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About The Springfield news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1916-2006 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1919)
Sl'iltNViFlKLD NEWsJ" THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS pin anyone down nnd got cars. Wo are preparing to log extens ively and manufacture lumber In the coming year, for every thing looks favorable except the car situation and that's bad." BANKjNG BOOSTING AGRI CULTURE. Published Every Thursday at Springfield. Lant County, Oregon by TYLER & PRECLANO Samuel H TyUr H. B. Jlad Entered at tb Pott office at Springfield. Oregon, a Secoadclasa Matter, February U, 10J. , PAGM 4 SUBSCRIPTION' RATES.: One Year ... -..$2 00 Three Month!.. Six Months - ft 03 Single Copy One Year, When Paid In Adtance, -I0e J1.78 TO OUR READERS. Beginning with the first issue in the new year. The News will be dated Thursdays and will ap l?ar Thursday afternoons. The change from Friday to Thurs day is made for several reasons, one being that we believe we an give better service, both to the people of Springfield and to our patrons living on the rural routes, as they will hereafter receive their paper pn Friday morning instead of Saturday. Hence they will have use of the advertising and other informa tion contained in The News be fore they come to town on their Saturday errands. At this time we also wish to invite the people of this com munity to use our columns for the purpose of expressing their opinions on topics of the day. marketing conditions, industrial affairs of the community, bet terment of home life, or upon any subject they desire. We want to know if the farmers here are satisfied with their markets for their various pro ducts. Do you want a better market for your small fruits? Do you want a dehydrating plant or a cannery? Can you sell all the vegetables you now raise, or could raise, at a fair nrnfit to yourself? What would help the merchants of the city most? Are you in favor of good roads? What is vour opinion on the bonding auestion? These subjects should be discussed bv the people and The News will be glad to publish such letters. We also want from the grow ers facts relating to their crops. We want to know the yield per acre of any crops they may have produced in the past, in order that we may show to oth ers that the farminsr country surrounding Sprinpfield is the emial of any to be found in the state or the United States. So we uree the farmers and fruit rrowers to send us their re ortp relatine to the success they have had with their crops. BERRIES COOPERATIVE INDUSTRIES. small fruits is a community In dustry that is upon a sound co operative basis. The family that owns a small tract of land near a cannery town has a ready income and sure employment. Besides caring for their own crop they are sure of employ ment ror all their spare time in other berry patches. The only danger is from rais ing poor fruit for lack of proper cultivation and proper use of fertilizers. Crops are Increased enor mously by high cultivation and for fertilizers lime and sheep manure are recommended. Twenty years experience hi the Willamette valley in Oregon and In the Puyallup and Sum ner district in Washington proves this to be true. Poultry and dairy cows can be handled to advantage in con nection with small fruit grow ing as a good combination. More farmers are recognizing these facts every year and many of the farmers in the ter ritory urrounding Springfield are growing more berries and more stock each year. CANNOT FIX RESPONSIBIL ITY FOR CAR SHORTAGE. In many ways banks are help ing farm development nnd fi nance farmers who are increas ing production. Many western banks publish monthly bulletins advocating cooperation nnd community movements. The First National bank of Bend, Ore., issues n monthly news booklet for the benefit of the farmers and stockmen of that section. In other communities the bank is helping to better hard conditions and seems anxious to make the farmers problems Its own. While livestock occupies a large amount of space In the bank bulletins. interest Is shown in a wide diversity of other topics. Potato growing, the use of sunflowers as silage. Informa tion about cream tests and crit ical discussions of various kinds are included. The most significant thine about the publications is the ex treme practical usefulness to the farmers for whom it Is Intended. A more practical way of yok ing bank and farm together for public service would be hard to find. f I! L JOKE WOULD BE ON OREGON. The growing of berries and "Millions of dollars which should come to this county will be lost next year because of the car shortage and the yellow pine fellows will get the busi ness." predicts A. C. Dixon, of the Booth-Kelly lumber com pany of Eugene. "The only thing to prevent us having a big year in 1K20 will be the ab sence of cars to move the fin ished product. The car short age is the worst we have ever experienced and there is no re lief. In the past we could write letters, take the matter tip with the railroad officials, with the state puhHj" service commission or the interstate commerce commission; call as witnesses some big railroad men and have them photographed by the newspaper camera men until they felt ashamed of them selves, and we'd get some cars finally. With the government handling the railroads, the buck is passed from one