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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1926)
THE OREGON STATESJIAN..SALEM, OREGON i:$UWAY.aiORNING,&AY 2, ;;3 RESOURCE CALIID Development, of West Due Largely 1o Utilizing Raw Materials at Home ,' LOS AKfySL-ES, .Mar 1 That tXif l west faking' big gains as an Indu&jal '(actor and tnat our indistraVrogress is due largely to ; tire resourcefulness of western manufacturers In , utilizing raw materials In, abundance Tight here at our doors, is the statement of Watt L, Moreland, fice president and general manager of the .More land Motor Truck company.. The truck is distributed by Viek Bros, af Salem. " ''California Iron ore Is now used in .considerable quantities by the 1 Moreland company In the making of steel, employing, one of the few t'-Mrictly modern grey iron electric ityjurnaces found', any here in the -- raited States,, declares tbe truck , vjVjpbnilder. . 5;V "it" wv.f "Western ' manufacturers - hare 1 J trie power in; this state Is cheap enough for most industrial purr M .1 a distinct edge 1 on the 'eastern manufacturer in that hydro-elec- V 1 poses. urtnermore, there is an aounaani supply avauaoie. v "Since coal for coke-making, as used in the large eastern steel mills, is a scarce article on the coast, the, electric steel furnace has been our salvation. The east ern manufacturer .might consider tnat a handicap but we have found the opposite to be the case. : '"For example, visitors through our factory invariably comment on the excellence of our working conditions. We fabricate a, com plete line , of motor trucks - from one to ten tons capacity and em ploy skilled labor in our various mechanical department. This labor is of a different character than is usually seen in the big eastern mills. "Practically every man on ,our pay roll speaks English. We try to employ the better type of work CM Idtteens. We have :none of the 1 VV, fshiftlng, ignorant labor class hieh needs an , interpreter in every department. Most of our men go home at noon for. lunch. They own their own homes and work in the garden . at night. Their living and working condi tions are such, that the tradition al dinner pail, symbof of the labor ing man for the past 50 years, has almost disappeared. "That, in a, w.ay, characterizes the ' western r industrial future more titan aajtsing else. T llm- nroTed. renditions for the work , lng mdUnore efficient manufac turing n-ipinoas oasea on mu ae- velopment of sources right noses' the - natural re- here' under our SHORTAGE If CARS SAID TO H sands of cars below- normal. The action was mis-Interpreted in some quarters. 1 : ; "It seemed, - to superficial ob servers, that the industry was in a precarious position; and wild talk of the old mythical 'saturation point began to be heard again. "Fact Is,. the industry was never in such a safe condition for there is no danger ot a casualty when the safety "valve Is ' work ing! ' "Only danger now is that the Industry as a whole, will lose the sale of several hundred thousand cars, because of its inability to produce them in the time left. For, while all plants are now rapidly getting into full produc tion.7 none ca nexceed its capacity. "So we will all be lagging a month or two behind retail de mand, which is . now lively and persistent. "Several o'f the leading makers are already hopelessly behind or ders. Just stop ; and consider for a moment what would hannen if some power could stop all the au tomobile plants for a full thirty days! "Why it wonld take a year. with all , factories running over time,,4o catch.upf agairf. Those were-valuable -lessons learned by manufacturers this season. First. that we can cut our 'garment to oux, cloth; the Second, that too much caution, may have just , as serious consequences as too much daring. The penalty, if anjr must be paid, will of course be passed on to the tardy buyer who, in the event of a serious shortage will have to pay a premium for prompt delivery." says the RIckenbacker head. NEWS FROM LOCAL BEACH RESORTS (Continued fiem p8 1.) make the Devils Lake resorts. Sa lem's "nearest ocean beaches and when the Roosevelt highway is - " - SUGGESTIONS Having an unnecessary number of the largest sized table napkins, a woman took four, hemmed them neatly by hand, and joined them together with hairpin lace one-ha)J inch wide. The lace she made from No20 crochet cotton, while No. 30 .cotton was UBed to crochet a straight edge of two stiches be tween each loop of lace so that it would look even when sewed in be tween the napkins. The outer edge of the cloth was finished with the some hairpin lace with , a -small