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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1922)
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1922 : lion Bargains E?ery Day :;--;Vv2-At : The New Store Worth & Gray DEPARTMENT STORE . Successors to W. W. Moor gr aid pr iU SOUND TIRES , Dedicated to Stimulating Our Present Industries And to the Establishment of New Ones SOUND ALL AROUND The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Indus tries Is to Support Those You Have VICK BROS. Trade and High 177 N. Liberty St. Salem. Or. THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON Eat a plate a day WEATHERLY ICE CREAM " - Sold ercrywhere BUTTERCUP ICE CREAM CO. P. M. Gregory, Mgr. 240 South Commercial Street Salem This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men-men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. way tofta Wit iMSMd Tmblt vka Okirpraetl Will Bmwt the Omm Your Health Begins When Yon Phone 87 for an appointment DR. O. L. SCOTT P. S. C. Chiropractor ay laboratory 411 U tit V. . Val'l Ik. BMf. Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. DRY GOODS NOTIONS WOMEN'S READY-TO-WEAR ; FURS CORSETS 46S State St. rhooe 877 THE IM n III WEST SALEM IS GROWING ID BOUND TO GROW TO FULL STATURE OF ft GREAT BIG CONCERN An Enterprise That Will Spread the Name of Salem Far and Wide More Orders Are Now Being Turned Down Than Are Being Filled, and the Cry Is Ever for More of the Products of the Concern Which Has Al ready Assumed Proportions That Bespeak a Great and Prosperous Future. One looks at broom bandies, mop bandies, paper plugs, spools, towel racks and a hundred other little wood utilities as something grown-up men. They look so cheap, so unimportant, that it's easy to put them out of the mind as foundations for really great too small to be a real business for ' mnufacturing establishments. Eyes Tested Glasses Fitted XMa scemrsuly AnpUesUd. Op Ucai ip&ixa ewfUy a4 promptly Hartman Bros. Jewelers and Opticians V r Salem, Oregon Save Your Clothes Sav Work Wm ":VT asvlagvywu? U : , Ax7 wark Aom 7 tta Salem Laundry . Company 136 Liberty St Phone 25 OWPCO. Broom Handles, Mop Han dles, Paper Pings, Tent Tocsles, all kinds of Hard wood Handles Manufac . tared. by the Oregon Wood Products Co. , West Salem ; Capital City Laundry Quality and Service Phone 1(5 Monuments and Tombstones - Made In Salem Tata Is tkt aly waaaarat works Big Stock on Display Capital Monumental Works SZ1V I. Cwl OpiMU Ctaaatwr , ;. . HUM 6B . Made In Salem by experienced Swiss Cheese 'v maker ' 1 Swiss Cheese 1 "Cream Brick Cheese Limbcrger Cheese Order, from the factory or from your grocer t Salem Cheese Factory .-..-..rhoii'-iirii.-"o.v,-r On pared reform scwoi iW an o.i KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY Dehydrators and Canners 1 Oregon Fruits and Vegetables Salem ' Portland The Dalles Oregon Wiring Fixtures Mazdas Electrical Appliances Salem Electric Company "It W electric, come to ns.M Masonic Temple, rbone 1200 MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Land FIRE INSURANCE on Your Buildings REAL ESTATE L. A. HAYFORD 305 State St. SALEM, OREGON Our efforts will be to assist in every possible way the development of the fruit and berry industries of this valley OREGON PACKING COMPANY A Licensed Lady Embalmer to care for women and 'children Is a necessity in all funeral homes. We are the only ones furnishing - such service. Terwilliger Funeral Home 770 Cheraeketa St. Thone 724 SALEM. OREGON Balers i! We carry the following lines of PAI.VTS, Sherwln Williams Co. and Bass Ilueter Co. Also Everything In Building Material " Falls City-SalemLumber Company A. D. Kelsay, Mgr. 349 S. 12th St. Phone 813 W An Out AfUr Tw MUUoas w" pytr - tbrr. asrtra .1 a inillma dollar a yr tat dairrnta of Uia avrtioa lor silk. - "Marion Batter9.': It tat Bt Batur Mor rmwt a4 miliar evwt ia tba - , ' , '-' rrriic ana . . MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO Salem. Ore, Ti6ne 24SS DIXIE BREAD Ask Your Oocer SALEM BAKING CO. G. SATTERLEE AUCTIONEER Thones: Residence, 1211 Office, 1177 SALEM OREGON And yet. Salem is In a way to see an enterprise that will spread the nam- of Salem farther than any othar product ever grown yr handled here; even farther than the loganberry juice, the prune, the Hartlett pear, the fairy rose, the fame of her civic center built up of the littlest sticks of wood. Ove.