THURSDAY, MARCH 2». Itf»4 THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAGE TWO THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Mott Seeks to Bring Back O. & C. Land Grant Money Published Every Thur-'day at Springfield. ban« County. Oregon by THE WILLAMETTE PRESS H. E MAXEY Editor Entered as sacoud ciana matter. February 14. 1903. at the poetofflce. Springfield. Oregon M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E One Year In Advance Two Year« in advance $150 »2.50 Six Month« Three Month« »1.00 50c THURSDAY. MARCH 39, 1934 GRIM EVIDENCE WHY A SIDEWALK SHOULD RE BUILT We herew ith present to the highway commission the uudisputable ta ils why a sidewalk should be built between Eugene and Springfield. Five deaths and a num ber of in­ juries due to walking on the Pacific Highway between these two cities have occurred in the last four years according to the records of the county coroner. The chairm an of the commission has raised the ques­ tion "w hether the money of the highway departm ent which is derived from the m otoring traffic should be applied to building of sidewalks." The evidence In this case shows that it is not always the pedestrian who suffers but often the motorist who is killed or injured as the result of people walking on the highway. Here is the casualty list: WILLIAM SMITH: Died April 9. 1830 when two care col­ lided to avoid strikiug pedestrian. WM CHARLES JONSEY Killed March 33. 1930. wbeu father's car «kidded to avoid striking children walking on highway. CLELL PRYOR: Killed March 30. 1»31. while walking on highway. CLARA MASSIE: Killed October 31. 1931, while walking on highway. HERSCHEL O'QUINN: Killed February 16 1934 while walking on highway Only a mile of gravel sidewalk is needed to take pedes­ trians off the pavement. It will cost only u few hundred dollars. We can ’t think that gentlemen of the caliber of the highway commission will quibble about spending this small am ount to keep this casualty list from growing. Surely those in charge of our state highways do not wish to take the responsibility of m aintaining death tra p s—a responsibility they will be called on to answ er to before the people and God. ---------- »---------- ALL MUST PAY SOMETHING Not one cent of taxes toward supporting our schools is paid by 300,000 people in Oregon. More than one-half our adult population escape local taxation while 154,000 pay the total tax bill. It is evident from these facts th at if there is going to be sufficient Money raised to keep the schools from closing or to reduce ihe property tax, that the people who are not now paving contribute something. Fifty-eight per cent of the people who have children In school pay no school taxes. If they would contribute three cents a day the school w arrant situation would be sol­ ved and property taxes .'or school purposes could be cut 25 per cent. Property now 40 per -ent delinquent in Oregon is being called on this year to pay $41,576.0*0 in taxes. The assessed valuation in Oregon is less than is was 20 years ago but it is being called upon to retu rn $9,000.000 more taxes. We m ight as well face the facts, propei.y is not going to con­ tinue to pay the whole bill. If schools are not to be greatly curtailed or closed entirely then the non-taxpayer m ust contribute som ething. The only method devised so far to get this contribution is through the sale« tax. It costs $60 to $70 a year to educate a child. Surely any family m ight contribute $8 to $10 a year through the sales tax toward this bill. A NATION OF BUSINESS The United S tates of America is a business nation. More than in any other part of the world, the chief interest and m ainstay of the American people is business. Let any­ thing. natural or artificial, interfere with the free play of business, which is to say the free interchange of commodi­ ties. and chaos and distress result, affecting every indivi­ dual. We have been coming through the most distressing upset of business in our whole history. Many of the causes of the upset have been removed. We do not think this is a propitious tim e to set up artificial barriers to the efforts of business to adjust itself. Nor do we think well of the idea which seems to previal in some circles, th at there is some­ thing inherently discreditable about business and th at all business men are to be regarded as actual or potential criminals, to be disciplined, policed and supervised. To accept th at view is to discard the foundations upon which