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Friday, February 10, 1922 INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE Page Three 10CAL MAN HEADS SALEM CONCERN C. A. McLaughlin It Presi V clent of Large Cold Storage Plant Salem-- -Organization of the f'ttpitul lee & Cold lNt.iniKt company, to prn viilu JNttlt'in and vicliwly with a suit iib! cold atorngu plant to hid for tho fruit hikI berry rrorrt of thy ''district and to entry on u gent nil re frigerating und Ice bu8in.M, wua bh nounct'il here today . C. A. McLaughlin of Independ ence Im preaidont, Iai LachmunJ, vice-president and treunurer, and II. A. Talbot, tecretnry of the new cor poration, which will erect $75,000 plant immediately on Trade and ; Church utrct'tH with frontage on both the -'Southern I'ucific and Oregon Electric trucks . The contract for tho Ice machinery had already been let. Principal among tho activities of the new company will bo the en tablitthmetit of cold utoruge facilities to handle the perishable orchard, farm and dairy product of the ter ritory tributary to Salem, including practically all of tho central Willam ette Valley. Storage will be provided for 1'iiKl ton of ice in tho first unit ;of the plant, which in to be built in KUch u manner n to make possible th 'easy construction of addition oh ihti demand upon the plant warrant. " The first unit will cover a ground xpaee 80 to ll!7 feet, or half of the plot which the company hua ttcrured, and will extend through the block from Trade to Mill street immedi ately In-hind the Salem Fruit Union warehouse. Here will be provided Individual refrigerating rooms for "ihn 'various canneries and produce packing plants of the city, injuring tho consumption of the entire rrrvp 'of periidialdo fruit mul berries with out loss. I're-rooling rooms will be available to all shippers of fresh : -products, und under arrangements already made with both the Oregon Khctiie and .Southern I'ucific rail- ways and the express coinpanies hand ling fruit shipments, refrigerator urarH will be bed here. 5 Completely equipped with all of : modern ice making and refrigerating machinery, the company will not only produce ice for it own use, but will cater to the ict- trade throughout hi part of the state. Truck deliv eries to .Salem homes and busineas 'houses will lie eataliliahd and ar rangements made to supply the re 'tail trade in Independence, Woodburn ''Dallas, Aurora, Hubbard, Gervia, Silverton, Mt. Angi l, Turner, Stayton. Sublimity, Jefferson and other towns in the central valk-y . Absolutely pure ice is to be the trade slogan . The homo of the new plant will he of hollow tile construction nnd per fect refrigeration of the cooling rooms will be insured by the installation of tho latest type of cork insulation. The facilities will be complete for hand ling butter, eggs, meat vegetables, berries, fruits and other produce. Operation of the plant is to be under the direct ftupervision of Mr. Talbot, who lias been in charge ol the refrigerating plant of the Phez company. Lack of proper refrigerating fac ilities have operated in the past to curtail to some extent the operations of, the local, canneries and packing plants, and have retarded the growth of. the fruit and berry industries by limiting the local demand for these products . While losses, both to the growers nnd rnmiers from spoilage have never been large, the absence of cold storage facilities has always aet"d as a delerent influence to nny great expansion in tho fruit and berry acreage. Cannery men and prominent grow ers here agreed today that the es tablishment of a cold storage plant here would enable the ennners and packers to extend their operations extensively and would, in a large way; remove one of tho principal obstacles in the way of enlarged production in the central valley. Capital Journal Hcado "Sized Up." The filze of a man's cranium 1ms nothing to do wltli the size of Ids head. Truly blg-headeil men are usually ho modest you have to push them Into their honors. : often big bones ore host owed by a pitying providence to compensate for the Jack of gray matter their bigness Would HUggest, Napoleon was a small man With a bullet-shnped head. He was dictator; iul and liupenitivo. lint then you can forgive such a fellow, when he has the goods. It's the would-be's that try ruen's souls. Many of the nation's greatest men have very onllnary-sl.ed heads when measured by their hat bunds. In fact, they offer no suggestion of the big head when viewed from nny angle. 