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C 4 i i . , . ; . . -1 ' THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON The Oregon Statesman Iuaed Dally Except afondsy by THB STATESMAH PUBUSHTHO COM7ATT 815 Sooth Commercial St-. Balam, Oracoa K. J. Haadrlesa Fre4 J. Tooe -Lw SI. 11 err una Laafta J. Smith . Aadrad Bunch - - Maarr Morln-Kditr - City Editor Tetrraph Editor - Bociaty Editor W. H. Headers . ClrevlatloA Kiutn Ralph H. KWUinf - dTartiaief Manaxar Frank Jaskoskl " - Manafar Jab Itopt. E. A. K ho tan - M Tea toe k Editor W. C. Connar . - Poultry Editor MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tb, Aiaorlated Press it exclusively entitled to the oia for pobUcatioa of all ttwi ita-patekea erditd to it or aot otfaerwiM credited in this paper and alao tk local awa poklisked harein. BUSINESS OFFICES: Albart Bran. S3 Worcester Bids;., Portland, Ore. " Tbomaa P. Clark Co.. New York, 128 139 W. Slit 8t; Cakafo. Varqnette BIdf.; Doty k Payne. Sharon Bid.. San Francisco, Calif.; Hitting Bid. Lot Anteiea. Oalif. Basis Office JtS or 59S Society Editor ... - IPS TELEPHONES: Circulation Offica58S N"wb Depart aa en tI I r 106 Jeb Department. -IBS Entered at tbe Poat Office in Salem. Oreson. aa eeond elaaa matter. Jrtne 10, 1020 THE VISION OP GOD "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and tby tabernacles. O Israel!" Nu. 24:5. CAN SALEM PAVE STREETS FASTER? The writer in this column noted yesterday the suggestion that two eight hour shifts be worked on street paving And that seemed a good suggestion Because one eight hour shift will be able' to pave only about 100 blocks during the season; and there are petitions and calls for more blocks perhaps double the number would be paved this year, if the work could be accomplished kinder the same cost and conditions as will hold with the 100 blocks in the present program. That looks easy. Just put on another crew and pave as many more blocks as are called for, or make it three crews if necessary. , ' , But it is not as simple as it seems. There is more to it. The Salem banks cash at par all time checks. They provide the working capital for the city street paving. They have been doing this all along. They are. doing it now, and are willing to continue up to 100- blocks, which is a slightly larger program than last year. But the managers of the banks believe this is about the extent to which Salem should go in street paving this year. . Why? Why not pave all the streets the property holders petition for? The property holders finally pay all the bills, including the interest on the street paving bonds, most read ers will argue. But do they? v They do not. The city itself, or the people of the city, present and future, pay for the paving of the street intersec tions. At least the city itself issues bonds that must be paid in time, and the interest on the bonds must in the mean time be kept up. In the present state of things, 100 blocks can be safely taken care of; that is, paying for the paving of the intersec tions of 100 blocks : But it might be dangerous to go further, under the pres ent laws and ordinances, and the condition of the finances of the city government. Is there a way out? The additional blocks desired to be n paved by the property holders ought to be paved, of course. Has any one a suggestion as to how to provide the money especially the money to pay for the intersectionos ? And the working capital money, too. GOOD BUSINESS IN BEAUTY EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE An eorrerp ond e nee for thin depart nent must be signed by tbo writer, mart bo written oa one side of the paper only, and should not b loaf as than 160 words. This is the annual Sltfgan number of The Statesman on Floriculture. More progress has been made in Salem and in the country surrounding this city in this field during the past year than in any former twelve month period ; more than in any two year period. Floriculture is a great asset to Salem. It has money value. There is a good business in beauty. Make Oregon's capital city as attractive as Nature prepared the facilities to render it, and it will bring and hold an ever increasing number of the most desirable people. . The Salem Garden club has done and is doing much good work; but it has not done and is not doing any thing approach ing the amount of good that it shuld do. It has a larger membership than it has heretofore had of devoted flower lovers i But it should have 5000 members, each paying $1 a year dues, and the money expended in the encouragement in many ways of efforts to make Salem more and still more beautiful. What this society needs is general public support. Salem is already a beautiful city. This fact is enthusias tically noted by every discriminating visitor. Our Civic center is one of the four or five most beautiful in the United States. Splendid progress is being made, and a fine spirit has grown up, the full development of which is sure to render Salem one of the most attractive cities in this country, or in 4he world The real "City Beautiful," which it has a right to become, on account of its natural setting and the peculiarly favorable soil and climatic conditions here for the production of trees and