T 11U RH I *AY. AUGUST 13. 1981
TUR 8PTUNOF1KLD NEWS
PAO® TW O
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Published Every Thursday at
Springfield. Lane County. Oregon, by
T H E W IL L A M E T T E PR ESS
TTHÄ b E R
H. E MAXEY. Editor
Entered as second class matter, Fe bruary 24, 1903, at the postoffice.
Springfield. Oregon.
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T H U R S D A Y . A U G U S T IS. 1631
WHEN THE MILLS WILL OPEN
The lumber situation was sum m ed up for us a few dayB
ago by m anagers of several large plants about as follows.
Usually there are few orders for lum ber during the
m onths of July and August but the mills operate on excess
orders coming in during May and June. This year there
was not only a very low price but very little dem and for any
lumber and no orders accum ulated in the spring m onths for
sum m er run. Consequently m any of the large mills have
shut down.
W hether these mills will reopen In Septem ber depends
on w hether any orders are received. Usually the m arket
strengthens by the first of Septem ber. W hether it will this
year is problem atical but there is hopes. While none of the
mills expect to m ake a profit, when the situation comes to
a point where they will lose less running than by being shut
down, m ost of them will reopen.
Mill m anagers feel th a t if possible they should run to
give labor employment. However, they m ust also consider,
th a t they are depleting their stum page and wasting their
resources by running a t a loss.
Lum ber mills of the northw est are now running about
40 per cent capacity. Fall may see them running from 60
to 80 per cent capacity.
MAKING UP TH E TICKET BEFORE A SALE
We read in the dally press th a t Governor Meier has been
putting out a half million dollars here and lopping off an
other half million there until it seems th at soon we will
not be paying any taxes. T ruth is the governor started out
by signing appropriation b ilis io r $11,451,079 from the gen
eral fund revenues of $9,973,732 or nearly $1,500,000 more
than he had revenue to pay. Necessarily he m ust m ake some
cuts or somone will go w ithout pay.
After the governor has deducted the savings made the
state it looks like his two year fiscal adm inistration will cost
the state 18 per cent more than the previous biennium. The
price tag was m arked up considerably before the governor
started advertising his sale,—sta te governm ent a t reduced
prices.
A GOOD CODE FOR ANYBODY
M ahatm a Gandhi, the leader of the revolution against
British rule in India, told newspaper men the other day the
rules of conduct which have governed his own life. He
would not presum e to lay down rules for anybody else, he
said, but he had a code which he had consistently followed.
These are the rules of life, as Gandhi observes them !
Love.
Truth.
Chastity.
Fearlessness.
Service to others.
Control of appetites.
Belief in the equality of all mankind.
Abstention from alcohol, tobacco and drugs.
Belief th a t all great religions are of equal worth.
Taking nothing th a t is not paid for by one’s own work.
Valuing possessions not for them selves but for their
usefulness.
It is not easy to live in a world which professes, in the
main, such a code, and to obey it literally. For while these
rules of conduct as laid down by Gandhi differ in no im port
ant respect from those laid down by Jesus C hrist and before
Him by Buddha and other great religious teachers, very few-
hum an being have had the hardihood to even attem pt to
live up to them. Gandhi himself, even his enemies admit,
comes about as close to it as any man in m odern times.
•
It seems to us th at one of the causes of the trouble in
which the world finds itself today is th at m ost people have
forgotten these ancient rules of life, which have always been
sound and still are. We have been carried away, all of us,
both in America and elsewhere, by the idea th at there is
some magic in m aterial possessions which will m ake us
happy in spite of ourselves. Nothing was ever farther from
the truth.
THE FAMILY
JOHN
GAINES. M.D
TH E EVIDENCE
My readers m ay posBibly wonder why I am so frequently
denouncing the six o’clock dinner; this, when so m any of
our forem ost citizens indulge the feast as a sort of trium ph
of civilization.
(1) From a study of aged men and women, I find the
longest-lived to be those who are hearty breakfast-eaters,
and who do not load the digestive tra c t a t the evening meal.
(2) From a study of vital statistics, I find th a t six o’clock
dinner devotees succum b to “ heart disease” or cerebral
hem orrhage, never later than the middle sixties. These are
city-dwellers, who are too busy to attend necessary meals
until the day’s business is done.
13) if 1 were to inject the expressed juice of the average
six o’clock dinner into a patient's veins, I feel sure th a t I
would kill him instantly! Well—the Bix o’clock dinner glut
ton gets those juices into bis veins more slowly, hence he is
■lower about dying of “heart disease” than he'd be with
intravenous injection.
