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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
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Sunday School Plan Program*
During Next Weak; Baptist
Choir to Sing Cantata Tues­
day Evening; Chriatma* Ser­
mon Theme* on Sunday.
Thia week end and the (Irat part
of next week will brio* to Spring
field a large number of Christmas
programs and cantatas at the local
ehurehaa. Koch church la preaentln*
a program featuring the Munday school
and at leaat two of them are plan­
ning musics! program*.
Christian Church Sunday
The firat program Hated for the
holiday aeaaon In the churches la at
the t'hrlatlan church where the Sun­
day achool will present their annual
pr<«rutn at 10:00 o'clock before the
morning service. Their program will
l»< as follow*:
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Opening song by Christmas chorus;
Haralds, by alx beginners; recitation
by Maxwell Pohl; exercise by eleven
primaries; recitation, Virgin!* Pohl;
exercise, Vern Laswell and chorus;
exercise. I^ la Peterson and 0 begin­
ners; song, children's chorus; exer-
cle, Julia Pederson and 0 Junior girls;
duet, Elsie Reals and Pearl Helter-
brand; exercise, Chas. Hole and & Jun
lor bogs; presentation of White gifts,
all departments of the Bible achool;
Christmas offering for Ministerial re
lief; song. Chorua.
Thia congregation la also to hold
their Christmas service Sunday at
11:00 with Rev. Pruitt, pastor, speak­
ing on "The Birth of Christ*. The
choir will sing "Calm as the Night.**
by J. A. Parka. "And There Were
Shepherds*' by Ira Wilson, "Glory Be
To and", by Davis Loretta, and “The
Christmas song, by Adams at this
service.
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Sunday evening they will present
a short play. •'They That Sit In Dark
neaa". This will be followed by a
sermonette by the pastor.
Baptist Cantata Tuesday
Perhaps tbs largest mulacal pro
gram of the aeaaon will be that at
the Baptist church on Tuesday eve­
ning when the choir sings their
Christmas cantata under the direc­
tion of Wilfred Cook.
The program for this Is divided
Into two parts as follows: Part One*—
Prelude, Mrs. M N. Pengra; recita­
tive (tenor) M. N. Pengra; recitative,
(baas) Alfred P. Frese; chorus, “Ar­
rive Runshlne", mate voices; women's
sextette. "He Shall Peed Ills Flock";
recitative, (alto) Iowa Carlton; tenor
solo, W. H. Cook; chorus, “How Beau­
tiful Upon the Mountains"; aoprano
nolo*, "My Soul Doth Magnify The
Lord", Mrs. H Montgomery; chorus,
“Sing O Heavens", mixed quartet and
soprano solo.
Part II—Soprano solo, “The Plains
of Bethelem", Ruth Carlton; recita­
tive, (alto) Iowa Carlton; solo, (bass)
Alfred Frese; tenor solos and chorus;
baritone solo, Arthur Warren and
women’s voices; tenor solo, Ernest
McKinney; chorus, male quartet, and
alto recitative; chorus, “Holy Night,
Peaceful Night"; tenor and soprano
solos.
Singers In Cantata
The personnel of the choir Is as
follows: Sopranos— Mrs. R. J. Adams,
ilexel Wilson. Vernlce Hawke, Mrs.
Charles Wilson, Mrs. Waltace Hawke.
Mrs. Paul Schlewe, Ruth Carlton, Mrs.
R. Mulholland, Mrs. S. Montgomery,
Mrs. Dewey Ray, Miriam Rice, Mrs.
Pred Frese; altos— Mrs. Kenneth To­
bins, Mrs. W. H. James, Mrs. Roy
Carlton, Mrs. Clarence Caudell, Iowa
Carlton. Mrs. Marvin Chase, Mrs. W.
E. Schick; bass— P. H. Emery, C. H.
Paddock, Alfred P. Frese, Homer W.
Chase, R. J. Adams, and Arthur W ar­
ren; tenors—Wayne Bailey, M| N.
