YHft DIGOR CTATESMAN, SALEM,' OREGON SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 25, 1921 - Issued Daily Eieept Mood by ' ; f . TUB 8TATK8MAN I'UJILISIIIN U COMPANY ' ' . til 8. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Porttand Office 2T Board of Trade Building.-'- Fbobs AstoaaUe UKMBEK OF THIS ASSOCIATED HIKH8 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for repub- llcation of ail news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, v -i J. Xlendrlcks. Manager Stephen A, Stone. ....................... .....Managing Editor i llalph Glover Cashier ' Frank Jaskoskl ............................ Manager Job Dept. DAILY STATESMAN, senred by carrier la Salem and suburbs, li ? eenta a woek, IS cents a month. . ' : OAHT STATESMAN, by mall. In advance. $C a year, IS for six : ' i : months, SI. SO (or three months, BO cents a month. In Marlon and Polk connt.es; outside of these counties, 3 a year, $5.60 ' for six months, 11.75 for three months, ft cents a month, When v. ;i not paid la advance, 60 cents a year additional. TUB PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the mat western weekly farm paper, ; .1 will be sent a year to anyone paying a year la adrance to the- y r Dally Statesman. - , t CTXNDAT STATESMAN, $1.(0 a jear; 7 S cents for six months! 40 ; cents for throe months; 2Scenta for 1 months i II eents for ",! one month. .. , -t. . - " V7SEKLY STATESMAN, issued tn two six-page sections. Tuesdays ,v .; ana Fridays, si a year tit not paid In advance, Sl.zsj 60 ; - cents for six months; 26 cents for three months. TELEPHONES; : ? Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, I8S Vy Job Department, 681 ; ' , Society Editor, lot Entered at the Postofflee in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. i j The! Bible ls sow ! printed ta inore than . S00 different, languag es, so that the cosmopolitan . Sa lem wman "will be able to read ltr In ihls!naUve tongue- '' 1 1 '! f- - " ' TAX REDrCTlOX IMPERATIVE. OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD ffVmvr?or1.tr4 hV'Ttio Snn Jhsa "Mprrurvt i 5 . i . j ii -i ' . i . i ill. ah inroagn ine ages uowr to wis uay in me struggles who evil men have sought to destroy it solely; by repression. They hare apparently thought that by keeping sin -down, ! by putting 1 it out of sight and out of hearing they were eradicating jts Many 5a parent, for example, still uses this method of repression ,in i his dealings with,rand his correction of his1 child No matter if all sorts of sins are surging in his mind and spirit, the child must earlt learn to hide all thisjf he would escape the punish! merit that 'only' their outward manifestation brings. As h$ I grows to manhood the child is "thus unconsciously made to t believe that the important thing is not what he really is, but I what he appears to be, what he can make others think he is. Evil thoughts and secret 'sins indulged do no overwhelm him I with contrition and a sense of shame; but let "another come ' to. know of the evil within him and he is overcome with con I fusion and embarrassment. A a result of this method of train ; ing children many of the frailties that should have been wholly J eradicated fromthe nature in childhood continue to the grave. ' ; Societytalsp deals with its criminals in the same unscientific, ' bungling and foolish way. Repression, not correction, punish r nient for crime already committed,. not. prevention of wrong : doing by changing the nature, of the criminal expiation, rather than reformAUon-hese.seenv to bethev aims ojt. our, criminal, statutes and of the administrators of our laws. Crime is nly t an" expression? a symptom, o fiuv jnternai moral crusade; Just-as the symptom to which the. physician ' ghes attention m making his diagnosis are only the outward manifestations -of isaSefthebody. Thephy8icians-who Ipends his time doctoring .these symptoms . seldom rises above 'the.level-oft the auack.IIe wh6 ooks'beydnd them, discovers thetr'canswrandTeinoVcrlr v; i. 5 So with every-forra of sin. wrong and evil., effort should b directea,-iV'repreiioi'Uuv cisuiwiuuiw -are not only not destroyed by being suppressed or hidden, but often the final result is that they burst through the artificial restraints with, even greater lorce and aDanaon because of this outward suppression! Statutes and consti-j tutions alone will never bring the milleniurh. Society, par-i ents,the administratora of.theJaw..everybody,who aims, to help, elevate or reform the world or anybody in.it, it,they Would have their efforts effective, must at- least supple ment this repression vwith -something -that4 will4 actually change the moral system of the individual and eliminate the evil propensity from it, instead of merely tending to repress i:lts-action.tli..