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Km EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD November 13 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published ararr .renins; and Bund) EDITOR AND PUBM8HEB Alton IT. Baker MANAGING EDITOR . . - WUUan , M. Tutinian NEW8 8ERVICH, Assodsted Prass. United Press MEMBER - Audit Barest! of Qircnlatioa Toe Reflster-Gusrd's policy to th complete and Impartial publication In Its news pages of all news nod statem.nte on news. On tbla pare, tba editors or Tha Reglstsr-Uasrd offer their opinlone on events or tha day and mattara of Importance to the common lt. eadeaTorlnr to ba candid but fair, and helpful In the development of conatractlre tommunlry policy. A NEW6PAPER 13 A CITIZEN OF IT3 rOMMI'NITT THE STATE OF BUSINESS HOW'B bualnesa? Better! la the ao-callod dnpres alon, deflation, panic, economic revolution, or whatever you want to call It, over? Business prophesy la not our avocation. No alree! That business aeema to be too much even for Mr. Babson. You remember he was going to have all the boya back In the mllla by Chrlatmaa. Even the price of wheat haan't reacted enough yet to help Mr. Babaon out of that one. Nevertheless to the person who must Judge by watching the newa parade, things do aoem definitely better. Some badly Beared people think that the recent advancea In wheat, oil, cotton, steel and many other commodities Is the result of clever manipulation by powerful speculators combined with booster propaganda in the press. Borne of these prices may sag again before they go higher, but put thla down, no amount of spec ulation or propaganda could produce the steady gain of the laat two months. Talk of war In the Orient may have had some effect, but there hasn't been much enthusiasm for that war even In Wall atreet. The upturn In many Hnea seems to be due to more stable banking conditions, to the fact that deflation In many llnea actually haa been com pleted, to the fact that aa hysteria has waned, many smart business men have decided that prices are not only as low as the markets warrant, but lower than need be. Overproduction does not seem to be the factor It waa soma time back. The world markets need what has been stored and what la being produced. How to pay, even at present prices, la the difficult part of the problem, but wa aeem to be definitely out of that muck where: goods could scarcely be moved "at any price." Security averagea ara a fair Indication of con ditions. On BO Industrial stocks which had an aver age high bid of 252 In 1929 and an average low of 141.8; an average high of 202.4 In 1830 and an average low of 112.0; and In this year ao far a high of 140.2, and a low of 7.8, yesterday'a aver agea were 85.0; last week's 83.9; last month's 81.8. Figures on railroad and utility securities show a parallel trend. Those who said within alx months after tba 1929 crash that "deflation had been accomplished" were talking through their hats; those who SBld the same thing last year were quite aa far "off." But there aeema to bava been a genuine cellar sometime In tha laat all months. It's a long hard crawl back, If you bava money to build a house, buy a farm, to buy and KEEP a good reliable bond or stock; If you want a suit of clothes, a bedroom suite, a roll of satin, a barrel of paint, a new oar, anything within reason, It's a tine time to Invest. THE OLD ORADS RETURN rpHESE ara "homecoming" days for tha graduates of high schools and colleges. Tha Big Dames are being played. Old boya ara back to see the team win and to atrut a little Success stuff for tha edification of tha younger generation. The feminine aids dlsplaya Ita trophies, mostly hue- I banda and babies. The school "homecoming" with Ita ' back-slapping, Ita reminiscences, Its revival ; of the youthful spirit, la one of our happiest tra- dltfnna. ' In Eugene, thla year, however, there Is one "homecoming" that la really unique. It's tba one which the grnduatea of the old Geary school are holding. Geary ta Just a grade achool. We don't often think of grade acboola aa having personality and traditions. Grade achoola usually seem pretty remote to people who have gone on through hlsh achool and college or through the mora strenuous schools of experience. Tet tha grade achools do have their tradltlona and they do deserve our loyalties. Why should wa give all tha credit for what wa bava acquired In Ideals or In culture to the higher