PACK 4
THE S PI UN (WIELD NEWS
PI U DAY, OCTOniCR 3, 1019
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Published Kvery Friday at Springfield, Lane County, Oregon By
MILLER A FREELANO -
LYNN W. MILLER ...... - - II. M. FRKELAND
Entered at the Postorflre ut Springfield. Oregon, as Second class Matter,
February 24. 1003.
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According to press dispatche
thirty-eight more or less prominent
men lu California have wired Senator
Hiram Johnson requesting him to
stop fighting the peace treaty and
league of nations, for the sake, no
they put It, of the feelings of the
people of his state.
It somehow reminds us of those
three famous cockney tailors who pe-
tioned parliament as "We, the cltl
tens of London."
"Why," queried a prominent local
merchant the other day. "do people
go out of town to make purchases
without Insiecting stocks and inquir
ing as to prices at local stores?"
This same merchant that morning
sold a bill of goods amounting to
nearly $300 to a resident of Eugene,
who investigated prices in both citie
before making his purchases and
found he could do better in Spring
field.
"News value" is surely changing
In these "whirligig" times like all
other values and things.
Adalina Patti. the world's famous
prima donna during the entire lifetime
of a majority of the people now on
earth, passed away last Saturday. So
far as we have observed, none of the
coast dailies published last Sunday
considered the news of sufficient Im
portance to give it first-page position
The Oregonian, while it bad front
page space for a dispatch telling a
bout Helen Taft advising teachers to
go on strike, relegated the death of
Patti to an inside page, and one small
state daily gave the news in three
lines at the foot of a column of its
last page.
The sugar bureau of the depart
mem of justice announces irom
ashington that sugar may go to
2" cents per pound, and anyhow to
1." cents, during the coming year if
it (the bureau) is not g:ven more
power to stamp out speculation m
the commodity.
It might appear to. the ordinary
citizen, unable to grasp the super
wisdom of bureaucracy, that such
announcements as the .above would
tend ratjier to encourage hoarding
and s illation than toward stamp
ing it out.
a couple ot months agi tins same
nun an discovered two instances in
the e;ist where sugar was being sold
at 15 cents. Over a large part of the
country the consumer was gettii;j;
it for 10 cents, and even a fraction
under that price. The bureau then
announced 11 tents as a fair price
to the consumer throughout the land
Result: Price lowered in a couple of
towns back east and raised every
where else.
WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES
Louis H. Haney of the Southern
Wholesale Grocers' Association is
quoted as saying before the senate
committee on agriculture that "the
packers' business is too big to be
healthy."
Mr. Haney meant, comments the
Rocky Mountain News, it was too big
to be "healthy" for the southern
wholesale grocers, who, according to
Mr. Haney, are undersold by the pack
ers. This is a state of affairs which
the people of the south regard as
highly healthy to themselves. At
least they have not gone on record to
the contrary.
This raises the question: Is the
Kenyoii bill designed to hamstring the
packers for the benefit of the whole
sale grocers or is it designed to pro
tect the people?
Mr. Haney alleges that the packers
control 25 per cent of the wholesale
grocery business of the country and
he predicts that after complete mo
opoly is accomplished the packers will
cease to be satisfied with a small pro
fit. Small profits are beneficial rath
er than detrimental to the public, but
are the packers to be hung, drawn and
quartered now for crimes which their
competitors predict they will commit
in the future? The packers, big and
little, should be properly regulated.
All business, big or little, should be
properly regulated in the luterest of
all the people.
Put to make mere business a crime,
In the same breath that we admit Its
beneficience. would be both foolish
and unjust. The big packers are a
product of evolution and they were
cvovled from the wasteful, unhygienic
siaugiiicr nouses of a generation or
two ago. Poes anybody want to turn
back to them, or even tako a single
step In that direction? If there Is
any iniquity in the big packers, we
believe that It can be eliminated with
out polling them as they poll a steer.
The homo is the foundation stone
upon which Is built till civilization,
all progress, ail Industry, all every
thing! And home is what the house
keeping mother makes it. Without
her there In no home; without the
home there is flot much of anything
worth while In life. In there?
Then, how In the wolrd, can these
men down In the census office tell us
that keeping house Is not a giilnful
occupation?
Of course It la a gainful occupation,
in tho very front rank of human en
deavors, and tho next census should
so list the nineteen million.
WHY LUMBER INDUSTRY INTER
ESTS YOU
Last year the lumber industry In
Oregon and Washington cut a total
of 7.313.373.000. with an approximate
average value of $25 per M feet, or an
aggregate value of $lS2,S34.32,r. Ful
ly 60 per cent of this money was re
turned to the two states in the form
of pay-rolls and 25 per cent was spent
for material and supplies, including
machinery, wire rope equipment of
all kinds, and other costs of doing
business. This item also covers taxes
and Insurance paid and freight. The
remaining 15 per cent of the return
pays for the logs and provides what
ever profits tne null operators make.
