THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
HOPE TO CONVINCE THE FAIR MINDED
The shop lifte rs say they w ont answer us no
m a tte r what we say about them
We don’t c a i"
Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, by
w hether they do o r not. E ve ryth in g we have
T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS
said about them Is the tru th . O ur rem arks have
We do not hope to
B . K M A g K T . Editor
F. C W KSTERFIF.LD. Manager not been to convince them.
convince anyone whose sense o f reason lies
Bntervd as second class matter. February i t , 1903 at the solely th ro u g h his pocketbook. Hut we do hope
postoRlce. Springfield. Oregon
to reach the fu ir minded citizen and make him
see the injustice o f the ileal these brigands are
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T H U R S D A Y . J U L Y 2. 1925
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T H U R SD AY. JULY
T U R SPR IN G FIELD NEWS
FADE TWO
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Editorial Program
I.
Make Springfield the Industrial Center of Wes
tern Oregon-
II. Develop a Strong Trading Point; Build a City
of Contented Homes.
IIL Improve Living Conditions on the Farm. Pro
mote the Raising of Purebred Livestock and
the Growing of Fruit; Work for Better Markets
IV. Tell the World About Oregon's Scenic Wonder
land.
Some Springfield M istakes
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FINE JOKE ON OREGON ELECTRIC
Eugene men are preparing to bond th e ir d iy
to buy a $175,000 shop she fo r the Southern Pa
cific, In o ther words they plan to assess the Ore
gon E lectric properties to a make a Present to Its
com petitor. And the S. P. yells about the t a l l
ness o f com m on user. Depends on wlio.c dog
is kicked.
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The Bugene cham ber o f commerce is to be
cotnpUuicnied in ta kin g up the prom otion o f the
Three Sisters c o u n try as a public play ground.
T ru ly It is one o f the most m arvelous m ountain
aregs in N orth America hut it Is little know n and
appreciated even among Ixtne county people.
Thousands o f people would be visiting the Three
S isteis every year If It were advertised to the ex
te n t o f m any o f the national parks of the coun
try.
Vice-President Kenney of the tlre a t Northern, report*
crop prospects In that road's territo ry the beat In sis year*.
U o iu u i. I « o r ll* , Speaking for North Dakota. *a>s h l* stale
<g looking fnrwurd to one o f the best hnrvesls In Ils blsl-
b ry
W orld demand and (lie production outlook In lha
w inter w hii-t a ta t.» matte it rather llkelv ibat. no mat
»er how big the spring wheal crop, the farm e r w ill get a
b elte r harvest tim e price than he got last year
Anti last
year was such a good year It turned Northwest depression
in to N o rthw est pro«jH-"lty
V *'• ks as tl»«>uvh 1/125
m ight be a tough porlral for Ute gloom pedter. Mlnneop
oils Journal.
On T h ird and Main Street, a railroad, a street
e s s
and a street i t i r line cross each o th e r on the
T H E GOOD O LD DAYS
same intersection. Last week an accident, that
m ight have killed a score o f people, was averted
Newspnpera often speak of tho good old days.
Hot
on ths crossing by a hairs breadth. A locom otive
wore they anv better than they are today? In tho so-called
bore down on a loaded street car and only the
good old d ay* the world never .«Joyed the • X r.-l»« of
rare presence o f m ind of the street ca r conductoa
dodging automobiles; there was no static to exercise One'*
who threw the street car in reverse averted a
»oral chorda; a bootlrgg. r was Just a plain bum Instead
te rrific collision. W hy must we tolerate such a
England has been sw eltering in a teni|>erature of a fln u n rlit and If a nran ever dreamed o an alrp InY *
menace? It ought to he s u fficie n t to allow a
he took a big dose of castor oil Iho next day for a bilious
street ca r and a railroad to use the same line o f SI degrees, the hottest in f if t y 'iv e years, it attack T h ere la a m istake These are the good old day*.
and bridge fro m Second street to the S pringfield they call that hot they ought to Im port a little o f
— Florida Tlmoa-Unlon.
Junction, w ith o u t devising a death tra p on a out June weather
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street corner.
