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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON " WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1921 laaaad Daily Except Monday y TBB ITATESXAV FUBLUH0 COMPACT Sl&.8oaU Oonuaarclal 8t, Salam, Oragoa B. J. Hradrifka , Jufca "L. brady , rraak Jaakaaki . MEMBEB OF THE . Tka Atioelated Preaa U eieluiirely saws diapateboa eradiUd to it or not otberwia eradited ia tala papar and alao lao Mrtl aawa pablubad berala. R. J. HENDRICKS Praaidaal OA&LB ABRAICa Saeratary J-'--j ; BUSINE8S Taomao P. Clark Co, Naw York, 141-145 tag. w. a tPortlaad .Offiea. SS Woreaatar Bid-.. Pkou 6687 Bi Batlaaaa Offiea ' Haw a Daaartmeaii - Job Dapartmaat Batorad at Ua Poatoffleo l Salaaa, Orafoa, aa aoeaad-eaa amattor. MAKE IT STRONGER ON ONIONS Th e price of the onions of it of production; and a7 the cost will trn tn waste t Though the sales of the early.part of the season, last fall. : were made at prices that gave a fair profit. I What "happened? S : L CShip loads of onions were sent to .the United States from Spain, and the bottom fell out of the market. r 3 , ' The attention of the Oregon delegation in Congress is hereby called to this fact, arid to the need of a higher protective duty on onions. The duty is now a cent a pound, and on gtarlic two cents a pound. ' ,1 A cent a pound would look like sufficient! protection in ordinary years. But it was not enough this year; this spring. The onion growers of Spain could not have received more than a pittance for their onions thatyere shipped to the United States. Onion growing under such Handicaps could not do Spain any good. But it is capable of doing much, harm to the growers of the United States I s : ' So the protective duty ought to be raised. ! It should be put up to two cents a pound, the same as that on garlic. . There will be plenty of competition among the growers of the'Uilrted States to keep the prices of both onions and garlic within reason; and our growers will be saved from the ruinous competition of the poverty stricken growers of Spain, or any other country. . ' . '.h Again, our delegation in' Congress should take note of this matter, and get bu;y. There is provision in the present, tariff Aaw to go paroLtlie way-r. '' J And. a strong enough fight, with the aid of the farm bloc, might take it all the way, up to two cents a pound. It is high time, any way,; that a beginning should be made of amending the tariff law a paragraph at a time, or an item at a time. ', That is in the line of common sense. ' 1 THE PRICE . The London Daily Mail has made' the belated discovery that the British gained nothing out of the World war.' After five and a half years of the supposed fruits of victory this great .snd influential, journal complains that the average Britisher is far worse off than the presumably defeated Teuton-- .And the Daily Mail (pronounced by-London newsys Dyly Mile) advises the Lion to sit up on its hind legs and start howling.- v - ,v . ' . j . While there is nothing in sight to suggest that this attitude f the British Lion would appreciably affect the present course f events, the facts as given by. the Daily Mail' are not en couraging to the ultrapatriotic who regard winning wars as a glojious method of advancing national fortunes j " . t For the Mail complains that, while English taxes have gone far beyond the blue-sky limit, German taxes are actually lower than they were in 1914; and it notes worse evils, than this for the" victorious" Briton; asf for instance ; In English, streets you will see crowds of unfortunates, many .of them ex-soldiers, begging charity of the passer-by. . In Ger many you seldom come across a single beggar, j , X While British workers and out-of-workers have to whistle for new homes that fail, to materialize, fine houses and business premises are springing up all over Germany. - - j - And, in spite of the mark debacle, Germans have more money to spend than the unhappy winners of the war, , T1)U8 prices of furs and ; vegetables and tlV best French wines have been sent up by heavy German purchases, while the poor British laborer, can hardly save enough from his govern ment dole for a glass of 'arf-and-arf . ; ..... I j 1 - ' The greatest spenders on the continent today are Germans. Dn Stresemann recently admitted that 70 per cent of the foreign visitors at expensive continental hotels were Germanr In Sicilian hostelries the Teutons occupy the best suites where they can 1 scoff at the poverty of the Italians arid British. The Swiss have a far more profuse welcome for thje opulent German tourist than for any of his hard-up conquerors. " ; If the sorrowful contrast drawn by the Daily Mail is true to life it is plainly seen that it is more profitable to lose a: war than to win one. Once the nations are convinced of this the next war should be very short and shorn of allidisagreeable features. A FCXXT CONGRESS The republicans in congress have sat j like stonghten bottles and let the democrats poison the coun try with fake investigations, every witness of which was a criminal, 'or at least charged with some ir regularity that entitled them to be So classed.4 A crook would give irresponsible testimony and the country would be hot-footed to find other crooks who would sub stantiate It. ' - ' Listen.: A republican was charge c I with a crime. ' If&was charged in assisting in getting whiskey " released i from bond. e When he made his defense he was largely applauded, and now that he Is in dicted no effort is being made to even suspend him from congress. Why 6pes ' not congress at least suspendhis member? '.The reason is plain. He is chairman of the committee on the pork barrel. The pork barrel has been the most insidious enemy lhat congress has met. It has taken nV members with high purposes and broken their backs. -It has demoralized reii who went to congress with l;!gh ideals and have remained to pee those ideals lashed by the pork After the Indictment of Langley ! scsme known at Washington on Thursday 1 the chairman of the 3U3e committee appointed to In !ate the charges referred to 11.. 3 recent Cilcuso gran3 jury's - ' JfaBagar i Editor :Maoafar Uapt. ASSOCIATED FBESS entitled to taa dm for. publleatloa of ftU 3. U BRADY Vica-Prcaidont OFFICE8: j Weal Sflth St.; Cbieao. Manjuatta Build vmuwibl air. uwtawi ray, (K t. WUUau, Mr.) TELEPHONES : . SS CireaUthm Offlao II-10S Soeiaty Editor 688 106 SIS the Labish sectioon is now below lot of onions in the Salem section S i OF VICTORY report admitted that the commit tee had held no public bearings, bat explained that it had inform ally examined some of the witness es who appeared before the grand jury at Washington. . In other words,, here is an investigating committee that . has been doing next", to nothing. although two grand juries, one in Chicago. and the other in Washington, has been pointing accusing hands at one. of its colleagues. PRISONERS AND LIBERTY Certain it is that the six men who escaped from prison have not bought themselves anything. They had several days of hell and suf fered the torments of the damned. When this is written four of them have been captured and the other two are just as sure to be cap tured as time is to pass. When a man is caught with a prison sen tence he -ought to r have sense enough to see that - the one course open to him Is to be a model pris oner' and earn his liberty. These breaks for liberty never pay. Breaking away from prison is about as poor business as one can conceive of. It is bad enough to be In prison, but to be; hunted like a wild animal, driven from thick et to thicket, to feel that everyone is against you, and that no man Is roar friend is an intolerable situ ation. ' SECRETARY MEIXOX The senate shows its good sense in sitting down on the attempt to put Secretary Mellon on the battle line. The republicans have at last some spunk and the democrats see how terribly they: have over played their hand. . Secretary Mellon is one of the outstanding figures in the admin istration. He Is as strong a fin ancier as America has produced, and in the past three years he has been invaluable as a counsellor and executive. President Harding made a ten-strike when he put Mellon In Jtbe cabinet, and Presi dent Coolidge ; has recognized the fine qualities of! the man by keep ing hiin there. A war on him would be futile in. jtny event, but we must stop this head-hunting on the part of low-minded men who have ho idea above partisanship;: TEACHING- GOOD CITIZENSHIP One hundred thousand churches in America are planning to unite in teaching good citizenship. Glory be! The Oregon Statesman has always believed in the churches; and in these trying times when men's souls are burned with fear it Is time for the churches to rally in support of the situation and lift citizenship to a higher life. The good citizenship comes to all via the clean, decent and pro gressive life. It is the kind that America needs. 