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CAL COOLIDGE, FIGHTER
? The people of this country have come to regard the
t office of Vice President of the United States as a sort side
- track "or blind, alley or political pig-eon hole ort which or in
& which to place a man of medium attainments and leave him
' there; forget him . ;
t And 'precedent from the beginning of our government
- rather favored and fostered the idea I s
I Until Calvin Coolidge became Vice President. He had
not been and is not that kind of a man; he cannot be put on
cold storage, and President Harding had the idea that the
Vice-President should be a member of the highest official
i family at Washington ; so Calvin Coolidge has attended all
Cabinet meetings and he has taken full part in. the delibera
- tions and discussions and full responsibility in the conclusions
and decisions. ' ; j , ;
I Cal Coolidcre is a fisrhter. 'Ask the hordes of creat and
email Readers who tried to trim him in 1918 for Governor of
JlssaChusetts ii v,M' :
T He willbep ajfighter in Jtne'Wgh office of President. The
people: 'oftUCXrtiMry who imagine that a' mollycoddle has
1 come td the $jhe$ V of f ice in the world are due for an awaken-
f ing?.: He inaVc Tiot vs'wing the big stick in a spectacular man-
t ner; but it will be handy ajong with the stuffed club.
, President Coolidge i&a high type of the sturdy, thrifty,
i- law abiding, God fearing honest, straightforward, industri-
' ous and unassumjngj New England ideal. .And he.has both
i a big brain and a big heart, and he is absolutely fearless.
3 t The writer predicts that he" will surprise a large part of
the American people by his accomplishments.
WHAT
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Do you know Oregon ? j . '
- Probably not. , A Portlander, born ahdi reared in this
city, thought he knew his state. He has just returned from
t.an automobile trip that took him. south through western
f Oregon, across the mountains via Crater Lake, north to Bend,
and back into the Willamette valley via the McKenzie route.
He knows now that he did not know Oregon before.
; Language fails him when he attempts to paint Word pictures
of what he saw, although he tells enough to fill the listener
with enthusiasm. Any tourist or old Oregonian who fails
under the spell of his descriptions will be restive until he
has seen the great panorama of Oregon as it unfolds to an
automobilist passing through the state. - - :
".Surprises are everywhere. The McKenzie pass, now
' ' 1fA1 lMlTT? will WtVi
i scenic attractions of the state.
, , river highway and the. Mount
lava beds will present a startling nature study. Its forests,
its freak formations and its majestic piles of mountain peak,
and snow-covered monuments are of extraordinary scenie
beauty.. . , . . 'ni-i-r ' -r ";(-- Ai. ".-
What Oregon will be as a great summer playground is
not yet guessed by the home resident who has not seen it kit
A great caravan on wheels, .made up of people from distant
, states,; is now on the highways in numbers beyond that tf
any part summer. In crossing
ley there were eight California cars and one car from Oregon.
Hotels at points along the Pacific highway in Western Ore
gon "are nightly, crowded, with people often turned away.
Trains are jammed; Jhe Shasta Limited often runs in two
ssections. -',: v -- -' v.- - r ;-: .'-.
'" This Portlander's study of his state is 1 illuminating. It
shows that: we do not all know what we have. We ought to
go out and see it. Then we will love it better and better, as
we ought to, for nature was a kind old mother when she pre
pared these valleys and mountains and rivers and lakes and
dales, and shady lanes for our welfare and our enjoyment.
tt dar far thA nrttfrl
get Into' the etkluma coB(esL ,I
The Slogan page cC next
Thursday wll till boir flational
adrertistng Is befiig done far soma
of our standard products, And1, the
big advantages coming to n on
account or this publicim . It is
calculated - to put' Salemr on ' the
map, of the nation and the world.
