Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1928)
I i THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 22 1923 f : A FRENCH COTTAGE OF SIX ROOMS f S9Vj3Ec . PtflBl II fell- UT, , Vfe V . - - w vi w uiuiwi utaivey JriAA JO, Jla7 I f 1 Hr.jt-fl K BD (LOOM LjJ MO (LOOM J. -ifc NyP- Lj g i i ir-v ;r n IJ i COSTS LIFTEN CRITICISED Some Increase Noted Since Pre-War Days; Brick Layers Must Work Oepyrlkt 1M7 r77HAT tort of rault Ibsum ' from the architect's ilI chemy? He mixes together walla, roofs, windows, ch'xo. nejr stacks on his paper cru cible. Prom it must come or der1, direction, beauty. Any one can mix .up these ele ments, but only an architect can maice the proportions such that lasting; beauty ret mains. The more skillful he la the more beauty he geta. Here then, in Oe-iin H-ki-21. Is an expression of the al chemy of architecture by which gross materials of wood, brick and stone have bt-en transmuted into pur beauty iu a woid. Into architecture. See how well O e plan elements are disposed, how direct the com munication. How clearly the architect has visualized the special uses of each of the rooms. To this six-room house, four on the first floor and two tei the second, have been added vestibule, break fast room terrace tnglenook with gorgeous flre piaoe, closets in profusion. Going over the plaits we find countless details v. interest For example, there is a first-story bed room and toilet, a grade entrance, coat closet in vestibule, three linen closets. Variety Bounded by Good Taste The living room, dining room and kitchen occupy a position which is detached from the first srory bedroom. The separation of kitchen and dining rrom by the breakfast alcoye is an arrangement which has its particular advantage in that the kitahin Is wholly set apart from the living quar ters. Tbo operations of1 the scullery as to noUe and odor must pass tWo dors before they get to' living room and dining room. The placement of the dining alcove makes of this feature, which has come to be the standard quipment of the small house a somewhat more forma) affair than the usual dining space that ap pears as part of the kitchen proper. Tet Its con k-nlence In the place given it !n this plan Is prac tically a direct as though tt were located in the kitchen itself. It will certainly be a far pleasanter Piace to dine. The interesting details are not confined to the plan alone. Perhaps the prospective home builder Is more inclined often to give the exterior of the house his most direct attention.' In this case there i5 much that will reward study. If one views the house from the point of view only of Its massing, disregarding the play of nuu terials. seeing only the wall forms and the way In whih they blend together, he will find here bal ance. The picturesque qualities do not come from disorder, parts are not pUccd or given shapes with out any thought of the way tbey will relate to hll the rest of the heuse. It Is a picture of orderli ness, which, like the plan, is a product of the archi tect's genius to translate crude materials Into en during beauty. There Is a contrast of materials here which lend vivacity from color and texture as well plastered walls, variegated tile roof, brick insets about the doorWay, iron bound door. The bricks at the oop and at the window sills, as well as those capping the chimney stack, complete a variety v.-hich Isj completely bounded by good taste. Some Construction Facts Construction: "Hollow tile walls, exterior finish stucco, Vrlck trim. Window frames may be of metal If desired. Lot sise: Forty-flve feet. Designed to face: East or south, EDITOR" 8 NOTE: The plans for small homM are fornUbed by tb Begienal Nutans of tb ArcalteeU' Small Boom ftarvtce Bureau of ae United States, lac, an organization made up of the representative practicing architects freai leading architectural offices throughout the Darted htates. This bureau Is con trolled by the' Americas Institute of Architects, sad has the endorseiuf. of h Department of Commeroe, United States rovernment. It Is practically a non profit making pi5: service, sod has as its purpose ths furnishing of a very complete and dependable small house plan servloe st modest cost. For Infor mation regarding the Mae prints sod specifications, address ths Homo Build'ng Editor of this paper. Copyright 1927 The Architects' Small House Service Bureau of the United States, Inc. Home Builders' Oltnie Mill NR JIITVTY r7UILU IU I U III I fTfERF ACCELERATING anuary Total So Far Ahead of Same Period of 1927 Despite Weather Building construction again :arts promisingly with th open- ig of 1928, the first hall month lowing an increase In total val es of building started, despite a iscouraging stormy first week. January totals up to Friday ere 21 permits for values adding i 7 4. 