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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM," OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1922 Issued Daily Except Monday by TTf P flTiTFHirlv pttiji tfltrrvn rvtnArr ,4- 215 S. Commercial St, Salem. Oregon (rortLud Office, 27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic 827-59 1?, ;, MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Tie Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the ase for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la $is paper and also the local news published herein. - IV J. Hendricks , . . .l . , . , , iaipn mover ....... ,vv . Manager .Managing Editor Cash! t' rank Jaskoskf ...... .V. . .Manager Job Dept. 3' or-- j:! Circnlation Department. 5SS jod impairment, 683 society Editor, IOC Entered at the Postbf f ice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter it BY HOOK OR BY CROOK A New England bloc in Congress, suggested by Senator Lodge, should begin with a finish fight to keep hides on the free list." Springfield Republican. 'They have been on the free list, or nearly so. for a lone tirne, by hook or' by crook. , . Ihe McKinley tariff bill put an ad valorem duty on hides, but placed skins on the free list. By connivance of the Unit ed .States Treasury Department, or rather with the head of that department, the New England shoe manufacturers and tanners secured a promulgation Jhat made a calf a very good sizfed cow, and therefore a cow hide a calf skin, and so cheat ed (the United States' government out of about $7,000,000 a year, and nearly all the hides of South and Central America, and other countries, were let in duty free, as skins. It was a skin game that "skim'? the American farmers, and at the same time failed to help the Ultimate consumers. But it did line the pockets of the shoe manufacturers And these people have been playing both ends against the middle ever since. ' , , They f are getting their hides duty free now, under the Underwood tariff - " ' . . , i7 , ) i And they induced the Ways and Means Committee mem bers of the House, in their hearings of last year, to put both hides and skins on the free list under the plea that all the 100,000,000 wearers of shoes in this country had a higher call upon the sympathies of those members than the farmers who would benefit by a duty on hides. And ,so they would have, if the difference were to be added to the prices of shoes. But not if the difference were to merely go into the pockets of, the New. England shoe manufacturers. And there is where lti would go; decidedly. It is a habit with them- ; Now, it is evident front the remark of the Springfield Re publican; that some of the United States Senators are onto the little game of the shoe manufacturers, and that perhaps the farm bloc is looking out for its own " f And the writer sincerely hopes this is true. ' Along about 1900 the Appraisers of the United States, after a thorough investigation, recommended and secured a promulgation from the then Assistant Treasurer of the Unit ed States putting a kibosh on the game of the shoe manu facturers in getting their hides through free of duty as skins. Lyman J.-Gage, then Secretary of the Treasury, was away on his ummevaoation. rThe promulgation of the Assistant Treasurer, which was'kn honest and fair promulgation based on facts and figures gathered from the whole of the trade of the country, was revoked as soon as Mr. Gage got back from his vacation, and the skin game went on and remained In business at the same old stand.. ' ' - Heretofore in the whole history of the country the farm- irVhave'had no strong voice to represent them before the teats of-the mighty in Washington. It was high time they formed a bloc; and it should remain in business as long as tie interests that would prey t upon them are active and on the job. " 'r ' . 