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TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 5,1022 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SAtKM. OREGON - Issued Dally Except Monday by " ' TIIK STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 216 IS. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office. G 27 Board ot Trade Building. Phone Automatic . 611-93 1 " ": ' MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively enUtled to the use tor 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 IUlph Glover Cashier Fraiik Jaskoskt . Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23 Circulation Department, 683 Job Department, 68 J Society Editor, 108 Entered at tha Postoffice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter SOME GOOD OUT OF NAZARETH Senator La Follette, he of unsavory war record, has as sumed the leadership of what is purported to be the "Pro gressive bloc" in Congress. The avowed object is to unite enough Representatives in the lower house and enough Sen ators in the upper house to dictate legislation. In this bloc it is proposed to unite all the radicals, all those who, elected as Republicans, are opposed to the Harding administration; and all those who are listed in the Record as Democrats, but who decline to endorse the policies of the Democratic organization. ' Members of this group seek but one thing, power. They ' have no avowed policies; but their purpose is to block all im portant legislation "until we get ours." In other words they will vote for the passage of no bill until they receive some special consideration, i These irregulars are adept3 at trading between the lines. They "are legislative freebooters," seeking to make personal profit out of - every piece of legislation they support. They aim a.t the distatorship of a minority, making a parade of their disloyalty to the parties whose names they bear. They hope to discredit President Harding before the nation by blocking the legislation which he supports. They will oppose measures that are for the public good; in order that he may receive no credit for their passage. The La Fol lette, Borah, Johnson group have set themslves up to dictate to the Republican party.r;They intimate that they will split the party in 1924 unless one of the three receives the Repub lican nomination for President. li But which of the three? There is where they split. That is a rock that, in a brief time, will wreck the Progres sive craft. None of the three will trust the others. There Is a danger, however, that they will work together long en ough, to defeat the ship subsidy bill. California now wit nesses the spectacle of its Senator going into a group whose avowed purpose is to destroy the merchant marine yet he represents the state that has more mile3 of seacoast and more harbors than any other state, v Both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress find themselves faced by a group of irregulars who used the party name as a subterfuge to get elected to office. .The Progressive bloc will be discredited very 'Shortly ; but it may do a great deal of damage to the country before it is kicked . tut. , of the greatest good of the country, but in the above two propositions it may possibly do some good or at least serve to point the way to some good. There should be a general movement for irrigation in the Salem district, for the benefit of the strawberry and bush fruit in dustries especially. Who will start it? Suggestions are in order. The Statesman of Thursday will have a lot of information about the mint industry of the Salem district. It has a great future, if you can help the Slogan editor, please do so. today or tomorrow. It Is announced that Republi can senate leaders are outlining a program of important legisla tion and an agreement has been reached that it shall be pushed during the special session with all expedition. It is about time. Exchange. It surely is. The above is from the Los Angeles Tmes. ;". . But some good may come out of Nazareth ... For this bloc has among its objects a nation wide cam paign for the abolition of the electoral college. The electoral college has never functioned as it was intended to function, and its operations are harmful instead of beneficial. - ' This bloc; also proposes to work for earlier meetings of the newly elected Congresses; an object that has been taken up by Representative McArthur of Oregon; a thing to be The objecjts of this slick-eared bloc are moklysubver3ive Wood-row Wilson, of course, will not be a candidate for presi dent in 1924, but )t is apparent that he will name the man. Ex change. Will he? Over $70,000 was spent by the anti-saloon league to carry the Wright law. And it was money well invested. Los Angeles Times. If It be true that Los Angeles children cannot attend school be. cause they are not properly fed and cared for it looks as if it might be well to halt relief to the Near East until local conditions are somewhafccleaned up. If this be unsympathetic with the griefs of the world, make the most of it. Los Angeles Times. The fishermen of the Columbia river are anxious to support the Oregon penitentiary. They can do it, by buying their