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THE OREGON-STATESMAN,-SALEM. OREGON. TT TESDAY MORNING. MARCH 7, '1922: 'v - . W - - i .. -I MaaaaaammmaamaaaaammmmmmmmmmmTammTaam i Issued Dally Except Monday by THE STATESMAN rtB LUSHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial EL, Salem. Oregon (Portland Office, C 2 7 Board of Trad Building. Phone Automatic , j' .; I27-S9 i i . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ! To Associated P rets is exclaslve'7 tntltl ed to the nse (or repub lication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited - in this paper and also. the local news published herein, j R. J. Hendricks ......... .J. Manager Stephen A. Stone. Managing Editor Ralph Glover. . ...... J . .Cashier Frank Jaskoskl.t Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 22. Circulation Department. BSS. Job Department, SIS. Society Editor, 106. Entered at the Postofflce In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. CLEAR STATEMENT FROM CHAS. M. SCHWAB if Charles M. Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel Corpoi ation. was invited to address the recent meeting in Wash ington on tariff legislation, held under the auspices of the mtional Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Schwab found it impossible to be present, but he sent a letter the main body of which is printed below, and which otfeht to be read by every American; as it is a remarkably clear statement of the necessity of protective tariff legislation and American valu ation at the United States custom houses: Today we are confronted with a basic weakness In our tariff policy which is affecting, injuriously, the whole indus trial fabric of j the nationFluctuations in foreign exchange are playing navoc with wages, prices and orders. Because our present tariff laws were framed at a time when foreicm moneys Were normal, they are today actually inoperative as lar as protecting labor and industry or yielding revenue ar concerned. -Ujf Km.y ,.K : - v-. V: "Two examples will suffice to illustrate and prove these statements. ; j . .-i. . "An ounce of gold today In the United States pays the American worker for 1752 hours of labor as against 50.16 : hours in Great Britain 95.5 hours in Japan, 117.31 hours in France and 201.55 hours in Germany. Last year Congress passed a bill restricting immigration to protect the American worker from j the millions of foreigners who would; have flooded our labor markets and caused a name in wazes. But what advantage Is there today to the American worker to have restricted Immigration, if, through defects in our tariff the products of these millions of men and women abroad are now glutting our markets and "forcing millions of workers out of their positions? What better employment insurance could we have than a tariff law which insures the American worker his job in competition with the workmen of the .world?. . . vj - . ' ) "In 1915 it requried the work 5,000 men for one day to make 1,000 ;t6ns of, steel rails. .Let us' suppose that today an American railroad placed an order for fifty thousand tons of rails in Belgium, Germany or England because these rails might be bought for less money abroad than at home. This would mean that five thousand men in our own country would be idle for fifty days;4 It would mean that several thousand ; employees of our railroads would have less work because the railroads would be deprived of hauling these rails and the raw materials! such as coal, coke.Jron, etc., which come, from the mines , to Hthe? mills. :r It would mean that thousands of miners v would have less work if the product of their labor i were n6t used by the mills. It would mean that the workers of the minesj mills and railroads would have less money to ! spend for the necessities of life with the baker, the .grocer ! o? the retailer,5': This tendency to buy abroad at the expense of our own, country is short-sighted economy. f v ''What can be 'done to meet this situation? f t r .."Today the whole world seeks our cooperation and assistance.