'Grit. REAL "PRESS AGENT STUrT" Hard to Beat Thli Yam Alleged to Hava Baan Put Out by P. T, Barnum'a Expart. The late Edgar Kaltua, nt a dinner lie once gave In bin beautiful New York apartment, talked about the pros agent. "The prcsa agent of today," be mild, "has m dull and feeble lniMniuulI'iii be side the press agent of the past, Jlow J'aniuin would have weorned the press agent of today I "Unriiuin, you know, bad n good pros agent. Take bin press agent' atory of the elephant, Alpha. "Alpha fell 111 no the atory ran with guHtrltlH. No medicine would relieve tier. It wa illaeovered that idie had wrenched off an Iron bar from her stall, and a the bar could not be found anywhere all aow that aha had awallowed It. Ttd bar wa the t-auaa of her acute gaatrlc Buffer Iiik. "Well, Mr. Harnum had a email col ored lad named Itufe working for blai. He aent for Itufe and aald: "'Kufe, I want you to take a rub ber tube to breathe through, and we'll put a afrong rope around your walf, and then yoi must go down Into Alpha' Motiiacli after that Iron bar alie'a awallowed. If the only way to wive her life. "Little Itufe rolled hi eye In hor ror, but be knew Mr. Harnum. lie knew be must obey. "So he wa well groaned, and they giiggpil Alpha, and then they thrust him hem) first down the enormon oesopbagii Into the elephant' atom Belt. "He noun found what he Bought there; he gave three tug on the rope, mid they drew him out with the Indl gemlble bar of Iron elunped In hi hand. "It I Biiperfltion to any In conclu sion that Alpha' life wn wived, and that brave little Itufe wa handsomely rewarded by hi generoiifl employer.' GEMS TO BE SEEN IN SKY Many Really Beautiful Thinga May be Observed With the Aid of an Opera Glaai. If yotj use an opera kIiish ho dark night you can make the stars fbish out like gorgeous gems, says Loudon Answers. All that need be done Is to shake the glas.t ever ho Hitle, either aldewnja or up and down. You will then hud the line of lght made by the star's Image will resemble a rich resplendent string of diamonds, ruble and emeralds; nor will the lovely turipiolse be absent. Ity making the opera glass describe a tiny circle, there will appear a neck lace of glittering geinn ho brilliant us to cause one to wonder how a single star could possibly produce audi an exipilftlle effect. ilrlght stars fairly near the horizon should be selected. One of the best for the purpose at this season of the year I I'apclla, now mo conspicuous In the northeast sky. Capella. apart from Its brilliance, Is recognizable by the small triangle of faint !ars close to It. Another excellent object for celestial getil-liialillig Is the well-known Ioi' star, the brightest of all the orbs of heaven. It makes It appearance In early win ter, In the southeast. Gorki and Chaliapin. Headers of Gorki's "Twenty-six Men and u Girl" will recall the tinker's cellar that figures so prominently In the tale. It was a cellar that once really existed la the town of Kazan, and Gorki himself worked there as a baker's apprentice. It Is on Interest ing fact that opposite the linker's wa a Rhoetnaker's shop and In It, wthlle Gorki was learning to bake hrend, the young Chaliapin was learn ing to make shoes. Though the future singer must often have eaten bread of the future writer's baking the two did not then become nequaluted. It lit both applied for a vacancy in the chorus of U local theatre, nnd It was Gorki who was accepted, (.'hnllnplu's voice not having then developed. Later C'liiillapln found use for bis peat physical slreimth as one of the "bur Inks" or "human horses" who pull the bonis on the Volga. MainJiesler (iliardiau. Fireproof GJ3 Tanks. One of our leading rubber companies has developed a llreproof cover for the gasoline tanks of airplanes, which has been accepted by the government ? for use on conduit and mall planes. The cover was designed primarily for combat airplanes for protection against Incendiary bullets, and Is not only llreproof but leakproof and crash proof as well. The cover consists of a sheet of soft but very tough rub ber, one-half Inch thbk, laid on sev eral piles of high-grade cotton fabric. The rubber Is applied next to the tank. In tests If was found that when the gasoline tank Is punctured the rubber Immediately closed the hole and stopped the leak. First Woman Reporter In Parliament. Dora de Lareda, n young Jewish writer oC London, has the distinction of being the first woman Journalist to attend the opening of the Prltlsh par liament as a reporter of the proceed ings In the house of lords. Knowledge. "Son, what did you learn In school today?" "I learned that the arithmetic prob lems you worked for mo last night were wrong." Farm Life. CLAY PIPES USED BY ROMANS Dlacovery Raltee Interesting Quea tion as to What th Rulers of the World 8moked. About thirty year ago potsherd of pipe bowl as thick a a man' thumb were found In the course of the exca vation of a Itoinan castle In the vicin ity of llanati. The bowls were made