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By Arthur Perry
..nnt nf frnklh growth.
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with the upper portion bearing
a resemblance to the mug of 11
Duce Mussolini, ii reported on
exhibition in Utah. No other
vegetables but a carrot, would
stoop to do a thing like that.
The Espee maples are ap
proaching the height of their
autumnal beauty, and hiding a
considerable portion of Front
it. not good for tourist's eyes.
ON THE FOOTBALL FRONT
(La Grande Observer)
"A mountain of Indignation
has arisen in Union over a
molehill of criticism of the
Bobcat football team on thii
page. It calls for facts."
(Klamath Falls Herald)
"These statements may be
. cause for argument. If I am
wrong, I'll admit it here and
now, but if I am not, which
I don't believe I am, then I
believe that Grant High was
dealt an Injustice by not be
ing the winner of the game."
(From Letter).
Criticism of their auto driving
Irked many of the Older Girls.
Some of them were so mad they
turned off the oil burner, and
turned on the electric fan.
The fret and fury section of
the population Is under a ter
rific strain, the past week. In
the morning, they ffght with
Russia on the Leningrad front,
and in the afternoon play third
base for Brooklyn, in the red
hot National league race.
The Russian armies, on the
Verge of collapse and facing an
nihilation, per Berlin, have been
rcsusltated from this propa
ganda, which included some
dark spots via London. After
the Nazis attain a mythical vic
tory, they are In a worse, but
unmythlcal fix than before. The
Soviet is making the fur fly,
while waiting for the snow to
fly.
GRIM WASTE REARS HEAD
(Bend Bulletin)
"On the credit siJe comes
a card reading, in part. This
office, in an effort to cut
down cost to the government,
would like to know if you do
or do not use (its) releases,'
etc. We have replied that wa
do not. There Is something
saved. However, there will
probably be hut few of these
cards returned because the
whole works will have been
thrown In the waste basket
In most offices without exam
ination of the contents."
"Charles Swing is back from
Snlmon Mt., where he shot a
deer, also Elvin Smith." (Clear
Creek Notes). Tragedy tersely
told.
FARM VICISSITUDES
(Htppner. Ore., News)
"Heppner actually enjoyed
one day of real autumn weath
er with the sun all warm and
balmy like In the good old
clay j. Cutting of meadow hay
was in order for a couple of
days and all looked well with
the world. But Thursday morn
ing was more rain, quantities
of It, so everything stopped
again and farmers all hied
themselves into town."
The metropolis will revel In
rand opera next w.eek. Some
of the most distinguished sing
ers on earth will uphold the
freedom of the high C's. Music
lovers as far south as here are
excited, at the thought of wear
ing evening gowns and claw
hammer coats.
Limiting War
AGAIN Secretary Morgenthau shows high qualities
Following his recommendation before the congres
sional committee yesterday, the Secretary today, an
nounces he has instructed his staff to DRAW UP a
measure limiting corporation profits to a maximum
of 6 as long as the war lasts.
This measure will now be presented to the congress
for passage.
can conceive of no better test of the TRUE
war spirit in American business, than such a
statute.
There will be a tremendous howl at the outset, of
course. Probably not so intense from "Big" as from
'Little business, as few
tions now exceed 6 in net
don t average over half that.
fXN the other hand business corporations which take
their responsibility in the present war seriously,
SHOULD be content with
a period of world crisis, as the present.
In England, incorporated business has given up
ALL profits for the duration, turning them back into
the imperial war chest as a patriotic duty.
And why at such a time SHOULD higher profits
be demanded, with the world on fire, and EVERY
class in the democratic world called upon to give
until it hurts if that fire is ever to be put out.
No corporation is going to seriously suffer, with a
neat and net 6 profit.
AND those corporations or investors, who aren't
willing to turn over profits ABOVE 6 to their
government, are certainly lacking in a true sense of
the seriousness of the present. world situation, their
country's situation, and their obligations regarding
BOTH.
In fact what good would excess profits, or even
cash-money be. in a world dominated by Hitler? Let
the potentially apoplectic
scheme figure THAT out.
DOTH from the standpoint of defense today and
f inancial stability tomorrow such a measure should
be passed.
