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United PURITY News, Friday, February 15, 1929 ft-- I i i- i St V J i The Official Weekly Newspaper of the . United JPlLJISnTT Stores C. M. Lee, Editor and Manager Editorial Offices, Trade and Cottaje Streets, Salem, Oregon Editorials Another Grocery Robert G. Duncan, editor of Known to the grocery world as "Fighting Bob." a very capable and original writer and chanipion of the independent retail grocer, has the following to sav, in I part, of the United Purity Stores in the t ebruary issue of the Trade Register: "It begins to look ps if the are to have pome opposition down Willamette Valley. Theodore Grocery Co., has merged the Associated and Triangle Stores with a group of strong independent retail grocers into a respectable and formidable organization to be known as the United Purity Stores. In keeping with the trend of the will be operated m a very business-like and up to the minute manner. "They are allied with the Willamette Grocery Co.. and a like organization in Washington with Purity Stores for buying purposes and other benefits to be derived from such a tremendous purchasing power. The benefits are to be passed on to the consumer through the independent home own ed United Purity Stores. "C. M. Lee. proprietor of Lee's White Grocery at Salem A United Purity Store and formerly a popular merchant of Coos Bay is general manager of this fact alone gives the merger a good start toward success. Its the man behind the .gun that wins the fight and with Theodore Roth a crafty and experienced wholesale grocery man and buyer, keep ing his eye peeled for every move of the enemy and C. M. Lee on guard, with his knowledge of the ration should develop real power grocery field; of Oregon. "Theodore Roth has not always acted kindly toward the editor of the Trade Register, or handed our projects any bouquets but in this instance we lay aside all hardfeelings, forget our clashes with the Salem grocer and wish him well with this undertaking of rais ing and putting the independent pete with foreign owned chain stores that are threatening his very existence in the business field. The Onion The largest onion center of trict commening on the Pacific highway, about five miles north of Salem. On about 500 acres of land the growers there last year har vested about 65 cars of onion sets. The total value of the crop was nearly a half million dollars. They will add about 100 acres this year, which should yield over 100 cars of onions, making their total shipments, based on last year's yields, over 600 cars. I One tract of 12 acres last year produced 18 cars; another 11 acres 14 cars, and another 11 acres 13 cars. The slogan was, a few years ago, "a car to an acre.". They are exceeding that. now, as the reader will note from the above. It is possible to make it a car and a half ; more, in fact. Small patches have produced there at the rate of two cars to the acre. There are 300 of the regulation 100 pound sacks to the car. The sales there, on contract, began at $1.25 a sack in July, and the prices have mounted to $1.50, $2.25, $3.00, and up to $4.00. The 75 cars yet unsold are being generally held for better than a $4.00 price. 1 "Onions will bring a higher return for a smaller amount of capital invested than any other big money crop that can be grown on our beaverdam lands," said a leading grower. Our onions are prime keepers; the. Oregon yellow dan vers; it is the sulphur in the beaverdam lands. "Onions are better than rouge for the complexion, and cheap er," saysa college authority. They are good for the health. We may go far as the onion center of the country. There is much good onion land all over the valley. . A Weather Formula Of making many books there is no end. So sang a prophet of old. And It might be said with equal truth that of the making of weather prophets there also is no end. There tribe increases. Their shadows never grow less. And always what they say is "news." An Iowa weather man is the latest prophet to appear on the fecene of action and he makes known to an expectant world a "simple" formula which he has devised, founded on observations tnade over a long period of years, and which, he says, "works." This is the formula : Given the June average temperature, all that is necessary to determine the temperature for July, August fcnd September is to multiply that temperature by 0.34 and add 46.37. If August