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4V ' : ' TTTTC ORFCOK srrATWSMW SAT,EM. ORF.fTON ' SATURDAY MORNTXG. AUGUST 13." 1921 mouths and a healthy disgust for their own cupidity; and they will in the end be ready to hire their neighbors to kick them for gibbering idiots. xrn 0iaiesmmt i If IUU VYHIvEt A Juii.lLtCi M" www .ww . . i Issued Dally Except Monday by . L T11R BTATK8MAN l'UIUJ.SIIlMa ttMII'ANY I ." 215 8. Commercial at.. Salem. Oregon (Portland Office, t27 Hoard o( Trade Boildlnc. Phone Automatic ,-i : . -.:! ;a! .a 'a. . S27-69); . j U4 A, j S ; MKMHKK OK TI1B ASSOCIATKI I'lUCKH ' The Arsoclated Preaa la exclusively entitled to the iiw for repub lication otall new dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In thia paper atd also the local news published herein. Oreson has no sort of use for the Non Partisan Lea rue. It is profit. These lands, some of vhirb are qiioied as "worth" from basted, discredited, damned auEgespielt as Bill ol Doom. R. ' J. Hendricks. '. . . . . . Stephen A- Stone. .i.;. ...... rrank Jaafcoakl t v .Manager .. Managing Editor ,.. Cashier Manager Job Dept. If any Non Partisan Leasue hogwaeh comes your way, ditch it. It means nothing but. harm for you and yours. A died DAILY, STATESM AN. served by carrier fn Salem and suburbs. 15 i cents a week. 65 cents a month. V DAILY STATESMAN, by mail. In advance, It a year. 13 for six months, J 1.50 for three months. 60 cents a month. In Marion ! and Polk counties; outside of thes counties. 1 7 a year, $3.50 for six months, St. 75 for three months, 60 cents a month. When I not paid in adrsnce. 60 cents a year additional. TUB PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the greav western wekly farm paper, will be aent a year to anyone paying a year In advance to the n&lhrfUalMman. v 6XJNDAT STATESMAN, $1. SO a year; 75 cent for six months; 40 I cents for three months; .25 cents for 2 months; 15 cents foi hero of the lost battalion In a charity ward in New York, the other day. After his death he was showered with pos thumous honors. Remember the familiar lines, "A soldier of the legion lay dying in Algiers." 1 nn it month. WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued in two six-page sestions. Tuesdays -!; and Fridays, l a year (If not paid la advance, 1.25); 60 ! cents for six months; 25 cents tor three months. There is an excuse for some ramps who cannot una worn; but there Is no excuse for th5 ramps of the Nop Partisan League, who merely want an easy way to get their meal tickets, et the expense of their dupes. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, SIS Job Department, 58S :A Society Editor, 100 , Entered at the Postoffice in SalenV Oregon, as second class matter, RATTLESNAKES OR NON PARTISAN LEAGUE Help the Salem slogan editor prove tna tno saiem aistrict ought to have a big seed grow ing industry. It should have. This would bring a great deal of money and much fame to our people. A representative of the Non Partisan League. is in Sa Vpttincr acauainted." as he says, preparatory to the launching of a movement for organizing that branch of So- V I i ! !' ! a rialiam in Oreiron. It will not amount to much now, for the whole outfit stinlcS'"-," -a ! .v j' f r" ' Stinks from the busted and rotten state of North Dakota, where it worked its havoc, and from the festering sores it has left in parts of Minnesota, Idaho, Montana and other states -- --" ...!-.. And the people ot Oregon who read have heard of the foul smelling thing and its slimy and sinuous serpent trails And they have heard that the double-fisted members of the American Legion refused to allow the "organizers" of the renegrade outfit, practically outlawed everywhere else, to work in the state of Kansas, whither they had gone to find new dupes and get a new toe-hold. , But if this bunch of buccaneers and camorra of corsairs, t with all its wild claims of success in North Dakota, had :. swooped down upon Oregon a few shortly ears ago, with its M trained force of. canvassers, it woma nave Deen iar Deiier Is that Oregon had received a train load shipment of rattle- For they might have put this state in as bad a plight as North Dakota' finds itself now - , i ?. Because some of their advance guard did taint a few members of the Legislature in eastern Oregon, by secret po- litimi maphinationa: