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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
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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
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I Managing Editor
Manager Job Dept.
WEALTH - CONSTITUTIONAL
constitutional provisions, Con-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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,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
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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
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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.
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'"- '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.