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J A " t -. in ON-' ' . -- - . -" '-l : Food, Fun Are Incentive oou, seeas,: siuimiuic, inuuiuic are the ingredients necessary for a successful Victory Garden. The" first two you have to get; the Willamette villey usually taHes care of the second pair. Elbow" grease is just another name for i : . 4U i.c(inii enrt nf cnth'n.ctasm it takes to "follow ciiwiusutauif w . aciovaa'a uv w - : - - - through." :- I " ' ' j j For the sake of generating elbow grease, ii is important that the Victory gardener realize he is enrolled in a mighty army. His name is legion. There are millions of Americans much like him; men and women who are novices at vegetable gardening; who are Venturing into that field of endeavor this year for the first time from motives of patriotism and necessity. I It's patriotic to grow your own food, so there'll be more food for the armed forces and for America's allies, some of whose peo ple have really been going hungry. And it's j necessary, , too. Point rationing of canned goods already has served to drive home the fact that canned vegetables aren't going to be plentiful in the stores. The Victory Garden family must resolve doubtless already has resolved not only to raise vegetables but to can a lot of them at home. ..,!.. So the Victory gardener is a part of a vast movement, which is another way of saying that he's making history. Helping the Victory gardener to realize all jthis is the pur pose of this garden page, which will be a regular weekly feature in The Statesman for, a number of weeks and as long as it ap pears to serve a useful purpose. Soils, seeds, sunshine and savvy. Savvy is: the thing many Victory gardeners lack. Savvy is another thing this garden page will attempt to provide. Not that the garden page editor has the savvy but he is acquainted with folk who do. Various garden ing problems will arise If you don't know the answer and don't Vind it on this page, write in and ask. The garden page editor won't know, the answer either, but he'll ask some member of the Salem Men's Garden club or a professional. The Statesman through its garden page hopes to serve as a clearing house for information about Victory gardening. Authority ; Gives JFcirpi Setting Date, l Now is the time to be planting turnips,' early beets and """carrotaj iettuce and swiss chard in the Victory -Garden,; according to a Chart prepared 'by Prof. A.1 G. B. JJouquel vegetable .crop's -author- ity at Oregon Stete' college j These hems should, go into- the 'ground any time between April .1 arid 10. I If the gardener is just getting his "plot ready for "seeding, other fairly .urgent business is the plant-: ing of peas and spinach. Either could have been planted as early as March ,10, but spinach may be put in the ground as late as April 15, peas as late as April 25. On ion sets may also be set out now. The .gardener starting now, win find that he is not too late for very manyL garden- items. The date for radishes is March 10 but the gar dener is expected to plan. "succes sive seeding" so radishes will be ready for the table over a series of Weeks. Those put in ; March 10 would be ready for harvest early in May. The first spinach if plant ed March 10 would become part of the diet about May 15. Most of the items going in the ground now should become available for use in July, though the turnips may be ready June 1 as should let tuce provided plants are set out now. If lettuce seed is planted the crop will begin to come on about June 20. v .... Next week it's proper to start planting onion seed, parsnips and salsify. Crops which should not be started until later include sweet corn, beans, tomatoes, squash, cu cumbers, pumpkins and celery. Today's Garden By LILLIE L. MADSEN Mrs. J. M. reports that she was given a tree called sumac and wants to know something about it. 