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TITE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30. 1922 T, . . . Issned Daily Except Monday by THK STATESMAN l'UBLISIILXQ COMPANY ' . ' 8- Commercial St.. Salem. Oregon (Portland Office. 27 Board of Trade Banding. Phone Automatic v : . : ' . : ., j - 611-93 - . " MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS r!?i0ClatedJ.?reM "clmlTely entitled to the use for publl i Ht?- i " newf dl,,Ptche credited to It or not otherwise credited in thie paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks , Stephen A., Stone , Ralph Glover . ... TnLk Jaskoskl . . Manager .Managing Editor Cashier ........ .Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES; ' - Business Office. 22 Circulation Department, 532 Job Department, 682 Society Editor, IOC Entered at the Postofflce In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter FARMING EAST AND WEST ' Farming in the eastern and Atlantic states generally is i not paying appreciable returns on invested capital. It is not a desirable occupation in the New England states it is an experiment in New York it is unsatisfactory in Virginia. t , Right near the densest centers of population, close to j the world's best markets, farm lands are being abandoned as .fast as they are being developed on the Pacific coast. From 1880 to 1920 improved farm land acreage of the , -New England states has declines 7,933,857 acres, or an av erageAally loss of 479 acres. Allowing $10 an acre as a fair value for' the land lost, classified now as unimproved, the " loss is estimated at $22,513 per day for the entire period of ipnyywn... u : ..New England is harvesting 5,000,000 bushels of corn le3s per annum than in 1880. The number of sheep in the same period has declinei 1,000,000 her!; there are 183,000 fewer cattle than in 1880. If this land could be reclaimed for pro duction more than $168,000,000 would be added to the pres ent grosa agricultural income of New England. ' In New England are plenty of improved highways, but tfiey lead to abandoned farms. J .There can be no such story told in the future of the Saleri district, if our farmers will continue to diversify and intensify . . . To produce the things they can produce best and at greatest profit- r I Arid to organize and keep organized with a view to being i sure of the best markets f .,, ; For it is one thing to have the best prune country, and ' the best country for loganberries flax, filberts, walnuts, strawberries, apples of right varieties, 1 black raspberries, mint,1 evergreen blackberries, cherries, pears of the right vkmds,' gooseberries, etc.,' etc., and the be3t dairying country out of doors, and a country adapted to the production of . the best live stock of various families and breeds 1 In short, the country of diversity and the land of , op portunity " 1 . And It is another thing to harvest and prepare vand market to the best advantage the things we produce. ' It is the manifest duty of every one in the Salem dis v trict to work for the full development of ourcountry; to stay on the job till there is not an idle or slacker acre between the. Cascades and. the Coast Range; for the good of this generation and the generations to come r Because ; the potential wealth from the soil here 13 vast beyond that of the valley of the Nile, or of any other V section of the entire earth; and if he is a benefactor of his r . kind who makes- two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, 'how much more is one the friend of the whole human race who helps to build up from undeveloped re sources a; granary-and supply depot and store house that may feed many millions in ih years of the future. : 1 I! n An airplane trip, around the world I set for next year. They may become common and com monplace after that. England has loaned 2,500,00 to Palestine. The money-changers of London -want to get their money back; therefore, they loan it to the Jews. The Procyon ha been made flagship of the Pacific fleet. Some one, suggests that she must have been named by the fellow wbo gives the monickers to the Pull man cars'. General Leonard Wood sticks to bis post in Manila. He never dodged a . man's job in his life. There Is neither gold nor glory In Manila, but there is work to be done there and General Wood will stay and finish the job. The Slogan man has the job for next week of proving that this is the best pear country in the world; and the same as to goose berries the week following. He asks your help, if yon can help. Both-things, are tniethe task: Is to convince everybody' that they are true. aibly Ihey perished during the blizzard of seven years, ago' and had never been removed, ' it Is difficult to convict when witness es are reluctant. It would be quite a wonderful thing if Wil liamson county could purge her own infamy, but it is a great deal to expect. