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r TIFE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26,1926 ; 9 ' PAT1 One drop of water does not make a waterfall'" One man9 8 effort r will not build a XL 1 jcon 'community How great this community may grow, how prosperous and complete it fnay rflT17V4Vfci become, depends upon us our willingness and our desire to worktogether- f. RON1ZIMG of Y'UR COMMUNITY STORES: AND INDUSTRIES MAKES PAYROLLS ::: i ALL and ALL for ONE St) 2 S1LEISL0M C0 THAT WILL BE USEFUL IN DISTRICT Is Preparing to Put Out a Mash That Will Help Very Mater ially i"n Building Up Our Already Booming Poultry In dustry Was Chemist and Milling Superintendent for the Sperry People for Fifteen Years Before Casting His . Lot With Salem Ross C. Bidwell Is the new man ager of the Cherry City Milling company. He has held, that posi tion since. Dtcember. Mr. Bidwell was chemist and milling superintendent for the great Sperry Flour company for fifteen years, before coming to Sa lem, He was born in Indiana and is a graduate of the University of Indiana, where he specialized In ch.praraUy-jS; Jla ent Almost dl rertly'ill!fPrry people -after Mi graAaatfdif'.faiia wasfehJthe go .between thqu arjjpis Sperryf plants V good dQalJ4t thd.time.- It is a fortunate thtrig toi 4ne$alem dis trict that, whdri he jgdt1 ready to ne ttle down, Mr. Bidwell selected this city Because his services are going to be useful here, in many ways. AThcy will be valuable in helping r to boost our already booming V poultry industry, and in helping cur dairy industry in furtlr ex pansions. - On July 12th of last year Are destroyed the old plant of the Cherry City Milling company, at the corner of Trade and Church Btreets. But P. W. Geiser, then nianag f or, was on the job immediately and preparing to carry, on. The warehouse property at the corner of Trade and High streets was se I cujrd, rebuilt, and additions pro ved for. Within 60 days, the feed part of the company was in letter shape than before the fire, .and the warehouse facilities were as great; even larger. ' Mr. Geiser is still interested in the business, but the state of his health requires outside work, and he is gfving a good deal of his time to his real estate. Resides the Salem plant, the Cherry (?ity. Milling company has the warehouse at Derry, to accom modate the business on the west side of the river. The new mill has much more modern, machin y cry than . the old; automatic scales, etc. It is designed to do a lot of work In a small floor space. ' It is self contained. The feed mill has 100 tons capacity and the ilour mill 75 barrels capacity. Thjs company makes molasses stock feed and they also make dairy feed from the bolls and the I tiinall and broken seeds of the ' flax. ' A Thriving Business The flours are principally the Oak Blend, a hard wheat bakers' fJour, and Cherro Bakers; Cherro patent, a hard wheat family flour, ' tth'd Economy and Perfection . for 1 pastry, and ' Cherro Graham and 'J Cherro, whole wheat flour for dark breads. They also make Cherro rolled oats, Cherro pancake flour, Cherro whealola, etc In feeds, they go far, in num bers and in territory served. In poultry feeds, they, make Cherro and Capitol scratch feeds, Cherro growing scratch, Cherro chick feed, Cherro egg mash, Capitol tgg mash, Cherro egg builder, Cherro development mash, Cherro chick mash, Capitol' development mash, etc. In dairy feeds they, make Cher - ro cow chow, Cherro - molasses feed, Cherro mixed feed, and they also make Cherro hog chow. They also carry : many ' poultry and dairy specialties. ' They deal in feed wheat, ground wheat, seed wheat, and seed oats and rolled and ground oats in all the usual lines. Also make up barley and corn in, all the differ ent ways, and of course have mill t un, bran and shorts. They also deal in vetch and clo ver seed, and they do custom cleaning of these iceds. Nome Important Things t Throughout the east and south, ""the leading poultrymen have been carrying on experiments in feed ing, under the direction of milling chemists and experiment