schools. They say soma 10,000 people have gone through old Geary since It was the city's finest and newest achool back In 1890. Borne 400 have returned, many of them from hugs distances to have a part In this occasion. For 40 yesra old Geary has been making fine men and women for the community. For the last 25 years, through all kinds of political weather, the school has kept the guldunra of kindly, competent Ellis R. Tarker. The building haa become something of a civic reproach. For a long time, the peopla of the Geary district have been entitled to a better build ing and better equipment. But that doesn't really ' matter because Geary haa something better and mora Important a fine tradition of accomplishment. Kugene greets tha Oesry bomecomera. Their tribute to a flue school Is noteworthy for Its sincerity. MR. SPAULDINQ PROPOSES TJNTJER the pretext of helping tha poor and making work for the unemployed, a politician can sharpen many an axe these days. Thus High way Commissioner Bpauldlng's long threstened move to get a downward adjustment of state highway department salaries la dressed up In tha guise of plan to create funds to make work for tha un employed. If Mr. Bpauldnlga Ideas ara carried out. all engineer salaries over 11400 will be cut 1 I J rcr cent All lower salaries will be cut 1!' per cent. Mr. Rpauldlng figures tha cuta would give work for men with 2800 dependents. 8ounda fine, but - Mr. Bpauldlng's calculations now are apparently Just aa Inaocurata aa they were In the Woodburo apeach In which ha declared that Oreaon wsa apendlng far mora for engineers than neighboring states. Wa published at tha time a comparative tabl showing Oregon ealarlea definitely below those. In California and Washington. Support for 2.100 neonle hv ruiiin nd engineer aalarles 12', to 1 21 par cant? Lai . aa, that would antaU r.irtv ..,,u. . for at least 500 men, average families considered. How much saving Is possible? Well, the total ad ministrative expense of the highway department laat year waa (463,627.09. Of course, that Included large sums for office apace, supplies, travel expense to and from road Jobs, But suppose a cut on the whole amount to be possible. Tba outside saving would ba around $75,000. That would be about 2150 per family which Isn't very much for 12 montlia or even six months, even with living on a reduced basis. Of course, the estimate Is far too liberal. In reality the engineering payroll la less than $100,000. It la doubtful If other classes of employes could stand the cuts proposed. Once more Mr. Spaulding seems to have been talking high, wide and hand some for political effects, and with little regard for fulrncss or accuracy. The other membera of the highway commission have done wisely In tabling Mr. gpauldlng'a plan for more careful study and deliberation. Thero has been too much venom In Mr, Spauldlng'a attitude toward the highway englneera for this proposition to be accepted at face value as a plan for unemploy ment relief. When the governor's health permits him to get back to business, one of his first tasks should be to lay firm banda on this highway mess. OUR EXCITING LIVES QINCLAIR LEWIS told a Brooklyn audience the other day that we are living today In a "world on fire," and he added that while it may be rather unsettling It Is at least exciting; and that, when you think It over, expresses the present state of affairs about as well as anything could. Whatever else you may say about it, you must at least admit that the race is not stagnating these days. It is going somewhere at a very rapid clip. Possibly, when all la said and done, we are simply rushing down a ateep place into the sea; but at least we are rushing, and, as Mr. Lewis says, the process Is exciting, If nothing else. It Is rather a good thing to realize this fully, too. The present era, generations hence, will pos sibly be looked on as one of the great turning points of history. Business men say we must cut down the over head. Yes, as the condemned man said mounting the scaffold. If you don't, you go In the hole. Ten thousand Ethloplana In Africa recently ate raw beet In a celebration, and enjoyed It. It probably was bully. WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK VANDALISM AND BURGLARY (Ctirvalis Gssette-Times) VK note that President A. B. Hall is quite worked ' up over tba possibility that it wsa a bun-i of Oregon Freshmen who painted orange colored letters