THURSDAY. MAY t l . 1933
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government loans to he repaid out
of earnings. For example, the new
bridge across (be Golden Gate at
l*ubltghed Every Thueaday at
San Francisco and the Grand Is
Sprtncfleld, laute County, Oregon. by
land bridgs in the Niagara river be
tween Buffalo and Niagara Falls
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
ar>* being financed by the Rerun-
U. K. MAXEY. Editor
.'structton Finance Corporation. hut
I they will be toll bridges and will
Batored aa »««ood elaau matter. February 14. 1903, at the poatotlt««,
Springfield. Oregon
eventually earn enough to repay
a y R A O F O R O M oaur (be loans.
MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATE
The same pqlicy may bo adopted
One Tear la Advance
$1 50
Six Month»
1100
Washington. D. C., May 11
Twe Yearn In Advance — 11 5«
Three Montha
10c President Roosevelt. after more for power projects and other enter
prises which are sure to earn
¡than a month in office. Is still enough Io pay hack the loan.
THURSDAY. MAY U. 1931
i riding the top wave of popularity
Where the money Is cotuiug from
!
and authority. He is growing in Iho
SPRINGFIELD'S PROBLEM
esteem of many who undervalued to lend, enough of It Io make Ibis
Out of 191 towns in Oregon here are the only eleven him before he took office, and cer policy of stimulating business and
that can beat Springfield for a high tax levy: Astoria. Ban tainly is proving himself the best putting men buck to work big
don, Bay City, Bend, Hammond, North Bend. Newport. politician who has occupied the enough to make a dent In the un
employment slluallou. is another
Onreeo, Seaside. Vale and Warrenton. Springfield can While House in many years.
take its place in the hall of fame as one of the doten highest
There is no politics, however, in question. There is talk about «
taxed places in Oregon, this year.
the plan for refinancing farm mort huge bond issue, perhaps running
Springfield’s total levy this past year, now payable, gages which the preaideut proposes the national debt up from Its pres
was 85.6 mills. (State 21.5, city 40.9 and school district 23.2) and which congress doubtless will eat twenty-one thousand million
If there is ever to be any noticeable relief from this heavy adopt. Under this plan the Farm dollars to thirty billions.
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burden of taxes it must nearly all come from the 64.1 mill
levy we have been making for strictly local purposes. While
this is not the most pleasant subject to discuss, it vitally
affects all of us, and will ultimately lead to a tragic end for
some of us. We believe that the utmost effort should be
made to find a solution to this community problem.
The city is paying $13,608 interest on bonds this year
or nearly as much as it takes to operate our municipal gov
ernment. Added to this is $15,000 for a bond sinking fund.
The total city bonded debt is $146,600.
School district 19 still has a $69,000 bonded debt for
which it is taking $3,500 interest and $3,300 for principal.
Our high tax rate defeats its own purpose— the higher
the rate the less money we collect under present conditions.
The tragic part about the situation is that we are marching
steadily toward the day when a lot of our people are going
to lose their homes which to many represent the savings
of nearly a lifetime. But even the sheriff sale is not the
end. When one piece of property is sold to the county for
taxes and goes off the rolls the public debt burden is shifted
to the owners of other property thus increasing the load on
those who do pay.
If we were to close the city hall and cut our school
operating expenses in half we would still be paying a high
tax rate. Our chief trouble is our city and school district
bonded debt. The fault is partly our own for not making
more substantial debt reduction payments in past years
when we were able and partly the condition of the times.
However, 85.6 mills is much to great a levy to pay even in
the best of times.
Our only solution under present conditions, as we see
it* is to secure some relief from our bond holders. Rather
than go forward to wholesale tax foreclosure and ultimate
bankruptcy, we think city and school board officials should
contact these bond holders and attempt to negotiate both
a reduction in principal and interest rates.
Whether this plan would be successful we can not say,
but no one will know until it is tried. Certainly we should
do something toward solving this public problem rather
than wait in bewilderment, hoping that some miracle will
happen.
