Tht CUT G ON STATESMAN, Salen, Oregon, Sunday llomlzz, March 20, 1333
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:M& Travels
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J PACE SIX
Mmlui
Wearing
End
of
Public Shows
Mn eh Interest
Some of Secrets of Task
Told ."- by ; Contractor
Who Handles Job
By RALPH . C. CURTIS -On
' source of trulls enter
tainment which Salem people
have enjoyed throughout the
last Several week will soon be
denied them, for the old post
offiee building- Is Bearing the
end of its travels from the posi
tion It occupied Tor mora man
Si vears to Its new nome on the
northeast corner, of . the ,. Willam
ette -university campus.
Perhaps It should no longer
be called the "old - potoffiee,'
hut rather the "new Willamette
I la w building. although at what
. point In its travel it ceased to
be the one and became the other,
rot all the future lawyers U will
shelter in the coming years would
"be able to' decide.
The building daring the past
week crawled- from a point near
Winter street to approximately
opposite the new Willamette u
hrarr. nassine on its . way the
new caoitol one sir. of prog
ress moTing between, two others.
so to speak. , -'-- .
To More Sidcwise j
- when it reaches a 1 spot on
State street opposite the position
It is to occupy. there will be an
other delay while the building
is lacked no and the "shoes
and timber , and - ran tracks are
tamed tor its; final aidewise
lournev onto the. campus, . bnt
this transition will not be near-
It so complicated a process as
that which was necessary to turn
the masslte structure cr to State
street.
If the ground over which the
building must more alter leav
ing the pavemen has dried out
by the time It is, ready to move
onto it. the task will be still
fnrthnr aimnlified. When ' the
tarn from the pos'tof flee ' block
was negotiated the variable set
tling of the temporary' founds-
tion -timbers was an .incessant
problem adding to the difficulty
i .v.. - anil
the "shoes'' in varying area de-
nendent on their distance from
" the-axis,' which was In the een-
IB, KUK-u wo "
ter of State street but n'-t in the P
- KnMn
tvi mftmat that the I
first "attempt was made to budge
mn.inn hnilillnr . from Its
eld position, crowds gathered at
ty plnnftW wstchinr every
A bVi4,,IT1 ar fl
group of spectators cam and J
went, staying a tew minutes, an
hoar all day, depending L upon
what argent business they; might
be neglecting to loiter, tuere.
There was lively discussion and
interchange of much information.
some, of it erroneous. The spec -
tators saw all that waa font, yet f
there was much that they! could 1
not- know. - v, ) . t . . " '
Unanswered QuerWs . . I
Because of this . general '-. In-1
.terest and the numerous naan-
swered nnestionc this writer ar- I
ranged to Interview E. ..W- Le-
beck.' the moving contractor )
oer radio station HSLM. From 1
remarks heard later,- "it ; la be-1
lleved that program - was "tuned J
In, by more iistsnen than anj j
otner restore mat. naa ocen pre-1
ented by the "Statesman-of-the-
Air- Jwms wiewiirOT
4Tt Vr i0 '.1!" Tose er pink flowers
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utat reason imv ii wrj 1
written.
.- One of
.was- that
.ViTi.?fil 0BlMrevelypeelmen ta In bloom ta Jhe
this, moving Job vis 4. ,
really . a major - one, as moving
lebe- go. Readers may have
heard of huge skyscrapers being
moved, but the massive, old
. aandstone structure which .served
as postal f ice since. 1 S t2 waa 1
ao solidly and substantially buiK J
that U proportion to Its dimen-1
aions. It was the heaviest tuild- J
tax -ever moved in the. narth-1
west. In other words, the weight i
resting, on any one set of rollers I
on which it moved, was perhaps I
the greatest thst such rollers
bave been called upon to varry. I
However, In Los Angeles a lew
B?.lldlnf W1B"
ing ltaogon live times tae i
weigat. wt ise omi posmiiicr. w
movea-.nni. oniy tor a nistance i
01 11 ieew -f v .
Nothing To Rig
m.. .MAstAt rM4A& la rhaM
ID'S AePSCSW UIVU
of building-that can be moved
Mr. t beck's answer to :- that
atMlan ta
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The house ta overs nave a sio-
.ffib.!T-n:Vm!?a
trullt on a toundation la too htg
U be saeved. Ifa H a Jhatter
sf applying - yoar power r nreper
That hrenghi nb aner er ques
tion. " The wpedaUr built truck
which furnishes the motive pow
er would seem at first. gance,
entirely taaieauate. .Maar ob
servers were Interested in the
Ssechaaical problem, of how It
was accomplihed. '
The irirle . block, the . set of
y-ulleys and - cables. xchUiplied
Ot polling power 20 times, and
the "dead -man - buried tn tne
ground carried ainsteen-twenti-eths
of the dead strain and the
truck the other one-twentieth.
