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page six Tht OREGON STATESMAN, Salexa, Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 29, 1939 Study Surprises Other Than Stings Bee Inspector Reveals Lore Honey-Gathering Insect Minds Own Business .. Says Joe Marty By LILLIE L. MADSEN The sweetest story erer told. J according to Joe Marty, is that ot the honey bee and her -work. It is also one of the most surpris ing, he adds. . Marty is one of Oregon's bee inspectors, When be isn't inspect- i lag, he is hobnobbing with the in- ; habitants of 91 colonies of bees, j Marty and his bee-family ' hare i their homes ' at the end of the lane in the Bridge creek district. i some 20 miles in the hills beyond isilTerton." Here Marty's bees pro Sduced six- tons of honey daring the past summer, which is 12,000 pounds. Since 12 pounds of honey make a gallon, that is a lot of j honey. And when we find stati stics telling us that mere are a miUiomeople in the United States wb& maintain bee-hires and that the annual honey crop is rained at 175,000,000, we beginjo real ise somebody uses a lot of sweetening. Bees Teach Lesson Marty eaya he can talk tor hours He keeps a note book in which 60 times in one "sitting." about the bee. He thinks this is he records "the approximate Hives should be looked into enthusiasm, but it Is rery likely blooming season of 70 nectar-pro- once a week during spring and sound bee-knowledge that keeps flowers. These he follows summer. Never should honey be him going. He has been in the aD6ut. The different flavors are fed the bees, says Marty. Such a honey-business in an extensive acquired from different fields. practice teaches them to rob. Rob way for 12 years. He reports he onion Honey Belies Source . bing is apt to bring in disease, for learns something new each day. When it's onion - blossoming bees may visit a diseased hive. To BOme people, honey is al- tlmft ln t-v- tabish. down comes fioin? thrnnth a hive in cold ;ways Just honey. But, says the : noneyman is matij irequem- . jy cauea;, mere is as uiucn uu- aoun(i a9 an undesirable honey- ference in honey flavors as there flavor, contrary to fact. Onion ils in perfume smells. If we were flavored honey is mild and spring i skeptical at first, after a bit we like There & no unpleasant hint I belonged to those of strong faith. During the course of an afternoon spent at the bee ranch, we bad the pleasure of tasting some 15 to 20 varieties. The difference in from now on we should enter a store and ask for a quart of wild ;r srialnlngrin facl so e are not given basswood, which Marty said was very fine but which we did not care for, or the Eng lish heather honey, which the English may like, but which even Marty did not extol, n ,rti, s. ki- t ..(.. a store and ask for a special fla- and ask for a special fla- Marty declared. "The source vor, ' ot the neetar should be labeled on Itbe container." It was a new idea I that sounded rather good. . Insect Union Hinds Bvsiness i "Peoole." insist Martv. t'could I learn much from .studying the hua " tia iaWatii) v ...uini.. -. ; 1AQ MlluutabCU VJ C.WUUl that Lees form a union which minds ita own business, not wor- rylng about the other fellow, and 'only fighting back when attacked, i Poeta sneak of "the burr little I bee flitting about." Marty says that is poetic license. It's the bee- manipulation of. frames of combs keeper, who is busy "flitting the is comparatively easy. Mark, Mar bee about." It ia no small matter, ty warned, that he said "compar he explains, to move nearly 100 atively easy." Even in spite of a colonies fromone "pasture" to an- 'other. But pasturing out bees is important ln successful honeying, Vn iheOlecord . By DOK07HJ THOMPSON " j ' (Continued from page 4) V He and -his whole party are nsth liagore or leas than as organ fixation ; for promoting by legal and illegal methods the in tur na tional policies of the Soviet Un ion. ' j ' Mr. Browder was an aent of the Soviet Union in China tn '1927. His former wife, Katie Harris,' alias Katherlne Harrison, has been an OGPU agent in w?t ern Europe. His brother, William, testified before the Dies commit tee that; "although he had report ed tor Income-tax purposes oMy $1000 a year in 1937 and 1938. he had! Ranked nearly $1,000,000 in his jrwn name at that time, i Otheje witnesses ; testified that the Communist party had 1 fr ee! red theavy subsidies, through out mist of its -existence frnm Mosco and that "The Daily Worked started with a Moscow sobsldt i ThetCommunlst party regular ly rais '! money for one purpose and di erts It to other purposes. Relief Ifuadsand; defense funds so intd.the party coffers far pro paganda, , vT: 1 It and when the whole story of Conimunist finances' is unrav eled, itfwill make RichaM Whit ney loi like a piker. 