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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 3IAY 23, 1920 BOYS BECOME EXPERTS IN ALL SORTS OF COOKERY AND EVEN WIN PRIZES Club Work Proves Popular With Youngsters Who Exhibit at County and State Fairs Interests Covered by Other Organizations. -Wide Variety of liquid, left for two hours and then! tail he says that often th sma ii gM.iii,-i..:...-T- tarjaaunausziammmmumarx-Ttr"-- .r.t i 1 fir fM BT IUOILE F. SAUNDERS. Pancakes, wheat -flakes. Spuds an1 flsr. HuHtard, custard Or any ole dlsb. THAT'S the way the first verse goes. It wouldn't do to have such a unique club and no song, o here Is the second canto: Can we cook em? We'll say we can. We can boil 'em or bake 'em - Or fry 'em ia the pan. Thus the ditty assures the doubter that the imposing- array of 18 grin ning1 youngsters that make up the Ockley Green school's cooking club are versed in more lines than swap ping pocket-knives, shooting marbles or cfttching- garter snakes. There are industrial clubs in many of the schools of the city, but this is the sole and only place where the boys gave bak ing preference over raising rabbits or vegetable gardens or milk goats. Out there they tell the tale of one young ster who was so afraid he was going to get left out when h signed up late In the year that he did all his cooking lessons at home until tee had caught up with the club and-then made appli cation for membership. Other Cluba Also Survive. The club is not the only one in the county that survived last year through the heat of the kitchen and came out with a victorious contestant and a good number of others who were brave enough to show their loaves of bread to the world, when they ex hibited at county and state fairs. The Gilbert school, not far from Portland, has a "Baker's Dozen" club, of which Frank Ferris is president, and last i year his perfect loaf of bread in the county fair and his high score made him one of the two boys given a trip to the state fair, where, in competi tion with about 50 girls, he won third on his loaf. He is attending Franklin high school, but has joined the club again, making his third year in club cooking. This time he hopes to be state champion. " Boys like club work, particularly the kind that has to do with raising pets, such as chickens, rabbits and milk goats. If the projects don't go along as speedily as they would have them the youngsters get busy on their own initiative. Creston school, for instance, has a rabbit club. During the annual exhibition in the audito rium the boys went down and with wide-open eyes viewed the proceed ings, then stored the knowledge for future reference. Several weeks ago one might have seen these same youngsters trudging along to one club member's home with their bunnies brushed up for the oc casion. A 10-cent entry fee to cover the purchase of ribbons was charged, and Walter Morrow, another of the boys, did the judging of the nine or ten exhibits. Very keen was the dis appointment of some of the members Upper "o prirla allowed, la the loffan of certain of the boya at Ockley (ireen school who prefer to leave the "eternal feminine" out of thia kitchen. Loner Frank Baxter and Ralph Johnson, with 18 pounds of rabbit meat. who forgot the address and missed the exhibit entirely. Twenty-nine schools in the city have industrial clubs, some of them more than one, thus accounting for a total of 90 under the direction of K. D. Kirkpatrick, city club leader. They cover a wide variety of inter ests. At the Joseph Kellogg building Is a home beautif cation class, which is studying landscape gardening. Lawn planting, the arrangement of trees, shrubs and flowers, the care of roses, window boxes, a trip through Washington park and lecture on dif ferent phases of home beautification. Photographs wUl be taken of homes of the children before and after the work is done, and prize awards will be based on the improvements. The Peninsula bank has given new impetus to the garden work in that community by offering $50 in prizes to be distributed among children of the Peninsula, Portsmouth and the two St. Johns schools. Five prizes go for gardens and five for exhibits of no less than a quintet of vegetables. Canning CInha Kfficlent. purpose or a cnicken orooaer, wnen young Edwin Gronquist at Fulton Park decided to increase his flock. From 11 hens during the winter he cleared $2S.68. He is one of those rare boys who likes to report his work so wey that he comes to town and asks Mr. Kirkpatrick for his rec ord card. All his equipment was made by himself, and he plans to do busi ness on the scale of a real poultryman when his 150 chicks have matured. Interest shown by the parents has much to do with the success of this school work done at home. An adult must act hs leader, but often a whole community organization interests it self in the children.. In order that the boys might not have their garden plot$ disturbed and that all might be provided for. George J. Perkins, leader at Fern wood, secured use of the lot next door to his place and supervised its planting. At Failing school not Iong'apo an other patron saw that the poultry