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TH U R SD A Y. JANUARY 17, H>2 4.
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N T U / Q hill« for th,,|r ex-«en1ce people. Yet It I» i not the
aoldtera fought In
in Prance I
l i t . W O state'» duty. Am erican soldier»
for the United State« and not for the indlvidunl |
states. It » up to the federal governm ent to pass I
the adjusted com pensation bill. There are not a '
T H E W IL L A M E T T E P R E » »
few ex-service men who would like to see the 1
F. C WBSTKRKIEI.il Manager federal bill passed and the states com pensated Ini
H.
B MAXKT. Editor
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e n te re d aa second < i « « m a tter Feb ru ary 24. ISO J at tba the am ounts paid their ex-service men, or as
p o,,office. Springfield, Oregon
nearly as possible. The states that have voted
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---- ---------------------- bonuses to their soldiers art* Illinois. Iowa, Kan-,
m a il s u b s c r ip tio n r a te
gig, Maine, M assachusetts, Michigan. M innesota.,
O »« T ea r in Advance
»125
T h ree Month«
SOe' Missouri, New Hampshire. New Jersey. New York
Sts Months
?5c
sing le Copy
5c N orth Dakota, Ohio. Oregon. Rhode Island. South!
Dakota. Vermont. W ashington, Wisconsin, Col-
S P R IN G F IE L D . J A N U A R Y 17. 1924
orado, M ontana and Pennsylvania.
Published E very Thuraday at
Springfield. Lane County, Oregon. by
E d ito r ia l
Editorial Program
C om m
t
the bread­
w in n e r
nt
A M E R IC A ’S R A IL R O A D S
Make Springfield the Industrial Center of Wee-
tern Oregon.
Develop a Strong Trading Po int; Build a City
II
a , Contented Home«.
II I . Im prove Living Conditions on the Farm . Pro-
mote the Ra sing of Purebred Livestock and
the «ro w ing of F ru it: W ork fo r B etter M arkets
IV . T e ll the W orld About Oregon’s Scenic W onder­
e
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land.
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A m eric a » developm ent has b v n a ttrib u ted m ainly to
• the railroads. A fte r a period o f several years. In w h l-h
• practically no railroad construction w ork waa carried on.
• the annual report of the In te rs ta te C o m m e ro commission
• shows th a t railroad construction la beginning again. Ap
• plication» a re now on (lie fo r authorisation to construct
* 3 .4 8 7 m ile» of railroads w hile during the la»; y e a r the
• m ileage of new work was 881.7 and 523 m il ’» < era aban
i(joned
R ailroads of ihe U nited Shale« are the mo»: efficient In
¡th e world. Com parative figures coknplled by Jullu« K ru ll-
LAW ENFORCEMENT
There Is too much dumping of crim inals by one "vhnltl toT ,h* R“ ,w” r
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“ > .t in
in w e a iw m u u u m iu j
a - «
. - „ .¡ 1 9 3 0 . the railroad« of the U nited States handled JS 71
com m unity on another for the good or law en-
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forcem ent' Pettv thieves or disreputable people lr«rflc un“ '
‘ .p it.iis .iio n
w ith a v e ra g . ra
are often "run ¿ut of tow n” by police officials *•**’
,OD “ »• “» fr“ «h‘ «* »•«* «•«“ ' Th’ «»»*
T hev settle in other comm unities and the same
Com m erce rom m lsalon equation, it may be .fa te d by
process occurs. The towns dum p on each other
ot e x » U a »tio n . c .lc u ia :» . u n it. . . ton m i l « p iu .
and consequently neither are any better off. Ev-
« * « « w e r m ile .
erybodv is trving to escape the responsibility of "T h e railroad« of O rest B rita in handled 8 24 trafflc
feeding prisoneirs in JaiL T he city passes its unlts per d o llar capitalisation, w ith average rcc *ipts of
prisoners along to the county on the merest pre- 3 039." aaya M r K ru tts c h n ltt.
tex of jurisdiction and consequently the county " In South Australia. 10 95 truffle unit» w ore h ttd le d per
jails are always fulL Both city and county of- dollar of capitalisation, w ith average receipt» of o ver three
flcials are sworn to uphold the laws, state and c-»ta. in N ew South W ale«. A u .t r ilv 15«7 traffic units
federal as well as their own regulations. More » e re handled per d o lla r o f eapttaiid«tton. w ith average
prisoners shold be serving sentences in the local- receipt» per ton m ile of fre ig h t of 2 49 cra»t« ’
It ie s where they conutted the crimes.
