TU V US I )AY. OCTOBER 20, I »32 THB SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAOB TWO PIANO STUDENTS TO APPEAR IN RECITALS THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Springfield. L a m ' Thursday at G o u ty . Oregon. by Tw o Itarnvll THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H . B. M AXEY. Editor ■nt>-red at second else, matter. February 14. IK S . at tbs poetotftee. SprtagfleM. Oregon________________ __ M A IL SUBSCRIPTION RATS One Tear In Advance....... »1.60 81« Months --- ----------- ---- - »100 Two Years tn Advance ._ «1.60 Three Months ----------------- 60c County Official Newspaper FELIX RIESENBERG W ashington, D. C . — W hen I ’reml dent Hoover moved into the W h ite j House somebody started the report that there w ere no books In the J presidential mansion. A com mit tee of book publishers set about re­ S rn o m * l a h u r Breen. I * jrrarr old. pairing thia deficiency, and a lib r­ v k c k u «pent all k.a Hie aboard a Hu.laon h « e r tugboat plying near New Y o rk C ity, ia ary of about ties hundred volumes, toad, aw ikeiteaa by an eaptoanm wk*ek eink t mainly of the English classics, waa tke tug and toaaea bint into Ike rie er lie t r i e , and craw la aakore w k rre t la .ta a new form ally presented to the United and arrange life. H e ia ignoiaat. canror read, and known nothing of kfe in a great < ty . . . States for the president's use. Eighth Installment TH U R SD A Y. OCTOBER Î0, 1031 OUR VOTE ON THE MEASURES An expression on thirteen measures, submitted by the legislature, proposed by the people and referred to the peo­ ple. will be on the November ballot for your vote. Some of these measures have merit while others do not. We hereby give you the benefit of our Judgment on the measures: 300-301—Taxpayers Voting Qualification Amendment. The purpose of this measure is to limit to those who own leal property the right to vote on special tax levies and bonds. Our school district, cities, counties and state are overloaded with bonded indebtedness voted on the tax­ payers by many non-taxpayers. This we think an unfair arrangement. Let those who must pay decide when and how much. • Vote 300 YES. 302-303—Authorizing Crimnal Trials without Juries. This gives the accused the right to have his trial before the Judge if he so desires. Whenever this is done there will be much less expense. Vote 302 YES. 304-306— Six Percent Limitation Amendment, measure offers oportunity to relieve the taxpayer. Vote 304 YES. Hprlugflold This 306-307—Oleomargarine Tax Bill. Places a tax of 10 cents per pound on the sale of Oleomargarine. This bfll would materially help the dairy industry. What helps the farmer ultimately helps us all. Vote 30« YES. 308-309—A bill to Prohibit Commercial Fishing in the Rogue River. A fish in a net is worth 40 cents, but one caught on hook and line brings $10 into the state of Oregon. This bill works a hardship on only a few itinerant fishermen hut benefits the whole state. Vote 308 YES. 310-311—Higher Education Appropriations bills. The money called for in this bill is not now needed. Vote 311 NO. 312-313— Bill to Repeal the State Prohibition Law. While we believe in the modification of the Eighteenth amendment, we do not want saloons or lawlessness. There will be time enough to change the state prohibition law after we see what the federal government does. Vote 313 NO. 314-315—Freight Truck and Bus Bill. This bill to our mind will be a hardship on the small sawmills and raise freight rates hi general. Trucks and busses need regula­ tion but it should be done by the legislature. Vote 315 NO. 316-317—Bill Moving University. Normal and Law Schools. Establishes Junior Colleges. This bill would wreck the state higher educational system and entail great ex­ pense to the state. It would also ruin property values in Lane county. Vote 317 NO. 318-319—Tax and Debt Control Constitutional Amend­ ment. 320-321—Tax supervision and Conservation Bill. These two are twin measures and while they are undemocratic and might be used to work a hardship on local tax bodies, they are also capable of doing much good In the way of stopping excessive governmental expense. Vote 318 and 320 YES. 322-323— Personal Income Tax Amendment. This bill raises the rates on net personal incomes in excess of $6,000 from 6 to 8 per cent. It likely will relieve some of the burden on property taxes In years to come if passed. VOTE 322 YES. 324-326— Water Power Amendment. Places in the hands of three men power to bond the state for $60,000,000. We are struggling now under great bonded indebtedness which makes our taxes twice as high as they would other­ wise be. Vote 326 NO. -------------- ♦-------------- THERE IS NO MAGIC If we knew a magic formula which would change everything over night and put the people of the United States back where we were in the beginning of 1929, we are not sure that we should use It. We doubt whether it would be either wise or kind to confirm the belief, which apparently prevails among many folk who ought to know better, that politicians possess some sort of magicians wand, the waving of which would restore prosperity, put up the price of farm products, start every factory off on full production, pay off every debtor’s debts and send the prices of stocks up to new highs. Looking back, we are not at all sure that the orgy of reckless spending which came to an abrupt end three years ago was a good thing either for the nation as a whole or for the individuals who took part in it. It was, for many, too close to get something for nothing; and those who did not get unheard-of returns for their contributions in labor or commodities were beginning to be Infected with the idea that they, too, were entitled to more than they paid for. We do not believe that any sound and permanent pros­ perity can be built on any basts but the old-fashioned recipe of hard work and thrift. We have no confidence that there Is anything politicians can do, whatever their party labels, that will take the place of economy and Industry, render work unnecessary or put money into one pocket without taking it out of another. All that politics and government can do is undertake, so far as selfish and self-seeking human nature will permit, to smooth out the inequalities and cure the defects in our economic structure which have grown up out of custom and ignorance, and which tend to put too heavy a burden upon some and too light a responsibility on others. ♦ ----------- CONSISTENCY OR POLITICS? Eugene’s organized labor refused to endorse Judge C. P. Barnard for re-election because he cut the wages of county road workers to relieve the taxpayers. Labor en­ dorsed Fred Fisk whose platform Is to stop all road work. Can it be that organized labor is in favor of no work at all rather than unemployment relief work on a reduced wage rate? If so, then does this position represent all labor? If It does the taxpayers, who are footing the bills, should know it at once and the county government should act accord­ ingly. It ao happened th a t this effo rt waa unnecessary, because the L ib r­ ary of Congress sees to It th a t a selection of the lateal books which the president may wish to consult, are always on tho shelves of the W h ite House library. Both Bookish W h ich ever way the election goes next m onth, the next president w ill be a b oo kn ver M r. Hoover la not only a great reader but ia also a w rite r of books. H i t w ritings h are been on the gubjec* of his life work, m ining engineering. The best known of them is h it translation, w ith the assistance of M rs. Hoover, of the earliest known book on m in­ ing. I t I t called “De Re M etallica." and was printed in L a tin in the 16 th century by a Germ an named George Beaten and tbaaed by tough* ee ia reacned by a Jewiak fam ily lieing oS tke Bowery in tin rear of th eir aeeond band clothing «tore . . . H are be ia openly courted by the young daughter Breea bghta bulliea in eell defeaaa . . . and Boon b picked up by an uaacrupu b u t manager who ckeata b u n u n til " P u g " M ai.m e at the aaluun hgbt d u b . attracted to the boy. taken bin* under k b w ine. . . . O n (he other ode of tbe picture are the wealthy V an Horn« of F ifth Aeenue T h e re la a Gilbert V a n H o rn , laat o f tke great fam ily, a bachelor, ia wboee life ia a bidden chaplet w ith k b atotkar'a m aid who laaeea tke kame — ta be b a t in the city Bln— rebaa G ilbert b accrued I t waa reported the m aid m arried an old captain of a rie e r lug . . rather than return home— and waa anan a mother. . . . U n der M a b rw 'a guard,anakip