THURSDAY. JUNB2B, 1981
FAO» TWO
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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Springfield, tj«ne County. Oregon, by
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THURSDAY. JUNE 25. 1931
IF GERMANY HAD WON
President Hoover's suggestion that the German war debt
payments be suspended for one year evidently has merit.
However, we can not help but think if the war had ended
with Germany the victor that little consideration would
have been given to the allies. Certainly Germany showed
France no mercy when she took Paris duriftg the Franco-
Prussian war. She showed the Belgian people little mercy
when she violated the neutrality of that country in order to
get to France more effectively. Following the war, which
Germany lost, she was asked to make reparations for dam
ages done and to pay the war debts she owed. Germany
has been complaining bitterly about settling up and pointed
repeatedly to the distressed conditions of her people. How
ever, recent visitors in this city w ho have just returned from
trips to Germany report that she is in the best condition of
any country in Europe.
We can not weep any tears over the distressed condition
of the Germans. The memory of cooties, the itch, muddy
trenches, musty billets and dead and wounded American
boys is still too fresh for us to pity the Germans.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT CONVENTION
Washington city has been the scene of many important
meetings and conventions in the past year, but none of the
gatherings held there has held quite the importance to the
future of the United States as the one which began on the
17th of June.
Great gatherings of statesmen have been held in Wash
ington to discuss the reduction of war debts. How could
anything be more important to the future of the United
States than that? The heads of great industries have met
there to consider how to put prosperity back on is feet.
Can here be anything more important to our nation than
that? Every few weeks lately political groups have been
meeting in Washington to try to pick the best man for the
next president of the United States. Who would say that
anything could be more important than that?
Yet there is a gathering this week in Washington which
is of greater importance than all of these. It is the annual
camp-convention of the 4-H clubs. Two boys, two girls and
two club leaders from each state are living in tents on the
grounds of the Department of Agriculture, to exchange
ideas about what? About the future farmers of the United
States and their wives. That is the most important thing
for our country’s future. There can't be any question about
it. Nothing that happens to the generation that is now-
passing is of grea importance; that is really important to
the welfare of the nation is the character, the integrity, the
standards and the ideals of the generation which is about to
take up the reins where we older ones are beginning to drop
them.
Too much food, too much raw materials and too much
gold are the principal things that are ailing America today.
Many people are going hungry in the land of plenty. There
must be something the matter with the economic system
which produces a situation of this kind. Science and in
vention which have brought us so many miraculous dis
coveries have failed to bring u- a solution to over produc
tion.
We rode in an automobile up to a point on the Squaw
ek road Sunday where snow balls could be rolled. If
ffcrnia had a road which led to snow in the summer time,
one which you had to scare the mule deer off in order to
pass, the world would forth with be told. But, Deschutes
county is content along with the rest of Oregon for the most
part to take these things as a matter of course.
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A dozen men with modern road machinery now build
more roads daily than 100 men and 50 teams did a few years
ago. That’s one of the reasons for unemployment. But the
world must move forward—we must find jobs for human
beings which machines can not perform.
Oi
5-BRUC
SITTING THE WORLD RIGHT
Carle Conway, head of the Continental Can company, has
a customer in Massachusetts who makes cranberry sauce.
One day when Wall Street was thinking that the world
was going to the dogs. Carle dropped in on this Yankee
manufacturer and found him very serene.
They dined together, and after dinner the talk turned to
world business conditions which, says Carle, “seem to have
eliminated prohibition front conversation, so that there is
that much to be said in favor of depression at least.”
The cranberry man said: “During the war 1 was making
cranberry sauce and we were not able to get sugar except
at an exhorbitant price. Every one in the industry said we
had better go out of business because we had to have sugar
to make cranberry sauce, and sugar at thirty cents a pound
would stop sales.
“I went into a huddle with myself that night and came to
the conclusion that I would let the customers decide
whether they would buy cranberry sauce made with thirty-
cent sugar; that I had just one job in the world and that was
to run my business, and I was going to let the world take
care of itself, and every one else take care of himBelf, and I
was going to figure how I could take care of my business
and solve the problems each day as they catne along.
“I did not think I was big enough to help or harm the
world’s progress, but 1 did think I could help or harm my
own business.”
One thing which makes this depression seem more dis
couraging than others is the fact that all countries have
been so closely knit together. In other periods of slow busi
ness we in the United States did not worry because the cof
fee market was bad in Brazil or the corn plaster industry
had collapsed in Tinibuctoo. We had our own troubles to
fight.
