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PAGE SIX
Why FoolYourself When so Many
; V Other People Are Eager to Do lt?
By D. H. TALMADGE, Sage of Salem
SILLY
Whea the dunners are done with
their dunning.
And there are no more taxes to
When the sunrise occurs In the
. evening
And sunset begins each new
day.
Then there'll be In the world no
repining,
All folks will be prosp'rous and
gar.
For bare existence none will be
signing
The wealth of his birthright
away.
Then the riTers uphill will be
flowing.
And a deuce will count more
; than a trey.
And no planting of crops only
mowing.
And nature 'U lie down and de
cay. Onion-flavored sauce with the
mL Much relished. O breath,
where Is thy sting?
Observation lifted from the
weekly column of Irv Cobb: "Lota
'of matrimonial news in the Pa
pers now that
marriage. in
stead of being
a contract. Is a
90-day option."
. A line re
in e m b e r e d
from the Jean
Harlow film.
Riff-Raff, said
line being giv
en by Una Mer
ckel: "What
do you want to
get married
for, anyway? n. h. Taiaidg
Look at jne; l got married and
what did I get from it? Nothing
but two kids and the lumbago."
And the whale swallowed Jon
ah at 10 cents per gulp.
There Is no use In being an
noyed. I reckon, because the in
dividual you addresa uses three
ot four huhs in order to get your
statement registered on his ment
al receiving set. The individual
mar have what is known as a
boller-shOp ear.
A traveler, lately returned from
a" visit to eastern cities, reports
that his pleasure was tempered
somewhat on the tour by a faulty
sense of direction, and his inability
to find his way about a strange
city worries him somewhat. I
thing he has not reason to worry.
The weakness of which he speaks
is a common one. I have suf
fered from it more or less all my
life. Some cities are more dif
fieult than others. For example,
Boston never straightened itself
out geographically in my experi
ence. New York was always eas
ler to me than Chicago. I am
not a natural navigator. Com
paratively few people are. I re
call back in my eight-year-old
days, studying Monteith a prim
ary geography. I was never able
with any degree of certainty to
locate the District ot Columbia
on the Maryland side of the Po
tomac In the crude effort we
made to draw maps. My natural
Impulse was to locate it on the
left bank, looking upstream, and
I have never fully recovered from
it. When I visualixe a map of
Virginia and Maryland today, the
District of Columbia sits serenely
on the left bank of the Potomac,
booking upstream. And, except on
thoe occasions when It is import
ant that It be moved. I Permit it
to sit there. Such things, of
' course, should not be, but they
are not usually of serious Import
ance. I am quite positive that
were 1 to aet out to visit Wash
ington I should reach the city as
successfully as wcmld be the case
bad nothing in the early, days of
icy geographic education directed
me to misplace its location on
the map.
By the way, the District of
Columbia is on the right bank of
the Potomac, looking upstream,
Isn't It?
Few of ns mortals are intal
lib!; We depend much on land
marks, even In familiar territory.
We pay no need to seemingly
trivial twists and turns in the
trail we traverse, and our faith
in landmarks Is shaken. Thus.
as perhaps you have noticed.
Mount Hood viewed from East
Salem appears to 'be located far
to the east from where it appears
to b located when viewed from
KIngwood Park, Our sense of di
rection is easily stampeded. We
re subject to optical delusions
(we are subject to political de
lusions also, but this has nothing
to do with the ease), and we have
. a stubborn pride In our ability to
find our way about, which results
In much unnecessary leg-ache.
Not all of us. of course. There
are exceptions. This is fortu
nate, because if there were no
-exceptions we should have no
rules to guide as.
Ex Butts reported, after one of
his infrequent trips to San Fran
cisco, that the trouble was he
couldn't see any difference In the
way a street looked whether he
was going the right way to get
somewhere ho wanted to go or
whether he wasn't.
- Wifc Wupp went to Portland
' one day to see a ball game. He
(iggered he'd walk to tho ball
. park to set the bus-kinks out of
his legs. It doesn't seem rea
tonable, but tho game was over
oeiure ae round tat oau pjra,
Wip's difficulty seems to have
been that ho asked too many poo-,
pie for directions.. It Is a some
; what rare Individual who can di
rect another Individual : la suck
way that the other Individual
It 3 "
jZJ
People
understands him clearly. Even
some policemen lack the faculty.
I s'pose I am lacking In some
quality I should not be lacking in,
but I am a heap more interested
in next week than I am in the
next century.