bv rjledjnncr candidates Tor election, in exchange for nromised support. Thia attemnt ' now being made ought to have the most rntiless kind of Dublicity. Any man in the least tainted with this-heresy, and attempting to stand for the votes of the peo ple of this state, should be exposed. His affiliations ought to , be proclaimed A" .. And that will be enough. - i J ! . Th vntpra will do the rest. There is not a single sane man in Oregon who would "want the Non Partisan League j. i 1 l It i.J. ' !B I .T..11 J J 41 A Aiw. lasteneu. omo mis swiie, u xie uuy uuuctsnwu uiu unc sequenced that would follow. " ' ' The United States spent $5,000,- 00,000 in luxuries the past year. Theaters cost close to $1,000.- 000,000; soft drinks $300,000, 000; ewelry Js responsible for $220,000,000; perfumes, cosmet ics, toilet soaps, $70,000,000, with clubs, $30,000,000. We are a great people when it comes to enjoying what are considered the good things !n this life. it I, .There are many names for Socialism. There are many branches. But there is only one kind, for, after all, every branch leads back to the doctrine of Karl Marx, the German dreamer of fantastic dreams, and that doctrine leads straight to communism. ; There is no other place for it to lead, tfoi Khevism is one name, and it has made of Russia the most stupendous spectacle of tragic failure, the greatest reality of gaunt hunger, intermcine strife, wholesale murder and pit i abl ft miserv the world has ever seen. The Non Partisan League is another name, and it has H wrecked one state and would have wrecked several others but for the horrible example of that one. There are narlor Socialists In this country, who imagine that they are doing no harjn by airing their pet beliefs ; but they are on all fours with the assassination committees of rvussia only they do not know it and will not believe they are Dlavinir with fire when they dally as dabsters around the M rim of the crater of the volcano that, if their theories were , carried to their ultimate 'conclusion, would engulf them and ; r Oregon has not gone crazy. Her farmers have not be ll mme bu chouse! r There is not going to be any proposition o I J putting a roof over this state and a sign in front marked with j ' the Words. lWSAWrJ AoxxUJl. " ' I I The K nn Prtiaan TAorue orcranizers. if thev are al '! lowed to work at all in Oregon. -will gather some paltry dol lars from their dupes and the 'dupes .will get what? . They i will cret some nicelv nrinted or engraved receipts or certifi- 1 1 1 cat;s, that will finally leave them with a bad taste in their ! ! ' PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS MEN ; TrOU simply can't imagine, a progres-, i si ve. business man these days with out a bank connection his business could not develop,' and he would have no recognized position in the business . world. ' And the more progressive the man, the more use he makes of his bank. The Uiiitcd States National is meeting sat isfactorily the needs" of hundreds of business men in Marion and Polk Coun- tics. It can meet yours. A A nitclStntysfeilox ORtCON It is proposed , to aid another member to the cabinet of the president, viz: a secretary of the department of public welfare. In 1789 there were but four mem bers of the cabinet, the secretaries of war, state and treasury, and the attorney general. Now we have ten, and if we Include the vice president, eleven. Tt ia evi dent that the cabinet is near its limit as an efficient advisory board, and that the addition of each new seat can but make it more formal and consequently less useful to the president. A XEW SLANT OP THE NON PARTISAN LKAGUH. I understand that the Non Par tisan League., now proposing to organize in Oregon, will appeal ."or support on the broad basis of returning all public utilities to the people for whom a beneficent Nature expressly, designed ihem. The greater the necessity and the itility, the more imperative is the obligation for the people to con trol every such natural monopoly; not half-heartedly, not squeam- shly, but with an iron hand. Curiously, this argument leads us, a farmers organiation, to the ogical end of declaring all farm land titles immoral and void. ilnce our creed declares that the world exists solely on the prod- acts of the farm, whereas it could Ive precariously though every very