seine twine from the institution and this can be made from pare Oregon flax fiber, If the Idle convicts are giv en a chance; and this would re sult In every man In the prison who worked receiving a small daily wage. sag In the middle from an over load of too much free advice from European lobbyists. Nobody objects to the more or j less entertaining abase ana scolding of the elderly and agi tated Clemenceau; we even re ceive with good grace the severe strictures of the visiting great authors who charge us admission to hear them tell us we are all wrong. The real objection la to the for eign lobbyists who hang around Washington and attempt to Influ ence legislation by a system of espionage that is by no means disinterested. We mustn't raise our tariff that is to steal the wages of poor European workers. We mustn't subsidize our mer chant marine that will put so many hard-up British seamen out of their jobs! We mustn't restrict our immi gration. It we do at our gates the recording angel will serve the brief telling why Europe failed to feed its unemployed. We must shell out many more millions to conpensate France "for leaving her In the lurch" when she found she couldnt col lect on her bill of damages. We mustn't tighten our prohi bition enforcement laws because we shall -thus cut off the leading source of revenue from many of our admiring neighbors. Through our unholy po'icy of Isolation we are guilty of the present slump in peace prospects and European currency. And po on and so on and perhaps the American people one of these fine days will get tired of hearing It and for eign scold! and foreign lobbyists will both get their walking papers. tastes or Interests or convenience. This is a free country and any one feeling a law is unjust has a perfect right to work for its re peal, but no right to break it or impel others to break it, so long as it is the law. That is not Am erican. Every good American is for liberty under law. and la heartily in accord with the president. TOO MUCH FOREIGN ADVICE The American nation is long suffering with 'a sense of humor that bridges manv nnnlenannt places. But that bridge is beginning o FUTURE ' DATES December 8. Friday Bemnioa ef Com pany au December 18, TuendsT 8alera school diitrict budget meeting. . December 12, Toeidsr School budget Meeting at Wh achool. December 14. 15 and 16 Marion comity corn how. December 15 and 18, Friday and Sat- ... ""Wng rrsit growers at WMdbnrn. December 16, Sata-dayrConnfy school vowm convention, l( Salem high trhool. December 16. Saturday SMmoI t.tt ciahi of Marion roasty meet at Salem high achool. December 25. afondar Christmas. December 31. Sunday Elka "Mid- ifbt Follies." Grand theater. January 8. Monday Inauguration of uoTornor-eiect waiter M. Fierce. January 8, Monday Legislature meets THE PUBLIC COXSCIEXCE There are a lot of Americans who are disloyal and don't real ize it. , Disrespect for the law of the land and encouragement or con donement of those who break it are disloyalty to the nation. W m . . - rresiaenc Haramg sounds a timely warning in holding that the moral consciousness of this country needs arouslng q great er respect ror law. Many good Americans have accepted reluct antly the idea ot total prohibition, but that does not .warrant any of them in forgetting that the law of the land is the law . of the land. Nor does it excuse those persons and publications whose attitude virtually applauds viola tions of that law. Such efforts certainly lend to deaden the public conscience. En couragement to set one law at naught is indirectly encourage ment to set all laws at naught when they conflict with our own A CAPTAIV KIDD IX PETTICOATS Just when we get ourselves comfortabiy ensconsed in the be- tsedl in of Teal CHOOl TTTDT aroBTf Bie". Utu. wm fr a. Wort. br Joh. . ,.. I ...... - .1 . ' Jttiwr HTTafOB FLAT WO . SUCCESSFUL STUDYING The ' Good Sid (This la the lea of articles young stndenti and get better of "Cramming" tenth of ser whlch will help to learn more grades by show ing them how to study; more ef ficiently.) Since there must bo examina tions. It seems; there must be "cramming."- Cramming is harm- Otlr ful when it means trying to learn in a short - time a lot of points you let slide, but If cram ming means careful reviewing, it is a good thing.! J Every one should do some .cramming. No matter ; how w'ell you may have learned a thing in the first place, yon need to refresh your mind i belore an ; : examination, bringing facts out of their store house and dusting them oSf ready for use. : Go Over Outline First of alh read over .