stations. This work has been especially ac- tive in Ohio. .The idea was to Vlbbert & Todd Electric Store, High at Ferry Sts. Everything electrical. Good service and low prices are bringing an increasing trade to this store. , () Smith it Watkins for tire serv ice at a lower cost.. Vulcanizing and retreading, tube repairing. It you have tire trouble Just call 44. Corner Court and Hlh Sts. iX bring out a mash with the proper ingredients for building an egg, besides furnishing the flesh and health requirements to do away with scratch feed, which is waste ful and has to be fed at certain intervals and takes the time and energy of the poultryman, and ties him down and makes him unneces sary expense. Mr. Bidwell bs followed these experiments, and he is now ready to begin "putting , out this new mash, and will have It on the lotal market In "about a month. ' ' i ." Sixteen Ingredients ! - The new "mash has 16 ingredi ents, including sufficient material to supply what is needed In green feeds necessary for laying hens. Where the poultryman has plenty of running water he can use this mash and go away and leave his flock for three days. Any one who attends to poultry will realize how important this will be in making his industry a more desirable one. Mr. Bidwell has at the mill a modern, up to date chemical lab oratory. He has a strict chemical test on all feeds. He does not guess. He takes no chances, neither do' the Customers buying feeds. This is going to be very important to our dairymen, as well as our' poultrymen. Keep on With Grain Mr. Bidwell thinks our farmers ought to keep on raising grain. They should rotate their crops. They should milk more cows. They should grow still more corn. The Cherry City people use four cars a month of corns grinding and cracking It. In her paper mill, in the person of Mr. Bidwell, and in other in dustries including her linen mills and her sugar factories that are coming, Salem is getting some high class men in the industrial chemical world, the most import ant of the present day. . No other class of people can do more good here in the development of our industries. Walter H. Zoaei, automobile tires, tubes and accessories. Vul canizing that holds. High quality superior service. A trial makes customer. 198 S. Com'l. () At Shipley's the ladles of Salem have satisfied themselves that they can get the finest spring and sum mer frocks, coats and dresses' ever shown in this city. () THE LAVISH USE But Also, the Profitable Use of Them in Case of This Celery Grower ; Charles' K. Ogura, on a two acre tract of his celery land in the La blsh Meadows district, a few miles north of Salem, has had experience during the present season with the lavish use of fertilizers. This has been referred to heretofore in The Statesman, but the whole story was not given. 1 During the present season Mr. Ogura has used four car loads of stockyards (Portland stockyards) manure, making 100 tons, on this two acres. He has also used one ton of- Bed Steer celery fertilizer. He sold his first crop of celery from this two acres of land for $4,000. A second crop of celery for this year is now growing on the same land. For this second crop he has Used a half ton of the name celery fertilizer (Swift's), and this second crop' will soon be ready to commence harvesting. He expects to realize at least $1,000 an acre from the second crop, or a total. of $3,000 an acre for the crop during the growing season of 1926. ' ' ' The total per acre cost of the fertilizer was $625, to get the $3,000 per acre return. ;The land is , owned . by M L. Jones.