Pengra, H. W. Chtpluck, Adrean T.
Burris, E. L. McKinney, and Fred
Frese.
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L I V I ~ N C W tP A P K R
IN A L I V I TO W N
8PRINOF1BLP, LANE COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1830
EUGENE YOUTHS ARE
AIRPLANE SERVICE MAY
JAILED FOR ASSAULT;
BE USED LOCALLY FOR
PAROLED ON MONDAY
CHRISTMAS PACKAGES
Lawyer Explains
. Property Theory
Gilbert and Delbert Watson, twin*.
IS year* old who llv* In Eugene, were
sentenced and later paroled on good
behavior In Juvenile court Monday by
Judge C. P. Barnard lor tbelr actions
her* Tueaday of the preceding week
In assaulting Glenn B. Wood, princi­
pal of the Brattaln school while be
was attempting to put an end to a
street fight which two pupils of hl*
class were having at 8eventh and
1) streets while on their way from
school, and for urging two student*
to Insubordinate their principal.
Profeaaor at Law School Toil*
Brotherhood of Need for
New Concept of Property.
Christmas packages can now be
sent by airplane Io Portlaud or any
of the other cities touched by the
Bennett Air Transport lines lor a
moderate cost according to Dr. W. C.
Itebhan. If the shipper desires to
send the psreel to some place not
on the Bennet line they will make
the necessary arrangement to have
the package delivered. This delivery
service Is complete In every respect.
If a fanner here desires to send some
fresh fowl or other perishable product
to some relative In Portland or Ta­
coma he need only wrap It securely
and bring It to the Ftanery durg store
and It will be taken to the airport
and placed In one of the ships stop­
ping here. If the shipper desires
the package will be delivered direct
to the home of the receplent Im
mediately after the ship lands In that
city.
School of Flying
To Build Airplane
Material* Arriving Daily for
Ship; To Be Rented to Stu­
dent* for Low Charge.
Materials for a new small arlplane
to be built at the municipal airport
are arriving dally now and work will
be started Immediately according to
Jim McManlman. manager. The ship
will be a small biplane single sealer.
It will be a little smaller than the
one built last spring for Dalton Shinn.
Power for the ship will be furnished
by a Heath-Henderson IM motor.
The ship will be owned by the
Springfield School of Flying and will
be available tor student use at the
flat rental of 15 00 per hour. Stu­
dents who have completed their solo
flight training will be given an op­
portunity to rent the ship at a nominal
fee and thus acquire additional hours
In the air.
The lumber for the ship was cut
at a planing mill In Kugpne and a
large part of the work on the new
airplane will be done by students at
the school to glvy them a better
understanding of the construction of
the various types of ships.
SETTING EXAMPLE HARD
ON EMPLOYEES OF CITY
Lum Anderson and Ira M. Peterson
are wondering If It actually pays to
demonstrate ones ability as a laborer.
During the summer before the fire
station was moved, these two to­
gether with Hugh Joliff, fire chief,
decide«! that the city hall should be
kalsomlned. They were unable to con­
vince the city fathers to the extent
of having them have the work done,
but they compromised hy agreeing to
do the labor If the city would pur­
chase the materials.
Now. again, they have been bothered
with dust on the cement floor at the
city hall for some time and when
they asked the mayor about havltgt
It painted he Immediately replied,
"Sure, buy some paint and go to I f
This Is Just what they have been
doing. They put on old clothes and
gave the floor In both the new addi­
tion and the main room two coats
of red cement floor paint. The new
paint brightens the rooms and makes
It easier to keep them clean.
Hugh Joliff has been moved to the
new fire station on Seventh street
and was not there to help the boys.
NEEDLECRAFT GROUP HAS
DOUBLE MEETING TODAY
The Needlecraft club Is holding
their progressive party this afternoon.
