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WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 27. 1922 a , w Issued Daily Except Monday by v y THE" STATESMAN : PUBLISHING COMPANY ' ' . 216 8. Commercial St.. Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 7 Hoard of Trade Building. Phone Automatic i;,v,H-.- 611-93 f v MKHBEK OF THK AKSOCIATKD PRESS The Associated Press It exclusively entitled to tbe use (or publi cation of all new dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited lu tb is paper and also tbe local news published herein. K.-J. Hendricks ....... Manager 8tephen A, Stone Managing Editor Ralph GlOTer Cashiei Frank Jaskoskl Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: t Business Of Bee. 22 Circulation Department, 582 Job Department. 583 Society Editor. 10 S Entered at the Postoffice In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter If you can help the Slogan edi tor prove this is the beet cherry country on earth, it la your duty to do so, today. f Her doctors said there would havci to be a miracle if ' Sarah Bernhardt recovered from her sickness. She is recovering. The miracle is her wonderful will power, which has made her one Of the world's foremost women. The Statesman is working on a Crfcater Salem District edition its, annual edition. The success of ' the Willamette university's million and a quarter campaign will jhelp to make the name ap propriate. And there are many othej things, already accomplish ed ajnd by way of accomplish ment, and in the making. V A FORWARD LOOKING PROGRAM One of the really big things for Oregon, perhaps the hig hest and the most fundamental thing that could be done for the state, is being planned by the Portland Chamber of Commerce in its comprehensive new state wide program. A fund of $300,000 has been proposed, to carry on the work, and a considerable part of this sum is already raised on the '. irreproachable argument of the plan. The, farmers of the state might be raising good enough crops, the fruit men and the stock men and the lumber men and the small manufacturers might be producing good goods; I but until they actually market their stuff u v j Every bushel of wheat, or board, or calf, or box of fruit i is an investment, a liability :, j And until every Oregon producer can raise maximum crops, or? produce maximum results for his labor expended, and then sell every article for a price that pays, Oregon has not reached her .maximum of prosperity; until it comes much closer than is now the case, Oregon industry in general i3 hardly holding its own; The Portland plan Is to go out into the state and help every local industry, every Industry to organize to standard ize and Increase production, to cut out the unnecessary leaks between producer and consumer, to organize powerful coop eratives wherever possible or desirable and to make the pro ducer so prosperous that the state simply can't help getting rich. It has sounded like a curious business gospel to some of the old time townsmen to help the farmers organize cooperatives and take their whole business into their own hands and so away from the "middleman." Some short sighted townsmen hold that it will ruin the cities. I But the story of the astonishing cooperatives in Calif or nia, where every town business has grown at least as fast as the t armers themselves under their unrivalled cooperative associations ,; is 4 : breaking down ; these fears. .' Politi cal economists, bankers, politicians, ail lines of organized city life that, have been afraid of this new theory, are turning- to it as business salvation.' - " ; The Portland plan to spend most of its money; a propor tion of at least five dollars for internal development of pro duction, standardization and cooperative sales organization, , , to, one dollar for, actual away from home advertising, is a remarkably far sighted,' sane appraisal of relative values . v' ;. Oregon ' has never seen so ' good a chane; to follow- a "t : really big lead.' -jX . J'; ' . ' ' j t That Portland, should pay most or all of these bills her ; self, counting on getting her( pay back in her prosperity j through the enormous increase in business as Oregon gets fairly into her producing and selling stride,' to some of the .