THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Visits Ferente — Miss l.eotie CLOVERDALE 4-H CLUB Flllolt, domestic science and music j HAS WORK PROGRAM teacher at the blah school, spent S igh Published Kv*ry Thursday at Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, by THE W ILLAMETTE PRESS H. E MAXEY. Editor m a #* NINTH INSTALMENT M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E < ne Year In Advance ...... ......81-75 Six Months ..................... 1100 Three Months Single Copy THURSDAY. JANUARY 28, 1832 THE HIGHWAY SITUATION Although the highway commission, to our mind, is in the worst political muddle it has ever been, we must com ­ pliment it for the decisions made at an informal meeting with Governor Meier last week. It should be evident that we cannot build super highways and at the same time re­ duce taxes. While we realise the Pacific highway needs widening in many places this is certainly not the time to do the Job. The commission has decided to reduce adm inistration ex|>enses 3d per cent, to recommend to the next legislature a 25',i reduction in automobile license fees, to build no super highways during the depression, and to have the federal highway departm ent m ake a survey of the state system These recom mendations are to be carried out at the next meeting. Commissioner Spaulding, the storm y petrol of the com­ mission. who was not present at the informal meeting, claims these are his reform s while Governor Meier says they are in line with his economy program. The reduction in salaries we are inclined to give Mr. Spaulding credit for but he has been the chief exponent of the super-highway, espe­ cially between Portland and Salem. His program was to spend and cut expenses at the sam e time, which of course cannot be done. Rumor had it last week that Mr. Spaulding was to be retired and Frank Jenkins, of Eugene, was to be named on the commission. This would be a “great break" for Lane county and Southern Oregon, now without representation, if it were true. However, with three newspapers, none of which have been very friendly to Governor Meier. Mr. Je n ­ kins probably would not fit into the present adm inistration. He probably would be torn between his duty to his readers and loyalty to the adm inistration. And Mr. Jenkins is a new spaper editor first, and what ever else he may be second, which to our mind is m uch to his credit. GOOD OLD UNCLE SAM Who won the w ar has been a subject of dispute for 13 years among nations but there can be no dispute as to who financed it—Uncle Sam. Good old Uncle Sam was no sponger even when war was going on he lent the allies nine billions of dollars and even paid rent on the trenches the troops occupied while fighting and the stables they lived in while they were resting. Good Old Uncle Sam brought nothing home with him when the war was over but pro­ mises to pay but he left 300,000 of his boys underneath the sod. But his can not go down in history as the world's most generous nation without he tears up the rem aining I. O. U. notes, and asks his taxpayers to pay their own liberty bonds. This is the reasoning of the rest of the very generous world. An orange tree in W estern Lane county is in bloom and also has some green fruit on it. Perhaps Sunny California has been moving up the coast. -------------<------------- >BRUC TREMBLING ON THE VERGE The United S tates is a fam ous trem bler. There has never been a time in its history when some one was not ready to announce th a t it was “trem bling on the v erg e.' W ashington despaired of it. Lincoln despaired of it. Many present-day prophets assure us th at it passed over the peak in 1929, and is now definitely on the way down. Yet within the past few m onths I have enjoyed interesting experiences. I have attended the annual conventions of a num ber of m ajor industries. Their ness, when I visited them , was terrible. But w hat place a t the conventions? some sales busi­ took In one of them , an electrical industry, the head of the research departm ent revealed plans for a new household utility which promises to banish one disagreeable feature of housework. It is certain to have a trem endous sale. In the furniture company, the “planning departm ent” displayed a whole new line of improved floor coverings. In a third, an optical concern, the scientists told us of work now going on which may give all of us better eyesight. Everywhere I found m en’s backs turned upon present discouragem ents, and minds busy with better goods, better m ethods, better ideas, better living. I Rpoke to the head of one company about it. He said he had recently been holding a meeting of their English representatives. H told them