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1 on ! - Issued Dully Except Monday by , : THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY i 215 S. Commercial tit., Salem, Oregon , -. (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic ' J . ' ' I "'f ' ' (27-69) . ' . --n ! MEMBEIl OP TI1K ASSOCIATED PKF1HS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited fn this paper and also the local news published herein. It. J. Hendricks. ...... Stephen A- Stone...... Ralph Glover . .... ............ ; Frank Jaakoskl i ... ... i DAILY STATESMAN,: served by carrier in Salem and suburbs, 15 . i cents a week, 65 cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall. In ad ranee, $6 a year, 13 tor six months, $1.60 for three months, fcO cents a month, in Marion and Polk counties; outside of thes counties, $7 a year, $3.50 for six months, $1.75 for three months, $0 cents a month. When not paid in advance, SO cents a year additional. TUB PACIFIC HOMESTEAD; the great western weekly farm paper, j will be sent a year to anyone paying a year in advance to -the Daily Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 40 centi for three months; 25 centi for 2 months; 15 centi for one month. WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections, Tuesdays ! and Fridays, $1 a, year tit not paid in. advance, $1.25); 50 i cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23 Circulation Department, 58$ N Job Department, 683 Society Editor, 108 Entered at the Postoffice In Salem, THE FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT IS TO GOVERN I ; Experimentalists in government are the bane of modern life. We are repeatedly asked not to condemn certain so called remedies "before they have been tried." People who resort tp that plea jseem' oblivious of the fact that man has progressed from an indefinite antiquity and that during his eons of progress he has accumulated some valuable knowl edge gained by experience. ' . One of the fruits of man's experience is the knowledge that the business of government is to govern arid that when it passes from that function into the realm of business, con fusion must follow!. Under the best and most favorable cir cumstance, government is an expensive institution. Were economy alone to be considered it were better to fall back upon autocracy as the more efficient form of government But liberty is a thousand , economic considerations can ever be. This is the everlasting answer to the silly dreams of the , Socialist. . Socialists seem oblivious to They have forgotten, if they ever knew, that their full program was in actual practice and in perfect working order under the Incas of ancient Peru, The only distinction be tween what they had in Peru was that under the Incas full authority and control lay in the will of the emperor, who not only enjoyed temporal but spirit ual dominion over his people. They had no will of their own, either relative to this world or the next. The will of the em peror was also the will of God. ; In "an economic sense that sway of the Incas was perfect No subject ever went hungry to his rest, nor felt otherwise than to greet the new day with a song. Yet in all the realm of the Incas the idea of liberty even the emperor himself enjoyed the freedom known to the poorest citizen, of . America, ; Though , he wasthehead of a theocratic despotism; he himself was a slave to the "spirit of the hive." j ' . ' 1 The inevitable result of this system was to utterly de stroy every initiative among the people and to reduce the last person, f rdm the emperor down, to the position of a mere cog in a vast machine. So completely was this the fact that a mere handful of Spanish brigands only about forty men not possessed of even the authority of their own government marched into the heart of the empire, captured the em peror before the eyes of his army of 50,000 warriors, put him to death and brought an end to the reign of the, Incas in Peru. Such has been, and always will be throughout history, the fate of any people who relied, or who rely, upon the favors ol government This doing for the citizen what he ought to do for himself' says Emerson, "is colossal ugliness in all the governments of the world." The sole function of government is to govern: to guard and protect the individual in the Spirit of Liberty for all, wings may soar phoenix-like this task it will" have no time any line of business. Its activities will be confined to such functions as experience has shown can be performed only , by the people as a whole such system, the police power and i This principle has made America, no matter how successful for a time from the stand point of mass prosperity, finally a failure f i And many of them have standpoint named - The old Aurora colony in successful of them -all.: - Future civilization