About 1 15.000 men are employed in
the lumber industry proper, which in
cludes logging as well as lumber man
ufacturing, but does not include such
closely allied and dependent indus
tries as wooden ship building, furni
ture manufacturing, sash and door
manufacturing, and various other
wood-working activities; neither does
it include shingle manufacturing, in
which industry from 15,00 to 20.onn
more men are employed.
From $S5,M(l.oeo to $100.UliO,0(0 is
invested in logging and mill equip
ment. These figures, of course, do
not include the value of standing timber
Thes few figures will give a little
idea of just what you have at stake
in our lumber industry, whether you
are directly connected with it or not,
for any industry which furnishes em
ployment for upwards of 150,000 men
in a sparsely settled country directly
affects the business prosperity of all
f us.
TO THE FARMERS OF
SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT
The importance and value ot
a slip on your farm can hardly
be over estimated. We are not
agents for any silo but we do
ant to help you In every way
we can, nnd If you own your
farm or are In a position to
Justify the expense, we will be
glad to aid you financially in
adding a silo to your equip
ment. SPRINGFIELD FIRST NA
TIONAL DANK.
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NINETEEN MILLION
There are in the United States 19,-
000,000 women who do their own
housework, according to Mrs. Ray
mond Robins, president of the Nation
al Women's Trade Union League.
These 19,000,000 are not engaged In
a gainful occupation, if one accepts
the classification given them by the
United States census bureau. Mr.?.
Robins refuses to agree with the cen
sus folk, and argues that there Is no
more gainful occupation than keeping
house for father and the children.
Housewives should be listed In the
next census as producers," Mrs. Rob-
Ins suggests to the secretary of com
merce. 'The value of Their output,
reckoned on the low rate of $45 a
month, would reach an aggregate
yearly income of $10,000,000,000," she
asserts.
If anything, Mrs. Robins is underes
timating. Why, it Is worth consider
able more than $45 a month to take
rare of the baby, get the children
off to school, mend their cIcthoH, darn
their stockings, keep them out of
trouble, bring them out of measles and
mumps, get father's breakfast, his din
ner on time and lunch for the kiddies!
All that Is a regular Job In Itself,
but it represents merely a portion of
mother's duties. Her real work Just
begins when she has those things out
of the way, scrubbing, cleaning, wash
ing, ironing, cooking, baking, sewing,
and stretching a lean pay envelope
to cover a week of seven days.
YOU know how
much toasting im
proves bread. Makes
it taste good. Of course
more flavor.
Same with tobacco
especially Kentucky
Burley.
Buyyourself a pack
age of Lucky Strike
cigarettes. Notice the
toasted flavor. Great!
Nothing like it. The
real Burley cigarette.
Guaranteed by
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Service Versus Parasitism
That Is the attitude of modern bank
ing in its relation to production and
industries. The hank today is u com
munity service.
In a western state the other day
there wus a get-together meeting of
farmers ami bankers. All tho bank
ers and all the farmers were there.
He has lived to see scrub stock
disappear and to see that district be
come one of the biggest dairy produc
ing sections in the weHt.
In inssltig on examinations and eel
ting ready for the appointment of
census takers for the regular four
teenth dicennlal IT. H. census, prefer-
i . ... ii i . . i . .ii ,
There were addresses und confer- ' ,!lu;u w,u " 'v " soimcrs. suitors
encos on co-operation und improving and arlnei und to their wives und
widows. A law was passed on July
11, 1919, making this provision.
the working conditions on the farm
to make it more productive.
Single bunks and groups of banks
are promotlg pig clubs, corn shows,
dairy herds, and small fruit-growing
districts.
Banker Coffman, the newly elected
president of the Washington State
Ranker's Association, organized the
first pure bred stock club lu his sec
tion of the state. '
A Beautiful Woman
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
valis. Shipment or 1200 uniforms for
the reserve officers' training corps
men of the college has been made by
the war depurimeut, uccording to,
word received here from the office of
the adjutant general of the army.
Do you know that a beautiful wom
an alwuys has u good digestion. If
your digestion is faulty, cut lightly
of meats, tako an occasional dose of
Chamberlain's Tablets to strengthen
your digestion, l'rlce 25c.
COMMON WITCHHA2EL
FINE FOR SORE EYES
It Is surprising how uulckly ejte In
flammation Is helped by common
witclibiiol, cumphor, hydrastlcs, etc.,
as mixed lu Lavoplik eye wash. One
elderly lady, who had been troubled
with chronic eye Inflammation for
many years, was greatly helped lu two
days. We guuranleo a small bottle
of Lavoptlk to help ANV CASK weak,
strained or inflamed eyes. Aluminum
eye cup FRKK. M. M. I'eery Drug
Cumpujiy.
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