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Vftg DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. TUESDAY, JAN. 1, 1918.
THREE
Oregon's Forests Have Timber
to Rebuild a Wrecked World
Her Annual Output of $30,000,000 Will Be Doubled, and
Demand Will Increase When War Ends.
Oregon 's timber is her most valuable
asset, and its manufacture her greatest
.industry. Heretofore she has produced
lumber valued at around $30,000,000 a
year. She maintained this production
for the last two years in. spite of car
shortage, and ship shortage, which shut
off markets whieh could and would
have taken all the lumber she could
have produced, if it could have been
delivered. Had it not been for this lack
of transportation facilities, Oregon
would, along with the eastern states,
have felt some of the increased busin
ess due to the war. As it was she, so
far as her financial interests were con
cerned, was injured rather than helped
by the war. The past year and the one
before it each saw a little improvement
in the returns from her grain crop, and
1917 showed considerable gains in the
returns from her lumber. The latter
was nothing like it should and would
have been with abundant transportation
facilities, but it was an improvement
over 1916.
Coming Into Her Own.
Now Oregon is about to come into her
own. Her forests contain one fifth,
eonie estimates say one thinrd, of all the
standing timber in the United States.
Not only this but they contain the tim
ber that is most urgently needed, and,
that she and her neighbor, 'Washington
can alone produce, the spruce for air
ships. This she has in unlimited quan
tities, and as it can be gotten nowhere
else, Oregon is to feel the effects of a
real war boom. So far as this lumber
is concerned, it being for the govern
ment, there will be no lack of transpor
tation, and the only thing limiting the
output will be the labor to handle it. A
hundred million feet are wanted at once
and for this the government will pay
$105 a thousand, or more than ten mil
ion dollars.
This is to be produced the coining
season, or before the end of 1918. This
is but one item that will make the
grand total of the output of Oregon's
forests for the year. The rush for
wooden ships has hardly begun for red
tape and obsolete methods have sadly
hampered industry in getting down to
business in the way of ship building.
Now at last swivel chair methods are to
be dropped and the wide awake Ameri
can huBtler told to "go to it. ' ' That he
will "go", is a certainty and that the
results will surprise the moss covered
relics in some of the departments is an
other certainty.
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Marion County Schools Lead
the State in Industrial Work
Abstract Company
Announces Change
The Salem Abstract Company, with
offices in the Salem Bank of Com
merce building, announces that W. E.
Hanson of Grants Pass, has purchased
an interest in the company, which is
ono of the oldest in the state, having
been established in 1880. Mr. Hanson
will assume the office and duties of
secretary of the company, held for
the past seven years by George J. Wat
son. Mr. Watson has.been certified by
the national War council of the Y. M.
C. A. for service with United States
troops in France, and will leave to
take up his duties as soon as he has
been definitely assigned. In the mean
time he will remain with the company.
jur- Hanson has been a resident of
Oregon for the past fifteen years. He
served a term as deputy county clork
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ti uolu tvuui.j', huh IttlUT BOYCU
tw. terms as county clerk for Hood
River county, being the first cleric
elocted to office in that eountr after
its rormation by the legislature. He
was fornierlv owner and manager of
the Grants Pass abstract companv.
and is considered a very capable and
progressive title man. His familv will
join him there at once.
A. A. Lee. president of the comcanv.
who has been associated with it for
more than twenty five years, will con-
nuuo in mat tuiiee, ana lie ana ivir.
Hanson will both be avtivelv enzaeed
in tho affairs of the business.
With 1,500 Members Four of Whom Won First Prizes In
Statewide Competition.
(By Superintendent Smith.)
There are three things which the
schools of Marion county are especially
striving for this year. They are the
teaching of thrift, courtesy and patriot
ism. The necessity for saving should be im
pressed upon the minds of children at all
times and especially during the war.
We feel that if courtesy is taught in
ith? schools, it will be an asset of in
calculable value to the pupils in' after
life.
When one hears the students sing pat
riotie songs and salute the flag he may
doubt their real patriotism but when
he sees them enlist in large numbers
from our High schools aud volunteer to
do whatever the government asks them
Jq do, no one can doubt that patriotism
is being taught witn a marvelous degree
of success, i -
During the past three years the per
cent of attendance in the schools has
been ninety five. We are proud that
Marion county has helped place Oregon
at the head of the list in the United
(States for best attendance. The pupils
feel that their progress depends in large
measure on their regular atteudance at
school.
