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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1924)
'A:;. U,SUNDA&il0to 6.7 THEJ OREGON STATESMAN; SALEM, OREGON ' ; i . ; ' - .- KEEP- I ,4 1 - V v SMILING" f pSKIRES AND TUBES : Qiir stdck-df pty you vntti solid truck tires. Let us put SIiy tirtf dirt ouf &e HEAT. DOLLAR ONLY woimrrcErnAs;! COMPARED WITH 1913 WASHINGTON Pefi.! 2. A. suit clothes. coats 'the ' farmed ten are: btfshelg'of. wheat tOda than1 1 9 1 3, or 3 1 bushels as compared ,t h ,21, It is shown In the report bniltted to- President - Coolidge Fecretary of -AgrlcuUnrfti Heri- i C. Wallace. ' j ." A 4wigrt load which cost; '13 ishela tif wheat In 1913 jiow 1 t .. . -A J : " . . nil II ....... . '. 'j.' . . ' H T- An Appeal Based On. 1 i ( Announcement M&J&te Now Selling tIELLY-SPRINGFIELD oneutriatics is commete car today. . V. ' ' ' r ' AUTOMOBILE CO. 235 S! : Commercial St. :v would cost 166 bushels, and f he cost of soft coal has risen from 9 Uosbelr their -to ! ttttsftell'' riW, the report shows. j Although ' the average farm price of wheat of November 1 Was above the 1 909-13 average for November, It'ls equivalent to only about 60 cents per bushel in the pfe:war period, Secretary" Wallace Baid. The cost of nearly every thing the farmer buys is necessar ily very high because freight rates and' industrial wages, which enter not only into the. cost of manufac Sbtinc: & .... y , " ' weteUyou Sedan has ttvo-door friendliness with four-door faduiy pnlya fetibriof the story has been told aboutf this amazingly 4 popular model Never before has there been an enclosed car that combined so much, comfort an'd;:wie utility, with sound engineering a so lowt a :ffice. Gingrich Motor and J v , - - .. 1 - 1 r- ---- - . . . 2 H 1 1 -VT ' it : ana tfe can sut- a famous Kan't i Phone 362 turing but also the cost of trans portation, are far above their level Before the wr With' the Novem ber farm price of wheat only 107 per cent, of the pre-war average price, the wholesale price of all commodities which is generally taken as a measure of the price level was 153 per cent in October. ' On the basis of such a price le.v el the average farm price of wheat should. have been about SI. 35 a bushel for November to give wheat pre-war purchasing power st whole prices, the secretary adds. ire Go. J - hi .I,.- m.ai .nj v l -? - ' i m1." 1 . , i mi- hi "Tj '"''k-'!. ,' ;T. ilit j LITTLE STORIESOF f Last fall a family' moved from a central state to Salem as ia cuptomary with the best Tamilies lrom other states of the Union. Everything was lovely! Salem was so much more beautiful than any other place in which they had ever lived that it seemed that nothing but contentment could come to them'. Nevertheless, something else did come: Home sickness. A lifetime of habits of socialibility was fixed upon them. In the old home town they had had a part in the continuous round of social activities, and had never before realized how largely their happiness and contentment rested upon the pleasant informal ities of everyday life among peo ple whom they knew. The man quickly made acquaintances and prospective friendships in his bus iness intercourse with other men and at the Monday luncheons "of Salem's peerless Chamber of Com merce. The male creature quick ly fits himself to new environ ments. But the lady could have told a different story had she not been so firmly resolved to not tell it. She was bashful and sen sitive although she had never realized it- in - "the old home .town." She' was entranced 'with Salem, and knew that she would love it more than any other place she had ever seen if she did not die of lonesomeness too soon. She wanted to chatter with another woman, but no likely looking chattee came within her scope, and durfng the hours of the day when the children were at' school and the man was "up town," the quietness of the house seetiied u fa bearable and she would sometimes catch herself tip-toeing from room to room as though trying to escape from some pursuing hor 'ror. Sometimes she found her self involuntarily looking out of the window with' an unconscious feeling that some tremendous' cataclysm had suddenly rendered the earth inanimate and bleak, and could not have told whether she was shocked or relieved to see other people apparently cheerful and happy. A few times she nod ded in a friendly way from the front porch to women whom she had seen passing daily, and