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THURSDAY, JUNK 18, H>26
TH F SPRINGFIELD NEWS
STATE PRESS CONDEMNS
ACTION OF EUGENE MEN
P ic n ic
(Continued from rage One)
(the shops arc located at Springfield. Eugene will reap all of the
substantial advantages for the two cities will eventually grow,
together, but the boomers want the city to grow in another*
direction where presumably their own holdings are. So they an
seeking to induce the Southern Pacific to break faith with the
people and investors of Springfield, who have for so m any years
Arthur Bxisban*
patiently held the sack.
The unique feature of the proposal is that the public spirited
'•SOMETHING WRONG,” CARY.
boomers want the nm m lpality to put up the money to secure
industry that will enhance their holdings, instead of putting it up
FLYING, DIVING, A NEW ERA.
themselves as Salem ites have done for the linen mill and as
FORD S NEW PLAN.
other communities do. Jim m ying the city treasury and making
RAIN, CORN, PRICE.
the taxpayer the goat for the speculator sets a dangerous pre­
cedent that can only lead to disaster liy exhausting financial re-
Judge Gary says there is some­ isources requtred for the legitim ate needs of a growing city.
thing wrong with business condi­
But why should Eugene seek to grow at the expense of Spring-
tions, and the something is LACK
field.
which is really only a suburb?—Salem Capital Journal.
OF CONFIDENCE ''the abnormal,
unnecessary and TlMtD. ill poised
• • •
mental attitude of managers, in­
cluding ourselves.”
That's as sound as a steel ingot.
Our troubles are mental. Put a
plank six inches wide on the
ground, and of a hundred people,
every one will walk the length of
it without fear of falling. Put the
same plank fifty feet in the air,
and two in a hundred, perhaps,
will be able to walk it. Put your
plank up two hundred feet, and
not one in a thousand will try to
cross it.
Yet, leaving out *ear, it is as
easy to walk such a plank a thou­
sand feet up as it is flat on the
ground.
The height of our national pros­
perity makes some citisens dizzy.
This is a new age, and the things
we do would have surprised not
only our grandfathers, but our­
selves a few years back.
Young gentlemen studying at
Anna ipolis are told that hereafter
an ol fficer and a gentleman m ust
know how to fly.
And out in the Pacific Ocean,
down among the coral lanes, near
the Galapagos Islands, scientists,
with diving helmets on their heads,
their otherwise naked bodies well
oiled, are sitting under the water,
studying the fish that come, wide-
eyed to study the men.
For the first time in his several
hundred thousand years of exist­
ence on this planet, man can truly
say the earth is his and the full­
ness thereof. He goes up into the
.Lwn Into the ocesn.
rapidly, who knows but men may
suddenly find a way to live on this
earth without cutting each others'
throats in wax.
THE SPRINGFIELD-EUGENE ROW
The citizens of Springfield have become arounsed over the pro­
posal laum hed by certain business men of Eugene, who dom inate
its cham ber of commerce, to bond the university city for $175.
i 000 to purchase a site for the Southern Pacific railroad shops two
(miles west of the city and trade it to the company for the site
which the railroad picked out at Springfield for that purpose a
num ber of years ago. They have inserted |>age advertisem ents in
the Eugene newspapers in which they allege that the Eugene
movement is promulgated only by speculators, who will reap
»he benefit of the sale of the proposed site, and in w hich they set
forth Springfield's claim to the railroad shops. They also made
a showing to the effect th a t the car shops at Springfield, three
miles east of Eugene, will be just as beneficial to Eugene, from
an industrial standpoint, as they will be two miles west of Eugene;
and from the standpoint of the uity beautiful, Eiugene will be
better off with the shops at Springfield.
Sympathy will be on the side of Springfield, we believe, in the
contest, if Eugene people go so far as to vote on the bond issue.
It is clear th at the little city, overshadowed by the big university
center as it has been for years, has been living on in hopes that
some day the Natron cut-off would be built am
and with the exten­
sion the car shops with its big payroll would materialize. It is
also pretty well understood that the railroad company is com ­
mitted to the Springfield site in return for the public spiritedness
of its citizens in obtaining for it a suffeient acreage at a reason­
able price. After all these days of hoping, no one can blame
Springfield for flying into a passion over the Eugene proposal.
