PAO® TWO
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. IMI
THE SPRINGFIELD NEW8
growing their own eatables and Pocket Money
TOWNS NEED FACTORY
*1 eelaliilt'g in fancy crops, like
Few millionaires carry much cash
APPEAL SAYS WRITER
mushrooms, new-laid eggs aud in their pockets these days. Hold
Published Every Thursday at
,'ih. r products that can lie classed up men know thia and never bother
Nprlagfirld, Lane County, Oregon, by
Not long sgo the members of the
more as delicacies than necessltle* ihem. except when they are return
chamber
of commerce of a small
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Ever) big newspaper In the east ing with their womenfolk from the
H. E MAXEY, Editor
tarr e* I ni list* of small farm* < ei a or theatre. Theu they can be mid-west town asked me, "What la
the matter with our town.'' says J.
(or sole at price* ranging from $1« sure of a haul In Jewelry.
Entered aa second class matter, February 24, 1903. at the postofflce,
8. Blue, writing In Nation's Busi
an
acre
up.
and
they
are
finding
a
Springfield, Oregon.
t lie millionaire told me It was ness tor September.
BY RADFORD MOBLEY ready market among people tired a g>
neral custom with all rich men.
Hie answer was "tin cane."
AUTOCACTtR WMWNCTON BUU&AU of living in congested cities
M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E
The, are so well knowu all over
WASHINGTON,
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Sept.
1
One Year In Advance
$1.76 Three Months
76c
Mr. Blue la connected with the
town that they have no trouble
Sun» «re niulllptylng here that
Six Months
$1.00 Smgl,' Copj
5c
New Industries Section. Commer
cashing
checks
for
enough
to
pay
Johti Barton I'avne I» growing Into
h. n dinner check All they need Is cial Department. American Gas and
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1931
the «Lsfutm ot those c loans t in
, tiongh money io tip door-openers Electric company. His Job la fitting
li o, h wiih ihe reeent action* of the
nd hat-check girls with, less than
«•’*«» »'«I «»"»n» »o
American Red I'rma, I’roalitent
WIDENING T H E HIGHWAY
in silver Waller's ftp* are mark- Industries. The town which he
Itoover. the titular head of the big
mentloua In his Nation* Business
cd on the dinner check.
Widening ami straightening the Pacific highway is to be relief organization leave* all the
article had asked him to make a
The
average
wealthy
men
can
a life topic during the next few m onths, according to word " ,rk to it* active head and Judgv
go a week ill this city on $10 In survey and explain to II* rltliens
I'ayre I» beginning to Impress
why the town wa> unable to get
coming up from Portland and Salem, The theory is that many
BY
ERNEST
CAM0JQ
currency
in his pockets. It's only
w ith the fact that he is grow
money spent on the Pacific highway does the most people ing old. He is 73. but Is not carry
the newly rich, gamblers and poll new Industrie*. Continuing Mr.
Blue «ayi:
Street Comedians
tlclan* who carry around rolls of
tlie moat good. With this we are inclined to disagree—be ing his age as well as many others
Many of the sandwten men along hill* big enough to choke a horse
"Never hud I Men ao many tlu
lieving th at the Pacific highway should not be widened until now- active in public office.
Broadway add a touch of comev to
cans In one town. They were piled
other needed roads in the state serving sections not now
The administration of the Red (heir advertising stunts. One of the UNCLE SAM COES IN
iiu the vacaut lot* and thrown In
Laving adequate roads are accommodated.
Cross requires brains of a high or best Is a young fellow on stilts,
the alleya.
A little river ran
whose silk hat Is twelve feet In FOR INFANTS' TROUSERS through the town Almost alway*
Before the Pacific highway is widened at a coat of as der and the initiative and energy
that one associates with men of halt ,llt‘ l’lou<t*
much as it will take to build a new road we believe that the Payne's age. It Is not enough to be He always has a crowd watching “r ‘‘w ‘-'“ lena of the United States In such a town the main artery of
traffic croaaea the river. The view
Cascade highway leading from Springfield and Eugene to big enough to Inspire contributors him and reading the ad he carries. ' w*‘r** ***re that Uncle Sam had irotu the bridge was the view that
*" ,or tuf»nts' trousers, but
Oregon City should be built. This road would take half the with a belief in the honesty of ail The other day I saw him cross
such Is the fact. And because the tuay he seen front loo many bridges
I
Thirty-fifth
street
against
traffic.
