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r THE OREGON ' STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1921 in ( j Iaaaed Daily Except Monday by ' TBS 8TATESXAX FTJBLISHX2?Q COMPACT 215 South Commercial St, Salem, Oregon R. J. Ilendricke ' Joaa - V. Brad fraak Jaikoiki j ItXMBSK OP THB ASSOCIATED FBESS ' ' Tka Associated Preaa ia exelniiTely entitled to the one for publication of all new dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also, the local news published herein. - BUSINESS OFFICE: Thomas T. Clark Co., New York, lil-145 West 36th St, J Chicago, lfarqaette Build- inc. W. S. Grotbwahl. Mr. : (Portland Office. 36 Worcester Bid, Phone 6637 BRoadway. C. F. Williams. Mgr.) TELEPHONES: . . . . 23 i Circulation Offiee . . .23-106 ; Society Editor . Job Department . ; . - . .1 583 . Business Office . Kws Departmest Entered at the Pos toff ice ia Slem, 1 BIBLE THOUGHT AND PRAYER Prepared by Radio BIBLE SERVICE Bureau, Cincinnati, Ohio. If parents will hare tbeir children memorize the daily Bible selec tlftns, it will pro re a priceless heritaee to them in after years. September 17, 1924 1f JESUS SAID: -Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see Cod. Matthew 5:8. . ; in PRAYER: Enable us, O Lord, to come to Thee, and do Thou wash us and j make us clean every one every whit that this great blessing may now be ours. j j ?; WILLIAM JENNINGS i W. J. Bryan made a Bryan speech to his Salera audience yesterday afternoon, with the quips and Switty passages that ,"; mark his Chautauqua style; with a mass of glittering general ites . , ;. ' , . .i And he had a lot to say that was not true about what great .'sums the present tariff law is costing the consumers of the United States - ' i 1 .; ' 'ifj -vy But he did not explain what would! happen to the men who milk cows in the Salem district in case the o cents a pound duty should be taken from imported butter VAud he did hot, explain how the taking; of f of the 4 cents a , pound on Manchuriau walnuts in the shell and 12 cents a pound on shelled walnuts would affect our now; booming walnut in dustry. He forgot to say how the wiping; out of the 2l cents , a pound duty on foreign filberts in the shell and 12 cents on shelled filberts would benefit our developing filbert industry here, headed' to very great things. j - -; r-' He did not tell our men engaged in our fast growing poultry industry how it would benefit them by taking the tariff from poultry and wiping out the 8 cents a dozen on eggs; the 6 cents a pound on dried eggs, and the 18 cents on albumen, and giving our markets over to the cheap eggs and egg products of China. " ; 4 lie did not tell bur producers, of mutton, wool, pork, beef, cheese, apples, onions, potatoes and other vegetables, and of fjrapes and grains and grass seeds, ete.,Uetc, how they would ' wallow in wealth if all thel protective duties were taken from i the things they grow and harvest, leaving' them naked to their trade enemies producing these things in foreign lands. And he forgot to tell our people engaged in the flax in dustry, and looking to the development dt a $100000,000 annual linen industry here, how their hopes might, be raised and real ized by taking the protective duty from flax and its products, running from 1 cent a pound on the fiber to as high, as 55 cents a yard and more on fine linens. He utterly forgot this line of argument -. . ' . j A .And he also forgot to tell rounding country that they might sooner realize their ambitions in the way of getting beet sugar factories here by taking the w tariff from sugar beets, and wiping out or reducing the protec ' " 1 live duty on. sugar 1 He overlooked this entirely. He had evi- ' ilently not been properly I coached by the corsairs of the sugar " "trust owning the refineries along the Atlantic coast, and the "tane sugar plantations in Cuba. . ill Y '.' "' He did ' not tell ns how we might develop a great honey industry-here, which we must do in order to make certain the . "pollination of most of our fruits, by wiping out the 3 cents a pound protective duty on honey And he had nothing at all to suffered hundreds of -thousands on their Royal Annes. because ..enough (2 cents where it should be 6), and also because the ("maraschino trust, itself fully protected, is trying to evade the intent of the law by bringing in barrelled cherries in brine with the stems on and the pits in. r.hot air for the consumers, but no words of comfort for the cherry growers. He would be kind to the horsethieves at the head of the maraschino trust, but he would have no words of encourage- . mcnt for the growers who take all the risks. And he had nothing to say about the protective duties on potato flour and dextrine and starch, aimed to build up that industry in this country and turn millions into the pockets of - our manufacturers and farmers-dollars; that now go to Ger- "inany, Sweden ud other foreign countries. 