club made a trip io a nearby ranch, where they could study trap nests, automatic feeders and all the latest Fifteen honor canning clubs are in ' scientific devices. This group of six the city this season. So efficient have they become that instead of the teacher giving demonstrations, they are planning to have teams do the work and let the instructors watch. A discarded Rochester coal oil lamp and some warm woolens served the children last fall netted $258 from chickens. Fair exhibits. always cap the climax of each club season, and the boys and girls are now looking forward to bigger and better ones than ever before. CiatsMtfiHomeQcuieners DEAR FRIENDS. In the current number of the Woman's Home Companion Grace Tabor has fiftured out Just how many vegetables are required per year for each person. She omits all the ftreen vegetables, classed as salads, and plans to use one vegetable, either fresh; cooked or canned, with potatoes for two meals each day during the year. She gives 18 vegetables each of which shall be served 40 times during each year. At least one-half of this produce is to be canned or dried for-winter use. She eavs: "Production is kept up by close cickintr which induces further bear- inn. All vegetables except parsnips and salsify twhich need frost to bring out their flavor) should be picked be fore fully mature to be at their best in flavor and delicacy. I have not space here to explain how she works out her table of 18 vegetables and many of us will think of many ob jections to this idea, such as especial fondness of the family for some vege tables above others, unexpected com pany or unexpected absences, sickness, failure of certain crops we have de pended upon, etc Yet I have adapted part of her list that I thought mfght be interesting to you all and perhaps helpful to some. The idea is not to raise a surplus of any vegetable which canot be disposed of. but I do not believe there is much danger of that this year. Mrs. Tabor has named some vege tables in her list, like okra and cel eriac, which are seldom planted here. She has omitted asparagus, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower and es pecially onions, which are among our most important vegetables. However, her idea is interesting. Setting Tomato Plants. Last week we listed the best va rieties of tomatoes to grow here in Portland. Sarliana is probably the best of the extra-early sorts, as Bonny Best, which is gaining in popu- laritv, is not quite so early but yet not far behind. John Baer is another verv early productive variety with good uniformity of shape and color. The trouble with it is that the toma toes are smaller than most others. but it Is more productive than other sorts and these tomatoes are just the right size for salads and canning. When there is a choice in plants and -in price also--always take the better plants, as the small difference in the price does not compare at all with the difference in yield. Plants ehould be strong-stemmed and from eight to 12 inches tall for setting in the garden. It is possible yet that we . may have to re-set our tomato plants as last year thousands of them were killed by frost on May 30 or May 31. Even If that happens, if your plants are only frosted but not really killed, it is always better to throw them away and buy and set out new ones a4. once, as stunted plants never pro duce well. "Success with tomatoes depends 75 per cent on the plants." So it you have your own tomato plants in your cold frame, keep some plants into June in case of an emergency. Our Main Crop Potatoes. Early potatoes are planted at any time from the fall before until April of the current year, and the main crop or late potatoes, which we store for winter, have usually been planted in June in this locality. But our county agriculturist advises that these po tatoes be planted in Aprti or May so that they get a good start before' the hot. dry weather of summer. As to varieties, he said that Bur banks were about run out in the Wil- seedsman in whom we have confi dence. Of course, anyone , who buys pota toes for seed from the open market cannot expect much of a yield. Po tatoes which were not injured for eating by the cold weather were often ruined for seed and the only safe way is to depend on some one who knows where they were stored. Those who saved their own seed from their most productive hills last fall and stored it carefully where it escaped any Injury last December are the one who are ahead of all others. The only trouble In their case is -that their potatoes may have become diseased,, as the organism which produces fungus diseases is al ways present in the soil to some ex tent. Treating; -Seed Potntoe for Dlarm. If you have any reason to suspect i this, your seed potatoes should be QUANTITY OF ViXETABI.KS TO PLANT PER PERSON PER TEAR. Vegetable. Beans Bean Lima. Beets fabbaire. Carrots CMeriac. Corn Cucumbers EgK plant Kohl-Rabi Okra . Parsnips Peas Salsify spinach. Squafh , Tomato. Turnips. . Amount needed. 20 quarts. lOquarts SO plants 5 plants 80 plants. - 80 plants SO ears W fruitt) 10 fruits SO plants. 10 quarts., 60 'plants.'. 