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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON TUESDAY MORNING MAY 31r 1927- i 1 Oregon Sta tesman Iasaed Daily Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COUFAHT SIS South Conraereial Street. Balesa. Oregon B. J. Hendricks Iri 8. McSnerry . Baton C. Curtis -Aadred Banes - . . . - Manager (Managing Editor City Editor - Telegraph F.ditor - - Society Editor W. H. Hendersoa Ralph II. Kletiiai Prank Jaakoski E. A. Khotea - W-. C. Conner Cirenlatioa Manager ' Advcrtiaing Manager Manager Jot Dept. - - LiTeatoek Editor Poultry Editor XXXBEB OF THE A8SOCIATX PEERS The Associated Press is ozelusiTely eatitled to the nse for publication of an anrs dis fa tehee credited to it or not otherwiao credited in thia paper and also the loal news pub lished herein. BUSINESS OFFICES: B. B. Ball, 222-223 Security JMdg., Portland. Ore., Telephone Broadway 9240. Ttoasaa P. Clark Co, New York, 128-136 W. 31st St: Chicago, Marquette Bldg. Doty A Slypes, Toe, California repreaentatiTes, Sharon Bldg., San Francisco; Chamber f Comraerre Bldg., Los Angeles. Boelness Office Society Editor or 60S 106 TELEPHONES: News D-pt. - - 23 or ma Job Department Cirenlatioa Office .583 ..583 Entered at the Post Office in Salem, Oregon, as second-class matter May I. 127 Now this I say brethern. that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold I tell you a mystery: we all shall not s'eep, but we all shall be changed. 1 Cor.. 16:50-51. THEN HOW? After, the vetoing of $1,300,000 of the appropriations of the last legislature by Governor Pattersono, there is still a shortage of $2,000,000 for the present biennium for this year and next year. If there is any reader of these lines who thinks of voting against the proposed income tax on June 28, then how does he propose that the $2,000,000 shall be provided ? What. is his suggestion? Does he want the functionos of the state government to stop? Does he want the insane of the state turned loose? And the men in the penitentiary ? And those in the reforma tories ? Does he want the state to cease training the deaf and the blind ? Does he want the courts to be dismissed ? Does he want the credit of the state impaired or ruined ? If not any or all of these things, what does he want? What is his way out? It is proposed in the bill to be voted on that ALL THE MONEY raised by the income tax shall be used to reduce the property taxes, excepting the S2.000.000 of the amount for 1928 tp balance the state budget. It is also proposed by another bill to be on the ballot to restore the 1923 tax base of $3,500,000 after 1928; and this bill specifically includes any money from an income tax in the 6 per cent limitation Thus absolutely defining what shall and what shall not be considered in that limitation. This companion bill must be passed by the people, along with the income tax bill. The Znillage taxes of the state schools and for other purposes, voted by the people, cannot be included. They have not been, in any estimate of a deficiency. If -there is a voter who has any suggestion for a better way than that proposed to balance the state budget, and to keep it balanced, and to keep unimpaired the credit of the state, let him be heard. The columns of The Statesman are open to him. , If he wants any state activities abolished, which ones does he suggest? SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VETERANS An incidental event calls to mind the early months of 1898; the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor and other indignities and atrocities, leading up to the declara tion of war by our country against Spain in April of that year To which declaration the United States and the rest of the world owe a vast debt in the progress of events in the less than 30 years which have marched since in the unending files Of history And in observing Memorial day too little attention, in pro portion to the great part they played, is given to the Spanish American War Veterans who make up a part of the patriotic processions on May 30th. No man was drafted in that war; they were all volunteers. , "The war with Spain was undertaken not that the United States should increase its territory, but that oppression at Qur very doors should be stopped," said President McKinley, after the great victories from Manila to Santiago, from Guam to Porto Rico, and the terms of the peace treaty had been made. It was a war for humanity and in behalf of a herioc people, who for many years had been struggling against cruel atro cities, oppression, and the despotism of a .decaying mon archy. It made the United States a world power. . It answered in the affirmative the first recorded question of history, "Am I my brother's keeper?" for the most power ful nation of the world. Our country had participated in the bombardment of Japanese-ports and in the assessment of indemnity along with the other powers and had given back her part of the indem nity money which was used by Japan in building the Shim onoseki breakwater protecting the entrance to . the port of