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pact roua Thm OUTGO?! CTATTCMAIl. Zaltasu Orag-oa, Ydnrnndaj Homing. IZa? 2X ISIS J i -Norapor Stray Us: from first SUtrtmii March 2S. IS1 THE STATESMAN CH A Kl.Ktf A SIH 51 fm tM-l of ffo The Atatrlaw-o KitxM u exclusively entitled to lb as for puMu-Miiua of all u-w diaimUcnea credited to it or not other vim crwdtfrd to ppr. i iimw i ii trtei n - Blank Check Days Are Here Aain Amidst the panic of sudden realization that the world is being turned upside down, the era of "blank checks" made out to the. order of Franklin D. Roosevelt has returned in Washington, DC. There has been nothinjr like it since the bank holiday of 1933. Members of congress fall over each oth er to vole "aye" on bills they have not read, setting in motion machinery they do not understand. Thus, far these bills have had to ao strictly with defense measures and there is this comfort, that they may be corrected if found faulty or if wor!4 events change in such manner that they prove unnec essary. The nation is not actually committed, for instance, to tht building of 50,000 warplanes ; congress is merely getting the machinery ready. But the nation learned once that blank checks made out to FDR came back with unexpectedly large sums written in and we are not referring to monetary sums. From purely em ergency measures designed to alleviate the 1933 crisis the new deal turned, before the supply of signed "checks was exhaust ed, to a long series of "social reforms" which put us right where we are today ; and these are things which in their very nature are raucn more difficult to undo. Today the president's left-wing advisors are much bet ter entrenched than they were in 1933 and may be counted upon to seize whatever opportunities arise and in a time of vCorld upheaval these opportunities may be unlimited. The broadest hint to date was carried in Paul Mallon's column last week when he mentioned the prospect of "a preparedness economy that may lead in the direction of state capitalism." The first inkling of such a trend is observable in the present anxiety of the aircraft moned to Washington for a much light upon what was exDected of them, went home mut tering something about "nationalization" of their industry. There was that matter of pooling patents so that all plants might manufacture the same types of planes after the best design had been selected. That sounded no more than logi cal in vi?w of the crisis but a lot of other things are going l r .i ; il. ? . , . . ... iu seem iugic&i ii me crisis persists, wnereas tne sum total of these things if seen from the beginning may be no less than appalling. For the reason that present plants are assumed not cap able of producing afl the planes necessary, the government proposes to build some additional ones. The aircraft people said they could take care of everything ; they didn't even need the RFC financing offered. "No, we can't ask you to do this," government hastened to insist. "We want to be equipped to build 50,000 planes a year but conditions may change ; they may not be needed and we can't ask you to build the plant and be stuck with it. We'll build it." Logical no end ; but it is nationalization neverthe less, and when we get into that there may be no end to it. Incidentally, France some time ago nationalized its air craft industry; now it cannot get enough planes. Germany, leaving the aircraft industry in private hands to the extent that anything is privately owned and operated there, has plenty of planes. What is needed is a calm analysis of this thing that is happening to the world. Totalitarian aggression is one thing, and where it leads nobody knows. The answer to that is pre paredness. But the other thing is the impending collapse of the "big democracies" which have been world stabilizers for the past century at the cost of considerable wear and tear to themselves. What we have to keep in mind is that if they are sub merged, "we're it." The United States must be the world sta bilizer, the "big democracy." And it would be a mighty fatal step if, in our