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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12. 1921 it Statesman t Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 21 5 rS Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic I : . - 627-59) MEMBEIl OP TIIE ASSOCIATED PRESS 8?c,ate Press is exclushrely entitled to the use for repub-v i! .I . a11 new d,,Ptchea credited to It or not otherwise credited Jjcation of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Lk J4ndCki-' ' ' Manager n.i k i 8t0ne Managing Editor Ralph GloTer mi . . Cashier Frant Jaakpski Manager joT Dept. X k TT V OH a ntnm a.. ... " ' 1 1 " ' " " ' 1 " oiauvomajv, D7 man, la ad Tance, J5 a year, $2.50 for six months. 11.25 for three months, 50 cents a month, in first sona.. Outside of first zone. S6 a year; $3 for six months; 1.50 lor three months; 60 cents a month. When not paid in ad c' ''?"' additional. PACIFIC HOMESTEAD, the great western weekly farm paper, Sin-of6?1 yer t0 nyne paying a year la advance to the iaaiy statesman. T-S7ATSMAN' ,1C0 a w' 76 cents for six months; 40 one month month"; 25 cents for 2 months; 15 centa for WEEKL STATESMAN. Issued In two six-page actions. Toesdays centa for alx months.; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department. 583 Job Department; 6S3 Society Editor, 108 Entered at the Postofflce In Salem. Oregon, as second class matter. SEEK TO HAVE THE UNITED STATES GROW FIBER i .... JruAJL FOR its linens The upside-down condition of things in Russia has pro duced many unlooked;f or results, but none more unexpected to the casual mind than its effect upon the supply of flax fiber. Before the World war Russia produced about 80 per cent of the flax fiber used in making linens. This supply was cut off, while the demand for linen continues as strong as -ever. iIn the United States the normal consumption of the flax fiber by the spinning mills before the war was about 10,000 tons a year, most-of: whicht was imported. To produce this amount of fiber about 60,000 acres is required. To help in meeting the situation the United States Department of Agriculture- thrnncrh thei exftinn nt tKa fiKA. ;.nn;nn : v um. luu iiuv.1 liiiratigauvun, is triiuuui -1 There wfere reports that this dto- aging the production of flax fiber by experimenting with it in vision would be materially altered new localities, investigating new methods and machines, and Jn the conference between the developing improved strains of the fiber flax which are taller, yield more and better fiber, and some of., which are resistant to disease. ; 'About 6,000 acres of fiber flax was grown in the United .States in 1920 but the relatively low price for fiber has resulted in a greaily reduced acreage "in 1921, estimated at 3,000 acres." STiisiw Transportation Tax Repeal I on January 1 Has No Dissenting Vote BIG FIGHTS ARE AHEAD Harrison Twits Finance Committee Members for Accepting Compromise WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. The Republican compromise tax revis ion program was started on its way through the senate today with the adoption without a dissent ing or record vote n? an amend ment proposing repeal on next January l of the transportation taxes on freight, passenger, Pull man accommodations, express packages and oil by pipe line. There were increasing evi dences, however, in the senate and behind the scenes that some other ; ! com prom Be proposals' would not find as easy sailing. Replying to an inquiry from the Democratic Bid 3, Senator McCum ber of: North Dakota, announced the compromise amendments would not be offered on behalf of the Republican membership of the finance 'committee; that he was against ; some of them and that he and other committeemen reserved; the right to oppose hem. ! ! Surtax llato Fought ' Senators In the so-called man ufacturers, ''lfloc" supported iy house leaders, were set to launch the'r fight against the 50 per cent maximum income surtax rate amendment after its introduction make the complexion! of all the east look better. S It is. well to be a slave driver II the slave you drive is yourself. "W It doesn't matter if hair Is bobbed so long as her mind isn't. mm "b The Salem public school build ings are overcrowded, and still the students come. The school board is up against providing more room, more desks, more supplies, and more teachers, and without any extra money to pay the costs. S The school housing problem in Salem, like the rest of the hous ing problem, is likely to grow worse before it grows better. Salem is not going to stop grow ing for a generation, if ever. -u Were you ever involved in a violent argument that made you feel better afterward? Neither was anybody. W S Many a man Is clamoring loud ly for world peace who would be willing to compromise for peace at home. TRAFFIC CHIEF Harney. three violations, S; Hood River. 