2 TOE OREGOU.grATBSMAN. SAI.Ea. BRECON I - - THURSDAY MORNING, JULY.26, 1923
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W. W. ROSEBRAUGH
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Foundry and Machine Shop
17th & Oak Sts., Salem, Or.
Phone 886
Wo Are Ont After
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Two Millions
ntc ivnr three
quarters of nullioa dollars a y e-.tr
to the dairjiufn f this section
for milk. i
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"Marion Butter"
It tho Best Batter
More Cows and Bettor Cows Is
tho crying need
MARION CREAMERY
& PRODUCE CO.
Kalem, Ore. - Phone 2488
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DEHYDRATED and CANNED
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
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King's Food Products Company
i Salem Portland The DaUes V S
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Gideon Stolz Co.
j Manufacturers of
; . ' I Dependable i Brand '
" lime-Sulphur 1 Solution
The brand" you can .depend;
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Prices upon application .
Factory near corner of
r '. Summer and MM St. j
" I Salem, Oregon
WillametteValleyPrane
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Tie oldest Asaoclatlon la
the Nortaweat. .
W.T.JENK3
Secretary and Mvt&r
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Aalcot, Oregon '
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Celling Salem District is a
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY IS A GREAT
ISTITUT1. AND AMBITIOUS STILL
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An Article That Might Be Called an Appreciation, Which
Gives a Fleeting Glimpse of the Past That Is History
and a Prophecy of the Accomplishments that Loom
in the Years to Come The New Gymnasium
By C1LS. J. LISLE
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Willamette university, the old
est institution of collegiate grade
west of the Missouri river, la to
day one of the most highly honor
ed schools ofthe entire west. Its
thousands or graduates and part
time students, dotted all the way
around t,he 25,000 miles of the
earth's circumference, are standi
ing examples-' of what a colleg3
can do to build character and
ideal. S .
But it wasn't always , either
proud or prosperous. There wef i
rears many of them, too dur
ing its early history, when it was
O!
,UR diplomatic, po-
' lite services meet
with public approval.
The beautiful dignity
that characterizes the
accomplishment of
this organization is a
symbol of respectful
regard, j ' 1 ;
Webb & Clough Co.
FUNISRAIi- DIRECTORS
499 Court St j Salem. Thou 120
SCREEN DOORS
Wire Screen Screen Hard
ware, Screen Enamel and
paints will 1 brighten up and
preserve your old screens.
FalU City-Salem
Lumber Coi
349 So, 12th St.
Phone 813
A. B. Kelsajr, Mgr.
SALEM IRON WORKS
Established IS 60
Founders, Machinists
and Blacksmiths -
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Corner Front and Rtte St. -
Manufarturers of the Shind
pump for Irrigation, and other pur
poses. Corre8pntWna nolirited.
Irrigation information supplied.
Makers of S.leru Iron Works
lra; Saws, j
HOTEL
lOO rooms of Solid Comfort
A Home Away From
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Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages
and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its
Cities arid Towns!
This campaign of publicity for
possible by the advertisements
spirited business
present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and
yet greater progress as the ye,ars go by. 1
in
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orlthe raged edce of failure; an.i
was only about two short, lame
jumps ahead of the sheriff anl
the junk man. They'd have caught
it if- it had then seemed worth
while to close in on the "panting,
struggling little frontier school.
They used to pay "salaries'
that Would today look like the
year's bill for water, or cigars -and
Willamette doesn't smoke.
Some of the early profs received
no more than $250 a year; in
days when - gingham was worth
50 cents a yard, and a rifle to
hunt game for food cost from
$25 upwards. The Hawken rifles.
,the then standard muzzle-loading
hunters' arms; cost a standard
price of $25 apiece, besides the
year it took to po back to St.
Louis and get one. There! are
men and women still' living, who
have seen and possibly some
have hunted deer, on the old
Salem townsite, where tha
University now stands. A $250
professor, if 1 had a , good rifle
and had good enough eyes,' and
steady enough nerves to shoot,
might go to the back end ot the
campus tfnd pick up a good fat
deer that would help a lot. in feed
ing the family. J
Willamette has parted company
with same of its early pretenti
ous annexes, like the college of
fmedicine. A really excellent med
ical school, considering the coun
try, was maintained for many
years, here in Salem. But the
lack of adequate ho.spial and pop
ulation service for clinicaT; pur
poses, led ta the consolidation of
the Willamette medM-al de
partment with that of the j Uni
versity of Oregon and Us remov
al to Portland, i There are many
of the older physicians of the state
and of the whole northwest who
have their certificates from Wil
lamette and among them f are
some of the most successful pry
sicians of the country.
