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) Ijc Ctejxrn statesman -. Issued Daily Except Monday by -THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPART ' .215 S. Commercial St., Salem. Oregon . , (Portland Office, 617 Board of Trade. Building. Phone Automatic . ; . 411-93 : - . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tae Associated Press I exclusively entitled to the use for pabll catlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In ibis paper and also the local new published herein. . R. 1. Hendricks Stephen Stone Ralph Glover frank Jaskoski ) TELEPHONES: Business Office. IS Circulation Department, fill ' Job Department, 581 . . Society Editor, IOC ; Entared at th Postoffico in Salem, THE POWER OF .'. ...'..... ' j Even in evil .there is good. The coaVstrike stimulated enormously the use and development and possible use and development of water power. . More of it will be harnessed up to go on "working forever, as long as the sun lifts the water and the clouds drop it in rain. ; One American paper mill has arranged to produce steam for a 5000 horsepower boiler, by electricity instead of coal. ; Loss than 3 per cent of the world's water power is now developed- , ; And of the amount developed nearly half is in the United States . - And of all the water power in the United States nearly 50 per cent is in the Columbia river; basin in Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho. . . ' " : But half of all the water power in the world is in Africa, practically all going; to waste One of these days it will all be used; and the water power of Africa and the gigantic waterfall 'in BraziT, far greater in jtower than the Niagara, will some day send, without wires, power to flying machines a" thousand miles away. The learned Steinmetz, head of the General Electric, has just predicted that power will be trans mitted by radioby, wireless , : j . And it will be, and men will fly over the North Pole, burn " ing no fuel, driven and heated by power from Niagara, or the Rio Grande,-or .the Columbia, or the Little North Fork of the Santianu i . Joseph Watrous Prosser, a Rhode Island school teacher, has discovered a new fuel from the cheap disintegration of the elements of water in contact with a little crude oil or his financial backerElbridgeiPerry Snow, the 82 year old president of the Home Insurance Company, says he has and Mr. Snow is a hard headed expert in such matters. If he is not mistaken; this will revolutionize many condi tions s .. ,.; 1 ; But it is not likely, for most uses, that there will ever be as cheap a power as that developed by the running of water ; down hill; direct water power or hydroelectric power. It is pretty plain now that there will not be another coal strike, or if there is one it will still further speed up the development of our unused water powers, and that in due course all the water powers will be U3ed V ' And that this will have the. effect of transferring the center of manufacturing in the 'United States front "the At- lantic to the Pacific side of the country, and that the most intense activities will be in the Columbia basin. ! - WHAT MAKES BUSINESS Batten's' Wedge has made a discovery about business. What makes it great? fNot machines, not patents. "It's people 3ays the Batten publication, and then it con tinues: r:v::';. Vs- ! : "You may go and search for the right people and maybe SCHOOL STUDY arosxs Copyright, 1023, AModated Editors mTUNE-TEUJNG--SECRETS OF PALMISTRY By tiAUNET ' briwon No. 7: The Heart Line "(In these ten lessons,' Mrs. Oar net Thatcher, who has studied ; palmistry for 23 years, ; reveals the secrets of vLi age-did art. Be. lleve as much, of it 'as you want to th afs p ' to Vou. At any ate. you'll ... have Y fun "Helling ..your friend's fortunes.'- - An '.amateur fortune-teller is always popular at parties.) -;"; . , C IY,"i 1 The-line of heart rises on or near the mount "of ' Jupiter- -the little pad at the base of the first finger- and crosses the hand, us ually parallel to the line of head. When-it has IU start on Jupiter (a. Fig. 1), the nubject is a hero : worshipper with high ideals, who thinks those he loves are better than they really are, and is some times disappointed. If.ihowever. the line rises between Jupiter and and Saturn, or .sends a branch to , that mount , lb. Fig. 1),' there- is more common -sense In the afiec- t'ons, though the' person is' always anxious to d,o -things, for those he loves. : i; -Heart, bead and. life lines tied at the Mart, (a. Fig.