T I B ’ RSDAY. JU N K IB, 1925
PAGE TWO
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Publtahad Every Tkuraday at
Springfield. I-an« County, Oregon. by
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
. F. C
r WKSTBRFIELD
Manager
W W T R R F IE L D . M a n « «
B . E MAXEY, Editor
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Twisting the S. P ,’s Tail
A member of the Eugene shop stealing com
mittee boastlnglv told u local cltiaen a few days
ago that he had been “twisting th e Southern l’a-
eiilc com
pany's tall for
the last 1ft years and
g
u n t |l ( h p y c a m e , h n ) U g h ,”
oiuv was moat im portant.
Only A udltnee Unproductive
III dlacuaaln* tliv failure of Ku««n*
represetiiallvea In ««In a hearing »hi!
pre»UP ni Kproul", Mr C ham bers •».
a plaited lhal th is m anna failure io «•(
! bearing, one In .
, plenty of tim e would be avall«ti|>. i
'p re se n t da'« g a th rrad . "W e were ah|g
om e. to talk wi’h Mr HpmuU fop
our nlnuit ,5 tnliiuP» In the lix al yard«
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The Double Cross or
"Shop Site Admissions
o f Frank Chambers
atered aa second claaa matter. February 14» 1803 at the
poctofflre. Springfield. Oregon
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an,j Eugene was going to get the shops and ter-
minala instead of Springfield. If this is the me
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thod these Eugene men are using to land the
50c shops, other cities of Oregon will watch Ute re- aeJ ‘X w ^ ¡ k 't 'h w n l M « told the wort,I through the columns .......... . didni even allow ...
sulis closely. and there will he “tail twisting o n ^ X K e g ^ ’r October 7. .» 2 , To refreshen the 1 ^
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T H U R S D A Y . J U N E 18.1925
Editorial Program
I.
Make Springfield the Induatrlal Canter of W es
tern Oregon.
Develop a Stronp T radin g Point; Build a City
II.
af Contented Homes.
II I . Im preve Living Conditions on the Farm . Pro
mote the Raising of Purebred Livestock and
the Growing ef F ru it: W o rk fo r B etter M arkets
IV . T e ll the W orld About Oregon’s Scenic W onder.
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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
- e v e r y hand.
'Springfield's mind on this “friendly offer the Ntw« agaii
We believe th a t if thqy “ twist th e 8. H.'s prints the Interview:
• tall" too hard the company will call their bluff
guge**. <»<•,. 7 - E ugene will not g .t point« out. and ii 1« highly
probaM«
• We can rem em ber when Eugene men threatenetl ,h# .southern ,’»«lfli carshop« wh.n "i««y win
• the Southern Pacific w ith .a boydott when the lh , Kugtlir Klunmlh p*u. ,N«tr»n» w hai h. ■< xt>. • <• “ "•> who »<>
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• shop site was purchased here in 1913 and wet •
,„,„4. » rc o rd ln i to te»r»d
for a »«»ng Dm« '»
• told that if they made their bluff good they would Frank R chambers, president of th 'h e Southern I’arlfi. *"> 'lire. 1 it
‘ be climbing Skinner's butte and watching «>’» ', |ia!ll,
v..»,nrda»
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The cam paign carried on by th l. branch, a fter It ha« been straightened
trains go down the other side of the river.
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Being sensible takes a lot of practice.
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land.
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E d ito r ia l
C om m ent
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e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e
Will the Southern Pacific
Break Faith?
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KANSAS CAUGHT NAPPING
K ansan« are discom posed an d not a little sore at the
world. They a re m ore especially peeved at T ennessee for
th a t s ta te has finally caught K ansas napping
I’ ha* long been th e boast of K .n « » th at »he 1..« more
H rst. to h er crudl, th an any o th er state. A K ansas editor
has m ade th e claim th at "W hen an y th in g is going to hap.
p *" »“ “ >"> « « » « n r »« happens first in K ansas •
J aa ,ar
far
w„
»a we were
Help Springfield, la Urged
E ugene's portion now will be to
do everything It can to help Spring,
field win th e tfhopa declared the
cham ber of rom m ercc head. "They
woul I mean much to laoin County,“
he »aid. "and we m ust aaalal our
neithlm ra In ih«dr effort* for ih e m “—
city for the p*»t decado
decade and
and m
m ore
ore .out
out a and
... strengthened through 1 ohurg Morning Register.
to have th e (hops located here la de- ami »0 north, cutting to Ho t'"rl '
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d a re d by the cham ber president to west 1.. c o n n ed with the main ■« S U R p R |S E p A p j Y H E LD
be a failure. "W e’re licked." he .a id near H .rrl.b u rg , along Muddy d e c
MAGILL
Friday afternoon, "«nd
we might
might a»
««
T h l. would e llm ln .i. «»«
FOR MRS. M A R . MAGILL
and wo
«eroaa the W illam ette river, one at
well adm it It."
