PAPE TW O THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Bear; Thursday at Springfield, Lane Cxiunty, Oregon, by T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS M. B MAXKY. Bdltor happy?" to tall you 'Lynda'" i you . . . you are asking T" "Yes. And Ihr rilled." Me lifted her hand to his lips “Yea." t IO UK UONTINlIKDl "I came to aak you . . are you He had kept her hand, was hold lug It dose to him In both of his own. "May I have a piano?" whispered Jocelyn. The question sounded so like mere childishness that Felix laugh •‘il out. and again, hut very careful 1« E kk I iiihihi ' m ta n tly kitch e n - A box <>f o u r <*»ndy is ly. pul hla arm about her She came g m u a n tc e d Io sw eeten a n yb o d y'« tllap oa ltlon . Mat!« when she conies out. won't you, Kent was a man shapel> and hard - to him hut not ho softly, so com First Installm ent w ith cure fro m «lo* boat m id puresl m a te ria l« evury and different In every ftli«r from ; pletely. as before. Marcella T " When Joycelyn, foigvtdng what “You shall have everything.“ "But. Mr Kent, you are not so her thrilled self. The convent child piece Is delleltitis. felt this difference in all her nerves promised (lie Jack of Diamonds her mualc master had taught her old as that?" C andy n o t o n ly sa tisfie s but Is u food o f h ig h The engagement ot Miss Jocelyn played music, her own mother. Mar­ "I ant nineteen years older than and pulses cella. was alarmed It was like the you are. Miss Jocelyn.'' There came an evening whet. of New Yolk io Mr. Felix Kent of value. Chicago with all possible other de­ voice of a at ranger In the house. "Aid my mother did give you a Marcella left them aloue. Jocelyn was at her piano dutiful tails of Information was presently She rose from the prte-dteu In an first—option?" questioned Jocelyn ly executing a commanded melody. In due form announced Aud Joce alcove ot the long Spauiahlookin« with her eyes down. room, difficult to recognise as the Kent stored and laughed delight It was intricate and held all her at­ lyn wore upon her third (Inger a living room of a New York apart edly and drew in about her as tention. She did not kuow that she diamond as splendid as a star. "Where the Bervlca Is Different "You shall he married In tin ment. and came forward past Inter­ though he had become tor her a had been left unchaperotted In the spring after a (our months' engage vening massive furniture to look at warm curtain, sheltering, darken­ room with kVIlx Kent. He came and stood close to her ment," Marcella promised, latter ing. the player. “She did. really. She said to me leaning on the piano. In the slim there were evenings, however, There she sat. the daughter Mar­ cella had put into a foreign con that day in Paris. 'There Isn't a severity of evening dress he looked when Felix' new role of reatrulut vent twelve yeers before, a smooth man in the world I'd be so glad to sleek and attractive, like a panther. was difficult to maintain. On one Ills eyes were now filled with their such evening he left Jocelyn abrupt sleek golden girl, eighteen years trust her to. Felix. " j ly with a manufactured excuse. Kent laughed. But he was giddy extraordinary Incandescence. old. fulFbosotned. narrow waisted She went back Into the room and "Stop playing - - Just a minute. and round-hipped. She used, when and tilled with instant (ear. There sat down In her piano, brooding. her eyes met her mother's, a slow had never In the world been a love­ Jocelyn, please." The door from the passage which She obeyed, lei her hands fall smile. She did nothing, quickly. ly child like this one. so frankly But when she played this music of hungry, so Ignorantly passionate, and gave him her meek child's look i led back toward the bedrooms open­ ed softly. Jocelyn whirled about, her own there was a change. Mer aud so uutaught; with not a Jot nt and her slow, unchlldrtsh smile. "Your mother has left us to­ surprised. She could see no one. cella was quick to recognise It. the deep cold wisdom of experience. But the door had moved. Jocelyn had thrust down her chin He could hardly bear to surrender gether. You know I love you,” She was startled "Yes,” said Jocelyn, trembling Then she saw him. coming ami looking down. Just received large sh ip m e n t o f New “Do you think you can love me?" round a great throne of a chair which had interposed between "1 don't know monsieur.” Dresses fro m New Y o rk . In IT Itits anti He laughed in soft delight and them. The cripple The little bent man. aideloiig. with bright eager drew closer. p la in c o lo r co m b in a tio n « . N ow Is the “May I put my arm around you. eyea. tim e to gel y o u r E aster Dress You Jocelyn would have screamed but loveliest?" She made no movement not i he arrested her with speech m u s t see th e se befo re you buy. A l th e sound but he. Interpreting her sll > "Don't be frightened, Jocvlyu," low prices o f cnee. did draw her to him and she he said gently In a voice full of came softly suddenly so that all of pleaauntuesa, "I wuuldu't scare . . . her young body seemed to be his I wouldn't hurt you for the world. own. Then he kissed her mouth. You see. you poor little child. 1 am At that she was up and at the your father." And Jocelyu recognized him far side of the room. Never had he For years Jocelyn had had a seen a living creature move so swiftly. Both her hands were press photograph tu her possession, see Felix drew her to him, and she came softly, suddenly. ed against her lips. Her bosom retly All other pictures of Nick panted. Her eyea were distended Sandal had been destroyed, clipped into splinters of cardboard aud and wet. - and there was in her eyes, when her to her next partner. "Oh. no," she whispered. "Oh . . . burned to black feathers, by his Kent sought out Jocelyn's mother the slow smile left them, the dif­ wife. When the bent tuau came ference between June sky and thun­ and bending his fair lean height no . . . no . . . no. 1 can't. Kent came toward her, not close, round the corner of the chair and above her be talked and talked and der sky. OEPT. «TORES for her arms were stretched out to spoke to her, Jocelyn was therefore Then Mercella thought of the con- talked. Eugene, 968 Marcella was wise. keep him at a distance. She even able to Identify him. tents of that little crypt above her "I'm not afraid of you," she said She declined innumerable Invlta went back against the window prie-dleu and of Julian . . . and of Oregon W illn m e tte a queer first speech from child to which held an amazing picture of all the things that this daughter tions. must never know An occasional theater party she lighted towers and silver smoke parent. "I'm glad my daughter la not “I want her to be safe." she mur­ accepted. Several of these were and of a sky colored like the petals afraid of me. I thought by this time mured to a nun when twelve years given in Jocelyn's honor by Felix of dark panslea. "Darling, I'm sorry. 1 beg your you'd be made . . . of fear—I used before she had left the little girl Kent. But Marcella brought her trembling in the dim waxy-smelling charge home after the play, forbid pardon. I know I frightened you parlor of the convent. And greeting ding any extension of ga.vety for Please do forgive me." He felt as her only two days ago on the wharf Jocelyn. She was not to be whirled though he had been sent hack In a of her native city with all the wharf off to the cafe or restaurant of dream to play the part of a Victor j tall towers stretching up behind after midnight Joy. Jocelyn was ian lover. Phrases came to him' them Mfrcella had said again to meek, had suffered a long discipline front half-forgotten old romantic I the same nun. twelve years older, in meekness. But her nerves began aoveis: “I won't do It again. You may take your own time. I want I more waxen and more frail, “Oh. to quiver. ilAr Sister Dellce. how shall I keep "The other girls." she said with yon so: I want you to marry me.' : After a conaiderable silence Joce-' her—safe?” a sort of fierce timidity, “the other lyn composed hersqlf. But she Joeelyn Harlowe's first ball gown girls go on. Mother." —It was for a costume ball— was “You are not like the other girls." stayed against her window, drawn white, as all first ball gowns prob­ said Marcella, "and I will not let up there as though for an