, Lead in Industrial Work,
Our schools have distinguished them
selves iu the industrial club work. They
won first prize for the best exhibit at
the state fair. The enrollment in this
work was larger than that of any other
county in the state, totaling over 1500.
The following industrial club members
won the first prize in the statewide com
petition and will go to the O. A. C. sum
mer school for two weeks, their expenses
being paid by prominent business men
of Portland.
William Blake, Jr., Keizer school, for
corn growing.
Thelma Bocttiger, Auburn school, for
baking bread.
Frank Eggler, Fruitland school, for
pig raising.
Madison Nichols, Bethel school, for
pig raising.
A wonderful stimulus was given to
pig raiding in Marion county when the
United States NationaF bank offered to
loan $1000 to boys and girls who would
care for one pig. Mr. G. W. Eyre, vice
president of the bank, backed the move
ment, not only with money, but with
time, hl visiting schools, and . bringing
the pig and boy together, then encourag
ing the boy to make a Hog of the pig
as quickly as possible.
Mr. Eyre gave the members of the pig
club a trip to Portland to visit the stock
yards. Fifty-six boys and girls took this.
High Schools Growing
The high school attendance has grown
with leaps and bounds since the passage
of the county tuition law. A county
fund is created by this law from which
the tuition of non-resident pupils at
tending standard high schools in tnej
county is paid. Thus an equal oppor
tunity is given the country boy and girl
to get a high school education that for
merly was enjoyed only by hose in the
citv." Following is a list of the standard
high schools and the number of students
attending each:
Salem . '. 828
tion "Standard School", is placed over
the door.
Following are the requirements for a
i standard school for the year 1917-18:
FLAG. Must be flying on all school
days.
LIGHTING The total amount of
window space must equal at least one
fifth of the floor Bpace, and the light
must come only iroui tno left, or from
the left and the rear of the room.
EQUIPMENT Teacher's desk and
chair; desks for pupils properly adapted
and placid; suitable blackboards; win-
uow suaues iu good condition.
HEATING AND VENTILATION.
Jacketed stove properly situated, min
imum requirement; window boards or
some other approved method of ventila
tion.
BOOMS. Attractive at all times.
axAitiJA.au i-iUTUKJi. One new
one, .unless throe are already in the
room, framed.
GROUNDS. To be clean, free from
paper, etc. At least three features of
play amusements. Walks, if necessary.
SANITATION. Pure drinking water,
either drinking fountain or covered tank
and individual drinking cups; individual
family or paper towels.
OUTBUILDINGS At least two good
ones, to be sanitary at all times and free
from marks.
TEACHEE. Must maintain good or
der at all times; supervise playground;
have her work well prepared; follow
state course of study; take at least one
educational journal; have program post
ed in room; keep register in good con
dition; be neat in attire.
LlBiiAKif. Good selection of at least
one hundred books from state list, part
1, excluding duplicates. Case for the
books. Books kept upright in good con
dition, and recorded according to the
rules specified by the Oregon State Li
brary and required by law.
ATTENDANCE. Average 92 per
cent for the year and not to exceed two
per cent in tardiness per year.
Are All Patriotic
SCHOOL VISITS. At least one di
rector must visit the school for one hour
each month whilo the sclfbol is in ses
sion. The schools rendered valuable service
to the government during the recent
Food conservation campaign. The bul
letins were studied by teacher and the
pupils and such a campaign of educa
tion was carried on that nearly every
district in the county signed up 100 per
cent. The teachers of Marion county
are loyal to the government in this
time of great need aud they are willing
to help in any way they can to win the
war so that the money that is being
spent for war may be spent to give ev
ery boy and girl a good education which
means opportunity .
The last annual teachers meeting went
on record as favoring the county as the
unit for taxation and also for the ad
ministration of our schools. This coupled
with a more equitable method of appor
tionment of school funds would mean
greater progress for our schools.
cient supervision of the city superin
tendent.
Forces Families to Leave Farms
Frequent change of teachers. couDled
with these other defects, led many par
ens io leave tua coxntry in order to
got better school advantages in the citv.
