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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1944)
The OHIGON CTATEZMAlt CaUrru. Orjon, Cvn&ar Karxslag, Fehirocry 27. Kit ByLILLIE MAD SEN r Lilll Today was the day I promised to pass on information which I bad picked up here and there on growing roses. Oregon has be come world fa mous for its ros es, and this rep utation has ' not entirely been gained by 1 u c k and Willamette valley w e ather. Some study - and some real hard work (work to those who do not e n joy spraying, pruning t. and general gardening) have gone into the making of that reputation. While we are m growing carrots, peas and potatoes for our victory gardens, we should not entirely neglect this reputation which for years we have been wrestling from Pasadena, California. I have seen Pasadena's roses, and while they are nice as all roses are somewhat in the same manner in speaking of all litle babies the Pasadena roses which I saw were immensely well cared for. By na ture Oregon's roses are of a more healthy and full coloring. - Roses do well in a wide range of soils, although they favor a heavy clay loam that is retentive of moi sture: This is particularly true of the lagre-growing hybrid perpet ual. Some of .the- smaller varie ties of the tea rose, will succeed in a deep sandy loam. And let me take time eat right here to say: DO NOT MIX YOU VARIETIES. By this I mesa, dm not plant a tail vigor-oas-rrewing hybrid perpetual right next neighbor to eae of the weaker, -smaller growing terns or ether roses. Keep "year heavy (re wins roses together and la the background, a a d keep year mere dalnty-growtag varieties together, and la the foreground. The heavy grow ing eaes will completely on Una -dew the weaker greap if yea de net make this distinction. AND DONT, WHEN' YOU COME OVER TO SEE MY ROSE GAB DEN. TELL ME I DnNT FOL LOW THIS ADVICE. It Is De cease X didn't follow it, that I knew so well what I am, ta this Instance, talking abeat. To get back to the soil:-There seems to be a lot of "donf in gardening. Right now I am think ing of all mis talk about the "Plough man's Folly." Don't take that too seriously when you are preparing your rose bed. The soil should be prepared deeply and well. Good drainage is essential. In the days before the war, when . we didn't know anything better to do with tin cans than haul them out and dump them along some one else's front gate, we suggest ed putting them in the bottom of the rose bed to insure good drain age. Now we have to find some other means. Gravel will make the same good foundation for rosej growing. If you dig. your rose bed two feet deep and fill in the first six inches with coarse gra vel, you should have good drain age. Roses are-heavy feeders. Noth ing quite equals nourishment from the cowbarns, so far as roses are concerned. Bonemeal and wood ashes are also good soil conditions in the rose bed. A trowelful of bonemeal should be good for two years. When once planted, the -roses should not be cultivated too deep ly close to the bush. Rose roots go deep for food, one thinks, but there are always a number which grow close to the surface, especi ally; where the bushes are irriga ted during the summer. Pruning roses ahead be dene , InFebraary or very early , March. Te make a good, vigor ens, bash with aa open center, they should be pruned back to an outside bat abeat ten inch es from : the ground. Heavy growing bashes, similar te the Mat. Caroline Testoat, or Fraa Karl' DrnshehkL need not be pruned back as far as some of the lighter growing varieties. Fear or five eaaes are enough te leave en each bash. Care should be taken to prune eat all weak eaaes. If yoa haven't already done so, rash eat year winter clean up spray at once. Over and over again, I am asked to make a selection of roses for someone. And over and over again I repeat that ' sleeting roses de pends so much upon one's individ ual taste and even ones' own taste changes from time to time in roses. I was reminded once last roee-blooming season that I at one time named Crimson Glory as my favorite and on another day chose Countess Vandal, while a third