rATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MOPwNING, NOVEMBER C, 1027
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A HOME- OF INDIVIDUALITY;
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Berkeley Fire1 Gained Head
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The happy use of timber and brick for the orna- r
mentation of this stoceo home has resulted In a charm that la
quite unusual. The use of brick" in the; arched doorway is at- .
tractive in Itself and emphasizes the whole en tryway.- which is
a well planned detail of the home. The windows in the front of
the house are well balanced and the French doors, opening from
the living room to the" terrace, shows consideration for comfort
and convenience. . r . ; . , , . " ' ' 1
The five-room home, wh'ich is 43Jteet deep by. 46 feet wide, is
entered through a reception hall. " On one side of this hall is 1
the living' roomi with the fireplace opposite the entrance door
way, where it dominates the room. This room is provided with
a closet. The dining room is directly behind the living room
and is conveniently situated in regard to the kitchen. The two :
bedrooms and the bath room are combined in I, group which:
occupies one side of the house. . '
; The outer walls should be constructed of masonry materials,
as stucco will bond'more perfectly with brick or vhollow tile than -with
any other materials, and will be a more permanent Job..
This will give a house that is easily heated in winter and which:
will be cool and pleasant in the hot summer'months. . -
, 5 One can get : many excellent ideas for home plans from, such
magazines, as The American Builder Building Age and National
Builder, and The Small Home, (a magazine published by the
Architects Small House Service Bureau of the United States),'
as well as from booklets published by the Common Brick Manu
facturers Association and the Hollow Building Tile Association.
Tour architect can then adapt these plans to your personal needs
and tastes.-, - - ; . .
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31 VAULT in
IT ODD All BUSH
Security So Great That Bank
Has Next To Lowest
Insurance' Rate
The new vault in the Ladd" &
3u3h bank. Installed the past
iummer, is now open.to use of the
public Work of remodeling the
jank has been going -tn for con
,iderable time, and in fact. Is not
tuite complete yet. A few minor
Alterations in the floor of the
building is all now left before the
entire. Job is complete. w
The new vault is about the last
word, in modern banking facilities.
With, the exception of one other.
h is bank has been granted the
uwest burglary insurance rate in
;he state. : A trip through this
vault is a liberal education in the
natter of safety for valuables.
The vault itself is 30 feet across
he front, 12 feet deep and extends
a to the basement o t the bank.
The l jrxtZf vault Is in two
- y"tmenU, separated by heavy
terete. One s we is ior cosiom
?rs safety deposit boxes and the
,ther is for the use of the bank
ir in other words, where the
old cash is heavily guarded.
Two mammoth circular rault
ors furnish access to the rault
The bottom of the doors come
bout a foot below the floo of
; 5 bank and a special contrivance
j installed for lowering a part of
floor pust in front of the vault
:f ore it is to be opened or closed,
f rwards the floor Is again rais-
: t its normal position. These
s contrary to the general sup-
:tion, are not hard to swing,
t a very flight touch of the
- i will move them.
I a the part of the vault set
:rt ior custoncrs" there are
4000 deposit boxes They are of
different, sizes and charges for
annual rentals run from three to
twenty dollars When a box hold-
er comes into the bank, and wants
to go to hia. deposit box Jie ;is r-i
quired to sign his name on a card,
Which 'is then compared -with, his
original signature at the time the
box was rented- If found to tally,
he Is allowed inside the iron gate
that leads to the vaulti Of course
with those who -are welT known on
sight, this precaution is dispensed
with. ,7j'
If the customer desires to re
move his valuables to look them
over, count them up, or anything
else, he has provided for him sev
eral small cells, each one just big
enough for one person to get into
with comfort. ; This little room
has to be unlocked by the bank at
tendant and after the customer is
given, not only privacy f while he
looks over his property, "but abso
lute protection from ! a possible
has been set for 'the night would
set It of L Another, precaution that
has been added za string of lights
at the rear of the vault. It so hap
pens that there .Is space' all along
the. rear of the vault into which
aerson having access to the' cus
tomer's"; department 'couNT crawl
into and remain there until after
banking hours. To forestall any
thing of . this kind . happening,
these- lights, have , been installed
and the last person in the rault
before . closing 'the bank: at night
tucas an - eiectric-3sWitch that
throws on these . lights " and it - is
then -possible to see clear to the
farthest end of the-rear of the
vault.-,..;. ' ; - -.-
, Old Days Recalled
A special feature of the remod
ellng Job in this bank one : that
attracts a great deal of attention
from visitors is a room In the
northeast . corner of the ' bank
wherein all of the bank furniture
that was used 69 years ago when
this bank waa first established has
been set In place. The old fash
ioned tables and chairs in use at
that period form, a striking con-!
trast to the present day furniture.'
