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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD Pago Four . . . li . -I ii;! !I'S " i .. i ; '.! 1 '- i .1 ' -J i'.j AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published every evening and Sunday) BDITOK ANI PUBLISHER - Alton V. Bnkcr MANAGING KU1TOK ... - William M. TiiKinan NKW8 8KKV1CE, Aisociated Prcaii. United I'rem MSMBHIt Audit Bureau of Circulation! 'i'l.a HeKiiter-Guard'i policy is the complete and impartial publication In ita newa peifee of all new, and eliitemente on norva. On this pajfe, tho editora of The ReiiMer-Gunrd offer their opinion) on eventt of the day and matters of importiinco to the com munity, endeavoring to be candid but fair, and helpful in the development of constructive community policy. A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OF ITS C'OMMI'VITY EARTHQUAKES ON COAST JtK get right excited about an earthquake In California, especially when It waggles things around a bit up here In Oregon. Natural phenomena are always exciting when we know as little about them as we know about earthquakes. Earthquakes have those elements of mystery and drama which are basic Ingredients for good stories. So we read with a thrill that one person was killed by a falling chimney In the quake that shook Eureka, Cal., and our neighbors down In Klamath and Medford and Grants Pass and the Coos region were able to feel the earth wabbling, quite dis tinctly. A quake big or small stirs our curiosity. All of which adds to the Impression that quakes are rather common In the Pacific coiutt region. If you could watcb a news wire day after day you would be surprised how common they are in all parts of the country. Mttle Is said about It but they have them rather frequently In the Middle West, due to the historic geologic faults In the St. Lawrence region. Some of them have been quite severe. Quakes excite our curiosity, but even the great est quakes, which occur very seldom, are not nearly so strange or nearly so deadly as human phe nomena. Wars, depressions, civilized barbarities slay thousands for every one killed by quakes or volcanoes. We find it hard to get excited about human disturbances. We talk about a day when we will be able to control quakes. Wouldn't It be strange It we learned that art before we learn to control human disasters? PLAYGROUNDS TO BE OPENED CUGBNE'S municipal playgrounds will be opened June 21 on the school grounds at Condon, Wlllard, Lincoln, Geary, and at Rlvervlew park and Rlvervlew pool. Our playgrounds cost us only about ?2500 a year, about half of the special levy wo voted a few years back. They do a vast amount of good, especially In these times when a great many families have too many worries to give much supervision to children. The playgrounds are open to all. They are under competont Instructors. Youngsters are en couraged not only In healthful games but In many kinds of handiwork. They learn to swim. They learn how to avoid traffic They learn that decent play or useful work can be ust as much fun as mischief. Best of all they get continuous practice In cooperation. "Never anything like that in my day." You can hear the old-timers saying It. Of course there wasn't. The old days weren't like these times. In many ways the old days were much better, but there's no going back to them. Time has gone by when Johnny grew up working and learning alongside of Dad on the home place. Dad goes away from home to his Job, when he can get one, and maybe so does mother. Johnny faces a new kind of world which Is full of ma chines and devices and complex organizations which function only when people work together and sometimes not even then. The Three R's are still mighty Important but Cooperation has Joined the list of fundamentals. Playgrounds are merely a part of a changing system of education to meet a world which la changing rapidly. We do not spend any money more wisely than that $2500. CHILE GOES BOLSHEVIK? TN the latest weekend revolution, the republic of Chile, way down at the southern tip of South America, seems to have gono "red." President Montero Is out and Carlos Davlla, for many years ambassador at Washington, Is bossing things. Davlla, known as an extremely able hombre. (at least by contrast during his years among the dip lomatic butterflies at Washington) admits that the new revolution has a reddish Unite. It la rumored that recognition, not of the United States but of Soviet Russia will be asked by the new regime. Unless the government at Washington sees fit to send down a few battleships so that the marines may "land and have things well In hand." American Investors who hold Borne 659 millions of Chilean