THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON
TUESDAY MORNING MAY 31r 1927-
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(Managing Editor
City Editor
- Telegraph F.ditor
- - Society Editor
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Ralph II. Kletiiai
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' Advcrtiaing Manager
Manager Jot Dept.
- - LiTeatoek Editor
Poultry Editor
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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.
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Memorial day well observed
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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33T Court St.
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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,
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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. " '
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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
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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. '
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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;.' :-: '
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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
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' 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.
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