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If v THE 030N STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY MORNING," JUNE 22, 1923 ? L w Issued Dally Except Monday by v'THK STATKSMAN PUBUSHIXO CXWfPANY i " f i 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon ' .y (Portland Office, 723 Uoaid of Trade Building. Phone Beacon 1193) F f r r MEMnKR OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' - ..The Associated Press, la exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation ot all net'uisi.atche8 credited to it or not otherwise credited fn this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks 1 ' - - V - t- - ; - Manager Stephen A. Stone - -. - - - - . - j Managing Editor Prank Jaskoskl - , - ' ..- ; - '- - - Manager Job Dept. . , . : TELEPHONES: ' - ' " ' ; Business Office - - - ( - 23 , ,' Circulation Office - - - - !- - B83. f, Jom Department - : - - - . 683 ' 1 ' Society Editor - j- 108 Entered at the Postof flee In Salem, Oregon, as second, class matter. ---Salem as a Chautauqua city, la surprising the chautauqua people and herself. There will surely be mountains of hay. If our farmers can get enough sunshine to harvest It. j SECRETARY WALLACE DECLARES FOR I . DOMESTIC SUGAR Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has announced that the United States has enough beet and cane land to supply the domestic demand for sugar. That is the claim which the American Economist -has vrrrade,' but the statement of Secre tary .Wallace -is official and authoritative. No one is in a : better position to know the facts than the head of the Depart ment of Agriculture. . : ' j: , . ': . , . Vs -: yi President : Harding has already made the .statement that, he does not favor lowering the rate of duty on sugar because he wants to see an adequate domestic production thereof.;- An increase in the growth of sugar- beets will re lieve the situation in more ways - than one.: It win aid in . supplying competition" with 'Cuban sugar and so in keeping prices within reasonable limits.: It will do more than that. It will aid our farmers . to turn attention from the growing of wheat, or other farm products of which there is a surplus, to growing sugar beets, of which there is a shortages In addi tion to that, it will give additional employment in the beet sugar factories. ';-" " ' I J - ; " To lower the duties and doom the domestic sugar produc tion to destruction would be on a par with the general who, having victory over the opposing army within his grasp, weakly surrenders! Such an act would be the act of a traitor, but it would, be no more traitorous than the surrender of a domestic industry to foreign producers. I P ; ' Sugar protection must be maintained. American Econ omist. -; j . "J ' Oregon delegation in Congress must aid in every way possible the movement for more beet sugar factories in this country. Oregon must have sugar factories. .The first one should be built in Salem, and this can be accomplished, with persistent effort.4 " Nearly every Dody is now pray ing for sunshine; many, however, being not unmindful' of the bene fits of the generous showers we have lately had. 'housewives should be paying, change.' .. . '' . It would never get far from 7 cents If the United States would manufacture her own sugar, which she can dd. ' ' , . ; At 7 cents, a sugar. factory in Salem could make a pile of money each , year. , A factory, here could operate profitably at 6 cents,, and pay the sugar beet growers prices that would make their part of the industry profitable. We should have a sugar factory. Governor Al Smith may be el ected president, but his chances would be better of being elected admiral of the. rum fleet -Exchange.' (He may bet elected president ''when an old .cow climbs a tree," as the Chinese would put It.) - " ; There Is a movement in several states for cooperative sugar fac tories. One could be organized in Salem, by some man having' the full confidence of our people and it would make a big, new In dustry, and give good returns to a - lot of farmers and wages to a large number ot new laborers on the land and in the factory. In cidentally, it would help to keep the consumers from being period ically robbed by the sugar barons and gamblers and other breeds of corsairs. THE 8UGAR GOTJGERS LITTLE ) . JOKE f ; ' 'i Are you on to the sugar gougers little trick? It Is the same one that has been played over, and ov er again by big trusts. One of them will acquire a device which can be ; sold for 60 cents. The trust boosts the price to $1.50 and them magnanimously reduces it to 75 cents. The reduction Induces buying and the trust wins, f It is the same trick when the sugar gamblers boost their sugar to 11 and 12 cents, or perhaps 13 cents a pound, then slips it back to 11 or 10 cents. It is worth only 7 cents and that is all the CLEAN SKIES I FUTURE DATES . 