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:; .1 - Section Three Pages One to Six Society Features SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR WIFinHTIfl I TO EP F Will Produce Things They Have Been Buying and Grow Cash Crops LITLK ROCK. Ark. (AP) armers of Bradley county, Ar kansas, believe they have found for themselves a road leading to a M-If-HUHlainine, "live-at-home" ag riculture. Like many others living in the ix (ton growing states, they have decided it does not pay to put all thTeir time and money into grow ing crops for sale and then have to spend the cash realized. in pur chasing food and feeds. Instead they will produce all they can of what they have been buying and luanHge their -business so they can still grow the same amount of cash crops on fewer acres. They .arrived at their plan by a singular method. They studied Uradley county farms from a com posite picture which extension workers or the Federal 'Depart ment of Agriculture helped to draw. Then they compared their own ways of management with those of the composite farmer and made plans to adopt the good points and eliminate the bad ones. This was done at an all-day meeting of men and women of the county with the extension work ers. They agreed to: Grow enough feed to care for enough cows to furnish enough milk to supply enough home grown food to save enough money to buy enough equipment and fer tilizers to grow enough, of the cash crops on few acres to leave enough ground to grow enough feed, and so on around the circle a fraiii. The program recognizes that farming and living operations are interdependent and-that an ade uaqte development of each in pro portion to its importance to the whole business of farming is nec-jf- -;y before advance eta be made tJard a successful agriculture. Before the meeting, census fig ures and other statistics were com piled showing production and con sumption of the various commodi ties in the county, and charts were made. It was shown that 57 cents or the county farm dollar was be ing spent for feed and 1& cents for food, leaving only 24 cents for all other purposes. Eggs, vegetables, corn. hay. pasturage and milk pro duction was far below the amounts needed. "It -would seem advisable," the program read, "to increase our fct d and food crops and thus save totton dollars to raise our stand ard of living. If we saved our feed and food money and applied part of this saving in high grade fertilizers and farm machinery, we could grow as much cotton on few ei acres and still have enough a res to grow feed and food nmn on. Speakiug of the conference, C. ('4iiitiuuea rf- 4.) nriouHnfE TO MUSIC SCHOOLS Noted Musicians Dedicate Compositions to Schools and Praise. Work M iisle settlement schools in Amerh-a are expected to jrecVive a in-irked impetus from the thresh i"K out of mutual problems at a re.-nt onferonie of such institu i"ii" in New York City. The two 'liiv Kathering was called together bv i lie Association of Music School tn.-ments of New York. This is ii- of the regional groupings ad hfririK td the larger national body, he Musi,- Division of the National Ke.leration of Settlements. The New York meeting marked an im V'rtant .step in a movement which i" thirty-five years has developed into lis miMlc schools in nineteen "!;iteK. forty-four cities. Aside from the conferences, on I1 Chfjieal and iinelolnortoat mtllcri 4ing the settlement and com Unity music uhnnl tho mMl. i"? was impressive because of the confidence in the movement an Bianifested by the most thoughtful piusicians of international fame. For example, the feature eve at aS a concert by groups from tha Hven New York schools In which ere presented several composi tions dedicated and presented to the association by noted compos ers. These included two sketches for string quartet by Alfred Po ehon, piano pieces by Daniel Greg ory Mason, a violin number by ' VllbiilWII IWIIIIW IBS THE DGG1E IS ALMOST AS SCARCE AS THE DODO LONGHORN CATTLE DISAPPEARING IN SOUTHWEST v y: . steer. - ri t fc - f c: PRESERVE 1. . Clfr 3V , X- Liklil : 5 i & WILDlBlAl DU OUSTS Winter Reports Indicate Large Increase of Game in Glacier Park GLACIER PARK, Mont. (Spec ial) Winter reports to'the super intendent from a dozen Glacier National Park rangers indicate there is plant of game in the Rocky mountains this year goats, sheep, elk: and deer, with some moose found in certain sec tions. Practically all lf the summer tourists traveling the trails usual ly see some of th wild animals. Hikers see more than horseback parties, of course, fince the lattr make more noise and fuss. HiKers who fail to see game do not under stand how to look for them, nor how large they are in comparison with, their surroundingr. They