The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. "Oregon. Sunday Mcsrung.' March 19, 1344-
WEs1 oci dEaenDo
"" i By Ethan Grant
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The underlyiny cause of admir
ation is secret desire.! X admire
other, men because they possess
characteristics I wish jwere mine.
I admire a man who can think
cleverly out loud, because I can't
J happen to be the type of person
who thinks of thearaart comeback
two or three days late.
I tv great respect for the man
who can engineer a clever but
harmless j prank- And. I don't
mean the wag who., puts thumb
tacks on chairs, or. slips a mickey
f inn in somebody else's soup. ' v
A few years ago there lived in
New York a man who could think
. up pranks that were truly classic.
He had at friend who expressed a
hatred of cattle. On each of bis
birthdays: he received by parcel
post. a cow's horn. "The prankster
remained anonymous,! and as the
years went to the bovine hater be
came so furiously annoyed that he
offered a' substantial r reward for
the identity of the sender. But he
never found out.
Once the prankster' put on over
alls, took a pick and . shovel, a
'Man At Work" sign and spent all
afternoon digging a hole in a busy
intersection of New York. At dusk
rte climbed out, hung a red lantern
on 'the sign and disappeared. It
was days before the various city
departments , and public utilities
who dig I up the streets stopped
blaming one another for the mys
terious hole.
The only clever prank I ever
thought up backfired so thorough'
iy that I was cured i for life. A
pal of mine named Bob had gone
to Europe. He wired me on Satur
day afternoon that he'd returned
to New York and would arrive in
Detroit on the 7 o'clock train Sun
day morning. j
I conceived the prank at a party
my wife and I were attending Sat
urday night You should 1 have
heard the others laugh when I out
lined the idea. That Was early in
the evening, and as the party pro-
xessed it seemed more and more
unny. i
My plan was that we at the par
12 in all, would dress in the
most disreputable clothing we
could find and meet Bob at the
train. Ha was : a shy, .dignified
young man, and the one thing he
hated most was being the center of
public attention. Moreover, he
fairly loathed persons who made
spectacles of themselves.
The station would be crowded
on .Sunday morning, and we'd give
him one of the noisiest receptions
a. man ever had. His embarrass
ment would be so funny you'd
laugh" for a week.
When the party broke up, around
2i.ia, it was still a funny Idea.
We. went home, set the alarm and
went to bed, still chuckling over
the prospects. When next morn
ing we got up and dressed as we'd
all agreed, I laughed . at my wife
and she laughed at me. We ar
rived at the station a few minutes
before train time and strolled in,
looking for all the world like a
pair of hillbilly hayseeds.
. People glanced at us, blinked
and glanced again.- Then they
turned away, so we wouldn't see
them laughing, and nudged oth
ers. It was embarrassing, of course,
but we'd be well rewarded for that
later, when we found other mem
bers of our party and all met Bob.
We stood there, trying to be non
chalant, trying to pretend we did
n't: know everybody In the sta
tion was laughing at us.
Presently I began to feel un
easy. The others seemed not to
have arrived. It; was nearly train
tune and not one of them was
there. I could keep a straight face,
because I was now beginning to
get mad. My wife's face had turned
a deep red and her eyes were be
ginning to have that rolling-pin
snap.
Then, as the train finally pulled
in, ; I saw something that literally
raised the Bristles on the back of
my neck. The other scoundrels
who'd promised to join us were
standing at the side entrance, in
respectable clothing and laughing
so i hard they had -to hold their
stomachs. I
Never mind," I said. "We'll sur
prise Bob anyhow."
- And we stood right where we
were. We stood there watching
the passengers come up the ramp,
until every last one of them were
By LILUE MADSEX
TTdDollaiy
An interesting tt letter from
George W. Ailing of Salem was
received this week in which he
gives answer to
a recent: query
of M.IX.'s con
cerning new
roses. .I'll ' rur
lhe greater par
of the letter foi
I feel it will bt
of Interest tc
many ot yot
who : are now
showing a grea
Interest in roses.
!-. Lilti Madsen-
"There are," Mr. Ailing writes
In reference to roses, "probably
SOnew ones introduced and de
spite the war, most of them came
from Europe.' I now hive Fred
Edmunds rated the: best on the
Pacific coast, and named after the
curator of the Portland Rose -Test
Garden; Lowell " Thomas and
AARS i Yellow, Sweet Sixteen a
beautiful pink; Mirandy a very
large deep red, but good only in
very hot weather; Horace McFar
4and, a good deep pink on a mis
erably : weak plant. All ' of these
bloomed here last year. There are
specimen of Brandy Wine, Pano
rama and Catharine T. Marshall
Jn South Salem. According to my
records, however, Panorama - is
rot a pink but a pink-with white
reverse giving . a. contrast ; some
thing like the usual red-and-gold
contrasts.' I now have for bloom
ing ; this i season, Catharine T.
Marshall, Sonata, Highland Park,
Show Girl, 'V for Victory, and
three as yet unnamed seedlings."
