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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 24. 1921 '- r---' - ----- - y vra Issued Dally Except Monday by . THE RTATKH5IAN PUBLISHING COMPANT ' 216 8- Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland (mice. 627 Board o( Trade Building. Phone Automatic '1--'' "I ' 627-59) V- - HtCMRER OV TUB ASSOCIATED I'RKSS , AMOClted Presa ia exclusively entitled to the aw for repub lication or all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks.. Manager Stephen A. Stone .Uinirtur vai Cashier . Manager Job Dept; Frank Jaakoskl . . DAJLT STATESMAN.' served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a week, 5 cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall. In advance. IS a year. $2 for six i months. 1.50 for three months, 60 cents a month. In Marion and Polk counties; outside of these counties. $7 a year, $3.60 for six months, $1.75 for three months, 60 cents a month. When .,nt J".. dT,in'' 60 cnts yr additional. THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD. the great western weekly farm paper, will be sent a year to anyone paying a year In advance to the ' - Dally Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN. J $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 40 cents tor taree months; 25 cents for 2 months; 15 cents for one monm. wn-LftLrBTATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections. Tuesdays ana xiasys, i a year ( not paid in adrance, $1.26); 60 tents for six months; 25 cents for three months. with Christ, as to be constantly conscious of the holy pres ence. It is even more than these things; but having less than these, one has na Christianity worthy of the name. Let us. therefore, not try to fool our Maker, belittle. Christ and insult the intelligence of the world by holding our selves out as followers of Christ, until we can show some thing of His life in our own; until we have by His help really overcome 5t least the coarsest and basest of the human pas sions, frailities and sins. And the words of the Perfect Man, "Why callest thou me good ? There is none good but one, and that is God," shame and rebuke the tendency in us toward sactimoniousness and self-righteousness, no matter how sure we may think we are of the life eternal. Georges Carpentier has saiied 1 taunting, laughing or Jeering for home and we don't yet know and donning their duds and slam- how bis name is pronounced. Sir Oliver Lodge has theories about the sun spots; but we don't fall for Sir Oliver's theories as we once did. Ir. Wesley Walt of Minneapo lis says he worked out tbe theory of relativity 2 0 years ago. In that case'why did Wesley Wait? TELEPHONES; i Business Office, 22. Circulation Department, 682 Job Department, 682 . , Society Editor. 106 Entered at the Postofflee In Salem. Oregon, as second class matter. One of Mr. Edison's questions is answered by the news that a condor pursued for the whole course of 700 miles an airplane In which Signor Rolandi, an Ital ian, recently flew from Lima to Cuzco. ! C THE RELIGION OF JESUS Dr. Charles Rubs, the British i bacteriologist, reports the discov ery, confirmed by eminent phy sicists, that the ray from the hu (Copyrighted by the San Jose Mercury) It is recorded that one came to the Master asking. "What man ere has power to create mo- shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" The answer of tion. The practical application J esus i was remarkable lor its. simnncitv. He entered urxm nt the discover v is vet to deveion 1 - , J A 1 no long, learnea ana occult religious disquisition, aiincuii but it win be a great boon to or Impossible of.beincr understood by the simple or the un- oceuit "science learned; no deep, theological discussion of the relation be tween man ana uod and of what is demanded in order that Alfred Scattergood. head of the the Infinite may be propitiated and may forgive and receive Quaker i relief organization in tne unite creature whom lie nimseii has created, lie gave Germany which has provided not even: the simplest statement or a creed or belief without 1 50,000,000 meals for poor cniid- the acceptance of which eternal life cannot be had. There ren, has a family name that takes was nothing of this kind ; only a few simple rules of life and I one back to the pages of "Pii- conduct constituted the sum of what Jesus declared to be grim's progress"; its appropriate- the necessary things-to enable the man to attain eternal ness is ideal. The honors just life. What these were can best be told in the words of the bestowed on him.at Berlin before nis departure are a sincere ex pression i of gratitude; the relief work of the Society of Friends has made a deep and lasting im presslonj throughout Europe. ming the door and rushing pell mell downstairs YOU get a bustle on! Shake your legs and hands! And heart and bead! And FINISH THE JOB! In the name of common sense, in the name of justice to your self and the man who butters your bread, in the name of every thing and everybody you hold near and dear, by the