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The OREGON : STAfESMAN, Salein, -Oregon; SunyTMornin& ilarch tj, 1936 PAGE ELEVEN Special Colimmt9 Free Lance .tidii Writers yieloF Reader Attemi Civilization's Advanced Marked by Near 'Extermination of Bedbug By D. H. TALMADGE, Sage of Salem THOU WIXST Mr. T., we've read your Terse, la The Statesman, If arch IS: Sleeplessness Is not your curse, That Is Tery plainly seen. Didst thoa slamber ever woo In a bed by bugs beset? And didst thoa find thoa couldst not do? If thoa didst thoa didst, we bet. A. T., Silverton. The bed bus (cimex lectularlus) is not a particularly pleasant sub ject for contemplation. It Is not. strictly speak ing, a menace to society, bat it is. or iras In timea past, one ... of the greatest of encouragers of sleep less- - ness. It la one of the most an noying of In sects. It is al most as annoy ing as the ln- sect one sotne- - times sees and f hears in the - weekly news reels at the motion picture theatres, which insect, having la some mysterious man ner become imbued with an Idea that a flow of sixth-grade dialect and silly contortion of the facial muscles will eaase audiences to roar with laughter. Inflicts itself upon a long-suffering public The public has t trying tastes in hu mor, but it is of one mind as re gards plain and helpful descrip tion. However. It is not the most serious matter in the world. I hare not seen or been attack ed by a bedbug for years, nor hare I heard a vaudeville performer spring a bedbug, gag. The gag was once highly rated by vaudeville performers. As a matter of fact, it was a close second to the mother-in-law gag. It was occasionally done Into song. Perhaps some of you remember the touching old minstrel olio number, beginning "Beneath the willows she is aleep ' ing, and the parody which follow ed, beginning "Beneath the pil lows they are creeping. I reckon civilisation is really advancing. It may be that late scientific methods (en sale at all drugstores) have virtually exter minated the bedbug. -So fsr as I hare observed, no millions were appropriated by the N. R. A. to relieve sufferers from bedbugs. This might fairly lead to the in ference that the number of bed bugs has been greatly reduced, if not entirely exterminated. The N. R. A. administration would not hare been likely to miss bedbugs had bedbugs been present in num bers great enough to warrant the appointment of an office and field force to combat the evil. There are days when the head lines in the newspapers stimulate memory and. there are days when they do net. "In looking over the flood news from the east during the past 1ft days, I have been re minded, somewhat hasily but clearly enough, of Johnstown and the flood of 1889, which resulted in a loss of life to somewhat more than 2209 people. I see a railway train creeping over temporary crack, and I see a hill-hemmed stretch of river bottom strewn high with wrecksge, and laee hu man bodies being placed th rows for Identification. There hsd been no time to escape. A dam in the hills up the valley had broken al most without warning, and the waters had come down in a wall 40 feet high and rushing with the speed of the wind. It was not much of a sight to see, the wreckage and ruin that resulted. I wondered why I had come. Had there been any reason for my being there, beyond the satisfaction of a thoughtless cur iosity, it would hTe been differ ent. I had been stampeded by the headlines in the Chicago papers, add had changed my plans, which included a trip to southern New England by way of Montreal and the St. Lawrence and a daylight ride through the green hills of Vermont. I wondered, I say, why X had come to Johnstown. Nothing more than a great mass of wreck age and an assortment of dead folks whom I had not known In their lives. The gratification of an Idle curiosity, and quite futile, as I understand the meaning of that word. Well. I s'pose a fellow mast learn In one way or another. Per haps it Is as well that it happened ' But more trouble was to com 'from the notion I took into my head to see Johnstown. Events, . desirable or otherwise, come In sequences. This is a good thing to remember. Tbe Pennsylvania road in those days ferried Its New York and New England passengers across the north river at Jersey City. It was past midnight when our train arrived. I was toll at tbe dock eft ice that no trains for Boa ton would be leaving the Grand Central until morning, which was perfectly satisfactory to me. So I leaned on th rail and watched the harbor lights, and when we docked at New York X told a cab driver to take me to a hotel, and he drov me to th St Nicholas at Washington Square, took two dol lars and clattered away. At the hotel desk I discovered that while X was leaning oa th ferryboat rail watching th harbor lights aome small-time gangster or racketeer had removed my, entire cash cap ital from a hip pocket It amount ed to somewhat more than eight dollars. The eab money I had car ried In another pocket My rail road ticket was sate in ft pocket ot my coat Th situation was not so bad. Still, never having been in New York before, atony broke at one o'cock ta the morning. X was somewhat puzzled as to th next aten. I finally decided to nut th natter an to the clerk at th desk, ufi Was human nature