THE S I’ll I NG FI ELD NEWS
PACK FOUR
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
I’ubllshsd Every Thursday at
Hpringflald. Lane County, Oregon, by
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
H. K
M A X E Y . Editor
Entered aa aeeond class matter. February 21, 1803. at the poatofftee.
Springfield. Oregon.
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THVRSDAY, MARCH 18. 1831
ANDY AND WILLIS BOTH WRONG
Andrew Mellon wept great tears before congress on
account the fifty per cent loan on the adjusted service
certificates of ex-service men. lie said it would bank
rupt the treasury and retard business recovery in general,
and our Congressman Willis C. Hawley agreed with him.
Now Elisa Walker, chairm an of one of the biggest chain
banks system in the world, says:
“Already the effect of the government loans to w ar vet
erans Is felt In business, although some of the Ioans have
been completed only a few days. The veterans loans will
be helpful to business in general.
"Department stores and other stores are showing results
of the additional money and the automobile business is
looking up. Anything that has a stim ulating effect on
business will also be helpful to the bond m arket.”
Banks who opposed the loan are now opening loan
departm ents all over the country where the adjusted serv
ice certificate is loaned cn at the same rate as the govern
m ent’s. The adjusted service certificates represent a gov
ernm ent obligation for service rendered long ago. They
represent an honest effort to adjust the soldier's pay with
th a t received by civilians during the world war.
"WHAT WE MAKE MAKES OREGON”
Now that we have two lumbermen on the highway com
mission one might expect to see more wood construction
on state bridges. Small imported steel bridges are being
erected in many places on our highways w hile our lumber
workers are in idleness. And who is there to say that
rusting metal in this damp country will outlast well sea
soned wood construction? Even if it did steel cost twice
as much as wood and for small bridges can not help but
be more costly in the long run.
We help the steel in
dustry sufficiently when we buy automobiles made in the
east without purchasing metal bridges.
STRADDLERS!
The W ickersham commission said th a t as a body it
oposed the repeal of the eighteenth am endm ent but as
individuals they nearly all favored repeal or revision. No
new thoughts there— politicians have been politically dry
and personally wet since the eighteenth am endm ent was
first passed: and bootleggers, too. for th a t m atter.
Fishermen take warning. Game wardens are now traffic
cops and prohi officers. Don't break speed limits going to
the fishing hole, or have any liquor in the old basket. If
they keep on making laws they are going to take all the
fun out of fishing. We suggest to the governor th a t the
game wardens be equipped with white row boats and not
be allowed to lie in ambush. Give the boys a chance,
Julius. You’ve been fishin’ vourself.
A new m otor fuel made of alcohol and ether is being
successfully used in Brazil. “Alcohol and gasoline won’t
mix” in this country 'tis often said, but in South America
one takes the place of the other at about half the cost.
More than 150 kinds of cheese are now being m anu
factured. Nearly all are ventilated except the one that
needs it most—Limberger.
A new compound has been discovered th at is 690 tim es
sw eeter than sugar. Some genius should mix it with face
powder and m ake a fortune.
Fix up the house and garage this spring. Every stick
of lumber you use counts to keep the sawmills running.
>BRUC
SCRUBWOMEN
One hot day, when the business depression was worst,
I visited two of th e largest corporations in the world.
1 talked with the treasurer of one and with the chair
m an of the finance committe of the other—and these are
men, I may tell you, in whose m ake-up sentim entally plays
very little part.
They had been looking at red figures until their eye-balls
burned. They were entirely unwilling to predict when their
Industries would improve.
But each of them uttered the same fervent exlam ation:
“If we only can pull through without haring to cut w ages!”
When you stop to think about it, th a t is an astonishing
phenomenon. Twenty-five years ago men in similar posi
tions would have said, immediately: “ Business is off ten
per cent; slash wages twenty per cent.”
The same sort of executives who used to assum e th at
the way to cure depression was by cutting wages, are
now convinced th a t the way to cure it is not to cut.
T hat is one principal fact which m akes the current de
pression different from its predecessors. T hat is progress!
History has a curious way of upsetting contem porary
judgments. Many of the events which seem im portant to
men and women while they are living, prove insignificant
In the eyes of the ages. And some verv little things later
loom large.
