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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1921 - Is"efl Dally Except Monday by TIIE BTATKSMAN PU1H JSHI.NO COMPANY . 1 215 s- Commercial St., 8alem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone AotomaUc S27-59) MlCMBKIt OF THE ASSOCIATED rRKSS ' Too Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the 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. II. J. Hendricks. . . . , , . Ca.. . e-. l ""fnw Dione. ........................... .Managing rauor Ralph. Glorer Cashier Frank Jaskoskl Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, serred by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 16 '" cents a woek, 65 cents a month, DAILY STATESMAN, by-mail. In advance, a year, 13 for six months, $1.60 for three months, 60 cents a month, in Marlon and Polk counties; outside of thes counties. $7 a year, $3.60 for six months, $1.76 for three months, 0 cent?, a month. 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Circulation Department, 682 Job Department, 682 ' Society Editor, 10$ Entered at the Postofflce in Salem, 'WESTERN VAt the risk of hurting the feelings of New York, which fondly imagines itself to be the center of the universe, we feel impelled to remark on the strength of personal obsrva iion as well as on information derived from the experience of others, that the Pacific coast states of this Union are from three to five years ahead of the East in social and business development. " - "Most of the new ideas which contribute to the comfort or convenience of American life, or facilitate business inter course, have their birth in the Far West and reach us when they are "old stuff" to points west of the Sierras. We might cite scores of instances in support of this statement, but are at present concerned with but one of them, which has to do with advertising. j ' ; "Californiv Washington and Oregon produce excellent fruit ' You have heard about it. They took pains to let you know. : The producers of oranges, raisins, cherries, apples and ' other fruits have banded together to exploit their products in the Eastern jnarkets, and have conducted their propaganda in such a -businesslike and scientific way that their favorite brands are household words here.- Now, we do not produce oranges, it is tjue; but we raise many appetizing fruits which bear comparison with the best of the Western products. New Yrvrlc tit at a nrmlos - f ri insfancp. arn Tint t.n Vx snwrptl at.i Delaware has a-wonderful opportunity for the exploitation of branded (not brandied heaven forbid !) peaches. Why does it not occur to our Eastern fruit growers to popularize their superior products by co-operative advertising? Why let Eastern consumers suppose thai the only apples worth eating are grown on the other side of the continent? "The answer is invert in the first paragraph. The West ern idea hasn't had time enough to soak in: Bui peaceful penetration is at work, and , we r.sk for, the products ol. Eastern growers, by brand names, r.nd pains will be taken to pack and ship and sell these fruits o that, they will live up to the reputation advertising will Aiake for them, and the fruit men will do better business in a more reliable market. In all of which work the newspapers will play a leading part, as they have done in popularizing Pacific coast fruits." i . " The above quoted articlewas not written by a California man; nor was it written by a citizen of Washington or Oregon. . - It is a leading, double-leaded editorial from the Philadel phia Record of September 11. out this way very "chesty," that the writer is evidently and thinks the Sierras extend line. ; They do, but' they are called, the Cascades up this way. , r Intelligent advertising, such as is employed by our Wash ington and Oregon apple and cerns marketing loganberry juice, dehydrated fruits and veg etables; etc.; is good. But quality is also quite as important, and in this respect the Salem district, and western Washing ton and Oregon and northern California have a number 6f quality products besides those already advertised in the East, on which we have what amounts to a franchise; like the oranges and lemons and raisins' of California. Reference is made tcrour filberts, walnuts, flax, black raspberries, Oregon Champion gooseberries, quality strawberries, Bosc pears, cherries,Evergreen blackberries, White Michem peppermint oil, Angora mohair, broccoli, quality hops, world record cows, seed potatoes, vetches for seed, cascara bark, bulbs and seeds of several kinds, milling oats, etc., that will bear national advertising campaigns, and that can have either no com petition at all east of the Rockies; or no competition wort?i while. - . , ! "Dividing alien families at our Ellis Island gates is strangely reminiscent of old slavery days," says an Eastern DO IT SYSTEMATICALLY MOST of us have club dues, insur ance installments, or taxes, that must be paid regularly. How often we forget them, and must "rustle" for the cash, or be dunned several times. Why not calculate