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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Cashier
Manager Job Dept.
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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
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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
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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
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Circus day.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Ray L. Farmer Hardware Co.
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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.
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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.
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