Who was the king of Spain in 1666? I do not rem ember.
But I do recall th at in 1666 an apple fell and hit Isaac
Newton.
W hat was W arren Harding? Who were Calvin Coolidge
and Herbert Hoover? Some future school-boy may be puz
zled by those inquiries.
B ut unless 1 am very much mistaken every future his
to ry book will lay emphasis oil two developments which
have taken place under our very eyes.
They will tell th at a boy named Lindbergh flew across
the Atlantic Ocean.
And th a t a man named Ford announced th at he would
pay all workers, even scrubwomen, a minimum of five
dollars a day.
T he Idea that high wages makes prosperity, th a t the
key to good business lies not in safety deposit boxes of
m illionaires, but is carried in the pocket of every worker
this is something entirely new.
It holds the hope of the future. W hatever else may have
to be discarded, American business m ust not surrender
th at America Idea!
TIll'IlSD AY , MARCH I!», I!6II
THE RELIABLE COW
"The dairy industry eonti.de« to furnish an example of
one of the most nearh de| tession-proof groups in Ameri
can industry,'’ is the way in which one great New York
banking institution introduces the cow to Its depositors
and custom ers. With all the troubles which the wheat
farm er, the cotton farm er and the grow ers of other staples
have beeu going through, we have heard few complaints
front the dairy farmer.
« rB R O A D M M f
OriONCST CAMPJQ
B attle of tba Bridge
The world's biggest suspension
bridge, spatting the Hudson river
connecting New York with the
stale of New Jersey, has a big
name, and a big fight Is being
waged about It in a big way.
Here's wltal happened: The Port
of New York Authority named It
the George Washington Memorial
Bridge, It was not built us a
memorial, although Its completion
will coincide with the Washington
bicentenary in 1833.
The protests are based on the as
sumption (bal the name, when used
orally, will be shortened to "Wash
In ten years the nation's consum ption of dairy products ington bridge " Now there are two
has increased one-third, and is still growing. We drink other bridges around town called
that, one in Harlem and one In
more milk, eat more butter, cheese and Ice cream than Brooklyn. So If the sight seeing
ever before, while we are cutting down on our consum p visitor leans out of his car and
yells at the traffic cop, "Hey; How
tion of wheat and beef.
d'ye get to Washington bridge7”
The dairy industry is the forem ost example of w hat the the cop will have Io yelt bark.
individual farm er lias been able to do to increase bis profits What Washington bridge?” Con
by cooperation with his neighbors. These bankers point fusion will result, traffic will get
out that one-third of all the b utter and cheese m anufac tied up. horns will be honked, and
unkind words said.
One qu arter of all the farm income of the United States
conies front the cow. this New York bank points out. If
you wonder why Wall Street is concerned with cows, con
sider that item of three thousand million dollars. That is
something for Wall Street to be concerned about! Dairy
products bring their producers two and one-half tim es as
much money as the cotton crop or the beef crop and more
than three tim es the annual value of the wheat crop. And
not even the most pessimistic advisers of the farm er are
recom m ending a reduction in the milk output. It is one
branch of fanning that can go on expanding for a long
time to come.
tured in America is produced by cooperatives. Otoe co
operative. the National Cheese Producers Federation, has
over 12,000 farm er m em bers and handles more than forty
million pounds of cheese a year. The Land o’ Lakes C ream
ery Company of Minneapolis, owned entirely by producers,
handles a hundred millions pounds of b u tte r annually.
Not only cooperation in m arketing, but cooperating in
grading up dairy herds, accounts for much of th e dairy
farm ers' general prosperity. The average milk production
per cow has been increased nationally from only 1.436
pounds a year to 4,600. by improvement of herds through
careful breeding. There is still a long way to go. Too
m any cows are not producing enough butterfat to pay for
their board. It has been pretty well dem onstrated th at one
purebred cow producing 500 pounds of bu tterfat a year
earns as much for her owner as do fourteen cow s each
producing 100 pounds of butterfat.
A newspaper poll of its readers
said that the bridge should be
ailed Hudson bridge. Why that
very logical name was not given
the giant In the first place is not
known, for it is the only bridge
crossing the Hudson river within
fifty miles of New York City.
But George Washington Memor
ial Bridge is what it was christened
lid the name still stands. Mean
while. the battle rages.