proves to be considerably lower than the for mula would seem to indicate, then September will be warm, and if it is higher then September will be cool. A cool June, he finds, is invariably followed by three months of below normal weather 71 per cent of the time. If June is warm, July will be dry 81 per Cent of the time, and the probable amount of rainfall in inches is found by multyplying the June temperature by 0.33 and substract ing the result from 26.75. Isn't it remarkably simple? Wanted A If the bestowal of large prizes is all that is necessary to solve the difficult prohibition problem, then it is safe to say we are right now fast nearing its solution and ultimate success lurks" just around the corner. For prize follows prize with no hint, as yet, of a let-up. .The latest prize idea is supplied by a Connecticut man who described himself as a life-long prohibitionist, but one who never theless recognizes the fact that the "Eighteenth Amendment never can be satisfactorily enforced until the habitual drinker has ceased to demand alcoholic liquor." The problem, as he views it, is to eliminate this demand on the part of such drinker by supplying him with a non-alcoholic bever- aage that' shall have "kick" enough that mild stimulant that his alcohol-saturated . physical system needs, but without intoxicating him and without leaving in his mouth that 'dark brown taste' of the morning after." That the genius of American chemists can give us such a non intoxicating beverage with a "kick," manufactured from grains, fruits and vegetables grown on American farms, the originator firmly believes. He suggests that some public-spirited , man of wealth offer a prize of $100,000 for a formula, and that if this were done, a formula would be forthcoming. zj It would be fine to have such a formula, no doubt. . tv But would our "habitual drinkers" have anything to do with it? Co-operation is the big idea in modern business. Team work is the thing that counts Modern Businessmen of-the highest and finest type are not the overseers or task masters . of their em ployes. - They are their friends, helpers, and co-workers. J. j The highest reward that dod gives us for good work and kind words is the ability to do better, work and say kmder words to.our jaiiowmen,;. - - ; . Merger in Oregon 1 Duncan's Trade Register and well Wall Street ownd chain grocers Salem way, and throughout the Roth, manager of the Willamette times the United Purity Stores a membership of over 400 United new organization, and this bare retail grocery game, this organi and gain wide prestage in the retail grocer in a position to com Industry Oregon is in the Lake Labish dis Formula to slake the thirst and "supply K Basco on THE CANDLE 1 i Copyright 1928. Warner Broa. Pictures Inc. CONQUEST," starring Monte Blue, la a Werner Bros, plcturlzatlon off this novel. SYNOPSIS Arthur Faunce, an explorer, has fust returned from an expedition, headed by Simon Overton, to the South Pole, where, according to re ports, Overton died. Faunce, as sec ond in command, receives the hon ors which would have been Overton's had he lived. Both men loved Diane, daughter of Judge Ilerford, but neither had spoken, Faunce because of his great friendship for Overt on. After a dinner for. Faunce given by the judge, the explorer brings Diane photographs of the expedition which Overton had asked that she have, and talks to herHf the commander. She, too, rose Involuntarily from her seat and faced him. Her pale face and her slight figure in its black draperies, recalled to his mind the charm and buoyant grace of a wonderful picture. "I loved him," Fau-ace continued, with a painful effort at self-con trol. "No one in the world could have suffered more bitterly than I at his loss. I don't want you to feel that I purposely tried to take hhvj place in this great achievement, only fell heir to his glory." She was deeply touched. She raised her beautiful eyes to She raised her eyes. Faunce's face, holding out her hand In an Involuntary gesture of friend ship and good-will. "I think you're more than his heir," she said gently. "He was so ' large-hearted, so Just, that I know he would feel, as I do, that you were his comrade and his partner in sac rifice and fame." There was an instant of silence, one of those moments which be come almost supreme in their ef fect upon two lives. Then, as Faunce seemed to have no words in which to reply, he took