cannot estimate distances nor hegihts, but soon learn -.vith a lit tle help. Different portioas o the park present different animals, or animals in greater or Ies3 num bers. Mountain goats are to be seen on nearly all high summits. They have been seen on Guns'ght Pass trail at Sperry Chalets, at Granite Park- a Ion's the Garden Wall, on Going-to-t lie-Sun from the Kiyeh trail, along the arden Wall on the Piegan Pass trail, on the ledge about Grinnell Glacier, on the walls about Iceberg Lake, at Red Gap Pass, along, the trail over Indian Pass, on Goathaunt a' Waterton Lake, and from ifty Mmintain Camp on Kipp Mountain. As- many as fifteen have been set-n at once. Mountain sheep have more lim ited range, and are mi;h more difficult to cK as they blend with the rocks and the foliage. . At Many Glaciers as many as 20 fe males with lambs came lown, to the salt near the chalets. Visitors havje gone as close as 40 to &0 feettrOm them. There were days when hotel visitors sat in the hotel sheep,, from 5 to 20, on Mount and through the windows watched Altyn. Thenrthey went to anoth er window and watched the move ments of froth two fo five goats on the end. of Grinnell. While deer are not so common dy seen they are close about camps nd hotels. A great many tour ists reported seeing them at dif ferent places last summer. - Since deer are shy and very quiet, they may be passed very frequently on the trails and be (Continued on VS9 World Camp for Girls to Convene at Geneva ' Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from all nations will hold an inter natiomar camp, in arc d'Ariana, Geneva. Switzerland, from August 2nd to 9th, it has ust been an nounced, at the national headquar ter8of .tbe Girl Scouts in New York City. ; ' The' delegation to go from the UifUed'States Tvlll consist of a troop made? ap of two Girl Scouts from each region of the country who have been recommended' by the regional committee and select ed by the International committee. The national board of directors will select a captain to accompany the .trwop. - . - - . .OVCve &HT - THE TYPE OF REPLACED THE L-ONlG? HO KN) ON CACHE, Okla. ,'AP) The do gie, immortalized by the wailing song3 of the cowboy, has nearly jpined the dodo in extinction. Officials of Wichita National park who are seeking to purchase a nucleus herd of the longhorh cattle so that the species may be perpetuated are having a difficult time finding the animals. Concerned over the dwindling herds of half-wild cattle that once roamed the plains of the southwest in countless thousands, the United States department of agriculture has set aside $3,000 for the pur chase of animals to stock a herd in the Wichita mountain game pre serve. H. H. French, park supervisor, who has been, commissioned to purchase the longhorns, believes it will be necessary to go below the Rio Grande Into Mexico to find them. The purchase fund will not become available until July 1, but French has been attempting to lo cate specimens that may be ob- Continued on Pagft 3.) NIAGARA i-uoto io iitc ic-u, awno, sftows a flsa.- -nil ' Ji : y ,.! ; - - 4t'?yr, J V ' 1 ' " "'K', ''"'wrT , jry . , vfv"-- f ,- - - 1 . , - , S J J fVV or flic American falls, illumliiatnl at nisht, with inserts of fr.ntf Mrw.-XornwH IanMn, liost. for the v Houej inooners' Iloinecorti. injf. Below, at the lrtt. Is a' litmej moon party of atf Prospect llt, and to the right Is a-modern newlywevl i-ouple at the falls By FRANK McLEARN ; ExrlMsive Central Press Iisilch XI AG Alt A FALLS. N. V. Specil)TIoucymooners,. Come llotuc!M' With this conimand, Niagara Falls, the shrine of hon eymooners.the world over, Is call ing to its hosts of honeymoon couples to return. . , j, . ; " Ot -vouTBer it rerybdy-d come SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY CATTLE THAT M AS THE TEXAS RANGES S Fairy Wand of Cooperation Touched Churn and Better Conditions Come MINNEAPOLIS. (AP) The fairy wand of cooperative market ing has touched the churn above which grandmother spun dairy maid romances. Four hundred and two cooper ative creameries, federated under the name of Land O' Lakes Creameries, Inc.. of Minneapolis, are exporting butter to all parts of the world in an organized mar keting enterprise which recogniz es only the California Fruit Grow- 'f'untinued on jrc (!.) CHEHES UNITE BINS S FALLS CALLS HONEY MOON ERS TO twRi't Jmrwiing over Alaara FiilW there'd be millions. 