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! t r 4 the OREGON STATCSMAN, SALEM; OREGON i ".-" ' Issued Dallv ElCnt MnnAaw K i ". -TUB STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ixn.A ... 21 5 S' Coniii.rcI St., Salem. Oregon J ' (Portland Office. 723 Board of Tmde Building. Phone Beaeon 1193) MtlnIhfffi800ltel,'re,1J8 clU!dvely entitled to the use tot puDll- , ,rr uiicu craaiua to it or rot otuerwU credited la this paper and also the local news published herein. j It. J. Hendricks John I Brady Frank Jaskoskl . TELEPHONES : Business Office . - . ClrenlaUon Office . ' . . ' Society Editor - - -Job Department - . Hatsred at the Postotflce In Salem, APPRECIATES OUR PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE A few days ago there was handed tp The Statesman by the agent of the Southern Pacific at Salem -a dispatch from John M.' Scott, manager Of the Oregon lines'- asking that the Salem representative of the company give to the press and to the citizens of Salem generally the following message received Vrom President Sproule, dated at " San Francisco, August 14: y -: j 5 ;"' -' T, .' '-1 - "It is, proper you should know that we expect ; - the Interstate Commerce Commission will ; now . grant for the Natron cut-off a certificate of public . convenience and necessity, for which we made ap plication .in anticipation of this favorable; decision, 1 . - - and we are also taking steps to get the necessary authority to go through the Indian lands. Chief , ' Engineer Boschke has at once gone to work pre- '.. paring papers for bids to submit to contractors, so that the, actual physical work" may begin; survey Sj ' parties having been in the field for several weeks ? past, as has been told you. All of this means that j y there will be no delay in . proceeding with the work', ; j and after winter weather shall force us to stop, the : , shut down - at such time will be only until ' next spring weather permits us to resume it. J We wish . .. the people of Oregon ;to know that the ; compahy ; appreciates their confidence and we desire to con tinue to prove worthy of it. ; f ; ' : This expression -of appreciation, "arid these' assurances, L t L will be received with grateful feelings by the people of the JSalara district, arid of all of western Oregon south of Salem -- For our people Jiave j been with the' Southern Pacific nana ?ers, almost "unanimously,- in their fight to 'retain con trol of : the Oregon lines' and to prevent the uxucramblixigj-of ths Southern Pacific properties in such a way as would have rendered them powerless to be of great assistance in help in f to develop the business of this part of Oregon, and - of theTbig country in Jhe southeastern part of the stofetnafis f:r trade purposes ribr&ri psrt of Californiilthan of Oregon. I !c "hbers from that part of Oregon have often Temarked thdt they never had much to do they were sent to the Legislature, or to the penitentiary or r lum for the insane, or the institution for the feeble raided. : r- t , - i, -j-,, , .Ui i i Itwmbefardifferchtsoon. : ' ' i The Southern Pacific people have and will have a great property in Oregon which they will be obliged to develop in cr J" zr to get good returns from it I i And in developing their great property they Will aid in building up the country along their lines; , . . ; ; 1 , ; ., " v The Southern' Pacific people,: through their, subsidiary ccripanies, have had great plans for making Salem a ItenYral chipping point. They own the Salem street railway lines, cr.J they have maintained them well., They! have built the Gc ;r line ; ' bought the Falls City line ; acquired the old Oregon Pacific line. They, have an expensive right ofway f rem Salem o 'Portland, purchased for an electric line, for ths red carst' They have valuable terminal properties m JSalem . : i-1.