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TTIE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 28, 1921 i, ?1 t ".a i - tl 1.4. ta - v n II 5 t It ! . lMttd Daily Except Moada by THB ITATESMAN PUBU8HINQ COICPATT SIS Sonta.Oommareial Bt, SaUm, Orefoa aV'J. Hendricks Jobs L. Brady freak Jaaaoikt aCZMBEK or THE ASSOCIATED PBESS Taa Anoelatcd Preaa ia xclnaivaly entitled to tha oao for publication of U awa diapateliaa rradiUd to it or not otharwiM ereditad In taia paper and alao taa Joral aawa putliihad hcreia. fcARLK ABRAMS Secretary R. J. HENDRICKS Praaidaat . . BUSINESS OrriCES: Taaaaa F. Clark Co- Haw Tork, 1 41-145 Wcat 86th St.; Cktcago, Harqaatta Build- inc. W. 8 Orethwahl, Uft. . Portland Offiea, 888 WoreaaUr Bide, Pkoko C637 Bttoadway. K t. Williaan, Ifp.) Baalaeaa Off lea 4 u4law lapartan) J ok Department ZaUrad at tha Poatofflea ia Salem, PROBABLY NO IMMIGRATION BILL t. 'There are a number of immigration bills before Congress; the best ones seeking-to obtain fewer and letter immigrants, by reducing the quotas in sections offering objectionable ones, and requiring selection at the ports of departure and in tile home x places of those seeking for passports v 'And every consideration of reason and justice and for the welfare of our own country in all particulars cry loudly for such a law and the strict and intelligent administration of its pro visions, i . . v Hut there is no restrictive bill, restrictive in any particular, which lacks for opposition at Washington None which escapes howling protests from the nationals of other countries finding asylum in the United States And the indications are now that these will he no new immigration n legislation at this session. .The law under which we are, working jnras a makeshift when it was first; hastily put through; it has remained a makeshift each time it has been reenacted at the eleventh hour. It will likely be rushed through 'again as a makeshift, when it is found that there can be no agreement upon the bill that ought to have leen whipped into , shape4ong ago. ' It provides that 3 per cent of nationals and races in our.eountry may be admitted as immigrants, with no tests of qualification or fitness that are worth while. There are hearings and hearings, and' there ismuch ora tory: but no action as yet. And probably there will not be tV 1 And it begins to look like - , -a - a ? ' t.A l a Wg lo a reuueuon oi leuerat taxes. - Congress is investigating a lot, but it is legislating very little. ' ; DAMNED IF YOU DO AND a The people of this country trations of the meaning of i illustrations of the meaning of damned if you do and be damned if yoa don't." One illustra ;tion comes in connection with the oil investigation. The navy owned some reserve oil lands and Was intending to keep the oil in the ground for future use. But soon there were ?bm plaints" that owners of land adjoining the reserve had drilled wells close to the line and were drawing out the oil from the reserve. What was worse, they supplies' the pressure to force out the oil. Government officials 4 were.confronted .with Jthe alternative of adopting a plan of drawing the oil .from the reserve. themselves' or let -jit be drawn out by. adjoining IaiJdowners. 4f theyJlet' it Jbe drawn by dthefs they would be accused of neglecting the government's interests. Ithejr drew it. out themselves, under a leasing system, they would De aceu8ed 'of abandoning the conservation policy f, And in either event they would be damned. Soon after the government adopted an income tax system, 1 with 'graduated surtaxes, it also adopted a federal land bank system which provided for the sale of bonds the income from Which would be free from such taxes. The bonds were to be sold to get "money to aid the farmers. Capitalistswert' asked t buy the bonds. . If they refused to buy the bonds they would be charged with unwillingness to help the farmers. , If they did puj the bonds, they would be accused o trying to evade, the income tax m ; ;:.' ' ' t' . They were damned if they did and damned if they didn't , ' As a' result of recent investigations at Washington it haa been ,dclCsed that heajls of departments frequently know very little of he details of work in their branches of the government service. ; As a matter of fact, the correspondence in any depart ment is so great and the number of questions that arise are