Tlie T.aw School s f
In law. Willamette has stood
especially high, for many years;
the legal department still ranks
with the very best. Because of
the unusual facilities of the state
law library and the state supreme
court, and the capital with Its
thousands of intimate legal pro
blems in every department of
state and civil life, the Willamette
law department has held its own
with the most pretentious rivals.
The extraordinary success of so
many or the Willamette legal
graduates, in judicial, civil and
political life was no mere chance;
it was builded into the very fibre
of the law school's traditions, and
success is the rule and not the
exception. For many years, Wil
lamette has been the most prolific
source for governors, legislators,
judges, and for counsellors in al
most every line of legal eminence.
Salem Carpet Cleaning
and Fluff Rug Works f
Rag and fluff rugs woven
any sizes without seams. New
mattresses made to order. Old
mattresses .remade. Feathers
renovated. : I buy all kinds of
old'iarpet for fluff rugs, j ;
Otto F. Zwiclcer.Prop.
Phone 1164
and Wilbur Streets "
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Pep and
menmen whose
An idea of how
from the architect's
Cirowing Neels Met
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. A decade ago, a big campaign
was put on for a permanent en
dowment fund for Willamette,
that should put the institution be
yond the need of humiliation or
financial danger. More than half
a million dollars was raised, and
wisely invested. But while the
dollars themselves remain, : their
comparative power has shrunk
disastrously; and the university
needed a lot of money, A cam
paign was launched a year ago,
for an added $1,000,000 In en
dowment, and $250,000 for equip
ment and a working fund. This
was raised, in cash and notes, and
is now to the credit of the school.
It would have looked like incred
ible opulence, only a few years
ago; today it is not nearly enough
Tor the plans that the university
would like to carry out.
Growing Attendance
The attendance Tias trebled "in
a little more than a decade. The
course of study, . the strength of
the departments, all phow today
the influence of this growing de
mand for a bigger program.' There
ia today no preparatory 'course,
as there used to be only a few
years ago; yet the attendance has
reached above 00 fori 1922-23.
The college of liberal j arts has
maintained its integrity as a clas
sical school in the face of the gen
eral demand for more1 and more
industrialism and specialization
and still its ranks are full al
rnost to suffocation. The world
apparently isn't all turning to
practicality, to the short-cuts to
commerce and manufacturing and
industry, when a college : of arts
continues to grow even faster
than the best of -the practical
schools! I
The Xew Gymnasium
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Beginning with 1 923," the Uni
versity is going into j a broader
field of physical education. When
the old gymnasium burnetl, there
was a two-year slump hat left
many a young man and young
woman without adequate physi
cal supervision. Some of them
can't ever make back the two pre-J
ciou years that they had no
stern insistence on the foundation
of health and better physical liv
ing. But starting in with the fall
of 1923,, the University promises
to devote itself whole-heartedly to
the task of building up the strong
bodies that capable minds should
have as their homes.; The new
gymnasium, now building, will be
one of the most complete physical
education plants in the north
west. It - will, have director's, for
both the men and the women, and
physical education of correctional
and developmental nature is to be
rigidly Insisted on for everybody.
Overstudy, under-nourishment,
careless, inefficient physical at
tention, are- to -Je held as moral
faults that must be corrected.
Many a student comes to Willam
ette burdened "w4th high moral re
solves, that make tha body seem
like a vulgar excrescence or ex
travagance that should be humil
iated or at least neglected. Ergo,
it' is neglected, and the studential
stoop and eyeglass and; aenemlc
look, is made 1 to do duty for
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The Surest Way to Get
Industries Is to Support
continuation of the Salem Slogan and M
Progress Campaign . . : '
community upbuilding
placed, on these j pages
untiring efforts
the new Willa1mette University
drawing. j ' v
abounding health and yells and
vitality. V (
The new ' gymnasium i system is
likely to open a new vista for Wil
lamette. With everybody trained
to do something athletic, or at
least developmental, the delighted
athletic managers count on find
ing' some splendid .new material
that didn't know itself, and that
once recognized will fill the team
ranks .with eager, anxious athle
tes who, want to prove their prow
ess in contest. A' physical renT
aissance is almost certain; and a
spiritual renaissance based on
better health and a more vivid vi
tality is almost inevitable. '
Willamette Students Excel
Willamette; students have made
good in mariy walks of life; but
especially in , teaching have they
been successful. There are many
school boards in the northwest
that will consider applicants from
no other institution, until the
Willamette list is exhausted; there
are a number such up in Wash
ington, as well as In Oregon. The
teaching instinct seems to be in
bred, in Willamette; it extend3
to the foreign mission fields as
well as to the ragged rural
schools and 'almost everywhere a
Willamette diploma is- a certifi
cate of good teaching training.
There Is a fine element of unsel
fish spirituality in ' the Willamette
traditions, 'that runs to service
and not to acquisition. '
Liookinj; for Bigger Things
It has been covertly and dis
creetly whispered that, once the
big endowment drive was put
over, there would be other friends
who would be ready to provide
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Other university necessities. One'Rah! 'Rah!
