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THt OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning:, October 3, 193T Vivid Pictere bi England , Painted in : Words by : Salem .PAGE SIX Yoiit V) Spanish Relief Work Outlined Colorful Characters Met Robert Read ; Own ; Experiences Told - Editor' !: Robert Bead at Stm, on ft kt travel lrttr treat England War4 la Th 6tatesaa aartr in the imntr, anileA mtr tr Pari Hi -evrraspaadeoca was iatf rrnpted - hy wplojmant aa4 by iiUr trip to th cawiiaeafc Kead ia ew cm m if imu. ? By ROBERT READ ' ' May day morning found me walking down Southampton Row In a, London suddenly electric. I was strangely happy, and as I toyed with the sixpence in my pocket (the last of a borrowed half-crown ) I felt, I knew this was going to be a memorable day. I bad just breakfasted with my four friends In the dark little self-cookers' kitchen of the Youth Hostel: we met only : at meal times and in the evenings, but very-real spirit of camaraderie had. grown among us.. - There Vas something special aboat us: we were alike. We called ourselves the lost ones. Crowds - of , German - students would come for a day or so, then go away singing 'their fierce songs; French school girls, gu id ed by clucking mattresses would drop to for a noisy night; Ameri cana by twos and threes would blow, in, do everything wrong for a while, then leave with large gestures of perfect assurance; Danish boys and Swedish girls would appear for a. night or two. joylessly sitting in corners, order ing meals in painful English, and then be noiselessly gone;-but we fire were different. International Group "We were there day after day and week after week; we were part of the place; there was something Quite special about ns we had no money. . : ' i First, there was Greta, the exiled German girl, who was a perfect " anarchist, bringing ' us every evening some pilfered dell' cacy.from the great house where she wor ke d now wonderful brown bread, now a great sack of tea, now a beautiful chunk of bacon. How" gracefully Greta stole! : So magnanimously, so .without malice! - .. There was Jan, the Dutchman, an aTowed opportunist, and proud of his cleverness: he borrowed money from everybody on the strength of a legendary job build ing, yachts for wealthy English men,-. There was Hans, the Austrian, who had a dark smile and a dark laugh and;a way of saying "all right; without pronouncing the Us. later, he saw the corona tion .procession three times with out paying5 a farthing, and he loved to tell how he had achieved this by saying "all right" to po llcemen. And there was Rosalie, whose lover had been killed fighting f er the government . in . Spain, who didn't talk much, who" was her self waiting to go to Spain to work. T here was myself, the American, who had a funny way of saying -"water and who" went every morning to the American Express , for a check that must surely have been lost. So, the lost ones had break fasted and been witty, had con trived gaiety for half an hour : Hans was going to Scotland and ureta bad fallen in lore with i rotzayist in Hyde P a r k ; and ' Rosalie was going to march ia the May day parade and Jan had found a wonderful cork hat which he would buy for his Kerla in Amsterdam when the first yacht was iinunea.- And I had a six pence? at the Imperial hotel v I walked, onttnto Russell aauare. meeting crowds of provincial left- wingers, come in for the parade: passing the blind, silent shops hi a a par sea excursion bus with holiday folk mlxlnr whlakev and soda In - the aisle; reading the newsboards about 'the busmen's sinre and avoiding the jammed entrance to the ITiiilorvnuin Yes, definitely, 4 yes, something was -going to happen. - : The avenue . widened, and, as i .passea tne St. PancraS parish church with its porch ot stained and stolid Caryatids, a stiff wind came into my face. I felt very fit. vThe -coin In my pocket was hard ana cool. , - Gets BI Ideal I, think walking into wind had something to do with it, and the cool hardness of the sixpenny bit; bat all at once, quite calmly. I knew what I had to do and where I was going. I had to wire Bill that I would not meet-him in Copenhagen j i aai 6 Z i rn language, and quickly; I had to find the names of committees and J J m ... uwtw vi. unices: i,u bo longer going to be the "touring student" who looks noon neonla and 'conditions, makes the ap propriate comment and passes on proud that he has not become in! volved, saying "their v problems are not my problems," who goes home at the end with snanshota of ruins and anecdotes of peas antry, the cocky cosmopolite, the knowing one. I 'was going to spam. - - First I went to the Friends urauug-.mun uecauae n Was close, and, after waiting long while, I was taken te a youarlsh woman who. was quiet and neat and wonderfully kind, who took my name and address and then asked: "Of course, if we ahonM want - to send you, into Franco territory, you wouldn't mind that, would you?" . , - -: I must" have, looked very sad and hesitated a long while, be cause before I could uunr ih ; best see . . and She gave some other. addresses. I remember that as I went out she gava me her A the rnona tne Reviews and Literary Nexvs Notes ;Thia Week's Reviews by Lela Bell Sanders T. E. LA'WREXCE, BY HIS FRIENDS: Arnold Walter Law-; renee, ed. " Doubleday el37. 