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Issued Daily Except lfonday by ,- : v THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPAJTY 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, (27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Antomatlc :-,. ' i -:!: 7-s .. : ..-.4; i .. ;j ' BtEMJIER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "! Tie Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication or all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news pnbll shed herein. R. J. Hendricks .......... i .Manager Stephen A. Stone ..Managing Editor Ralph Glover. .......... i ......... Cashier Frank Jaskoskl... M Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 21. ' Circulation Department. I Sl.j ; - j joq uepanment, 683. Society Editor, 104 Enured at the Postoffice In Salem, FORDNEY REFUSES if t Chairman Fordney of the Ways and Means Committee of Congress doesn't believe in turninjr the other cheek when a free trader takes a slap at him. The doughty Congressman from Michigan, who began life as a lumber-jack, has this to say regarding the propaganda being circulated to delay, and, if possible to defeat the tariff bill: j "OrmORitinn tn ihm npnrHrnr tariff traced, cot to tne American deals chiefly in American made products; but to the man who produces abroad and the man whose chief interest is in bringing the-product of cheap market ' . .v ) ; -rinose micrestea in .importing enterprises are well or ganized and spending large sums of money in an effort to make you and me believe that country's general welfare. The rn ' df Anf . Inrif f Tprt14-lnn ! is centering'his criticism on without which, on account of tions,.it will be most difficult this time that will afford the Declaring that he had examined the propaganda in oppo sition to. American valuation, "valid argument against the principle involved is lacking. The whole opposition is founded on alleged increases in prices to result from the new rates." : " t j Mr.vFordney declared he had discovered that the "depart ment store that is leading the fight against American valu ation" and is "one of j America's largest importing estab lishments' retailed at $5 each Germany at 9 cepts, retail price. Tremendous profits also are made on a "variety of other tries where production costs are low," said Mr. Fordney, who pleaded with members of the House "not to be Jed astray by the importers' propaganda. "It is true," the committee chair man continued, "that the importer is exerting a tremendous influence oil the -retailer through misrepresentations and otherwise, and the retailer is on the press of the country. write a tariff law and the declared object is to protect Amer ican industries, and our efforts are being opposed chiefly by importers whose interest is pot in the furnishing of employ ment to labor in American manufacturing establishments but in unloading upon the American market at tremendous prof its the product of poorly paid labor of foreign countries." : ; In 1909 a similar program was inaugurated by a huge de partment store whose headquarters is in Chicago. The own ers of this concern spent thousands of dollars trying to de feat the Payne law. and they were especially opposed to the ,rates on hosiery j , v . 1, An it became known that this store financed a hosiery factory in Germany arid was anxious to import the product of its German employes free of duty, if possible! It engaged the support of a large number of estimable; women who were shy of knowledge respecting the tariff, and they besieged Congress in their efforts' to place hosiery and knit goods on SCHOOL TUBT aroaxa Copyright, J022, Associated Editors REAL WRESTLING 175 and Heavy weight Champion ? - ' By FRED MEYER j States - The leg trip pictured on tho left side of tbo illustration above must be worked quickly to be ef fective. Try it on 'one of your pals, following the directions giv en here and you will understand why speed is needed. ,- j 'You and your opponent are on your feet in the referee's hold which was described in thr first article of the series. - Slip your hand .down to the wr'st of your ' opponent's right arm. ; Hold his head firmly with the other hand. ,. .' : ' Draw his right arm toward you. With your left leg strike his right 1?C at the ankle. A Force that leg as far over to bis left side asou possibly can.';-H,J , ;':-V- At the earns tttno Up his body to the right s!de, forcing him over with your right hand. If enough pressure an speed is used your op poneut will topple over. j- Fall with hint, stilt keeping a firm hold and force both bis Fhoulderj to the mat by ' placing your wclRht on h'8 cheU ' 1 Yhe sldo chancery ho!d; is illus trated on the ride of the picture "You place one arm about your bp - r'.nrnt neck, forc hlmUo bend ' vv!v.