through traffic off the Pacific highway and postpone the Bed Cross workers. The hundreds
crossing too many little, rivers In
I Nearly over, he tripped. He Just whole range of motherly projects too many American towns
The
need of widening for several years at least, it will not only of thousands of donors, many of
did
not
appear
to
be
widely
appre
them women, who support the na- cttU8ht himself, but he made the
banks
were
broken
down
and
mud
solve the congestion problem on the Pacific highway be tional agency with voluntary funds. crow<* 8«*p
dated, the Bureau of Home Econ
omics several years ago Inaugur dy. They had been used as ash
tween Eugene and Portland but it will develop a new part want to see relief given where it Is
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ated a series of 'fillers' for free dts chutes. Part* ot smashed automo
of Oregon, especially the territory around Coburg, Lebanon, needed. To them a starving miner Wha*'
trlbutlon to Sunday newspapers. biles and sewing machines and
Silverton, Molalla and other foothill towns. These towns is Just as much a sufferer as a I saw him again today. He was The 'simple, straight-leg trouser colls of rusty wire appeared above
crossing Fortieth street against
located in rich agricultural and lumbering sections have land holder washed off his farm by traffic. Nearly over, he tripped. He P**,erD described was the feature the oll-aplotched water There waa
a freshet, or a mountaineer de
now neither adequate highways or railroads.
for April 5. 1931. With the 600-word a perceptible ateoch.
prlved of his home by a forest fire. Just caught himself. Just then I
" 'A goo,! many factory agent*
descriptive
article, the bueau en
Eugene has nothing to fear by building a new road. It
Many feel that President Hoover, caught his eye and winked at him closed a one-column cut six Inches have . visited
. ... your town In the past
He merely grinned It was an ad
deep Showing the trouser. In a.r
* ,old
•>«»'«>-»
will be another main trade artery leading to the Lane county as the real head of the Red Cross, mission that It was a stunt, and
men. 'Each of them was Intelligent
see to it that all ciUsens in
seat. One of the Lane county comm issioners believes the should
vice.
A
companion
article
of
the
trouble be taken care of. The .hort m‘*h,y goo<1 on<' ° B* ,h ,t harden
same date, 'Setting In a Sleeve,' ly trying to find the right town In
building of the Cascade highway would add a million and cut. many point out. would be to ed NeW Y° rk* 7
Up
was accompanied by a wocolumn which to place hls factory.
one-half dollars to the value of the taxable property of this supplant Judge Payne with a man
“ 'The factory agents went sway.
cut carrying the deacrlpttve line.
county. Besides this the new road will put Eugene 15 or 20 more in touch with present day A Faded Flower
They never came back. They did
The
Illustration,
made
by
the
Bu
Years ago a certain pretty girl
not even write letters. You ask me
miles nearer to Portland, depending on the exact alignment conditions and less steeped in the was
the toast of Broadway. She was reau of Home Economics, shows why?
Florence
Nightingale
tradition.
used. We all should be pulling for the new road instead of
how
a
set-ln
sleeve
Is
basted
Into
a reigning beauty on the stage.
patching up the old one.
Mr. Hoover's well-wishers are
"T in cans A miserable, de
The other day I passed a hair- the armseye.'
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hoping that he will supplant Judge dresser on Fifth Avenue. In a frame ‘ "When today's taxpayers were bauched little river. Uncut weeds
Payne with a man like Colonel Ar- were pictures of women who had ! children, mother looked after all and dim street lamps and no street
TOBACCO TAX FOR SCHOOLS
thur Woods. now the president's dyed their grey hair, with their ) trousers, blouses and sleeves with- markers Rough paving and a street
Tennessee is discharging $2.500,000 of new buildings at chairman of the committee on em- testimonial letters. Her picture, as uut 80 much as a free button from system that la not hooked up to ths
its university and $1.000.000 in rural school building by a ployment. Colonel Woods' work In beautiful as ever, was In the center Washington. AU thing* consider- district la which you offer free land
I od. our trouser* were generally to factories. Who will build a fac-
tobacco tax. This tax has lightened considerably the load that connection has put him in of the lay-out.
on property In the southern state. Now comes some edu close touch with the dangerous Just one more ot the many heart- ' ' dual to the demands ot the hour. lory on ground which might be un-
situation that is expected to con- twinge* that come at nearly every 1 Considering that the same cannot reachable by fire engines on a
cators, who are not squeam ish about where the money front the country his coming win- corner in this big town
be said of today's tax payments stormy night? The town hat not
comes from, and suggest th at such a thing might be done ter, when millions of idle men will
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to the federal treasury—the 1931 been toned and ao it has a mussy
in Oregon. Well why not? Every time a college boy “takes be hard put to support their fami- A Tip on Eating
deficit was $360.000.000—it la pertl- and upset appearance. Who will
a drag" on a cigarette or the co-ed reaches for som ething lies. There is a demand for a man Rural visitors to this city need nent to inquire if Uncle Sam really build a $30.000 home when he
besides a sweet they might be doing som ething to help the who can apply relief measures not fear being forced to pay out too Is. or ever can be. an efficient knows that a galvanised garage may
—Lawrence Sullivan In be set up next door? Your trees
alma m ater financially: a painless and pleasant method of wherever needed, without stopping much for eating. One can get meals ' mother.”
