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1 : I IwiM Daily ap Mdar y TSX STATESMAN rQVUSBlSQ COM? ATT - ' IIS South CoamareUl St.. Salera, Oraro WL. J. Hudricka ...... Utu( Fre J. Teoi - VBiiBj-K4nor L it. Mrrlmta City Kditor Latlla J. Hntitti - Tetcsrmpli Kditor W. H. Rcadarson - - Circulation Manafrr Kalpa H.KlaUlnf Advaniaiof Uanafe' Frisk Jaikeikl lismrcr Job Dept. E. A. KhoUa - . . - UraiUM Editor . C Coaarr . .. - . - poultry Kditur KEMBBS OP THX ASSOCIATED FBE8S . Tkt AtMrU1A Ftm It axclaalvMr vatltted to tat ana for pabllestfaift of U cawa tupaUac eradlt to it or att otharwiaa ereditd iMa paper aa aU laa local Hft pabllakad Jkaraia. ' - -. " - - BUSINESS OFFICES: Qart Byre, 838 W'reoatar Bldf.. rortUad, Oro. Tbomms P.-Ctark Ca4 Nw Yrk. 13ft-136 W. Slut Bt, Cblrara, UaiiU BlA.j "7 P7, Baaraa. Hlrff , Saa FraaeUeo." Calif.: Ulgrn BI4, Lm Aacalaa, Calif. i . , " TFLEPJKWEfl: ' Battaaif OffWSJ at 58S ClreaUtloo Otn-a....53 i Hawa Dprtiit-.2S-1M oclolr Xdllr ; : ;.10 Job BartABi..fiiSiS Entered at tha Poat Office la 8lam, Orf on, a atno el matter. i ..'. December 28, 1925 ; 1 ' WHY WILL YE- DIE? Cast away from yon all your transgres sions, wnereby ye hare transgressed: make you a new heart and new spirit:' for way will ye die, O house of Israel? For I bare no pleasure in , the death of him that dleth, saith the Lord God; whera- iore, tutn yourselves, and liTe ye. Ezekiel 1831. 32. ,: . . THE STATE MKEXAGENXJS-A... CRjVPEH ANGER, . GIVING OUT UNTRUE PROPAGANDA AT - v , PUBLIC EXPENSE ' k .""If all the taxes that are now collected in the United States were apportioned equally among all the people men, women and children each individual would have to pay $70.97 a year. Last year we paid almost five times as much in taxes per person as we did in 1&90. " The tax bill per person thirty-five years ago was $13.8S.'In 1913it had Jumped to $22.73; in 1919 it had gone to $76.51 and In 19,21 it rjeachd the high mark of $76.55. Yet with this great increase f the burden was distributed, justly if each paid, wealth, income "and , ability, to pay and none escaped, it would not be much of a burden. . .Agriculture louay pays iar more man 11s jusi proportion mis state raent is undisputed. The farmer cannot hide his property. Thous- . ands and thousands are leaving the farms and thousands more will leave unless conditions change. FARMERS BUY. UNDER HIGH TARIFF PRICES AND SELL IN ALMOST FREE TRADE MARKETS,, High railroad rates, high taxes and high prices for purchases on one hand And low prices for products on the other, leaves the farmer whcre.be cannot pull out, If he isjn debt as the most of them are, ditures" would only :Te IncreaseJ'by oneth'frdToi 3' &T c$i or. 4our per cent, o not over one and (ono-thlrd percent, " ..V' ,.. "On the other side, protection isa great peneui 10 agricuiiure as whole.!' The 780,OflO,OQfr.of lagrlcultural produce. Imported' last year hadr to pay" $260,000,000 for the privilege of coming In to complete with bur 'own farm rouctloo.i If these were admitted free of duty, THEY WOULD NO DOUBT GREATLY INCREASE IN. VOL UME, REDUCE PRESENT FARM PRICES AND RESULT IN MUCH LOWER. STANDARDS OF LIVING ON OUR FARMS. We arylso exporters as well as Importers. Protection reauy aids atversmcauon, and so eliminates an unprofitable; surplus. Under our tariff our flax acreage.has increased from .1.(41.000 in 1921 to S.093.00O tn 1925. Much of this would otherwise have been devoted to wheat, increasing the surplus and further demoralizing that market. The same principle holds in relation to sugar, wool and other agricultural products. . It has been thought that protection does not help agricultural products. 'Any study of dairy products, flax, wool, and the many other commodities will demonstrate, that it does. ,Even wheat, where we are exporters, shows its effect. ' If we take Buffalo, to secure a point of common contact American No. 1 Dark Northern is 25 cents trf J5 Tents hteherthanCariadHan; No. 2 Dark Hard Winter ia37 cents to 42 cents highe. and No.- 2 Red would be 45 cents to 46 cents .higher. - Contract wheat for futur. delivery in Chicago , has -been usually as high as future deliveries in Liverpool, although the differ ence in freight fs about 20 cents a bushel, which means that our wheat is now About that much above world price levels. The question Is complicated with different grades and qualities, some of which do not show the same differences "BUT THE LARGEST BENEFITS ACCRUING TO THE FARMER COME FROM SUPPLYING HIM WITH HOME MARKETS. What, the 'farmer raises must either be sold at home or sent abroad. Our per capita consumption of butter, sugar, meats, eggs, milk and tobacco is far above those of foreign .countries. When the depression of 1920 came and 5,000,000 of our wage earners were unemployed, their consumption of the more expensive agricultural supplies, such as .animal products,-fell 18 per cent below what It had been before and what it became again when employment increased. THIS WAS, MORE THAN THE AMOUNT OF OUR EXPORTS. Prosperity in our Indus tries is of more value to the farmer thaii the whole export market for foodstuffs. Protection has contributed in our country to making employment plentiful with the highest wages and highest standards of living in the , world,, which :is of inestimable benefits to both our agricultural and Industrial1 population. 