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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1924)
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1924 Country Work Promptly Attended to : Phono 1S97. JRNACES ; lolled in Your Home , at Factory Prices Over 200 Satisfied Users in Salem A FUEL SAVER U D. BRANDON General Painting Contractor ' Painting in All Its Branches w . j :. : 287 South Church Street THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON CONTROL : - ' j : - ' :.- "saufACtured and told bj :-.Kberger; i . . - . '- - 1 : : - CO North Ulgh Street " ,. 1 ' PHONE. 1048M ",: H ' f Chop 803 North Liberty St. .re's - 5 i cf 3 ia Concrete .iy. Plus Service Years of experience in handling build- material has taught us the value of vbg our customers quality plus service. Euy your building material from us and : ;ceive quality in material Prompt sery Courteous Treatment. f f i 3aw " 3ne Sewer Pipe Jvo Steps Ahead zi Sanitation ! 1 Longer joints, making fewer joints and saving labor and mortar in laying. You have Ya less joints to make with Milestone Pipe. 2 Self-centering bellsMaking absolutely smooth joints inside an improvement found only in Milestone Sewer Pipe. : - v.r . ; -r-'-'' ' !. i . i Blade by Salem People and dis tributed in many, valley towns. LEST ONE t Products DN GRAVEL COMPANY ' - .hu---Phone 180 . ffl, ,Gppelarid- Yards Salem Yard at West Salem Phone, 576 rd3 in West Salem, Albany, Lents, Hubbard, .Yamhill, Hillsboro. j LOANS On Modern Homes 5V Semi-Annual Interest 5 Win Loan ALSO Year 2i Cent Monthly Payment Loans t- Cheaper: TLzn Any Buildinj & Loan Co. in the Northwest lim Roberts : Finricial Service ; EM'S ST m INCLUDES REALTY Present Day Land Values Have Historical Back ground for Setting j The whole story of civilization, from the days when troglodyte man went out from his cave and! struggled through primeval waste in his hunt for mastodon meat, is a story of man's relation to the land, according to an article en titled "What ia the Matter With Real Estate?' In. a current issue of Printers Ink. ! That age-long story begins in the days when there was no land ownership, because land was only hunting ground. It goes on to the days when land was all in the hands of great nobles, and serfs were bound to the soil they tilled. .. It comes at last, through the rise, of democracy to our own day, when the . security and " satisfac tions of home ownership has be come potentially universal; and it all brings out the fact that present day ownership of a piece of land has roots as old a the human race, and that the accumulation in value of land, which present day communities are marking from decade to decade, is, in fact. an accumulation from age to age, Real estate investment has the weight of the world's whole his tory behind it. In bringing to public attention the meaning of land ownership as it is shown in the light of world history, the organized real estate men of the nation have an oppor tunity for educational advertising of a kind not open to any other branch of commerce, the article points out. It outlines the his torical perspective which the Na tional Association of Real Estate boards has to drawn ; on, and which Its constituent local boards have to draw . on in telling the story of real estate in their own communities. , - - The great possibilities which lie in a national campaign to set forth the fundamentals of real estate as an investment, and of the service which can be rendered in such in vestment - by a realtor, familiar with all the elements of value in volved, have already been brought before the association by its ad vertising committee. i "It is a long, long story the story, of the land," the ; article states. - "The longest and most vital story which may be present ed for: -the consideration of our multiplying millions." 'The Indifference of early, man to land as an object of value brings out the facts that while land cannot be appreciably- In creased, population Is constantly Increasing, and land values, like all other values, rest upon econo mic demand.' the writer continues. But land Is . not valuable solely because of its scarcity, but more especially because the uses to which it is put are of greater bene fit. The cave. man had hardly the same incentive to secure; a cave as the present citizen has to secure the services and sanitary benefits which modern communl ties provide to home owners. Yet long before, the home was much more than a primitive shelter, land had acquired such a value as to bring about a long. era o control by the rich and noble,' i time when the serf risked his neck if he so much as snared a rabbit on the