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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Published E very Thursday at
Springfield. Lane County. Oregon, by
T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS
H. E MAXEY. Editor.
stared a* second else* matter, February 34. 1903 at the
postofflee, Springfield. Oregon
M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E
year In Advance
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THIRSDAY DECEMBER 29. 1927
WHY NOT A BETTER HOME MARKET
Lane county farmers can raise all the fruit and
vegetables necessary *o feed all the people living
Inside the county’s bounary yet there are thous­
ands of dollars worth of produce consumed her«'
that is grown elsewhere. We find Yakima. Hood
River, Idaho and California fruit and vegetables
being sold in the grocery stores in preference to
Our own. This is a condition that does not make
from prosperity either for the farmer or the mer­
chant.
We do not blame the grocer. He depends on the
wholesale produce house to supply him every
morning and if he didn't he could not supply his
customers regularly and with uniform produce.
The grocer buys from the farmer when he can or
more likely trades for the farmers produce. Yet
he cannot depend on the farmer to supply him
daily with the quantity and quality that his trade
demands and necessarily the grocer must depend
on the produce house. Produce houses are usual­
ly owned by a large concern having a chain of
such houses and buy only at certain points and
there only certain produce. They buy in quantity
and secure better prices—sufficient to pay the
freight to far away points of consumption.
This system that works a hardship on the
county should be changed. Either the farmers
or the grocers should own cooperatively produce
houses of their own in Lane county whereby the
produce could be collected and graded and then
sold to the grocer for the home trade. Many
farmers who have good soil and can raise fine
vegetables do not know how to prepare them for
m arket The grocer has not time to help him out
and they both suffer.
Usually when cooperative marketing is referred
to it means the selling of farm produce in distant
cities. Yet there is an opportunity at home to
further farm and merchants' interests by local
cooperative marketing.
ICAUTION STILL NEEDED
TO PREVENT PARALYSIS
William Edward Hickman, youth chargtnl with
the gruesome murder of Marian Parker, drove a
stolen green automobile the full length of the
Pacific Highway from l.oa Augeles to Seattle and
hack again to Portland ami over the Columbia
Highway to Echo before lielng captured. He
crossed three states eluding the officers yet never
left the pavement. If he had been a bootlegger
instead of a murderer he likely wouldn't have
gotten across one county w ith a green stolen car.
Modern otticcrs are trained to smell booie hut a
murderer is out of their line. It took an old time
policeman from Pendleton to catch this fleeing
young criminal.
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RUN— BEFORE
Dear Mies Flo: —
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Many month» ago I read your article
Going home after dark Christmas eve on the in which you advised a girt to give
s’reet beside the drug store we picked up a chick­ up the m arried man whom the loved.
en (meaning a feathered fowl). We suppose it I too was faced w ith the tam e pro
had escaped from someone's Christmas dinner blem— and I tried to follow your ad-
Now if the owuer doesn't claim it before New ' vice. I woe deeply in love w ith my
Years day—well we are liable to have a chicken em ployer— eo I gave up the lucrative
dinner at our house.
position which I held. I haven't seen
Chicago gangsters are reported to have sought
ourt protection against the activities of police,
and some kind judge may yet place a number of
them behind the bars where they will be safe.
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You'll find most of the Presidential candidates
parked under the mistletoe these days, hoping
that their party will spy them.
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Probably the purpose behind these schools of
crime occasionally mentioned in the newspapers
is to teach the young idea how to shoot.
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or heard from him since, but my leva
for him hae increased ra th e r than
abatad. and my trium ph of w ill power
and self-respect le bringing me very
little consolation. I am u tterly miser­
able.
I know th a t he le making a
For general plumbing and repair
effort to forget end fulfill the duty he
owes to hie w ife and children— and work call the Fix II Shop, phone 172.
that he It Just as unhappy a t I. South Fifth Street.
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Olvorce le impossible.
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And. w ithal. I cannot believe that
such a remedy la ever a cure. Life it
to short— eo b itte r— w hy aren't w«
justified In takin g our happinaas
where we find it— forgetting our con
vcntione and Inhabitione—and »teal
Ing a few moments of love.
Specializing in Tonails
L. A.
Dr. Geo. A. Simon
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After seeing how some of them look, it is easy
to understand why children don't believe in Santa
Claus.
Although
Springfield's
Infantile
J paralyxle cares are Improving, and
I I here have been no new ones develop,
ibe lime ha» not yri arrived for school
' children and others Io throw caution
; io the wind». It waa pointed out thia
I week by W. II. Hughes, chairman of
the city school hoard
Mr. Hughe» drew attention to the
fact that a child «1 Twin Oak« died
IT'S TOO LATE
recently of the dl»eaae. which waa
clout lost. Anil the moral ot the tlory conlradcd seemingly without the vic­
—for other glrla never work In cloeo tim's coming In touch with persona
nacoclallon with u married mau with oualde the immediate family. Thia,
whom you ihluk you are falling In he said. Indlratea thm paralysis may
strike al any place without warning,
love. Run- before It 1» too late.
and It le well lo observe great caution
until the la«l veallage of lha epidemic
M cNabb It Nabbed
Accused ot speeding Ml mile« an has been blotted oul
hour on East Mein street. N. McNabb
was balkd before I'lty Recorder I. M
1‘eteraon Monday by Traffic Officer
Herbert Moore
McNabb pleaded
guilty to Ibe chargee and paid a lino
of |20.
