THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1 1924! Issued Daily F..-rpt Monday by j THE STATESMAN PUBUSIXINO COMPANY ' 215 South Commercial St., Salem, Oregon R. J. Heo.lrirla Jobs I.. Brady I " Fraak Jaik.sk 1 ' ME USER Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Aaoriet4 Prexs 'ia eiclquWel? entitled ta the use for publication of all Ifvi dUpatehee credited Co it or not therwiae credited in thia paper and also the le-al new a pukliihed herein. ! i 5 i BUSINESS OFFICK: i Tbomaa F. Clark Co.. New York. 141-145 W.at 3H(h St.; Chicago, Marquette Build in. V. 8. Grethwahl. Mgr. (Portland Office.. 336 Worcester Bldf., l'lione 61.37 Bftoadway, C. F, Williams. Mgr.) I TFT.EPHONFS: ! . , - - 23 ' Cirrnlatioa Office - 23-106 i Society Editor Joe Department ' ; - ... 583 Baeinena Office" -Nwi Leparta.nt - i Entered at the Poatoffica in Salem, 1 BIBLE THOUGHT AND . PRAYER Prepared by Radio BIBLE SERVICE Bureau. Cincinnati, Ohio. If par-eat will have their children memorize the daily Bible selections. It will prove a priceless heritage to them in after years. I .' J ' ! I i. Anviict SALVATION: If. thou shalt! confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:9. PRAYER: I . t "Salyation! Oh, the joyful sound, i.lJ f I Tis music to thine ears, ! I ; ; A sovereign balm to every wound, A cordial for our dears." j THE PROPOSED EGO LAYING CONTEST "Salem wants to be the center of the state ejrpr laying contest proposed! by the agricultural col- lege, talent is egjr-centrie in this matter." ; TheJ above is an editorial paragraph in the Oregonian of yesterday. !!:.' . I ? ; The ejrg laying contest is not proposed by the agricultural collepre. And it is not to be a state egpr laying contest. " ; Otherwise the I Oregonian writer is correct ; Salem is egg- centriet in, this matter. ! j Salem wants the contest, or rather the contests, for they will be continuous. Each one Swill be for a year, and as soon . iL. . ... LnnltiM luuiiact Ti-ill liaryin i Ami Vlil'il will as -llic year uj ojvim-t v, i . j ....... ... come not from Oregon alone, but from any state in the Union, and any country in the world. There will be pens of hens from Australia ; England ; France ; Canada ; South Af riea f rom j any country having breeders wanting to enter their birds. The owner of each pen will pay a fee. The Oregon Agri cultural college will furnish an expert to see jthat the birds are rell eare1 for. ml to see that the eountinsriis nrooerlv done; the records accurately kept. The Oregon Agricultural college will pay for the feeding and keeping of the birds, and the college will get the eggs; or the money from! the sales of the eggs. The contest will always thus be sell! supporting, or nearly so. j. ; ; a I ,1 .; ; , If Salem shall be successful in getting these contests, the ryes of all poultrydom the world over will bedirected to Salem. Reports will be made every month, and sent to all the leading poultry journals the world over, and many; of these journals will publish the totals ; : the ! news and particulars in some cases. .'': r j i : Why should Salem! not be egg-centric in this particular? Salem is the center of a district (the egg-centric center) that has been enjoying an increasingly intense poultry boom, and this boom is capable of great expansion, for the very good reason that we have the best poultry district in the world ; the district that is capable of developing the highest production layers, and doing it at a comparatively low cost. More than this. Our district is capable of developing the longest distance layers; hens that will keep up high production for the longest time; hens that will live and lay longest. ; We produced the first 300 egg hen in the world; the first pen of thirteen 300 egg hens and over in the world; the first 335 egg hen in the world; and have taken a number of world record prizes in laying contests, held in this and other coun tries.' a i I -i!: ;;. : Ivr . .J-.I- There can , be built up in. the Salem district a poultry in dustry that will rival the Petaluma district in California, which turns out $18,000,000 and more annually in poultry products. We can do this, because we have better; poultry conditions here than are found there; a better mingling of sunshine and showers and soil advantages for the development of high pro duction fowls, and with a minimum of cost and a persistence not attainable elsewhere. ; j i j i The development of such! an industry here would make a ready cash market for numerous farm