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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1924)
section Irwp PAGES 1 TO 8 SOCIETY 'CHURGHES m 1 AUTOMOBILE U RADIO, H SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6,-1924 PRICE FIVE CENTS BMmmmt 1, I i -t l . ; - t . i' -"V Woodburn ! Located Community Declared in Heart of Richly Developed Willamette Valley ,f ' (Woodburn Independent) 1 . . The Willamette valley, between the Coast and the Cascade moun tain ranges, ia 130 miles longhand 6o nijes wide. It Is so protected that it climate Is the finest in the - world, " never going to extremes, seldom being over -90 degrees In summer and - under 20 ' 4 degrees abore in the winter time. Elec tric storms are rare visitors and blizzards, cyclones and tornadoes are unknown. , Precipitency is in the winter and spring. The sum mer with cool nights are pleasant and the falls are grand. Occa- slonally In winter there is a slight snowfall. ' Most of the winters prosperous farmers, many of them on paved highways and with mod ern homes. The soils are classed under the general heads of the feothills and bottom lands and the fertility I is renowned. Grains, grasses, bops, large fruits, berries, nuts,; vegetables and! tobacco are grown. There has never been, a total crop failure. Other products are wool, mohair, butter, eggs, fine cattle, sheep, hogs and poul try are extensively raised. The timber is mostly fir, oak and ash and saw mills are kept busy. In Woodburn there are several industries flouring mill; two canneries, three nurseries, one of this city, which will probably be realized in 1924. The Willamette Valley Canneries had a long run and the Graves Canning company has just closed after being oper ated since last spring-. Both gave employment; to a large number, mostly women, and thousands are employed in the large fruit orch ards, berry yards and hopfields. In addition to the canneries the Woodburn Fruit Growers' Assoc iation during the p&Bt season handled 1,600,000 pounds of. ber ries for which the. growers receiv ed $71,132. This association pools its products yearly. It re ports that "tho acreage of canning PORTLAND there is no snow, no Ice. The pre vailing wind in winter comes from the south, in summer from the , north. ;. ;.v'.:'- -;,-V:-; -; Woodburn, a city oMOOO popu lation and with nearly, all streets paved, rests in the heart ot the .most- famous section of the Wil lamette valley, in a , rich . belt 23 miles from north to south and 18 miles from east to west. It is 3f miles from Portland, the me tropolis of the state,"and 18 miles from Salem,- the state capital and county seat of this, Marlon county. It, la n the main line of the Sou thern Pacific railroad: and is the junction with the; branch extend ing to Mt. Angel,. Bll vert on and Springfield. A spur of 2 miles ' .ui.uic has iu terminus at Wood bum. ' ' !. This, section. Is : peopled ,. with the largest In the state, ax-handle factory, machine shop, cabinet shop,; planing mill, box factory, loganberry juice plant, seed-cleaning Industries, 'furniture factory- and a demand for many others. One Of the big assets is a $75,000 onion high school property with a high school whose curriculum in cludes teachers training, agricul ture, manual training, all high school branches, with a large corps of teachers. Besides this the two grade schools - and St. Benedictine private school. Woodburn is the ''World's Berry Center, the choice berries being canned and sent to all parts of the United States and to some of the European countries. The market trawberries, raspberries, goose berries and cultivated blackberries has been increased 110 over the Lacreage of last year; which will, it is estimated, increase the tonnage of berries next year to 2,100,000 pounds. The association now has under contract.5 30 acres of berries all grown tributary to Woodburn by 105 growers." The loganberry Industry has been an important one also In this section. This as sociation, the canneries and priv ate buyers take care of the berry yield. There are many indepen dent growers. ' " Woodburn has a beautiful Ma sonic temple, armory, city hall, Carnegie public library. Free Me thodist, Episcopal, Catholic, Pres ort aihaw-iT at bom, Caaeea tot lent berries and other fruit are produced here to warrant the in stallment of another cannery in i I PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY t ueta BERBER: PIPE qr PIPELESS, FURNACE i At Factory Prices. V ;1 m tin i-fc i ft it 1:' I v PERFECT CONTROL Made in Salem F.H.BERGER Manufacturer 803 N. Liberty Street i Phone 1048-M -H! ' God and Christian1 Science church structures" with about three other denominations represented, a how itzer company and many civic ord ers including four Masonic, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen. Catholic ' For