Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, June 21, 1932, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextEDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD page FoB AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published every evening and Sunday) EDITOR AND PUBLISHER - Alton P. Bolter MANAGING EDITOR .... William M. Tugman NEWS SERVICE, Associated Pre, United Press MEMBER ..... Audit Bureau of Circulations The Beglster-Qusrd's policy la the complete and ; Impartial publication in Ita ncwa pagca of all newa ' and statements on newa. On thla page, the editora of The Register-Guard offer their opinions on event! of the day and matters of Importance to the com zaunlty, endeavoring to be candid but fair, and helpful In the development of constructive community policy. A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OP ITS COMMUNITY CROWDING OUTTHE NEEDY :"NE of the glib arguments of Mr. Hector Mae- pherson In support of the scheme to move the University to Corvallls Is that enrollment In the proposed "state university" can be reduced tre mendously (although the versatile Hector also pre dicts, when It suits the argument, that there will be huge enrollments In the proposed Teacher Col lege at Eugene and in the Junior colleges which he would create at Ashland and La Grande). The voluble Hector says that tbe new manage ment at Corvallls would be able to weed out the slackers and the Idle rich at a pace faster than they are now weeded out by flunking processes (although courts repeatedly have refused state Institutions such powers). C. C. Chapman, editor of The Oregon Voter, la Inclined to agree wllh Hector's theory that there would be a marked falling off of enrollment during the early period of the proposed plan, but he says It would be mainly because so many students would shun the demoralized Oregon schools. Furthermore, the astute Mr. Chapman lays a long finger on one vital weakness In Mr. Macpherson's theory. Corvallls Is much smaller than Eugene. A great many of the students of the Oregon schools are seedy (the surveys show 70 per cent totally or partially self-supporting). Jobs for worthy students are very scare now In Corvallls, says Mr. Chapman, They would be much scarcer with all students con. centrated In Corvallls. "Therefore," says Chapman, "students dependent on work during the school year will be few In num ber compared with the' number who heretofore have found work In both Eugene and Corvallls." Of course, Mr. Chapman's most Important con- elusion is that the scheme would result In no saving whatever to taxpayers and would inevitably entail the expense of millions over the course of years. But, In tbe meantime, Oregon would be violating the fundamental concept of public education which Is that the poor boy and girl should have just as good a chance as tbe more fortunate. Hector Is wrong. The Idle rich would not be eliminated. They would not be bothered much by high rents during the boom period at Corvallls. Only tbe ambitious poor would be eliminated, and Chap man says: "Diminution due to this cause alone would run Into hundreds." That is something Indeed for poor taxpayers to think over. Is that why Big Money is said to be interested in tbe project? WHO WILL PAY INCREASES? fHO will pay the tax increases voted by Congress to balance the budget and nudge prosperity on Its way? "Business Week," shrewd financial Journal, makes a number of guesses. Big Incomes have been made subject to ad vanced rates, but big Income, says Business Week, will find their usual refuge In tax-exempt securities of local and national governments. Many "luxuries" have been taxed, but who is to determine the exact difference between luxuries and necessities? Business Week goes on: "According to the official estimates of yield, the bulk of the new tax collections will fall directly on consumption, but In these days of commercial suicide, when every one Is scrambling for business at any price, It Is doubtful how much of this burden marginal concerns will not be forced to bear them selves or at least share with the consumer. In the end It Is probable that the big end of the Job of balancing the budget by this new tax bill and the accompanying economy measure will fall on the frail shoulders of the small business man and the moderate salaried worker. "When these aspects are considered It becomes the more astonishing that some of our passionate legislators should have thought, or pretended to think, that they were protecting the poor from exploitation when they rejected the manufacturers' excise tax for this hodge-podge. By comparison, a general turnover stamp tax on every business trans action would be a paragon of fiscal efficiency and Justice. But