-tpl;ti.cWf the rm-tHt THE OREGON STATESMAN, Oregon, as second class matter. TO BE BLUFFED V. producer, not to the man who foreign labor to the American - what they seek is for the importer is working to delay and in arrrmriieli Vtia anA T the American valuation plan, present chaotic i world condi to write a tariff measure at slightest degree f protection Mr - Fordney extended that a the question of rates and on the consumers they predict will knives that could be bought in articles imported from coun exerting a tremendous influence . .. Congress is endeavoring to The Biggest little LESSON 7 Amateur .Wrestler of the United his neck near the wrist and drag him to vthe-mat by putting your weight onjhls neckJ ; The tendency isjto squeeze his head too hard. Don't do this. Nover inflict ( any more pain than is necessary,- and while this side chancery, hold , is iiot necessarily painful. It, Uke ail ' other holds, can easily .ej made so. ' The quickest and easiest way of breaking out of the side chan cery is to force the arms around your nee, land around until your under them, j i then, squirm head Is from ONE REEL YARNS THE UTTIJE SMILE "I can't liave that; kid work ing around in i he -storeC com plained Mr. Schmidt.. "He talks too much already, . tile always stops to talk! to Ihc . customers and if trins thent lie get. Jn the way." J-V-- -i ' -, " , r . ; "But he likes to "work in. the store," sald'Jdrs. Schmidt, yHe's ! a bri j malce does I ht boy and you know he inaTces no mistake. What if " he idooH talk a tittle? Pennln Hk it Witwr l.xo,. than grJIagjr. SALEM, OREGON the free list But Chairman Payne (deceased) saw through the scheme, and he wittily stated on the floor of the house that these ladies "toil not, neither do they spin," and that he was more concerned in seeing that their humble sisters who worked in the hosiery mills of Pennsylvania and elsewhere were given an opportunity to earn a decent wage rather, than to be victimized by European competition. The situation' is even more acute today and Chairman Fordney and his col leagues in Senate and House will not be bluffed out by the propaganda of importers- "When you see the spread between farm and commodity prices narrowing, as it now is doing, you have a good times sign that means something," says Capper's Weekly- That is the paper of Senator Capper of Kansas, head of the farm bloc in the Senate. Hare you filed your income tax return? Time will be up tomor row. Times are hard in Germany, but an energetic effort to make them better is shown in the attendance of 180,000 people at the Leipsicjthe United States are now paying fair, breaking all records. Ererybody wants to pay less taxes and decrease the burdens of government. The great difficulty Is in deciding which arms of the public service to begin amputat ing. An aeropiane will be used this spring in connection with the seal hunt on the Labrador and New foundland coasts. The plane will act as a scout, reporting the loca tions of the seal patches to the steamers engaged in the hunt. The machine will also be used to com municate with and carry provis ions to ships caught in the ice blockade. Looks as If the warring Irish factions would get together after all, leaving De Valera on the out skirts of Donnybrook, throwing stones at everybody else. A Chinese penologist visiting prisons In the United States finds them admirable institutions. The point of view is everything. Chi nese prisons have no welfare leagues and no baseball nines. Lady Rhondda, the first woman to win the right to sit in the house of lords, is described as being a very masterful person so master ful, indeed, that she utterly re jects the name of her husband, a modest and gallant gentleman, and prefers to- be known by the title given to her father, who dis tinguished himself as England's food controller during the world war. "'Tf may be doubted whether such an aggressive ' personality will be able to accomplish any thing in such a conservative body as the house of lords. Quite apart from this phase of the matter, Lady ' Rhondda's elevation is a most interesting and significant sign of the times. How long will it be before a woman sits in the United States senate? WHY NOT? In a manifestly sarcastic tone, Paper la the World "I guess I run my business all right" roared Mr. Schmidt. "That boy will have to go at the end of the week. I get somebody else." Mrs. Schmidt sighed, as she went behind the counter of their little delicatessen. She liked young Otto, who had been work ing in the store the last three weeks. Mr. Schmidt was so hard to satisfy, ani when he was try ing to find a ew boy the work was always harder on r-er. That afternoon she came down from the little flat into the store. "You won't need to fire O'to now," she said. ,' "His mo'-her phoned he's pretty s!ck, some thing catching, so he-won't be around." "We'll be finding a new boy," said Mr. Schmidt. 'Where's that little kid with a smile?" Inquired a customer that day. ."What became of the smiling boy you had in. here?" asked an other. "Anything the matter with Oa to?" asked some one else. Mr. Schmidt looked puzzled. He didn't know any one had ever noticed the boy. As the days went by and more people inquir ed he thought more- about it. though he sa'd nothing to his wife. "What's become of the Claussen's? Why don't they con:? in?': he would remark: '" "They were Triends of Otto's." she replied. "They go somewhere iA few weeks later Mr. Schmidt came into the stQre after lunch looking very sheepish. "I bren to see Otto," he siid. "He's get ting a. lot" better? r-He'll be back towork next week.'