THE DAM CHRONICLE OREGON STATE NEWS Howe A bout: Britain Would Buy Island? ITEMS OF INTEREST Silenus’ Third ------ W ife Minding Your Business Brief Resume of Happenings American W aste of the Week Collected for Bell Syndicate — W X U Service. Our Readers In the good old summertime, young fashion plates become sun-worship Possession of Sleepy Little Timor Said to Be Needed by ers 1 And for the fastidious two to eight- Great Empire as Link in the Projected year-old, who wishes to devote all Europe-Australia Air Route. attention to boating, bathing, and basking, rather than to seams and buttons, here are the newest cre The British government is report John Smith Pocahontas life-saving ations in playtime fashion. ed by a news dispatch from London episode in Virginia, Timor shows lit Not following, but leading the to be Interested in Timor island of tle effect of its contact with the vogue of the elders, the youngster the East Indies as a possible sea and western world. these days who would be really In Sir base. An offer of $25,000,000 to “ About 300 miles long and averag the swim, must have a two-piece bath 150,000,000 may be made for the Is ing CO miles in width, the island has land, it is declared. The eastern part hut few settlements that even can of Timor and a tiny nick of the west be called township. Even Koepang, ern part now belongs to Portugal, capital and largest port on the Dutch and the remainder to The Nether or western end of the Island, has lands. only 5,500 inhabitants; and Dili, "Timor Is the eastern ‘Jumping-off which is the chief town In the east place’ of the Sunda Islands, that ern, or Portuguese portion of the Is chain of land spots which is strung land, can account for only 3,500 per out from Sumatra eastward toward manent residents. the north coast of Australia." says a "There are no railroads on Timor bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) and one of the best roads of any headquarters of the National Geo great length is a horse trail that graphic- society. “ It is about 300 traverses the Island. No cable links miles from the Timor coast to Aus It with other islands. Steamships tralia. Timor is thus a vital link In that touch other East Indian islands the Europe-Australia air route. stop at Timor ports to deliver cotton “ Although Timor had a Portuguese goods, oil and wine, and to take settlement on its coast more than a away coffee, copra, hides, cacao, ing suit in the newest all-wool knit century before Capt. John Smith shells, wax and sandalwood which ted weave, gay in white, red, or navy. with his band of English colonists are the leading exports. And now and Felt tabs attaching top piece to disembarked at Jamestown; and al then an occasional visitor off the shorts add the jauntiest of fashion though the Dutch landed or the Is beaten tourist path walks down a touches. land about the time of the Capt. steamship gangplank bent upon roam And what more fitting fashion for ing over the mountains and through the fastidious sun-worshiper than a valleys where live most of the is- seersucker sun-suit as gayly striped GIVING EFFECT OF laud’s 800.000 Inhabitants— largely a as a stick of candy. Red, green, or SLIMNESS TO THE racial mixture of Malayan, Polyne blue jstriped suits— with fitted waist line and a catch-all pocket which is sian, and Papuan blood. WOMAN OF WEIGHT perfectly Indispensable for precious “ The natives are divided into many stones gathered along the beach, w ill tribes, ruled by chiefs whose jealousy Complete, Diagrammed Sew Chart of neighboring leaders, and land-grab be worn this year wherever two to eight-year-olds are gathered for a Included. bing habits, frequently have caused quiet game of leap frog.