young Breen develop« fear. . . . " P u g " diacoeeta ike boy .annot read - «tart« him to night r t k o il and i n « * M «par* Io* loh»*»» the world commence oar. u oU-lleM r, b teckad Breea . . . bfahme. IM U T * b a bcaltb farm vent__ V every cent ol it Merely a little specu­ lation of mine. “ 'I'm sail'iig on the .if. Lt>tw to­ morrow. W ill hr at tee when you get the letter, truing abroad for a few months with my niece Josephine'." Fug sat oil the cut. looked around the n»wn, tlx rickety book shelves, the familiar figure of his assistant. “Great God, John, 1 ktww them damn books would take you, some day." “Never, Pug. never." Tears stood in the hoy's eyes He rose, put hit arm over the bent shoulders of the trainer ; thr gray head waa down Pug looker) at the rag carpet, his own eyes moist. John bent down and kissed the gray hairs of Malone That tough citisen V M s lid girls. ing experience«! perform ers, h a v ­ ing appeared in previous recitals Ilarbaru M argaret J a rre tt, ad vaneed piano atuilenta of Kcutinn , U h arlyle G offrelere, Eugene plan 1st. w ill appear In a group recital a l the Kugeue hotel ball-room this evening at 8 o'clock. Night stu­ dents w ill participate In the re­ d ia l which Is the firs t of a series o f three O lym pian, ouw-hour, re­ citals. BELKNAP SAWMILL WILL BE REBUILT BY OWNERS T h e Belknap saw m ill located Juat above the Belknap b rldg - on the Houth Fork road w ill be reb uilt It waa announced this week. A holler and some om the necessary machin­ ery are already on the ground Thia m ill waa destroyed by firs about a mouth ago. It was the only saw m ill In the! P«rl ul U l" But the John Breen of the cold eyes, Kveryom* Is Invited to attend thia looking straight ahrad. hit ponii-giioud as still as a shoe brush, was of tin# recital. A ll of Hie participants, he- county. past. “ Breen, you're looking stale.“ H ar- lotard of the graduate senords dropped into the room of the student It was clctc to midnight and John l>ent over his work table, his tired eyes scan­ ning a mate of formulae in theoretical mechanics. “W hat are you digging •tr “Usual stuff." John took off hit eye shade, evidently with relief. He had plunge*', into the work of thr schools vs uh drtrrnuiird energy. Peeling him­ self grow stale, he pushed onward with the utmost v igor, actually work- REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Re-Elect CLINTON HURD FOR County Commissioner lias given Lane County's business careful, person­ al attention. Continue his efficient and economical admlnlstration and____________________ (arin» Bre«n w tlk bi n There they meet and come to know Gilbert V a n Haen. VOTE 53 X Clinton Hurd for County Commisaioner H O W GO O N W IT H T H E STO K V — Paid Advcrtlaem ent “ I ’m getting ready to go back to the city. I don't know, it Menis to me ns if my life was to be there, doing some­ thing lo r the city, not just helping l ’ «g peund money out of fat sloba who come up here ” John and Van Horn Agricola. were then resting on a fence rail, un­ M r. H oover once figured out th a t der the chade * f an oak. looking acruag the valley that separated them by a the tim e he had spent on ships, mile or more from Greenbough They in the coarse of his professional talked idly. Van H o rn pulled out a travels, would amount to a year and burnt hriar and filled i t H e drew a a quarter. On his voyages he has few puffs of smoke. always taken a tru n k fu l of books •'You've studied a lot." The older w ith him . and there are always man had a very wholesome regard for lehn'i extraordinary researches. books on the stand at the head of “W ell. yea. I have, Gil. But Pug his bed. tells me Urn off the road. H e ’s right Jaha auddartly real lead th a t hie a ttir e waa not o a ly ecaaty, h u t acaadaloua. " J o k a s s s But I want your slant on thia. I'm thia Is my w ard Josephina.'