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THE ORETiON STATESMAN; SALEM OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER. 11. 1021 0Me0inmt Issued Daily Ejcept Monday by TOR 8TATKSMAN PUBLISHING CXMPA5T " -J16 8. Commercial St., Salem, Ores on (Portland Office, (27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic MEMBEIt OP THE ASSOCIATED mRSS ., The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the nse for repub lication of all news' dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks. Stephen A- Stone Ralph Glorer frank Jaskoskl . ..........Manager .. If anaging Editor .'.... 'Cashier Muager Job Dept. DAU.T STATESMAN, aenred by carrier in Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a woek, (5 cents a month: DAILY STATESMAN, by mall. In adrtnce. $ 6 a yer $ I f or six months, $1.60 for three months, SO cents -a. month, in. Marlon and Polk counties; outside ot thew counties, $7 a year, 13.50 tor six months, f 1.75 for three months, 10 cent a month. When not paid In advance, 60 cents a year additional. THX PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the sreat western weekly farm paper, will be sent a year to anyone paying a year la adyanca to the ' Dally Statesman. . tTUNDAT STATESMAN. $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months 40 cents for three months; 25 cents for 2 months; IB cents tot , one month. - 'X: r:"-. WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two ilx-pafa sections. Tuesdays i . and Fridays. $1 a year (if not paid In advance, $1.26); 60 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: v Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 6$S Job Department, 68S. Society Editor, 108 Entered at, the Postoffice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. DEIDEDLY IMPROVING GENERAL BUSINESS r i; OUTLOOK which all agreed upon was tome loin cf the pioletraiat doctrine. While not attempted upon any tcale.aujCng us, spasmodic efforts have been made incef from time to 'time, to saturate the though:. Qf the age with some form of radical propaganda. At the time of the Haymarket rioi in Chicago the radicals who sought to over throw government deemed the hour for revolution had come. It proved a fiasco, wiih some tragic consequences. The storm thus far has failed to burst over our American civilization, in spite the mental attitude toward oth trs. All who seize and hold pow er for fre'.Ssh ends a?I wh-j gam ble with the destinies cf a nation to secure individual pieferment may itcoguize the?r prototype among the lone line of Kotnaii emperors. A Cea-sar couid never Ret the viewpoint of the Christ and thus iar the world has been ruied mainly by the Caesars. It is now time the dynasty was changed. A crisi3 is imminent, and it is folly to experiment longer with any "im.'" Th? question which vitally concerns 15 nil d SEES REMEDY com Ml The best authority in the United States in the business and financial field is Henry Clews, called the fowl of Wall Street": It will . be remembered by many people that Mr. Clews is interested in Salem,, having been a valued contrib utor, to the funds of Willamette University. Following are excerpts from the current weekly letter of Mr. Clews: "President Harding's review of the work of Congress and i his statement of the plana of, the administration with respect to pending legislation ! once more furnishes evidence of the effort that is being made by the government now in power to improve business conditions by every feasible means. Coin cident with this attitude on the part of the Washington au thorities has been a very distinct turn for the better. Im proved prospects in many branches of industry, and a more hopeful tone with respect to conditions in general are laying the foundation for progress during the autumn season. "One of the best evidences of the turn towards a more stable condition of affairs is seen in the fact that prices have j evidently been "approaching ? a more fixed condition. - The commercial indexes for the month of August now show that a slfjht average advance has taken place during that period. This advance is still les than a point, but, is.,signif icant for what it indicates. There ViU still be adjustments to be made in same branches jpf business where the leyel ha not accom modated itself to general conditions.. On the 5 average, how ever, the current pride. leve ha' evidently touched bottom on thi. movement a fat whieh, should' give jmuch greater as surance in the making! of forward purnasei. In some lines, goods have already been distinctly achr anded where the low level previously reached was manifestly putfjbf harmony with cost's. . Elsewhere, accumulated stocks of "Various products must probably be disposed of before" tfiere can be any per manent change for the better. . . .V'The influx of gold continues to ridd to the technical strength of the banking.systemand, as long as it continues, seems likely to insure a "maintenance of rates no higher than those now in force. Bill, holdings "of the reserve banks in creased to about $1,553,000,000, or about $26,000,000 above last week's report. With loans of member banks greatly re duced, conditions are favorable for a decided loosening of credit during the autumn, and this is clearly just beginning. Secretary