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. THK STATESMAN PUBIJSH1NQ COMPANY -V m . . 15 s- Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Buildln. Phone Aatomatle MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tb Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all newi dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited ta this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Stephen A. Stone.. Ralph Olorer frank Jaskoskl riATT.T Mlwouiu ft u a Ai&ajuAii, ki rcu vj carrier ux dwsiu auiu luuuiuit i cents a woek, f& cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mail. In advance, $1 a year, $S for six .months, $1.60 for three months, SO cents a month, In Marlon . and Polk counties; outside of these counties, 17 a year, 93.60 for ill months, $1.75 for three months, CO centra month, When not paid In advance. SO cents a year additional. THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the wu u vent m year 10 anyone Daily Statesman. SUNDAY STATESMAN. $1.50 a cents for three months; 25 one month. WEEKLY STATESMAN, issued ana jrnasys, si a year ill not paid in advance, ii.iftj; so cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Orflce, II. Circulation Department. Itt , Job Department, 51 1 Society Editor, 10 Entered at the Postoffice In Salem, HELP KEEP WILLAMETTE v President Doney of Willamette University says students are coming to him daily, or rather hourly, saying they tannot remain in school without some work; and he intimated to the writer yesterday that he will be a nervous wreck if the people of Salem do not come to the rescue And he said there are students who can and will do any kind of honorable work, if only it will help them to remain in school; that they will not be at all choice, for the most part, concerning the kind of employment. . t ? The writer talked with a Salem lady yesterday who has .taken a place in a store, in order that she may keep a girl student in Willamette university; the student doing the house work while this lady holds the place in the store. : That is only a sample of what may be done in this field, by making some sacrifices. If all the people of Salem were as resourceful as this one lady, and had .the interests of the young people eager for an education as deeply at heart as she has, there would be no question about taking care of all the students who need such assistance- All of them, and more comers like them. - m i . , a' - mere can dg no greater source oi sausiacuon to any man or any woman, in after life) than that which comes from navmg assisted & young man The students who work their way through school, in whole or in part, make the best students and they have the 1 a. a. ft a trrt uesi equipment ior success alter graauation. xney appreci ate the opportunities which are theirs, and make the best of thorn . -1 - And these are the men and women in charge of the great institutions all over this country, in very large measure. SomV of thepC0ple 6f Salem, 'mostly representing the , churches of the city, have formed an organization for the as- jria mi nnnr annum rmointi 1 , , 1, ' . . of one to render, assistance in Ring up the University. Ring up President Doney. Get In touch with the members of the new organization .through the pastors, v Go and seek out students needing help. Get in toucn witn tne situation m some way. and do your part. It is the duty of every loyal Salemite and of every man or woman who desires to be helpful to others . And that is all we are here for, after all. If we have no such desire, we have no rightful place in this world. ' Do not delay. Do it now. Do it today, and not next week or next month. , i The Americans ', are trooping home by the shipload from Eu rope. The tourists were never so numerous nor the ocean passen ger rates so'hlffc.. . ' I Test your memory, i What pres ident was it who died 40 years ago on the 19th Inst, who was but 49 years of age and had been in office but six and a half months? 