THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON. SATURDAY, JAN. 1, 1916
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Weights and Measures
Compared and Corrected
ll-rS.:1 '! VAIU VAIU inthe woman PAYS .-J
In "The Woman Fays," tho latest
Rolfe Photo Ploj-s Inc., production re
loused on the Metro program, Vulli Vul
li, the talented and forceful English ac
tress is seen in the stellar role. The
picture, which is in fivo intense and
gripping acts, will be shown hero at Ye
Liberty theatre on Hunduy and Mon
day. Miss Valli first appeared under the
Rolfe-Metro banner in "The High
Road," a successful leature picture that
is meeting with tremendous success
both here and abroad.
A strong cast appears in support of
Miss Valli in "The Woman Fays,"
which includes Mario Empress, Ed
ward Brennan, John E. Bowers, Paul
Lawrence, Mrs. Julia Hurley and Mae
Do Metz. The story of "Tho Woman
Pays," is one of intrigue, love a"d high
finance, and affords Miss Valli unlimit
ed opportunity to display her remark
able versatility. ,
One of the big scenes in the picture
shows a wonderfully ; realistic storm
where a largo tree is struck by lightn
ing and driven through the bay window
of a home where a ball is in progress.
Miss Vulli, in the role of Beth Cov
entry, is struck by the tree and rece
ives a wound that mars her beauty for
life, a vital incident in the development
of tho dramatic story.
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The iimction of the stato office of
weights and measures is to insure the
giving ami receiving of tho correct
amounts or quantities of commodities
such as hay, grain, foodstuffs, wood,
coal, ice, farm produce, drugs, textile
materials, gasoline oils or precious met
als or in l'uct any commodity where
the price quoted is based upon tho
amount or qnnntity to be delivered.
This law was passed for the benefit
of the public and solely as a protection
to them, and in order to carry out this
program successfully, the first step
necessary is the testing of all appar
atus (scales, weights and measures) in
commerciul use.
The inspection work of the state of
fice of weights and measures is attend
ed to bv district sealers, four in num
ber, working under the direction andi
supervision of the state office, their j
duties being the enforcement of those
provisions of law relating to the pur-i
hnse ami sale or tno various com-i
modities, as well as the inspection
of the equipment in use.
Oregon established this important
work three years ago, the original act
being passed in litis, but an entirely
new law was placed in effect during,
the 1915 session of the legislature
which has proved more economical InJ
administration to the state at large,
and yet much more comprehensive thanj
the original act of 1913, and in addi-i
tion places the state of Oregon among
tho foremost in the Union in protect
ive legislation of this nature.
Owine to the tact that tne majority
of the states have placed upon their
statutes laws relative to weights and
measures, it ib utouuj iui vijivi. , - , .
also keep abreast of the times, for,""' ue '? .-.-.u.u., m
should the bars be lowered this state! "bout a satisfy ing ; balance between the
would bo made the dumping ground consumer aim imuesmnn.
for inferior. and fau-.y apparatus, as
well as short weight commodities in annroved or condemned with the state
FSED a. BTJCHTELL
Scaler of weights and measures, who
packago form which could not be sold
elsewhere. .
To the individual unfamiliar with
the duties of this office, the word9
" Weights and Measures" are. more or
less meaningless, but a slight investi
gation will show tho manifold duties
that devolve upon the scalers.
Requests are made here for the in
spection of equipment of all kinds,
with a view of ascertaining the accura-
standards.
This office is very frequently called
upon to measure wood, check coal
weights, reweigh ice, measure milk bot
tles and inspect milk cans, test gaso
line pumps and measures, and various
other request are made which require
investigation and adjustment.
Under this law the state office is
authorized to investigate such trade
customs as mav have a tendency to
cv or incorrectness of tho same. The' promote dishonesty i the use of
steel tape of tho engineer ig certified, ; weights nnd menuHres, and under this
the micrometer gauge, used to deter- grant many reiorms nave Decn inaug-
mine tho thickness of paper is tested, I united in the handling of commodities
standard wire and steel plat gauges land in the use of weights and niensuros
are rcierrcu, anu many inure iu uum-1 which nas rcsuneu in nuwuic
tion to the ordinary apparatus sucb thousands of dollars annually to th
as scales, weights and measures are state of Oregon.
County Fair Officials
To Hold Meeting at
Corvailis January 5
The annual conference of county fair
officials will be held at tho Oregon
Agricultural college on the nfteruom of
January 5, 191(5. This will be tho third
nnnual conference of this association.
