THURSDAY. DECEMBER .1. ll>31
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PAGE TWO
T H E SPR IN G FIELD N E W S
ight I nseek
Published Every Thursday at
Springfield. Lane County, O regon, by
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
H. E. MAXEY. M lto r
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
h lii«n *l a* second via»» m atter, February 24. 1X 3. at the poaloftlre,
SpriUKtield. Oregon
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TH URSDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1931
THE OLD COW HOLDS HER OWN
Dairymen may not be getting rich these days but they
are doing belter on an average than most folks, reports
the state agricultural college experim ental station. Dairy
ing the past year lias )>aid the Oregon farm er 5 per cent
on ills investment besides wages tor those ta rin g tor the
cows. B utterfat has averaged 40c per pound. While it
was lower than the year previous, feed and labor costs
have decreased so that the industry shows a profit.
The survey shows th at eastern Oregon tlairymen with
irrigated pasture and cheap alfalfa hay produced seven
cents cheaper than the W illamette valley dairym en and
five cents under the coast sections. That is a good reason
why there should be more irrigation in the W illamette
valley.
Taking it all in all the old cow is the farm ers best
friend Lane county should have more good cows. With
chea|>er feed and a good climate our purebred cow s should
lead the world.
SOLVING A COMMUNITY PROBLEM
The little mill town of W estfir is handling its unem
ployed problem in an intelligent way which should be a
model to other communities. All who work have contri
buted part of their pay to the com m unity unemployment
fund Those not employed are given jobs on the streets,
fixing sidewalks and otherwise improving the town. They
are paid out of the com m unity fund. W estfir |>eople are
solving their unemployed problem without dispensing ch ar
ity and at the same tim e adding m aterially to the com
munity welfare.
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NEAR-SIGHTED FINANCE
Sometimes we wonder if the American moneyed inter
est appreciate the opportunity this country has given them
to am ass great wealth. Big banks fell over them selves try
ing to assist one bank in Germ any from going broke. In
the last 10 years in this country 6000 banks have closed.
No one ever heard of the big banks of the country or the
government ever doing anything to help the little fellows
from going busted.
Imported Mexican section gangs are still employed on
the Southern Pacific railroad in Lane county while our re
lief drives to help the unemployed continue This, to our
mind, is rank ungratitude to people of Eugene who are
paying interest and principal on a $175,000 bond issue
voted to assist this sam e railroad. Some of the taxpayers
who are footing this bill are unemployed.
Well, if Secretary of State Stim son did not say "Jap
anese soldiers are running am uck in M anchuria.” th at is
what the American people think and Japan might as well
know it. The sooner all powers get out of China the sooner
the far east problem will be solved.
Thanksgiving week was brighter to some 800 people in
Lane county. The defunct Commercial S tate bank of
Springfield dispersed its first dividend of $30,000 am ong
that many depositors.
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Next year the American Legion National convention is
to be held in Portland. It is also a presidential election
year. We would not be surprised to see the capital of this
country moved to the Oregon metropolis.
We'll we’re still getting the old electric light bill and
the Governor is thinking about going to Europe. But th at
is one thing we can ’t blame the Republican party for.
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If a product is known by the radio program s it gives
there m ust be a lot of poor goods being made in this coun
try.
>BRUC
W HERE COMMUNISM FALLS DOWN
Several reasons I find it difficult to get as excited as
some of my friends about the th re a t of Communism.
In the first place, we have had universal education in
this country for a long time. Nearly all can read and write,
and quite a large proportion can think.
In the second place, our wealth, though very inequit
ably distributed, is enjoyed by a far larger proportion of
people than has ever been true in any nation before. Millions
o v n homes, and land and stocks Few are entirely satis
fied; no one imagines the present social structure ideal, but
v< ry few care to risk losing what they have on the vague
promise of acquiring more.
But there is a third and more fundam ental reason.
Communism, even if it came, would not continue. Some
form of capitalistic society would very rapidly take its
place.
Here is an interesting illustration.
Back in the latter days of the Civil War, when it was
necessary to draft men for the N orthern armies, the Indians
of the West thought it a propitious time to revolt.
