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c teflon C ;- '",, 0i8aed DaWy Except Monday by T1IB STATESMAN PUBLISH INO CXIMPAXY , .T - a ... 1 6 ConnerclaI St.. Salem. Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Antomatlc - ' . y 627-59 - MKMBGK OP TIIK ASSOCIATED PHEKS ' .. AfocUted Pre 1 exclusively entitled to the dm for publi cation of all news dlipatcbes credited to it or not otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks .... naiph Gier . . . ! " ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ' ! : ' Frank Ja.ko.kl TELEPHONES: Business Office. 23 Circulation Department. 583 . Job Department, 683 Society Editor, 10 Entered at the Postoffice In Salem, 'GO WEST, YOUNG MAN!" - The legislative committee of the American Federation of Labor is preparing a bill for introduction in Congress asking appropriations for gigantic land reclamation projects and further development of Jhe Mississippi river. The purpose of the measure is to provide means of relief for unemploy mnt. The objects are commendable, but the means proposed for thir attainment are subject to criticism. England has tried the expedient of artificial stimulation of employment by starting work on public projects that would not have been begun had the distressing labor situation not existed. The experiment failed because sooner or later the work provided by the government had to end, and the men were thrown again on their own resources, with time lost that might have been used in seeking permanent jobs. Men in the United States who are out of work at the present time, and who would be willing to come west and work on reclamation projects, have their opportunity right now without waiting for Congress to pass additional legisla tion. Huge areas of the public domain in the west are await ing settlers to make their homes here and develop the natural rsources of the country. Many of those potential farms are included within reclamation areas, where water can be had now or where it will be available in the near future just as soon as the . requisite dams and irrigation ditches are com pleted. Of course it requires some practical knowledge of irrigation to extract profit from a desert farm, but any man with sufficient energy can get work with a western farmer, learn the art, and then take up a claim of his own. The American Federation of Labor would do well to apply this suggestion to its efforts to relieve' unemployment And tousands of them could find room out here along the Pacific coast; here in Marion and Polk counties, where there are vast acres undeveloped or needing higher devlopraent, in the production of fruits and vegetables and nuts and hogs and poultry and milk and other products that have a ready and remunerative market right here in Salem. If scores tf thousands of these unemployed people in the congested centers of .the eastern section of the United States were willing to suffer half the hardships of our pioneer fath ers and mothers who laid the foundations of this Oregon of ours, they could within a few years make themselves inde pendent; and they would while doing this be adding vast wealth to this state and enormous additional supplies for the feeding of the-peoplexjf this country; , What this country needs as much as any other one thing, unless it is a protective tariff, is a new birth of the spirit of the pioneers ; Not alone of the pioneers of Oregon, "but of the pioneers of New England and all the country spreading westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Talking of salaries, it is interesting to note that the New York legislature has just boosted the salary of the mayor of the city of New York" from $15,000 to $25,000 a year. They do it differently In New York, lit used to be the same way in Oregon Now, however, every Oregon city is an imperium in imperio. ' It makes its own charter, regulates tis own af fairs, without the help of the legislature. Only a few years . P0HOOV STUDY i groan Copyright, 1922, AModftted Editors REAL WRESTLING r uy ruisu - - - r t " 175; Pound and Heavyweight Champion Amateur Wrestler of the United When I was in grammar school one of the favorite playground Etunts of our bunch was to grab tome fellow around the waist, "bear hug" him, force him to the ground and a wrestling match was on hand. ; Maybe some one has tried the "bear hug on you Then you know how it saps your strength and s how helpless you are when the very breath Is squeezed out ol you.' . - That same Jiug is usthI fre quently In real wrestling matches. But the wrestler upon whom the hold is ' secured is not slow to break from It. and the break ii lns fated on the left side