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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY 3I0RN1NG. AUGUST 31. 1921 9 e 0teasm Statesman ' Itsued DmOy Except Monday by THE BTATKSMAN I'UIIIJHHINO COMPANY 215 8. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building.. Phone Automatic . "1 .. , . S27-69) . U : MEJICEB OP TI1K ASSOCIATED ritEJW The Associated Presa la exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all &ews dlapatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper ud also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Manager Stephen A. Stone . . , , . . , Managing Editor Ralph Glover Cashier frank Jaskoskl Manager Job Dept. DAILY; STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs. 15 cents a week, CS cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall, in advance, fS a year, $3 for six - I months, 11.60 for three months, SO cents a month, in Marlon and Polk .counties; outside of these counties, (7 a year, $3.60 I for six months, $1.75 for three months, CO cents a month. When not paid in ad ranee, SO cents a year additional. THB PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weokly farm paper, will be sent a year to anyone paying a year In advance to the ' 1 Dally Statesman. SUNDAY 8TATESM AN, 11.50 a year; 76 cents for six months t 40 - cents for three months; 25 cents for 2 months; IS cents for - one month. WEEKLY STATESMAN. Ironed in two six-page sections. Tuesdays - and Fridays, $1 a year lit not paid in advance, $1.25); SO , ' - cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 682 Job Department, 6 S3 ' Society Sdi tor, 106 Entered at the Postofflce in Salem, Ortgon, as second class matter. i STILL COLLECTING TARIFF DATA TV XXfo.m on1 TVfnnna Pnmm ! f ni nf tVio TToriao rnllpH fd data months on end. They got together a whole room full of statistical and other information. They held hearings day after day and week after week, on every schedule, and on most items in the schedules And finally they reported out their bill, which made a book of 346 pages, with an index in another book of 31 pages. And this bill passed the; House! and went to the Senate. I It stuck there till the 30 days recess came, and no doubt many people throughout the country have wondered what the Senate was waiting for t Especially when it is remembered that President Hard ing, in his first message, or one of his first messages, de manded "instant" passage of a protective tariff bill, which the people of the United States showed by a seven million majority, they wanted. 4 Now it seems that a clause written into the deficiency bUl by the Senate provides for fifty experts on the tariff to be 'assigned at. once to the collection of data relating to the American valuation of imports as a basis of assessing cus toms duties, and the Senate appropriated $100,000 to coyer the cost of this work I if And an Oregon man in Washington writes that Senator Penrose, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate, says he "will not ask his committee to attempt the rewriting of: the tariff bill as it came irom tne nouse unui aiter ine information on American valuation has been obtained and is a hand." : ' , U This writer says there will be a "slight delay" in the enactment-of the measure as a result: i j How long a delay is a "slight delay," as Senate delays go, the reader is left to guess. r In the mean time the business of the United States is had up; and the great and important task of getting the army of unemployed tick to work is delayed, by the collect ing of more data - r When a better tariff bill could have been written in a week by the people' in the appraising offices of the United States who have the administration of tariff laws H By a few chosen ones, for instance, among the assistant appraisers in New zone ana tne appraisers ana cniei assist ant at the other important Dorts - And such a law would come nearer holding water and hplncp frpfl f mr?i loopholes j And it would be on a practical business basis, without reference to Dolitics or sectional differences. ' But let us - hone and pray that when Congress gets to gether again, the $100,000 for the fifty experts gathering new data will have all been spent, and their work completed. ' The country is tired of delays, and wants to get back to work and down to brass tacks. ' A THOUSAND-YEAR LESSON Socialist Russia calling on the "capitalistic" nations of the earth to succor her irom iamine, ireeziiig auu in a cnuntrv whose food: textile and health resources are nor- . mally unequalled anvwhere in the world, ought to be lesson enough for one millenary. After that exhibition of the co lossal failure of socialism we ought not to be required to listen to its economic heresies any longer, and even tne par lor Bolshevist becomes1 an exceeding dull clown. tlge of the old slavery custom still lingers-. i It seems that the irony of fate that the right to regulate ,the hours and pay of railroad em ployes should rest with congress, but the right to penalize the em ployment of children in factories and cotton fields should be cut- side federal