- in West Salem a little wood-working shop was launched that foresaw some of the future of the little thinss in wood man ufacture. It put in a lot of the cleverest automatic machinery, to make broom handles and all that little stuff that "big" manufac turers pass by with a sneer. The corporate name is The Ore Ron Wood Producta company, with H. E. Barrett as manager. It really built up a good busi ness; for broom handles must be had by the millions, and just be- I cause they look so small, and so easy, not very many make them. The factory shipped several car loads of their Oregon-grown broom handles to the far east, and began to spend in ant'eipation the revenues that looked so al luring. They made one little mistake they didn't follow the cars with a gun and a. process of law. The goods were delivered, and then somebody failed to pay. The lit tle company hadn't the capital to either fight it out for the own ership, or to make good the loss. So the factory shut its doors, an.1 hop flapped out of the broken window like a wounded nove of i peace after the Versailles confer ence. F?ut the mach'nery was there. nnd the wood growing on the Or egon hills; and the mails still run ning from all over the east to bring pleadings and threats and coaxings for more of those won derful broom handles. On n Sound llasis So the company was reorgan ized on a sound, cash basis. I was re-capitalized with enouch money to pay Its bills, to care for its pay and material rolls until the sales money could come in a geji'imo business manager was installed, a banker who knows credits as a mother knows her offspring. The factory was re arranged irslde. so that it could e operated more economically; tha range of products was exten ded so that there should be prac tically no waste save8 the shav ings; and then things began to happen to the business. Turning lou-n Orders Just now. the company is pa'n fully turning down or failing to act on more business than it can no. though It is running to the factory capacity, it has been in nominal existence for six months Jince th? reorganization; but half of that time was spent tn reor eanlzation and repairs and get ting the business fairly started, so that it has really operated on a nusiness basis for only three months. Surressful Operations' In that three months, it has m.ide a profit of T per cent on its otal capitalization of $16.00ft: al the rate of 20 p?r cent a vear This wouldn't be a matter for the nublic to knrcv. were it not fot he fart that it i - so largely a co operative company. Some of the mploye own stock, and the com pany was started with H12 expres: dea of keeping it a cooperative work, with every worker ownln enough to give him a dcf.nite part tn its control and welfare. When a man can invest a part of hi? wages and draw a 20 per cent div- 'dened every year, bo's uetting a ong ways from the Molslnvist class. But the profits are goiai; to the men who do the work! Working up Wastr i . . . . me material mat is worked up into commercial products. i- largely the waste slabs and mill wood from the sawmills. Most ol It cornea as cord wood, in 4-foot sticks. The slabs are sorted, the knotty and "impossible" ones be ing thrown out at th door, to b resold for wood. Those that look clear, go on through the lesaws. First they are cut into slabs, an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half thick; these then are re sawed into squares, of like diam eter. The one-inch squares make mop handles; the larger, better sticks go for the various sizes and qualities of brooms. Process of Manufacturing From the last resaw, the stick CO to the automatic turning lathe, a tubular affair where the stick: are fed by a force roller feed, through the revolving knives lhat turn them round. The lathealso gives the handles ' the swell to? and the tapering bottom of the comfortable broom handle. They run through this machine at the rate of about 15 a minute. Next, they go to the boring and chucking machine, that bores thf hole for the anchor and wrapping wire in the base of the broom, and rounds off the head of the han dle. This is done at the rate of 25 a minute; the handles are fed down into a hopper, and are tak en from there by two notched wheels that hold only one handle to the set of notches. The recip rocating motions of the parts of the machine that do this borin? and chucking, are simple but wonderfully effective. The han dles drop down into a trough, aft er finishing. wher9 an endless belt shoots them like arrows into a wagon crate ready to go to the dry kilns. They. are left in the steam dry kiln for 48 hours, by which time the wood is well seasoned. Then they come back to the sander. whero they are polished on end less belts of sand-paper, or rather) ax handles, peavey handles, rake and hoe handles, "and a full line of such goods; it is practically ready to set up