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T H V R S D A Y ^ A IM JJ^ S T ^ JM T U B SPK IN O FIH LD N EW S PAOS TW O and won third prise of ># 50 each THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS ’ ll l*ubilahe«l tvarv ThuMtlay at Sprtneriehi. Lane Comity. Oregon. by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS U. K. MAXSY. Editor iterea aa »«aond alaa« mattar. February It. 1*0*. at the poelotBee, Springfield. Oregou MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATS Oaa Year la Advance Twe Years la Advance >1.50 >>.5* Six Month« Three Months THURSDAY. AVRIL >0. 1933 TH E SALES TAX Praised by its supporters as a m eans of lifting the heavy tax burden on real and personal property and condemned by its opponents as the ruination of business and an oppres- ser of the poor, the sales tax will be voted on in Oregon at a special election on July 21. The sales tax m easure to be voted upon provides for a 2 per cent tax on the gross income of any business or tra n saction with the exception of those exempt. Exemptions include gasoline and oils, insurance premiums, salaries or wages, larm produce or livestock sold by producer, and sales to governm ent, state or municipality. The tax m ust be passed on to the consum er by addiug it to the sale price of an article and there is a fine imposed for anyone advertising th a t he or she assum es the tax. The revenues derived from the tax are to go to the sta te to offset the general property tax and the half mill tax for the veterans state aid commission. Also $250,000 may be used for benefit of unemployed. After the sta te gets its full am ount to offset the above levies, one-half of the net am ount left (if there is any left) « b a ll be apportioned to the counties according to their tax valuations. The counties will in tu rn apportion the tax for the common school fund of the ?ounty and also to the cities, school district and other tax levying bodies, accord ing to the property valuation in the various subdivisions. The m easures if enacted into law will expire on July 1, 1935. There are obvious benefits from the m easure as pro posed and there are also disadvantages. To our mind it is a question for each individual to settle to his own satisfac tion. Generally we are opposed to any restrictions being placed on business and the right to free trade. But these are exceptional tim es and probably demand exceptional m easures. If we were m aking a sales tax it w ould not be altogther like this one but the question is "take it or leave it” like it is. ----------«---------- W HERE'S THE MONEY GONE? We often hear said there is just as m uch money in the country as there ever was, which is not altogether true if we take into consideration everything used for money in th e process of trade. T here may be as much gold and silver coins and currency or m ore with the recent issue but money in regard to business transactions is not nearly so plentiful. Bank deposits in this counutry decreased from 60 bil lion dollars in 1930 to 30 billion dollars in 1932. Even allow ing for hoarding, which perhaps is greatly over estim ated, it is evident th at m uch of the money represented in the 1930 deposits is completely gone. W ithout adequate credit busi ness and employment is stagnant and actual money is not sufficient. ---------- ♦---------- PROSPERITY . . AT ROWLEY, IA. The town of Rowley, Iowa, has 205 population, living In sixty houses; there are fifteen business institutions in cluding a bank, and three churches. And it is the m ost prosperous town in America, if not in the world. There is not a single delinquent tax payer in the town. Not one resident of the town is on the county poor list. T here has never been a bank failure. If 205 people in one com m unity can m anage their af fairs as well as that, there seems to be no reason why 205.