— Carolyn T. bloody clashes. Bows and arrows Radnor Lewis In Child L ife Maga PATTERN 9929 and spears are the war weapons of zine. the natives. For hunting game, they use blow guns and small darts. Your local dealer carries Ferry’s “ While the loin cloth still consti Pure Bred Vegetable Seeds. Now tutes the entire wardrobe of the men only 5 cents a package. Adv. of some of the tribes, other tribes men wear two-piece cotton garments E v e r y o n e a C r im in a l and turbans. The women don color There is no such thing as a born ful sarongs and shawls. From the criminal, according to Judge Amedee appearance of exposed arms and oth Monet, of Montreal. “ The only dif er portions of the natives’ bodies, It ference between the average citizen is evident that tattoo artists are kept and the prisoner in the dock," he busy in Timor. The tattooing is done says, "is that the latter has been with crude instruments and dyes caught. Otherwise, everyone Is a which sometimes cause blood poison criminal in some way or another.” ing and death. “ There appear to be no limits, oth er than wealth and inclination, to the number of wives a tribesman may have. The native home Is a round, one-room, wooden structure with a KEEP C O O L roof of grass or palm-leaf thatch, and SAVE TIME not too clean inside or out. To ap SAVE WORK pease the angry gods and to avoid SAVE MONEY destruction by evil spirts, the tribes with th e men place palm branches before fruit trees, houses and growing crops. Ag riculture Is carried on with crude, '"THIS Coleman Self-Heating Iron will primitive implements; and, although * save you more time and work than a there are many streams on the is $100.00 washing machinel It will save your strength . . . help you do better ironing land, irrigation is hardly known. easier and quicker at lesa cost. During the dry season vegetation I n s t a n t L l t f h t l n t f . . . no heating with matches or torch . . . no waiting. The bows to the torrid sun even to the evenly-heated double pointed base irona extent of the trees losing their garments with fewer strokes. Large glass- smooth base slides easier. Ironing time ia leaves. By ED H O W E I O FAR as my reading goes no one Seaside A h a result of a hearing has ever more candidly, intelligent at Seaside by the state highway corn- I ly or fairly discussed the relations of mission the Oregon Coast highway married couples than Silerius, who will be routed through Seaside on lived near the time of the most famous North 7th street. outrage on women recorded in history: Eugene— The Eugene water board that suffered by Sabine women who will expend $35,000. on a SERA pro were carried oiT by invading soldiers. ject, laying new water mains in the Some authorities claim Silenus him- I city, in the event that the project self was a general in the conquering is approved by the state committee. army concerned, and that a screaming Dufur— A fter a brief illness David Sabine woman was delivered at his Stuart Young, postmaster at Dufur tent as his part of the loot. As near as can be learned from the for the past 19 years, is dead. He was widely known in Wasco and vague history of that time this wom an, so violently courted, became the Sherman counties. third wife of Silerius; and although Roseburg— Roseburg will extend carried from her own country to a an invitation to the United Spanish strange one by a conqueror, with no War Veterans of Oregon to hold their other preliminary than being suddenly 1935 convention in that city. This seized by rough invaders, she was so year’s convention is to be at Eugene, capable in looking after her own In July 24. terests that her abductor later murried Albany— Ravages of rust and the her; Indeed, she became prominent Hessian fly are taking heavy toil of and respected in the inhospitable city ' grain crops in Linn county, accord in which her husband lived. ing to County Agent Mullen. In some In his memoirs Silerius gives the Im fields the yield will be reduced as pression that his third wife pleased much as 90 per cent., he predicts. him more than any of the others, to Dallas— The Folk county Pomona two of whom he was married with grange has adopted a resolution in elaborate ceremonies, and after very favor of abolishing the lower house sentimental courtship. In writing of of the state legislature because of his experiences with women, Silerius the belief that, with the senate only, I tells In a rather amusing way of the the legislature would be more e ffi gentle and cunning arts his third wife exercised in bending him to her will, cient. and I get the impression that she loved Albany— Complete registration re him more sincerely than any of the turns at Albany college indicate a wives he acquired in a more conven total of 215 students, of whom 112 [ are men. The college has always [ tional way. • • • had more men than women stu What