Mr. Ailing j goes . on te speak
: ef the something- diff erent-bnt-
not-necessarily-new roses - in--.
eluding the little j-feotMexi-f
can to the big 8-foot ones "us-'
ingy of coarse,, jadrment that
' rou do not get One ef the great"
- big I ones In a 3 -foot space.; I:
-have mlcrophilU and Motabills,'
. th . Fantastiqae, IIT, a malse
yellow- with each petal tipped;
wUh carmine similar te a Pico-
lee tulip." - . t .V. ?
. . Two other new roses not men
tioned by Mr. '.Ailing might be
the Mme.1 Chiang Kai-shek rated
as the 1944 AU-American winner
and the Douglas MacArthur,
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Among the new gliadioll year
books out,' .the ' Canadian society
book has an interesting section on
selections. The list, a rather long
one,, includes such general favor
ites At Margaret Beaton, White
Gold, Red Charm, Myrna, Corona
and Elizabeth the Queen..
Tips from "The Gladiolus, 1944,"
published by the New England
society, include "the use of good
conns in good, well-drained soil,
after the earth gets warm is the
way to start successful gladiolus
plantings." It is suggested that
irrigating be d o n e thoroughly
once a week. Mrs. Hanna E. Man
na of Des-Moines, Wa&oJ, suggests
digging' trenches s e v e n ' inches
deep and six inches wide, 'placing
compost three inches deep in the
) trenches and setting the conns six
inches apart, and covering tehm
I will two inches of regular soilJ
- Then she gradually fills the trench
I with soil from the compost pile. '
We are going to hear a lot
about oleanders from those of
our soldiers who are interested
- In gardening. We may even hear
something about this plant from
those who have not heretofore
been interested in garden. I un
derstand, from first hand
sources, that many of the
American soldiers In north Af
rica have been highly Impress
ed by the single pink oleander
growing in the Atlas mountain
streams. This will be fine, par- :
tlcnlarly for California where.
In so many sections, the olean
der can thrive ' out of - doors.
Here, it has te be confined to
: indoor culture or at least to win-
ter protection of basement or
- house.
!
A.G. writes to ask if Nicotiana
Is a "weed" if permitted to "go."
Ti anyone who loves the smell
of "sweet tobacco," and I am not
referring to cJgar smoke, Nico
tiana can never be a weed. J.
Horace McFarland, one of the
country's best known gardeners,
refers to it as a J'cherished weed."
Wheri once started, it is true, it
will; bloom year after year from
self-sown; seed plants.--.'But the
fragrance of these in early even
ing should be .welcome ; to any
gardener,
in the station and the gate was
locked. And Bob wasn't among
them. . He'd arrived on an earlier
train. ,
Being mad and embarrassed at
the same1 time put one in a dan
gerous frame of mind. It was for
tunate that I didn't have any sticks
of dynamite to throw around. For
now, not: only the people who'd
come to meet the train were laugh
ing, but also the people the train
had, brought In. Ami when my
wife said, "For gosh sake, let's get
out cl here!" I was already set' to
run.-',-, u - 't'- -'i.
But we turned ; and bumped
.-r . f - Kake " "
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8ees, Fertllliers, Iniecll
cidea : and Garden Tools. .
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Don't forget your free pack
are of Zinnia Seeds and free
I irestone War Garden Book.
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To give the most efficient
service she must have med
ical supplies ) of the best
, Quality. Our label on a pre-'
scription bottle la recognized
by nurses as a sign of the
best Ask them, and have
your prescriptions filled by
Schaefers.
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squarely Into a man" I knew, with
his wife, whom I didn't know,
and her sister, . who had arrived
on the train. He spoke to me,
looking as If he had a pain. I
couldn't run away without ex
plaining, so we stopped. And then
I couldn't teem j to find words
suitable for explaining thing
like that, " 3
So we just stood there, feeling
sillier than we looked. And my
friend felt silly J and I wanted to
laugh. .And so did his wife, and
her, sister. And my wife and I ran
like the devil or a pair of devils.
Hazards Sought
Uut by i?jrenien
SILVERTON L. T. Tucker,
chief ot the- Silverton Volunteer
Fire Department, "reports "that a
fire hazard survey will be made
at -Silverton in the near future.
Business houses will be asked : to
cooperate in ridding their base
ments of superfluous trash in or
der to avoid any unnecessary haz
ards. All efforts are being made
at Silverton to prepare the town
for' a safe fire season. ,
The firemen are also asking
tngt the public not crowd too close
to the fire, and not run over, fire
hose that is so hard to renlace at
present Some difficulty has been
experienced at recent fires from
the too curious public; x - ;- -
Roy Heeir Visits .
Sister in Log Angeles
CENTRAL HOWELL Roy
Herr went to Los Angeles last
week to visit bis sister, Miss Elda
Herr, . On his return he expects to
be called into active duty with the
army air corps soon,
. He was acramsanied to Lbs An
geles by Leonard Roth, RT Jc
who was returning to his base af-ed to see Robert Simmons at St
ter a few days leave. Herr expect-1 Marys on the return trip,
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