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THURSDAY. JULY IS. 192« THE SPRINGF-.-îl.D NWW8 fAOB FOUR ■ i age ot future generations. For th e sake of those who ' come a fte r us. we m ust p rotect th e ir property from our own m isuse The governm ent hae adopted th e pn'.cy Published Kvvry Thursday at of holding the forest th e people’s playground, but they Sprincfleld, L ane County, Oregon, by should b>< re stric te d to th e p rim itive sp o rts of the re ' THE WILLAMETTE PRESS sportful woodsman. It Is sacrilege to allow In these The F irst Y esr of M arriage Is the H. K MAXEY. Editor. g n a t tem ple», th e crude and taw d ry p ica-urea of a , H a rd e st ■stared aa second ckaaa matter. February 34. IMS at the t oney Island Dear Miss F lo:- W hen I m arried ■ pqetotnce, Spriu«fteJd. Oregos I lit* t r i l l It is tllttt Douglas fir trot* I lls tt life my huslutud, over a y ear ago, I was tilt* s tttllt* its tt p e r s o n . A t tt i<’l t u i t t Agt* it is At madly lu love with him. Now I find MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATI its pritue, later it sta rts losing its vitality until It ti,al j barely to lerate him. lie , Tear In Advance.— .|1.TS Three Months dies. If we let stand a forest of IXiuglas fir as ¡H „ good man, and does everything $l.M Single Copy M o n th s ---------------- a ' h«>ritag«*T»f future generations, they will not (ll bis pow er to make me happy, hut THURSDAY. JULY 15. ISM thank us for it. Because for the most part these something is m issing. He tacks many trees will m ake doty useles logs. While If we o( (h, qualities I long for—all of th« cut the trees now rijn* and oecomlng less useful : romance seem s to have gone from In Confidence T H E SPRIN G FIELD N EW S By Flo d au g h ter's atten tio n to h e son s In l.tw weakness«*», or put son wise to her d a u a h te r’s-ln-law faults. If • parents wxiulil m ake It a point to try making one's chtlilres aatlefled with the m atrim onial tuirguln they have made Instead of ixuitlnually ra ilin g th eir al J lentjon to Hie way they have taken In and fooled - ve an th ere would he few er dlvorves. FOR RAr.J9—f ’arbon gaper la la r* Sheets. $«!$» Inches, »ultahls fw making tracings The isews Offler A nnouncem ent Editorial Program each year, young trees will spring up In their*<mr ,Ue ,H, you ,hlnk we places and the future generations will have sound tended for Moa other? t am the only L Make Springfield the Industrial Cantar a* Waa- live tim ber. In the lifetime of many living people'daughter of well-to-do parents, auu . tarn Oregon. in the W illamette valley trees have been cut and both m other and fath er w aul me to g M. Develop a Strong Trading Paint; Build a City now large firs stand iq their place ready for the get a divorce. They were opposed to • ef Contented Hcmee. ax again the m arriage because (hey knew he a h l Improve Living Conditions en the Farm. Fro- T here are thousands of over ripe trees on could not give me the things to which » mote 1H» Raising of Fv<obred Livestock end the McKenzie w atershed and while a new auto I had lieeu accustom ed. I'lease tell p the Growing ef Fruit; Work for Better Markets ■ IV. Tell the World About Oregon's Bosnie Wander- road up the South Fork may not lead to any tue *wbnt to do. H elen. saw mills, at present. It will give the forest scr- S land. • • • • vice a chance to protect the heavy tim ber from I th in k , H elen, th a t the trouble ------------ . K CONSERVATION devastating fires. If there Is real danger from with you Is that your m arriage hank w n o c n cam pers than during the dry periods of the year h»» gone f l a t You have come up Lots of people who have a good aim m me s e n .,ce fcpep thp roftd cloBed ................................... .... »gainst It a* a fact ami condition are poor «munition- Many crim es are com m itted In the nam e of cun- —rath e r than u theory and rom Conservation of our natural tim ber was a servatlon. ance. and now that you have found popular program ten years ago and it was said It Isn’t alw ays roses you w ant to th a t in a decade or two there would be no tint« run back home to m other, w ithout MINORITIES ber left. Time has proven these conservation- even trying to ad ap t yourself to u ists wrong. But we still have them in the We are ruled largely by organized ininorlt- new ,1,e or hilfill any of your rankest form living in the cities, witness the ies. Too often this teaches us nothing except to '•“**'*' “» “ wl,u- 11 • ’ me editorial from the Portland Telegram : fear the unknow n and to m istake assertion for that r“,hrr • cowardly thing t» t r u t h o r b o a s ts ( o r s tr e n g t h . 