THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
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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
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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
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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.
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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. . The monu-
in I the form vf a house
which is to be used as a rest' and
recreation center for the girls of
Yokohama and Is the gift of Mrs.
Lacey'si father. Dr. Charles C.
Roosa of Buffalo, N. Y.
elation,
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