T iir w a n A Y . JANUARY is . 1934 T in t SPRING)FIELD NEWS PAGE TWO THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Beery Thursday ox Springfield. Lana County. Oragoa. by THE WILLAMETTE PR E SS Whispering Roch By JOHN LEBAR M K M A X K Y . Kit I tor ■utarad at aocond eta»- mattar. February M, 1903, at the (X M ltO fflC Springfield. Oregon M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E Una Tear tn Advance Two Year« tn Advance >1 W S x Month» IS 50 Three Mouth» »1 00 51K- T H U R S D A Y . J A N U A R Y 18. 1934 YOUR ARK IN THE LIQUOR BUSINESS With or without your consent you are in the liquor business as the state of Oregon buys a stock and proceeds to open stores and agencies in every comm unity. Liquor is now your responsibility as a citizen of this comm on­ wealth whose tax dollar has been used to buy liquor to stock the stores, and the profits therefrom presum ably will lighten your tax burden. In Springfield there likely will be an agency opened in some store as it seems to be the present policy of the liquor hoard to start stores only in places of 5000 or more population. Whoever is appointed should not be stigm a­ tiz e d by anyone since he will be only a hired man selling your stock. ’ He is not in the liquor business— you are and if there is any blame attached to It it is your blame as a m em ber of the com m onwealth which has elected to sell liquor as well as run schools, build highways, operate electric plants and do other non-governm ental functions. The higher the calibre the man given the agency the bet­ ter it will be for your business and the com m unity at large. With the consent of the commission your liquor agent has power to promote tem perance, to sell or withhold to people who abuse the privilege of buying liquor. To our mind the weak spot in the agency as compared with the liquor store will be in the exercise of this discretion. When a m erchant, who is also a state liquor agent, refuses to sell to a m an or blacklists him from buying booze anyw here in the state, he loses a custom er for his own goods as well as state liquor. He m akes an enemy in m ost cases to his own financial loss. W hether he has the fortitude to do this depends upon the m an and the way his com m unity backs him up. Criticize and oppose your local liquor agent and you’ll see the business fall in to 'th e hands of less reputable per­ sons—back into the custody of the old saloon crowd. Keep the control of liquor into proper hands and you will curb drunkenness, drive the bootlegger from the country and promote tem perance. Yours is a responsibility which dem ands clear thinking and a straight line policy. IX) not let yourself be swayed by the schem ing wide open wets or the passions of the fan ­ atical drys. They have both had their day and made a mess of it. The proper conduct of the s ta te ’s liquor busi­ ness is now one of your responsibilities of citizenship. -------------e------------- MOTT ON TH E JOB Congressm an Jam es Mott did a splendid piece of work for Lane county last week when he persuaded the war de­ partm ent to modify previous orders for a river survey of the recent flooded areas, around Portland to include the upper W illamette river and tributaries. As this section had no flood this winter the first order did not cover our area. By being on the job Mott was able to get for us what or­ dinarily would take a resolution from congress. If the engineers will tu rn out a favorable report on the proposed flood control project in Lane county then our energetic congressm an can be relied upon to fight for an appropriation for the work by congress. Looking after the needs of the com m unities of his large district has been Mr. M ott’s first consideration since he went to W ashington. His consideration of their problem has been appreciated by the hundreds o f river bottom farm ers in this section. --------------- • --------------- HOUSES—ANOTHER ROOM “One more room for every family in the United S tates with an income of $2.000 a year,” is the slogan suggested by Professor O. M. W. Sprague, as a m eans of stim ulating the building industry. There are plenty of houses for people who have in­ comes above $5,000 a year, but not enough, or not good enough, houses for people who have to live on a lower scale. To carry out such a project will m ean more economi­ cal m ethods of building, but m any great business organiza­ tions are a t work on ways to solve the problem of cheap, attractive and durable homes. We m ay expect to see the day when a completely mo­ dem five-room or six-room house, with land enough for gardening, can be bought in the vicinity of any big city for $4,000 or less. the fin» line of which reads, "The Holy KM*,* and which con tiins Four Great Treasures .................................... TH E LAST TEMPTATION ion See, Jesus rises in his place a t the last supper. He speaks, this proud young man who had refused to be a king and now is to die with common thieves. And these are his words: “Let not your hearts be troubled . . . I have overcome the world.” T here is nothing in history so m ajestic! Already one of disciples had slipped aw ay to betray him. T hat very night the soldiers would take