T1IUR81)AY, JULY 9, 192R PAGE TWO THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS i Published Every Thursday at Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS B. E MAXEY, Editor F. C. WESTKRF1KLD Manager Mute red as second class matter. February i t , 1903 at the • postoKIce,Springfield. Oregon_____________ M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E On» Year tn Advance »1 36 Btx Moaths f _______ ___ 76c Three M o n th s Single Copy — 60c 6c WHAT ABOUT THE STREET CAR LINE? T H U R S D A Y . J U L Y 9, 1915 WHOSE FAULT WILL IT BE? Editorial Program Make Springfield the Industrial Center of W e e tern Oregon. . II. The shop lifters are treading on dangerous if out of the fight over the shops and term inals the Southern Pacific company decides to build them elsewhere, whose fault will it he? The fault of this little buucU of selfish schemers. If this section loses. Eugene ami Springfield peo- ( pie will know who to blame. • • • * • grounds, ______ I. Oevelop a Strong Tradin g Point; Build a C ity of Contented Homes. III. Im prove L ivin g Conditions on the Fqrm. Pro- mote the Raising of Purebred Livestock and the Growing of F ru it: W o rk fo r B etter M arkets IV. T e ll the W o rld About Oregon's Scenic W ondar- * • * * • • • • Two Brooklyn policemen find a m an's clothing ami shoes in an old wagon Sniffing a suicide land. • they set two bloodhounds to lead them to the m ystery. The bloodhounds take the Cope to > swam p in which they sink to their necks, and: SCORE ONE FOR THE S. P. that was that. Every dog has his day. • • • The automatic signal, promised a year ago by the Southern Padific company for the Second While New York women are trying io appear street crossing, is being Installed. Whether our curt remarks about this crossing last week thin, a bootlegger likes to appear fat. He carries hastened the installation or whether the S. P. a rubber barroom under his waistcoat. C yllndri-1 was ready to put it in doesn’t matter. The main cal cartridges filled with highballs are slipped to thing is the alarm will be put up and act as a N. Y. Baseball fans. It is am azing how many warning to the thousands of motorists who cross drinks some men can carry under their belts and to rake in the money. the tracks in the future. If it saves one life it still rem ain sober enough • • • will be well worth the trouble and expense of in­ stallation. Think what an awful blow It would be to the We pay tribute where tribute is due. Score one Four Hundred If somebody should prove that we for the S. P Now how about a few of the other all descended from the chimpanzee. • • • counts this community has indicted the Southern Pacific on? i Male parents throughout the land will be glad • • • to learn that Sunday. June 21, was said to be OLD OREGON HOME TO REST Father’s Day • • • The tnawsuv o*d battleship Oregon now rests It is quite evident that Tennessee will not In the Willamette river at Portland under the pro­ tection of the state whose name she bears Never stand for any monkey-shine business. • • • in the annals of narel ristory has one ship been covered with more glory. The turning over o f| George Bernard Shaw says he is crazy and he the ship to the state by the navy department on has generally been accepted as an authority. July 2, the 27th anniversary of the battle of San­ tiago was with fitting ceremonies. The old fight­ ing craft will be a monument of inspiration to the E d ito r ia l C om m ent rising generation—concrete evidence of human sacrifice for love of country. DUE FOR SURPRISE When Eugene gets through playing football A DAY LATER with Springfield. It will haven played a losing Although Springfield has rail connections that game. When the S. P. shops are finally located makes It several miles closer to Portland than It may not be at either Springfield or Eugene, Eugene, freight and express coming to this city and “promoters" of the diaholical deal will wond­ is a day later than Eugene. Three day service er what hit Eugene.—Scio Tribune. • • • » out of Portland is generally what the merchant can expect in Springfield. However. If he uses NO SELFISHNESS WANTED motor truck the orders put up in Portland in the morning reaches him late in the afternoon. Can ! The Guard would divide iJtne county Into sev­ you blame some shippers for using the motor eral portions and among other things give Junc­ tion City a county seat. No, thanks; after ob­ truck when the S. P. gives this sort of service? serving the way most county seat towns act, we • • • The completion of the fine modern linen mill at prefer to remain just as we are.—Junction C Ity Salem marks another industry that city has at­ Times. • • • tained by being on the •’job.” Salem’s progres­ MAY GET STUNG sive spirit is to be commended. • • • Looks as though that Eugene rail road busi­ Everything but our money seems to Insult ness might turn out to be a hornets nest.— Oak­ Mexicans and Europeans these days. We ridge Review. . . . would be the Ideal big brother If this country, would keep on "shelling out” and saying nothing. A D V E R T IS IN G PRO O F • • • The Eugene newspapers are like jumping lacks in the hands of the shop lifters. They belch fourth a bunch of flimsey excuses for the shop lifters activities every time the string is pulled. • • • The girl who begins painting at 12 generally needs whitewashing at 20. • • • This is Christmas season for the filling station. • • • A thief a iw a vs d islike s im b lM tv . FOLKS IN OUR TOWN -roe WSAMF r Buy a Tent and go Building the Southern 1‘acific railroad shops and term inals in Springfield will mean doubling i the size of the town in the next three of four! years. Such a condition will m ake the Spring i field Eugene street e ar line a very profitable eu ! ter price, where now it has a hard tim e b reak in g ! even. Developing a com