The members are to gather at the
home of Mrs. Lloyd Thompson for
n one o'clock luncheon and will go
to the home of Mrs. Gertrude Wilson
on Emerald Heights for the Christmas
party which will be held during the
The Baptist church will have their afternoon.
Sunday school program at the church
on Sunday evening.
Mrs. Miriam MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER
Rice has charge of the program.
GIVEN HERE SATURDAY
The Full Gospel Assembly on Main
street will have their Christmas pro­
Mrs. Gladys Hendrickson was the
gram on Tuesday evening at 7:46.
guest of honor at a miscellaneous
Christmas Eva Program
shower held at the home of Iowa
The Methodist church will have Carlton on Saturday evening. The
their Christmas program on Christ­
evening was spent with games and
mas eve, Wednesday evening. The
tfcinta Claus brought a large number
Sunday school, assisted by several of gifts for Mrs. Hendrickson.
other organisations In the church will
Those Invited were: the honor
provide the program. Mrs. W. H.
guest, Mrs. Stillman George, Mrs. J.
Gants, superintendent of the Sunday D. Campbell, Mm. Graydon Lewis,
school Is general chairman.
Mrs. Carl Lewis, Mrs. Edward Col*,
Sunday morning and evening Rev. Mrs. Ben Weber, Mrs. Earl Roberts,
Pike will preach two sermons, one Mrs. Oneta Cruxan, Mr*. R. J. Adams,
n continuation of the other on the Mrs. Otis Spolres, Miss Gladys Col­
subject, “Why He Came.” The choir lins, Miss Doris Girard, Mrs. Ernest
will sing Christmas songs at both Black, Mrs. G. W. Walker, and Miss
services.
Marguerite Walker.
According to Mr. Wood and several
other teachers and people who saw the
affair he had gone to the io -tit of
the trouble after he had received a
phone call to come and stop the fight­
ing on the street. After he stopped
the scrapping and told the crowd of
children assembled to disperse and
go home he ordered the two combat­
ants to return to the school for ques­
tioning
It was at this time that
two youth* jumped on Wood bringing
him to the ground. People standing
nearby stopped this and the two
youths disappeared.
A new concept of property, one
cbaux«.*d from Individuality to mutual­
ity was dlscused Monday night at the
monthly meeting of the Men's Broth­
erhood of the Methodist church by
Charles O. Howard, member of the
faculty of the law school of the uni
verslty at Eugene.
Thi- necessity of human relation­
ships was stressed by the speaker
who said that property la only the
human relationships between Individ­
ual*. He cited several examples to
prove hts statement.
In one case be declared that a mer­
chant's shelves of goods were of no
value to him If be d.d not have con­
tacts with other people, and also that
a service station operator had gaso­
line to sell, but declared that It was
worthless If be was the only person
using IL
’ He also showed how, when one man
started an oil station and succeeded
another would come along and take
sway hl* property by reducing the
number of contacts and sales of the
first Individual.
They were found In Eugene Thurs­
day morning and were returned to the
Jail here under arrest. They were
here that night and roost of the next
day before they were taken In charge
Laws Are Changing
A gradual change is being made
by the Juvenile officers of the county.
Neither the principal or the two In the laws of the United States In
youths were struck or Injured In the respect to property, the speaker said.
fray.
The old idea as expressed In the
Much comment I* being heard this Sherman anti-trust law, that competi­
week on this case. Efforts are being tion would remedy all evil* in the
mad«* to show that the boys were business world Is rapidly being dis­
Justified In telling the combatants to carded. This was satisfactory when
pay no heed to the principal on the this was a pioneer country, but now
ground that they did hot know who that the population has gretly in­
he was. Eye witnesses state that creased It Is necessary to consider
Mr. Wood told the two boys to go the effects of competition of others.
