THURSDAY JANUARY 13, 1»3* THH 8PR1NOF1ELD NBWB PAOS POUR THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Every Thursday at Springfield. Lane County. Oregon. by T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS H. E. MAXEY, Editor. Entered aa second class matter, February 24. 1903 at the postoffice. Springfield. Oregon__________ ___ M A IL SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year in Advance 51.75 Three M o n th s ------- 76c ■tx M onths........................... »100 Single C o p y --------------Sc T H lK S D A Y JA NUARY 12. 192S A stenographer has won the cow-milking championship of Ohio. In a contest with 123 dairymaids she won the trophy and $99 In gold. We’ve always said some stenographers should have been milk maids. • • • If Lindbergh and Will Rogers were twins we i might provide sutlicient entertainment for Mexico and other Central American States so that they DOES A MAN EVER FORGET THAT FIRST LOVE AFFAIR? would stop hating us. SHALL SHE MARRY TO PLEASE HER PARENTS? • • • I A Chinese baby in Chicago has been named after Lindbergh, so his parents say. They call him One Long Hop. WHY NOT A NEW LIBRARY Many books in the library have been damaged this winter through being poorly housed. It seems to us that a better building should be built and owued by the city. We would like to suggest that the city lots on Fourth street between A and B streets be used for a bulding large enough to house the library and the proposed rest room. That the lots be parked and planted to trees and shrubbery so that the THE COLUMBIA BASIN whole place may be made attractive. Once such President Coolidge, in an address the other day, an arrangement is started off right we venture to say it would receive the aid from civic and fra­ alluded to the effort of the Government to create new territory. ternal organisations of the town. • • • This is the true method of conquest. A lot bet­ ter than going to war and subjecting another WHAT THE OUTING CLUB CAN DO State it is to turn water on to a desert and make The newly formed outing club can and likely a new State. will give more publicity to the recreation places in Mr. Coolidge said, ’A waterway system for the Lane county than any other agency. It should Mississippi Valley and its tributaries with one arm have the support of everyone Interested In out­ i reaching to the Gulf and another to the Atlantic door life. 1 is only a question of time. The Colorado River Mount Hood has gained fame through organi­ is pressing, the Columbia Basin is not far dis­ zations in Portland and Hood River. The Three tant." Sisters and Cascade Lake Regions in eastern To many of my readers this phrase, the Colum­ Lane county have natural advantages that Hood bia Basin," is a sort of also ran. I confess until does not afford. What we need to make this recently it was to me. the greatest playground in the West is publicity But i ant writing this in Spokane. Washington, and development of roads and resort hotels. just a few miles from this basin and right here if • • • is a subject of supreme interest. As far as that LAWLESSNESS INCREASING—MENACING is concerned, it is of considerable interest to the Lawlessness in the United States has increased whole country and not merely a local affair. to such a point as rightly to be considered a na­ The Panama Canal fired the imagination of the tional menace. This does not mean merely viola­ world. Huge reclamation projects at various tions of the Volstead Act. but it applies to crimes times have interested us and applied for aid to the of all kinds. Many explanations have been general Government. But this Columbia Basin project will be about brought forward to account for the growth of lawlessness, and many cures have been proposed. the biggest thing we have ever undertaken and The greatest deterrent, at least in the case of are ever liable to undertake. cold-blooded and carefully planned crimes, would j It means a bringing into cultivation or a trans­ doubtless be the knowledge that punishment forming from desen to thrifty farm lands about would be swift and certain. Today punishment two million acres. is neither swift nor certain, except in a few in­ This can be done by merely untllizing dead waters which now run waste. Eortunately these stances in which the community is aroused. Legal processes need to be speeded up a bit waters are at a higher level than the irrigated and more intelligent juries chosen. There have land, so all that is necessary is the motive power ben too many cases recently in which guilty of gravitation. parties have gone free. Justice may be blind I It would mean, however, buliding some dams, but there's no good reason for jurors being both making tunnels and constructing huge concrete ¡lined canals, and the project is so immense that blind and brainless. • • • nobody could take it up but the general govern- * ment. The