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i WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 24. 1921 - MEMBERS Or NATION-WIDE DfcAIH - 1 0ttgpu: 0tate0imm ' ! Issued Datly Except Monday by ! THE STATESMAN ITIILISHLNO COMPANY i l 216 8. Commtrclil Rt K&lem. Ore rot) Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic j j MEMBKK OF TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS ( The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for repnb .catlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited I this paper and also the local news published herein. U J. Hendricks. Manager tepfcen A. Stone Managing Editor lalph Glover . '. Cashier 'rank Jaskoskl ; Manager Job Dept. fAILT STATESMAN, serred by carrier in Salem and suburbs, 15 i cents a week, 85 cents a month, fAILT STATESMAN, by mall. In advance, $S a year, fl for six months, ? 1.50 for three months, 69 cents a month, in Manon and; Polk counties; outside of these counties, $7 a year, 13.50 for six months. $1.75 for three months, CO cents a month. When not paid In advance. 60 cents a year additional. ma PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, win be sent year to anyone paying a year In adrance to the fi Daily Statesman. n ITJNDAT STATESMAN, $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 40 r cents for three months; 25 cents for 2 months; 15 cents foi t one month. jyEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued in two six-page sections, Tuesdays 1 and Fridays, $1 a year (if not tfald In adrance, $1.26); 60 tj centa for six months; 25 cents for three months. i'SUCPlTONES; ! 'i Business Office, 28. Circulation Department, 588 Job Department, 688 Soclet;2dltor, 100 fntered atthe Postofflce in Salerno Oregon, as second class matter. MIGHT BE MADE HIGHLY USEFUL parasitic middleman and profiteer, abolish both; take these unrighteous profits away from these holders,, and put them back into the public treasury AND START CLEAN. I do not wish to call names ; but I assert that he is a thief and a liar and a political tyrant and thug, who attempts to carry out the first part of the North Dakota program of de claring practically every other business as a state utility be cause in private hands it is either a monopoly or a parasitic, middlemanic incubus and then is not honest or intelligent enough to include in the proscribed list the only great, es sential monopoly of land. If one believes in their preamble, that natural and even built-up monopolies belong to the whole people, he must believe their main text that declares the land to be the one essential for maintaining human life or else he is a mental assassin or thief. If I say that "We the League of Oregon" will not be of this self-righteous, lying-to-ourselves class that take away other men's businesses and jobs, while boosting our own monopoly, I believe I speak truly. x Maybe we do not exactly want to give up our own farms to this creed, and go to work for wages as tenants on tire farms that the political power in temporary control can again take from us by edict. Yet I believe we ARE honest; and 1 believe further that the only league that can prevail among the honest 'farmers of Oregon is one that says "Give it ALL back." We are not hypocritical Ananiases, selfishly withholding a part of the price of better government. Many of the orig inal Non Partisan followers were sincere, though ignorant and hence brutal in their swinishness. Now that we recog nize more clearly the nature of the land monopoly, we can not honestly prate of taking back any other "essentials" and monopolies, until we dedicate our own monopoly to the public treasury. . " Do I speak for the honest Non Partisan Leaguers of )regon? Ii. A. vrw elsewhere m these days. A Puritan religions faith, acknowl edging and revering a world mor al law incumbent not only on the individual and the family, but on the nation. and functioning through churches independent of state control, cannot but act as a teadying and inspiring force in democracy; and this fact was very evident to the alarge-niinded French critic. Law and religion he regarded as the pillars of our great democracy. If you are going to help the ThA dinnatchea of vesterdav reported that at a conversa-LWlin (Utnr wove that thu dis .inn hptwppn i Chairman Fordnev , of the House Ways and! nnCh to raise nvore live :' Means! Committee and President Harding, the President ad- 3tock you wlll nave to do it to- nsed Mr. Fordney that after the proposed recess 01 congress day tn increased appropriation win oe bskcu ior wie iwui vv"1" nission, when the tariff bill now pending oecomes eiieciive. senator Henry Cabot Lodge win f If thin shall include real duties and responsiDinues ior Ki mmw or th American I he Tariff Commission, the increased appropriation will be delCgau0n at the disarmament justified! v I ' r conference. Three cheers by So far, the Tariff Commission has not been worth its Woodrow wiison. hold the rope while gpits on his hands? Do Valera !:alt The expenses of it have been wasted money. Higt tne Daii Eireann is in I a m t . V . . 