4 pecks (unshelled) SO plants 5 per ks fresh 10 fruits 0 fruits 40 plants Space required. Two hills of pole beans. Four hills (pole). Twenty-five feet. EiKht feet. Twenty-five feet. Twenty-five feet. Twentv feet. One hill. Two plants. Twenty-five feet. Twenty feet. Twenty feet. Sixty feet (double row) .Twenty feet. Twenty feet. One vine Three plants. Thirteen feet. lamette valley because the farmers treated with corrosive sublimate ten have sold all their fine large potatoes days or two weeks before planting, as and planted those too small to sell lor I advised by O. A. C. ten or twelve years. He recommended the Pride of Multnomah as the best variety for main crop planting, and this is the variety that our seedsmen also recommended to us as best. Other good varieties are the Snow. White Rose, Irish Cobbler, Rural New Yorker and Producer. The American Wonder Is medium early about half way between early and late potatoes but it boils to pieces in cooking so that it is undesirable. It is always very important that we buy carefully selected potatoes for seed, as that has more to do with the yield next fall than any other factor. But this year the choice of seed is particularly im portant as so much was Injured by frost last December. The only thing we can do ia to take -tie word ol a 4 ox. corrosiv powder to every 30 gallons of water. Dissolve in about a gallon of hot water in glass jars, stone crocks or a wooden bucket before dilution. With use it decreases in strength. To cor rect this add one-half ounce of the chemical for every four bushels of the potatoea that are treated for two hours. Dry the tubers immediately after treatment. Piling up wet tubers leads to injury. Do not expose the potatoes to hot sun. as black heart will be produced. Treat the sacks in corrosive sublimate and dry before resacking." The above advice seems rather meager as to details of operation, but from it we would gather that the seed potatoes were to be immereed ia Uiis spread to dry in the shade. For us, one ounce of corrosive sub limate dissolved in a quart of hot water in a glass can would furnish the original solution, which would then be diluted down to 71i gallons for use. That would mean to take one pint to a little less than four gallons of water, or one cupful to two gallons. I suppose you would put tliis solu tion in a wooden or graniteware con tainer and soak your seed potatoes in it for two hours. Then spread them to dry in the shade, and store them in a clean bag if you did not care to dis infect the old sack also. It would not be much trouble and I have read often that such treatment is very beneficial in more than one way but remember that corrosive sublimate is a deadly poison and be very careful not to get it on your hands or let it poison any animal in any way. Also remember your can, cup, buckets, etc., that you use for the solution must be very thoroughly cleansed before being used again. Preparing tbe Ground for Potatoes. Having ourj seed ready it is time to prepare the soil and plant them. Potatoes give much better yields in rich, well prepared soil, though they must not have fresh manure. A good clover sod and soil where potatoes have not been grown for from five to seven years is very desirable. Never plant them where you did last year. On a farm, 12 to 16 tons of manure per acre each year are advised, with the addition of 300 to S00 pounds of acid phosphate per acre. This fer tilizer should be spread as a surface dressing over the entire field rather than in the rows with the potatoes, for the potato roots will then spread out more widely, and the land will also be in better shape for the follow ing crops. "Where manure is scarce muriate of potash may be used at the rate of 100 pounds to the acre, in connection with a heavy application of acid phosphate. "On thin soil some nitrate of soda will be needed in the absence of manure or. clover sod." Note. This fertilizing (s all right and will probably be profitable with potatoes at 5 to 10 cents per p und. but it will not pay to apply expensive fertilizers when potatoes are cheap. However, this is general advice, and our soil is exceptionally rich. We will get along very well ir we plant some legume this year in August to turn under where we expect to plant our potatoes next year. It need not be clover. Alfalfa or vetch are just as good, and the soil where beans and peas grow should be richer in ni trogen. Then take great pains in workins up a very fine seed bed, so that the roots may grow and the tubers foim easily. It is well to plow very deep in the fall and again in the spring unless the land has a cover crop and to work the land over so that the seed bed is soft and deep. This is of more importance than the fertilizing, espe cially in soil having much clay in it. Panting and Gronlnx Potatoes. Potatoes should be planted in hills every 15 Inches in the row and the rows 3 feet to 3V4 rfeet apart, though if the soil is poor 18 inches apart in the row would be better. There should be only one seed plant to the hill. '"These are cut pieces this time of year (especially at current prices), though whole potatoes had to be planted in the wet weather of winter and