.' He put his hand with unusual gentleness on her shoulder. i "I Jrtnda, miss hin funny' little imilo; too. like ev erybody.'" he atdr "I wonder maybe I could .learn a smile like that, too. Eh?", ... : , A HOY'S IDEAS Boys and sirlu'who like to think that tome -lime they will be the New York "World" speaks of the refunding bill as a measure which will require our debtors to pay the debt with a rate of inter est that will more than double the sum in 25 years. Well, why not? The people of (interest on their Liberty bonds at an average rate of more than 4 per cent. That will more than double our own debt in 25 years. Why. will the "World" please tell us, should we relieve our debtors of a burden which we have im posed upon ourselves? The European war was not pri marily our war. It is true that it became our war and it is also true that we took our full part in the conflict after we had gotten in. We gave men and money and resources without stint, and, in addition, loaned funds to the al lies in almost any amount they requested. The money which we loaned to the allies was raised by the sale of bonds, and our own people must raise money by taxa tion to pay off those bonds with accumulated interest unless the borrowers from the United States shall return the money to out treasury. One can fully appreciate the solicitude ot the "World" for those European nations which must pay a rate of interest which in 25 years will equal the prin cipal. But one wonders why it is the editor does not display a similar solicitude for the- people of the United States who are placed in exactly the same situation. No doubt that there are prominent business concerns in Naw York that owe the "World" for adver tizing service and that those con cerns, while thus indebted are paying interest on bank credits at the current rate of Interest, about 6 per cent. Undoubtedly the pub lisher sympahtizes with his debt ors because they are paying a rate of interest which would equal the principal in about 16 years, but one cannot believe that because of his sympathy he is canceling any of the debts. INTERIOR. DEPARTMENT IXO STRONG GO- The manner in which the Hard Ing administration has put effic iency into the public service is il lustrated by the record of the de HtTMOB FLAV wou Edited by John H. Millar writers, often say they will wait until they are older before they try to express themselves. Lin coln, who was noted for the clear ness with which he could put his ideas into words, says in one ol his letters: "V can remember going to my little 'bedroom after hearing neighbors talk of an evening with my father, and spending no small part of the n'ght walking up and I down and trying to make out wh"at was the exact meaning or their, to me( dark sayings. 1 could not sleep, though I often tried to, when I got on such a hunt for an idea, until I had got it; an.l when I thought I had got it I w..s not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over, until I had put it down in plain language enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to compre hend." TODAY'S PUZZLE MALA, RREA. RCHA. LEHA Rearrange groups of letters to make words, then arrange the words to make a word square. Solution tomorrow. Joe: "Sal, Dill, an auto ran over Jim on th bridge.'" Bill: "Good night! Was be bad ly hurt? Joe: "No. he wa under the bridge fishing." A HIGHLY POLISHED YOUNG PAN M LOOK? i i 1 1 r f -AH - 4 s partment of the interior in the handling of public land business and pensions. There are ninel different bureaus under the de partment of the interior, public lands and pension, s constituting the greater volume of the work to be attended to. For many years both of these bureaus have been behind in their work, homestead rs finding it difficult to get action on their claims and pension claim ants being compelled to wait an exasperatingly long time to ascer tain what action would be taken upon their applications. A speeding up of the work of the bureau of the general land office was one of the first efforts of Secretary A. B. Fall, who was chosen by President Harding to take charge of the Intsrior depart ment. The number of claimants asking for deeds to their lands was staggering. Without increas ing the number of employes, the issuance of deeds was greatly ex pedited, and for the first time in years the homestead division, in which the general public is most concerned, is now handling cur rent business. This does not mean that deeds are issued to all appli cants, for, in some cases, the ap plicant may not have complied with the law and his application must be rejected. It does mean. however, that cases have been given due consideration and have been decided and the applicant thereby either gets a deed to his homestead or is informed what it is necessary for him to do further in order that he may be entitled to ownership of the land. In many cases the homesteaders have been holding on for years, not knowing whether they would ul timately get title. During the past year lands valued at more than thirty million dollars have been transferred to settlers and have been added to the taxable property of the states in which the tracts are located. The, total area qf public lands transferred during 1921 under the homestead laws, the desert land laws etc., amounted to more than fourteen million acres an area exceeding that of the two states of Vermont and Maryland combined. The records snow ooih economy and efficiency in the handling of the work of the pension bureau. During the first year of the Hard ing