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4 HIE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1922 j Issued DaUy Except Monday br ' . j THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY V 215 8. Commercial St, Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Fbone Automatic : V''.,- . 527-68 : MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PBESS Toe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tbe use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Stephen A. Stone Ralph GloTer ... Frank Jaskoskl . ...... ... .....Manager . .Managing Editor Cashier -. . ...Manager Job Dept. ! TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23 Circulation Department, 68S Job Department, S83 Society Editor, 101 j. Entered at the Postofilce In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter THE FARMER'S PROSPERITY DEPENDS UPON HIS HOME MARKETS Milo D. Campbell, president of the National Milk Producers Federation, hagwritten a letter to Chairman Fordney of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, predicated upon the above heading, that has many remarkable statements in favor of the immediate enactment of the protective tariff bill now before Congress ; And the following are a few of the high lights : "No man can be for a protective tariff and for foreign valu ation as a basis for tariff duties at the same time. They won't mix. We cannot open our gates to the pauper labor of the world, whether that labor comes to us walking, or m boxes and crates. ;-"' k v--'' - It should be clearly understood that every specific duty is - now based on American valuation. Nobody questions the justice of this basis. But, when we begin to suggest an American basis for ad valorem duties, the importers' see ghosts of departing profits they have been realizing for a hundred years, secured by fraud and by the impossibility of our officials to execute the law. " "About the farmer's market centers the problem of the nation's prosperity or decay. Our exports in 1921 were greater in tonnage than in 1920, while in dollars they dropped nearly one-half. "Foreign markets for our surplus are an illusion, while the home market may be absolutely assured by keeping our dollars at home, and paying them out to our own workmen. w "The big. thing that should interest the farmer right now is a market, where buyers have enough money to pay him a fair price for Ms products, and that market is right here at home and nowhere else. "Millions of factory employees are idle, and this foreign valuation plan if continued can only be interpreted as idleness for more of them. "Congress has just extended for another year the limitation of foreign immigration to this country. By that limitation no country can send to us immigrants in excess of 3 per cent ' annually of the number it already has of its people in the United States. Such limitation .is a-wise one. "But it would be far better from the farmer's standpoint to admit them, if the only alternative shall be to admit the pro ducts of their pauper labor, at pauper wages upon its foreign valuation. If they were here, they would be -eating our food and increasing our market But God forbid that we shall bring such a calamity upon our own workmen! . "There should be some board or commission, or, the Presi dent himself should be clothed with authority to adapt the rates within limits to changing needs. Along wHh th"-n""mffttm,T firm 30,000,000 Tnontha to be fed and along with the importers not a mouth in America but. their own:" ' ! ., . ' Mr. Campbell makes, many other points that should have the consideration of. the members of the two houses of Congress, now about to take up the protective tariff bill. He declares that the American consumer gets little or no benefit from the low prieed goods imported r that they are, sold over the counter for just' enough under American made goods to secure a sale, lie says in one paragraph rf How any American with a sense of fair play can uphold this foreign valuation plan is incomprehensible." It surely is incomprehensible ; and h is also incomprehensible that art Innir a ima ha hpon taVrn W f'nntrreSS tU TMlt thr protective tariff bill with its American valuation plan on the sehedule for final action, when the mandate or me peopie was given at the election of a year ago last November, and the Ways and Means Committee of the House, after hearings lasting many weeks, had the bill ready a year ago And when every day'of delay has meant that much time lost in placing the business of the United States on the firm basis that every consideration under high heaven insistently demands, and has been all along demanding, upon which it should have been resting for the past twelve months. BUSINESS MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNITY (Copyrighted by the San Jose Mercury) TfcU i tVia nam nf m organization becoming national in character, already having branch associations in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis, Spokane, Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska; Los Angeles and