casually th a t the company had hired an engineer and assigned him the task of m aking a world survey of their sources of raw m aterials for the next twenty-five years. One of the Englishmen exclaimed: “Confound you Yan­ kees! W hat English company would ever think of hiring a m an to look ahead twenty-five y ears?” Coming to the end of all these meetings, I concluded th at ft is a waste of time to worry about the future of Am­ erican business. We have an asset more fundam ental than gold supply, or raw m aterials, or electric power, or climate. That asset is a restless dissatisfaction with the past, a spirit of con­ tinuous Improvement. As long as we are inspired by the spirit I believe that our future is secure. We shall not go down to destruction. No m atter how often we may trem ble on the verge. -------------- e .... AMERICAN LEGION AND REPARATIONS (Cottage Grove Sentinel) The St. Helens Mist m akes a good point when it asks why the American Legion should be rapped for alleged raids upon the national treasury when we are talking of cancel­ ling billions of dollars in foreign debts, particularly those of Germany. The so-called raids upon the public treasury by veter- 1 ans of the world war are small stuff compared to the am ounts in foreign debts which we already have cancelled, and those who went across the w aters to fight our battles will have to help pay off the Liberty bonds which we issued in order to get money to loan our allies, will have to pay tuxes to m ake up the deficit caused by reduction or cancel­ lation of reparations from the country th a t started the war. was it written?” We pondered that, to no effect, Thai Hau kilts had certain letters winch touched on the Wells affair, that they were probably in his possession in the Connell house, was clear enough. But we had no possible authority tor try­ ing to get the letters, although Sperry was anxious to make the attempt. “Although 1 feel,” he said, "that it is too late to help her very much Site is innocent; I know that. I think you know that, too, deep in that leg tl mind of yours. It is wrong to dis­ credit her because 1 did a foolish thing." He warmed Io his argument. "Why. think, man.” he said. "Toe whole tirsi sitting was practically co- SY N O P S IS S ix people. B erace Jobm on (w ho tell* the story)* hi* w ile, old M r * Bane. Herbert Kobuieoii aiul hi* «later, A l t « , aivl D r Sperry, frie n d * and neighb or* are in the habit of holding weekly m eeting*. A t one of them M r * Dane, who i* h« »tea*, va n e * the rio g ia m by unexpectedly arranging a »pint uah»tn teanee w ith M t * * Jatem y. a frie n d ol D r Sperry and not a pm feaaional. aa the medium. „ . At the h i* , s illin g ih e med-uni le u » .he d e ta il- <1 » m urder ... it l . o r r u i n n t L a te , .hat night Sparry le a rn , .h a. a neighbor A r th u r W e ll,, h a. been aho. m jM e n .'u .ly A . a «econd w ane*. M I m Jereniy add, d e ta il, abnul a aummer reaorl w hr.e Chat let Etlinghom w a . known .o have been at .he aame tune that M r , \ \ e ll, w a, there She also apeak, of a poekelb-eoh Vein« h-at which contained acme irnpor taut car tic k e t, and letter». M r ,. Dane, alone of the women. M e m , thrilled hy the ineeetgation. lohnacn gee* alone and in e e .tig .le , the leaerted houae H e la fei«htened hy alrange aotae. •» o f an intrud er io the houae. hut •om plete. h i, investigation H e eiaita M r , Dane and tella her how had carried o ff the fire tonga and heft hind h i, overcoat in h i, eeo lem ent She then M ila him ,he had adeertiaad fo r the finder of the porkethooh and tu r n , o ver to Johnson * n m iw r r »hr had receiver from * n r h»vmg guilty knowledge o f tke en*»e. I>r Sperry announce* he i* to be to M i» * Jeremy when the club meet* again. walkin^ negligently up the street. As mat was tin- night of the third sc.incc, 1 find that my record cover) the tact that Mrs. Dane was houset cleaning, f >r w inch reason we had neg been asked t i dm acr, that my wiif and 1 dined early, at sic thirty, anf that it was seven o'clock when Sprrn called me hy teleplione, and asked mf to acconi|sany him to the Wells'! house io see if we could find the olhel overcoat. He slipped an arm through min. when 1 joint'll him, and we started down the street. "I'm going to get N the bottom of this, Horace, old dear," he said. ''Remember, we're pledged to a F R ID A Y a n d S A T U R D A Y N O W GO O N W IT H T H E S T O R Y Sperrv turned to me when he had gone out. "That was Hawkins, Hor­ ace," he said. "You remember, dont you? The Wellses' butler,” "I knew him at once " “He wrote to me asking for a posi­ tion, and I got him this. Looks sick, poor devil. I intend to have a go at nil chest." “How long has he been here?’ Sperry handed ma the letter. “More than a week, I think.” As I drank mv tea, I pondered. incident with the crime itself.” psychic investigation only.” After all. the Neighborhood Club It was true enough. Whatever sus­ “Rats I" he said rudely. “We az* must guard against the possibility of picion might be cast on the second fraud, and I felt that Sperry had seance, the first at least remained in­ going to find out who killed Arthur been indiscreet, to say the least. From explicable, by any laws are recognized Wells, and if he deserves hanging the time of Hawkins' service in Miss In a way, I felt sorry for Sperry- we'll hang him.” Jeremy’s home there would always he Here he was, on the first day of his "Or her?” the suspicion of collusion between engagement, protesting her honesty, “ I f wasn't Elinor Wells,” he said them. I did not believe it was so. but her complete ignorance of the revela­ positively. "Here’s the point; if he's Herbert, for instance, would be in­ tion she had made and his intention been afraid to go back for his over­ clined to suspect her. Suppose that to keep her in ignorance, and vet be­ coat it's still there. I don't expect Hawkins knew about the crime? Or traying his own anxirty and possible that, however. But the thing about knew something and surmised the doubt in the same breath. the curtain interests me. I've been rest? “She did not even know there was reading over my copy of the notes on I was uneasy all the way home a family named Wells. When I said the sittings. It was said, you remem­ The element of doubt always so im-1 that Hawkins had been employed be ber. that curtains—tome curtain»—* minert in our dealings with psychic! the Wells, it meant nothing to her. would havr been better places to hide th e le tte r s th a n th e b a n " obenonxna. had me by the throat I I was watrhin?" Row much did Hawkins know ? Was i So even Sperry »-»• witching. He I stopped suddenly. "By jov% thnot any way, without going to the was in love with her, but h is scientific! Sperry," 1 said. "I remember now. poh««, to find it lie had really been mind, like my legal inc, w.i, >,< w to My notes of the sittuigs were U1 toy oot »1 me W clla house that night, now accept what uuring the past two weeks - overcoat.” «JcwMt rwo weeks ago, when Arthur it had been asked to accept. ) "And they are gone?” WeUa had been killed? I left him at ten o'clock. Mrs. Dane i "They are gone.” - That etening 1 went to Sperry's was still at her window, and her far- He w - Th4 . Wwa:, after telephoning that I was sighted old eyes caught roe as 1 tried fortuiute - he wiA '-Then th(. o.,ief sotahyg. On the way I stopped in at to steal past. Stic rap; ed on the w ill person, whoever he is, knows what we Ur». I) ane's and secured someth- dow, and 1 was obliged to go in. true. her. She was wildly curious, and Obliged, too, to tell her of the dis­ know I” “Just where does Hawkins c me made me promise to go in o i l my w covery and, at last, of Hawkins being in, Sperry?" I asked. hwaac, and explain. I made a com- in the L°nnell house. erv.-niat. “I'm damned if I know," lie re­ “I want those letters, Horace," she "i will come in if I have anythin. said at last. flected "We may learn tonight ' *o till you," I said. I lie Wells house was dark an l -or* “So do I. I'm not going to steal bidding, Sperry was waiting for me in his but 1 led the way witti ,--itr ibtary, standing by the fire, with the I parative familiarity. "The question is, where has he got) -J„ cale ,he door is locked, I have fTave face and slightly bent head of at« proferhonal manner. them.' ’ 1 . few skeleton keys,” said Sperry. “1 wonder," I said, “if you kept I he question is, dear lady, that j \\'c had reached the end o f the ii ir* the letter Hawkins wrote you when he they are not ours to take.” row passage, and emerged into thn They are not his, either.” ' taxed for a position.'' square of brick and prass that lay be­ Well, that was true in ugh. But I hind the house. While the night wag He was not sure. He went into his had done all the private in\r a.