securities might just as well kiss their Investments goodbye, If they haven't already considered them as good as gone. If Chllo actually goes red thoso dohts will bo repudiated first thing. In fact. It Is oven more likely that these debts will bo repudiated than that Chile will go Russian. Bolshevik communism, as It Is practiced In Russia, la much more than a form or a nmtliod of govern ment. It Is a national philosophy, a otate religion, growing out of conditions which am peculiar to Rusala and to Russia only. It Is lexlremely doubt ful that the "dictatorship of the proletariat" could be transplanted bodily to Chile or that It could be 1 adjusted to the temperament or habits of the Chilean people. Davlla Is a studious gentleman but he links tho fanatic driving power of a l.enln, a Stalin or a Trotsky. The new Chilean revolution will probably follow orthodox lines. It Is their way of changing govern nients down In that region. Chileans feel that they have been the chief victims of the groat bonil racket perpetrated by American International bankers and their own crooked politicians. In eight years they have been mortgaged to tho United States for two and a half times as much as their former British bankers exncled In forty years. The people of Chile havo been bonded for generations to come and at unheard of rates of Interest. At that the Chileans have very little on us. The bonds were not kept by the International racketeers but passed on to American Investors (including the usual proportion of widows and orphans) at an additional profit. Maybe the Am erican people ought to be very angry with the Chileans for wanting to gel out from under "their honest debts." On the other hand, have w. any right to be angry with them? , Weren't both "suckers" In one of the great est "con" games In history? The Chilean were UUWH Y iwilboul their knowledge) by their own racketeering government. We were taken Into camp by our own slickers. Chances are we couldn't collect from Chile If we tried. Why shouldn't we shake hands all around and establfsh a Grand International Association of Suckers? Let them call themselves red If they want to. We are plenty blue. It won't all be dead loss if we have all learned something. In Sunday's editorial on housing conditions under the plan to move the University In with the State College at Corvallls, there was an error as to the housing capacity on the Eugene campus. Total housing on the Eugene campus In dormitories and fraternities and sororities Is 1978 Instead of "1091" which is the total for men's housing only. The capacity of the Eugene campus Is 1978; of the Cor vallls campus 2498. The plan would bring 600 to 600 normal students to Eugene to occupy the 1978 capacity and It would put 61)00 to 6000 students on the Corvallls campus to occupy the 2498 maximum available there. That historian who said the Chinese were the moat peaceful of people would have a hard time convincing the Japanese marines who were at Shanghai. ' WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK .THWARTING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE (Prineville Central Oreeonian) The people of Oregon have expressed themselves on (lie Hibjcct of hither education and have demanded economy, efficiency and prouress. They have selected a plan and expressed their preference. The Oreion Stole System of Higher Education has been outlined l.v the officers chosen for that task. They have been aided by the scientific research of the best and most gifted men in education. The plan Is the work of specialists, yet before the plan Is more than announced before It can be given a chance to demonstrate Its effectiveness or lenrn its faults that any minor weak nesses may be corrected political dopesters with their nostrums are aeeking to substitute a new and more drastic plan. The Hoard of Higher Education charged with the task of unifying the courses and doing away with dup lications, took the physical properties of the state's cducaliuual institutions as It found them and worked out a plan that at once attracted the plaudits of the leaders in the educational world, ft was economical In operation. It required no new capital investments. It nssured Improved efficiency and unquestioned educa tional superiority in the finished product. But before it can be given even a chance to prove Ita worth in actunl operation there appears from Mar ion county a new plan that would nut the work the board has already accomplished to naught and demands the actunl physical union of the college and university, the removal and consolidation of the normal schools and the establishment of junior colleges in the place of the training schools, Normal