esters, Wr C. O. F. Artisans, Re bekah and others, also a G.; A. R. post, Woman's Relief Corps and Woman's Club. There is a live city council, a very active com munity club, water works, electric and telephone systems, two sound banks with large deposits, express office and a post office having three rural routes. The muni cipality is now entitled to free city delivery. There is a well equipped fire department. With this skimming of the sur face the Eastern reader can glean a faint idea of Woodburn, the country tributary to this city, the' resources and the opportunities. Land values have not lowered and good tracts can be obtained at $100, an acre and up, depending upon the Improvements. "In the city most business lines are repre sented. ' To properly and compre hensively touch on this" city and delightful section would consume much more than the full space of this paper. People are never bo happy as when giving out information thatV why there is so ruuchinfor mation. ' Eleric ft-' Will Furnish Just That Extra Heat Neede4 For ..This Cold Weather eater No Trouble No Bother: No Dirt SfE THEM TODAY A FLEENER ELECTRIC CQMPAY 47! Court Street Phone 980, COMPARATIVE 52 WEEKS JN WEST COAST LUMBER West Coast Lumbermen's Association weekly reports on produc tion, orders and shipments, for the past tour years, are as follows: 1923 1922 1921 1920 Production Lumber-Feetf 5,254,884.617 4,387.742,637 2.788,953,643 3.84,022,479 Shipments Lumber-Feet 5,351,425,647 4.09M93.S77 2,826,270,465 3,368,183,538 ' Orders Lumber-Feet 5,265,913,008 4,197,604,944 2,912,938,330 2,925.788,191 From the above it will be observed: 1. Production tor 1923 was 19-76 Per cent greater than, for the year 1922; 88.42 per cent greater than In 1931; and 37.42 per cent greater than for the year 1920. , 2. Orders for 1923 were 25.45 per cent greater than for the year 1922; 80.78 per cent greater than in 1921;and 79.98 per cent greater than for the year 1920. . ; 3. Shipments for 1923 were 30.63 per cent greater than for the ar 1922; 89.35 per cent greater than in 1921 ;l and 58.88 per ceut greater than for the year 1920. COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND DIAGNOSIS OF BUSINESS The new year opens with the public mind rather generally con vinced that a season of fair pros perity is in store for the Ameri can people. The psychological -effect of such a sentiment is very great and has been based in part on the known strength of the bank position, continued employ ment of the wage earning classes, the high purchasing power reflect ed in a healthy holiday trade and improvement in the farmer's posi tion, the fine showing made by the railroads, and the satisfactory business done by some of the basic Industries. The larger bookings of steel with the numerous in quiries for cars and various rail road supplies, together with .the Increased demand for structural shapes, have made tor better feel ing throughout the middle west Prevailing trade conditions show that buyers are still operating con servatively and ! have no intention of over-doing things, or assuming more than reasonable business risks. High temperatures last month were reflected In a some what reduced demand for winter merchandise. On the other hand, weather conditions in December were ideal for the quick distribu tion of freight and made it possi ble for the railroads to give ship pers as good service as they ever enjoyed In the winter season. The high price of cotton and taed egport dcmradrfor'ttar staple have much to do with the recent showing of our export trade. - Merchandise exports in November of $404,000,000 were the largest in value of any month since. February, 1921, exceeding imports by $240,680,000. This export excess, however, was more than offset by the net inflow of foreign gold in the same period of $?6J2,206,000. In other words, the net' inflow was actually $21, 258,000 more than sufficient to liquidate the balance due us on foreign trade account during the eleven months ending November 30th last. The figures for the corresponding months of the pre vious year, 1922, made a veryy dif ferent showing, with a favorable trade balance on merchandise ac count of $668,491,000 and a net inflow of foreign gold of $214. 