That la the- answer. .But there
is compensation In the laws of
I liyaics. The 'truck pulled only
i per cent of the actual pull on
the Duiiding but the cable
relied upon the winch 20 times
f&ter than the building moved.
'Cable Weakest Link
As a matter of fact, the truck
easina is always idling when
tl 1a!ldine is In motion." And
r -crossly, the caae mat weaves
l:.ci and forth between the trU
r 3 blocks Is the weakest. part
cr tve mechanism. -The reason
ij that the contractor would
rat-er break a cabU occasion -
t::y thai to risk damaging . the
r otor by subjecting - it; to too
tcivr strain." ' : v , .-
la irearlng to move a heavy
.ructare the contractor, who
any, limit to the size and wIghttV""
f fcuildlnr , that can be moved? . - rtl? .tb .Ptof.
Progress r Constructions Motion.
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Some progress constructively, others
capitoL Below, the -shoes,- rollers aad steel and timber track on I
which the four million pound structure moves. Statesman staff
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How Does Your
Edelweiss, Famed Alps
Right at Home; Queries Are Many
, By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Replies to inquiries:
AH factors in private reforesta
tion are variable, and would be
w 5L. ivi
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aoouu seiwr in-
formation along
this line could be
- ""u
the
state forestry
department er
liUUl LUC 1CUUU1
of forestry at f;
Oreg on Stats
college at Cor-
foot oUnttng: is I3r
adv o c a t e d by
i some -who . have
ufr wot? bulletins
on prrvaie retor?
estatlou,.
This would take 100 trees per
acre; and In average plantings of
pine and spruce, would cost for
three, year transplants around
Z2 an acre, seedlings would be
much -cheaper and more econom-
leal. "The cost of planting la made
up by reckoning the value of the
land, the yearly taxes, the cost
t labor In planting and the .cost
0I the trees themselTes.
Th tmt Auuu tn
.... Utxun r B.. Caneseens and
,jmiini nr. wr
wM appear before the leaves or
ft as they begin to nf old. Ten
win TlH1 n uilmi.l nn. 1.
ten. . , , c. --. . .-d.:.--
is necessarily a . qualifiel engi
neer, jlgurea. out the amount of
pull that will be necessary and
multiplies his available- power
the required number of Utres
altowtng aafe leeway for any un
nsual temporary strain. - And
that is the reason that "nothing
that man has ever huilt on a
foundation - Is too big to be
moved."! v . . . .
M, Lebeck has been eaeared
t- hovmtk mavin f , ,m,-
he was" a lieutenant in the en-
gtaering corps, and was asslgn-
4 to aome moving. Jobs in the
army, ; -AlUlough his principal
work su in fertile br'MInr.
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moving Job, Mr. Lebeck has had
a. vastly different project under
way the merlar of a number
of houses on barges to Portland
flooded
by the new "Banneyille lake.
So many unusual tasks have
confronted him that none of
them are anneual any more, bat
the- radio Mr. lebeck told of
moving a house - which was
hemmed in- by other - bandings.
y Jacking it np to a level above
nearby "house, then rolling it
la heavy timbers acroas the top
of the intervening dwelling and
lowering it on the other side.
Heaviest, Net Biggest
Incidentally the eld postoffke
(is not the largest although It la
1 the heaviest, bullilng ever moved
in Salem. In 1SS3 the old Bar
ren warehouse, of f greater dl
mens ions than the postofflce, was
moved - from a location on , the
river bank at Water and Divi-
j aion streets, to the present lte
of the paper mill en South Com
mercials It later burned down.
That moving job was done by
P. IL Hatch and sons. ' One of
the sons. H. L. Hatch, later won
rathe? . widespread fame as
house mover. . including among
his achievements the moving of
itae Ohio bunding from the -San
Francisco world fair site to an-
I other location in that" city."
; employed la -the task of mov-
j ing the Herren warehouse was
1 John Fsrrar, who jter served as
i galea postmaster for many years
in the building ' that is now be-
i ing-moved, and who Ass thus
j two aoureea of Interest In the
(, present moving project.
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go places. Upper picture, the for-
Garden Grow?
Blossom, may Be Grown
Azaleas for Height
An Azalea with large yeUow
flowers is the chineae stnenae. I
snecimens of which were' rrowinr I
on the state house grounds, I be-
lieve. It grows from 4 to 6 feet
high and has. stiff-and relatively
thick branches. . The Tree Azalea i
ini orancne.. ine re azalea
(Aborescens) grows About 15
iVtlh J"? -LUrr-ft iUt.
cation, an acid soil, full of humus I
and loose. The blossoms are frag
rant and white in June. The so
called Flame Azalea cornea under
Calendulaccea in most catalogues.
