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SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1924 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON Iaiaad Daily xept Monday by TATX83Ajr PTrnUBwrsa. nraw SIS Son til Commercial Joka I. Brady lruk Jaakoaki : L ' r ; MxwBTra or the w. iUnitV'liiLir?t U, e''r laaotaa r, Clark Co, Ktw York, 141-143 West SAtk St; Okieoco. Ifarqaatto Build trortkd OKica. m Vprtnur BMf, Pknt 6637 B Roadway. G. F. Williams. Mfr.) . TKLZPHOaiS: r - It OtreuIaUoa Offiea - - 11-108 Bocioty Editor JoV DopartMaat ' . . . . 681 Ro!bo Offleo w Iopartmoas gaUrad at tka Paatatflca ia 6lam. : 1 MULE OTOT7GHT ' : Frovarod ky Xadlo BIBI.B SERVICE Bimt, Clnetaaatl. Okio. .? . td kaa tiolr ekQdraa aaoaorlso tko doily Blkto aoloctloosa, 1 wOl froro ., '"f? aTtor nan. , , , j ; :!'.--. - -" '. June Jl," 1924' "---1 . '' - j BEGIN THE DAY RIGHT: Cause me to hear thy loving kind ness in the morning: for in thee' do I trust; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk for I lift up my soul unto thee- Psalm 143:8.- :.- i f.. " . -i . 1 PRAYER Gracious God. so cleanse us by Thy Spirit that every morning we may behold thy face with Thy righteousness. OUR HEW IMMIGRATION LAW i The immigration law under which we are working is restrictive than any legislation on the subject that this co 1 liaa ever before adopted ! j it fixes for three years the quota of immigrants! of any nationality -admissible to the country at two per cent of the number of that nationality in the country in the year: 1890 - J And. this -will mean,; if the. quotas are filled, about 160,000 ; a year ; mostly from northern Europe ; mostly . the so called Nordic peoples , . J r And "it-provides . that -after three years the whole number of immigrants shall no limited to 150,000 a year, divided among tha nationalities according, to the .national origin of the whole population; the latter, provision involving a Survey of national orins.r,i:;"...,..;;.::: 1 ; . ... :. v.- . ! .: ; v In point.of.the number of immigrants admitted, this new ? and stringent legislation takes us back seventy-eight years,' for the number, of immigrants in the year 1846 was 154,419 and the number in the. year next following that, 1847, had increased to 234,958 1 and from that time onward it increased at a dizzy rate of speed, Teaching 427,823 in 1854. The Civil war checked the inflow, but by 1873 it had again reached the figure of 459,803. The greatest number ever received was in the year 1907, when it had; amounted to "1,285,349." That a return to this or a still greater figure by this time, but for some form of sharp restric tion, was indicated by the fact that, in spite of the suspension due to the World war and to a more rigid restriction, the num ber of immigrants in. 1923 was 522,919. In the present state of xaatters in Europe, the inflow by" this time would certainly have I exceeded 2,000,000 a year, even if it had not gone greatly beyond that sum;. . W ' ", , , . f :';,!v" ' . ! "' "m t I In the 40s and '50s, when immigration first rose to a high figure, the country, was in great part unsettled, and laboring lipids were much. needed.-. Conditions also, favored the. ready assliiilation . or the immigrants. : But the , great inflow from southern Europe in the years preceding the World war changed - the racial qualities of our immigrants. 'Our cities are congested with foreign populations whb tp' a great extent cherish their own languages and customsand who tend to imitate the nation ilf vices rather than the national virtues'. A loud and insistent v sail for restriction had 'gone forth, even, from the older immi grants and it has been heeded. . ! . I 1 i Ah excellent principle whieli is embodied in this hew law - Li ia the provision that takes away the responsibility, for the selection of immigrants abroad in so far as selection is prac- ticed from the steamship companies, and "puts it upon United JJtates. consuls. Immigrants are required to fill up a certificate which is -intended to guarantee us against the admission or at- tempted entrance of those, who are outside the requirements. : This transfers a great share of the examination of immigrants to llie other side of the. water, where logically it belongs. "It will tend to prevent the congestion, the hardships,; the scandals, of "Ullis Island.. '. ' - ' . . . ; 1 , . i Promulgations on the administration of ; the new law, if