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Entered at the Postoftice in Salem,
OREGON FORTUNATELY ESCAPED THIS
A caustic observer remarks that the verdict of the cor
oner's jury on the Nonpartisan League will be that it is a
case of suicide
It meets death at its own hands.
- The editors of the official publications of the League ad
mit as much, and the present situation is a casting about
for a set of capable and convenient pallbearers.
The Leaguewas scuttled from within. It had an army
of highly paid organizers. It paid fancy prices for its pub
licity and propaganda. It was not inspired by a long-felt
want, but by a created one. The Dakota farmers who thought
they were being led by a Peter the Hermit were in fact
following an exuberant and boisterous jazz band. They
turned over their problems of economics and finance to a
group of dreamers and grafters. Theirs is the usual lot of
those who invest in gold bricks. There is an atmosphere of
bankruptcy that is embarassing all the states in which the
League gained a foothold. The Lord help the land that com
mits its keep to the Nonpartisan League if there is any
thing left for the Lord to save.
Oregon is very fortunate to escape this terror that twice
menaced this commonwealth; once, a few years ago, boring
in from the eastern side of the state, and-last summer get
ting a foothold In Yamhill and Clackamas counties.
It would have lef t a blight the last of which would not
have been seen In a generation, or two or three generations.
' And all -this is not saying that there are not many things
the" matter with Oregon
, Many reforms needed; many ways of doing things that
may be improved, and that ought to be' improved; many
economies that should be introduced, and many short cuts
and betterments that ought to be made, and that could be
made and perfected if Oregon could be insured a a state ad
ministration and a legislature for a long term of years with
a type of wisdom and foresight characterizing the best ef
ficiency experts in big business and the highest tvpe of
statesmanship in public affairs.
1 THE VILLAIN OF THE FILM
First thing we know the film folk will have to standard
ize their villains. The government of Mexico was inclined
to kick because the villain in a recent film was a Mexican.
The Chinese people are complaining because the dirty work
in so many pictures is performed by Chinamen. The Eng
lish do not like the kind of Englishmen that sometimes get
into the films. The French folk have become angered!be-
CaUSe of the SCOUndrell V rwrfnrmanAa nf on mo svF f Vi a Vran ti
men accredited to the screen.
mi u vii, uut ii, can ue imagined wnai a roar it
will be if a villain is put on wearing a green necktie and red
chin whiskers. In order to avoid complications and make
everybody happy the directors will have to denationalize
their villains. They can do this by making a composite vil
lain: or, by the Columbus method of discovering a new con
tinent! Let them create a villain from new and unknown
fwums. me American mms
jMre.me puuc oi tne turns if they have an international
Xs Lm e the American the hero. The German, the Italian,
the Frenchman and the Jap are the crooks or adventurers.
-That is where the Grievance romps in. Tha nrnM
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CHOO&
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; TIIE nURDY-OURDY MAN
Scene; A poorly furnished at
tic room. A pale-faced little girl
Is sitting In a big chair, wrapped
up in a comforter, so that only
her face peeps out. Hilda, an old
er girl, Is busily sweeping, hum
ming a little at she works.
HILDA: I won't sweep yery
hard so that tn dust will make
you cough. Mignonette, dear.
the dust. ' It seems that it must be
nearly spring, Hilda. I can smell
It coming In through the cracks
in the window.
HILDA: And you'll smell
something elso soon, too. In n
Jitfy I'll pat on the fire tha finest
stew you ever .tasted. Mother
t'oesn't know I'm having - stew.
She'll be so surprised. -
MIGNONETTi: She's so tired
when she comes home she doesn't
notice -much what there Is to eat
HILDA: But she'll notice thin.
I can tell you. And you shall eat
a big bowlful that will make you
want to get up and carry bricks or
something.
MIGNONETTE (laughing): You
are so tunnv Hilda. Listen! What
Is that? (The strains of a grind
organ ara heard In the distance,
and as the two girls listen, it
comes nearer.
HILDA: I do believe it's a
hurdy-gurdy! It'a been the longest
you mind If I open the window
Just a little bit. dear? I don't
think you will be In the draft.
MIGNONETTE: Open it, please.