This year our newspapers, through their truly wonderful
news gathering forces, have brought us all the bad tidings
front everywhere. The result is that the average American
business man is going around trying to carry the troubles
of the whole big world.
I may be all wrong but my idea about the other coun
tries is that they are all having serious difficulties, just as
we are, but in every one of them there is a solid backbone of
people just like you and me—hard working, sensible men
and women who have their homes and families, who do not
want to see the social order overthrown and who are doing
their individual best to solve their own problems.
Ultimately, I believe, this silent majority will win.
In the meantime, when anybody comes into my office to
discuss world conditions, I courteously ask to be excused. I
am trying hard to work out my own salvation.
If everybody in the world does that the world will be
rond Lovo- Mv kisses must be I weakened Into pals
Wheelah'i place."
I'm tired
gelling
heller Your slaps have I B me Baby I know—
kt
> "You didn't report It Io the
Pool«.” Babe charged grimly
' What *«« the mutter’ I'aralvied
so you couldn't git to the pin
First Annual
racier'
"No. suh, I wan right buay noon
sflsh." he »aid mildly.
"Doin' what?"
' »hootin' a neslah!"
____
ih ll' Why didn't yuh nay no*"
Nate Wheelah'a funeral taken waa plumb easy to do. but yo'all llalra'n tone had warmed airfaslng-
Fourth Inatsllm ent
nevn could put the life back In a ly. "Rome one trying to dry-gulch
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I place yente'day ?"
yuh. Tiger Eye?"
The Kid'» name was Bob Reev- i "Why. of course It waa—" she man »Mice you'd shot It out.
"I reckon he was aimin' that a-
en. but back home on the Braion d eck ed herself abruptly, one swift.
Funny about the nestera being
they tailed hint Tiger Eye. because troubled glance going to her fath- wine to Poole rim rider«,
way. Itahe.''
one eye was yellow—the eye with
(Tt) BE CONTINUBDl
That funeral wan another strange
which he sighted down a gun bar er on the ground. "You must be
QUALIFYING ROUNDS
rel. HI» father was "Killer" Reev a Stranger In the valley If you thing. They burled Nate Wheeler
e«. but the boy did not want to l)on-, gnow—
caat a swift, yeeterday. she said. Then what
JUNE 21>t. TO 27th INCLUSIVE
Jive 'to c L -r v ^ h m 1f'iü.eTs
enlightened glance up • did they want to carry out a OOt- STATE LAW GOVERNS
SALE OF FIREWORKS
ao he headed hi» horse. Pecos. ward "Are you one of them Poole fin ami »tart another prmecaton
northward and encountered Nate rim ridera?"
to-day for? The kid couldn't tee
Two Tournament» Run Simultaneously. One for Men
Old Statuts Preserlbes Lim itations
Wheeler, who drew his A5 and flr-
happened to be up tl-eah when any nenae to that.
One for Women.
on Esplosiva» Used In Fourth
^
’ ' « n ^ k m ’ Nate.
to
« - “am shot yoh pap." he
The kid turned ht.
o
f
July
Celebrations
cripple him. but hta aim must have »aid., with alow meaning "I taken the uow-dlstant wagon aud look
Five Hundred Dollar» In Prize«. Prizes are on Display
been wild, for Wheeler dropped
upon rayse'f to stop Pete be- ed for Pete. Might an well make
1-egal restrictions governing the
from hi» horse. Babe Garroer came
he tX>uld c-rrj. ou, hti plaB - »hoah he wasn't trying to trail the
In the Windows of Paul D. Green's Store for Men. 9B7
riding up. Wheeler waa a "neat "Well, wasn't you rim riding on girl. No. Pete wan going straight sale and control of fireworks In
Willamette Street, the week of June 21st.
er." he said and had it cotnlug to
aero»« the flat, making a beeline Oregon are being brought to I he
him. Tiger Eye rode to Wheeler's the valley?"
attention
of
the
people
of
the
state
"I Just happened to be theeh at lor Becker'» coulee. SB nearly an
cabin to notify the dead man's
widow.
the time."
»he kid could Judge. Satisfied, he this week by A. II Averill, stats
•
You're
a
Poole
rider,
ain't
youri
turned the glasses again upou the ftre marshal.