Instant spring backward Into the great I ably should be. Standing sheathed you become like them.” C O M P L I T I W I T H (B V S M F IM L O O B A L A N C I D T U B I I ... N M ta m s e e « « ^ in all this purity of color Jocelyn Jocelyn murmured. "They're very dark city of refuge beyond the window panes. herself had a look of sleek brilli­ nice.” “You won’t do that again?" ance which did not express her age, Marcella's hand fell upon hers "Not until you wish It. Please. her simplicity or her profound lack and tightened sternly. ' Jocelyn, give me Just the tip of of all worldy experience. “I am the Judge of nlceness," It was not the convent child's And Jocelyn sat still under that ' your silly little convent fingers." She let him take her hand and fault that she looked so unconven­ touch. tual. She was really Ignorant, a Often Felix Kent came In to see kiss it. She brushed the other hand veritable novice in living, but there them. During his visits In the living 1 across her eyes and smiled. "Then It's all right?" Be asked was In her blood and in her brain room Marcella was a constant cha­ a swift rebellious maturity to which peron. Jocelyn would play her her. "I think so. Yes. If my mother her body had subtly shaped itself. piano or sit with her eyes down A husband in her mind. It must listening to her mother’s hard "Your mother gave me her con be managed quickly before Jocelyn manufactured conversation with an sent at that same costume ball was fully awakened to reality. She older man. must he made to long lor It ignor­ She had never before studied a when I was the Jack of Diamonds." antly as a release. If marriage, if man at such close quarters. Felix "Do you mean that I will marrj this man. could be presented to her as an escape, as the opening rather than the closing of life's doors. . . Before Jocelyn’s return from France Marcella had been busy waiming chilled social contacts, A re g iste re d p h a rm a c is t o f lo n g experience fills melting the edges from metallic y o u r p re s c rip tio n s here. O n ly th e fin e s t and purest o f connections of one sort or another. d ru g s, c h e m ica ls and o th e r m a te ria ls are used. She had once a great position in the city and it was not too difficult, In spite of what had once shattered No o th e r O urs is the service you can depend on. her life, to make herself remember­ ra d io gives yo u theoo ed. So when she brought Jocelyn into the ballroom she was able to featu res i S p rin g fie ld In th e N ew S tore obtain for her, aided by her own 1. SupirkaUmdyntj Balanced-Unit s different, the features it offers. Look at the illustration. Anttrican lllatb conventual. Perhaps I’m not going Walnut highboy A N D for lh« morning gi«< of oragg* pace, This is not a"midget” nor a "portable”, but a cabintl, uiilb to be disappointed after ail.” This was the address altogether whit can l.ke lh* p i . « ot iho «faerie real, full-size receiver in a handsome cabinet figurtd Walnut different from any Jocelyn had yet iutlrunttnl pant! Irmi gn« «nirKlor ? The old • f«Monod o f genuine American and Figured Black Wal­ ...n n tpltlt with received. An older man, evidently. (queerer" n out ol dele—modwn houtohoM He condescended to her. Well, that nut, trimmed in V-matched Oriental W ood. tubit. N ilbtng economy demandi modern was of course to be expected. The Baby Grand is a welcom e addition to any t i n It buy/ “Mr. Kent,” she said, "you have equipment in the modwn I home, either as a regular set or a second set. really no right to any disappoint­ ment, have you? Because you can't e o e a lr o o ( • • « e l o i h i n * .......................... S e e this wonderful radio at have had an interest In me (there ■ w d A . l l . . . M tM g g y l l l l was shadowy delicate drum-roll on DEM ANDS COM PLETE your dealer’s store mow , todey, before public E L E C T R IC S L R V IC E the r) ever before tonight.” ' demand exhausts this shipment, r N o obliga­ “You’re wrong. I've had an Inter­ tio n and you tan protact yourself on delivery. est in you for—let me see—twelve R to u re r M o u n t a i n irt years," "But you are Just seel-y," scoffed Jocelyn at her sweetest. “And I P h on o 18 hare not any French accent at all.” S p r in g fie ld “Twelve years ago I saw you In a bank In Paris. And I said to your mother, 'Give me a first option ffi The Sweetest Place in Town halarad s i second class matter. February it . ItOJ. at the poetofftce. Springfield, liregou MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATE one Year In Advance >1.75 Three Months Six Months ... .....................U 00 Single Copy T H U R S D A Y . F E B R U A R Y 25, 1932 T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N E W S ________ . ...... .......76c _______ Sc THURSDAY. FEBRUARY Ï5. 