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k id n a p p in g in h o llv w o o o
Score one fo r Secretary Kellogg. He isn't go
The Southern P acific has made in fo rm a l ap ing to let the trouble w ith Mexico develop into
Confessions of the men arrested In iho 9200.000 ransom
plication to reduce the grade on Second and M ill a note w ritin g ctontest.
plot tn kidnap M ary Bickford aasure lha film fan that It
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streets. A tw o fo o t reduction in grade on M ill
was no film flam
Yet In view of the possibility of an
street w ill render th is street nearly impassable
epidemic of kidnapping plots In and around Hollywood
Judging from the way France and Ita ly look at It would be a wlae precaution If the police would take
and useless. W hy should we keep g ra n tin g
privileges to a railroad com pany just because she It. If G erm any and A ustria are ever united It w ill fin g e r print a of a ll the preaa agents fur future Identifies-
has the nerve to keep asking fo r them ? A center have to be the result o f an elo|>emcnt.
phi« Comm ercial Appeal
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pier has been m aintained under th is crossing fo r
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m any years Just because the c ity council did not ; Quoth the shop lifte rs : “ We must save o u r own
May we look forw ard lo a time, perhaps 60 years from
demand its rem oval. The same sort o f pier was skins.” M eaning we don’t give u d
fo r a n y now. when the circus w ill carry as added attraction n
b u ilt at the same tim e on the highw ay across body else.
W ild East show reproducing Ihe hold ups and battles nf the
the riv e r but the county would not stand fo r th is ,
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gunmen as they occuretl |n (he lawless early years nf the
sort o f a stru o tu re and it was removed.
tw en tieth century, before the cities were civilised?— Bos
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And they s till “ look w ith m isgiving on the ton Transcript.
So heavy is the tra ffic on the Pacific highw ay building o f a tow n across the riv e r.”
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that Eugene needs another approach to the c ity
T here are Indications that senators are getting ready
fro m both the N orth and south. She w ill surely
for Dawes' a ttack when Congress convenes.
Henstor
E d ito r ia l
C om m ent
have a hard tim e g e ttin g another upproach from
K a rris , of Georgia baa had h l* tonsils rem oved.— M- r^-
LET T H E BATTLE RAGE
the n o rth if the tow n Is bottled up by shops and 1
phla Clnvm rrclal Appeal
T he crest pitched b attle last week tn the fastnesses of
term inals at B la ir street. If Eugene is to bei
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the large c ity her boosters say she is then she W est V irg in ia between dry agents and mnonahlnere In
A W ashington expert say* the average Am erican fam ily
should have some room to expand in. Hut w ith which one agent »«« killed and two o th e r* seriously In consists of 6.1 persona You have one gueaa as to which
n a tu ra l barriers on three sides and railroad shops i Jured. tu rn * out to have been a d as h between two group* mem ber of the fam ily makes the .1. You are correct, li e
on the o th e r where is this room going to be nt prohibition enforcer*, one national and on* atate. earh ta.—Omaha Be«
of which nil «took the other for rum runner*, and started
found?
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■hooting.
A Lyons man named his tw o trucks W illia m and
S pringfield has made some m istakes in her
re la tio n sh ip w ith railroads. She has been on a
bra n ch line ra ilroad fo r m any years when she
could have been on a m ain line o f another road.
She has granted the Southern P acific com pany
every consideration th a t corporation has desired
and has not even gotten good tra in service in re
tu rn . She has lived on certain definite concrete
prom ises o f a ra ilroad com pany that seemingly
m akes promises o n ly to break them if it satisfied
th e com pany's own ends She has allowed h e r
cham ber o f com m erce to be used as a rubber
sta m p on docum ents to w hip other com m unities
in to the S. P. colum ns, and in tu rn has seen those
o th e r com m unities rewarded, even at her ex
pense.
W hy should S pringfield not p ro fit by her m is
ta k e s — being th a t she is powerless to re c tify
them ? W hy should she not about face and do
th in g s d iffe re n tly in the fu tu re .
