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EDITOll AND PUBUSaKK --- Alton P. Baker
MANAU1NU KKITUU William M. Tubman
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ity, endeavor-inn to be candid but fair, and helpful In
tbe development of conatructiv community policy.
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COMMUNITY
JUST A REMINDER
JUST aa a reminder that Oregon has by no means
exhausted her agricultural possibilities, our good
friend George Dorris from over Springfield way
has brought to ub his annual gift of fine homegrown
artichokes. Just as he was one of the pioneers In
developing the filbert Industry In this part of Ore
gon, so Mr. Dorrls is quietly propagandizing the fact
that Oregon can and should grow articnoKes.
Perhaps no Industry Is so much a prey to habits
as agriculture. Thus we go along for years on the
assumption that "filberts grow In Europe," or that
"artichokes grow In California, or that a state nas
such and such limitations of soli, market facilities
and climates. The agricultural colleges point out
possibilities, suggest endeavors, sow Ideas, hut the
real Impulse conies when some farmer begins to
put them Into effect.
Suppose wo grow artichokes In the Wlllnmette
Talley. Suppose we do grow Just as nice ones as
are grown In California. 'What aro we going to
do with them? Where are we going to find markets
for them, seeing that artichokes are anyhow some
thing of a luxury article on tho markot?
Those are pertinent questions. But do you re
member when lettuce was considered something of
a luxury In the United States? Do you remember
whon asparagus and groon peas- and green henns
and strawberries and a great many other fruits
and vegetables were purely local' and seasonal
crops? Is It not reasonable to suppose that the
artichoke In time will take Its place as a common
article In Amorlcnn dint?
Perhaps the grentest opportunity In agriculture
today Is the still further popularization of the
fruits and vegetables which are still handled largely
as seasonal and local crops. Do you realize that
there are millions In the great cities and other
millions In grain growing regions to whom diet still
means a slab of bread and a hunk of meat. There
are millions of homes In the United States which
seldom see vegetables except such as come In cans
and seldom use fruits except as a treat
The manager of a great camp for city children
near an eastern city has the annual experience of
teaching hundreds of children to drink milk and
eat eggs. Toil may say that these youngsters have
never had these articles of diet because their
parents ennnot afford the expense. Nonsense.
There are no articles of diet as good or as cheap.
One of the biggest obstacles to the mnrketlng of a
great deal of Amorlcnn farm produce Is Ignorance.
Nothing else.
With our climate and our opportunities for
cheap and easy Irrigation we can grow any number
of fruits and vegetables better than they can he
grown anywhere else. Modern transportation fa
cilities and modern refrigeration will make It pos
sible for us to reach hngn and undeveloped markets.
We find reminders of all this In the gift of arti
chokes, i
considered. Adjustment of charges may be In
order but It Is a problem to be worked out care
fully lest we make our burdens greater Instead
of lees.
THE BIGGEST STORY
PENNY WISE; POUND FOOLISH
'JfOTTLDN'T It be a bit of Irony If ton yearn from
now we were compelled to look back on the
troublous days which confront us as "(he good
old days" In fact. Here we are tinkering with an
educational system which with all Its faults has
been giving ns remarkable service. Here we are
playing with Ideas that might easily wreck a high
way system In which we have more than Jl,ri0,00n,0no
Invested and that doesn't begin to measure Its
worth.
When Ha! TToss made his proposal to reduce
license fees on automobiles to a flat $3 Inst Sat
urday, we at once spoko of the dangers of adding
to future highway hills by the process of cutting
down cash revenues and piling tip dcht. We spoke
of the dangers to the state system only by creating
a condition which might make It necessary to neg
lect maintenance or pile up operating deficits. We
pointed out the folly of saving money out of one
pocket only to have to pay It out of another in the
shape of property taxes or Increases In gasoline
tax.