property of his lord. ' Land played its part In calling nations Into being. It was through the magnetic influence of the .ad joining lands that villages grew Into towns. Nations developed On the basis of ' need for protecting Cp to 50 of Value Phone 1427 Loam and Improving the property with in their, domains. - It is a glorious part of the story of land ownership that-It is tied all along to the story of human freedom. The right to land own ership has gone hand in hand with the r development of every prin ciple' of republican - government, with, liberty, opportunity to ad vance, loyalty to country, right to ftchieve prominence la any walk of life. 1 " 'During the centuries. whenthe land, remained in the bands otthe nobles the 'people hadj no ffee dom,M the article points' out. Real estate, men can make dra matic use of the fact that own ership of land gave the right to vote, was the sign of a ;free man. long before our country instituted its liberal methods of functioning. The growth of individual freedom has; come; directly through , the growth of freedom to purchase and control land. , :4 '"They can also bring out the fact that city or community life hag always led in all forms of so cial advancement, so that the man who wishes to feel himself a true part of the progress of his lo cality, must be a property owner, By sheer right of land possession home owners now form a republic wherever i they congregate. The owner of a cottage sits with the owner of a mansion, where they meet on common ground as men who have demonstrated their faith Ihf their country by investing in the very soil of which It is made "But the great American series of j real estate educational adver tfsing should be built around the growth of this nations "In 1700 our population had reached the high figure of 250.- 000. In 11803, more than a cen tury later, Jefferson said it would be 1.000 years before the region east of . the Mississippi could be fully settled. (Apparently west of that stream was unthinkable to him.) .. J "In 1840 we had a population of over 17,000,000. In I860 this had nearly doubled. But what are such demands upon laud compared wjth outl present condition, with more than three times the popu latlon of the Civil war period? The very thought of it makes one want to sell, all that he bath and buy a lot "before they are "all gone. "The men who deal in real es tate deal In the only commodity whjch cannot be materially in creased, and in a commodity which ia the physical as well as the spiritual foundation of this coun try. They have the stuff for an educational advertising, program which will be of inestimable value to every one worthy of being called a citizen." ' ;U Permits Total $124,300 for ' Month Against $102,600 in Prior Year ' An increase of all $11,700 over building permits for August 1923 is shown in the monthly report of Marten Poolsen, city . recorder, completed Saturday. ' . Total fig ures for; the two corresponding months are $124,300 for 1924 and $102,600 for 1923. There were 46 permits issued this year against 33 tor 'last year, v New buildings headed the list for ' both years, with permits for 32 residences" amounting to $99,- 150 being issued . this month In comparison with 19 permits for $52,800 in 1923. One apartment costing $12,000 and a warehouse costing $6000 were begun this year, with: the remainder of the permits being miscellaneous build Ings including small garages. Al terations and repairs were only $4200 of the total. r; Twenty-fire of the -33 permits issued In August, 1923, were for hew buildings. These included. in addition to the new dwellings. two permits for stores with a total of $19,500, and a manufacturing building, $15,000. ' Alterations and repairs were greater last year than this, a total of eight permits representing $12,800 heing issued for this purpose. REST IN TEX YEARS ; A. B. Kelsay, manager of the Cobbs - & Mitchell Lumber com pany reports that the-lumber business for his company during July and August was better than it has been during the same per iod of any year for the last ten years. BUYS RESIDENCE ;. Ira W. FolIIs has purchased the Hans II. Boxiud modem residence at 198$ Fir. and will take imme diate possession. The deal was handled by A. C. Bohrnstedt, local ST BUG GAINS OVER 1923 realtor. " :-: 1 . i j ' i ' . . - " ' ' ... . . -. mammmmmuammmmmaammmmiamlM lllllllllf" "' ' ljuimi- J ill juhuiiim jjjjy iMB MM" n-i .1 . , , wmhhiu'miiumiiiu mini nniiMiii iminw 1 wmhihhwih .11111 " wnmummuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mHiitiiMMiwiiiiimiiimiimmi iiimiiiiiwii'iiiwwwiiiw" m """I"!1! i'i;iniiM.iuiP!iiiiiniiiwinmi 1 1 1 mm ..1. ".u.u ..u. . . u .1....r.,. , ' -: .,....':;:..:L l.