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'-V: - :' "" SUNDAY MOTOTNGMAR I I Iim4 Dnily Except Monday by TBS 8TATESMAV f TTBUSHTKO COMPACT SIS 8oath Commercial 6t, SaUm, Orcn X. J. Hendricks 'oka L. Brady frank Jaikocki ; acEKBEK or THE '-.TJtA.,VUt'J.r5,B , l4''y B. J. HENDRICKS : PrMident CARLE ABRAM8 Secretary BUSINESS OFFICES: Tkeaae J". CUrk Co, Kew Tork, 14M45 VTeat 86th St.; Chicago. MarquetU Build tr ... ... ' Wi a OHUwahl, Mgr. (Portland Office. $36 Worceater Bid, Phoi. 6087 Bftoadway, 0. I. WtUiama. Mgr.) Boalneae Office . . Newa Departinene . . . . I Job Department Entered at the Poatotflce in Salem, Oregon, aeeond-eea matter. AN3WERING AN INQUIRY ABOUT LINEN INDUSTRY The Statesman has been requested by a Avell known Oregon citizen to give an outline of what the linen industry would amount to in new business and labor employment, if developed in the Salem district, or in the Willamette valley, to an extent 10 mane tne United States self sufficient in this field That is, to supply the home markets of this country for the manufactures and by-products of flax. It is assumed that this development would bring to the "Willamette valley about $100,000,000 annually, for linens and the manufactures of linens, and for flax seed and the other by products. "Linen," wrritten by Alfred S. Moore of Belfast, Ireland, a book that is high authority on the industry, gives by inference the output of the Irish linen mills at around $100,000,000 a year, and the total for Great Britain at about $120,000,000; the jextra $20,000,000 coming mostly from Scotland, in the manufac 5ur of damasks and the finer forms of linen goods, in which the scotch people excel. The same authority gives as the number of people employed in-the Irish linen trade and manufacturing at perhaps 388,000, not including1 those making and repairing textile machinery, and crates and boxes and in carting and shipping, etc. i The same authority says that about half the output of Irish linen manufactures comes to the United States. Irish linen has very little competition in the markets of the United States; be fore the World war; German and Austrian linens came to the United States in comparatively small quantities. From the above, it will be seen that the Belfast district ' the chief bene ficiary of the markets of the United States, which, for linen and linen manufactures and flax seed and the by-products of flax, are taking now well up towards a value of $100,000,000 a year from foreign countries All of whlth can be replaced by the development of the flax industry in Oregon ; in the Willamette' valley ; in the Salem dis trict,' . ' But the 388,000 people employed directly and indirectly in the linen industry in the Belfast district, outside of the others named above, would be, considerably increased in number here in the Salem district, because the industry would be developed here V from the ground up;" from the growing of the flax to the making of fine linens; even up to the makiug of clothing and specialties and laces. The flax would be grown here, employ ingimany laborers on the. land in cultivating and harvesting the crop, and our home labor would take the product on up through all the, stages "Whereas in Ireland taost of the fiber imported,. Jjqi the Belfast district produced only 13,439 ton of fiber, and im k ported 81,565 tons from Russia, and considerable quantities from Belgium and several other countries. . The writer believes that it is safe to say hat the. develop ment of ther linen industry here, in the Willamette valley, to the $100,000,000 annual volume, would account for the addition of a million new people to our populationcounting all such as the "butcher, baker and candlestick maker." and the merchants and doctors and lawyers and families and dependents who would find their livings here on account of such development. . ' )The total Value of all the things now grown or produced on the land in Oregon is estimated at about $200,000,000 an nually. The development of the flax industry here to the point of making the United States self sufficient in this field would mean the bringing of this output up to $300,000,000 annually; the great bulk of the additional ,money coming from outside of the state ; and, being expended here, would vastly stimulate all other lines of endeavor on the land and lead quickly to doubling the present annual income And all this can be accomplished with the use of a com paratively very small acreage of land. How much land? It might be done with the use of less than 50,000 acres of