over the university campus. We do not know whether it was or not. We recsll a few years ago that there was a blow up of Oregon's lemon O on Skinner's bulte Just before the big game and It was not dono by nnyone from C'orvsllis or the O. S. fl. camptm. Be that ss It may, we do not. excuse that sort of vandalism, but, wliat President Hall should be worrying about is a couple of cases of burglary committed by students from the university, For the second time this year they have burglarised the college gymnasium snd stolen the col lege beaver. Burglary Is quite a serious offense. Mpn have been known to go to the penitentiary as s result of It. If wo were President Hall, which thank fiod we are not, we would do some worrying about the thieves on our own campus The faculty of the university has voted to give a day's salary to unemployment relief. That's the right Idea snd one that every other employed man should be willing to do especislly the man on a salary, for his salary la worth 20 percent more than it wsa two yeara sen. If overy employed man would follow the university faculty's eiample, there would he no trouble anywhere providing for the unemployed for they constitute such a very amall proportion of the popula tion in this country leas than one percent. WASHINGTON LETTER By RODNEI DUTCHES NEA Service Writer SIDE GLANCES "Oh, don't worry about that! We'l I teach you to drive In 15 minutes." DAILY HEALTH SERVICE DISCOVER CURE FOR BALDNESS, BUT IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED VA8HlNOTON, Nov. 13. President Hoover's war " with the Nsvy League is really only a by-product of a battle of statlatli-s over the auesilon of rrlliim our nsvy en a basis of tresty parity with Great Britain. AVIIIiam Howard Gsrdiner's pamphlet, althoufh It contained certain nasty flings to which Iloorer took violent exception, was primarily an analysis designed to prove In figures that this country was tielng let In for naval Inferiority to Great Britain which would be made worse by the proposed one-year naval holidar. Secretary of the Nary Charles Francis Ada ma and the ncaca societies have been hurling other statistics nnd Interpretations Into the fight and the fnctual haps for the various points In view are summarized herewith because they may ba of Interest as developments wax warmer. as The Nary League says: The Tuiled Ntniea has only 80 per cent of her treaty quota of naval lonnnuo built or bulldtnc. whereas (ireat Britain has SS..1 per cent and Japan 102 per rem. Thia applies not lo capital ships, but to aircraft car riera. cruisers, destroyers and submarines. It makes the present Atnerienu-ltritish-.lnpanese ratio of naval tun nage a. 8 ft ,'I.S. with the Japanese built or building tonnage under treaty age within tons of our own nod the T'ritlh nhead of us by .11 per cent. We are ahead of Japan only in aircraft carriers and cruisers and are led by Britain in each catesory except sul mnrines. A naval holiday that would stop all building of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyera and sub marines iliirius ll" would widen Hie jap and. placinc American naval tonnase at s par of 10, ive Britain snd .Inpan coinparatirn ratios of 17.1 sud l.'l 4 respectively. Such a year, taking Into account the naval treaty pro ram which runs tlirnugli ltwtt, would result in a sain of 1.1.R per cent for the British fleet. IH.tl per cent fur the Japanese fleet nnd no gam at all for the American fleet. a Trace societies, as In the esse of the National Council for Prevention of War of which Frederick J. l.ihbv is executive secretary, merely smile that: f are now building S7.0IX1 tons as compared with TJ.lssi being built by Great Britain. Knaland Is spending IL'O.OOii.tiOO a year for new construction snd this rwinlrr $70,000,000. President Hoover has approv. ed Jrt,(ai,OiN In construction for next year In the new naval bndxet. The fact that v. e are allowed onlv 17Msl tons by Ireatv for replacement of cruisers, destroyers and submarines, aa aaainst Kniland's allow anee of "IIMSHI tons, shone that our fleet Is more np-to-dste than the British. British ean'l replace all hef cruisers that become over-ale. but we sre per mitted lo replace lAH.IsMt tons of destroyers, manv of which are as goe, as new. We spend more money on our nay than does anv other nation. Secretary of the Naw Adams, nslng still another approach In a reptv to the peace societies, sats; ' pnt $.T7r..00"X