1 4 1 ..... . T L I As this commission was contemplated ano prpopopsear,ea8on and the fate ot Ireland is )y President Taf t, it was intended to bring in frequent recom- ln the balance. wni somebody nendatlons for tanii cnanges- ( A schedule or an item at a time:. . This would take the tariff question out of politics. It ievcr had any .rightful place in politics, any more than the ! I 1.1. Tl.oMn4.n4. rn.mmnnn r.mnt!i I JUCS lions COIlllllg ueiure Uic uibciataic vuiuuiciv.e vuuuiua- tfon have a place in politics. , tl , 1 It is a business question. Tariff schedules and items affect the business of all the scodIc. Thev are neither sectional nor political, of right. i If President Harding succeeds in making his Tariff bommission a live, active, functioning body, instead of a fossilized and useless thing, he will perform one of the most Outstanding advances that could possibly .be credited to his administration. , "Conference on Limitation of m Armaments. and the Far East" is the official title of the coming in ternational meeting in Washing- ton. Faste it in your nat. THE ONLY HONEST SOCIALISM 1 1 Editor statesman : !i v j "' oi..vi,' j -r ri.. v lour corresyoriueui, n. oiaujjiuer, ia j.aiuy otvuiatc A total reduction ot $790,330,- 000 in the annual tax bill of the nation; will result from the changes in the 1918 revenue act embodied in the new administra tion bill. The people who voted last November for a new deal in axatlon at Washington are likely to get It. The Statesman has Issued, for premium purposes, a road map of i i t - ii. . i ii j if . n s . t . - i. - - iwnen ne says tnar, tne won rarasan league movement is nui ; socialistic. And yet, that exception which proves his accuracy, is Oregon, , giving ail the paved k ' t ' L ' til' . m i me most aamnincr tnine aoout tne league as it was originauy traveled and other main roaas. formed. It was socialistic, communistic in practically every-1 the size; county seats and popuia thing but the control of the only essential thing for human tion of the counties, and the pop life the land itself, which produces the crops on which man- uiation of an the towns and cities ijkind can live. It proposed to take away practically every I if you wiiMake this map and add ! bther variety of land or property control that has been de-1 up the population of Marion and iSreloped into a human asset railroads and all transportation Polk counties and ot the parts i ' 1 L ... r J ' J. .1 l.i I .... . . . rl, and communication, mines, ioresis, steei maKing, creamer-ior Yamniu, jumn ana v,iacKaiiia es, elevators, the handling of every food product; and, by that are in the Salem territory, mplication, every other businesses but the ownership and op-1 you win find that saiem has 100, pration Of the farms. I 000 people in its trade territory. In North Dakota, Where it Was Strong enough, It leglS--r Its potential trade territory ated to ruin or coerce every hostile or lukewarm newspaper, And there cannot be found in an bank, mercantile establishment; there was no free press in the world a more prosperous 100, Dakota -only , the outside "outlaws and the inside syco-looo people. What's more, there phants or thieves. There were to be few or no independent win be 200,000 before very long. businesses; all the present employes and employers were to land, in the next five years, the become wage-workers and wards of the state. As l under-1 potential value of all the prop l stand Socialism, this was lt.'pure and undefiled. I erty In this territory will increase 1 Vn M fA ,et vvtith Kill aw n a vaiT 1 hA lQfl1 YVfnlTV. I W . 1.n1 (fr .,.11 vlirtf oly. Directly, dofirmaticallv. it declares that the larmer is a I increasing. The paved roads win ; Drivilesred class: free to own his lands, however acquired, hein materially in this increase of ( . ' - - - - r , n ;;without sacrificing them to the melting pot in which other J population and wealth Dronerty was fused for the common srood ; free to combine for . his own gain, to manipulate the government for his own po- tiik pastimes op the rich lineal and personal profit. The law of supply and demand iwas open iornis oeneiit: necouio cnarge an tne traiuc wouiu coincident with the announce Dear, on tne JOOd tnat tne people must nave or uie. ine ment that Mary Roberts Rinehart ifarmer oligarchy, self-proclaimed, seit-perpetuateu, aosoiute, received S2oo,ooo in royalties for couiuix prices, i ix wages, irve men iu iuw .wugea ui iuione cf er p-lays alone came the jCXlie in every Otner DUSiness. v news that she was undergoing an JBy organization, it made the larm land owner an aoso- 0nflriinn for anrwni iritis . I . 