Willam ette valley land, presupposing that a maximum yield might be counted upon every year. This could not be. depended on, of course; but certainly it could be done with the use of 100,000 to 150,000 acres of land on land that is now slacker land ; with out interfering With any other agricultural crop or expansion. .The great item in flax manufacturing is labor. It is figured in Ireland that for $300 worth of linen, $100 is the cost of the fiber, and $200 is labor. In the Salem district, where the fiber would be produced, it would be all labor All except capital investment and profits on the various operations , ; . , i-' , For there would be profits here, all along up the line. Man ufacturing the coarser fiber in Canada is very profitable, with a protective duty that is very slight. With our finer fiber - .The finest the world produces ,-And with our very favofablci protective duties, under the present tariff law, and with the use of modern machinery, in cluding the mechanical puller, there will be big money inlincu manufacturing here. Our State flax plant will shortly have the best Equipped and largest scotching plant in North America. Thej have no such plants jnl Ireland, or did not have up to a very short time ago. Their initial methods are primitive; and they (are more primitive in all other flax districts than the ones we are using andcoming to use here.; . .There never was such a time as now' for the full development of the flax industry here. All the natural conditions Jirc practi cally perfect here, Land-have been all along; but all bther con ditions have conspired together to make this the accepted time for the immediate beginning of r campaign for full development. -Space forbids further details. The subject is a big one. It is a fascinating study. It is the most important matter now be fore our people. The man making the 'inquiry will need no excuse for the taking of even no much space, He will no doubt pursue the inquiry;; and every lone who lias a stake in. Oregon ought to do the very same thing. In that case, only a verv brief time would be needed to witness the full development here of the flax industry. A STATESMAN AMI A TKAXIT ; Secretary Mellon Jt a statesman, big and commanding. Senator Caraway of Arkansas la a peanut, a plnder. Someone told thin pea nut that the statesman was inter ested in companies opposing th 3 bonus legislation. j Tho peanut e: plodod and commenced pecking at the heel ot the statesman. The senator from Arkansas, bo- Manager Editor Venager Job Lpt. ASSOCIATED HtESS tntitled to the nee for publication of U J. L. BRADT Vice-Preaident .TELEPHONES: 88 Circulation Office 18106 Society Editor 688 106 888 teachers and preachers and their would indirectly be needed and tng naturally of a suspicious tem perament and being brave, hurled his defiant challenges and suspic ious at the secretary. Mr. Mellon came back with dignity and poise. Tho dialogue is so interesting that wo want to give it by rounds, as reported ia the daily press. . Suspicion 1.. That somebody has been contributing to the anti bonus league. Secretary Mellon replied with dignity that he knew nothing about.it. Suspicion 'J. That Secretary Mellon is interested in a corpor ation suspected by the Arkansas senator of contributing to the anti bonus league. Secretary Mellon replied: "I have no official con nection with either of these com panies or business relations with the two gentlemen except as a stockholder in the companies in which they are officers." Suspicion 3. That some Chi cago employers had been com manded or requested to write let ters to members of congress op posing adjusted compensation. Secretary Mellon replied that he had no information whatever on that matter and, moreover, had taken no steps to ascertain if it were true. Suspicion 4. That Secretary Mellon had taken a hand in the movement against the bonus. To that he replied: "I have not been consulted with, nor have I con tributed personally to this activ ity." Suspicion 5. That the secretary of the treasury had cooperated with some one who had been rais ing a fund to be used in opposing the bonus. To that Secretary Mel lon replied: "I have never auth orized or cooperated with any per son in raising any fund that had for its purpose any propaganda against the soldier's adjustd com pnsation measure, or any other measure that has been before con gress during the time I have oc cupied my present office." Mr. Mellon answered in the neg ative all the questions put to him by the Arkansas senator. But sup pose that he had answered