Nation's Busint-ss.
are gray with duet.
to consider the economics of the from thirty cents up.
paying for part of their education cost. At least w’e sup cause.
All restaurants carry cards on
" ‘ Would my wife want to live In
pose so— we don't smoke, and can t speak with the best
thia town?'
Col. Woods would make an ideal their windows showing their prices
authority.
"And the answer was 'No.'”
man for tne place it is believed by and people hee, If they don't know
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many here, and his appointment1 the place, stop and read the bill be-
would result in relieving many fore entering. It tells them exactly
TH E UNION LABORER'S RESPONSIBILITY
Many Contests Awarded
more people during the coming how much they can get out for.
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P art of the unemployment problem in this country we stress, they say. He is an old news-
Contract awards for public and
semi-public construction since Dec
lay at the door of the labor unions. On every hand we see paperman, winning his spurs on Chain Restaurants
ember 1, 1930, have passed the $2,-
union laborers working at high wages and without reduc the New York Sun before being There are about a doten chains
drafted by big business and the of restaurants In New York.
000.000.000 mark. Thia amount la
tion of wage scale while less fortunate mem bers of their president.
with the same varying scale of
fully fifty per cent In excess of the
craft go without work. With few exceptions, the individu
prices. When you have eaten In
normal and that excess of a billion
TO CRITIC»
Hls work as police commissioner
one you know what It coat* to eat
als in union labor, are prone to lay off a day or so a week
dollars measures the value to tbs
By Walter Learned
of New York City was of the high-
men who have been employed on
that those without work can m ake a living. If labor unions est order and he did more to les in any of them. Lots of people Just When I was seventeen I heard
Iheae works of the direct personal
are going to hold the confidence of their unemployed m em sen crime than any police chief pick out one of the cahlns and stick
From each censorious tongue,
to it. It saves the risk of being
Influence
of President Hoover In
“I'd not do that If I were you;
bers and the general public they will soon have to do som e between Theodore Roosevelt and charged too much.
hi* efforts to relieve unemploy
Commissioner
Mulrooney,
the
pre-
You
see
you're
rather
young."
thing about it. Heretofore they have expected the boss to
One of the chains has set a flat
ment.
incumbent. Whether the presl- ■_
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create em ploym ent but in a declining m arket he is pretty sent
, , n, k
k ,
. « .
, cbarge of sixty cents for "all you Now that I number forty years,
Back from the Beach — Major
dent will be able to draft Colonel „„„
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can eat.” And they mean It. You can
well at the end of his rope.
and Mrs. White and family and
I'm quite as often told
Woods is another matter, recent
have five portions of Ice cream. Of this or that I shouldn't do
Miss Jessie A Cannon* of Port
disclosures indicating that the two
Two orders of roast beef and so on.
land spent several days at Yachats
Because
I’m
quite
too
old
were on the outs because Woods No limit.
O carping world! ir there's an age last week. Miss Cannons has re
insists in saying between five and
One manager told me few people | Where youth and manhood keep turned to Portland.
six millions will be out of work
«¡„to, ..« I ..»
took advantage ot the special price. An equal poise, a!as! I must
next winter against the president s
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.
rnmnvV.
at
a
On,y
a few> &nd lhey ^row
Have passed t in my 7 sleep K
remarks that nobody can eatimate .
. . . ashamed
, h„
.. ............. ..........................L of themselves after about two trips
the total wihout careful research.
and order only a little more than
Mrs. Snoops—My husband haa
It is generally conceded here that
normally.
no Idea what I go through when he
Woods is the best qualified man for
The restaurants explain that they snores.
the Job, a man who can be relied
are only passing on the lowered
Mrs. Skaggs—Mine never knows
GOOD NEWS
upon to act first and study the
prices of foodstuffs to their cus- how much he has In his pocket,
economics
of
the
action
afterward,
Last sum m er I went to a white church in a New England
tomers.
other.
even without consulting those who
town. The preacher for the day was a fam ous man from are enmeshed in red tape.
i x
;
a big city, who happened to have a sum m er home near-by.