once or twice received a doubtful and almost imperceptible nod in re 'turn. Sometimes she had little fits of hysterics all by herself, and it became increasingly neces sary to itfroke severaT extra dibs of the powder puff especially around the' eyes, to cambuflage her facial ravages before the man came home to dinner. She' en viously watched neighbor women gossiping in their back-yards) and used to pretend to have errands to the garage or garbage can in her own back yard, hoping that "something" might happen; but nothing ever did. She and the man went to church regularly, but found that a hand-shake in the vestry did not mean a friend ship formed; and! a week between hand-shakes is a long time. The only people who seemed at all like old acquaintances were the actors at the movies, but they also were silent. The lady especially yearned toward a neighbor who lived just around the corner and whose back-yard was in close proximity to her own. This inn IB MEET W. F. Watson Will Leave This Week to Attend Convention W. F. Watson, local manager of the Western Auto Supply, will leave Friday morning, February 8, for Los Angeles to attend the annual convention of branch man agers and officials of that com pany. The convention will be held in the new three story main office building which was just (Complet ed in December. Approximately 90 managers are' expected to at tend this convention of which three are fromOregon and eleven from Washington. The company expects to open many new stores in the northwest this spring and summer and iave a- big expansion program which will be discussed during the convention. Mr. Watson reports that his company, in keeping , with Its us ual custom of saving money. for autoists and leading the field In such matters, has recently re duced practically their entire stock approximately 10 per cent The relative purchasing power of the wheat farmers' dollar today with the 1913 value figured at 100 per cent, as estimated by the de partment of agriculture, is 78 per cent in terms of all commodities 59 in terms of clothing, etc.. 71 in fuels, 84 fn metals; 56 in building materials and 67 in house furnish tag roods. The fact that the cotton farmer Is far more prosperous than the wheat farmer is indfeafed by the tact that the pufchaslng'.power of the former s dollar-hovers around 4 ycr vest. . v-- f--- neighbor, geemetf wholesome, bou yant and. unaffected, had a cheery voice for her "good mornirtgs" to"" the other neighbors, and gen erally lilted a subdued but rblicky song' during her brisk "chores" in her own back-yard,- "I'm sure she's, nice" thouKht" the lady, "and I'd love to talk with her," Desire inspired expediency, and one day the lady thought: VITow foolish I am. So many new peo ple are coming to- Salem- all the time, of course those who are al ready here can't Keep track of all of then and call on them, as we used id do back home. I'll just do the calling myself.' I won't really dress up. for" one can't be formal when begging for ac quaintance. I'll just slip on a nice street dress and : act a if I was going somewhere. And I'll ask her how'to get so some street, and that will give me: a chance to tell 'her that we are new people here, and where we live, and Q, I just know, it will -work." i And she did it. She tripped eagerly around the corner and rang the bell at the coveted house. She had seen her neighbor iii her back yard not five minutes before, but there was no response to her ring.. She rang, again and. could hear, (he bell in the house, but still no one respbnded. A terri ble thought came to her, but as It brought a hot flush to her, face she desperately pressed the but ton again. Still no response,, but she saw the curtains at a window sway .gently. As the tears of mortification and despair came she turned and ran down the steps. At the bottom she": half turned and shot a glance of re proach upward, and saw some thing she had not noticed before. On one of the steps was a neatly enameled small metal sign: "No Pedlers -or Agents." This story has no moral.1 A moral is -utilized" to embellish a theory, while Jhis story deals en tirely with a Condition. . A man and a woman were look ing -into a big display Window of a Salem department store; that is, the woman was intently looking at the display while the man champ ed the bit and marked time just behind her and mumblingly ac quiesced in her, spirited and de- iigntea comment on the display. The