18 to 24 UhaoisoqM 11U. n iy to a0 Balam Ctuataaams mm. July 4, Wednesday Automobile racM fair ' j TiBoAii) ' '; I V - The Blgsest Little Paper In the World r T FUN j Cc?yrt;b.t, Associated Editors. Edited by John If. Miller. the uz7 umxn c? ca IVCTvD L;:3TK2. FXZZTC? TV.Z XLZXT A3 Tnn?--. -rATai'-ivvrr . Peter PuzzIs Says 5 , "By arranging j the same five letters In different order you can fill In the blanks ' or 0e f oITSwi Jng : sentence rith the v right words; The landlord told ' the ar tist his- was up, so he took up his-- , and left. -, V J V Sailing, SalliBg J She used to sit op in 'his lap, As happy as could be , But now it makes her seasick : He has water on the knee. , "Well. I'll bejianged,"saldhe convict, -as they slipped the noose around his neck. ' Answer i to today's picture pa le: The word-chaCn IsVlrl, let ter, road, dog.? Answer to today's word puzzle i The two words are: lease, easel. .' Tenting Tonight Going camping? Then read this article to find out how to make a handy tent to take along. s ..r When you go on that camping trip this summer you will need; a good tent if you are goins; to be a real camp. Moat good tents are expensive to buy at the sport log goods stores and they're often too cumbersome to use anyhow. The best kind of tent is one which does not require much space, is easily pitched and- Is inexpen sive. rf The tent described her in all of these, v : ,;'J " t First, buy about nine yards of unbleached musllnt Make this in to a three-yard square. Fold this diagonally and sew; on flaps for tent pegs at three corners. On the fourth corner, put an eyelet or a loop, through which, a. rope cah he .drawn. The tent, can - be quickly nltched by pegging down the three eomers, passing a ' rope through the eyelet to the comes diagonally opposite end hitch ing this rope to a. tree branch, thus making a tent pole unneces sary. ; -vj , i j.? f V The tent; as it has' been " de scribed, is not yet Vaterproflf, and this must he tended to before the arucle la of any real value. -To waterproof the tent, first, take a washtub and filUt with hot water.- In this, put pall, weight it down with several bricks, and put turpentine in the inner paiL Chip plenty of the, paraffin into the tur pentine and the paraffin will melt. Souse your tent in this bixture. making sure that It sets thorourh- t: saturated. Work outdoors as the fumes of the . turpentine may sicken you otherwise, and Twork fast When the tent .: has been thoroughly saturated In the solu tion, hang it up to dry without wringing. ; i I - A CleVer Card Trick ' 1 '- - - Take -a deck" of cards; shuffle, and. passing them behind your back, take the bottom card from the deck and place it face up on the top of the desk.? Now explain to your audience that you are go ing to, hold the cards in front ot you, cards, facing them and ina position which prevents you from seeing the cards. JTell them that If they will tell you the first card the one which yon - have slipped from the bottom of the deck, you will tell them every other In turn. As yon hold? the t "planted card" toward the audience, you can see the card on the bottom of the deck, and when the) audience tells you what the first card Is, slip the deck behind your 'back again. - being careful : to give i the appearance that yon arenot look ing to see what the next card Is: Slip the card from the bottom of the deck on top and then take the same; position as before, hold ing me caras in front ot you. r:: - . Snood and Piffles Say Little is ever heard outside of England concerning the discus sions and even acrimonious argu ments held in the. house of lords. International notice being focussed on the commons. But recently there was considered and passed a bill in the upper house that was soothing to esthetic souls 4n the United Kingdom, even If it did cause more material persons to sniff disdainfully. A bill to regulate unsightly methods of advertising was Intro duced and passed by an over whelming vote. And one of the especial kinds of advertising that this act declares illegal Is that of writing advertisements In the sky by means of smoke from air planes. This , was the only por tion of the bill that caused dis sentton, one doughty earl contend ing that the brave peers were a trifle supersensitive when