time I seem to proper Picture. I was told I was inconsistent about my choice of roses. X maintain on doesn't have to be consistent in one's rose likes. Roses do not bloom consistently well and I, for one, prefer the rose that is nicest on the day I choose to admire my roses. But you cannot go very far wrong if in reds you choose Crim son Glory, Dickson's Red, . Mary Hart, Matador, Texas Centennial, Christopher Stone or Etoil D'Hol lande. Good pink ones might be Treasure Island, President Marcia or Picture. Orange and coppery shades: Angel's Mateu, Anne Van derbilt. Orange Nassau, President Plumecock (what a name for a rose!) or Shades of Autumn! Yel low ! roses might include Sarah Darley, Mrs. P. S. DuPont, Mc Gredy's Yellow, Golden Dawn. White ones should include Kaiser in August Victoria, Nuria De Re colona (the gardenia rose), Mc Gredy'r Ivory (one of my favor ites), and Mme. Jules Bouche (with a very slight flush of pink). Broz Reports Violent Battles LONDON. Feb. 2&-UPh-A com munique broadcast by the partisan forces of Marshal joxip Bros (Tito) said "violent battles' were racing in the Sokolac-Roga- tlca sector in eastern Bosnia and that a Rumanian partisan detach ment had slain 100 Germans and Ustashis. In 1 Hercekovina, the communis que continued, partisan troops in action near Gacko killed 100 Ger mans and wounded 150 others. A Hungarian broadcast reported that martial law had been declar ed in Zagreb, seat of the axis nuDDet government of Croatia, and that a commission had been ap pointed to repair bomb-damaged buildings. Military rule was order ed to prevent looting, it was said. Crossword Puzzle IS 3 12 4 3i 'A I 27 41 id 4 23 3J 3 I- 1 20 35 AX A 4 'A 21 33 YA 3 7 YAAA 9 -pi! J. w Wis llh ta VA 7x777, ri 222222 41 War Brings US Independent Rubber Supply NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-P)-In little more than two years of war, and It took a war to do It," Am erica has become independent in the matteriof rubber; never again will we have to depend on foreign sources, reports Harvey S. Fire stone, jt, in the forthcoming Sat urday Evening Post. Firestone goes into the history of rubber production and the de velopment of the synthetic which was stepped up : when v the war brought a loss of 90 per cent of the world's natural rubber supply. What has happened? i "The rubber crisis has been licked." says Firestone, "At the end of 1943, approximately 140, 000 tons remained ; in our stock pile of natural rubber,' and tills year there will be in operation synthetic-rubber plants with an annual capacity of 850,000 tons." Firestone quotes iConservatIve rubber economists" as saying the world will need 1,850,000 tons of rubber annually in the first post war years. He will produce 850, 000 tons of synthetic and the natural-rubber plantations will have to supply the rest. ? "We, in this fortunate country of ours, could go about our bus iness without ever again import ing a single pound of natural rub ber, Firestone concludes. "But do we want to do j that? Do we want to help km ' the Malayan goose that lays a golden egg of export markets for us? ; Do we want to be responsible for throw ing the entire economic structure of the Dutch East Indies and Brit ish Malaya out of flter? "It is both an economic and a moral issue , . . the .lusty young synthetic rubber industry will look after itself, no matter what the decision may be. ' Poles Refuse Curzon Line By JUDSON O'QUINN LONDON, Feb. 28-(ff-The Po lish govemment-in-exile was re ported to have given Bri tain a firm refusal to accept the Curzon line as the basis for Polish-Russian frontier negotiations as proposed by Moscow. The Poles also were believed to have sent Foreign Secretary An thony Eden an expression of dis pleasure at Prime Minister Chur chill's support of the Soviet de mands. Marshal Stalin was expected to reject the 'latest compromise offer df the Poles and further pressure on the government-in-exile, it was believed, would either unite the Poles in their defiance of Russian demands or cause some members who opposed any compromise to resign. (Ddllaeirwiise By Ethan Grant : If Betty's objective was to sur