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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon; Sunday Morning, October 13, 1929
TNI
UTPUT URGED
Identification of Goods Put
.Out by Convict Labor
Is Suggested
f Tagging prison-made products
to distinctly identify them from
Jthe products of "free" labor wil
serve to eliminate one f the
chief objections raised In connec
tion with the marketing of prison
goods, In the opinion of a com
mittee of penologists, manufactur
ers and labor representatives
'which has been acting as an advis
ory body to the department of
commerce in a study of prison in
dustries. According to the committee the
'differentiation obvious to ' the
buyer would make It possible to
sell similar goods even in the same
retail store with different prices
for the prison products arid the
'free products." The osly other
alternative to this tagging method
the'eommittee believes, v.ould be
the removal of prison-made pro
ducts entirely from the open mar
ket. (The report has been accept
ed by the entire committee except
by two dissenting letters which
are to the report.)
The nation-wide survey of pris
on industries vaa undertaken by
the department of commerce as a
result of ieut pleas by various
groups . of manufacturers who
claimed that thtir respective In
terests were bf 4 a seriously affect
ed by the competition of prison
goods. In offering the results of
its study, the lspirtmeat makes it
plain that it is presentjiiHfh facts
Only as dev.loi cd. ifJfr '
iscussinu proposed remedies
for the present situation in con
nection with marketing ..prison
Soade product?, the report reveals
'that while the ratio of prison
goods to the total manufacturing
output of the country appears neg
Jigible, In the case of certain com
modities It reaches an apprecia
ble figure. Binder twine is instan
ced as an example of a commod
ity where the proportion of prison
output Is substantially higher
' than the general average. To a
leaser degree, this situation pre
vails in the case of shoes, brooms,
furniture and certain types ( of
men's shirts.
Different states have different
methods of marketing their prison-made
goode. Eleven states sell
their prison products .for govern
ment use only (this includes fed
eral, states, municipal and county
institutions); thirteen states sell
to brokers, wholesalers, retailers
and consumers In addition t o
manufacturing for government
use; and 24 states sell prison
made goods to private distributors
or labor to contractors who seek
private profit in reselling those
products to wholesale and retail
dealers.
Some of the prisons make reg
ular cost analyses of their pro
ducts, the investigation showed.
It was found that in two institu
tions making the same class of
hoes, prison labor costs were es
timated In one at 15 cents wh'ile
in the other no charge was made
for this Item. In "free" factor
ies labor costs for the same shoe
are around 45 cents per pair. For
binder twine labor costs are fig
ures at less than one-half cent per
pound In two prisons, as compar
ed with one cent per pound in
"free" factories. . l,abor costs on
work shirts in prison factories op
erating under contract are figured
at 75, 90 and 91.5 cents per doz
en work shirts, as compared with
an average of f 2 per dozen for six
free factories. No prison industry
was found paying workmen's com
pensation insurance. In only one
prison studies was it found that
- the contractor paid rent, although
Sn most cases he did pay for light,
teat and power. Referring to this
jnatter of production costs, the
committee declared that "if any
thing approaching normal efficien
cies, of operation can be attained
with the use of prison facilities
and labor, the total costs of pro
duction are obviously below those
of the manufacturer who must
meet large overhead expenses as
well as employ free labor."
Pointing out that the problems
connected with prison industry
mre essentially state rather than
.federal matters, the committee in
(concluding its letter emphasizes
the fact that a solution of these
problems must be found. "Other
wise," It declares "prison indus
tries miiHt- rpaso and nrtaoners
kept la idleness or the manufac
ture of products competing with
the prison output will become im
possible."
day's driving, congested roads re
duced the total to 441 miles and
the third day brought W to Trin
idad, Colo., and Raton Pass with
650 additional miles on the speed,
pmeter. Passing through the des
ert and Santa Fe, she stopped the
following day at Barstow, Cal.,
with a total mileage for the day
of 603. On the fifth and last lap,
Miss McCanley made the cut
across the Mojave Desert In a sand
storm so fierce her speed was less
than 30 miles an hour for hours
on end. She arrived, however, at
San Francisco, 849 miles from the
starting point for the day, and five
and a halt days from Detroit. In
her letter she said she made the
entire trip without breaking the
speed laws in any state from
Michigan to California. Miss Mc-
I Cauley's trip is the. more remark
able when it Is taken into consid
eration that she is only 5 feet 1 4
Inches tall and weighs but 105
pounds. Her introduction to the
automobile came 14 years ago
when she experienced a severe ill.
ness and being unable , to walk,
took to driving. Since then she
has covered approximately 200,
006 miles at the wheels of 38 dif
ferent cars.