token or tuccess for which you're striving, fighting, working, denying you--self and doing your darndest to pilfer a place in the sun once you've started something FIN ISH THE JOB! FOUNDATION OF MORALS ;4 Scriptural record itself: - ' : "There came one running, and kneeled to Him, J and asked Him Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? - "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, and that is God. j Thou knowest the commandments, Do not, commit adultery Do not kill, Do not steal,-Do not4 bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother. ?; ;". . "; i ' f ' '' . f : , "And he answered and said unto Him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. , 'TThen Jesus beholding him loved him, and said . imtojhim, One things thou lackest; go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou ; halti have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross and follow me." Did Christ, then, t neglect to advise the man that the road to eternal life leads through some narrow, exclusive, theologically prescribed, sectarian door? Did He forget to tell nim that it is to be found bya species of intellectual legerdemain calculated to make the world believe perhaps to convince ourselves that our souls are white and spot less, when, as a matter of fact, they are as black as mid- The j Palestine Development league, Composed of the minority group of the Zionist organization of America and Including among its leaders Justice Brandies, Judge , Julian W. Mack, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Nathan Straus and Mrs. Mary Fels, proposes to raise and spend a minimum of $5,9,00,000 on the development o? Jewish enterprises in the Holy Land, by proved business meth ods. It is a good guess that the millions will be well spent. We are going to have a better moral tone -- When young men again put the word "virtue" in the place now occupied by "vamp;'' When young girls look to a youth's character before they look to his car; When the risque story is ban ished from mixed company at least ; When modesty supplants style; When jazz is relegated to the jungle from whence it came; When the "animal" dances are recognized for what they really are and the dance again becomes the poetry of motion instead of a hop, skip and jump; When we Btop confusing "smart ness with Intellect and clever ness with brains and ability; When parents set a real exam ple and regain control of their sons and daughters; When we stop trying to make a rront and living for the im pression upon other people who don't care anyway and come back to life within our means and life for our own families the God fearing, Satan-defying. soul-Fa tis- fylng life which we all love best down in our hearts and which alone brings true happiness and contentment. Knoxville Journal and Tribune. y HEADS NEW POLAT. EXPEDITION. - -itSStv r VVL ' - - ill often organised by men wto did not even know the difference be tween a cut-back nd a dose-n not to mention the distinct Ion be tween an ordinary pUtonitf lss and the lingering fade-away, were trumpeted by stock salesmen who pointed to preat financla '"fJJ menu by well known t. ers as an assurance that ors would soon receive Bobs l dividend checks, the report indi- But the investigating tommll' tee discovered that most orthese mildcat schemes died without leaving a foot of film to"' ity. It then started a campaign of warning to the public, r This, the association claims, has been successful. , The danger of this sort ct in vestment has been called to the n.,KU. attention with SUC! 1 it ttment said. I "that 7 Z. ...hi. ih nast slx"nontlis. r I CORKKCTKD BY A PCRIST Tvin ston la the w- i.trr.rm " read the .-. waited for a B. H. -TbeT dont nyr . . .. . V a annrlrfl. n,n of the plstform.; How can the Ptfo m. ter when It has no circumfer ence?"Kew York World. 1 ben ter ot purist s subway such They stop TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY WW, . ; rry St. . cut wiPKET W'-V-V. ' . with vkl as Ktta KrM KODAK AND wita 33 The official warning from the state commissioner of agricul ture of Massachusetts, Mr. Gil night with eelfishriess, greed and hatred, inharmony, and se- bert against sowing the seeds of rrpf Klnfiil tKniio-hta anrl riosirp? Tn ffwf t.hn Mnsfpr told I the Flanders poppy is to be re- this man that eternal life is to come as a result of a pure gretted.j but is evidently neces and blameless life; by "loving one's neighbor as one's self," I Such deeD sentiments. as He adds according to another record of this same incident ; elnce tn world war. have asso- by taking up the cross and humbly following the Master ciatea tnemseives with tne pop- not, of course, outwardly with lip professions and service, D" oi; nanaers rieids, mane hut. inwarrllv . nrtnallv in ihnnaht. Hf nnrl rlppd. 