1 ' . . Mr. Bryan - seems proud' of the Democratic tariff plank, because he wrote it. It is his child. Biit it promises nothing for Salem and for the farmers of the Salem district. And . nothing for the people of Oregon generally. And really nothing for the Democratic South, where the plank is being widely re pudiated. (But they will likely keep right on voting the Demo cratic ticket down there, notwithstanding that the Bryan tariff plank, if fulfilled, would cut their commercial throats, and bring a bread line and soup kitchens into being throughout this country.) :j;v; ;; itr.. Bryaa entertained his crowd;? but he fell down in Saloin ; T utterly. ,JIc did jiot win a vote. And his party is entitled to no votes here, where our fortunes are -so largely bound upwith the things which he opposes. ; i REGARDING A DEADLOCK If : the J people appreciated I the full seriousness of a deadlock there would be' no question about the election of Coolldge. The present method of electing a presi dent was provided in the twelfth amendment to the constitution. In 1824 just one hundred years go. the, electoral college failed to return a . majority. ; The con sequences of this ruined the presi dential ambitions of two of the countries best statesman and the upheaval that resulted in the elec tion of Jackson. In 1924 the can didates were all sectional and per sonal as La r Follette is now. National conventions bad not-yet come into favor. . Adams was nominated by New England; Jack son was put forth by the south; Henry: Clay picked up strength everywhere; and Crawford proved himself quite a favorite in the Atlantic states. Jackson received S3 of the 261 electoral votes in the college. On February 1. 1825, the sen ate and house of representative? . ' . Manager Manager Job lept. 583 106 Orrjron, an' tecond-elaai matter it':- BRYAN FELL DOWN the people.of Salem and the sur m say to our cherry growers, who of dollars7 loss the past season the cherry tariff is not high He foreot this. He had a lot of with Henry Clay as speaker met to decide It. The president of the senate ' Mr. Gaillard opened the last certificate, that by New Hampshire. The certificates of all the states were officially count ed and Gaillard declared that there had been no candidate ' elected. but Calboun who received 182 votes was elected vice-president. The senate then withdrew leaving the house to choose the president as the constitution directed. Clay called the roll and con gress was seated by states. The ballot was restricted to Jackson Adams, and Crawford. - Tellers, one from each state, counted - the ballot in the boxes of the. several state delegations and recorded each delegation as easting one vote, the vote of its state, for the candidate chosen by the greater number of that state's representatives. At the: conclusion of the count, Daniel Webster, a Massachusetts representative and -friend of Adams, appointed by the tellers for the task, announced the result Adams, he .reported, had thirteen rotes, Jackson seren, and Craw ford four. There seems to have been Too more to challenge any feature; of the vote. Lafayette, then on his famous American visit, was at the moment in Washing ton, and the house was under a sort of spell of decorum, j The speaker simply "stated the result to the house, and' announced that John Quincy Adams, having v a majority of the votes i : of theBe United States, ' was duly elected President." The individual votes of the re presentatives, as provided by the balloting- provision In the amend ment, remained secret. The vote by states, as reported, gave Adams in addition to New England, New York, j New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Mis souri. He had won Illinois and New -Jersey, where in the popular vote he had run second to Jack son, and Kentucky and Ohio, where he had run third. How ever disappointed, the Jackson supporters for the moment took their defeat quietly. I Jackson and Adams each had eight states in the electoral col lege, but Adams gained five states oyer Jackson In the house election on the first ballot. Naturally ft required forces outside the per sonal inclinations of the voting representatives to wdrk so sudden change. Behind the seeminrlv simple proceeding of February 9 there went on some most effective political manipulation. ; ' J Clay, the excluded fourth can didate, whom the 'amendment would not allow to stand for elec tion by. the house, was the man credited with the manipulating. He had been the preferred candid ate of Kentucky and Ohio, and he had considerable