Failure will only demonstrate, that the people oi
this country, and particularly the business interests
thereof, have not awakened to the seriousness of the
situation from a purely selfish and entirely AMbKi
CAN standpoint.
General Johnson Says "No
THERE are two sides to all questions, and this
paper has always believed in giving both, thus
allowing its readers the opportunity to judge for
themselves between them.
The other day we gave Walter Lippmann's idea of
reducing the size of this country's present army. Now
we are printing today in another column Oeneral
Hugh Johnson's answer to that argument.
General Johnson opposes such reduction, his con-
sion being as follows :
One doesn't need to speculate very long or burn much
midnight oil to discover what is behind this suggestion. It Is
a hope that greater and greater proportions of our increas
ing stream of military production may be diverted from our
own land defenses and delivered to Britain and especially
to Russia regardless of its effect on our own safety come
what may.
We ought not to do that. This is a world of excursions
and alarms. Nations tight on one side today and on another
tomorrow. Civilization abroad has degenerated Into barbar
ism and banditry. Prudent aid in our own best Interest is
one thing. Stripping ourselves of a sufficient modern de
fense against anything that may happen is quite another
thing, especially as we may be Indirectly arming future
potential enemies. Let s do the best we can on all fronts
but let's not forget the home front. It is our first and
greatest responsibility.
Who is right?
A lipfore stilted in this column the "editorial we
doesn't know. Neither does any average layman.
It is an involved military problem, and only the
best qualified military experts, in the spirit of com
plete objectivity, should decide such a question.
AS between Mr. Lippmann and General Johnson,
however, there is this much to be said for the
latter. . .
General Johnson, while a moderate isolationist, is
not only a West Point graduate, but saw active serv
ice in France, during the first world war.
It is. therefore, fair to assume he knows more about
a problem of this sort, than Mr. Lippmann, who has
had no military experience and makes no pretense
of being an expert in that field.
THIS doesn't necessarily mean that General John
son is right. One doesn't have to be a hen to
recognize a bad egg.
But it DOES mean, that in lieu of a decision by the
U. S. army general staff, or some equally authori
tative body, there is ample precedent for the wisdom
of accepting the judgment of a man who HAS made
a life-study of military problems, to one who HASN'T.
U. S. ARMING EFFORT
ABOUT 20 PER CENT
Portland, Sept. 25 CT) About
20 per cent of America's effort
is being devoted to armament
compared to 50 per cent in Eng
land and 60 in Germany. North
west District OPM Manager Wil
liam D. Shannon said kday.
The nation he rontimit-d. mut
choose between shells atid
jplumbing supplies cooking psns
and bombers. Uateriais utetkU
Prof its to 6
of the very large corpora
profits, and many of them
such a profit, during such
critics of the Morgenthau
J for war equipment must go to
;wr equipment, regardless of the
I effect on the people. Nobody
ran expect to be untouched by
the rearmament program.
WASN'T THERE
Freehold. N. J. (4v Harry W.
Mayberry bought a tax lien on
a house and four acres of ground
In nearby Atlantic township.
, started to foreclose, then railed
the whole thii off. Not even a
surveor c, n;. f-nd the property.
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Personal Health Service
Br William
lined letter pertaining U personal health and kyflena, aot to disease
dlasnosls ar treatment, will be answered hjr Dr. Brady If a stamped self
addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and srrltteo la Ink.
Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can bo answered
here. No reply can ba made to queries not conforming to .Instructions,
addrss Or. William Brady. I S3 el Camlno. Beeerly Hills. Calif.
WHEN THEY GO STAL
In an earlier talk I ventured
to advise parents of children
who mope In their teens to give
such children
a suitable io
dine ration.
But a corre
spondent drag
ged in a gad
get for mea
suring basal
metab o 1 i s m
and I went off
the handle
fuming and
sputtering over
that. I had in
tended to urge
the same prophylactic and rem
edy for folk who go stale in
their thirties, but got no further
than an outline of the familiar
manifestations of such stateness.