there never has been a perfect tax hill, and nobody expected this session of Congress to produce one. "A cynical French finance minister once said: Taxation Is the science of plucking the goose with the least squawk.' still, one should nlwsvs be care ful about killing the goose." Well, we can always be cheered up by the hope that some day. somehow, we will Icnrn something about taxation. HALF MILLION GUESTS DUE! JJOW would you like to be host to half a million people at a dinner party or a barbecue? How would you like to hava half a million friends write to say they are coming to spend two weeks or a month or the summer with you? Thst Is what Is happening on the Taclflc Coast this summer, according to Jim Ormandy, genial passenger traffic manager for the Southern Pacific In this region. Jim writes about It In The Ticket Agent, magazine of the railroads' front line pub-llo-meeters. The Olympic Games at Los Angeles will attract at least 100,000 eastern visitors. Add to this 400,000 delegates scheduled to attend national and Inter national conventions slated for the Coast. Here are some of them: American Legion at Portland; the Nobles of the Mystlo Shrine, United States Chamber of Com merce, National Edltorlnl Association at Ran Fran cisco; National Federation of Men's Bible Classes, International Association of Lions Clubs, American Bankers Association, Nntlonnl Association of Real Estate Boards at Los Angeles; Rotary International and General Federation of Women's Clubs at Re. attle; Veterans of Foreign Wars at Sacramento; National Association of Life Underwriters at Oak land; National Foreign Trade Council at Honolulu; A. E. O. S. (Sclots) Long Beach. All of these are paying and spending guests. A larga proportlgn, at Ultra will plan to spend at least a month on the Coast. Thousands of tbem, having seen their first enowpeaks, their first forest trails, their first mountain trout, will come back. Railroaders have not been very optimistic about business lately. The railroads have been hard hit. The railroads will not get all of this travel business this summor, but they are planning to get their share of It. Ormandy sees this summer as a pos slble turning point for business on the Coast. Now they are saying that It's the small profit taker, not the bear, who Is responsible for tbe present state of the stock market. That's the first Indication we've had In some time that the small man was getting any profit. The bridge team known as tbe Four Horsemen announced that they bad dropped Oswald Jacoby. And Mr. Jacoby comes back with the statement that he had already quit, So he couldn't be dropped. And thus the status quo ante Is preserved In the bridge world. While Congress was looking about for something new to tax, its members would have done well to consider the wishes of future voters by placing a prohibitive tariff on castor oil. If Germany calls a Hobenzollern back to the throne, they might as well throw away tbe old saying that a "burnt child dreads the fire." There are plenty of mystery thrillers on the market, but we have yet to see one so difficult of solution as the question, "What are the Boston Braves doing up there?" WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK NOW IT'S A SCHOOL-SHUFFLING BILL (Grants Pass Courier) TT'S the "achool consolidation" bill no longer, that bill A which would ship the University of Oregon to Cor vallia, ship the law achool to Salem, ship the Ash land. La Grande and Monmouth normals to Eugene and set two new junior colleges up in business. Instead it'a a "Bill Moving University, Normal and Law School, Establishing Junior Colleges." Which puts quite a different construction upon the Marion county plan to spring still another upset on Oregon's higher educational system. And it bears the stamp of approval of the Oregon Supreme Court whoae business it is to put true constructions on involved and knotty public questions. The supreme court has weeded out the word "con solidate" from the official ballot title of the proposed initiative measure on the grounds that all the moving about proposed by the bill made it more properly a moving bill. The weeding out has very likely assured that bill's defeat, because while many a person can aee chances of cost-saving In a "consolidation." on the other hand nearly everybody is thoroughly convinced thar "moving" costs money. The term "consolidate." which we hear most fre quently along about election time, has been for years past and is still a favorite catchword to secure the support of the voters. As a by-product of tbe supreme court's decision, the Marion County Tax League theadquartera Portland) will have to go out and circulate their petitions all over again, which, however, will not be at all