-,vvV v.- ' yw::. u--:' i-In order'to-intelligently dVthis the nature of evil. must be better understood. It must be recognized that sin is only the lack of knowledge, lack of development lack of strength; jusf as darkness is only the absence, of light and cold but the lack of heat The natural remedy "t or sin i3 enlighten ment, individual " development; a?'As ' darkness is dissipated by the'coming of light and the cold banished by the presence It sufficients the positive-energy r heat, so sin is destroyed in -a human life by the coming into it of ood, of enlighten ment, of the light of God,5 of fthat flight that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." Paul certainly understood this, for in his Epistle td the Romans he is recorded as say ing, "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." I ?'In:trutk efil. sin, can be overcome only in this' way. In the world as in the individual the only effective way to fight sin is to bnild np,to-disseminate,-to develop- goodness.- Let the Darent not etoo with repression but strive to build up Jn the child principles of truth, temperance and righteous ness and help him to develop an. inner life that will make it natural for him to be good. Only so will he be strong enougn to resist the temptations, that he will meet in life. r And let - not the young -nor the old - forget-that if -they . find that in-and of themselves they are not strong enough. to overcome the evain thought; life -and conduct that be sets them, there is everywhere a Srpirit of Goodness, of Righteousness upon whom they can call that is able to sup ply whatever Of strength tney.may lack, lttnem get more of this Spirit into their lives. and evil wH be eliminated, as darkness disappears with the advent of the sun. Li After, .one -haalong. yieldedto -some sinor .appetite or passion., until he haa become ita.&lave,' raxelyr if- ever, iaie able by the power of iis own unaided will terovercome it. Even when nided by medical treatment,' the -BO-called 4cure" ' will srenerallv not rorove to be nermarietttly effectual, unless a change has" come n his mind, and spirit so that outside the mere physical appetite,' he is not wedded to it. Some- ining.must come into nis iue iu tiu it. auove us appetite,. ' 1 . - A- .t.A. ?m ' m m 1 nwAs AaaAa nviwa " Bin Or passion, UJ give Uliu ucw .auu fiiiic utau to, , aiuu, ideals and purposes, and thus help him to control the carnal felements within him. . ... , i As an active members of a lodge of .Good Templars the writer earlier in life spent sdme time and labor in an effort to reform inebriates. Many such would; stand Def ore the, lodge and3olemnlyJtake,thevpledge oi total abstinence.with tears of repentance anci slncerity sUeamtog lronvtheir eyes. But he does not recall one such that was not soon again im bibing: Later he saw scores Of men who leffcthe saloons and framing tables of a border town to attend a meeting, where they came under the influence of a strongly spiritual life,1 who never returned to these dens of iniquity again but lived ever afterlives of sobriety, honesty, purity and Usefulness. In that hoin something came into their livs that transformed them. The Spirit of Good had overcome the evil in them. . : Let. him -who would overcome evil in himself remember that he is to "overcome this evil with good ; with good that r ust come, must be, must abide in his, own life, that must Editor Statesman: f Following; the orgeat recom mendations of ? President. liar ding and GoTernor Olcott that taxation be reduced and retrenchment en forced in all departments of the public ( service, thoughtful kM zinm Bhoalr.gret some of the main facts in the situation here in Ore gon clearly before them and be ready to i answer the plausible suggestions of those who are al ways ready to boost levies and valuations for ' purposes ' of taxa tion. No one will dispute 'the propo sition that taxes have been ad vanced to higher rates by leaps and bounds, and the end is not yet in sight. In Salem for city purposes tax levies have been re duced from 15 to 13 mills and the city is prospering on that ac count. County levies for