what some people said it was or was it not? Frankly, I was dubious as to the outcome of the experiment. How ever, a park bench would be no harder after making the experi ment than it would be were no ex periment made. I teld my story to the man at the desk. He looked at me for perhaps two minutes, gent ly scratching his nose with the tip of a penholder. Then be said "Sign the register. Be sure to send ng the money within a week.' So I had a good bed and a good breakfast in New York, strictly on my face. I could not quite be lieve it. It puzzles me yet A Salem lawyer once told me that he believed every man to be a crook until he had been proved otherwise. This may be wise and Just, but I should not care to be lieve that way. A recent Issue of tbe New York Times, spesking of radio announ cers and their pronunciation of English words, says the announ cers make a "terrible hash of it. The broad 'a' sounds pretty ter rlble when it is trotted out. naked and alone. In the midst of a full- rounded piece of Vermont honk Ing or a series of Illinois barks. It Is noteworthy that the best liked announcers on the air make no attempt at frills." We hear 'em once in a while at this dis tance, the frilly ones, but they do not annoy ns greatly. It really Isn't sufficient cause for us to work up a spell of annoyance worth having. Why be annoyed by anything which is not sufficiently annoying to warrant Its being annoyed at? The Legion of Decency's theory that public opinion is more ef fective than regulations made by a federal agency in safeguarding the public against salacious pic tares appears to be working out satisfactorily. I judge from the pictures we see in Salem. Gil Patcher likes honey with his peas. Says It makes 'em stick to the knife. And Gil's wife says she thought her disguster had gone to the lim it more, than once, and then the sequel to the Hauptmann case came up, with its bungling gov ernor, its Dr. Jafsie Condon and a few incidentals, and she is feel ing disgusteder than she has ever felt before. Smart woman, too, Mrs. Patcher. There are folks who never put anything back where they found it. They are not so bad after you get acquainted with them. When Mrs. Murkin had spent an after noon helping Mrs. Dutcher put up fruit, Mrs. Dutcher never looked for the paring-knife in the kitch en. because she knew she would find it on the bureau with the big mirror in the front bedroom. How natural it is for us to give out information! And how we love to do it! And how careless we are in getting our facts straight! A small boy, somewhat larger than a quart of milk, but not much,' called the attention of a man on Liberty street yesterday to the Christian Science church building. "It's the 'tate capitol," he said. Imagine the astonishment of the man! Probably it was the same boy who told another man on Com mercial street yesterday that this Is Tourt 'treet I think the child is doomed to be a radio announ cer. Salem, March 28. Dear Mr. T.: When you say- a moving picture comedian or comedy Is funny or not funny Isn't it that you person ally think he U or isn't? Isn't it possible that you may be almost alone in your opinion? G. I. P. No, my dear. Such statements here are invariably Judged by au dience reaction, quite regardless of my personal opinion in the mat ter. That which pleases 200 to 1000 men, women and children mast have some good quality, and that which Is met in glum silence, with perhaps an occasional silly Utter, may fairly be said to be lacking in that which it should have to be that which it pretends to be. A man waiting tor a bus at the terminal station, having remarked to a companion that he disliked wind, was asked by a motherly looking woman If he had ever tried common baking soda. The man did qt forget his manners. "Yes, ma'am," he said gravely, "but the wind kept right on blow ing." It Is pretty hard to stop a March wind. One might as well try to curb the ebullition of a Mickey Moose club audience. And mention of Mickey Mouse reminds me- that the Spring Fol lies show of that lively and numer ous organisation Thursday night was a great success. Everybody was happy the management, the performers and the audience. Which leaves nothing more to be said, except perhaps, that this cannot truthfully be said ot many home talent shows.; Whether it happily happened so, or was deliberately planned In the Hal Roach studios, cannot be said. Probably something of each. However it may have com about the Bohemian 'Girt shown at the Capitol during the week, was as nearly a perfectly-balanced picture as has been seen in this town since th last fair and warmer weather forecast cam out of Portland. Th music f th Balf opera, th drama surrounding th lift ot the girl who was stolen, from her home by gypsle, and th comedy antte of Uessrs. Laurel and Har- TOWNSEXD PLAX AGAIN Editor Statesman: From what Mr. Dawson says la The Statesman, issue of March 14, I understand h believe th Townaend plan to be a failure, be fore it has been tried. X wish to m a k e a few state ment showing what t h Town send plan will do, and then as this writer wishes to know, "what it will not do", X will Inform ot thst also. The question, "who will stop the manufacturer from passing the prices on", is answered thus. Dr. Townsend estimates the min imum wage for