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THURSDAY, MAY 2B. IMS
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N E W S
Published Kvery Tbuwxlay at
Spriugflsld, Lana County, Oregon, by
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If the county unit plan of school operation were adopted
in this county it is estim ated that Springfield would have to
pay a 10 or 12 mill levy instead of the 23.2 mills being col
lected this year. Likely this m easure passed by the legisla
ture as optional in the counties will be voter! upon at the
July 21 special election. A movement is now under way to
place it on the ballot, and the county cham ber of comm erce
has asked each local cham ber, grange and fa n n e rs’ union
to express them selves on the m easure.
Under the pro posed plan all Lane county except Eugene
school district 4, will be placed In one large school district
and will be under the direction of five directors. These
directors will employ a county school superintendent and a
full time clerk and other assistants. The county will be
zoned and a director nom inated from each zone but voted
on by the whole county except Eugene.
Savings are expected to In* made by closing sm aller
schools and transporting pupils to larger centers, and by
more efficient operation. Also the saving in salary now paid
to individual district clerks is expected to be more than suf
ficient to run the county school superintendent's office.
B etter schools for less money has resulted where the
county unit plan has been adopted. From an economy and
educational standpoint the county unit plan lias merit. On
the other hand local control of schools is released and com
m unity pride and dem ocratic governm ent is interferred
with. But as we see it the power given the directors, serv
ing without pay, in Jh e county unit plan is no more drastic
than the nation is placing in the hands of the president be
cause an em ergency exists.
An em ergency plainly exists in Lane county schools.
The way tax collections are shrinking inside of two years
more than half of the schools in I^ane county will be closed
and m ost of the people will owe a whale of a big tax bill.
T eachers can not eat worthless warrants- nor will they buy
fuel and other supplies.
In Klamath, Cook and Lincoln counties where the coun
ty unit plan has been adopted it is reported to be working
satisfactorily. K lam ath’s school tax levy is tf mills. All three
counties have had sufficient money to run their schools and
to pay off indebtedness even with tax delinquincies running
higher than in Lane county.
There are some things about the county unit law we
do not exactly like, but schools run under this plan are bet
ter than no schools at all. We believe th at Springfield will
be ahead by supporting the m easure.
A FASHION NOTE FROM THE BIBLE
We read a report in a New York paper of a convention
of beauty shop jieople a few weeks ago. According to this
report the m ost interesting things in the exhibits were re
movable lips, dem ountable eyelashes, devices to change the
shape of the nose, apparatus to hold the ears back, artificial
eye-sparkle and little pictures for fingernail decoration.
We began to wonder how women could be so foolish
as to think th at such artificialities, m ake them attractive
to men. But before we had got to the point of raising an
outcry against this degenerate m odern age we happened to
think th a t we had read som ething of the sort before.
We looked it up and found it, w ritten more than two
thousand years ago by a prophet named Isaiah.
The daughter of Zion are haughty, and walk with
stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and m inc
ing as they go and m aking a tinkling with their feet. In th at
day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling
ornam ents about their feet, and their cauls, and their round
tires like the moon, the chains and the bracelets and the
m ufflers, the bonnets and the ornam ents of the legs- and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, the ring and
nose jewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and the m an
tles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses and
the fine linen, and the hoods and the veils.”
Perhaps it wouldn’t be any use for us to try to talk the
girls out of their finery. Apparently Isaiah’s th reats didn’t
< hange feminine nature, which seem s to be about the same
now as it was in Old T estam ent days. But we have an idea
th at the girls of Isaiah’s time, like those of today, didn’t
put on their dew-dads so much to m ake them selves in ter
esting to m en as to m ake other women envious. That, how
ever, is a m ere m an’s point of view.
We ve always heard that alcohol and gasoline would
not mix but here come the “new deal” chem ists advising
the governm ent th at a certain am ount of alcohol will pep
up gasoline to the benefit of the grain and fruit industry
They recom m end compelling the mixing of alcohol and g as
oline for m otor fuel.