Delegates are expected from nil parts
of tho state. The officers of the asso
ciation ure: J. A. Churchill, superin
tendent of public instruction, president,
and V Al Jones, secretary of the state
fair h uird, secretary.
The following program has been an
nounced: -
1. .Management of County Fairs:
The necessity of Having a Paid
Secretary and Organizer
E. L. Potter, Corvailis; W. Ci.
Groves, Corvailis
2. Publicity for County Fuirs: Work
ing Up Au Interest. Advance
Promotion Work
W. W. Smead, Heppner; C. C.
Cate, Medford
Preparing the Ehibit
0. E. Freytng, Gladstone
3. Uniformity in Premium Lists:
Classification
Austen Buxton, Forest Grove; W.
K. Taylor, Corvnliis
. Prizes ;
J. C. Cooper, McMinnville; Roy
V. Shelton, .Scio
Publicity of Exhibits
Walter Meacham, Baker
Arrangements of Exhibits:
n) rrom me standpoint of nn
exhibitor.
J. H. Dunstan, Tillamook
(b) From tho standpoint of the
judge
W. S. Brown, Corvullisj E. B.
. Fitts, Corvailis
,...S.dL....Ha gj.. etaoin un tin n
4. Developing tho Efficiency of the
county f air:
Community exhibits
Miss Anna M. Turley, Corvnliis
School Industrial Exhibits
H. C. Seymour, Dallas
Grange Exhibits
II. A. Lewis, Corvailis; E. B.
Lcedy, Corvailis
- Women 'g Work.
...Mrs. Winnio Bradon, Corvailis
5. Amusements for County Fairs:..
.Walter B. Jones, Eugene
6. School Exhibits nnd Their Rela
tion to the County Fair.
N. C. Maris, Portland
7. How to Run a Fair Without
' ' Wild-West-hound-Up " Fen
tures. . . Phil S. Butes, Portland
MRS. THOMSON DEAD.
GRAND THEATRE
' F. L. WATERS. MANAGER
Ma napv s Stuff'; Koy Phillips, JStuffO Mnnopor; Chus. IT. Guofroy; Cnnhicr;
S. B. C'ollard, Kltvtricianj Ernest ii. Hunt, On-hcstra Director
Oregon's Water Power Will
Become Its Greatest Asset
San Francisco, Dee. 31. Los Anceles
advices today told of the death (,f
Mrs. Louise Keith Thomson, defenlcil
claimant to the Into John M. Keith's
millions, nt tho home of her sister-in-law,
Dr. Sarah J. Tedford who backed
the recent court battle. Mrs. Thomson
told a strange story of nn Alaskan ship
wreck, of lifo in an eskimo colony, and
later of meeting her fnther, whom she
believed dead. So overjoyed was he,
she claimed, that he at once willed her
all his estate.
TODAY
"THE MUMMY AND THE HUMMING BIRD"
A Drama of Society Life, featuring Charles Cherry, one
ot tne recent additions to the galaxy of Paramount Stars.
Sunday and Monday, January 2-3.
THEDA BARA IN "CARMEN"
The Williani Fox picturization of the famous opera, with
an actress in the title role who was former leading woman
of the Theatre Antoine, Paris. She stands supreme as
"The Vampire Woman" of the screen. A rage from
coast to coast.
NOTABLE PICTURES COMING IN NEAR FUTURE
; Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 4-5-6
Mary Pickford in "Madame Butterfly"
A pathetic human-interest story, featuring the most popular of all motionplay
Actresses the supreme favorite of the screen, in an' adaptation of John
Luther Long's great classic,
, rRIDAY and SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 and 8.
"Armstrong's Wife"
The famous actress, Edna Goodrich, makes her photodramatic debut In UJ
i photoplay. ;
SUNDAY and MONDAY, JANUARY 9-10
George Beban in "The Alien"
The famous star of ''The Italian'" in a motionplay that has been one of tte
, sensations of the year,
TUESDAY and THURSDAY, JANUARY 11-13. . .
Pauline Frederick in "Bella Donna"
An intense tragedy with exquisite oriental settings. A great Paramount actress
in a picture adapted from a celebrated novel and play
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, JANUARY 11-15
"A Gentleman from Indiana"
With Dustin Farnum. The star of "The Virginian" is a picture well wortn
seeing.
TRAVEL PICTURES in addition to regular program each Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday.
SUPREME COURT BUILDING, SALEM
OREGON
WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
Work will be started at onee, on new
road clown the Umatilla river from
Pendleton to Pilot Kock Junction, cost
'J0,000.
It is planned to oil roads around
E.ho.