self-conscious numbness on being called upon to carry the ball for the first time, we were to muff it by abandoning the free enterprise wliich is an essential of de mocracy. The crisis involves certain temptations to do so ; the pos sible disruption of world trade, the possible discarding of gold as the unit of international exchange. Such pressures inherent in the idea of a German -victory, the possibility of which has dawned upon America with unnecessary sudden ness within the past week, constitute all the more reason for a determination to cling to every possible vestige of "our" system. Maintaining it may be a tough job; we've got to be tough. This is a tough world, and getting tougher. "Night Must Fall' The shades drawn down over the western segments of Europe, lit only by intermittent blasting of artillery, or the dull glow of fired supply or ammunition deposits. Men toil feverishly in the ministries of London and Paris and on the fighting line, dulled by the knowledge of approaching catas trophe, yet goaded by an irrational determination not to sub mit until the fates have done their worst Bedraggled, unhap py trains of unkempt fugitives from battle crowd the byways of France and Belgium, and life even in provincial villages is Irresolute, confused, and little like the orderly domesticity of normal times. The conventional relations of men and wom en, of human being with society ia the whole, are curiously, grotesquely altered as the inrnact of the apocalyptic conquer or is more and more deeply felt. : In times like these the feelings of individuals are of very little importance. Yet never, one fancies, have individual thoughts been less diffused, more stark- and rigid. Imagine, for instance, the fear of a British woman whose husband or an stands with his regiment on the line facing eastward from Cambrai; think of the mother of the Touraine farmer lad who slaves to hold a bridgehead across the Somme. Seek to plumb the emotions of the father of a lad who acts as bombardier in a plane over Belgium, or who tends the wants of a naval gun in the turret of a cruiser stationed in the Chan nel. Such thoughts are copied this day a hundred thousand times over in France and England, and each is much like the next; yet rarely in the history of the race have they been more deeply enjrravediiri human minds, or more photograph ically clear as bulletin after bulletin comes of the desperate straits of allied soldiers fighting in Flanders. - Or, if one thinks of individual emotions, think of those of Leopold, once well-loved king of, the Belgians. The world will not soon, and perhaps will never, know the true reasons which prompted him to give up the fight against the German invader in the midst of the conflict waged in his native land. His action appears so contrary to the honored and revered perseverance of his own father through four years oft he last war, as to be an act of inconceivable treachery. His failure to notify his French and British allies of his capitulation before it occurred seems treasonable in the extreme. Yet men's minds are not normal in abnormal times; and one can im agine that the young king of the Belgians, moody and fatal istic since the death of his queen not many years ago, is not answerable to the same charges as other men. His action is perhaps more tragic than treasonable, more in keeping with the Greek motif of the current war .than an act of premedi tated cravenness. ! . j The Germans, with fiendish intelligence and unspeakable precision, sweep on to the Channel ports, bottle up .the re maining thousands of the Frenclrarid British armies. They threaten air attack over England, mass frontal assault on the French before Paris. Nor, lacking the miracle for which the French premier asked last week, can thev aDDarentlv be turned aside. It Is St. George for England and St. Denis. for France: but for all of Europe it is more likely the flickering - t j t i. ii . i , . . . . vuc tut loou iu tiiAua ox irxauanaxicy, aeceic ana n aired of a sort to make Lucifer, who was (cast forth from heaven, crv out in giee. . Mo Fear