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111 TABLE SCHEME Salem Hostesses Work but Pretty Combinations For Dinner use Table decorations and room de corations take on an added Inter- eat as the holiday seasons ap proach and because of tnis tne jrarden editor requested Mrs. W. H. Burghardt to develop a paper on the subject as it was deTeloped la the recent lecture given by her Is the Emerson room of the Uni tarian church before members of the Salem Garden club. The designs used were all ap plicable to the tables of Salem and It Is felt that with the sug gested outline as given many hostesses may find a solution for some difficult arrangement which would add color and individuality to a decoration. Many of the arrangements shown developed the idea of wax and glass from real flowers and fruit. It 1s interesting to note that this lecture and demonstra tion proved to be in advance of an article In the last copy of Vogue, dealing with the development in popularity of the reproduction of artificial arrangements done In real flowers. Quoting Mrs. Burghardt: "The decorations done for the floral so ciety's program Mdnday evening were so varied in design and conception that there was no com petitive feeling and each one re ceived1 m6y compliments . from the enthusiastic audience: ' " i ( Goblets in Dull Green Mrs. It. II. Tarpley's table was the largest and most complete. She used a set of dull green gob lets In the new glass as her mo tive the china, matched In mod ernistic period, was of a dull gold color with perpendicular lines of simple decoration. In keeping and accentuating the modern Idea was the smart center piece made of fruit and gourds grown by Mrs. Tarpley and tinted by her. These were in a low silver hand-tinted basket. Thanksgiving day was the thought in every line of this very new and stunning scheme. A formal dinner table was done bj Mrs. Clifford W. Brown. A oft blue damask covered the ta ble which was centered with a su rer and crystal tree placed on a mirror with tiny border of per fectly placed holly leaves and ber ries outlining the sectional mir ror and accentuating the square corners, thus preserving the mod ern as well as the Japanese Idea of design. The tall, thin glass goblets were outlined with the same holly berry border thus anti cipating In a very subtle way the nearness of the Christmas festi val. Centerpiece Festive On The centerpiece created by Mrs. Chester Cox was quite festive enough for any holiday. It was a swirl of gold -and Chinese red silk crepe with a comport ' of Italian ware holding mountain ash and alder berries, and silver grape leaves. A silver bird swept Its decorative plumage in a man ner that followed the same lines as the fabric and thus completed an arrangement ideal for a buf fet dinner or a day time table. Mrs. William Walton contri buted two matched pieces low bowls completely hidden with colorful low massed flowers with delicate green sprays spreading out from the edges and encircling the flowers. These were so per fectly made as to reproduce exact ly the artificial bouquets in glass and china, and made a suitable arrangement for an elaborate tea table or luncheon table. Mrs. Donald Young used the soft colors of early autumn for the luncheon table plan submit ted. So delicately done was this , piece that It required close scru tiny to fully appreciate Us per fection. Tne table was covered wltlf a lace bordered cloth of pale gold. A graceful straw lace bas ket was tipped to one aide and spilled single chrysanthemums hading from beige to shades of salmon and russett. A cafeau- lait ribbon completed the design expressing Inspiration and per aonallty. Flowers From Miss Bush The lovely large bowl of richly colored chrysanthemums and col ored berries from the gardens of Miss Sally Bush was another of the beautiful flower pieces which form such perfect contributions from these gardens. Mrs. Burghardt contributed an experimental decorative piece for a dinner table. It was done on a large silver tray with decorative handles and depended on the re flection of the objects assembled on it for the color values. A dark red rose and spray of fern were used In a high dark green single bud vase as the central theme. Around this was arranged a small silver comport holding small bunches of dark green, and dark red grapes: other comports of glass held liquids of red, green and blue In dark shades. A low . tiffany glass held a cut pomgran ate, pale green grapes, and dim inutive glasses of amber and pink amber-each filled with li ouid added a variation to the deep cqjors. : A "pair of silver can dies ticks holding dark green can dies gave the reflecting light mir rored in the sliver of the tray An elaborate and richly colored .lea table was done by Mrs. W. Anderson. Matching bowls were - filled with autumn flowers and greenerv in glowlnr colors. Old brass candlestocks and a candala- bra all holding candles. In shad lags of yellow and gold gave a Thanksgiving day festivity to the tea table. , On the Colonial