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Perhaps you do not know it. but it la a fa r t that the
Tli»’ breud wilt tier of Ihe family know» good bread when lie
eats it -consequently he dem ands and deserves
FEATHERFLAKE
FLOUR
$¡1___
Bread Made from Featherflake it Better
Dealer» Like to See Featherflake
Springfield Mill & Grain Co.
;United States possesses som ew here around f o r t / per cent
of the world's railroad mileage, and the world today has
¡about 750.000 miles of railroad« In Ib e last century, th e :
Statistics are sometim es not w hat t icy seem. ¡y,crB<ge jn railroad m ileage has been about fifty p - r - c n t . ,
For instance, it is announced th a t our agrtcul-
approxim ately 50.000 )mll»a built In various part« of
BELGIAN
tu ral imports exceed o u r exports by about »-»’ ‘d .- -he w orld since isis .
MISLEADING STATISTICS
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ARTIST PAINTINGS
glon
around
Yprea.
a la ra
dralruyed
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lag of Ih e w h ile man lo Ih » weal ba*
b e .n celebrated by this poet In <w*
e p k cycle beginning w ith "T h e Song
of Hugh Ola»« "
SHOWN AT UNIVERSITY by the w ar M r Jacques lived for
•00,000. But there is included in this forest prod-
Bew rtlroa<11
beln,
tBd har, b. en bwUt
some lim a la Holland, and one of the
a c ts which are really products of the soil.
w m recent year*. i n the Old world, Am erican railroad
An exhibition of paintings by the painting« «how» a canal «cene paint
Im port a large quantity of wood pulp. Excluding jjjgthod« are being followed and have l-'e n followed, to u t
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Belgian a n la t E m il Jacques, now of <d there. Besides b it for. Ign work
forest products the excess of so-called agricul­ proving
th a t our railraed e are not archaic a» c e rta in
lB
there are canvases which have O re
tural Imports is about $100,000.000. But there P°w o C»U “x WO° " 1 h‘ T" “
[museum of Ihe A r t . building at t h « ! '» » ••< « » « •
is included In th a t silk and rubber, neither of W ith t h . renewal of railroad conalructlon work In the U n iversity o, o reg.m lB Eu, ^ o r T n„
which is usually classed as agricultural, although UnitJd State« again on a liv e ly scale, Am erica 1« 'tound exhibition
Poet to Lecture
Includes 30 oil painting«,
•trietly such when we consider their origin. When ¡to derive the benefit of fu rth e r increased prosne-.ty. No
M r N e lh a rd l «peaks F rid a y night
In Portland under the a u s p ic a o f
the Portland L ib ra ry association, sad
w ill a rriv e la Eugene on Saturday a f
ternoon
one w ater color, and a num ber of art
N e lh a rd
l. the
Am erica's
epic
John
O appear
A 1500 p rlie for ihe m o d credltab e
^ ^ n e a i w b S n c e ^ O u r t a i S i s T f ° n* !tnoW8 0\ cou” ' ' WhM th ’ fu ,u r*
hc,a ln
» « « * * ««*«’h a . etching, w a a a y p e . ! poet.
