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TnmariAT.MAnci! 2. 1922. I'AQE TWO "V THE STRING nELD NEWS THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS i;lffr: Published Every Thursday at Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, by r? FREELAND A HENDERSON Entered at the Postoffice at Springfield. Oregon, aa Second-class Matter, February 24. 1903. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $150 Three Months 50c Six Months 75c Single Copy 5c One Year, When paid in Advance $1-25 The declaration has been Pacific railroad. Rut move made In a public gathering injments that arc now in their in Eugene. perhaps frvxiuently that I ception will change all that, if $10,000 were needed to "put Springfield will be on the main over" this propostition to annex line, and Eugene will not.. It Springfield, it could be raised. will be no trouble to find Spring Who is a candidate for a slice j field by 1925. That is why this r.f thU funf Thi is cot a id-i , propaganda tcs been started advertisement. If any church in this town or any one of its auxiliary societies allows itself, even passively, to be made a vehicle for the carry ing forward of this annexation propaganda, it must be expected . that it will socn cease to be an agency for the advancement or even the conservation of the spiritual Interests it was set to serve. ,".. " o If these few men who are spouting annexation succeed in jforcing this matter to a vote, as we do not think they will, it will bring on one cf the bitterest fights this town has ever seen. Let no one doubt that the towu win fight for its life to the last. Every religious and moral inter est will be sure to suffer by it. Those who have precipitated this contest, without any excuse will be responsible for this dam age. Those who feel themselves charged with the preservation of these interests should be aroused to the danger in time, and govern themselves accord ingly. o A number of negroes, in Just tow. It would be too late by 1923. By the way. if that counts for anything, here is a man who has been in several places in the northwestern states where, for reasons he does not care to mention, the people knew where Springfield was, and did not know where Eugene was. Need a Division of Labor The same advocate of the at tachment of Springfield to the Eugene kite is making these two pleas in support of the propa ganda: Plea No. 1. Springfield is such a ridiculously small town that it ought to be attached .o Eugene, in order that it might become a part of the large town that Eugene will be when It swallows Springfield. Plea No 2. When Springfield becomes a great town by reason of the location of the railroad shops, with thousands of shop Graduated Pharmacists, lng experience, skill, pure drugs, and p'iitenesa are the foundation stone of a drug store's success. Ever since we have been in business, this store has been noted for the fine points that would appeal to a critical public. Our pre scription work has our Per sonal and prompt attention Phone SI In Society Th home of Mr end Mr. Harry M. Btewert waa the scene ot a stir prte on their daughter (VJiarlotte, Saturday nlcht. It holm her sixteenth birthday. The gut wvre In mk costume. The guest were entertained with field meet tunt. target (hooting ano guVs.-tlng who wa whit. Eileen Kllemt entertained with Cllpay danc which w greatly appreciated. Al Klllecu dtessed a Turkish dancer, took the crowd by surprise when h perfurmol with fancy dancing which waa ex tremely oriental. The birthday cake waa a large angel food with pink fronting covered w!ih dainty candlea and alxteen camll-a In hand made holders, A large pink mu line bow waa Hod on one tide. Mr. Killeen and Mra. 8. Ralph Mppel a aisled the hoateae In eervlng, ' The gueat were: Mlaaea Aline I -art mer. Dorothy Ditto. Kmma Travl. Ver nlta MorrUon, Eileen Killeen. Alice Vortnen. Cryatal Aryan. Rebecca Wertman. aullne Drlaooll. Winifred Long, Marlon Spencer. Audrey Mi Pheraon. Charlotte Stewart. Mir Williamson. Metara. Merrll MrPher on. Bob DrUcolL Charley Davla. J. Rally. Of Eugene. Al Killeen. Tom Rrattaln, Charley lluthln. ltaiph Cllne. Mra. R J. ReynoldaaaaUled by he. sltr, Mra. Grace Posle entertained ! the Pine Needle club at her home la4 this necessary support entirely : Thursday afternoon. Needlework an 1 absent, are absolutely worthless. conTr!,,,,on wer ,n mr These propagandists are some preaent were: Madame,, on show, but not much on show- nhoda l-iyd, Phoebe .Wilson. oh. Ing: and some of the people wbD- " N,,'"on- Utt Ku" about Springfield are from Mlsa-''"1" v,n VaUah. Hemice Van Vai ourj ,inh. Lottie Ilowman. Ilattle Casteei. Mna Mri'Deraon and Mia .vary iorv How About It? Do ypu believe in patronUIng home Industrie by umIiir and demanding home products? Why don't you demand product nindo right here at home, of your denier. If your denier docs not push or hnntllo gooda manufactured at hmo ank him why and have him prove it. Our line "f NOXAl.L feeds have reached a standard of pureness which puts them In a cIuhm of their own. We guarantee the fact that better results will be obtained in f edlng NOXAI.L feeds. When you call for a sack of Scratch Feed. Egs Producer, or other feeds, always say N OX ALL Scratch etc. It Always pays to uho liome products. SPRINGFIELD MILL AND GRAIN COMPANY utply. We are