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4 SPRINGFIELD NEWS Mtiro't Koinurr 11, 1'Hl.n imurtol l,)ref)ii, atierond Cl" mn tlerundor not of OoiiKre o( M jtreti, W . SPRINGFIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NpV. 14, 191S VOL. XVII. NO. m V 4 AND JOY COMETH IN lilt MORNING" Through the Shadows of Tragic " Years, Light of Llborty Shines oh World. NATIONS' JOY UNSTINTED Springfield Celebrates First Birthday ef World Freedom With Patrl otlo Fervor That Knowi No Bound. Nono of ub who are allvo today, as wo Journey t ho, rest of tho way, will over forgot tho Joy ono morning .brought to mankind. wo will always rotnambor Jt as i Monday who trlod to sneak Into Tlmo'n groat marathon, hut haforo ho arrived upon our sldo cf thlo great world ho bocamo spattered with soma peace-bugs, which tickled hi in so, that ho turned insldo out ao ho streaked across tho Atlantic. Prologue. Monday grouted tho Goddess of Lib erty standing sodately with hor torch nllnino In tho last moments of hor nightly vigil, with a rosoundlng smack. Tho dear old girl nearly ilrojipoif her torch in nmnzomont. It was tho first tlmo slnco sho had boon standing thoro that Monday ovor for got his grouch long enough to groet her with n kiss. Ho had horotoforo swept by hor with a nod end a grunt. Miss Llborty rubbod hur oyos and gnzud long and onrnostly at Monday. Sho wnntod to mnko uro it was really hlra. It was, but tho old roundori sported a coat of snowy whlto Instead of tho dismal bluo. "Whoro did you got noxt to tho now coat, MonT" queried MIsb Llborty ",Tnlnt a now ono, Lib, it's tho old biuo ono turned Insldo out," roplied Monday. "It was on alright Just bo foro I loft Franco, but as I started ovor somo Oregon doughboys sprink led somo poaco-oggs on mo, and thoy hatchod out and started to crawl. By tho tlmo I was half way hero about a billion of 'em had hatched forUi and got Into my hide, and thoy tickled mo so I turned insldo out, coat and all." "Now, Monduy, quit yer kiddln," says Llborty. "Last week, Wodnos day enmo chasing ovor hero with a big cock-and-bull story something llko that. Ho said ho got his off of a U. P. wire and thoy wore tho straight goods. Ho ticklod mo so with somo of those bugs that I was silly' enough -to let him Into' New York with them, and from thoro 'thoy got scatlorod all over tho country. Then thoy all died that night and thoy mado an awful .unioll afterwards." "Oh, I know nil about that, Lib, but Just tnko a look at thoso bugs, will you? Can't you boo thoy nro tho gen ulno nrtlclo? Don't you boo that rod, .whlto and bluo streak down their backs that's called tho 'Joy-streak.' Tho Yanks did it thoy put that streak In (lrnr. Upsides, thoy hatched out ' nt tho olovonth hour of tho day, tho . i' i a l . i. t ; olovonth day of tho month in tho olovonth month of tho year. Thnt moanB somothlng, Lib, to bo born llko that. Lot mo scatter 'em around tho good old U. 8, Ay, won't you?" pleaded Monday. "Well, nlrlgh, Monday, go as far as you llko, I admit thoy look alright and thoy cortalnly are lively crea turos. Kiss mo again, Monday, you 11 dear old grouch, and boat K up Broad. , will feol a tremendous nervous volax? way. If I hoar anything In half an ' ton. nnd t,loy "UBt not bo left with hour that sounds, llko the renl thing i out tho nuBlstanco of thoso agencies I'll know thoy aro gonulno Joy-bugs. S'long Monday." "Au rovolr, Goddess!" Monday was on his way with his Joy bugs. How tho olif sport did work. For a groon hand, ho provod himself tho host llttlo bug-dlsponsor that over . .. . 1. II nil uio tuuimy. " mur uuurs no , had enough Joy-bugs scattered ovor tho U. S, A. to stop, the turning ot pvory wheel of industry. Thoro was .nothing left to do but to doolaro a ho iday so 100,000.000 folks coiUd lo . nllt n "vln" nvorv tlmo a hue tickled I out a "yip" ovory time a pug ticklod 'ora. And that la tho truo story ot what one .Monday did for us, .' No, we aro not likely te leirget that 1 Monday, We don't want to forget n weistsgply want to remeabaf, always, NeMicr, will a world's pe,' ages n'tytI5 co(e, 'forget what-jnt to uh itnd rjimoinbor, too, with thankful noon; what it menus to them. Thuk. wo grooted With glowing honrlH Ihu datoif "of a now orn. Out of tho world' travail, freedom was born. ' ' . ' Lot ub raVo on, gentlo render, for wo will nnvor again