- .1 ;i :.i.,-J Lu. ; r..t J SAVE SOIL F Fertility By Selling Only Sunshine and H am 1 "Save the farmera 'by saving the.iroir is the slogan of Charles H. Allen, president of the Farm ers Sugar company. Defiance, Ohio, who will address the Klwan is club September; 16, and the Rotary club September 17,- as the result of arrangements now be ing made by Geo. 1. King and F, D. Thlelson. . ! ; Mr. Allen, who is at the head of 1200 farmers who are building their; own sugar factory, at Defi ance, Ohio, declares the farmers are in trouble because they have been selling wheat and other crops containing a great deal of mineral matter. Selling ; less wheat, corn and 'other crops high An ' mineral elements and producing more milk, butter, eggs', bacon, sugar, wool and other crops that contain very little mineral matter is the remedy which he jwill suggest in his talk here. , ; Because he is himself both a farmer and a business man oper ating his own farm in. Ohio and at the same time a councillor of the Chamber of ' Commerce of the United States Mr j Allen has been greatly in demand ' as a speaker on the agricultural situation. Those who are arranging his ad dress here were able to secure him because he had already arranged a irtp-to -appear before business and farm organizationa In several other cities in this section. "Just because we Inherited a great mass of mineral matter in the shape of soil j fertility is no reason why we should pay Europe for hauling it away," says Mr. Allen. "We count production costs and figure we sell wheat at a profit. If we also computed -the value of the mineral elements in the wheat, adding this to the pro duction cost, we should find we always sell wheat at a loss. "Thew heat farmer is 'broke today because he cannot figure soil deposits. He has been a poor banker by growling wheat and other crops that have withdrawn all the mineral deposits. Fo'r this reason many sections that , once grew 60 bushels of Wheat to the acre now .will grow only six. That's the principal reason ; the farmer can't make a 'profit. What will save him- : is not extended credit but rotation .with; sugar beets - and other crops that take no mineral fertility from the soil and at the same time, , through extensive root systems, make bac teria life active in lower and unde veloped regions of the eoil." . . In his talk here, Mr. Allen will explain that sugar is chemically nothing but carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The carbon comes from the air as the result of the sun's action on plant, jleavesl The hy drogen and oxygen come from the rain. Sugar beets merely store up sunshine and rain, and when tnese sugar containers are re turned to the soil in the form of pulp fed to cattle, no fertility has beep, taken away. By selling sugar and a number of other crops, the farmer is dis posing of nothing but sunshine and rain.t Mr. Alien, in his talk here, Is expected; to show how ag ricultural prosperity can . be se cured, by fostering the production of food products! that come from inexhaustible materials, rather than from the exhaustible mineral matter in the edil. - Weekly Lumber Review ' One hundred mills reporting and twenty-two to West Coast Lumbermen's association for the week ending August 23rd, manu factured 95,612,701 feet of lum ber; sold 111. 358.883 feet; and shipped 107.133,402 feet.v New. business jwas 16 per cent above production! Shipments were 4 per cent below new business. Forty-five per j cent of all new business taken during the week was for future ! water delivery, This amounted to 50,086,505 feet, of .which 33.849,505 feet was for. domestic cargo delivery; and 16,- 237,000 feet export. New business SAVE MS by rail amounted to 1,860 cars. Forty-six per Cent of the1- lum ber shipment? moved by water. This amounted to 49.041,024 feet, of which 33,893,8 feet" moved coastwise and intercoaetal; and 15il 4 7,03 8 feet export. Rail ship ments totaled 1,754 cars. . Local auto and team deliveries totaled! 5,472,378 feet. : Unfilled domestic cargo orders totaled 125,750,466 feet. Unfilled export orders 75,556,504 feet. Un filled rail trade orders 4,447 cars In the thirty-four weeks of the year, production reported to West Coast Lumbermen's association has been 3,138,358,732 feet; new business 3,164,904,165 feet: and shipments 3,30.0,983,714 feet.' . BITS OF REAL LIFE Esther I Williams HEROES It was oyer. It had been a hard task that had required the trained muscle, the steady nerve and the concerted action of six men pull ing together as one. No matter what the task it was one of many thousands performed every dy and every hour of every day as a part of the world's work. Just an ordinary task performed by ordinary men in an ordinary way." I .. ' i '" :-'.'