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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL S. 1922 lamed Dally Except Monday by .TITO STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPACT 215 8. Commercial St, Salem, Oregon . , (Portland Office, 27 Doard of Trade Building. Phone Automatic t ;.!-: ' .-.ri r-J 627-6S .r . .i. ' MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - - The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks .......... Manager Stephen A. Stone Managing Editor Ralph Olorer . . . .. . . ; .'.'. Cashier Frank Jaskoakl ;..... ... .................. .Manager Job Dept TELEPHONES: . ; Business Office, 21 - - ' 1 '" "' fJ Circulation Department, SSS , - o yv :. jO0 Department. SSI ".'i 'f ""Society Editor, IOC ; Entered at the Poalof flea In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter THE WORKINGMAN'S INCOME . The women jnrors in Marion county, are siring a, good account of themselves. The pioneering In this line is being done by a num ber of women who would reflect credit as members; of any com pany of poised and decent and sensible men and women. the coalition government that has directed the affairs of Great Brit-Conservative leaders 'suddenly re- ain since 1915. He warned bU Conservative associates-, that,' if B.,M. Jewell, head of the! shop crafts unions, tells the Railroad Labor Bpard that in order to support his family de cently a mechanic must have $2636.97 a year. It is an im pressive total -i - '-l ' " ., : Being made all the more so by evidence of the care with which it has been worked out. , It might have seemed that a total of $2637 would have been sufficiently accurate for all practical purposes, but the railroad I men's budget-makers scorn the slightest deviation from absolute exactitude. : They do not propose to live under the charge that they added three cents to a total reached by process of careful figuring. ,-" But the making of budgets on paper, no matter liow care fully it is done, does not provide the mean! of paying the in? comes "they call for '" ' -: V- V I '"" h -V it. Nor does the fact that the figures are carried odt to mi nute fractions and in the total are expressed to the last cent jndicate that they tell the. truth as representing the actual needs of the.. American family. If Mr. : Jewell is right, an American family cannot be supported in reasonable comfort on an income of less than $50 a week, but millions of fam ilies who manage living in comfort 'on much smaller incomes know that Mr.-Jewell is .wrong. .,.7 'v I; u 0 It is a case where the obvious facts speak louder than JewellV figures ; ' ; :;V ; ' ' 0 f It is fortunate that Mr. Jewell is wrong. Were be right, it would be necessary for a great number of Americans to live in want and misery, because the national income does not make possible any such minimum wage as Mr. Jewell asserts to be necessary. The census figures show that the American family, on the averageis composed of 4.3 persons. - The na tion's total income in 1919 was estimated to be $66,000,000, 000. ;it is now probably not much more than $50,000,000,000, Obviously only a portion' of it can be distributed in the form of-wages. A moment's figuring will show that a universal $50-a-week income for the families of the workers cannot be brought to" pass at this time, and in all probability for a long time to come. There is not income enough to go around on that basis.;! :!:.. i . ; fv. ' There are a good many, thousands of very good people right here in Oregon; and many of them fat-Marion' county and in Salem, who Would be glad s if they could be assured steady work at half of $50 a week; J j " And there are a good many, too, mcludiagA great many farmers working and willing to work 16 hours a day, who would be glad to be sure of earning their board and clothes tnd enough over to pay their taxes. A good deal depends upon the start- that is being made by the independent company that is un dertaking to handle the flax in dustry In the Salem district. And It has every mark ol a good, con servative, well managed start It is a pity the 1000-odd acres of flax that is to be cultivated in the Salem district this year could not have been 10,000 or more. But the 10,000 acres will come. The movement is on its way. And 10,000 acres will be only a fair start upon the big future that is bound to come in due coarse of time In the development of the industry in the Willamette val ley. 1 IlALFOin AXD THE PEERAGE - . Oregon prunes are the premier prunes of the world, and our loganberries are in a class ot excellence all by themselves. We know it But these industries have got to be advertised in the printed page and to the consumers of this country and of