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1mi Tiaily Kxeept Monday by - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COaCPAXT ! 5 2I H Coinraarrial St, ftalem, Oregon - I (Portland ft. fie. N. 21 North Ninth St, C. F. William. Mgr.) -a. J. Hendricks , President CARr.r: abrams i SrreUry J. L. BRADY Vice-President ; . , membeu op the associated press Tha, Aaaoriatetl I'm i rxclusivrly entitled to the nae for pub!i-atkm of nil dispatch crrtiW lo it or not clhrwia credited in UiU paper and also tbe local newa published herein. , R. J. Headrirka John Lt. Brady J' rank Jaskoaki Uanacer ' - - ilditor Manager Job lept. - ; BUSINESS OFFICES: Thomas F. Clark Co., New York. 141-145 Weat 36th St.; Chicago, Marquette Build-':?-? int. W. 8. Orothwahl. Mr. Baaiaeae Off -Kewa Department i ! " Job Department TELEPHONES: ; 23 I Circulation Office 23-108 I Society Editor 683 106 68 r Eaterod at the Poatoffleo in Salem, Oregon, aa aecond-eaaa matter. done; to give sympathetic encouragement to teachers and pupils. It is conceivable that such a movement miprht persist and he intensified until Oregon ranked FIRST- in all the educational tests mentioned above For the intelligence tests for the World war show that her people have the higher high average intelligence to make this possible of attainment.' ' Then why not? It is a distinction worth striving for; worth working for long and "hard. It would naturally follow that the state with the highest average education and intelligence would forge ahead of all the rest in worth while attainments in all fields, even in manufa turing and commercial lines. OREGON'S RANK EDUCATIONALLY AND NATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK I V, Under the intelligence tests given to the men enlisted for the World war, Oregon ranked FIRST t For percent of students attending institutions of higher j learning, Oregon ranks FIRST-; i For percent of school population in daily attendance, 6re ? gon ranks FIRST . ; -i 4 ' s For percent of pupils attending high schools, Oregon ranks SECOND ; . . ;l In . an investigation based on circulation of ten leading '.'magazines to determine' the reading interest of different states, t Oregon ranked SECOND. (California first, Washington third.) ; . Under the five educational measures of the Russell Sage v Foundation, to determine the educational efficiency of the dif ferent states, Oregon ranks SECOND. (Calif ornia first.) P " In literacy, Oregon ranks THIRD. This all makes a splendid showing for Oregon's rank edu- f cationally. ",-' Prof. J. B. Horner has made the statement that there are ??more institutions of higher learning in the Willamette vallev i : .ii . .i ...... ,.; i,um m aujr utucr section di me worm ot similar sue. . ' . . ...... . : The seven days commencing with Snnday will be observed ; as National Education Week all over the' United States " '- And the direction nf tht otiiritioo in ia .nnt v.: ' - - - V V. . I . I O Lltlk 1 II I I II 1 city is in charge of the Salem Woman's Club. There will he r v. aumb, vm f u ft-'.t-Ut AA illC UUMIllj nlIl If f 1 1?4 A fill I1INI1IJI VPH 1T1 T II 1 uwwu wwn uisincix. mere win De attempts made in numerous ways Jo secure a larger interest on the part of parents and thepublic. generally . in Jthe public schools : ? And there will be an especial emphasis upon an invitation ,for more people to visit the schools; to observe the work being It is highly proper in this connection to call attention to the results of exhaustive undertaking of research work that has just been completed. The Commonwealth Fund of New York City granted Stanford University $."14,:i00 for research work to investigate the theory of Lomhroso that gifted children ere stuirted in stature, sickly and queer; and the University supplemented this with further donations And 250,000 California children in all were examined, their mentality being determined by giving them the national intel ligence test; the test applied to enlisted men. Those who made high scores m this were then given the Stanford-Bmet individual test and if they survived this they were labeled as especially bright youngsters And of the 250,000 examined 1500 were eventually selected as especially gifted children. Sixteen page blanks covering the habits and tastes and pastimes of these 1500 were sent to the parents, and the teachers further supplemented this with infor mation they had gleaned about their charges. It was discovered that the bright pupils were almost without