Shall Awe". PUBLISHING CO All U C President AnatN-lalrd Prewa industry whose leaders, sum conference which did not shed Bits for Breakfast Br R J MBNIiKIt KS Direct descendant of 5-29-40 first, white man to claim : a property right on part of Salem alte lives la this city: "a On this desk, dated May 23. It a very Interesting- letter: interesting to this columnist, and should be to all Oregonians. It reads: "This is Salem's Centennial year, and because ray 'maternal grandfather. Wm. Geiger. Jr.. ar rived at the site of Salem in Sep tember, 1839, a hundred and a half years ago and I wish the facts In connection therewith au thenticated for my children, I de sire to advance certain claims thereon and have yon pass on them. "At the same time, I am sub mitting what should prove to be the necessary evidence to sub stantiate these claims. 'l was nearly fourteen, when Dr. Geiger. passed away, and, as we lived not far from him, had many opportunities to hear him tell about his early experiences. Trusting this material will prove interesting, very truly, Oliver B. Huston, care secretary of state." Mr. Huston submits with his letter four propositions, thus: "a "a "I. My maternal grandfather. Dr. Wm. Geiger, Jr.. came to what is now Salem in 1839. "2. He taught at Jason Les Methodist mission school for six months in the fall of 1839 and spring of 1840. "a "3. He took up a claim Includ ing water rights near where Lar mer's warehouse stands and made arrangements with a partner, Cor nelius Rogers, to erect a grist mill. "4. When Jason Lee arrived with the ship Lausanne there waa trouble, for Lee claimed the water rights and had himself planned, to buUd a mill, and the matter was settled by Jason Lee purchasing from Geiger and Rogers the mill irons they had bought from Dr. McLoughlln at Vancouver. (Meaning, of course. Fort Van couver.) "a "a j "Later. He (Dr. Geiger) left (the site of) Salem for California In April. 1840. The Russians at Bodega Bay would allow no one to go south by land, so he stayed on the boat -Intending to disem bark at (the site of) San Fran cisco. "However, the Mexicans refused to let him land without a pass port. He went on to Honolulu, where he taught school . eight months, for the mission. (That was the American Board (Con gregational-Presbyterian -Dutch Reformed churches) mission. S Tnen be tnere secured a pass port and landed at Monterey (California); and went by boat to the site of San Francisco; later to Sutter's Fort, now Sacramento, where he surveyed Sutter's hold ings, and as pay received a grant of 30.000 acres of- land at the Junction of Feather and Yuba riv ers; traded this land bsck to Sut ter for 500 head of horses and mules, which he undertook to drive to the east; could get no one to accompany him by the southern route; so, after selling many horses to immigrants and others (at Fort HaU and points west), brought the remainder down to the site of Forest Grove in 1842. In October, 1842, left to take charge of the Whitman mission while Dr. whitman went east." (Whitman's famous winter trip.) So ends the matter concerning the four propositions and what happened later, up to the time of Dr. Geiger going to the Whitman mission to take charge while Dr. Whitman waa absent on his fam ous winter voyage of 1842 and returned in 1843. The state ments tally with the historic facta. W Bashford in his generally very reliable book, "The Oregon Mis sions," says of the 1939 immigra tion to Oregon, in addition to the men in the Peoria party and those in the Independent missionary groups, giving the names of those who got through: "Eakln (should be Ekln), Rich ard H. Ebberts. George Ward. Geiger, William; worked for Methodists 1839-40, and then for American Board Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Walilatpu; later went to California. Johnson, D. G. Johnson, William." The reader will note that Bashford did noC get the trip of Dr. Geiger to Honolaln and bis work there for the American Board mission; Walilatpu waa what the Indians called Whitman's mission loca tion.) w !; ! The father of Oliver B. Huston, whose