♦ th e spring 'AOK FOUR THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1929 SCHOOLS AND CONSOLIDATION At th e first glance it m ight be said th a t in case of consolidation of the cities of Eugene ami Springfield, which carried out to conculslonI would also be a consolidation of (be school dis-j triet, our school system would be bettered. The larg er cities have the new er courses of study ami latest m ethods generally. Also they usually have the better plants and equipm ent. 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 as second class m atter, February 24, 1903 at the poetofBce. Springfield, Oregon MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year In A dvance....... J l.iS Three M o n th s _____75c ■tx Months ........................„...51.00 Single C o p y _______5c But individual instruction is one of the chief factors in considering the quality of the schools.i A study of th e tw o school sytem s m ade by the University of Oregon show s th a t Eugene has an average of 30 pupils to th e te a c h e r while Spring- field has but 25. In every grade from th e first to th e high school Springfield lias less pupils i>er teacher. Assum ing th a t Springfield tea c h e rs are as capable a s those employed in Eugene, and we think they are, then, it m ust be adm itted that from th e standpoint of in struction Springfield is b e tte r off under the present system . THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1929 DELINQUENT LIENS T here are several pieces of property in Spring- field w hich have stre e t, sew er o r sidew alk liens a g a in st them on w hich th e property ow ners have never paid principal o r interest. T he city as a w hole has carried th ese property ow ners for as long as ten o r twelve years. T his is a n e a r sighted policy on the part of th e c h ic governm ent and a hardship on taxpayers. T he council should fore­ close on th is property and th en sell it. It is u n ­ Following is the average num ber of pupils per reaso n ab le to ask th e taxpayers to c a rry it longer te a c h e r in the different grades in both districts: especially when th ere are upaid balances on o th er Eugene Spring field p roperty th a t is also being carried. Average Pupils Average Pupils Per Grade ....... 1 ....................... ............. 2 .... .. ■ Teacher 38 33 41 ............ 4 37 41 8 ......................... 40 Jr. H. S .............. ............. 25 H. S ...................... ........... 23 ......... ... - ............ 30 25 ........... ____ Total Average Per Teacher If leniency is to be show n it should be show n the p ro p erty holder in hard circu m stan ce who is m ak ­ ing som e effort to pay and is keeping up th e in­ tere st. B ut for the property ow ner who is “letting th e city hold the sack " th ere should be no leni­ ency. Might b e tte r tak e this property now th an la te r on w hen th re is a still g re a te r am ount ag a in st i t 29 29 34 28 31 . 17 24 21 FA STEST STATE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE MEET AT ROSEBURG TO DISCUSS RAILWAY RATES At a meet lug of the cham bers of com m erce of cities affected by Inter- JtMÒrx. firvtntav • prr.M>N are deeply In love with each other hut my parents are not w illing tor m e to go with him yet. They Ihlnk I should lie older They know I love ¡lie hoy hut yet they say I am too young. Please ndvlse me what to do. How old should one be before one cun go with boys? Brown Eyes. I am Jealous. How can I express my love? LEAH. • • • • • • P ear Lenh, the present relationship Dear Brown Eyes, why don't yen betw een this hoy and you se» ms to lie tell me your age? That might help me very beautiful. I don't see I iojv you advise you. Your parents mu .1 have *'an sw ing II from u brother and sister reason for their belief Nndouht they i •'» 14 girl amt boy relationship all at are trying Io do I heir best for you once. Don't disobey them rather try to gel All you can do Is Io keep giving him them lo see your viewpoint by gentle the best advice you can and lie as not quarrelsome, explanations of vour sym pathetic amt kind (<> him us you cun be. attitude. There Is no special age when a girl It m ight he well occasionally to Is "old enough'' to see boys. It Is gxioil for