THUR8DAY APRIL 1«. IM I
THE SPRINGFIELD NBWS
IE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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Springfield. Oregon.
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THURSDAY A ritll, Id. 1931
W ILL PORTLAND PI LL FOR US ’
In an a ttem pt to put th> P ortland spirit to w o rk fo r the
upper end o f the W illam e t< valley business men are in
P ortland today to attend the firs t m eeting of the W illa ­
m ette W aterways association in the Oregon m etropolis.
The meeting w ill be called to order by President F rank
Jenkins in conjunction w ih the week.v luncheon o f the
Portland Lions club. It is hoped to get the Lions to scratch­
ing fo r the canalization of the rive r and wake P ortland up
on the value o f riv e r trausporation to th is inland empire.
Except fo r a few men like. ,1. C. A insw orth, P ortland has
never “ come to b a t” fo r canalization o f the riv e r as it
should. Portland has been content w ith the dredging o f the
channel from Astoria up stream. Astoria in the beginning
wasn’t very " h o t” fo r Portland as a port. P ortland, has not
pulled any too m uch fo r Oregon C ity's request fo r a deep
channel. Salem has not been 100 per cent fo r navigation to
Eugene and one o f her newspajH'rs scouts the idea o f boats
ru n n in g fa rth e r than the capital c ity Eugene, when she
requested Senator M cNary to introduce the b ill in congress,
fo r a survey of the W illam ette asked fo r it only to Eugene
and th a t was as fa r as the survey was made. S pringfield
had herself included at the last congress in December by
an amendment to the river's and harbors b ill by M cNary.
The w a r departm ent engineer m aking the survey this
sum m er recommended the canalization o f the riv e r but the
chief engineer in W ashington, D. C.. turned it down, u n til
fu rth e r proof o f tonnage was evident. Is it jm y wonder
they tu rn us down when we show th is sort o f team w ork.
Lack o f team w o rk between cities is holding Oregon back
m ore than any th in g else in our opinion. We sim ply have
n o t learned as yet how to lie " a ll fo r one and one fo r a ll.”
If the W illam ette W aterways association can unite the
cities in a common fig h t fo r canalization of the riv e r and
get 100 per cent support the project w ill go over and the
eyes o f W estern Oregon w ill be so opened th a t team w ork
w ill result in the accom plishm ent o f other great u n d e rta k­
ings. B etter cooperation among the sm aller cities has re­
sulted in each m eeting o f the w aterw ays association. The
question now is "W h a t w ill Portland do?”
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS is giving FREE two
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F IE LD NOTES
The physician who is lite ra lly "in the harness,” encoun­
ters m any very stern d iffic u ltie s as he goes about doing the
best he can fo r su ffe rin g hum anity. His is a hand-to-hand
encounter w ith his b ro th e r’s arch-foes, disease and death.
He lias little tim e fo r sentim ent o r em pty theories; none
fo r p o litic a l debate; his purpose is embodied in the one
principle, th a t o f relief fo r s u ffe rin g and the conquering
o f a fflic tio n , fig h tin g even to death's door.
A few days ago I was called to the bedside o f a man
seventy-five years of age; he had been indisposed tw o or
three dayB previous and had supposed he bad a “ cold.” A
year ago he had had an attack o f "dropsy,” o f heart and
renal o rig in ; from this he had only in part recovered. He
was a very poor risk fo r the case of “ flu ,” w tiich he had
m istaken fo r a severe cold.
1 found him w ith a well-established ease of broncho­
pneum onia; the "lin n e ts " were chirping all over one side
o f the chest; fever and disturbed breathing; a very irre g u la r
heart, w ith feeble pulse at the w ris t; cool extrem eties;
“ fo g g y ” m ental c o n d itio n : in fact, a condition that boded
one chance in ten fo r recovery, w hich at the best m eant
the m eager existence of an enfeebled old man b u t he had
a rig h t to t i i a t ! it was my a ffa ir, m y business to keep him
alive fo r his aged w ife and other loved ones, as long as
possible.
Dear reader, 1 prescribed alcoholic stim ulants, to be
com bined w ith nourishm ent; fire cannot burn long w ith o u t
fuel. He used a pint o f whiskey in the next fo u r days! It was
not a very d iffic u lt m a tte r to control the cough to keep
the tem perature w ith in safe lim its. Today the old man is
•recovering a t least his usual health.
N either I nor m y aged patients are wets.” We are no
w etter than you, dear sir, I care not how " d ry ” you claim
to be. 1 am very sure m y patient would have died, had it
not been fo r the tim e ly use o f I he alcoholic s tim ulant, which
was here sim plest, best! My m oral is, I pe rm it no theory
to «tep between me and the man w ho tru s ts me w ith his
Me. 1 demand freedom in cases lik e this.
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There is no tim e like the present spring to give the
lum ber industry’ a hand. F ix up the place a little . P u t a few
b u ilt-in s in the kitchen, give yourself a garage o r wood
shed nice and new . W hile you are using up o u r surplus
lum ber v o u ’ll be helping the carpenters too.
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AN A D V E R TIS IN G SUGGESTION
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— in v itin g the w orld to see 'em and pick 'em. The C a lifo r­
nia fa rm e r wishes they would come and dig a ll the pesky
poppies up by the roots. C alifornia know s how to a ttra c ­
tive ly advertise even her weed pests. Now le t’s see w h a t
the Oregon Chambers of Commerce can do advertising o ur
flowers. In the Three Sisters region in sum m er, botanists
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The tonnage is here to ju s tify the canalization o f the
river. Lack o f proof that it is here is our own fa u lt. Perhaps
no like area in Am erica has greater potential tonnage than
the W illam ette valley from Portland to Cottage Grove
Come on Portland, by team w ork we w ill reach our goal.
L E T ’S C E LEBR ATE
The last section o f the McKenzie highw ay has been let
and soon it w ill be a state road from beginning to end— one
that costs m any hundreds o f thousands o f dollars and lin ks
eastern and western Oregon. When it gets good and hot in
eastern Oregon next sum m er we should in vite the folks
to a big picnic somewhere in the McKenzie bridge area and
fittin g ly celebrate the com pletion of this great scenic and
com m ercial highw ay. Big trees and a cold riv e r sure looks
good to the people of the bunch grass country. We th in k
they w ould come.
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A L L TO G ETH ER FOR T H E U N IV E R S IT Y
W hile we believe in econom ical conduct o f o u r schools
and colleges, we are against any change th a t w oulld cripple
the U niversity o f Oregon. We have a great school here and
we should resist any raids on it. T his un ive rsity has been
builded slow ly and soundly in the lig h t o f experience to
fill the needs o f educating the youth o f this state. The fact
that we have one o f the most enlightened states in the
union attest to the influence o f the u n ive rsity in years past.
Let not some meddlers, w ith a superficial knowledge of
what a u n iversity shouldl be, tw is t th is federal re p o rt
around to the detrim ent o f our great school.
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