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THURSDAY. DEC. 19. 1929
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PA G E T W O
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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T H U R SD A Y . DECEM BER 11». 1929
TAX G in 'S EOR CHRISTMAS
A nnouncem ent th a t sta te property taxes would
be cut one million dollars is welcome new s out
of Salem at C hristm as tim e. Sim ilarly the feder­
a l governm ent will m ake g rea t reductions next
year.
G reater econom ies in s ta te gevernm ent and a
new law tax in g incom es from intangibles has
enabled the sta te to m ake property tax reduc­
tions. T his is a good s ta rt in th e direction of
relieving property of excessive tax burdens th a t
th e co u n try has been asking for.
However, taxes generally, and in cities especi­
ally, will not be lowered, because m ost of the
local budget com m ittees have been busy levying
up to th e full six per cent limit. W hat th e sta te
and county m ay cut cities and school districts
generally tak e up.
T he real problem in tax atio n is the local taxing
boards, and people in m any cities are beginning
to realize it. As in Eugene of late, tax levies in
m any cities subm itted to th e people have been
defeated decisively.
*
• • •
M c K enzie work is ordered
T he s ta te oiling program calls for oil on the
M cKenzie highw ay next spring from Nim rod to
Belknap. T he road will also be resurfaced in th e
B elknap district. C o n tracts are to be let for the
relocation of the McKenzie highw ay from W alter-
ville to Doyle Hill. T his season will see m uch
activity in road w ork on the McKenzie, if not th e
to ta l com pletion of the highw ay. T he McKenzie
m eans m ore to Springfield th an any o th e r road,
and it is w ith satisfaction we view progress to ­
w ard its ultim ate com pletion.
T he s ta te also will oil m ore of th e coast road
beyond T riangle Lake. At least tw o sections of
th e Roosevelt highw ay in Lane county will be
under c o n tra c t and a n o th e r section of the Wil­
lam ette highw ay leading tow ard Oakridge.
• • •
Som e of these sm art editorial w riters who
criticize the Finnish boy’s English a t the Oregon
Btate college m ight ask them selves how well
th ey could speak Finnish if th ey should find
them selves in th is lad ’s native country. We have
Been g rad u a tes of A m erican collges who had
Studied French and Spanish for fo u r years u n ­
able to ord er a m eal in F rance or Spain w ith any
degree of intelligence. English is conceded to be
one of th e m ost difficult languages, due to a m ul­
titu d e of irregularities, yet it is a notorious fact
th a t foreign stu d en ts m aste r our language m ore
quickly th a n we do theirs.
• • •
A biology professor in a B aptist college in
A labam a has been dism issed because he doubted
th e story of Jonah and th e W hale. Sis study of
th e story of Jo n a h and the W hale. His study of
Bide a w hale even if one could be found large
enough to swallow' him. He says in his study
of biology th a t th ere are 600,00 species of a n i­
m al life, and he doubts if a pair of each kind was
ever crow ded into N oah’s ark. This professor
evidently th in k s too logical to be a good pro­
fesso r in a religious institution.
• • •
We welcom e G eorge S tanley to our m idst as a
business m an and property ow ner. T he way to
build a com m unity is to allow freedom for
' g row th in business and industry. We welcome
a n o th e r grocery store. If a n o th e r print shop
w a n ts to com e to tow n— we welcome it too.
• • •
C ongress is in session again and prom ises to
do som e m ore farm relieving. W hen it gets
th ro u g h we shall discover th a t good farm ers
m an a g e to get along som ehow and poor farm ers
wilj still be hollering for help, sam e as alw ays.
• * •
Uncle Si T inklepaugh says he used to read a
city paper b u t it m ade too m uch noise around the
house. T he headlines w ere so big he had to
h o ller to read ’em.
YOUTH
‘‘T his is the age of y o u th .” How often we hear
(hat said, som etim es with th e hopeful view th at
youth, som ehow , is going to m ake the world over
Every age has been the age of youth. Young
folks a re m ore vociferous just now th a n they
were before the war. T hey get m ore publicity,
m ainly because th ere a re m ore m edium s of publi­
city. But in all history it has been youth which
has gone adventuring, w hich his injected new
ideas into the w orld’s th o u g h t, which h as sta rte d
m ovem ents, which have, in tim e, changed social
and econom ic conditions.
it w as youth th a t settled America. T he Pilgrim
F a th ers were m ostly boys in th eir tw en ties when
they landed on P lym outh Rock. T h e pioneers ot
Virginia and Pennsylvania were no older.
F rom the beginning, young folk have done
things of which th eir elders did not approve. "T he
only service the young can ren d e r th e old Is to
shock them and so keep them up to d a te ." says
G eorge B ernard Shaw in one of his plays. A m an
o r w om an m ust be very old Indeed o r have a very
poor m em ory, to have fo rgotten th a t in his or her
y outh th e old folks seldom approved of th e a c tiv ­
ities and in terests of the young.