of gray clny, and bnoxned by beat. Hubeiiciitly, numerous fnu'incnts of whiif Here evidently clay pipes were liiieiirllied In the ruins of Itoninn set tlements liwlterland and at An-giist-oti Itbioe, or Augusta Itaurn coruin, a II was called by the ancient Itotoims. Careful examination proved that Ihe potsherd were part of cbiy pipe much like the clay pipe of tba present-day Puteh fishermen, the only difference being that the stem of the I toman pipe wa very short, and prob ably a thick straw wn used a a mouthpiece. Some of the excavated pipe bowl have hinge. Indlentlng that the Itoman used pipe with cover. There arise the question, "What did the Itoman smoke?" It I possible that Inhalation of the smoke of cer taln plant wa a common In the an cient Itoman empire a the use of certain medicines I today In this coun try, nnd the people, by-nnd by, be came accustomed to smoking aromatic narcotics, like hi vender, to while time away. The fact that smoking pipes were excavated In ancient Itoman castle In Switzerland and Germany Indicates that barbarian mercenaries In the Itoninn army adopted their southern minders' custom. iMirlng the migration of the nation, smoking, like other customs of civilized ancient times, was lost In Kurope, to h- re vived more than a thousand year later when Spaniard carried tobacco from America to the old continent. HAVE HIGH REGARD FOR LIFE Brahman' Ethic Do Not Allow Them to Detroy Even the Mott An noying Pests. Mr. C. K. Tyndale Hlseoe. In hi book, 'Kashmir In Sunlight and Shade," gives the following entertain ing account of the lirahmans' peculiar ities: "It's very dllticiilt to understand the i'.rnbniatis' ethics. Often In the Miiiiiner time, when one Is teaching a class, It happen that a mosquito or a fly settles on one's hand, l'.y force of habit I end bis life with a slap. At this the lirahmans Jump and cry out, 'Oh. oli! you have taken a life! You have taken a life!' and suck their lin gers hard and crack their knuckles, which Is h (dim of distress nnd horror. They have of late given up this custom of showing horror at the death of a fly or mosquito, for they hate the re tort. 'I on't you eat mutton?' They will not kill Insects, and I have seen H boy pick a Ilea off of himself and then ipili-fcly put it In fl place of safe ty down the neck of the boy next to him. for If be had put it on the floor It might have been trodden upon, or jwrhaps have returned to his own per son This belief of theirs in the preservation of peMs is very unfortu nate. It Is the name with rat and mice, which abound. The furthest they will co In the m. itler is t catch them In traps and then carry them to the opposite side of the river anil there re lease them. I'.ut as people on both .ides of the river play the same game, the rats do not decrease greatly." Mice Phenomenal Jumpers. Mice can make people Jump. Can they Jump thenis Ives? The answer Is in the affirmative, nml. according to an Incident related by V. (Halifax), they are real dabs at it. The other day he came upon n mouse on a fi foot w all. The mouse ran away, and. finding no means of gradual descent, look Its life in Its bunds, and Jumped to the ground. The ground was a hard beaten foot path, and, to the astonishment of my corre spondent, the little creature alighted without Injury, and scuttled away for nil It was worth. -A niou.M-'s K ;; will be lu.re'y one oighlh of Inch thick," concludes V. ('. "and If we work the incident out proportionnroly. we find the little crea tures Jump enmviueii! 10 mat im n man at over l.'U feet. Imagine n maul taking a sheer downward leap 1"1 feet. a!U;!uing on a hard surface, and! running off uninjured!" 1 am not sure whether I''. Vs for mula is correct, hut I agree with him I tlmt bis little mouse certainly was' some Jumper! London Answers. Meaning of Clergy. The word clergy, like the word clerk, which Is the Latin clericus in Anglicized form, does not refer ex clusively to churchmen, but Includes nil who have miy pretension toward learning. William Kufus, the second of the Norman kings of F.ngland, enacted ftn ordinance in 1 ON" known by the title "lienetlt of Clergy," In accordance with which an accused man could save ids life on proving that he was not entirely Ignorant of letters. The statute In favor of those who constituted the clergy In this sense continued nominally In force until Queen Anne's reign, when !n 1700 It was repealed, although long before that It had become a dead letter. Inconsiderate Man. ShoYes, I've broken our engage ment. Just think, last night he takes me to a show and tells me it's a trag edy. For two whole nets he lets me sit there and weep and finally, In the third act, he tells me the whole thing is a farce. I'm through with him. " SIDELIGHT ON- SYRIAN