Bond holders who are asking for face value of their
paper now are expecting a great deal more than they actual
ly gave, owing to the great change in the value of the dollar
There is a possibility that many of them can be convinced
of that fact.
Our problem is no different from hundreds of other
cities but that does not alter conditions. Misery now days
has plenty of company. The legislature attempted to set
up machinery for dealing with the municipal debt situation
by passing a receivership law. But it is doubtful if this pro
vides a solution as bond selling has been interstate and hold
ers living without the state have access to federal court.
We believe it best to ask for a voluntary reduction in
the face value of outstanding bonds and interest rate cuts
rather than resort to receivership.
It is easy to be a public official when everything iB
running smoothly. Councilmen and school directors who
can make headway in relieving the present financial pro
blem will be displaying real public leadership as well as
earning the everlasting gratitude of small home owners.
Ioan board will lake over farm
mortgages, extending the time for
their payment and establishing the
interest rate al 4tj percent.
Under the blanket authority
granted him by congress to reduce
the governmental expenditures. Mr.
Roosevelt's director of the budget.
Lewis E. Douglas, has worked out
a system which will cut an esti
mated nine hundred million a year
off the federal expenses. It will still
cost some four thousand millions a
year to operate the federal ma
chine. and just how this money Is
to be raised Is not yet completely
clear. There will have to be some
new revenue legislation, but that la
still in the future.
Besides cutting about $400.000,-
’ 000 a year off veteran relief. Mr.
Douglas' economy pr igram calls for
i a fifteen percent reduction In all
! federal salaries. This will affect
! pretty close to a million people on
jUncle Sam's payroll, for it includes
j the army and navy as well as civil
i employees.
Not
in the
Budget
Such an Issue would not neces
sarily interfere with "balancing the
budget.“ since the Interest charges
on such a bond Issue would be com
paratively small, and one chaiwte
which is impending In our govern
mental system Is In its hook-keep
tng. In which moneys raised by
loans will he kept separate from
those raised by laxatlon. Current
expenses and Interest on loans are
expected to be paid out of taxes;
there is no suggestion now of pav
ing off the principal of atty of the
existing loans or the projected new
ones.
In this matter of public works,
the expectation Is that contractors
and suppliers of materials will be
required to adopt the thirty-hour
week for labor, six hours a day,
five days a week And bn Its own
initiative the senate has under con
sideration a bill which would com
pell all private industry engaged In
Inlbrstate commerce to adopt the
thirty-hour week, under penalty of
having tta products tairred from
Protection fo r Investors
There Is ■» every reason to expect trade across state lines.
that the administration's plan for
T h a t Roosev«ii Hum or
. federal control of all new Issues
The
personal life of the Roose
' of stocks and bonds and perhaps
velts in the White House is ¡he
also over the sales of old Issues,
will be adopted substantially as the subject of Innumerable uncedotcs
. president has requested It, This is Illustrating the simplicity and
calculated to do away with many home-likeness of the executive
of the frauds which were perpétra mansion’s new occupants. They
ted upon a gullible public during keep practically open house tor
the recent boom. It Is also a part their friends and casual acquain
of the program for the protection tances. just as they did at their
of the investor for the government home In Hyde Park. And the ver
to exercise a high degree of con diet of Washington Is that they are
trol over all exchanges In which not exhibiting any of the signs of
securities and commodities are "swelled head'' which have some
times afflicted presidential fami
traded in.
lies.
The senate finance committee’s
One lady who was invited in an
investigation of the banking situa
tion has been extended to private offhand way by Mrs. Roosevelt to
banking institutions, and the great come to dinner said at the table:
"I never expected to dine In the
house of J. P. Morgan & company
Is to be one of the first called upou White House."
“You've got nothing on me." re
I to tell how private investment
plied President Roosevelt.
banking houses work.
