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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1922 i mt GStoea on Statesman Issued Daily Except Monday by ,,...,-.-.,.,, ,4 THE STATESMAN FUBLISHINO COMPANY ; "".. ""-. . 21C S. Commercial 'St, Salem, Oregon (Portland 'Office, tlV Board of Trade Building. Phone Antomatlc , .;:.';.-.. 611-93 . r r . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this, paper and also the local news, published herein. . R. J. Hendricks Stephen A, Stone Ralph Olorer Cashier Frank Jaskoskl ... . . ......... i ..... . Manager Job Dept. . . ..................... Manager ....... . . . -............. .Managing Editor is a measure designed not for the benefit of "big business," but in . the interest of American labor r, f - Though in the long run what will benefit American labor will benefit every other American interest big business and little business included. ; The two quoted paragraphs of Senator Lodge put the tariff question in a nutshell. They tell the whole story in a few words. Ffciviorable weather for a few weeks will nil the Salem district full of prunes and prosperity. An alliteration devoutly to be wished. TELEPHONES: , , Business Office, II Circulation Department. 613 Job Department, 683 -Society Editor, 10 t entered at the Postofflce in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter , OREGON NEEDS PEOPLE AND CAPITAL It goes without saying that at the November election the single tax amendment and the 7 per cent interest . amend ment will be Voted down. They are freak amendments, and some way ought to be provided for keeping such propositions off of .the ballot. . And both the income tax bill and the income tax amend ment ought to be voted down. " . Oregon is a state the resources of which are largely un developed, Oregon needs more people and more capital . Not the discouragement of initiative and enterprise. . The government income tax iiioo high, and it is in many particulars unequal and in others unjust. That is a great enough burden upon Oregon enterprise; too great. Oregon should invite people of initiative and industry to this state; should welcome capital. These are the important things. ; !-' ..: ?; . We can make taxes lower by economy and develop the la tent resources of the state and build up the values of prop erty., on the assessment rolls. There: should be more sources of indirect taxation, too; but not in the form of income taxes such as is proposed by either the bill or the amendment These sources are the sub ject of investigation at the present time.' Let us go slow Jn placing more: burdens upon enterprise, having the effect of driving capital and people away instead of inviting them to come.- - -, ' "- : - PROTECTIVE PRINCIPLE IN A NUTSHELL ' . "What affects imports more than anything else is the lack of employment of the American people. If ' they da not work they cannot buy. We have a higher v rate of wages and better conditions of living than any other country. If we tryuto meet foreign competition standards must come down. '.T' I" We passed exclusion laws for the Chinese be cause,; if they should come here in millions, they would place American workers. . Now go with me this 'step.:,. The Chinese competes with 'us with what he is .made here or in China, providing it is pulf on the American market duty free. That, is Jhe whole, argu ment n the dwtitae of protection' ',V-r'-v-tir,:,'v''r;'-',,;',:'' ,f' ' '- - The above two paragraphs are from a speech of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, in his .campaign for the Republican nomination to succeed himself, .-' u ... . v n ' '' All nations have nroteetive tariffs, some hicher than those proposed for our own ' j Jtfor will reasonable protective rates, as proposed, damage wr import iraae. iney wiu. neip u. mey will maKe it po3 jible for our people to buy, as shown in the first quoted para graph of Senator Lodge's speech; especially to buy 'raw ma- .. tenals."-v-,.., ', -r --..