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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1932)
Fag? Ten THE EUGENE REGISTER.GTJAED Flapper Fanny Says Bungling and manhandling of the school moving bill campaign by Its proponents has provoked dis gust among many who might be in cllned to favor the measure, cays the Salem Statesman from Its perch on the fence In the fight on the bill. A system which permits wealthy Interests to play with the lnstru ments of self-government to reap financial profits for themselves needs amending, declares the La Grande Observer, commenting on the Petition hoax. Jesse James had a horse, says the Roseburg News-Review. Klamath Falls would claim the university and the college and settle the whole question. Oregon editors had this to say: THIN HOAX BLOWS UP (Salem Statesman) No one Is greatly surprised at the confession of fraud In the story of the robbery of Initiative petitions for the consolidation of the university and state college. The hoax was too glaring for pop mar consumption. Editors every where tied a question mark to the yarn when It was printed. Just what the objectives were In this grandBtand play are not quite ap parent. There were evidently enough signatures without the dramatics of the closing days, and the play for public sympathy was too thinly disguised to be con vincing. The affair bears the signs of perpetration by college boys ivho failed to grow up. The merits of the measure are thus compromised by the tactics of those having the promotion in charge. The manner In which a trave public question has been manhandled and bungled provokes Disgust among those who approach the problem of support of our Itate's educational Institutions with n open mind, and might be dis posed to do something drastic if ! Making the college crew requires a ioi or pun. they became convinced of ultimate benefit to the state. STOP, THIEFI (Oregon City Enterprise) Well ,the cat's out of the bag! And its a big, black pussy, too! The great petition robbery mys tery has been revealed. The "watchman" has confessed the ruse to hoodwink the people: to capital' Izo upon tholr sense of fair nlav. The confession Involves the names ot three others connected with the plot. These are the real cul prits. The "watchman" was the mere tool. Their names have not been given to the public may never be. The police are funny that way. And there was not so much as mock-robbery; no make-believe bad, bad men with masks of nolka- dot handkerchiefs; no sinister 'gats" In the hands of skulklnc figures; no dextrous twirling of the dial of a supposedly-locked safe where reposed the mineral water. Not so much as a fire cracker set off In the headquart ers at 250' Third Btreet on that Fourth of July night to inlect the semblance of reality; just a cock and bull story the watchman was coached to tell to newspaper men. How very disappointing. When the public Is Barnumlzed It Insists on being fooled by real Barnums no amateur bunko artists for the Ruben public; woe unto the trickster who does not give the victim at least a clever alibi for gullblllty. There Is probably no law to cover the situation, but such rep rehensible political trickery should meet the rebuke It deserves. Curtis just got a year In the pen and a thousand dollar fine for deceit In connection with the Lindbergh kid naping. This petition robbery fi asco Is a modified form ot the same kind of deception. THE MYSTERY SOLVED tX.n ClranAa nhtarvorl Thfl nnhl. arfnt .... 11.- taxpayers of Oregon a million dol lars a year ny juggling ine lnstl tlltfnnn nf hfphar ArtnrnHnn nnf. fnrnd a trenienrimiR hlnnr vaatar. day when Robert Tallman, night waicnman, aamittea mat nis dra matic Blnrtf nf tha thaft nf ......... than twenty thousand pejltlon sig natures was a mere hoax. The story was so thin In places that almost. ftVprvnnA hnH flitanai't. ed the possibility of a frame-up lor ine purpose or getting the ne cessary number of signatures be fore the pxnlrntfnn nf tlia Hma limit, and blackening the reputa tions of those who were honestly opposed to the measure. inose suspicions are now con firmed, opponents of the consoli dation bill nrft Vlnrllp.fltiri nml tlia sponsors of the movement are incriminated. A few nersnna In iha vIMnllw r.t La Granrfn linva nrriiaaf tha nk server of unjustified prejudice concerning the school moving bill. Claiming that Wfl hflrt nrhllrflrltv opposed it and refused to give the facts on the other side of the question. The fact Is that the Ob server hflft nilhliahori ovarv of news that , has come over the wire, whether favorable or unfav orable to the proposed legislation. we am witnnoid, However, the flood of propaganda sent out by Henry Zorn, because It was so ob viously nreiiirilcprl nnri hai,.. the whole movement, from the very oeginning, nad all the earmarks of a subsidized attempt to benefit one firrnnn nt. tha aynanoa nf other. Henry Zorn is now, appar ently guilty of disseminating de liberate lies inrougn the mails In his attpmnt in Infliion,... ..l.u.. -- "viiw: uuiimu ODmlon. and erlltnrn thrniKrhnitt th state are rejoicing that they re- tuneu iu print ine stuff. The petitions hpnr aurriianf .t natures to place the bill on the ballot In the November elections, but It