THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 11. j!922 Issued Dally Except Monday by ; - TIIB STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St.. Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, C27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic 627-59 This pact is more destructive to existing navies than was; do with the plfght of the people 'salaries haTe not been, raised In 'h?re they find themselves the r MEMBER OP TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the nse for repub lication of all sews dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper and als o the local news publl shed herein. a. J. Hendricks ....... Manager Stephen A." Stone Managing Editor Ralph OlOTer Cashier Frank Jaskoskl... Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: . Business Office. 23. Circulation Department, 683. Job Department, 583. ;'" . Society Editor, 106. Entered at the Postotflce In Salem," Oregon, as second class matter. WONDERFUL AND FAR REACHING WORK OF THE WASHINGTON PEACE CONFERENCE highest taxed people in th west. Of course, not a word dared be "aid about any future candidate for a state office or the legisla- is th; dire t The Washington conference having adjourned sine die: the period of deliberation having ended and the hour of ac tion having arrived, it is fitting that a review be had of the wonderful and far reaching accomplishments of what has been termed the most important gathering in all the long record of the world's history The work of what has been called the arms conference, but which will come to be more appropriately termed the peace conference. President Harding very truly said in his closing address to the assembled commission that "It is hazardous sometimes to speak in superlatibes and I will be restrained." The Pres ident is well a, ware that it is not what the conference did, but what the peoples the commissions represented will do that will determine whether justice is to dominate force in the future intercourse among governments and peoples. - iV But the President also said, with equal clearness and truth, "the fiith plighted here today, kept in national honor, will mark the beginning of a new and better epoch in human progress' A way has been provided for the fulfillment of a great hope. , The conference blazed the trail. Treaties have been negotiated limiting armaments, righting ancient wrongs and removing potential causes of future wars. These treaties must not only be ratified, but must be honorably observed by all the signatories in order that the spirit which animated the conference may go forth, like the beams ol the sun. until it has encircled the world. i Senator Lodge said that the conference had succeeded ir doing "something real and practical because it had not at tempted to accomplish the impossible, to do too much. Its cope was limited to the Pacific area, including the Far East. He explained that "the Far East meant China." As set forth in the agenda, it was called for a triple purpose : the limita tion of armaments, the termination of the Anglo-Japanese alliance and extending aid to China to secure real independ ence. - .These three objectives were won, and other things were accomplished which were not believed possible when the con ference convened. There was nothing in the agenda con cerning the return of Shantung -to China by Japan and the surrender by Great Britain of Wei-Hai-Wei. In fact, China is the only country that won any territorial advantage as the result of the conference. - . , At its final session a supplemental agreement was writ ten into the four-power treaty which excludes the main is lands of Japan from the "insular possessions" of the signa tories in the Far East. This was done to prevent an inter pretation of the pact which made it appear that the othei powers were pledged to assemble in conference if the Japa nese islands proper should be attacked by another power. This supplemental agreement disposes of the arguments used by Senator. Johnson and a few others against the treaty. ' Five treaties were negotiated by the conference. They may be summarized as follows : ' . (1.) Quadruple agreement between America, Great Brit jain, France and Japan .to mutually respect each other's insu i lar possessions in the Pacific and providing for a quadruple J conference in case the peace of the Pacific should be men aced. . . v - (2.) Five-power pact between America, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy providing for a limitation of naval , armaments and scrapping about 850,000 tons of battleships. the World war. (3.) Five-power treaty outlawing the use of poison gas in warfare and making the undersea attack on a merchant vessel an act of piracy. (4.) Three-power agreement between America, Great Britain and Japan to preserve the status quo on naval bases i itp. b-eau?e Oregon c ity and fortifications in the Pacific area. No new fortifications hom? of th? immaculate are to be erected on the islands of the Pacific and there is! primary and direct legislation sys to be no extension of naval bases. (5.) Nine-power agreement, establishing the policy of the "open door" in China. This agreement is a genuine tri umph for American diplomacy, for it is a policy first promul gated by our government and which every Republican ad ministration has supported since. It went into temporary se clusion during the Wilson administration'; but it has now been reaffirmed and accepted by nine governments. Supplementary treaties were negotiated by Which Great Britain and Japan return Wei-Hai-Wei and Shantung to China. An agreement was also reached between our country and Japan concerning Yap and Pacific cable stations. Japan also agreed to withdraw from the northern portion of the island of Sakhalin. Equally important, perhaps, is the declaration of princi ples embodied in the treaties and resolutions, for they place international relations on a higher and nobler plane than they occupied before the World war. Speaking for Great Britain, Mr. Balfour said that "nations in the future cannot violate the principles laid down here without sacrificing the confi dence of the powers. Hereafter selfish aggression at the ex pense of China cannot be excused on a plea of ignorance or of private understanding with minor Chinese officials " No other conference of nations was ever conducted with so little friction. Threats of force were never uttered. There was no rattling of the saber, and justice, not power, was the dominating spirit. Right was placed before national inter ests ; and the result is the greatest triumph for peaceful di plomacy of which history contains a record. The nations part with a better understanding than when the conference assembled. Friendships have been cemented and not even a vestigejof a war cloud darkens any part of the Pacific area. Wc could not have reasonably hpoed for more. Few people in any part of the world hoped for as much. President -Harding yesterday laid before the senate the treat ies agreed to and signed by th Washington peace conference, and in person urged their prompt rat ificat'.on. This should be done, and the vo'i ought to be unanimous. The community chesi campaign in Portland is having hard sled ding. That looks like the ideal way to provide money for the sup port of civic activities. But in most cities It has not proved the most successful way. Many peo ple like to pick out for them selves the organizations they want to help. answer to a thief's plea for pelf. When there is no poverty, then there can be made a beginning of the complete abolition of the underworld. Abraham Lincoln, George Wash ington and other leaders of the American people were considered among the high priests of the race, but neither one of them had an offer to manage the moving picture business at 3150,000 a year. In fact, neither of them ever dreamed of. much less saw, a movie. Exchange. Mayor Baker: of Portland has ordered the poftce" force of that city to wipe out the underworld. A worthy commission, but a good sized job, which it will take some genereations to complete. The police alone cannot finish it. Or ganized society and all the moral forces of the whole people will have to help. But it can be done, in a thousand years. "The poor ye always have with you" was not spoken as a general statement. It was spoken to Judas Iscariot, in A wireless message has been sent from Carnarvon, Wales, to the shores of Australia. But what gets us is how the messag3 was transmitted in Welch that sounds too much like the wailing of an ocean wind to be recognized at the other end as a spoken lang uage. Two Welchmeri In a heated debate give fortlr a sound that is not only unrecognizable, but causes a mist thick enough to cut with a knife. Exchange,' TAXPAYERS MUST ACT