1 There should be a duty on hides, and hides should mean hides, r The wording of the paragraph imposing the duty should be plain, and it should have an honest interpretation in. the administration of the protective tariff law. In fact, as the writer has remarked many times,! the lat the soviet commissioners in writing of tariff laws ought to be done by experts the exT eanmcii and there is a possibility perts in the appraising offices who administer the law-and wi further post- not by committees in Congress. And in fact the whole thing ponement of the date for meeting. should be taken out of politics. The tariff law should be I to be touowea ny totai ananaon- amended a schedule at a time, or an item at a time, and the menL putting up or putting down of rates of duty ought to be j George has not added to lodged in the hands of a commission, or in the hands of the hl popularity in Great Britain by President, as is done now in England and France. icnampionmg me uenoa comer- The United States has played the idiot long enough in n. Pt wa raycai eie- tariff matters " jmenl- Tne Mgll8n tonservauves Over a hundreds years is long enough- , tre not ready to mt witn Lemn What time this country has not played the idiot in these Trotxsky on a basis of equal- matters, it has been played for a sucker by importers of for- "r- They cannot forget the crimes eign made goods, under valuations in the countries of their committed in their name and they origin, which were impossible to find out; and under every m l"1 ine mB" w,cr sort of false man u est ana oiu oi isuung ana ainuavit oi in-1 - terested parties; interested in keeping up the sucker game. the Rawian people caa be admit- iea to any irienuij tunieicuic. iu HOSPITAL, BY WIRfXESS I trance tnere nas always wen op- position to any diplomatic rela- Senator Reed announces that he will seek re-election; but hasn't Missouri been shown by this time? Former Secretary McAdoo says he "is out of politics." Being a Democrat, can you blame him? Now that we are to have an open door in China, what is the! ship captains all oyer the world Hospital service is now arall- tlons witn tne 80T,et KOYernment. able on all the wide ocean. There nd thl ha" been more Pnonnc are many ships on the high seas ed 8lnce Poincare has become the that carry no surgeons or physic- had of tne French ministry, ians, but most of them hare wire- rWhen Secretary Hughei refer less connections, .it is. of course, red to the expected presence of impossible to send a sawbones or tn oTlt commission as a reason perform an operation by radio, but tor our government's dislnclina matter with doing something of the sort for Alaska? Exchange. It is important that some more suitable men be induced to ran for the lower house of the legis lature from Marion county. They will be needed in that body at the next session. There will be much important work to be done. Roger Babson, who makes his living out of figures, says that the world Is ruled by feeling rather than byfigures and that hospital ity is on thing that brings great profit. ITe is of the opinion that the head (of. a railroad should hare been trained at running a hotel. There is mnch in what he says. Folks like to have the fur rubbed the right way. may now describe or diagnose the tion to attend the conference his decision won the immediate ap- on. board and receive instant ad vice and instruction as to the The fire loss in the United States in 1921, over half a bil lion dollars, was the greatest suf fered in any, one year. In the opinion of the. National Fire Pro tection association, more than 75 per cent of such loss is prevent able, assuming of course the pos sibility of arousing the public In dividually and in groups to meet its responsibility. The Alaska federal railroad is about -completed. .-It is perhaps the greatest engineering feat un dertaken by the government, next to the Panama canal. It has re quired five years of the most dif ficult construction work. For $65,000,000, over 470 miles of standard-gauge track have been laid at a 2 per cent grade through the toughest right of way in the world. At a total cost of $73, 000,000 (the price of the purchase of Alaska plus the cost of the road) an empire of natural re sources has been brought to our doors. tragedies and ailments they hare Proval of the conservative elem ents in all the allied countries. He gave a dignity to America's measures to be taken or the treat- position that won general respect The condition is very similar to that which would be created if the crown prince were to be elected president of Germany and were to name his father on a commission to meet in a friendly conference with the allied governments. It is becoming Increasingly plain that Russia cannot expect much friend ly cooperation from other coun tries until the men responsible for her terrible experiment In so- vietism are driven from power. Confidence is the basis of all international intercourse that is not regulated by force; and it is too much to expect of other peo ples to ask them to repose conti ngent needed. If there is a med icine chest on board a trained phy sician a thousand miles away wiU! tell how to make use