'And there is no mere, reason why Mr. Brow der should be protected than Mr. WhltnejC- In ' fact, Mr. Whitney is of little consequence, tor Ur. Whitney was sot engaged, as Mr, Browdccf and Mr. Kuan both are. In influencing the forei.ni policy ot the United States act or ding to the decisions. ol -two torelgn lictators. ; . j Knhn! is an agent ct the Nart party. He la as much an agent is Kurt'Wllhelni George Lud-cke was aa 1 agent The difference Is .bat Ludecke got purged and told. Kahn has a Jail record tn Gtr many, !ras an early member ot the Natl party, participated in the beer hall putseh and came here to promote the Interests of his master. ;V;-. ."',v-'":.v--'-; ..:?-;, 1 Under cover of protecting the rights f German-Amrrt ra as who felt not the slightest need Df -havjig their rights protected until Air. Kuhn , appeared upon the sche- his sole objective Is to; influence the foreign .policy af jthe jtfnlted States In a manner rayorabie to Berchtesgaden. Both Jt thesf self-styled followers Ot U'ishinton and Lincoln have lo baJr br4nches of the 0(1 PU ' and thfe Gestapo. Both of their organ-, izatloni j indulge ia Industrial a.id mlljtaryi espionage, and in xse of war .would Indulge tn sabotage. oranizations exercise terror over the members. of tiieir parties. Mr. Browder's appeal to of Bee-Eeping Brings rr.-,..iiyt ..... i iiu mmm-nvme- V - y, rr I " u i J I ' "rcople ronld learn mnch from (above). Bridge Creek apiarist Marty 0y pre-arrangement) and Bome coionles of bees. Onions may of tne strong and odorous vegeta ble. Alsike clover, sweet clover, Dutch clover, alfalfa, fruit trees, each gives its own flavor. The yaiaiatiiu. ov to l 11c oaiai. uui to us, honey flavor that surpasses that of vine maple or fireweed has '. There are a number of do's and don't in the honeybee world, says Marty. If these rules are not fol- lowed rather, closely, .the bee cul- turist is very apt to get stung f iguratively . as well as literally, Before embarking on the manage- ment ' n, piT' Jlt! , r 7 r kePr oI tne bees should know that t.A nncnnpani a Aa.taln tmnnnt that he possesses a certain amount of aptitude tor the pursuit. Even Marty . Gets Stung In early spring, the colonies should be gone through, frame by frame. When alarmed, bees In- .ti..n..i. m .v.t- v OUUVUVOl UCglU LU Llll IUC11 UUU ey sacs with food from the near- est store. When so provided they are more amenable to interfer- ence. The bee-keeper uses a bee- imokr tn iiehtw alarm th hnes. They begin to fill their sacs and fine black net aliDDed over a wide- brimmed straw hat, he admits he has been stung as much as six to his rights of free speech is laugh able when one considers hla own testimony regarding party poli cies. He testified: "Criticism of the Nazi-Soviet pact would be ground tor expulsion from the party." A Communist party mem ber has nothing whatever to say about party policy. Ho carries out, in blind obedience, whatever instructions . come to the party from the Kremlin. It the party is told to talk war, the party and all its fronts howl' for war. It it is told to talk peace, the party and all its fronts howl for peace. And the organs of the Bund shift their organization and their propaganda in . exactly the same way. .They urge the United States toward a common front against Communism one week and into a common front aga'nst British "imperialism" the next. . , And at present both thse con spiracies are working for the same goal namely, to make 'the United States of America com pletely impotent in foreign poli cy. What they will work tor to morrow depends upon the course of the war, and on that alone. They have been described by Walt . Whitman in a day when words had blood in them: "Cring ers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involu tions." The Dies committee is doing an. unpleasant Job, la the course of which a number ot perfect ly Innocent people are bound to be smeared. This is too bad, but the Job had to be done. The peo ple who' have innocently Joined "front- organizations for Inter national conspiracies are not the victims of the Dies committee. They are victims ot the- crnspira tora and ot their own simplicity. It la high time that