-), are a very unfortunate sign,' indicating jeal : ousy which bluds the p.eraon so .. . . a ' ... I ne loses an jnagmeni wncn uib n.i lections are concerned. , 8.lfiHhne!Mi" Itevealed : - .. lino ris.ja, tha , . ' . . ... .Manager ..Managing Editor s Manager Job Dept. Oregon, as second class matter ? THE FUTURE -. . The Biggest Little Paper in the World THATCHER middle of Saturn (a. Fig. 3), the affections are selfish and coarse. If the line rises well upon the mount (b. Fig. 3), ideals ar low. If the heart line is longer than the head line, the heart rules the m'nd. Such a person will do any thing for love, and is careless of consequences. If the heart line curves toward the head line (c. Fig. 1), the judgment is too much Influenced . by tha affections, but if the head line curves toward the heart line (d, Fig. 3), reason gov. erns. Ficklenewe Expord A chained hcaH Une (b Fig. 2) shows fickleness and shallowness of affection, wh'le breaks in. the line forecast disappointments in love. ;.;"- . -.. ' When there is little or no heart line there is r-ranty affection par. ttcularly it the hand is thin and white, an additional sign of cold ness and-selfishness. .,.- .. The heart line usually ends in a tassel (c. Fig. 3), predicting the gradual weakening of the heart action at th eclose,of life. Next'Week: '"The Fate Une." r With the coming on of fall weather it will be a standoff be- U ween the radio and the radiator. you can find them. But if your business is one that the pub lic knows, your business will attract people to it. . "You can pick your personnel from the country's best. "To advertise is to be seen, to be heard, to be known. Call these things a by-product of advertising if you want to, but the fact that the business that is nationally known is the business that people are proud to say they work for is a fact not to be overlooked. W ."Let your business be known. Gain public acknowledge ment of your existence and your right to exist. Get in good people, and the rest follows." But in advertising, make no mistake about the medium. A reliable newspaper counts much when seeking to present arguments to readers who are intelligent and eager for the things that justify expenditure -for person or household. Newspaper advertising i3 the best of all forms of advertis ing for the great majority of advertising campaigns The best for quick results - And the best for the cumulative results; for the value that is built up by persistent publicity ; that creates the val uable asset of good willof the going business; of the estab lished trade. ' .' ; ! The important thing is the pick ing of the fruit crops. The pick-, era are among our most useful citizens. There is no excuse for an idle hand in the Salem district and there will not be till the fruit harvesting season is over. Salem's building 'activity is still increasing. And yet an ad vertiser in The Statesman of Son day morning was offering to pay a premium to any one telling him where be could rent a desirable Louse. '. As 8623 Jokesmiths have an nounced that China's Sun has set, none of them should be surprised to note that same Sim rising again within 12 hours. Cleveland Plalndealer. Northcliffe is making copy for the newspapers, like a thorough bred journalist, even after his death. A will contest turning on his sanity when the second will was executed might have been Journalistically appreciated even by him. One of the most important events that ever occurred in Sa lem will take place this week in the plans to be made under the sponsorship of Methodism of this section for the adding of a mil lion dollars to the endowment funds of Willamette university one-third of which is conditionally Fledged by the General Education board, the funds for which are furnished by John D. Rockefel ler. .. ' - What is the matter with our movie brides? The San Francisco Chronicle asks this question and then proceeds t answer it correctly.- "10ne obvious answer," says the Chronicle, "is that tho miraculous blossoming of movie land has brought too much money to a lot o'f untrained persons who THE SHORT STORY, JR. : MAKING OVER MOTHER Cllve looked down disapprov ingly at his mother, who was sit ting In the porch swing, all curl ed up. She was reading and munching peanuts. You wouldn't have believed. looking at her there, that the was old enough to be the mother of a tall lanky boy in his teens. 