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About The Springfield news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1916-2006 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1919)
PAGE 4 -TIU3 SPRING FiklA) NEWS Fit I DAY, DRCRMhEft 10, 1910. THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Ettry Friday at Sprlngtlsld, Lans County, urtgon By TYLER A FRECUANO ; Samuel H. Tyler H. B. FYealaad Entered at the Postofflca at Springfield, Oregon, at Second-clM Mattar, February U. 10S. - . , SUBSCRIPTION RATES.: Ooa Year $2.00 Threa Months.. 6lx Months 1 v$1.03 On Year, When Paid In Advance..... HOME COOPERATIVE INDUSTRY. Growing small fruits like lo ganberries, blackberries, straw berries and cherries is essential ly a home and family industry. It does' not require skilled or imported labor to handle the crop ajid gives employment to the surplus home and family labor. The manufacturer of the pro ducts in canneries, jam and jelly plants and dehydration plants and juice factories takes more home labor. These crops are essentially cooperative industries, where the products are grown from a city lot to teu acres and sold to the factory. The near-by market for all these perishable products is practically the only market and that unites the industry and the grower. So-called pools to ship small fruit long distances must prove failures in the exigencies of trade and the ups and downs of the market. The steady and reliable home market must be maintained with a fair price for the grower and fair price for the manufac turer. There is no danger of glutting the market with small fruits and the cooperative principle between grower and producer must obtain. The thing for Springfield and community to reach out for is as large an acreage as possible and increased production. That means a dehydrating plant, a cannery and fruit pro ducts plants built here which is the logical center most conven ient for the growers to have a home market. INDUSTRY DEVELOPS FARM LAND. ! Illustrating what industry i does to develop a state, th-j ! Klnieht Packing company of Portland is a good example. hey have cone into the coun try pround Medford, Oregon, and are buying tomatoes to make a superfine brand of cat-i 'n which thev are placing on the market. Every bottle ad-' IT IS Not What BUT What You Save THAT Me You Independent Deposit Your Money in the . First National Bank SPRINGFIELD (A City, County, State and National Depository.) .60 Single Copy, ...... Ac ..US verUses Medford and the Rogue lUver valley with a distinctive label In fact, catsup is made a secondary feature to the won derful tomatoes grown in this particular section of the coun try. Probably neither Medford, nor the fanners who sell the to matoes realize what industry is doing in this instance, to boost their country, increase land values, furnish employment for labor and make a market for products. This is a good illustration why industry should be encour aged in every possible manner. Springfield can grow as good tomatoes as Medford. Logan berries, strawberries and other small fruits thrive as well or better here than in any other section of the state. Vegeta bles can be grown here that are the equal in quality and yield of any other part of Oregon. We have the acreage and the fertile land. A home market should b? secured. BANKS CARRY THE LOAD. Banks have maintained a re markable record of efficiency during past years of world dis turbances. The banking industry might almost be classed as a public utility in that it serves every body. The remarkable growth and development of this industry has been brought about by priv ate energy and initiative. Like all successful industries, banking is subject to political attacks of one kind or another. The Non-Partisan league wants state banks operated at cost. In Oregon a freak law is ; proposed to limit legal rate of interest to 4 and 5 per cent, thus driving all funds for loaning purposes out of the state. The government cuts in on the banks with different forms of money loaning to special classes at reduced rates, the de ficit for which is born by the taxpayer. It is the private banks, how ever, which carry the financial load of the nation and it is to the public interest to reject pol- You Earn WILL icles and measures which tend to limit and retard their legiti mate growth. WORK OR STARVE. (The Manufacturer) No one has yet invented a system by which we can con sume a loaf of bread without having first produced it. If we all decline to produce food, we all starve. Divinely simple, Isn't It? A New Jersey farmer nsks why should a producer of food be compelled to work eighty four hours a week to feed an other who works but forty-two at much higher pay. He suggests that If all farm ers will agree to cut their acre age to one-fifth, they'll only have to work six hours and they'll get five times as much for their products. Hut if the .farmers produced only one-fifth the usual amount of food, there wouldn't be enough to go around. And If the farmers were paid on a six hour basis with double pay for overtime, and the same thing applied to distributors, all the consumers could do would be to form a union and refuse to eat. Hut a man must eat. Where fore someone must labor as long as necessary to produce the required amount of food. If one hundred men on an is land agree to share and share alike, each man's income is just one-hundredth of what they all produce. None of them can work less without cutting down his own resources. Of course, the time would come, as some one has very aptly pointed out. when those who were fleetest of foot and could alone catch the wild goats upon which the