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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1921)
i J L IsBued Except Monday by TTUt STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY U ortUnd Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic r -Tv V- i:-.; . 627 - . MEMBER OF THE Tha Alinrlilarf Pnaa I. jucatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited pthis paper feud also the local news published herein. X J. Hendricks. Stephen A. Stone. lal ph Glover 2rnk Jukoski PAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs. 15 Cents a week. 6 f etnti m. month. DAILY STATESMAN,' by mail. In months, 11.50 for three months, 60 cents a month, in Marion . and Polk counties; outside of thesi counties. $7 a year, 3.50 - tor six months, $1.75 for three months, 60 cents a month. When not paid in advance. 60 cents a Tear additional. (TUB PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the win be sent a year to anyone Dally Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN, 1 1.60 & . cents for three months; 25 on month. WEEKLY STATESMAN, issued In ana Fridays, 91 a year (if not paid in advance, 9125); 50 .cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES; Business Orfice, 23. Circulation Depart in ent, 583 Job Department, 683 Society Editor. 106 Entered at the Postoffice in Salem, i PROTECTING OUR "BUENOS AIRES, July 28. Germany is winning the race for South American trade. "The customs house and surrounding yards here were stacked-today with American-made goods valued at from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. "Meanwhile three German ships, which arrived here with almost Identical goods, discharged their cargoes, saw them sold and cleared for Germany for more cargoes. "The. German goods sold at one-half the price of the American products because of the high cost of the United States dollar. "While the most successful competition comes from the Germans, who benefit by the abnormal rates of exchange, English and Belgian goods are sold here while American made products lie useless, some of them rotting in storage. "At one time 1200 American automobiles lay in stor age while European makes were eagerly snapped up" i Can any 'American, unprejudiced by outworn theories or musty political bias,, read the above dispatch and not rejoice that our home markets are to be protected against such un fair and ruinous competition Doubly protected - Protected by a duty calculated to equalize the difference between the costxf producing goods in Germany and produc ing the same class ot goods in this country And protected, too against the' advantages to the Ger man manufacturer of the abnormally low rate of exchange? For the rate of duty paid on all imports, under our new tariff law, will be calculated in American dollars. German and other foreign products may compete in the Argentine markets with American products, and have all the advantages over our4 products which the low rate of exchange may give them; and all the advantages of 4he low wage scales in those countries , , Out laws cannot extend to South America But the Republican administration at Washington does not propose to allow the same advantages to foreign produc ers in our own home markets. It would be suicidal; it would drive, our manufacturers to the wall, and many of our producers, and it would bring untold poverty and distress to our laboring people. So we are" going to protect our home markets, which are the best markets in the world, and we are going to confine our exports to what articles we can sell at a profit in other countries foodstuffs and raw materials to supply shortages In other countries; articles that are manufactured exclusively in this,country, or which are higher grade than articles made elsewhere. So our exports will not be smaller in volume, even in the face of the brisk foreign competition in many lines and we will sell at a profit, at home and abroad, and maintain our American standards of living. . ' .... , ... All this propaganda of economy being cooked up by the fuglemen of Governor, Olcott, for the purpose of preparing the pjiblic mind for a favorable reception of the candidacy of their employer, when the time comes again for his can didacy rtor nomination, is falling flat. It is doing more harm than good. The reading public is likely to feel resentment rather I than registering approval; as being baited for gud eorui'IAll this propaganda will not serve to" distract atten tion 'away from the salary-raising orgy of the last Legisla ture, Svhich had the sanction of Governor Olcott and, the great majority, of the people of Oregon will believe, because he himself was getting some of the "pork." The. more prop aganda, the fuglemen spill, the greater will be the conviction of the public in this belief. Likely the industrious fuglemen will not believe this till after they see the conclusion of the whole matter. ' i " " ' I . - j : i , S - - - - . ; . I, UNWILLING TO LEARN ! - - I , jWilhelm of. Doom has one scrap of authority left which he will not relinquish. He has forbidden his third son, Au gust Wilhelm, to take a job with the movies. The prince needs the money badly, it is said, but none the less he has yielded to the paternal and ex-imperial will. What woud have! happened if he had defied it? fThe former Kaiser obviously has the Bourbon habit of lrnrriincr nMhinrr on 4 fnt.r.'nu:nn To.J uoHipa , cut a jnuch better figure earning an honest living than loaf- juk uoui on casual cnanty. ary tnen.