In good conditions, this will reach
10 feet.: Its flowers are from vel-1
lqwto red and , bloom In May or
Tho Stellata or Star .Magnolia
comes in both a pure white and
a soft. Pink. It is coming; into
bloom now and : will bloom for
-another month or two. it should
be. transnlanted whila It la In
bloom. The Magnolia SouUnge-
ana Lennel is striking in that the
outside of the cups Is a red color.
It, too, blooms quite early.
The Busk Clover LespedeiaV
la a small shrub with peasa aped
liowers tn racemes or. heads.
ine . two nest known as orna
mentals are X Sieboldii and L.
Japonka. They bloom in late
summer . and early . autumn and
are : easiry grown.- The Siebol
dii 1 la, I believe. T the better
known Desmodium. The In Ja
ponicum is a form of this. The
Sieboldii has rose-purple , blooms
and the Japonka white. The
latter -comes a week or two
later i than - . the .former. ; ; The
plants require light soils, with
good water drainage.
Lime uveas Qmhsce Tree.
The quince tree la in need
of lime, particularljr If It Is on
ft day soil that - runs toward
acidity. We are told that a
quince will', grow much more
m ivu ji'tu iuuh. iu,
same holds true of the lilai and
the tig tree. -Jigs are very fond
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- m M. tim.
be worked into the soil.
The Four-0cloek . d es have' a
cation, the tropics. There It
.. . .t.t
.Anally U will 'goVT tubTrou".
km hn
root here, bnt not - very -often.
It is best grown as any tender
annual, with the seed sown in
the early ' spring. - ny : garden
soil will do. . The tuberous roots
which have been atored like
dahlias may be planted oat in
the spring just as dahlias are.
Marvel of Pern is another name
tor the . Four-O'clock.
When the ; Oleander forms
buds which open poorly or not
at aim la most often due to
imperfect ripening t -the wood.
The flowers are : borne on ; the
growth of the year, which should
a. . - e . - J . a ta. a
9W wtu ninuivu ta .aao iu. wr -
der to set many strong buds.
For this purpose give the plants
nlnt of llrbt mhA air and wa-
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to r.. n. ......
ter fiowerlnr - rive the nlanta
less water than durtnr ffowetv
inr. in March unit back the
am .hb.H ... knn. rin.
era and: give the plants morel
water ' and more ' warmth than
they have had during the rest-
lag period. . .
Improve Forget-BIe-Nots '
Forget-me-nots prefer - moist
half-shady place, but will do
well in an open sunny border if
it la. not excessively dry.- The
aeeos jnay oo sown irora spring
to -August for next year's
bloom. Some seed houses are
offering yery much improved
varieties. Forget-me-not plants
of some of the better varieties
may be purchased from florists
ana set- out w a e n m bloom,
They wiu continue to b loom -for
a long period of time.
Other names of . the Tulip tree
are Whltewood and. Yellow Pep -
lar. . It is listed bcsA'callv U
Urlodendroa. , It is a hardy, I A short program is also being I photographer covered his heed I rels. tome ef the inward disc en
beautiful tree of pyramidal I arranged for the occasion, I with a black cloth, to conceal his I tent, wfalen we da not eonsclonlv
habit. :Th felUge' Is dean and
of nn usual shape. It la a rath
er light green In color and
i time a brilliant yellow In an
I timn. -. The- large cream-colored
tails-shaped flowers In " early
summer are , ery attractlre.
TransplanUnaw of the tulip tree
is- one or ; IU difficulties. : It
had best be done In spring. Soil
requirement are for a rich,
deep . soil, -v People from the
Great Lake - country. lnrariaWy
call Jt whltewood.- The lumber
men are apt .to refer, to It 'as
tulip poplar, One .of our diffi
culties to growing the tree here
is to give ft sufficient winter
K . .Z iii? lre
ralley. - The first three, years I
after it Is transplanted It bears l
watebWg but after that it does
Tery.' nicely. . Some large speci
mens bloom each May or June
here, ' . -
Kalmla Beantifal Shrah
The , Kalmla most frequently
grown In our gardens ts the
Kalmla latitolia. ? Ealmia ob
tained its" - name v from Peter
Kalm, a Swedish botanist who
traveled In North .merloa from
1748 to 1751 -In search tit Tiew
varieties of plant and shrubs.
