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1 Saleu. Oregon saturday. Sept. 1 J 8 i I "V W " i -7 T , .T I riofr Dnp hi i ll A GOOD EXCUSE. JTr' Y V TOR AWMLE! V Istr r-... . : t-;; t , : . i The Duty on Wheat TR NICHOLS of Montana, testifying before the inter i otofo mmprcA commission on the Portland-Seattk rate case stated that the import duty on wheat was of im- ..oi. n tho farmers, that it created "high premium .ti eoirt tw "it is onlv when the premiums exceed u-:M-M4- v.or Canadian hard wheat moves into the United States in competition with Montana hard wheat. The import duty on wheat and tne aemana 01 me pwH w w hard wneai wun mg & 7 tana growers, much higher prices than they would get if wheat were on the free list." There is expert, testimony aSj Mr Miller was representing the Montana millers and knows what he was- talking about. His statement was based on facts, not on political expediency. , Anybody who cares to be - honest wiU have to admit that the duty on wheat is highly beneficial to agriculture. Corvallis Gazette-Times. . rvranllis naner is riirht. Of course the duty on wheat is highly beneficial to agriculture. Under the present . . - . t... W 1 rT tiro a on QTV. tariff law the rate was u cenis a uusnw. peal to the United States tariff commission, and .after in vestigation President Coolidge by proclamation raised it 40 per cent, 'to 40 cents a bushel. He had the power, under the elastic clause of the act, to raise it 50 per cent, or to 45cents -i a bushel ' . . ' , That would give ample protection if we produced no sur plus. But we do produce an annual surplus of 100,000,060 to 150,000,000 bushels of wheat; and the protective duty of 42 ; cents a bushel does not help in disposing of this surplus. Hence the McNary-Haugen idea, or the Jardine plan, or the Hoover nrooosition. to take care of the surplus That is, in effect, to put the protective duty in action. It can be done, in any one pf the three ways, i Someday ; perhaps in-10 to 15 years, there will be no surplus. Then nothing will be needed but.an adequate pro tective tariff rate. Why Should I Vote? A PRIZE of $1,000 tor a nation-wide high school essay con gest on the subject, "Why Should I Vote?" sponsored by thegreneral federation of women's clubs and approved by the chairman of the republican and democratic national commit tees, promises to give great impetus to the movement to edu cate American voters for the coming election. At a recent meetincr of the national civic association the contest was proposed by Mrs. John D. Sherman, president pfJ the general federation; the plan wa immediately approved and, was met by John Hays Hammond, president of the civic federation, wili thcoffer of the $1000 prize. j Mrs. William R. Alvord of Detroit, chairman of the de partment of American citizenship of the general federation of women s clubs, is in charge of the organization of joint committees on citizenship consisting of representatives of local groups, in 500 of the largest cities of the country. "Indifference of the rank and file of American citizens toward the franchise is a serious menace to the upholding of our cherished American institutions, ,said Mrs. Alvord. "We citizens, while deploring 'the growth of lawlessness and crime, cpntinue to overlook the remedy which lies in our own handsJthe ballot, by which officials may be elected who will enforce the laws and control crime. Absorbed in things our business interests, our homes, our social Iff e, our motor cars we have allowed to grow up an indifference toward a most fundamental possession, our right to vote. Such civic apathy threatens the very foundations of our government." What Is the Use? THERE is reported a movement to rush the proposed com mission and city manager charter onto the ballot for the November election ; by petition. The movement ought to fail. Ntf one is justified in sign ing such a petition. The proposition in its present form would not be accepted. The expenses incident to the cam paign and election would make a needless waste For the people of Salem will not vote for a charter that would make a city manager an autocrat; that would make the mayor a dummy; that would deprive the people of the wards of the assumed advantage of being represented in the municipal government by their coUncilmen And4here are a number of other reasons why the thing wouht"be buried under a landslide of adverse totes. Those reasons would have to be presented to the people ; this news paper would be bound to present them, in the line of ita duties. Twice such plans have failed before the people, after vig orous "campaigns of education." Properly drawn, the plan would be a good one; perhaps better than the corporation or council plan. But it is not properly drawn. andJf were it would not carry A corporation Or council plan would carry now; and it would accomplish virtually the same benefits. If we are to make the try at all now, why not. make it in a form that will carry, instead of under auspices