CENTRAL POINT STAR
VOLUME TWO
FRIDAY, JU N E 20,
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Highway Crews
Making Several
Needed Repairs
CLUBBERS LIKE
COLLEGIATE LIFE
700 Boy» and G irla Enjoylng An
imai He«aion un Campii« uf
Stata Collega
NUMBER 4M
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America Leads in
Power on Farms
POW ERS STORIES OF
OREGON ARE SUCCESS
Storie« Have F >m dation in Oregon
H is to ry and Scenic
Spot«
L iv in g in the men’s and w om en’s
C a rry in g d e lig litfu land e n te rta in
d orm ito rie s, going to rlasses to real More Mechanical Energy In 500,(88) ce ntral
station
e le c tric in g glim pses o f Oregon in to all
college, professors, sw im m in g
in
plants. These figures do not in p a ils o f the U nited States, “ Ma
Use Per Worker Than
the big tanks and ru m b lin g over
clude n e a rly 5,000,0000 passenger rooned in C ra te r Lake,” a volume
llie campus, the I II club hoys anil
In Factories
autom obiles w h ich are owned by o f short stories w ritte n by A lfre d
g irls are as usual th o ro u g h ly e n jo y
farm ers as they are not p rim a rily Powers, dean o l the extension d i
The | hi si weak or more Ilia h ig li- ing the collegiate atmosphere of
pro du ction machines.
vision o f the I n iv e rs ity o f Oregon
Wliy crew s have beau busy be-t th e ir tw o weeks summ er camp at
By Caleb Johnson
T he re w ill alw ays he p le n ty of is already p ro v in g a m arked suc
lu t e in G c iitru l I'n iu l anil Gold H ill Oregon Slate College.
Let its tliin k fo r a m in ute of w ork fo r hum an beings to do in cess, accordin g to reports o f the
on the P a cific litg l way iiiiik iiiR
More than 709 club members and fa rm in g in term s o f pow er.
fa rm ing . F e w machines run them- publisher«, Ihe .Metropolitan Press.
sou«* very much neei <1 ri-puirs. At leaders are attending th is year's
A nim al pow er us w e ll us me »elves; fe w o f Ihe k in d th a t run Orders fo r the hook, w h ic h con
the Anderson corner u «trail) shovel ses, w h ich began Monday, June 9,
chanical power.
themselves can do the varied things tains six h ig h ly in te re stin g tales o f
is busy rem oving llie side b ill so and w ill continue u n til June 21.
F arm in g w ith o u t p ow er is almost w hich must he done on the farm , th is state, are now com ing in from
Hint the curve ut this place w ill not The delegates represent 31 counties
inconceivable
to
the
Am erican So in machine tending alone there a ll arts o f the U nited Stales, es
be so dangerous due to the fact that ami some till o r 70 tow ns and com
m ind. Yet in Ita ly today ttiere is w ill alw ays be the need o f human p ecially from lib ra rie s , some < f
v is ib ility is b elte r from a greater m unities o f Oregon, according to If.
o n ly one horse to every fa rm w o rk labor, though not so much in p ro w hich are o rd e rin g several copies.
distance. The earth and gravel re C. Seymour state club leader.
ers. At the beginning o f the W o rld p o rtio n to the w o rk done as is
S ta rtin g w ith a clever sto ry, “ Ma-
moved fro m this ru t is being used
Many o f these boys anil g irls W ar, when the use o f anim als on needed to take care o f the horses
roone din C ra te r LaJ^e,” in w hich
to b u ild up the shoulders ulong the have attended th is session in past
Am erican soil was its peak, we had and mules w h ich m echanical p o w a hoy le ft by accident at an in
h ig h w a y fo r u m ile to the south. years, w h ile others are on the cam
more than tw o horses fo r every er is displacing. T here w ill a l accessible on the lake shore, fin
T h is too fo rm s a b ig ndnntage fo r pus fo r the firs t tim e, hut to a ll
man employed in fa rm lu b o r; Great ways he farm s on w hich horses a lly signals llie lodge by means o f
the hig hw u y in this lo c a lity has o f them it represents a red le tte r
B ritia n had less than one horse |>er o r mules w ill do most o f the w o rk , a kite constructed w ith the aid o f
e ith e r had a very n u rro w shoulder period o f the year— the c ro w n in g
man, Germ any one horse fo r each farm w here p ow er fro m o the r postage stamps, the stories take the
o r none at u ll.