-old Jlne; gouges sounds like bankruptcy. But to an enlight ened new. business morality it sounds like the millenium. Calvin Coolidge says: "In these days,' children get about wliat they ask for, not what the wise Judgment of their parents should dictate. Their pockets are filled with money and out they go to purchase pleasure, all the pleas ure jhelr easy money will buy. The taste for pleasure Is formed as the tafte for thrift and work is killed, j Later on, in a natural development of things, the taste for pleasure becomes so strong that jit must be satisfied at any cost. If crime has to be resorted to, that price Is paid." 1 a I ,It ; wa$ the dryest Sunday In, New York's history. . Only-eight persons! were, killed by moonshine In that city On .Christmas : ' f "" -TTfytJ - "All the world's greatest sweet cherries bat one were originated in the Salem district, and this Is the greatest cherry country in the entire world. That's a fact. But the Slogen editor has got to prove it, and he wants your help, today, for tomorrow's paper. Tomorrow will , be too late. v-?. n ety, belongs as an inmate there. Probably he is putting It strong. Any way, The Statesman Is glad to furnish the means of, passing along the consideration, of this matter; and surely It far worthy of confederation." CAUSE OP UXREST Prohibition comes about as near causing the unrest In this country as booze comes to causing the un rert in Europe. Toledo Blade. WTIY IS THEKE A SHORTAGE OF FREIGHT CARS? The Statesman Is th's morning t presenting to its readers the text proposed measure requiring of a medical examination of both men and Women as a condition pre cedent to the issuing of marriage licenses. This is for the purpose of bringing about criticism as to thie text of the proposed bill; and is to its wisdom;, though the latter? will be more In order In; case the measure shall be sub mitted to ayote of the people by the legislature. For any who' may be doubtful as to the lattei, there are many exhibits In the state institutions in and about Sa lem; with especial emphasis upon the institution " ' for the feeble minded. A friend of the writer declares that a study of the con dition there or rather the con- ditions the results of which hare made necessary the establishing and maintenance and 'continual growth of that Institution, . will convince, any, thoughtful man or woman of the-wfedom of enacting such a law In Oregon, and In every state - In the union. He says any one who would -wish In mis emigmenea age to see a con tlnuance of. the breeding", of such unfortunates and such pitiful burdens to themselves and soci I FUTURE DATES Dctmber 27, Wednesday Compiny imokef at armory. ' December 31, Sunday Elk Mil nlrht Follies." Grand theater. Monday. Jan. 1. T. M. C. A. "Open Houaei" for errybody. New Year'a day afternon and evening January 5. Friday Elvin M. OwaUy, national rninmander of American Lesion. be in Salem. January 8. Monday Tnaafnratloa ' of Goveraor-elect Walter M. Pierce. January 8. Monday LerisUttrre meet Railroad Bulletin No. 25, by Samuel M. Felton, president of the Chicago Great Western Rail road company, dated at Chicago, December 15, makes a showing that is worthy of the considera tion of the careful reader. Mr. Felton is a high authority in rail road circles. In full, it is as fol lows: The recent nation-wide revi val of business has been met and hindered by the most acute short age of railroad transportation in history. This shortage of trans portation is elt by farmers and other shippers in the form of a 'shortage of cars' from which all have been suffering. . "No class of producers Is losing more by tbe inability of the rail ways to handle all the freight of fered to them than the farmers. The farmers and other people naturally demand an explanation of this unfortunate situation. "Let those who wish to get at the root of the matter consider the following facts: "In the seven years ending In 1907 the number of locomotives on the railways of the United States increased an average of 2,- 500 a year. "At just about the end of this period the state and national governments-adopted a policy of dras tic and restrictive regulation of railroads. Rates were reduced; wage, and other railway expenses Increased, and the net return earned by the companies rapidly declined. The railway companies became unable to increase their facilities and Mother equipment as they had been increasing them be- In the seven years ending with 1S21 the number of freight cars increased only 6,000 a year. "In other words, within the lan seven years the number of loco motives that the railways had for handling their business Increased only one-ninth as'much as in the seven years that ended with 190?,, and the number of freight cars that they had for handling their business increased only one-fifteenth as much as in the seven years ending with 1907. There was the same decline in the de velopment and increase of all the facilities that the railways must ne in handling traffic. "Meantime, the progress of the country and the demands made upon the railways for service con tinued to Increase as in previous years. Is it any wonder the rail ways are now unable to handle all the business offered to them, and that in consequence the farmers and all the other producers of the country are suf ferine heavy losses from shortage of transportation?. The railways have greatly increas- j ed their efficiency of operation. If they had not, the shortage of transportation would have been very much greater. The Chicago Great Western, In common with all the other railways, is doing everything in its power to cope with this situation. But the prob lem is not merely one of railroad operation. It is primarily one of government regulation of rail ways. The railways cannot go on forever increasing the amount of businera they handle, while gov ernment regulation is making It impossible to provide the addition al locomotives, cars and other fa cilities required to handle Increas ed business. "The government cental paid during the war to the railroads expired on September 1, 1920. In the two years between that date and September 1. 