'Smatter, Skeezix?" she in quired. "You look like the wrath to come!' "I wish you wouldn't talk that way he answered irritably. She looked up solemnly. "My son. may 1 ask what is troubling you? You appear disturbed." Then she jumped up and gave him t little hug and laughed. "I know what's the matter," she de clared. "You're worrying becauwi haven't gray hair and ddn't wear flowing gowns, and act like a nice; sweet old lady." Cllve flushed a little, because It was the truth. For some time he had been feeling ashamed of hi? mother. She acted so young and foolish. Of course she was not very old. but she ought to actmore-well like a mother. He had been thinking about this especially since George Fos ter moved into the neighborhood. George ' had a real mother, dig nified.; with lovely gray hair and a low ; sweet . voice. : Her house was always clean as a pin; every thing about her seemed to go smoothly. ';' ;r , ' "Nothing's the master, Cllve evaded. "I got to meet George. He wriggled away, 'jumped oft the porch and vaulted the hedge into the adjoining yard.; He let out a whoop as he saw his friend on the porch. , George came running. "."Cut it out, he warned In a "low voice. "Mother .thinks ydu're too noisy. It hurts her head to have us yell ing around." Cllve looked crest fallen - as he followed George to the porch. Theyf sat a while in silence. "Tell you what," sug gested Clive, "let's maker candy. I can ; make some swell fudge, honest." . . George looked startled, "I guess have not learned 'to take. It or iet it alone." That is practically the only answer; but the Chroni cle goes on to say: . "Another may be that the movie stars are trying to outdo all that the dra matic world has hitherto shown in the matter of temperament." The Chronicle loses sight "or an important point. It is true thai, even a generation ago the actors and actresses of the spoken drama were given to "connubial convul sions," but they were in no dan ger of achieving fuch doubtful eminence in that department as the modern mavle performers be cause the actor's job in those days required some brains. One doesn't need brains to be a movie star; ami the combination of too much money and too little brains is responsible for the present condition. When Trotzky said, "What Am ericans found here is better than the stories told about us by our enemies outside; so we await: the result ; without misgiving," he merely Indulged in hot air. Mrs. Eleanor Franklin Eagan, writing a series of articles in the Satur day Evening Post, after a long visit and through investigations in Russia, where she was attach ed to the American-Relief associ ation forces, tels such a story aa no , one any where could fhaVe much exaggerated, no matter how black "they may have painted things in Russia. Mrs. Egan. found them about as bad as they could possibly be; nTl in many respects growing worse, if, fiWe and evidently bound to get . FUTURE DATES SeptamVr 5, Tuesday - bafarette-.' Ifarn Aar. . September C, Wednesday -OrraBr Ketkodiat Conference. Balem. , September 7. S aad 9 State Elka, convention, Seaaide. September 21. S3 aad 23 Pendlaten roaad-np. J September 25 to 10 iaohtmive Orefoa State fair. October S, 6 and 7 Polk County fair, Dallaa - f NoTamber 7, Tjeaday General alee. ETTMOB PLAY WOKS Edited by John H. Millar not, he said. "Mother , would have a fit if we tracked up the kitchen. Besides, she says can dy isn't good for us. "I always have tp, tell her I spent my money forvBomething different when I buy candy." "You. mean you can', tell her the truth ?'; gasped Clive. "Of course not. She wouldn't understand lots of things, any way." A few minutes later Clive vaulted the hedge again. He sur prised his mother with a regular bear hug. "Come on peaches," he cried happily. "Let's go make jBome candy and mess up the place something fierce. I PICTURE PUZZLE Toe 4ja.tera m the tiare cf a &?,n8 .statesman of tb U3 MyS been rMrJ:-. J l h :'' '---s aZ'' . Anewer to lat paizle; ' Hum, pine" apple, t earraat, blackberry. 7' u still worse as long as the Trotzky crowd shall remain on deck. TBOTZKYS "HANDOUT " : I . A 'handout," to the hobo. Is a sanawicn or piece oi pie pre sented at the kitchen door ana preferably not to be consumed on the 'premises. To the journalist concerned with affairs of state, it is a package of propaganda neatly done up in the form of an inter view. A slight misunderstanding uf this distinction, it is related In a Washington anecdote, gave concern to the wife of a news paper correspondent, when he told her that he was going to the White House for a "handout. Trotzky lived long enoueh In New York to be thoroughly famil iar with American ways, and is quite bright enough to appreciate the advantages of the mass in terview. He saw ,15 foreign! correspondents a week ago Fri day, gave them what he wanted to get published, and courageously submitted to a cross fire of questions which he an swered or parried with a good deal of skill. If this is the be ginning of a new system of regu lar1 interviews, there should ba an opportunity for muchfuller information about Russia, and the "handouts' are not so likely an !n