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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13
HolU School Children
Improve Vacant Lots
and Beautified City

In the winter months Of 1917 the
farming operations commenced
The lots nearest the schools were
first cleared of rubbish ploughed ami
narrowed and so fitted for cultivation
In the spring vegetables were plant
ed.
AS much ground was put in each of
the common vegetables as the board
OF directors of each school thought ad.
visable and all the rest planted with
potatoes,
But one thing was planted on lot.
When the crop on lot was harvested
the ground was ploughed and some
kind Of grain with grass seed sowed ON
the front part and berry bushes set
out on the rear end As the different
vegetables matured at different times
this work continued from mid summer
until cold weather in the fall
During the time the vegetables oeeu-
pied the ground no weeds were allowed
to grow The electrically propelled
uiltivators were kept busy and the
ground between the plants not touch.
ed was worked with hoes or the weeds
pulled up by little fingers that were
ALWAYS ready and willing.
The next year the lots next those i'm.
proved were handled the same way aud
SO the work went on until the city was
one big Park.
The grains raised with the grass seed
was cut when cold weather stopped its
growth and put in silos for future use.
The second year the weeds were kept
down among the berry bushes and
strawberry plants and the grass cut
often and stored in silos.
The third year the grass having be-
come firmly rooted many of the lots
were used as a pasture for stock
Just An Example
As an example Of how the children
work now 1 win take on to q ten acre
field OF carrots. The seed is planted
in rows eight feet apart. The rows
run across the field east and west.
When the plants are Of the right size
"a transplant plow throws them out
Oh the surface. A box l2xl2 inches and
ie feet long has wheel at each end
81 II. The rim Of each wheel i two
inches wide and six inches apart, on
the rim are little points Of iron two
inches long. one inch thick at the rim
md coming to a point at the end.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13

dering creak 1t went to pieces; and
letter in it's envelope, which had
been hid under the cheap ornamenta-
tion of the top, fell out on the floor
Taking the letter from the cut enve-
lope, which was addressed to "Mr
George Lessing-kindness Of DR.
Meers," Cronk read its typewriter
text as follows:
Dear George: l am strapped,
busted and utterly confounded,
with nothing to live for and every
thing to die for. Unless receive,
the sum of $2.50O tonight I shall
shuttle off this mortal coil. send
you this by the sure hand Of that
soft ass Meers, who knows my
extremity. Send back the money
by him or my blood, the blood Of
your old chum, be on your head.
It's little enough to ask, when
were / In your place I would vol
UNFAIRLY do so much more for you.
You will never miss this pittance
from your superfuity. Besides,
you know that Elsie would
hourn! YOU canS know how de-
sparlnsly she would mourn. Ver-
bum sap. old fellow. and send a
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13

knives below them cut them into thin
slices. Busy little fingers pack the
slices in paper bags holding from five
cents worth up, seal the sacks by past
ing the top and puts the packages in
tube through which it drops into u
box at the side of the room in the floor
below
The five cent packages are put in
one tube, the eight cent packages in
another and so on, there being as many
tubes as there are different priced
bags. A pupil now takes John Doe S
order for vegetables for that day, and
goes along the sides of the room put
ting as many packages of each kind in
a big sack as John Doe wants.
The boy who does this work has a
little wagon with frame of light strips
Of boards on it. The frame is eight feet
long and two feet wide and four sacks
hang down in the frame. The sacks
are attached to hooks on the inside of
the frame so the top of the sack is
open. When John Does carrots are
all in one of the sacks those ordered
by another pupil are put in another
sides of the room he puts in the four
sacks the order of four pupils. Next
to the carrot boxes are those for turn
ips; then onions and all other season
able vegetables which have been pre-
pared for sale in the same way the
carrots have,
The turnips are all pared and sliced
the peas shelled, the corn husked and ,
cut from the cob (the children have a
machine which does this work as fast
as an attendant can put in the ears OF
corn and remove the cobs) and other
vegetables prepared for cooking, Hav-
ing made the round of the room the
full sacks are put in big tube and
dropped into an auto truck.
0they boys with wagons follow the
first one so steady stream of full
sacks pass into the auto and it is soon
loaded and starts off to traverse the
specified route. We will jump on the
seat with the driver and observe the
work of distribution.
The auto makes a quick run of about
a half mile and then we see on a
corner a boy with little wagon wait
ing for MS. This boy being the First
enc on this route his sack has been fill-s
ed last and is ON top. AT the side of
the auto is long slide very much
like the slides for little children on
the play ground The auto which is i
going twenty miles an hour does not
stop or even slow down. The boys sack
is placed on the slide and the number
twenty and when it reaches the ground
il is moving on the slide at the rate
OF twenty miles an hour SO as the car
is going one way and the sack the OPP
posite way one movement exactly
neutrslizes the other and the sack lands
on the. ground without shock.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13