Editor Statesman: The writer attended a meeting ot the Oregon City Live Wires, at which the ladies gave a dinner and heard from prominent per sons on the subject of tax reduc tion. Judge Grant Dimick showed that there was about two mMlion dollars of spread that could be cut out. Chris Schubel, an almost continuous member of the legis lature, spread some verbal heifer dust in the eyes of the business men present, and promised some more illuminating statistics in future, about the time he will seek a nomination. Another leg islator spoke.wbut naither of the gentlemen seemed to assume that th? present nominating system, that places a premium on the in efficient self-seeker, or his own valuable services, had anything to ( aCHOOt. STT7DT aroBTS HUMOR PLAT WORK ICoprrlcht, 1023, Associated Editors The Biggest Little Paper In the World Edited by John H. Millar THE VALENTINE DAY COSTUME PARTY A Valentine party I'm giving. f X fancy dress-up party, too: So come In a suitable costume i It won't be complete without 1 1 -; you. . - - If JThsfe." sa'd Beth. "I think that makes a nice invitation." She I and her brother Roger -were so J .near of an age that they always : gave their parties torejthsr. ror L some time- they had been planning a b'z Talentlne party. They were i busilr writing the invitation Terse : on red paer hearts, which they put it white envelopes and seal- I ed w'th red sealing wax. ' Tto ValnnUne Mall Box II "VVhea all the invltat'.ons were h' np on the nbm, i"ady to be jrvU'ed. Roger tilted back in his ihr and .ald "Now what are wa go'nx to do with them after they S : . TvVell," eonsld'd Betn, rest ing her ch!n on her hand, "one ' th'nc that's alwav fan Is to hare soe red and wh' cren. paper, ; pome red cardboard, nalnts, pen- ' ctl and ac'ssors read, and soon as th" com rt them start- . ed tt rnakln valentines for then ma'l box. W can Tote on the -t one and glTe a ba of motto - -rt for a nrlze. " Then .we n the valentine in the box ,. rrf w he board hearts, one for In front and one for in back, with slits in them to run a red sash through. Then I'd fasten loops of ribbon to s'des of the dress and put the loops on mv wrists, just like a frilly valentine." "I guess I'll go as the Jack of Hearts." Roger decided. "I'll wear that old opera cape of mo ther s on my shoulders, and a crown ana everything, just I'Ke the Jack in a deck of cards." "It sounds like a regular party." paid Beth as she ran to get her wraps to go with Rogr to the post office. fore the party breaks up." "That ought to start the party off all right," agreed Roger. "Then we can play some regular Karnes like Going to Jerusalem, until time to eat. I tell you what! Let's serve cafeteria style end have everybody march around the table." Choosing Partners "We can have a grand march f!rst," suggested Beth. "We'll make as many cardboard hearts as there are couples and cut each one in two. We'll have iie ba ket of halves for the girls and on tor the bovs. and thet- can match for partners. Mother's tending to ths eats. I euess she's b"vlnr sandwiches cut heart-shap ed, nd pink lemonade." "I'm wondering whit we'll wear." sa'd Roper "We'll have to have something that's not much trouble to fix up." Costumes "Well." a!d TWh. "I don't know exactly. Either I'll wear a oueen of hearts costume, just lain whitfv dress of talatan with hearts 'pasted On It. and a 'red crown. r I'll be fancy valen tine. For the Talentine eostama solemn dot of watch! nr twtn I'd wear a Tery fun white dress) lanterns. "Every Inor!ng. said of some- soft 'stuff like cheesecloth J Fu Yen's father gravely, "you end then I'd cut m two big card-1 must fill them with - the olU -. I ! ONE REEL YARNS I FU YES A XI) THE TWIN tIGIITS Fu Yen's father was a priest In the great t?mp!e. Ever since he could remember. Fu Yen had played about the great building filled with Its wonderful carved Images. He had spent most of h's t'me in Its wonderful gardens, for there he was the hxnoiest.. Every flower nodded Its bright head as Fu Yen came shutfllns into the garden, his long queue flving. h!s face beaming. Every bird called a good morning, and tbe tinv insects huzzd hano'l f-r Fu Yen was the friend of ev erv growing and living thing. In front of the great temple, near the entrance to the beautiful rardens, wre the wonderful twin lantern whom Hants never went out. Fu Yen's father watched them and kept them always