common labor, when the plan is in . full opera tion will be SlSO.eo per month. Now there are 12,000,009 Idle men In th United States. This means they have no income, no money to spend for clothes, food, nor tax of any kind. With 1160 per month coming by exchanging their labor in producing goods which the annuitants -will demand, they will, when they spend this money, pay the transaction tax oi S3 and still have $147 left more than they hav now. If w have th rdoney who cares If.th tax is passed on, to the consumer? We will still hare money. Profiteer ing by retailers will be stopped, if it is started, by a few annuit ants opening a general merchan dise store, (as suggested by Dr. Townsend) and sell at cost not for profit, and then see how quickly the profiteering retailers will come down to earth, or go out of business. When we get the power to put the McGroarty bill into effect we will have the power to get other laws passed, and one of the first will be to prevent profiteering by wholesalers. The money to start the plan will be raised by the transaction tsx, wh!ch money will be put Into circulation by passing through the hands of the annuitants by en forced spending, and thereafter it will cost no one anything, because of this obligatory spending, (en forced spending) and turning over each month of enough to finance itself. This enforced spending Is Just what makes ft THE TOWNSEND RECOVERY PLAN. Next, Mr. Dawson asks, "How will an old man spend his mon ey?" That will be his business. If he cannot spend it he will not be cannot GET IT. However, her a a fair sa m p 1 of how on can spend it. He can buy a home, pay oft a mortgage, buy some furni ture, hire a girl to help his wife do her work. Buy a radio, a car, and hire a driver. Have some den tal work done, then some optical work. Buy groceries, clothing, etc. etc.. and when he gets stocked up be can present his last year's fur niture 10 some needy family, and buy a new outfit. Next he can bay a cow for some poor widow, or buy a home or car for someone who will be very grateful that such a man is living. How much would he have left st the end of the month? Let us see: Chauffeur $150 per month, hired girl's salary $50, groceries and fuel $25, church and charity $20, (the amount allowed by the bill) doctor and medicine $5. (and $10 to $20 per day it be had a trip to a hospital.) gas and car upkeep $10. I think this a very conservative estimate, and it to tals $260. If there were two an nuitants it would mean more doc tor, dental and clothing bills, and also the privilege of spending $20 more for charity. Well, what would they do with the balance? They might wish to travel a lit tle, and if they did not they could hire an agent to figure out how they could spend It, and give him a salary of $100 and then they would be broke before they got their next check. Their duty will be to work at their government Job of putting this money into circulation to help bring stability out of near chaos, food and clothing to millions, work for the I d 1 e, which would spell recovery. Just as Dr. Town- send has planned, and Just as we we will have it before we stop tbe fight. Now let us see what the Town- send Plan will NOT do. Mr. Daw son, it will not give you a chance to ever go to th poorhouse! For they will ALL BE CLOSED. It will not demand of yon only about' one half as much tax In the future, for it will abolish the up keep of the poorhouse. all old people's homes, all forms of re lief work, and at least one-half of the present expense of crime. It dy. combined to create entertain ment that reduced to a marked degree in the audience the fin snorts and snuffles the most re cent cold wind brought to town. When a man or a woman whose nose and throat are tickling tails to snuffle and short at a picture well, it ia a distinct compliment to the picture. It Just goes, I sup pose, to prove something or other. Charlie Chaplin, in "Modern Times," at the Grand, has canned a heap ot talk daring th week, most of It favorable. This Is the first Chaplin picture in four yoars. The old Chaplin appeal for sym pathy for the nnder dog. A big bag of Chaplin tricks, but, beyond a song by Chaplin and synchronised orchestra, silent Pantomime still has a place In the amusement world, and Chaplin is still th greatest of pantomlmists. We all-mispronounce words. As a matter of fact when I meet up witn a person who does not mis pronounce words I suspect him of of having a disagreeable disposi tion. Noted the past week in a beautiful seen!' ot the Canadian Rockies: The ' 'est moan tain is called "th m' rk of them alt" Such things a. .nteresting to a critic only because it gratifies him to know that he has plenty ot com pany in his mispronouncing. Papa Dionne has written to Kingu Edward, asking that the monarch's guardianship ot ' th quintuplets be annulled. He says h and Mrs. Dionne are lonely tor the babies. When he means is, I reckon, that it th king wants some quintuplets he can get some for himself. will not fore th United States to be loser of $25,000,000,009 an anally, la production, as w hav sine 112 j. and this loss is a half more than will b needed t fi nance the Townsend Plan. , It will not cans thousands of despondent suicides each year as the depression Is doing. It will not prevent th young men and