T H ü KSIJAY, HMCKMUEK 17. 1931 T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N EW S PAGE FOUR THE SPRINGFIELD NEW S Published Every Thursday at Springfield, Lane County, Orefon. by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS A County of Sm all Business S ight )J3 nseen H. E MAXEY. Editor K u h -n-d as second dees m atter. February 34. 1*03. at the Springfield, Oregon M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N RA TE cue Year In Advance .............. *1.75 T h ree .Months ....................... H 00 Single Copy Six M onth* office, 75c ________ 4c T H U R S D A Y . D Et E M B E R 17, 1*31 Hoover's plan to revive home-building should be with whole-hearted approval here in the west with lumber mills closed and t>0 per cent ot our industrial income tied up. It should also be favored throughout the country as a means of business revival. No other line of activity con­ tributes to the welfare of so m any people as does the build­ ing of a home. One has to but analyze the items in a home to realize the real significence of this. Take the lumber as the c ar­ penter, painter and plasterer have left it and trace it back to the lumber yard, over the railroads and through the mills to the standing tree; take the builders hardw are by the same process back to the metal in the mine and also the hundreds of items of home furnishing and the public utility services rendered each home and one soon realizes that the building of a home has provided employment w ith­ out end. Any industrial activity of the nation can stop but it will not contribute one tenth as much to depression as the de­ creased building of homes. Any plan to stim ulate home building that wi.l work should have the support of every one regardless of political belief. RACK TO SCHOOL MOVEMENT From 200 colleges and m any vocational aud high schools of the country comes reports of increased atten d ­ ance. Indications are th at instead of the youug folks stay­ ing home and helping during depression they have come to school rather than be unemployed. In other words they are improving their time and no doubt their parents have taken a broad view of conditions and are assisting more and more to keep their children in school aud from further depressing the labor situation. Our state supported schools should appreciate this changed attitude and not raise tuition fees or scholastic requirement to prevent the “back to school movement." Likewise the public should not be niggerly with appropria­ tions for state schools lest it be false economy. ------------■ -- WHY OREGON DOES NOT GROW Scientists tell us that a given population to sustain it­ self must have a birth rate of 17 per thousand. Oregon s is 14, one of the lowest birth rates in the entire country. Nec­ essarily for Oregon to hold her own both against a declin­ ing birth rate and people moving away she m ust continually bring in population from the outside, otherwise in distant future even this fertile Willamette valley might arrive at a point where there w as not one left to live here. Chambers of commerce have been criticized for pro­ moting land settlem ent and endeavoring to bring in more people. Rut if there were no sounder argum ents our birth rate alone would justify the organized effort to bring in settlers. ------------ g------------ NOTHING TO ARGUE ABOUT To hear some Oregonians talk all our problems would be solved if it were not for high taxes. Well, Alstead, New Hampshire, does not have to worry about taxes. This little town has been endowed by one of its native sons who went to New York, made a fortune and died. Money to run the schools and city governm ent has been provided for in an endowment fund, and the town's four churches have been left $40,000 each. One ordinarily would figure th a t this town would boom for everybody would be moving there to escape taxation. Such is not the case. Alstead’s population was 700 in 1910 and now it has less than 600. ------------ £v------------ MORE CIRCUIT JUDGES The time is near at hand when Lane county should be a judicial district in itself. Despite the fact th at Judge Skipworth has greater capacity and turns out more court work than most judges m any cases are always far behind in Lane county. The fact that he m ust divide his time with Benton and Lincoln counties as well as relieve other judges in time of sickness allows cases to accum ulate here. Lane county has sufficient court work to keep a judge busy as most of the lawyers will testify. This county should be a judicial district in itself. »BRUC MARY ROBERTS RINEHART cc/»vuo„r njj, 7 » m â n o t w »untHMtr THIRD INSTALMENT synopsis u peopla, Horace Johnson (w l sto ry-. hi« » ( f t . oW M