and run. though there isn't yet enough storage room to handle all the material and ma chinery that the business de mands. Oregon Oak. Valuable The Oregon oak is recognized as one of the best handle woods in America, or in the world. It is heavy, and not so elastic as white, second-growth hickory. But it is wonderfully strong, and it does not warp as does the hick ory, which may crawl around the farm like a canful of angle worms. For axe handles and p ek and mattock and sledge handles, it is almost an ideal wood; and the supply is practically unl'mited. Hoe and rake handles will be made of ash, which can be secur ed in vast quantities; and the de mand is far beyond the capacity of the Salem plant, or a half a dozen plants of like s ze. Peavey handles are made of Oregon ma ple. On a Ijarger Scale This hardwood business prom ises to make the Salenrproducts even more famous than the brooms; especially because it looks like a bigger thing finan cially. The company has been looking towards this end. from the first, but has been content to go slow enough to feel its way into prosperity. Now that the demand for Oregon products has proven so heavy, and the products them selves are forcing repeat orders wherever they go, the company feels warranted in going ahead on a much more elaborate scale. There are now nine individual OREGON AemcuiL COLLEGE TO S TMN BEEKEEPING Quite a Little Extension Work Has Been Done and Still More Is Contemplated Among the Beekeepers of L Oregon Meeting at Portland Tomorrow and Saturday. sand-cloth, that takes off the I 'Jlir,c motors at worn in me tnminr nuric cmnni lies them factory, to drive the various ma- ud almost like glass. Sometimes Editor Statesman: My attention has recently been called to an editorial appearing in The Statesman under the date of December 24th, entitled. "Or egon Should Have a Bee School." Inasmuch as our department of entomology is now conducting: here at the college a four weeks short course in beekeeping, which was widely advertised among the growers of the state, it occurred to me that it would be of interest to you to know that we are in a measure already fulfilling your suggestion. Quite a little extension work has also been done and still more is contemplated among the bee- a lecture on "Colony Organisa tion, Swarming and Increase" Sat urday evening at 7:30. The subjects of "Spring Man agement." "Extracted Honey Pro duction" and "Disease Control" will be taken up at the afternoon sessions. Leaders in these de partments will be announced lat er. A full line of equipment will be on display, together with up to date methods of assembling aame. This should be of special interest to the small beekeeper. People in surrounding cities and country are especially invited to attend, as these meetings will be open to all who are Interested keepers. For example, during the .in beekeeping, and are the begin for the BETTER YET BREAD It Satisfies Made By MI5TLAND BAKERY 12th and Chcmeketa Order from your grocer Seamless Hot Water Bottles and Combination Syringes Guaranteed Not To Leak Prices from $1 op Brewer Drug Co. 406 Court SL Phone' 184 I MBM,saieBamMeMaMasssaeaMaaBJ v . - , WsiHa M imammml they are double-sanded, finest grado handles. Th? Finishing Touches After sandinc. th3.v may be im mediately bundled for shipment, to the broom-makers who want to do their own finishing, or they may be stained and varnished be fore shipment. The better han dles are given two or sometimes even three baths in the stain, and come out as bright as a limousine. Iiefora this last process, however they are carefully inspected, and all the off-grade handles are re jected. The handles are shipped in bundles of r0 each, about 60. ,'uft handles making a car load. The same general process is fol lowed for mop handles, except that they are smaller in diameter, anr: less carefully finished. They are not stained, at least to the samt careful limit. Imk for Rejected Handle; The rejected handles find many uses. They are cut down just like father's coat Is cut down and hmded on, first to bih' brother, then to little broiher. and finallv the baby gets the remnants as a rut; to play on. The handles vitii A , a minor aei'-ci near one euu. m: made into garden stakes. 