him, bind him, throw him into prison. The priests and Pharisees who he had taunted would have their tu rn to ta u n t him now. He would be harried through the streets like a haunted thing, the butt of every com er loafer’s jest. All this he anticipated, and with the vision of it fresh before his mind, he lifted his head and looked beyond, into the far distant ages. “Be of good cheer,” he said to them , in tones whose splendor thrills us even now. “I have overcome the world!” They went out into the garden where so m any of their happy hours had been spent. The very air was frag ran t with their m ost sacred confidences. Under this tree they had gathered for worship, while the setting sun gilded the tow ers of the city; in the w aters of th a t brook they had found refreshm ent; to left and right of them the very stones cried out In heartrending rem inder of the days th a t were gone. Even at th at hour it was not too late for him to have saved his life. Suppose he had said to himself: “I have de­ livered my message faithfully, and it is no use. Judas has gone already to bring the soldiers; they will be here in half an hour. Why should I stay and die? It is only eighteen miles to Jericho, bright moonlight and down hill all the way. Our friend Zacchaeus will be glad to see us. We can reach his house by daylight, rest tom orrow , cross the Jordan and do useful work the rest of our lives. The dis­ ciples can fish; I can open a carpenter shop, and teach In a quiet way. I have done everything th at could be expected of me. Why n o t? ” It was all perfectly possible. The rulers in Jerusalem would have been glad to be rid of him on such term s. He m ight so easily have continued on down the hill to peace and com fortable old age and oblivion. It was the last great tem ptation and decisively he dismissed It. He walked a little ahead in silence, followed by the eleven—for Judas was with them no longer—and coming to a quiet place, left them while he went aw ay for his last hour of high comm union with his Father, God. S Y N O P S IS Ruth Warren, who lived tn the Knut. 1» willed three-fourth Intereet In the "Dead Lantern" ranch In Arinina by her only brother who 1» reported to have met hl» death while on busmssx tn Mexico. Ar rlvlnpa In Artiooa with her hus hand who ha» ailing lungs. and their small child, they lesrt» that the ranch 1» located 86 rallea from the nearest railroad. Old Charley Thane, rancher and rural mall car­ rier agree» to take (hem to the "Dead Ijmtern" gate, 6 mllaa from the ranch house. As they trudge wearily through a gulch approach­ ing the ranch house, a voice whis­ pers "Go back! . . . Go back!" At the ranch house they are greeted suspiciously by the gaunt rancher partner. Snavely. and Indian Aon. a herculean woman of mixed negro and Indian blood. Suavely la diffi­ cult to understand but regardless. Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust their three lives to the ranch and Its developm ent Ken­ neth. Ruth's husband, caught In chilling rain contracts pneumonia and p u s e s away before a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She is not encouraged by Snavely tn plans to try and stock the ranch or Improve it. She writes to her father in the East asking a loan with which to buy cattle. She re­ ceives no reply. Will Thane comes home to visit his father . . . and Ruth m eets him. A rancher n ear by decides to retire and offers to sell Ruth and Snavely his livestock on credit. Snavely tries to balk the deal but Ruth buys to the limit of her three-quarter Interest In Dead Lantern ranch. NOW OO ON W IT H 8 T O R Y ------- IN S T A L L M E N T S IX T E E N "Might be a good idea." said Snavely slowly, as they rode up to the remains of the cow which lay at the mouth of the gully. Snavely dismounted and exam­ ined the cow. Ruth sat on her horse, watching. "Sav!" he said In a surprised voice. “It might be— no. Never heard of that tn this country.” He came toward the horses. ahakiDg his head In per­ plexity. "What do you think It might be?" “I ain’t saying yet—have to see another one or two. But If it’s what It looks like— Hmmm.” Snavely lapsed Into alienee aa he and Ruth rode on. Finally the girl said. “Don't be so mysterious— please. If you think you know what’s wrong, tell m e!” "Well. I ain't saying yet. but If It'a what it looks (o be It’s a lucky thing I'm here. I reckon I'm the only man in this country that's had to do with that sickness. ‘Liver fever.' Bve heard It called In Texas —nobody knows what It Is. Very uncommon." Mr. Snavely's worst suspicions were confirmed after the next ex­ amination. H e looked up "It's liver fever, sure enough!” "What shall we do—will the whole herd get It?" ''I’ve got the cure for It. We're mighty lucky to find out about It so soon. It’s easy, dead - easy, to cure, but If we let It go It'll clean out every animal on this ranch an' out of this section of the country. Il’s a very rare and uncommon sickness, liver fever is. but I can cure It.” Snavely'a eyes glinted eagerly. "I had occasion In Texas with a herd that near died of It —nobody, no vet'lnary, nor smart man could do a thing. Just when things was worst an old nigger man came Into camp an' said he could cure