'General economic stability is' of utmost importance to the iariner,-and a depression in industry, with the atte'nWa'nt unemployment,; would do the, farmer ,an incal culable injury. 1 EDITORIALS OF THE 1 ,,. PEOPLE Mke the State Training School or Boys a Vocational School " seems to require a calamity of some kind to "get certain sub jects before the public attention. Many tery Important subjects are continually awaiting a jar of some kihd, such as a break at the penl- tenfjary with loss of life; a change of administration; at the boys training school with a rise of sal ary, or an epidemic of typhoid fe- ve,r from contaminated water,- etc., to get the public interested in certain subjects and bring about improved conditions.' , .Recently-we have- had, ,a Jar that has-brought a much needed injorovement t penitentiary, aid promises to bring, about other important changes. .Much of this is greatly due tr public sentiment. . ir Is a confession of that "Oh, lei" me sleep" make-up, when we wklt for a catastrophe to arouse us to a realization qf anjpntatand ing need. $ Regarding, the. needs, of th boys traning school," I got my shake-up during a two years' ser vice there under the admfnistra- tiops of both Kooser and Gilbert GRAIN Gt AMBLING A short time ago it was reported that the United States The above quoted Svords make up the leading: editorial secretary of agriculture had received the assurance of the propaganda of the current circular of C. E. Spence, the Oregon Chicago' board' of trade that it would accept restrictions on state market agent- . . - - its wheat manipulations. The agreement isvto the effect that And the words in capitals are. printed in that form for the board's directors may place a limit on the prices high and the purpose of calling attention to a part of the crape-hang-1 low, alid that no one will be permitted to buy or sell " either .ing, propaganda that Is.'.particujarly 9bjectionbJe,...l)efeuftl above or below these prices so fixed, the statement is not true. I It is difficult for the average layman, used tolthinking The farmers of the United States do not buy under high of gambling' as an outlaw to tolerate the action of the secre- tarif f pricesj- I tary iri this attitude toward the gamblers in the chief food Or at least not more than one and a third per cent of the stuff of, the .nation. expenditures of farmers m this country are increased on if limits were placed upon the stake in the gambling account of the tariff rates . ; ; .. Wj rendezvous in our cities, the officers would, in the discharge And 80 per cent of 'all the imports into the United States 0f tnejr duties, pay no attention to the arrangement. eitner come m iree or pay duty to protect the farmer 3; y v ;, Dealing in the futures of grain, fixing arbitrary prices , And 88 per cent of our imports either come in free.or are for speculative purposes and then turning the matter over to luxuries or are protected to help the farmer. shrewd manipulators to barter in a so great necessity 5f the All -the.'agricultural products of the Salem district are people is, inconsistent with government for the protection of protected, and most of them are wen protected, with the the people.. To force, down or up the price of wheat at the exception of cherries, ihey are protected two cents a poundj.0f men wn0 never earned an honest dollar nor invested where imports of cherries should carry a duty of at least six cents a jund to give the. grower adequate protection.' Crape hanging is not justified in favof of the farmers of in a labor empbying enterprise, for the sole purpose enrich ing the gamblers themselves, is wrong. . !' . v Gambling on grain is a gigantic privilege which, evidently the Sakm district; to the extent. that it is done by the Spence mkes terms with the government and prospers at .there -propaganda;. even -outside of the false sUtement about the nse' 0f thVprucef and d6hsumer alike. . ? ' T6r there is not a single major item in all tne,kngjist Through suppression or by absolute control only will the of our diversified products in which cases cannot be shown of u - v? "u" " "; 1,.,, Onrnoaaimrn Wit. ers and in favor of the producers.and consumers of wheat eAfnW tQvmfv rrrwl ?ri4"aiAc?T- rr Viif tnirVif Via- troliiirw o I PrOCUCtS. ten td twenty times the selling prices of equally good land in injs section. The state market agent ought to be a booster for con far as age and other unavoidable conditions will allow". - ' ' E. T.' PRESCOTT, Salem; Or., Dec; 2 4. '1925.