- all the outlines yon have made out when you were studying the ; subject in the first place. If necessary, memorize the large divisions, ao as 'to .have . them organized in your mind. Then, if you have dates .to learn,: or Mother sets of facts,- drill them thoroughly for a short time, work on aomething else and then drill again, re peating these brief drills until you feel f you really have ., the ' facts In mind. ' . I If you have more than, one les son to study, divide up your time, making up your mind to get a certain lesson in a stated time. When you review under pressure you work harder -and with more system. ' "": y : '-. - '.. ',j . Do not try to spend all your review tine memorizing. Vou about the subject you are study ing, asking yourself questions, tor that Is the best way to make a lesson stick. Read Rapidly It there are chapters in a book that you are afraid you have . forgotten, do not skim through them in a haphazard way, trying to pick out at a glance the important points. Read the whole section aloud. Rapid reading aloud will help more than anything to tlx the doubtful parts in your mind. People who have made tests about studying have found that the rapid reader remembers more. Also, . this kind of re viewing freshens the section " as a whole and renews your inter est in it. Set a limit for your study per illing Eleanor makes is perfect. , well, Eleanor always does lots better than the rest of us," Fanny Baker spoke up. "so 1 don't see what call we have to be jealous. But oh, dear, I don't see why her things are always so much better. I do try so hard. I wish I could get some thing in the exhibit, don't you?" The girls had lowered their voices, but unknown to them El eanor had heard every word. "The jealous old thtags," she thought. "I hate every one of ' ' ' iod and stick to. It. At the end of the time set go to bed. Never let your cramming drag on until your mind is tired out. " the short STORY, JR. ELEANOR'S LEMON PEE It was Monday afternoon. The domestic science class filed into the large white kitchen. "Now. girls," said Miss Smith, "1 hope you will . make some very tine lemon pies today. I shall choose the best one to exhibit at the Institute." ' ,;. - . i, "She'll take 'Eleanor's, ot course," whispered " one of the girls. "Did , you ' ever see such a teacher's pet?" "No, I never! She took her cnnkif s and her bread for the J them, except, of course, Fanny. Fanny's a dear. If it hadn't been for her, I would have let my - bread burn the other day." Eleanor had thought that she would work hard and have all the exhibit work, just to show the girls, but now she -was seized with a sudden desire to have Fanny's pie exhibited instead of her. own. . Smiling mysteriously to her self, she carelessly dumped her ingredients together, mixed them in a haphazard way. and popped the crust in the oven to bake. "There, that surely won't be anything-extra." she thought. "Oh, how lovely," Fanny sigh ed enviously, as Eleanor drew the . crust from the oven. "It looks like it would just melt if you looked at it How do you ever do it? It didn't take you half as long as it did me,' ' Eleanor was provoked. 4 T h'e stupid old pie! Well, she' would her lemon filling. Careleiv she tossed in too much flour and then not ennneh ano When no one was looking, she dumped in a whole handful of Salt. Later, however, when ,ha - - p ajuv poured the fillinz into the irntt she was disgusted to see that it looked perfect. Of course it would tasta awful then she re membered that Miss Smith would never taste it. "Your pie looks fine. Eleanor." she said as she passed. Her mouth set in a grim line Eleanor started o beat the whites of her eggs. She'd soon fix that disgusting old pie. She turned the oven on as high as she could and popped the pie in to brown meringue. Slamming the oven door shut, she went oft to wash her dishes. "Eleanor, your pie's done," Fanny called. "You had the oven awfully high, but I turned It down for you. Oh, your hands are all wet. I'll take it out." She pulled out the pie, now a Icyely. golden brown misU "Isn't it just beautiful?" Every ne agreed that it was. when Eleanor's pie was exhibit ed at the fair. lief that the days ot real adven ture are sone forever along comes a story from Honkong of a 20th century woman who has turned pirate. For sheer excitement and dare-deviltry the story outrivals the wildest adventures ot Captain Kidd and "puts the pirates of Lundy to shame. The dispatch does not give us the lady's name, but we are told that she traveled in the first cabin aboard the British steamer Sui An. bound from Macoa to Hongkong. When hut a few miles from port, we are told, the woman's accomplices, said to number 65 ot the passengers, seized the ship and, quickly over powering the remaining passen gers and crew proceeded, at the point of guns, to strip passengers and ship alike of everything of value. Two of the crew who showedl fight were killed and six others seriously wounded. With a de liberation as uncanny as ever Robert Louis Stevenson dreamed of. the woman is said to have di rected every movement of her band of pirates and to have 'di vided among them the contents of a safe which was broken open, amounting to several thousand dollars. When the ship reached Blias bay, a few miles north of Hongkong, the woman ordered the engines stopped and the pi rates, taking their wounded, left in small, boats and disappeared into the night. What more perfect story of piracy could be told to satisfy the most meticulous lover of sea stor ies? Here it is served up in grander, bolder fashion than even Kipling or Ralph Bergengren have given us. How Gilbert and Sullivan would hive seized upon this bit of modern adventure! The "Pi rates of Penzance" is tame in comparison. Who shall now say that the days at adventurous buccaneer ing are over? The pirate