mantel was elated at one end a well made colonial bouquet with - an em . broidery edge made by C. F, -Breitbaupt, , In the center of the mantel was placed an old glass stand covering a bouquet of very small garden flowers and Cecil Brnnner roses In the artificial IIS 'manner ased as substitutes, for 'The Wets Give Me a Pain in the Neck? By ARTHUR BRIGGS Copyright Forum. Reprinted from November Forum '' by special permission THE wets give me a pain in the neck. Not personally for some of my best friends are wets but politically, economically, and socially. They give me the aforesaid pain because it seems to my narrow, intolerant, bigoted, and hyp ocritical dry mind that as soon as a wet begins to talk about prohibition and usually he won't talk about anything- else his brain goes soggy. ... y m My club is an example. Its roster is made up of Jiames i nnnfpuions that rexraire the highest- quality of direct, effective, and clear thinking-. But fully half, perhaps even two-thirds, are wet. . "Aha.! comes thevvrincrincr comment, "this brilliant as semblage is made up of wets. doesn't function? I mean it doesn't function. I mean that if these men used the warped logic, the stale sentiments, the distorted memory in their professions that they use in discussing- pro hibition, they would be in the poorhouse. When prohibition comes up, they go ga-ga. In my club I have beard ais-y cussions of nearly everything hu man and -divine, and because the controversialists were using the same brains with which they achieved their success, these ar guments have been such as to dazsle. delight, and educate. Then somebody mentions pro- hibition! And things ga haywire. I don't want anybody to tell me about the narrowness, intol erance, and bigotry of the drys. Any time the wets get going in mv club I can spot you a Carrie Nation, two Dr. Clarence True Wilsons, and any number of arid Methodist bishops, and still win the game of Intolerance in two moves. I know., because, being know.n as t a dry in thjs. club, I have no , rest .from persecution. Time was when I essayed reason- able argument, until I found that i was not arguing wun reason but only the same stale atate- ments Then I tried avoidance. I would not argue. I would listen. I would even nod. But it Isn't en- ough that I admit that some dry propaganda is foolish, that there are too many speakeasies, that it'a too bad a gentleman can't get a drink, that I'd like to have some good liquor myself. None of this suffices, not with these broadmlnded Saharaphobes. They won't be content untfl I recant Volstead and all his works, and lift my voice to cry: "There is no King but Barley- corn: I FOUL.! FOUL.! Let'B Just try for a fW mm- utes to apply simple high school logic to some of these wet argu- ments that are gravely put for ward time and again. See if, by this test, you don't get an ache in the cervical vertebrae yourself. 1. "The Eighteenth amend- ment never came to a popular wicr. luticiuiB u wiwuB- i Let's assume that it would be desirable to amend the constitu- tion by a process of popular elec- tion, and I believe It would. The very amendment providing for a plebiscite on amendments would have to be adopted in the same manner as the Eighteenth. And until the regular methor of al- terlng the constitution by which f the Eighteenth and all., other amendments have been added is changed, all talk of referen dums and all referendums them selves are futile and ridiculous in law and In fact. There hasn't been an argu ment offered against the manner of passing the Eighteenth amend ment which wouldn't Invalidate all the others. And I'm. willing to wager that Mr. Darrow and any other or the distinguished lawyers who inveigh against pro- hibition would. If pinned down to the pure, cold logic of law, ad mlt thia perfectly obvious fact. Their attitude toward the Eighteenth amendment is decid edly legalistic special pleading. This they realize, and that they aon t approach it as tney wvmia I any oiner legal question is one oi me reasons wny ine we is give I me a pain in the neck. z. -it was -put over' during the great war and While Our boys were in the trenches." t Put over", my eye! It was a pushover. The pushing had been done steadily for 26 years by the Antl-Saroon League, and if the wets were .good sports, they wouia admit that tney a oeen beaten by hard, fair fighters, But the wets yell "Foul!" and claim they weren't looking. What did they have to do to defeat the passing of the amendment In Congress? Control half the state I legislatures? No only thirteen, How many did they control T Three! Pushover la correct. adq since me . icignieenui amendment, like all the others, Is not subject to plebiscite, the ooya in tne trencnes wouia vnave nad mue enect either way. There is. too. the thought that possibly those four million sol diers, sixty percent of them from dry districts, would not have voted unanimously wet. THE PUBLIC BE PLEASED! : Congressman are elected to represent thetr constituents. It mey aon i represent