re w a rd o f a year's conscientious tw o farm hands, Erance one hors? sources cannot he used econom ical
reader through m any adventures
At III* W illo w Springs camp the w o rk on one o r more rlu b p ro
to three laborers.
ly.
and
to m any absorbing places.
h ig h w a y is being straightened so jects. The Iw o weeks are fu ll ones
Pow er on the fa rm , then, is n o th
It docs not fo llo w , h ow ever that
Pioneer lore is d ra w n on fo r
th ill 'lie tr a ffic w ill go behind the fo r the clubbers, w ith
regular ing new in Am erica. It is the se even sm all farm s cannot be large
many o f the tales, one o f the most
s tiili m instead o f in fro n t us be classes each m o rn in g in the various
cret o f our greater fa rm p ro spe rity. ly operated more e ffic ie n tly by the unusual o f w h ic h is the “ H ic k o ry
fore. T his im provem ent is being phases of a g ric u ltu re and home ec
in tro d u c in g
m echanical aid o f m echanical pow er. There Bank.” T h is tells o f a unique and
made Io elim in a te three
short onomics covered by clu b projects, And in
pow
er
on
the
fa
rm
we
are s till is a great deal o f ta lk about the s u rris in g m ethod o f keeping coin,
curves from the highw uy.
W ith ng w e ll us la b o ra to ry periods devot
these im provem ents and the resu r ed to actual w o rk w ith the college leading Europe and the rest o f the farm o f the fu tu re as a great deal w hich alm ost resulted in a w id o w
operated lik e a fa c to ry , w ith em and her fa m ily being le ft pen ni
facing o f the highw u
ween Med livestock, on the experim ent station i w o rld .
In
the
fo
rm
o
f
tra
cto
rs
and
o
th
e
r
ployees w o rk in g by the operating less th ro ug h the death o f a husband
fo rd and Ashland the P a cific h ig h farm s, and in the home economies
pow erd riven m ach in e ry w c had system o f an e ig h t-h o u r day sched w ho fa ile d to reveal the w he re
w ay w ill be more pleasant to d rive laboratories.
more than tw o
horsepow er per ule, liv in g in to w n and m o to rin g about o f the “ hank” . in another
over than ever. There Is s tilt other
Each afternoon th i re is a g e n e ra l!
“ The D in n e r C a ll,” a pioneer w o-
w o rk planned fo r th is part o f the assembly w ith prom inent men and w o rk e r on the farm s in 1900, th ir ty out to th e ir jobs every m ornin g.
Beyond doubt there w ill be a tnan fo ils an In dia n by a clever
In m a n u fa ctu rin g in
slide liu l to date w o rk hus not been women speakers, ami in Ihc even vc "s ago.
d u stry less p ow er was in use p e r good deal more o f that k in d o f ruse, w h ile the w h ite mans clever-
started.
ings the county delegations broad w o rk e r than on the farm
fa rm in g in the fu tu re than there is ness is again dem onstrated in “ The
cast over KOAC. the college ra d io
The same p ro p o rtio n obtained now, and there Is quite a b it now . Vanquished R id e r” in w h ich tw o
NORTHW EST FLORA
station. In u dd itio n, tim e is p ro dow'n lo 1925. it is o n ly in the But it w ill be confined to a few
vided fo r both hoys and g irls to past five years th a t'w o rk e r» in in specially favored areas and a fe w hoys escape fro m the re d s k in s by
FAST DISAPPEARING sw im , play te n n is , o r engage in
the sim ple process o f reversing the
And it w ill come shoes on a horse.