These criticisms are given emphasis by the al
most united opposition to tho plan on the part of
county Judges In all parts of the slate. Even
granting that the stale might somehow he nhlo to
get along on reduced highway revenues (which It
couldn't) what are the counties to do with one
third of the revenues which they now get for
county ronds lopped off? The counties, of course,
could resort to properly Inxes to make up the
revenues lost, but Isn't Hint the very thing we
have been trying to avoid In this slate. It Is the
property taxation that Is all out of line In Orecon.
And Isn't the completion of the market rontl
system of Oregon of almost equal Importance with
the major slate highway system? Suppose we had j
merely the through slnte ronds wilh nothing but
mud lanes feeding In from the supporting country
side. Onn of tho wisest provisions of the original
stale highway laws In Oregon was that the market
roada should be coordinated with the mnln high
ways which were to m hlillt. within the state.
Few states In the union have had such foresight.
It may be argued Hint (he present system of
distributing motor fees Is unfair to the people of
Multnomah rnunly since n great deal of Multnomah
money Is distributed upstate. Portland Is what It
Is today berause It has been made accessible by a
ayslem of atnto highways combined with market
roads which reaches Into every corner of the state.
To say that the people of Porlhuul have not been
receiving any benefit from tho roads built In up
state counties would be absurd.
Just what lies behind all this flurry to chango
the licensing system overnight has not been made
clear. Some think that tho genial Hal merely
wanted to provide an antidote for tho annual li
cense bills which are being passed out. Some
think he Is merely trying to insure his popularity
with the voters against anything which might
eventuate. Wo cannot believe. know-Inn: Mr. II....
.amy wen, nun he had any menu motives. I
Jul cual lielD fueling Uiat bis jlu u. I
VyHAT Is the biggest news story In the world
today? Marlen Pew, editor of the trade maga
zine, Editor & Publisher, offers a startling thought
to the editors who are featuring International pow
wows and peace conferences and murder sensa
tions In their headlines. Says Mr. Pew, the biggest
story In the news today Is the fact that more than
33,000 people are being killed and more than
1.000,000 maimed In traffic In the United States
annually.
Only 126,000 Americans died of wounds, disease
and all other causes during the 18 months the
United States was In the World War." Only 60,000
were really killed In action. In other words, the
point Mr. Pew Is driving at Is that In terms of
human life and human misery our traffic problem
Is almost as great a problem as war.
Peace has Its atrocities and Inhumanities as
well as war. What are we going to do about
them?
How are editors going to tell this "greatest
story of all"? We tell about the accidents as they
happen, but the -horror Is soon forgotten, even
sooner than the horrors of war. Recklessness In
this day and age Is a mania. It can be cured only
by the slow process of education. We can only
say nnd say again that everybody must drive with
care. We can only hope that gradually the groat
American frenzy "to get somewhere" will bo re
placed by a sanor habit of thinking.
We cannot very well dramatize the story to the
millions of people who are actors In It. Because
we are all actors In It unaware.
SIDE GLANCES
A French girl Is reported to have laughed three
hours without stopping. Probably overheard an
American tourist giving directions to a cab driver.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
TAXES HERE AND ELSEWHERE
(Albany Demoernt-llerald)
yi'" pointed out the other day that 6.01 cents of our
property tax dollar go to support the state and
Hint 03.011 cents of it go to support county and local
government.
Today we are calling attention to another fact, viz:
That Oregon's per capita state tnx has decreased f5
per cent In the past decade. In 101 t lie totnl state tax
was $il.H7D,flKii, or $8.18 per capita. In IfWl It ia
1(3,467,4117, er $3.tH for every man, woman and child in
tho slate,
Here ia another Important fact: That In apite of
Hie tremendous decrense in the atnte tnx during the
decade, local taxes have Increased so greatly that they
have not only counteracted all relief from the state
rlecrensn but have made our total tnx' levy the. highest
In the history of Hie state. In 11121 the totnl tax lew
In Oregon was $40,473.01X1, of which the stale took
$11,311,1)118 nnd local governments took $34.1(11.9:18. In
1031 our total tnx levy Is $.".0,223,010, of which the
slate tnliea only $3,407,4(17 and the local governments
take $4rt,7f(Un0.
