1 PAGE CIS
5h : OUT G ON STATES2IAN. Salcn. Oregon, Sunday Morning llzy 8, 1933
Pulse of the lUmes
Conversa tionalists Dichotomized j
Into Groups; Agreers and Deniers
. ! By D. H. TALMADGE, Sage of Salem- J
t f , VISITORS
Boon tli a summer visitors will be
gin to summer-visit .
Voices will waft down tha stairs,
asking who in thunder Is it?
Folks will ha-ha and gaily say gee,
. but irs good to see yah! ;'
And how'd yah stand the winter's
cold,-and now it's warm how
, be yuh? ;
The front porch and the parlor
... will resound with happy chat
ter, ' . -
And the back porch and the kitch
en will O well, it doesn't
matter.
Cays will pass, and selfish, plans,
by the visit .upset badly.
Will be resumed where they were
dropped ani not entirely
sadly,
Somewhat later In the season,
folks will figger to repay,
And they'll do It sure as shootin'.
because folks are built that
way..
Matter o' fact, folks lore to vis
it no reason why they
i shouldn't, 1
And they'd sputter more than ever
if for .some cause they,
couldn't ' j
By their fingernails thou Shalt
know 1 them the gardeners 'who
wear no. gloves. ,
It Is fair, 1
think.! to assert
that conversa -tionalists
are of
two general
certs 4 deniers
and agreers.
i.E verybody
misspells a
word now and
then. Mark
Twain said he
did not think
much' of a per
son who could
spell l a w o r d
only one way.
i If, we are not annoyed b7 the id
iesyncracies or little notions of a
person, but Instead,, are amused
and entertained by them, it may
safely be assumed that we truly
like that person. I always got
along first rate with a chap who
shared a bedroom and a bed with
ne one winter in Dubuque. When
be prepared for bed he placed a
gjagsj of water within reach. He
said he might want a drink in the
night. But he neTer did. Morning
after I morning the glass of water
stood there, untouched. Howeyer,
on those infrequent occasions
when he wakened ' in the night
and discovered that he had for-
gotten to place the glass of water
in the accustomed place he rose
and got It. I never mentioned the
matter! to him, because I linger
ed it was possible I might have a
peculiarity or two of my cwn. but'
of course I could. not Imagine
what they might be.
Too warm for heat, too cool for
none- a case where nothing's to
!be done. '
I - I reckon there is no particular
objection to the veterans of future
wars movement, which the college
boys! are enjoying so much. They
boys" are entitled to all the fun
theyi can get from the war busi
ness When they are presented
with; the hill for the last one it
will1 not. be so funny.
; The press news lately contained
an Item aboutv-dog somewhere
thatj returned home carrying in
its month a newspaper in which
its loss was advertised., Suit your
selves about believing the story.
"Old-timers say the circus of the
past was more thrilling than that
of today. Perhaps it is less thrill
lag to the old-timers, but it is
sate to say that the. youngsters of
today get pretty much the same
eld thrill from it.
: There la a limit to everything.
A man may train a dog and a dog
may; train a flea, to some extent
at least but that is the final
Jump.
A man sat In the lobby of a Sa
lem hotel one day this week, en
gaged in transferring the "cake
irom me oowi or a pet pipe to a
newspaper spread upon his lap
Be was using a pocket-knife and
was operating in accordance with
uie stao ana aig system. A man
with a magnenta complexion
. spoke to1 him. "Brother." said,
'it's plain to be seen you ve never
worked in the oil fields.. To
.clean that pipe you've got to drill.
not poke. Hold the bowl firmly
in the left hand and drill with
your right. You'll be surprised at
the result, which I take it isn't
very satisfactory to you-ibus far.'
And the man with the pipe there
upon applied the tip of the knife
blade as if he were starting a gim
let Into an oaken board, and the
"cake ; gave way as if by magic.
Xes, I know it destroy the
sweetness of a pipe to remove all
the r'cake- Do as you please with
the
bowl of your old Pipe. I'm
just; telling you, that's all.
I suspect thatlhe man with the
magenta complexion had the pipe
sized up as a sort of gusher, and
perhaps he was not far wrong, at
that r:;
'. He was a big; strong chap, the
man with the magenta complex
ion.! When he hankered 'for
smoke, he said, he rolled his own,
using a filling composed of equal
parts of very mild tobacco and
alfalfa. But, he said, he didn't
smoke much, on account of his
health, which was delicate. Then
he winked at nobody in particu
lar and went over to ask the man
at the desk what time the Shasta
went north, i
Looking back across the years.