window contained three dis play figures, two ladies and a gent, and they were certainly "togged up" in nifty, styles. Sud denly the woman gave a subdued shriek and whirled and grabbed the man with both hands just like a squirrel about to climb a tree. One of the lady figures in the '"Window had suddenly turned its head and smiled at tier, and the "gent" figure had also turned its eyes upon- her with a" fishy stare! The man was much startled also. but he rwas the first to recover himself, and as they wfflfced away he was laughing at her and trying to pretend that he had known all the time that two of the figures in the window were the store's win dow dresser and his assistant, A lady on South Commercial street who is generally able to hold her own" quite well under any condition, admits that this week a common book agent "got her goat" for a few moments. In response to his ring she opened the door and gave him the severe look wfiich she reserves especially for agents. He was a sanctimonious lookipg chap, and he took off his hat and bowed gravely and asked, ina solemn voice: "Madam, have there been any burglaries or mur ders in this block during the past six months?" The lady experienc ed a thrill, but answered in a hushed voice that no such terrible things had happened. "Ah!" said the gentleman, as he pulled a note book from his pocket and consult-; ed it minutely, "and have any children been kidnapped during that space, of time?' "No-o-o," quavered the lady. "I am greatly relieved to hear it," said the gen tleman, "as rf eared from the atti tude of most of your neighbors that something of the kind must have happened and terrorized them. They seem to be afraid to come to the door when one'rings their bells. I congratulate you on not being so cowardly, and I am very glad to be able to show you in this 'book the names of Salem ladles of the best families who have already given me their orders for that wonderful and 'very neces sary volume; Home Training in Good Manners.' Your neighbors need this book more than you do, but, unfortunately for them, they have missed their opportunity to secure it. ,1 hope you ; will let them read tyour copy of it when we send it to you on our special terms of only $1 on delivery and 50 cents per month. Sign right here, Madam." And the lady ad mits that she did. In, his fliwer he was crossing Center street on North -Winter. As he neared the center of the street he glanced casually to the left and his casualness immediately deserted him! Within f20 feet, headed straight at him and com ing right along was, a .truck that looked about the size of the post office building. Frantically he stepped on the accelerator, ' and the little car jumped ahead ; and almost escaped; but not quite. The protruding hub cap of the truck struck the left rear" tire' and slewed the little car perilously,; and only instinctive excellence at the steer ing wheel prevented It from upset ting..; He. drove.it to the side of the stteeV andT stoppeflr drew' a long Jjrealh, took off fits hat and wiped hs browt while the track proceeded .unconcernedly .dowji Center street. The Outlander ap proached the man in the flivver and, asked if his car had sustain ed any damage. "O, no,'" he re plied, "1 guess. Lizzie is all right. The only damage 'is to my sense of justice and my love for my fel lowmen. 1 have lived in Salem over .a year now, but am still in danger of being run over. I have driven autos for many years, in many cities" and states, but some how can't get used .to the traffic customs in Salem- About the same thing S3 you saw just now has happened to me a half dozen times before in Salem. You see, all the traffic rules. 1 ever, saw in any state give the right of way to the car coming from the right. For years I have always looked to the right at crossings, so as to give the other fellow all he is entitled to, but I find that in.Salem I must watch the left also or I may get more than I aril entitled to myself. The fellows in the little cars are all right. There's no danger of being, run into by a Ford coming from the left, but gome of the fel lows who have bis powerful cars with heavy bumpers in front don't seem to have much consider ation for the meek and lowly. Some of them act as though they would really like to know just, how far a Ford will bounce if hit i"1 right. And some of these fellows who drive trucks say, they act as though they are the fire depart