Board Debates
Land Purchase
I: PronertY Needed for
Mid-Willamette alley New
Germans Flabbergasted hf
Hitler Blunder Declaration
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Expanding W. Salem
v Student Enrollment
- - WEST SALEM The school
board. Tuesday discussed- the ne-
cessuy oi .we senooi aisinci pur
chasing more property' as the pres
a ' m a i i i - -
ent school, facilities are being ra
' pidly outgrown by, the steadily in
creasing student enrollment. .
- .The purchase of a ten-acre tract
of land, which is. a part of the
- farmer Murphy property border
ing ' on Patterson and Bassett
streets and now owned . by the
county, will be brought before the
voters of the district at the annual
school election. This is probably
the only remaining large tract of
" land remaining, in ' West Salem
proper.
Until additional buildings are
necessary, the property would
probably be used as an athletic
' field. (
West Salem PT
Names Of ficers
; Mrs. C. J. Fair Gets
Presidency; Plan Hoi
i Lunch Program, Picnic
-WEST SALEM Mrs. C. J
Fair was elected president of the
PTA at the final meeting of the
year -Tuesday. ; Ira Dueltgen was
elected vice president and Mrs
Collett Rust, secretary-treasurer
The nutrition committee, Mrs
Glenn Davenport. Mrs. John
Bowne and Ira Dueltgen were
asked to proceed "with the work
concerning the hot lunch program
and present final data to the
school board for their approval.
iThe PTA will sponsor a com
' munity picnic Thursday, May 28
beginning at 4:30 o'clock. Ralph
.kelson and Ira Dueltgen will be
J In charge of the sports events
Mrs. Earl Burke, Mrs. C. J. Fair
and Mrs. Verne Axelson will serve
on the hostess committee.
Mrs. Merle Swearingen, retiring
. president, was presented a past
president's pin by Principal Dash-
leu in behalf of the organization.
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Ration Books
SHELBURN Shelburn school
house was the center of attraction
as the community housewives
gathered to sign up for their sugar
cards last week. The . teacher,
Ralph McDonald, was assisted by
Mrs. Charles McClain and Mrs,
Walter Wyman. There were 125
cards issued.
Ralph McDonald has been re
hired as the Shelburn teacher for
Jiext year" at a $30 per month
ncrease in salary.
Delmer Churchill, who last fall
moved into Albany, has again
taken charge of the Shelburn sec
tion i crew. They plan on moving
back to their farm this fall. The
place is now tinder lease to Jim
Clayton.
i The Shelburn school will close
Friday, May 22, with a program
at night to which all are invited.
Aid Society Hears
Monthly Reports
WOODBURN The May meet
ing of the Presbyterian Ladies
Aid society was held Wednesday,
sirs. Olive Smith led the devo
tional services. The monthly re
ports of the secretary and treas
urer were read by Mrs. E. J. Al
len and Mrs. H. Fa Butterfield
scripture verses were given in
answer to roll call. -
i .
i 's Mr. and Mrs. Albert Meier have
moved to Salem, where he is era
ployed by the California Packing
corporation. They have sold their
home to E. N. Soue.
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Graduation Set
i PRINGLE Graduation e x e r
rises for the Pringle school eighth
graders will be held Monday night
at 7:45 o'clock at the schoolhouse.
. Friends in the Pringle district
are receiving invitations from Ar
thur and Louise Boyce, children of
. Mr.-and Mrs. C. J. Boyce, who
formerly lived in this community.
for, the graduation exercises at
Laurelwood academy on May 24.
Both Arthur and Louise are mem
bers of the graduating class.
Entertained on
Sixtli Birthday
. SPRING VALLEY- Dicky Coo
per was entertained at a party
on his sixth birthday anniversary
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. FJ wood Cooper, - Tues
tay. Among his "numerous gifts
was a yearling registered sheep.
Return From Hospital ,
WEST SALEM Mrs. Raymond
Martsolf and Infant daughter,
Janet Kay, , returned "from , the
Deaconess hospital Wednesday.
Mrs. Jack Tfiggart and'children
are leaving for Pendleton this
week to join Mr. Taggart who is
employed" there.