I am disposed to consider the
presidential campaign of 1876 to
have been the most violent politi
cal demonstration I -fhave ever
known. It was the first campaign
In which I took a part. This
statement may on thej face of It
seem somewhat ridiculous, but it
is true enough. I was a student
in the publie schools In '76, and
the schools were hotbeds of poli
tics, nothing less. As a matter
of fact, the churches And society
In general were affected, and oc
cassional a democratic wife left
her republican-husband and went
home bristling to her democratic
parents. Or a , republican wife
went home bristling to; her repub
lican parents. It.waa that bad."'?
Those were the sweet old days
in village life when cdws roamed
at will over the town plat and
everybody that is,;j everybody
who was anybody - ept one or
more pigs. Near the schoolhouse
lived two enterprising ' citizens
who conducted piggefies on a
morn, than usually extensive scale.
One of these citizens was a demo
crat and the other a republican.
Their pigpens were what may be
termed the munitions plants of
the two armies which swaged war
for their respective heroes, Hayes
and Tilden. each day before
school, at recess and after school.
As a natural result of this pig-
soak ed-corn cob warfare, thej var
ious grades got into bad odor.
This perhaps would have cre
ated no great obstacle to the
cause of human rights and the va
rious other issues at stake in the
campaign had the' odor confined
Itself to the school house. But it
did not It penetrated to all Parts
of the community, on clothing, on
hands and faces and in the hair.
And eventually It became j that
which is known in classic politi
cal literature and platform i ora
tory as a Btench in the nostrils of
our fair city's citizenry.
Of course, when anything be
comes a stencb in the-nostrils 01
a citizenry it cannot go much fur
ther. Either the stench, is reme
died or the nostrils Snort them
selves to pieces. Tlie citizenry
of the town, republicans and dem
ocrats alike, admitted jtactily that
they had no particular objection
to dirty politics, hut they stated
frankly that politics which caus
ed the dining rooms and bed
rooms of the town to smell like
pigpen was too much. Fortun
ately,, one of the teachers in the
school, was the daughter of a dem
ocratic family, and to her was as
signed the duty of delivering an
order, somewhat in the nature of
an ultimatum, to the! democratic
piggery man. Diplomacy was ne
cessary in dealing with the 'dem
ocratic piggery man, jbecause the
school board was solidly republi
can, all two members of it and
the democratic piggery ma was
not one to put up wijth any fool
ishness, the salvation; of the na-
tin being at stake, 83 he ensid-
ered it to be. j
However, after (considerable
growling, he agreed ito clean up
his piggery and destroy all! corn
cobs, and the ultimate result was
that every pigpen in: the village
was subjected to a jhorougn
cleaning. Which goes jto prove, af
ter a fashion, that dirty political
methods sometimes work to the
betterment of general conditions.
I reckon that if corrupt politi
cal practices gave off a definite
and' unpleasant odor the people as
a whole would promptly put an
end to them. Bat, unfortunately.
they do not j
There is this to be said for the
Warner Brothers musical. Col
leen, which j opened
the week at the! EI3I
nore, it presents to us a dif
f erent"Buby Keeler than we have
seen before more restrained,
yet more sure of herself Her
dance -numbers with Paul Draper
are swell. Some of the artists go
down and some go fjup. Ruby is
plainly still on the -fay up. Col
leen,! in its entirety is pleasant
entertainment.' There are! spots
here and there of much- beauty.
The plot, what there is of it, Is
a departure from the back-stage
motif ., which has characterized
these productions fori so long, and
the Warner Brothers stars show
the influence of intelligent direc
tion.! Thus we see a Dick Powell
happily free from thej flailing arm
action which has accompanied his
Singing on former occasions. Jack
Oakie is partially subdued, and
Hugh Herbert, despite the over
done giggle, gets paost of his
laughs without recourse to an ov
eruse of strong drittk. Alt of
which, from some viewpoints at
least, indicate a change for the
better. :
Perhaps I should j not mention
this Be Kind r to Dumb. Animals
week -incident, but lit was a very
small Incident and it cani do no
serious harm to tell itIt Is mere
ly that a tender-hearted Salem
man, having several ! unwanted
kittens to drown, carefully: warm
ed the water before drowsing
them. Is it not a (pretty little
story? And was he not the ten
der-hearted man? it . i
Personal -. .. ...
Harley and Mrs. Bosler! visited
the southern Oregon beaches last
week . . . Clarencel Wenger and
Harvey Thomas are; back on the
juuitnoman orcnestra jod alter a
winter in Honolulu . . . Shirley
Temple has two brothers one of
whom is a student! at Stanford
University i . Henry Poppe is
again at his old place in the Para
mount' market, formerly! Steus
loff's . . . Bob Ramp IS, working
at the Meadow Brook dairy lunch
.-. . Ernie and Mrs, Polsoni. of the
Peter Pan took injlthe opening
baseball game at Portland . .