on our naw In l!i"0 and Britain onlv t,V Oist ias). J,,,, , niilM.' par more for labor, materials and navy personnel and fieri rea for Great llritsin do not include expenses for naval forces. Per capita cost of our narv is JUII ,er vear as acalti.t $fli! for Great Britain. It costs us more than twice as much o build a ship as It costs in ring land snd fix timea as much aa In Japan, Mrantlme consressional advocates of a stroej fleet have taken the field In the hauls, lo demand that the American naty be built up t a parity with Great Britain si once. Representative Fred Britten, chairman last session of the house naval committee, and Senator lavid Weed, chairman of lbs military committee were lead ing these demands. Representative Britten annonnced the full co-operation of n,,,or Frederick W. Hale, chairman of ih. senate naval committee, and demante,i a protram of Immediate construction of a $1 '.''.'..'eat.isvi pro, ram of destro.er,, wbrnannes. a flyie.-deck cruiser, and an aircraft carrier. H sMt.s In al He t iked fr s $7,VVono.ono authoriutioa for the aaxy to build up to tot treaty hauu " ,oa u H nn. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Joumnl of the American Medi cal Association, snd of uygeia, the Health Magazine IT has long been recognized that the stands of Internal secretion are def initely associated with the develop ment of what are called the secondary Sex characteristics. It is becsuse of the special type of glandular sctivity that a male develops the way he does in contrast to the femsle. It is be cause of glandular activity that a rooster grows a comb and a ben does not. British Investlgstors have, been able to cause a hen to grow a comb by changing its glamliilnr mechanism. Dr. B. N. Bengston noticed that pituitary extract when injected may develop a profuse growth of hair. Concluding from this thst there is some relationship of the secretion of this eland to the growth of hair, he decided to inject people who bsd suf fered s loss of hair with this glandu lar extinct. The regular injection of extracts of the pituitary gland brought about a stimulstion and growth of hair in several instances. A man fi8 yenrs old who' had been bald for two years developed a complete growth of while hair nnd continued Injections caused the gradual growth of some black hnir. Some of tho cases treated were quite definitely cases of deficiency in the secretion of this eland. It is not certain that this repres ents a method for the cure of bold ness of all types: indeed, the method i so new that it is not safe to make anv certnin statements as to its value. On the other hand, enoueh evidence has loen established by Dr. Bengtson to indicate that, in certain cases of hiihlucsa in which there may be a de ficiency of the secretion of this par ticular glnud, the iujection of extract TrT7S 1 2to m of the pituitary gland resulted In over coming baldness. Premsture bsldneas is one of the chief sources of income for nil sorts of charlatans snd for the promotion of various types of nostrums and hair tonics. Institution have been estab lished where baldness Is treated by ultraviolet rays. Probably cbsrlstnns may endesvor to reso the usual in come from these new investigations. Headers are warned that the timo is not yet ripe for every baldbeaded man to try the new treatment. MAIL BAG PUGE.NE, Ore. (To the Editor! I have been watching the "Mail Bag" hoping to see a rebuke to Mr. Shaffer's snd bis supporter's con tempt for the Bible, contributed by some one of the ministers of Eugene, but seems they all consider it be neath the dignity of "the cloth" to defend the Bible by the newspaper route. The Christie people of Eugene should applaud the courage of Mc .''orran and Washburne in its noble defense of the Scriptures It hss pub lished in its sds for some time. After resding the letter signed "E. S." in the Itegisti ---Guard of Nov. lltlt I fee! that I would like to join the firm of Hall, Brown and Ditnick et si long enough to ask E. S.. Mr. Shaffer, and others of their faith to read and meditate upon the following poem published in a recent number of the Christian Advocate: God la Not Mocked (Ernn E. Hoefs) The fool bath said there is no God, L'pon the truth his feet hsve trod; And thus attempts to smother all Which truth may tell, has sought Its fall. Sharp arrows aimed have missed their mark, There answers bsek a living spark Of flaming words from Holy Writ, Bewsre