tne general sentiment oi meir aisincu more or less habitually, they oon t re - mam in ujngreea. Ana sieaauy the dry vote In Congress haa grown, iz congress, personally wet or dry, la politically dry, Itjand our wet friends know that if is tne Dest inaicauon n iieim speakeasy haa enough custom world that the country la dry. In- ers to make business prof ltable aeed, a congressman who is per sonaily wet but who votea dry la a surer barometer of the power oi panne opinion man tne man whose "own opinions happen to coincide with the sentiment of j his district. wax flowers of- Victorian days. On either side of thia was an old Chelsea flrure. a shenard and shepardess.: Back of the Victor - lan slece was placed an imported print of flowers and fruit done by the French modernist. Cezanne. This served to Illustrate a point I Jobs. It wxmldnt mean spectacu made In the talk the fact that liar raids; It wouldn't take aape- the two periods were often sympa - tbetic in feellag. Whaddyuh mean a wet's brain The "tyranny" of the Ant-Sa loon League over Congress la due to the political fact that Con gressmen know that the league can defeat them if they rote wet. It is not.the tyranny of a fanatie minority, but the tyranny of ma- Jorities In election booths. Add that up and you have your ple biscite the only kind tht means anything in thia political arena of the United States. 3. "But the Eighteenth amend ment and the Volstead Act con- stltute sumptuary legislation, and you can't regulate people's hab- its by law." Q gjj tue statements delivered from the wet camp, thia haa al- waya caused the most poignant acne fn the vicinity of my Adam's apple. Of course the Volstead Act iB sumptuary legislation! So is the drug act, the pure food act, housing laws, the federal meat in- spection law. anti-spitting ordin ances, quarantine for infectious diseases, traffic regulations, dog licenses, and Just about every other statute that has been fonnd necessary to regulate the habits and restrict the personal liberty of individuals for the sake of the rest 0f us. Drinking isn't a crime in the sense that burglary or murder are crimes. But neither is driving the wrong way through a one-way street, keeping chickens in an apartment, dumping garbage in the street, swimming in a reser- voir, buildlnr a. frim house In Manhattan, or keeping cold stor- fnft(i In Nw York rrnMy without a sign proclaiming the fact. None of these things is a real crime, as are theft and ar son. But you can and will be ar rested for doing them, and if it weren't for this sort of sump tuary regulation of personal and business habits, life would be ut tAriT lmDOisiDiA in communities f more than four nersons. If prohibition Is to be swept aside because it's sumptuary, then all thfii body of protective legislation is due tor the damn heap. 4. "Prohibition isn't enforced." No, not very well. Neither is the law against murder. Since less than eight per cent of mur derers are convicted, let's abolish the law against murder. Think of the money we'd save. Or let's li cense It think of the revenue! Just as logical as the wet's talk of the unenforceability of prohi bition. MAYOR WALKER'S SPEAK. EASLTO Most of my wet friends at the club -are always talking to me about New York's 2,0 00 speak easies. This ehatter adds to the pain around my collar. Perhaps there are 32.000 place In New York where liquor can occasionally be obtained. But If the wets mean that there are 32,000 places where the main business la sell ing booze,' and which are even remotely comparable to the 12,- 000 saloons that dispensed it be fore nrohibltion. they are bah- bung bunk. There were not less than 25 saloons within a radius of three Ultf niir from mv home, in Manhattan in lilt. There may be twenty-five sneakeasiea within that same radius now. I raven't been able to locate more than 12 that distantly resemble saloons ln the amount that nassea over the tables, but they may be there. j. a0 know, however, that In tnis district In wet New York I don't see one drunk where I used to see' five. I don't aee and I'm up i.te of airhts often one truck- that could possibly be a liquor truck where I once saw ten. And lit it's delivered in nassenrer cars A- by hand, it would take some I procession to come within a riv i nlet of the mlxhty flood that used Hy flow' fn these Darts. xt easy to say that people i drink more since prohibition, bnt they don't. They can't, even in New York, becau3e it isn't nearly so easy to get. As to the wet'a contention that it'a a hard law to enforie. It's not a tenth as hard as the narcotics law and very few want that abolished. You can pack enough heroin ar mornhine In Tour Oock- icts to make - a fortune, but to i make any .important" money i0at ef bootlegging or a speakeasy T0U have to have two thlngi customers and a source of up- inW. Now mn know, and X know. the eon. on the beat la aware of lit He doesn't have to be very I bright he merely haa to i make i his rounds and listen. The same goes for cooking alcohol or