the' gy rations of an aviator far up in the blue - empyrean jarred their sense of the 'fitness of things.' Despite his jeers; however, this clause was left in and no more will the fleecy clouds ' he1 forced to blush a rosy pink at the' spectacle of an air plane Invading their domain with smoky ads for hair ionic and cigarettes1"- 'v y:-r ... While this Is doubtless carry ing a reform to the extreme. It is assuredly , true that a bill abolish ing . some , ot the more hideous forms of advertising would be heartily welcomed by the automo bilist. It is a sad thing ' to sally forth to feast the soul on the beau ties of an alluring landscape and then be unable to see it because ot the Intervening billboards. And Ex- could stand bellydeep In the lush and snow all tho year but part of the time only mists and blows and' rains. But it takes money and grit to go after these mighty opportuni ties. . American business is . not i blind to the value of yellow cedar and canned salmon and sine and tungsten and silter-fox hides and easks of bully . beef. The head, however, must have hands to help it and this la an age where the young and active love creature comforts and city life. I Anyhow, when President Hard ing returns from the north he will be able to tell the people what is the matter, not so much, perhaps.: with Alaska as with themselves, j AWAY OX N A V ACATIOX prevalent we will be shut off from gazing at the blue dome, by, an Impenetrable cloud of smoke,- as well as having boards portraying the virtues of -canned milk and cord tires obstruct our vision ol the rolling hills. , I , .' (American (Economist) The editor olj' the New York Commercial must be away on a vacation and the office boy must be writing the editorials. The following is from the leading ed itorial in the June 6th issue of that paper: . ' "Our Western farmers are do ing considerable thinking on their own account, which 'is shown by their demand for our greater par ticipation in foreign affairs to the end that we may be assured of world 'markets for our foodstuffs. The real reason why there is such a disparity between the. earnings of farmers , and manufacturers is that most farm products are. sur plus products and unless there is a foreign outlet, for . this surplus It will back up onto the domestic supply and 'force ' prices down. Manufacturers' on the other hand can limit' their production in ac cordance with their 1 demand and if they have no foreign outlet they merely stop manufacturing. Farm ers go right on producing and a foreign outlet is necessary. ; "The farm bloc thereupon of fers all kinds of remedies- all except the right one. It increased the tariff on farm ' products, an absolutely futile proposition. . We do not import product's of which we have plenty . on r hand. It is true we Imported 13,000,000 bush- farmers of the country an "appre ciable quantity." ; - The Commercial says the farm bloc "increased the tariff on farm products, an absolutely futile pro position." It is hardly . worth while , to point out the fact that the farm 'WocdId nothing of the kind, so let it go at that. But the reason why the .increased tariff is not a futile thing is answered by the Commercial's own words. The tariff cuts down imports and so tends to stop "the back up onto the domestic supply" which the Commercial Bays has a tendency to "force prices down.", As a matter of fact the tariff on wheat has not been high enough , until recently to keep out the Canadian imports of that commodity. which have ten ded, to "back up, onto the domes tic supply and force prices down." It has taken several months of the new tariff to begin to affect the Canadian imports, but the effect is now being relt. During the month of January, 1923, the total Im ports of wheat were only 251,719 bushels, a falling off of over two and one-half million bushels per month, from the average of the three preceding months. - Again, the Commercial is wrong in Intimating that the farmers can not do as the manufacturers do, "limit their production." It 14 not necessary for the farmers to grow so . much wheat, so long as there is such a domestic surplus. In stead, they can 'grow more corn and feed that corn to cattle and hogs thus making a d6uble pro fit. Or they can turn their at tention more to raising , sheep, both for the mutton and the wool. of neither of which do we prod c 3 enough for our own needs." "Or, lx certain sections of the couctr-r, they-can turn their attention u raising sugar beets and so not en! raise a profitable crop, but al 1 ;save us from being obliged to de pend upon Cuba