J The point raised by the Springfield people, namely th at the
| »hops will do the Eugene business men as much good at Spring-
field as they will several miles west of the city, seems to be well
.taken. The greater part of the Springfield payroll is spent In!
¡Eugene tndav end its payroll is of no inconsiderable am ount,)-"
with the Booth-Kelly sawmill located within it. It would seem ,
as though the shops, if they are to be located in that area, ought a
I to go to Springfield. Morally Springfield has a claim on them . “
And industrially they will profit Eugene business men just as
much, aside from the increm ent that might go to a few persons
from the sale of options on the proposed new site.—Albany
Democrat-Herald.
President Coolidge, it is said,
will cut twenty-five millions a
year from the cost of the United
States army—a good idea. Sol­
ROBBING SPRINGFIELD
diers marching over the ground in
future war from the air will be
Up at Eugene are those who unmindful apparently of their
about as useful as so many rabbits
obligation to the "w eaker sister” are attem pting to "sw itch” the
when eagles attack them.
proposeu Southern Pacific ta r shops and term inals from Spring*
The President’s economy will
be twice as valuable if he will ! held to the University city. The fact th a t the little city of
arrange to spend the twenty-five
Springfield purchased a site for these shops and term inals twelve
millions cut from the army on the
J ears ago, m akes Eugene’s action the more unfair.
building of more flying machines.
Springfield has carried this investm ent during ail these years
Henry Ford will use United
States ships, if he gets them, to
and now beholds the larger "brother” ignoring oidm ary courtesy
take cars South and around into
and justice and by exercise of his larger financial ability trying
the Gulf of Mexico and bring fruit
to wrest this civic asset from her,
and vegetables back to the north.
Springfield is an enterprising up-to-date city of 2500 people
That programme would be wel­
comed by millions. It would help
and one of the very few cities th a t have been consistent sup­
to solve one problem of distribu­
porters of the Southern Pacific. She stood by the railroad com­
tion and develop the great produ­
pany rendering to her m arked assistance durng the fight to un­
cing regions of the South as they
merge the railroads and is entitled to the Southern Pacific's
should be developed.
loyalty.
It is current expression outside of Eugene that her attitude in
this m atter is a m istaken one. If she succeeds in robbing Spring-
field of her location of the shops she will have injured the latter
and will have added little to her own advantage except to beneii:
the speculators in acreage around the location of the shops.
Located at Springfield as at first planned, Eugene would be
the larger beneficiary as the territory extending from her ;o
Springfield would no doubt be built up with homes and business
structures when all could be merged into Eugene City.
Grabbing industries from a neighbor is neither honorable nor
It has been raining in the com
profitable finally. Eugene’s policy in this m atter Is at least a
beit and that has cheered the farm ­
mistaken one. And the Southern Pacific herself should not
ers. The com crop suffered for
the captured by it.—Salem Statesm an.
lack of rain.
Messrs. Fall, Doheny and Sin­
clair have been re-indicted for con­
spiracy by a Grand Jury in the
District of Columbia. If you find
anybody anxious to bet that Mr.
Fall will go to jail for selling the
people’s oil lands and taking secret
payment for the sale, TAKE THE
BET. We don’t jail the really big
criminals in this country. Little
criminals, yes. It’s a dangerous
country for them, if they’re caught.
Immediately the price of corn
fell more than 5 cents a bushel, De­
cember com dropping 9» 4 to 93
cents. The weather does some­
thing to cheer up the farmer, and
then the grain speculators to cheer
him DOWN again.
At Yucaipa, California, all mem­
bers of the Fir • Methodist Church
witnessed the end of a Bible-read­
ing marathon.
It wa ; a noble reading, ail out
loud, every word distinctly pro­
nounced. The pastor, the Rev. R.
D. Raley, stayed awake and read
o r listened throughout the 6 9 4
hours.
More deliberate reading, es­
pecially of Job and Isaiah, would
be preferable. But ar.v Bible read­
in g is better than none,
’ In Thibet you c;m give a few cop­
pers to a pagan priest with hia
. p rayer mill. You go your way
comforted, he grinds out 10,000
prayers for you on his little mill.