- - -- - i , i And. In' the "desire of the managers of the great Southern Pc:ific properties to "continue to prove worthy" of the cp f idarice of our people, ; it is more than likely that, in due course, they will again turn their attention to Salem as a point at which it will be worth while to center the future vast freight and passenger business of the central Willamette valley. This would be a powerful help in building here a big Ccr and better city ; and it would result in giving a vast local business to the Southern Pacific lines besides making more certain an immense volume, of tonnage taking long hauls. ' No doubt the Southern Pacific people are keeping; watch cf the solid growth of Salem and its surrounding territory, end are aware of the possibilities of enormous growth. in a hundred, yes in a thousand different ways. ; . r J And they know of many ways in which they can be of assistance in speeding up this growth, to the mutual advant-e-3 of the properties over which they exercise a trusteeship, zr.Vol the people living here now and who: may ccpe here to live and work in the future. j i; S - . r.ixixa sAraM to tourists The Oregon Statesman haa ttirted a very, profitable discus sion, one that delighU our hearts. It : U. 'IIow to Sell Salem" to the Tourfota." It has not been an easy job always to sell Salem to its own ; people? but the Oregon Ct -teaman Vhaa; heea- pounding away at this for many years, with 3t!afactory results.. , However,:the Hue haa come when all of us Jn "turn must sell this city and this vley to thi tourlsta.' V ?i ; In the last dosen years tourist travel has been revolutionized. In tl i next dozen years the railways wi;i handle mighty little tourist tr vel. The automobile Is a aight : Sag car.- It enables the tourist ' d where he pleases; when he isea, and stay as Ions as' he 'res. - Favorable apota can be - i - : Manager - i " - Editor Manager .Job. Dept. J i B8S Oregon, as second class matter. with Oregon excepting when I but' an ugly spot is left with hardly a thought. J ; The secretary of state has called attention to .the fact t'haC Salem doea not have proper literature. The' writer of this was in Eugene a couple of weeks ago and was loaded down with, most excellent literature : from , that city. . Upon returning to ; Salem, 'when we asked the efficient secretary of the Chamber bt Commerce. ! Mr. Wilson, why Eugene put forth a much better foot ' than 'Salem, while there are not nearly so many actual attractions, Mr. Wil son said it was .because- Salem did not have the money to put out proper Iltera'ture; . but then, he gave the encouraging Informa tion that - in September : the last 300 ,of the old debt would be paid. After that time Salem will be placed before the tourists In a comprehensive and enlightening However, the literature is only one phase of it. For Instance, In the people's forum column' recent ly, the Oregon , Statesman con tained I a communication stating that while the park was not . Just what it ought to be. the drinking water was much worse, That Is cur idea of how not to build a city. Attention has been called to the park and it will be fixed up at once. The water question is an entirely different question and it will be handled in Its own way by our own people. ; j ? ; The city administration is work ing progressively, for the advance ment of Salem and fn dua tfmo It will show results all along, the line. .j Salem has a good many people who are for the city always, but then follows deprecating ad jectives 'that throw cold , water upon the enthusiasm of the man who has Just seen our wonderful scenery and more 'wonderful pro duction. We f must sell , to ; the tourists, but first we must sell to ourselves. . THE PRICE OP OIL The Oregon Statesman has re frained from . editorial comment upon the very extraordinary agi tation over the price of oil for the reason that big as it looks, we regard It as another flash In the pan. It was on a par with. Judge Lrftndis' grandiloquent fine : of 129,000,000 slaaped on. the. stan dard Oil compaJ LWjm&i nitnde of both, TMelefjMfcH btMfrJ ated against Jthem. t The governor in SntbalTpta vm- hjad the goodni try toyojw he had done. t ; - The trouble was-not; in the at tempt, but. In, taking it tofo' far. Such a cut, in sit months, , would leave only one oil company In the United States' and that is not to be desired. , The price of oil is too high and It onght to be cut. But In mak ing a cut, we must be Just as fair to the producing companies as we are to the consuming public. ' Just because the ultimate consumers have usually been victims la no reason why we should break the backs of the oil companies on the wheel of public indignation.. We should study the question thor oughly and make such reduction as the best business of live and