- lie has not pride enough to meet his fate heroically An 1 .1 A . a a. 1 . T I T wmy enougn to ieea nis personal vanity rnuaaeipma quirer. King Christian of Denmark Is coming to visit us this fall. Of course, f Secretary Christian will do the honors. Why would ft not be a good Idea for ' our colleges to add . to their curriculum a course on how to become a producer, instead of teaching how to become a public ppeaker or convincing talker? It would bo much more to the joint Exchange. They are now putting the stress thai way. And it does not hurt any producer to ) t FUTURE DATES J-l .9' ItKalM r.olMrit Am St, WMii-Joiiii tMflio p' Slm ni WtMiniTilU KoUrUni V. biaiU&d I'trn. . - THE OREGON STATESMXN. Statesman 59) ASSOCIATED PRESS it.. v Manager Managing Editor Cashier Manager Job Dept. advance, $6 a year, 93 for sli great western weekly farm paper, paying a year in advance to the year; 75 cents for six months; 40 cents for 2 months; 15 cents tor two six-page sections. Tuesdays Oregon, as second class matter. OWN MARKETS uut, even in his exile, wuneim be able to talk convincingly or o make 9 good speech. ,The bill providing that Judges of the 'United States district courts shall not ; engage' in any other avocation during their oc cupancy of the bench has be!a defeated in congress. Three cheers lor Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan dls, who is coaching at third base. Postmaster General Hays ha3 ordered that hereatler special de livery; letters mast "pay a fee of 25 cents instead of the former price of a dime. He says that 'people who are so anxious to ent I a .; letter .will , pay ,the "increases cost. Tula argument will apply SALEM. OREGON no doubt to the man who is trying to strike a friend for a loan. Hays is a great psychologist. General Felix Dial has been ex iled from Mexico. What was the name of that old-fashioned pa triot who once exclaimed, 'What, banished' from Itcme, what's ban ished but set free?' Head up on jour history. The harmony between President Harding and congress is one ol the many encouraging signs of the times. Working as a team they will be able to accomplish much for the nation and the world. That such an agreeable situation exists is a subject for mutual congratulations. Former Secretary Daniels is at his old editorial post on the Ral eigh News and Observer, but he is not criticising the Republican administration of things as acrid ly as he did a decade ago. Uncle Sephus has been there and knows how hard it is to come up to po litical specifications. Is rister to be the MumMlns block once more? Must I'lster be finally coerced? How much pressure will England dare use? Or will Ulster be won over to the dominion plan through some such place in the Dominion of Ireland as Quebec now occupies in the Dominion of Canada? The next few weeks will determine. VAXPERLIP AXI SKEYHILL OX SOVIET RUSSIA. A large crowd of people from all over this section heard Tom Skeyhill, soldier and author and poet and lecturer and world citi zen, at the Salem Chautauqua on Thursday evening, when he graph ically described conditions in so viet Russia, gathered at first hand in a sojourn there which he risked his life daily to make. In order to "tell the world" truth fully concerning the workings of by far the greatest experiment ever made in Communism, and. by the same sign, the greatest failure for such experiments. and there have been many, have always failed and always will So long as human nature '.s what it is and has always been and will always be, up to the time of the full flower of the millen nium, if it ever comes; and if it ever does come, It will be a mil lion years in the future. The Statesman of yesterday morning gave as good a digest of Mr. Skeyhill's lecture as could be given in a newspaper article of the length assigned to it. There is another first hand ob server writing on soviet Russia.' He is Washington Vanderlip, who has been given a concession cf 400,000 Bquare miles of territory over four times as much land as Oregon contains. Those who heard the Skeyhill lecture, or read the synopsis of it In The Statesman will be struck with the points in agreement of the two first hand witnesses, in reading the following synopsis of the articles of Mr. Vande'rlip bo far bublished, made by a writer in the Loss Angeles Times, as follows: After a sojourn of several months in the heart of soviet Russia, a confidant of the high government officials, the one for eigner on whom the Cheka the sinister secret police more pow erful and implacable than th-; Committee of Public Safety un der Robespierre - Washington Vanderlip has undertaken to givi to the outside world "the truth about Russia." He writes of what he has himself seen and heard. His experience covers not days but months. While many who read his articles may not agree with his conclusions, no one men tally honest will doubt his sin cerity; for through the series runs a frankness that is always dis cernible. Vanderlip neither loves nor hates soviet Russia. He studios It and seeks to comprehend it without arrogating to himself tin right of judge or arbiter. He ad mires Lenin because he believe tho Russian dictator is a sincere