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PAGE FOUR The OREGON CTATESSlANv Sato. Oregon, Friday Monday. June 21, 1923 -1 : . i il I T Tne Patent r Collector Here ana ' 1 'V-r--i ; - -;V4'- liV t- js ' j 1 1 MNo Favor Sicay Us; So Fear Shall Awe." From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Cbables A. Snucus, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publisher! Chacles A. S PRAGUE ... Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sackett - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatchessfredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. Entered at the Pottcffice at Salem. Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Buzintu ffiee 15 S. Commercial Street. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inc., Portland, SacBrity Bldg. San Francisco, Sharon Bldg.; Los Angeles, W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stecher, Inc., New York, 271 Madison A.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. Post-Commencement Thoughts TUST as Thomas Gibbon characterized his Oxford days as J "the most unprofitable of his career" and Henry Adams regarded his four years at Harvard as empty, James Trus low Adams, historian and essayist, writing "A Note on Amer ican Education" in the June "Forum," reviewing his own twelve or thirteen years of formal schooling, is "impressed with the appalling waste of time and effort." He offers a critique of American education which is a thought-quick-ener both for educators and for those who are paying the enormous bills of the school system. Here is the flaw which Mr. Adams finds in American schools : "la to far as tharr appear U ba an? definite trend la Amerieaa educational aims, il would teem to ba toward President Eliot' a Meal of 'power and aarrica on of the moit baneful phratet, fear, eTer let loos by aa educator wpoa aa nnada cated people. The atrsis il laid wholly on the 'doing'. Wa haTe rollega cooraes in Coat accounting, in real estate aellinr. in 'business English', household decoration, basket ball coaching as a profession, poultry raising, personnel management all ranking equally with philosophy or literature or science. I cannot see that, aa a general rule, American univeraities or collegea leaTe the slightest cultural impress upon u .k .ttmiA th.ia -. ml in iha world, the iaals and the interests of asost of the uuirersity men are identical with those of any 'go-getter' who, ainee leering birh fchool. has been learning his trade ot stock brokiag or real estate telling r manufacturing in the world of experience. He offers his solution : "Why not face the problem frsnkly and diide education (and Segrees) Into ' the two sections that 1 hare snggested. the one to teach people how to make a liTing and the other to gie them a liberal education, to teach them how to lire, how to de Telop all those powers within themseWes that make for the beauty and worth af life! .... Is it not time that wo stopped marking down all our spiritual goodt to the price that the lowest in the cnlral scsle can pay!" Mr. Adams, of course, knows that American schools grew like Jonah's gourd due in part to a quest for knowledge as a tool to procure bigger pay and very largely because the amazing spread of prosperity ended child employment and permitted parents to send their children to school a much longer period. A big mass of these children didn't have brains enough to learn much beyond the eighth grade so courses of "debased coinage" were provided to keep them from wasting ime on brain-taxing subjects. These "pipe" courses were invaluable too in maintaining football teams. The trouble too often is that emerging from these schools students are neither able to do anything, which Mr. Adams says is the big objective now, nor are they able to live appre ciatively, which he holds as the proper aim of higher educa tion. It is the old clash of the Marys and the Marthas, with popular education trying to erase the inevitable differences between them.' Since there are more Marthas than Marys there is not much hope for Mr. Adams ideal in democrati cally controlled school systems. Wisconsin Proposes Public Ownership WISCONSIN is about to launch on a career of state so cialism if the legislation which has passed the lower house in that state is finally enacted into law. The culmina tion of the program which is being considered is a constitu tional amendment to permit the state to go into the power business. It passed the house 71 to 19. Another measure which has not yet passed the house is one permitting adjoin ing municipalities to form. a power district and get into the utility business. Wisconsin has long been one of the erring sisters among the states so nothing thathappens there in the direction of socialism is surprising. What irks the public and urges the people to get into the power business is not so rmlth the matter of rates as the ne farious practices of many utilities to run state politics. Up to about 1906 state politics was frequently dominated by the railroads whose