of the picture printed here Is about the mon effective f know. "When your aggressor places his arms around your waist, quickly put iyour forearm against his throat. Take hold of the wrist of that arm with your other hand. Arch your hack away from your man. Lower y your . head. Then push against-his throat with all yort might You will either force Mm so far away from you that he carrot retain his hold, or. if his THE OREGON STATESMAN. Statesman .Manager ' M"'ta .Manager' Job Dept. Oregon, as second class matter The BIggeat Little LESSON 9 MEYER States will be bent so far back it will be an easy matter for you to slip from under his arms. Fearing a fall should he rise to his hands and knees, a wrest ler sometimes stretches face down on the mat and "hugs" it. It is extremely difficult to work on a man in this position. To force him up, take hold of one of his feet and pull up on it as shown on the right Bide of the picture. To get greater leverage place your other hand on his back. A slight twist of his ankle will make the trick more effec tive. Don't use too much force when polling on the foot, nor too hard a twist on the ankle. "This." said the young man. is the engine boiler." " "Oh." said the girl, "tell me. why do they boil the engines?" "To make the engine tender," he replied. . "If you eat another piece of cake i You'll surely burst," said , 1 mother. ., ; , ....... . v . i "Then pass the cake and clear the rv-way." SALEM, OREGON ago, half the time of the Oregon legislature was taken up with changes in city charters and granting new city charters to towns and villages. Talking of salaries, those paid in Ore gon generally are not large, as compared with other states. The superintendent of the Oregon asylum for the insane re ceives only i?r;X.i a year and hia liv.nj? and the living of his family. The same salary is paid the superintendent of the penitentiary, though that salary has attached to that posi tion for only a few years. Oregon's governor received only $1500 annually up to some 20 years ago, hen it began to be pieced out wkh pay for memberships on the state institution boards. The salary now being paid the superintendent of the industrial school for boys, $5000 a year and his living, is un usual in Oregon. Salem is fast consolidating her gains as the great fruit center. Bumper crops all along the line this year will help a lot. The general farmers are cry ing for sunshine now, and the fruit men would welcome a seas on of It, too. President Harding says that a merchant marine is the second line of defense. And it is the first line of both offense and de fense in foreign trade. With moncjr so cheap in some of the old world countries, the average European will not find it hard to agree with Iago in de claring, "He who steals my purse steals trash." Somehow, the phrase about painting the lily occurs to us as we read Mr. Bryan's announce ment that the scientists can't make a monkey out of him. Baltimore Sun (Dem.) The Boston Transcript declares that the world is still in the age of miracles, as shown by the fact that during February the United States shipping board actually took in more money than it paid out. Premier Lenine is going to the Genoa conference to demand that the powers pay for the damage done to Russia by Kolchak and Denikine. Every country in Eur ope seems to want some other country to pay it something. And the United States to pay every body. It is difficult to credit the the ory entertained in the Bulgarian capital that the bombing of the house of the American minister, Charles S, Wilson, was an "act of revenge for the American pol icy toward Soviet Russia." Such as sending food to a million Rus sian children, for instance? Dehydration's the thing. It may sound dry, but it is the Jue lest plum in the way of manufac turing additions so far announc ed for Salem this year. Salem will continue to be tha dehydra tion capital of the world, and the trebling of the capacity of the lo cal plant this year will be a truly notable advance in this most im portant field Important -to both Paper la the World I i ONE REEL YARNS I , 4, WITH THE AID OF THE WIND "I've had the best luck!" said Maynard, overtaking Joe on his way to school. "Look here what I've got." He pulled out a type written sheet from his pocket and showed It to Joe, taking care that no one else was watching. "Why why it looks like the questions for tomorrow's history exam," said Joe. "Not only looks like it it is." declared Maynard, enjoying Joe's surprise. "Where did you get it?" Joe demanded. "Out of the skies. Honest, though, it was Just -good luck. I went back to my study room seat for a book last night, and