1 . , t i A J 11 I lUte DUSiness ana political aespot; 11 maue every uvuer umii a Mary is well again now but wc serf and a slave and an apologetic, begging puppet hunting a An hnnn ahn In not rr.incr tn cot ! job. . That it did not work out to this unspeakably bitter end, thl8 Bort of e3tampie ot riotous ;is due to the sterling Americanism of the good Americans llvlng on nor hard-earned wealth. even in XMonn uaxota wno reiuseo to De DrowDeaten Dy mis So many people ,n the heyday of their success indulge themselves i tn this sort of extravagant luxury -and it is a matter for the deep est regret. Los Angeles Times. A GREAT FRENCH THINKER. ! swinish, slave-driving program. j This talk of abolishing all perniciously parasitic "mqnop iblies" and middlemen from society, sounds fine. Except for certain inside evidence that can not be disregarded, it appeals to me, a dead-in-carnest farmer who has felt, that business conditions were wrong and that" this is an honest attempt to irerr.edy them. . ; . v " i - But I swear that it in th Rinistpr ftrotfsm of the Puritan rgthen rVf hiiFmui n,;k ..4 in nama f tlioiii In the present close alliance own fantastic God of hate and murder. Wo. of todav know ex,sUnK between France and our that there never was such a God; their own assumption of 8elvea 11 is Peasant to recall how Huwr-interrUy was Wot exactly a rose, but it was a colossal, tne Ilr6t Earopoaa who wrote a irntlsTirsl ! Wtmo If wf rri i;f,rl I book showing a real insight into iiidws! ihpr Bna11f4 1ral r-amA., nir;,k rVmalw I American political ideals and crime. , r , I their working out was a French That is the kind of propaganda the original Non Partisan mn- I)e Tocqueviiie. whose -De- .itcs or perverts or criminals save themselves, tn declare for- H4 ears ago- was an epoch-mak ,feit all Dronerty titles but thrir r.n tn Ariv Jn abrvitiirfA ln bok. Were he alive today on their own terms all men but themselves, tn ahroo-ate as ne wou,d be rpr 4 at a re contrary to public polity every business hut. ihoir own ahso- tcnt e"wance ot our president lute monopoly over life itselfand to set up their own law 0f conta!nlns a com,a,nt regarding "all the traffic Will bear'.for their nwri Raloi the excessive burdens too many It is quite true that as yet there is no formal Non Par-tof our ins would throw on tisan League in Oregon; officially, there are only a few self- lhe federaI povemment. "The imported agents, organizing at so much per head and it is on outstanding demand of to- a rroooiy salary in these hard times. - But the true league pirit as I interpret it, was here ahead of these financial ,.q -nd r.riv!fwr I am nart. of this "be-honest" league . ; Irit that antedates these paid shouting exponents. I thank x .ie lorrt that the league that I sand for, is an honest league; th-t believes in putting every monopoly into the same pro- FU1URE DATES ant VcUinarilla Rotviuk WkaatUad Trrr. 8ptmfvr 38 t October 1 Ort 8tt rir. grptcmbw S. WwtnMU Stats sol 1 cl-. If the land is a monopoly, if the farmer .who u.X:Zw,00Tm br " 'If r'i-'r ltT.-l VnTifo or.!Ta if fn n Vl IrrU" .- t.'nl hlttWnpT nt MCriOB CHUB- day," according to President Har ding, "is the tendency to turn to Washington for the things which are the tasks and duties of tha 4S commonwealths which consti tute the nation." The single forecast made by De Tocqueville that was distinctly falsified by later events was the probable easy success of state secession, because of the essentially slight hold the federal power exercised over the people at large. He did not foresee the growth ot a trend towards paternalistic federalism; such as President Harding and others find to be a danger. Another clause in the presi dent's deliverance, however, is in harmony with the Frenchman's outlook of the year 1830, when the movement westward to the Paqlfic had not yet materialized. Within a hundred years he saw nation that had grown to a hundred millions, and separate states that were at least 40 in lumber. The hundred years are not yet expired and both his fig ures have been exceeded. Born in the year of Austerlitz, 1805, of a noble family of Nor nandy that had suffered under the Terror, he did not become a reactionary like too many aris tocrats. Studying for the legal profession, he became impressed with the future that lay before really liberal institutions, and ln his early twenties gave up the prospect of a judgeship to make i trip across the Atlantic at his own expense. His object, as ho ells us in the opening chapter of hl "Democracy in America," was to "seek the Image of demo- racy itself, with its inclinations. its character, Its prejudices, its passions. I wished to discover whether we could not learn there it least what we have to hope or fear from her." He saw the force of democracy as the coming world conqueror, and he sought to learn nethods to safeguard it. A Frenchman of monarchy, hs lad no Puritan traditions; and yet here in America he fully re ilized the wonderful part Puritan 'deals and life had played in the bounding and development of our Institutions. His remarks made respecting Plymouth Rock, 30 mich before the world during th9 past year in the tercentenary cel ebration, would please any New Englander: "Here is a stone which the feet 9f a few outcasts pressed for an "nstant and the stone became fa mous; it is treasured by a great nation and its very dust is cher ished as a relic." The habit of constant sneerins ind prodding at tho name Puri tan and all it denotes, coming in great measure from hyphenated Americans whose sympathies .re main on the wrong side of the fence, is in the last