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V I Issued Daily Except Monday by v ; , THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY A i- ,215 S. Commercial St.. Salem, Oregon (Portland Office. I?3 Laid of Trade Building. Phone Beacon 1193) t M EMRKP: OF TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS Tie Associated stress is exclusively entitled to the use tor publi cation of all nevts dispatches credited te It or not -otherwise credited , In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks - -Stephen A. Stoae -Prank Jaakoskl - - TELEPHONES: ' Business Office - - - . Circulation Office - -! - . Society Editor - - - Job Department - - Entered' at tbe Postofflce in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter, WAR CONSCRIPTION OF . President Hardinosj proposal for the j conscription L of wealth in time of war has aroused a great deal of discussion. There has come to the front a group asserting that this would be in violation of the Constitution. President Harding ad- vanced the idea in his Memorial Day address. . In his Denver address on his present tour he said r M "'.'! want to tell you if ever there' is another war we will do more than draft the boys, j If I have anything to do with it, we will draft every dollar and every other essential." ! President Harding believes that our material wealth, as well as our wealth in man power, should be made to per form its part in the defense of the nation. I When we con sider; the conditions of the world war, when - our, young nen were drafted and sent to the front to face unheard, of perils for a compensation of $30 a month, while our wealth and civil labor were left "free to reap all theliuge profits that the emergency made possible,' it is a wonder that anybody can b3 found who will dispute: the inherent justice of the Pres ident's proposal. .; '; . , , ;; v mr . . . ' - a "'";' , ''' , . . i I'll ' . . ..' ; xet tnere aretnose wno taice exception to me conscrip tion of wealth-Their criticisms of President Harding for its advocacy are directed not so much at the merits of the sug gestion, as at what they consider the impossibility, of its -realization under "the Constitution. They charge the Pres , ident with . urging a violation of the fundamental law, and assert that wealth can not be drafted unless the Constitu tion" is amended. n". y hC- 1 ' '' ::i-' J " - " The public mind should be freed of any such doubts. V The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution covers the case A completely, reaas in part as iouows: rto person bubu w :f 'i deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due pro cess of law; nor shall private property be taken for public ruse, without just compensation." It follows that life and 4 property may be taken with due process of law, provided just compensation is paid for the property so taken. Further more, the Constitution was established, among other things, "to provide for the common defense," and to that end Con gress was specifically authorized 'to raise and support " armies." v ; H -V', . 4 -; . In conformity with those jrress lias raised and supports an army, payingzor it-up-; pliia a just compensation. When the World war emergency arose and it became suddenly necessary greatly; to .expand s,our army, Congress enacted a draft law that applied to every ; male citizen alike i : -v- - mM'-W " And they were not permittedto take advantage ot ine Tke i : THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON i - - Manager I Managing Editor Manager Job Dept. WEALTH - CONSTITUTIONAL constitutional provisions, Con- r. i: - S8S I - io ; 583 Dowser Who Fliwered ! T MYSTERIOUSLY guided by the behavior of a willow wand, some u tisaes a "dowfer" the water-wizard tells where to di a well which really yields water. Then much ado is made over the feat But who ever hears similar noise about the dry lioles, dug when the dowser fliwered? :--".'; 1 ; i -.