let live will ' permit Governor Pierce was not taken off his feet bythi whirlwind. He; baa set about - anv Investigation to ; estab ah what Ia! fair. The results of that investigation will show what the price of oil ought to be. . A 5IARKET FOR FRUIT The Oregon Statesman has con tended for a long, time that the biggest question In Oregon was distribution. The Willamette val ley can feed the world, provided we can deliver the goods to the homes of the people all over the world. Up to this time it is im possible to find a market for all our products and 7et there la a shortage. People are clamoring for the very things we raise, and are willing to pay -fair price for them. We must find some way to have a fair distribution so that no market will be glutted while another market Is . starving.' Refrigerator cars have solved the problem of shinning, but It will take the best -thought off the beetl minds (n, the' country to -devlie a plan of distribution that will en abli tJ? people of Georgia and the people of Maine to eat the Willamette valley fruit and at the same time to sell at a fair priced THE SHORTER DAY A savant has figured out that In 1 00 years " the working day will be: our, hours.: There Is no use taking all this time In using the gray matter for figuring. Henry Ford has already announced that the working! day will be 4 5 min utes, and : Henry's 45 minutes against the idea of four hours will cause the latter to melt away like an iceberg fn a tropical clime. : Why work at all? Why not shorten the day to nothing? We have always admired the English statesman who had the finest oc cupation of any man in the world. He Introduced in parliament f a bill to give every man everything. We are for such a lawto di away with the necessity of work, and In spite of aU that we say about the curse of Adam' being the blessing of the world In these hot days, we are very apt to wish that the curse bad been a little less rigidly applied. j ? i f WHAT ' AMERICA NEEDS 1- A letter by Mr. Coolidge wrltfen in 1921 was read' last week at a celebration' at Longview,' Wash., and It throws- such an "informa tive side light on ? the? character of the man who Is' now' our pres ident that. we pass It onto our readers. ' . . . "What Americans need Is. a continuing sense of obligation; a realization 1 that a thing will not be right simply . because it pays, .-tw-thit.-a- tlis'WllrTpxy iEp:y4 SCENES! 1 (: Upper Under the watchful to French consumption, j Lower because it is right. Justice will not be mocked. Contracts must be met when it costs something to obey them. . The supreme choice of the nation must not be the material forces . which, are tem poral, but' moral forces which are eternal." ! r SCRAPPING SHIPS The putting into effect of Pres ident Harding's wonderful i peace efforts will -save the world a lot of money and it will gaye .11 at a time when the people are sorely oppressed by taxation. . We need a: navy. . We must have ja navy, but we need a navy only large enough for police patrol) of the seas. If there is another war it will he fought in the --air with explosives so deadly that we dread to think of it.. An eastern city . was presented with a nude statue;!; to-which peo ple . promptly ? made objection. They are right. It has always been a mystery to'us why so many artists mistake vulgarity for "art. It is operating; against art being recognized as one of the divine grace's which-it really it. A .resume of the industrial con ditions of the northwest show that July was healthier and - a more optimistic tone prevailed than in 1 any other mtnth of the year. 17. k . . 1 Adele Garrison's New Phase of reveCations of a wife The Verdict Dr. Pettlt Gave, "How long does It take; that pill pusher - to get from Sag Harbor to Southampton?" Dicky looked at his watch as he asked the question, and aban doned the drapery he had been considering for his studio. With a hasty glance at my own watch I dropped. the sheer white, ruffled dimity I was fingering, as if It had been something, burning hot. I "He's probably there by this time," I said. "We must fly!" '.. I I turned to the waiting dark; t '"Will you V please lay aside seventy yards of this? Here is a deposit, and I will return short ly, for the bundle." : j I "Oh, yes,; .Miss! Thank 1 you, Miss." .The very English ; fare well