- Mr. Ogura is a renter. He is. a mem ber of the? Labish Meadows Celery union and farms 30 to 35 acres of this ' bedverdam tract, He is a native ojLJapan, but he employs a lot of American help, paying good wages. - He is a skillful business man as well, as an expert celery grower. He has a keen perception of the value of tin Ubuudauce yf soil fertility, jlis results prove his judgment. k : An Unusual Amount Tfie Labish Meadows soil is ex tremely rich -to .begin with. It' is the result of the accumulations of thousands of. years of rank vege table growth,' built up from age to age and year to year, until no bot tom has ever been feund to the soil. It is so deep that the South ern Pacific engineers could never drive a pile to the bottom of it, in building the trestle of .that rail road line across it and there was once a famous railroad wreck there, from the giving away of the trestle. Finally, the railroad com pany constructed a solid fill across the land. It was the practice of the first growers of celery and other truck crops on the Labish Meadows lands to spend $200 to $250 an acre annually in fertilizer. Mr. Ogura, when he first started grow ing celery, several years ago, used a car of fertilizer a year for each two acres. Growing financially stronger, and seeing the profitable use of more fertilizer, he 'began using a car to the acre each yearj Now he. is up. to two cars, and: more, as related above. The more money he has spent for fertilizer," the,1 larger have been his net, re turns. ' Mr. Ogura also irrigates his celery.. When the plants are young they . are irrigated every two weeks..., As they grow larger .they get ...-'thorough irrigation every week. '.The labor of a man, is re quired for two days in the irriga tion "of each acre. At; first , the Labish Meadows growers could get plenty of barn yard , manure locally. Then they reached, out to Portland and other cities, and they have been using a good deal of 'sheep manure from Idaho. Now, with the ravages of the beet leaf hopper in that state, and the lack of beet tops to feed the sheep there, this supply is like ly to be very short. Elker Auto Co., Kerry at Lib erty St. Autos stored, and bought and sold. Cars washed, day and night. Low prices and service will make long friends. () A. H. Moore, 235 High St. apartments, and store where you can get high quality furniture and furnishings for every room in your house. t) YMCA Gives Poland First Swimming Poofl CRACOW, Poland, (AP) The first indoor swimming pool In Po land Is about to he constructed In Cracow through American' initia tive and American beneficence. S. B. Fenna of Cleveland, ha3 do nated $150,000 for the erection of a Y. M. C. A. building, one of the chief features of which will be a swimming pool. It will cost $20, 000 and will 'be eighty feet long and twenty feet wide. The new Cracow Y. M. C. A. will be the largest and most up-to-date in Europe. Provision is made on the third and fourth floors for men's dormitories, so that about eighty guests from oiitside the city can be accommodated. -Among the language courses to be given that in English is most in demand. The 'Bake-Rlte Bakery. Bnsj every day supplying best' horae with bakery goods of all kinds; baked . in a kitchen clean as your o wn, . 3 4 5 State St. ;..() Irish Disappointed at ; Showing of .Athletes DUBLIN. The failure pf Irish athletes in international compe tions has provoked much disap pointment in Ireland, and the newspapers are discussing the cause of the decline in Irish ath letic fame. Outside a few clubs in Dublin athletic sports mostly are dor mant, all over Ireland. The col leges are blamed for lack of inter est in athletics. A first class stadium is consid ered necessary and.it is suggested that one should be erected as a memorial-to General Collins, who was keenly interested in amateur athletics. Capital Bargain House, Capital Tire Mfg. Co., Mike's Auto Wreck ing. Three in one. '! Bargain cen ter of Salem. Thousands of bar gains. II. Stein bock, 215 Center. I C) Royal Families Grow Large in West Africa LONDON. Royal families grow large in West Africa. Prin cess Mare Louise, cousin of King George, visited one king in Af rica who was the father of 180 children, but only 80. of them are living. .. ' : r :M This venerable '. potentate was the King of Yendl, and the. prin cess' visit to His Highness is des cribed in a volume of her letters which "has just been published. ! The princess traveled . 2,500 miles in West Africa last year, chiefly by horse and motorcar. A bride's beauty is greatly en hanced by choosing ugly brides maids, , ..