On request I am glad to mail, in
a stamped envelope bearing
your address, if you will provide
one, "Instructions for Taking an
Iodin Ration". Parents of chil
dren 10 to IS who have any sign
of goitre or who mope and day
dream at a time in life when
they should be gay and giggly
will find this monograph help
ful. So will adults who are
chronically tired and not re
freshed by rest or vacation, in
clined to avoid joining in the
fun they formerly enjoyed, con
scious of a loss of their former
ambition and interest in things.
I say nothing about gray hair
here I do want you to believe
me.
Out of the files of 1933 corner
this report received from the
mother of a 16-year-old girl who
might be anybody's daughter
that is, anybody who neglects to
make sure of an adequate iodine
ration for the whole family:
Dear Dr. Brady:
Some time ago I sent for your
"Iodin Ration" pamphlet. I
want to tell you of the wonder
ful result.
My 18-year-old daughter has
been under the doctor's care
for more than a year . . . She
was very anemic at first but
that was overcome by the doc
tor's treatment. Her ailment
was chronic fatigue which
seemed impossible to ovei
come. She has been ready for
college since June but unable
to go. Lately she had a meta
bolism test
It is Indeed pathetic, the child
like faith Imposed In machine
medicine, by the very people
who profess little faith in doc
tors. It is equally pathetic, the
way the physician with undevel
oped diagnostic skill, refers to
the machine,
a metabolism test which In-
Kelly's
Comment
From Washington
Munitions Stream
Seen From Coast
Returning Ship
Will Bring Ore
Sealed Order
Never Unsealed
: By John W. Kelly:
Washington, D. C. Sept. 25.
As it Is described In the national
capital, there will soon be a
large and steady flow of war
munitions moving out of the Pa
cific northwest to the Russian
port of Vladivostok. Carrying
much of this business will be
American-made freighters (some
of those now on the ways.) Al
ready the federal maritime com
mission has listened to proposals
from the northwest region that
this government build wood
ships for the soviet trade. This
Idea appears to have sprung
simultaneously in the two states,
and In each instance the argu
ment is the same; save steel by
building shins of wood In the
land of Douglas fir.
Heretofore the maritime com
mission has brushed aside all
suggestions of a fleet of wood
ships, arguing this class of boat
is too slow. That wood ships
have sailed the seven seas from
time immemorial Is ignored by
the commission. The latest ar
gument runs something like this:
A freighter can be built of wood
in less time than a steel vessel:
there is no delay in waiting for
steel; it may be 40 per rent less
efficient than a steel boat, but
it Is less expensive to build And
finally, a wood ship, whatever
else may be said of it. Is plenty
good to carry cargo to Russia,
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ON the rt-turn voyage, ships
from Vladivostok woulc bring
critical materials, specified by
President Roosevelt as mangan
ese, chromite. asbestos, platinum
and "other urtieles " For thee
Materials the I'mtrd States I
l-a)Uia la advauc (100,000,000
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Brady. M. D.
E IN THEIR THIRTIES
dicated that the thyroid gland
was functioning normally. '
I began giving her an "Iodin
Ration" according to the in
structions in your pamphlet.
The result has been simply un
believable. The doctor told me
to continue it since it benefited
her so much. She is starting in
Junior college now and she is
very happy. I am also, and
most grateful for your help.
She was so tired that she
couldn't enjoy life as other
young people do, and now she's
bubbling over most of the time.
A nip of iodine now and then
Is a good prophylactic and a
good remedy for anhedonia (in
ability to enjoy life) In children
in their teens or in adults in
their thirties or forties.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
For Mountain Sickness Chew Gum
Have always suffered terribly from
my ears whenever I have travelled,
by auto, train or plans to any alti
tude. Recently a doctor suggested
that X try chewing gum. I literally
chewed my way from Hartford to
Denver and from Denver to Loo An
geles, and hsd no discomfort at all.
Not only that, but I rode In a car
to the top of Mt. Evans, 14.000 feet
altitude, and experienced no discom
fort, chewing gum every foot of the
way. I Mrs. D. U H.)