railroad, every power plant, jvery mine and mill and factory were destroyed, we are ; con vinced that private land owner ship and the sale of its products on the basis of supply and, de mand, which means "what the traffic willbear," is an even greater economic crime than pri vate ownership of railroads, tanks, terminals, mines or fac tories. AvVe, the Oregon Non; Par tisan Leaguers, are ready to go the whole length of logic and say that the present farm owners are )lots on society; greedy acoun- Irels who are living ot the sweat of the consuming public's brow we'll have none of it! Abrogate the farmers' land titles and start a new deal with everybody having in equal chance somewhat on the basis of the old Jewish year of. Jubilee, when they did practi cally this very thing. ! On yet another ground.! the Oregon Non Partisan League pro poses logically to attack the in 'quitoug capitalistic system of middleman profiteering in lands, The. Oregon lands '.used to sell at anywhere from a cent to .a dollar an acre. The Leaguers believe that it is logically a crime , for any middleman to bleed either producer or consumer; certainly t is a crime to take this land from the government, or from the first owners, and then either sell or hold it at an Inordinate asjlSOO to $1000 an acre, because of tae moaopoiistic entrenchiaeai given I ho producer of food that people must have or starve, w cow propose to sequestrate, logi cally, either directly or by tax ation; and pat these natural heri tages where they belong into the bands of all the people. We are willing to administer these farms as we would railroads or power plants or elevators or tuiiies; giving the present -"owners" "fair wages for their services, but can celling their pretended title to any 3.uch necessary public utility. These middlemen must be elim inated, destroyed, and the Very name and thought stricken from the language and the thought of man; so the farmer who bought cheap lands, or whose father bought cheap lands, and who is now making a profit on the wat ered valuation of $500 or $1000 an acre, is to be thrown off his ancestral acres as a criminal. No railroad, perhaps, has ever been able to water Its stock more than a paltry 100 per cent, even after it has worked for years and spent millions in actual improvements; we Oregon farmers have, as mid dlemen who should have been paid only as hired servants of the state, monopolized the productive lands on which the nation lives. and watered their valuations from 1000 to 100,000 per cent. Bui now we of the League, having seen the criminality of the mid dleman and the monopolist, are ready to make restitution. That's going a bit farther than me iNortn uaKota Leaguers at first proposed to go; but is logi cal, and the Oregon organizers have announced that they have made mistakes in the past which they propose to rectify as rapid ly as possible. Personally, I've always believed that railroads and power plants and farms, though natural utilities and necessary for the orderly progress of the race, might be either privately or pub Icily owned as the changing con ditions demand; and the people ftlll have a measure of prospeif ity. But after studying the Non rartisan program closely, thi3 logical declaration to include farms In the utilities that dare not be trusted to supply and de mand, or private cupidity, or mid-. dleman ic extortions, or to "water- ea-stock price increase from the original purchase price, t - looks heroically honest; and I must 3 logically strong for this course. we iarmers have fought tho Kea idea of the nationalization of resources on the basis of a pre ferred claim for the military, the shop-worker, the govewimental employe of everq kind. They al so sought to kill off the middle man and the super-man in fin ance; but they wanted it all for a few privileged classes of tK workers themselves. We Leag uers want to destroy business and political capitalism and exploita tion, and middlemanic graft; but some of the selfish organizers of the League made the terrible mis take of seeming to ask to make themselves independent of law, while regulating all others by de nying them the right to do busi ness except as salaried employes of state banks, state mines, state elevators, state railroads, "state forests, state everything. To gire the farmer power to dictate the