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Tinm SQ AT. JANUARY I. IM I
THE SPRING FIELD NEWS
"Upper well what upper w«ll?" shovel«.”
Il was uot long before Will geld
| asked liulti In a dated voice.
"Well. I’ll be—" Old Charley ed her Into a small arroyu. oee of
l*ubltshed Every Thuaaday at
the hundreds which led down from
; looked al hto son.
Springfield. l-ane County, Gregon. by
"He never went on with II." said the mountains.
TO BE CONTINURO
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
! Will, softly
Old Charley uodiled anil liirnml
M. K. MAXEY. Editor
j Io Ruth. “The proapecl Harry and MUCH MONEY RELEA8ED
Bulered aa aaaond ala« mattar. Fvbruary 14. IMI, at tba poatofftce.
¡scrubby live oak high upon a rhlgc «he could not help, that she was Will found Inal .-.uiiimer wa« In the
SYNOPSIS
BY FARM BANK LOANS
Springfield. Greg*»1
upper end of the north peatur*—I
Ruth Warren. who lived In ttte| top. Whcuev.i »lie saw him loo v not to blame,
j
gueas
Harry
didn't
get
around
to
Wheu the Ja«t of the water wa«
Kant, to willed three-fourth Intermit days, Itutli had an odd. uucoihlort
Federal Isold Hank loans closed
MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATE
In the "Dead Lantern'' ranch In able leellug th, I bnavvl) was won goue lu the south paslure, Ruth developing It before he left Hut during Ihe week endlug December
Oue Tsar la A dvance___ 11.6»
Bis Months
......
| l 0»
Arlsoua by her only brother who to '
felt that «he would gladly give didn't anybody tell you about 11?“
LI Increased nearly forty percent
Twa Yasra la Adv a n ce..... 11 »»
Three Mouths .................. 60o reported to have met hto death mg lor »olio thing
"No
Rulh'« heart wa« beating In number over Ihe previous week
giic
day
alio
met
GUI
Charley
and
every
animal on the place to any
while on business In Mexico. Ar
THURSDAY. JANUARY 4 1S34
riviate In Aritmia with her hut Will aa she was riding I lie south one who could take them to green I wildly. "I never heard about an) Till« resulted lit 161».(bit being
band who lias alllug lunge, and ern boundary o( the ranch. The field« aud running water. Feeling i other water.”
mailed Io farmer« over the North
their email child, they learu that two uieu came up Io the lence and as she did, the blow which fell on
"Harry bought the pipe,** «aid weal during till« short period It
FLOOD CONTROL NEEDED
the ranch to located 66 mile« from
the neareet railroad. Old Charley talked with hei Thai evening she the following mall day was robbed Will "Heniettlher. llad? We passed lies been brought out the! I his
a load of II on Ihe way lu town lent money wa« moally raleaaed Io trade
The $16,000.000 loss in Oregon, W ashington and Idaho Thane, rancher aud rural mall car lold Suavely thut he ought to go a little of It« power to hurt
as the result of the recent floods should call the govern rier .agree« Io take (hem to the to tuwu fur a uagonlodU ot cotton
She hud written a letter to Par fall."
channel« through lbs process of
m ent's attention to the necessity for better flood control "Dead l-auteru" gate. 6 mllee from seed meal which could he given (o ker explaining the situation and "Thereto a hlg pile of pipe behind consolidating th« farmers' debts.
(he rahch house Ae thay trudge
on the northw est rivers.
To dale Ihe total amount ad
wearily through a gulch approach- such cowa as needed It badly She thanking hint for hto previous of ihe barn." said Ruth, "Tell me
And al quick! la there water we can use vanced by the twelve Federal Land
lug the ranch houee, a voice whis also suggi sled that he get u certain fer Io extend payment
As the large forested areas of the northw est are grad pers "Go back! . . . Go back!" At
in the north pasture?"
ually denuded of trees in logging operations we can expect the ranch house they are greeted brand of dr'ed milk much adver though Old Charley would he bring, •'Il'll have to be developed." said Hunks since Ihe Farm Credit Ad
tised lu (lie eg)II«' raisers' intign lug the mall and would not be g o
inlntolrallon waa organised Iasi
that the run off of rains will be faster and hence flood con suspiciously by the gaunt rancher sine- which, mixed with water,
lug Into town again until next j Old Charley slowly
May has pa««ed Ihe II46.OUO.OOU
partner.