SALE
SCHOOL' SYSTEM,
Ivt HAS fl MOST SPLENDID PUBLIC
The Voters Have Shown Their Belief In Maintaining the
Best System IBy Giving Their Sanction to a $50,000
Bond Issue to Provide New Buildings and Equipment
to Keep Up With the Growth of Population
The school census of 1922-23
showe'd 4S25" children of school
age residing within the limits of
tha Salem school district. The
census for this year is expected
to show fully 300 om re; perhaps
even more than that, as the school
authorities anticipate a gain of
325 . in the school attendance
alone, not counting those that
are too young to actually attend
school, though of legal school cen
sus age, and those that are up
iiearly to 20 years of age and are
definitely out of air school influ
ence. , '
Xearly :?0,000 From Outside
The attendance in the schools
was 4265. for the public schools
alone, not counting the parochial
pupils or those in the state insti
tutions for the deaf. , blind, the
delinquent. Of those who at
tended the Salem schools. 350 live
outside the district, itj. districts
where there i is no high school.
has been made
by our public-
have builded our
Gymnasitrjn will look;
or ' two more new departmental
buildings; more particular de
partmental endowments- to pro
vide for deeper research; more"
elaborate equipment for special
work that may require apparatus
not now procurable -all these are
real needs that grow with every
semester's increased -enrollment.
Only a microscopic proportion of
money is spent for all education,
compared with what goes. for
amusement and luxuries. Maybe
some or the Willamette needs will
sink into the consciousness of
more of the university's friends
and well wishers, and they'll
change the proportion. There
are enough of these friendsl who,
by reversing - their expenditures
for one ' year, would make the
university independent for all the
ages. - With the whole state of
Oregon owing practically Its life
to the influences that were build
ing Willamette University back in
the '30's and 40's, such a reversal
wouldn't be other, than paying a
long neglected dett. 4
Meanwhile. Willamette is grow
irig every day; sometimes out of
elbows and with patched trousers
and ragged shoes or barefoot
with stone-bruises on it's heels
through exposure and adolescent
growth; but it is growing, and
it Is getting past its "ugly duck
ling" stage into the beauty of a
mature, helpful life. ; It has! al
ways been helpful-for that mat
ter; but sometimes help is the
more gracious because of coming
from well clothed, sweet scented
beauty, 'rather than from the
ragged urchin type such as Wil
lamette used to be.
Willamette, Willamette, 'Rah!
GROWING WITH CITY
and they come to Salem under the
provisions of the high school act
I hat requires the county to pay
theirltuition at some high school
since 'their own districts do not
provide high school' courses. Al
most'$30,000 was paid in to the
Salem "city schools, for these out
side pupils, last year. J i
Cheaper for Outokle
The a.verage cost of tuition per
pupil is assessed against thin
tund. and it is paid by a special
higTi school tax" in the districts
that do not bave high schools.
These outside districts are great
winners in a financial sense, how
ever, "for the buildings and their
depreciation and many of the oth
er fixed or overhead items, such
as Interest on school investment"?,
are,. not made 'apart of this
charge.
.The cost of this . Instruction Is
being steadilyi lowered in the Sa
lem schools. In 1920-21, the cost
More and Larger
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per pupil was $96.08; in 1921-22
it was $93.13; and last year it
was reduced to $90.18. Some ot
this reduction comes through ov
ercrowding, and the teaching of
larger classes without a corres
ponding increase In tho number
of teachers. This Is not regarded
as a gain in efficiency; though Jtf;
is urobable that the- same jreduc
tion will have to- continue at' least
this yeatvbecause-of even greater
crowding than ever beror.
. Ten School Buildings -
There are '10 school buildings
in the city system. Most of these
are old; the McKinley school, less
than 10 years old,' and. the high
school, are fairly new, while the
Richmond, Highland and Engle
wood buildings are; also in excel
lent condition. . The tiers are
wooden structures; the ' Washing
ton is almost 40 years bid,' though
still capacious and usable. No
building has been done since the
start of the. war, except the high
school addition now being con
structed. . .
KSOO.OOO for New Facilities
The cItyauthorl2ed a bond Is
sue of $500,000, last spring, this
to take care of the .estimated
needs, of the district Xor a num
ber of years to come. Plans were
submitted for a new Junior high
school building, to take the place
of the older Plaa at the Grant
location. The bids seemed so. ex
cessive for the - accommodations
provided, that the board rejected
all proposals, and will not build
there this ; year. - The ' necessity
for the new building still exists,
and grows daily; some plan will
need to be adopted : by ? another
season, -whatever -the cost
High School Annex -
The bright spot in the present
situation, bowever, is the progress
of the hew high school annex. It
will provide 14 new rooms,some
executive office . facilities, and a
splendid new ! gymnasium, 99x73
feet, all at a Post that Is -still a '
wonder to the board. The old
gymnasium, Iri the west annex to
the old main building, is being
cut up into six recitation rooms.