friend of the Russian oeoDlp: but he deplores his lack of under standing of human nature and hi3 failure to grasp the psychology of the Russian peasant. He paints graphically the mis erable condition of the mass of the Russian populations under a scheme of t government that was not workable. He mingles his tears with those of the Russia 1 mother who clasps a starving babe to her breast and starts like a hunted thing' at the sound of every footfall, lest it be that or an agent of the Cheka. He passes through industrial plants where there are thousands cf men liv ing, idly on government bounty because, the machinery is broken and there la no money nor ma terial to make necessary repairs. He viewa th depopulated cities from wjiich eyery portable thins of value has been expropriated and stolen and he lets these facts tell for themselves why sovietism will not work. Then he tells of the attempts, more or less futile, of Lenin an.l his advisers to repair the devas tations that their false ideas cf government and economy have caused, of their frantic attempts to stimulate production and en able the people to develop the won derful resources of one of the most fertile territories in th" world. Mr. Vanderlip views the whole throuch sympathetic eyes. He spent enoiiEh time in Russia t6 leave a part of his heart with the Russian people; for it has been truly said that one leaves a por tion of his heart wherever one has lived. He asks pity for them trf-cause they have suffered much. He tells of the pathetic faith tint they repose in the people of th-; I'nlted States, the one country among all the nations which thy believe would aid them without joining in a conspiracy to dis member the fatherland. Then he tells of the religious reaction, how the peasants still hold to the ancient faith and believe that many of their tribulations are due to the attempt of their unbeliev ing leaders to destroy religion They can forgive Lenin for tear ing the czar from his throne at Petrograd, but not his attempt to tear from his throne in heaven the God of their fathers. Mr. Vanderlip does not attempt to sit in judgment on the heads of the Soviets; but he condemn1 the system which tbey inaugu rated, because it failed to work; and he reaches the conclusion that the whole Marxian idea of government and econoroy runs contrary to human nature and that it never can work. He looks to the women of Rus sia to take a leading part in the regeneration and the reconstruc tion. He says that both Marx and Lenin overlooked the feminine aquation and that this alone was sufficient to wreck their whole scheme of government. In his eyes the Russian peasants are children who have never grown up. They have learned for gener ations to look upwards for a guiding hand and they stumble and fall when left to walk alone. They would regard a form of gov ernment modeled on the plan of that of the United States and a community life like our own as a veritable paradise; but they are groping blindly in tha dark, no knowing how to secure it. Vanderlip believes that Lenin will be able to bring about con stitutional government in Russia, provided he receives friendly sup port from the United States. He says 'this country alone can aid because the Russian peasants will trust no other. Vanderlip is an engineer, and he has studied Russia according to the methods which he employs when investigating a mine, lie finds a little gold and much dross; but the pay streak is there and it will well repay the cost of development. He sets Russia down, but not out, and he recom mends to the people of other countries to accept Russian con ditions as they are, to cease try ing to punish a people who have paid a terrible price for their ig norance, their cruelty, their stu pidity and cupidity. He says that the people of every country should learn from the Russian experience that they should put the fallacies of Socialism and Communism behind them and re new their allegiance to represen tative government and its institu tions. He has traveled over many lands, lived under many govern ments and he is profoundly of the conviction that the government cf the United States is the beat of them all. Some ot his statements almost cause one to gasp, they are so contrary to our accepted ideas of government in the 20th century. It will be remembered that he went originally to Moscow to se cure Siberian concesbions from the soviet government. At one place he says: "Lenin gave me Kamchat ka. Lenin and the Kconomic Council, at a word from Lf nin. handed over to ice, Washington Vanderlip, plain American business man and mining engineer, the deed of gift to 400,000 square miles of wonderful country, with inexhaustible riches of oil and coal and fish and furs; and this province I have of fered to my country as a guarantee of supremacy in the Tacific against any na tion, any race." That any government should turn over to vast a territory to an individual seems unbelievable Yet one has but to recall the his-! tory of the beginnings of our own country to realize that it is not without precedent. An English king gave Pennsylvania to Wil liam Penn. and his right to make the gift has never been chal lenged. ( What will become ot that gift is a matter for speculation. Rut there is no disputing the fact thit it has been made and that tho object was to encouraee American