Is already defeated. It Is evident that the rules governing the use ot the Initiative will have to be tightened. There Is some thing wrong with a system which permits any wealthy Interests to play with the instruments of self government and stir up prejudice and hatred among the people In order to reap financial profits for themselves. JESSE JAMES HAD A HORSE (Roseburg News-Review) Apparently the true nature of things regarding this racketeering effort to wreck the state's higher education system Is coming to light. Tricks and more tricks. Names came slowly on the petitions and so they pulled a fnke hold-up. A story about an armored car got them a lot of publicity. Jesse James had a borse, and the Chi' cago gangsters use machine guns otherwise this is a similar game. Some day the people of Oregon may learn who Is behind this move. Someday we may learn why thousands of dollars of personal funds are being spent In an effort to tear down one coBtly education al plant and rebuild It on another campus. If we ever learn all the facts, the events of the last few days are enough to Indicate the type of mind that Is behind it. If the legislature will make It unlawful to pay for names on peti tions, this sort of a mess may be avoided in tne future. THIS REALLY SHOULD SETTLE IT (Klamath Falls Herald) The Cottage Grove Sentinel sug gests that the Eugene vs. Corvallls squabble be settled for all time by moving the college and university to Cottage drove. The Sentinel ought to know that such a procedure wouldn't settle the fight. Cottage Grove Is In Lane county and Is a sort of Eugene suburb. The howls that woud arise from the north bank of Mary's river would shake the heavens. If the Sentinel Is sincere and It Is always sincere It will get behind a movement to pick both schools up and locate them .In Klamath Falls. Here there Is a surplus of facilities for expansion and study. Here there are dry farms, dairy farms, marsh farms, Irrigated farms, livestock ranges, sheep pastures, etc., for the agri cultural school. And what fun the entomology department could have about this time of year. Down here friendship runs high between graduates of the two schools. We don't give a darn about their rival school politics we don't know anything about It. The Sentinel says that Cottage Grove has a good golf course and a good football field, and asks If anything else Is needed. What ignorance. How could they run a school without their canoe ing. The mill race at Eugene, Mary's river and the little Wil lamette at Corvallls, and the rill that trickles through Cottage Grove aren't In it with such fine bodies of water as Lake Ewauna, the Klamath river. Upper Klamath lake, the A canal and the Tula lake sump. We are told that at Eugene the mill race's chief rival as an edu cational facility is the graveyard. Well, we've got some graveyards, too. Russian Sowing Lower Than Usual MOSCOW. U. S. S. R., July 13. (JP) Soviet Russia hns wound up the spring Rowinit campaign with nearly one million acres less than last year under cultivation. Tlio total is nearly 15.0tlO.0i id acres below the program. Official figures plac: the total area sown on July 1 ..t 241,61)0.500 acres as compared with 242,580,500 Inst year and 2o5.S7o,000 planned. Failure to come up to expectations wns attributed largely to the poor showing of the Ukraine where a bad drought lust year caused great loss of crops and feed. FALLS DOWN SHAFT PORTLAND, Ore., July 13. VP) Roy Terrell of Sulem was brought to a hospital here luesrtny suffering from two or more broken ribs re ceived when he fell down a shaft at the Amalgmated mines near Mehama. Oregon. MAN ARRESTED Robert Sawyer, 2S, was arrested ot Westfir Tuesday by deputy sheriffs and. is being held for Roseburg offi cinls. Word wns received here that a warrant wns out for him In Douglas counry ana rsnerur v. x. Jackson, of Roseburg. is coming for the nrisoner. The nature of the charge against him is nnt Known here. CALLOUSES New, improved, double acting treatment! Ends pain instantly. Removes callous in 48 hours. Safe. Cost but 35c. At all drug and shoe stores. D-'Scholls lino-pads "The IKIeadlDninies screamed a(S n wzs- nap HELLO EVERYBODY. Floyd Gibbons speaking. I'm just back from China. Plenty war there. Messerl around with it for four months, from Manchurian mad ness to Shanghai slaughter. They killed six thousand over there. That's the best estimate I can give. They wounded twenty thousand more. Men. Women and children. Mowed them down. Frightful. But wait. What did I find out when I got back? Eight thounand hod been killed. A Quarter of a million injured. Right here In America. During the months I was gone. In automobile accidents! This happened to my own kind. Men, women and children. No screaming head lines. No war correspondents. J ust death. Maiming. Suffering. Just too common to be ttcirs. This burned me up. Seeing women and children killed In China made me realize the awfulness of it here. I stopped in Akron. There T found a tire manufacturer doing something about it. Goodrich. Goodrich was crusading for safe ty. Goodrich was developing moro safety In fires. You know, your tires are i sort of end less belt between your car and the road. They carry the weight. They transmit