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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
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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.
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SIDE GLANCES
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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.
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