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2 m ' - i ' Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN tnJBLISHI.MJ XX)MPAJfY 41ta i . (Portland Office, 27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic : ' I27 - r 1- - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATKll I'KKHS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the uae for repub- licatloni of all new dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited ' ta this paper ad alao the local newa published herein. R. J. Hendricks. Btephem A., Stone Ralph Glover frank Jaskoskl OAILT STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 15 centa a woek, IS centa a month. OAILT STATESMAN, by mall. In advance. $1 a year, $1 for alx month a, $1.50 for three montha, 50 centa a month. In Marion aad Polk counties; outside of thes count lea, S7 a year, $3.50 for alx months, $1.75 for three montha. CO centra month. When .net paid In adrance. 60 centa a year add Itlocil. THJ1 PACiriC HOMESTEAD, the great western wwtkly farm paper. V j will be sent a year to anyone paying a year In advance to tb i Dally Btateamaa. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.50 a year; 71 cents for all montha; 40 centa for tbrc montha; 25 centa for 2 montha; 15 centa foi . one month.- . . WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two aix-page section. Toeadavs J ' s ; aad Fridays. $1 a year (If not paid to advance. $1.26); 50 . ? centa for all months; 25 cents for three months. TELKrtfoNES; Bualneas Ortlce, S3. Circulation Department, 5S$ Job Department, 582 Society Editor, 101 Entered at he Poatofflce In Salem, THE PANACEA i "One of the leading secular publications of this country, recently reviewing our present intellectual and moral condi tion, ; breaks forth as follows: , j "Morals are stagnant. Conduct which reveals ' ethical character has undergone a remarkable disso lution. rFrom schildhood to old age there has been a . thange'in. the attitude, of the American people to- - Ward what we regarded a few years ago as the fund amental virtues. Indifference to everything that does not contribute in some degree to the physical ' and sensual pleasures is too apparent to be denied. " To raise tho voice against the practices of the day 'invites ridicule and ostracism." ' i '"When, therefore, we see an America, unpro ductive of ideas and indifferent to ideals, we may well wonder into what air pocket in our progress we ; have, come." ; 4 Every thoughtful American must admit that the above :on tains much of truth. The present tendency makes one wonder whether this great, free Republic is to travel the same road as bid Greece and Rome; whether it is to furnish another proof of the truth of the old, familiar bit of verse ' 'But the same' rehearsal of the past. First freedom, then glory ; and when that fails, : Wealth, vice, corruptionbarbarism at last." 1 Vifhether such shall be our national end depends not -upon our statesmen or our laws; not upon any formula or scheme of political, governmental, industrial dr social reform; not sven upon our scholastic or scientific attainments ; not upon mything of a general physical or intellectual character. It ' lepends entirely upon the moral and spiritual status of the individual citizens of the Republic. If history teaches anything- it makes it perfectly clear that any people -without moral fiber are incapable of real courage, of patriotism, of self-sacrifice, of self-government, or even of long maintaining "any kind of national existence. ;The sun is already set and the light of oblivion not far away for that nation whose peo ple are lost to morality, virtue and honor. The Creator never intended those whom vice has claimed for its own to bear any part in the government of His world. 'Not alone the natfonal'failures that history reveals but the individual human: wrecks that greet us at every turn - should make us all pause in this mad rush for sensuous en joyment and ask ourselves to what all this physical indul gence is leading: and what is the remedy for this saturnalia of. physical gratification and sin which threatens even the life of the nation. - : Before adequate remedies can be found for our national or individual moral diseases the cause or causes of them must be 5 clearly? known' and understood. The first step to this knowledge is the recognition that man has two elements in his life. First is his natural, physical, animal, primitive, fleshly nature, to which belong all the animal or fleshly ap petites; passions, propensities and attractions which ally him to the earth and the animal kingdom. . In his undisciplined, undeveloped, animal nature man is but little different from the animal, except that he is more intelligent. Scond is his higher, 'his moral, his spiritual, his soul nature, to which belong hissense of moral responsibility, his feelings 01 com passion, sympathy, and love, his sense of justice and honor arid niany other characteristics that, when they dominate his life, raise him above the animal kingdom, give some evidence of his divine origin and tend to make us believe that he was indeed created in the spiritual image of