the PAOS TWO THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS every MAN MADEffl-'TOWNI Published Thursday al Springfield. b aas County, Orason, by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H. K. M A X E Y Editor Mnterad as second else RUBY M . AYRES m atter, February 14, 1*03. at the ptistofftea. Springfield. Orason M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E Ona T sar la A d v a n c e ------->1.75 Three Months ?S<- Six M o n th s ---------------------H W Single Copy .......... .................. Sc County t.(H e la l N e w sjap er T H l ’ R S U A T , A U Q U 8 T 25. 1*32 THE VETERANS’ BILL OF COST Extravagant statements about veterans legislation costing a billion dollars a year a:ul (»owerful American Legion lobbies brow beating congress is being hurled by careless writers at the American public both through news­ papers and magazines The truth is that World Veterans legislation cost the government last year $356,233,000 and that the l-egion has but two men in Washington. I). C. in charge of Veterans legislation. The amounts are: Compensation (or service connected d isab ility 1204.620.000 D isability Allowance— not service connected - 104.177.000 Em ergency O fficers Retirem ent Pay 11.046.000 Compensation (or Service Connected Death 36,280.000 1356.323.000 Of the above amount the American Legion is not res­ ponsible for the $104,277,000 for non-service connected dis­ ability. That law was enacted by congress of its own free will and accord and against the advice of the American Legion. The American Legion has always fought for ade­ quate care of the veteran disabled by war and has always had the public on its side. But for the. political non-service disability allowance congress has itself to answer for. ----------------- «----------s— TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT We saw some startling figures the other day. If they are correct, and we have every reason to believe that they are, since they were compiled by the New York Sun, a res­ ponsible newspaper, then we have reached the position in thia country when one tenth of all the people are on the public payroll. One hundred persons out of every thousand are tax- eaters! That includes national, state, county, municipal, township and village employees. Add to those the number of pensioners and persons being supported by old age re­ lief funds, in poorhouses, prisons, and insane asylums, and it is easy to believe, as Senator Metcalfe of Rhode Island asBerts, that every six people in the United States are carry­ ing a seventh on their backs. That is the penalty we are paying for our easy policy of letting “government” do everything. It is because of this enormous host of taxeaters that the burden of taxation has become almost too heavy to bear. There must be public officials to enforce and administer the laws, of course. There is no escaping from a certain percentage of public employees. But the inescapable tendency of our willing­ ness to let professional politicians run our public affairs is to Increase the number of jobs at public expense. Politi­ cians hold their power by “taking care” of their supporters. We think it is foolish to expect them to change their own methods voluntarily. But we also think that unless there is a speedy curtailment of the cost of government, state, na­ tional and local, there Is going to be a general uprising of indignant taxpayers who will throw’ all the politicians, of all parties, out of their jobs and compel them to go back to earning an honest living. THE SPURT IN THE STOCK MARKET We do not know, because nobody ever knows, all of the causes for the recent noticeable rise in prices of securi­ ties on the New York Stock Exchange. Neither do we know how long this beginning of a bull movement is going to last. We say those things by way of warning to such of our read­ ers as are inclined to speculate, that they have no assurance that Stock Exchange prices are going to continue upward. We strongly advise everybody who is not in a position to lose money not to take any chances in the effort to win money by gambling in stocks. We think a great deal of the financial difficulties the nation has been going through came from the fact that millions of people who had no business to gamble were playing the stock market in the hope of getting rich quick without work. Nevertheless, this new activity in the stock market is an encouraging sign. It signifies, primarily, that capital has got over the worst of its fear of the future. Fear has been the