PAOS TWO
THURSDAY. JULY 16. 1981
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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THURSDAY. JULY 16. 1»S1
YES, AND HOW?
We a ie told on the one bal’d by Governor Meier and his
hund-picked tax league that tex ts should come down 20
per cent. We are told on the tnl.ei iumd by G overnor Meier
and members of the highway tonituission that the state
should spend a million dollars this winter on road building
to give employment, and the counties should do likew ise.
We are told further by Governor Meier that salaries
should not be reduced by school districts or counties.
In other words the municipalities should create all the
employment they can, keep wages up and cut taxes 20 per
cent. Since nearly all of our taxes goes to pay off principal
and Interest on bonded indebtedness, (obligations which w e
cannot escape I. and for personal service and public im
provement (chiefly roads) It is difficult to see how Gover
nor Meier’s program is consistent.
Nine out of 10 of all budget com m ittees we have seen
in action worry and plan on how they can keep expendi
tures Inside of the six per cent lim itation with the dem ands
of the people confronting them for more and more service.
They would surely throw up their hands and surrender if
they attem pted to follow the governor's program .
True, if taxes are to be lowered, they m ust be lowered
by the county, cities, road and school districts. The gover
nor, to be consistent, should say to the county officials:
“You must cut wages 10 per cent and reduce the size of
your force 10 per cent to come inside my 20 per cent pro
gram . You shall build no new roads and m ake the m ain
tenance crews work harder for less money on the ones you
now have.
The governor should say, to be consistent, to the city-
officials :
“You should m ake the sam e reductions in wages as I
have demanded of the counties and also not sweep the
streets and flush the sew ers so often; let each m erchant
and property owner be responsible for the condition of the
street in front of his own door. Also tu rn off every other
street light and don’t burn so m uch juice.
The governor should say, to be consistent, to the vari
ous school boards:
"You should employ 10 per cent few er teachers at a 10
per cent reduction in salary and m ake them teach more
pupils. Also have them come early in the m orning th at they
m ay sweep their respective rooms out and save janitor
hire.”
If the governor would put out a program as outlined
above he might as well go one step fa n her and declare a
m oratorium on all state and municipal indebtedness. He
would then have accomplished in full his 20 per cent pro
gram . Also, he would have sung his political swan song.
ARMY AVIATION NEARER TO US
The visit of the planes of the U. 8. Army 489th bombing
squadron to Eugene has reminded the people here th a t in
the event of another w ar aviation will be one of the chief
branches of the service. These are the birds th a t will make
life m iserable for the w arring countries They not only
drop bombs on the opposing arm ies but also all over the
civil population. We have seen cities in France that were
alm ost a total wreck a fter a few days of nightly bom bard
m ent by G erm an planes. The people each evening went
into caves or into the fields to find places to sleep where
they would not so likely wake up with a bomb in bed.
Major Logg. who commanded the squadron on its Eu
gene visit, was a private in the sam e National Guard com
pany with us in Mexico in 1916. Then he did not think
m uch of the “flying coffins,” as the infantrym en term ed the
airplanes. But now he thinks differently. Aviation has
made great strides in 15 years along with other and more
deadly m ethods of warfare.
The science of flying is developing rapidly to be sure
when a one-eyed man can fly around the world in nine days
over countries he has never seen before.
TIIL FAMILY
D
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JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D
RADIO AND HEALTH
Radio, the crowning achievement of its time, and one
of our g reatest blessings, may be degraded to a mere m at
te r of dollars and cents, when m ankind descends wholly to
th a t level. Did you ever think th at your receiving set may
lead you headlong into the open arm s of the nostrum -ven
der and quack, solely in the interest of his pocketbook?
T h at you are made poorer and he the richer by your own
soft gullibility?
It gives me a first-rate of nausea to hear the blatant
yawp of some hired m an for a quack concern, pleading with
me and you to go to the drug store.first thing in the m orn
ing and BUY a bottle of germ -killer that knocks ’em in a
specified num ber of seconds!
These fellows th at never crossed the threshold of a p ath
ological laboratory in their lives, presum e to tell me about
“ bacterit.” They infer off-hand th a t you and 1 have a
m outhful, neckful, stom ach full of potent germs, deadly in
character, if not killed off at once by the g reat bottled
savior of mind and body; they juggle handily with labora
tory term s, as though they had been raised on test tubes
and reto rts and chemical reactions; all to get YOU and ME
to BUY their gully wash and soak It into our systems.