and specifications that would surely mean defeat? Gorg W. Holcomb, muugw of the Salem canning company, wax here yesterday, going on to Albany. Oswald West, the newly ap pointed land agent, opened bis of fice In the state house yesterday. Mrs. West is still In Astoria. Miss Reba Cans started this morning for Lostine, Oregon, where she will teach in the public schools. ry Ppinions Of The Press We Gam' t All President Coolidge has caught a ten-inch grayling ini the Brule. If that can command a ten-inch news story in eTery paper in the coun try, we'd like to. hate the presi dent tie into one of the Rogue River steelheads. This would take several columns and if he, landed it, would be worth a page.' Grants Pass Courier. I " i Henry Ford has come out for Htfover, but, as he is not a Quaker ' we do not look for him to resign 'as head of the Ford motor com pany tobecome Hoover's campaign manager. Corvallis Gazette-: Times. Be IN DBERG IS But we can at .least follow his example. Lindbergh leaves nothing to chance. He tests his engine, he studies his maps, he 'routes his course. He tajces every precaution that is humanly possible. So should you Have you made' provision for th$ future or are you foolishly taking a chance. Did you realize that thou sands upon thousands of travel accidents occur every year and there's no telling when ydu may be, a victim. Think of your loved ones and secure, this protection, today before it is too late to take out a The wisdom of President Coo- Iidge's appointment of Dwight W. ; Morrow as ambassador to Mexico was doubted by many at the time ; it was made. Morrow was a Wall : j Street financier and it was feared !his banking connections' would J ieuu 10 maae irouDie wun our. neighbor to the south. Such has not been the case. Morrow has" apparently forgotten that he ever lhad a penny in Wall Street, and I he has shown excellent sense and ; .discretion and fairness in dealing I wun Mexico. The country has come to look upon him as a good friend. San Jose. Calif., Mercury- Herald. Discord and Councils CITY MANAGER Charles E. Ashburner of Stockton. Calif., has just resigned, explaining "that the dis cord in the community dictates his action in the interests of Stockton's future," according to .the Record. That news paper says the action of the city manager in "tendering his resignation to the city council was not unexpected." So Stockton evidently has the corporation form of city govern ment. It has a city council, and the citv council evidently elects the city manager, or at least fills the vacancy in case Ann T- . . 4 1 1 ? 1 XI X ' i "c wuja. it, ia luiuier expumiea. inat me city manager resigned Decause or "discord and abuse heaped upon him," dui, it is aaaea, "nis greatest work for Stockton was in unit ing diverse local elements into a harmoniousi whole early in iis administration when the citizenry got behind a notable program designed to make that city a great inland metrop 'olis." This matter is of peculiar interest to Salem at the pres ent time, when the question of a new charter is being dis cussed here. CSty managers have their troubles; especially when there is division of the people into factions, which the ccuiu says is me conaiuon at otocKion, with the progres sive element in too small a majority for effective work. ; Al Smith says no sensible man can take exception to his peech bf acceptance. Where does that place you, dear reaaer i . - CLICKS roiice &rait is getting to be so unusual that its discovery in Phil adelphia the other day was worth an Associated Press dispatch. And still the New Statesman grows and grows and grows. IT an attempt is made to jam that proposed city charter through at the November election those back of the plot are apt to join Al Smith and Jim Robinson on the mourners' bench. Anyway, its a 'relief to kno that stench came from a state sewer and not from the city hall With a dally distribution of approximately 10,000 the New Statesman soon will rank as one of the truly great dailies of the Xorthwesu Father Buck, in telUng what he thinks of the liquor problem. makes a nice distinction between temperance and prohibition. Os West stays on the democra tic national committee; and Milt Miller, as perennial candidate. What a pair! What leaders of men! Henry Ford plans a "museum village" of ancient and historic buildings. We know of several towns down South which he could put a fence around and use "as is." It needed only that drenching rain at Jim Robinson's notifica tion, following the downpour when Al Smith was notified, to. bear evidence as to the wetness of the democratic standard-bearers, re gardless of what Jim says. China objects to Roy Chapman Andrews bringing fossils out of that country. America would be better off if we could ship some of ours to China as a sort of swap. A Yakima woman of 78 took a ride In an airplane and liked it. She now plans to learn to fly her own plane. Which goes to show that you Just can't keep a good woman down. Wasn't .it significant the way Jim Robinson carefully avoided mentioning the liquor question and continually chattered about farm relief? "Al Smith's Speech Strengthens Grain" headlines a New York pa per. Sure, and the grain strength ened undoubtedly was "corn." The Statesman's 'Fourteen Points' A ProsressiYe Program To Which This Newspaper . Is Dedicated l. a. 4. 