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NEWS 11 J. &. ' J.K IDk ii 1 M hJI J. il 1L? iL? ii ----- - si:vi:ntici:ntii vkAu . SJ'IU.(JKIKJ,T), LANK COUNTV, OUEOON, THURSDAY, Dh'CKMfJEU 2, 1920. NUMBER 47 EAST BELIEF HE 110,000 Armenian Orphan Child ren Being Cared for; At Many More Suffering Dr. Lincoln Wirt, field secretary for the commute on near east relief, poke at the Methodist church last Sunday night and at the blub school Monday afternoon. This committee has taken over the work of the lied Cross In Armenia. Dr. Wirt Is assist ing In the effort to raise Lane coun ty's quota of 16000 for this work. The speaknr told of the conditions the organization found on going to Armenia. One taxo fjf the work serves to especially lllwstruto the value nf the work. The organization Isst year took care of 110,000 orphans. He said that if the tables at whIHi these children were fed were to be placed end to end they would extend for a dlstenc of 24 miles. He said that there are as many mora child ren In need of food and clothing and caru and that the organization would try to double their work for this year. It costs $60 a your to care for one child. The campulgn for the near east relief will be carried on lotcr under the direction of Miss Alice Capps, county thuirman of the drive. "Doings" of the Loggers and E ARE SET FORTH (Continued from laat week) "Living Wage" Is Myth "The minimum wage Is likewlne not aa arbrllary figure although sometimes It n conceived so to be, and most statutory wages ere founded upon the assumption that the cost of lving gives a guide an to the amount below which a wage xhntild not fall. This assumption Is not founded on fact, for the cost of living js deter mjned by production, and no matter what figurt may arbitrarily bo set as the minimum amount upon which existence may be supported, that fjgure wll erase to mean anything if the food and the goods are not thsre to buy. Therefore when we con elder a minimum In the discussion of wages, et us not fa Into the error of saying that a man shoud have this or that amount on which to live, for we have no means of arriving at that figure. We can only be certain that -whatever figure may thus be fixed no matter what the parade of statistics Is wrong. The expression 'living wage' is a reflection of the notion still prevailing among the uu Informed that there la a tinge of charjty In the payment of wages. It Is not more feasible to pay a 'living wage' regardless of the productive return for that wage than It Is for a ft.rmer to insist that his soil return to him a sufficient amount of food -on which to live regardless of whether or not he tills It. "The finding of a method of wage payment la thus an exercise In divi sion, a calculating and setting aside ' of proportions from production. But the wage cornea to the worker not in proportlona but In dollars, and the payment of the wage Is not a pay ment from a static fund but from a fund which shrinks or fals according to tha lack of diligence and abjllty with whjch abor and management co-operats. Ability and diligence are Individual attrlbutea and although their . quality by no means depends upon the reward which they severally receive fof their exercise, that re ward does form an Important part, for If the reward be not apportioned and proportioned to the effort put forth, the effort Inevitably will lag. fitting the wage to the work, then lore, not merely an abstract economic but also a practical human problem " - ! - CRT SNOOK INJURED WHEN OLD WALL FALLS Bert Snook suffered a broken bone Jn his left ankle Inst Friday after noon wlillo at work wrecking the wells of the old fuel bin at the power plant. , He was about to hook a cable on a portion of the old wall which had been partially sawed Into. He ; was cm a ladder about twenty feet high at the east end of the wall when a gust of wind started the wall falling. In order to avoid being caught under ,tbe wall Dert quickly Jumped from the ladder to a slanting floor below and then to the side, Just missing being caught. No one else wss In jured. Dert is now around town on crutches. ' . Homestead Filing Repayment Act Is Amended Aa To Time "The Act of December 11. 1919, amends the Act of March 28( 1908, relative to filing applications for re payment of purchase moneys and commissions paid in connection with land entries which have been rejec ted and payments In excess of the amount required. The new Act lim its the time of filing applications lor repayment or payment of excons amounts to two yeara after the re jection of tho entry or the payment rf excess amounts, or two years from the date of the act as to entries re jected or excess payments made heretofore." Loyal Legion of Lumbermen i in which our experience has taught us to be guided by these general principles: Principles of Wage Payment "1. A plan of wage Incentive roust be ncceptel by both employer and employe as the fairest under the clr cumftance. "2. It ttiUHt be based on fair anJ agreed upon standards of production. "3. It must be so tdmple that both workers and employers can figure It out for, nhomselvea without expert aid. "4. It mtit provide for an Increase In reward at lea.st proportional to the Increased effort ond thought exujiidel in realized production. "5. It hhouli recognize that the mere attendance of a worker ready to work is worth a wage. The man agement must pay Interest upoa idle machinery; in analogy it must pay for those human beings that It re quires to be present but for whom It does not provide work. "6. It