got another nhn- Uini libit I f i la T.nt lia turn nil' thd footlights, tho sidelights and tho spotlights upon tho world's great drama with Its millions of playorj. It was a great play with Its tragic stories and Its happy ending. Thoro were momonts In that mom. ornble day when wo thought some thing would bust in Springfield. There did not seem to bo a big enough out lot to pormlt all tho pent-up enthusi asm to oscape, A bunch of our trlbo went over to Eugono In the morning to soo If sh0 had anything. Whllo (hero the street-car system wont out of commlscion when somo gobs of Joy; gummed up tho trolley. Along after, lunch thoy como trooping back to tho old homo town and things began toj slxilo. Thoro soon arrived tho Eu- gone uanu, mo Ancient anu no-wins-korod Ordor of Homo Guards who had no manuors, but could march llko h 1 a sundry assortment of Eugono males and r- motley collection of tho fair ones. Wo 'will remcmhor that parndo for somo tlmo. There woro several fea tures In It dono up In brown cover alls that mado a hit with us. Then thoro woro othor hits wo thought tho olllgy of Dill Ilohcnzollern looked al most human as It Journoyod along.! As wo viowed It, wo wore Inclined to j believe ho really had abdicated. Yes, wo know, wo behaved llko a ' bunch of "nutts," but what caro we!-; It niiiBt bo useless to r.ttcmpt to ! chronicle hero tho emotions, unified yet conflicting, of that Joy-msddcnod . throng. Only tho Stars and Stripes i aft it swept by gaily responding to tlio tender caress of an autumn breczo could calm tho riot momentarily vhon tears of lovo ami prido welled into tho eyes ot"hundrods. j All afternoon tho din and clamor,. the shouts and laughter, continued and waxed far into tho night. Phy slcal weariness and Ks ntjendnnt re laxation of weary yet happy spirits then ended tho colobration of Right triumphant ovor Wrong. Nature claimed her children for repoBo and Heaven smiled upon a world at pence. UNITED WAR WORK IS CAMPAIGN jvnllls, at whose homo he passed jawny. Services wore conducted Nov Committee Meets With Liberal , vember 11, iois, by rtov. s. A. Dan Response, Notwithstand- ford of tho M. E. Church, and lnter ing War Is Ovor. ;mont was made in the Mnrcola com- j etory. Tho preliminary stops for tho Unl-' LECTURE HERE SATURDAY ted War Work campaign In Spring-, Rev. Jae. Elvln, Direct From France, flold woro taken Tuesday, when Mr. I J. E. Edwnrds, tho locnl chairman, met ' with tho teaching staff ,ot tho school 1 district to outline- plans for tho drive. ' Pamphlets describing tho work of who has been in service overseas with tho eoyon organizations participating t tho Y. M. C. A. from January to Sep In tho war work woro distributed Wod- tomber, 1918, has roturnod from nosday morning by a number of 'tho Franco and will speak at tho Motho- school boys, who werosanxlous to do.dist church Saturday ovonlng at 7:30. l.i t ill m . a t. . . tholr bit in providing for tho comfort of tho troops. ; thQ battlo front nnd followed our Thursday morning tho local teach- troops In tho battlo of Chateau Thierry ors, who have volunteered their ser- and many of tho subsequent engage Vices for tho campaign, will start tho ments. His lecture, abounding with work of calling at tho housos for sub scriptions, nnd it Is hoped thnt by Friday noon Springfield school dis trict will bo "ovor tho top." Now- (hat poaco is In sight, tho boys which have contributed so much In (ho winning of tho war. Victory Clubs Start Next Week. Tho work of raising tho.ullottnont of tho Boys' and Girls' Victory Clubs in I tho Springfield school district has been postponed until noxt week, owing to flirt fnnf Hint vltn anlitnla -fmirn nrtt VW VV Wit 4 HVUWUIU ti T Kf viv ,,k , , Flvo per cont of the apportionment to tho school district for tho Unltod War Fund was allotted tq tho Boys' and Girls' Victory Clubs, to bo raUod nmongst.tho school chil- Tb, fc , . .. . .. Tho subscriptions mntlo by tho Indi vidual pupils must bo pf money which has been earned by tho pupil or which will ba .earned boforo time of pay Went."""' ""-" Local Boy Dies. At. tho, homo of, hta sister In Cor vallls, Oregon, NovemberSth, Qeerge LID IS LIFTED AS EPIDEMIC WAN ' Ba" Removed From All Public Gatherings After Fifth Week of Observance, SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDAY Only Sporadic Cases Now Reported