Razor Blades and Bridges
Our hat is off to the farm er's m ost reliable friend, the
dairy cow!
THE 11WIIY
DOCTOR
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES. M.D
CHANGING DOCTORS
It has been said that it s a bad practice to swap horses in the
middle of the stream. 1 think this applies quite as well to the abrupt
changing of physicians in the middle of a protracted disease.
In the very nature of some complaints, they advance very slowly,
taking sometimes months and years to produce complete disability.
A disorder that has been on hand two or three years cannot be
cleaned up in as many weeks. Particularly is this true In diseases
of the heart, lungs and kidneys. To shift physicians impatiently every
two weeks, in the effort to secure quick relief, is to invite disaster;
It takes in some cases of very serious disease, several months of
intimate relation and study on the part of the physician, to tide
the patient ashore safely.
This cannot be done by shifting tactics
on the part of the invalid. It is his business to start right and stay
right; his life may depend upon it.
Years ago, a wealthy man offered me >1000 to clear up one-fourth
of one per cent of albumin from his urine. 1 accepted his bantering
proposition. "What shall I do first," he asked- "go to bed for four
weeks," I answered. “Can't possibly do it; you see. I’ve got sor.e
business—" Of course he bad. All men have affairs.
He went to a "magnetic healer,” who cured by laying on of
the hands—S250 wasted. Another shift to a "pathy"; no better
luck; then, to a "practic"; by this time dropsy was coming. A
mouth with a masseur who agreed to "rub it out.” It didn't rub
out. The last I heard of the case, he had gone to bed and called
his family doctor; too late—the kidneys were far beyond possible
relief. Swapping horses in mid-stream That man should be alive
today. But he was too busy to "stay put." He has been dead a
long time.
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If you suspect serious disease, stick to your physician—don’t neglect
his advice—he’s your best bet.
On the 8:15
Commuters, comprising the huge,
hurrying horde rushing dally be
ween their surburhan homes and
New York places of employment,
were described aa "peculiar ani
mals" by the comptrollor of a rail
road.
Whether or not they are pe
uiiar animals," they do bring one
road alone more than >5,000.000
annually in fares. They also spend
over >71,500 a year on various ar
ticles on sale at station coocesion
stands such as newspapers, maga
zines. candy and tobacco. Once In
a while they pause long enough
to get themselves wqighed, but
usually they rush right through.
Get in the way and you'll find
nut.
Some commuters live tn distant
cities. Philadelphia is a good ex
ample of long-distance riding to
daily tQil, being about 80 miles
away. Fast trains make It in less
STATE DEFICIT TO NEAR
THREE MILLION. KOZER
Tile Irvaaury of the siale of lire
gnu will hava deficit of almost
three million dollars al (he end of
Hie t i l l i 11133 hl,•m illin, according Io
Sam A Koanr, slate budget director.
Kilger based Ills report Oil Hie ap
propriations I lia d e by Ihe recent
legislature and »11 Hie estimated
revenues from luxes and oilier
sources during Ihe period
5 0 ,0 0 0
suln owners srs saving hard aamsd
dollars by Insuring with ills
farmers exchange
R tlu tblt, ila n J -
aril protection <aS
eery low rate.
M all 1 r lotdy Io represent
W anted
ns In Springfield, and vicinity.
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Logics! Name Not Given
Bridge guards sav that when a
bridge is being built or when a new
one opens, practical )• kers regard
it as a cue to carry out bright
ideas.
People send In packages contain
One of the most im portant things to be done agricul ing assorted odds and ends, espe
cially old razor blades, with the
turally in localities where dairy farm ing is not gener request that they be thrown off the
ally practiced is to get a few dairy herds started. The bridge.
improvement in general farm conditions, in regions where
this has been done In the past few years, is rem arkable.
ing the Immedlsle return of his LEGION POST TO USE
collar button ami several women
OAKRIDGE SCHOOL
• anllng to know why (heir silk
stocking had been cleet usd wllli
Taxpayers In Hie (lukrtilge school
add
district Saturday lllg lil volod Io
My W o rd !
give Ihe old school lilllldlllg Io the
Thoge dulcet voiced radio an recently organlaed American Io*
nouncers who speak Io you nlglilly gloa post for a regular meeting
in one of the uetworks will line place The Legion group plans to
up twice a month Io receive In Improve Ihe property and transform
■tructlon In pmnunclatl«>ii and It Into a community social center
grammar, we hear
for the community.