Diane's hand in both of his and lifted it gently to his lips. Half an hour later. Judge Her ford stood on his front steps, bid ding his last two guests good-night. "Come again!" he called after tnem in his deep bass. "You'll al ways And us prepared enough for the pair of you. By the wajr, Fa .wee, I suppose it's too much to expect that any one so famous as you will hang around Mapleton longT" "I don't know any better place to hang around. Judge," Faunce re plied. "When a man's been in exile two years, the old places look good to him." "That's right I Then be sure you don't forget your way here." "He won't!" Dr. Gerry flung back, as he plodded toward the gate. "You're not the only attrac tion at this house, Hadley. For my part, I only come here to see Diane!" They heard the judge's laugh fol lowing them, and saw his large fig ure still outlined against the light, the big gray head and massive shoulders and long body looking a little too heavy for the short legs. "If Hadley had been sawed off at the waist, they'd have said he was a perfect model for a Roman em peror," observed the doctor. Faunce agreed with some amuse ment. "It's strange. Isn't it, how some men seem to lose their proportion when they stand up? They're not put together In equal parts." "A good many who are put to gether right outside are out of Joint Inside." "How about the mental propor tion or shall we call it the spir itual?" "That depends upon how much you follow the dean. A mental twist is pretty nearly certain to go hand in hand with moral lopsided lies a, though. The doctor nodded, trudging sturdily forward toward the turn in the road which led to his own house. The autumn air was chill with frost, and Faunce seemed to hiver as be buttoned up his coat. Dr. Gerry, observing the young man from the tail of his eye, re marked it. Citil.a VicTiro ci Motht To be piiirn nlivi N t he fate ol uany f mir rnalp:i trees. Tremon lous ravages l.v I lie c.-i trtlpa p;!i!nx tin i iiMliirs or larvae of "lie of our hhi'Iht lined h;ivk ninths li:ive tripped I heir . tn;:bs of foliage awl fn Ibcni bare liinl i:its!ghtly. says the Xatnre Jlagazhi. Sometimes I lie trees He from those severe defoliations aim! .Kvasbmally entire plantations have been destroyed. ' r ! Cempaaioat of Trwtb The gwitSeM friend of truth Is lime; hergrPMtet enemy Is prejmlli-e. and her constant comn;inin Is liumillly. Colton V . ' - " 7" '"-r Few Have Any to Cocat , One rtsiHu h' '? love 'a lover Is tweeum tou i ViMjtit his .-change." New raat !e Nwa. in the WIND" iyMARY IMLAY TAYLOR "Feel a chill, eh? X shouldn't think you'd mind it, after the south pole I" "Any touch of cold that reminds me of that is enough to make me shiver. I can't close my eyes now without seeing those livid wastes and hearing the wind. It's a frozen hell!" "It's on your nerves. How many hours do you sleep at night?" Faunce gave him an uneasy look, in which surprise and something like apprehension were strangely mingled; but the street lights were poor, and he could only half discern the old man's face as it emerged above the heavy-collar of his great coat. 71 don't sleep at all. How did you find that out?" "I've seen a good many in the same plight before, for one thing, and you're a pretty easy case to read." "Am I?" Faunce laughed harsh ly. "I didn't know it. Perhaps you can tell me what to do, then?" "Stop taking narcotics, to begin with, and then get control of your nerves I've only taken small doses. enough to get a little sleep," con tinued Faunce. "I had to have it. Perhaps" he laughed unsteadily "perhaps you can tell me what I've taken?" "Oh, it might be anything." the doctor replied carelessly; "but I should call it chloraL" "You've hit it! I shall begin to think you're a mind-reader." "I am, in a sense. The fact is, I can tell you what's the matter with yea now; It's your nerves. ; ou'ye gotj something on your mind, and you won't be any 'better, you we n't sleep any sounder, until you get It off." Faunce was startled. He glanced around again, but could only make out the dim outline of Gerry's blunt profile between the old man's collar and the big soft hat he had pulled comfortably down to his ears. "That sounds like saying that honest confession is good for the soul, he said with his nervous laugh. "I should never have sus pected you of commending that course." "I've been father confessor for a good many,", retorted the doctor crustily. "What I meant