d u s try have had m ore m echanical staple crops.
o th e r form s o f recreation that may n ow er per man at th e ir disposal very fa r fro m s a tisfyin g the vast
Alm ost tra g ic in a w h is m ic a l w ay
Tourists, Camper« Threatening N a appeal to them .
than w o rk e rs on the farm . Now’ m a jo rity o f those w h o now liv e on
is “ The Blue Bucket M ine” a sto ry
tive Shrubs and Flower» Says
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•he average w o rk e r in
in d u s try th e ir farm s, to w hom fa rm in g is
o f the Oregon c o u n try around old
O. H. C. Specialist
use« about fiv e horsepow er, w h ile som ething m ore than a means o f i
+ + ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Baker C ity A fa th e r and son fin d
the average farm w o rk e r has at liv e lih o o d but rath er, as President
YOU EVER STOP TO
a nugget in the c ra w o f a chicken
his command o nly s lig h tly less in H oover phrased it, a mode o f liv - t
THINK?
and Ihe gold h un t is on. Its te r
W hile Ute average citizen is de
m echanical p ow er an<l more than ing, w h ic h appeals lo them m ore
m in a tio n , minus the fo rtu n e , is both
m anding beauty o f line and co lo r
the equivalent o f Iw o m echanical s tro n g ly than any o the r mode of
By Edson It. W aite
hum orous and sad.
in almost e ve ryth in g from curs lo
liv
in
g
.
horsepow er in the fo rm o f anim al
Shawnee, Oklahoma
A sto ry that is certain to arouse
kitch en kettles, lie I» s till ruth less
+ + + ■► + e ♦ +
pow er.
Perhaps Ihe greatest value o f a ll,
a real co ntrove rsy in w h ich m athe
ly and thoughlessly destroyin g the
And the greatest increase in the in the increasing use o f p o w e r on
m atics exerts may take part is “ The
w ild flo w e rs and «hruhs that give
use o f pow er, i f the present ten the fa rm is in the dom estic a p p li
F o u rth o f the F a r F ifte en ,” the
heuuty to his surroundings.
THAT
progressive
w ide - awake dency is a fa ir in d ic a tio n , w ill be cations w h ic h make th is mode o f
action o f w h ic h hinges on w h e th e r
If the cam per unit to urist con
m nnfaeturers are ] 1 rsistent ad on the fa rm . The horses and mules liv in g so much easier and more
o r not a flam e on M ount Shasta
tin ue lo dig up. c u rry aw ay or
vertisers. That kind o f adver are being replaced by egines much com fortable, fo r the farm ers fam
could
be seen on Mount Hood, 259
destroy the n atu ra l flo ra ut the
tis in g mul.es fo r pernuinent suc more p o w e rfu l than the anim als ily as w e ll as fo r the fa rm e r h im
m ile away. Hood is 11.225 feet
rule they have been doing, it w ill
self, than life on the fa rm used to
are.
cess.
h ig h, w h ile Shasta is 14,449 and
be Im l a fe w years, according lo A ttra c tiv e ly advertised lines are a l
A ll o f that means th a t the farm be.
there is some question as to w h e th
D r. Helen t.ilk c y , botanist of O re
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em ployed
in
ways good fo r steady sales. They output per person
er the cu rva ture o f the earth w ou ld
gon State College, u n til m any of
are alw ays better fo r service, farm w o rk is steadily g ro w in g la rg
p erm it vision fo r this distance be
Oregon
Poultrymen
To
the most b e a u tifu l native flo w e rs
er. Few er men are need to p ro
therefore easier to sell.
tween these tw o lo fty points. In
and shrubs o f Oregon and
the Advertised brands are the biggest duce and tra n sp o rt to m arket the
M eet At Corvallis terest Is added by a s c ie n tific ex
n orthw e st w ill he e xtinct. Ib is , Dr.
value that ran he obtained. T his same amount o f foodstuffs o r o the r
Some 400 o f Ihe leading p o u try - planation by J. W . Booth, w ho
(iilk e y says, has already happened
fact is know n to everyone.
a g ric u ltu ra l com m odities.
inen
fro m a ll parts o f Oregon w ill w ro te fo llo w in g the appearance of
in most o f the eastern slides.