principal deterrent influence operating against a speedy recovery in business and industry. There is more free capi­ tal in the United States today, the economist tell us, than there ever was before. But it is owned principally by peo­ ple who have been afraid to do anything with it for fear that something worse might happen than had already occurred.; Now this money is coming out of hiding. It is one thing to express such a belief in words, but it must be taken seriously when it is expressed in money. ----------------- — — — BACKFIRED It is an old saying that “people who live in glass houses must not throw stones,” yet that is what Franklin D. Roose­ velt seems to have done in his Ohio speech. He said that he proposed to regulate banks more closely if elected presi­ dent. Some of the biggest and shadiest bank failures in the country have been in his own state and operating under its charter yet he has done nothing as governor to remedy the condition. He yelled at the stock exchange yet Wall street is on New York property and is more amenable to state than federal laws. The governor fired the campaign cannon before he had the breech-block closed. MILADYS GARMENTS AND WAR IN CHINA Japan it seems was about to call off the war in Man­ churia and other parts of China until young American wo­ manhood came to the rescue. Paris has decreed woolen garments for this winter’s dress, but dressmakers in this country think it does not sound fashionable enough so they have developed a material that looks like wool but is made of Bilk and cannot be made of rayon. Consequently the Japanese silk mills, closed because of rayon competition, are now receiving large orders and money is available to fight the war in China. Blessed are women’s vanity. P R O P E R T Y Q U A L IF IC A T IO N S T O V O T E The first measure on the November ballot is the "tax­ payers Voting Qualification Amendment,” which limits voting to taxpayers on questions of special taxes and public bonds. Oregon cities and school districts are staggering under bonds voted by the people and in many cases those voting the bonds will never contribute any tax money to pay for them. The bill provides that if further obligations •re to be placed on property that the owners themselves “ do it. A position which is perfectly fair. T ! U T ! S D A Y . A V O V B T 26. H>*2 S pringfield N m SO aBBK Final Instalment P IC C A R D up h * go«« H e »lipped an arm beneath her heed Professor Piccard ha« been blah- sn rtvanis that folks like. We always trv In remember Y o u »«‘W, It inakt'H ll»w service faster anil our euslninei•> always appreciate It d ti b w c u tiM * t if Our fountain pttulncls are just as good as |>o» slblv can lie made. FGGIMANN’S "W here lh« Herví«« I« DWI«r«nt" Monday, Aug. 29! Munday, August 29, Is the beginning dale for the Fall Term at the Eugene BtisInesH College. With the return of prosperity and It's coming there will he a big demand for those "Trained for Htisl- n es s . Business Training In a good school Is a worth while Investment anti Hight Now Is the time to get It ut Eugene Business College A E. ROBERTS. I’realdent Rathbone bent and ju«t touched her lipa w ith hi« own. M A R C O N I . another achievem ent She wished be would hold her hand. Miner lildg. Phone 666 Eugene, Oregon H e shook hia head, but she said only succeeded in Iwing brutally cruel, Senator Gtiglielmo M arconi, the , bo. do that in dreams ! Jn a„ Jching imagination he saw her inventor of wireless telegraphy, an It would be like the dream you had urgently: There's someone downstairs who ‘ again sitting at that long dining table nouncsa that he has been success sometimes that you were falling down wants to see you— a man named Hob- | in her white frock— so far away from ful In developing an ultra-short I * 8 ™ * Mtt. A dream in which you he says he must see you—that him mil so brave He had not guessed , . . follows . „ t curv mew boMom that any moment kg you radio wave which the e d might . only reach you he's been looking for you all night. that it ha I been as great a torment atu re of the earth. did. Hobson.