people of Centralia. Washington, have peti­ f We hear a lot about the Colorado River and the tioned that the postmaster be removed from of­ Boulder Dam, but really this thing is bigger. fice. His conduct with the mails is not com­ This country once was settled during what they plained of but with the females it is decidedly call a wet cycle and 25,000 farmers lived in it. bad. Besides he is 65 years old and ought to But then came the drought and they all had to know better. leave, for they couldn’t raise crops on 7-lneh rain­ • • • falls during the year. Now the land is sand and It’s about time the state highway department sage brush. eut the red tape and started building the Willam­ The soil is wonderfully fertile, as It is probably ette river bridge here. They have been talking the bottom of an old lake, and all It needs is about it for nearly two years. If it takes them that water.. With water they can raise two crops of long to build it the county can prepare to make potatoes a year and the finest potatoes in the some extensive repairs on the old structure. world. They would have a climate even superior • • • to Yakima for the raising of apples, and corn, We see by the papers that the new automobiles wheat, and other midwest products could be are going to be equipped with most every con­ grown in abundance. venience and inconvenience one can think of ex­ The men who „re pushing this thing are public- cept a radio. But give ’em time and they will I spirited citizens, for they will probably all be dead be using the wire wheels for antennas. Next ' before the scheme could h« hm"<»ht into com- years models ought to be hummers. i pletion, as it will take probably 15 years. • • • The project has the full endorsement of Presi­ An English judge had a sense of humor or wish­ dent Coolidge, Secretary Work, Secretary Hoover ed to prolong a battle when he sentenced to be and General Goethals. married Leslie Makin and Miss Elsie Marshall, of Redeeming worthless land and making it pro­ Liverpool, after they had been arraigned in his ductive is about the best business a Government court for fighting on the street. can engage in. MUST HE TAK E HER HOME? , uts desire for their children— youth good times, young friends, and finally, love and a happy marriage. In thia regard. It would be moat un­ wise of you to follow their dictates. Itcnivmber—no matter what happens - you do not have to marry any one, unless you choose It may require considerable strength of character to continue to refuse their demands— but In the end It will save you much great­ er misery than you will experience at home due to your refusal to marry a man you do not care for. Dear Ml»» Flo: — I am engaged to a young man who wan engaged to another girl before lie met me The engage­ ment was broken off and my dance tell» me that be ha» forgot­ ten all about the other girl. Just the same. I find that I am quite Jealous of her. Do you think a man ever forget» an old love af­ fair? Do you think I should I'd things that happened before we met bother me? K. W. • • • • and did all of his work at his niouu- tain place. The cabin Insolr Is »pad- luus. Including five bedrooms on Ills second floor, and hardwood floors, conveniences ami other features make It one of the most unusuul cabins ever aeeti by those who visited It Sunday. W in d er had another cabin, built high In the air, where he hail Ills typewriter and did his actual writing. The scouts found the place badly da- terlornlea. CALL AND BUM Dr. N. W. Emery on prices on plates and other work tf Plank ITomtaaory notes and re­ ceipts printed and In.stock at the News office. CARO OF THANK« We wish to sencerely thank those who expressed their sympathy and aided ua during our recent bereave­ ment P M Gossler and family My dear, every man III the world ha» h»d at least one love affair be­ fore he dually married—and moat of them have hud anywhere from two to a hundred! Of course. It 1» natural for every woman Io want to be the drat 111 the heart of the man »he love«—but you certainly are looking for trouble if you He awake at night» worrying over a puppy love affair which your sw eet­ heart undoubtedly ba* long forgotten. The only thing with whlih yon should concern yourself Is being the last woman In his life— and you are­ n't off to a very good »tart If you are jealous already— for Jealousy 1» not conducive to a long and happy married Ute. As for a man’» ability to forget an old love— why, that la the easiest thing he does. Dear Miss Flo: — I am eighteen years old and my parents are trying to force me to marry a man thirty year» old—be­ cause he has money. I do not like him. but they are making my life so miserable I am afraid I will have to marry him to get away from home. What ran I do? D. L. s e e s You are much too young to think of marriage for three or four years —but regardless of your age. never marry a person you