14.00. This book edited by the only surviving brother ot the great and by this , time - almost legendary Lawrence of . Arabia, is not the story of his achievement in lead ing the desert revolt; that has been told incomparably by himself in "Revolt in the Deert" and "Seven pillars ot wisdom." Nor is a conventional biography, but rather a series ot vignettes, Law rence as he appeared to those who were ia contact with him at vari ous times. "We have pictures of him as a boy as his mother knew him, the boy his schoolfellows saw, the young archaeologist, the military leader, later the man with a haunted mind, then the private in the Air Service, on to his un timely death. Some ot the arti cles are by the relatively few wom en who knew him with any de gree of intimacy, and their record of him is that of a man of great gentleness and almost feminine intuition There is even a sketch of him a young girl whom he taught to drive a speed-boat. Out of all these little sketches we can make our own composite portrait of him. Of quite special interest are the lists ot the books and phono graph records Lawrence owned at the time ot his death. This is really . a fascinating hook, and throws much light on a very com plex and frequently baffling char acter. LET YOUR MTXD ALONE! by James Thurber. Harper cl937. $2.50. Now this is a book which I think should be required reading with Dorothea Brande's "Wake np and live!". MurseU's "Streamline your mind" and others of that ilk. With solemn gravity America's Number One funnyman tears their pretty little plans for The More Efficient Life into a thousand cra zy fragments. It's insane, it's hilar ious, and it's just about 99 and 44100 percent true. You had bet ter go off by yourself when you read it, if you don't want your wife to keep saying, "What on earth are you snorting at?" That is just the first half of the book. The second part is equally tunny. I liked particular ly well "Bateman Comes Home," which is Mr. Ferber's version of the now popular presentation of life in the deep south. "Tobacco Road" was .never like this, nor was "Sanctuary" m ore's the name Miss. Nike, that I said Oh, Victory," and that she laughed marvelously and said Yes, good luck." I -walked back the way I had come, towards Oxford street, the grand tragic s e n a e. of having chosen, among many rights,, the right thing, and that it was also a wrong thing, the sense of hav ing, by n act of my own will. given ' direction to my life and significance to my existence, the sense of beingat last a consonant Item et ray own- time identifi able with striking busmen, exiled Germans, and the unloved, pas sionate orators In the park of having at last cast ambiguity, the expediency of compromise, the deceptive largesse of a narrow humanism, this complex, obscure emotion growing within me until I wanted to-shout for sheer Joy. When I passed the parked excur sion bus, I did shout. The occu pants, being by then quite drunk, understood.. I write' now with the objectiv ity of a four months'' interlude. ratner wiser, the touch of glory put away with other defunct cos tumes."! did not get to iSpaln, but Spain came to me In Eng land, which was almost better: and what I learned from her only bolstered with argument w h a t was done in rashness, so that I am still, pursuing , Spanish proj ects with something of the sober zeal of the veteran. But it is a long story' to that.- Joins Spanish Relief When I returned to the hostel that evening, I was a thoroughly initiated.volunteer of the national joint committee for Spanish re lief, with r" my first . day's work behind me. I had walked for hours in. the .'immense parade, alongside the- Oxford ambulances for Spain, thrusting handbills of . public meeting into the hands or tne crowd that lined the street What a 'cross-section view of the English i political temper ' I had seen! Fat hands "of- dowagers in parked limousines, who screeched and threw the paper out the win dow as though it were a burning thing; knobby, , workers hands that strained out of : the crowd and demanded a copy of the bill; near: the square, black-sleeved arms at ominously short intervals that struck down my- hand - and its proffered sheet. And, once inside Hyde park, where the dis tribution of bills is Illegal, there was the i thrill of slipping the sheet to covert hands without be ing detected bv the hnhht" n. by the blackshlrts who would de nounce ns. ... f For the next two weeks I went every day to an office that i the shadow of Westminster Ab bey, fighting my way through the