;The Kalmla latif ola. next to the
; rhododendron, is. considered the
most beantlfnl " flowering erer-
. green shrub. --It will grow well
rn a sandy, peaty " or loam soil '
but dislikes clay and limestone.
While It wUl thrira well In
either a' sunny or a shady place,
in a aner locauon or in a
swampy one, It will come to its
best in a partly shaded situa
tion where sufficient ' moisture
is provided. . -
The same' treatment as is ac
corded the . rhododendron is ap
preciated by the Kalmla. How
ever, the Kalmla Is not Quite
as particular: about soil condi
tion .- as is t h e rhododendron
Kalmias do best if transplanted
nl :?fln"d ' ranlc-. Psrticii-
Iarl7 tb Bt ;fnti
iageous to its growth I believe
I iut ... m. uavc icmujiuu iiciuio.
that "few flowering . shrnba are
more attractive, to me, than is
the Kalmla latlfolia.
Hepatica Prefers Shade
Bailey, -the last word In hortl
rnltiirA ffnwna nnnn thm TI A n
ticasteing called Mayflowers but
I find all native folk from Mich-
Iran.--' xricMtnaiTi.' Tnrtian. ni
Ohio nersita tn raTiinr thla little
early - blooming spring flower the
"MavnowAr." tt c-nwa mAii 1
In Oreron and instead of bloom-I
ing in May blooms in February.
March, AprlT and May. It is
blooming in mV garden now and
has done so for a month, Mrs. I
n.s oue so w moniu. airs.
D A of Salem should not be
?"r.fC"" 5T
are small this year. It takes a
while for this little plant to
establish itself. It prefers shade.
but .will do fairly well In . an
open place. It la well auited to I
the north or east slope of a I
rockery and should remain un-1
disturbed -from, year to year,
A rich, well-drained loam is ideal I
for its'-, culture. v i
Seeds can be purchased from I
soe seed houses which specialize
in tne mrrerent plants, xnere
are different; varieties of the
Hepatica. The seeds should be
jtt to PriaK r early summer.
They will seldom bloom the first
a. - Til . . , - a V mm a I
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Edelweiss Grow Here
Edelweiss can b grown sue
rmfnll Iiara In a llrht anil and
a colony of Edelweiss, plant a I
few seeds in a narrow chink in
j should be in sandy loam. The
Edelweiss Is said U be the peren-1
mial plant moat oonght hy tow -
iafa n tb Aina. - , - -
If the soil about the azaleas
an rnaaAATtnm la Vent nld Kv
use of oakleafmoldv aawdurt or
peatmoss, r hi seldom necessary
to use the aluminum sulphate
rystals. If the aoll is not acid
scatter - a teaspooaful of the
crystals around beneath the outer! have it pnotograpnea witn no at-1
branches of the shrub. All azal-lfected expression resting upon lt.j
eat . and rhododendrons . aaouia
be jnulched, however If they are
to succeed. - .1
Tne iittio reeaer Toots wmcn
.
f Ruw " mmT i.w vtim -way out. it Began o orag at
I SST . 1 I vTS
uw be protected trom
They should not be
1 tu m. . ihcj uu
. . . . . . m M
pennuwa w urj .nk iui iun
I emPjtllyUkey should Hot he
hoed off. Only a two or three
i.l. n MJ- e-tk. sV.
penr.lPI0S?0
I Pansles will gi
Lfl nar?Sl
lf season if grown in partial
shade. . They need a deep rich
soil with a leatmold or peat moss
mulch. Morning sun Is also
advised, : It Is no ".wnoder that
nast winter with the heavy rains
past winter vna uu awry raina
pansy niaata waanea out tnis
nye had.' One of the diffit-1
enltiea-ia keeping panty Hantsl
orer winter is to prevent their
washing; out.. A mulch will aaLvi w "bii ua nen
much to prevent them from wash -
ing away.
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I DlarV AlUCrSOll
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i wrvo voa -
Lreaas ins iiace
1 tmwnrTn.rfn . fv. --
I ester's race In lournallsm at IHS
to enter tha honorary, the Mar -
I told T' elub, continues -with
Mary Alderson leading with 2441
I points; second Is Mary Inouye
I with 1S1 ooiuts: third. Barbara
Ref, 177: points; 'Allan . Rags -
eaie, ii h poinu: fjonstance
Johnson, 141 points; and Don
Wells, 14S points. . . . -
I Five students enter the club
each semester. v
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Ladies Guild Features v
f yt a CTL" m f- t
I lowel snower al Uinrcn
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SILVERTOK A ? tea towel
shower for the church kitchen
wiU be featured at the Wednee-
day - afternoon meeting ' of the
r Ladies Guild of w Immanuel
i ehurch. The meellag will be
held in the social rooms et the
1 church. Hostesses are Mra Os -
J car Overlund. Mrs. Sam- Lores -
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Sage" bf Sale
Speculates
By D. H.