filled with the sacrd oil, so that tne t'ny lights forever twinkled. Thev tood on "lender columns, so high thPt Fu Yen was qu'te a large boy before he could rech th"m. It was a great day in Fo Yen's life when his father announced that he was going on a journey of several days, and tht h nn could now be entrusted with the should be thrown from the temple if the sacred lights should to out.' "Oh, most honorable father." promised Fu Yen. "I will guard them with my life, as the gTaves of my honorable ancestors Every morning Fu Yew polished and filled the lanterns. Then one lovely unshiny day he lingered in the garden, playing with his tav orite flowers. The sun shone brightly and he grew sleepy. Nxt thing he knew dusk was falling. He ran to the lantern3. One of them was cut. "Oh!" tried Fu Yen. "What s-'ia!". I do' I must light !t im mediately. If my father ku .-. " s he spulre, far down tin road lie saw a little foot caravan com ing. His father was returning. Thea clo e to h's ears sounded ? fe miliar Mi7lng. Fn Yon look-i tern under which we are paying three dollars taxes where ten years ago we paid one dollar. Ira Idaho the people have restored the state party convention sys tem, and in Washington they hav always kept it. and leadership and party responsibility have not al together been destroyed. Idaho has adopted the cabinet system. with seven heads Of departments taking the place of boards and comm'ssions, and Washington has adopten ten department heads ap pointed by the governor, Instead of 72 boards and commissions. Idaho has reduced her state taxes and overhead cost of gov ernment about 20 per cent, and Washington has reduced about 2 5 per cent in total overhead, and cut the state tax for state "expen ses, outside of education, from 4 mills to 2 mills. A deficit of $2,600,000 from 1920 has been wiped out and about 20 per cent of all appropriations made by the last legislature are to be returned to the state treasury. Yet Chris Schubel has the nerve to say tax es are just as high in Washington and Idaho as in Oregon. The cold fact is the farmers in Oreeon are in open rebellion at the outrage ous taxation bills that have been forced upon them. The men who have run the legislatures for the past six or eight years have been able totpass the buck and tell the people that they themselves are to blame for high taxes and ask to be returned to the legislature. What can the people do under the present system which permits no party conventions and absolves all from party responsibility? There is only one line and that is to demand retrenchment and nom inate business men who will pledge themselves to initiate no new taxes or appropriations, eith er in the legislature or at special ejections. The last session spent $43,O0O merely for stenographers and clerks, half of whom were not competent legislative employes, and the 400 new laws that were enacted showed about half of th?m more or less defective and had to be Ironed out and fixed up after they were passed. Most of these laws raised salaries, cre ated new jobs, added- fees, in creased deputies, and as long as they exist will operate to raise taxes. We need higher standards of Americansim, and I for one do not care to support men for of fice who go to the legislature to trade, for jobs and make soft places at $5 to $10 a day for themselves and their families. Men who will stain their hands with such petty grafts are not. good Americans. Men who will stand for paying public employes two salaries, or paying those in public service twice what the same service is worth, or twice what the same individual is worth in private life, are not good Am ericans. Let us raise higher stan dards in public service, where the constitution and the legislature and the judiciary are something sacred and not a philandering joke for fattening families at pub lic expense. We may expect Non partisan Leagues from North Da kota and Ku Klux Klans from Georgia to take charge of our pub lic business if we as citizens do not raise our standards and ideals of public life above petty grabs and nepotistic enterprises. The only thing that can be done is to aet in our primary capacity as taxpayers and demand injection of business into our public affairs. We must get the facts of the en ormous volume of increasing ex pense before the voters, and we must hold those who have brought about this condition of affairs re