wisely niade. and intelligently .adhered to, will bring ; about a hiraplification of eontrol that will allow of a sifting on the other , side.'of, the .Atlantic that will prove beneficient ; That will keep our country from being used as a dumping i ground for undesirables; for people who would have great dif 4 ficulty in finding cbngenial; places and proper employment in ; this country, and who would tend to become public charges here. i ' ".Canada carefully selects her prospective immigrants. We should do the same. If this cannot be well done through the proper administration of the present law, provision for strength- eningjts administration ought to be provided by Congress.: Our melting pot is being run to capacity now. We must not , add too much to its, over burdened capacity. ; f j f ? If all our cherry growers had heeded the yelling the Slogan . editor did while the present tariff law was under consideration by the committees of Congress, and had acted vigorously, they would now be getting at least 8 cents a pound for their-Royal x Ann cherries." They are worth' it. The Slogan editor' almost O elled his fool head of f, and wrote a lot of letters and sent some , dispatches. But he got precious little help from the people whom. he was seeking directly to help, along with all the rest of our people who profifrom the prosperity of any one group. The growers might get a change in the rate, if every one on the ; coast who is interested could; be aroused to action, and if they Atould keep it up Mtill the cows come home.? "Butthis.is not likely. They can,-however, through the clauses providing for elastic rates? get the duty raised from 2 to 3 cents a pound. But .even this will take a lot of work on somebody part. .It will not be an easy job.' The maraschyio trust lobby will not lie sleeping. - - ' ; s-.-"- v,- - -r::? ".. ' ..J:- AN EARNED RECOGNITION f It is good' news that Mr. Ella S. Wilson Is scheduled for perma nent , manager of the - state .fair. In fact no better news could be heralded to friends of r the fair , anywhere in Oregon.' " : , Mrs. Wilson has remarkable ex ecutive capacity. She knows the fair-from top " to bottom. She 1 now s h o w to get along' with ' peo I 'e, how to keep things moving. Vt saw her in action last year and ' lieved then. that she should have n. the accredited head., as she as the the actual manager of the Tbe state fair this year ought to " b'?;er andetter than ever. veryOsii indicates an increased ' re t. Wilh Mrs. Wilson at its St, Salam, Ontoa . Manager ' - feditor Jf aaagar Jo Dapt. associated paxsa titled to tha M for pnbHestkia ( all 683 108 Orofoa. aa aeoad elaaa matter. AND PRAYER ! more country Oregon Is a great state and the fair is one ; of its expressions. Many people " come here to see what we have, J and so far "have never been disappointed. ; This year Is a critical one. The tide Is turning our way. We must ad mit that we have been neglected by tourists, ; but the t situation -Is recovering very fast and people will be pouring Into Oregon tol live jusi as iney are now coming here as tourists.- It is a- great opportunity to display our wares to visitors and to our own peo ple. ::':-.v't;: ,:; -By the way Oregon has not4been sufficiently sold to its own peo ple. People who have ;livcd ere for years have no conception of the great things that are going on. Our' production Is marvelous and thd peorle era ! :r"nnlng to come; a million popti- 1 . . 1 1 . many right here In the Willamette valley, and will have la the next ten years. ' - 4 : ; ; PROPERLY EXPLAINED A dear good lady who Is a very devoted republican writes the Ore gon Statesman that ' her feelings are hurt because of the apparent profanity attributed to the repub lican vice presidential candidate. She does not believe in harsh things and harsh words, but also she does not believe that we are quite fair to General Dawes. Here is one paragraph .from her letter: "I want to protest against the flipancy of the newspapers In re ferring to the expressions by Gen eral Dawes. I am . one of his greatest admirers, but I do not admire him as a profane man. and do not believe Chat the public ought to get that Idea of him. He is not a profane man but a good useful American. I notice that his call for Helen Maria has been distorted into almost profanity. It Is unfair. . . , "I , once knew a young girl named iHelen Hunt who found a glove, at church. " That night the