his Creator, even - though not yet grown to the full stature of spiritual man- hoooV ' . There is nothing surer than that yielding to and grati- i fying this animal nature strengthens it and makes it more and more dominant in the individual life, and that it will, if not controlled and subdued,, bring spiritual, moral, mental, and finally, physical death. . There are no truer words in the Bible than these: "The wages of sin is death;' not only disso lution of the physical body, but death to all that is pure, lov able and holy, to the higher nature and impulses, to the soul. ; The cause of the troubles of the inhabitants of. this old world is, then, what it always has been- the dominance of " the undeveloped, physical, animal, carnal, nature in the indi vidual human life. And the remedy for these troubles all of them is the subduing of this carnal nature and making it subservient to the higher, finer elements in the individual na ture. Anything that tends to do this will help to cure the uni versal disease and to solve the one great problem. . Do you say , that knowledge, education, enlightenment are me great remeuica its, mcsv 01c ihuiojuioouic uio to the great end. Do you urge that the way to this solution is to be, found in the training of the children and youth to pure, elevated, moral habits of thought and life and in help ing them to 'form 'high; beautiful arid correct ideals and to strive with might and main to be loyal to them? Yes; not much upward progress for the race is possible without these things. If the prize fighter, the gambler or the moral de generate should be the ideal of the boys, and the selfish, pleasure-seeking woman of soctety or the be-jeweled. highly dressed habitue of the half world be the ideal of the girls, it would be idle tQ expect any great progress or uplift or mor al improvement in the world until their ideal3 were changed. And disaster is certainly ahead for the individual young man or woman, whp has not high ideals and a firm and constant determination to come as near as possible to realizing these ideals. . "'. i f.-v ;- o. . ' . ,. - .. -U - ' But the one thing that the world needs is the develop ment of the spiritual nature in the life of individuals ; this is - the divinely appointed ruler f man's nature.; He may strug gle hard and faithfully against liis physical appetites and pas- sions and never be surely free . . .. 1 r THE OREGON STATKSMAN. S) , . . . . Manager . . Managing Editor .......... Cashier Manager Job Dept. On god, aa second claaa matter r ik:. ...ii .. t :i v. u.- from their control until he has. SALEM. OREGON within him, active, alive, dominant, that which only can un failingly say to the turbulent elements within him, "Peace; be still," and be obeyed. Religion, pure and undef iled the re ligion of the inner life of the heart this is the present one need of the world and of every man and woman in it. He who has made the great Figure of the New Testament his ideal and has struggled by prayer and resistance to evil to overcome himself until he has realized this ideal in his own life has scaled the heights of being and gained a prize beside which wealth, farm; everything else, is as dross. It la at last officially announced that General Koch" is coming ro the. United States. There Is no other world citizen who would' be more welcome. That Nevada church metamor phosed from a saloon starts off with a ready-made spiritual at mosphere. San Francisco Chron icle. The. Salem slogan editor is anx ious to hear from all the crain men. about their yields, methods of cult. ration, etc. Grain and Grain Products Is the Salem slo gan, subject lor The Statesman of next Thursday. The American people last year Bpent $.". 000,000. 000 for nones sential things for commodities and amusements and excursions and what not which were not ne cessary for t'aem. according to re cently published figures. The sum might be doubled, trebled, quad rupled, and then some, if the American people were willing to consider everything as nonessen tial that 13 not among the necessi ties of the residents of the South Sea islands. THE BLESSING OF TOIL. ( Los Angeles Times.) Th wrong mental attitude to ward work has constructed the pronouncement in the Garden of Eden into a curse. whnn in reality it is the greatest blessing, next to the promise of immortality, that ever descended upon the human race. "In the sweat of thy brow shall thou eat bread" came' with the sentence of death, but concealed within both cryp tic messages was the germ of life. Understood, they are full of su blime purpose for man's higher destiny. Idleness is the real curse, aa was proven at the dawn of creation. Before it was discovered that work was necessary to keep man kind out of mischief and promote the development of the race ir responsible and care-free exist ence for the new humanity wa? tried out. As we are painfully aware, the results were disas trous. After exploring their world of sylvan beauty, somewhat cir cumscribed in area like their mentality time must have hung heavy on their hands. While they had none of the concomitants of modern civilisation, all their need? for living