Tl 1V n s DAY, MARCH 1. 1934
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PAGE TWO
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Published Kv«n> ThuoaUay «I
Spriogtlald. Lana County, Or.gou, by
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
Entered as second claas matter. February 24 19MJ at the poetofftce,
Springfield. Oregon
M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E
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THURSDAY. MARCH I. 1934
WHY NOT A WILLAMETTE VALLEY AUTHORITY?
The adm inistration has announced a policy of relieving
congestion in the large industrial areas by developing new
territory away from the large cities and has started to
work on Its plans in the Tennessee Valley and the Central
Valley in California. If this is to be the future policy why
not a Willamette Valley authority? The Tennessee Valley
has little to offer that we haven’t got except perhaps the
“hookworm ”— but our “inossback” is nearly as bad an a f
fliction.
The W illamette Valley authority might cover the fol
lowing projects;
1. Flood Control of the rivers.
2. Drainage and reclam ation.
3. R eforestration.
4. Land settlem ent.
5. Power and Industrial Development.
6. Recreational Development.
7. Mining! if a federal survey of our m ineral resources
justify it.)
It will be noted we have nearly the same resources as
the Tennessee Valley and some others besides. Another
thing we have them topped on clim ate and recreational op
portunities with ocean beaches on one side and snow cap-
l>ed m ountains, lakes and stream s on the other — play
grounds unsurpassed and the biggest ocean in the world.
What m ore could we ask of nature to develop an area to
support a large population in the W illamette Valley, the
garden spot of the world.
We invite thinking people to consider a “W illamette
Valley A uthority.”
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PEDESTRIANS, TAXPAYERS AND HIGHWAYS
“The funds of the state highway departm ent, being
derived from the m otoring traffic, should seemingly be ap
plied to improvement of highways, and not to the con
struction of sidewalks” says Chairm an Leslie Scott of the
Highway Commission. While Mr. Scott is in sym pathy with
the building of a sidewalk between Springfield and Eugene
on the Pacific highway he indicates there is doubt if high
way money should be used for that purpose.
Mr. Scott, we think, is not seeing the whole picture or
telling the whole story when he says highways are built
by the m otorist's money. Neither the Pacific highway or
any other state road in Ijine county has been wholly built
with the m otorists' money. In the first place the county
bought the right-of-way for the Pacific Highway and con
tributed m any thousands of dollars for its building. This
was not m otorists’ money, it was property tax money.
In the second place some money for the Pacific high
way and all the money lately for other state highways has
tom e from the federal governm ent. This is not the m otor
ists’ money. It is tax money derived directly or indirectly
from all tlie people.
While all the money derived from m otor vehicle lic
ense and gas tax in Oregon goes to pay for road construc
tion and m aintenance. The m otorists have not built all the
roads in Oregon by a long shot. Old Man Taxpayer has
contributed generously to ever one of them even if now he
is a silent partner in their operation. Sometimes he drives
an autom obile and some times he walks. Walking lie is en
titled io a sidewalk just the sam e as driving he is entitled to
a highway if the traffic w arrants it. Foot traffic between
Eugene and Springfield w arrants a sidewalk both for t ’
safety and convenience for the pedestrian and the m otorist.
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Whispering Rock
By JOHN LEBAR
M. B. MAXEY. Editor
Usa Yaar In A dvance___ |1.60
Two Yaara In Advance
12.50
I <olu' tor a mite of a 1 le When I —he's been tricking you with It,
come back there ain't goiu' In be scaring you ao Ihal you would ba
nobody here! You tiling >ou can afraid of him and do as ha told
go a-clutlerlu' up this plum with you."
TO BE CONTINUIO
I people an' drive a man oula hl
| m I ml I'll show you! Ult goln'!
lie strode past her ami out of I be COST ACCOUNTING CLUB
bouse.
ORGANIZED IN COUNTY
Ruth let him go- -there was noth
entered.