Tibbs and the Fortmne TeUer
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- (he doe's this once eyery bun
dred years ) , ;
This time to a Madam Tigerclaws;
Who wore big rings ta her ny
ears.
And be paid to her a coin or two,
And ho aaid,. JNow listen,
ntos in mpl ; K'-:
Don't tell me of past or of present
things.
For I know
all
about
'em,
said he.
'Also.? : he said.
"the;. future I
v know, : -vi
Am aware what 'tis going to be,
At least, I can tell (and modestly
smiled)
Pretty muchwhat Is coming to
me." I
The madam laughed, and passed J
his coins back. ' I
Mister wise guy," she' said!
teodle-oo; 1
regret 1 can't help, but you're I
not the type, , , 1
And tia -time now I think you I
withdrew. 4
Folks will pay. to hear what they I
hope : I
Will hap, although they know I
it can't be, j
Who get a thrill from mys'try cf-J
f ects,
Ah. my man, they're the suck
ers for me!'
I have bean astonished manv 1
times during my life to discover!
that certain individuals whom I
anu7 an,a fespeciea, ana con
1 " " u,mr,s uu r.pe.cou
suited people who called them
selves clairvoyants, seers or ror-
tune tellers. As a matter of fact,
nave even gone so tar as to as-
tonish myself by this means.
Frankly, I have never known a
clairvoyant's prediction, which an
average intellect, could, not have
I have j
made, which came true
7aXT' .a. "Znt
been told lof erful cases but
JSS&ttL'Z:
I tact with one. Doubtless, there are
minds that are greatly superior in
point of vision and comprehension
to other minds, and probably auch
minds might - be of much assist
ance to 'weaker minds, but these
superior minds are not numerous.
and are little interested In the type
of fortune teller one finds on th
back streets of cities, at county
fairs and in shacks here and there
0n the great waterways.
Politics and PhotoeraDhs I
Were I a candidate for public
office, and were to go to a photo-1
grapher to have taken a picture
"
from which to have a cut made for
I use upon my candidatorial adver
tising matter and at the conven
tional moment in the process he
to say - "Look pleasant.
Z"r ll"
I J. . i ?!
oW chance to chortle "Now,
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Wm, frankly widwlth something
f of a acowi that I am not smiling
I iouay, ana you wm un w o ui
i DOSt TOU Can Wint-tne iace US IS.
'He would probably be... deeply
I grieved by this. But. after all, It
J is my face ana not nia tnat i am
interested is. it is not a nanaioms
I race, out sucn aa u is i preier 10
I Also, whether the average pho-1
I tograohef knows it or not. the
beneficlent aoo neighbor smile
i for candidatorial Durooses Is on
t 7 . . " . - .1
ita war out It began -to drag at
1 the corners shortly after Mr. Roos-1
I Teit's second election and at the
1 tne corners snoruy aner mr. tioom-
1 ...it', uwnnn itiaetmn. ana ac zna
1 nrM. writ nr has almost entire -
I - ---- m
l,y ifsappeared, as you wiU note
by current snapshots of the presi-1
dent in the newspapers and the
motion picture newt weeklies.
Students of such matters will
tell you. (you . may find them on
any street corner in favorable wea-
tier if you -care to enquire) that
the Roosevelt smile, of the first
administration was,' so far aa a
smilo may be - such - a thing, .alticularly In -the beginning of his
I waited eepukhre. , , .1
i ..,ii-t-. . amn. !
- 4 , v wwv iui. u uw wu-
effusfve nyiegoea,ou ottplete sympathy,; at least with
I ue -,m wiuoniiujww enjoyment 4.ne etners
1 knew it would. Ana-the smnel
oas .ivr un apnroacang. cam-
palgn will, if Jt be effective as a
winner of votes, either be perfect-
ly natural and gravely serious er
candidly stem. ' r . ; . v -
Ph olographic portraiture, like
many other things, has undergone prefer novels which lull these re
ft tremendous change during, the I calcitrant, thoughta back to the
past f0 years. When I -was very
I yonng and wearing my first suitJ
1 lth troweers, black velveteep
I adorned with brass buttons, myling thoughts are very apt to be
mother and my grandmother had
1 e photographed considerably.