to say. though, was much simpler. You've got to free your mind. When a man lets anything bite in as your trou ble seems to be doing, he soon comes to the end of his tether. I can give you something to ease up the body, but I can't do anytnmg for the mind. You'll have to look after that for yourself." Faunce took a step toward the gate, as if an Impulse moved him to follow the doctor in. Then he turned with an inarticulate excla mation, waved an abrupt good night, and walked rapidly away Into the darkness. He tramped steadily down the long lane. It led to the edge of the little river, scarcely more than a brook, which divided the village into two unequal parts. It was past midnight and in that rural com munity, where early hours pre vailed, the feeling of solitude was as Intense as it he had reached the end of the world and was alone in the October night, the last man. Such a feeling had come to him once before, fraught with such cruel terror, such a sensation of disin tegration, of the loss of all that was mortal, that Faunce could never for get it, could never feel even the reflection of it again without recall ing those vast and terrifying wastes, that Inexorable sky, that blinding, cruel, exterminating Ice that had frozen its Image on his soul. He tried to drive the thought of It from his mind, and, by fixing his gaze on that intimately familiar scene, to recall the days when, as a lad, he had fished by that old bridge. His mother had died when he was born, and his father had married again. Young Arthur, in the way of a gay stepmother, had been reared by a fend maternal grandmother. No one had disciplined his child-' hood, and he knew that as a boy he had done some mean tricks, which a better-trained lad would have scorned. But he had ceased to be small and tricky when he fell in with Overton, his senior by three years in age and by ten in mental development. He realized now, as he looked back on the long per spective, that Overton had saved him. Strong-willed and straight-thinking, Simon Overton had possessed that kind of spiritual force of which leaders and martyrs are made. He had been a leader even at school. It was not alone young Overton's physical strength, and his 6klll in their favorite sports: it was a cer tain unfailing stanchness of char acter, a fearless square-dealing, that impressed the others, and Faunce had only followed the uni versal lead when he attached hin; self to him. (To be continued.) Won't Co That Far Jud Tun!:ins says fortune . tellers ore wise :x,!p. T!i?.vre willing to tell yon are in love viltli a blonde or n bninelte, hut nono of them ev-r risk nny definite hiV: u how to bet on an election. W::-'1 ' -'oil star. , Legislators' Emolument . The firs' salary ilild".l upon to senators Jind Tppr'oa'ii la lives In eon grws as V1 a d;iy for each day u nscmlKV tit tended. The present salary of a n-.etr.Jier of tnn;:rers is $10,000. V Craia Power Waited FvJetstlsU and i)(-!i Juntas . bIl that tio-l-aliui$t no Itiuil to what llie hum::n brain -m nitt!ii!irli. ypf the majority f juople use only 10 jhm cent cf their brain power. ; . ' - . y - rlearJby ana Yonder by T. T. MAXEY Dead Letters THE receipt of unbelievably large numbers of letters addressed to in dividuals and concerns which could not be located at the address given and could not be "returned to the writ ers because no return address was given, led the Post Office department, as far back ns 1S25, to establish a di-ad-Ietter oflke In Washington for the purjxtse of working out n proper disposition of such mail. Incidental ly, the Inrxe amount of money found In uncialmei! letters likewise led to the establishment of our present postal money order system In ISC I. Hut the Hood ot UHdelivernble let ters continued to Increase ut un nluriniii mle mid the estiiMishmeiit of tiie parcels post incite nni iters worse so Unit several branch offices had to be opened. L'ndell vei:. hie letters nre opened and destroyed utiles lUvy contain some thing of value or Inf rm:ttlon m:iklii their return to the writers possihle. Those containing muililn of obvious value are field for one yeur awaiting claim, after uhlih time. If unclaimed, the contents become government prop erty. Letters canjing mime und ad dress of sender are returned. L'nde llverable parcels are held for a time mid finally disposed of at public auc tion. Dmrlng a recent year, the postmaster general reported the disposition of 24, 05G.9S2 undellverable letters; 3.052. 