difficult with conditions what they are and names worth 6 or 10 rents apiece to petition peddlers. So the school-shuffling bill starta out new again and under its true colors as a school-shuffling bill. But it doesn't make even as good a start as it did at its original appearance. The state grange beard Its case presented, and the case against It. nnd permitted the bill to be withdrawn from its consideration. The Oregon Taxpayers" Equalization end Conserva tion League has gone on record as unsympathetic townrd It. Where the state would get the money to shuffle the schools around, adding buildings, here and abandoning them there, is beyond our ability to see. Perhaps we had better put the notion on the shelf until we get rich and foolish again. WASHINGTON LETTER (NEA 8enrl Writer) Ft RODNEY nHTCHEH "HICAGO, June 21. .So much was 'heard about the wets and the noise they made during the republican convention that jou may have wondered whether there were any Tiaible ntjtn of the (treat network of dry organizations which first put prohibition In the eon situation and has kent it there since. 'Ihrre were, although rtilijrent search was required to find dry headquarters. Mont of the bis; shots in the firohibition movement were here as super strategists or the national prohibition board of strategy, which la a siiper-orgnnitfttion or all the dry organizations espe cially fnrmed to fight off th wets in 1032. At least a score of nationally known officials and working members of that board were active In the wet-dry fight which raged over the republican platform plank. NOT EVEN A 8IGNI Headquarters, was established In two modest note! rooms in one of the older hotels within the Loon, many blocks away from convention headquarters and the hotels which housed the big delegations. One or the dry leaders had known the assistant manager of the hotel, so there they went. These rooms were used only for meeting places and conference rooms. No at tempt was made to attract the presence pi delegates or ths public. The drya dmn t even erect a sign In the downstairs lobby. In fact, as one dry lndy explained, the only renon they had a headquarters at all was that "they ilxln t want to meet for discussion in each others" bed rooms because they were both men and women and that wouldn't be desirable." There was no nucMtion thst the hotel nill would be. paid, but neither was there any attempt to deny that mnM dry lenders yearned for the good old days when millions flowed frerly into their coffers. Only a tew weeks ago the loard or strategy nut on. with the anticipated cooperation of Sunday schools and churches everywhere, a drive for "a million dimes. which meant $100,000. with the slnrsn "Drv dimes will beat wet dollars." The re-ailt was a disappointment, although enough dimes come in to pay rent and other expenses for a while. THE BANTAM BISHOP Til linn .Tames Cannon. Jr.. ttie little bant am from Virginia who has been so bus? fiehtinr in congressional bearing rooms, (lie nefspapers and ecclesiastical coun cils mr rne iat lew years, was one of the most active strategists. He doesn't use nni more the crutches which lie used to brandish when under fire end now seems to Walk with ease. Ha nreferred to nrrtlrt the limelight In Chicago. nr. r-rnest n. ( hernngton or Ohio appeared to ne dominant force In the group. Tie is a tall, bmtt man who gives an impression of force, a business man who has operated the Antl-Raloon League's publishing house nt Westerville and, like so manv other business men. recalls better days especially those days before the Anti-Saloon League bank went bust, j riierrington, whom manr drvs used to think wnnld fill the shoes of Wayne R. TVheeler, (s chairman of 1 it ?lr,?!f"3r noar1' bead of the World League Against "nu nnsa m me endowed educational aec- n in ine league, THE DRY PLATFORM PLEA lie was the principal dry speaker before the re publican platform committee, arguing. like the others, that prohibition was not political fssne, that the con stitution slionl.l not iw mrinkei-iirl I- Ik. existing Constitutiona method! irr rvmor... act whn rt'ady, Sherrington urged. T. Kdwln C. DlnwUMle n l.tel. t ths cause who remain at adversity. Is executive, secretary Vv V1" "rrnty b"rd. which hns headquarters in Washington. He is the one who tried to raise the million dimes. was often to 1m seen firntiml Iha lnl,Kl.. t sn. vemMnn bead-iusrters. always willing to pose even w th leaders of obscure wet organisations when the Photographers desired. MIS9 YOUNfl DRYS slrf. ;,,.,n.! I11 Wrt"led was Oeneral Superintendent l-Wh,,.ml,,,h",,, resem'hted that of Herbert ie depression fflP " 10 throuth Tlin nih - - . . ... .... Hon fihi v i veierans or the pre-prnhiw The sad fac ' 2: z" on 11 r:?