dull hordes that stood : ta rain and shine at Victoria street to catch a glimpse of rehearsing royalty. My companions In the writing of receipts and licking of stamps were two Spanish refugee women who knew English, a young Englishman just returned from Chile, ' a woman ia exile from Germany, a man from the French foreign legion, oa his first leave In seven years, a maid ot advanced yean who strove to be typically what she was; and various, sympathetic. , clerks and New Books new pity. And yoa might give "The Case Against Women" to your wife to read. It will probably make her mad, but maybe shell j nnderstand you. ana men ia gen- eral better. Maybe she won't though. On second thought, I wouldn't show it to her, . if I were you. THE GARDEN'; A MAXUAL OF I GARDENING FOR THE PA CIFIC NORTHWEST. By Har- - riet Trumbull Parsons and Elizabeth Nowland Holmes. Seattle. Lowman Jk. Hanford C1933. $LW. . Although this is not a new book, it has just come to my at tention, and garden books par ticularly applicable to the north west are rare enough to merit notice whenever found. The first half ot this little book it Is only 107 pages long is called a month by j "Around the Dial' month reminder of what to do in the garden. There is also a sec tion outlining the characteristics of the commoner western conifers and the yew, The latter half of the book Is crammed .full ot miscellaneous suggestions color schemes, the herb garden, garden design, how to catch earwigs (after catching them "step on them if you enjoy it" says the authors!), even a recipe for making one's own flag stones. The authors, at the end of the book, give what they consider a comprehensive bibliography of garden books. This little book is most attractive in form, and would make a charming gift tor a gardening friend. LITTLE LION: MIEKE: bv Brand I Whltlock. Appleton-Century I clS 5 7, $1.00. Dog'lovers and lovers of liters-I ture are sure to welcome this I little volume, which In the preface I is compared not unjustly with such a classic as "Rab and His Friends." As you doubtless re-1 member, Brand Whitlock was our I great minister to Belgium at the I time of the World war. and it was then that Mrs. Whitlock was pre- sented with a Pekingese puppy, I and it is pleasant to think that those dark days were made light- er for them bv the eav and charming life of Mieke, the little dog. Her short and hannv little career is immortalized by Mr. I wwuock, briefly but eloauentlv. I Get it and read it, if you love I dogs; if you don't, read it any- I way because of its quality of fine distinction. office girls who appeared sporad ically. From time to time nobility de- scended upon us and I learned to recognize the inverted defer ence that is played between com moner and lord when the peerage Is, like the British, an empirical one, constantly being renewed and invigorated from the lower classes. The formula of encounter is quite simple and comparable to tne poncy or tne successrui I man who makes a point of not I losing touch with his friends j m . 1 iroiu leaner years. i When a commoner meets with j a lord, it is not the commoner who scrapes to pay homage. It Is J the peer who makes the figurative genuflexion, assuming, for a mo- ment. m. calculated bonhomml I which leaves the participants with the sense of having partaken of .graceful ritual, and the spec- tator with a silent sense of I nausea. . rv..riA la h. . r.An ....j axuuj w s Araawaa ;sviav I w w aious J eaa 51m 1115 ucau" I lines of the king's latest word to ta nnAan th. onaAn. 1 words to the princesses, and the queen mother's latest speech to everybody, to a London goaded by legend, pushed by a ponderous 1 htatnr-v whlnnaH K fnrtnti. fc I nera. came Tnrnnntinn inv I My recollections of the event are not so solemn as they might be. I remember walking home from the office at five in the evening and speaking unfelt com-! woia uPn an organ; Invoking, fort to curb-sitters, some wlthlwtb; one ord, his colorful rage, babies, who had taken thair I With the next, his immense lane-h. places, not to budge, until five of the next evening. I recall my annoyance that the hostel was so full I had to sleep on the floor, and that everybody sang lioa save the Klnr" mora t mH than was necessary. On the day itself I walked down Into town and. of th bat. eral hundred thousand people I j met, carried away four most vivid i observations. First, and chiefly, the marvelous antics of two drunken charwomen who some - how had managed to stray among tne inert forms of swooners, laid I Pnis, wno seemed to aniff out in nest rows on the mrh hvttDe lr as he walked, and h thQ VJLD.V Their mock concern, tneir diraculty in maneuvering I "logically, but with ex thelr own unstable itmha am nn 1 treme caution. But hetIart the limbs treacherously concealed by blankets, the Ineffable humn - lauon they suffered at the hands oi.ine vjuji these will always flash Into my mind at the word vivuuvu, -, becona, 