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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1925)
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1925 TIIE OREGON-STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON I' ii SUKR SEllDOLlS LARGEST 1H STATE Development, Made in Three Years Under Direction of : . 4 Margaret Cosper to full capacity with day and night shifts. It: Three. years ago under the capable leadership of Miss Mar- garet Cosper, for : ' many years connected with the Salenr'schools, 'a. Hummer school forv students of prait sVhoot age was organized in Salem. In, that year there were 2 50. .students enrolled In, the school. j During the year follow ing the enrollment jumped to 468 ' and today tnere is a summer ichot in Salem with an enrollment ot &zi stuaents, 'narinr lor teaching, staff 52 student and 10 critic teachers, p ' t i ;;V Thq summer school was organ ised' primarily' for tie- sake of of fering an opportunit'yjfor practi cal work to student teachers of Monmouth Normal school. It is required that all gradjuaes of the school hare some, practical work Inteaching before they! , receive their diplomas. Therel jaw fire other summer schools maintained under the auspices of the Normal scho'Jl in this state. .They are lo cated M Monmouth, f Independ ence, rendleton, , Corvallis and Ashland. The school maintained ut Salem is the largest by far of any in the state. vSalem is indeed fortunate 1, In ; having this fine" - school located here. It not only brings 62. first class citizens to the city for the tnnmer months, but it affords a fine advertising medium for the . city inasmuch as these same J 2 teachers will in the fall - go to " very part of. the state to. assume their duties as, teachers in the . various schools. ' .j. v The following class, of students : register tor work In the summer school. First, students 1 whoj be- cause of illness or - enforced ab sence have rfot passed -the grade v hut show enough' progress during the semester that thei work of the summer school wilt enable them io-y1 make . the grade. Second, students failing ' in certain ; sub jects and needing work in those- inbj.cH. Third, ' students i who are ahead of the grade 'and make ythe next half by taking work at summer, school. Fourth, students " Who have heen regularly prompt ed, but en.'oy summer school, and . ehope by this review' of the work In become leaders 1n their clasaes. t Is interesting to' note that-the largest per cent of the students in . ' the school are- registered in this category. Fifth, the beginners lass, which is given a thorough ; drill in primer work thus enabling ' them to pass tie entrance tests to '" the Salem' schools ' with greater A list of the summer '. school Z. Taskar, who has conducted a dry goods store fit Siiverton for the past five years. Is moving his business to Lents, Ore., In the near future. Mr. Taskar bought the Bentson general merchandise store when it was sold about fire years ago but did not, continue the 'groc ery part of the stored that' being taken 'over by Rudd Bfentsoit$p.nd carried on, in ' another building. Mr. Taskar also had a store at Mt. Angel fqr some time.". f .- Ray Dullum had a foot crushed Thursday while at work alt the Siiverton 'Lumber company mill He was pulling on a "green chain" when a plank slipped landing on. his foot. - Several bones were frac tured as well as the flesh bruised badly. Mcbh Shines Wp "Stars"; ; f New Models on Display Today -Wayne Ttoe has been' having medical treatment the past week because. of a burned hand. Mr. Roe, In assisting at changing a tire oft an automobile last Satur day, accidentally 'put his hand on the exhaust, pipe and as a result the palm of one hand was pain fully, burned. . - i July 15 Is' the last day on which bids for the building of the Sii verton armory will be received. The finance officer of the Ameri can Legion presented the county commissioners, with a warrant for $10,000 Tuesday, that amount.be- ing, Sllvertbn's sharejn the build ing fund. The armory will be Io- cated on South Water street, the ground ftaving been purchased some time ago. ' ' A report from the Siiverton postoffice shows a gain of $556.72 for a period of three months end ing June "30 over i& similar period for last year. The gain was about sixteen and two-thirds per cent, last year's receipts being $3584.42 while those of this year were ' -r jj? r . . r : Z..7 ... 