part of your attention do you dents, except during the W orld [ give to your own business? Say you War. ure merchant, lawyer, doctor, mechan Grants Pass— Twenty carloads of ic, farmer. What per cent of your en salmon cases have been shipped from j thusiasm goes to your business, and Grants Pass to San Francisco to be what per cent to politics, vacations, j relayed to an Alaska canning com- | clubs, automoblling, radio, moving pic- j pany. In the shipment were 150,500 j tures, welfare work, social affairs? f cases, which will hold 3625 tons of Many a good business has been I salmon. wrecked by its head man neglecting j Echo— Harvesting in the Pilot it for other things. It is charged that j Rock and Echo districts of Umatilla ! one of the most notable of American county is expected to begin a month j commercial enterprises is on the rocks earlier than usual this year, proba- | because its head, In receipt of an enor bly by the middle of June. In other | mous salary, neglected It for outside parts of the county it w ill begin | activities. The same principle ap- I about Ju'y 1. plies to those occupying fifteen, twenty Salem— James M. Burgess, em- I or forty-dollar-a-week Jobs. Very few Americans mind their own business. j ployed for four years in the depart- ment of education at Salem, has * * * been chosen superintendent of the A doctor connected with the govern- Mllton-Freewater public schools. He ment says that 71 per cent of the hos- w ill succeed Silas Gaiser, who w ill | pitnl cases now being cared for by the take his place at Salem. government were not cases that in any j T o improve Ecola park the state way could be traced to the great war; j highway department will establish j that the Veterans’ Disability act was a camp of 50 homeless young men in the greatest stenl ever put over on the near future. The old community the American people. Here Is another startling tllustra- j house used for years by the Glisan, Lewis and Flanders families will be tlon of the waste anu dishonesty in repaired and maintained so that hik American public affairs; in this case, j ing clubs, Boy Scouts and other or In relieving twenty-nine men honestly ganizations may use it during week entitled to relief, the politicians, re lieved seventy-one not entitled to It. ends. The figures hold in everything else In American public nffairs. I have no Sim mill Being Built. Sisters- Another sawmill to rut doubt that for every twenty-nine dol lumber for Dant & Russell la being lars the government necessarily spends built on Green ridge, with a capacity in its operation seventy-one dollars for cutting 35.000 board feet a day. are wantonly and villainously wasted. The only way for the government to A1 Combs of Coquile is building the mill, which w ill bo ready to run properly balance the budget Is to cut off 71 per cent of taxes already levied, soon. Graceful lines can do more than and wasted. Instead of adding new diet to make the heavier woman look burdens. Flax BP Inches High. illm nnd stnnrt. Every line in this • • • Dayton— Much o f the flax sown dress has been planned to overcome I do not know Just when, but some [ February 20 In a 6 acre field In the look of heaviness. It’s better to of these days I Intend to confess 1 am the Clarence llndger farm In the make a dress for yourself, when by Grand Island vicinity measured 39 as tired of my writing as others are. | doing so you can get this effect you and no longer hold on to the coat tails Inches In length Tuesday, which Is want. Here especially a graceful above average length of the crop at of the drunken world In attempts to rever, comfortable sleeves and well better It. harvest. And In my final notice I think I shnll 1 planned lines do the trick. We sug gest a printed cotton with small fig pay the people who have dismissed Tw o Big Cougars Killed. ures. (The larger figured designs Gold Beach— Two more cattle- me a good many compliments. Mil should be left to slender women). It lions of them nre admirable. My final killing cougars were taken o ff their will be good of plnin material, too. ranges lust week. Vic Miller and message to them will he: "Keep the Pattern 9929 may be ordered only few good things you have accent- j Jack Fry got an eight-foot cat from In sizes 34. 3d. 38. 