1 remember a sea of heads, chins lifted at a strenuous angle, from the brides of each nose a reared periscope like a sera or toy eiepnants arrested la tne act. ex tossing their snouts. imra, t recan aetumr for once and all my ancient doubts as tohus. ad when he spoke of thi the superiority or art to nature I 'arm in Cumberland which he as I observed the venerable Au-lbonaht (and subsequently soldi gustan cornices ot London's old- est b u i 1 d 1 n g s supplanted by sprawling, mobile friezes of flesh. Lastly, I remember pausing at tne entrance to the Abbey on my way to work next morning to watch the shadow ot Empire fall across the faces of country folk as they stood squishing their heels on the rain-soaked carpet where a king had trod. . The painful scenes ot restora- tlon were spared me, however, as a wire from Southampton awaited me at the office. It was from one Mr. Sams, who was 'to be admin istrator at the camp tor 2000 refugee children from Bilbao. The camp was to - be got ready. My services were required at South ampton. A t o'clock train landed me at about midnight in the heart of picture book England, where I VM wal,kea t0 tne andent Doi- DhIa kotel to no Mr d Mrs. Sams, Dame Janet Campbell, Henry Brin ton and Hope Vul liamy, talking a n 1 1 1 the small hours about Spanish food, army ?0ta' probable consump- tinn Af svltaAavaSi nn K a Ka tion et glucose upon the boat's arrival. The next day, as supplies failed to arrive, we found little to do. and there, was time for me to visit the nearby Winchester, a sleepy cathedral town, horder of the patient ghost of Alfred, who revives for the tourist season. when little boys come to thump their knuckles on the round table massive, smooth-edged ac tuality. Of all the English towns I have seen, Bath and WinchesterJ naT PPeled me most Bath, ucvauaa ii ia un-E.ngiiga; win cheater, because it is soddenly English. The cathedral itself, so casually situated, retains the sim plicity of a parish church In its splendid lines, and the left trans- sept, reputed to be the finest re maining Norman work, was ira pressive even to my inexperienced eye. I slept there in the old town mill, now a youth hostel, with the sort roar of the mill-race un der my ear all night. The following morning found me early at the North Stoneham campsite, a huge rolling field, banked by woods on two sides and by adjacent fields and roadway on the two others. I was to be in charge of the prellmlnarv camp while the others dealt with local committees In Southampton A about 10 . o'clock an immense orry puiied onto the grounds loaded, with bell tents and from that moment my work began. T nays later I managed time OIt "r a shave; five days after that I got into town for a bath. Many Assist Bt I should not be unhappy to IIT again those chaotic two weett. in the daytime (It was th Whitsuntide vacation) hordes of sympathetic workmen came to dig trenches, erect latrines and build enees; their wives to wash and "er mo oundles of nrof fprm. clothing and to prepare the feed- inS utensils: their children in ine guise or three troops of Boy " erect the tents, fill Binir . paillasses and fetch beer Ior iae workmen. Water was la oonousiy piped in from Rf. iezgn, tne nearest hamlet. A tele- pnone was miraculously Installed . And there were th wrm bright nights when the horses would get out of the field and have to be chased back from the roaa wnere the nightingales were loud. At night, the "residents" of the camp would gather In my v-araTna i an ancient ve- nicie, settled at the gate and painted a lurid white) to drink beer and spin yarns We were an lll-assorta w garnered by emergency from re mote corners and nnslmilar lives to work together for a tlma Reynolds, a Londoner, was nor. . . . - naps we lion or our soirees he jrote books on India to earn his bread, was an Intimate of Laur. ence Housman, and was chiefly valoable to us for his marvelous "nes in Yorkshire dialect. strange man. nervous aa a. Mb-k Jtrung horse, he looked the "dreamer," knew It, and loved to Dlay th incongruity of contra- "cung nis ephemeral attain- h- uig ana acting with flaw- sa practicality. Jock was a rrt ? Scotchman who. erven i f a w - -iajw ? lBe fon f . becan It made ""si usaiui. lie nad tha rnntl,. ff ,ook that W People some- "u, as wen as their pe- c"r,.peace' 11 was Pleasant to " tuul- SUttg BOOK Irishman -raddy, who liked to drive eara nd was wittt u" to Perform that nnct,on, was a kind of distilla- tt, 01 u ine W"Q- nsh in books, We ??ed to PlaT Pon him as one ter Marchant, a gcoolmaster, was mad ln -ulet ort of way and PrePared us for the stormier cases we wer oon to experience. His BDerra"on was an exaggera onmeness wnich nrnmnt hIm to laugh long and humorous- 17 at an remark directed to him Aha to shake ids head HVa dz! boxer whenever confronted w"a mni or uniiapplneas in the I wora- uiaister, a physical train tae instructor was a health ant 1 mal T1111 Preposterous