shall initiative and the sturdy; izen. To meet this test he feet and not depend upon the FRANKNESS WITH YOUR BANKER npHE wise man never tries to put any thing over on his banker. He rec ognizes the fact that credit standing, is based not on guesses, but on actuali ties. Therefore, he is open and above board about hi3 affairs. There may be yeak spots in your bus inessif so let's find them,, and the remedy for them. The United States National has helped many a man V- : strengthen the weak spots let usas- sist you. ;SALEM THE OREGON STATESMAN. Statesman Manager Managing Editor . . . Cashier Manager Job Dept. Oregon, as second class matter. times more precious than any ' the lessons of history. and the plan of the Socialists had no abiding place. Not the thing that stands out in his natural rights ; to preserve that "civilization on luminous to Jove." If it performs well nor inclination to undertake as the control of the monetary the public health and protection. every community settlement m been very successful from the ' Marion county among the most rest alone upon the virility, the self-reliant individualism of the cit must stand erect; upon his own crutch of governmental favors ' ' OREGON SALEM. OREOON The past one-months record of the duel's revival in Hun gary 60o0 chitflenges, 350 combats and three deaths -indicates that the institution's bark is considerably worse than its bite. Still it is in the mad dog class. The" Colonial Council of the Virgin islands protests against the imposition upon the islands by the United States Congress of income and other taxes without giving the coun cil a hearing. Congress hasn't committed the offense yet but it .'docs no harm to remind it that taxation without rep resentation is just as much tyranny now as it was in 1776. Springfield Republican. It looks as if Japan wanted th other nations to wait until she spits on her hands1. Simply being a Democrat does not necessarily qualify a man to be postmaster for life. Los An geles Times. An American engineer has been employed to rebuild China's fam ous Grand canal that was first constructed in 486 B.C. China ought to sue the original contrac tors for falling to construct a sub stantial piece of work. It has been figured out that President Harding has posed for the photographers 500 times since he became the chief executive of the nation. Being an Ohio man, he Is very bashful. If .you will read the Salem slo gan pages tomorrow you win learn some of the reasons why the Salem district is a great sheep country, and ought to have a mil lion more sheep and then some. If you can help prove this is a good sheep country, please let the 4 Salem slogan editor know; to day. Tomorrow will be too late. It Is said four houses would be going up where there is now but one If carpenters would ceae profiteering. The whole country is a million houses short. The men who manufacture the lumbe. are willing to stand a reduction in wages, but the men who buHd the houses are stubbornly refus ing to forget that the war is over. Harrisburg Bulletin. Our national Interests now run from sun to sun, girding the round earth with tentacles of trade and commerce. This matter of disarmament involves many luestions of superior development of the nation. 'It may be well enough ao discuss the matter in International council, but the Am e'rican people will demand fullest publicity In that connection and Jhe sovereign right to exercise its will with, reference to the deter minations of any such council. Cincinnati Inquirer. In summer all moral standards seem tosag. We have to accept the statements of, the most up right persons with reservations As when they tell you what they are paying at their summer ho tel. As when they tell you how much mileage they got out of a gallon. . As when they tell you they shot 18 holes in 70. They will tell you that in summer knowing that you know their form is 120. It shows how hot weather undermines the character. In hot weather woman washes her hair and dries it on the front porch In full sight of the whole block. . She takes off her hat in the street car. She goes to the park and drinks soda pop out of the' bottle. She rolls her sleeves up and her stockings down and doesn't care a rip. She'd rather let it go than sew it up. 'Kansas City Star. (This refers, of course, to the region east of the Rockies where they have the real thing in hot weather.) THE HEATED TERM. The weather sharps are having. no trouble at all in convincing the sufferers In the east that this is the hottest summer they have known for 50 years. Of eourse. this happens every year or two, but this time there is no mistake about it. The vote is unanimous. For a sustained spell ol high tem peratures the record Is now be ing reached. It Is much the same all over the world. 