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v "' Issued Dally Except Monday by THE 8TATRSMAX PUBLISHING COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St., Salem. Oregon (Portland Otflce. 723 Board of Trade Building. Phone Beacon 1193) , MKMHKI Ol' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS J The Associated Prcs is exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all neB dispaiches credited to it or not otherwise credited -R. J. Hendricks - - - . - - Manager I10.1?" A- st,one " " "1 ''' " I - - - 'Managing Editor Frank JaskoskI - - . . . . Manager Job Dept. " , i TELEPHONES: T' " i t , r; Business Office . jj (hi Circulation Office - ! .- - - - - 683 ; j Society Editor - - - . - - . ' io fV j I Job Department - - - ' - J 683 Entered at the Postofflce in Salem. Oregon, as second class matter. JJjj!7 : ' 1 ' ' i " "! : - ; ; h j THE SMALL BORES Some of tlie feverish critics of the ShiDDimr Board are still raving over the trial junket of the Leviathan. There was talk of aji injunction to prevent the huge vessel from undertaking her initial journey. There is still a prospect of a Congressional investigation some time in the misty future. Members of Congress are quite capable of spending $20,000 to investigate a charge that the Shipping Board had spent $12,000 in the entertainment of guests on the big boat. Be cause of the failure of Congress to extend any support to a merchant marine and because of exacting shipping laws the nation is driving American activity from the seas. (The' gov ernment itself must take up the burden. , f j : The nation has a lot of ships on hand and is called upon to operate them in competition with the fleets of other coun f tries. The Leviathan cost something like $25,000,000 in the 1 original package and the government has spent $8,000,000 to recondition her. For her trial trip some 500 or 600 guests were bidden. It costs the Shipping Board $10,000 or $15,000 to entertain, them, but instantly a group of petty politicians raise their voices in blatant protest against this extrava gance.; Durincr the war the nation spent billidns without a I.A.quiver many millions of the now on an investment ol a lew tnousanas Dy xne snipping Board there are alartnists enough to wake the dead. s The Leviathan is a dry ship on a wet ocean. She must compete with the popular liners of England andTrance. She TheBoys And Girls Newspaper I The Biggest Little Paper in the "World j Thing To- 1 f Copyright, 1923, Associated Editor. Lessons Champion it- FIRST POSITION lfjp - . ' - - - 77 ; t. r : ' (This is the first of a series of tight articles by Pierson, I. Max Irell, a swimming expert who has taught boys and girls to swim at municipal beaches, ocean beaahea and .private pools. Mr. Maxwell has been a life-guard. and a racing swimmer for -a number of years. He knows what he Is lalklngt-about when It comes to swimming. Clip these i articles and follow them it you want to become a good swimmer. ' . f- it 7. .7 . . . Th! set of articles will teach 5'" you not only how to swim, but how to. swim right, the ' way the ' great racing swimmers of the I world swtm today. Of course, any J way of swimming which will keep I you on top of the water and will furnish you with amusement is a good way to swim, but,witb a lit tle work, which is sport in Itself, you can learn to be really good ; swimmer. ' ' - '. - 1 j Aroid Haste In attempting to learn the strokes which will be given, in 'these articles, do not try to make too much haste. Each week i a 'particular form ' of exercise will be given, and it you will practice 5 faithfully during the week, you THE SHORT STORY, JB.J JIM'S LUCK Warren said Jim had "good luck," So" often m goldmine he struck. Nor thought, when he said It, Thai Jim should have credit For patience, - persistence, and PlBck- j u i "Oh. it's Just Jim's luck. He surely U the luckiest thing." Warren, sighed with longing. ;"I .; wish I j were lucky like he is." . The other boys .all nodded;' ' "Do you know what the latest is? Old Judge Anderson has giv en him his son's violin." This time Warren actually groaned 7 with hia desire for such luck. "I've wanted one all my life. Gee, I'd give my head for one, and here Mr. Anderson just goes and hands one out to Jim. How do you sup pose he ever happened to give it tox him? It's just Jim's luck!" "Jim mows his lawn for him; ; that's how he came to know him." ' total being-reckless waste. But Swimmers Learn DEAD MAN'S FLOAT will be able , to take up the work of each article in succession. What is the ' best, and easiest stroke for boys and girls to.learn? The American crawl stroke; it is the fastest and you can get a longer distance through the water with the same amount of work than with any other stroke. . Xearn to Float :' .The first step to take up is to learn how to do the "dead man'4 float." Get into a pool or swim ming hole, not deeper than your waist. Back up to the wall of the pool and put one foot against this wall. Place your j arms out in front of your body, crouch down, put your head in the water, and shove with the foot which is againtt the wall. Keep your head under water. j v If you follow these directions, your, body will be floating easily on! the surface