Several regim ents of Union soldiers were withdrawn
from the front to settle the uprising. A Pennsylvania ixjli-
tician made a sm art suggestion.
lie said to Abraham Lincoln: “Our Federal military
prisons are filled with Southern m ilitary prisoners. These
hoys are young and keen and good fighters, as we have
plenty of reason to know. I’ll bet th at m ost of them would
rath er be outdoors fighting the Indians than sitting idly in
jail. Why not recruit them into regim ents and send them
w est?”
The proposal was adopted and was immediately suc
cessful. But this is what happened in one instance, which
throw s a fine clear light on the practicability of Com m un
ism. I quote from my father's “Life of Lincoln ’:
“A thousand men were enlisted a t Alton, Illinois, and
Camp Douglas in Chicago. They left Chicago on two spe
cial trains Each man had in his pocket two hundred dollars
bounty in United S tates greenbacks, and none of them had
any other money. During the period of their imprisonm ent
most of them had become habitual card players, if they had
not previously been so. It Is said th a t before they reached
their destination a very few individuals had the lion’s share
of the money. Perhaps never before on earth was there so
equitable an experim ent in the results of starting inen out
In life on the basis of equal division of property. The equal
division appears not to have lasted very long.”
Life is a battle and a gamble. We can improve the
rules, give fairer handicaps to the less favored, and m ake
the game m ore hum ane.
But we c a n ’t alter the fundam entals of hum an nature.
Communism tries to do th a t; and Communism will always
fall.
FIRST INSTALMENT
Don't misunderstand me. W e had no
pert. no set programs On the Rob-
on evenings we discussed editorials
and current periodicals, at well as the
□ew books and plays W e were fre
quently acrimonious. 1 fear, but our
smell wrangles ended with the eve
ning Robinson was the literary editor
of a paper, and his sister read for a
large publishing house.
Mrs. Dane was a free-lance "Give
me that privilege," the begged
"At
least, until you find my evenings dull.
It gives me. during aft the week be
fore you come, a sort of thrilling
feeling that the world la mine to
choose from" The result was never
dull She led us all the way from
ving-pa-tures to modem dress. She
C
W e went on to Mrs. Dane's.
We were early, as my wife it a
nctual paraon, snd soon after oar
arrival Sperry came Mrs Dane was
In her chair at usual, with her c n ir
nan ion in attendance, and when she
uearu Sperrv't voice outside the *a-
Aisrd herself snd was wheeled out
to him, and together we heard them
go into the d raw in g room When 'he
Robinsons arrived the and ‘“'•terry rv
appeared, and we waited for her cus
tomary announcement of the evening's
program When none came, even
during the meal. 1 confess that my
Th« rather extraordinary etory re-
realcd by the experiment» of the
Neighborhood Club have been until
now a matter only of private record.
But it seems to me, at an active par
ticipant in the investigations, that they
should be given to the public; not so
much for what they wtU add to the
existing data on psychical research,
for from that angle they were not
curiosity was almost painful.
unusual, but as yet another explora
I think, looking back, that it wae
tion into that still uncharted territory,
Sperry who turned the talk to the
the human mind.
tuyei natural, and that, to the accom*
The pavcho-analysts have taught ue
something about the individual mind.
They have their own patter, o f com
plexes and primal instincts, of the un
conscious, which is a sort of bonded
warehouse from which we clandes
tinely withdraw our stored thoughts
snd impressions. They lav to this un
conscious mind of ours all phenomena
that cannot otherwise be labeled, and
ascribe such demonstrations of power
ss cannot thus be explained to trtek-
try. to black silk threads and folding
rods, to slates with false sides and
a medium with chalk on his finger
anil.
In other words, they give us sub
jective mind but never objective mind
They take the mind and its reactions
on itself and on the body But what
about objective mind? Does tt make
its
only
outward
manifestations
through speech and action? Can we
ignore the effect of mind on m m l
when there are present none of the
ordinary media o f communication? I
I think, looking back, that It was Sperry who turned the talk to
think not.