'In Europe they are burning up. The most comfortable quarter in the uni verse is Oregon, and more espe cially western Oregon! " THE DOCTOR IS 1IAXDY Over 200 doctors ; and nurses are connected with' the conduct and cpera'tion of the public schools in Chicago. When ;' a child ' leaves its mother In the morning it never knows whether it is going to the multiplication or operating table. Many a pupil goes blithely forth only to return without any tonsils. It is a fine thing to have the doctor around, bnt where there are a couple of hundred doctors . and nurses In the schools, what chance has a pupil to have the nosebleed? FUTURE DATES .A"it. St. w'wi4- iir? PaVm "I McJCinavill. BoUrUm at I'LACIXG THE BLAME. One of the magazines is trying to figure out whether the man or the woman is to blame in the cas of a triangle. So far the girl seems to have the worst of it If the triangle consists of man and wife and single woman. Gen erally each triangle is a case by itself and will have to be deter mined upon its own demerits. Fixing the blame in a three-cornered love affair is harder than determining the responsibility for the war. FOR MAILS ONLY. It might be a good idea for thrifty people to get their corre spondence out of the way. The government has seriously in mind the idea of raising the rate on let ter postage to three cents. Tha administration may show its mailed fist. HELLO, CENTRAL! The courts have decided that a man is entitled to telephone ser vice, even If he has forgotten to pay on old bill. The company refused to Install service for a subscriber who had once been de linquent, but the judge holds that the man is entitled to his "hello" just as if he were paid two years ahead. It is a public service not to be lightly denied. Los Angeles Times. GIRAFFES ARE HIGH. Among other things to worry about is the high cost of wild ani mal. A cargo of elephants and things that recently arrived at San Francisco was snapped up by purchasers before some of the eastern zoos had a chance to bid. An upstanding giraffe Is now said to be worth almost $1000 a foot. Elephants went begging during the war, but now they are worth half a dollar a pound on the hoof. Leopards are worth more than their weight in silver, and even p the city of a disastrous confla mangy, shop-worn lion is worth gratlon with such a water short as much as a set of parlor furni ture. Unless the price of wild inimala goes down, even a poor blind tiger will be at a prohibitive price by winter. Do your Christ mas shopping early. AMERICAN WELCOME. The sight of high wireless tow era pointing skyward from above groves ot green waving palms in Uncle Sam's for away island pos sessions of Guam brought joy to storm-tossed Russian Eeamen who for seven months had. been battl ing against wind and water. A sea yarn which deserves the pen of a Conrad to do it justice has just come across the Pacific It concerns the Russian schooner Di ana of only 200 tons which sailed from Vladivostok for the whaling and fishing grounds of Bering sea. First of all the auxiliary en gine gave up the ghost, then a Btorn carried away the rudde and the rigging became a tangled mass. Next, during a heavy gale, deckhouses and galley were wash ed away and the cargo shitted No sooner was the Diana placed ion an even keel again when an master was carried overboard and drowned. Perhaps the unfortu nate man was a Jonah, tor from this time on the weather bega.i to moderate and, although food was so low that the crew had to be placed on a ration of flour porridge and pulverized tea, the chances of reaching port again be came more favorable. Without navigation instruments save one compass known to be incorrect, the ship was gnided to Guam and there the grateful crew was cared for by the American authorities. The few details of the voyage sexi across the sea are sufficient ta recall to one the great novels of the gifted Pole who Wrote 'Ty phoon' and "Lord Jim." He thoroughly knows the men who go down to the sea" in ships, for he was one of them, and he' could immortalize these Russians who showed alt the old-time spirit of the r American whalers who used to rendezvous at Honolulu and the memory of whom will never fade while the Pacific rolls be tween the beaches along the Ore gon coast and the precipitous slopes of Jopon. TEETH ARK STOLETV nAVANA,- July sa. Manuel Diaz Morgado is convinced that al fresco Blumber, especially with the mouth open, Is a bad habit. Mor xando took a nap yesterday in Central Park. Upon awakening he discovered that a thief had sto len his $40. set of false. teeth. EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE TIm Taylor Address Editor Statesman I note in yesterday's Statesman that M. S. Taylor, manager of the Chautau qua, gave a lecture on ''Psycholo gy of sex, recenuy. n. , Weil, wen: ine iasa mat me ground so well 'swamped by Have- lock Ellis, "the, ungodly" and