1 1 ,"1' lf y“ u r' “ n ' "'* OUR FO REST SANCTURUOL A particularly sad thing about m inorities is rour hushaint because he . a n t give A P ortlan d business man, ju s t retu rn ed from a trip parents can by b o n e-b ack and pack tram over w e m ountain fast- t|je m anner in which the m ajority are punished >•»> the luxuries v that pretty you—If you I Besses of the McKecxie region, p rte sts ag ain sls th e ex- o n account of silts the m ajority commit. We Klv* of autom obile roads through th e lo re st reserv es, have hundreds of privileges withheld from us Clothes and soft living are more He m entions particularly the road now under co n stru ctio n for no Other reason than that a few persons necessary to you than the love pp the South F ork of th e M cKecgie river, as a w aste abused those privileges in the past. » K00<1 m an- 1 ,hln,< ,or hl* ,a k * funds, a m enace to the unique ch arm w hich An organized m inority is not necessarily in ?ou h",I b etter go on with a «II- Of public hnven't the grit ild ern ess w hat tt is, and an inv itatio n to ir- the wrong. Because noted m inorities have prov- vorce For if you m akos the responsible m otorists whose careless tam p s a re poten- ed them selves right is the only reasson for the ,o stand di? *aff now- you *bnply m yth th a t they are always right. h aven't the stuff in you to m ake a tisi firebrands O ur correspondent voices a p ro test which should be But most m iority organization# are not desirable wife for a poor man m ore general and m ore determ ined. O regon Is fortu- even intended to be beneficial to others than the But lf 11 *• only b e c a u s e al I the nate In having still g reat tra c ts of virgin forest, a para- members and th etr proctectors. A bandits' or ''»iioincH seems to have gone o u t of dise for the man who hunts eith e r with gun or cam era, bootleggers’ ring m ay be organized for the pur- your marrla*e * *oulrn t worry H ere a re free ran g in g bands of elk and deer. C ougars and pose of defying the law. and such rings have ro° mu<h; try 11 “ w rtl'' <"ng> r b ears find here r e t r e a t The sm all folk of fu r and been quite successful. This may be an argum ent No one wl,h *" deny fe ath er have h ere th eir homes. T h ere a re sw ift stre a m s I In favor of org an izatio n , but It leaves no room that ,h* flr*t y’’ar of marr,ed ,lf*' spangled with speckled trout. More th an alt. h ere a re for the inference th a t anything is good SO long *• * ,,me of S’’’’“1 <lanF’’r for «very deep recesses of th e inviolate woods, w here men may a s it is firmly organized by a minority. young couple No two persans of find th e g re a t peace of silence and th e repose of solitude i We hear m uch about “blocs” Ul Congress. , «ilMerent »ex and blood. brought up T h ere a re such san ctu aries as B ryant had in mind when After all. not any too m uch real good has been ,n «llfferert environm ent», with dlf he w rote: "The groves w ere God s first tem ples." accomplished by th e m ajority of these h“b,u* a0lJ P°lnta of C u t e f our g reat w ealth of unused lands, we can w ell A bloc as a rtlie is a selfish minority excusing its T,ew- ('an P°"*,bly be expected to other afford to leave some of Jthese prim eval fttrests s e c u re ly ! selfishness on the plea of accom plishing’' M W - ad)“Rt th,’ni"’’|ve" to each T here Is ns Ithout some friction Inaccessible to c latterin g cars and their, ch a tte rin g pa»s- thing good— a promise Seldom redeemed diali, engera L et us have forest trails, to set've th e puck Oftimgs despite noble intentions, these fttgani- niarrfa*e ’ th a t Is not full of trials. do th e ir * cRUaetf mort* ,li"1on* * disappointm ents, train , thp forest lover wro goes afoot, and the w arden rations of good people dn « h e i r . o fllm etf n inh> Itlslons, and tribulations. Only In fairy who guards the f o r e s t but we should be slow to build ; harm than* good tales do they m arry and live hap. i “ Blocs” often are nothing more tflRn Hfocks. common highw ays in th ese reserved forests. F or the word “re serv ed ” is not an idle adjective. T h ese trees a re reserved, not for us. but to be th " h**r!»