THURSDAY. AUGUST ti. 1981 TUE SPRINOPIKLD NEWS PAO« TWO T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N E W S I*ubilshed Every Thursday at 8prlngfleld. Lane County, Oregon, by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H. E MAXEY. Editor Kntei'üd a» se rond rltt»» matter. February 34, 1*03, at the postoftice. Springfield, Oregon. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATE .................. 75c $1.75 Three Months One Year In Six Month» . ________________|1.00 Single Copy ....___________ 5c THURSDAY, AUGUST 0, IN I THE CASCADE HIGHWAY Delegates from every town from Oregon City to Spring- field met with the highway commission in Salem last week to ask that the Cascade highway leading along the foothills between the above named cities be placed on the state sec­ ondary road program. This road if built will serve territory not now on state highways and shorten the distance to Portland. People of Silverton, Lebanon, Brownsville and smaller places must now travel west several miles to the Pacific highway before going north to Portland. The new road would shorten the distrance from Eugene and Springfield to Portland 18 to 20 miles. It would also lighten the through traffic on the Pacific highway by pro­ viding a substitute route. It should be built before the Pacific highway is widened as it will relieve the congestion which is now the basis of argument for widening this high­ way. The Pacific highway, one of the finest roads in the country when it was >uilt, does not now measure up to modern road standards. There will need to be much straightening and changes in alignment before it can be brought up to date and widened. This will no doubt cost as much as to build a substitute road in another location, thus developing sections of the Willamette valley now poor­ ly served by both highways and railroads. The Cascade highway has the endorsement of the county courts of Clac­ kamas, Marion, Linn and Lane counties. It should be on the state program. ----------«---------- TYING THE NATION TOGETHER The process of tying every part o f the United States to every other part of the United States by means of modern hard-surfaced highways is going on more rapidly than ever before. It is a big program, for this is a big country. But we only have to look back a few years, to the days before the automobile, to realize what tremendous progress has been made. One would have to go a long way into the back country these days to find a main-traveled road as bad as even the average highway was twenty years ago. Where tt day is there a main road that is not passable for teams in any weather? There used to be thousands of them in which wagons would be mired hubdeep in the spring and defy all efforts of horses, mules and oxen to move them. It has cost us something to build our national system of highways, but the result has been worth the cost. Some states have built more roads than others, but every state is doing its share. This year the greatest increase in high­ way expenditure is being made by Louisiana, with a $71,- 950,000 road budget for 1931 compared with about half as much last year. All told, states, counties and the federal government are spending $259,897,000 on roads this year. That is only $15,000,000 or so more than last year. New York, naturally, is spending the most, a hundred and fifty- three millions, with Pennsylvania, second. Sixteen states are spending less on roads this year than last, 32 of them more. One noticeable result is the greatly increased freedom of intercourse between all parts of the nation. The people of one section no longer regard those of others with suspicion, as strangers. It is probably true that the majority of Am­ ericans have travelled farther from their home communi­ ties, seen more of the rest of the world outside their local boundaries, than have any appreciable proportion of the people of any other country. That alone will, in time, make us a broader-minded, more cultured people than is to be found anywhere else. ----------«---------- Scientists announce the growing of a new tobacco with­ out nicotine. We imagine this brand will be about as popu­ lar as near-beer. ----------«---------- German educators want to exchange children for a few months among nations to promote international tolerance. Seems to us that might lead to another world war. >SRU€ SPOTLIGHTS 1 went to see Erank Craven’s play “That’s Gratitude.” After the show Mrs Craven and Grantland Rice took me up to Frank’s apartment. Other friends dropped in, and presently Frank himself arrived—genuine, whimsical, mo­ dest, totally unspoiled. Seeing him in his own home made it easier to under­ stand his success. Everything was simple and old-fashion­ ed and sincere. When he writes a play he just picks a situa­ tion out of an ordinary American home, and then he walks on the stage and is himself. On the way home another thought struck me. He is the author of the play, and his name is printed on the program and written in front of the theatre in electric lights. Yet it is a play without a star. At least five other characters are just as important as he is. He is on the stage no more than they are, and they are given just as many good lines. He might have written the piece so as to monopolize the spot light, aud it might have been a success or it might have been a flop. But being the sort of chap he is, he is content to be in the background a good share of the time. His royal­ ties will award his good sense. Years ago Cameron McKenzie wrote a short story en­ titled, “The Man Who Was It.” The story told about a busi­ ness that had been making good profits for many years. The president took life very easy. He played golf, travelled in Europe, and let the boys assume rsponsibillty. Aftr his death a young and very efficient executive was brought in, who decided that everything needed tightening up. When the purchasing agent was about to sign a big contract, the new Boss jumped into the negotiations him­ self. When the salesmanager had a large order to close, the Boss said: “I’ll pack my bag and go with you.” When the production manager made plans for rearranging the plant, the Boss revised his plans. He worked about twenty hours a day. and waB always criticising his predecessor who had seemed to work so little. The result was that his associates, being robbed of both responsibility and credit, lay back and let him do it. He worked himself into a nervous breakdown, and the business went on the rocks. I am told that the Jesuits had this motto: “A great deal of good can be done In the world if one is not too careful who gets the credit.” Wise leaders recognize this golden principle and profit by It. The foolish hog the spotlight, and frequently go to TTlltfïE IR IE i f E Bob Reeve», the Kid. was nick­ named Tiger Eye by his friends do'vn In the Brains country be inua-e hi» •■gun-eye" was yellow When his father. "Killer Reeves, died the Kid left Texas to avoid continuing his father's feuds. Reaching Montana he 1» forced to draw on Nate Wheeler, an irate neater. In the exchange of »hot» Wheeler drop» dead, the Kid later learning that Bob Garner who had also shot at the same time, really killed Wheeler. Garner gets the Kid Io Join the Poole outfit as a rim rider. The Kid succors Wheeler's widow and is Interrupted by Pete Gorham and some other nestsrs. He shoots Gor­ ham through both ears for coupl­ ing his name with Wheeler's widow. Later he rescues a girl. Nellie, and her dad from Gorham, wounding Pete again The girl. In spite of her belief the Kid is au Imported Texas killer, warns him the nesters will kUl him. The Kid wares Oar ner the nesters are planning an attack on the Poole outfit. He meets Jess Market a Texan who is boss ot the Poole wagon crew and shoots him through both hands. Nellie s dad Is shot from ambush and the Kid suspects Babe against his wish The latter thinks another nester k .e d the old man. Babe is wounded by hidden enemies, who aUo »ho, t at Tiger Eye but miss. The Kid pulls Babe back Into the cabin and wounds one of the at­ tackers. Nellie comes to the cabin secret­ ly to aid the Kid and the latter crawls through the roof and makes plans to escape with the wounded Babe at night. He and Nellie wait for darkness outside of the cabin. NoW GO ON WITH THE STORY: His hand went up suddenly to a tem pted to right now, lessen he’s U*.d welt across hla cuoeK. He had dal,I »’ready." n't earned that cut of Nellie' quirt. "W hy Because he gave you His quirt. If you came right down wav."’ Het voice shook with stub­ born t ag ■ • Yo all ki i i. s b e tta h than lhat .Mis» M urray. Y oall know s In yoh iwn mind I nevah hahm ed a livin' -out" lie leaned forw ard, »taring to It. Braided in pride and high loyea down on the nraios laal w is­ er. before Pap and Ben were shot Never did think that quirt he had braided would be laid across his own cheek with all the strength there was In a girl'» arm. Another half Inch and It would have lost him that yellow liger eye of hla- and that, too. would have been some­ thing he hadn't earned. 