(4) The tired body—the tired, half-exhausted nervous
system cannot supply the necessary gastric and pancreatic
fluids to digest a heavy six o’clock feed; hence the juices of
the “gorge” are taken into the system by absorption, and
in a shape th a t cannot be utilized in the repair of bodily
tire— not all, nor half of it can be said to be fit.
(5) Hence, it is carried with the blood-current, an ac
tive poison, unfit for the hum an systemic repair. Hence
the ea te r does not w ant breakfast next m orning—has a
feeble appetite a t noon—but is ready for the disappointing
over-feed a t the following six o’clock. The very arteries of
the h e a rt become poisoned slowly. The vessels of the brain
give way in their walls. Short breath and apoplectic sym
ptom s develop slowly, insidiously. They finally kill.
(8) Any thinking physician, If he will observe carefully,
cannot fail to agree with me. Lastly, If I w ant to have a
groggy, heavy. Indolent feeling tom orrow, I will stuff my
carcass with a six o’clock dinned tonight, a t the church
dinner th a t I am billed to attend.
li. fo ;et III" she snapped. ''I'm
i not going, and that settloa II. It you
i want to get rid of mo so bad, hurry I
' up and find our cattle.”
"If il wasn't for yoah mothah, I
i wouldn’t tuhn my hand ovah fob
| .o'atl!" the kid blurted fiercely.
(TO BE CtiNTlNUKDl
¿y
E '37?. iT E
“» i course he had nerve! Too
lie had plenty of time to rest and
dose while the wind pleasantly much, lie »anted to get the goods
on t:.al hunch without dragging the
Bob R eeves, the Kid. was nick dried his sweaty .hide, for the kid
named Tiger Eye by hts friends sat down with his knees hunched up neighbors Into It. He never told
down In the Brasos country be to brace Ills elbows. i>ml through them what he was doing, but he told
cause his "gun-eye" was yellow.
la t hr r."
When his father. Killer Reeve«," the glasses very carefully examined
•
this
strange
conglomeration
of
hills
died the Kid left Texas to avoid
' liiuih strange .vo'all nevah men
continuing
his
father's
feuds. and hollows and wild crooked can ti - <1 It. »lien we talked these
! Reaching Montana he is forced to yons.
things ovah at the cabin. 'I'cahs like
draw on Nate W heeler, an Irate
The kid moved his glasses a little
nester. In the exchange of shots
1 wasn't trusted at no time."
Wheeler drops dead, the Kid later and saw a horseman Just rldiug out
"I didn't know It then. Mother
learuing that Bob Uerner who had oj a| ght behind a chokecherry th io
knew but they were afraid to talk
also shot at the same time, really
, le geme<,
coming down
about it. much. She only told me
’killed Wheeler.
„.„vnn
Garner gets the Kid to Join the ,he ‘ «“ Y»»
early this morning, when we found
I Poole outfit a« a rim rider. The i The kid rode slowly along the out our cattle were gone. 1 rode
« d canyon boy on' . _
Î Ï ^ Î d o w . to the pasture to bring up the
Is interrupted by Pete Gorham and organ as he went, and letting h l.
# h<Rli ,n
tom e other neater«. He »hoot» Gor long legs sway to the rhythm of the
, ggw wh„re , hey.d
ham through both ears for coupl
gn(J
w hfn , w„nt
ing his name with W heeler s widow. tune. The kid s eyes lightened with
uH mo, her ghg
mg the
Later he rescue« a girl. Nellie, and a peculiar gleam but the tune he
tell
mother,
l
her dad from Gorham, wounding was playing never missed a note.
Pete again. The girl. In spite of until a black horse and rider came whole story."
Shoah would like to know what
her belief the Kid 1» an Imported
Texas killer, warns him the nester« Into view. The kid gave one startles yoh mothah said." he observed, in
jwiU klU him. The Kid warns Gar look and the music stopped with a what would have been a cold and
- ner the nesteiy are planning an squawk.
formal tone, except that the kid's
attack on the* Poole outfit. He
Nellie Murray, dressed In her
soft Texas voice made a pleasing
m eets Jess Markel. a Texan who is
boss of the Poole wagon crew and , dead brothers overalls and blue melody whenever he spoke.
shoots him through both hands.