Wt.ll« «h. was at the C F» EKglman
Ju st w here the shop« will go when H arrisburg and one betw een Eugene
.
.
I Ila.«. l . Ms« u nr in «ft »Id It 1» <l«cUr*4. *»«1 ham« for d ln « tr
rrt»»4« of
the cutoff It cotnplHml anti matnlltt* , and Springfield, it I
-Bihrrml at h r
traffic I. routed over the C ascade b , cut off four m ile, on the m ainline M r. Mary M .gll gslhere.1 a,
r
way of K lam ath Fall» Is not known t . T he only brldg- that would have io home for a
party, honoring
the ch.m h.-r head, but he bell. , . » bo bull! would be a . om para.lvely h er 66lh birthday Many p ry ..« .« and
Spnngfl.1.1 may confidently e i p e ,. »mall one o w r th- M .K cn.le river
flow er, and refreshm ent» of «.raw
Tow
s
Off
Main
Line.
V
l.w
berries
and rream were brought by
, htni
8. P. O f f ...... » .len t
The result would be. pointed on, lh - visito r. Several p lc u r e ,
The Southern Pacific company cam e to Spring-
field unsolicited and purchased a site here for the
Natron cutoff carshops and term inals. Ill the
.\o official word ha» been receive I Mr Chamber*, that Eugriv’ would I»«* t r°up w» r» ta «n ur ng (
? r
purchasing of that site they took certain Indivi-
from
the
S
outhern
Pacific
Railway
off
the
main
line
and
would
have
only
mam,
duals and the city of Springfield into their eonfid-
K ansas su p p o rts h er proud claim by citing Abolition.
out of P ortiand
Al’endtng th e f arty woe - Mrs R»h-
ence as to future plans. They encouraged these prohlbulon j^ p u llem th e Hull Moose, the A W lC Igaret,
»any regarding the shops, .o n short local train»
individuals and the city of Springfield to spend ,aw (he ,m,u„ rlal Court
,he p,«ain< of the m iler " n u rd Mr ch am b ers, who declared running perhaps as far south as Ash a rt Drury. Mrs I, K. Pave. Mrs F.
e*’Ice, Mr».
hundreds of thousands of dollars in buildings and tQw| („
no(e4, that KanM1. „ proai,
th, -ha- it is this »Hence on th e p a n of land. p a c in g through Eugene rest- '« B*nch. Mr» lla ttls R .........
o ther undertakings, when present conditions here quantlty not the qttaH„ . of her ,egW
¡railroad executives th at has ftn alb dents would h a w *0 m. 1 t b - a s u ;
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did not justify it. The very fact th a t these men
’ convinced local w orkers of th«4r tail und o th er through train s at sp rin g vi.»
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‘ ‘ agents in
But In the fight ag ain st the theory of evolu’ioti Kan- uri,
if ih.-y d
to
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Mr« Lt** B artlatl, Mr« J 1 Vgu in
whom the railroad picked out as their
Mrs
Julia Kennedy. Mrs. C harles
th e railroad transactions here spent their money sas tak es second place. The T en n essee legislature had
-T ry as we would, we were never grenl distance
Meyers,
Mrs. 1» 1». F isher. Mr« John
and time to the very extent of their ability caused already passed Its "m onkey law ■ before the pair ■ of .1 a b,e to get au an d lea re With the high Four year* ago w h.n Mr Ci inib«
others to do likewise.
K ansas school d istrict publicity b urned with Utting cere- executives" he »aid
"W e have poll VII serving his first term a» chamber l.loyd. Mr
Hart Mu»i «-. Mi«» M iry
No: tlonc"l Unit a fte r tim e for a chance of com uerc. p ro ld c n l. hi- leltg at 4 PI " , Mrs I
I-■ M.-r M .s M to l.an«
„ showing, confident thut we Robert ' Booth to confer with pr «1 if 'X Mrs A E Halt hel ler. Mr«
Fr<-.|
had facts and figures that would Itn dent William Sproule. hr«i| of the l-ouk Mr Wm II (la h ti. 5,rs. Anna
Mrs C. F. Egglm an. Mrs.
prwaa
press , hp rallr„ a„ m..„ and might so u th e rn Pacific »v«tem ... San Fr .n tllen d .n n y
Adams, Mrs Sam Richmond,
bring us the carshops that will surely ¡cisco , Thl» trip brenchl i -dhlne but ■
be built when ihe cutoff Is com pleted. I infvrm atlon a« to the attitude th« Mi Elma Finley and Mr« Sadie Nd-
but we w ere never able to gain ih e lr railroad h ell tow ard Eugen- a •.,r<l
ear."