for about fifty per cent- of the to gar which we consume.' v We respectfully suggest that when the editor of the Commercial goes oft on his vacation, he leara someone bur the office boy a charge. But If he must leave the office boy to write the leadics editorials, then he should have the boy read up on the subject which he discusses, v in which event be will not have to write "Just plala bunk. - . -; . Read the Classified Ad els of wheat from; Canada -but we when sky writing becomes morel also exported 13,000,000 bushels. ALASKA ! President Harding's visit to Al aska will naturally ; draw? atten tion to the great territory farthest north of Uncle Sam's . dominions'. It should do more, however, than merely call public notice to that mighty empire of undeveloped. re sources and limitless possibilities. It should supply an answer to the question. "What's the matter with Alaska?" j For of a certainty all is not as well with Alaska as it should be. Figures on commerce and devel opment, prove this. And to' dis cover what tne trouble is and to find a remedy is the mission of the president i Alaska at present appears to be In a condition of arrested develop mei)t. After the president, iwlth Under the new tariff we are neith er, exporting nor importing any appreciable .- quantity, so we are jusf where we. were before, be sides which 13,000,000 bushels one way or the other is not en ough to stand between the farm ers kand prosperity. It was just plain bunk." ;v. We suggest that the , writer of said articles follow the example ot the farmers and do some think ing on his own account- It might also . be advisable, for him to do some investigating before he rush es into" print. , . v r1 , The statement that ''most farm products are surplus products" Is hardly in accordance with , the facts. In the matter of food crops outside of wheat the percentage ot exports to domestic production is so small as to be almost negli gible.; j For instance, during the year 1920 our exports of barley amounted to only 9 per cent, ot the total production; our exports of corn amounted to only one-half of one per cent. ; bur j exports of oats to eight-tenths of one. per cent.: our exports of potatoes to the cooperation of Secretaries I one-tenth of one per cent. Very Hoover and Wallace, has conduct-! little surplus there, vet these are ; "In our town we had I m. sla . OOO fire. Yes, sir... A freight train passing through caught on llrcT- I THE SHORT STORYj : JR. ., . n , THE LOST FLOSS" j , ; ; - f Poor Eleanor's floss got away As she werked on the porch one . fine day; -She looked everywhere . But gave up in despair And vowed that the culprit should ' . 7::pXyM ' Eleanor's, sister was to be mar ried soon. , Eleanor was embroid ering her a luncheon set. It real etiing tp , he sTerj. pretty; Indeed, v Eleanor was ever .; so proud Of It. She had secured a special floss with a slender thread of old entwined In It,f "There's Just .exactly enough," 'she said. "Wouldn't It be terrible if some thing happened to a strand of it? V 1 never 1 could get any more la time to finish it for the wedding." Eleanor was anxious to work while her sister was not around, to one afternoon she took her em broidery and little brother Billy out on the porch. Billy watched while she worked. He had prom ised his mother that he would be good and ' not t bother Eleanor Pretty soon! Frieda Smith came over and sat on the steps talking, but Eleanor did not stop her work. i 1 ' w ' "Oh, dear, there's the tele phone," she complained, " laying down her work at last. "Excuse me, I'll be back in. a moment." Oh please don't go," she. called back as Freida started to rise. It wai her;slsterj Edith calling. Before she was through Billy toddled in with the i information' that "Fweeda" '. had "done home." El eanor hung Tip the receiver and went back to her work on the porch. ' Her floss was gone! "Billy," she cried, "did you take take sister's floss?" Vllly only loolterl scared. "Me you!" Billy was strong in his de nial. "Well, then, Freida is play ing a trick on me. She's taken it for a joke.". Leaving her little brother on the porch. Eleanor tore over to Frieda's. .But Frieda's concern was so sincere that Elea nor knew that she was not - fool ing her. .-" . ; 1 ' . j ' Mrs. Horne arrived home to find her little daughter in tears., "Bil ly took It, I know," she cried. "He was always asking for some." "Me no take fwoss,' Billy tear fully Insisted. J ... ? ? j 1 i j - "Maybe it blew away." suggest ed their mother, "What Is that bright thing sticking out of the bird box?" J , , - t . ' Eleanor was back in a minute. 