western, countries to be what London journalists call "tripe." In the long list of the faults , of the "soviet government reticence is not included. In his talk on Friday a week ago, Trotzky paid special atten tion to the United States and dropped his cynicism a little in speaking of American relief work; while realizing that incidentally it was alno a work of investiga tion, Russia was grateful, and he was confident that "What Am ericans found here is better than the stories told about us by our enemies outside; so we await the result without misgiving." In regard to recognition by the United States he professed to be indifferent: "What does recog nition nvean, anyway? That is not important, but commercial rela tions are. v Recognition, what is It? I can breathe the fresh air without Mr. Hughes recognizing the fact." Yet the increased re gard for American opinion Indi cates that recognition would not be unwelcome in spite of this dip- pos-Momatlc disdain. For America's benefit he put special stress on the "rapid .reduction of the army from 1,500,000 to 800,000 men, adding: "We are ready to de mobolize the whole lot and turn the , military academies into en cjlneering schools, if the bther nations would agree to simultane ous and parallel disarmament." This is playing handsomely up to the lea& given by Mr. Hughes, Lbut Trotzky evidently does not think that such a pledge commits Russia deeply, because .other countries are heading the other way: "Never has Europe been in such: a state of incoherence; in dividual statesmen and politici ans alike have no definite policy; they don't know what the morrow may fcring forth." This shows acute Insight: at the present mo ment probably none of the men supposed to shape policy can see far ahead. Trotzky does not be lieve Russia likely again to be in volved in war, but he said very frankly that the greatest danger of it would come from French military pressure against Ger many; "In that event Poland can hardly remain passive, and it Poland acts against Germany I question whether we can jemain passive ourselves." . Sdviet Russia, he observed, could hardly be accused of having Premier Poincare in Its pay as an agent, yet France was adopt ing the very tactics needed to drive Germany into revolution, in which case "rtussia and Germany would form an unconquerable bloc, economically and agricultu rally." He refrained from ad ding "militarily," explaining that his statement would be misin terpreted in America. None the less his declaration shows the magnitude of the peril which mili tary action mht involve at the present time, when not Germany alone but most of central Europe is in desperate straits. Comment ing on all the above, an editorial writer in the very conservative Springfield Republican says: "There has been no time since 1919 when tranquilizing measures were more needed, and in waving a red lantern as a danger signal, Trotzky is giving fair warning." A WAR EPISODE When Dr. John H. Jowett went tack home from New York in the early days of the war. he sailed on a Dutch boat, the Hner Rot terdam. Half an hour before leaving an American presented himself to Dr. Jowett as an oc casional attendant . at the Fifth Ajrenne church. He said that his wlter iriro wu an'' Austrian lady; butJFlthjaHtl. sympathies, was going to Vienna and was traveling. alone, and he asked If he would pay her the courtesy of a little attention on , her journey. She was going home to visit her aged father and mother, who were both ill from the shock of the war and from the utter indigesti bility of the common bread. The woman became one of Dr. Jowett's party. As Dr. Jowett tells the story: "She was a gra cious and charming companion throughout the whole journey. Her husband had been to Count Dumba, the Austrian amba&nador, requesting a personal 1 letter, which might make her t journey from Rotterdam to Vienna a lit tle easier. The letter was readily given, but two days later a mes sage came from the count asking if the lady would kindly include in her baggage a quantity of serum and other things for use among the troops in the Austrian hospitals. She willingly consent ed, but when she and her hus band arrived at the boat they were rather surprised to find a comparatively large chest await ing them. However, they knew nothing about 'serum nor what quantities were required for hos pital work among millions of troops. And so it was put with the lady's baggage. I knew-noth ing about all this, nor did the !ady think it to be of sufficient nterest or importance to men tion it.'