minister announced that If anyone had lost a glove they could go to Helen Hunt for It. Straight way the remark was distorted and It was looked upon as a consign ment of poor Helen to a place she did not care to go. "Let us be fair and give Helen Maria her Just dues and not have her appear as a distorted creature before the public." f We gladly give this explanation and if there Is any other doubt ing republicans we commend it to them. SHIFTING XOT AX EVASION There are those who insist that shifting- taxes is the same thing as evading taxes. Since the be ginning- of government there has been an outcry against the burden from taxation. When Pompeii was excavated It was discovered that at the time of the catastrophe there was a vigorous tax reduction campaign being waged and pla cards promised a reduction ' if Marcus Agracus was elected tax collector. Since that time we have had the same old story and prob ably always will have. In Oregon we are trying desper ately to shift the burden of taxa tion so thatthe result will be fair, yet we are met with the same old thing, that we are imposing a new tax and allowing certain peo ple to evade. Certainly there has been enough tax evasion In the last 1900 years that It is time for a square deal, and certain It is that a shifting of the-taxes In an earn est effort to make a better dlstri button of the burden is to be com mended and not set down as an evasion. ' v IT IS GONE There is no use in paying any further attention to the farm labor party organized in St. Paul. It was a fiasco pure and simple. It was like a bumble bee largest when first hatched. When it was assembling the noise made caused a good many people to believe there was something really back of it. When it met it was found to be a noisy aggregation, beating tom-toms to prevent the public from taking- a' true measure of the- convention. However, the communists talked fairly, yet they never failed to get In their work. The . nominees are unimportant, and the party will not get enough votes to pay very much .attention to them. ; ' , ' ' ' There is Just one point however, and that shows how far apart the discontented elements are. It is impossible to get them together under one tent. They are Individ ualistic and they are not going to get , behind any one candidate The campaign this year will be be tween the republicans and the democrats. A REVERSION The Rhode Island senate .was treated to an injection of poison ous fumes. It is difficult to un derstand that this happened in the year 1924. It sounds like Primev al times. The savages never did anything worse than this and they didn't call themselves civilized. Such things indicate how close the average man is to the primeval. He doesn't have to scratch very much off his back to see the skel eton of the aborigine. ; Our boast of civilization, on such occasions as this finds expression in diaboli cafism that causes the gravest concern as to our capacity for self- government. I FUTURE DATES j 1 22. sr Make Coaaty plemU t fair rBB4a.- Jua 24. TatHar D-morratle atles I tta vent ion at Ik N Vrk- Jun 29. Bandar Sala Elki picnic at tlrertaa park, Jolr 18 to 23 Caaatanqaa mini fe eaim. .Jnnil PtnrlT ITirion eoanty Jin m . ! ' .-aU ... - . . - PARTY GOVERNMENT ; fcy. JOJXN T. ADAMS, , Chairman et the Republican National Committee ; This Is a tore rnment of parties. It is the only practical, re sponsible form of popu lar govern. ment?yet de vised, "j There can be no elimination of the party sys tem unless we are to have a e o m pl e t e change in the to r m and character of 'our rovernment. There can be no such thing as a substitution of personal respon sibility for party responsibility In - publie affairs. For each citi zen to look to some one official for the responsibility of the con dnet of the government rather than to a majority party would mean political chaos. Under sueh - conditions there would be no way to fix responsi bility, and there would be no one from whom all the people eould demand an accounting for 'the manner in which their affairs were administered. As it -now Is, and as it should be. a political, party standing for eertain polMea is commissioned by the people to enact those poli cies into law and to administer public affairs In accord therewith. To assume, and discharge the duties of public administration a political partr mut have effec tive organization. In this respect it does not differ from any