must safeguard both the em ployer and the workman against un fair rates or conditions. "7. The Incentive Is largely weak ened when payment la deferred. Therefore the reward must quickly follow the effort. "8. To the extent that the reward Is for individual effort It should be paid for Individual effort The real efficacy of an Individual dependa up on the extent of the ce-operaMon he gives to and receives from others, but to the greatest degree possible his personal reward should te res ponsive Bolely to his Individual effort. "9. The Incentive should not be such aa to stimulate an abnormal effort; for an abnormal effort must, by the law of nature, be aucceeded by a subnormal effort, and thus the ends of production are not furthered. It Is not necessary to have recourso to the so-called humanitarian argu ments to demonstrate the futility of spasmodic, abnormal effort. "10. Any plan adopted should In clude the maximum number of ele ments that have been successfully demonstrated In practice." ' '.' Particular attention Is called to two Items In, these quotations. The first Is this: .In effect, the experts say to the workers and employers, "You are engaged In a task eo big that It forbids your squabbling over minor details. Members of the 4L can take that home to themselves. Most of the trouble that has been experi enced has been over relatively trivial matters, that In a year's time don't 'matter a hoot. If we keep our at CHARLES JACK GIVEN $125 DAMACES IN SUIT At a hearing In Eugene Saturday before Justice of the Peace, Jesse Q. Wells, Charles Jack, a farmer of Camp Creek, was awarded $125 dama ges because of the Injuries sustained by Mrs. Jack on the night of October 9th. Jack asked for $192.90, alleging that W. . Dlckert of Marcola care lessly and negligently ran Into the buggy in which Mrs. Jack waa riding near Hayden bridge. In defense Dlckert testified that the lights of an approaching auto made It Impos sible for him to see the buggy ahead of him. OAKRIDCE TRAIN STRIKES COW; TWO CARS DERAILED On Tuesday morning the train coming from Oak ridge ran idle a cow, derailing two freight cars. The acci dent occured near Landax. The train was delayed an hour and a half. CHICAGO PEOPLE MAY LOCATE IN 8PRINGFIELO Mr, and Mnt. Jtbn, Nelson -aTid their daughter,' Mrs. Martha Lake, of Chicago, recently came to Spring field and are visiting with Mrs. Nel son's sister, Mrs. T. Berg. The sis ters bad not seen each other for thirty years. The newcomers will re main here during the winter and may decide to locate here as they are fav orably Impressed with the climate find condition here. tention pinned on the bigness of the Job of establishing a system of per manently Found relations botween employer and employe, we shall -have lens to give to small matters. As the report says, details call for a suc cession of compromises, which can bo arranged without sacrifice of prin ciples. 1 Tho second Item Is the Insistence that wagon shall bear a real relation to production. Note what Is said about the "living wago." There can he no permanently satisfactory ad- Justment of wages until the principle i of relation to production Is realized j and acted upon. That Is precisely the point to which you come, in log ical thlnVlntr, when you begin with the thought tliat labor la not a com modity. Fair S?ndrds of Production The report submits in detail two plans of .wage payment which are applicable to the garment Industry. Then a word la added on standards of production. This Is especially pertinent, to Xia Jof the) Northwest lumber Industry In view of the fact that there is more or lees dissatls actlon voiced because the same Job Is not paid at the same rate In all mills and camps. There la often good reason for a differential, and this Is true in other Industries, aa witness what the report goes on to eay: "Whatever syrttem of Iwage pay ment may be adopted, will depend for success largely upon the standards of production set. These must be air they must be so fixed that a workman can make the same wages with the same amount of effort re gardless of what kind of garment ha Is working on. They must be fair to the. manufacturer and therefore set so that the workman cannot earn more without a corresponding ' In- TOTAL OF 247,839 VOTES CAST IN OREGON NOV. 2 Ralem, Ore., Nov. 29. The official canvass of the vote of November 2 was completed and announced by Secretary of State Sam A. Kozer to day. A totai ' 247,899 votes were cant in the election. Senator Warren O. Harding re ceived a plurality of 63,573 votes over James M. Cox: Harding receiving a total of 143,692; Cox 80.019; Aaron 8. Watklna, prohibitionist; . 3695; Eugene V, Debs, socialist. 9801; Wil liam W. Cox, Industrial laborlte, 1515. MORTORCYCLISTS HAVE CLOSE CALL WHEN MACHINE GETS ON FIRE When at home Harry Scott is busy selling Harley Davidson motor cycles. He Is a motor enthusiast and takes many cross-country trips. With Deb Cooper In his sldelcar, Scott started from Salem to spend Thanksgiving day in Springfield with his sister, Mrs. W. H. Adrian In Corvallia thjety "tanked' up" with gasoline As the hose was with drawn from the tank on the motor cycle gaa was spilled, running down all over the engine and tank. Cooper, not noticing this reached over and struck a match on the cylinders. Instantly the machine was In flames. Cooper lost no time In get ting out of the side-car but Scott re mained by the car. First he' started to put the cap on the tank which had not been replaced after filling, thed thinking that It would