Oakland, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, Tulsa and Pa whuska, Oklahoma, and perhaps some other cities. More branch associations are oeing or tnxnvA Cjnetxrtx a an organization of Christian business men in one city, the idea has been taken up by other cities until the movement bids fair to Decome nauon-wiae. The organization has no dues or assessments. Its pure and lofty purposes, as set forth in the organization articles of the various associations, all of which are very similar, are worthy of all praise and support. "The primal aim and object," they declare, "shall be to search out and apply the laws of God in all commercial relations between ourselves and all men." "All members agree to make the Golden Rule, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you fundamental in their relations with one another and with all people." "Loving service shall be the keynote of our commercial j ambition, rather than personal gain." j "The scope of this association shall be the 6ommercial relations of the whole world, to the end that uniform pros perity, efficiency, equity, honesty, justice and fair dealing shall be established everywhere and in every relation in life." Finally, it is declared, "The teaching of Jesus, as given in the New Testament, and as revealed by the Spirit of Truth promised by Him, 'When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He shall guide you into all truth,' shall be our guiding light." There can be no higher business ethics than these ; and if they could become the actual rule of conduct of a majority of the business men of the United States, the effect upon our business life not only would be wonderful, but their influ ence would be profoundly felt in the individual and collect ive life of the whole nation. May these associations spread iiTrtfl wrv ritv in the Ian I has one embracing a laree mem bership and may they be loyal to the purposes set forth in then? organization declarations. If these ethics could come to be the actual, daily rule of conduct of even a large minority of the business men of the United States, they would do more to banish profiteer- insr and destroy the profiteers than any law, national or state. No prof iteer could long stand the competition of a . m i i I 1 - 11 , J-A X! A- i. Doay oi men actuated oy me determination to carry out m their business activities the spirit of the Golden Rule. This would be true of every city, as well as of the whole country. If these associations could become nation-wide and the ideas of their organizers, as expressed in their articles, could be came a real, living actuality in the business activities of their members, a commercial millennium would dawn upon the country. Why should not every business man make these ethics the constant and uniform rule of his business life ? The roan who does this will carry about with him a sense of self- respect and an inward satisfaction much more valuable than any ill-gotten gains. An approving conscience is infinitely more valuable as a possession than any amount of goods or money or bank deposits without it. More' than this, the spirit of Christ and the teaching of the New Testament actually brought into one's business and loyally obeyed, will pay, not only, in these higher ways, but they will pay in money. Irrespective and independent of any organization, the intelligent business man who will steadfastly make them the rule of his life cannot fail to ultimately reap a rich financial harvest. In any legitimate and useful occupation a reputation for honesty, efficiency, equity and fair dealing are the best assets that one can have. If he be an em ployer of labor, his employees wiH know that he has these assets, and will serve him better than they would one who did uyp have them. If he be an employee, his employer will appa eciate him and advance and reward him accordingly. And T the general public soon come to know a man for what he is, Und trust him or refuse to trust him or do business with hin accordingly. Let no man make the mistake of concluding that dishonesty or trickery or ineffi ciency pays. In any as pect of the matter, in the lonff run these things are great Ji andicaps. , j Another declaration of these associations is the follow ing: "In all meetings of this association a chair shall be reserved for Jesus Chrir-t, the unseen guest, whom we ac knowledge to be the, directive head of our work." This va cant chair is, of coorse, only a formality arid may mean much or little to those pnesent, according to the attitude o each individual. To "the v.man who understands that Jesus Christ is not a circumscribed individuality; like a man, ,who could sit in a material chair,: it could mean nothing. As those who frequently observe a ceremony or formality are apt soon to forget what it typifies, so the members of these organi zations will soon forget or become indifferent to the lesson this formality isv calculated suggest or teach. It is, of course, vastly more important that the spirit of Christ should be occupying the hearts and dominating the lives of those present