Reports from The Statesman's
Sec 2 Pag 4
Motor Corps
Finishes Work
First. Instruction .
Course Completed by
Polk County Croup
DALLAS The Polk county Red
Cross motor corps has just com
pleted the first two and one-half
months' course of instruction and
training and is now a uniformed
group. Nineteen members . have
fully completed the standard work
devoting, 75 hours of time beside
the use and maintainance of their
cars.
. The officers and charter mem
bers are as follows: captain, Miss
Ila Estelle; adjutant, Mrs. Doris
Fully; senior first lieutenant, Mrs.
Barbara Pleasant; junior first
lieutenant, Mrs. Marcella Middle
ton; senior second lieutenant, Miss
Zella Hughes; junior second lieu
tenant, Miss Dorothy Palmer; and
Lena Coon, Alta Curry, Mary
Fern, Bonnie Grow, Naomi Hayes,
Darlene Klaus, Martha Jean Kur
re, Dortha Nevitt, Velma Schroe
der, Mildred Sheridan, Jeanttte
Stivers, Agnes Stockwell, Ramo
na Zentz.
Members of the group must
meet requirements such as first
aid ability before being able to
participate and already have had
an opportunity to display their
skill as well as other phases of
motor corps requirements.
New members from other towns
are invited to make application
for membersship as soon as possi
ble for membership is limited.
Miss Ila Estelle, captain, has
expressed her appreciation of the
splendid cooperation of private
people and business houses which
have given generously of time
and equipment to make this first
unit of Polk county motor corps
a success.
Crawford May
Close School
TURNER-Route One-Crawford
school closed this week. Owing to
the scarcity of teachers, the dis
trict may decide to transport its
pupils to another district next
year.
M. A. Hill
eye trouble.
is suffering serious
Miss Faye Mitchell has returned
from a three weeks visit at Red
ding, Calif., at the home of her
aged father, who Is critically ill.
Grandpa Mitchell, who lives in
his son's home, will soon enter a
convalescent home in Aumsville.
Mr. and Mrs. Eb Bear and chil
dren spent the weekend at Newport.-
Women Wanted
In Metal Class
SILVERTON A second call
is oeing maae lor more young
women between the ages of .18 and
35 to take sheet metal work train
ing in the class which started here
this week. Jonas Bybeig is the in
structor and classes are being held
from 6 to 12 each night. Those
who complete the course will be
called to work at Columbia Air
craft industries in Portland.
Cloverdale School
Holds Graduation
CLOVERDALE The eighth
grade graduation exercises were
held Thursday night at the Clov
erdale school with six pupils re
ceiving diplomas. They were Joyce
Kunke, Marie Sherman, Melvin
Sheets,, Dale 'Yoger and Robert
Scruff erer.
Mrs. Gayette Barnett, principal,
introduced the main speaker, Mrs.
Agnes Booth.
Fred Dierks, chairman of the
school board, presented the class
with their diplomas.
Grangers News
WEST SALEM Mrs. Ed Eng
land was in charge of the pro
gram for the grange meeting
Thursday. Musical numbers were
presented by members of the
grade school band. Neil England,
Charles Lightfoot and Kenneth
Lawrence played a cornet trio;
Alene Axelson and Lowell Mik
kelson, saxophone, and Frances
Michael, alto horn, presented a trio
number; clarinet duets by Richard
and Eddie Lawrence, and Carol
Ashcraft and Beverly Lawrence;
piano numbers by Miss Frances
Schmidt and Leigh ton Dashiell.
Glen Adams spoke on his trip
throughout the states last winter.
NORTH HOWELL Among fea
tures at the regular meeting of
North Howell grange Wednesday
night were the reading of a per
sonal letter from private Harold
Dunn, how stationed at Fort Lew
is; the report ; of the paper and
magazine project committee; and
the volunteer program conducted
by Acting Lecturer L. A. Esson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Strachan
were elected alternates to the state
grange meeting at Milwaukee In
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Senator Burton and card
Although he Is entitled to an "X" gasoline rationing card, permit
ting him unrestricted purchases of gasoline, U. S. Senator Harold H.
