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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 4, 1922 - . . Issued Daily Except Monday by i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ' ' . , 215 8. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland' Office'.: 117 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic r. f j : - , . - .- . 527.59 VKnr.FR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pubii shed herein. R. J. Hendricks Manager Stephen A Stow. Managing Editor Ralph Glorer. ... . . - Cashier Frank JasfcOaU..... .".i ............ . ........Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: t Business Office, 23. Circulation. Department, III. Job Department. 683. Society Editor. 106. Entered at the Poetofflce in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. EXACT JUSTICE IN TAXATION IMPOSSIBLE In addressing a delegation of farmers at Harrisburg in that stats the other day Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania made the statement that not a cent spent on state highways, schools, agricultural activities or for other purposes of state government comes from the farmers or the working people of Pennsylvania. "Pennsylvania and Delaware," he declared, "are the only two states In the Union that do not have land tax laws." " Commenting on this supposed happy status of Pennsyl vania fanners, The Harrisburg Telegraph says: l '. ;t ' "That is true. In Pennsylvania the corporations many of them foreign pay all the expenses of run ning the state government, if we exclude what comes from auto game and, fish licenses, all of which go to special purposes. The corporations pay the freight in Pennsylvania, and when one pauses to give thought to .the subject, it is amazing that in time every state highway will be permanently paved withoullhe farm ers who use them most having been assessed one pen ny in taxes to pay for them." . .' ' U :. - Many people In Oregon have been casting about for meth ods to bring this state up to the point, or nearer to it, that is the boast of Pennsylvania and Delaware (But here comes the Philadelphia Record putting a fly Into the ointment , The Record says: There is a common fallacy embodied here. It is true, of course, that there is no direct state tax levied on the land here, as in most of the commonwealths; but that does not necessarily, mean that owners of farms do not contribute! anything to the maintenance of the state government. There are indirect as well as direct forms of taxation. It is net to be assumed that 'the corporations pay the freight in Penn sylvania without making an intelligent effort to ease the burden on their treasuries by passing the greater part of it to other shoulders. This they do in the shape of higher rates on freight, including agricultural produce, which the farmer must pay, and in various other ways which the corporation lawyer is skillful in devising. In the end it will doubtless be found that the Pennsylvania agriculturist contributes in in . direct forms quite as much as do his brothers in other states which levy a direct. tax. "It is absurd to suppose that the people of New York, Massachusets, New Jersey and other states are really help ing to pay any considerable sum for Pennsylvania's high ways, schools, etc. The legislatures of those commonwealths know how to safeguard their taxpayers interests quite as well as that of Pennsylvania does. ."Most political economists favor direct rather than indi rect taxes, because then the taxpayer knows what he is called upon to give. It is an argument against the indirect method that the property-owner may contribute more than his fair share without being conscious of the fact." would be many inequalities tomorrow night, and more at j own lurid lore literature, the end or each succeeding aay. There will never be a tax system formulated that will bear eouallv urxm all : for the system must be general, while the circumstances and abilities of the people for which it is devised are as varied as the number of persons who must pay the taxes, directly or indirectly. But all this is no argument against Deuer systems oi tax ation in Oregon. Emma Goldman laments for herself and Berkman, "no body appears to want us." The United States tried to con vey that idea to their minds. If persons avow hostility to all irovernments thev cannot be surprised if all governments wish them to keep out. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk man made themselves offensive and dangerous here by their attacks upon our political and economic systems and their nraise cf the Russian communists, and we deported them to Russia, where they ought to have been happy, but were mis erable. They have succeeded in getting into Sweden, but they are there only under permits granted for two weeks at a time, which will not be indefinitely renewed. If they can get a permit for the purpose they will go to Vienna, but as they are the enemies of all governments no government cares for their presence. Politicians predict that Colonel Bryan will soon make the race for Un'ted States senator from Flor ida. The state might go farther and fare worse. The Everglade have never set things on fire with their senatorial representatives. Now that the arms parley i. about to quit, one feature im presses itself upon the onlooker. That is, not a single one of the nations represented has any idea of disturbing the peace. They simply want to be assured that they will be let alone. Chicago invested almost 53 000,000 in a municipal repair shop plant, and has. closed it be cause it cost 300 per cent more for repairs under applied social istic business theories than the same repairs would have cost un der private business management. Even l as rich a city as Chicago could not carry the burden. Back In the 18th (Illinois) con gressional district, a candidate has announced his intention to make the race for congress against Uncle Joe Cannon. But it is a long time until the primar ies, and he is likely to change hisi mind. Uncle Jfce dates back to the 43rd congress -to a time al most "since the woods- were burnt." ; J ' So there you are- , There is no balm in Gilead for the taxpayer under any kind of a tax system. t Exact justice in taxation is impos sible. There is no such an animile any more than it is true that all men are created free and equal. If it were possible to imagine every living person in Ore gon today as the equal of every other living person in this state in all things, material, physical, mental, spiritual, they would not be equal tomorrow. The babies born tonight would not be equal in all things; and the rest of the people would not make the same uses of their talents i tomorrow. There Something new In penology nnd education is reported from West Palm Beach, Fla.. ; where, it is said, illiterates under 21 who are brought into the municipal court in future are to be sentenced to the "school of opportunity-' in stead of to jail. A former muni cipal judge is the moving spirit. If the plan works well perhaps the scope cf the school win be extended so that arrest will not be necessary as a preliminary to matriculation. A POET 1XW TO EARTH FUTURE DATES )irorr fi. MondayFather and' Son luncheon at Commercial chih. February 7, Thursday Naturalisation it in rrieoit court. Boy Brout Week February 8 U 14. "Waar the aqara knot and do good torn datlT., February 9, Thuraday Flax and hemp irrower roopTatie association to meet at Connbercial elub. February . Thnraday Content at Cor vallia between drill teams of Salem and Enjcrna Woodmen of the World. February 10. Friday Boy Scout pro Cram at state fair grounds. February 10, Friday Arbor Pay. Febmary 15. Wednesday Company F smoker at Armory. February 16 to 19 Inelusirt State Christian. Endeavor nnptWn February 21. Tuesday John I. MirVle tn address Sottlh Salem I'arent-tearher iMftorintion at Leslie Methodist ennrt-h. Rabindranath Tagore, the only Asiatic who ever won the Nobel prize for literature, has paused in his work es a poet long enough to become the crusader for a new attitude on the part of his coun trymen toward material things. In sharp contrast to Gandhi, Ta gore is preaching not the sever ance of all relations' with the white races, but rather diligent effort toward acquiring their mas tery over affairs through knowl edge of science. It is no mew ihing for Ta gore to have an influence in In dia. The present Rabindranath Tagore has for several years had an Immense following in his own land as well as in the Occident. His father and his grandfather were men of tremendous influ ence, largely of a rpiritual char acter. This is also not the first time that the post has thought of the mechanical factors of the modern world. Before he b3- came th3 best known living Indian he was a brakeman on a British railroad out of Calcutta. While the descendant of one of India's greatest religious leaders was bumping back and forth over h's run. taking orders from mon far below him in mental ability, he thought out many things less poetical than his rose-tinted love lines. He observed that tire white man had the upper hand, not be cause of spiritual or even mental superiority, !but because he con centrated Upon the utilization of physical forces. He saw many able philosophers and countless men of much wisdom who were eager to get almost any kind of a job at the hands of a section foreman or the boss of a construc tion crew. Cut his first literary produc tions had in them nothing of the grind of train wheels or the shriek of factory whistles. His eyes had been opened to the real trouble with India, but when he wrote It was of a land of rom ance, of lotus blossoms and of elusive love. To the turbulent Occident, which had besun to weary of its his deli cate prose-poetry, languid and