074 being delivered. 1H.810.O20 de stroyed, 80,027 filed awaiting claim. 244.077 "under treatment" and r3r.370 unclaimed parcels, of -which 101.400 were delivered, 52,582 destroyed and the balance to be finally disposed of at auction. , ; , s . ((O, IKS. Wtrn Newspaper Union Sprouted Oats Needed by the Laying Hens "Sprouted oats for laying hens, Is a formula that should be in every poultryman's feeding guide, says 0. L. Stevenson, of the South Dakota State college. It's not very expensive either. However, it does require a warm room or basement Equipment needed for sprouting oats may be homemade. Tho boxes should be shallow, not over three or four Inches deep. In preparing the oats for sprouting, it should be soaked overnight In a bucket or tub. A few drops of formaldehyde added to the water In which the oats Is 6oaked will prevent mold from developing. Moldy grain is often fatal to poultry. After the oats hns been soaked and drained It may be spread out In the boxes and kept In a warm room or In n heated sprouting device. In a few days when the oats sprouts have attained a length of two or three Inches, they will be ready for feeding. Broody Hen Care When several broody bens are sit ting In coops close against one anoth er. It may save much potential trou ble if each bird Is tethered by a long, thin cord from one leg to hor nest box. This will Insure that, nfter her spell oft duty, slu; Joins her own nest and not a neighbor's, ns she is oth erwise liable to do. A hen may set tle down for a short time on a strange nest, but soon she finds out h r mis take. Jumps up. and so allows the eggs to be chilled. Use for Vitamine D Vitamine I. which Is found In cod liver oil. Is useful In helping to prop erly assimilate minerals. This vita mine is furnished by the direct rays of sunshine. During winter months, sunshine does not contain ns many of these helpful rays ns In summer. When sunshine passes through ordinary glass a groat deal of the helpful In fluence Is lost. These two factors make It possible to utilize cod liver oil to advantage in winter rations for laying hens. Three Million Artisans Are Listed in Russia - Geneva. Switzerland. Offlcial sta tistics from Russia, quoted In the weekly publication of the interna tional labor office, put the nunrber of artisans In the Soviet union nt 2,W'V 000, or 55 per cent of the total num ber of Industrial workers. Their production. Including milling is valued at $2.1.-0.OO0.(hki, or 130 per cent of the total value of the Indus trial production of the Soviet unlfn. There ore 7,41.1 artisans' coopera tives, with a total membership of 4G3, 61S meinhers. Quality! t MARGARINE A Pure Food Product. At Your . United Purity Store . A Trial Will Convince Jfou of . rvielonat Margarine's . ;s Supei lor Quality; ,. ,; WIFE AND liX-Yvii-ii ' SHARE HAPPY HOME Both Mother Child in Strange Kansas Family. Wichita, Kan. George Dooley of Wichita fs the head of a peaceful household consisting of bis wife, his former , wife, and his five-year-old daughter, Katherine. When Mrs. Daisy Dooley received her divorce from Dooley the court ruled Katherine should be In the cus tody of her mother three days out of ea'h five, and with the father the re mainder of the time. Dooley remar ried, and now all live in the same house. The two Mrs. Dooleys declare they are not In the least Jealous of each other. Katherine receives tha loving attentions of both her mother and her stepmother, who cooperated In giving her a mfrry Christmas day. When asked which of her mothers she loved most. Katherine replied: '"1 love both of them. . love my mamma and I love Neva, and I love my dad dy lots and lots." Dooley. who Is United States quar antine inspector for this district, ald he was very happy over the success of his unusual arrangement. "You know some people have fun ny Ideas about marriage." he said. "They can't see how a scheme like this will work. "For five months I was on t tie Chi cago potlce force and both my present and ex-wife were with me. All of the boys used to wonder how I could man age It. Some declared 'I can t even get along with one woman, how can you live with two?' Dut I really am happy and so are they." The present Mrs. Dooley (Neva) ex plained the situation this way: "Last October I lost my only child, a little boy. Kitty Is taking his place in my life and at the -fame time fill ing jaer mother's heart with