Henry may' run, anyhow. A
Ford, can run' anywhere. Ex
change. ! : : ; v
The suggestion of.! Secretary
Mellon that the income tax ought
to be reduced may. mean that he
is about to place himself In the
hands of hfs friends In 1924. lie
Is certainly making a nolce like a
candidate for somethlng.-Ex--
change.! ' U ' iV
. Sootb of 'Mason and Dixon's
I'ne a new bill pt rights Is being
written by the-states. It is a dec
laration of independence of polit
ical' action, and of freedom ,from
' domination ' of that partisan fac
tion which would pledge the Dem
ocrats of the south to a policy of
repudiation and nullification.
Southern Democrats hare made it
plain that they will not support
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It will vie with the Columbia
Hood loop for grandeur. Its
a ferry in the Willamette val
the plan of their northern breth
ren to reopen the prohibition ques
tion by dignifying it as a national
party Issue. t-The "solid south
seems to be for the na
tional honoM. r ;
The leading real estate dealers
of Salem say business is picking
up, decidedly, j It should. Land
is cheaper here than elsewhere on
earth, considering its potential
alue. And. by the same sign,
city property is cheap In, Salem,
and in all the enterprising sur
rounding cities and towns,'
This is the last day for the
three prettiest girls In the-Salem
district to geC,' Into the Petaluma
lEgg Day contest. ' Take your
photos to the Salem Chamber-of
Commerce. Theyi will be forward
ed tonight. , !
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BOY SCOUTS IX AFRICA
The governor of Kenya Col
ony in Africa recenly made-an in
teresting resume of the effect of
the Boy Scout movement among
the natives under bis care. The
British conservator of forests has
evidently conferred an inestimable
boon upon his charges by teaching
them the Scouts -rules of " con
duct. i ; ;
The chief benefit derived was
from teaching them to conserve
the forests. Interest in the Scout
idea gave them a, sense of their
duty to. one another and those
who might tome . ,after them.
Where formerly, a native in need
of wood simply sallied forth in
the forest' and eut down the first
tree handy," he now selects a tree
carefully, and plants another In
its place. Deeds of great daring,
and touching instances of seti-eac-riftcc
have been done by "the Ken
ya Scouts, who are considered by,
anthropologists quite low in civi
lization. I ; .'.
The greatest difficulty enc6un
tered was in teaching the idea
that they must do "one good deed
a day." Hosts of the natives
would come to the house of the
organization secretary and ex
plain that they just could not
think of a good deed to do. They
would fairly beseech him to pro
vide them with a good deed
speedily ere the sun -set, and he
would meet this emergency by
having each supplicant plant a
tree. He .explained, however, that
this was not the true meaning of
the injunction, and that it was
much better to think l up your
own deed and perform it alone.
Eventually the natives reached the
point where they could do this,
and Kenya Colony, in the gover
nor's reports, is ; practicing the
Golden Rule with a vim, nad the
simple savages are exerting them
selves daily to perform one . or
more good deeds.
THJ2, BIU DOINGS
If .Henry Ford should become
president he would probably build
a peace ship that would make
the Leviathan look like a yawl.
Then, accompanied by the Marine
band and William Jennings Bry
an, he would proceed to establish
harmony upon the face of the
globe. Los Angeles Times.
WHAT HE HEARD OUT WEST
Mr. Al Smith, soon to be ex
governor of New York, went west
and all be heard was Mr. Tom
Taggart say, "Al, you .'can't get
there on a wet plank." Capper's
Weekly. ' .
DECEIVING THE PRESS'
A law just enacted In Minneso
ta makes giving a false statement
willfully to a newspaper a mis
demeanor. -
This bill is aimed particularly
at those who make the telephone
abet their efforts to spread false
hood. The false notice of a wed
ding or engagement or death or
divorce generally owes its origin
to one of these practical jokers.
Such notices frequently, cause
trouble and bring pain In their
wake, but the practical joker nev
er stops for this. His untamed
sense of humor leaves him no
space for forethought.
Any practical law that will dis
courage the cruel, it thoughtless.
practical joker, must have the
support of a wide public. -
PERSONALITY OR PLATFORM?