the yearly j amount required, then deposit one-twelfth monthly in a United States National commercial account? Thus you avoid unpleasantness by meeting obligations promptly. , ' 1 SALEM . Manager ...... r Oregon, as second class matter. IDEAS' shall eventually be taught to It is enough to make all of us especially when it is realized a little shy on his geography, up to the British Columbia prune growers, and our con OBLGON . - . newspaper. The heartbreaks must make the tasks of our immigration officers among the saddest in all the wide world unless they grow rhinoceros hides and become callous hearted, and ice water instead of ' red blood runs through their There has been nothing in of the Alabama claims, at all love and admiration for Lincoln. It has been discovered that "the healthiest spot in New York is on the crowded east Fifth avenue something to think about. During the week ended August 27 there were 13,273 more Treight cars loaded with revenue freight thai in the preceding week.- This is ttut one sign of the picking up cf cosiness and the steady re duction of unemployment. The father of President Hard ing, age 77, is a candidate for superintendent of the soldiers and sailors' orphans' home at Sandusky, Ohio. Wonder if he has any Influence with the presi dent since he eloped with, his sec retary? Jhe old adage that "diploma tic1 language is intended to con ceal thought" ought 'to be taken out of the mothballs and dusted eff for use in the coming interna tional disarmament conference. "MISNAMING THE CONFER ENCE "The suspicion that Democratic inspiratioa is behind the tenden cy to denote the Washington meeting as a 'disarmament' con ference is strengthened by a state ment made by Mr. McAdoo be fore a Kansas audience. He pro poses a navyless world and holds out the hope that lae conference will accomplish that very thing. The conference was called to dis cuss 'limitation of armaments,' and disarmament will form no part of its proceedings. It is probable that when the meeting adjourns with no agreement reached for the scrapping of na vies, Mr. McAdoo will be the first to cry 'failure. He is laying the ground now for the campaign of criticism the Democrats propose to launch the minute the confer ence ends, in an attempt to make capital for the poltitcal struggle of next year. Those editors who persist in referring to the Wash ington meeting as a 'disarma ment' conference are unwittingly furthering the designs of the enemies of Republicanism." 'Exchange. The above writer Is letting his political bias overshadow his com mon sense. There is little profit in a play on mere names. No one expects tho conference to result in the immediate scrap ring of all navies; out every right thinking person in the world hopes that it may pave the way for the discontinuance of the feverish race for bigger bajle shlps and more of them, by the leading powers; and thus, the gradual wiping out of great na vies by all the first class nations. And this may properly be" called disarmament. Disarmament Is not taken to mean doing away with proper po lice forces in any country; such as are needed for the protection of. life and property and the en forcement of the laws; nor, in deed of the lack of proper prepar ations for defensive purposes In case of foreign invasion nor even of the maintenance of skele ton organizations and ample sup plies and equipment for offensive action, in order to maintain the rights of any country. NUMBER OP UNEMPLOYED. "There are not 6,000,000 un employed in this country prob ably not more than half this num ber. Hundreds of thousands of women and girls, lured into in drustry, hava returned to their former occupations. In tho rural regions, which furnish employ ment to nearly half our labor army, there is little excess el help. There is a positive in crease in employment in the building trades, and more auto mobiles are running about than ever before. The silk shirt period may have passed, but it should not be mourned for. Such an increase In pavings bauk deporlts as the last report trowed is bet ter. That normal conditions have not been wholly re-established Is. of course, patent. The readjust ment of prices is not complete, r.hd until it Is, a deterrent influ ence will be at work. So there t call for courage and generosity, for thrift and felolw feeling, but that person is no friend to the un employed who wears a longer face than the facts justify and who bemoans what he calls the ap- FUTURE 0ATES Peftmto 21, Wednndy. Setl-FleU , i irfus. fWtemW 22, 23 and 2 1,- FmtWo1i Ranitfl up. ; Rrpmhr 2S to October 1 Oregon cut tr.- - - - - Mrr' M rommlstio to ope Vldt B Knrmbvr 1. 