-';..;- ' .From the reading of the seconds paragraph it must be evident to every unbiased observer that the protective tariff The message of President Obre- gon to the Mexican congress cov ers 178 typewritten paces. But H requires a lot of rpace to tell what all? the republic Five hundred presons, led .by two dozed robed and masked Ku Klux Klanemen, marched . into a Chicago church Sunday and put (1200 in the contribution box. It was an impertinent proceeding. Los Angeles Trmes. Hollywood is to have a $3,- 500,000 hotel. Quite a change from a if ew years ago, whea the present Site of the film capital was a sheep pasture. Los Ange les Tinei. Presenting to Pope Plus of a finely mounted fragment of Mt. Everest from the highest point yet reached by man was most ap propriate. When he was the arch bishop of Milan the pope was a famous mountain climber; There Is thJa to be .said about the primary election law, it gives mediocrity an ion mortal cinch on a large percentage of the nomina tions. That's what makes it so popular with the "also-rans." men who could not come within a. mile of a nomination in a convention. It 1s great : stuff for the weak brothers. Los Angeles Times. THE GREEK DEBACLE Eccleslastcs, the preacher, said there was nothing new under the sun. It has been discovered that moving pictures were kuown to the Chinese several thousand years ago. That is quite a long stretch berore Hollywood was placed on the map. The threatened crisis In ,the matter of the payment of the Gtr inan indemnity has been satisfac torily settled. We knew it would be. This is a big world and 'can not, be stood on its head by any single or combination ct warring nations. Exchange. Profiting by division among the allies the Turks have turned on the Greeks In Asia Minor and ad ministered a crushing defeat. Ac cording to cables from neutral ob servers, not only has the Grecian offensive been broken, but the Greek armies are in headlong re treat, . abandoning the Christian populations of the territory they have occupied for hhe last seven months to . the victorious Turks. The Turkish Nationalists under Mustapha Kemal are waging what they term a holy war. The ob ject of such a conflict is the ex termination of the unbelievers. The Turks make war alike on gov ernments and peoples. For them there are no noncombatants. When they occupy a territory in which a part of the population are Christian they proceed forth with to put the Christians to the sword for It fs written In the Koran that the unbelievers must ler)sh, ' Wild appeals are going to the allied governments from the Christian populations of Asia Min or for fiuccoT. About half the res idents of Smyrna are Christiana If the Turks enter the men will be murdered and the women en slaved. Kemal and his Moslem hordes show no quarter; and Kernel demands the return - of Constantinople and adjacent ter ritory to Turkey, as the price of sheathing the sword. Division among the allies ha lent encouragement to the Turka. Until the World war the French and Moslem governments were Joined in a semi-alUance. They frequently made common cause against Great Britain. Although France. was a party to the peace of j Sevrf)i, Ffrench leaders now say that it Is unjust to the Turk and should be revised. Tha Greeks insits that it shall be ob served; and they have been fight ing for a year to obtain posses ion jof terifytory allocated to Greece by that treaty. In this they have the support of the Brit ish government. But Great Britit ain hesitates to send an armed T force to help the Greeks when Franee 'protests against such action. Through the defeat of the Greek armies, however, it has be come apparent that the Greeks were the only protectors of the Christian population of Asia Min or. The Turks have not modified their policy toward Christians in 500 years; they insirt that popu lations hi Moslem territory must be as loyal to the Moslem faith as to the civil government. Heresy i3 to them a form of trea son. France 1? reported to favor a restoration to Turkjey of all the territory in Europe occupied by the Turks before the war, al though the French government ras announced 'no such policy. The attitude bf the French gov ernment is difficult to understand st this distance. No, one serious ly believes that the French would look with complacency upon the massacre of Christian populations; yet they have undoubtedly given at least moral support to the Turk Nationalists. The Greeks as sert that there are fcores ot French, officers among Kemal'a troops. That the allies should be divid ed in the face of the" present. crisis Is unfortunate. A bad pol- isy would be better than