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The OREGON STATESMAN, Safest, Oregon, SunHay Bfornln, Aliinal 2f,
Performs for Wilson
Pompeii Ruins
Jire Inspected
Traveler Amazed at State i
of Preservation of
Once-Buried City
Editor's ' Kote; C E. Wilson, former!
aarrrtarr of tha Salem chmobcr f
commerce, it a eiUnded tour of I
X a rope tn4 from tina to tima forward
"' accounts of bii impressions ta Tha State s
via. 'sl)owins is another of kia inter-
estiof; letters.
By CHARLES E. WILSON
The day I Tlslted Mt. Vesurlus,
it decided to pat on a little exhibi
tion. Of course.. VeauTius imokes
all the tln-o as It la a real actlre
YOlCftDO.
- Now a 8 t Imagine you were
it&nding inside the crater at Ve-
butIds and suddenly you heard a
boom in sr. rushing sound and then
tha Tolcano began to spout big
columns ot black smoke and with
an explosion, black rocks - and
smoke shooting a thousand feet
straight up in the air.
But the guide said it happens
once In a while. In fact, three
years ago there was a yellowish
lara now that almost filled the
crater. It looks like dough all
tangled up, yellow with brimstone
trimmings. This yellow flow
happened three years ago and on
this we were walking to the cen
tral cone of the volcano.
Hot in Spots
In places, it was a little hot and
steam could be seen from Tarions
fissures of the rock, as lava soon
becomes rock.
Then as we gof nearer to the
big central cone In the crater,
-which does all the smoking, we
walked on black lava which came
out only hree months ago, sow
quite hard like stone. The' lava
flows come from the crater and
not from the big central cone
whose special job seems to be
Just to keep smoking day and
night and then when things get
too hot inside, to put on a show,
sending columns of black smoke
and rock straight up a thousand
feet or more.
In the black lava, center of the
crater, a young Italian had a long
iron rod. He bad opened a fis
sure and reached down four or
five feet and pulled out the real
red hot lava. Then we could look
and see down, only a few feet
below where we were standing, a
stream of red hot lava.
Pompeii
Just imagine a city built of
Stone about size of Salem, where
wealthy people built their palaces,
their halls of justice and forums
so people could vote and talk
things over.
Then imagine a volcano cover-
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raids is the peculiar superstructure seen on the Central Bank
branch in Canton, still standing in the midst of desolation. The ar
row points to the bamboo structure of four layers, which Chinese
bare erected on all their large buildings. The bamboo reduces the
force of explosion when the building is struck by a bomb (UN)
How Docs Your Garden Grow?
Numerous Inquiries Upon Gardening Are Herein
Answered; Subjects Varied
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Answers to inquiries:
G. L. P. Please send me a self-
ad dressed, stamped envelope and
lng with hot ashes and pumice (111 send sou the
stone, the city to a depth of 12 1 names of places
or 15 feet and -the city forgotten. I to get the 'del-
Pompeii had Just been rebuilt I phlnium seed. I
and all that Roman art and money am not ; permit
could do bad been done between ted to give trade
the years 63 and 79 A. D. Those names in t h 1
Romans knew how to live. Fine column
bath rooms in private homes and I Certainlv the
for the public, hot, cold and .tepid. I mtle plants may
uecoratea ainmg rooms witn I h loft in : tf
painting yet Quite clear. Statuary Beed bed loca
everywhere. as the Romans had t,nn nnHi ,rnff
so many gods to pray to. The
walls of these fine homes, their
bath rooms, and even rooms
where the head of the house con-
In fact
won't get
started
you
them
early
P-- er. ,
LUIls L. Midaea
ducted business; are all there. - Of f J
Sweet william started
should bloom next season.
course, roofs are gone,
One big palace, at the entrance
had dog in mosaic stone with
the words "Beware of the dog."
Others had the words "welcome,
as one entered, suggestive of the
American custom of having on the
now
One
can make a sweet william bed
last two or three years, but the
blooms are really better if, the
plants are started each summer
wall, "Welcome to Our Home I f or nxt summer's bloom.
before the days of the automobile. I Glads won't "go back" to prim
For the kitchen, they had more I nlinns because each are different.