Stenm and electric roads in Oregon
in 1915 paid $i,200,S3.27 taxes and
operatinK revenues fell off $1,177,430.
Oregon corn aereno nearly doubled
during the year, largely duo" to educa
tional campaign of O. V. K. & N.
company.
Htandard Oil company will build a
tank at Stanfield.
Eugene sends dried loganberries east
for Christmas gifts.
Keedport itives lumber company 75
seres of land for factory sito and
water frontage on condition it will
bring mill of 125,000 feet capacity and
operate for 15 vears.
0. W. If. & N. will spend $100,000
lining St. Johns tunnel with concrete.
Portland's tax is $25.10 on tne
$1000.
Newport Signal-Review plant sold
to H. O. Guild, owner Toledo Sentinel.
Columbia Hivcr & Nchalem Logging
railroad running to capaeity.
The timber wealth of Oregon-is so J fors power, fuini dies us liyht for our
great that it is almost beyond computa-1 homes and heat for. many purposes,
tion. It runs into tho thousands of(It will eventually heat our houses and
billions of feet, nnd billions is beyona ; public buildings as well. It will fiirn
human comprehension. ish the power that not only runs the
Great as is this wealth, it is a trifle i machinery of our factories and iudus
compared to the wealth the state has! tries but will draw the plows, and do
in its unlimited water power. The 1 tho farm work now done by horses,
timber will be cut down and destroyed j Indeed the tied is so wide that we can
Pendleton building a country club
for 100 members.
Portland's new Franklin liih Bchool
will cost $000,000, havo seven buildings
nnd 200 students. It will have a com
plete agricultural eollece courso.
t'ountv road to bo built from New
port to Xaqiiina.
Tax commission announces that tax
es for 1910 will no about 15 per cent
lower.
Htnto tax low on 1915 valuation is
reduced $502,000.
Citizens of North Bend voted to
amend charter cxtendin" franchise of
.Southern Pacific company, from 35 to
(SO years.
Union Pacific system to spend $1,
500,000 on Oregon lines in 1910.
Portland Chamber of ommeree mak
ing fight to havo all Douglas Fir and
Oregon stono used on new million dol
lar postoffice.
Sutherlin getting new two-story
brick building.
Kosebnrg Kendall, Pittsburg capit
alists, returns in January to tako up
work on railroad nnd sawmill. Somo
right of way has been secured.
Ht. Helens Industries in full blast
employ DO men in snipvards, 30 in ere
osoting plant, 150 In two sawmills, and
50 In two road metal plants.
sometime. There will be an end to.
it, but the water, even as in Tenny
son's brook will go on forever, nnd
that is a long time. '
To use the timber is to destroy it.
To use the water is to conserve it.
True, nature would restore tho timber I
only guess what the ingenuity of man
will nftt set it at work at.
That is why the exploiters want it,
and that is the greatest reason why
they should not be permitted to huve
it. When that time comes when the
water Irom tho mountains is warming
in tho course of time, Put it would be i our houses, cooking our food, running
o
Special Piice
FIVE LOADS
Mill Wood
AT
Prompt Delivery
Spaulding Logging
Company
$1.50
a much longer time than a fellow has
in which to wait for it.
With tho water it is different. If
it is not used as it runs, it is lost,
but nature keeps tho source supplied
and sho works hurd to do it, too.
The weather sharps toll us the sun
lifts tho water that talis in Oregon in
the shnpo of rain, or most of it, from
tne sens soutn or the equator and large
ly from the Indian ocean. This is the
work of tho sun and it is also his
job tp keep it warm enough to prevent
its condensing while tho air currents
bring it thousands of miles to drop it
on the timbered hills and snowy rnnges
of the mountains of Oregon. That is
they way it is deposited for us far up
in the mountains and in the shape of
snow, so that it cannot run off until
tho sun gives it permission.
A Great Frozen Lake.
By this means a frozen lake, so to
speak, is placed every year on tho big.
ranges of the C'nscudcs, a lake nearly
threo hundred miles long with a width
of fifty miles and a depth of five or
six feet.
It is this vast flood of water stored
half a milo above the valley, that in
its descent .gives Oregon tho greatest
and most dependable water power of
any state in the union.
This power is variously estimated
at from threo million to six million
horse power, and is tho cheapest pow
er In the world.
Not only is it the greatest and
cheapest, but it is tho most easily con
trolled water power In tho United
States. On top of this it provides tho
ovenest flow of water found anywhere.
Tho rnins of winter keen nn th
during that season bettor than in al
most any other country, and tho cool
nights peculiar to tho coast prevent
mu sudden melting of tho snows and
consequently floods in summer.
