WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 27. 1922
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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.
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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."
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I ,It ; wa$ the dryest Sunday In,
New York's history. . Only-eight
persons! were, killed by moonshine
In that city On .Christmas : '
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- "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,
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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.
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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
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! 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 .
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This is almost a perfect cherry
country -
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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.
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If you have a suggestion on the
cherry Industry, tell the Sllgan
editor. Do it today.
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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.
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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-
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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
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