Answer Thank you. Perhaps the
movements of chewing aid the pass
age of air thru the Eustachian tubes,
as yawning does and so equalises air
pressure within the middle ear cav
ity snd externally. As for the gen
eral manifestations of mountain sick
ness, air hunger, anoxia, the lees
rapid ascent and descent the less
trouble ons susceptible to unpleas
ant effects of altitude should take
more time, stop oft here snd there
on the way up, for a dy or so, or
even for only an hour or two.
Weight lifting
X have heard you disapprove of
moderate weight lifting. Please send
me any literature you have on the
subject. (J. H.)
Answer I do not disapprove of H.
If you mean lifting heavy weights
as a form of exercise, I do not ap
prove of or recommend It In any
case, t have no literature about It.
Doctor Books
There must be thousands of peo
ple who would be glad to have a
doctor book written by you. We have
found a good many helpful things,
for Instance. In your No. 14 "Little
Lesson" called "The Medicine Cup
board." Why not expand that Into
a full slxe doctor book? (Mrs. E.
H. B.)
Answer My Idea was rather to
condense a "doctor book" Into the
Little Lesson. For copy of "The
Medicine Cupboard" send a&o and
tamped envelope bearing your ad
dress. (Copyright. 1841, John T. Dills Co.)
Ed. Note: persons wishing to
eommuntrate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
milium Brady. M. D. tSS El
Csmlno. Beverly Hills. Calif.
to the Soviets, and this $100,000
1 000 will be Immediately used by
the Russians to purchase other
! raw materials for their own use
I or finished products, such as
i tanks, bombers, etc. It amounts
to swppping. The Russians,
however, will want their pur
chases as quickly as possible,
while Jesse H. Jones, secretary
of commerce, plus heaa of He
construction Finance corpora
tion, Is in no hurry; he is ready
to wait until the Russians can
make delivery (possibly two or
four years) and pay the going
price for the articles on delivery
date. No one in the administra
tion mentions it out loud, but
there is a possibility thst Rus
sia will be unable to deliver.
United States has already paid
for goods, but Germany insists
that she is in control of most of
the raw materials In the soviet
land and that USSR will have no
raw materials to ship.
If all goes well, however, most
of the war munitions for Russia
will be sent via the Pacific coast
and a major part of the raw ma
terials from Russia will be dis
charged in ports of the north
west. Shortest route to Vladi
vostok is from Puget sound and
Columbia river by way of the
great circle: miles shorter than
from San F-ancisco, San Pedro
or San Diego.
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IT has been impossible to In
terest the federal government in
the development of raw materi
als so thickly scattered over Ore
gon, Idaho and Washington. A
fraction of the $100,000,000 given
to the Soviets for materials
would produce manganese, as
bestos, chrome and platinum in
more or less substantial quanti
ties. These Items, particular
ised by President Roosevelt, are
found in the three northwest
states platinum In the black
sands of the southwest roast of
Oregon; asbestos in Josephine
county, Oregon; chrome and
manganese in Washington,
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LOCKED In safes In 10 000 In
dustrial plants of the United
States are sealed orders of war
snd navy doartments. These
were to be taken out by the
management immediately on M
rlay and these 10.000 shops were
to drop all other work and begin
the manufacture of the item
called for la Um sealed order.
Every Industrial plant In the
northwest was surveyed, studied,
and the strategy board decided
what essential article could be
produced and how many. Every
two years the survey was re
vised, checked and the orders
placed back in the safes of the
thousands of establishments. Ar
rangements were planned to ob
tain the maximum of productive
effort in the shortest possible
time; no bottlenecks, no lost mo
tion, no swamping big plants
with orders and withholding
from the little fellow.
Something went wrong and
the sealed orders remained
sealed. What happened was that
the method of warfare changed
after the last industrial survey.
The wise men of.army and navy
cid not foresee that this war
would be mec Vnical, that thous
ands of tanks, tons of thousands
of interceptors, bombers and pur
suit planes would be required;
that horses would be displaced;
that Infantry would travel 200
miles a day; there was no
thought of parachute battalions
or that a bombslte would become
the master military secret.
When the war department
woke up it dished out cuntracts
to the biggest of the industries;
financed building and expansion
of plants for aircraft, powder
plants, bag-loading plants; dis
covered a severe shortage in
skilled mechanics. Now, when
the situation is getting tough, a
new survey is being made of all
available Industries.