And do we buy it? We certainly do; we buy stuff of
which we know absolutely nothing, at the solicitation of
an itinerant who is solely interested in the sum he can ex
tra c t from your purse, and who knows and cares nothing
about the stuff he is paid to peddle. He gets his pabulum
into the family, into your children, into you and your wife
— and if you all use it four or six tim es a day, all the better
—for the nostrum -vendor. For, nine out of ten, you could
use hot w ater and boracic acid with better results a t one-
twentieth the cost.
•
A good rule for the rural radio-fan is, to believe nothing
he hears from a paid propagandist. He has an ax to grind,
and you, dear reader, have been picked out to turn the
grindstone. Sum m on your horse sense; th a t my advice.
POULTRY PRODUCTION
tween the stove und table
I’e
would topple over toward th I; I k.
HOLDING OWN IN STATE
more'n likely.
"Who win It. d’yuh know? r r
la rg e Flocks Naoeaaary te Meet
maybe yuh ain't telllu."
Expenses W hen O perating en
"Old Pappy Murray, shot In th >
Sm ell P ro fit M argin
hack."
"Hunb. Well-—" Babe hesitated
In spite of the fact that poultry
’’—he's a neater and a cow thief.1
I
rices
seem to have hit rock bot
He had It cornin'. Tiger Eye."
TRULY UREAT
tom during the past year, poultry
"He nevah had It cornin' In front
By William II Ibtvls
of hia own doah. The klllah cached
production on the whole Is more
SEVENTH INSTALLMENT
" I promise to go—but I kuin t
Pecos had to uae his horse sei se blntee'f behind a lodge up awn the My walls outside must have soma than holding Its own with other
promise I won t come hack."
and take the full responsibility of hill. Left his hoot tracks theah
Oregon farm enterprise«, accord
flower«.
Bob Reevea, the Kid. was nick
tic watched her ride off at a gal gelling back up on Illg Beuch. for , and a rifle shell "
My
walls
within
must
have
some
lug to A. (I l.unn, chief of the pout
''anted Tiivr Eye by his friends nip. her gingham shirt whipping the kid Just climbed Into the sod "Yeah* Well "
book«)
down in the Brains country he
try
department of the Oregon Ex
die
his foot rum hiin» like s
‘Ia>ft anotha sign Pal»'“
■«use his "gun-eye" was yellow out bes.de the sorrels flanks, her
A house that's small; a garden
drunken
mans
for
the
stlrrui
and
"Yeah?
What
sign's
that?"
leilow
braid
swinging
iu
the
breeze
pertnieut
station.
When his falher, “Killer Beeves.'"
large,
"Left this. Babe." He opened tils
died the K’d left Texas to avoid
“I
do
not
know of any major
i ll s glance tell then to the tramp rode unseeingly away from that
And In It leafy nooks.
continuing his father's feuds
hellish spot, where he had seen the palm.
branch
.if
agriculture
today that la
led
dirt
under
his
feet,
and
the
Reaching M o l i l a l i a he is forced to
fair face of friendship blacken and
Babe bulked, lifted hla glunee Io A little gold that's sure each w eek; (laying tbe producer as well as tbe
draw- on Nate Wheeler, an Irate oieak look returned to h.s face. He
That comes not from mv living poultry business." l.unn said. "The
neater. In the exchange of shots turned and scanned the ridge. It* shrink to s grinning death's head the bleak fare of the kid. untl Io
’hat tiger stare of the yellow right
kind,
Wheeler drops dead, the Kid later side was mostly brushy and with a before him
poultryinan who has good slock
learning that Bob Garner who had
He
ought
to
have
known,
that
*Y*-
Balm's
teeth
caught
ut
Ills
But
fruui
a dead man In
his grave and enough of It can more than pay
Uso shot at the same time, really m uted live growing here and
Who cannot chuuge tils iii I ih I
his basic cost nf production, even
there, but at the top there was a first day. He ought to have seen '"»>er lip His flngera quivered
killed Wheeler.
though be may nut get Inlereat on
Garner gets the Kid to Join the rough outcropping of brown sand that Babe Garner had fired that but '»'ey did not go for his gun. A lovely wife, and gentle, loo;
Poole outfit as a rim rider. The Kid stone with rock slabs tilted this rifle shot not to save the kid's they did not dare
Contented that no eyes but mine Investment
succors Wheeler s widow and is In way and that.
life, but because lie wanted to make < Interruption came. The shrill, Can see her many charms, nor
The situation during the past
terrupted by Pete Gorham and
whistled signal all Poole riders
year
baa emphasize,» mure strongly
The kid was sure (he killer had certuiu Nate Wheeler was dead
some other nesters. He shoots Gor
voice
than ever, l.unn belleyea, the Im
ham through both ears for coupling waited behind thosp rocks. Just as
Up on the Bench there the other knew. Babe's eyes searched the
To
call
her
beauty
fine.
