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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Publish-d Every Thursday at
Springfield. Lane County. Oregon, by
While there are n lot of calam ity howlers
things »re not so bad. A lot of the complaints
come from paid agitators and others who wish to
keep in the limelight. The people who are really
doing som ething w orth while sire not complaining.
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U S E O F C H R IS T M A S T R E E S A P P R O V E D
IS THE COUNTRY PROSPEROUS’
While there is a depression ;n the agricultural! Large quajntltl*« of young Douglas lira woro reported
prodr.C m arket the country as a wh de is very to have been shipped front this state to California ami
prosperous. W hat’s more i* is a stable prosperity Hawaii to be used as Christmas trees o n son's tlm win
and not the kind enjoyed immediately following thus help to make it seem like Christmas in balmy tlo«»-
the clt.se of the war. Julius H. Barnes, president iU|U i n the Vnlted States 5 million Ctilratinaa tr*-a at"
Of the United States '"ham ber of Commerce, in u„e(, each year, and In the eastern States with their relu
a speech recently reje cte d the condition of the lively dense population, trees suitable for use at Chrtu
country' as a whole when he said:
mas are becoming scarce This year the New England
"O ur largest cotton consum ption;
crop was shut off on account of a quarantine against the
"O ur largest pig iron production:
spread of the glpav moth. On the Atl-intL* Coast tt la
* o . r largest Steel ingot production:
reported that tt Is becoming printable to g -o v Chlrvtmai
"O ur largest crude oil production;
'trees. Some day we may do that in the K orthwoal
“Our largest automobile and truck production: i Poes the age long custom of cutting Christmas trees nt
"O ur largest residential construction;
the holiday season constitute a wasteful use of forest ma
terlat? This 1« a question often asked J’ Oovertiment
'O ur largest production of locomotives;
and l t a t | forest officials. Along In December each year
“ Our largest volume of retail sales:
"O ur largest volume of railroad car loadings.” the V. S* Foreet Service expects to reech o letters pro
Then speaking particularly of the American testing against the cutting of young trees for Christmas
grow th since the pre-w ar year of 1P13. he made It Is usually pointed out that several million trees are
used each year which If left to grow to maturity would
these statem ents:
“The population has increased 14 millions Ol produce a considerable quantity of lumber U it n o i l
people, with their enlarged requirem ents.
therefore, aui economic w aste to use them as Christmas
“The annual national income has increased trees?
from 34 billion to 50 billion dollars.
The Forest Service believes that the use of young tree».
••The aggregate savings deposits have increas- as Ghlatmaa trees Is entirely Justlfled. To what higher
use can trees be put than to bring Joy and happiness to
ed from 6 million to 14 billion dollars
et little children The greatest caution, however, thould be
as
“T he aggregatet:44444jtH m ens
"The deposits in national banks have increased ; urged against the Indiscriminate cutting of trees with no
from 6 million to 17 million dollars.''
: regard to the number or condition of those left Nature
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h often very bounteous In the number o ' young tree«
One ship brought Into New York harbor 5.000 which spring up on old cu to v er areas or imrna Fre
tons Of Germ an toys. It Is evident th at the Ger- quently there are so many that growth Is retarded I nder
m an people like us again and are soon to read the ,uch conditions. It is a well recogntved principle of foreury
trade m arks, ' made in Germ any.”
practice that a portion of the tree, should he removed to
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matador. If you must ilo thia, at lonat do not rut them
along Ih* highway«, and got perntlaaloti from Ilio owner
fo ihe land Automobiles anil giant mail« are rout’ Hinting
tini heavily Io the ileapollltiff of Dir «hriihhorv along our
roules of travel For«»! Service llullellh
American women spend 150 million dollars a
year on hair nets. T here is w here some of the
M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E
81c Months
heaefft if mad* In the unt ure at thinning rather than «
clean rutting
It la ‘too oftan the pracllce far city talk , to drive out
into Die country and tu rut a half doten youm ire..,« alona
the highway. seltA-tlng one out of the lot, learlnff tho r
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Entered as second class matter. February !«. 1903 at the
poatotftra, Springfield. Oregon
Ona Year In Advance
THURSDAY. DECEMBER ?0. D>23.
THF SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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afford room for the remainder to make their best f<>wth
»'“ d« o f young second gowth of this kind the cutting
Christmas tree« can be made to serve as an actual
Beware of the salesm an who slaaders his com- »
petitoris product. Usually he is sending out a lof
Our Christmas
Thoughts
Many mills even today ure putting out Inferior Hour
because they don’t know how to m ake good Hour. Years
of experience and study taught us how to make
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T h a t’s why it m akes bread "light as a feather.”
“ It’s a Joy to sell Eeathertlake."
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grocers say.
Springfield Mill & Grain Co.
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ti» the combination of self-seeking,
ambition and greed vhich some materialistic philoso
phers assert it is; if life is a contest in which all finer
sentiments are subordirated to self-advancement and suc
cess at any price, how; is it that the spirit of Christmas
has not only endured l^ut grown in pow er during nearly
2 ,0 0 0 years? If the pessimists are right, it would seem that the light
would have been extinguished long;since and with it the spirit would
have departed.
lF H U M A N N A TU R E
W ere history and our daily I Ves not replete w ith evidences —
noble evidences to o —of the unse fishness in men’s hearts, w e might
be impressed w ith the teachings of the sordid and the carpings of
the morbid. Christmas is the symbol and a celebration of love—love
which is synonymous w ith charity and which our purest teaching
tells us is the finest attribute of the soul. W e , w ho during the paSt
few weeks have w atched the Y uletide preparations, are prepared to
say that they represent a beautiful manifestation of that attribute.
W e have noted the working girl taking home at night her par
cels; contributions wrung from the dole of her necessities, in order
that she may testify to her love and bring a measure of cheer to
some child, some relative, some friend. Tired from her daily toil may
hap, hut in her eyes that something which transcends all fatigue;
transcends, in fadt, everything else in the world and comparable only
to that which shone from a mother’s eyes upon tjie B abe in Bethle
hem. Friends, in the face of these and so many other manifestations
which w e are all witnessing during this season, w hat right has one
of us to say that the Light of the W orld grows dim m er?
O u r hearts tell us there is no dimming. L et us he thankful for
the extra radiance of Christmas. L et us seek to carry it into our daily
lives. O u r wish is, that this occasion, at leaSt, will help all of us to
forget our tribulations and sorrows, our complaints and animosities,
and that it will be to all a day of cheer and everything which Yule-
tide typifies. T h e w ords of T iny T im have never been improved
upon and w e here invoke them : “ G od bless us all 1 ”
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