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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-04

Prizes were awarded by Governor
West last evening in the state eugenic
baby show and Jane Kanzler, Of 1895
East Thirty.first street, Portland, was
given first prize as the most perfect
baby exhibited. The winner is 40
months old and is a daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Kanzler. The little girl
was presented with $lOO in gold, a solid
gold medal given by a woman s pub.
lication and four silver vases given by
the state Of Oregon. The little girl
scored 1000 points,
The most perfect specimen Of baby
boys Of Oregon was Wayne Porter
Buchanan, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. II.
Buchanan, of McMinnyille, who scores
906 points out of a possible 1900
Fine Salem Boy.
Thomas Lorltin Williams Jr., aged
80 months, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Larkin
Williams Of 1921 Fir street, Salem was
the second in the boys class, scoring
995 points. lie was really entitled Il
first place, according to many people
but It is a splendid record anyway
Mr.. Williams is q wellknown employ,
of Ladd & Bush. The boy was born il
Salem,
The following is the complete lis
. Of the babies awarded prizes;
| one.yearold girl (city)-First, Dor
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SEVENTEEN DROWNED.


London, Oct, 4.-Seventeen members
of the crew Of the steamer Gardonia,
which was rammed and sunk in COLI.
sion off Yarmouth today with the
steamer COrnwood are reported miss
ing. Only four Of the crew were res.
cued.
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SALEM THE OASIS
The caravan has gathered from many foreign lands,
Prepared to the desert with its hot arid sands
And scimtar and crescent showing everywhere
The symbol of the faithful the Arabs prayer
The brilliant crimson fe mark the masters and brave
Their absence indicating either Neophyte slave
And all bound for Salem, which their Mecca
The greenest of cases. Alah's faithful ones delight
And with willing hands we have prepared the inner
With dates and figs in plenty zem-zem by the quart.
There mobiles from AL Kader Afifi and the Nile
From Hilah, Ishlam and Tangier, will tary for a while
Will spread the of Persia and all facing Mecca,
The sunbrowned of Araby will their prayer
Al Maaikah whose diet the tourists from the east
win be among the pilgrims, but will not provide the feast
So Salem, green oasis in the desert of the West
Bids welcome to the tawny of Araby the best.
With water for apes and yourselves and if you
There's other sorts of dampness with
Though the prophet has forbidden to look the
He didn't word Of hops the product of
But what's the usethis oasis is yours and all that's
From center to circumference every blessed minute
j. H. CRADLEBAUGH
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Cattle and Hogs Moving.

At four o'clock this afternoon the
livestock exhibits released and dur.
ing the evening their will be much
moving of cattle, sheep and hogs es.
pecially by the Marion county exhibi.
tors.
The race track is in the best condi.
tion today that It has been in this week
and the different harness events and
the conclusion of the relay race are
the main events on the days program.
Notable Gathering.
There was notable gathering in
the big tent last night when the pio
neers for little while forgot the pass
ing Of the years and had an old.fash
Toned dance. II was an occasion Of
good deal Of talking and not grea
deal of dancing by the old folks, thougl
they, some Of them, showed the young
er generation how it twas did" TIL
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time to gaze in rapture at the unveiled
and beautiful daughters of the Chris
tain. 1t is high old day for the tribes
of Allah, or Eli, or any other old tribe
that gets off its reservation today and
stables its camels in the Caravansary
Salem, II is a great day for Salem
too, which is somewhat red.headed it.
self for the occasion.
Brethren Of the desert, the oasis is
yours, and the longer you stay in it
and the more freely you make use of
it the better we will all like it.
Win Show Profit.
That the fifty.second state fair which
will close tonight has been the biggest
success, financially in total attendance
and other ways Of all the SO state fairs
was the statement of Secretary Frank
Meridith this morning. This is the first
time that the state fair has paid for
itself and the attendance for Wednes-
day and Thursday was larger than for
the same days on any preceding year.