pots and pans than any modern I A prim is something more than a
nosseaeeper. au tnese are shown, I small glad. But glads will deter-
even a bakery not so much differ- I iorate If i left In the same place
ent than those of a generation I esch year. The state library has a
smu Boy aaa usn i Tery nice collection of garden
,.t wVvye ar o. pea ex- books and will undoubtedly be
a 1 .1 l""VUCJU "r"cie- able to supply the books on glad
And they had one way traffic I i0jua- ,
If a street was too narrow That Ume Aids Color
tn . .t p L,m w" tend to keep pink hy-
.m.i. " .1 I drangeas pink. It does away with
v "mill, w m cuuugu iu KCU ..(,, t
chariots out. Some streets show i0.1 T
marks of chariot wheels. Of h PS!It? t0
coursestreet, were narrow, just !i!".?th" p1"' w,h.lcn reT
wide enough to let two chariots M . ..,m wu wuuuseeu
pass. Sidewalks are about three Pfnt malt, peat, are all ex
feet wide. So that the feet would cellent fertilizers for acid-loving
not get muddy, safety stone P1"4. f .-
blocks were nlaced at tret in- suggested fertilizer is cot-
tersectlons, so one could cross a
street onx these stone blocks.
Dining room walls were deco
rated, with paintings of fish and
crabs. For reception rooms, Cu-n
pid seems to have been a favorite.
As at that time. Christians were
regarded as most unsatisfactory
citizens and were being fed to the
lions In Rome, there are no re
ligious paintings in any ot the
rooms of Pompeii.
.Well, after looking at Pompeii
and articles excavated and the
entrance words of "Beware of the
Dog, one is Inclined to believe
there Is nothing new in the world.
Gets New Eye
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The JUv..U. E. Harding of San
Francisco can see today as the
result of a delicate and successful
operation which transplanted the
" cornea from tfcs eyeball of Mrs
XIargaret Carr of Berkley, CaC
: shortly after sis died. Her other
eye, also willed for tut to restore
some other's sight, repaired the
ylsion of a Sacramento !anlst,
Arthur Morton. ?!.
tonseed meal, 10 pounds; acid
phosphata 4 pound; sulphate of
potash, 2 pounds.
Barnyard fertilizer is not con
sidered a good fertilizer for col
umbines, j j " v . -
Foxgloves and Canterbury bells
planted now should bloom nicely
next summer, but get them in as
soon as possible. -
I do not know of a Hlae blight
and so far have beeni unable to
find any material on jit. Are you
sure the shrubs are not suffering
from scale-or, perhaps, borers?
Both attack the lilacs to quite an
extent. To control the scale-the
shrubs should have been given
three thorough sprayings in June
and July, using IV. pounds of
soap, pint Blackljeaf forty to
60 gallons of water.' A dormant
winter spray of a miscible oil. The
spray container will give the di
rections. The borer can be con
trolled by Injecting carbon bisul
phide into the holes and covering
with wax.:
Lilacs do not thrive well in an
acid soil. Perhaps if you (GLP)
would write and give me a de
scription of how the blight affects
the lilacs, I might be able to find
something more definite about it.
Drainage Essential
D. I: Daphnes prefer soil con
ditions such as those found In
rock gardens. Perfect drainage is
essential even in summer. They
will not; tolerate having water
stand about them in. little pools
through long summer days. A
peaty or; very sandy soil seems to
be preferable. Clay soil is death to
them before long. While some
shade la not detrimental,- they
thrive best In full sun.
L. K. The columbines had best
be given a watering occasionally
if this dry weather persists. They
will not - survive too long a
Sprague Visits
English Capital
Youth on Cycling Tour o
Europe Spends 2 Days
4 Viewing London
By WALLACE SPRAGUE
- Paris. July 17.
Last week when I wrote it was
Immediately before setting out to
see one of the great capitals of
the world. Now a week later. 1
have another to discover as best
I can.
I add the last sentence to the
foregoing paragraph for a reason.
We found that in London we had
but little more than two days to
spena ana tnat undergrounds
basses, taxis, and feet notwith
standing, it is quite an impossible
task to see much of a great city
ana suu nave pleasure in doinx
lt in so limited a time.
We began, as 1 suppose all rood
Americans do, by going to Amer
ican Express for our mall and
suitcases, - the latter having been
snipped down from Scotland while
we were cycling. We brought both
mall and luggage to our room
via aubway like trophies of the
chase, and had a great time when
we got here getting genuinely
cleaned up cycling lacks a few
of the amenities and reading
our mail.
In London
Next came London itself. Paul
and I were together that first af
ternoon, and our first activity was
to go to Trafalger Square to get
a bus up the Strand to Fleet
street where we wanted to call on
an acquantance in the United
Press office. Our friend was not
in but we saw news being tele
phoned and teletyped there from
all over Europe. Dispatches were
phoned in from Sargasso, Spain
and Prague while we were there
From the UP office we walked
up Fleet street the windows and
brass door plates of which filled
with more newspaper names than
I thought existed toward St.