ran' ning- a still big enough to count. I cheerfully assert that any police commissioner la the United State. or any mayor, could dry up his town in a week if he wanted to badly enough. Be 1 would need only to tell his force I they were to close evry known I speakeasy In their districts, and I keep them closed, or lose their 1 elal force. ' It would take guts on the part of the officer at the head of the force. But if he stood fash - uatll the first wet storm blew over, he'd be In line for the presidency. . ... If there are 32.00 speakeasies In Jimmy Walker's city. It is Mr. Walker's fault n-ot that of the prohibition law. g . "Prohibition brings lawless ness." Ho hum, what a long gray beard that one has I Now I'll tell one. When those 25 saloons that I mentioned ear lier were flourishing, they were allowed to keep open 10 hours a day, even though they were sup posed to be closed on Sundays. Such liberality ought to sat-. isfy almost anybody. But not those dear, law-abiding old sa loon keepers whom , my . wet friends are always lamenting. Of those 25 saloons at least IS were open (the aide door, of course) defying the law on Sunday. And if I had two dollars for ev ery time I met a cop in those back rooms, I could afford to give thia article away, Instead of selUng it LA YfLESSXESS? OH, YEAH? Eheu! Fugaces how ' a wet'a memory does forget! How1 he for gets that It was the inherent and Incorrigible lawlessness of the sa loon keeper, the brewer behind him, the distiller too. that made people decide to knock out the whole business. No Intelligent dry expected that these lawless lads who observed no limitation, however reasonable, and who cor rupted the police as a matter of ordinary business overhead, would suddenly become law abiding and respectable. We've had, and will have for some time to come, a lawless time with pro hibition. But the lawlessness be gan long before the Eighteenth amendment was. in fact, the reason for" It.' , ; . "Well, of course we don't want the saloon back, but now. for Instance, light wine and beer . . ." Talk about dry hypocrisy! They do want the saloon back. ladies and gents. Hearken to the reminiscences of nights at Old Tim's place, where they wouldn't sell to a drunk and always obey ed the law. A rosy haze of sweet ness and light they paint around the old swinging door. But not for argument or publication. I could embrace a frank wet who would blurt forth a h'ope that the saloon should come back. Being by some particular chem istry of my interior one of those birds who really can take it or let it alone, the saloon never did me any personal harm. I have had some very delightful iinrles in saloons. I have heard a lot of good talk or maybe it Just seemed good talk in saloons. I saw them pass with personal re gret,. Just as I'd watch the pass ing to the gallows of a boon com panion who had chopped his wife into small bits. In each In stance I feel that I've lost a plea sant acquaintance, but that I must acquiesce in the public pol icy wnich removed them. Hence I can regard sympa thetically the honesty of the wet who wants the saloon back be cause he and his friends enjoy ed it, and to the devil with the other issues Involved. . I don't agree, bnt I respect him. The rest want it, but they're too hyp ocritical to say so. As to light wines and beers, by personal observation I have found that: 81 2-3 of those who advo cate them never drankwlne when tney couia get u. 48 never drank beer at all. $2 drank champagne when somebody else paid for it, but bought cocktails or highballs when paying for their own. 8 drank light wines and beer In preference to hard li quor. 86 admitted that while abroad they specialized in cock tails. 100 were drinking gin while they talked light wines. In other words, my brethren. what the wets want is hooch, and don't let 'em kid you. Anyhow I'm curious to know how allowing beer and light wine Is golng to make it -easier to pre vent bootlegged hooch than now, when all alcoholic liquor is ta booed by law. 7. "But see what prohibition la doing to youth and to women!" Well, well, what is it doing? Wild youth isn't aa wild as it's painted; statistics show that Ju venile delinquency la decreasing. A great many women of the up per classes who didn't drink ' be fore prohibition drink now, hut the Salvation Army can tell you that the women or the masses aren't drinking as they did In the days of family entrance. And there are more of the masses than of the classes. Besides, this drinking among youth and women is hot solely a prohibition phenomenon. The problem exists also In England and France. They're fretting about it in Canada, too. where the noble. experiment' of putting the government in the saloon business hasn't abolished either the bootlegger or the speakeasy. WHEN DRINKERS WERE DRINKERS And here again the wet'a mem ory goea conveniently hazy. Youth drank In my youth, even If the wets forgot' theirs. These stu dent statistics; on drinking In col lege have to be taken with a salt pretzel or two. Students