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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
I'ublishfJ Fvery Thursday M Springfield. Lane Couaty, Ortgon by
TYLER A FREELAND
SammM F Tyler H. B Fr)aid
Entered at thf I'ostoffic t Springflltl, Oregon. Second cUt Uttter.
JVliury :4. 1903. ,
SI HS( KIPTION RATKS:
One Year 12.00 Thre Months lOe
Sil M,nth $t-0J Single I'opr - - U
One Ve.tr. W hen l'.iiil In Aihait -., .. 11.76
A IV the citizens of SpringfieM
mill icinity interested in build
ing up their home town? Ac
tions speak louder than words ,
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SMALL FRUIT CROP !
VALUABLE. j
The Willamette valley, thej
McKenzie valley, the Mohawk i
valley and the numerous other;
valleys of western Oregon, andj
particularly the section of,
country around Springfield is a
natural home for the small j
fruits. Here they .trow to per-'
feetion. I
Increased acreage of small.
fruits is the order oi me oay
and every available plant of
strawberries, blackberries, lo
ganberries, black and red rasp
berries is being set out for can
nerv products.
The next thing Springfield
must have in order that the
small fruit industry will pay the
farmers and thus bring its
share of business into Spring
field is a good market. It is
possible to have cither a can
nery or a dehydrating plant, or
both.
The yield of small fruit crops
that can be harvested without
expensive machinery and with
family labor is higher than any
other crop, running into a
thousand dollars an acre in
some instances.
On top of this is the crop of
plants produced each year after
a good stand has been secured,
and netting from one hundred
to live hundred dollars an acre
as a by-product when no other
irop is on.
FROM A LABOR LEADER.
We cannot force the con
tractors to pay us more than
they i.'-t out of their contracts.
'! he einpl' yv cannot force
us to work fur less than we can
live oil.
Tlie public cannot afford to
pay exoibitant pri'e for work
don"
Tilting wages on the one
hand results in tilting prices on
the oilier, and the mass of peo
ple cannot stand this forever,
v a,.it;il everywhere is studious
ly considering ways and means
to intensify nrodii t ion of goods
and materials as the only solu
tion. We in turn must consider
Let Us
Your partner has a knowledge of your
business and you look to him for advice and
counsel on important matters. You are en
titled to all the help he can give you.
Do you get a partner's help on your printed
matter? Do you get the most from the special
wed knowledge which we have regarding
printing and paper, and above all the service
which a combination of the two can render?
Our job department has every modern equip
ment for doing work on rush orders. For
letterheads, billheads, and all kinds of forms,
we carry in stock, recommend and use
Th XJtility Hajintjj "Paptr
Let Us Serve You as a Partner
ways and means to Intensify
our production by doing more
work in the same time than we
have been doing.
(lone is the day when we
could think that it was simply
a case of getting all they could
Tor the least they had to pay.
It has now come to a condi
tion where capital and labor
are vitally concerned in the
economic disaster which is sure
to overtake our country should
conditions continue as they are
going. Wm. Noonan, Klectric
al Worker.
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EVERYBODY IS ORGANIZING
At no time in the history of
; agriculture was ttiere more ac
tivity. Organization is the
I watch-word of agriculture to
day. We all know the wonder
ful results that have been ob
tained in California. How they
have twenty state wide niove
' ments that are becoming
i stronger and more better
known every day, movements
I which have stabilized Califor
j nia's industry and have made
' and are keeping agriculture
! profitable. Recently, two thou
sand wheat growers of the In
land Empire have gotten to
'. get her. and formed a wheat
growers association. which
bids fair to become the largest
organization in the I'nited
States. Oregon 11 rower.
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In round figures, farmers pay
a third of the taxes, city dwell
ers a third and the owners of
timber, sawmills, railroads and
public utilities a third. Public
ownership apostles and single
tax inebriates would load the
one-third paid by these corpor
ations on the farmer.
In predicting that advertising
by organized farmers will strik
ingly increase in the near fu
ture, a writer in Judicious Ad
vertising gives this as one of
the reasons for his belief:
"Farmers are adopting very ef
ficient business methods of per
fecting organization. Under
old conditions farmers never
organized except tinder the
stress of some driving neces
sity. Witness the milk produc
ers the citrus growers, the ap
ple men. In future fanners al
ready successful and prosper-
Be Your
ous are going to resort to or
ganization, and. alter it. adver
tising, to strengthen their busi
ness position or to seize patent
market opportunities." The
success of western fruit grow
ers in Invading eastern markets
with their wares is a case in
point.
