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SIXTEENTH YEAH.
SPUING FIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919
NUMBER 42
BUSINESS MEN BANQUET
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Organization of 6prlngflld
Commercial Club
A got together dinner and meeting of
Main-street business men was given
at Odd Fellows' hall. Thursday even
ing. Forty two places were occupied at
. the table, and all did justice to the
sumptuous chicken dinner, which wus
provided by the ladies of the Pro
gressive Twenty-Two.
Mayor E. E. Morrison acted as
toastmaster. and called upon the din
ers at the conclusion of the meal to
express their views upon matters re
lating to the city's welfare. A num
ber of good abort talks were made In
the way of boosting for Industrial and
business progress, and on motion a
Committee waa appointed by the
toastmaster to take up the matter of
a permanent commercial organization.
This committee, comprising Charles L.
Scott M. C. Ilressler, O, D. Kessey,
J. E. Edwards, and I. D. Larimer,
Immediately conferred and reported
that a meeting would be held at 7:20
o'clock next Tuesday evening. In Stev-j
ens hall, for thepurpose of forming
a permanent organization.' The or-!
ganlzatlon waa then started by all of
those present attaching their signa
ture to a roll of membership.
It Is urged that all. business men
and residents generally of the city
having Interest in the welfare and
progress of Springfield be present at
the meeting called by the committee.
FLOUR MILL GRINDS 800
BUSHELS PER DAV
The Springfield Mill and Grain
company Is now receiving about eight
hundred bushels of wheat each dav.
which is Just sufficient to keep the'
mill operating to capacity.
The $35,000 government contracj
for Pod. the second one handled by
the company Is being completed this
week, and a bid has been submitted
for a $30,000 contract for Novetnber
delivery.
The management reports the recep
tion given "Noxall" brand of flour,
recently put on the market as very
gratifying, there being a good sale
of this flour both In Springfield and
Eugene. By the first of the week
they will have on the local market,
In addition to the "Noxall" flour, a
hard-wheat flour under the name of
"Springfield"; also graham flour and
Cream middlings.
SCHOOL CENSUS
CRESS
IN PRO-
The work of tsklng the Spring
field school census was started Tues
day and will probably be completed
this evening.
P. II. Emery is making the enumer
ation In the out-lying districts and
some of the High school students
aro taking the census in town.
Last year's census gave Spring
field 622 children between the ages
of four and twenty years. This year's
enumeration Is expected to show con
siderable Increase.
AMERICAN LEGION TO
DISCUSS BUILDING
At a meeting of the American
Legion held Wednesday evening it
waa decided to invite rltizena gener
ally to attend a meeting to be held
under the auspices of the local post
on the evening of November 12 In
Stevens hall to devise ways and
means for the construction of a build
ing to be used as a place for the boys
to spend their evenings provided
with reading-room and suitable occom
odatlona for athetotics.
ANOTHER TELEPHONE
RATE HEARING
Notice was recleved by the city
officials this week from the state pub
lic service commission of a rehearing
and Investigation on the commls
s Ion's own action in the matter of
the "rates, charges, rules and regula
tions of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company."
The hearing will be held la Port-
m k a a m s i . ..4i..
j WJ me procueuius; are nuuiieu oj mo
commission that they may be beard
thereon.
Mayor Morrison, who represented
the city at the hearing held a couple
of months since, will probably be In
attendance at the rehearing to urge
Springfield's contention that rentals
here charged are exorbitant and u
just, and also thai the ten cents
minimum toll now collected for con
nection between this city and Eugene
should be eliminated.
It will be recalled that phone ren
tals were raised and the Eugene toll
waa put Into effect a few days before
the post-master general relinquished
control of telephone service.
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
The largest shipment of Scotch
marine boilers ever made from a
Pacific coast city to the Orient will
leave Portland this week when the
Grace Dollar, a 10,000-ton British
ship, calls for thirteen boilers built
by the Willamette Iron and Steel
company for the Emergency Fleet
Corporation. This shipment valued
at more than $300,000, Is for Emer
gency Fleet ships " under construe-'
lion at Shanghai, China.
Marshfleld The Mountain States
Power company has cloned a con
tract for furnishing electrical energy
plo the Western Lumber and Manu
facturing company, which plant Is
starting double-shift operations.
Salem is to have a nntltorium an J
amusement park at the east end of
State street.
Klamath Falls The Strahorn line
Is to be extended from Dairy to Hit
debrand. Multnomah county's burget Is to
be nearly one million dollars more
for 1920 than for the current year.
Oregon City The county Is to vote
on a road-bond Issue and a five-mill
pay-as-you-go tax.