the Ameri can people knew; the troth. For the truth" Is the most pow erful weapon which; openness has against conspiracy and. democra cy has against despotism. "Knight Errant" By jack Mcdonald, (Continued froaCi pg "He's going to cross Basattt and ride Knight Errant to- win!" r Slim was skeptical. He bad had only nominal faith in the success ot his idea ot tricking Draper In the first place. It was Just on ot those long shot fliers that seldom click. ''"-' .' '... - - Draper will., be sure to tell Bassitt everything when they get together In the paddock to saddle up," he warned Snapper. "He'll see right through, bur scheme and tell the Jockey someone was try ing to make a tool out ot him." : Slim, however, was intrigued with the thought 'that he had --m- ,JJ ' i St! vV studying the bee," says Joe Marty and one of Oregon's bee inspectors. weather has a tendency to make the bees ball the queen, which frequently results in her death. Don't keep' a queen over two years, also belongs to Marty's "don't column." August Is the best time to requeen. If the keeper In troduces instead of produces a new queen, she should be intro duced by means of a small cage. This may sound very funny and very complicated to the uniniti ated, but Marty tells us that it Is just one more of the items which make for or against the success oi tne Dusiness. Disease Requires Watchfulness Diseases and Insects are Just as preTaient in the bee colony as In tne rose bed and even more de- etructive. "Foul brood" la the nn- tractive name for the unattrac- tive disease which has made the greatest destructive inroad in greatest uesirucuve inroaa iu American bee-culture. There are . ... . - two main forms of "foul brood," says Marty. They are both forms of decay -producing organism. One of the reasons for constant Inspection is to discover the dis ease as soon as it appears. Whre "foul hrnnH" haa hennm stah- lished, it is best to burn the hive, There is danger of contagion. Ev- en when the disease ia believed to be stamped out, it may still be in the hive. There are records ot cases where cultures have been obtained from the disease-spores removed from combs after being kept dry for 20 years. While the discovery and study of bee diseases date back to 1768. Marty is inclined to believe there la still much to learn about it. something to look forward to, no matter how the race came out. If Knight Errant won he would be $5,000 to the good and Flo's bank roll would be benefited. . And it the colt lost, Slim's pro phetic warning to Heather might open the way to her confidence. But, win or lose, the day held it's promise of thrills for Slim. It was a warm spring peninsula, af ternoon and Seabiscult was to run in the feature race. (To be continued) Coprrifk by Jaek McDonald; Distributed by Kins Feature . Syndicate, Iao. Ashland Doctor Dies ASHLAND, Oct. 28-(JP)-Dr. Da vid M. Brower, 81, charter men ber of the Oregon Medical society, died here yesterday. He had been a physician for 51 years. He for merly practiced at Roseburg and Myrtle Creek, coming here in 1893. . (Dentistry's Place in Living Costs Dr, Painless Parker Soya ' "The complex business of living requires money for food, bousing, clothing and trans portation. Rarely is any money set aside for medical or dental care. Yet dentistry and good health are prime essentials te living. "Planned medical and den tal care is not only the wisest but the most economical. Pre ventive dentistry has proved that wherever practiced. Some of Its greatest results have been attained la those states where work among school children has set up higher and 'mora beneficial dental stand ards. - The example furnished la such cases Is now having some effect on the adult population, but far too many persons de lay a visit to the dentist until a toothache causes pain and discomfort." Dr. Painless Parker J DENTIST . SALEM OFFICES : 125 N. Liberty, corner fitate Street Others tn Eugene, Portland, Tacoma, Spokane, Seattle In All Leading Pasifle Coast Cities Coyote Killed- After Six-Hour Chase at Scio SOO Tangled roots of a willow tree aro no snre hiding; place. Or so luckless coyote found on the east end of ttod gers mountain a few miles from Scio last week. Dick Craft of the Borgen Hollow district shot the tired little marauder after a six-hoar chase by hounds. Sheepmen have suffered re peated losses by the bold thieves, who come down sir tnally into farmyards to do their killing. A number of coyotes have been trapped or shot in the