THE SPRINGFIELD NEW S
Published Every Thursday at
Springfield. ban* County. Oregon, by
H. E. MAXEY. Editor
a* eaoond
class matter. February J4, 1903. at the postoffice.
Springfield. Oregon.
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THPRSOAY. 8EI TKMUER 24. 1*31
government aih
Oil the one hand we have a countr.v-wide demand for
the reduction of taxes ns a relief for depression. On the
other hand there is wide agitation, such as manifested itself
in the state fede ation of labor convention, for the starting
of new public works and the creating of more work at the
p ,j
ns. "< ‘’irrlov people out of work.
It is self evident that these two proposals do not go hand
in hand but are in opposition to each other. Even If bonds
are voted for public work instead of direct taxes it is but
prolonging the pay day and building up interest charges,
making it harder in the end to ever balance the public
books.
We fee) that both of these proposals should be taken in
moderate doses. The old economic law of supply and de
mand was never more in effect than it is today. The world
is choked with a surplus of goods and labor that it cannot
sell. Causes beyond government action or ability to change
are effecting the world wide depression. Before we can ever
hope to sell again the world surplus must be consumed and
to stimulate that consumption all prices must come down.
Much as w. di'-like to say it wages must come down too.
because wages are. or should be, ’ ae b sis of the price of
all goods. As long as wages are high, then the price of
goods necessarily must be high, and consequently will not
sell as readily. There may be some justice In the argument
that wages should be kept up to enhance the purchasing
jxiwer of the workers but it must be remembered that labor
ers are but a part of the consuming public and their effec
tiveness are greatly lessened when there is much unemploy
ment.
The federal farm board was a magnificent attempt to
help one great class of the American public, the farmer.
After spending millions of the taxpayers money the attempt
is pretty much of a “washout.’’ because of one reason. The
government had not the ability to fix the prices of world
wide products—wheat and cotton. Any attempt to help
labor through wholesale public employment will be but
temporary and result in further depression.
Where there are needed public works to be done, especi
ally those requiring hand labor, there should be speeding up
to get it under wav before winter but to deliberately create
public work at the expense and doubtful benefit to the
public I', a falacity. Here in Oregon we should go ahead
with our road program as laid out and push forward as
rapidly as possible projects requiring hand labor.
Those who fear competition with the McKenzie highway
by the Santiam highway soon need not be alarmed. An
inspection of the Santiam highway by the writer a few days
ago reveals that there is still 35 or 40 miles of this highway
that even a snake would have hard work crawling up. The
road is in excellent shape to Cascadia hut a few miles above
it stops. Judging from the speed made in bringing the Mc
Kenzie up to state standards the Santiam will be a road for
our children to use.
By a unanimous vote the State Federation of I^abor
a resolution for bringing back beer. Evidently the
worker; ¡igi.r- if i. ■»•
, •!
.’ . v 'i. >• they 'an’t
eat during this depression they might get a chance to drink.
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The British sailors went on strike the other day protest
ing a cut in pay. thus tieing up the biggest navy in the world.
The next thing w e can expect to hear is a petition for short
er fighting hours. Many a doughboy would have been ready
to sign such a petition during the last war.
After all w p can’t help but wonder if those so called
“milk wars” exist only in the mind of some city editors
rather than in fact.
THE IAMIIV
^DO CTO R
rJ0HN JOSEPH GAINES. M.D
ODDS AND ENDS
Since I last touched this subject, I have noticed in the
big daily paj>ers that no fewer than twenty-five deaths have
occurred front “heart disease" in one great metropolis in the
middle-west.
,
Men-- all of them. And none of them over sixty years
old. All of them big. two-fisted, bull-necked fellows..........
Some of them were personal acquaintances of mine. They
were go-getters. If you please; the city and state sustained a
distinct loss when each died. There’s a lesson here for all
but the heedless.
The skinny, lanky, dyspeptic, plunderbund artist of the
big town ntay go crazy, but he doesn’t die of “heart disease.”
Had you ever noticed that? The fellow that “spits up” once
in awhile, and is afraid to eat much. It’s the fellow that
weighs from 190 up. whose "heart’ gets him like a shot;
the fellow that carves the canvas-back, and tops it off with
a hot chaser; that doesn’t have time to dine till the day is
done the big, forceful he-ntan of business.
Lessons
lessons
to the observing. Over-fueling at
wrong hours. The big feed just before the night of rest.