Paul's cathedral. Aside from the
fact that this is Christopher
Wren's triumph and one of the
great buildings of the world.
was far more impressed with it as
a national shrine than with West
minster Abbey which we saw lat
er, and which seemed to me al
most choked with monuments to
England's famous dead. St. Paul's
has the graves of Wellington and
Nelson, her great heroes of the
Napoleonic era and! of several
more famous Englishmen, but no
where does one feel that there
was barely enough room for the
cofins as in, say, the Transept of
Westminster Abbey.
Visit Towen
That afternoon we went on east
to the Tower of London where we
paid a sixpence to see armor and
drought, and the dry season is
longer than usual this season.
. St. John's wort will j cover
large space if not kept under con
trol. For this reason the St.
Jobnswort has frequently been
suggested as a ground cover. This
little plant will grow in almost other medieval , and renaissance
any variety of soil but prefers a iron ware in the White Tower,
ramer sanay ana partial snaayi rather than the Crown jewels in
spot. another tower. We much regret
. Lawn experts tell us that this ted our choice afterward but there
is the time of the year to doctor w n time to return,
up a lawn. If there are. any bare From the tower we came back
spots, and the rest of the lawn toward PIcadilly by subway to
seems good, fork up the bad spots,
work .in fine,, well-rotted manure
and sow thickly with -grass seed.
Firm down the soil with the back
of the spade. When the remainder
of your lawn has been closely cut,
give it a generous top dressing
with peat or compost to which
grass seed has been added. Then
water thoroughly.
Peony Planting Time
S. M.: Now is the time to plant
those peonies yon admired so
much last spring and early sum
mer. Plant from now; through
St. James palace and Bucking
ham. About all one could see
here, beside the buildings them
selves, were the red coated fig
ures of the palace guards. The
latter despite their formidable ap
pearance in great busbies and
their fine military posture, turn
ed out to be mostly youths of
about 19 to 22 years old, rather
than grizzled veterans of many
years service. That surprised me.
Speaking of Buckingham
might say here that we failed to
see the changing of the guard
when we found cnrselves the next
September. Any good soil will do, I morning in a standing line in the
but do not add fresh animal fer- office of the Italian consulate. We
tiiizer in the spot you are setting j were there to try to get special
the roots. These should be three Pssea for the Italian art galler-
or four inches beneath the sur-I les: a half-hour after the guard
face of the soil, but do not get I nad changed we were told to wait
them in too deep. Too deep plant- unui we l 10 Venice, we were.
ing is frequently the reason for
peonies failure to bloom. If you
are planting a number ot them.
set each one two and half : feet
apart In the row. A late, fragrant
as you can see, vastly pleased.
AO. ID Downing Street
There is no great reason for de
scribing in detail -the rest of our
London sojourn. We saw No. 10
rose-colored peony Is Grandlflora 2?WuJ KSfS, lncludIn tne
Rosea. Solange. a lilac 1. said t J XS'-K" l0
be the world's finest peony. Fells
Crouse Is a brilliant red. Aval
anche is a late white.
Chrysler) ; Hyde Park. Whitehall.
the houses or parliament, includ-
K C If Ton iav nf I dusting sulphur. A forcible spray
ter for ' Irrigation, by all means " "lcr W1" "wp " me spi
plant your evergreens now. In
cluding kalmia, laurustinus, the
rhododendrons, cedars, box and
others. It goes without saying,
they should be purchased with
their roots balled. They must not
be permitted to dry out after they
have been planted.
der is on plants which can stand
this.
A. B. P.: Borers will work
more upon undernourished trees,
or perhaps it would be better to
say that their work Is more ef
fective. If borers are to be pre
vented irom doing any damage
S. L.: If the ends of your fern tre mnst be kept in healthy
fronds continue to tnrn hrnwn conaition by being well watered
examine the plant carefully for and fertilized. During the dry sea-
mealy bur. a small nest adherinr 1 80n the vigor of the tree is
closely to th tem. tyia m 1 somewhat curtailed and is then
either be removed by a toothpick.
wrapped- In cotton and dipped in
alcohol, or by spraying with
Blackleaf Forty. They can kill a
plant in short order if not taken
care of. . . s
RMG: When the dahlias are In
especially susceptible to -infesta
tions of boring insects.
