PACK TWO
T H U flS D A V . JAN VAH Y 14. 1932
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N E W S
EDUCATION M EETING
H ELD TUESDAY NIGHT
NSEEN
I uhllshed Every Thursday at
Springfield. Lane Countv, Oregon, by
T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS
H. E MAXEY. Editor
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Entered an second clan» matter. February 24, 1803. at the postofrtce,
Springfield, Oregon.
Ç O fV t/K iH T rQZl
y
6 y A M ffV o r a t o r i tf /n tH Â ttr
Kin ploy vt*» of lh»
Mounlilh
Stat«*» I owvr company In thia «11»
■ trlct livid thalr rvguliir monthly
educational mcatltt* al the Hprlng
field office of the company Tttee
day evening Problem» which fre
qnently confront co in puny em
ploye» were dl«cu»»ed al the meet
Illg.
A LITTLE WORK '
man, if you had thought of tint at
FPANK
PAWHtR
By George du Mourler
the time, we would have something
to go on today."
A little work, a tilth' play
"If I had thought of a number
F«»nd Father“ Wasn’t that nice?’’ To keep us going and an, good-
of things. I’d have stayed out of it« TOMATOES
THl'RSDAY, JANUARY 1«. 1032
day!
place altogether," 1 retorted lailly •
When I whs a boy my grand Yon like havliig a ride «m father »
wish you could help me about ihk mother told me that In her girl­ knee, eh?"
KEEP YOUR MONEY MOVING
\ llltle warmth, a Utile light
hre-tongs, Sperry. 1 don’t stein -cl«
Small Sou ’ Not hud hut I'd
to think of any explanation tliat Mr;. hood, lu the 1820». people grew
(If
love's bestowing slid mi, good
One o f the reasons why fo u r m illio n people are out o f
Johnson would be willing to •« » ¡A.” tomatoes In their flower gardens rather ride oua real donkey
night 1
"Tell her the truth.’’
w ork in the United States in tai t, alm ost the only reason
for their beauty. They called them
“I don't think you understand," I 'love apples" and thought they
- -Is th a t too m any people who have money stopped spend­
“la your father liotne?' asked the A little fun. lo match the sorrow
explained. "She »imply wouldn't ht-
ing it. In the discussions w hich led to the fo rm ation o f the
Keve it. And if she did I should have were poisonous. Tu the end of her minister making a Sunday after Gf etoli day's growing and so,
N ational Credit Cor|>oration. it was estim ated th a t more
to agree to drop the investigation As day»—-and she lived lo be over noon call.
good morrow.
a matter of fact. Sperry, I had re­ ■ ilnely- grandmother was always a
than a thousand m illio n dollars has been taken out o f c irc u ­
Johnnie: “Naw. lie's over 1» the
sorted
to
subterfuge
in
order
to
re­
lation, out o f the banks, and bidden away in safe deposits
; golf course."
A llltle dual that when we die
main out last evening, and I am bit- little suspicious of tomatoes.
A l a aacond aaar.za. M i n |»ra»w add»
and mattresses by people who are alm ost paralyzed by the
Now we eat tomatoes lu every-
Minister: "Playing golf on Huu We reap our sowing! And so
4efeMb
jheat
_
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___
fear thai they are going to lost whai they have accum u­
thing, even lu dam chowder, where day?"
Ch<rIre RUj»<ham w o itaown tu bar» b « n
good bye I
at the aame tim e that M r». W alla waa
lated.
they have no business to he.
Johnnie: “Naw lie Just went
«bare
She alao apeahs ttf a p«hdbv>cli
bat
loat which l o r u i a W
amna impot
1 saw some flgurea the other day over for a game of stud poker and
In the ordinary course o f business every do lla r changes W i t car twheta a rd letter» M r» Pane,
about the latesl development of the a few highballs."
alone of the wvauan. aaema thrilled by the
hands seventeen tim es a year. T o take a billio n dollars out
Inuiato business, tbe canned and
alone u U Iw a a tita ta a the
IT SPEAKS
of circulation means a loss o f seventeen billio n dollars of
teaertevi bouae H r ia frightaned by at range
bolt led tomato juice. Mure than
business and th a t, the experts say, is a large enough sum
aciaea. aa a f aa intrud er ta tbe beuaa, hot
LOST 20 LBS. OF FAT
FOR IT S E LF !
tOU.MIIi cans aud nearly half a mil­
>omplat«a bia iaeaattgation
to keep fo u r m illio n persons at w ork.