administratino 91,515 pension claims were disposed of as against 71.240 in 1919. The force of em ployes in 1921 was only 867 as compared with 962 in 1919. This shows"that, comparing 1921 with 1319. there was an increase of twenty per cent in the number of einployes who did the work. This increased efficiency is shown in the reduced average cost of handling pension business. In 1921, under the Harding adminis tration, it cost a fraction over 10 cents for every one hundred dol lars disbursed, while In the pre vious year, under the Democratic administration, It cost fifteen cents for every one hundred dol lars paid out. If the administra tion of the pension bnreau under tho secretaryship of Mr. Fall had continued the same relative ex pense per hundred dollars that was incurred under the previous administration, the disbursement of pensions would have cost the government $132,000 more than was expended during the . year 1921. The same record of efficiency is shown in other bureaus under the department of the interior. A MISSING LINK A merchant who possesed no wagons, who had to depend on a rival across the way to act as car rier for him. would hardly be held FUTURE DATES March 14. Tucuciy Cherriinj mret. March 14. Tuesday Company F. Snvo ker at armory, featuring Fred Hall and Art KicliariU, middleweight. March , 14, Tuesday Knighti ol Py thias lodces or Willamette, Valley to cosTeno in Salem. March 13, Wednesday Grand jury meets. March 16, Thnnday Uoy Scoot achool at Commemal Hub. March 16. 17 and 18. Stat basket ball tournament. Salem. March 17, t riday Liberty baud to hold hard timet party. March 17. Friday St. Patrick's day. March 17-19 Meeting of county Baa- day aenool eonrentioa in Bolesa. March 17. IS and 19 Marion county Sunday acnool convention. Salem. . March 20, Monday- Spring term of circuit roart opens. . March SO. Monday State convention Ureron Tax Reduction league in rortlaad March 22 to Hi. Mary Garden and company in grand opera. Portland. March 27. Monday First day of March term Marion county circuit conrt March 31, Friday "Mr. Temples Telegram. tiaikpoii Uramatie society play at tne men aram! April i, t riday "'Paul Revere to be presented by Salem high achool masir department. April 16 to 23 "Better Matte" week a Salem. April IS. flnnday Eastr. April 18, Tuesday Whitney Boy Cbxrna to sine at Christian church. May 13, batnrday Junior week-end entertainment at U. A. C. May 19. Friday Primarr election. May 19. Friday Open hoaae, science cepartntent f high school May 28 and 27, Friday and SaUrdiy Mar Festival. Oratorio Creation Friday in armory: living pictures Saturday night. ane , meaaeiuiay lar Uay. Jrne 1, Friday Uijh achool cradua lion. Jena z-3n, July 1 Convention of I'reso i ire cuieii association al Marsh field. July t and 4 Monday and Tuesday Ststo teimtiM of Artisans at Woadhorn j September 21. 23 sad 23 Pendleton , November T, Tsesdaj Ceaetsl tlto twa. TUESDAY MORNING, up as an example of the alert, wide-awake' business man. Yet this is last , the position Uncle Sam occupied prior to the World war and It is a position to which he will Tevert unless the people and the government of the United States uke effective Meps to ward off such a catastrophe. While he had the goods to export and foreign customers ready to deal with him he had no merchant ships to supply the missing link between the seller and the buyer. He allowed Great Britain to car ry the bulk of his foreign exports. Needless to say. this was false economy. For Uncle Sam through his lack of delivery facilities, had to wait on the convenience of a shrewd and poshing competitor who was thus capturing the bulk of the world's foreign trade. If it is foolish to put all our eggs into one basket it is still more foolish to have no basket at all. At the close of the war. with an abundant supply of government-built ships, America 'was given another chance to regainthe commercial mastery of the sea which was hers in the distant days of the old wind-jammer, when the Yankee skipper was a familiar figure in every foreign port. Yet for the last two years our business interests have failed to grasp this opportunity, while Britain and Japan have pushed their sca-golng commerce to the full extent of their financial pos sibilities. America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, does not have to take second place among the seafaring nations. A tariff is being framed to protect our native workers against the cheap labor of foreign countries. What a tariff is to our home in terests a ship subsidy is to, our merchant marine. We must pro tect it against the more cheaply built and more cheaply' manned vessels of foreign competitors. This is not putting the govern ment into business. It is putting back public money into the poc kets of the people. It is an invest ment. Indeed, the only way to afford our steamship companies a fair chance to compete on equal terms with those of England and Japan, '.3 a subsidy that will enable them' t-j cover the cost difference be tween running tjfe service on the high grade American standard in wages and equipment and the low level accepted by other countries. Never was the time more oppor tune for encouraging native enter prise to invest in the ocean-car rying business. An adequate ship subsidy would supply tha neces sary incentive. The United States has thrown 'Will There The 111 4t MARCH 14. 