"Music hath charms to soothe
the savage breast, to soften rocks
or bend a knotted oak." This
quotation is from a poem written
by William Congreve, an English,
poet. entitled The Mourning
Bride. I have never read The
Mourning Bride, but have heard
the quotation quite a few times
perhaps a thousand, possibly a
million. It appears to be the only
part of the poem having a popular
appeal, and probably will contin
ue to live as long as the breath
of life remains in literature.
What is its vital quality? Truth,
I reckon, or at least something
suggestive of truth to the mind
ot a person who wishes to add an
innocent and not unlovely flour
ish to an utterance. However, be
that as it may, on the day fol
lowing the concert of the Salem
symphony orchestra chance
brought together in a local cafe
a number of individuals who had
attended the concert. These In
dividuals were of the "savage
breast", "rock" and "knotted oak"
types, largely untaught in music.
All agreed that they had found
genuine pleasure in the perform
ance and that there is a quality
in the music, played so well by
the symphonists, lacking in the
usual music of the day a quality
difficult to define, but somehow
deeper and better. The symphony
orchestra will pay to the commun
ity excellent returns on the in
vestment. It is. of course, quite useless
for me to pose as an expert Judge
of piano music or of the skill
or lack of skill of a performer
on that instrument. I have lis
tened to much piano music. Some
of it I have enjoyed and some of
it I have not enjoyed, and I can
not tell why In either case. Per
haps all people are not consti
tuted as I am, but ease of per
formance, or an imitation of ease
sufficiently good to prevent nerve
strain in the listener, and abso
lute certainty of touch on the
part of the performer are essen
tial if I am to find the perform
ance to my liking. One finds
these qualities infrequently, more
particularly when the player is
young and the music difficult. For
this reason, among others. I thor
oughly liked the piano solo given
by Flavia Downs, guest artist on
the symphony concert program.
Miss Downs is a pianist of great
promise.
From the week's mail: "D. H.,
in your reference last Sunday to
the Cobb version of Arliss' photo
play, The Working Man, what d
y' mean. Everybody's Uncle? The
title of the Cobb picture Is Every
body's Old Man." Bless my heart,
so it is! WelL we can only hope
that this thing will not plunge us
into another world war before it
is finally straightened out.
And here is another: "Mr. T.
what is your opinion of Clark Ga
ble as a kisser? The intense per
formance he gives in the Wife vs.
Secretary picture would be taken
aa something quite different from
the better sort of love back in the
Missouri bottoms where I came
from." Frankly. It gave me a feel
ing somewhat similar to that re
sulting from a sour stomach, but
I attributed the feeling to my ad
vanced age.
Those of us who in our wise
way expressed the opinion at the
last screen appearance here of
Shirley Temple prior to the show
ing of Captain January, which has
been doing an enormous business
at the Grand theatre the past
week, that the little girl was be
coming less charming that she
had been theretofore that she
was evidencing symptoms to indi
cate the beginning of the end of
her career as a child actress are
now disposed to take It all back.
In the Captain January film she
is In many ways more delightful
than she has been in any former
appearance.
I reckon it is a heap easier to
become educated than it is to
continue to become educated.
All tired out? Perhaps you are
taking the clock too seriously. Set
It back 10 or. 15 minutes. It is
worth trying. You may be sur
prised at the relief you feel in
the realisation, when the clock
Indicates the hour for the doing
of something which you are not
particularly keen to do, that you
have no occasion for hurry. But
perhaps you cannot fool yourself.
Some people cannot.
Mebby people who cannot fool
themselves are all right, too. It
does seem sort o' foolish for us
to tool ourselves when there are
so many folks around and about
who are anxious to do it for us.
HeaDS of folks are still ralsinr
the standard of living by hoisting
aa SOS fug.
Sunday afternoon an alarm was
turned fa from a North Com
mercial street cafe, and the fire
department responded with all
the equipment necessary to meet
a ay emergency. A large audience
also responded. A tabloid news
reporter would probably have es
timated the audience at from
75.tee to 100.000. Actually, there
were In the assemblage several
hundred. And nothing happened.
No smoke, no flame, not even so
mach as a broken window or an
axe-hole tn the roof.
This town has an exceptionally
i n t e 1 1 i gent fire department
Which fact has comforting qualities.
Are T
hinkiiig
i
Tho improvement In drivers Is
said not to bo keeping pace with
the improvement la automobiles.
But I dunno. Wo forget pretty
easily. It does not appear to me
that so many drivers are climb
ing trees and Jumping fences as
was tho case a few years back.
This despite the fact that there
are hundreds or thousands of
cars now where before there was
but one.
Good old weather office! Al
ways kidding ns ' by forecasting
rain and sending sunshine and
vice versa.