who take a ahot once a month when they can get It count themselves aa drinkers. When I went to . col lege von didn't rank as a drinker unless you made a habit of sop ping up a few daily and got edged once a month or oftener. ; I might go on and tell yon how. In my home town, at least ten of the young men of the best fam llfes went to moral wreckage or physical degeneration and death from habitual alcoholism within ten years of their matriculation: but though It'a true, it might be doubted; However, we'll leave thia sub ject with the query aa to how, today, you , are to reduce .the drinking among young people by making hooch cheaper and. easier to get.' S. "We have made ourselves IN FALL TOLD Article by Mrs. Dallas Re counts Work Needed Be fore Winter Time 1 By .MRS. W. R DALLAS Aa our lawns are the most prominent feature of our land scape planting; and is or should be permanent,, they are perhaps the first thing we should give our at tention to in the fall of the year. It is true one does not usually think of lawns at this time of year. Neverthelesa this Is the best time to plant a lawn and in many ways preferable to spring. Almost al lof the grasses make their most vigorous growth In the fairly cool weather when the nights are long and cool and the dewa heavy and we have warm daytime rains. Seed sown this time of year will have several weeks of Ideal growing conditions and will not be subjected to the danger of scorching hot weather while the plants are still young and tender, which is the reason why so many spring lawns are a failure. An other reason is the weeds have had their annual fling and will not be so hard to get rid of in a fall planted lawn. Bine Grass Grows in Fall Besides the sod will be more dense as seed sown now will be more deeply rooted because of the cold weather ahead and the varieties that stools, . notably the Kentucky blue grass, will get a much, better start in the fall. ,j A lawn Is Just like a house be cause It is a permanent reaiure, and should therefore have a good foundation which in this case is a well prepared seed bed. Extreme ly rich soil Is not necessary; in fact, not even desirable. A good quality of garden soil containing plenty of decaying vegetable mat ter will Insure an entirely satis factory lawn. One of the 'best things to mix with the soil for a good lawn Is thoroughly decayed manure, but get It, if possible, without weed seed. If this can not be had, on can use either granulated peat moss alone, or this and commercial humus in equal quantities. A layer an Inch or two deep should be spread ov er the entire surface and forked in to a depth of three or four feet. Heavy Mat Comes Soon These materials as well as peat moss are moisture holders and developers of root growth and help the young grasses to form quickly a thick, well knit mat, rather than those Individual plants with bare spaces between, which always means poor results later on. It is also well to remember that the permanently good look ing lawn is one that is well drain ed. There should be provision made for carrying off surface water so that it is not permitted to stand in puddles and cause the sou to become sour which is one of the chief reasons for mossy the laughingstock, of other na tions." Yeah? Who's leffink? A few visitors who think that. because they've been regaled with drinks at smart house parties and dinners among the rich, every body drinks as much as ever un der prohibition. If you read the foreign papers. you won't discover much laugh ter. What you will discover is an enormous amount of worryinr about the Americanization of Europe; a fear of what the high speed efficiency of America which has accompanied, even If we assume that it hasn't been caused by, the Noble Experi ment will do to European In dustrialism and trade. As far as I'm concerned, Eur ope may laugh its head off at our "fool sumptuary law." If countries that regulate most of the details of your daily life in a way that Americana wouldn't tolerate for five minutes choose to laugh at our method of deal ing with boose, that'a their priv ilege. They can laugh at my law while I laugh at theirs. And while we're both laughing can chuckle over the fact that France, for example the model that the beer-and-llght wine ad vocates point to so gleefully drinks more hard liquor' than England doee, or than we did In the days before prohibition. I can get a giggle or could if it seemed funny to me, which it doesn't out of the Intolerance of a country whose wine growers and distillers have Just succeed ed In barring from the schools any Instruction whatsoever con cerning the effects of alcohol on the hitman system. . Well, er unless that Instruction has to do with wine as a tonic and health beverage for children. Maybe It Is I dunno but those scrawny, pale-faced French kids are no ad for the vintner's stuff. The greatest acte in my Jug ular regfon that I get from wet talk la the laek of any sugges tion of a sensible substitute for prohibition. True, - government control and