Breakfast and noon lunch negligible in quantity and bolted
—swallowed whole! The rush back to business—no time
for eating or digesting properly, until that office closes at
six. The road to “tubbiness,” blood-pressure, rotten arteries,
“heart disease" at 50 or therabout.
Better be a “skinny” with a bundle of nerves and a cow-
horn stomach, in the mad chase for the dollar. Then, you
can at b a. ; avert Hie heart disease benediction, the over
stuffed wares of the morticaii, the tall marble shaft,—all
these, till you reRlly want to die and have It over with.
COUNTY OBJECTS TO
COST OF RIGHT-OF-WAY
ROWtMAftIDH
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ft to.an! In ih" case of Lane county
v. t-sus V ila I . Pratt the county
ho.ii- I'.i .1 ' 'It of the detent!
ant t n the t-tiitsl needed for the
Un'yen t v a -t highway I ’alil ot way
b it. i «m ill Hie »alile - 112 liti 25
s e t lit the t»w n e t .
strangely.
The telephone girl
this is »>. e of a numb« i of right-
came around from her desk in the of way suits in which the county Is
corner and lounged within good invol» ed
hearing distance. A large man n
slouchy clothes sauntered nve COURT ORDER TO SELL
from the cigar stand. Two mei- sit
BANK FIXTURES GIVEN
ting near dropped thetr papers in
thetr laps and one began to rub
t rtler for the sal<> ot fixtures of
up his glasses.
the Commercial State bank o f ,
"Separate floors?" repeated the Sprlnif.elti was signed Monday by !
clerk
Judge G. F. Sklpworth. The order
“Y-yea, please," chimed Rowena w . • sought lit A. A Schramm, state
helpfully. "So—so wo won't wake bank superintendent, who has had
each other up mornings We sleep charge if the liquidation of the
bank since June <>.
late."
The First National hank of
“Um. 1 see." said the clerk Trav
Springfield purchased the nest of
ellng together?"
"Yes." said Peter firmly. "My I safety deposit boxe» on a bid of
wife aud I are taking a motor trip *119.76.
7 , SS
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1 a contested divorce ault In circuit
partinent as Insolvent
The petitioner alaie» that bin re court Monday a decree waa denied
quoat for a preferred claim in the both liessle Z liemeuwn an I Nor
liquidation of the hank has been Ilian A. Ileinenway The wife had
rejected. The ainot. it Involved Is filed the ault anil the husband (lied
■ a counter-suit.
11246 70.
In the contested divorce suit of
kddle M Marshall agalnat Fred
JUDGE DENIES BOTH
PARTIES A DIVORCE Marshall Inurd Saturday In the
A lieu lt court the wile was granted
After hearing much evidence in tUe decree.
gether. and that we re anything but
llackruft Motors hire Kuwena lo n love. But it Isn't » real marriage
an ompany Peter on a nation wide I have in mind. Just to cover the
tour in their roadster as an adver proirletles and let ua finish up the
tising stunt. At the last minute Lit
tle Bobby is engaged to act aa trip.— And Just think ho« touch
more money we can save, not al
chaperon.
A tew miles out Bobby becomes wavs haviug to bur manicures and
tearful at being parted front her souvenirs for Bobby!—1 know a
sweetheart and Rowena Insists on judge in New Yoik and he'll annul
taking her place In the rumble so
dtat she can ride with Peter and us as soon as we get back. No harm
have him to talk to about Carter. done.”
Rowena gels Peter to consent to di
"Maybe he won't do It.“
vide the expense money each week
"Oh. yes, he will. He wants to
aa soon as it arrives, and astonishes
Peter by eating too economically.
marry me himself. He'll annul ua
1 he three tourists reach Denver, like a shot out of a gun."
after passing through Buffalo. Chi
"But. Rowena—“ he
began
cago. and 8t. Louts. Peter aud Ro
wena have many tiffs on the way wretchedly.
while Carter keeps wiring Bobby to I "And. Peter, dear Peter." said
return to New York. The morning
after they reach Denver, Peter aud Rowena moving prettily In the
Rowena discover Bobby has desert transparent velvet scarf. "I'm really up to Yellowstone."
ed them and returned to New York a terribly nice sort when I'm not
The clerk swung the register to WIFE ASKS DIVORCE:
by train. They are faced with the working hard and worried about
CRUELTY IS CHARGE
waid
him and handed him the pen
impossible condition o( continuing
money. Ever aud ever so many
their trip without a chaperon.
"Will yon register?"