sponsible. The simple fact that Marion county, and the current exp?uss ot Marion county have been held at about the same f p ure for ten years past. pivej the lie to the cry for constantly in creasing salaries and constant boosting of taxs. What Marion county has done the whole state can do. We must eradicate th ; disease of tax-lifting or this state t will not be in line far develop- : ment or increased population pledges for carefulness are made. The bun wagon insists, like Cae . i. . .i in naviug w ar. STAGE TERMINAL TO BE OPENED TONIGHT (Continued from page S) The Terminal has exclusive park ing space frontage and will use.it nection with their own oui- rill m con nesjs. lanre Chaser electric sign Marion school district voted j dominate the front of the building down the increased budget. Th city has voted down clamor for increased appropriations and will do it again and Salem will be prosperous In proportion as we re fuse tax expansion. REPURLICAN. TAINT AXl l'OWDCU It would hardly be suspected, but the assertion is made that Philadelphia uses more rouge, powder and cosmetics than any other city in the I'nion. Yon never can tell about these Qua ker C.ty g:rls. They wili doll up and they use up a lot of paint and powdar in th? doing. Phila delphia's annual bill for cosmetics is more than $6,000,000. Even the navy department would feel the touch of a $t.0"0.000 bill for war paint. It is hoped that Phil adelphia has something to show for the money. THK AXDIAL KINGDOM ,1 1. . nmilil as soon as aen-rj ran Two W-estern Union clocks are placed at each end of the termi nal and will show the time of those, leaving and wil race also those coming. HuKe leather chairs, large foot rails, njahogany counters and a delightful system of indirect electric lighting make the entire space a place ot beauty a3 wvll as comfort. The lighting system is uniform all through the building and the upstairs hotel. The lighting system is the most elaborate in the valley. A Terraza lloor. impervious to wear, ideaiit- ticallv arrange! tor ci-aimm- and health is laid through all the lower main floors. A general color scheme of Ivory and mahog any is followed throughout. Has Other Terminals This company nas Blso termi nals at Eugene and Corvallis. The Eugene urminal Is now In opera' tion -and is proving a big success This company has a long lease on the Elks temple at Eugene and It has been adapted to the Terminal servico so as to make it a wonder fully attractive place. It has al most a whole city full of shops, so that one can for almost ever The daughter of ..he house of Rockefeller has grown aweary of staking grand opera. In the last ten years she and her husband put up more than $3,000,000 to cover the deficits of the opera season. Now that she has be?n divorced she is going to take in terest in less temperamental crea tures than foreign singers. She is to furnish Chicago with the greatest zoo in thg world. She has added 110 acres to the pres ent "plant and has been made di rector of the Chicago Zoological society. There will be over 200 acres of birds and beasts and it is hoped to gather living specimens of every known animal. live under the same roof eral waiting room 30x50 feet, that r will care tor 100 to 160 guests at ; a time. There are six entrances makinj! It stampede proof. X. I- Hcyxr, Maaauer There are approximately SS schedules botweeu Eugene. Koe burn, and Medford, including the leader lines. The Corval.U Term!-, nal is nearing completion and there are a number ot business en"; terprtees on the maiu floor. There a restaurent. shoe shop, barbers, stationary, insurance, real erta, shine parlor, and oth er offices and apartments rapidly filling up. The Terminal idea has been de veloped by Messrs. J. E. Lewis, president and L. K. Applegate. treasurer of the new Oregon cor poration. They have brought it ia part from Seattle, but have devel oped it largely from the original design. These gentlemen have overcome many obstacle and de-' serve considerable credit for the good work accomplished in build ing up the most modern up-to-date stage terminal on tha Pacific coa6t. . J. H. Carson of Salem Is the company secretary, and N. L. Heyser of Salem the commercial manager, with Earnest Summer field, assistant. All the members of this company will make their homes at Salem. While Salem is the home office of the company, their activities will cover