Mellon shows his belief in the better credit outlook by his offer of $600,000,000 in new certificates of indebted ness and notes at a rate Vi of 1 per cent below that fixed on the last corresponding issue. . (Those who read the daily dis patches know that these certificates were oversubscribed.) An increased demand for, stocks, with stronger prices and " a better tone in all branches, has been the conspicuous feature of the market during thfe past week. It is evident that there is now reason klo believe the market situation is as a whole upon a more substantial .footing than at any time for many. months, past. .', . ' MIt can now be stated without fear of contradiction that liquidation has run its course ; that plenty of money ; is ob tainable on fair terms, and that the trade situation is tinder going improvement week by week." . , ; . .... , ' . , , ... - . . . . . .-!. - . Times. The writer or the above is aio Jdoubt drawing the long bow. ,liul one is temptcdtJo be lieve strange stories from, the, city 6f Fatty Arhucale. : , , . . ... - ... . ... Manufacturing. ' slogan i subject temortow, V. You Satcnr is H making than you thought. Ill find that more thing? Wf "To ? safeguard V, peace,1 must prepare for war."' "I know that.tnaxim" says a great states man, "and It was forged in hell." Trr"increaslng fatal and near fatal itomobtle accident caused ;V'rout r.ir being driven at an ex ssivo kioed, prompts one writer 1 'propose. starting a movement toV prohibit : the '; manufacture of ftnjr'"jtar wiih j speed above 35 j 017 miles an hour 4 except the regulation racing car. ' " : The price" of " cotton Is' advanc ing, due to tho poor prospects for the eroi. j The old rule of deman 1 and supply is again ? at work When everybody was raising the staple, -the price, dropped; when the acreage was reduced and tho demand Increased, up ko the fig ures. ; It is the old story." as aged as the btory of the pyramids. It J s getting so these days that folks desiring an order of hootch merely hang out sign like the o dedicated to the .Iceman. If the wind blows it away and thore Is nondelivery, there are great l cons . , or 'trier. Tok Anrelen V FUTURE DATES: IT. fUUHay Conatitnlbf adlrton v f r.lr.. OrtUr 1 Orr - T ,i'"B " !' bid. Ollt KX1E1UIEXTAI, STAtJH (Los Angeles Times.) This is an age of experimenta tion. ; We are trying out many things along many lines of the world's thought and work. Jnes lions of government and its rela tion to human life and property are now absorbing the attention of the nations. As people we hate not yet experimented on any scale with Socialism; but it. ideals hav been MieM up to us in fragmentary glimpse!! as an ul timate goal to be reached through legislative measures , or coercion. We have been told that it is thee &ay Solution ot our' problem. Its Utopian ideas began to be seri ously considered when ''Edward Hellamy wrofe "Looking Hack ward. We ' were not snffering from an aristocratic regime with its' class 'distinctions; but other countries were, f and we caught the'wavd of discontent which arose front the masses. The con centrated thought of a muitltud-j will penetrate to earth's remotebt bounds. It Is not surprising, then, that 'we.gnddetilj found, we had problems also. Fonrnler and others pointed out what, to them.' appeared an Ideal civiliza tion built upon the r-iins of the, old. In the eyes of these dream ers It seemed possible to,, so I horoughly reronstruct our . meth ods of government that an 'era of Socialism would be ushered In. Plffcrlrn in the vatious details . .. ' . . ri n n 1 r.. a nation, fcuaii 11 ue uiixvioi uu CAESAR? UK A HYPOCKITE I have much charity for the ci ring man. whether he is on the wafrold. in Jail or btill free to injure himself and annoy society. My most persistent criticism - of the wicked is that they might easily iearn that virtue pays bet ter. If you are a wicked man. be a hypocrite and practice vir ture, becaust it is easier and pays better. If you are naturally an idler, be a hypocrite and ko to work, since experience proves in dustry is easier than tramping cr begging. E. W. Howe In Howe's Monthly. wjkkij-xs tiii;s Postmaster General Will Hays pays that he expects bouu to tee tho introduction of radio f-orvice into the hcmies of America go that there can be wireless coni munication ot Important news of government intelligence at all! times and under ail circum stances, lie expects to cend weather bulletins, crop warnings and the like by the wireless tele phone into every community in the broad land. But what the people really want to know i the score of the ball same. The rest can come later. LIM SiAX'S BLl'FF Down in old Kentucky there's a blind man who never misses a ball game in his town. Although he cannot keep his eye on the ball, he can tell by the lick'Jjrf the bat whether a hit i.i safe,-how far and In what direction it is going.' He can also tell a fair from, a. .foul ball when it la caught. Hd la doing better .than a lot of the umpires. Why not -sign referee? him up as a ot omninous mutteriLgs at Irreg- i us now is in our future life as ular intervals. Who knows but It might have done so ere this tut for the trial of its system in Russia? . Lenin and Trotzky have fur nished the world a valuable ob ject lesson in Socialistic or