'Who was with him when the shot ! of the aftnaxfttn 1M film lnvt President Harding Is making a continuous drive for economy. He can do much In that line by not spending the vast sums appro priated by congress. , That was the way Governor Miller ot New York solved the T matter ' in the 'Empire state. ' --' THE GENERAL BUSINESS OUT. LOOK IS DECIDEDLY ": iMniovix. The following are some of the outstanding paragraphs of the current weekly financial letter of Henry Clews, the Wall Street au thority They make very en couraging reading: . "Announcement that the ex change si u tat ion Is again under 'Consideration on the part of the Washington authorities, that ne gotiations are under way for the rehabilitation ot Mexico's external debt, probably to be followed by the recognition, of. the present Mexican government. and - that tentative agreement upon an avail- able tax program preliminary to the reassembling of congress has been nearly reached by the senat ; finance committee are chief among the constructive develop ments of the past week. Taken - FUTURE DATES FTtmWr 21. Wednesday . S!I Floto , Cti. 8iembfir S3, 23 34,- Pendletoa Ronnd up. ., - Bptmbr SS t , Oetoto 1 Ovegp Btntu rtr. A ....:.- SmtrmW 2. Wednesday 8tt anl s'r aid rvmraiasio to pea blda 15,000.000 bmtdk. 'FmW 21. 23 and 8 lfarioa -U Taaijnara Inititule. - , THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON Manager . Managing Editor '...... Cashier Manager Job Dept. i 0.1 . - v w. . r great western weekly farm paper.! paying a year in utuka jo ue year; 75 cents for tlx months! 40 cents for I months; IS cents for In two six-page sections, Tuesdays Oregon, as second class matter. STUDENTS IN SCHOOL or a young -woman through nimaoiT fy norco t a rnmmuTDn 1 , 1 4 A A this respect. all in all, with the' continuation of the favorable upward movement in stocks which had already set in, they clearly sustain the be lief in progress toward better conditions. Encouraging Railway Develop ments. "The declaration of the regu lar, dividend on Great Northern has set at rest the anxiety which has been entertained on that score and the action, taken in regarded as a very hopeful indication of the general attitude of railroad managers at large. Railroad se curities as a whole have a more substantial footing as investments than they have enjoyed for a great many years. Another feat ure in favor of the rails, which has not yet come to the front, is the probability of a number of lines being consolidated, which sooner or later will result in all kfhds of speculative rumors. Co ordinate in interest and import ance with this step is the action of a New York banking firm in taking $7,500,000 ot the 6 per cent 'car trust certificates which the government had arranged to dispose of. This amount repre sents only a bare fraction ot the $380,000,000 held, but at least chows that the certificates issued on behalf of the better lines can still command a market even at 6 per cent, -'Some other ; favorable developments in railroad finance help to confirm the predictions of continued improvement, and the definite announcement that net earnings for August are practi cally $70 000.000 substantially sustains the forecast on that sub ject. In these circumstances the firmness and increasing value of standard rails Is not surprising. Business ProgrfMs Still In Evi dence. "There has been a disposition during . the week toward an in erease In the volume of employ ment in a good many important industries, particularly . those of the New England states and of New York!. In certain manufac- turing regions where seasonal conditions obtain, reaction has un doubtedly occurred, but this would have been true in any case upon the arrival of the usual period or normal reduction. There is no reason to doubt the upward movement of business. This, moreover, is confirmed by August foreign trade returns, which show a large increase both of exports and imports, with a balance of trade in our favor am ounting to $181,000,000. The un filled order report of the United States Steel corporation shows a larger reduction than had been predicted, but this is a situation that applies to a period of some three weeks ago. Ingot produc tion and general demand are in creasing, and the steel outlook is hopeful. The better values for cotton and grain are already bar ing the effect that was expected of them in brightening trade throughout the west and south, with the result that collections in those parts of the country have improved and that sales of goods have been rendered considerably easier in many sections. The earnings of many corporations will have to improve considerably before their stocks can be looked upon as genuinely sound, but un less all signs fail, greater activity in most branches of trade is now close at hand. Hanks Growing More Liberal. "With the adjustment of the many long outstanding accounts in the farming regions, the banks are tending to become decidedly more liberal, and there is a bet ter supply of funds available for commercial uses than for some time past. Announcement tha' the war finance corporation is now