1922. the net return earned by the railways of the United States on their valua tion as fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, was only 3.56 per cent- The railways can not get the new capital to pro vide the new locomotives, cars and other facilities unless they are allowed to earn a larger net return. "The greatest need of the farm ers and other producers and ship- the Harding administration as a policy, have headed that admin istration for the rocks and are fast bringing Important American Interests, agritulture included, to the verge of ruin. Others have known all along that isolation by America as ad vocated by Borah is disaster. It was a doctrine that contravened all, history, all experience, all the maxims of development. The evo lution of the white man's drill ration is a ceaseless story of in tercourse, inter-relating and In ter-dependence between nations. Senator Borah's, childish doctrine of non-concern in Europe was a proposal to repeal the laws of advancement, the laws of civili zation and the whole experience of history. He learned of his blundering and brutal policy in the late election returns and the biting rebuke of the voters to the Harding administration for per mitting the Borahs and Johnsons t dictateHts foreign policy. BITS FOR BREAKFAST j fore. "Therefore, in the seven years ,)ers at Present is not lower rates. ended with 1914, the number of 1 bnt more transportation. They locomotives in service on our rail ways increased only 1,500 a year, iirv . . . jjuring ine next seven year period, ending with 1921, ther were three years of restrictive regulation, two years' of govern weiii operation, ana tvro- years. 1920 and 1921, when the net re turn earned by the railways was the lowest in history. Therefore in this lait seven years the num ber of locomotives 'In service Ip creased only 275 a yea?. "In the seven years ending with 1907 the number of freight cars increased an average of 90,000 a year. In the seven years end In r cannot ship all the products' that I they produce now. Their low from shortage of transportation is far greater than from Increased rates. "The rates should be reduced as the railways are able to reduce their expenses. Railway expenses are not now going down. For example, the average price that they have to pay for coal, which is one of the largest items in t . . ineir expenses, increased 4 0 per cent between April and August. 1922. The policy of railway reg ulation which continues to reduce railway rates regardless of rail- If the Borah proposal for ' an international conference la good now, it was good March 4, 1921, when Mr. Harding took office. If cooperation with Europe is good now it was good in the election campaign of 1920, when Senator Borah was abroad in the land clamoring for America not to meddle in European affairs and to devote all, her efforts and statesmanship to problems at home. If the present Borah plan had been subrtituted In 1920 for the then Borah plan, if Instead of 'observers" America had sent 'representatives" to participate in European conferences, if instead of a brawling Harvey America had . sent a forward thinking Christian statesman to the lead ing American stations in Europe, if instead of lowering America to the hermit-like status of a China in foreign diplomacy and world affairs the United States had ex ercised her unchallenged moral leadership to pacify and organize Europe, millions upon millions of people in America and Europe would be better fed and better clothed, all the European nations, still counting their daed and com puting their debts, would not now be in the abyssmal depths' of fin ancial ruin, and not now on the brink of another cruel and civilization-destroying war. In Senator Borah's confession and repentance, indirect though it ana subject at any timA change, the people of this repub lic know that tho j-j "wu nutru. war president, even though they dif fer with his plan. w. ,,. the principle that he set up in with 1914 the number of freight wa3r exPn3 "will cause the pres cars increased only 50,000 a year. OKOOS TWDT aroaxs Ml HTTMOB - PLAT WOXX ent shortage of transportation to contlnun to grow more serious and to cause Increasing losses to farmers and other producers 'Suggestions and criticisms are Iri7lted." Copyright, 1023, Aaeoclated Editor The BJiogeat little Paper la the World