of the clerk -followed ' me from the shop, one of the ultra smart ones. In which the fashion able summer resort abounds, and 1 saw Dicky grinning at It as we hhrried toward the car. V. ?l "Yes, your ladyship. No. your ladyship. Isn't there something more we can offer yourj lady ship?" he mocked when we were once more headed for th&liospi- taL "They certainly do the sub - servient courtesy act np brown here. - How much per cent; do you suppose, they tack on to the you. Miss stuff?" roH - f Epough; I fancy," I returned,! "although that white ruffled cur tain material was not exorbitant In price, but quite reasonabla ia-4. dee3. It-r3'aee,-flve.rBw2artoi 'ill ' ' " ' 4 wm t ' l !l ' ' - ' ' I ' - f I . - , if ' . . - - i I ' f $ -N' ' - Is I : . 4 i 'S x . r a. 1 :v I ' - " tw i J -r , , - ' if.: IN THE ;' RUHR DISTRICT. 7 an 5 W. W 2 . .. ' :i-.. :::.v : eyes of a French p oilu, German workers ' loading coal destined Ammunition wa gon being brought up to gun section.' f each window, rand in the front bedroom there are three, two each in those" . - - j r or the. love, of Mike, also Pete!" Dtekyj exploded. "Can the mental , arithmetic when I'm around You "ordered seventy yards, you 'must have had some idea of bow much you wanted." j"I have," I returned wltb dtg nwy. "I was simply checking up nry estimate."; . fi"Well, you I must be doing it fr the fun of the thing!" he re trted. 'For il never knew you Ci nrtLke' a mistake in your aVith- aistic oerore ;so cut it out. uo ypu suppose! that sawbones has rially ' arrived? 1 hope I didn't hLrt that child!" You 3Iay;Come In Now'. The exclamation came explo- yely from: his lips, and I glimpsed the: very real terror that hje had been (masking beneath his careless exterior, wun tne mem 0V7 of Dr. Pettifs chilling decla retionj that he could not tell the detent. of the injury until he bad reached the hospital, I did not dare give any assurance to Dicky, knowing that he would in all pro bability resent" my ; attempting to jive him any. Yet he would be equally resentful of silence, 'so I answered noncommittally: ' . . "I can't believe that you hur kei. Dicky, 'i You raised her yery tenderly."' . r -I "It makes a lot of difference hat you believe:" ne enariea. t was exactly tne answer i-ex- ecfed, for I knew that his nerves ere tensed J and, in a way, I was glad- of lt,? for it gave me an ex- tuse, lor not speaking again until e reached the hospital.- - Outside Marion's door we came pon Robert Sayarin pacing up and", down,; his hands, 'gripped lghtly together behind him.' But ks soon as he aiw Dicky's face lie came forward and put his hand on the younger man s snouiaer. "Don't distress yourself so, old chap," he said kindly. "I do not think your . action made the slightest difference with Marion's Injuries. She was quite herself again-after you left. The physi cian Is with her now, making a Chorough ' examination of her back, so we may know the truth at any minute now." : v "Thank you, Savarin.' Dicky's hand went iout gratefully to that of the elder : man, and . then the door opened and Miss Jones Lstepped Into' the hall.' : 5 "You- may -come in .410 w." she said briskly, and we all filed into the room where Dr. Pettlt was standing by Marion's bed with his stiffest professional manner upon him.'"- i , . . .':.'. '' ; I What Dicky Asked The child had; tiny drops: of perspiration upon her forehead, and her face -was pallid, proofs of the pain she. had suffered. My eyes: went swiftly to Lillian's face, for I knew I should find the trofh there. She - wa again kneeling by , Marion's side, with the child's hands in her's, but her eyes, wniie iuii or sympamyjior ner child's ! pain, had lost their ' look of terror. y : ; ' " . ; "It's all right," i she; said, quickly, quietly, and I knew that she could -not bear to let' us wait Dr. Pettit's slower assurance. "Please tell them, doctor, what you have told me." I i-"There is no permanent injury,1 1 am sure." Dr. Pettlt said 'There several. bad; bruises -v.' upon the muscles of her back,' one especially ' painfui, - which f will keep her quiet 1 for a few days, possibly longer. She cold be moved to the place, where you are boarding, it her mother - insists upon It, but I think It better for her to Btay here for a week." This wae evidently news to I" " " "I Things v I To. Do I The T'wi mm m a tt tnr TVTntv rt w 1 nt JDU i o A1N VjIIaJLo 1NLW orArtisx Copyright, 1 92S, Associated Kdltora. From A. PICTURE MAP f ' AFRICA CUPPS, AftMMMS -1 PRooucrs - vhr .. ." 