that he had been opposing the soldiers' bonus? His right to oppose the bonus is at least equal to Senator Caraway's right to support it. President Coolidge has declared his opposition to the bonus. It would readily follow, in propriety and loyalty, that member of tho cabi net would support the administra tion's politics. XOT CAUGHT The despatches yesterday stated that the "principal" in the oil fi asco was Senator Curtis of Kansas. We can just imagine the luridity in the air when Curtis found this out. He never waa very choice with his language, and any attack on his integrity would cause him to see red. The plain fact is, the irrespon sible parties wallowed for a few days in artificial light and then kerflunked to earth. They had to do something. First they tried to hang the "principalship" on the president, but the reaction against this was so terrific that it had to be speedily abandoned. The next effort was to hang it on Senator Curtis. Charles Curtis hasv been in public life for a third of a cen tury. He started as a horse jockey on the race track. He was elected county attorney, and at the end of his second term went to con gress where he remained until pro moted to the senate, lie has been open and above board always. While he has been partisan, he has been clean. Senator Curtis is one of the moat useful men in the senate. He is never spectacular, but he is alwava in nvidence. He was never known to neglect a duty or to mix up in anything that would hurt his influence as a senator. No man who knows Curtis would think for a minute that he was guilty of such conduct, even with out his personal denial. HOW WOOD LOST General Wood lost the presi dency rather than enter into a bargain to put Jake Hamon in the cabinet as secretary of the in terior. Harding put in a man about as bad. Hamon was ambitious and as pired to the cabinet. It happened that this writer was in General Woods home when the interview was planned. General Wood sus pected what was on and he told the writer that if he had to do this in order to be president of the United States he would never be president. He said he was go ing in with clean hands or not at all. Grneral Wood is a high-minded statesman and he is incapable of despicably prostituting his trust tor selfish ends. TIIK IUU1IT COtHSK Far be it from the Oregon Statesman to head-hunt. Ilatber it wants to commend in this in stance. Waiter L. Tooze, Jr., has announced that he will not attempt to hold the republican state chair minbxip. This is a pleasing in novation. Most men convicted of a crime get up and cavort over the state demanding vindication. Mr. Tooze is not doing this. He is bowing to the inevitable and tak ing his punishment. We have an idea that a man like that lias a chanco to come back. BooK Reviewj By VESA BRADY 8HXFMAX j " VINDICATION'." by Stephen Mc Kenna. Published by Little Hrown & Co, Boston. Price $2, net. A story of English estates, worn out peerages, flagrant disorder of society's lrrespectability, the novel is tense in its entirety. Gloria, the daughter of a battered old roue who lives by his wits, reared in sordid secrecy of her real address, is invited to a country place of the Cartwrighfs, a family long estab lished in culture decency and ail the attributes but money. Love follows but the wheel ot fortune turns her on to marry wealth in the form of a profligate. Freddie Melby, a peer. Norman Gartwrlght In chagrin, marries the wealthy daughter of his solicitor. The evolution of these two cou ples, living in adjoining country estates is a story of great emotion and plot depth. Through it all you can but feel the innate tri-. umph of Gloria, whose birth and upbringing developed only the lax ity of living, but whose fundamen tal Ideals were pure. It is Gloria's vindication of life, love and reward which i is hopeless, unhapiness which in the end is triumphal strength. Vindication is well knit and its characters are active. Your re spect is not lessened in Gloria as she meets the situations which to her mean mental death. She is in slang parlance "a good sport" and as such takes her medicine as it comes, reacting on the life of the times. "THE BOOSTERS," by Mark Lee Luther. Published by Bobbs Merrill & Company, Indianapo lis, Ind. Price $2. A story of California, its native and foster sons who acquire the spirit of boosting which seems to be inhaled in western air. George Hammond a Boston architect, after suffering financial reverses, is urged by his wife, Har riet, the daughter of a "forty-nin er, to go to cjamorma to regain his lost fortunes. Her