salaries and the business oppor tunities of everybody else, while he himself may make ten time?, or a hundred times, or a thou sand times more wages by a lucky food crop while the rest, of the world hungers, has not seemej logical or honest. As we have fought to destroy the Red heresy, v. we are now, having seen the light, ready to make it a square deal for the whole world; and give up our land titles and go to work for wages, as men who have wronged the state by this mal tppropriation of the people's most vital resonrce, but now anxious to make restitution. Yours for the Non Partisan League. q. X. FIT! URE DATES Axgnnt 11 tw 21. TTitftH Krtngtliral rvnp merlin Qninabr I"1- I Annul 14. Sunday AnnuTille bon- Aacnit 15, SIoit - ' Kwraul fhil 'twill to fleet preaideat f Monmouth Anr?t IT. WednwiiUr Open foram mHine t Cierl 1-V j , Aurofl IS. Ttirf4r--Wisiuia Tie ic at fah-rmuBtt. t ' An runt, SI, WMnoadav .Ttat plralr K'-m H MeMiinvillt KoUrnia at Wbltaa4 Farr. - H-Ttwhr 2S ta "-October 1 Orea tta Fair. t 8ttMTN?r 28. WJnlr 8laa n at4 rnaMniaatoa t open bii en 3.noo.OPO bfnd. i . KdT"Kr "l. VI and 23 Marian ma ty 1 aacaeiV Inctitnta. -1 - - - j -- -- - b i P " ic ' i -.1? u r: a---w - n ?( . rj?k'gr; m . , A 3 VfC;i' ; n iM if: M'j1 A . t" il A - , w W " -tKf . A. .A ".A . . , hi : ' 'Alt r.A5rM.i'0 ''A-i Luv- 5 i ; iHiaa "T. ?riiifir--,n.-i, ,t,v. -ifnr- .ifT--ii'BrriM.vi i-w-'wrafr -fnri-r--;-r---iii -ft r.,..-rw- "iM - M;-jfwwf.-rfTai,r--'Y-""-1'" 11 v . . . . . ... . ' . J ... ,.i iv. nvv of rvinnaneht Am rhattln- raylv with a nomber of children wna bad aancea lor. wr awjesiy a m garaei party held at the St. James's Palace. It is a known fact that Qnen Maiy U ono of tha most iemccrsUlc 01 rlcrx Ti. paotosraph la . par - ticularly charming one of the Queen. - A j he city should be incumbered with 50,600 flying vehicles, each 13 feet long and carrying an aver age of but little more than one person. There is a lot of waste somewhere. Los Angeles Times. i BITS FOR BREAKFAST I , Wc have many harvests - f Now it is the mint harvest And' there is some wonderful news in The Statesman of thl3 morning in regard" to peppermint il' production on the Labish Meadows lands. is It is going as high as 70 pounds of oil to the acre; and we have heretofore boasted of the Oregon average of 51 pounds, against the Eastern average of 36 iounds a a a i m m m - But that is not the whole story, by a long shot, as the reader will rote by the news item printed this morning. Then there will be a bumper walnut crop this year, and a good fijbert crop, anda big celery crop, and so on down the line. We can cash in stronger every year by remembering that this is the land of diversity and th country of opportunity. S S Salem real estate men report an increasing business. The Sa lem district is all right; and so is the whole country. If every knocker in this conntfry would put yp his hammer nd boost, we would have the best business period right now tbe United States ever knew. Everything is ripe for it. S "Twenty thousand hop pickers are needed in Oregon. In these prohibition days the meek anJ lowly nop, tnough crushed to earth, will rise again.'' Los An geles Times. Thanks. There are a lot of hop . Riowers in the Sa lem district who would like to ba sure you are a good prophet. LOST MOTION. A flying Inspection of tho mo tor traffic of a great city at the rush hours of homegoing shows that about 50 per cent of the cars contain bat one person. The man of the house drives to the city la the morning, parks his car In some side street or at a public station and then, when the 5 o'clock whistle blows, he finds his auto and joins the outward Jam. He has a 1SOO car that takes up almost as much room as a load of hay and all for tbe movement of one individual to and from his home. No wonder the streets are congested. If the street car company had to furnish individual cars for each passen rer where would the world foe? Yet in a way it seems quite -ab surd to think that the streets of 25,000,000 pounds. One year ago in August, the estimate for the northwest crop was in ewes; oi 60000,000 pound?. Yet the fin al tonuai,e was about 35,000,rO. According to the prices now being oitered, an authority in prunes says that it will net the grower from 5 to cents Tor his orchard fan of size. But the brightest spot even with the present low prices, is Ue fact that conditions arc changing in the east and everywhere, buy ers ure inquiring for prunes, Loth canned and dried. Tijp --timflte for the California crop this year is 200,000,ooo pouads. Last year the actual crop was about 250.0O0,OO. There was considerable carry over of last year's crop and buy erg feel that this may to some ex tent hold prices down, notwith standing the fact there is a gen eral higher tendency in a!!" fru:'a and food products.