William Jennings Bryan bland
ly denies that he is Interested in
the McAdoo candidacy. As usual,
he says that the platform, is .vast
ly . more important than the per-
ftanrglttyTJt -tttQ candidate, although
ir is doubtful If "any president
was ever elected on the exclusive
influence of his platform. Plat
forms have defeated' candidates,'
but personality has been 'the ma
jor factor in the triumphs. But
Col. Bryan says he will not discuss
the personality or merits of any
available candidate, i He takes oc
casion, however, to hurl a few
harpoons into the palpitating
frame of Governor Al Smith. That
is because of his 'insistence that
Smith is not an available candi
date. None, but a bone-dry can
didate can hope for the nomina
tion of Democracy. That is the
declaration of Col. Bryan. lie Is
going to be a delegate to the con
vention from Florida and will be
In a position to see that absolute
dryness is established in the party
platform. : If necessary ; he will
make another Galahad speech to
the convention and once' more be
come the standard-bearer of his
party. Brother Bryan considers
Our domestic situation so desper
ate that there is no time to waste
an international ' affairs. They
can wait. Presumably what is
needed is a strong man who will
relentlessly suppress the bootleg
ger and also banish from our halls
of learning the Insidious protag
onists of evolution. -
FEEDING THE FISHES
There never was a tlme before
anywhere, in any way, s when so
much attention was paid to the
general needs of humanity. It's
wonderful, too, what small de
tails come under scientific scru
tiny in this ceaseless endeavor to
add to the comforts or necessities
of life. ., :: -j '. f
Fish, for instance, is a necessity
fast getting into class A along
with dairy products. Fish pre
vents thousands of Chinamen and
Japs in the Far East from starving
to death.' Itf has saved the polar re
gions from complete depopulation.
A fishlessbcean would reduce mil
lionaires to the f 'Easy-street"
class, bring the present occupants
of Easy street to the bread-line
limit and wipe out the submerged
tenth. ' ' :' . "
Wherefore it is plain that hu
man kind needs fish; and, of
course, if we want fish to feed
us we must first feed them. Or
at least we must make sure that
the supply of fish food in - the
ocean doesn't run short. ;i
Some of the finest fishing
grounds are not ministering to the
wants of mankind as they used to
do years ago. The demand in
creases, but not the supply. So
science has been investigating the
food habits of fish with an idea
of boost Id c their birth rate and
growth. Fish, their preservation
and extension is a subject that
touches us more nearly in our own
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GENE STRATTON PORTER'S
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homes than what becomes of the
Turks and Armenians.
Now fish In their ways are not
so unlike humans in their' habits.
The biggest fish eats the next size
smaller and these in turn the ones
a little smaller still and so on
down the line till you come to
the smallest of all. And these,
not having more fish to feed on,
eat algae and kelp and seaweed:
Science has discovered that the
big fish, most desired by their
two-footed friends ashore, are get
ting scarcer because the kelp and
algae that pass : up. the scale
through various reincarnations for
their sustenance are getting scarc
er in the bed of the ocean. ;
Hence, since the hopes of the
race are bound up with the for
tunes of fish, 1 science is turning
an intelligent eye on the kelp and
algae beneath
the ocean waves.
And plans' are
pn foot to cultivate
these fields as
a dry-ground far
mer cultivates; his alfalfa. Thus
hopes are held out to us that
there will be a better supply of
big fish in the near future.
BOBBED HAIR
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I Superior Judge Thomas . Gra
ham of San i Francisco has a
friendly word of advice for the
ladies. "If you want to keep'
your husbands," s5ys the jurist,'
"bob your h air." v As .an aver
age bf 1500 divpjee" eases pass inj
gloomy -review before the Judgt'j
every year,! he feels that he is in
a' position to! know"whereof he'
speaks. lJ ' ' "' ;'
; uespite tnis large number, a
bobbed-hair wife has never ap
peared before the judge in the
role of eifher plaintiff or defend
ant. Those with long tresses
bring ther marital woes to! the
courts daily, but the sisters wits'
the shortened locks seem to abide
with their spouses in a statef of
beatific content. ' The. reason," the
judge declares, is that they always
look neat and attractive, even at
the zero hour of breakfast,
i In common with many other ad
visers on matters pertaining to
matrimony. Judge Graham holds
that most love is lost at the break
fast table. It is well known tbat
many a lovely lady presents a sor
ry spectacle In the early hours of
morn, before she is bedecked with
her war paint and has dressed
FALL DRESSES
ARE HERE
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In' the new silhouett and coat models of twills I
and. serges, trimmed in highly colored f braids.;
A glance at our windows will tell vou more in a
few minutes than wc could write in a few hours.