'She nevah will call me a paid klllah no tuoah." he told himself savagely. '■She'll heah things about Tiger Eye Iteevea that will shoah prove In. death on klllahs. Poole or nestah. It’s all he same to me from now awn She’ll know -and a big total fur July when business bushes that hail caught the hide JULY RECEIPTS GOOD attention when he looked lhat way. rtc c i/'r I» usually not so liuavy. Except for that loll (ale fragment, : FOR C L E R K S O L rlC t The lutai receipts were segrega (he calil i was ahiolutely hidden In led ee follows Record I ng fee«, the thicket. When he looked be Receipt» at (he office of the conn 673.35; circuit court feus. 5M34; vonil he «a* where there had been ly clerk for (he month of July Io proba e court and ehunty court re­ a corral and a atable. all hullt of tal«et from the world, to be found by him when he needed I. O. O. F Bldg. The New Store In Springfield It moat. It took the kid nearly a week to ! make the place habitable, though he worked furiously from sunrise until It was too dark to see what he was doing, tt took him two days W ITH A REPUTATION FOR PURITY to find hlg way out of the intricate Our drugs are the pureHt that money run buy. K of canyon. ’» ’»• open you have not experienced the HutlHfactlon of buying r»n«,‘ beyond. your drugs at our splendidly equipped modern drug The drilled “Im.elf and his store, come In and get acquainted with our quality hor* ~ ,n ,hB ‘’.uyons ot merchandise and our everyday low prices. Wo1’ Mu,,m •«"» >•» “ »• • » “"» •» J « '“ «* » * “''• “ »• on- •» •!* « •» « head, of the paid killer. ° f ,h’> ’’*>»•• N eill, wonder In New Store Main, Near Fifth » * hl1* had become of him, >’e reckoned It wouldn’t hurt her to wonder and guess Bound >“ *“*•• P,un'h wrong, and he’d Pr‘” “ « “> “er. when he got good Men’s Hose Curtain Scrim 10c pr. 10c yd. Full Size BED SPREADS - - 95c (n.o her tac,. wllh # cold tensity that thrilled her with some­ thing like fear "But that ain’t say­ in' what I will do Pom now awn." ’’Bob' If you didn’t—If I knew "Evenin' Ma atn. Yo all knows the way home." He loosed (he bridle and struck her horse on the rump with the flat of his hand and wutched her go. anti the thud of hoofbeuts on the prairies» fell like blows uptut his heart. When no sound came back s h e ll know w hy” to him. the kid mounted Pecos, took She d shiver too. He d have her Babe's bride reins in his hunt! and eating erow before the suvnmer wa. rode away into the night. over She’d he ready to go down The kid was pulling out. but he her knees to him. He'd show her was taking his time about it and he wasn’t d i e d Tiger Eve for noth he was not leaviug anything he , g He'd shoah make that name owned behind him. With his gray mean something more than just the hat set low over the ulter misery color of hi. eye They’d remember in his eves, he stood in the middle trat old Killer Reeve, down on the of the cabin at Cold Spring and his Brazos was his pap. and they'd say •*,d r^ ^ r’ lowering glance moved slewly the father wasn't a patch to the (TO BE CONTINUED) around the room, just to make sure son. Yes, sir, they all better hum ;hat he had not missed any of his their holes now. Poole killers an«^. possessions. It was not a cheerful nesters! They'd pushed him too far looking place. The glass from the A shoah enough tiger was loose on one window lay in splintered frag­ the range, aud every man was his ments on the oilcloth table cover, meat! and a few early flies buzzed In and He pulled hie hat down over his Tenth Installment out through the shattered panes, eyebrows and reined away from the "Babe s woke up." The kid lower­ where rifle bullets had buzzed in valley rim. To the north there rose ed the mouth organ from his lips, yesterday. The log walls were a huddle of timbered buttes with i heaving a big sigh as he wiped it scarred with the thlu leaden hall deep-set canyons between. Ten THE USEFUL PLOW i on his sleeve and slid It Into his that had beaten intermittenLy miles, no mere, from the valley; j Anonymous pocket. against the cabin. twelve or fifteen from the head country life la sweet! He sighed again as he rose, hitch­ The kid swung toward the bunk quarters ranch of the Poole. There in moderate cold aud heat, ed up his gun belt and looked grave­ and looked at the pillow still nested should be some sequestered little To walk in the air how pleasant ly down at her. to the shape of Babe's sleek black nook in there where he could make and fair! "We all could get outa heah easy head. The muscles tightened along his lair. In every field of wheal. if it was Just us two. But I kain't his jaw. Babe wouldn t have liked The kid’s fingers lifted again to The fairest of flowers adorning leave Babe. He's been pow'tul good the look in the kid's < os just then. lhat welt slanting down across his the bowers, to me, Babe has—” Crazy as he had been from fever. cheek. One last glimpse he had ot And every meadow’s brow; *‘Of