Almost
at
mice
he
reap
certainly
would
not
go
alone
with
S Y N O P S IS
1 Ing further to sey Rut slic'd find
A t'ounly Wide Farm Accounting
Snavely. She looked at him. “Per peered, the pocket of bank notes
Ruth Warr«n, who lived In the
Harry. She heard the steps of club bus been organised In Lana
which
Ruth
had
given
him
in
Ills
haps
Don
Francisco
and
I
could
East. Is willed three fourth Intereel
hand He held them out. "You best ' Snavely's horse and presently •«» county. The purpose of this pro
In the "Dead Lantern” ranch in ma: age It.“ she auld
' him gatloplug toward Hie Hill« ject Is lo leach members how lo
Ariiona by her only brother who Is
Again Snavely studied her in take theoa here an' go gll 'on.
j adobe bouse where Magda w«< keep track of llielr receipts and
reported to have met his death tently. There was something in her brother."
while on business In Mexico. Ar
Ruth look the notes She thought Inklu In h r washing which had fes expenditures In connection with the
riving» In Arlsonu with her hus tone and manner which was quit
tootled the huslie since early uiorn runnlug of a farm
she
understood When she uml
new
She
w
a,
no
longer
afraid
band who has alltng lungs, and
Offlear- of the dub organise«
their small child, (hey learn that "Look here," he said sharply Hurry returned. Suavely would ii n ing He stopped Ills horse with g
the ranch la located $5 miles from "what's the mailer of me goiu be ou the Dead Lum rn I'erhaus jerk ami culled Don Francisco amt are: Fulmer Hudlher of Junction
the nearest railroad. Old Charley
that was the best solution She Alfredo came Io the doorwqy . Mag t'lly, president; Gene Terpenlltg of
Thane, raucher and rural mall car any ways ?"
da stood In Ihw yard, her aims full ('amp t'reek vice president, and
The girl was suddenly angry; turned to Aim. "Ann. I wish you
rier agrees to take them to the
“Dead Lantern" gate, 5 mllee from Snavely could not afford to speak would gel the buckboard and take of clothes Suavely spok- fiercely t'leo Paler on also of Jum-lloii t'lly.
the ranch house. As they trudge to her like that any longer. She David and me over Io Thauea' I II Once, Doll Francisco pointed Io secretary
want the ranch bouse uml asked a
wearily through a gulch approach
The club plana lo hold Ha meet
ing the ranch house, a voice whls- straightened “Mr Snavely. there have an early supper ready by lire question. H iiuvo I. v ' b voice roared III
lugs In a ceulrally loegted place so
pers “Go back! . . . Go back!“ At are several very good reasons why lime you harness up."
reply. A moment or two later Al tlint It will lie poeelble (or all mam
the ranch house they are greeted I do not wish you to go with me;
Snavely hud walked toward his
suspiciously by the gaunt rancher and there are reasons why you room, now he turned and i-ame fredo waa hurrying Io find Don bera lo attend.
partner. Snavely. and Indian Ann.
Francisco's team ami Magda bad
a herculean woman of mixed negro should re pert mv wishes It Is for back "I don't think you’d best go thrown her wash lulu the old man's
lullin'
the
Thanes
In
this"
LUMBER SHOWS SPURT
and Indian blood. Snavely la diffi your own good There are a nutn
wagon. Suavely rode away toward
cult to understand but regardless. her of things I must tell my brother
In spite of the appareut humble
FOR PAST TWO WEEKS
Ruth takes up the task of trying to when we meet.”
ness of his lone, a twinge of fear the mountains
adjust their three lives to the
The tears welled Into Ruth'a eyes
Kcal lie. Wash. March I. A total
Snavely paler) "What can you caught Ruth's heart Rut she an
ranch and Its development. Ken
- those poor people. They had been
swered, "I don't see ihal II can
of 609 down and operating mills In
neth. Ruth's husband, caught In tell him?“ he asked gruffly.
so
happy
Like
trusting
children,
chilling rain contracts pneumonia
Oregon and Washington which re
"I shall tell him about llie way make any difference to vou now.
they had accepted her gift of the
and passes away before a doctor In which you bought my cattle Mr Suavely."
ported lo the West Coast Lumber
arrives. Ruth tries to carry on She
land and (he little house, the gift
"I makes a sight of difference to which waa to have been theirs for men's Association tor lb - week end
is not encouraged by Snavely In note.
lug Februt ry 17. produced 99,*10.-
"Bui Mrs. Warren I tol" you me!" he said sharply, and his eyes,
plans to try and stock the ranch or
Improve It. She writes to her why I done that," said Snavely In no louger jerking, bored Into hers. ao long as they lived ami worked 99» bonrd leal of lumber, Thia was
hard They bad worked hard
father In the East asking a loan a relieved voice. “I done It to pro
an Increase of approximately 0,
Ruth gripped herself. "Do you
with which to buy rattle. She re-
A m .-be entered the bouse she saw
tect
you."