Snavely,
and
Indlau
Ann.
ditions will become even worse. The governm ent has a
"Shouldn’t take more Ilian a day mark, having about doubled the
a herculean woman of mixed negro could be given to the underfed week, the girl rode to the box.
direct responsibility in its forest reserve lands and the and
He amount loaned each month alnca
Indlau blood. Snavely to diffi
I Hut the mall had already arrived or I wo.” responded Will.
ordinary responsibility for the protection of its people in this cult to underttand but regardless. calves and the orphans.
thought a moment. than pulled an July when th« new loan policy
when
she
reached
the
box.
There
Snavely
thought
for
a
long
time,
m atter. If we are to prevent further loss of life and lurge Ruth takea up the task of trying to
envelope from hto pocket and wrote ■ wiing Into action The amount ad
adjust their three Uvea to the (hen said he would go It seemed were two letters addressed to her
dam age to property then this responsibility must be met.
ranch and Ita development Ken to Rulh that there was an under The one with the earliest postmark on It with a peuell. “Here Dad. you vanced In October. IMS. 116.0*1.716,
neth, Ruth'« husband, caught In current of eagorncas In hto voice was from Parker who explained run on Into town nnd send this exceeded the total of all loans made
chilling rain contracts pneumonia iu spile of his objections Io Hie that for business reason« he had telegram I'll he slaying over a few hy Ihe«« banks during Ihe entire
MAKING HONESTY COMPULSORY
and passes away before a doctor
days " He turned Io Rulh. “Bnppoae year of IMS.
Ruth tries to carry on She trip, lie started t|p‘ next morning been obliged Io lake a loan on the
From the beginning of time, organized society has arrives.
to not encouraged by Snavely in with a team and wagon, returning note. It was now In the hand« of J I ride hack with you and show you
concerned itself with the effort to protect the weak against plans to try and stock the ranch or n w eek later with the load, lie up II Witherspoon. Inc., a broker The that place Heeins Io me yon ought
Returns to Work — Clayton F.
the strong. Away back in the beginning of hum an rela improve It. She writes to her peared oddly satisfied.
lu develop plenty of water with a Harbar has recovered sufficiently
second
letter
was
from
the
broker.
tions there were honest men. easily exploited, aud dishonest father in the Raat asking a loan
from hto recent Illness Io he able
Now. whenever the riders found After reading It the girl stared al day's work or so."
with which to buy cattle She re
men. who found ways of taking their property aw ay from ceive«
Suavely slowly arose ss the to return to Ills work In Ihe office
no reply. Will Thane comes a weak cow with a starving calf or the cloudlees skyline. then rode
the honest.
home to visit his father . . . and some calf without a mother, these home Her lip« were set and her ' rider« came straight up Io him al Ihe Hoolh Kelly Lumber coin
There is no m eans of legislating crookedness out of a Ruth meets him. A rancher near- snlinuls were brought to the home face »hone yellow under Ihe Ian, Rulh »poke- "Mr Thane has told pany
crook. The deliberately dishonest will find loopholes by decide» to retire and offer* to ranch, turned into the small horse . . . “Consequently, the rattle situ I me ot a place In the north panlnre
sell Ruth and Snavely hto livestock
through which to crawl, no m atter w hat sort of laws are ■ on
Injured In Fall—Mrs It M Dow
credit. Snavely tries to balk pa-lure, and fed. Some sixty cows ation being what It to owing to Ihe where there 1« ludli allun of water
passed. Also, there is no way of m aking honest men. by the deal but Ruth buys to the limit were recevlug their dnlly ration of present drouth. we feel It neree- —he and my brother fonud It Iasi to recovering al the 0. W Munger
law, into careful men. The fundam ental weakness of the of her three-quarter Interest In meal, and about the ranch houae aary to call payment on the note aunimer.'' She paused "Why didn't home from bruises Io her bark and
honest man. which m akes him an easy victim for the dis Dead Lantern ranch.
spine which «he received tool Fri
and corrals wandered a band of when due; namely. November flret. you lell me about It?"
honest, is th at he credits everybody else with being as hon NOW GO ON WITH 8TORY----- nine or leu orpbahed calves whom next."