Despite thia trend, tax payers and voters are now
wreaking vengeance on slate-supported activities while
lliey make no effort to correct the real cause of high
laxea, which is the constant Increase In the county and
local tnx levies, for which they, themselves, are re
sponsible, Let's remember this fact the next time we become
Incensed over taxea. We growl about the aalnrles of
our aliito offlcera and yet if everyone of them should
work for the Btate free, the nersons who now nnvm
$MH) In taxes would lowor the amount bv less than
$1.21, for this $1.21 of a $100 tax bill pays for
he cost of maintaining all of the stale offices with
supplies aa well na officers. Of the 6.01 cents of the
tnx property tnx dollar that goea to the state, thia
insignificant sum of $1.21 tnkea care of all the ex
penses or general alnte administration.
The fact la that we vote hllee local taxea on
otiraelrea and then let ambltioiia atnte polltlclana rush
na off our feet by their cries of economy in state
affairs.
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g?193l Br NM 8CRVICC. INC. ,
"Take a look at these suits, buddy I got 'em marked so low I hope
you don't buy."
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
.TALKIES ADD NEW HANDICAP TO
MILLIONS OF HARD OF HEARING
WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY DUTCHER
NBA Porvlc Writer
VASniNOTON, May a I. The National WnraniT
I'nrtr finds ita tarn rineinr with an nnHrrtistnmWi
ii mount of prni?i ninro It mrvrtrd every body 'a Attention
( flip Inbor ltprt incut s rniel treatment of Mr ft.
Lillian Lnr.sh, the- destitute American born woman who
wa deported along with her four little jrirls to a
Canadian tovrn where she knew no one, simply because
her htifthnnd hnd been a Canadian.
funnily the party la r.ind punning Ita equal rights
amendment and ia bitterly ranted by other women's
groups because- It would abolish labor legitdntion
designed to protect women along with other legal in
i-uuiililics. It will now. however, work for a hill to
permit Mrs. Larah's return and for once all women's
national organizations probably will be on tbe same
aide,
Tim Columbia Hroadcasting company-operator who
cut off President lloover'a radio speech awhile ago
still has bin Job nnd (hat in-'id. nt and the one that
happened (n I emocraf ic Clinirin.in Jmiett Sbouse in
San Knincisco recently are making public men more
careful. Hoover had penciled a couple of additional
pnrngriiplia onto his speech a first prepared and the.
nperiitor, following the original copy, shut him off
before he could get them on rim air. All wna satis
factorily explained. Shouie'i redio listeners suddenly
heard him telling a gathering that he was "off the
Jiir" when he wasn't mid lfeitiMiinn Clinlrm.m Si,nil
l ess I'lmrgrd he had then said things he wouldn't have
dared sny to a radio audience.
Senator Paris of Pennsylvania, former secretnrr of
labor, sometimes known a "Han In .Tim," isn't nlwiiv
taken seriously here, but C1 Coolidgo recent Iv told
n friend fh-it when be had wanted to get a thing done
lav ivas the nio.f dependable man in his cabinet.
Iim. be explained, bad n faculty of ingratiating himself
and getting people to do thoo things.
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American
Medical Association, nnd of Hy
geia, the Health Magazine
QNE of the most interesting Im
provements In behalf of the hand
icapped that has taken place in re
cent years la a gradual extension of
permanent installations, for hearine
devices in churches end theaters.
vwien silent motion pictures rep
resented the only type available, peo
ple who were hard of hearinsr found
them particularly attractive as places
or entertainment. J hen came the
tn Ikies and moat of the nleaaure in
attendance at motion pictures disap
peared for these handicapped people.