Now if the adm inistration can mix oil and w ater they
will have accomplished the unattainable.
I he generation th at is voting liquor in all over the
county is not altogether the one th a t voted it out since
those eligible to vote the iirst time now were only six years
old when prohibition was adopted. This may be largely the
cause of the overwhelmingly wet vote. Young people for
centuries have chafed under the conventionalities of their
elders. Now they are in open revolt on prohibition.
The Democratic adm inistration m ust be accredited
with a certain am ount of political wisdom. The people are
advised th at if the 18th am endm ent is repealed it will not
be necessary for congress to pass a sales tax on all the peo
ple. Liquor will pay the bilPso the adm inistration declares
and points to the m any sheckles rolling in from beer sales.
J. P. Morgan- Jr. says th a t a m an who takes a 20 mil
lion dollar loss in one year should not pay an income tax.
Hut most folks believe th at ft is worth som ething to have
the privilege of losing th a t much.
F ir« l l In<talltripnf
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COUNTY UNIT CUTS SCHOOL COSTS
The Egyptians built the pyram ids to give men work
during a depression. They have stood through the years
as a m onum ent to that ancient co u n try ’s foolishness. From
the recom m endations being made our governm ent on how
to spend R. F. C. money it appear we have raised a crop of
pyramid builders in the United States.
7XENE
WOMAN
4 -S T A R G A S O L IN E
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««»vus-kv
I ’1"' *“,f ” f ,be ,'" 1 **** **•”*'* toward
her. iHittinu
her,
putting hi>
his hand-*
hands on her
»boulders.
"W hy, what's the matter, dear?
Head pretty had? Oh, 1 say. did 1
hurt you? You poor kidl ’
He drew back a little. Joyc* had
involuntarily flinched when his hands
torn hed her.
The thought Hashed into Joyce’s
confused mind that if he fancied she
| were ft ally ill, he might after all not
go away. And sb- must have time
T, recover from the shock and decide
“Fill up your lank and Id your engine decide.”
“ A ” S tre e t S erv ic e S ta tio n
¡of the titcping p.wch and stood for
j
fr
w nil
iiiinit« in
a
frw
moments
in the wjrth
warm anti.
sun
shine, paring out eagerly, beneath
her lav a terraced gard< n, full of a
blare of flowers. A high hedge sur
rounded the garden, down one side
of which grew a row of slender
Italian cynressrs, slit? and dark and
theatrical looking. Beyond the hedge
stretched a huge orchard of fruit
trees. Joyce stared down at it in
amarement. She had never seen such
an enormous orchard in her life,
t he rows of while-blossomed trees
Even before she opened her eyes,
Joyce was aware of being <|i a
strange place. For the moment, how
ever, she was still text drowsy to
make anv effort to move. A dull ache
¡throbbed in her bead. Her whole
body felt heavy, weighed down by an
insistent lassitude.
I '1 hen other sensations asserted
¡themselves. Her Hngrrs, moving
languidly, sent to her drowsy brain
the message of some sort of cool
silken material under their sensitive
tips.
She kept her eyes shut while she
tried to think things out. She remem
bered perfectly now. . . . She was in
a taxi going to the Hotel Blackstone
in Chicago. It was sleeting, and in
the traffic another machine skidded
suddenly and crashed into them.
And then they had brought her—
where?
I t didn't smell in the least like a
hospital. And the bed was softer than
any cot she had ever felt.
Suddendly she was afraid to open
her eyes. Completely awake now.
she lay tingling with curiosity, filled
at the same time with a foreboding
of some strange, frightening revela
tion to come.
Where could she be?
A t last she could stand the uncer
tainty no longer. W ithout moving
ahe opened her eyes and stared
straight ahead of her. H er first look
showed a cluster of large oranges
hanging like golden balls in the sun
shine against a background of cloud
less blue sky.
