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Urn Radio Churches.. Automobile Part ThreeSix Pages 1 I 1 f, J k v SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1924 it t t y r I- I) i J v V IRON FUI '"V ' ' Automatic Stoker Introduced at Hew Salem By Hill- man Fuel Company "The Iron Fireman" Is the name given, to an automatic stoker that is being introduced into Sa lem by the Hillman Fuel company.; Already the stoker is in opera tion at Salem and Beveral con tracts havei been signed to install It in additional buildings. The stoker is designed to give steady, uniform heat in furnaces by efficiently burning low-priced slack coal. 1 It. is automatically controlled and makes it possible to produce more heat than , is pos sible by hand firing. ' , The stoker is automatic, feeds the furnace quietly, efficiently, maintaining any desired tempera ture by thermostatic control. 1 It Is a stokerj that is used wherever heating costs must be cut to the minimum. i The fireinan consists-of a hop per, which is filled with slack coal, practically 30 per cent of the output of mines, according statistics.: -j , ' y This slack coal after it is placed in the hopper of the stoker is car ried by a worm which forces the coal i onto the burning era of the furnace. An electric motor, which controls, the worm, also controls an electric : fan. This forces air into the boiler up through the coal as it is wormed into the fire. The. stoker j manes a, very intense flame, somewhat similar to a blacksmith's forge, and very ; effi cient combustion can be obtained by proper regulation . of the vol ume of air from the fan and the supply of coal from the hopper. It is said the electric' motor consumes . no more current than an. electric r flat iron, and: is con nected to an. automatic switch aid a control device which is at tached to the boiler. This device can be set to hold temperature at any predetermined: point. The stoker will stop and start all day . long with, very little at tention. It will keep ; the boiler pressure where It is set on the boiler gauge. The new Hughes building which houses th9 ! Salem i hotel is using one of the stokers. Favorable comment ia given by the tenants concerning the operations of . the fireman, and the regulation of the temperature. .Frank M;.' Bligh, Is enthused about the service which the stoker is giving him, I according to the Hillman brothers. Under the old system the furnace would require the attention of one man cons tantly, but with the new method the furnace requires only the at tention of a man., in the morning and in the evening. 1 Many past, installations have been made in JPortland and out side territory and it is shown that a material saving in coal and labor is made, beside eliminating smoke out the chimney and soot in the boiler, i . , The mechanical device was made in Portland by the Portland Wire & Iron works, a long estab lished firm. I i ' It caters to a field that has not been touched by! anyone in any part of the country up to the pre sent time, and there is no machine of its; kind being manufactured elsewhere outside of Oregon. , The "fireman" is being sold in every, state west of the, Mississippi river and including Alaska. Ship ments have been " made from the Portland factory to eastern states and as far back as New York. It Is being advertised in several national magazines and is coming Into national recognition. Manila Treasure Hunters; Will Dig for Hidden Gold MANILA, Nov, 13 (AP) Two chests of Spanish gold , said to have "been hidden 100 years ago in -a cave in the typhoon-swept hills of Claro Babuyan, one of the northernmost islands of the Philip pine group, is" challenging the spirit of several venturesome Ma nilans who are preparing to go in search of the treasure. The gold, according to the natives, was sec reted by an old woman who sought protection for her treasure from the frequent earthquakes and vol canic eruptions on the island. The crew of 'a coastguard cut ter which recently visited the is land brought word that two brass cannons about five feet long and a ship's bell taken from a British warship wrecked there many years ago were found.' The bell is used to summon worshippers to a . di lapidated chapel which is without a priest. There are two volcanoes on the Island. Kozer Attempts to Answer Question Raised as to "How Large Is Oregon?" Secretary of State Starts When Columbia River Was Discovered and Ends With- Present in Kiwanis Club Addrftps A French writer describing the baseball game played by the Amer ican teams in Paris said that their "curious, uniforms give the im pression of i escaped convicts." Possibly the Impression came from some of the crimes committed on the diamond -for instance, steal ing bases, knocking a pitcher out of the box, killing chances to score Btabbing a high fly. or murder ing the pitcher's fast ball. Firpo, "the wild bull of the pampas," turned out to be a puny I calf-? Pathfinder. ;vV;.