pio neered by Margaret Sanger, hounded by New York a un-pure purity squad, has becom? aecent! Taylor claims to have- been in federal employ, according to the report, in some capacity; akin 1 1 diagnostician in sex matters. Strange I have never heara or or bm him in print r person tc- fore. Can.'t that ne nas irai little knowledge that is danger ous?'' is he a mirror of wis dom,, a scientific quack. Just a interesting (interesting tome perverted ignorant) amateur in fatuated with his own obstruct prattle? ' ' . If not why not give credit for the scheme of sex education so long expounded in so-called "rad ical" gatherings oy miis ana Sanger. They couldn't get a hearing in "decent " circles; but Taylor years after, expatriates their knowledge ana commai. deers their preachments with the facility of the imitator and the non-challance of a piagarm. T am for ?ex education, not onty of youth but of adults as well have been for twenty-odd year?. hnt nn srrear. eood has ever come to tnan, o' the mental kind, that was loosely given by a non-pro- esK'nnal to a mixed namby-pam hv audience, and any sex psychoio rist of note or worm so aunuia u .- K restricting his love W propei He knows that sex indigestion means perversion, and he is ton much aware of his sacrea uuiy iu humanity to discuss such matters before audiences ot persons nwi Drepared in the a-b-aus oi eocioi- ogle development. Scientists don't try to lift them selves by" their boot-straps. i Salem Water System. Editor Statesman: At the fire which occurred recently at me neLonsr residence, corner of Rural and South Commercial streets, the fire department found a grossly inadequate water supply in the Salem water company s mams, which shortage caused a long de lay in getting any wafer to the tire,: and tbTen the pressure was so weak that the firemen practi cally had to climb into the fire with the hose to get any waier ta the blaze. The property loss resulting from this delay and shortage was heavy. The risk to age is sucn as lO DC a serious yu"" lie menace, it may be true that the water supply Is sufficient for domestic purposes under normal conditions, though at the place named, and all over the higher portions of South Salem the pressure In win ter is seldom sufficient for either fire protection or for domestic use. During the summer time, when irrigation is being, carried on- throughout the city, there. is practically no water to be had In these higher portions of the city. I submit that there is small incentive to anyone to come here to Salem to make a home, when there is not adequate water for fire protection or for domestic use. No city can fairly strike its' stride until it provides water for every reasonable need of all its people. Even if Salem needs Irrigation, there is small reason for using the inadequate domestic supply for this purpose. If the present system is too smalt. It must be enlarged before the city can hope to grow and develop properly. I believe H should be the first and fundamental duty of the Com mercial club and ot the city coun cil and of every civic organization and every private individual, to secure a proper water supply. There never can be such service until the city owns and operate its own water system, charging every citizen his proportion of the cost whatever it is, as a mat ter of health, safety, convenience. In my plant, at Hoyt and South Commercial, I have at times dur ing- the summer, no water, even from a 2-inch supply pipe. This is within the city limits, and is entitled to the protection and ser vice for which I pay. The trust one has in these public utilities is one of the city privileges for which men come to a city. If we do not get them, Salem has no city advantages worth paying for, and deserves to be branded as a slacker. The Commercial club that does not first busy itself with these vital things that make life safe has small excuse for. exist ence. J. C. Jones, Proprietor Capital Monument Works, Salem. NO "WHITE SLAVES" GENEVA. Switzerland. July 30 The reply of Haiti to the list ot questions regarding the white slave traffic sent to all "members of the League was to the effect that such a thing as "white slav ery" was unknown in that island, had never existed there and con sequently Haitian officials had nothing to offer fh reply to the questions. : PRINCE IS SAILOR COPENHAGEN, July 20. Prince Axel of Denmark, who is a captain in the Danish navy, and a nephew of Oueen Alexandra of England, has joined the mercan tile marine for the next three years and ha tsssauj years and has just sailed as cap tain of the big motor ship Asia, of the East Asiatic company, for San Francisco. - WEDNESDAY MORNING I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I Warm days. But delightfully cool nlshts. So our weather is norma!; the finest summer climate in the , world. m i The Salem bricklayers have re duced their scale of waes from $10 to $9 a day. That may s-ra high to the man who does not re flect that the work of the brick layer is seasonal; and that he gets many lay-offs even in the busiest part ot the season. So the $9 a day he receives when he works mast do him for many days when ne must , necessarily be Idle, or find employment in some other line. S God morning, old Yamhill. The motorcycle service of The Statesman is now extended to the farmers of the Oregon county that is the mother of great men. V - The Salem Odd Fellows are to build immediately a 133.600 addi tion to their temple, on the south side. This project is being fi nanced by Elmo S. White, and he is getting all the money in Salem. i hat speaks well for alem. It woulft pay, (tie leadine Deo- pje ot feaiem to get behind the lo cal building and lo&n association, and to get three times as many shares taken as are now being paid on. This would make some 14000 a month available for new nomes. That would not be enough. But it would help a lot It can be done. The shares make a splendid investment. G Writers Recall Passing o Famous Old Restaurants And Chop Houses NKW YORK, July 30. The umbiquitious soul who does his rm toward the settlement of world problems by writing letters to newspapers has been regaling wew i orK editors with observa tions. on changes recent years have wrought with Broadway and life along that thoroughfare. Regard, he says, how the movie shows have shoved articulate ac tors into the side streets. See what has become of the famou old restaurants. They have gone and uniinteresting shoe shops and drug stores have taken thei places. The table d'hote resorts where dinner and laughter and liquor kept patrons happily es conced around the tables until bedtime are now closing at 10 o'clock, and even earlier. The good old crowds -hafe vanished. he writes. Diners seem to regard eating as a duty. And it used to be an experience not without an occasional thrill. One hotel has done away with Its jolly hunting room where the boys used to get together, and the space has been rented to bour geoisie merchants. And those virile chop houses where banquet ers robed themselves in huge white aprons and fraternized over juicy beef steaks are now admit ting women to their tables. The midnight shows have closed, and the electric signs lure one only to a white goods' sale, cosmetics a movie show or chewing gum. And the clubs; oh, how they have changed! The cafe is desert ed, the wags have forgotten how to jest and make merry. The stewards say they have as many diners as before, but only because men want company at dinner. Even the new night time traffic regulations in the theater district have kept the crowds away. Meanwhile he men who con duet business in this great hotel, shopping and theatrical district, have banded together "to help bring about a fair and proper municipal 'regulation of the dis trict which will not bo detrimental to business interests, the life and happiness ot the New Yorker and the visitor, and to perpetuate the name and fame of the world's greatest money-spending center." Their organization was incorpor ated as the Heart of New York Business Men's Association, and includes those whose interests are H OLD TIMES Ml PAST HI. BATHING SUIT Are in Great Demand These Hot August Days You get the satisfactory kind here. Prices range from ' $3.50, $3.95, $40, $4.98, $530 to $7.45 MAIL ORDERS AH Mail Orders receive 466 State Street AUGUST 3, 1921 Peter Clark MacFarlane Tells oil His Work and Makes Interesting Comment on Conditions in Vorld Of all the incredih'e Jewels i tains its poise and strength. v' Am 'interviewers ever erica learned its bloody lesson in whom the news found, Peter Ciark MacFarlane is the brightest and -most delectable. He himself has cracked some ot the hardest nuts In the world when It comes to geltms a. story, but he didn't do it with a ham mer he fairly loved it out of them. He interviewed , fcohiself for The Statesman's readers while here with the Chautauqua, in a way that would be Worth paying money for the privilege of receiv ing it. - ' 5 New Story Coming;. Much of my stuff has been handled by news syndicates," sal J Mr. MacFarlane. "but I have done I much woik for the Saturday Eve- ning Post. Collier's and The. Red Hook. My last book, 'Held to An- Fwer.' was published as a serial n Collier's. 'The Crack In the Bell,' a political story, is the story of a ward in Philadelphia where the old Liberty ' Bell Ls preserved, that is believed to be the very worst governed ward in the United States. 