Loring Schmidt of s the popular
Grand theatre left j Friday for
Detroit,' taking the streamline
train from Portland. At Detroit
he wiH take over a; new car. and
What
" , ' -.."; - 7 "- i ;'
J
i "
o
may decide ito drive to the east
coast before driving home J . .
Word has been received here of
the safe arrival of Peter Hepner,
wife and two children, at their
new home in Alaska. - .
Everybody to his taste
Ed
Tunk says some folks seem
to get
a heap of satisfaction from dig'
gin around; here and there for
scandal, but him he'd ruther,
when he feels like dlggin for
somethin', dig around for foul in
places where there don't seem to
be many Indications.
People speak at times jot the
aggravatingest thing they ever
knew. Just at this moment I feel
that-the aggravatingest thing pos
sible Is a petrified rubber eraser.
But Bhucks! I ain't minding
much. What's the use? " dont
reckon the eraser would erase any
better if I was to call it jail the
unprintable j names In the ; lan
guage.
When the pot of politics
to bubble and boil
begins
TIs time to look up antidotes for
what a called banana oil.
We talk of motion plays and
of the books from which certain
of them are taken, and usually,
if the book chances to be a favor
ite or oars, we comment adverse
ly on the motion play. But not
always. Peter B. Kyne's story of
the Arizona desert, Three God
fathers, is an exception to the rule
in that it .gives body and color
to the story and detracts nothing.
A silent audience marked the
showing of the film at the Capi
tol Tuesday night a tense and
thoroughly ! interested audience.
Three outlaws (Chester jM orris,
Lewis Stone, and Walter. Brennan)
rob a small town bank and escape
into the desert They find! a dead
man, an almost dead woman and
a very much' alive baby.) Their
horses drink' poisoned, water and
die. And that is the story their
journey across the burning sands
on foot in an effort to save the
baby.. Ultimately one of them
reaches the! town with this baby,
and falls dead. The other two give
up along the way. Not especially
cheering in its nature, but im
pressive and in places, beautiful.
Salem Briefs j
Our old friend, the needle in a
haystack, could not be much more
difficult to find than were folks
last week who had not seen Shir
ley Temple in Captain January
. . . And if there, is a person in
town who did not visit the World
Wonder Car, "the largest travel
ing museum in the world which
stood on the Miller corner Wed
nesday and Thursday, It is be
cause he or she was unable to get
in . . . Pretty well all reminders
of the past have been Removed
from the southeast corner of Cen
ter and Front streets . . , Anoth
er service station w i 1 i 'at once
come into being on thai corner
. . . Ten more years and Salem
will be practically unrecognizable
by the matt of 50 who left here
when a boy . . . Artistic People
tell us that the lawns ire now
wearing the loveliest green of the
year . . . But green to most of us
is only green . . . There are folks
who hold the winter ms sf tha
lawns to be the loveliest of the
year . . . Women readers jot newjs
P a p e rs outnumber men! readers
three to one . . . Dogs in this town
are like holes In underwear they
don't show!. . . Cigarette smokers
are reported by some news medi
ums to be returning to clears. Not
nouceaDie in tnese parts j. . . But
pipe smokers are seen more nu
merously on the streets. Th w.
ther may account for it , .Guess
es as to what Salem's population
will be in 1940 vary from 30,000
10 u,vvv Tne person who
guesses 30,000 is an ultra-conservative.
It la a safe bet Ithat the
town already has 80,000! popula
tion . . . Tne ladies art needle
work ShOP. heretofore nrriinvlnr
cojolntly the room on iCanrt
street occupied bv Simsl second
hand book shop, has moved to
liberty street, between State and
Court ... A. brilliant decathlon tn
the pre-Olympic contest! wa ta-
corded In Monday's papefs, Glenn
.norria Demg tne performer. It
was not the local oinn Mnrru
but performance or no !nrfnrml
ance he could not be more keenly
.meresieo. in clean athletic sports
than is the local Glenn ..- ; Being
remodeled! and ref rented 1 h
room, on State street formerly oc
cupied by the Kahle pool! hall . . .
Ana next comes the circus!
Farmers Consider
. - ... i
Soil Conservation
SHELBCRN, May '2-A lane
crowd of farmers from Shelburn
attended the s 0 1 1 conservation
meeting held at Scio I Thursday
""""tp ivya oilmen, county ag
eat, being?! in charm eit ltha moo
ing. Officers elected were George
oanuner- and victor Lyons from
iuis community.
