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. V1----. . . i s ' --,"-"r i GFIELP-NEWv:: X V SI'l VIELD, LANK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921- NUMBER 3 KKJHTICICNTll YKAIl 1HE OPEN F 1 "COMMON SENSE" To the editor: A few more opinion and facts from a 4L member I" reply to Thomaa Hikes' "In a Spirit of Fair ness". You will find. In every community, people who are always informing the public how the other fellow should conduct hi IiuIi'i without con sidering the parties concerned. Such person Invariably compiles hla state ments from the data obtained from a few "radii Bin", whom you wil find lew - ram. no. . wnom you wi. io find In every communlly. and whose , -.i ... - .... view are not In accord with majority. The liiMlnuiillon Hint the I I'0) "1; I .eg . on desires in put the mere hunt out of business In untrue. Tho mer chant and the worker, who I familiar with the principles of this Organlza-' lion realizes that If such statements were made t tit-y did not have the (.auction of the Organization or even n majority of the member. The member of thla Organization do want the cooperation of the busl iiea 'men In iimklng prlcea In accord with other merchant' price In this community. The people of one town do not owe a inert limit lli.-lr trade If he cannot ) ell hi merchandise a rheap a tho Men hunt in the neighboring town. . ffhe average cimaumcr I not going to Kurene If In' ciin buy tha name artl-J l for the Heme price at home. The j merchant buys liM merchandise i where he can get It the cheapest ' the workhig man has the same right j -his dollur Is Just as good as the; limn hant's beside It Is human im-1 mciilaj to both the merchant and the lure. Would a merchant buy pota-j worker, Inasmuch practically every toes from a farmer In this community j member of this Orgunlzutlon knows at a price of $1X0 per 100 lbs. If he, how a business Is conducted; also could buy them In the adjoining com-, tho manner In which over head ex siiunlty for $1.25 per 100 lbs. F. O. It. j peine, such a taxes, etc.. Is ab LI store. I sorhed. and we think every fair- Referring to your "Broad Story" i minded business man coincides In In which you ask why the consumer 'our view. doe not buy his "Home Dread" In preference to tho other. Why should you lay the whole blame on tm con sumer? Why can't the merchant help his home town by selling his "Home Town Bread"? What Is he doing with this "Foreign Bread"? If his customer wants Eugene bread let him go to Eugene after it If hej).our ow tuWh wh)(.h y(M arH try!nK; did not carry It how many woum niuke the trip to Eugene to get it? You also have a "Home Town Cream ery" and a "Home Town Meat I acK- Ing rutin-, wny cam inn mer.-iuuu give him his "solid backing' Instead of buying Portland und Eugene but tcr and Portland and Chicago meat? Why doesn't the merchant buy h's wotdcii goods direct from the manu facturer In this community Insteiid of buying from homo distant whole saler who. In a great many, cases, buys the poods he sells the merchant from this same manufacturer. Why Is It that some of these mer chants ylll send to the mall order itouses In the east for their clothing Instead of buying from their brother merchant in their own community. Your argument' will apply to the merchant as well as the consumer. v... .ininnioni ihnt the business """ " " ,h.'ln preference men almost Invariably furnish the - .... j... i. Organization ? nuances lor community niuomui" misleading as concerns the 4L en deavors. As regards our lyceum course and In order that you may be correctly Informed will state that the bulk of thla endeavor has been fi nanced by tho members of this Organ Izatlon. The merchants have prom ised us thujr moral and financial sup port and wo have no reuson to believe Here Is that thev will not da so. Miother "news item" for you: in i vt iy community endeavor which has been started by or supported by the Legion, some of the merchants hate ,jve their solid support while tue liters did not and some of them woulit extend their criticism and ridicule which proves that we have "radical merchant" together with ' other "radicals". py what right do you draw the 41, into your article by stating, "Let iii fooling that now exists in the ai m tha merchants. minus ui .u" , eive way to kindlier thoughts", etc How do you know as whether or not BULKY AND ELL OPEN CAi "ER OHOP L. O. Duley of Eugene and A. M Ellison of Portland, on January 10th (oik possession of the bulldln? next dcor east of the public library on Main street and are now In a position to handle all kinds of furniture re pairing and Johlng, also general contracting and building. Hoih Mr. Ilnloy and Mr. Ellison are married men and have located here. OLO SOLDIER PASSES AWAY Mr. Calvin Morrow died at hla home noar Marcola on January 26 at 2:30 a. in. at the ago of 75 yeara. He was born In Peoria county, Illlnola, Au- , tU)Mm hi. wifo he , 'nm (. Morrow 0f Marco1a w and two daughters. Mra. Nellie Druab of Marcola and Mra. Nina Hillings ct Lebanon. The funeral Itov. Workman was conducted by at Marcola today at ! 