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In making the following statement the supernatural,
concerning our part in the strangr led us even further, as you will see.
pammint of considerable gibing by
case of Arthur W ells, a certair allow
On consulting mv note-Nxik I find the men he told a ghost story that let
ance must be made for our ignorance
of so-called psychic phenomena and that the first evening which directly the women to looking back over their
also for the fact that since that time, concerns the Arthur W ells case was sh ilders into the dark corners be
just before the war, greet advances Monday, November the second, of last yond the zone of candle light All of
have been made in scientific method- year.
It was a curious day, to begin w :th us. I rcniemher, except Sperry and
of investigation. For *-i -nee. we did
not place Miss Jeremy's chair on a There come days, now and then tiu M r s D i e, were skeptical as to the
scale, to measure for tnv loss of bring with them a strange sort of ;ti;<ru.itural, and Herbert Robinson
weigh’. Also the theorv o f roils of in mental excitement I have never an be! ved that while thare were *O-
visible matter emanating from the me alyzed them With me on this oc e a l’ .d s e n s itiv e s wh ’ Actually went in
to trance, ’he controls which to o k
dium’s body, to move bodies at a casion it took the form o f nervou-
distance from her. had only been irritability, and something o f anpre- po<-ession o f them were buried per-
evolved; and none o f “he nrtnods fot hension. My wife. I remember, com - m lities of their own, released Jur-
calculation of leverages and stn in s plained of headache, and one of the inq ’rance from tlie «ubsxxiiciosie
ad been formulated, so far as I know stenoerxnher? bad a fa -n u n*» a tta c k . mind.
» nave oiten eronaerea tor now
-qf not," he said truculently, "if
w dc i r x n x , a sxn (juixe ouoTinccu
t w t , even had we knowu of mese to much of what happened to Arthur ,j,ry are really spirits, why can't they
talled explanations, which in reality Wells the day was responsible 1 here : tc|| u, w|lal ,, going on, not in some
«plain nothing, we would have are days when the world is a place vague place where they are alway*
ored them as we became involved for love and play and laughter. And happy, but here and now, in the next
the dramatic movement if the rev- then there are m uster days, when the house? 1 don't ask (or prophecy, but
llatkns and the personal experiences earth is a hideous place, when even for some evidence o f their knowl
which grew out of them. I conies» the thought o f immortality is un- edge. Who are going to be the next
tiat following the night after the nest bearable, and life -itself a burden; candidates for president? Is Horace
teance any observations of mine would when all that is riotous and unlawful here the gay dog some of us sur-
lave been of no scientific value what comes forth and bares itself to tlie pect?"
As 1 am the Horace in question,
ever, and I believe I can speak for light.
1 must explain that Herbert was
This was such a day.
|he others also.
O f the medium herself I can only
I am fond of my friends, but I merely being facetious.
"Physical phenomenal" scoffed :ha
ly that we have never questioned her found no pleasure in the though; of
tegritv. The nhysical phenomena meeting them that evening. 1 remem cynic. "I’ve seen it all—objects mov
ing
without visible hands, unexplained
tccurred before she went into trance, bered the odious squeak in the wheels
and during that time her forearms of Mrs. Dane’s chair. 1 resented the currents of cold air, voice through a
were rigid. During the deep trance, way Sperry would clear his throat. trumpet—I know the whole rotten
with which this unusual record deals, 1 read in the morning paper Herbert mess, and I've got a book which tells
she spoke in her own voice, but in a Robinson s review c i a tx>ok i had how tc do all the tricks. I’ll bring i t
sueru-ous tot», and Sperry s exam liked, and disagreed wiih him. Disa along seme night."
“As a matter of fact, Herbert,"
ination of her pulse showed that it greed violently. I wanted tc call hint
went from eighty nomai to a hun on the telephone and tell him that he Mrs. Dane said, "we intend to pert
your skepticism to the test tomghL
dred and twenty and very ieeble.
was a fool. I felt old, although 1 am
W ith this preface I come to the only fifty-three, old and hitler, and iJoctor Sperry has found a medium
for us, a nonprofe-sional and a patient
Sggth of Arthur W ells, our acquaint tired.