of the water, face down. When you are tired of holding your breath, come up by throwing the head Into the air and the hands at the sides, doub ling the knees Into the body. Dur ing this dead man's float, there must not be any motion. (Xext Week: "The 1k Kick.") one of the other fellows suggest ed. , ; ' . . ,i , "But, shoot; I used to mow Judge Anderson's lawn myself." Warren interrupted, "and he nev er gave me any j violin. I quit because he wanted me to come every Monday night, even in ball season. Jim's a nut to go. But that's just the way it is it's al ways nuts like Jim that have all the -luck, j I'm just dying for a violin or some kind of an instru ment." ; I' : , ,"Well here's your chance then" It was Mr; .Gilbert, he music teacher, who had just come up In time to hear the last sentence "I'm going to start an orchestra," he explained. "The school board has ordered all the necessary in struments, and they will be kept here at the school and rented out. I'll give lessons to any ol you fellow, and the one that learns to play the best will get the instrument in the end." "Oh-h-h-h!: Warren, who real ly loved muoic, was delighted. "May I take lessons on the flute?" he asked. ; . 'Yes; several:' of the fellows want to learn 4o; play the v flute, so you'll hare some competition. However, , you're musical and there's no ; reason why you couldn't win out if you work. It will be between you and James." needs advertising just as if she were being operated by a private corporation. On her first flyer under the American flag she had on board a distinguished company. There were numbers of eminent correspondents and trained men of let ters. The Leviathan has had ? publicity that any -business man would be glad to pay $150,000 to acquire. She needs all the advertising she can get and the Shipping Board managers have been able to gain a wonderful amount of it at a mini mum of cost. Even the foamy emanations of the Congres sional critics swell the volume of advertising without the politicians realizing the fact. ; The Shipping Board would complacently grin in the face of an investigation which would merely add to the publicity. Los Angeles Times. 'The Times writer is conservative in his statements. The United States is committed to the running of ships. She has the ships and she cannot sell them for private ownership for the present " ! And she must run them or let them rot. i The Leviathan carried 200,000 American "doughboys" safely across the ocean : And the sentiment that surrounds the giant of the seas nnWht to helD some in her favor. : ; But, since Uncle Sam hasher, and must run herp the thing to do is to make her pay if possible; and she can be made to pay only with full passenger lists and cargoes I And the way to get them is to advertise for them; to advertise in every legitimate and economical way known to modern business. v , A- It would be better if the United States had an adequate American merchant marine in private hands; but until this can be consummated, the only thing left is to have the gov ernment operate her ships, and to get all the Dusmess pos sible, and to make them pay if this can be done. The flax crop is not going to be allowed to go to waste. If the flax cannot be pulled by nachinerynd the writer is! not saying this may not be done it must and will be pulled by hand. t : Every little bit helps. The proposition of H. H. Haynes, live and hustling businessman, will tas care of a lot oi : the loganberries. May be there will not be s.a groat Jonnagt of the berries still fit to pick to go to waste, after all. FUTURE DATES I July 14, Saturday Spanish American war Teterana convention at moj. August 1 to 29 Annual encampment i Bn Snouta at -Caseadia. September 24 to 29 Oreroa atate fair. Loads Of Fan I. Edited by John ML Miller. Crippled Boy Swimmer Asks f No Odds in Races Baldwin Vose, a aGrden City, Long Island, schoolboy ls one of the best swimmers in his school, despite the fact that he is hand icapped by a leg which is crippled by infantile paralysis. He swims every stroke well, but is espuecially fond of using the side stroke, with . a" double scissor kickT. He is very fond of doing stunts and has several quite unique ones of his own. One of his pet tricks i3 to float, motion less, on the surface of the water and allow some one to place a ten-pound weight upon his chest This weight does not cause him to sink. Baldwin asks no odds of any one, and although only 14 years old. swam in - the White Mbun tains swimming championships last season and won a place in the 220-yard swim. ; In this race he was competing against a number of boys much older than he was. : WOT FIVE RHYMING VV0RD5 f ARC PICTURED HERE? Answer (o today's picture pnz fcle: The five rhyming words pic tured are: Sow, row, !ye, crow, how. ' jj "James? But he has a violin now." 71 .- ' ; i i . t "Oh, you heard about the vio lin he got, did you? It is p fine one. However, it seems that he has alwayshad a desire to learn to play the flute, and now that such a good chance has come he is determined to take advantage of it. He wants to learn to play both." ' ' : . j "There's no use for me to try if he's going to. He always gets everything he wants and more, too. Just think of him getting that violin given to him. He sure ly is the luckiest thing."