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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1912)
StBffmsimt salem sewe! . . , . iiEU'S bUtll SYS I ElllirJ DAHBEEt FRO CI WASH OF CBBFJE PAIIfi up uecause ttiey were choked and found to have been filled with ooncrete, float washed off the streets. City Englner Hurlburt U very positively of the opinion hat all PETE STREETS MUST E COVERED WITH COAT OF ASPHALT TO SAVE SEWERS Portland Has Discovered That Her Sewers Are Clogged by the Washing of urouna up uement i-rom the Street Pav ing, Which "Re-sets" in the Sewers and Eventually Fills Them Completely The Remedy Suggested si a Coating of Asphalt.. This Will Cost But Little, Will Save the Sew ers and Prevent Dust. Mat will Salem do with the con- tive was shown sections of sewer Pipe lrtt( streets that are giving away In at the city hall In Portland that have ,' It Is conceded tnat some 01 ueeu iaen up uecause ttiey le test streets In the city of this kind, Hlj by A. Kehrberger and Ualt Pugh, gearing well and giving good sat slictlon, but there are a number of M streets with only part of a year's mr are showing bad holes. Mayor ULctauud Beenis to be opposed to u; Investigation of the matter by a toauattee of the city council, and mirnian Lafky Is at his wits end to ant the demand for explanations and sprite of the property owners there the streets are giving away. -. - Bid Opened Tonight. Tlerf will be a large number of Wi on street work opened tonight ml the public Is curious to know If fe city Is going ahead to build more itreeti In the same way some of them live been built. Can property ownors k beld "for such streets, or will the Mtractoin have to make them go'fld? Sir, Bldwell, who built the East State street, seems to blame the. failure on I He cement companies, and the proper 3 iTMcrs blame the Inspector. Trying j to locate the blame Is not very satls- Mory business, and does not recover mney nor restore the street. Unless i concrete street can be built, that can l guaranteed there will not be many ore built In Salem. The Sewer Problem. Salem hag just Invested about $300, ND In sewers and revelations at Port tad have Just come to light that hidl We concrete streets are dangerous to w pipes. A Journal reprcsenta- concrete laid in the future will have to be given a coating of asphalt or coal tar and a wearing surface of sand. Engineer Hurlburt says the washed-off particles of concrete that get Into the sewer pipes will reset al most as hard as originally. The Port land Telegram recently had accounts headed: "Sewer pipe clogged by ce ment deposits. City must pay for re moving them and putting In new ones." Must Cover With Asphalt. The Oregonlan, February 10, has this: "Chairman Baker asked City Engin eer Hurlburt yesterday whether It Is safe to lay concrete pavement, as pro posed for Maiden avenue, in SellWood. Mr. Hurlburt Bald he would cover It with sufficient asphalt to protect sew ers. There has been considerable trouble with cement washing off pave ment into the sewers and clogging them." City Engineer Hurlburt, of Portland, was called upon Saturday by a Capital Journal representative and the condlT tlon of some of the concrete streets of A Horrible Crime. Madriz, Feb. 12. News of the confession of a mother and son. charged with parricide of un- usually atrocious character, I- . vvn. iivi o vuuw; I will 1UI w rexieja, a vijllage In the pro- x ..1 . ,i Senora Pinaldl had become In- censed against her husband be- cause he ldd not make her a sufficient allowance for house- hold ... purposes. She persuaded. her 20-year-old son to kill his father with a hatchet' Follow- lng the murder, mother and son dug a hole In the , garden In which to bury the body. Find- lng the grave too small, . they cut off the legi and threw them In on top of the torso. ' TX hit .41 Cut showing section of lO-lneh sewer pipe filled wllh concrete sediment washed from concrete streets, and forming solid filling tlmt chokes sewers. Taken op on East Ninth street, Portland. U. S. Department of Agriculture. 3O0v WEATHER BUREAU. WILLIS L MOORE, Chief, llA2 9!z 7 rmr c?"v. k- t -r Q A A--f v. - r ill roiV7 i i Xa9 I 1 . i L A. J A a u T 9T L....X JM J- A .M 4'? 3,z t J-A -o il 5o m on ?42N J Monday, A Uutlionii. (dotted ln') paMlbrouiili Plnt of equal Wmv ' 1 ' 0 w; O Mrtl,ctodr: O cloudy; ra.n: .now; rwort W 'i .loelV. """turf p,lsl 12 bours. wcon() edpimiion of'.01 Incb or moro for past U boura, tlilrd. n.a.iim ForeroNt Till 5 p. n .Poland and Vicinity: Rain tonight and Sunday. Southeasterly winds. Jknm and Washington: Italn west tonight and Sunday, rain east pot tlon tonight Increasing along the coast and probably becoming high tonight ' t sh,pmetB as for north as Seattle It !. 