communication brought about this series, was Hon. 8. B. Huston, for many years, was very well and favorably known by the men of Oregon who were In pub lie life; for a long term of years before his death in 1920. , . S. B. Huston was a member of the Oregon state senate in the ses sions of 1893 and. 1895: he was president of the Oregon State Bar Association ; had been mayor of HillsboTO and president of the school board there, and in .many ways a prominent and useful cfti sen of Washington County and the state of Oregon. - w Several years ago, Oliver B. Huston, who has long been a mem ber of the secretary of state's forc, where all matters concern ing legal titles of automobiles pass through his hands, and who owns the very pleasant home at 2515 North Front street, with about two acres of beautifully and usefully employed land, and has a good;!: Wife and they have- four daughters in the Salem pnbUc schools, made a study of the life of Ms ancestor, Dr. William Geig Some of the results of this study will be shown in the paragraphs that are to follow. : : ; (Continued tomorrow.) Auto's Plunge Fatal ! -. FOREST GHOBE. Ore.. May 28 HSfV-Sigrld R. FolkdahL 35, Port land, died today of injuries suf fered Monday when an automo bile plunged off a curve near here and sixack a pole. VTTr- r - "The Cairo Garter Chapter 13 Inside the late Richard Follons- bee's door. Chaplain North listen ed considerably beyond his usual precautionary five mnutes. then stepped out into the corridor. Very quickly he assumed a casual pose though he imagined a shadow had whisked around an. adjacent corn er. Listening, he caught the in f inltey soft thud-thud of retreat ing feet. Now who the devil could that have been? With all his precep tions attuned to their most deli cate "sensitivity. North strolled out to the main staircase with the Intention of regaining his cabin. At this hour, 1:45 a. m.. the Fort Lncknow seemed a deserted ship. Never had Hugh North been less at ease. Had he been recog nized, or had the prowler below fled without making an observa tion? No dodging the fact that this affair of the garter murders was momentarily assuming most serious possibilities : too much money was lnvoved to keep the matter inconsequential. Moodily he reviewed the situa tion to date. Regarding evidence he wasn't too badly off. Ah, that bit of cloth, how much would It disclose? And the garter? Surely something of interest could be de duced from evidence so brizarre. A weird wrinkle. Mr. Arm strong's Order of the Cairo Gart er. In his mind North pictured acquaintances made since board ing the liner: Levasseur. sardonic and careful of his words; M. Phllllpldes, who said he waa mere ly a retired business man; that oddly assorted couple. Dr. Larkin Ladd and his wife. Then there was Natlka Black whose smooth girl's face screened a- depth of ex perience betrayed through her eyes. And what of Ben' Yemen Hasld Pasha, Melhorne and WPA Must Make 1 4 , V t v -f-.,:. V THE RACE TOE ft A S E Even the lauaale eraser has ee mechanized, particalajriy la tha of above TiTA employed draftsman who's busy at rhOaelphia making maps mt : strategir IL S. areas lto-&efense tmCl(t.Har aa clectri eraser " ha hhUs 4ts salat heing to the taster pn&meUon of snaps. JLLoat as expert draft mea are at work est these tfefense maps. Success Story of the By Van Wyck Mason Dalrdre Clark? North turned into the passage way leading directly to his cabin Shrouded in the passageway's gloom someone was standing in front of his cabin, hand on knob. For the life of him he could not decide whether his door had been opened or not. ir."Ah, Captain North!" Natlka Black stiu wore her white eve ning gown but had cast a jade- colored shawl over her shoulders Certainly ii formed a successful contrast to her red-brown hair. She gave him a cool, entirely mat ter-of-fact nod and declared, "Everywhere I have been looking for you. And yen not flattered? 