women from obtaining, w b r k i our present governmental setup Is doing. It will not bring chaos as th present mode of administration la destined to do. There are a great many more things it will not do, but the prin cipal thing It will do is to bring recovery and make the United States "safe for democracy '. B. L PLUMMER. Editor Statesmen: On who was uninformed on reading the report of the state li quor control beard, would get the impression that the liquor situa tion is in a very good condition and getting better and that the law Is really being enforced. How ever, th picture is far different from the on painted by the li quor board. It Is a strange thing that intelligent people will try to make other Intelligent people be lieve such absurd things. For in stance, the above mentioned re ort contains the Idea that temper ance is increasing because more beer and wines are being sold. They would hare us believe that only "hard" liquors are intoxicat ing. Those who really know tell us that a beer drank is tbe worst kind of a drunk. Alcohol is alco hol, regardless ot whether it Is contained in beer, win or whis key, th only difference is the per cent of content in the three kinds of liquors. What Is the difference when a man or woman becomes drunk whether they got drunk by drinking beer, win or whiskey. It is easy to prove by th Knox liquor law itself that th law fs not being enforced. For Instance, in section 18 It states that the commission may suspend or can cel a license for certain reasons and one of them, No. 8, says such license may be cancelled or sus pended for th reason that "th li cense knowingly has sold alcohol ic liquor to persons under 21 years of age, to persons known to be drunkards, to interdicted persona, or to persons visibly Intoxicated at the time of sale." All one has to do to know that the abov section is daily being violated is to walk along the streets with one's eyes open. We'll see minors go Into beer halls and purchase liquor with no questions asked. If we are well enough acquainted to know I A Book Monogram" by O. B. Stern (Macmillan, 1936) Is not conven tions! autobiography. On learns Tery little about the facts ot Miss Stem's life. A mental biography would be a better description, for one learns a great deal about the flavor of the author's very Indi vidual mind. There are fleeting glimpses of personal history, but they are so alternated with witty notations on almost everything under the sun, that one complete ly loses track of the personal. Autobiography, says Miss Stern, "Must naturally include dates, events, places and people. There fore, any person whose life has been crowded and sensational would hare a harder task in writ ing a good autobiography than one whose outward life has been gen tle and leisurely, with plenty of pauses and very few ups and downs. For events are such hust lers; they push out thought, send it reeling off the pavement." But events have not crowded Miss Stern's thoughts oft the pavement. "Monogram" is so much all thought and event mixed and stirred together in such a manner one cannot tell where the one begins and the other leaves off. Even in the parsgraphs tell ing how she came to write "Mon ogram" Miss Stern puts as many thoughts as events: "When my publishers delicious ly suggested thst I. write a book about anything I liked; anything I Jolly well liked: anything I damn well pleased; in fact about anything. I swaggered for days across these boundless prairies be fore I began to suspect thst they were altogether too boundless, and that what I needed were a few horizons laid down here and there. They had not only put me outside the pale, but they had ev en removed the pale when I was put outside it. "Finally, having been given all heaven and earth and the bottom of the sea to choose from, all the past, present and future, all ab straction and fantasy, all history and geography, I ended in th on ly predictable way, when one is given no restrictions, by accepting every restriction and choosing my self as a subject, with as much as possible of myself to be left out" Miss Stern piles her belief that everything is linked to everything else, and that there Is hardly an object, however recently acquired, that will not start an association with some Incident or some place. She divides her book into three parts and chooses three objects from which to start: a little blue and white glass dragon, a bit ot th grand canyon, and a dog paint ed on wood picked up on a rub bish heap of a villa in South France. To follow her mind, is like fol lowing a number of interesting roads leading otr th pared high way of conventional autobiogra phy. One doesn't know where Miss Stern will lead on but.it is evi dent early in the book that blind allies are taboo. Many things along the wayside attract and bold her attention for a bit of time. There Is, for instance, the subject ot "words,- all kinds ot words:" Words that w r utter non sense but went swaggering about la small groups, answering to the name ot wit Words: an avalan che, a concentration, a superflu ity, a red udancy .... Life and Roget's Thesaurus arm-in-arm." From there her mind wanders over an amazing array ot thoughts, theories, people and places: those known to be drunkards wall see them repeatedly go Into our modern ' saloons" and purchase whatever amount and kind ot li quor they desire. Then those who har been Interdicted and who. according to th liquor law are not to be allowed to buy liquor, well find can purchase liquor when and where ever they so de sire and nothing is done about it The fourth group, those who are visibly intoxicated, we 11 notice, can purchase liquor as long as they can secure th money to pay for it I personally har seen men so drunk they staggered, go into a beer hall and purchase liquor and then go staggering oat. If the state liquor control board would enforce Just this on clause of th Knox liquor law practically every liquor dispensing establishment our modern saloons, would all be closed up in short order. If you. people of Oregon, do not believe and know that the Knox liquor law is a farce Just secure a copy of it and study it thoroughly and then do some investfgstlng and see how completely It is not being enforced. MRS. ENID L. JOHNSON Monmouth BILLIONS OP DOLLARS AND TAXES TO the Editor: Fifty years ago our national debt was less than two billion dollars. It looked like an awful sum and many did wonder if ever such a debt would be cancelled. After 60 years w find our na tional debt Increasing at the rate ot over three billions per year. and it Is so staggering that we are almost ashamed to pat it down in -figures. Some way peo ple don't seem to think of a bil lion dollars like they did in those fargone days. Many seem to give It no more concern than if it was a small purse of pocket change. And so the money problem seema to be rolling on to inevi table rain. Ia th last two years we har heard so much about th famous Townsend plan, doling out two billions per month to tbe old people; and it is all supposed to com from th little humble 2 per cent transactions tax. It at first looks easy and smooth, but do people stop to figure what this amounts to? To satisfy myself I took my pencil and did some fig uring and to say th least I was suprised and astonished. My figures showed that the two billion pro-rated with our 120 million people amounts to over $11.10 per capita, and for th 24 billions ft amounts to $209 Review "I see no necessity, now, for looking back on this phase of my youthful taste ... On the contra ry, I am Inclined to write a Hymn to Middle Age, valuing the com panions or mjr maturity; their sub tle understanding of what need not be said and of what can be taken for granted; varied by their sudden agreeable frankness, so rar removea from mere Juvenile crudity of blurting out th truth." Miss Stern touches on Peter Pannery and the curious reluc tance of the Englishman to be come adult. There is a very good account of the first night of "Journey's End" when i was pro duced In Berlin under the title. "The Other Side." There Is an interesting bit about the Califor nia earthquake ot 1933. which caught Miss Stern in the bsthtub. There is a really rare bit on "scholsstic ladies" and "profes sors": "Scholastic ladies, I am convin ced, have a vocation which they neither can nor desire to elude. It Is not a matter of post-school ca reers, but goes back earlier than that. It has a pre-natal shape to It . . . Very rarely do I meet one scholastic lady alone; usually two or three in a group of friendship. They wear friendship like a warm, durable cloak that does not fray . . . They do not insult one anoth er; they tell gsy teasing stories to bhow np each others' good and generous qualities, and while they are doing so, the subject of their story always tries to stop them; whereas we, the rest of us, nat urally feel th bitterest disap pointment if anything happens to Interrupt or distract the conver sation while lovely things are be ing related to our advantage . . . My aw of professors, especially of science and mathematics. Is ev en more colossal than my venera tion for scholastic ladies." There is much on th Elsie books, which to all who have as children read the 28 volumes, is particularly amusing. "Monogram is good reading. It is better reading than most au tobiographies. Jt is not. as Mies Stern pots it, "a cargo ot I's. It Is more Interesting than most bi ographies because it Is not so per sonal; Miss Stern did not take moef ot her material from "the heap of all the things that can only be interesting to yourself," but from "the other heap of things (the two heaps representing the division of one's life) , that just may b Interesting to. these who read them. The garden catalogue win. this spring, have to divide interest with the great number of new gar den books which have been timed to torn oft the press with the spring oiling of the lawn mower and dusting of the hoe and spade. Among th mor useful ones are such as "How to Grow A n n a a 1 Flowers by Victor H RIes. Don bleday, Doran ft Company; "Trees and Shrubs" by Arthur Carhart Doableday, Do ran ft Company: "A Year In the Rose- Garden by J. H. Nocolas, Doubleday, Doran & Company; 'Flower Garden Pri mer." by Julia H. Cummins, The Macmlllan . company; "Four Sea sons in Yonr Garden,4 by John C WIster, J. B. Llppincott; "Garden Design ef Today. , by Percy S. Crane, Charles Scrlbners Sons: "American Ferns'' by Edith A. Roberts and Julia : R. Laurence, MacMnian; "How to Make Garden Pools. - by William Longyear, Doubleday, Doran ft company. per capita