m unity west of Eugene at the ruin of Springfield will m ake the street car line a “white elephant." Surely the Southern! Pacific will take this into consideration before making any changes in shop site location. • • • CAMPING BARGAINS IN YES, WE AiC VERY RICH. $5,000 FOR tJES. ING. FLYING IJ TRE ARCTIC. ONE LADY LFARNS. This is a frig htfu lly rich nation. The countries of Europe ovo us ten thousand millions and will pay us, including interest, TIIII v TS' T H O U S A N » M IL L IO N S in the next 61 years. European debts due to private American purchasers of Europe’» obligations at .ount to eight thou­ sand million dollars. These se­ curities. averaging high ink rest rates will «nioel Europe to pay our ettiaens M O .000,000 a year— with the principal when due. Old Rome, with her consuls pouring in money and slavee from conquered territory, w w not near­ ly as “ well fixed” as Uncle Sam. No wonder some of our friends in Europe worry, and ask "Did we fight each other only to make Uncle Sam rich?" Our answer la "W e didn’t ask you to AghL He wiser next time.'* The American Society fo r the control of Cancer Is cheerful. It reports excellent progress Thou­ sand» of lives, now neetlleasly sacri­ ficed, would be saved, If people were informed and would keep away from quack*. The society denies the statement recently made at a convention of doctors that "no­ body really knows anything about cancer." "Cancer is not contagious ■» in­ h e rite d ." vys the American So­ ciety. Take the cancer in the be- ginnin-f w ■>•«, It it only local. David Cowan, a young Canadian, won H'.AVO for the best eeaay pre­ dicting the developments In elec­ trical Industry between 1920 and 1930 At the end of 1930. the American Superpower Corporation will give *10.000 to the essay w riter whose prediction« corns nearest to the truth. Young Cowan knew nothing about ele-trieity, when Bonbright A Co. oJered the prise. He u«.d ni* brains, studied the history of electricity In l.ilustry. let his * - agination work, and W ON. The Moderation I^mgue reports ♦hot dr kir«t “in tho Sc"’ h” has T enti, Folding Cot«, Army Blanket«, Pack Sack« and Outing Good» tiili Willamette St. THE HUB «... ,v e *. i I mu per cent w.. - four cities, under prohit- an. Why pick out the Souui ? There la no more drinking there than elsewhere. In any part of the United States you can drink a* much as , i'ik a . The u aay it would he leas dan­ gerous for the Shenandoah to go to Spitsbergen and hunt fag Amund-wi then to go from I-ake- hurvt a> Minneapolis end ' < k ? " AN SW F t; Bee*one «t this time year cm—fug the A**an le with prevailing winds helping, go­ ing on to Spi t sbergen from Eng­ land, with the Patoka waiting there as a base, and eaptort- . the Arctic Ocean a f*w hundred miles north would he rimpla. It would only mean flying the big Shenan­ doah In the midsummer climate of the Arctic, at no great distance feoff! her baas. A trip from New York to Minne­ sota and return through the tone of midsummer thunderstorms will he sufficiently safe, as be bum does not explode or twm . But It would be more dangerous than a trip to fipltxlicrgen and on North at thia season. Careful Inquiry In restau rents ghows that corned beef and " EUGENE ORE. bags 1« the favorite food of .ha American public. Four thousand five hundred end twelve votes behind caine the vegetable dinner. Neverthelee«, corned beef, excellent for those that live by their muscles, 1» n<* good for thinkers. Any process that makes D E­ CAY difficult also makes DIG ES­ T IO N D IF F IC U L T . While your stomach Is struggling with corps«! beef, or salt pork, your healn can­ not do its bast. Ona lady, tired of life, killed her­ self In New York end left ell her money to her first husband, whom she liad «livorcoL She cut off her reel husband with» ut a penny, her last IrCtev «aying how ki«d the first husband had been to her. Warning to wlvee as their eyes turn toward divorce. Sometimes you ore very well of? end do no* real!*» IL Planing M ill R u n n in g - The planing mill at the Booth Kelly mill hnre re. ruined opcruH00* Monday morning. The rest of the mill will not be re­ opened until July 1*. Oeneral repairs shout the mill are being made during the shutdow n The U st twenty feet of th«< wooden carrier to the Incinera­ tor Is being replaced by metal to de- rr*tM th* firs danger L WINDOW SHADES — LINOLEUM — FLOOR COVERINGS STOVES AND RANGES Here 1» an Illustration of the effect of advertising. On bargain day a memo written on a small piece of ordinal | note paper was loet on the sidewalk here and found. The finder glanced through It to determine the writer In order to effect Its return. Among other article« listed as Intended purchases a t, the stores which had «.dvertlseil especially for the bargain > day event were: Shoes, sweater, silk goods, dress. Stock­ ings—five articles to be purchased from four different stores whose ads had been read.. Who says It doesn t pa> j to advertise?—Salem Statesman. HC*>e I L A N D TH A T 3 0 8 D o w n act c m o o s . Gue-irrt AMD COMPANY - I MAD EMO o SH O F < A r i , AN ASH CAM , T H IS ife A \ o o o o o p p o d t l h s it v t o o « r RtO OF S O M E O F TH IS J U N K Joe A Furniture Store That Smiles a Daily Welcome ALMOST D«ove COOWOO 60 HE LEFT Whether you are nn old customer of ours- whether you are a prospective purchaser of furniture or home furnlshlngB -or Just a casual admirer of fine furniture, we cordially Invite you, to visit us in our new home and look through. See the newest ruga and floor coverings, the new odd chairs, lamps and suites for your dressing room, your boudoir and your living room—you’re always welcome here. Edward McCofloagh autocasteb Helpful, Intelligent, Courteous Service Standard Furniture Co. Formerly Brauer Furniture Co. A. G. BRAUER J. L. MARTIN HEILIG THEATRE BUILDING f 1 i i ERIC MERRELL