strength, as a candidate, in several other states. In addition, he exerted great In fluence in the house itself, both through his eminence and by rea son of his speakership. He i was in a position to influence mem bers in a--sufficient number of states to swing the election' to whicheyer of the two leading can didates he happened to prefer. And he did not hesitate, according to his biographers, to use his In fluence, i - , It may be said, Indeed, that Clay individually made the choice that gave the country Adams for Presi dent. Seldom, perhaps never, has the power to elect, and not merely to nominate, ' a president laid so completely in the hands of a single Individual. The peculiar nature of the pro cess of election by the house gave Clay this unforeseen and unin tended power. The incident will bear remembering If for a second time a deadlock' in the electoral college throws the choice Into the honse. Clay's coup succeeded com pletely for the moment. Yet. it was destined to wreck his own future presidential chances, and those of Adams as well. It is contended by the admirers of Clay that he acted from a sincere con viction of the unfitness of Jack son for the office. TAKING IT HOME The La Follette supporters are very Indignant because Mr. Dawes is criticising their chief. For 25 years La Follette has spent his entire time at fault-finding. ; He has never been satisfied with any thing, tba has been done. He is now .where; he must take his own medicine and that type of man never enjoys that. f. The truth is effective, and Mr. Dawes hurled stinging truths at La Follette in his speech at Mil waukee. It is undeniably true, as Dawes said, that La Follette Is endeavoring to amalgamate the discontented i voters "with the socialists, flying the red flag in an attack on the constitution of their country." How could v La Follette deny that, with Eugene V. Debs supporting him; the socialists supporting him and not putting a ticket into the fieldj the communists in the St. Paul con vention wanting La Follette' as their candidate for president; and with La .Follette in his speeches and his platform advocating! the putting of congress above the Constitution and proposing . (hat the ; Constitution hereafter shall be whatever a majority of a quor um' of s congress, which could be a minority of the total member ship, may declare it to be? r The Constitution is the country's tried bulwark for the protection and preservation of democracy, of the( Institutions : of free govern ment coming down from the foun ders of this republic! . ? ! The Constitution Is the bulwark against confiscation of property and the overthrow of existing in stitutions. That is why the rad icals dislike it; that Is why they are supporting La Follette. They want the Constitution out of the way, because it is a formidable barrier to their purpose to junk American institutions and sub stitute for them Marxian social Ism , and soviet bolshevism. ' Wisconsin. It is true, has a large foreign and pro-German popula tion, but the Americanized. Ger mans have as high a regaid for property rights as any other thrifty, industrious American citi zens. The thoughtful, sensible men and women among them will see that La Follette has gone over to dangerous radicalism. The question is, will ' they change in sufficient numbers to give Wis consin's electoral vote to Coolldge and Dawes? j If they do it will be a great day for Wisconsin; It will bring that grand 'old state back into the United States of America. A MATTER OF EXPENSE For a long time there has been an outcry against sacrificing chil dren on the altar 'of greed or at least to supposed business neces sity. The plea is made that chil dren must work : and we must have sweat shops in order to sell goods as cheaply as they are sold. This is an unsound plea. We pay enough for things now to assure grown people working on every thing fair prices. The trouble with us is jthere, are too many people living between production and consumption. Every man exacts his toll. 1 ' The Iowa! Manufacturers asso ciation has j sent out a circular protesting against the adoption of me federal amendment to abolish child labor. jThat was bad enough but the circular contained a letter from an officer - of the state grange of that state condemning the amendment in these words: : It would be an unjustified ex pense. It is communistic and bolshevistic and tends to take from parents the duties which have been theirs since the dawn of civilisation." ' Of course1 there will be opposi tion to the amendment. All the interests concerned have a right to protest any American has for that matter but the fact remains that the children are our best crop and unless we address our selves to them,' we are going to have