- Bits For Breakfast Hope you enjoyed it all V ' And are not much the worse for tr In the cold gray dawn of the morning after. S S -a "Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast." said Shakes- peare. Hope you felt the. great welcome, however large' or small was the repast. ' ; ' - S At one Christmas dinner in Sa lem, a special dish was of red raspberries, picked yesterday morning in the back yard of the home. How is that for summer lingering in the lap of winter, if we had any winter and winter therefore had a lap in which to linger? In the editorial article of this morning, quoting President Cool idge, the reader will note that the president spoke of the 3,093,000 acres of flax, this year in the United States. Nearly all this the Salem district, -would make more linens than Are manufacture ed - in the saietn-' aisincx, woma make more linens- tba.n are man ufactured - In the- entire world. There musttbe rast qaantJtleaf.of flax seed, as Ions as people use paint or pillty or 'Uholeum: .There is nothing else In the world that will serve; that will-"dry w like Unieed -oil, and make a complete co?ertn for, any surface, keeping out, the air, and thus preserving wood from rot and iron from rnst. - TEe year ,4. 925. b.as been yerr good to" Salem.', in, the WAy of : growth, but .192 6 should be a bet- ter one,, both in rapidity and sol-" Idityj of rowth. , ilt wIU be, Ifjf ererj Sale mite wili take stock and act on'llae; Tislon that stock . taking of our advantages and op- poftanities and resources -will give; him. 4f all Oregbn could do the same thing, we wuold make the Florida boom look-like 30 cents.,, and there' would , bo no mushroom ' growth here, either. - : If -yotf want' a genuine shAkup.l areae was" of flax Brown-tor not" see" the speech of J greater--momentum for- influence -and good to humanity in itioh ofHhe American the future year. : , '':,' . ' ' UNCL BIIXV The. delays in administering justice, which, come one after another in the courts add more and more disgust and structive efforts to secure higher prices. That is the intent discount which the people now possess for our methods of of the law creating this office, He is not paid to be a crape proceaure wnn me iaw-aeiying-anq criminal element hancrer-- , Much less a Dronairandlst of false and misleading and : And with the passing of this holiday season. with its infiirinii'farfrin.'-"- . . . , . . . - i Denevoiences ana gooa cneer unnstmas nas jrairrea still . - v . , If. any reader of this article did President Coolidge .before the convention Farm; Bureau Federation, in Chicago ! on : December 7th, he should read the following excerpts from that' speech, dis- cussing our present lami as appuea to iarm proaucts ; !. "Others have thought that the tariff rates were unfavorable. to the farmer. . IF THIS SHOULD BE A FACT IT OUGHT TO BE COR RECTED. Let us examine our imports. Last year their gross value was $3,610,000,000, but $2,080,000,000. or 57 6-10 per cent, came "ItS wnolly free of dty. This free list was constructed especially to favor the,. farmer, and. contains more than fifty, articles, which. he purchases. Tike fertilizer, leather, harnesses. . farm machinery, .coffee, binder twined barbed wire' And gasoline. - -Of the $1,530,000,000 of goods paying imports, $780,000,000 was upon, 'agricultural products, levied solely to protect , the farm, in eluding animal and dairy products,-grain, flax, wool, su-jaUhuts, citrus fruits and many others. - If any farmer wants to get an accu rate' and full list of his products which are protected and his purchases which come In free, let him go to his public library and consult Offi cial Document No. 337 comparing the last three tariff acts. Thus 80 per cent of our-imports either come In free or "pay a duty td protect the farmer." This must be further increased by$250,00,6pd-more r of imported luxuries, Jike diamonds, fine rugs, silks, cut glass. Jewelry and TnahoganyV These' items cannot Affect'; the prosperity .jot,, the j farmer. ' This brings the total of imports up to 8S per cent wW4V are - free, 'and. leaves only1 12 per cent -of our. imports upon which the agricultural industry pays iny part, of the tariff. But," on the other hand, out industrial and cjty. population; jays 1 the tariff on the $780,000,000;, worth of agricultural jimports