anchored to the Kitchen. Why not get tho fullet benefit out of our food? Take care of your rhllu ien' teth and of your own tvrth that the vltamlno that hold the secivl power of nurlnhmenl may le extracted front the foudand do ttelr full duty. In the Ut analysis a war la JurI a fight between two et of people; oil" el wUh-s to take the other too' away funn them. When we neglect our teeth we bring THE RIGHT OF WAY . ;''' lMrt Ra,Iin 3rk W" ,h" U""!d:wn on our own head the pena'.O of the afternoon, The club meet next Thursday at Thro la a. rlirht of wav lit every SUCh question as this Of the home of Mra. Rernlee Van VaUali workmen and their families, some of them probably foreign ers, we will need the motherly and with those assistance of Eugene to care for i would defend its them. If the time comes when the annexationists can muster a suf- force of spouters to phases of their Lal5inLaytl,e!rpOrateUf0Kf!of the university have been the negroes, in a Florida town, who had come to;ficient be often called on to act as pall !co ver all the bearers at the funerals of mem- variegated platform, it would be bers of their own race, finally .better to assign one man to the organized a union, and struck "little town" plea, a different for wages. It has been com- man to the "big town" plea, and monly thought that when a man 'so on. It is too hard on one "shuffled off this mortal coil"' man to spread himself over two he was out of reach of the in-(such tasks so radically antagon dustrial strife and all the other iistic to each other. And then it turmoil of this feverish life. But if this strike business for it is coming to be more of a business than anything else is to follow a man after death, the under takers will have to quit putting the legend "at rest" on the lid of his coffin. The fact has been quite generally questioned in tho majority of cases anyhow. o Borne figures on electric light, rhich were presented at the an nexation debate, were hastily gathered, under circumstances which would make them of no does not look so well; and that ought to count for something, even to an annexationist. o LIFELESS FACTS The boast has been made on the affirmative side of the re cent annexation debate that they presented all the facts and arguments. Let us put one line of their boasted facts into tho scales. A Jumble of figures was recited concerning certain class es of city expenses. Take the figures on taxation, for example. value to do business on; but i What were they read off for? they probably served the pur-1 What bearing did they have on pose of the hour, and ministered to the self-satisfaction of the de baters. Figures furnished from the office on the two principal points are these: Meters in Springfield, 570; average cost per month, $1 50. O Springfield. In this case, right of way Is with persons life and tile tOWIl n,l-o rt tta ml I elm a nl ninr. wn. al forces of Eugene. llll lgrtlj u-hn it'am h-.rn rhnn those who . wish to be left free to w, remenib,r the ..clan clty. share in the opportunities that , jich wag carrpd on are opening or may open before;, " f wlh Llf .v"s "--la considerable measure of suc- b.ri.ngv. Tnf.,town ha8 '""cess. They were attacking omi vlduahty of its own. and it has, .,, whkh'n those year8 nearly a right to it and to all the priv-',, ,he beMer elemIltfJ , the ileges that go with it. .country were attacking. That Anyone who assails these d tfl8k h eftHer rights, even though he may beTh force8 were we unltP(1 a citizen of the town, is oH ' his d un(er maslerly leadership, proper t?round He is making Y t thofie me ,ndlvldual8f ,n the venture at his own risk and thdr caucuge8 among them. must expect nothing but take se, ag h r of thege the natural consequences. He neg 'personalIy kn0W8( con. hm "k wghtS he. k iE! 'essed their pitiable helplessness will hold against the superior : h lntJnceB re. that a vlctorloua eiicmy would Infllri - deprive ourclve of the full beno (It ot our food. INDUSTRIAL REVIEW rights of the town. Such ac tion does not rest on the same ferred to. Because they were intrenched in a state institution, ground as questions concerning, d manner of ,ntereBta were public improvements, sewerage, enll8ted In thelr BUpport. thes water, uguia, acuuuia aim H1(1 nnt Aar. tn ....hefI) r . . . . .... m ! iiiv it uva awv uon, on wnicn me citizens oi a A th ,d fi ing each other. There is no reason to believe lhal tKaaa frk A 1 1 Inna a r A ttnv v aUlUJ '".better now than they were then. ife of a town, as threatened inj0 th c(her han the mora, his case, is not an offense on force8 of do t eem to the same moral plane as to take have Btrengfh of leadership or SeK SZr'SSgti - "K ?- C5 same privilege. If a man ag-,,i, please would not be entitled to any weight with a Judge of de bate until they were carried two steps farther than these were carried. First, it must have been shown not merely asserted; this was a necessary part of the required One of the things thrown up proof that these conditions to the discredit of Springfield in j would be changed by the sur the annexation debate (and by .render of Springfield's corpor Sprlngfielders, too; "what do ate exsistance. Second, it must you know about that?") washave been shown how it would the Question under dehate? A mere recitation of a lot of fig-'sails the life of a town, the bur-1 ures class them as facts, if you den of justification of his act1 ON THE MAP The social Influences of Eu- nAi a (nlrA n av alt In alt a "a all rests upon him. He must- f ar frora neipfui to the things are now. The parents of Springfield who are as much Ftand .for the maintalnance of' its life to resist. He has no right to expect anything else. If he ?.7."