Persistent advert!? ing means p ro
T h is increase in fa rm p ro d u c tiv
the sto ry in the New Im provem ent
“ The need o f imm ediate action to
gress— and progress means suc ity has been going on fo r a h u n lie guests o f Oregon State college Era in 1925.
preserve fo r fu tu re
generations
cess.
dred years.
In 1830 it took the ; fo r the annual p o u ltry m e n ’s con
Dean Powers is w e ll kn o w n as
such necessities as fuel, b u ild in g People are co nsta ntly lo o kin g th ru labor of three-quarters o f the peo-1 vention, J u ly 23 and 24, a cording
an
a uth o r o f sh ort stories, espec
m aterials, food and pow er is start
llie a dve rtisin g colun is fo r new pie o f the U nited States to g ro w to A. G. I.u n n, head o f the p o u ltry
ia
lly
tales fo r young people. These
lin g ly evident p ro ba bly lo the ma
and better things. Products not the ro in m o d itie s necessary to feed husbandry departm ent, w ho w ill be in the volume are fa vorites from
in
charge
o
f
the
meetings.
The
an
jo r it y o f citizens,” says D r. G ille y ,
représentas there have a slim and clothe themselves and the rest |
various p ublications, chosen not on
“ but to the maintenance o f those
chance o f being know n.
o f the p opulation. By 1900, though nual m eeting o f the Oregon state ly fo r th e ir interest, but because o f
th ing s w h ich have no s tric tly ec Advertised products register an ap the) a d d itio n to the fa rm e q u ip P o u ltry m e n ’s association w il be
th e ir location in Oregon.
onom ic value, most o f us have s till
peal that makes the thoughts of ment o f more horses nnd o f mech- held on the campus at the same
A special feature o f the volume
given little thought.
buying any o th e r k in d
fade i : iir al pc v e r-d riv e n im plem ent, we time.
is
tlia r t a num ber have been hound
"T h e autom obile and the general
E conom ical p ro du ction w i ll
be
away quickly.
had reached a stage o f e fficie n cy,
exodus o f the co u n try on Sundays Persistent, tru th fu l a d ve rtisin g is w h ic h req uired the w o rk o f not one o f the c h ie f topics fo r discus in Oreyon m y rtle wood, and made
ill) in to b ea u tifu l g ift sets. These
and o the r holidays has proved n
a b u ild e r o f steady and certain more than fo u r-te n th o f the w hole sion d u rin g the convention. O ther
are expected to prove p ou la r not I
subjects
such
as
breeding,
disease
te m p o ra ry menace o f great p ro p o r
business. It Is the greatest know n p op ulatio n to feed and clothe us
c o n tro l and m arketin g w ill also r e - i o n ly to book lovers and co llectors
tio ns to o u r native flo ra .
Places
rem edy fo r poor business.
a ll.
i
hut to Bie people o f Oregon w ho
fo rm e rly inaccessible have been Business concerns w ho ilo not ad
T h is y e a r’s census is not com ceive a tte n tio n . One o f the p rin - ! k n o w and love th is b ea utifu l wood.
eipal
speners
w
ill
be
P
ro
f.
B.
B.
opened up, and thoughtless flo w e r
vertise are p la y in g a dangerous plete, hut it seems certa in that it
The book is one o f a scries o f
lovers s trip the woods and roa d
game.
w ill show that not more than a Thom pson, the fir s t graduate o f the hooks on the Oregon T ra il lo he
sides o f blossoms anil shrubbery,
q u a rte r o f the e n tire population o f college p o u ltry departm ent in 1913, published by th is company.