many ( fields.. There are barbers, florists, drug stores. gruevry. confectionery, cigar stand, check stand, m eat market, restaurant, tailor, shining parlor, transfer office, taxi office. There are separate men's and women's waiting room, with a smoking room for men. and a ften- Xcver Wants Anything Else? "I tried many different kinds of cough medicine," writes Mrs. E. K. Olson, 1917 Ohio Ave.. Su perior. Wis., "but I never want anyth'ng else than Foley's Honey and Tar. I used It for all my children and also for my grand- , child. It has always done tine work." Foley's is a pure, whol tome and absolutely safe remedy fnr tha relief of colds, croun and ' whooping cough. Chlldreu like it and It checks sneezing and snuN f line. Sold everywhere. AdT. i. UNDER THE WHEELS Actuaries are able to fairly es timate the annual death roll from the automobile. Unless there is some unusual or wholesale trag edy the number of deaths to b3 expected each month from traffic accidents can be predicted with reasonable exactness. It is a'safe bet that people are not going to bs any more careful next- month than last. The proportion of ac cidents will Increase as the num ber of autos grows, but where there is not much variation in the number of cars a ratio of acci dents can be computed. In Mich igan the automobile industry has been fairly steady. The number of persons driving cars last year was not greatly dmorent from the previous 12 months. In 1920 there were 39" deaths from motor accidents. Last year the number was exactly the same. This is not a gloomy coincidence, but a definite expectation. There will probably be as many next year, no matter what promises and q) AN TAG E I VAUDEVILLE Matinee 2 p. m. 25c 50c MONDAY Evening 79 , 25c 75c AL SWEET'S SINGING BAND Superb Musicians and Vocalists Pan Green And : Wyoming: American Dunbar jq Four Withoutv Tropical Rhyme or Echoes From Harmonists Reason The West The Mysterious Greeks ALEKO & CO. Will Answer Any Question You May Ask Special Orchestra THEATRE Bring The Kiddies up. Soi-ie of his friend?, th- little light-oearing insects, flutter ed about his head. Ht se?med to him he heard a voice say, ' You have bcn our friend W? shal! now be yours." As the astonish t 1 Httle Chinaman watched, they flew r'ght into the dart lantern. And wntn Fu Yen's fathe' re turned, the lights in both the tw.n lanterns twinkled. TODAY'S PUZZLE Change the word ''lose 'find" in four moves. Answer to resterday's: Quebec to (fcS) ' aOWIWONT 1J V RmrcTcwrv 1 623 v t - f-1 fcjiTTirtvAN of HoseowDoestfr . UKfe TO 3 TO SCHOOL FUTURE DATES Boy 8oot Wk Febmry 8 to 14 "Wear tha tqsar knot and do a good tor" daily." February 11, Saturday DiTan of Al KdT temple to be entertained by Sa lem Shrine patrol. February 12, Sunday Lincoln's birth day. February 13. Monday Professor M E Peck lecture at Waller hall, Willamette university, at 8 p.m. February 14, Tuesday Cberrians meet February 14, Tuesday St. Valentine "a day. February 15. Wednesday Company T smoker at Armory. February IS to IS Inclusive State Christian Endeavor eonyentioa February 20. 21 and 22 Convention of State Retail Dealers association at Roseburg. February 21, Tuenday Convention of Oreiron Retail Clothiers' association in Salem. .February 21. Tuesday John D. Mickle to address South Salem Parent-teacher asciation at Leslie Methodist church. February 21 and 22 Tuesday and Wednesday. Apollo clnh in concert with Gideon Hicks and Gertrsc' Huntcley Green, pianist. February 22. Wednesday Washing ton's birthday. ' March 2, Thursday Annual Elks Elec tion. March 1 7 19 Meetinf of county Sun day school convention in Salem. March 17. 18 and 19 Marion county Sunday acnooi convention. Salem. April 16, Sunday Easter. May 19. Friday Primary election. Jane 29-30, July 1 Convention of Orecoat Fire Chiefs association at Marsh field. July t and 4 Monday and Tuesday, Stata convention of Artisans at Wood barn Sentesnber 21, 22 and 23 Pendleton 4W rzt .-if : w 9 a " - - suna . snTss , J 4 ..tl. - f 1 hurry! CANDIDATES hurryi Special offer of 10,000 free votes for every new subscriber se cured ends Saturday night at 8 p. m. and will not be renewed. Will you be announced as the winner of one of the grand prizes? It is up to you. Keep busy! Keep your helpers busy! The end of the bonus offer is almost here. TO BE OR NOT TO BE is the question. 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