&'.U?iiO Now and then, possibly, it Just happens that people wisely with out heed to advertisement. But the chances are agains any one. having such luck I j ...... ' It does not "just happen" that advertised values are invariably genuine buying opportunities. They must be. because they are of fered openly to every one who reads about them. i :. Advertised value must be true value. Else it could. not keep on being advertised to a public so keen and critical as this public of ours. , J V- Read the advertisements to be rid of guesswork! unprecedented demand for men and bid up the price for their services accordingly. Each man was seized by his government, examined as to age and other qualifications, and, if found satisfactory, sent to the front line to fight for his country. But while Congress fixed new and rigid rules for com mandeering the country's wealth of man power for military service, it said nothing as to the conduct of material wealth in the war .emergency or of labor employed in civilian pur suits, and the law of supply and demand was left free to en hance prices and wages out of all reason. Private property, in the shape of the outputs of hundreds of factories, was taken, but instead of the compensation therefor being "just," as contemplated by the Constitution, it was highly unjust. The critics of President Harding make the error of con struing the term "just compensation" only as fixing a rea sonable minimum below which the government shall not go in making payment for private property. But that payment must be "just" not only to the payee but to the government itself, that is, the taxpayers. . , Congress, therefore, has the power to protect the gov ernment against extortionate prices in other words, to con-! script wealth. ' ' ' . ; ' There is no cause for discouragement because of the fact that some loganberries are rotting and to rot on the vines. None are rotting or to rot belonging to the members of well organized cooperative marketing associations, such as the Oregon Growers Cooperative association. There is one safe remedy, and one only. That is 100 per cent organiza tion. That will stabilize the going and growing. It will market for all the berries, loganberry is the greatest stabilization of the loganberry industry is a matter of in telligent merchandising. : That is all. And this cannot be had as it should prevail while grower. He is the disease spot There will be some matter In Thursday's Statesman that every cherry grower In the Salem dis trict ought fo read. It will be found to be of vital Importance. , Edward Bok, of the Curtis Pub lishing company, has offered a prize of $100,000 for the beat world peace plan. The plan that would work, would be worth more to tbe world than all the gold and precious stones in it. The Slogan editor has got to prove, in Thursday's Statesman, that this Is tbe best hog district, and Salem tbe best bog market. In the world. If you have a sug gestion along thia line, please of fer it; Today or tomorrow, OBJECTS TO JAZZ Hudson Maxlum, the inventor of i the silencer used on guns, ; has asked the courts to enjoin the FUTURE DATES I July 13, Friday Formal dadicatioa of publia plsygToaad. . July 13, Friday Western Bloomer Girls Baseball team to play Senators. July 14, Saturday Spanish ' American war veteran convention at Albany. Angus! 1 to 29 Annual encampment of Boy Scouta at Cascadia. ' Rfntomhor 24 to 2 Or.ron tat fl. ... i--v . . ... W. loganberry. That will keep it lead to advertising, hence to a at remunerative prices. The bush fruit that grows. The there is a single "independent" m the situation. playing of jazz music in a dance hall adjoining his estate. Why not Bare his ears with a silencer? ' The flax Industry is certain to make the Oregon penitentiary self supporting If no one throws a mon key wrench Into the plans. This will be fine for the taxpayers. But the biggest thing In this con nection will be the demonstration of tbe enormous value of the in dustry, developed to its full ex tent. This will mean eventually a hundred million dollars a year to the Salem district. It will mean a city of 600,000 people where Salem and its suburbs now stand. THE NEXT FRONTIER The railroad lines already 'con structed cover 70 per cent of the distance between New York City and Buenos Ayres. These roads, when united in one long line of Bteel, will mean much in the de velopment' of South America and in the establishment of closer commercial relations between the United States and the republics of the southern hemisphere. From the standpoint of both sentiment and trade, the final completion of a continuous line Is to be de sired, i t I Of course very 'little freight would be carried from one end of the line to the other, for it' could be "carried much cheaper by water and perhaps as quickly. But con ditions which control traffic be tween two ports would not pre vail with regard to interior points of production and consumption. It is a general rule that if a com modity must be carried by rail at both ends of its journey it will avoid, if possible, the delay and expense of trans-shipment by wa ter for a part of its distance. That is to say, if a certain-product of interior Brazil, for example,; -were to be shipped to Chicago and it could go to the seaboard and then be carried by boat to an Ameri can port