Three rooms in the old building
have been sacrificed, in part,1 by
shutting out their light for the
addition of the new annex, ' and
for - necessary communication
halls, but the net gain is to be 17
rooms, the executive facilitiesthe
twice-as-large gymnasium, all for
less than' $75,000. The gymnas
ium hall is to be" ready for use by
the opening of school, October 1:
the class rooms may be a few days
later, but1 the district will' have
the whole building, for .practical-!
ly the entire school year
Practical Courses Popular
Close to 200, students register
ed In the commercial department
tast year. This follows closely
the industrial habits developed In
the junior high "school course,
where the boys are taught prac
tical mechanics and the girls are
given domestic economy In its
various branches. The- call for
commercial courses has grown
steadily with the Junior high
school . industrial development
For the coming year, a considera
bly larger number of commercial
isms is expected. The school has
now 40 typwrlters, that are work
ed in relays from- daylight till
dark; several more are now be
ing purchased," to meet - the de
mands for this practical course.
140 Teachers
There are about 140 teachers
in the whole 6alem public school
system. It may not be especially
- BUILD YOUR HOMES
For Permanence, Comfort and Fire-Safety
"Just because Elijah went to heaven in a chariot of fire
Is no reason why you should build your house of match-wood
for your wife and children to sleep In not to mention yourself."
Use tested fire-safe materials.
We have an excellent line of samples of mantle brick and
mantle tile which we would be pleased to show you.
SALEM BRICK & TILE COMPANY
Manufacturers of Brick and Burned day Hollow Building Tile.
Balem, Oregon. (Near Fair Grounds.) Phone 917.
At all time to assist la
any posible way the devel
opment of the fruit and
oerry industries la thla valley.
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Pacldng
Co.
Trouble when Chiropractie win
Remove the Cause
tren
Your Health Begins Wlisn Yea
Phone 87
for" an appointment
Dr. SCOTT & SCOFIELD
T. B. a. Cklropnctora
Ray Laboratory 414 to 410 U. 8. Nafl Bk.
(. '.''" Bldg. .
Hours 10 to 12 ajn. and 2 to 0 pan.
a matter for community boast
but teachers generally, . and tb
very best or'theni, at that, prefer
to. come toSalem at lower pay
than Ii given by many' othr
schools, both larfie and smallTh
living -conditions In Salem. re-o
much more, attractive than Jn
many othe places, that thu'fe an
attractive goal for almost ? any
educator. The pay is really not
iceably less than in a number ot
other good high school towns, and
the general cost of education, per
pupil, is much lower than in the
average high school of the stats.
The high grade of ' professional
ability, however, gives . Salem a
toprank- standing in the schools
of the state; and in general, tea
school equipment is superior la
almost anything else in Oregon,
outside' of Portland .that is a lav
unto itself.
-Jiving. Helpful life i
Many visitors to Salem wonder
why the schools open so late la
the fall, October l, when most
schools, east and west, open early
In September. The fall fruit sea
son, that is .pretty well over by
the first of October, is the explan
ation. " There "are few children
past the ages of 1 0 orl 1 years that
do not have some definite part la
the fruit harvest.; It gives them
money for their school needs,' it
provides the homes with' fruit and
with , other necessities, ' and It
starts the habits of Industry
without which the , most flowery
education Is only a worthless gew
gaw;. Coupled up with the in
creaslngly valuable industrial pro. '
gram of the Junior high schools,
this urge to the children, to helj
live the helpful life is a wonder
fully helpful'start for any child.
When it is made unrespectable
to not work, the net gain to soci
ety Is beyond computation.
r They Deserve Thanks
The Salem school directors are,
volunteers; they draw no pay for
all, their efforts. To carry on a
year's program of almost micro
scopic, school detail, to handla
funds aggregating a third of a
million dollars every year, to meet
every - two weeks in regular ses
sion ,t and almost every day in
some form of committee work., is
"some job." The board has, given
a vast amount of attention to thi?
public service, and the flatterinz
financial and educational results
are- an eloquent testimonial to
their fidelity to the public.
SALEM TEACHER
ENJOYS SUCCESS
Lena Belle Tarter Long As
sociated - With Musical
Events of Capital City
Wherever educational Institutes
are found, wherever culture in
thought is centered, always will
one find there music,, musical cir
cles and music teachers, for all
of the finer human emotions ex
press themselves in music.
Salem has many followers ' of
music, many lovers of" music, and
many are 'engaged In the art of
teaching, ' and among those who
are engaged perhaps none are bet
ter known than Lena Belle Tar-
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