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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 2, 1023 n uS EXPEETEB Fill 016B Many Uses Are Held Practi cal for I Forest Product - in Manorr County . ; . SCHOOL DAYS DWIO ENG S OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE CORVALLIS Aur. 1 I Special)- Big returns are expect ed f roto Oregon grove3 and forests of oak in the near future, asserts W. W. Craig, now attending the in dustrial conference at the college. I Oregon .oak of Marion county. ' dubbed "scrub oak'Mjy ome, wllj 'lVi be used in .tbe making of cars, wagons. furniture, and other trades requiring a superior type of wood. Qak for- fuel will be a (Y thing of the past except foT the Jy ..waste from! lumber cutting, pre i diets Mr. Craig.: ; :, ( . A life long study of the woods of this continent makes Mr. Craig f. a real authority in this matter V Before coming to Oregon he served five three-year apprenticeships in I trades having to do with all kinds of wood of any commercial value growing on this continent. Hit; first nine years in Oregon were spent In a Portland furniture fac tory, where Oregon oak frequently came under- his observation in all kinds of work. He spent many years in thej wagon industry where only superior woods stand the test i of Tough usage. , j r; ' M "Oregon people in general han H dicap their own resources by call ing Oregon oak "scrub oak, said Mr. Craig today. . "They persist ; in using that term to those who : should know better, so it is known 4. as "scrub oak'f where it is known at all. It is true that, the average ; size of the oak trees is smaller i than those of the east but it is well t to remember that here trees on j the average are younger, i Many :Vof the oaks contain hundreds of f t feet of flawless lumber. If would 1 pay to cut only the mature trees. ; Lf' "Mlch,8aa"i early forests of r j bird's eye maple were nearly wip ed out before industries realized their value. J Hardwood sold as low as one. dollar a cord for fuel that is now, worth hundreds of dollars to the tree as It stands in the woods.! Today many Oregon farmers who by chance left their groves of walnut while others cut cverythingrfor fuel, now have or are realizing hundreds of dollars for mature; trees1 for lumber pur poses. Oregon oak is cut for fuel when even, now it would bring greater returns as lumber. In fu ture years ii will bring many times the price it now brings for fuel. twe are prone to make snap judgments," Mr. Craig aasertgj ve compare Oregon oak; with eastern oak. They send out the best -of the eastern cut. We put a poor average alongside of it for a CLUA8S A BUT WERtS.-A Ah n. " .--ixsaHV- v. i , WM::-y . .m: 1).. ftofllS ins oi Meows VCK CM" Ai55C5 VUrt UfTeRH StEepY Tbwtfr iun UiT tuc mvmliT TWAtW MS IP rw U FIFTH CFJ Christ! Oxford to Celebrate Remarkable Career as Seat of Learning v comparison and condemn our own product. Place fair- samples of each side by side, however, and Orego oak will prove the best. The crushing test is considered to be a fair test Oregon oak will stand doable the test of eastern oak. There is a reason for it. The lay ers : of Oregon oak are closer . to gether, the spring and fail growths are practically equal, and there is a uniform development of the whole1 tree." One of the men at the confer ence gave a striking account of an actual test. A certain much used' ladder in a Portland plant was made with . firsteps. They were worn out in one year and were re placed with eastern oak. j They lasted three- years. Purely as an experiment the steps were replaced with Oregon oak. That was seven years ago and the sa me ladder and steps are still in use.. At the boys' school iq Salem, Mr. Craig iswupervising the making of aJUL, the. Jar n Uuje - for- tJfee- boys' school at Woodburn. It is! being made from Oregon oak cut by a little mill just outside of ; town, where it is air dried and kiln dried. M. L. Gilbert, present superin tendent of t-he state school here, who is very tbusy doing a big work tor the boys of Oregoff is very en thusiastic about the use of Oregon oak for the furniture. The boys are making bed room chairs, ta bles and chairs for living rooms. It shows up nicely the splendid qualities of the home grown oak. U "By all means try to conserve the oak trees left standing," con cluded Mr. Craig, "and let us do our bit to give Oregon oak its rightful name." ' . HERE'S THE REASON "Here's your bill." said the doc tor, "wish you would pay me 1 100 now and $25 a week."; "Sounds like you're buying an automobile." ' "I am." Notre Dame Juggler. JAPANESE CROP GOOD TOKYO The Department of Agriculture has published its acreage estimates of crops in Jap an for the current' year. The bar ley acreage is estimated at 361, 282 chobu (one chobu equals 2Vt acres); rye, 521,692 chobu. and wheat 420,800 chobu. Compared to the preceding year! the barley acreage showed a lecreasyof one tenth of one percent, j but the rye acreage' increased 1.1 percent and the wheat acreage, one-half of one percent. I WILL PAY TAX All the gold and sliver dollars coined in the United States in 1923 would pay but two-thirds of the OXFORD. Eng.-l-Chriat Church the largest and most n'jtab'.e of Oxford Colleges." begins the fifth century; of 1U existence this montn. For reasons of conveni ence, the celebration already has been held, so the true .birthday of tnis curious institution, which is toth a college and a cathedral and yei is canea a cnurcn. win pass quietly during the long vacation a . iwonern investigation nas re vealed a remarkable continuity in the history of English ecclesiasti cal foundations. . The Saxons built their churches on the ruins of the great Roman temples, and the Normans in their tnrn rebult the Saxon churches. This "continuity Is most remarkable in Oxford. where nearly every eolege has grown out of a medieval mofias tery. Christ Church stands on the site of a priory, a parish church and at least two older monastic colleges, its bells were removed from a neighboring abbey, and both the stones and the funds us ed in its constructfon were ob tained from the dissolution of more than 40 monastic founda tions. In 1846 the tercentenary of thia same college