al most other-worldly, made a .pow erful appeal. But the poet, for all the adula tion of the west, was still more a leader of his people than a .man of letters. His inherited sensf 3 of responsibility as a teacher "Con tinued to dominate him. Finally he began the task of working out for India his message to her and his advice as to how she shuwld meet new world conditions. His plan, m.3 given out recently in Calcutta, can be summed up in these words: India can omlv come iuto hsr own when Indians keep pace with the advanced na tions in scientific knowledge aa.d its application .to the problems -of life. India, he says, is the slat e of material things and materafl worshiping men becausa she hat scorned the material and followed solely after that which i3 spiri tual. What he has to say comes as the fruit not only bf his observa tions and thoughts in India, but of many months of close study of conditions in this country and England. Thus it is that the direct des cendant of one of India's greatest mystics is the champion of ma terialism. He is still the poet, to be sure, so much so that even a3 he writes of factories and power problems his sentences pos sess a lyrical quality rarely found ;n treatises on economics. He is still the fervent Buddhist, with frequent references to his basic belief that "God envelops all things.' Nevertheless, he has stopped lulling the west with love lyrics and has sounded a trumpet call for the east to awake and face the facts of the modern world. A poet has come down to ecrth. has dujj his toes into the dirt and Is apparently about to perforrr his finest tervice for his pecjlr. JAPANESE POET, BRIDE ENGLISH London is highly interested just now in the marriag? of Gonuaski Komai, the Japanese poet, to Nora Morgan, English classical dancer. Such a marriage in Ore gon or California would have cre ated violent criticism, but Eng land is merely amiably interested in the union and prefers to accept it with the usual sentiment aroused by any prominent ro mance. The bridegroom, we are told, has transformed his London resi dence into"a Japanese palace of singular beauty,' and has prom ised to "write the story of his ro mance" himself. The bride is de scribed as a particularly beauti ful and cultured girl, who "has ac cepted all the customs of her hus band's country." It may be that these two can prove the happy exceptions, but it !s the sort of marriage one can't help accepting with reservations. It may be as well for the Japan ese poet if he wrties that romance while it is hot. Or perchance he will do well never to write it at all unless the bride Is more adaptable than other Caucasian brides have proved la similar ex periments. J?ut we are assured that "the Japjanera are getting whiter all the time." It may be that Komai is the. forerunner of a race of white Japanese, but It is note worthy that his poetry is. still brown. It was its brownness that intrigued London, its "difference" that made him famous. It is pos sible that a cultured classical dancer can live up to that differ ence hut Komai has not yet written the story of his romance. Job, but be shot at nrnrise. The motormen are' made "tv believe that courtesy s the. first law of nature. The result of the Louls vil experiment will be awaited with interest in other cities. Soma day politeness may be considered a part of the daily grind In the handling oX traffic. In Salem, that has been the rule all along. The street car men here are am ong the most polite people in tOWB. HISTORIC NAMES the Father of the automobile acmoox STUDY aroKTi Btmox PLAT WORK The unsavory advertising of our historic names, such as Grover Cleveland tied to the Bergdoll treason, and Roscoe Conkling linked with the Arbuckle case, has aroused several civic societies to demand that something be done about it. Nothing can be done. We can neither spike them down in museums nor copyright them. In a democracy no saint Is re sponsible for the ungatatly con duct of his name after it is carved on his tomb. Paternal prtds does well to exaggerate fts offspring and keep the great names go1n. Tha custom is patriotic and fresh ens the remembrance of some heroic exploit. Little Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus is christened in the hope that he will be found waiting at the plow. That he is waiting so often for trial is the fault of history, which declines to repeat itself.- Leslie's Weakly. BITS FOR BREAKFAST FAMILY JARS Copyright, 1022, Associated Editor The Biggest Little Paper In the World Edited by John II. Millar AN EVENING WITH SHADOW SKETCHES You don't know what they're to be L until : you've finished drawing 'em. That's .shadow sketches. Ever make them? , . J Wad up a piece .of newspaper about tea Inches square. Do not make too tight a wad. but one that had numerous little corners and dips and sucn. Hold this wad or peper under a light so that a shadow la cast upon another piece of t mooth white paper on the ta ble. The shadow should be black, cot gray and the edges clear cut. - Make Outline of Shadow As yoo hold the wad of paper under the i light with . one hand take a penc'l In the other, and trace carefully around the outline of the shadow. Follow the shadow cloBe'y. getticg In all the little corners and points. This makes the shadow sketch much easier to do. v; ; ; , . ... Now then .j : " "".