IN JUST 4 W EEKS
lion hollies were sold last year.
NOW OO ON W IT H THB STOMY.
I’eopie drink tomato Juice because
There are m uch safer things to do w ith money than
I know, as h haopens, very little
Mrs. Mue West of Hi. Louta, Mo,.
they thluk it Is good for them.
to hide it. Money is not o f the slightest value except to
of fit earms, but I aid realise that a
...
.
. . .
i writes "I'm only 28 yrs. old and
shot from a .45 Colt automatic would
spend. Hidden away it earns nothing, and if enough o f it
The world has changed a It« In '
Ko lb,
, Bk„ „ oh.
bare considerable penetrative pow ­
a hundred yeurs.
is hidden it a ctu a lly loses its value.
box of your Kruscheu Halts just 4
er. To be exact, that the bullet had
weeks ago. I now weigh Hit) lbs I
B U Y IN G .
probably either lodged itself in a
(S im ila r to IiitlliinheatH
Anybody w ho is holding currency because o f fear
Everybody Isn't broke, aud mu i,,’ °
mar# •" ‘ «‘«y 811,1 further
Jeiet, or had penetrated through the
‘ more I ve never had a hungry mo-
would be better o ff to invest it in alm ost a n ything . A hund­
flooring and might be «or.-ewhere
In lig h t grey.
all Industries are on (he verge of ment."
red dollars invested in paid-up life insurance policy, o r an
over my head.
bankruptcy. I talked the olhei
Eat folks should take one half
annuity, w ith one o f the big insurance com panies w ould
But ny candle w-as inadequate for
i iilghl with the New York dlslrlbu tcaspoonfiil of Krusht'heu Halts In a
Instead of 26c, you get It
more than the most superficial exam­
be safer and more productive than $100 hidden away. The
(or of oue of (he popular makes of glass of hot water In the morning
ination of tbe ceiling, which presented |
now
before breakfast It's Ihe HAEE.
safesi,of all places to put money is in im proved real estate.
so far as I could tee an unbroken
electric refrigerators He lold me harmless way to reduce as tens of
If there are no com m odities that you feel a desire for, and
For Just . .
surface. 1 turned mv attention, there
that his company had Jusl com- thousands of men and women know
fore, to the floor It was when 1 was
you have money th a t is not w o rkin g , w hy not put it in to
: pleted a nut Ion wide selling com
Eor your health's sake ask for
turning the rug bark that I recognised
A man had stopped and was staring at me.
one o f these perfectly safe investm ents and get it back in to
the origin of the sound whicn had so
pelitton, In which every distribu­ and get Kruschvn al any drug store
circulation? U n til most o f the hoarded money begins to
•tirtled m t It had been the soft long years she has expected me to terly regretting my mendacity."
tor was given a certain quota of —the coat for a bottle that lasts
movement of the carpet acmss the commit some indiscretion — innocent,
w ork again, we are going to continue to have hard tim es;
But Sperry has, I am afraid, rather sales as (he goal to aim at, and that 4 weeks Is but a trifle and If after
the first bottle you are nol Joyfully
floor boards
of course, such as going out without loose idea*.
as soon as this money gets to w ork, prosperity w ill come
“Every man," lie »aid, “would ra’hsr i v ‘*ry one of them had sold more satisfied with results- - money back
Some one. then, had been there be­ my overcoat on a cool day—and she
back almost instantly.
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fore me—time one who knew what intends to be on hand for every emer­ tell the truth, but every wwnin make* refrigerators than be had been ask
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I knew, had reasoned as I reasoned gency. I dared not confess, therefore, it necessary to lie to her Forget ihe ,.d , o gell M N(JW york rrlenU ,
Some one who. in all probability, still that on the previous evening 1 had nre-tong», Horace, and forget Mri.
PR O TEC T O. & C. LA N D
burglariously entered a closed house, Jonhson to-night. He may not have ^rganliallon disposed of more than
lurked on the upper floor.