1922 away' millions In wax time ship building. It stands : to lose rail lions more If It can find no sale for these his h priced Teasels. A subsidy will encourage private In terests to purchase these vessels for the merchant marine and so prevent a further loss to the tax payers from the government's lunge Into the shipfcaading busi ness. When we have an American fleet flying the Stars and Stripes and carrying American goods across the seven seas we shall re alize the truth of the old adage. Trade follows the flag. And as trade follows the flag abroad every home industry will feel the stimulus. An American merchant marine. second to none in the world, will benefit the country as a whole. Every community that manufac tures goods or produces foodstuffs will participate in the general fortune. There will be less un employment in the central states, as well as in the eastern, gulf and coast states. But the missing link must he furnished in the chain of our con tinued progress ind prosperity. That link is a fleet of American owned and raerican manned mer chant ships. IT this requires at the start extraneous financial help that help must be forthcoming. Commissioner Chamberlain has placed the alternatives before the American people: "An American merchant marine with aid or a surrender to foreign flags with out aid." ' KINDLY FEELING FOR GREAT BRITAIN One of the British newspaper correspondents accompanying he Prince of Wales . in his tour of India attributes the unrest In that country to the activities of Indians who have returned from visits to America. It is not disclosed whether he means the visitors had a taste of freedom In Ameri ca, or whether they detected there an anti-British sentiment, that they sought to extend to India. In either case R is hardly fair to create the Impression that the movement in India had its origin in America. American social and political institutions are an open book that people from any land may read and follow if they choose to do so. Citizens of other coun tries who seek to apply them to their own laws and customs cer tainly can reflect no censure upon the United States. As for. any anti-British thought that may ex ist in this country, it is confined to radicals who give little heed, to the welfare of America. The in ternational policies of Great Brit- tain are proper subjects for criti-j You Excuse If, Please- Is No One on the Line Now Mistakes are bound to happen. We all make them. When your telephone bell rings and the operator says, "Will you excuse it please, there is no one on the line now she is not responsible for your annoyance and inconvenience. The occasion for the use of the phrase most frequently arises when the called party is slow to answer the calling subscriber does not wait and hangs up his telephone. , Many times daily telephone users call wrong numbers use incorrect prefixes, such as "Main" f0F ""kel"---lransP0se figures, such as 5342 for 5452. . Suddenly realizing their mistakes, they hang up their telephone. Without fault or negligence on her part the telephone operator is left to explain, and the sentence first quoted is that adopted as most briefly and concisely; covering the situation. Pacific Telephone c!sm when they do not correspond with an Individual's sense of th proprieties, but critical eommenU. of that sort are no indication of , animos4Jtoward the British. . As a matter of fart, there is only the friendliest of feelling toward Great Britain in the United States as there Is toward every other nation, and exception is taken to foreign activities only when they appear to discriminate unfairly against American rights. THE SAILS ARK SET Nation wide Interest In the fu ture welfare of the American mer chant marine Is being exemplified in Washington.where five water- ways and shipping organisations recently held meetings for the dla- , cussion of future ppllclesv It Is highly significant that. many, of the delegates to the sessions came from states and cities In the in terior of the countir. where there has been in former years an evid ent lack of interest in maritime matters. Governor Allen of Kan sas was present and spoke, while other state executives,, mayors, and chambers of commerce' had committees In. WashIngon. , There is apparent country .wide resolu tion daily growing ' in strength, to keep our merchant marine In the commanding position it won as a , . au mt jtl (ah result oi wannusj vuusn uvuwu. , MARCH IDES FAVORABLE. ' The United States Employment Service reports that its investiga tions show a decided improve ment in business " conditions all over the country. Jn? 2? 1 prlncl- pal industrial centers -the employ ment situation Is rapidly changing for the better. The month of t March will witness the' beginning of a period of great Industrial ac tivity, according to the ' federal authorities. Strength comes from, . well di gested and thoroughly: assimilated food. Hood's Sarsaparilla tones the digestive organs,. and thus builds np the strength. If yon are getting "run down." begin taking Hood's at once. It ' gives nerve, mental and digestive strength.- Adv. .. . ... CAPITAL BARGAIN HOUSE- We pay highest price. . W boy'and seirverjrthlni We all (or lass. ' j .".v. ' , . 18 Center Bt. rhoae t&S . . 99 I