exception in trood health, had the normal interest and love of play that character ize children of their ages and the same average physical meas urements of other pupils of less shininer mentahtv. Checking up their records and comparing them with those of tin) children chosen at random without regard to their mental qualifications, there was found little difference in physique and health. These have no connection with mentality and there is no reason, according to the findings wiy the gifted child or man should be difterent from his less taiented brother. Many great artists have been sickly, and erratic, but so have people who haveViyV glittering attributes. According to the conclusions of this investigation, a talented artist can be just as normal and healthy as a bricklayer. The flowing hair and wild eyes are affectations, and the attenuated frame prob ably due to.thef faet that the public hasn't yet shown proper appreciation of his art, and meals are missing now and then. DEATH AND OLD AGE A friend of ours hands the fol lowing for the publication, with the advice thai it is wholesome "I listened to a florid gentle man preach a funeral sermon; heard a slim woman sing "Abide J THINGS TIlt .to do Boys and GiRis Newspaper The Biggest Little Paper In the World. LOADS Of FUN Copyright, 1823, Associated Editors.. Edited by John 31. Miner. STORIES OF FUR AND FUR TRAPPING f T I I J jtut auiiuE onu umuiie. - . . - t Imagine yourself In a large, city tpr market where the cool rooms Qf the warehouse from floor to ceilings are stacked high with pack ot raw pelta to exhibit ' to farriers. 5 ; If you follow- I buyer around a he calculates the! worth of the various groups, you wtll find how It Is that he is able to determine the valuable furs so that the house he represents does not hold the small end of the bargain. i "When Fur Is "Prime" nhla fur," he will say, "has a good color and . lustre, but it is scarcely prime." By that he means that the animal was caught In .the fait before the chill of winter had penetrated the woods and (aused the coat ot the beast to . thicken. . v ' "-. -;- -i r ---': j I am not In the market for blue furs," you will hear the buyer say. As you see no trace of a blue color on the animal, you wonder at this queer discrimina tion called "grading." Then the man will explain" that furs ob tained in the fall are blue or un prlme. They are called blue be cause a light strain of blood Which supplies the life to the hair and fur during the period of uu uui compieiea lis pur pose and been absorbed Into the vafn f v. v.!. Ttrv. mal is killed at this stage, the blood feeding the fur coagulates, corrupts, turns blue and weakens the leather. "Shedders" is the term used for furs caught In the spring when warmer weather , is causing the animals to lose -the ehavy coats they. have, carriecf IlhfbuglP the winter, r Otto, beaver, and musk rat do not become1 "prime" until spring. Of the land animals, bear is tbe latest to become prime and is. good unty early June, Marten and skunk are the first to prime up in the fall. ! ; Far Fashions' Change l Before ' America , came to have fur markets of her, own, the year ly catch of the country was sent to foreign markets London, Leipzig, and centers, in Russia and China. The skins were made up following the styles of Paris, ho ; matter how ridiculous the vogue might be. j In the far north, furs must be worn as a protection against the cold, but taken the world over, they are bought as a luxury be cause of their beauty and high price. -Certain furs gain popular ity for a time and the demand causes their price often to be in consistent with their value. Once in London, in 1828, when muskrat furs were not the; one chosen for the season's style, 225,000 of them were sold at public auction for twopence a skin a great dif ference from the j high prices of today. ' ' j ' (Next week: ; "Colors of Purs.") f TODAY'S SOCIETY NOTE PU8U3rR' 1A 1BZ5T mCHDOF Q- K Q - OX3EMIM. in I Fup-scacanx ipttri) A BOUQUET OF Cv VLv mo CAKCors. Ask Dad ; His sister called him "Willie." His mother called him "Will,' But when he went to college. To Dad 'twas Bill. Bill. Bill. One Every Two Hoars "Did the mustard you any good, Brid Mistress: plaster do get?" Maid: "Yes, but ma'am, It do bite the tongue." The Limit to Date Susan: "Is he lazy?" Mary: "Lazy? Say! That fellow rides in a Ford In order to save the effort ot knocking tne ashes off his cigar." ; ' r t f .Scandal vln Dngville - June bug married an