schools, to be of rnlue to the commonwealth, must be brought close, to the people It is sought to train. School teachers never seem to accumulate much money. They are seldom able to finance long journeys and the incidental expense of a school term In a large center. Especially is this true of the boy or girl just out of high school who hss an ambition to teach. While the boy or girl with ambition end finances necessary for a college course seems seldom content with the facilities of the small school near his home. It Is not probable that the junior colleges proposed would prove of value for they do not permit the student to profit by his first- year of trnining and thus finance his second year by the increased earning power which his first year in the normal school would provide. The student with his fnce turned toward a four year degree seems often to find means of financing his course without the break of a yenr at teaching. Considering the fine start that has been made toward a more unified system of education in Oregon, it would seem the pnrt of nrudence to give it a few rears to prove Its worth before attempting lavish expenditures necrssary to promote pnysical consolidation at once. WASHINGTON LETTER By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) w WASHINGTON, June 6. Political conventions have as their nrimarv holiness the nomination r n,i. dentinl candidates and as their secondary business the framing of a platform. But there are always a lot of motions and clownish antics to he gone through which Ams convention not two or three days longer than seems vitally necessary. You must remember that one function nf a convention Is that of a Iwllvhoo festival with which the parly at tracts the attention of the country. Few delegates would care to arrive and turn around townrd home almost Immediately. Nor would the local hotel men and others who have put up good money stand for a convention of only ono or two days, ' This year the republicans probably will have trouble stretching out their show, whereas the democrats, with a flock nf candidates real and so-called have taken special measures to keep theirs condensed within four days If possible. The principal variation from routine convention procedure will be the meeting of the democratic plat form committee list prior to the convention itself, a device to save time. - Otherwise the procedure of the two conventions Is about tho same. They adopt the rules of the house of representatives to work with, plus certain trndilionnl deviations which Include the two-thirds and unit rules in rno case or oemocrats. A convention is first called to order by the chair man oi me puny s national committee. I'.neh session. after the rail, is launched by a prayer. That touch of piety is alns impressive. If onlv bv contrast. I remember that at Madison Simare Garden In 1024 the democrats roiated Protestant clergymen, priests and rnhhis until they had used about all their were In New York. And the convention was In the throes of the niucrcst. meanest religious fi-lit ever seen at a tional political meeting. Afler a short speech by the national chslrmsn and tint reniliug of the call for the convention the first aujournmcnt Is taken. At the following session a resolution Is passed to adopt the house rules and the rules of the last con vention. Then n list of temporary officers Is read for ine conventions approval anil it is always possible for someone to rise then and precipitate a fight over who is to oe temporary chairman and kevnoter. as illism Jennlm-a Bryan arose agnlnst Alton B. Parker In 1012. If that doesn't happen the temporary chairman Is brought to the chair forthwith and usually delivers an miuress oi nelconie. Hei'llllse of the radio Audience, the Itevnole snnnches which used to be delivered in the afternoon, undoubtedly will hn ,.,s.l , niRl. Keynote speeches are michlr Inspirational efforts In which one party Is positively identified with the hosts of heaven ami the other painted as the forces of dark ness anil the great enemies of the poor. They are supposed to rouse treqnent outbursts ot pandemonium. Actual business begins after the keynnttng. perhaps the snine evening. If it hasn't been done in the after noon, the roll of slates is called for each delegation's member to each of the six committees, chief of which are those on resolutions (platform), credentials, rules and permanent organisation. ' The second dsv begins with rendition of the Star. Spangled Banner by some celebrated female singer and receipt or (lie credentials committee report bv the temporary chairman. Sometimes a floor row' then oreiiss out over which of one or more seta of con tesling delegates