"AOF TOUR
THE SPRINOPŒLD NEWS
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
O ur foreign Am erican relations are th e first to
be looked a fte r by P resident-E lect H erbert
Published Every Thursday at
Hoover. This seem s to us a good move. The
■prln<fleld, Lane County. Oregon, by
W estern H em isphere could be alm ost self sustain-
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
ing if it worked to g eth e r in harm ony. S trength-
H. E. MAXEY. Editor.
ening trade relations betw een th e two continents
— N orth and South Am erica— should benefit both
M M M
« . Z 2*' 1M3 “ “ •
o f th e u n ited
S ta te s is probably the w orst handicap o f dealing
w ith South America. If Mr. H oover’s good will
M A IL SU B SC R IPTIO N RATE
One year In Advance------->1.75 T hree M o n th s ____ 76c to u r breaks down any of this m isunderstanding
of the Y ankees it will be w orth while.
« x M onths--------------------- >1.00 Single C o p y ______ 6c
T hursday , N ovem ber
is , 1928
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 192«
MORE FOKlDS ‘ASKED FOR
cadfctc n c
F 0 R E S TS OF NORTHW EST
! S eattle W ashington November 15
_ A matter of great im’pnrtance to the'
Northwest was brought before Gener-
aj Lord dlrettor of the budget at
W„ hlnitm ,
O.. t.c,o ü y X
DB.FRANKCRANESAÏS
Again the people of Oregon have said they did
n o t wish an incom e tax. Will everybody believe
it or will th ere be some one so dum b as to put
it on the ballot a t the next election. If this sta te
is ever to have such a m easure it should be passed
by th e legislature a fte r our whole system of ta x
ation has bee reviewed. This helter skelter legis-
ation has been reviewed. T his helter skelter legis-
and the people realize it. B etter to have the
whole plan worked out a fte r intense study by the
legislation if we are going to equalize th e burden
of tax atio n any.
• • •
THE EMPTY NORTH
M any Spare P a rts !
Broad* Brook, Ct., Nov. 15 (AC)—
One of the m ost striking passages of th a t anci
en t collection of litera tu re know n as the Bible, is John D. Tromley, a farm er of this
“He han g eth the n o rth over an em pty place.” It place, has a calf which has an extra
eye, extra horn, extra tongue, and an
is found in the Book of Job.
T he queer p a rt of it is th a t astronom ically the
n o rth is a som ew hat em pty place. In a m easure
can see
yourself th a t th ere are not m any
s ta rs in th a t direction.
extra set of teeth.
K ille d
r
.
.
.
to N»ck.
Remember Your Friends on
Christmas Day with an
Attractive Card
We have high-grade C hristm as cards th a t bear
beautiful sentim ents for your relatives and
friends.
These attractiv e cards are for sale a t very re a
sonable prices. They are infinite in variety—
m any of them altogether unusual.
Send a card even if you are sending a gift.
The sentim ent expressed on these cards will
strike a responsive cord in the h earts of the
recipients.
Name and Sentiment Printed
in Attractive Type
ORDER YOUR CARDS IN NOVEMBER WHILE
TH ER E IS A LARGE SELECTION
C hristm as card lines are alw ays depleted in
December.
by Own Gun
Brooklyn, N. Y„ Nov. 15 (AC)—
H arry Oswell, 22, accidentally shot
All this is called to m ind w hen we read of Gen and killed him self while duck hunt
eral Nobile’s flight over the Pole a sh o rt tim e ago. ing in a rowboat In Jacam ica Bay.
T here is some indication th a t industry is tu rn He discovered again w hat had already been dis Both barrels of his gun were dis
ing to the sm aller tow ns instead of expanding in covered, th a t w hen you get to th e N orth Pole you charged In his breast when the trigger
the larg er centers, particularly if conditions of find nothing there— ju st frozen em ptiness.
caught on an obstruction in the boat.
labor, m aterial, and tra n sp o rta tio n a re right. A
T hink of all th ese years th a t m en have dream ed
large cotton milling concern in the south has ex of g etting to th e N orth Pole, and striven for it,
panded by 100,000 spindles. Instead of building and died for it. W hat does it am ount to, a fte r all?
an im m ense mill in one city it built 10 in as m any
cities.
i It is simply a record to m ake, a so rt of Im poss
ible line to toe, b u t all those fanciful d ream s of
Sim m s, Hole, and th e like, about th e re being an
Springfield high school has a good football undiscovered co u n try vp there, a re pure fiction.
team this year. T he team Is w inning consistently
T he only p art of this globe th a t is habitable Is
and has dem onstrated a good knowledge of foot
ball. Townspeople should give the team support. th e tem p o rate zone, and In a m easure the tropics.