564,000. This gave the United States a favorable trade talance (after allowing for the inflow of foreign gold) for the same period in 1922. or $453,927,000. There are, of course, the "invisible ex ports" to he reckoned with, but the figures cited make an interest ing comparison and reflect the rather remarkable changes, that have taken place in our foreign trade situation within a year. Had not Europe made : Immense pur chases of our cotton at greatly in creased prices, the showing would have been much less favorable. The sensational rise In the price of cotton has n been, therefore, a large factor making for prosperi ty not only in the south, but in a measure throughout, the nation. On the basis of December 1 prices, the present cotton crop was esti mated to be worth about $1,500, 000i Thjs would' make it the fourth most valuable cotton crop ever raised in the United States. The farmers are' making a much better showing and according to the department of agriculture esti mates, farm income for 1923 will exceed that of 1922 by about $125,000,000. The recent esti mate given out by the Interna tional Institute, pf Agriculture at Rome shows that the Increase in the world's output of wheat this year, excluding Russia, was 335, 000,000 bushels, or nearly 10 per cent greater than the year before. This is a sufficient explanation of the December loss in the price of American wheat (as compared with the previous year) of 22 cents a bushel, despite the fact that this country's crop was more than 81,000,000 bushels under that of the year before. Some farmers, of course, will take heavy losses in the area where wheat was the only crop raised and where that crop failed utterly. But the enormouB sales made by the mail-order houses during the past months, showing large gains over the same time last year, provide the best kind of evidence that, the farming communities are pretty 7 wen HUiipniitr w IIS ending uiuii and that they are maikng large purchases again. It is to be hoped that this prosperity will continue, for it is essential that the farmers shoqld be prosperous in order to generate prosperity throughput the country. There is reason to believe that this im provement will continue as the de partment .of agriculture values this year's crops, on the basis of December 1 prices, at ' a figure $872,000,000 greater than the year before, notwithstanding a de cline in the wheat crop's "value of $117,000,000. "A strong effort is being made to lower the coit of government which tor federal, state and muni cipal governments within the past few- years has risen at an unprece dented rate; A' recent calculation by government experts shows' that the total cost of government Is approaching $75 a year for each inhabitant. Official data collected by the census bureau and tile treasury department covering 24 states show that the average per capita cost of government for the states and the subdivisions amounted to $42.92 in 1922. Ac cording to the United States treasury . actual expenditures by the federal government for the fis cal year 1923 were at the rate of $30 per capita. These calcula tions show, therefore, that the people of these states had to pay a per capita cost of about $73 for being governed. All these costs have risen sharply since 192t the HOW UNCLE SAM'S DOLLARS WILL COME AND GO IN 1925 FISCAL YEAR. ' WASHINGTON j Each average dollar of the $3,693,762,078 es timated receipts for the 1925 fiscal year, it is expected, will come from the following sources in the proportions stated: ? . Cents. Internal revenue, including income txe . 1 73. Customs duties from imports .. - ....13.33 Miscellaneous sources, including interest and discount, ialo of ' government property, public domsin. receipts, fees, fines pen - alties and forfeitures, gift and contributions of investments, District of Columbia rceipts and trust fund receipts . .'.......13.81 Total - - 400.00 The estimated.expenditures of $3,298,080,444 , would" be divided in the following proportion for each average dollar: ..... . , - . -, - , . . - . . :- .. . .. ; Cents.' ' General functions of government, inlcudlng legislative, executive 1 judicial and fenenii administration ... .w 3.2S ' Military functions .:....:......-....... I :.-3e.M . These include:, ' " General defease. incUidin armv and navy... 1- 16.64 : Military pensions, retirement nnities, ..World-. 'war ailowanctt and life -insurance claims r. .,.r19;90 Civil functions .'. . -t --'f Tbese Include: '" Merchant marine ; ........ l-- Public 'vorki. including rirera nd kartors 5.05 Other civil fuBrtlona' '.. .-.... . 6.0U . ?oBfuhrtionat operations . These include : . i " 3,-39 .Ll 41.61 Hrfunds aad drawbacks ....... Fixed debt rharses .-. I nestt tncluqe: Public debt requirements frm ordinary rwipta..14.63 Interest foa tbe publir debt .I. 2J UtvbarseneBt of trust' funds . 8-47 Investments .JL.i..'..V...