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About The Lane County news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1914-1916 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1915)
THE BLADES COUNTY NEWS W. A. DILL Editor nnd Mnnngor ft if T i -i Published Every Monday and Thursday by tho Lnno County Pub lisbing Association. HATES OP SUnSCMPTION. Cno Year $1.60 Six Months - .75 Threo Months .50 Advertising Kates Furnished on Application. i Momber of tho Stnto Editorial Association. Member of tho Willamette Valley Editorial Association. V' And Remember to Got a Stop-Ovor for Springfield. SPRINGFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY IB, 1915. HELP THE LUMBERMAN. It will pay the voters of Oregon to study a bit as to how the lumber industry can be helped, says tho Oregon Voter. The prospects of Us revival on a large scale are being endangered in various ways. If the "zone system" of rate-making, based on distance hauled, Is extended, Oregon timber will be ns remote from the great markets of the middle west as if it were located in Alaska or farther, so far as a chance to compete with South ern Yellow Pine is concerned. Even if it could be landed free of cost in New York City, via the Panama canal, it would be more remote from Its ultimate market in the Missouri and Mississippi valleys than lumber at Southern mills. This we will point out in a future article. Also, the cost of production Is larger here under the reg ulation imposed by state laws. All these restrictions have an excellent intdnt, but many of them fail to achieve their intent while at the same time they damage the industry. A tendency to tax timber for improvements which are not necessities is making the burden too heavy to carry ex cept for a few wealthy interests, whose resources enable them to outlive prolonged depressions which ruin their competitors. Disposition to avoid using timber for public purposes, in favoring cement, steel, and other fireproof materials, reflects credit on the enterprise of school boards and other purchasing bodies, but it is crucifying our great industry. Those who have made a study claim that the same paramount object of "safety first" can be achieved at less cost for many public works by using wood. With the welfare of a great industry at stake, is it not worth while to learn whether these men are right? Other industries here in the Pacific Northwest will not attaing their deserved prosperity if lumber fails to revive. More brick will be sold when lumber men are prosperous than when they are unemployed. More cement will behold when lumber mills are running than when they are rustingi rMore steel will be in demand when more lumber is in demand. Mer cantile business, wholesale and retail, will reap more profit from revival of lumber than from reductions of freight ates, many times over. More farm produce will be sold, and at a higher price, if lumber camps are active. We are all vitally concerned with protecting the lumber industry from further damage, and we all will profit by rescuing it from utter ruin. TEACHING BOYS HOW TO WORK Commissioner of Education Claxton Is quoted as saying that school boys should be partially self-supporting at the j age of 12 years. This is a pretty stiff jolt, we take it, to the theory that boys should be wholly prevented from working at that age, says the Telegram. The sooner we get down to the collective conclusion that child life and school days should not be all books with intervals of play, the better. The work factor Is essential, pro vided, as a matter of course, it is practically cultivated. It is becoming the thought and effort of the most ad- Newport Oregon's Popular Beach Resort An ideal outdoor retreat. Hunting, fishing, boating, surf bathing, etc. Interesting visiting popints in the neighbor hood. Convenient campping grounds, electric light, pure water. 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Owing to present-day social conditions that policy is essential, and the more especially as it seeks to develop the fitness of the particular child for the particular vocation; but we ought not to delude ourselves with tho opinion that the schools can do it all. The primary teaching of industry 'belongs in the home. It is the function of the home rather' than of the school, and on home initiative and the demand of home requirements or home necessities the law should not arbitrarily deny to all children the right to work. We need to have some serious thinking on this subject of work for the child, and particularly for the boy. At an early age, and to a certain measure, at least, he should be inducted into some useful and gainful occupation, wherein he would find some responsibility and at tho same time develop some independence. The more congenial tho work and the better suited to his temperament, the better; but the lesson in useful industry above all things, else is what ho needs. Commissioner Claxton speaks for the development of manliness in the boy when he says that he ought to bo par tially self-supporting at the age of 12 years. BIG SAVING IN COST OF TOWN GOVERNMENT