X want to hear IL
(Hilda goes ' over to the one
window and raises it a little.)
HILDA: It's playing In front of
the bouse next door. Isn't that the
prettiest thing! ,
MIGNONETTE: Hilda, do -you
remember when I could walk,! be
fore I jwas hurt, and you and I
jised to go down on the sidewalk
Oregon, as second class matter.
There is still the Irish Free
go into all parts of the world.
-ma vm uvcx a.
to listen to the hurdy-gurdy
music?
HILDA: Yes, and one time we
followed a grind organ man with
a monkey away down the street
and got lost and the nice big po
liceman brought ns home.
MIGNONETTE: I remember.
We never told mother, did we?
Listen!
HILDA (sticking her head out
the window again): He's right in
front ot this place now.
MIGNONETTE: I used to dance
anad dance all aronnd over the
sidewalk when I was such a little
girl and the hurdy-gurdy man
came around.
HILDA: Indeed you did, just
liko a fairy.
MIGNONETTE: I wish I could
ever do it again, just once.
HILDA: But I'm sure you will.
You've been getting so much
stronger. And the doctor said
that on day you -would walk, all
right. You've just been afraid to
try.
MIGNONETTE: But it hurts so.
even to stand up for one little
minute. Oh. I love that hurdy
gurdy! He's playing the nlcesf
piece ever. I do hope he won't
ero away. Haven't you a penny to
throw him, Hilda?
HILDA: Not a penny. I used all
tb money left to buv the stew
with. Mother gets paid again to
day, you know.
MIGNONETTE: But that does
n't do sny good now. I want hurdy-gurdy
music. He's stopping!
He'n stopping!
HILDA: No, he's started an
other piece again. I'll go look in
the bureau. I just - happened to
think I have some money in a box
there.
MIGNONETTE: Hurry, Hilda,
hurry! (There is a ltttk) silence,
during which tbe music continues.
Then it begins to die away.)
MIGNONETTE: Hilda! He's
going away! Haven't you found
broad enough. They have plenty of American, villains in
their plays. But other nations do not appreciate the fact.
They only see that when there is dirty work to be done it is
performed by one of their own race. If there is a play with
a Spaniard in it he is pretty sure to be the villain. The
Spanish can see only that and they rightly urge that Amer
ica has villainy enough of her own without unloading a lot
of it on the Spanish-speaking peoples. The Hague court will
have to create an international villain who shall be available
for pictures intended for foreign consumption.
Itum runners drowned up near
Seattle,
wet.
They found the sound
The popular toys at the next
Christmos holidays will doubtless
be plows instead of battleships.
Peace, Pacific, parley, pact
these are the words to conjurs
with in the settlement of the
world's troubles.
The backbone of winter has
been broken several times in the
east; but the lusty and gusty pa
tient keeps on recovering
It will require considerable up
holstering of that Uncle Joe Can
non seat in congress to make it
t:t the new member from Illi
nois. Don't pet excited about the sky
rocketing of thja wheat prices.
It does not mean a sure rfse in
all prices and a consequent return
to the extreme high cost of living.
Wheat went up and down, for
many causes, before tha war.
The saw mill workers are go
ing to school at Mill Clt. and the
same interesting xper!raent ii
likely to bo tried out at Silver
ton and oth?r lumbering centers.
It is a worthy phasj of tbe vo
cational education movement.
The birth or tue movies, ten
years ago, will be celebrated in
March. At that time Wallace
Reid was working as a pick-and-shovel
man on the Shoshone dam
in Wyoming; Agnes Ayres was the
belle of Carbondale, 111., and Ja:k
Holt was herding cattle on aa
eastern Oregon ranch. Betty
FUTURE DATES
February 25, Saturday Trattic Offic
fr ' atite mnt in Salem.
February 25. Saturday Marion conn
tr Holstein cattle club meets at Cm
moreial elnb.
February 27 . Monday Profe,sor James
S?"?- !'" "all lecture. -Lore.
Corrtship and Marriage."
March 2. Thortdar Annual Elks Elec
ion. March 10. Friday IntercoUegiate or
atorical contest at Pacific colleje, Xew-
March U, Saturday El Karae Grot
to dance at Armory for all. Master Mas
on an families.