1 . ; The great continent of Africa, of which you see the picture product map, is in reality only an enormous peninsula con nected to Asia by the Suez mainland. "';-Its products are varied and fascinating ones, spices, cocoanuts, gold, coral, grain and pearls. - .';';.,' ,,, ..:;..;,.;,:... ....., .......:..-.. r . ... ..... 1 THE SHORT STORY, JR. j w . KKXXETjrS DAWN Kenneth b,ore hla affliction with firace, . , . And never let grief cloud his face; He had cause to rejoice For his beautiful voice , In radio v be found his place. Kenneth reached out with his thin, white hand' for the' window sill, pulling his wheel chair into the, sun. - "Well, they say It's al ways darkest just before the dawn,! he sighed. "But there's never any dawn for me." ; . : He sat listlessly watching' the people on the street , below. Strong, : husky, boys, ! and men: rosy, healthy girls end women hurried past -everyone going to some interesting work. Every body could prk but .Kenneth. It seemed to him lhat he wa the only one In the whole-word who had to sit In -a wheel chair all day long with nothing to do but think. Angrily - the Z boy shoved his chair away from the window and - I X - 4 - WW tZL.: ... 1923 Lillian, for she lifted her head quickly and looked af the physi cian fixedly; - " e ""May I stay with her?" she asked. , -- "I expect yon to," he answered. "She needs no professional care, except when she has to be moved, and then a nurse will be always within call. But you will 1 not need a special nurse,- and I am sure you will be yery comfortable together." - '''- "Dr. Pettlt!" Dicky struck in abruptly. : "Did I increase her In Jury when I Inadvertently raised her this morning?" . "It didn't do her any good," he retorted",' and I saw that his dislike ' for Dicky had triumphed for the instant over his profes- N sional instincts. The next mom ent, however, he was the digni fied physician again. : ; "However, I cannot ay con scientiously, that you did her any harm, either," he finished. Then with a stiff bow which Included us all he bade ua farewell and left the room. - ' BITS FOR BREAKFAST Flax meeting Friday. : ; : V -It will-be In the evening at the Salem Chamber of Commerce aud itorium. if --?f There will be a full attendance, because the matter.of next year's acreage and contracts will be tak en up. : u " -,;i S If the iboll , weevil' ravages in the cotton fields of the south are hot checked and the negro exo dus is not headed off, the tonnage of flax produced in the" Salem dis trict this year, perhaps more than twice as large as ever before, will in a few years seem like only a very small start. The Willamette valley can produce enough flax to supply, the United States with its seed and twine and linen manufac tures, and then have enough avail able land left suitable for growing flax to take up all the slack caus ed by the -boll weevil- ravages in the south. ' t - ' w '.: Thousands of harvest hands are coming from England to Canada just now. Most of them will re main. Up to the first of August the new arrivals In Canada were 53,571. : Biggest little Paper in the World; the Gold Coast and the Ivory sat staring at the bare wall.' Some times it was almost more ; than he could bear. ; He was glad his mother was not home. Hard as it was for him, he always man aged -to keep cheerful before her) "Poor mother," he thought, "she has enough to worry her without my adding to her load. I just can't stand to see her working so bard.; If-there was only some thing I could do!" He glanced at the clock. "Why, It's almost time for her now!" pushing himself back to the open window he started watching for her as he did every night. Ken neth had a wonderful, stronr. rich rvoice, much stronger than he was. And he always kept it cheery for his mother. She loved to hear it ring out above the busy noice of the street. She had often told him that at the sound of his cheery voice floating down from their fourth floor room all the weariness of the day rolled off her shoulders.: s There she was now! How tired nd bent she looked as she turned the corner hia poor little mother. Oh. If he could only do something