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 THE WILLAMETTE PRESS 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, n. C.. 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«»'«>-» 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.' ---------------- 1---------------- 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 • • • 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 ------------ 1------------ 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. • • • 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- ■_ . • .................. 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 „„„ .. ____ ,. „ ______ 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 __ . . l . 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 I 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— PLUS AN ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION. IV/ij Pay More? Williams’ Self Service Store 77 E. 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LE TTE R H E A D S ____ The tiny gleam from Editon't firtl incandescent lamp permanently installed lighting IN Match Your Fine Product with Finely M 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, I We Always Remember— Call on us when you want result producting printing. fixtures arid portable T he cost of using plentiful electric light, properly diffused lo banish both glare and gloom, is low because our electric rales are reasonable and are designed lo increase thesnefuIncM of electric service. M O U N T A IN STATfS POWER C O M P A N Y e ' - ..The.. WILLAMETTE PRESS "Business Printers” Offices: 119 E. 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