glnghutn shirt, with her thick braid
Mother told me Ed was always
a n d le
S S S l ’ t ° f >e" °W h“'r 8Wf ‘ptn'
I trying to figure out why the Poole
°* her •*«*<11« “* ’ ” r *• * * ™r' had it In for the neater«, after let
rled her d ad s rifle in the crook of
(h(
g H ||e ,n |h(( v#M-y w ||h
her arms. »« if «he meant to meet
mR
#
Rd Jld g ,ot of
d“na”‘r » '“ ,l* m*’re ,h *D, ‘’‘ " J * 3'; riding on,side .he v a ils ,. The Pool,
and ** ,he two ors***
claimed he was rustling calves, but
<h*lr ° * n a<-cord' ”he ‘n M ‘h* that's a He. I know how we go.
rifle midway to her shoulder, then I every hoof we owned. We only had
let It down again.
| forty-two head Now he haven't got
looked
her w„ h that -
.
*“
any.
curious, steady stare of his yellow
I( yoah broatbab gut proof—"
right eye. and his face had the ex
. H(, go, eBough t0 put the fear
p a ssio n less look of a rtalned gam (>f , he t ord (n, 0 Walter Bell," she
bler Co,d and ho8,Ue *nd read>' declared bitterly. "We don't know
Warm w eather driving and touring m*kB »tiff
on your car
How dues It respond?
lR'|a>mlabl>
sum m ertim e perform ance absolutely requires special
oil and minor adjustm ents.
We are prepared for this service along with the
best gasoline»
Violet Ray and General Ethyl.
“A” Street Service Station
E L E V E N T H IN S T A L L M E N T
his wish. The latter thinks another
nester killed the old man. Babe Is
wounded by hidden enemies, who
The KM PUH. X
te^k into ¿ e
cabin and wounds one of the at
Sckera.
Nellie com et to the cabin secret
ly and aids Tiger Eye to escape
with the wounded Babe While they
are riding off. Babe becomes de-
lirtous and accuses the Kid of try
Ing to cheat him out of the pay for
killing Nellie's brother. Nellie, out-
m ^ e ’K ^ ^ s l X s T l m a cross^ ¿e
Hot Weather Driving
Hom e of V IO L E T RAY nnd E T H Y L
A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME
liy William Goldsmith Brown
Oh. »here will be the birds that
sing.
A hundred years to come?
The flower« that now In beauty
spring,
A hundred years to come?
The rosy lip. the lofty brow.
The heart that beat« ao gaily now—
Oh, where will lie love's beaming
eye.
Joy's pleasant sm ile, aud sorrow'«
sigh.
A hundred year« to come?
Who'll press for gold thia crowded
street.
A hundred year« to come?
Who’ll tread yon church with will
ing feet,
A hundred year» to come?
I*ale, trembling age. and fiery youth.
And childhood with lie brow of
truth,
The rich und poor, on land and eea.
Where will be mighty million« he,
A hundred year« to come?
We’re Still
A DRUG STORE
N otwithstanding the teiideni'y of the day. we still feel
our prim e responsibility Is accurate prescription
work. Moreover, we specialize on standard, reputable
goods. We do not resort to substitutes.
tliu t
Ketels’ Drug Store
In New Store
M ain, Near F ifth
SEND FOR SOME Now'.
Why not treat yourself to a dish of Ice cream
right now, In your favorite fruit flavor ' Healthful,
pure and Invigorating. I, Is America’s between-meal
treat. Serve It at home tonight for dessert or as a
delightful surprise Just before bedtime.
F
G G I M A N N ’Q
Ld
"Where the Hervlee le OMfereot h»Z
We all within our grave» shall sleep,
A hundred years to come;
No living soul tor us will weep
A hundred year» to come;
face and rides away. After turning for
he looked, but he didn t feel
Babe over to the Poole outfit. Tiger that way. Hot crlmples went chas
Eye finds a deserted cabin and de- )ng up his spine, and the back of his
l n ? h : i i i ? e r : T b L nthe Ucn.loen s .War
i " 1“"6*1 fee11“8 '
whe(ber , hey suw Ed watching But other men our land« shall till.
them or whether the eastern own- And others then our streets shall
erg wrote
and tolil Walt what
fill.
Ed “ *d “h0“' him ,n d “ “
While other birds shall slug as gay.
The Poole certainly must have A h bright the sunshine as to-day.
"Well! I've found one of you, any found out somehow, and It wasn't
A hundred years to come!
His grub was getting low. He
wanted more money than he had in w ay!” she exclaimed. In a tone thati lronl any of the valley folks, for
his pocket. Wouldn't be working for was worse than another cut of t h e , they don't know it. The Poole
wages now for awhile, and grub quirt. "Where are the ca ttleV
started in—dry gulchlng. If you R O B B ER Y C H A R G E IN
cost« money.