Graved canneries are opera tin 3
at Brownsville, Toledo, Sheridan,
Wood burn and Philomath.
Cottage Grove The Western saw
mill Is installing machinery to in
crease Its cut to 20,000 feet daily.
Jefferson The flouring mill here
Is to get 2,600 additional water power.
Pendleton has $300,000 construction
work on buildings under way.
L. L. L. L.
HAVE INTERESTING.
SESSION
At the L. L. L. L. meeting held in
the W. O. W. hall Wednesday evening,
among 'other business, the new offi
cers for the ensuing six months' term
were Installed.
Mr. Miller, district organizer, was
present and gave a talk for the good
of the order and made a few sugges
tions 'regarding the starting of a co
operative store that is being talked
of by the local here.
The evening closed with Ice cream
and cake and a general good time.
We feel sorry for the boys who miss
these meetings. (By a member who
was present).
TO SETTLE LAND CONTROVERSY
Roseburg Review: That final owner
ship of the lands included In the for
mer bed of Silver lake, in Eastern
Oregon, regarding which there has
been much controversy for some time
was due for an early, settlement and
would probably revert to the state
was the Information obtained here
following the return of Leland Brown
and Attorney M. E. McOilchrist, who
had spent several days in that vicinity
conducting an Investigation. Both
men were connected with the attor
ney general's office at Salem, and bad
been Bent to interview the persona
who are now squatting on the lake
bed lands and endeavoring to hold
them. The men stated that the lands
were among the most fertile it Is pos
sible to acquire, due to the recession
of the lake waters, and that home
steaders have gone In there and taken
the land as fast as the lake receded
and are endeavoring to hold It There
are over 10,000 acrea involved, and
various Irrigation projects are under
consideration to develop them. The
men said the decision on the matter
would be announced at an early date.
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STATE CAPITAL NOTES
Salem. When a single western
state like Idaho has Increased its ap
propriations for the current biennial
period by over three hundred per cent,
it is of the greatest Importance to Uie
people of Oregon to demand the in
jection of business administration into
every department of the state govern
ment. The last legislature appropri
ated 18,372,968.15 as against $6,663,
277.62 by the preceding legislature, or
an Increase of $1,809,690.23. If it had
not been for the restraining hand
of the people enacting a six per cent
limitation on Increased taxes that the
legislature can levy, there is no doubt
this increase would have been doubled
or trebled. In fact the most daring
attempts were made to override the
people's limitation, but they were de
feated. Since the legislature ad
journed the tax limit has been over
ridden by the appropriations made by
the emergency board which has appro
priated over half a million for needed
purposes largely due to war activities.
Speaking of good business idmln
Ut ration, the Oregon state fair boarl
and their secretary, Mr. Lea, have
made a record for the past four years
that might be held up to the rest of
the state as an object lesson In public
thrift. Besides keeping up the pro
perty and making some Improvements,
the state fair showed in round fig
ures a surplus In 1916 of $10,000, in
1917 $13,000, 1918 of $19,000, and this
year, besides finishing off the new
pavilion, a net profit of $34,000. Out
of special legislative appropriations
of $49,000 so far only $34,000 has been
expended. This Is a formidable show
ing for the money-spenders who are
managing some of the state depart
ment that always show up with a
deficit.
The state tax department and the
county assessors are troubled over
i the annual valuation problems and
one of the greatest of these is the
question of one hundred per cent cash
valuation solemnly enacted into law
and more or loss solemnly ignored all
over the state. Applied to timber
lands, cash valuation at 100 per cent
is the most meaningless of all. The
market fluctuations of ' tlmberlands
vary from 40 to 60 cents per thousand
for stumpage to $1.00 to $1.60, and
even hit higher. The big investments
of the Eccles Interests In timber lands
has naturally stimulated the market.
Aa matter of fact the valuations are
artificial and fictitious. A common
sense view is that the standing timber
CORtl
has little or no value but what Is put
into It by labor.
State Labor Commissioner Oram
ha returned from a national safety
first convention at .Cleveland, Ohio,
where a week was spent in dUcussion
and education along lines of making
factories and Industries safer for the
employes. Mr. Oram Is busy framing
up a programme of an educational
character for the whole state through
his department as far as hi funds
will permit The factory Inspection
division of this state department last
year turned In $1,348 above expense
Into the state treasury. The last leg
islature increased the appropriation?
for the labor bureau by $5,100, to
maintain a branch at Portland, if he
can make a good showing for the
safety, first educational campaign, Mr.
Gram may ask the legislature to assist
in that work next year.