strictly county purposes have been held at the same figure for the past ten years, although school levies and levies ordered by the state have been Increased about 300 per cent. While city and county officials here and in some other counties are entitled to credit for holding down the overhead, the state and school officials are not altogeth er to blame for the enormous in crease in levies because they were authorized by the people. If we desire relief from . excessive , tax ation we must educate the peo ple to not vote for evpry jaew proposition that is put on the ballot. The fault lies largely with the people, although the war jreriod and .the leadership de manding higher taxes could not well be resisted. But as to the future the peo ple have a distinct duty based upon the records of tax boosting for the past five or ten years. Let us cite a few examples from the records: In 1905 total Port land levies were 14.8 mills, and this year they total about 4S mills. Th H. B. Gearin farm that in' 1912 paid $314.28 taxes in Marion county this year paid $772.60, an Increase of 145 per cent; Tjiere were' no special road or other, levies, nor change In val uation on this farm. Another farm that in Judge Hubbard's timeiTaW-ab0ttt170;-ha8 been divided and this year paid nearly $1000. ; A v telegram from Olympia, Wash., states . that the state tax board of that state has cut levies iur state purposes 50 nor rant from 4 mills In 1920 to ZM mills In 1921. Idaho has made a similar cut of nearly as much J loose states are strong com peti- wra with Oregon, where, accord ing to "the" Voter, state taxes have gone up 244 per cent. - while as sessed valuation has Increased only, 23 per cent, and population 16 per cent.. - . .... t The Oregon ' State Tax Com- mlssloB has sounded the warning mat tax levies cannot be Increas eu ana tnere is no, alternative but to raise valuations f of 4 farm f tnd city property, make a new cruise of the timber lands, or en act a state income tax law. The fact stares us in tile face that unless one or all of these things are done, (and a strong legisla tive tax commission is at work to prepare initiative bills to raise ! more . revenues), we must re trench in every department of the public ; service. '- -1 - ; A Citizens and Taxpayers' fed eraUon has beea organised to work on the lines Indicated by Harding and Olcott. . and secure a' reduction of at least 25 per cent in the total levies. If that were .uraiisfleQ me state could carry a small tax annually for an exposition In 1925 at Portland, and not be forced to resort to a state fncome tax. The theory of the state Income tax is that if submitted to a popular vote by the InitiaUve it would carry by the vtoes of the noa:taxpayers, and the five or ten ; millions an- iuauy to ie raised In hevenues would come out of the pockels of the rich, '; ' ' "Kew.Tork, , Massachusetta - and WIsconsia- have state income tax laws, but' those are old., highly developed states, with gigantic manufacturing and financial en terprises reaping wealth., and i in comes from all the other states In the union. A western state that Is undeveloped and requires capital and industries would tsuf- ier iron enacting a late Income tax, and those paying.no taxes, and dependent on. day labor for a living" would . find little employ ment under sacajaa additional burden on those who areelied on to invest money and meet pay rolls. It would lose, population and capital. ; Would not a genera! retrench ment program be a abetter ad vertisement than higher tax lev ies, and bring as more popula tion and eapital for investment, and set the capital in the state at work on more indnatriea? We are extending the credit of the state to Irrigation and reclama tion enterprises to build the Btate highways and ports, and to help the service men acquire bomts. Would it not be better to une the credit of the state to finance the Portland exposition, and give Multnomah county and Portland, holding over one-third the wealth of the state, ten years to pay it j back, with a low rate of interert? This is worth considering. Alonr with a retrenchment program Jt would put Oregon ion equal terms ia the race for development with other western states.' i-E. HOFER. Salem, Or.. Se$. 