hun dred lived, would demand more recompense and undoubtedly get it. The farmer is now in the po sition of the fleet-footed goat chaser. He must not be irritated into striking for more pay and less work. Hut he could not be blamed for following examples set on every side. If Is all very sad. but the plain truth is that we are approach ing a point where our national production may be eclipsed by our national payroll. That would mean bankruptcy. Then It will be. work or starve. In the days of the (iarden of Eden, the situation would have been met by Adam and Eve agreeing to eat less and hunt more. If anyone can think of a better solution he has yet to offer it. LUMBER INDUSTRY ' HANDICAPPED. With coal strikes diverting cars, with longshoremen strikes holding up loading and unload ing of ships on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, lumber pro duction and marketing is re duced to a minimum. More than 137.000,000 feet is the huge total of the foreign lumber orders for which one shipping company is seeking ocean space in which to carry the movement to overseas ports. The orders have been piling up In the last month at a rate that shows that when ships be come available the Douglas fir movement .from north ports to foreign countries will assume gigantic proportions. At the rate at which foreign orders for Douglas fir are being offered to th'e northwest it Is be coming evident, according to experts, that the decline of the shipbuilding Industry is to bo offset by the new foreign de mand for the 'forest production, thus keeping the northwest in a prosperous condition. THE WASTING WHITE COAL. The black coal strike supple menting the white coal holdup may have one good effect and end the congressional embargo SPRINGFIELD FLOUR WE HAVE ADDED TO OUR LINE OF FLOUR MADE FROM LOCAL WHEAT A NEW FLOUR AND WE HAVE NAMED HER Springfield99 IT IS MADE FROM AN'EASTERN HARD WHEAT AND LOCAL LITTLE RED HARD WHEAT Noxall" IS A HICH PATENT MADE FROM OUR BEST LOCAL WHEAT WITH ALL THE LOW CRADE REMOVED AND YOU KNOW OUR CREAM MIDDLINGS AND OLD FASHIONED' CRAHAM MADE ON THE OLD-FASHIONED MILL STONE ALL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE SPRINGFIELD MILL AND GRAIN COMPANY Subscribe for the News on the development of our wasting water powers. If the coal shortage should reach congress and the half million officials be turned out of the national Capitol to warm their shanks by wood fires they might think. One town that Is smitten by the coal famine has turned on the power from a nearby hydro electric plant and has light and heat and Its schools and places of business are not dosed. With enough electric ' power gaily cascading down our moun tain streams, forbidden to use by a so-called national "con servation" iollcy. we have been criminally burning millions of tons of coal annually that might have been saved. Hut the newspaper that called attention to this was denounced by conservation highbrows and socialisj reformers as subsi dized by the ower interests and had to keep still or lose political caste. Necessity Is forcing home the truth at last and the public is freezing as result of ten years delayed development of hydro electric power due to political Interference. AWFUL LOSSES OF LIVE STOCK IMPENDING. In spite of large shipments of live stock to better feeding ground there will be enormous losses from shortage of feed on the ranges. There is danger that two mil lion head of live stock, cattle and sheep. will freeze and starve In the west this winter. Can not this awful loss and suffer ing be averted by a rich and powerful people? PLANTS 13 ACRES TO BERRIES Marlon II. Douglass, librarian at the rnivemlty and U. K. Shuart, an ex pert fruit and berry grower, have purchased a 13 acre tract owned by Samuel Mahon. on the Klnilra road near Eugene. Mr. Shuart came here from Montana and after Investigating the possibilities of the loganberry plant, decided to locate here. He linn developed several farms In Montana and baa made a special study of the growth and care of berries and fruits. Eugene Guard. A person can live weeks without rood, days without water, but only a few minutes without air,' says the United States public health service. Persons who pay but little attention to the purity of the air they breath are not careful as to drinking water and food. Become a fresh air crank. Raise the office windows. JOKE DOTE Bill Cott Father of Twins. Hill doit sot hluixtsy twin girls lust TucHilay. Kill ulwuys did say In wits u better muii limn Hurry Comaw. V. A. Hallways that lilt! Is no butty he doesn't know whether he Im a "huny man" or a "busy woman." Anyway Hall hud to do all h la cobbling by hi lonesome Tuesday while llllt wun busy around hl home. Hut Hurry says that's allrltht ten to!ilnl of baby enough fur hllll. LeJvitt Soma Hunter? Teddy l.euvltt tins been "pluylng hooky" from school this week. I It went up the MrKenxle river the first of ihe week, hunting durks. return ing yesterday with not a duck. Ills party were In a blind Wednesday evening, puth-ntly waiting for game, when straight for them headed a liitKe, fat flock of birds. As the din k w about to settle right down !n front, of tin-in, on unknown psrty nearby fired Into the fli k and scared I bem all nway. Tddy admits h was "mad" enough to have shot some thing beside ducks about that time. Hut hero' something. Teddy, thst you may be nble to get: "A mouse Jumped out of my cook stove, and although I had a gun I did not shoot. Why didn't I shoot?" "1 OUR PRICES Table Cream, pint ...40c Whipping cream, pint. .40c Skimmed milk, gallon..15c Uutter milk, gallon. . .10c WHOLE MILK, 9 Quarts, $1.00 Springfield Creamery ; it