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Tim OREGON STATESMAN; SALEM OREGON TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1921 Iwued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN I'l'BLISHI.NU CXJMPANY zib h. Commercial St.. Salem, Oregon Phone Automatic (Portland Office, 627 Board or Trade Building. i 1 MRMBKR OKT1IK ASSOClATfCI) FKKS8 Tne Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to ttie use for repub lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J, Hendricks. Stephen A. Stone . , naipa mover ... Frank Jaskosk! . . . .Manager ..Managing Editor Cashier Manager Job Dept. DAILT STATESMAN, serred by carrier In Salem and suburbs. 16 ! eents a woelr, 6S cents a month. : OAIZY STATESMAN, by mail. In advance, I f a year, S3 for six months, fl.fio tot three months. SO cents a month. In Marlon and jPolk counties; outside ot these counties. $7 a year, $3.60 tor six months, 11.75 for three months, CO cents, a month. When not paid In advance. 60 cents a year additional. TUX PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, rwlll be sent a year to anyone paying a year In advance to the , Daily Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1.60 a year' 76 cents for six months 40 . eenta for three months; 26 cents for 1 months If cents for one month.-'' WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections, Tuesdays t end Fridays, $1 a year (If not paid In advance, $1.25); 60 t i cents for six months; 26 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 6SS Job Department, 68S 8ociety Editor, 108 Entered At the Postoff ice In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. that, but he Sure thing. would go broke. K G. X. FIRES A VOLLEY OF QUESTIONS I " T- I ' v - -..; Editor Statesman : - v ; I haye wondered whether my fellow farmers might mis-' j take ray attitude on the Non Partisan League. It has been said to me that only a "positive program" can lead us to the political light like, for instance, perhaps, the career of Jesse James or the Kaiser, who said they were being; oppressed or menaced, and were only striking in self defense ! ; And yet their "positive program" righted no wrong, established no moral principle; chiefly it established them as colossal egotists, drunk with mistaken argument. And we know; what the disgusted world did to them. To be helpful, any "positive program" must be honest. I do not believe that the Dakota plan, in practice, is honest or admirable even in what it intends to do ; for it was conceived i in swinish selfishness, and when born was nursed to gigantic hog-hood .by an incredible swarm of leech-like lackeys and flunkeys land political wolves who saw easy picking in the multitudinous state jobs. The reason the failure was not j more colossal, and a national disaster, rests in the fact that i the people, at large wouldn't stand it all. They rebelled against its intolerances and blood-sucking officialism, far more stren uously thin men rebel against the prohibition enforcement; i so while the League was nominally, in control for a few years, in actuality it never dared go one-quarter its intended length And yet its potential' destructive powers were there powers mat we aa not want nere yregon,,uLr - Personally, T do not desire' to give "up my own farm, which I have worked hard to pay for and own. I believe that someiform of land ownership is desirable for the good of , humanity.1 Perhaps the later comer, after-the land is all ap- . proprjiaiea, is out oi iuck; dux ne may oe compensatea Dy an increasing state responsibility to look after him. Maybe he : does not appreciate this alms-house attitude ; yet the per i petuity'of the foo&pr6ducirig industry that keeps mankind alive, could hardly be trusted to miscallaneous tenancy. So ', I must believe in land monopoly, that may make me rich and my neighbor a starved shadow or derelict.. I And yet, to be honest, I must recognize that a thousand other lines of Jiuman endeavor stand on an almost identical footing. How can I, with a monopolistic, profiteering farm deed in my pocket, point the finger of suspicion, the swore of execution, against my nieghbor who unfortunately owns ; only a railroad or a mme or a creamery ? . .. . ; If the League is to be honest,, it must make a clean sweep, and prosenbe every monopoly, including its own. If it is not honest, and proposes only a brutal robbery of -other i men while! keeping its own spoils, then that's that ! And yet ; I do not believe so ill of any class of good Americans, as to allow fchatj they are following this League understanding ; If they knew that the League program, honestly interpreted honestly - enforced, should mean the instant extinction oi . J X. 1 I'll. t 1 J 11 Al every ; private tana uue, inciuuing ineir own iarms, tney would hardly be Leaguers I If they understood that, once tht League is jformed, it would be possible for the majority whe are not farmers to combine and instantly deprive them o' their own farms, by the very legal processes they invoke,' anc the moral argument they adduce, they would not be shouting for a League! i- t.'