- 000 people, or two million people, or any num ber of people cannot de equally well. The answ er, of course, is politics. Rowley has no large list of salaried taxeaters. Its people run their own affairs. ----------«---------- With w ars and local scraps going on in all parts of the world the editor’s desk still gets its regular contribution from the disarm am ent leagues and war prevention coun cils. D on't those gentlem en and ladies ever read the newspapers? ♦ — Uncle Sam ’s tobacco tax was $300,000,000 last year. Every time you “reach for’’ or “walk a mile” for your favor ite brand of cigarettes you m ake a donation to the public coffers. ---------- «---------- W ith all this rush to get a m ug of the new beer we haven’t seen anybody drunk yet. This 3.2 beer m ay have a kick but not evidently strong enough to knock ’em over. ---------- «---------- Home now days is a place where the daughters come a fte r they are m arried. Q & FAMILY / DOCTOR JOHN JOSEPH GAINES MO NOSE-BLEED A very ancient complaint, and, an annoying one, as yon well know, who are subject to attack s when least expected. Folks with full vessels are liable to it; those with “c a ta rrh ,” the old bogey-man of the quack. Those with high blood- pressure? Weil,, if you have it, the nose-beed is likely to prove helpful a t least for awhile. Let it bleed if you have in creased blood-pressure—it will lower tension. Most people do the very wrong thing for an attack ol nose-bleed; they rush to a basin of warm water, and try to get as much of it in the nose as possible. I’ve seen men try to drive their fore fingers into the nostril as far as possible, for w hat purpose they could not tell. They snort, blow the nose violently, rasp the throat, and do everything to keep up the local uproar. Everything but the right thing,— which it to try to quiet the nerves, cease snorting, poking fingers and washing out with warm water. . . . Ju st be still, if you can. Let it drain, a t least till the doctor comes, if you were so scared that you sent for him post-haste. Every individual has his own time of blood-coagulation. This is im portant to him—th a t is, the num ber of m inutes it takes his blood to form a clot, which arrests the nose bleed. A clot cannot ever form, under warm w ater douches, and fore-finger pokings, and snortings. Sit still—be still —apply cold if anything—snort not a t all. Gentle pressure a t sides of nose may slow down blood flow. Firm pressure up-and-down and m aintained -each side of nose. No time wasted, no harm done if it does not help. But be quiet— deliberate; I never saw a death from nose-bleed. The tim e to cure nose-bleed is to get next your good doctor WHEN THE NOSE IS N’T BLEEDING. Tell the doc to r I said so. ■>H RUBY M . A Y R tS ® OoutUbAY >O»AU Co EDENVAI E CANNERS Mrs Laird reorganised the club SET ENVIABLE RECORD In IN I with nine member« This year Myrna Laird won third prise Leading a Fuur-ll canning club with her exhibit at the county lair. organised In 1030 and reorganising She and Miss Wallace alao demon- It each summer since that time with 1 slrated In the aecond division of all members completing their pro canning and won first at both the ' Jects each year Is an enviable aolt county And state fairs. The slat» jlevemenl for moat club leaders. To fair prlae being a >15 scholarship I have your workers win high awards hi the Four II summer school. each year In their exhibition work In >»33 the club was again or Is something more to be promt of. Hoch Is the position of Mrs. Italph ganised with seven member«. This vear Miss Laird won first, (’lella "I'm all right I shan't be In to ! I.nlrd of Kdeuvale. In ui y second. Agnes Wallses third, lunch " In the summer of 1030 she or In the third division of the county Out In the street she hailed a ganised a canning club with eight fair. Kllsaheth Holcomb won fit'll taxicab and gave the address of a members all of which completed In division 1 Miss Laird and Miss flat, off Park Avenue iheir projects and competed In the Wallace won flrala lu the third divi "If only I didn't have to go on county fair. Myrna Laird won a sion nl laith the county and elate living." Iluihara thought; then she fourth prise with her exhibit al the lair« that season also with their laughed aa she wondered whether county fair tlladye Wallace had Pauline would ask her to be god- prise cherries which were sent to canning work. Mrs. lotlrd la now planning to mother to Dennis' aon. the Chicago International fair. The taxi stopped, and she gut out Myrna Laird and Agnes Wallace reorganise the club of girls for the and paid the fare; then, without also demonstrated at the slate fair 1B3!I season. hesitating, she walked Into the en trance of the flats. A porter came forward. "Can you tell me which flat la Mr. Stark's?" Ilarbara asked, "The second floor, madam—I’ll . Formerly Priced up to $7.00 taka you up In the lift." Fit Yourself For Only 98c "Thank you I'll walk I'm not In u hurry." You c a n ’t uffortl to