“ Rathbone seemed to to her as it had been to him. M arconi, unlike some other inven She began to whimper fain tly: wake with a little start. “Oh, ye»— Supposing he had still been awayr tell him to _ give . you message. ___ a ______ _ H - knew that the chances were that tors, has alw ays been careful in his ; tn^ go . . . let me go. “H e won’t, sir— he says he must see) Diana would have dies). This night public tatem eats. He never an-1 S h X e w wiJ , inking you— if it's only for a moment.' had settled all question o f the futurei nounces that he has something u ntil mt she did not mind. There was no Anna hesitated. Rathbone looked so not again would lie let her go away he has actu ally tried and proved it,'b e d under her any more, but just worn out. but after a moment she said from him . . . He would have to find and he never makes predictions un londs— soft, fleecy clouds that were reluctantly. “ I'm afraid it’s something some way , , . Then suddenly he re­ s h«r down w ith infinite gentle- very urgent, sir.” membered—the river— and Hobson's less he knows they are going to I I “V e ry well. I'll come. . . h rttV ^ n t fn r w : Mss into oblirioo. come true very soon. H e was free, but at what a cost. But a voice called her. She forced H e bent over Diana, his lingers on T his new discovery is of im p o rt­ her heavy eyes to open and to took into her wrist lor a moment ;then he The life of the woman whom he had ance because it means that radio eyes that were bent above her, com- turned and walked out of the room. cared for and sheltered for so many Anna took his place at the foot of I years, and the life of a boy wh> as com munication is going to be more pelling, almost praying to her, it- , the bed. Physically she was lialf yet had known nothing of life. Per­ reliab le and less expensive. T h e seemed. haps in that Jonas was fortúnale he “Diana . . . listen . . listen to m e .' asleep, but her brain had never been shorter the radio waves, the less . . . Oh, my beloved, try to under­ ' more active and awake. She was was a dreamer, and dreamers sutler. interference there is from static Rathbone knew that now the story stand. . . . I w ill never leave you thinking how queer it was that ». r.e and other causes. again. . . . Can you hear me? ; • • I women got all the love, while others, of his marriage would have to be made more worthy and hard working, were known: something fresh for the claws M arconi told m e several years w ill never leave you again------ Diana 1” i f gossiping vultures to tear to pieces. ago— we have been friends fo r 30 j I t waa Donald's voice, though she passed by. She knew how near Diana had been Not that he cared for himself, but it years and more— that It would not had never before heard It with that to death; she knew that there had been hurt him inexpressibly for Diana's be long before radio reception note of agony; something must be one moment at least during the long, sake, and in a lesser degree for the m atter: he was in trouble— un­ would be perfect at a ll distances i happy. and that was net like him ; he terrible night, when even RatWwne Kusalie's. She had meant nothing in hit T T I I . jiiniuJ per u p U esprnditure fuc himself had given up hope . . . or hadn t life, and yet he knew he would neier and under all atm ospheric condi- was always so ready to bear other * ricctncity in 1929 amounted lo >5.00. he? She could not be quite sure, but forget her, the pitiful, unreal thing that people’s troubles and forget his own. ■ tlons. H is newest discovery is a she knew that if ever a man had had lived for so long in his shadow. In thr same year the A m erican public But she could not help him now— fought for a woman's life he had step in that direction and probably . “Rosalie, w ife of Donald RatWwne." >rnl >16.50 per capita, or more than ' she was too tired to try any more to fought for Diana's. w hat he had in mind. tree times as much, foe tobacco- W e That was what the vultures would make him smile. I f he would just let I t was as if by sheer will power spent >0.00 per captta for ice cre a m — her alone— she was quite happy. . . • he had kept her from slipping away----- expect him to write on her tombstone; there seemed something of sardonic about one and three-hfths times as much "Never leave you again . . . never O f course, he was in love with her. T E L E V IS IO N . . . on Its way as fur e le c tr ic ity ; >8.50 per cancta foe Anna found an odd satisfaction in a humour in it as he sat there, his eyes leave you again . . One of the experts of the B ell L a ­ She turned her face fre tfu lly from discovery o f which she was certain on Diana’s faeft candy—>1.50 mure per jierson than for boratories, who is w orking on the h im ; she didn’t believe him, it was that everybody else was as yet igno­ She was his wife— the one love of clrctricity. his life ; even if he had never seen her problem o f television, told m e the ' just another . . . ruse . . . to keep her rant. Ther« • m s mhes ss>«4rt< «4 rtwqp «< Mty pma »!»