there right by my desk a piece of paper was fulttering. I picked it up, and here it is." . "Must have blown off Miss Fordham's desk," said Joe. "Sure it did. You know she al ways gives out her questions on typewritten sheets like this. "Hut you aren't going to look at them, are. you?" Joe asked, looking at Maynard wonderingly. "Look at them! What do you suppos I'm going tt do with them? If the March wind offers to help me out, I'm not going to turn down the chancs. Why waste time reviewing the whole thing, when I can work out these ans wers? I'll let you have a copv. If you want to save some time." "No thanks," said Joe shortly, turning rather red. Maynard put th paper In his pocket and shrugged his shoulders, as an other boy joined them. Tae next day Joe was at school early tb look up some things on the big map. He felt nervous, for he knew the mm would be hard, though' he had studied tho night before. It seemed unfair to him that he should get a low grade for being "squeamish." : Maynard iamo -m- iwaiag-coniiaeni, ana Qn7rt ; ;;- - 1 TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 23. 1922. - the city country. and the surrounding "Activity in the lumber market has shown a decided increase dur ing the last week. The rolume of buying is materially larger and thrik a it vprv hua vv innnlrv In- cheating that the volume of buy ing may be expected not only to continue but to increase. Produc tion is increasing, but the demand is sufficiently heavy to prevent the accumulation of stock in the grades most desired." The quoted words are from the Weekly Lum ber Market Review, issued by the American Lumberman, Chicago. Sounds good to readers in Oregon, where by far the largest industrial payrolls depend upon the activity of the wood working plants of all kinds. DELAY DEMORALIZES From whatever angle the sub ject i4 considered, tue delay in tariff legislation is demoralizing to industry. The fiscal year 1920 was the record year in our im port trade. That year we import ed $5,238,000,000 worth of for eign goods. The following fiscal year, 1921, there was some let up in the volume of imports, but not so great as was indicated by the decrease in total value be cause there was a decided slump in prices due in part to falling exchange and in part to lower production costs in Europe. That year we imported $3,654,000,000 worth of goods, or nearly twice the pre-war average. The de crease was somewhat rapid from month to month and the fiscal year opening July, 1921, recorded something of a momentum "of this decrease, that month 4178,000. 000 worth of imports coming in. 'And then the needle began to waver and to indicate a move ment the other way. In Novem ber we imported . $21f ,tT00,000 worth.. and in December, $237, 500,000 worth of goods. The Cur rent year opened with a slight downward trend, but the value of Imports for January and Feb ruary was greater than for the same months last year. Both months of the current year we Imported $217,000,00q worth of goods, while for January of 1921 we imported $209,000,000, and for February, $214,500,000 worth of goods. For the eight months of the fiscal year 1922. ended HUatOS FLAT WOKX Edited by John H. Millar gave Joe a glance which seemed to say, "111 bet you regret being so goody-goody." The bell rang. Miss Ford ham pased out the typewritten sheets. Then she stepped to the front of the platform "I'm testing out two sets o questions," she an nounced. 'Jjne set goes to every other row. Rows one, three, and five should have questions mark ed A. The others should have questions marked B. Make sure you have the right ones." One glance at Maynard's face told Joe that the trick of the March wind was a joke on May nard. TODAY'S PUZZLE The letters In the title of a cer tain book have been given con secutive numbers from 1 to 11, 2, 1. 1, spell a space of ground; 4. 3. 5.-8 spell a scene; 10. 7. 9, 6, spell to move. What is the nams of the book? Solution to morrow. . '. Jean: "If a burglar breaks Into the cellar would the coal chute. , Joan: "No, but the kindling wood. edo"'fFordham'a epBheh'oe m m f , Voliva says that the stars hang m the sky like chandeliers. Bat SUDnose th electrlc-lie-nt bit! tiaa not been paid, vox TU68Y VISIT5 THE SWIMfllNCHOLEJ ( gee; cm eL UNTIL ITS r X Vtime to co wKffrjryffix February. Imported $1.C23 000,000 of foreign products, an increase of about 33 1-3 per cent over the pre-war figures. If measured by volume the increase would be more marked. And it s the volume of goods which Is to be considered in estimating the effect of foreign imports in dis placing domestic products and lessening the opportunity for Am erican labor. Itarely