THURSDAY. 8KPTRMIÌBR 17. 1931 THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAOS TWO T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N E W S Published Every Thursday at Springfield. I .an» County, Oregon, by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H . E. M A N N Y , Editor Entered as second clast m a tter, Feb ru ary 24, 1*03, at the poalotflce, Springfield. Oregon. M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E One Year In Advance ..........— $1.76 T h ree Months Six M onths J . --------- $100 Single Copy 76c ...6c T H U R S D A Y . S E P T E M B E R 17. 1931 ROWtWA ÄIDf ! ** RUMBl COPYllôHT tV THI AUYWpft it ï ia a ü M » FOURTH INSTALMENT fell— how you got— out of !tli. le »«at?" Ka.'krw ff M oto r« hire Row cn* to « r a s a "1 climbed out." said Rowena I'r w r on • na'ion w nlr rout in thru "It's the only way you |t« .l> tr r m nn «dw rO ain» «runt A t th< cheerfully. k > t rninut« U t t k Bobby u r t i r * , r 4 to act row get out o f a rumble scat** to rh a p v o a . "But when------ " A law wile« out Bobby baoi'mca tra itu l "Rut how------ •• boin« parted frv ir her r a r a th r a tt and o v rn a inaiara on ta k u if bat rU c e >n the "W e didn't see you!" amble ao that »ha can irda with Patar and “When Peter and the broken-down are bun to talk to about Carter Rowana gent were dusting off Missouri in the get» P a t« to oonaant to divide th r raponaa ; middle of the road L noticed the wild (■»tie r each weak as toon aa it am aaa, and «atcrlahea P e tri by rating toe eeon [berries up on the hank among the •■alcnRy. Crocks I must have jo t myself out T h e three touriata roach St. l.'u ia , a ftn paaaing through B uflalo and Chicago Pater [of sight of the car without knowing and Rowena nave m any ttlTa. whila Bobbv jit, for the first thing I knew. I heard B anrapturtd enraptured at tha way C a r t « ia fuming |the usual racing o f the engine with ■ A t from S a w Y o rk O<5 ) O N W I T H T H E S T O R Y which dear Peter gets under way, so II ran down and there you were There «rare bound to be ever ao tearing off among tjte ruts in a cloud many pleasant, cool, thadowy short- ‘ * S t Louis and Kansas SCHOOL DAYS It won't be long now before vacation is over and school t will begin again. Then the young ones will get hack into r their own world, for in the life of the child the real world is that in which he mixes on equal terms with others of his own age We older folk are too absorbed with the affairs of grown-ups to understand w hat the young ones are thinking •*Uo^F about. We are prone to think, as we grow older, that w hat we had in school is good enough for our children. That would be true if the world stood still, but it doesn't. In a changing the wgy between St Ix iu i, and world, the best education is that which makes the child alive Q ty . Peter asked about to the changes, which brings him most closely in touch •kort-cut» at do end of filling stations with the new things that we didn't know anything about god garages a* they went west, hut ooe seemed very well informed when we were young. Everything is different today from do about hy-roada, and for the most yesterday; tomorrow everything of today will be out of part every one advised against at­ date. The boy or girl who gains from his school work the tempting any such thing I t wgs well on toward noon when sense of change, of constant forward movement steadily go­ Peter found a man in a garage who ing on, has got the best foundation for success in life. «sought there really was a short-cut as Peter wanted. H e wasn't al­ W’e don’t think it is nearly as important to teach children Just together sure it was a direct route to how to do tilings as it is to teach them how to understand Kansas Q ty, hut at least it did not things. One way is to get more young people as teachers lead hack toward St Louis. They had driven about twenty and on school boards. School systems must grow and miles along this rambling lane, which change, just as the world grows and changes, and old folks at times seemed to turn uncertainly are too apt to resist change. There must be old heads in toward Kansas Citv and then made a school affairs, of course, but some who are still young dead run for the Nebraska line, when saw a stalled car in the road enough to