- Most n f the troubles we have com* because we insist 'in having our own wav. ' and become subject to its de----- U is Week By Arthur Brisbane MR. EASTMAN’S LION. HE’LL CATCH FISH. DAVID DANCED, PERHAPS. $1,000 AN HOUR? George E astm an , of Rochester, h u n tin ” ' .-ame in A frica, has killed his first lion, eig h t feet long D oubtless Mr. E astm an pushed the trig g e r, and the lion did the rest. How would you make th a t lion ■ nderstand how a m an could trav el from Rochester, across the A tlantic Ocean, down to the lion country, ju st to shoot h im ? If it w ere an atheistic lion it would ray, “ You are talk in g nonsense. T here i- no such th in g as G eorge E astm an . All is accident.” P resident Coolidge, on his vaca tion, will fish in a lake w here, men tell him, th ere are no fish. F o r P resident Coolidge no such body of w ater exists. If he fishes, be will catch fish. And If fish a re scarce, he will have the more tim e to think. T ak ing fish off the hook is an annoy ing interru p tio n of th o u g h t The P resident m ust do hard thinking w ith w heat and cotton fa rm e rs , N orth and South, fighting each o th er and nothing “done fo r the farm er.” ‘ The P resident will not fish with fancy “flies,” b u t w ith genuine w o rn » , »uch as he used to dig up in V erm ont or pull ou t of th eir ground w ith his fingers a fte r a sain years ego. T h a t’s BAD, and more S enators will know it soon and stay home. C ongress collected some of th e money th a t E urope owes us. T h a t’s GOOD. It is as well we did not tr y to collect all, we m ight not have got anything. Congress ap p ro p riated $150,000,- 000 to be spent in five years on aviation. T hat SOUNDS all rig h t, b u l th ere IS N ’T any A m eri can aviation w orth speaking . of, and th a t’s BAD. Dancing m aster» “b a r the C harleston,” b u t w on't succeed in driving o u t th a t wild dance. It is probably like th a t David danced before the A rk. I t enables th e dancer to express frensied emotions fo r which w ords can’t be found. Dancing originally w as all wild, a? am ong A m erican Indians o r A frican savages. Prifnitive man desiring to "express him self,” danced him self into exhaustion. Then cam e b rief control, sta te ly m inuet, w altz, jerk y polka, quadrille. T h ere is no p ersonality o r expression in them. The C harleston, allowing youth to throw up both legs and arm s a t once, will sta y until o ur craving fo r “ self expression" shall have been satisfied. Roy D. Finch, New Y ork’s able S tate E ngineer, shows th a t neglect to harness th e St. Lawrence costs New York S tate lo.*’' 1,000 tons of coal every year. W aste does not d isturb the A m erican people. . Congress site clo;e to the Poto mac s Lushing rapids, every day w asting pow er enough to lig h t all G overnm ent buildings and half o f W ashington. In a sixty-m ile race yesterday, aeroplanes beat c a rrie r pigeons by th ree m inutes. One hundred years ago, stag e coaches raced ag ain st steam locomotives, and locomo- tives won by a narrow m argin. The m argin is now wider. Those living will see aeroplanes flying around th is earth — 25,000 miles in 48 hours. A Chicago lady, in a h u rry to Coegreesm en are going home to g e t home, com m andeered a Penn re s t and learn w hat th e ir co n stitu sylvania Railroad special train , en ts think. ju s t os K ubla Khan decreed his Like hushands going home late, stately pleasure. It cost some they are thinking up a convincing $7,037.50. T he lady, paying fo r story. 