Com munistic regime Tht 01" Ithe imperial monarchial system deplorable as it was held no graver danger. It is always diffi cult to find the happy medium between extreme conservatism end lawless radicalism. Itetween an aristocratic dynasty and a lawless seizure of supreme power by the rabble,' there is acwidc gulf. Much room for experiment is obtainable on either side of the line. There are grave abuses in the capitalistic system, as n the proletariat rule. We believe that in the true Americanism of our great republic we have ap proached as close to the Ideal, which our symbolical figure with the balanced scale portrays, as we. are likely to do until human nature is spiritualized. Thus far we have safely held our ship of state to its course, despite the stormy sea on which It has sailed Other nations have not fared so well. Their experiments have re vealed the rocks in the unchartei seas, and we may avoid them if we will. Sensible altruism should now lake the helm and direct our pol icies. It must, .if the future ideal of a great nation is to be realized. We cannot go on in a circle and reach a higher spiral of life and thought. True progress is always along a spiral course. We would ntt be content with tallow dips, because our forefathers u.ed them. Nor would we be satisfied with the modes of conveyance in jvogue. quring '.the yesterday of our I Itte' a a"nafI6n'. ' ' The" 6ne-" pese; AfUthatlae.j as militarism df3i 'f. Ideals hjchf wVhve" oift gro wi-o r grown " Sey on d pf ef vajled' and;: policies were shaped accordingly. Selfishness' has a! waya been a dominant factor in national as well as individual lite.' It 'was a necessary instinct aris ing from that of self-preservation. It has served its day. however No Individual can ride rough-shod over the lives and happiness of ofher3 with continued success. It 1 the same with an aggregation cf individuals banded together un der aa form of government. Our future policies must be shaped 'o bring about a just and fair set tlement of all questions relating to our national and international life. We are the people, but we as a people cannot relinquish our right to liberty and freedom or trespass upon the rights of oth ers..... We repudiated aristocracy at the birth ot our nation, but we must also close our doors to uuisueic propaganaa. we can not afford to experiment longer, even in - a desultory way, with radical.' socialistic thought. - Wen' the interests of others in the body politic become as deai to us as our own, we shall have taken the first tep toward uu enduring civilizatior. Past ones have been wiped out because of lfishness . which took niany orms. That of conquest of ex tending a nation, dominions by violating the right of others t? wxist was but one ot many. The ancient habit of bringing pris oners home from wars chained to the victor's chariot wueel3 ap pears to our more refined sensi bilities a needless and cruel bar barity. W'e must go farther, however, in our discrimination. Not 'only must, we discriminate between' ju6t and unjust modes of conquest, but we must learn to ste in all conquest the humilia tion and misery of the conquer ed. In getting their viewpoint our first step in altruism is 'tak en. - After the realization . 4. that war i wrong that disarmament must be secured as a preliminary hicasuie to future peace there Is ranch to bo done in revolution izing our mental standards. Wc must learu to think for the other fellow, to become interested In the other nations and their-welfare. A truly pitiable figure is sel fish aggrandizement upon a throne. Equally pitiable Is a na tional Ideal of greatness secured by trampling upon the rights tad interests -of- others.- A Caesar may exist among tho TawJess rb We as In the -pomp and ependor of a court. Purple and ermine Assistant State Treasurer Named To Succeed Late Frank A. Turner James W. Crawford, assistant state treasurer, was yesterday ap pointed reporter for the state su preme court. The appointment as maae by the court, tnder the Oregon statutest.it will be neces sary for Mr. Crawford to resign as assistant state treasurer. Mr. Crawford has been in the state treasurer's office for about a year, having been appointed by Treasurer Hoff to succeed Joseph G. Richardson. Aa reporter for the supreme court Mr. Crawford succeeds the late Frank A. Turner, Saiem law yer, who died a few weeks ago. During his incumbency as repor ter Turner published about iP volumes of the Oregon reports. Compensation for the office of supreme court reporter is $400 a volume. Five or six volumes are published each year. While the pay is not as large as that re ceived by Mr. Crawford as assis tant treasurer, he will be able to get baek into the practice of law in addition to his duties for the state. The position has in the past frequently been a stepping stone to higher positions. Among other men 'ho have held the po sition are Judge Morrow of Port land, and Justice George H. Bur nett of the state supreme court. Both stepped from the position of court reporter to circuit judg ships. Crawford is a son of A. N. Crawford, former attorney gen eral for Oregon. While in that office the son was his assistant and later they were law parlfiers in Portland. 