?f?' lven,rou!lded ,n e!fare of tielr concerned about the moral wel- young that places bad been found where the people knew where Eugene was and did not know where Springfield was. Noth ing surprising about that. Springfield is the smaller town, and is three-quarters of a mile off the main line of the Southern be changed. Not the slightest attempt to show either of these ought to be, have no as they resan to resistance, he is not wronged 1 In kna A Vt n In tkn w . a "T court any closer connection, as against the town. He tooki his own chances. O The "Moral Plea a Humbug Your Teeth Creawetl public achoola to hare a gymnaalum. Hlierldan to hare furniture factory Springfield Nowa 1 Ko per year. The Pneumonia Month t'rairle Centre Itovclopmcnt work progreliig ail(ut tcrlly at Ophlr ultra wlih poHRlblllty that thl pro perty wll develop Into one of the larg a tt gold producer In the went. Warrenton. Work heglna on thi building for the 1'routy Lumber aud Hox cointany. Oregon City. Southern Pacific de pot to be rebuilt Wallowa In to have new high school building. North Kend. New hotel her tx'ar Ing completion. Portland. Contract awarded for a $37,000 Women' club building. Ralem Plana complete for tha erec tion of an old folk' borne to roat t&6.- 000. Newberg. High achool building to be remodeled. Oregon City to bare extenilre afreet Improvement program tor 1921. Iebanon cannery to run full capa city during th coming aeaion. Lacey la to bare new achnol home. Warrenton to hare an auditorium and ball. La Pine to hare a new hotel build Ing. Manhfleld. Mln mill of the Pa clflo State Lumber Co. reiumea operation. Bank Contract let for tha erec tion of .a poRtofflre building. Cottage Grore. $75,000 flume com plted at Woodard aawmll! . Kenton to have $76,000 extension of lumber plant here. Wheeler aawmlll plant Idle a year atarta up with 200 banda. Oervele to have a $15,000 hoapltal. March I a typical pneumonia month and'Liually give a high rate of mor tality for th dlneane. After a long and bard winter, the aynteni on in itch of It reiiUtanre and peoplu grow carvlen. When every cold, no mutter how alight. I given prompt and intelligent attention, there I mud, lend danger of pneumonia. It ahould be borne In mind that pneumonia I a germ dlneane and breed In thu throat. Chamberlaln'a Cough Rem edy I an expectorant and cleana out the germ ladened mucu and not only cure a cold but prevent It result ing In pneumonia. Children take K willingly YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO PAY Whether you get your builnet education at aom regular Inatl tutlon. or through the achool of experience and hard knock, you have to pay for It. The latter la mighty expensive both a to lime and money, often being at tha sacrifice of health and happlneia. All the time that you ar tear Ing In tbla way you are working, under a great handicap, and often you hare to pa up aplen did opportunities becaua of lb lack of the noceaaary buvlneaa education. Our icool year la divided Into tour terms ot three month each. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Invest In a two rent stamp, or buy a poatal card; ask for our catalog; read It over and then ENROLL. Eugene Business College A. E. ROBERT, President EUGENE OREGON The attempt to trick out this scheme for the surrender of i (By Ilea Procter McGee, M.D. D.D.S.) PREPAREDNESS utter w rappers Printed on Saturday for only $1 per 100 To those who wish to subscribe to The News for one year we make an offer of $1 for Saturday only THKSPRINGFIELD NEWS, 1 Phone 2 things was made by these speak-; Springfield's Independent life to cr3 in the debate or has been Lugene In the garb of a high made by the propagandists at moral purpose is too grotesque! any time. to bear close Inspection. For) Only a fool would want another All the figures or other state- years certain Influences einanat- war. -The greatent trnwiy of war ij merits thax can be piled up, with in from the life and teachings that It kill the wrong pcojlo. ! WIimi tho day doe come, though, 'wo miuit. have the vlor and niiorgy to do our pttrt. No lens miiHl wu have the enorgy and vigor to' do our part In tliiKB of peace. Peace Is a war of commercial competition for the mar ket of the world. If wo are to do our part, every citi zen must be able to do hi shaie of tli work no matter what that ahare may be. We must have nourishment How can any one be properly nour iHfred on soupT - Whenever you lose your power to ntaaUcate you bocoma a f'souHer." Tha earlier you lose your power to masticate your food, the sooner yojr physical and mental development will stop. With all of our high Ideals, all -of our advancement, all of our science we till face the stern neoesslty of eating three meals each day. All of the millions of people In thl world must think first of their fool Attent ion Save Time and Money by letting us do your AUN0HY Finished and Rough Dry We do Wet Wash 20 lbs. for 85c All over 20 lbs., 3c per lb. City Steam Laundry Mrs. E. A. Moore