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SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR
SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1924
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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.
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'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
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Hillman Fuel Co.
f ! , Salem Distributors for
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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
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SAM A. KOSER
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counry in which they were pio
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" 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;
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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-
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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.
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Practical Gifts That Are Sure to Please
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Choose something from our large, well assorted stock; something useful and at the
same time not too expensive
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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
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Something that will please .the most
" ': fastidious ' :
$5:00 and up
L Carving Sets are very acceptable
$2.50 to $18.00
Ctfyrtght Wt, Old CtmmmaUr, ltd
COMMUNITY '
SILVER PLATE
Surpasses Argument
At fee first glimpse yon feel flie joy
- of desire; the longing to have it
tor your own.
COMMUNITY SILVER
bears not only a triple plus. Super
Plate, but it is overlaid at the wear
ing points witk a disc of Pure Silver.
At your service for 50 years.
Carried in Grosvenor, Adam, Pa-,
trician and Duchess patterns. Tea
spoons $3.60 and $1.60, set of six.
We also carry 1847 .Rogers in five
patterns.
CofTee Percolators
Both electric or plain
$2.50 to $22.50
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Vacuum Bottles ,
From pint to 1, gallon
$1.00 to $10.00
Electrical Specialties
What could make a nicer gift? .
'Toasters, Grilles, Curling Irons, Per
colators, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing
Machines, Ranges.
Kiddie Kars
At new reduced prices
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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
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Automobiles
$10.00 to $40.00
Wagons
$1.00 to $12.00
TOYS GALORE
Something for All the Kiddies
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