The Kid breaks the news of
Citing laws which have been en
Nate's death to his widow and then
“Poole! Poole rider!" The old *•»«»".
acted
by the state legislature, he
goes out and brings in his body, man scrambled to a sitting posture,
Shoah was a pretty girl. The kid
South Columbia St.
Eugene, Oregon
discovering he had not missed his
says. “It Is against the law to sell,
his
face
working
furiously
an
mem-
never
had
seen
such
yellow
hair
shot to disable Wheeler but bad
broken his arm. while another shot ory came back with a rush. '«Ouo in his life. Wasn't much like that explode, or give away any fire
had killed the man. A gang of of them Texas killers. I belha! darned stuck up girl back home cracker In the state of Oregon over
two and one-half Inches 1» length
strangers ride up. One of them In
sults Mrs. Wheeler by coupling her Was It you dry-gulched my son, that had made fun of his yellow and five eights Inch In diameter.'
name with the stranger. The Kid Ed? Where’« my gun?" He daw- eye. This girl. Nellie, never nolle- Moreover, he states. "It Is unlaw
shoots a hole in each of the ears
ful to sell exchange, barter or give
of Pete Gorham, who hurled the In
to auy child, under the age of I t
sult, making his escape In the con
fusion.
years, any explosive article, de
vice or substance containing more
Learning that the "nestera" plan
Is here and us In former years Kggimann'a la the moat
to draw the l\x>ie riders Into a
than 10 grains of gun powder." Vio
popular place In town. Folks come here and go out feel-
trap, the Kid Informs Garner, tell
lation of these statute« carries s
ing him at the same time he had
ing better after they have had one of our fountain
penalty of from »25 to »50.
learned It was the latter's shot
specials.
that killed Wheeler and not hit
Not Legal In Forests
own. Garner la grateful and gets
Under the provisions of section
the boy a Job riding range (or the
We like to plea»«' everyone. Whether It 1» candy,
33-127 of Oregon Code 1030. It Is
Poole outfit. The Kid sees a lone
ice
cream
or soft drink» we »ell only the highest quality
unlawful to throw or explode any
rider attack a man end a girl driv
ing in a wagon and wounds tne
and give you prompt service.
firecrackers, or any other lighted
assailant, and then finds out he is
material, on ary forest land, pri
Wheeler.
vate road, public highway or rail
NOW GO ON WITH THE 8TORY:
road right of way In the state of
Oregon during the closed season
Old man. all right. Her old pap
■ 4 "Where the ta r viro Is DliTei.nl
of any year. May 15 to October 1.
py. shot without a chance In the
Violators
of
thia
statute
are
subject
world to help himself. Didn't even
bi» favor.’ to a penalty of »75. Thia legal In
have a gun on him. Old farmer, by •Even if he is a Poole rid er." the » Irl said, “he did u
hibition. besides Its ftre preventa
the look of him. Bald-headed and
ed futllely at his hip. where no i cd his eye.
tive Intent, will also operate to pro
' little and old.
Be sighed and gave another tect motorists and others or the
The Kid investigated his head cun was holstered.
glance at the valley. highways of the state from the an
sweeping
"No. suh. it wasn't me.'
Didn’t seem to be any
iInjury.
The'
girl
gave
an
Involuntary
|
Shoah
was
a funny thin, about noyance and dangers Incident to
you
crack in the skull, but Still
¡ couldnt tell, with an old man like shudder and closed her eyes for a ,'» a t funeral. Reckon th e, were the Indiscriminate use of firecrack
j
! Just trying to fool him with tt. ers and torpedoes which have been
him.
" ' Even if he is a Poole rider. P a .! llk- ,h* «lrl h,n,ed M,yb* "*** the cause of many serious accidents.
The Kid got up and looked in
wanted to go all In a bunch some- This law also prohibits the throw
the wegon. A sack of flour was he—did us a big favor,1 she said.
a
little
color
.mining
her
cheek.
|
»here and couldn't figure out any ing of lighted cigars, cigarettes, or
there, and a box of groceries, all
We've
got
to
be
grateful
for
*»? “ » k" P
be,n< * * » • ,nd matches along the highways during
jumbled together, and a demijohn
| maybe they Just had a fake funer- the closed season.
lying on Its side. The kid hoped it that.”
•Are ycu the fellow that shot »> “> foo‘
Poole rlm rU“'r ,h"
Old Law Forgotten
held whisky, and reached a long
happened to be keeping cases.