i . to
on
lecture pint
volume of versa ’ by an Am erican wa«
Alld im ports very nearly balance, UUr im ports Ol derM opm ent. but it is safe to say that It Will be many and the like. The museum la open form at Ihe U n ive rs ity of Oregon at
food products are very largely of a class of com- ¡years, perhaps forever, that the world Will need the rail from nine o'clock In Ih e morning tui- Eugene on Saturday «venlng a t 8:15 awarded In 1818 lo N-Nhardt. H a la
also the poet laureate of Nebraska,
modifies we do not produce in this country—COf- road« for adequate means o f transportation
I I I five In the afternoon during thia ¡H e w ill r«ad from »«me of hie well. and has been awarded a C h air of
fee, tea, spices, tropical fruits, etc. ’
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w*elt
know n
voloumea. "M a n S o n g ,'' and P oetry at lha Nebraska s ta le u n i­
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A B U S IN E S S P R O P O S IT IO N
M any of the scene« a r * o f the ra- "T h e S tran ger at the G ale." T h e ram - versity
A flood of literature on th e "starving German s
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children’’ h as come to our desk lately. The m ore General Charles o. raw,» and o w n d Young who
w e read it the m ore suspicious we are of it: e s -irePres nt ,he United state» on the intern atio nal com
pecially a fte r the liberal education Uncle Sam m ittee appointed by the Reparation» Commission to de­
riv e US When we were abroad In 1918 and 1919. h aline G erm any’s capacity to pay her w ar d ib ta have
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— "ed for Paris. L ittle Inform ation could be g lv -n out
It m ight not h urt us to send over a ........
little food
th e cause of hum anity but when they ask us to by G eneral Dawes or M r. Young before leaving but M r
p a rt with our hard-earned cash to pay for food Young .«aid: " I regard the questions to b> settled by our
■tores in th eir own warehouses to feed their own Com m ittee as busln- »a questions only. I hope they w ill
children our mind somehow reverts back to t h e ; ’* approached in th a t s p irit w ith the determ ination to
days when the German hordes devastated north- C - » constructive answ er s p e -d iiy "
e m and eastern France and then give up When Press despatches of Janu ary 7 fr-pn Berlin, tn comment
th e battle turned to their own soils.
lc 7 on »ltu»tion in 0 - rm any aay "T h e brightest «pot of
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a ll
is fact
th a t G erm any
realizes
reparations
question
With the passing of the tax conservative and must ba settled if actual bankruptcy and collapse I« to
supervision commission the county has seen the 1 *>< avoided.
suprem e court throw another of Oregon’s freak I Reasoning m«n here In te rp re t the new year's recon-
law s into the scrap heap. Nobody is crying a b o u t 'e o latio n ' ta lk of P r e .ld -n t M lllerand of France as sincere,
th e loss of the new tax m akers' Somehow it is I and » symptom that, if the situation is s k illfu lly handled
n ot quite in line with dem ocracy to elect officers by both sides, the muddle m ay be cl « re d up
an d then have somebody else appoint guardians If business men and executive« of the type chosen to
lo r them . History records th a t our forefathers 'r*p re s e n t the U nited S l a t * on the In te rn a tio n a l Com
m lttee are given h a lf an opportunity It Is almost a safe
fought over things like that.
bet th a t Europe can expect to see a practical plan evolved
the
Uu-
Cleveland is m aking plans to "keep dry" dur­ which w ill help brtng about a satisfactory solution of
ing the republican convention. Cleveland has a present European financial tangle.— In d u s tria l N •«»
duty to perform tow ard the country. It would ( res'J-
4>e a calam ity if the delegates became drunk and
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nom inated some of the men who are candidates.1 The Roseburg damsels who created a disturbance
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Tw enty-six states have passed compensation »gain
S u th e rlin
on
the o th -r night are
able to be up and around— Roseburg New s-R eview .
January Thaw
Sacrifice Sale
AT
HALL’S CASH STORE
Forced to sell at a sacrifice owing to
the mill shut down which knocks the
props from under business.
My creditors are howling for their
money and as my December bills are
still unpaid I am obliged to sell at prices
that are greatly reduced.
S25. $ 2 8 , $ 3 0 SUITS
AT $ 10 , $ 1 2 .5 0 »"<1 $15
$ 3 0 .0 0 OVERCOATS AT l / 2
All leather Glove» for $1.25 up at a 25%
reduction
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Rubber Footwear — 2-Piece Underwear — Unioneuits — Sox — Slipper»
Raintest Cloth.. — Drees Pant» — Work Pant» — Corduroy Pant,
and Breechea — Jacket» — Sweater Coat» — Leather Coat»
Cap« — Work Shoe» — Dress Shoes
And Hi-Top»
Regular
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OVERALLS at
$1.65
EVERYTHING CUT TO THE QUICK