ment and it is Hp to everybody else to get off the street when they start. O, well, I am developing a wonderful set of involuntary re flex muscles and a universal joint in my neck, and before the coming summer is over I expect to be able to spin my head' clear around so as. to see in all directions at every crossing." I Dins MM Over 8,000 Cars Produced in United States in January, .1924 An increased production of more than 400 per cent over the first month of 1923 is reported for Jan uary by the Olds Motor Works at Lansing, Michigan. This phenom inal gain would have been even larger If manufacturing facilities had permitted, say factory offic ials. During the month just closed with the last three days estimated the production was slightly in excess of 8000 cars. During Jan uary, 1923, before tne iBtrodtfctln of the new six cylinder Oldsmobile, the production was 1804. "So farT8ince the introduction of the new six our production has Guaranteed Our Values are Real Bargains We sold USED) i Terms: Small payment down, balance on monthly; installments VALLEY - ' , Salem- Ore. ! , . ; FordFords onLincoln 260 Kdrtrt'Higrf. t ,A J , 4 itoUkept pare-wjth current nale." declared Guy If. Peasley, sales manager of the. company. ;The teftult is that-none of our dealers so far. has been able to stock, up with cars to meet the sprins de mand. "Every day during January by telegrams, long distance telephone calls, and personal visits dealers hSVe been bombarding the factory for cars. Each day we are in creasing'our productTonand hope during February to be able to Rhip dealers enough cars to build a reserve for the early spring rush. By the way in which the factory department managers are cooper ating, we are confident that .. out output will at 'least equal the de mand within a short, time and will be sufficiently 'large to properly care for the' spring and early siftn mer trade." , The January production was equally divided between closd and open cars. Sedans and sport tour ings led their respective classes in dtemand. From present indications the output .of closed cars during 1924 will exceed that of the open models. Owing to the overwhelming de mand, the factory isconfining it r.elf exclusively to the six stand ard body types." ' For that reason it did not follow the umral prac tice of exhibiting special models si the national automobile shows this year. '. . jg . Correct this sentence: "I often Kit near people who read sub-titles aloud," said he, "but I havO never wished to slay a fellow mor tal." - . Do USER We want to talk with the man who 'thinks' he 'cannot afford to own a car. Our used car 'bargain .will make him feel like a millionaire. Let usprove it to you.' Certified PuHli Motor Car Ivfer!l:ei i, Block N. of Court House on Church St. -PHONE 88S Jr'tee Ag&roiQtilQ Before you buy a used car let us tell you what its worth . on the Market. " - 30 Reconditioned Cars Act Now Before the Best Ones are Gone CARS FO RD 565 Used Fords During All Models in StocK I h nl' lift : Hii i 'JlMti' rll 1 il 1' n Priced $65.00 and Authorized Ford- Dealer , Home of Satisfied Customers MOTOR REPORTED BY ItOZEB ! Secretary of State Shows That Gasoline Taxes . Cheaply Collected Receipts of , the stat of Oregon fh taxes on gasOliine and distillate " for 1923 were ,$2,04(.94.33'. "spy.. 4 a ptatement; issued,, yesterday by I Sam A. Kozert 'secretary df etateU The statement snows further thai' since the 'original law, went" tlntV effect In February, lfl$. tha, rv ceipts. haw totalled ..'i,(4'07fC.7iy, - and the expense of collecting thin has been only "$8780".353howlng tint the overhead ha. been -con- fined to about . 001 7 per cent". It ' is bejteved , that- tho admlnlstra- ' tive expense; or cellectlng the mo " tor1 fuels taxes is less than that in cident to the collection tf any. other tax in the state. . "Taxes were remitted ' on 72, , 789,723 gallons of gasoline and 3.S14.155 "gallons of difltniate," said Mr. Kozer. "Of the total ook lected the sum of .$74Ci9JJ8.08.Ti!-..,;.j,. suited from. the operation, of, the , original law imposing a tax of'l . ; cent per gallon on gasoline and one-halt cent per gallon'on distil-'. - late, while $1,299,996.23 was re turned ....under, the" later tax law ( Continued on page 7 ) i! r v V M25 Guaranteetri Lasting Satisfaction 1923. , !;i"!ilvri"il iit , .. v " PnONE199!y 1 ' 'V V, mS : i 3 ' ''i , f Vt :t - t. . S-r : i : 1 i f : i ,i 4 '-I- t i -' 4 - 4