lug to the cham ber offtetal
Woman 0«-«a*s Ankle
Mr. Cbtimber» has be-n leader of i ^,r n ,M,ib wa« told by Mr Sproule
GREATEST EXPLO RER AND TAXPAYER
a group that has been active for th e n n j O(ber» th at the Southern I’, ifle | Mr« Kstrl KHbmn. living a t the WII
la«t several year» to local* the «hop w auld find it mueh eh. ; r t
tit son mill near Ik-xter, br»ka her right
A dozen men are running Eugene to suit them
During 1824, C lass I ruilrouds of th e U nited S tates p«Pd
selves" the speaker a t the Eugene high school out t4.S47.700.000 for wages, m aterials, supplies and Im In Eugene. Thl« grout» even w ent through from H arrisburg Io Spring leg S aturday when aha slipped be
so far as to m ake Ihe purchase of a fi„i,l and » u ll more than likely fol tween two planks in the roadway and
graduation exercises told the parents and friends provem ents.
large tra c t In the w estern section of |,,w this t out«.' when "m e for . span fell. T h. break wa« Ju»t above ihu
of the graduates. The outcom e of the $175.000
T his does not Include approxim ately t340.000.000 paid
bond issue to purchase a shop site to trade for by ttle railr(iuds ln tales_ the ,5,0.000.000 which they paid th e city, to hold against division t h a t ' , | (>n. came. Tills was Ion« before ankle.
rallroa
.......... I . might be able |o acquire announe w ent was made of lh* »e-
the one in Springfield will tell w hether these
lnteregt rha
a d d e n d a am ounting to »310, Ihe ...
TALL AND BSE Dr N \V Finery
dozen men can get away with the “stuff they
;'» *■ on " p 1'"'«' "h001*1
«k«P» **jt!nd it art on building the line be
tw een Eugene and K lam ath county. »n nr* ’• nr> ch»u and oth«.' wora ’f
have been pulling. a a «
1 A targ et p art of th is sum went d irectly to the industries
Owns Land in Springfield
O th e r reasons were given at the iltnn
of O ur Country, through which source It reached the wage
The S outhern Pacific has extensive by Mr
Sproule’« aaalalanl». Mr
Wins» down town drop in and see
And now a Tennessee pastor has come forw ard earn ers, thereby co ntributing, to a large e a tm L to the holdings In Springfield. Mr t ’hnrubers llooth reported,
but the one of ecol» the new thing« at th» Novelty Store.
advocatng a law prohibiting th e teaching in rro sp erity which w as enjoyed in 1924.
m onies a set of books discussing th e te rrib le theory
A change in the railroad plans now m eans even a Kanwin win be »0 p artial tow ard his own sta te as
breaking faith with Springfield. It w ill r u i n t h e to ^ „ y T en n essee th is victory.
very men whom the railroad company has called
on in the past to render them assistance. Will
Somebody was sleeping in th e leg islative cham bers at
th e Southern Pacific company do th is’ Judging T opska while Bryan was aw akening th e T ennessee law
from the honorable and upright dealings this m akers to Ibis opportunity to b -a t th e K ansans at their
com m unity has had with the Southern Pacific own game.— Record P ress—E llenhurg.
in the past we think not.
public school in th at state th at the earth ¡3 round
or that it moves. He justifies this on the grounds.
th a t it is contrary J to s the a teaching
of the Bible.
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“ Fool friends of Eugene” is th e expression a
certain university professor uses when referring
to the shop site promoters. And he is a man who
has had a very active part in the civic affairs of
th a t city.
We are sorry for the man without a country-
especially when it is springtim e in the country.
There being no law against it Ford made 7594
cars in one day.
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THINK IT OVER
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There are a great m any lies told because the
tru th often sounds like a poor excuse.
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W e would like to know If the prevailing fad am ong
young P o rtlan d women—th a t of displaying em broidered
red ro ie s on thel h o ile ry nbcut half an Inch below th e knee
—Is to ad v ertise the approaching R ose Festival.— Pacific
The Florida legislature is considering m aking Ie(finn
It illegal to be descent from the monkey.
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A m ass m eeting held a t M adiion S quare Garden. New
, York, com m em orating the death of N ikolas Lenin«-, was at
tended by lo.OOO follow ers of the red flag In America. Th.-
principal sp eak er was a 14-year-oid boy, dr«>-»ed In a uni-
form clo«ely resem bling that of our beloved boy scout. The
final goal voiced w as "to set up a Soviet Republic of th e .
; U nited S tates."
The progress this m ovem ent is m aking In th e younger
i generation and the fact th a t treaso n can be openly preach
ed In A m rlca furnish food for thought.P acific Legion.
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Th** rn lv p r« lty of C hicago announe**» that It could uh "
to g reat advantage, it h asn 't got anythin« on
us.—Macon T elegraph.
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