and then sent by rail to Chicago, or, on the other band. could be sent all the way by. rail, the general rule would be : that if would go all the way by rail That part of South America be tween the isthmus and Buenos Ayres is largely' a wilderness, much ''of it not even explored. Much of it is a jungle, inhabited by wild men and wild beasts. Pes tilential disease in some remote localities is believed to be almost a bar to ' immigration of civilized men. Yet the manner in. which the North American continent has been subdued and our experience in transforming' the Canal Zone from a disease ridden Tegion into a health vresort justify confidence that the enterprise of the white race will work? miracles in tbe vast expanse of the Amazon basin and tbe region! drained by the rivers flowing into the Rio de la Plata. , Already the Rockefeller Foundation has ascertained tbe means !by which 'the tropical dis eases can be controlled and they have been subdued in the, regions already settled. Short railroads have been built where trade could be most easily developed and In the cocrse of time these will be multiplied and extended until they constitute a network of transpor tation lines eventually connected with a main line Joining the two continents. . j ;j . ::. , : The resources of South Ameri ca, particularly in rubber, coffee, tropical fruits, hard woods and probably minerals, are such as to make close commercial relations bet'ween North and South Ameri ca highly desirable and mutually profitable. We can furnish ' the capital, the machinery, the man agerial skill : and the erperience needed to develop their manufac turing, industries, for which there is an abundance of water poweri Many of their raw materials ne cessary for lour use cannot be produced here. Even without any Intercontinental rail connections we nave built up and shall con tinue to' Increase trade relations with South ! America, j With an unbroken railroad system extend ing from the southern portions of South America to the northern limits of settlement In Canada, there would be f provided that quicker means of both passenger and freight communication which would increase the material wealth and the comfort of all the people tit the Western Hemisphere'. , ' South America presents the next frontier, as Africa will present the last frontier. j ! PEARLS AND PASTE Chalk, limestone and pearls are alike carbonate of lime, the dif ference being that, in pearls, the lime is deposited by mollusks, lay er upon layer, around some for eign substance within its body. The pearl Oysters i par excellence abound in Torres Straits, betweeb the island of New Guinea and Aus tralia. Not pearl, but mother-o'-pearl, Is the end and aim of the pearlers;-it is in great de mand for making ' buttons. ., If a pearl happens to to found, so; much to the good. vi " The nucleus, around which the carbonate of lime forms in thin J layers like an onion, may be of a bacterial nature, or a dead par-' asite (and many kinds of para sites infest oysters) or It may be a tiny particle of sand. . Though soft and easily scratch ed, pearls have always been prized, never more so than now. ) They should never be Immersed in even such weak acids as lemonade, punch or vinegar. The price of pearls mounts more rapidly with size than any other gem; It in creases as . the . square of the weight. ' "- j J ( ; i At the present time the Japan ese have the dealers guessing; They have gone into business with the oysters, their process being to Im plant a flake of mother-o '-pearl between the! mollusk'e mantle and shell around which the .latter builds a genuine pearl. The only way to make sure whether 'or not your pearls are simon pue - Is i to pick them apart and look for the flake or ' mother-o'-pearL. Tmitation stones are more dif ficult to manufacture. They are made of paste frqm the Italian word, pasta.1 meaning dough. The Italians originated the process of making "diamond dough" out ! of glass. To the dough lead Is add ed to give It weight and tough ness When newly made paste dia monds,' emeralds, rubies and sap. phires possess snap and fire, and they counterfeit genuine gems so ' nearly that amateurs are easily fooled. ? Experts recognize them by their "perfections;" they lack' the Imperfections typical of gen uine IstonesJ , hi Dri Alexander Silverman, pro fessor, of chemistry. University of Pittsburg; says: . ''Modern synthe tic ' gems are as good as native TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1923 WIDOW IDENTIFIES MAN I lr .-'7 X-L Nl.l I i ' j i . i t f r-.&;-:xx--, ' M Mrs.