24, 1921. made '.various , excursions in th realm, of 'epithalam'y in quest of "something just as good. Hut they were unable to find it. Now Wagner and Mendelssohn are re-j turning ' and a wedding march from the German Is not neressar- lly construed asr an invitation to battle. i CANINE INSURED FOR $15,000. i - A,lice--"Oh. a. I T delasoha!!', Mrs. Vpnspore-r--AU right, ayear.1 ydu'd'; better In vite the young, mtp'.ta.your next awrty'r-iEdinburg Scotsman. EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE EVERY l.XCH HELPS THE MILLS. American mill owners can be expected to give sympathetic ear to the Paris dictum for longer rkirts. Why not; remember the old theory about an extra inch on the Chinaman's shirt tails thi was going to make the fortunes of all New England cotton manu facturers. Hartford Times. And every inch ! helps also the cotton growers of the south and the wool and mohair producers of the whole country and helps everybody in , any ! upon them for a prosperity and i that Includes practically every one in the United States. James J. Hill once said that there was not enough surplus wheat in all the Northwest to ?iake flour to give every resi ent of China a biscuit a day. Beheld what little things make up the sum of the great things of this world! way dependent llrtlihcod or Dr. Mill ikcn ItppHcs ' 'In a letter asitng for the cre dentials of Rev. W. L. Brandon (M. L. were the initials assigned him in the article quoted), I ask ed if Rev. Mr. Cantrell were tb man who canvassed California In the "booze" interests during Its last "dry" campaign. His reply is logical and convincing. "You are yellow. Moreover, you are a Rantist. And . I challenge yon to debate on the Irish question." 1 want to thank Mr. Cantrell for his clear and pertinent answer to my query. But for two- reasons I decline to take up his kind challenge. First. I am an Ameri can citizen and have no personal interest in tbs Irish question. In fact I am sometimes tempted to say "Amen" to the prayer of the old Tennessee mountain preacher. He nrayed: "Oh Lord, grant that rery Sinn Felner may kill a moonshin er and be hung: for it." ' Aga'n. I am rather choice in my associates, unlike another gentle man who claims to be a "Baptist minister." . I am far more Inter ested in eliminating hyphens than I am in advertising the Sinn Fein. , Except for this one question re carding Mr. Cantrell my letter re ferred to; Mr. Brandon. At first I wondered why be did not answer for bimself instead of getting Mr. Cantrell to do it for him. Then a storv flashed into mv mind. A traveling man dropped 'into a .TV.'...1'..' il - : . I - 9. - ... . ' i " Sir :...k n h " 1 , - lit i&v 4 ' ': i . ' r .. - h. . . . Mi a as- . . .v . 4 vy s as. 1 ft-st ; - - --'i iiiiin-1- 'Tk. sji nisii Nk. x.v ... . v n: i v -sr--it hi'' - i.v ivT v 1 tA a nn n i u: V ;a KNDURANCK LESSOR'S OP WAR If there is one thing which has been made clear to us in the laet six years it is that communities and Individuals have a capacity for endurance far exceeding all rational estimates in the previous years. The enemy enlluroli!6r yeaxa- oa a 4ietwh.iclt;-jjo?t ducuiuic ieis, la IDSUXIlCieni iO support life for more than a few months; the hunger, .striker, who ought to have died in three weeks. Uvea on for six or seven; the na tion which is manifestly' bankrupt carries on with all the appearance of solvency and even prosperity for an apparently unlimited time; the strike which ought to have ended in complete exhaustion at the end of a month, continues un abated after two months, and the community which ought to have been strangled by it is alive and cheerful and comparatively indifferent.- -Westminster Gazette. ... - THE JUST AND I THE UNJUST. Ill ' '':y?svx-?--',,-'- 4 . ; s rhoto bf fndrrwood S rn4rwooi. Al Wilson, noted daredevil stunt flyer, and his shepherd dog. Lad-' die, who accompanies him on his flights. Recently the dog leaped from one airplane to another while 5,000 feet up. The Insurance companies wrote a $15,000 policy for Laddie, but would give WUlson only a $10,000 one. tion as an addendum to my letter. "Hello! Is this Baptist head quarters, Portland? This is Mil liken, Salem. What have you folks found out about Brandon? "Oh, I guess that he's the fel low registered in the year book from Tama, Iowa, all right. But while he seems to be legally en titled to call himself a Baptist minister I wish he wouldn't ad- store owned-by a stuttering man. J vertlse the fact." mm DIMES 2 Wblle the members of a church in a southern city were assembled to pray for rain, a storm. broke over the town. The lightning struck, the leading industry of the village and it wes a'raost