'riie ra re r and more sensitive plants
the U nited States is a c tu a lly en w ho is now head o f the p o u ltry de- i
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have retreated before c iv iliz a tio n —
SAMBO’S PHILOSOPHY gaged in farm w o rk ; and the con partm ent at Oklahom a A. à M. eol-1 T illy , you w ere e n te rta in in g a
lege
and
a
recognized
a
u
th
o
rity
on
!
soealled— and in many eases are
tin u in g increase in p ow er equip
man in the kitch en last n ig h t, were
m aking th e ir Iasi stand. The next
ment lim y, and p ro b a b ly w ill, re p o u ltry problem s.
you
not?
The v is itin g p ou ltrym e n w ill be
fe w years may
determ ine
th e ir
duce th is p ro p o rtio n to 15 per cent
That
is fo r h im to say, ma’am. I
fuies.”
in the course o f another ten years. entertained Ihe firs t evening b y 1 d id m y best.
the
C
o
rv
a
llis
cham
ber
o
f
commerce
Some o f the outstanding exam
That is w hat the sta tistical experts
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ples o f flo w e rs and shrubs once
fig u re — that e v e n tu a lly we shall
abundant hut now not perm anently
reach such a stage o f a g ric u ltu ra l
gone o r fast
disnppeuring
from
e ffic ie n c y that o n ly 15 per cent o f C le rkin g in Theiss’
Oregon fie ld s and foresls, accord
the people w ill be re q u ire d to g ro w
Mrs. Bose Hodson is c le rk in g in
in g lo l)r . (iilk e y , are the small
a ll o f the crops and livesto ck w h ic h the I'hriss G rocery store d u rin g Ihe
p in k o rch id called fa iry o r asgel
Ihe e ntire 700 percent o f the peo absence o f Mrs. Pearl Bonney w ho
slipp er, Ih c Cascade lily , now ex
ple consume.
is in C a lifo rn ia on a ten day vn-
V « .
■
tin c t, and the T rilliu m s o r wood
The present volum e o f p ow er In ealion.
lilie s w h ic h ar destroyed, not by
use on Ihc farm s o f Am erica is
rem oving the roots, hut by ta king
estimated at 50,000,000 horsepow er. V is ito rs at Mce Home
the leaves w ith the flo w e r so that
T h is is d ivid e d among n ea rly 25,-
Mrs. M o lly Dahl John and daugh
no food is m anufactured and stored
000,000 separate u nits, o f w hich
te r M ary Jane o f Berkeley, C alif,
fo r the next year. The rhododen
horses and mules s till com prise the
drons are another notable example
la rg e r p ro p o rtio n . But in add itio n o rn ia w ere v is ito rs at the M ary
Mee home Wednesday.
o f wholesale and thoughtless de
lo some 18,000,000 w o rk anim als
s tru ctio n , and there are many
there arc in use 853,000 farm tra c
_ -wi>
others.
tors, 097,0(8) tru c k s — the farm job Taken to H ospital
•TOUKS that TRT t o . s e t M M ’ -
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“Kf dey was mo' tialid pullin an
is in very large part a tra n s p o rta
J. N. Hurle, who has been sick
twing fop . notvon ’ G rtie P M -tV
Read the Ads and p ro fit. A good less see »awin' an ' brayin', (ley tl lie tio n job— 2,5(81,000 s ta tio n e ry gas
FIND T H A T W H A T 1 H E V O C 1 I *
for
some time, was taken to the
mo’
big
loads
pulled
to
de
TOP
o’
de
advertiser is usually a good mer
wo <\ th a u y r w h M
t h s v p a id
engines, 1.000,000 windmills, 300,- Community hospital in Medford
bill
'slid
o'
atlpkln'
nenh
de
bottom."
chant.
FOlA I T ’’ -w-
-**
000 individual electric plants and
v.
S?