plants and flowers of texture and color and combination making up the sum of transcendent beauty And. the showing made might be extended here almost indefinitely. There is scarcely a home in all Salem, or in any of its suburbs, that is unworthy of a word picture pointing to some outstanding feature of floriculture , In fact, Salem says it with flowers And says it with flowers that aire finer on the average than can be found in many a city very niuchJ larger in total population. Salem is as much a Rose City as Portland, and more so, In fact, in comparison to size and population. Our curbs here are lined with miles and miles of rose hedges., And-Salem is more a city of bulb flowers than any other on this coast, and we grow tulip bulbs as fine as any grown in Holland; and finer than are produced elsewhere in the United States. Salem.has become a bulb center, and the commercial side of our floricultural industry is growing very fast, and destined to make still greater strides . ,, ; --Vv--. k Headed, in fact, for tremendous developiments. Salem is to be an international bulb center. And, in good time, one of the most beautiful cities in all the world;" Editor Statesman: I was highly diverted Friday by your editorial attempt to denature the Portland Journal's blunt state ment regarding the activity of the United States Chamber of Com merce in fighting anything tend ing to benefit agriculture. And Saturday your front page Asso ciated Press dispatch telling of the federal court's attempt to put rings in the nose3 of the whole sale grocer hogs, is another hilar ious item. Hitch the two together and note how each augments and interprets the other. The United States Chamber of Commerce is a chamber of COM MERCE, and no amount of suave pretense, or smooth sounding res olutions, or crocodile tears shed over the plight of farmers, can make it a chamber of agriculture. The Salem Chamber of Com merce is a member of and allied with the United States Chamber of Commerce. I have no patience with those who hysterically as-. sume that our commercial inter ests lie awake nights trying to fig ure out some way of soaking the farmer. They don't; they lie awake trying to figure out some way by which they can slyly mooch still more of the prosperity which by every natural law of economics and business decency belongs to someone else. The fact that the moochee in every instance happens to be the fa'rmer is a mere detail which does' not interest them. They are or ganized air-tight for their own class benefit and the farmer is outside. The thing that gilds the gloom of the tragedy with the tin sel of farce and buffoonery is the sorrowfully innocent expression on the face of the organized business buccaneer as he fraternally places his hand on the farmer's shoulder and says: "John, your interests are ours; come up to the Cham ber of Commerce and we will talk things over and see if we can't do something for you. Faced with these facts, business men have petulantly asked me: "Well, why don't the farmers or ganize in their own behalf?" It is to laugh! The farmer is a work er, not an organizer. Hi3 weak mind and strong back do not as similate the subtle niceties neces sary to successfully combat the vicious commercial tendencies of this age. Two years ago Salem packers contracted cherries from the farm ers at five cents a pound. While the crop was being picked cold eyed young men from the" packing establishments invaded the orch ards, snarled at the owners, crab bed about the quality, declared the packers were losing money on it, threatened to refuse further deliv eries, and in some Instances got the farmers to shave even the con tract price. Growers without contracts brought perfect fruit to town, were bluntly refused any market whatever, and were told that if they wanted to sell anything they must contract it early in the sea son at the starvation prices dic tated by the packers. But in the meantime, a few farmers who bad the guts to do it, loaded their cher ries into refrigerator ' cars, ship ped them to Philadelphia, and net ted eighteen cents a pound after paying freight, refrigeration char ges, commissions and all other ex penses. The only thing that sur prises me is that they were able to ship at all. The packers must have been a little slow about fil ing their objections with the SP. This fall I shall want a few bashels of apples. Will I buy them from Salem stores? Not any! I will drive out into the country and fill the tonneau for a couple of dollars, or (as sometimes has hap pened) be invited to help myself for nothing. Apples such as the merchants will be selling for per haps 1.50 a box will be brought to town by farmers, and the mer chants will refuse to buy them at any price even 25c a box. Why? Does it mean that the merchant is making a profit of $1.25 on a $1.50 box of apples? Scarcely! It means only that he is true 4 to his organization and is buying and selling under prescribed rules. His organization does busienss at both ends. That's the deuce of it! If he merely soaked the farmer perhaps I would be content; and if he got all of bis proXit from me probably the farmer would be sat isfied;, but when he wallops both of us it makes us both sore. His organization keeps