Gibbs. who terrified the coast towns of New England a century ago, pales into insignificance when compared with this modern Captain Kidd in petticoats. He only thought he was a pirate. , - What ,with rum-running on land and sea and bootleggers and pirates and hold-up men at everju country crossroad, a new and ab sorbing chapter of adventure is in thi making. And probably some day, when future writers have given our modern buccan eering the glamorous touch of ro mance, our children's children will think the tales of the 20th century buccaneers quite as al luring as those of the days when Captain Kidd and his pirates sailed the seven seas. B1TS FOR BREAKFAST 4 i ; Seasonable weather Mostly rain, but some sun shine. "Is It is fine weather, so far, for the broccoli. There will be a lot of it to sell, and a big clean up on it in the Salem district. In February and March if the weather keeps on acting like it has been doing so far. Just so it does not get much below zero say not more than five degrees below. Most of the paragraphers for got to mention that one or me things to be thank Sul for on Thanksgiving was that It marked the end of another football sea son. "b Watch Salem grow in 1923. The 23 will be a lucky number, In development matters, here. Weal and happy." wires the harem to the fleeing sultan the slick man of Europe. Are they glad to get rid of him? "Miss Clara Salem, according to a news report, 'Is organizing clubs in eastern cities to supply companionship for young girls who are lonesome.' We beneve we will loin." Pathfinder. Miss Clara Is not from Salem, Oregon She would have had no oppor tunity to learn her trade here a "There Is a good deal of spec ulation as to the cause ot what happened on November 7th, but booze, bunk and bolshevism are 9Air.nnt9hlA for most of It. ac cording to the National Republt can. Man nronoses woman makes bim stick to it. , , 1 EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE V CBTCNTSU 4 SUP Best By Test remember the lowest priced Baking Powder is often the most expensivethat bakh powder economy cannot hi based on purchase priceit's results that count That's why The Economy BMilRIG PQVUMZ11 is the biggest selling brand in America. You save when you buy it you save when you use it, Use the same Baking Powder that -guards the purity of bakings in millions of homes that retains its unfailing ; leavening strength to the very last spoonful The sale of Calumet is over 150 greater than that of any othci baking v powder. ; V A pound can of Calumet contain fall ; 16 ounces, Srme baking powders come in 12 ounce instead of 16 ounce cans.- Be . are you get. a pound when you want it. THU WORLD'S GREATEST DAKISG J0.v I PICTURE PUZZLE I To yvKomiS thrt letter addressed? Aaswvr t'"rpnl! Esr, fearrtn -j- TJIT 'ESI AGAIN One of the best stories told re cently Is that of a naturalist who once divided an aquarium with a clear glass partition. He put a lustp bass in one section and minnows in the other. The bass struck every time a minnow approached the glass par. titlon. After three days of fruitless lunging, which netted him only braises, he ceased -his efforts and subsisted on the food that was dropped in. Then the naturalist removed the glass partition. The minnows swam all around the bacs; but he did not strike at a single one he had been sold thoroughly on the idea, that bust nesswas bad. There is a moral here if any of tis in Salem or Oregon need :t take another shot at the glass partition Maybe it isn't there any more. JOXAH AND THE WHALE Congressman! Krale, who de feated Volstead in the fall elec tion, baa a name that bothers Washington.,, In the Norseland a kvale is a whale. That should make the new representative a wet. although he claims to be dryer than Volstead ever dared to be. In impolite circles at the capital Volstead was considered a Jonah. His successor . is a whale. There Is one thing about the centenarians in this country that we have i often noUced. They have : all been hard ' drinkers of whiskey" all their Uvea or have A Better Parking' System Editor Statesman: In the "bits for Breakfast" col umn ot Sunday's Issue of your paper there was mention made ot the heavy traffic ot automobiles in Salem at the present time, and I am just wondering If it would not be a good idea to have the cars parked "headed in diagon- r,f last vear. The nresent en- ally," instead of "backed in dig6imesr-glTir-Bt 14,94 4. Of SCHOOL CENSUS IS CO! mm County Has 14,944 Persons on Which Money Will Be Apportioned The school census of Marion county filed with the county clerk Saturday shows an increase of 482 students over the records onally," as we are now doing. Have you ever noticed how much valuable parking space is wasted in our town? I have often wanted to park in a certain block and found I could not do so, principally be cause there was a great deal of space wasted between the cars. I think the reason for this is that a person backing his car likes to play safe," and he usually takes more space than is necessary be cause the space is there to take. After several cars have done this. one can readily see Just how much parking space has been wasted. - Just last Friday I saw a local man park his car right