PAGE FOUR________ ________________________________ THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS TOWN AND VICINITY Publiabed Every Thursday at Springfield. Lane County. Oregon. by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS Shedd Resident Here Mrs A M Visitor from Oakridge Rd Clark of Oakridge was a visitor tu Spring Snodgrass of Shedd and Miss Doris field Monday. Hayes of llrownsvllle were week end visitors here They returned Hara from Fall Creak Mrs W. 8. tn their homes Sunday morning. W itmer of Fall Creek visited with Oismissed from Hoapital Mrs friends in this city Monday. • A. T. Cummings was dismissed Vialta Friends Miss Pearl Sla (rem (he Pacific Christian hospital vena of l.eahurg vlsllml with in Eugene Friday follow ing a major friends In this city Monday operation. Here on Business A. W. Weaver Returns from Portland Mrs of Thurston was a business visitor Quy Gabriel and Infant daughter In this city Monday .afternoon. returned from Portland on Sunday. It K. MAXKY. Editor Entered »r «eoond elaa» matter. February 24, 1903, at the poatofflce. Springfield, Oregon. MAIL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E One Year In Advance $1.75 Three Months 76c SIX Mentha ......... $1 OH Single Copy________________5c THURSDAY. APRIL 2. l»St PASS OPENING PROM PARMER’S STANDPOINT An early opening of the McKenzie pass is a possibility this year if adequate equipment were provided by the high­ way depart incut. The McKenzie is a eomtuepeial highway as well as a tourist or pleasure route for automobile travelers. Eastern Oregon is a potential m arket for much of our early green vegetables grown in ihe valley. McKenzie peo­ ple tell us that in years the pass opened early much tru c k ­ ing of garden stuff went over Ihe m ountain to the country where gardens were just being planted. This is a m arket worth developing ratlm r than have it supplied by the Yakima vaJley. While there are other reasons than the farm er’s for opening the p a st. this reason should not be overlooker. • SPEED The year is only three months old. but already two of the world's speed records have been broken and others are threatened. Gar Wood drove a speedboat 102 miles an hour a t Miami the other day. Not long ago Captain Malcolm Campbell drove an automobile 245 miles an hour. If this sort of thing keeps up throughout the year. 1931 will be the speediest twelve-month in history. There are some higli records to be challenged. There will be another airplane race for the Schneider Cup this year. The present record for sjteed in the air is held by Flight Commander A. H. Orlebar of the British air forces, who flew at 357.72 miles an hour in a seaplane in September. 1929, winning the Schneider trophy. That is the fastest any man has ever travelled, according to records, though it was rumored that Orlebar had touched 450 miles in his trial flights. Airmen are predicting that an official record above 400 miles an hour will be made this year. The record of the Europa for the fastest ocean passage. 4 days 17 hours. 6 minutes. Cherbourg to New York, will surely be shot at this year. With so many speedsters turning their attention to flying and speedboating, the older forms of competitive locomotion are being more or less neglected. No pacing horse has beaten the record of a mile in 1 m inute 55 seconds, set by Dan Patch in 1906, while Peter M anning’s trottin g record of 1.56aq for the mile, made in 1922, rem ains unbroken. No human has propelled himself faster for a mile than Paavo Nurmi did in 1923, w hen he negotiated the distance in 4 m inutes 10.4 seconds, and Edward T olan’s record of 9*^ seconds for the 100 yards, made two years ago. still stands. Everybody has a chance at some world’s record or other, but let us hope that the w eather man won't try to break last year's drought record. --------------- •--------------- “AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION” The annual doctors' bill and medicine cost per family illness in the United States is $82 and a loss of wages is $42, according to the census bureau. With our mild climate in Oregon we should be lower than the average, but, think what we might do in reducing these figures if we would only exercise ordinary judgment in caring for our bodies. Sickness is an economic waste. ------------ ♦------------ A lot of the talk about a referendum on the McKenzie boating fishing bill, w hich prohibits boats above Blue River, is horse feathers, in our judgment. Surely it would be imposing to submit a question of this kind at election time THUHHDAY. APRII. 2. I931 T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N E W S BY R A DFO RD MOBLEY AOTOCAfTfft WAfWNGTON BUREAU Washington. Apr 2—( Autocasterl —Congress passed exactly thirteen acts which have a bearing on farm­ ing The most important was the appropriation for the Department of Agriculture of $.369.636.000 for 1931. which includes the money for regu lar and emergency road construc­ tion and for drought relief, and $333.393,990 for 19.32 which includes $143,009.999 for highway work The act licensing all dealers tn fruits and vegetables is of perhaps as much*importanre tn the long run The rest of the thirteen can be dismissed as of slight Importance. Up to Mach 10. a tittle over ten million dollars had been lent to farmers in Ihe drought regions out of the $46.000.000 appropriated for that purpose. Loans to 69.363 farm­ ers had been approved on that date. Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of the Bureau of Prohibition, got an appropriation from Congress of enough to hire 500 additional spe­ cial agents. He Is putting 350 of these into training for "undercover" work, to mingle with violators of the prohibition laws and discover where and how they operate. He also plans to buy $50.000 worth of new automobiles, for the use of en­ forcement agents. The Bureau now has 750 cars, all of which It ob­ tained by confiscating them from persons using them for the trans­ portation of liquor. The largest single contract ever let by the United States, or by auy- bodv else, for that matter, was signed by the Secretary of the In­ terior the other day. It Is for $45.