9 00. At the halt month tarn, however, the-total was 69.- 0i no rnmnurpd to ISS.IOO a 'ar ago. IVrmits issued so far this onth show a preponderance of Hi'lence construction, the factor which 1927 created a new rec- rd. 1 The largest single permit so far Ins year has been that of the erminal Ice & Cold Storage com- V fr, ramndollnv ttlA rhli T.flf- warenouan nuiiaine on norm t street at a cost of S41.00U. e record so far this year is 1 . . , 1 LI. . CttA in i mure remarKsvie iiuui f specially unfavorable for the first Ifeek and a little more. This con- iption was noticeable in the al "t entire lack of pennl8 while , prevailed. With better weather the second e k, the permits began to come i two and three a day. A year o. on the contrary the activity a,- steady throughout the two et'ks. due to favoraile weather. Thus it may be said that the cord for the second week repre- nts more than double' the activ- for a similaT period a year ago !0K STEEL FOB i-i001ES FflVDRED ses s m re Speed Demanded and Steps Taken To Pro vide More Safety The public is demanding mors V, than formerly, and this, de? id is reflected in the increase speed limits as designated by several states that hare the lev? Inline opinion of Prof ess- Is. L. Vaoghan. who makes this Ltsment, xnannfacturers should aslder this dsmand and direct feir efforts toward making the as safe as possible. rofessor Vaoghan. of the Tech- the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, is one of the contributors to the re cently published symposium gath ered by Percival White, New York City consulting engineer, entitled, "The Opinion of Leading Author ities on the Ideal Motor Car." He says further, ' "I am of the opinion that the double steel construction would be a helpful factor in producing greater safety, especially in the case of collisions or turnovers." With the appearance of Dodge Brothers' new Victory Six a few days ago we find the "blister" construction used in battleships, a double steel wall, applied for the first time to a closed car design. The double safety afforded by this double wall is further increased by the one piece construction, also found for the first time in the Vic tory Six. By building body and chassis in one piece and eliminat ing the need for body sills, the weight of the car is brought at least two inches closer to the ground, thus lowering the center of gravity and Increasing the sta bility and safety of the car. Other safety factors In the Vic tory Include Lockheed hydraulic four-wheel brakes and full-vision swinging windshields. The oil system provides more oil the fast er one drives, and a new cooling plan forces water from the ra diator into' the engine at several points, instead of just one, result ing in more even engine tempera ture and smoother operation. In spite of the double steel con struction the Victory is lighter than any car of its strength. This is because, by eliminating from 330 to 480 parts necessary to the ordinary car. the one piece con struction of the Victory saves at least 175 pounds in weight. An easy speed of 65 miles an hour may be had in the Victory. The car does 21 miles to a gallon of gasoline at a speed of 25 miles an hour, and accelerates from 5 to 25 miles in eight seconds, and from 10 to 45 miles in 15 seconds The Construction of an elabo rate system of superhighways, greatly enlarging the Federal aid highway program, which provides ror 182,000 thousand miles of Fed-eraJ-id road, has been asked in a bill just introduced In Con gress by Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire. The measure. actively supported by the American Motorists Association provides for a highway as direct as practi cable between the Atlantic and the Pacific Coasts and for cross highways, which would connect ihe entire United States. Skyscrapers that draw hundreds of people Into a Tsry small area. are blamed for much of today's traffic congestion by Chas. A. Tucker, ceneral sales manager of the Peerless Motor Car "corpora icoiiism MORE FOREST LAND SEEN Bill Authorizing $40,000,000 Expenditure Reported On Favorably WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 21 A favorable report on the McNary Woodruff bill, S. 1181, which pro vides for Federal expenditures of $40,000,000 for the? acquisition of forest lands ,has been voted by the senate committee on agriculture and forestry, following brief hear ing in which lumbermen, foresters and others urged the early passage of the measure. The committee will recommend that the total ap propriation be made available for an eight-year program. The bill contemplates the pur chase of 4, (JoO, 000 acres at the headwaters of navigable streams, two and one-half million acres in the Lake States and a like amount in the