of its con tents In emergency. This brings the wisdom of the world to the bedside Of him who Is asleep on the deep. those of our citizens who remem ber the good work he did, and th manner in which he kept his platform pledges, wilf . wish him success. ' He introduced and secured the passage of a bill reducing the sal aries of Marion county officials by over 110,000. notwithstanding he was opposed by three of the five members of his delegation. He defeated the attempt of the Multnomah delegation to leave the state fair without an appropria tion and thereby cause its suspen sion, and framed and secured the passage of a bill putting it on a cash basis and making its mem bership non-partisan. He secured the passage of the state text book commission bill by exposing the bribery practised by the book concerns in attempting to defeat it. He was a member of the ways and means committee, chairman of the committee on enrolled bills. and one of the hardest working members of the legislature. Hr. Flagg had, up to the time of the McKinley and Bryan cam paign, been a democrat; but left the party on th free silver issue. and stumped Marion county for McKinley. He is now editor of the Warrenton News, and bat been a persistent worker for hl town and county. Whatever he promises he will to the best of his ability perform, and Salemi'es would be pleased to hear of his success. KEEPING AWAY FROM GENOA I Secretary Hughes seems to have been peculiarly happy in the word ing of his diplomatic note expres sing his regret that there would be no American commission pres ent at the Genoji conference. While mild disanDointment has been expressed in the British and dence ln a government headed by Fronrh nrou It hat nnt owiVon. I Lenin and TrOUSky. ed the "storm of indignation" and the "bitter resentment" that some of his Democratic press critics forecast. In fact there is a growing dis position on thq. part of the English newspapers to regard the attemp to bold such a conference, with a Bolshevik commission invited, as a diplomatic blunder. The Lon don Times regards tne note as an expression of American com HARVEY'S KXEE BREECHES The English who saw Ambas sador Harvey in his knee breeches and, with his sword at the wed ding of Princess Mary seem to agree that he. was funny. His countrymen at home are afraid he must have been. ' They are glad he did not trip on his sword and i land on his nose. There are so EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE mon sense, a quality in which the way9 ,n wh,ch . American present British government, ac cording to "The Thunderer is visibly lacking. On the other side of the Atlan tic there is now a disposition to shift the blame for proposing nch a congress, which is likely to re semble an inquest rather than a conference. The British politic-1 ians Intimate that it was called at the suggestion of the late Briand government in France; while the Frenchmen place- the whole blame upon Lloyd George. Each country now seems to agree that it was a mistake to offer to " ' tCTTOOl , BIVVY - Q feroats HUK01 nxr WOKX rnyrfehV 1922, Awodated Editor The Blgxeat Little Paper la the World Edited by Job H. ItUlar I "A Japanese party, , X think, would be Just the thing for a little dinner party for na special date. said Peggy. - .V"You can decorate things up. sopettlly, y6u know." ; "Thafs "what I was thinking." r nodded Connie "When., mother eaid I could have you girls' over, I: Just racked my brains for some viay of giving a pretty part that Wouldn't cost ' bo awfully much. T Of course the Idea of JapaneM party is an oia one, dui us t- ay a good tne.r , Of course it Is." feaid Peggy, ''Have you made any plans yet?? "Well, yes," sa'd Connie, curl ing 'hp in! a corner of the. couch. I'll tell you about It. ' "1 thought about the decora- tjton first. ; I want thero to be very Japanesy. . ' I'm''' going to have a candlestick . at - each placa and; I'm making shades for them. Just plain little paper ahades with' Japaaesrv ' figures pasted on them which I'll cut trotfc paper napkin - For the .centerpiece '.S'ster; is making the cutest 'l'ttle Japanese garden. You ought to see it Peggy. She's making it In a sort ot 'flat "bow f llid 'with water. Bobby got " -r Pome sand1 and pebbles to r U around for the shore, and - f .