suc m MARRIAGE PROBLEMS Gaxrlsom'a 77 ew Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Co 5y right ltll. fey Newspaper reatara Serrlea, laa," CHAPTER 194. THE WAY MOTHER GRAHAM MADE HER APPEARANCE "It's, a ; crime .to disturb you,," Lillian said softly, as she. smiled down at me. Marion, sound , a- sleep, was cuddled againt myfher up a cup. so I'm not afraid shoulder, ; and,,. Indeed. I was not far from slumber myself, despite tht ' flight and" excitement I ' had Just undergone. '7 " With infinite care we 'moved the" curly head from 'my shoulder' to the pillow; iThen, with Lil lian's hand aiding me, I slipped from the bed without disturbing Marion's slumber. I waited untM we; were ont'of.lbe room before answering her regretful little speech.;. A - ( :. ,t, ' ; - "Ifs- a' crime - for me to be so near sleep," 1 answered, "when you' are so troubled, but I'll defy anybody ' to, croon ' .'The House That Jack Built very long with out dozing." - -v : "So that's the way you put, her to i sleep," Lillian commented, "It's always sure "fire, Isn't it? Pity we" can't work Jt on your mother-in-law. We were at. the stairs by this time, well out of earshot, but Lillian- spoke in as. subdued a whisper as though Dick's formid able parent were at " her elbow. Ana even arter ; we reacned tue kitchen, to which, a little to my surprise, Lillian led the way she kept her volce'to a murmur. "What will -you take ' to make a pot of, your unparalled coffee?" she asked,' peering with practiced housewifely air into the kitchen stove, after she had softly closed the door leading to the dining room, i "I see Kate . prudently has her wood fire all laid for breakfast, but it won't hurt her to build It again, and ,1 simply shall lie down in the corner nnd pass out to slow, music If I dou't have a cup of coffee soon." . "You never knew me to refuse one, did yon?" I asked, taking down the percolator as she app lied a match to the shavings in the stove. "But I warn you that closed "door. Von'tT keep the ar oma of . thia -from.. Mother Gra ham's "nostrils.";. If every . keyhole and - crack .in ; the house - were stopped ,up, she'd ' smell coffee brewing".. and: .want, a ' cup. . I'll put In enough for her.' . ; - ' Madge Is Apprehehsive - - "Of course. Make a' pot vthile you're about It for we shall have a guest with us in a few minutes. Now I'll - Inter t lew the refriger ator and the pantry, and see what sort of a snack I can rout out for a hungry man." ; I turned from. the coffee-grinder and stared at her In amazement. Tom Chester will be here in minutes' she said. "That he will be if my hunch as to Smith's probable homeward course hold true.- I never knew a youth his age who" wasn't.. And practically 1 every returned soldier's a cof'ee fiend., so get busy , , , ; I -turned - to. the coffee-grinder again, finished , that :ta3k, : pre pared the, coffee and set it over the' biased before - I soke. There was .still, fresh, n my mind thte memory - of Tcm - Chester's last visit to, the-house. Mother Grah lism'h candle, and insulting com- cessful private : or public enter prise. :: The success of an Industrial plant, a business concern, a bank inff Institution, or a public serv ice corporation, depends upon the character of the organization which- manages its affairs. The same Is true of a religious, fra ternal or social organization. The success of the -liberty loan drives depended wholly upon the efficiency of the organization con ducting them. No matter how splendid the purpose, how. desirable the object or how praiseworthy the policies of a publie movement, it is nec essary that it be well .organized to attain its ends.. So a poli.icel party must have a strong and sound organization in addition to strong candidates and sound pol icies. This is necessary In ordoi to wage campaigns. It Is doubly es sential when a party is intiusted with the administration of the government, for party loyalty, party regularity and party or ganization Is then needed to meet responsibilities, to redrein pledges made by the party to the people and wisely to manage the public's business. As in any organization worthy of the name, loyalty is the first requirement in political organiza tions. Party loyalty is not only" necessary to the successful con duet of party organization, but it is a great civic virtue.' Every cit izen should belong to some party, be loyal to it. and actively partici pate in its organization. mymother-in-law take it into her head to say or do? i She had confined her remarks to my ears upon the first occasion, but I had no assurance, that she would not express her disapproval of his presence In the house before Lillian, or even before Tom Ches ter himself.; At the bare thov.it of the last contingency I shivered involuntary and glanced up to see Lillian looking at me with whim sical sympathy. Mother Graham's Orders. "Don't wory," she said, still in a .