- But, the next week both the hoys started their lessons. Scarcely a week had passed be fore Warren had become tired of them and given them up. But James plodded along at the les sons and when the exams were" given he won the flute, ji- "You surely 1 are the luckiest thing." Warren sighed. Wanted, by the hay farmer, more hands. See the Y. M. C. A. employment bureau. The Salem packers are expect ing ' a crop of stringless beans twice as large as the one of last year. And the pack of last year was not a smalt one. It Is predicted that President Harding., will be. renominated. Which is our Idea of the obvious. Los Angeles Times. After years spent in making a survey of the value of the rail roads in this country the inter state commerce commission finds there is no water therein. This makes it just a bit tough for Rob ert Marlon La Follette who is counting on the railroad Issue in 1924. The time to stop forest fires is before they begin. Camper who will not be careful ought to be made to be sorry. Senator Arthur Capper, leader of the farm bloc in the upper house, says the production of wheat must be cut, and the United States must raiBe more products for which the world will pay high er prices. If the United States will produce all Its own sugar, and the flax and hemp for its linens and coarser fabrics, and 'all its own wool, and a lot of other things that are possible of productionin this country, the wheat acreage will not need to be cut down. A home market will be provided for all our wheat in fact, a short age will be created if our conn' try will live up to its possibilities in diversification and manufactur ing. - ' aaaaaaBBaaaaaiHBaaaaaaaaaaaBBaaBBaaaaaaaiaBa THE PLY IX THE OINTMENT The NewYork Times wants to know how much of the present confustion, vagueness, disgruntle ment and division of parties is due to the direct primary. Making a rough guess, we would say that in this part of the world approx imately 99 per cent. Detroit Free Press. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS A famous old tavern in Massa chusetts, established In 1771. has gone out of business. "Prohibition hit us." the proprietor explains. But taverns are not the only places that have experienced a slump in business since "prohibition hit us," remarks the Lawrence Journal World. In the east a number of jails, workhouses and poorhouses are feeling the effects. Kansas City Star. THE BIG MONEY i The New York Central road fig ures up that the system has in its time .paid more than SI. 50 in taxes for every; dollar used in di vidends. The average man would roar if his taxes had always been SO per cent more than his net in come, out people who think the railroads have been running the country will revise their opinions. HOW TO LIVE The head of the American In stitute of Homeopathy says that it is a crime for anybody to die under 75 years of age. He also says that it is mainly Americans who die of cancer, pneumonia and some other ailments. People who ive next to nature and eat sim ple foods do not fall under these diseases. We are the victims of overwork or overrest; of unbal anced exercise, of unintelligent dieting and careless living. Deaths from preventable causes are great er than those of war. It is time that the rank' and file should be fully informed of the achieve ments of science and what it can. do for their ills. That ls what the president of the Institute says. Possibly the homeopathic doctors will arrange to do this much for us. Maybe we can begin by ar resting as a criminal every man who dies under the age of 75 years. Exchanges , EXTREMES James H. Scarr, New York's crack weather forecaster says California harbors the hottest spot on earth (Death 1 Valley) the. region of heaviest j snow falls (High Sierras) and a j region wherein perpetual springtime pre vails (locality unnecessary to men tion.) . t Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, holds the record for heat -134 in. the shade, i Insure your cars be fore motoring into Death j valley, for gasoline boils at 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Last winter in the Huntington Lake region. High Sierras, thirty-eight feet of snojw fell. ' j . Mr. Scarr says that among the great cities of the country the av erage monthly temperature dur ing a year' is lowest in San Fran- c'sco. the monthly average for win ter being 50 degrees and for sum mer 80 degrees. He names Los Angeles as the driest big city in the United States. One should remember,, .however, that the subject under considera tion is weather, not prohibition. -Los Angeles Times. SOCIAL JEALOUSIES About half of the embroilments of society are Inspired by small jealousies,, Questions of social pre- j cedence have wrecked not only In dividual careers, but whole king doms. Vanity has prompted many a tragedy. Old-timers will remem ber the scandal at King Arthur's Christmas dinner, when knights and ladies quarreled for the high seats. They got to hurling har poons at one another until the place looked; like the operating room at the Chicago stockyards. It was a regular shambles and the best blood of the kingdom was wasted. Arthur- himself got so hot about.it that he started a re prisal. He sent most of the sur vivors and their kinsmen to the block. Not only thati but he cut off the noses of the dames and damsels who were mixed up in the' affair. 