- ? , vsq; vr. f :. . y. I venture to put some of . my League observations intc questionaire form; believing that, with each point definitely presented Jit will be possible to reach a definite judgment oi what the League really is;; . Can man live. without the products of the soil? ' ;! , -yy-y ' - . Does not fland ownership" presume the right to control, foi . use of for disuse, its products, and perpetual control ot its title by sale or bequest? . ; Can later generations, coming after the land is once appro - priated, create or discover or develop other lands, even though mankind must have land products, or starve? Can humanity insure itself against the starvation of a land strike; any more than the annoyance of a railroad or an ' electrical or a coal strike, without taking absolute con trol of the land? If you do I not trust the "monopolist" or the "profiteer", ir V- other jlines of production, could you honestly trust a mp- ncpoltst in land which is infinitely more vital to life? Is not land ownership a "profiteering monopoly" under the terms, of the Non Partisan League interpretation? If . manopply meaning the control of any article necessary or desirable in human life, is ever bad and rightfully l subject to state control, should not the most pernicious monopoly be controlled first? M any? state control or abrogation of monopolistic or profit- eering titles, is to.be instituted, should not the most es sential monopoly be eliminated first the private own ership of land? Did not the North Dakota creed declare for the state cbntrol t 1 - of creameries, elevators, mines; railroads, bank credits - and qther businesses now -carried on Tn private, hands -. - it tne organizers -here have talked only North Dakota ana wnat they have done theref jnust we in Oregon no beiieife'their whole 'ciwrl ? 'tT " If these enterprises should be so taken faver. or resrulated would it not be a legal confiscation, not competition, with v &11 the law On the sida nf rnTnnotinw tnA? Would not this confiscation, or state competition, force the j former private owners into wage servitude, if they con tinue: in the bu.iinp5i irk -VnVU U l ew meni can change their line of thought or ability, after having gro un in one specialactivity. Will not the man, UeDriVed of V)il nnmantnV A. tk. U V. VnA thrstet ? ---i-OT-1 be a w?e slve to V;hcre;irdeed,-or how, can any maiilntKese proibed"pVi vate lines, live except in some form of public wage serv ice? Is' there ANY line of human enterprise that under paragraph one. even of the "modified" Oregon platform, can not bet coarse, u i none or o declared a profiteering monopoly for the state to de-j busings, but what was tn -t&e stroy? j kitty" when the oil men mad Does not the Non Partisan League believe that the multi-j agreement with Presidm plicity of present taxes comes from inefficiency in public; Qzregon? Exchange. office? Is not this criticism directed against partisan politics? Why not trade some of that gold stacked ui in the United Following the argument of the Dakota League, that "parties"! statea treasury for a bit of busi- are corrupt and that a Non Partisan administration is improvement? That is one the remedy, is it not true that an organized Non Parti- cas whPre u u not profitable to san party is the only remedy? he 100 niuph money on hand. But is not the Non Partisan party a "political party," with! Lo Angeles Times. every objection thereto that can apply to any party ? Will not the extension of partisan public service, to include all of the activities actually enumerated even in the emasculated Oregon platform, build up an organized, non-producing army of highly-paid, powerful politicians, who will ride the state as no previous political party ever had one-third the numbers or one-tenth the power to do? Is it not true that under the exact wording of the Oregon League platform, defining the attitude towards "profit eering," it would be possible, without adding a single word or thought, for the League or any organization in power, to declare any medical practice, any invention, any business, any artistic employment that men can en joy, as a monopoly to be restrained or destroyed? . Does not the second paragraph of this platform provide state authority for raising funds to carry on any such anti monopoly campaign, after the party in power had pro scribed its victims ?; Does not a subsequent paragraph expressly provide for ex cessive taxation of proscribed businesses, to pay war or presumably other