The estimate Of the total attendance
for this years fair runs between TO-
900 and 1000. Wednesday the largest
crowd that has ever entered the front
gates visited and grounds and on Thurs.
day while the front gate admission did
not equal those Of the day before the
largest number of rigs and autos that
have ever entered the grounds came
in at the north gate.
Not only will this fair pay for it.
self, said Secretary Meridith but il will
furnish tidy sum to apply on the
outstanding indebtedness,
The secretary's office which has
been the busiest place on. the grounds
all week had double work on its hands
today signing exhibitors certificates,
giving check for the cash premiums and
attending to other special business in
connection with the conclusion Of the
fair.
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Homer Davenport

monument to Davenport the boy from Siverton?
OF all the states big family her dearest fayorite son?
Aye surely and let's have just plain unpublished stOne
Fit emblem of the noble life and simple as his own;
And not single word thereon excepting just his
His work? Leave that he carved upon the walls
The Muse Of History has writ it large" her report
So let two words suffice for ust-Homer Davenport
What words of add ot to tales his pencil drew
Of Sveron the hometown folks his younger manhood
What language that has the potency to reach
The heights his gifted pencil touched and gave Silence
speech?
How many chapters could write many thousand lines
And fail to tell all that he told with only signs?
The wodaround his fameis known cottage and court
His grave? Two words plenty there just-Homer
Davenport
The Muses. placed their choicest gifts upon finger tips
And Momu all by them kissed laughter his lips;
While Pahos tenderest of all, whispered message near
And Pity dipped his pencils point in kindness,
So while he struck his blows Wrong bitterness there
And laughter mixed sometimes with dued the
of Care.
For pathos soohed his pencils sting tempered
sport
All servants of the master that is-Homer Davenport
His life was all too brief, indeed it a span
Yet long enough to register the making of
His work, the world claims that all life was
And boyhOods friends keep both his grave memory,
fresh with flowers.
And in that little he loved, his Siverton,
IT'S that all Oregon should place for him sone
And thereon fusome words just line and
short;
Two simple words. his alone, jus-Homer Davenport.
j. H. CRADLEBAUGH.
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.SHR|NERS CAPTURE CITY
AND STATE FAIR EASILY
IN IMMENSE GATHERING

Even Weather Clerk Knows hats Wanted for Such oc
casOnDrill of Visitors Enjoyed and Parade Is Fine
Another Drill at Fair GroundsState Fair Secretary An
There Will Be Profit This Year Attendance
Breaks All Records for Week-AH Concerned Pleased
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good condition as when first laid. The
people had seen how il was done.
This convention was OF very great
sistance TO John Meadows and the men,
hers of the Young Mems Commercial
Club. The idea had begun to get hold of
the people Of the whole community. The
season that followed seemed to conspire
for the emphasis of the idea. The cold
months were season of almost con
tnual rain. The winter of the great
mud turned the scales for good roads.
During that time the entire county was
forced to go into a state of Information,
but through it ali the improved roads
stood out an invitation to whoever
stirred abroad in any vehicle. Two
strong mules We're required to draw Il
milk Wogon containing two cans. and
all day was consumed in travelling a few
miles. For more than six weeks this
condition prevailed. No one attempted
to pass over these roads except in case
of dire necessity. The farmer was locked
in and all trade was stopped. John
Meadows realized that an oppOrtune mo-
ment had arrived and a mass meeting OF
all the citizens of the county was called
and many We're the hardshps endured
by the citizens in attempting to get TO
town. The very hardshirS of that one
journey We're convincing to many of these
men. The climax in the whole movement
came when a newly arrived and much de-
layed farmer arose and said:
MIR. Chairman, | am just a plain
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hAiid firSt-claSs macadanized roads run
ming out Of Monroe as the spokes run
from the hub of a wheel and reaching
I'VE miles into the country.
