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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1915)
TIIE MORXTXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY. OCTOKTTR 11. 1915. THRIVING TOWN AND BUSY PLANT VISITED McCleary, Wash., Prospering With Expansion of Big Door-Making Factory. PAYROLL KEEPS . PEACE Company Saves Own Timber and Buys That of Others tor Manu facture of Product Concern Conducts Hotel for Employes. BY ADDISON BENNETT. Correspondence.) This is a small place ' in some wavs and in others rathpr1 large. It Is neither a city or a town, having no other organization than that vouchsafed by the ordinary county and state authorities. Scarcely that, for there is no Deputy Sheriff here. The only officials, save the Postmaster, i3 a Justice of the Peace and a Constable. Yet here is a community of 1500 peo ple. Indeed, there must be more than that, for there were 1000 when the Federal census was taken in 1900 and the place has been growing steadily in the intervening five years. we hear it said frequently that a one-man town is a poor place for any body to live in and do business in, save for the man who dominates it. As a rule that holds true. But in this com munity all ordinary rules are thrown to the winds. Henry McCleary is the dominant party here. He is McCleary, the place. He was its discoverer, promoter, god father, owner and sustainer. Without him there would have been no such place; were he to close his business here and remove his machinery and other property of a personal nature there would be nothing left to sustain the community. Tn Grratrnt Maker of Doors. The place is Dractirallv in th wone It Is true the immediate surrounding land has been logged off; but there are many trees and dead trunks still stand ing, with much brush intervening, with scarcely an acre of cleared land in sight. There are practically two rail roads, a spur of the Northern Pacific coming up from Elma eight miles dis tant, and a spur belonging to the Mc Cleary Timber Company, running about a mile north to what is called the Summit branch of the Northern Pacific. McCleary is in Gray's Harbor Coun ty, being two miles south of the Mason County line and six miles west of the Thurston County line. The place is 18 miles almost due west of Olympia. From Portland the direct road is via Centralia, Gate and Elma, three changes being necessary one at Cen tralia, again at Gate and finally at Elma. McCleary has the distinction of hav ing the largest door factory in the world. You may say that is a wild statement, but it is not. You will not hear Mr. McCleary or any of his com pany boastir.srly make a statement of that kind. They are not boasters or publicity hunters, but keep as much out of the range of the spotlight as possible. But unquestionably the Mc Cleary door factory is the largest in this country, and machinery manufac turers aud others posted in the business say there is nothing even approaching it abroad. Flrat Mill Started 17 Years Ago. Seventeen years ago Henry McCleary came here from Cambridge, O. He was not "broke," but he had but little capital save a clear head, a stout heart, a large stock of industry and perseverence and honesty. Soon he had started a little portable sawmill in the woods here and began turning out cedar door stock. He hauled this over a mighty poor wagon road to the railway station a mile away. He and his father and brother. William, had been in the sawmill business back in Ohio. They had a "whale" of a mill. Why, some days they cut more than 3000 feet!. You may imagine, there fore, that there is some difference be tween the sawmills of Ohio and those of Washington. His brother, William, soon joined him. and later a younger brother, Leonard, and the three are still labor ing together. The firm name is the McCleary Timber Company. They own quite extensive areas of timber land, but they are not cutting it. They buy the timber belonging to others and let their own stand. They have two saw mills, the one here and what is known as the West Side mill at Olympia. But the output of the Olympia mill is prac tically all sent here, the shipments be ing made every day. Last month 145 cars were sent over, practically six ears a day. Some Surplus la Sold. Tt can hardly be said that the Mc Clearys sell no lumber. They some times find they have a surplus of cheap stock which they do not care to use. But in broad terms, they cut nothing save what they do not work up. They do make shingles, having a verv large shingle mill here. But that Is because In buying stumpage they take all on the tracts to be logged and find they can do better by making the cedar into shingles than in any other way. Nor would it be exactly true to say that they sell nothing but doors from their factory. All doors made by them are what the laymen call "built-up" doors, that is, they are made of many pieces glued together and veneered. The panels are universally made of three pieces of veneer, glued together with the grain crossed. In cutting and preparing the veneer they often have a surplus, which is made Into panels of various sizes, the largest being 4 by 7 feet, which