bills, one of which would be financing state competition to ruin themselves? What could be a more glaring example of "surplus wealth" than a farm, appropriated or bought cheaply from the government, paying its way all its life, always a monop oly, and increasing in value by the birth of every luck less, landless babe, until it now sells or is held for a val idation up to $500 or even $1000 an acre? The League platform, plank six, would tax war costs to "sur plus wealth by income and excess profits tax. Would it not be fair to the landless late comers, to include "un earned increment" as a just taxation basis, as a profit eering that the state should control? Is it the truth, or is it a lie, to decjaim against "monopoly" and profiteering, and destroy the fruit of other men's industry and development, while retaining similar mo nopolistic rights for one's self ? Was not Ananias, the master-liar and thief of history, slain for a similar self-righteous declaration? Is he an honest man, or a thief or merely a mistaken zealot, who calls another man with railroad, or power, or ele vator, or mine rights a robber and an oppressor, yet who holds for himself an infinitely greater monopoly carry ing the power of life or starvation over all mankind, whose title was not a shade better than the man who develops a railroad or a mine ? . G. X. .Manufacturing, slogan for next Thursday. Are you being over looked? If so, plea? hold up jour hand. Today or tomorrow. There are a lot of manufacturers in and around salem. More than ir.o?t people realize. EliLa Root has declined all further public Fervioe on account Of his advanced a?e.. Klihu is "on. ?.", and there are plenty of peo ple in and around Salem older than he is who are just getting fairly started in the race of lif r. It is announced that in spite of the tragedy at Hull, this govern ment will go right on In its ex periments with great dirigibles with a sailing radius sufficient to cross the ocean. The loss of life was most lamentable, but the march of progress is forward. The proposition 10 appoint eighteen additional United States district judges to lake care of the congested calendars caum-d bv the flood of liquor cases sounds well, but it is not the best thing to be done. Give the United States commissioner jurisdiction of these cases, put hitu on a sal ry and the congestion will dis appear. Ordinarily, he ccn dis pose of a half dozen cases a day No judge, with the machinery of the federal court, can do that. Log Angeles Times. NOT SKY GAZKIIS mitted bo many ttaelfn elements. The native goober should be defended agiin-t the oriental earth nut. Protect the peanut. but keep it out of politics. Chit-ago News. ZAtJRKIS Who hs head of Zacreb? or who. at lea.U has heart! of it a Zagreb? Wish the change of ru!? in Jugo-Slavis, the Austrian nam? of the ancient sacerdotal center of Apram has disappeared and the Croatian tribe of Zagrrb ha emerged alone. Hearing of Za greb, one might imagine it to be a new bocm town. Not so. it Is medieval. It is aKo a city of more than lOO.ooo people, th capital of Croatia and the econo mic center of., Jugo-Slavia. sur passing the nominal and Serbian caital, Belgrade, in European cultivation and importance. Huston Transcript. i BITS FOR BREAKFAST I MQUH ASSETS The bankers are always anx- ions to have our-national assets of a liquid character. Hut vhen a man has a cellar full of liquid assets he is always afraid of the prohibition commissioner. THE COM) WAVE Folks at Yuma, ArUona, are getting hot at the cold way ihey are being treated by the weather bureau. It seems that the town is over 180 degrees phort on its regular rations or climate since the first of the year. There have been whole days when the thermometer would hardly get above 100 in the shade. Tire-inhabitants are glad they do not have to stay In the shade. Fall Bights. - . j - ?. . The road to Jeffeiou will be open Just' la liiue for the circus. ' -W ". Some one suggests that the road to normalcy ought to be paved, f3 as to' make 'going easier.. Of course, Salem will do every thing possible to help students: get through Willamette university. There is need for concerted ac tion. V Under the new tariff law being considered, skeletons are on tha free list. Including the ones to the closets. "W Fatty Arbuckle once playeU In Salem. Not that It is any credit; just a matter of news. . V Willamette university will open next Monday; Btate fair the fol lowing Monday; Salem public schools tho following Monday, busy days just ahead for Salem. ThV Non Partisan League has as much chance of getting control in Oregon as there Is of building la railroad to Mars. The pity is that there are any suckers at all In this state who can be separated from their 18 ner by that buc caneering bunch of bunko steerer. S Senator La Toilette