calves who j neTer wore shoes, stockings, or I f06 his words as one draws for I n,tar as well as any amateur a?d from about ten In the eve- I umB one or two in the morn 1 1U in strange crew would I gather to forget the hectic day 1 vgvoiiD mo poii VI ISOiailOu. J oomeames, , - for a discreetly I briet Period, we would be joined I by beautiful little Mr. rrniinM j tae camP odk:. Neter, not even if 1 1 st to be the Doge -of Venice I oai iorget Mr. Trollope! Ha inuuty.iay about him like a nim or of his cousin Edgar, or ot his wife's antipathy for mice; it was a a choir of colloquial angels I hung on the air,- lisping ; beati- 1 maea on the homely arts of stew f lng potatoes and changing dla- I pers. He was better Dickens than J any page In all the novels the I corners of his eyes suggested J Christmas; the puckered are of his mouth held all the pathos of high comedy. Sage of Salem Speculates By D. H. Walt hot mat WVJtrhtv People who wait and wait and wait Tn oaf il ttm foul Sometimes wonder why waiters wait, ' . Rn anvwav tls Raid. - - : The reason's plain why , waiters wait. Era thev on waiters wait They wait because they're paid to wait, Tfcmiph not ta wait to wait. Some waiters wait while others wait, nna taaAfra. t'other fed. Growth of hunger doth compen sate All waiters, It is said. And that la a beautiful thought for one who has just arisen from an overly heavy and alluringly appetizing Sunday- dinner. I us ually overeat on Bunaay, ana 1 gather from numerous indications manifested on Monday that X am far from being alone in the Indis cretion. We.shudder at the excess es ot the early Britons and other races "in existence prior to the Christian era. The history of the human race is one of extremes. We have ever gone too tar or not far enough. Sunday, even so short a time ago as when I was a child. was a day of cold victuals and not many of them. People overate, but not on Sunday. The general Idea at that time was to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, and the elders entertained a theory, I suppose, that a person Is less like ly to remain in a proper frame of mind when he has a stomach ache. The mind on that day, they thought, should rest upon matters apart from physical Indulgence. So we went to meeting tour or five times during the day, and per mitted our minds to rest in secret The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers PEOPLE, WAKE UP! To the Editor. The letter written by George W. Harrington of Mattapoisett. Mass., is certainly to the point in everv respect. Particularly so in the fourth instance. Ha 'aava. "Somethinar Should be done (on a considerable scale and nroeressively) to compose the differences between various labor factions, and between cap ital and labor. . The country needs such held and benefit and now.'.' Everv sane person in this United States and the worid for that matter realizes exactly mat. tm nmflhfTi r needs to be Anna, in fact, has to be done The same thing applied back in the seventies and early eignues, when the formation of what is now called the American Fed eration of Labor began to be thnne-ht of bv the same fac tion that today controls it. mvawnnA than thought some- hr afcnnid ha done. A few tried to do something, to stem the tide that is now overrunning ti. nation with lawlessness. Yes there were people then, who had sense and foresight enougn to see through what the leaders of tne aia vnirhta of labor had in mind when Powderly and his cohorts first suggested the forming or a fderatlon of labor. How quicaiy did Samuel Gompera see the pic ture ot power possible to develop through such a federation? How orofiiiiv did he nurse tne- tea eratlon toward the placing of such men as he desired in sucn offices as would Insure the forc inr thrnurh our legislative halls acts tending toward his ultimate purpose. " Follow back the errort and millions ,of working men's money expended in effecting the passage of the Norrie-LaGuardla act and finally, but not least, by a lot. the lirfamous Wagner act. How thoroughly did Gompera, directly followed by Green, effect the purpose sought by their lead era. Yes. I-too will tell the world there needs to be something done on a considerable and progressive scale. It ia doubtful whether Mr. Roosevelt is in Washington, D. C, or Calcutta would make an v difference so far as he is concerned in' this respect Follow the proceedings ot his wonderful labor relations board: you will find the hand ot the American Federation of Labor ia its control throughout its history from the NlRA to its present form. No it is doubtful whether Roosevelt!s nresence in Washington would make any difference. The only concerted action, of considerable scale and nroeressively that can be of effect, is that of the public Still we all know it and are afraid to stick our neck out because we cannot eet our individual niece of pie unless Green, or his friend Lewis, savs we can hare it. We pick up the