prices up. but the upness dbn't benefit the farm er any, and it certainly doesn't do me any good. Another sad condition is that mentioned in the Capital Journal recently, - wherein is related the distress being suffered by our bus iness men because . the farmers hare no public market in Salem, Yesslr, they weep ' because the farmers have no suitable place where they could sell their apples for 50c a box, snd they will tear fully admit it to any farmer -who oiks them. It's a shame, but there ' -1 don't seem to be any such place. As a means of relieving the ten sion and saving wear and tear on commercial lachrymal glands, let ns hold a joint session of the Chamber of Commerce, the bus iness men's league, the. realty as sociation and , all the "sorTice" clubs, and pass vigorous and well worded resolutions referring the matter to the zoning commission! That ought to convince the farm ers that our hearts are with them; It would be strictly in accordance with precedent, nnd as good an alibi as any. A. M. CHURCH. 545 N. 13th St. 32 FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1926 Henry O. Miller, 184 S. Coml St., where most people prefer t get their auto parts tor all makei of cars. Trade there and makt savings on all auto parts. () Walter H. Zosel, automobile tires, tubes and accessories. Vul canizing that holds. High qnality, superior service. A trial makes a customer. 198 S. Com'l. () Pies, Cakes, Doughnuts. Bread, In fact everything in the bakery line baked by the Better-Yet Bak ery Co., 264 N. "Commercial and for sale by all grocers. (.) There is nothing so satisfying as to know you have good tires on your car. The Malcom Tire Co., Court & Com'l. can supply you. See them. () Bits For Breakfast Woods Auto Top Co., bnildera of th0 most elegant and durable .utomoMie tops in Salem. Repair ing of all kinds. Curtains with lass enclostfa.Get oar prices. () The Commercial Book Store lias everything jo need la books and stationery and supplies far Xi9 school, office or home, at tae low; est posslUa prices. Neaily 3000 cannery workers "a And some of the Salem canners are calling for more help. Some of the department heads, working night and day at the can neries to take in the fruit and reep the forces going, are about worn to a frazzle. V . More pickers are needed in the fields. Some of the strawberry fields? were very short of help yes terday. m The audience that filled the auditorium of the state school fr the deaf last night, attending the graduating exercises, had a rare treat, in the demonstrations of the work of the pupils. The wonders of the performances of these stud ents are beyond description. They must be seen. One of liie pleas ing features was an exhibit of the work done in the sewing class, showing living models of the older girls wearing the dresses of their own making. The small cost of the materials was surprising. In one group, very neatly dressed, the cost was about ?2 each. There was one graduate, Evert Yeager of St. Helens. He is a fine, upstanding young man. He expects to go on to the Gallaudet school for the deaf at Washington, I). C, the only one of its kind, of college grade, in the United States. He will be a creditable represen tative of bis state at this national institution. S Everybody wants all the streets paved that the property owners pe tition fur; and this year. But how is it to be done? Can you answer? Director's Department Store is building up a reputation for guar anteed merchandise; conducting a real department store; makiD? steady progress, too. () L. A. Scheeiar Auto Wrecking Co., oldest in the Willamette val ley. New and used parts and equipment. Low prices and' qual ity service here. 1085 N. Com'l () Nash Furniture Co. takes the lead with low prices on chairs, rockers, tables, wood and Bteel beds, springs, mattresses. Saves you 25. 219 N. Com'l. () Eiker Autq Co., Feny at Liber ty St. Autos stored, and bought and sold. Cars washed day - and night. Low prices and service will make long friends. () When you think of cards then think of Pattons Book Store. Any style of Greeting Card will be found there, and exclusive too. () W. G. Krueger, realtor; progres sive, fair; equitable. Growing city and country make possible buys that will make you good money. Complete listings. 147 N. Com'l () The Salem Hdw. Co., most, pro gressive. Every accommodation given to those in need of best hardware supplies. Work and pros perity the motto. 120 N Com'l. () ?JULbsbS - mm HANDICAPPED FOR LIFE SEVERE mental and physical nervous reflex complications accompany Rectal and Colon ailments. Eliminate the causes and you remove these reflex conditions. And they CAN be eliminated despite your discourage ments with "quack" remedies and surgi cal operations. My thousands of success ful cases m many years practice PROVE this. Further, I will GUARANTEE IN in rnu ro cure any case of Ffles or re una me patient's fee. No open Htm aaaa(t4i. fc4 today maio aARamjetpL Dr DWan BwHalna fr A, MAKE WHOLE CITY OF SALEM A GARDEN That Is the Way Mr, Bate ham Would Solve Flow er Vandalism Matter Editor Statesman: Salem, June 5, 1926. (Mr. Bateham is in charge of the grounds of the state hospital (asylum.) Ed.) A few weeks ago a contest was conducted through