a stunted generation. Furthermore we protest against the language used in this objec tion. Wouldn't it really be better to hare done 'With talk about "communism" and "bolshevism" in connection with It? As well say the amendment is anarchistic, polytheistic, agnostic, and Mon golian. It) Is the principle, not the phraseology, that the epithets are -directed at. We shall be in danger of losing the terrific, and invaluable "bolshevist force i of the epithet c" if we keep on tying it to every humanitarian effort that organized society In Droeress- iye countries mages. FISH A YD FOWIi The people of' Illinois are- ask ing seriously if we make fish of one and fdwl of another. Theformal night horse show to fee wealthy murderers who admitted , riven thit evonin. A ni their crime, told' even the" most minute details of their planning and execution, have been sent to the penitentiary for life. A poor boy has. been sentenced to te hung. The only one to make the fight for this lad is his mother. Darrow claims that he has saved 102 murderers from the gallows. Only rich men can afford to hire Darrow. This5 poor boy had to take such defense as he could get and take the most severe penalty the law could administer. It is this disposition to favor the rich that is bringing contempt upon the pourts. English justice is better than, American justice. It is hard for Americans to admit that anything English is better than American, but It is true, and we must address ourselves to a reform in the American-Judiciary. A large! part of the agitation about the courts is because there is not the same impartial justice meted out that there should be. The lawyej-s for the defense have every advantage. The lawyers for the state jmust fight every inch of ground. In some way, we must admit thai the judiciary must be reformed, must be made more of strator of justice and an admin stronger against the attacks of wealth, courts is The .integrity of our absolutely necessary for the perpetuity of the government and the lawyers should regard themselves as peculiarly respon sible for the administration of Jus tice and clean -standards on the parfbf the courts. We must educate opr people to respect the courts more and. the courts must perform in a way to be entitled to this respect. We have been soft in dealing with crimes in many ways. Iq this locality one of the most serious crimes in the calend ar is practically unpunished. It Isn't fain It isn't fair to the Judiciary and it isn't fair to the patriots who are fichting the on slaughts of .constitution destroy ers. : I " -;- - ROBniNO TIIK soil A lecturer declares that 45 cents worth of) fertility Is taken out of the soil for every bushel of wheat and some time this must be put back. This view may be too rad ical. Of j course there is fertility taken out ot the soil but If a farmer ts careful, uses his manure effectively and treats his ground decently it will last years without artificial fertilizer. The time will come however when he must have it. In ; the south where farming has been going on for a long time, it is practically impossible to raise crops without fertilizer and In New England states where the same i condition prevails, they abandon farms by the hundred. Instead of demanding an increase of wheat prices because of this soil extraction It is up to the farmers to study fertility in such a way that they will be enabled to keep their soil up. A mer chant must keep his stock up, a banker must kep his reserve up and there is ho reason why the farmer should be the only Inclivi lual who can rob without oxpect ing to pay the penalty. ; A CONTEST THREATENED When a woman was nominated for governor of Texas at once there was rebellion. She has been regularly nominated, having re ceived in the second primaries a fair majority of the votes and she is entitled . to party support. ; At Olympia, in our neighboring state of Washington, a woman was nominated for state senator by a majority: of two votes. A maj ority of two ought to be just as sacred as a majority of two thous and and yet this woman is threat ened with ; a contest. In fact it is practically taken for granted that there will be a contest. Her only offending seems to be that she is a woman. : .The men have talked about chivalry but take it from us they have got to deal more fairly with the women or they will find them selves riding to a most disastrous1! fall. ' h THE. DIFFERENCE Perhaps the difference between Seattle and Salem may be illus trated In I this way. A Seattle newspaper' man was robbed of $6,000. The same day a Salem newspaper man was robbed of $2.30. Exactly. - LI ! WILL BE SEEN Hundred Per Cent Represen. tatiori Promised for State; ! fair Feature f Practically every show horse on the