Geneva L. Chapman filed suit
NOW GO ON WITH THE STpRY quite nice people are terribly an
"Peter Blande," wrote I'eler for divorce ill circuit court Satur ,
xious to be married to me. 1 dare
day against her husband George;
•'Well, you're not chained there, say as a married couple we shall firmly.
"Your wife, tear, please.' said Paul Chapman
are you? There's nothing to keep get along better than most. And
.
The couple married In Eugene. |
you from getting out, is there? I'm we will be careful to get rooms on the clerk.
in bed. too, but I'm not going to let separate floors of the hotel and
Peter hesitated. "Mrs.—Peter—" March 28, 1925. and have two ehll
ilren. The Complaint alleges that
a mere being in bed interfere with make the clerks give us a receipt he wrote slowly.
my professional future, am 1? PH; making a note of It, so we can
Rowena leaned over. “I'd rather the defendant struck uml slapped
meet you down stairs in ten min j use It for evidence that we have use niv own name. Peter," she said ilia wife and called her names.
Custody of the children la asked ,
utes.” And she hung up the re never—uh—never been—anything 'For for professional reasons."
by the mother who states lhal an
but Just—well, married, you know."
ceiver.
Peter crossed out what he had
Now on the whole, no one could
"That's enough. If you ask me," written and wrote "Miss.“ Then he agreement about support has been1
made with the defendant.
have been more practical about said Peter in a troubled voice.
scratched that out and wrote "Row
things connected solely with busi
ena
Rostand.”
But
it
did
not
look
"I’m terribly hungry," said Row
ness than Rowena. Her clothes ena. "Let’s go down to that cunning Just right to him so he carefully DESERTION IS CHARGE:
were smart, for all their Increasing; little place the clerk told us about Inserted "Mrs. over the scratched-
HUSBAND ASKS DECREE
shabbiness, but they were extreme and have a sandwich or something out "Miss."
ly tailored and trim. Her very , And you think it over. 1 had to
Alleging that his wife while
The clerk studied the name, the
manners were crisp and business think up some way out of it, Peter. telephone girl looking over his camping with him at Stayton re
like. But something—she didn't We Just couldn't chuck It—not here shoulder as he did so. The large fused to return to Eugeue and left
know just what—prompted her to —not right at the very front door man in the slouchy clothes studied for Wenatchee. Wash.. Joseph A.
discard her chic sports costume of the Rocky Mountains. I couldn't Peter.
An way filed suit for divorce In cir
that night. She dived to the bottom bear IL"
"New York, eh?" said the clerk. cuit court Monday against tils wife,
of her bag and pulled out a soft
Grace Marie Anway.
"Yea." said Peter.
So they took a taxicab and went
and shimmery little dinner gown
The couple married In Eugeue
"Yes. Indeed.” chimed Rowena
down to the nice tittle place and
of enticing line and beguiling color.
September
11. 1921. and have no
"Motor out together?"
Rowena didn t say a word about
She put on her highest-healed silk-
"Yea," said Peter and Rowena in children.
business, or money, or profesalons.
en slippers. She got out tinkling She talked softly of lovely, lovable well-timed chorus.
little blue bracelets and earrings
ORDER TO RESTRAIN
things, and smiled, and the beads
The clerk frowned over the room
and chains. And she accentuated
shone blue on her throat, and stars chart. "I'm afraid we’re full up," he
DEFENDANTS GRANTED
her shimmery sweetness with the
shone in the blue of her eyes, until sold slowly. "Not a thing left.”
flattering lines of a chiffon v elv et,
A temporary restraining order
Peter declared it was a very good
Peter leaned over the desk und was signed by Judge U. F. Skip-
scarf, deep and wide and ruffled.
idea of hers and they would get It
bis mild face looked quite grim and worth Saturday on motion of the
When Peter,waiting rather sulk done first thing next morning.
ugly. "You said you had two plaintiff in the case ot Mary E.
ily in the lobby of the hotel, first
After breakfast the next morn rooms. " he said in a low voice.
saw her floating toward him he
Hostick against George F. H. Hos-
ing Peter insisted upon using a
“We did then,” said the clerk ttek and a number of other defend
could scarcely believe it was Ro sm all portion of their dwindling
evenly. "But Just now”—he shook ants Including the Commercial
wena of the rumble seat. Her
expense money to buy a plain wed his head—"I'm afraid not."
rouge-red lips smiled at his frank
State bank of Springfield, now be
ding ring.