r » Pana. H erbert kobineon and k it Mater. A ik « , and D r S p erry, r Sperry and not a profsaatonal. as the m T h e ™ tttn g opsna w ith the customary table rapping and other tnconae^uevnal and humoeou. U p p e n m « . Then the med.utn «eee I M o • trance and atvea dtejointed detail« a a murder A fte r Ik e u ltln « b reak , up and tke m em ber. to homa. Sperry .'» ‘•J’ ““," * ; Jahnton and talla him A rth u r W «Ha had ItlW d kimeeif N O W GO O N W IT H T H I S T O Z Y later that all the servant«/ were out except the nursery governess. There were two small children there M a servants’ ball somewhere, and, with the exception of the butler, it was a fte r two before they commenced to striqjgle in Except two plain-clothes men from the central office, a physi cian who was with Elinor in her room. and the governess, there was no one else in the houae but the children, asleep in the nursery. As I sat alone in the library, the house was perfectly silent. But in some strange fashion it had apnurcntly taken on the attributes o f tnc deed that had preceded the silence. It was sinister, mysterious, dark. asked, cautiously. ’Here." 1 stooped end examined the egrpet. It was a dark Oriental, with much red in it. I touched the place, and then ran my folded handkerchief over it. It came up stained with blood. ‘T h e re would lie no object in using cold water there, so as not Io set the stain.-- Sperry said th.-ughttully. "Whether he fell there or not, that is where she allowed him to be found " "You don’t think he fell there?" “She dragged him. didn't she?" he demanded. Then the strangeness of what he was saying struck him. and he smiled foolishly. "W hat 1 mean is, I told him he was right. “Then that fixer the time at which Miaa Jeremy told ua of the m urder,-’ he came back over the phene. 1 here was silence at Sperry’s end o f the w ire. Then: "W e lls war shot about 9:3 hand? «hook at 1 hung up the receiver. A t I ttood there, I won­ dered for the first time whether there might not be, after all, a rpint-world surrounding us, cognisant of all that we did. touching but intangible, ren- tient but tuned above our common senses? 1 wat shocked by the newt, but not greatly grieved. The Wellses had been among ua but not of us, as I have said. 7>f the two, I myself had pre­ ferred Arthur. H it fau lti were on the turface H t drank hard, gambled, and could not always pay his gam­ bling debts But underneath it all there “I t waa 9:30 when Miss Jeremy told ua W e lls was shot," had always been something boyishly ____________ Sperry reminded me. honest about him. H e had played, it is true, through most of the thirty Overwrought as 1 was, I was forced the medium said she did. 1 don’t sup­ tears that now marked his whole to bring my common sense to bear on pose any jury w nl-l pan us tonight life, but he could have been made a the situation Here was a tragedy, a as entirclv sane. Horace," he said. man by the right woman. And he had real and terrible one. Suppose we had He walked across to the 1-athr-s-m married the w ront one. in some queer fashion, touched its and - iir v n r d it from the doorway I O f Elinor W ells I have onlv my outer edges that night? Then how foil wed him It was as orderly as w ife ’s verdict, and I have found that, was it that there had come, mixed up the other room On a glass shelf >ver as is the wav with many gcod «-omen, with so much that might be pertinsny the yy ash-stand were his razors, a her judgment of her own sex is such extraneous and grotesque things safety and. beside it, in a Mack case, rather merciless A tall, handsome ^-irl, as a hurt knee, and throwing watches an assortment of the long-bladed var­ very dark, my w ife has characterued and pens about iety, one for each day of the week, her as cold, calculating and ambitious. I remember moving impatiently, and »nJ so marked. She has said frequently, too. that E li­ trying to argue myself into my or­ Sperry stood thoughtfully in the nor Wells was a disappointed woman, dinary logical state of mind, but 1 doorway, "The servants are out.” he said. that her marriage, while giving her know now that even then I was w- n social identity, had disappointed her i n ' dering whether Sperrv had found a “ - ]ing to Elin r' <»v»rmrnt lie • a «w «m «m a n « I hole in the ceiling upstairs. was dressing when he did it. monetary way “ .And yet scene one Ion had a wild Suppose Sperry came down and There was no doubt, by the tima they had lived in our neightorhood said Arthur Wells had been shot impulse tor tidiness here, since it hap­ for a year, that a complication had above the ear, and that there was a pen Jed. Not a towel out of place 1” second bullet hole in the ceiling? risen