AS the wheel rcvoves it makes a
track two inches wide and with holes
IN 1t six inches apart. Seven forks
run out from the long box aud ito each
is attached a wheel like those that sup
uort the axle. These wheels are free
to move up and down, but are held
from side movement so they make
tracks in straight lines eighteen inch
cs apart, This marker is drawn across
the field at right angles with the rows
Of carrots, after the carrots have been
ploughcd out, As many children as
are needed now commence setting in
place the little carrot plants.
Each child takes two rows and puts
n plant in the holes as he comes to
them. AT one end Of the rows each
marker sets little stake in the ground
between his rows and puts his name on
the stake. The stake remains there
until harvest time.
As often as the cultivators 80 over
the ground each pupil hoes his two
rows. II faithful work in transplant
ing and wedding has been done the
rows will show it and if the little work
ers have neglected his rows they will
show it plainly,
Each school has its own plat Of all
kinds Of vegetables so comparisons can
be made between the work of individ
uals and OF schools.
The time each pupil works on his
rows is kept and if he does not work
steadily and diligently he makes a
poor record when compared with that
Of others,
Each school has an inspector whose
business is to inspect the whole oil the
work and report in committee Of the
whole, when he thinks the crop win be
injured By neglect.
Suppose the inspector reports that
John Smith is neglecting his rows and
that the school record is liable TO be
injured the report is read in John S
room and he is notified that he must
do better.
II John fails TO heed the notice his
rows are given to another. This Is re-
gardcd as so deep disgrace that very
few eases OF the kind have occurred ini
all the years since the work began.
At Harvest Time
AT harvest time the carrots are
.ploughed out and John takes his little
wagon (caeh pupil has one( commences
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13

at the upper end of his rows and fills
his wagon. He then goes with his load
to the lower end of his rows puts the
carrots in sacks and returns for anoth'
er load, His name is on his sacks and
the weight of his crop and also that OF
all others is published in the school
paper. The auto which collects the
sacks of carrots takes them to a build
ing on Broadway. This building is one
of long row of buildings which look
very much alike.
The are square structures 40X40 and
fort feet high with a platform along
the top of them. A sloping bridge runs
from the street to the platform. As
the base of the building is twenty five
feet below the street and fifty. feet
from the street the sloping bridge rises
fifteen feet.
Up this the auto easily goes and
stops over an opening in the platform
through which the load is dumped into
a big tank on the top story. Around
the tank are as many children as can
work comfortably.
They take the carrots one by one
off the tops. Then the carrot is turned
around and little of the small end
cut off. The parts cut off drop into
u tank below. When cutting off the
tops the carrots are so placed that the
knife cuts into the carrot little. If
Il carrot is round, shapely and of me.
dium size it is put in an opening and
falls into big box below, lf it Is too
small or too big or irregular in shape
ii goes through another opening into
a different box.
As the carrots in the field are all
separated and not hess than six inches
apart there are very few either too
big, too small or not of proper shape.
Cleaning the Carrots
The box into which the carrots drop
is four feet wide, four feet high and
eight feet long. A two inch pipe runs
through the ends and the box revolves
ON this pipe. Along the top of the,
pipe are number of small holes. When
the box is about three fourths full the
cover is put on, water started in the
pipe and the box revOlved. As the box
turns q part of the water runs out
through little holes in the bottom.
hhtu tHt W0tSt runs CiV"t TUT VAVoh,
ing Is done, the water drawn off and
the carrots are dropped into tank on
the place below,
Around this tank are numerous par,
ing machines which in the twinkling of
an eye take off thin peeling and drop
the carrots into another tank around
which are the sieing machines, These
machines are circular boxes three feet
in diameter with box two feet in dia-
meter inside leaving space six inches
wide between the circles.
In this space the carrots are placed
ON end until it is full when revolving
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13
long the swag to your true

