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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1921)
.HIE OREGON STATESMAN SALEM; OREGON FRIDAY MORNING; NOVEMBER 25. 1921 ' ft Issued Daily Except Monday by THE KTATE8MAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Hoard of Trade Building. Phone Automatic 127-69) . MKMBKIl OP THK ASSOCIATED PKESS Tie Associated Press ia exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited licatloa of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited ta this paper, and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks. . . . . . .. Manager Stephen A. Stone.. Managing Edito- Ralph Glover .. i ..... . Cashier Prank JaskoskI Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 582 Job Department, 683 Society Editor, 106 Entered at the Postoffice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. THE SACRIFICE FOR PEACE "Scrapping of Navy to Cost America Half a Billion," reads the newspaper headline And this at first glance sounds like a colossal monetary loss; but it is only a beginning, considered in that respect; for with the scrapping of the ships will come the disbanding of the per sonnel of those ships, and the many thousands of men whose livelihood is gained through the construction of warships, war ship armament, warship supplies. The enormous saving to the government, which means to the people of the United States who pay taxes, must immediately react against those to whom this government money would have been paid. And it is a curious irony that while men will so readily risk their lives in the cause of patriotism, they are far less eager to sacrifice their jobs, to forego their profits, to abandon their dangerous occupations. In the thrill and glamor of war men will face death with amazing courage, but in the calm of peace monetary and property considerations loom large and terrifying, and those for whom war has become a profession and a business stand infinitely reluctant before the sacrifice of material things. It is from this source, therefore, that opposition to all schemes of disarmament must necessarily accrue. They can face the waste. the cruelty, the countless horrors, the limitse bloodshed olwar, with equanimity, but they cannot face these essential' sacrifices of peace which entail so severe a readjust ment of their outlook on life, of their occupations and their 4 material advantage without anxiety, .antagonism, opposition and dismay. . ' 1. The fact that several great warship building plants will i probably have to close-down, that thousands of men will have to find other occupations, that contractors will have to seek other fields of commerce, that officers and sailors innumerable will have to turn their talents otherwhere, looms up as a far more calamitous .event for such as these than a devastating i war which their industry makes possible. '; The love of money is the root of all evil, indeed, when such consideration can weigh against the welfare and happiness of nations. Yet throughout .history we have seen how valiantly men will fight and die for a mere pittance in war, whereas in peace they would have valued their commercial services much higher! It was the call of a mighty patriotism, combined with the old traditions of war, that made such sacrifices possible And now, under the new ideals, it must be the greater patriot ism, the greater glamor' of peace, that win them to what they evidently regard as the greater sacrifice. In the interest of these new ideals of peace, for which a whole world is clamoring, nations and -individuals everywhere will Ibe called upon to make great material sacrifices. There will, be countless victims whose personal material losses must be very tangible, very genuine, but they will be as nothing 'to the dread and bitter array of war victims. Ten millions ,of the 'flower of young manhood lost in the last war, and science and chemistry so ingenious and progressive that in the next war we are promised mightier and more ruthless methods of killing by which whole cities can be wiped out by a single ; gas .bomb, by which one armed airplane can wipe out a whole army. Must it came to this before the lesser, mere financial considerations of the losses of peace will win men to reason. We are in the throes of another great war now, a war for peace, a war demanding the personal altruism of a vast army of interested men to whom war means profit perhaps but to whom war also means the victimization of their whole country, as well as, in many cases, the loss of their lives. It is incredible that they should hesitate in making the choice, that mere mater ial considerations could weigh with them at all. But the greatest good for the greatest number lies in these measures of disarmament which ring so large, so generous, so rrnetieal in the Broeram of Secretary Hughes. It is the era 1 - " ... . .... . . 1 ..M. 1 H of new and worthier sacnlices irom wnicn nations ana muivm !l .;n a Jm-inno insnimtinn. We have seen the uata aun.o win. i-ay fc v v - r - - bitter, cruel, devastating courage that war can bring forth and found it futile. War settles noinuig; war never uns anything. But the sacrifices made in the cause of peace will ltr rich fruit: and while they may add little to the personal aggrandizement tf individuals, while no medals will be wrought to mark and record these sacrifices and heroisms, yet a far wider deeper, nobler benem win accrue io uauuua as a result of them. This now is the greater patriotism. a people in this world who hare to sU,d dramatic tears. It might as well be over escaped convicts as over vivi-sected dogs or frac tured ideals of an. But there Is also a practical side. These es- capad fugitives get so much lime light and imitation plory that re spectable citizens somehow finl themselves helping in the race to baffle the police and become wil ling volunteer assistant crooks. In these days of intense com mercialization it is perhaps a void that aches to be filled. There isn't enough