angle- , Kworm; J An accident cut her In two: They charged the bug with big amy, Xow what could the poor thing do? ' Well Trained VDown. Fido," exclaimed a Junior in the lunchroom, as he swallowed the frankfurter. :THE SHORT STORY, JR. I . ... j CROSS MABEL v: I I ; When Mabel was mad t - Her fairy was sad But she danced I And she pranced i When Mabel was glad. A great many things that boys end girls know are learned from f heir parents, or their teacher, or from books, but - a 'great many fnore things are . taught them by he Good Fairy who lives with them. Every one In the whole world has a Good Fairy. Just because you can't see your fairy doesn't prove that you don's have one.:; !: Once upon a time there was a girl named Mabel. " Everybody called her "Cross Mabel" because she -went around, with a scowl like a thundercloud on her 1 face, nd when she talked, she whined as though nothing pleased her, Mabel didnt . know - she had a Good Fairy because the fairy was Invisible. If Mabel had known she bad a - fairy. she wouldn't have wanted one, f because j sh never wanted what she already had. A -.J .;.V;-( - c When Mabel ate her breakfast. the Good Fairy sat on the top of tne sugar bowl, j Mabel used to clap the cover on the bowl so hard that the Good Fairy Fay, for that was her name, nearly bounced off sometimes. Once Mabel slammed it on so hard that a little piece of the china : chipped off, and since it was the piece SFairy Fay was sitting on, she fell and bumped her head so badly it was swollen for., a week. ' ' : When Mabel went to school. Fairy Fay crawled between the covers of her speller. But Mabel used to slam the cover of the book until the Good Fairy's knees were all bruised, and she wished she were anybody else's fairy but Mabel's. - , jv : , Now when Mabel had ' a birth day, her mother gave her a little green silk umberlla to carry when it rained. It was the only thing that Mabel had that pleased her and still she mistreated It, too. "I am going to teach Cross Mabel a lesson," decided the little lady, so when Mabel put her umbrella down with a snap, the Fairy made it pinch Mabel's finger till It bled. At noon when Mabel went home. It was raining. She opened her umbrella with a sullen push, and Fay. who was sitting' on the edge, ran her Slipper, zip-p, from the rim to 'the tip-top in a straight tear. The water came splashing through and took- all the curl out of Mabel's, hair ! 'When Mabel got home she sat down and cried and cried. And then, for the first time in her life, she began to think. "If I hadn't been so cross and careless, I wouldn't have ruined my dear parasol! And I cracked the sugar bowl last week, too. And the back of my speller's all worn out from my slamming it! I believe I'll try being happy and careful for awhile." '-' : - l So Mabel tried being cheerful. and do you know, it worked so well, that before long, people be gan to call her "Happy Mabel" and her Good Fairy was the produest fairy In the whole world. With Me;" the secret society went through their ritual well; flowers were banked over the grey coffin; an air of mourning hung over the chapel like a pall. It was the women who were red-eyed and carried handkerchiefs. I wonder ed who in the audience, if they were at the beginning of life and could look down the long years. would take up the burden if they had the choice. We sing the praises of tbe autumn, ' Nature's dying; we glory in the leaves turning from green to gold; we welcome the winter, with its man tle of white, symbol of the inevi table change. ' Yet -we mourn as though the departed had suffered some loss. It seems to me that we belie our religion. We tell each other that the, deceased has gone to a happier home. Yet we cry. We profess : to bow to the will of the Creator, yet by our face we show the rebellion in our hearts. IfHhe Christian religion is true the funeral' rites should be supplanted by paeans of praise to the Most High. Black should give way to white and grief to re joicing." dinary circumstances, but the av erage "attendant does not like to be robbed even by such experts as Chicago hotel keepers. There was supposed to be an agreement three years ago. but if the Chicago hotel keepers keep it, God pity their guests when they do it. upon the law being operated from there. It lost the going but in sists on getting the coming..' The income tax will be'adminis trated from Salem, the capitol. TOO BAD CAX ALWAYS SPEND It would not ..take a wise man to say we can always spend pub- lie