'This is where the ex pression to ; "cut off the nose to spite the face" had its origin, tor some of the beakless dowagers certainly found that spite had been visited upon their faces. As a further result of this bloody en tanglement Arthur sent j for the best cabinet-maker in London and had a huge dining table! built in the form of a circle. This be came famous in history as King Arthur's round table at which his knights assembled night ' after night: j The i able being round there-could be no place of honor and the only precedence shown would be in favor of the one who happened to sit at the right of the chair in which His Majesty, bulked himself. After Uhaf there were no quarrels over precedence in King Arthur's court, except that Sir Launcelot appeared to have some thing of a chush .on Queen Guin evere. But social jealousies should be avoided. They leave a sting that is entirely out of proportion a. m . 1 to ineir importance. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST' ; Hurrah for H. 11. Haynes! ;-7.v- s -V V: i He has an idea, and it will be put over. ' ' j .- j V 1 He will help make the logan berry (the great pie berry, along with the evergreen blackberry. -7- - "b When the loganberry goes over as the pie berry, the Willamette valleywill not be able to produce enough of them. I V V There is in fact only one thing; in the world as good . as a piece dt loganberry pie, properly mad-e and that is another piece of loganberry pie. "' u ; The principle' is all right, and the flax -pulling machines may help a lot, this year. But the flax is going to be all pulled, by hand or by the machines S The men in charge pt the hos pital drive Jook like they will be able to put It over air put ev erybody in condition to go to the hospital. ' , ' ! A little warm for some of us but the hay makers are not com plaining. 7 j Gossip in a woman becomes slander in a man. - ! v . 1 Anybody may fall in love but he generally gets up. ,-i 1 ,-v w -'w' Amundsen has delayed his flight to the pole but he knows it rwlll be there waiting for him whenever he wants it. 7 ! V Blind love can never see its finish. HER LIMIT . Esther was ' much interested' in fashions, and continually pored over; the fashion magazines. When she was to have a new dress she had remarkably clear ideas how she wanted it made. One day a friend said to her: "Why, Esther, can you make your own' clothes?" "No," she answered thoughtful ly. "I can make up their looks, but I never do the sew on them." ' Lost in the Woods EXPERIENCED woodsmen say that when a man gets lost in the " forest he usually travels round and round in a circle. . ' ' -1 ' r; : - . '. " ' That's just the way some folks shop. They hit the Buying trail, stray from it a bit, and before they are aware of the fact, they are lost wandering in a maze of counters gradually growing wearier and wearier and finally get back home mentally and physically tuckered out without haying accomplished' much. Up-to-date shoppers make up their minds what they are going to buy before they leave the house. They know exactly what they want, how much they want to pay, and just where they will find the right goods at the right prices. To them shopping is a pleasure. - -7 'I -- . 9 : , i. , :. . - 7- These modern shoppers' read the advertisements carefully and regularly. They find that the advertisements save them steps, both er, trouble and time. V Lqt the advertisements guide you That's their job FATTV AGAIN MAKING THE WORLD LAUGH. , 6 7:Bwm if I it . i I j- I N ii i i ifiY m T i j J I "Fatty"; Arbuckle, film comedian, was accorded a wa.n weicom In Chicago, where be appeared on the stage. While Fatty's stag partner plays "Yes We Have No Bananas," Fatty engages in some business that causes, pealing laughter, lie expects to reach Broad way in a chpr-i-icr ccruedy early next spring and! seems to have de- parted from the screen forever. - . 4 ;i Punctuality Now Marks Train Service in Italy ROME, July 13.-The spirit of discipline which the Mussolin government brought in with it is no more concretely illustrated than on the railroads and in the telegraph service of Italy Ital ian trains are now run on time one can even ' set ones watch by them and the time of transmis sion on Internal and foreign tele grams has been reduced to .one fourth of what it was before the advent of Italy's young dictator to power. The Italian crack trains on the , V JSYaiOW PENCIL 11---, rbaUkth RED BAND mmSncmfJV i i - -1 1 main trunk lines cover their dis tances with minute precision and according to schedule. The Rome- Milan expresses leave and arrive on the second.; The Rome-Naples trains' are equally - on schedule, ' while the service between Genoa and Trieste, through Milan and Venice, "also records the same punctuality i . Special . policemen do . services . on all the lines, and are present on trains to prevent theft or dis ordr. r 7 , '7.1" :. 7- : There would be fewer marrlsg-' es in this country If the happy. sweeineart couia Bee nim arter ne had gone a week without shaviag. '