But there was 4 condition of inbred
inaction to overcome. These young men
spread the ieaven of good roads for
seven years and preached its gospel un-
remittingly before the next step was
taken toward the development of an
effective system. Through their influence
q convention was called at Monroe in
1901 which had as its purpose the getting
together OF various authorities upon the
subject and the demonstration of the
manner in which such roads should be
huilt IN the meantime an office of public
roads had been established by the federal
government and representative OF that
Office was on hand to elucdate the things
thaJ Uncle sam had learned. The federal
government, The railroad companies ana
the National Good Roads Association had
cC-operated in supplying road-bulldinS
machinery and material for the laying OF
a demonstration mile Of this road. The
Frep8ra titn of the roadbed, its grading.
is drainage it's browning with the broken
stone and it's final compression into a,
satisfactory roadway were all demon
sjrated The road resulting was Of the
best class. II stands today in almost as
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best means of using their many idle
hours While they wait for active duty
They are just men like the rest OF Us
and need the same facilities for physical
mental and spiritual development. Every
Improvement in their conditions. and es-
Iecially every Improvement in themselves
is directly profitable to the entire city
The better they are the better their serv-
ice.
The hearty cooperation of the excel
lent chief of the fire department. the
battalion CHIEFS, captains and other Off
GERS and men with every thought that
the community has for them is equal to
their response to every call of duty. We
have been able to improve their condi-
tions materially. hut | hope for the time
when every man shall have twelve hours
of the twenty -four for home and COM
murity life and when they shall have all
the other means of improving their eff
cheney which the government can furnish.
Meanwhile the Young Mems Christian AS
socation is doing it's best with the aid
of other public spirited citizens
x X
The captains of the various fire COM
panies have likewise welcomed the inno-
walton. In discussing the matter, Capt.
F.. d. Martin of No. truck said:
"A fireman should be able to hold his
own with any man on all the topics of
the DAY. some OF MS lQle moments
should be employed in thinking out his
own problems. He above all should be
captain of his own soul, for his life is
made up of devotion to human good. His
time off should contribute toward the
maintenance of good digestion and the
cultivation of good friends. good books
and the good will of all. To see things
clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion.
and genuine work done faithfully is
eternal The institution of libraries and
literary as well as religious evenings
in the engine houses will tend toward
this development in the firemans life Z.
The new scheme for literary and physI-
cal culture facilities in the firehouses,
just instituted, is part of the general
community extension work of the Young
Mems Christian Association, which in
cludes weekly meetings of broadly re-
ligious and educational character at some
twenty points throughout the city. These
meetings are about equally divided be-
tween the firehOuses and the carbarns.
The chief Of the department. has given
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Worth Remembering.

A DMIRAL DEWEY, who has just cele-
brated his seventy fifth birthday, was
asked, in Washington. by fnancier. how
he keeps so young both in looks and
spirit.
AT forty-five," said the financier.
gloomily, II look older than you, and L
certainly feel Older, IL your cheerful opti-
mism indicates how old you feel. What
is your secret?"
Admiral Dewey, with sympathetic
smile. replied:
MY general rule is to take a certain
quantity of open-air exercise and to at
tend no banquets, but even more impor-
tant is the cultivation of a cheerful
disposition.
But interrupted the financier, "a
cheerful disposition is a gift, not an ac-
QUESTION"
'.Ah, no. the admiral said. IF we
keep our faces toward the sunshine the
shadows will always fall behind U.S."
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cards, some because they have no other
place to go, some to be entertained oN
the firemen who have had, in many
cases. thrilling experiences. and others
because they are vitality interested and
hold close friendships with the men.
Il have been in houses at times where
outsiders, citizens interested in COM
munity life. have come in for few
moments chat | know from my eX
perience that the fireman is always
glad to see an outsider. They enjoy
participat ting in anything worth while
rs much as any one else.