along the swag to your true
friend. KENNETH MIX.
The scoundrel. the unutterably
vile scoundrel," mussd Cronk. after a
grim smile OF recognition at the type
writing. Gould anything be more
damnably base than the innuendoi
Here are facts with a vengeance. as
the Judge might say. Let me con-
strue them"
The sure and rapid play of the de-
tective's trained imagination gave fire
to his dull eyes and color to his torpid
face.
"Meers must have wilfully withheld
the letter." he concluded. "Meers
who loved tho girl himself and after
ward married her. That was the evil
deed which to his mind has invested
itself with the character of doom.
He believes that by his wilful neg.
lect this man, Kenneth Mix, came tc
his death. In some way he lost this
letter, or 1t was stolen from him. Nc
wonder he has paid the nameless VII.
lain who has held it over him rather
than run the risk Of having 1t brought
to the attention of the wife he loves
so tenderly.
Perhaps II Lessing had lived ht
might have advised with him and beer
guided by him, roor, unworldly fell
low; but Lesslng was dead. Was
Mix also dead, as he threatened, as
Meers believes?
mo; here Is the most amazing part
of this amazing scheme. Mix is alive;
Mix got possession of this letter, and
Mix levied blackmail upon Il as the
firm of l.. Habitat & Co.
".
But yet it is true, sir" per sisted
Cronk in the face Of the judges in
dignant denlals. Compare these
! blackmailing letters with the letter tC
George Lessing. Can't you see your.
self that they are written in the same
type by the same kind Of machine?"
Perhaps so" agreed the judge in
| differently, but that is more inter
esting than important when you cen.
slider how many hundreds of thou
sands Of that machine may have beer
| sold"
True, sir; that Is corroborativt
only. But scan these pages again
please. Can you not see a similarity
which does not depend either upoT
the type or the machine, a similarity
| In style, rather3
There is a compact look to then
ALL" said the judge slowly, ''as If the
words were pressed too closely to-
gether for good workmanship; but
"Ah, sir. that is the very point:
knew l could rely on the absolute
fairness of your judgment.
Good typewritlng requires tha
| there should be space after ever!
comma or semicolon. 1t is one of thu
little tricks of the trade taught in tn,
schools which one who is self-taugh
is not apt to find out or acquire.
"The uniform. typewriting of al
these exhibits is amateurlsh in severa
respects; but this one characteristic
Of no space after punctuation Is nevel
missing. Now, then, when to same
ness Of type and machine there is add
ed an unvarying idosyncrasy whicl
would naturally come to such an idl
prof1igate on trying to write for tn
purpose of deception does not all thi
approximate to proving that Kennetl
Mix Is L. Habitat 6 Cor"
SIT may be So" sighed the Judge
Though he was supposed to hav
drowned himself. In that case
can't congratulate you too heartily ol
securing that fatal letter to Georg
1essing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13