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM The wood working plant at the penitentiary is doing very well; is capable of furnishing profit able employment to part of the men; of teaching some of them trades. But it could not pay all the costs of the institution if it were ever so well equipped and managed and every available man employed In it. The flax plant, equipped with spinning machin ery, can support the institution and likely it can do so and still leave enough men to run the wood working plant. But the im portant thing, first, is to develop the industry that will Bupport the institution. Fortunately, the flax plant will compete not at all with outside labor, and it will teach the men a trade that will be of more service to the state gener ally than any other trade, and by the same token be of more use to the men who learn It than any other trade could be, because they will find employment thereby when they are free men again and will pass it along to others. There Is a book full of other ben efiits, including those that will accrue to the flax growers in having a ready market at remun erative prices. " ... XOXE SO BLEST) In the course of the trial of some of the striking miners charged with the Herrin massare a witness told of hearing several shots fired and then seeing eight or ten dead men lying on the aground, but could not tell how the victims met their end. Pos- Guy de Maupassant closed one of his romances' with the sa&e re flection that "Nothing is as good or a3 bad as it seems to be." Add to this the homely philosophy of the Italian peasant, "A barnyard filled with fertilizer will work more miracles than a chapel filled with saints," and one gets a per spective of what is really happen ing in Europe and in the rest of the world. sTudging by the dispatches, gen erally fragmentary, that appear in the dally papers, governments are falling, peoples are starving, civilization is crumbling : and violence is everywhere. Hope has been banished and the- alarm ists are in the saddle. ' But, when one views the cur rent events in the light Of his tory, one discover that5 at no time in the last 100 years has Europe enjoyed a single season of domestic tranquility. Wars and revolutions are always waging there or in' the making. Every decade brought its par ticular crisis, some of them as acute and as alarming to the timid, as that through which, Eu rope is now passing. General his tory passes over them lightly; for the historian found that what appeared at the moment to be an epochal event proved later to be only an incident. What happens today is not measured by the momentary dis turbances or dislocation ef. soci ety, but by its influence on to morrow and the days after. Never in the historical record has a winter passed without hunger- and violence somewhere in Europe. There was never, enough food and fuel to go round. "Some where minorities were being op pressed and brutalized. According to historians, the epoch from the signing of the Treaty of Vienna in 1815 to the Crimean war was the most peace ful that Europe has ever knowrt. But to read the memoirs of those who lived during that period' In the atmosphere of royalty a lid wrote their impressions from week to week 'one finds only plots and FUTURE 0ATES December 81. Sunday Elki "Mid h night Folliea," Grand theater. Monday. Jan. 1. Y. M. C. A. "Open House." for everybody, New Year' a day afternoon and evening January 5, Friday Elyin M. Otraler. national' commander of Americas Lesion to be in Salem. 4. January 8, Monday Tnangnratiea Governor elect waiter M. Pierce.. January S. Mnnriav IeeUUrar nnU I g CTtOOi ; ' STODT ; ' : .uro&xa BTTlfOa FXlAY WOBJE Copyright, 1923, Associated Editor The Biggest little Paper la the World Edited by Johm H. Millar Basketball Lessons . ' - ' nil ni x ii . riA x. NO. 3. FOUL GOAL TOSS1XQ I i-i (This; .is the fifth of 12 lessons In basketball by William C. Grave of the University of Pennsylvania, intercollegiate high . scorer . for 1921." ilr.v Grave as captain of his team'ln 1921, and was named as " allHroIIegiate center in 1919, 1920,, ahd,1921. Mr. Grave holds the "record o( having played 90 basketball games and losing only five.) v V . ' From : one-quarter to one-halt of the points scored by a team during a game are made by foul goals. In fact, this phase of the game had reached such Impor tance that a change In the rules Was sought , to prevent a team winning on foal coals1 alone. The Intercollegiate championship was J yNwr Jtwo years ago, because the , ' Winning, team had foul ' goal 1 tr- dosser who shot 135 fouls out of i ' 'n' t Much as practice is needed In . j perfecting . form in the; other - Pfcaeaof .the game, foul goal , .; tossing demands ma juuch practice T- -M 1K the other phases put to- Eotheri iU It la your ambition to be the one that will bring his v J team . to victory, to hold the risfc . 