Yokahama. , Our country had returned to China a large part of her share of the indemnity mWey assessed by the partici pating powersafer the Boxer rebellion- But it was for the peace treaty of Paris after the Spanish American war for our country, the victor in every battle, to pay to Spain, the defeated nation, twenty millions of dollars, a thing theretofore unheard of. By that war. the United States was made one nation in sentiment and purpose, with sectionalism blotted out - 1 -And it was made a nation with sentiments of responsibil ity for all humanity. It was made a nation that could under take the greater task of concluding the World war, with the approval of 100,000,000 of our population. " But for the Spanish-American, war, who can say our country would have (joined in the World war? ' i; . ' : The victories of Dewvy and Roosevelt and Otis and all the rest, including our own Oregon boys and the battleship that carried the name of our state 13,000 miles to meet and con quer, Svith her sister ships, a Spanish fleet, and the terms of Jhe Paris protocol-4-. .. - - " V These brought grave responsibilities. ; pursuing duty for duty's sake is always safe and honorable J It is not within the power of man to foretell the future and to solve unerringly its mighty problems: Almighty God has His plans and methods for human progress, and not infre quently they are shrouded for the time being in impenetrable mystery. Looking backward we can see how the hand of destiny builded for us and assigned us tasks whose full mean ing was hot apprehended even by the wisest leaders of their times. The Mayflower pilgrims did not realize the world embrac ing sweep of their compact sealed in the cabin of their frail vessel on the uncharted seas. Our colonial ancestors did not enter upon their war originally for independence. Abraham Lincoln did not start out to free the slaves, but to save the Union. Our people knew Cuba and the plight of her people. They understood the rage and rottenness of a moribund monarchy that could sanction if not direct the murder of a ship load of American forces in what should have been a friendly harbor But a very small proportion of our people knew the Phil ippines. Some one said at the time that most Americans were then in doubt as to whether the name Filipino meant a tribe in the South Seas or a handle for a new kind of soup But the fateful morning of May 1, 1898, when Dewey with his fleet sailed past the frowning Spanish guns into Manila bay, every tenth citizen of our country became a brown man or woman And the United States became responsible for the protec tion of their rights and the destiny of their government The Philippines and Porto Rico became American terri tory, and Cuba became a free country. But the priceless principles that animate our people under go no change under a tropical sun or a frozen waste. They go with the flag. They are wrought in every one of its sacred folds and are inextinguishable in its shining stars. "Why read ye not the changeless truth, The free can conquer but to save." In the spirit that was manifested in the gift of Shimono seki, and in the gratuity of the Boxer indemnity money that has borne a large part in the training in the universities of this country of the Chinese students who have become leaders in all walks of life in that nation of a fourth of the human race, and highly exemplified in the deeds and conclusions of the struggle with Spain, this country of ours has become the leader of the world in the things that are altruistic in every nook and corner of all the lands under the bending skies The spirit that fed the starving children of our enemies in Russia and Germany; that has leaped to the relief of earth quake shaken Japan and famine swept China and has gone to the succor of every one in need everywhere, whether friend or foe The spirit that holds the torch of good will and sympathy and understanding high for all the earth's peoples The spirit that sent Lindbergh to the mother of Nun gesser. In that spirit the Spanish-American War Veterans rushed to the colors in 188, pd gave to their country the larger vision that grows brighter in the course of the unwinding years Prof. G. R. Hyslop, agronomist of the Oregon Agricultural college, is out in a statement that the predictions in the cable dispatches from Belfast that the new J. W. S flax seed will make Jinen as cheap as cotton are not justified ; nor the claims that flax from this seed will produce tow twice as long as that from ordinary flax fiber, and that it is free from sticky substances so that it will require less labor in the retting process. Probably the claims for Belfast are a trifle optimis tic. The Oregon state flax plant is trying out this seed this year, under favorable conditions. More will "be known about it within two or three months. But Prof. Hyslop, who is a competent man in his field, will admit that there are a flock of other events coming to pass, promising to reduce the cost of flax fiber below that of cotton fiber. Among them the use of the newly invented automatic scutching