During recent sessions of the le
arm for It. Shoah enough—old pap- Pete in tne ears? They were talk
Plumb foolish. Easiest way was gislature efforts were made to se
py liked his eye opener when h e , ing about that yesterday at Nate
to send somebody aloug over here cure enactment of laws regulating
got up In the morning, and was Wheeler's fun—" she caught her-
to bush whack him. The kid gave the sale and use of fireworks In
taking home a Jugful. The kid »elf up. biting her lip.
a sudden grunt of understanding. this state but In every case strong
gave him an eye opener now. hold-' "Nate Wheeler's funeral," the
ing the old man's head up and kid finished softly. “Yes'm. I had The nesters had sent somebody, all lobbies representing the manufac
tilting the Jug to the ashy lips the pleasuah of ear-mahkin' Pete right. Or they thought they had. turers and wholesalers of such
They'd sent Pete Gorham. And rommodltlea. It Is said, have suc
pinched in together in
the long the othah evenin'."
Pete had kinda got side-tracked, ceeded In defeating them. The H it
heard. Then he poured a little in
"Then you're one of those Texas
his palm and rubbed it on the blue killers. They said it was a Texas thinking he could kill off that old statutes have evidently been over
looked and forgotten until the com
lump in the thin gray hair, and killer done that. Pa. ain't you able man and get the girl.
The kid's face darkened at the pilatlon of the 1930 Code brought
after that he trickled a pungent to get In the wagon? I can drive
simplicity of the scheme. Pete had them to light.
little stream on the bullet wound, tt you can sit and ride."
Enforcem ent Assured
, front and back. The man's faded ' She was In a hurry to get away thought he could do It aud lay it
Eire Marshall Averill states that,
to
the
Poole.
They'd
blame
the
1 blue eyes opened and he stared from him. even though he had sav-‘
with the cooperation of the state
vaguely up into the kid's face.
ed her from Pete Gorham. Saved Poole, and they’d go running after
police, the forestry service and
A n electric refrigerator is e reel in
them
harder
than
ever.
But
Pete
“Reckon yo'all feelin’ some bet- her and her papp's life, and this
peace officers of the state, rigid
vestment. N o family can afford fo
tah, suh." the kid said shyly. "Right'was all the thanks he got. The kid didn’t make It stick. The kid had
observance of theae life and fire
- smaht crack on the haid. but the swung on his heel and gave all his come along and fixed Pete good
be without one. It saves time, step«
safety measures will be enforced,
■ whisky’ll keep down the swell- attention to backing the wagon off and plenty.
where local regulations do not con
and labor— supplies sparkling ice
There
was
something
In
her
in ." And when the old eyes still the buckbush so the team could be
voice that was like her hair. Some flict. and the public Is urged to co
cubes — makes d e lic io u s frozen
questioned, the kid offered furth- turned around,
operate In the Interest of ftre
er encouragement. "Bullet dug It-
He worked swiftly, surely, his thing like gold. Of course yo'all
desserts — economizes marketing
safety.
se'f a trail in yo'all's side, but It capable hands never wasting a couldn't say a voice was yellow, or
A city ordinance prohibits the
method»— prevents food spoilage
had
a
shiny
sound,
but
yo'all
could
ain't deep, no how."
motion, never uncertain of the
tale of fireworks of any kind tn
kinda
Imagine
It
was
like
gold.
end
waste.
The old man opened his mouth thing they should accomplish. The
the city limits of Springfield.
and moved his Jaw uncertainly, team was restless, wanting to go That girl down In Texas — her
kAVI AS YOU PAY ON EASY TERMS
i trying to speak. His eyes never home, and the kid turned to the voice was like a tin pan. Funny a-
bout voices — they say more than
Marie; Who was the chap that
left the kid’s face.
' <1vl.
"Where's Nellie?" The old man
"If yo'all would be so accommo- words, sometimes. More than a won that booby prlxe In the guess
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was still dazed, but at least he datin' as to come hold these haw- person wants their voice to say. ing contest at your party?
Antlonette: That fellow? Oh. he
could speak once more. The kid ses a minute," he said stiffly. "I'd Hers did. Hers said she'd shoah
' gave a sigh of relief.
be shoah pleased to tote yoh pap hate to have anything happen to was the weather man.
"Why, suh, she— ", he turned oval) and lay him In the wagon." a rim rider.