attorneys and lobbyists manipulated the po litical machine to the advantage of the corporations they served. In late years the railroads have found they could get along without the constant milking of political bureaus. They fare just as well and have much better standing with the public. But the light and power utilities are making the same mistake the railroads did by efforts at organized political control, lney do it either directly or indirectly through in nocent titles as Northwest Electric Light Association." At tempts to control election of members f the legislature, poi son propaganda to newspapers, financial pap to educators have made the public resentful and angry. Add to this the orgy of public utility financing through mergers, holding companies, interlocking ownerships small wonder that the public is suspicious of utility organization and practice. We heard of one deal recently where two big utility groups had bought heavily into a third concern. One had control and the other started suit to force an accounting with the books of the controlled utility to be brought into court. Whereupon the controlling company paid the other a bonus of seven mil lion dollars to surrender its interest and "hush up If the utility concerns would only get out of Dolitics and stay out and let the blackmailing politicians go hang they wouia tare equally wen, save a lot of money, and stop a lot oi me agnation against tnemseives. " ' " - - ' i Fixing the Cherry Price AFTER the I cherry crop is practically all contracted a buy er from Libbv. McNeil and Libbv breezes in. lineles his sleigh bells and announces his company will pay 10 cents for cherries. Perhaps he meant it, realizing that with the crop all sold he wouldn't pick up but a few tons at this price. Perhaps his purpose was merely to megaphone a big price and so get the growers whose contracts entitle them to the "market price" to think that 10c is the market price and thus embarrass the local canners. The fact remains that the buy er seems to have done the fade-out without getting in touch with cherry-growers or trying to buy any real fruit. As is indicated by a communication in another column from a prominent cherry grower, the gowers are not ex cited over the newspaper offer made by the Portland buyer. Loganberry growers remember -too vividly their experiences with the same organization which a few years ago breezed in and woo over a lot of loganberry contracts. Now they are making no pretense to take care of their loganberry growers. The price of cherries, which the local growers will get from the local canneries, will be determined not by the spec tacular bidding of an out-of-town buyer whose motive is 'questionable; but by the going price which the business as a whole develops at the time of the canning season. The perti nent question before Libby, McNeil and Libby is not their cherry bid but their loganberry bid. There: Terse comments on Events, Local and Abroad, in the Cur rent News. TT7"HO came out anead in me , reparations conference," porter retorts: "Who came out ahead in the San Francisco earthquake?" Ostensibly the AlUes are ahead because Germany is to pay over $40d,00,00 annually fornearly f 0 yean. Bat two-thirds of this amount will be turned over to the United States la payment lor Al lied war debt to as; all of the untitles after 17 years will come to as. To the casual observer this seems entirely a train to the re eeivlntr nations. Bat Is It? With increasing rapidity we are becom ing a ereditor nation; Germany pays France; France pays us. What will we do with the money? A huso amount has been ploughed back Into industries of Europe, in many instances indus tries which our own manufactur ers seek to hamper by a protective tariff. The economics of repara tions raises the very pointed ques tion of what can be paid and also how much can safely be received. confess rather than bear the tor mant of continued grilling. Back of the confession Is not alone hard- boiled work on the part or, ae tec tires but a guilty conscience. Murder will out; a man's know ledge of his own crime will not down. gilem business men Tty in their attitude toward the daily "how's business" in about the same ratio that farmers differ on the matter vf relief. One business man declares conditions are good; another finds them tolerable; an other thinks things gone to pot. Much is in the viewpoint for trade statistics show bank clearings here in healthy conditions; crops gen erallv good; credit in a healthy situation. Don't forget it; the WUlamette valley is in sound business health. Its abundant diversity maaes ousi ness good and those who whine no little of the depression wnicu is arttial not imaginary, in other less favored sections. Snook, the Ohio State university professor, is reported to have con fessed to the murder ot Theora Hix, college co-ed and love-mate of the professors. Hours and days of grilling broke down the profes sor's studied denial and left him weakened and unstrung, willing to They Say... Expressions of Opinion