the world, if their expansion in acreage is to go on 'pro gressively and profitably. There is no other way. We must mak everybody know it J : " l" Sir Arthur Balfour, acclaimed in England and in most of the world outside as the greatest liv ing British statesman, has defi nitely ended his political career by (tfrofdssing a willingness t,o accept a peerage and retire to the aristocratic seclusion of the house of lords. I A short month ago be delivered what has been accepted as the greatest political address of his career.; The coalition government was tottering -and Lloyd George had .threatened to resign. Brit ish politics was a seething fer ment of unrest and Britsih fin ance, and industry were trimming their sails. The Conservative press of great Britain called upon Mr. Balfour to assume as a duty to .his country the premiership of Great Britain. The honor was his for the taking. A majority in parliament was ready to fol low his ' leadership. 1 Then came his memorable adr dress'.: delivered at a luncheon ot the City, Carleton club Qf London. It was a notable gathering of the Unionist , and ConservatiTe clans. Sir Arthur was introduced by the toastmaster as "a trusted leader of the Conservative and Unionist party, whoso advice is as disin terested as it is inspiring and sa gacious, whose labor at Wash ington resulted, not In pious as- plratiohs.'but in practical instru ments." . There was tense excitement, in London - And without. A word from the successor to Gladstone's title, the great Commoner, could overthrow the existing govern ment, could change the political complexion' of Great Britain and perhaps-Europe. i But that word was not spoken. His address was a eulogy of Lloyd George and a ringing defense of acted. The other Unionif and jhas rendered to his country and the world a notable service. , they attempted to form a govern ment now. It would very likely wreck the party and throw all Europe into confusion. ' I do' sot doubt the merits of the two-party system,' he saH, but remember that it is a fair- weather system." And he gave a brief resume ot world condi tions at the present time to show that the present unity must be preserved "We are still in what may be called conditions analo gous to war," he resumed, "pre senting the same kind of diffi culties and requiring the same kind of unity of purpose and con tinuity of policy." Referring to Lloyd George, he paid: "No man has had a great er burden to bear than the pres ent prime minister, and no man has more gallantly borne it. He has impressed, not merely his own personality, but the au thority of this country, on all the nations of the world. His name will stand out as one of the great est figures of one of the greatest periods of the world's history. - . What is the use or abusing him? You are not going to pull him down from the prop er niche he is destined to occupy In the historical gallery." Within 24 hours after the de livery of that address the crir.i? in British politics had passed.' His sacrifice of personal ' ambition, his elimination of self for the public good, for the security of the empire calmed the troubled waters. Balfour had spoken and FUTURE DATES April , Saturday County Odd Fellow meet in i at AnmiTille. April 10, Monday WilUmrtt- nniTer aity ehapel. Prof.- Fajcs, "Vitaminrs nd the balanced dirt," 8 p.m. April 12. Wednesday County rrm inan ity club federation meets in Ealem. April 14, Friday Last day on which candidate for ststs offices may file with secretary of state. May 12, Friday Concert by Mary Srholtt, violinist. Grand theatre. April IS U 2a ' "Better Mum" week ia Palest. Aril IS, Snndav laatev. April 18, Tuaaday Whitney Boyi Cfctraa to elnx at Chrintiaa cbnrrh ' April 27, Thursday lOOth AnnWefsary. of birth of V. 8. Grant. April 27. Thrrftfay 100th anniver sary of birth of General IT. S. Grant. May 1, Monday W. W. Ellsworth, noted editor and titersry msn, to address Willamette students. May 4, 5 and 8. Gherriaa Cherringo. May 18, Saturday Joaior week-sad entertainment at O. A. C. My i, Friday Primary election, i May 19, Friday Open hoasa. science cTartnint of hira acbooi: May . 20, Saturday - Marion County school athletes meet. May 26 and 27. Friday and SstnrdsT May FettiYil. Oratorio Creation Friday la armory: living pictures Satardap might June 3, Saturday--Automobile races at stste fair ground. June 5, Monday Track meet, Willsnj aita and Pacific UniTeraity at Foreat WTOTO. aliied that to attempt to form a government or to go before the country in a general election in defiance of that inhibition would be political suicide. 