brother, Spencer Ward, is a typical Calif ornia booster. The two Hammond children, Milton and Rose, are not so sure of the promised land. The adjustment of the family, th meetinc with Spencer Ward's divoreed wife and their subsequent contact, real estate deals and arch itectural designs, interior decorat ing and heart breaking, flitting from Los Angeles to Catalina Is lands, makes a clever story of the times. Harriet. Hammonds wife.Js, by nature, contrary. She is one of those chosen women to whom a Ftatement demands contradiction. Browbeaten through a toppling business in Boston, the mingling with California blood and atmos phere is the life adjustment of the man. . The story is typically social in its detail, representative of the soc ial class to which Hhe Hammond's and Wards belonged by birthright. Its plot is well planned and hold? the interest. You suffer with George Hammond in-hls shrinking personal struggle, with Ward in his revenge purchased, ready-built living castle, with Anita (Wards ex-wife at the worlds incongruity and with Harriet that the world should be planned without her ap proval. It is a capital story for while you suffer with the characters you delight in their progress through the pages of local color. For the "Boosters" is Califprnia at her best, tho new, outgrown Los An geles In the shadow of Hollywood fame. Why even the handling of the local earthquakes brings a smile to any but a real booster. "BIRTH." by Zona Gale. Pub lished by the MacMillan com pany. New York City. Price $2. Ever since the Friendship Vil lage stories which were so inimit ably told. Miss Gale has proven that she knows the heart of the small town. Her characters ire plain folk, without vision of great breadth. Their souls run in nar row channels to be submerged in cries of environment. Marshall Pitt is colorless. His identity is negative and his life an uneven stream. He is introduced as a pickle salesman, and you are to understand that he is a very ordinary salesman. Fate brings him to Barbara Ells worth at her father's death. Bar bara is left with a paper hansing. business and debts, always d"bts. Through a moment of sentiment Barbara and Pitt agree to share their fate, Marshall Pitt shoulder ing a businoss whirh he knows no thing of and a life of indebted ness. The story 1a pathetic. Its depth and heights are those of common place realism. Barbara's rebellion and Titts loneliness, the rise ot their son Jef frey is the life story at its ebb. Yon shudder at the hopelessness of Marshall Pitt. What never was can never be and he realizes in agony his insufficiency. Yet the small town characters so truthful ly portrayed lend the touch or hu man interest to a story of" sordid Incom netency. Birth is admirably written and tho lover ot true story literature can see the photographic reality of Miss Gale's pictures. She holds up a mirror to the inconsequential village and her characters react to Cap'n Zyb MAKE IXDHXS WAR DAXCE In the old days, the Indians of the western plains used to capture the western plainsmen and have a war dance before torturing them. Here is a way you can get even with the old time Indians make them dance for you. Cut out a flock of Indians, as shown in fig. 1. They will all be alike and will all have their hands joined except the first and last Indians. Join their hands with paste, thus forming a complete cir cle. The paper you use to cue them from must be stiff. Now put a pan on the stove with a little water in it, light the gas and put a pan cover on the top of the pan. Place your Indians on the top of this metal pan cover and soon they will be dancing merrily away in all sorts of wild move ments. Make two or three of these cir cles of Indians and see which the the best dancers. CAP'X 7.YB. life from a disconnected world about, thera. a a a "A COXQI EROR PASSES," bv Larry Barretto. Published bv Little Brown & Company, Bos ton. Price $2 net. 1 A story of a returned soldier, unable to cope with life as he finds it, the world changed about him and he within his heart so little realizes the change within him self. The title suggests valorous deeds but the hero of the story is a private in the AEF without cita tion or glory, just one of the mil lions of men who did the fighting. These men were the ones from of fices, small shops or lik walks of life, young men whose futures lav with their promotions. Large em ployers hurrahing as the flag pass ed, promising awaiting jobs which were filled upon the soldiers re turn. Even the girl of his heart Is changed. The world waj not worth