36 in- cl.e.s long. After that. Plumterb Friends and other industrial de mands use up sticks two feet or thereabouts in length. Tent tog g!s that are made by th- million, from used pieces already turrr I. and not long eiiou;, 1 for the othf i uses: these are bored in gangs. aawd. and polished in a "rattle box" which is a revolving hollow c Under that tumbles and abrades them to smoothness. By the time these 6-inch toggles are cut. there isn't anything left but the saw dust. Paper plugs, for roll paper, are made by the hundreds of thous ands. Orchard marking stakes, three-quarters of an inch square, and three feet long, are made by I sawing up some of the rejects be fore the first turning operation: hese are put out by the tens of thousands, to use in marKing oir orchards, berry fields, and gar dens. Prospective llije Business The marnitude of the business will surprfse most mn who look over the figures. One company wants a carload every week, of i part'cular. high grade mop han dles. Orders from one to ten carloads at a t1m. of broom handles and oth'-r things that the factory is producing come in on al most every mail The cojrfpany really isn't able to .handle one- half of the business that comes to t.- A factory extension is imner- tive. as soon as it ran be made. Demand for Hardwood Up o th:s time, no hardwood work has been attempted: lut the demand lor Oregon hardwood products has made necessary the earlv exnnns'na of th plnt. If Is probable that by the first of March, some hardwood stuff w'H be In process of manufacture. The -equipment already comprises sev eral automatic lathes for making chines. It is proposed to install one central steam plant, to have more steam for the dry kiln, and to utilize all the factory waste for steam and power. Now. the ac cumulation of saw dust and waste and trimmings is a burden rather than an asset. A big steam plant would reduce the cost of handling the refuse, enough to make it a good investment. The machines would be relocated, so that one long line shaft, set under the floor as is the best modern shop practice, could drive them all. Conveyors, either belt or suction, would carry away all the sawdust, and feed it to the boilers and Rt rid of it at a profit every minute. A Xew Dry Kiln A new dry kiln is already being built, of more than double the ca pacity of the old plant. A large warehouse, to store the product after it has been kiln dried, is al so in immediate contemplation. The company has fine trackage on the,rai!road. though the siding ;t selt has not yet been laid; the excavation is made, ready for lay ing the rails. This will give far easier handling of raw materials in carload lots, and for th sh'p ment of the finished products without rehandling from the new warenouse. The company has been getting its slab material from the Falls City mills, though some has also had to be shipped in from Mill City and Silverton. Several m'lls. have made flattering inducements to the company to take over their timber holdings and mills, in ex change for company stock. This plan, however, has not yet been adopted. Some fixed policy may have to be adopted to cut thefr own hardwoods, which will have to be a special business- apart from the soft-wood specialties; a hard wood mill in the field may be a possibility. The company has consistently followed the policy of letting the business itself indicate its own de- ..ui.meni: ,t hadn't decide! in advance that it will make things l rst and then make the market like them but rather it has tried to find just what the market de mands, a careful study of the markets under the new m-.a ment. has given the com nr a vast fund of priceless Information jnat makes its operations exact knowledge instead of erratic Plunging. Requests and even de mands have come jn for blocks of the stork to make the comnany stronger for the new expansion: and the showing already made 'ustifies the srramWe for a chance to invest. As a loea insflution that is makfng good, it ought to on wens to death for invest- past year we held extension meet ings with bee keepers In the state as follows: Deschutes county, 3; Malheur county, 3; Umatilla county. 2; Morrow, 1; Clatsop, 2; Linn, 1; Washington. 1; Port land 1. During the state fair at Salem a continuous bee demon stration was in progress under our bee specialist, II. A. Scullen. In cooperation with the Beekeep ers association of the state of Washington, plans have been com pleted for four meetings in that state and four in this state, to be held as follows: Portland, June 24; Upper Willamette valley, June 27; Umatilla county, June 29; Malheur July 1. The beekeepers, at their recent state meeting held in Pendleton, passed a resolution calling upon the extension service to provide seasonal information on problems of production and marketing, and plans have been approved for sending periodic circulars pre pared by Professor Scullen to them. - While our bee industry has not advanced to the point that we can provide schools of such an exten sive character as those