The Miller cemeferJ
visited by a large number of per
wu8 Qany preparing graves
relatives for Memorial 1 dav.
of
Oral Bates is busy shearing
goats. The increase in the price
of mohair; is a boost t6 farmers.
xue price on wool is also an im
provement over last ii 1
-i Ralph Shilling returned home
this week; from a visit with his
v UIen' ,n Washington.
-The Shelburn school board has
mrea jars. Margaret Kelly as the
teacher for the next year. Fif
teen applications were received
for the position. Mrs. Kelly has
taught this school
but recently has been j employed
- Only three 'on n 1 1 m ttnAat
school .Friday as the" remainder
of the boys and girls enjoyed the
joint Aiayioay exercises; In Scio.
M. B, Miller is improving from
a foot Iniury. He stepped on, a
pitchfork tine which necessitated
tns use of crutches.
BRIGHT MEX FAVOR PLAN
Editor Statesman:'
Somewhere I have seen this
motto: "Thank God tor Dr.
Townsend and the ballot"; and I
thank God for a J. Lincoln Ellis,
who has the forethought ability
and courage to so present 'the
Townsend plan to- the readers of
The Statesman .that it is under
standable, and also make it so
plain that the editor , is so non
plussed that the only .argument
be can seem to produce in refu
tation is to say, "the tax disburs
ed to the recipients, who are not
required to render any service to
the state therefor, the "revolving
feature and 'recovery claim do
not alter the essential character
of the plan, etc"
Now that is where the mistak
en idea, and false impression is.
The annuitant while not being al
lowed to render service by toil in
the industrial vocations ot any
klnit, DIRECTLY, for profit to
himself, he IS hired to put this
money into circulation, and get it
into the channels of trade, for
your, and all business men's ben
efit, within thirty days from time
of receiving it, which it he does
not do, will be discharged from
further service , for ITncle ' Sam,
Just as you, Mr. Editor, would dls-.
charge an employe if he failed to.
render you service as per agree
ment!
This money when forced Into
circulation IS ."service rendered,"
as everyone in the United States
will be benefitted, directly or in
directly, thereby. For example:
There are approximately 4000 eli-
gibles in the trading area of Sa-
lem.iem, watch means 1800,000
more to be s n e n t in the
city each month than now.
Even, the Statesman won Id
double and triple its profits
through advertising which the in
creased business would demand,'
and also through the increased
subscriptions, for when that much
money is forced Into circulation,
anyone with reasoning power can
readily see business would be bet
ter.
If this is NOT a fact why is
business better in localities where
WPA work is In progress? (Which
by the way will soon be a thing
of the past, then look out for a
REAL DEPRESSION! when the
appropriations cease which are
putting ns so deeply la debt that
we can never pay out. unless the
Townsend becomes a law. Yes the
time will come to pass when these
appropriations will not be forth
coming, in fact the time is here
now).
The extra amount of business
a firm would do In a month when
this money turns over ten or 15
times, (ten times $800,000 is
eight million dollars,) would pay
South Riding"
by Winifred t
Holtby (Macmillan
$2.50) is a
norei wun real suostance. it is a
novel of the bargaining, the intrig
uing, compromising and disturb
ing world of today.
in reading over the long list of
characters printed in the begin
ning of the book, it seems scarcely
possible that so many names can
wend their way through the story
in any orderly sequence, but they
do. "South Riding" becomes a
community one has known and liv
ed in a long time. The many char
acters become the many people In
the community. Some of them we
learn to know well: others but
slightly.
To understand the significance
of Miss Holtby's title fully, the
reader must know that a "riding"
jurisdictions, each formerly under
tne government of a reeve, into
which the county of York, in Eng
land, is divided. They are called
"the North, the East and the West
Riding." So South Riding does not
really exist. But Vera Brittain,
Miss Holtby's literary agent, tells
us, "South Riding" is actually a
study of the peculiar local gov
ernment of Yorkshire, the birth
place of the author. It is much
more than that: it is a study of
the social, as well as the civic,
life of a community almost any
rural community or small town.
Miss Holtby has shown a re
markable ability in bringing forth
the quality of the characters that
make up South Riding. There is
Councilor Robert Came, a gen
tleman farmer, fine, handsome
and courageous in his fight for
the welfare of South Riding as he
sees it, always burdened with his
sorrow. His runaway marriage
with Muriel, the beautiful neuro
tic daughter of Lord Sedgmire was
of short duration. To pay for the
short happiness, Carne is forced to
watch his ancestral estate running
downhill because of Muriel's past
extravagances and the present ne
cessity to care for her in an ex
pensive mental sanitorium.