By Frank Jenkins
AMONG Washington's out
standing shrines is Mount
Vernon. Mount Vernon is the
home of Washington. Washing
ton was the only president who
never lived in the White House,
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WASHINGTON didn't build
" Mount Vernon.
A patent for the Hunting
Creek plantation was granted
to his great-grandfather in 1674.
In 1734, Augustine Washington,
father of George, brought his
family from Wakefield. Virginia
to the Hunting Creek plantation.
The house to which he moved
was destroyed by fire six years
later, and its site is now un
known. The family moved away
Three years later - Lawrence
Washington, half brother of
George, returned and erected the
beginnings of the present house
changing the name of the planta
tion to Mount Vernon after Ad
miral Vernon, under whom he
had served.
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AT the age of 21, George Wash-
Ington inherited Mount Ver
non, married Martha Custis, a
wealthy young widow, member
cf an aristocratic family of the
neighborhood, moved into the
house Lawrence had built, made
extensive improvements to it and
settled down to the pleasant life
cf a Virginia planter.
He remained at Mount Vernon
until the outbreak of the Revo
lutionary war.
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IN all the history of the world,
there has probably been no
era in which the art of gracious
living was more nearly perfected
than in the slightly more than a
century intervening between the
building of Mount Vernon and
the war between the states.
This lovely old house typifies
the whole era. It is beautiful to
behold. The rooms are pleasant
and homelike Its wide veranda
is cool and airy, even on a sticky,
humid valley of-the-Potomac day.
Its grounds are wide and spaci
ous, rolling down to the river in
the front, and with the carriage
drive approaching from the rear
through a long avenue of trees.
In the Virginia manner, it is set
at the top of a gentle hill.
TT was built for its time.
That is to say, the Idea of
spaciousness pervades every
thing. The kitchen, for example,
as was characteristic of the per
iod, is located at a distance of
nearly a hundred feet from the
big house.
Labor was no problem then.
Such a house NOW would bank
rupt a tycoon.
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A LL over the rolling South,
" these lovely houses crown
the low hills. In the flat Missis-
isippi valley, what remains of
them stand on the bluffs over
: looking the rivers. In their
1 grace, their beauty, their unmis
I takable atmosphere of lisurely.
, kindly, pleasant living, they are
alike, no matter where you find
them. They typify an era.
It is an era that perished with
the war between the states,
which destroyed the wealth of
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News
the South. It is an era that will
j never return.
The world NEVER returns to
an era that has once been left.
I
pOR six years during the Revo-
lutionary war, Wa-hington
did net see Mount Vernon. He
I returned to it grileXuil) in 1773
and resumed his agreeable task
of Improving it.
Tha historians tell us that
when he was called to be the
first president of (he United
States it was only a strong sense
of duty that prevailed upon him
to accept the call, and it is said
of him that he had a feeling that
he was "going to jail" when he
left it to take up his duties.
Wander over the lovely old
estate for even so little time as
an hour and you will be able to
understand his feeling.
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"THROUGH the efforts of the
A Mount Vernon Larliea as
sociation, organized in 1856.
Mount Vernon has been restored
and preserved as one of Ameri
ca's great historical monuments.
Through the old house and its
grounds, day after day, year in
and year out, pour Americans
by the thousands, each paying
an admission of 25 cents. The
money so raised goes to maintain
and improve the property.
Today a family of four was
walking up the path approaching
tne tomb of Washington. The
father, in his shirt sleeves, with
nice, bright suspenders, wore a
hard hat of the type the English
call a bowler and which we
term (when we are in the mood
to speak respectfully) a derby.
Behind the parents walked the
son and daughter. The daughter
turned to the son and said with
a note of deep concern in her
voice:
"Do you reckon Pap will know
enough to take off his hat when
he comes to the tomb?