neglect your eyesight when you She went slowly up the stone can buy these high quality glasses at such u small price. stairs. Douglas would be surprised Gold. Silver and Tortoise Shell mountings. lo see her, or wouldn't he? It didn't matter much either way—probably SCOTT’S DRUG STORE he wouldn't be up. Successor to Ketels Drug Store She rang the bell and waited. LOYAL K. SCOTT. Prop. After a moment her husband s man servant came to the door. "From Jerry?" She liwked »ur- man go—send hint back to hl* wife prtaed. an<l the sudden relief sent and to the life that Is his by right." "God, oh. Ood," Barbara whl» , the color rushing hack headlong to her white face. "What did he want pored She tried to beat down that with you? I haven't aeen him for whispering voice, tried not to hear It. Then she felt Dennis' face some time " against her shoulder, pressed to It He came to talk about you." as If he were an unhappy boy. and •About me?" She shrugged her felt his arms folding her closer. shoulders. "Was he very tnelodra- closer. "Ilarbara If you ever loved matlo? Did he beg you to give me me . . . oh. my dear one." up and not to ruin hts life?" She tore herself free. She stood "Something like It O tlarn s (jack against the table, panting a voice sounded thick and unnatural wh|te to the lips Something like It." He caught hl» tru e-- ghe said. "Ifa true— breath on a hard sound before he what Jerry told you It's true, true, broke out savagely: 'He told me ,ruet- you were his mistress." • • » Barbara stared down at the gray jt «eemesl such a loug time since ash on the end of her eltgarette. «he had spoken those words—she His mistress! Jerry's mistress! was sure that a whole lifetime had She wanted to laugh, and she want- come and gone since she tore her- ed to cry. It was a lie. Thank Uod. 8<.|f from Dennis O'Hara s arms, it was not the truth, and yet—It and waited for him to speak. She might so very nearly have been. had not moved her eyes from him— she knew It might be the last time But it was a lie all the aam she would ever see him. and she thank God! i.^fc^.i wanted to remember him faithfully The gray ash tell, and she looked — the obstinate chin and sensitive up Into O'Hara's face. "Well—what did you say?" she asked. She was confident of what he had said; most likely he had kicked Jerry downstairs—poor dear Jerry! "I told hint I should db what I have done. I told him I should come straight to you and tell you." “Oh"’ For a moment she felt paralysed; this, then, meant that Dennis believed It—believed It. She drew her hand from his and stood up. "Why have you come to me?" she asked slowly. "Do you want me to swear with my hand on the Bible that I am a spotless saint?" •No—no." “Would you believe me If 1 did swear It?" Dennis fell back from her with a | smothered groan. 'My God. I don't know. Men don't j i lie about such things.” Barbara’s white lips forme«! a i She heard him sob as he turned a w ay, and there was a traglo silence. j question. "Do they really talk about such Barbara said. "Good morning, mouth — honest eyes —brown hair, I things?" Richards—Is Mr. Stark In?" his far« I and the broad shoulders against He came back to her, "Yes, madam—Just going out." ' which her head had rested for the white, his eyes tragic. "I’l go In. You need not announce "It sounded like the truth. I'm no only happy moments she had ever me. saint, but you and that man—my known. She walked across the hall with Barbara smiled a little and held God. Barbara—If it's true—" unfaltering step and Into the sitting "You mean—you believe that It out her hand. room. It smelled of spirits and cigar Is?" Although she knew It was all He made no answer, and she said over she felt that she must make smoke and was overheated. A man in a voice that was only so very j one |agt appeal to him—an appeal stood by the sideboard emptying a still because it was so unutterably whlch gbe knew w„„ld dlgre tumbler. Barbara said. “G«x>d morning. tragic: ‘Very welt. then, go on he-! garded Douglas" lievlng It. I ..jn Mpjte of everything—I'm the "God Almighty!" Like a woman in a dream she womM , wa< n,gh, Douglas Stark was a good-looking heard Dennis trying to explain, to ghf> man. a little puffy under the eyes, excuse himself, to defend himself . "I knew the kind of life you lead Afterward she wondered If he and a little red In the complexion. really "What do you want?" he de You always knock about with men. | I've