Laws today protect the individual
to his office at the school. This state­
ment alone Is considered sufficient to the extent that a person can seek
evidence that the principal was a redress If he can prove that a de­
person of authority and entitled t<^ In­ liberate attempt was made to put him
terfere In street brawls of his stu­ out of business and the attempt was
dents either while coming to or successful, be said, but this Is not
returning from their classes.
enough, the law will some day rec­
ognise that It is wrong to carry on
unfair practices whether they are
"AUNT LUCIA" GIVEN
prosecuted or not
WARM RECEPTION BY
SPRINGFIELD PEOPLE
"Aunt Lucia," collegiate comedy pre­
sented by the American legion poet
of Bprlngfleld" and containing a cast
of more than 76 people was well re­
ceived at the high school auditorium
on Thursday and Friday evenings of
last week. The house was almost
filled for the first performance and
a fair slxed group was present for
the second showing.
Those who saw the production de­
clared their satisfaction with It and
the manner In which the cast was
able to stage a show of that nature
with less than two weeks of actual
practice.
Clifford Wilson, as Aunt I<ucla, cap­
tivated his audience and held up the
show In fine shape. A great deal of
credit must also be given to Mrs.
Levi Neet, Alice B«*eson, and Mrs.
R. L. Burnett for their display of
affection and understanding with the
supposed Aunt Lucia. Clayton Barber
and Jack Larson as the two upper-
class men, and Ralph Hughes and
Jack Hulett as the freshmen, who
clean up the room, exchange opinions
and swap stories, all provided several
good comedy.
E. C. Stuart. C. J. McKee, and H. O.
Dlbblee, all as suitors of Aunt Luala
were extremely humorous In their
proposals.
The flapper chorus played a minor
part, but It drew a lot of applause
when the various members showed
the audience what a well dressed
chorus should wear.
Mrs. John Ketels as the reader, and
the children of the lower grade* at
the Brattaln school, acting In pan-
tomlne. provided a'very pleasing set­
ting for the opening event.
Mrs. W. K. Bai ueil, sololht, pro­
vided the atmosphere for the touching
love scene of the first act.
A great deal of credit Is due the
high school girls for the speciality
acts which they presented during the
show.
Public Favor V ital Fact
He cited two examples to show that
the large Industries were aware of
the fact that if they did not have
favorable human relationships they
would not be able to carry on their
business. One example cited was that
of the Pittsburg Steel company which
operated a plant In Chicago and dic­
tated that the price of steel in Chi­
cago should be the cost of steel in
Pittsburg plus the freight charge at
Chicago. When the Interstate Com­
merce commission stepped In the com­
pany admitted they were wrong and
agreed to charuce their policy and asked
that no publicity be given the case
as It would Influence the public
against them. The other example was
that of the Standard Oil company in
Wisconsin where prices were being
kept up In violation of the law. They
immediately retracted their policy
when they were warned by the gov­
ernment
The past attitude of acquiring prop­
erty Is not In keeping with Christian
ideals, declared Mr. Howard. More
competition will not Improve the sit­
uation. but a better understanding of
the needs and rights of the Individual
with greater respect for the other
fellow will.
This, he continued,
will require constantly growing faith
and a stronger belief In one's fellow-
men.
Chain Store* Mentioned
Asked what he thought of the chain
stores, he replied that they were a
good thing and that there would be
a great many more large mergers In
the next few years. The chain stores
can take advantage of group buying
and can provide better facilities for
the public, but the danger Is In the
types of people at the heads of them.
If they do not have the welfare of
the public in consideration they wilt
Injure the public and eventually them­
selves, he believed.
REBEKAH CHRISTMAS
PARTY WILL BE MONDAY
Plans for the Christmas party of
the Rebekah lodge to be held next
Monday were talked Monday evening
after the regular lodge activities. A
committee has been appointed to pro­
vide entertainment and each person
attending Is asked to bring a gift cost
Ing not more than 16 cents. There
will be a Christmas tree and refresh­
ments. All Odd Fellow* and the fam­
ilies of the Rebekah members are
Invited to attend.
Entertaining at Home.
A special gift box will be packed
Mrs. E. E. Morrison Is entertaining that evening for the home at Port-
the members of the Willing Workers t..nd and each person who can Is
group of the Christian church at her asked to bring something useful for
home this afternoon.
the box on Monday evening.