Obeying an impulse. I stood erect had there surprised another intruder dared to go back in daylight tor his i twenty thousand refrigerators In
County judges met at Roseburg last week to consider
and called out sharply, "Sperry" I at work, had fallen and homoed my overcoat."
t « m ty one days.
protective measures against change in the O regon-C ali­
head severely, and had, finally, had
sa<d “Sperry"'
B " V L ; mnMverv' well, and I
tin c e
cheapest of these re­
fo rnia land g ra n t law. R um ors come fro m W ashington
-------A COM PLETE JOB.
There was no asnwer. I tried aeain. tny overcoat taken
th a t these lands m ay be transferred to the forest service
calling
_ Herbert. But only my own
“Horace," she said coldly, “where knew it. I felt that, in a w— :i-v fite r a to r s sells for 6250. and the
wliole domestic happiness was at average Is about $360. that means
voice came back to me. and the whist-1 did vou get those fire-tong«?"
by a b ill to be introduced in Congress.
Drive in ! It's all dune in u jiffy and dune exactly
of |hlg on„ locB„ ty
ling of the wind through the windows i "Fire-tongs?" I repeated. “Why, take Ml wife is a difficult person , hat , he
to
atgue
with.
rig
h
t.
Then o ff you’ll go glad again that you stopped at
’
had
opened.
'
that’s
so.
They
are
hre-tongs.”
Lane county should be g re a tly concerned in th is be­
spent around 67.000.000 (or refrlg-
My (cars, never loot
abeyance
“I am not a , curious
^çman,"
she , ----
cause placing this land in the forest service w ould not only
She —
is , just
,.v
;—
—. , —
— — tenacious of _ »•»„»«.
hat night, roused again. I had in- put m incisively, but when my hus- opinion once formed as are all sexy eiators to these so-called hard
deprive the county o f $100,000 incom e in lieu of taxes but
tantly a conviction that some human hand spends an evening out. and re-I amiable people However, uni or turn
paralyze the saw m ill operation in the Siuslaw range. Every
igure, sinister and dangerous, was turns minus his overcoat, with his J ately for our investigation, but luckily
Tbe truth seem s to be that people
“ Home of Violet Ray and General E thyl Gasoline”
urking in the shadows o f that empty hat mashed, a lump the sixe of a n , for me, under the circumstances» are buying things that they really |
odd numbered section is O. & C. land and m any of the saw ­
ber.
and
I
remember
backing
away
5th
and A Streets
S pringfield
egg over his ear. and puts a pair of Sperry was called to another cft>- that (eel tbe ueed o(, when they can get
m ills are dependent upon this tim b e r to operate. W ith o u t
rom the door and standing in thè fire-tongs in the umbrella stand under afte
ternoon and did not return for two
the governm ent tim b e r the private tim b e r w ould be so cut
center of the room, prepared for the impression tliat it is an umbrella. daya
them at a fair price and on easy ;
uji as not to be m erchantible in sm all tra c ts and the Ore­
some stealthy, murderous assault I have a right to ask at least if he
terms.
It
was,
h
will
be
recalled,
on
tha
When none came I looked about for intends to continue his life of de­
gon-E lectric railroad extension lik e ly w ould not be made.
Thursday night following thj second T H IE V E S
1 weapon, and finally took the only bauchery."
The O. & C. lands should be le ft alone. Civic o rg a n i­
sitting
- that I ’ had ' gone alone to the»
A boy in the navy who swipes a
thing m sight. coal-tongs from the
I made a mistake then. I should
zations in Lane c ounty should w atch th is m a tte r closely.
Wi_* bottle o( milk or a piece ot pie in
^replace. Armed with that, I made a have told her. Instead, I took mv
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torsory round of the near-by rooms broken hat and jammed it on my head Sperry was on Friday It was on t
kut there was no one hiding in them. with a force that made the -lump she Friday afternoon that I received a ,h,! co"k 8 ««Hey »hen he la hun-
T H E SAGE OF M ARCOLA
I went back to the rug and ex- had noticed jump like a toothache, telephone message from Mrs. Dana, gry, or who casuully helps himself
asking me to take tea with her.
to a pack of cigarettes from a mess
imined the floor beneath it. I was and went out.