Oranges! She had never seen
"The sound of steps approaching her bed sent her pulse hammering"
oranges actually grow ing. Still with
out moving she rolled her eyes from what to do. She must he left alone seemed to run out for miles and miles
one side to the other. They traveled She would have to speak; everything over a Hat valley, like a drift of snow
up the bed to her hands, lying inert depended on her making this effort. a< r o s s a huge plain. Along the
on the satin cover. Suddenly she . “Oh, I ’m . . . I'm all right." she farther horizon undulated a line <d
became aware of three separate facts stammered hardly above a w hisper, strange, purkery, treeless hills
so startling in their sigmfiance that ; A look of relief came into the face against the sky. As her glance fol
they set ner heart to pumping and above her. “W hew, but you gave me lowed them to the right, she saw
paralyzed her muscles,
: , scare. .F rill,,” |,c exclaimed "Sure that hevond the low hills rose high
She could never tell which shock j you’re all rig h t’ Doc's coming over mountains,
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was the first to reg. ter; the circle todav to take another look at vou.
She turned reluctantly away from
of tiny diamonds on the third fingei Better stay in hed and get a rest If the view of the sunny garden and.
of her left hand; the rumpled condi- you’re reallv all right. I ’ve got to the open country, and entered the
tion of the other side of the bed; or 1 dash to the city to get my train lor house. She found a large bedroom
the cheerful masculine whistle com Chicago. But I won’t go If you’re not. with flowered cretonne curtains and
ing from somewhere in the house You don't seem just right."
cushions . . . ivory-tinted wicker fur
close behind her!
"Oh, no, really. I ’m all right," she niture . . . a little pile of silk under
A hot wave flooded her face and said hastily. " I just have a headache. clothes at the foot of the big smooth
neck. But gradually her heart quieted I t ’ll be all right.”
bed . . . luxurious dressing table with
down. She relaxed a trifle, breathed
"You’re sure? . . . Good I . . . Well, a low seat in front of it . . . a partly-
deeply, and tried to bring her whirl good-bye, honey. Take care of your open door at the right giving a
ing brain back to normal.
self. You can always reach me at the glimpse into a closet full of clothra
“ I t ’s the most incredible thing I Blackstone, you know. I'll expect to . . at the left a wide-open door into
ever . . . ever heard!” she thought, hear from you.”
a spacious white tilted bathroom.”
desperately, fighting against a feel
He leaned over, took her face be
Suddenly, as she stood motionless
ing of faintness. “ It must be a dream! tween his large firm hands and
. . . 1 land in Chicago in November on kissed her. After he had kissed her on the threshold, feeling like an in
truder entering >onu one rise's bed
a dark, cold, snowy afternoon; get twice, while Joyce tried funously to
room, she caught sight of a girl with
in a taxi and . , . something bumps recall the blush ahe felt burning her
short wavy hair, clad in a delectable
into the taxi and . . . I wake up the face, he added, hesitatingly, “ Look
mauve pyjama suit. W ith a gasp of
next morning and find that it’s her, Frills, I wish you'd . . . go a
surprise she realized it was her own
summertime, and th a t. . . I'm . . . I'm little rav while I'm away, will you. image reflected in one of th e.lw o
married! H ow could it have hap I ’ll be worried about you all the time full length mirrors which flanked
pened? How— ?"
if I think you're . . . pulling any more the dressing table!
The whistle seemed to come a reckless stunts, you know. And— ”
W e ill . . .” She moved hastily up
little nearer. Joyce clutched at the
Oh, no, don't worry about me I"
bedclothes in a suddenly renewed interrupted Joyce, wishing he would close to the m irror and examined
panic of terror. I f it were not a stop kissing her and go away, "I herself with interest. Fascinated, she
dream now, this instant, then what won't do a thing, I . . . I know I'm examined her face more closely and
had happened while she was uncon p in g to feel like being very quiet smiled suddenly with pleased sur
prise at the image in the glass. "You
scious?
or . . . for awhile.”
look really a whole lot . . . prettier
Suddenly a telephone bell rang.