his name with Wheeler’s widow sure as if he had seen him there day, riding over to talk to Jess kid's face. He turned Ills hark,
portance of the site of the poultry
l ater he rescues a girl. Nellie, and
pulled open the door, answered Where she would In that stone age flock
Where poultry constitutes
her dad from Gorham, wounding But he didn’t go up right then to Market. Babe lied and the kid knew the call.
live,
the principal farm Income a flock
I'ete again. The girl, in spite of her prove it. He went into the house he lied—and then had to go and
"Supper ready. Babe?” The Poole
A self made prisoner with me.
of not less than IUO0 hens la as-
relief the Kid is an imported Texas instead and stood with his hat in swallow what Babe told him about
killer, warns him the nesters will ills hand, looking down at the dead ihat talk. Babe more'n likely toldI foreman owned that voice.
While many a wild bird aattg aentlal. Small ’flock owners are
Kill him. The Kid warns Garner
Nothing would happen while he
around.
Just "out of luck" during such times
the nesters are planning an attkek ■nun and at the woman huddled Jess all about Tiger Eye Reeves.; was there. Elag of truce.
On gate, on bush, on tree.
of stress, he say*.
and helped Jess plan how he could
.in the Poole outfit. He meets Jess on the floor beside the bed.
Cards lay as they felt till the
l.unn hellavea that the lowest
Market a Texan who is boss of the
get him Damn' fool—let Babe lie
The
kid
stood
looking
down
at
And
she
sometimes
to
answer
them.
foreman left again. Meant Io go,
\iole wagon crew.
levels of egg and poultry prices
him blind. A cold-blooded killer
her
(or
a
minute.
In her far sweeter velce than all;
That night the Kid shoots Market
all right. Didn't unsaddle his horse
have been reached that may be eg.
<He took the two tin water buck like that!
through both hands when the latter
meant to ride on to the Poole I Till birds, that hived to look on
pe<te<l for at least a couple of
attempts to kill him for being the ets and followed a path from the
Kill the kid some of these days, soon as he had his supper and the
leaves.
yeara, and that with fewer egga In
son of Killer Reeves. The rest of back door to a spring, and brought more'n likely.
Will dost on a atone wall.
storm was over. Straight, honest
the gang approves of the Kid's ac
storage and fewer birds being
He remembered the look on man. name of Joe Hale.
tion. While near Nellie’s home he hack fresh water. She looked rt
raised, the price of eggs this year
With
this
small
house,
this
garden
hears the crack of a rifle and finds him then; looked at him long be Babe's face as he stood outside the
The foreman talked while he ate
will be an Improvement over last
large,
her dad has been shot from ambush fore she took the glass and drank. Poole mess house, watching Jess largely of the supper Babe had
This little gold, thia lovely male, This, however, depends somewhat
and helps carry the dead man into
“You're a good boy," she said. Market go by with his bandaged rooked. Babe talked too, but not
his house.
With health In body, peace at heart on general business eoadltloaa, he
very much. Knew he'd have to face
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY: ‘ Where's Nellie?" She stared hands.
aaya
Show me a man more greut.
around her.
Babe had lighted a cigarette He It, soon as Joe Hale was gone,
The
kid
told
her.
She
did
not
snapped the match In two — like Shoah storming. So dark Inside the
The kid's (are was bleak and old
when he turned from the bed and seem to listen, but returned to her these pieces, here In the kid's kid got up and lighted the lamp,
Nellie's mother kneeling beside it. weeping. The kid wished she palm—and looked at the kid and . The foreman emptied his third
her arms thrown out and clutching wouldn't cry like that; she sounded said he'd rather be dead than cup of coffee, wiped hla mustache
with hla handkerchief, hitched the
her dead with the tensity of des so much like his mother when Pap crippled like that.
The kid's clenched hand rested box seat two Inches back, and
pair. Nellie was holding herself lay on the bed under a sheet. Kill
cairn in spite of her horror. The ers oughta be made to sit and on the saddle horn and his head drew his tobacco and papers from
Is Ic® cream , especially during the hot sum m er days.
rest- his pocket. Soon as he had his
kid saw her in the kitchen, dipping listen to the widows of the men was bowed, hts cleft chin
It is also a pure, wholesome food that Is good for hoth
ing on the soft (olds of his ailk smoke going, he would get up and
water into the wash basin on the they shoot in the back.
young
and old.