LIFE Writer Gives an Inaight Into His Life as a Smll Boy in That Little Known Country. Tim road were open. Travelers came Into our village. Scarcely a night was the guest house In our court yard unoccupied. I liked to sit with my father and his guests In this room, built after Kuropean style with four large windows over which In winter oiled paper was passed to keep the cold out. The walls of the guest room were white and on them were bung Ihe choicest rugs brought back from Kurdistan by my Grandfather Mlrza. There were chair In thl room. I wa very proud that we ahotild own chairs, but I found them most uncom fortable to lt on. After a few mo ment my legs began to ache and I slipped down on the cushions. In the alcove of the guest chamber were aome old manuscript bound In course leather. They were holy book with Il luminated margin. Among twin was a I'.lble In Syrlac. I carefully refrained from touching It. It wa too holy. I might porhap be struck dead for my temerity. Among the traveler that came along the road was llady, the alnger. He wa the ugliest man that I had ever seen, sore-eyed, iook-markeil and dirty. But he was very wise. Ills Ivory han dled dagger In It silver sheath was ao long that it reached from hi chest to bl hips. My playmates and I would have laughed and Jeered at him, ier bups, It he had not carried this dag ger. Youel B. Mirza in Asia Maga zine. BARGAIN AT $30 A MONTH Chinese Boy With "Exceptional Knowl edge of English" Should Have Been Snapped Up Quickly. . The following application for em ployment was received by a Shanghai hong from a student In the Shanghai college: "Nothing Is of less importance than the age of a person; nevertheless, it Is proper to begin that I am in my twenty-first year. Having a firing am bition to do some service in the bul rios world, 1 grasp this opportunity to insert myself Into the sphere. It Is true that many are now wandering Idly In the market awaiting employ riie'nt. Hut It Is true to the snm ex tent that many of these. It not all. are good for nothing. To take notice upon them, or to put some duty upon them is to give gun powder to children as n plaything. The danger can be Imag ined. "I am now going to give some ac count of my personal abilities. It Is not too much to say that my knowl edge of English can hardly he repre sented to the full color by such a tittle adie.tive as 'thorough.' It Is excep tionally excellent, to be outspoken. As to the art of typewriting, my hands go on as smoothly ns to' skate on an fey river. With such intellectual weapons any hard duties can e a easily conquered as an egg shell by a wave. The salary I loo!; for wonKI be ..".( a month. "Awaiting vour answer earnestly. I am, Sir, '- ."North China Ga zette. Robin Is Inventor. The robin lives in trees and part ly on the ground, so that it some times hops, like birds that live in trees, and sometimes walks or runs, like birds that live on the ground. The robin is a plucky little fellow. He will stand up for himself, and refuses to let other birds put upon him. Generally he lives alone some times with a mate, but never do you find robins in flocks. This little bird can claim to be the inventor of pottery. . Look at a robin's nest and you will see tlmt it is a clay pot, set into a pile of straw. When a robin has fin ished with a nest, take it and put it .in the fire, having first thoroughly dried it. Leave it on the fire until all tlie straws have been burnt, and if it has not broken, you will find that you have a perfectly good earthen pot. Pearson's Weekly. Peculiar Manx Cats. The origin of Manx cats is now at tributed to the arrival of these oats on tin? Isle of Man from ships belong ing to the Spanish armada that were wrecked there. They were probably brought from Japan or eastern Asia. They are a distinct species with short forelegs, and elevated hindquarters,' and differ from other cats somew hat in call, ways, and character. They vary in color. People who have owned them for long periods say they are not good inottsers or hunters. In character they are rather similar to a dog, being high ly companionable and having some of the qualities of n guardian, but they are not considered hunters lu any sense of the word. Sense of Obligation. "What a wonderful thing It would be if Shakespeare were alive today?" "I wish he were," said Mr. Stonu lngton Barnes, earnestly. "I should like to meet him. I'm sure he would be very grateful to me for the manner In which I have interpreted his po etry." Her Present Occupation. "You -say that your wife went to col lege before you married her?" "Yes, she did." "And she thought of taking up law, you said?" "Yes ; but now she's satisfied to lay U down." B-, , iii - f - oapri lli ; Jgjg """J afield