It is claimed that four families out of
every five leaving the farm do so for
tuis reason alone. One result of such
conditions led to the false idea that the
main purpose of an education is to iret
a liviing without work. Those who com
plain of inefficient farm labor and the
I. W. W. movement trace it to this one
idea. Thinking people began to try to
change these objectionable conditions.
Tho legislature was asked to provide the
icgai means aud in 1911 passed the sup
ervisory law. This law provides for f re
qut visits to the schools by a regularly
appointed official whose duty it is to
unify the school work and assist the
teachers to bring each school up to its
uigurst tiiicieucy. 10 uo mis, CO-op
eration on the part of the teacher, pat
rons and directors must be secured. It
is also the intention as expressed by the
law, to bring each school closer to the
homes of its patrons and make it render
real service there. One of the promin
ent ways or doing this is through the in
dustrial work.
Six Leading Results.
Six prominent results of rural super
vision iu Marion county are:
1. No teacher need blunder along
with a lot of mistakes in methods, in
organization of cooperation with - the
school board or patrons.
2ffTh9 school equipment is much bet
ter and lar more uauuie.
3. The sanitary conditions compare
favorably with those in tho home.
4. Many of the teachers are using
methods that are equal to the best fouuu
in tho rfties.
5. More teachers with good training
are staying in the rural scuools.
0. The rural community interests arc
awake as shown by the increase in the
number of Parent-Teacher associations.
The duties of the rural school will
become more important and the demands
placed upon it greater iu the next few
years. Jb our or these duties stand out
prominently at preset. Every school
should help solve the business and com
munity me problems of its patrons.
Every pupil should have sufficient in
dustrial experience to make him at least
self sustaining. It is the business of
the school to make efficient citizens.
There is a health education as well as a
mental education. Good health depends
largely on sound teeth, eyes, ears and
throat. Proper nourishment must have
attention also. The introduction of hot
luuch is only the beginning.
The rural school must do more than
ever before. It must educate for health,
industry, morals and efficient citizenship.
HELPING THE TEACHERS.
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In these days of necessary food conservation one big problem that confronts the fanner is how to re
duce feeding costs and at the same time provide a ration that is a result getter. The answer is the silo.
The use of silage saves hay, grain and mill feed and still produces results equal to those from cows on
good pasture. '
The answer to your silo problem is the Indiana Silo. Tested out in actual use on 65,000 American farms
for 15 years now, its record for satisfactory service is well established. Add to this the Spaulding Guar
antee and Spaulding Service and you are'assured of a satisfactory silo and good results from the very start.
Today you can buy an Indiana Silo for less bushels of grain, less tons of hay and less pounds if milk than
ever before, and it will save its initial cost in less time, owing to the high prices of grain and mill feed.
Buying now, you are assured of a silo under any condition and you get the advantage of our special
EARLY BUYER'S Discount. Write or ask for particulars.
BOXES
"Buy Early'" that's our best advice to users of boxes and crates this year. Owing to unusual labor and
lumber conditions, it is going to be a difficult matter to secure boxes enough to supply the demand and the
grower who waits until late in the season to order is SURE to be disappointed. All indications point to an
enormous demand, for 1918 so don't be caught in the "Last Minute" rush and perhaps, lose your crop on
account of inability to secure your needs in time to save it. .
The quality of Spaulding Boxes is well established there are FEW so good and NONE better. This
quality costs you no more, and it does help the sale of your goods by placing them in an attractive contain
er. Let us show you what we have for your needs.
BUILDING MATERIAL !
Our line would not be complete unless we could furnish you with general building materials along with
our lumber products. So we carry in stock at all times complete lines of roofings, building papers, cement,
plaster, lime, etc. Buying for six retail yards gives us a line-up on prices that cannot be had, as a rule, so
we are able to give you prices on these lines that will bring yoii back again. You will find in our ware
housesthe most complete lines of general building materials that can be found in the Willamette Valley.
Don't forget this.
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RURAL SCHOOL SUPERVISION
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Parent Show Interest
The deciding factor in the success of
a school often is determined by the in
terest the community takes in it. Forty
districts have regularly organized Parent-Teacher
associations, holding regular
meetings and discussing not only school
progress but other topics of special in
terest to the community. Other districts
are earrving on community work thro
the debating elub, literary society, etc
Marion county was one of the first
in the state to' formulate a plan for
standardization card which hangs id
every school. When all twelve points
have been won, the school is a standard
school and a plate bearing the inscrip-
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152 (By Supervisor Smith.)