This sort of answer was evidently han you ever did in Philadelphia, I
The whistling stopped abruptly. She unexpected, Joyce decided, when she
beard the click of the receiver being saw the surprise in his face mingled must admit) The bathroom was an
lifted . . . then “Yes?” in a deep, with relief. In speaking before, his other exciting discovery. It was a
pleasant voice; She listened tensely. voice had revealed a note of appre large, square room, elaborately tiled,
“Oh, Laurine? Hello I . . . She’s hension, as if he were afraid of the with magnificently modern fittings
and fixtures. Joyce gasped with plea
»till asleep, I^hink. No. Doc says it’s way his words would be received.
sure as she looked.
nothing serious, but it sure was “W hat sort of disposition can I have
Through the big open window at
lucky it wasn’t worse. . . .Yes, you’re had?” she wondered.
the left, the sun was streaming in,
absolutely right—What? . . . Well. 1
"W ell, good-bye, honey,” he said
ask her last month not to ride that once more, and kissing her again, he bringing with it that indescribably
brute, but you know how she is. . . . stood up, “ I've got to hop off, I'll sweet odor which had greeted Joyce
I ’m leaving in a few minutes.. . . Yes. wire today from somewhere along on her waking. Part of it must come
from those acres of trees in bloom
i Got to get to Chicago for a confer- the line.’
beyond the garden, part of it from
I ence.. . . Come over sometime today
Joyce lay and listened to his steps
and see how she is, will you? I hats receding inside the house. Then she the waxen blossoms of the orange
to go off like this but I'm just going drew a long breath and sat up sud tree.
In spite of the mystery, in spite
to have time to make the date. I t ’s denly. "So that’s my . . . my husband.
lomething I can’t sidestep.. . . Yeah? He has a very nice voice, and I don't of the complications she was about
Veil, tell Paul to be a good boy while eel exactly afraid of him. I think he’s to meet, it was impossible, after a
I ’m away. So long. Laurine. See you got a— a kind, pleasant look on his two-year-long diet of Mrs. Lowrie’s
boarding house, for Joyce not to feel
»11 in ’bout two-three weeks.”
face. . .
a thrill of pleasure at finding her,elf
Click. Steps across the floor.
Her thoughts paused in confusion. in these lovely surroundings With
The sound of steps approaching W hat did it mean?
a little hop of sheer excitement, she
£e bed sent her pulses hammering
Gradually her sense of dizzy panic
“uriosity and fear mingled in her gave way to puzzled curiosity. L y crossed the big bathroom and
eelings as she looked up. She was ing there in the sweet scented sun pushed open another door which she
Io frightened that it did not occur to shine her mind grew clearer and she noticed stood just slightly ajar.
Oh? His . . . his dressing room,
ner to pretend to be asleep.
tried to fathom the situation unemo
She saw a man of medium height tionally. But it was no use; the I suppose,” she murmured, hesitat
. . . thirtyish . . . ruddy . . . blue eyes pieces didn’t fit; she had nothing ing on the threshold She entered
shyly, crossed to the dresser, and took
ind blue tie . . . tan face and tan suit to go on. . . .
from it a large photograph in a
. . light brown hair, combed back
Swinging her feet over the side of heavy silver frame. Her own face
im oothly.. . face rather wide across the bed, she found a pair of high-
smiled out at her.
the jaw . . . short nose . . . mouth heeled satin bedroom slippers which
It was her own; but Joyce frit,
:ut in clean curves like a girl’s. . . . she put on, and then stood up and
Nothing villainous in the man's stretched cautiously. She felt some- nevertheless, that she must be look
ing at her double. "O f course, it’s re
ippearance.
, what stiff and lame, especially all touched a lot, and the shorn hair and
Hello, honey! How do you feel thia down the side, shoulder, elbow and the pearls and the evening g.w n
iornlng
ornlng?" He was smiling down at knee.
make a difference But I
don't
er with complete kindlim ss.
