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SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1922
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ournal
Salem, Oregon
An Independent Newspaper, Published every evening except Sunday
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GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
Paradise Lost
Pilgrims who left a few weeks ago for the promised land,
to bask in the perpetual sunshine of paradise isle, otherwise
known as Palmito de Verde, off the coast of Sinoloa, Mexico,
are straggling home, sadder and wiser, despite the allure
ments of the modern Garden of Eden, where every prospect
pleases and not even man is vile.
The Pilgrims found the sky of Eden as represented, the
same beautiful blue : they found the placid seas as painted,
turquoise and amethyst; they found the picturesque forests
and brilliant landscapes and all the glamor that tropic scenes
present to the northern eye-but they realized why after ten
years of exploitation, profitable to promotors, there are only
ten families living in Paradise.
Thpv found that Eden has a fertile soil and a pleasant
winter climate, that most anything can be grown and scarcely
anything marketed. They found no roads and no materials
tr. huilri roads with. They found themselves isolated from
the world, with no established means of communication, and
little prospect of getting any. Out-of-touch with humanity,
those who dream of spending the future watching the natives
gather cocoanuts still unplanted are certain of enjoying a
rirnlnno-pri wait.. '
For many years promotors have have reaped a rich harvest
u ooiiinir Kita nf tmnieal naradises to hard-working, thrifty
KJJf DV-IUUg fcvw -i
people willling to buy sight unseen. Most of the claims made
as to wonderful productivity of the sou, natural Deauiy anu
languor of life are true. In them lies the appeal. But there
is seldom a way to market products and if there is, some
transportation trust takes all the profits. The same property
has been sold over and over again, as in the swindle of the
Isle of Pines, as banana, rubber, sisal, chicle, cocoanut anu
. lofafinna anmpHmes one. sometimes the other.
cunee - ,
Millions have been lost and much hardship worked, but the
merry-go-round still jazzes along tor there is one uun.
every minute.
Passing the Buck
With the four power pact, the most important measure
nf his. administration affecting foreign policy, under at
tack in the senate, and the soldiers bonus bill, the most vital
issue affecting domestic policy, pending in the house,
President Harding has run away from his responsibilities,
and is vtvationing in far away rlonda.
While the Senate is dissecting and debating and attack
ing the four power treaty that determines whether or not
the United States, having retused to join a Dig league 01
Nn(irms is (miner to ioin a little league of big nations, Mr.
Harding is beguiling himself with golf. While the House
is in turmoil over the question of plunging the nation live
hillinn dollars deener in the quagmire of debt to give
gratuities to healthy and able-bodied ex-service men, Mr.
Harding is cruising care free amid the semi-tropic isles of
the southern seas.
The President has "passed the buck" and left it to con
gress to determine the national and domestic policies a
congress that has so far failed to satisfactorily solve any
f it., nrnhioms anH that has broken down as far as recon-
truction legislation is concerned. Pledged to a world as
sociation of nations, the president has made no effort to
keep his pledge and permitted the senate to substitute a
four power alliance for a fifty power treaty, rromising a
hnmw fW camnaicrn Durooses. the president forced its
withdrawal from congress. Then he conditionally favored
it with a sales-tax to finance it. Now the House over tne
nmtpst nf the Secretary of the Treasury has devised a
substitute whereby those who served the shortest time will
get cash and others treasury certiticates to mature aiter
tha Tiovr o-ptieral election.
While the Senate is milling around the Anglo-Jap-French-American
alliance and the House muddling over the
imia tho nrpsident. is eniovinir himself far from the mad-
v.w x" - w
dening crowd. Having "passed the buck," he is letting
things drift as they have been since his election ana are
likely to do until the expiration ot his term.
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To Hie Editor: In your issue
o( March 18, there appeared t
news item beginning: "A state
luent insisting upon contereuce as
an alternative to industrial war
in the coal fields was issued joint
ly today by the social service de
partment of the Fcdoral Council
of the Church of Christ in Amer
ica and the National Catholic
Welfare Council." '
This was printed inside the pa
per but in my opinion should have
appeared on the front page, as it
is probably the most important
ad progressive act occurring in
our country for many years. The
fact that the Federal Council, rep
resenting most of the Protestant
church, and the Homan Catholic
church through its welfare coun
cil, are acting jointly for social
justice and a better and more
Christian state, is almost too good
to be true.
For many years both organiza
tions have accomplished useful re
sults, but working separately
their efforts for good were weak-
ened.
