THURSDAY. MAY 21. 1981
T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N EW S
PAOB TWO
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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THURSDAY. MAY 21. 1931
WE SHOULD KNOW MORE ABOUT UNIVERSITY
We are told that strict censorships have been main­
tained on university professors and others who are quali­
fied to speak on the effects the federal survey would
have on the university if it were put into operation. We
can not agree that this is a wise policy. The public is entitled
to have the benefit of qualified people’s best judgment as
to the effect of the federal survey on the Eugene plant, the
enrollment on the local campus, the faculty and the edu­
cational standing of the school.
We believe that holding down the lid is dangerous and
that it will have unfavorable reactions. We do not neces­
sarily need official opinions but we would like to know
what experienced faculty men think.
KEEP THE McKENZIE PASSABLE
In fairness to the residents up the McKenzie river and
to the tourists who have come long distances because he
has read of the famous scenic attractions of the Cascades,
the detours and road through the new construction between
Vida and Nimrod should be kept passable at all times.
Local residents who came back from up the river Sunday
night complain that none of the detours were marked with
lights, that they went over high jump offs in the dark and
that the contractors equipment set in the road will no
warning signs.
Such conduct of a highway construction job is not
excusable. The highway department should require con­
tractors to conduct their jobs with the welfare of the public
in mind. The age has passed when any body can say “the
public be damned.”
fore a re prom ised for the delight
of conventloners this year Many
posts throughout the sta te which
do not support drum corps are
entered against each o th er for the
best diversion of th is c h a ra c te r
The best of form er conventions,
and many m ore new featu res will
be added to this dep artm en t. And
still other posts will be rep resen ted
in com petition at a m idnight mat
itiee (roilc honoring m em bers of
the drum corps
T h e sta te convention com m is­
sion of the C orvallis American Leg
ion post la preparing the biggest
program of en tertain m en t tn the
h istory of the l.egion In Oregon
T h at the crowd will be biggest
Convention com m ittees com prise
th is year Is assu red by early re
sponses from posts all over the m ore than 50 active l.eglonatrres
rta te owing to the cen tral location and m em bers of the latglon auxil­
of C orvallis as the convention city. iary. whose convention will be held
Convention d ates are T hursday, in C orvallis at the sam e time. P re­
Friday and S aturday. August 6. 7. parations have been divided Into
five groups for ad m inistration pur­
and S
W ith 12 drum and bugle corps poses. and C. R. Briggs. C orvallis
entering, the annual drum corps post com m ander. Is in general com ­
co n test will again be the big fea­ mand.
tu re of the convention e n te rta in ­
■ very com m unity agency in Cor­
m ent From rep o rts of th e various vallis has prom ised active a ssis­
corps, p ractice began e a rlie r than tance to the l.egion in Its huge Job
usual this year on account of the of en tertain in g the sta te conven­
offering of a trip to D etroit for the tion. Many o rg an isatio n s arc al
winning corps. W ith th e contest ready doing work for the various
and parade on Hell field, college i com m ittees. B usiness men of the
football stadium , under th e big ' city have un d erw ritten the budget
flood lights installed for night foot­ of expense more than th ree tim es
ball. the gay coloring of varied u n i­ , over.
form s will be seen w ithout sh a­
dows and d etails
will be more
P aints Car—George Carson, pro­
strik in g th an u n d er a glaring noon­ prietor of C asey's service s ta tlo r
day sun.
has painted his autom obile a dur.-
More stre e t stu n ts than ever be­ hlue and trim m ed it in black.
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LIGHT
A young man named Elmer Sperry went to Chicago fifty
years ago and began to make electric arc lights. He built
a tower on top of the Board of Trade building and installed
20 electric arcs which gave 40,000 candle-power of light.
It was the wonder of its time, but another young man
named Edison about that time brought out incandescent
light and that soon replaced arcs for city lighting.
Elmer Sperry kept on experimenting with arcs, how­
ever. and developed the searchlights which are used today
by every navy in the world and by most armies. Sperry
died a few weeks ago at the age of 70, but before his death
he gave the city of Chicago the most powerful light ever
built. It is known as the Lindbergh Beacon, and was first
used during the national air meet in August. It stands on
a tower 600 feet above Lake Michigan, and throws a light
more intense, per square inch of radiating surface, than
that of the sun. It can be seen for 250 miles, to guide flyers
to the Chicago Airport.
Who could want a better monument than that?
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ICE CREAM
Every person in the United States ate three gallons of
ice-cream last year, according to the United States Depart-
men of Agriculture. If you got less than that, somebody
else ate more. The consumption of ice-cream has increased
by one-half in ten years.
We are shipping ice-cream from America now to every
part of the world. At your hotel in Cairo, Egypt, or Bombay,
or Hong Kong, you will find a well-known American brand
of ice-cream on the menu. One of the greatest inventions
in the food line is the homogenizer used by ice-cream manu­
facturers, which enables them to store surplus cream
through the winter in the form of butter. Butter will keep
pure where pure cream will not. It is run through the fat
globules, mixing them with milk, with pure cream as the
product, which can then be flavored and frozen.
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We read with interest that 13 miles of the Santiam high­
way between Sisters and Suttle lake is to be surfaced.
Slowly but surely another route besides the McKenzie is
being pushed through the Cascades.
Well, nature nearly beat the snow plow out of a job on
the McKenzie pass. The snow plow was about three weeks
late. Let's do better next year.
When your face is toward the sunshine, the shadows
fall behind' you. We should fa< e the sun here in Oregon.
Insanity is decreasing thinks an alienist. We think that
a person has to be crazier to be judged crazy these days.
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EXCESS OE EATING
“We Eat More and More,” reads a recent headline. A
writer and compiler of statistics quoted from the Literary
Digest says, “One hundred and fifty pounds a year is our
increase in food consumption during a generation.” He
adds that. “We consume fewer cereals and more sugar
fruits, and milk products.”
He says quite an earful; he speaks of a time when
dinner arrived at noon, and was the big meal of the day.
Supper was usually cornmeal mush-and-milk, with fried
mush, butter and molasses for breakfast the next morning.
Those were the days when |»eople got along with some
500 fewer diseases than we “enjoy” at the present time—
and when a fellow died of old age. There is everything
except wisdom in many of the dietary customs of this
on-rushing age of early death and big inheritance taxes.
In the last generation we have jumped from thirty-four
to forty-four pounds in fats and oils; thirty years ago, we
consumed sixty-oue pounds of sugar; today we swallow
our hundred-and-fifth pound for the year just past. We
eat, according to this authority, 142 to 145 pounds of meat
each per year—not varying much, except perhaps less
when the price of meat goes up.
Our increase in dairy products is wholesome—from
840 pounds to 1040 pounds; the same may be said of
fruits; the gain from 169 to 192 jiounds of fresh fruit,
points the way to better and more healthful living. There
has been a most striking decline in the use of corn-meal,
the summarist tells us. And here is the best and most
correct “roughage” of ail! It’s a pity we can’t get any
statistics on the per c«Bt of increase of loaded colons and
' Mv’purpose In this letter is to induce thinking on part
Qf mv readers; I believe they will agree with me, that the
old wa/ST feeding, breakfast, dinner and SUPPER is pro­
ductive of length of days.
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