3 and 8S Ifirioa tou far Taachais XaatitaU, . and the bitter longings there! veins. England, since the settlement j comparable to Lloyd George's side." That may give upper! palling conditions whose early coming he foresees." New York Tribune. "One useful purpose to be served by the conference on un employment, to be held iu Wash ington the latter part of thii month will be to ascertain with reasonable accuracy how many men who really want to work are unable to find anything to do. Es timates of unemployment run from 3,000,000 to $6,000,000, and all the figures are mere guesses. Moreover, there are two classes of the so-called "unemployed" those who are doing their best to find work at the wages offered, and those who are refusing to work at any wage less than a minimum standard fixed by Mr. Gompers or one of his lieuten ants. Both classes may be out of work, but the command on public sympathy is far greater in the one case than in the other. The class of working men that bhould command the attention of the conference are those poor fel lows who are seeking work at any living wage offered pending the time they can improve their con dition by stepping into a better paying job. Those arc the truly unemployed, and it is more than Irobable that the investigations of the conference will disclose the fact that there are far less than a million able-bodied men in that predicament." Washing ton, correspondence. If the above two paragraphs are within the truth, the task of getting jobs for all the jobless people in this country who are willing to work at whatever em ployment they can get may not be such a stupendous task as it has seemed. The question of em ployment at fair wages for all the people of the United States who are willing to work will be in the process of early settlement im mediately upon the placing on the statute books of the protec tive tariff law. REMARK A RLE EMPLOYMENT RECORD. Speaking of conditions on his road, President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio, said re cently: "I am not in a position to speak for the other roads, buts I know my road and our employ es, and I am confident that if the men have any grievances, ihey will be settled as we always settle them in conference be tween workers' committees and officers." Some cynical people will sneer at this as a mere attempt to fore stall the efforts of outsiders to settle any differences that may txist, but there is manifestly good ground for Mr. Willard's assertion that in the past greivances have been settled by conferences be tween committees of workers and officials. Out pt 56,000 work ers, 20,000 have been with the road more than 10 years and an aqual number have been with the road 20 years or more. The average length of service among the 56,000 men is 15 years. With i record such as that, it is evi- lent, that there is justification for ;he use of language which ex presses doubt whether any griev ance exists, and also confidence that if a grievance docs exist it an bo settled by committees of ifficcrs and employes. There are few establishments ir. the coun try whose employes have been with the concern for an average of 15 years. Yet, pci haps the cynic will say hat the men have stayed because 'hey could not quit. Shedding wmo light upon that suggestion, there is tho presentation cf sta- istics showing that the men have Jl 1.500.000 in the savings de partment. They certainly could luit if they were seriously dis atisfied. The facts cited above indicate one thing pretty clearly that much, if not most, of the talk lbout dissatisfaction among rail road employes originates with outside agitators whose continued employment depends upon their ieeping"up some sort of activity to make a show of being neces sary appendages. FUNDAMENTAL PIUXC1PLES (Fro.mi the Washington Post) Attorney General Daugherty has a sound .sense of values. He shows his knowledge in his" speech delivered before the joint session of. the American bar association and the Ohio State Car associa tion In Cincinnati. When he do- clared that without respect for law, life, liberty and property are insecure, he uttered a solemn truth. Every crime wave, every deed of violence, every concerted at tack on law and order, every open flounting of the statutes and au thority, if it goes unpunished an l unheeded, tends to weaken the structure of national life. Obedi ence to the laws of God and man must be taught and (practiced. else there will be a gradual de cline in civilization, as is so glar ingly shown in Russia today. The laws of this country are of the making of the ffople them selves. The people can unmake them, just as they made them. If they are dissatisfied with any existing statutes, they have an i.asv and effective remedy in the l allot. There is no need for them ! to violate laws when they can so readily, if it is the sense of the majority, change them to suit themselves. Meanwhile, as the attorney general points out, all laws must be enforced, for, as he says, "the govenrment will endure on the rock of law enforcement, cr it will perish in the quick sands of lawlessness." TARIFF LAW MADE IX LMERI CA. V The British embassy at Wash ington seems to be taking an un due; interest in the framing of the tariff bill. Through its ef forts a representative of the Sheffield, England, steel mills ap peared a few days ago before the finance committee of the United Stales senate in advocacy of low duties for his products, and now comes the premier of