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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1921)
j rrrTTX tfrTVTVV? AIT!TTCT 10 IHI " i ' THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON 1 : - : . : M t a h h 5 W It a hi !L, Iwued Daily Eicept Monday by TIIE 8TATKHMAN I'LIILIHHINO CXJMPAXY V. - ' ' . 216 8- Commercial St., Salem. Oregon iroruana uince, 2 7 Board of. Trade Building. Phona Automatic S27 ' MKMRKIt Tip THR The. Associated Press Is exaUMlrely entitled to the use for repub- " opcnei creaiiea 10 it or not otaerwiae credited u isu me iocjm news puouanea Herein. R. J. Hendrlcki Stephen A. Stone... Ralph Glorer m ru JasxosKl DUJT STATESMAN, senred by carrier In Salem and auburba, IS cent a week, CS eenU a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall. In adrance, t a year. 3 for sb months.. 1.60 for three months, BO cents a month. In Marlon and Polk counties; outside of thea counties, $7 a year. 13.60 for tlx months, $1.75 lor three monthi, (0 centa a month. When tmJJt paid la adrance. 60 cents a year additional. Tim PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the treat western weekly farm paper, will be sent a year to anyone paying a year In adraaee to the Dally Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.50 a year; 76 centa for six months; 40 v cents for three months; 25 cents for 2 months; IS centa foi one month. WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued in two alx-paga aectlons, Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year (If not paid In adrance, $1.26); 60 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 22. Circulation Department, IS I Job Department, 68S society W Entered at the Postoffice In Salem, THE SEED INDUSTRY AGAIN The showing made in the Salem Slogan pages of The States man of-yesterday concerning the seed industry of the Salem district were a a surprise to many- And more especially its splendid possibilities. The favorable showing was a surprise to the editor. The Salem Commercial club should make this matter one of its special eares with a view to inducing capital to develop the seed industry .here on a large scale And it should be the 'concern of "every one interested in Salem and the Salem district to find the right man to organize the industry on a cooperative basis, In order that -seeds of quality may be grown inj large quantities and in an assured steady supply, so as to develop wide markets. A big man is wanted; a brainy man; an honest one, with organizing ability, and with a vision of a great future for the industry ' And this will be assured with the right kind of direction ; for the natural conditions are right. There-is a good start now, with our clover seed that will bring jn $500,000 ta $750,000 this year; with our bulb farm; with our exclusive vetch seed Industry ; with our onion sets and seeds in the north end of Marion county But the chances for gigantic development are sure; if only there can be had the right kind of cooperation, with few mis takes in the beginning.! j v ' FOR WAGES AND A Editor Stattesman t ' - i v ,1 have a farm which my father homesteadedliere in Oregon, 70 years ago.' lie wasJucky in. hi selection.; he picked attract that was mostly open, or so eisily cleared .by' fire that the clear ing represented a negligible coat of money or labor. : I believe, this farm has produced more food for the benefit of mankind, than any other farm on the Pacific Coast. It is too broad a claim -that without it the people would have starved ; though as it was one of the, easiest, and earliest, it is actually true that in the early days many "would have gone short of food but for this farm. It is the realest utility in the world; for on the food raised on the farm, the whole world lives or dies if the food fails. ' I This farm, representing so little original cost for develop ment, is a peculiarly apt.illustration of the Non-Partisan League 'theory of returning all. public utilities to the control of the people at large. ' ; . I doubt whether this land ever cost $10 an acre to bring into cultivation. It would now sell for $500 an acre. It has paid a profit almost every year since it was opened from the wilderness; many years it paid an exorbitant profit, as meas ured by any reasonable wage scale. Sometimes it has been badly mismanaged; a corporation or public employe who used no better brains than some of iis including myself would be fired, or have his wages reduced or withheld for damages: he might well;be sued for malfeasance. Yet it has grown 5000 per cent from the original cost of $10 an acre. : This farm stands as a gross example of capitalism gone mad; of private exploitation of a necessary public utility; of swinish class legislation that gives it to me, who merely received the farm from my father, who appropriated it from the people's natural heritage and hung n-to the toll taken by the middleman those parasites who add nothing they touch, but : unquitously