Scio area this year. The Safety Valve Letters From Statesman Readers Central Howell, October 26, 1939 To the Editor: The pupils of Central Howell school ask that the school chil dren of Marlon county cooperate with them ln securing funds for a memorial to the late Mary L. Fulkerson, beloved superintend ent and friend of every child with whom she came ln contact dur ing her many years of service in the county. Each child is asked to contri bute at least one penny for this purpose. The money will be used to purchase a properly inscribed bronze plate set in granite and placed on the courthouse grounds. nease send contributions to Catherine Tomlson, secretary of the Marlon County Teachers' 'as sociation, Stayton, Oregon. As early response is urged. Very respectfully, CALVIN HILDEBRANDT, President, Central How ell student body. IN RE TAXPAYERS' LEAGUE To the Editor: Permit me to extend my appre ciation for your excellent editori al on the "Taxpayers League" in the Oregon Statesman issue ot to day (October 25th). As one inter ested in the public power battle to which you refer, I certainly agree with you. In 19 3 1 we held a PUD cam paign here in Marion county. It was conservatively estimated that some $50,000 was spent in cam paign "advertising" propaganda, mostly by and through a so-called taxpayers league." The chief ar gument was that of taxes. More recently we held two elections, on the $500,000 Marlon county court house issue. The most active cam paigning for this new tax burden was carried on by the same per sons and newspapers that pre viously had opposed the PUD. The courthouse was defeated, be cause of the lack of consistency and sincerity on the part ot those who opposed the PUD. If we can stand for the policies, politics and propaganda of the power com pany, we can get along with the old courthouse, too." Such was the sentiment of the voters. Now we hear loud walling and gnashing of teeth because Bonne ville power is not being turned Over, "hook, line and sinker" to the new rate schedules. They know at what price they could deliver that power to the public. Why don't they come out ot the brush and say what they will do, in dollars and cents and kilowatt hours. If and when they do get Bonneville power? Tour readers may be Interest ed in some concrete instances to illustrate the point ot your edi torial. Permit me to call your at tention to the following: - In the state of Washington, with some 18 port districts, and 25 power districts, we find that during the 20 years since the first port districts were created, some $20,000,000 ln taxes have been levied, collected, and expended ln this public tax subsidy of com merce and industry. They never call it "socialism" or interference with "private Industry". Although the daily newspapers have been shouting from the housetops ln opposing the PUD movement, they hare never said one word against this port district permanent tax leak. The PUD projects cannot possibly become such a permanent tax burden. In our new PUD law in Oregon, the publicly owned property must compensate for tax loss, and can levy a tax tor organ ization and administrative ex pense, for a limited period of Dr. Painless Parker Neglected teeth lead to impaired health. Often a dentist discovers di seases of the teeth that ' are sot easily appar ent to the patient. A"' I . - - 1 V . 1 1 - - . . ' Jr ' " --"ft J "First Ladies" Past and Present 7 1, ,0s I Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Hoover "First ladies' of the United States, past and present, meet in Philadelphia at the 25th national convention of Girl Scouts. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president, is at the left, and Mrs, Herbert Hoover,- wife of the former president, is at the right yean only. The revenue bonda cannot become a tax burden. Washington PUD's are rapidly re ducing, their tax levy and all of them contemnlate entirely elimi nating all tax levies as they go into operation. Many of such dis tricts have already eliminated their tax levy for next year. Where else can you find a tax levying bodv that Is not 1 swine 11 n tn tht limit of its taxing nower under the law? Very truly yours, HERMAN E. LAFKY. Bits for Breakfast (Continued from page 4) Henry States, $73.32; Sidney Por- ler, teo.io; Sylvester Hall, $51.35: John Tharn. $25.05: Ephraim Henneys, $84.05; Frank Cooper, $169.66 ; Isaac Wood ruff, $76.60; Henry Udell. $51.10: Thomas Sloner. $60.85: John Hughes. $157.26." (John Hughes was a pioneer Salem gro cer; father of our J. Frank Hughes of Salem. He had furn ished the grocery supplies.) 