no pol icy at all. That the Christian populations in Asia Minor 'should be slaughtered by the MotHems is unthinkable; yet, according to the dispatches, that is , actually taking place. What a disittusiomment will come to the Christians of the world if political animosities and conflicting spheres of Influence shall permit the Turk to return to the Bosporus, and re-establish himself in eastern Europe! Surely the sacrifices made during the war are deserving ot a nobler reward Little by little the victories due to the valor of the allied peoples seem to be frittered away in dip lomatic debacles. gTeat start Aldebaran. Capen ad Betelgeuse is 18,000 degrees3! Farhenhent. And yet some folks continue to kick on the glorious climate bf southern California. There are those in our midst who would violently object if they were about to be hang. Loj An geles Times. There are also some aqple, no doubt who would kick on the climate of hell. SALE OF DAMAGED TOBACCOS Of the six Irishmen who signed the treaty with the British nine months ago only one, Ramond Duggan, is left to the Free State. Collins and Griffith are v dead.' Richard Barton and Ersklne Chll ders Joined the rebels ; an d Ga van Duffy resigned from the cabinet owing to in difference ;with. Col this and Griffith.. FUTURE DATES September 16. tMtaraar D.A.B. tm feaerr National Conatitntioa day. September 17, Sunday National Con atitntioa 4r. - i . 8ptakr 11. Z3 aa 28 Paadlatoa rovad-ap. Septombor 24, Snnday Ainna! T.M. C.A. "8ettinf ap'' conference, Wallace farm. September 27, Wednesday Oraicon Pnrebrad Lire stork aaoeiatran to meet. Baptnabor 25 to SO iaduaiTa OrC 8tt fair. October 5, f sad T Polk County fair,. Dallas. Novanbor T, Tjaaday Graaral alee f OHOOXi 1 ' TUDT - SFOKTf HTOCOB PLAT WORK topyrlght, 1022, Associated Editors The Biggest Little Paper Is the World Edited by John H. Millar F0RTONE-TEUjNG--SECRETS OF PALMISTRY By .. GARNET THATCHEK i 18- . rtQ.2 LESSOJT NO. ft THE FATE tv. 4'.. .-V LINE. - .-!'- ' (In these lessons, Mrs. Garnet Thatcher, who has .studied palm istry or 25 years,; reveals the se crets of the age-old ait.." Belter 'at much of It as you want that's n p to you. 3 At ! any i rate,- you'll have fua telling your friends' for lunes.' An amateur fortune teller is always popular at parties.) V The line of " late, or , career, should etart somewhero between the wrist and, the bead-line, and rup, without breaks or cross lines, straight to the pd ot flesh known : as- Saturn,. whiohj is found at the Wse of the second finger. - Such a ' normal Vne. forecasts a success . fal but uneventful life. ' ' If the fate-"Hne runs to the life line and with It for a Httle way then goes on up , the band- th start in life has been hindered bv circumstances at home (Fig. 2). If It begin rather far up in the palm,' the owner of the hand .ha had hard straggle and no help financially in starting his career (Fig 3). A ftne line from Luna tunning into the fate-line shows . help; from: outside the family at the age indicated.; In A. Fig. 1, ' hetp came at the age of 23.tf : . .. . Fate-IJne Forecasts Careersi If the fate-line "itself .runs from work hard and lead a dull sort of life. (Next week: . The Line of Fortune.) ; I THE SHORT STORY, JR. ; TIfK DOG OP WAR Luna to Saturn, it shows a fine career' depending on the favor of the public; political, dramatic, or mm'.co,1. I A .branch to Jluplter (B, Fig. 1) foretello great suc- cess. " ' -. A break la the line means -ft change, either In business or home ife. , If the ends areffar&part (A. Fig: 2), it hi decided changft rf the fine from the point of the break Is uncut by cross lines, the change is successful (C. Fig. 2). , If a line has many tiny Hnes winning parallel ( A. Fig. 3), It 'ndlcates a store or bnsiness There One comes In, contact-with nany people. If the little lines ill run up from Luna, (B. Flg..2). 