And w hen the young people of today have be­
com e th e p a re n ts of boys and girls of eighteen
o r tw enty, they too. will be shocked by th e things
th eir children will do or w ant to do.
• • •
AND NOW— T H E CROSS STA TE LINE
T he cross s ta te railroad from C rane to C res­
c e n t I^ike, 109 miles, has been ordered built by
th e In te rsta te com m erce com m ission. It is the
last railroad on the Oregon public service com ­
m ission’» program , and the one for which the
s ta te body has w orked hardest.
W hether the Union Pacific, w ho has been o r­
dered to build th e road, will resist th e o rd er is
n o t know n. But a progressive step has been
tak e n by the com m erce com m ission, and em ­
phasis h as been placed on the need for serving
this te rrito ry by rail. If th e railroads expect the
people of th e co u n try to g u a ra n te e them six per
cent on investm ents, then they m ust also expect
to listen to the people’s rep re sen ta tiv e s when
they dem and new railroads.
We believe this road will be built in th e next
few years. W hen it is co n stru cted th W illam ette
valley will have a sh o rte r ro u te to the east, which
will m ean m uch in these days of rapid tra n s p o r­
tatio n . C entral Oregon and Idaho will have an
o u tle t to th e coast and th ere is no doubt pro fit­
able trad e relations will result.
D IR IG IBLES
A irp lan es s tir
m an 's
p ride
In
h u m a n ity 's a c h ie v e m e n t of w hat the
b ird s have alread y know n
A irships
Ilk« th e Isis A ngeles o r th e tlra f
Z eppelin, s tir th e Im agination w ith
' so m eth in g like aw e
T h ey resem ble
1 noth in g seen on e a rth . T hey m ight
he v isito rs from a n o th e r planet
FOOD
T h e lute J
O gden A rm our once
lnw.sted publicly th a t he Intended to
c o n tro l th e w orld’s food supply
T he
o th e r day la e s ta te w as s e ttle d In
C hicago
T h e re w asn 't enough mo
n ey left to pay h is d e b ts hy som e
$2,000.000
In O gden A rm o u r's tim e It m ight
have been possible fo r one m an to
send th«' price of food up or dow n as
he w illed It ts Im possible today, ami
will he fo rev er Im possible w hen the
fowl p ro d u cers of th e n atio n fully
av a il th em selv es of th e o p p o rtu n ity
to co n tro l th e ir ow n m a rk e ts w hich
Is open to th em u n d e r the F ed eru l
F a rm B oard Act.
Commander Byrd's Boute from Little America to the South Pole
C ount
K eyaerllng.
th e
G erm an
tr a v e le r and p h ilo so p h er, say s th a t
C hicago Is th e m ost typical A m erican
city.
R aym ond M Hood, p re sid e n t
of th e New York A rc h ite c tu ra l le a ­
gue, told h is fellow a rc h ite c ts the
o th e r n ig h t th a t th e y h a d n 't seen
an y re a l A m erican a rc h ite c tu re u n til
th ey had seen C hicago's new sk y ­
s c ra p e rs.
E v e ry tim e I go back to C hicago I
feel as If I w ere g e ttin g a fre sh In-
'•< u latlo n of A m ericanism . No o th e r
c ity so co m p letely ex p re sse s the
A m erican rp lrlt of today In no o th e r
city of w hich I know do th e o rd in a ry
people have so m any and such w on­
d erfu l o p p o rtu n itie s to get th e m ost
out o f life. New York still looks to
E u ro p e and th e p a st for Its tr a d itio n s
and c u ltu re ; C hicago Is dev elo p in g
a c u ltu re of Its ow n Which will s e t
ave you
H
visited one
Standard Oil
Dealers?
Many o f your fellow
m otoriilt have fou n d
new advantage» by do­
ing to.
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For any m em ber
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new ami m odern
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If you do, a business college training will be well w orth
while, am i Eugene is the place to get It.
H ere you will receive as th o rough a train in g at as reaso n ­
able a ra te and in as short a tim e as in any o th er achool.
It’s a Good School
Ask About It.
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Send a M essage of Love on C hristm as Day—
Give Our Candy
You can give no g re a te r testim ony of your affection
th a n a box of ou r candy. We have’special C h ristm as selec­
tions, In fancy and holly boxes, th a t are the last word In
confections — w holesom e and delicious, tem pting and
healthful.
Everybody likes candy— you’ll m ake no m istak e in a
box a s a C hristm as gift.
F G G IM A N N ’S
"W h e re »ha Barvlca la D iffe re n t"
W hy not Trade in Your
Old Car
on a Good Used Car
WITH AN O. K. THAT COUNTS
7th and Oak
RED
WHITE
fe-’RLUE
McKinley
The map show» the route of Commander Byrd in hi* trip to the
South Pole from Little America, Antarctica, and back, a distance of
1,600 mile*. The huge gray plane mounted the fair (kies at Little
America with Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Rglchen fflying
the plane); Radioman June at th* wtreleaa and Captain Aahtey Q
McKinley, photographer surveyor and general utility man.