by Springfield Physicians and These Prevail in Much Milder Form. "Dear Mr. Flu: Notwithstanding your threat ening altitude, we take this means of informing you that the lid you clamped down on our town somo time ago will be lifted tills week, and you can drop In tho hole r not Just as you darn please. We were all bitten by a peace-bug, Monday, and now wo nro full of Yankee pop. We seek no pcaco terms from tho likes of you. Doc Ilobhnn, tho bug shark, has as sured ub that you are nothing but a pcsUferous four-flusher and that you nro loafing around hero on your past rop. You had better beat it. SPRINGFIELD'S BLACK HAND Thua has tho odlct gone forth breathing defiance at tho menace to "our lives, our fortunes and sacred honor." our Thoro may bo a little fight left in tho "Flu" boy yet, but wo oro going to take a chance. It's all off with that "lid" stuff. Somo of ub aro going to prayer- meoUng .Thursday night and . ,tbank.. God Almighty for tho blessed prlvi- ,eB0. ' After prayor-meoting an exclusive fow of us (names deleted by censor) J aro going to gathor ! somebody's backroom Inochlo for stogies. together in and play pi. I A, Morelock, aged 30 years and 10 1 I months. He was tho son of Mr. and 1 Mrs. Jnmos Morelock of Springfield,1 and Is survived by his parents and thro0 sisters Mrs, E. D .Smith, Itone- ' burg, Ore.; Ms, H. N. McFarland, Mohawk, and Mrs. L. Mellen, Cor- , Will Tell of Activities of Our Boys on Firing Line. Kov. JnB. Elvln, formorly of Salem, Rov. Elvln saw much service right at first-hand knowlcdgo of thos0 stirring hcurs win bo of vast interest to us . un. uiu luuiuru win uu nciu minor tho auspices of tho United War Work Campaign Commlttoo. ' ' ' Liberty Loan Payments Due! Payments on Liberty Bond subscriptions, subscribed for under the deferred payment plan, will bo due as fol lows: Secortd installment, 20, payable November 21, 191S Third installment, 20, payable December 10, 1918 Fourth Installment, 20, paynble January 1G, 1919 Fifth installment, 30, payable January 30, 1919 Subscribers in tho Springfield District will please pay promptly, without personal notice, at least three days before the above dates, at their respective banks in order to avoid forfeiture of the initial payments already made, ' The Government, insists that all payments bo made promptly as the same becomes due. 1 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, COMMERCIAL STATE BANK. Then when Sunday comes we will tefday practically has nullified tho X on that 12-suit we paid $30 for famous work or fight order promu' id tho color faded in a week, and gated last summer. Tho work, or 7 to church and pray ror tho con- fight order falls by reason of the fact vslon of tho soulless profiteer. j that tho only penally attached was It s all in a lifetime, dear reader, 300k, and yo shall find," and it is p to you what you seek. Schools Open Monday. Superintendent Baker advises the ews that tho Springfield school au- ...0..w.B uuu w .D seal schools on Monday, November .8th. Thoro was some consideration t opening them on Wednesday of this eek ,but owing to tho fact that there ,vero still several cases of the Influ- ,.U m .i waa couaiucrea uesi tho agcf) of 37 Md M yeRn iO take no chances In causing a new'.., . . . outbreak. However, no new caae8 avo been reported during the past ( wlth thl ,Mt clause t the Noveffiber revcral days and it is felt safe to llftj order wag ctewcd ag deaert!oil the ban. . The order received yesterday after i "We feol," says Superintendent Da-'noon will affect several thousand Ore 'rer, "Uiat wo have been very" fortu-' gon men. nato. in holding down tho number of General Crowder has sent the fol cases among the school children and lowing order to draft boards: citizens. Upon the whole, parents : '.'The President directs registrants and pupils have responded well to tho precautionary measures. However, wo must continue to use every precaution. "Children having colds or coughing requested to return tho documents to or snoozing will be asked to remain their local boards. No charge of de nt their homes, and teachers will bo linquency will be entered against any on tho alert for any symptoms of the disease. "The school buildings have been thoroughly disinfected, and with these precautionary measures, wo bolievo 'that the development of any new cases can. be