- We, as Americans, have listened always to the pleas of the-' people-of Europe but let us not forget, that a pros perous America can help the world but a prostrate America ' cannot -Until we. Can produce, we cannot help. j ,f "Congress is struggling to enact a tariff bill which will cnable:us as1 a people, and a Ration, to work for; ourselves, : bur country, and the world,' but no tariff will build a founda tion f0rprosperity, which does not remedy the hole in our present laws which the fluctuations in foreign exchange have n . s lueiru iiiui-ii . vwxm ui t, ... ... , . "We have American standards in everything dut. our tariff. Tnav. in mv oDinion. the hour has come when we should put American standards in our tariff laws. The sim ple and effective way of doing this is by substituting Ameri can standards of value for the present archaic standards of foreign values. This is the essence of American vaiuauon which will do for our industries, for our people, for our bus iness, exactly what the gold standard Jid I for our , currency. It will prevent the cheaper currencies dling us with economic stagnation. Probably there is not. another man in America who conld write so Interesting a volume of rem iniscences. What a service he woald render to the- rising: gener ation it he woald glTe as a mirror to consider the situation wonld, as the president points out, get nowhere. WbUe it is the dnty ot the people, to house their, gov ernment, it is not the function ot the government to bousn the peo ple. No Yistble results have yet come from the unemployment of the political life In the house conference or from the agrlcul r ,-rnttnTM durine the tural conference. In fact. It is As the world nnderstanrs it. the British may have woyu George's resignation or they may eave it as it stands. Secretary of SUte Hughes is back, from his trip to Bermuaa, and no doubt the senate may have all the information it needs about any of the peace conference treat ies. Some of the statesmen belong ing to the agricultural bloc would not be able to distinguish between tractor and the grindstone back of the old-fashioned barn. One ' of the features of the treaty debate will te tne spec tacle of Hon. Oscar Underwood. eader of the Democratic minor tty. standing up for the ratifica tion of the instruments. Germany has paid off one-third of her domestic war dent since he armistice. There's a hunch T some of the other nations who have not made so excellent a rec ord. The government has purchased for roHrlnr several millions Of Victory 4 per cent bonds, above par. These bonds will be redeem able in 1923 and the government saves money, at the higher price Democrats are yelling because President Harding named only Republicans as members of th.9 allied debt funding commission. 4ow many Republicans did Pres ident Wilson-put on the federal bank board, or any where else? President Ebert wants an in crease in salary. He now re ceives what amounts to only 12, 000 a year in American money. But he says that if he is not granted a raise he will not go on a striKe. a nau-ioai is oeuer han no bread. -UNCLE JOE" SETTLES DOWN "Uncle Joe" Cannon, who for mally announced the other day that he had stopped sowing his wild bats, that he had reached the age when he felt constrained to eschew the follies of youth and that he was going to retire from politics and settle down, added that he had enjoyed his political career immensely and that he felt he had been of some service to his party and his country; but that it was now Incumbent upon him to step down and give the boys a chance. ' Half a century has passed since Representative Cannon of Illinois answered his first roll call in the lower house of congress. Always an ardent Republican, he has been found fighting in the breash every time the two great parties have clashed. For forty years he has been in all the secret coun cils of the party leaders and no man knows better than he how the great campaigns of the last generation were won and lost During nearly the whole of the terms of Roosevelt and Taft. Rep resentative Cannon was speaker of the house of representatives; and when he fell from that high position in 1911 it was not be cause of the strength of the com mon enemy, but by reason of defection in the ranks of his own pargr. His demotion was accom plished through the use of Re publican votes against him. and it was followed by the most dis astrous defeat in the history of the party. For two terms he was absent from the house. Then he was re turned by a rousing majority and he is now rounding out 46 years of active service. Repeatedly he was offered the nomination for the senate from Illinois, but he always sa'.d the senate chamber was "too far north," that he pre ferred the warmer climate of the house of representatives. Now the time has arrived, how ever, when he feels that he has done his full duty by his coun try and his party, and be pur poses to enjow a well earned re tirement. Although the almanac says he is 85 years of age, his speech and actions are those of one who has hardly rounded the half century mark. Men live longer now than they once did. Old Wrinkled Meat, a Chippewa Indian, recently died at the age ot IS 7. Perhaps "Uncle Joe" is destined to enjoy an equal lease of life.