always heard—It was Pauline spoke. She heard him cross the lit manded gruffly, to hide hie emotion "Only to say that—If you—If you who defended you—always; she tle hall, open the front door, and shut it again behind him—that was like—I'll come back—co. no—" as would never hear a word." he moved toward her. "Walt. It's Barbara's stiff lips smiled. "Ah— all. Then presently she found herself on condition we go abroad—at once, Pauline!” The thought of Pauline was like a gentle hand laid on a kneeling by the fire, and wondering and travel—for as long as you like terrible wound In her heart, and yet hopelessly why she could not cry —months—years! I'm sick of New Its very gentleness was agony. And She could have kept him. but she York. Sick to death. Well—will you go?" Dennis blundered on. his sheer hon- had let him go. Why? "Will 1—hell!" He made a sort "Because I'm a damned fool,” she esty and distress making every told herself with shaking lips. But of excited lunge toward her. but word an insult. And Barbara laughed, a harsh she knew It was not; she knew It she deftly avoided him. "We're not married yet, you steely laugh that was like a knife was because of a child she had once know. Besides—I hate sentiment.' held in her arms for a little while cut In the tragedy of the room. "You reem to have had an entertaining that she had not found it possible He looked at her admiringly yet dlsbellevlngly. night, altogether. Did you sit up till to Injure a child of Pauline's. "You hate sentiment—pooh! How Mellish came to the door. the small hours of the morning tear long Is It since a man kissed you?" "Did you call me?" she asked. ing me to pieces?” She caught her For a moment Barbara wavered "Bring me some brandy, will you? breath har hly. "Fine gentlemen. and looked back Into the past—such . both of you—and you both pretend I'm so cold." ' to love me.” I "There’s a nice fire, too,” Mrs. a little way back—only to last night; then she laughed. Dennis said fiercely: "I did love Mellish said. "You should know!" she cried. "Yes," Barbara agreed "Bring the you—-Ood knows I did love you.” Already In the past! "I did love brandy to m y bedroom, please. I’m "It seems like years and years." going out.” i yon.” not "I do!” There are three times as many "Onastly! Ohastly!” she thought, She saw his hand go out to her, salesmen here aa there are sales and hunted for rouge. I then fall again to his aide. Mrs. Mellish brought the brandy. women "He swore It! He said he’d been here with you alone, night after night— Is that the truth?" "Yes." 55 She heard him sob as he turned away, and there was a tragic all- ence. Then he came hack once more. "That’s nothing—” and she knew ' that he was trying to convince hlm- nelf rather than to apologize to her for his suspicions—"It's nothing, I know, nowadays. Girls often go to • We are well equipped to give you a prompt, complete men's flats—don’t they? It Isn’t what I should like Pauline to do—” printing service of “The Printing 'S taples’ Used in Barbara turned away. "Pauline.” "—But she's different from you,” Every Businewi Com m unity.” he went on hoarsely. “She’s led These “Staples” are the printing th a t you are using such a sheltered life, and you—” Then suddenly he was gripping her day a fter day, week a fter week, and m onth after arms with frenzied hands. "Tell me —tell me the truth If you've never month. told It to me before. Tell me!" • Cheek your supplies-on-haud NOW. If exhausted or Barbara closed her eyes and swayed In his grasp. 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It Is a well known fact th at Ihe white race could not long survive without dairy products. Ask your dealer in Eugene or Springfield for MAID 0 ’ CREAM PRODUCTS Springfield Creamery Co. GREASING Your automobile cost plenty iu the beginning be cause you wanted m echanical |>erfectlun in a good car. Why lose the advantage of this perfection by neglect. Have your car properly lubricated with good grease and oils by experts at this station. “ A ” Street Service Station Springfield 5th and A Streets Pep U p WITH CANDY Bpring Is here and there is nothing so good for “spring fever” or that tired feeling as a few pieces of candy. Good candy Is concentrated food and produces more energy, commonly called "pep” than nearly any other food. If It is Kgginiann's candy It Is truly delicious as well as satisfying. 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