There is Sarah Burton, the new
enterprising headmistress of Kip
tington high school. Sarah, who is
at Xirst so sure of herself that she
piegonheles all her girls into three
groups: :
"To one group." she says, "say
husband, 'iove, 'babies and off
they go quite clear of their direc
tion moved by a Life Force or in
stinct . . . others, while they are
still at school, are simply imma
ture play-boys, mention games,
colours, matches, sports, prizes
and they're wide awake. With
others the words exploitation, in
justice; slavery, and so on start
wheels going round. . . I don't
think you can change the first
and the third groups much. You
can educate their minds give
them a certain amount of know
ledge to direct their energies. The
middle group you might , alter a
bit- but many women, like many
men, never grow up. They prefer
games ail their life. They like to'
aitacn tneir instincts for competi
tion, achievement and the rest of
it to something Immediate, con
crete and artificial, golf, bridge
even money making.
Sarah, red-headed, ' intelligent
and impulsive. Is at first inclined
to regard Carne as her public en
emy; No.: 1. He alone had opposed
her appointment, and later he is
incined to Ohstrnr tha "rsrACn
which she Is planning tor the high
A Book Review
Hi
V
the ettra tax for a whole year.
Some of tne brightest and most
prominent men la this dty who a
year ago, (before they studied the
Plan); now say. with hundreds of
the successful business men ! of
PortUnd, . and likewise in every
city in the United States, "the re
volving' featured and "recovery
clalmj DOES alter the essential
character of the plan. so that it
dif fern from any other form of tax.
and that is why It isA. RECOV
ERY j PLAN, AND THE TOWN
SEND PLAN! ! !
B. I. PLUMMER,
"MAY BASKET .
To the Editor: j
I hardly feel qualified to write
for your column. I .am not a
graduate of any ; Rosedale acad
emy jor any plush-college, or
Hayesville seminary. I have nev
er befen baptized in the filth of the
Willamette river. However, with-
0 u 1 1 these degrees. I thought I
would write anyway.
As!to the Townsend plan, I have
of tenj, wondered why the grange
did not take up the subject and
settle it once tor all, and ever.
The Jw o rk is to decide what to
plant! when and where. They ! are
supposed to stay! home and "fol
low (he plow, but they do not.
1 am surprised that they are so
quiet on the question. As a gener
al thing their work covers every
thing from locating the bunghole
in the vinegar barrel to making
pie cfust I
I have admired your editorials
on Salem water,; school superin
tendent. Senator McNary and the
Towiisend problem. Your ideas
are broad and sane; your views
and writings are well adapted for
sound ! papers as the Oregonian
and Statesman.
I
A. T. AXTELL,
Broadway Ave.,
Salem.
I LOGIC
Editor Statesman:
By your editorials you claim
that jail money paid for the Town
send j plan would come out of the
U. SJ treasury. By the same logic
you j would say that all money
raised by the sale of liquor and
turned over for relief would come
out of the state treasury of this
state! J
Such logic
j BP. TAYLOR
(Editor's Note If Mr. Taylor
will read the law he will find that
is exactly what happens with the
liquor money: It is just. as much
a part of the state treasury as
the general fund, the higher edu
cation fund, or the moter vehicle
fundf. They are collected by law
and paid out according to law.)
school. In all-county affairs Carne
Is stubborn, reactionary, conser-
1 . , . . ... .. ..
vuuTe, ana ieauaai in nis ideas
directly opposite to- Sarah. But
the very difference seems to beget
interest and the result is a prob
lem n personal relationship.
Tie study of Mrs. Emma Bed
dow$, the 72 year old wife, mo
therland grandmother, dealing in
the petty gossip of family life, and
the jmuch younger-appearing Al
derman Mrs. Emma Beddows,
keen; and shrewd and yet kindly
In her judgment, forms an inter
esting part of the story. Mrs. Bed
dows admits she has an odd half
motherly and half-untranslatable
love; for Carne. She comes to sym
pathize with Sarah, and for Sarah
MrsJ Beddows symbolizes all the
staunch virtues of South Riding.