*Good
flying weather” made a one. at>eedv atari aoeeihu.
this year
MORRIS CHEVROLET Co.
n .o o o
Commander Byrd
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Balis O ne's Just ns difficult us Hie
o th e r
In golf you lilt nothing, and
In m otoring you till e v ery th in g
T h e d lrlg ilh les of Hie U ltore will
h ear Hie sam e re la tio n to th e ulr
plan e th at the m otorhua docs to the
o rd in a ry
p a ss e n g e r autom obile, or
th a t th e ocean lin er does to th e
speed boat
P e rh a p s a com bination
of Hie p rin cip les of th e tw o typ«>s of
a irc ra ft may som e d isp lace both ns
we now know them
RADIO
Som ebody ha» to pay fo r ra d io ’
b ro a d c a stin g . In E ngland
the
Ila ■
te n e rs pay. by an a n n u al tax on r e ­
ceiving sets, and th e G ov ern m en t
co n tro ls the o p e ra tio n of th e b ro a d ­
c a s tin g statio n s.
T h is Is a sy stem
w hich A m ericans would n ever tor-
e rn le T h e re Is too m uch G overnm ent
re g u la tio n of th e spoken w ord as
well us of p rin t, even now
In th is c o u n try II Is th e a d v e r­
tis e rs w ho pay for b ro ad castin g
A d v ertisin g and th e d is trib u tio n of
new s and In form ation a re the p ro p er
function of n e w sp ap ers
S o m e new s
p a p e rs
now o p e ra te
b ro a d c a stin g
s ta tio n s, and th e ir p ro g ram s a re
am ong th e b est on th e air. In tin-
n a tu r a l evo lu tio n of th in g s, n ew s­
p a p e rs wilt ta k e o v er ull broad
; c a s tin g
TON
• • •
W hen one of th em an n o u n ces th a t th e p u r­
ch a se r of a glasB of wine should be sentenced to
etn years in prison, or that the a rm y should he
called out to sh o o t dow n such citizens who m ake
whoopee, th e com m on sense of people rebels.
“T h is is too m u ch .” they m urm ur.
T he m u rm u r is n o t loud, but it is deep. T he
m u rm u re rs a re not given to analyzatiou, and
they have little ta le n t for p u ttin g their th o u g h ts
into words. None the less, they are conscious
th a t a law which m akes a C hristian talk and act
in such an u n ch ristian fashion m ust be open to
serious doubt.
And, if goaded fa r enough, thye will do som e­
th in g ab o u t it.
A w onderful th in g about th e universe it its
all-pervading law of balance. For every s ta r
th ere is som e o th e r s ta r to hold it In place. For
every poison th ere is an antidote. F or every
abuse th ere is som e n a tu ra l corrective.
• • •
“T h in g s refu se to be m ism anaged long,” as
E m erson pointed out. “T hough no checks to a
new evil appear, th e checks exist and will appear.
If the governm ent is cruel, th e g o v ern o r’s life is
not safe. If you ta x too high, the revenue will
yield nothing. If you m ake th e crim inal code
sanguinary, juries will n o t convict.”
M alis; Is It e a sie r to learn golf or
m otorini T
It Is possible llia t th e discovery
th at m an can rid e th ro u g h th e a ir
su sp en d ed from a bubble of gas will
prove In a h u n d red y e a rs Io lie m ore
j im p o rta n t th a n th e a irp lan e.
D iri­
gibles will get b ig g er and bigger,
i sa fe r an d sa fe r
A lready they can
n a v ig a te w here planes a re forced
dow n
A Z eppelin 1200 f e d long Is
being built nt Akron. T h at ts larg er
I th a n th e lurgest w ate rb o rn e ship.
RAILROADS
A utom obiles h a v e been co m p etin g
w ith th e h allro ad a fo r tw enty-five
y ears, but av e ra g e tra in speeds hav e
n o t In c reased In th a t period,
j It took th e a irp la n e to s tim u la te
th e ro a d s to h ig h e r speeds. T he
P e n n sy lv a n ia ra ilro a d prom ises e le c ­
tr ic tra in s betw een W ash in g to n and
! N ew York a t speed s from SO to 100
m iles a hour. T h a t Is as fast ns th e
m ost co m m ercial p lan es can fly In
T H E ARMY WORM
safety.
E v en tu ally all ra ilro a d s will be op­
E ighteenth A m endm ent is ever over­
it will n o t be by th e W ets. T he over- e ra te d ele c tric a lly betw een Im p o rta n t
Drys will talk it out of th e C onstitution ¡c e n te rs and tra in speeds of 100 m iles
an h o u r w ill be com m on.
talked It in.
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If the
throw n
zealous
as th ey
th e A m erican s ta n d a rd for c e n tu rie s
to com e..
T ill*
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e r — “ W h a t la this Im p ro v e d service
you have to offer?”
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