1T is for the purpose of giving the
men opportunity to spend their time in
good ways that the Y. Nj. {. a. has
undertaken to supply them with recre-
ative and educational facilities right
in the firehouses themselves
The average man who goes to bed
with a feeling of safety in his mind.
realizing that the fireman is within
call to protect him in time of danger
from fire, gives little thought to the
life which is endangered through his
own needs. We say, and truly. that
the fireman is paid for performing this
service. but his salary is only nominal.
and even though he is paid, no one
of us would hold up to our sons the oc-
cupation as desirable l believe if the
citizens would visit more frequently
the different centers of our civic gov
eminent a real interest in humanity
would be created and we would. all
strive to better conditions"
Mr.. mcfarland. who during his serv-
ice as District Commissioner took deep
interest in the fire department. is en-
thusiastic for the new firemans welfare
program
Ten years of official connection with
the fire department" Mr. Macfarland
said, during which ! did everything in
my power TO improve the personnel and
conditions of the force. as well as the
houses and apparatus. gave ME lasting
interest," in every effort like this to aid
the ofiIcers and I'm to be more efficient
and contented. Where we isolate sthe
firemen from community life we at
least owe it to them to give them the
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The DIG CONS oLIpATEp SCHOOL
% A By TIE ROADSIDE 80

farmer and have no business trying to
talk in this meeting. | am all covered
with mud; there is mud on my boots and
all over my clothes, and my hat is spat-
tered up too | walked to this meeting
because my horse couldn't travel the
roads. l have got little farm and Il
sawmill out at Poplar Corner, two miles
from town, and if l could climb up on
hard road with my truck and what lum-
Der I've sawed | could clear enough in
one day tn pay my tax on that road |
bought some groceries this month from
YOU turning to merchanO. They came
to s. and l carrie, them out on nay back.
If | had a good road 1T would have been
SO We are all poor because the r0a Is
are so bad. We have been poor long
time Let's try the good roads and see
what they will do for us
The statement of this farmer brought
the movement to d head. A motion was
made and put to instruct the
districts Representatives in the state
legislature to draft bill authorizing the
county court to issue bonds to the
amount of s3OG, 600. bearing per cent in
terest and extending over period of
thirty years The bill Immediately be-
the money was soon available for the
work
John Meadows was placed in charge
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of this road construction. and through
eventually brought to a most successful
elimination, and he won reputation as
a road engineer His methods in dealing
with just this sort of a proposition, which
must be handled in such a way as to
meet the approval of the taxpayers of
this sort of community. are worth dwell
ing upon In the first place, he realized
that the county court was too cumber-
some a body for business organization.
He asked that a body of five men be Sc
lected from that court to be known as
fty to act. These men were CHOSEN from
different parts of the county. and were
responsible to the whole body
The bonds We're marketed money
was. needed. This money was distributed
equally among the five banks of the city,
and the heads of these banks, together
with the chairman of the county court
became the trustees for the bonds. The
chief engineer issued vouchers in pay
ment for all bills. When properly coun-
tersigned by the secretary of the COM
mission and the bond trustees these
vouchers found their way to the chairman
of the county court, who issued checks
in their stead. This arrangement was
necessary to give the members of the
county court the necessary feeling of
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He Declined the Job.

JAMES q. ANDREW, president of the
} International Compressed Air and
Foundation Workers Union, said recent
ly in Chicago that the caisson worker, or
sandhog, as he is usually called has the
most dangerous work in the world
The work of a sandhog is so danger
Gus, said Mr.. Andrew, that the story
of the Durham mine, exaggerated as it
is in reference to mining might almost
be true of foundation work
In Durham, the story goes, there is a
certain colliery which is noted for the
extraordinary number of its accidents
One day man, looking for work. stepped
up TO the foreman and said:
i've been out of work for month.
Are there any vacancies here?'
We're full up at present. the fore
man replied, but if we hang round for
few hours there'll be, no doubt an ac-
cident, an if the mans killed we can
have his place. -
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safety in the expenditure of these APP
pallingly large sums of money
1t is probable that few counties will
encounter the difficulties in road build
ing that had to be surmounted at Mon
There was not only no road ma
terial in the county. but there was none
within fifty miles of II. and the ma
terial that was eventually decided upon
was 100 miles away. This material is
known as ebert. and is found in native
deposits through that tier OF states
which is of the same latitude as Mis-
souri,. ebert is natures own road ma
terial. When dynamited from its bed IL
breaks into innumerable Jagged stones of
high binding power. Its edges are rough.
and this physical fact gives it much
greater binding power than has gravel
which is likely to be water-worn and
smooth.