Burton of Ohio applied for an "A" card, which permits him but
three gallons of gasoline a week for his car. Burton was one of the
few legislators registering In Washington to apply for the lower
ration card. Senator Burton walks back and forth to his offices
everj da; and said that "we can get along with less driving like
everybody else."
Certificates
Issued at
West Salem
WEST SALEM Walter B.
Gerth, chairman, has announced
that ration board 27-3 has issued
certificates for truck tires and
tubes to S. K. Jackson, contrac
tor, West Salem, and J. S. Brice,
farmer, route 4; truck recaps to
Jensen and Van Dyke, wholesale
produce, West Salem, and Bill
Sonner, farmer, route 1; passen
ger tire recaps to Mrs. J. D. Wal
ling, farmer, route I; E. A. Bab
cick, farmer, Rickreall; Mrs. Grace
Bliss, farmer, route j 4; and Phil
A. Williams, refrigeration engi
neer, West Salem.
Gerth reports the following to
tals for the sugar registration for
the 12 school districts in this area:
applications received 3596 and
war books issued 2539.
Hazel Green
Farm Sold
HAZEL GREEN Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Lewis and jfour children
from Colorado have imoved to the
J. A. Zielinski property known as
the Dan Rodgers farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Magruen
and children Ada and Bob of Al
bany and Mr. and j Mrs. Melvin
Magruen and Sharron of Salem
visited their mother, Mrs. Ma
gruen at the home of i her son Ken
neth Magruen. j
Alexander Sharp, ! sr., has sold
his farm to U. Woods, the oldest
son of Max Woods. There is 45
acres and a fraction in the tract.
which lies along Pudding river
west of the Hazel Green park and
east of the school house. The Bea
ver dam along the river will be
valuable for market gardening
when drained. On the farm is
young filbert orchard with black
raspberries as fillers, a commer
cial planting of young and boysen
berries in first and second year
bearing, also strawberries in first
year bearing. Sharp will harvest
the crop, berries, hay and grain,
giving possession in August. Sharp
bought the farm from John Lehr
man six years ago. j
Woman's Club
Plans Picnic
UNION HILL Mrs. W. H. Ro
bens entertained the Union Hill
Woman's club for the last meet
ing until fall. j
Committees appointed for next
year were, program, Mrs. W. M
Tate, Mrs. Lee Seeley, Mrs. Roy
King; telephone, Mrs. Henry Pe
ters, Mrs. Maurice! Heater; and
flowers; Mrs. Verny $cott, Mrs. W.
l. Robens and Mrs. C. C. Carter.
Gifts were presented to Mrs.
Adolph Heater andj Mrs. Verny
Scott for perfect attendance dur
ing the present club year. The an
nual club picnic will be held on
the Peters place July 5. s.
Install New
Siren Control
SILVERTON With new con
trol equipment installed at the
city hall, the city warning siren on
top of the city hall has a different
and more measured controlled
pitch than it formerly had.
Name School Teacher
i WHEATLAND Mrs. P. C. Mag
ness of Wheatland has been elect
ed to teach the 1942-43 term ol
the Wheatland school. She is a
former teacher. School will close
Saturday, May 23. r
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Morning, May 17 1942
I. N. Pboaepboto
Sand for Bombs
Now Available
At West Salem
WEST SALEM Sand for use
in extinguishing incendiary bombs
is available for all residents of
the community and surrounding
districts. The sand is at the old
city hall at the corner of King
wood and Second streets.
Every householder should have
two buckets of sand which should
be kept perfectly dry. People are
asked to bring their own con
tainers. Lyle Thomas and son, David,
Pendleton, spent the weekend
here.
Mrs. Walter Ziegler underwent
a major operation at the Dea
coness hospital Saturday.
Dinner Honors
Swegle Teacher
SWEGLE Wednesday night,
Ralph Nelson, principal of Swegle
school for the past five years was
honored by a large group of
friends. A covered dish dinner was
served at 6:30 followed by a pro
gram from different age groups
with Elmer Lake program chair
man. The primary grades had two se
lections by the rhythm band; an
original play by the intermediate
grades; selection by the upper
grade girls' chorus and a mixed
grades chorus; number by girls
of the alumni group; two man
dolin numbers by Edith Stark
with Mrs. Cecil Stark at the piano;
a solo by Walter Biggerstaff; a
reading by Mrs. William McKin-
ney; a number by the mixed quar
tet and the final number of the
program the singing of a song
written by Patricia Standley in
Mr. Nelson's honor, sung by the
audience.