1 But the British people would net be content. They agreed with Sir Arthur that two-party gorernment was not desirable at this time. They were jwilling to spport a coalilion government all but the radical -Liberals and the Labor par.tr; but they wanted Sir Arthur at the head of it They were going to draft him into the public service. Now confes his wnilngness to accept a peerage that he refused 20 years ago. By doing so he voluntarily eliminates himself from the premiership and from the house of commons, of whicln he is now a meinber; for no peer can sit in the lower bouse. Why has he done so? England will be sobered by his action. It will make men think, alike the manual worker and he who lives on his income. For him the peerage is an empty hon or. As be is a bachelor, the title tvili die with him. It Is an act of renunciation. He has accepted what Gladstone declined. The thoughtless will accuse him of toadying to royalty; but thinking men and women will understand. Formerly a man was "ennobted' when he was "elevated" to a peerage. But in this instance it is the hou?e of lords that is en nobled. . For the moment Balfour has sacrificed his popularity with the masses. No one knows that bet ter than he; and he takes the step SENATORIAL ALOOFXESS Sir Phillip Gibbs, the eminent English correspondent and obser ver, in writing his Impressions of governmental life in this country. 'says that a great gulf exists be tween the United-States senate and the liberal thought of the nation. The rVenate is out Of touch with the masses and per sists in its aloofness. The Eng lishman is a definite authority on the subject of which he writes and his views of the situation at Washington are reflected by the oifidaldom of Europe. ' The out side world believes that the Am erican senate In its frigid atti tude toward the League of Na tions and international comity Is not responsive to the pulse of the people. KEKS IX THE BOXXKTS Thus far there are said to be six women candidates for congress in different districts In the coun try. buthe year Is yet young and the number will surely be in creased. "Thus far the house has never haia more than one lady member at a time. It must be a trifle lonesome Occasionally, but it will "be some years beforethe ladies achieve a congressional membership proportionate to their numbers. not srreiTAcrirf., bit effective. Tbe remark of a prominent magazine editor that President with full knowledge of that sac- Harding has no elements of spec- Tirtue centered. Uke th neau of every great business concern in private enterprise, he called to his aid men of hlgu ability ana entrusted to them the duties and responsibilities of the several de partments. No branch ol the government service has been com pelled to 'delay its ; work. while waiting word from him. Recog nizing the limitations of time and human strength, he has been wll ng" Jthat' other ahall erfcrclse) power, and he has been generous in according them full credit for what they have accomplished. Mr. . Hafding has made the White House the headquarters' of a truly popular government. rH toting significance to the name of democracy. Little "of thla could have been written concern ing Mr. Harding if he had given himself up to spectacular efforts. THE FULL JAIL The federal prisons are so full that the government will have to provide another criminal retreat at once, there is suggestion that the site of Camp Grant be used Tor the creation of the country's greatest industrial prison. It is near Chicago and might easily be v stocked up from the bootleg gers and postal bandits of that bustling section. , THE BUEAD LINE June 14, Wednesday riSs; Day. Job 1. Friday High tlchool graft rifice. lie has given an example for other Englishmen to follow. Gladstone refused a peerage when the house of lords was strong. Now the upper house Is weak It is dominated anJ humiliated by the house of commons and Balfour casts his lot with the lords. v ' - Nations become great through personal sacrifice. Balfour has Collowed the example that Wash ington set when he refused a third term. Twenty years ago Balfour was the British premier and the head of the dominant Unionist party. At that time he Wis offered a peerage and de clined it with the rather con temptuous rejoinder, "I am not 3t rea&y to enter an old-folks ome." Now he has declined the premiership and agreed to enter the lords. He has made English men think, and in so doing he tion June ua- 29-80. July 1 TViiiTnntlna f ureoa Tat vniefa' association at atarsh- 'Jaly t and 4 Monday and Tuesday, fitata convention of Artisans at Woodbora September 13, Wednesday Oregon Methodist conference meets in Salem. September , jj and tt Pendletoa reond-np. September 25 to SO inclusive Orecoa Stats Fair. NoTxmber T. Tuesday General also SCHOOTs TTJDT J?0T . W t ;:-., sW HTJMOK PLAY WOEK Copyright, 1 19Z2, AsaocUted Editors The Biggest Little Paper in the World FHlitexl by John II. Millar I FPU GIRLS TO f,lAKE t Once upon a tlmo 'A girl , . ' Was , cleaning . out her workbas- kct .. And she found a lot of spools ! Without any thread on them. She was about to throw them . But she stopped and said: . I wonder if I couldn't , make something, with them?" . So she thought ; , '-. " i'- ' And thought.' . -J ' " "If I : had some more spools I'd ' -make - L " r'r - ;U A bureau and piano. and lots more things.