4 condition here arose that may pre-
sent itself in some form in almost any
county. a railroad that ran through
Monroe hauled great quantities of lumber
in one direction and was forced to send
back empty cars i'm the opposite direc-
ton. These empties came past some
great ebert quarries, and later passed
through Monroe. The railroad, which was
interested in the development of these
good roads. was brought to appreciate
the fact that it could fill these empty
cars with this ebert and sidetrack them
at Monroe at very little additional ex-
pense. 1t was able to make such favor
able terms that in the end all the road
material for washington county was
hauled in this way the 1870 miles.
Infinite pains and diplomacy are re-
quired in laying out such system OF
roads. The old thoroughfares have been
winding and have paid little attention to
grade. A road might climb to the top
of hundred-foot hill only to wind down
again on the opposite side, when both
these grades might have been obviated
by skirting around the foot Of the hill
But changing the course of this road may
leave the residence of Tom Jones off of
the thorOughfare. and Tom Jones may be
an influential citizen. One new road down
valley might be made to take the place
of two difficult hill roads but bringing
about this substitution might upset con-
ditions in dozen homes. Right-of-
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,.5,rf and Of the associations community
tension committee. which consists of
fpsaA s. Thrift. chairman: William T..
Is.Tg,nf Rev. = W. Jeffrivs Walter Gil
nam Cant. j j. Hanlon and Charles
iFVun
In the department itself the project viii
= uIIshed by a committee composed OF
chief Wagner chairman Capt. Vim
stein Cant Davis capt. Helf, Capt Mar
til. cam HOPKINS Capt o'Connor and
cant flanlon
4, H,u4 rho n.W educational and phys
f..4l r,rturr courses will be introduced
=rt.. afeisf of the thirty-nine firehouses of
80. .i,.. rhe'a are engines l. $. II, II,
M - md ~ and truck = Other fire
t.t,,-r- gin no included however. upon
a..7-.t IA II * ailticipated that ulti-
',1lfel,- .vfr, one will receive the hene
rts af t3s I,rN. MAN
car work. 81 establishing 'he i'pi al -
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the revival of smoke victims ana ue.noh-
stration of the various WAYS OF hoidihS
nersons who are being carried down
ladder from an upper story WlndoW
In the two years during when nave
beer associated with the local Y NJ
G. \ 5 community extension worn
said Mr. Gillian yesterday, Il have
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John Meadows was a bookish boy. prob
ABLY because of his lamenesS. lie read
that in Germany the lands We're the most
productive in the world. and that they
had been farmed for 1000 years. He read
of the good roads that had been built in
many lands by the hands of man. He
came To realize that there was a mis-
take somewhere with relation to the con
litions that were strangling Washington
county.
the bov read all he could find upon the
subject of road building. BY the time he
became young man he was fun of his
subject 1t was then that he came to be
a clerk of the county court. In this posi-
ton which he held for many years, he be-
anne well acquainted with all the men
who constituted the governing board of
the community To these he constantly
preached his gospel of the necessity of
good roads. They were all men born 10
these conditions. without any light from
the outside, and whom large sums Of
money were likely To appall. The inter
views that John Meadows had with these
men usually terminated when they asked
him the sums that would be Required fer
his system of good roads, and he II suied
a figure that was in the hundreds Of
thousands of dollars. These members of
the county court were ske 1tcal o. there
being any such amounts Of mone% in ~
stence. and certainly they We're not TO be
had in Washington county.
This county had $3.50 people, Of whom
5000 lived in the county seat. There
was an assessed valuation OF about ST.
GlN.OcD. and the rate was ! per cent. Tire
county was, roughly. twenty FIVE n. es
across and the county seat was near the
center OF II.
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become especially interested in the
tiremen of the city men to whom
many privileges are denied After per-
forming their duties around the fire
the twenty-four hours Stoees them in
the face an absolute blank. During
the day, or in the early evening. few
citizens may drop in, some to play
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his support to encourage the men under
him to improve their time advantageous
ly. and it is through his as well as the
captains cooperation that the project
will be successful