The Justice o f the Peace o f M arcola was quoted in
At what time?” I asked her sec­ mate’s locker, Is not tu be branded
right. Some one had been there be­
When, at noon and luncheon, I
newspapers th ro u g h o u t the land when he w rote in his re­
fore me. Bits of splintered wood lay tried to tell her the truth, she listened retary.
us a thief, the Secretary uf tbe
o m p o u n d e d
»bout. Tbe second bullet had been to the end: Then: "I should think
p o rt to the state “ Peace on E arth Good W ill T ow ard
"At four o'clock.”
fired, bad buried itself in the flooring you could have done better than that,1
M en’ and no business. ’ Townspeople say he has been
I hesitated. I felt that my w i f e ___ Nary has ordered. I think Mr.
and had, some five minutes before, she said. "You have had all morning waiting at home for further explan- AJan>a 1« right.
noted fo r more practicable advice than that.
been dug out.
to think it out."
ation of the coal-tongs, and that tha
The navy takes boys at the age
Tbe extraordinary thing about the
However, if things were in a state
othe^dhi‘nXU,M?,e
° f 8ev‘‘n,’ « ,‘ mo"‘ of “ “’m
Once a w om an called on him and asked fo r advice on
Arthur Wells story was not his kill of armed neutrality at home, I had a
how to get a divorce fro m her husband.
tag. For killing it was. It was the certain compensation for them when I vitations, by reason of her infirmity
»here such things as pte are
In the New Store
S pringfield
any it was solved.
told my story to Sperry that after­ took on something of the nature 0 / piore or lesa common property, and
“ Lady,” said the justice o f the peace, “ go home, wash
Here was a young woman. Miss noon.
co^’"’an<ls-
it is the most natural thing in t h e ’
y o u r neck, comb y o u r h a ir and cook y o u r husband a good
Jeremv who had not known younc
"You see how it is,” I finished. "You
** »»fid for a hungry boy to help
W’ells, had not known his wife. had. can stay out of this, or come in, four ^V'rc’pbed^'*1 '
m eal; and perhaps a fte r th a t you w on’t need a divorce.”
until that first meeting at Mrs. Dane's, Sperry, but I cannot stop now. He
I ¿ought a new hat that afternoom
“>
!
lie was rig h t.
never met any member of the Neigh­ was murdered beyond a doubt, and
borhood Club. Yet, but for her, Arthur there is an intelligent effort being and told the clerk to destroy the old out the 8ll<btest suspicion In bis
The w orld needs m ore advice o f the same kind.
<•»» mind that he Is committing an
Wells would have gone to his grave made to eliminate every particle of one Then I went to Mrs. Dane's.
She was in the drawing-room, offense.
And boys are always
bearing the stigma of moral cow­ evidence.”
Three cheers fo r the board o f control. By its ru lin g
plainly excited. Never have I known h
ardice, of suicide.
He nodded.
game wardens w ill be afoot on Sunday and home by five
The solution, when it came, was
"It looks like it. And this man who a woman who, confined to a wheel- *lungr>
chair, lived so hard.
She did not
Discipline In the navy and t h e '
amaxing, but remarkably simple. Like was there last night-------- "
o ’clock on week days w ith the state autom obiles in the
allow life to pass her windows, if I army Is, of course, essential. There
most mvsteries. I have in my own
“Why a man?"
garage.
house, for instance, an example of a
He took your overcoat, instead of ^ ya n ^ s « ,it‘m‘ viZrab^uti hi?l d ii i? " “ blK d,f,erenc#‘ however, be-
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great mvstery, founded on mere ab- his own, didn't he? It may have been
sentmindedness.
—it's curious, isn't it. that we've had herself the nucleus around which were twe«n treating enlisted men as If'
This is what my wife terms the no suggestion of Ellingham in all the enacted all sorts of small neighbor- they were the officers' slaves and
r e 7 t , e , r dr w Sn ^ d mrum anCQi;
‘‘ a S eatin g them as what they are.
mystery of the fire-tongs.
rest of the material."
re tMries aid not marry. She married • .