"Tho Chrysler performed per
fectly," was her only comment
about the trip. "I should like to
do it over again."
DIES
CHRYSLER
HR
con
The old idea of a vomaa'i place
being anywhere except behind the
steering wheel is tact, becoming a
myth. AHer .accomplishments is
thrlasf deeade, over land and sea,.
by airplane, speedboat, and motor
car, have revised all previous
conceptions of feminine capabil
ities.
, - That transcontinental trips by
. automobile no longer bold terror
for the modern woman driver Is
seen br a letter recently received
by J. W. Frazer, general sales
manager for the Chrysler corpora
tlon at Detroit, from Miss Jessie
fM ccanieyr: of Vaiiejo; cal.; Fho
twrrd. the 3,067 mUes from the
Firyslr factory at Detroit to.san
hrrancWo4i,ln five days and 13
aours; an average of appfoiimate
uy 100 miles t a V day, t in :a new
JL'hrysler coupe. ' . r 'iV-V'
fi The drive was an unusually se
Href test even for a- man: driver.
"Leaving Detroit tt ft car that bjid
$ot been broken 4n, she made the
Jlrst : lap ot 62 4 .miles .from D
i rolt to sr. Xouls" tn:l faonrs,
driving tfie early ?mbrnirig
through comparatively heavy traf
fic, fog and detonrs made neces
sary by floods. - Daring -the next
CHANGE OF PU
IKED BY BID
By FRANK I. "WELLEIt
Farm Editor
Associated Press Feature Service
WASHINGTON. (AP) Spec
ulation has arisen as to whether
the federal farm board may alter
its policy in disbursing the $500,
000.000 established for the rehab
ilitation of th, pkfft, . : f m l
"Washington sees a change as
possible because of President Hoo
ver's transfer of the division of co
operative marketing from the de
partment of agriculture to the
board.
The board has had to battle a
widespread impression that the
government virtually is going to
give away a half billion dollars, or
that if the individual loans made
from the revolving fund are not
paid back congress will remit
them.
As a result hurried applications
have been made for loans without
attention to conditions specifical
ly set forth in the agricultural
marketing act. Frequently the
applicant Is an obscure coopera
tive with meager organization and
not even a bookkeeper.
Convinced that its duty Is to
make loans only on adequate se
curity, it has been the board's
policy to urge all cooperatives
handling the same commodity to
join a central cooperative market
ing body of such character that
the board safely can finance its
activities. Thereby, cooperatives
seeking loans for the assistance
of their members might get them
in orderly fashion from their su
perior organization.
There are, in round numbers,
12,000 farm cooperatives. Some
are well managed and substantial.
Others are not. A number of them
are capable of qualifying for gov
ernment loans, and some have. A
far greater number have Bot and
probably cannot, without material
changes in organization.
Only the division of cooperative
marketing knows what and where
such cooperatives are. ,
Now that the division has be
come a part of the farm board or
ganization, all of its facilities de
veloped by Chris L. Christensen,
secretary to the board and former
chief of the division, may be wov
en into an extremely important
informational unit under the lead
ership of A. W. McKay.
Its legal advisor, L. S. Hulbert,
has been assisting the board for
weeks, determining the status of
cooperatives applying for loans. B.
B. Derrick, its extension officer,
has been assisting the organiza
tion of cooperatives. The transfer
gives the board the entire staff of
about 20 experts in the coopera
tive marketing of farm commodities.
II ENGINEER IS
n TAKEN SICK
NASHVILLE, Tenri. (AP)
Fifty-six years old, a soldier all
his adult life, and not on sick re
port once in his 34 years in the
United States army
That is the measure of MaJ.
Gen. Lytle Brown, named chief of
army engineers to succeed Lieut,
Gen. Edgar Jadwin.
The general's best booster is
his wife.