There are many .stories within
the Istory that of Socialistic Al
derman Astill,- doomed to tuber
culosis. There is the preaching
Councillor Huggins, who seeks his
pleasures in far corners of the
community and later finds he baa
a blackmailing sweetheart, Bessy
Warbuckle, on' his hands. In Tom
Sawdon, whose wife, Lily Is incur
ably ill. Miss Holtby does a nice
piece of characterization of .the
kind, loving person who cannot
beat illness in others. "He felt the
need of action. He was anxious,
and j all anxiety, all sorrow and
disappointment bored him. He
must transform circumstances un
til they gave him cause for pleas
ured There is the ambitious, clever
Lydla Holly, whose family lives
in 'an abandoned railway car,
whose father has the ability of
letting the "Immediate future, his
precarious livelihood, the long
tiriitg cycle-rides against the wind,
his Mling wife, the feverish, fret
ful,; noisy children, the squalor,
the monotony, the tedium all sink
like; sediment to the bottom of his
mind, t On .the surface frothed the
heady foam of his dreams, and the
Impish pleasure of a new and fine
ide4.f ' n: '
Aj feertaln sadness prevades the
novfel. There are times the reader
might wish Miss Holtby had seen
her native countryside a little less
soniberlyt The philosophy that pre
vades the story is put into words
by Sarah, "Oh, patience, surely we
need- courage even more': and
through her mind passed a proces
sion; of generations submitting pa
tiently to all the old evils of the
oridto -warg . pDTerty, disease,
ugliness and disappointment- and
calling their surrender submission
to providence. 'We need courage,
not
so mucn to endure as to act
! this resignation stunts us.
All
We
to
the inevitable, that we don't
even ask if it is inevitable,'
if. is with special regret one
lays' down this fascinating book,
for lit is the last novel Miss Holt
by Js-ill write. On September ; 21th
last she died in London at the age
of 37 front an illness she had
fought for four years. "South Rld
ingf was finished but a month
before her. death. Undoubtedly
because of this, she understood
and could better picture, the men
and women who already belong
to those dim regions where the
living walk as strangers." i" She
writes of life as "not endless, nor
sortow everlasting."
IComforted by death, she faced
the; future," she writes of Sarah
Button, the heroine of her story,
j f . i The End.
1 V"-.
Are
JA.:--:!!d.! P
BUTTERFLY OR ANGEL
To the Editor of the Statesman.
Salem, Ore.
President Roosevelt has been
accused of being a magician tak
ing rabbits out of hj hat and oth
er tricks of magic, but I think his
greatest feat of magic if he does
It as he has outlined It to the peo
ple in one jot his-addresses will be
changing men into butterflies. !
. According to his idea there
would be three stages In the
transition of man: t i
The first one would be from
birth till eighteen in which period
children would only be supposed
to eat study and grow, preparing
for the second period!
The second period from 18 to
60 would be the work period when
a man would be required to earn
enough to take care of his off
spring and to take care of himself
and others less fortunate in the
last period.
Then the last period there
would be nothing to do but eat
drink and be merry.
Now comparing this transition
to the butterfly, the first stage
would be the Chrysalis or Pupa
stage. j
' The second stage would re
present the worm stage where a
man would be supposed to keep
his nose to the grindstone, get
ting himself ready for the third
stage providing the woodpeckers
didn't get him, (and there are
several different varieties).
Then there is the last or but
terfly stage where all a man is
supposed to do is flit around and
sip the nectar from the flowers
cultivated and grown by the
worms. ' '
It's surprising what a man can
be turned into with the right kind
of environment, but it remains to
be seen whether the voters will
give Mr. Roosevelt another four
years tp experiment but anyway
a man can take his pick, he can
either be a butterfly or an angel
whichever he chooses.
EARL SHARP.
PARADISE IN 1937
Mill City, Ore., 4-28-1936.
To the Editor A
The general expression of the
great majority of citizens now--a-days
is what the newspapers are
for, is that which we the great ma
jority must not vote for, and that
which the newspapers are against,
is that which we the great major
ity must vote for. The newspapers
of our country Imagine that their
greatest income comes from the
great financial minority who con
trol the money of our nation. Not
a bad imagination for the newspa
pers we grant. But the great ma
jority of citizens are going to the
polls next November and change
the money control of this' nation.
This is apparent now by the larg
est registration of voters ever wit
nessed. The great majority of cit
izens are going to the polls next
November and elect a Townseend
pledged majority of members in
both honses of the congress. This
is going to change the complexion
of the money control of our na
tion, and also change the tactics
of the newspapers of the land.
Nineteen hundred thirty seven is
going to bring forth a paradise in
which to live in this country. It
will even then be a pleasure to
read the newspapers.
Respectfully.
R. D. TURPIN.
ATHLETE'S FOOT-NOTE
Editor, Statesman:
The foot-note on Mr. Lincoln's
letter last Sunday was wrong." We
do not loot the treasury. The 2
per cent transaction tax is levied
expressly for the OARP. The trea
sury department is merely carry
ing out the provisions of the law.
The oldsters are pretty evenly
scattered over the U. S. and we
do perform a service to the state
each month, putting that money
in circulation for nseful goods and
service.