excitement go ing on. Every man. woman and child wants to be a hero, even to dangle on the fringe of heroism. And there are not hero inches to go round. A writer in an -exchange recalls that in the days of the Indians of the plains the wise old men of the tribe used to feel the restless ness of the young men and would send them to neighboring tribes on horse - stealing expeditions. They came back wounded and sore; but the restlessness was out of them. Civilization seems to have no adequate substitute to offer for this craving to admire the bold and theatric. Perhaps it is too much to ask tlj'3 public to be thrilled with wide-eyed admiration at the ease and skill with which the young warrior keeps a neat ledger down at the gas company. But It would be comforting and pleasant if the flappers and those who ought to know better could find their opportunities to burn incense in some other niche than in front of the jail birds. uoy Gardner is a plain, un varnished criminal who assaults the rights of decent people and attacks peaceable mail clerks faithfully guarding our rights and working hard to make life con venient for the rest of us. The Roy Gardners of this world slap every honest person in the face when they commit crime. The police are not a parcel of hired fighters In whom we have io interests and upon whose ef forts we can look with academic detachment. We are the police ourselves. The police are a physi cal extension of our desire to have a decent world. Everyone who helps make a hero of Roy Gardner is not only an enemy or tne people; worse, he is a fool. Yes, Geraldtne. the Far Eastern other thing they could not fin problem nearer. is gradually drawing ; It still seems to be a game of show-up. or show-down between Valera and David Lloyd George. It may be none of our business, but why not submit to the Wash ington conference the settlement of the question as to who won the war? Exchange.1 A local man Is supporting bis dlyorced wife, her husband and two children on his weekly" sal ary. ..There is no purgatory worth speaking of ' for such a soul.- Los Angeles Times. i Democrats have sn excellent chance to carry Ohio next year. The majority for the Republican candidate for mayor in Cincinnati was cut down to a measly 30,000 votes, " There are indications that the Democratic party would ' like to make a political Issue out of the arms parley. ' That would be an- ish. Haven't they had enough ex perlence along that line? The council of ambassadors la worrying about the annual allow ance to be given former Emperor Charles of Hungary. Such mat ters are weighty ones In countries used to looking up to royalty An American would suggest that they recommend him for a job as chauffeur and let it go at that. GUSH ABOUT GARDNER . ; FUTURE DATES DfmW 4, Sunday Elks' Memorial service, frant thmtre. . Hrr 5, UoBdar Mabel CarrUon, Ornd Ttr. , ' TWwnbrTv 18 nd 14 TaMiwy "H WndT Apolla . flab . eonrtrt tt Virginia B, cclornWm snpran. - IW. 1. W4aeat)ar Opea forom Com mercial club. . '. ....... Now that Roy Gardner, the mail thief and escaped thug, has teen caught and caged, it is pos sible that Happer journalism may take up some other and slightly less nauseating hero. About once in so often the eye that perpetually tear-brimmed eyeof the young lady journalist of the day falls with pity and ad tnimttnn UDon some crook who has escaped the jail he deserved And the rest of the world has to palpitate in tune with her youn emotions. One year it la Evans and Son taag: then It is Harry Tracy anu eo on to the Al Jennings kind and the Roy Gardners who are deluding and eluding the police, Jt it only slopped , at, maudlin sentiment. It wouldn't matter par ticularly. There are a kind ot PIONEERING IN PEACE Other nations might be a bit peevish over Secretary Hughes'e frank pronouncement for a natal holiday and wholesale junking ol fleets. The diplomats could say that Uncle Sam might at least have tipped them off. They might think that America wished the glory and limelight that goes with pioneering. Yet possibly it is best that the suggestion should come as it did. It should be no surprise. The position of Am erica has often been stated and if other governments have not understood it is their fault, not ours. We are seeking neither glory nor aggrandizement. As President Harding said to the del egates: "We have no sordid enda to serve. We suspect no enemy. We contemplate no con quest." The president and the secretary of state eannot stop argument in the senate. They cannot guarantee ' the individual opinion and action of congress: But it is not to be disputed for a moment that any program they may offer for a naval holiday or an approach to disarmament would be accepted by congress and the American people. The voice of America may therefore be said to be the voice of authority. Representatives of other governments may not be at liberty to speak with such em phasis and therefore it is best for all that the proposition should eome from the United States. Un cle Sam is prepared to instantly execute the contract which he pro poses. This gives the delegates something definite to start with There was no desire to place the visiting diplomats in a hole. They had a right to expect a proposal such as Uncle Sam has, made Secretary Hughes claims no credit for discovery. He was careful to give the late Czar Nicholas of Russia credit for his pioneering in the cause of international dis armament. In spite flf what hap pened, Nicholas was a man of peace. The meeting at Washing ton is in furtherance of his origi nal plans. He had hope. Let th3 world now have faith. poured forth his scorn upon the West Pointers who disciplined him; and now comes John Do Passos, whose novel, "Three Sol diers," continues to create inter national commotions by pillory ing the methods of army discipline. There is no question that arriiy discipline was hateful to most of the men of high spirit who had to undergo it. To some it v.as an indignity and a humiliation. To buddinsr