so 1 numerous that it is a physical impossibility for any one man to get a knowledge of all of it., If a department head tries to master all the' details he must neglect general policies and if he gives attention to general policies he must neglect details. As one issue after another arises, he is certain,,whichever course he pursues . , To be damned if he does and damned it he don t. .President Coolidge was recently urged to dismiss a member . tf his cabinet against whom a great hue and cry had been raised but who' had not been shown to be guilty of any wrong. The "member of the cabinet insisted that he was entitled to a public hearing on the charges before being asked to resign a con tention .that seemed to appeal to the general American spirit of "fair play. But those who wanted the cabinet member's scalp were not willing to wait 1 They damned the President for delay just as others would have damned him if "he had asked for the resignation without giving the cabinet member a chance to meet the accusers before a proper tribunal. tv The shipping board inherited a huge fleet of ships built In n emergency at a cost many times greater than. would have ieen necessary in ordinary times. The cost was far greater than it should have been, even iu an emergency. Moreover,, a large proportion of the ships are unsuited to competitive oce"an com merce, and cannot be sold for . i . i mt . . meir cosi. iney can oe operated oniy ai a ,wss wmcn mui .be made up out of the treasury. When the 'board ; tries to operate the ships it. is criticised for competing with private business and also for running up deficits. When it sells ships to private operators it is charged with favoring a shipping trust- r:'. .'i. ' And "like most other government agencies, the shipping board' is damned if it does and This damning both ways public service ' .- ' r The list might be extended THE REED RULES The Corvallis Gazette-Times cannot understand how a news paper (learns anything.' It does not. It thinks because the Ore ' goii. Statesman ; criticized ' Tom Reed's rules 20 years ago that it continues to criticize-them now; The Times-Gazette has not had a new idea la 20 years. , The Ore gon Statesman has them every .day. Twenty tears ago there; was a revolution because! Tom, Reed was Wishing down the throats a re actionary program at a time when progressive thought was swinging Into full action. The only thing Xanacar Haoafsr Job iMpl J. L. BRADT Vlea Preaidanl TELJtPHONES: 18 Circulation Office It lM Society Editor est loe 58S Orafoa, aa aacoad eaaa Batter. there will be no legislation look- DAMNED D? YOU DON'T have been getting a number ol the old saying that "you'll be f the old saying that "yon 11 be were drawing out the gas whichJ any considerable proportion of a. ' 1 1 a 1 1. : L' 4 : damned if it docsn t. goes on in every part of the indefinitely. in sight for a progressive to do was to fight those rules, and they were fought. However, conditions have changed and an obstreperous minority is refusing to let a ma jority enact any legislation what soever. There" is just one thing to do and that is to envoke what Is called "gag" rule. That is not a scientific name for it, of course, but that is what the country is de mandinga "gag" rule. The dem ocrats are undertaking to hold the republicans - responsible for legis lation, and yet, under the rules of congress no bills can be passed We need a touch of a strong hand; we. need a majority-with courage to exercise the rights of a ma jority; we need Tom Reed's rules In short. LrEADKRS WANTED The great demand In congress at this time is for outstanding leaders. Every fellow is shouting for himself and there is no mass action. An army, if not better or ganized than congress, couldn't lick a battery of mosquitog. We must have party responsibility re stored, and that can only be done by having a leader who actually leads. Some people think that the prim aries have killed outstanding men. This Is foolish. The primaries had nothing to do with It. We Just have a wave of mediocracy. The primary offered. Hiram Johnson his only- opportunity of going to the senate. The primary offered Arthur Capper his only opportun ity to go to the senate. Medill McCormlck is in the senate only because of the primaries. The primaries have developed a differ ent type of men. They are Just as good as any of the old fellows