40, 42, 44 and 40. the middle Kuchre-ereek section and pllshed, and try to accomplish a few Size 30 requires 3-S yards 30-inch Bob Miller brought In a similar fe more. All the comforts and pleasures fabric nnd *4 yard contrasting. line from the vicinity of the Williams we hnve came ns a result of men sue- Send FIFTEEN CENTS In coins or ceedlng In doing a little better." ranch, about ten miles back on •tamps (coins preferred) for this pat I ’ lstol river. tern. Be sure to write plainly your When I know what women expect NAME. ADDRESS, the STYLE NUM Shingle Mill Sold. of men. I am willing to grant It. Just BER and SIZE. Wheeler- The Shiningor broth how much nttentlon front men do Send your order to Sewing Circle ers’ shingle mill, owned and oper women decide Is proper? I have been Pnttern IVpartment. 232 West Eight ated by Frank Shtnlnger nnd hia In doubt at times. . . There Is In eenth St., New York. sons, has been sold to Markham & my town a woman who Is very strict; Callow la g g in g company. Markham she promptly resents the slightest fa A Callow operate a large logging miliarity from men. nnd frequently camp on the coast highway, 12 miles talks Indignantly of their boldness. north of Wheeler, where there Is One day I learned, from the private plenty of cedar. talk o f the women, that a friend of mine had squeezed her hand, and that Wheat Shipments Bound. she was very mad about It. Later, Portland— An Increase of nearly when I was In her company, the name BOO per cent, in wheat shipments in of the hold wretch came up. and 1 feit April, 1934, over April, 1933, was that she would vigorously denounce reported fo r Portland today by the him She didn’t know 1 had heard of Merchants’ Exchange. Last month, the affront offered her. but I was cer 3,034,649 bushels went down the riv tain she would express a very unfa er, compared to 614.153 for April, vorable opinion, knowing she was very 1933. Flour movement for April wss strict . . . And this wss what she 10,000 barrels above the correspond ssld: "He Is the most entertaining ing period last year, with a total of man I ever met In my life." 334,135 bushels. S Playtime Fashions for the Well-Dressed Tot » , ] FOR BETTER THEERSY WHY TO IRON! Coleman H^UINU Iron “ I f the reported purchase is con summated it will not be Great Brit ain's first possession of Timor. In 1707 the British attempted to drive out the Dutch, then dominantly In control of the island. At first they failed. Later the British succeeded, and the Dutch flag was lowered. Portuguese influence then swept the island until 1814, when, by treaty, the Dutch resumed their old status. “ Today the Dutch portion of Timor is about 5,000 square miles with 3(30,000 inhabitants. The Por tuguese portion is 7.335 square miles with about 442,000 people. Both por tions nre mountninous. Many peaks are more than 6.000 feet high. Mount Rameau, near the center of the is land, rises 9.600 fe e t" reduced one-third. Heats itself. . . use it anywhere. Economical, t o o . . . costa only V ti an hour to operate. See your hard ware or housefurnishing dealer. I f local dealer doesn’t handle, write us. T H E C O L F M A N L A M P A N D S T O V E CO. Dept. W U 306. Wichita. Kans.; Chicago, 111.; Philadelphia. P a .; Los Angelea. Calif.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada (4308) O L D A G E P E N S IO N IN F O R M A T IO N Send Stamp. - - - - - M errlam , K ansas. Box 85 • CulicuraOinlmenl Soothes and Heals ■kin irritations quickly and easily. L et it be your first thought in treat, ing itching, burning affections, ecze ma, pimples and other disfiguring blotches. N o household should be without it. Spars Them Price 25c and 50c The late Mrs.Schuyler van Rens selaer of New York once was asked Sample free. Addreee: “ Cutlet»rm.” by a "society girl” whether she Dept. 15S. Malden. Mass. should "go in” for settlement work among the city poor, which she ad W NU— 13 19—34 mitted she disliked. “ In heaven's name, don’t I” Mrs. Van Rensselaer re N eat •‘ Shot” plied. "People who live In the tene ments have enough to bear without "My last five secretaries left me in suffering your condescension I"— Bos tears.” ton Globe. "Really. Do you cry much?" GARDENS F E R R Y ’S In f m h dated p a c k e t s at jrcur local store PUREBRED V E G E T A B L E SEEDS NOW