5. C T. A greater er Oregon. IndastrUl agricmltaral developeat of th Willamette valley. Efficient republican gov ernment far nation, state county and city. . Clcaa news, jmst oplnioa and fair practice. Upbuilding , of Orrgoa young- llnea industry. A modern city charter for Salem, adopted after ma tare consideration by all voter. ;'' Helpful encouragement to beet sugar growers and other pioneers la agricul tural enterprise. Park andplayground de velopment for aJJ people. . . Centralization isithln the capital city area of all state offices and inctltntlons. 10. Comprehensive plan for the development of the Oregon ' State Fair. t Coaservation of natural re sources for the public good,' Superior school facfliUea, encouragement of teachers ad active cooperation with .Willamette university. Fraternal and social or ganisation ef the greatest possible number of per il. 4 12. 13. 14. Winning to Marion coun ty's fertile lands the hlgh "cst type of citizenship. The Mojalla Pioneer says can didly: "We cannot get the logic of the argument that the cure for our liquor troubles Is more and easier boose." A. New Yorker at Large Bv G. D. S-vmour NEW YORK Treating a streetSystem wtoi Exceptions number along many of New York's 4.6 IS. 4 miles of thoroughfares is a task to confound even a native. Avenues running lengthwise of' Manhattan Island, and many which run in other directions, are numbered from "one" with no re gard for whether they start up town or down. Broadway begins at the Battery, Sixth avenue is the center of Greenwich Village, Fifth avenue at Washington Square and Madison avenue at Madison square wherefore the traveler who starts east across town from Times Square intersects Broadway in the 1600's( Sixth avenue in the 600 s. Fifth avenue in the 400's and Madison in the 300's. If an address cannot be identi fied as in the vicinity of Times Square, the Grand Cent raj Station, Greenwich Village or some other familiar district, many a stranger finds is simplest first to locate the street he seeks, and then to fol low it In either direction until he finds he right number. Crosstowu streets above the vi cinity of Washington Square are numbered east and" west, from Fifth avenus. Here. too. avenues run norm ana soutn ana Bireeis east and west. But downtown a street is a street In whatever dl- recion it runs, and even in sec tions which are not a part of "old New York" an occasional con- "course stops suddenly and another begins. Fourth avenue, for In stance, becomes Para avenue at Thirty-fourth street wihtdut a break in the width or straightness of the thoroughfare. Riverside Drive starts at Seven ty-second street, and the number ing of its apartments begins there just below the eminence from which the two-million-dollar man sion of Charles M. Schwab over looks the Hudson. On the Drive, as elsewhere, it is impossible Ho deduce from the street number the location of a given address. But one New Yorker has di vined in the numbering along the Drive a pattern which tbose who assigned the numbers probably did not anticipate. Since it begins it Seventy-second street, he takes a tenth of the stree number he is huning and adds it to 310 Riverside Drive 3 totaling 103 will be found near the intersection of 103rd street; and 4 SO Riverside Drive can be located at 120th street. Unfortunately even this system has its limitations. For above Grant's Tomb the Drive crosses a viaduct ana tnere are no mori apartments until the farther bank is reached. There the next numner appears, as U tnere naa oeen no lapse, and so the formula fails north of 125th street. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler i wants it distinctly understood that 4 while he is against Hoover for president he is still a regular re- nnhllQn Tl w T) . . 1 : i i . ! uu.ivuu. mji. uuurr siuiyiy caul oear io give up the kick that he: gets every four years out of at-j tending the republican national, convention as a delegate from! New York and protesting against : the eighteenth amendment or the party's foreign policy, or some thing. Yakima Republic. I Travel Accident Insurance Policy for every member of your family between the ages, of 15 arid 70. You can easily afford to do- it for the cost of each poney 13 only $ .00 a year LIFERS SERVE FEW YEARS IN PRISON Broadway's Baby Brother Broadway, discourse, is the longest New York street, running the length of Manhattan Island, across the Bronx and on to Yen- kers. It is often called tne longest single street-in the Lnited States, but it isn't. The shortest street in the city is down near where Broad way begins. It is Edgar street, less than 100 feet long. When will it rain? V - Hop men have a right to expect some showers next week, harking back to the years of the past mm And the state fair people have a record of past years to give them hope ror a dry weather period be ginning the 24th. Walter Ixw. street commission er, hopes to have reasonably fair weather conditions for paving till November 15th. He figures it that way each year. Last year, his equipment bad to go into winter or rather rainy season quarters oc November 10th. Though there were some fine days after that which might have been utilized. had the outfits not been put away and the working forces scattered. V Mr. Loe has ample work to last till -November 15tn. for all his street paving equipment anr forces. And enough left over, ir approved projects, to last the bet ter part of next year. He wn round out the present season with about 100 'blocks paved, if the The Redmond Statesman ob- weatner goas do not send too f re serves that the voters will rer ioi d too copious showers be chance to vote down the Dunne 'tween 0118 tIm Bd th middle of Bits for Breiakfast By R. 1. If" - If you imagine Salem is not I growing, you might figure up the auto bill after alL So long as it does not become a law it matters little as to the manner of its death. Henry Ford says that "What a man can imagine he eventually will be able to make' We can im agine a quart of 20-year, old Scotch, but making it is something else again, ilawrus. A Eugene citizen who has just returned from Europe says all It aly is pulling for Al Smith's elec tion. There must be a, reason for that. November. The Bits man was about to say the ide of Novem ber. Or would it be the nodes? freight business of this city, and compare it with that of two years ago, or five or ten or twenty rears. You would be convinced. And only just a fair start has so far been made. S S If you happen to share his en thusiasm, he's a man of vision; if you don't, he's a crank. There are few village divorces. It's easier, to fight it out than to xplain to the neighbors. m ; If Tom Mix can get tax exemp tion by charging his street clothes to advertising, why can't the la Jles do it? m "a ' j Povery causes crime. The gang 'eaders and bootleggers usually luit when tbey get a few millions. The new flivver may be sport- er but it isn't the sportsman of he old one was. It doesn't rattle before it strikes. V : Memory Is short and we can't -emember a single phrase of any lead language except "rushing the rrowler." Exchange. ; Americanism: Trying to save he soul of the other fellow, who is employing another method to save 'burs. , Persons sent to the Oregon state penitentiary under life sen tence have served an average of five years, four months and two days, according to a report made ' here Thursday by prison officials. ', 7 Thus!"e yuri cuverea ine period 1 and 72I1860 to 928- uurwg 1560 to 1870 life term prisoners served an average of two years, two monhts and 20 days. During 1870 to 1880 the average increased . to three ,years. nine months and 29 days. From : I8S0 to 1890 the average term served was'five years, one month and 27 days. Life term prisoners sent to the penitentiary during me period 1S90 to. 1900 served an average term of six years, three months and 18 days. The highest average was reached from 1900 to 1910, when the life term prison ers served an average of seven years, seven months and 20 days. During 1910 to 19 20 the aver age wa3 five years, three months and 28 days. Since 1920 to July 28 of this year the average in creased over the preceding 10 years to six years. 10 months and 29 days. During the entire period. 34 7 prisoners entered the peni tentiary under life term sentences, of which 270 were released. Sixty-four received pardons, 88 con- auionai paraons ana in 2 5 cases the sentences were commuted. Ten of the life term prisoners escaped. 3 6 died. 15 were transferred to the insane asylum, and sefen were granted retrials. Nineteen were dismissed, five were transferred to raerai prisons, and one com mitted suicide. There are now 77 life term men and women in the pententlary. with average terms now served of seven years, nine months and 25 days. The largest number of life term prisoners were in the pen itentiary during the period 1910 to 1920. 0RFGL1N JERSEY tS wllM OF MEML I Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talk From the Statesman Oar Fathers Read teptetnber 2, 11U3 I engines on the main line to burn wiuts wcEIroy. leader ef the coal in the future. Salem Military ban&. has fomnnn.! ; There are fewer golf widows since the "nineteenth hole" was sboliahed. The new Italian tennis cham pion is named Gasolini. How do you suppose he ever survives a match? Forth Worth Telegram. ed a march in honor of W. H Wehrung. president of O. A. C. H. L. Sumner has opened a bar ber shop at -123 State street. Recorder J. C. Siegmund'e fee collections for the month of Aug ust totaled only 9272.55. : ThW engine that pulled the Southern Pacific overland engine Record-1 last bight was the, last. oa