then oa th hypotheses that there ar fir persons to th family it would amount to 11000 per family coming' from th X per cent .transactions tax. Then I wondered if half th families in onr country bar a gross income ot on thousand per year. I was not able to locate, statistics of family incom, so therefor X only pass it up as my estimate; then with one-sixth ot our population oat of employment I figured that perhaps on foarth ot th families income would fall below $500 per year. Another set of figures flar ed upf and- that was how much financial turnover or transactions would be required to meet this enormous earn and her 4s ' the answer. It would amount to two trillion 1C0 billion dollars. Then I was lost in oblivion t compre hend how this could be possible. I thought if we were doing half that much business that we are a wonderful people. Then another problem confront ed m and. that is if the Town send plan would work as smooth as it is claimed it . would, then why ar we paying interest on thirty billions debt To square the books the transaction tax should be increased to five, per cent for the first year and by us ing the extra three per cent our debt would be erased and the ship of state would sail away on a smooth sea once more. Then the world would shout blessed be the nam of Dr. Townsend. It Is represented that these bll lions are to be doled out in the wya of pensions. It seems to me that th word pension Is poor English: Webster defines a pen sion when coming from the gov ernment as MAa annual allowance of a sum of money to a person by the government in considera tion of past service, civil, or sani tary." Now as ft is not for service why did they net pat in tbe proper word -Charity. But the way they use it people think ot It in the light ot eld soldier's pen sion. Now it seems to me that the time has come when we should not resort to mincing words r speculative theories. I am not saying whether th Townsend plan has merit or net but I submit the above for your careful consideration. N. U. BERBER. SURPLUS VALUE GOLD DIGGERS To the Editor: - Let me tell yon a story about the Surplus Value Gold Diggers: The Lord created a desire la the hearts of the people for a world ot beautiful homes instead ot the many dull dreary ones, oc cupied by discouraged people. half starred for the necessary things of life, who har ceased to hope fer comforts of leisure, or knowledge, or higher attainments, This- desire to be happy and own beautiful homes, and not be bow ed down by worry; this desire. and Its chance for fulfilment did not originate with the Townsend plan; "believe it or not" A plan for the fulfilment of this desire has been pointed out many years ago but It took a man like Dr. Townsend to. change "desire to demand that it be fulfilled. Great thinkers hare heralded the message before, but the pressure of want was not so great ' as to day and we would not listen. If we had only heeded those words: I warn the American people to beware lest they surrender the liberties they have so dearly bought. Following the Civil war "corporations became enthroned" and an era ot corruption follow ed. Depressions do not "just hap pen", they are made. Let's analyze this statement In the name of business, S. V. G. D. added about 60 "surplus value" to the cost ot the finished products of pro duction, so they could have SO per cent of all merchandise for themselves. This means that Brain and Brawn (the people who do all the nsefnl necessary work) only have a "baying power" to buy 40 per cent of the merchandise. The S. v. G. D. cannot use all of the other CO per cent which is surplus t a 1 n e merchandise, so they sell the greater part ot It on credit arrangements. Brain and Brawn, who created it' but do not have enough baying power to buy it, do buy part of it on credit ar rangements, and another part is sold in foreign lands for any price it will bring. I wish every one could realize the truth about buying power." "Credit arrange ments" are not buying power. Buying power Is money paid to useful workers ( Brain and Brawn) for useful work. Useful workers who produce are (a) the producers ot raw material (farm ers, miners, ranchers, etc.) (b) producers who fashion the flush ed articles (factory managers, workmen, etc) (e) the transport agencies (railway systems, truck line, postal systems, etc. ( distributing terminals (store man agers and workers who sell th merchandise to th consumers) re) the schools of. learning, law makers aad enforcement agencies-) ( and all other needed agendas) they are the Brain and Brawn ot our land the useful producers end distributors. They are also th consumers. Now when they go to buy this merchandise they find there has been added so much surplus value by S. V. O. D. that they can bay only 4 per cent of th merchandise they hare created and distributed that Is all their "real buying power will buy. Right: .here to where the depres sion makers' S. V. G; D. get la their work. They, 8. V. O. D. set up "credit arrangements." After we spend all oar baying power, which will only bay about 40 per cent ml all inerchanaise-- they sell us 20 per cent more on credit arrangements. This 20 per cent is part of the surplus value merchandise- which 8. V. G. D. must sell so ft wont pile up in factories and warehouses. This is part ot the surplus value merchan dise which they hav taken away rem us. They make credit ar rangements for us as long as we have- Jobs land onr homes are not mortgaged. We would not seed eredlt Arrangements If we had a 100 per cent buying power. In the midst of "plenty" (for SVGD) they close down factories and How is Your Garden? -Now is the Time for All Good Gardeners : to Rid Lawns of Moss Condition - How is yonr GARDEN? SUN By LILLIE L. MADSEN WHAT to do to rid the lawn ot moss has become a big ques tion among gardeners this past week. I hare had at least three in q a I r I e s in as many .