from Statesman Renders are) Welcomed for Use in this column. All Letters Most Bear Writer's Name, Though This Need If be Printed. BITS for BREAKFAST l -n we. wwwm.ww-fcw fivrn -By R. J. HENDRICKS What Is a live, good-for-nothing Bourbon prince worth in the marriage markets? Mr 3. Mabelle Gllman Corey, divorced wife of a Pittsburgh steel magnate, bid 1200,000. but Prince Louis de Bour bon who figured it out that that gave him only a thousand a month for spending money, refused to sell oat at. that figure. The prince's mother Infanta Eulalie, who is aunt to the king of Spain, declares the engagement broken. Nowshe can call for sealed bids front other American . grass widows or wealthy mammas with marriageable daughters We agree with Mrs. Corey, a thousand a month is pin- T ior brnea-oat Bonrbon title. Talking ot farm relief . S We now have the law to provide It, and every true American must wish it well, and hope for the best results. But here i3 a prediction, that each member of the board now be ing picked to administer the law will wish, many a time, that he had a different job paying as large a salary, or any J'jb or no Job at all. S S V Five hundred millions of 'dol lars is a lot of money. The board will be provided with that much to administer the law. But it will not be enough to do the things that the people looking for farm relief expect. They may have to come back for more. And more and more. , H S They are expected, with that sum, to stabilise the prices ot the major crops with exportable sur pluses wheat, corn, cotton, to bacco, beans, rice, perhaps, and may be prunes and bops and a lot of others. a S Take wheat, to start with. We grow, say 800,000.000 bushels of wheat a year. We consume say 200,000.000 bushels. To allow a living wage to be realized for the rest of the crop, it would be necessary to get the surplus off ot the market. This would not be a hard job, with a (500,000.000 capital to operate with, if the plan were to bay cheap and sell as high as possible. But the board will not be expected to buy cheap. It will be expected to pay top prices. But, in some way or another, the sur plus wheat must be gotten rid of. It must be put into the channels- of consumption. Say the board would buy the surplus and hold it; be obliged to hold it for a year, and the next crop was 900,000,000 bushels, with a rery small gain on consumption. Then what? The purchase price ot the wheat for two years might use op all the 1500,000,000. And the buying cost and the storing ot one crop might take it all, in fact. Where could it be kept, without deteriorating? There is now no available extra warehouse room for it. That would have to be provided. New ware houses would have to be built, a S . In that case there would be no money out of the first f 500,000, 00 -for handling and stabilising the other crops. "a Oh, it is not as simple aa all this, but that is an idea of what will be before the new board. Un der the much discused and cussed debenture plan, $500,000,000. ap propriation of federal funds would have been needed. In the case of wheat, the grower selling his crop would have been assessed so much tor every bushel sold, say five cents a bushel for the first year, and this would have gone into the equalization fund, to make np the possible losses on the sales of the surplus wheat; that sent abroad. The more the surplus, the higher the equalization fee. But the grow ers themselves would have made up the losses on the sales of the surplus each year. True, the high er prices ot wheat in . America would have come out of the con sumers. It would have been paid by the people who eat bread or pies or cakes. By the poultrymen who buy chicken feed. By all the rest. "a li The debenture plan would re plenish the fund, too. In a mora round about way. This is no argu ment for either the equalization fee or the debenture plan. It is Just a statement of what the board administering the new law will ba np against. They arc like ly to be obliged to ask for more and mora money. If they accom plish what is expectedof them, that I is, higher prices and a batter stab ilization of the farm crops with exportable surpluses. "a "a Is It is the old, old story of Joseph in Egypt interpreting the dream of the pharaoh, warning him by the parable of the coming of the seven fat years and the seven lean years. Only Joseph had to build larger warehouses and more of them and store up grain in the fat years to provide against the starvation of the people in the lean years, "a "a "a The Joseph problem in the United States i3 the other way around. Ours are all fat years, with an exportable surplus of sev eral major crop3 every year. And that does not take any dream to warn us of the danger. We do not have to depend on the natural spring freshets ot the river Nile alone, to guarantee fat years. S "a It is the age old problem of sup ply and demand. When the supply is larger than the demand is with us, like the ghost of Banquo at the feast, as pictured by the great bard. "a "a And the question of solving