The telephone girl snickered a ing liquidated.
amaxement and she took his hands
In hers, powdery soft to the touch : They had no trouble procuring little and one of the men sitting
The order Is to prevent the re
the license, hurried directly to the near by rustled his paper. Rowena
and faintly perfumed.
moval of timber or wood from land,
nearest Justice and by twelve flushed and canght a sharp breath,
pending a mortgage (oreclosura
“Peter, darling,” she said. ”1 have
o'clock they were married.
cowering slightly, but Peter sud suit for *3500.
a gorgeous idea.”
Back in the hotel they turned denly showed surly and efficient.
Peter's sulkiness took instant i
abruptly away from each other as
“Oh, yes, you have,” he said. WALKER WEST COUNTY
flight. 'Gosh. Rowena, you—you’r e 1
soon as they had their keys from "Two rooms, and we'll take them.
exquisite! You’re Just ravishing! the desk and went up to tbelr
ROAD NEARLY READY
We've got a marriage certificate, tf
You must let me paint you like rooms by separate elevators. And
Final work on the Walker west
that. You're simply unbelievable— at one o'clock they were drawing that's what's eating you!”
"Yeah?”
county road of about two and one-
you're not real!"
out of Denver, headed north, both
"Rowena, get the certificate!”
half miles from the Pacific high
“Oh, but this is the real Rowena,"; a little bushed, a little excited and
way Is being completed, says (). E.
Rowena
hurriedly
took
It
out
of
she said with seducive sweetness. more than a little nervous.
the side pocket of her bag. The Crowe, county commissioner. The
"You never saw me before. You
It was very late that night when
know only a poor little working they reached Cheyenne. The last clerk read It slowly and handed it inud is In tine shape and has been
girl trying to earn her dally bread.' ; twenty miles Peter drove slowly, to the large man In the slouchy in use for some time.
The rocking of about four und
"I—I've Just got to paint you like creeping along as one who dreaded clothes who looked it over and nod
<>ne half miles of the Row river
ded churlishly.
that!”
the ultimate arrival and when no
"Denver, eh?” Inquired the clerk. road will be completed wltbtn a
"You shall,” she promised, sm ll-; amount of slowing down could post
few days.
"To-day.
eh?’’
pone the Inevitable he was plainly
leg.
"Yes."
said
Peter.
“1 suppose It’s too late to do it : on edge.
• "Some other people drove out ACTION TO START TO
1 now—” he began.
“It's going to be awkward as the with us." Rowena hastened to ex
OBTAIN BANK CLAIM
"I'm afraid so." Rowena drew a devil,” he said moodily.
plain. "And they were unexpectedly
deep, deep breath. Something about
"Not at all," said Rowena. "Just called back to New York—and so—
Petition to file a suit against A.
it—something about her—made go right in and rak for two rooms the rest of us—Peter and I—Just A. Schram, slate bank superintend
Peter think vaguely of a swimmer ' on separate floors.”
ent, was granted by Judge G. F.
got married.”
standing cold and bold and bare,
"You'd better come with me. It
"We’ve got a very nice suite on Sklpworth today to It. U. Martin.
body poised motionless, for a dis j will look odd for me to go in alone the second floor,” suggested the
The petitioner holds that he was
tance plunge into icy water.— and then come back for you."
tendered two cashier's checks for
clerk.
’Peter—you—you are very sure you
Rowena got out. "J-Just be off
"All right,” said Peter grimly. a chei k owing to turn at the Com
are not In love?"
"No,” cried Rowena, faint but mental State hank of Springfield
hand about It, Peter. Be casual."
"I will be." he asured her gal
at 11:3® a. lu. June 6 at a time
"Yeh,” he growled. "They're go- firm. "Separate floors.”
lantly, "If you look like this very I ing to think It’s very fishy.”
The clerk grinned, not unsympa when the hank had already been
often.”
Obviously, they did think so. thetically. "All right, all right,” he taken over ny the state bank de
"I'm serious, Peter.”
Peter strolled up to the desk with a said. "Don't be nervous, lady. We'll
"No, I m not In love."
1 conspicuous assumption of non- put him on the top floor—Congrat
“Absolutely?”
. chalance, Rowena tagging nervous- ulations. Mr. olande. She's certain
“Absolutely.”
1 ly at his heels.
ly a beauty. She'll get over that
"Then Peter, how about this?”
"Got a couple of rooms?" he ask- nervousness.”
Another deep breath—another pre 1 ed the clerk.