-, fff - pnm port oi there's to be a llttlea cardboard bridge with a little Japanese, doll crossing It. Won't that be pret ty?" "It sure will," agreed Peggy. "And I 'pose yon'll have Japan ese lanterns ' strug around, and umbrellas and fans, won't you?" "That's what I planntd." said Connie. , "Oh, yes, and I forgo; to tell yon about the invitations. They're to be .written on long narrow strips of Japanese rlcs paper I got at the drag store. I'll commence writing them t the lower right-hand corner and write to the top of the paper from right to left. They'll look funny. "Mother's helping with the eats. I told her we all .like chop suey, t so ehe a making that Tor the main part, with tea. some sort of salad, sherbert. and some Japanese nuts she got at a aJp- anese store. You ought , to see the pretty Japanese water flow ers she got there, too. We're going to drop them in our glas ses when the dinner's over Dir you ever watch' theija bloom' " . "I should say I have." said Peggy "I love to watch them." "I haven't thought mnch about games yet." "continued Connie, "but we have a fish pond and that will be fnn. And we can play Japanese tag. You know that's the kind of tag where the one who's tagged' has to . put her hand . where'a she touched until she tags some one else. We used to play it at the- cottage last summer. - ' " "For quieter gamea y we can play that one where you' see who can pick the most grains of puf fed rice out. ofTa"saucer wfth chop sticks and put them in an other cup a little ways off. Each Torsion . is plvrn . three - m in a tea. '; 1 -a V-r' r f'-'-V "i "I've an idea!" cried Peggy. Since there's only going to be six girls, why don't you borrow six Japanese, kimonos and some bright sashes? Then give a ki mono, to each girl to put on as soon as she comes?" "That will surely make . it a Japanese party," laughed onnie. "I'm glad you're coming, Peggy. I think we'll have lots of tun." "So do I." r-id IVggy. and she hopped up and hurried out to the kitchen to see If the ludga they had made was cool. ONE REEL YARNS I THE HINGING TOPS. Sammy's grandfather always had tops for him. Sammy could remember how when he was a very little boy he would go into his grandfather's big room and ask for a top. Then his grand father would bring ont some wonderfully colored or strangely shaped top and spin It for htm, right on top of his desk. Sometimes one ot the tops would be given to him for his very own, and he would keep spinning It untlt he was tired and went to beg his grandfather for a new top. Most of all he liked the big humming tops with long strings for. spinning them. He liken their bright colors and low. mu sical tunes. His grandfather was always tinkering with them. He would never.' let Sammy have any of the big tops. Sammy could never think ot his grandfather wlthouV his tops. As he grew, older and the tops no longer appealed to him, hi 3 grandfather still kept buying tops, and Sammy realised that the old man had been buying the tops more to amuse himself than to amuse Sammy.; This worried Sammy little. "It didn't seem quite right for ait old man to be mouaeymg around "i with tops. mat wa a rport fotvlltUe boys. IN THE CaJII3GIA55 OSriTV. (BUT 1 " ' T anihAsaadpr, especially to the Brit rah, can trip.; It seems unneces sary to hang a sword on him and have it get between his legs. He can trip over his tongue. When a Chinaman goes offic ially to a British state event be goes as a Chinaman, in the gar ments his own national taste tells him are proper. He has his own traditions and customs and they are accepted as good. No British chamberlain would tell a Persian, Turk or Congo chieftain what to wear. Sitting Bull could have en tered Westminster Abbey in feath ers ant buffalo skins, but Mr. Harvey is informed that the mode reauires knee breeches and for them he. has neither the knees nor the calves. 1 If he had been per mitted to hang a pen from his sash he at least would have been physically safe. With the Bword he knew he was not, but he avoid ed the worst disaster. Chicago Tribune HAS A GOOD RECORD T E. H. Flagg. a former resident of this city and many years ago a representative of Marion county in the state legislature, is expected to be a candidate in the May pri maries for the office of Represen tative from Clatsop county, and FUTURE DATES March 81. Fridar "Mn. Tampla's Telram." Snikpoh Dramatic McietJ' play at tn mjrn h'mmi. April 5 and 6. VdndnT and Thurs day Joint ronrert of Willamette uniTer- aitjr glee -lut. vaiir nail. April 7, rnday ueoate Detwtcn n- lametU LniTernty and Denver laiver- Conccrning' the Viaduct. Editor Statesman: I had hop ed that after sober thought on the subject the matter of build ing a viaduct over the rallro?d at the fair grounds would be dropped, but according to