1 even bribed a steward to show me your cabin "I am f Uttered and a little pus sled, too was his startled admis sion. "Is there something I can do for yon? "Yes, mon capitalne. you can give me something to' drink and talk to me. I I am uneasy, wake ful." Her reply was made with out a trace of embarrassment and an appeallngly frank smile curved her brilliant lips. 'In that case- -' As If to bridge the delicacy of the moment, the Fort Lucknow plowed through jk. particularly vicious series of combers and sent Natlka Black reeling sldewlse into the steadying arms of Captain North. "We seem to he running into a a pretty bad squall." he remarked drily. "You would be sweet if you'd let me take refuge in your cabin until the squall passes," Natl ka remarked, emitting that which sounded remarkably like a giggle. "I I'm afraid I'd turn an ankle -or ruin a pair of evening slip pers, x it go as soon as the sea lessens, really I will." "By all means come In, Miss Many Mistakes i Week Murders" Black; only yon won't find my quarters very luxnious." Once the lights were on. Natlka Black seated herself in an easy chair, qnietly inspecting his cabin and his single battered suitcase with its plethora of weather beat en hotel labels. "Yon seem to hare been every where." "Been abont some. Miss Black, but never to Egypt." North bent over his bag. 1 "For what are you looking. Monsieur le Captalne?" Natlka switched suddenly into French, both musical and flawless. "Per haps yon lock up your valuables?" He grinned at her over his shoulder. ."An coniraire. I pro duce them." he said, holding up a bottle of liqueur. He deemed it wise to postpone the introduction of the leading questions as he studied her to the last detail. How she kept her hands, how she did her fingernails and how caressingly she smoothed rather tun. skirts over her knees. Full skirts? Un der such an arrangement a girl might risk wearing decorated garters! (To be continued) Copyright br Vb Wyck Vuoi, Distributed by King restores Syaleat lac Junction City Farmer Struck by Auto, Dies EUGENE, May 28-(JP-Alton K. Efflnger, SC. Junction City far mer, was klUed by an automobile Sunday while walking on the highway near his home. ksxjk wxmrzsiA.T 136 X. :S0 Milkmaa Maladiaa. . 1i0 Naw. i 7:45 Smg Song Tia. S:00 Dorthy Humphrey. Soprsaa. S:15 Iriek O'Heren, Ter. 8:30 Nawa. 8:45 Carters of Elm Etraat. 9:00 Paator'a Call. 9:15 Weiternairea. ft ;S0 Dramatic iaterluda. S:3S Maateal later lada. 9:45 Km ilt ta Moaic J0:OO -Ktm. 10:15 Ma Pafrkiaa. 10:80 Hita of Saaeeaa Fait. 10:45 Bachelor' a Childrea. - 11:00 Oar rriandJy fieiikbora. 11:15 Women ia tit Kawa. 11:20 Maeioal Interlude. 11:80 Willamette UaiTeraHy Chapel. 11:45 Vetna Parada. 13:15 Nawa. 12:80 Hillbilly 8araaada. : 1:33 Willamette Valley Oalalaaa. 12:50 Meloay Mart. 1:00 Melody Laae. 1:15 Intereatiac Facta. 1:80 Let 'a Duct. - 1 :45 Willamette UnWeralty P layer. 1:00 lerioa of Safety. 2:15 Hita aad Ekeoraa, 2:30 FiTe Uea of Fata. 2:45 Orxaa and Piaaa. 8:00 Maddoz Family aad Baaa. ; S :SO T ear Neighbor. - ' ' S :45 Carol Ieightaa, Ballads. 4:00 News. 4:15 Melody Lan. 4:80 Hollywood Spat ligat. :0O Towasead Clab. 5:15 VIII Osborne Orcheatra. 5 :JO SUm Echoes. - 6t4S Little Orphaa Aaala. S:O0 Bayaaoam firaaa Swing. :5 Local Kaara. . . ' , 6:18 Dt&acr Hoar VolodWa. 8:30 Kews and Views Joha B. Hafbes 8:43 Vocal Varieties. T 0 Work Writ ted. . :15 Tbia la Magic r '... ' '7:80 Lom Raaser. B:OP Address A B, Adams. Cole. - 8:15 News. 8 : 30 Benny Goodmaa'a Orchestra. - :00 Newspaper of the Air. S :15 Pail Harria Orcaostim. 8:30 Old Time Orchestra. 10:OC Bob Crosbr's Orchestra. 10:80 Romaswe i. Kbytbaa. ll:0O Nova. .f . lt:is iimmr Joy's OrcVsstra. 11:30 Tto Pbrbeya. 11:45 Midnlsht Melodies. ;.';. ' ' -" a -t '"i . . XOXsT WXS1TE5DAT to Km, 0:00 Market KopcrtaV :0 KOIS Klock. 1:15 Haadliaoxa. T:8-3.ie Gsrred Scpertias 1:45 Ceasamor Kews. . S:00 K.to Santai Poeaka. O: IS Waa a ttiri JkUrriea. - S :30 Homanco el Baleai Treatv , a:4 f auat Stukday. :00 The eoldbcrss : I s J j cn b, BeaatlfaL :0 irtht o Haav-weas. funehlne Tr raainliasi .. 