It would seem to stand to fair
ly good reason that If advertis
ing draws business away from a
town advertising will keep busi
ness in a town.
SHORTS
Home at Turner from a win
ter in California Samuel J. and
Mrs. Endicott . . . Moved to new
quarters in the Bligh hotel build
ing the Jewel Box . . . Closed
the Jenny Lind cafe ... A day
of wonderful beauty and crowded
highways throughout the Salem
fruit district last Sunday . . .
Signed by the Roach studios for
a number of comedies Patsy
Kelly, girl friend ot the late
Thelma Todd ... 71 years old
and doesn't care who knows it
May Robson . . . Life Is not un
like a basket picnic no basket,
no eats ... A well-known east
ern writer refers to Klondye An
nie as May West's latest screen
smirk . .-. The Rome of the Cae
sars has ' been reborn perhaps
and Who knows? . . . Eleven; Sa
lem people this week named! Ike
breed of dogs shown In a maga
zine illustration - and no two
guesses were alike . . . During
the year 1935 more than 80,000,
000 people attended basketball
games in this country and that
is tops for all sports exhibitions
. . . Problem for the man who
likes to figger if rumors were
bullets how much time would be
required to wipe out the popu
lation? . . . Connecticut claims
to produce the shrewdest guess
ers but Oregon folks are not so
slow when it comes to guessing
. . . Only Inconsiderate people
hare made disparaging remarks
about the clock in the court
house tower during the past sev
eral days. The Greeks had a say
ing "Speak no evil of the dead."
Landscape strewn with blossoms,
Rivers full of fish;
Seems there's really nothing more
For a man to wish!
Of course, he might wish for
something to eat. But, even so.
he can eat the fish, can't he?
Don't be a grouch!
"A lean settlement is better
than a fat lawsuit."
I have just finished a second
reading (not including a number
of dips) of Don Blandlng's lit
tle book of verse. Vagabond's
House, and as I put the book
aside I say to myself that here
Is an ideal gift for one who ap
preciates beauty of thought and
expression which clings pleasant
ly and sympathetically to an or
dinary human basis. Even the
more fortunate among ns, find
not many human contacts which,
however enjoyable they may be,
exact no tiresome effort at com
pensation. But a small book so
small that its holding rests the
reader rather than wearies him
of print that puts no strain upon
the eyes illustrated with whim
sical figures and designs, which
serve to divert the attention of
the reader without destroying his
absorption in the text is quite
within the reach of everybody.
Such a book is Vagabond's
House.
Speaking of Mr. Blandlng's Il
lustrations, I am reminded of a
book a story written by a little
girl of 11. which he illustrated
years ago In Honolulu. This book
la entitled Fioretta, and the au
thor, now the wife of Mr. Arthur
Pack of the British diplomatic
service and living at last advices
in South America, was Betty,
daughter of Colonel and Mrs.
George C. Thorpe, U. S. A., now
living in Washington, D. C Mrs.
Thorpe was a Minnesota girl and
is a cousin and girlhood compan
ion of Mrs. Monroe Gilbert of Sa
lem, to whom I am Indebted for
this information. Also I am in
debted to Mrs. Gilbert for the
privilege of reading Fioretta and
a, volume of short stories, found
ed on Hawaiian traditions, writ
ten by Mrs. Thorpe. The Intro
duction to this book was writ
ten by Sanford B. Dole, first ter
ritorial governor of Hawaii.
Mr. Blandlng's artistry, as evi
denced in the Fioretta book, are
lacking much of the quality
which marks that of later years,
but the promise is plainly ap
parent, and it has an Interest in
one respect greater than that at
taching to the work he is doing
at the present, of which Vaga
bond's House Is a fair example.
The attractiveness of an early
effort lies. I think, in the fact
that we all make early efforts in
one line or another. But com
paratively few of us carry on.
I find something very charm
ing in Mr. Blandlng's verse. It
has sweetness and understanding
and a metrical quality quite free
from the jarring notes which too
frequently lessen the reader's sat
isfaction in otherwise acceptable
verse. And. furthermore. It
achieves nnconventionality with
out the slightest of offenslveness,
which fact in itself establishes
the writer on a special pedestal.
Announcement of the program
In Portland newspapers ot the
eoleb ration of General Grant's
birthday at Grant high school
contains the statement that the
recital given by the high school
band will in elude "some of
Grant's favorite melodies'. This
should bo Interesting, la view of
the statement made by General
Grant In his memoirs that he
knew but two tunes, one ot which
was Marching Through Georgia
and tho other wasn't. i
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salen,
i .