early spring. Smooth potatoes from 3 'A to 5 inches long are best for seed. These should be cut not more than one day before planting, and many ex perienced gardeners sprinkle a little lime or plaster over the cut surfaces before planting to prevent rot. Each piece ehould have at least two good eyes and a good piece of ' potato with them, as the inside of the tubev is provided for the young plant to live on. and grow from, and it is a mis take not to allow plenty of this nourishment to each piece. The end farthest from the stem end (or the blow end), where most of the eyes are, will produce plants a week earlier than the stem end. but this end must be cut off by itself and never cut in two. - In a small garden one can cut off all these blow ends for planting, as they make better plants in every way, and use the remainder of the potato for table use. Mark oft your ground and dig holes with the hoe in planting and drop the seed in. being careful to lay them with the eyes up. Do not plant too deep. The average depth of planting in Multnomah county is be tween two and three inches for the early crop and three to four inches for the main crop. It takes from one to three weeks for potatoes to come up. In culti vating a large piece it i well to kill he first weeds, as the potatoes will not be harmed if run over by the harrow just as they begin to show above the ground. Potatoes must not be watered at any and all times. It draws the roots to the surface and ruins the yield. They can be watered just once that is just ae they are coming into blossom and should then be ir rigated, not sprinkled with the hose. will describe this later. They should be well cultivated and kept free from weeds at all times. Level cultivation is advised instead of hilling them up. Expert Ad-tice on Crowinj; Potatoea In what is headed "A Million-Dollar Potato Article" in a recent Pacific Homestead. George R. Hyslop, pro fessor of farm crops at Oregon Agri cultural college, says so many things of vital interest to gardeners and farmers that I will select and con dense the parts of the article most useful to us. He says that many people object to Oregon-grown potatoes, that it is hard to get good seed here, and that the average yield Is only a little over 100 bushels to the acre in the state. He then shows that this average gives only two small market size potatoes to the hill in the fol lowing way: Plant potatoes in rows 34 feet apart and 1 feet apart in the row and it makes a stand of nearly 11.000 plants an acre. On this basis hills , weighing the amounts given below will yield the return in the right-hand column. Welrht Bushels of hill. per are. 10.9 ounces 120 1 pound ............ .v ..ITS 3 pounds T", i 5 pounds S90 From our four-year average. 191$- 1919. two potatoes of small market size is the average hill if we get a stand. Two good market potatoes. or one pound, give us what we con sider a good crop. Three pounds per hill represent a bumper crop yet the writer has seen 15-pound hills, and there is a recorded yield in Scotland of more than 2000 bushels an acre." This last statement is printed in capital letters, and it deserves to be. raise 2000 potatoes to. the acre, what s to prevent the fertile Willamette valley from doing so, when our ell mate is almost identical with that of England and Scotland? Professor Hyslop- goes on to say that the low yield here is due to two causes: First, poor stands, only 50 to 85 per cent of the hills growing in many fields: and second, low yields from the hill because of poor seed. The reasons there are such poor stands he gives as (1) too small a seed piece is used; (2) diseased seed is planted; 3) the seed bed is poorly prepared; (4) the potatoes are im properly planted: (5) the potato plants are carelessly cultivated. Speaking" of thebe- points in de- pieces (sometimes cut without even one eye) dry out and do now sprout at all. "Seed pieces for average soil should weigh 1& to 2 ounces and carry at least two eyes. The blossom or stem end should not be split, though nearly every one does so. This is the very best seed but some even cut off this end and discard it." Diseased seed results in the early death of many plants and even in a complete failure to sprout. A cloddy, dry seed bed means poor sprouting and a poor, uneven stand. Improper planting is responsible for many poor stands the "one man" or "picker" type of planters is con demned for field use. Some plants are cultivated out in field cultivation; others are lost by gophers or other rodents which should be controlled. The low yield per hill is principally due to poor seed stock and disease. "Too many people have sold away their market-size stock and have fooled themselves into thinking that little potatoes sorted out of the good ones are seed. When we want to develop a fine breed of hogs, do we sort out all the runts and off types and scrubs and keep them for foundation stock? "On your life, we do not. "We keep the ones we want the stock to be like. Therefore if we want potatoes that are big enough to sell we will have to plant some of that kind after they are cut to the right Size." In regard to disease in the seed