Among the suggested remedies
to kill borers are: Grubs may be
killed by running a wire Into the
burrow. Inject carbon disul-
p hide in the burrows and plug
Is sa AnAfl f sj rrm 1
cun,vattonn0otr new' tuberVw!S IrlSZ
cultivation, or the new tubers will on th ,--,.-. tn vm k.... ..
tA fnftinut rt19 i t I -v.. - o.
some Instances, advise a level
tablespoon! ul of complete, balan
ced fertilizer around each plant,
in a circle starting two inches
from the stem, and extending out
ten inches, and worked lightly in
to soil, from now until frost. The
feedings should be given every
two weeks they tell jus. But care
mnst be taken not to allow the
plant food to touch the stock' or
leaves. --
Sprays Advised
D. C: Sprays for the following:
Leaf Hoppers, use a nicotine sul
phate or any other good contact
spray.' ... : . .' ! '
Aphis: the same as for leaf-
hoppers. ; j-! , : ; ; . p.;
Thrips: spray the stalks and
stems very well with nicotine sul
phate. All dead stalks, or stalks
finished Blooming, ? cut; off and
burn- ;' -: -;:v . : .:.:T ;. .1 ;:".
Mildew: dust with fine dusting
sulphur. .'
Red spider: spray with rote-
none sprays or dust with fine
0 (fs
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Opera library
Plans on
Way
s
age
Composers Society "Would
Slake State Library
Score Sanctuary
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20-()
A plan to make the Oregon
state library a na'Ional sanctuary
for American grand opera scores
has been Inaugurated by the So
ciety of. Oregon Composers with
thef approval ot Governor Charles
H. Martin.
; President E. Eruce Knowlton
revealed' today the society had
set about collecting an estimated
BOO to 700 scores most of which
are unknown and unpublished
but almost all of which contain
some music - of great artistic
worth. The should, he said,, be
preserved because thejr reflect a"
phase of American life and repre
sent a musical delineation of the
nation's - growth.
Scores Disappear
Knowlton said there was no
such musical repository In -the
United States now, a circum
stance deplored by music-lovers.
Every European country, he con
tinued, has many of . them and
no operatic scores, regardless of
quality, are allowed to disappear.
The association estimates - that
America has had upward of ISO
operatic composers each ot whom
has written from one to seven
scores, devoting an average of
from three to five years to each.
All Worth Saving .
"They are not all masterpiec
es, ot course," Knowlton said.
"and few of them have anything
but sentimental value now. But
they should be saved and we are
trying to collect them from com
posers or their heirs."
The society is contacting as
many composers and their heirs
as it can and has asked any
overlooked to communicate with
Knowlton at the Fine Arts build
ing in .Portland, Ore.
ing the Great Hall of Westmin
ster; and a number of other fam
ous points in London. I made a
special point to walk down Regent
street to Picadilly, and from there
over to and down the Mall. From
time to time I felt a little timid
as I saw all the names I had read
so much actually appearing on
signposts; it's exactly the same
sensation one has when he first
sees 42nd street up over the curb.
or catches sight of the Planters
peanut sign in Times square.
Altogether London is distinctly
different. It has its own rather
stodgy, but I think winning per
sonality. For spectacular sights
it is excelled by New York, and
for beauty by Paris (I am told);
but I suspect for7 solid interest
and actual variety of sights Lon
don would surpass either of the
others. That at least is what I
concluded after two days' resi
dence there. ,
Sp
of Salem
eculates
By D. II. TALMADGE
MISTER BIXKS
The sunshine is not o'er the corn
lands,
And hot on the eastern shore.
And hither and yon in desert spots
A hundred degrees and more.
And folks who complain of weath
er here
Should list a moment or two
To old Binks, who's been around
some, -
And mebby 'twill change their
- View.
Mister- Binks he says when folks
complain ,
Of weather these regions clothe
That they should sweat as he has
, swote,
And should breathe heat -he has
brothe. ;
An impatient man is Mister Binks,
Who believes in gratitude, -
He says folks would sing another
tune
If -they'd stewed as he has
stewn. '
To '.Dubious, Salem : I see no
reason why your mother, who you
say is 70 years old and who , wish
es to visit the old home near Chi
cago, should not make the trip
by airplane. I do not know your
mother,' but ' the .fact that she
wishes to go by plane indicates to
me that she would find the trip a
very pleasant one.
I have in mind two men, one of
whom believes everything be Is
told, provided it seems reasonable
enough to him to seem reasonable,
the other of whom devotes his life
to nursing twins, one of which is
named Skepticism and the other
Cynicism. Of the two men, the
former Is the happier. There ap
pears to be no question as to this.