has leen allowed expenses amounting to $5000 for defending his right to a seat in 1918. This is our w.V of throwing money away. b An English warship will bring home the American dead who per ished in the ttacedy at Hull. There U this to-be sraM la favor ot dy ing in aa airplane accident they di more quickly than when in an automobi! smash-up. ' ,; j i - ;'j '-' Tin mttwaiH WtwtfW I 5 SLAUGHTER SIDE-STEPS; WANTS NAME OF G. X.. Editor Statesman : ' In your issue of September 8, 1921, "my new found friend" G. X. in his effort to discredit the Non Partisan League of Oregon, opens the flood gates of his vocabulary and pours forth a torrent of words in the form of namesj epi-1 tnets, assertions, conjectures and assumptions that I cari'not, hope to equal. As a word juggler, I confess, I am not in his class. ,j , Some one has said that we see what we look for and 1 fear that my friend is looking for butcher knives arid bull dogs; and seeing them where none exist. Imagination is a good thing, but needs to be controlled. It seems to me that my friend is unnecessarily harsh in his designation of thosei who may not see things from his viewpoint. I would suggest that it might be well to re member the words of the New Testament relative to calling another a fool. Again, is it not just possible that one might differ with G. X. and still be honest? G. X. says: "I hold that he is a fool who believes that the announced program outlined by Mr. Slaughter is the full program intended." The program quoted was in full and not i mere outline. It is the full program and will continue in its present form until such time a3 it shall be changed by the members of the League,! who are citizens of Oregon. No one expects the Republican platform to remain unchanged in its present form. Then why rave about possible changes in the Oregon League program? Why not discuss the present program; without rancor vituperation or misstatements of fact? Asserting that something is a lie, or that some one is a liar, proves nothing unless evidence isa submitted to prove the truth of the assertion. , ! So far as I have been able to learn, The Non Partisan League state government of North Dakota has robbed no pne "of as good title to the earth's products as the farm land owner's." If G. X knows of any who have been so robbed, he should produce the evidence. The members of the Non Partisan League in North Dakota claim that they have noth in to hide and court the fullest publicity. Why not take them at their word ? Again, my friend says, "To restrain monopolies defined by the League, is to reduce both owners and workers to wage servitude." I regret that it should be thought necessary to submit such statements as a part of a serious discussion. Nothing of the kind has happened in North Dakota, and neither will it happen in Oregon; and I have confidence in the intelligence of G. X. to believe that he knows this to be true.- . . G. X. ask3 : "Would the gentleman argue the question?" If he will word his question so as to make it clear and make it pertinent to the issues involved, I shall be pleased to dis cuss it with him or find an exponent of the League to do so. I No doubt "it would be wasteful to discuss every proposi tion brought up by Dr. Slaughter for wonderment." . Yes, almost as wasteful as to attempt to name the various things discussed by G. X. that are not the issues under discussion. My friend asks questions so involved and complicated that it is difficult to determine exactly what they may mean, or of such a character as to require for their structure prem ises that exist only in the imagination of G. X., and asks whether I will answer them "yes" or "no." In answer to this part of his cunningly constructed argument. I wish to sav that I shall be delighted to give a simple answer of "yes" or w w siuipiy cimsuutteui quesuuns ueaung specnicaiiy witn the issues presented by the program of the Oregon League; provided, G. X. shall sign his legal name to such questions. If I am to answer questions, I wish to know who is propounds ing them. f "As an honest man" my friend should not object to signing his name to his questions. If he does, why? very sincerely yours, r , - v. A. SLAUGHTER. Salem, Ore., Sept. 9, 1921. -.. Airmen who have flown over Jungles and big game country agree in saying that lions, tigers, leopards and other terrorB of the wild never look up at an airship, if the plane passes closely over head, they may seek cover be cause of the noise o' the propel ler, but they never cat a glance at the machine itself. A self respecting .Jion feels It beneath Vii9:'diRnitV to notice a buzzard appears to have made up h:s mind that an airplane is only a'u enlarged buzzard. The rhi nocerous is about the1 only mass ive creature of the jungle to show excitement over an airship. He