1 f Lr . ' o " v III Will" ' 1 III II m " Bni . character -groups" a Dutch, a IICHI PYPAVATlTR R VEH gypsy, and an old-fashioned group! . each daintily and neautif ully f TRY-OUT HERE FRIDAY costumed. ' ! : !.i EQUIPMENT I.TEST OP ITS KIND AND IS V8EFIX OREGON v. FIRES COSTLY XEARI.V QVARTRR - MILLION' DOLLARS IX)SS IN JUNE Oregon' property, amounting to $233,053.74, exclusive of Port land, was ' destroyedv by 65 ' fires during June, according to the re port of Will Moore, state" fire mar shal. The Dalles, was a ware house and contents; was the heav iest loser, with $35,000. Two fires were reported from Marion county, , a barn and con tents, $3000 and a barn, contents and machinery, $7000. Three buildings were , destroyed at St. Paul with an aggregate loss ol $5500. A lumber camp in Polk county was destroyed, loss $50Ut) and a dwelling at Independence, $3000. Can Re Usd as Grader or Ditcher; $770O I Spfnt By City for Purchase A group or new r.:oon models lnironi of Sa;em Automobile company's, place, of business. First is the "Diana Eight," a jnew Moon creation ; next is . the Series "A" standard sedan; next the special sedan; the cabro'et roadster, and then the Series' A" standard touring. , . 't j i mese nve models will be on CZsplay at Salem Automobile company's place of business all day today and also in the evening. The public is invited to call models which are creating so automobile circles on the Pacific coast at the pres ent time. " : -f and inspect these much interest-i in PACKERS' COMBINE HIT BY TAX REDUCTIONIST I1EXJ AMIX C. MARSH SPEAKER AT IjAROR TEMPLE. Mellon. Plan Declared t'nfair; Re- of Internal" Revenue Taxes Souglit peal teachers are Mrs. Ralph Critic teachers: Withycombe, " Mrs. Bess Skog.'Mrs. Edna Russel. Miss Tna Burcbam,' Miss Oneita Wirtz, Missf Grace Williams, Miss Susie Bonner, Mrs. Karr and Mrs. M. V. DunCan, with "the Miss Margaret Cosper at the head of the corps. V The names of "the ; student teachers are: First and Second grade, Mrs. beta Selfert, Mabel lnlth.' Er ma Randall, El va Eades, Carol Rice. Cora Carr, Eva Beatty, Freda Sadilek. Neva Cooley, Miss Jacobsen, ' Verna Oooleyt : Ida Struede; Fifth and Sixth grade teachers, Hilda Smith, Pearl Eyre. Susie Frye, Christine DalselLet Tie Chanrler. 'Nina s Beeson, Ida iTakCDella Higglns. Miss Palmer. Audrey Ruddy4 ' and Miss "Tubing-, sen;. Third , . ahdX Fourth J- grade "tachers are,; Nellie Warner Nel lirt Kurtz, Ruth-Guntber, Ruth ; Uarvey. Ilila , Hurd, - Katherino : Knox,' Ruth Pettlt, Mrs. Mary Palmer. Myrtle. vBrownlee. Reta Ellis Basel Hoey, Grace Thomas, Jhristln.e'k Johns. Mias.Rumblet Lu cUle Dilley. Miss McCarter, Effie Conch, Mtss Hardisoa; Seventh and Eighth grade teachers "are, . Cenevievel Bates, Ruth Rowland, th el ma Peed. Hazel' Marshall, ' Qladys Emery, Zilpha .Doan, Mrs. 1. H." Dunn, Harold Baird. . Mar garet Jorgemen and Ar villa Woodworth. - - , . tl "The Big Four Meat Packers doing a business of two billion co lars a year, are the largest food combine In the world and do about two-thirds of the business done by 494 meat packing concerns," de clared Benjamin Marsh, ot Washington D. " ci executive sec; retary of the peopled, reconstruc tion league and'former head of the Washington "State Federation of Labor, in speaking at the labor temple last night.- -MThey aVe try ing to hare the packers' consent decree, which keptr them ' out of unrelated lines, set aside so they can again build up a monopoly in any profitable business. ; Legisla tion must be enacted to compel the meat packers to , divest them- seires of ownership of stock yards and refri gerator cars, and vesting administration of the meat pack ing industry in the federal trade commission, which can be made to serve the people as in the past." : 1 Mr. Marsh ' 'characterized' the Mellon tax reduction )lan as an effort to untax the rich and com pel the Common people ' to pay not only the current costs of fed eral government but the costs ot the war. Surtaxes on incomes must be retained, he. said, pointing out that one percent of the population receives about one-seventh of the national income and , two percent of. the people about half of the national wealth. . ' . ' ' "Our 'American Tax Reduction' plan is to repeal the $600,000,000 of internal revenue taxes on tobac co, 1 admissions to. movies, shows - iff r . and clubs, and on automobiles, which are "'chiefly paid by those with jncomes of less than $2000," he said. ' ' . . "Duties on manufactured prod ucts must be reduced, for the pres ent protective tariff policy, is breeding war,, smashing the fore ign markets for tarjn ; products. fostering inefficiency and profi teering and costing farmers and wage earners'at least' two billion dollars a year. Farmers put at least seven dollars into the pro-1 tection pool for every dollar they can take, out and wages are low est in most