person to another until it is impossible to The intention of the four and five per cent interest limitation measure initiated in Oregon Is to stipplv farmers, home build ers and merchants cheaper money. Of eours". it could hardly be expected that outside capital would come to Oregon for In vestment if it could get higher rates of interest elsewhere it would be loaned elsewhere. Home r-nnital cnbid ret more investing in outside securities paving bitrlier rates of interest. Of course, savings banks "oiil not tv"' three and four nor cent which they now pay to denositors. It looks to b'ko a Russian proposition of Bolshevik oricin and should be supplemented with a provision that the state printer bp set to work grinding out Russian money. Greetin gs SPRINGFIELD MILL AND GRAIN COMPANY Subscribe for the News M eriry Clhiristma: First National Bank SPRINGFIELD RATIONAL LABOR AGAINST WEALTH HATING. Rational labor should beware of the wealth hater. He is prompted in motive and action bv the sinister desiem of de structlveness. As his influence becomes paramount rational Ism vanishes and labor's pro gress toward its verv legitimate oblective Is Impeded. On the other hand rational employers Of labor should realize that it Is silly and perilous to give heed to him who tags every union n-orklngman as a radical nnd Bolshevik, who holds every union organization to be a cent er of unwarranted social and Industrial discontent and lauds as the sole evidence of Simon- pure Americanism, all efforts to crush unionism without reerird for the worthiness of its alms or the legitimacy of the methods by which it seeks to attain them. rrt a ... me ume rjemancis tfiat we should conserve reasonableness and common sense, that we should not lose Right, of the so cial value of justice and toler ances. There is danger In the man, whether of high or low de gree, who seeks o put the Jabel of class consciousness upon American society. Tf we are "-Ise we will beware of him. Portland Teleerrnm. marine upon a basis of healthy development. British owned ships are today flooding Amer ican markets with cheap wool and cheap copper and cheap tungsten ore, which we can pro duce. One of the first steps of the British government was to es tablish an European chamber of commerce at Cologne and trade with (Jermany. The first transaction was fifty million dollars worth of (lerman manufactures for dis tribution through British chan nels of trade. The national marine league of 2J8 Pearl street, New York, estimates we will be compelled to accept billions of dollars worth of European manufac tured goods in payment of for eign debts to us. This deluge of foreign trade which would wipe out steady employment of American capi tal and labor at home, can only be met by plans for extending American commerce to the ends of the world. That can only bo accomplish ed by taking steps to place our great new merchant marine composed of thousands of 'American-built ships on a sound business and economic footing to meet foreign demands. The people of the west are In tensely Interested In seeing the American flag floating over ships plying to the ends of the world with American manufac tures and American products oi the soil. American mills will close, am American farm products wil languish In the home markets at low prices unless we man and operate the shipping al ready built to meet the competi tion of the world. But we need a national policy encouraging to the American shipowner, to accomplish this result. want any leasing bill that will jeopardize the future supply of oil for our army and navy. Denver. Colt).. Mining Record. It does want a bill, however, that will permit development of undeveloped lands on fair terms for both the government and producers. MAY SEND EVE SPECIALIST TO WESTERN LANE FOR PUPILS Kffuil will In Hindi- to havn a K'u-(friii- nic IuIikI go in it) wi'H(rn iai I nf l,un county to rem on y tint (It-fi i t in ilm oven of tlu puplU In th public hi IkkiIm tln-p-, nay MIbk Mary Urowiu-11. county health nurn. Minn llrownnll report m iiuiiiv pupil In lliiil m-ctlon of the county wlfli iln-fi- ik in vlilon. It would ho too fx-jh-iihIvc to hrlnit Mi pupil nntwtlnK iitti-ntinn lo h'tiK-ni for tmatment. no Mis Itrownfll tlilnkH tho plan of frinlliiK a doctor lln-ri It thn limit fi-nllili onr. Ml hit Ilrowrull Hpi-nt hint work In I-:ukii r-oiiHiiltliiR tt-athera that wcr pn--nt t it k iii fc thp pxuiitlnntiona. A town In JuiIroiI largely by It liHiikn. Th Klmt National punk of Springfield Ik onn of thin town' Kt-fiitPHt aitHftft. Ar you helping to make It Hlromcer by your patronage? SHIPPING FOR FARM AND FACTORY. WEST WANT6 FAIR LEASING BILL. The most Important duty be fore the American people is the! Uncle establishment of a merchant reserves and the west does not The west wants honest legis lation that will throw open the undeveloped mineral lands of west to the developer. It does not want a bill framed primarily to enrich any particular crowd of mining men or oil men. Each day the west is becoming bet ter educated as to the real meaning of the pending legisla tion In congress. The wrest wants legislation designed to. help the entire nation and make It possible for every citizen, rich or poor, to secure a share of the undeveloped riches. Western men are not trying1 to grab any of the acreage comprised in Ham s navai petroleum OUR WISH Is a Merry Christmas to you Springfield Creamery