products; would stimu late activities of many kinds on the land; would assist Salem materially in her; growth and prosperity ; would give Salem world" wide ; advertising; would attract a constant stream of people here. They would come to see and investigate. Many would remain to praise and stay. j This egg laying contest enterprise seems to be fairly within the grasp of Salem, arid there must be no false motions of any kind. We should get it if we can. ' Salem is a favored location in the minds of many. Our state institutions are here. This is a central point. People like to come to Salemi. They will like to come still more, when we prepare better for them, as we are going to do, in many ways including- the construction .of an auditorium and convention hall that will be big enough to accommodate .an immense crowd, or that may be used for gatherings jof small size. . Salem is egg-centric. , Eggs-actly. And our people must concentrate on this egg-centricity. The irrigation of some of many ways, nor. the least being the fact that it prolongs the harvesting season, enahlinsr a flax rmllinir machine to cover a i r larger acreage, with irrigation, iewer maenmes will be neeclert in taking care of the future orops. This will make for a smaller cost of nroduction and have a tendency to tive larcrer scoDe m w, c r-f a in making profits to the manufacturers, from the retting and scutching of the flax to the weaving of the fine linens. Every thing is working together for a great development in this most promising manufacturing development in the whole state. The big thing in the prune industry is to niake the growing of prunes remunerative to the growers,! and to stabilize this condition. Without this, thre would hot be long any great tonnage of prunes for any one to worry or quarrel over. The farmer can do a good many! things besides raise prnqes, if he finds that there is no hope of making that industry a stable one. 'j 1 ; - 'J I. ;! :;';!.. in , THE AUTOMOBnuE IXDCSTRX Just now the automobile Indus try is being shaken to Its founda tion because of its rapid growth. In 1923 there were manufactured 4,068,977 automobiles, which rep resented an Increase of 53 per cent over the year 1922, and yet 1922 was a 60 per cent increase over 1921. :.;y fj ;i H; Of course this growth can not be kept up. There must be some eort of a readjustment because the - - Alalia Iter - - Kdiior Manager Job lept. . SS3 106 Oregon, aa tecond-elaae matter. 1 1 Q j. the flax fields is a good thing in tr amazing growth will break down a good many of the firms, but there will be a readjustment be cause the automobile supplies a real need, and we cannot do busi ness any more without it. The present program is doubtless self doomed because it is growing so fast that It must fall of Its. own weight., Of course, automobile prices may! be cut, but that will not solve the problem. There must be a limit to the growth of the firms-. " ' f- . V According to figures Henry Ford is selling his automobiles practi cally at cost. This is evidenced by the latest Ford financial state ment which . indicates whereas In the year ending February, 1923. the profits from the sale of new cars was $5ti,006.000 out of the total profits of, $ 119,000,000, and the year ending ; February, 192 4, the profits on new cars were only $3,930,000 out of the total profits of $82,263,000. The ratio of prof its from new oars dropped from 47 per cent down to less than 5 per cent. (The other large profits come from the sale of parts, in terest on securities, bank balances, freight charges, etc. As Ford manufactured 1,914,000 cars In 1923 this apparently meant that his profit per car in 1923 was only a little over $2. Ford's five-days a week plan is reducing his labor cost per. car from $75 to $C3. a saving of $2. Ills other savings have made the economies total $S per car, and thus on a production of two million cars he is adding $30,000,000 to his profits and is stopping the sale of cars at virtu ally manufacturers' cost. The automobile business is highly concentrated right now. In 1923 ten companies manufactured 90 per cent of the automobiles made. In fact six of them pro duced 85 per cent, leaving 15 per cent to be divided between 9 4 or more manufacturers. To go even further, Ford and General" Motors between them last year made 67.5 per cent of all the cars man ufactured. This means closer com petition and consolidation. On the same ratio in 1924 in the produc tion of 3,500,000 cars 15 per cent will be 525,000 cars