"What cattle'?"
know what that means, and 1 sup-
N E W YO R K A D M IT T E D
So he sat one night in a poker1 'Our cattle that you Poole men pose you do. all right." She sent
game with three cowboys from over stole out of our pasture last night, j him a quick glance and looked away
Un a charge of robbery at a
toward the Rosebud and a lu ck y , Every hoof we own! I'm going to) again when the kid failed to meet United States postal sub-station In
prospector Just In from the Black get them back. If I have to fight her eyes. «'Before, it was Just mean New York City, FVed H. Fink Is
Hills. Walked out at daylight with every Texas killer In the country." range tricks—hogging the range held at the Lane county Jail.
his pants bulging at the sides like
"I'm a Texas man. all right, but I and accusing the neuters of rustl-
Fink gave him self up to officers
a pocket gopher packing grass to its I'm no ktllah. Told yo'all that be-! ing calves and killing beef and all
here and admitt««d the New York
burrow. Honest player, though, fo'.”
’
‘hat. Bui all »1 once they started
robbery which lnvol»ed a theft of
Never caught him in any funny
"Well, that remains to be seen, killing. Ed was one of the first—'
}76b. Federal officers will take the
business. Plain lucky, that kid with You're a Poole man. anyway. You
"If yoh’d give me the brands so
prisoner back to New York.
the one yellow eye.
must know where our cattle are." I'd know yoh mothah s cattle when
He rode out of town at noon. Bar
"Shoah wish 1 did. The Poole's 1 ‘ind em —
"Well, it's Reverse E. But 1 W IF E S E E K S D IV O R C E
ney taking careful, nippy steps to fighting nestahs. I know that. But
couldn't think of troubling you. Mr.
balance the big and bulging pack on
"You must know the Poole ran
F E L O N Y IS C H A R G E D
Reeves. I intend to get those cattle
his back. Pacos, too. carried more
M|gg Muy
myself."
than his master that day. Tobacco
Florence Broom filed suit for dl- i
• It's a man's Job," the kid said
and five pounds of candy and a ra*o h
they? w>Uer
vorce In circuit court Saturdajr
gruffly.
songbook and two carton, of cart-;
yQur w#geg for ggy
ogulnst
her
husband.
llarkey
"W’ell, I’m the man of the family
ridges wrapped In the k id s slicker
th at!”
Broom. The couple married Nov
now, so it's my Job. So long, Mr.
and tied behind the cantle. The
He kaln't. I'm not working for R eeves!” she gathered up the reins ember 17. 1927, and have one child.
kid's pockets sagged with six new
The plaintiff charges that defend
and tapped her horse lightly with
mouth organs. Key C and D, in
ant has been convicted of a felony.
the quirt—Just as If it never had
bright red pasteboard boxes.
thgt nlght wg got Babe
Custody of the child aud 120 a
been put to a more sinister use—
month is sought by the plalntm .
The kid was almost ready now to Quta Co)d gpriw? cabln ••
and rode on past the kid with her
show N ellie Murray he was neither t ,,j supp<l!,e the Poole fired you for , cb| n tnted upward and her gate
a killer nor a cur to take a licking j poor shooting."
j bent ostentatiously upon a straggl-
and crawl off under the brush and j Hpr ghort gcornfui laugh turned ' lng> gma|i herd of cattle feeding A T T O R N E Y N A M E D ON
T A X R E D U C T IO N BOARD
whimper over his hurts. He was ■
kid's ears red as If she had over on the farther slope.
Just about ready to start In taming j glapped them, but he made no an
Adlos, Miss Murray!” The kid
W. W. Harcombe, Eugene attor
the killers. Right soon, now. the j swer to the taunt. What was the kicked Pecos Into a trot and rode
ney, has been appointed one of the
name of Tiger Eye would se n d ' use?
on into the rocky pass, playing his
committee of three for Lane county
men's glances back over th e ir , He
wrapped the bridle reins mouth organ so loudly he cracked
shoulders and make a prickle go up around the saddle horn and began a reej go that the note b u lled like to make a study of tax reduction.
Mr. Harcombe takes the place of
into the roots of their hair. The to roll a cigarette, taking plenty of „ bee In a bottle.
range tiger was going on the prowl. time.
A man could do a heap of n e rode on ahead of her. Didn't E. U. Lee who resigned.
Others of the Lane committee are
It was hot down In that willow thinking over a cigarette without act Rkc she was going home. Didn't
L. S. McCready and W. F. Walker
growth through which the kid was giv jng him self away,
try to catch up with him, either,
riding. They came out finally off with our ca ttle!”