than that He be the urcseen guest occupying-the vacant-chair, if that were possiWe. If these organizations becocne general .they could revo lutionize the business world, anc,l indirectly the whole social structure, if the members of thein would but live up to then high professions. But these associations will have the in difference and hypocrisy of ; their members to contend with. as have all religious organizations . Too many people delight to be called Christians who wanti the Golden Rule to be ob served by others, but who make selfishness their own moni tor. As some join churcn orgamations solely lor business reasons, so some business men will doubtless jom these asso ciations from purely selfish considerations, without any pur pose of being controlled by their declared ethics and spirit. Let us hoDe. however, that these Associations nay be more successful than most religious organizations in keeping them selves free from the dry rot of indifference and the poison of hypocrisy. I Trotzky is suspicious of the American Relief association be- FUTURE DATES V.rea 92 t 25. 1C!T Gar Ui company in grand opera. Portland. JIarca 37, jsonoaj jaarca mm i court begins. March 27, Monday Jirat oay oi Starch term Marlon coanty circait court March 81, Friday "Mrs. T ample' Telegram." Snikpoh Dramatic entj play at uu u acnoai. Anril 7. Friday Debate letwten Wil lamette Unirersity and Denver UniTer tity. April T, Friday "Hoosier School Maa tor," presented by Miss Lola Walton's itoacntt under direction oi American lo rion Auxiliary. April T, Friday "Paul ResW to ba presented by Salom high school rnosie department. April 12. Wednesday Coanty commun ity . clnb federation, meets iar Salem. Anril 14. Feidav Last dar on which candidates for itate officas may lilo with secretary of state. April 10 to M "Better Koala" wook in Sates. Anril IS. Stall Baater. April 18, Tuesday Whitney Boys' Chorus to sing at Christian church. May 1. Monday W. W. Ellsworth. noted editor and literary man, to addreaa Willamette atudenu. May 4. 5 and 6. CherrUn Chmingo May IS, Saturday Junior week-end entertainment at o. a. u. Kar 19. Friday Primary alsetloa. -- May 19, Friday Open houae, aeienee cVaartment of hirh achool. May 86 and 37, Friday and Saturday May FeetiTal. Oratorio Creation Friday m armory; living pictures Saturday Bight, June 5, Monday Track meet, Willam ette and Paeif ie Univeraity , at Forest Ore re. Jane 14, Wednesday Flag Day. Jobs 1, Friday High school gxadua km. Jano 19-80, July 1 Oonreaiios of Oregon. Fir Chiefs' association at Marsh' flell July S and a Monday and Tnaadar. State eowventstt of Artisans as Woodbnm. Beptomker 19, Wednesday Oregon Metaoohn conference meets in eaiem. geptomWr JI, SI and it Pendleton reaad-an. September 25 tm 80 inclusive Oregon mate fair. Koycmbar T, Tuesday General also- HTTMOm FLAT WOKS CcTriiLt, IK2, Afsodatod Editors Tbe Blggett Little Paper In th World Edited bj John H. Hfflav ywt fellers. f nana , ot V.ZZO STOLE THE NECKLACE? VERY ONE ot our Pirate Six sat up amd took no tice wtyen . Herb Woods tie de tectiva - ot our bmnca r . comes Into the Cave aad palls a letter ut otWs pocket an d - a y : "Hare's a lltUtr dttactltB , story. -1 want to read to It's a letter from a BIT afntaa'a. wTSn's a erwpapr feller out in Calilor- nia.- we ioia aim to go anead ahd read It. Herb commenced: . aie says: ' 'One atormy night aout two years ago a robbery was committed In the-rich district ot a fairly large eastern city. A -costly necklace. t diamonds was 'Stolen. ' v"--;r.... Ordered to Get Story. " 'I was worklnc oa the morn- ins newspaper oi mat city and was told to get the story of the robbery. We tot word about It at 11:30. Ten minutes later I was at the residence where the crime had been committed. - The pence arrlred a second before. Throttfh , questions this Is wnat we learnod: Th m nt the house -and his -wife had sud- cemy oeen called to mnt & train eirly in the ereninr. Soma fnita wLom they had not seen In years were passing tnrough the city. ' veion receiving the mes eae. the lady. el. the boose, had roue to a small wall-safe . la. her t i-room ahd removed the dia v id necklace and was admiring t' necklace whea .the. message l i the friend was xeceired. In t rush and-excitement of .get ' : to the train in time, she "1","'y r'sccd the necklace and left the house without 'put ting It back in Its keeping plac. - Trouble. . . " 'Several hours later when she and her' husband returned they found the house, la a turmoil. Servants were rushing' excitedly about. Lights In every room were ablae. 1 " wnat ine msuer r- ner husband demanded. The butler, Quavering with i fear or excite ment, stuttered that ten minutes before the house had been broken lhto and that the. diamond neck lace was gone! " 'Immediately the man called for detectives. '"The- police began, an investi gation immediately on arriving at the house. We found the room In which the jewels had been left in perfect order except that one win dow was wide open. "The chief of detectives, who had come with four of his men. ordered every one in the house into one room.