March 14, Tuesday Knight of Py
Hjs. lodge, f WilUmette Valley to
eonrene in Salem. .. -
March 18. 17 anrf 1. State basket
baH tournament. Salem
arrt JZ,.Jri2?y St- pf'-k' day.
March 17-19 Meeting of county Sun
day school eonyentioa ia Salem.
March 17, 18 and 18--Marion county
Sunday school convention, Salen
March 20. Mond.T Snrin. .' -
""f a a,mji iu vi
circuit court opens.
March 20 Monday State conrention
Uregon Tax Reduction league in Portland.
. April IS to 23 "Better Music" week
in Salem.
April 1, Punday Easter.
Yy X ridTT Prim,ry eleetioa.
June ae-80. July 1 Contention of
fie!!0 Fire Chiefs' association at Marsh-
JuIt 8 and A Vmit.. .-J m
state convention of Artisans at Woodburn.
reptemoer at, ana 23 Pendleton
ronnatip.
November 7, Tuesday General dee-
the money? Oh, I want him to
play some more! Come call to
him! Call to him! He's going!
(She stands up shakily and takes
a few steps forward, just as Hilda
comes Into the room.)
HILDA: Mignonette! Yoa
you're walking.
MIGNONETTE: I was going to
call him. . . . I forgot I
couiant walk Catch me. Hilda?
(Hilda catches her . w
Into her chair, h.r f;;
HILDA: Oh, my dear! I found
a dime I'd been saving toward go
ing to the picture show some day,
but I'm going to run down the
stairs like mad and give him the
dime to come back and play a cel
ebration concert!
ONE REEL YARNS
BLACK AND WHITE
R. AND MRS.
Polar Bear were
new arrivals at
'I I 1.1 (I II l.I .1.- u.,
i JillSr bcen 'on?
I) JrTy& journey from
1 'AjVi their hjme it
had
long
m
me iar uort.i,
where they hnd
lived comfort
ably and happily
on aa lesberg
They hadn't
wanted to gt south at all, and
had grumbled all during the trip.
And now that they had reached
their new home they found many
things to complain of.
"I shall never be able to stand
this heat at all." said Mrs. Polar
Bear. "It must be fully 23 de
grees above zero."
"I understand it gets even war
mer," her husband grumbled. "Oh
for a nice ice floe to sleep en!"
1 ho worst, hawevft-. was yet to
come. The apartments on either
side of the P. Bear family hap
pened to be vacant when they
moved in. A week later there was
a comotton in the place on the
left, and Mr. and Mrs. Bear saw
that they were to have neighbors.
"Good heavens," said Mrs. Po-
Conpson was piay'ng the silver-
mine circuit in Utah; William C.
de Mille was writing plays for
David Belasco; Lois Wilson w-s
preparing to become a school
teacher, and Gloria Swanson hai
just returned to Chicago, having J
spent several years at an army
post in Portjp Rico.
Lenin says that he will pay the
debt due the United States from
Russia, if the moneyed men of the
United States will loan him the
money. Of course, if he does not
repay the loan he can renew h':s
note and in that case we would
bave the note, even if the coin
were missing.
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
At a Cbamoer of Commerce
dinner in Glendale, Cal., the other
evening Dr. R. D. Bird, teh ne
president of Occdiental college,
lefa a few pregnant thoughts be
hind when he discussed commun
ity co-operation and the spirit in
which it should be held and ob
tained. This sounds like old and
familiar stuff, but Dr. B.rd turned
it around to the light and showed
a new face. The most beautiful
th'ng in municipal life is what
Dr. Bird calls the art of neigh
borliness. A man may be active
and prominent in many ways. II j
may be the writer of groat books
or the champion checkar player
north of Mason and Dixon's line.
But, at that, he may be a poor
neighbor. When you come to
think about it, one desires qual
ities in a neighbor that he would
not ask or expect of his family or
kindred.
A good neighbor is one who
has tact enough to overlook the
faults that your friends chide you
with and has sense enough to ex
pect nothing in return for his own
graciousness. If it can be writ
ten on a man's tombstone that he
was a good neighbor he will have
a sweeter epitaph than can be
earned by most of the kings cf
earth. The art of neighborliness
is on- we are slothful ia acquir
ing in its commnuity sense.
