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About The Lane County news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1914-1916 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1915)
i f THE JURY QUESTIONS THE GOOD JUDGE AND GOES ITS WAY SUPPLY OF LIVE STOCK INCREASES For -the first time in many ears, information collected by the department of Agriculture fshows that all classes of live .stock in the United States are increasing in numbers. Thus the . real facts contradict, absolutely, sensational reports ' that prices for meat and shoes would rise to unprecedented figures in the im mediate future. It has even been , said that a Government statis tician predicted meat at 50 cents a pound and shoes at $10 a pair Tvithin the next two years. Such a prediction, the real Govern ment statisticians say, is quite unwarranted. On January 1, for example, the number of beef cattle show ed an increase of 3.4 per cent over the number a year ago, and an actual increase of 1,212,000 head. Hitherto the number of "beef cattle in the United States has declined steadily since 1910. There are also more milch cows specialists, while ridiculing the notion of a horse famine, nro convinced that farmers will find it profitable to use good work mares for breeding more stock. 1 As for hides, the situation 13 jnot quite so clear, but even here . there has been much gross ex aggeration. From two-fifths to less than one-half of the leather used in this country Is imported, , about 25 per cent of the foreign , hides coming from Argentina, jl5 per cent from Canada, 11 per I cent from "Mexico, sya per cent from European Russia, and 7 per cent from France. Since the outbreak of the war impor tations have shown a certain falling off; those for September, 1914, for example, being only 34,000,000 pounds, instead of 45, 000,000 pounds the year pre vious. There is, however, little reason to suppose that this de crease will be permanent or of sufficient importance to create any real scarcity. Since the great bulk of the imported hides comes from countries that are not at war, shipments are not j interfered with in any way, and the only new factor to be con sidered is the possibility of an ! increased demand by the war- S9HI Reduced Rate for New Subscriptions The Lane County News wants to add 300 subscribers to its list in Lane county, and as an inducement will receive NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS (not renewals) at $1 a year, 104 issues, payable "two-bits" monthly if you wish Jn the country than last year the ,ring countries .macaw, uwub yei m ux R Jg iuarbo uV.awiu,- fte United states crease of however, that is now in a hnftpr ponrtltlnn tn fnrf snoh n all classes 9.G per i ... F , of 1 sirimtinn rnnn fnr vfinrs nnsr. cent On January 1 1914 there he t s hag turned were on y 58.038.000 swine , in fld Qf Uve gtock st eadl, de the-country; on January!, 1915, lcrea. m& 64,618,000. Thisisacountedfor' f e firsfc ag has by he fact that the production beQn saId M dasses shmy an ot swine can be increased more .,. . ,,, 5,ii n, r -h appreciable, increase. Including rap dly than that of other classes horses mu, mHch CQ beef of live stock and consequently sheep and swjne there more readily. The prediction of 50-cent meat and $10 shoes was accom panied by the declaration that France alone has taken from America nearly 300,000 horses within the last five months and that the other countries at war have drawn upon our resources in the same proportion. The .facts are that more horses were on the farms of the United (Were on January 1, 1915, 7,712, '000 more farm animals in the United States than on January 1, 1914. The increase in the total ( value was $78,024,000, or 1.3 per cent. It is quite true that this increase is not yet proportional to the increase in population, ,which is approximately 2 per cent; but the fact that there is an increase, that the tide seems definitely to have turned, is re- The Lano County News is a strictly local papor. It attempts to cover only tho news of Intorost to Springfield and vicinity, but it covers this fully. .It stands for the best development of thisa community. You should be a reader regularly. Write for a sample, or,' better still, call at tho office and got acquainted. Call phone 2 and a representative will call to toll you about the paper. $150 sual P"ce special offer to new subscribers, reduced to. . . . $1.00 Mail This Coupon or Just Phone 2 REQUEST FOR FREE SAMPLE To The Lane County News: Please send me a free sample copy of your paper. Name v k Address Special for Present Subscribers You havo boon reading thic papor for a conoidor ablo time now, and wo tako It you. aro pleased with tho way it prosonts tho nows of Springfield. If you feel sufficiently satisfied with tho pnpsr to rocommond it to n neighbor and oocuro his subscrip tion, Tho Nows will bo plonsod to allow you a commla sion of 50 conts on your own ronownl, making tho prico for your own papor for a yoar a dollar, just tho aamo as that of tho now subscriber. Last Noyombor tho Nows gavo you an opportunity to got your papor ronowod at a roducod rato; now it is making an offer diroctly to thoso who aro not now sub scribers. Tho roducod rato for renewals is conditioned on tiroly upon tho bringing in of a now subscriber at tho same time. On New Subscribtr, for On Ytar, I n ,. Utuat P,ic; $1.50 Both Your Own Rantwal for One Year, for... Utual Ptiet $J.S0 $2 FIVE IMPORTANT MEASURES PASSED cnrrlprl hr a Riifl1flint nnswpr tn States on January 1 1915 than aarmlng exaggeratlons ana mis- leading figures. . there were a year before, the in crease being 233,000 head or 1.1 per cent. So far from France alone . having taken horses from us, the total exports since' the war began have cer tainly been much less than 100, 000' and very likely not over 75, O0d, Since there are approxi mately' 25,000,000 horses alto gether, in the -United States, the drain on account of the war is jscarcely alarming. ,-lt is, in fact, pointed out by Silvertnn A new Lutheran 300,000 jchUrch to be i,uilt'40 x 90. State Conservation Commis sion costing $5,000 goes to wall as an "adjunct of Pinchotlsm." Senator Moser has introduced a bill to regulate the manufac ture of matresses. With a 20 day limit in force in the House and bills unfavor ably reported immediately kill ed, the volume of new laws will Government statisticians