Sun day's paper it seems to be almost a settled fact. I hope the pub lic service commission will Invest tlgate the matter fully before authorizing the work to com mence. I am quite sure the state high way commission never gave the subject a moment's sober thought, neither did they con suit with any one who is vitally interested in the matter, for it they had they would never have made the suggestions they did as quoted in the Sunday Statesman As an interested party I wish to call attention to the fact that it this viaduct is built as contem plated it will be one of the cost l'.est mistakes it is possible far Salem to make. As a first point, it is the de Sire to elmlniate the danger of the railroad crossing. While the danger from the raiway would be past, tht danger from motor traffic would be many times in creased. Imagine Salem or Port land choosing its two busiest streets and compelling all the traffic of both strteets to pass over one of them-in the interest of safety! During the summer months the travel on Pacific highway is tremendous, also on the Silverton road on Bnnoay and holidays; there is an almost continuous line of cars going both ways. And think ot condi tions at " fair time, and then think that the promoters ot this viaduct scheme propose to force these great streams ot cars and other vehicles to pass over a sin gle viaduct, the two lines cros sing each other at this point. How many policemen have tney decided it will take to separata the continuous jam on the via duct? Now. 1 wish to call tn attention . of the public service commission to tacts, not theo ries. The whole country north and northeast of Salem is a ?reat gran. hay, froit, and vege table producing section. Whin the same thing will occur at oth er times In a modified way 1 wish to take state fair week as an example. At this t'me of the year there are vast quantities ot fruit, hajtjkagraln. and wood go ing to Salem every day. On ill previous years the jam has been 30 great That officers had to be stationed at points to divert traf fic so that a movement was pos sible. If the viaduct Is built all traffic would be forced to one point, and the man with a load of fruit or anything else caught in this jam will Jbe lucky if he gets to his destination a half-day late. The canneries ought to put up a big protest against the viaduct, for It will mean great quantities of soft, half-spoiled fruit after being in the hot sun for hours. or If it should be wet weather as "t often Is during fair week what. will be the consequences to fruit or grain well soaked? What will the Portland people who attend the fair think of Salem for fore Ing them to stay three 'or four hours longer than they used to in their cars waiting to get in and having the same trouble get Ung out? What If there is an accident or some one is sick north of the viaduct, will the doctors have to wait for hours to get through the jam or travel 10 or 12 miles farther to go round the rfver road. The tourist travel will surely want to make Salem their home aTter s'tting for hours n the hot sun trying to get into town. Now I don't believe in condem ning a thing- without giving a so lution for the problem. I have heard It stated that the viaduct would cost about 1100.000; that amount at 6 per cent would cost iseoo per year In interests, to say nothing of having to pay the principal. Also, it Pacific high way was widened out at the rail road crossing so there, would be tots or room and a smooth cros sing and a. watchman employed to "6ped "'a"haclose' gates when tra'ns were passing the danger from trains and collision ot cars would be eliminated to the sat isfaction of the whole country involved. If the offer was made tomorrow that- tour men were wanted, two for day work and two for night work, tending this crossing at a salary of 1800 pe annum there would be plenty of good men who would be glad to take the positions. These men would cost the taxpayers $4300 per year instead of $6000 for In terest and 1100,000 principle. A. E. ZIMMERMAN. BlTSF0RBREAKFAST ; . t , .... ,. .,, . ... . -."Warmer rain. . : W Some candidates mast be drev ted. V V Not a bad idea to have the of- flee seek the man. even under J the direct primary system. r Boston Is getting her onions from Egypt. Wbat is the mat-, ter with the Oregon beaverdam onion lands? , The greatest ot all pests is the fellow who forgets that he has told you the same story ten times before. Yon know him. V V W At cynic says some widows at least have the consolation Ot knonrlng where their