The kid got to worrying about what
against a barbedwire fence, built
•'No. kain’t say I do.”
«he meant to do, and finally he pull- D E S E R T IO N A L L E G E D AS
I straight across through the thicket.
‘‘W ell, they did.”
ed in behind a ledge and waited for
G R O U N D S FOR D IV O R C E
Good stout posts that looked solid
“You’all right shoah it was the her to come along, so he could give
as the teeth In the kid’s mouth. Poole?”
her another piece of his mind. Yet
Desertion la aliened In a divorce
Four wires strung so tight they
"I wouldn't say It if I wasn't whpn she rode up she didn’t give
suit filed In circuit court W ednes
hummed like a tuning fork when j sure,” she retorted sharply. “None him a chance.
the kid leaned over and gave one a of Qur nelghborg wouid do It, and
j , you're bound to hunt our cat- day by Konle Salt against his wife
The couple married
jerk No fooling with that fence. | begld(!g j trailed them up on the t|e> j gu esj we tetter work to- May »alt.
Cattle proof and storm proof, like ; Bench and over thlg way The Poole g(!ther,’’ she said cheerfully. "This October 28, 1929, at Vancouver,
Wash., and have no children.
the fences the railroads built along wantg tQ r(jn ug Qut Qf thg C0UDtry. g| awfij) r(jugh country ..
The alleged desertion is stated
their right-of-way.
j You know why, don’t you?"
"Go awn home like 1 told yo'all.' to have been January 1, 1930.
Plumb strange to find a fence like
"Kaln't say I do, lessen It's be
j that over In this part of the coun- cause yoah a nestah.”
) try. This wasn’t Poole land, and
“Oh, of course all the nesters are
: he never heard of nesters over In
being made the goats for Walter
i this direction. No trails coming up
Bell! H e’s got to lay the blame
this way, no nothing. Shoah was
somewhere for his stealings. But
| mysterious.
he's scared to death of us Murrays
They followed the fence for half
and he means to drive us out. He's
a hour of steady plodding along the
got Ed and father out of the way,
narrow lane cut by the fence build
but he's afraid of Mother and me
ers. The came slap up against
too. You know why. don't you?”
a sandstone ledge where the last
"Kain’t blame ’em for that," he
post stood In a hole drilled Into
solid rock and was set there with J
drily-
cement. And that was plumb
Nellie flushed and looked down at
strange too. Nothing to do about j ‘-be rifle sagging in her grasp,
it, though. Couldn’t oven ride back
“It's because old Walt Bell Is
along the edge of the willows be- i afraid Mother and I know what Ed
cause it was Just a mess of broken found out about the Poole. Ed
rock and rubble from the steep caught the Poole cowboys stealing
slope that evidently stood above Poole cattle, that's why! Some of
the ledge.
! them—that stand in close with
Once more the kid turned Pecos Walter Bell. Joe Hale for one, and
short around, and rode back along Jess Markel for another. He caught
the fence. He crossed a creek bed them running a wildcat brand on
covered with hot sun-bleached cob Poole calves, over this way some
blestones with stagnant pools In the where. He found out a lot, and
hollows. There the fence became a then he wrote back to the head
brush and wire barrier higher than moguls In New York and told them
the kid's bead. No animal bigger what was going on." She bit her
They are away in the country. You are at home.
than a rabbit could wriggle through lip. ‘‘That was away last March,
Yet any part of hundreda or thouaanda of milea of
there. He rode another half mile and they haven't done a thing about
wire ia ready to bring their voices to you.
or two before he came to the edge it, though Mother says Ed sent
You decide to join them. Again you lift the
of the fence and found It anchored enough proof to put the whole out
receiver. Over mountain, forest and valley your,
to the other arm of the sandstone fit In the pen."
voice speeds to them.
ledge.
"Shoah had nerve, that boy.” The
An hour or more later Pecos cigarette was lighted but the kid
Service to other placet ia a part of your tele*
stopped on the crest of a long ridge forgot to smoke It. His mind went
phone’s usefulness to you.
and stood with braced legs, com shuttling back and forth, weaving
pletely winded after the steep Nellie's story Into certain puzzling
climb, though the kid had been con fragments of information he had
T he P acific T elephone A nd T elegraph C ompany
siderate enough to come up on his never teen able to make anything
own feet.
of.
1
M ile &
on v a ca tio n
telephone !
EUGENE
Wednesday
AUG. 19
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