Their leacher will be Dr Frank
Vlaelelly, the man who edits dic
LODGE TO ENTERTAIN ,
tionaries and Is said to know more COBURG GROUP MONDAY
about words Ilian anyone living.
He likes words unil dislikes Io see
Members of Coburg Rebekah
them abused, lie's going Io try to lodge will lie guests of Juanita
'each (he anuouucers to speak Rebekah lodge of Springfield on
English as It Is spoken by the Monday evening at the regular
dictionary makers.
monthly social meeting. I'lnna for
One of his first lessons is that the affair were dlseussed al I lie
It lie pronounced "Nleu York," not meeting held Monday of this week
"Noo York." A cat he says, mews. Serving as chairman of ihe enter
So why should radio announcers lalnment ami refreshment commu
be allowed to "noo" Into the micro te«' Is Mrs. Karl Girard Her us
phone when Ihe word Is "nleu?" slatauls will lie Mrs Daisy Hilts.
He also says that Iowa should be Mrs Preii Hinson. Mrs. Harris, and
pronounced "tow ny." Being a ng •he Misses Doris and Dorothy
live son of that state, I am going Girard.
on record with a protest that It
sounds better ''lownh." Or don't
you care?
W. K. K.
W. C. REBHAN. M. D.
IRISH-MURPHY CO.
Surgery • Gynecology
Formerly
a Specially
A SONG OP THE FOUR
SEASONS
(By Austin Dobson)
When Spring comes laughing
By vale and bill.
By wind-flower walking
And daffodil,—
Sing stars of morning.
Slug morning skies,
Sing blue of speedwell,—
And my Love's eyes.
Plrst National Bank Building
SPRING FIKLD
Urny's Cash and Carry
438 Main St
Springfield
SPRINGFIELD
" r iA < iP V S "
KIRKLAND FLORAL CO.
SERVICE STATION
"Flowers for All Occasions"
7lh at Main
Phone: Springfield H8W
Eugene Springfield Bridge
SPRINGFIELD
When comes Ihe Summer.
Pull leaved and atroug.
And gay birds gossip
The orchard long,—
Sing hid. sweet honey
That no bee sips;
Sing red, red. roses,—■
And my Ixtve's lipa
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COMPANY
Picnic Lunchea, Steaks
a Specialty
U S Main St.
The Hume of Meats
4lb at Main
Phoue 23
Plions 63
SPRING FIKLD
SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL of FL YING
S T U D E N T IN S T R U C T IO N
A IR T A X I S E R V IC E
When Autumn scatters
The leaves again,
And piled sheaves bury
The broad-wheeled wain,—
Sing fiutea of harveat
Where men rejoice;
Sing rounds of reapers,—
And my Love's voice.
—
PA S B E N G E R F L IG H T S
M U N IC IP A L A IR P O R T
Name Your St. PatricK’s
Remembrance - Candy
But when comes Winter
With hall and storm.
And red fire roaring
And Ingle warm,—
Sing first sad going
Of friends that part;
Then sing glad meeting,—
And my Love’s heart.
friend
or the kiddies, candy is 11 very acceptable gift.
Dur candy in especially appropriate for St. Patrick's
lhty giving.
For m other, sister, wife, sw eetheart or
We specialize In etindy
Road patrolman la visitor—E L.
Mathews, county road patrolman in
the Goshen district, was a business
visitor In Eugene and conferred
with the county court on road
work.
F G G IM A N N ’S
"Where the Service Is Different
than two hours.
Numbah Pul-ceze
Telephones have become »0 nu
merous here that the company be
gan to fear that they would run
out of new names for additional
exchanges. They remedied the sit
uation by using a system whereby
a number was added to the ex
change name.
Generally, speaking, everything
is working fine, aithought the sec
retary of a woman's league was
quite dumbfounded when her phone
rang and a male voice commanded,
"Come over and get the wet wash.”
Up until the time the telephone
company corrected the error, she
had to listen to another man ex
plain that he was $ feet tall and
that his shirt had come back fit
ting a fox terrier, another demand
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