The outstanding figure in the
federal council fight for social
justice Is Bishop McConnell of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and
of the Roman Catholic church is
IteT. John Ryan. With such cap
able men, supported bx. their great
organizations, uniting their ef
forts, great results are sure to ac
crue. One of the greatest of these
results will Ue lessening of trie
tion, which has hortofore inter
fered with the work of making a
Christian world.
The joint demand is that iu
stead of a strike, conference be
used as a means ot settlement
The joint demand states that
there is a Bolemn agreement in
force between the miners and pri
vate owners to that effect.
It is generally understood that
the miners are anxious for such
conference, confident that their
claims and tacts will bear public
ity while the operators, with their
enormous profits extorted from
the public and workers, refuse
such publicity.
The outcome of the entry of al
most the entire Christian church
into the work of securing social
Justice and a better world, will
be Interesting and deserving of
full support. A. J. TAYLOR.
138 South Cottage St.
New Railroad Opened
San Salvador. March IS. (By
Associated Press) A new link In
the international Railway ot Cen
tral America was opened with the
arrival here yesterday of the first
train on the line which has been
constructed between this capital
and the town of Zacatecoluca.
about 45 miles to the southeast.
Downcast eyes often peep out side-
ways.
The surest way to be Somebody is just
to be natural.
Love has but one big word, and that big word
is the little word "You."
The world's great cry now is for somebody
who can make plain work popular.
, What this country needs is less statesmanship
and more hens that will lay during December and
January.
Good complexions come from what you put in
the stomach and not from what you put on the
face.
Hez Heck Says:
"Decreasin' the woodpile in
creases the appetite."
TD AUTHOR M W '.fct
Id&h JlXlonsCibso
VfeZMllirt and Dramatic StyiinUkirfs fimkition.
Ninety varieties of sugar cane
re cultivated In Porto Rico.
Letters From Home
Hurriedly we found Bruce Wal
ters and as we bade him good
night Kitty remarked causually
"I didn't know, Bruce, that you
knew Julian Thorndyke."
"I don't. One of the fellows
brought him to in. I think he
told me he knew him when Thorn
dyke and you were in vaudeville.
! that whv vou are going home,
Kitty? Are you determined that
'The tender grace of a day war. is
dead shall never come back to
you'?"
"Not if I can help It, Bruce.
Rut Tnv Melville seams to have
taken a great shine to Julian. He
is playing a dope nena, you
know."
Bruce eyed Thorndyke through
narrowed lids and then murmur
ed eententiously: "He should do
it well. Good night, Kitty. Aw
ful sorry the man is here. It you
want me to I will ask him to
leave. I didn't Invite him."
"Oh, don't do that. I wouldn't
have you do that for the world."
"What are you afraid of? He
can't hurt you."
"You don't know him, Bruce.
I know the general caliber of
the men who take dope and they
are all cowards "
"Or selfish fiends," Kitty add
ed. Contrary to my expectations,
Kitty said never a word as we
rode home In the taxi, and still
without speaking except when ab
solutely necessary, she went to
bed.
I had found a number of letters
in my box and opened them with
more interest than I had had rec
ently In letters from home. I had
told Eddie Montforth a great deal
of my job and Theodore Stratton
in my last letter and I wanted to
know what he thought of it all.
My girlhood lover's letter read:
"My dear Virgie: The blow has
fallen. It's just what I thought
would happen. You have fallen
in love with a moving picture
actor.
"Oh, yes, I know you didn't tell
me, but It was written between
he lines.
"I have seen Stratton on the
screen. He looks almost old
enough to be your father.
"Forgive me, Virgie, I do not
Intend to be sarcastic, hut I have
loved you ever since I knew how
to spell the word, and I want you
to be happy.
"I am glad I am going out to
Ixjs Angeles, for I want to see
that man with my own eyes ,aud
then I will tell you more.
"I am glad you have a good
part, but, honestly, I am sorry
that you got it through Strat
um's interest in you, instead of
your own worth."
Tddle's letter ended abruptly.
Eddie's letter ended abruptly,
that in this game everything goes
by favor."
I didn't know that I was talk
ing out loud until I ' rd' Kitty
say, "What are you talking
about?"
"Eddie Montforth la coming
out very soon, Kitty."
"You will have some little
chance for diplomacy during that
time, Virgie."
"Well, It is some time off and
as Ria would say: It will be an
other day.' "
"By the way, did you get a
letter from Ria, Virgie? I have
Just been reading the one she
wrote me and she elves me the
surprising news that she is still
happy, that Herb Is an angel, and
they are blissfully contented in
Hawaii."