10:15 acnt Jsaay. " f News " Behind By PAUL WA8HIXGTOX. May Sir. Morgenthan's mathemati cian though at first ' they might get through the early --part of this sew national de fense program antffl Jan nary, without lacrMtftias; the debt limit or levying new - taxe. LTpoa iaveNtlgation, however, they fonnd the squeeze would be too tight. - Their confidential . report to congressional fiscal leaders on the subject, however, suggested a compromise way out. The recom mendation waa made Informally that congress-tilt the debt ceiling restrainedly to the point needed for actual extra money to be paid out before January. This would soothe lenipslators who are wary of giving the new dealers new blanket debt leeway and postpone a real decision until arter elec tion. It may be done that way. Senate Finance Chairman Pat Harrison, has taken the leader ship inside on the perplexing fl nandal phase. He has not spok en out. but is assumed to favor ultimate payment by ' Increased taxes, not now, but in January. Apparently, he does not want the debt limit raised now or later This position still leaves open the question whence money is to be derived for the , next seven months. , Coarse estimates in some legislative quarters suggest the administration ran spend no more than $400,000,000 above its formerly budgeted figure tn that period. If this is true the question now Is "where to find S400.000.000 qnietly. In his tlresidlng Mr. Roosevelt avoided stressing existing army and navy equipment deficiencies by using figure totals which in cluded materials on order as well as those on hand. x Approximate number of army planes on hand and on order in the rarlous categories are sub stantially: Flying fortresses. 50' medium-sized bombers, less than 500; light bombers, less than 300; pursuit planes, less than 400; basic combat planes, less than 300; observation planes, less than 400: transports,- less than 100; training planes,- less than 700. Only 46,000 rounds of ammuni tion are on hand for the 37 MM. anti-aircraft gun which should. and will eventually have, two and a half million rounds. A striking. Illustrated- analy sis of what the money .appro printed tn recent years has been spent for in the army, has been presented to con gress in a booklet published by the senate military affairs committee. Yon can get it by writing to your senator or rep resentative. Anonymous author is Blajor Earl C. Ewert, head of the war department press section, who spent more than a year collecting best pictures of maneuvers and weapons. Mr. Roosevelt's goal of 50,000 planes has been receding con stantly as the parties involved in attaining it, get further into de tails. At least one of the manu facturers who attended the orig inal Morgenthau meeting came away with the understanding that the . goal represented an over-all hope for future years, something to work toward eventually. One admiral testifying before a house Committee doubted that Mr. Roosevelt had ever mentioned the figure as a goal, whereupon time had to be taken out while the president's message to congress was resurrected and read to the naval officer. Unannounced. Henry Mor genthau, the treasury secre tary, is becoming Roosevelt's minister of defense. The job Is not only taking so much of his time that his assistant, .Daniel Hell, is functioning as treasury secretary, bat so much of his departmental space that none of his treasury tax bureau has been moved over to the in ternal revenue building. Navy asked the house to amend Radio Programs 10:30 rietchar Wtley. 10:45 My 8oa aad I. II :0O Society Girl 11:15 It Hapsoaed la HoUywood. 11:80 Life Begins. 11:45 Iomier m Dteama. IX SOO Pretty Kitty Kelly. ia:i atyrt sad alar (a. 12:30 No8. 12 -.45 Stepmother. 1:00 Bv Kathleea Norria. 1:15 My Child rea. 1:80 Siac-ia- Seas. 1:4 8eaterroed Balnea, 2:00 Yeeac Dacter Maloae. 2:15 Hadda Hopper's Holly weod. S :iO Joyce Jertlea. 2 :45 The World Today. 3)0 Hello Again. , S:15 HUltop Uevae 8:30 Newspaper of the Air. 4:15 KOIX Koedmaater. 4p5 Bob Oarred RoporUac. Y 4:5fc News. ; S:0O Star Tbeatre. " 8:00 Glena MiUer Orcheatra. 8:30 Bsraa and A Ilea. T:0O Amoa a' Aady. T:15 Laany Roaa, . i . . T:30 lr. Christlaa. . 8:0O Ben Bern i a Orckestra. ' ' 8:30 Everybody Wins. S :0O Solliraa Betiewa the News. 8:30 Baker Theatre Players, 10:00 P4e 8tar Final. 