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her hair. A simple brushing, oc
cupying a few seconds of time
suffices to give bobbed locks - a
groomed appearance, and the wife
presents a more appetizing ap
pearance .across the matutinal
board than with disheveled locks
partially concealed by a breakfast
cap that has passed its first stage
of pristine elegance. ' j.
This is almost the first brief on
record in favor of the damsel, with
cropped tresses, and added to the
statement' of surgeons at the San
Francisco Emergency Hospital to
the effect that possessors-, of
bobbed bair have, never commit
ted suicide in that city, may start
n rush to the barber's chair. Ac
cording to the chief j surgeon,
those who bob their; hair invaria
bly have cheerful, optimistic dis
positions, and therefore no desire
to shuffle off this mortal coil.
Perhaps it is. the disposition, and
not the appearance5 at breakfast,
that keeps' them out of court. ;
WE 3IUST.BE PREPARED' FOR
DISAPPOINTMENT
Whether peace f has actually
been restored In the Near East or
whether the treaties negotiated at
Lausanne will form the basis for
new wars is a matter of pure spec
ulation. The treaty of Sevres, ne
gotiated by the same powers in
1919, might more ;properly have
been called a declaration of war.
The Greeks started to 'take pos
session of the territory in Thrace
and' Asia Minor-allocated to them
by the treaty;-and ttie Turks un
der Kemal, began to prepare for
the war that resulted last year so
disastrously for Greek, arms.1
Perhaps one thing in favor of
the treaty of Lausanne' is that It
satisfies no one. The allied peo
ples feel that their commissioners
conceded too much to the Turks;
and the Moslem' peoples think
Ishmet Pasha was content witb
too little; that, if he bad stood
firmer for all the Kemal demands,
he might have secured much
more. Treaties that are accept
able to both parties can bef nego
tiated only in time of peace. Wars
Fine Fischer Piano, $123.00
This piano Ia in. the pink of con
dition. You will have to hurry to
get this one. $5.00 down; .$5.00
a month. Geo. C. Will, 432 State
Street. ; .
are generally continued there un
til there la a victor; and, in Bucb
cases, the vanquished is hold to
be wrong in all Its demands. The
treaty of Versailles was fairly sat
isfactory, toe satisfactory In fact,
to the allies for It to Le sustained
without the support of' va3f arma
ments. , A country that signs a
treaty against, its will is reason
ably certain to break the pact at
the first favorable opportunity.
. There is disappointment in all
Christian countries that Turkish
rule, in all its brutality and op
pression of religious minorities,
has came back to Europe. Con
trol of Constantinople and the
straits has been surrendered by
the allies. The protection of
Christian minorities is withdrawn.
The Moslem jule is uprme; for
the restrictions opposed by the
concert of European,, nations be
fore the World war. have been
abolished. i
Lloyd George has gone to the
extent of declaring that the treaty
is the most shameful that Eng
land ever signed. . But it must
be remembered that Lloyd George
is now a fallen politician trying
to regain his lost power; and that
he engages In a great deal of
what we term in this country
"loose, talk." But the terms of
the treaty are referred to with ex
pression of regret' by the Chris
tian associations that maintain
schools or colleges In Moslem ter
ritory. They have lost! the pro
tection of their home govern
ments that they have enjoyed
prior to ten years ago. The
Turks have prom'sed to treat
them honorably; but ' the exper
ience of Christian peoples with
Turkish- promises does' not .offer
encouragement for the future.