The
kid
turned
on
the
doorstep
neckerchief. Hla eyes were star leave.
bench beside the back door. But
The foreman reached thumb and
as he went out to wash her father's and leaned his head in at the door lug. He saw Babe, in a new and ter
We use only (he best quality Ingredients In making
rtble guise.
finger Into the watch pocket of his
life blood from his hands, he rem doorway.
"Good-by. Ma'am." he called soft
our Ice cream. This with the right m ixture and prnjier
He was seeing Babe standing by vest, groped there, taking his time
embered her words and halted, t a x
ly. "Reckon I'll have to be goln’ the kitchen table, looking down at
ing at her strangely.
He finally drew a match from
freezing m akes a dish fit Io "set before the king.”
his shattered knuckles, and he was hla packet), looked at It. used It
"What call have you got to think now."
"Good-by," she answered broken hearing Babe say, “Put a bullet with little stabbing motions In the
I done it?" he demanded. "He was
shot in the back, from somewheah ly. “Look out them Poole killers through my damn' brain. Tiger “If to point his meaning while he
up awn the hill. I was awn the don't get yon!”
Eye! I'd rather be dead than like talked to Babe. Gosh. did he al-i
"Shoah will," said the kid. Prom this." He was seeing a bullet hole ways
road coming along by the old stack.
that-a way? It seemed to
"W h e re th»* Service la Different"
turn bluish in Babe’s forehead!
*he kid that half an hour passed
Yo'all can go look at the hawse ised Nellie he'd go. Somehow
made
a
bond
between
them
which
tracks and see foh yose'f.”
The kid started and looked before the cigarette -was finally
‘‘I don’t have to. I know what the kid would never break. He was around like one suddenly awakened lighted. The foreman abaently blew
made me say that. Mr.—I know you going because Nellie made him pro from a nightmare. He was on the (lut *he match, snapped It In two.
mise. And he was going to hunt last slope of the ridge running up dropped the pieces on the floor and
didn't do it.”
“Reeves.“ said the kid. flashing down toe killer, because it was to the tiny walled-in basin where
UP- reaching for hia hat.
a little "Bob Reeves is my name. Nellie's old pappy he had shot.
Babe's cabin stood snugly sheltered Babe lifted his head and looked
Insolence leered up at the kid against a split peak.
Miss—’’
ftall at the kid. He saw the kid's
"Murray,” said the girl, and put from every boot mark behind* the
He gave himself a little shake. ■•P" bmsen. saw them quiver as the
up a hand to smooth her hair. | tilted slabs of rock. The killer had snapped back to clear and pitiless bid s eyes met his with shamed
“What shall we do?” She bit her not even tried to scuff out *hts thinking He lifted bis bead, pur- understanding.
lips, fighting back tears, and the tracks with a side-wise drag of thu bed bis stiffened lips and whistled
The kid sat down on tbe hunk,
color crept Into her cheeks as she foot.
the signal of all Poole rMera. hl" armi' rea,1”S on bis knees and
The kid's eyes went seeking here Babe pulled open the door and
met the kid’s grave look.
face bent to the floor. Babe!
“I’ll stay, heah. Mist Murray, and there. Killer as careless as this stood there grinning as the kid
would have shot Babe Just on
while yo'all go foh help. I'd go my- and as sure of Poole protection— rode up. The kid grinned back at ,pe strength of a broken match! It
se’f, but I couldn’t do no good. pears li*e he might leave some Babe, but his eyes gave tbelr warn the foreman hadn't come right
Some nestah would try and shoot sign more than boot tracks.
ing. Hts blue left eye was squint when he did. he'd have killed Babe
Been smoking up here too.
me foh a Poole ridab. I reckon. If
ing and the amber right eye was Garner_-the best friend he ever
The kid’s thoughts halted as ab opened full and had the baleful' *’ad *n
theah's a hawse yo'all can ride—”
Babe! Clearing the table, scrap-
"I could ride Prince, but he's up ruptly as his body. Even his heart stare of a tiger stalking his kill.
in the pasture, and he's awful mean stopped dead still in his chest; or
Well. yuh made it ahead of the ln|5 ,hep ,a,e,‘ Juat a" lf "»'blag
at least it felt as if it had. The storm," Babe called cheerfully, as had bappened. Stopping now io
to catch."