'We are suffering now and will suffer worse unless a halt la called from the citizen ship that comes to us from the dregs of the' earth. v.' A NEW PLAN For several years there has been an . effort -made to increase tne national convention in order that the laity of the party could - be honored. Arizona has carried out the plan which Oregon democrats proposed but abandoned for some reason. It Is, illegal but it shows disposition .to recognize the party workers. The plan is to double the delegation: In other words. they send twelve delegates to the national convention with the vot ing power of siv. ; i RAIN AND OREGOX There are those of such tender sensibilities that they do not like to refer to the rain In Oregon. This class takes he ground that the designation "webioot ' Is a dis grace. Take it from us, it is a badge of distinction: We do have rain-In Oregon lots of it, and in consequence the Willamette valley !s more fertile than the Kile. We can raise anything here, and the reason that we can raise anything there Is because we have moist ure. ; - - Instead of trying to hide the fact that It rains a good deal, we should shput it from the house tops to the world that it does rain in Oregon- ; v v ,'. v- THOU SHALT NOT There Is a limit to the tolera tion of the American people. There is a limit that the character assas sins can go. When the hounds of dissolution in the senate seek to lay impious hands upon the sacred name of Roosevelt, it is time for decent men everywhere to arise and emphatically protest. No one in America will believe that a Roosevelt would do a dis honorable thing, and all good citi zens will rise in protest against the perversion of. decency that seeks to cloud such a name. ' EDUCATIOX IX OREGOX Someone has, figured out. that Oregon stands at the head of the list in giving its young men -and women opportunity for higher ed ucation. This is mighty good news. The Oregon boys and girls, being the very salt of the earth, have a right, to be so highly edu cated that they can go any place in the world and take any position that is offered and feel a positive adaptability. We owe everything to our children and it good news that we are meeting our ob ligation in giving them a chance for higher learning. THE NEXT CAMPAIGX , Salem needs a public auditor ium and. it ought; to be secured, but there Is one public building entitled to come in ahead of It. The YMCA ; has stood back for other drives while its needs are calling loudly to the world. The YMCA is entitled to the next drive unless It voluntarily will surren der its place. It must not be forced out. " , LEAVE SCHOOL SILVERTON. Or., April 1. (Special to The Statesman) Har ry and James Thompson who have been attending : school '.at Park land. Wash., have returned . to their Silverton home and will not re-enter .school again this spring. Harry expects to remain at Silver ton while s James will go to Ta coma where he will be employed.. MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS Adele Garrison's New,. Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright 1(21, by Newspaper feature Service. In a. CHAPTER NO. 141 .... -j WHO WAS IT TELEPHONED DICKY THE NEWS? People were passing In the hotel corridor outside my open door. and Dicky did not speak, nor did he. give me a chance 'to utter a word even if I had wished to do so. He swung j himself deftly through the door J closed it after him, and stared at me in amaze ment for a second. f i "For the love of Mike, Madge, how did -this happen. and why didn't you wire me " he demand ed with the usual masculine pro ceeding of fixing the blame first and administering the comfort la ter.: Then he must have seen bow near I was In tears, for he sudden ly opened his arms, swept me into them, carried me to a jjig chair, and seated himself in it, still hold ing me. f ... "What yon need." he announ ced cheerily, "is a good, comforta ble cry, so go to it! This coat's rainproof, and here's a hanky." - f He put into my hand one of his own big linen handkerchiefs, and the humorous flush with which he embroidered the act had the effect which I .fancy he secretly ' Intend ed, and I burst out laughing in stead1 of crying. Madge Is Puzzled. Dicjky echoed my laughter, pa tently relieved, but he held me close until my rather hysterical outburst had ceased. When I put up the handkerchief to wipe away the tears the laughter had brought to my eyes. I slipped off the band age from the Injured eye and fore head, and heard Dicky give a dis mayed gasp. "Good gracious, 'Madge ? , Have you had a doctor? Are you sure there isn't a fracture somewhere? Here! Let me get up! This must be seen to right away." j I "put my hands on his' should ers restralningly. ' "Listen!" I admonished, pur posely using one of bis especial adversions In words. "I have had a j doctor. The 'house physician examined the injury very carefully and he says it is not serious. In fact, the only reason he wishes me to stay, here for a day or two Is on account of the shock. And there was, no reason for my wir ing i and frightening you. You didn't much expect me home until tomorrow. And now it's my turn to ask questions, and I warn you that I shall give you no mercy until you answer them. 