1 That little ; Jenny Wren stole my floss, she said, and took, tear ful Billy in her arms. ' . I ea-aainvestigauon. the country w,11Jt Jeast know.the reason for the stiaid-stlll in "Alaska's develop ment. . And it is a good guess that a fresh spurt will follow if the report can hold the . attention of business men rathef than appeal to the politicians. . ; u The majority of Americans have hut a " vague conception of, Jiow large and bow rich and how varied in extent and topography and cli mate is the huge empty area pur chased from Russia in 1867r for 97,200,000. It has not remained dormant since then. Under ; the stimulus of American;' genius ,? it has multiplied in Value a thous andfold. Up to 1922 from' its mines and forests, Its fisheries and fur trade it has produced : oyer 11,000.000.000. Though these fig ures herely represent a staxt in what Alaska could produce, since 1920 there has been a steady fall ing orr in population and merce. ' v; ' : v : For this setback there seems to be two main causes: lack ot com munications to open more back country and want of a sturdy stock of pioneers to press further for ward into the untamed 1 wilder ness, more roads to travel on and more men to travel those roads. Money can build - railroads and highways the nation must sup ply the same breed as the pioneers who colonized the Dakotaa and. conquered the mountain ranges of Colorado and the deserts of the west. Else this nation will never realize to Its full value the wealth hidden In the grim solitudes that penetrate the eternal ice ot the polar seas. , - f .As regards resources and op portunities, there is nothing the matter with Alaska. ''The waters around Its 4760 miles of seacoast teem with fish; its 600,000 square miles ' of land surface contain spruce and fir and yellow, cedar and coal and oil and gold and zinc and Iron ore -a.nd tungsten; and fur-bearing animals whose- pelts in a great city store are worth a king's ransom, and valleys and plains where' the wheat rrows the most - important of - ur- food crops, with the exceptioaj)fwheat, of which we Exported Sjfn in the said year. . t Nor is it true that ''we do not Import products of which we have a plenty oft' hand. In 1920 un der free-trade we imported from Canada, not .13,000,000 bushels," but 3 4,9 5 6 11 In addition to our imports from ten other countries. Nor did we export to Canada the same number of bushels of wheat during said year that we imported from there. Our exports to Can ada amounted to 14,811,672 bush els ...We bought of Canada mere than 20 million more bushels than Canada bought of ns. : . Nor is it true that "under the new tariff we are neither export ing, nor Importing any appreciable quantities." During the fiscal year ending June 0, 1922, we imported from Canada 14,465,489 bushels com- of wheat, upon every I bushel of ! which a duty of 30 cents was paid. During the first three months "un der the new tariff," we imported 8,3 22,1 9 S bushels of wheat, duti able at the rate of 25 cents per bushel. That "will seem to the SULPHUR SOOTHES U6LV. ITCHING SKIN The First AppUcation Makes Skn Cool and Comfortable ' If you are suffering 'i from ec zema or soma other torturing, em barrassing skin trouble , you -may quickly be rid of it by using Men-tho-Sulphur, declares a noted skin specialist. 1 hisl sulphur preparation, be cause of its germ destroying prop erties, seldom fails to quickly sub due Itching, even of fiery, eczema. The first application makes the Skin cool and -comfortable. Rash and blotches are healed right up'. Bowles Mentho-Sulphur is applied like any pleasant cold cream and 1 mHE expert wpstoosm q sees TJasn ho sees tbe rrsrvkrane that kas . the difference in oila.- The hear- bee pxtrsehahikatod with Waverly, ings show 11 and more plainly than . AH Pexmsyrvaaia, 1C3 ParafSne XIo- I f any theoretical dlflcoarae on qnaliflca- oa. The seariugs acaia tell their I 1 contained the oils-, that break, dewn .. v -j-t. m - 1)ody- under even normal conditions, m rflT?,T?7 Vv!? V " smd before he looks at th bearings h wwrnimend Wavesjy Hotor LchrieanU. AUTO SUPPLY 1 - y A Generous Saving On Silk Dressess One rack full of re-grouped, stylish,, well ;YblIR;" mad&x silk dresses for. summer ' wear CHOICE ; $16.00 The styles are new, appropriate for business,, street, afternoon and even ing wear; they include many of the -very late models. You'll be pleased with everyone ofjhem. : Materials are flat crepe, canton crepe, crepe de chine,, georgette and Spanish lace. 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