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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1933)
-t PAGH SSTCI r i i V 1 1 t I t Heads of Institutions Fear Trouble as Commodity Prices Mount How to cope with Increasing commodity prices and at the same time keep within their bud get appropriations tor the cur rent blennium, Is one of the per plexing problems now I confront ing the superintendents of Ore gon's 11 state Institutions and number of state department heads. At the 193) legislative ses sion the demands of the several institution! were cut to the bone, and la some cases the appropria tions were in excess of 10 per cent below the appropriations for the previous two years. These re ductions applied to both the sal ary and operating budgets. -In most cases requests for capital outlay were eliminated entirely. Price Increases 12 M Per Cent Officials declared that they are confronted with 12 per cent increases la commodity prices while their appropriations are based on Quotations for 1932. Audits completed recently at f ecting most of the larger state Institutions showed that they had kept within their appropriations for the first three months of the current year but that any further advances in commodity prices would effect them materially. This especially was said to be true of the Eastern Oregon StateJ Tuberculosis hospital - Which ex pended 25 per cent of its annual operating appropriation during the months of January, February and March. Governor Meier, in a statement issued recently, declared that while he realized that commodity prices had increased, the instltu tion superintendents would be ex pected to conduct their plants within the budget appropriations. May Buy Cheaper Supplies Two alternatives were said to be available in case commodity prices increase to a point far be yond the budget appropriations. One of these is a reduction in salaries and wages of employees and the other the purchase of more inexpensive supplies .for the state charges. In several state in stitutions the employees are re ceiving only 345: months -Officials declared that ft -would be unfair to lower these wages which already are far below those paid in similar institutions in other states. The purchase of cheaper sup plies was declared impractical. Gilbert Chosen On Public Works Board for State WASHINGTON1", Aug. 19. (AP) Dr. James Gilbert of Eu gene today was named a member of -the Oregon state advisory board to the federal public works administration. He will succeed Claude C. Hockley of Portland, who became the administration engineer for the state. VACCINATE PULLETS SUBLIMITY, Aug. 19 Irvln Schumacher has had his flock of 929 leghera pullets, vaccinated. Crosse Word Puzzle - By EUGENE SHEFKER , Zz. AyA Ti V. 2W 25 M 777 & 2&, Zi -n 1 1 y-i i teH i HORIZONTAL 1 stoop. 4 damage 7 onward 11 mimics IS passage- , wajta IS stories 17 fragments 18 South American animal 20 flung 21 puts away for future use 28 elongated fish 27 preposition 29 Uin SO deserve 12 etrike gently tt article of furniture JS Greek -letter S7 cash 29 rubricates . 41 suffix used to form the degree it to imbibe In small quantities 43 to wrap, as in bandages 44 choose 47 venues -49 bird 51 parched 63 an infanta' breech-doth 84 volcano 66 aeragHe ' 67 sailor ' pig-pea VERTICAL 1 a nocturnal flying mammal Herewith is the solution to Sat urday's Puzzle. : liipi Cmtm. tut, Kim tutmrn swImh, W. Cottage Has Charm of its Qwh The cottage type home has a charm all its own and when,, well planned and designed, as this one most assuredly is, it insures peace and comfort to its occupants; The well ; proportioned living room, with its wide window and open hearth may be made a most at tractive room by -the home loving house-wife. -The two corner bed rooms, each have cross ventila tion and plenty of closet space. The dining nook is cosy and of ample size. Kitchen and bath room are conveniently arranged and well equipped. The large back porch and out3ide entrance to the basement are Items that must not da overlooked. This type of house cans for plenty of wall plantings and window boxes. Exterior looks weu in siding, or shakes may be UnY DOES YOUR 1 IV vv By LILL1E L. MADSEN How to save a portion of your summer garden's fragrance for the dark days of winter has been the question brought to me this week. Par ticularly how to make a pot pourri. An old recipe reads as fol lows: "In a crock put halt a peck of fresh rose petals, sprinkle them- lightly with salt and turn daily. Af Ltm sucata ter several days, when the