In the meantime, it bad been found
that munj people with certain trues
of deafness can hear well, provided
they nave the assistance of suitable
hearing devices. Unfortunately such
hearirig devices demand snocial enuin-
ment which is not generally available.
t nen these tacts were brought to
the attention of owners of various
places, of public Instruction nnd enter
tainment, particularly in Chicago, they
decided to cooperate and to install
the necessary equipment. There is j
in Chieairo todar one theater in wbicb
20 seats have been provided for tbe
hard of hearing. When the deafened
people enmo to this theater thev
merely ask at the box office and they
are provided with ear nbonea which
nre plugged into the electrical con
nection on the special sent. A bolf
dozen theaters devoted to fnlkine mo
tion pictures are similarly equipped.
Many churches have provided the
necessary equipment In the form of
olectric conunections and head phones.
Tests have been made of thousands
of school children, and It has been
found that ninny of them who are
considered deaf have slieht. remain
of the hearing apparatus. It Is neces
sary to educate these remnants
promptly, otherwise the portions of
the brain devoted to the sense of
hearing become quiescent from dis
use and the Ion ire r the time of re
education is postponed tbe more dif
ficult it becomes. .
Jn an address on thm aiiMiaer Mr
L. I'elton. who has been actively con
cerned in securing installation of
hearing equipment, emphasized the
fact that the normal child he fnr
more than a year before it begins to
inmate cne sounds that it hears in
the form of speech.
flreat progress has been "made In
the teaching of lip reading to the
hard of hearing. The combination of
education in hearing and speech edu
cation and lip reading and the pro
vision of suitable devices for those
who hear with such devices means a
much happier world for these handi
capped people in tbe future.
It has been estimated that there
are at least three million children in
the United States who have defec
tive hearing. Early attention to their
defects is important from the eco
nomic point of view, since the pro
vision of suitable education will make
them better able to earn a living for
themselves and to live normal social
lives in the futures.
EARLY EUGENE
(Frcm The Guard of May, 1SSH
piCNICL The Sportsmen's picnic
today promise to aiu-pasa anything-
of the kind thru haa been hold
Hiia acaaon. Tlia following are the
prizes to be donated by the merchants
Kodak Finishing
TiffurDavia
Tiffany Bldg., 8th A Willamette
KfAOY lrt
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"omethinK !iehl!v prnf-me nhonl tnhn.'en. Siirnn
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"No Sm.ikins. Thia la a Memorial
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THAT'S ABOUT ALL
Apple vendor hare disappeared from the streets o'
Washington, hut must ofTiiv buildings hove inherited ?
favorite vendor of fruits and candies who alyi loo1
very poor and usually undertakes to strengthen h;
position hr inveichinc against the communists
vnritnis of fires. The Junior 1 engue bought the man
who works its block s mvcII hnt nnd mat which h'
now wears on his rounds.
A recent article published hr .be Methodic Bonn'
of Temperan'-e, l'rohibitiou and I'nblic Moral', to prm .
that while n certain ipinnftty of wine or brandy mnke
a man craiv. beer In corresponding quantity make,
him stupid, rontains this thought: "Some nf us prefer
sn interesting maniac to n hrutnlixed idiot.
Amwnr. cocktails are not beinc convtinied fit
enough to take care of the surplus of grapefruit juice
ami nrnnge (nice. The agricuit ure department snrs
praoticiilly nil ntrn growing countries nre increasim
production faster than world consumption now and
that production probably wMl Veep on tnc mitiug. which
presumably means that iust one more section of
agriculture Is going to suffer from overproduction.
A speaker at the recent chamber of commerce
meeting dp:nted from his prt'p-ir-.! speech to tell
interesting tales nb.sit bow tie Illinois corn crop ned
to go to Canadian distilleries but didn't snv more
because of competition and how Mohammedans In the
Sudan were persuaded to work onlv on prohre of
trips to Mecca In return for two years Inbor and then
to, nt Mecca they niuf work a couple of years more
for their pasKflgf home. j
There wis a big s-torv fast before the International
Ch.unber of Comm.-roe lba foreign drt,.K.,(ei would '
Mn.k Do- I nited S-.,'i's for trading w-fb Unssin t :
lh- ...ioirevs iu.df Vm ,..ihn'r f,n.1 delegare from i
.-nn impoftjint c.unrn th;,t w-mi't trading with liussifl, I
to UiflU fcitauauUilj wlij tiiji- BflW'l uu UliU
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yOU MAY HAVE ALL rOURPACKIrtG
DOriE BUT YOU'RE MOT PREPARED
, Oft ATRIP UNTIL YOUArtDALLYOlR
POSSESSION ACE INSURED WITH
TROMP V M'KINLEY
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. FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG.