can't see it, anyhow, and is natu rally of an irascible and petulant nature. Te thinks it ' is some huge tsetse fly that is about to Fting him. When the airmen take to hunting big game from their planes, the weld animals will learn to fear and respect them. JACK OF ALL TRADES General Charles Gates Dawes has the mental versatility of a Roosevelt. His book on the war is one of the best seller?, and the phonograph record of his com position for the violin has also made a hit with lovers of music. As, a blunt and vigorous-spoken soldier, he furnishes one side of the picture and as a dreamy mu sician at his piano ha presents another. He is also author, bank iJT, manufacturer, business man fiui arbiter of the nation's bud get." Hetween times he smokes a cigar that looks to be r foot long. He is one of the nation' most picturesque and capable tharacters. and yet he Is always trying to avoid notoriety and the limelight. EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE Stayton Postma-stership Editor Statesman: As one of the candidates for the postmaster- ship at Stayton, Ore., I wish to subvert the minds of the reader of your paper to the statement of one of the six taking the examin ation as published in your issue of September 10, as to the ex perience of E. B. Waters in pos tal work. . First that as a time keeper at I dan ha, I filled the of. fice' for a logging camp, that 1 worked in 1930 at Stayton. Ore., also in 1921 and that the statement that IJ served, as post master at above mentioned place for the past year is erroneous. Second, that I served as assistant postmaster at Stayton, Ore. from 1896 to 1912 under my distin guished father and that I assumed full charge of the office work, making reports and the general routine work connected therein and that I am fully qualified for the duties required in the postal worit. Having been schooled In thjs worn ny me late captain YV. S. Watters of civil war fame and who was postmaster 15 years; that I came to Stayton at the tender age of 8 years; schooled in pub lic ana hign schools at Stayton Ore., graduating therefrom, at tending college, taking normal course and hold state life certifi caie. intra, mat my permanent residense has been here from 188 save and except from No vember 1913 to June 1915; thai I own my own home, pay taxes ana vote in Stayton precinct. is this not qualification enough? . Further, that it is the aesire or a majority of the busi ness men and the general public mat l succeed to the office. Re spectfully, E. B. WATTERS. No straining or peer ing if we lit your glasses comfort and accuracy assured. MORRIS omc.iii co. . J04-211 Salra Bank of d Commerce Building Oregoa'a Largest Optical Inutltatlon v Ccttbricelaily benefit from i tbls low-cost aid to ; j ii V eppetlte and dteestlon jjjf Y breath sweet V end throat J , .;, yv Makesvoar" : 1 f , p taste I j - ; ; iti(r?1 111 ; HE It II 131 III HI i lUmnimntiTW m V "' "' 'fl I! The ' Flavor Laste THK COOBEIl'S DANGER The peanut growers of America In recent convention assembled, developed the alarming fact that I heir product was menaced by for eign competition of the most in sidious sort. The oriental earth nut is said to be invading tha peanut's Held, and all the pea nut's friends are asked to rally to its support. The appeal for tho peanut is based not only upon its long established position as a popular refreshment, but upon its 100 per cent Americanism. Tho peanut aboriginal; it was here before the white man. As goobers It bears en Indigenous name which smacks of the soil. It is the moet American-made thin? about onr great American Institution. th circus, which has gradually ad- General Dawes, the maker of the budget. Is a musical compos er. Why not call his latest com; position Helen Maria Dawes? ' The Idea tha t ,goYernmen t" can carry on business has been generally - abandoned ' by those who have kept close to the situa tion during and following the war." The hair of the average business man would be turned ray with some of the ventures ot the government and, not only FUTURE DATES September 17. Saturday Conttitnlioa Da. Sratnntor Iff, Hondsy. Cimit Court trm hrin September 21, Wednesday. Sella Floto Betv'ember 22. 23 and 21, Pendleton Rod-OT. "" "September 28 t October 1 Oregon State Fair. ntemHeT 2, Wedneadar tate aftl Vrr' eom miai.n to opea blda 15.OO0.0OO bond. ' Kwreaibr 21, 81 and 53 Varioa eoua tx Taacaer Injtttata. 1 Oregon I Stat Fair SALEM Sept. 26 to Oct. 1 A wealth of agricultural displays. r f : Magnificent livestock exhibition. Splendid machinery and tractor exhibit Greatest horeshow in the northwest Excellent races, and amusements. '.;" Special attractions, day and night , r Good camping and parking grounds. ' - r Excursion rates on all railroads. ' , ' S 'A. H. Lea, Manager, Salem, Or. ' I;