which, ap portioned among 94 manufactur ers, will be 585 cars apiece. f j 1 We are motorizing the world. Cars are no longer a luxury: but a necessity, and business has been speeded up to such an extent that we can not get along without them. : : . : : -j. j't. There are j two factors in; the automobile business which : cause grave concern. The first Js the used car situation, and the sepond is the purchasing power of the population. The first is more seri ous than ever. The average life of an automobile is about six years That would call fori-one million cars to be scrapped in 1923. The number of cars car ried over to 1924 was probably 13,500,000, representing the num ber built since 1918. This brings up the old discussion of what hap pened to all the pins made and lost. What happened to all the automobiles? Since 1913 we have junked -about four million cars. Some . of them, of course, have pone to Mexico and South America. More than 20,000,000 cars have gone Into use In the same period. Thus we see five put into use for every one that Is scrapped, j Nearly all the buyers today, or at least a great majority of them. are men who have sold their old cars or men who have scrapped them. Most of them, however, are sold to dealers for some price, 'r Good roadU are adding to the desirability of automobiles, and as we get good roads we will use more cars. In the last few years long distance motoring has in creased amazingly, and motor camping is the diversion of the day. It was. once .only the well-to-do that could travel. ..' t Today the wealthy are doing much less, but the average people with low priced cars are doing a great deal of it. Automobiles have enabled families of ordinary means to move to Florida or California in the winter and come to Oregon or the north in the summer. We are fast getting to be a gypsy nation. We are restless. We love the outdoors, and sight-seeing la an inborn American characteristic. The covered wagon of yesterday is the well strapped and appointed automobile of today. M l if AX KYK TO BUSINESS Arthur E. Nelson was elected mayor of St. Paul on a progressive ticket. From the moment he was inducted into office he became an active force in governmental af fairs. He was smart enough not to rush ahead and break his neck. He called in a number of business men in groups and consulted them as to the best way to govern the city. Then he started out on : a tour to find out how other cities were doing It. He was in Portland yesterday where he investigated the government of that city. What Mr. Nelson ) is trying to do is to get the people to cooperate in gpv ernment. It is working well, f j The basis for a cooperation such as that enjoyed at St. Paul under the Nelson administration can not be found in fault-finding and sus picion. The mayor declared that a standing invitation had been posted to the effect that any resi dent who does not believe St. Paul the finest ' and most progressive city In the country was urged to leave. Thus the city, he believes, makes plain the Intention of Its citizens to conduct their mutual interests to the best advantage of all concerned without respect to the hamstringing tactics of discon tented minorities. . "The protests and walls of those who are qualified to vote and do not do so should be entirely dis regarded," the mayor advised hfa Spokane audience, -"The person who does not vote thereby forfeits all right to criticize." Here is a gauge of the individual's interest in his community which no city cai afford to overlook. When business people participate in gov ernment to the extent of full rep resentation at the polls the hour of tiiumph for business in govern ment will be at hand. . ItAIMO GROWING According to the bes informa tion obtainable the radio craze, as such it is called, is not abating. In. fact it is getting more pro nounced all the time. According to the best reports obtainable 95 per cent of the sets in use are used almost daily. A year ago only 45 per cent were used; also bear in mfnd that several times as many sets are in use now. than a year ago. Not only have we learned to use the sets more intelligently but it is beginning to affect our national life. We are taking a larger view, a more cosmopolitan view, and the result will be en larged citizenship. There is nothing worse for a community than tp settle down to complacent isolation. We need to brush up against, each other. A hermit neighborhood is mighty lit tle better than an individual her mit. !.:- NOT DKSIIIAI1L.K If there