of his. and she has kindly contented
ance and neighbor and the investiga
With the fall of twilight, things to give us a sitting She is a total
tion into that death by a group of six changed somewhat. I was more pas
earnest people who call themselves sive. Wretchedness encompassed the, stranger to all of us except the doc
tor, and is a newcomer in town."
the Neighborhood Club.
but I was not wretched. There was
T iic butler wheeled o o l M rs. Dane’s
The Neighborhood Club was organ violence in the air, but I was not
ised in my house. It was too small violent. And with a bath and my chair, and led us to the draw ing : - m
,
. . . horror,
,„
doors. There
illy to be called a club, but women dtnner clothes
I put . away . the
jaw , Sperry
£ t |h(, threw
room them
ha(j -qien,
)>MB
ve a way these days of conierring of the day.
a titular dignity on their activities,
and it is not so bad, after all. The
l glVI
opened before us. walls and chimney-
Neighborhood Club it really was, com-
“There ha» been quarreling among
posed of four of our neighbors, my the servant, all day," my w ile said. piece bare, rug- gone from the floor,
even curtains taken from the window».
wife, and myself.
“I wish I could go and live on a To emphasize the change, in the center
W e had drifted into the habit of desert island.”
stood a comtr >n pine table, surrounded
W e have no children, and my wife, by seven plain chairs All the light»
dining together on Monday evenings at
the different houses There were H er for lack of other interests, find., her were out save one, a corner br.n e%
bert Robinson and his sister Alice— housekeeping an engrossing and seri which was srreened with a redpaper
not a young woman but clever, a'ert, ous matter. She is in the habit of shade.
and very a liv e ; Sperry, the well- bringing her domestic difficulties to me
Mrs. Dane watched us with keen
known heart specialist, a bachelor when I reach home in tlie evening,, satisfacti- n. “Such a time I had do.ng
■till in spite of much feminine activity; a habit which someiimes renders me it!" she -aid. "The servants of
and there was old Mrs. Dane, hope unjustly indignant. Most unjustly, for course, think 1 have gone mad All
lessly crippled as to the knees with she has borne with me for thirty year? except Clara. I told her. She's a sensi
rheumatism, but one of those glow and is known throughout the entire ble girl."
ing and kindly souls that have a way neighborhood * 7 as a perfect house
A s * tn
th e p u r re
ic a a i l p n
he
en
i c i
6
e ly p h n y is s ir
enom e
n a
>r„v(,d ‘rt.ja„ vel/ ,n„ Knlfl-
»{ being a neighborhood nucleus It keeper. 1 can close my eyes and find >b ;
anv desired article in mv
my bedroom at can; j(
no, ,iecc, 5ary
g0 int0
was around her that we first gathered, any
with an idea of forming for her cer any time.
th e d etail o f the room.
We passed the Wre llse ,’ hous- on
tain contact points with the active life
As I said at the beginning, this is
from which she was otherwise cut our way to Mrs. Dane's that night.', not a ghost story. Parts o f it we now
«iff But she gave us, I am sure, «nd my w ife commented on the darg
understand, other parts we do not.
more than we brought her, and, as condition o f the lower floor.
For the physical phenomena we hav«
“Even if they are going out,” »he no
will be seen later, her shrewdness was
adequate
explanation.
They
an Important element in solving our said, “it would add to the appearance occurred We saw and heard them.
of the street to leave a light or two For the other part o f the seance w»
mystary.
> have o me to a conclusion satisfac
In addition to these four there were burning. But some people have
public feeling.”
my »rife end myself.
tory to ourselves, a conclusion not
The
It had been our policy to take up . . . I „ made no comment, I believe.
,
... i r f t c l - d |,< w e v e r. until some of us had
,hr„||((I|
,ne dal)(,frou, fxpel.,.
different subjects for these neighbor W ellses were a young couple wt h ,
hood dinners. Sperry was a reformer children and had been known to ob ence . md had l.een brought into
In his way, and on his nights we gen serve that they considered the neigh - ■ ntai with thine hitherto outsida
erally took up civic questions He was borhood "stodgy.” And we had retal the. order!- progression of our live».