The general banking policy of
the administration is beginning to MANY U. O. STUDENTS
take shape. It looks as if it would
QUALIFY FOR HONOR
i work out into a single banking aye-
' tem under which every bank would
A total of 58 seniors at the Uni
; be required to be a member of the versity of Oregon have been found
Federal Reserve system and per with grade standings high enough
haps to have a Federal charter. It to make them eligible to Phi Beta
I would be easy and legal to force Kappa, national honorary scholas
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I State banks to become National tic fraternity. From this list 20 or
banks by imposing a prohibitive 25 will be chosen. To be eligible a
THE PROSPECTOR CROP
I tax on their checks, for example, student must have n grade average
We have been told from time to time by prospectors or by refusing to let them partici of 2.00 for all work taken in the
that there was gold in our nearby hills. Now we see hun pate In any plan for the insurance university. Election of new mem
dreds rushing into the Winberry and Fall Creek area and or guarantee of deposits.
bers will take place about May 20.
they have staked out a whole township. Gold is every
For the Unemployed
where if you ask one of these new prospectors. Surely we
The president's plan for putting
must take the situation seriously when so many people are
saying the same thing and are producing assays to prove it. 1 an army of unemployed at work In
There no doubt will be several companies organized the national forests has been ap
to mine these claims and a great deal of assessment work proved by congress, and there Is
will be done by others. We would not pretend to give any little doubt that he will get, per
one advice as to investment in gold mines neither will we haps before this Is printed, the
make slighting remarks about something we are not cap authority he seeks to lend five
able of judging. We think that this should be the attitude hundred millions to the states for
of all who are in our class. If these prospectors are right direct unemployment relief. Every
then the biggest asset in Lane county beyond all doubt has possible effort to put men back to
been discovered. If not, well it’s just another gold rush. work Is being made, and Intensive
But in any case Lane county can not afford to overlook any study is being given to numerous
bet when it comes to new development of God given re “self-liquidating" projects of public
: work, which might be financed by
sources.
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Now that Herriot has had his “parley vous” with Presi
dent Roosevelt we have not heard the French say, “Oui
monsieur” to the back war debt payments.
Q & FAMILY
, DOCTOR
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES UO
YOUR PHYSICIAN
“Doctor, what’s the matter with m e?”
"Can you cure it?”
These two questions make the “horns” of the dilemma
in every case treated or applying for treatment. Both
questions are of the highest importance for the doctor and
patient.
A doctor may know exactly what the trouble is—he
may be the best of diagnosticians— yet he may be sadly
deficient in his knowledge of the best remedies for the
disease; so broad and deep is the science of medicine!
I believe there are hundreds— thousands of patients
treated and cured—when the diagnosis was absolutely a
mistaken one. How? Well, the skillful doctor treated
the important symptoms.
The best doctor strives to be equal to the answer to
both of these questions at the head of this letter; happy
the physician that can, truthfully answer both.
Suppose the doctor cannot accurately diagnose the
case— yet believes he has done bo ; I’d trust that doctor any
where. Why? Just because he knows what remedy to apply
for the symptoms.
I would be perfectly willing for a doctor to treat me
who knows well the action of the medicine he uses; he
knows the cause that will bring about the effect. A good
physiologist is a good doctor; the man who knows healthy
life is quick to recognize any departure from it. Physiology
is the science of life.
I am not so devilish particular about a technical diag
nosis; I do not care how many red cells a man has, just so I
know he is anaemic. Now laugh, if you want to!
EGG AND BU ITER
PRICES S M I
Lioan««« l««u«d Before July.
1931 Must Be Renewed by
September Saya Ho««
Pacific Coast Market« Adv- j
anead Over Year Ago; Early
Chick Sale« in Slump
kVwer commercial chick were
hatched during the first three
months this year than last, hut taler
orders Isaiked Indicate an Increase
for the eastern part of the country
over last year, according to a re
view of the poultry sttautlou Issued
by the Oregon Htnte college eaten
slon service.