-ting cons citing room and was gone for clear, the place lay in compar.itivg «or« time. I took the opportunity to I cared. And I told her so. She only '.irkness. Sperry stumbled over svmn- smiled cryptically . glance over his books and over the i ig, and muttered to himself. The following day was U<>ndj room 1 he rear porch lay in deep shadow. :• a We went up the steps together. Thin ArthOr Wells's stick was standin- When I came downstairs 1 in a corner, and I took it up and neat bundle lying in the lull. .. ad­ S; Try stopped, and I advanced to wed tin- doorway. It was locked. •xansined it. It was an English mal­ dressed to me. My wile hail ate*. light and strong and had seen me down, and we surveyed it to­ The lock gave way to manipula- gether. wsrvsce. It was lone, too long for m n at last, and the door swung op- n , It was my overcoat! My o- it occurred to me that Wells had been . re came to us the heaw odor -f about nty height, and that it was odd api-arcntly uninjured, but u h ,-.i cl -ed h uses, a combination I collection of keys 1 ha.! it tl • t dial he should have carried so lo"-y ¡> carpi ts, cocked food, and floor v. ix. The address was prln’td, n t writ­ stick. There was no ease in swinging "Now, friend Horace,” he said, "if ten. in a large, strop- b ¡, w a you have matches, we will look 1 n K. li­ From that to the memory of Haw- stub pen. I did not, at t'-e t the overcoat, and then we will go up­ r « kin’s fate when Sperry took it. the the b s of cert tin - stairs.” r. t ' • r eight of the murder, in the hall of le e n in the brea»t picket. I As we had anticipated, there was no d ll Wells house, was only a step. I absent-minded, and it was n- i ril overcoat in the library, and after li-t- •cetned that day to be thinking con­ the night after the third sittr-g that cnbig a moment at the kitchen ifi-nr, they were recalled to n v trim! siderably about Hawkins. v e a-onded a rear staircase to ve a bock-rack to p’ace it. One end. ing het-n his physician during his re­ 'him thus overturned when I cliarg 1 the handle, was near the ink-well, and cent illness. thj third floor The room, howevir, "I say, Horace, this is Herbert.” ‘die ferrule lay on a c - f Gibson's - is now in perfect order, and when I "Yes. Hew arc you?” "Life Beyond the Grave,” which I c'd mv candle to the ceiling, I ; ■ r- “Doing well, Sperry savs. I'm at hi Sperry had evidently been reading. ived that the bullet hole bad Sperry had found the letter. As I place now. 1m speaking lor him. i„..n repaired, and this time with .................. glanced at it I recognized the writing He's got a patient. ill t’-at I could not even locate t. "Yes.” at once, thin and rather sexless, Spen­ "We are up against some one c li <- “You were here last night, he savs. cerian. erer than we are, Sperry,” I ackn- wl- Dear Sir: Since Mr. Wells’s death Do you ha; pen to have noticed a walk­ edged. I am out of employment. Before I ing-stick in the library when you were "And who has more to lose thm took the position of bu’ler with Mr. here ?” we have to gain,” he added cheerful'y "Yes. I saw it.” Wells I was valet to Mr. Ellingham "Don't worry about that. Ilor - w "You didn’t, hy any chance, take it Y ti're a married man and I'm -• n tod before that, in England, to Lord i Coodray. I have a very good letter home with you?” I f a w' man wanted to hide some let­ of recommends-ion from Lord Cond- “No.” ters ir- in be; husband, and cb s- t Are you surer ray. If you need a servant at this curtain for a receptarle, what r o a "Certainly I’m sure.” time I would do my best to give sat­ would she hide them in. Not in his "Suppose we’ll see you to n ig ht? " isfaction. dressing-room, eh?” "N o t Unless you rin g o f f and let (Signed) A bthux H awkins . He took the candle and led ill» I put down the application, and took me do Some w o rk,” I said irrita b ly . way to Ebnor Wells's bedroom. I! — the anonymous letter about the hag He rang off I was ruffed, I ad­ however, the draperies were down, t-1 from my poeketbook “Rend this. mit; but I was uneasv. also. we would have been ai a loss, had It was that .lav that I discovered n ' remembered my wife’« custom ol Sperry,” I said. “You know the letter Mrs? Dane read it to us Saturday that I was being watched. folding draperies whtn we close- « I did not tell my wife that evening. house, and piarme; them under h» night. But compare the writing." After dinner I went into our re­ dusting sheets which cover the vail- He compared the two, with a slight lifting of his eyebrows. Then he put ception room, which is not lighted bus lieds. diem down “Hawkins!” he said. unless we are expecting guests, and “Hawkins has the letters! And the p<»red out of the window. The detec- [I The qooatton now is to whom tive, or whoever he might be, wag TO BE CONTINUED ftl I M M A N ft heretofore existing between you and the plaintiff on the grounds of desertion and for such other relief as to the Court may seem meet and equitable. This summons Is serveo upon you by publication thereof In the SPRINGFIELD NEWS, a news paper of general circulation pur­ suant to an order of the Judge of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Lane, duly made and entered of record on the 12th day of January, 1932, or­ dering that this summons be pub lished once