-.. femmm. C j J00T-z Z4 U' .' ' V".'! ' "'" , M i The 'IRON FIREMAN" will cut yourjheaiing! costs Write for 31uatratel circular. Thi new type of mechanical stoker Automatically fires any steam, hot air or hot water boiler up to I 00 h. p.. maintaining uniform temperature by thermostatic control. By scientifical ly utilizing m strong current of air it produces from the cheapest grades of coal mora heat, and more uniform heat, than can ba produced by hand firing. Makes no smoke, no soot, and very little ash. ; Lowers tearing costs by efficiently ! burning' low-priced slack coal and i yard screenings. Eliminates constant firing; often saving fireman's wages. Prevents waste of fuel ALL of tha coal is burned. Hundreds of installations in all parts .of the country. Extensively used by greenhouses, hotels, schools, apart ments, public buildings, and manu facturing plants of all kinds r Ask us for installed prices. us show you the installation in the new Salem Hotel Building 1 l :-,.( Let ';' 1 PHONE 18S5 Hillman Fuel Co. f ! , Salem Distributors for . .... . By SAM. A. KOZER I wonder whether Captain Gray when in 1792 he sailed the good ship Columbia into the mouth of the river that was to thereafter bear its name, or the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, or of the Astor expedition, and of oth- similar expeditions, or the young poet, William Cullen Bryant, when he referred in his "Thana topsis" to 'f Where rolls the Ore gon," or those who followed some time later to bring to the Indians of this section religious teaching, or the fir.st settlers who came solely for the purpose of taking up their homes here in the Oregon country had any dreams of the future development of the state land board to make loane from irreducible school fund; to occasionally aid a district or coun ty fair in addition to maintaining the state fair, and exercise a very limited , supervision of the public and private utilities, etc., for the reason that manufacturing, agri culture and the general develop ment of the state, had not advanced-to great extent up to that time. "The supervision and regulation of the commercial fish ing and game activities were left in the hands of wardens. The edu cational institutions of. higher learning were not proportionally developed as at the present time, consequently the aid given them was very meager. As we ' f " ..' - ;" ; , . ( : V SAM A. KOSER EURNER counry in which they were pio neers.'''.: '' ' " History fells' us-that organized government began here in Oregon when a memorial was presented to the congress "on January 28, 1839, bearing the signatures of &6 individuals who then resided here. May, 2, 1843, however, was the.firet real step toward organi zation when a majority of those who had assembled at Champoeg decided to cast their lot with the United States. A provisional gov ernment was immediately formed, as we, all know, for the purpose of framing, and carrying ; into ef fect "those rules of action which are necessary, to enable men to live in a social state." Naturally the beginning - was small. The settlements were con fined almost exclusively to the Willamette valley, with some of the more venturesome taking up residence near the mouth -of the Columbia river. Expansion, how ever was . quite rapid, on. account of the very favorable reports of the country that had reached the eastern states so that by the time statehood was granted on Febru ary 14, 1859, this section of our great country, which lefts than 100 years ago was barely trod by foot of man, had acquired a popu lation of nearly 50,000 souls, and possessed taxable property, ex clusive of its natural resources, with which it has been bounteous ly endowed, of more than $24, 000,000. I shall not attempt to 'tell you how big Oregon was at that time. My task la to give you some vis ion of it today. I will leave you to draw your own pictures' if that time. However., that , you might have a better conception or keener appreciation of today, I would like to revert back to just about 25 years ago a quarter of a century when it was my privi lege to first become actively iden tified or associated with; our growing commonwealth. In the year 1899 we had. a population of about 400,000, with an assessed valuation of about $120,000,000, and outside of those few boards and officers necessary in the man agement and conduct of our then existing state 1 institutions there existed six constitutional offices, and thirteen statutory offices. There was ample room In the state house to house all of the various state acuities. In fact there was roomQi to spare, for there were some rooms in the capitol building at that time which were occupied only during sessions of ttte legislative assem bly by committees of that body. The amount appropriated by the legislature of 1899 for all state purposes for the biennial period 1899 and 1900 waa ll.3S7.544. 