girls of all ages lo have many make som e subtle remarks that will II friends, both boys and girls. But It wake him up to your feelin gs. might oven he advisable to say som e you are in your early teen s I don't thing like "Why do you nlwnva tell think you ought to devote yourselt me about other girls?" There are to uny one boy w ithout the perm ission many things that you can suy and do of your parents. — things every girl can ihlnk o f at the T his problem of yours Is an old right tim e—whlcu w ill slow ly, grudu- on e—and most girls have found them­ ally, penetrate. selv es happier in the end by obeying their parents rather than Ihelr Im­ pulses. If the boy loves you he should be w illing to wult until you are ready to go out with him. In the Interim perhaps your parents w ill allow you to Invite him to your home occasionally N evada is rapidly com ing to fam e b ecau se of th e facility of execution m anifested there. Speed T H E ABNORMAL CRIMINAL is th eir slogan. Speed in th e courts, especially the divorce courts, rapid fire and decisive settlem ent Gordon N orthcott last week w as convicted of of disputes «n th e hills, and now the bill to in­ m urder in the first degree with a capital verdict. c rease th e speed limit from 45 m iles per to 50. If N orthcott is hung. It will be but a n o th e r one • • • added to the grim pageant of d istorted abnortnall- S en ato r Jay H. Upton in a speech at Salem says j ties who have passed acro ss th e screen of public w h at Oregon needed was a change of governors. NOT A SISTER TO HIM Mr. U pton thought th a t th e sta te needed him , perform ance. Som e will wail and o th ers will Dear Mies Vera: w hen he ran for the nom ination against Mr. P a t­ j plaud if they h e a r th e tale of the final m arch up There Is a boy I love very dear- terson. T he people thought otherw ise. We sup­ j the gallow s steps and the re st of th e gruesom e ported Mr. Upton but we will not do it again. He FIRE BURNS HOLE IN proves to us th a t he is a poor sport, alw ays sp eak ­ detils of an execution. ROOF OF LOCAL HOME ing out of turn. W hat he has said ab o u t Mr. B ut w hat is gained by it all— how far yet a re we P a tte rso n and Mr. H oover proves th a t he is n o t a from solving th e problem of crim inal m enace. A fire broke out on the roof of a very good Republican either. residence belonging to V iolet Yoast on • • • It is said and tftily said th a t capital punishm ent 17th street last Saturday at 12:40 p is necessary because of its d e te rrin g effect, but m. J esse Sm ltson, Are chief, arrived China, w ith alm ost as m any problem s as she h as inhabitants, decides to cu t her arm y in two, th is falls fa r sh o rt of a tru e solution. It is un- upon the scen e with the Springfield leaving only 715,000 fighting m en to be fed by 1 scientific to tre a t abnorm al m en as norm al men lire truck before the fire had spread others.. Only 40 per cent of the n a tio n ’s total and to base social conduct upon such co n sid era­ and put It out with a chem ical ex ­ tinguisher. L ittle dam age wa.A done rev en u e is to be spent for m ilitary expenses. tion. Too m uch stre ss is laid upon th e trial and other than a sm all hole being burnt If those 715,000 m en could be put to work rais­ punishm ent of crim inals and n o t enough upon a In the roof. T he fire was supposed ing food for the starving, and 40 per cen t of n a ­ 1 study of th eir genetics. It is too late to head off to have started from a spark, Smlt- tional revenue devoted to the sam e starving, th at J th e m ortal wound of an arrow a fte r the sh a ft h as son states. would probably please th e ghost of old Confucius .been se n t— It is too late to d e te r the vicious and j unsocial a c ts of crim inals a fte r the protoplasm SPRINGFIELD RESIDENT SUCCUMBS IN EUGENE j has been poisoned by a crim inal fluid. Chicago say 880,000,000 sausages, Miranda Jane Kanst. 