19 violations, $143; Jackson, seven violations, $63; j Klamath. 22 violations. $402; j Lane, 30 violations. $321; Lunn. I five violations, $63; Marion, 33? violations, $2S0; Multnomah, 540' violations. $2242: Polk. 11 viola tions, SS2.o; Tillamook, 19 viola tions, $169; Umatilla, one viola tion, license revoked; Union, three violations, $27; Washington, 33 violations. $274. Total in fines, $6216.50. The report speaks at length of travels of the state inspectors about the state and of Improve ments ia recent months in en forcement of the traffic regula tions of the state. Loadometers recently have been out into use lth considerable effectiveness in spprehending truck operators who have had a tendency to overload. Work of the Inspectors in Pen dleton during the Roundup, at McMinnville during the American legion convention and in Salem during the state fair is recited in the report. Joseph Schiedler Deeds Land to His Children MAKES I Raffety Shows Aggregate of Fines and Violations During September The above, is a dispatch going the, rounds under a Washing ton date line. ; . VVl ;V This work of our Department of Agriculture is good, as far as it goes." But it does not go far enough, for asy quick results! Most of the flax grown in the United States, outside ofthe Salem district, is coarse, and suitable for the making only of the coarser fabrics, such as rugs, toweling, etc. The fiber pro duced Jn the Salem distrietiis suitable for the finest linens.! It ia as good as the best the world 'produces. The heads of the " office ng fiberJwYestjgationsH MwVtf4&-t?-rn j. r The way to get litlick'actionis to maVo Ihe i tariff on linens high; veryV high.; iThen it would be entirely ? within the bounds ,of good business policy .to encourage, the manufacturing of linens in this country by furnishing reliable concerns the money wHh which Jo bufld linen mills. .The British government does this, in Canada, and in 'some of her other colonial possessions. -' Salem is bound' to be a flax manufacturing center in time; nature has decreed it. But it could be such in a very shorf time, if the. Department of Agriculture were given power and directed to do something, more than investigate, and backed up by tariff regulations that would 'guarantee the success of man ufacturing institutions inthisjfield li mi;-.s ijMviaiENT boras on r ;,The following are excerpts fronvthe current weekly finan cial letter of Henry Clews the Wall Street authority : ' f'The unemployment conference has plainly developed the fact that th number of men out of work in the country is very much, less than has oeen assertea Dy government; statisticians. Whatever the volume of unemployment may be it is at all events in process of being relieved through expansion of in dustrial demandsv-v "p ''',': v i ''Reports made public by the Federal Reserve Board show a. decidedly better productive outlook. Many plants that have heretofore keen: running on extremely short time have within recent weekaT enlarged their activity. 1 i. "The growth of exportrade within the last few weeks has been decidedly' encouraging. .:-!? 'Many' products : which- have heretofore been nearly, un salable are beginning to move.. Included among them are oil, ' copper, hemp and leather. J ; t " t ''Progressive' improvement of credit conditions continue to be observed, , .. " ' ' "Already the high interest "rate offerings of the past few months are showing, tpaterial. modification, the cost of money on a given type of security being fully 1 per cent" off, as com pared with theituation last spring, i Prompt absorption of the new Argentine loan shows that the investor is looking with a more favorable eye on foreign securities." . lliOUNCEMEN ' ...... . - ' ' rri ' "" ' " ""' ' -JEWISH HOLIDAYS : ' r ; (The Day of Atonement) I 1 This' Store will remain closed , V ALL DAY. WEDNESDAY i . TODAY I . i-'i...- ','."! : CAPITAL HARDWARE AND j ' 'furniture . to. : 1 - ' ' ! .' . s, : .' ' ' "V I , house and senate on the complet ed bill. f House! leaders were understood to have made it plain that they would not recede from the orig inal house maximum rate of 32 per cent! but some senators were of the opinion that the reduct'on likely to be made by the conferees would not be as great as 18 per cent, ;(- . Easterners To Fight . Eastern senators were, ready to wage war on the compromise amendment to retain the corpor ation capital stock tax. but spon sor of the new tax program were confident , that this not only would be put through the senate, but would be retained in confer ence, asi the house bill did not propose repeal of this section of the existing law. ! Democrats generally- were ex pected to support the sur tax. es tate tax. capital stock tax, cor poration i exemption repeal and other provisions of the compro mise program. r Some leaders on that side thought the minority .would vote almost solidly