'he bualnesa requires many small 'ourneya, probably railroading or xntmorclul traveling. ' , . Watch Parallel Lines J A parallel line (C, Fig 3 V shows i mother business on the side. It 't comes from ; Luna, It is an In vestment in oil or old mines, r Tomethlng of the sort, and 'should 't end in an island (D. Fig. 3), money Is Jost.; .' J' v i i If i the line of career stops at any point and no fine goes on to Saturn," that Is the end of the "areer, probably death. Where there Is no. Jine of fate, the person may be very -successful, 'but' will (Joe was dean ng out his room. For a long thne odds and ends had been piling np in boxes anc drawers, and at last his mother had glVen i him orders that he must give the place a good clean ing and get rid of the things. he dVln't want any more. ' He didn't mind doing it, for he was finding several things of interest. One of these waa a lit tle mechanical mouse he had won as a prize at a party, and the other was a cannon cracker left from last Fourth of July's cele bration. He finished his work and wan dered out : In search of amuse ment. First he went into the kitchen, where; the coot-was bus ily! paring; apples for .a pie. He sat the mouse down near the door and ntarted it. Then he called the cook's attention. Han nah gave, a icrearn and Jumped upv rpiUing the apples in every directlon.r;rJoe'huckIed and ran ott terore ene couia eaten mm.j He stllf had the firecracker. He wept around to the front of the house, where he would be safe from, the angry? muttering of the cook, and looked about for an idea. It came in the shape of Buster, the big Airedale which belonged to the new family next door. Joe called and -whistled till the big fellow came, a bit sby ly. Joe waited until be came al most up to him, then he lit the firecracker and threw It. narrow ly mdsfiittg the dog.; ; . ! .The dor. gave terrible yelp and ran as though he bad been shot. That was what Joe had ex pected. Bat what he did not ex pect was to see a young man come leaping over : the - hedge between the two bouses and ' seize the trembling dog In bis arms. " Thea he turned npon"Joe,who hadat t'me to run, with a flashing glance "Just let me catch you doing anything like that again," young roan," he stormed. 'This dog will be afraid now for weeks. Hea just gotten over shell-shock. He was one -of the 'dogs 'in the war. you see, and anything like a cannon sets him all to pieces. Never mind, Buster, old fellow." The young men picked up the dog, and Joe noticed a little medil swinging from its collar. ; Joe went slowly into the bouse. He wandered out into the kitchen to ask Hannab if there was any thing be could do to help her. . There has been considerable complaint of standard brands of tobacco being sold considerably below regular prices in certain quarters. Of course it is no secret where these goods come from They consist of old war stock which has kicked around France or lain in warehouses in this conn try for years until it is dried out. This tobacco has been bought up at auction for a song and is being sold by the purchasers to those who are unscrupulous enough to work it off on their trade. The manufacturers of the goods tn question halve repudi ated them becaure of deteriora tion and, have distinctly warned Jobbers- that If they attempt to sell such stock of their manufac ture that they will have no fur ther dealings with them. West ern Tobacconist. IN THE DESERT OHEtiOX 1K)ES IT "Some of these days there wi'.l be a provision allowing a presi dent to veto particular items in general measure while approv ing the measure as a whole. It Is consummation devoutly to be wished." The above is from an exchange reveral exchanges. , Oregon already has such a pro vision. It is a good thing, and congress should provide the pres ident with the same provision, as should the legislatures of all tho states that hare not adopted it. INSIDE OITTSU)E America may not belong to the League of Nations, but it furn ishes the largest representation At the opening of the third as sembly of the League a week ago yesterday, 70 Americans were present in various capacities. Thl was the laryest delegation from any one country. This is what the other 57 cations cannot un derstand. We lnst oB staying oh the outride and yet furnish tha inside interest and attendance. i BITS FOR BREAKFAST . . Yes; warm enough. s s s But a prune gTower says the warm weather iS fine; it puts su jcar In the prune. S There will be some valuable and interesting matter on prunes in- the Pep and Prog-resc pages of The Statesman Thursday. . S September 4 was the 40th an niversary of the first lighting of buildings by electricity. It is an other reminder of how very mod ern many of our greatest modern improvements are. In about tvo weeks