*• M rs. Gladwyn had refused to come again, nobody would ever have drawn other day that he thought scientists from going to sleep: the sleep she had longed for so wearily and tried into the room at a l l ; she had taken near to her place in his heart. 4<» a » i bread, rugs « t lr n k . cbagi nagx, »us4 tbar lussd. and engineers are getting very close heal ««4«« and p ro s k ll thg «mrld's (knaai auaM mi H a lf child, half woman, spoilt, w ilful so hard to capture— he might leave cowardly refuge in a fit of hysteria to the day when it w ill be possible her alone now she had so nearly won when she was told that by mistake — intolerant of life when it went the yssut s»»n hswna at an «»«rwgr m at id abanst d ir» * bbhs cd «saw i t M (n r »aah dulla« d ia latndy sfsaiadst Diana had taken an overdose of mor­ way she did not wish— he yet loved her for anybody to see the person one : through at last. dta rh a a ja a t d v n g y«»t b u y. with every impulse of his manhood phine and might die. "D iana . . .” is talk in g w ith over the telephone. I t had given Anna some satisfac- I t was as if he were fighting her for And she loved him ; for a moment It is being done now. as a labora- MOUNTAIN STATES POWER COMPANY to r , d , m . . . . r . , too. and p , „ | ^ ^ 1 , 7 the « " ground . « over , 7 which tion, also, to be free to smack her face he lost himself in the wonder of that w ith a wet towel and tell her to be- thought— and of her sleeping face blem is to reduce the cost. first ihe knew contentedly that he was have; Anna had never liked M rs. I Somewhere in the house a clock As for radio television, broadcast | losing, that in spite of her weakness Gladwyn, and this seemed a heaven­ chimed six. and he stood up. stretching sent opportunity to repay the many strength he would not be able ing on a screen events actu ally in and * his ' * - *1‘ *“ his arms, feeling wearied to death, and ¡ little indignities she had suffered at yet, amidst all the tragedy surround- I progress, that is a long way yet. It to hold her back. Funny, that seemed— for a great big that lady's hands. ing him, conscious of a quirt, perfect { would be interesting if anybody man to be conquered by a little girl. She was half dozing, holding firmly happiness which nothing could spoil who bad a proper receiving set She began to be faintly interested, to the bed rail, when Rathbone came Diana stirred a little, as if conscious could see the next O lym pic Games to wonder why it should be. L ife was back, it might have been five minutes or half an hour la te r; at five o’clock of his movement, fearing that he was without having to travel across a full of things impossible to explain. She only knew that she was utterly in the morning it is difficult to keep leaving her. Rathbone stood still, and she turned continent or an ocean to do so. weary and that she wanted to sleep. track of time. Anna started awake, smiling in her head, looking at him with h alf- Nobody who has even a g lim m ering She said so presently, half crying, conscious eyes, whispering his name. of what is going on in the research feebly, but he was relentless, he would nervous apology, a smile which quickly "Donald . . faded as she saw Rathlione's face. laboratories is w illin g to say today not let her go. “Yes, my heart." “W h y — sir !” she stammered. For a moment she fought him with th a t anythin g is impossible. H er hand fluttered a little towards H e waved her away impatiently. the last remnants o f her strength; “It's all right. You can go You him, and he took it in his, uuiet and then suddenly she gave in, with a little sigh and a half smile. . . . “Yo u ’ve got had better go to bed. I shall stay till strongly, as if with it he took her also, body and soul. P O L IT IC S . . h o w its done your own way, then. . . the morning.” H e saw a little doubt flicker across I asked a sm all-tow ff o ffic ia l the “ I f you would like me to stay . . . She had said that to him once before her eyes and vanish. o th er day why he had favored a — long ago— and he had answered, “I Anna ventured timidly. “I t — isn’t a dream!