'Answer: She doesn't tell much about it and it is hard to identify, from the meager description. The two most common sumacs rare Rhus Typhina and the R. Gla bra.. The former is familiarly known as the Staghorn and the Press of wartime civilian tfntle and the Victory Gardea wpswiac T interest In plantinr problems take it necessary for Miss Mad sen to request that hereafter ques tions mailed to her he hrief and abject to answer only in the dally and Sunday Statesman carden eol mns which .she writes. Sh will endeavor to answer all questions in this way hereafter. latter as the Smooth Sumac. The chief distinction is that the Stag horn has branches covered with dense velvet hairs while the lat ter is, as its name indicates, smooth. Of both sorts, Alfred C. Hottes tells us, there - are cut leaf varieties of great beauty. One of the outstanding features of the sumacs is the autumn coloring. The fruit display of R. Typhina is very good : and this is useful : on : steep : slopes and semi-wild, places; Jt grows' Into a rather large shrub. The sumac will grow under great adversities -and seems to thrive well in the dry est, most barren soils. , In too damp, low soils; the color display is very poor, while on arid - places, the color display in autumn is the best. 1 ; The Staghorn can be cut to the ground each year if one de sires to keep it within bounds. This can also be done with the Smooth Sumac. This severe pruning will make a much den ser growth. But, of course, they fruit better, when permitted to grow naturally. Gardeners Urged toEnriill In Victory Farm Contest; Several Prizesf Offered : t- On the theory that any endeavor becomes more interesting if you make a' game of it a contest -the Salem" Men' Garden club in its desire to' encourage Victory" gardening in this community has joined forces with; The Statesman in sponsoring a Victory Garden contest. first detailed announcement ol Community . Plots Is Salem Plan' For Gardens which appeared tnis week. ' Negro Files Suit On Discrimination Youth Takes 32,000 Gallons Of B' Tickets SEATTLE, April 7-P)-Chief investigator Al Sides of the of fice of price administration report ed Wednesday .that a 19-year-old former OPA employe had confess ed the theft of "B" ration coupon sheets good for 32,000 gallons of gasoline. Sides quoted the youth, who was picked up on a speeding charge Tuesday, as saying he took the coupons while helping to un crate them last winter. He was held without charge for federal authorities. The investigation of his case started after police found coupons good for 2,676 gallons in the glove compartment of his car. Police Sgt. Arthur Duggins quoted the youth Tuesday as explaining he bought the coupons for $10 and hoped to dispose of them at a prof it. ' r";' Investigator Sides reported re covery of 28,752 gallons-worth of coupons in a basement cache at the youth's home Wednesday. Wednesday, "of The principal thing victory gar-; deners need to ' get in mind for the present, is that in order to be come . eligible - for one -of the. ,lo prizes offered in this contest, U is necessary to , .enrolL ; The ..enroll ment application" coupon ' will be published in ; The r Statesman for several d a y s; ' member s" of " the Men's ..G arden- club also wOI ha ye a supply.. . '"! ' '-"TT'-r."-., , 'l inasmuch as enrollment ' carries wth it no obligation, 'RusseU Patt. club president,' sees no' rea son why; any person .who is cul tiyating a victory garden,! br planning one, should - fail to en roll. The enrollment record, if virtually all victory gardeners do decide to enter the contest, will serve as a directory of home vege table growers and help to keepup thie enthusiasm, since there is "strength in numbers. Judging time is a long time away, but contest entrants may be interested to know that : their gardens' will be judged 23 per cent on cultivation, 30 pen cent on quantity and quality of fond produced, 10 per cent on early garden crops, 10 percent on sum mer and fall crops, and 25 per cent on gerieralappearance. j !ln order to divide contestants into four geographical sections, imaginary lines have been drawn the full length of Center and Sum mer streets. Contestants in the northwest quarter of the city, as it is so divided, will be in section 1; those in the northeast quarter,! in section 2; those in the southeast quarter, in section 3; those in, the southwest Quarter, in section 4 Gardeners desiring additional information about the contest may call the YMCA and ask for Claude Kells, who has been conducing a clearing house for victory garden information in general. Development of "several "coxa munity ' garden . plots has ' been one feature of the Victory Garden program in Salem, growing out of the fact that .rnahy families desire to raise '.their own,, food; even though 'they' live in apartments or in homes without adequate gar den 'spacer . ; Two such? garden plots already are in existence 'and arrangements- for. a ; third,: and larger . one' were hear compietion" early This - Week, The Salem JNlen'jC Garden club, ar ranged for the first, two. One -of -these, on Lana avenue. was provided -by G. M. Slentz.' Gardeners -there, several of them