thev ell for paneling walls, ceilings, etc. Then they also make trunk stock, which is about the same as the panel stock save in dimensions. rroer.nr. of Making Are Many. It would, of course, make an inter esting story for one to tell about the making of doors, to follow a log into the sawmill, see it cut into lumber, follow a stick of that lumber through the conveyor over towards the mill, drop with It onto a tramcar. go with It through the drying kilns, thence into the factory and pass along with it through a dozen or more machines and always passing to the west until finally a machine drops it onto a truck as a portion or a finished and seasoned door, although less than four days ago it was but a part of a log. I think I neglected to say that only fir lumber Is used. Nearly everything in the factory Is done by electric energy. Each machine, large or small, has its own motor." Some of them are as large as a small haystack, others so small that you might put one in your overcoat pocket. The machinery that generates the elec tricity is the finest I ever saw. Its ca pacity is 1300 horsepower. All the power is used In the factory save that which goes to light the town. Cuttlaiat Cost I'aunallj Low. The sawmill is also a marvel. It is not the largest in the world by a long way. but it is doubtful if there is one in existence that will cut lumber at as low a cost- In fact, that Is the key note of the entire plant the largest output at the lowest expense. They aiao require the mill to turn out only perfect work. I saw doors rejected and f cast aside to be sold as damaged or used for fuel because, when they were finished, a discolored spot no larger than a pea had developed. The doors are inspected at every stage of their manufacture every workman is commended for finding blemished parts. You may be surprised to learn that an ordinary five-panel door may con tain from 65 to 100 separate pieces of lumber, but such is a fact. The entire plant here runs day and night, year in and year out. It employs about 5000 men. There are more than 100 men on the payroll who never worked in any other plant, there are more than that who have been here longer than ten years, there is at least one who went to work with Mr. McCleary the day he started. I never saw a finer lot of men around any plant. Payroll Keeps Peace. You will woiWer how it is managed to keep order in a community where the strong arm of the law is not in evidence. Why, how easily and simply Mr. McCleary manages That! Suppose a workman does something dishonorable, gets drunk, creates a disturbance in some way makes himself obnoxious. What happens? Why, he finds himself separated from the payroll. His job being gone, he cannot get another here. So he has to leave. I do not know what would happen if he remained and created more trouble, for such a thing has never happened. Mr. McCleary is the justice of the peace; he has had two cases in two years! The factory turns out more than 4000 doors a day. The plant is supposed to have a capacity of 5000, but William McCleary, who spent nearly a half day in showing me around, says they never have been able to speed it up to that capacity. Now let the reader think of that output 4000 doors a day, and about 310 days in a year, for the plant never closes for repairs or anything save a holiday or the Sabbath. Company Operates Hotel. I have done some figuring as to the number of acres and the number of miles of doors that would make and the height a year's output would be if the doors were laid flat one upon the other. But I will leave that for some of our school teachers to have the pu pils work out by stating that the aver age thickness can be figured as one and five-eighths inches, the length as six feet eight inches and the width two feet and eight inches. The company does no business in town, save the manufacturing of TTs lumber products, except it does run a first-class hotel. That is done for the reason that it would not pay any per son to build as good a hotel as Mr. McCleary was bound to have; so the company erected a building, furnished it elegantly and runs it as well as any hotel in the state. Indeed the Hotel McCleary is as good as there is in the West. But there is no company store. Land Sold to Employes. The company originally owned all of the land, but sells it to merchants or others who wish to buy. More than 75 per cent of the workmen live in their own houses. The lots are sold at a low price and on any old terms, just enough to make the new owner an in terested party. There are several good stores here, especially the two large general stocks kept by the Summit Mercantile Com pany and Strubel & Glancy. A. Rosen thal has a nice stock of men's furnish ing goods and C. M. Doty has a good drug store. There are many other shops and stores, pool halls and soft drink establishments. And everybody here is doing a rush ing business. As the works run day and night there are many on the street all the time. ADVERTISING IS LAUDED CORVALL1S PROFESSOR- SAYS IO GAXBERRY HAS GREAT FITtRE. Campaign- of Portland Ad Club and Newspaperi to Help Industry. Is Commended OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL- LEGE, Corvallis, Or., Oct. 9. (Spe cial.) "The loganberry advertisin campaign recently undertaken on an extensive scale by the Portland Ad Club, and other commercial bodies, is particularly opportune and should re sult In better markets for the fruit and its by-products," said Professor Lewis, chief of the Oregon Agricultural College horticultural division, when his attention was called to the new advertising policy as announced in the Portland papers. He says that this action, begun and carried on in a systematic manner, will greatly encourage growers, and stim ulate production to the point where the output will reach proportions that will put loganberry production on a permanent basis as one of the most im portant Oregon fruit industries. This industry has been carried through to the present time largely by the enterprising pioneers who intro duced and first grew the berry in Oregon, and the systematic advertising of the Portland business men will go far toward insuring the success of the earlier movement. Professor Lewis says that the produc tion area of the loganberry is so limited in comparison with the potential mar ket area that Oregon growers will eventually grow and ship $10,000,000 worth of loganberry products each year, and that the present advertising campaign should bring that time much nearer. He feels sure that this co operation will be greatly appreciated by the men that have been standing back of the industry through thick and thin, members of the Loganberry Association, Salem Fruit Union, Gile & Jenks firm and J. O. Holt, of the Eugene cannery. LOCATION FRAUDS ALLEGED Federal and Lane County Officials on Track of Wrongdoers. EUGENE, Or.. Oct. 10. (Special.) Alleged fraudulent timber locating in the Siuslaw forest has reached such an extensive scale that both Federal and county officers have been aroused to an investigation. Both have issued warnings to the public to avoid private locators. Deputy Sheriff D. A. Elkins and Dep uty Supervisor Beach, of the Siuslaw forest, recently investigated operations ora Big creek, west of Eugene, and have the name of one locator whose activi ties are being investigated. Women have been lured all the way from Oklahoma, it is charged, and shown property many times located upon One man paid four locating fees, one after another, each time only to find that he had beeni shown land al ready occupied. DEPUTY DIES AT ROSEBURG Fred G. Stewart, of Sherifrs Ofrloe, Passes Away. ROSEBURG. Or.. Oct. 10. (Special.) Fred G. Stewart. Deputy Sheriff here for five years and one of the best known officers in Southern Oregon, died last night. Mr. Stewart was a native of Michigan and had lived in Oregon for about ten years. He was 26 years old. Mr. Stewart is survived by a widow and baby, two brothers and his father. The latter lives in Portland. He was a member of the Elks. Moose, Oddfel lows and Rebekah. lodges. BORAH PLEADS FOR TARIFF ADJUSTMENT Senator Says Country Must Prepare to Meet European Conditions After War. LEVELS' TO BE LOWERED American Workmen Threatened With Cruel Situation if Forced to Compete With Those Seeking to Itecover Trade. BOSTON, Oct. 10. (Special.) "We ought to set about to readjust our tariff laws, and without delay," de clared United States Senator'Borah, of Idaho, in an open-air address delivered here today. The Senator was pointing out the necessity for business and com mercial preparedness, which, he main tained, was as important, if not more important, than military preparedness. He had in- mind the situation that will confront the United States, commer cially, when the war in Europe is over, and when the cheap products of Eu rope will be dumped in vast quantities on the American markets. The Senator's speech was considered an answer to Secretary of Commerce Kedfield, who recently asserted that other means than the tariff should be resorted to to prevent the "dumping'" of cheap European products on the American market. European Levels Will Decline. "It is more essential that we pre pare for peace than that we prepare for war," he said. "We may not with safety ignore the situation as it will confront us at the close of the war. The standard of living in Europe will be reduced to the lowest possible level. The standard of wage will be reduced to the lowest possible .figure. Our workingmen will come in deadly com petition with the laborers of Europe working at the lowest level of living, and yet driven as never before to help Europe win back her trade. To ignore such a condition of affairs is to leave the workingmen of this country ex posed to a situation only less cruel than war is to leave millions of them without work and on the ragged edge of hunger. "Europe, when she emerges from this war, will be, industrially at least, a new Europe. Just as the organization of great armies during the Civil War taught us the value of unity on a vast scale, and just as this spirit of unity and organization was transferred by us from the fields of war to the peace ful fields of industry, so will it be, only on a. more tremendous scale, in Europe. N rations Will Leant by