- ; Could you? Then ahe got some cardboard - 'And. scissors , . 'And set to work.' " First, she took four r pool a of ' the 'same'slze,' f'.lU'-i i'i And on them glued , cardboard " bent up at one end; That was the bed. Then she cut out round pjoco of cardboard And she glued It on another spool. That was tbe table. 1 She took a little roll ot white pa- . per- ..-- v -;.'; ,:-V'Ti yr''r'r-l And stack It in another spool; Thai was the table. She took a little roll of white pa- ,'- Per :','---'."-lv'v' r ? '"'' And stuck It in another spool And crimped a circular. piece i of paper for a shade. " , That was the floor lamp! - The took her last spool and blew thro u ch it ' "" "' '' ! ONE REEL YARNS I : r IlOW JANET MOX OFT V Papa' was on Janet's side, but Mother r could" not give in, and Janet pleaded in vain to have her hair bobbed. It was useless, and Jane .was ..hopeless, because, she lhad .promised ithat she " Vould never have it cut without her mother's consent "She will let me some day,'" boasted Janet. U :;.If. .y.u ever get your mother to let yohi cut, your hair off 'I will sive you. a dollar for every curl," promised Papa, recklessly. Or -Majr day morning, Janet Betty -and Charlotte set forth to spend the day In the woods. All monfing they picked flowers, and In the afternoon "they set upa May-vole and - danced about f it "Let's all me May queens.',' sug gested - Charlotte, "and - the ono that can , make the ; prettiest wreath Can be the first queen," Aay - they scampered In search ot flowers." .'..4 a .; Janet was unlucky. She could not seem to find many flowers, but she did find some lovely last season's burs, and with these fo a background and a few leaves and. f lowers, she made a wreath lhat even Betty and Charlotte agreed :: was ? beautiful. Janet pulled it tar down over her curls so . that it would hot eome" off, fH arrj going to wear It home to rhow mother," she declared, and at sundown she came tripping in. crying, "Mother, see my lovely wreath." , r r , ' , "It ,1j beautiful." i-agreed "her mother, "but now take It off and come to supper.. Jant -reached up to remove It- and found it In place for good. - The leaves came and the Dowers came, but not llie't'ars.- V- " " '' r' : "Janet, Janet, what have you done " wailed; .Mother. I "I think," said Father, "that she has earned fifteen dollars." "Sixteen," corrected Janet and went meekly lo get The scis- Bors. . - FOR BOYS TO MAKE Springtime is top time Wooden tops and tin; Springtime is top time- Whiz and whir and spin. The .Boy. Next , Door was spin- is . 4coo OCK 1 f o stglTHSif . : : 1 nins a couple ot tops on the side Walk in front of his. house, keep ing them both going at the same time Laurie watched htm and scowled. He had broken his last top, and his pockets were empty, i. '"Wish youi had. a top, son?" said Mother. j "Yes," said Laurie. , l "Weir, why don't you make some? My brother used to make tbern out of ?".. , ' 11 s "Come with me,' said Mother. She went out into the, kitchen and took out I ot the ' vegetable basket a big round beet, just the same ehajs 89 a Jwjoodea- top, "Now take your knife.'', she dU rected, "and a piece of soft klnd-i ling wood and whittle a pointed peg and-stick It Into the. pointed end of tbe beet. Of course you aiust'-wash thg'bect-Bftfirst. tacularity is absolutely true. When Mr. Harding was a news paper ediior, he permitted no sen sationalism in his columns. Every line of his paper was fit to read in any home. v - His service in the senate was without a single ' appeal to the galleries or to the writers of head lines. His. campaign for the ptes idency was conducted with all the dignity that Is becoming to a con test of that national importance. In private life Mr. Harding was a. careful, enterprising,- depend able business man; in public life he has conducted himself in ac cordance with habits of thought and action formed in many years of practical experience in-dealing with his fellow men. 8 . He has not pretended that he alone can save the nation from its ills nor has he assumed that in him alone are all wisdom and Now they are persuading us to eat spinach bread. We have al ready tried alfalfa meal biscuits and bean muffins. Seems as if they were disguising bread In more different ways than were ever dreamed .of before. . They are flavoring it with alhiost every thing but wheat. If a man had to live by bread alone-he could find varieties enough to hint at a course dinner. Exchange. INTERNATIONAL GAMES Even the women in Japan are learning to play baseball. We are liable to meet Japan In the big league before we. are broth ers in the League of Nations. ' It baseball ' is our national game, can we permit other countries to play it without special dispen sation? What does Hiram John son think about the Japs playing baseball? Is this another plot to make us slaves of the- mikado?