An oil painting of i Asahel Bush,
founder of the,, bank, has been
hung in the room.' Inside decor
ators have been busy the past few
days adding a coat of varnish to
all ot these antiques.
Anot5r little item that Is no
ticed by all visitors with an ex
clamation of interest is the little
old Mosler safe with which the
bank. started business in 1868. It
was the only means of physical
protection the. bank had for . its
funds in that day - and It Is ' so
small that it was placed with little
difficulty on a pedestal in the rear
of the bank where it may be seen
by anyone' entering the bank,;
I The Ldtdd & Bush bank Is one
of the very old landmarks of the
city of Salem, having" been estab
lished when State street was little
more than a wagon trail ; : and
from nresent appearances and Im
provements it will still exist In un
diminished vigor when' time shaU
have taken its toll from the lives
of its present personnel, even
down to the youngest messenger
It ia noteworthy that 210 mills
M M . m.
oi war important soitwood pro
ducing groups sold their full pro
duction during- the week, though
they; manufactured ' two percent
more than their normal amount.
But. the activity of the west
coast mius makes : for a - poorer
showing for softwoods as a whole
as there, mills hare been bale to
move only; about eighty-five per
cent of their production In the
last few. weeks. -')" :
' ; Supply and dempnd are likely
to strike a better balance soon, as
On September 17 1923. driven
out of control by a heavy wind, a"
gTass fire from the Berkeley hills
Invaded a beautiful5 residence section-
of the University city. - That
the fire did not reach the campus
of the University ;Ot California or
destroy more of the city-was due
entirery to the dying down of the
wind. As it was. many blocks of
beautiful homes were destroyed,
leaving only a forest of - brick
chimneys with an occasional flap
pins section of 'stucco on metal
lath, as monuments ' to a former
beautiful residence section
The entire blame for: the spread
of the fire can be laid to the type
of construction, which was almost
entirely of frame with an occas
ional house of mill , construction
faced ' with stucco on meal lath.
This latter type of construction is
only slightly more fire resistive
than straight frame. ;
There Is no . Question but . that
the destroyed residences had been
very beautiful, but they! "could
have been made equally beautiful
if constructed of fire resistive mar
terials. Brick construction for
the outer walls would have xjnly
increased the cost of the . home
about ' 10 ; per cent at the . very
most. Hollow tile is a better base
for stucco than metal or wood
lath, . and has infinitely - greater
fire resistance, and the cost is only
slightly greater. 1 . . ,
in European countries a man
whose house is the cause for the
spread of fire is held liable by the
law. The destruction of this res
idence section of Berkeley could
have been prevented had one or
two of the homes in the Immediate
path of the grass fire been con
structed of fire resistive materials.
It is a peculiar trait of the
American business man that he
will go to almost any ends to safe
guard his merchandise- and valu
able papers;' but, when it comes
to safeguarding the lives of his
family,: he would rather sacrifice
safety In home construction in
order to save a few dollars in first
costs, forgetting that. In the end,
cheaper construction is the more
expensive- in losses through de
preciation, cost of upkeep, and the
present fire-hazard.
What happened to Berkeley.
California, can easily happen to
Salem, Oregon. M ;
electric current supply lines. Most
farms have their own : lighting
plants and are too far removed
from city power lines." They are.
therefore, dependent on batteries
td supply the current for their
sets. , , ' - " .
"Most farmers own radio stor
age batteries, instead ;ot using dry
cells, because the storage .batteries
can easily recharged, as a rule,
from their lighting plant generat
ors, says Mr. Williams.