money, but it does take a wise man to keep up with the demands of taxes and keep them distribut ed always fair. As a state In-1 creases It must have more money to run. It could live within its income provided there were no Im provements, but improvements mean taxes. , Taxes are so high that we must devise means for equitable distri bution. Experience develops the needs as well as the opportunities hi taxation. It is not fair to say that the income tax is an effort to levy more taxes. It Is an effort to redistribute tax burdens in way that will be fair. It may not work in Oregon but if not, It is the first place it has not worked. TESTING THE COWS A good many people think that there is only one test applied to cows, and that is the tubercular. However, there is another test Just as important. O. M. Plum- mer, in speaking before the bank ers of the county called attention to the quantity test. He said peo ple are keeping cows that are un profitable. To the mind of the Oregon Statesman all scrub cows are un profitable and we believe this will be brought out by any milk test. ii takes just as much to feed a scrub cow as it does a pure bred. Mr. Plummer did the public a ser vice in calling attention to this. By culling out the non-layers and poor layers In poultry tests the production' has gone from 5-0 eggs per hen per year to 250, j which is the difference between a scrub and a pure-bred. It would hardly be possible to increase the cows 500 per cent, but they can be increased enough to make I every milk cow. profitable. THE XEXT COXVEXTIOX ; It is true that Chicago hotels have systematically robbed visit ors at the republican national con vention. Chicago Is the natural place to hold our convention. It ought to be held there under or- A quota of Filipino agitators are seeking to discredit Genera! Wood. They have a bi Job on' cheir hands. Genera! Wood can match them in any game they play. The Filipinos are standing in their own light. ; America wants them to have independence, and America is gr'eved because th?y fchow so little capacity for it. The course of tie Filipino senats is calculated to ic?ard independence for years. If there is such a thing as im itation in this country, there is a good chance to imitate our presi dent. He is so thrifty that he re funes to waste words. Exactly. A great railroad meeting, in At lanta City sounds the alarm against public ownership. It is as great a case of stop-thief as we have ever seen. MUST COME DOWN The good news comes from Hol lywood that the outrageous prices paid movie stars are going to be revised. In the last two years these prices have gone to absurd ity. If the industry was depend able on a few stars, there might be some excuse, but new ones are continually being developed and if the country needed twice as many it would soon get them. EXPORTING WHEAT Two plans are outlined to re lieve a dispairing situation. One is to lower the freight rates to the coast and the other is a tax on do mestic consumption. There Js some merit in the former, but tbe latter would never be tolerated, A tax on bread stuff would be intolerable. The people pay quite enough now for their bread. ENFORCE THE LAW The tobacco interests used to say that they favored any fair reg ulation. Certainly a fair regula tion is to prevent selling cigarettes to minors. ,The tobacco dealers are not obeying the law, and there is only one thing to do, and that is to arrest them just as we do any other law violater. INCOME TAX COMMISSION Portland used every means thinkable o defeat the income tax, and yet as Boon as the meas ure was carried Portland insisted I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I - Hi! HI Johnson ... ... .. V V His hat is in the ring. V"e ' He gives his own description of a progressive - . . ...... .... And he is like most of the rest; he is too progressive in some di rections and not half progressive enough in others; and a cross be tween a mule and a crawfish in still others. As one man's food is another man's poison, so one man's reactionary doctrines are another man's progressive principles and there m nothing new under the po litical sun of politicians of the Hi Johnson stamp; they are for what they think will best serve them in getting up 'towards the head of the procession. The Salem fire department ought by all means to have lad ders more than .go. -feet long If it . will take $16,000 to get the right kind, i handy ...enough ... for, quick work and high enough for any fire, then