"I hnd reasous." said Snavely. day when she fell on Ihe porch
est as he is himself. The crook, on the other hand, assum es
hto eyes on Will. "I didn't want to Ihere. Her condition waa reporiod
e e e
Ruth was bringing up on the bottle.
INSTALLMENT FOURTEEN
th a t everybody else will take advantage of him unless he
go gettln' your hopes up—there as greatly Improved Ibis week by
"Well,”
said
Will
“there's
one
The
gulch
had
been
fenced
by
Old Charley himself had remark-
takes advantage of the other fellow first.
ain't no use dlggln' In (hal gully her attending physician.
thing
certain—when
the
rains
hold
(he
Mexicans
under
Ruth's
direc
Fortunately, most men are honest. If that were not j ed to Ruth that the rains began tion; also all the ponds were now off aa long aa this they make np bottom Jest becanee of a little rain
true, there would be no such thing as credit, upon which about the end of June; Snavely deep—and all but one in the south for It when they do begin,”
seepage."
practically all business is based. But m any are honest had admitted thgt it might rain pasture was bone dry Half of the
"Hui. Mr Snavely." said Ruth,
Again
Ruth
shook
her
heart
because it is the best policy, rath er than inherently honest . around the twenty-fourth of June herd watered al this pond, the
"now that we have need of water
Old
Charley
studied
for
a
mo-
because they abhor the idea of doing injustice to anyone, ; —before the real drouth set In; other half at the corral troughs on ment. then slowly rllmhed on» of don't you think It would be wise
j but Ann, Don Francisco. Alfredo,
even when it is to their own profit.
the home ranch The corral troughs the car Will followed 'Tye seen Io try Io get It?"
The m ain purpose of the recent laws governing the and Magda had stated calmly that could only water this number. Very some pretty hnd times mended.” “If you can—you won't find
practice of banking, the offering of securities for sale, the , the rain would come in abundance little wind came to turn the wind remarked the old man "Things nothin' though Mnybe a little rock
regulation of business and industry, is to m ake it more pro | beginning with the Day of San mill which fed the lank by the cor most always seem worse than what bantu full of water under tha sand.”
fitable to be honest than dishonest. T hat is what appeals Juan. It was now the twentieth of rals. Even after Alfredo had con they are. Rut pshaw—we’re bound
to everybody, w hether he is a crook or an honest man. It ' July and since the single storm of structed a primitive hand pump, it to get rain before long and when i "There had been no rains for
has been said th at the system which is now being overhaul more than two month before, there usually meant three hours of back we do. Il’ll likely be a good one. ’ several months when we located
Ihe prospect last summer." said
ed put a premium on dishonesty. We do not quite sub j had not been a cloud In the sky breaking labor to raise the required same as Will sa y s”
Will; "the sand was wet and we
scribe to th at. We can think of a few examples of men the size of a pigeon. The grass amount of water.
The last pond went dry a week dug far enough to see that water
who accum ulated great fortunes through dishonest which had sprung up so brave and
ago," said Ruth dully
And no signs of rain.
was running Into It from that big
m ethods, but the last sta te of these men has been worse green after the storm was now
Each day. as she returned from
Old Charter tried not to show dike Thai dike to a natural under
wilted
and
the
color
of
broomstraw
than the first. Some are in exile, some in prison, some are
the south pasture, sometimes driv hto surprise "8o? Well, they'll get I
execrated and cut off from the respect and confidence of The lacy leaves of the mesqulte ing a weak cow. or even carrying a little thin waterin' at the well, ground dam—”
curled
on
drooping
branches,
dust
their fellow-men.