does a graph remain con stant. Its movement at a certain level for a. short time is gener illy followed by a decided tread up or down. The moving finger of our imports writes, and hav ing writ for two months in a hor izontal line we may depend upon it that it is due for a flirt in some other direction. With the Un derwood tariff law still operat ing, and the European and Asia tic drive for markets rapidly or ganizing, that direction is logi cally upward. In short, we may expect to witness a steady in crease of imports from month to month until the average of 1920 21 is reached, and possibly overshot unless the guard is speedily mounted and stationed at the proper pofffs our customs houses. Tha guard is made up of protective tariff schedules. They must be enlisted and assign ed to duty before the enemy has invaded our industrial lines and put American production to rout. The situation is further reflect ed In our export trade. During the eight months period 1921-22 we exported something less than $2,500,000,000 worth of goods, or less than one-half the exports for the same period of 1920-21, but 46 per cent greater than for the 1913-14 period. Here again the values do not tell the real story, since export values have likewise fallen and the disparity in volume of exports, 1921-22 and 1920-21. is nothing like as great as the value disparity. A great many export commodities show as high as 100 per cent in crease in volume, while the val ues show a decrease, the two periods considered. Nevertheless, there are decreases in certain lines, particularly in manufactur ed goods. One of the reasons for this is that manufacturers are marking time. They want to know what congress Is going to do about the tariff and they must know before they can take- steps to meet the' situation. Another reason is that Europe is not buy ing so much because she is manu facturing more than a year ago. What this country needs now, and more sorely needs from day to day, and has needed from the time when he delivered one of h's first messages to congress after his Inauguration, is the "in stant action" in the enactment of a protective tariff law which Pres ident Harding then demanded. ana wmcn demand he has re peated from time to time. A protective tariff law with American valuation that !s the great need. Even so, the schedules proposed in many cases are not high enough, and the free list is very long and it would be a wise thing to reserve the right which is proposed (the right In the hands of the president) to raise duties when needed, and to take measures when necessary to pre vent dangerous dumping and d's- honest practices on the part of importers. BEST RADIO SYSTEM With the completion of improve ments at the Cavite radio station in the Philippines the United States navy now has the most complete and efficient radio com FUTURE DATES Hareh 31, Friday "Mrs. Temple's Telegram. " Snikpoh Dramatic- society plT at tha fcirh -ht1 April 5 and S, Wednesday snd Thnrj- diy Joint concert of Willamette onirer- sitr glee clubs. Waller hall. April 7. Friday Debate betwten Wil lamette UniTenity and Denver Univer sity. April 7, Friday "Hootier School Mis ter." presented by Hift Loin Walton's student ruder direction of American Le gion Auxiliary. April 7, Briday "Panl Revere" to be presenteeTby by Salem high school mnsir department. April 12. Wedneaday Connty ity rlrb federation meats ia Salem. April 14. Friday T.aat day on arbich candidates for state offices may file with secretary of atate. April IS to S3 "Batter Maaie" sreek ia Salem.', April IS. Sunday Eaatrr. April 18, Tuesday Whitney Boys' CTittii to aing at' Christian church. May 1. Monday W. W. Ellsworth, nnted editor and literary man, to addreas Willamette student. May 4. 5 and 6. Cherrian Cherringo. May 13. Satnrdav-vjnnior vuk-ud entertainment at O. K. C. May 19, Friday Primary Sleet km. May 19, Friday Ope hoaae, actaae nartn"t cf hirh actios Mar SO, Satnrlay Marion Connty school athletes meet. May 96 snd 27. Friday and Retard ay May Festival. Oratorio Creation Friday ia armory ; living pictnrea Satarday aicht J tine 5. Monday Traek meet. Willam ette sad Pacific University at Forest Grove. June 14. Wednedv Flat Day. June 16, Friday High school credna tiO". Jon 29-3n, July 1 Convention 1 of Oreron rirs Chiefs' association at Marsh- field. Jaly S and 4 Monday aad Taday State ooaeentioa Artisans at Woodbnrm September 13, Wednesday Oregon Methodist conference meets in Paletn. i September 21. 