79. of this city, com m only called hot dogs,” w ere eaten last year. We have not yet arrived w here we can h u n t out passed away at the Pacific Christian P roperly m ade, well cooked, eaten a t reg u lar ! and cure th e abnorm al m ind before it h as coin- hospital In Eugene last Bunday morn­ hours, and chewed slow ly to avoid swallow ing ! m itted a horrible crim e. O ur system is only a ing. sm all pieces whole, the “hot dogs,” are good for m eans of rem oving th e abnorm al crim inal th a t he Mrs. Kanst was born hi W isconsin m en. But. eaten betw een m eals, h aphazard and m ay n o t fa rth e r harm ou r people. May 8, 184®. and cam e to till section rapidly, they c o n trib u te to the 50,000,000 cases of 35 years ago and sin ce then lias lived • • • A m erican dyspepsia. with her son Arthur Roy Kanst of • • • “Andrew C arnegie m ade his first $400 w ithout Springfield. Mrs. Sippel, head of the General Federation of spending a c e n t.” T h a t’s how big fo rtu n es often W om en’s C’cbs ?- wom en do n in e-ten th s of the s ta rt. buying, spendin pout flftv-tw o thousand million C arnegie bought $400 of insurance stock, gave do lars each year. T h a t’s im portant to adver­ his note in paym ent, paid for the stock w ith its tisers. , dividends, owned it for nothing. r T he fact th a t wom en spend fifty-tw o billions a i ? a -. ’ nia^ e ®very ad v ertiser keep in the Da ,!s head question, W hat do women w ant w hether he polls autom obiles or neckties. j Thr Next bay After ,■ , , I 8he survivors are, tw o sons, Arthur Roy. of Springfield and Edgar, of Black Untie, Oregon and one daughter, Mrs. C.olily B. Ferguson of Springfield Funeral services were held Tuesday with Rev. I’latt off.elating and Inter- ment wns in the Greenwood cem etery near Leaburg, W alker-Poole chapel In charge. Joseph P. Day, learned land scientist, says the three g re a te st letters in the alphabet are “ O. P. M.” , m eaning “ O ther People’s M oney.’’ TOOK SODA 20 YEARS FOR GAS— STOPS NOW . "For 20 years I took soda for Indi­ gestion and stom ach gas. One bottle of Adlerlka brought me com plete re­ lief ' .1 II. Hardy. Adlerika relieves stom ach gas and sourness in TEN minutes. A cting on BOTH upper and lower bowel, It re­ m oves old w aste m atter you never thought was in your system Let Adl­ erika give your stom ach and bowels a REAL clean sin g anil see how much better you feel. It will surprise you- Flanery’s Drug Store. O lU lfO fr f The eye catch es a glim pse of an object and in sta n tly tu rn s to look directly a t it- h ut suppose y our glasses show distortion for oblique vision? You m u st eith er tu rn your h e a r or w ear O rtho- gon lenses. ORTHOGON T he P e rfe c t Vision Lenses *7 k c y Say that, kid over a t Tom Lincoln,’? i« -tKekcmelie-jtH’J cu?s ye ever seen,* * W en,-»hud«,-looks Ain’t eycr’OuW . T h a t l i ’i todoer dger may may be be president, president, o of f Ju;, die, United States day, For .ve know . ________ AUTriAMTAK / insatiate point railroad rates Iasi week O ptom etrist No. 14 » Ave. West Eugere, Oregon to Itoseluirg It was derided to In­ tervene In the ease of rail's which d is­ crim inate against Interm ediate points. W illiam I’. Ellis, a Ralem Lawyer has been retained and Ills m ailer will ha taken up before the next m eeting of the Interstate Com m erce Com m ission which Is scheduled lo he held In Port. Innd on March IK. A d iscussion of the rulings nffectlng railroad rates was had nt the Rose­ burg m eeting. The (Irst ruling p r e vlded that railroad com panies could not charge more for Interm ediate hauls than they did for point lo point hauls. (h«n In 1927 another ruling a l­ lowed a 100‘ , In charge made for In­ term ediate rales II was not decided Just what a d Ion would he taken at the Interstntt Com m erce M eeting later. It was also decided nt the Itoseluirg m eeting lo try and affect a charge of th e place of Ihc In terstate Commerce C om m ission m eetin g In March from Portland to Medford or Itoseluirg. Her« from C ascade—J C. Thayer cam e down from Caacnde lust Satur­ day. He reports lots of snow and plenty of cold up In that section , In fuel. It w as cold enough to freete the pipes up there, m aking It n ecessary to dispatch Mr. Clinger, of Hprlngfleld. to properly plumb them back Into con- dltlon. Choice Candy W hen you wish to choose can d les th a t will be c e rtain to please, we know th a t you will find exactly wliut you w ant here, packed In a ttra c tiv e boxes, o u r choice candies are alw ays a welcome gift. 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