..i-'' "That was a heroic Job," re- marked a bystander who had wit nessed the performance. ' h ., One of the men, dressed: n rough ; clothing, was wiping the sweat from his face. ! "Yes," he replied; "but it won't be recorded in history." : : True, and after all how little of the real heroism of the world ever finds its .way into history. We pay our homage, and rightly so, to the man who performs some heroic! feat which is blazoned op the pages of history. He deserves our plaudits. But how about the ones of whom the world never hears, yet who are as truly heroes as those whose praises are sung the world over. It may be only a poor washer woman wno sings as she Aoils over, her tub for the children clinging about her skirts, building as she toils, a future for each that is rose-bued and devoid of the hardships that., she herself has known. It may be a father toll ing early and late for the family he loves and which is dependent upon him. Many a hero walks the streets in overalls carrying a din ner pail. Heroes? They are everywhere around us. Heroic souls that ad versity cannot overcome; who toll faithfully, suffer patiently, sacri fice " cheerfully through, whose veins the blood of heroes runs as truly as in those to Whom the world pays its homage, i Poor indeed would the world be if it were not for those every day heroes who are the very salt of the earth and to whom the world owes a' debt it can never pay. Perhaps who knows, there may even be one in our own home whom we have failed to recognize, i Perhaps. The puzzling thing is how many mosquitoes are required to make a summer resort. UPSON WALL BOARD AND UPSON PLASTER TILE I - We have a bath room finished with Upson Wall Board and Upson Tile for your inspection also a bed room finished with the Upson Wall board. These rooms are enameled with enamel from our paintr department and ; will give you an excellent idea how the rooms look when completed with this material. : . ' . . We also have the Columbia Plaster Board which is an Ore gon product, Building Paper, Roofing Paper and all Building Materials. v COBBS Successors 349 S. 12th Street DIG CLEIIII PUf-JT TO BE ADDED Local Firm to Equip Present Building With . Latest Type Machinery Announcement of a new rug cleaning department Is 'made by O. F. Franklin, proprietor of the Standard Cleaning & Dyers. The plant will be an addition to the present, building at 362 North Commercial.' It will be equipped with the latest facilities for clean ing and renewal of rugs-and up holstery, including that used in automobiles. The new rug clean ing plant is the only one of its n Salem." The cleaning plant will consist of machinery for the washing and drying of rugs, suction cleaning, and cleaning by means of a huge rotary brush that scrubs and raises the knap of the rug. The rugs are first cleaned through a power ful suction process and scrubbed with the rotary brush, a neutral shampoo , soap being used that does not shrink the materials of the rug,' They are then dryed in a drying tower. 16 feet high. : The Standard Cleaners & "Qyers have been located in Salem tor the past ' 1 2 -years and have met with unusual success . In their line. They own their own lot and build ing and operate one of the most modern plants in this section of the country The new addition which, hpusesthe.. (xug cleaning plant is 25x45 feet. NEW BOOKS AT PUBLIC LIBRARY SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY MacHarg & Balmer The In dian Drum. Barnett, Ada The Joyous Adventurer. Blackmore, R. D.- Lbrna Doone- Bronte. Charlotte, Jane Eyre. ' ConnelL Richard, Apes and Angels. Cum mines, William An ' Island HERE, MR. 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For the Children. rsiancuara, a. h. -a uiri or, . 1 1. uox,- v aimer Tne urownles. Their Book. Seaman, A. II. The Girl Next Door. White, E. O. An Only Child. Andersen Fairy Tales. Carroll, .Lewis Alice's Ad ventures in Wonderland. Chodsko, Alexander- Slav Fairy Tales. Judson, K- B. rOld Crow and His Friends. Darow, F. L. The Boys' Own Book of Science. Amith, L. R. The Circus Book.- The umpire differs from the speed cop in that more, people hate him at the same time.. LOOKING AHEAD FOR lc Plan now for winter comfort by asking for further Informa tion regarding the most econo mical heating plant on the market. Eastman Sibloco 'Furnaces 579.G0 and up A lcVpoit- cardx brings thi Information without any obli gation on your part,' ' - r v. j : . Silverton BIov Pips Co.; ,- Silverton, Oregom of Plans. B. Kelsay, Manager Phone OIT j