leaves are dry, add one ounce of ground cinnamon. Allow this to stand for one week, turning frequently. Place in a permanent Jar and add half a pound ef freshly dried lav ender blossoms, one grated nut meg, half an ounce of anise seed, 10 grains of finest Canton musk, two ounces of orris root powder, half an ounce of the essential oils of jasmnie, lavender, violet, rose mary and bergamot. Add from time to time, as convenient, foliage from lemon verbena and rose geranium." But la making a potpourri, one need not be limited to any given recipe. The petals of any fragrant flower may be added to the Jar. It is well to dry them by spread ing them out on sieves for a few days and sprinkling them lightly with salt. Other essential oils such as rose, or cheris and other spices such as cloves or mace may also be added. It Is not yet too late to add a few of the autumn flowering bulbs. Among these are the scilla autumnalis, growing six inches tall and bearing pure blue flow- 2 Jewel 8 springs, as . of water. 6 melted lava , 6 one of the . bony rods -v. attached to the spine 7 lowest fe male voice 8 one holding property by lease 9 -Twnc 10 benevolent 12 chairs 14 perches f : ' AT.-. I 16 even ; 19 melody 21 withered , 22 choicest ' , . part .. . 23 email ehfl-' dren - 25 Joint of the arm- . 2 untrue 30 dissolved ; 31 having a ; sharp, sour taste, 33 receptacle 35 one who utters falsehoods 38 coined money 40 portion 43 cease ' 44 publishes s 45 an oraa- i mental band 48 pack tightly 48 dispatched 50 saturate : 52 period from dawn to dark 53 doctor (abbr.) 14 eon god CmHH-3' ta-CaAWBlfcl tfW mi Jsn1 IsWSjH 1 p-Lti, tc p'1""!; j rf1' Tlgdr fun used to good advantage if desired. The outside chimney: may be made as attractive as one pleases to have It and a creeping ivy may be made to add to its charm. In quire at The Statesman office about Plan No- 423, Universal House plan series. ra 110.423 GARDEN GROW? era; lily of the field (sternbergla lutea), a yellow flowering bulb blooming late in September or in October. There is also an autumn flowering snowdrop which the English gardeners tell us about and which In England blooms in November. They say it is very lovely and there it is called the snowflake. However, I have been unable to find this listed in any of our catalogues. The time to plant the autumn flowering bulbs Is from the first of August into the first part of September. These bulbs develop rapidly and give considerable color to the late autumn gardens. Bulb growers suggest that a little sand be placed beneath each bulb to keep the root surroundings dry and sweet. Also we are told that in filling up after, planting, the soil should be pressed very evenly as otherwise the young shoots may be deformed. Very little nn- MICKEY MOUSE THIMBLE THEATRE 7 GETTiN' MESSED UP V l I , . I I 17 SAY ! T lSr 'Sl! R jMSj fITCV3H I WITH THOSB HORNETS WAS I l? WMk 'MB AN (DEAl I VM3NOER fv ( "lT Jk T N SJI&VPLtf CVVtl I P6ETTV TDUGH, BLTTJ f Mt WHAT H D DO IP I Ju X -E'OX fcw D GOSH. THEY SURQ EfSLwL ' X MADE A NOISa gTv ' 7WWl JAK P 0 t MADE IKEjAJC ' LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY r ou,iWKii raciMAU&N THAT W4 Ht5 Ht.WJll SCC AMf Ol4& Wl l HCXiT AM AWOJMTMENT BUT HE DTW 2W, NOTMIrC 'BOUT HAULS rVsTttftt Sywdicife, ffht Oreic .. TOOTS AND CASPER THE BOSS JUST HANDED ME A PLEASANT SURPRISE .TOOTS! HE SAID I CAN HAVE. TKS WEEK OFF! evenness in soil conditions is suf ficient , to spoil growth for a season.' : .- v-a - The autumn arocus, which I mentioned la passing last week, is rapidly gaining in popularity and adds much to any garden. They do not require a specially rich soil, but good drainage Is es sential. Leaf-mold added to the soli gives a tendency to create longer stems and larger flowers, I am told. The top of the crown of the autumn flowering trocus should be two inches below the surface of the soil. - Remember, August-is the time to plant your evergreens, both the broad leaved and the coniferous, if yon hare plenty of water to give them. -The soil must be saturated thoroughly before the plants are set and it must be soaked at least once a week until the autumn rains set in. . .