American institutions and American progress are based. The move to cut the retail price of liquor a t the state stores looks to us like one to get the taxpayer to pay for someone else’s drinks. With all the FWA, CWA. NRA. AAA. CCC, FCA, LAB, etc., ILJooks like the future generation of the USA will be NSF. Some one should offer a prize to anyone who can name all the republican candidates for governor. the rescue In a new direction, and In addition to providing for these , long term loans the expectation la (hat there will lie some chaugaa In the Wceurlllea Act to enable I lie ‘(»buttling of capital funds from <1 > huge reaervea of prlvala • ciplt: I which la anxious to find luve» ment In Industry but has been hat i pered In doing so. LIVER FLUKE SEASON HERE; USE TREATMENT Pastures should be treated now with blueatoue for til« control of liver flukes, according to County Agent () H Fletcher. The flukes develop In certain email snails, a d when these are killed Ihe flukes are con trolled DemonatrathHia conducicd lu Lane county la»t year by the conn ty agent with the assistance of Ih Itohert Jay. federal veterinarian ate tlolied at and cool «rating with tha Oregon Agricultural college «how ed that the small alialla that are host In -me stag of the life cycle of the liver fluke, can be killed with blueatoue. there was sufficient money In the O. and C. fund to pay only eno-half the amount due for (he year 1931. Frier to this time the people of RADtOQD MOMJY the laud grant counties had sup Cabinet Chang«« Rumored posed that these annual payments Washington. March 29 The la Washington goaalp has It that i I were being made out of the United bor question Is al the top III Wash | A bill Ihttt will enrich Lane States treasury, and not out of the lltg lo n 's ofilclal problems as Ibis Is least three members of ihe Cabin I county's treasury about »50,000 n O. and C. land grant fund They written. A great deal h lg eu on lint may he replaced before long The year In the receipts from the ( l i e supposed the money In the fund outcome of the union sliuaU-ui In feeling that Secretary llorn of the gon-Ualifonnia Land grant law has was being left Intact for (he pur the automobile Industry. Il Is not war department la letting llu- gdll been Introduced In congress by pose of re tin bur lug the govern vet clear whether the udmliilstra «ruls run (hlngs Is said to be wor­ Representative James \V. M< tt meat for the annual advances io Hon intends to back up the Am ri rying the prealdenl. There Is a Mott seeks to ant.nd the Stanfield the ('aunties to cover lax loss. Ob I an Federation of tabor. which has growing belief that th - attorney- act to make the full payment on' lection was raised by the land shrewdly tukon the best possible general. Homer Uutamlnga, Is too Thia 1« ihe time of year whan I of the federal treasury instead of tram counties that these snnual advantage of the provision tor eoi easy-going and too easily Influeu the (). A U. fund receipts, lain payments should come from the leetlve hargalnlna In Ihe National cad Into hasty action. And even In »»alia cun be killed boat bacauae county received but »<7 621.30 or treasury and not from Ihe O and C. Recovery Act, or wlu-lher II will (he president’s owe Intimate circle the ground and wuter are warming i half the amount «he 1« supposed to fund, and Ihe whole matter was re­ content Itself m rely with seeing a great deal of dissatisfaction Is up and the surface water 1« com- being expressed about the post mas pnratlvely fro« from decayed vege­ ferred by the Interior department j receive in 1933: to it that organlsallons of employes ler general. Mr, Farley. This Is to hi the comptroller general of the table mat ler. Bluoetone (copper Under an act paased In the early are not domlrated by their employ- some extent based upon the feeling sulphate) should he broadcast , 60‘s, the federal government grant United Slates for a ruling era. that he put the president In a hols around all snail Inf sled and wet, Under dale of September S. 1933 cd to the Oregon California railroad The Federation Is engaged tu a on the alr-mall matter and I"! It soupy places lu pastures If lbs the comptroller general mad ■ his I company a part of the public do­ vigorous attempt to eatablbh the ,|evelop so that the blame Is on Ihe snails are eradicated now Ihara main In Oregon embracing every ruling, in which it wa held that principle that no unlou Is u good president Instead of on Pailey And will be no mature flukes nezt (all annual paymenls Io the Counties i odd numbered section of land with union unless It Is an A. F. L uilon the al" ninll situation Is still a mr- mid winter ' In twenty miles on each «Ide of wherein the O. and C. lands are Employees In many Industries have Jor topic of lutereal here situated were not payments by wav Further information ou control i the located and conatrueted rail organised their own unions In of appropriations out of the Fed : road through sixteen counties In Nobody knows Just who Captain of sualls with blueatona may b" ob every case the Federal Ion has set western Oregon Originally this eral treasury but were contingent up the ( laim that these "compauy" Eddie Rlckenbacker, famous war tallied from County Agent Fletcher ' grant contained some three million payments out of the O and C. Ian I unions do not give the employees time "ace" aviator, had In mind fund In other words. Ihe comptro acres when he denounced the '’traitor­ ler general held that If Ihe O. anti the right to choose their own ous advisers" of the president la IUKA SEWING CIRCLE Violation by the railroad com- C. land fund m a te d under th< spokesman for bargaining purposes MEETING IS TODAY i pany of certain provisions of lif ­ Chamberlain-Ferris Act of 1916 did with their employers. In some In-1 his statement before the senute erent resulted in Its cancellation not contain sufficienl money In any stances they are doubtless right lit committee Investigating the air Mrs. Fred Louk will be hostess ;ud the revestment of the title In year to reimburse the countie* for other Instances they have been able mall, but It Is certain that the un at her home thia afternoou for tha . the United States of the unsold tax loss in that year, then the conn to get a few hotheads, discontented snlmlly of his attitude and those of regular meeting of the sawlug cir­ 1,1 Lindbergh and I larence l ham i portion of this land. tie; could not be reimbursed nt all and dismissed employees to set up ' berlaln cle of Iuka circle All member of have had a great effect The revestment Act. approved He held specifically (hat as to pay the claim that they have been dis upon public and official seutlmeut Iuka are Invited to attend June 9. 1916. and known as the ments subsequent to 1926 (he Sian criminated against Beyond question, those on the lu , "Chamberlain Ferris Act.’ provides! field Act contains not npproprlat General Johnson, administrator To open a glass bottle with a . for disposal by the government of ing language. of N R A. has accepted the com "«>■ ,h* «‘r "»"«• wl" •P””'111’' glass stopper, light a match near be turned back to the people who 1 the land and for the payment of pany union In one of the most Im­ The purpose of H. R 7980 Is to j the net proceeds therefrom as fol- amend th - Stanfield Act by Insert­ portant cases. In which he Is satis­ know how and are equipped to tly the aloppor. The bottle will open i lows: ing in 9ectlon 3 thereof Ihe appro fied Ihe employers kept their hands them, and there will he a swo-plng Immediately, aud very easily 50 percent to the State of Oregon printing language which Ihe comp off and still Ihe workers voted to reorganization of the military fly and the counties affected troller general has held the ori­ organlae Inside the company. That Ing forces. The weakness of tho 40 percent to the United States ginal act does not contain The doesn’t please the Federation, army avlctlon system, under which Reclamation fund. amendatory words are found in line which wants Its own men to art as i aviators get only about four hours flying a month, against 90 hours (or I 10 percent to the United States 9 on page 1 of the bill and are as t mployees’ spokesmen. commercial aviators, lies In the t treasury. follows: Usual Labor Reaction economy urge which Impels the de During the fifty odd years these Out of any money In the Tress through One result of this situation Is a pari ment heads to Inquire why so I lands were owned by the railroad ury not otherwise appropriated." larger number of strlkea. and larger much gasoline was used i company they p.’ id taxes to the If this bill should be passed It strikes, than have been known fori “ F la s h " C a m p a ig n On ! state and the several counties of will mean that the stale of Oregon many years. Some of the cooler | It looks from here as If political approximately »430.000 a year and and the sixteen counties In that heads In Washington regard this it was thought that the annual dis­ state, wherein