, cetves no reply. Will Thane comes
realise that you urs- a criminal and Ann leading two horses through 000.000 feel over the preceding
we k The average production of
“When I was In town." continued that you will (ace arreat as soon as
home to visit his father . . . and
the corrals Ruth went Into her
Ruth meets him A rancher near- Ruth. “I consulted an attorney
this group of sawmills In 1934 has
I
bring
my
brother
back?"
room
ami
began
Io
pack.
hy decides to retire and offers to about my position on this ranch. I
been 76.540.313 feel; during the
sell Ruth and Snavely his livestock
Before she had finished »he could
To the girl's nmasemeul, Snavelv
on credit. Snavely tries to balk learned that 1 wet not your partner smiled. “You like fancy words." he hear (he sound of the leant and same period In 1933 ilo-ir weekly
average was 64.494.210 feel
the deal but Ruth buys to the limit and never had been. And I under
of her three-quarter Interest In stood quite plainly that you knew said slowly, "so I’ll ask you If you buckboard coming front the tiara
The new business reported last
Dead Lantern ranch She Is assist this, and that If I had failed to realise where you stand now?" His toward the house Ann stopped by week by 496 lullla waa 73.016.616
ed l>y Old Charley Thane and his
voice roae shrilly. "Don’t you see the small tuesqulte where Ruth'a
son Will Thane. A Mexican family meet my note you would have been that your brother bein' alive makes horse allll »toed. and climbed from Is-urd feet against a production of
97.579.056 fret and shipments of 09.
has been hired to assist with the In legal possession of the entire
the will no good? The will don't the Ii itch board
work. A peculiar sickness develops ranch."
203.799 feel Their shipments were
""Ann." said Ruth appealingly, as
with the livestock Snavely calls It
"Well, but—" Snavely paused, work, by God' You ain't got no
under production by 20 9 percent
"liver fever" .
. and says he has
the
giantess
came
toward
her.
rights—you ain't no pardner an"
and their current sales were under
a powder for the water to cure the helplessly. The guilt and conster you ain't got no Interest In this '"Ann. please help me!“
production hy 17.1 percent
The
disease Ruth's whole future Is at nation on his face, as well ns the
"Shorely. Miss Ruth I'll he'p
stake on the development of the letter In her hnftd, gave her cour ranch D'you get that? I'm boss
order« booked la«t week by thia
here now’" He whirled to Ann you pack "
herd to meet her notes following age.
group ot Identical mills were over
, the first round-up.
“Not that. A nn -lake me to
"Git your black laoe oil I a here!"
"The
whole
thing
has
been
the preceding w«»ek by 0.700.000
At the round-up Rut has enough
Thanes'. I must go there at once.
"But my brother—"
placed before my attorney." said
feel or 10.2 percent
.«lock to sell to meet her notes.
“Your brother—how do I know We'll pul all my things In the buck-
NOW GO ON WITH STORY----- Ruth.
he's
your brother? He never told board and then drive there They'll
"The—whole thing?"
me nothin' about you nor nothin' be home some time lo night or to EASY PLEASANT WAY
“Mr. Snavely. look here!" There
"Yes. When I learned that 1 was about any will. "Cordin' to my way morruw morning."
TO LO S E F A T
was nothing aggressive In Ruth"« not your partner and that you had
a-thlnkln' you come here Jest to
Ann
dropped
her
eyes
and
slowly
lone, but It was like no tone she purchased the note 1 understood
llow would you like to lose 16
steal his Interest. Who are you. »hook her head "I reckon I daan't
had ever used to Snavely. “Look how anxious you were to have me
pounds of 1st In a month and al the
anyways? You're a plumb stranger go fer doin' nothin' '(-apt what I same time Increase your energy
at this.“
fall to meet It. But let’s not say to me—you ain’t got a thing to say
was tol" to do. Miss Ruth.'
nnd Improve your health?
Ann sterped to the door of the anything more about that.”
about this ranch an' never did
How would you like lo lose your
Rulh tried lo appenr surprised
"But I don't see." replied Suave have What about all that truck you
kltcheD and stood silently, her
“But Mr Snavely knows I wanted double chin and your too promin
ent abdomen and at the same time
ly. guardedly, "what call you got was Jest atalkln'—that goln's on
eyes on Ruth.
lo gu to Thanes'."
make your skin so r le a u and rlear
to get uppity. Suppose you wasn't about the cattle dyta"? What of It?
“Well— !” raid Snavely as he
"'No'ni
He
tol'
me
you'd
try
to
that ll will compel admiration?
a pardner—that's your fault.”
Fer.
all
anybody
knows.