jurisdiction. Judsv Floyd may have been thoroughly in sympathy ' with the intent of the act as far as it related to the employment of children in field? and factories, but he could not blind the eyes of the law to the fact that it was an unjust usur pation of the rights of the states. We have heard little in recent years about the rights of individ ual states. The growing power of the fed eral government, strengthened by the passage of recent constitu tional amendments, has created the impression that there is no field to which the federal author ity does not extend. States' rights was at one time a burning issue in national poli tics, it was one of the strongest planks in successive Democratic platforms; yet during the Wilson administration there were mor invasions or state jurisdiction bv the federal government than ever before. Since two successive child-la bor laws have been declared un constitutional and the barbarous- employment of children at hard labor still continues in some state? it would seem that tho fault lies in the constitution itself and that it should be amended. One won ders why the humanitarians who have been busying themselves ately with social legislation havo not concerned themselves about child labor. This oppression of children is a wrong for which so ciety cannot hold itself guiltless. If congress cannot enact a child- labor law that will pass the con stitutional test, let congress do as it did with prohibition and equal suffrage. The question should be referred back to the states with request for their ratification of a constitutional amendment em bodying the desired legislation. No doubt some will be hearties.-; enough to urge that it is because the children have no votes and. consequently, no political influ ence, alleged reformers spend their energies and some one's money over things of small con sequence while the wrongs of these little ones go unredressed. Adequate child-labor legislation should be in force in every part of the dominion of the United States. As it is now apparent that a constitutional amendment will be necessary before that can be accomplished, let us have a new amendment that will protect the rights and the health of th3 cniiaren. iney snouia be our first care; but the politicians and the hectic reformers seem not to know that they even evist. This question is bound to loom large In the future. It vitally concerns the industries of the country and the wage scales of laborers. The industries of the rest of the country that must com pete with those of the south are obliged to work under unfair han dicaps, as long as pauper child labor especially that of the black children is available to the southern industries in fields where such laborers may perform the tasks of mature men with families to support. Ja;s has taken Europe by storm. Soon it may be said that the sun pever sets on the American rag. Last , day to help the Blogan editor on . the automotive indus try, which is the subject for to morrow. ' I i i STATES' 1UUHTS. Federal Judge Boyd of North Carolina has declared tho present national child labor law unconsti tutional. He has held that "the attempt of the federal J govern ment to regulate labor within tho states is a violation of tho sover eign 'rights of V state." I While federal Judges often err in their .opinion of the constitu tionality of statutes enacted by congress and are set straight by! the supreme court' of the United States, especial -significance . at taches to this decision by Judgo Boyd because. be declared the Owen-Keating child-labor law un constitutional two years ago and his decision .was sustained by th supreme court, lie asserts in hi; decision that the new law is a practical re-enactment j ot, the , FUTURE DATES An-nut 31. Wednrwlur Joint picnic ff g.loia nit McMinri!I Rotariana at Wtatlaal rr. : ' September 17. Batiirdar Constitution Pa. - !' , i ' " SptmW I, to October 1 Orn Stat Fair. . . 'I , - fMlBihr 2". Y"dnMlay Put aol dier' aid rMimtaitoD to j" ' bill oa 15 000.000 Thonda. y0MnbT Zl.-23 and 23-OUrlQB coun ty T eitheri latlitule. ' t Owen-Keating act. and that the amendment attempted does , not remove the objection to vhe for mer law. ' - It will come as a surprise to many people that there are func tions still reserved to the sover eign states with which. the fede ral government cannot legally in terfere. " SInco tho adoption ot the . eighteenth and nineteenth amendmonts tho opinion has gen erally been held that siate gov ernments are , maintained chiefly fof the purpose ot providing sin ecu res for politicians and increas ing taxes. ,'. .'