"THAT'S WHERE OUR MO X ICY
GOES
To the Editor:
Nineteen thousand dollars to
construct aa up-to-date and extra-special
dog-poand La Memphis,
Tennessee; f 9478, It you please,
to Improve and drain a PU-sty In
Walt ham. Mass.. or should wo say
-piggery", as tho WPA officials
do. la spite ot the fact that there
are still people going hungry and
looking for work, the New Deal,
after demanding the slaughter ot
millions of pigs, now feels sorry
for them and spends f 9478 of the
taxpayers' money to make life
easy for them.
Tho foregoing may seem a bit
sarcastic and critical, yet whea
there Is ample reason for doing so
I believe that It is wholly Justi
fied. We, the younger generation,
are the ones that have a lot of
time to spend In this United States
yet and eventually some ot us will
have to .help run the nation, but
If we have nothing to look for
ward to but the paying of taxes,
the prospect of an inflated dol
lar and on top of this, no job, is
it any wonder that some ol us
want to do something about it?
We know the facts, and, I hope
we know our rights and duty; so
with the ever present opportunity
to do something through the me
dium of votes, political organiza
tion and "talk" in the neighbor
hood, those of us who are arriv
ing at the ages where we are be
ginning to feel the effects ot a
"foot-loose and fancy-free" type
of administration, should be able
to do something about it.
Stop and think, look to the u
ture and then "do your stuff in
May and November.
Respectfully yours,
DAVID E. HOSS.
THIRTY .MILIJOT. VdlES
Why Is it that the opponents of
the OARP keep saying "$200 a
mo. pension" when they know
one can do as he pleases with a
pension, and they know the OARP
$200 must be spent as law directs.
We have no title to the 1200 un
til it is spent. "Won't work."
Now any person with ordinary in
telligence can see that we will be
on our way when four million
people give their jobs to the un
employed, and eight millions (the
first year) are buying useful
goods and services. With trans
action tax in operation business
would be on a higher level like
war times; but who cared then?
All that were getting wages
bought whatever they fancied,
and many were getting riclrrBut
A Book
"South of the Sunset" by
Claire Warner Churchill (Rufus
Rockwell Wilson, Inc., 193S) is
a refreshing new biography writ
ten in fiction style of the life of
Sacajawea, the Indian girl who
accompanied Lewis and Clark, to
Oregon in that long ago pioneer
past.
While this new interpretation
of the Indian girl adds nothing
new, it Is more sprightly done
than many of the older stories.
It is presented ia a really cap
tivating manner and should be
a splendid addition for supple
mentary Oregon history reading.
But aside from any historical
information which it may give,
"South ot tho Sunset" is fas
cinating. Tho story takes the
little Indian girl. Canoe Laun
cher, from her childhood with
the Shoshone Indians, through
her captivity with tho Mlnne
tarre tribe and her subsequent
marriage to the Frenchman,
Charbonneau, over tho trails to
Oregon with Lewis and Clark,
back to St. Louis where her son
is educated as a white man. and
on to the last chapter of her
life when she rejoins her own
tribe, the Shoshone.
Mrs. Churchill has woven into
her narrative the peace and ser
enity of Canoe Launcher's soul;
the peace of all Indians' souls
before the entrance of the white
man into their lives. Hardships
Canoe Launcher could endure.
But she could not endure the
idleness that gave time for tri
vialities. Trivialities, thought
Canoe Launcher, spoiled lite.
They cluttered it up and made
one unhappy. Much of Indian
logic and philosophy is thread
ed beautifully into the pages of
"South ot the Sunset."
Just to quote a little: "Was
there never to be peace within
her, she wondered? Was life to
be a series of wrenched part
ings? Without her volition, her
thought turned toward the moun
tains, toward her childhood
home. If she could only go back
to that half-starved but Inno
cent existence! Some day, she
resolved once more, she would
go back, and she would forget
this sadly-gleaned knowledge ot
other worlds in which she could
find no satisfaction, and once
more face the mountains, and
there commune with the spirit
that dwells in the hills."
"Throughout old age she griev
ed for the Shoshones, penned as
they were on a tiny reservation,
clothed and fed by a mistaken
government, a patron who im
personally believed that It Is per
missible to break hearts and to
destroy a race, provided it Is
done to the accompiment of a
full stomach and a warm body.
How lmpotently she rebelled ia
the after years aa she watched
the dark drama of man's Inhu
manity to man, and knew not
one white brother to drop his
head in shame, remembering the
wretched piety and Ill-disguised
greed which prompted mission
ary, pioneer and trader to eon
quest and exploitation.
