FAGE SIXTEEN
Fall Garden
Is Held Need
Victory gardeners should begin
thinking about the fall vegetables
they are going to have in their gar
den and begin securing the seed
and preparing the soil, advises
Robert E. Rieder, acting county
agent.
For instance, beets planted about
June 10, with reasonable care, will
be ready for use about August 1
to 10; lettuce, August 10 to Sep
tember 15; carrots, August 25; cab
bage, September 1 to 30; turnips,
August 10 to 20; rutabagas, Sep
tember 10; tomatoes, September
10 to 30; sweet corn, August 25 to
September 15 and bush beans,
August 10 to 30.
Plantings of leafy green vegeta
bles may be continued throughout
June, July and August.
For further information on
planting schedules in your victory
garden, inquire at the county
agent's office.
Oregon Vehicle
Population Up
Motor vehicle registration in
Oregon -continued to show a slight
increase for the first five months
of 1942 as compared to the same
period in 1941, Earl Snell, secre
tary of state, announced Thurs
day.
There were 394,511 vehicles
registered in this state at the end
of May while at the same time
last year, there were 394,284 ve
hicles registered.
Registration fees this year total
$2,796,890.33 compared to $2,
707,272.29 last May.
Willamette
Valley Briefs
Novel-Atlas-History Volume
Of Dream Country Came Out
Of Professor's Imagination
By JOHN SELBY
NEW YORK -(Wide World)- Many a person has created a
dream world and mentally peopled it with strange characters.
But Austin Tappan Wright went a long step further. His
dream world developed with astonishing detail in his inventive
mind,-and he brought it to life
. . . on paper.
Professor Wright died in 1931.
For 20 yean before that he
bad been locking himself into
bis study at the University of
Pennsylvania, quietly working
eat his dream of an entire
country all his own, a place
called Islandia, and his ulti
mate object was to make this
country live in a great novel.
He did it before he died, and
"Islandia" was recently ""pub
lished. But the painstaking details this
professor of law dreamed up are
the remarkable thing about it all.
Carefully, without telling his
wife or his daughter what he did,
Wright first wrote a 75,000-word
history of his dreamland. He be
gan it with the dawn of the
world, and carried it down in
enormous details to the year 1909
not in general terms, but com
plete with names, dates and what
not. He placed his country on an
imaginary continent. He provided
it with a climate all its own, and
the minutest detail.
He created a language for
Islandia. too you make the
plural of Islandian words by add
ing an R.
He surrounded Islandia with
neighbors, and worked out a
set of foreign relations covering
a thousand years.
He gave his country a peer
age, carefully created.
He provided a literature, and
developed characteristic art forms
Islandians were given to writ
ing fables, for example, and carv
ing was their favorite among the
plastic arts.
Professor Wright also develop
ed a calendar for Islandia, and
a complete system of mathema
tics this was based on a sys
tem of 12 instead of a system
of 10.
He had a religion for his peo
ple, and a national character as
distinctive as that of the Chinese,
for example.
Sports, dress, a complicated
syste mof family traits which ap
peared in successive generations
and interwove themselves as in
the real world even a complete
schedule of steamship and cable
rates with the known world were
provided.
He then worked out a biblio
graphy of works about Islandia
- by outlanders, and this is one of
the most fascinating of- Wright's
fancies. The Germans were the
ones who wrote the long, serious
tomes about Islandia, for exam
ple. And the missionaries, who
failed uniformly to impress Islan
dians, wound up by defending
and condemning one another.
And finally, he reduced the
whole thins to maps. He drew
53 of them, and very beautiful
ly. He went so far as to plot
carefully such details as a uni
versity; there is a plan show
ing the location of all the uni
versity buildings, including
dormitories.
Everything in Islandia built up
to a great climax. Traditionally,
Islandia through the centuries
had refused to admit outlanders,
and fought fiercely to keep itself
to itself. But at last an experi
ment was to be tried; certain re
lations with the world would be
tried, and a few consulates were
established.
The novel begins where the
history leaves off, and it centers
about the American consul, a Har
vard man named John Lang. It
is a whopping novel almost as
long as Anthony Adverse."
The strange thing is that it also
is a moving piece of writing, not
at all the meticulous, involved
product one would expect from a
mind that could devise such a
complicated background.
But even so, it almost missed
publication.
When Professor Wright died in
a motor accident in 1931, it exist
ed in a tall stack of folders, 5000
pages of longhand. It was all new
to Mrs. Wright (who died re
cently) and her daughter, Sylvia,
but they decided to type it, and
they did.
By chance Leonard Bacon, the
poet, was a friend of the family.
He suggested that it be shown
to Farrar & Rhinehart, and they
agreed to publish, provided Miss
' "Wright would help in the editing.
She, with Mark Saxton, worked
two years at the job.
Printed, Austin Wright's only
aevel runs 1813 pages. Nobody
really knows since the auth
' er has been dead 11 years
but it looks as though he may
have intended te write (in addi
tion to the unpublished history
and the novel) . all the books
he mentions in that bibliogra-
Phy.
And while he lived, the author
.never even showed this vast pro
ject to his wife! t .