... . Judge Boyd said, among othe- things,' that Vtbe present child la bor act is an effort on tho part of congress to standardize labor in the state, which right is re served by tho states." When one considers the question of child labor and its relation to certain southern industries a feeling of regret is awakened that the stan dardization of labor should not have .rested on the same basis as 'that. Of standardizing drinks an1 suffrage The sentiment of tho country is strongly in favor of the spirit of the act which has Just been declared unconstitu tlonal. The record or the em ployment of children in Industrie? In some of the southern states is one that rouses the indignation of all right-thinking people. In most of the states such employ ment is prohibited by local stat utes, but there are a few southern common wealths Jn which i Tea hints are believed to be, has been discovered and its translation is in progress. In all these attempts at ' free heat," from the time of Archi medes down to the 'i-re&tnt, the principle has been the same-1 to focus the raja cn a giren point in such a way as to vastly intensJ;. its heat. The advancement made has not been so much in the arrangement of the mirrors as in the device upon which they have been play in?, whether a ' hot box" or a steam boiler. As a result of im provements in that section of the problem, it is now possible .to pro duce 13 pounds of steam per hour for each 100 square feet of mir rc, surface exposed to the sun. Whfn the experiments were start ed anew a few years afco the max imum production was 7..", pound: for each 100 square leet. A sun station on the edge of the Sahara desert has been for some time pumping water for ir rigation and is said to be raying for itself, though by a very nar- raw margin. Dr. C. G. Abbott. representing the Smithsonian In stitution, has for several voan been making tests in the torritorf around Los Angeles, and particu larly on Mt. Wilson. The whole sun-power problem. indeed, has reached the stage of development where scientists arc feverishly interested, but do not wish to make sweeping state ments. Meanwhile they. are in creasing appreciably the brake horse-power production of their apparati. That the practical point has almost been reached is indi cated in that the Smithsonian re ports Bay that sun power can be used successfully in competition with coal when that fuel cos3 $18.73 a ton. Coal today U quoted in Los Angeles at $18 a ton. The margin, of course, is still too narrow to tempt investors, but if the rate of advancement dur ing the last seven years in experi ments in solar power is even ap proximated within the period im mediately ahead it is safe to pre dict that "Turn on the Sunshine" will be the slogan for a magnifi cent period or industrial develop ment. That development would be particularly rapid under th? favorable conditions existing in the arid lands adjacent to thi3 gateway to the Pacific. Would it not be a strange thing if a dead hand put of the thir teenth century should reach down into this age and turn on 'the sunshine in such a way as to make It drive the wheels for a new "in dustrial era? Stranger thing have happened. , ' pie of. all the nations under the shining son hope to see all tb3 cards on the table; and shirf sleeved diplomacy, and open agreements openly arrived at. !1.Z.IKI OF I'OKTUXE. WINNER OF SUMMER SKIING CONTEST. VI First -thing v,e know the com- ' paries carrying automobile instir- i; ance may be parsing the, hat for j, relfef. In addition to the mighty j J dai'.y roster of thefts and wrecks ' C, there is the unhappy haxard o! ! l the owner who wants to jid him- tf . telt -of his car in order to collect it Next to Uoot- ' 1 1 It this is becoming one of ; i the insurance. legsin; the most popular crimes of the renur. uhimuus, river L'eas ; V y and mysterious pits and qua?-1 1 V 7 tons of iismant!ed cars the own- rfs cf which are clamoring fo- ! U their insurance money. The auto has developed a horde of petty malefactors. YOUNG A.MER1CA ABROAD. The American tourists are said to be fairly overrunning France. but. it is safe to say that that is nothing for France to worry about. There are lots of more terrible tilings in the world than an American tourist with the spender's itch. - ' t w ,'tt s? -' 7 y---r' I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I - - AGENDUM OR AGENDA. "TURN OX THE SI XSHIXE." (Los Angeles Times.) It is a far cry from the battle of Syracuse, 213 B.C.. to tho country around Los Angeles in 1921. but the manuscript of a Franciscan monk, dead thesr? seven centuries, may form be tween the two a connecting lin1: In a power quest which would, if successful, mean more to this sec tion than to almost any portion of the globe. At the battle of Syracuse Archi medes is reported to have burned the fleet of Marccllus to th water's edge by concentrating the rays of the sun upon It from im mense mirrors. In the thirteenth century Roger Bacon tackled th problem of solar heat and carried U to such a point that scientists now taking up the same Idea wit'i renewed interest, hope to find in the translation of his recently un locked manuscript valuable, hints on the final step to be taken. Heretofore the results of Bacon's experiments, including boiling water and melting metals by tin heat of the sun, were known from outside sources. Now it is hoped to get at hit) carefully guarded secret as to the utilization of rays. Meanwhile.. Independently of Bacon, experiments in solar power have been going on, especially since 1913. in France, England, Canada and around Los Angeles. Within the last seven years