A wrist watch was given Mr.
Nelson as a gift of the community,
He expects to enter military serv
ice soon after the closing of school
on May 29th. He had been given
his sixth contract. Mrs. Earl
Huckstep and Mrs. Elmer Lake
were the committee in charge for
the evening.
Make Plans for
Charter Night
WEST SALEM Twenty mem
bers of the Lions club met at
Cherry's inn for dinner and to
make plans for the charter night
next Wednesday. It is expected
that approximately 150 Lions will
be present at the charter night
meeting.
Injures Feet in Fall
SILVERTON Ernest Mott, jr.,
who has been employed at Camp
Adair, is at the Corvallis hospital
following an injury he sustained
when he fell 12 feet to a con
crete floor. Extent of his injuries
had not been learned here by
Thursday night but there was
some fear that both arches of his
feet might be broken. . s
Farmers Union
News
ZENA Suring Valley Farmers
union No. 242 will meet at the
Zens . schoolhouse Wednesday
night at 8 o'clock with C. O'Rel,
of . the state : forestry - department
as principal speaker, Mr. O'Rel
will show colored moving pictures
of forestfires and Oregon scenes.
LIBERTY Liberty Farmers'
Union will meet Tuesday night
All members who havsT boys in
the service .are asked to . please
attend.
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Change First
Aid-Set-Up
West -Salem Squads
Reorganized; New - -Members
Added . ,
. WEST SALEM All first aiders
were called to: the city hall Wed
nesday evening by Dr. A. F. Gof
frier to reorganize the emergency
first : aid squads and add new
members."
Because of the increased num
bers of first aiders present it was
possible to increase the number
of city districts from four to six.
Each captain will set up an emer
gency first aid station in his home
with the supplies furnished him.
Plans are to obtain first aid sta
tion placards for the stations and
arm bands for the workers.
The squads will be governed by
an executive committee made up
of Dr. A. V. Goffrier and the cap
tains. Residents of the city are asked
to note the changes in districts
and captains. Archie Cameron,
captain , of district one. area be
tween Patterson street and Wal
lace road through to Edgewater;
Mrs. Merle Swearingen, district
two between Patterson and Gerth
streets from Elm to Edgewater;
Charles Wygant, district three
between Patterson and Gerth
streets from Glen Creek road to
Elm; Pete Loewen, district four,
between Gerth and Senate streets
from Edgewater to Elm; D. J.
Henderson, district five between
Gerth and Piedmont streets from
Elm to Madrona avenue; Everett
Lisle, district six, Kingwood
Heights district.
Earl Burke, liaison officer and
E. A. Dickson, district captain,
met with the air raid wardens
Wednesday and made plans for
future activities.
Dickson reported that the or
ganization will meet every Tues
day evening at the city hall and
work on first aid training, mili
tary drill and work necessary to
qualify for federal aid in the pro
viding of emergency civilian de
fense equipment. T w e n t y-two
hours of training by the warden
and firemen is one of the require
ments. West Salem is divided into 16
districts averaging from two to
three blocks each under captains
and their assistants.
City Budget
Published
GERVAIS The city budget for
the year beginning July 1 is being
published and calls for $2091 to
be raised by taxation. The elec
tion is called for Tuesday night,
June 2 at the high school audi
torium. GERVAIS Mrs. Grover Wea
ver received word of the serious
illness of her mother in Chicago
and left by train Thursday night
to be at her bedside.
Awards to Be
Presented
WEST SALEM Basketball let
ters will be presented to local
grade school athletes by Ralph
Nelson Monday at 11 o'clock in
the gymnasium when the fourth
to eighth graders inclusive meet
for the final a ss e m b 1 y of the
school year. Nelson and Ira Duelt
gen will also present track
awards.