Southern Pine region. Re foresttion of these areas would be the aim of the government in mak ing the purchases. uo-mcidentaiiy with the an nouncement that passage of the McNary-Woodruff bill has recom mended comes word from" Sweden that the annual growth of timber :n Sweden's forests now exceeds the annual cutting by nearly 100 million cubic feet. This result, ac cording to a study prepared for the U. S. department of commerce, has been accomplished through forestry practice making extensive areas more productive and through closer utilixation, which has relatively reduced cutting. have afforded an opportunity to take a rap at the bricklayer who is still paying the penalty for a lapse of effort when everybody was loaHcon the job. The brick layers' union might well petition the department of commerce and labor to make survey to determine just how many brick a mason av erages as a beneficial assurance to the general public. There Is no denying that build ing costs have increased tremen dously since the pre-war years. Nor can it be deniedthat there is a keen resentment in the public mind in consequence. This is more or less constantly reflected in the newspapers and the mag azines. Stories regarding some phase of construction costs are appearing somewhere or another almost daily. No member of the building trades has been more consistently subjected to criticism than the i bricklayer. It is charged that he lays today only haT? as many brick as he did before the war and gets five or six times as much! money for it. The bricklayer is unfortunate in that his work is always open to view". Of all the artisans on a building his daily accomplishment alone can be mea sured with any degree - of accu racy. The carpenter may potter around, if he is so disposed, with his hammer and saw, his square and his mitre box, and at the end of the day one has to be a real expert to tell what he has accom plished. The same Is true of the plumber and the electrician, and most every other workman on the Job. Their work Is lost in the mass, so to speak, but the brick layer's dally performance speaks for Itself inescapably. Admittedly workmen of what ever sort suffered a letting down n their output during the cost plus war period. Most of them were not criticized then by the ontractors who, few in the know will deny, were making their work cost the government just as much is possible. Workmen in general ame out of that period with labits and ideas that it has taken almost a decade to corr t. But today most of them are doing a iretty fair day'e work. A recent article in a Chicago naper is indicative of the disposi tion to pan the bricklayer. As one reason for increased building costs it cited that in 1900 the price of brick was $4.50 a thousand and a bricklayer, receiving S2.50 a -lay, laid 2000 brick. Last year. the story continued, brick cost 21 a thousand and the bricklayer, eceiving $14 a day, laid only 600 n 8 hours. The 1900 figures may or may not have been correct. Those for '926 certainly were not. Com- -non brick delivered on the Job in Chicago last year cost $12 a thou sand. Thomas E. Priece, former -ecretary of the Internatoional Bricklayers & Plasterers union, 's authority for the statement that no bricklayer could hold a job in Chicago in 1926 who did not lay an average of 1,300 brick. Priece lives in a Chicago suburb. These facts might easily have been verified but that wouldn't II CHASSIS mis a high Considered Most Elaborate Attempt To" Reveal In ner Workings FLINT, Mich., Jan. 20 Com ment from the National Automo bile show at New York, filtering back to Flint, indicates that Bu ick's Fainbow chassis ranged well up among the many show ex hibits as a focus of public interest: The Rainbod chassis, prepared under the supervision of Kingston Forbes, Buick style engineer, rep resents months of work. It con sists of a ; regular 1928 Buick chassis, exterior parts of which are so cut away as to reveal every moving part in actual operation. The frame is finished in soft tan Duco, and the springs, radiator shell, and all other unlacquered parts; Including gears, in gleam ing nickel. Small lamps of var ious colors are coscealed inside the crankcase, head, transmission and rear axle housings, the tor quet tube, and between the chan nels of the frame, and these flash on and off and change hue as the chassis' driving apparatus turns, flooding the whole display with soft light of many tints. The chasies is said to be the most elabofate attempt ever made to reveal the inner workings of a motor car. Not only the operation of the pistons, but that of valves camshaft, push rods, crankcast and all the other interrelated mechanism is plainly visible, so that the function of each individ ual part may be readily discerned. "The Buick