but they do not seem to aspire to the outstanding leadership. JThe trou ble is with conditions in Washing ton. A FOOIi ARTICLK On Wednesday evening the Port land Xews came out with a, front page article, something about Sa lem, the ministers, and the anti gambling Uwb: ' We readlhe ar ticle carefully and wfere pot able to find any sense in it whatever. We called on our friends and they decided it was written bya pupil of Doctor Eteiner. It wasa ram bling junket through language that got nowhere, said nothing, and consumed what ought to be valuable space. In the old alliance days in the middle west there was a proposi tion op to build a north and south railroad; all the railroads, at the' time running east and west. All went well over the paper road un til one farmer arose in the legis lature and declared his unalterable adherence to the principles of the Alliance party and bis determin ation to see it through. "But," he declared,, "this here road of ours doesn't have a termini at either end." This silly article in the Port land News can be so described. It didn't start anywhere and it didn't end anywhere. It just didn't have a termini at either end. A MORAL VICTORY The surprising vote for Presi dent Coolidge io the South Dakota primaries is not wholly due to the unexpected strength of the president with the voters. A part of it is due to the weakness of Hiram Johnson. It is true that Senator Johnson's campaign has not struck fire, and it's too late now to get up much of a blaze. The South Dakota result is a vir- ual defeat of Johnson and is be ing accepted as such all over the country. It is gratifying to know, how ever, that the people, even the radicals, like President Coolidge He is a reversal of what we have been having, and he stands out today a man with great possibili ties of leadeishlp. The .republi can party must have a real leader and there are growing indications tub vvvimQ la iuc . uau u& iut hour. j u Morally and virtually Coolidge won in South Dakota; This radi cat state shows that it wants re 4 sults. The Coolidge showing is all the more surprising when we recall that every influence of the state machine was thrown to John son, and the Californlan ought to have carried the state two to one. It wasTeally a great Coolidge vic tory. POISCARE OP FRANCE Poincare, premier of France, is spectacular but he got a great sur prise the other day. He was pranc ing around in the chamber of dep uties like a young horse in the springtime when his ministers sus tained a defeat. The ministers resigned, as is the custom, but un fortunately the president insisted upon Poincare forming a new cab inet." Poincare is more responsible for the disturbed condition in Eu rope than any other one man. He is constantly playing to the gal leries. He has been an oppor tunist but never a statesman. He is not only riding to a fall hlm sejf, but will take France with him. He is an evil Influence In Europe, operating at a time when there -is a demand in the world for consecutiveness, candor, and straight-forward dealing. A COMMUNITY HOUSE It has been a long time since the Oregon Statesman has heard better news than the report of the action taken by the realtors at their weekly dinner yesterday re garding a community hufldlng at the tourist park. . , . .'..: ..'... No Improvement that could be made would do so' much ' for the betterment of Salem. The auto tourists are the very people we want to cultivate, and the way to do it is to show them that we want them to be comfortable while here. Someone will have to take hold attd make a business of this park improvement. Even with every body for it, the building will not go up unless some one makes it a business to push it through. 'SHOO FLY One H. II. Stallard has challeng ed Senator McNary for a joint de bate, the loser to quit the sena torial race. It is funny, as this one Stallard is not in any senator ial race. ' It recalls the story of the fighting rooster. The rooster was for' sale, and a neighbor pro posed a game. of poker wjth the Owner," the winner to take the rooster. The game was played and the late owner woke up and said: 'Partner, you won my rooster 'faf and squar,' but what I want to know is what you had agin the critter?" A debate betweetn Stal lard and McXary would make this rooster fight pertinent. , I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I Watch Salem