en tirely destroyed by the fire which followed. The people were glad to have their prayers answered but some of them thought that Providence did not need to be bo emphatic about it. A. SLITTER OP DIET At Hamburg they are trrine lo bring up a young tiger on a veg etable diet. Il ls said that it our lions and tigers could be induced to live on hay i they would be come as mild and sweet tempered as Trixle Friganza A leopard feared on shredded wheat and malted milk would become a play. mate tor tne baby and a house hold pet, , A writer in an exchange Bug gesta that it may be that Daniel m-as cast into a den of lions that naa been trained on alfalfa. This would account for their playful manners and peaceful disposition! If you don't believe it, ask Dr, Harry Ellington Brook. He says that a rabbit raised an raw ham. burger will riot only bite the hand mat teeds it but chase a tigress tnf , Ik. A x w us ireeiops. la order to make the world safe for human itr we have only to bring up our humeri, ana anarchists on hay ana oats. t . - The proprietor was a great hand to spring conundrums, so he be gan: "Wb-wh-wh- why w-w-w-w B-b-b-b " A smart Alec clerk who stood by butted in w'th: "He wants to know why Baa lam's ass spoke." The traveling man thought for a moment, then Raid: -; "Probably Baalam was a stut tering man and got the ass to speak for him." s Maybe that explains the present situation. , t A word more regarding Baptist credentials. Among Baptists the .local church Js the ecclesiastical unit. Aj 'local church may orda'n man td its min'stry. Theusual rnstom Is to call a ., council of jchurc!3 Ordination papers imean' something, or nothing, ac- icordlng to the standing of the or Idlnarv group. I have known of ;s sodomite, an adulterer, a prize fighter and a fool, all of . whom Rtill held ord'nation papers, fthonch none of them was recog nised by the denomination. The one thing that gives a man stand ing outside the little "ecclesiasti cal bnnch" that ordains him. is frecognltion by associat'on. state convention or general doov. An nually all the state secretaries of the Northern, Southern and Col nrpl conventions send In correct- led lists of all recosm'zed Bant'st ministers witnm tneir douuuo. These are published in the Year Book by states, so that you may see at a glance what men are in good standing In any state. If a man's name does not appear in that organ there is always room fft n Mention as to whom he is. V The past Year Book mentions n P M Brandon at Oavitte, Kan., and an S. O. at Park Moun tain. North Carolina. These are all the white Brandons reported fmm tfc torrltftrv nf the BOUthem convention, to which Mr. Cantrell says his colleague belongs. wan of the name is reporrea Kansas C ty. A W. L. uranaon w registered from the small churcn at Tama, la., but this is not Kan sas City! nor Is it within the bounds of the Southern conven tion. Thus the name of Rev. w. L. Brandon is still not clearly as signed to its place. Xr rontT-eii ears that Mr Brandon was the anti-Irish inde pendence champion at the d1" tanooga Bapt'st convention. m convention report that I posses attributes the anti-papai reac tions to Rt;v. S. A. Ewing. spokes man of the St. Louis Baptist min isterial conference, and omits any mention of Brandon. Who u correct, Mr. Cantrell or my rec ord? A debato was billed for r rmay evening last under the auspices Oi the Portland Progressive Business Men's league. The council or tnai nrtranlratfnn turned the SPeaSerS down, refusing them its recuse- "Why not?" "Well, probably he Is an or dained Baptist minister all right, but he Is a mighty weak speaker." "Just a foil for Cantrell, eh?" "All I am willing to say is that those who have heard him say he can't debate." This settles who the man Bran don is. If Dr. F!ebig and Baptist headquarters, Portland, are to be depended upon it does not explain why he is perambulating anout the country with Cantrell. He may be laboring under the delus ion that he can debate, or he may have some mora substantial rea son for hig conduct. I do not know. But I do know that if those statements about the ability jof the two men are correct, the whole performance Is a sort of vaudeville stunt, not very credit able to all concerned.