1 TlIUUSDAY. JANUARY 3. 1»29 Tl IK SPRINGFIELD NEWS 'f ! F »'OUR THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Every Thursday a t gprlngfleld. Lane County, Oregon, by T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS H. E. M A X E Y . Editor. Entered as second class matter, February 2*. 1903 at the poatofflce. Springfield. Oregon_________ ____ MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATE year in Advance _...... $1.15 Three Months Six M onths..... ..... ............ $1 00 Single Copy D m THURSDAY. JA M AUV ?*. 19'-9 It is n o t enough to be in d u s trio u s ; so are the ants. W h a t are you in d u s trio u s ab o u t? — T I iO R K A V . ENCOURAGE W EST SPRINGFIELD SCIENCE AND T H E FARM ER Science is p rehaps th e g re a te st help of the farm er. One out of th e prom inent scien tists in Am erica. S ecretary of A griculture Ja rd in e points «•« out. are engaged in w ork of an ugrlculture-cheinl- cal nature. As the result of th e extensive scientific agricu l tu ra l w ork going on. th e p ercen tag e of tu b erc u lous c a ttle h a s been reduced from 4 to 2 in the last decade. Ilog cholera Is no longer a check to hog produc tion. - k- ttfe u e d cn;Ue in th e S o u th arc being reduced in num ber. Animal p a ra site s have been •¡»pkia. of - Led» .n a i; Mnney — - £ greatly reduced in num ber. la., horn w ith o nlv one hand^anow » and accuracy y Plant research of scien tists lias saved im m ense rem arkable ipced t Sh« ia em ployed in an sum s to farm ers. Many new p lan ts from o th er a hce ty p is and also attenda buemaaa co untries have been introduced. New plant dis school eases are guarded ag ain st. Bud selection in th e citru s Industry lias saved th e grow ers of C alifornia several million dollars. 13353493 T he above a re only a few of th e g reat achieve m en ts of science in relation to ag ricu ltu re. R ead ing tile new s, it seem s th a t a g reat p erc e n ta g e of th e new inventions and discoveries have to do w ith th e farm . S cien tists seem in terested in the ag ric u ltu ra l problem s of the nation m ore th an E x ten d in g from O regon City on the in alm ost a n y th in g else. T h a t is not surprising, a g ric u ltu re being the n o rth to S pringfield and E ugene on great industry th a t it is. T he surp risin g thing is the south is a vast ex p an se of country th a t being such a g rea t industry, and draw ing lie rea c h in g buck to th e sum m it of th e a tte n tio n of th e leading scientific m inds of tins C ascade m o u n tain s on th e east and era. it lias been unable to obtain action creating c o m p risin g on e of th e m ost fe rtile a favorable plan of distribution and m arketing se ctio n s of VVTlluinette valley F u rth e r th a n th is. It holds w ithin of its products. T he people of W est Springfield in th eir efforts to create a drainage district to co n tro l the floods of the W illam ette river should have en co u rag e m ent both from this city and Eugene. T his ta a forw ard looking move and it is evident it tin flood problem is ever solved it m ust be done in som ew hat this m anner. W hether W est Springfield will be financially able to un d ertak e to dike the district and dredge th e river can be told b e tte r a fte r a survey is m ade bv com petent drainage engineers, th e best m ethod found and cost estim ates compiled. I nt th en everyone is guessing as to w h at the cost will be and until it is know n the residents of th is dis trict will be unable to tell w h eth er th ey can stan d It o r not. T here is land at the northw est side of th e city and in th e Chase G arden neighborhood ‘ • O N E- E Y E ” C O N N E L L Y th a t is'also m enaced by flood and probably will in “ O ne-Eye” C onnolly's nam e has becom e a by m ore so if dikes are built on the o th er side. believe it would be proper if people in tins affected word. He is th e g a te c ra sh e r p ar excellence. He has alw ays got into ev ery th in g free every section on this side of th e river are in terested to include th eir land in this d rain ag e district and th ing from a tirsf-night th e a tric a l perform ance to a fistic heavyw eight battle. solve the whole problem at once. No g u a rd s could ever keep him out. He had a Eugene h as extended her city lim its into Kin th o u san d clever m ethods. He w as expected at all caid park and som e day expect to be able to i n - , public functions, though nobody ever invited him. duce W est Springfield to com e into h er city. She He got in— nobody knew how. should realize th a t before th is can be done the He never accepted or bought a ticket for a n y flood control problem , which is th e biggest in this thing. district- m ust be solved and th a t she should have T he o th e r day he a ttra c te d a crow d in B rook a p art in solving it. Likewise Springfield and the lyn. New York, and w as found guilty of o b stru c t s ta te highw ay dep artm en t have in te rests m this ing traffic. He w as put in to a cell for a brief tim e, flood situ a tio n and should also do th e ir part to and tearfu lly com plained th at his im prisonm ent w as th e ru in a tio n of his professional career. help the W est Springfield people. We d o n 't see why this h ap pening should spoil his career. NO STATE PRINTING PLANT T ru e enough, he w as conducted to his ceil in a T he bill providing for the establishm ent of a form al m anner. H e did n 't have to “c ra s h ” the s ta te printing plant by Mississippi and the a p p ro prison gates. priation of $600,000 for th a t purpose h as been de B ut th e n — he didn’t have to pay to get in! And feated by the lower house of the sta te legislature. he got out free, too. A com m ittee of the Mississippi P ress A ssociation w as active in opposing the proposed plant. A h alf is said to be b e tte r th a n n othing but Oregon has a sta te printing plant and we defy som etim es o u r divorce co u rts show us th a t som e anyone to show us w here she h as saved m oney b e tte r halves a re w orse th a n nothing. on h er printing bill by having it. T he sta te ni^ h t jus* as well run grocery stores, b an k s or saw m ills as a printing plant. It is these non-governm ental fum ions th a t eat up taxes and burden th e o p e ra A P R E C IO U S C O M M O D IT Y tion of s ta te governm ent. >nce. iítu tirr. d ttin ig a i