the revested O. and strike situation calmly Thev point - opposition were beginning to take tribution of fifty per cent of the '. lands are located, will receive >ut that every period of recovery organized shape A croup calling Chsngr your travel comp«»» to "test by buuth.” Southern Pscibe proceeds of sales of lard and tim­ ach year from Ihe Federal treas­ from past depression« has been itself the "Republican Builders." I w ill iske you £sti ihiough (be ber under the Chamberlain-Ferris ury an amount of money equal to marked bv labor strikes and dis financed by nobody knows who. but warm eunshine of California sod directed by a very able uewspaper Act would reimburse the state and the taxes which Ihls land would turbancea. Southern Ariruoa at the lowest man. Julian Meson, formerly editor counties for the tax loss Incurred have paid in such year had the Any revival In business looks like , cost in yesre. Rail and Pullman through revestment of the lands same remained in private owner a good time for workers to demand of the New York Evening Post. Is taree have been (Ul Delkiuus Such was the purpose of thl par­ hip. Payments under this amend­ a bigger slice of the presumptive conducting an active propaganda . mesl» in o u r duiuig tart (osi m ticular provision of the Chantber- ment would not be contingent upon profits So. these experienced old campaign to crystrlllze opposition hide as aoc For details, sea your S. P. agent or write J. A. lain-Ferrls law Ihe amount of money In the O. and sters say. the recovery must be sentiment How far It will be no- O K M A N D Y , Ceneeaf Panreger Experience proved however, that C. land fund, ad no money would under way. else these labor leaders body cull guess ns yet. but It Is . ,1grer, 703 Paaibt Bldg . Port­ this method of reimbursement was be paid out of that fund except would not be making such u dis­ evidence that the political cam land. pnlgn of 1936 ha- l" 0BR | not practicable. Very little of the for the purpose of reimbursing the turbance. land and timber was sold and for government for money advanced It seems pretty clear from the Palnf and mortar spots may be I the ten years Intervening between from the treasury to the state and point o f v ie w o f Washington that 1916 (the date of the Chamberlain- counties on account of tax loss. recovery Is progressing, not seadtly removed from windows with hot I Ferris Act! and 1926. no money tint by fits and starts. March has vinegar If they are stubborn1 use 1 whatever was paid to the State of Post Preserving Form ula Told been a better month than February turpentine and sand. Oregon or to tho counties wherein A mixture of corrosive sublimai", the O. and C. lands were situated arsenic on0arant” What Is holding bark Industry Is crued for that year had the lands the thousands and grazing off the tide-land pastures of Tillamook shortage of capital funds. Those remained In private ownership. From 1926 until 1932 this sum of county, covering from 20 to 30 acres are usually raised. In normal times, money was computed and paid each per farm In some cases. County by new stock and bond Issues. Un­ year. In 1932, however, the O. and Agent C. H. Bergstrom took this der the Securities Act private cap­ C. land grant counties were noti­ matter up with the state game war­ ital Is afraid Io Invest and corpora­ fied by the reeretary of the lnt*-r den. and effort" are being mad • to tions are afrfld to offer new se( url lor that the O. and C. land fund obtain assistance from the federal ties. Commeiclol banks cannot and (created by the Chaniberlaln-Ferrls department in controlling this dam­ should not make long-term loans. 8o the government must come to Act) had become depleted and that age. Amendment to Stanfield Act To Make Full Payment Mandatory; Nearly $50,000 Would Come to Lane Coun­ ty Off Set Taxes. •Y co EAST Southern Pacific Chocolate Bunnies R G G IM A N N ’S RINTINtj .... <7/,e FAMILY Starting His Masterpiece — EFFICIENT PROMPT Inexpensive / DOCTOR JOHN JOSEPH GAINES MD FOR MOTHERS Most of my readers will pardon me for saying I have grown grey in the service— now over forty years. . . . 1 have seen m any sweet little girl babies on th eir arrival a t the port of this world and have watched their grow th, until they are them selves taking on the responsibilities of m otherhood. The picture is interesting. Possibly a dozen little wives have borne their babies— ‘•firsts’’ this very winter. . . . 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