- Los Angeles Times. display of entlment, ao they ay. ' Wa hare janother man. oni 11 won't do, because It la based on selfishness. Why not gtvar those - Immense masses of metal to the machinery makera ot the coun rr An eight-inch geared wheal for our cylinder press cosU $51 at the factory. Jlayb) the gift of ome iron-to tne press maaera aronld reduce that cost somewhat Holden (Mo.) Progress. BITS FOR BREAKFAST : Tempua fugit; time flies w Time to get all th political , hata Into the ring. ' Alec LafolleU says . prospects for a peach crop, were never bet- ter. The late blossoming season a month late will, likely bring on the blooms without Injury from frost He thinks he may have enough peaches to pay his taxes thia year. One season, a few years' ago, he had about 18,000 boxes. ' ;- S V . Perhaps the - lateness of tha spring season may have something to do with the delay In naming the Salem postmaster. Mrs. Wilson, formerly society editor of The Statesman, Is to go into the poultry Industry on a ! scientific and extensive scale, ou her farm a few miles south of Salem. Thus the poultry Industry her 'keeps on. booming. It's a. great life, and there's money in it. for those who know how and . mix brains with hard and. pains taking labor. ' V ... ... ; "- Roald Amundsen flew from Washington to New York April 1 in the all-metal airplane which 4 he is to use during his five-year .. drifting voyage across the "North pole. It behaved very well In a ,. heavy rain and a strong head wind which perhaps made as difficult conditions as It will encounter in -the Arctic. If all goes well the machttre should add greatly to the "-known- area In the far north. w Paris hears that. tbe first thing that Lloyd George Is to propose to the Russian delegation at Genoa Is a cut of 50 per cent in tha Red army, with provision for further a reduction. In. return he is said ' to plan the offer of a pledge by all European nations that for 10 years they will not attack Russia. JTJSU A SUGGESTION A bunch of Idealists want all discarded warshipa sunk In tha ocean. It would be i glorious What a language Is the Eng- llshi A woman who sews Is not t a sewer, but a seamstress. - J GH EST COLDS sXpply over throat and chest ' - cover with hot flannel cloth VAPO RUD Million Ian (W Ynrty Then wind a string around. It with a button mold on one end. land throw it as you would a wooden peg top. v "Another toip he used to make with a series of four circles, each 1 half inch smaller than the one above it. Ho" drew them out on soft wood and cut them out with lis jackknife. Then he cut' a hole n the center of each circle and fitted them op a piece of wooden neat skewer he'd get from the Mttcher. And . he'd paint the Uses with water colors.. j v .".Oh, yes, and he. used to make 1 cunning top out of one ot those big (Tutton taolds tailors ise for coats. He'd enlarge the o!e in the center and stick - a meat skewer through it. He'd, nake one in 00 time." .Later that day Laurie was ially rpinning three tops on the sidewalk before hie house. The Boy Next Door watched him and scowled. TjODAVS PUZZLE f . Of the following two . words, half the letters of one should be exchanged for the same, number of letters in the otherv "hen the right letters are exchanged, two" animals are found: f Couaje, vog-' tar ' l " 1 - Answer to yesterday's: Stew,' hod, raw. "Westward Ho." (fgRANjn) SALEJV1 SEES If - THEATRE '' ' ' j0 The Man SSSHW 'r UBW ': V vv a v Vx $y - A Colossi Drama of, with sPedai rionieLarioviiereeven Saints are Sinners i Orchestra E dominates women because he knows their weaknesg. He. knowaand they know and you know he knows m this amazmo- j presented in settings so rich your eyes wvilf grow round with wonder. MONTE CARLO :. KrhZ Ad'-of Prince and rkT?' Roues. Gentlemen and ers-of Idle Husbands and Foolish , w Ives, maenihcrni v j t . - - . . J ' r "cu xor you on the screen. '8 mt , .as Prices: Superb-ArtitiFrUhrnmn i i '-SJ a.' , 121 "I evenings 50c and2rTTn m ! a : v. ) j ,J ,5" I . w V- m a t A ft : a i t ' t -a . 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