is anything the Ameri can people do not like, it is to have the election thrown into the house. American people want to choose their own president.' They have mighty little confidence in congress in the first place, and none at all when;! it comes to se lecting a president. La Follette is running for pres ident, and the only hope held out by any of his campaigners or friends is that he may throw the election in the house. This does not 'mean his election in any event. It means the election of president will be taken froifi thepeople and handed over to the politicians to dicker and maneuver as it suits their purposes. kA vote for Xa Follette Is a vote against the pop ular election of a president and for the election by congress. PRESS AGENTS The country is so infested with' press agents that we do not won der that they are trying to change their names. They now call them selves publicity engineers. There are a lot of things they are advo cating that are valuable and im portant. The tons of mail that come to an editor's desk in a year contain more than a moiety of good stuff. If we did not have these publicity agents there are a lot of things the editor would hot know. So instead of condemning them we are rather glad they are elevating the profession by calling themselves publicity engineers. HANGING PERVERTS The Oregon Statesman Is not blood-thirsty but it does believe in the law. It believes a moral pervert is worse than a mad dog. You can shun a' md dog. as it never looks to the- right or left. and you have to get squarely in its path to be bitten. A pervert creeps up behind and grabs his victim. It ought to be a capital offence; certainly it should at least be sterilization. i We must devote more attention to perverts than we have been do ing. They are becoming bolder and they must be properly pun ished. OREGON THE ONLY STATE It has been discovered that Ore gon is the only state requiring automobile lights to be dimmed. According to the arguments of the anti-income men, this law should be repealed. It Is unfair to our own people to have any law that the other states haven't got ahead of us. According to these men Oregon must not lead in anything. It must follow, and follow a long ways off. Oregon should follow even to being behind any other state in progress. ' Bah! THE FIRST SETTLERS A Norwegian ' now traveling in this country claims to have evi dence that Oregon was entered by his countrymen in the year 1010. It is a great pity that they didn't stay.' because "Norwegians every where are progressive, and had they remained here the Garden of Eden would have had nothing on us today. i - ! ; FUTURE DATES I Angnat 1 to 10. atatevide American legion drive for new- membera. Angoart 1 o 18. . Boy Scout ommel en!. CNaeadin. , . -. September 3. Wtdted ay, Labor Da v. September 15, Monday, Willamette nn'reraity opena. September 22-27, Oregon State fair. i " - -. l"n-to-lato You mean thing. You're a "fibber. Go to thunder. ! Pay up. ; , Hussy. Your cooking's awful. Don't be a clam. Stop talking. Get out of the room. , You're never right. The puzzle is to find out by whom the cross words have been uttered. ; John Philip Sousa. 'H' i Hare - . Magazine Editor: "There's no sex appeal in this story." Author: "Put you told me you wanted something new, original. different." Robert Hage. 1 i ; Hide and Sneak Outside the boys are gathered Excitement's high, you bet, ' Wlille Johnny hides from Mother, ' And smokes his cigarette. Inside the women gather ; j' Excitement's higher yet, j While Mother hides from Johnny And smokes her cigarette, j i - Peter Pung. Mary Had a Litthi Mary's mother came suddenly into the room and found her lit tle four-year old daughter, vigor ously slapping her mouth. "Why Mary what's the matter!" asked her mother. "Why are you slapphig your mouth so?" 'Darn thing won't whistle!" an swered Mary. Ruth) Pinkham. "Superfluous "Brother Washington Lincoln Johnson," said' Parson! Williams, "kain't ye' all donate some small contribution f- de fund fo' fencin' in our cemetery?" ' "I dunno as I kain, Pahson I don' see no use in a fence arqun no ceinetary. Them what's in cahn't git out, an' them what's out doan want to git in." 1 George F. Paul Personal Traits Explained A telling personality the vil lage gossip. r V A personality that counts ;the bank teller. Engaging manners the kind that lead to engagements. Earmarks of a lady her dia mond earrings. . IJ1 at ease comfortably sick and reclining in, bed. , . .. ,."w A disagreeable personality