Tr title ot the - story eosseo
fron the Mlnnetarre language:
"T e Shoshone country was . lo
cated a little south ot tho sun
set." Another Interesting biography
Is "Facta; Two "Ways' by Bar
oness Ishlmoto (Farrar ft Rlne
mart, 1J.S0). This book is one
of the collection ot tho Interna
tional Mind Alcove. It goes Into
Oregon, Sunday Morning, April
JLa
- .
there was a "keek" not all were
working;.
Industry sever caa take back
all the unemployed.
The president said fa hi last
broadcast that production la about
up to pro-depression level, hut $0
per cent is done without human
aid. Now hero is where tho OARP
comes la and settles tho problem.
The Investigators find no fault
with the OARP. They Just want
to get something on somebody be
fore tho primaries. So lets all
get In and boost the OARP and
start up grade.
Now hero Is a plan 'that has
wonderful possibilities. Amend or
with a rider put one per cent more
transaction tax oa the McGroarty
bill to bo used each month, first
for relief. When that work is
finished then balance the budget
or whatever. After the one Per
cent transaction tax has been in
operation two months, then as
soon as the amount of the second
month Is known then the presi
dent will repeal that amount of
federal taxes, and each - month
thereafter whatever Increase in
transactions over the previous
month and always in the lower
brackets.
The transactions in '29 were
138S billions. So we can surely
start on 600 billions. One per
cent tax would raise 600 millions
a month, but with the Townsend
ites buying useful good and serv
ices, and the extra labor required
to keep them supplied with use
ful godos. transactions would in
crease rapidly. One other thing
the opponents are not going to
stampede us with half truths and
misleading statements for we
hare 30 million votes and gaining
all the time.
M. W. RULIFSON.
ft. Box, j3;Salem.
TOARP and tho Treasury
The Oregon Statesman,
Dear Editors:
For years we hare been a con
stant subscriber of your paper,
because we liked your stand most
of the time on moral issues: and
have been used to thinking of you
editors as being honest and fairly
well informed on issues upon
which you write. But an article in
your editorials of April 14th make
some of your readers wonder just
why you take the stand you did in
that article. Evidently you are
still uninformed on the "Town
send Plan" do not know what
you aretalking about, or knowing
ly took a stand that misrepresents
that plan and is not true. I refer
to your article concerning Rufus
Review
the details of the half-westernized
Tokyo, its family manners
and customs. Its schools, the life
of a young bride In a "big fam
ily system," the author's first
trip to tho United States and
other countries of which she re
marks: "The best angle on one's
own country is often gained by
traveling It others."
She tells ot her husband's dis
illusionment over "Christian Hu
manism." She devotes a chapter
to domestic women and geisha
problems. "It Is not so simple
to become a famous geisha as
to become a movie star," she
says. "The training for geisha
is longer and far more precise.
As a geisha is supposed to be
an artist, or it would bo better
to say since she is an art per
former, her . discipline is rigor
ous. ... I think that the geisha
have never, since of old. beea
happy la their profession; that
they have not lured men ot their
own free will. Into dissipation.
. . . It is a too-nearsighted view
to regard them as the direct
enemy of the oppressed wives.
It is our society that not only
tolerates but la fact sponsors
the existence of such a profes
sion. . . . Only where security
is assured to those who work can
lore and marriage properly exist.
The welfare of the state Is in
timately bound up with this is
sue." Often times we of the west
ern civilization marvel at the
ease with which a member ot
the eastern hemisphere can take
a stalk or two of almost any
flower and arrange them so heav
enly. But Baroness Ishlmoto tells
of the long study in flower art,
a necessary part of the educa
tion of a Japanese girl:
"En Ka-an was the head of
the Koryu school. His family had
been concerned with this flower
pbtto&pphy for generation after
generation. He was not only a
genius In his arrangement of the
flowers, but was skilled In col
lecting the exquisite materials,
sending his men to remote moun
tains and distant fields. . . . The
selection ot flowers and branches
is of the greatest importance in
the flower art. ... I did not be
gin my lessons in flower arrange
ment until I was twelve. . . . My
first lesson was begun in the
most formal stylo with herbace
ous peonies to be arranged in a
bronxe vase. . . . My teacher ex
plained the basis of the techni
que, indicating the three essen
tial points the Leading Prin
ciple (Heavea). the Subordinate
Princplo (Earth), the Reconcil
ing Principle (Man), adding that
any aspects of flower arrange
ment, formal, semi-formal or In
formal, which did not embody
these principles would be barren
sad dead."
One cannot say the stylo ot
"Facta Two Ways" is beautiful
or picturesque. Rather It Is Jour
nalistic: it is simple and straight
forward and very good reading.