Thin Peaches
By Crop Yield
Peach growers should thin their
peaches according to stage of fruit
development rather than by cal
endar date, states Robert E. Rie
der, acting county agent This has
been proven to be the most effec
tiveiethod for peach thinning as
tested by recent experiments.
Thinning should not be done on
a certain uniform distance between
fruits put on the basis of estimated
Utal crop which the tree might
properly mature. It should be re
membered that excessive thinning
reduces the yield so much that of
ten growers actully incur consid
erable losses by such practices.
The distance at which to thin is
controversial. Thinning from four
The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. June 12, 1942
Marvin Thomas
to six inches between fruits is
about the general rule however.
In recent years it has been shown
that better results have been ob
tained by thinning peaches to 30
ot 40 leaves per fruitn order to
get the size and color. It should be
remembered that the fruits get
their size in direct proportion to
the number of leaves and the
amount of leaf surface per indi
vidual fruit.
This has been a good year for
Marion county peach orchards and
many have set a tremendously
heavy crop. It is now time to
thin these trees in order that they
may mature the proper amount of
peaches for each individual tree.
This is particularly important in
wet seasons where brown rot is
likely to be a problem. The closer
together the fruits are, the more
apt brown rot is to become serious
Named by USD A
Marvin W. Thomas, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. J. Thomas of Scotts
Mills, has been named assistant
agricultural statistician in the US
department of agriculture.
Since his graduation from Ore
gon State college in 1937 he has
been employed in the college ex
tension service. One of his first
duties in the new work was com
piling an estimate of the Oregon
strawberry acreage.
at harvest time.
Peaches should be thinned as
early in their development as pos
sible but it has been shown that
actually it is of value to thin
peaches tip to within three weeks
before picking time.
Test Changes
Speed Seeds
CORVALLIS, June 11. -(-Revised
testing arrangements have
been completed to speed up ship
ment of 'Oregon's winter cover
crop seed to southern states, the
state AAA office announced
Thursday.
Seed will be shipped on a pur
ity test alone, , eliminating the
germination test The AAA esti
mated this would cut the waiting
time from two weeks to two or
three days.
Eighty per cent of the possible
top price will be paid by the
Commodity Credit corporation on
basis of the purity test with addi
tional payment to come after
germination has been determined.
At least half of Oregon's yield
Brush Creek News
BRUSH COLLEGE The an
nual Brush College home coming
picnic was held Saturday at the
local schoolhouse, instead, of in
the park as usual, because of the
bad weather. Superintend ant
Bennett of Salem spoke.others on
the program were Glenda Mc
Allister, Josephine Singer and
Elva Lough.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Adams were
appointed delegates to the state
grange meeting at Milwaukee next
week by local grange master A. E.
Utley at the last meeting".
A picnic will be held in the
community grove July 3.
of ;cover crop seed from 350,000
acres will be purchased by the
AAA for shipment to cotton
growifig states this year.
Safe in Shanghai
Hazel Green-Mrs: Hattie Van
riaove has .juwv:
the Red Cross that her sister, Miss
Grace Wormoth, is safe in ShaniT
hai, China. The last letter had
been received in October. Miss
Wormoth taught for 20 years in
Shanghai, a term in a Babtist mis
sion school and' 13 years in the
International settlement. She vis
ited her sister here during her
sabbattical leave.
Loggers Get Tires :
SCIO Tires and tubes recently
issued include Don A. Tarpley,
Frank S. Parrish, Roaring RiVer
Logging company, C. E. Kendle.
Valley Events
Central Townsend elnb Ne.
6 will meet in the courthouse
Friday night, at 8 p. m.
Child Recovering
SILVERTON Small Lila Han
sen of Mt. Angel Thursday was
reported as getting along as well
as could be expected following an
accident Wednesday in which her
dog had bitten through the child's
upper lip. She was rushed to the
siiverton nospitai wnere sne is
being cared for.
Small Girl Hurts Eye
Scio Judy Martin, 6 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Martin, injured her eye in a fall
at Bilyeu Den a few days ago.
Aumsville News
AUMSVILLE Mrs. Constance
Pio and Mrs. Addie Barker of
Portland, were here Wednesday to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Nellie
Newcomb.
Reverend and Mrs. Snyder,
from Calif, have rented the O. A.
Lesley house and will take po
session soon. They have three
daughters. He is a minister in the
Dunkard church and is a brother
of Oakie Snyder of Salem, who
formerly lived here.
C. D. Boone has rented his pro
perty adjoining the O. A. Lesley
home, to Mr. and Mrs. Bass and
six children of Mehama. This
place was recently vacated by the
Makinson family.
Farmers Union
News
SCIO Oyster supper climaxed
a recent meeting of the Jordan
farm union, which initiated 12
members at the meeting. The un
ion meets on the first and third
Thursday each month. John Sil-
bemagel is president and Ed Foltz,
secretary-treasurer.
Pastor Leaves for
Convention 1
WOODBURN Rev. Oluf Asper
of Woodburn and the Monitor
churcbes hai gone to Minneapolis
where he will attend the biennial
-convention ofev the Norwegian
Lutheran church. . ,
He also will visit relatives and
friends in South Dakota and will
be gone three weeks. u ,
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