- He began to ques tlen them not only the servants, but the man of the house and his wife. " 'No one seemed to know any thing about the matter except the butler;- It was he who had dis covered the jewels were missing and had aroused the house. He said he had been passing the bed room of his mistress when he heard. v noise. . , He. opened, the door and looked in. A masked man was climbing through the window. u The Butler's Story. " Tie had yelled for help and rushed toward , the. window, but the man jumped to the ground be low 4t was a second-story win dow and ran swiftly across the lawn to an alien ".i , ?The - butler, I said he then looked about the room and saw that the door ot the wall safe was open. He said "his 'mistress had III lrZ fin ?t W2 mi ear? that she kept her necklace ,Ha looked inside. The necklace was gone. " 'When the butler finished his story, the chief beckoned to one of his men and whispered to him to take a flashlight and search for foot prints in the soft, wet earth under the window ot the bed room. It Had rained heavily dur ing the day. II the intruder had jumped from the window, his prints would be in the damp ground. - 'Ten minutes later the detect ive returned. "No prints," he re ported. The chief smiled wisely. He asked the butler to step for ward. The man did so, and the chief began a search of his eloth iag. He ran his hand into the man's inside pocket. The butler turned ghastly white. Slowly the chief pulled his hand out. "'And what do you think?, He held the diamond necklace!'" At, STUBBS. Scribe of the Pirate Six. TODAY'S PUZZLE. Begin at a certain letter In the following series and by skipping a certaia number: ef letters each time you will. get a famous say ing: DAOSALSNYBOXUMWDITSY HITJOHBKEQDEOrNHEGBIY. Answer to yesterday's: S-hoe; t-r-owel. Answer to to-day's: "Do as you wish to be done by." eBgin with the first letter and take every eth er one. , ONE REEL YARNS I HER OLD SHOES. The old shoes of the Girl of the House lay in the corner of the dusty closet and gloomily regard ed a discarded pair of rubbers. "You're nothing to kick about," said the rubbersr 'Here you are, sate and dry." . . .' - v ; "But I'm not ready to be put oh the shelf." complained the old shoes. :it isn't as though I was worn out, I'm not. Jusi a bit EcaXXcil oil tha toes,, that's all. It's COTOSAV 1UST aAp QjEUk HURT just that I've been cast aside. I'm no longer of use." "And you used to be quite the favorite,? mused the rubbers. "Indeed I was," said the shoes sadly. "I can never forget how proud and happy the Girl was when, she first brought me home. At last .she had a pair of hiking shoes, just the sort she had been wanting. She loved to go on long tramps, with her father and she was never so happy as when she was in the woods." "They ought to have stayed in the country," said the rubbers. "That's where she was happiest. It was her mother that wanted to move to the city. The city is spoiling the. Girl. Now she goes running around in high-heeled pumps and has forgotten she ever owned hiking shoes." "I wohder if she really has," the old shoes said slowly. "Of course," snorted the rub bers. "She's a regular city girl now." The old shoes were silent, thinking of pine trees and camp fires. Suddenly the door was thrown open. The Girl peered into the closet. Oh,; Urere you are." she said, ahd she grabbed the old shoes and. held them, dose to her. "We're going back to the coun try," she sang. "Daddy and I are roihr to have our way at last. I guess you thought Td forgotten you. Jpu$ l hadn't, I hadn't!" cause he doesn't know "what Am erica wants." Charity without an ulterior object is no part, of Trotsky's philosophy. from a German prison, but was afterwards gassed and wounded and bad lived for many months in a small reconstruction hospital where his Identity had been lost. If he has been in heaven he deesnt know It now and the aunt i somewhat disappointed. It It wasn't her nephew she has been talking with, who was It? Has she been hating intimate e nver eations wita the spirit of a per fect stranger? No wonder she is disturbed and embarrassed. ETIO.CETTE AMONG GHOSTS Nobody need be astonished that the ghost which has struck ter ror into the people of Nora Scotia should refuse to materialize fox Dr. Walter Franklin Prince. Dr. Prince was f ooUsh . to make the expedition, for ghosts don't ap pear to the directors of institutes of scientific research or to any scientists whatsoever. It Is a rule of conduct with them. Nei ther do they appear to anybody looking for them with a notebook and a fountain pen all ready for recording possible data. A watch ed ghost never walks. New York World. JOKES ACROSS THE SEA Gilbert K. Chesterton believes in Ameriea for Americanisms. He says that the efforts of the Eng lish to master the American jokes are and should be fruitless. Most of the American jests are on themes which are alien witji the Britisher to begin with, but which may be a part of the daily life tn the United States. In a way, humor is International, bat the trouble Is that the average joke Is