Having passed few corners and left
sacks we think we would like to get
off and make the "trip with one of the
pupils, We ask the driver to stop and
LET us off but he says | don t need
to stop just sit down in the slide let
go all holds and you are off. 1t took
considerable time to muster up cour-
age to do this, but at last we did it
and were deposited on the ground with
out jar.
The boy then cmptied his big sack in
to the body of his little wagon and
started off. AT the first home he took
bucket picked rapidly from the lit
tie bags in the wagon the vegetables
ordered then ran to the door set down
the full bucket and took the empty one.
In the empty bucket was a slip of paper
on which was the order for next day.
We were told that every Saturday
bill for the week was put in the bucket
with the vegetables and ON the next
Monday check was found in the
empty bucket for the amount.
Having learned what we can of the
operation of marketing vegetables we
will return to the building where the
work Of preparing them for cooking isl
done and see what becomes of the re-
fuse matter.
The tops and peelings of carrots,
turnips, etc, the peapods, the corn
husks and stalks (when the last ear of
corn on stalk is taken stalk and all
is brought in) the refuse from cabbage,
cauliflower and all other plants all col
together to the cutting machine where
it is cut fine and then carried on a |
belt with buckets on it to the top Of |
the next building which is a silo. All |
that are not fitted for cook
ing also go through the cutting ma
chime and into the silo.
u + BARKER
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13
EEM
HEM

Il remember Mix in the best OF his
best days, when he was admired and
cousted for his cleverness. his good
looks, his fascinating ways. An un-
grateful, heartless rascal, without
one redeeming feature.
But there was darker side to
him, a brooding, revengeful rpirit,
due to that inordinate vanity which is
the source of so much crime. BY this
time, after such a career, the man
must be dangerous.
"Yes. yes, rejoice, II 1t be true.
that the letter has been snatched
from his clutches. and that Meers and
his wife will be far away when he
learns of this loss.
"Do you think he would harm them,
sir?"
What, with an empty pocket and
a wounded vanity and the old pas
sion for Elsie, which he would call
love, reviving embittered-"
"Then, SIR, 1t is lucky he is not a
fellow passenger on tho Ariadne."
Lucky? For Mix not to learn In
the idleness and sloth Of mid-ocean
that they have planned to deceive him,
to escape from his eXtortions by sail
ing a week ahead of their announced
time; that the blackmall Q which
he provided for the care Of this young
woman with whom he has been living
will not be forthcoming; that in all
probabilities the matter has already
been placed in a detectives hands,
and in addition to all this chagrin
and anger not to have the sight OF
Elcfa NrifA
vive his lawlesc emotions-luckys
Cronk? And Mix lurking half dead in
mis- berth? Why it Is providential!
Had any such mischance occurred
/ would believe with poor Meers that
an evil deed acquires the character
of DOOM But why do you harass mo
with any such insupposable prob
lems?"
Because, sir, Mix is consumptive
who has just sailed away on sea
voyage for his health"
"And SO you think he may be their
fellow passenger | learned about, q
young man named Diggles? Impossi-
BILE! You don't for one minute credit
such an unspeakable idea, do your"
II did, sir, to the extent of asking
the shipping agent of the Ariadne to
send you any letter he might have
from Diggles. All, this must be the
messenger now!"
Tie Judge turned startled face
toward Cronk and held hesitatingly
the packet which the lad, briskly en-
tering, left with him. Then his fea-
lures settled into judicial calm and he
broke the envelope as il about to ex-
anime a sealed verdict.
1.-TWO Enclosures, Abe" he said as
he opened the top one CT thu folded
sheets.
He scanned the compact, typewrit-
ten lines, and then, with a groan.
handed it to the detective.
"a letter from Diggles," said the
detective in his contemplative wa.
making arrangements for his cara
during the voyage Written with th3
same type on the same kind OF ma
chine as all the others, and invariably
no space after punctuation. IN
afraid am right, sir" y
The judge opened the other sheet.
and his enforced calm quivered into
gray. 1t was letter from The ship
ping agent aud read as follows:
1--WE regret to inform you of our
receipt of cablegram, reporting the
loss Of the Ariadne, from the second
mate, the only survivor. Foul play
is his only explanation" m
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13
Germany VIII Not Bargain
With Entetne for Terms