I had left the Wells house as soon
Like the other members of the them.
decent American boyi.
ss I had made the discovery in the Neighborhood Club, he had a copy
It is curious to look hack and re- WOOLLEY
night nursery. I carried the candle of the proceedings at the two seances,
In appointing Miss Mary Emma
and the fire-tongs downstairs. I was. and now he brought them out and fell n><":!jer how Herbert and Sperry and
myself bad ignored this quality ir. 1», n
,,
, .
.
. ... ,, ,
apparenti», calm but watchful. I would to studying them.
her,
in
the
Wells
case.
She
was
not
Woolle’’i
President
of W ellesley
nave said that I had never been more
"She was right about the bullet in
one of the American
calm in my life. I knew quite well the ceiling,” he reflected. “I suppose to be ignored, as I discovered that college, as
delegate» to the International Dts-
that I had the fire-tongs in my hand. you didn't look for the box of shells a^.crn°j’n' .. L
Just when I ceased to be cognizant for the revolver?”
sick Horace
look half arman)ent conference. Mr. Hoover
•f them was probably when, on enter­
“I meant to, but it slipped my
W HO AR E T H E Y ?
Nothing escapes her eyes, so I was ha* noi only recognlaed that w o-!
Where Use S e r v ic e ts D iffe r e n t
ing the library, I found that my over­ mind.”
eoat had disappeared, and that my
He shuffled the loose pages of the careful to place myself with the lump men have a vital Interest In the
A man stopped me on the street to say th a t he had
" " “nU “ * P—
stiff has, badly broken, lay on the record. “Cane—washed away by the B u t T f S ^ w ’i V h S e y £
floor. However, as I sav, I was still water—a knee that is hurt—the cur­
some im p o rta n t in fo rm a tio n . “ They are going to p u t the
twinkled.
but
he
tlaH
t)ald a merited compll-
extraordinarily composed. I picked up tain would have been safer—Hawkins
m arket up in the next few weeks,” he said.
"Horace, Horace I” she said. “How ment to a great teacher and a life
my hat, and moving to the rear door, —the drawing-room furniture is all
J long worker In the cause of peace
“ Who are th e y ? ” I asked him.
went out and closed it.
When I over the house. That last, Horace ' b?>ev e,e"j ed y°j a,l » cch l”
I ? You detested me?"
„
,„ ». .u .. .
reached the street, however. I hail isn’t pertinent. It refers clearly to the
He looked at me scornfully, as though I ought to be
"Liathrd you," she said with
M
Woo,ley win
th® Mr8t |
qply gone a few yards when I dis­ room we were in Of course, the
ashamed to confess such ignorance. “ W hy they, ’ he ans­
covered tliat I was still carrying the point is. how much of the rest is unction. "You are cruel and ungrate- »«man In history to be an official'
wered, “ are the big shots, the insiders, the in te rn a tio n a l
lighted candle, and that a man. pass­ also extraneous matter?” He re-read ful. Herbert has influenza, and does representative of a government In i
',n 'nfem atlonal conference. E very-1
ing by. had stopped and was staring one of the sheets. "Of course that be­ ves r'knoi??;1 FTmL** *"
bankers, the Interests.”
y,
1 kJD°w B- 1 know a great many
. ,
.
after me.
longs, about Hawkins. And probably thincs.
But
you!”
one
who knows her, or who knows
"O h ,” 1 said, and thanked him and w ent on m y way.
Mr composure Is shown by the fact th is: ‘It will be terrible if the letters
I
could
only
stare
at
her.
anything about her thirty years'
that I dropped the candle down the are found.’ They were in the pocket­
When i graduated fro m college I had a great deal of
"T.he strange thing is,” she went career an president of Wellesley,
next sewer opening, but the fact re­ book. presumably.”
awe of the Interests, and at th a t period they were indeed
on,
“that
f
have
known
you
for
years,
mains tliat I carried the fire-tongs
H e folded up the papers and re­ and never «inpected "your s7n«7*o7 wl11 a ,r e ‘’ that her part ln the COD' '
p re tty pow erful. Im p o rta n t corporations were com parative­
home. I do not recall doing so. In placed them in a drawer.
(act,
I
knew
nothing
of
the
matter
.