1 forever famous by Col. McRae's .i f - 1 poem, ; mat very many or us 6ne of the strangest thincra in human historv is how wu,d b Klad to see them grow- out of the simple, straightforward, easily-understood, pure, in ch profusion in this coun sniritual "nhilosonhv of Jesus men have builded hundred of try- nut tne "cientific warning HiffHn-mnflirtfnov rnfi-BnlittlTicr. wnrrificr thpoloiripst how I that their growth cannot be con upon His demands for individual purity, honesty, unselfish ness, all-embracing love and charity men have created cold, merciless, cruel and proscribing creeds and dogmas; and for the universal ; fatherhood of the God of "love whom He preached, and his appeal for the brotherhood of man men have substituted hatred, anathemas and eternal damnation. Is it not about time that the Christian world got away from all perversions of, all libels upon, the religion of Jesus and came back to the true spint of Christ as exemplified in the Gospels. If the best that these cold,, merciless, hair 8plpitting, proscribing theologies can do toward the Chris tianizing of the world is the hatred, murder, bloodshed and suffering of the past decade, would not the world be justi fied In 1 consigning them all to the religious scrapheap, if trolled and that they tend to do an Injury to agriculture must be heeded.; FINISH THE JOB. When they tell you or you tell yourself that it really doesn't make much difference, to let it go this time, that you can do it tomorrow or next week or next month or any old time or that Joe or John or Jim or Jack will fix It for you or It's too late or KEGl'LAIl PINK TEA. Sir ErnestJShaekleton will sail from London late in August with a patty of explorers to chart 10,000 miles of remote Antarctic regions. The enterprise will be known as the Shackleton-Rowett Oceanography 'ril and Antarctic Expedition. HE STOCK IS BY F AKERS 000,000 Into Worthless Investments necessary, in order to enable it to get back to the two com- too eiy. or too hard or too mandments of Jesus, upon which, He declares, hang all the r. ot too inconvenient or too law and the prophets ? "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God anything once you've started with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy wmething, finish the job' mind, and with all thy strength;" "and thy neighbor as thy And argue about it afterwards, self." If by substituting for these "the commandments and Finish the job out of principle! doctrines of men" it has been found impossible to restrain Finish t out of habit: Finish it professed Christians from flying at each other's throats, out of Idoggedness or cussedness, would it not be well for religion to confine itself largely to only finish it! whether yon emphasizing the necessity for general obedience to these two like n r not. plug up the holes' commands and the establishment in the hearts of men of stop up the leaks! Patch up the the real spirit of Chriit? rnfried edges! Once you've start- HU spirit is the only leagu of nations that the world ed something, finish the job! needsthe only one that will prevent wars. Uninspired by And think it over afterwards, this spirit, if the world make elaborate written international At some time or another the agreements 5 to prevent wars, they will be as powerless to religion; of thoroughness has been accomplish, the end sought as have the finespun theologies ingrained into every successful andlhe dogmas and creeds of the past. Put a little of His man in these United states, if spirit into the hearts of men, and love justice and charity you want to be numbered mon; will soon make guns and warships obsolete. If half the ef- them, if you would bask in the forts, lives and treasure spent in the last three hundred anshine and enjoy the sunsets years by i so-called Christian nations on destruction, wars and escape the shadows, if you and conquest had been intelligently and unselfishly devoted want to get into "Who's who" to f the general development of this Christ spirit, the world and to determine "What's What." would not now be struggling to recover from the effects if you'j-e dissatisfied with being Of the most hellish War of history. " a kicked-and-ruffed-about dog in . " - ..-. ' a conscienceless machine once Is it not about time, that somebody tore the masks from youSre I started something, fin- religious delusidns, pretense and hypocrisy and tried to make ish the job: the world know that, no matter how many brands of sec- When the hankering comes to tarianism there may be, there is but one Christianity; that lay off or lay down, when the no matter what kind of religion one may think he has gotten, track of the baseball bat and the until be is born again until his life is changed until he has j balm of summer lures, when th displaced the low ambitions, passions and desires of the nat- craving grips to shin and kick, ural, physical, animal man by something of the very spirit and knock and prick, when youre of Christ, he has not yet achieved Christianity? tchristian- complacently congratnTating yonr- ity is pure thinking and living, righteous doinjr arid unselfish self oh' having .done a day's work love for and service to others; it is living the golden rule, and -wondering why the whistle overcoming , the hatreds and- inharmonies tf the -Tiataral doesn't--Mov, --wheat u-trawd'3 man, and walking in usch actual companionship with God. kidding or snarling, joshing or One of the New York clergy men made public criticism of the women of the Roosevelt family because they were represented at the Demp8ey-Carpcntier imbrog lio. Mrs. Kerniit Roosevelt re torts that it was a very ladylike affair and could not bring a blUBh of shame to any matron. There have beer, sraps at church meet ings in which the principals were unable or unwilling to shake hands at - the windup. At this mixup everybody was good na tured and even the Frenchman was cordial and fraternal with r.is opponent. 