'V'811 ot tne,team In your hand - i, .ft- fcrucjal, moment of the game when one point means winning or THE SHORT STORY, JR. n UXSPOKEN THOUGHTS the foul line and practice and practice. Try Underhand Shott The underhand shot has proved the easiest and most natural way of shooting. Stand with the feet . . . . . i aDout . ten incnes apart ana mu toes lust touching the foul line. ( Grasp the ball with both hands slightly to the rear and above the center. Hold It about waist high and about six inches in front of the body. Then bend the legs, allowing the body to sink, at the same time lowering the hands un til they almost touch the body. From this semi-crouched position straighten the legs' and bring the arms forward and upward, throw ing the ball ' underhand toward the basket. Shoot Irish,, so that the ball can drop In easily. Practice first for direction, so that the ball will go in a line to ward the basket and not to either side. When, you have the direc tion, the distance will come natu rally. Another . very important feature is to grasp me nan ex actly the same way each time. No' ball is exactly round, and If you do not hold it the same way each time, It will throw you off. Do, ' the 8a me thing exactly the same 'way each time and yon will go a long way lo ward success in foul goal tossing.- ? (Next week: - -Five Man De Eleanor Sloan had sent out in vitations for a big New Year's party. All the girls in the high school were invited. It would be the biggest party of the year. "Whom are you going with?" Ruth asked Hazel, as the two girls walked home, together. 'Oh, no one in particular. With whom are you? "No one." "Oh, shoot," she thought, "now she'll expect me to ask her. And I'd rather go with any other girl in high school. Hazel's1 such a stick. Why couldn't I have said I was going with Helen or Gladys or anyone!" The Bilence was be coming painful. "Well, I sup pose IH have to ask her." "Goodness!" Hazel was think Ing. "I got myself in bad that time. What ever possessed me to ask her that? Now she'll expect me to ask her to go with me. counter-plots, plaugesv mob viol ence and unabating unrest. No government was secure, no people contented. Among the bert intimate rec ords of those times are the me moirs of the Duchess de Dino, niece of the great Talleyrand. She accompanied her uncle to London in 1SS1 when he became French ambassador to the court of St. James and' her salon was one of the most sought in the British capital. There she heard what was tak ing place behind the scenes in Eu ropean diplomacy; and she kept diary in which she recorded what was said, written and done, together with the impressions of the moment. "..r . ' To read history this was ,'a period of tranquility; but. when one peruses those memoirs one discovers that the governments of Europe were as unstable as they are at the present time and that there was an equal amount of violence and unrest. No crown was secure; no minister knew fiat the morrow would bring forth. Poland, Portugal. France and the whole of eastern Europe were in constant turmoil. England was no exception. Even the great Wellington was stoned at Oxford; mobs broke the win dows of his London residence and. when he appeared in 1831 in the city cf London, he was1 treated jso shabbily that he took an oath never to go there again. 1 ? Poland had just been partition ed and Polish exiles thronged the capitals of Europe. An able edi torial writer in an exchange finds that she recorded that: "Sunday evening they par aded in Paris with liberty bonnets on. pikes and indulg ed in other gentilities of the same nature. Fearing barri cades, the government car ried away all the materials which were to be found in the Place Louis XIV and piled them in the courts of the neighboring houses. "What a quantity of refu gees wc see flooding Europe, most of all in France! While it is neutral to offer them an asylum, in the actual con dition of France they are new, elements of disorder. It is reported that in the riots the refugees of all countries play the premier role." Violent revolution was threat ened in England. Palmerston, Grey and the other ministers con fided frankly to iTalleyrand that they feared the radical elements would break from government re straint. Europe' has passed through a similar crisis repeatedly. All that totters does not fall; and one who looks beneath the surface discov ers new and stable foundations. The situation may appear more perilous to us because the use of electricity so facilitates the dis semination of news that we know this morning what happened yes terday beyond the seas, while, a century ago, the crisis had passed before the people of the United States knew it had arisan. Europe is no worse 'nan it has been before, and perhaps no bet ter. Things are not so bad as they seem. The real crisis passed four years ago. Industry is re covering its sway. Whila the sur face is still disturbed, the depth is tranquil. Some governments Ftill assume a hostile tone; but the will to peace among the peoples- is growing stronger every day. r ih- last an-lir?'