However, from time to time the
Oriental love of color creeps tn:
"Bamboo sprouts sliced and boil
ed with soy bean sauce were
erred tn blue and white Kyoto
porcelain."
This biography Is one of the
most delightful which has costs
from Japan. The illustrations are
also good. Wo gather Ishlmoto
has difficulty la facing the way
of an age.old-erflMxarJon and da
airing some of the things that
are better. In the new.
The End
26, 1938 V
.ce
Holmaa's attitude on tho Town
send Plan, la that article you in
directly stato roar opposition to
the Townsend plan, as you say you
are not willing: in that way, "To
let the public treasury be raided
by the oldsters," I hate to think
yon are yet uninformed concern
ing that plan, bat hat worse to
think you would deliberately fal
sify concerning that pr anything
else. If you read it ap, yon will
KNOW that the Townsend -plan
does not contemplate taking one
cent from the public treasury. If
you were informed on this point
then one Is forced' to conclude
your paper . Is not more honest
thsn others, and that Wall street
Is paying yon also to do anything
that Is done for the discrediting
ot the Townsend plan. One won
ders too, if it might be that, be
cause you men are young and have
plenty of means, you assume that
the 'Oldsters' know nothing, and
never were of value to our coun
try, and therefore, deserve little
or no consideration. If you are
like about 90 per cent of the em
ployers, you would not give one
of these "oldsters" a job if he
asked you for one. Just because of
his age. In nearly all the World
courts, men of age, experience and
seasoned judgment are sought for
their valuable knowledge and
wisdom. Yet In our country as
capable elderly men In other lines
are given no chance today, mere
ly because of their age. You do
not expect . to know less when
60 than now. Then why discredit
the aged folks now?
One cannot help but wonder
where editors of such stuff class
ify their own parents if living
still. That reminds me of what
I recently read, which I feel is
pertinate here. "BY THE TIME
YOU HAVE SENSE ENOUGH TO
REALIZE THAT THE OLD
FOLKS REALLY KNOW WHAT
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
(and deserve consideration),
YOU WILL HAVE GROWN KIDS
OF YOUR OWN WHO WILL,
THINK YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT." I believe it pays to not
cast slurs on what you do not
understand and not misrepresent
the facts, when you do under
stand. Remember, the Townsend
plan takes not one cent from the
public treasury. But I can tell
you what does take large sums
of money from the public treas
ury, and satisfies nobody in what
it does. I refer to the thousands
ot road projects. A certain road
project has been in its operation
for about three months with from
80 to 100 men at work with
picks, shovels and wheelbarrows,
and no end in sight yet. I ven
ture the assertion that if the
same money expended bad been
used and modern machinery em
ployed, all men under 50 years
of age employed they could have
received better pay, those over
50 years could have been retired
on salary and better work result
ed and tho Job now finished, and
not a cent more taken from the
public treasury to. pay tho bUL
As it is no one has been satis
fied, and some old folks com
pelled to work beyond their
strength or starve, who have
been always honored citizens and
have done their part in the de
veloping of our country for tho
benefit of tho younger of our
people aad future civilisation.
God commanded Israel as a na
tion aad as Individ uala to "Hon
or thy father and thy mother,
that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee" nnless the Ameri
can people cesses to dishonor Its
"oldsters" as yon call them, the
"handwriting Is on the wall" for
this nation. May God save us
from the press today that would
publish anything from liquor ad
vertising to dishonest statements
about the Townsend plan, be
cause of tho fact that with them,
money is king. With deep regret
for seeing such attitude in your
paper, I am
Very truly,
J. LINCOLN ELLIS.
(Editor's Note The Towosend
plan takes money from the pub
lic treasury the same as any oth
er activity financed by law. It
levies a tax, impounds that tax in
the hands ot a public treasury
and disburses it to recipients,
who are not required to render
any service to the state therefor.
The "revolving" feature and "re
covery" claim do not alter the
essential character ot the plan,
which is the paying of pensions
out of the funds raised from the
people by taxation.)
LITTER OF BILLS
To the Merchants of Salem:
Is there no other way of adver
tising your merchandise than by
the house to house method, per
mitting men and boys to litter
porches snd front lawns with pa
pers and handbills and making
paths across lawns and flower
beds?
If such advertisers would for
one day place themselves in the
home and try to keep the. place
clean the would find an almost
impossible task. It Is a cheap way
of advertising. It seems to me.
since there aro two local papers
and the radio offering proper
means of. advertising;, the local
stores might better use these
channels than to annoy and dis
please those of ni who are inter
ested in keeping Salem clean. I
am sure other housewives feel the
ssme way.