Joy." Hero at Lt Cited Fresno. Cnllf. Fifty two years after her husband rescued Gen. George Custer's flag from the Indian chief American Horse at Slim Buttes, MonL, Mrs. William. J. McCHnton received from the government his Indian Wan medal and a posthumous citation for bravery. RAYON FLANNEL LISTED AMONG SMART FABRICS FOR STREET FROCKS .fist EVERY style-wise woman feels, or should feel the urge to acquire a frock of light-weight woolen. The coat-dress Is the big theme among de signers who are creating fox mid season and planning for spring. For the making of these practical daytime frocks dainty woolens and similar weaves are acclaimed as leading choice. This picture shows a street dress developed in soft navy blue rayon flannel. But you say you always thought rayon materials were "shiny" and that we could not get them lus terless which is an entirely mis taken Idea. Rayon weaves need not necessarily be ltis:,ous In fact they are now so produced that many are entirely sans luster, the rayon threads 60 closelj resembling wool It would take a fabric specialist to distinguish the one. from the other. The navy blue cloth dress Is ever to bo desired. Iiecnuse It Is ulways smart and from the standpoint of util ity it has no compeer. The one shown here measures up to the standards of nnwlishhess In every detail. lis diag onal closing Is extremely smart und the circular Mare giving fullness to the hemline declares latent styling. there's an endless showing of ma terials suitable for the new coat dresses tliis Reason. Among them one Tasty ONLY the purest creamery butter strictly fresh ranch eggs and others highest -grade ingredients obtainable are used in the making of these delicious cakes. v:' -' ? As far as possible only home products are used in their mixture, and baked by skilled Salem bakers in one of the finest ovens built, these cakes are truly wonderful. Why buy Seattle, San Francisco or Los An geles made cakes when you can get this high class erke. fresh daily from your grocer? Cherry City Milk Solids Favorejl for All Kinds of Fowl Skim milk solids are fundamental in the poultry, rations reconunended by Massachusetts Agricultural college In Extension Leaflet No. C. Laying mash, formula is: 100 pounds bran, 100 pounds middling, 200 pound yel low corn meal, 100 pound ground oats, 50 pounds meat scrap, 25 pounds "powdered milk." 25 pounds alfalfa leaf meal, & pounds fine salt. 25 pounds steamed bone meal; and the grain formula Is 10.) pounds each of cracked corn, whole corn-, wheat, or barley and oats. In addition the leaf let recommends: "Feed skim milk whenever available . . . When all the skim miUs. the bird will consume Is available, meat scrap need net be fed." For chicks, the laying mash with un additional 25 poimds of dry skim ml Ik Is recommended, together with chick grain, 200 pounds t.ae cracked corn, and 100 pounds cracked wheat. AI:lk solids In the laying m.-ish amount to 4 per cent; In the chick mash to 8 per cent. Man Both Grandfather, Great-Grandsire in Day Danville. N. Y. Becoming n grand father and grent grandfather In a day was the yood fortune of C. E. Green of thjs Ullage. The grandson Is Jacob Albert Green, " son of George 11. Green of New York city, while the great-granddaughter Is MIsa P.arhara Jane McNeil, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. McNeil of San Dieo. Cnllf. High Cost of Wives Is Worrying Chinese Men Sniiiiuhal. Chinese busines men whose Importance Is rated according to the number ol wive! 'are protesting against the Inci eased price of helpmates Since Nanking was made t!i capital and Nationalist official spent s much time In Shanghai the price ol a good wife had rlspn alarmingly. Lower class Chinese si III can obtain .young girls foi as low as $100. Shang hnl enrrenev. V finds noxelty weaves which combine dull rayon threads with lustrous rayon thrends. Some effective cloths take on tweed patterning, those in fascinat ing reds attracting the widest at tentlon. . Now that the outstanding importance of the clotli street or coat-dress has been established without a doubt, stylists are giving much time and thought to their creation along lines of Intriguing originality. "With n caje" Is one of the boasts of the cleverest street dresses. The capes themselves furnish another out let for "Ideas" ns "no two enpea alike" I the slogan. J ((E). Wteru Newpapr Union Cakes Baking Co. j0 mm tK. f If' V x J3 XJ Jflv few