ready to undertake business itnder the terms of the act re cently passed by congress which authorizes it, if necessary, to advance funds up to $1,000,000, 000, also gives assurance of an ample supply of money. In the opinion of many, the banks are now go well equipped to take care of demands that the corporation is not likely to be called upon for very large extensions of credit. Secretary Mcllon's success in placing his entire $600,000,000 bf notes and certificates, repre senting the largest single offer ing since the war, at the rate of one-quarter of 1 per cent below the figures established for the last issue, is a striking tribute to the improved Investment 8itua tion. "Looked at from every stand point, financial and commercial conditions have undergone de cided improvement and the out look is much brighter than for a long time past." IS THE XKGItO I'ASSIG? (Charleston News and Courier) Some time ago, at the time the census figures for tho country by races were published, the News and Courier called attention ;o the fact that these ligures dis closed a net gain in population for the South of 3,586,107 whites during the decade as against only 162,832 negroes. In other words, for every negro added to the population of the South between 1910 and 1920 there were added 22 white persons. It was shown further that with a total negro population of 10,463,013 the net gain in negro population for the last census decade had been only half as great as the gain between 1890-1900, and that it had been smaller by over 135,000 than the net gain between 1S40-1850 when the total negro population was only 3,638,808. So rapid and progressive has been the decline in 09 rate of increase of negro population in the past 30 years that the News and Courier was moved in the article referred to to ask: "Is the negro in America dying out?" The tamo question Is now raised by the Raleigh News and Observ er, which declares that ''records ot the United States census, to gether with records from the registry of vital statistics main tained by the etate board of health of North Carolina indicate that the answer may be affirma tive." The Raleigh newspaper declares that in North Carolina tho ratio of negro population in the state has been declining slow ly but steadily for the past 40 years, apd that there is now "a wide gap between the net gain per thousand white population and the net gain per thousand negro pop ulation annually." North Carolina was one of the first states in tbe South to In pugurate records of births and deaths for negroes, and while these records date back only five years, their value is already ap parent. For the last year they show that the white birth rate in North Carolina was 333 per 100. 000 against the negro birth rai of 318 per 100,000. a margin ot 15 per 100,000 in favor of the whites. On the other hand the death rate per 100.000 white peo ple in North . Carolina last year was 116, whereas the death rate among negroes per 100,000 was IS 9, the death rate among the negroes per 100,000 being 63 per cent higher than that among the whites. The net gain in births over deaths by whites was 217, whereas the negro population showed a net gain of only 149 per 100.000 of population. Tursued mathematically," say the News and Observer, "the continuation of the wideuing ratio of racial divisions, he decline wi!l reduce the negro population to less than 15 per cent of the whole within the next. 100 years, and will carry it to the vanishing point within two centuries. Many conditions enter into the situa tion that cannot be reckoned with until they develop, but figured n a mathematical basis alone, the figures are apparently against the permanency of a negro popula tion in the South." OUT OP THE DARKXKSS f Did you ever think about the children of 2000 year? ago? We read of excavations made in far flung corners of the earth and of data collected about the men that lived in those distant yesterdays, of their cities, their weapons of warfare, their manner of living and so on. Rarely doe one see any information about the chil dren. Not so long ago men who were making excavations in Rome came upon an apathetic group of objects from the tomb of a little girl of the period of Tiberius, 1960 years sgo. They are in near ly as good a state as when the child died. A coin of Tiberius was put in the dead child's hand, the' fee to give to Charon, the ferryman, to cross to the other side of the Styx, the principal river, of the "Lower World.' Then the box was filled with her little dolls of which she had