highly protected in dustries. Protection is a rold brick or both farmers and wage earners. ' '' "In r1922, the surplus and un divided profits of manufacturers of woolen and "worsted goods were $177,822,946; of-manufacturers of cotton goods, $334,370,815. while manufacturers of metals and metal goods paid in -dividends in 1922' $850,315,219. : -'"Congress must pay off at least part of the $1,500,000,000 loss In curred by wheat growers through limiting the price of wheat dur ing and since the war. . ;' "In 1910 one third of the pop ulation over ten gainfully occupied was on farms; by 122 Jhe pro ion. outraged by this action, can compel President Coolidge to put men on those commissions who will guard the rights of honest people.". Mr. Marsh is 'making an exten sive tour of the United States starting from Boston. So far he has made addresses in Tt states. REPORTER IS LECTURER CONCRETE WILL BE USED WAC.ES for brick MASOXS ARE .HELD' TOO COSTLY OXEV FRED SWEET HEAD- LINER FOR CHAUTAUQUA .' - ;f When the' editor of the Chicago Tribune gave Oney Fred Sweet an assignment to go out and get a lot. of different jobs and tell how it felt to stand in the other fellow's shoes, he did not realize that' he was paving the way to a remark able lecture career for this gifted reporter. But it did that very thing. . , It took three years for Oney Fred Sweet to cover his assign ment. Every week during that time his paper .published a full page account of his remarkable experience, He sometimes - rode on the cowboy's '.bronco, in .the wagon .of a gypsy band, with the dog catcher, in the coal tender of heights as a steeple jack, hanging from a trapeze, in a circus- tent, Walking girders .as a structural iron worker. Even more thrilling were experiences as a lion tamer, night Watchman in a 'graveyard convict in Sing Sing. For variety he was a vaudeville performer, grand ' opera singer, traffic cop, barber. Coney Island speller, mil lionaire, street .bum, prize fighter, and 90 other characters. . From all this he has drawn many' life lessons, and despite his infectious Because of the high wages de manded by brick masons, the state board of control yesterday decid ed to use concrete in the con structionist the two-story build ing at the reenie-minaea scnooi. The decision was reached follow ing a conference with the architect and the contractor. Brick manufactured at the peni tentiary was considered for the structure, but even with a favor able price on this, it was found that wages would make the com pleted building cost approximately $10QO more than it will it made of concrete. The latter construc tion will' harmonize with other youth, he Is and gives a A new excavator was received machine was unloaded in the morning and was given its first trial In the afternoon out on Win ter street. The excavator Is a Keystone ma- I nine and "was manufactured and old direct to the city by the Road Builder's Equipment company of Portland. It is a model 4, front Crawler, gas drive machine, weigh ing 15 tons. The .machine Is equipped with a Clraax 4 -cylinder engine, which develops 57 H. P. at.800 revolu tions per minute, the normal oper ating ; speed.. The; engine is equipped with reversing jack shaft transmission and twin disk clutch. The gas tank capacity Is 0 gal Jons, i " j The crawlers or apron, wheels are 40 inches high, 22 inches across tread, and 4 feet long on I the ground, making length of 7 feet 4 inches over ail. The trac tion speeds are 1 mile per hour, and two and three quarter miles per hour. The boom which Is 18 feet long swings through an arc of 180 degrees. The length of the machine over all except boom is 24 feet 7 Inches. The. height is 11 feet 7 Inches and the width over all is 10 feet. The machine has as - regular equipment three scoops', including five eighths yard, six roll skimmer, for grading purposes, a drop hot- torn ditcher, and a halt yard clam The city has taken with its CHAMBERS CHAMBERS '-- ? . ' i ' i ... buildings at the institution and had brick been used it would have j-hell been necessary to concrete thelmachlne onIy the skimmer, it be ing felt that the other equipment surface. Tiny Handwriting Part of British Exhibition portion-was only about one quar ter; -while one fifth would be1 amply adequate." In spite qf that fact, and the 'Widespread unem ployment, the nation Is. being flooded ' with Mexican peons who work for $1.25 a day. The net alien, immigration is about 500, 000 a year. ( Ail .immigration should be stopped for live years o permit a peaceful shift of man power from farming to other in dustries. - . "Congress must enact the Howell-Barclay bill to protect the employees of the railroads.! ''Congress should create a gov ernment marketing corporation; enact a crop insurannce measure, and legislation definitely authoriz ing farmers to restrict the amount of their, crops. , , ; j ; ' ' "The new congress must create a publicly pwned giant power sys tem it can't regulate onnne priv ately owned, .v .,' T . 