They considered me a very hand -
j ome child. This was due, I pre -
I ua s was mo -
I ther's first child and grandmoth-
er's first grandchild, and it is the
1 way oi moiners ana granamoth -
lers, more or less, anyway, as 1
i nave tearnea smce.. - -
l xnaty was, so iar as my genera -
I tion U concerned, in the wet plate
t u m vt luvnuipiniurEij aico wik nun ia-
J folhrwinr the rwet pants period. i Ion. We do not want to become
I You were seated In a chair which
hat an adjustable, back, and an
TB-' headrest, fraggestive ot a
pttchfork, was fitted to the back
of your head. , These -stiff en ers
i and eonstrainers and distortion -
r ers or posture are one reason why
I the family album .of. 50 and 601
1 years age occasions . laughter in
f these days. v ?v ' 1
I Havinr von thus imnaled. the
m
t
TALMADGE
l shame, perhaps, and " gave', yon
what is no w somewhat flippantly
termed the once-orer throngii the
camera. He did this a number Of
times," stepping . lightly between
times prearrange some detail of
yo'ur : appearance which: was not
quite atlff and unnatural enough
E to meet with his approval.
At last everything was ready
i The plate-holder was snapped Into
jPlce. - Jon were urged to "look
pleasant, please. the cap was re
moved from the lens, the operator
looked Intently at his watch, held
in his left hand, -and beat time
with the index finger of bis right
hand,
This process was gone through
with three : times once - for the
serious .expression of countenance
which mother wanted, once for the
smile. that grandmother wanted
desired by the photographer, the
body pose "remaining unchanged.
The proofs came along several
days later. Mother's serious ex-
pression one was the best of the
lot. Grandmother's smiling one
looked like a stomach ache, and
the operators look pleasant one
resembled something from th
gallery of the home for refractory
Infants.. None of them could be
honestly called a good and faith
ful portrait. None showed yon as
you really were
wnaiever may be the reason
for the fading away from the
president's countenance as photo
graphed of the good neighbor
smile. It seems to me an excel-
lent example for all political can
oaaies to iohow,
On th.
n i
ie iecord
By DOROTHY THOMPSON
: (Continued from ?age 4)
That the United States is in
solemn covenant with all major
nations to renounce war as an
m8trument of internatio: al pol-
icy. whether that war is declared
or ' BI1lecl&red or Ig Civll war
PPoses of .ggres-
ion. -
That where peaceful nations,
engaged in working out their .nings of dancing were had to the
own problems, become the vie- melodies of Barney Krop and his
time of any of these forms of , orchestra. Vent Gilmore juid Dar
aggression. the moral and ma- jrel Haabrook, ."S" club president.
suteg wlll exclusively to1
teriai support rOt the united
the victims.
That, specifically, if France or
Great Britain who, in the last
months, have demonstrated their
will to peace under conditions of
extreme humiliation, and bv ai-
most' superhuman patience, are
embroiled In - war, declared or
undeclared, either aa victims of
armed aggression against ueir
borders, or by reason of their
defense, of solemnly and-publicly
announced treaties, the United
Among the New Books
Reviews ' and Literary Newt Notes
S By CAROLINE CL JURGEN
Perhaps if Sinclair Lewla'a
I chapter in BREAKING INTO
frint (edited by Elmer Adler
Uj published by Simon 4k Schus-
l ter ) was read before SincUlr
1 Lewis's novels were read, seme
readers would read the . novels
with more sympathy nd under-
standing. Mr. Lewis does hare the
I same power the habit the ahil-
r ltr call it what yea like to rile
1 his readers, that same eonversa
tlonalisti
........ .. . . ... .
i uonaiists teven oeiore -tne iirst
sentence Is completed) have to
I rile their llstenera.. Too frequent-
1 aanience is coaipieiea
1 nw ineir UBxenera- too
- T -
1 lv theaa readers bane tnn honlr
I covers together at the end of the
first page, and savagely remark
1 "Sinclair Lewis makes me sick,
IHe is always making fun of tome-
1 thing. He to always knocking
something. He is too crabby. He
Just wants to pick a quarrel. ..
But some of us who have, done
this for Mr. Lewis dees seem to
carry a chip on hla shoulders, nar-
stories hare sneaked hack and
fi-i.k v-,-.v .tv t ,
i wu aave text, tne covers ciooeo
have missed aomethlng. Also they
aamu-ueieax. to use too anore
than trite, hut very apt phrase,
They can't take it. For Mr. Lew-
is has a eniua for dramatizing
thoughU that are on the thresh-
hold of every mind. Some readers
subconscious mind.' A stimulant
that would net the thoughta free
I might prove undesirable. Wander
I unorthodox.