ye who would tresd on it. The voice ye seek fore'er to still Cannot be hushed, snd never will. Though atheists may storm and roar The voice of truth yet more and more r.esounds, is heard above it all; Like fiery letters on the wall. Their blinded souls yet shell see There is a God! and daily He, With mercy, comes and slsnds before The unbeliever's bolted door. Poor balf-deceiving fools have snid There is no God. :.nd truth is dead. Ah! though their doors are sealed and locked. Be not deceived, God Is not mocked. J. A. ADAMS. MR. SHAFFER EXPLAINS pt'GENE, Ore. (To the Editor) '-, Before Mr. Mlnick can expect to caress and fondle that $10 gold piece and compare it to the streets of a cer tnin city paved with the stuff, he will have to offer something far more substantial proof of the supernatur al than a few quotations. I am prompted to submit a few questions. Is It the all-powerful good God who As Personal As Your Own Pictures Christmas Cards From Your Negatives Are Inexpensive And in Good Taste, See Samples at CARL R. BAKER KODAK SHOP 7th and Willamette made the earthquake, the volcano, the cyclone, the death dealing light ning, the octopus, the shark, the viper, the hideous snakes, the sneak in? tiger, the disease carrying mos quitoes, flies, rstes and roaches, the deadly germs of consumption, typhoid, smallpox, dipbtheris. scarlet fever, and the black death? Is it the creator of the famine and the pestilence, the desert of death, the tidal waves and winds of destruc tion? Is It omnipotent and omniscient yet permits untold millians to die of stsrvstion while they pray for bread? And untold millions to rot with dis ease in their ignorance while tbey pray for light and guidance? Who is all-powerful snd all-wise yet permits slavery, massacr. human sacrifice, ignorance, war, disease, misery, and the crimes of men? Who being all-powerful has per mitted ignorant priests and preachers to keen humanity under their sub jection by the influence of fesr, super stition, rituals and music, magic nnd mysticism, holy water and holy smoke, the burning bush and the fiery serpent, blood and water, in cense and nonsense? Who hss permitted priests and prophets and their followers to per secute and slsy men of science ami reason who have tried to solve the riddle of life, and dared to conquer the horrors of Ignorance and disesse by scientific methods? Who has the power to save from blindness, leprosy, cancer, consump tion snd madness which fall like blight upon the children of creation yet mskes no sign snd gives no remedy. Who has caused the volcano to burst suddenly bto tctl charred snd tn,?,, on msn pities; ool, If msn h.d wl,dom " prevent wsr, IgnnrajJ"? disease d did not JvS. call him a dwarf .Jim, a cruel and helli.i, fj,5Si, of people worship superstition the kind nf could not tolerate iV,0'' te aream of heavenly father is but priestly mysticism it i, or me traditional Jesiwl est curse ever Impo.n'JS norant and creduloua I do not deny ih J?" "spirltusl God,"Vb,& the spirit of Lo .J"?! know thst a God roJFjb than good, and a devil , ." evil. I know there I, iVftJ?' wralh malice. Je.lo",,1 harmful spirit, for ther. J' harmful God. I know IbJT,?' thing as an almighty who V. ?' sense without nonsense JS"! evil, and east without s'i;n dom withont nonsense i, a! G'.d created a Devil or .J? tivoly absurd, there I, atlve about evil, and theoshi five ;lrit In the worlj Ttt of evil. There I. B0 occult science for there U sense Ml her t thing , t1 sens or nonsense. jrao of nothing supernstural a, v? supercedes nsture. Neltb,, ' find any evidence of love nC side -f a conscloua mind ' V- W. SHAFT1 Dear Folks: Starting this Saturday and continuing for weeks, we are presenting the 83rd anniveraj special of Community Plate. It consists oM pieces in the newDi luxe an ni versa tray. 8 dinner knivt 8 teaspoons, 8 sali forks, 8 dinner fort 8 dessert spoons, bt ter knife and sup shell. You have Tot choice of all design Mr. STceie says this is the greatest opporhmi! you will ever have to own Community Plate. 1 don't you come in now and select the design tl will be loveliest on your table The Special Am versary Price is $39.75. (The regular price beii $51.75.) Just think what a lovely Christmas prese this set would make or to match that big Thail giving Turkey Oh Boy! TICK.' P. 8. But remember thla offer It for two weeka enly. Of 411 GLMCNC.OI3. 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