Wednesday morning.
iÄ a t
FR AN K PAR
BANKS
A. P. Giannini told a Congressional
committee the other day that branch
banking would eventually supersede
the present system of independent
local banks i > the United States, as it
has done in Canada and largely in
England. Small villages, he said, can
not support a bank with sufficient re
sources to meet the growing indus
trial needs of small towns.
Mr. Giannini is probably right.
There are good-sized cities in the
United States whose progress has been
held back by lack of adequate local
banking capital and by the narrow
outlook of local bankers. The pre
judice against "chain” ownership of
any kind of business extends to banks
as well as to stores, but as in the case
of chain stores, the remedy is in the
hands of the community Independent
banks, like retailers, can compete with
“chain” institutions if they will adopt
the modern methods of the chains and
provide themselves with sufficient re
source- o make competition effective.
CRIPPLES
r
One of the things which we are be
ginning to learn is that the worst thing
we can do for a person who ha- been
disabled by disease or accident is to
coddle him or her, and the best thing
that can be done is to train the re
maining faculties to useful work.
The Veterans Bureau has finished
its rehabilitation work with men who
were injured in the World War, and
reports that every tnan who is capable
of any sort of productive effort is
now at work somewhere. But the
Federal Government is cooperating
with the states to provide the same
sort of rehabilitation training for vic
tims of industrial accidents and of
crippling diseases like infantile paral
ysis. Only a tew states are giving
cooperation, but in those surprising
results have been achieved.
Leaving out the benefit to society by
not having to support the cripple in
idleness, there is a definite value to
the injured person in the discovery
that he is still able to earn a living.
STUPIDITY
*
Customs officials in Seattle recently
seized 120 copies of a German medical
book, imported by a Seattle dealer
for sale to the medical men of the
Northwest. The ground for the seiz
ure was that the contents of the book
were "indelicate.” The book is a
learned treatise on biology, which
word is merely a technical term
meaning “life.”
Life, apparently, is indelicate, in
the eyes of the United States Cus
toms. But human life only. Nobody
tries to suppress books which deal
with the breeding of livestocks, dogs
or poultry Only when a book sug
gests that the life processes of human
beings are similar to those of other
animals do well-meaning but stupid
officials interfere.
LOWDOWN
Victor V. Green runs what he calls
“The Most Low-Down Paper on
Earth." Its title is the Caochella
Valley Submarine and it is published
at Coachella, Riverside County, Cali
fornia, 76 feet below sea level.
Editor Green has a sense of humor,
as is evidenced by the sub-title of
Ins paper. He also has a sense oi re
sponsibility to his thriving agricultu
ral community, as ihe local news in
the "Submarine” clearly shows.
There are otk^r valleys in Califor
nia the bottoms of which are even
farther below the level of the Pacific
Ocean than this one. They are beds
of ancient lakes which were once bays
of the ocean before some prehistoric
earthquake raised the land between
them and the sea.
Old ocean beds make good farms
everywhere. Holland's farms are
almost entirely on reclaimed sea-bet-
tom, and another 300,000 acres of
ocean has just been diked off and is
being pumped out to add to the agri
cultural area. Much of Florida’s best
land has only lately been reclaimed
and now a project is on foot to irri
gate the Sahara desert and make it
the world's garden spot
WASHINGTON
The National Capital is rapidly be
coming the most beautiful city in
America, one of the most beautiful
cities of the world. I first went to
Washington as a boy, nearly fifty
years ago, and have seen it grow from,
a mtidhole ornamented in spots with
beautiful structures and monuments,
into something which now begins to
resemble the harmonious, stately de
sign of the great Frenchman, Major
L ’Enfant, whom George W ashing
ton employed to lay out the city
named after himself.
Just now there is being spent in
Washington on public buildings and
grounds, parkwavs and the like, a
total of $314,250,000k 'w
Washington was planned to face
East and South from the Capitol and
the White House, respectively. Real
estate speculators of the 1790’s
bought up the desirable lots and held
them at such high prices that the city
grew North and West instead and
new front» had to be put on the White
1 the Capitol, the back door»
« M b MB,
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