- csso .... ""V ' .'"'m.kt gencrnrion in mi ' seemed to h .-,. .. l. Weft. " ""'" "UVI UVilriQC HUB m SIDE GLANCES Lh ' 8 J j "Better try some other station, dear... He hasn't DON'T WORRY IF CHILD'S I. Q. MARK IS LOW By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN (Editor, Journal of American Medical ' Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magarine) CINCE greater experience has per mitted better evaluation of the significance of the intelligence tests, parents, teachers and psychologists have begun to place somewhat less value upon them. The child who gets a high intelli gence quotient ought to be a most su perior human being, bat the evidence of continued growth has shown that sometimes a high I. Q. is merely an indication of a fine memory, whereas judgment and reasoning, two factors equally if not more important for a successful career in life, may be aver age or even a little deficient. As Dr. Douglas A. Thorn noints reveals, according excellent insight as well as his liabilities. Such insightJ may be of the greatest significance in me success of mat child. In other- words, the interpretation of the test requires far more skill and experience than the mere listing of the questions and answers. Any body, for instance, can make on x-ray picture, but it takes a man with train ed knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, and probably with some understanding of the record of the patient's disease, to make a first class interpretation of what the plate shows. Everybody now knows that children are not born equal, aicaiiy. Most 01 tnem are the sum of their parents, and parents, too, are far from havinir enual value with each out in n recent discussion of this sub ject, those who give tbe tests have come to value just as much the na ture of the child's failure or auccess in giving the answers as the absolute correctness of the answer at the time other or with other people. As the animal trainer said when he was ask ed how he had educated his dog, "You have to know more than the dog to teach him anything." The first duty of th parent toward the child Is to recognize the child's intellectual adeoimcv or failure. Th it la given. 'ihe aix-year-old who, when asked to draw a diamond, snvs. "I can't do that, but I can draw a square," child who ennnot The tobacco trade is at 'sixes and sevens" on this embarrassing question DO you Inhale? Thi simple question caught the cigarette trade by surprise! "Why bring that up?" they asked. "Why don't you let well-enough alone?" But "well-enough" is not enongh for lucky Strike! The subject of Inhaling is vitally important... for every smoker inhales knowingly or unknowingly. Every smoker breathes in some part of the smoke he or she draws out of a cigarette I Do you inhale? Lucky Strike dates to raise this vital question . . . hecsmc luckies famous purifying process removes certain her well or learn normally should be detected at the earliest possioio mo ment so that it may have tbe advant age of what modern science has to off'- in bringing it up to me mam. One bov entered school and got al most to the second grade before it was recognized that he did not nave the slightest interest in enlarging his vocabulary, thnt he could not play intelligently with other children nnd that he scr.amed violently on rather slizht provocation. Obviously, such a child should never have been permitted to enter the first grade because routine education was far more likely to do him onrm tnan good. Once it Is discovered thnt a child Is mentally retarded and Hint it can not keep up with other children, the decision as to the course it should follow must rest with the parents, However, they can make their deci sion only when they have received advice from competent physicians as ro the physical state of the child and from competent psychologists and educational advisers as to the possi bilities of further mental training. Moreover, we owe a duty not only ro tiie cmid that is intellectually weak but also to the one who is superior. The superior child should be given every possible opnortunitv for de velopment so that it may use its ex- iraorninary taienrs tor the welfare . happiness of mankind. I. C. C. Upholds Roads In Fruit Rate Case WASHINGTON". Jnn 9inin ine interstate commerce commission today announced that upon second consideration it had found car load rnres on fresh deciduous fruits, other than apples, from f'nlifornin tn transcontinental destinations, not un reasonable. Two years ago the commission, acting under the FToch-Smith reso lution, ordered carriers to reduce rates on shipments from California to the entire eastern half of the gono to sleep yet." country from $1.73 to $1.00 a hun dred pounds. The roads annealed to