125 tickets a t $55.30 each, Raved They have cut more than six hours. How many are th ere 000.Odd off the national tax load. w in the world whose tim e is w orth T hat’s GOOD. $1,000 an hour. Many, fo rtu n a te They ried th e ir best to --ke ly, but m ost o f -them haven’t got *J»l« country Join the World ..uurt. $1,000 an hour. A D O U t IfO U i' H ealth Thing» You Should Know plly ever after. But rig h t thinking I men put th eir dream s behind them. Jack up th eir courage, and wlih prllosophy and humor, try to make the best of the bargain they have en tered into D on't let your p aren ts Influence you too much. Every husband and wife must flrh t out th eir own ba'.'las alone. P aren ts are In the h ab it <f thinking of th eir children an Just being p a rts of them selves, with the some d esires and tastes, and it Is hard for them to realize th a t th e ir sons and daughters have a d lslln el en tity of th«lr own In too many cases It Is m other who first calls ton by John Joseph Gaines, M V egetable Vs. M ineral Medicines M ost people a re ready to buy medicine if it is labelled **pt*eiy vegetable.” They im agine they are g e ttin g som ething like trin g bean» ami lettuce, I suppose— perfectly harm less. We should not fo rg et t h a t m any of the deadlii t poisons a re vegetable. Opium is a vege tab le substance from th e juice of th e poppy. Strychnine is purely vegetable. B elladonna and all its d erivatives a re deadly if taken In over-dose. Cocaine is another pow erful poison, th a t is also cap able of producing a habit. I know o f no m ineral medicine th a t is m ore dangerous. T here are m ineral ag en ts th a t we cannot do w ithout, am ong the leaders, Iron and Calcium. M ang- a - ' -■ i c ..ti" .:ely valuable In ini- po'.oiL bed hlcoij ce- -| i’i ' ' u ry is a p o L /y - ucu'flv in soi vt its forms, but rot b.ci.e so than aconite or aJcohoL The facts a. :, tn a t m edicine’ of all kinds are good serv an ts but bad m asters. Even o u r food is d an g er ous, if not taken with a high de g ree of intelligence. The activo poisons are invaluable in the hand i of th e educated physician. W hen the inexperienced p atien t sets hi.7 ju d g m en t a g ain st th a t o f the train ed medical m an, som ething un favorable is extrem ely likely to happen. Aloes is a vegetable medicine, th a t form s an in g red ien t of m ost rem edies for th a t universal com p laint, constipation. The patient m ay slowly m edicate him self Into th e hands of the rec'al specialist, if he buys medicine on his own judgm ent, or by th a t of the fellow who has the nostrum to sell. No medicine should be taken indiscrim inately, or ithout a thorough know ledge of its effects—a word to M m wise is sufficient. * "" W eeks— I have returned to my form er business, the Sanitary M arket In Springfield, and wish again to BBS ail my old frieuda and patrons of thia m eat m arket. Quality and Service has always been my motto. You will find here a full line of freah Bleats, aalted and anioked m eats and fish. Fresh flah on Fridays will also be a feature of thia m ar ket. Ice delivery will be three tim es a week. Sanitary Market T. F. Bennett, Prop, Phone 80 Fifth und Main St. Eugene Business College A. K. Robert«. President Secretartkl Bookkeeping Stenographic Courses IT ’S A G O O D SC H O O L Rugene, Oregon 992 W illamette Street Old Stuff There wtta a time when ye rom antic »wain, wooed her with his golden voice, warbled plunkety—pllnk of his guitar. to the musical plunk,— But those days are gone forever. . Now He buys her a Ixtx of Egglniun's chocolates EGGIMANN’S Eat More Bread for Health Our bread Is of unsurpassed flavor and texture, a golden brown crust of the delicious, crispy kind a round top and smooth surface- finn to the touch. These are points th at characterize our PERFECTION 1.11 \F You'll like Perfection Pastries too. They melt In your mouth. T H E B R E A D Y O U D O N ’T T IR E OF SPRIN G FIELD BA K ERY DRUGSTORE For S u m m er C om fort Perkins Laxton Building FRED FRESE, Prop, , Fifth Rt. Springfield Phone R6 " T'lwryv"-" ,'w—i .mijiM ggBs»sggwiiidreiaM »gwiM aaggss s f •««•»/ - You N eed a Good T alcum Narclttee Talcum I h made from the finest Imported Talc and | Is perfum ed with the odor of freshly cut flowers. It Is a very popular talc be cause of Its cooling qualities. Flanery’s Drug Store Reduced ro u n d trip summer fare» are now in effect. Plan your trip toCalifomia and take advantage o f them. Tickets with 16-day lim it arc on sale daily; also season tickets with Oct. 31 lim it at slightly higher cost, permitting stopovers. Four trains daily, including Southern C a lifo rn ia E xbrett direct via Sacramento and Los Angeles. hern Pacific lin es C. OLSEN, A .n t f