Heaviest decrease for the first
three month» was tn the north can
tral United States where the pro
duction of salable chicks was to par
cent under a year ago. The Pacific
coast Is maintaining a fairly even
trend being 3 per cent under last
year tor March, with Indications
of 4 per cent below for later book
lugs Bookings for the whole coun
try for April and later showed an
Increase of 1« per cent over last
year.
Egg Production Low
Promotion rant.’ fa»t <«’• Avina«»
Welle» of Maryland. No «<>’
’ >“•
■tailed aa A»»l»tant Secretary of
Stale than President Ruuwveh now
¡ a n t e d h u l l to be Ambauadct tv Cuba.
next meeting for
LEGION IS CANCELLED
ttegulur meeting of the Spring-
field American Legion I«'"* number
40, which »hntild be lield on May
18. will be cancelled because of
the County Chamber of Commerce
meeting to be held here al that
time It was decided at Ute Legion
seaalon held Thursday evening of
laal week. The next meeting of
the local P««l will he held al Walt
erville on Julie I with a potluck
dinner preceding the aeoslon. It ha»
been announced.
Egg prices are In favorable posi
tion for producers in Portland com
pared with a year ago. Instead of
the usual heavy decline they have
held up so that curly In May quota
Holts were hack Io the level of a
month ago and two cents above the
same period a year ago.
Coast production has been In
creasing slightly bul remains from “THE ELECTION’ TITLE
13 to 16 per cent under a year ago. ;
OF HIGH SCHOOL SKIT
Middle western production has
been definitely declining for tre
A »hurl aklt entitled "The Elec
lust few weeks.
tion" waa presented by n group of
Butter Prices Up on Coast
Springfield high school hoya before
Butter markets at Portland have
the atudent body at the assembly
also taken the opposite trend this
period Friday. Tho«e taking part
spring front that usually followed
In the program were Allen Sneed,
at this season. Prices early la May
Leonard Ruth. Hunter Skinner, DI»
hud gone higher thau the month
que Smith, Anion« Cchytil. and
previously undl were aa murh as ¡
Lorry Idles.
5 cents above the corp spending!
time a year ago.
Farm ers Crow Bread Flavoring
Nationally the butter tnurket was | Caraway and Blue poppy seed to
nervous and unsettled as dealers | he used by bakers In flavoring
tried to anticipate the effect of the breads are being grown by several
Inflationary legislation. Reports' Clackamas county farmers this year
were that the rise uf 15 to 2? per ¡ at the request of a Montana seed
cent iu prices there was largely due > house, reports J J Inskeep, county
to such anticipation of the currency agent, through whose office the
legislation.
seed has been distributed.
Nearly 500 thrifty motorists are
obtaining renowala of their driving
llcenaea each day, according Io re
porta just received front Hal K
H om , secretary of elate, and at thia
rate al least 13.000 persona are ex
peeled to have completed their
registrations under the 50 cent fee
during the lour week period ending
June 9.
The cancellation of all operators
license« on September 1 that ware
Issued between 1930 and July I,
1931, and Hie subsequent renewal
ot all types of drivers llcenaea earlt
Iwo year» beginning on June 30,
1935. was decreed by the recent
session of legtalature. This mean»
that all persona carrying original
llcvifaes. or duplicates of original»
laaued prior Io July 1, 1931. mu»t
obtain new card« before Heplember
I of thia year. Under the new
law, which becomes effective on
June 9. these llcenaea will coal $1,
hut under existing laws, thia same
|lcenae**la selling for 60 renta and
la valid for Iht same two year per
lud.
Procedure Captained
To obtain a renewal llcenaa ba
fore June 9. the applicant should
flral tend Ihe questions and ana
wers that ho la required Io answer
on a simple examination blank.
These questions with their ap
proved answers can be found In the
Oregon Motorist's Manual, free
copies of which are available at the
city hall, the county sheriffs office,
the News office, or by writing to
Secretary Hoag. To finally get Ihe
license. Ihe applicant must are an
examiner who will supply the nec
essary blank» and forma for the
completion of the application.