ministers, are W. H. Lyman, W. M. Einfeld, C. O. Goodman, J. K. Wishart, O. F. Campbell, E. L. Al len, W. W. Hess, J. H. Ryan, E. W. Williams, R. Smith and Dudley Strain. ; - . ;-' ' ; - On the Highland , avenue plot the gardeners mostly ;, residents of that vicinity, are Pauline Welch, Frank Giddings, A. C."' Fleener, In Victory Garden 'I - A NUN of the Carmelite Order; at St Patrick's Home lor ihe Aged In the Bronx, New York City, uses a trowel while working in the new victory garden. The riUns plan to supply most of the Home's vege tables from the garden this sum mer and fall. : - (IntemarwmelJ - -: - i: -: : Gardenero Urged.. . To Attend Meet Fo jFarhi Advice : rerpiexeo victory gardeners ma yf profit f rem attending this , Thursday, night's meeting- f the Salem Men's Garden elub In the . lebby f the YMCA tt 7:31 'clockj-and at this partlcalar ; meetlnr, which features an ; In-: forma spring flewer shew, ev ery end interested, w m e n as -welt as men. Is. Invited.. n ; Five experienced gardeners, -most f them professional will - be in I hand conduct ' Vle- ' jtorij.;- garden ellnle," "and seme among, them should be able U answer any . question 'that ', may arise. J. .s- ' ?. Anether fatre" w U 1 . be, a .shewing ef inevles. dealing with trlsf culture, by Dr. It Klein serge ef SilverUn. - Dashiells Move : .VVEST SALEM The . IV MV , Frfzea family have rented the LelghUn DashieU place. The DashleU's '' are aaevlng t FerU lakid where Mr." DashieU . Is ,em-' pleyed In defense work. : They hajre eught property there, v gel yours, nbu! : Presto Sim (Quart size, ()(rf complete- iXC kith glass- K A closures. Dozen 1 Buy new! And be sure f i geed supply ef Jars for put ting up the nreducts af yeur ' Victory Garden. . " 155 N. Liberty Fh. 3194 NLRB Hearings ! To Be Reopened PORTLAND, April 7.-CP)-The NLRB's hearing into CIO charges of unfair labor practices against three Henry J. Kaiser shipyards in this area will reopen here Thursday. ! The hearing recessed in mid February after the national labor relations board heard testimony Of CIO officials who accused the Kaiser yards .of making illegal closed shop- contracts with AFL shipyard unions. Defense testi mony will begin Thursday. PORTLAND, April 7-P)-Lce Anderson, negrq employe of Ore gon ship building corporation, charged the AFL boilermakers un ion! Wednesday with discrimina tion against negro workers. In a suit field in circuit court, Anderson said that although he graduated from a government sponsored school in electric weld ing he was denied union member ship and job clearance because he was a negro. He also charged the union with intimidating him and. other negro workers and; firms that would give negroes equal rights. He asked the court to enjoin j the union from refusing him mem bership or intimidating firms and to restrain the. Oregon Shipbuild ing corporation; from refusing him employment as a welder because he isn't a union member. He also asked that the court void the con tract between the union and the company in regard to racial dis crimination. I Full THE VICTORY GARDEN Still Time to Plant but HURRY! Raspberries Cuthbert, Taylor,1, 1 flfl NewbourghC.......doz. Currants - Gooseberries 2 for 25c Strawberries, Asparagus Apple-Plum Trees 50c to $2X0 ! Peaches 30c -40c -50c , r.-:. .... . Filberts i : !iC rn Per 100 - 1 to 5 Years Old Dwarf Apples and Pears L Gladiolus Bulbs.J . doz. $1.25 20c A Complete Line of Flowering and Shade ; Trees, Shrubs, Ete. Knighl Pearcy Ilursery 17$ South Liberty (2 Blocks South of lArmory) Open Mon. thru FrL 12:30 1 -t Sat. t 'til j - Sun. 10 'til 4 It Won't Be a VicSoFy harden II It's Defeated! 'reti Guard Against Fifth Colunnist Plant Diseases land Parasites Complete Line of Fungicides and Insecticides Sears Farm Siore .173 SXiberty Phone 9192 Planl T f E L S"dS We offer you a complete stock of -HIGH-GRADE' TESTED GARDEN SEEDS SuiUble for this valley Also Victory Garden Fertiliser,. A geed variety af SEED POTATOES and Onin .Plants. GARDEN INSECTICIDES A SPECIALTY ' . 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AT WARD'S Make SURE four Victory Garden will be a succeas Prepare your' plot with this tested, analyzed fertilize ' r. Sold for food production only in - lb. Lzj . . , . IO-li. D:j . 25-li. E:j . ED;lb. Dag ItDCErj ;-50:;;-;2.5. CCD.; Peat IICSSiJ Xar bale" S3p5I WIS . D. A. UIIiTS & Phone 4952 , - . ' - - G. EI Slentz Feed & Scad Co.; 2700 Portland Road ; ( . . Phone 8503 15 N. Uberty fit. - . Thcae 3131 261 StateSt. 138 N". Commercial 1 . . Salem, Ore.