against the completed bill unless provis ions were made for increased tax es on corporations and reduced taxes on ' indiv duals having- in comes of 115,000 a year or less ! Amendments Disposed of Before, adopting the transpor tation tax repeal amendment, tho senate voted down an amendment proposing thai.4 the repeal be ef fective 10 days after the Passat 'of the bill. Disposal of these two amendments constituted all pro gress) made today on the bill it Kfllf. (Senator Snioot, Republican, "Utah, used much of today explain ing' Ms' proposal for a 'manufac turers sales tax and to a politicat row over, the tax bill" between Senators Harrison, Democrat, Misslppl. and Watson, Republican, Indiana. , Twitting the Republicans on the finance ' committee for accepting the cqmpromiso measure, Sena tor r Harrison said he had never known ' the "old guard" in the senate to be put to such utter rout and surrendering without giving battle; He said it was singular ly strange that Senator Lodge; the Republican leader, attended the meeting of the agricultural "bloc" and assisted "in submarining the finance committee." '. Promises SuspTted Charging that "certain prom ises" were made to, the wan Street interests", by the Republi cans in the last campaign, the Mississippi senator declared those interests 'came to Washington last May . ttf have the "promises" fulfilled referring to the White House dinner of May 25, attended by prominent pastern bankers. Senator Watson said that in the compromise plan the senate Republicans had gone back prac tically to-the house bill; that the Democrats on the finance commit tee i had made no proposals for improving the measure while It was '.before the committee, and that there was evidence of a fili buster by the Democrats against this and other measures in an. er fort to force the tariff bill over Into next year as close to election time as possible. , , , . ? Profits Tax Target Senator Watson said the Re publicans had kept always in mind "the one great thing we promise in the last electJonr-repeal of the excess profits tax and It was for that thing we made some concessions." Fines assessed t)y Oregon courts for violation of the motor vehicle traffic laws for ihe montb of September aggregated S6216."0 according to a report of T. A. Raffety, chief inspector of the motor vehicle department, to Sec retary of State Kozer. Multnomah county led in the number of violations and the amount of fines, with 546 viola tions and $2242 in fines. Colum bia county was second with 139 violations reported and $1503 in fines. Counties in which violations were reported and the total am ount for each in fines assessed, were: Baker, three violations, $40; Denton, seven violations, $40; Clackamas, 52 violations, $432. 20; Clatsop. 13 violations, $110; Columbia, 139 violations, $1503; Douglas, two violations, $15; Joseph Schiedler, living close to Scotts Mills, is deeding much of his property to his children Tive deeds of f.ift were filed for lecord yesterday " To his son. George Schiedler. the father deeded 200 acres of land in section 21 and 22. T 6 S 71 1 E. This land is in the section just west and adjoining the town of Scotts Mills. To his son Frank Schiedler there is deeded 165 acres. This also is located adjoin'ng Scotts Mills. To Adolph S. Schiedler, the ra ther deeds 200 acres adjoining that given his other sons. To his son Joseph Schiedler, Jr. there is given a tract of 100 acres. To his daughters Barbara and Catherine, there is deeded a tract of 68 acres adjoining other lands deed to his sons. However, in the deed to his daughters, he re serves a life interest. On the five deeds, the consider ation is given as "nutural love and affection." A total or '23 acres was deeded by Schiedler to his children. PEOPLE'S CASH STORE STORE CLOSED WEDNESDAY . On Account of a Jewish Holiday. UTAH AtiGIES WIN LOGAN. Utah. Oct. 11. The Ctah Agricultural college football eleven today defeated the Univer sity of Wyoming 14 to 3. For Thursday A Selling Event You Cannot Afford to Miss Look For Our Big List of Money 3 Savers In Tomorrow's Paper "Shop Where the Crowds Buy" i WAIT! and see the big bar gain offerings in to morrow's paper for Thursday's selling. NEWS . New shipments of new merchan dise arriving daily. You should keep in constant touch with this store, where all the New Things are displayed. At Lowest Prices ; If VB IhJ Vacuum backed ? i ' rare jine : -ri rl . - ; ' coffee j L QKe recognized I (sj . sttmdom dor J 1 J Y I " j ' : T yiLT7!r ' 1 1 ''K T BITS FOR BREAKFASTS Now the Y campaign. T s It! starts off very well. It; the pace can be continued, a big work and a new building are in sight. -I v : - Down at the dehydration plant, theyj are calling for more women. They are putting through a lot of carrots just now. - Enough to -! FUTURE 0ATES . t ' Tf nnbr St. 32 mat ia Mwlw a Taachari XutttOM. .