shall be seated. OFFICIALS AT LAST At this point the convention Is not ret "official" or permanent. It is made up of a temporarr roll of dele gates as approved hv the national committee. Hut the committee on permanent oi-gauiration follows the cre dentials committee with lis report and barring a fight, l ie permanent chairman expecled to he House Leader Hert Kuril for the republicans and K.xecutive Chair nisn ,liieti SI,.,,,., for the democrats takes the chair Ine convention then really begins. The committee o rules rrporls-u.uallT an unlm porta,, (,.,,,, , , ,, r nwi f ( national L- u ' ..""' "" , "entlon. Resolution, .re Int Jor i? .1 "'"" '' which Is ll.elv to tilh.ru- the nti,,al committee to call another n,. lioiml cKiivpim.,,, itijn """ us di.ihJi'rhJ't'"""'"! Isn't ready to report a peak m"n,"r ,K m"-r l live.i,,,,!"',:, ,'"k' """ " ''""""lion "here there's . 7""";' ''" -'t Us platform out of the sr a lire I e, I" '"""" 'r by the third day and hi V, i ? """""'"'"n m.de hy the. fourth dar. with in Ke prfi,d-aiul uouiiMtioa following Immediately. SIDE GLANCES e isaa sy mea sewweg. iNc.ato.u.a wv.ost. s&S "You see what happens, lady, whon you negleot your all your time playing bridge." KERCH 00! HERE'S GOOD NEWS FEVER SUFFERERS By DK. MOHKIS FISHBEIN (Editor, Journal of American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Mngnzine) IN 1024 a Dutch physician developed a room for the treatment, of asth matic patients. This room was abso lutely dust-free and the air in the room was pumped in through a filter. He found that many of his asthmatic putientt) who slept in such a room were partinlly relieved and could go about their work during the day with comfort. Since that time various devices hiive been developed for use in the home. The devices consist essentially of a filter of woven wool and cotton cloth through which air is forced by a fan. In another device a cellulose product, resembling filter paper, is used as a filter. Recently investigators in the Uni versity of Illinois Bchool of medicine have made experiments with such de vices, count inc the pollens present in the room near the machine n ml ut a distance from the much ine as con trasted with those found in rooms in which the machines are not in use. It was found tbut pollen in the room is small in amount and renin ins constant as contrasted with the rise nnd fall outside the room. The effi ciency of the machine seems to be between 95 and 08 per cent. One huudred nnd five patients with hay fever or asthma and with posi tive reactions to ragweed were chosen for a test of the device. In 83.2 per cent of the uncomplicated hny fever cases, relief of the symptoms wns ob tained on entrance into the room, either completely or partially, io three and a half hours sf !-ss. I- 7j per cent no relief wns ob tained, and In 13.0 per cent night attacks of hay fever occurred. Ten pntients who had combined symptoms of hny fever and asthma obtained re lief fi m hay fever symptoms in a little over an hour. Most of the asthmatic nttacks de- vclopcd during the G) yy "We're not asking you -we're telling you!" 7 out of 10 smokers inhale knowingly the other 3 inhale unknowingly! DO you inhale? Lucky Strik cin met the issue fairly and squarely. For it has solved the problem. Lucktes' famous puri fying process removes certain impurities that are concealed in even the choicest, mildest tobacco leaves. Luckies created that process. Only Luckies have it! Do you inhale? Of course you do. Every smoker breathes in some part these were sufficiently severe to require administration of drugs for relief. Humidity seemed to bj an import ant factor in all of the asthma eases that were observed. The symptoms were much more severe during nnd following rainy days. Ou rainy days hay fever pntients improve through settling of polleus by the ruin. It is obvintiH that air filtration relieves most of the ,, niptoms of hay fever and may be tried in all cases not benefited by the usual methods of treatment. Asthmatic patients are more comfortable when receiving fil tered air, but they respond slowly to treatment. When pntients with asthma ore relieved by receiving the filtered air, they are found o develop attacks within half an hour to an hour after leaving the room. Apparently the pollens taken In hnve a prolonged action. No doubt, associated with the influence of n pollen are the effecta of low-grade infection of the respiratory tract. Clara. MAIL BAG FLAWS IN HOOVER PLAN CL'GKNE, Ore. (To the JvlitorJ One's viewpoint lias 'much to do In determining the wisdom of any plnn. In considering President Hoo ver's plan for unemployment relief we should keep in mind that Mr. Hoover sees such matters