each week for four suc­ cessive and consecutive weeks In the Springfield News and that the date of the first publication shall be the 14th day of January, 1932, and the date ot the last publication shall be the issue of the 11th day of February, 1932. FRANK A. DE PUE, Attorney for the Plaintiff. (Jan 14-21-28— F 4-11) Just Time for a Smoke AND YOUR CAR IS READY— Gas tank filled, oil checked, water in your radiator, tires tested, and windshield washed all done without a m om ent’s delay. It's a pleasure to stop a t “A ” Street Service Station “Home of Violet Ray and General Ethyl Gasoline" 5th and A Streets Springfield Drug Prices... Ketels Drug Store t IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF LANE. Sarah A Mead, Plaintiff, vg. Tex Mead, Defendant. TO TEX MEAD THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON you are hereby re­ quired to appear and answer the complaint filed against you In the above entitled Court and Cause on or before the 13th day of February 1932, said date being more than four weeks from the day of the first publication of this summons herein entered of record and if you fall so to appear and answer for want thereof the plaintiff will ap­ ply to the Court for the relief In her complaint against you de­ manded, to-wlt; for a Judgment and decree of Divorce, dissolving the bonds of matrimony now and FOR SALE BY A D M IN ISTR A TO R the w eekend with her parent* at The Bus» Bee Four II Bewln« I'errydale Mrs. Nancy Conrad'* Home club of Cloverdale with Mrs Fern on East Mitin Street, SprltiK- Cun*, leader, ha« submitted a pro­ field. Also two acres In city gram of work for the year They limits, and four building lots will he presented with a charter on Emeraltl Heights. Single Comb lUtotle I m I mib I from the Untied States department (Make me an offer). Beds. of agriculture for a stanilard 4-H club. The membership of the dub W ILLIA M CURTISS. IIK It'l' GII4.ONS consists of seven members with «20 G Street. Pitone I07W I H>7 - Bill St.. Springfield Father Roberts, president. Matsu elite Geti hell, vice president, and Harriett Lower secretary. The program for the meet lugs Is January 21. roll call answered by tools used In sewing, demotistru ARE THE LOWEST IN YEARS lion hemming a dish towel, repeal lug 4-H pledge. February 4. roll Quality, however, in litis drug store lias been call attswerisl hy work done since maintained' at the highest level. Nationally known, lust meeting, tllseusslon some standard brands ol drugs are the kind w* sell anti ways to use idtl material. February ret'ommend. 18. roll call answered by names of This is a storti of eommunlty service. cotton material, demonstration In darning March 3. roti coll answer­ ed hy furnishings for a girls bad- room. discussion on how clothes In the New Store Springfield were first made March 17. roll cull answered hy stitches used In sew lug, demonstration on crocheting. March 81. roll call answered by trimmings for dress, nightgown or underwear, discussion materials best suited for underwear April 14, roll call answered hy names of parts or sewing machine, demonstration, basting April 28. roll call answered by becoming col ors. discussion, a well dressed girl. Lntt Two Days May 13. roll cull answered by re­ of Our peating pledge, demonstration, sten ­ ciling. May 27 Achievement day. JANUARY roll call answered by article each JUBILEE SALE member enjoyed making and how made. Otherwise the regular bust New Bargain* ness procedure will be used conduc Throughout the Store ted by club officers. Hatching Egg» MARY ROBERTS # c RINEHART w # rs ■ Entered at second class matter, February 24, 1*03. at the poetotftre. Springfield, Oregon. - TH U R SD A Y. JANUARY 2*. 1932 THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAOB TWO LEGION AUXILIARY AIDS RELIEF WORK Ladies belonging to the American Legion auxiliary are doing much to aid the needy ex-service men's faml lies of the community, according to Mrs, M. B. Huntly. The organiza­ tion has provided several fam ilies with Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets and has furnished funds for groceries for two needy families In this community recently. 44c DAYS WHAT IS GOOD By John Boyle O'Reilly "What ts the real good 7" I asked tn a musing mood. Order, said the law court; Knowledge, said the school; Truth, said the wise man; Pleasure, said the fool; Love, said the maiden, Beauty, sutd the page; Freedom, said the dreamer; Home, said the sage; Fame, said the soldier; Equity, the seer;— Spake my heart full sadly, "The answer ts not here." Then within my bosom Softly this I heard: "Each heart holds the secret; Kindness Is the word.” T h e Golden Rule Ruler* of Low Price* 10th