grow V Looks like a permanent build ing boom. U The fact is, the business out look all over the country is bright ening. Henry Clews & Co., Wall street bankers, say in their current week ly news letter: "At this writing the outlook for the year is better than it has been at any time here tofore as judged by all the usual modes of estimate." The current report of the federal reserve banks (or the Pacific coast states show that checks against individual ac counts were 20.4 per cent greater in February than in the same month of 1923. The whole coast is coming up, decidedly, in a busi ness way showing the greatest growth of the whole country. The board of control purchas ing idea in Oregon, for the state institutions, is all rigbt, as a gen"- eral rule. But it needs livening up and having the red tape, yank ed out of it needs less circum locution in cases of emergency. The getting of the flax threshers' at the penitentiary at work was delayed a lot through red tye in i this connection and the farmers will soon be yelling their head's off for seed. Cut .out the red tape, in cases where horse sense would dictate to any sane man that haste is the important thing to be considered. S S There's a dwelling house in Germany that has been standing for 1200 years. Some cynic re marks that they don't last that long in Belgium. V Otto Klett, in building 80 cot tages for auto campers, has a long view. He expects to make them good enough for modest homes for laboring men; each with a ga rage, etc. He will likely keep them all rented the year through, at an average of around $10 a month. Old comparison, "no more pri vacy than a goldfish," has been outdone. Now they will say, "No more privacy than a friend of a public official." ARMY BILL APPROVED "WASHINGTON, March 26.. Approval was givenby .the house today to provisions of the war department appropriation bill which would continue the "regular atmy during the comin fiscal year at 'its present authorised strength of 125,000 enlisted men and 12,- 000 officers. Ford Given o1t Thl rum Wis Tint Ms I IB I 85 15 ' T 6 IS t I 82 6 I It Th figures represent corresponding- letters In the alphabet. Fig ure 1 Is A, 2 Is B, and so on. The ten flrurea spell three words. What are the words? To Kea, Women, Soys aad Otrla All can share In those easy-to-win prizes. Send the three words on sheet Of -paper, neatly written, with your name and address. First prlxo. 124 FORD TOURrN'Q CAR. Besides this splendid first prUe we are going to give away thirty-nine other prizes. Bead Tour Aaswer Act Quickly thb VAcxrzo EOKXmiB 80S a. Oojamerolal s)t Balem, O. I: FUTURE DATES I Marrh 27. Thursday County Commnn ity, federation to meet t fialem Height. AUreh 28 to 30 Jil-Y bojri cdtaren lion in Salem. - t April 2, Wednesday Democratic can didates for United States senate to be entertained at dinner s Marion hoel April 7. Monday First Annual Ladiet nirht. American legion. MrCornaek halt April 12 and 13, Sktirday and Sunday- Baseball, Salem ts. Kelso at Oxford park. April- It. Snnday Etanfeliitie cam paifn opens at armory. ' u April 17, Thuitiday Annual inspeeios company r. lojnd tniantry April 10, Satnrdav DaJuatloa- M latiiA ,Tll ftat T? ' - ft alaii bouse rroands. Jfay lift Friday Prhpary elecUea It Orecosj. . 'iV;- ion rS Tuesday RenubHran Astloa at convention meets . in Cleveland. ir June 14. Saturday Annual 'Marioi oanty ftnaday School picnic v i Jan 24 Tuesday Democratic nation al eonrentioB ,pieet in New York. - . i Jane. Z7-2S w-Edacationsl toaferenea. uaivenui- I -- urecoa. - fcuieoe. ... MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS Adele GarHnon's New Pnaa of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright 1921, by Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. CHAPTER 137 WHAT MADGE SAW WHEN SHE BECAME CONSCIOUS. My little excursion into oblivi an could not have lasted but a few seconds, for when I rallied to con sciousness again after the blow from the swinging door in the railroad waiting-room, and open ed my eyes, I found myself being swiftly carried across that same room. Weak and dizzy, I closed my eyes again, but not until I had seen that the arms bearing me so swift ly and steadily were those of the apparently elderly foreigner, who on the stalled train had come to my aid with the plea that he was a friend of my father. Friend, perhaps, I decided, but contempor