im portant tests have been made at rssadena. Needles, Mesa'Arizon Mt. Wilson and at Meadi. Egypt. Recently the key to Bacon's man uscript, wherein valuable solar Japan extends a warm accept ance to the Harding invitation to the disarmament conference, but the government is insistent abou the agenda. If a suitable agenda is not promptly forthcoming th? Japs will bring one of their on The agenda is likely to prove the most Important tool of the con vention. At different times gath erings have been opened with prayer or cork-screws or possibly a can-opener but this one will likely be opened with an agenda. Anybody having a neat and work able agenda might send it to tho president. LoS Angeles Times. The Times writer has his Latin, or his grammar, slightly mixed; probably intentionally, in jest. An agendum is a program; a lino of action, from agere, Latin, to act, to to agitate. Agenda is mo piumi, ana it nas come to be used in diplomacy, indicating .uB ui ainon, programs; mat ters to be considered; things to be done. The Japs want an agendum They do not want agenda. 'They want to talk about disarmament. They would not like to have anv consideration of what they would bo pleased to have understood to be the status quo. They want to lot 'er rido. They want to let t i mines remain as they are. ln re spect to present territorial ar rangements. The Japs do not -am io taiK aooiit Yap; or Shan tung; or China; or Manchuria; or biberia or their relations or ambitions with respect to neighbors. Am . . -I usenuuui presupposes that nothing outside of what it in i.uU is in no considered. Agen- aa mean the same thing. Both terms imply the rules of the old style of diplomacy, with secret covenants secretly arrived at. This brand of diplomacy is out Of Stvle or ftnrrht t v.- . ,u i ne peo ple of all the world are hoping ii is everlastingly tabu ir.iegaien to the limbo of the past, when kings and em perors played their people for DaWnS .Iflnan , . , ,, tuj, luimuiate her own agendum, or agenda; but the rest or the nations of tho world will l.ll. t m. "toui a great many things at the forthcoming Wash ngton conference, and a great many things will have consider ation; and all the intelligent peo- their Hop picking, is general. ". Hundreds of thousands of dol lars of picking money will go" into the hands of thousands of the pickers, stimulating all lines of business. Some of the radicals a-e (loins; honest laborers an injury in -declaring the work on tho hospital building "unfair." This b no time for patience on tho part of the public with such method-?, which are generally considered foolish at any time. In Ina final wash-out. public opinion rule3 in such mat ters. ' " Building operations are being speeded up generally in Salem now; and it is said that a great majority of the projects are. "un fair," according to the standards set by the radicals. But the im portant thing is to get roofs over the heads of the people who wan' to live In Salem. ". ". This is the last day of the dul! month of .August. Business in Sa lem will pick up rapidly from now on, and things will be going stror.p by the time of the first day of the sitate fair three weeks from next Monday. S Some of the jildler Doys who will be' entitled to loans, and who ate living in other parts of Ore gon, are looking towards the Sa lvia district to establish homes here. They should all be made more than welcome. We cannot get better citlzAis. - - ivnrii Aii nfr-i,tii i,i'--vi rttoto by radewaod t CndvVwooS. Sigur Johnson, who carried off first honors in the skiing contests held at Mount Ranier Park, Washington, Keber Brothers Hops Are First Baled This Season MT. ANGEL. Or.. Aug. 30 Tho firsi' hops in tho bale in this vi cinity this season are the Keber Brothers lot of fugles, ihe yield being about 8000 pounds off 10 seres and tho quality being ex cellent. Several other yards are finishing picking their early hops and will bale them immediately, to get them out of the way for the clusters, the picking of which will begin the latter part of thi week and the first part of next. The quality of the hops this year is the best for years and more care is being taken by the grow ers to have them picked cleiner to satisfy the export demand. Sev eral sales of 19 20 hops were made for 20 and 20'4 cents recently. MS WILL COME IN FORCE Interesting and Threatening Information Comes from ' Hub Town Men As Albany now claims to be the Huh of the universe and in cidentally the center of a rapidly developing berry country, th BuusuiiR organization Known in the past as Pheasants, has now adopted the name of "'Hubariaun." This is according to information nere irom t. v. tsmitn, manager or ot tne Albany chamber of Commerce, who isn't at sill back ward about saying nice things about the county scat of Linn county. The Hubanans are on the warpath for additional honors, having been awarded a $25 prize last year at the state fair on Boosters day, for having on hand the biggest number of real boost ers of all towns represented. They are after the same honors this year and it is understood Captain B. R. Westbrook, with his