I
was
Jest
Get on the scales today and see
read the opening words. He said
make me do that He says I got to
Ruth's anger mounted. "That a-doln' my best to keep you from lake you right to the railroad "
bow much you weigh then get an
nothing more until he had finished,
-
- 1.1 I i . i l l . - id Kruschen Halls
then without lifting his head. “Well sounds very well. Rut what will my stealln' ray pardner blind; that's
"But please, Ann—you'll do It for
h will ta 1 POM four weeks
brother
think
when
I
tell
him
about
what I was doin'! An' the law me. He won't know —please. Ann II Tak e one half leaspoonful In a
—well I’ll he! Orev's alive, after
glass of hot water every morning
al l. Couldn't get a word to nobody the mysterious disease vou rail would say the same ." Snavely step beg you to.”
and when you have finished the
'tit jest now. If that don't beat alt!" 'liver fever'? Whnt will he think ped d o er. his face thrust forward
The giantess stood with bowed contents of this first bottle weigh
He looked at Ruth, then lowered when I tell him how I come to put and his pale eyes glittering "You
head and twtated her big hand« vi-ut-i-lf again
his eyes to the paper again the wrong powder in the spring come on this place with a paper
After Ihal you'll want to walk
troughs
that
night?"
you say Is a sure 'nough will, but together "I wiaht I could. Mlaa around and say to yonr friends.—
“Wants me to come an' git him
Ruth.
1
wlsht
to
Guwd
I
could."
"t’ne 96 rent bottle of Kruschen
“Are you a'cusin'- me—" Snav you ain't got nothin' to prove I f
Hermossllo—powerful long job get
"Ann, Halen to me!" Ruth grasp- Halls Is worth one hundred dollars
Ruth was against the wall. She
ting six days west of there. Must ely's voice rang, then died away
of snv ful person'» m oney "
be de d a t e sure 'notigh. else we'd before the girl's steady gaze II was trembling Tightly she gripped ed the huge arm. "Listen, Ann. I've
Is-ndliig druggists America over
discovered
the
voice
In
the
gulch
dropped
his
eyes.
Ruth
was
trlum
the letter In her hand and sum
got word of him sooner. Well,
sell Kruschen Halts—You ran al
It’s
Snavely.
There's
a
trick
to
It
ways gel I t .
things like that happen. But It phant; the man was beaten, he mooed all her courage. "But your
was afraid of her now!
partner Is my brother—he will be
beats all,” he mused.
"Didn't you never think," he coming back here soon—-he may
"We shall start to Hariy at
once." said Ruth, decidedly; “the asked fait, rlngiy. “that things even come to-day—any time The
Thanes are coming home late to might look different than what letter must have been sent quite
they are?’
a while ago and he was much bet
night and—"
“No." said Ruth boldly. But al ter—he might have been able to
"I think it would be best If Old
"Thanes? What they got to do though he stood cringing before get to the railroad without any
hi all Eastm an Kodaks, developing iruys and Htip|tIi«*M.
with this?" Snavely's eyes narrow her, Snavely did not appear so ab help—"
Here’s a chance lo get a picture taking outfit very
"All right! If he’s your brother
ject as Ruth thought he should be
ed.
cheap.
“1 think it would be best if Old Didn't he realise he could be sent why don’t you 50 git him? Whal er
Other Bargains at
Charley went with me . I'm sure to prison? "Do you deny you tried you a-stundln' there for? I give you
that under the circustanoea he everything you could to make me the money. Why doo't you git go-
In'?" He left Ruth contemptuously
would go. and he knows the coun lose my Interest?"
He did not reply to her question. and stepped to the kitchen door.
try and speaks Spanish better
LOYAL E. SCOTT Prop.
But after a moment he said slowly, Ann was still inside. For a minute
than I."
“You’re set on goin’ yourse'f, still with lowered eyes. "Them he spoke to her In Spunlsb. Ruth
could not catch more than a word
eh?” Snavely regarded her qulzzl- things is hard to prove.”
"1 don’t think so! But I can tell or two. While be was still speak
! rally.
“Why. most certainly! Of course you something else which is not ing. Ann hurried from the door,
hard to prove: I can whisper In passed Ruth without a glance, ano
I shall go.
“Well. Jest the same. I don't see the gulch as well as anyone else!" left the hou«e on the way to the
the sense in mlxln’ the Thanes up He raised his eyes quickly, his face barn.
Snavely turned to the girl. "You
with this. If you're a mind to go a dead white. Ruth glanced linger
without me. why don’t you take ingly toward Ann then back again. ’re a-goin' > st as soon as Anri's
Eggim ann's fountain provides the best ionic for tired
Francisco? But the best thing "The night of the storm. Mr ready. Collect you kid an' your
feeling or frayed nerves, (inc of our Hoft drlnkH or a
things an' git out! By sundown to
would be fer you an' me to light Snavely," she said quietly.