Dale Parnell will preside at the
business meeting, at which time
student body officers for the en
suing year will be elected.
Parents are invited.
Altar Society Holds
Monthly Meeting
GERVAIS The St. Rita's Altar
society held its monthly business
meeting and social afternoon at
the parish hall Wednesday.
In the absence of Rev. James
Aiken Smith, Mrs. Smith conduct
ed the service last Sunday at the
Presbyterian church. Rev. Smith
left two weeks ago for Chicago
to meet their son, Rev. Prior T.
Smith, who is returning from
Columbia, South America, where
he as been stationed ' for some
time. '
Labisli Exercises -Set
Monday
: LA K E LABISH Graduating
exercises for the three graduates
cf Lake Labish school will be held
Monday night at 8. . A picnic for
the school closing will - be held
May 20. The three graduates are
Arthur GirodV jr., Theona Hahn
and Lola Mae Wmdecker.
To Visit California
1 GERVAIS Mr. and - Mrs. Her
man Jelderks and Bessie are
leaving Sunday to visit California
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casualties for Germany, ef
which three qmarters f s mil
lion are dead.
Psychologically, too. Hitler was
slipping. . t , ,. .
We American. journalists .were
guests of the Gestapo, while the
fuehrer spoke to the reichstag on
Djeraber-.!1,' hence we-didn't hear
mat oratorical effort. !
: We v were genuinely 'surprised
.however " when ' one - of" our guards
next day in return for cigarettes
slipped'us a copy of a Berlin daily
containing his text and we noted
how the German dictator; ended
his speech 'hot with a pep -talk to
fire .the" nation but with' dre
threats against saboteurs at home.
We had hitherto considered Hit
ler a better psychologist.
Correspondents who consider
themselyes, acquainted with Ger-r
man psychology " also "believe it
was a grave error to present the
German - people with the fable
about the heart disease of Field
Marshal Gen. W a 1 1 h e r . von
Brauchitsch as a Christmas gift. .
Large sections of the German
people look to soldiers of the
old school of which von Brauch
itsch, a disciple of the late CoL
Gen. Werner von Fritsch, as an
outstanding representative as
their last hope to stave off the
worst aspects of nasi domina
tion over an enslaved people. -
Von Brauchitsch's "resignation"
and Hitler's assumption of the su
preme army command acted like
a bombshell. The removal of the
marshal further put the German
people in the doldrums.
Besides, the older generation re
membered but too well how the
United States in 1917 gave the de
cisive turn to the last world war.
Would history repeat itself?
That was the question on millions
of lips.
The answer by party spellbin
ders that this was a new type of
war didn't seem convincing. The
very fact that this is chiefly a
mechanical war raised the grav
esi oouDts oi oerman victory in
the minds of the common people
in the reich when America's par
ticipation was ensured by Hitler's
war declaration. For e(ery school
boy in Germany knows America
is tops in mechanics.
As If It were not enough, the
talkative little Dr. Goebbels felt
impelled to inject himself into
the situation with two radio ad
dresses to the German people
on December 20 and on Christ
mas eve. If ever he struck a
wrong note It was In those two
speeches.
At a time when people in Ger
many were freezing for want of
coal and when no more "'ear
wool was available and furs were
practically unobtainable, Goeb
bels four days before Christmas
asked the nation to give up pelts
and other warm things and have
them shipped to the Russian
front.
German people couldn't believe
their ears.
Only a few weeks previously a
weekly newsreel had been brought
out showing how soldiers were
being furnished with everything
needed for the winter.
Secretary
"It is them or us," Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox warned 1209 attendees at the Navy Relief drive
luncheon in Los Angeles, May 4. The cabinet member is pictured surrounded by civic, navy and
army dignitaries. Left to right: Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles, Louis B. Mayer, Secretary
Knox, Preston Hotchkiss, Rear Admiral Ralston B. Holmes. The secretary's tour included San Fran
cisco, Vallejo, Seattle and Bremerton, Wash.