- Worth & Gray Improve - Business Building What the carpenters and the painters sand the general fixers are doing to the new Worth & Gray department store, formerly the II. W. Moore furniture store, Is one of the most gratifying stor ies of Salem improvements for the whole year. The managers are preparing to get out of the furniture end of, the business as rupidly as possible and devote the whole building to their gen eral dry goods -merchandising. They are installing some real In novations in the way of rest and public committee rooms, where the out-of-town public can hare a central meeting place, 'with readlg room. - writing, room- and a general comfortable "set down." The store will be 'ready -for full business weeks. within- the. next few Two Fatal Acciden Reported During Week Out of a total ot ' 41 accidents that were reported to'! the,tato industrial accident comhilssion for the Week ending August 11.- two were fatal, i The fatal leases were Raymond S. Fox, lineman of?.Tl lamook, and Kenneth logger of Veronia. : Of the total number of ; ace! dents reported, 17 vere frqm firms and corporations; that 'have not elected to come lunder . the provisions of the workjnen's com pensation act, and 24 jwere. front public utilities not aubjoct to'tht act. . " - - - '. ;;: : Wilkinson, August 13, 1921, at 10:23 a. m. nn irvutiNi.y mm nn rehatfldiad PRUNES EXPECTED TO rise nice Dad Weather Spell of April Is Felt in Crop Ripening In Valley From the outlook in the im mediate rioinity of Salem, thf. price of prunes should do consid erable climbing, compartV to present auotations, a prominent prune buyer said yesterday. But it s?ems that the country around Salem played in bard luck when the cold and rain along about the middle of April when Blossom day was being celebrat ed, prevented pollinization. But In other parts of tha west growing t prunes, the story is somewhat better, although Clnrke county. Wash!ngt'on, will hardly produce a l,0O0,100 ponnd crop compared to close to 3,000,001 last season. In the Itoscburg district, wh'ch is ne of the fortunate ones, buy era are offering as follows: SO-35's. cents: 35-4 O's. 7 3$ 40-45s, 7 cents; 43-50"s, 7 M cents; 50-55's, 6 cents; us-GO's. 5 cents. " . . It is presumed that prices now offered in the Fouthern lmrt pf the state will obtain in, the Sa ler district. Jj However, while this ctice may seem rather low, the general tonsf of the prune market . art'Mm prore oTer a few months a so. T" )a "the" entire northwest; the prune crop may not exesea over 4 Sale starts tomorrow morning at 10:23 a. m. and promptly at that hour I am again going to throw money and a hunch of merchandise front the roof of the store. There will be another big crowd out in front, so come early and get in a good place to catch the money and the goods. And in the store I am practically giving the goods away for I must and will dose this stock out a hurry. . ,J - .if SALE STARTS SATURDAY Doors Open at 10 f 23 a. m, H III I !!-., Hill H III 0 III I imaii AM GOING TO MAKE SATURD AY AAIER jitf. READ ON; $i.ro Heavy Work Shirts 75c MEN'S TIES 63c 19c Heavy Canvas Gloves, 4 pairs for 25c $13 1 -Ladies' House . . Apron 59c Good Grade Salmon, tall cans. 6 for 33c $8.00 5 and down Corsets $1.98 S1.C0 Children's Coveralls 39c a 75c i : Hop Pickers' Leather Gloves :35c GRABS That's where the people got some big bargains. Did you get yours? ft4 DEES For the conve nience of the working people this store is open evenings. I HAVE PRICED EVERYTHING IN THIS STORE TO EFFECT A SALE AT SIGHT. ' I-"- A--- -I For those who think it A too hot f to ( shop days this store is open even- G. W. KELLY CONSUMERS' of The Kelly Sales System i Selling Out TRADING i HOUSE 373-377 Court Street Just a Whisper off Commercial Street Opposite Miller's 4 u ; i I 4 1 1 Us ' t . .. r ', . i i I 'I ? 1 4 j f ... t i , 1 i ? f I , 1