scallop to finish the edge. This made a cloth 50 inches square. A firm, yarrow braid could be sub stituted for the lace. Lake Ljtle Hotel completed to Newport will short en the distance to Portland by 30 miles according to Budd Jones, of the Ocean Land .company who has been instrumental in creating this foad district. Polk county has five miles of road to complete between Dallas and the Wallace bridge and, when this Is completed another ten miles will be cut off from all the Till amook and Lincoln county resorts ,The DeLake : Investment com pany, owners of the- Delake town site are placing building restric tions in the' townsite of from one to three thousand dollars. v A Baw mill will be in operation at,, the south .end of the DeLako townsite about May. 15. The mill will supply, electric lights for the. townsite and will be equipped with modern machinery, and a dry kila.1 Radio Ends Dismal Days George T. Baxter, owner of thej Dolph sulphur springs and hotel came to Salem, Oregon In 1 $ 68 He was a member of the Salem fire department for a time, ."v 1S86 he bought 160 acres at Dolph on which the present hotel j and Sulphur spring is located. The new road which will cut off about 10 miles distance to Nescowin,' Devils Lake and the Selietz -bay country takes off from the high- way at his place. V Charles McFarland formerely of Salem, has leased the- restaurant and hotel from Mr. Baxter and In tends to make this a ' popular place for hungry tourists to dine and rest. i ,:v '.-. - . T...; f. .. ., '"'. ' - ' " . . . - . . si ii i - - - - - i trZ:-1 i mm - r - if Pr:- r. n . .t-?" , i 1 Brooten's Baths Near Pacific City Roses may . be kept fresh for some time by placing them at night in a large pitcher or jar of cold water, deep enough if possible so that the roses themselves will rest upon the water. Saturate brown paper, bring it up over and around the flowers, being careful to keep the petals, Jherjgh$ waj and to see that' the flowers are entirely covered. Set the jar in a cold place. By doing this each night, .sometimes cutting off a bit of the stem, you have roses fresh a week. Seventy-eight miles west of Salem, overlooking the . Pacific ocean and Pacific City is located Brooten's Baths. H. H. Brooten, owner of this health resort, has an investment here of something over 4100,000. He has increased and enlarged his place each year with the growing demand for his kelp ore and kelp ore baths. The kelp ore from Brooten's Baths is now being sold at nearly every drug store, 12 Salem drug stores are now selling this product in boxes and bottles. In i925 Mr. Brooten reports that he did a $40,000 business and he expects to do three times that much this year. Although the location of Broot en's Baths is very good the pre sent' road of plank over, steep grades make it difficult, to reach the place especially when travel is heavy. Mr. Brooten is very anx ious 'to have the county put in a road from Pacific,: City to the Roosevelt highway at 'gage tide lands, and he offers to bear a portion of the expense of this road as it would run only a short dis tance from his place. If this road was put in It would give two en trances to the popular Pacific-Clty resort and releave the congested traffic to that lace during the busy season. Boxing Replacing Duelling With Swords in Universities BERLIN. Boxing is slowly re placing student duels with sabres as a major sport in German uni versities and high schools. The first lnterscholastic boxing matches ever held here have just taken place betwees . pugilists of the University of Goettlngen and the Hanover School of Technology. Look for that 'used car on the classified page of the Statesman UsualJ Spring Shortage Automobiles to Be Ex 1 . ceeded This Year in "l is already, here- the usual spring shortage of automobiles, says B. F. Everitt, president and general manager Rickenbacker Motor company, "but this year the . shortage threatens to be unusual ly lone." "All indications are .that the shortage will be more acute dur- , ing the next three months than at any previous period in the his tory of the industry. This condl tion is due to the fact that, be- ' cause of the lateness tf the season most sections reporting it three to four weeks late we automo bile manufacturers .opened , the safety valve and left-It open too "That, by the way.jp has been one of the most important devel opments in this industry; the safe ty . TalT and our ability to, use it," says Mr. EverItt.aProductIon ..methods have beenis -brought to tf"Tsuch a state of perfection, and of V flexibility that .those: .manufac- ' turers who are best equipped, can slacken production 25 or even, 50 : per cent .when - for"-. brief . spell. retail sales , let up and , yet . '.not t Incur a prohibitive .overheadXiThat was " wha happened' d uring 7 anu- ary, . February and ' March .. this i year. . Some of, the largest 'mak ;,ers dropped seveiral hnndred end ' in' one case ' at least several thousand cars per day., That was what we term opening the safety 4 yaltiSv.. f.