A summary of a summery trip
to the east coast, recently taken
by this department, , with a view
to publication in this issue, has
been discarded Something is hay
wire with the figures. No men
tion is made of the number of
hours devoted to sleep on the trip,
and I am quite certain there were
one or two dozy periods. This is
not the first time I have caught
figures in a fib, regardless of the
general belief in their veracity.
AT SALT LAKE CITY
As a matter of fact, I recall
most distinctly the taking of a
very small nap in a very large bed
at the Hotel Utah In Salt Lake
City. They have ot yet acquired
the "plaza" habit at Salt Lake. I
cannot conceive of the necessity
for such a large bed in these latter
Utah days and nights as there was
in the room allotted to me, unless
well, skip it. The Utah is strict
ly Mormon in all its appointments
. . . a high-class hotel.
. The main-liner on which I had
left Newark that morning had re
ceived orders' when It arrived at
Salt Lake City to go to Denver
Instead of Portland. So the three
or four of us who were booked for
Portland laid over.
It was rather pleasant in Salt
Lake City, with .a hot sun and a
coolish breeze, and I met up witn
an agreeable young chap from
somewhere east of the mountains,
who Is pilot of a taxicab. His name
Is Henry Shafer, and what be
doesn't know about Salt Lake and
Salt Lake City is not so much, al
though be dwelt somewhat spar
ingly, on - matters pertaining to
Mormonlsm. I hadn't heard so
much about Salt Lake City for
years as Henry relieved himself
of on this occasion. And all the
time I kept, ah eye open to catch
Senator Reed Smoot on the street.
' Perhaps because I was weary,
and. because I knew of a fairer
valley, farther west, I was not par
ticularly impressed by this valley
to which Brigham Young and Jo
seph Smith (I hope I have remem
bered ' the names correctly) led
their disciples' - years ago. But
there are sights to see in Salt
Lake City, and I reckon the tour
ist trade is large. On the day when
I. chanced to be there the square
about the great temple was
parked to the limit with automo
biles from every state in th un
ion except guess what Oregon.
But Henry said there are days
when Oregon license plates lead
all the rest. The early Mormon
leaders are buried In the grounds
here, and I limped over and drop
ped a figurative tear there, . for
after all these men had accom
plished great things and by that
token are entitled to homage.
I once heard Ann Eliza Young.
seventh wife of Brigham, deliver
a lecture in an Iowa town.
was a good looking woman and a
good speaker as I recall her, and
my somewhat time-blurred recol-
lection Is that she had not a verys'
high regard for things as they
were being conducted at that .
time in Mormondom. But great
changes have occurred since then.
It was a small plane that
brought us from Salt Lake City to
Portland, but, after all, a noble
little plane that tried hard to
make up lost time and failed.
However, it delivered us safely at
Swan Island, and that, was the
main thing, for It has always
seemed to me an accident at the
last moment, when one has
thrown aside all apprehension and
feels within himself thst nothing
can happen now, is the most unde
sirable of all accidents.
Think of the times when the'
home team has won the ball game
at the lasfmoment. and the sud-
t-deat. sweetness ot it. Yes, and think
of the times when the home team
baa lost the game at the last mo- .
ment. But I reckon there are
thousands of times In life's af
fairs when nothing undesirable
happens at the last moment to one
time when something undesirable
does happen, so why think about
it?
.The widow Pllpp. back on
Crane creek had a clock which
sometimes went and sometimes
didnt. It wan't of much value as
a clock. Mrs. Pllpp kept it fer sen
timental reasons, it reminded her
so much of her departed husband
Mr. Pllpp was a good man, and
perhaps it was not entirely his
fault that ' his mainspring was
subject to spells.
"Alexander's Ragtime Band."
film now showing at the Grand
theatre in Salem, went over big
In New York. For once I can bear
personal testimony to an item
from. Broadway.
Guernsey Club Meets
ELLENDALE The Guernsey
Calf club met at the Kenneth Mar
tin home Thursday. Melvin Sel
ander had charge of the meeting
and G. Selander, the leader, in
structed the boys on how to exhib
it calves at the fair. The next
meeting will be August 25 at the
She Elmo Black home.
Try One o Those Tasty
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We cater to banquets and
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Special Sunday Chicken
Dinner 50c; Special Mer
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pared by expert Chinese
cook.
Orders to take out any
time. Open Day or Night!
m Sanitary Kitchen. .
Pork Chow Mein for 1,
35c; for 2, 50c; for
3, 75c.
Chicken Chow Mein, 75c
Pork Chop Suey ...35e
Fried Rice: 35c
Home-made Noodles, 25c
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