The kid rode dreamily along,
and looked back down the hill.
"I kin walk, dang ye»” the old
| “—she's cornin'. She'll be heah dl- fellow cried pettishly. But he watching the wagon as It bumped
rectly, sub."
couldn’t, except with the help of over the dim trail In the grass.
The drink revived the old man .the kid’s arm under his shoulders, Watching ust In caae she might
a little, but he seemed to have on-1 taking all the weight off the old need help or something. Girl like
that didn't belong with no neater
ly a vague idea of what had taken wobbly legs.
place.
"We’re much obliged," the girl outfit. She ought» have some big
"Team run away," he mumbled, »aid constrainedly, after he had rich cattleman for a pappy and
■Throwed me out. Where's Nellie? lifted the old man Into the wagon ride along on a nice, gentle horse.
The wagon finally turned Into a
She was In the wagon when the "Even If you are a rim rider for
the Poole, I want to thank you shallow depression and was seen
team run away."
no more from the rlm. The kid
She came, her long yellow hair for—all that you’ve done."
Then she looked at Pete Gor marked the place where she llvsd;
pulled forward over her shoulder.
Her face was pale and her mouth ham, who sat cursing beside a marked it with a special signifi
drooped at the corners, and her sage-bush, took her foot down off cance In his mind.
Now and then he swept the val
eyes were glassy with terror, but the hub, and came over to where
the kid thought she was beautl the kid stood stroking the nose of ley with a perfunctory glance, but
ful and he blushed a dark red as the horse he was holding by the most of the time he was staring
a
at the ridge which hid her home.
he tipped his hat to her.
bridle.
"You hurl. Pa?” The girl sank
"If you don't kill Pete Gorham A thin line of cottonwoods ran up
on her knees beside the old man. he’ll kill you.” she said in a fierce along a creek there. There were
places where the tops of the trees
“Pete shot ycu, didn't he?”
undertone.
"Pete? Pete who? The horses
“Reckon it’ll be a right smaht showed above the ridge. One place
run away. Guess they throwed me while befo’ he's, able.” The kid where the ridge dipped a little, the
kid thought he could make out part
out. Where was we 6oln’, Nellie? did not look at her.
Wasn't we goin' some place?”
) She glanced again toward the of the roof of a building. Might be
"We were going home, Pa." She ‘ querulous murmur of her dad's rocks, but It shoah did look like a
was kneeling there, looking at the voice. “You better quit the Poole roof.
The kid stirred uneasily and let
blue lump on her father’s head, and get outa the country," she said
and from there her staring eyes hurriedly. “The valley folks’ll kill the glasses drop from his eyes. A
long, oddly attenuated shadow was
turned to the bullet wound In his you—”
side, which the kid had left uncov-
She seemed to think that was sliding stealthily down the rocks
ered ready for further ablutions j saying more than she dared, for beside him. a big hat and a pair
of raw whiskey. "Don't you remem- she turned sharply away and drove of shoulders growing longer as he
This unusual low down payment includes
looked. The kid sprang up like a
her when Pete Qorham took in af- off.
complete connection to your tank and flue.
i ter us, after Nate Wheeler's tuner- | He went over to Pete Gorham, startled deer, his gun In his hand
al, and you remembered you nev-i lifted him to his feet and faced and pointing straight at the man
who stood looking at him. Then
er got your gun back from the him toward the valley.
bartender before you left town?" ■ “Go hunt yo’se’f a coyote den suddenly the kid smiled sheepish
"Pete Gorham! Who’s he? I don’t j and craw, Into it»" he advised ly and tucked the gun back In Its
remember any—"
I harshly, and started back up the holster.
''Como alive like a rattler, did
The kid’s hand left Its slow j hill, climbing like one In a great
n’t yuh?” Babe Oarner grlnnod.
stroking of the horses sweaty Jaw 1 hurry.
He walked over and stood beside
The kid’s lips thinned and "You been asleep?”
"No, I been watchln* the val
the kneeling girl, hashiul hut de- straightened when he remembered
termlned.
that girl running for the hill, Pet» ley."
"Hunh!" Babe’s tone sounded
"Scuse me," he said diffidently, after her with his rope. Any other
gun hand to his hat brim when man would have shot to kill. But skeptical. "8ee anything?"
"Saw a fune'l ovah to Nate
1 she looked up
"Did yo'all say somehow this thing of killing—It
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