36 degrees; southeast to Doise, 32 degrees; south to Siskiyou, 32 dog.ees. Minimum ort'and tonight, about 48 degrees. Hirer Forecast Willamette river at Portland will rise slowly during the next gj nEALg DIrlct Forecaster. Salem were stated to him, and he was asked what might be done to preserve the streets already down and any fu ture congrete streets that might be laid In Salem. . He said a wearing Bur face of asphalt and sand could be put on them for six to eight 'cents a square yard that would Preserve the con crete agalnst'washing Into the sewers, and make a much nicer street in every way. He said they would allow no more concrete streets to be laid In Portland without such a coating. Portland Telegram lteport. Sewer pipes in the vicinity of Mult nomah and East Ninth streets have become so badly clogged by deposits of cement from pavomentB that they must be removed and replaced by new pipe at the expense of the city. Yes terday the sewer repair gang uncov ered . pipe., which - .wrvfc completply blocked, and It is said that there are several hundred feet of pipe in just as bad condition. The cement wearing from the concrete pavement washes Into the sewers where It sets a second time. . Samples of the clogged pipe were viewed by Councilman Baker and he Intends demanding an Investigation. He thinks If the cement pavements produce such tesults In the sewers there should be no more such pave ments. Employes In the engineering department clal mthat wherever ce ment pavement has been laid the sew ers are clogged, and that It will take thousands of dollars to repair the damage which already has resulted. More than a year ago the atetntlon of Joseph Simon, then mayor, was called to the damage being wrought on sewers by cement pipe and he signed no more contracts for such pavements. Several weeks ago Councilman Monks introduced resolution before the Council demanding that the city En gineer file s report of the damage sus tained from such pavements to the sewer system snd this report recently filed has disclosed deplorable condi tions. Already much pipe has been removed and the work must continne as the sewers are clogging and back ing sewage into houses. o STATE NEWS. The headquarters of the Corvallls & Eastern railroad have been changed from Portland to Albany. Eugene reports for January 17 deaths and 33 births. I'niatllla county hs hired an en gineer and expert road builder and will spend $100,000 yearly building Permanent roads. Isaac Smith and George Volkhardt, who, one armed with a hatchet and the other with a chisel, had a duel at Albany recently will both recover, and neither will prosecute the other, which shows that they are good sports. Matthew Dougltis, a young nuin hi.it by a falling tree some time ago, near Hood Hlver, commuted suicide by shooting Saturday. , Monroe Kenton, engineer of the Ore gon Trunk railroad, has been niisain since laat Friday night Tunnel Hock, one of the many not ed pluces' around Newport, whs de stroyed lust week by the fierce waves. Mr. and Mrs. Duvld Sellers, of Dal las, celebrated their golden wedding lit that city February 1. Governor West and state officials promise taxes shall be lowered next year. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S SUGGESTS Attorney-General Crawford takes up the gauge thrown down by Governor west and Points out what he clainie ate weak spc ts In tue till proposed ry the governor. . First Ha suggesta, Instead of one man having entire control, that It be placed with a board consisting of the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer. Second That, Instead of having an engineer at a big salary, that the work be under the direction of the state en gineer, already paid by the state, and to whose services the state Is entitled without further pay. Third To have the monnv rained hv sale of bonds to remain In' the state treasury until UBed to Pay for roads. Fourth To provide that the Interest on the money, until It is used, be the property of the state. Fifth To arrange for the distribu tion of the money among the coun ties, and to compel them to spend It on the roads something they could avoid under the present bill. Sixth For the state engineer lo co operate with the county surveyor f-ji the laying out of gocd roadB, etc. j Altogether t!.D cltorneyg-nyal makes a pretty strodg showing, nun his assertions nr (eitainly meaty enough to bo wor:'i considering 'be fore passing them up THE OPEN FORUM I The Capital Journal Invites Pnbllc Difcuwloa In This Department Let Doth 8ldea of All Matters Be Full Brought Out It It Not the Purpose of This Newspaper to do the Thinking for Ita Readers, Ed. Journal: If you will kindly ac cord me some space In the columns of your valued paper I would like to air my feelings In regard to the public school question. So many eighth grade graduates have failed In the recent examinations that the questions arise: "What alls our schools? Who Is to blame?" The answer, which seems to be very easy In the minds of some, la lack of expe rienced teaching and normal training. Somebody has to be made the scape goat, and the common teacher, that Is the one without normal training, makes an easy target. Hut ts this really true? It seems to me that teaching is an art, and has to be more or less natural ability. Normal train ing, no doubt, Is good, but does this mean that we should condemn all oth ers? How many of us have ever at tended school that was taught by a normal graduate, and still consider ourselves fairly well educated. As far as the knowledge of the teacher Is concerned, It Is said by no means that the one with the beBt education Is nec essarily the best teacher. A teacher who passes with a high average In the examination may not have as good re sults