the simple life were amply supplied. Everything grew for them on bushes or trees, with out the slightest expenditure of thought or labor. Wandering about a paradise of beauty, sip ping honey from the flowers, dreaming their idle dreams, it would seem that they might have been content, in view of their childish Intelligence. But they were not. It is not in human nature to be content. Even the luxury of an Edenic life became monotonous and lacking incentive to toil, the dawning intelligence open to suggestions of evil The home-wrecker in the shape of an insidious serpent crept in the untrained mentality and thr weak will succumbed and tht beauty of Eden was lost' Irrevoc ably. "In the sweat of thy brow ehalt thou eat bread" was the decision of a kind and just Judge who knew that work alone would teej the infant race from destroying itself. The incentive to toil must be furnished, so the gates ot th' earthly paradise were closed for ever. Thorns and briars sprana up, the soil yielded to cultivation under protest; necessities arose on every hand taxing man's ingenu ity and persistence. The urge to greater and greater skill was in sistent, inventions multiplied and the arts grew apace. After the patrtarchial days were over man'i civic life began. Then the neces sity for work augmented In direct ratio to the increasing needs of community life. Whether the story of mankind'? fall and subsequent removal from a life, of idle ease be taken liter ally or as an allegorical myth. tb fact remains that at the very dawn of creation work was In augurated as a needful discipline. The old truism that "an idle brain is the devil's workshop" is applicable to every phue of life since the beginning. It is as true today as it was ages ago that idle ness gegets crime and misery. It FUTURE DATES September D-. September Sut rir. c It, Satardajr Constitution 2 to Oetobw 1 OrrfOB September 28. WHsesdar SUte tot 4ier'- nid rommiuioa to open bkla 9S.OOO.OOO bond J. or ember 21, 33 23 Merlon con- is a law of life that we shall work either mentally or physical ly. The ideal scope cf activities comprises work on botb planes Disregarding this law cf life re sults in multiplied evils. The dis eased products of civilization arr found chiefly among the idlers, rarely among the real workers. The criminal hordes are recruit ed from the parasites who live without an idal or a purpose from day to day. The Fordid de tails of the police courts, the criminal trials, the social scan dals would be minimized had the principals in the case been obliged to work for their daily bread. Constructive labor absoibs the en orgies which, left to run riot, de velop amazing propensities for nauseating pollution and disgust ing crimes. Perverted sentiment is A disease. A foul imagination festers in idleness, whether of luxury or poverty. It is most in evidence where there is no in centive or no opportunity to work. Running riot, it robs the soul or honor and virtue and incites to the blackest crimes. An un healthy and diseased imagination or an erotic sentimentalism can not exist hand in baud with noble and uplifting service. Ouc of the great men of the age the head of a largo rorpor Htion has said that if you wish to get anything done go to a busy man. It is a pertinent 'fart. It is the idlers in life's vineyard who i;ever have time to do things. Naturally time wasted, like other things,- brings loss. Often it is the lash of necessity that spurs one on to greater endeavor. It is a goad which depletes the ranks of criminals while adding to the community welfare. Today, as in past ages, the work ers of the world are its true de fenders and protectors. A false systen has delegated to the mili tary class alone the honor which should be given to the honest toil ers and producers. The construc tive utilities are the keystone and framework of our vast commer cial system. In the busy- office, in the marts of trade, in work shop and factory, in schoolroom and community life tbe busy workers are the backbone of the natiop of any nation. All honest labor is worthy of respect. Labor with an ideal and a dream behind it Js ennobling. The dreamer who uses his thought force to work out and shape a splendid plan by which countless thousands may be benefited, the brainy men and women who flash their messages of hope and cheer, of counsel and warning to multi tudes along the highways of life stand shoulder to shoulder with the world's noble workers. AM who labor unselfishly for the good of the whole, who have caugh' the throbbing heartbeats of weary and buffetted humanity and seek to bring it into tune with the infinite rank with the im mortals. They have turned the fancied curse of toil iuto a tri umph. MUST DISARM TO SAVE WORLD Gas, the first use of which by the Germans in the World war a used such a sensation, has come to be accepted by all nations as i regular weapon of offense and lefense. An American has. in onted a composition so deadly hat it will add terror to the next conflict in which this country' nay be engaged. Ittigadier Gene ral Amos A. Fries, formerly In harge of the I nited States en gineer's office in Los Angeles but low chief