capital to invest in Russian terri tory. Vanderlip tells how anx ious the soviet government is for trade with the United States, be cause the peasants demand it. He says that "the soviet entertains the idea that it owns v Ivan, but the truth is that Ivan Ivanoffsky owns the eoviet. lie promises that in a future lirti.cle: "We will walk about the cities and we will talk with the children, even the ba bies, and iearn a little what Communism has meant to the infant at its mother's breast, and we will find out, too. what has been slaughtering the babies in Russia, why they die like flies, robbed even of the slim and pitiful chance of life by the cruel grip of circumstances and strangled almost as soon as they are born that is a story which should win, I think, the sympathy of every American mother." Judging from the first install ment of the Vanderlip articles, which is a kind of prospectus of what is to follow in detail, it is Ihe Decks are Cleared tor Actibh Ready for a Whirlwind Si Take Fair PALM BEACH SUITS All sizes and colors tor ' Saturday Only MEN'S SUITS Our Regular $30, $40, $45 and $50 Only a few left $20 BOYS' SUITS Our Regular $10, $12.50 and $15 Buy them today at $7-00 1 20 Reduction Stetson nn IM mm SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1921 now a settled facL even in the soviet councils, that Communism has failed and tt at it never can succeed. Private trading is agair. permitted; the stores are openti i the cities and the merchants are acain assembling stocks. Th.3 Communist experiment has ended.. Put the great problem of a return to forms of republican govern ment, to the restoration of the riht of individual ownership, has jet to be solved. t EXTEN XI A L CE EE RILVTfOX. Independence is 100 years old in Peru and a centennial ceiebra tion is to le had to which the world is invited. In connection therewith the president of the republic has issued a proclama tion in which he fixes the maxi mum prices which may be charged for most of the necessities of life. He also determines .the rate3 which hotels may charce for board and restaurants for food. He is going after profiteers by procla mation. If he caji make it stick the rest of the world might take notice of the Peruvian plan. If President Hardinp could settle on hotel bills by proclamation it would be fine. THE HANK AT 3IOXTE UAKIX The Casino at Monte Carlo is a business proposition and is owned and operated by a cold- CLOSES TO-NIGHT j j Warning and Buy Clothing Today! and Mallory mm. ?rn blooded corporation. The total ic venues last year exceeded ?S-. t'00.000 francs and the net prof its to the stockholders reached nearly one-third of this sum. The dividend for the year is at tha rate of S00 francs a share which is 20 per cent more than last season. Monte Carlo had its most prosperous year to all of which the American miiypnaires graciously contributed. Rreak ing the bank is no small job. The biggest dent in it, according to the report of the corporation, was made by a Swede, Who took out 530.000 franca in one day. It is intimated that the bank got much of it back. Monte Carlo is a poor place for a stranger to make money. A GOODLY tYMPA$Y. President Harding was camping for a few days in a party with Thomas A. Edison and .Henry Ford. With resourceful souls like that the fact that somebody for got the can-opener and corkscrew wouldn't cut much disaster. There is a suspicion, however, that Henry couldn't answer all of Edi son's questions. BITS FOR BREAKFAST . : ; Guess that's going some - S Last night saw the biggest MEN'S Regular values and Buy Them 7J MEN'S Percales and $1.50 and $2.00 Values $11 .15 1- MEN'S HATS Broken Lines Straw and Felt Hats, Saturday, $2.00 and $2.50 Straws on All Hats for 50c am .mwi in in? historv of the Salem Chautauqua. -. Tm " Marion connty'a paviir crewa are going some, too. There are three of them, and they are put ting the hot- stuff on 60p to 800 feet a day esaclt. when everything in going gooid. That means a rnlle more ot pajred market Iroads in" Marion couijty about evelry three days. Wo aere fretting up out of the mud pretty fast right! now. (V And this s a reminderl that ar rangements ought ; to be made right now, br very soon for the sale of the jbonds for next year's work. Ther mnst be no break Jn the splendid program. v -w The Salen real estate dealers report that -business is picking up decidedly There are many new dwelings inf course of onstmc tion in Salj-m but there are no vacant houses; and one dealer de clares that fit would takej a thou- -sand more houses to fill: the de mand. That was the 'estimate several moaths ago. So, j with all the new construction, the; demand keeps Jnst about so many Jumps. ahead ot too supply. ! .- I . The loca building and jloan as sociation 14 supplying motie money for new wellings every veek than ever before It keeps on growing. Tlut the demand is at least three, times the suDDly and the applications have to Wait just about as ong now as (hsy did several months ago. All if which shows that; Salem la a real city. "Where is the Great American Desert?" "I dunno. Chappie. It's dry ererywherp."--Philadelphia Bul letin. ' ! T i .1 Finiish ;! SHOES were $12, $13 SO $15 j Today, at SHIRTS Madras Shirts $2.50 I Values $ I-95 $5.00 to $630 1 Felts . . $k)l65 Clothing TodayjGnly 4,.- . ' S i t i V i .5- "4 " 4 ' i. 3