ary, never, for the man was carry ing me as easily and surely as he would a child, a feat seemingly impossible to a man of his vener able appearance. My head was throbbing with pain, but through the beat of my brain pulses kept recurring some thing which I was vainly trying to remember, yet could not, al though it seemed to dance elusive- ly just beyond my comprehension. But as the man in whose arms I lay approached the waiting room door I heard him speak to a por ter walking in front of us and carrying our bags, whom he evi dently had impressed into ser vice. "Get in there, pronto, and tell the matron to have the couch ready." The voice was the deep master ful voice which I had heard on the train, but there was that in it which suddenly recalled the elu sive, remembrance for which I had been searching. Surely" I had not been dreaming, had really heard not this , voice, but one with a haunting resemblance to it call out, "My God! Madge" as I fell to the floor after the blow from the swinging door. "Is Yoh Feelin' Bettah?" I must have made some move ment, for I felt the arms of the man, carrying me shift ever so slightly, and knew that he was looking intently at me. Then he spoke, and there was nothing in his voice now that reminded me of any other. It was unmistakably alien, of the educated class, how ever, and the utterance was pre cise, stilted. " beseech you, Mme. Graham, do not stir until I place you on the couch, in the waiting roomj We must see how bad your injury is." I did not answer Jiim, nor did I open my eyes, I felt as though I never wished to see or hear of the man again, even though he had done nothing but aid me surely and tactfully. But the whole nerve-straining episode of the stalled train, followed by this odd accident, had Drought me to a ner vous condition which my mother- in-law would have described as "jumpy." I felt as if I should scream if I could not get to some place where I could be -absolutely alone and rest. The next minute I felt myself lowered gently to a couch, while the soft, drawling accents of the colored matron, in exclamations of pity and sympathy, came to my Cap'n Zyb MAGIC SPOOL TRICK Take any ordinary spool which your mother has used all the thread from and you can perform MYSTERIOUS SPOOLTRICK GRAVITY DEFIED BLOW IT SPOOL. CALLING CARD Pin this magic spool trick. The other things you will need are a calling card and a straight pin. Place the pin through the card and put the pin in the hole of the spool. Now turn the spool up side down gently as it is in the Illustration, holding the card in )ldee. lake a magic pass or so and then start blowine in dhe i r a-j uui the ard. You -will not blow the card .onto the floor, as you would expect. It will stick right to the spool as though it were glued. The thing which makeg this trick work Is the compressed air and vacuum which get Into action. -.. , .... r.;.,".,v,.4n.CAP'N Z Y IV - Things To Do Copyright, 1023, Associated JEditors. Snoppyquop Say It With As I live and breathe, he's come at .last ! Cicero Spring;, the Dude of the four seasons, is now with us. You know the saying, "In the spring a young Snoppyquop's fancy, etc.", and Cicero is certainly all dolled up in his fanciest clothes. His new South-Easter hat is well is "nothing in it." (That's what , the brain specialist said when he examined Cicero's head.) Doesn't he look magnifi cent, standing there in his new spring underwear, his one button spats, his two quart hat and his Jciddo gloves. In his hand he holds a flower that blooms in the spring, tra la la. It's a chrisanth er, a crysanth that is, a krysantham aw, call it a rose, I can spell that ! ; P. S. The collie dog in the ears. Instinctively I liked the voice, and as she bent over me I opened my eyes, looked up into her face, and decided that I liked that, too. "Is yoh feelin' bettah, honey?" she cooed, a3 if I had been a hurt child. "Yes," I answered, lifted an ex ploring hand to my forehead, find ing a ridge which gave me ex quisite pain to touch, the tangible evidence of my injury. "But I shall be all right now." "Make Him go Outside." "A thousand pardons, Mme. Gra ham, but you must permit that a physician examine that wound." The voice of the elderly foreigner sounded inexorable. "Here boy, get the nearest physician." He stepped toward the door, and spoke to the waiting colored por ter. As he did so the matron