issue unpa triotic and un-American, if w? may trust this great Frenchman. The United States slatted with no privileged class, no aristocracy; and thero was thus fiom the be ginning an equality of conditions which fascinated both the idealist and the practical man, disgusted with the unfairness of social life elsewhere. And so law asserted itself as that which safeguarded this cherished equality. De Toc queville prophesied that this equality of conditions, having once asserted itself In America, would not die out, but would rather tend to spread ilself across the Atlantic. He was amazed to dis cover the central position given to the supreme court, with au thority not. only over the inter pretation of law, but over the con stitution and the law itself. Law and religion lie regarded as the two powerful forces that would cave the ranny TUKKEVS XEW CAPITAL Recent reports may have led some people to believe that the Greeks were about to overwhelm the Turks. Unfortunately there does not seem to be much likeli hood of this. The "historical rampart of Islam" is etlll intact despite the victories of the sol diers of Constantine. The Greeks are not yet , in Constantinople. 'Poor, dear Tino," as some one ankindly called the restored kii.g. is hardly likely to make a state entry at the head of his troops. The allies do not wait him there ind it has been stated that they ave served notice on him that ais army is not to attack the city. Even should the Greeks take Con stantinople they wouIJ be a long way from conquering Turkey. Constantinople, word which lin gers long on the tongue and brings up memories ot glamorous lights, is no longer the real capi at of the Moslem.-. It has given ?lace to Angora, the city on a hill which cannot bo hid." The incient Ancyra, 215 miles from he Golden Horn, is one of tbe few ctites in the Old World which las gained immensely as a result f the war. Before the world conflict it was a picturesque but tumble-down place of sun-baked iricks. As the capital chosen by Mustapha Kerual, it is being re built. The Turkish government declares that it will be converted into a city worthy of its new dig nity. Clinging to the slopes of a steep, rocky hill which is crown ad by the ruins of the old citadel. Angora offers many opportunities to an artist with vision. A Hun garian engineer has been com missioned to re-establish it and he has taken Budapest for his model. Government buildings will adorn the heights above a deep canyon and a new and mod ern business section vriil be con structed. THE HOB-NAILED LIVE It. A certain New York doctor says that. prohibition has decreased the number of cases of "cirrhosis of the liver" in the county hospitals by 50 per cent that being the iinromantic complaint known in the vernacular as "drunkard's hob nailed liver." It appears, however, that home orew can do a little to maintain the complaint, although its deso lating effect is chiefly upon th? kidneys. Of course, in time the hob nailed liver should disappear from the hospital clinics altogether, which will be very unfortunate for the medical student of the future who will be denied the study of this Important human complaint under the most desirable condi tions. However, we must not take too glooniy an outlook of the situ a tion. The home brewers may im prove their' nectar up to the hob nailed standard and in any case most of us personally know a few fellows who are altruistically pro viding that the students of the fu ture shall have a chance to ex amine hob-nailed livers if their present method of maintainin their private stock is not tamper ed with. If T- LADY-LIKE SPORTS. The smoking compartments for women introduced for the benefit ot female tourists on the Canadi an Pacific appear to be quite pop ular. Likewise the ladies are learning to play a Rood game o poker as a variant from auction bridge. A neighboring paragraph er declares that when a girl can smoke and play poker she has tho makings of a real sport. Bl'ILDlXfi EDITORS. Journalism is being officially taught at 171 of the colleges o America. The nose for news can not be grafted on the human face bnt where it exists it cah be sharp ened and trained. Some of th. old-time editors did" not have much regard or esteem for college bred "journalists," but they have demonstrated not only their value but their eminence. t BITS FOR BREAKFAST Fine fall days. S S : The detours are terrible 't"'r S i Bat they will not last long, and then going in this district will he republic frem I the.. ty-ln!L g0lPg m inia district wil .ot "majority: opinion," . .mUch tter lhan ever before mca Has oeen womng such b- J Dy Boon today , lb. paved ALLEGED i-!irrrfsX ?r Ah ' IL-j, m " ii l (I i M I II Pi 0 I I ! 