It seems as if the opponents to
the OARP would rather go on as
we are, and according to a ques
tionnaire sent to 200 cities, con
tinue relief from one to several
years. It could all be settled so
easily. The transaction tax is the
easiest and best tax of all and the
one per cent additional would
soon carry on the government all
other taxes repealed except tar
iffs to protect' our labor and in
dustry, and inheritance taxes. 1
M. W. RULIFSON, I
R. 2, Bo 59, Salemj
Carnival Date Is
Fixed by Juniors
i - !
TURNER, May 2 The high
school junior class Will pvtt- on
a carnival Friday night. May 8,
as a benefit for the junior-sen
ior banquet School will' close
May 29. The grade children are
to take part in the musical pro
gram at Willamette gymnasium
next Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Van
Santen Is their director and also
is on the' committee of arrange
ments ror the day. Mrs. R. J.
Watson has returned to her home
having spent the winter with her
son-ln-la and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Freedon in Portland.
R. O. Witzel returned home
this week from- Kitson Springs
where he spent two weeks for his
health, and feels that he has been
mnch benefited. 1 1
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coder and
Mrs. Merrill Richmond of Brem
erton, and! Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Richmond of Salem were recent
gaests at the Raymond Titus
home. . . -r -,
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Barnett
had for their house guests dur
ing the week Mrs. Mable Milke
of Washington and Mrs. Ivy
Mansfield of Plummer, Idaho. 1
Set Pinball Fee
STAYTON. May I- A special
meeting' of the council Thursday
night 'an emergency ordinance
controlling the PinijJ! machines
operating within fhe city limits
was passed. A monthly license
fee of $5 tor each machine will
be charged by the city beginning
May 1.. It was brought out at
the meeting tbat this fee Is being
charged in other communities.
How is Your Garden?!
Stock, Snapdragons, Zinnia and Fetunias jAIl
i Fine to Replace Early Blopmal 1
WHAT to plant in. tne earxy-ly-blooming
bulb garden now
that the hyacintns ana aaiio-
dins are gone, and tulips will soon
be. Is a question
that has come to
me frequently
this week. -
There . are
many things one
can use in place
of the early flow
ering bulbs. One
could broadcast
over ' the bed,
seed of the Vir-
4l, .tnV that
5 I II I .
1 n w a, w r v In,
fragrant stock RSga X tf
which win give
30 much color. UMr l afadsaa
The little plants should be thin
ned to about three inches apart.
One could also broadcast seed of
petunia or clarkla or marigolds.
There are also nice plants pur
chasable at 20 or 25 cents a doz
en. TheBe include stock, snap
dragons, zinnias, petunias, mari
golds and any number of others.
Until this year I purchased the
petunias grown individually in
little pots. Then -t found I could
buy them at 25 cents a dozen- The
plants are nice and seem to be
doing just as well as those indi
vidually grown.
Gladiolus Possibility
If space permits anything so
tall, there are gladioli and dahlias
which can be planted almost any
time now. If the spring bulbs
grow far enough apart, chrysan
themums may still be set out They
do rather well In the bulb gar
den if given plenty of bonemeal
and other fertilizer. The bone
meal is also beneficial to most of
the bulbs.
The pink geranium and the blue
ageratum or the lobelia make .a
pretty combination for en outdoor
bed. I often wonder why geran
iums are not more often used as
a bedding plant They are color
ful in the garden.
Geraniums from Seed
Speaking of geraniums recalls
to my mind that I was asked this
week if geraniums could be grown
from seed and if so, where this
seed could be purchased.- Geran
iums grow very easily, from seed
and a mixed packet can furnish
considerable interest They come
into bloom much more rapidly
than would be supposed, too. Most
seed nouses carry geranium seed.
If the inquirer fails to find it
send me a self-addressed envelope
and I'll send the name of a seed
house which I know does carry it
Another question this week
asks if there is such a tning as
blue salvia. Tes, there is at
least two varieties of blue salvia.
The one is an extremely hardy
perennial and has come through
many a cold .winter here. The oth
er is less hardy but will live
through some of our winters.
Both grow readily from seed. -
"I have tried so hard to grow
lilies and have never succeeded.
Have you ever grown the Madon
na lily out of doorst" ccmes the
question from Salem. .
On Growing Lilies
Lilies are peculiar things to
grow. Sometimes they grow very
well; other times they: won't
grow at all. I have one clump
of .Madonna lilies that I started
from one bulb 12 years ago. This
year it has eight flower stocks,
so the increase has not been great
Bnt the plants are large and have
bloomed each year even one that
I moved them. I have another
a smaller clump which I grew
from seed a few years ago. . These
did not come into bloom until the
third year.
The Madonna, lily usually re
sents moving. . But if it must be
moved; this should he done not la
ter than six weeks after flower
ing. This lily rests but a very
short while before It starts grow
ing again. And unlike many oth
er lilies, the Madonna should have
its bulb only just covered with
soil. It evidently prefers a rath
er stiff loan in a sunny situation.