the candle to Stephen Wickr "r os he disappeared one night without job, money or realization. The Prologue is a clever epitome j of the story. It tells the story of the returned soldier and his rel- j tions to the waiting world. I i quote: " 'What will AEF mean 50 years from now? What does it mean to dayif anything?' asked tha ra tionalist. , " 'After England Failed.' sug gested the college boy. " 'Pooh, that old libel. Why not After Everybody Fought?' said I FIG. I & THE COMING PROTESTANT REFORMATION (Copyright 1924, San Jose Mercury). The controversy between the so-called Modernists and Fun damentalists continues unabated, and the press of the east is giving much space to'its varying phases. As yet the Modern ists are not all agreed'as to just what their attitude, should be. Some of them would be satisfied with the elimination of those dogmas and parts of the creeds manifestly not in harmony with modern scientific truth, while fit hers aim at sweeping away all theologies and getting at the lifc and the plain and simple teach ings of Jesus and making these the basis of the Christian re ligion. This latter class apparently are the more numerous and mili tant. Dr. Elwood Worcester of Boston, one of them, is recently quoted in an eastern journal as follows: 44 In the long history of Christianity there has been an inevitable tendency to depart widely from th" person of the founder of the religion, to forget His teaching, to substitute other aims. A rolitrion so beset by worldliness, by tradition, by accretions of every kind has but one way to deliver itself that is, by a return to the mighty ideas of the" founder and by disentangling itself from much that is dead, inert and impeding. Dr. Samuel McComb. professor in the Epis copal Theological school at" Cambridge, declares, "We need a drastic and far-reaching reformation, more thoroughgoing than that of the sixteenth century, if religion and the church are to survive." ' Among the older Modernists are some who seek little more than a restatement and reinterpretat ion of the old dogmas and creeds. Most of the younger and more aggressive have no pa tience with this. Prof. Lake declares, "While recognizing that by a sufficient amount of re-interpreting all the articles of the creeds can be given whatever meaning is desired." "and so pre serve continuity witli the past, it is doing so at the expense of the younger generation and sacrificing continuity with the fu ture This may conciliate those who have power to make trouble in the present; but. it is only the young, who are now silently abandoning the church, that have the power to give it life in the future." Dr. William Norman Cuthrio puts his opposition to the method of re-interpretation thus: "If you don't shock your grandmother, vou will lose the love of your grandson." r e o o The Fundamentalists ami, the Catholics, on the other hand, are getting more and more merciless and emphatic as the. days pass in their condemnation of Modernism and the 'Modernists. America, the Catholic weekly, uts the Catholic view clearly thus: "The Modernists brought Up in Protestantism, have at last revealed to the light of day what was always at the bottom of the Protestant doctrine of private judgment applied to the religion of Christ." One cannot have the cake and rat it too; either each one is free, in these matters, and then there is no Kevcla tion, or the Christian is not free to believe what he likes, and then then is Protestantism." Dr. Harry, rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary in New York, declares, "This whole tpies- Itiou is but the age-long dispute Things To lk Copyright, 1923, Associated Editors. SOME SIGHTSEEING TRIPS WITH THE BIRDS'; Two Unlike Members of the Same Family, Spring is here! This morning we saw a robin with his red breast and yellow bill hopping on the lawn, while a soft musical. "Tru-al-ly. tru-al-ly" from the or chard tells us that the robin's cousin, the blue-bird, is setting ua housekeeping there. It is hard to believe that two birds sn different in appearance us the robin and the bluebird he lonz to the same family. Both are Members of the thrush family, to which belongs also the hermit thrush who hides in deep, cool for es' s, the wood thrush of the more southern localities, and the Veery, or Wilson's thrush, known to New England and the northern woods. Bnild Xct in Tree Crotch The robin and his mate choose the crotch of a tree, or sometimes a cranuv on top of the Dorch pillar to build their nest of Kr-3ses. the lawyer who specialized In in ternational law. " 