Washington, Jan. Germany will
make no attempt to bargain with the
allies for peace or make another move
at this time unless encouraged to do
so by the United States or another
communication from the entente pow
ers.
This was the statement today of Ger
man diplomats, who were shown the
United Press cable from London say
ing the cause of peace has been given
a shove by the allied reply, which Sin
ferentially invites Germany to bar
gain for peace. y
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13


tulated Judge Josiah
tMarcellus That isn't the gospel OF
good things you have preached so
we'll. The fact is you are hipped
through worry.
NOW am not going to ask you the
cause; It isn't necessary; / didn Z
want to know. am going to crush
tue resultant snake, once for all. Give
me the blackmailing letters. 80.
Tomorrow you and Elsie quietly
sail on the bark Ariadne, for Naples
and return. / have made all the ar
rangements There will be but one
other passenger, young man named
Dlggles, down with the consumption.
You Will never know he is aboard
At the same time the papers will
announce that you and your wife are
about to spend the vacation voted by
your church In Europe, sailing a week
hence. The wretched health of both
will account for your secluslon mean
while
my Idea Is that the blackmallers
win at Cnce make another demand. II
>will be answered in your name by the
statement that you refuse to continue
paying over money as demanded from
time to time; but that you are willing
TO pay lump sum for the delivery of
The Internal thing, whatever 1t Is, that
has been held over you Through pro-
ifaoted negotiations the rascas must
show their hands, and then we will
have them and it, never fear
That's ALL my dear fellow, the
very last word Give my love to Elsie
Good luck and good-by, and both come
back as rosy and Jolly as children"
When his agltated visitor had gone
the Judge touched the button on his
tesl and called his confidential man,
Cronk, Into the office.
lie Is a wreck, Abe" he began, "a
nervous wreck | didn't dare ask par
ticuars OK him It's hard on you, but
we must carry out my first sugges-
tion. Here are the letters, all alike
except in the date"
Cronk drew out the top letter 1t
was typewritten and read as follows:
Unless you send at cnce to L.
Habitat & Co, at 4 Front street
$1,000 the thing YOU lost on the
night OF June n, 1905. will be de-
livered to your wife.
lnht NUMBER III fTOut street lS a
private postofhee," mused Cronk,
kept by an old codger who has a
high reputation In his line for mind
Ing his own affairs. So long as box
rent Is paid he knows and wants to
know nothing whatever OF the persen
renting IT, How long hae thia ecrt
" thing been going on, Judgs?"
= Ever since his marriage; let me
Sc three years ago. Yes. In tho fall
of 1905'' the Judge angwered.
That Is to say. shortly after the
iaas Of the thing on whlhh tue black
nall Is founded?"
"Yes that is true; @augA Of course
eoincldence IN tipe does hnk imply
any other relation"
'bfr. Meers was q sort naMAsd0uary
Clergyman, thenp
s"Yeal Working Apdona - Sr0g,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-13
Austro- -Hunyary's Note

Amsterdam, Jan. l2.-Austro-H Hun
gary has addressed note to all neu-
trails in the same terms as that for
warded Yesterday by Germany. accord
ing to Vienna adviees this afternoon.
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BY WILL SEAT.

IERE Is no escape! "
sighed the Rev. De-
lavan Meers. resting
his thin white face
In his slim white
hand. "An evil deed
invests itself with
the character OF
doom"
Tut, tut, my
young friend" expos
tulated Judge Josiah
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1917-05-12
HENRY JOHNSON DEAD.

Henry Johnson, well know char.
acter about town for the past TWEEN
ty-fye years was found dead in the
hay shed OF Anthony Davis on the
road to the Dunn mine last Wednes-
day night Henry had been at tho
Dunn mine and had started for the
poor farm 1t is supposed that he
lay down TO sleep in the shed and
passed away.
The appearance OF the body indi-
Gated that it had been there about
three days. He was last seen i'm
Crystal Falls last Saturday when
Nightwatch Massie started him for
home.
Henry had been employed caring
for an inmate at the pesthouse all
winter, and had considerable money
saved up when the saloons opened
again He had kept from drinking
during the two years that Iron coun-
ty was dry and some time ago ex-
pressed a hope that he could save
enough money to make a visit 20 Nor
way
Ii seems that he started drinking
again and II Is supposed that he was
under the influence of liquor when
he went TO the shed
The sum Of $4,000 was found sew
ed IN the lining Of his clothes. This
money he had saved IN during the
past winter