- v f v' What does the shadow outline remMe most? A human face? A 1ir? Rabhlt? Turtle?. v u ; uvcr tno figure- tmea re- ' that Is the thing you must the figure; made and all that re mains is to fill in the detail lines. Shadow-Sketch Parties If vour; shadow sketch is to he a dog. draw in the features of the dog's face add a few lines to indi cate his hair. It the figure is to be a human face, it is a very sim ple matter to fill in the features. The artist has shown two sam ple shadow sketches in his draw ing. On the left side of his pic ture he has made a Russian with his dog. And on the other side of the picture is old Captain Jinks, the Dlrate- chieitain. One oC these evenings when you and your friends have nothing in particular to do. have a shadow sketch party. Award a prite to the one who can make the clever est shadow sketch In the shortest time. - - v It's loads o. fun. TODAY'S PUZZLE , The same letters, rearranged, form thv word to'flll the blanks in th'n pontenc?:',the irewspa pare- to me. John. nd tell me how c?r are today. ii j rtorday's: Tram. ONE REEL YARNS I YOICES FROM THE AIR "That boy ain't going to spend no money rigging up that thing on my roof. It's a pity ne can i be a n!ee. sensible boy and not all the time getting these crasy notions." Old Mr. Perkins moved his wheel chair after his daugn- ter-in-law, continuing bis com plaints out Into the kitchen. Mrs. Perkins signeu. ne uiu- n't blame Dudley for gett'ng dis couraged. It wai hard for any boy to have some one fussing about every bit of I fun he tried to have. Of course, she did feel sor- rv for her husband's fatner. wno was a frKf nl, d'reontented invalid. but she often wished she bad noi promised her husband, when ne had gone off on this long vovage. that she would rtay afhi3 father's house until hU return. The door tuddrnly burst open and Dudley came running in "Mother, dear." he called. "Hal Pierce is go'ng- to let me use his batteries for my wireless, and he said " "I was Jun telling your ma," said Mr. Perkins testily, "that l wan't go'ng to have' none of that foolishness around here." Dudley flushed and started to speak, but his mother put her fin ger to her lips. Nothing more wa said about the w!reless. Sunday morn'ng came, and Mr. Perkins was wheeling his chair around and ftipslnc about the late breakfast. "Grandfather." ,sad Dudly, "how'd you like to go to church and hear the organ again?" . . : , "Ta'unt'ng an old man for beinj helples. re ye?" said his grand father shrilly. , "Ye know It's been nigh onto lea years J . sence 1 been " . 4 r K t . . f - i Dudley stepped up behind the oM nan nd sr-pped a wfiflr nv what's this, you scalawag!" Then a strange look came into his face. His expresion softened. "By gum." he flid. "I Ihear church music!" "That's my wireless." said Dud ley. "Hal ami I rigged it up these last two days, when you weren't feeling so well and were in your room. You can hear all the church music from it. We got it all fixed. There's several sta tions connected w'th the church, you see." After the music was over. Grandfather Perkins puHed out a worn leather pouch. "Here, had son, he said. "I want yon to buy some ; more of them wireless es. One for the prayer meetings and one for the concerts at the opry house." "What a sick-looking watch you have." "Yes, its hours are numbered." TOOTHPICKS When you Fee anyone going along the street using a toothpick, you know ho probably "just gre,w" and wasn't "brought up." Toothpicks are for use in private only, and should never apprar in public. The revolutionary Influence of the gasoline engine upon modern social development is a common place of observation. Of what other recent invention approach ins it in importance is the invent or so little known1 Georgo Bald win Selden. who aied at his home in Rochester, N. Y.. the other day Is not even in "Who's Who." Nor did he reap anything like the fin apc'.al returns from his enjrine that might have beea expected. It is estimated that his ioyalt!s amounted in all to some $200.