'The greatest epic in American history,' said the Profiteer fatly. "They returned to the soldier: after all he had been a Dart of it. ' Tin afraid none of you would understand,' he answered not cour teously. "Melanie patted back a yawh with her very white hand. " "Come on, let's dance.' she urg ed them." The story is the product of a new author and his breadth is un- j questionable. Readjustments and love the allayer of trouble bring this remarkable story to a satisfactory ending. Yet the pro blem is totally unsolved. The re turned soldier Is as far. apart from his world as the East Irjdian in New York. He ia living in anoth er snhere and ihe world owes him'! the tenderness of ah appreciative life service. "THE FAXG IN THE FOREST." by Charles Alexander. Pub lished by Dodd Mead & Com pany, New York. Price $2.00. An Oregon author brings a story of dog life which savors of Jack London in its wolf dog theme. Black Huck was one of four pups. He was sold and taken to the for est. His master was killed and Buck was injured in Ms nose. Af ter the wound healed he found that his sense of smell was gone. To hunt to live he followed the trail between the .Catholic and the The Boys and Girls Statesman The Biggest LltUe Taper ni the World v . roots and twigs, lining It with mud. When the three or four tur cuoise blue eggs that the ruothe: bird lays in the nest hatch out. ;uf may see that the noisy, preedv baby robins belong to the thrush family, for they have specklec breasts like thrushes. But whe they grow to the size and age oi their lusty lather, the breasts will he reddish brown. Earthworms are the staff of life to baby robins just as bread is to boys and girls. It has been esti mated that about fourteen feet of worms are drawn out of the ground daily by a pair ot robins with a nestful of babies to feed. By fall the robin's diet will have changed with the season to one oi juniper barries. dogwood and ehoke berries. Tu the summer when the brood ing season Is over, the robin moults, hides away. -- " silent for a while. But by autumn of other animals tracking by eye, their scents It is a remarkable story of a half dog and half wolf. Beauti fully illustrated by Paul Bransom (tho illustrator of Emma Lindsay Squier nature stories) the book is a credit to Oregon os well as out standing in animal fiction. The copy at hand is autographed by the author to J. L. Brady and respectful acknowledgement is made, as I return it to my fath'r. Great man. One v V.o hnpem-d to be in the front run'i In the time of great events. Still, it isn't an uamtvt-d cal amity ' when pariy es;-e'ie.uy keeps congres frsom passing many laws. Ford Given So1t THU Pvtsl Wta rtnrt rrls IS (8 85 I IS 93 It Th flffurvs represent correspond ing Ittra In the alphabet. Fig ure 1 Is A, 2 la B. and no on. The ten fiffur spell three vorde. Whet are the words? To Ken. Women, Boya aad Olrla All can share in the easy-to-wlo prizes. Send the three words on sheet of paper, neatly written, with your name and address. Flrt prlie. 1924 FORD TOUR1NO CAR. Besides this splendid first prise we are going to give away thirty-nine other prizes. Bend Tom Answer Act Quickly TED FAcrrio XOMXSTXAD 80S B. Commercial St Salem. O. Protestant ideal, between the right of indiviual interpretation and authority." r .. . In this connection it is interesting to note the attitude of the ... leading infidels. Mr. Cohen, editor of The Freethinker of Lon; don, writing of the Modernists movement, declares, "The ration- alizing of religion is one of the gravest dangers to genuine Free- thought. It is not a liberalizing of Christianity we are aiming at, but its destruction. No other end than that is worth bother- ing about, because to pursue the end of rationalizing Christian ity is only to pave the way for its restoration." What many laymen are thinking is well voiced by Glenn Frank, editor of the Century: "Modernism, if it is to be a vital force in contemporary life, must do more than reconstruct the ology; it must rediscover the religion of Jesus. It is paganized theology that we must keep adjusting to contemporary thought. If we were wisp enough to dispense with it, wc should, I think find a timeliness and a universalify about the religion of Jesus that would forever lift it above the sterile controversies on ' " which the Fundamentalists and the Modernists alike arc wast; ing o much precious energy." ' a - a - . . The average layman and the religiously inclined noil-church member would welcome a theological readjustment to make the dogmas of the church conform to settled