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.r-rrvi-irr-..i , , , , Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 21S 8. Commercial St.. Kalem. Dreron troruana umce, szi Board of Trade Building. , 627-59) of things In a harry, and in hia ability to hew to the Americas text,'; whatever it may be. Mln neapolii Tribune. The word of Henry Clews that Phone Automatic the unemployed men in the United States now number not more than T A . . . . 1 1 1 n n ,1 Th i.uvi.u.1 r... t. i... i t .i.i. k . , Mnnv of three months ago points the licatlon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited way to the taking up of the whole licatlon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited slack. The enactment of the new In this paper and also the local news published herein. Uriff law and a T!gorous cam. R- J. Hendricks. . . . . . . .Manager paign all down the line, from the Stephen A. Stone. .. Managing Editor biggest to the smallest concerns Freak Jaskoskl .....V.V.V...... Manager Job Pept 1,1 tbe wontry. will speedily ac- ' . i compiua tnis great result. r.iinirauatt3; - Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 683 Job Department, M3 Society Editor, 10 ( Entered at the Postoffice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. IT IS HIGH TIME According to those who are deep in the horrific lore of gas warfare, the final consummate weapon of mass murder may itself bring the millennium, for war will no longer be an heroic contest of mind, courage, and prowess, but a mad mingling in mutual annihilation Indeed, the chemical warfare soldiers consider that they are conducting a war against war. t With the consequences of universal chemical warfare in the air and on land and sea fully understood, the men of ev ery nation would rev61t at the thought of a struggle in which ; there could be no shining feats of arms but only the cer tainty of intolerable drudgery in gas-proof clothing, choking masks, gastight cells' and shelters, and the prospect of ob scure and ignominious death. ' . While there will doubtless be an agreement to confine the use of gas to projection against combatants, modern war i "The world struggle today Is between the ideals of Abraham Lincoln and those of Karl Marx." New York Herald. Concrete ex amples: : The going concern that is the United States, and the choas, wreck and ruin this is Rus sia, j The one feeding herself and the starving children of the rest of the world, : including Russia. The 'other floundering in the sea or despond, history's most stu pendous spectacle of utter col lapse and supine helplessness. competi- In modern society, with it con stant -ebb and flow of prices, the immediate interest, of every man is in relativities. What is the good of doubled wages if expendi tures are tripled? Per contra, the majority suffers when a minority gets tripled wages while its ex penditures merely double The The logic Of events has ren dered it impossible for us to avoid international commerce. There may be some ground for hesita tion with regard to political en roll ma A nntnn. bait a hAQ1n An!. virtually makes all citizens combatants. Whatever statesmen li8ion witQ a public inion which may do in conference, generals in the field will see no dis- had bekun t0 gtudy reiativltle3t tmction between makers and users of deadly weapons. Every and wnich tnew tnat the aTerage factory engaged in making the equipment of armies will be dollar income ot ranroad men as deemed a fair target forgas. : . of june 30 last was uP 150 per It has been calculated by the chemical warfare service cent wh,e tne coat 6f liTing i8 that 200 tons of one of the newer military gases would de- now up lesg than 80 cent. stroy or paralyze ior a time ail numan and animai me in xew Y0rk Tribune Hew York. - ' There would be likelihood of . the destruction or wounding of the major parts of whole populations. The entire volume of life of a nation would be in danger literally of annihilation. With anything like equality of gas equipment, there would be little prospect of victory for either owe ouu vawmv, w oum Bwu8uwf w uicu as waa nut """'tangling alliances, but industrial erto been conceived of. Nations would not tnumph over alUance9 mU8t be mad8. some each Other but WOUld die together. v fundamental things were decided ... ik io mgu kuuc lur wuiiu vumacutc aui aiiaiim tw i ,y the war and one of them is that our policy of splendid isola tion is; gone forever. The for tunes of war coming upon our al ready advanced condition of in dustrial development have made us the greatest manufacturing country In the world. We should cot If we could and could not if we would escape from our 'mani fest destiny, which . is to assume a larger share in the commercial and financial markets of the world. Shoe ad Leather Re porter. " details of the prevention of wars. BEFORE TOO LATE s O God of love, and not of hate, Hear lis before it be too late! r Before war's awful shadow flees; . Before the dead are memories, . ' And ere the dust of earthly things Shall dim their sacrificial wings; Before the tide of human tears Is dried upon the deadening years While' still their hearts with purpose glow To every stricken Ration show r The way, O God of Earth and Stars, To stamp out strife, to strangle wars ! -While still the armies' thundering tread1 Echoes, and still the patient dead Cry out "Keep faith, nor let it fade Like poppies where our dust