the supreme court nnd won their case. Another comnlnint from the roads forced the commission to make a second investigation. In its new decision it noints out tw in to Dr. Thorn. into his limitations ductions in the bulk of fruit traffic as well as the court's decision have been taken into consideration. ' . Dairvmen Give Idea On Chancellorship PORTLAND. Ore.. .Tune 21. U?) The Dairy Cooperative as which represents about 1500 Orison farmers, had adopted a resolution ursine the board of hither education "to keen in mind' that the ehnneellor of higher edtirntion in Oregon "should De a man with a proved record of RympathT with and n Icnowteriee of mentally or phy- land Brant college ideals nnd purposes nnd nn intimate knowledce of the ser vice both to students nnd to indus try nnd ncTicttlture rendered by the Innd crnnt colleees of America, nnd thnt such n mnn should be one of proved capabilities in the administra tive field of education." ARROW MESSENGER Phone 610 RATES REDUCED AT BELKNAP SPRINGS think well, romein o n n sou wmm Impurities concealed in every tobacco leaf! luckies created that process. Only Lucklcs have itl Do you inhale? Remembermore than 20,000 physicians, after Luckies had been furnished them for tests, basing their opin ions on their smoking experience, stated that Luckies are less irritating to the throat than other cigarettes! "Ifs toasted" Warning Issued About Civil Service Schools WASHINGTON, D. C, June 21. of Santa CIars!7.7aas lter,.Mr.. ' n-H J Wl 1 , xn rouowiny statement Is made by ine utmeu oiaiea civu service com mission: The commission warns the public against pnyinx money tor "coaching" courses in preparation for federal civil servico examinations. Schoola which sell such courses un der present conditions accept money under false pretenses. A purveyor of civil service courses is now under vi,hMr,.tPffi.P(tt Monger' andG VlZ'?, GK returned (-.U"'"nii Mom.. "turned from , " C,U?' k.3 trip on Smith river CC',fo1 IPiO Jlnrerift., . nta neod, w,.rtl kh , Mr. and Mrs. j i t . " gene, were called Vi? ?.lri by ome s5a'l.0.v.o dnrs;&!... in Florence. 6 M"- Ii Ti iniiicment in jowa ror fnlae represen tation. It is expected that other audi cases of prosecution wilt follow. Comparatively few npiHiintments are being made in the federal civil service. Vacancies which must be filled by the transfer of those in the service o the reinstntement of those who nave oeen in the service, wher ever practicable. It is seldom necessary to announce an examination. In most cases large registers of eligibles exist ns n pa. suit of examinations held during the past year. v nen an examination is announced, thi apnlicants are us ually hundreds of times in excess of Mrs. W Monger 7 Mr. and Mrs. Wavne JW I tne neen. Money paid for civil service conch. Ing at thla time might almost as well Mrslion M'XV ed Misses Ruth Cl?S,,fM'Iil Kinnon. and xh?fe $ a dinner party Thi.r J.. "J do tnrown to tne tour winds. Party Is Given honor of her daughter Myru'j At Santa Clara wiihSyTerter1? SANTA CLARA, June 21. (Spe cial) Miss Muriel Six and her hrn dav. ,uit( ther Garnet, entertained a group of ARROW MKi-SEXGERlaa. young people at tuelr Home in Santa Clara Friday evening. The evening wns spent in playing gamea and with music. Refreshments of ice erenm and cake were served. Those present were Miss Pauline, Miss Glen and Miss Orpha Lyons, Miss Mildred Morvee. Miss Edna Al lie. Miss Mnradine Johnston, Miss Freadn Haldorson, Miss Lillian Hnrt, Miss Muriel Six, Lester Caldwell, George Jameson. Gordon Preston, Alvin Beymer. Garnet Six and Mr. 111 IIHIIM 1 s OTTAT.TTV Photo Developing And Printing. Kuykendall Dm to. B70 Ulli .7 nnd Mrs. Preston. House Votes To Decorate Amelia WASHINGTON. June 21. (m Legislntion authorizing President Hoover to present a distinguished servico medal to Amelia Earhart Putnam for her trnns-Atlantic flgiht was passed last night by the house and returned to the senate with an amendment. The resolution was called up by Chairman McSwain of the military committee. As originally passed by the senate It provided the sward of a distinguished flying cross. The house substituted the service medal. - WAIT- Wateh for Announcements Paul D. Green i 957 Willamette News of Globe GLOBE. June 21. fSnecinn Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmitt are vis iting with relatives in Drain and Junction City this week. Mrs. Clint Kilby and sons, Robert nnd Arthur, of Vernonia, spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Monger. Roliert is remaining for " Beveral week's visit with Garlnnd Monger. N0RGE Rollator Refrlgirtttr Priced from $149.60 to U2M General Radio Headquarter! fllra. Alnrjnne rsiccolte nnd bnny, (Bf r ii lament O g. ""Trr GW. . Ml. T lairim TttlK.