in the middle of a space that would ac commodate two cars very nicely, and a drummers' car that1 was right behind him, ready to - park beside him, and he had to con tinue on to the next block to find a location for his car. It was my privilege to visit the principal towns in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana the last six months, and I found that fully 95 per cent of these towns had found it to their ad vantage to park their cars headed in diagonally. Caliornia towns have also inaugurated this sys tem of parking. It is surely the "natural", way of parking, as the drirer is ac customed to driving his car straight ahead, and he can Judge space better, and has a better view of where he is go&g than he has by backing in. This is especially true in winter when one has his storm curtain up. . The rule in parking "head in is to draw in as closely aa pos sible to the car to your left, so one can readily see what a saving this would mean to our congested traffic. The new system would also have a tendency . to correct fast and careless driving on our down town streets, as one would have to keep a sharp lookout for any car backing out from the curb. The proper authorities could notify each car owner ot this vicinity when the licenses were issued the first of the year, and the new system put Into effect right away. I would like to see Salem fall in line with the other up to date cities which hare established-this system ot parking their automo biles. Very respectfully, -C. N. Keedham. Salem, Dec. 4, 1922. this number 4,825 are registered In Salem schools. Persons count ed in the census are those be tween 4 and 20 years old. For each person of school age there la a legal allowance of $10, 60 there will be in the county school Jund next year $149,440. In the county library fund, to which 10 cents per pupil is contributed there will be $1, 494.40, apportioned among, the districts according to school pop ulation. so their stay will not be long. They hope to meet many of the live ones of Salem at the Marion tonight after 8 o'clock, and Wed nesday forenoon before they have to leave on their journey. The three roads are putting an imposing campaign for Northwest publicity.. They plan to carry the "inside dope" about the Pacific coast all over the country, fn every kind of publicity that will attract immigrants, industries and buyers for northwestern products. It looks like a monumental enter prise, as the three greaj roads are going into it, and the visiting her alds of the movement expect to find some friends in Salem. Railroad Publicists Will be Here Today Carl McQuinn and Harlan Smith, representing the publicity and advertising department of the Great Northern, - the Northern Pacific and the Burlington Rail roads, are to be in Salem tonight to give the town the once-over and see what they can find to say about it in their general ad rertlslng campaign. They have Not much chance for the re turn of normalcy in this country. It is announced that Battling Sikl will be over in January. Areo Club Head Gets $100 for Court Cortap! NEW .YORK, pec. 4. Henrr Woodhouse, former president of the Aero Club of America, oiij was fined $100 for contempt oi court by Supreme Court Jnrtlct Philip J. McCook, as a result ot Vo6dhouse's failure to obey in order of the court in the coarse of protracted ' legation betwten Woodhouse and th-J present ctfl cers of the Aero club. In a3di tion to the fine, disbursements of 125 and costs of $30 were levied against Woodhouse. ' ToCumaCald in One Day tah1y m Be sure you get Ml The box beara this signature at V C Pries) SOe. . AUCTION SALE My 22 acre farm, stock, machinery and household furniture, at my home, 2 miles from Salem city limlta on the bottom road to Boys Training School, on Tuesday, December 5, 1922. commencing at 10 o'clock a. m.. all the following; Farm of 22 1-2 acres, 20 acres In cultivation, 2 1-2 acres timber. 1 1-2 acres family fruit and strawberries, 5-room house with electric lights, barn 40x20 feet, garage and chicken coops, good well of water; barn la arranged for dairy purposes'; place all well woven wire fenced. There will be sold with the above ranch, a lease on 70 acres with 1 acres in growing wheat, 10 acres plowed, the balance pasture. Terma and price of the lease will be announced at day of sale. Stock, farm machinery, furniture; 5 good cows, some giving milk, some coming fresh. 1 young calf, S horses. 2 good workers, 1 single driver, 1 young calf, SO chickens, 2 wagons, l 4-sectIon harrow. I eream separator, 1 hay rake, 1 feed cutter, 100 egg incubator and brooder, 1 top buggy, tonta grain. 1 plow. 1 set work-harness, hay and straw In barn ;r two bedsteads, 2 springs, 2 mat tresses, dresser, l leather Davenport, 1 rocker, 1 range store, Theater, 1 large dining table. 6 chairs, 1 kitchen cabinet, 1 Singer sewing machine, 1 wash tub, 1 washing machine, cream cans 15 sacks good potatoes, fruit jars, dishes, milk paiU, small tools and other articles. , Free lunch at noon bring your cups. " a V Terms On personal property, is cash. On farm, sultat-le suraa. awiaed-day of sale. Geo. Satterlee, auction -c-r. Phone 430, D. D. Socolofsky, Agent. Phone 970. C t ; Schaper, owner. c 5, " ,