One who happens to differ with you. The stamp of a gentleman when he puts his foot 'down. A maid of winsome ways the ways to win some man. George W. Lyon. Cafeteria Style "Bredderh and.sistern." said the pastor sadly, .surveying his dark flock with a face full of woe, "when I done took this congrega tion, I was promised a salary. This salary was to be paid In chickens. Now I has been expoundin'" de scriptures for two months, and now I wishes to ax-WHAR is dem chickens?" There was a long silence. Then a gaunt deacon arose, and said;, "Rev'rend Jones, we is mos' heartily sorry dat yp' has been de victim of a mistakenship, but yo has misunderstood de method ob which our pastors is paid. We provide. you w-id de lantern and OLD MAN GLOOM Says Former, Sickly House- . wife Praising Korex. . "The roses are back in my cheeks for the first time in four years," says Mrs. Bertha Kahn of Gadsden, Alabama. ''When I com menced taking korex a week ago Ii couldn't sweep a floor. Last Monday I helped with my moving. handling things like a man. When Ii see women with that worn-out look,' I want to say, 'Take korex and get full of pep. Korex makes the world look " brighter." : . i Thousands are now using korex compound the world over for weakness alter tne nu, lessenea vigor, rapid decline, premature old age, aching muscles, ) stiff joints and; poor circulation,' and many are the reports made of speedy satisfaction even in cases where Other treatments had failed.' j - Those seeking similar relief will be interested in learning that the American distributors of korex compound, tba Melton Laborator ies, at 546 Melton building. Kan sas City, Mo., have arranged for korex to be sold in Capital Prug Store at 4 OS State street, Salem, Or. Just ask! the clerk for korex compound. J- f 0 w rwwm i . DOH ID OUT nMaWW, . 71 in Arwiifflmi! mi! two gunny sacks, and den yo cel ecks dat salary yo'self." -' . ', Paul Simpson. Circulating Library 1 Kriss (being shown through the house): "What's happened to your library?" ' Kross: "It's circulating among my friends." , i K. A. Bisbee The Seven Age of Names Ah Applied to Man: At 5 years Johnnie. At 15 years Jack Brown. At 20 years- J. Dillingham Brown. At 30 years John Dillingham Browne. . At 4 0 years John D. Brown. At 60 years J. D. Brown. At 75 years Old Man Brown. . Lewis H. Kilpatrick. , One of the inmates of a Louis iana asylum planned a long time to escape. He finally got a chance to scale the walls when a painter left a ladder resting against the locked gate. . " He leaped, landed on his feet, and then went to the front door and rang the bell. ; When the su perintendent opened, the door the patienc said, smiling;: "Doggone it. I forgot my hat!" . Calvert G. Smith. The man who slips on a banana peel is like the man who buys wildcat stock the drop is unex pected. ; The Carrot-Topped Girl I got: red hair, I hate the stuff! My sister's is a yellow fluff. Ugh what luck! I've freckles,, too Do I Ipve pink? I guess I do! And always have to just wear blue Or lavender or sickly green. I want a cape of scarlet,, too, Just like belongs to sister Prue, It would look rare with flame-red hair. ' U I got red hair and I'm a girl, It's stringy straight, it just won't curl. Now is that fair when I'm a girl? And "Carrot-Top!" My Cousin Jim Says that old name's as bad for him. He can't know how It hurts a girl. Sometimes folks say they love red hair. It's wonderful and they'd not care If it was theirs. What a' whopper! Those folks I hope don't mean a - .lie, : But you can guess with just one ' try ' ; ' From what' they've said, their hair's not red! : Anne Zuker. Too Proper Miss Sweet: . -'Are you familiar with Mark Twain, dearie?" Miss Highbrow:? "Why, (he Help keep the idea! I am never familiar with anybody!" j 1 j E. II. Droschnack. t Truthfully Tohl "1 11 tell keen." So?" the! world my wife Is "Absolutely. -, The minister's wife called! on her one afternoon while I was in the attic" experi menting .with a new recipe, and she said to my wife that she hoped that I wasn't One of the godless sort who'dtryjto get around the dry laws,' In any way, and my wife promptly assured her that 'I was AIIOVE doing such a thing!" : Louis Schneider. j A "BiiiikerV" Privilege Mrs. Brown: "Your husband goes swimming pretty often, doesn't he?" , ' !; Mrs. Jones: ; "Oh, yes! You can find him tn a pool room almost every day.', Robert Bellet. Painting things red at night sometimes develops the blues next morning, Trader T requested to eontribute. All