of tbe chemical War fare service, declares that a quan tity equal to three drops wiil usu lly cause death and that it can be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons per month. This new agent of death is called Lewisite. Of course, steps are already being taken to devise pro tection against It. but even when this is achieved there will remain the fact that the next war be tween two great powers, or groups it powers, will be of such a de vastating and horror-producing lature that civilization will be threatened. For this reason, if for no othr, the disarmament conference mould be welcomed by every na tion. Yet it already has found oppon ents, or at least those who pro- ters to see that it will end in failure. Moreover. America's mo tives are being impugned. Presi dent Harding definitely and hon estly stated that he sought the conference in Washington to bring about the cessation of the, con stant menace to the peace of the world which extravagant anna- ments afford. In the face of this a Paris dispatch states that some j Wench writers see an attempt by j the United States to line up the j European powers on its side as against Japan. Piling absurdity! upon absurdity, it is also sug-; rested that this country will go to the length of canceling the al-! lied debt to attain this result. It j eems hard to convince Europe j that America has only the high- est and most honorable motives n calling this conference. li(X K HAS VAUIEU IIISTORV, A report on the Dome of the Rock of Jerusalem is to be pub .ished and will be of greajt interest to the Mohammedan world. It may not be generally known that this place is the third in sanctity ot all the sanctuaries of Islam, and indeed for a short period it actually formed the Kibla toward which all Moslems prostrated themselves in prayer. Among tbe more Important riTTgious associ ations of the rock it may be men tioned that it was there David and Solomon were called to repent ance, and on account of a vision David chose this site for his tem ple. From this same spot Moham med ascended to the seventh heaven after his night journey from Mecca, and lastly it is to be the scene of the Great Judgment. The historical associations are not les,s striking and such famous names as Omar, Abdelmalek, Sal adin and Suleiman arc all con nected with the rock. Detroit News. IK AS YOU PLHASK. A prominent churchman says what he likes about France is itc spirit of tolerance. It pleased him to much that he recommends it. in spite of the fact that the church in this country is an orranized re monstrance. He says that ho was a month In Paris without seeing a single "Don't." There are no warnings to keep off the grass, and if a man wanted to lead a chimpanzee through the national assembly nobody would stop him. Everybody smile3 and wishes you well, but no one yelps: ' Stop that!" In spite of this toleratac-;. or perhaps because of it, every body behaves remarkably well Everybody is polite and good-natured and even when a policeman has to make an arrest he does it in a courteous and apologetic manner. Being permitted to do as they please the French do nothing to excess and they in variably indicate good will and charity to the other fellow. It Is an essentially human spirit. MIGHT DO WORSE. A notorious gOKsip one day went to Dean W. D. Wilson, burn ing with indignation. "Oh, doe tor, have you heard tho disgrace ful news? The younj; people of your church are going to have a dance, they say. How shocking! What do you think about it?" To which the saintly scholar responded sweetly: "Madam, I had rather have them shake their legs than their tongues!" Chris tian Register. DISIXTKKKSTKD SERV1CK. When 7-year-old Harney (Sate.; wedged his arm In a fire plug the other day firemen, policemen, wa ter department men, plumbers, pavers, laborers, doctors, nurses and men and women of half a score of other professions and cal lings worked with a will to free him, without hope of reward or thought of recompense. This was a fine thing and, happily for the rare, the natural thing for them to do. It is unfortunate that all j the boys and girls whose moral ', and intellectual arms are wedged i "In a way that menaces their fu ; turf cannot be seen and their j Why Pay Rent? Berry Tracts 20 to 30 Acres Payments from crop like usual rent. Purchaser must have sufficient funds fr dwelling and necessary equipment for properly caring for the fruit. Each tract now has planted 10 acres logan berries and 5 acres strawberries. Will yield a crop next spring. Such a proposition has never before been offered. It will be a pleasure to taRe this matter up fur ther as to details. See Wm. HcGflchrkl, Jr. Room 400 V. H. 'at. Bank. Building SUNDAY MORNING. j jULPTOR COMPLETES CLAY LIKENESS OF CARUSO. YfT. .:; :. i ' J"W , i -ii, 1 T I i nilV ' ii V" it i iiiiiiii i. iJTvniirti "iy' 4 .. rmim i m in ii -I? iii WW: " if jc v ? ffcri " if fi 6 :.-v..:4 til R i v ' f 1 , J - - I, ' Photo by Undent ooit l'nderwvrt. Onorio Rnotolo has Just finished this bust of the great tenor, which will be placed in the Metropolitan Opera House as a gift from the Ital ian Musical League of New York. The statue Is nine feet high. peril understood to dearly!' they could be. a terrible oH unnecessary suffering would baved.