provented. "Those Just recovering from the in fluenza are also asked not to start to school until their attending physician advlaoH that there Is no further dan gor of a relapse or of their exposing others. Also, children who have been j exposed should remain at home until all danger of contraction has passed ( "In view of tho fact that Ave weeks of school tlmo, have been loot, every j effort will bo made to conpentrate the '.work. All non-cssontlals will bo eliminated and an effort wJlLbe mado to cover Uio essential part of each 1 grade. Ono week of tlmo will be trained throuch tho ellmlnat'nn nf hn , regular f eachers' Institute, which j heretofore has been held the first three school days of Thanksgiving week." DRAFTING OF IN CEAfS AT ONCE War Department Issues Order Disposing of Status of Registrants. Washington, Nov. 13. Draft boards woro orderod today to stop classifying men under 19 or ovor 36 years, and to withhold questionnaires for Buch reg istrants not already sent out. It was officially anuounced at tho provost marshal general's office that registrants of 18 and from 37 to 46 years old who have received question naires need not fill them out. Orders went out today to tho heads of all military departments to discon tinue at onco tho acceptance of appli cations for admission to the central officers' training camp. No decision Hoover 8tm adv0cat08 reatricted con has been reached regarding tho HUmnt,n r ro,10n, liron(, classes now in progress at theso Already plans are being perfected camps, but it was intimated hero that'to caro for accumulatd 8tooks o( uio siuuenis wouiu ue pormmeu to comploto the course. Cancellation ot all draft calls yes- ft that of being placed In Class 1. Questionnaires now In the hands of men between the ages of 37 and 46 years do not have to bo filled out, but must bo returned to the local board . which issued them, according- to a tele gram received yesterday from Provost Marshal-General Crowder ,by Captain Cu,g0D draft 0XccuUvc 0 0regon. This is a cancellation of an order of Novnmhr 12. ui.u nrAnrnA ihat ,,., )bogn,B won,d d,Bcom,HHe emilBg I more questionnaires to mea be twees all questionnaires now out must be . returned filled- Failure, tn runnlv who on September 12, 1918, had at - taincd their thirty-seventh birthdays and who had received questionnaires need not fill them out, but thB are ruch registrants for failure to fill out questionnaires." JOHN KETELS MAKES GOOD Comes Through With Dance Promised Mentha Ago to Give When Peace Was Declared, Tho happiest spot in Springfield Monday, night was John Hotels' store. V big contingent of SpringSeid "sas - a:ety" mobilized at tills strategical oint for the purpose of reminding John of hie promise to pull off an im- promptu dance, and John staged a, Terrslchorean affair that for whole- somo enjoyment was a winner. Mir,- ter Pathe furnished Uie music and'"1 7"?.' . B . ul 100 8prace Jchn turned tho crank until his arm S:q1eq .at midnight, and. his guests Went home' " England Wants Our Lumber. San Francisco. Nov. 14. Great Brit ain must have 600,000 new houses and most of the lumber for them will come from the Pacific coast states. In addition, hundreds of thousands of now homes must be built in France and Belgium. This was the statement today of A, L. Williams, of C. Leary & Company, the largest lumber dealers in tho Brit- Ish Isles, who has come to theArest coast to survey the timber sltultion. He said .construction work In Europe had halted during the war and ar rangements were being made every where to renew building operations. Ho predicted heavy shipments of lum ber from tho Pacific coast to Europe via the Panama canal as soon as ton nage can be secured. Williams will leave next month for Burma and British North Borneo to make a survey of the timber situation there, Snow White Bread at Last Washington, Nov. 14.The Ainerl - in nnhln tnnv rw nil ..,1. J can public may now eat all "",lu bread. Tho white loaf may return to Uncle Sam's table. ' The food administration announced today that all regulations requiring use of wheat substitutes in baking are suspended. Hnwnvnr Admlnlotintni- cereals. Under the now order tho coarso grains will be used mostly for animal feeds. Cbunty Agent Moves. County Agricultural Agent N, S. Bobb has moved his office from 31 Soventh avenue east to the basement