humor,,, pigrama ' f er liumoroua mot toea). inkes. anecdotes, noetry. bur- lfsiie. satires and hriirht Haying of children, niiiKi be original and . unpub lished. Accepted: material will be paid for at Regular priced. All manuscripta must be written on one aide of the paper only,s i should ' bear name of thia newspaper and ahoiild be addreased to the K u n -8 h o p Editor, The Oregon Statesman, j . - I BITS FOR BREAKFAST i . August days of August . - I . The royal (month "named for Augustus Caesar, as July was named for Julius Caesar. They were known at first as Fifth and Sixth, ruiining from March, the beginning of the year ccording to the ancient Roman way. There are old timers In Salem who can rememberiWhen Oregon was called the Webfoot state: a d.-y joke to them these days. ' We are not going to crow If we get the egg-laying contests In Salem; but we will ask to be ex citEed for ia wee bit of cackling. w v After reading the sheep Slogan articles, the Salem district farmer withbut sheep ought to vote him self a muttonhead and a scrub at that. i. i : Yes, Mr. Jones, the Willamette valley farmer without sheep can not pass the buck. ; The flax pullers have a great pull with! the women folks of the growers. 1 Save them a lot of wor ries over the men, women and children they used to. have in the hand pulling days. - : i S ' Now they have regular book stores on jthe big ocean liners with a full line of literature for all Salem to the SURPRISING FIGURES were present ed a few nights ago at a special meet ing of the Salem Business Men's League as a result of an elaborate retail shopping survey of Salem made by the First Na tional Bank. I The survey clearly showed that Salem should inaugurate an aggressive : and persistent program to build up the shop ping trade which properly belongs to her; I -. - ". A committee of five businessmen was created to outline and put into action a far-reaching and vigorous campaign to put Salem business to the fore. r Let every loyal citizen, in business and out, give the fullest support to this com mittee in order that Salem may take her proper place as the shopping center of the Willamette Valley. sale in S&lem. First National Bank Salem, Oregon comers. The best sailors mix with the best sellers. , ' They are paying as high as $400 , and, $500 an acre for grapes in the vineyard. Growers who were go- ' Ing bankrupt when prohibition hit , them are surely going down with " flying colors. Los Angeles Times, i William Oibbs McAdoo excuses ' John W Davis' Wall street associ- . ations by the statement that a lawyer is not to be measured by' his clients any more than a doctor , would be by his patients. That may be true, but there are a lot of fashionable and. high priced spec-v ialists in the medical profession ' to whom the average man in the , streets would hate to carry his bellyache. ; t " A woman explorer who but re- ' cently: returned from the wilds, says that the modern city girl is merely a dancing doll. She Is a - creature of the bright lights and she knows more of the night life' than of the day. She may have vitality, but it is stimulated and not real. If the future of the race were dependent upon such we would soon" become decadent. That's what the lady lion-tamer i says. (It is tough when women begin showing one another up. Woman Found Dead in Gas Filled Kitchenette , DENVER, Colo., July rj. Mrs. Gertrude O'Reilly-Ramsey Cooper, '. who was found , in the gas-filled kitchenette of her, fashionable ; Capitol Hill apartment here Tues- day morning, tonight lingered be tween life and death in a Denver? hospital;, . Efforts to solve the mystery of her condition have been un- availing. ! " - . Mrs. Margaret O'Reilly Casey; of Edgewater, a Denver suburb, maintained her belief that (her, daughter bad not attempted to end her life and Patrick Casey. her stepfather, was equally firm In his belief that Mrs. Cooper wasv the victim of foul play. ' FOREST FIRE RAGES RIVERSIDE, jCal., July SO. Fire which broke out in the San Jacinto mountains, poufheast of here last Saturday had burned oyer, approximately 7,000 acres tonight, and was still taxing the efforts of a large force of fire fighters, but rangers predicted that the blaze would be practical ly under control tomorrow. FLIER AT CONSTANTINOPLE CONSTANTINOPLE. July -'0. Major ZannI, Argentine aviato-,"' arrived, here today from Salonlki, Greece, on his attempt at a flighty around the world. The aviatori, remained here; only an hour,, starting at nqon for Aleppo, Syrhi. Fore