.' When the Rotterdam reached England agents of the British se cret service came aboard and o.sked to eee the lady and, with great courtesy,, asked to seo her baggage for inspection. Then it wajy found that the chest con tained, instead of serum, the no torious Dumba letters and docu ments which were made public a little later, filling pages In Am erican papers and helping to arouse sentiment that came to the decision to enter the war on the side of the allies. A COMPLETE FAILURE The Chicago Tribune, in 4ts story of the discouraged sculptor who recently shot himself while seated before the "Winged Vic tory" in the Chicago Art Insti tute, lays considerable stress upon the point that the unfortunate artist had carefully arranged to Pay all his other debts before de liberately prepaying the final debt to nature. The man had come from the art schools of Europe, It seems, with high hopes of making a for tune and a famous name for him self la this country. "Arriving in Chicago he donned a smtfek and hung up a sculptor's shingle." But business did not come. ' Busi ness seldom does come in quite that -easy way, even in Chicago. Men are obliged occasionally to go and look for It. Then, says the Tribune: "He went in debt, accord ing to police, and took to carving monuments. But that work did not give a good living. Then, owing more than $700 and seeing no fu ture in the world of art, Un daras took off his smock and became a clerk in a west side mail order bouse. "He paid his debts slowly. On Tuesday he paid the last debtor. Yesterday morning he took a tiny revolver and went down to the Institute to vtflt for the last time among the statue The in stitute closes its doors at 5 o'clock. At 4:55 p. m. he sat beneath the "Winged Victory" and committed sui cide." It is clear that this poor hu man failure never did appreciate the full artistic significance of the "Winged Victory." He him self sprouted no wings and he achieved no victory. Up to the point of laboring at the useful job until he accumulated enough money to pay off his creditors, he was iane and almost heroic, and for that he deserved credit. But his own spasm of heroism was lost upon himself. It did not oc cur to .him that if he could "de mean" himself to the extent of earning money In a menial job to pay his Just debts he might even, in time, earn enough to live upon, and who knows eventu ally succeed in his chosen art. But all speculation along these lines, of course, is futile. The poor man was simply a complete failure. The only ex tenuating things that may be said about him are that he paid his debts and that he refrained from taking anybody else with him in to the beyond. NEW FUEL FROM WATER PROMISED If Etbridge Gerry Snow, presi dent of the Home Insurance com pany, now S3 years old and a student of fire and fuels all his active life," is not deceived, a Rhode Island school teacher whom he . has ; backed ' with-, cncWhrage ment atvl -$tnvstments, Joseph Watroua Prbsaer, has discovered ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS -1 v. f t j Onjy a half hour after the employees had left a mysterious ex plosion razed a warehouse in Washington' street. New York city, occupied by Italian exporters. The photograph shows it about twenty jninutcs after the blast. Six are missing of the alim night force. There were hints of "black hand,", and copper tanks in tho street indicated another possible source, but the police scouted such explanations. - , . a new fuel from the cheap disin tegration of the elements of water in contact with a little crude oil, which will revolutionize many conditionv ' Mr. Snow is respon sible for the statement that "the end of the use of coal may be re garded as in sigut; and the pub ic need not worry over the fuel conditions, as cheap fuel made of oil in water is in sight, for all purposes." And if promises are not deceptive, then the internal expansion gas engine must go, too; for Mr. Prossor has a steam engine for motor cars that will use his "water gas," 'and, it is claimed, will make control much pa$er, aed -astly increase the radius of motor efficiency with the fuel that can be carried. The process is quick, and from one volume of water and oil 815 vol umes of the gas are secured. The world has been looking for cheap dirintegration of water as ottering in free hydrogen the most effective fuel possible. As described the Prosserl device of fers something very close to this. We have had any number of re- f ported inventions on this lino that have come to nothing. But not one of the inventors has succeed ed in convincing any man of El t ridge Gerry Snow's standing that he had something worth while. Judgment will be suspended In conservative minds. Hope will be universal that the device is all that has been indicated. Few dis coveries could mean- more to the luture