-- New York Herald. If of lie I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I 4 Labor day tomorrow. Two Sundays come together S Nearly every one will celebrate tomorrow, excepting the poor newspaper workers. "n That's right tre,-t 'em oul.Ii. Meaning the bootleggers. Other wise they will own thy town fair v, ck. V Did you see the busy tre"t.i ol Salem yesterday? Weil. m. them again next Saturday, and the fol lowing Saturdays, hs the ncbool.i open and the hop pickers get loose, and the state fair approach es or is on. Salem is going to be a busy old place, on up to Christ mas, and then ever after. A Cleveland, Oliio. tnau named Brothers is the agent for the Dodgo Brothers auto. When a son was born he named him Dodge. Sue? Full name, Dode Brothers. "n The onion men down on La bish Meadows are in a race with the hop men for the place of plu tocracy among; the farmers. And going strong. - Over in T'roFser, Washington, a Good You never saw bettor - - v 1 ' iitimiuntiiiih avK'WUJi ItUUllM prices! In our complete storks you will find Bedroom, Living-room and I)ining-r6om Suites! all of the -finest makes and at prices so low you will wonder how we cah do it. Iri fhli rtiiomnc !trn sinter ri " ' i'liwiuaiiji unu uaiv, pieces, chairs, floor and table lamps, etc. It wit! pay you n.v.- ioh. . .'"u Surprising Values in Living Room Chairs We all love comfort and when you can buy genuine leather chairs and rockers in the newest designs at the price cf the best imitation why not? 1 See bur window display i IliliilSlH unit ii urs c. s. SEPTEMBER 4. 1921 20-year-old deputy sheriff keeps her district absolutely clear of In toxicating liquor, moonshine or real booze. Other districts could do the same if so many officials were not in cahoots with the bootlegger.--- From Lend a Hand, pub lished by the prisoners of the Ore gon penitentiary. "The cleanest state prison I 4 have visited," siid Mr. Swendsen. of the Minnesota board of control, referring to the Oregon peniten tiary, and Mr. Swendsen has visit ed them all. From Lend. a Hand, published by the prisoners of the Oregon penitentiary. New Quackenbush Store Wiil Open Tomorrow With one of the largest sup plies of automobile accessories in Salem, the Quackenbush Auto Supplies store will open at Its new location. 20 4 North Commer cial street on Tuesday, September 6. Koliy-Springfield tires will be the heaviest line carried by the concern, but there will also be a1 full line of accessories of every Sunburned Note Uc plenty of cooling eaL gently. puKclcly mnd ntWpHcqr Furniture Reduced Furniture tban we aro offering at greatly ret Walnut f oKr-.r,. U-J Oob- nu juu wiii save money Falking There is nothing that to the home than good U4 : .L. Cheney, Brunswick Emerson and Others ; I, Wc also have and piano players. Trade in your old furniture as part payment on new. HAMILTON GOOD FURNITURE nature, gai, oils and . grcaac. in eluded. , Space in the new shop will also be devoted tc repairing, retread ing and yu canUing.t. The old lo cation ot jhe .concern i was 219 North Commercial. LADIES When irrrsul W .nil, I' , , nil txm m nmpn I' ill, tfroixr CMC. lUt ml de4enitable in all Aot sola i anir norm. Io not esperilttent wit a ettrn; tut ppomtnient. purtimlsTK it Wrile for "Itelirf" ' free. Addresa XaUOMkJ Medical Jnt tute.i MUvaakin, , W w. Penalizing ;u Helplessness . You're tolling tocay for your children. As a parent' one of yout. great ambltibna I is -to make opportunities for them that you did not have' when you were -young. Yen want to be able in addition, to give them a,staiV when they; em bark Jn' ntjs 'for "themselves You love thm?rt ; i i j J;ii Hut what! will all this toll on your part; Avail you or them if you're? unintentionally nec-( lectlng theli ' physical rwcWare. Accurate stitbttic : ahow.. that one child In (every "four has 46 feetivo vi.slofi. ami thatimeana that hundreds ot thousand of children are growing Into man hood and womanhood under a serious handicap, which may fi nally lesult even more seriously. Dullness jln school.' work more often an Indicatioa of poor vision tjian of an Inherent sluggish mentality. It may be that your child la slaving at study, and smarting undor the knowledge ofj his backwardness because his vision does not per mit a free arid proper use of his facultlesl lie Is being blamed perhaps for something for which "he is not responsible. Poor vi8ioi In children In many cases., can not bo detect sd except by a scientific exam ination. But if there aro any indications which are often at tributed to prior vision, such as unnatural positions in reading, lullness In school work, head iches, etc, the wise course is :o have the child's eyes axain ined. , Morris Optical Company OreRon'a Irjrcst Optic ltlcal v Institution Halem Hank of Commerce lUicIg. Greatly uced prices M.i.'ij!..ij...t aa ncu aa iiictiiv JUUIViauai to come in anil look over? on every piece. Machines will bring more pleasure music We have for your several good used Pianos . 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