stock he says that last year they tried the "best-recog-nized seed stock of the state" under favorable conditions at Corvallis, and that the "yield varied from 17 to 288 bushels per acre." Wc would surely have been interested to know which seed only yielded 17 bush els to the acre as well as which yield ed 288 bushels; but Professor Hyslop does not say. He does say, however, that the' college will examine and re port upon all fields of seed potatoes whjch are pure enough and free enough from disease to make good seed. Note. We have devoted so much spaCe today to raising "potatoes be cause they are our most important vegetable and because, from the com plaints and inquiries in regard to their culture that have come to us from time to time, we know that the gen eral situation here in regard to grow ing potatoes has not been satisfac tory as Professor Hyslep confirms. A letter recently came to me that was so very kind and appreciative that it mad-e me want to be of far greater service to you all than I have been in the'past. What this friend has been able to do for years on hia 50-foot lot in truly remarkable, and I publish the letter as an encouragement to other neighbors to do as well. If we all did, the "high cost of living" would not trouble us and we would, gain health and strength by the exercise. Portland. Or., May 3, 1920. Inea Gage Chapel, Care Oregonian, City. Dear .Madam-For over two years now I have been following your arti cles on "Gardening" in The Oregonian I have cut them all out and have them pasted in a large scrap-book and refer to them constantly. They have been so much help to me that I felt that I must write and thank you and hope that we will continue to have this valuable assistance in making our Portland gardens. Tour article in The Oregonian of May 2 i3 particularly timely. The world is very short of food, and even in Oregon we may be glad to have the help of even our little home gar dens. We raise enough on a 50-foot lot to provide the family with fresh veget abies every' month in the year, and have not had. to buy . any for five years. Anyone can do the same who will work and follow your advice, for which I, for one, thank you. Very truly yours, CM. WHITE. 1497 "Lancaster Street, Portland, Or. Will not many other friends send in questions or comments? We- could make this department much more in teresting if you would. 'Your garden neighbor, INEZ GAGE CHAPEL. OI0BS BUY FOUNTAIN CLASS MEMORIAL IXTEXDED TO BE trSEFTTIi. New Way to Make Neck ties for Blouses Pretty. Two Slanhea Like Buttonholes Are Worked Into "Frock. A. C. authority. "Take If "barren Scotland" can e sublimate crystals or bushels o( potatoes to the mm jwiiv & u Ten years without a corn Countless people boast that record now. Years ago they started using Blue-jay. Never since has a corn pained twice. And never has a corn stayed a week.. You can quickly prove that corns are needless. Millions have already done it. Think what it means. No more paring, no more pain, no more unsightly pads. Dainty shoes with out unhappy hours. Apply a touch of liquid Blue -Jay or a Blue-jay plaster. The corn pain will end. And soon the whole corn will loosen and come out. The action is gentle but sure. Blue-jay is the scientific method, created by thia world-famed laboratory. i It is not like the methods which ara harsh and crude. Try Blue-jay on one com. Buy it to night from your druggist. Live the teat of your life without corns. Blue jay Plaster, or Liquid The Scientific Corn Ender BAUER & BLACK CbJca New York Toronto Maken of Sterile Surgical Drewinc and Allied Products in THERB is a pretty new way of making, neckties for 'summer blouses and wash frocks. Two slashes like big buttonholes and set about an inch apart- are worked in the frock, just below the front of the rounded or V-shaped neck. Then black grosgrain ribbon, almost as wide as the buttonhole is long, is doubled and drawn up through the two buttonholes, the doubled end ris ing in a short loop from the upper slash and the two short ends, nicked out into points, falling below the other slash. Many of the new blouses and frocks of gingham, cross-barred lawn and plain colored linen have these pert little loop-and-end bows of black ribbon. Winged shoes have flown over from Paris and are fluttering along Fifth avenue, not by themselves, of course. but in company with pretty feet and ankles. Two gay little mercury wings slant backward from the in step of the shoe, which is really a strap-slipper or strap-oxford such as Paris is now affecting. Some of the slipper wings are black, but colors are seen, too brown, blue and black flecked with, yellow. Of course the silk stockings harmonize with the slipper wings. The really smart thing to hang a lorgnette on now is a silk cord much smarter is the cord than a narrow- black ribbon or even a jewel-studded chain. Lorgnette cords come with platinum slides and the smart lorg nette cord is black, though there are white cords for wear with all-white costumes. Oainty blouses are of cream-tinted handkerchief linen In slip-on style and opening on each shoulder with three pearl buttons and buttonholes set in a little epaulet hemstitched at the edges. Many tiny hand-run tucks decorate the front of the blouse and round neck and elbow sleeves are trimmed with overlapping frills of ex tremely narrow cream Val. POLICEMAN COLLEGE GRAD University of California Awards Cop Ph.. D. Degree. BERKELEY. Cal.. May 22. John Augustus Larson wrote a thesis on the subject of "Further Evidence of the Functional Correlation of the Hypoglossus and Thyroid." For this he received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of California. Despite the fact that Dr. Larson has won his Ph. D. degree, he is devoting nis entire time to his occupation. which is that of a policeman in Berke ley. Trees Planted at University Other Years Flourishing as Reminders of Past. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene, May 22. (Special..) A second senior fountain is to grace the cam pus. The class of 1920 has already sent away $225 of its 'unds for a plain bronze fountain, to be set up n front of the library, near tne senior bench. It is not to be largely orna mental, like the one donated by the class of 1923, but is to serve for drinking purposes.- It is expected to arrive here soon and will be set up. with appropriate ceremonies, about June 1. The senior class will have about 125 left after paying for this gift and meeting all class expenses for the year. This money will be given either to the Women's building fund or to the soldiers' memorial fund started three years ago. Ever since the graduation of the first class here, in 1878, the seniors have always left some sort of me morial. The English laurel tree, pre sented by the class of 1878, Is still growing, near the west walk leading from Deady to Villard hall. A slip from the famous elm at Washington s tomb at Mount Vernon was the gift of tbe class of 1883. It has grown into a beautiful tree. The class of 1893. desiring to de part from the prevailing custom. brought over a large symmetrical stone from the neighboring hills and set it up, with the class numerals carved on it, in the shadow of the Condon oaks, north of Villard hall. Th last class to plant a tree was that of 1900. now represented on the campus by a large oak. Other me morials Include the large clock in the library, by the class of 1908; the stone senior bench, in front of the library, by the class of 1910; the soldiers me morial fund, class of 1917; contribu tion to the women's building fund by the class of 1918. and a fund for class memorial gate to the athletic field by last year's class. broadly developed programme of making the service attract and hold the men. The pay is good, the work pleasant and the opportunities for promotion wide open. But there are long periods of idleness and little means of entertainment and amuse-1 ment. How to fill in these gaps when the men are off duty is one of the problems that must be overcome. To provide in some measure enter tainment for the idle hours, the Amer ican Library association is now fur nishing boxed co'llections of books to each vessel in the service. These libraries contain 75 or 80 books each and comprise technical and fiction works. Fiction, naturally, has the largest call, for even if a man is anx ious to rise in position, he must have relaxation and he finds it in the books that deal with the world of imagi nation. One of the methods of extending the service will be the establishment in the large foreign and home ports of interchange stations at which the ships' boxed libraries may be ex changed for others containing a dif ferent assortment of books, thus pro viding a flexible and flowing circula tion. Thus American books will fol low the American flag around the world, providing entertainment and opportunities for self-education for the men who have taken the sea as their profession. Six Nuns to Be Honored by Special Mass. leave for Africa late in the summer after finishing a short course of training in the College of Missions at Indianapolis. Miss Edna Whipple of Bellingham. Wash., graduate, 1919, of both thei university and the Bible school, is ex pecting to leave in August to take an appointment in China. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hendricks of Eugene are to accept assignment to a foreign field on the completion! by Mr. Hendricks of his term in the Uni versity of Oregon, from which he will be graduated in June. Mrs. Hendricks is a graduate of the Eugene Bible uni versity and tbe College of Southern Idaho. Grass Valley Services Held. GRASS VALLEY, Or., May 22 (Spe cial.) Baccaluareate services were held at the Methodist church last Sun day evening. Rev. L. E. Tabor of ficiating. Short talks were given after the services by the county superin tendent, Grace L. May; Z. Marie Hager of the high school faculty, and Roy J. Baker, member of the school board, on the educational tax meas ures shortly to be balloted upon at the primaries. Few Women Honored by Statues in London. Unveiling of Memorial to Nurse KUith Cavrll Recalls Others, of Sex W h o Achieved fame. jronrney of Women to Tucson. Art--, la 18T0 to Be Celebrated. Dog's Reasoning Shown. OAKLAND, Cal May 22. Children playing on the east side of Lake Mer ritt, in