MRS. M. SWANSEN
Fairmount Hill
CHANGE NOT FEARED
To the Editor:
Governor Charles H. Martin. In
a letter which appears In The Ore
goniaa of recent date, quotes po
em ot Josephine W. Johnson "You
Who Tear Change.. I simply want
to inform our governor that wo do
not fear a change, but are earnest
ly praying for one at the present
time, both state and national.
C. IX CHXLD3.
J74 N. ISth St.
-Saleta.
riters Repreented
How is Your Garden?
' Crowing Fm from Spom fclrisdn Boston;
rw Methods are Described -j
IN response to wo request.
material on tuberous-rooted
begonias:
The tuberous
rooted begonia
ia not new, as
my correspond
dent indicates.
It was Introduc
ed Into Europe
ia the. begin
ning of the
19th century.
It start bloom
ing In early
summer and
continues until
frost To grow
! nUnt suc
cessfully, one d,V
must have rich soil, ehade and
plenty of moisture. Under trees
snd st the north of the house
where other things will often re
fuse to grow, the tuberous-rooted
begonia does very well. Decid
uous treea are most suitable
shade- producers. A shady place
in the rock garden is also good.
Last summer, I saw some lovely
ones at the S. Ames garden at SO
verton. They grew on a side hill
and were shaded all day long.
It is of no use to dig deeply for
planting. The tuberous-rooted be
gonia is a surface feeder. Dig a
hole about eight inches deep. Fill
it with leafmould, decomposed
barnyard manure, a Little peat
moss and somesharp sand. The
plants may be procured from most
plant dealers.
Try Different Edging
If you are tired of using sweet
alyssum and Aglratum as dwarf
edging annuals, try for a change,
the 4-inch dwarf marigolds. Zin
nias of the lilliput strain may also
be used. They are a little taller
than the Marigolds, but they have
the added usefulness that they can
be cut for bouquets.
Gilia tricolar is another less
common little edging plant. It
grows about men inches tall.
Blue lobelias in the dwarf, com
pact variety are lovely. Many ot
these grow only four Inches tall
and their blooming season is long.
Daisies Are Overlooked
There ia also the dwarf candy
tuft. Too few daisies are used. I
have a little double red daisy
growing about my garden. Last
April a cousin of mine from Wis
consin visited here and admired
the little daisy. She took a little
start home with her and planted
it in her rock garden. Later she
wrote me that no flower had been
more admired in the Fox River
Valley. Seemingly, she was the
only one in that community who
had one of that particular brand.
I went out to look more closely
at mine and found they did make
a lovely edging plant, I had had it
so long that I had really forgotten
what it was like.
Of course, pansies and violas
can also be nsed as edging plants.
There Is a blue dwarf centarria
that grows but nine inches high.
Have Tow Any Flox?
When you are in doubt what
annual to plant snd yet want one
more, add phlox drummondi if
you haven't already done so. This
brilliant flower comes In all col
ors ot the rainbow except orange
and deep yellow. It can be sowed
ia tho open ground and thinned
to about four or five laches apart.
This phlox does not stand trans
plants gas well as many other
annuals do. Any type of soil will
do almost, bat the riches it Is.
the better bloom and the longer
season you will hare.
Two other annuals that are not
overdone In gardens are clarklas
and godltias. It seems they do best
in poor soils. It planted in rich
loam or la a bed that has beea
fertilized recently, taey do not
bloom as well. Both like sun but
will also grow well in partial
shade. There are dwarf forms of
both flowers.
Other annuals which do well
in tho poorer soils are verbenas,
rudbeckias. portulacas and euph
orbias. Prone ForsytbJa Sooa
Do not forget to prune your
Forsythia as it finishes bloom
ing. Questions of fertilizing gardens
are continuously coming to me
particularly questions on fertili
zation of perennial gardens. It the
gardens are fertilized properly
and prepared properly in the be
ginning, gardeners need not be
particularly concerned with fer
tility. A splinkling of bonemeal
and wood ashes, or compost will
suffice. All perennial gardens with
the possible exception ot peonies,
shonld be dug up and completely
goao over every tour years or so.
This, then, is the time for com
plete fertilization. There are some
plants which do better with a
trowelful of fertilizer dug about
them. These should be treated
separately. It Is no better to over
fertnize your garden than it is
to starve it.
. Perennial Border Time
Spring, of course, is the time
to plant your perennial border.
In autumn, many flowers continue
to bloom until frost.
"I have a bulb garden but It
will aooa bo throw blooming.
What caa I do to make It pretty
during the summer? Should I take
'f ' "'fm.. -
THIS IS PLANTINGLTBIE
Rose Bashes 10c and 25c
Fruits Tree. 15c to 25c
Gladiolus Bulbs 20c doz.