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tfo ‘
particularly
interested . . in . the respon iated, I regret to say; in kind, but
But at no time although incredlbl»
of the state to the sick poor, not w it h any real unkindness, bv re- ]
' k o ^ n e d . d"d "an?"on? o f ’“
'¿i
I hey
th a t s tra n g e world o f th e
y wife and I had ’’political" eve* gardmsf them as in te r lo p e r s .
ainet Not really politics, except in i drove too many cars, and drove them ,pjrjt that seemed so often almoet
their relation to life I am a lawyer I too fast; they kept a governess and ; wi,|.in ,,.,r ran, e o f vj»|on
by profesalon, and dabble a bit in | didn't see enough of their ct. 'dren
City government. The Robinsons had
P
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liters tor*.
WEST COAST MILLS
DOWN TO 27 PERCENT
S eattle, W ashington— A total of
1342 m ills reporting to the W est
Coast L um berm en’s association for
the week ending N ovem ber 21, op
erated at 27.1 per cen t of capacity,
as com pared to 26.2 per cent of cap-
a city for the preceding week, and
44.5 per cen t for the sam e work
last year. For the first 46 w eek s of
1 1931 th ese m ills have operated at
38.7 per cen t of capacity as com
pared to 55.3 per cent for the sam e
period of 1930. During the week
ended N ovem ber 14, 211 of th ese
plants were reported as down and
133 as operating. E ight plan ts went
down during that week. T h ose oper
atlng reported production at 47.1
i per cen t of their group capacity.
Current new b u siness reported by
; 223 Identical m ills w as 12.9 percent
over production and totaled In m il
lion feet the sam e footage as was
received the previous week. Sh ip
m ents for the w eek were 18 percent
over production. Production at this
group of m ills increased nearly 6
m illion feet for the w eek before,
but totaled 4 m illion feet less than
the second week. U nfilled orders
X
ou'l
decreased about 11,000,000 feet.
New export bu sin ess during the
week was about 2,250,000 fe e l more
than the volum e reported for the
previous week. N ew d om estic car
go orders w ere under the previous
week by about 1,000,000 feet, new
rail b u sin ess Increased approxi
m ately 500,000 feet, w h ile the local
trade lo st about 1,400,000 feet when
com pared with the previous w eek ’s
bu siness. During the 46 w eek s of
T O B E C O N T IN U E D .
EMERGENCY CREWS
CLEAR ROAD SLIDES
COAST BUTTER HIGHER;
CLOVER SUTPLIES OFF
1 a u ctio n
»ah
o f tw o « t u k iin i pigs
tir e
p ro o f w arehouse building fot
donated by Ali
T r iti i r and M r th.' Mountain H to le x Pow er com
I F re e in u n . and l i t ’ proceeds lo g * * . |a u y wa« s ta rte d In U p H n g fle ld
to the etui* meiuhwra of th e pig this week with » x no ti e m ployed
i rt gen Stats* Collegu, C oivalll«.
T he building la rising on | rop
dub.
: . l
'ia r lliv ei'uat butter mar
e tly owned by the power coinpuny
ks* s have heel» n ttt *ni> the higheat
i 10th nnd Main »fre e !« near the
ill fits* world during fits* puts* few ] MOUNTAIN STATES
co'tupaiiy sub «Intimi. Il lias a con
w eeks," «ay* the current market
ERECTS WAREHOUSE i rete foundation with a wood fram e
report of the college exten sion aer
vice
"With production k < iroely
Erection of a 40 by 60 foot »■ mt covered w ith sheet Iron,
equal to the regional dem and, and ]
holdings light, prices have been
will above quotation« In the large
a-.teru m arkets,"
Conim oulltig on the current dairy
situ ation , the report : ay a that a
C ill.,1 State« th - artnient of a g r i
Tin* family iiKHlk'Ini* tlit'Ht I k your beat protec
culture survey on N ovem ber 1 In
tion ngaliiKl coitiK thiK whiter Lei ua help you replen
dicated & o- i> p> ; cent Increaae In
ish your mock. We sell only nationally known piantl-
milk production com pared with
artl drugs and our advice I k free.