The new telephone invention
which enables ten people to talk
on the same phone at once, will
be especially useful to the
women.
TWO MILLION HOUSES
WANTED
Rack in 1 ! 1 1" the supply of
houses just about Kept up with
the demand. Copulation was
Increasing at the usual rate of
13 per cent a year.
During CUT-Is eerybodv
was busy "winniim the war."
and construction of houses fell
off to about one-third the usual
figure.
January. l!H!i found us with
these four million men coming
back into civil life, the accumu
lated demand of two or three
years, came all at oik e.
Three years' supply of houses
were needed at once. Instead
of having them we are short
2.000, 000 homes ih.it would
j normally have been built during
191 7-1 S."
I Here we have an unusually
j large demand and l'ooo.ooo less
j houses than the ordinary sujj
; ply. The law of upply and de
jinand the law that fives prices
, has raised rent
; The only tiling that can bring
rents down is Uii same basic
law. If the hal.im-e is to swing
ithe other way lower rates
-we must build,
i We are all hen mid we've got
i to live somehow -o there isn't
much chance oi cutting down
, the demand. Kv
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jCAR SHORTACE MAY CAUSE
! INDUSTRIAL SHUTDOWN.
(The Min n.'.
There were car
ii i i i
1 1 1 i II I (' e Mil.
! der private ow nership ot rail
I roads, but lumbering has never
i suffered as it h;is under gov-
ernnient operation
Tile oilMool, fi
the west
ioicnv. and
coast sawMiiHs
i h railroad
seems to hat
control of the
For instance
i.
nlminisi rat ion
completely lost
-it ii.tt i hi
on Jan. 7. Wash-
ington ordered the Oregon
Short Line to deliver 7,", curs a
tlay at Huntington. On .J;m.
none lunl been delivered.
Then Washington offered as
an excuse for car shortage that
the Pacific- northwest had out
grown its yardage and side
track facilities.
The state of Washington
public service commission came
back with figures to show that
the transcontinental lines had
never exceeded i) per cent of
their track possibilities.
In its greatest month, .Juii",
1917. the Northern Pacific
alone used its track facilities up
to 75 or SO per cent for thirty
days only.
The government comes back
with the claim that for week
Your earning power
when it rains is
made sure
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Call ut the Springfield Flour Mill and get a nice calendar
WE ARK NOW MA KINO
li RADIOS OP FUH'U
"Springfield"
Made from Eastern and Western Hard Wheat. As good
us the beat and better than the rest.
Noxall
A blended flour at a medium price. Every sack
guaranteed to please.
AND
"Snow Ball"
That melts In vour mouth. A straight Valley Flour
AT A PRICE
SPRINGFIELD MILL AND
GRAIN COMPANY
ending Jan. 10th. 5421 cars of
timber products were loaded
compared to 3829 for same
week in FJH.
Rut that report fails to tell
that of the .1421 cars loaded for
j week ending Jan. 10. 1!20. 1701
j cars were loaded in the Inland
I Empire, a section that has not
! greatly complained of car
shortage.
A fairer comparison which
shows the way the west coast
lumber output is handicapKd.
is that for the first 20 days of
October- 1919. 1000 more emp
ties were received in the Pacific
northwest than for the first 20
days of January, 1920.
And four thousand more
loaded cars of lumber products
i were moved out of western
Oregon and Washington for the
: same 20 days in October. 1919,
than for the 20 days of Janu
ary. 192o.
The resent situation is grow
ing desperate and if cars are
We Pay Top Prices For
Veal, eggs, chickens, turkeys, geese
and pork, live or dressed, and all
kinds of farm machinery.
We call for and deliver
Farmers' Supply Co.
Corner of Main and Second Streets
Phone 22
YOU
don't have to have shares to
trade with the
Springfield Creamery
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not received In ample quantity
and that soon, there may he an
industrial shutdown, a business
paralysis for the entire Pacific
northwest, and extension of la
bor unrest to all industries.
GRONNA ON HOOVER.
"We don't take Hoover ser
iously out our way." says Sen
ator Oronna. "Why not nomi
nate the Crlnce of Wales?" Ami
that is what other people are
thinking leaving the I'nited
States when but 23 years of
age. Mr. Hoover spent twenty
years in Australia. China. Bur
ma and England, with scarcely
a thought for his own country.
Almost his whole adult life h.is
been amid foreign surround
ings, and his convictions were
formed under foreign, princi
pally British, influences. Is It
possible that any considerable
number of Americans want
such a man for their president .'
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