add to the cost of what, belongs to the whole people. This farm, that always paid wages and profit, and so owes nothing to me or my family; has been sd "watered" that now the public is asked to pay dividends on a $500 valuation, for an original valuation of practically nothing. There never was so scoun drelly a middleman as I am, by ition. . . ; . -j' "e farmers of the League too freqquently have been arrant knaves in argument.' ? AVe, any that we should take back the railroads, and the steel, and the coal, and the oil, and the elev ators, and practically every important resource and utility, as a public heritage, God-given and inalienable. Thus we would reduce Dractically every other business, every man, to -hired RprvitntjlA hv Wallv ahroffatinir would leave ourselves free to gouge the public to our heart's content, either by direct price-fixing organization, or by leaving I our own products iree to tne natural laws oi irauc, uur uwu I lands "inalienable, ourselves with power of life and death over 1 all other mankind both by ur control of their food and by our organised control over their jobs. That is the League farmers' creed in North Dakota. Logically, if not yet actually, it is i an oligarchy of farmers, with the rest of the world as serfs living on our bounty or starving in our displeasure. ' I am forced to admit that to me as a human being apart from 'i my ownership tf land that my father took from the public ! heritage just as the steelman and the railroad grant operator and the waterpower magnate and the street franchise conspir- ator have taken their holdings, this North Dakota Non-Partisan League program now looks desperately swinish. If the League J was ever right in its fightj against the seducers of the public utilities and. the short-changers and pickpockets of middleman manipulation for profits that are not earned,.! then .we must accuse the League farmer tjf the most heinous crime of all; for he thrives on the hunger or the bleeding penury of the people who need the food from the lands we claim" to "own.? Only inexperience in organized greed and in political manipulation save him from being a frightful tyrant; for the original League i ro-ram in North" Dakota was one of business and political 'vrsnny. .f -, - :-..: v'j:.-. . ";: David the King was athirst for a drink from the; well ' i father's home at lktLIehem, and his three strong men of - B9) ' tsonr'iirvii puihiu Manager Managing Editor Cashier If anazer Job Dent editor, 10 Oregon, as second class matter. BETTER HUMANITY it. It is 'a gross example' of whom we Non-Partisans hate; to the value of the products their living and their greetl the Non-Partisan League defin. his business chance. But we war broke through the enemy's lines and brought him the sweet waters from that crystal fountain, he said: "(Jod forbid that I should drink this water at the risk of the lives of my faithful friends!" And he poured it out on the ground. Was David a fool! Nay; he was the wisest man in all the world; and his men who hazarded their lives for just this one cooling draught for tbeir master, were a thousand times better paid by his spirit than if he had swallowed every drop. We Non-Partisans of Oregon may not be King Davids but we ARE honest enough that we do not propose to repeat the sinister greediness of our North Dakota progenitors. We offer to start the ' give-it-back" campaign by abrogating the titles to the $200 or the $500-an-aere farms that properly belong to the public, along with the mines-and the forests and the terminals and wharves and water powers. We'll put every iniquitous deed into one grand bonfire, dance around the .blaze with the other former tyrants and hold-up and then well all file up to wages and a better humanity. The munition makers are not indulging In three cheers for the disarmament conference. When prosperity does knock at some doors it can't be heard be cause of the knockers Inside. Statistics show that the bicycle is coming back. It is to be en couraged. It means exercise that Is worth while. Some one, remarks that the world has ceased to quarrel over what is right and gone to scrap ping over what Is left. Austria Is In terrible trouble, but not so miserable, after all, as to want a Hapaburg back on th? throne. The second anniversary of the German republic was celebrated the other day. As Brother Jas per of Richmond, Va., once put it, "de sun do move." Senator Newberry now reads his title clear to that Michigan senatorial seat. The Ford flivver stalled and there is nobody in sight to crank her up. President Harding is back, from his vacation, much refreshed. He might tackle the' Job of lifting the local Democratic officeholders out of their jobs while he is feel ing in fine fettle. Los Angele3 Times. "The Philippines are asking for their freedom and $15,000,000. but they probably would be wil ling to compromise on the $15,- 000,000," aaya the Marlon Star, the newspaper of which President