state fair grounds on the opening date, Monday, Sept, 22, irlll fQpHtnata fn ftta cnonlo 1 in. admission; price has been made or 25 cents, which should insure! . capacity crowd in the stadium. A full two-hour program will be given, with the Salem Cherrlan band putting on a complete eve ning's concert. i - : j The James ; McCleave string of show 'animals, consisting of IS head, will be among the conspicu ous performers. These include hunters, jumpers and the regular show ponies. Miss Madeline May McCleave and Miss Mary Bowker expert horsewomen, both of Vic toria, B. 0., will put these animal through their paces. A pony stee plechase, with the McCleave ponied used' exclusively, will be an out standing feature with at least 10 ponies taking part as well as a like number of local boys. Still another thrilling stunt for the McCleave string will be the clear ing of an automobile, lent for the purpose by the Salem Automobt,; company,; by one of the highest junipers 0n the grounds. The Oswald West horses will perform in many of the event 3, being entered in heavy harness tandems,! pony sporting tandems, and also! as high steppers. Mirs Pauline West, a favorite at P&st Salem shows, will ride for her uncle, , ex-Governor West,: Th-j mounts of the Portland Hunt club will be much in evidence and the military i department of Oregon Agricultural college will likewise I be well Represented. uraii tnorses , in narness, Bnows in pairs, four-in-hand, six-in-hand and in driving competitions, will be entered by A. C. Ruby of Portland; D. F. Burgo of Albany; C. W. Bpwers of Sacramento.; and Robert ; McCrosky of Garfiel.!, Waah. I; 1 - Well, two's company and three's a crowd, and that seems to be true especially in a presidential race. 'A IB THREE MHOTE Till EC b HLLu Ad Schuster : OUTSIDE LILY'S WINDOW Lily, the prized stenographer of the Acme company, rose deter minedly from her desk and made for the of Hce of the general man ager. "Mr. Curdleston. sir." Bbe began abruptly once tne aoor nad closed upon a curious force- who won dered at her errand, "I am not what you" call a finicky or unrea sonable girl, am If"; The general manager, not know ing whether this was preliminary to a request for an increase in wages or one more complaint con cerning the ventilation in the building, refused to be committed. "I believe," he said slowly, "you have the reputation of beta an accomplished stenographer in our employ. Wrhat is it?" "It's the windows. If there Is one thing I canno't stand it is to work beside a dirty pane of glass. I like to look out upon the sky and the world unobstructed-like." "And so you suggest?" I'That you have them washed twice a week instead of twice a month." And Lily departed carrying with her into the office an impression that she had been attending an important conference. All of this is preliminary to an order which, after passing through a number of hands, conveyed the suggestion to Alexander Cutts to polish the windows on the fourth floor on Mondays and Wednesdays here- after. !'And make them shine," he was told. "There is a dame there what won't work unless the win ders is clean." . Alex descended upon a little platform, suspended like a child's swing, to a position outside the windows of the Acme company and while he worked he looked in at the men and women bending over their desks. His eyes fell on Lily, the only girl in sight, and she, he decided, must be the one who liked clean windows. "And that," reflected Alex, "is what I call a sensible sort of girl. If: all the women insisted on hav ing the windows washed twice a week, us poor window-washer3 would never be out of jobs and the whole world would look more shlnyrlike." He gave particular attention to the window opposite Lily and - tit S! 1 1 i raw 7 rL? i l . f ; '- Blanks that Are Legal. We carry-in stock over 115 legal blanks suited to most any business transactions. We may have just the form you are looking for at a big. saving as compared to made to order forms. Some of the forms: Contract of Sale, Road Notice, Will forms, Assignment of Mortgage, Mortgage forms, Quit Claim Deeds, Abstracts form, Bill of Sale, Building Contract, Promissory Notes, Installment Notes, General Lease, Power of Attorney, Prune Books and Pads, Scale Receipts, Etc. These forms are carefully prepared for the courts and private use Price en forms ranges from 4 cents to 16 cents apiece, and on note books from 25 to 50 cents. PRINTED AND FOR SALE BY The Statesman Publishing; Co. LEGAL BLANK HEADQUARTERS At Business Office, Ground Floor . found the task to his liking. "Here tofore, in his bi-monthly visits, h had worked fast and with no at tention to the life in the office. Pausing long with his face close to this window, he found that as