is laid!" . Ere sons of those who paid the price Repeat the dreadful sacrif ice Teach thejn, that dauntless faith shalT find VThe higher courage of the mind, That, of man's conscience unafraid, Thou, God, has a gleaming armor made ! . Tell them that, should brute passion spring, , Man, with an upright soul, can fling A fiercer dartahd with it slay The passions of a darker day. Bid them leash now the hounds of hate And open wide Love's golden gate And Lord, with others standing true, May we pass through, may we pass through! , , : ' Virginia Jeffrey Morgan. OUR VALUATION OP IMPORTS ;If Professor Walter F. Wilcox of ,, Cornell university, sneaking with others against the American valuation plan of the proposed new tariff act, was quoted cor rectly in the news dispatcbeis, he her exporters a strong tive advantage In our markets over the exporters of France with her higher wage cost. But alfo the present valuation system ex acting a less duty in dollars from Japan than from France, because the home value of the French article is higher than the home value of the Japanese article, magnifies that competitive advan tage of the Japanese as agaiiut the French exporters. The Amer ican valuation plan, on the con trary, taking exactly the same duty in dollars from each, would tend to minimize Japan's low wage competitive advantage against the higher wage and higher duty paying France. There is much to be said for the American valuation plan as the New York Herald sees it, and no doubt something to be Bald against it. But certainly the one thing not to be said against it seriously is that high wage countries that owe us money will be prevented by it from sell ing in our markets as against: low wage countries that do not owe us, or that undebased exchange countries that owe us will suf fer from it in our mar kets, as they now do under the present system's penalty against them of heavier duties than are paid by the debased currency countrieis that do not owe us. In view of the fact that there is no legal and practical way to have a differential tariff system that will equalize all the varying debased exchange and nauDer wage costs of exports to this coun try, what better solution is there than the proposed American valu ation plan? New York Herald. The Herald concedes too much. when it concedes that there in "no doubt something to be sai.I against it." There is not a single thing to be said against the American val uation plan proposed in the new tariff bill, and there never was Considered from the stand points of Justice to all concerned among foreign producers, and our tariff charges in relation to the protection thoy should give to American labor and capital. Costs, under all our former tar iff laws, were allowed to be fig ured in wages and prices in the country of origin .of products shipped to the United States. This was manifestly unjust, as between cJliferent foreign countries, with differing wage scales, and in re lation to our own country, with still higher wage .scales; but the injustice between all these groups would be increased greatly since the exchange situation Is now so muddled, and will be for a long time. The old form of figuring costs or manufactured articles in tho countries oi meir oriein eave rise, too. to all sorts of scandals and abuses, on account of under valuations, actual and attempted me reader will remember the famous St. Gall (Switzerland) many, explains a large part ot it. The German workman Is receiving what looks to him like high wages; but the -mark be gets figured in American dollars would look exceedingly small to ?.n American laborer; would look like about 30 cents a day against the American's $5 or $6 or $7 a day. The same thing affects ocean freights, where Norwegian or German ships are used. There is another thing: The Canadian and American newsprint manufacturers profiteered un conscionably during and after the war, and they are unwilling to come down to earth; yet They are trying to keep up their prices, even against the competition of the manufacturers of Norway and ' Germany and Sweden and other countries, who are underselling them now. It is an interesting game. , Of course, the newsprint used by American Newspapers ousht to be made in America. But the American makers of newsprint, by tbe hold-up meth ods they employed while they had the chance, breC an unsym pathetic attitude towards them in thousands of newspaper publish ing concerns throughout this country, and this is reflected in public opinion, and in congress. This prejudicial attitude will have to be, overcome before there can be any sympathetic understand ing between the people whose In terests ought to be mutual, and in the meantime tariff laws will be unfavorable to the newsprint manufacturers ! in this country; and this prejudice will not be overcome in a day or a month or a year. navia to help lin the growth of America's population! 