machine, one of which will within a few weeks be in operation at the Oregon state flax plant. . IOWA SENDS TIN HAT GIRLS TO PARIS Inventive genius in this country, coupled with mass pro duction, are tending to keep up high wage scales, and thus maintain consumer demands. And new lines of employment due to new inventions, and a moderate influx of new people, are tending to increase the volume of demand for the output of industries on the land and in the cities and towns. This also all makes for lower costs per man, enabling the develop ment of foreign markets in many lines. All of which portends continued prosperity in the United States. There will be prosperity as long as the consumer demand can be maintained. Bits For Breakfast o I Memorial day well observed W W And the weather man was kind. The Salem canneries are tuning up for gooseberries, with' straw berries Just around the corner. Sunshine is wanted, but not too warm nor too long continued. Just enough to ripen the berries, and keep them coming over a long season. N Ramsay MacDonald of England. after visiting the United States, reports to his people that thl country will likely soon produce "articles on a scale of costs which will securp them a world market." That is, thongh we have the high est wago wcales In the world, we have also the highest production per roan, owing to the American genius for mass production and the skillful, handling of machin ery. This Is well illustrated i by the rice growers of California. They are sending rice to China, to eompetn with that grown In that country. The wage scale in China is around 30 cents a day. In California, in tractor farming, $o to 17 and more a day -and the men running; the tractors are largely American Chinese; But they make machines do the work, tinder the direction of Americans s Pursuing duty may not always lead by smooth; paths ; but I with their ideas geared up to methods of mass production and the best use of mechanical devic. S -W Before the war, Germany de pended on Chile for nitrates large ly. Germany is now selling ni trates taken from the air by her manufacturers to Bolivia, neigh bor f Chile. The United State still depends largely upon Chile for nitrates. But Germany pro poses to invade our markets with mixed fertilizers. And in oar country water powers are running' to waste that are capable of mak ing the nitrates for our own use and that of a practically unlimit ed foreign demand. - . Lindbergh did not find th Iondon crowds any more polite than those of Paris when ho made 'his landing. The Belgians were better behaved than either. Put that down to the credit of Bel gium. How will tho New York crowds stand in the comparison? c& if ci " I il. 2 it s 7 i. r .s. ... 1 H i 9-& ' eV ' TV it f : DAVEN'PQRT, Iowa. AP) The Yankettes are coming! i Sixteen ' Iowa girls the drill corps of the Davenport American Legion auxiliary and the prize feminine marching squad of the United States are going to pa rade this autumn at the legion convention in Paris as they have paraded from coast to cqast in this country .siine 1923. In San Francisco, St. Paul, Omaha -and Philadelphia the come ly drill corps-"lias paraded at American Legion conventions. For the last two years it has captured first honors in feminine drill com petition. The yer before that the corps ranked second, and in its first year, when no awards were offered, it received and rejected Matilda Doane, Alanson , Royal. Joseph Chamberlin, Olive . W. Chamberlin, J . n. bweeney, ! Julia Sweenes', W. C. Stewart. Richard Hocking. Edwin Sher j wood, A. C. Leabo. Andrew F. ! Hanson. J. Willard De Yoe, Witl- Doane Beers. Mrs. Biers, Cyrus Shep herd. Isaac D. Driver. Mary Driv er, Ilannaih Driver, L. T. Wood ward. Elizabeth Woouard. D. L. Spaulding Amanda M Harriet E. . Uewley. Spaulding, John Mclutire, Emma Mclntire. Dishop E. 0. Haveb. W. It. Patty,' Martha Patty. Carrie Patty, Marie Dillon, Mrs. Jennie Vanscoy, Wil liam Spoor. Louisa Spoor. G. M. Irwen, Sarah E. Irwen, William Roberts, Hannah Roberts, J. H. Wilber, Lucretia Wilber, John Roork, Mrs. Roork, George M. Booth, Clara E. Booth. Wesley M. Erskine, Daniel A. Rader, Sanford Snyder. Thomas Cochran, Susan Cochran. Alvin F. Waller, Alife Waller. GeorKe P. Bennett. Kmma Bennett, John Naugle, Elizabeth S. Grannis. , L. Alderson, Mrs. Alderson, T. ard Proctor, Catherine Hepp, Eliz abeth F. Payne. MUST RE-RECORD BRAND All Stockmen to Be Notified of New Ijw and Get Blanks 1 The re-recording of all live stock brands in ue in Oregon prior to September 1 is required by a new law passed by the last legislature, according to Dr., V. H. Lytle. state veterinarian. .De signed to eliminate from the rec ords a number of unused and dead brands the new law, Lytic states, will also serve to discourage cat- REAQ THIS TWIGS Paint lonseff 5" Tor insLff or oi, there" s a Crrta in feed pain! tit at lalisfiesyoitr need. There is no belter paint that ive huriu of. NLY 62 gallons of Certain-teed arc needed for twd good coats on a bunga low like this (36'x4o') and at a paint cost that is very small. Every owner likes to have