Tho conservntlonism rcnlizo tho vast
ncss of this wealth, and so do the water
power exploiters. Between the two,
the development of this source nf nn.
limited wealth is being held up to the
I detriment of the public. The Conner
j vntionists would placo so many strings
on it that cnpltal is afraid to invest
Its money in it, and on tho other band
the exploiters of the public's domain
are so Intent on grabbing the whole
thing that they are a stumbling block
in the way of development.
Will Be Public Berrant
They want the ownership of the fee
simple with no stfing on them and
the power to charge what they please
for the use of the water so soon ns they
ncauire tho ownership of it and put it
at work.
Tho time Is coming and Is prnbnbly
nenr at hand when electricity will bo
doing about all that ran now be done
g inrougn any oiner mcnaji. ii irnns-
the machinery of the furms ns well ns
that of the cities; when it hus become
practically indispensible, then it should
be in the hands of the people. Then
it will be indeed the greutest asset of
this or any other state. It will be
source of wealth that will build our
roads pay tho state taxes, and edu
cate our children, and this after be
ing sold to the consumer at a modcr-
ute price.
would Run the State.
When thh power is brought under
control a smull sum per horsepower per
year would run tho state government
and that of all the counties in it.
The country has an abundance of
eonl, but it will be exhausted somo
time and strungo as it may seem to the
old timers, wator will bo our source
of heat as well as at present of light.
When this day comes, as coine it will,
Oregon will lend all the states in this
great source of wealth. It Is hero for
ever. Ho long ns the sun shines and
the laws of gravity remain unchnnged
this source of power will not bo ex
hausted. Almoct at Salem's doors the Santi-
Famous Salem Cherrians '
Uniformed Booster Club
(Continued from Pao Three.)
Knlph D. Moores, F. (I. Myers. K. P.
Mc ormifk, (ionlon Midilc'hrist, Win.
MiOilchrist, Jr., ("nils. I. McXarv,
Hen W. Oleott, Hr. II. II. Olinger, K. C.
I "at ton, llul It. I'litton, J. C. Perrv, It.
P. Peters, C. J. Pomerov, Dr. l'l. K.
I'ound, Jos. II. Heiiilinit,' K. T. Hieh
ardson, (ieo. II. Hiihes, .Tno. J. Hub
erts, (ieo. F. Kodgeis, .1. P. Kmlgers, J.
W, Itolaud, Tlieo. Hoth, F. K. .Shnfer,
U. O. Shipley, Wntt Shipp, K. Fritz
Slaile, Dr. T. ('. Smith, (ieo. C. I..
Snyder, W. L. Hpaulding, Frank Spears,
Paul Stege, J. I.. Stockton, Fred I).
Thielsen. Thos. K. Townsend, I.eo Vn
rub, Paul It. Wallace, W. S. Walton, F.
L. Waters, Oeo. K. Waters, ', H, Webb,
ii. ii. wnite, Arthur K. ili-on, J. A.
Wilson, W. ('. Winslow, J. H. Young.
am is pouring its wealth of power down
to tho sen, unharnessed and useless.
Some duy it will turn the wheels of
industry hero nnd make Salem hum
with business like a bee colony in
swarm.
Who can even guess intelligently to
what varied uses this great power will
eventually be putt And who is there
that cun fix nny fuir value upon it I
Who is there can measure its pos
sibilitiest Is it not possiblo that in
the nenr future, It may be used ns a
defenso against, iiivnsionf Who knows
but that with this vast power some
Kdison yet to come, may steul the
thunderbolt of Jove uud hurl the
lightnings at will through space,
Who can measure its possibilities, or
place a limit on its ultimate uses!
PARAMOUNT NEWS PICTURES each Friday and Saturday.
Scenics, etc., added when length of program permits.
Comedies,
Established 1864
A Happy and Prosperous
New Year
Is the Wish
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BASTES!' OREGON STATS
HOBPITAL
ut. WUaon D. IitcNsry, Supt.
This institution bad its origin
in
an initiative measure adopted by the
peoplo of tho stato In November, 1010,
An appropriation of 200.000 bolng
voted at the same time for its con
struction. It has a tract of 400 acros
of land sltunted about ono mile and a of 1915 voted lOO.OOO for an exten
half east of Pendleton, and can ac sion, which will accommadate about
tr.nmoilKte 400 patients. January 25, 200 more patients.
lllia, 325 putlonts were moved from the It has 55 employes and monthly
Hnlem hospital to it. The legislature pay roll of about 2,800.