and also participates in the $$qo,ooo.ooq wqrta oi imports outside of luxuries. While the farmer pays part' of the duties on 12 per cent of. our ' ImtuiK wtitfh An tint henefit him. induatrv and commerce nn v nart Of the duty on 36 per cent oi tne imports wmcn ao not benefit them "But if we. take all that the farmer buys for his household and farm operation and subtract from it articles dutiable to protect the farmer, the free list and luxuries, we should have let;ie3sthaii'e10 per cent of his expenditures.' This means that less than 10 per cent of farm purchases are at an increased cost which is Adverse to the farmer. Admitting that the price of these purchases Is Increased by the full amount of the doty, this means that the total adverse cost to the farmer qn account of the tariff is only between two-per cent and three per cent of his purchases. ''Many economists cqnslder that even this calculation as to the contribution or our farmers to the tariff Is overestimated. As their expenditures include many items for labor and service on which, there is.no duty,: the proportion of total expenditure oh dutiable articles outside the three lists above mentioned is not 10 per "ben i, but jonly three' per cent or four per cent of his total expenditures, i Thiiaueven assuming that the farmer pays tariff on this ratio of goods, his expen ust go ont there and take charge oi a bunch of Those boys for about two years,, and a new vision will appearmpon your mental horizon. During the general Jar of a few- years ago much good has come to the school. The new school which waft -hangjng by a thread, for a time, has become a reality. Due very largely to a strong public sentiment. A few years before such"' an, . undertaking could not have -been put over. The people would not have stood fdr.lt. They were awakenedsaw the need, ami' indorsedthe pla.nl1 .j This 'Jn-' terest is stnl reasonably keen, and pajtiaUy doe to the stimulated in terest in the penitentiary; -a kin dred institution. We should not ailoV our interest to. wafte. as every institution grows or deteriorates with agesO must the new boys' training school. It is but in infant so far as its service to -the boys intrusted to its keeping- .Is concerned,. To what extent it will serve the boys depends very largely upon the interest the individual taxpayer takes in the wetfare'of these, boys. The school can be made a place of retention, which it was nerer intended to be, or it can become a scnooi sucn as its name implies a training school. Which one it is to be de pends upon the public interest in the place. The. old school for years and years, was nearly forgotten by the public. If it was thought of at all it was as a pest house that was to be shunned, so far as responsi bility was concerned. As. you treat a person, so does he become. jhe school was .treated, much as. a pest bouse, and it became near be coming just,, .that-' If vocational training is im portant for our high school stud- eats it is much more important for the boys at our state training school. Even though the boy never' follows the trade learned, or partially learnedrat the school it acts s a stabilizer to character as. nothing else will do. The Sun day school and chapel services are all very good, but add vocational training to the boy's education and the Sunday school jind chapel ser vices become many' times effect ive. , The old school had some vo cational opportunities, but not near what the people owe those unfortunate boys. It takes money to pay Instructors,-' but competent instructors , can. be secured at fig ures wifhin the reach of reason. Instead of : Best- house, let's mk.A of the new boys' training school "a vocational school Just so the seed only, mostly in the Da- kotas and. Minnesota. ' That many acres of fiber flax, as grown in ' "-' ALL OREGON PARENTS ' Should .' Link the Fnttiro of Their CLUdrea . V ' with; a '' " '. . ' Lincoln National Life Insurance Company Juvenile or Educational Trust -Jund Policy ' they make their college training sure. ' at a nominal cost ' -. Ask" . - - . s VICTOR SCHNEIDER, Special Agent 147 North Commercial Street, Salem ' -Phone 577 ----- New Year's Edition - L ...... --r, f - The Oregon Statesman v s: Friday, January 1, 1926 A chronicle of progress of the Salem district which you will be prpud to send to your friends elsewhere. Ten cents a copy, postage prepaid, to any point in the United States. Fifteen cents a copy outside the United States.. Circulation Department, . .. ' . Oregon Statesman, - - , - Salemt Oregon. ' Gentlemen: Enclosed find .....to defray cost oi mailing copies of New Years edition of The Oregon Statesman to the following addresses : NAME . 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