2 p. m. Service at the grave In Bax ter cemetery were In charge of Mo hawk Joclgn No. 200 I. U. O. F. of which Mr. Morrow waa a member. Mr. Morrow nerved for two year In the Second Illlnola Light Artillery during the Civil War. there 1 any llj feeling between the 41- Organization and the merchants? Did you ever hear the Organization irake such a statemecl? Of course you did not; and In behalf of the fair minded member of thl Local, who rcireent practically the entire menv bershlp, I will Inform you that the merchants and member of the 4Ls have already taken up these matters pertaining to each others welfare and these members think that such urtlclcs us you wt forth through the medium of the newspaper Is detrl Furthermore, Just because a work ing man wear overalls and is una I.Jo to use big words lit no Indication that he Is not as well bred, as well mannered or a Intelligent as other people and as It lima necessary for him to have somebody ele do hU mtlt'n for li Im an he Hi.I niirM in i n.Hcril.e for liim -hi,-h nr "Don't Jump at conclusions untl y-,u h-iv. ell the facts In the case." "Lo f t4,U)w yourstf ,(, J(,,n ,n any , X( .,.,.l)v you my tak,. fr,jm Ule ,,.. cliant that which Is Justly his.", etc. i It Is not the policy for the m-r.i-hers of this Organization to pluce tnep.H ives on the level of enterini, liMo (ihputca through the newspaper I ul as it Is necessary to give t'.t.) j ii bile authentic Information reg1 mi; tiie Loyal Legion we are com pelled to reach them in like manner. If nryono has a grievance we would a.'k that they be fair enough to take It up with tha chairman of this Loal and get our side of the question. Another thing I would like to ask has the Loyal Legion helped you Indirectly? Would you rather have the Loyal Legion In your community. Ui the "Wobblles' Organization"? Our principle is co operationtheir principle Is direct action. Which do you prefer? Think it over. II. J. Cox, member local 70, D 1, Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumber men. To the editor: There has been so much said abiut ' hlgn Pr,cos Pro and con tnat 1,1 ",ve you a few facts regarding same. My experience in mercandise has been mostly in furnifcire. so 1 will use furniture to Illustrate my Ideas ' ?";"u" M to do with high price, and the To begin with lets see what, credit course in wuiuu juur iuuuo; um Some of the laboring men have ac cumllnlod a little surplus in the past two or three years of fair wages. This they have deposited In our local banks. These banka then Invest these men's savings t nnotes. mort- 1 gagea, etc. Of course this la per fectly right that they ahould do this and yet you will cosily see a peculiar AND VICINITY Jr. If. C Jone;, of Portland, bridge Inspector for the Southern Pacific, wn .'n town Tuesday and Wedneaday. Mr. M. C. Bressler left Monday to attend the Hardware convention n Portland thla week. Dr. S. Ralph DIppeL dentlit, Sprint field, Oregon. Edgar Colcord la reported very 111 at hi home on eaat Main street. ftpringfleld Taxi Service. Phone 2. Mr. and Mra. L May left Wednes day for Portland wrfiere they will vllt for a week. Don't fall to get a price on your next Job of tinting or paper hanging from Chapman and DeVore, corner of Second and Main. Mr. and Mra. N. A. Rowe motored to Albany Saturday and visited over Sunday with John and Pete Lamberty and their families. Mis Kstelle Campbel of Spokane 'ho Is attending U. of O. spent Sun- day with her aunt Mrs. M. M. Male. Dr. 8. Ralph Dlppel, dentist, Spring field, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Beit Nlckum and son William were In town Tuesday from Vlda. Use Jaspers Breakfast Wheat. Nutriclous' and Delicious. Try It. George and Tom Easton of Wal tervlllo were In town Tuesday. Dull Cars dull season. But a bright Idea let us brighten up Chapman and Devore. Mr. Martin of Portland it at the home of her mother, Mrs. B. A. Washburne who la reported quite ill. Springfield Taxi Service. Phone 2. Certificates baVe H-n Issued to alj women who completed the course In home hygiene and care of the sick, given by the lied Cross recently. Demand Egglntann's bread from i your grocer. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Rowe have purchased a 4 acre tract known at the 01. n Piatt place In Douglas gar dens. ('Italics It. Dhiim formerly ofi Spr'ngfleld. b'it now residing Ic Portland, waa married In that city Saturday to Ml 4s Mabel Clair, ac cording to tiewa received by friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Dimni wiil make their future home in Portland. The N edict: raft club held a very pleasant meeting at the home of Mrs. It. P. Mortensen last Thursday I afteriloon Delicious refreshments ! were Beh ed at the close of the meeting. Members present were I Mestiames, Ktrf.ert urury. m. Mi;ier. ! Herbert Walker. H. M. Stewart, A. p.! ! M 'Kenzle, O. H. JarretL Dan Crites ! W. H. Pollard. W. F. Walker, Carl Olson, and the hostess. The chapel car St. Peifcr which went to Oakrldge Monday will re turn to Springfield for services next Sunday. Jan. 30. course th's money ' takes. And when you buy front your local dealer on credit or instalment plan and pay him 8 per cent interest, the same dealer is perhaps borrowing your money from the local bank and paying them 8 pe:' cent Interest, Most dealers In this case have charged you enough extra to niuke up the 8 per ent Interest they are paying. So you are really paylug 16 per cent interest. Of course you could avoid this by pay'ng cash to tho dealer but in most cases this is not done because the credit system has become' kind , of a habit. Even if we have the money In the local bank we hate to see our bank balance reduced. And the instalment plaa looks so easy we do not see any reason why we should pay cash. But with most every one buying from the other fellow on credit ther is sure a lot of unnecessary cost between the manufacturer and the consumer. And when thla is the case and the consumer buys gods on credit he is j reay borrowlng from htm8eif( and . ood DorUon of .h.t hl9 nod. ,, him is a fee paid to each concern, tha handles the goods from the time they leave the manufacturer until they reach him. How does credit effect the turning over of a atock( and the turning over of a stock effect prices. Now let us take a raw material and trace it In to a manufactured product. Suppose a chair factory buys a hundred dollars worth of lumber from Booth Kelly. The question of turn TOWN R. N. A. AND M. W. A. INSTALL OFFICERS FOR NEXT TERM The Royal Neighbor and Modern Woodmen held a Joint installation of officers last Thursday evening in the W. O. W. hall. After the. business session refreshments were acrved. The following are the newly elec ted officers In the Royal Neighbors: Elsie Lambert, Oracle; Ida More lock, rice Oracle, Gertie Harpole, past Oracle j Georgia Nettleton, Chan cellor; Ina Cline, Recorder; Anna Ditto. Receiver; Jennie Rathbun, Sentinel; and Emma. Olson, Outer Sentinel. Following is the list of M. W. A. officers: P. A. Wooley, Council; Atkinson. Past Council; Teddy -Harpole, Advisor, Chas Meyera, Clerk; Chas. Miller, Danker; Louis McBee, Escort; Clifford Bryan, Watchman; Clay Whitaker, Sentinel; and George Ditto, Manager. J. B. REED OF MARCOLA LAID TO REST SATURDAY Mr. Joseph B. Reed passed away at his Koine In Marcola on Saturday evening, January 22, at the age of 76 years. He leaves a wife and two uonn, C. E. and W. J. Reed, of Mar-t-ola. ar.cl two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Hughes of Salem, and Mrs. Edith Moeland of Albany. The funeral was held In the M. E. church of Marcola Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 and inter ment was In Baxter cemetery. over is how many times in a year the chair factory can realize their profit on that hundred dollars bo as to use It over again. But If they are like a great many factories and do bulsness on the usual credit system, here Is what they have got to contend with. Before getting back their hundred dollars from the time this lumber is purchased until the chairs are a finished product ready for sale it takes say three months. Then from the time of shipment to some branch bouse .until the chairs reach your local dealers store, prehaps three months more elapse. And from the time of arrical at the local dealers store unt the factory gets back their hundred dollars for use In their own buisness again another three to alt months has elapsed. So you see that approximately a year in all that the factory has had the hundred dollarj tied up. You might say loaned out although they are not In the banking business . ,Now, li this factory made 20 per cent net profit, on their money in - vested,- their yearly profit on that nunureu uouars, woum ue ju.. 11 paid would De Iert at home, they would get the same profit "on j 0ur loca, banka wouM beneat for that hundred dollars in six months, 1 ,he last two reasons and every re it would