paper, read of an other war. in Portland or San Francisco or other place that ' Is not ln oar door yard and say, it is too bad.' something should be done. Unless something , Is done and that pronto it won't be long until we are told to keep oar months shut, that we are trans gressing on the right of Lugreen, the name or the nation that will result from the present labor po litical party. - instead ot Russia. Italy, Germany, or the - United States ox America. Wake , np people, wake up! Yours, truly,' O. F. ANDERSON TALMADGE upon buckwheat cakes for Mon day morning breakfast. The change, when It came, was grad ual. Our elders did not like very well, to admit it, but cheerlessness acta as a clog in the wheel of holiness- Thus it came to pass present ly that hot cakes appeared on the Sunday breakfast table, 'bat were eaten without syrup or butter. This seemed somewhat inconsist ent to my callow mind, and I ask ed grandmother about it. Grand mother said,- "Sh-h, butter and syrup give your grandfather indi gestion." So, grandfather being the official interpreter of-holy or ders at, our house, and. also being somewhat hard-boiled about it. we were .required to wait. However, so long as he lived vigorously op posed Sunday feasting, outdoor games, theatres and horse-and-buggy excursions, although he oc casionally, unbent and permitted an hilarious trip to the cemetery. I am mentioning grandfather ln this connection, because I think he was fairly typical of the spirit which ' prevailed at that time amongst what were spoken of as God-fearing people. It 'seems to me there were many more of such people ln that day than there are now. You will pardon it, please. You must come up and tell me about your grandfather some day. It may: as well be admitted. I presume, that the present era has many points of superiority over that ot 0 years ago. Consider, for example, the matter of paste. A few of us remember when we used white ot egg for paste, and then came mucilage,, which many of us called gluton- Both of these were out of the question, of course for mailing a newspaper subscrip tion list, so every week we made up a tomato can of flour paste. This had an appetizing odor for a day or two, but later, more par ticularly in flytime, it took on an aroma that was sourer than dally Sharp's countenance a few days after .he had traded horses with Emory Bright. But the flies liked it. They gathered in great num bers and got Into the paste with all six legs and buzzed gleefully. After the edition had been mailed the paste can was removed to the editorial desk for use, in combina tion with a pair of scissors. In preparing copy for the next Issue of the great family weekly. Since that day I have used many' kinds of paste. There are many sorts on sale ln the book and stationery shops. I think I am a fairly com petent judge of paste. It is perhaps-nothing to Justify a sprink ling of much Incense over oneself, but one must do the best Jie can with whatever justification he has. I have by chance been using Car ter's Clco of late, and I am as pleased as those flies used to be in the old news shop when they had their bathing beauty parades about the sour paste oa the edi torial desk. This is not aa adver tisement. It is only a deserved word ot commendation for an article which chances to be of a commercial nature. Parker Dribbs, when he was jamesgordonbenneting the old St. Jo Palladium, included ln his an nouncement of. advertising rates this statement; "No unsolicited advertisements published not the day. Steam in the pipes throughout day, . Rain music through the night. Things going on the same old way, I guess the world's aU right. Nothing is easier to - conceive than a prejudice. We like or dis like a person because of what he does and because portraits make him out to appear one way or an other. I don't know how It may be with you, but with me it Is this way: I am continually conceiving personal prejudices. They don't endure for long, perhaps because there is considerable of a waiting list to be taken care of, and fur ther because I don't enjoy having them outstay their welcome. In fact, I do not greatly care for any thing that overstays its welcome. After It has' remained with a per son f o w a reasonable length of time a prejudice should, I think, become either a definite like or dislike, somewhat as a polliwog becomes a frog or does a polli wog become a mosquito? Well, it doesn't matter The point is that prejudices are not healthful, and the sooner we rid ourselves of any we may have the better It is for us. Of late to let joa in on a personal secret-- have relieved myself of four pretty dangerous specimens, and who would you guess to have been responsible for them? Eleanor Roosevelt, Bar bara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby and Clark Gable.. And it is rather-a pleasant feeling, the more so be cause in none of the four Instances did the prejudice become dislike. -Thursday