A nother railroad is w a itin g to come in to this
te rrito ry . L e t’s go o u t and get it — lend it o u r sup-
'pore m o ra lly and fin a n cia lly. It is not a privilege
fo r a co m m u n ity to be on a ra ilroad— it is a |
T h e re I* nothing surprising about this a * It I* lb« Charles Bryan, figu ring (hat a l least one of them would
Some people o f Eugene and the press set up a
flriv ile g e fo r a ra ilroad to be allowed to r u n .
how l every tim e Albany tries to get the Santiam established custom n f dry agent*, who are a law u n it be running at any tim e.— Lyons. Kane., News.
th ro u g h a co m m u n ity and enjoy the benefits o f
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road improved. They th in k it w ill cut down the themselves. to shoot a* they search, on suspicion, and In
th e business. W hat we need is a railroad th a t
Science Is doing wonders for the world, aside from
tra ffic on the M cKenzie H ighw ay’. T ru th is there vestlgate a fte rw a rd * Being Immune from punishment,
w ill appreciate th is fa c t
is plenty o f tra ffic fo r both highw ays and the j they are perfectly safe In perforating the Innocent public discovering some things that may not be t r u e — Toledo
S pringfield, fro m the point o f tonnage, is on®
N ear Corvallis recently a woman driving to her sick Blade
more Im proved roads we have leading through i
o f the largest fre ig h t shipping centers in W e s te r*
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the m ountains the better o ff the state w ill be. husband was shot at. scared h alf to death, searched and
Oregon.
Tom M arshall was a disappointm ent to some In that
C entainly we need better connections w ith east Insulted by dry sleuths because she had no boose It Is «
S pringfield owes the Southern P acific railroad
ern Oregon. Its a na rro w view to oppose Albany common pastime for them to puncture tires and auto* he had no patent cure-all for the various Ills of (he body
no th in g . On the o ther hand the Southern Pa
w ith bullets on suspicion.
They have shot men dead, politic. Hut curealt* never cure.— Chicago News.
in her attem pts to im prove the Santiam road.
c ific owes th is co m m u n ity m uch. L e t’s “ put o u t”
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carryin g home r andy to children and have even shot down,
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n o th in g more to the S. P. u n til she pays a few o f
W ashington has had a le tte r from the school teachers
Rev. Dr. John Roach S tra tto n told his New w ith im m unity a U nited Slates Senator.
h e r co m m u n ity debts.
Now that they have taken to shooting each other, they n f the Aleutian «Hands Inquiring who was elected presi
Y ork congregation th a t the new R ockefeller
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church, head ed by Dr. Fosdick. should be called have found a proper outlet for th e ir lawless activities Let dent Iasi fall The least Ihe government ran do Is to send
THAT DANGEROUS CROSSING
’ the teachers a good radio set —Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Socony church. W ould the Im m ersions be in oil? the battle rage —Saini Capital Journal.
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sx.
A year ago the Southern Pacific ra ilro a d com
The annual loss to the Am erican public, a t
pany promised the Oregon Public service com
m ission to in s ta ll an a u tom atic signal on the trib u te d to c o n im e n la i fraud is $25(\000.000.
Second Street crossing. T hat dangerous crossing E vidently B a rn u m ’s b irth ra te idea is now higher
s till stand unguarded. T w o dozen accidents have than one every m inute.
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happened on th is crossing since the apolication |
was made fo r remedy- Thousands o f cars cross
An argum ent accomplishes one th in g It con-
these tra cks d a ily enroute to and fro m S pring- vin es both parties o f the foolishness o f the other
fie ld and over the McKenzie state highw ay. T his fellow .
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crossing is an absolute menace to life and p ro
If vou are so proud o f yo u r fine merchandise
p erty. The Cham ber o f Commerce shrould re
new its demand on the Public Service Com m is that you w ant to keep it around to look a t during
sion to relieve the co m m u n ity o f th is danger the next year, then don’t advertise.
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In th is demand she w ill be backed by a strong
J "« t w hat the “ tru m p card” was M r. C alkins
c o u n ty farm ers organization.
I t is evident the S. P. does not intend to fix speaks about in his dealings w ith the railroad
com pany we propose to te ll before this co n tro
th is crossing u n til she is compelled to.
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versy is over. T h a t is one of the deep, dark secrets
I f the S. P. shops cover a ll the lands the shop o f th is a ffa ir.
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lifte rs own o r have options on west o f Eugene
A bd-el-K rim has a new b a ttle c ry : "T re a t ’Em
th e y w ill be some shops. Eugene ought to ask
Ju n c tio n C ity and Irv in g to consolidate w ith her. R i f f "
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