penius it seems to have been an agony and an insult. It i3 a question whether "dis- i cipline" is necessary to the con duct of war. There are military men, even, to whom it is a su preme conviction that army disci pline destroys, instead of pro-; moting, the ability of men t fight. Such theorists ' point out that two of the greatest -military achievements In the history of warfare were the campaigns of the Boers against the iJritish in South Africa and the long run ning fight of the Apache Indians under Geronimo against the United States army. To both Boers and Apaches military dis cipline, as we undei stand it, was unknown. Men of 'this belie! have even declared that the mar tial tread by which soldiers are laboriously taught to mirth is the most harmful and least effae tive way by which it is possible for a man to cover ground. The men of plains and mountains who have much walking to do, of course, travel with a long slouch ing stride that swings from the hips. Trying as it may be to the sen sitive soul cf the budding genius, it would be well to think it over a little before heaving the whole system overboard and running our armies on the principle set forth by Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., in Pinafore. An army consists of a very targe number of men of various tastes, temperaments, training and social castes. The essential thing is that they work simul taneously and in absolute co-oper ation. It is difficult to see how this can be brought about in any other way than by a complete surrender to the will of the offi cer. This purpose of military discipline is to bring about this necessary surrender. The salutes, the distinctions, the heel click ing, the "standing attention" seem to be the only method known to bring about this habit of in-. stant, blind, unquestioned obedi ence. the politician who can spend it. , investment fnnds is illustrated by t They'll find John Bull and Uncle row and Saturday. The business 'Tis a great clrde. BABY CHATTKi: i the enormous oversubscription to; the offt r.ut of New York Tel-1 phon bonds durnii: t palj week." and says the; supply of' funds in New York banks is ";n Roiiie of our jiurists to stop "baby talk." are tryi i : i excess of the demand." This is thf rt "., first tune such a statement coald y "ihive b-en tnithfn'lv mad,, sine.- to put an end to the tootsy-wootsy j lai4. stuff. If they think mother v. ill , ytit-nd her time reading Milton's poems to h.jr ownest-own there is a mistake somewhere. As lon as we have babies we will have 1 aby talk any maybe longer. This demand for good bonds o'.mht to make it easy to sell the issup of Marion county joad bonds for the 1122 program,- It Is not too early to beein to look forward to this program. ; BITS FOR BREAKFAST ham Will regulate the score. No I ra? or bluff or "told you so" Will co mi" from I'ikIc Sam. Nor peaoovk .strut by Johnny Bull To frishten PtTer Sham; Hut when th1 talk is rounded up And pcrHt-iifd to superfine They-!! find John Hull and Ciiele ?am Have htld the plummet line. So we are clad and here rejoice, tThoush we've not said "yo i must" ) That Johnny Bull and I'ncle Sam Are men that we ran trust. Hope you enjoyed It. i "a New for a long and strong pull j till Christmas. ; m m m Henry Clews, the Wall Street authority, says the immediate aving in money from the disarm ament proirram would be about 250.000,000 a year for the United States. "a "a But he says the ultimate bene fits to business would be far be yond this; as for instance the avoidance of the dangers of war with the expenditures that natur ally grow out of such dangers, and the avoidance of unproductive en terprises of various kinds. j j And he says this phase of the i i . . t limitation pian is aireaay com mending itself by affording one of those broad optimistic elements which make the difference be tween depression and prosperity." "a "a He says the "steady prowth of THL LA AND THE LI)Y Certain young women in neighboring city are forming Barmaid's league. In England this would be considered a union of lady bartenders, but in this case it is an association of girls who are employed in law offices It is a sort of a ladies' auxiliary to the Bar association if such annexes are permitted. Women have been laying down the law for many years and it is not to be wondered that they should as sume a professional attitude. THE BIG DOINGS Congressman Fordney says that the United States is now levying the highest surtax on incomes of any country in the world. Wj also have the highest incomes in the world. Therefore we are ge ting more money in taxes than any other country. And we have ,aTn 'I ii in i iiiiiiii mi !,. I ,r-a In view of the l&25!fair. every j mile of paving possible should be completed in the next four vears. I Oregon must put her best foot !et hem B deliberate forward, in order to get the larg-1 'TiH has vpnt "is sjdeen. est possible benefits. Then Sam and John will go' and ! blow : t The ships to smithereens. JOHN 111 LL, AND I'NCI.E SAM. From many lands across the sea The delegates have-come. Invited by our Uncle Sam To meet in Washington. While some are decked with med als bright That sparkle in the sun. -They'll find medallions are a joke In plain old Washington. The brightest men they have on tap. No doubt they all have snt To throw a great transcendent liKht Upon disarmament; But lot them talk their pros and cons. And wisdom's mines explore And when in ag?s yet to come They celebrate the day When delegates in Washington Cast battleships away. They'll spread the glory over all With praise for every man. But underscore the names of two: John Bull and Uncle Sam. W. T. Rigdon. San Diego, Cal., 4605 Campus avenue. State Music Teachers Are in Convention PORTLAND. Ore.. Nov. 24. The annual convention of the Or egon Music Teacners association will be held in Portland tomor- se.ssions "will open tomorrow and v a number ot concerts will be glv-j en by the attending musicians. 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