He faced her In silence; the mun night there ain't goln' to be nobody
out together to-morrow mornln’."
box of candy will make the world seem brighter.
Ruth thought a moment; she ch-» of his long stringy throat con on this place but me. I'll have that
might go with Don Francisco—per trasted spasmodically. Suddenly he greaser outfit loaded an’ started off
For years we h a re served lids community In fact
haps that would be best. But she turned and. walking to his room. this place In ten minutes! Then I'm |
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HUNTING AND FISHING
There has been a great revival of interest in hunting
and fishing and outdoor life and sports generally in the past
few years. The movement for the protection of wild game,
by limiting the hunting season and extending the cover of
forest and brake in which they live and breed, has received
a great deal of encouragem ent from President Roosevelt’s
reforestration program . There seems little doubt th a t the
Civilian Conservation Camp m ovem ent will result in dev
eloping in m any thousands of young men not only a taste
for outdoor life, which they will strive hereafter to gratify,
but an intim ate knowledge of woodcraft and the ways of
the furred and feathered denizens of the woods.
It is the dream of those who are most active in pro
moting the idea th at some day all the poor farm land in
the nation will again become a cover for game, or at least
so much of it as is not turned into lum ber producing forest.
Probably th at dream will never be fully realized; dream s
seldom are. But it is certainly true that a high percentage of
so-called agricultural land is fit for nothing but a refuge
for wild anim als and birds Nor is is necessarily unprofitable
to let the brambles and brush overrun such unproductive
land. In m any parts of the country fan n ers are getting a
revenue from the sale of shooting perm its over their land,
and that idea is receiving a great deal of impetus and en
couragem ent.
The American Game Association estim ates that appro
ximately 7,000,000 men take out hunting licenses in the
various states every year, while more than ten million are
interested in fishing. If the New Deal produces the larger
leisure for every man which it promises, together with a
surplus income with which to enjoy th a t leisure, the num
ber of hunters and fishermen will be greatly increased. T hat
will make the movement for the conservation and protec
tion of wild life even more im portant.
SPECIAL PRICES ON
Kodaks - % Off
Scott's Drug Store
A Spring Tonic
we’re the oldest in the business In Ibis county.
His “ FEE”
By Albert T. Retd
know wliat most people like.
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* DON'T FORGET,-I HAD A HARDER.
JOB GETTING YOU OFF THAN YOU
HAD GETTING THIS M O N E Y *
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GOOD TREATMENT
Very lew the people who escape nasal infections In winter.
Such distressful condition too. To feel "'shivery” for a day—you
just can’t get warm. You ache in the muscles a little and sneeze
at intervals—slight burning in the nasal passages—Oh, you know
what I mean—you are “taking cold." You hate to hunt up the
doctor when you are not exactly sick,—and yet—
Well, the time Is ripe for action on your part. If you're
going to try to fight it out yourself.
If your bowel» are not regular, take laxatives to start
things. Milk of magnesia, mineral oil, cascara—anything that Is
not severe in effect; harsh medicines are not necessary.
9tay in the house for a day of more; keep the surface
of your body warm and comfortable; eat soft, well-cooked food,
with plenty of fruit; drink twice as much water as you formerly
dld „
.
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Get this one bottle of medicine:
Have the druggis' put
two drams of turpentine in a two-ounce bottle, and fill the bottle
with oil of Eucalyptus. Label is “for external use.”
Take this bottle to your bedroom; wet a cloth with It and pin
around your neck, so that the vapor from It will enter your nostrils all
night long. Breathe all of it you can There 1 b nothing better for
nasal germs than oil of eucalyptus an old, respectable drug, made
from the eucalyptus or “fever-tree" of the south.
This should break up an ordinary cold. But if your trouble
started in with a pronounced chill, see your doctor at once, and obey
him faithfully. Don’t depend on home remedies. Cold has long been
known as "checked secretions.” Start those secretions—perspiration,
bowels, and kidneys—and correct your cold.
A Com plete
MEAT SERVICE
Nof only do we buy the best m eats that can be
procured but we keep them under proper refrigera
tion. Proper handling of meats is necessary to insure
good quality.
At our market you nave a wide selection and you
have the owners guarantee behind every piece of meat
you buy.
Independent Meat Co.
E. C. S T U A R T , Prop.
4th and M ain Sts — Phone
03