N ovem ber 1, 1930, The Increaae
B etter In* safe limn sorry. A prevent alive remedy
win* accounted for partly by morn
taken in time often saves loss of (line and doctor bills.
cow« and ta r tly by heavier pro
duction per cow. Cold storage
»lock« for the country w ere still
In Naw Store
Main, Near Fifth
relatively light, how ever, on N ov
em ber I.
Slightly leka clover and alfalfa
seed was produced In thia country
thia year than the average, accord
ing to the «tale college m arket re
view . T he output or red anti alalke
clover need com bined w as 18 per
cen t leas, and of alfalfa aeetl 40 per
cent Rtnuller than the 1930 produc
This Is the sort ol' weal her one should he prepared
tion. No clover or alfalfa seed wae
ngalntd coughs anil colds. A box of Egglnmnn’s cough
Imported thia year betw een July 1
and O ctober 15.
drops will often slop a cough Hint might otherwise
Front July 1 to O ctober 16. Ini
porta of forage plant seed« Into
lead to serious complications.
thl«
country
Included
839.000
pound« of w inter rape «eed, 183.100
Mmlc in Springfield but sold all over the world.
pound« of Kngllah rye gru««, 28.000
Egglmnun's cough drops do their work
pound« of Italian rye gra««, l„91b
000 pound« of hairy vetch. 148,600
IHiunda of spring vetch , 149,300
pounds of bent gras«. 818,700
pounds of rhew lng fescu e. 190.600
"W here th - P srvlce 1« Different
pounds of other fescu e, and 122.000
pounds of rough-stalked meadow-
grass. Most of the rape »eed cam e
front H olland and Germ any, the
Kngllah rye grass m ostly front Ire
land. and hairy vetch from H un
gary and G erm any, and the spring
vetch from Belgium , the report
Be Prepared Against Cold
Ketel’s Drug Store
C ough Drops
F G G I M A N N ’Q
Friday and Saturday
shows.
FOUR-H CLUB HOLDS
ACHIEVEMENT MEETING
In connection with the achnol ‘
program arranged tor by the teach |
er of th e Noraton district, the 4 tt :
clubs of that d istrict Including, the
c a lf club, turkey club and pig club
had an ach ievem en t program. Tues
day nigh t, N ovem ber 24. T he m eet
Ing was presided over by Elm er
Gray, one of the club m e m b e r s.'
T he program for the even in g con- ]
«leted of the follow ing: Song« by
the club«, secreta ry ’« report of the S
calf clu b; secretary's report of the '
turkey club, and secretary's report i
o f the pig club; violin solo w a s 1
played by Melba tra cer attd was
accom panied by Mrs. Kerch t; a
reclta ’ lon by Vernon Johnson; play
by the calf clu b , song by two club
girls; recitation by Ralph H om e;
accordlun solo by M yrtle Cantrell,
accom panied by the K uehner f a n
ners' Canning club, en titled "The
Awukenlng." recitation by Eldon
John son ; dem onstration team of]
the Bourbon Red Turkey club, and
SA LE o f
Men’s Unionsuits
52.98 to $4.98 Value*
LIGHT WEIGHTS
MED. WEIGHTS
HEAVY WEIGHTS
$1-64
REGULAR SIZES
EXTRA SIZES
IN ONE NUMBER
T h e G olden R ule
Rulers of Low Prices
10th d> Willamette— EUGENE— New Schaefers Bldg
T he b est w a y
’ to sh o w y o u r
C hristm as sp irit
D r ESS up your place of business with decorative
lighting. It is the modem expression of the Christmas
spirit— the medium used by progressive merchants
C learing of a num ber of slid e s
on county roads at R ichardson has
been started by a county crew , a c
cording to Clinton Hurd, county
com m issioner.
to advertise and convey their greetings to customers.
About six men will be given
three days work to aid the unem
ployment. relief. Klmilar work In
tively arranged help to draw the throngs of holiday
Nothing will enhance your building and displays
more than colored electrical effects. Lights attrac
shoppers and to proclaim your Christmas greetings
in a most effective manner.
Show your Christmas spirit with decorative lighting.
The generous use of light during the holiday season
is a p ro fita b le investm ent in g o o d -w ill
in n e x t
year's business.
M o u n ta in
S ta te s P o w e r C o m p a n y