chassis is about as far from conventional design." said Mr. Forbes, "as the Rainbow chassis from ordinary cutaway chassis hitherto seen. It is the product of almost a quarter-century of development and progress. development which has pro duced the vibrationless six-cylin der valve-In-head engine, the dou hie drop frame, the torque tube drive, the famous sealed feature which shuts out dust and mois ture, cantilever springs, hydraulir shock absorbers, and mechanical four-wheel brakes." COMFORT SHOULD GD Tl Absence of Body Ills Being; Noted In Latest Designs of Automobiles Radio equipped Peerless cars are being used by the police of Cleveland as an aid in the appre hension of criminals. f , WAS SENT HOME FROM School 4 r-oic otirnr v DUMBBELL T J CHEER UP! IT WAS Pi HAN WHO COULD HOT FIND HIS OWN COLLAP. BUTTON VJHO DISCOVERED GOLD IN XAUFOPJHIA, Education begat Sanitation. The gold of Better Health is discovered in the Home of Bet ter Plumbing. "When you need a plumber, you need a good one!" H. EGNER 1015 Center Street Phones 852 and 1310-W Fine Fixtures Standard Equipment Do Not Envy a Tile Roof Have One Fireproof ' Beautiful Everlasting Upon Request Now b ihm Ttam for Dimia TO . . Sea os Today for Estimate Oregon Gravel Co. II 14C5 N. FtwJ Drala Tile, d Pipe. Phone -180' II I H Every type distributor Is re- ? aired here perfectly. A hot, at spark, precisely timed means a snappy motor. E. H. Burrell BATTERY STATION Liberty Telephone 203 3 eTer Silks Exterior and Interior Paints House Paints, Barn Paints and Stains Manufactured in Salem Guaranteed whit lead and linseed oil base, manufac tured by experts with more than fifteen years' experi ence with the largest paint manufacturers. Cut your paint cost. Buy a home product direct from the fac tory. Save 1JS0 per gallon. Phone us for free estim ate on painting and suggestions. White Lead Oil and Turpentine Varnish for Less Factory 2649 Portland Road 2786 In a recent symposium gathered by Percival White, consulting en gineer of No. 175 Fifth avenue, Xew York City, to determine the requirements for ideal construc tion, J. A. Kline, managing di rector of the Automobile club of tichmond, Virginia, stated: stated: "The thing of impoTtance in an automobile covers a great many of your subjects, namely, good en gine, good chassis, good brakes, good body, or, in other words, those parts which go to make up i good automobile. After this is once made the next thing is the important comfortable features hat go with it as well as mechan ical features that make safety .J' Considering the new product of Dodge Brothers the Victory Six one notes that the car has not sacrificed comfort for mechanical perfection. It has a noiseless body and the construction of the entire chassis renders the car ab solutely" quiet while being driven. There is an absence of body sills, and the, seat bases are built into the chassis .an unusual fea ture which makes for greater com fort. There is sufficient head room, leg room, and the seats are of unusual width which keeps the backbone in a comfortable position. The comfortable angle of the seats and backs, with ample roominess, insure comfort and change of position on long rides. The quality of the upholstery the sides put on in detachable panels all aid in keeping occu pants of the Victory Six in a state of comfort. The double wall construction of the car keeps it at an even tem perature both in winter and in summer and tight fitting doors make it draft proof. Automobile production in the United States during November was 133.202 passenger cars and trucks, compared with 256.300 cars and trucks produced in Nov ember of last year, according to monthly production figures of the Department of Commerce. WlW Destroyed the Plant of Cherry City Baking Co. Only the brick walls were undamaged and the original walls are now being used as a foundation for a new and larger building. What better evidence than is that it pays to Build With Brick 99 SALEM BRICK and TILE CO. Phone 917 Tile Road Salem House Moving House Wrecking Heavy Machinery Installed Foundation Worlr Stack Raising We are equipped to handle your city or country work quickly and economically. We also buy and sell buildings to be mored or wrecked. Cal on n at once. You will find that oar work win be satisfactory and our prices very reasonable. We Rent JACKS AND ROLLERS FOR HOUSE MOVING LET US SAW TOUR WOOD KUSEL BROS 2173 State Street T FEATURING CERTIFIED -THE BEST BUT WEN YOUBUZD ' t This is the time to buy Lum ber and Build when Prices are low, both for materials and labor. LUMBER and AH Building Materials Gabriel Ponder fiSupply Co Office. Yard Telephone 34 I V.T: i " 3 i . . : i f - !J:. - , - ' 5 "; 3. - . -1 .j ? r: it n 3 ? u u j n t. it- r (al Eoglneerins Department ox tion. -