"He's as plain as an old shoe,"
she says, "and I believe the people
of territories subject to river over
flow will find him a good friend.
And when be undertakes a lob he
sticks to It until he's done."
News of the appointment of
General Brown came as a surprise
to Mrs. Brown.
".The first I learned, of it was in
the newspapers," she said. Ml
thought General Brown was still
in Panama. My son. Lytic, re
ceived a telegram from his on the
day of his 'appointment but he
didn't say anything about the ap
pointment. It merely aaid that
we would live In Washington, in
stead of Panama." -, - r
One. of the principal duties of
the new engineer chief will be
flood control .work. Four assign
ments as chief- of engineer dist
ricts have fitted him tor that
phase of bis duties.
At Muscle" Shoals, Ala., where
he was in charge of construction
of Wilson Dam from 191 9 to 1920
he won the approval of the peo
ple of the three cities adjacent to
the dam, and public, tribute was
paid him when he was. transfer
red. In addition, be served as
engineer, of. .the Cbatanooga,
Louisville and Nashville districts.
Bora InT Nashville, he has al
ways called this city his borne
and maintained a home here.
i: Follow the sports In The States
man; full sport news reports
fresh each morning. . -
Weather Advice Planned i
For Aviation on 24 Hour
Basis, Says Bureau Head
Continuous -weather advice for
pilots of aircraft, and for the 24
hours of the day if flying sched
ules so require, is the objective of
the weather bureau in its aero
nautical meteorology service, said
C. V Marvin, chief of the bureau,
in bis report to Secretary of Agri
culture Hyde covering the year
ending June 30, 1929. Full serv
ice la limited by the appropria
tions for the service. Professor
Marvin, in the report which was
made public today, also directs at
tention to certain confusing situa
tions that arise from the distinc
tions necessarily drawn between
"official" airports, as designated
by the department of commerce,
and those not so classified as yet.
"It is highly important," said
Professor Marvin, "that all avia
tion interests understand just how
the air commerce act works out in
practice. A great many cities,
large and small, have already set
about developing what we 'may
now call local airports, either pri
vately owned and operated, or un
der municipal control. New cities
are being added to the lists almost
dally. These localities need and
expect adequate weather service,
and It is the ppllcy of the bureau
to supply it as far as possible. Its
appropriations, hbwever. are al
ways made to put into operation a
definite program of work laid out
several months in advance for air
ways and airports designated by
the department of commerce as
official.
Manifestly, the bureau has no
special funds that can be diverted
to outside activities. The case is
further complicated by the utiliza
tion in the same metropolian area
of two or more airports which, in
the meteorological sense, are
closely contiguous. One of these
Is often the official airport, and
sometimes questions of rivalry
and competition are factors with
which the weather bureau must
deal in its desire to render Its
services equally and Impartially
to all."
Outlining the difficulties at
tending extra service, Professor
Marvin continues by saying, "The
bureau la always glad, however, to
give consideration to special sit
uations, and occasionally some ar
rangements can be made to meet
peculiar conditions. The coopera
tion of the transport and aviation
Interests is earnestly solicited by
the bureau to realise full and com
plete utiliaation of those official
airports and of the facilities as
they are maintained by the gov
ernment, rather than to plan for
a great multiplication of places
where nearly Identical Informa
tion is desired. Prom the ve-ry
nature of the situation It is diffi
cult to render service as rapidly
and widely as aviation Itself ad
vances." Professor Marvin also comment
ed on the advances in the inter
national movement for reporting
and forecasting weather at sea,
and also referred to the economic
returns from the weather bureau
services of warnings against
frosts and against conditions fa
vorable to the spread of forest
fires. Under informal agreement
the principal maritime nations of
the world now enlist selected ships
of their own registry. These
ships observe and report weather
conditions at least twice a day.
Forecasts indicated by these re
ports go into the international ex
change of weather Information by
radio.
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Piicid fiom $1295 to$1695
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Single Six
Priced piom $915 to $1075
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OU have been waiting to see cars like the
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and built for leadership for undisputed suprem
acy in their field and on the highways of the world.
5 When you see them, you will realize that a new
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In their impressive array of structural and per
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more luxuriously appareled more finished in
the craftsmanship of every major and minor detail.