_ -
“W e’d better go back to the house,” humor. You'll forgive me, I know, ;< Terence will be an active one a n d ,
,a2 i
ly few. and those few were sm all in com parison w ith today.
until morning. On the way to my ] he said. “Whoever took your over­ I tell you that your lack of humor was that whatever »he ha» to »ay there
T h e ir stock was controlled by a com pact group of men
house I was elaborating a story to | coat bv mistake probabl) left one. to mv mind the only flaw in an other­ will be Kittened to with respect.
who, by acting together, could often m ake or break the
tile effect that my overcoat had been The difficulty is , of course, that he wise perfect character."
ECKER
stolen from a restaurant where I and ' probably discovered his error and went
m arket. M organ could get them all in a room and tell them
Frederick Ecker, President of the
«ay Miant 0*4 dined. Tha hat offered back again last night Confound it
w hat to do.
Metropolitan Life Insurance com-
B u t tim es have changed. C orporations are enorm ous;
,
| pany, gave a senate committee
shares are scattered am ong m illions. They, the interests,
the highest priced trade, has start-
rooms Is a treat to
watch. some Interesting facts. His com
are not w h a t they used to be
ed using a sandwlchman, as the Unfortunately, the
scenes of fifty pany is perhaps the largest flnan-
One tim e I served on a civic com m ittee, most o f whose
fellows who carry walking adver years ago, when the departure of d a l Institution In the world,
members were hankers. The executive secretary was a
ttsements are called
This chap
an ocean greyhound was much like
Mr. Ecker said that he thought
b rig h t young college graduate. He said to m e: " I don’t have
tops anything we have ever seen,
the time when the original May that we are now very close to the
to w o rry ; when th is job is over these big bankers w ill take
His Job requires him to smoke a (flow er used to sail, are no longer condition of business and Industry
t are of me.”
cigar, wear full dress, gloves, silk , to be seen. The machine age has which we must for a long time to
Whwfhwr if is light, h«ot, power or cold,
W ell, the job was over, and 1 told h im : “ You are going
hat and carry a cane.
Intruded and baggage moves Into come regard as normal. He thinks
•Ucfricity will fyrnith a o y . . . or oM. One
to liave a great shock as to the pow er o f In ternation al
It’s the cigar that is the finish the ship by moving platforms, esca- It Is foolish to look for a return of
Bankers. They m ay control m illions, but one th in g they
ing touch. The chap smokes It with ' lators and other gadgets and the boom times we had ln 1824 to 1928.
»• cm convenient. . . 0« oUon . . . o t the
Jay Walkers
can’t do is to get you a job. T hey may send you to the
There Is more Jay walking ln the an alr U*at bowls over everybody big piers resemble all too much the And at the very height of the boom,
other.
And the coM of eUetricity ia so
heads o f certain corporations w ith letters of in troduction ,
largest city ln the country than ln and must result In boosting busl- Interior of the assembling plant of he pointed out, there were a mil-
reasonable tbot yoe may enjoy aN of its
hut th e y ca n 't insist th a t you be hired. Those corporation
any other town In the world. Rules ne8B ,or
employers.
any large factory.
non and a half unemployed.
managers w ill reply to the hankers, ’You hold us respon­
"»any services economkaSy. H eady any
have been made against It that no-
B e confided to us that he Is an
Still, to the observant spectator,
How heavily the public has had
sible; you m ust let 11s alone.’ ”
body here pays any attention to. actor, out of a Job. He gets 620 a there are many little tearful fare- to draw on Its reserves to pay oft
tervice electricity performs, ooets but a
It turned out as I predicted. The young man fin a lly
Only at a few of the busiest cor- » e e k for a six-hour a day stroll, wells. The perils of the deep are obligations Incurred In boom times
secured a job, but not by any help o f the Interests.
penny or tw o ...m an y cost less. See your
ners, where extra policemen are Cigars are furnished him free. He still subconsclensly very real to Is suggested by Mr. Ecker’s state
I have seen several national elections, but never one in
dealer today,
stattooed at the curb, is an attempt aay* hla boss gives him some right most people
ment that 32 per cent of all the
w hich Ihe partners o f any o f the big in te rn a tio n a l banking
made to give the auto a break.
out of
case, which means they
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i loans made by the Metropolitan ln
houses were agreed upon a candidate.