provincial. - Cheatertom admtta his failure to respond to many ot the American witticisms, but at the same time he places no blame upon the Americans, who are bluatly .dumb before his own brill iaaces. - It ; is a horse apiece. World ltumar It rare. ROBUST KELrOtOX They keep saying that Jim Jeffries Is about to become an evangelist and has been study ing the methods of Billy Sunday, If Jim wants results he might easily obtain them la the eJd-fash-ioned way. He could bring 'era to the mourner's - bench by , the scruff ot the neck or lead them up the trait, by the' ears. 4It thete is any way ot beating religion In to people Jim 'should be' there with the " goods. -Lou v Angeles Times. IX OLD KENTUCKY The tracks of a tire-toed ani mal whose prints are more than 11 Inebes , tn width hare . been found imprinted la the solid rock of Kentucky. It must have been Satan looking for one ' of those mountain moonshiners we , hear about. Exchange. Gas warfare Is defended most warmly , by those who never tied on a mask. Boston Herald. Lafayette Mineral Springs, Oregon If yon are aaffarlnf from rkemiaatlsia. arte aeid diathesis, tout, Brifht's disease, diabetes, diseases t toe asrvoni system and the skin, we caa r er reliefs yea. Hotat and Oaitaceav As fee- Moraaatioa. Hughes, Weeks, Fall, Work this cabinet runs to short words, but never to ugly ones. The man who breaks tbe one law he dees not relish, jars all the rest. Over in London, where Mormon missionaries are proselyting, the populace are inclined to compel them to move on. In spite of bitter opposition, Mormxmism is preached all over the world and many converts are made. Polyg amy has been discarded, but the folks, to be attracted by the teach ings of the cult are still to be found. - . THE SPIRIT LAND An estimable woman who has had much, faith in spiritualism is having' her confidence tried. Through the help of a wonderful medium stia bad beea holding weekly conversations with her be loved nepherw who was "killed" in the war. I She had heard many remarkable things about the other life and was immensely satisfied at the celestial progress the dear departed was making. Now, however, the nephew turns up. among the Irving. He had escaped Buy Mason Tires Noiv Ji?rer in ,tire lustpry -sfjeh ,a profitable investment as Slaaorra . att oiir prices. . . Tww;k $her .ftaa--3aVd tires, but f uptfisr, in qjeal itr, uniformity, and depend-ability. And Da eked by a guarantee which knows no mileage limit. This means protection liiitil the tire actually wears nt. " ; Baying Masons now is buying i tires right With jbud oes a standard of service we're proad jot . .. , II Ml if Ci MASON GORDS VICK BROS, sm Hleh Street at Trade U TO FORD 0 Of all the developments in more recent years the success of the Ford has perhaps played the most far-reaching part in its effect upon both the social and industrial : life of the United States. So deeply has the Ford and its uses become embedded in the structure of our daily lives that we take for granted, as a, mere matter of course, the almost boundless convemerrce that has resulted. But the car is incomplete without FORD SERVICE, and an immensely intricate system has been built up from the original inventive thought from which it sprang. This whole system the logical outcome of an infinite volume of experience, rests upon one fundamental principle: A Successful Ford Agency It One That Renders - Good Service to Ford Owners The Ford Motor Company insists upon its Agents recognizing this statement as . an axiom.' and aSSf7 ccoxiihily, that is why; iri acity like Salem, there is'omy ONE FORD AGENCY, and that Agency is backed by the whole force and resource of the-Ford Motor Company s organization. Ford Service means nothing more nor less than taking complete care of the i Ford 1 Owners needs .so as to insure their well-being and their Comfort. .To do Ois ade-' quatelyand willingly is the Valley Motor Co's duty to its customers, and a pleasure toManl agement. .. . .. . ' The Valley Motor Co. has recently undertaken some changes with the special thought in yicw of improving its service, and building op its good-will with Ford owners. . Come in and talk with Mr-W.X. Phillips the new General Manager; you will find that he Ts a 1 grt believer in friendly service, understandingly offered to the Company's customers Hp ' will tell-you of some changes around the shop that will improve the service; and his Wiliout H!Vk ipai?aaesSlan e3-nd such things.' :And he will .leUVou rtwarS rtS " hathave been token to shortly give us the best Gasoline and Oil service station Tin the Cityf , ! TU K lla ?.naer' &ni although he is quite modest about himself. you wfllnnt V ! find him at all bashful in telling you what his Company can do for its friends wjiinot And the Company has started a Garage, with day and night service. Thexsarage fa intincW o be a convenience to those who want to have their cars taken, proper care ofbv the month, with a shop and a skflled force of mechanics on the SsS! ; - ' W1 r , PsiSnt jUSt incorporated' under tneof Ore:withMr,Pattl .t -1 Valley Mptor:Co.