scientific truth and to Christian ideals as they are revealed in the life and teachings of Jesus. A quiet but deep-seated conviction is becoming quite. j' general that such readjustment would be a great gain to .the church, to Christianity and to the world. Hut a so-called re ligions reformation which would take out of Christ ianityt its . ! spiritual elements, which would reduce' all its evidences of spir-' ' itual power to the lcvel-pf purely natural phenomena. and ac count for everything iirthe life of Jesus by physical and natural . . laws indeed would be death to. Christianity ami a calamity to the world. To thus place the spiritual and moral conscience of the ; world in the keeping of the materialists would be to not ' only abandon Christianity but also the beautiful ideals which have made the so-called Christian nations' the most civilized and . advanced nations of the earth; and these ideals actually':, real izcil will bring universal peace and banish sin, injustice ami brutality and the suffering resulting from them. i Most laymen will not object to a reformation which makes the clmrch declare that this is a universe of law and that the so- ; called miracles of Jesus arc not the result of direct divine inter-' ' position, but are the result of the action of spiritual or some '. other laws that wp do pot yet fully understand. Hut many have hat! too much religious experience, to permit them to accept as- - true the statement that these miracles are only inytlis or the re- 1 suit of the power of mind upon pind. The ' religious reforma- ; fion that many of us are looking for is one that, instead of 1e- stroying or weakening the spiritual rlemcuts in us, will find new ', ways to strengthen and develop them until our rejir'"ii shall be ' nothing short of a conscious eommunion with the. great Oversold ' f the I'm i verse. Wc are tired of .emptiness yi religion. We want"" the satisfying reality. , (jiv us a religious reformation that .will ' bring this to us and wc will gladly welcome and embrace it . I Load of FM Edited by Joha H. Millety his plumage is bright and new, again and he hops about in tho gayest of spirit! ; Bluebird Comes Early . Before the farmer begins to ' plough the wet earth, sometimes.' even "before the snow is off of' the ' ground, the Bluebird' I making ,j himself at home in our orchards ' ' and gardens. It a box house with ; -' a tiny hole for a front door U built for him. the Bluebird will 5.- live In our yard, but we must -V watch carefully to drive away the English " sparrows and starlings that try 'to take the house' away. The gentle bluebird-wilt giy up his home, rather than battle with his neighbors. , . . ; Two or even three broods of bluebirds may be raised in the box " each spring. From three to -six pale blue eggs ara laid at a time. The babies at first are blind, help less and almost naked. Soon they -grow a suit of dark clothes with a speckled breast like a thrush. Not: until they are old enough to fly do the feathers turn . "cerulean blue like, the sky and their breasts -rusty brown like the ear'h. ; It. has been suggested that baby birds must wear somber clothes until they are grown when they are able to take care of themselves. Then they may put on -gayer . plumage.. In the fall when the bluebird goes south to feed on the mistle- , toe berries, his call changes from the tru-al-ly ot spring to a soft "tur-wee-tur-wee." " I FUTURE DATES I -4 VVh 13 14 nj 15 But Ibt eholarstie kthall temrtte rTmnin liarrh' 14-15. Friday end Saturday Twenty-fifth annual rnnrentien f Mar- Inn Count t R-n lay School Council of Re ligion Kdurat'on. f , ; ' Ifarrh i and 15 PrMsy and Bars lay Maries ennty Saaday school braaes of rellrinua xlnratinn aaeets at Steytea. March 19, Wednesday Ananat concert, nWa'i auxiliary TMCA. Methodist clmrch. ----- April 19, Satarday Dedication ot Ktaiue "The Circuit Eider." la State snneda ' ? .':-. ..-tv Way IS, friday Priaiary election tk ma Jnn. ro, Taceday Rcnnhiiraa "atlenr Vi cnnvni'Ma mta la Clcelaad, . June 24, Tneaday Dtnocn tie nation . June 27-23 Educational eoofarcaee, "lraity of Oregon. EnKCDO. Tere Is Big Honey in Raising Purebred Chickens . Hundreds of poultry men have grown wealthy raising purebred, chickens. Here Is an opportunity for yon to do the same. Fourteen trios of world champion chickens, with records of from , 275 eggs to 315 eggs a year will be given FREE to ambition! people. Send name and ad dress to Purebred Chicken Editor. Northwest Poultry Journal, Salem. Oregon, Dept. A. and full informa tion wtll be mailed. j a i