Since I had learned the essence
of the news from Gloria I left her
letter to me to the last. '
Next I opened a thick one
from Aunt Virginia. After tell
ing me all the neighborhood gos
sip and the little affairs of the
household, she wrote: I have
never known anyone to fail so
rapidly, Virgie, as your grand
father since you left.
"He never has mentioned your
name but the other morning I
followed him to the stables and
found him with his arm arbund
Streak's neck. I wonder if I have
told you that he has never al
lowed your horse to be used by
anyone on the place.
"Th grooms take him out for
exercise and then take him back
in the stable and that is all.
"He didn't see me, Virgie, be
cause I knew it would hurt his
pride, but he looked rather piti
ful, yes, almost tragic with his
withered old cheek against, the
blaze on your horse's forehead.
"The horse whlnned under his
caress and, Virgie, don't think me
fanciful but it seemed to me as
though there was sadness in the
sound.
"Your grandfather thought so,
too. I distinctly heard him say:
"Ye3, Streak, I know, I know.
You miss her, too!"
Tomorrow Virgie's Problems.
Grand Jury Opens
Probe Into Army
Fraud Charges
Los Angeles, Cal., March 18.
The federal grand Jury today
opened an investigation into an
alleged conspiracy to defraud the
war department on a wholesale
scale by manipulating of bids in
an army goods auction at Camp
Kearny February 20 to 22, it was
announced by the United States
attorney here, Joseph Burke.
Several citizens of San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, including
owners of department stores and
an auctioneer and two army offi
cers were reported to be involved
in the investigation and depart
ment of justice agents asserted
that a complete case had been
rounded out by confessions of
parties concerned.
$141.08 Per Year
Needed for Girl
To Dress Properly
Emporia, Kan., March 18. A
working girl cannot dress respect
ably and comfortably on less than
$141.08 a year, Emporia womer
testified this morning in the fin
al medium wa'ge hearing befort
the Kansas industrial court here.
Members ot the business and pro
fessional women's clubs testified
that the employers' budget given
as J93 was inadequate.
The women declared costs of
the necessities of life have noi
been reduced enough to permit
much, if any reduction In the min
lmuiu wage for working girls
Students at the state normal
school here who recently made a
"hunger" test to determine a fair
allowance for food also were to
testify. '"
Coast of Mexico
(Continued from Page Two.)
a more kindly or courteous people.
With the exception, perhaps, of
the Yaqul territory, one is safer
on the west coast In person and in
property than he is in Salem, The
trouble with the Yaqui Indians
was caused by thieving contrac
tors who robbed them mercilessly
when they worked on railroad
construction.
The average man when told of
the richness and climate of the
west coast immediately inquires,
why, then is it unsettled? The
answer is simple. The Mexican
laborer lives in a palm thatched
hut, the dirt floor of which is
the common rendezvous of the
family, its dogs and hogs and such
visiting dogs and hogs as may
want to be neighborly. For him
religion may have helped his un
discovered soul and government
may have held him in bounds
while he was being robbed, but
neither has contributed to his
material welfare or intellectual
development. A kindly, patient.
undeveloped possibility, his
Knowledge ot usury, monpoly and
otner mnurea attrioutes of our
highly developed religious civili
zation is confined to the exactions
under which he suffers. Who shall
say that tn the long race of life,
his uncorrupted mind may not de
velop a truly Christian civiliza
tion? The Mexican plants most of his
corn and beans with a pointed
3tick in unplowed ground and
once only with a machett cuts
down the weeds. If he plows at
all, it is with a burro attached to
an unsharpened 8-inch plow with
which he turns about a foot in
with about 3 inches deep.
The other type is the owner of
the hacienda and ranch. He has
rrora several thousand to many
thousand acres of unfilled land
upon which he runs long horns.
In that country they have no
steers, only cows and bulls, yet
beef is a third higher there than
it is here and in the last six
months they have imported from
like corn averages about two crops
worth ot livestock.
Neither of these classes know
anything about business. They
develop nothing, produce practi
cally nothing except babies, which
like cane averages about two crops
a year. Truly, a country to de
light Teddy!
Land sells for from 30 cents to
$45 an acre for highly irrigated
and productive land close to trans
portation. It is a wonderful
country for men who don't wear
3ilk stocking and women who can
live without paint and lip sticks.
To those whose greatest joy In
life is to get their names in the
society columns of your paper, 1
would say, don't go to Mexico. In
the first place, neither Mexico nor
any other country has any use for
you and in the second place It is
no country for a sissy.