all them as was left. He done it—not a single animal died after old Jake doctored them." "H ow r "He just put a little medicine in the water they drunk, that's all. I got fire pounds of that medicine for a dollar a pound an’ I still got It. I can put that medicine In the water an' there won’t be no more deaths.” "What la the medicine?” "I don't rightly know. Old Jake wouldn’t tell, an’ ft don’t make no HERE’S HOW him lo use his homestead rights to acquire tills excellent p ie,, of properly. It would make a wonder fill pasture deep III gras, mid shade and having several liulural sites for watering place. Ilol when Will hud come of age he wus In college. And when he finish d col lege he went Into business- never did Will have »1« continue»» months during which lie could live on this properly, make Ihe t qulred Improvements, mul so become own er of It. And now It appeared that some confounded foreigner wsa Intent on taking this properly away from Will! old Charley dropp'd hl horse's reins over a post slid craw led through the fence II, was g o ing* to pay Ills would lie neighbor a call. He slopped aboul fifty feel from the shack The selling sun threw deep shadows under Ihe oak trees. The single window wa open, but the old man could see nothing with To the Edit«» For Hie , i.l >*«■ “ >**“ aim ot H,c Pavo» «» "•"J™ field C hristi.« ">ur.h „ ot work a.ol serv b e b.r Hie CllUI,h wllb'll would full» re store lb - local orgstOtUllon to Its scrlplural P - ‘" ............ IbHlrtae. Giving and U ving After much with Hie clialrmsn of Chui,!. board. » « MoBh,*r' program wa, present, d lo III» off» rial board It *»* »W "*' 4 10 him Jusl as h# was lesvin» "I wish you'd lake some of ihal m,'dl d u e will) you and see If you can't gel II anulyied go Io a druggist and If he can tell what II 1». get some more." Snavely nodded "Thai's a s oil Ideal I II ura do It We ain't get much left; hut I don't think we'll have any more trouble, I'm Ju„t u mile worried about the »tin'll In adopted Thursday. January 4. »• the north pasture they feed along the annual Meeting of the Chur.l, the foothills a heap an' you know membership Hie promani was also 11 was foothill feeders Ihal got look approvai! ami adopted wllhonl a had. We ain't found no sickness single opposing volo. down on the meadows I'll take a little of that powder Into town hut All Funds In On« Pisce maybe you'd hotter put some In the The S ion house Tithing pi»» of spring troughs I ain't done that (Inani IKK the Church «ecupled su W HISPERING ROf’K lately Better put some In toulghl In From Ihe rraay chimney of Important place 1« «he program there'? a lot of foothill «rotors »love pipe on the roof came a I bln Under ihe Plan 'he treasuries of watering al them troughs " column of smoke Near I lie door the auxiliaries of Hie Chur, li will That evening Ruth reached up to stood a box holding a washbasin he united with llin Church Irens the medicine shelf, found the partly There was a splash of water oil Ihe ury. Hi«« having only '>«•• filled cardboard box and poured a ury In Ihe Church Hh- laird's small amount lu a cup At the side of the box "Hello, neighbor!" called Did Treasury!. All missionary, be«* troughs she ranted the water off volant, and charity projects os well so that the medicine would not l>c Charley. A frying pan dropped to the floor a , any and all oilier Item« »( Hie diluted during the night, poured In Ihe powder and returned to the with a d u ller, hut no other res Church budget are under the direr ham for her Spanish lesson She polise clime from the house Then, tlon of the Church officers. Any hoped fervently that Snavely could as he was about to call nguln. a project which may he approved by obtain more of Ihe medicine und. cloth curtain dropped behind Ihe Ihe officers Is then placed before If not. decided that she would semi window, as though released by Hie the Cinigr. gallon for approval This plan gives Hie congregai lo« « »oh’* a sample to Will surely some lab Jerk of a string Did Charley frowned und w. Ill In Ihe • ponding of Gad's money oratory In Loa Angeles would an towurd the shack whb-h Is demanded by the Scrip­ alyxe It. He hanged on Hie door. "Hay. In tural order of Christ's program Ap she and David und Alfredo there. I've gut a message for you The Word of Hod has delegateli were leaving the next mornKig for from a friend." x authority lo the local Church only, Ihe day's riding, they chanced lo go "I ain’t got no friend »endin' me and this authority dura not go be Into the pasture l»y way of file no m essages!" The voice behind yond nor conflict with the New spring troughs. It was early, ami Ihe door rasped roughly "What Testament, which la our rule of Ihe advance guard of the herd wus d'yuh wunt, stranger?" fallii and practice. Just coming over a distant hill for Did Charley almost abandoned their first drink of Ihe day. when the moonshiner hypothesis moon Includes Study Program the riders reached the (roughs. The program calls for sn Hilen shiners are more Imiulsltlve about Only three cows, two calve . mid m essages from friends tlow-ver. s h e study mi the part of the hoard of Khlers. |le»,n n mid the Bible a yearling sleer had already water he tried again. ed. The six