- While he has been caricatured by his Democratic opponents as an autocrat and dictator, those who have enjoyed the pleasure of knowing him intimately laugh at such gibes. He is always la conic In his speech, a trait he in herited from his Quaker ances tors, but he is never abusive and Beldom bitter. His faultless poise was a defense which the arrows of his political- enemies could never pierce. As a Judge of men and the motives by which they were actuated, he had few equals. They "used to say in Washington that he could distinguish between an earnest speaker and a dema gogue simply by observing the different motion of" their arms His counsel in political campaigns was always sought because he possessed a fund of inherent com mon sense which enabled him to look atvthings as they were. During his 46 years of Berrlce nr renresentatnves an ring me years be has been a member. It would sparkle like old wine, for his fund of Quaker humor is in exhaustible. Autobiographies are generally tiresome, because they are prolix and dry. But "Uncle Joe" is neither. An admirer of his writes: "Here is hoping that he will devote the next four or five years of his retirement to writing a narrative of the Hfe of the lower bouse during the years that he has been a member. Such a work would be a welcome ad dition to the contemporary his tory of our country." A BAN OX CONFERENCES gCttOOV STUDY troKTS HT7MOB PLAT WOaX Copyright,' 1823, Associated Editors The Biggest Little Paper In the World Edited by John H. Miliar REAL WRESTLING LESSON 6 i ; Jiy FRED MEYER - V 175 and Heavyweight Champion Amateur Wrestler of the United - i States , v"r , . . make bis hold weak and ineffective,- Also, as you twist yoUr.head, place your right hand against bis right knee, stiffening the arm. This will weaken the assistance his left hand is giving his right and make your escape easier. I s . , One ot the most etfectlve combination- ot holds in. wrestling is tho "half Nelson and further wrist . hold." illustrated on the left side of the above picture. Suppose " that you are theag- grcssqr, Your, opponent isou his . hands and kno, just as you are. Secure . the , half Nelson . hold 00 : your man In the manner described in a previous lesson. Bear down on his head; in - a . diagonal, - for- I ward direction and as you do so. ; place your ' left arm across his tback and gt a good strong hold ,. on his left wrist the wrist, not i tho fore-arm. ' , ; ,l ; 'j, A yon 'bear down 'on-flte-man's head, pull up on his wrist.-It is easy to imagine the resulLy Once yeu.get -on.arm-.braca from-under t your, opponent, he has not much ? to keep himself from rolling over In an almoxt helpless portion. He cannot readily resist your efforts f because you have both his arms connnedl f"j,''-f-? k"- In applying the helf Nelson and further wrist hold, keep your legs " at lif lit ansics to your orpoucut's body so that you are less likely to De rouea over witn him. - The "quarter Nelson" hold, 11 lustrated on the right side of the picture, is one of the easiest, best and most effective holds yon can apply. " : Both you and.,, your .opponent ar on your hands and knes Suppose you arenhe aggressor lace-your right hand-on your op ponent's head near the neck. At the same time thrust your left hand under his right upper arm and clasp your right wrist. Bend your opponent's head down and toward yourself. At the same time place your. left shoulder as nearly udder his right' armpit as you possibly can and push him over, .But .shoujd ,you rbe tire undor wrestler, what should you do to break away from I i the quarter Nelson - ... i i When you feeV that your ac gressor i about to obtain the quarter 'Nelson," quickly twist your head away from him. This will either cause his nand," which Is upon your head; to slip off, or will ONE REEL YARNS I President Harding is beginning to draw the line at industrial conferences. It is evident that the chief executive and the mem bers of his cabinet have come to the conclusion that the thing Is being overdone. When pe titioned recently to call a confer ence to consider the housing shortage, the president replied that there is no "legislative palli ative" for the present housing shortage and that it would ba futile to seek for om. He added that it would be well to wait for substantial evidences of accom plishment by the agricultural and unemployment conferences before proceeding to call others. The president is making plain to the country that he does not believe there is a governmental panacea for all the economic and industrial ills of the country. He evidently holds that there are things that the government can not do. The housing shortage is the result jot two causes: the building holiday during 1917 and 1918, and the refusal of the unions in the building trades to accept reductions in wages in keeping with the lowered cost of living. : Both these causes are outside