-days on this same .prob lem. ' ' ; . Wr, VV- . ae a. utTB writ ten oerore moss r:., IS USU&Jl Ulk result of a stanr- I . " ed lawn. If clip- l't, : pings are re moved and no food put back Into, the soil, grass can not be expected to grow tone L. atiasta well. Rain packing the soil dar ing the winter, will also cause moss. In the latter' case the lawn may be loosed by the aid of a fork used as a perferator. The holes should be six inches deep and not more than three or four inches a part Fertiliser Important Most moss will have disappear ed within another month. But it is well to fertilise the lawn at this time of the year with a quick act ing fertilizer such as ammonium sulphate. A pound of this in two gallons of water -should be suffi cient for' 250 square feet How ever. If the weather is rainy, the fertiliser need not be applied In solution. The commercially dried poultry manure Is reported as be ing exceptionally fine for a lawn. Tata Is ased at the rate of 12 pounds to 1000 square feet Bone meal may also be added, partic ularly if the grass be of the blue grass variety, but this is slow act ing. About 18 pounds to 1.000 square feet: is the recommended amount Weeds should be taken out. the holes filled in and seeded. If yon. are using the sheep manure, put it on with a light dressing of river sand. A top dressing recommended for lawns contains a bale ot peat moss, 50 pounds of commercial fertiliser, 100 pounds of raw bone meal and one yard of sand. Tips on Attheas I A Salem correspondent writes; to tell one that she planted an Al-j the n year ago and that It looks as if it were dead. She wants to know if they can stand our cli mate here, what sort ot soli they should have and when they bloom. Certain varieties of Altheas (Hibiscus) live throughout win ters here nicely. The shrub may not be dead. They are very slow to leaf out la spring and they do not as a rule, bloom until August They prefer a rather rich soil and tolerates some shade. A sandy soil, devoid of humus, Is the Al thea'e one dislike. C. B. of Woodburn writes to ask about the Goldenchatn and what other name this shrub has. Goldenchain is a Laburnum. It nkes a well-drained soil, especial ly limestone. It will endure shade. I understand that summer dryness and heat are more injurious to this shrub than is the cold weath er. Gold enchains are sometimes called Beantreea or Peatrees. The fruit is poisonous. The long clus ters of yellow flowers in Mar and June are very attractive. Vines to Screen Porches Again I have a request for the names of annual vines which can be planted for screening a Dorch or back fence. These wonld in clude Ballon vine, Cardinal climb er, cypress vine, moonflower, morning glories. Scarlet Runner and Purple bell eobaea (cup-and-sancer-Tine.) Brain and Brawn take a forced vacation on empty stomachs. We must have S. V. G. D. are on a vacation and raise our buying power to 100 per cent so we can produce, distribute, buy and use all merchandise, and not "divide up with S. V. G. D. When we have a buying power of 100 per cent so there will be no "surplus value- merchandise piling up, we will buy everything as fast as the wheels of Industry can turn them down, and no cry of over-production. This, win end want and mis ery and we can take a vacation on Tall rations. I am thankful that we hare men like Dr. Townsend who do some thinking and plan ning, but no plan will be success ful until we take "surplus value out of merchandising and substi tute "Production tor Use tor "production for profit "It Is God's way out f the wilderness Into the promised land. Tonra truly, FLOYD B. 8TOBER. S4S0 Laurel street V. 8. A. POWER CO, IXC. To the Editor: Oae apoa a time eur great grandparents, and onr great great grandparents, decreed that the government should . maintain a laisses-f aire. meaning- haade- off." policy towards private busi ness enterprises. We, who ar off springs of those same rugged In dividualists that were the back bone aad rounders of onr treat natioa, are sanctioning a policy that Is directly opposite the rights they se long supported. We are teld what to raise, and how to rats It; what to sell, and how to sell-it; and we are almost told what to buy; aa shown by the tact that those who did not patronise stores 'flying the obsolete "bin eagle., were considered unpatrio tic We are urged to support mea sures that will place growing; dis tribution, manufacturing, and sell ing ot articles, produce and utili ties in the hands of the govern ment. True th government Is a large business house bat its busi ness is making laws, interpreting them and enforcing them to the best advantage of tbe masses. It must provide revenue for this ad-( ministration bat surely competi tion with prirat business for gain will not afford eaf f iclent revenue to warrant dabbling in it . 