Dahlias I 5c
Rock PIantoPeretinialsBeddins; Plants
Vegetable Plants
Open Sunday - 9:90 TJU S .
PEARCY BROS. NURSERY
29 K. liberty . Across from PEP Offices '
op br narcissus bulbsT" X am ask
ed.
- Of course, narcissus growers,
professional ones, I mean, often
dlr theirs when they begin to
cure, and put them in a conveni
ent spot, la autumn they are then
re-set. But if your bulb gardens
are so arranged as to allow for
the planting of annuals tn be
tween the bulbs. It is mueh better.
The foliage of the annuals will
hide the withering foliage of the
bulbs. Every four years or so the
bulbs should be divided to pre
vent erowding. Wben the bulbs
are crowded, .the blooms become
inferior.
Mrs. A. B. of Salem asks If
ferns can bo grown from seed and
if seed can bo obtained.
Ferns ' From Spores
Several seed houses carry fern
seed, or "tfoores," I believe they
are called. Growing ferns from
spores is no little Job but it is an
Interesting one for anyone who
enjoys and has time for a bit of
experiment.
Two methods are suggested:
The simpler method is to boll
small two-inch pots In water for
15 minutes, and then fill them
with sphagnum which has first
been soaked in a solution of po
tassium permanganate. The pots
are then Inverted in saucers of
water, the spores scattered over
the surface of the pots, the whole
covered with a glass tumbler and
set in a warm shady place for
action.
The other recommended meth
od is that of scattering the spores
on the surface of a solution made
from ammonium nitrate, 0.5
gram; Monobasic -potassium phos
phate, 0.2 gram; Magnesium sul
phate, 0.2 gram; Calcium chlor
ide, 0.1 gram; ferric chloride,
trace; Distilled water, 1000 cc.
A half a pint of this is put in
pint jars wi(h a cap of non-obsor-bant
cotton and a glass top. These
are then sterilized as for canning.
The spores are later added by
spreading them with a sterilized
knife, over the surface of tffe so
lution. The cotton and cover are
replaced and tho whole set away
in a warm shady corner.
How to Plant Tbem
When the mess has deveoped
into tiny erect plants with roots,
they are caught by means of a
little wire with a hook oa its end
and planted In small pots filled
with humus.
When I learned all this, I was
indeed surprised that I once grew
some ferns from spores scattered
on sand and kept moist. I will ad
mit, of course, that only a very
few of the spores developed and
these very slowly, but I did man
age to get a few plants.
Advocates of the prescribed me
thods promise quick results, aad
more of them. Most ferns can be
transplanted easily if any reason
able care is used. - -
Grecian Palace Is
Decoration Motif
SnVERTON, April 25 One
of the lovliest spring affairs will
be the Junior Prom slated for
May 15. Decorations, under the
direction of Miss Esther Wilcox,
will represent a Grecian palace.
Columns, wall panels and a lyre,
behind which the orchestra will be
placed, are being made by the high
school art class for the occasion.
White, gold, pink and Tlolet col
ore will be used. W. Gates, Instruc
tor In manual training is assist
ing with the decorations.
Committees appointed Include
Graham Preston, general chair
man; decorations, Irna Boesch;
walls, Charles Hogeland; celling.
Les Anderson; lighting. Darrel
Davis and Bob DeSantis; patrons.
Lois Gay. Rnth Nelson; food, opal
Bolme, Louise Holm; orchestra,
Margery Hillman. Eva Sawyer,
feature. Beatrice Leonard; furni
ture. Don Christenson.
For the first time in the his
tory ot Junior Proms at Sil verton
a queen will be selected to teign
over the affair.
Selection will be made by vote.
Six candidates have been chosen
and announcement of queen will
be made Thursday of nexg week.
Candidates are Rnth Nelson,
Margery Hillman, Erna Boesch.
Eva Sawyer, Louise Holm and
Lois Gay.
Seven Third Graders
Rate 100 Per Cent in
County- Spelling Test
HAYESYILLE, April 25. The
county spelling contest was held
at the Hayesvtlle school April 22.
from the third grade to the
eighth.
This was the fourth test' given
throughout the year. The other
three were given in October, Jan
uary and April.
In the third grade the follow
ing seven pupils out of a class of
10, received one hundred per
cent: Erma Martin, Jackie Long,
Fred Fisher. Betty Anne Willis.
Doris Dimes t. Marilyn Gibbons
and Margaret Weaver.
Rock Daphne , 35c
Red Jap Maples $1.25
Weeping Cherry 75c
Snowballs in bloom 75c