his eyes became accustomed to the darker interior he could make out every detail in the room. "And I've been sitting outside that blond's window all this time and never noticed what a stunner she is." ;?h Thereafter twice a week the form of the sober and Industrious Alex obscured the light tn Lily's' window while he rubbed vigor ously on the pane screwing hts face in queer grimaces. . He was pretending he could not see a thing inside but no Item, in the loveliness of Lily was '.last" up jn him. -He only wished she would glance at him once. One warm, day he . found the window open and was about to lean over in a precarious position to close it, when the girl stepped across the room to help. "Hello," said Alex, "It's awful warm out here isn't it? . mean it must be hot in there." . ' "Say,'! said Lily," aren't yooi afraid you will fall off that dinky seat? You know, you oughta be careful." "; That .was - the start. Before long the office was calling him Romeo and Lily was Juliet. In spite of them she continued to smile at Alex and look forward to his sudden appearances. Before long she had occasion for another important visit to the office of the general manager. 'Mr. ? Curdlestun, sir, 'she blushed this time, "I am. going to quit." ';. "'What's the matter? If It's anything reasonable I'll fix it." "It's those " windows, sir, the ones you ordered cleaned." "Well the man ha been clean ing them, I have seen him my- 6elc-"-:li i ' . "Yes sir, but you know be prop osed to me and,; and I am going to get married. f'And Lily smiled in pride at the announcement. - "Young ladyj" the general manager . surprised the girls, "when ; you worked me t have those windows cleaned more often did you have your eyes on that man?" ;: : . : "Why Mr. Curdlestun, sir, what a question to ask." But when Lily -walked back to the outer of ice she was humming a wedding marchlwhile she reflect ed that the general manager was not as dumb as he looked. (Copyright 1924 by .The Bell : Syndicate Inc.) Tell Your Friends About . " - 5' . I . . September 22 to 27 one . given to exploitation as to what Oregon is doing and how it is prospering. The State Fair this year will be better than ever before--more interesting, more educational and more enjoyable. Write your friends outside of . Salem to come and see in actuality what a marvelous state we all are living in. Here at the United States National, we stand for everything the Fair represents better crops, livestock, , greater .industries and payrolls and prosperity of our state. Let's get behind it and give it our best support. ,v United States National Bank Salcm.Orcgon. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I . Glittering generalities m "U 4 So it is with Mr. Bryan; so more people will go to hear hi nf speak than will attend a political meeting addressed .by any ona else; and fewer will have their votes influenced by him. 4 . ' t As Mr. Dooley said, heu"cou" f, vote for Bryan any time;" bo ho thought he would vote for th other man that time. 4 Paul Rankin, of the Interna tional Rotary office, Chicago, anA Frank C-Riggs, district governor will be at the Salem Rotary moot ing at noon today, besides Chark-4 H. Allen of Defiance. Ohio, who will talk about sugar factories, if. will be a busy session. 4 vv r Tomorrow's Slogan pages wi:i tell about our wood working plants. The main thing abo:t them' is that they lack a furniture factory, and should have one. An we are going to get one or.mor: This is official. .VI v B. C. Miles, back rrom the gro flax and linen centers, is convince that Salem is to be the Belfast o, the New World. Let's hope that tfyj large beginnings of this may coma quickly. They will, if every on who ought to be interested wiji get behind the movement, anl stay by it everlastingly. . mm V Mr. Bryan says he is ready to agree to all the adjectives 61 praise given to Calvin Coolldge, f he be allowed to make an additior of five words: "But he is a re;i' tionary." Mr. Coolldge has h;r self said that he is a reactionar. against everything that is wron; "as reactionary as the moltiplic. tion table." . But in everythin that ia right he la as progressiv as the veriest Bolshevist. Do yof see the difference? The America' people as a rule do. -- They want i reactionary against the thin;;, that would impoverish and d' stroy us. They want a practiti progressive. ! I FUTURE DATES BoptnnWr 22-27, Oregon Stat fair. September 17, VVedaeadajr Cons'.i: tion day. ; ! September 29. Mondy Salen (ul; schools atart. ' September 30-Octotier 2. State conrr tion of Congregtionl churches. . - November 11. Tueertay ArmUtlea i November 20-22. Third Annual, C Show and Industrial Exhibit, auipic Chamber ot Commerce. I the State Fair . ' : week out of every year