I There are many of - ss who
i wouldn't for anything rive un the
j nice orthodox method of thought
1 ana acuan in puoue. - we . aon t
J like to be called radical. We don't
I like to be eonaidered queer. And
1 above au things we have no desire
1 to leave our1 familiea, our hoasea
land Jl our worly goods ta follow
1 anytning. we nave a unng to
1 make. TWe like to make it in com
I cultista.
7 However, we let our thought
stray off, and inwardly we chafe
against this er that tradition: la
wardly. quarrel with this- or that
1 condition, and outwardly remark.
with what we consider quite tome
denance. "we IL I don't think Sin
I clsir Lewis ie so had. I kind of ea
I Joy him." because Mrv Lewis ex
I ereasAs same af th Inward mm.
HigWiglits at
v Saler. High
-"By Gene Huntley
The hub upon which events at
hien aobool this week seemed to
turn'" was the state basketball
tournament in the Willamette
gymnasium. Two dances, a sls;e
review, a pep assembly, and this
week's issue of The Clarion were
all dedicated ta both Salem and
out of - town basketball players
and fans.
Accomplishing tuo objec
tives at " once, the; a nnual Vi
ing rrvnc Itcld ' In . the aodl
t o rj u m Thursday afternoon
snccreded in furnishing an un
usually entertaining . program
and at the same time poked a
little well-meant f in" at- the
- visiting tournament teams. The.
entire cast was made np e-f
boys even though the program
included several' girls parts.
An outstanding feature waa the
Vikings interpretation of
"Snow ' White and the Seven
Dwarf a." -Whistle While Yon
Shirk was the theme song.
Starr tteed played the part of
Snow-. White and . the seven
dwarfs were Graver Welty, BUI
Bentson, Glen Williams, Jim
White, Kenneth Pains, Lores
Hicks, and Milton Beckett.
Dick. Stober. and Cliff Ackley.
were girl tap dancers. The com
mittee planning program con
sisted of the chairman, Rowena
Upjohn, and Westley Gene 31c
Wain. t Jim White, Elizabeth
Steed, FVank Ncff, and Loaise
Hayes. Mrs. Bartholomew gave
her services as faculty advisor.
The fastest fingers in the world
were witnessed JKonday by. the
student body as Albert Tangora,
wjrld's champion typist, gave a
demonstration in the auditorium.
His fingers were a whir of speed
as words spread on his paper at
130 a minute. Mr. Tangora has
held the championship tor three
years, breaking the world record
in 1937 by typing 141 words per
minute for one hour.
The Salem' high debate team
wound up the season by win
ning second place la the dis
trict championship. Dallas was'
first, narrowly defeating Salem.
A good time and the making of
new frienda -among out-of-town
students was attained by those
' attending the "S-clun dances at
the CasUlian halUFriday and Sat-
iurday nights after the games at
the tournament. Pleasurable eve-
were in. charge.
States of America -will consider
their, cause its own. .
-"'' ' ' " "l ""
This and this alone is capable
of calling a halt to the destruc
tive process already so far ad
vanced. -This and "this alone can serve
the cause of v the highest Amer
ican Interest: the preservation et
our own social and economic sys
tem, and its modification by de
cision and not by force.
admit we have. -: A
Once at the university when a
certain civic organization enter
tained a certain croup of stu
dents, and one of the epeakera de
rided "Male Street as a "ghastly
attack on our small towns, the
back-bone ot our nation, we tat
thinking (very privately) - how
many Babbit there really were
in the world. And once at a Urge
church convention, when one ef
the pastors present spoke heated
ly ' against TClmer Gantry . and
suggested that it be suppressed,
we wondered - - "
There waa "Ann V I e k e r a,"
which some thought wasn't con
sistent, that Ann wasn't in a po
sition to teach reform. But we
liked "Ann Vlckers" and we liked
the reform Ann taught, whether;
or not we approved of her personal
actions. When criticism of our
taste became too severe,, we just!
reminded oar critics that, after
ail. Mr. Lewis did win the Nobel
prize for .literature in : 1030.
:; So, the other day,' when we ran
across Mr. Lewis's chapter in
BREAKING INTO PRINT, we
think we discovered why we really
like his novels. He writes-like we
read. He putt it very smoothly-
, The Fountain of Youth
They've found it, tie fabled Binuni,
Elostre-as absolute truth, ' vt
That soldier and seer have sought far and near,:
. .The wonderful fountain of youth.
- But now you don't chase through the tropics;
, As did the late Ponce de Leon,
But step up and say. in the Johns Hopkins .way,
v "Inject me with testosterone t v .
"I want a rose-petal complexion,
- -y : I want my gray hair to turn black ,
' A baritone voice is really my "choice,-
Alony; with a corporal's back.