was celebrated, and in a sense properly, for 1546 was the date of its last foundation. The true credit belongs, however. to an earlier date and to Cardinal Wolsey son of an Ipswich butcher, who began it as Cardinal College at a time when he was the favo rite of King Henry VIII and stood second only to him in power i?nd pomp and fortune. Wolsev was nothing if not a man of act ion. To make room for his col lege a quarter of the city of Ox ford was pulled down. In the tirst year alone he spent a sum equivalent to three-quarters of a million dollars. His plan was so was to be razed to make room for his college chapeL His kitchen is one of the largest in the country and the great dining hall is sec ond oflfcV to the hall of Westmin ister in size and grandeur. When Wolsey fell from favor his college was taken over by the king, who refounded it under his own name, then suppressed it as a college' to unite it with hia new Oxford diocese. " Beside Wolsey's great halt and kitchen. Christ Church boasts; two of the finest English examples of the Gothic"" style of architecture both built more than a century af ter Gothic became merely a : his-; torical term.' One of these, the stairway to the hall, was designed in 1640 by a genius known only as "Smith of London." The other. Tom Tower, carrying the WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S f V TRAFFIC TALKS tl Some ! day someone may - dis cover a method of getting into the : consciousness of certain people the lesson that it is much safer to observe traffic signals than it is to ignore them. No matter where one goes. Puyallup, Washington or Paris, France; Pari. Illinois or Lon don. England there are found men and women who habitually, or occasionally, disregard traffic signals to save a few econds. Jaywalking is still the com-' monest cause of accidents. Jay-' walking : in the. first degree is crossing streets at - places other than at crossings. All redes- Great I trian carelessness is some degree Tom bell which every night rings 101 pcls to announce the closing of college gates. wa designed by Chr1stipherr Wren, architect of St. Paul's, in one of the few happy moments when he really sensed the feeling of medieval builders, i Chrbt Church in its 400 years has contributed its share of illus trious names to history. American as well as English. William Penn was a student of The House until he was sen, down for hid religi on, as was George Grenville whose stamp act led to the Revo lution and the loss of the Ameri can colonies. -Sydney, knight and poet, Hakiuyt. the geographer, Ben Jonson. John Locke, the phil osopher. Bishop Stubbs, the his torian and "Lewis Carroll." au thor of Alic e "in Wonderland, are but a few of the great Christ Church company. The college has been fortunate in its rulers, near ly all its deans being men of great ability. One was the greatest Fmoker of his day. and when a bet was made that he would be smokins his pipe at ten in the morning it was only lost because be wa cleaning his pipe at the moment. Another worthy den, called "Presence-of-mind Smith' won this unu3ual designation by thumping with .an oar a boating companion who had fallen over board and was risking the dean's safey by his attempts to re-enter the boat. ! ot jay-walking. Jaywalking is dangerous even on a one-way street. Oa a two-way street jay walking ' is especially danperous. One may escape what's coming only to be struck by what's go ing. Cross streets at crossings and cross streets when the signal tells the pedestrian to go. Motorists are compelled by law to bserm traffic signals. If they disobey them they are arrested. The pedctrian chould observe them, for his own safety. The wise motorist is always alert and always has his car nnder control. He protects the jay-walker.- The jay-walker should, if hnmanly possible, b taught to protect himself. Observing traffic signals is a sane and safe way. , RELEASE SIXTY-ONE WEEK BEGINNING AUGUST 2. 192S Elpnhant Reneats Action H "Midy-- bathing tank. Th Liepnani nepedis Acuan hig fcea8t plalaly ,howed her d0. Alter 14- Year Interval1 ilgat with her urst plunge m 14 srjeciul federal motor taxes levied on the automobile and motor prod- r881 inal tne re cnurcn of St ucts last year. Frideswides which serves as the cathedral of the Oxford diocese Cop: "Say. what do you mean by going forty files an hour?" i Fair Driver: "Why, officer. I have been driving only fifteen minutes." Thortonite. VIENNA A decree issned by the late Emperor Francis Joseph 14 years ago, recently was vacated and the act which caused the is suance of the decree immediately was repeated by one punished, by it. The victim of the aged em reror's wrath whs "Maidy." the female elephant, born at Schoen- brunn Zoological Gardens in Vien na. Jnne 17. 1906. When , about . five years old "Maidy" was being admired one day by a party which included a Iady-in-witlng at the royal Court. Filling her trunk from the great concrete tank which had been pro vided for her.-"Maidy" blew the water straight into the face of the lady-In-waitiag. When the Emperor heard of the misbehavi or he ordered tbe elephant's tank covered and condemned "Maidy" to go without a bath for the re mainder of her life. It happened that the nineteenth anniversary of the elephant' j birth, last month was a warm day tnd thoce now in charge of af fairs in Austria, figuring that no danger could come from vacating the late emperor's decree, restor- jears. That plunge apparently recalled her last previous one and 'Maidy. perhaps thinking it part of the program as before, immediately rilled her trunk with wate. and then emptied it into the faces of the park inspector and half & dozen of his friends who had as sembled to watch her get reac quainted with the tank. , This time, however, the offense was overlooked. Classified AcJs in The Statftsman bring ricsults' New Tint b1 Tube Sold Barrett Bros. Garage 1D NORTH CAPITOL JAPANESE HONORS WOMAN TOKYO A monument to Mrs. Edith Lacey. an American wel fare worker who lost her life dur ing the; earthquake ot 1923. has been dedicated by the Yokohama Young Women's Christian Asso- Mrs. Lacey was a leader association. . 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