in the shape of another man It was in the bathroom that he told Our street has never had a scandal Added to the key cn the nail, a care­ me E lm ir s story. According to her. n, i! was on it, except the one when the Ber- less custom and surely not co; simple case of suicide. Ana it she was honest about it, ui her own ripgtons- music teacher ran away with we would have conclusive proo. their coachman, in the days of our medium had been correct ltu r c way. She was shocked, but she was She carriages. And 1 am glad to say that was another point, too. Miss Jeremv not pretending any wild grief. had said, "Get the lather off his face. ha.hit wanted him to die, but she had that is almost forgotten. That brought me up with a turn. Nevertheless, we had realired for m t t i ll mat they could go on much some time that the dreaded triangle Would a man stop shaving to kill Better. I here had been no Iiimsclf? I f he did, why a revolver? was threatening the repute of cur quarrel ther than their usual bick­ quift neighborhood, and as 1 stood Why not the razor in his hand? er I • haul teen going to a I knew from ray law experience dance that night. The servants liad i by the telephone that night 1 saw it had come. M ore than tiiat, it s-cmed that suicide is either a desperate im- ail g no ut immediately after dinner very probable that mt this very tri- pulse or a cold-blooded and calculated to a servants’ Lall and the governess angle our peaceful Nci;:hborh-jod Club finality. A man who kills himself had g me for a walk. She was to re­ had been sullenly thrust. while dressing comes under the former turn at nine-thirty to fasten Elinor’s The street, with its -pen spaces, w is ! classification, and wilt usually seize gown and to be with the children. a relief after the dark hall. I s .zrU u , the first method at hand. But there Arthur, she said, had been depressed for Sperry's house, mv head bent v. .s something else, too. Shaving is for several days, and at dinner had an automatic process. It completes it­ against the wind, my mind on the news tpetea at all. He had n -t, self. M y wife has an irritated con­ h «ever, -hjected to the «lance. He T h a i just heard. Sperry was waiting cn his door­ vict! n that if the house caught f i r e had, indeed, sicmed strsngrly deter­ step. and we went on to the Wells while 1 was in the midst of the pro­ mined : < /. although she had pleaded cess, I would complete it and rinse a hi-.iil.iche. At nine «’click he went house. Although the Wells house was the soap from my face before I upstair-, apparently to dress. brilliantly lighted when we reached it. caught up the fire-extinguisher. She was in her r -- -m, with the door H ad he killed him self r had E li­ we had difficulty in gainmt adimssn n. shut, when she heard a shot. She ran “W e might try the servants’ en­ nor killed him? Was she the sort to ■ Il the hoar trance." Sperry said. Then he laughed sacrifice herself to a violent imnulse? f his dressuig-r • in with his revol­ Wculd she choose the hard way, when mirthlessly. ver liehini! him. The governess was “W e might see,” he said, "if there s there was the easy one of the divorce court? I thought not. And the same still out. The shat had r<>used the a key on the nail among the vines.” children, and they had come down I confess to a nervous tightening >f was tra, of Ellin-ham . Here were She was . both o f them careful of fr-im the nursery above my muscles as w t inadt our way tw ■ frantic, but she :a.’ to soothe them. around the house. I f the key was ap, • arance. if not o f fact. There was Tile g verness, h- wever, came in al- there, we were cn the track of a rev­ am ’her pc sibility, too. That he had n -t inime !i itc h . aud she had sent elation that might revolutionize much le ned s- mething while has w thz tekph in to summon help that we had held fundamental in ’ ssing, had attacked or Nireatene! with a razor, and she had killed • illinz Sperry first of all, and then science and i” n r knowledge of life the police. ■i in self-defence. itself. I f . sitting in Mrs. Dane's quiet "Have yau seen the revolver?” 1 1 had reached that point when room, a woman < t.d tell tt- what wa happening in a house a mile r sc, S;errv c; m< down the staircase ush­ asked. “Y it. It’s all right, apparently Only away it opened up a new tarth. A l- ering out th, letective and the medical cnc shot had teen fired. m ui. He came to the library -For n w t a new heaven. " H iw s e n did they get a doctor?” 