There are more tenant farmers
in
the
United
States
right
now
than
The church was only about one-tenth filled. Even this
ever before in the history of the
fam ous nam e was not enough to pull people away from the country. The figures are given by
cool woods and beaches.
the department of agriculture
p r im it iv e life
When the preacher arose to announce his text, I which shows that 42.4 of all farm
ers rented their land last year, an
thought: "Now we’ll catch It. We shall be told that these increase of more than four in every
re q u lr ts
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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iliut the compounding of prescriptions In the first eon-
sldcrstioii In our bunlnesn. Whatever eine we may be
our attire In it drug store Ural ready to meet any em
ergency that you may have.
We never substitute The purest ami heat known
drugs are tllapenaetl by ua. by registered pharmacists.
Ketel’s Drug Store
In Now Store
Main, Near Fifth
VIOLET RAY
Costs the same aa white gasoline but,
more powerful. Violet Bay ami General
twins which lead the motor fuel field.
eni'e'a lit i os I contribution to motoring
Thia service atatlon can lake care
need in cur service.
Oh. ao much
Ethyl are the
They tire acl-
of your every
“A” Street Service Station
The BEST Place to Buy Candy
IS AT A CONFECTIONERY STORE
We have H|ient years making candy ami our pure deli
cious product has been eaten by many (bousuuds of
people. We've learned what people like and guarantee
Io please you.
Eggimunn's fountain Is the place where all folks
come these hot days.
F G G IM A N N ’Q
Bwk$ "Where ths Hsrvies la Dlffarent’
SHOES
THE
SHOES
SHOES
LARGEST STOCK OF FOOTWEAR
empty pews mean that the world is going to the dogs. We
shall hear a half-hour of lam ent about hum an wickedness.
We few, who have come to church, shall be crucified for the
sins of those who have stayed aw ay.”
fo o d ,
LANE COUNTY AT THE LOWEST PRICES—
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hundred fams since 1920. In 1880
only one famer In four was a rent
er. In cities the same figures are
shown by the number of failures,
one
set showing that only one In
I have listened to many church serm ons and I am sick
ten stores did not fall In the course
of them.
of ten years.
. But I was due for a pleasant surprise. lie announced a
These statistics on small busi
text from P au l’s letter to the Corinthians. He explained th a t ness men need not be taken as dis
in this passage Paul was really m aking a plea for a generous couraging. It is pointed out, as a
i lot of the changes were caused by
collection from the Corinthians for the struggling churches owners selling out at a profit, or
elsewhere. He had an ulterior motive, but th at does not finding the field had changed over
change the fact th at the whole chapter is full of praise for a course of years. In the case of
tli Corinthians.
farms the report is far from en
couraging, as It indicates that farm
Haying told them how kind they are, how courageous, , ers are unable to carry over their
how faithful. Paul concludes by saying, in effect: "Since you profits from big yeas so as to take
have all these many good qualities, I ask you to have also care of hard times. Panicky condl
this grace 'which was in Christ Jesus, to being rich became tlons also have a bad effect on
poor for our sakes’.”
farmers, many rural banks lindlng
themselves overloaded with frozen
In other words, you are great folks; come on, now, and securities, like farm mortgages,
be generous also.
awl being unable to renew loans.
This results In the more prosper
The preacher then proceeded to tell us what a grand
tiling it is to belong to the hum an race— how good people ous part of the community Increas
are, how courteous to each other, how brave under their ing their holdings of farm land and
sufferings, how hopeful in the face of an inscrutable Fate. thSy than turn around and rent the
land back to the former owner. The
t
He said th a t God created men and women because He report does not carry any suggest
wanted companions, and that He was pleased with His crea ion fo a remedy.
tion.
One curious thing about the re
port Is that it shows farms near
He made us all proud of our hum anity, and sent us out
the great centers of population in
more eheefui and better able to fight the week.
the eastern seaboard, are showing
a gain In owner-management. This
I wondered why there are not more such serm ons
favorable condition is said to be
Jesus did very little denouncing and hardly any “viewing caused by the heavy buying of
with alarm ." He came with a joyous message.
"deserted farms” by city people,
“ You are sons of God,” He said, "destined for eternal who have capital enough to finance
better methods of working the land
happiness."
than the old owners, and who bring
People liked that sort of talk. They called it "gospel,” an open tnlnd to the problem and
which is to say, "good news.”
go In more for diversified farming,
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