the problem of the disposition of the major crops will persist in the United States until the time ar rives when we will have no such surplus crops, but will be import ing instead of exporting wheat and some of the other foodstuffs re quiring cheap land for their pro fitable production, to make up our deficiencies. a S This time is near at hand or far away, depending for its nearness partly upon an early distribution of the acreage in this country now devoted to other uses to the grow ing of crops we can produce but now import. There is a possibility that President Hoover has a cam paign of this kind in his plans, to be directed by the board the mem bers of which he is about to se lect. It Is within 'the range of possibilities that the major effort may be turned to that direction. a "a S That would be the greatest un dertaking of the kind in history, and it might turn out to be the most successful one ever made. Editors Say: Used to live in Middle West, didn't you? 'Spose you get used to it. Got to stop in Seattle and then hurry back to 'N Yawk. Got a faster train now, haven't '.hey? Good news. Going to take a run over to the English lakes for a rest when get back. Take care of yourself and all that! At last we know why the new northern transcontinental sched ules are even a bit faster going east than west. We can say amen to that! If in the beginnings of the depot conversation wc had any arguments formulating they died a-borning? The Jepson concentra tion even in the old days was fa mous. But we didn't know they allowed chaps like him to exist, even in New York. The "out standing success!'' Education, wealth and all that! The fellow who never wasted an hour! There was another member of the "Class" who came through last fall in a battered flivver with a wife and two kids. It was his boast that he had set out to "see America first" in two months and had already taken two years at the job frankly admitted, that it still wasn't half finished and pro posed, if necessary, to devote the rest of his life to it Said he was overwhelmed with the universal generosity and kindness of people in all parts of the country. On hearing of the Roosevelt highway, borrowed five dollars for gas, which marks him as an "out standing success," so as not to miss it. Ho hum! Most of us are bom just to dub along. We offer for your amusement two out standing types of success. Take your pick. Eugene Guard. To The Editor: Recently a buyer for Libby, Mc Neil and Libby strutted Into Sa lem with a "magnificent gesture" 10c per pound for all the cher ries he could by! This resolves it self into nothing more than an old time questionable cut-throat bus iness method. All our local can ners who buy hundreds of tons of cherries have already contracted practically the entire cherry crop at 8e plus any market increase. Most growers realize that this is a fair contract. Also they realize that the market price is practical ly certain to go to 9c and may even reach 10c per pound. However, any price over 8c will not be due to any out-of-town buyer who takes a few pounds of cherries at 10c and ships them out of town to pack. Let's give credit where credit is due. I believe the cherry growers of this district agree with me when I say that we prefer the depend able contracts of our local can ners to the four-flusher type of buying put on here by Libby, Mc Neil and Libby. The purchase of a few pounds of cherries even at 20c per pound does not establish the kind of market that we growers want. The great bulk ot our cherries are sold to our old-time canneries and we look to them for the ulti mate price that the market will warrant. if our growers stick by our canners in the Salem district it is to our mutual advantage. Let us do this and the price of cher ries will be to our mutual advan tage also. HENRY C. GILBERT. Route No. 3. I N THE old days when saie or 3.000,000 v shares on the New York exchange was a recora day, a ticker which recorded 300 characters a minute was satisfact ory. Bnt in modern days, when 3.000.000 people in the nation are stock purchasers, the old tickers are sadlr out of date. The new ticker being installed by members of the exchange will print sow characters a minute and help oui tired clerks on days like that last March when 8.700.000 shares changed hands. Bishop Cannon put $2500 into his fcroker were closed the secret came out. Now tne bishop de clares he was baying bonds on time, as he understood it, instead of buying stocks on a margin. Bishops probably should have the benefit of the doubt bat the bishop should have known what he was doing. MEW SETUP IN POUD PORTLAND. June 20. (AP) Trading in grain futures start ed here today under government aunerrlsion. For many years dealers of the city had talked of the advantages of a future mar ket, but not until one year and a half ago did the necessity of such an institution, as aa adjunct to the port become apparent. Then a campaign was started which today bore fruit. The market opened at 8 a.m., and closed at 11 a.m., during this regular three-hoar session tran sactions reached a volume of one hundred thousand bushels. The price trend here followed closely that of Seattle and Chica go. The first bid submitted on July wheat before the echoes of the opening gong had died away was 11.08. The high for the day was $1.09, and the close $1.09 1-8. I. O. O. P. PICNIC SILVERTON, June 20. The Marion county I. O. O. F. visita tion association will hold a picnic in the Coolidge-McClaine park in Silvertoa on Sunday, June 23. All Odd Fellows and their fam ilies are invited to come and bring their own basket lunch. Coffee will be served by the association. It Is anticipated that there will be at least 300 members present. Wall street purchases and when It is an all day picnic. 