more, the work for this year ot Marion county's paved road forces will be over. But they will be ready for another go and a stronger one, next year, and the year after. The Pennsylvania railroad sys tem operated 1.400,00V trains last year-without the killing ot a sin gle passenger in an-ccident, the1 company report? If it is at all superstitious it has . probably knocked on wood. S At the St. Louis exposition Ja pan was the only country that had its building cotnplota on the ap pointed day, and it repeats that record at the Brail exposition. As for the" Unite States, its building is still awathed In scaffolding, and space for private e?.a.bits will not be ready till tsecember 4. If Ja pan can tcorat oft the rest of the world by courteous punctuality It, Is fully entitled ; to the . ground gained. . . . . . . I, Nothing short of grotesque Is . the situation at Constantinople, v where the British, tarrl&on, lately sent to the Tcuatalja line to keep f bak the Greeks, 1s t urning over its sector to the French. and cross. ing over to the Asiatic side t0 keen back the Turks. Theoreti cally the allies are neutral; actu ally Taris evidently repards the; Greeks defeat as a leverse for Lloyd George and a set-off tor the defeat ot Wrangel with which the1 British were not ill pleased. Helped Ills Back , . V Backache, rheumatic pains, diz ziness - and blurred , vision are symptoms ot kidney trouble. "My husband had a bad back," writes Mrs. M. McCullough, Easton, Pa "When he sat down; he could hardly get up and then he would be drawn over to one side, list tried Foley Kidney JPills and they cured him." Foley Kidney Pills r quickly relieve kidney and blad-Y der-trouble. Sold everywhere. -Adv. . -V ' r Large Size Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph $75 Terms, "5 dowp, $5 a monthv This phonograph Is Just like new and it la a genuine Edison. '. . GeoYC Will Music House. . 4.12 State Sr. ' , I PICTURE PUZZLE A month n hidden below. Start with one of the letted mtbe left bond column arid by folVowowinQ aounres either to.tbe..nHt or just above, jrou find it. DjcT A GtRA jptSmi s t l 1our y Answer t hut poxile: Chair, et. (. Uia, . eeiltos , . . , ' ... ,,, "Deserted trains in the desert revealed cruelty and contempt-for law." President Harding. And they left them there in the desert. To hunger and thirst alike; By an irony finely savage. Twas a "sympathetic" strike Where the sum-spears fall unptty. ing On the alkili and sage As for pity, what raoM. fitting -A scene for a strike t6 stage? Where, behind the blistering car panes, "Rose the cry of sigh forlorn Of the children or of the aged Or babes in the desert born! Round the cars stock-still in the desert. As water and food ran low. Did the beat-mists reincarnate Mirage pf tho long ago? When the pirate schooners halted Stock-still' on this self-same ground. And the neighbor families hud dled From the redskins circling round. Do the lizard and the snake re member, And the sage and alkili And the resert duets recall them The sieges of days gone by? They were painted savages circl ing. And cruel their whoops arose; But they smote without feigning Urtendsbip At least they were frankly foes! B. F. Griffin. THE RIGHT WORDS An Intelligent and competent person at broadcasting for the radio now becomes a Class A dlf fuslonlst. Broadcasting was an established word, but It found it self anew when the radio came ?n. It seems to fit like the rkin of a. melon. VTOIXD KICK OX HELL Astronomers' have discovered that the temperature of the three $ CJ ijirt'V w m b.'v irn. . -... .i t.. .1 :: - ! c - v. - n ii i Lit How Much Do You Know? You see a suit. It has no brand name in it. It looks good. And it fits well. You buy it You depend on your own judgment. But do you know how well it will stand the strenuous test of everyday wear? Or how long it will continue to please? No you're simply taking a chance. But how different with a named suit. "Sterling" on sil verware; a "Griffpn" label on a suitvt clothes. A Griffon suit carries with it a definite guaran tee. It assures, splendid workmanship, and ex cellent material. It reveals faultless tailoring in every line. ; ' Besides it costs no more than a sitit of un known pedigree. $25 $30 $35 Men V Wear Section Court : Street Entrance Good Goods Cost Yon Less Per Month" I i!