Many Pacif'c coast cities have
grown so fast and are still grow
ing so fast that the business of
being neighborly is being neglect
ed; and Salem is by no means
immune from this fault. Famil
ies have settled dewn in busy and
bustling districts and in a few
months have pulled jip stakes and
moved from shear loneliness. No
one has shown interest in their
welfare or being. They have
been held as total strangers by
those surrounding thm. They
were received with acclaim by the
real estate agent who sold the.n
a lot or a home, but when it came
to making that home they were
BT7V0B
PLAT
WOIX
Edited by John H. Millar
lar Bear, "will you look at thfl
bear family that moved in next
door They're both of them as
black as can be!"
Mr. Polar Bear stared, with
open mouth.- "So they are." he
said. "Imagine living next to such
dirty people. That's what the
city has done for them. Thanh
goodness we have enough self-re-
to keep ourselves from ever
?e" n UK0 We shall cer-
n c uuiuing io ao Wltn
such filthy people. To think we
have to live next to them!"
"Those people next door," said
Mrs. Black Bear, "can't be respec
table. Their hair is all bleached,
instead of being as nature made
it. We'll have nothing to do with
them."
And the keeper never could un
derstand why the Black Bear and
tho Polar Bear families stay al-wav-:
at opposite ends of their
canes.
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TODAY'S PUZZLE
WHOS. UHOT. TOBO. LEFE
Rearrange these groups of let
ters to make words, then arrange
the words so that the diagonals
form the upper left hand corner
to lower right spell something to
wear.
Answer to yesterday's: The
name of the book is "Treasure
Island." The words are: tree. run.
sail. sad.
( B'Litve hr! THtv awt notmin-J
V TV.W uo GET HE VN y
at strangers in strange laad.l
Neighbors were ne'gbbors in
narae only. As ths boy In the
street might say: They didn't
even take time to give them the
once-over. The art of neinhborH
ness is something that can and
should b cultivated and that
commr.nity wiil thrive rno-t and
indicate the most substact'al pro
gress in which this art is best ex
tended. Tit- WORLD THElR OYSTKR
There are several thousand ca
dets at West Point and Annapolis
who understand that they have
been promised oemmissions as of-
ficers in the army or navy on th'j
completion ot ineir courses.
There are 340 in th's year's class
at Annapolis alone. All these
have dedicated their young lives
to the service of the American
navy and. now that the people are
insistent on a program of disarm
ament and reduction, they are
left in doubt as to their future.
But they need not worry. The
(training received 'at West Point
and Annapolis will never hurt a
young man in his career. The
government has, in fact, given
him an advantage over his fellows
and he i3 in a position to reap
greater rewards in commerce and
industry than bs would gain in
the army or navy In a period of
peace. The graduate of Annapolis
or West Po'nt will need neither
charity nor commiseration when
he takes up the tasks open to him
in civil life.
THE FLYING TORPEDO
Prior to the war iney had some
fiction and theatricals anent u
flying torpeda that could be made
to blow up battleships and towns
at will. Now a bureau chief
makes the positive assertion that
this vampire is here. The flying
torpedo can carry more than a
ton of explosives and can be di
rected by wireless with the im
placable certainty of mathematics.
It could be- guided to the dome of
the nation's capital as surely as
if sent by a special mesenger.
Blowng up govenrments would
be purely a matter of setting a
dial and timer. It looks as if
we might bavs a right plasant
war when we start on the next
one.
AT THE STAGE DOOR
They are trying out all kinos
of ideas in managing the movies.
In one eastern house no admis
sion is charged at the door, but
everybody is expected to deposit
a coin in a box on going out. The
patrons pay whatever they think
the performance is worth. The
proprietor says he is doing very
well under this plan. In Cleve
land one of the established thea
ters now extends credit. Any pa
tron in good standing can get
tickets without the money. He
can pay by the month, the year,
or carry a pass book If he is
hard up or out of a job the pro
prietor will trust him, anyhow.
Just hold up your finger and walk
in. Something like that. The
show is still running.