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One argument which has often been
working In of
Some men wouldn’t want to wake up and find flees Is lhal they are always falling
themselves famous if it meaut losing any sleep.
In love with their employers anil be­
s e e
ing miserable about It. While I know
A maximum sentence often means a minimum lh a l such accusation Is unjust. I am
becoming rather Impatient with those
of words.
women who do seem to Justify the
argument. They se etu to envelop the
man with a veil of glamor and ro­
mance which he la far from deserving
BEN L IN D S E Y D E H Y D R A T E S H IS 'C O M P A N IO N A T E
—and manlike, he can t resist the
M A R R IA Q E "
Battery and ibe first thing you know
A little while ago Judge Lindsey, father of Juvenile here Is what Is commonly called "an
courts, startled the Christian -world wih the suggestion affair."
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And a most uofortunale affair for
that a system of ''companionate marriages'' might reduce
Salem has financed locally the second large promiscuous Immoral relations among modern young wen everybody conceroed. If It Is a mere
scratch on the hearL each aa most
woolen mill built there. Salem has attracted
more industries than any other city outside of and women and educate them for permanent matrimony. affairs with married men are. It nAght
Portland In Oregon. The chief reason is that In common with the rest of the world, we assumed that heal In a tew monhs without even
Salem people have faith in Salem and are ready Judge Lindsey meant a free and informal union to be dis­ leaving a scar.
to put up their money when new industrial op­ solved as Informally as it was started. We were mistaken, But no remedy la a universal c u r e -
guaranteed never to fall, and while
portunities present themselves.
though. When Judge Lindsey left Denver and cakne to It Is true that lim e and absence do
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the Coast, he explained that his Idea of a "companionate almost always cure, they are Out al­
Napoleon Bonaparte may have been an impor­ marriage" was a formal union undertaken with bell, book ways effective. For «here are men and
tant personage, but he never rated a box on the and catadle. with ring, license and liturgy, but apparently j women who love but once and who
front page, so he couldn’t have been so famous,
are faithful to that love until deadh
with the understanding that it could be dissolved at any (Then the wound goes deeper—and H
after all.
time by mutual consent. It was his hope that Informal
m ight lake years for even the surface
inexpensive divorce without Its present stigma would en­
the wound to heal over, and there
The American man needs more clothes con­ courage earlier marriages among the youngsters with large of
might never be a moonlight night on
sciousness, says one authority, but it would be demands and no incomes, thereby Inducing them to stay which the old hurt would not throb
too bad for some of them if it came on them put. to quit shifting their evanescent attachments from with dull pain.
quickly.
one person to the other.
Perhaps you are one of those fe»
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Russia has made it extrem ely easy to get In and out women capable of feeling a great love.
New York drinkers have been warned by physi­ of the state of matrimony, but the Russian experiment, so If you are. you have no choice but to
cians to test their hooch during the holidays, and : far as we can learn, has not been a success. Children will go on loving Time will lessen your
they probably will wtyh their eyes.
make ihelr appearance, you know, and their arrival means grief and dull the edge of your los«,
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I that either one or both parents will have to buckle dowr., and while you may never he complete
keep their noses close to the grindstone and sacrifice their ly happy, you will not always be
If their dispute over the Army-Navy football J , complete
game proves nothing else, it shows that both the ration. freedom of action for the sake of the next gene­ miserable.
Not nearly as miserable as you will
Army and Navy are ready to fight.
be If you yield to the temptation to
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All mating, be It orthodox, companionate or wholly steal a few moment s of love. You
without benefit of clergy, means the assumption of re­ have no more right to steal that which
Mothers might find it easier to coax some work sponsibility, self control, self denial. In the very nature of
rightfully belongs to another woman
out of their daughters now if they would only put the
process no means can be devised to dodge this responsi­ than you have to steal anything else
a steering wheel somewhere in the kitchen.
bility, to have one's cake and eat It, too, without sacrificing you want and haven't got. You can­
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the next generation. And It's doubtful whether the en­ not Justify the philosophy.
The brand of farm relief the country needs is couragement of Irresponsibility is really of benefit to the What happiness would you find
race.—November 8T7NSET.
less than one-half of one per cent vocal.
knowing yourself guilty? There are
women 'without moral sense, weak
creatures who are the victim» of their
h.ORE THAN U\X>
PAYING PO SIT IO N S
were tille d Is»« vssr by B eh nke-
W a lk e r M u d en i* an d g r a d u a l« ,
and a» u m e l m o r e p o s itio n »
w ere op en th e n we co uld A ll.
W rtM kx »kkl)S«w..wce'»Uw-M»ell
an OH«»*. Atwitus t L wlJ
Æ iA u ü te -V lX tlK or
Over Penney's Store
us**d against women
Phone 355
Eugene
Editorial Comment/
way to Ihelr desires and who may pos­
sibly be happy and content following ,
such a code.
But the kind ot a wo
man who of her free will and accord ,
haa had the courage to make a good i
fight against lomiplalIon— would be •
utterly miserably In such a manner
There are too many centuries of vir­
tue behind her—too many women who
have held their honor spotless. Yo'i
could not abandon yourself to your
temptation—for you 'would die of self
loathing.
All that I said before—In the artlcb
to which you refer—holds true- and
you must give the time cure a suffl-
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is Everywhere
STO P that COUGH
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O P T O M F .T O IS T
8ulte 831 M iner Bldg.
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S P E C lk l i- i"
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Telephone 362
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