more for her than Just to cheer her with Is voice. If his' miserable legs were only as strong as his voice! He leaned forward putting all that he had. Into bis oicel "Welcome home, mother mine," he called, scarcely raising till vaIkb Kr. .1 A ' .... - wu. vicar u coma DO ms tobther . heard varvBLoj .t- .. .. The airplanes' of the Canad:.. air board re this year transport Ing supplies to the geological sur veying .parties In the . northern part of (that country. It is cheap, er, quicker and more reliable than heretofore, in boats with many portages. ': - b m I Some one suggests that every body has had a crack at evolution except the monkey. V "W . . .. " v "Be noble, and the noblenees that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will -rise in its majesty to meet thine own." Lowe!). TALK ABOUT COAL WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. "Eventualities" in the anthracite situation r were . discussed with President Coolidge today by Chairman Hammond of . the coal commission. " fl 'in (ill! Use Grandma's Sage Tea and .' Snlphur Recipe and Nobody i Will Know The use of Sage and ; Sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its natural ' color dates back to grandmother's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and attractive. Whenever her. hair took on that dull, fade! or streaked appearance,-this sin pie mixture was applied with won-- derful effect. " But brewing at home Is musry' and. out-of-date. Nowadays, t j asking at any drug Btore for a bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Zi phur Compound,"-you. will get thl famous old preparation, improve.! by ' the addition of other; inrre dientff. which' can ' be .depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair. A well-known downtown drug gist says It ' darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobodv can tell it has been applied. You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush j with : It and draw this"' through - your hair," taking tne strand at a time. By morning tie gray hair ' disappears, and after another application or two,1 It In comes beautifully ' dark and glossy. Adv. 1 mm mm m j Ix?Ij 1 ss mm e ! Edited by Jobn M. MilW Coast - Though civilization .in Africa has existed for thousands of yean up in the valley of the Nile river, , where King Tut reigned and othet Egyptian kings built the famous -pyramids, the great .tropical depths of ths country, were not , penetrated until recent, years. The central plains of Africa are . desert : lands, extending hundreds of miles. Every attempt to pass them was forbidden until the use fulness of the camel was learned. Now caravans loaded with prod ucts that reveal the wealth of the country may be seen making their way across the hot plains. . , j : . In the dense jungles, vegeta tion grows xlot.. Monkeys frisk and; play among the foliage, lions , and other ferocious beasts roam at will, birds remarkable for the brilliant gaudiness of their plum- . mage fly among the branches. . . The different localities of the land lying north of the gulf t of Guinea' are given the names of. products for which the country is famous in tradlngthe Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast and the Slave Coast. ':,:;' j: . Sad Fate , The gas went. out to meter. The egg was out to beater; The .nutmeg, wept out to grater, V But. alas, the radiator; , T been ages since yon left this mor ning. Hurry, hurry, I can hardly wait to see you." . Butr for once Kenneth's motb er was a long, long time gettlns up the three flights of atalra. He began to be worried before she finally, came In. A gentleman was with her. "Kenneth." she said, "this la Mr.Fox. He wants to give yo;i a "A Job!" f Kenneth's 'face fell. "But he won't when he sees I'm a cripple. I've tried everything. There Isn't a thing I can do." "On the contrary." Mr. Fox smiled at Kenneth, "you can -do this soecial job better than any one else. For some time I have been listening to your voice. I haye never heard one with better carrying power; It's a real radio voice. We! want you for our broadcasting station." He placed a contract before Kenneth, but Kenneth did not read it. He sat blinking before ; the figures i that were to be his salary. It was the brightest dawn: "he had ever dreamed of.' ' LYiDIES! 0 w m.- a m