prise us with her new accomp lishment,, she certainly succeeded. She showed it to us and said It was supposed to , be a cake, but her troubled expression indicated too eloquently that she wasnt proud of it We gathered around, trying hard to convey a degree of appreciation we did not honest ly feeL.. After all, she is only fifteen. She looked at us and knew we were shocked. While we were willing to admit that it did look like, a cake, in an Imaginative sort of way, we couldn't refrain from asking how on earth such a thing could happen. Actually, it was a flat, brown disk, like that thrown by a discus thrower in competition with other; discus throwers. 'Where," we asked, "did you get the recipe?" "Off a brown box." she said. .We then wanted to see the box. but for some mysterious reason she couldn't locate it. We hunted high and low, but never did find it We decided it probably got mixed into the batter. We also got to fonderinr what else got mixed into the batter. Except that it was extremely flat it had the dimensions of a cake, but just by looking at it you never could have guessed that it really was one. In fact you could never have guessed it was any thing you'd ever seen before. Its texture was a little like that of a piece of rubber, but we knew it wasn't rubber because - you couldn't stretch it- at. alL You could bend it double without breaking it . We went into the living room and sat down to decide what we ought to do with it "Whatever else we do, we mustn't let the neighbors know," we decided. Neighbors are frightfully unre liable about such things. They al most never understand or sympa thize. And they always want to gossip. "No matter what happens," we said to Betty, "we still love you. You're a good child and you meant well. It's unfortunate, of course, but it can and frequently does happen in even the best of homes.' We sat thinking. Suddenly I had an Idea. "If you take off your shoes and step on it we could use it for preserving your footprints." Betty shook her head. She didn't want her footprints pre served. Not at her age. "I could use It lor a BB gun target" Brother said, "Or we might sell it for a stove lid." HORIZONTAL 1. small child - 4 loiter . i, T- declare 12 wander, IS. feminine .name 14 ocean-going -vessel . 15. narrow inlet - 14. consume 'IT. a Pilgrim , father 18. at no time to. sharpen ' 22. snow vehicle 23. hang . 24. early V Christian , champion 2T. mettle liquid measure -29. gnaw away Jl. ashlness 22. golf club 24. Mohamme dan prince 25. worsts 88. youth -27. highway 59. lampreys 42. for fear that - 42. city in ; niinois r v 44. masculine name 47. light brown 49. personality. 50. deputy 51. bitter vetch 52. uncooked 53. 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Roman : magistrate 21. upon 23. by- 24. petters 25. cyprinoid fish 29. pasha of ; Tunis 2S. turbulent . .. streams -.. 30. nocturnal , : ; carnivore 31. close comrsda 32. wine vessel 33. couch 35. raw douga f S3, bone - 40. city in Utah 41. spotless. ,: 42. soUury. 43. handle 44. butt 45. past ' . 40. came together 41 land-measurt To jo Calls Cabinet Meet NEW YORK, Feb. 26-UPV-In-an unusual procedure, reserved only for the gravest crisis in Japanese events, the cabinet of Premier Hi deki Tojo met at the imperial palace to pass stringent new reg ulations designed to strengthen the war effort Tokyo radio an nounced last week. : The Japanese also announced that 6500 of their men were killed in the American capture of Kwa- jalein and Roi islands in the Mar-shalls. The Tokyo reports, recorded by US government monitors, said that "an outline of emergency management' had been agreed upon, the items : including the simplification of national liveli hood, the renovation of the labor structure, and the conversion of various businesses so as to render them more efficient Hannegan Says Barkley Fracas Sign of Democracy DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 28-(ft) Robert E. Hannegan ot St Louis. .national democratic ,. - chairman. declared ' that the Roosevelt Barkley; incident would act a "a stimulus to the promotion of har mony in the democratic party and the country ; Hannegan