And if the first shot doesn't bring; me
The bloom and the beauty I seek,
r;. ,Wby shoot "me again with the serum, and then
111 be back for, another next week.
I want to.be youthful, like SheUey, ;:
v I want to die young, as did Keats; 1
But I want to live longer than either, , '
.. Recapture youth and its sweets.. ' -
Just give me a shot of the magic '
. -Of gooddoctors Howard and Vest . -
And I'm telling you, before I get through
IU better Methusalah'i best!"
ED'wTN T. REED.
only he speaks of writing, where
as we substitute the word "read-
tag. ,v
"Mind you. the writing Itself
has been at Important to me as the
product, and I have always been
somewhat , indifferent as to whe
ther I have been working on a
solemn novel or an impertinent
paragraph for the NEW .YORK
ER. I have never been a propa
gandist for anything or against
anything save dullness.
IX. is dullness we object to when
we are reading, v Even when we
most heartily disagree with him,
we never find Mr. Lewis dulL
His new novel. THE PRODI
GAL PARENTS (Doubleday, Dor
an & Company, 1138 is far from
dulL Mr. Lewis has lost none ot
his ability, at dramatization: - he
still uses his Irony to strike at stu
pidity and malice, but he seems -to
have acquired more of the sav
ing grace of humor and sympathy.
Frederick William Cornplow is .
the outstanding character in '
"THE PRODIGAL PARENTS.
He is a -shrewd middle-class real
ist, who gradually, on his 56th
birthday wakes to find that Sara,
his selfish Vassar-graduate daugh
ter, and his son, Howard, stiy Ir
regularly playing football for old
Truxton. think of him as intellec
tually obsolete, as a Convenience,
as a walking bank account, to
whom tbfjy need return neither
affection nor thoughtfulness. He
finds that his wife, HazeJ. loves
him as he loves her, but that she
is the children's ally.
At the birthday dinner given In
his honor. Fred ' heard himself
saying, but not in the least believ-'
ing, thaMn exactly one year he
as going to sell his business and
retire.
Howard becomes almost hys
terical and tells his father, "You
couldn't ' possible. Whether I
stick it out In College or not,
I've got to: get started some
how, and you're the only .one
that'll help me."
And Sara, whose latest fad is
communism, and who had just
given her father a lecture on
his "capitalistic acquisition of
wealth," sarcastically tells him
he is "too much a creature of
habit- to retire. "You're as fixed
(n your routine as it you were
in a plaster cast, and you'd be
chilly without it."
And Hazel, "Fred! If you real
ly want V travel, or do any
thing at all. 111 always be right
there with you. - But we mustn't
fool ourselves. I've always said
it would be a great treat to see
Europe, but honestly, we would
n't be happy, trying to get along
without our comforts. But how
would you like to go back to
sleeping on a . horrible hard
mattress, like you probably had
as a boy? You can say what
you want to. but it's anrnlly (
important to hare an advertised
mattress.
So the time comes when Fred
Cornplow has to make a deci
sion about himself and the peo
ple and the work he has loved
all hU life. That decision and
hie escape ' from eternal servi- ;
tude make an outstanding noveL ;
It provides a new Bill ot Rights
for , American parents, and
whether it will or not It
ahould "bring a new pnderstsnd
lag to their children.
.': The announcement made by
H. G. Campbell, New York's :
superintendent of schools.' that ,
eleven committees of prominent '
men and women have been I
formed to launch an attack on ;
problems ef delinquency and ,
maladjustment, makes especially :
timely Maemillaa'a publication of
a concise and constructive book
entitled YOUTH IN THE TOILS.
The authors are Leonard V.
Harrison and Pryor , McNeill
Grant, and the book sums up a
study, et the whole subject ot
the delinquent boy In New York,
made under the auspices of the.
delinquency committee ot the
boys . bureau, a bureau organ
ised . seven years ago by two
of the leading family welfare
agencies.
Youth- In the Toils presents
the problem of the delinquent
boy. a problem which exists in
substantially the same form in
every American city: gives ac
tual stories ef boys who became .
delinquents and what happened
te them; shows .how with dif
ferent treatment ther might
have become good citizens; and
offers definite, constructive sug
gestions for making our sys
tem ef criminal justice one of
rehabilitation rather than retri
bution tor youthful offenders.
Sailors Leave Sbanghai
LEBANON Mr. and Mrs G.
Skinner .have received a letter
trom their aon Morris sUting that
his ship. U. S. Chaumont, which
left Shanghai with 1260 marines
has arrived in Honolulu and will
be etattoaed there for an indefin
ite stay: but all hope to reach
I home by May 1.