-.., t . , 41 BUSHELS OF WHEAT PRODUCED BY HOWELL PRAIRIE FARMER But the Land Was Well Fertilized If the Grain Farmers Would Give Their Land More Humus, They Could Bet ter Afford Gasoline for Themselves, and Silk Stockings for Their Woman Folks And Irrigation and Rotation Would Help a Lot, Too By ELLA McMUNN BROOKS, Ore., Aug. 24. If all grain fields in Marion county had received a heavy coat qf fertilizer the story of the yield for1" 1926 would have reached the sanie sur prising magnitude that has 'char acterized everything but grain this year in the opinion of farm ers who tried fertilizer on some patches and left some without. L. A. Faist, who Is farming sev eral hundred acres on Howell Prairie, reports a two-acre piece that yielded 41 bushels to the acre on land that was well fertiliz ed, and which consequently -held the moisture when the thermome ter went up to 107 one awful day, and not far from that several days In July when the kernels were just in the "milk," and which shrank the crop thousands" of bushels. On an eight-acre piece he got the splendid return of 35 bushels to the acre, but this ground had previously been plant ed to potatoes and had also the unused elemejnts of new ground. For other fields, almost the uni versal yield as reported by men . who operate threshing machines, and travel over a wide area of ter ritory and who have no object 'la making an incorrect statement, larjge oT small, there is an aver age, of sixteen bushels to the acre. But these low yields may be re garded by the observing iae a;s& lent worked nourished, .since the , . fertilized . . , . ......:. i if t hetds have - yielded, three si tfhils that-with t fcogreatcr -ooll seed or labor. Many grain farmers are on rented land and some feel the need of making something from each acre, since many of the farms aVe leased only for one year, nd consequently if the ground were allowed a year's rest, It would not bring that farmer but his success or a profit. More ffui!iu.s, Less Gasollrtc, Etc. Irrigation would solve the mois ture difficulty, but while we are waiting for congress to recognize the fact that we are drying up out here, With water all around us, we can Invest our surplus profits in a little more humus from the cow barns and less investment in silk stockings and gasoline. That wheat straw should be re turned to the ground Is of suffi cient importance to be brought be fore the legislature, for if we starved our children or our cows as we do our "mother" earth, we might find ourselves facing a se vere penalty. There have been several car load shipments out of Brooks over the Southern Pacific already this season, and the warehouses are pretty well filled with grain, for the shortage so far as yield per acre is concerned, is made up in the matter of a larger acreage planted. It is billed to Portland, andltrom there to the ends of the earth, as this week three large vessels are to be loaded with Ore gon wheat for Japan, Belgium and Gabriel Powder & Supply Co.. lumber, building materials, paints and varnishes, roofing paper. Get prices there and make a big sav ing. Office. 175 S. Com'L , () O. J. Hull Auto Top & Paint Co. Radiator, fender and body repairing. Artistic painting adds 100 to the appearance of your auto. 267 Commercial. () Kwj Yoar Monry la Org on Boy Monument M&d at Salom, Orefoa CAPITAL MOITTJMEHTAI. WORKS J. C. J one It C, Proprietors An Kind of If on amenta! Work Factory sod Offleo: 8210 M. Com'L, OppoalU Z. O. O. T. Cenotorr, Bos 21 Phono SBB. 8AXJSM OBEGOK Oakland P o n t i al e t Sales and Service - VICKROS. High Street at Trade SEND AGOiPy'EASr TO THE ACRE the United Kingdom, Japan tak ing 6,000 tons. This shows an active demand, and many farmers are holding for a mucji higher price than that of fered at the present time, while others are not taking any chances on the uncertain and are selling for cash at Brooks. Recent experiments with baled straw, compressed until it burns like an oak log, is not meeting with favor in Kansas, which is not overloaded with fuel 'anyway, Jor the farmers feel that i the soil needs the straw, and.lt is more profitable ultimately to have bought real wood. - - The presence of Secretary" Com merce. Herbert Hoover also serves to "remind us that we are rather fcetjter, fed- -than in 1918 when We had two wheatless days every week and one wheatless meal each day and could only really "gorge" on .war bread. (Miss McMunn did not sign the above, but -the editor has taken the liberty to put her name at the top, because she says some things that ought; to be said. However. ("irrigation and rotation and more humus would make the wheat g.rpwer more able to afford gaso line for himself and silk stoekine-.