Kdltod by Job H. Millar BACK TO SANITY :: First Steps in 'Acting GKTTtXG INTO TOUR - PART 4- L vsV I. ' ft ! UMr. Harry. Davenport, who has been an actor tor more than 60 years, gives In this article some pointers for the boy and girl in terested in amateur acting. Mr. Davenport is a character actor, and is at present taking the part of a minister in "Thank-U," a comedy now running In Chicago.) ' If you wish to take part In any play, whether, it la put on In a barn" or garage or before your school,' you . must be able to do . three things study quickly, re member , your part, and under stand and follow the ideas and . instructions of the stage mana ger. '',' ': , a' 5 "You must be 't able to grasp Ideas quickly and 'to' follow sug gestions readily. You must have your .line 0 firmly fixed in your V, mind that you- won't have to ; -worrr. about1 remembering. If jour memory is very poor, you should never go In' tor acting. ft: ) ': : Play Tut Fidthfully f ; Play-acting requires also 'the ability to play a character faith fully. Suppose,' for example, yon want to play Bill Smith, a brick- layer, instead ot trying to be Bill Smith, be yourself as a brick layer.; In other words, think how you would act It you actually were a Bricklayer In real life,; ; o get your part across you must speak Clearly and distinctly, otherwise, no matter how careful- lj yotf play your part; much ot it aloud. when you are" studying, go that it will be easier for you to speak:, clearly. Strive for Ease . You must learn to be at ease upon the stage,' so thatj you will not move about stmiy ana awk wardly. All good actors and act resses are graceful in their move ments. Such exercises as fencing and boxing are good to develop a grace. They are worth trying. If you wish to be light on your feet and to carry yourself well. Form a neighborhood stock company, so that you will learn to play all sorts of different parts This will add to your confidence, it you ever expect to take part In an all-school play, or one day to enter dramatics as a profession. not afraid. What's there to be afraid ot? I think It would be fun to sleep up there alone."' Helen went tto bed early, as she was tired after all the day's excitement. "You're sure you're- not afraid? asked her mother. Njo, of course not," laughed "There's nothing to be afraid of." Later in the evening Mrs. Ben- decided to wash out her white dress. - She tip-toed very quietly up into the attic to hang ; She did not want to dis Helen, who was sleeping THE SHORT STORY, JR. HELEN'S BAD DREAM You won't mind giving your bed to Aunt Jennie and Uncle Steve tonight, will you, Helen?" Mrs. Bennett asked. , "I'm sorry, but I Just don't know where else we could - put them. You can sleep up In the third floor room. You know there's a real nice bed up-there." . It was the holiday season: and all the Bennett's 'relative had descended-upon them for Christ mas, Even their large house was tilled to ' overflowing. .-"If. you're, afraid p. there alone;, 111 sleep with. you," Mrs, Bennett Wffdw,rwT,nr' Helen. nett it op turh peacefully In her new bed. So that is how it happened that when! Helen awoke In the middle ot the night the first thing she saw was a white, ghost-like fig ure swaying back and forth near her bed. At first she thought she was going to scream, but when no noise came she changed her mlndl I must be dreaming," she thought. "I know there are no such things as ghosts, but what! can It be? ' She buried her face In the bed clothes and tried Uk go back to sleep, . but she couldn't get that awful white thingi out ot her mind "Of course It was Just a bad dream." she thought. "Ill look again to prove that it isn't there." But "It was J still ehsre! "It can't Lbe.a ghost," she argued with bwrf f"becau sphere arentUny I rffff?f&.s& ghosts, so it has to be a bad dream." She buried her head and decided she wouldn't look any more. When again she looked forth from under the bed covers the sun was shining brightly and the white ghost was gone. Her moth er was already ironing It in the kitchen, but of cdarse He!en did not know that. $he still felt a little queer. x "Right over there Is where it stoodJ" she thought. "That surely was a funny dream. It was so real. Why I could even feel the bed-clothes and hear the wind rattling the windows." The next night Helen looked at her mother timidly. "Will you sleep with me tonight. Mother?? she asked. "Why, Helen, you aren't afraid are you.?" laughel Mrs. Bennett. "Any one coull carry you off and you would nev-r know it. I was (Portland Journal, Sunday.) Behold Senator Borah! He proposes an international confer ence to ' consider economic, finan cial and business problems, In eluding German reparations. And this is the Borah who cap tained the isolationists. He led the irreconcilable and guided the battalion of death." He was tbe arch treaty-ripper. He said America should have nothing to do with Europe. He