in these parts was a day of soft rain and gentle south wind. Alao it - was a day which the flies had chosen for the. hold ing of a convention, and, perhaps by invitation of the fly that lives with me during the winter, they held It in this office. It was some what ot a problem. The presence of an txnswattable number ot hungry flies gives one- pause,, as Mr, Shakespeare waawont to say concerning moments' ot flabber gastedness. But the ... problem solved itself as problems so fre quently do. In the hallway at the foot of the office stairs I had found the night previous a bottle which had a short time before contained whiskey, if the label was to be relied upon. It was rather a pretty bottle, and I car ried it upstairs, having in mina um 1 tm for an occa sional flower, and plaeed it on the floor behind the door. I. was awav from the office tor an hour during' the morning- of .Wednes" day. ,Whea.i returned and opened the ' door, f nllv expecting to be greeted - by the convention,, buzs I had left, I was given a pieasani surprise. Not a buss was to be heard., and the floor about the whiskey bottle was covered with fliea their lers stlckine no stiff ly, and I gleefully gathered them into a newspaper and tossea mem from the window. A few returned the following morning, but only a few. I reckon a spoonful or two or the whiskey had been left in the bottle. Turner Sportsmen Have Good Luck in Hunting Trips; Four Get Kills TTTRVlPn i Tnmi BTvnrfumAn had rood luck this rear on their annual hunting trips. Fay Webb, Gene Schilling, M. O. Pearson and Archie Rankin went to the Ochoco forest; Fay Webb killed a bear and her cubs. E. E. and Elton Ball returned from their trip Monday each with a deer, and Elton killed three bobcats. Hunt Is Successful HAZEL GREEN Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Allen Looney re turned from a successful hunting trip in the Blue mountains out from Prairie CKy. They went with her parents. Captain - and Mrs. A. R. Pearson, of Portland. How Does Your Garden Grow? Suggestions for Fall Plantings of Daffodils, Asters Hyacinths and Tulips Are Given By LILLIE L. MADSEN Question: Would you please tell me some of the best daffo dils to plant? They should go in this fall, shouldn't they C. R., Salem. Answer: Yes, daffodils should be planted this, fall. Most com mercial growers tell us they should be in by November 1. There are many varieties so 111 mention just a few of the dif ferent types. I hope, botanists will not call at tention to any LOU Madaea error ln classification; I am list ing these according to their uses rather than by Totanical divi sions. Among the . cluster-flowered (those with more than one flower to . the stem) narcissus are: Cheerfulness, bearing three or four double creamy-white flowers to a Stem; hellos, a primrose yel low perianth (petals) and a deep golden cup; Laurens Rosier, large white perianth and deep orange cup; Stella- Polaris, a large cluster variety, a sulphur yellow perianth and a deep yel low cup. . ' Jonquils for Small Bloom TSe Jonquils are small-flowered narcissuses known especially well for their sweet scent. This group includes the Campernelle double, golden sceptre and the largest of the' group, Campernelle gigan teus. Among the single trumpet group are the ever popular Golden Spur; Empress; Spring Glory, which is a good bleolor; Van Wave ren's giant. Prince of Wales; the Mrs. Krelage, with its creamy white trumpet and pure white perianth; King Alfred, the large yellow daffodil everyone wants. Those with the shorter trum pets Include Firebrand, with a fluted red cup; Lucifer, with the star-shaped white perianth and a trumpet ot brilliant orange scarlet; Sir Walkin, large flow ers with sulphur yellow perianth and orange tinted cup. . , Flat Crown Varieties The poet's narcissus with flat trumpets or crowns: Thelma, snow white petals and a light yellow cup margined In deep scarlet; Horace, snow white perianth and rich yellow shading to scarlet on the edge of the crown. Hyacinths should be planted at this time, too. It really pays to get named varieties for when one gets the mixed bulbs one is so very apt to get an over-balance o one color and -that color is usually the one you like least. Good ones to buy tor a mixed bed are the yellow CitT of Harlem. the white L'Innocence, the King of Blues for a rich dark blue, and the Queen of Blues for an azure blue, Marconi for a rose- pins:, victory ror a brilliant rosy red. ;:-rr-';i;-i ; -.. . - The Roman hyacinths come in both white and blue. v Other Balbs to Plant Now We have also quite a group of what Is ' known aa th. bulbs." many of which should be set out. tnis autumn for ari spring bloom. Such are the Ara bian Star of Bethlehem which grows , about one foot ' high aad nag racemes of white fiowr. tha well-known, but too- Infre quently planted snowdrops; the yellow winter Aconite, the lily- oi-ine-vauey; the - ranunculus, which, comes - ln many