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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1915)
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE PRAISES UNIVERSITY SPEAKERS GIVE OREGON CRED IT FOR GREAT WORK IN COMMONWEALTH Old Officers Are Re-Elected and Two Commissions Are Appointed for Municipal Aid The second annual conference of the Oregon Municipality League came to a close last night with election of officers and the appointment of two commissions, one on the improvement of municipal charters and the other on city planning. At the motion of President Camp bell, the officers of last year were re-elected to their positions in lieu of their efficient administration. The officers are: Thomas N. Strong, of Portland, President; Albert C. Schmidt, of Albany, Vice President; Prof. P. G. Young, Secretry-Treas urer. The committee on improvement of municipal charters was appointed last night, with the following members: Benj. C. Sheldon, of Medford, R. F. Tischer, of Salem, F. J. Tooze, of Or egon City, R. G. Dieck, of Portland, Don C. Sowers, of Eugene. This committee was appointed as a result of a paper read by Benj. C. Sheldon, in which he gave a bird’s eye view of a modern city. Among the recommendations that the speak er emphasized for consideration in the drawing up of a charter were home rule, short ballot, city planning, municipal efficiency of administration through the instrumentality of effi cient accounting, proper reports, pub licity, responsibility and a municipal purchasing agency. A paper on “City Planning,” by E. T. Mische, resulted In the appoint ment of a committee to investigate and report on the idea of a standard ized system of city planning for Or egon. The personnel of the committee is E. T. Mische, of Portland, Marshall N. Dana, of Portland, I. N. McArthur, of Lebanon, and Ellis F. Lawrence, of Eugene. A fifth member will be appointed later. This commission will probably act on the recommendation of Mr. Mische that the field be thoroughly inves tigated with a purpose of submitting to the next legislature a draft of a bill to make proper cit|y planning a legal necessity. The system pre sented by the speaker is somewhat similar to the law in force in Mas sachusetts at the present time. The proposition provided for local boards of city planning appointed by the Mayor for a period of five years, whose duty it was to make plans and suggestions, which, if approved by the City Council, would be submitted to the State Board, whoso sanction makes the plan effective. The University received an abun dance of praise from the visitors yes terday. According to Bert R. Greer, of Ashland, the state institution is one of the greatest agencies of prog ress that the state has. In his con nection with the development of the springs near Ashland, ho received in valuable help from H. B. Miller, Dean of the School of Commerce. “Wo are realizing from $225,000 to $250,000 on our big sanitorium, which wo are constructing at a cost of $175,OOQ, and this huge saving is directly respon sible to the Commerce and Economics Departments, who supplied us with data from every corner of the world. I feel more loyalty toward this in stitution than any other institution of learning that I ever knew of, and it needs our support in every bit of its work throughout the state. Many expressed the opinion that the Com monwealth Conference represented the highest service of the University to the state. 0 . ° o The principle of excess coilffemna tion whs discussed from a legal stand point by W. L. LaRoche, City Attor ney of Portland. The principle, which provides that a sovereign power may condemn private property in excess of direct needs for public use was an alyzed as a principle which conserved the welfare of the public and was a necessity. Commissvmtn Check in sisted on an application of the prin ciple to the acquisition of land for roads and excess condemning for the purpose of beautifying such projects with parks. GERMANY WILL YIELD TO AMERICA—CLARK Professor of History Thinks Italy at War Lessens Danger for the United States “America's chances of being drawn into the European conflict have been materially lessened by Italy’s dec laration of war,” says Doctor Clark, of the History Department. “Germa ny will send a half million men to the Austro-Italian line. Austria and Ger many are completely surrounded by enemies, except on the Dutch frontier. These two powers have all they can handle and it is my opinion that in answering our Lusitania note, even though they may be dilatory, will con cede all the demands of our State De partment. “Should we become a belligerent, our coast defenses form ample pro tection against any attack. All the large navies have been damaged and an invasion of our country would be impossible. “As to the length of time that the European embroilment will last, no one can definitely say. It seems that Lord Kitchener has proved himself a wise prophet when he predicted al most a year ago that the war would continue at least three years. “Germany’s resources seem to be inexhaustible. She has lost practic ally no teritory. Beside the annexa tion of Belgium, she has forced much land from the allies. Russia has lost a large slice of Western Poland and the battle line is now dangerously near Warsaw, the Polish Capital. The Kaiser’s troops have made large in roads into the Baltic provinces. Th<? territorial losses suffered by Austria Hungary comprise only a part of Ga licia which was taken by the Russians several months past. “The German-Austrian alliance ha3 the advantage of unity and concen tration of action. The German com manders have absolute control over the army and navy of the two