Members of the Legion were well
pleased with the show. They would
have lined to have had a larger crowd
the second night, but as It is they
made some money with the show and
they all had an enjoyable time during
the show and the rehearsals.
Miss Ruth Craft directed the play
for the Universal Producttng com­
pany.
POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS
TROUBLES OVER PARKING
A large number of Springfield resi­
dent* had their automobile* tagged
by the police department for the first
time Thursday night of last week
while they were attending a perform
ance of the play, "Aunt Lucia” at
the high school. According to Lum
Anderson, who tagged the cars, two
resident* called him protesting that
the sidewalk In front of the school
was being used for parking and that
there was not sufficient room to pass
without leaving the sidewalk.
When the motorists brought their
tags to the city hall the following
morning they were excused by the
city recorder b««cause the ¿round In
front of (he school was very muddy.
Friday evening a group of local
men sat in their parked automobile
to wait for men who were syphoning
gasoline out of the tank*. They saw
the fellow come to get gasoline but
were unable to catch them They had
requested that the chief of police leave
the matter of watching the automo­
biles to them that night.
Basketball Team
On Week-end Trip
Coach May Takes First String
Men on Barnstorming Trip
Before Vacation Period.
Norval May, high school coach and
seven of his basketball players, left
Springfield; yesterday afternoon for
their first barnstorming trip of the
season and also their only real hard
competition before the Christmas holi­
days.
A game was played with Lebanon
high last night, but no return* had
been received at the high school this
morning to Indicate their luck. To­
night the team plays Dellas at Dallas.
Friday they play Monmouth and on
Saturday they meet the McMinnville
team and then return to Springfield
The members of the team making
the trip are John Lynch. Gilbert Ernst
Ing, Lloyd Mattison, Gordon Wright,
Bert Tomseth, Bruce Squires, and
Harold Stevens. The trip Is being
made In a large automobile loaned
by Julius Fulop.
SCHOOLS ALL PLAN
CHRISTMAS PARTIES
FOR COMING WEEK
Elaborate plans- are being made at
the high school this week for the
annual Christmas party to be held
in the auditorium on the afternoon
of December 24. A stage program
is being planned by a committee
headed by Faye Parsons. This will
start immediately after noon when
all of the students are requested to
come dressed as small children. Parts
of the program will include a reindeer
drill, reading by Dorothy Mae Bald­
win; a song, “Up In the Housetop*,"
by Velda Bartholomey, and a read­
ing by Faye Parsons.
The major part of the program will
be a one-act Christmas play to be
presented by the students of the
dramatics clas sunder the direction
of Miss Marguerite Milhollen, advisor.
The cast for this play Is as follows:
Joshla Benton. John Lynch; Nihla
Benton, Daisey Tomseth; an express-
man, Franklin Drury; another ex­
pressman, Paul Frese; Fredericks,
Faye Parsons; the Judge, Jack Hulett;
the district attorney, Hersey Tom
seth; sergeant-at-arms. Orville Mc­
Pherson; foreman of Jury. Nellie
Stuart; Jurors, Elmer Ware, Mina
Peterson, Myrna Bartholomew, Eva
Louk, Wilma Poet, and Dorothy Rol­
lins; first witness, Junta May; second
witness. Donald Chase; third witness,
Lloyd Matison.
The stage will be elaborately dec­
orated with Christmas Ideas and a
large Christmas tree will occupy a
prominent position. Each student is
to bring a small gift and they will
be exchanged during the afternoon.
Bach room In the grade schools Is
planning short Christmas programs to
be given In the rooms on Wednesday
afternoon.
No. 49
SCHOOL DISTRICT
HUS CUSH » L O S
All Outstanding Warrant* Called
for Payment Tomorrow by
School Clerk: Balance of
$2700 Will Remain in Treas­
ury; Bond* Remain Unpaid.