1 It is fitting) that ! Sarah Bern hardt's plans for her entombment should be theatrical. A light house on an island of granite crowned by a statue of the act ress, made by herself, could hard ly be improved upon as a feat of the imagination. And there is i every reason to believe that its realization 114 and useful. I be both artistic lirSRIXD AXf WIFE WRITE Mr. and Mrs. James Carson, Columbus. N- M., sign a letter saying. "We have both concluded we shall never be without roiey Cathartic Tablets and w? believe them to be essential to good health." Theyikeep the stomach sweet, liver active and bowels rpmlar. Thev ' banish constipa tion, biliousness, slcK neaaacne. bloating, sour stomach, gas n tomach, bad ! breatn. co1 tongue. Not naDit torming. everywhere. Adv. is estimated that about vui bales of the 1921 crop remain In Oregon and unsold. Rutland Herald The "come- back" of liberty bondi u very soothing to soma, .. conscientious spellbinders,' who remember teu lng plain , folks how. rood the bonds were. J LADD & BUSH, BANKERS Established 1SG3 i said:" "The American valuation Tla lace cases as an instance n Pnf of the nendhur tariff hill i likiv The only riSht way i Ameri- serioiialv tn diminUh th fnrin-n can valuation ot all articles im There was something appropri ate in the error of the stenograph er who transcribed "bureaucracy" to read "bureaucrary." The gov ernment at Washington is grow ing gradually more sane in this respect; but" it has a long way to gd yet. ' Hughes stock, always strong, is rising in ' the, exchanges of inter national . thought in Washington. The secretary of state is expected to show a leadership that will bring concrete results out of tha arms conference. Doubts are dis solving and hope is in the as cendant. - Washington .is counting much on the force, frankness and good Judgment of Mr. Hughes. It has faith in his poise and restraint; In the alert ness ot his mind to discern dan ger spots and avoid them; in his apparently unfailing fine humor, In his deftness to get at the core r.ff i MAKE THEM COUNT I T? VERY time you get a pay check, put " some part of it into a Saving3 Ac count as provision for that unknown fu ture when pay checks may not be so big or so frequent. , At the United .States. National employer and employe, foreman and laborer, meet at the Savings window, and it speaks wcll for Salem's prosperity that they do. Make YOUR pay days count for some thing big. - trade of the Uniteid States and thus to diminish the chance that foreign countrieswill be able to pay meir American aeots, gov ernmental arid private." Let us see about that. Great Britain owes us a war debt of billions of dollars. Germany owes us none at all. With the Ger man mark worth virtualily noth ing and with German goods gen erally produced at a very much lower I cost than similar British goods; are produced, consider a larui 01 per cent based as how on the Geirman and British ; valuations of export goods. Jf I the British value of an export intended fori our market, as ex pressed in our money, is $100, say, the 30 per cent duty under the present system adds $30 to it in this country. If the Ger man value is $50 the 30 per cent duty adds $15, to It, or only one- I half the duty in dollars which tne British article must pay to get Into this; market. But if the value of a similar American articlie were $110 in our own market ana tne so per cent fluty were applied on that basis, both the British article and the German article would pay the same; amount of American dollars as duty. The Britls'a article might pay $3 more duty I than it now pays; but the Ger man article would pay $18 more duty than it now pays. This I would not be a disadvantage but a distinct advantage to our British debtor as against that debtor's highly compeitltive rival who is not our debtor. Japan's currency is not greatly debased, but of all the great pow ers Japan's labor is on about the lowest wage basis. Japan, line Germany, owes the United States no great war debt. France does Japan's low wage cost now gives ! ' I FUTURE DATES oorted Into the United States. The new tariff bill contains tho first clause ever written into piece of proposed American tariff 'egislation that embodies the right and just principle In this re spect. NORWAY PAPER FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST PANAMA CANAL PAYS General Banking Business Office Hours from 10 a, m. to "3 p. m. mm s SOUGHT AB ROAD Half of United States Crop Will Be Admitted to English Markets SALEM inalBank 7 ORCGON, Tmler IS. 'Wednesday Aaaaal Willamette anivprsity rTsa-miatrr rm. HofMkw 31, SS 1 --Mn lVmW 4. Sunday- tiki Iftawrial Drrrnhfr IS and 14. SanriaT M3 Mnda- Apollo rlub ert with "Vif those countries, esneriallv nf rim.. (iaia Raa, coloratura soprano. : The editor of the Citizen, Prince George, B. C, has announced that he has Just received a letter from R. W. Averson, at one time asso ciated with the pulp mills at Swanson Bay, B. C-, who is now in Norway. Mr. Aversen is now supeirintendent of a milli in Nor way, and a significant passage in his letter follows: "What struck me most and In duced me to write you this ar ticle is the fact that we have just received an order for 1000 tons of news print which will be ship- paid to the Pacific coast via the Panama canal. For this consign ment we are using wood bought last year at a price of $75 a cord. here in this country. We are using sulphur for the sulphur process and also some of- the coal from our continent. This was mater&l we got last year at a top price. Besides this, we aro paying our rasn higher than the wages paid on your side, and still we are making money out of some of your raw material, shimwwi rr' 4000 miles to us, and return the finished product another 4000 miles to you." Paper Trade Journal. The above clipping was bande.l to The Statesman by a local suv scriber of that journal, who won ders how the Norwegian mills can "get by." He