states, backed by the resources of a hundred millions of people. Another advan tage is the fact that Germany is fighting on interior lines of defense. The armies of the allies, on the other hand, are fighting separately, not un der a single command. If they had been, a detachment would surely have been sent to help Italy, whose raw troops will make weak resistance against the force of a half million of German soldiers. “England and France have concen trated upon the bombardment of the Dardanelles and the capture of Con stantinople. They think a year's work will have been accomplished when Tur key is subjugated. No attempt will be made for a while at least to beat back the Kaiser’s men along the French frontier. “The losses of life since the open ing of the world conflict last sum mer have been appalling, having al ready reached three or four million in number. The German-Austrian ranks have been depleted by approxi mately two million. A million Rus sians have been killed or imprisoned, and England’s loss amounts to about 500,000." Bert R. Greer urged that the scenic and climatic resources as well as the more material resources be capital ized as they are in California. “Los Angeles,” he said, "is an artistic com bination of sand dunes, good climate, un open,beach and good advertising.” The speaker maintained that Oregon was blessed with a better all-around climate and scenery than even Cali fornia, but that the people lacked the push that brings thousands of tour ists to California each year. A. L. Rarbur, City Auditor of Port land, expounded the principle of doing municipal business on a cash basis if possible, and if an absolute neces sity, not to issue long time bonds, but serial bonds which are more sci entific. “The issuing of long time bonds,” he said, “is merely selling the credit of the taxpayer at a dis count. Moreover, it leaves to pos terity debts that rightfully belong to us. Posterity will have enough finan cial troubles without having to be burdened with our obligations. Offi cials are always under the pressure of lowering taxes, which they usually do by cutting down the sinking fund. Serial bonds would eliminate this financial baw in our municipal fabric, for it would necessitate the retire “THIS mil!" PROVES IS BE IRONICAL TITLE Freshman Class Hour is Said to Hare Pared the Way for Exit of the Institution (By Milton A. Stoddard) “This Way Out,” meaning exit, fare well, was a good name for the Fresh man class-hour in Villard yesterday, because, sorry to hear, they say this is the last of the class performances. The faculty says they are no funnier than a broken arm and must therefore be abolished. On the program in two places a little jester head was printed. I sup pose this was warning to the in swarming audience that they were about to see something funny. I guess they did—there was laughter. The general idea was a trial with a judge (Irwin Sutton), a district at torney (Jawn Dolph(, a defendant (James Sheehy), et cetera, and a jury half men and half girls with panta lettes. It seems that Defendant Sheehy was an old man, the father of his daugh ter, Gladys Colwell, and he had shot his mother-in-law with a butcher knife. The defendant sat in agony; his daughter acted flip and also kissed him; his wife, Alice Gram, hopped in haughtily and sang vaudevillainously, and the jury jumped out of the jury box and musical-comedied around and sang, accompanied by their own danc ing and the Frosh orchestra led by Professor Baton and his waltergrebe. Judge Sutton with loosely attached whiskers shouted, “Order!” and the juryfolks frisked back into their box. During the testimony the jurors slept (that is, they pretended to). John Dolph, district attorney, said that his name was Honorable Alger non Jones, and he made a sweet, slap you-on-the-w’ist plea to convict the de fendant. The counsel for the defense, Don Newbury, forcefully advocated con viction. Result: jury reached some kind of decision and the judge shot the defendant three times right in the court room. Each jurywoman danced into the room with a juryman, each couple oc cupying the stage for a spell of dainty dancing. The girls were pretty and the men jurors were good dancers, so somebody in the audience tcld me. The acting was adequately fitting to the nature of the play and things in general were so amusing that cack ling cachination burst forth. The group of Junior men right up in front, almost on the stage, seemed to enjoy the show. The performance was short and snappy—it lasted about thirty min utes. A Freshman quartette composed of Albert Gillette, William Vawter, Wil liam Snyder and Don Newbury, sang harmoniously before judge and jury. Bob Earl, court attendant, ejected Crandell, candyman, who hollered his wares up the aisle. The trial was interrupted twice by the phone, which called up to announce the score in the German-Allies game. Each time it was a tie—they were holding back for the Pathe’s Weekly. “This Way Out” got by very well. nient of bonds progressively as the utility for which the bonds were is sued wears out. This is the scien tific way of bonding a city’s improve ments.” Mr. LaRoche advised the passage of a law prohibiting the issue of war rants except for roads and similar improvements when the necessary funds are not in the treasury. Palace Shine Parlor The Shine Doctor 747 Willamette FOUR UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS TO ADDRESS HIGH SCHOOLS Four members of the University faculty will deliver high school com mencement addresses this week: Dr. Joseph Schafer, at Grants Pass, on “Education as a Social Adjust ment,” Wednesday; Professor F. S. 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