1 ; st it. v w . m In answer to a Mt Angel gar dener: Japanese anemones should be bought and set out in the spring of the year. Anytime now is suitable. This plant likes con- iifarakl mnlitiM rinrtnr the summer but does not want to be placed in a location where water stands dnrlns! the winter. On Planting Delphininra ' You 'may also set out delphin iums at this time of the year. They prefer a sandy loam, deeply work ed and well-drained. Barber, the delphinium king ef the west say to use' good garden soil and in planting to fill each hole with one half well-rotted manure and one half strong soil. The crowns should be placed two inches, no more, below the surface and the roots shoe Id be well spread. To fertilize delphiniums, dig in trowelful of bonemeal around each plant In the spring of the year. Delphiniums should be divided after their third year. Their third year, according to Barber, is about their best year. Spring of the, year Is th time to divide them. It your delphiniums become yellow, they ar diseased. In this case they should be taken up and the diseased parts eat oft The rest should be set in a new location and it Is well to dust th roots with sulpher before planting them out In case ef black rot cut off the affected parts and dust the remainder with sulphur. If del phiniums are sprayed at this time of the year with bordeaux, much of this disease can be prevented. Start Hollyhock Spray This Is also the time of the year to start spraying your hollyhocks. I have noticed aa occasional leaf already beginning to show rust I n case yours do this remove such leaves at once and burn. Then spray your plants with Bor deaux. Hollyhocks have many uses in the garden if they are treated correctly, but they are subject to rust and should be watched for this. The earlier yon start spraying for this disease, tbe more sure you are of having good foliage and good blooms on your hollyhocks. The ground about the plants should be sprayed, too, to catch any rust spores which may have wintered over beneath the plants. I have a request from McMino- ville for material on the culture ot Fawn lilies,- how they can be secured and also what location they should be planted In. Aboat Fawn Lilies Fawn lilies. I find, is another name tor Erythroniums, perhaps the best loved of our native flow ers. We were taught to call them Lamb's Tongues, while some call them Dog-Tooth violets and yet others call them Adder's Tongue. There are a few western grow ers who have made a specialty of their growth. It would be bet ter to secure a few starts from a grower than to trp to transplant them from their native haunts. -One grower here on the Pacific coast has a great number of var ieties. .The Erythroniums prefer par tial shade and a soil that is not soggy. Shaded pockets In the rock garden are splendid for them and I have seen some delightful clumps of them In such locations. A little piece of woodland, such as one finds along Lake Oswego is also Ideal. About two and one half Inches of cover over the bulb Is sufficient I hare a request for a crabapple tree which gies "good fruit and Is still pretty." Siberian crab is recommended by one of the local nurseries. As an example, figures that have been compiled by experts, show that when the great TYA, Tennessee Valley Authority, pro ject Is finished and the govern ment starts distributing power to the people, it will have expended, not the original 150,000,000 but $100,000,000 and to offset this, perhaps added expense, th rates will be higher than the existing companies can now distribute power for. Several private compa nies will be forced to close and thus cause a loss to some five and a half million Investors. History shows us that with one or two major exceptions, this pol icy has always been the best aad so why are we so different that we need the government to. show us how to run a business? The above example is only one of, the many power projects not to snen tion the thousands of other gov ernment financed projects that will be competitive to private in dividualism and business. Some may say that "propa ganda" and "yellow Jonmalish' have influenced me in writing this. Vat when government figures and prominent officials agree with everything I have said. Ill take that kind of so-called propagan da. -s - . Yours for more and clearer thinking, , ' .' DAYID H0S3. MORE ON DR. LACGBXXJf .. Editor Statesman: - - ' -. Chlorolorra forth feeble-minded! Might be okeh, but what if we did decide to save-' money that way? Would we, really? Methlnks that by th time we got through with the agencies by! which to do the job, we w o a 1 d not be any . ahead. Of course; it wonld require a special board to appoint a corps Of inresUgators,' alphabetical ma chinery, you see. There would be the ABC, th XTZ and most anything- by the PDQ. So we f1-" find ourselves voting new bonds or asking congress for an a lloca tion before w get through with, n long drawn out process of elimination.- - : That Is not alt According to the bible, the unfortunate should never cease out of th land. They 5ald ever be among the people to "call into exereUa their sym pathy. - tenderness and benevo . --. (Continued on page 14) ;