Harding la the chief owner. The slogan editor has got to prove, for next Thursday's issue, that the Salem district ought to raise more beef cattle, more fat hogs and more mutton sheep. Live Stock is the subject. If you can help the slogan editor, please hold up your hand. The Idea of the slogan editor of The Statesman that the aeeJ Industry of the Salem district ought to be organized should be pushed. It can be done. All it needs Is a man big enough to direct the work; an able and hon est man with a vision! HIGH F1XAXCE. The Indebtedness of the city of New York is $120,000,000 more than the constitution pernyta. Bat what is a constitution , be tween Tammany Democrats? - IT IN THE AIR. They are. going to have table d'hote dinners and hot food on the trans-Atlantic air -liners when the big ships get to working the heavens. This will he tried out on the trip of the Zeppelin that will shortly sail from England for America. The Americans will in sist on having a regular dining car service before aerial travel is fully accepted. A TRIBUTE TO JOHX F. WAL LACE. The Chicago Journal of Com merce was one of the newspa pers to comment editorially on the death of the late John F. Wallace, who died July 3 at Washington. Mr. Wallace Is credited by the Journal with be ing one of the country's noted men, not In any one line of en deavor, but In several. The com ment follows: John Flndley Wallace. "Today John Flndley Wallace, engineer, publicist and pioneer in mid-western culture, is to be bur ied in New York. Because of the wide scope of his work he be longed to the - entire country; because of the part he played in developing the transportation fa cilities of the northern part of he Mississippi valley, he be- RHfJRE DATES Asput 11 to St. rltl laaf.Hsl tii moetinc at Oninahy lrk. . Awrnst, at. Wmii4 Joint pb-mU 1 "2 veMiTil! RoUrUi, mi witt!ia4 Twtt. Rptmbw 20 to OctoW 1 Otcob '"" w NMiwtMtoKr ta epfl bid' . Kiimw 11 i.-ts b4 39 Utrfea mt y Taathera' InatiUU. middlemen and title grabbers the office and go to work for O. X. longed peculiarly to Illinois. It was as a child be came to this state from his native New Eng land, and it was Monmouth. 111., within the shadow of the college his father founded, that he grew to manhood. "In the eyes of the world his greatest achievement is probably the work which he did on the Panama canal, for he was tin first chief engineer of this great project, and it was his careiui planning which not only made the accomplishment of this work a possibility, but also made the Isthmus immune from the rav ages o yellow fever. "But to his intimates Mr. Wal lace was more than a great e.: gineer he was a man in whose heart the fire of friendship burn ed brightly. . This "virtue was exemplified In no uncertain man ner throughout his entire life and that it was the ideal upon which he shaped his career was force fully set forth by him in 19 1 when, addressing the graduating class of Monmouth college, he made friendship the keynote of his message and advised the youthful graduates to cultivate friends in preference to striving after success in any other way. 'Other things being equal,' he said, 'the measure of your suc cess will depend upon the friend- ehipa you make.' "In railroading, too, John Find ley Wallace made a name for hini- nelf that will not be soon forgot ten. He helned to lav ih iino ASUO that opened up the commercial possibilities of the Middle West, e bridged the Mississippi river at points where bridges were con sidered almost impossible. He spanned the Mississippi at Fort Madison, Iowa, and he brought the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; the Chicago & Alton, and the western lines of the Illinois Cen tral into Chicago. He established the suburban service of the lat ter road, and through his plans it became possible to handle the crowds which flocked here for the Columbian exposition In 1893. "He continued at wonc until the time of hia death, being at that time in Washington attend ing the hearings of the senate committee on . interstate com merce, in connection with the board of economics and engineer ing recently formed by the Na tional Association of Railroad Se curity Holders. He was never discouraged by obstacles, although he encountered them in plenty during his career. He was typi cal of that ,spiii;t which over came the wilderness. He sought no honors for himself, but he has left behind many monuments the works of his own hand and heart and brain." John F. Wallace Tlsited Salem twice first in the late eighties, when he was a guest for several days at the home of his uncle, R. S. Wallace, and a second time after the Chicago exposition, when he was a guest of his uncle! J. M. Wallace, who had charge of the Wallace properties here af ter the passing of It. s. Wallace. The great engineer liked Salem and its surrounding country, and he met many of the then resi dents of this locality. He was n cousin of Paul Wallace and Mrs Charles A. Park of