n) PHONE:2l
U)3 insure, rfnylhinc
of Eusene to be itlTen In the las
ball matchea:
C. M. Horn, fine bow, quirer and
arrows; 1XL atore, pocket knife; S.
Koaenblatt, pipe; ("rain Bros., fine
hat rack; T. J. Rill & Co.. bottle
Good Luck bittera; Kobinson and
Church, brass hancine basket; B. V
Dorris, dust pan; K. M. Wilkins, bot
tle iwy ruin; I. C M A, neck tie; A.
liVmh. can oysters; A. V. Petera.
Majolica pitcher; R. M. Kobinson.
manic puzzle; J. R. Ellison, magic
puzzle; V. B. Dunn, jumper jacket;
William Treston. whip; M. M. and A.
Jackson, wash bonrd; T, G, Hen
dricks, Japanese cabinet.
Osburn & Co.. bottle of colocne;
S. H. Friendly, box cipnrs; K. G. Cal
iison. Sanders' 0th Header; R. J.
Graham, hnt; J. S. Luc-key. watch
chain; Ellsworth & Co., one box
Minlie-R nills? Kenshaw nnd McCor-
nack, dried hcef: R. R. Hays, bottle
wine: L). flyman, ciftnr holder; A.
Goldsmith, fancy sonp; B. H. James,
tin horn; Rosenblatt & Co., pair of
braceleta; Jas. McClaren, boltle IaL
bitters; A. S. Patterson, pocketbook;
C. Hodes, box cisrurs.
REFEliUllI
The resolution endorsing the ref
erendum on the state police bill pass
ed bv the Portland Central Labor
council was turned down by the. Kn
gene ('entral Iabor council in meet
in Wednesday evening. The local
group is to moke investigation before
taking action nnd is to write Gover
nor Julius Ia Meier for information.
A report will likely be given for the
next meeting, or a special meeting
may be called.
I Hsrussion was nlsn held by the
Eugene group Wednesday evening on
the matter of endorsing a candidate
forJhe city school board. No action
wns taken, the mutter being referred
to the organized political league of
tho council. The matter of voting
the resolution on the police bill will
also likely be token up by the political
group, it was said,
K. F. Atchley was granted permis
sion to pass tbe petition on the
Rogue river closing bill because the
council hnd in previous action op
posed the closing.
A California millionaire recently
gave his friends n peacock dinner and
the birds alone cost him $4(hiO.
Special School Meet '
Is Planned Thursday
A apedal achool meeting haa been
called for the Rirer Koail school dis
trict for Thursday night at tbe
achoolbouse.
Discussion will b held on ways
and meana of meeting the present
crowded condition of the achool dur
ing tha coming year.
Wendling Mother
Club Has Meeting
TTEXDL1XG, May 21. (Special).
The Mothers' club of Wendling held
a special meeting Tuesday this week
instead of the regular Wednesday
evening meeting. Thia meeting was
held In the afternoon nt the pnrk. It
wai auppoaedly In the n.."5
Die but they made pCS".
lime apent there
cleaning it up in good JJ m
After the atorm. f '
park needed cleaninr m.a,ti.
and thia club took it '
to see that It got that ,. S'?
Hon. The many peopu
the. park thia .Li 0 J
ful to the mothers for tbS ? t
of work. " '
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It's A Good School
EUGENE
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LABI year an inttuiuuue .uuiyau uuiu6 uuoiuess mrough til.
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The following shows the rates now available on this forffl
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