from the viewpoint of big business interests. His honest opinion seems to be that, if the great business interests of the country are well taken care of, the lesser folk will get along all right. This was well brought out several years ago when, as U. S. Secretary of Commerce, he told Mr. MeCord. the attorney of some of the Alaska salmon cn liners, that the United States government preferred to hnve the Alnskn canning business done by fewest number of canning companies since It would be much more convenient for the gov ernment to denl with n few and the work would be done more efficiently. From the viewpoint of one who considers what is the most just and humane way it would seem that the best plan for unemployment relief should be based upon enpneity to pay. There are some states that hnve been particularly hard hit in this crisis and which hnve comparatively little taxable wealth. I do not refer to wealth in mines nnd forests but avail able cash reserves. Thus Connecticut has many times more available ensh than Oregon and the representatives of thnt wenlth are, naturally, all for Mr. Hoover's plan. Hut Connecticut's cash reserves are essentially the wealth of the nation. Many millions kitchen and spend FOR HAY flow annually from the pockets of western noiicv-lioiders into the vaults of tlh; great insurance companies of thnt state, i nere are many other tn stnnces to prove that a national tns is the only just megns of distributing his burden. Mr. Hoover's plan does not decrease the expense. It merely puts it where it can least be Iwrne. There is another great weakness in his plan. A great crisis is upon us. We hnve had already too much delay and delnv just now is daneerous. Con grcss is in session nnd can attend to the matter. To pnss the job along to tne tirty-cignt legislatures will occa sion long delay. There are many other weaknesses in Mr. Hoover's plan. I hnve drawn ntlentinn to but two of the very ob i vious ones. 1 ERNEST M. WHVfKSM ITTT. night nnd miiny of Son of the smoke he or she draws out of a cigarette. And since you do inhale, make sure make absolutely sure yourcigarcttcsmokeis pure is clean that certain impurities have been removed, protect those delicate membranes! "It's toasted" Vein- Protection. nlntt Irrttatlon-agalrnt cough Joint Picnic Held At Dilley s Park fiOSHEN. June 7. (Special) A group of Gushen and Santa Clara grungers held a supper party and Tuesdav !... ' lt Ik?? With a great cait nt run. M.rsh. r .;,.,iy!?vB; took the ap,,ous. 0( ,?? k bernuse of its different "i, nnd its clever corned, " A Built around tlii L'l d ii nee at Dilley 'a park Sunday eve ning, music was turniHiieu oy the Conenhaver family orchestra of Sunt a appearing corpse from .:'?' v Goshen Grange will meet Wednes day, June S, at S p. in. A birthday table will ! arranged for members having birthdays in April, May and June. The lecture hour program will be given by worthy Flora, Mrs. Pon tius. Women are asked to bring cake, strawberries and cream for the sup per. Mr. Hoof is visiting his daughter, Mrs. M. W. Kd m tin son. Geneva Ilollis is the latest case of whooping cough in Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Lowry drove to Alvadore for strawberries Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. II. C. Shouts of Sa lem nnd Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cole of Portland visited at the S. E. Cole home last week. Dilley's park ball team won a game from the Thurston team Sunday. Mr. nnd Mrs. F. A. Westfall visit ed at the Joe Ilollia home Sunday. Miss Annette Maltznn Is home from a vacation at Newport. Adelbcrt Miller was one of the graduates from Eugene high school Inst week and Floyd MeBee graduated from Springfield high. H. L. Edmonson drove to Newport Saturdny evening, returning 'Sunday. virion zr par ora and a mei.-. T"r"! hnffln, . . l. .:"""" Ue timJ but its spooky .centi bit, K cleverl.v hnn.lled with c"iS, ,i' " does not become moAij 1 it nun until l - Ain.ir- ' . .m,.r!"l- " A person sentenced t j . Utah has the choice of UlJ'J k or shot by a firing .f Nil ARROW UEMBsSSV GEO. N. McLKAjTjg,,.. QUALITY Photo Oevelopln. And Prlntlno. Kuykendall Drug Co, w,v sriiiamettt WAIT State Holds Over Comedy-Mystery Owing to the crowds attending the current showing of the mystery com edy drama, "Strangers of the Even ing," at the State theater over the Watch for Announcement, I Paul D Green I 957 Wlllamettt Schilling Cream of tartar is the only thing that can make your cakes, your biscuiti and muffins as fluffy as they should b& Asli any dietitian. Ask any teacher of cooking. Cream of tartar is in Schilling's but not in cheap baking powders that sell for less. Wi Tl'StlSONUK" rl' ( 9