'iHow in the world did you know whkt had happened, and where I was", and how "did you feet here sp uickly?" I' was Indeed wildwith curios Maintenance and National Service Nature is both the ally and the enemy of the tele- pljonc. One of her forces, elec tricity, carries the voice of man afar. Others, as flood, tornado or sleet storm, can cripple com munications in a large area ' through their devastatingrnight. i Each pair of telephone wires 1 in the Bell System is a pathway for reciprocal speech. When beaten down by the uncontrol lable forces of nature, that jpath- ' way to fifteen million telephones One ity. Dicky must have had some imperative ' summons from some one who knew exactly where; I was. And 1 knew of no 'one save the mysterious foreigner whom I had met on the train, who even knew that I was in the city. It must have been he who had noti fied Dicky, and I paid a mental tribute to hls powers us a sleuth. My efforts to elude him. of which I had been so proud, had been ut terly useless. I ; listened with all my ears for Dicky's first worJ3. and was utterly taken back and amazed when I heard them. i . - ! Dicky Explains. - ; I ' "Why, some woman, 1 couldn't quite catch her . name, called up the Lefley's and asked' them jtb send for me. said she would call up again in 20 minutes. She must know the neighborhood down there, for that's a correct estimate of the time .lt generally- takes tor the Leffleys to notify us, and for us to get to the teiephone. If we ever get a "phone put in but I'll ' AIX'T YK GOT FUX I think, though I am not sure, that the artist was having a night- He tells me that it is a picture oft me talking, to Napoleon just be fore I fought' Jack Dempsey : at Bunker Hill. As a matter of fact he is exactly right. f- ' I I did fight Jack Dempsey, only I did not fight him at Bunker Hill fought him when we came over on the Mayflower and he had John Alden, George Carpentieri William Penn and William Jen nings Bryan to help him. Of course I defeated them all easily and then strolled out on the up per decks of , the Mayflower ' and shot myscilf.a giraffe ' and three lions which the cook made Into a hunter's "stew for jny 'lunch. j ' ' The best thing about that trip oji . the .Mayflower -was the won derful marble tournaments they had. I played until they ruled me but .because I shot the marbles with such great force thatJthe cap tain feared that I would knock a hole in the ship with my shots. Y,ou ask me. "Did all this actually happen?' Of course, todsry 13 .Ap ril 1. ., - -. - I PAP'N ZYB. , Cap'n Zyb ' ": ' ' - - : r ; : . is blocked, and none of the na tion's voices can pass that way. Reserve materials must lie on hand, that storm damage may be. repaired without delay: Ade quate funds must be made avail-!' able so that the cost of rcstora- -tion may be met. - i National telephone; service is only possible through an .or ganization on a nation-wide basis, the prob lem of maintenance a$ .well as ' of operation. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company - BELL SYSTEM? Policy , - One Systew TheBoys Things Copyright. 1 192S, Associated Editors. STORIES OF PRECIOUS JEWELS The Art of Some of! the old Greek cameos are so intricately chiselled that we are led to think the ancient came-eo-cutters spent months working on a single stone. Yet thejiours they put in were put to good . ad vantage, for a well-carved , cameo Is a permanent thing. There are cameos in existence which were fashioned j hundreds and even thousands of years ago. but which' are as perfect as though they were done yesterday. - It was very stylish a few cen turies aio for a person to wear a cameo likeness of his face. Men4 and women both wore them. Queen Elizabeth had several with her head on them. One of the best, the Barbor cameo, was made in honor of her for the mercy she showed for ' a man condemned to die. William , Barbor- had been ordered burned to death by Queen Mary who was England's ru'ar at' the-time. He was in, prison awaiting the day of his execution I when the news came that Mary had passed away. The new queen, Elizabeth, pardoned Harbor. To show his thankfulness, he present ed her with a cameo bearing her picture. " . Two kinds of engraving are I not tantalize you with remarks about that now," I He drew a deep breath and went on: ' f "Anyhow, over I went.yto hear a most dulcet contralto sweetly in quiring if I were Mr. Richard Gra ham. And then she sprang the pleasant news that you had met with ' an accident, that some friends had taken care of you and escorted you to this hotel, where I would find you. Believe me, the next few minutes were strenuous rones. I did the tallest lying of my life ttfconvince Mother that it was a most important business matter which called me into town. 1 think she's still divided between two theoriesone that you're in some morgue, and the -other that some wicked ' luring woman . has asked me to dine and dance with her while you're temporarily off watch."