Th
rhose prayers are believed to do
SPRINGFIELD VEXED AT EUGENE'S NERVE
Eugene plana on securing the S. P. »hop» by hook or crook. And one of
1 th e crook» is to trad e the S. P. Co. a fine tra c t of land, for it» Springfield
j holdings.
,
Springfield is mad all over and call» E ugene a th ief in big letter», for
i Springfield ha», a» everybody know», had tho»e »hops In It» vest pocket
for te r years.— 'l a i r . d i . r g Bulletin
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Drive to Elk
G. H. T u rn er,
brother, F. C.
Grove, drove to
V .iitlng Mr«. S need—Agni- Chand­
River— Mr. and Mrs.
with Mrs. T urner'» ler of W endllng arrived here W ednes­
W oodruff of C ottage day to spend th e re s t of the week
with Mrs. A R. Sneed.
Elk River Sunday.
I
V isits M other From W endllng— D islocates Shoulder—F. M. Mulligan
Mrs. John P urchell and children o f ! dislocated hl» left shoulder Tuesday
W endllng are visiting Mrs. P urchell's (evening while working at the mill,
m other, Mr». C harles P ettljo h n this He was using a vice when he aicl-
pressed thé shoulder too
week.
(dentally
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(hard.
Visit at Mulligan Home— Mr. and j
R enta H ouse—J. F, Lazarus, won
Mrs. H arry N eet of l.odl, California,
has recently arriv ed here from east-
and
Mr.
N
eet's
m
other,
Mrs.
Joe
Neet,
alth,
‘ verbal p raying from
good, although
of Eugene visited a t th e F. M. Mulli- ern Oregon, has rented the W It.
- - heart ’ !.. ’ V.ttsr.
t'ie
_
ig an hom e T uesday. Mrs. J. C. Mtilli- Jep h co tte house a t 6th ami K Htrepts.
H as B irthday P arty -I n honor of his
who •» h a ltin g th ere from Port- John O’B rien ,' from M arshfield, has
ren ted the John F itzg erald house on
aeventh
birth d ay , H arlan Duncan lan(L ,s Mr». Neet'» »Inter.
fith stre e t betw een A and It.
en te rta in e d »everal sm all friends a t
his bom ■ M onday afternoon.
Plan Vacation T rip—Mr. and Mrs.
E ic h t Cars Sold
O. D. M etcalf and son, Mr. and Mrs
Eight
cars
w ere sold by th e A nder­
Visit» In P o rtlan d —-Miss V ernita A rthur Neet and C harles Colcord plan
son m otor com pany this week. Fred
M orrl»on left M onday to v isit relatives to leave here Ju ly 3 by car on u moun­
Fr e of Springfield, M. J. S kinner ot
and a tte n d the Rose F estiv al in Port- tain trip. They will go over th e Mc­
Kenzie pass, visiting Odell nnd C res­ Eugene, D. A. Lowe of W endllng, the
la rd .
cen t lakes, go through K lam ath Falls, C rystal 1 e and S torage com pany,
Doctor Vioita S prin g field —Dr. J
and stop a t C rater lake. They will Ted fü llen w ater» , D , (Smith, Giuss
return by th e southern route. The N«i'ly and th e Head C onstruction
R adabnugh of G oshen visited
com pany all of Eugene w ere the pflr-
trip will tak e about two weeks.
t+i rlngfleld Tui »day.
chaser».
Are you fixed
ft
for that
Outing ?
This sum m er w eather impels you toward THE BIG GUT DOORS To
the Rivera und Mountaina for a cam ping trip. Before going rail und
look through our line. It may be you will need som ething
We carry a complete line of Groceries, specially prepared for camping
Straw berries are getting scarce, you will have to hurry.
W'e have a coplete line of canning supplies.
Let us carry the load
Save time, strength and worry by phoning us for your groceries. Prompt
service, free delivery and courtesy are essentials we mix with all orders
received.
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We're Fighting
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This community has publically called upon
The Springfield News to fight its battles in
the railroad controversy as well as in other
issues. This we are willing and glad to do,
but in fighting for you we expect your un­
qualified support. You must be behind us
financially as well as morally.
See that your subscriptions are paid well
in advance. And see to it too that the men
you patronise are advertisers in this paper
and are boosters for ycur interests and this
commutity. This is no time to straddle the
issue.
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