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TTHE world, you see, has chang-
ed since the days when these
paths were trod by courtly gal
lants and stately women
Hugh Johnson
Eyes Men and
Issues of Day
(Continued Prom Page One)
arro with a few platoons of
Spaniards and the disparity be
tween the equipment they used
and the arrows, Obsidian axes
and cotton armor of the Incas
and Aztecs was scarcely greater
than that between Hitler's pan
zer troops and our ancient
equipment. At the beginning of
our land armament effort, we
were too far behind nazi mili
tary developments to see them
with a telescope. We are still
nearly as far behind although
progress is accelerating.
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QETTING into a "position in
readiness" for whatever
may happen is no slight task.
It takes interminable training
and education with modern
arms and we do not yet have
the arms to do the training. Any
kind of safe and decent estab
lishment requires reserves of at
least partially trained troops
and we are only now and very
slowly beginning to build up
those reserves.
Furthermore, we don't know
in what direction our land
forces must be used. Already
by undertaking a tremendous
expansion of far-flung outposts
from the Philippines to Iceland
we have imposed demands on
our army that require multipli
cation of its man-power. It is
a hell of a time to talk about
cutting it down.
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"VNE doesn't need to speculate
very long or burn much
midnight oil to discover ' what
is behind this suggestion. It is
a hope that greater and greater
proportions of our increasing
stream of military production
may be diverted from our own
land defenses and delivered to
Britain and especially to Russia
regardless oi its effect on our
own safety come what may.
We ought not to do that. This
is a world of excursions and
wants finer a jTotfl
f flavor W I gSfy
Calvert's IML
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Calvert Tlrwm" BtlNDFD TTHISKFY: Proof Gnio
Neutral Jpirtts. Cihrrt DrtillenCorporition. New York City
alarms. Nations fight on on
side today and on another to
morrow. Civilization abroad has
degenerated into barbarism and
banditry. Prudent aid in ntft
own best Interest is one thing.
Stripping ourselves of a suffic
ient modern defense against
anything that nay happen la
quite another thing, especially
as we may be indirectly arming
future potential enemies. Let's
do the best we can on all fronts
but let's not forget the horn
front. It is our first and greatest
responsibility.
Flight o Time
Medford and Jackson Coonry
HUtory from the lies of the Mall
Tribune 10 and to years ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Saptambar 25, 1941
(It was Friday)
Walter S. Gifford, national r
lief director repeats plea against
nation-wide cutting of wages.
Fair weather prevails with a
high of 80, and a low of 38. ar
Judge H. D. Norton to address
the state bar meet at Marshfield.
Valley pioneers to hold an
nual meet in Ashland, October 8.
Budget of the Howard school
is revised.
Committee named for local
observance of the 200th anniver
sary of the birthday of George
Washington next year.
Effect of the press on the de
pression is discussed at Sams
Valley Grange meeting.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 25. 1921
(It was Sunday)
Roy Gardner, escaped man
bandit, startles nation by writ
ing President Harding asking
for pardon. In letter to Saa
Francisco paper the escaifXl
bandit describes his flight, hid
ing in McNeill Island prison
barn. Declares during search
warden nearly stepped on his
foot. He states he was shot twice
in the fleshy part of the leg and
is in bed.
German mark drops to lowest
point in history.
Wage cut causes threat of
strike on nation's railroads.
New York defeats Cleveland
8 to 7 in second game of "Little
World series." Babe Ruth hits
58th homer.
Rain predicted for tomorrow.
High 81, low 51, precipitation
.03 of an inch.
Nation-wide indignation
against Fatty Arbuckle, film co-.
median charged with manslaugh
ter as result of death of actress
grows. Many women clubs de
nounce actor in resolutions.
Cover Crop Program
On Price Guarantees
Authorized by AAA
Corvallis, Sept. 25. (IP) An
expanded Oregon cover crop
seed purchase program at guar
anteed prices for next year wa
authorized today following a
meeting of the staie AAA com
mittee with N. E. Dodd, western
division director.
The price schedule announced
recently had been made contin
gent on signing 425,000 acres for
production but this was waived
on reports that in the 21 coun
ties where the drive was made,
seeded acreage would equal or
exceed that amount even though
not definitely contracted
The committee extended to De?
cember 1 the date for signing.
Included in the crops are hairy
-etch, Austrian peas, common,
Hungarian or Willamette vetch,
crimson clover and common rya
gress.