"All right, all right—go ahead
a day-old calf across her saddle, but It won't hurt them
All that law can do in this m atter of honesty is to d ose laden; the broad, flat leaves of the swelling fear III her heart In "Oh!” Rulh suddenly turned t and <llg all you're a tnlnd to It
some of the loopholes through which some of the big I the prickly pear were shrunken creased. A hundred times a day away. After a moment ahe said I you've got such an all-fired Interest
crooks crawled in the past. It cannot insure that a new iand yellowish; small bushes were she looked for clouds; If her riding slowly. "I gave my note to Parker In the Dead lmnteru. Mr. Thane,"
as brittle as glass, and the twigs
crop of crooks will not find new m ethods of dishonesty.
Will made no reply and Rulh
took her near a hill she went to for the cattle—my Interest In the
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and weed stems underfoot rustled
thanked him wllh her eye» To
the
top.
eagerly
scanting
the
new-
ranch
will
be
gone
by
November—
The appointm ent of an inspecting engineer by the CWA like dry paper. The birds, rabbits, made horizon
there's no water—the rattle will be Snavely abe «aid. as she started
will no doubt eliminate projects in future which are being coyotes and lions had left the coun- She knew thut the Mexicans were dying In another week.”
her horse, "Please have the two •
done only for w ork’s sake. If we m ust provide employment i try—all was desolation. Rattle-
“Another week!"
Both men men follow us with picks and
praying for rain—she had given
’snakes
abounded.
more substantial projects which will provide lasting benefit
' —
— i n
Each morning the sun rose naked them all the candles In the houee stared at the girl "You must be « 1 J SUL- n s l - i - X — I
is desired.
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above the eastern mountains and for the acred picture they had wrong.” said Old Charley.
”No, the well's going dry — It
hung In the barn Aud once she
T he Wall S treet Journal sends us a 50 million m ark as It rose a wave of stifling heat had entered the gulch after n calf, gives out sooner each day."
swept
over
the
desert
as
though
a
note, for a souvenir and tells us it was once worth 12 mil
"But. Mrs Warren"—Will looked
which had gone through the fence,
lion dollars before inflation set in. At th at it is no more mighty oven door had slowly and upon the rock had found a from Rulh to hl* father—"I don't
swung
open.
w orthless now than a good m any stocks sold on the street.
grotesque little mud Image holding understand. There was «nrfact
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Owing to lncrca«4*d production costa under th«
Ruth had rather expected rain on a tiny pot of cornmeal. Ann did water there late last June, worlds
Motor vehicle fees have totaled 73 million dollars since the Day of San Juan and. when that not reply when Ruth asked her of water Why. there must be two
NBA code adopted by the Lane County Ice Cream
M anufacture™ a««oclatlon a «light advance in retail
the law was passed in Oregon. It used to be the •'man who passed cloudless, felt that In a day about It; but the girl had come or three thousand acres which
danced m ust pay the fiddler,” now it is the m an who rides or so she would sec the clou.ls bil to know the footprints of the giant drain Into that well!”
prices was made effective January I.
th a t is paying for the roads.
lowing over the mountains and ess.
“It's going dry.” said Ruth.
The new price«
Qt. Pt.
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smell the Indescribable perfume ol
There came a day when the
“New wells sometime* give out
Bulk
(dipped)
-
-
-
-
46c
It even rains in California, land of sunshine, so it is desert rain As day succeeded day. water in the south pasture had
quick,” replied Old Charley slowly,
Factory filled container« - 3f>c 20c
rumored.
each hotter, dryer, more hopeless shrunk to a thin sheet of wet mud "but It sure seems funny. You see.
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B r i c k « ................................40c
than the preceding day her anxiety Then Ruth knew that the end had
Retreading of automobile tires is a new business grow Increased—she seemed trapped In a come; with the full herd trying to I Will, here, helped your brother lo
Le«« than gallon lot«, 15c extra for packing.
ing up. Soon we will be giving the c ar a half-sole or a heel. corner while disaster crept relent water at the home ranch where cate that well. You ought to he
Pop Sickle« and Nlckle Heller« rem ain a t 6c.
able to take care of a good half of
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lessly nearer.