that I line to burn wood., all passenger Senator John H. Mitchell visited the D. S. Indian-Training school at Chemawa yesterday. Senater Mitchell is the senior Oregon sen ate member. S ' Attorney-General A. M. ' Craw ford has returned from Crater Lake., Captain and Mrs. S. B. Ormsby have returned from San Francis co: where they attended the G A it. encampment. The American Jersey Cattle club has awarded a gold medal to Ply mouth Alice, a purebred Jersey cow which completed a. very fine record in the herd of Warren Gray, of Marion. Ore. In this 305 day official production test Alice yielded 664.97 lbs. of butterfat and 11.276 lbs. of milk. Her milk averaged 5.90 per cent butterfat for the test and she was with calf for 170 days ot this time, thus winning her gold medaL For three of the months of the test her yield was above 74 lbs. of but terfat. Plymouth Alice was first tested when she was 5 years and months of age. and in that test she produced 599.49 lbs. of but terfat and 8.731 lbs. of milk, with calf. Her sire is the gold and sil ver medal bull. Plymouth ' Lad's Majesty, and her dam Is Belle Mowat. Negro Executed For Old Murder OSSINING. N. Y...Aug. 31. (AP) Martin I. Millet, a negro. died in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison Thursday for the mur der last Ilarch of Mrs. Helen C. Kimball. . a ! Brooklyn school teacher.""', : . .n th- ;:dirix. Here Are a Few of the Many Benefits Pays $10,000.00 Fqy loss of life by wrecking or disablement of a railroad paaser.g-r car or street, elevated or underground railway etir. iassengr gteanisr :;. or -steam boat, in or on which insured is traveling as a tare paying passenaer as specified in Part I oC policy. Pays $2,500.00 For loss of life by wrecking of public omnibus, taxicab. auto s;a-r- which is being; driven or operated atftbe.tijne of such wrecking r disablement by a licensed driver, plying tor public hire and in wj... h the insured is traveling a a fare-payine passenger or by the rivk:ns or disablement of a passenger elevator, ; bands, tevt or sigh;, ias spevi stied in Part 11 of policy;. . Pays $1,000.00 For loss of life by wrecking of a private automobile or rriv.; drawn vehicle of the exclusively pleasure type as pro Id I :r. by beiaf struck or knocked down wh:!e wa'.kicg oa s fu:! c ! by a moving vehicle as set forth in policy t, or being sin t.. ning. cyclone Or tornado. co!!ap.e of outer walis of acy builcir.g. burning of any church, theater, library, school or municipal t; ice or sigai. tpeciuea in x ri it 01 poncy. Pays $20.00 Weekly For injuries sustained In any manner specified In Part I or II which shall not prove fjt.l or cause specific Joss as aforesaid 6u: siiail im mediately, continuously and wholly and i prevent the insured frorr. rr forjiog each sod every duty, pertaining . to say aa dtry kind of trtfsiness (As specified in tijc policy bu.t not exceeding. i conaecu;. . e . wecka. Pays $10.00 Weekly lor Injuries sustained in any manner specified In Part IV which V:. a:: not prove fatal or cause specific loss as aforesaid but shall immed:a:. continuously and wholly prevent the insured from performing exi a .in 1 . every duty pertaining to any and every kind of business, tas ; (.: -1 In the policy) but not exceeding 15 consecutive weeks. Hospital Benefits If a bodily injury for which a weekly indemnity Is payable un.l. v r . policy, is suffered by the Insured, and if on account of said t-xli: Injury the insured is removed to a regularly Incorporated hospit-.n. ihe Company will pay the insured in addition to the said weekly indem nity; for a period not exceeding five weeks. t?.0 per week. , Emergency Benefit Registration Identification and Financial Aid The Company will register the person Insured, and if Insured snaZl. by reason of injury, be physically unable to communicate with relatives or friends and in a condition requiring- identification, the Company will, upon receipt of message siting your potior numbeis immediately trans mit to such relatives or friends aa may be known to It any Information respect! og the Insured and. will defray all expenses to' put tlie insured In communicaiioa with ami in the care of relatives or friends provided such expenses shall not exceed the sum of One Hundred Dollars INSURANCE APPUCATIOX AND SUBSCRIPTION BLtAXK Date. 12S. THE NEW OREGON STATESMAN Salem, Oregon Gentlemen : - Tow are hereby authorized te eater my aabasriptioa to The New Oregon Statesman for on year from date. It to understood that The New Oregon Statesman is to be delivered to my address regularly each daf by your avtfaorixed carrier and I shall pay bun (or the sasae at the regular established rat of Sftc per -'h ... 2L !lIofn? ,Jprmt 11 J IHUc I asa t receive a $1.M.M Travel Accident Insurance Policy issued by the North Amer ican Insurance Company of ChicSLgD, lUionia, I am not at present a subscriber to The New Oregon Statesman I am now a subscriber to the Oregon Statesman Age Address City Occupation State Phone i J j- ' e airman