22 aad 21 Paadletoa 'September 25 80 inclusive Oregon Stat Fair. . ttoav - i - . - munication system in the world.1 As a result of these improvements the Cavite station. Manila bay. can talk directly with San Fran cisco, a distance of 000 miles, and a regular daily service is main tained between the stations. I Prior to these improvements radio messages to the Philippines had to be relayed by way of Ha waii and Guam. From Cavite communication is had directly with Peking. The Peking radio Station constitutes the only means of communication which Ameri cans in China have with the out side world and in event of disor ders in China this is of very great importance. Ln the Black Sea the American navy radio service has furnished the only means of communication (n that part of the globe, since all local facilities have entirely brok en down, due to the activities of the bolsheviks in Russia and the Turco-Grecian war in Anatolia. Relief associations in Russia and the Near East as well as in central Europe, depend almost wholly upon American naval ra dio service for transmittal of their messages. The navy radio service between March first and Novem ber 30, last year handled more than 3,000,000 words of press mat ter for American newspapers and more than 6,000,000 words 'for various governmental departments and public organizations engaged In relief work and like activities. The value of these stations to the government, the merchant marine, shipping board and public press is incalculable. New radio circuits are being opened in the Dutch East Indies and in French Indo-China. GO TO THE ANT There is a professor at Harvard who is on terms of intimacy with thousands of ants. He has been away most of the last six years browsing amid the ant hills and termite colonies of South America and Africa. Prof. Wheeler says there are nearly ten thousand spe cies and he will soon be able to call almost any ant he meets by its front name. The professor says that what makes men and women so interesting is that they are almost as intelligent as ants. Anyhow, there is a strong resem blance. They have their likes and dislikes. In ant life it is the female of the species that dominates the scene. A news paper paragrapher remarks that this is becoming true in our own higher civilization. The lady is beginning to hog the picture. The tragedies in ant life are grouped around sex, hunger and fear. This is much the same as in the cities reared by men. The ants have their strong-minded females. They have their graft ers, their loafers, their slaves and their parasites. They have their language, their signs and their societies. They can even under stand the speech of hornets and butterflies which Is much the same as if we were communicat ing with Mars and Venus. They keep the aphids, just as our fam ilies keep a cow. They milk them regularly and breed them for fancy stock just as we raise prize Jerseys and Holsteins. Some ants have blind slaves that are taught to wait upon them. They take pride in raising large families and are wonderfully thoughtful and efficient in caring for the young. According to the Harvard pro fessor, the average ant is more in telligent, more industrious and more self-sacrificing than any of the irreconcilables in the United States Senate. But he cannot make as much noise. GIVE THOUGHT TO AMERICA The problem confronting the American people, farmer and city consumer alike, is not what shall be done with European mrakets, but what shall be done with Amer ican markets, and what domestic policies must be put into effect to stop the influx of cheaply-made foreign goods that are now driv ing American industries out of business and throwing thousands of American working people out of employment. Philadelphia Evening Star. EDUCATION IX MEXICO One of the most marked eviden ces of progress in Mexico is the success of the schools which have been established in connection with the Mexican army. A year ago more than 80 per cent of the privates were Illiterate. Today most of them can read and write In addition to reading and writ ing, .instruction is given in the army schools In geography, Mex ican history, arithmetic, grammar, and civics. In these, as In the two primary Branches, the pro gress of the pupils la remarkable. So great Is the enthusiasm that some of the regiments stationed in thlnterloXDf the country have furnished at. their own expense all the materials for the schoolroom. For generations the ignorance of the Mexican soldiers has been pro verbial. It accounted largely 'or the ease with which revolutions could be staged, no matter how flimsy or indefensible the cause. The soldiers themselves were rep rsentatives of the ignorance of the population from which they were drawn. It is greatly to the credit of the present Mexican adminis tration that the Mexican people, soldiers included, are