THE CHEAP CAR
The Durant interest are going
to turn out a motor car that will
retail at $348, according to ad
vices from Detroit. It looks as
if Henry might still get a run
for his money. If this thing gets
to a fight, Henry Ford may yet
be putting out a self-starting
wheelbarrow that can be sold for
six-bits.
THE STORMY PETREL
Now Senator Tom Watson an
nounces that the secretary of tb.3
treasury is holding office illegally
and should be arrested or remov
ed. Then he thought President
Harding might be chucked out for
violating civil service In some of
h's appointments. Nobody seems
safe when the Georgia hornet is
flying wild. Some day the peo
ple will pronounce Tom a public
nuisance and a common scold and
he will be required to take some
of his own medicin.
XEW MENACE
Eugene Meyer, head of the war
finance corporation, said at a din
ner in Washington recently:
"Germany has set to work with
a will. We'll all have to strain
every muscle to compete with her.
We and France and England will
have to stop our labor disputes:
we'll have to stop profiteering
from one another; for thesa
things diminish production and
increase prices. Either we must
do this, or else r"
And Mr. Meyer smiled.
"Either we must do this, or
else," he ended, "we'll have to
pitch in and give Germany anoth
er licking so as to make the world
safe for inefficiency."
Hill BE TO
HAVE CH
Growers, With Banker Lead-
Way, Find Method
mg
Out of Difficulty
Here is one story with a point
!,
like a bushel basket of double-
pointed tacks.
Over at Mt. Angel growers have
been raising a good deal of fruit
I especially have they
done well
with strawberries. The soft fruits
such a have been raised mostlv
, at Mt. Angel, need a home mar-
I ket. They do not readily stand
too long shipment. Fresh from
the vines to the call of the table
of the consumer. Is the motto oi
the good berry fruit.
The growers wanted some way
to take care of their fine crop of
berries, other than shipping th-ai
off to be jounced and crushed on
the long road to Portland or far
ther. There is a clear-headed banker
there in Mt. Angel who has a bus
iness brain. His bank hasn't a
New York National bank capital.
It's a fine, healthy country bank.
growing steadily and sanely, but
it isn't yet in the plutocratic Mass.
This banker found his voice,
and something to' say with it.
"Rails in it the chin music and
the dreams," he said. "If we
want a cannery, let's build it.
'They' won't do it. and if 'they'
do, they'll take the profits and
run the thing in the way maybe
we don't want it run.
"We'll build it ourselves. You
will take out 10 shares of stock
and you will take out 20. And
you'll pay for them, too; you
you won't pussy-foot out of it.
It takes, hard money to build can
neries. AH right we've got it
here In our community, or if we
don't yet bave it all. we'll earn
it. This cannery will take care
of our stuff, and we'll have no
more shipping and commission
losses. Well have enough money
to run the business before we
start. We'll put up a factory that
will handle quality product. The
bank will go in with all tbe rest
of the community and we'll put
it over if everybody'll boost. The
man who hollers that 'they' ought
to help us, meaning a foolish or
a renegrade outside whom we
hope to fleece or expect to ' see
lose his investment, isn't a part
of the Mt. Angel spirit."
He went out and talked to the
farmers hand to hand, and they
saw the point. Nobody says any
more, "They ought to build a can
nery here!" Instead, they say,
"We're building a cannery, and
say, it's a bird!"
It really is a bird; or rather,
it will be when it is finished. Al
ready the foundations are being
laid, and the latest, most up-to-date
machinery has been bought
to make it both a quantity and a
quality mill. Some preferred
stock is being sold to the merch
ants and others, who take it up
as a straight community benefit.
The common stock goes to the
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240 and
growers who hare fruit to tell. It
i a regular ' incorporation.- and
not a loose. Jangling cooperative
or open partnership concern that
can go to pieces at a single vocif
erous meeting. They have cltse
to 540,000 subscribed and tbey
wiil have a genuine business
booming there the minute tkey
open their doors.
If everybody should wait "for
times to get better." and should
let their 1.9 22 crops go bad and
pay one more year's heavy tax
without trying to find a way out,
times wouldn't have gotten any
better fey the time many of them
had starved or been sold out by
the sheriff. Mt. Angel has shown
an illuminating way out.
Three hundred students of the
MississtpplState college for wo
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