"Ouch I That must be the side ! know . . . there’s something so
Joycs , »«'lowed hard, unable to fell on. To think that 1 '¿ways assured and sophistica'ed " ' !.i»'ng
answer V ’.uer the sheet she rlench- wanted to learn t- ride norseback about it that it doesn't it t '
ma
sd ’ er '.grids trying to still the and now I've done it and bad a bad not like Joyce Ashton
trembling of her body
fall besides— and I don’t know a
A worried look dir med the smile thing about itl"
.
C C n
>n the man'» face H< sat down on
She went over to the big window I
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ARRANGED FOR JUNE 4-5
Sprlngfleld a year ago us a repro»
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Thin faniouH divine will be in the pany.
New York Pa.tor to Deliver Bac- nor' hweHt t,,r a number of «peaking
In need of money, a New York
calaureate 8ermon to Qradu-
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Alumni of Oregon State will hold
The »Ixty-fourth annual com
There are 200 chiropodists In
mencement at.Oregon State college their annual reunion» during com
week-end. with the New York.
is announced for Monday, June 5, mencement
when, according to the tentative claaa of 1808 celebrating Its silver
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list, degrees will be conferred on Jubilee and that of 1883 It» golden
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489 members of the graduating Jubilee. Other classes to hold re
IN 4 WEEKS
class. Of this number 431 will re-, union» are those of ’7«, . ’77, . '78, '79,
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ceive the bachelor's degree and 5 8 1 85'
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I have never found a medicine
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’ that 'peps’ you up like Kruschen
the largest d a s to complete ad-
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vanced study In the history of the INFORMATION SOUGHT
I 'pepped up.’ I take It two or three
Institution.
ABOUT PROPERTY HERE i times a week— not to reduce but
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i merely to feel good and clean. My
Dr. Mervin Gordon Neale, presl-
Two requests for Information ' ¡'u"ban,1j “ w * 11 t0 reduce, he lost
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, , 1« pounds In 4 weeks.” Mrs. E. A.
dent
of the University of Idaho,
w ill d e l i v e r
, 'Z about
....... property near Springfield Ferrl», Washington. D. C. (Decern-
w ill d e liv e i the commencement ad -, have been received during the past her 29, 1932.)
dress, with Dr. W J. Kerr, chan week from distant points. I. M. Pet- ! To I«»» fat and at the same time
cellor of the Oregon system of high erson city recorder, has received f ttln ,n Phygl(,al attractiveness und
er education, presiding for his 26th a request from Texas for Informa feel spirited and youthful take one
half teaspoonful of Kruschen In
.annual commencement on the state tion about property, and another
glass of hot water before breakfast
college campus. Dr. Neale was for request has been received by every morning.
j nearly 10 year - dean of the school Thelm er Nelson, us secretary of the
A Jar that lasts 4 weeks costs
of education at tho University of Lions club, from Nebraska foi In- hut a trifle at any drugstore In the
Mlssourl before taking his present formation relative Io farming In world hut be sure and get Kruschen
Halts the SAFE way to reduce wide
position.
ihis vicinity. The Nebraska request hips, prominent front and double
Dr. John Haynes Holmes, min- was gent at the suggestion of Cap- ehln and again feel tbe Joy of llv
i lster of The Community Church of tain Frank Winch, who visited In Ing— money back If dissatisfied
after the first Jar.
York, la to preach the bacca-
Kermon on Sunday' June 4
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" I really don't tee how wc managed/' remarked
an electric refrigerator owner. " It wgjn't until we got
our electric refrigerator that I began to wonder how
on earth we'd been getting along without it. I know
Baby’« milk i< fresh and pure now and that no chance«
arc being taken with hi« health. Then the money we
watted in spoiled food« alone teem« fantaitic now.
W e watted money by buying in tiny quantities b e
came I knew it wouldn't keep well. N ow , I never
have to worry about food being tainted and unhealthy.
A n d how I do appreciate the new convenience!"
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