being lifted from the abyss of ignorance and given a chance at education. It is the only road by which Mexico can hope to lse to real prestige and sustained power. WRANGLING ALLIANCES The raising of the British flag over Wrangell Island may give the League of Nations something more to Wrangell about. Ordin arily the Island should be attached to Siberia, but it has been under " v . two flags other than Russian. It is supposed to have some strategic importance; but, as a mayer of fact, the island is merely a nice cool spot from which the polar bears may watch the aurora bor ealis. Americans had the Island at one time, but they suffered from "cold feet and were glad to get away. If Explorer Stefansson wants the Island for the British there will be no grave objection. He can have it for himself for all most Americans care. Let him start a little government of his own and compete with the other seven-by-nlne countries that are suffering from cases of self deter mination. 4 BITS FOR BREAKFAST - Looks like a coal strike. S One thing, whatever else hap pens, this will call renewed atten tion to the white coal of the Col umbia river basin. S S Here we have something like 40 per cent of all the water power of the United States, and when it is all harnessed, as it must be 34 vs. 66 Swift's Premium Ham and Swift's Premium Bacon are produced from only the best hogs. Many of the animals we buy do not furnish meat of Premium quality. - Since these are the choice cuts from the best hogs, cured and smoked in the best way, with scientific care and precision, they are naturally in great demand; but these cuts, with the loin from which pork chops come, represent only about 34 per cent of the live animal. The remaining 66 per cent consists of the cheaper cuts, such as spare ribs, shoul ders, trimmings, pigs feet, lard, eta, and skrinkage in dressing and curing. Shrinkage is equal to one pound in each five, and has no value whatever. That is why the prices of "Premium" Ham and Bacon and pork loins are higher than the price of the live animal. Everybody wants them arid yet they are only about one-third of the entire weight "Premium" Bacon alone is only about 8 percent The great demand for the choicer cuts, and the smaller demand for the cheaper cuts, constitute the reason for the compar atively jjigher price of the orie-third, and the lower price of the other two-thirds. (Some of the lower priced cuts sell at less than the per-pound price of the live animal. It is only by utilizing all possible by products and exercising the utmost skill and efficiency that we are able to average a profit of a fraction of a cent a pound on all our business. . ? - N.B, Some very delicious dishes can be prepared from the cheaper cuts. Swift & Company U.& A. .X... in time, a much larger proportion than now of the manufacturing In this country will be carried on r this side of the Rockies, where it naturally belongs. r " - The work of trebling the cap acity of the great Salem dehydra tion plant is going ahead now, and will be rushed, so as to be ready for the crops of fruits and vege tables that will be'eoming on la ' the spring and summer. It's the biggest thing that is happening in Salem right now. .. Slapstick comedy "movies" are to be shown as an experiment In an Atlantio City insane asylum; perhaps on the principle that Uke cures like. " W The purchase by a bookseller of a new edition of Mark Twain's works for upward of $200,000 al most qualifies ln the dramatic class with the finding of the treas-. ure In the cave by Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. " S The Irish postoffice department in advertising for allegorical post 1 - 4 a a f . mt It limit tk. In. " . , 6" . " twilnMllAM r W n.MAn.lltl. AVvl1 the difficulty of deciding arbi trarily who should be in the Free State's hall of fame. On how many names would there be gen eral popular agreement? SASH AND DOORS 0. B. Witlisats' Ce.V"k' , - i' 1943 Firm! Av" Ssstk, StU. . Large Hill la tk vn! Mlliag 41r4 l tha aier. Savas ra all itdiUaiaa profits. C&icksa Boss lash SO" wida by S5" fcls. SOa. A Soaaa differaat ia Mock, tor praaapt aaia- oitnt. ' Chick as Hons ttylUhta 86" by 40". Pries flaiad t. This It tha sis r commanded by Wtsttra WasBiatoa Exporiiatat Butioa, Ordan filled promptly. TU 7ors Fiva cross psstl doors, t fast la. by feat 6 inches, at each - 18.98 One panel doors, at ears 13.67 Money ehoerfnlly refunded It aot eat isfied. Write far free illustrated ratalog No. S. Contains helpful hints tor re- aodelinf tha eld home ar planalif- ttt MW M0. B. WltUAMS Vatsfcllsh 109 : ? , A -( t - ! 5 I i J I ' I f V . ? 1 1 X i A i 3 ' X I It 111 ... I 1