Canada urg ing against high rates on fish and fish products. Fortunately the committee Is composed of men who agree with President Harding that this ad ministration should be for Ameri ca first. WORKED DURING RECESS "While congress has been in formal recess, the fact is that a large proportion of the members those serving on important committees have been hard at work. The finance committee of the senate has been holding all- day, every-day sessions. The con gressional joint commission on agricultural conditions has been in almost daily session. Sub committees of congress preparing legislation on other subjects, have been attending strictly to busi ness. It l.i erroneous, therefore, to accept the representation of the Democratic press that con gress has leen laying down on iLe job." The above quoted paragraph is l.om ' a Washington correspon dent. It gives a note of encourage ment to the country. If the cor respondent is correct, perhaps we may have the new federal tax law and the new tariff law on th? statute books before many weeks if the jawsmiths of the senate are not allowed too much ratge. The recess will be over today, and congress will be in session again omorrow. BITS FOR BREAKFAST I Fine rain. N But hope it Is over, or about through. One farmer told the writer that the gjfound was wet down five inchesASo If Jup. Piuv. will ring off now, a lot of good witl have been done, and little harm. S S That is going to be a great freshman class at Willamette uni versity. Ditto for the sophomores, juniors and seniors, and a fine school year is opening. S Circus day In Salem tomorrow. Everybody will be here. " Those foolish fellows shoi'Id not have robbed a circus. No one is likely to try it again. The cir. cus Is too much of a hard-boiled proposition for any one to perform such a stunt and get away with it. S "Did you ever see the devil? arkod a Salem doughboy of a col ored soldier In France. "I thinks I did one time," was the answer. "Tell me what he looked like." said the Salem doughboy. The answer: "Go 'long, man! Did you ever hear of anybody that could take pictures runnin'7" Note what the Philadelphia paper says of the west; ihe editor calls us the "far west." It's enough to make us feel our oats, when the east thinks we are sev eral laps ahead of that section, in initiative, intelligence, pep and progress. "School Days, School Days' r uo you remember me o" about school days being golden ruis aays; it is wrong to wnu coughing, sneezing, spitting child to school to spread disease germs among other little ones. Common colds are Infectious. Protect your own and other 1' tile ones with Foley's Honey and Tar. ThiF afe family remedy checks eouEh nd colds, loosens phlegm and tnucuous and coats raw. irritating membranes with healing, sooth ing medicine. Sold everywhere. Adf. S IS ANSWERED Four Important Questions Are Passed Upon By At torney General S. A. T. C. IS LEFT OUT 'roblems Are Presented to State Legal Department By Commission Four important questions rel ative to the application of the state bonus and loan act for ex service men are answered by At torney Gen. Van Winkle in reply to inquiries made by Captain H. C. Brumbaugh, secretary of the aid act commission: "If a portion of an applicant's service was in the student army training corps," says the first question, "and applicant served more than 60 days in some other branch of the service, shall the time served in the student army training corps as a student be de ducted from the total period of service in computing the cash bo nus?" Law is Clear The opinion holds that the law clearly provides that the appli cant must have served more than 60 days in the regular service during the program of the war be fore he is entitled to the privi leges of the bonus and loan act, and that his time of service in the S.A.T.C. is not included in esti mating his time of service. "If the applicant served as a student in the army training corps and less than 60 days in some other branch of the service, is he entitled to any of the bene fits under the act?" is the second question. The answer is in the negative Refund Considorl "Can the matter of refund un der this section be handled by the commission as a deduction from the amount of the cash bonus or loan the applicant U found to be entitled to receive," the third question Teads, "or ; will it be necessary for the applicant actual ly to refund the amount so receiv ed before his application can be approved? If the former method may be adopted, what disposition shall be made of the amount so deducted " -The attorney general's opinion holds that "The refund may be re tained by the commission from amount of bonus or ioan paid, but the amount retained should not be credited to the bonus and loan fund, but should be deposited with the state treasurer iand by him credited to the appropriation from whence it originally came, the soldiers', sailors'! and marines' educational aid fund; in other words, the general fund, that fund being the one appropriated for educational aid.". Farm and Home Loans The fourth Question is: "Can the commission, by rule withhold approval of a loan when the applicant states , his desire or intention to use the money thus obtained for other purposes than the acquisition or improvement of a farm or home, or; for the pay. ment of existing: obligations against such farm or home, or the purpose of purchasing farm ma chinery or household furniture?" The answer says; that "farm" or "heme" would include acqui sition, construction, establishment and completion of a home or farm which would include items men tioned in the question, but no others." s l R! OWES POIK'S FIIT Signs of Crackffig Seen in Prunes Grain Farmers Welcome Downpour DALLAS. Or., ScifXt. 