SL(WHfwaB,(t,,,"ul i"wiifcswBwi L 1 vzi r is tei Cincolif $ Dirilulay A we celebrate the anniver sary of the birth of our martyred president, let us consider his good traits of character and wis dom. He advised young men to econ omize and save. An account with the Farmers State Bank will be the right incentive for success. jl jl Farmers State Bank INDEPENDENCE , OREGON TESTING CATTLE RESULTS : IN QUICKLY ERADICATING TB That testing cattle for tuberculosis j and the cleaning up of infected herd3 are having a permanent effect in re-1 ducing the extent of the disease it shown conclusively by figures recent- j ly collected by the United States De- partment of Agriculture from inspec tors in charge of the eradication work in various parts of the country. The inspectors were asked to supply fig ures on the results of three or more j tests on badly diseased herds, those jthat had not less than 10 percent of reactors on the first test. The first j test on more than 58,000 cattle in I these bad herds showed that 26 per ! cent had tuberculosis. Another test six months later on the same herds, from which the reactors had been re moved, showed only 6.9 percent of the disease. Another six months the percentage had gone down to 2:8. A fourth test on more than 25,000 of these cattle showed only 1.8 percent of tuberculosis. The reports from which vhese fig ures were taken show that under nor mal conditions herds very badly di seased may be established as relative ly free in a short time. They also show that eradication work can be carried on without destroying the cattle industry as is sometimes thought. Erratic results were ob tained on a very few of the 1882 herds tested, the list of this class containing less than 100. Out of the 120,668 herds under observation December 1, 1921, there were only a very few thai had not shown satisfac tory improvement as a result of test ing. Japanese Shrines. More than 70,000 Japanese residents of Tokyo called at the shrine .of Kbl 8U, god of wealth, on the outskirts of Osaka, before noon on the Japanese New Year's day. They knocked pn the walls of the shrine with wooden mallets and called upon the god to bring them riches during the coming year. All the gods of Japan probably receive more homage January 10 than nny other dny of the yenr. tlmr being the first special god's day of the cal e"diir. Ebisu is very popular in the (!. district, tne rico i.uwtr?r.! of the empire. In Tokyo, although he bus several shrines, the Japanese place more faith in tho power of Otori--iinsh-.i to bring tlietn fortune ' 1gm-M-T-"-TWIT'-- T"VT" WTiTt- P ,.ia. And reduce the is) reel IS THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE MOST WHOLESOME FOOD ON THE MARKET BUT THAT EXTRA LOAF d-Your Grocer Has It CHE1Y CITY BAH COMPANY - t - ii , 1 1 i pmo - W SHIM PftjUi-i 7 Polk County Miss Noma Hesse, who has been visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. A. H. Craven, in Monmouth, has returned to Bandon. Frank Loughary has been re-elected president of the Monmouth Coop trative creamery; A. J. Haley is secretary, and the other members of the board of directors are: John Loy and E. A. Tedrow. During the year, just closed, 288,501 pounds of butter were manufactured . ' At the annual meeting of the Polk . County Farmers' Cooperative Ware house company, held in Dallas, C. C. J Gardner was elected president; C. I. Ballard, director and secretary; L.. 11. McBee and T. J. Alsip, directors. Activities at the high and grade ! schools in this city have been at a high pitch lately, and many interest- ' ing events are being planned for the future. According to R. R. Turner, city superintendent of schools, the high school has an enrollment of 130 pupils, an increase of 11 over the last semes ter, and an enrollment of 580 pupils in the grade schools, an increase of about 20 over the last term. The grade schools' increase necessitated the employment of an additional teacher, Miss Helen Fletcher. Miss Fletcher is a graduate of the 1918 class in the Dallas high school. After her graduation she attended Willam ette university one year and was also : for one year at state normal school. iDallas Observer. Leland R. Erickson and Miss Mar garet Sprinsteen, both of Dallas, were married at the Dallas Methodist par sonage January 30th. Mr. Erick son is a barber and Mrs. Erickson was formerly employed in the Dallas telephone exchange. Mrs. Sigler has been nursing for several years an-d has physician's references. She is located in second i house west cf Christian church. Fhone M6912. o28tf if you want to sell it, buy it, trade it, or find it, try an Enterprise Classified ad. film fl IT1H fl e1B (1 VMSHt O IfflTI O iHTO fl HTWI fit High Cost of Living r.fL-w m" mr "n arti a K-B0-M()flH-(S i