evidently been fond. She had also apparently loved to play at doll's tea party at that age. So there are a little tablo and a toy silver candela brum. She had dressed her dolls and had "made them up," ior there is the little box of cosmetics, with the figure of a Baccha on the cover. She was fond of bricks.) too, and her parents had put into' her box some little cubes painted' In four colors. There are a tiny gold brooch probably oue she wore at parties of the most deli cate filigree work and a gold bracelet. This little maid must have been the daughter of more than ordinary parents, as she had been taught to write, since they, had put in some tablets and a stylus. All of this somehow makes her seem as real as tho little girl next door, and one cannot help regret ting that she could not have had her playthings just a bit longer this little girl of Long Ago. LIOXS IX THK PATH. Some of tho delegates to the assembly of the League of Na tions do not hesitate to express the opinion that the United States is perhaps the principal obstacle in the pathway of world disarma ment. The confidence which Uncle Sam has in his own benev olent and peaceful intentions is not shared by the entire uni verse. We have high ideals and kindly motives, but other nations are not prepared to accept them on faith. There are now 50 coun tries in the League of Nations. The United States Is the only highly civilized power on the out side and 'there are some govern ments or rather some peoples who think the United States is holding aloof for a eelfish and bloody purpose. They think we merely want to talk disarmament and then, when the opportunity comes, we wil! jump in and take possession of all w caa hold. We, of course. know that we would be doing the world good by affixing our trand of i vi'.iralion to it; but tnere are a lot of nations v.ho Mill have a desire to run their governments in their own way. They ate inclined to be suspicious of Uncle Sam and why not? In dependence may be as dear tc then as it was to t'ae Americans in 1776. Today Americans talk more of liberty and have Ic? of U than any other ert.at uat'on. Can we expect other ijovernments to accept us without a question mark? Los At Timej. EVIDKXCE OF GOOI J I IG MKXT. 11 more man nan me weoainc i in Coblenz for a year had "Yankee grooms and Teuton brides the Maid of Germany must have good taste. Also good practical sense, for with $30 a month, at present exchange rates, each of our pri vate soldiers is a near million aire. Brooklyn Eagle. SCREEN IX THE SCHOOLS They are using the films to teach botany geography and some branches of history la the public schools of Chicago. The plan U very popular and the classes are mj Thpv are making educa- ' tion so attractiTe and easy that ;n a few hundred years numb skulls will be inexcusable. When a girl can learn to make tudge by watching the pictures she is bound to be bright. HKLFING THK MJM. A blind beggar in the .East ad- vertised for a chauffeur and of fered to pay $45 a week. Said he wanted to go on a "sight-seeing'" trip in the south. With the aid of a fiddle he had always t been able to clean up an average of about $50 a day and now he wanted to have some rest and re freshment. His sense of touch has been highly developed. RAISING HADES. Roscoe Arbuckle is said to have bad an ambition to play "Fal staff" in the films. Instead he has been playing the devil. T BITS FOR BREAKFAST 4 Circus day. n This day belongs to the kid dies. . Salem is going to be well po liced during state fair week. " The crooked brothers, boot leggers and reckless automobile drivers will have to watch their steps. . Almost everybody has had a comfortable sufficiency of rain for the present. Jup. PIuv. will please take notice and ring off. H Everybody is talking about the Pacific highway between Salem and Jefferson. It is a beauty. n S S Manchurian walnuts have been Imported into this country in bal last and sold at 5 cents a pound. Something must be done about it. The new tariff law, as passed by the house, provides a duty of Vx cents a pound on unshelled walnuts. That is not enough. It should be 10 cents, at the least. And the Oregon legislature must pass a law requiring all sellers of walnuts from 'Manchuria to label them as such. Our walnut growers must be protected. m ". Prof. Bouquet writes from Cor vallis that the broccoli growers need not be alarmed about the rapid growth of their broccoli. The great danger, he says, is the severe cold of winter. He will likely come down to the Salem district soon and help in