A good athletic team is an fisset to any tow n as
G eneral Nobile’s discoveries, as well as those of
well as an inspiration to th e youngsters is school.
others, reveal th a t th e no rth is to be added to the
• • •
oceans and the deserts and th e m ountain ranges
A m an in Chicago found praying on S tate street as pure waste. A deal of th e universe, as far as
said he was drunk. He can he th an k fu l in we can see, is w aste in the sanse of n o t being
habitable by m an. We c a n n o t live in th e seas,
Chicago th a t he was only half-shot.
and life is difficult In the high m ountain ranges.
• • •
C onsidering how v ast is the universe, and how
The surgeon who cu t his own appendix. In \d -
m any of the sta rs a re simply blazing balls of fire
dition to being brave, m ust have had Scotch a n u tterly uninhabitable by any form of life, and how-
cestors.
gigantic are th e distances betw een th e stellar
• • •
bodies, and even w h at a g re a t portion of this
“All women are alike,” says I^ady Allenby. This planet is not habitable, one’s philosophy of life
unconsciously lim its the im portance of m ankind,
thought should be a great com fort to m any h u s and adds a new m eaning to th e exclam ation:
bands.
“W hen I consider T hy heavens, the m oon and
the s ta rs which T hou h ast ordained, w hat is m an
A hypocrite Is one who pretends to believe a th a t T hou are m indful of him, and the son of m an
person when he knows he is lying.
th a t T hou visitest h im ? ”
o
A t Ohio State “ U”
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15—With the
g reatest registration in Its history
the Ohio Sitate University this fall
has drawn its enrollm ent almost liter
ally from the four quarters of the
globe. Four continents, 14 foreign
lands and 43 of the 48 states are re
presented in the campus population
despite the fact that more than 90
per cynt of the more than 10,000 stu
dents are from Ohio homes. The list
of students shows the following from
Springfield, Oregon, David Lester B14.
well. G raduate School, Vitus Apart
ments.
National F orestry program commit-! Mrs. McDonald, who was driving,
tee and others interested ln forestry tried to hglt the auto at the farry s
attended a general forestry hearing bow- but u drove ahead, crashed
and asked for increase in approprla- through the guard rail and plunged
tions totaling >718,000, according to bead down in t° the river. The lim
word received by the W est Coast ousine fortunately landed right side
Lum berm en’s Association. This pro- UP a t the river s bottom.
posed increase is in accordance with
McDonald smashed one of the glass
the Clark-McNary Act, the McNary- ’ doors with an elbow, seized his wife
CALL AND SEE Dr. N. W, L'n/sry
Woodruff Act and the McSweeney- and- thrusting through the broken
McNary Act. P resent appropriations window, swam with her to the surface, on prices on plates and other work, tf
under these acts total >4,500,000.
The three bills are basic forestry
acts providing for state and govern
ment co-operation in forest protection, |
forest research nad other work de
signed to perpetuate the nation's
forests. General Lord staated th a t he ;
fully appreciated the im portance of
the forestry program and th a t every
effort would be made to provide funds 1
in line with the proposals which had
been made to him.
Alice Brady refused to pay incom e tax on
m oney spent for beauty tre a tm e n ts. If th e rest
T he Dunne Bills have been defeated and the of th e Am erican wom en follow her exam ple, the
U. S. T reasu ry m ay find itself in a bad way.
people of Lane county have voted the m atch
• • •
m oney for the com pletion of the W illam ette Val
G unm en in Chicago seem to puncture the op
ley-Florence and McKenzie highw ays.
Lane
posing te a m ’s defense w ith ease. If a half back
county for a num ber of years has lagged behind is too fast and endangers th eir bets they move
in the am ount of sta te road w ork until one-third him from the lineup with bullets.
• • •
of all the uncom pleted highw ays in W estern O re
gon are in this county. T he sta te highw ay com
A judge perm itted a divorced violinist to re
m ission prom ised to rem edy this condition a t a m arry because he behaved him self for m ore th an
m eeting with the road com m ittee of the Lane five years. T he law certainly does push punish
County C ham ber of Com m erce last sum m er if m ent to extrem e limits.
• • •
the D unne bills did not carry.
T urkish schools are sending hom e girls whose
T his com m ittee and the county court should
sk
irts a re too sh o rt to have th e ir skirts len g th e n
now im press on the highw ay com m ission the im
portance of sta rtin g w ork on these two roads at ed. If th is w ere done here, our girls’ schools W ILLAMETTE MILLS SHOW
GAINS DURING PAST WEEK
once. The people have w aited long and patientlv would be practically • em pty.