'At that Xlag ra 'Falls expects thousands - and thousands. The occasion is to be the first "Honeymooners , Homecoming. It :wlll;';be. the week of Jane ' 5, coupled -with the annual Festival or, Lights. ' The Festival of Lightsls'an es tablished ' tradition at Kiacara Falls. Ever, sine the Installation MORNING, MAY 22, 1927 UISTOMCTBEES IN CAPITAL E1TY Tribute of Salem Woman to the Groves That Were , God's First Temples (The.' following article by Mrs. F A. Elliott of Salem appeared in the April number of "Better Flow ers," an interesting magazine pub lished in- Portland. "Trees" is the title Riven the article by Mrs. Kl liott : Trees have been a favorite theme for writers of all ages. And why not? Trees never change and they, may" be eulogized without fear that they may prove untrue to the-trust reposed in them. From the earliest times, when David, the sweet singer of Israel, exalts -the "trees or the Lord" and the "cedars of Lebanon"; the an cient Greek and Roman poets on down to our modern writers, even to the hero poet of our late war, Joyce Kilmer, who sang: "I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree " -All have praised the tree in song and story; Hryant in his poem when he declares: "The groves were God's first temples"; Long fellow when he tells us of the spreading chestnut tree under which the village smithy stood; Hood in his reminder of our child hood: I- remember, I remember The fir tree dark and lush I used to think their slender , spires Were close against the sky. Whittier writing of the very'be ginning of the United States: Lift again the stately emblem On the Bay State's rusted shield Give to northern winds the pine tree On our banners tattered field Or when he wrote of love: The judge rode slowly down the lane Smoothing his horse's chestnut mane He drew his bridle in the shade Of an apple tree to greet -the maid. Longfellow again in Evange line: This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hem lock Bearded with moss, and in gar- i ('i utiiiiifil mi pasre C.) flurfnje the "Festival of WarlitV of of the giant batteries of search lights three , years ago, the cfti Jten haTe set aside a week of car nival to celebrate the engineering genius that conceived and brought about the flooding of the cataracts with one billion, four hundred and forty fmllllon candlepower of light. - . But the "Honeymoon fs" Home coming" ' Is ' a new ' fcature- TREE TRUNK PROVIDES CHURGH STEEPLE THOUSAND YEARS OLD y pi mm iticle T This Writer Agrees in Part With Last Sunday's Article and Differs in Part- Editor Stateman: In Mrs. G. N. Thompson's ar ticle concerning the "Second Com ing of Jesus," I note she makes a statement which the plain teach ing of the Bible will not bear out. I believe she desires to get the truths of the Bible before the peo ple, for she took exception to the theologian s address to the stu dents. fCnntimieil on Pe 4.) RETURN iXKea. io tbe riirlit in a view spite the , fact- that Niagara .Falls has been .'a honeymoon center more that a century, nobocfr ever had thought to call the lovers' of other years back to the city for a grand" reunion. . That Is; , until this year. And now it has come about because a-young Niagara Falls couple could decide on no 1 1 v. ST. PETER'S CHURCH SOOK AFTEP " T WAS BUILT ST. peter's Church as it is tooav if 3 TACOMA. Wash. AP) St. Pe tef s Episcopal church, the oldest in Tacoma, has a, steeple which is perhaps thes most venerable in the nation. -When Columbus discov ered America, the steeple was 619 years of age,; its concentric Tings indicate, thus it is today 1,054 years old. The pioneers of the Pacific Northwest used what natre pro videdu, and so members of St. Pe ters church converted a great tree into a steeple. With the announcement of the selection of Tacoma as the wes tern terminus of the Northern Pa cific railroad. Bishop Morris came here to establish a church upon land covered by large trees. One was cut off 48 -feet. above ground and the church constructed around it The opening ervice was on the ninth Sun (Jay after trinity, in August, 1873. Lacking a bell, Mrs. Theodore Hosmer, Sunday school teacher, wrote sometime later to her church in Philadelphia and 'soon one was received. Ivy covers both the church and its steeple now, but the bell still tolls its message atop the ancient tower. Too Much English! Annoys French;-Money MalnlCause PARIS (A.P.) Use of Eng lish instead of French ia. buyers catalogues at auctions and art sales is annoying the French. They think it's bad taste to use fa for eign language simply .because much of the money - comes from Anglo-Saxons. In one of the largest recept auc tion lists English is used with a note on hc fly-leaf saying - the French version will be found at the back. , An art exhibition lately raised a little storm among critics by us ing English altogether- In Us de scriptive folder. I . Dressmakers, art stores and similar businesses frequently cater very obviously to the people-.with dollars and pounds sterling. They say it pays. ' Patrons Who Ride First Class Pay Higher