- . . . Rose growers also tell us that It is well to Sire the rose bushes a trowelful of boxremeal at this time. - This will not. particularly improve the autumn bloom but it will strengthen the bush for next season's bloom. X suppose you hare been giving, your rose gar den some applications of fertilizer during the past four weeks to add to the beauty of your autumn bloom. Disabled Veterans Plan Flower Sale For September 6-7 - On September 8-7, Salem, Chap ter No. of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War will hold their annual Forget-me-not flower sale. The funds derived from this sale are used for the assistance of the disabled veter ans and their families. It this Forget-me-not sale Is financially successful the chapter will be en abled to expand , its legislative, re habilitation, liaison, and educa tional publicity service for the mutual benefit of hundreds of dis abled ex-service men and their dependents. Rickreall Folk Visit Old Home RICKREALL, Aug. 19 Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hamilton have re turned from their trip to St. Paul, Minn., where they left 27 years ago for Oregon. They have been gone since June 11. and while they had an enjoyable trip they are glad to be home again. Miss Libble Vaughan spent Thursday evening and Friday visiting with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Vaughan. Miss Vaughan teaches in the Port Angeles, Washington schools, where she has taught tor 14 years. Starring Popeye MMuuwb v.'-m jyyi- DTFiCC aE8&$&A Z GOLDOi I MO CO AM onxt -ftftnto f)fcSt i GEE. CASPERl THATS FINS! THATS EXACTLY WHAT I INTEND TO DO TOOTS! LETS CrO TO OCEAM PARADISE - PAOTTJUR ' THINGS AND WE'LL GET y Anii. I FOR THE WEEK.! Km XMa Even When Tailed on Players? Name By D. H. Talmadgey Sage of Salem - The proposal to I repair the waterworks at Dayton carried by a rote of 104 to 2. Seems con clusive. Appears to have been hardly worth while for the op position to organise Itself. ; Jimmy batted in nine runs dur ing, one baseball game early in the -past week. Foxx, Foxxz or even Foxxrx, its quite O. K. with the fans. There is no law to prevent - a . man from adding, as many kisses as he wishes to his own name. What shall it profit a man. though he may remove his- coat on a hot day, if he overheats him self dashing to and. from the pock ets of the garment. Miss Harding and Mr. Mont gomery in "When Women Meet" two stars who really scintillate in a really interesting and well- balanced motion play. The only man in town who does not atop and register apprehen sion when the siren of an ambu lance sounds in the streets is he who either has no family or whose family has no automobile. Much of our worrying is done sub consciously. Better than some other way of doing It. ' I have "discovered," thanks to C. O. M., a writer of books which have somewhat rare qual ity of being strong and at the same time understandable and entertaining. Which, In the words of Captain Cuttle (it was Captain Cuttle, was It not?) is worth making a note on. The writer's name is William McFee. A number of folks have seen the "Back to Nature" picture at Portland. Their reports are plain ly lacking in enthusiasm. The local landscape Is dotted with would-be pickers of hops. A picturesque lot.- When and by whom, I wonder, will the epic of the hop fields be written? By the way, Mrs. Lucy Brown has written a comedy.. Several Salem folks have been permitted the pleasure of reading It. Mrs. Brown lives in the thickest of hop astmosphere, but tn her writings she makes no reference to hops. I reckon the man or .women who eventually writes the epio of the hop fields will merely glance at a hop yard some Sunday afternoon skim through the hop item in the cyclopedia and then dash oft 40,- A Speedy Success Auu m rfire xzrA? Tickled Night KvMEKll POUMOMIS POCKCT-BOOk-'Aw. GOLDEM NOW XWMJTSOMETWW- A..XQ HONEST, I WAWT IT AUTUL BADi' Safety vou bet ru- WVCK UP 6EFORE VTX1 CHANGE MXJR M1NQ Bl BOY! m 1. :r::::::. l I fN j ' ""73883 vr ,- - j D. H. TALMADQE 000 words, or such a matter. about something else. Says Ralph Kletslng in his " Interesting. Facts" column, says he, he can't understand why folks can't enjoy the heat a little. It's lots better, says he, to be nice and warm than so cold all the time. Gee whjs! it is no sign that we are not enjoying the heat be cause we growl about it How ever did you get that notion into your head? And what do yon mean, nice and warm? The announcement is forthcom ing that the reincarnated Police Gazette, under the editorship of Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, who tor a time, resided in Salem, will appear in September. Mrs. Hersey is not a graduate of .Willamette university. Dr. Doney determin ed this with much promptness when she was so announced a number of weeks ago. Mrs. Hersey tells us that the new Police Gaz ette will hare "lots of sex, under world stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude night club girls." How sweet! Doesn't the lady know publica tions featuring this line are dy ing in greater numbers than are being born? The public's stom ach has turned. . An Iowa picnic is being held at Chamnnor todnv fSnndavt. Gov ernor Frank Jackson once said.' "Of all that Is good, Iowa affords Papoose" Watch HQ. OUDD4 5 XXU -AM' WHOJ I TEU. UU 'BOUT SICK WO WHO VOJT GET WELL UWLE5560MEI1EWVSTO 2EWO HER.TO THE C0UWTT5 , HELL HELP GEE, 1WISMTKCDCOMS ".7- Qr00 in Silence V DOrTT TELL COLONEL HOOFER THAT WE'RE. CrOtNcr ON A VACATION, TOoTS BECAUSE HETD WANT TO 4OAL0N4 WITH US! lUXEWM, BUT THIS IS TO BE AN CC71CSCAL TRI?