be better to leave it off he removed it. Meanwhile the flames burning all around the top of the tank. The blaze was soon put out with a chemical tank. Afterwards Harry found himself wondering why he had stayed, close by . when there were flames around the tap of a two-gallon gasoline tank. No Injury was done to. the machine and the boys continued their Journey. Three-Ls Will Have Social Meeting Next Wednesday The members of the Ladies' Aux iliary to the Loval Legion will meet at the home of Mrs. N. P. McLeod. corner of Slxtn and A Btreet8 next "Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for a social afternoon. City Hall Being Plastered And Cement Front Put On It is expected that the city hall will be ready to move Into within a few weeks. Workmen are now busy plastering the Interior and putting on the finishing touches. The front is being given a coating of cement and later the windows will be put in. Free Methodists Hold Con- ference in West Springfield The regular quarterly conference fot this district of the Free Metho dist church was held In West Spr;ns field commencing' on Friday evening and ending Sunday evenlug. A good attendance was reported. No espec ial business wa3 transacted Family Re-Unton At Rowe Home The N. A. Rowe home waa the scene of a Jolly family re-union on Thanksgiving day. From Albany came Mr. - and Mrs. John Lamberty and family and from Portland Mr. and Mrs. Pete Lamberty and Nicholas Lamberty, and Francis Lamberty from Seattle. LAKEVIEW BUSINESS MEN ALIVE Lakeview, Ore., Deo. 1. The local chamber of commerce is to purchase a 60 acre tract adjoining the , city llmlta aa a site for the construction of a 1300,000 plant for the Lakeview Box and Lumber company. ' A repre sentative of the Pennsylvania Sash & Door company Is also here looking over the groud , with tha idea of rec commending the erection of a. f 100, 000, factory, .? ..r'i . U Vi NEW PLOW WILL COVER " r FIFTEEN ACRE8 , PER DAY , Portland, Ore.', Dec. J. A new In vention soon to be put on the mar ket is the Watson , Bucket plow, which will be manufactured In this city by a company formed recently. Th'8 plow, it is said, will cover 15 to 20 acres per day, plowing, pulveriz ing and plaustng In one . operation. Ill llllllUII TREE IS PUriED American Legion Starts Idea; Hope to Have All Organi zations Cooperate . ' A gathering of representatives from a ii umber of organizations and the churches of Springfield Monday night df nded to try jo have a community ristmas tree. r At Its meeti:r last Friday! night Vto American Lcjijv took tip the of liavlng community ' Christ na tree. The pro'ect had nwr.n sug giv.red several "rjek before by tha Civic club but they had dropped the Matter. ? The Amerlcar. Legion members were enthusiastic over the 'plan and a committee was appointed to call a meeting of representatives from t?.e three churches and all other organ izations of the city. Accordingly the - meeting of the representatives was called for Monday night at the public library. f Discussion brought out the fects that the churches had each planned separate Christmas tree and) pro grams and until these bodies had op portunity to confer and decide whether or not they would abandon their own plana could It be definitely decided whether It would be advisa ble to have a community tree. The possibility of having the town tree on some other date than the churches' programs was also discussed. Thurs day evening preceding Christmas eve and Saturday afternoon were both mentioned. Details for the affair were placed In the hands of a committee of five ' appointed at that time. The '. com mittee consists of Mrs. Hannah Hill, chairman; Mrs: C. E. Wheaton, Mrs. Lee. Tennis, W. P. Tyson and Fred Barnard.;- .' - - . This committee will know definite ly within a few days whether, tha Idea will be carried forward. Represented at the meeting were the Baptist church. Christian church, I. O. O. F., Rebekahs, Women's Aux iliary of the American Legion. Neigh bors of Woodcraft, Artisans, Metho dist church. Civic club, Masons, busi ness men,' and the American Legion. NEW PAINTING FIRM IS ESTABLISHED HERE J. B. DeVore and W. N. Chapman have established a painting house at the corner of Second and Main streets. Besides doing general house painting, they will also make a spec laity of painting autos and interior decorating. At the present time the firm is engaged with work at the Osborn hotel in Eugene. Previoua to coming to Wendiing about a year ago Mr. DeVore had been employed on special work for the railroad company at Sacramento. Mr. Chapman has been with I the Southern Pacific railroad ' painting department for some time at San , Francisco. Both men believe In the future of Springfield and are enthus iastic over securing - their location here. . CATHOLIC SERVICES TO BE STARTED IN SPRINGFIELD Commencing with next Sunday morning at 8:30 o'clock Father O'Hara of Eugene will conduct Catholic ser vicea in the Wlnxenreid hall over the Commercial State bank. Immediate ly after the first services Sunday school will be held. BOX FACTORY CHANGES HANDS Eugene. Ore., Dec. 1. Control of the Buck box factory has passed into the hands of the Ball Lumber com pany, with the purchase of the Eu gene Lumber Products company from S. A. Buck. The deal includes three acres of land, dry kilns and a boiler house. , Albany tannery, recently burned, to be rebuilt on a larger scale. , The tanning Industry in Oregon has hope ful outlook as this state' has larga supplies of hides, furs and tanbark with mild climate. . J