'At that time, the members i3 Litl leneu .A VP m of the Marion county court were John C. Peebles, judge, and John Giesy and J. A. Huffman, com missioners. D. H. Murphy was clerk, and T. C. Shaw sheriff. As Mr. Minto stated. Mr. Shaw had been a member of the view ing party of 1846; and he was county judge in the eighties." (Concluded on Tuesday.) Clear Lake May Have Dial Telephones CLEAR LAKE A meeting of the members of the Fairfield telephone company was held Thursday night at the Clear Lake schoolhouse to consider the pro position of changing their lines to the dial system. Collins and a company engineer were pres ent and explained the benefits and gave the probable cost ot making the change. A keen in terest was manifested by the members present and the board was instructed to make a care ful Burvey of the plan and then call another meeting to decide on the matter HAIL TO four Hail Bairgam Kates Excessive Benefits and Inadequate Contributions by Beneficiaries Are Qted as Cause of Pension Failures Many retirement plans that have failed in various parts of the United States have gone sour because excessive benefits were allowed and contributions by beneficiaries were inade quate, according to a report made here yesterday by Sigfrid Unander, state research worker. The report was based on data being gathered by Unander EES VSSScna. u -sat Sprague to study tne require ments for a retirement plan ior public employsa In Oregon. Henry F. Cabell of Portland is chairman of the committee. " " 1 ' Governor Sprague, at the time of proposing the retirement plan, made it plain that those benefit ting from the pension would have to shoulder a large part of the contributions required in building up the fund. He said the state of Oregon was not In a position to pay more than a small part of the proposed retirement pension. Unander said that his invest! gations show.ed that approximate ly 11 states now have pension or retirement plans. In virtually all of these states the workers con tribute in amounts Tanging from three to five per cent of their salaries. A few of the states con tribute as much as 50 per cent of the total. Contributions Are Vital Point "If Oregon is to adopt a sound retirement plan it must be sure that the pensions are not in excess of the contributions," Unander declared. Cabell, at the time ot the ini tial meeting of the committee, in dicated that an experienced actu- Bob Dore Home From Hospital LYONS Bob Dore who has been ln the veterans hospital con valescing from a foot operation returned to his home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Oral Williams moved to Falls City. Williams has employment there. Faith Rebekah lodge met Wed nesday night The work for the convention was practiced. Also plans were made to rehearse the work to Initiate a candidate. Aurora Aid Plans For Annual Bazaar AURORA The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church will bold their annual bazaar Saturday, November 4, beginning at 2 p.m. The Aurora Rod and Gun club is planning Its fourth annual Armistice day shoot, November 11. A 25-pound turkey will be given to the winner at 4 p.m. TO m 1WM r ' - - Subscripfiion 12nd eft. AiniUAL BARGAHJ DAYS , - ,11 At needs in this state. Data dealing with the Portland firemen's and policemen's pension setup was referred to Cabell this week. Officials said this retire ment plan had been in jeopardy on many occasions, due to the fact that the contributions have faUed to carry the pension load. On several occasions the Portland firemen and policemen have ap peared befdre the legislature and asked for! financial assistance. Reports here recently indicated that Governor Sprague's proposal for a retirement plan for public employees in Oregon is to meet with serious opposition. The Oregon Federation of Pen sion clubs already has gone on record opposed to any pension plan that does not make provi sion for all of Oregon's elderly people. "We are born with two eyes but only one tongue, in order that we may see twice as much as we sajri" No one questions the importance of good vision ... But many do not real ize how much strain they could relieve their eyes from and how much more pleasant they would actually feel by having a thorough ex amination and fitting, at this office, of the very latest glasses. OPTICAL CO. Optometrists 44i State St. Ph. 5528 EJou 3fls& a retirement proposal 10 111