that! be smaller than in 1913. the market value of farm horses "has actually declined' to such an extent that the average is now ahout $G a head less than a year ago. This decline is most aioticeable in the cotton states ,and in those states which make a business of breeding horses for sale in other sections. Mules have declined even more than horses, their value being npw $11.50 per head less than a year ago. The explanation Is to be found Jn the depression on ac count of the cotton situation in the South, which is the great market for mules. An improve ment, in this respect will do much to restore tho demand for horses, so that Government Dorenbecher Furniture Co., Portland, will enlarge plant with 0 story concrete factory. An orphans' home is to be established at Ashland. Continuing appropriations amounting to $849,900 repealed in House. More freak marriage laws will drive people away from Oregon. Brownsville Force of men Is clearing ground for large build ing stone industry near here. Between semesters tho O. A. C. glee club members were giv en a trip by tho railroad com pany in payment for concerts given for the company. Trade Commission bill was defeated in the Senate. (Continued rrom Pago ..) ji, , desire to make a record for eqon- omy. If this is preslsted in, it will, in my opinion, do more to discredit this Legislature than anything else; ' especially", Jjc cause the legislature has, in its own operations, set a new high water mark for extravagance in the hiring of clerical help. We have, at the middle of this legis lative session, more clerks than were employed by the end of the session of 1913. I beljpve there is yet time for the legisla ture to show that there is no economy without efficiency and that if the legislature attempts to make a record for money saving without regards to the real needs of the state it will make the most serious error within its reach. As I am writing this, the House has just had the good 'judgment to indefinitely post pone five constitutional amend ments which it is proposed to put upon the next referendum ballot. So far but one measure has been submitted to the people, by the legislature and that is the single item yelo by tho Gover- nor and for which there is a genuine demand. I hope and be lieve that the House will not as sist In loading up the ballot with bills and amendments for which there Is no demand. The resolu tion drawing the most fire this morning was the one introduced by Mr. Schuebel, proposing, to limit land owning to cltf.enEhof the United Stales. The Hoiisc very sensibly refused to raise this issue at tills tlino, tius allowing a real consideratlon.for the national administration and government. Tho plan for consolidation of commissions which has bben prepared by Senators Day and Barrett and which lias been oil?? liner! Rnver.nl timed tn Mm nlfn'.' gonian, undoubtedly, will bo pre sented before the end of the ses sion, but unless it is forthcom ing soon it can hardly be expect ed that it will be passed by the Legislature, which already has much more than It can possibly do in the remaining days. The greatest opportunity that the Legislature has Is to segre gate the Important from tho un important measures and con centrate upon the former In the hope of getting something im portant done. It will be appar ent within a few days whether or not this opportunity will bo embraced. ALLEN EATON. W.C. T. U. COLUMN. The Arizona Situation. The Injunction ask'cd for by the liquor interests, reinforced by the hotels, drug stores and the Catholic church, in their at tack upon the prohibitory law of Arizona, was refused by the United States district courts of Arizona and Southern Califor nia, sitting together In Los An geles. The judges ruled that the evidence was not sufficient to justify the granting of an In junction preventing enforcement of the law. The court also re fused to grant a stay of execu tion' until the Supremo Court could pass on the case. Tho wets havo appealed to tho United States Supremo Court. The liquor men, the drug stores and tho hotel men aro as sailing the constitutionality of the law upon tho ground that it Is confiscatory and that it ex ceeds the police 'power of tho state; tho Church upon the ground that it interferes with tho religious liberty to use fer mented wines for sacramental purposes. Saloon Licenses an tho Bargain Counter. A saloon, liqensq In Chicago costs $1',000; but tho holder, in the palmy days of tho liquor traffic, has often sold one for $2,500. There has come a slump, inoro friends In the United States today than It had before however, and licenses havo de-, tho fall elections of 1914 and tho prociatcd In value forty per cent. The liquor interests of Chicago and of all Illinois feel themselves to be under the shadows of com ing events. The W. C. T. U. of the state pertinently reminds them speaking of last year's spring elections that "Mary had a llttlo voto Which roamed tho Sato about And everywhere that vote got In John Barleycorn got out!" liquor traffic many thousand moro foes even in rather es pecially in Ohio" and California. Reckloss Livers. Prof. Charles S. Carter, lec turing before a grammar school on the nature and effects of al cohol and pointing out particu larly the result of its use upon the liver, thus summed up: "Vo perceive that alcohoj destroys one of tho most important or gans. " The reckless" liver, In a word, winds up a livcrless wreck." "Do more laboring men own their homes now than under the saloon rcglmo?" This was ono of sixteen questions sent to fifty cities and towns of Tennessee some time ago. Tho replies showed an increase of 48 per cent in the number owning their ov;i homes since prohibition went Into effect. F. A. Taylor & Co., Seattlo, building contractors, will erect a number of new dwellings ut Uaudon. P r-ii i-fi m i v j r "i milt1- VriT T ' 1 f 11 " ' 1 -JWmm' 'All thBLtnthiraPthm &Qsth&sjxiagaV&me cost The average tax rate in tho 37G Incorporated towns of Kan sas, including state, county and city, is only $9.97 per thousand assessed valuation. And Kansas towns don't stint on improvements! Wo venture tho statement that prohibition has many thousand MmO BAGGING I IT HO P1TCHIN0 I ll(.,ilL S WMIAMMOtKWaN MMIUMMOCXIN3 NO SAGulNU HAYDfcN & METCALF the HOME Furnishers of Springfield, Phono 83. Vitus Bldg. 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