10:30 Toay Pastor orchestra. 11:90 Maany Strand Orchestra. WW WXDHZ8SAT S20 Ke. 6:80 Sunrise Serenade. TiOO Kews. Ii 14 Trail B lexers. ' Vt4S 8am Uayea. S:00 Trad in Poet. 1 S.-15 Diaaiac Slaters. . 6:30 8 tars et Today. , 8:15 Hotel Taft Orchestra. t:30 Madera Meals. 10:00 LiaBr of the World. Araoie unmm's Vaaahter. 10:45 Betty Cracker. ii:uo Htory of Maty Uarlia. 11:80 PfMxr Tmi'i r.it- 11:45 ie aad eadaT "i: Portia Blake Faces Ufa. 12:13 Stella Uailes. 12:45 Bine Plate Special, i:vv uiri a tone. -. , 1:30 Midstream. 1:45 The O'KeUla. 2:00 Hollywood Kowa Tlashaa. 2:15 Mia to Cherish. 8:30 Aral a st "he Store. 3:45 The aiding- Usht Jlttf.14 JVV,rin fWasara Time. 3:15 News. - 8:10 Willises Pen. Orcheatra 3:00 Stars of Today. S:15--CeektaU Bewr :30 Holly wood Fiayhenae. . Kay Kyoar's Kolloge. T :eO OfaoarrooB. 7:15 Prblie Affairs. 7:80 Plantation Party. - SO Prod Allen Shew, 8:06 r Msacha. Today's News MAT Oil the Walsh-Healey act to allow 48 hour weeks in navy yards to hast en defense building. Shortly thereafter, 'Mrs. FDR ' t a , press conference said she was opposed to relaxing labor standards. Next day house naval chairman Vinson revised hie bill so that it would exempt only minor work up to 125,000 and require time and a half pay for -more than 40 hours. Both the .administration and congress have been under heav iest inside pressure from the un ions to keep the five-day week. A new dealer at the Japa ; arse, embaHny garden party -aakrd for one of the -trade sec retarte. , The iiuwer waa that he' was' ia Brazil "attending to trade relations." That's what this government - has been' afraid of, the Japanese attend ing to trade relation In Latin America while American eyes are diverted toward Korope. It now develops Mr. Roosevelt told his congressional leaders tec days ago to get congress out ol here tn two weeks. The leaden wonder If they will be able tc adjourn the week of June 16. and know they can not if the question of where defense 'money is com ing from Is not avoided one way or another.! (Dtrtrlbuted! ky KJng Feature Syn dicate, Inc., reproduction In whole, or in part strictly prohibited.) Safety Valve JlElUtY I'lCJiElW WAGES To the Editor: Here is another season crop, year, and the same old racket in fruit harvest. The strawberry crop opens and the offer to pickers is 1 cents. Comes the- employment service throngh the major portion of the Oregon press with a moan that pickers are badly needed., Results: Picking prices drop with a job hunter per strawberry and outsiders coming In. Also owners of uncontracted acreages find the canneries cutting their Prices to growers. Question: Is. the cannery price being regulated by the amount of unemployment without much re gard to the grower's costs or a reasonable profit for him. Solution: Arbitrary publication of all contracts, especially pre seasonal. Suspension of the prac tice of flooding the labor market with unfounded reports of labor shortage. During the past few years the writer has met many responsible persons who were lured to Ore gon by these reports and who did not even . make expenses. Most of these stated that they would, not have invaded the local mar ket 'had they known that homo labor could , not make decent wages. , This Is the present situation. Investigate it! WILL CARVER. Today's Garden By LILLIE L. MADSEN C. C. California Poppy is an annual. It spreads rapidly by'te seedlng itself proliflcally. That's why you see It In the same place year after year. .Some plants may winter over in an open year. The plants like best a light, sandy soil. To keep them in- flower over a long period of time cut off the blooms just as soon as the petals begin to falL Don't have them growing any closer together than 10 inches. Tea, Petunias will continue to bloom throughout the entire sum mer It given just a little atten tion. When they get leggy? cut them back. Set your snapdragons out now. Place them about IS Inches apart. If you set them out on a sunny -morning provide a shingle for their shade. 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