Rate I)IKN' ( AP) : Patrons' or British railways who ride- first class are compelled to pay . the government 5 per cent .tax on their tickets for the privilege' of being rated as "ladies and gentle men." - ..' , , J British railways . tried, to . get Churchill to abolish this tax In the current budget, tut he refused to do so, as he needed the half mll liou pounds it yields annually. The Ux on a first-class traveler from London to Edinburgh is four . shillings. , and another shill ing is. added if the passenger takes a sleeper. . ' Glacier -Brave and Squaw Champion Wheat Growers .GLACIER PARK. Mont. (Spec-jaD-r-Chief Middle Rider., and his wife of the Glacier-National park reservation are regular grUe win ners at the annual winter, agricul tural fair ot tne.Glacier National Park reservation. Tbls year, they carried of f he blue ribbon! for the best, wheat raised.' Incidentally they are ardent trout fishers and the stream that flows - through their 'farm on the reservation la; 4w m PRICE FIVE CE1IT3 mi ora;is ! SIKECOL'M . . , . , Continuing, Jason Lee's In- fluence in Saving Oregon j . Country to U. S x ' ' , U By W. T. IliKtUm (This is the second artilo of tbis aeries. Tho first was pub lished in The Statesman of last Hunday. The third is to appear i next Sunday, with prnltably nonio conclusions the following Suni,ay.)i - I 'rep ar at Unt for Journey ' Lee was Immediately received into, the New Englaad Conference, as ho was anxious to answer what he considered a providential call. ' Now remember this was in the year 1833, soon after the return, of the Indians from St. Louis. Oregon was then under the joint occupancy of Great Britain ami the United States, since 1818; then extended to 1828. then again extended to 1838, then indefinite ly on one year's notice, for disso lution. ... Under i he joint occupancy prejudice should inure to either, country. Through the Influence of Presi dent Fi8k, the Methodist Mission ary Board appointed Rev. Jason Lee to the Oregon Mission -with full authority to employ a limited number of helpers and with a credit suitable to start the work Lee chose his nephew.' Rev, Daniel Lee and two teachers. P. L. Edwards and Cyrus Sheppard, and also a worker, Courtney M Walker. As Cap t. .Wyeth was planning to make another trip overland and to send a ship around the Horn with his "trading goods and sup plies, Lee arranged with Wyeth. for the transportation of the mis sion supplies and also to make the overland trip in the captain's com pany. ' Bishop Emory of the Methodist church gave Lee a letter ot intro duction to President Jackson, which not noly enabled him to get acquainted with the president, but to make the acquaintance of sena tors and congressmen, and other influential : men around tho capi tol. This introduction proved to be a very great help in- later years when . Lee was pleading- for Ore gon's recognition as a Territory ' So, rapidly did the the summef ' pass away that , it was almost q year before Lee got started west. After securing the endorsement of the president and the secre taries of state and war, to found missions In the Oregon country, Lee started f Or St.' Louis. Mis souri, where all the parties were to congregate for the final start, which was made on the 28th day , of April, 1834. It would be quite interesting, indeed, should we follow the ex pedition 1 through to its destina tion, but we must hurry to learn what Lee did after reaching Oie gon. ! Dr. McLoughlln's KuV ' While we arc awaiting the .ar- (C'un tinned on . Pg 4.) 'TIMS SCOUT Work on Economist Badse' - Expected to "Aid Father's Account Book There will be a decrease: of wor ries for the head of the house over bills and extravagant household." i? the. record, of the economist, badge for Girl Scouts is signifi cant. More than 1,800 applicant were awarded" the merit badge in the past year, according to the Re search Bureau of the national Girl Scout headquarters. ; . : Saving of ten per cent of herj earnings or allowance covering a period of three months, and item izing accounts, showing . receipt and -expenditures during thatt, time, are a few of the require ments for the economist badge. .A daily account of ono week's marketing and menus, noting mni, cf left overs, preparation of cheap er meat cuts and thrift in the usej of milk are, also requisites. , , The applicant must be qualified to darn stockings, sew on hoks' hem skirts and belts. QuA'tifica ttons -to select and purchasj wear log apparel fpr the appropriate oc CBsion- and keep the.waro-obo iq; good condition must be evident, This means that fehocs, iiut kept in . repair, stockings Warned and. the proverbial maket itt " pins avoided. V In addition to th!?, IwfiV- t' w Girl Scout ii awarded V.-.n I '