of tho court houso. W. A. Ayers. man ager ot the Farraors Co-operative bu- roau, and tho secretary of the Farm Loan Association, will also havo their offices in the samo room. Tho old telephone number, 461, will be used. ! The offices can bo reached through tho north entrance of the court houso. Nothing Else Like It In Springfield. There haB never boon anything in Springfield with the INSTANT action of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., asmlxed in Adler-i-ka. ONB SPOONFUL flushes the ENTIRH bowel tract so completely it relieves ANY CASE sour stomach, gas o r cob Btlpation and preveats appeadlcitle. The INSTANT, ple&M-t ac'toa, of Ad-lr?i-ka surprise both doctors and pa- -' touts. M. M. Pery Drug Co. SPRUCE OUTPUT BROUGHT TO END Order Issued That Will Shut Down Activity in North, west Camps and Mills. INDUSTRY IS PARALYZE Huge Sleek en Hand Awaiting Ship ment Caute Owners Much Un eMlfMHK Many Men Are ' Thrown Out ef Jefec Finis was written yesterday to the part that spruce ad fir forests oi taa Pacific Northwest have played Id Um war, when orders were issued by Use Spruce Production Division to ceasst at once practically all activities ia alr- ' crart work among the camps aatt "-ills. AI1 shipments of spruce and mr 0X13 ts to tho huge cut-ap plant at Vaat- couver, Wash., were halted by the ei der, while no more airplane materMI shipments are to be made. Similar orders stopped nearly all logging oper ations, and Instructed that falling oC airplane timber was to cease at ones. All construction work on the vari ous projects -of the aircraft pr gamme have been stopped with that exception of the logging road on tfc Olympic Peninsula, which lacked tat a few miles of completion. In everj Dha&ft nf thn f rAmpndnitD im,.(lm. w -(luslry wh!ch fledged tho e ,es 1 AmHn ,i nr.,ti- ,u , by absolute abandonment of aircra -work. ' . . . - ousand Deprived ef Werk. . ,Sf C&k yruuucuon uiyisioh, m me aDsence ec Brigadier-General Brlce P. Disqac. commander of the , dlvfefija; who in now in conference at Washiagto, D. C. ' Lytle could be learned yesterday oC tno Possible disposition of the 30.0W eomUed mea aBd jj0et ot iumDer. jmen and loggers of the Loyal Legfee. j who are suddenly deprived of their j employment Tho soldiers, it was i learned, have not been removed tram , the camPs and will remain at their ; Pent stations until further order are received- It is probable that tk divlElon will bo kept intact and U enllsted Personnel bo retained nalM definite ratification of the peace tenas prompts their demobilization. Spruce Investments Heavy. Labor troubles through the tnedhm of the I. V. W. agitators, whlok threatened tho effectlvenesss of tim work, were nipped in tho bud at am early hour. Organization of the Lor Legion of Loggers and Lumberman strangled the incipient dissention aaet f brought men and employer closely gother in the common cause. It is estimated that the value of iim InvpBtmpnt ill nnnipo nmrinnHnri ' proximates $10,000,000. Discussioa Sa ' ' , ; already afoot concerning th posat- biTity that much of this perfected or ganization and equipment may be ap plied to the airplane industry whlds is predicted, to endure after tho war. Pacific Operators to Meet. To consider the problems presentc by the cancellation of deliveries, a, meeting of the West Coast Lumber men's Association has been called t meet in Portland on Saturday morn ing at 10 o'clock, at the Multnomak Hotel. The call was made by It, B. Allen, secretary of tho association, from Seattle. .Lumbermen from every po'nt In, Oregon and Washington, interested ia tho aircraft orders, will attend th meeting, with heavy delegations from Puget Sound and Grays Harbor dis tricts. At iho meeting messugos wHt bo delivered from Balph Angcll, cS the association's spruco bureau, whet is now following the trend ot events in Washington, D. C. The members ot the association protest that, with vast stocks of ar terial on hand, the cancellation of de liveries Jeopardizes the Industry their Investment, whito throwtec thousands ot men out of employpeat without notice. They are u nan I mows in declaring the situation to h critical one from tho viewpoint these who have lent every effort to th aircraft production progrftHMa, and who, as the result, now Ar4 their Industries heavily overstocked wHfc Material and equipment i