dispensaries are working, after a fashion, in oth er countries. But they didn't l-work ' here in South Carolina and they're not working to ex actly universal satisfaction la Cash Feed Prices WHOLE CORN Per 100 CRACKED CORN Per 100 MILL RUN 60 lb. sack. OUR OWN DAIRY FEED 80 lb. nick. ROLLED OATS 60 lb. sack. EGG MASH fiQIh . sarlr The very klghest quality Free delivery D. A. WHITE & SONS raONX ICe-Ml STATE 8TBZET How Does Your Garden Grow? By LILLIE k MADSEN The leaves about your lawnO make a ' marvelous mulch for Azaleas, Kalmias, Leucothoe, Pie ris, 'Rhododendrons and other acid-soil plants. Use a thin cover ing of rich soil over the mulch The soil tends to hold the leaves In place and assists in decompo sition. Experienced gardeners do not advise a leaf-mulch for per ennial borders, I find. In case you do not have acid-soil shrubs on your lawn, then It is better to make a compost heap In some far corner of your garden and use the leaf mold thus derived sotoe time next year. Last year I found my compost of leaves a lively breeding place for the -grey garden grub that does so much harm to perennial plants particularly Chrysanthe mums. I tried spraying; the pile quite thoroughly wjth a not too strong Bordeau mixture. The ex periment proved effective. Speaking of Chrysanthemums now is the time to cheek over your friends' chrysanthemums to lawns. To do this tile should be laid or the top soil can be re moved for three or four inches and a layer of fine gravel and cinders put in, then soil replaced. This makes good sub-drainage. Of course this would not be nec essary if the lawn was on sloping ground where there la a natural drainage. Next to be considered is having the ground plowed or spaded deeply so that all lumps are well pulverized and the surface raked over to get it as fine as possible. If it is not very soft It should be rolled before the final raking so as to make the ground firm and smooth as well as even. Next thing is to select good seed suitable to your locality. Good grass seed is very import ant, but the best of seed will not give a good lawn on poorly pre pared soil. For the average lawn Kentucky blue grass should pre dominate, and other desirable va rieties may In lude red-top, some kinl of bent, English rye grass, timothy, white clover and a fes cue. The latter is especially good in sandy soils. Next get the seed on evenly. The best way to accomplish this is to sow when no wind Is blow ing, either early in the morning or about dusk In the evening. The seed should now be lightly raked and then rolled. If this is done before one' of our delightful fall rains it will not be necessary to water it, oth erwise it would be necessary to give it a thorough watering, .not a mere sprinkling,. After planting It will not be Ion; before the lit tle grass plants are up. Norway, Sweden or Canada. These noble experiments in other countries are, granting ev ery wet claim, not so brilliantly successful as to warrant substi tuting them for our own system. If after ten years the machinery of prohibition enforcement . is still missing on three cylinders, how long might we expect it to be before government control would be even fifty per cent ef ficient? Why substitute the com plexities of regulation, which failed for more than a hundred years, fdr the comparative sim plicity of a policy that haa only ten years trial and Is by no means again granting every wet claim a total flop? The most naive confession of wet futility that I have run across appeared In. the editorial columns of a . New York wet pa per of the highest respectability. I haven't the actual clipping be fore me, but this is the outline. A reader wrote as follows: "I note that your paper smites the Eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act hip and thigh at every opportunity. But what have you to suggest as a workable substitute?" To which the editor appended this reply: "It is, perhaps, a weaknesa in the anti-prohibition movement that it haa no reasonably satis factory policy to substitute." Probably the editor waa fired for that confession, but for once a wet had Inadvertently admitted the truth. Grand Island GRAND ISLAND, Nov. 15 Mrs. Roy E. - Will and Mrs. Charles A. Ferguson drove into Dayton Sunday afternoon to vis it Mrs. Clarence Rockhlll who is under the doctor's care at. pres ent. . . The funeral of the late Jim Chitwood was held Monday after noon from Rlgdon'a Undertaking Parlors. Burial was in the Odd fellows eemetery. All arrange ments were In care of his niece, Mrs. Clarence Badger.' Among those attending the funeral of the late Jim Chitwood were Mrs. E. A. Lefley and Mrs. Will Umbanhour. lbs. 42.00 IbsJl 42.10 . 90c .$1.60 . 