conducted in California, we are recognizing " needs and attempting to meet them as best ve can. Very truly JOlllS, PAUL V. MARIS, Director of Extension ning of a general educational course which is to be launched by the Multnomah association In an effort to promote better beekeep ing and a greater production of honey. GLAFKE COMPANY TO Salem Broccoli Association Decides in Favor of This Portland Firm The above communication, un der date of Corvallis, Feb. 14. is gladly printed. It is gratifying to know that the authorities at the Oregon Agricultural college are alive to the value of the beekeep ing Industry; especially as this industry is all important in the pollenizmg of the fruit blossom so much so that good authorities say that no branch of fruit grow ing should be without plenty of bees; a hive to five hives to the acre of fruit. It should be driven home con mauuy mat me early summer honey flow in the Salem district is the best in the world, outside of southern Oregon, and that it is very easy to provide plenty of late bee pasture with paying crops; and that when this is done this district will be one of the very best localities known for profitable beekeeping So beekeeping will provide the assurance of a double cropr i crop of fruit and a crop of honey It is easy to be seen that beekeep ing. carried on as it should be here will stabilize as nothing else popsioiy can the fruit industry; mat. in fact, millions of dollars annually will depend absolutely upon millions of. winged workers irom the busy hives. IWkeoping 0ur at Portland A two days' course in beekeep ing will be given under the aus nices of the Multnomah County L.eeKeepers association, tomorrow and Saturday. February 24 and n. in room 612, Oregon building. Fifth and Oak t-tret3. Portland. Members of the Mullnomah association wijl be in attendance from 9 o'clock a.m. to 9 o'clock ment. - p.m. each day, and all neonle in terested in beekeeping are invit- Passcnger Say Captain Is to attcnd these meetings, and there no hope no hone what-lhrinK lneir Jroub,c and q,uCs'ious ever? J for the "tinestion box." Captain of the sinking i.t Tne Proram at present is not lion" for the small producer. On Friday evening at 7:30. Profea- sor Scullen of Oregon Agrlcultur I assenger Just my luck! And I wouldn'e eat any cucumbers for dinner for fear I'd have indiges tion! Washington Post, The Salem Broccoli association held at the Salem Commercial club rooms on Saturday last a very important meeting in many ways. Real enthusiasm was shown . among the growers and others who want acreage for another year. While winter freezing haa been a discouraging reature, ev ery grower to a man is In favor of growing the crop another year. A great many inquiries came to President C. C. Russell as to the profit of the crop. Farmers who have grown ihe crop this year all state that there is much less work in a crop of broccoli than in mott any crop they can raise. Said Mr. Russell: "I feel safe in saying we have some growers in our association, who. with loai off. will get a profit or $300 or more per acre. "We also found through talks given by Mr. Griesel of the Olafke Commission company that the price of California broccoli that Is being shipped out of Coma. Cal., is $1.60 a crate, aga'nst 85 cents last year, and. as California can not compete with our broccoli as to quality, Oregon should sell at a good price this year. Crop to Im Pooled "Mr. Griesel and Mr. Colton. of the Olafke Commission company. Portland, gave us insld dnn on the selling end of th hn.inu. Much valuable Information was given by the two gentlemen. a tney have shipped cam the rat four years: CO cars were shinned last year by this comnany. 10 cars of which were shipped from Oswego. This firm comes under the best of references, having handled for such men an CM.. Kruse and Mr. Thomas of Oswego, with references from them Aftr a thorough talk with these gentle men ann many onestion anted there was a standing vote taken which was unanimous in favor t Glafke & Co. hand'ine th 192 crop for members of this assoc'a- eton. "Will say that the iron will h- pooled and thy will handl .ma S as well us large shipments, and a tar lots. They will put a man here to supervise loading and packing, and a rommlllo. rmdit. ng-of Mr. Russell. Mr r.nrtu Savage and Mr. Lynch were selerU d to enter into a contract with the Olafke company for I hr sea son s crop. Wh'ch'Will rr.mm.ne- coming about March 15. but no carloads will move sooner than "arch So. and noHSihtv AnHt1 A local association of antn own ers who have not hai ihi, al college, has consented to deliver I chines stolen,, fa proposed. 4. a.