remember their own school days ought to have they before them. The driver lay some say about school affairs. stretched out on the hank with his ■ <----------- hat over his face. Peter slowed up. SHORT CHANGED Rowena leaned forward and rapped Roseburg got the soldiers' home hut is seems now that aharply on the glas- "Never ask ad­ of metaphorical glory. Ba I picked of a broker-down driver." she some more berries, and tha brokan- she has lost half of it. Reports are that a million dollars vice warned him dark'.., " If he knew out of the (wo million are to be spent to make homes out ol what he was doing, he wouldn't he down gent and I shot crap» until tha man from the garage came and some of the Washington hospitals. Oregon cities should broken down." But Peter for once had struck the towed him in. He invited me to go give the Douglas county town a hand to prevent more of right The man knew ever- with them, but I knew you would he this money slipping away. Without a very substantial in­ road in party ick for me when you got around to the state. u" vestment is made at Roseburg the city will not be justified Peter thanked him for his c . in its $125,000 bond issue or the state in giving away the directions and : ■ trued to the c .r.l “There was a bridge out on the H e was too much of gcn’ lervin to short-cut," explained Peter quickly. present soldiers’ home. lee- triumphantly .ick at Pi f t “ I know The broken-down gert e —•vemhered it about ten The request of the federal government for free sites for order the n • . „• dv. d n-inu-es « it ilr ■' I had • -,■» But ot course national institutions we feel is all wrong—it is the driving of rumble I »,.,1 m-coh—and she seemed sliglul) i orc resigned. She was vary quiet as they crossed Kansas, and when they complained of tha notoriously hot winds, -hi oniled patiently and said she didn't mind. She ate very little, and had 'fteen cents of her allowance left at the end of the week When they reached Denver they 'lurried at once, at they always did to get their mail, and there was noth­ ing at all for Bobby, not a letter, not a telegram, not to much as a aouvenit postcard She said nothing hut turned pale and a little sad smile frost the dimples In the soft face. % With but six miles of grade to be surfaced on the Willam­ ette road to Oakridge it seems that every effort should be made to complete the job this fall so that it may be used this winter. The federal bureau of roads will do half of the job and it seems that the state and county should not fail on the remainder. For years Oakridge has been like a city in another county because of the condition of the old road. -------------- »--------------- Those Arkansas folks take their religion like the Kentuck­ ians take their moonshine—serious. It required a battalion of national guardsmen to keep order in the church. The Baptist church should rid itself of this sort of thing. We wonder if pajamas will be the conventional campus attire this year. What the nation needs is more big fish in the streams. "••BRUC took any form ot etvrclso In hla life Charles Dlckrn» died compara liv e ly young Inteauae of hl» notion tltut he could keep hla brain In rou d It lou by vigorous dally physical cscrtlou Persona of average ability can combine physical development with enough m ental development to "get by'' In their Job« Bui the per­ WELL— B a Ws> h a w learned a few thing» j bout t uba and the Cuban paoplu I .nee we went to w ar w ith Spato. ' ,3 year« ago. to »et Cuba free. The Cuban people are about a« badly ■ft under eelf government, eo-call- ■ d. as they were under W eyler. When sugar and tobacco »ell nt high price» they are happy; when j these eoniniodttlea are clump, a» they have heeu for some year», here la revolution. W e gave them political fretnloin but we did nol give them the more Im portant eco­ nomic freedom. Nobody today want» to annex t uba to the United States, least of all the Am erican »peculator» who have built race-truck», hotel» and gumbltng house» there to nt j •r»ct Am ericans v. ho want to ca j rouse and waste th eir money. Un j dcr Am erican rule Cubu would have j to he o ffic ia lly "d ry," and lh a l would start another revolution. al hand, I suppose you have Now lh a l the rainy season acusón Is I» e cl lf to u r r«M>( fixed ih ie