-Richard C. Tesmer (seated), widow of the wealthy Chi cago insurance adjuster, with her brother Henry (standing) and her daughter, Miss Clara Tesmer. (in back). Mrs. Tesmer posi-, tively identified Fred G.-Thompson, alias Mrs. Francis Carrick. as the person who shot her husband to death in cold blood. Thompson is known as the "wife" of a man and the husband of a woman, Marie Clarke, and he was living as Mrs. Carrick when arrested for the murder. ' , . ' , gems as far as their practical and esthetic value is concerned." A three-acarat sapphire costs only about $6, whereas a good three carat natural sapphire costs near er $6000. "The best genuine diamonds to day come from the Kimberley mines, located deep down in the shafts,) or funnels," of extinct vol-1 canoes.. Whether found among pebbles In river beds or in mines. diamonds are of volcanic origin, having been formed as a result of the crystalizing together of pockets of pure carbon gas im prisoned in cooling lava. The fin est gems ever taken from the Kim berley district are: the Great Mo gul, the Koh-i-noor, meaning "Mountain of Light,'? . the Pit, or Things To Do Copyright, 1023, Associated Editors. The Fun Box I- -I There's Always Something Worse Lives of all: giraffes remind us - It would surely get our goat ' If we caught a cold and had to Suffer two yards of sore throat. The Farmer Boy's Love-letter -"Do you carrot all for me? My heart beets for you and my love is as soft as a squash. But I'm strong as, an onion, for you'ro a peach. With your turnip nose and your radish hair you are the apple of my eye. If you canta loupe with me, lettuce marry anyhow, for I know weed make a pear." ; ' Lament Oily to bed, And oily to rise, ' Is the fate of a man, ' 'When a motor he buys. Don't Mention It "I beg your piarddri, said the convict as the governor ' passed his cell. I " Snood and Piffles Say j "This drawing of the - horse good," -,' , The critic said- who saw it; "But-where's the-wagon?1- I re plied, ' - "The horse is going to draw It." I THE SHORT STORY, JR. , . i SHORT STORY- -j A GREEDY ROBIX Bob Robin was greedy Indeed; Hi3 mother's advice he wouldn't heed; So. cocky and merry, ; He ate ev'ry chery But Bobby got paid for his greed. , It was cherry season and Bobby Robin wa happy. Mamma Robin bad said that he might have a nice. fatr red cherry for dessert every meal wbile they lasted, even for breakfast! At first this seemed very won derful to. Bobby.- But. when: he went to pick his first cherry and Baw the whole tree covered with tne luscious fruit, it seemed to him that ii would hardly pay just to eat one measley little cherry. Mama Robin, however, ; had told him that If he ate more' than one she would never let him go back, ,and tnat wag he worst punish is - WOMAN AS MURDERER. 1 Regent, the Excelsior and, greater than all precious stones, the 3250- carat Cullinan which is. as big as a good-elzed chunk of coal. . Each of these "chunks of carbon" has a " blood-and-thunder " . history. Most historic of all. the G , . Mogul, which long blazed in the highest crown In Hindustan, has either been hidden or lost. The ' Bfitish cannot find it. -The other stones referred! to -belong to the British Crown. . .a , ; , " . . The United States imports about $100,000,000 worth, of cut and uncut diamonds annually, which nartially accounts for the Increas ing cost of high living. R-e ad the ClassiHed Adsv1,"" ' " Tbe Biggest Little Paper in tbe World THAT V SWiie.. ? Peter Puzzle Says "You can change 'cook to 'fire' In four moves, changing only one letter at a time. For example: case, cast, mast, fast, fact." r Speakln o Speed Tbe - restaurant bad taken fire and Rastus ran for his life. After three days he returned and the boss said, "Rastus, where ' have you been all this time?" i "Ain't bin no place," was ' the reply. . 'Bin coming back." ' ' .' -.. ,v ..j Qnite Natterat. S'M--:, ' "Md, I want to f go out and play." ' ' "What, Henry? - , With those holes in your stockings?" " : , - "No, ma, with the kids the street." across .With Peaches or Lemons ? Father; . "What did you do with tbe last ten. dollars I gave you?" v.. 