- I will leave it w'.th those who hear the per formance today to Judge for them selves William T. Milliken. Southern Pacific May Run Special Train for Event At Fair Grounds BUSINESS METHODS. When the agent brought Mrs. Tarley her fire Insurance policy he remarked that it would be well for her to make her first payment at once., a "How much will it be?" she sliced. "About $100. Wait a inuto and I'll find the exact amount." "Oh, how tiresome"' she ex claied. "Tell the company to let it stand and deduct it. from what they will owe me when the house burns down." Exchange. Arrangements are about com pleted for the appearance of the Whitney boys' chorus at the state fair grounds Sunday,, October 2., at 3 o'clock in the atternoon. As poss'.bly. S00 or more boys will take part in the great chorus sing ing, the Southern Fctfic will run a special to Salem, providing it has the assurance . of : sufficient patronage. ,s , --ri ,. . ' . v ' The chorus now Is compared of chorus boys from the age of 8 to 18 years and Include many from surrounding towns. There Is be ing organized , in Salem a chorus of boys which will appear in the concert. I i-! ' The Oregon ' Whitney boys' chorus was organized about two years ago. The "first appearance was made at the public auditor ium sn Portland. Later a tour was made to' California and sou thern Oregon points. M ss Genevieve Gilbert has charge of the local 'program and arrangements and is being given th 'support ot a number of musi cal people. . '. . . Tbi UJmrV. Manpad tad Read These A T ADtKUieS About Batteries . Adjustment and oiling make yottr bearings last longer proper inflation and careful driving make irour tirea last longercleaning makes your. ,: spark plugs i serve longer ' and better. It is uprth re- ; raerobering that there are? rules just as simple for mak- ing your batticry last longer ? ., and serve more faithfully, s iHertfarc three rules la A D C form: jmm i 1 Put In water regularly and ; keep up the charge. 2 Come in every two .weeks, for f battery seryice. ,02 3 And when your present bat- ( r) tery wears out, buy a WUlard Threaded Rubber Battery J the only I battery with ' Threaded Rubber Insulation I . i between the plates. , y, There Is only one battery good unqualified 1 reebmrnendation I ; that's the WUlard Threaded I -Rubber Battery! Come in smd well show you some records it has made right here. - WIfe'DId you notice the chin chilla coat on the woman sitting in front of us this morning?" Hus band "Er no. Arraid I was doting most of the time.: Wife "Um. A lot of good the service did you." Chicago Tribune. i 1 DEGGE & BURRELL; Auto Electricians . . . 238 North HigVsC ; : phone ,203 1 : S- I r 5 aTTT? m si """ mm mm 9Tf VTw Tfltt trw-ywf 4Q OflT j ..... 1 1 wmm r ; . FUTURE DATES . ssSro-H-,?!;-10! $5,000,000 baaHb. .,-.7 OeUbr 1, 8tardar-Kmiiea CMBty . Ort.w 5. Wni4ar--WrM SerWw iMfbtll nan birin; ' . r NovMBbar si. 11 aa4 t VarlM tam- ; WAIt AXO THE TvODIXO MARCH. ' S.-. 1 ne "Lohengrin ' Wedding aiarch" has probably started many wars In one ay or another, but mere is nothing now to prevent Us use as a -wedding procession!. nurmg the World war the Gei man nupUal musle was boycotted In patriotic circles and. John tion- Friday mornin's Oregonian Quotes Mr. Fiebigf the presiaent of the league, as giving me son. The article reads as 101- "Dr. Flebig nad attended the .:.ht before and said that he considered it propaganda tnf th. romihiiran movement in iMionri ..ill that the altirm- atiTe aide showed every evidence of having been weasiy put. wm. v. .t -tAa m riven witn all possible strength, - The object of this, he cons'dered, was to do away with . certain PJadiceS against the repoblican moremeBt, He said he understood tha . the two men were traveling together from city to city same Question, and. in hl opinion . . .. v. Tirrria fall It was mtenaea." I IS it true, as reported, that .the menvwho pay tne b Ms of both .- mn of the same re tit bt naying their billa. I mean do the advertlslBg tor themT and collect the aam sion fees? Mr anestions have not yet been answerea. , v . WiHlm T- Mllliaen. t i .t ' Iir 1 1 1 4- j ' tT' FmUral Black Scm- I IKE a ship's anchor saves it from grinding rocks on 6hdre-the Double-Cable-Base anchors the Federal Tire secure from chafing against the wheel's steel rim. ' . , , ; Added to the miles you ordinarily expect, you get the extra miles Federal improvements save from rim damage. v . , . Federals are saving imi.es Yor thousands they will save for you. FEDERAL TIRE SERVICE I Katty-Komer Marion Hotels 1 - Vy iVulcanizurietrea 1 "or a fart of himself. 1 t t M"MD . " -- - -- - .... r n 11 m m pi 1 Hiii i-ir miiit T.r -m , tfl, .......