1: was aocut as brutal as a nuptial supper. The enemies of public boxing will have to dig up something else as a horrible examnlp. Los Angcle3 Times. and the evergreen blackberries i will crowd the beans and so on through the procession ;of fruits and vegetables suitable for de hydrating. I m mm j It is a far cry from Salem, Ore- eron. to New.iorka Gotham, out tacts are facts. The managers d' the Salem district Sunday school j r.-inuu lmocnrc Put CkH Darade thoueht there mieht be .".uivmu 1 i 500 in line; there were 1500 in yesterday's march-past. The much advertised wet parade i held re cently in New York boasted that a million marchers would step to the protest of the Volstead law end the eighteenth amendment. Accountants tallied less than 17, 009 .actual marchers, made up ot the ' rag-tag and bobtail of the most undesirable and least di gested foreign elements? who stay in America but live and think in European submerged gink-holes. The comparison provide? food for thought. mm r The paving work 1 being rushed; but VK cannot be rushed too much. The sun chines glori ously now, but the night conieth. and the rain, when no! man can work on roads. mm mm i The Statesman is saving good morning to a long list of new subscribers on the farms of Mar ion and Polk counties, jjhis morn ing, about the time ; the grny streaks of dawn dance on the nifcfty mountain-teps of the ceru lean Cascades. Good morning and good luck! . 'm S This is Salem chautaniua wce!(. There will be entertainment and instruction beyond anything Sa lem has had before in this particular. XKW YORK. July sc.- Fake movie stork gobbled up $50,000. 00 from gullible investors dur ing 1920, says a report by the National Association of the Mo tion Pleture industry, which has a vigilance committee trying to stamp out promoters of wild-cat film companies. Hundreds of such companies. Last Week of Our ; i ' i , . Extra Pants Offer! Free I t Tio it now" is a principle that can Well be applied o this extra pants free offer of ours. gy ordering your; suit now. you not only get Ourregular high quality materials na, ex pert workmanship t but you get extra pants free j same material. nf ibf'the We guarantee perfect fit ; material and workmanship in fact, absolute satisfaction. This extra Pants , Free sale ends on Saturday next. "DO IT NOW! Only 6 days left for action. Prices from $30 up i Scotch Woolen Mills 426 State, Street X Salem, Oregon A JXXL THERE WAS. K fool there was who bought a car To tell the truth, there many ar Of those who do this selfsame thing And swore: "I'll burn the roads, by Jlng, In spite of any motor cop Who tries to brinjr me to a stop! The law he represents I spurn And he will very quicrly learn That, when I wish to take a spin. He'll have to fly to run me In! So, on the gas he sets his toe And. pressing downward, makes her go : A pace of sixty miles an hour, Or more. If It is in his power. Regardless of congested street3 And otjier hindrances he meets. He steps unon th? liquid gas Just "fce the reckless, brainless E83 is. and at. full sr"ed he goes Until a somersault he throws, rr runs inti a moving train And spills his miscropic brain Although to doing so t-verfe. He ends his speeding in a hearse W. H.'Bagby. BITS FOR BREAKFAST It was a Wg Faturday N In what should be the dull sea-ton. a Saturday in Salem September and Octo- What will look like In hop m S T. G. Albert, caretaker of the automobile ramp grounds, says many more people would stop in Salef If they could find houses to rent. Most ot those who do stop are obliged to buy homes or farms. - - It Is one thing after another at the dehydration plant The bear crop will bf on th heels of the loganberry crop early la August. 1 93-Year-0ld Woman is Honored at Olympia OLYMPIA. Wash.. July 6. Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Taylor, 93 year old member of the Ladies ot the Grand Arhy of thO Republic, was re-elected color bearer for the organization in Washington Tor the 16th time at the annual elec tions held here recently. Despite her years Mrs. Taylor Is planning to attend the national encamp ment of the order at Minneapolis this year. II " I II Big Positions Are Open for Really Big Men j But before you can suc cessfully hold one of these positions you must be lOOVc efficient,! Weak or defective eyes prob ably do. more to djecreas efficiency than any oth er one ailment. 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