-..i- ; -18 average increase for the states mentioned being 132 per cent. The largest increase of all was 324 per cent by New Mexico and its subdivisions and the lowest 34 per cent by Missouri. Inasmuch as these heavy expenditures always have an indirect in flue tic ta in creasing the indebtedness of the states, the net result la a further increase in the volume of tax ex empt securities. Secretary Mellon has opposed an unnecessary in crease in these securities as there ere some $11,000,000,000 of tax exempt issues outstanding already and farther flotation would take more capital from productive en terprises which are taxable under the law. ' The nation is demanding a gen eral reduction in taxes and there is good reason to believe that Sec retary Mellon's . program in some form will be adopted. The pres sure for a lower charge upon earned incomes is very great, as is also the demand for the estab lishment of a government' board to hear tax appeals and so grant relief without recourse to expens ive legislation with its vexatious delays.. Higher taxation the world over is an Important factor in the high cost of living and the strain in this country and. elsewhere la so great as to give rise to an urg ent public appeal for whatever re lief cansafely be granted. Not for years has a move by a federal of ficial received such general public support as that accorded the tax reduction program of Secretary Mellon. While it is too early to forecast the final action by' con gress, it is expected that the fed eral tax burden will be materially' reduced land a strong impetus thus given for greater -prosperity for the nation. Judge Knowles Will Ask for Supreme Court Nomination MEDFORD, Jan. 5. Judge and Mrs. Jobu W. Knowles -of La Grande, are spending a few days in southern Oregon, Judge Knowles is a candidate for the republican nomination for associate justice of the supreme court in place of Lawrencey P. JIarris, who recently resigned. Mr. Knowles has been judge of the tenth Judicial district com prising Union and Wallowa "coun ties. Continuously since 1907.; ,He was born in Clrclevillei Ohio, May IS, 1867. at an early age removed with his parents to southernKan-. sas, received his education in the public schools of Eldorado,- Kan., and at Baker university, a Metho dist college at Baldwin. " After he was admitted to the bar in 1888 he practiced law for -a' time with his brother, then removed to La Grande in 1891 where he has since resided. He was city attorney of La Grande for eight 'years and was deputy district . attorney V under John L. Rand, now associate jus tice of the Oregon supreme court. ' Judge Knowles lives on a farm in the Grande Ronde valley,, where he enjoys the outdoor life of which he has been an ardent advocate throughout his life. He is a sports man and haar contributed a' num ber of articles on the 'wold- life of Oregon to national sportsman's magazines.'' The judge is married and" has two children.;- : The judge was a boyhood friend of Mr.: and Mrs. S. Sumpter-Smtth in Eldorado, ' Kansas, and . has ' a number of 'bther 'friends living' in Medford, among them Bert Ander son.'' ' : : ! i it ,.t : . .! Come in Monday nd some real bargains in in this ad to be closed outSho4es f or the entire family at a big saving Rubber Boots . Men's, women's, boys and .children's nibbed booUaAU sizesT"BBan boot made intKe world. Every pair guaranteed to give twice the wear of any other boot. Get a pair and be convinced. $2.25, $4.00 $500to$7.00 Men's Work Shoes Big; line of work shoes, eith er black or brown; all sizes and all kinds; regularly sold at $8.00 to $10,00. To close out $4.95 Boys' Shoes Black Calf,, good heavy school shoes, regularly sold at $5.00. All sizes from 1 to 5. While they last go at $1.95 Men's High Tops and Loggers We want to close out every pair of men's heavy shoes. We have 200 pairs, all sizes, in both brown and black; all heights, of tops; regularly sold from 510.00 to $15.00. To close out , $5.95 to $8.95 L .J..1 , .J LacKS Shoes) ' 100 pairs ladies higK sHoei, less than $9.00; both "brown and black; some sold ashigh as $15.00. All go at $1,00 Girls' High Boots We hiaVe the best line of moccasin toe 16-inch boots on the market; well-made r good fitting. Good values at $ 1 0.00 to $12.00. While the last at $8.95 ! t : Ladies' Felt . Sipp erS ::'Mt: Regular $2.00 grades, all colors, all sizes, best comfort soles ; also ' all colors in satin, the same style. While they; last Satin $1.35. Others 95c Boys' High Top We have a full line of high top boots in all sizes for boys in both brown and bjcki yfe want to close outvey pair so will put them on salq at $3.95 and $4.95 DO YOUR FEET HURT? Corns and callouses re moved wfthout pain or sore aess. Ingrown nails removed and treated. Pains in the feet, weak-foot, flat-foot, foot strains and fallen arches adjusted. Do -not suffer. I will give you the best that science can produce in scien tific chiropody. Consult .. : DR. WILLIAMS About Your Feet Ilrs. 'to 6: 307! Phone 61 rMfjp CtxBwOd a. .326 etsa-HextttU!'lfJi REPAIR DEPARTMENT ! Our shop is-equipped with aU new machinery. We nse nothing but the very best grade of leather that money will boy. v V' -' J:2r:p Mr. Jackson,, in charge of this ; deparjmentj is an c? pert, in his, linerhas apent years in factories and repair shops and. will do nothing but high rgTt de work. Kwsara9tni