- 000. IJ his patent had been fully sustained in the courts the roy alties of four-fifths of 1 p-r cent which he had been receiving from Uent manufacturers would have amounted to many million dol lars by the time the putent ex pired in 1912. As it was. he is reputed to have lost in litigation about as much ai his royalties amounted to. His defeat in the courts does not vitiate his title as the "father of the automobile" nor oust him from the company of great Ameri can inventors. Technical points, upon which the legal battle turned, did not concern the his toric question of priority, A long gap, however, between his inven tion and its recognition by the patent office, seems to have fig ured in the developments affect ing his remuneration. There i3 perhaps ironical coincidence in the fact that the inventor was himself a patent lawyer. He wan graduated at Yale in 1869 ani admitted to the bar in 1871. After: experimenting for several years with the possibilities or steam as a motive power for road vehicles he completed his pioneer gasoline-driven "horseless car riage" in 1 STS. and applied for a patent in the following year. It was granted in November, 1S9j. Meanwhile, some 10 years earlier aud some seven years after Selden's successful performance Daimler and Benz in Europo devised similar machines. Suits against American manufac turers for infringement of the Selden patent were brought in 1900 and decided in the lower courts in Selden's favor. The judgment was reversed by the ap pellate divisions and new suits were brought by the Electric Ve hicle company, to which ,Seld$n had sold his patent rights. The sued manufacturers, with the exception of Henry Ford, eventually agreed to pay royalties to the company. Ford, however, continued the fight alone, and u poii winning a judgment that his type of motor was not an infringe ment of the Selden patent,, the royalties ceasd. the other manu facturers claiming that their en gines were of the Ford type. The incident may help to explain Mr. Ford's recent comments on the vulnerability of patents, a weak ness of which he has also been Ariclim at other times. There is tome satisfaction also, in consid ering the history of disappointed inventors, that Selden. like Ford. b?canie a successful manufactur er of. motor cars. " Even a Philadelphia home is not impervious to domestic jars. There is a sad case of family em broilment in the divorce courts th?re that began when the hus band filled up on moonshine and tried to play one of his wife's waffles on the phonograph. There was a quarrel which ended wlsen the husband smashed a large por trait of Uncle William over th wife's head, leaving her nsck filled with splinters of glass. The woman was taken to a hospital and the man to jail. Their home is to rent. Keep away from the moonshine. THE CALL OF COURTESY The Louisville street car com pany is conducting a courtesy campaign. Motormen and con ductors are being taught to do this Alphonse and Gaston busi ness. If an irate passenger is carried beyond his station and threatens to shoot up the train it will be the business of the con ductor to back the car up to his landing and kiss him good night. All the employes of the company are being taught that the public is composed of real human beings who must be served with polite ness and dignity. If a conductor forgets himself and growls out the old. familiar, "Get a move on you," he will not only lose his Beautiful, warm rain. S Webfoot land is herself again. S If a Salem man should die-and leave a stock of hootch to his heirs, vropld that be a bootlegacy? S This kind of weather will brine the robins and make the spring flowers bloom. S One big thing got by without Lloyd George even giving It the once over or the finishing punch Refering to the arm conference. And it got by more vrilllantl than its best friends expected If would. Denial Is made of the malicious report that Lloyd George. In a time of such distress. Is building $75,000 house, and It la said that the cost will not be a third of that; but such stories travel fast when an election is in prospect. S S The French Academy of Medi cine is divided over the proposal to admit Mme Curie, the discov erer of radium, to membership, many holding that the academy snouia do a men oniy orsauiM tlon. It is not surprising, in view of French tardiness In extending full privileges of cltisenahip to women; and Mme Curie's fame does not need the honor, though medical slcence might profit by such an extension of her opportu nities. - "lust Arotmd The Come?' . IS;. . . 4Humorcsque8w Only Rival Classified! Ads. In Theio Statesman Bring Results Matinee 2 p. m. 50c and 25c Vaudeville 1 BC6INNW6 hOHCAl HATWCfl Monday i JF v : .. . r- :.. ;. A . fx ; : r?ss ELL COTAll ll5UArJ U I. a- , 1 I V S' MaSSa Sal Evening 7 and 9 p. m. 25c and 75c mm ANO HIS PLATEJUS OrPOOTtO Y MAflV UAMaTAIkK Z Ef.'D OF THZ ROADI p... ... HARPER rvnptan or vawpcvcu." COMtov .rAvomrris DUNBAR &TURNERJ Buy Your Tickets in the Afternoon for Evening Show Theatre D Bring the Children , 25c Matinee and Evening mm 'awi.l ail Hill j .ft mt --nf- n r. - ' -- - ' - ' "lir-'Btf " ' PONY CONTEST CANDIDATES 10,000 extra votes for each and every new subwription lecured between 8 a. m. Wednesday, February 1st and 8 p. m. 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