of, the human race. CONTEXTS OF THE STOCKING In the Atlantic Monthly Sisley Huddles ton makes a qualified de fense of France for its attitude toward Germany. He says: "We have to reckon with the simple thought of the peasant who demands that Germany shall pay, as France paid after 1871, out of the treasures hidden in a woolen ' stocking, without troubling about modern modalities." The woolen stocking of the French peasant contained a good deal more cash than Germany supposed, or it would have made the unprecedented indemnity greater. The war had been a short one. Germany's expenses were not heavy and Berlin was satisfied with a moderate profit on its exjvendltures. Furthermore, the French pear-ant who had been supposed to be susceptible only to specie and land showed an inter est in the obligations of his gov ernment, and was willing to change the contents of the wool en stocking from specie to rentes. As a result France astonished the world by the amount of money it put up and the celerity with which it removed the only excuse for the presence of German soldiers in France. But the World war cost a great cieal more than the military prom enade of von Moltke In the sum mer of 1871. and France began the peace conference with a de mand that Germany should reim burse it for all its expense and losses. It did not take long to conrvlnce France that this was ira pcsstble, anjl grudgingly the claims of France were reduced. Immediately after the armistice the feeting in England was simi lar to that In - France, and the present parliament was elected on Lloyd George' promise to make Germany pay the uttermost farth ing of British exuenscs. Lloyd EXPLOSION IN GOTHAM. N i v .'X I George and' his countrymen have ; forgotten all about that but every-; -body in France feels that the t treaty of Versailles Is a contract' with Germany. ' So it Is, and tho contract could be enforced to the extent of tho contents of the German peasant's woolen stocking. But the French' demands, the demands rather re-1 luctantly agreed on at the peace' treaty, go far beyond the contents of that stocking. The stock Ijig: will have to be filled and emptied . several times before the full de mands of Franco Imbedded In the peace treaty shall be satisfied. Will hands go on filling that stocking merely to have It emptied Into France? There is a growing indisposition in Germany to do this. What is In sight, what has' already been accumulated and is in a portable form, France can get from Germany. But. Franca is demanding that Germany pay continuously for a generation or half a century. It not only de mands what Germany has, but It demands that Germany shall work ' hard and get some more. . r. And the problem Is to make Germany work for the sake of conveying the money to France. M. Poincare is very sure that-he . can do it, but any military dem onstration that France may make would convulse , business and", check the earning capacity of Ger- ' many. . The woolen stocking is easily emptied once. It is not so eay to convert it into an end less chain. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I . , Welcome, Methodists! The Methodists ought ,to feel at home in Salem-" ' ' S 'Vr::--:-, The Methodists started Salem, and they have grown jip with it, and are planning for a lot more growing, in making possible an -additional million dollars of en dowment for Willamette onlver- . sity. . - - ' Willamette university ha$ been the biggest thing in Salem ever since that institution gave life to -Salem, and it will continue to be the biggest thing here if tne plans for expansion carry and they must carry. , Col. House finds Lloyd George very . hopeful of a solution of " Europe's probieras especially if America lends its influence. . Hut the prime minister has changed somewhat if he is hopeful that America will do this.' He was the chief baiter of the League ' of Nations;'' . or rather any proposi-" tion that America should lend Its influence in making the league ef fective for' world welfare. 4 It Is said that the tariff ; con ferees are disposing of about 70 a day of the senate- :SG amend ments to the bill. That Is some thing. V"v V:H;.;; ,-v" It is to .be presumed that New-castle-on-Tyne is still objecting to going to Hull for clearance papers for ships bound for tho United States. The proud people of the coal city would almost as eoon go to hell as to Hull for; such accommodations. Austria has been' handed ever to. the allies to,!e,don3 with as t bey see fit, ;c wording to the lat-; est reports. " Cfccoa and truln re I everywhere In evidence. A fear-, ful chapter is be-in written la the story the monarchy!. . ,t Read the-Classified Afo V I I 1 t, t i V I I t k