1 "mm THEY SHOT LINCOLN! The Cascade Limited came eas ing into- the depot, scarcely pant ing after its long run over the mountains. (When we get too old to get a wallop out of just see ing a fine train such as the Cas cade, we hope they take us, on the North Sister and push as off.) A nervous, billons looking little fat man dropped down from a Pullman and began to pace the platform. Something about him made us look twice. Sure enough, it must be Jepson, "the outstand ing success of the class," Jepson who had been a notorious grind in college, tried teaching, then got into some kind of exporting busi ness at the beginning of the War and got outrageously rich. Used to call him "Pinky" because he was anything but. "Hey, Pinky 1" Jepson paused and looked up, somewhat annoy ed. He remembered, faintly, yes. Oh, sure, yes, ye3. Better step along while he took a bit ot air and exercise. Been making the rounds ot the western offices to pep 'em np (what a treat that mast, have been!) Beastly these long western trips! Whatfa the name of this place? What! Live In It! Well, V off en stepping stone, to success. See the moun tains? Nope, tried to get in a little extra sleep. 'S' trouble with these long western trips. Mountains, mountains, mountains! All alike. Bore a fellow to death. Jf est be twentieth trip to Coast. Coast deadly, bat Middle West .worse. WHERE DO THE DEMOCRATIC XflWSPAPERS STAND Are the Democrats in favor of a protective tariff or opposed? During the recent campaign the Democratc party, for the first time in history, formally accepted the protective tariff in principle. Governor Smith expressly stated that if elected he would be in fa vor of maintaining a tariff to cover the difference between the cost of production in this country and abroad. This assurance was in direct an swer to a prominent labor leader who, said some elements in organ ized' labor feared that if theu De mocratic candidate were elected the tariff would be cut down and American wage3 would fall. But now, judging from the statements of the . Democratic press both in this state and with out, the party is opposed to any tariff whatever, except the" time honored one "for revenue onely." All the old moth-eaten weapons used in the post-bellum tariff. war are being brought out and limb ered up for action. . Opposition to the protective tariff on the, ground that it raises prices to the' consumer is perfect ly understandable. Support of such a tariff on the ground that while it raises prices to the con sumer it also raises his wages, and makes possible a standard of liv ing higher than in any other country in the world this is also understandable. But supporting the first after a campaign, and the second during it. Is not understandable. The Democrats can't have their cake and eat it. They ought to decide one way or the other, whether they favor a protective tariff or don't favor it If they do favor It. then they might at least wait until after the Hawley tariff has been passed before they shed tears over the poor farmers, and maintain that in this iniquitous Republican measure the protective principle has been violated. i If they don't favor It why then, ot course, the matter can be fought out again in the next presi dential campaign. Medford Mall Tribune. . OSd Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read Jane 21, 1004 Senator R. A. Booth of Eugene made a strong plea for education in the annual address before the Willamette University graduating class. The annual school vote was de cisive for election of A. A. Lee as director and addition of grades beyond the ninth. Which means the way is open for establishment of a high school course here. The Salem Abstract and Land company has purchased the 650 acre Ewald farm and will divide it into a hundred or so small farms to sell on terms that will attract newcomers. Surveyors will begin the division shortly. Two divorce proceedings were instituted in circuit court. Kill flies but not at the expense of your faniishings Shell offers a new stainless spray and an improved sprayer FLIES are pests but a spray that stains the curtains and fabrics is even worse ! Here is a new spray which, when properly used, is stainless. One that is safe to use in every room In the house. 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