husbands ! are t night. - ' ' Crookedness does not pay look at the corkscrew, out ot Job. . V If you wish to talk without ln terruption. choose as your sub ject the man you are talking to. In almost any fight, the other fellow is scared as badly as you are. ' V Same men "get by" by looking wise, others by acting wise and here and there 'one by belhg wise. .'i V V A son-in-law of the late An drew Carnegie Is an assistant, professor at New York univers ity and It is assumed that he can aford to be. Tbo wireless telephone has been made a wonder np In the state of Washington. They are able to see the Bound. Exchange. Lafayette Mineral Springs, Oregon 4' If ar affaria frm rhminatlam. yie aeut 4iathais. co.t. BrUthf. aiaaaaa, iabetea, dmaaar of the awvana arttw t" V1"1 ws eaa ran r raliava y. Htel aad OotUtM. - Aik for Wfonaotioa. It is also asserted that the mustache is- coming back. We understand the gentle sex prefer those with the bristly effect, but tnis may he a calumny. Ex. BONDS City of UNION 6 Gold Bonds Theao reaeral obltf atlea toada jiiard for water ad air eft Im provements, aaa mstaring aerially 1928 to 1942, yield the investor 5.75$ i J A They ere laeome to ezeaapt and re aeemred bjr all the taublo prep erty la this abatantlal elty otta ted io tha meit fertile lectieo ( the famous Grand Rondo valley. Circular on reqatst Wm. McGIIrArist, Jr. , Resident Representative Clark, Kendall ft Co., Room 201 United Statea National Bank Building Salem. Oregon ' BONDS father's house became farther apart. It embarrassed him to have the old gentleman always bringing out the tops to show , . ... . . I it. mm. uestaes, some or nis inenas i pril 7 Friday "HooaieT School Ma made sly remarks about his 'chil-lter." prwated by Mtsa Waiton'a dish old grandfathtr, always playing with tops,. Sammy was ashamed to speak to his grand father, and his former love of tops' turned to hatred of the sight of them. .119 felt that It was all a family disgrace. (tadeata vnder direction of American Lo tion Auxiliary. April 7, Friday "Pant Rerere" to bo preaeated by Salem high ecaool maaie department. April 8, Satorday County Odd Felloa mevtinc at Aomsrillr. April 12. Wednesday County commun ity club federation meta in 8a1em. " Anni it. rnday i.t ear oo wai-fe i : j - u rr: i,k -v. vj i m uivuiu oauiiu uau laertrtary ot etate. not been to see his grandfather. Then one day his grandfather called him up. "Thought . you'd like to come over for sniper to-1 n'ght. Sammy," he saWi f'Have-' n't sen yon for some time. I'm having a sort of celebiiation. A man Is writing up a big maga sine story abdut my collection of tops. And that isn't -all. I've just sold the rights to a. s.ttging top I've been working, on. Bti ter come over, Sammy, and help us celebrate." April is to si 'Better If mala" week TODAY'S PUZZLE. SEACS. WOHXS. ZEABL, MR, V SO, OROLF. t When the above groups of let ters are rearranged to form words, their. 'agonsVs,! jading ,1 ,f4iU irom upper left to lower right. form a piece of furniture. ; v Answer;,- to - .yesterday': 4 ;, Lot, m Salau April IS. Sunday Easter. April 18, Tuesday Whitney Boys Chorus to ai at Christian ehnrek. May 1. Monday W. W. Rllavnrth. eotd editor and literary man, to address Willamette students. Msy 4. 5 and 6. Oberrian Coerrinso. Mar IS. Saturday Junior vaeh-aud entMrtainmeat at O. A. O. May 19, Friday Primary election. May 19, Friday Open house, aeience department of high school. Mar 20. Haturcay Marion County achnol athletes meet. May 26 and 27. Friday and Saturday May Festival. Oratorio Creation Friday la armory; lirini pictures Saturday nlf it June . Monday Track meet, Willam ' otto and Paeifie University at Forest Orovo. June 14. Wednesday Fla Day. Jme 18, Friday Hick school graduation. Juno 29-80, July t Coavoattaa trefoa rm vamu'. oaaociaUoa at Marsh field. July S nnd 4 Monday and Tueeday. State ooaveatioa of Artinaae at Woodhra. beptomoer 13. Wednoaday Oregon meeU ia Kiln SeptaanW 2t, 22 and 2 Peadleioa BCTteib ss a an i. n..... fteo Fair, - . . -. , km Pay Beca use Firtt, It carries Associated Press dispatches. Second, It leads in the presentation of local news Third, It leads all others in paid circulation, j fourth, It is a morning newspaper in circulation sixteen hours each day. Fifth, It is a home paper the place where the merchant does his business. v Sixth, It is a growing newspaper for growing bus iness concerns- Seventh, It is a booster paper back of the interests of Salem and its people. Be a Statesman Advertiser And Be a Paying Business t i