3 Remind yourself today to see the 1930 Nash
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SHIS ME
i: TRAILS IN PAIS
GLACIER PARK, Mont. (AP)
Like the trail blazers of pio
neer days. Eagle Scouts have com
pleted their fifth season in hewing
paths through the forests of Am
erica's national parks.
Two and a half miles of com
pleted forest trail that Is not mere
ly a footpath but a three feet wide
passage between Red Eagle Land
ing and Sun Camp in the Glacier
National park stands as a result
of their three year effort.
In 1924 and 1925, scouts built
trail between Rockwell Falls and
Cobalt lake in Yellowstone park.
E. G. Maclay, scout commission
er of Great Falls has brought to a
successful conclusion, plan
which he hopes to extend next
season . to other national playgrounds.
Forty-three boys, most of them
from Montana but the others rep
resenting 18 states separated, as
far as the width of the Continent
made up the crew of 43 at Sun
camp this year. Their expenses are
paid while they are in the park
and they work five hours a day.
MlCDOiD VISITS
OTTAWA ( AP) When
Ramsay MacDonald comes to Ot
tawa after his visit in the United
States, he will be the guest of the
Canadian government at historic
Rideau hall, official residence of
tine dominion's governor generals.
' In the huge stone turreted man
sion which resembles a European
castle, Mr. MacDonald and his
daughter Ishbel will move in an
atmosphere of old English empire
formality.
Within JtB great rooms, the
cidi n
present prince of Wales and" his.
nonnlar grandfather. Kin. Ed-
w m
ward VII, were feted andsebcered
with traditional colonial loyalty.
Mr. MacDonald Is to be hon
ored at a state dinner in the ex
ecutive mansion, at which he will
deliver what will probably be his
only speech in Canada.
It is expected he will tell the
Canadian people about his discus
sions with President Hoover oa
the disarmament question.
While his visit to Canada Is
said to be of no domestic political
significance, it is believed be will
discuss with Premier MacKensle
King the question of Canadian ab
sorption of some of the 1,500,000
unemployed in England.
According to a tentative sched
ule, Mr. MacDonald will leave
New York October 14 for Nia
gara Falls. It is believed he will
stop at Toronto for a short time
on his way to Ottawa where a
stay of three days will be made.
After that he will visit Mont
real and Quebec, sailing from the
latter city for England, October
26.
nformed motorists
say, "Buy an.
El'GHl
7
The informed demand today is un
mistakably for the Eight. This swing
of public preference is developing
with unprecedented rapidity. Nobody
can predict what chance a Six will
have in next year's used car markets.
Consider the facts: Puring the first
sevenmonthsof thisycar,in43 states,
registrations of new cars over iooo
showed a 94 per cent increase in Eights
and an 1 8 per cent decrease in Sixes.
Every high-priced American car is an
Eight. In fact, over 41 per cent of all
American makes of cars are Eights.
And Studebaker, enjoying its
seventy-seventh successful year in
business, sells more Eights than any
other manufacturer in the world.
So why pay as much or more for a
Six when you can have a champion
Eight by Studebaker holder of 1 1
world records and more American
stock car records for speed and endur
ance than all other makes combined ?
A Studebaker Eight, brilliant with the
power, the smoothness, the flexibility
that only an Eight can deliver. An
Eight as economical as the thriftiest
Six. And styled with a notable smart
ness all the way through.
Remember what happened to the
Fours in the medium and high priced
fields. Sixes today are succumbing to
Eights the same way. Now that it
costs no more to own and to drive one
get a champion Studebaker Eight!
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Dictator Eight Sedan : : $1235
Commander Eight Sedan $1475
President Eight Sedan. . $1735
Four-Doer Sedan Models Prices the Jittery
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235 S. Commercial
Wallace H. Bonesteele
Day and Night Service
Phone 362
For the convenience of those who are not able to do without their cars
during the day-time and for those who can not arrange their time accor
dingly we wish to announce that
A crew
will be open from seven a.m. until midnight
(EXCEPT SUNDAY)
of skilled mechanics under competent supervision will be prepared to give Complete Service on Ford
from seven in the morning until midnight.
cars
-Remember Complete Service also Includes-
Washing
Greasing
Gas and Oil Battery Service
Top and Body Repairing
Light Adjusting
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