The increasing there was barely enough for half, your herd—let part of 'em water
A new sweet-scented fly spray has been invented. Some awareness of her responsibility there could be only one result. If
at the corrals."
perfum es would just about do the trick.
drove her to assume more and no rain came within a week the
"At—the—corrals? But I don't
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"WkAFB Iha ■«»WlAA I* fWtAPAB«”
more the control of the ranch. Be cattle would be dying by dozens.
understand—do you mean—what
fore she well realized It was giv
For the last few days a- she do you mean?"
ing the orders for the day's riding. watched the water so relentlessly
Old Charley looked at bis son
8navely left everything to her. He disappear. Ruth thought less about
rode out each morning but he rode meeting her note and more about and then at Ruth "Why, Just what
I »aid; use the well at the corrals,
alone and he returned alone.
the cattle themselves. The tears
the one with the windmill—the old
Occasionally as she rode about often started in her eyes these
well.”
the ranch. Rutb came across him. days When the girl cano- upon a
"Hut that's what we have been
Sometimes he was riding casually gaunt cow lying in the stifling
using." cried Ruth; "that's the one
up
some
canon
re
though
he
cared
shade
at
the
bottom
of
some
gully,
FAT AND LEAN CATTLE
not where he went, as long as he with a shriveled, panting calf at that’s going dry!"
Jacob lost no time in becom ing the father of twelve had no company; again, she had her side, she wanted desperately to "What?" ejaculted Will. “Aren't
sons, of whom the next to th e youngest, Joseph, is the seen him sitting in the shade of a explain to these poor creature« that yon um I iik the upper well at all?"
THE SPRINGFIELDHNEWS
Whispering Rock
By JOHN LEBAR
HOW WOMEN
CAN WIN MEN
AND MEN WIN
s m i
i
New Ice Cream Prices
R G G I M A N N ’S
IX
/ I G IF T
fe+m UT*tSA-H 1 U N
C l L m C to
second im portant figure a fte r the flood.
The oldest of the twelve brothers was Reuben, to whom
Jacob on his death-bed said significantly, “unstable as
w ater, thou shalt not excell.” He would have liked to
protect Joseph from the envious hatred of the others, who
saw all too clearly Jacob’s favoritism for him, but Reuben
was too weak to accomplish anything. The hatred of the
others cast Joseph into a deep pit. It was their first inten
tion to kill him, but a t the suggestion of Judah, who wanted
to save Joseph’s life, and could plan no other way, he was
lifted out and sold to a passing caravan and taken to Egypt.
A fine parade of hum an attributes now m arches be
fore us— Potiphar, captain in the service of Pharaoh, who
took a liking to Joseph and made him an overseer; Mrs.
Potiphar. who fell in love with the bright youngster and,
when out of his loyalty to her husband, Joseph refused her
advances, caused him to be cast into prison; the royal
butler, whose release Joseph secured by interpreting a
dream , and who promised in tu rn to get Joseph out of jail,
but success quickly banishes the m emory of old-time
friends.
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
Presently, however, Joseph secured his own release,
having been able to interpret a dream for Pharaoh himself.
Pharaoh had seen in his dream seven fat cattle and seven
lean cattle, a*>d behold the seven lean cattle ate up the
seven fat ones. W hat could it m ean? “It m eans,” said
Joseph, “th at we are going to have seven good business
years and then seven very bad ones; and we better get
ready for the bad ones right aw ay.” T hus Joseph made the
first Babson chart, showing that the area of financial in
flation precedes th at of depression and is of equal size and
density. Through Joseph’s foresight and organizing ability
the Egyptians stored up food in the seven fat years and
came through the lean years with flying colors.
Joseph was big in nature as well as in ability. He sent
for his father and brethren, forgave them , got them good
jobs in the public service and settled them in luxury in his
adopted country. Thus things went swimmingly for the
children of Israel until Joseph died, a fter which calam ity
descended. The Pharaoh who had been so friendly also
died and “there arose a new king in Egypt which knew not
Joseph.” Envy and jealousy of the sm art fellows were 1
ram pant; there was a universal demand th a t they should
be evicted from the rich jobs and fat concessions. They
not only were evicted but they were th ru st down to the
very bottom of the social ladder.
CONGRESS IS IN SESSION —
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ih Aib^n r. u m