-s&y X Tl'Tv1' "It baa been usual to do this 0j Vprlqg January and February. In f'r fat t vre seldom get under way on f If' new models until the first of h Marh. From then on the pra y Jf tice 4 has been to run.- full blast. ' r Weather in March of this - year f' I was severe; reports from all sec tions were unfavorable. Just then ' toj, the professional operators n ,f the stock market decided to make i 11 a cleaning, the bears got control. sXV and pounded all. stocks, especially 4ird. That made antomo- 5. fblls mannfacturers over cautious.4 , with tbjreauU'4hataiaxcli ro- ' ' dcUpaf was hundred? -fil ihgu- XtBtMERAk MOTOR V COAKaM10M j BOSTON (AP Adoption ' of i the 'radio by keepers of lighthouses and lightships has given brilliant touch to a new chapter, in the ro mance of the' Atlantic ocean. ' "Since the days when -the first wooden fires were kindled in the tower of Pharos light to warn and guide mariners entering .the an cient harbor of Alexandria, the life of the lighthouse keeper has been one of dreary monotony and isolation. For ages the .keepers have tended - their wooden fires, huge wax candles, oil, gas, or electric lanterns, never allowing them to burn low or cease their flashing. Pilots seeing the beacon altered their courses to steer clear of rocky ledge or treacherous hidden shoal. The keeper of the light watched their approach and fol lowed their departure until the ship dropped below the borrizon or its lights were extinguished in the dark of night, leaving only intensified solitude in its wake. Even today visitors are almost unknown at many lights that dot New England's broken coast. Only an occasional visit by a tender ship that brings supplies breaks the monotony that makes all days seem as one. In bad weather the periods of isolation are liable to extend over months. Newspapers and magazines are weeks old and their news, -as such, has long since ceased to be. . It Is not difficult, then, to be lieve with Capt. George E. Eaton, superintendent of the Second Lighthouse District, that radio has proven the greatest single boon -to lighthouse keepers in generations.' The picture he lays before the landlubber could . have its setting In the desolate Great. Point light, miles from the mainland, or in. the famous' Minots Ledge light that rises from the water without ap parent support. Minot's founda tion Is cut in the Bolid Tocsj-of one kthey never see land the Atlantic and froth its surface in foam. Spray turns to ice and coats the glass protection around the flashing light' with sleet. The observation loft whistles in the gale. I The keeper's "trick" is up and he is relieved by an assistant. He now retires to his room. He turns a knob on his radio set. The scene shifts and forms a new pict ure. The winds subside and waves no longer pound. It is a peaceful night and strains of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" f ill the room. Soon the leader of the philharmon ic orchestra in New Tork or Phila delphia surrenders his baton to a "jazz" outfit In Pittsburgh or Chicago, i As for the news of the day, 4n fact of the hour, be needs but turn -his dial to another sta tion and Instantly he is listening to dispatches that under ordinary circumstances he would not have known for weeks. In all there are about 120 lights scattered along the Bay State coast. Of these, sixty are "watched" lights and some seventy-five keepers are employed to see that their beacons are kept burning. Most of them are illu minated by gas lanterns as light house officials believe it to be even more dependable than elec tricity for their need. Almost without exception these stations house one or more radio sets which the keepers themselves have purchased. On board the lightships the change is even more pronounced and fascinating. There are seven teen' of these vessels bobbing at anchor at points of greatest hidden danger. Life on board them is more isolated . than that of the lighthouses. One and two miles off the" coast is stationed the Nan- tucket Shoals ship the furthest from land lightship in the world. Fifteen men comprise its crew and it is often months at a time that ships have radios is not a matter of -Record, but Cape. Eaton Is now engaged in finding jont. The task; however,. will be a slow