federal control, and a conference doubtful If beneficial results have ever happened from governmen tal interference with trade or in dustry. It is the duty of the people to house themselves. Every maa. except the small minority of ds- fectives, comes into the world with a muscle and brain power sufficient to secure food, clothing, a habitation and a surplus. The problem of each is to apply that musqle and brain power to pro ducing something that the world wants. Wh'le it is not true that the world owes him a living in the beginning, it will owe him one just as soon as he has done some thing for his kind to put them nnderj obligation to him. The unseen power that first peopled the earth has provided a soil thaj will feed four times its present population. The earth feeds its children; but it doegnot put the food into their mouths. They must take it, from the soil and the sea or they must go hungry. A government can house the people only on condition that it can compel them to work for the government. Government habi tations would necessitate con script labor. They have tried that in Russia and we all know the result; the men do not work and the government does not build. State Socialism has been tried and found wanting. It is not "to the government that a people must look for relief, but to their' owto thrift and industry. The government could do nothing about unemployment. It cannot fix the price either of labor or the products of labor. All the government can do is to protect life and property and insure as nearly as possible equality of opportunity. When that is done the government is through. - If -President Harding and Secre tary Hoover can bring the peo ple Tpf the cpuntrylto understand i that they must not look U' tne government, tor industrial , or economic jelief , but o their own efforts, they will not win the im mediate plaudits of the multi tude, but the rising , generation will hold them in grateful mem ory. A very wise man said a great many centuries ago that "In this world a truly great work never pleases at once; bnt the god set up by the multitude keeps his place on the altar only a short time.- And Ben Franklin said with equal truth some cen turies later that ?God helps them, that help themselves." he was worth it after basking InJ.tbe paeans of eulogy and can-, o aisattoa ; these gentlemen haver lavished 'upon him. Fond mamas may hesitate In futtfre si bout raisins; their boy ta be a soldier, bnt they won't feel any doubt about raising hint to be a Babe Ruth, a Jack. Dempsey or a Charlie Chaplin and letting his chance of the presidency of the United States go banc WHEEL DORMITORIES They are building motor hotels in the east 40 help out In the so lution of parking problems. Chi cago is to have an auto nest 25 stories' in height with room tor the care and keep of 1200 ears. Huge elevators are expected to make the service to each floor prompt and easy and there may also be a spiral runway for those who think they can take the roof on high. There isn't much park ing space In the .Chicago loop and the congestion problems are seri ous. Hotels and rooming houses tor motor cars may become the regular thing in large cities. Af ter a building gets to be more than three stories high it ceases to be a garage. IN BROKEN "MINA . A LADY IMMORTAL Madam Curie, the radium plo- -neer, has been made a 'member-' of the French academy the first of her sex to be seated among the "Immortals, Madanf Curie has been recognised and decor-, ated by many societies and gov- f ernments, bnt' . this ; honor Is unique and striking. The deposed youthful emperor of China is to come to America and 'enter Columbia university. That's the system. After he has graduated from a Yankee college and Wrned to play football and the ukulele he Is liable to go back home and find himself elected president of a Chinese republic. A Columbia t graduate has it all over most of the emperors we have left. ; FINANCING THE "BABE' Babe Ruths demand for $75, 000 a year , and $500 for every home run he makes is evidence that Babe has been an avid read er of the New York sport writ ers. He could not fail to think . FUTURE DATES Varrk T, TMlar 81 Buiam Hen' leamM mcu. SUreh . WedBMay Opa farma Keating af Saleaa Otnasarclal ehik. , March S. YadM4ay lr. waarakik Rawci. aem ( eaaaibal tkimU will 4drM( Rotariana. March 10, rrWsy "Bmiy rlt" -Oirla Rtt rta play at kirt art!, Uarrk 10, Friday WUlasMM Ifmk. an (lea at arawy. . mot. 10, rriaaj jawriiaftaia at rseMt atortral eoatrat tr Mi iaeUi ceUaga, Xai arrk 11. Batardiy EI Kara Orat- t,daara at Arwary tor all If attar alar. an and familkw. - ' March 13, Taaaoay vpu aa af Cat ia club f tha ig It acael iav Us school auditorium. . March 14, Taeidiy Cmpaay ?. 