85c 4145 aa the lowest prtoea. la the etty find out -what they might have that you do 'not have but woSild like to. You know, of course, that chrysanthemums grow by slips and -shoots. If you can remember where those you desire are grow inr and if you are absolutely sure that they will remain intact , un til chrysanthemum planting time in the spring, then leave them where they are. Otherwise - se cure a portion of the plant and heel It in your own garden un til next spring. If you were bothered at all by rust on your snapdragons, per ennial phlox or hollyhocks dur ing; the past - summer . carefully gather up every stock, lead and stem and BURN them. Then spray ' the ground around the plants with a Bordeaux mixture, In the spring, when the plants subject to this fust first begin to grow, spray them with a so lution of sulphide of potassium at the rate of one ounce to two gallons of water. This spray does not discolor the foliage. A dilut ed Bordeaux mixture is also good. If I am still with you. Ill remind you of this spraying again in the spring. , Contrary to the report ( heard circulated by a gardener a few days ago, huckleberries do1 win ter very well in the Willamette Valley. I do not know where this Informant received his in formation but I heard him make the statement that the "red coast huckleberry," as he termed it, froze out during the winter here. I have such a huckleberry which I brought home from the coast nine years ago this autamn. I have never covered it even dur ing our coldest spells. Every summer It is well filled with fruit and gives a good showing both in fruit and when only Its neat little leaves cover It. The bush is now about four feet high. A year or two after I brought home this bush I found similar ones growing in the woodlands here in the valley. Formerly I thought the red huckleberry was a native of the coast regions only. m Old plaster -pulverized and placed in the hole in which you stick your Iris , is said by some spring. Of course this does not . apply to your biennials such as foxglove, Canterbury bells and snap dragons. These are apt to die out during the winter and can better be moved in the spring. But your phlox, your Col umbine, your Dicentra, Primula, Anenome and many others should be moved before the first Mutual Savings and ban Association A Salem Institution Organised in 1910 Place your savings jvvith us Let us finance your home on weekly, or monthly payments 142 South Liberty Street L 25 DISCOUNT 25 ON ALL PAINT IN STOCK The best CerUinteed inside or outside paint at 25 per cent off. ; Take advantage of these prices early as it is only en) stock on hand. '-(-" CO PEL AND YARDS West Salem Telephone 576 Dependably serving the lumber consumer Good Lumber, That's What We Sell In addition to prime, sound lumber, we carry large stocks , of ; wall board and all new building materials. Give us a call Reasonable Prices A T77) Povdcj? . 610 N.Capitol Telephone 728 or 2240 LUMBER PRICES HIT DECLINE Curtailed Production Ends' Prices Recessions oi Past Year ' SEATTLE, Wash. A total of 303 sawmills i reporting - to the. West Coast Lumbermen' " aaocl-; ation : for the week ending No- r vembcr S, operated at 4 5.0 cent of capacity,, approximately the same as the previous week, as compared with 65 per cent, during the early part of 1930. In the 24' weeks period slnee the week ending May 34, the indus try has operated on an average ' of 47.(4 per cent of capacity, which has resulted in more thaa one billion feet being cut froat production. The decrease repre. sents about eight weeks prod no tion, at the present rate of cut--ting, for the entire industry in the Douglas fir region of Oregon, Washington and British - Colum bia. " ' Current new business report-' ed by 228 identical mills waa 2.47 per cent under production and shipments were 15.38 per cent ' under. Orders received by these 228 mills during the six teen week period from 'July 21 to November S exceeded the lum- uer uuiym uj o.vo yer . cent. During the past week roders In" the rail trade decreased about 5,600,00.0 feet, domestic cargo orders Increased 16,000,000 feet, export dropped about 1,500,000. feet, i domestic carffo j orders in J . J AAA AAA M. .At t dropped about 1,500,000 feet, while local decreased, 2,500,000 feet. Unfilled orders increased 13.000,000 feet during the week.. The average price return for 162 rail and water items of West coast lumber for a - group, of. mills reporting" to the Davis statistical bureau In October changed but two cents from1 the average of September stopping, at ImiBt tamnAnrllr td. in lumber prices which started -In May 1929. This stabilization during a period of declining sales, is due, the association be lieves, te the Influence of more tbam 125 West Coast mills whose sales In, '.the rail trade were placed on a firm price policy basis Jate In September. of next month at the latest. -Iria experts to prevent Jrls rot the worry of all- iris growers. If you haven't already done so, you should busy yourself with cleaning. -and working over your border. You can now still re member what was wrong In your border during the past season, and you can rectify this now, while you can see where your plants are. If you dean up and do all your replanting thia aut umn your early blooming plants wlilhave a better start for next T T? V7 Cunrjlb Co. i . - 'i ..