the heart of Oakland, were re cently attracted by an Airedale dog swimming across tne lake on an aver of three or four times a week. A park attendant said the dog apparently would rather swim across the lake than trot three miles around to reach hia home. TUCSON, Ariz.. May 22. Travel stained and weary, six nuns who had braced hundreds of miles of sand and heat on the southwestern desert. rode Into Tucson on the jolting stage from San Diego. That was in 1870, when Indians and white outlaws were the perils of the road. On May 26 of this year the semi-centennial of their coming will be observed here by Catholics from all parts of the state. On the morning of that day Rt. Rev. HenrytiGranjon. bishop of Tucson, will celebrate pontifical high mass at St. Augustine's cathedral. Afterward a jubilee will be held at St. Joseph's academy, founded by the order to which the pioneer nuns belonged. These pioneers came from the mother house of Carondelet. St. Louis. They traveled down the Mississippi to New Orleans, took ship around th horn to San Diego and completed their long journey by stage. Trade Supremacy on Seas Forecast for U. S. Speedy Expannton Tnrouarh Rapid GrowtL of Merchant Marine la Predicted. mRADE supremacy , on the seven X. seas, gained and kept by ships flying the American flag, is forecast for speedy realisation through the rap id expansion and development of the American merchane marine. Indica tions point to a fulfillment of the prophecy that by the end of the cur rent year there will be between 4000 and 5000 vessels plying the coastwise and foreign trade under the flag of the United States. The fleet now un der control of the shipping board comprises nearly 7,000,000 tons dead weight, "exclusive of wooden ships. Provided there are no sales, it is es timated that when the board's pro? gramme . is completed there will be 13,000,000 deadweight tons in service. Before the war it is calculated there were 49,000,000 deadweight tons in ocean-going service. , The largely increased personnel de , manded by thia expansion calls for a THE unveiling of the statue to Nurse Cavell reminds the London Post of the comparatively small number of women thus honored in the metrop olis. There is the one in Waterloo place to Florence Nightingale: Elizabeth Fry is commemorated in a statue at the Old Bailey; there is a statue of Lady Henry Somerset in the Victoria Embankment gardens; Mrs. Siddons is recalled by one at Paddington Green; and one of Dame Alice Owen stands in the hall of the almshouse at Islington that she founded. To Queen Victoria there Is the stately memorial outside Buckingham palace, as well as at Blackfriars and in Kensington Gardens; Queen Anne is recalled out side St. Paul, at Queen Anne's gate. and in Queen square, Bloomsbury; there is a beautiful figure of Queen Alexandra in the grounds of London hospital: there is one of Queen Eliza beth at St. Dunstan's, Fleet street, and one. not far away, of Mary Stuart. It was to a nurse that the first statue of a woman commoner was erected in this country that at Wal sall to the memory of the devoted Sister Dora, who fought the scourge of smallpox which devastated tne Black country in. 186. DR. WALDO WILL SPEAK Minister to Talk at Reed College Vesper Services. Dr. William A. Waldo, pastor of the First BaDtist church, will be the ves per speaker at Reed college this after noon at 4 o'clock. The public is invit ed to hear the address and the special music provided by the college cnoir and organist. There also will be spe cial instrumental and solo numbers. Dr. J. J. Staub of the Sunnyside Congregational church was the Reed sneaker last Sunday. Portland min isters have been speaking at the col lege vesper services during the last two months as a part of the Reed programme to "get acquainted with citv churches. Noon chapel services during th week at Reed have been varied. Pro fessor Ralph Boas paid tribute to Dean Howells in an address on Mon day. Rev. Mr. Christionsen of a Port land Lutheran church, gave a talk religion and Americanization work during the week. Misses Lucile Mur ton and - Elizabeth Gore provided special organ and piano music Quick Action Corn Cure "Gets-It Stops Pain Instantly and Corn Soon Lifts Right. Off. A few drops of "Gets-It" anenchea corn pains like water quenches fire. Gives you immediate relief 7 ENTER MISSION WORK Total of IS From University Sow in Foreign Fields. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, May 22 (Special.) Seven more stu dents and graduates of the Eugen Bible university and the University of Oregon are to enter the foreign mis sionary field at the conclusion of th present term, making a total or who have gone into this line of wor since 1900. Of this number, almost all have gone to Africa and China for the Foreign Christian Missionary so ciety of the Christian church. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer G. Boyer of Eugene and -Mr. and Mrs. David A. Byerlee of Portland, are planning to reel it y The corn be grins to lose Its grip at once. In a day or two it Is so loos that you can lift It off, roots and all. 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