issued a written statement after, his arrival here: ' "The action of the-president In vetoing .the tax bill Is further as surance to the American people that the president notwithstand ing his tremendous responsibilities In connection with the war abroad, is vitally concerned with the wel fare of the people at home. "The subsequent action of Sena tor Barkley e great American for whom I have the highest re gard, and the subsequent action of congress .is an assurance that ours is a working democracy" : Farm-Mortgage ; t f Moratorium Extended - WASHINGTON. Feb. 2S-(P-A senate Judiciary subcommittee voted f avorably on a bill to extend for two years provisions of the.: Frazier-Lemke act . under which farm-mortgage moratorium Petitions may be filed. '. Rep. Lemke (R, ND), co-author of the original act, told the com mittee that time is running out with the present measure expir ing March 4. He asked for an ex tension of four years, 'but the senate group cut the - period to two years. -. ! : &?!Pii. I -suggested, "we t could put n in juapie s sporting goods store window with a sign asking people to guess what it is." "I wont bake any more cakes,1 Betty decided. "Not ever again. I think 111 study science and be come a scientist1 "Well, you've made- a good start" Brother stated solemnly. "What's the matter with bury ing it in the back yard?" Mama asked. "Sure," I said. "And have it dug up by strangers several years from now? And sent to all the univer sities to find out what it was, and be accused by some old geologists of perpetrating a hoax? No. Betty, we cant bury it "I really baked it for Paf Bet ty said. "He- loves chocolate cakes. "But chocolate cakes," Mama said. "Certainly you're not going to ask him to risk his life on that that thing! Pafs a nice boy. Be sides, we could be sued. If some thing happened to him. Pat suddenly appeared at the front door. Brother raced ' to the kitchen and hid the thing under the refrigerator. Mama was ner vous. Betty was . upset and Tat sensed that something was wrong. Betty Just had to break down and tell him. "But I did it for you, Pat," she said, pleadingly. ' Pat understood. He is a thought ful lad. He is also a mighty cour ageous one. For he went straight to the kitchen and. cut himself a piece-of cake. Not a large piece, but large enough, to convince us of his courage. We stood there, ourt hearts pounding, and watched, him eat it He swallowed It with more than ordinary difficulty. His eyes bul ged a little, but ha managed to smile.' .; "Why. if s good." he said. And quickly added, "In ' a gruesome sort of way." . That was a week ago. We scarce ly dared hoped so, but Pet Is atfll alive and kicking. Although, we suspect somewhat more cautious than he was before. Rats Increasing PORTLAND, Feb. 26Hr-Bats are Increasing - faster than the city's two rodent - exterminators can trap them, Dr. Thomas I Meador said today.' i:': The dty.health officer said he was seeking an expanded ' anti rodent program through the fed eral public health service. - Oregon Electric Traffic Interrupted ' Traffic on the Oregon Electric) railway between Salem and Al bany was interrupted for several hours early Friday, when two cars J of a freight train were derailed near. Talbott station,, a few miles south of here. ' i : A wrecking ; c r e w ; was called from Albany. .- , -,. JInJ( 02 j.. . . - . : v7 Y" v kf- Uonon's Coals Uonca's BrcW , Choice for . ' Choice for y J 2nd Floor S NS. 2nd Floor ' i i ONE GROUP AV ; ONE GROUP UOEMI'S nATSY Dayon Blonscs I I Choice for ' I 1 I Choice for 1 1 , V$298 - $I JJ 2nd Fkwr X ' SVsslw 2nd Floor FnH A , ONE LOT A Fshioned , . . ; Cciica lied Boys Bainccals I I ' Choice for 1 I V 72. " JJ Main Floor - X11 F1x y One Big Lot A' NE LOT vw rW ' Sofa Pfflous YY Choice for . f Chokt ,or ' V I I $29 J J I L $f 59 J J . VsI y - - Basement house mccns Seersuckers, percales,' etc. (basement). . " 1 1 - C03TDI3 JEUELD7 Values to 4J5. (Plus tax.) GAI10 TMLE CO Eenr nUn ((Ut liop). JEQ s eO- BABY QUILTS tizi SPIIE21D3 01 d (Snd floor) ! l-JL'y BUBBLE DA7II. LOTION Reg. $2.00 ; (main- floor) ,.' 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