showing the growers how to protect their broccoli from possible extreme cold weather. Gray Woman is a riddle. Bray That's right. She keeps us guessing, and yet we bate to give her up! Cartoons Magazine his is original Vacuum packed coffee WEDNESDAY MORNING, 1ITE PUSSES UP. Ll Adjutant General Almost Kidnaped by Labor Pro moters at Marshfield While touring southern Oregon last week. Colonel George A. White, adjutant general, was of fered a job on a logging grade rail ioad at $3.75 a dav. out of which there was to be subtracted $ 1.25 i a day for board and lodging. It seems that the colonel was irtiuiging In the luxury of a real shave somewhere down below Marshfield and entered into con versation as t wages. His log ging toots anl general appear ance were typ.cal of a lumbar worker, and b'ore he could ox- plain that he was after informa-j ..v-ii .uu UUl WUIK, 'IJ I17UI W moters were about to carry him ofof and put him to work. In the Gold Beach neighbor hood, the Colonel attempted a lit tle fishing but with bis first throw, a real fish came to the surface and carried off fly, line and pole. Another day, aftf-r hn.'i'Jng all day for a deer aad seeing none, Ir the evening at tbe camp, a yearliiii doe grazed peacefully within 50 feat of the hunters. Returning, the colonel discov ered a new sport for cung Amer ica. It was along the detour be tween Monroe and Corvallis. At the middiest point 'n tbe rad, youngsters built bonfiies in order to enjoy the troubles of tourists and incidentally to heip the farm er who was on hand to pull cars out of the mud for a small consid eration. However, the trip M two we?k3, combining business and pleasure, was a most enjoyable one, the -colonel said. AMITY NEWS, AMITY,' Or., Sept. IC. (Special to The Statesman.) The funeral of Robert Loop, World war hero, was held here yesterday at- the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. T. J. Leger. The large audi torium was filled to overflowing with friends who came to pay their respects to the only boy from Amity who paid the supreme sacrifice. The services were con ducted under the auspices of the Robert Loop American Legion post, who gave the regular mili tary ceremonies at the cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gibbs, Mrs. J. Mauser and Miss Gertie Rea went to Portland Sunday after noon and called at the Emanuel hospital where the editor of the Standard is recovering from an operation for appendicitis which he underwent last Tuesday. T. C. Richter spent the week end in Portland. Mrs. M. A. Iiorah was removed from the Emanuel hospital in Portland on Sunday, having suf ficiently recovered from her seri ous operation to be taken to the II Qjmi Umesjtom have ihe SEPTEMBER 21, 1921 home of her arster, Mr. andiMrs. F.iW. Newman were In Salem on Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Day. Miss Gertie Rea has charge of the Amity Standard office and with the assistance of Donald IS life Wort'ttl 3)411 i That depends on the Dr. Miles' Liver Pills t mild, gentle, effective. Use laxative Or ior enrumc coiupaiiun. .-vi mi uruggisis Vakpar renews your old linoleum VALSPAR will do wonders wear-resisting a surface that is f or your linoleum, congolcum proof against hot greases, acids or oil cloth. It not only brings out the colors like new, but adds years of extra wear. For Vaispar gives these floor-coverings a new surface tough, waterproof, mm Fall is the Time to Varnish W. P. Fuller Sc ck KSJr'. The following Fuller distributors can alto atuiplg pou with Vaispar: R. V. Gilbert & Co. t 1 Ray L. Farmer Hardware Co. 'V passed someone on the street carrying home a bag of ground coffee. The won' dcrful aroma , that it gave off made lyou hungry for a cup of it too. That was the flavor the real life of the coffee passing into the atmosphere. Think of it paying . a good price to get a quality, coffee land then losing much of what you pay for flavor simply because it is not , packed right. When you buy Hills Bros. "Red dan' you get all the aroma and strength that tyou pay for. The vacuum tin fyeps the flavor in. Kecogni&ecl as tke standard coffee Woodman and Alfred . Emerson. I looks after the Job work and edits and publishes the paper dur ttoe illness of the editor. , i E. W,j Rea is still confined to t is home by illness which has kept him confined for the past four weeks. liver. J thejm as an occasional! and spilled liquids. 1 VALENTINE'8 use Vaispar I CM tt on fior. fur- . i , doors and out. Vaispar Varnish is easy to apply and dries hard over night. .1 i 1- 1 i 1 1 A i f 1 u