The warranted Indebted nese of
School District number 19 which In-
dude* the d ty of Springfield win
be completely wiped out on Friday
of this week, the date when Interest
on si] outstanding warrants cease*
and they will be paid, according to
Clayton F. Barber, clerk of the school
district who Is publishing a call for
all warrants to aad including number
1408. the last one l*sue«l, and which
1* dated December 10, 1030.
Another bright side of the school
finances at this time is that there
will be a surplus of almost 12700.00
In the treasury after all warrants and
Interest has been paid.
An Unusual Event H e r*
This Is the first time that thia
condition has existed in the schools
of this city for many year* and speaks
well for the members and officers
of the present and former school
boards.
The school district is not free of
debt, however, as ft has a bonded In­
debtedness of 3171,000.00, only the
Interest of which Is being paid. A
Urge part of this Is said to still carry
over from the time when the Lincoln
school was constructed.
Marked Improvement In the condi­
tion of the school warranted Indebted­
ness was made last year nnder Wm.
O. Hughes, at that time clerk. On
December 26, 192* the Indebtedness
on warrants was 94,8*2.24 as com­
pared with 310.288.il for the previous
year. This year there will probably
be no warrant Indebtedness at the
close of the year.
T ax Turnover Made
The removal of this part of the
school district’s Indebtedness was
made possible at thia tin « by the
receipt of a large part of the school
funds which were collected with the
taxes for the last half year and which
were recently turned over to the
school districts. It does not mean
that the district will be able to oper­
ate on a cash basis during the next
year, however, as the receipts will
drop greatly for the next few months
while the expnses will remain about
normal.
Another interesting thing in con­
nection with the schools this year
is that the faculty is larger than it
has ever been in past years and con­
siderable money was expended by the
board In the rmodllng of two rooms
at th Lincoln and Brattaln schools to
provide extra class rooms for the
students.
MRS. MAXEY’S SISTER
PASSES AT OLYMPIA
Mrs. Elvin O. Strand, only sister
of Mrs. H. E. Maxey, died at Olympia,
Washington, Tuesday morning of this
week.
Mrs. Maxey and her son,
James, left Springfield on Saturday to
be with her sister who was 11L Mr.
Maxey went to Olympia Wednesday
noon in one of the Bennett air. lanes
to attend the funeral which win prob­
ably be held at Spokane where Mrs.
Strand’s husband Is buried.
She is survived by one son, Robert
James Strand, her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest H. Turner of Olympia,
and her sister.
Mrs. Strand visited with her sister
in Springfield several times, the last
being during the spring of this year.
REFUSE FIRE AT POLE
PLANT CAUSES ALARM
Large black clouds of smoke In the
northwest part of the city Monday
morning were caused by the burning
of trash and rubbish at the Carbolln-
euf Wood Product plant according to
Clifford Wilson, manager. Many peo­
ple called the .city hall during the
morning to find out whether or not
EASTERN STAR INSTALLS
the plant was on fire. It was a com-
OFFICERS ON TUESDAY ( arntlviely small fire, according to
Wilson, but the composition of the
Formal installation of the new of waste materials is such that it creates
fleers of the Eastern Star was held large black smoke clouds.
Tuesday evening. The members as
sembled at 6:30 for a Christmas
dinner and sat down to a table beau­ MRS. ADAMS ENTERTAINS
BIBLE GROUP TONIGHT
tifully decorated with colored Christ­
mas lights and place cards for all
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Adams will
the ofksers.
Plane for a New Tear’s party to entertain the members of the Bible
be held on the first meeting night study class of the Chlrstlan church
of the group In January, which is at a Christmas party at their home
January 6, was discussed at the In East Springfield this evening. All
members are urged to attend and
meeting.
Mrs. W. C. Wrlgh'. was the retiring are requested to bring a flve-cent gift
worthy matron. She was succeeded to exchange with some other person.
Refreshments will be served.
by Mrs. Gertrude Wilson.
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