might make the same in quiry concerning the German paper mills, the newsprint pro ducts of which are being sold in the United States at lower prices than the same, grades of paper from even the Norwegian mills; a half a cent a pound lower, in some cases. The depreciated currency of For the fourth consecutive year the Panama canal shows an ex cess of receipts over expenditures in the cost of operation. For the fiscal year ending June 30, the excess was $2,712,000. It is. stated that the cost of clearing away slides in the early years of operation has been entirely wiped out by recent favorable balances, But the fact does not mean that the operation of the canal shows a profit, in the ordinary business meaning of the term. The cost ot the canal up to June 30 was $368,543,271, representing what would be called "invested cap! tal" in a business enterprise. No attempt is made to create a sink ing fund for that huge sum or to pay interest upon it, as would have to be done by any well man aged private concern. With in terest at 5 per cent, and an an nual sinking fund provision o only 1 per cent, a little cal culation will show that the actual operating balance should be more than $22,000,000 in order to make a satisfactory showing on the books. That fact does not mean, how ever, that the canal is an unprofi table investment. Every year the shippers of the country are saved millions of dollars in freight rates from coast to coast because they are able to make use of the Pan ama waterway. The facility with which our fleet can be transferred frem the Atlantic to the Pacific, and vice versa, is alone sufficient to warrant the maintenance ot the canal. Exporters on our At lantic coast are placed thousands of miles .nearer their markets on the west coast of South America, and the Pacific coast traders are brought nearer their customers on the east South American coast. The value of all those advantages cannot be reckoned in dollars, but it is safe to say that their aggregate exceeds each year many times the total charge that could be made against the canal, and there is no doubt the waterway has already paid for itself in value received by American citizens. All hop dealers in Salem re ceived a telegram Thursday eve ning from the Cunard line of steamers stating that the English authorities had issued an order permitting th$ export to that country of haf of the hop con tracts neua inj tnis country. If the report; profs true, it will enable Oregon dealers in hops to forward at once half of their or ders for hops from English brewers. As yet, there has been no official confirmation from Lon don regarding the order. During the j war, in order to nduce hop growers in England to plant wheat, the i English gov ernment established a price of 42 cents a poundi for hops grown In England. And In! order to pro tect the English growers, no hops from other countries are shipped into England until all the English crop is sold. I - The spot market for hops now is about 25 cents a pound. It i Pure Lafd, No. 5 pail . ..... ... .60c Compound, No. 5 pail. . . . 50c Umeco, per pound. . 25c Sugar Cured Hams, per lb.. ... .28c Fresh Salmon, whole fish, lb.. . .9c Legs of Milk Fed Veal, per lb L . 20c CHOICE EASTERN OREGON BEEF, GRAIN FED PIG PORK, AT PRICES YOU CAN NOT EQUAL ;' When Good Meat Is Sold at Lower Trices The Midget Will Sell It '-'IV,- MIDGET MARKET CRICINAT0RS OF LOW PRICES 351 State Street NOT IN THE COMBINE ibi BITS FOR BREAKFAST Winifred Hyrd was great S s She felt at home in her own home town, which she loves. The Ku Klux Klan is being or ganized in Salem. It is to be hoped that it may soon funk out. for it has no rightful place In this orderly, tolerant American city. Garlic is having a great vogue in this country as a health food. The Salem district is a great gar lic country, and our growers could produce enough to keep the whole world well. ". The Salem armory had one of the greatest crowds it ever ac commodated yesterday afternoon. And the program was worthy of the crowd. The declaration of Armistice day as a "national holiday" is a reminder that there are no. natio nal holidays in the strict legal sense. Nor will this be one. mm Sweden, with a death rate of 13.29 per thousands claiims to be tbe healthiest piacie on earth. The showing is reflected In the highest actual and relative rate of population increase in 100 years, So we may . btill expect Standi Vl Cozy Qloio Vime (Js Were! Little Brother to the Coal Pile! In the early days of fall, in winter, and in spring, the Westinghouse Cozy Glow fills a positive need and comes nearer to being an all-year-'round heater than you can realize unless you have on?. The I .,! , J'-: Cozy Glow isn't a fire. It makes no fumes, nor does li stale the air. It's perfectly safe even if upset. It throws the heat in any direction a cozy glow when and where you want it. Pick it up and carry it to the room or to the corner that is chilly. Or send one of the youngsters to get it. Like all Westinghouse Heating Appliances, it makes a lot of heat for its weight. It's a convenience, of course, but a winter necessity also. Get a. Cozy Glow now from one cf the following dealers, and have warmth when you want it right; through to next summer. . Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. Salem Electric Co. Welch Electric Fixture Co. ! SALEM, ORE.. . Forbes Supply Co. Wholesale Distributors -PORTLAND, ORE. 1 1 1 i ft