-. for his women folks. Ed.) Slate surface roofing applied over your old shingles. We have over 200 jobs in Salem. Nelson Bros., plumbers, sheet metal work, ?5 Cheneketa. lVt Jrear.' hosiery, gloves, valises and lflt Cases'. .' Th- work in ir man 'a fltbre.-119!N. Commercial. () Radio Enters New Field "Smgs the Cattle Down" .CHICAGO. Another. ;pf the traditional customs of. the Old West seems headed toward ex tinction the cowboy habit of "singing the cattle down," as the night herder's crooning melody to quiet the herd is described: The most picturesque "fan let ter" received by Station WGES was from Tom Blevins, Jensen, Utah, cowman, who wrote that he had set up a portable radio out on the range and treated the cows to metropolitan dance music. "It sure is a big saving on the voice," Blevins wrote. "The herds don't seem to tell the dif ference. Don't put on any speech es, though. That'll stampede 'em as sure as shootin'." H. F. Woodry & Son Auctioneer Sales handled to complete satisfac tion of owner. Years of exper ience. Store 271. N. Commercial Office Telephone 75 GIDEON-STOLZ CO. Manufacturers of VINEGAR SODA WATER ; Fountain 8 applies . Salem Phone 26 Ore, i DUNSMOOR BROTHERS 2218 Stat. Telephone 2230 Painters and Decorators ', Interior or Exterior Work W ipodalixo on Interior work. Zt tW ikov jrta aomo work wo havo Son. DIXIE HEALTH JREAD ." c ..: ' 1 :- "... .. . , '- ' Ask Your Grocer i ' 4 ' - ' ' BROTHERS TO 1 CRIME SOLUTION Co!. ErnesJ K. Coulter Urges Sympathetic Handling of Juveniles PORTLAND, Aug. 23. (A.P.) The Big Brother movement as the solution to the problem of having juvenile delinquents from becoming professional criminals was suggested by Col. Ernest K. Coulter, general manager of the New York Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Children, at a recent session of the American Humane society's national conven tion here. Mr. Coulter started the Big Brother movement in New York city 24 years ago when he was a clerk in the children's court there,! , "Thirty-one per cent of the men cbnvJcted of felonies la iewt York coiAty in 1925 had. previously, teen found to be juvenile, delin quents, in the cjiildrenjs courts arid, had either been on probation' or in reformatory institutions" said Mr. Coulter." "Facts I have been able to gath er are straws which indicate that entirely too large a number of the children who have been found to be juvenile delinquents are not being followed up with sufficient persistency and 6kill to prevent them from getting into more seri ous criminal ways," continued Mr. Coulter. "There is urgent need, too, that we give more serious attention than ever before to the after-care of the boys and girls who have been in our children's courts. Children's courts are of no avail if humane treatment adhered to there is not followed up in a sys tematic manner. Efforts of a gen eral Big Brother movement in New York are not now limited to hoys who have been in the children's court, but from the start our re cords prove that in 93 per cent of the cases these boys respond readily to this treatment and make good," he said. The subject of humane care for. The Electric Kestanrant serves elegant meals and lunches. Try them; you will come again and bring your friends. Best in Salem. 479 State St, () CAPITAL CITY CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY BUTTER-CUP BUTTER "Known for its QUALITY' Buyers of Best Grade Cream Our Method: Co-operation Our Ideal: The Best Only 137 South Commercial Street Phone 299 f Is. Your Well .