- WEi- 6ET AN INEXPENSIVE. ROOM AND WATCH OUR PENNIES BUT IF HE WAS ALONcr rD HAVE TO "SHLUKCrfc. lu KEJtJ? ur APPEARANCES! dU.THa aAm mm kJ the best.'" And a heck ef a time some of as lowans. have had Irv ing up to ttt There wilt be a good tuna at caampoejg toaay. When It is said of the victim of an aceident or of aa attack of illness that he is doing, as well as could be expected it means, I reckon, that the person Informed knows as : much or the victim' condition as ' could be . expected which, after all. is ne more (has might reasonably bo . expected when It is considered that nobody really knows what is to be expect ed. It is rery difficult ; to feel otherwise than highly " edified when one is informed that a suf ferer is doing as well as could be expected. CMST Mills' OUTPUT IS STEADY SEATTLE. Aug. 19. (AP) The West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation said today that a total -of 342 down and operating mills reporting tor the week ending August 12 produced 108.901.10X hoard feet of lumber, about the same as the cut the week before. The number of mills reporting increased from 313 to 342, yet total' production remained con stant, production at all milla be ing 8.000,000 feet less than dur ing, the week of July 22. - The average production of the group tor 1933 has. been 78, 506,254 feet each week, while in 1932 the average was C3.9S0.805 feet. New business reported last week by 186 mills was 66,125. 434 board feet against produc tion of 96.686,630 feet and ship ments of 96,702,770. Their ship ments were about the same as production and current sales were 31.61 per cent under pro duction. HOLD FUNERAL FOR CHILD FALLS CITY, Aug. 19 Funer al services were held in the Chris tian church Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock for the small daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Conley Poe with Rev. Ira C. Bailes officiating and Billy Letterman, Frank Jones, Bobby and Connie Hylton acting as pallbearers. Geraldine Poe was born here October 29, 1931 and died Thurs day .morning after a short two days' illness. She was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Poe. GOES TO SICE SISTER FALLS CITY, Aug. 19 Rev. J. E. McDonald left Saturday morning fer the bedside of his Bister Mrs. Sarah Osman at Seat tle, who" Is critically 111. Mrs. Os man is well known here as she spent several months visiting her brothers here last winter. TfVAHCTO DO. THAT LITTLE 11L BETCHA ZXRO XT A 1 m i r ii T 1 1 l At A Tests Meal 1 What's sauce for the goose makes a big hit with the gander sometimes. As witness President Roosevelt en joying a hearty meal on the same rations issued to his Ref erestatien Army. The Chief Executive dined with the boys when he visited Camp Meadows, at Harrisonburg, Va. Marion Reports Short Hay Crop MARION, Aug. 19. Farmers are now nearing the end of hay-, ing, with scarcely one-half th hay baled as last year. Hay crop Is one-third less than usual and mostly oat hay. Acreage oi wheat,- oats and barley small al though a comparatively good yield for spring sown grain. Pas tures short and Sudan grass was sown, and usecTfor summer pas ture. Berries and small fruits with cherries excepted were not a halt crop. Present prospects on walnuts is a half crop, blight causing many to fall. Peaches and winter apples half crop, while fall pears are plenti ful. The potato acreage In our vi cinity is small. Prune crop not large but quality good. By WALT DISNEY By SEGAR Kl AM e8CiHC HIM tr UCtHC UUrSkcK OT CV.VWT OF I tUWTS rUM TO BE SfWXS OF THE I . e 5fCTS OF THE t 4ftBssaBBnnrs By DARREL McCLURE f UP WAF6Mm iilTec-E. ttlTMCHTI BIG rpi-J 1AHSEaTJI IDEA 5?X 1 WAS VAnaJVTO f ;, jpp f.V ti-lMUSTA f By JIMMY MURPHY THAT WAS COLONEL HOOFER! HE WANTED TO KNOW WHATS NEW WITH ME, BUT I DIDN'T TELL HIM ANYTHING! ' : . NOBODY EVER WENT WRONG BY KEEPING ; HIS MOUTH CLOSED! A