course, we can't leave him. Babe would have sensed the deadly the low ridge and the line of cotton s o that I say. no courtier may They'd kill him sure, and there's quality in the kid's arrested glance, woods down there in the valley, and Compare with them who clothe been too much killing already. the tiger eye round and staring. then the rain blotted the place from In gray. We ll make.it somehow. I—you can He got his own pillow and tuck­ his sight. And follow the useful plow. just do anything. Tiger Eye!" ed it savagely under his arm. The Before dark he camped In a thick "Shoah feel like I could, from nights when he had laid his head grove of young spruce that grew They rise with the morning lark. now awn, said the kid, looking at j dow-n 5t.sjja Babe's in contented beside a natural meadow. He slept, And labor till almost dark. Then, folding their sheep, they her with shy meaning, and started comratjcSi1ip fairly slapped him in his quirt-scarred cheek cuddled in hasten to sleep to climb. ’’We'll make iL" he called the face now with a bitter con the crook of his arm—and dreamed softly down to her. “We've plumb tempt for his blind faith. of making love to Nellie Murray. P1«»’“ 1 P«rk Next morning Is ringing with got to make it!” And when he talks like you're the Dreamed that she was going to birds that are singing They did make it. Down the gully, one that did the killing—when he marry him. and they planned the j with Babe tied on his horse, insen­ talks like that right before Nellie, homestead they would take in Cn each green, tender bough. With what content rod merri­ sible to pain or motion. Fifty yards, and makes her so gfrasy mad sh»j Wolfe Buttes, somewhere, and how ment a hundred, with the rifles on the starts in quirting you over the head they would build themselves a Their days are spent, whose ridge barking foolishly at the empty and calling you a killer. Just be ranch with honeysuckle vines all minds are bent cabin. cause she's only a girl and can't over the cabin. . . . . The sun went down behind the shoot you down like a dog, it's It was morning and tt was raining rim. the daylight was merging into something worse thau hate you with a cold, steady drip on the i dusk when the kid forced the feel toward him. Babe had brains spruce boughs that sheltered him GRAVEL DREDGING MAY horses up the steep bank. sharper than any old he-wolf, but like a thatched roof. DAMAGE LAND. REPORT "Say, where do you think you're his brains sure weren't working Another day of hunting a den i Installation ot a county rock goin'. Tiger Eye?” Babe roused last night, when he made that talk for tfie tiger that would be a I crusher on the Coast Fork of the suddenly to consciousness and up there on the Bench. scourge to all killers. The kid ( Willamette north of Walker for speech when they stopped beside Most men would have shot Babe fished blindly under the blankets contemplated road work in that Nellie s horse, circling the rock r|gbt then and there. They would- for his hat, found It and put it on area has brought a request from a anxiously in the starlight. n't have cared a damn about his as he sat up. number of farm owners along the ‘ Reckon we 11 go awn ovah to the being drilled through the middle He crawled out of his blankets, stream for a conference with the Poole, Babe. and piunjt> out of his head. But e v e n ______ ____ buckling his gun belt around him county court before the cruahsr is ‘What you goin to the Poole all wRb the we| tg oj Neiue Murray’s with vicious tugs on the strap. set up. of a sudden for? Babes voice qujrt on big cheek and the lash of He stood up tall and full of pride A letter from Clyde E. Wright sharpened. Think you 11 beat me ber conternpt searing his heart, the in the man who wouldn’t kill be- received by the court states that to the bounty? You’ve got another kId couldn-t pu„ hig gun and send cause, he didn’t want to kill. Didn't farm owners fear that the taking think comin , Kid. 111 do the collect- a bullet Into Babe Garner, wounded save to kill to make men afraid of gravel from the stream bed at in on this one. and sagging against the rope that of him. They'd look over their this point will change the course ' Don t know what yoall talking beid him tied on his horse. That J shoulder when they spoke his name, of the current and may damage about. Babe. The kid glanced un- wouid be putting himself down on and when any one mentioned the farms below. easily toward Nellie. ’1 m totln a jeve| wjtb Babe, killing a man Brazos they'd look at each other, The court announced that be- yo all ovah to the Poole, account of tbat hasn't any chance to shoot thinking that was where Tiger fore the