1»« A C U T NECESSARY T he e ffo rts o f th e c o u n c il to reduce the ru n n in g e x ­ penses o f the c ity should have th e co o p e ra tio n o f th e peo­ ple A c ity , lik e an in d iv id u a l, can not ru n c o n tin u a lly be­ hin d w ith o u t ta ilin g a h a lt some tim e I f it does n o t stop attending beyond its incom e necessarily its c re d it w ill be c u r­ ta ile d and it w ill be fo rce d to suspend some o f its a c tiv itie s . T he m ove o f the c ity c o u n c il is to head o ff such d ra s tic a ctio n . T he c ity budget and th e a m o u n t o f m oney received fro m taxes m ust be recognized as tw o d iffe re n t th in g s w hen it comes to a c tu a lly p a yin g b ills . E sp ecia lly a t th is tim e , w hen taxes are slow , is th is d iffe re n c e g re a te r. S p rin g - fie ld operated last ye a r w e ll w ith in its budget yet th e re was n o t s u ffic ie n t m oney to pay th e b ills by several hun dred d ollars. T he changes m ade by the c o u n c il e ffe c t a s a vin g o f $2700 a ye ar and i f ca rrie d o u t w ith o th e r e x p e n d itu re s as budgeted should b rin g th e c ity w ith in its ta x revenue. -----------e----------- President H o o ve r is a bo ut to recom m end c o n s o lid a tio n s and sweeping changes in th e fe de ra l g o v e rn m e n t in o rd e r to cu t g o ve rn m e n t costs, m eet th e fe d e ra l d e fic it and lo w e r ta x a tio n in the fu tu re . D em ocra ts in d ic a te th e y w ill b lo c k th is sort o f le g is la tio n because it m ig h t g ive the president to o m uch prestige on th e eve o f an e le c tio n ca m p aig n. T h e irs has a lw a ys been g o ve rn m e n t b y d e n u n c ia tio n . A b o u t tim e th ey b ro u g h t s o m e th in g c o n s tru c tiv e to th e fo re fro n t as a su b stitu te . P urebred liv e s to c k and im p rove d m ethods o f fa rm in g are m ore in dem and now th a n e ver before, a c c o rd in g to th e federal d e p a rtm e n t o f a g ric u ltu re o u tlo o k re p o rt. These reco m m en d atio ns are the same as in o th e r lines o f in d u s try . It is necessary to c u t cost o f p ro d u c tio n to th e bone in o rd e r to m ake a p ro fit a t th e e x is tin g prices and those prom ised in th e fu tu re . -----------«----------- Ori the tim e g ive n H a rry W rig h t in th e O bsidian s k i i ace by Eugene sp o rts w rite rs , we n o m in a te h im fo r the O lym pic games. Swedes and N o rw e g ia n s m ig h t as w e ll sta y a t hom e if such p he no m e na l tim e is b eing m ade here in S p rin g fie ld . -----------e----------- In some respects th is dog c o n tro l business lo o k s m ore lik e a ra c k e t th a n a le g itim a te fu n c tio n o f th e c o u n ty g o v­ e rn m e n t. We can n o t see w he re th e le g is la tu re b ettered th in g s by ta k in g th e re s p o n s ib ility o u t o f the hands o f th e c o u n ty c o u rt w ith th e fo rm a tio n o f dog d is tric ts . -----------«----------- I f a ll the d e m o cra ts are g o in g to ru n fo r o ffic e , th e y should t r y to get a lo n g b e tte r so as to vote fo r each o ther. -----------«----------- S T A R T IN G V P T H E H IL L In every m a il th is new spaper receives eno ug h n e a tly m im e og ra ph ed sheets o f paper w h ic h , i f placed side by side and end to end, w o u ld paper a fa ir sized room . Each o f these sheets is supposed to be disguised as news b u t the disguise is very' th in , so th in in fa c t th a t even th e o ffic e boy can te ll th a t h o p e fu l m a n u fa c tu re rs are seek­ in g th e re b y to o b ta in va lu ab le a d v e rtis in g w ith o u t p a y in g fo r it. A nd so th e huge w aste paper b a rre l fills ra p id ly . O cca sion ally these m e n d ic a n t "a d v e rtis e rs ” have a rea l p earl hid de n a w a y in a la b y rin th o f w ords. So i t w as th is m o rn in g fo r a t th e ve ry end o f some six pages o f closely ty p e w ritte n " p u ffs ” received fro m a tir e m a n u fa c tu re r ap­ peared th te fo llo w in g p a ra g ra p h : “ In 1930 a cco rd in g to s ta tis tic s . 