The report of Recorder II. E. Walker for the eight months ending June 30, 1915, shows marked reduction in the cost of maintaining the government of the town. According to this report there are reductions In every department except that of the town water supply, which is under contract, and Is the same as for the same period a year ago. Police, salaries, and general expense all show marked decreases. The total warrants issued a year ago, for the eight month period, was $21,875.02, of which $2076.15 was for the Second street bridoge, paid out of a bond fund. This leaves a total of $19,798.87 drawn against the tax-raised funds of the city. For the present half-year, the total drawn was $8030.98, less $944.88 for the bridge, leaving $7080.10 to be paid out of the money raised by general taxes. The reduction in the cost of government is, therefore, $12,712.77, or a trifle over G4 per cent. Springfield has done fairly well in raising funds to help keep a Lane county representative at the San Francisco fair, but is still short by more than half of what ought to be raised here in order to be doing out share. Springfield doesn't want to be a piker, and reap benefits paid for by others. A Visit to the Two World Expositions at San Francisco and San Diego is an event of a life-time and one you cannot afford to miss Special Fares in July to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego on certain dates Low Rpund Trip Fares Daily with stop overs In either direction Four Fine Trains Dally In Each Direction Stop-Overs at Expositions AH tickets to tho East via California permit stop-overs at San Francisco and San Diego to soo the Expositions Ask noaront Agent for "California and Its Two World Expositions," and "Way Sido Notes Shasta Route." SOUTHERN PACIFIC John M. Scott, General Passenger Agont, Portland, Oregon FEEDING 300 COLLEGE GIRLS (By Lillian Burns, O. A. C.) How would you like the Job of plan ning three meals a day for nearly 300 hungry college girls? Considering the present prices could you keep your ex penditures for food and helpers with in your income when it amounted to J3.50 a week for each person? This is the work of Miss Sibylla Hadwen, Housekeeper for the Wo men's Dormitories of the Oregon Agri cultural College. Though these meals conform some what to the "balanced ration" the I scientific cooks talk about, they are J more largely governed by the kinds of food that can be bought in quantities 'at moderate prices and as much as I possible by what the girls seem to like. ! Where possible a choice is offored between two foods. For instance coffee end chocolate, a cooked und an uncooke.1 cereal, bread and toast or biscuit n.re served for breakfast. An effort l:t rmdo to havo raw fruit for .breakfast and also a breakfast meat hicU as bacon, wugage, or creamed lish, with oi?g once or twlco a yeek to give v:ir:oty. Miss Iladvln believes tho g'rls 'should lmo all the milk they want to drink anil from 20 to 20 gallons arc ! purchasod each day, most of which Is used at lunch. The lunch also includes I soup or Homo baked dish such as eheeco" fondue or scalloped potatoes 'and canned fruit. A moat, potatoes, tomo othor vego jtablo, gravy and bread and butter arej the ovenlng moal with a desert of pudding, pie or salad, Waldo Hall, tho largor dormitory, has u dining room that Hcatu 200 and tho quantity of food consumed runs In figures liko theso: I sack of potatoes for dinner,. 90 lbs. of steak for a dinner, 120 lbs. of mutton for a dinner, 1C0 lbs. of pork for a dinner, 80 to 100 loaves of broad J a day, 25 lbs. of butter a day, 2 sacks of sugar a week, 2 or 8 cases of eggs a week. j The milk, butter and eggs aro usual lly obtained from the dairy and poultry departments of tho College. Tho bread is purchased from a local bakery. The meat comes from Port land lo several shipments a week and tho other things are purchased where it seems advisable. Oregon Orange Bulletin. CALL FOR BIDS The Board of Directors of Springfield School, District No. 19, will receive up to, and in cluding July 19, 191C, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. bids for 80 to 100 cords 4 foot body fir or slab wood, for Lincoln School build ing. Delivery to begin not later than Aug. 1, 1915, and be com pleted not later than Aug. 20. 191f). Said school board re serves the light to reject any and all bids. A. P. McKINZEY, Clerk. 40-8 Portland City let paving contracts last week for $30,000. Eugene Permits for six months past. $59,903. See Edwards & Br attain For Farm and City Property Exchanges a Specialty Springfield - Oregon Phone 30 $1 ITSt INgcIre?, ONE Start a Bank Account on nnd Wntr.li It DOLLAR Grow First National Bank Will furnish to everyone who will become a depoiltor to the Amount of one dollar or more, n handtomo Homo Savings Bank to uee. You are Invited to cull nnd nik for one of theie eafeo. If you aro already a depoiltor you are entitled to one to use. Very tow pooplo can save In large amounts. If you wait until you can deposit a large amount you may never begin, Everyone can save In small way. 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