- murmuring monotone. "I have your doughty mother-in-law lashed to the mast, with the idea firmly fixed in her head that any untoward movement on her part would send the whole ship of etate plunging into a whirling abyss. If you know what that; Is. She knows we're going to make cof- ffee. and I've promised to take she'll disturb the" coming confer ence. The only reason I'm keep ing my voice lowered Is that her ruling passion may bring her down to see that you are brewing the' coffee according to Hoyle But she'll go back again, for she's too tired and sleepy to make a full toilet, and she would face a stranger in nothing less. There! I told you so There was a familiar footfall on the dining-room floor, and the next instant Mother Graham majestic in her gray dressing gown, the braided wisps of her hair covered with a silk cap, her feet decorously shod in gray slip pers instead of the red yarn ones which had completed the ludicrous cloture in her bed-room stalked into the kitchen. -' '"You don't need to close that door. Margaret." she said acridly. "I could tell even through It that you're not making coffee proper ly. H'm," pulling the percolator from the fire. "How many ta blesDOonfuls did you put In for this much water? ' Four?' Here. holding the pot out imperiously. "Pour this slop out, and wash the nercolator. I'll make a decent pot of coffae for you CHAPTER 195 THE REASON MADGE BEGAN TO DOUBT HER OWN EYES Lillian and I looked at each other, heroically concealing our mirth, as Mother-Graham with the air of having accomplished some thing at least comparable to the discovery of America, turned from the stove after having prepared the coffee to her own notion. "There!" she saidi' "That will be something like Coffee! I'll Just wait here until it's ready, and take my cup up with me. There's a certain moment when coffee is just at its perfection, and I want mine at that Instant. Then you can do what you please with It." She sat down In a kitchen chair, folded her arms and watched with critical majesty our; hurried pre parations for the "snack" of which Lillian had spoken." A leg of lamb left from dinner, from which I carved thin " slices," home-made bread and butter,, a dish of currant jelly, another of app'e sauce, de licious layer cakes -these we plac ed upon the dining-table . under Mother Graham's Inspection, and to a, running accompaniment of comment. "Please Remember." ' " "Isn't there any parsley in the house?" she demanded, as I took up the, small platter of sliced meat and started with it to the dining room. "That ape of a Katie gen erally baj sense enough to gather some fresh every day. She likes-! the. looks of it herself, I reckon, or she'd never remember it.". - 'Yes, there are some sprays in the refrigerator', I said quietly.? '.'.Then, will you. kindly tell why Thing To D A STORY OF TWO BOYS AND THEIR STRING OF FISH A,H2:n of pounds apiece. Thenie swam fast but by thetl rn afternoon JJennie Eeauin took his fishing pole, dug, up a few choice angleworms for bait, and started across town for the river. As he got to the corner, he heard his small brother Don's pip ing voice call out: "You're goin' fishln'! Let me go, too!" "Naw, you're too Jittle to go' replied Ben, walking on. The smaller boy begged so that Bennie finally consented. Little Brother tagged along and while Ben sat on the bank waiting for a big catch, he played in the sand. Bennie sat quietly for an hour or more and all he caught was three tiny sunfishes. He knew if he carried such small ones through the streets, his friends would hoot at him. He was Just wondering what to do when Little Brother be gan to beg to be allowed to carry them. "They're just about his size," grinned Ben as he handed over the . small prizes to the six-year-old. : , : Don carried home, the fishes as proudly as though they had weigh- meat? That plate looks like a lunch set out for the laundress on the tubs." 