* «aid V a a H o ra . G overnor Roosevelt grew up sur­ going in for engineering. M r. Rantoul rounded by books. H e s till lives in has sort of set my mind that way, not rose suddenly to make a swipe at him ing himself to destruction. T I ’d like to tell you something." a» he ran cut and down the corridor the house tn which he was born, the by saying anything to me direct, but Harboard drew a battered briar from by the wav he talks when he's up here. to the showers. old stone Roosevelt home in Hyde 1 never saw a more certain man in my For several weeks following his ad­ his pocket and tamped doom a half- Park, N ew York, which stands on life He's a big man. Gil. as big as his mission to the schools of engineering, smoked charge of tobacco. H e lit this the brow o f a h ill high above the bridges, and now he's going to swing after his bout with the entrance exam­ and puffed contentedly. "Four years iners, John Breen moved in a strange, — " r i. i l board rolled the words over Hudson R iver. T h e south w ing on another one over the river." "A cfvfl engineer?" V is H ors irooderabie world. the mansion is the lib ra ry , a mag­ hit tong "leading to— ?" Then came t i he great day of the flag "The degree ree of civil n ificent room n early 75 feet long looked sidewise at Jahn. "It's a stiff profession; if yon go through the ruth between the freshmen and soph­ John tensed a question and tupplietl and tw o fu ll stories high, and all schools." omores and Breen's great strength and o f the walls are lined to the cell­ "1 guest it's part of that fight; hi superb physique, made him the hero of an answer. the school. John caught a glimpse of "Leading to a complete ossific ing w ith bookcases filled w ith valu- the d t j " "You’ve been thinking about this a Gilbert Van Horn waving to him. He of the mind,” Harboard i able volumes, many of which have tone time?" It was a question. stood beside the golden statue. "Boys, ignoring John's words. 'T e e wat been in the Roosevelt fam ily since aO ff and oa for a year, I guess. I ’ve let me down." John kicked free and ran you for some tune, Breen, especially the 1700's. G overnor Roosevelt Gil. I ’m not satisfied. across to van Horn. A great many this last year. I ’m studying, or am i worrying. W . could not fa il to be influenced from I'd hate to sav say it, especially to Pug, people stood about John suddenly trying to study the art of teaching. I realized he was not on the gym floor came here from a small southern col : boyhood by this easy access to the after all he’s done for m t "You’ve told me a lot about the at Greenbough, that his attire was not lege, you and ninety-nisie per rent ol ! world's great literatu re. Bowery, John, and a lot about the East only scanty, but scandalous, he was those here would not know tbe place I t Is a ra re thing in A m erica to Side It ’s the river I ’d like to hear practically m rags. One shoe had dis­ if I mentioned i t ; one horse all the way I find a man living for fifty years in about" Van H orn spoke, haltingly. appeared in the battle, he had not through, and poor. Poor, my boy, ia “W ell, Gil, there's not much to tell. noticed It until his feet touched the money." He smoked thoughtfully fee J one bouse; it is s till ra re r fo r a j a few minutes. "W h a t’s back of aff M y mother was everything on the stone stepe. man to liv e to be fifty In the house ! river. Now that I know more, I real­ “Josephine, this is John Breen. John, this junk," he nodded at the few books, In which he was born. ise she was not able to help me. Gil, my ward, Joeephins." sweeping his pipe over the Utter, A ttention on Silver John stood speechless. H e held the “what are you going to do?" she was beautiful." John's eyes held a far-away look. “H er name was Har-1 hand extended to him. Blue eyes, For a while the two friends sat in T h e re is a feeling in W ashington net, Harriet Jones, of Haverstraw I ■ laughing eyes, smiled at his predica­ silence. John hail tossed his ^rs shad» th a t tbe more Im portant interna know, now, from what I can recall ment. Miss Lambert was completely aside and searched for a pipe. H e had tlonal problems which have played from things I heard, Breen was not aware of the striking situation as she no particelar answer for the question. snch a v ita l p art in o u r own econo­ my father. John spoke slowly. H • '■ t felt the tense grip of the hero of a H e was going to get through, be was his pipe, and looked off over the d a rk -. u!!ege moment Then freshmen mic a ffa irs are on th e ir way to getting through to, well, to do early settlem ent. T h e president's ening valley; it was late afternoon rushed up to John and hoisted him thing, but just what he did not exactly clear of his embarrassment. He