But to manly men and womanly
wives with at least $4000 to use
the west coast jt Mexico offers
rare opportunities.
Apparently, the government is
stable and its tax levy is small,
from two to five cents an acre.
Within 30 kilometers of the coast
and 50 kilometers of the border
an American cannot own land, as
an American. He can, however,
form a Mexican company and by
keeping the stock always control
the laud. One need not worry over
this. So far as confiscation of
property Is concerned, in the
multation ot time this may occur
I can't know but if the Mexi
can government gets the Ameri
cans there before the taxeaters
gets us here, they will have to
step lively.
The economic pressure here, the
exactions of the usurer and the
monopolist of the thousands of un
necessary commercial non-produc
ers, represented by a multiplicity
ot trades pnople, are driving the
p.eople to the choice of immigrat
ing or revolution. Being a peace-j
i? - w r 1
; IV. -
iLirUnnAn W Chanel lOfllter Of
the non-cooperationist party In
India, has been placed under ar
rest bv government farces. The
political ramifications of Ghandi,
who Is considered a saint by many
Indians, have Kept inaia in a iui-
T jrH T?pflriine. Rrltish vice-
,. tv, nuntrv anri thp Indian
government have been loath to ar
rest the Manatma, oecause ne it
believed by the natives to possess
n.li.n.xlmia nnTrnm flnrt exeiTtS
great influence throughout India.
He har urgea nis lonuweio iu
withdraw their support of British
administration machinery
Grand Opening Dance
HORSE SHOE PARK
Brownstone's All-Star
Orchestra of Portland
Saturday Night, March 18th
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Wholesale Booze
Raids Staged to
Clean Up Denver
Denver, Colo., March 18. Fed
eral prohibition officers, United
States marshals, scores of detec
tives and 54 state rangers sworn
in as deputy marshals at noon Fri
day began what prohibition en
forcement officers described as the
"hifi-crpRi- liouor raid in the west
Downtown hotels, rooming houses,
cigar stores, barber shops, soft
drink establishnrcuts and private
homes were on the list or piacei
the officers were prepared to en
tpr durinff the afternoon.
"Clean up Denver; get the big
fellows first," were the Instruc
tions that went out from the office
of E. H. Clenahan, federal prohl
bition director tor this district.
Revenue Agents
Seize Schooner
After Gun Fight
New York, March 18. Fifteen
special revenue agents Friday ar
rested 24 men af ter a pistol battle
aboard ta two masted schooner,
said to have been loaded with con
traband liquor in the East river at
the foot of Tiffany street, the
Bronx.
More than 30 shots were ex
changed. The schooner, whose
cargo of liquor was said to be
worth nearly half a million dol
lars, was seized together with two
automobiles and a large moving
van, which the authorities said
were to have been used in trans
porting the contraband.
Amundsen Leaves Home.
.Christiania, March 18. Cap
tain Roald Amundsen, the Nor
wegian explorer, left here today
for New York on his way to Seat
tle. He plans to leave there about
June 1 on his long expedition In
to the Ice-bound Arctic regions.
Perfects ho ilders and Ann J
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Cru readers to the
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Covers skin blemishes.
Will not rub off. Far
superior to powders.
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Death of Police r.
Officer Mystery
Seattle, Wash., March lS.
Police today were investigating
circumstances surrounding the
death of Charles B. Legate, veter
an Seattle patrolman who was
found dead in a garage on Main
street early this morning. There
were two bullet wounds In the
.lead.
I.esate'8 pistol with two cart
ridges discharged, lay beside the
body, but officers said indications
were against a theory of suicide.
Legate had recently returned to
duty after a 30-day suspension for
tailue to "clean up" his district,
which embraced the area in the
vicinity of the garage.
L. IY1. HUM
Care ot
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Chinese Medicine and Tea
Co. Has Medicine which
will cure any known dis
ease. Open Sunday from 10 a. m.
until S p. m.
153 South High Street
Salem, Oregon. Phone 283
STEINBOCK
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Will buy anything you
have to sell.
Loganberry and hop
wire for sale.
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Phone 523
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that's why we say you
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our modern facilities
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work are at your service.
we are also In a posi
tion to replace any brok
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One hour service on most
breakages.
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204-11 Bank of Commerce
Building
Oregon's Largest Optical
Institution
Salem, Oregon.
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256 State Street
I
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Come hi and See
The high grade stock of Bicycles. Note the double
construction thruout.
They cost no more than the ordinary kind.
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387 Court Street
Phone 1687
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