lieutenants, Willard Marks and Dr. G. K. Riggs, are lining up the boys in great shape for Boos ters day at the coming state fair, Sept. 27. Not content with going after an other rrize during the state fair, the Albany Huharians intend to do a little inviting of their own. That is, during the Linn County fair, they will be on the job and Just to show bow they look and act whe on their own home grounds intend to send pressing invitations to ;the Salem Cher rians and the Ettgene Radiators to show up at 'Albany October 5, which will be Boosters' day for the Linn county fair. of PrinevilK Ore. Mr. Hiinke will take possession immediately. Mr. Mellor and family' expect to leave for Portland soon, and will be. temporarily located there while Mr. Mellor is looking for a new location. l ivi: d!:ki. lcjed SI I Hit I PAN, Ore!, Aug. 30. (Special to The Statesman) A hunting trip Sunday in the vi cinity of Canada creek, 20 miles north of Willamina, netted a party composed of Jap Lady. Roy -Fault-oner and O. V. Grishara a fine three-point buck. The deer weiehed about 200 pounds when dressed. Sheridan Sends Many To Oregon Colleges SHERIDAN, Ore., Aup. CO. (Special to The Statesman) Sheridan will send a large num ber of young people away to col leges and universities this fall taan nas leu nere in majiy years. Sixteen persons have announced their intention of attending the various colleges in this stite. Tho agricultural' college at Corvallis vill rece've the largest; number o" local students. Tho students, a:i: their rank follow: University of Oregon. Eugene Clare Ileider. freshman; Marietta Shumway, freshman. Oregon Agricultural college, Corvallis Fred Maginni. fresh man; Helen Turnbull, freshman; James Turnbull, freshman; Nina Maggini, freshman; Florence Lamson, sophomore; Alda Faul coner, sophomore; Stella Maggini, freshman. Willamette university, Salem Lucile Jeffrey, senior; Vernon Sackett, senior; Sheldon Fackett, senior: Albert Ryan, junior; Ellen Matusch, freshman. Pacitic college. New berg Fay Scott, freshman. Hill Military academy, Port lands Lee Graves, smior. Is th-re really any chance for adequate punishment to be meted out to the orator who girts a 10 mintite invocation at th begin ning of a banquet while the hun gry guests stand first on one foot and then on the other waiting rcr him to break away? Scot ch Woolen Mills Clothes arc. tailored to : your measure fisom guar anteed all-wooi .fabrics. They look bctcr and wear longer. : 'I'he style, fit and workmanship arc: guaranteed. Voupay ji lower price for; a bigger, value. You mtjst be ab solutely satisfied. Prices $27.50 to $60.00 . ... - .-"-fr"-"-'- Scotch Woolen Mills 426 State St. Salem, Ore. Read The Classified Ads. IsIifeWorAii! That depends on the liver. Dr. Miles' Liver Pills d mild, gentle, cftectie. Use them as an occasional W laxative or for chronic constipation. At all druggists "&T.-r'a'Tfi V D 1 Carload of. Prunes Sent From Sheridan Growers Many Attend Funeral of Mrs. Matilda McKinney A larse host of friends gather ed :n the'Turncr Methodi?t chnrc:i yesterday to attend the fnnral ot Mrs. Matilda McKinney, Oregon p onerr wlio died at her hpme th?re' Tuesday. Many larre flor al pieces, remembrances frori the many friends made dnrint; her t years residence in Mnrion county, banked the front of the' church. A short ceremony at th hom? preceded th" public service. At the chfrch service the ad dress "as c vn bv L. N. ne'lr-nap. Rev. Ralph Thomas offi-'iatin;. Interment was In, Tv.in Oiks cem etery near her bomo. -4- SHERIDAN. Ore.. Arnr. P.O. (Speeial to Tho Statesman t -A carload of prunes billed to .1. K. Armsby of Ihtllas leaves litre to morrow. Hush Gutrie, lied J'rai rie prower has 3 tons of last year's Italian prunes in th& car while George Sunderlin. has about 15 tons of lf20 Italian prunes and 10 tons of Pc-tites on b'ird. I u t - rie r"ceived -i 1-. 'ents a poiin.' for his which were rather sn-al' while Sunderlin n!t T cents the Italian variety and 4 centj the Petite prunes. .MIKHIDAV UAKKKV SOL!) SHERIDAN'.- Ore.. Auc HO. (Special to Tho State.Mnaiu The Sheridan bakery, owned and ran by J. S. Mellor, was pobl yes terday to John Hanke. formerly GUIDEP0ST TO THRIFT THE United States National stands 1 :l i . ... . . 1 . iikc a RUKiepoRt, pointing Iherway to inn it, to bucccss, to Happiness, to fol the Hundreds m this communitv arrt lowing its directions, and they are successful ones. Each year finds them better established, more prosperous. We Will gladly point out the Success road to you, too. ' 1 " i a I or fori . ii SALEM 7 J OREOOKI T ' f -. - . , P.3ad The Classified Ads PLUMBING SUPPLY 1: fX Opens Sept. (B Will carry n complete line of plumbiti supplies WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Wc sell to'evcrybody. Wc buy direct from the facj iory in carload lals enabling us to quote vou low prices Estimates given free. (let our prices bjeforc you buy' -j jo tuu uig ior us to nandic. tiv iorm lommerciai Mrect ; Salem, Oregon 187 Front Street Pqrtland, Oregon I i1 ' a f ' . t ' I : x i- I n j. , i '-" K i 9 r i l i -t '1 I 1 I. I : l i -1 'v -, j -; i