Peter
muttered
unspeakable
monitory quiver of cold flesh antici
“Yes, sir,” said the cleric briskly. things deep down in his throat, and
pating an Icy plunge. "You know
"On er separate floors, I sup- the boy came In and took their bngs
marriage isn’t the sweetly sacred j pose.” said Peter hopefully.
and led them off to separate rooms
thing It used to be. It's only a sort
“No—connecting." said the clerk. on separate floors. A loud gust of
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of adventure these days, a matter
"Er— well ----- ” began Peter, laughter swept up the elevator
of expediency, or convenience, or ! weakening.
OREGON
shaft In their wake.
emotional experiment.
And be
But Rowena nudged him.
In the doorway of the room as
sides, business is far more import
"We'd rather have them—er—on signed her Rowena turned and held
ant. Don't you think so?”
You’ll meet your
different floors If you don't mind,” out an appealing hand.
"I hadn't really thought of It in he stammered and his face grew
friendi of the out-
“G good night, Peter," she said
Just that way,” said Peter vaguely. red.
of-door) at the
sadly.
"Well, you think of It and you'll
The clerk looked up at them
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
PRESIDENT
see I'm right. Anu as long as we're
not In love with anybody else or
J. A. CUSHMAN
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form«» Notional P io U
anything, and nobody cares one
P
R «gv«seatolive of tho
way or the other—well, why don't
'
I bm A V o k o e LooywoW
we—why can’t we—don’t you see
Amorico, k sow mono^o®
j
a i H»k gogwlor ^or4®
what I mean? Why not Just go
n s s ’i koWquorto**. Ho
ahead with the trip the way we are,
lovüo® yov to drop in on4
*H o f!o ” when® vo»
and do the work, and get the
i or® ■- P o rtio n ^
money and everything—and Just
get married? That's all.”
Peter hadn't remotely suspected
Don't let your t ar stand out In the weather and
alto this YOUR
what she had in mind until she
grow old so fast. It is cheaper to store here than to
PORTLAND
brought the word out. struck him
KOQUARTtRt
build a garage.
full in the face with It, as It were.
We
have
one
of
the
best
modern
fire-proof
garage
And ft pulled him up short.shock-
buiklingH In the county, with lots of room for storage.
ed and resentful, like a truck man.
Our service in by the day or by the month and for either
“Why. Rowena, i list's—that's
live or dead storage.
Very nice of you- I suppose. But I
really had never thought about—
EXPERT MECHANICS LOOK AFTER YOUR
being married to you----- ”
CARS HERE
"Well," she Interrupted tartly, "If
4 T H . £ ALDER
it comes to that T can't think of
anything in the world I’d like less
lhan being married to you, either.”
“Authorized Ford Dealers”
But she realized at once she was
General
Repairing
General Lubrication
off on the wrong track and quickly
Blue Green Ganollne
changed her method. “Of course,
darling," she added kindly, "I know
John Anderson SPRINGFIELD OREGON Ray Nott
we don’t get along very well to
Fifth Installment
Mr. Deer Hunter —
Don’t get off In tin* mountain«, 4<> mil«« from no
where. ami aome iroHty morning find thnt your motor
won’t start. Drive in her«* before yon go und let nn tun«
tip your motor uml ln»p«et your battery.
Tim right kind of ga*olin<* und oil liun much to <1»
with the cur sturtiug tin cold tluys Violet Huy und
Ethyl do the trick
“A ” Street Service Station
A Few Home Remedies
Full duyn ure here und you uhuutd not let eoltla
break down your reslntunee to tin* coming winter wea
ther. A few simple Imine remedlen will often protect
you from nev< re nleknesn. We have hud ninny.yeurn of
(ruining und experience our advice in free.
Let us tell you the value of different remetllen.
Ketel’s Drug Store
In New Store
Main, Near Fifth
you W om en.......
walk eight miles
a
dny working around the house.
When you begin to feel fugged out. eat u piece or
two of ('ANDY It’s a grand source of quick energy.
Try it next linte you’re tired. See how it pleka you up.
We Have Many Kinds
They're ull Delicious
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I f you are interetled al all in applying modern methods lo
housework, you will like the electric ironer.
I lere is a machine literally built to save lime and effort. . ,
it Joes all the flat pieces, and much of the finer work, and it
is so constructed that you can operate it silting down . . .
What could be more comfortable than that?
Your dealer has the electric ironer on display at his store . . .
either the separate machine or one which derives its power
from the motor on the electric washer. Al our low rates for
electrfi service, a few cents an hour covers all the operat
ing cost.
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