2 0 '{ m ore tir e m ileage was consum ed th a n was sold and a p p ro x im a te ly th e same was tru e in 1931. W e feel, th e re fo re , th a t th is va cuu m m ust be fille d and th a t w e can lo o k fo rw a rd to a c o n s id e r­ a bly g re a te r vo lum e o f business in 1932.” R igh t th ere, in those fe w w ords, is th e h is to ry o f th is depression, p a rt o f th e rea l reason fo r it, and a p re d ic tio n o f business reco very based on sound prem ise. Just in s e rt the w o rd “ c lo th e s ,” o r "s h o e s ", o r " a u to ­ m obiles,” o r " f u r n itu r e .” o r “ b u ild in g m a te ria ls ” in place o f “ tire s ” in th a t p a ra g ra p h o m ittin g th e w ord "m ile a g e ” o r s u b s titu tin g one m ore a p p ro p ria te , and you have the c o r­ re c t p ic tu re so fa r as those o th e r in d u s trie s are concerned. R e ta il sto cks in a ll lin e s are a t lo w p o in ts. Goods in the hands o f consum ers are being used to th e la s t ounce o f good b u t m u st w ea r o u t e ve n tu a lly . R og er W. Babson, noted s ta tis tic a n and e con om ist, whose co m m en t« on w h a t we m a y expect fo r 1932 w ere published in th is n ew spaper S a tu rd a y , p o in ts o u t th a t as soon as re ta ile rs are co nvince d th a t c o m m o d ity prices have reached the low m a rk , sto cks w ill be replenished and the w heels o f in d u s try w ill begin to tu rn . W hen in d u s try be­ comes a ctive and wages are paid new b u y in g p o w e r is c re ­ ated and we s ta rt up h ill to w a rd a n o th e r p ro s p e rity peak. Econom ic a lly speaking, th is is th e g lo o m ie s t p ro te n t and th e b rig h te s t fu tu re th a t we have faced in m a n y, m an y m o n th s .— Ne /s-R eview . R oseburg, Ore. --------------• -------------- FAMILY / DOCTOR. JO H N JOSEPH GAINES A4.0 YOUR BABY Now’ le t’s n o t ta lk a b o u t v ita m in e s and ca lo rie s and m o d ifie d m ilk s and adenoids and a ll th a t; leave it to the sp e cia list to th e o riz e on the fin e -s p u n ; le t’s ta lk a b o u t th e b ab y— Y O U R baby. F irs t: B aby is su p re m e ly selfish. H e ’s to o busy a tte n d ­ in g to h is ow n a ffa irs to b o th e r a b o u t th e c o m fo rt o f a ny one else— and, he’s e x a c tly r ig h t ; if m ore people a tte nd ed to th e ir ow n business w e ’d soon have a b e tte r race o f peo­ ple. Second: A baby is ju s t a d ig e stive tra c t, an a ir c o m p a rt­ m en t, and a m in u te , nervous bundle, w ith a w a te r-co o le d m o to r. So lon g as he is c o m fo rta b le he w ill n ot k ic k up a ro w . No respectable baby w ill to le ra te a s a fe ty -p in b o rin g in to his u m b ilic a l r< g io n , n o r w ill he fa il to rese nt ro u g h seams th a t g rin d his a rm -p its o r g ro in s ; rem em be r, i f he is c o m fo rta b le th a t he w ill be peaceful. N o baby e n jo ys h o w l­ in g a n y m ore th a n you do. T re a t h im w ith sense. T h ir d : Baby w ill cease feeding w hen he has enough, and he’ll do it every tim e ; b ut d o n ’t urge h im to ta k e m o re ; w he ne ver he lets go is th e in s ta n t fo r clo sin g th e seance. O f course he’s ju s t lik e you, and w ould o v e r-s tu ff h im s e lf ju s t as you d o; th e n tro u b le comes. T he keenest o f ju d g - O f course he’s ju s t lik e you, and w ou ld o v e r-s tu ff h im s e lf m en t is in k n o w in g w he n to stop. L a s tly : M aybe you have one o f those cu te, id io tic P om ­ e ra n ia n s; i f so, tu rn i t o ve r to the m aid, and ta ke care o f baby yo u rse lf. 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