Salem. BITS FOR BREAKFAST I Fall business opening " c The so-called dull season for aalem Is passing. V It looks like a good fall busi ness ahead for the concerns that have prepared for it. There is a distinct Improvement among the farmers and stock men of the Salem district They feel 1000 per cent better than they did two months ago. . It is psychological: nnd that makes all the difference In the world The Salem real estate men are nsy; and they will he busier as the school days approach. There are not going to be enough houses to go around in Salem. V Thlnea are taking ai v. look at the state fair grounds. Going to be the biggest and best ever. .Charehe la fammo ' T t . - 19 tut; anrfolit trlancrla ,?.! .i-.m . "j- m .uiu m civili zation. The Hoseburg ' mystery deepens. And there is no lower ing of the wages of sin. V S Another circus coming; the Sells-Floto combination. Tell it to the kids. S Congress is still saying it with words; and so is the telephone in vestigation. Hot air enough to puke the dogs of the dog days. The country needs a fool killer to get after the word mongers of high and low degree; to treat 'em rough. Ochoco District Wants $75,000 More in Bonds The Ochoco irrigation rtistriot has tiled a plication with the statT engineer for the certifica :inn of bonds in th sin of $75 -000. Previously $1,350,000 ot .nd had be :ii eer:.f'c1 tor the ditiict. The money to le der.ved from the pale of tb- latest issue ot bonds will be us-si in reconstruct ing ctnals a:i'l ofhr works dan aged recently by i water i;poi t. Th Ochoco di'.tr'.-: H loctt 3d n Deeehutes county. SILVERTOXIAXS HOME Ernest Subke and family and Fred Peck and family of Silverton have returned home from an auto trip, camping along the way at Pacific City, Seaside. Astoria. Rainier, Cascade Locks. Portland. Columbia eBach and Hillsboro, taking In all the sights along the Columbia hiehway. They report a very enjoyable time with nn nnr trouble and no accidents. U A M A i i t-i mhi SELBY - See the New Light Tan Sport Pump for ladies, the newest thing direct style centers Just arrived, new moderately priced New Black Satin est at only $8.00 The most stylish Black Kid Pump ever created, has just been unpacked your inspection at $9.00 A wonderful new Black Suede Pump in a perfect last and one of the best have ever shown Rubber Heel Day Each Wednesday We will put on most any make of Rubber Heels, including most sizes in the famous wing foot heels, Wednesday of each week, all at 25c OF Fruit Sales of Last Week Amount to Quarter of Million Pounds The entire stock of the 1920 crop of prunes on this coast in the hands of the Oregon Growers' Co-operative association has been Bold at a half cent advance over recently quoted prices. 'The sales of the last week amounted to three-quarters of a million pounds. Stock or' prunes to the amount of about a million pounds still re main in the hands of the associa tion on the eastern markets where they have been stored in readi ness for sale. It is expected that inese stocks will be entirely cleaned up by October 1 to 15. R. C. Paulus. general manager of the association, says that some future sales on the 1921 crop of prunes are being reported and Is of the opinion that the bulk of the small sizes of the Oregon, Wash ington and California prunes will go to European markets this year. Germany Is again coming into the market and a representative of the merchandise department of a large banking house In Ham burg is now in Portland to ar range for petite prunes which will bo shipped to Germany. Remember when we used to laugh about Carrie .ation? 1 OLD MEW FALL We are now receiving new fall shoes each day ' 1V1 C U r ET O W I I V I- complete. j ARCH PRESERVER F:1 .... i $7.00 brown hall and strap Oxfords, all sizes, a very new at $7.00 Pump, the latest style and at $ 9.O0 Do Not Hanan Shoes SelbySboes Fox Pumps DaxBaxOil smsm 326 Statea-Mttofed(icBus!iB3nK' ' h 1 II Rostein & . : . , . ; ; i Sweaters, all wool, fine quality, new weaves, tani pie line of ladies', misses' and children's Sweaters only one of a kind, every one a special good value. v -Towels. See our new towels, they are .Wonderful values. Huck Towels from 10c up. Turkish Tow els at . .. 15c, 38c, 40c, 50c and 69c Fancy Turkish Towels, splendid values at 40c, 50c, $1 and up. Heavy all linen Crash Toweling, to dean up at 18c a yard. ! I Art Linen in three widths, 18 in., 20 in. and 24 j in., all linen. ; f New Ginghams, New Percales, New Outing Flan nels. .. 1 Cotton Blankets, first quality only,. no seconds. New Blankets and Comforters, at the hew low prices. : !'!'' New Fall Dress Goods. See the new Sport Stripes. All wool, fine dress goods. New low prices. 240 and 246 North Commercial St. (Ul in Both men's and women's now in stock last, all widths from the narrowest to the widl Forget BeraanBoob, Witch Oh Book MBandBoob Foot Appliances 9 i f. Greenbaum from the eastern creation and very and is ready for fitting styles we t, . t