The Oregon Live Stock association
took a rap at some of the sklngamr-a
allowed by the concessions committee
of the state fair board, and also upheld
by resolution the work of the State
Humane society in having three offi
cers at the Roundup, two of whom
were there two days before, witness
ing the tryouts In the corrals, to see
that there was no unnecessary cruelly
practiced on the animals. The re
ports made to the State Humane so
ciety show several Instances of cruel
and inhuman treatment of animals,
and recommend cutting out these
features from future exhibitions of
this character In the state. The Live
Stock association backs up the Hu
mane society in its investigations.
Voluntary mediation of all differ
ences between employers and em
ployes has been established and is
working, out fine at Salem. The per
manent mediation council has settled
one controversy that had dragged
three months, in less than a week.,
The existence of such a piece of ma
chinery in the Salein district with Its
large industries and more being built
is a guaranty of stabilized conditions
that is a protection to both laborer
and capitalist The committee on ed
ucational propaganda is planning to
extend the same to other counties that
have large industries, and demon
strate not only strikeless communi
ties but finally the strikeless common
wealth. The idea is a growing one,
and Salem deserves the credit for be
ing the first industrial center to put
it into operation.
Portland Multnomah county plans
to spend $1,213,765 on roads in 1920.
- FED
XTMOMAS-
WASHINGTON LETTER
TO IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH
SERVICE -
Washington. (Special correspond
ence). With a view to ascertaining
what may be necessary to effect a a
improvement in the public - health
work of the government Senator
France, of Maryland, has Introduced
a resolution for the creation of a
joint committee of three senators anl
three representative. The duty of
the committee will be "to make a
survey of and report on those activi
ties of the several departments, divi
sions, bureaus, offices, and agencies
of the government of the United
States which relate to the protection
and promotion ol the public health,
sanitation, care of the sick and
Injured, and the collection and dis
semination of Information relating
hereto." After the survey has been
made the committee is to report to
congress any recommendations that
may secure an increased efficiency
in our public health work as a whole.
TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN
Representative Dalllnger, of Mass
achusetts, believes that the United
States should look after the needs of
its own people before providing for
the rest of the world. To that end
be has Introduced a bill "to prohibit
the export of sugar from the United
States or any place subject to Its
jurisdiction.' As a further step to re
lieve the sugar shortage, Mr Dallinger
has presented two resolutions direct
ed to the secretary of war and the
secretary of the navy, respectively,
asking those officials to report to the
house the amount of sugar in the pos
session of their departments.
AID TO INDUSTRIAL CRIPPLES
Congessman Ramseyer, of Iowa, has
taken a strong stand in advocacy ot
the bill proposing to extend aid to the
states for the vocational rehabilita
tion of persona disabled in industrial
pursuits. He bases his argument on
the proposition that if it is feasible
for the national government to rote
large sums of money for the cure of
diseased and crippled animals, bow
much more incumbent it is to assist
crippled humanity. Mr. Ramseyer
points out that only this year congress
appropriated $1,000,000 to eradicate
the foot and mouth disease, $641,045
for hog cholera, $741,980 to fight the
cattle tick, and so on. The bill for
human relief contemplates an expen
diture of not more than $1,000,000 per
year. "Are not unfortunate and dis
eased human beings," inquires the
congressman, "entitled to as much
consideration from this legislative
body as unfortunate and diseased
dumb animals? If the bill is enacted
into law, it will accomplish a most
worthy purpose and will help an un
fortunate class of persons who have
been heretofore neglected in this
country." .
RESERVATIONS WILL FIX IT
The senate defeated the committee
amendment relating to the Shantung
provision in the- peace treaty by a
vote of 35 to 55, but statements made
by many of those voting in the neg
ative indicate conclusively that they
have no sympathy with the proposal
to give Shantung to Japan, and merely
registered their opposition to the
form ot disapproval advocated by the
committee, TJiey contend that the
most judicious method for disposing
ot the question is throngh reserva
tions, and It is certain that when such
a reservation is proposed It will re
ceive the support of a majority.
WILL OPEN RAILWAY LANDS IN
EARLY SPRING
In reply to inquiry addressed to
Representative Hawley relative to the
opening or the remaining agricultural
lands in the Coos Bay and O. & C.
railroad grants, the commissioner ot
the general land office, Clay Taltman,
replies that, having canvassed the sit
uation pretty thoroughly while in the
West recently, it seemed to be the
concensus of opinion, in which, be
concurs, "that if we should start to
open the lands at the present time, it
would bring the filing and entry time
about the middle of the winter, which
would be inadvisable, and that we
had best get out our maps and data
early in January, with a view to the
opening in the early spring, and this
la our present plan."