. is state of mind; ana i peace has rot been more aora nant at any tnan trx the last 100 years. The present gener tion has learned irom wiwkUVO to dread war, just as the burned child dreads the fire. The Iaint hearts that ttill despair are only those who do not awaken to the gravity of a crisis until it has passed.. - . WOOimOW WALKS AGAIN (Los Angeles Times.) Recent observers siy that ex President Wilson takes dally walks without the aid of a cane, that he no longer shuffles In his gait, but steps out firmly and freely. ' Moreover, his face is ruddy, It has lost the pallor of sickness and the deep lines pf suT'erins. His voice, as evidenced in his Armis tice day speech. Is once more strong and clear. That he broke his long established custom of re fusing himself to distinguished visitors and chatted vivaciously with Clemenceau Is another sign that the political hermit is about to emerge from his shell. His fellow citizens will pray heartily that America's wartime president may continue to Im prove in health and strength till he is completely restored to the lodily vigor on which he ' made such exhaustive drains while fin ing at that time the raprt respon sible position in the world. "We trust and hope these reports will be confirmed and the Democratic war horse will once more aprr In the arena of politics. r k ; Naturally, political Wasti: ton is speculating on the effect this unexpected come-back" "fe' have on the national elections t 1924. if Mr. wuson should caca more take aniactlva part la tfei councils or Ms party it will ttt. terially change the prospects ssj plans! of Its present leaders; - It will open pages in their put to fill them with doubts and plexities.' Those who have koped to Ignore the Wilsonlan Dea. crats, with an active Wilson a deck, will be unable to do to. fc will revive Issues they t kare striven .during his Incapacity ts stifle. Old ghosts will walk again. Monkey wrenches wilT hi thrown into the macklne.T For the past leader will "probably given his old , physical tlgor. new his old autocratic role. . V" Needlers to say to the Republi can party the return of Woodro Wilson will be an unmixed bless, ing. , , THE WELL-niUCSaED .MAS How is man to dress himself a the light ' of recent : stricture Vr hygienic experts ti. V.V. v A hat impedes , circulation stiff collar dlf locates the Adam's apple the sleeves' of a eoat tr'e superfluous, likewise .the leg o! trousers, both change 'ventilator Into draughts shoes canse rjjj. formed feet--heavy socks Intfuct colds in the head-cotton aner wefcV, Is bad woolen jjademai Is .worse . - .' . .The hygienic man' ofUie Intuit will evidently have1 to itm fc lust a vest and a necktie. '"V J 11 "Ruth smiled grimly. She was thinking what an awful hypocrite she really was. "Well, goodbye. I'll call-for you about 7:30 Hazel said as she turned into their yard. She had been home only a few min utes when the telephone rang. . "That you, Hazel? Say, a bunch of us are going o the party in Helen's machine. We want you to come along." "Oh, shucks!" Hazel sputter ed in anger. "I've got to gO witb Ruth. I promised her. and she'd be hurt if I didn't. Isn't that just my luck?" Ruth stopped in' to see Gladys on her way home. "Oh,' Ruth, you're Just the person I want to see." she said. Dad is going to take us to the party and we want you to go, too." "Oh, dear," walled Ruth, "and here I have to go with Hazel. I promised her and I can't go back on her now." At 7:30 the two girls started out together. They were the last to arrive at the party. "I'm glad I came with her, after all, thought Hazel. "It's nice to do something unselfish. She enjoy ed it, even If I didn't." "Well, Hazen wanted me to come with her," thought Ruth. "I made her happy, anyway. Q'm nice to snow tnat. i PICTURE PUZZLE I'd rather go with any other girl in high school. Ruth's such a little snip. Why didn't I tell her I was going with one of the girls? Well, it's too late now. I'll have to say something or hurt her feel ings. At the same instant both girl? opened their mouths. "WelL let's go together," they proposed in concert. Haxl laughed. "We're both of the same mind." she said, think ing how" far different her real de- sire was. t-V - V . JU j WHW 10 WORDS ' 4' BEGINNING Wl1"H THE , , ': SAME LtTTLR ARE HEKE , MR PICTURE.O. at Our Salem and Qilverton Stored 1 PABCOUN SPECIALS $16.50 9x12 Pabcolin Rugs, now $12.40 $15.00 9x12 Pabcolin Rugs, now $11.25 $10.00 7.6x9 Pabcolin Rugf, now $7.50 $8.00 6x9 Pabcolin Rugs, now ..J. .$6.00 ' $1.10 9 ft Congolcum Rugs, now ......75 90c 6 ft Pabcolin Rugs, now .....::.9c Inlaid Cork, Battleship and Print Linoleum at corresponding discounts. All Linoleum laid free by expert layers. -,4 MATTRESS SPECIALS $12.00 40 lb. Cotton Mattress $9.50 $18.00 50 lb. Cotton Mattress $12.95 $15.00 25 lb. Floss Mattress $10.75 Regular $6.75 Sanitary Couch Pad, now ....$4.95 $18.00 35 lb. floss Mattress .....$12.95 $15.00 25 lb. floss Mattress. .. . ..... .. . u $9.75 Regular $6.75 Sanitary Couch Pad, now..;.$4.95 -$18.00 35 lb. floss Mattress ..L-... -.$12:95 ? -a Kitchen Utensils 25 off Aluminum Ware 25 off Dishes, Glassware and Grbckery 20 off i I tt ,1o jyealeHaT'at. IJako; JSJ