruU was rushed to the market. Problem Not Solved. While the new rate on ship ments or apples to the Atlantic seaboard Is a reduction of 8 cent3 a box, yet with the charge of"& cents a box for the privilege of storing in transit, there la really a reduction of only 3 cents a box. and this does not by any means solve the problem of apple ship ments to the Atlantic coast, ac cording to Mr. Lewis. Is President Harding retting rcaoy to sweep the country again In 1924 as did In 1920? It 1p given out at the White House that he Is fond of chicken pie. Chesterton, the English lectur er, says he ia coming back to dear old America. Certainly the jingle of the American dollar helps the hurt that Chesterton feels In ex uding Information to an Ameri can audience. White Rainskin HI. rumps here. These Pumps were bought at a ridiculously low price. All dealers are asking from $12 to $15 for the same styles. close this entire lot out at the unheard of price of Come in now and see this line of wonderfbul Pumps as they can not last long at this price. Our Entire Stock on Sale Excepting Hanan Shoes. Thousands of Pairs Going Out Each Day ; Rubber Heel Day Each " Put On Half Price, 25c tuc i hi. SHOE PuBaiOti 326 Httt St - JUNE 8. 1921 PACKERS NEW WAGE CUT Further Reduction of Five Cents an Hour Plea in Petition to Arbiter 60,000 WORKERS HIT Operators Declare That De spite Retrenchment They Suffer Losses CHICAGO, June 7. A further wage reduction of 5 cents an hour for all packing houfo employes paid on an hourly basis and pro portionate cute for piece workers were asked today by the Lhlcagoi packers in a petitioji filed with Federal Judge Samuel Alshuier, federal arbitrator. The reductions. If granted, would afiect approximately 60, 000 workers in all pans of the country. The petition asked that a full hearing be held before June 19 and requested that the reduc tion be made retroactive to that date. Penalty Ilellef Askea. Belief from the penalties im posed on th packers in the form of working hour restrictions also was asked. With the eight-hour Strap We Wednesday, 50c nnir zv rnivL BMwsfcvt v,urrwtt rue Bd so foot ipplnart rtrttoUdditojtfiBji E7 M M f A7 7 V y in force, it was explained, the puckers were guaranteeing 4 0 hours of work per week and pay tng overtime after eight hours. It was suggested that this be changed to a guarantee of 4 8 hours work, and the agreement obliging them to pay overtime af ter eight hours be abolished. Thu.i Overtime would only be paid alter 48 hours work a week. i Firtrt Cut in March. Y The minimum rate now paid Is 1.5 cents per hour, to which it was cut from .53 cents in March following the abrogation by the packers in February of a war time agreement under which Judge Alscbuler was the media tor. At that time the packers, ftfter conference with President Harding and Secretary Davis agreed to continue tbe arbitra tion agreement until September J and the employes agreed to accept wage reductions averaging about 15 per cent. ;r.Tbe packers declare that de lit&itfi the last wage cut and re ductions of their forces, they have continued to operate at a loss, and that they cannot continue to wtiBt under present conditions. They declared that while- labor continued to receive from two o two and one-half times as mucfi piy as It did before the war. far rners and livestock growers are getting lesa for their product and STe being forced to operate on a basis ruinous to the producer, i-The German foreign office de clares that the feature of the treaty requiring the nation to re slbre the skull of the late Sultan Mlkawa cannot be fulfilled, be cause the skull cannot be found. T:hi was a bit of persiflage that David Lloyd George put into the document in order to create a bod impression among the ne groea of South Africa. Hetis