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Debris filled Broad street In Lubeck, Germany, after the RAF raid on the German Baltic port the nisat
f March 28. .This picture was ublished in the "Hamborger FremdenbUtt" with a eapttos that the
British called the raid one of the "most devastating of the war." The caption added: "England mar
be assured that we shall remember iL" v
That news reel even then was
running in thousands of smaller
houses which received their film
later than metropolitan 'theatres.
Clearly, somebody somewhere was
lying. Goebbels and his newsreel
didn't jibe. ,? i
In an adtress he blamed the '
winter-for the Unusual appeal.
That again was a contradiction ;
lef something he had said In
his own "ministry: ' , ' :
Only ' Shortly, before, Reich
Press Chief Otto Dietrich, who
holds the -. titled of (secretary, of
state in Goebbels irUnistry, had
appeared before the : press J di
rectly from Hitler's GHQ to. bring
information; as it, were,, from the
horse's mouth. . ' it . .
! Winter cuts no figure, Dietrich
shouted into the hall where we
were assembled. Hitler had fore
seen everything, i including ' the
rigors of a Russian winter.
, Far from being an ally of the
Russians, it would prove a friend
of the Germans, Dietrich averred
And now winter was suddenly
deserting the little doctor and
compelling the German people to
give up precious furs and wool
ens! His appeal was accompanied
by a stern decree imposing the
death penalty upon anybody
who enriched himself by keep
ing warm articles given for the
soldiers. Incidentally, the de
cree threw an interesting light
on Hitler's estimate of the hon
esty of his subordinates, for it
was they who did the collecting.
Goebbels' Christmas1 eve ora
torical effort showed a similar
failure to gauge feelings of his
compatriots correctly.
Admitting that Christmas gifts
were scant and scarce this year
and the traditional candles were
missing because all available sup
plies had been sent to the Russian
front, Goebbels suddenly warned
the people not to forsake their
leaders and the fighting troops as
they had done in 1918.
It was decidedly poor psychol
ogy to remind Germans of their
defeat in 1918 so soon after the
declaration of war ori the United
States. It was even worse psy
chology to admit the possibility
of a recurrence of 1918.
Hardly were the Christmas
days over when a further blow
to German morale was delivered
by the reichs sports leader, who
urged every patriot to surrend
er his skis.
Only 376,000 pairs of skis were
donated as a result of this appeal
to a nation extremely fond of slip
ping over snow on boards.
So the government got busy
jerking sluggish patriots out of
their lethargy. A public announce
ment was made that no public con
veyances could accept skis for
transportation. Not even street
cars or city omnibuses were per
mitted to take anybody with skis.
Subsequently all ski competitions
were called off. -1
From early 1942 and until our
departure in mid-May one de
pressing fact after another was re
vealed to the German people by
Hitler and his lieutenants.
The Ukraine, according to the
German press on February 25,
wouldn't yield tangible agricul
tural results until 1943. Before the
Russian campaign every German
Knox Pledges Total Victory
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Well-known scientist and an ex
pert on reptiles, Dr. Raymond L."
Ditmars, above, la dead in New:
York, at the age of 65. Dr. Dit-.
mars was the author of many
books on reptile and animal life.
Death drops the final curtain on
the career of the burlesque com
edy team of Weber and Fields,
world-famous long before the turn
of the century, with the death of
Joseph M. Weber, 74, in Los An
geles. Fields died last July. The
two entered the show business in
1876 when they were only nine
years old. They launched their
own music hall in 1885.
had been led to believe that grain
and other raw materials would
pour in from the Ukraine from
the moment" of its conquest.
Speaking on the German Me
morial day, March 16, Hitler
told his people the Russians def
initely would be beaten this
summer. A month and ten
days later in an address to the
reichstag he promised that Ger
man transportation in the east
would be better next winter than
last. This was a wet blanket for
millions of Germans and seemed
to indicate Hitler expects to face
another Russian winter.
The reichstag speech was a
blunder in another way; It re
vealed even to the most obtuse
how far all personal liberty had
gone and how one man abrogated
not only all legislative and execu
tive powers but even all judicial
prerogatives to himself.
Even annual vacations would be
taken from them at the fuehrer's
demand. As though to rub this
fact in'reich's labor leader Robert
Ley in a May-day proclamation
demanded more work, more sweat,
more effort.
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