83 Before the year 1911, there was much
39 ; criticism of rural school conditions in
51 1 Marion county. A mass of expensive,
18 1 unusable equipment had been acquired .
24 through unreliable agents.- lhis eqmp-
16 ment consisted largely of expensive
and some worthless books. However,
..1255 1 those schools whose boards have been
careful, were provided with good equip
ment. There was a lack of very neces
sary supplies, such as good blackboards,
small, up-to-date dictionaries, crayon,
erasers and supplementary readers.
Perhaps the most serious criticism was
based on the fact that all inexperienced
teachers began teaching in the one Toom
schools. Here they were compelled to
meet many trials of the school room
alone with no chance to get advice that
the experienced teacher in the city
schools could get from the city princi
pal. After a teacher had acquired some
experience in the rural school and prov
ed her worth, she was elected to somei
city school and placed under: the cffi-
(By Supervisor Hoppes.)
The big idea in the policv of County
Superintendent Smith is to render the
greatest possible amount of practical!
Help to every teacher in the county. To
make definite progress in teaching pro
ficiency each month of the school year
is the program set for the teaching force
of the county.
The first opportunity offered the tea
chers in this program was a Rural Tea
chers' Plan Day, September 29th. This
day, before many schools had opened,
was devoted to making plans for the
work of rural schools. A uniform daily
program of classes had been worked out
and was explained to the teachers. Spe
cific directions covering problems in dis
cipline, how to assign lesson, how to
conduct recitations and how to conserve
time in an eight grade, one room school,
were given out and discussed. Superin
tendent Churchill attended this meeting
and spoke on "Adapting the Course of
Study to Rural Schols." Professor
Pittman, head of the department of rur
al schools of the Oregon Normal school.
cave an address on "The Professional!
Progressivencss of the Rural Teacher."
The success of the plan day suggested
the plan of holding small, local teach
ers' meetings every four or five weeks
at convenient places throughout the
county. Donald, Woodburn, Silverton,
Stayton and Salem are tie centers se
lected for these metings. During the
rest of the year there will be eighteen
or more opoprtunities far the rural tea
chers to meet, discuss in a frank and
professional manner their problems, and
exchange their ideas which have proved
successful. This plan enables the super
intendent and supervisors to do their
work in the most efficient and syste
matic manner. Each meeting is devoted
to one phase of the rural teachers'
problem; the teaching of reading, lang
uage, arithmetic, etc., are presented
with certain definite suggestions for the
The Salem Water, Light & Power Company
is engaged in furnishing water to the City
of Salem, the Capital of the State of Ore
gon, a city covering an area of five and a
half square miles.
This Water Plant is the largest privately
owned water plant in the State of Oregon.
It has seventy-three miles of water mains
laid in the streets of Salem, 30 miles of
which are under permanent hard surface
pavements.
It has installed at its pumping station the
largest vertical triplex pump on the Pacific
coast, made expressly for it by Geo. E. Dow
Pump Works of San Francisco.
It has recently installed a two-stage elec
trically driven ten-inch centrifugal pump,
which is a model of its kind and is the last
word in centrifugal pumps. In twenty-four
hours this pump forces 3,250,000 gallons of
water to an elevation of 230 feet.
It has a horizontal double acting duplex
Dow pump which has a capacity of 2,0G5),0OO
gallons in twenty-four hours. This pump
may be driven either by water power or by
steam power.
It has a Dow steam duplex jpump which
has a capacity of 1,250,000 gallons in twenty-four
hours. It has three kinds of power
installed for driving its pumps, viz : 150 h. p.
water power, 150 h. p. steam power, ana
150 h. p. electric power.
It takes the water supply from a crib or
well built in a sand and gravel bar situated
in the Willamette river above the city. This
bar serves as a filter through which all of
the water has to pass before enting the
distributing mains of the plant.
The first pump of Salem Water Company
was set in place and started on October 21.
1871, by Mr. W. F. Boothbv. From that
time this company has served the public
conscientiously to the best of its ability. The
company realizes that the Good will of the
Public is a necessary asset and it is appre
ciative of this feeling of comradeship.
The Company takes this opportunity to ex
tend to all its patrons its best wishes for a
Happy New Year.
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