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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1921)
THEOILEGOHSTATESMAh, SALEM. CjkEOON; 1 Tt:NiNKtunri : POOR LIGHT IS FURNISHED FOR WORKERS Survey ( of Illununation in . Eleven Oregon Plants Re- , ported to Gram BETTER LAWS. NEEDED Exits and Stairways in Most Establishments Not Prop- ;;-tfly. Guarded Lighting accommodations in Oregon industrial plant are not satisfactory, particularly exit and J1 lighting." declares a report tnat nan hen submitted to C. P. YE LIBERTY Starts Next Wednesday Charles Ray Peaceful Valleil Gram, ttate labor commissioner, by the Illuminating engineering society, which has general offices in New York, and of which F. IL Murphy, who la: with the Port land Railway, Light Power com pany In Portland, is thi Oregon represantative. j; The report urges that! the leg (!ature enact laws to remedy the situation. ; Many accidents and physical weaknesses that come up on workers, it is claimed! are due to improper lighting. I Eleven .Plants Examined "A survey! of II typical indus trial plants in this state, cover ing 33 different departments and representing; 1338 employes shows that 73 per cent had no exit lights and 64 per cent had no stair lights." the report says. Furthermore, in. none of the cas es which did hars stair ! or exit lights, were these lights- Inde pendent of other lighting, Host of the plants included in this sur rey are therefore operating In violation of section 2. chapter 181, of the general laws of Ore son for 1919. and oirule 9 of the general lighting Trules pre pared incompliance with this act. "The ' daylight condition In these plants seems to be fairly satisfactory in the majority .of oases. Ninety-four per cent of the departments visited had light ing from the side windows, while 9 per cent had saw tooth or mon itor lighting, and 51 per cent of the side windows were registered as of large area. A commenda ble feature Js the fact that 83 per cent of the window lighting reported as clean. Articiflal light Poor "On the othr hand, the arti ficial lighting does not appear in anything like the! same favorable light. In 82 per cent of the 13 e partments i 1 Investigatfcd barr lamps were being used. This means that glare exists to a greater or less extent In 82 per cent of the cases, although In the investigation apparently this con dition was not fully recognized, for. the surrey; sheets show only 30 per cent as having excessive glare and an additional 9 per cent as having some glare. , CONDITIONOF STATECHARITY HELD CHAOTIC Loose Methods Censured in Report bjr Governor's ' Special Committee CENTRALPOWER URGED "Why don't you smile once In a while? You can catch more flies with molasses than you can with Ttnegir." "What do want with flies?" demanded the faciduous waitress. State University, Findings Say, Should be Clothed With Authority y That the social work depart ment of the University of Orer gon be invested by law with' pow er to make - inquiry - into ' both sources and objects, j of public charitable expenditure in Ore gon as a means of centering the Activity, and preventing .waste and duplication, i3 recommended tn a report to Governor Qlcott by a special committee appointed by him about a year ago to study "oo eration' of charity organization in the state. Y j ""' 'The. members of the committee are Richard V. Montague, H?len T. Ayer. Gertrude R. Corbett. Ru fus C. Holraan. William P. La- Roche and & Ben Selling. They conferred with the head of the social work department 4 of the slate university and with- Presi- RECOMMEXDED TO SCHOOL ; CHILDREN This Is' the seasonSrwhen chil dren are subject to croup, colds and coughs. Rena C. Marchard, 36 Lawrence St.. Salem, Mass.. writes: "I used Foley's Honey and Tar with good results. I had a very bad cold end it gave me re lief at once, so I recommend It to every child that f goes to school." This standard, low priced medi cine loosens and clears mucus and phlegm, checks strangling cough ing, makes easy breathing, soothes and heals raw, i inflamed mem branes, and stops tickling in throat. Sold everywhere. dent P. L., Catapbell before report ing to the governor. " ' f ' Chain It Found t "5 The committee reports that.lt "has round, the difficulties in the way of anything lika a complete and thorough performance of the task assigned to it to ne too great to be overcome : with . the means at its command." "The chars into which the work of public, not to mention private, charitable administration has fal len makes it ecxeedingly difficult for a body' without ample inquis itorial andvlsitorial powers to as certain with any completeness the facts essential to any thorough presentation of the problem," i To show the need of a syste matic study of the subject by a central authority, the report con tinues: implication Cited -"The legislature or 1919 a p propriated considerably in excess of two and one-half million dol lars for charitable and allied pur poses for the biennium now about to end. " The special session of 192ft found it necessary to appto- priato some two hund mi thous and dollars more -for like, largely for the identical, objects i iot hich the legislature of 919 had already made appropriations,.. "The legislature of i19 in cluded" In some of its general' acts measures for the Tellef iif f horre- i less children,' foundlings and In- tugont orphans, entirely s ignoring the fact that then warf; already i -bn tante. books anl'act s4b istantially identical in terms." j ! s !..-.-. . " ' f- : : . . . i i HOW HE EXnEP KnXSTEV i TROCBLE "I had a severe attactc of kindey trouble and for three weeks could not get out of doors and Scarcely out of bed," writes C. E.:llrewer, Village Springs. Ala. "Could not bend over at all without the; most excruciating pains. I purchased a bottle of Foley Kidney Pils Was relieved after first few doses arid continued their use until com pletely cured. I consideri Foley Kidney Pills-he best kidney! rem edy in the world. No recurrence of my trouble;." Sold everywhere. May Today Usher in a Year of Joy and Happiness for You and Yours SALEM WOOLEN MILLS STORE May the New' Year bring you realization of your I fondest desires. . -" : 1 - ' f - 1 - 1 A . . 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