-"r Properly; LineH? ' it i Use our sanitary well 'JriperthaJt keeps out. surface water, and lets only deep ground water in. Made of strong materials and reasonable in price. OREGON GRAVEL COMPANY Hood at Front Street Salem SHIP BY SALEM . ' . - - STEAMER "NORTHWESTERN ; OPERATING ON A REGULAR SCHEDULB-ilandllng Merchandise and Carload Shipments Between SAliEM and PORTLAND and Way Landings . . - . .. SCHEDULE' '". ' Leave PORTLAND 6:00 A. M -Sundays,' Tuesdays and Tfaorsdays . Leave SALEM ,:00 A.. M Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday . ; i ; ? RpTUTTE YOUR SHIPMENTS -s -: " V Care SUPPLIES DOCK J' SALEBI DOCK and WAREHOUSE . .PORTLAND r -.IK "I ;'i v- FOOT OP CO CUT BTRJUTT '. .'' Phone EAST" 71 SHU' BY' children, ip. being considered.dur Ug the flrl half of the convention and wlll'-be the subject of , all ad dresses tomorrow. . i The arihnal section will take charge, during the second half of the convention 'which closes about noon Thursday. ..pmorrow after noon will be devoted to a ' trip over theCoiumblaRiver highway, with a salmon' barbecue at night at Bonneville. Mrs. Luella D. Smith of Hudson, N. Y., 79 years ohld, is the oldest delegate attending the convention. She has been an active member of the. American Humane society .for 20 years and for 17 years has been treasurer of her branch of the organization. Although Wm. K. Horten, pres ident, is absent, his address was read at the opening session today by Sydney H. Coleman, general manager of the association. Capital City Cooperative Cream ery. Milk, cream buttermilk. The Buttercup butter has no equal. Gold standard of perfection.' 117 S. Com'l. Phone 299. () H. P. Woodry si.Son. 271 . N. Com'l., St., furniture store. Bar gains in furniture of all kinds. Agent tor Lang ranges, best made. A?o auctioneers. () WELDING E ELECTRIC ACETYLENE TRACTOR SPROCKETS TkJT Tracks etc., built up good as new for less than half price. General welding of all kinds Steel, cast, iron, aluminum etc An Oppen Weld . , lias Always Held REMEMBER TIER PLACE 603 MILL ST, - a D. OPPEN 41 ft DEMAND "Marion Butter II v The Best More Cows and Better Cows Is the Crying Need Marion Creamery & Produce Co. Salem, Oregon Phone 2422 V TVA. .Livesley . &;Cp;''- Ivi; Largest Growers, Shippers an PACIFIC COAST tf OPS ' " Offices: Salem, Oregon and San Franciico; California Oregon Pulp - Manufacturers of BOND LEDGER GLASSINE : GREASEPROOF TISSUE 'Support Oregon Products p : Specify 'Salem Made? Paper for Tour "iTll Office Sattionery . . . WATER and SAVE THE DIFFERENCE NAVIGATION WATER Designs Airplane More... i Difficult to Crack Up . DAYTON, O. An airplane that will be harder to "crack up" than most of those; now flying has been designed by D. E. Dunlap, aero nautical engineer. and soon will -be ready for test flights. Two of the fruitful causes of trouble when an airplane goes in to a nose-dive are the propellor and heavy power plant,, rljich often are forced back" upon the pilot, ijuringor killing him. Dunlap's ship .'will have two motors placed . between the wings and at the sides and back of the pilot and his companion. They aro "pushers" with the propellers, in the rear. This eliminates, dirt from the engine,' and the terrific noise, and gives passengers a clear view directly ahead. Henry .O. Miller, 184 S. Com'l. St., where most people prefer to get their autq parts for all makes of cars. Trade there and make savings on all auto parts. ' () Consider what la claimed for Chiropractic . metho4 and you will easily realize whit a common sense sci ence it is. It aims, by r-' moving causes, to ellml- ' nate disease, and does so. successfully. " , ? Phone for an Appointment Dr; O. L. Scott, D. C. 256 North High Street -Phone 87 or 828-R OIL-0-MATIC What Is It?, I SEE r . . - THEO. M. B ARR Phone 192 Xb B. DUX SHOOK Salem Wicker Furniture Manufacturing Co. W Sell 3)lrct Btaolo Battui Beed Quality - Furottnr -t Kapalrlnff, RflttlMng, TJpfcolfrtm . 2218 SUt St, Salem.. Ortgoa . :" t'fil v . v-a .B.mIC '-; ..'ic T - ... i' ft & Paper Co. . . . CO. HEALTH