19. (Spe cial to Tho Statesman) The heavy rain3 of Sunday and today have done some damage to the fruit in this vicinitytespecially the prunes which were ripe and which have not yet been picked. A thor ough investigation of a number of tho orchards about Dallas this morning revealed that in cases where the prunes were exceeding ly ripe the fruit had developed small cracks near the stem. This does not necessarily mean that the fruit wil continno to split the whole way down but if the rains continue; as - they did last year ; the loss to this crop alone will run into thousands of dollars as there are; quite a num ber of orchards where the picking was to have started this morning. Farmers gf?neraly think the rain is a God-send as they will now be able to start plowing, the ground heretofore being so dry as to make fall plowing impossible. All farmers in Polk county have their grain threshed and most of them are far along with their fall work outside of plowing. Several prune dryers which have been running upon about' 100 boxes of fruit a day will be forced to shut down for the fall and will have their fruit dried elsewhere as it makes it too expensive to run a arver witn small lots of prunes coming m and especially so when the weather is so threatening that tue harvest is uncertain. Mrs. Blank. My luck seems to leave me when I play cards. ; ; Mrs. Fort. It isn't your luck. ct-ar it s your common sense. HO Oil Multnomah Male Chorus o Sing at Silverton STT.VEltTON. Or.. Sept. 19 ( Special to The Statesman) ; rangements are being made to j have a fiill house welcome the i Mi'itromsh Male chorus which is scheduled! to appear at Eilverton next Sunday afternoon. It is sel dom thata Silverton audience has the opportunity to hear any of the really worth while things along the musical lines. During tlie past year various local organizations have made it their business to en- deavor to obtain and bring enter tainments along this line to Silver ton and each time the organiza tion has been rewarded by a full house. This time it is the Trinity Voung People's society that is sponsoring the Multnomah chorus. The chjorus of 5 voices is well known as a part. of the Pacific Voast Singers association which recently held a successful "San gerrest ' at Astoria. Prof, Carlo Sperati, the director of the Luther College Concert band which re cently gave a concert at Silverton, was once the director of the chor us which! will sing at Silverton on September 25. The chorus; under the leadership of Professor gperati toured Europe ia 1914 with the concert band. j The songs of the chorus will in clude many old . Norwegian folk songs besides some of the well known compositions by : Bull, Greig, Kjerulf, Ole ODlsenJ Sven desen, and Sindlng: Polk County Soil Survey Is Only Half Completed NDEPENDENCE, Or.. Sept. 19. (Special to The Statesman) The soil survey being made ot Polk county is about half com pleted and work has been sus pended until next spring. The work has been under the supervis ion of K. F. Torgerspn of Oregon Agricultural college and Charles Hartman. Their headquarters wag in this city wh le work was being done in classifying the soils in TALLMANjS BIG CLEARANCE SALE EM MM '''! ' IrsE- ' Ml i Pft:. Ill t. New Piano, High gnyic at $295 j I . l Used Pianos reduced in pro portion. We have two new Grands left at ; $695 each Liberal Terms if Desired TALLMAN'S PIANO STORE ! 12t South Commercial Street Wed. Sept. 21 Street Parade at 11 a. m. tm. mj VAT ' TOE MAMMOT ySjOTflSV C0NGRESSFREAKS' i " . - " .' - I I-''" . - 1 . . Seal Sale Pal ton th's particular section of tha county. Next spring when the work Is again resumed by them, their headquarters wilt be at Dal las as their operating base. The soil survey Is being made by tha federal government in conjunc tion with Oregon Agricultural col- lega. Big Capital Increase is Filed by fower Company i The Portland Rail way, L!ght : Power company j has filed supple mentary arttclosl of incorporation here increasing I Its cap'taHsatlon from35.000 OOfr to 147,500,000, a raise of $12,500,000. Proper correction of their eye-trouble will help solve their prob lems have the sight tested now. MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 204-211 Salem Bank of Commerce Building Oregon's Largest Optical Inotltutlon i I 2VIIHG TOT MX IT3 JUST A3 PRESEIfiTD H Bros; Book Store ! i' 1 J I I i i1 ....8 i i r.