8ma.. kor at armory, foaturlair FraaV Hall a ad Carl Snyder, aaiddlavaif ata. March 14, Taaaday Kalffhta t PfV thiaa I4ts ot . WUlamatta YkUay t eonraa in Satam.' , March 16,. If. aa lSsStat tkat -ball toaraaaaant. Batata. , .' March 17, Friday Ht. Patrick's af, March lT-rS MaMihf ( eoaaty Bmh' -day school ooavoatioa im Balom. March IT. IS. aad. IS Miriam oaaat Soaday achool . coavaatio, Salom. March 80,i MondjtjSprUf torn st circuit court opeat. . ---. March SO, Monday State ooavoa tiai I hi I Otko Ta Radaetioa 1r ' Portlaa March 23 to J 3. Mary UirCa eompaay la rrafld opora, Port land. March 31, rHday "Mra. , ToapU'S Talam.' . Baikpofc) -Traaiatl aocktty pla at tho nira o"aoU April IS to 81 "Batter Vu" wook la Baleai. ' i April IS, rSasaay tittor. May 18. 8atarday-aaior Wa an(rtammDi a u. a. j. May 19. Friday Primary ctlo May IS. iday Opoa hoUA, teioSCS Ccnartmrat of hi(h achool.- . May 86 aad 27, Friday oa Batarday ' aiay r atiiTai. urtwnt vatut rridaf y; livin picture Boturday sight. 14. Vdneaday-n.. i-. Jaao 16. Friday Hrh. arhaal rradaa. ' HOB. 1 . ." . Jaao tt-80. fall 1 OoartatWm U Orro Firo Chlafa', uoaoelattoa at Manh. Jly sa4 4afoa.Tay l Taotday. Stato eoavcatloa of Artteaaa Woodbara Sratomhor SI, 22 ad 28 Paadlotoa vooad-. - , Novambor Tavhdar-40horal oja la armory; liriii Jana r THE MA(iIC PENCIL "Ho htim!" yawned Miles, slam ming down' his books." "I wish there were still fairies and one would bring me a magic pencil." ' w hat do you mean by a magic pencil?" his father asked, looking up from the evening paper. . "Well, I'd like to have a pencil that all I had to do was to take hold of it when I had an exam to write and the words . would just naturally come, and the pencil would write them just as fast as It could go." ' - "That would be a nice thins to have.", said Mr. Bristow. "Why don t you get one" Why don't I pet one!" repeat ed Miles in astonishment. "Yes. It seems to me that it woald be easy enough. You have a spelling: test- tomorrow, haven't you?" ' "Yes. sir." "Well. I'll make an agreement with you. You take your old pen cil and write each word in the les sons ' you've covered.; gay about fv times, and 111 fill my part of the bargain by giving you a mag'c pencil before you go to school in the morninr., Now hop to it" Miles looked puzzled, but he went on with his snellinc lesion. S Next morning at breakfast noth inr more was said about the test tntn r. Briow cot up to go. MiWw wa sMU - eat'nar. "Hnns." fa'd Mr. Bristow gravelv. handini Miles a new. shinny yellow pencil which he pulled out of his pocket, f that marie peneilwe wrr talklne about. Try it and se-j how U works. -:ililcs didn't sen his father again until dinner time. Mr. Bristow looked over at his son with twlnk ling eyes. "How did the test go?' he asked. "Fine." said Miles. "I knew nearly every word." "That's what comes of having a magic pencil' said his father. "Huh," griuned Miles, "there wasn't anything magic about It. I Just wrote those did -words last night until I knew them." "You made your own magic." said Mr. Bristow. It's really very easy when' you know how." i TODAY'S Pl'ZZLE In the following sentence are two Alaskan cities, one of them spelled backwards: "Put them on the table, take off your wraps, and sit Katie down close to the base burner." Solution tomorrow. "Is this a fast train?" the trav eling man asked of the conductor. "Yes. sir." "Well, will yon please tell ra-s what It is fast to?" "When I fell out or the barn loft." boasted Bobby. "I had five stitrhes taken in my bead. "That's nothing,!' said Freddy. "The time I fell out of the window the doctor said. 'Where's your sewing machine? ' LITTLE KAMI GIVES HR PT . BATt XLYB2ATHZ MEAN tN5"X0 SITU?: jThirft Means a Higher Standard of living Without Added Expense v the Dignity of Serving Oneself, and Domestic Independence. All This Money. v-vwwaff,' "is etfej Earned at Home by Home People i - dbaamai lmIT7)o -wT faJ -a. w. -a aT- 11, TO ot- Bor s ah nr .taal km. taa -- ooj .ra .afTW7--.,A8 saw " .e U i avl "- Ski BamBfa 1 Z GOLD NOTP. - w v Sin our wl"MnV hrl 'VI ! f m. J"S Hr i t-Z"f1 b $106) for est i pura3ed ZtlZdin This Prr Purchaser Sff0" Partial ZmJl $har S parity of ZZi Prcv-- , -"rested.- i yield on . VATSdSW? - imp aa aanaM OS B V.' 7 lataraat Mah t TM -Jl" t ipn. an - . tomers and o? Ait . lie ml "i -X K stock hav1atisreBcowrr this tssus wlH bs created without tho consent of tho holders of a majority of this class of atock. QUIASTiISIAIE ortland Railway .Light and Power Company ELECTRIC BUILDING. Portland, Or. . v mmm, o ;..... mi PORTLAND BA1CWAT, LIGHT a POWER CO. Pleaao send mo details of your homoHavest N'atno ... ... . Street Qty' or TS wn Phono V: is It tl 1 t.1 if i y j it i f ; f MP r'l : 4 '- 1 J' '. n 9 HI : m. i