'The Hell Pavers,' a story of good intentions that do not always end well, is to appear In Hearst's." . Mr. MacFarlane reported the World war for several American papers, spending almost two years in this semi-military service. His stories during the war are among the most wonderful of the whole struggle. He has become an In ternationally famous student of military problems. Japanese Activity Noted. Japan Is'building the largest battleships in the world," he said.. "Japan i s sending ' officers to special military schools In Italy. Japan has contracted for cruisers from England, and submarines from Germany, The Japanese Im perial council recently issued an edict that all general army and navy expenses be cut in order that the program. of eight capital cruisers and eight battleships may be 'realized. "Why is. this warlike prepara tion? Is it for Korea, alady crushed by Jap domination? Is it for Si'siom, paralyzed by po litical apathy? Is it for China, not yet awakened from the slum ber of centuries? Only the fu ture can answer. But this is known hat Japan knows that her armies could occupy the 'Pa cific coast In short order and could hold on for at least two or i .. mr years unaer present con ditions. , 1 R. Naval llicy Hit. "The Jap realizes on r navy pol icy is suicidal on the point of dividing our capital fleet, a policy against which Theodore Roose velt made the strongest plea up to tne time or his death "But we will have no war' with Japan as long as America main embraced in the district between Thirty-fourth . and . Fifty-ninth streets and from Madison to Eighth ayenues. f OLD RECIPE TO Hage Tea and Sulphur Turns Gray, Failed Hair Dark and Glossy Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly compounded; brings back the nat ural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray Years ago the .only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is mussy and trouble some. Nowadays we simply ask at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound." - You will get a large bottle of this old-time recipe improved by the addition of other ingredients, at very little cost. Everybody uses this prepar ation now, because no one can pos sibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morn ing the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two, your hair, becomes beautifully dark, thick and glossy and you look years younger. Adv. DARKEN 1 prompt and careful attention. We pay the postage or express on alhorders the recent war, that If is best al ways to be right, but wise to be able to maintain thst position The real reason why we should be strong is that no ine! can tell just when some other nation may become insane with egotism. Ja pan, is at that unfortunate stago at the present time. j- Disarmament Favored The hope for thd prevention of war" lies In disarmament. I wish to call attention to Japan's tardiness in entering (nto the dis crmament. conference! If she is sincere, as she clainW, she should. nave Deen me nrst alia most wu- ling. "There is the hope that the na tion may return to sifnity by tax ing, up its own ecobomic prob lems. That this is possible, is indicated by the recent formation of trades unions In thatj country, a public protest against the mili tary program, and fnom humor ous but just as vitI, Mo wide spread Japanese interest in the American game ot bhseball. France and Italy fako Tour-.; ists from SwizcrlanaV. . - Season is Slow- : GENEVA, Switzerland. July 30. Switzerland has reached! the acute stage of economic stringency re suiting from a too favorable rate ot exchange. The ton r 1st season, upon which she depends to such a great extent, opened with little prospect of an improvement In the situation. . Tourists who Switzerland during ususlly. visit the' summer are going to French and Italian resorts The Swiss themselves,, to a cor tain extent, are abandoning theli own country to spend their .out- ings in France where Swiss money counts for twice Its jralue at home or In Italy, where it counts five times the normal value., . The crisis shows! hot only In the absence of tourist trade, but In Industrial atagnhtion, a good many workers being already out of employment. I A few weeks ago lit looked as it the delegations to he second as sembly of the League of Nations, Sept. 6, would find difficulty in getting apartments - here, hotel keepers hesitating to reserve apartments for thm because Ht would require themjto refuse tour ists at the height of the season. It now appears that the hotels will welcome the League delega tions unless there -f edly radical change In the travel situation. IAXY CUBAN SUICIDES HAVANA, Cuba July 20. Hard times and hot weather have combined with love tragedies to bring about a 'veritable epidemic of suicides here, -j I - - , ' ! . ., I,-.. ' Engraved Cards Wedding Invitations and Vlsitlnc Cards ! r " . Prompt, Satisfactory Service COMMERCIAL BOOK STORE 103 North Commercial W. GAHLSD0RF 125 N. Liberty St. Phone 877 EXCBE RATES ; HIT SWISS TRADE 1 i' 1 r y 1 1 it' 1 i K I " t- i I fi I i i : f c I i