the columns of the Capital' Journal on the sub ject of "Flower Vandelism" Mrs. T. S. Watts of Salem, R. 4, being the winner of first prize. Now I know full well that it Is not 'good form to disagree with the judges in such cases but there are some assertions made in her essay to which I take exceptions. She says, "we must protect our flowers from thieves and not de pend on laws or education". . Laws may not help very much, but education surely does. If all our school children were trained ers, and every home were adorned to grow and own their own flow with them, there would be no more pilfering. I also disagree with Mrs. Watts in her statement that, " the most'beautiful gardens are those that are enclosed either with walls, fences or hedges." This might be all very well and possibly necessary out on R. F. D. 4, where wandering pigs and stray dogs might make the flow er bed a play ground, but just imagine, if you can, what a re monstrance would go up if all beautiful yards and public play grounds, of which Salem "Is so justly proud, should be fenced oft and walled In as she suggests. The flower thieves would not be the only ones to be punished, I am thinking. Up at Victoria, B. C, they may do that way and "enjoy peeping over the walls at the gardens in side," but we Have not become that bad in Salejn yet. "Again she says, "enclosed gar dens add dignity to a town." I suppose this is the motive the city council must have, in their plan to enclose all junk yards with high fences. 'I do agree, however, with the prize winner in her as sertion that "where there are shade trees along the "parking, a well kept grass strip is prefer able to flowers." But, in the ab sence of trees, I think a border of roses or smaller plants add very materially to the appearance. If you want to see your yard as others, see it, just ask any realtor. They always have an' eye out for attractive features. Those that have made the subject a study have found that it is the large bright or spectacular flowers, and usually those with long stems, such as tulips.v lillies and others, that are most apt to be stolen, and unfortunately, these are the very ones which are most harmed by ruthless pulling of the stems, clean down to the ground, leaving no foliage to recuperate with. The proper place for such varieties is back further from the street or next to the building, putting on hardy annuals along the parking. The more they are picked, the beter they bloom. I have often wished that my sweet peas and pansies were along the sidewalk with a sign on .them, "help your self." The chances for a larger blooming season would be great ly increased. Of course, it is hard for chil dren to resist picking, bnt rather than put all the flowers where the children can't see them with out "peeping over a wall," I would plant soi many that ' what they picked wiould never be missed. Sure! I "A garden Is made to live in."! Let's make the whole city a garden and live happy ever after." j H. C. BATEHAM. The Square Deal Hardware Co., 230'N. Com'l. Most elegant and practical lines of mechanics' tools, uilders' hardware, cutlery, etc. Go there and save the diffreence. () O. J. Wilson, for 21 years the Bnick man in Salem. When better cars are ; built, Buick will build them. The better Buick is here for you and your family. () I INCORPORATIONS I The Western Cattle Loan cor poration ! with headquarters in Portland and capital stock of by A. C.iCammack, W. M. Cake 110,000, : has been incorporated and Ralph H. Cake. Articles t were filed in the state corporation department yesterday. J. and! J. Coleman (U.S.A.), Limited, j organized under the laws of England, has filed appli cation to; operate in Oregon. The capital stock is $160,000. Port land is the Oregon headquarters of the corporation. South Portland Box and Lum ber company, Portland. $1000; S. R. Smith, George L. Masten and E. E. Putnam. Boyer Tag and Label company, Portland notice of dissolution. Corporation Finance company, Portland i notice of dissolution. Roserrfeld " Smith company, Portland i capital stock reduced from $200,000 to $5,000. At The Theatres Elstlnore Harry Langdon in. "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." Oregon Pat O'Malley in "Let Womn Alone." BUc.H Jack Hoxie in "A Six Shootln' Romance." Union Pacific Railroad awards 12 scholarship prizes in OAC, to Oregon boys and girls standing highest in club work. - Redsport Carload shad, 20. 000 pounds, shipped to New York. 5 Lemons Bleach the Skin White The only harm- 1 e s s way to bleach the skpl white is to mix the juice of two lemons with. n ... niuiee uu Lives v i t t Orchard White, f jW-which any drug U gist will supply for a few cents. Shake well in a bottle,! and you have a whole quarter-pint of the most wonder ful skin whitener, softener and beasti ier. Massage this sweetly fragrant lemon bleach into the face, neck, arms s nd hands. It can not irri tate. Famous stage beauties use it to bring that clear, youthful skin apd rosy-white complexion ; also as: a freckle, sunburn and tan bleachj You must mix this re markable lotion, yourself. It can not bej bought ready to use be cause jit- acts best Immediately after it is prepared. 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