1 a natinr.viH tti nrrlrr vhii' tn ' American branch of the dreaded Italian Carnorr is (thought to tessed. Fear ot being hauntfed by the ghost of a man whom he had shin led Bartolo Fontanp, a barber .... , . . v-A il. nri v. J 1 t w fv. leaner": X COal ess IO uie police OX ms cunuecuun miui Lav Hang. 111c uojiu is biivwii as viio uuumi w nembers of which, the police believe, are responsible for the murders of hnndreds of Italians in various ities throughout the United J&tates. The American branch of the Camorra, it is said,' carried ont ordcM 'or killings received from the .association in Italy. Ten murders in Detroit, five in New York nd two in Brooklyn are attributed to the .gang. The picture shows, lelt to right; btetano.Magaddino, ponco aeiec- ive S. A. Ke petto, one 01 the oetecnves wno maae xne arrest; rrancesco rums, uiucpjw:, uuiuiwmi, ,rito Bonventre, Mariano Galantn and Bartolo Fontano. ' j ific highway to Jefferson will be. finished the gap closed up oining with the South Commcr- ial street paving. V V But this part of the Pacific highway will have to be left for thirty days, because it is concrete, and it must "set." But think of the joy it will be after thirty days; compensating for all the crlefs of the detours. V Congress is about to tako a re cess for thirty days. If the tariff and finance bills had been put through, instead of hung up by the .windjammers, and a few oth er major pieces of legislation fin ished, the people of the country generally would feel more like the members had earned a vacation. V The nassenger rate war down at Portland may teach the trans portation line managers a lot of things amone; them the fact' that the people will use their facilities when they think they are getting their money's worth, and a little more. m The Non Partisan League or ganizers at $18 a throw) in Ore con are finding hard sledding. Thf 'harder the more creditable to the farmers of Oregon. They can do nothing but harm in Oregon, and the fewer $18 receipts they write the better for all concerned; ex cepting, of course the organizers who are looking for asy money. FI TO 01 HOME HITS They Are Discriminated Ag ainst in Favor, of Rank Outside Peddlers Tho arrest of Max Solof, pro prietor of the People's Cash store, by Officer Miller Hayden yester day morning on a charge of un lawfully selling watermelons on the streets of Salem brings to mind a question which, for a long time has deserved newspaper com ment. The writer has gone to the trouble of interviewing a number of oher grocers, among them William Buslck, and they are of the unanimous opinion that, whfle Mr. SolbfVact of , selling water melons on the street may have been a technical violation of the law, it ia not snch a heinous of fense as to justify hia being drag ged before the 'court. Mr. Solof and other grocers are supporters of the cost of the city's government. They , are in busi ness here and they contribute very j largely to the Commercial club and other civic organizations. Yet for a triflincr offense they f 1 4! are hailed before our police Judge as law violators, while to a trifl ing license feo peddlers . from Portland are allowed the privil ege of bringing truck loads of over-ripe melons or fruits to Sa- lem . and blockading i State street while peddling these inferior qual ity melons to our cnsnspecting citizens at a price supposed to be low but which is not really low; ; when the quality of the melons or fruits la considered,.' ' The final result of , allowing thene vendors to peddlev their In ferior goods is that our local gro cers, In order to compete, are forced to order equally Inferior goods, goods . which thfcy; can profitably sell at the;' prices charg ed 'by the peddlers who do noth ing to support ourf city or our civic organiaations except pay the insignificant license; fee charged . for the privilege of; peddling, . Either these licences should be made so high as to be almost pro hibitive, or a little more, consid eration fthould bo i shown auch merchants as Mr. Solof, who la an asset to our community and a much respected, cltiien. Remember, the otd days when the owner of an automobile going on a trip of. but a few miles was not at all sure that he woald be able to return in ithe machine The chances were that be would have to come back by some other method. And that waa not so, long ago. either." I " r ..I OFFICIAL 1921 - AUTOMOBILE ROAD MAP OF THE TATE of OREGON SHOWING All Through Trunk Highways and M ain Traveled Roads With Mileages AND Complete 1920 Census of the State of Oregon Printed on good linen paper and in three colors (blue, yellow and red gravel roads marked in yellow paved roads in red) this map is unquestionably the best auto road map of Oregon ever published and will be given ten States man subscribers absolutely. I . , ! F-R-E-E Here's how Old subscribers pav up your arrears subscription" ind one month in advance and the map will be handed to you at the office counter ot muled to you post paid absolutely free. New subscribers pay one month's subscription in advance and map free. Use This Coupon get the MAP COUPON Statesman Publishing Co. Salem, Oregon. ' - r . Gentlemen : Enclosed ylease find cents to pay for new or renewal subscription to the following address please mail map and 1921) census ol Oregon to me m accordance with the above offer: Name, :.........;..r Address . N, B. City subscribers may secure ihg ma'iVand 1020 census free by calling at. tne ouice antt paying up the arrears and one month' in advance. - : . V t ? I-