Interest now centers about the
new treaty which a commission
representing our government has
been discussing with the Turks
for several months. Out of cour
tesy to the other powers, formal
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TheBoys and Girls Newspaper
Copyright, 1923, Associated Editor.
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Lessons Champion
The Back
(This is the last of a series of
eight articles by Pierson L. Max
well, a swimming expert who has
taught boys and girls to swim at
municipal beaches, ocean beach
es and private pools. Mr. Max
well has been a life-guard and a
racing swimmer for a number of
yearsr He knows what he is talk
ing about when it comes to swim
ming.' Clip tnese articles , and
follow them if you want to become
a good swimmer.) .
One of the special strokes
whlchrgood swimmers must know
is the racing back stroke. Next
to the American crawl, it is th
fastest stroke known.
To learn it, first get in the wa
ter and push off very much as
you learned to do In the first
lesson only push off from the side
of the pool backwards this time.
and 4 nt try to bury your head
under water. ;
Start f Crawl Leg Kick
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After getting your nush-off.
start the crawl leg kick, as ex
plained in lesson two. -Keen ths
knees stiff and kick up a nico
THE SHORT STORY, JR.
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-KETURAH'S REWARD
The drbnght had ronie to Its
worst,
Ket urn h was dying of thirst;
The water in More
She dropped at the door,
When the rain came down with a
burst.
For nianny, many weeks there
had not been a drop of rain. Far
up on the top of the mountain
where Keturah lived alone with
her grandfather the-crops had
turned from green to yellow and
then from yellow to a dead, dry
brown. It was a week now since
the spring at the back of their
little house had dried up. Every
morning Keturah"s old grandfa
ther had to take a bucket and go
down; the mountain almost a mile
to the nearest flowing spring.
7 But finally s morning came
when he was too weak to go. ' The
continued I dry weather and the
worry at the loss of hl3 crops had
top-view " J
negotiation 1 was delayed until
the Lausanne conference ended;
but the main ; articles are reported
to have been agreed upon. It Is
not to be' presumed that the
Turks will concede to this coun
try the protection for our citi
zens residing on Moslem soil that
it denied to the allied nations.
And we are in no position to force
single-handed what the other na
tions combined failed to secure.
The World war ended 1n a mil
itary defeat for the Turks, to b'e
followed by a diplomatic victory
which places them In a more ex
alted position than they occupied
at any time during the last fifty
years. Their leaders knew that
western . Europe as well as our
own country, was tired of fight
ing; and that material considera
tions would overweigh moral and
Ideal aspirations. They were In
a position to drive a hard bar
gain with' the allies, and they
made every use of their advan
tage. They are in a position to
drive an equally hard bargain
with our own government. '-
So we mast be prepared .for
disappointment when the terms of
the new treaty are made public.
The Turkish Incident served to
bring home to the American peo
ple that, despite the sacrifices we
made-during the World war, the
Influence of the American government-counts
for less in Eur
ope and the Near East than it did
before we made the winning of
the World ' war possible for the
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The Biggest Utile Paper 1b the World
Swimmers Learn
I
Stroke
little spurt of water. Do not let
your feet come out of the water,
however, because that only means
wasted power.;
When the feet get to working
smoothly, take one arm. the right,
and bring It slowly around over
your head and dip it in the water
out in back of your head, reach
ing back as far as" possible When
It dips in the water, start pulling
it around to your side, and as you
do so lift the left arm and get it
ready for its stroke. Both arms
must be constantly moVine. but
they should move slowly and pull
nard when they are In the water.
Of course, the legs must be ket
working continually.
Keep Fingers Toeetber
When , you are swimming this
stroke, keep the fingers well to
gether and, have the hand forming
a very shallow sort of a cup so
as to dip the water better. Whatf
ever you . do, try to make, the
stroke smooth and try for smooth
ness instead of speed until you
feel that you know. how. to use tbfi
stroke fairly well. .... .-. ' y .