- S90.999 and is for the construction of the Hoover dam at Boulder. Colo. The contractor is a corporation known as the Six companies, hav- ¡ng been formed for this purpose hy six large contracting firms. The 45 millions is for engineering and labor anly, the government being obligated to furnish all of the ma- terials. which will run to more than the labor costs. . . , Loans to cooperative marketing V is itin g F rie n d s — O d ls Sankev Mrs Gertrude Wilson went to of Roosevelt Beach is visiting with friends in this vicinity for a few Portland Saturday to attend Ihe annual Scout Young banquet which days. » a s held there that evening Mrs. Visiting Cousin—Mrs. Margaret Wilson was the only representative Meyer of Alturas. California. Is from either Eugene or Springfield visiting in Springfield at the home to attend this banquet which is of her cousin. Mrs. Jesse Smltson. attended by members of Spanish Wur Veterans organisations, and V is ito r s fro m H a r r is b u r g — M rs which is held In honor of the fa­ Sam Fawver und daughter. Grace. I mous scout after whom the affair of Harrisburg were visitors in has been named Mrs. Wilson re­ Springfield Monday. turned to her home here Sunday Goes to Lowell—W. F. Buell, evening. principal of the high school, drove to I,owell Tuesday to visit the SPRINGFIELD MEN AT new „,.hocl NAZARETHS I was at Deerfield Academy visiting my boy, and on the way back I had an hour between trains a t N ortham pton. It was Sunday evening. The main street was almost de­ serted. 1 walked into a side street and past the little two- family house where Calvin Coolidge lived until a few weeks ago. 1 went around to the old building in which he and his law partner used to have their modest offices. I stood in front of th e square town hall. It was interesting to think of the days when he was mayor. One could picture him coming slowly up the street alter breakfast. “ 'Morning, Cal,” people would say. “ ’Morning." he would answer. And a stranger in the town would probably have ex­ claimed: “Is that your mayor, that quiet little fellow? He doesn't look like much.” If any one had suggested that the quiet little fellow might Mrs. Nagger—And to think you one day be President of the United tSates, the laughter were Just a struggling young busi­ would have echoed from one end of Main street to the ness man when I married you. other. Mr. Nagger— Yeah, but I didn’t A few years later, when Coolidge had become governor struggle enough. of M assachusetts, a m erchant in Boston named Frank , Stearns began to make the presidential suggestion. He Customer: Ah, Mr. Wopser, It's came to New York and persuaded a few of us Amherst the old story—the woman alw ays graduates that the thing was not impossible. pays. Even then the idea was usually greeted with smiles, Shopkeeper: Well, if you 'ad a especially by folks in M assachusetts. “T hat's all right for look thru my books you'd find that you fellows in New York,” they said. "But distance lends some of 'em don't. enchantm ent. We are his neighbors; we know him ” And one of the wisest men in the Commonwealth re­ Patient—Is the doctor in? marked to the son of Frank S team s: "Calvin Coolidge is Attendant—No; he stepped out nothing but a figment of your father’s im agination.” for lunch. Nazareth is the immortal illustration of the attitude of Patient—Will he be in after the home town. After Jesus had gone out into the world lunch? and become famous; after He had performed His m iracles Attendant—Why. no, that's what In Capernaeum and even in Jerusalem , He went back home. he went out after. A crowd of His old neighbors greeted Him in the syna­ gogue, but there was no pride or confidence in their at- Pug Sluggum, on trial for murder, titu. e. Their skeptical expressions spoke louder than bribed an Irishman of the Jury with words. i o n may have fooled them in those other towns, $100 to hold out for a verdict of hut we know you You are only the hoy who used to manslaughter. After being out a work in the carpenter shop. And the record says sadly; long lime the Jury came hack Into "He could do there no mighty work, because of their court with the desired verdict. Pug unbelief.” managed to get near the Irishman It s a wonderful thing to realize that G reatness is grow­ and said, "I’m mighty obliged to ing up som ew here around us all the time that the most you. Did you have a bard time?" unprepossessing freckled boy may be a future conqueror. “Yes." replied the Irishman, “a Unfortunately, most of us can never believe that the home dlvll of a time. All the rest wanted town could possibly produce anything better than ourselves. to acquit you.” ‘‘Overcome by stomach gas tn Ihe dead of night. I seared by husband badly. He got Adlnrlka und it ended the gas ”- Mrs. M. Gwen. Adlerika relieves stomach gus In TEN nitnulesi Acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel, removing old poi­ sonous waste you never knew was there. Don't fool with medicine which cleans only PART of bowels, but let Adlerika give stomach and bow els a REAL cleaning aud get rid of all gus! Flanery'a Drug Store Better after Operation— Mrs. Roy Harry Stewart. Oswald Olson and Brewer of Fall Creek is reported U. K. Swarts were in Eugene Sat- to be recovering afte a major oper- ation at the Eugene hospital, » /A and Economy "T"HE Welabach Room Haater direct» You can suve money by mak­ ing MI31 Solution your family mouth wash, gargle, dandruff remover, personal deodorant and skin lotion. Its many uses will help you to cut down on the expense of other unnecessary preparations. 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M u s t q u ic k ly r.Hav these conditions, Irrp io v e re a t- fu l ale* p and energy» or money back, p n ly SOc a t KETEL8 DRUG STORE 5th Af Main Springfield, Ore. Raup’s Flower.Shop 98g W lllam ,tte St. P hon,