'i i "The federal trade commission and the tariff - commission have been turned over to the predatory interests, ."but a. decent public o pin- smile and apparent seasoned and wise. message which is good medicine for all -of us who are afflicted with excess egoism. Hear Oney Fred Sweet this afternoon at the big Chautauqua, In Miss Harriet Baughman, cor- netist, pianist and character im personatorsand Miss Thelma Pet ferle, soprano, I character and dra - matlc reader, there comes to the Chautauqua this afternoon an en semble of talent that provides a versatile and , artistic progTam. Miss' Baughman is a straight con cert corn etist, whose round, true notes' will, enthrall every listener. Miss Pef ferle has a most satisfy ing voice, both for singing. and a locomotive, on the carriage of a reading. In addition to their solo 1 saw mill. ' Frpnnowtiy hp p pLa.na ensemble ; musical numbers. these young ladies will give three in the air swinging from dizzy VICTORIA, B. C. John Spears who lives at Cowichan Bay on Vic toria Island recently presented the British empire exhibitipn at Wem bley with a unique collection of handwriting specimens. He claims the all-around championship in miniature writing with pen and pencil, ' . Spears has written 12.125 words on the back of a postcard with an ordinary pen and the naked eye. and the Lord's Prayer on a space no larger in area than the end of a lead pencil. He also has written a book of 90 pages totaling 10,000 words, each page about the size of a postage stamp. Windmills are getting scarcer In Holland. They've been scarcer in Washington ever since congress adjourned. " was not needed. The cost of the machine with equipment, is $7700. It is expected that this machine will do away with many teams and men now on the city pay roll. Heretofore, all of the grading! work on the streets has been done by men. and it has been necessary to load the wagons by hand. With this new machine all of this work will be done away with as the er- cavator-wlll load the dirt directly on the wagons and will break its own ground instead of having it done as it has been, by pick and shovel, and plow. DANISH DPtORCES INCREASE- COPENHAGEN. Divorces in Denmark increased more than 100 per cent between 1916 and 1923, according to the- latest 'statistics published. In the " former" year there were 917 and In the latter 1872 divorces. "The majority of the divorces fallowed matrimonial J periods of three to five. years v Siiverton i. if SILVERTON. Ore.. July 10. . (Special to The Statesman). The v Sllvertqn Lumber company 'mill will, this week, cease to run under its present management. Camps at Mehama were closed some' time ago and the logging train has not . made any runs recently.. The sup ply of logi to be sawed is nearly gone but the planing mill will con tinue to operate after the sawmill is closed. The mill has been in operation for about eighteen years. Nearly three hundred men found Occupation at yie mill when it ran !' i i! (( .jjA' VJr&l Don't Mis This Complete Display of New ;;i MOON: ;'-:: : . - '. ana Pre seirvrng. This covered Sauce Pan or Preserving Kettle , has steel base with quartz rock smooth pure white surface. Very durable and certainly a wonderful - bargain at ,9 8c Get Yours Saturday GIESE-PtOWERS uimiture Company D1AN STRAIGHT-EIGHT MODELS AT deafer Salem Automobile GbL F. G.r Delano A. I Address Salem, 1 5 ! N. High -All day Saturday. Tulv 1 1 tb and eveninrr . , - o Eoff . This is your opportunity to inspect the newest models and style creations of the Moon and Diana cars that are sweep ... ing the nation with their new conceptions and hew criter- 10ns ot automobile standards. Whatever your interests in automobiles may he you jeer- iainiy will wisn to see these advance creations of 1 926. Ik Mm '..(! . 9qIp t Just four more days to get one of those beautiful j , Axminster Velvet or Wilton Rugs At a Great Saving in Price Think o a good grade 9x 1 2 seam less ' AXMINSTER I RUG 4 ! for S $29.00 Next to the best 9x12 seamless for $39.00; The very, highest grade 9x 1 2 seam less at .' $49.00 V All other sizes - at proportionate re ductions. ' t Every piece of Fur niture in the store "e xcept. contract goods" at ' greatly reduced prices. Sale Closes Wednesday, July 15 r CHAMBERS 0 . t COMJBEBS V At ycur d:i!rr'