1 1 the legislature ot 1S21 does not; (Spec-al provide for? tb payment of any additional .expenses or fees, and that it wsjs intended merely to provide that ruch necessary trav el ng expenses as were otherwise provided by statute should be audited and paid by the county court in the same manner as pro vided for tne salaries. 1 AMONG THE SPENDERS According to some of the fig ures of the treasury department, the people of the United Slates are spending nearly $5,000,000, 000 a year for luxuries. Looks as if ham and eggs might have been promoted to the luxury column. Premier Hughes of Australia now In London, declared that it was essential for the Unite States, the British Empire and Japan to come to some under standing on the Pacific ques tions, and that before any hops can be entertained fnr a success ful ending to the disarmament conference an agreement mast be reached by the three nations. IOWlKR TO lltRX The government still has over $600,000,000 worth of ammuni tion on hand. We might have had an old-fashioned Fourth of July with all that powder and nev er missed it. If we reach a program of disarmament, who is going to touch off this pile? Power Company Rushing Work, Says Griffith In reply to a letter written by Fred G. Buchtei, member of the public serivce commission, Frank I n T. Grirnth, president of the Portland Railway, Light & Pow er company, has written that the company is progressing with Its track reconstruction and other im provements in Portland as expeH diiiously as possible with recon struction, and maintenance crews larger than for n number of years. A detailed report of operations will e presented shortly to the, commission, in compliance with a recent order. "'Notwithstanding the. fact tht the 1 street railway revenues have teen ' reduced materially i during the last few months," writes Mr. Griffith, "it is our Intention to continue the work under way so long as it is practicable to do so. thereby, we hope, aiding in relief of the unemployment problem." Demorest & Co.-Sell Business At Sheridan SHERCDAN. Or.. Sept. 13. to' The , Statesman) : Another business transaction was made yesterday when the buslnea cr Demorest & Co.! was trans ferred to Rones ft Robertson of this city. Demorest j& Co.. nao catered to the buying public i this e'ty, since the town was found ed. Mr. Demorest, kead of the firm, has been one of the promi nent citizens of the town .during his residence ere. He is not de cided as to bis next fiove but he will probably remain jta Sheridan, The conslderat on was not made public. - - t Expenses of Officers Guarded By Statutes A state law relative to travel ing expenses of county officers has been interpreted by Attorney General Van Winkle for 1 strict Attorney R. I. Keator of Umatilla county. Mr. Keator asked if there is a provision for the pay ment of actual traveling expenses of the county officers. Attorney General Van Winkle holds that the law as amended at A Oregon's Higher Institution bf TEGK Mil - . ... i. Eight Schools; Seventy Departments FALL TERM OPENS SEPT. 19,! 1921 For information write to the Registrar , - Oregon Agricultural College CORVAI.LIS i Violins Vioiims iVioltas I " t :!. M-K;-, i '-. - :;s- . ' '.- ; The nicest best made and best tone lot cf violins arrived yesterday direct from Germany. The prices are very much less than before the war prices. f-r4Bi See these violins in show window. :t GEO. C. WILL OTIS '432 'Stats Street TflK YELLOW ITCH ! Oold discoveries In Colorado j near the Utah line have started another rush and hundreds pi claims are being located by the early prospectors. Every genera tion has to have its rush for the yellow metal. Some day they wiill be digging up Wall street to bunt for the mother lode. ! BITS FOR BREAKFAST State fair a weeK trom Monday. to the west pf Everybody is Invited greatest fair ever held the Mississippi. V All the 150.000 people of the Salem district are :nUed to. the circus in Salem next Wed u en day. This is the circus that is owne.i by the newspapers of Denver and Kansas City. 7 bey think they have tl.e best circus In the world, and It is bigger, tor. than ever before. m Yes, Genevieve, Arbuckle's fat Is in the fire. Down In Missouri they have dug up a petrified lizard 21 feet Ion?. Some one says, perhaps a distant relative of Longfellow. Business all over the Inited! States Is decidedly better, aud get ting still better. There will l a: long stretch of good times hegiii-i nlng the day the new tariff bill1 Is passed. Statesman reporter Irving to find all the manufacturing con cerns of Salem, for tomorrow's paper. Some Job. And some will bo missed. But he is finding a lot of them. V A Frenchman who has ri.-Yirid a method of natural breathing says ne is able to open his mouth and laugh heartily while under Water. Even tu be able to smile when In deep water i delightful 11 mu ricuconiau iniuas nc can I induce people -to go-down to the bottom nf a wHt to dn their lauptui TV SIT Logic Nature produces the flavor of fine coffee. We develop and preserve the flavor by scientific methods of ' ' . . ........... ! , blending, roasting and packing. I In preparing Hills Bros. Red Can Coffee, make it right and then you will appreciate its appetizing aroma, fine flavor and satisfying strength; Mills Bios, The Recognized Standard fir over jo years 1 Remember and yen will remember THE C4iV