D E L IC IO U S L Y h o .c n . J u h ,.« i
“I reckon I can get 'im. My blood froze in his veins ao that the kid swung down at the door. make himself a cigarette while the
dettero
(uoomg cube« of tee
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hawse is plumb foolish ovah any his face had a pinched, old look
Eraid yuh might get caught nut, kid watched him from under his
ridah hut me. or I'd let yo'all take He bent stiffly with a slow reluct Tiger Eye. Goln' to be a rip-snort- ,on* ’^•‘-••"hes.
mede lo ledile mu«K*Uy m a (alt
(TO BE CONTINUED)
him."
ance. utterly -unlike himself, and er. when It gets here.”
gl««»
milk end (ream , butter and
"No. you'll have to be ready to go picked up something here, over
The kid turned and looked where
egg». rneal* *«<f vegetable«, pre*
before any one gets here. Prince I there another something, and he a greenish-black cloud mass came FINELY GROUND CRAINS
served for day« and day« again«!
is the sorrel with one white eye. j stood up. looking al them in the coiling up from the southwest.
PROVE BEST FOR HOGS
■ p s d s | t .. .
Oh. hurry!”
palm of his hand.
He brushed past him and went
He rode into the pasture and, Two pieces of broken match! inside, turning to face Babe.
Soaking Grain for Growing Pigs
roped the sorrel with the white eye. • Two pieces fitting together—match
has V e ry L lttla Advantage
"What's the matter. Tiger Eye?
T H I electric r r b ig ri rim d o ri d i ih » , end more, n the modern home It doei «
found a sidesaddle and put it on snapped in the finger; and dropped Anything happen?”
Finds College Expert
with meticulous care.
I Babe! Babe a Poole killer!
«onom iceHy, loo, beceuw the cod oi electric w rv x e a low V ie* your deeler'i
“Yes, suh. High smaht happen-
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The girl looked at him, toward
«ore lodey end plen lo put en rie tin e refrigeretoe in your home
Bushwhacking nesters from be «■d. Babe. A nestah got killed.”
Eine grinding has been found to
the cabin where her mother was hind rocks; that's what he was do
Babe's cold gray eyes scrutinized improve the feeding value of oats
weeping in great heavy, heartbreak ing. Playing the kid for a sucker. the kid. He closed the door against an<* barley for hogs materially. In
ing sobs.
Lay on the bunk, pretending he a puff of wind, leaned his back a »‘udy Just concluded at the Ore-
‘‘I'm—we're much obliged. Mr. was reading story books all even against It. his thumbs hooked In <on Experiment station and report- M o u n t a i n S t o l e s P o w e r C o m p a n y
Reeves. You—you always come ing—hell! Lay there planning how side his cartridge belt. The kid's <*> >» «tatlon circular 104, entitled,
when I—when we need help. Pro he’d go out next morning and dry- vivid picture of him revised Itself “Preparation of Oats and Barley
mise you won’t stay till they come gulch some poah devil of a nester, in certain details with pitiless ac 1°T Plffa-’’
back with me.”
that’s what! Babe!
curacy. Babe would not fall be-, ,n the Investigations barley and
I N I IM M X V O S C O M M I I » ■■■< I N K M W V K X
oats were fed whole dry, whole
soaked, steam rolled, finely ground
and coarsely ground. Oats were fed
They Eat Their Heads O ff
to growing pigs under 100 pounds
live weight, while the barley ex
periments were with fattening pigs
weighing about 100 pounds at the
start and about 1H0 at the finish
Good feed grades of barley and
oats were used.
Grinding Improved the feeding
quality of barley even more than
of oats, says A. W. Oliver, assist
ant animal husbandman, wbo con
ducted the experiments. Steam
rolling of barley increased Its feed-
: Ing value 16.5 per cent, or 3.4 per
: cent more than fine grinding, but
Is too expensive a process for gen-!
eral farm use. Steam rolling of j
oats lessened their value.
Little or no advantage wasgaln- ’
Little or no advantage was
gained from soaking whole oats '
stands ready to serve you in the
for growing pigs, or from soaking i
barley for fattening pigs. Coarse :
ordinary affairs of life and in emer
grinding of both grains Improved
their feeding value slightly but not
gencies. In the dead of night, it
, enough to make It an economical
practice. Grain was considered
will summon a physician. Men
finely ground when the particles
transact a greater part of their
were so small that It was difficult
to distinguish the hulls from the J
business over it. Women use it
kernels.
Most hammer mills of the type
constantly to save steps and time.
commonly used on farms will grind
It helps to make this a united,
grain finely when a screen with *4
Inch holes ia used. Burr mills are
more active, more efficient nation.
less suitable for fine grinding, says
j Oliver.
Yet it costs but a few cents a day.
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c o n v e n ie n c e
THE T E L E PH O N E
The Carnegie Commission has
awarded nearly 2500 medals and ,
more than »4,000,000 In money for
' deeds of valor since 1M4.
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