In teaching as the one who pass es with a lower average simply be cause ho or she tacks the natural abil ity. I am by no means opposed to the normal schools, and have voted for the appropriation for each and every one at the last state election. What I am opposed to, however, Is the ex clusion of all teachers who are not normal graduates. When we find our selves among the "higher ups" we are too prone to look down on our leas fortunate brethren. Attending normal school or the state university Is a priv ilege that belongs to the wealthy dims of citizens. The poor man can not afford to send his son or daugh ter to a school of higher education e"en If the tuition Is free. I wide'-- ttnr.d, however, tint there Is a move. unit afoot t-i hi've a law enacted to elude all teachers In thi future who are not normal graduates, excepting those who already have taught. This seems to me be un fair In the extreme First the voter udes the additional toi to sustain the normal sObool, anl then the privileged ones for whom he pays hla money turn around a.id finding him less favorabW situated take away his chances through his own act,. , : . : In conclusion I wish to say that I think when a teacher has passed an examination In the common school branches and understand these thor oughly he has all the knowledge re quired for an eighth grade school. Any knowledge which wo may possess that Is beyond our sphera rf life Is practic ally useless. For lnttance, of what benefit Is algotira to a teacher eluw the ninth grade when he finds that he has for)t u his (itt iSr.mentals l't arithmetic? I think If we become more practical In our schools and have less theories and fads we will have better results In the examina tions. Not being a teacher myself, all I have written above Is from an Im partial viewpoint. A READER. Sublimity, Ore., Feb. 9. (The Oregon Normal school at Monmouth Is fulfilling the object for which It was created preparing school teachers and nothing else. The class that graduated the other day are all engaged to go out and teach In the publlo schools. The State Nprmal should be supported by the people of this state who are friends of the pub lic schools. That school Is not de viating a hair's breadth from the pur pose for which It was created by law. It Is not a school for the sons and daughters of the wealthy people who want to bring up their offsprings to careers of Idleness. The young man or woman who Is going to dedicate his or her life to pnbllc school work are becoming public servants of the mass es of the people, and nornial schools are a legitimate factor of the govern ment to be supported by the people The' Capital Journal does not believe In educating any other professional class at public expense.) Ed. J. ft LIOCeLf DiriHiir; THE OKI BIG BIXING ROOM TVIXt BE FILLED p'OMGHT IX HONOR OF .ONE OF THE GRANDEST CHAR.? ACTEltS THAT BRIGHTENS, THE, PAGES OF THE WORLD'S HIS TORY. . MENU. ; Consomme Clear Fish Olives ( Celery Roast Turkey, Stuffed Mashed Potatoes New Garden Peas MIL'S OFF OK The Journal apologises for scarcltv of news but Is not to blame. The gas was shut off shortly afternoon, stop ping the machines, and this apology is "set by hand." " Klamath Fa'l Elks, the "bubf" lodge, expects to send a special fr.Vii to Portland when tho order has Its big blowout there next summer. O" 1 James Wyrlck, of Albany, was hurt Friday by his horse falling and rolling clear over him. One leg was broken. and he was Injured Internally. Roman Punch Waldorf Salad k Ice Cream and Cake Coffee A fine dollar Lincoln dinner will , be pulled off at the Marlon hotel thin evening at 6 o'clock, and It Is an nounced that the committee la charge have placed about 150 tickets. It was not expected to have any candi dates make, talks but the program haa been changed and Judga S. A. Lwell, of Pendleton, who la a candi date for U. S. senator against Bourne, and Mayor Grant B. Dlinlck, of Oregon City, will be present and speak. Judge Dlmlok made a very fine race for governor, and is under stood to be a possible candidate for that office again. The banquet be gins promptly at 6 o'clock;. The committee In charge are: J. Q. HeUsel, C. L. Mc.Nary, Albort GIllo, Ira Hamilton, and Carl Abrams. The services of the Peerless or chestra and a good quartet have been secured and several musical numbers will Intersperse the oratory of the evening. Following Is the program: Orchestra 'selection, Peerless or chestra. Song, "America," everybody. , Address "Young Men In Politics," Hon C. L. McNary. Address, "Registration," Hon. J. A. Carson. Selection, quartet.- ' Address, "Abraham Lincoln, the Foremost Man of His Time," Hoa C. N. McArthur. Selection, Peerless orchestra. Address, "RemtnlHcences," Daniel Wobater. Selection, quartet ' Address, "Republican Policies," Hon. George F. Rodgers. Selection, "Patriotic Airs," orches tra. These Chilly Days are Treacherous If i A Just now we are offering you an inducement to buy Early Spring Over coats, Gabardines and Raincoats New STYLISH MODELS, guaranteed ALL WOOL fabria and rainproof. Don't overlook this opportu nity. Call and see them. SPECIAL PRICES $12, $16, $20, $22 These Coats sell regular from $18 to $30 Jf f.. Salem Woolen Mlnk,Wi4kwC, V 1 Mills Store t t