animals lay within a The old man frowned "My School teachers II also calle for hundred feet of the troughs. All hut name's Thane I own the ranch, the organization of a calling com- the steer were dead here, und I thought I'd see who's mitica which shall also make an Intensive study of some of Ihe For the next five hours. Ruth. living In this shark." Ann. and the two Mexicans labored "Like hell you own this laud! needs of the community The chief aim of the program Is vainly with Ihe dying steer II Is I'm ownin' It myself, come another neither easy nor pleasant lo treat five months! I done paid m.v visit that Hod's will may ba dime by animals for poisoning; for accord to the land office. Mister, and I the Church In Hprlngfleld. thus Ing to the actions of Ihe steer and don’t feel like openin' no door rendering efflclenl service lo Ihe the Cattle Breeder'* Guide II had Don't like to talk noways rat peo­ community. Je us said. "Re that Is greatest among you let him be been poisoned. When the steer was ple don't agree with me." servant of all," The Springfield dead. Ruth went to the medicine "What! Why. you low — " Christian Church »lands ready to shelf Standing on a sack of rolled "Yeah." Interrupted Hie voice, serve tin- community and the world hurley which lifted her eyes to the do. "and. besides. I'm gettlti' my sup In the cause of righteousness. "Mrs. Warren" Snavely stopped level of the shelf, she discovered per so why don't you he a nice lit at his own door and his manner that there were two Quaker Oats Church Has Responsibilities He fat man an' get Hi' In-Il off mv softened—“I know how you're wor­ boxes, each containing a whitish ChrlsHan people must slrlvo to­ properly- huh?" ried an' if I didn't know the danger powder. On the outside of one box ward perfection. Ihe unconverled was over. I'd start for town now was scrawled In pencil, "for liver Old Charley's face was Ihe color uniat hear the simple «'«pel of Now listen here— If we find one fever"; the other box had a poison of a well done ham He till th- door Christ, the needy (»mille» must «• fresh dead cow after tonight. I'll laBel "Cyanide." Ruth held a box with a tremendous blow of Ills fist cared for. the orphans and athe get your vet’lnary. I'tn saving this in each hand, looking from one to "Open this!" aged must Im sheltered. and we ’cause I know the sickness wil, the other—for the life of her. she TO BE C O N T IN U E D most educate and train evangel stop, an' I ain't goin' a-foggln’ Into could not tell which she had taken tats and missionaries lo preach town for no vet’lnary who couldn't1 from the shelf the evening before and leach Ihe gospel al home and SENIORS PRESENT H. 8. do nothin' after he got here In foreign lami» This Is Christ • Did Charley sat upon his horse.: Ruth stood thinking. She was not PROGRAM ON FRIDAY program for the Church, and Ihe at that moment so very afraid of leaning slightly forward, hts hellig 1 Springfield ChrlsHan Church soil Snavely. Still. . . . Anyway, she had erent eyes on a thin thread of Members of Ihe aoelnr class were d ts Hie cooperation of Ihe entire his word: one more dead animal smoke which came from a clump of In charge of the weekly assembly community In this the laird's work And In three days Old Charley oak and inesquite. half a mile be­ program at Springfield high school Il EV VKLTIR I’ll I'ITT would be going Into town. If need yond Ihe eastern boundary of Ills Friday morning Their entertain be she could ask him to send out ranch. He had J u t noticed that ment Included a harmonica soln thread of smoke. The old man rode by Arlow Atkinson, vocal solo by REMEDY REMOVES CAUSE a veterinary. The following day five more dead to the top of a small hill, over Irving Davis, reading by llelly OF STOMACH GAS animals were found, but none re­ which the fence passed, dismount Mersdorf. and vocal number by a cently dead. Ruth tailed the bulls ed and. kicking off his chaps, stu quartet. Robert Brown. Jnck WII Most stomach HAH I» due lo bowel and found only one. Number Six. died a mesqulte tree which served Hams. Irving Davis and Morris poisons For quick relief use Adler- missing f)he crossed his number as a post in Ihe fence. Then, with Stewart Miss Barbara Burnell Ika. Due d o e cb-mis out body from her list. So far she had lost much grunting and many scandal played piano solos She Is not a wastes, tones up your system, brlrgs sound sleep Flattery's Drug eighteen head, about one thou and ous remark regarding thorns he member of the senior class. Store I '■ dollars. For all she knew, that hauled his heavy body pari way up thousand dollars might mean the the tree. From his new position failure to meet her note. Certainly. be could see Ihe origin of t h e , If many more rattle died she could smoke. One look told him much i not meet It. and hts remarks Increased in vol- j But no more cattle died. For a ume anil temperature as he des : week every one anxiously watched cended. Sooner or la te r cverylxxly in the com m unity call# for buzzards but the great birds The land from which the thread I at Egglinann'K. Bet a u w cverylituly likeH good candy, had grown more scarce and not a of smoke arose was free land—g o v .; ice cream anil other c