turned know. and cloudy. announcem ent th a t he would ad­ Gilbert Van H o m looked off too, far and waved at Joeenhine and Van Horn. "W ell, Breen, if tbe things yon art vocate any settlem ent o f debts ow­ away. H e dared not look at John. G il­ They waved at him in return. The doing are a fair example of the w ork crowd was scattering as Gilbert Van of our schools of technology, our ing to us by the nations of Europe bert knewwnore than John Breen. “M y mother was a good woman, G il H o m and his ward walked down the which would hold out prom ise to highest schools of industrial training, broad steps to the curb. Josephine I know that." driving you at constant overload, I benefit to the A m erican people by “O f course she was, and your 'It­ looked at her white glcve, soiled by don't wonder at some of the things ws restoring our foreign m arkets is er, John, he might be found,’’ the r the fingers of John Breen. They were see alout us. You don't mind me say­ Interpreted In some quarters as man still looked away, his voice was silent on the ride home; Gilbert Van ing this, do you ?" Horn looked out of the window of the opening the door to consideration very low. N o ." John thought a moment, moment. He " If I found him, G il------ " car. Josephine still felt the tingling of a plan whereby paym ent m ight ''Yes, John------ the words were grip of the ycung man in rags. His had an intense admiration fo r a great be accepted In silver a t a fixed expectant The boy paused intenM. smile, his tousled yellow hair and many of his teachers, earnest hard- -kiug men, just, often ... and V I , n wo»- w - “Z’d kill him !" John Breen rote white teeth, and his confusion, and price per ounce, considerably above t u 'l tin lerpaid. “You said something abruptly, his fists clenched, his face his superb arms and body, seemed t its present m arket value. n t the things we see W hat, for flaming. flit across her memory, a vivid pi ture T he conviction Is growing that Then the two men stepped off, at a H e was not at all like the John Breei i:. t ince?” the low price of silver, which is the brisk pace, down the hill toward she had expected to see. "W ell, if you wish, failure is what only money available to h a lf of the Greenbough Farm. Van Horn walked That night Gilbert Van Horn sai we see— the costliest failure in the world's population. Is at the bottom a pace or so behind John; tears were in the library until long after mid­ world. W e see prime youth dumped in his eyes, he could not speak. The night. Josephine had played for him into a machine and sweated and of the low price of commodities hvy started to dogtrot ahead of him. that evening, she too was in a reflec­ ground and pounded until every origi- generally. I f silver were restored but he did not follow as was their tive mood, a romantic girl, a young nal impulse and idea is packed down woman o f eighteen. H e smoked and tinder a concentrated layer of stupidity. to its average price of <0 cents an custom at the end of a hike. e e e dreamed and planned. Gilbert Van I've made a study o f education and ounce, it Is pointed out, the low- "Hey, Jack.” Pug pounded at John’s H ern was determined upon a course have practiced it on others with some exchange nations of the world door a few days later. "Charlie’s of action in which every at**m of results, hut what I see here is a farce. which are on a silver basis, like brought up a letter from Van Horn. A cleverness he possessed would be re­ The brain is intended for u m , not for China, would no longer be able to special on it, for you." Pug burst into quired At last he had achieved an the stowage of freight. The structure absorbing • crupaticn. of the inin I nr ds dei elopment through produce commodities a t h a lf the John’s room. “W ell?*’ Pug was expectant, as full Gilbert d an H o rn. wiser than most action, in thought and reason. Why, cost o f producing them in A m erica men in some matters, left John very dammit, man. they seem to be stuffing of curiosity as E v e and England, and sell them In the much to himself, except at holiday you with the accumulated facts of the “Read it. Pug ” world m arket tn com petition w ith "W hat ths— say. John, I don’t know. periods when the two friends met at ages, regardless of how, or why, the/ What's it about ?'" Greenhouse As for his ward, he a r­ were discov ered ’’ Harboard paused goods produced on the gold stand­ “Here, let me read i t ’Dear John.’ ranged things so she saw but little of filled and relit his pipe while John sat ard of values. I t ’s about a talk we had the day be­ John Breen. The boy was in training, in silence L ikew ise, the people o f those fore he left. 