'j ' '-' .'' Son: "I spent ' one dollar for oranges and the rest for dates." ment Bobby could think of. He looked all around and picked but the very biggest and reddlst'cher ry, which he slowly ate. Then, turning his back on all the rest of tbe tempting ; fruit, I he flew home to wait for the next meal Fat, Juicy worms lost all their attractiveness when compared to the lovely cherries. "Oh, do .1 have to eat them?' asked. Bobby. Why can't I make my. whole meal out of cherries?" . - "Nothing, but dessert! ,r gasped his mother. Why, Bobby." I should tay. not! You would be sick. '. I certainly can't afford to have a sick boy on my hands Just In can ning season. Now, you listen to me! You'ra to eat only one cher ry, after each meal." You do wor ry me so," poor Mrs. Robin sigh ed. "If It wasn't that I want to get all the cherries that I can canned, 1 would almost wish: that those people would pick their cherries." ' ' "Pick them!" gasped Bobby in alarm. "Does somebody V pick them? - Aren't thejr all ours?" This was Bobby's first cherry sea son. ' - " 'i ' . ' - "You silly boy!" laughed Mai. ma Robin. "Of course some one picks them-- a- Poor Bobbyf-This . was a i ter rible revelation to him. HeJ had thought that the cherries were HERKS TO THEIR St'CCESS ! , It remains to be seen just what will come of the . Oregon public pervice commission's campaign In to central and southern Oregon, for evidence to present to the interstate commerce commission, to force better transportation ser vice for Oregon. But it was still doubtful wheth er his theory would "work" when Columbus sailed westward out of sight of the European mainland. He might- not have found it but be believed be would, and be DID. It was doubtful whether tbe Curies would find and Isolate radium; whether Edison could make the telegraph and the phon ograph .work; whether Alexander Graham Bell would ever make tbe telephone say understandable words; whether Bessemer would make steel by mecanlcal methods, and for four year It was unde termined whether Lincoln was to be president of a mighty nation, or merely, the beaten chief of an ignoble remnant. This cruise of the Oregon pub lic service commission, on Its own motion, to Initiate railroad build, ing on the ground of public ne cessity. 1 absolutely new and un charted. They may find all tbe evidence In the world to prove that the. remedy is needed arvj then perhaps they can't get the prescription filled. But again they may get it all across, glori ously. Certainly they'd never get as: much as a worn out nailhole in a rotten rail If they didn't try. The Oregon commission' baa shown a courage and Initiative of the. kind that makes the Impos sible commonplace, i Here's' to their success, and to their vision of a - public service that doesn't: fear, - to make new trails! t " i. Tne column is iormmg. pres ident uaraing . nas been pledged two votes for renom'l nation by tbe " I Loads Of Fuh . .1 Edited by John M. Miller. Why Rubber? Many of the things which boys and girls- talk about every day have derived their names In pe culiar and interesting ways.. Some of the., commonest words we use have a real story behind them. For example,- taxe the word rubberthe' stuff which Is U3ed for automobile ' tires and a thou sand other things. When it was first brought to England - from India' a little piece of It was given to an artist, who happened to rub It over a pencil line on one of his drawings. He noticed that it erased the line, and said. "Why, look how well it rubs." For many years after that "rubbing" out pencil marks was the only use for rubber. -" " . : , Along about 1847 a Scotchman discovered that rubber was water proof. This v man's name was Macintosh, the - inventor of th original rubber raincoat, which is called a mackintosh to this day.. ; It was not until Goodyear made his discoveries that the real valoa of rubber' was understood. Good year was i always tinkering wlta rubber, trying to discover soma way to harden it. One day when he had a kettle of It on a stove - - - he accidentally spilled some sul phur Into It. . The sulphur hard ened, -or vulcanized, the rubber and Goodyear, had made, the dis covery which gave the "world one of. its most useful present-da materials. ;' Answer to today's word puzzle: To change "cook" to "flr"i Cook, cork, core,' fore, fire. all his and that they would last all summer- Now he lived In ter ror every day for fear some one would pick them and he would pick them and he wouia never get another. Finally ue . could stand it no longer. He had never been sick in his life and a few cherries surely were not going to hurt him. Besides, any day now they -might be picked and h would get bo more. - .. . '"- 'Bobby got up early in the morn ing. . He was eating and eating and had just finished his second dozen when tbere; was a terrible noise right under bim and a biz ladder banged into the tree. I wasn't going to pickvthem for an other iweek." said a voice, "but the birds ere Just takliig them all." l ' : , ; Bobby tried to fly away, but he feR so- dizzy and queer be could not tell where to go. If bjs moth er had not come to his rescue b3 would have fainted and fallen right into the big cherry bucket.