crusher starts operations that bullet hole in yoh side. back. Had to go on and take Babe Eye came from. a hearing either here or at the "You're a damned liar! Babes t0 the poo|e rancj, same as if he All that day It rained In windy I scene of operations will be held. voice was abnormally loud and dis- wer6 a frien(j gusts, with periods of quiet drizzle -- ---------~ tlnct. Nellie, mounting her horse. The kld rolled hlmgelf a clgar. bfttween I • reined close to listen. '’You’re goin et(e ,,ghted ,, with a match heId That afternoon he came upon the FROM MAIN UNE POINTS to try to gyp me outa my money gjeady | n bis fingers, picked up his place he was hoping to find. A rock j ___ . for old Murray. You can have the rjf]e wf,ere ¡t stood leaning against rab ÿ built of fragments of the cliff D D A I bj pay for gettin Ed Murray, if you tbe cabjn beside the door, slid It It, Ice cold and crystal clear, in a 99 ■ I want to be on the grab, but 111 be jnto tbe gcabbard on his saddle and fallen in. It was the upended ridge- damned If you’re going to collect mounted. where he was going, he pole with a corner of the roof at­ for the old man!” did not know or care. tached and showing above the “Oh, you—you fiend!” Nellie forced the words out through her , clenched teeth. "Paid killers, both of you!” “Ain't paid yet, but I’m sure as T h e e l e c t r i c w a s h e r s t i b s l i t u t e r f hell goin' to be. Damn' right!’.’ The febrile strength that bad upheld e l e c t r i c p o w e r f o r h u m a n l a b o r Babe for a minute began to ebb. He swayed In the saddle. “Dirty work—and It's money talks, in this neck uh the woods. Damn right I'll T x primitive woman who withed her ample be paid! Tiger Eye ain’t goin’ to garment! by » a k in j them in w ait! and beating get the host—the best of me—he can't—" Hia head lolled on his them agaimt a Sone drdn’l have wch a bad idea ROUNDTRIP . . . $28 j chest then, as his body sagged —ihe electric w aih er operate) on the »m e Coach ticket, good in day against the ropes that held him In coaches o r reclining chair cars general principle, only Kientdkally modified ; the saddle. — a lio in To urist Sleepers on and ad|uited to that no harm i t dona Io tha payment o f berth chargef about "You killer!" Nellie Jumped her >/2 the Standard Pullm an co«t.) ' horse toward the kid. dainties article! ol wearing apparel. She had pulled her quirt from the There h one important difference, whereat the saddel horn, and she struck him prim itive woman actually worked when the across the face; swift, slashing ! blows which the kid never felt at waihed c lo th ei, the modeln woman limply TO ■ all, save in the heart of him. He watcher an efficient machine lubititute electric Just stood there in the starlight and power lor human labor. i held the frightened horse quiet, ! while the quirt he had given her In a lew hour!, and at the coil of only a lew One-way coach ticket that left Its mark on neck and shoulder tavet you many dollars. T h is cent!. . . becauM electric «m ice ■ cheap. . . an piim til,» Ilf» !and cheek. is Ir t it i comfort at the lowest electric waiher will do the biggert kind el a p n n ih lc cost. , » » u l r » i f o n t ,loll»l«i<» “And I trusted you like a fool— .m l .t i.ll» . M tin lM A U K family waih. Selact tha one you like from your and thought you were good!” With ROUNDTRIP . . . $45 n tr x A n s com plete one final blow her arm fell to her dealer’! pock. <50 poundi e/ baggage may be I E E C 1 R IC S I It V I C E side as if In dlspalr at ever wreak­ chtcktd f r it on lo eit litlu tl.) ing vengeance upon him. ‘'Shoot me now, why don't you? I’ll turn M o u n t a i n S t a t e s P o w e r C o m p a n y my back!” “Yo’all’s crazy as Babe.” The soft drawl of his voice had a chill. "Yoh 1 ‘ à brothah was shot befo' I evah came | into the country. I nevah did kill a CARL OLSON, Agent man In my life—but I'm plumb Phone M Hoffman’s Dry Goods Store D RU G S Ketels’ Drug Store ice Cream... FOR DINNER— BUT BE SURE IT ’S EGGIMANNS— Certainly! Junior would welcome the opportunity to dash over to Egglmann's for that coveted Ice cream without any Inveigling on your part. Just say "Ice cream for dinner" and see how quickly you’ll get hla attention. Egglmann's Ice cream Is healthful for old and young. F G G I M A N N ’Q ’ W h in th e 8 » r v ir a 1» D ta e r a o t’’ ItaX Forty Miles from Nowhere — He thought that weak tire would run a few days more —but It didn’t. Again we say bring that weak tire to use In time. We'll put the weak parts In good condi­ tion and you will be rewarded by the many more miles of service you will receive. 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