Motorists are cautioned not to
send renewal fees by mall to the
secretary of state aa thia form of
registration cannot be accepted nn
til after June 9 Hundreds of such
applications are being returned
euch day, coating both the applicant
and the atute extra postage
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Dusts Control S pittle Bugs
Hydrated lime or two per cent i
nicotine dust are two materials ad
vocated by the entomology depart
ment at Oregon State college for
control of spittle hugs on straw-!
berries. The hydrated lltne Is the -
cheaper but does not give as com- i
píete control us the more expensive ,
nicotine dust. Either power or hand
dusters are needed for either ma I
terinl, as carelessly throwing the
dust on the plants gives poor re-1
suits. Further details for prepara-'
lion of these materials may be had -
from any county agent.
Lubricating the Right Way
T his station can lubricate your car by chart and
w ith the proper lu bricants fo r each w orking part. We
use only the best lubricants In the hands o f cx|terlcnced
mechanics, thus assuring you a thorough job at the
lowest price.
General Ethyl, Violet Ray anti Motogas are the
satisfaction gasolines sold at this station.
“ A ” Street Service Station
5th and A Street«
Springfield
Cooperative Cannery Planned
Plans are nearing completion for 1
a cooperative community cannery !
In the Eagle Valley district near'
Baker. County Agent P. T. Fortner,
accompanied by members of the!
orgunlatlon committee plan making
a trip to Hermiston In the near fu l
turo to observe the orgnnlatlon anil ;
set-up of the cooperative cannery I
which has functioned so successful
ly at that place.
FOR
Mothers Day
N othing w ill please Iter more than a box o f Eggl-
n ia n n ’s candy. Specially packed in be a u tifu l boxes
appropriate fo r the occasion we arc prepared to glad
den any m other's heart. Chocolates and other candy
in assorted flavors, very delicious and be a u tifu l to look
at make up th is m other's day selection.
DON’T GET UP NIGHTS
OREGON JOURNALISTS
Make This 25c Test
Physic the bladder easily. Drive)
RATE HICH IN CONTEST
E ggim ann’s is ready fo r all events.
|out Impurities and excessive acldn
The Oregon Stale college chapter I which cause Irritation that results ;
leg pain«, backache, burning and '
of Sigma Delta Chi, national Jour In
getting up nights. Bu-KETS. the
nalism fraternity, tied for third bladder physic, containing buchu, i
place and the University of Oregon Juniper oil, etc. works on the blad !
ranked fifth In the national effici der pleasantly and effectively, slm l-!
ency contest conducted by the or lar to castor oil on the bowels. !
Get a 25c box (5 grain size) from I
ganlzation, a bulletin Just received your druggist. After four days, If1
here stated. Oregon State tied not relieved of getting up nights go
with Indiana, with 76 points while' back and get your money. You are
the university chapter was Just a I bound to feel better after this
cleansing and you get your regular
point under, with 75 points.
sleep. Sold by Flattery's Drug store.
Our Only Anxiety—Over Inflation
EUROPEAN
PJLAN
TAKING T3STS
R G Gl M ANNI’S
“Where the Service I» Different”
•Hy Albert T. Reid
W ATCH
YOUR, CO AT
AN D HAT
NOW , O CA«.,- DO YOU R tA L L Ÿ
T hiwk you can reduce a
B it a n y T ime you W ant to ?
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DO YOU REALLY KNOW
tfc« LO W COST of "ALL ELECTRIC" SERVICE
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The u ie of
A L L ELECTRIC"
service In your home
corresponds to quantity-buying of groceries or any
other commodity. The larger the quantity purchased,
the less cost per unit; and the more electric current
you use the less cost per kilowatt hour.
•
Y ou and your family will enjoy the comfort and
convenience that arc brought to you with the increas
ed use of electricity I You will appreciate the low cost
of this up-to-the-n,oiut< service.
MOUNTAIN STATES
PO W IR COMPANY
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