'Dear John, I have been so Van Horn argued, and to break “The worst of the whole thing is eonntrlee. w ith the buying power thinking about what you said. I won training was nothing short of had the aw ful h- pe,«-ssne»s after you are a lot on you in those scraps, and have sportmanship. I-ong trips, visits to of th e ir silver money doubled, through here. Yon are sweated, you would be In a position to buy and been trying to figure a way in which I Newport, the social activities of a are driven and yon survive But what rould tree the money. I f ycu will enter select few in the great city these oc­ do you survive for? W ell, in 1! , pay fo r commodities produced In Columbia, this fall, I ’ll see you through cupied Josephine, and at times she course of time y- •>- strained technical the gold standard countries, which engineering. You can pass the entrance, , (leased herself by a long look at the '•rain has t ) do with the work of men. they can not now do to any great perhaps with a few conditions. I ’m i full length photograph i f Fighting l.laci*i< a credit in Pug's name for five Breen, in ring togs, taken just before extent. thousand, to pay the way. Don't hesi- his 1 attic with the Quaker. This stool I f the United States were to ••t" *o take this You reallv earned o n t h e d r e a r e r in V ~ n Horn’s room. n otify Its Europeas debtors that It would accept silver at. say, fifty T h ere Is a departm ent store every day. And marshm allow s a re ­ against T am m an y’s wishes. cents an ounce, In full paym ent of • e e which sells a ton of m arshm allows n 't p artic u la rly heavy. debts and Interest, It would force T he reconciliation between Al those nations Into the s ilv er m a rk e t Sm ith aDd F rank Roosevelt was a and th e price of the w hite m etal d ram atic public perform ance. ‘‘How would Instantly rise to Its old level. are you, old potato?” was the form- N o t very much has been said yet ln p u b lic 'a b 7 u 7 ”this"piam"b"ut’ i t 'Is er K°'’ern o r'1' * ” * > « " * to the pres- School "Juggling” Bill W ARNING Don’t be M IS L E D ! Destructive Expansion is proposed under the uise of Economy end Consolid«tion, by the 'orn - Macpherson School ' Juggling " Bill, 5 which actually . . . DOES NO T REDUCE BY A SINO LE PENNY the basic State tax you now pay for higher education. ESTABLISHES 4 NEW SCHOOLS, a t Ashland, La G ran d e,' Hugvnr and Salam. CRXATEZ 3 NEW TYPES OF SCHOOLS Junior Col­ leges and Teachers' College, of questionable value to Oregon. ESTABLISHES STATE SUPPORT for Junior Col­ leges In every Oregon elty or town. JUNKS AND DISCARDS OVER »4,000,000.00 of tax­ payer-owned buildings and land. NECESSITATES N B W -B U 1LD IN O FEO O R A M and triples costly equipm ent now a t University or State College. INCEBASBS IN S T R U C T IO N COSTS 36% for U n i­ versity and Oregon State student«. DECREASES W O E K IN O STUDENTS* CHANCES 40%, depriving hundreds of an opportunity for higher education. W RECKS PRESENT U N IF IC A T IO N FLAN Thia plan is saving taxpayers »300,000.00 per year com­ pared w ith previous costs for State schools. DEPRIVES OREGON STATE COLLBOB of Ite high rank as a technical school by submerging of agri­ cu ltural courses. Voters, Think! VOTE The «heve Iscts everwlielm tbe k«lf-4rwfli< and partiel ita ltm a n b , m ad r b y thc pro- ponsnt» ol thli achool " |e ((lla g " Mbeete. 317x No Zom - Macpherson School Moving Bill SCHO OL T A X IA T IR O ABSOC1ATIOH A mbdbb M H w it b , Ghairmaa F. H Yovwo. Mana««* • I t Pacifie B uilding P ortland , O raron. (PA I BETTER L IG H T G ntinued Next Week First Aid Essentials being urged from several quarters I ent " T * 1« '• Vi th ® Dem ocratic cussed here from every angle. T he C8rap8" rn ' " t r «nKth ’ hlcb the Re resignation of James J W a lk e r as 1 Publlcan’ b °P« t0 o f,' et bX mayor of New York threw the Tam - M r t0 ,a k e tbe "tu m P many leaders Into chaos. T hey had Prwll