the $16,000 ought to be provided. f But is there not something between the , 20 foot ladder and the $16,000 type that might serve to make us at least feel more secure? The flipping of the Hi Johnson hat into the ring will make all the more significant the words that are being pondered by the chief ex ecutive. The acid test of leadership will come td President Coolidge when he sends bis message to congress. It will be a great op-; portunity for a new force in Am erican politics to make himself felt in the policies of his adminis tration. , ' Next week is national education week. "A wise man will hear, j and will increase learning," said the reputed wisest man of the an cient days. Emma Goldman has written a book f'My- Disillusionment) " in Russia" and the publishers are selling It for $2 a copy. Disillus ions are worth more than Illusions at that rate, but Emma ought not to charge $2 for admitting to the world that shis has always been wrong. , It isn't worth it. TAX BURDEN MUST BE REDUCED BORAH (Continued from page 1.) the educational facilities . Justly due them, such a life is nothing le.s than economic peonage. Agi tation against this fearful burdens ought to begin here at Washing ton this winter, ought to be car ried into every state and Into the coming campaign to see if it is possible to break" the spell , of spending what is now enervating and corrupting government and discouraging and demoralizing the people."- WESTERN SENATOR OUT FOR PRESIDENT (Continued from page?!) ' rope in any rational way. We would continue to alleviate suffer ing, clothe, the naked, feed the hungry, but we would eyerbe the sole judge of our own actions, the arbiter of our own destiny, Our country, the greatest, on earth, should have its own foreign pol icy, thoroughly understood by Our people, frankly proclaimed. "Preserving our country as lt is we preserve the world's greatest asset, civilization's highest prom ise. Our timid, vacillating and contradictory . positions demand that Amerca's foreign policy again be decided by the whole people who must themselves, at whatever cost, maintain it. This time the decision should be so clear, so definite and certain that no cas uistry, no specious plea, no indi rection can distort it. "Upon these as fundamentals. . FUTURE DATES . 2 9 -Tn tk aa naaj -Firt Aanaal - Kovrmber 11 t4 Rl Croxa roll call. Jiownber 17. Hatarday- Pionvor Kallv. YV1CA. November 1?. Saturday Football. Sa NoTrmbrr - 17. ; Saturday Vittt annoat Pionw rlub rally. NoTmber ls-24 Father and Son wk. November 22, 23 and 24 torn aaav and jnduntrial exhibit at armor under aimpicet Chamb-f of Cominerea. November 23, Friday Fooball, Will nr.ette ra. . Pacific, probably at Port - land. November 23, Friday Football, Salaat birn and Albany hirh. at Albany. November 23, Friday Cloi in f Prorram Daily Bible School. November 23 and 24. Friday and Sat-, nrday Annual home-eorainc and Oregoa OAC football came at Univeraity of Ore-con. November 24, Saturday WRC all day baiaar and cooked food ale. November 25, Sunday Oregon , Trial Club Shooting Vog Lake, Lebanon. November 29, Thureday Football. Be' lent hirh ant Med ford high at Mad ford, lent high aa I Corvallia high, at Corvallia. November 29 Thursday Football, Wil- Wma -e VMeee l Tdak"V at RHoa membera of Co. F. OXO, Armory. November 30-Pecerober 1 - end 2, Frl ilnr, . Saturday and Sunday Willamette, Vallev Older Bot Conference, Portland. December 4, Tneaday, election of of fice. American Legion. - -. December 5 and 6, Wedneaday and Thursday Weatern Walnut Growera meet at Chamber of Commerce. . December 12, Wedneaday Annual Ee tarian ladiea' night. . . ennal at AOai December 13, Thursday Cnited Artl ana baiaar in Odd Fellow hall. Febmarv 23. gatnrdav Dedication ef l,m. The Circnit Rider." Is Btatf hanM rrentxla. amplifying and expressing details hereafter to the men and women who constitute America's free citizenship, I will make my appeal., In eyjiry state the contest will be waged. In those states where the voters , may express their prefer ence he issue can be definitely decided; and I hope all candidates will participate in the presidential preference primaries, Including California, and cheerfully ac quiesce in the result. "No man who aspires- to the highept office in the gift of the American people should shrink from a verdict by those he seeks to serve; and equally, none is en titled to the presidency whom" tha people do not want." New . 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