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CHEVROLET PLflflT
Thousands of Visitors Flock
To Oakland Factory;
Many Students
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DUCES
Results So Satisfactory Au
tomatic Control May Be
Installed Soon
.Edward F. Ieomis. secretary of
the Motor Truck Committee of the
Chamber In a - dele cat a to the
pine mills in. the North, the IHTrahsporttairieeting of the So-
land. Empire . and in California
will be shutting down for the win
ter. ,
But other softwood manufac
turers see the need for supple-'
menting this ordinary curtailment
by a voluntary reduction in their
output. 4
i This trend is most noticeable
among southern pine mills, ' but
some of the biggest factors on the
west coast are counseling the slow-'
lng down of operations.
Demand : for hardwoods con-J Wlllard battery man.
ciety of Automotive Engineers In
IChlcate. .
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Storage Batteries Hold
Favor cf Many People
In spite of the, interesting pop
ularity of socket power devices
for radio power, storage batteries
continue to be the almost' unani
mous choice of the farm radio lis
teners, claims Mr. Williams local
WASHINGTON (AP)" Elim
ination of the howl o a 5.000
watt station,; only 500 milea away
on the same channel. 1,060 . kilo
cycles, has been reported- to the
Federal Radio commission. Frank
lin M. Doolittle, president of the
company that t operates Station
WDRC at New Haven. Conn.-, in
a letter to the commission, de
scribee, an experiment which, he
says, practically eummaiea a naa
heterodyne from Station WAIIT
at Columbus Ohio. - ,
Mr. Doolittle, formerly -urofes-
sor of radio at Yale, eaid: "I rent
ed ,'a ; circuit from the telephbne
company , between - my rhome and
the transmitting plant at Beacon
Hill, the two; points being about
five', miles apart The tu tput of
the : receiving set Is . connected
through a step-down transformer
to the line, : ' At the, station end
the line is connected -to the Input
of a two stage amplifier which
compensates for the line loss. As
the circuit Is entirely of cable the
quality ie decidedly bass. TheJ
line could of course be equalized
but this is not necessary for the
purpose, in fact. It is rather de
sirable to emphasize the bass.
"This arrangement allows J the
operator at the station to hear the
program as it Is being received
five miles dletant and If a hetero
dyne howl Is present from Colum
bus, he then adjusts until zero
beat Is obtained. This arrange
ment does hot necessitate passing
radio frequencies over the circuit
but employs the audio output of
the receiver. Our transmitter is
of the master oscillator type and
w employ a crystal for checking
frequency. -4
"We have had 'such satisfactory
results with this method of reduc-'
lng interference. I am going to. try
an automatic control ,r which will
start to function as soon as the
heterodyne appears." The general
plan of the scheme is to control
our transmitter with . our crystal
and to vary the frequency of the
crystal by variation In tempera
ture which Is controlled from the
receiving set at my home.
tinues dull, and the low offers of
some southern producers hare
brought -pricea to a point where
there is no margin of profit.
Northern prices have been affect
ed by the competition, and there
was a rather general mark-down
of the list in the last week.
Southern mills are beginning to
curtail their cut, and it is predict
ed that lUwill be so reduced in the
next few weeks that sales will ab
sorb the output and make some
Inroads into mUl ' stocks. The
southern mills had 70,000 feet a
unit less unsold stock on hand
October 1 than they had on Jan
uary 1 this year.
'.'This Is due,, of course, to the
fact that, few large farms are on
It is ""of interest also to know
that this rault Is the depository of
the state , treasurer of Oregon
The office of state treasurer Is
not provided with a vault suffici
ently safe to permit of taking
chance with the large; amount of
securities deposited in 'that office.
so for many years this bank has
been the guardian of these funds.
A special department of this rault
has been provided in the basement
of the bank for this purpose and
to which the state treasurer has
the keys. - Millions r of dollars
worth of securities are tbere. i
Whether the writer of this ar
tide was eyed with suspicion or
if was because the bank officer
who- showed him through did not
bare the time is not known, but
at any rate, he was not shown into
the other . half ot ; the menster
vault that contains the bank's
funds. All he did -was look at it
from a distance, but from appear
ances it is all that is claimed fori
it from the standpoint of -safety.
i SURPLUS riOTED
III LUMBER SUPPLY
Seasonal Decline On, But
Total Bookings for Year
. Equal .Production .