his house make a gocd appearance in his neghborhood, but few realize the little paint it takes. jCome in and let us figure with you on Certain-teed. We know of no other paint offering such good value. THERE IS NO PAINT BETTER THAN CERTAIN-TEED A piione call brings our paint man Let him save you money and help plan your paint needs CIRCOlT RIDERS OF OLD . OREGON HONORED ANEW O'untinund from lge I.) gave the principal address. ' A J 1st of tho ministers and their wives' who are' burfed inviho Lee Mission cemetery are: Jason Lee, Lucy Thompson- Lee, Anna Mar lah Pitman 'Lee, J. L. Farrish, Elizabeth Parrish. r W. S. Lewis H." K. Hines, Gustarus G. HInes, Lydla Hlnea, Ann J. llinesr N. - fl; IXHfc.j 1Mi6ii- IHH L F.CTRIC waiu 33T Court St. - - ' tor the . ' Girl Graduate Novelties unusual and in trig ding, always please young la dies.' " Here- .we , have gifts, Which will delight and please ;as graduation gifts. We cater to the whims of younger pcok pleand are; we.U supilied. to., satisfy their demands.? V- Suggestions . Memory Bocks In a var.ety of cetera, de ' eignr and sizes. Data Sacks, Address - Books,, raotograph Albnmg. : Bridge Score Pads etjit Novelties. In--- lat Playing1 Card tvt. Priies are wal-s .? gitta. Books. Pen and Pen- c Seta, Stationery. yfportfolisa, Dealt Beta, irj . . . .. " . ICOaiaiERCIAL BOOOK STORE J offers . of ' theatrical engage ments. . ' The corps is mftde.'up largely of young women Ik business. No school girls andjno 'matrons are on the roster. Marias Rudolph is drillmaster. f . Davenport hasraised $4,100 to send them to Pjiris." The Iowa legislature has appropriated $5000 more. " ' i- tle rustling as niafiy of these old and unused brautfs are now being used only by cattle thieves. Lytle estimates that approximately 50 per cent of all livestock brands. now on recorc, are no longer in use. 1 All stockmen with brands on record will be notified of the new law and blanks, provided for re- recordlni" these" " brands, Lytle stated. To any who fail to re record their brands by September l a second .notice will be sent be fore "any other stockman U per mitted to adopt a recorded brand for his own use. Lytle declares, that the new re-recording law will make available for use a number of good brands which are no long er in use by their original owners. NATION HONORS WAR'S DEAD WITH COOLIDGtr (Continued from page 1.) tent that -we establish morality in our own country. Unless we are an industrious, orderly nation, wo can-neither minister to our own requirements nor be an effective influence for good in the world. "We have made our place in the world through the union and the constitution. We have flourished as a people because of our success in establishing self government. But all of these results are pre dicated upon a law abiding peo ple." - "Unknown Honored Immediately after the address, the president and Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by members of the cabinet, went to the,, front of the amphitheatre to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, resting on the hill overlooking the Potomac river, and beyond Washington. Mr. Coolidge placed a wreath of lilies on the. marble slab, then stepped back and stood (or a moment with head uncovered.. ".Mrs. Coolidge then laid a white Tose beside the wreath and with the president stood silently a. moment before re turning to the capital. In the group also were the re presentatives of this country's earlier wars.and the official repre sentatives of other nations. VirPy sd good all summer ROUND TRIPS St. Paul $77.65 Chicago $92.35 New York $153.75 . Other a!at) la arnartleei Choice of Fine Trains ?.:j.-i.;..;;;.;ybiira!;V. NORTH COAST LTD., 9:30 a. m. from Port land via S , P. & S., N. P.; C. B. A Q., and ORIENTAL LTD., out at 8:00 p. m. via BP. & SpG. N., C, 3. & Q., both following th famous- Columbia . River scenic water leVel route through the Cascades, and with co ordinated service east of Chicago. . " Low Round Trip Fares to Portland Rose Festival June 15-18 Let us help you plan your trip . L..F. KNOWLTON, TRAV. PSGR. AGT. ' J. W. ; RITCHIE, AGENT -. Phone 727 SeataellB) SB an z I I m m 1 C3 .X. x CviunicrcLU An Wi Qppov We intend to open an agency for Willys Knight and Whippet Automobiles in this city irt Uie VERY NEAR FUTURE. We ; are going io .put our. own money into businesSv v;.:f;'r;.' :-: ' the We 'desire a live, hustling sales executive to join with us in the enterprise. We do not need your money-ronly a small invest ment is necessary, as we want a, man to be working for himself as well as for tis. We prefer a man not over 40. Autornobile experience preferred but not essential: ' Must have good standing socially and -among business 'people of the community and be. a known worker and producer. 5 --r $-..t:tf. ' ' - -. ' '. ' .. , ' : ' We are going to put into Salem the type of agency that this important center justifies and demands. . Please tlo not'writc us unless you have the quali fications listed. ALFRED - BILLINGSLE Y; MOTOR CO: . Distributors. 'ft. 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