one as the information is being gathered by the tenders that make infrequent periodic visits to the shackled ships. ! ' " The crews of th lightships are often comprised oif seamen who have had little or (no school edu cation. There are even those among them who find it difficult to aecipner a printed , page . or translate their thoughts Into writ ten words. Notj illiterate of course, "for the sea's lexicon does not include the word. "Just haven't bad much Ibook learning' is all. But as for: sea has schooled phrases. To these men proven nothing short of a revela tion. On deck the watch peers into the fog for dim lights ot home- bound vessels and listens for their whistled signals. Perhaps nearby looms the hazy bulk of an ancient square rigger. Phantom-ehipUke it passes in the grey night. i The light-ship stays anchored in the dismal fog bank. In the cabin thoe of the crew who are not on "trifk" or sleeping gather about the ship's radio, lis tening to entertainment that has come hundreds of miles. education the them in all the tadio has Good rbads greatest .asset. , are: a country's A iwrsify Head. ; Hi Ii "I of the moat dangerous submerged ledges on the entire coast line. The last visit of a tender is weeks back. Overhead the signal light flashes and blinks in unceas ing rythm. It Is the season of gajea and out of . the .bleak north sweep un lashed winds that scourge Other ships are anchored along th foggy fishing banks. to guide and warn by light and horn the coastal yessels that so easily lose their way in the thick haze that makes familiar waters seem strange. Just how many of these light- Im m I X JiWM ! . . . A. t . ' George " W. &!ghtmire, new preiident of. Ohio State TJnirer- j sity, one of largest educational institutions in Ur has-been a j member- -of the, -faculty store lOO&r lie 4s first giadJiaU 4f f the school to become, its perms- - nent head.'' " 'i 1 i BALLOOi 1 VULCfu JIZING and RETREADING - Service , SMITH tWATKINS Telephone 44 Court & High Sts. CADILLAC CUSTOM TOURINO CAR -atj- -I i . K- r Tr-"iai r mr - --c-'-.i rh-r&$ DEGREE- ILL AG ts Cadillac production Tor the first eight morithsj eriding;March 3 1? was more F -than tiouljfc that Fthe amc period a year agc ; I V-.- :-This'is.'the Xnost conspicuous' sales'- successever recorded for a -car. of the. . Cadillac price. '; i i ;b -: -Then"ewadiUacias more speed than . you" will ever want to useand its , greater speeds is coupled with .'greater luxury, and comfort tt has enhanced hill climbing ability. It is built to give you more miles of continuous satisfac ; tory service. It is gloriously facile and smooth in its acceleration. In even its minutest detalsit manifests asuprenuU ,' cy' that is found only in a Cadillac. "'The biggest point of all is that ;n the new Cillacftonefthe feataresjb ' developed at the expense of others, or : at the; cost ofexcellence, bdt - :rare developed t a degree never before " approached. ' r '.'' ". As a consequence, the new Cadillac is s . everywhere htiled as the' greatest car ever built. As f such .it jis without, question the most .satisfactory purchase for anyone who contemplates a car I that costs 12,500 or more. ' . F.r W. PETTYJOHN GO. Telephone 12G0 365 N. Commercial (7 ; -ti-. F. O. B. FACTORY The New Willys Finance Plan- Smaller down pay ments and smaller monthly payments; ..the lowest credit -cost in the industry. mm1 4.- .v Jm V' J t. . 1 1 'HAT is the great .popular impression of the' JL Overland Six built up by the amazing power of its low swung, gravity .balanced motor. j Snappier than any other motor of its size- faster ; more powerful, it will out-run, out-pull, out accelerate any other car in its class. Its just the car for Western needs read for the steepest grades, the roughest roads, or the long pull over the! high- -way that, shortens your trip and brings distant places within easy reach. " - ; It is a smooth running car, with all the power delivered in a straight line from the motor to the rear axle. - j , It is a sturdy car over the road -r all the weight is kept low by the gravity balanced body .-giving great stability around curves a feeling of safety wherever you drive. There is long life in the strongly built chassis made to withstand the hardest usage land give you real service.: There is.strilung beauty in the body lines, Iow SJppy.V in appearance, finished in a lustrous iacquer that-Leeps , its color and its gloss in all kinds of weather. v See this car ride In it drive it ypurself and be convinced.' . I ' ..-, .H . i .',- ': isf--r ' ii: . .. ' i . .. ' i : ; i i f . .. ' " - 1 .- . - ' ' ' . - - - 1 1 Cottace- Ferry Sts 9 V. v ' Y ,f L