Here's wishing you luck with
all your swimming!
been too much for the frail old
man.
"You will have to fetch the wa
ter today, Keturah," he sald call
ing his Httle graddaughter. to
him. 'Take the little bucket, the
big one, is too heavy for you to
carry?: Follow the trail and you
cannot miss it."
So Keturah set out. her little
blue sun-bonnet shading her eyes
from the glaring sun. She passed
the first spring, now nothing but
a cluster of dry rocks. She hur
ried along anxious to get back to
her grandfather with a nice cool
drink. At last she came to the
second Bpring. A cry of despair
escaped her. it, too, was dry. ;
There was nothing to do but to
go on down to the -next spring.
She could not bear to go back to
her grandfather with an empty
bucket. She had already come
over two miles and she just
couldn't turn back now. Besides,
at every bend in the trail she
hoped to catch sight of a "welcome
spring. On and on she went un
til she was so tired" and thirsty
she thought she could go no fur
ther. At last she heard the sound of
Water tricklinir over rocks: Stum
bling along the dusty trail In her
hurry she ran to kneel beside the
spring and drink long draughts of
the cool clear water. Then she
rested a while In the shade before
she finally, filled her bucket and
started back.
The long upward 'climb was
AIAn-gnrM. thatf -mf-g down.
allies; and then repudiated t ,
signatures of our own comm: .
sioners, with odr president t
their head, to the Treaty of Vt,.
sallies. : : .
Viewirfg the triumphant reUra
of the Turk to Europe, the ne:t
generation is very likely to rega. ;
our attitude of isolation, whijj
the things the generation be for j
us won are sacrificed, in a ligl.
that' will not reflect credit upca
those who rose so high in 1911,
only to fall so low in the yeari
that Immediately followed.
Lane County Report Is
Sent to Mr. Church!:!
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' The enrollment in the schools
of Lane county has Increased fcy
461 pupils during the last school
year, accordingto the- annual it
port of E. J. Moore, county school
superintendent, to J., A. Churchill,
state superintendent of schools.
The enrollment at the close cf
the last school year was 9119.
. The report shows that the ?;
men teachers in the county ''got
an average salary of $138.06 a
month, while the 339 women
teachers receive monthly salaries
of $112.92. .
There are 193 school districts
in Lane county, : 136 of which
maintain one-room schools.' He
eighth grade was completed tt!j
year: by 641 pupils and 393 rs-
ceived high school diplomas. '
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Edited by John Al. Miller.
Randy Riddle Says
'Why is the hourglass mads
small in the middle?"
Answer to today's picture puz
zle: The thing every boy Is la
terested. In fa Radio.
She Never Took a Lesson Eitha
Jim : "Your cook Is Swedish;
Isn't she?" ,
Tim: 'Yes. but .she oftca
speaks In broken China."
Answer to today's Riddle: To
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Boy:. "I know where you can
get a chicken dinner for fifteen
cents."
. Father: "Where?" "
Boy:, "At the feed store."'
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BECY BOV IS INTERESTED
The sun rising high in the sky bj
this time burned down on her
head and shoulders. She did not
dare relieve her thirst with th
little bit or water she had la her
tiny bucket. That must all b
saved for her grandfather. Stum
bling' along in the heat she could
scarcely see where she was-K
ing.- But the thought of her dear
grandfather gave her added
strength and she pushed ahead.
Then at the very door of the lit
tle cottage she caught her toe,
stumbled, and fell. The parched
ground drank'up her little bit of
water In ' a second.' Her bucket
was empty.
"There! There!" her grandff
ther comforted her. "Don't cry se
honey. We will get along. To
morrow I will be better and we
will go down to the plains." But
Keturah only sobbed. They wer
both so-wrapt up In their sorro
that they did not notice the gath
ering storm. Suddenly there wsi
a' distant rumble and then th
steady pat. pat of the drops o
the roof. "The storm." breathei
the old man holding Keturah clos
er. ; 'I knew that God would re
ward my little girl."
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