War. "Germany, even before the war, was the most thoroughly organized and dis ciplined industrial nation in the world. She will be even more thoroughly or ganized after the war. England and France have also learned in the cruel school of war the lesson of unity in industrial life, learned how to mobi lize and discipline the capacity and energy of their people. The periods following the Austrian war the Franco-Prussian war our own Civil War advise us how quickly a people trans fer the energy and capacity for or ganization from the battlefield to the factory. "We ought to set about to readjust our tariff laws, and'without delay. We ought to prepare to mobilize our re sources and our people industrially. We ought to have a tariff law which would at least collect revenue from those gigantic industrial combinations such as the sugar trust, which enjoys our market free; a law and a policy which would evoke confidence, diver sify our industries and develop the varied talents of our people. If we expect war shall we not be prepared to feed and clothe and equip our people from within? Even if we do not ex pect war but only peace, shall we fail to protect our workmen and our peo ple as a whole against the conditions which shall surely confront them when the long, hard pull, which is to follow after the war is over, has begun? Simple American Deserves Praise. "Finally, my friends, let us call up for service some of the old-time pride in our country. We hear much these days about the Anglo-American, the German-American, and eo on and so forth. I sometimes wonder what has become in these eventful days of just the plain, simple, untitled American. Is there not some concern, some dis cussion, some modest and well-guarded commendation, some discreet eulogy, for the man who knows no mother country, no fatherland, but only and alone a simple, unmixed devotion to our own country? "It seems to me we ought to arouse some of the old-time American spirit, not with bluster or offense, but with courage, to the end that we may not only be a great and powerful people industrially, but also that we may come to have in truth and in fact a National purpose, a National mind, a National ideal." H. Th lessen Is Re-Elected. OREGON" CITT. Or.. Oct. 10. SDe- cial.) H. Thiessen, of Concord, was I re-elected president of the Clackamas County Cow-Testing- Association at the meeting held in Oregon City Saturday. Other officers elected are: Secretary treasurer. Mrs. A. I. Hughes, and directors. R. L. Badger, of Beaver Creek: A. A. 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I look out upon the business of Life and wonder what it is all about. I still possess the crystal clearness of Innocence. I see nothing sordid or un lovely. The pictures I throw on the baby brain are magical. I am not for sale or exchange, nor can I be bought. I am Priceless. I am the windows of the Soul'. I am MORE than that. I am almost Life. I am sensitive- I require Care and Thought, on which I thrive. I go I grow weak with Overwork, or HI Health, or Strain. I resent Indifference or Neglect. When I am not as Strohg as I was Intended to be I protest against over Exertion in the School Room. I rebel against long hours of Study or Reading at Home where the Lights are so Dim that I cannot see. ; I sound my Warnings daily. I cause Misery to the Brain, and a throbbing Head. I produce a countless score of ills that are blamed on Everything but Me. My punishment is Relentless. I MUST be heard. I punish myself. I worry myself into aching, twitching, burn ing coals of fire. I cannot Work. I Weep. I will not Sleep. I will not stop until my Cry is Heeded. The Parents of the Baby Body in which I Dwell blame Fretfulness, Illness, Apathy, Dullness and a Stumbling Gait on a score of things. . But I AM THE CAUSE. I Live on Love, for Love how great is the Reward I I Fairly Sing and Dance and Thrill with Light and Joy and Gladness when I am Healthy, and Strong and Rested. I Thrive on CARE. The Brain, my Sister, takes Joy in my Joy, and Hand in Hand we are Wonder Workers. We perform Herculean tasks and are Glad. I flutter into Being often More Weak than my new born Owner. I try not to be Harsh on the Cause of my weakness. I like Life and will Live with Care. If I need Aid from the Skilled Hands of Men who Know Me, who study my needs, who know what I Must Have, then I re spond in Sheer Gratitude. If I have Behaved Badly and caused Pain it is only because I have needed Help. With Assistance these Learned Men CAN give Me I Live until I am no longer Wanted. I speak that ALL Parents may hear! It is my Prayer that you do not Shrug with Indifference or get Angry at the seeming Implication that YOU of all peo ple, could Possibly be So Careless or Lack ing in Love as to permit YOUR child's EYES to be Neglected. Will YOU Believe and Understand that I mean just YOU, the very Owners of the Grown-Up Eyes who are Reading this? Are YOU SO sure that I do not NEED HELP RIGHT NOW? -REMEMBER Child. I am the I MAY be the Eyes of D. CHAMBERS & SON "Vision Specialists 167 BROADWAY Bet. -1 wi.nvacjr Protects, give ! Oh! EYES of a YOUR Child. Morrison and Yamhill