25. The total of all payments into the state treasury, exclusive of trust funds and investments waa $1. 499f614.95, and out of this latter sum was disbursed the expendi tures from the appropriations by the legislative assembly of 1, 1899 just mentioned. Aside from the ordinary gov ernmental expenses th9 tt ate had not yet spread out its supervising and regulating arm to any extent, and regulating arm to any great extent. It was satisfied to regulate pilotage on the , Columbia river and its tributaries; to some extent to aid horticulture, to regulate the prpcttco cf r-clic'"?; tbrourh th3 tional government in its?, periodi cal compilations of state revenues and expenditures. Following these classifications "under the di vision of what tore usually styled "fees," the payments into the Oregon state, treasury during. 1923 amounted to $225,058.94. They were - principally from fees pre scribed by larw for special services by the state engineer, the secre tary of state, the superintendent of banks, the corporation com missioner, the Insurance. commis- missioner, the state market agent, the clerk of the. supreme court, and others. For "licenses" im posed the sum of $5,262,509.29 was received. Collected principal ly by the secretary of state for motor vehicle licenses; by the pub. lie service commission' for auto motive transportation licenses; by the corporation commissioner for corporation licenses; by the labor commissioner for factory inspec tion licenses; by the state game warden I for hunters' and anglers licenses; by the master .fish war den for commercial fishing and poundage licenses; by the insur ance commissioner for insurance and real estate brokers licenses; and by sundry other officials for various professional and occupa tional licenses prescribed by law. From "sales ' of property, rentals, etc." matriculation fees and for sundry services performed by the state, a total of $1,062,453.77 re sulted. This sum includes the proceeds' of the sales of the pro ducts of the various experimental stations operated throughout the state under the direction of the Oregon Agricultural college; the proceeds of the operation of the flax, industry at the penitentiary; (Contlnusd on pag S) UNSEEN GIANT shows pons Science Harnesses Force to Human Industry; Radio Photos Reason . The recent modern miracle of sending a photograph of President Coolidge across the Atlantic' by radio has again called public at tention to the gigantic activities of the scientific world in its ef forts to reveal, the secrets of na ture relative to the invisible giant whose mighty power apparently hold3 the universe together. Science has succeeded in har nessing the giant to many forms of useful work, power, heat, light, telephone, telegraph, radio, all de veloped to the point of practicable use to humanity. But what is this force? and whence its source? Of these things we are as ignorant as Father Adam. , Science has also demonstrated that every particle of matter is' actuated by the power of this, in visible giant. . At one time, but a few short years ago, the atom was conceived to be the smallest particle of mat ter the basic unit of all sub stances. But the discovery of ra dium, and the subsequent activi ties of science stimulated by that discovery, has revealed that if an atom could : be magnified to . the 6ize of wash tub it would be found full of still smaller particles which science has named ''elec trons. Science has also revealed that .these electrons are always in motion; that they are actuated by electrical influences; that each electron has its positive and neg ative poles. The whirling of the electrons inside the atom impart to every particle of matter in the universe a vibratory motion. Each separate suhstance having a dif ferent rate of , vlbratioir peculiar to its own composition. This is one of the facts so far discovered which makes radio and other use ful applications of the power of the giant possible. Dr. B. H. White, a well known physician of Salem. says that while attending post-graduate classes in Kansas City, Mo., a few months ago he witnessed the ra dio , transmission of a picture across a room and so he is not surprised to learn that the work has progressed to the point of transmitting it across the ocean. Having been a student of the late Dr. Abrams, author of the appli cation of the vibratory nature of matter to the diagnosis and cure of disease, Dr, White was . asked to explain the relations of : radio activity to organic master, espe cially to animal forms of organic matter. He said, that according to the electronic theory the elec trical activity, of the electrons imparted their, motion to the atom causing a vibration similar to the fenders of a Liz car from the engine knocking. If one atom of matter is thus vibrating, then all atoms are vibrating from the same cause. The rate of vibration de- (Cootinoed on pass 6.) eon Tnnrnrrrnrn lUULUiiLil jrtj University Arranges