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 M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E o n e Year In Advance ....... „....$1.76 T h ree Months .................. S ix M on th s ............................... ..$1.00 S in g le Copy 75c 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. + I ■■ I — 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. ------------ #------------- 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. —■ _... -A— ........ 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. _____ 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;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». __ 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 C 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