At first I had mine planted be
neath trees for I was of the- opin
ion that the lily liked shade.
Then, when it flowered very fru
gally, I decided to move it It
now grows, at the south side of
the house, fully exposed to the
sun, and blooms very well. Low
growing shrubs protect its base.
i understand with the Madonna
lily, that this isn't even necessary,
hut mine has done well in this lo
cation so I hav eft it there.
While most lilies detest lime the
Yqu getJested Seeds la36
Kmmond qwltty seedsK'
t wHbsiJ
n u i, 'a v ; l" "1 1
i, vj, r. ' ? yy- H
Mas
Madonna lily j seeMs in jdiff erent ,
to its presence In jthe spU.' But !
good drainagl to jwsential. For
those whose soil IS not jtoo well
drained, the suggestion yas made
by Dr. E. 1L jwilsin to plant the
bulb on an inverted flower-pot,
and surroundUt with grjtty river
sand.. ; j j .
Fertilise With Care
Leaf-mold ,1s good for lilies,
and while lilies need food, fertili
sation shoald bedone jwlth the
utmost care, j It manure is used.
It should be- thoroughly rotted
and should never be. permitted to ;
come in contact with be bulb.
Bonemeal and leafmold ire about .
the best fertilizers for the lilies.
One gardener reportaj that the
spittle bug is taking her chrys
anthemums and wants ito know
what to do about it. I'd suggest
getting a little of the spittle bug
dust from any of the seed or plant
stores. ! A dime's wort$ will go
quite a ways. Dust' the plants
thoroughly with it at ithis time
and again a little later? say. in
eight or ten j days. I believe the
spittle bug dust with the nicotine
in it would j be the belt for the
chrysanthemums. There j are some
of the dusts! without poisons In
them. I have found that some of
this dust Is iW quite ielpful in
ridding the garden of slugs and
cut worms. I !
Plants! for Lime Roil
Always, writes! one jgardener,
one Is told of acid loving plants.
She wants toiknow If there aren't :
plants that prefer a lime or sweet
soil. There certainly ari. Lots oi
them. J I
The tall-bearded iris 'definitely
will not groif in a! soil that is acid.
Delphiniums! kerria, pejntstemon,
peony, butteflybush, jfrethorn,
hollyhock,' are among he sweet
soil loving plants j There are doz
ens of others in this group a
well. .)...
"Can you I tell Ime th4 came ol
a fungicide I which does; not dis
color foliage; as jmuch as does
Bordeaux?" asks la Stayton gard
ener. I j ,
- Copper acetate: is said to be a
good fungicide that does not have
this defect. . I have nevjsr tried It
myself. I There are. commercial
and patented brands onj the mar
ket also. s - j j
"What isiiTerjof sulphur?" H.
E. of Salem asks. Ai druerist
could, perhaps, ns.wer better
than I. I am of! the opinion that
L II
liver of sulphur and
sulphide are! the tame.
potassium
rne samejpersen wants to know
wnat to do j when an over-supply
of nitrogen! has been given to
plants. I am tojd that! bonemeal
or wood ashes trill correct this
fault! Guano, . dried flood and
other animal fertilizers contain
liberal amounts if lime
T
J
Methodist Youth
in
1 1 1 i
; Albanyi Convention
i
ALBANY May 2 The Salen
district . league of fMethodisi
Youth' convened in Albany Fri
day for a three-day session, it be
ing the annual convention of ih
league. Th$ Salem district com
prises the south half of the Wil
lamette valley and westward to
the coast taking in Tillamook,
Bay City and Nehalem. At least
150 young people are Pin attend
ance.; : ' f j I
Ten minister are taking part
in the programs President of the
league is Wayne Wright of Al
bany, sir
1 . 1 .
ol Fairv
- : j v i -y
Grpsoplillia, larg i.50c
Dwarf Rock Oeom L15c
Coral Bn i J.l15c
Aremerii Maritimai -l..-.15c
i j-1 i
General Line Nursery
I Stock I
Open Sunday All Day
r ;i:; :f ' : -
Eniestlufer
Landsc
ci
South ! 12th St.-Cutoff
1
I
'I
Select your seeds this year os
. you would the food foryovr
table. Diamond qualify seeds
in the Orange! and Green
seed boxes are! packed wiih
, heaMysedds triat have been
tested for croo assurance.
renff fled Urn Orange;?
Crm sees sexes at year
setter aelgheerfieed teres.'
v
Brist
Toi. Cfta a M UV -s ,r
1 rno
. L
I