for Ser ies of Twelve Lectures in Portland UNIVERSITY OP ' OREGON', Eugene, Dec. 13. A series cf twelve lectures on the geology c Oregon Is to be offered by tt.. University, of Oregon Portland center the winter term, for.wtic1! university ' credit will be given. This is the first time such a com plete .course in this subject -1 been scheduled. Professors W. D. Smith. E. Lk Packard and E. T. Hodge of the university geology department, and I. W. Williams, former state, geologist, will dellY. ed the lectures. r The general geology of the Ore gon section, including the geog raphy, and . physiography, ancient, tertiary and later rocks, develop ment "of ancient invertebrate an 1 mammalian life of Oregon, history of the Willamette valley, Colum bia gorge, the Wallowas el I Snake river canyon, mineral re sources, and the geology of U 3 southern and northern . Cascades and of southeastern Oregon. We didn't even know a friend of ours was. married until tha other day. we saw him carrying an. umbrella. 13 :i Practical Gifts That Are Sure to Please ------- f Choose something from our large, well assorted stock; something useful and at the same time not too expensive 7w viewed conditions at that time there existed a fairly satisfactory and effective government. The residents of. the state were busy and-apparently 'their energies dl rected toward the upbuilding of the present Oregon, and this leads us to ask ourselves Just how big we are today? What has been our development in a governmental way? It is the extent Of our state and its many political subdivis- ons that I wish to direct your at tention. The figures which I shall give I wish it to be known are not all obtained as of a given date, but 'are sufficiently near so that a conception may be had of our proportions. The last levy of taxes' included taxes imposed by 2786 separate and distinct political units or sub divisions,' made up of, first the state, followed by the 36 counties, 182 incorporated cities and towns, 2218 school districts, 54 union high school districts, 199 road dis tricts, 53 Irrigation districts. 29 drainage and dyke districts, 13 port districts and one dock ''dis trict. Including a fire patrol tax Of $69,668.11, there was charged on the assessment rolls of the counties of the state for the year 1923 for the state and the forego ing political subdivisions a grand total of $40,224,751.31 which sum includes for the state for all purposes, $5,375,348.65; the sev eral counties for general purposes $3,243,131.67; the counties for their respective schools and li braries, including special levies in the school districts and high school c!tricts. $14,069,685.95; the counties for general, special and. market road purposes $5,- 876,416.68. the counties for bond interest and redemption, $1,615, 886.24; the 182 cities and towns for general expenses, $7,218,673. 76; the irrigation and drainage districts, $1,361,890.11; the ports. $1,385,028.69. and for fire patrol and miscellaneous items, $78,689.- 55. Yon will bear in mind that the foregoing amounts are the deTiva tivo of the direct property tax only, and so far as the state, the counticp and the municipalities are concerned or affected, by reason of the police powers with which they may be possessed, do not include any receipts accruing through the exercise thereof. These are of considerable volume. In addition to the direct property taxes. They are not obtainable as to the counties and municipalities. As to the state for; the year 1923 they amounted to approximately $24,795,489.99. Quite a sum in addition to the direct property tax of $5,375,348.76 levied for elate purposes only and hertofore re ferred to. 1 The point I am endeavoring to make is that the extent of the state's activities in whatever man ner exercised, whether in its ad ministrative capacity or in the ex ercise of its police powers is only slightly reflected by the amount of the direct property tax, - and that the major portion of the rev enues' necessary7 to meet the an nual expenditures of . the state is obtained through the levy or, im position, of. what " are usually styled - indirect, taxes. Some; idea of the extent , of these ( may bo gained by." reference ' to the prin cipal items employed in the classi fications of state receipts by the bureau of the. census of the de partment q commerce p Jbe. .i Casseroles and Baking j : ".. 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Kiddie Kars At new reduced prices " l V A A- Automobile Accessories Give something for the car this unriBimag: spot iiuu, juuca, juu, It might not snow but If It does he'll tires, chains, mirrors, in fact the line oleds be prepared is complete. Tools i Buy them in sets from $6.90 to $25.00 or in single pieces 9 s t s f S r C4J s 7s CO vv Automobiles $10.00 to $40.00 Wagons $1.00 to $12.00 TOYS GALORE Something for All the Kiddies warn At f f t EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE 1