! j ' ;.' ' . , , I My thoughts were whirling madly by this' time. A woman had telephoned, a woman ' who skid friends had cared for me, and had taken tne to the hotel. What -pDicky took, a fresh breath and began again. "Of course, ' there was' no use my handing old LI1 any spiel like that. . I told her the truth, and she's very much on the job until I get back again. I promised 0 wire her as soon as. I found you, phrasing It so M o t h e d won't catch on to anything. Guess I'd better attend to that right now He rose,! put me back in the chair with infinite care, and strode to the wall telephone. j "Take a telegram,' please," he directed Crisply. capable ot handling, Universal Service The Biggest Little Paper nl the World Cameo Cutting. . done ' on stones: intaglio, which means cutting . down, into the stone, and relief, .such as cameo- catting. Onyx, chalcedony and sardonyx are- among the popular stones used for cameos because they have layers Some of ' the onyxes -have Mayers of . different colors. Agate is black and white arid carnelian Is red- and white. The figure Is cut of the top section which is usually the lighter oe, then the rest of the layer is cut away so the figure stands out on its dark" back-gTOund. Onyx is not- one of the gems. yet it la a. valuable stone. The cameo-cutter pays too high a. price for it to risk a mistake in his car ving. When he is going to work out a figure he first molds it in wax exactly as It is to be in the stone, then he' copies it line for line on the better material. - Two towns in Italy. Santa . Lu cia and Torre de Greco, are at present the center of the cameo trade. Many of the-cameos 'made there are only cheap coral and shell imitations: which are mount ed In rings, scarf pins and brooch es and which sell for a popular price. Real- cameos, faultlessly carved, are ! always expensive, j I had no ears for " the short, simple message he sent toXilliah. All my thoughts were engaged In a puzzling question..- - Why had the . mysterious for eigner not telephoned Dicky him self? i '. Was it 1 because he feared to trust his voice to Dicky's critical ears and perhaps knowledge over a telephone? - I -" V , (To be continued) .- 1 EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE Motorist Kills Puppy ' J Editor Statesman: The speed artist has had one more thrill and left without a look behind at the writhing body of a dying Puppy. .Any' man , worthy of the name would have slowed down, or at least, had the accident been unavoidable would . have; stopped. While we are aware that,it Is against city ordinance torrx the ruppy to be off his own doorstep, that hardly gives the, blithe -and heart-free as well as heartless mo torist the right to amnse himself by running down every, dog he sees.' I own a dog, it is true. I also navigate a car, and I find it is possible to show a little hu manity in the case of an animal crossing the right of way. . i The motorist who will needless ly and cruelly run down a dog is not fit to be on the streets of Sa lem, or any other - "streets. 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I THE FUX BOX ; ' , Came Natural Johnson: "How did Abie, the pawn-broker's son, make his let ter;?" . ' ' -' Benson, "In hockey, I sup pose.' ... ; Answer to the rhyming word puzzle: The pictured words are dog, frog, log, cog, bog. Left the Ache AVith It " Paul:' "Does your - tooth still hurt?" :' Albert: "I don't know." Paul: "What' do you mean by I don't know?" , Albert:. "I left It at thet den tist's." : ' True to His Country "What did he die of, Mrs. Ma lone?" v - . "Gangrene, Mrs. Flannigan." "Well, thany Hivin for the col or. Mrs. Malone." ALL THE PICTURED WORDS RHYME. REMARKED A UNTO A A-S1TT1NG IDLY OH A IN THIS GREAT WORLD tOU BUT A "OOfcU CREDI-EXED CREATURE Of THE would not be a ; safe person to choose as a friend or to. be . a valuable citizen in other words, he is not fit society for a good, clean dog. and I hope the person who ra'h clown and Jtjlled the pup py on Marion straet at noontime today. Tuesday, will sleep bettei with the knowledge that he has made some little'' hearts sore to day and cheeks stained with a child'sfcears because their beloved pal is gone. For. what is dearer to a 'child's heart than his dog, and what grief it is, if only a child's sorrow to lose a playmate "that ' never tries, a friend that never tor sades if only a dog. . ' i READER, Speaking of politics, "pouring oil 'on the troubled waters" Is a metaphor that has lost Its mean ing. V We need something now to pour on the troubled oil. CHICHESTER S PILLS fankMMHtial.$ntlnMiuiui SOLO 6Y CSUCCBTS RIr.r.IIl at Low Prices. f . ; 64x76 Blankpf a V Pair 2.29 all Hemstitched. -T