mean two turnovers a yen. Uiler would be Jn po8ltion to give and not one, and their net profit I hJ,. BPPvW an(i at the end of the year would be $40. instead of $20. with the same amount of money invested which would allow them to lower their per centage of profit or put belter material and moce careful workmanship into the goods with the profit they gain from more frequent turnovers, so the consumer would get more or better goods for bis money, which is lots of times more desirable than a mere cut in price. Few consumers realize what effect turnovers have on the high prices of the things you buy, as unneccesary costs in many cases arise from the necessity of compensating for a slow and expensive time before the capita) invested gets back home, as a dealer or manufacturer can make as much doing business on a 5 per cent profit, provided he has turned his stock over five times a year, as he can on 25 per cent profit when he turns his stock only once a year. So his rapid turnover would allow him to sell for less profit and this less profit event ually Is a profit in the form of a saving for the consumer. Comparing the present money situ ation throughout the country with previous situations tha almost forced terms and credit, one thing is cer tain terms and credit are not deslra ble and are not as necessary as they were, and eventually people will realize the economy of paying cash, when ever possible, for everything they buy. Then open accounts will be discouraged and consumers will go to their local bank when neces sary to get money 10 ouy goous aim i . . i a HEW PUPILS WILL ENTER III SCHOOL Eighth Grade Examinations Held Last Week at Lincoln School Seventeen Pass The Eighth grade state examina tions were conducted at Lin col a school on January 13 and 14 by E. C. Ethell. There were twenty appli cants for diplomas and of these ten passed in all subjects seven were conditioned and only three failed. Semester examinations are being held in the high school this week; students being excused from exami nation in all subjects in which an average of 90 per cent or over for the semester has been made. New classes are being formed under the old schedule for those entering from the Eighth grade. NOTED MAN WILL SPEAK AT M. E. CHURCH SUNDAY Dr. LooJs Albert Banks, of Boston, will give his famous lecture, "World Wide Prohibition Coming America Leads the way" at the Methodist church next Sunday, January 30. at 11 a. m. Dr Banks is a noted Chau tauqua lecturer and one of the most wridely known authors in his profes sion In the country today. Dr. Banks Is also an Oregon man, claiming Belkoap settlement near Belknap springs as bis birthplace. The lec ture Sunday morning will be free and a cordfai Invitation is extended to all. SCHOOL NOTICE A class for beginners Is to be or ganized Jn the Lincoln school at the commencement, of the new term on' Monday, January 31. Children 6 years of age or who will be 6 by March 1,; will be admitted. They should Btart' promptly on the above date. Mrs. L. K. Page will have charge of the class. . F. B. HAMLIN. Supt will pay the one rate of interest in-'' stead of four or five. It is easy to ee that cheaper retail prices would follow and the consumer would be4 one who would share In the devided profit. A lower cost would be made possi ble by the rapid turnovers, and, local; (unds would be here to be used for ! local industries,; and all interests" as he would make better profits and still have lower prices, and the man that would gain the most , would be the buyer, because be would get bet ter goods, having larger 6tocks to choose from. He would get better service and his goods would cost i.bjm jess as the divided profits would be shared by him, and the only way to bring this about is to borrow money that is needed from local banks, pay cash, and buy where your cash goes the farthest. Then a direct route between manufacturer and consumer will be opened up, and no one will be paying for unnecessary terms and credit- Now Cash and Carry, nor any other cash store is paying me for this, nor am I asking my credit cus tomers to pay cash, but have Just outlined what would happen if WE all would pay cash. v Harry B. Corsaw CHRISTIAN CRUHCH Rev Earl Childers, Pastor Especially tine, instructive classes for everyone at our Sunday school at 9:45. At 11 o'clock something you have been waiting to hear. Christian endeavor at 6:30 p. m. You will find this a profitable and enjoyable hour of study. Preaching again at 7:30. If you attend theso cervices you will find things before you a little brighter and more worth while. The prayer meeting and other organizations will meet as usual durteg the week.