drew a screen in front of the t OMF f The Economy BAKING POVJEHBUS The word Calumet means more than merely Baking Powder it stands for depend ability purity and 'economy. It is the emblem of the highest quality leavener. if it were possible for you to forget the name to just ask for "the Best," in most cases the grocer would give you Calumet. Experiments are expen sive especially on bake-day. To use leaveners simply because they cost a trifle less than Calumet is to in vite failure. It generally means ruined bakings the loss of time and expen sive ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, etc Don't take chances with wire liable brands of Baking Powder Try Calumet once use it always. EVRY INGREDIENT USED OFFICIALLY APPROVED BY Gales 27 Times The Boys and Girls Statesman The Biggest Little Taper nl the World - Land Where Nothing Seems Queer Flowers ventilated, showing that there corner has got a collie-flower. couch, shielding me from the-gaze of the other women in the rest room. As she did so I looked up at her imploringly. "Make him go outside," I whis pered. Her step acro.is the floor came to my ears simultaneously with the reply of the porter. "Dat'll be hard to get, boss, jest now. I tried to git a doctor for a lady jest a spell ago, an' couldn't find one nowhere." A fierce muttered expletive came from the elderly foreigner's lips, and then I heard the suave accents of the matron. 'Perhaps, suh, you'd bettah get a doctah yohself. Yoh'll have to teave the lady heah, anyhow, care it's against de rules foh gentle men to be in this room." "A thousand pardons, I had for gotten. I will go at once and find a physician. Take good care of madame." as Much as That oS Any Other ' Brcsi Loads Edited by John M. Miller. 'THE WISE FOOLS The coming of, April fool's day reminds us of the wise fools ot uotnam, a tale or a village that turned foolish, thereby showlnt; " tneir wisdom. The story goes that i it was an old belief that whenever a king rode across a field, from then on the ground became prop- erty for, a public highway, j Now it happened that one time tht king's messengers came to a cer tain house near Gotham in, Eng. land and. told the owners the klor aais was passing that way and would, 'II'i' cross tneir iieia. 'ine iarmer ' were not pleased with the Idea of I t their land being turned Into a pub- lie road.'so they flatly refused ad mittance. ' , j The messengers returned to the kin? with tt'nr.i that tha eitirananf Gotham did not desire., his bring-1 I Inir hla rati nn. q nmca thai. fflff1. rr lands. In a furv the klnz cried: i I "They must be a village of fools, to say that the King may not come through." The messengers return- ; ed to the village with the report, that the king was coming anyway to see what manner of '. people . might bar a king passage through their city, and it was predicted that the kin's wrath might brinfj them all sorts- of abuses. ' " Taking the king's words to heart tha DeODlA nlanned to aava thorn. t I selves by all acting foolish: Whea ' the ruler arrived he found a madf town, every single person In It pre tending to be crazy,' going 'about -doing the most ridiculous sort ot things. . Not one that he approach-. ed proved to have a spark of in-1 telligence, and, In disgust, the king made his departure as fast at pos sible with the remark that the1 best thing to do with such "people was to leave them alone. Thus by 1 ' i I their wisdom the fools saved their heads. ; . "Oh, thank you, sir!' .Iheari the woman .exclaim and knew that she had been given a good tip. ' "How much did he give yont I must know," I said tensely whea she came back. . "Two dollahs ' she returned wonderingly. . , "Open my bag, please. Na, It isn't locked. Just, push the anap. That's it. My purse is on .top. Give it to me." I opened it. took from it a fire dollar bill and pressed it into her hand. - " " "That's for helping me get away from here, and forgetting that yon have," I. said meaningly. (To Be Continued) ., The desire. to talk of ourselves f and to make our faults appear la the light we wish them, constitute! T a great part of bur BincerUy. A pound can of Calumet con- tains full .16 ounces. - Soma baking powders come in 12 os. cans instead of 16 ounce cans. Be sure you get a. pound whett you want It. I U. S. FOOD AUTHORITIES Si-'1 BEST BY TEST . - n . - ; - t a i 4 - I- r. r, ,t 9 . t ' 1 ft .