; are probably two-for-quarter. That’s M ED IC AL MEN HEAR
he past year were made to policy
T w o partners, s ittin g side by side, w ould offset each
In spite of this there are prob­ better than we can afford.
DISCUSSION ON CANCER holders, who had to draw on that
o th e r’s votes.
ably fewer accident« here in pro­
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Members of the Willamette Medl-j accumulated surplus.
In the last analysis, who are they?
portion, than In any other city. Sailing Days
cal society laat Thursday evening
■ITl te ll you. You and I are they. We run things. A Drivers here have to be on their
buslness ntay have m illions o f capital^ big pla n ts,a n d ’ huge I toes all the time. H they hit any-
h.T.n "T”1“1
* | hear"
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I H01"1 t0 obtaln pler paMf!" from speak on cancer following a ban-
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not like
its product, all
«nJ tt tlk es a S ^ L tw i a t t h e ' aDy ° f
h'g
p*rm,ttln* «uet at the Osburn hotel. Dr. E.se
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mere serious ditficukira
1 fancied
.hat. by killing my wife gvixtby at
(he break last table. I might be able
SYNOPSIS
■o get out without her following me
SU
Tehiwoa (w k * M l h
n M «ry>, ki» » i l i . al I U r i Baca. H trk a rt to the front door, which it her cus­
tom.
ahl.laoa ami « '• aot«», A Ik a . aa<‘ O r
i r r r f , (rla n d i a x l nat*kba,a, ara li: tk»
But. as a matter of faot, 1 need
fcab.t w( 1 aldina « z c a ly m e *tin « a A l a i t a a i
not
have concerned myself about the
tk-.il>, M ia . D a la . « h a la kaatraa, aarlaa tka
hat. W hen I descended to breakfast
p ia lla ta ky
savia Jty ai rati ( i n * a a p r ii-
aatlMìc a a a -ia « o h M iaa Ja. aai>. a frìand a l the next morning I found her sur­
tir . Spari» a n i n.it a prolaaataaal, aa tka veying the umbrella-stand in the hall.
■radiala.
The hre-tongs were standing there,
A l ik a ita » a lim i» i l a u.a t r i n i t a lli II.»
datati» o l a m ardar «a il ia c a -a . >n.a Inalai gleaming, among my sticks and um­
tk a l r . U l i Syarry l a u r a tkal a ntipkkc», brellas.
A r tk u r W rlla , h a i b aa i a k d » y u r r i o a i lz
1 lied. I lied shamelessly. She is a
W it k Jaknaoa ha i-,aa ta tka V a lla rtaidanca
and tfcay Sud c tn s rm a lla n u t I l a ma-tium a nervous woman, and, as we have no
accanai M r v W alla leda tk a « kar L a t t a 'J children, her attitude toward me is
akal M u ta li in a St a i dtpraaalaa.
one of watchful waiting. Through
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Gas, Oil, Water, Grease, Battery
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these huge assets are m erely liabilities.
T alleyrand said a shrewd th in g when he rem arked:
"T here is one person w iser than anybody, and th a t is every­
body." You and I are everybody, and we decide.
Mr. M organ does awe me. Even the editor o f this
paper, who is m y boss, does n o t f ill me w ith any great
alarm . But believe me, I care about you, gentle reader.
When you tu rn y o u r thum bs dow n I’m through.
best,
»oon
Is to
when
for them to get free. Visitors
t0
aboard for an hour m I ls <;hal"nan of the surgical com
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benefit tea
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catch the local angle b t It 8° bei° re the b,K boats sail for mlttee of the University medical rary board was to have sponsored
be hoped they will f
KuroPe - It Is an experience worth school In Portland and is chief of at the home of Mr». N. W. Emery
they get back home
° rm bavlnK' i' 8lde from the beauty of ( the department of surgery at the on Tuesday of this week has been
the ornate decorations of the big Multnomah county hospital.
postponed because of conflicting
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liners, the hurry and bustle d isplay-. Several Springfield physicians affairs.
It has tentatively been
8nkY Sandwich Men
ed In settling the thousand or so were in attendance at the meeting set for January 20 at which time
One place here, selling to only passengers In their proper state- and banquet.
a program will be planned.
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