preached the ghastly doctrine of letting European nations rot if they could not alone rise out of their sufferings, bankruptcy and woes. He told the American neo pie that America, like China, rhould be a hermit nation. Be cause of his abality and his high ideals in domestic affairs, he ex erxea more mnuence tnan anr up there twioe last night to hang other man in leading this nation up my white dress and to get. it. and you never knew it." "Oh." Helen sighed In relief, I'm not afraid, either. I was just joaing." PICTURE PUZZLE Cherries, Slogan subject tomor row.1 . . - V - , . This is almost a perfect cherry country - S And cherry growing has attain ed a high place here; but there is still something to learn, and something to do all the time, to guard the Industry and keep It growing. ;:v. If you have a suggestion on the cherry Industry, tell the Sllgan editor. Do it today. V V V Governor-elect Pierce , told the Salem real estate men that he pro poses to give especial attention to the flax plant at the peniten tiary. If he is given the proper support by the legislature, and is fortunate in the selection of per sonnel, be can in his four year term make tbe penitentiary sap port itself with the flax plant. H S But that will not be enough. What may be done at the peni tentiary is only a drop fn the bucket, a spit in the ocean, as compared with the developments in the flax Industry that ought to be undertaken here. What is needed Is large capital Investment in the industry here; organisa tion; push. Now is' the accepted time, wnue tbe tariff rates are favorable, and while there is a world shortage ot flax fiber. There is only one country that can compete with the Willamette val ley in producing the finest grades of flax for the fiber, suitable for making the fine linens. That country - Is - Belgium, and only a small district of Belgium. Salem has been given by the Almighty a franchise to make her a great city, and It will be the fault of our people of the present gener ation if they do not take advan tage of this franchise, for theft own benefit. It will come in time. But there Is no time like the present. tween the language he wanted pst Into it and that which Senator Lodge and other members ot his Junta in the upper house waded ; used. . And if Senator Borah'haa re formed, is It, not creditable - tp 1 his conscience that this Is to? Even though the obstinacy a&4 f general cussed nesa of Borah and his ilk in the "pper house of eoa gress has entailed - the . loss ot millions of Uvea and the sacrific ing of billions of money in t&e't world, and has set back Interna. tional good will and universal re construction! many year.C , - t i Hiram Johnson. who r never went quite so far as Borah, now j refuses to follow . htuC ainc the latter former Irreconcilable has grown sane. V ! : t 1 Senator Borah should - receive praise Instead of blame for .his belated attempt to put the United ? States In line with reason -on foundation taawlll give four country the Jeadership that des tiny has marked ont for this na- tion; for the good of our nation al soul, and tor the welfare ot the whole wide world. ' his leadership of America and the world. - - (While most of what the Jour nal writer says is true j And more is true The "wounded war president la blameworthy for the fact that the League of Nations treaty was not adopted by the senate; for it could have been adopted and would have been, excepting for his stiff-necked insistence that it be ratified without an I dotted or t crossed in Article 10 ot the document, or without an amend ment not of his own wording, though no one in the wide world excepting .himself could explain the difference in meaning be- Dtscouragement aits lightly up-1,. on the shoulders ' of the young which is the reason they are. young. i w i:-i': OlTUMl brings refreshing relief from, tor- .turing, nervous U headaches.. i n t9P 9. Monthly pairwf neuralgic, , sciatic a n 4 V rheumatic pains, headache, backache tn4 all other aches are quickly, re lieved by ' S. .?'v - V'f Dr. Miles' Anu-Paln Pills Contain no dangerous; habit forming drugs. rAVhj; doat yon ; O Ask your druggist ; " I ; HERE IS A CHARADE AN A0JECT1VE Of 3 SYLLABUS intOj the suicidal policy of non cooperation in Europe, which has gone far to wreck the American farmer, to increase America's un employed, to cut American buy ing power and to handicap Am erican Industry, American bus! ness and American finance. Senator Borah's proposal for America to take a hand in Euro pean affairs is a point-blank re pudiation of his past teachings on foreign policy. It is an aban donment of all he has stood for with the single exception of his leadership jin the arms parley, which, so far, is a near blank. It its an indirect confession that his international Ideas, forced unon nHinUFQTCD Q DII I ? UlllVllkVI bll W llaaAl TBI aL&klM tKUa a ;KIat S3!. 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