• •
until the tim e has come to act. Lets have both
Nineteen mills, members of the Wil
these highw ays finished next year.
A pparently all th e men and women by th e nam e
lam ette Valley Lum berm en’s associa
of
Sm
ith
did
not
vote
for
A1
Sm
ith.
It is ou r opinion th a t the first work should be
tion, reporting for the past week’s
done on the M apleton-C ushm an section of the
activity, recorded a total of 15,394,319
coast road and from W alterville east on the Mc
Our idea of enterprise is a surgeon advertising feet produced for th a t period. This
Kenzie highway. While the road is to be changed a “rem oval” sale.
m eans 85.7 per cent of the actual capa
im m ediately e ast of Springfield this oiled high
city of these mills. The figure would
w ay is good for a n o th e r y ear and should be the
have been even higher had one of the
last to receive attention. The m ountainous sec
larger mills not been shut down.
tions of both roads should be improved to sta te
The percentage of production in
stan d ard s first if we are to get the m ost out of
ratio to capacity for the p ast 26
th e vast sum s of m oney th a t h as been and is to
weeks is 78 per cent, according to the
be spent on them .
report issued by H. J. Cox, executive
• • •
secretary of the organization.
COAST AND McKENZIE roads n ex t
A Miraculous Escape
Pelham Manor, N. Y„ Nor. 15 (AC,
Trapped ln a closed limousine on
the floor of the Hudson River, J. T.
McDonald miraculously rescued his
wife and himself. The McDonalds
drove their car to a ferryboat at
FOR S A LS— Carbon paper ln large
sheets, 2«x89 Inches, suitable (or
making tracings. The News Offloe
TOOK SODA 20 YEARS
FOR GAS—STOPS NOW
“For 20 years I took soda for indi
gestion and stom ach gas. One bottle
of A dlerika brought me complete re
lief.”—J. B. Hardy.
Adlerika relieves stom ach gas and
sourness in TEN m inutes. Acting on
BOTH upper and lower bowel, It re
moves old w aste m atter you never
thought was in your system. L et Adl
erika give your stom ach and bowels a
REAL cleansing and see how much
b etter you feel. It will surprise you-
F lanery’s Drug Store.
“ COMES ACROSS J”
Clritt-kjiock^
THE MEW W IN T E R
RED C R O W N
G A SO LINE
S T A N D A R D O IL COM PANY O f CALIFORNIA
Why Inspection?
T he O ptom itrist is, literally,
an eye m easurer.
B ut a re also skilled In Me
chanical Optics, which e n
ables him to supervise the
co nstruction of proper glas
ses w hen required.
We use B ausch and Lonib
Lenses w hich give satisfac
tion to us and our patients.
Dr. Ella C. Meade
O p to m etrist
WATTS OPTICAL CO.
Mo 14 • Ave. West
Roger e, Oregon
What’s Thanksgiving Day
Without Candy?
W onderful selections o f candy for T hanksgiving th a t
will surprise you both by th e ir low prices and th eir excep
tional quality.
Every J)ite a delight.
E verything from bon bons to “jaw b reak ers” and choco
late cream s to lollipops.
A big T hanksgiving D inner followed by som e of our
candy will be a sw eet m em ory in d eed !
F G G IM A N N ’S
A
lw
"W here the Service is Different”
T here’s a
“S ilv e r Gray"
to Eugene every
30 minutes
from 5th and E Sts. commencing 6:30 a.m. (Sun
days 7:30 a.m.) and every 30 minutes thereafter
until midnight throughout the day.
Returning they leave the Southern Pacific sta
tion Eugene every 30 minures between 6:00 a.m.
and 11:50 p.m. (Sundays 7:00 a.m.)
Fares
100 Tickets (scholars) . . . .
50 Tickets (commutation)
. .
One way fare . . . . . . . .
$3.00
3.1c
0.14
Connections at Eugene
Convenient connections are made by thebus with
trains and motor coach to the north and south.
Note these convenient stage schedules from
Eugene.
Portland via Corvallis and Albany—18:00.
9:35, f l 1:50 a.m.; 3:30. 4:30 p.m.
XVia Harrisburg. Y 'Siher Gray Limited':'
R o se b u rg — 1:55, 6:35 p.m.
Marshfield via R o seburg— 1:55 p.m .
A shland and San Francisco— 1:55 p.m.
W herever you are going buy your ticket at
Springfield—it will be honored on train or bus
to Eugene.
Southern P acifi
C. OLSON, A i m
Phone
,