** the asked. “No. M arkham ’s up if I want any­ measure which clearly would bene­ generally do in the long run.” “No, Diana ” She waited now to hear him say it th in g ” fit only a few and would not do the "And you’ll never send me away Anna crept away, closing the door again The dream wasn't coming right, again ?” town as a whole any good. behind her. somehow. . . . D IG H T T n tune with the rime." “Never again." CHAPTER X X V I She opened her eyes with a last ef­ “I don't lik e it any b etter than are these three Coleman necew She gave a sigh of contentment Rathbone went back to his old place fo rt. trying to see his face, but now you do, but I have to get my e lf “I don't . . . know . , . what’s going aities . . . priced ao reaaonahle that •he couldn’t . . . he was hiding it from beside Diana. re-elected, don't 1?” was his fra n k they quickly pay (or thsineelvf in T here was a curious gray look in to happen to us,” she said drowsily) her. against her hands, as he had done , reply. his face, and he sat for a long time, half asleep once more. the time and labor-aaviag aervica that night in the train. . . . “But . . . I know . . . it w ill be all It is the desire for re-election H e was unhappy—and she nated his hands clenched between his knees, and sutiaiactioa they give right, always . . . if we're together." th a t makes most office-holders him to be unhappy; she knew to well his eyes »faring blankly before him. Rathbone bent and just touched her THE IN S T A N T -G A S IR O N "Smooth, the W a y on Ironing D try ” . H e kept seeing nightmare pictures careless w ith the taxpayer's money. how it felt. | Saves time, work, and clothes. Lighta instantly . . . no M i ring, Haa She gave a little sigh of weary ca-1 of a river, of a woman and of a boy— lips with his own. Since most of the voters in most pitularion. "Yes, my heart— It w ill be all right I a boy who had given his life in an Roto-Type Generator w ith cleaning needle which can be operated —always—If we’re together.1 com m unities are non-taxpayers, '•You always get your own . . . I unavailing attempt to save her w hile Iron is burning. Double-pointed . . . same perfect reeulta on wav,” she whispered. I Hobson had broken down and w hat difference does it make? T h a t forward and backward stroke«. Tapered ironing base » » V — R eaay The last word was lost as she fell sobbed as he told how they had at last Is the politicians’ way of looking to iron under button« Use it anywhere . . . no cards or wizen asleep. 1 found th e m : at public questions. A m e rica spends T IM E S AS MUCH FOR SMOKE c fo r' ELECTRICITY 3 ELECTRICITY * IS 3 C H EAP BIO VAI EACH THE END T h e m ovement to give men long and In te rio r D epartm ent j tra i W ashington w ill unquestlon- er term s in office and make them nues. i k tt great tria n g le wrhlch m en t I ably be the most beautiful city In ineligible fo r re-election does not covers nearly two square milea, buildinga. W hen this work is finished cen | the world. seem to be m aking much headway. w ith the Capitol as ft» ape-x and I t is w orth thin kin g about. I believe the broad park which extend« from It would be a good plan fo r a ll of ) the W h ite House to the Potomac fice-holders, from president down. riv e r aa its base. F o r m ore than hundred years the governm ent ha» been developing BEAUTY . . . at W ashington | thia tria n g le Into park« surround- That word means more in drugs than in any other W o rk on the enormous project o f ) i„g public buildingn. N ow the huge Coleman INSTANT-GAS APPLIANCES PURE im proving and beautifying that part I Comm erce building, w ith more of W ashington which lies between ! floo r space than any o th e r office , the capftol and the W ashington ' building In the w orld, la completed, | M onum ent has ao fa r progressed I a t tp e northw eatern point of thia that it la now possible for the v is it triang le. T h e unsightly old private i o r to grasp the scope of the whole J building« fro n tin g Penn«ylvania work Between the two main ave- avenue have m ostly been torn down nues rad iatin g from the Capitol, to m ake room fo r the new Depart- Penn«ylyan la ^ a n d M aryland a v e -: m en t of Jn - t i < P o s t O ffice D epart- L e n o x H o te l C O M F O R T A B L E , C O N V E N IE N T A N D E C O N O M IC A L Rooms: $1.50 with ba;h; $1.00 without bath We Welcome You to Portland W. F. WALKER, Mgr. 3rd and Main St. Portland, Oregon THE S P O R T -L IT E LAN TER N - It's an inatant- lighting . . . single mantle type. Juat the light lor any camping trip or outdoor task. Small in aize but big in brilliance. Weigh« only 3 lb«, yet give« up to 150 candlepower ol pure white light Pyrex glam globe protects mantle. Haa built-in pumn and many features ol larger lantern« It ’s a Double-Duty lantern lor use indoors or o u t product. Drugs are something that connot be any­ thing else safely. 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