1 stopped and touched S-erry's arm and stool 1 wiring at me, with his " It must have lie n some time They "This Miss Jeremy — did she know face rat! r paler than usual. " I'll take you up now.” he said. gave up tele h >ning, and the govern­ Arthur Wells • < Elinor? I f she knew ess went ry cxamii ■•: n f thr room. we found the door locked we proceed­ Elinor's story, Arthur Wells had killed himself. It was a dressing- Just why I lo.ke l ’.ehind the bathtub ed with our search for the key. f ,rces me tc .an ixplanati n I am "Here's the key,” Sperry said, and room, as Miss Jeremy had described s .mewhat loath t make, but which held it out. The flash wavered in his A wardrobe, a table with books and magazines in disorder, two chairs, will explain a rath ir unusual pro­ hand, and his voice was strained. and a couch, constituted the fumish- ceeding. I- r s mt time mv wife has W e admitted ourselves. felt that I sm >ked heavily, and Alt "Look here, Sperry,” I said, as we in"s. Beyond was a bathroom. On a of her s l i c i t u f « r me has limited stood inside the door, “thev don’t want chair by a window the dead man'« me to cne cigar after dinner, but me here. They’ve sent for you, but evening clothes were neatly laid cut. as I have been heavy smoker for I ’m the most casual sort < f an ac­ his shoes beneath His top hat and years I have f/u n .' this a great hard­ quaintance. I haven’t any business folded gloves were on the table. ship. anil have theref« re kept a re­ Wells lay on the couch. here.” . . . serve store. ' v arrang.-inent with the The house was absolutely still. That struck him, too. W e had both When I glanced at Sperry he was h< itsema: '. behind my tub. In self-de­ been so obsessed with the scene at fence I must als? state that I seldom M rs. Dane’s that we had not thought staring at the ceiling, and I followed his eyes, but there was no mark cn havi recourse to such stealthy meas­ of anything else. ures. "Suppose you sit down in the it Snerry made a little gesture. "The detective and I put him there. library, ’ he said. "The chances are against her coming down, and the H e was here.” H e showed a place cn the floor midway of the room servants don’t matter.” ‘'Where was his head lying?" I As a matter of fact, we learned (o f ( ’h urle* A W ing Agency verana lea* than f-00 are working. M oreover the sm aller plant I* A. t' lluigess and K ittle lluigess frequently more w illing to try n >w lo dava In which Io file an answer th in g * than its blgg- r eom petltor to the i-ouiplnlnl wu* signed by a id In this way "vela the Jump” on Judge G, F Hklpw ortli Halurday. It* rival A aule* m anager fur one of the new synthetic realna aald rucunlly POOLE • GRAY "Very often we find the am aller BARTHOLOMEW m anufacturer more adventuroua, F u n e ra l D ire c to r» more w illing to try a new thing than the big fellows. « F orm erly W a lk e r T o o le " Ile Ita* perhaps less to loa* nml more to gain. 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NINE-TUBE LOWBOY fk ilia Itinrm bt fiaZanced X aprrfirtrradyise L c tb ry , cutnpirlt vilk n in e g a f ­ an, rd Philco Tobct, nolh- ing t i l t Io boy . . . , LOOK AT THE AVERAGE One of my friends, who now occupies a high position, started life as a salesm an for the National Cash Register company. These instruments are Motilht ht A J ta tu tl N o other man­ He thought th at if he could sell cash registers to M ar­ ufacturer can offer such sets compining Superheterodyne shall Field it would be a big feather in his cap, and the w ith Balancea I nits to make a radio a it r greater selectiv­ example of this leading store would have influence with ity. greater sensttivits tremendous power, amazing dia- smaller m erchants all over the country. tancc-ahility and tha. pure, clear uttain on ta Philco tona. So he called at Field’s and made his talk, but received By all means come in to our store todayi Hear these great no encouragem ent. The next year he called again. . . and sets. M arvci at t h e if ic h pure, clear undistorted tone Sea the next . . . and the next. The tenth year he came away them reach through ,o«. broadcasts to get distant stations. with an order for $150,000. But come N O W w hin .-lections aje complete. We posi­ In telling me about it. he rem arked: “I said to myself, 1. S t T I RI IliTIlR O D Y N B Balanced- tively cannot guárante, delivery beyond present stocks. th at's $15,000 worth of business for each of the ten years. Unit circuit. Orders w ill be filled in r n atio n . Get yours in AT O N C E ! TO pE CONTINUEl Not a bad average at all.” 2. N inr Philco Balanced Tubas, 4 In 1929, when stock prices were crashing and even the Srreen-Grid richest men were feeling poor, a New York banker met a Estate is Settled — Final decree AMAZINGLY EASY TERMS! Account of Estate Filed— Pinal capitalist whose fortune, on paper, had shrunk m any mil­ 3. 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