'I forgot It, I fancy I said apol ogetically, willing to eat any amount of humble pie to keep her placated. "I'll fix it right away." "-See that you do" she retorted, and I went to the pantry to get the parsley with an ironical little smile' quirking my lips. I too, like-a touch of green around a plate of cold meat, but I had not dared thus to embellish the one In my hand for fear my mother-in-law would accuse me of trying to make the table attractive for Tom Chester. i purposely, fingered over my task as long "as I dared, and -was rewarded when 'I returned by the sight of Mother Graham drinking the cup of coffee for which she had waited. She drained the cup, poured herself a second cup, dis daining our proffer of it, and rose with the cup in her hand. "I'll Just take this upstairs with me," ghe said. "Now, Mrs, Under wood, please remember what I told you." That Proves Nothing." She marched out of the room- there ia no other word to de scribe the gait with the cup of coffee held out like a bandleader's baton. We waited tensely until the closing of her room door told us that she was safe for the night, and then we laughed, noiselessly, but consumingly, until we were almost helpless. ' : "You can't! guess, I suppose' Lillian said at last, wiping heir eyes, "what I'm to remember I shook my head, although a shrewd notion of her meaning had come to me. But I could not acknowledge it to Lillian. ."I'm to see that you conduct yourself with the propriety and general demeanor of an 18th cen tury matron," she said. "If you were a convent-bred young thing about to meet the world for the first time she couldn't be more solicitious. So do promise you'll behave. Look here, if you dare to ; take that, or your ; mother-in-law seriously, I'll I'll spank you, If it's the last thing I ever do." Her sudden -change of manner Blanks That Are Legal We carry in Btock over 115 legal blanks suited to most anv hnfnpn transactions. 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Final ly he called to Little Brother who was building a sand tunnel: "I'm going in swimming. You hold the pole and if we get a bite, you call me." The smaller boy was de lighted to be given an opportunity to fish, so while Bennie paddled around in the water ho sat very still waiting his luck. Dennie swam up the river father than he Intended. When he came back to within sight of Don, he saw the boy struggling with something that was" almost pulling him into the water. Ben-gonna carry It home." T 'THE ANIMAL STATESMAN AE YOUP. GGCO tfCKS RUINED BY STRAIGHT HAIR.? PAULINE PEACOCK1 PtRtAAKEKT saved me from the humiliation of angry tears. And then, with sure divination of the best' way to di vert my mind, she spoke authorlta tively: "Tell me, now, before Tom Chester gets here, what did you mean up there in Katie's room when you said that it wasn't Smith who looked into the room but a boy?" "Why, it was a boy," I said, and then, as (my memory flashed again the picture of the face I had seen, stocking cap, and a ooy's sweater I hesitated. "At least, It was a boy's wool that I glimpsed," I said slowly. fThe cap was drawn- almost over President Coolidge As He Is To-day Shown by Photograph for Which He Posed in Washing - . ii-f s for ' I ' - V pi - V I S j" .w me- he got there, uon nad me ri safely In. It was a whopper t four-pound catfish. "Gee! Let's hurry and take : home so Mother can cook it f supper," cried Bennie Jumpi: Into his clothes and picking up t: 3 fish. Little Brother 'gave a cry t anger. " S my fish!" he cried, -i caught it and I'm 'going to earn it." Bennie tried to tell the t it was too large for him, but Ix insisted, although he could hare! walk with the big fellow. As the boys reached town, Litt: ; Brother stumbling along, some tf Bennie's friends called out: "Whafre you tryln' to do. kill the kid Why don't you carry your I; -fish yourself?" But LittleBrother retorted, "I catcbed the fjs hand I guess I'u towh rirw? PRICE GOES w :. VXJ AM ANIMAL MARCEL WAVING the eyes, and the collar of t sweater was turned up and fast -ed high about the neck. But t' little of the face I could see : between was all; rudoy and fn like a boy's, and the! Hps wc red." : "That provesnothIng'. she sa' ', "except that the gifted Mr. Sir.: probably possesses a make-up I : which would cause .a Holly wc film favorite to leave her har:," home. But there's Tom Chest r. Bless the lad! Does he want : arouse the house with his kno lag!" ' " ' (To be continued) ' h 5L