brilliant colors; and the ScUlas, the little flowers which are known to some as Spanish bluebells and to others as the wood hyacinth. The- Scilla comes not only ta blue, but In pink aad white, and to my way of thinking, Is one of the most charming of the small spring flowers. It does well ta the' rockery, the border, or even Parent-Teachers Slate First Meet Treasurer to B Elected at Monday Afternoon T Gathering INDEPENDENCE The Parent-Teachers association will hold Its first meeting Monday, October 4, at 3:30 o'clock ln the training school building. The new president Is Mrs. El mer Barnhart. Associate officers with Mrs. Barnhart will be: First vice-president, Mrs. Kenneth L. Williams; second vice-president, Mrs. Orley Brown; secretary. Miss Dora Hendy, and historian, Mrs. Claude G. . Skinner. A treasurer will be elected 'Monday to succeed Miss Glenna ; Hiltlbrand, who moved to California. . Committees Named Committee chairmen appointed by the president are: Member ship, Mrs. Ira D. Mix; finance. Mrs. Glen Smith; hospitality, Mrs. W. F. Campbell; publica tions, Mrs. Claire Winegar; pub licity, Mrs. Elsie Bolt; decora tions, Mrs. C. G. Irvine, and pro gram, Mrs. Robert W. Craven. The program for Monday in cludes: Welcome by the presi dent; article, ."The Child in the Home" by Mrs. Cleve Robinson; vocal solo. Miss Dora Hendy, and an article, "The Place of the Family in the Modern Commun ity" by Mrs. Arthur Braum. The meeting will be known as "Let's Get Acquainted." for naturalization beneath fir trees, if the trees are not too low-hanging. OnpRt'nn- Ple&oa send ns a list of tulips to be planted this falL Newcomers. Suggests Tulip List Answer: Single early pink and white, Pink Beauty and Lord Carnarvos. Cottage tulip apricot nd ArsnpA rra TllriA ttiA white Albine; yellow Moonlight and Mrs. Moon; pink and white Picotee. Darwins, pink and rose Princess Elizabeth and Venus; red. City of Harlem, Eclipse, Pride of Harlem. Scarlet Reantv; yellow giant; violet, Mrs. MandeC tne tsisnop; wnite, snot sua, Zwanenberg. Breeder tulips, orange-salmon Dlllenberg; grape blue Bachus; mahogany red In dian Chief; purple and gold Louis 14th; orange and bronze Sun dance. Amaryllis flowers are coming to the fore rapidly. Everyone is planting and admiring them. There are a few which are being p a r 1 1 c ularly recommended by growers and Include the Spekelia formosis8imum a terrible name but a lovely flower which comes up unexpectedly In the spring and blooms before the foliage appears. It la a brilliant red. The foliage lives only a short time and then dies down. Lycoris "Squamigera is a warm pink, blooming ln Sep tember after the foliage is gone. Popular Amaryllis Amaryllis belladonna is per haps the hardiest of the Ama ryllises. It should be planted in a sheltered situation with a eou th em exposure. It establishes its foliage ln the winter and early spring and blooms in the summer when the foliage Is gone. It Is pink and should be planted this falL Hardy asters have seldom been as fine as they are this year. If you will notice you will find many good named varieties which are a great improvement over the small. Imperfect blooms we used to have. The dwarf hardy asters, which rarely exceed 15 Inches ln height, include the very blue Bluebird, the light pink Constance, the clear, pink Countess Dudley, the lavender Hebe. . Selections for Asters One of the best of the larger groups Is the lilac-blue Star ot Wartburg. It is really hard to surpass. Then we have the rose pink Alderman Vokes, the new Blue Bonnett, the well-known Blue Eyes, the white Mt. Everest, and the rosy Red Rover. A hardy aster which is excep tionally rigorous In growth Is Barr's pink, and a tall one (five feet) is Npvl-belgi. sometimes called Climax. Astil bis, which many of you asked me about last spring and early summer, really should go into the ground this autumn. They come in white, deep rose, pale pink and violet red color ings. When . given - proper care, they are showy plants, covered with feathered heads of flowers for fully two months of 1 a t e spring and early summer. They succeed best in shady moist-positions In any good garden soil. tAristmas Rose ftlisiiomer v You might a 1 s o set out a Christmas rose ' (Helleborous Ni er) yet this autumn. This is not ro at aU and does not even slightly resemble " one. But it is an; interesting plant because , it flowers ln January. February and March once it is established. Ia i sheltered, well-drained po sition, it wQl often come Into bloom at the Christmas season so that much of Its name is ap plicable. The flowers measure fully two inches In diameter and are single. The plants grow about a foot high and might remind one a trifle of peonies. The Christmas 'rose likes a well drained, comparatively rich soil. Leaf j mould and well-decayed cowbara fertilizer are beneficial. It should be situated so that the hot July and August sun does not continuously bear down upon it.