Added Precautions - -
A modern burglar alarm is a
part of the equipment! The slight
est contact with the rault alter it
. In Its weekly market review.
the American Lumberman, Chi
cago, says: - ; ..
: General report la that demand
for most softwood items is .show
ing its seasonal decline, the book'
ings for the week ended October
15 amounting to only eighty-five
percent of the mill output.
Total bookings for the year to
date, ..however, hare fully equal
ed the cut, and this is as good i
showing as was made in the cor
responding forty-one weeks - of
last year. ,
Mill stocks as a whole are there
fore not in surplus. Some mills
have too much of .a certin item.
and others are a uttie too eager
for business, so that the market
presents a weaker appearance.
German Apprentices Earn
112 Dollars Monthly Wage
BERLIN (AP). -Almost . four
million wage earners in Germany
must content themselves with a
monthly wage of $12. or 0 marks,
according- to figures by the Insti
tute for. economic research. Most
of these 1 underpaid ' workers art
apprentices. '':- 'n:: : vi-T--:.-:
By far the largest group of
wage . earners draws : t monthly
wages of $25 to $75. It comprises
8 1-3 millions. Almost 5 mill
ions earn from $12 to $25.; -
The figures were arrived at on
the basis of sales of official Insur
ance stamps. Under the German
law, all wage earners ar compell
ed to enroll In on of the govern
ment invalid, old age and sickness
insurance institution. The pre
mium is paid weekly. In propor
(Ion to the Income, In. the form of
insurance stamps bought at the
post office. - . "' . . -
The statistics cover the cases of
1 S million workers,' hut do not In
clude employes with fixed annual
salaries nor business ; or profes
sional men earning their Incomes
independently. '
.Of these IS millions, only 350
000 earn more than $75 monthly.
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contracting. If - you
want a new structures
we can build it: and If
yon want and old one
.made new, we can do
that too. Lowest
prices.
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. General Bttildins '
Construction
Telephone 299'
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Open house at the big Chevro
let factory in Oakland. Cal.,
brought many thousands of visi
tors for three nights last week to
see how motor cars are made. Del-,
egations from the schopls and col-!
leges in the San trancisco bay dis
trict and from civic organizations
attended the affair and were con
ducted through the long assembly
lanes where the automobile grows
from a thing of steel, frames and
wood into a beautiful product to
take its place ia the field of trans
portation for business or 'pleasure
of motorists of the Pacific coast.
The Chevrolet factory was: built
in-191 6, the original plans calling
for a production of 75 cars dally
In the last eleven rears consist
ently steady: and Increasing de
mands for the line on the Pacific
coast and in Rocky mountain ter
ritory have necessitated a consid
erable enlargement of production
facilities and the employment of
additional forces of employees.
Now the factoryjcovers an area
of more than 11 acres, with 629,
S98 equare feet of floor space. The
plant has a daily capacity of 525
cars, and a aaiiy average oi zit
cars is maintained. Production in
a-single month has reached a to
tal of 8132 cars, and this year 63.-
000 units have been turned out at
the Oakland factory.
The assembling of the Chevro
let motor car from the frame to
the finished product is an interest
ing process. Visitors were also en
tertained ; by motion ' pictures of
General Motors proving. ground,
which has been set aside by the
giant corporation' for the use of
Its engineers in testing aTMC-
A London propnet predicts that
another World War will start In
1928; that Great Britain will eorae
out victorious and Russia will be
destroyed. That ought to be a
safe enogh prophecy to make in
I England. ' .
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"Advice is about the dearest or the cheapest thing
in the world, depending almost entirely upon who's
giving it."
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Office, Yard and Warehouse
610 North Capitol
Telephone 2248
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plumbing results. The fact
that we are really and truly
Interested - In - the enduring
Quality of our work la your
protection. '
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rew Designs Planned
Fcr Coins in England
LONDOX (AP) Colonel R.
Johnson. Deputy-Master of the
Royal Mint, ts now considering de
nigna for new shillings sht-pences.
florins and threepenny bits. 'The
-w de-lens will be "more In keep
nr with-lnodern taste and def
initely more artistic,' i
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