the power. They do the braking. They do the steering. No matter what kind of motor brakes steering gear you're got, it's up to the tires! You send a car weighing maybe 2 tons along at 50 miles an hour, and a few square inches of rubber are your sole connection with the world and safety. That's worth thinking about. I certainly thought about It, when they showed me what they.'d done at Goodrich. They've got a new tiro. They worked throe years to develop it. They call it the SAFE TY Silvertown. They say it's the safest tire ever built. They, convinced me. I can't go into the details of their mar velous tost machines their manufacturing processes their Silver Fleet that has covered SO million milts testing tires. But I'll give you the climax. I saw them drive a car on Safety Silver towns around a sharp, wedge-shaped corner. The pavement was asphalt, and wet. The car went around that corner at 42 miles an hour. It leaned so, I thought it was going over. Isawpuffsof steam come out from under those Safety Silvertowna as they clutched that wet, glassy pavement. YET THEY DIDN'T SKID AN INCH. I SAW THEM MOWED DOWN al Shanthai. Plenty bad, thai Hug. War al tli worst. But Iha freatest thock came when I got tack. Found howmanyhod bean kitted here. In peaceful America! That car held its path like It was tied to it running on rails. That's SAFETY 1 With thousands injured m skidding accidents every year, I want to say that Goodrich has done something BIG SENSATIONAL. They told me out there in Akron that 67 of the cars now on the road have at least one tire that invites disaster. Yet their new Safety Silvertown can be bought for a price that astonished me. H doesn't cost one cent mora than any standard tire. Peace negotiations stopped the killing in Shanghai. Goodrich engineers have at last put something into a tire that will reduce the highway slaughter. (' (n prrs of safely on the road. I'm for stopping the HIGHWAY SLAUGHTER. I'm for Safety Silvertowna the tires which have scooted the scare out of the skid I $3.00 to $12.00 St Allowed for the Old Tlrta on your car on purchase of four NEW GOODRICH SAFETY SILVERTOWNS To help rut down the toll of wcldenti to ftt the "IVaih TItm" oft the highways w offer na f tonal frt1--ln allowance (or your old, unaaie tire on all Safety fillrer towns. I'm for this League, toot TferVt omethlnRi The Silvertown Safety Lea ft tie. It dlvea m driving rule to follow an emhlem for my car. I Joined up! Any Goodrich dealer w 111 enroll ou, Utey tctl mt GOODRICH SILVERTOWN INC. J.0TH AND OLIVE Robertson Bros., Cth & Blair Rinchart Service Station, 700 W. 8th TELEPHONE 1765 Danner Service Station, 10th and Olive Lawrsnce hiii, okridfle Wick's Service Station, 9th and Glbbs, Cottaoe Grove Helllwell 4 Nslson, 525 South 6th, Cottage Grove Mstt Hart Service Station, Springfield own CawtltSS 1M, II" t. Cmltkt Cvte, SPRINGFIELD NEWS ITEMS 8PMNGFIELD, July 13. (Spe cial) MIhb Ada Porter read extracts from a leaflet on the evangelistic work of the Methodist bo me mis sionary society in the natiou at the monthly meeting of the local group Tuesday afternoon. Mrs, A. B. Van Valzah was in charge of devotionals. Lions Ignore Rain. To Picnic Thursday SPRINGFIELD, July 13. (Spe cial) Wednesday's ''Oregon mist" failed to bait plans for the Lions club community picnic, slated for Thursday evening at Willamette park. If the mist develops into a real rain Thursday, which John Henderer, pic nic chairman, was disposed to .think unlikely, the picnic may be cancelled, but not otherwise. Everyone wishing to do bo may at tend the picnic, providing he comes with a full lunch basket and a cup. Coffee, cream, and sugar is being Erovided by the club. The affair will egin at 6:30 Girls9 Missionary Group Has Contest SPRINGFIELD, July 13. (Spe cial) Adeline Perkins and Jewel Hel terbrand will hend the two groups of the girls missionary circle of the Christian church la a contest for membership, attendance, and reading, to be conducted over a period of months by the circle, it was decided at the monthly meeting of the circle Monday evening. Selection of a missionary play to be presented by the group on the Christian Endeavor Missionary night was left to a committee composed of Adeline Perkins, Evelyn Harris, and Jewel Helterbrnnd. The group met Monday evening fit the home of' Esther MoPherson. Mar jorie Waddell was leader for the lesson. WEINER ROAST SPRINGFIELD, July 13. (Spe cial) Junior and intermediate; boys classes of the Baptist church held a swimming party and weiner ronst Tuesday evening at Swimmers De light, going out about 4 p. in. The teachers. Clarence Claudell and Elmo Chase, and Rev. W. G .Taylor ac companied the boys. MISSION GROUP SPRINGFIELD. July 13. (Spe cial) South America will be studied by the Christion Missionary society for the next six months, the study beginning with the July meeting held Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. D. B. Murphy. Mrs. Audrey Brown was in charge of the lesson. Mrs. M. R. Adams will be hostess for the group in August. Union Service to u '"Ur The union services ot t churches, presenting tin r! Bell RingerB, will oe l(W , ilny evenins at 7:30 o'clS! ' First Christian churchy auspices ot the Eugene Mb" Imported Swiss bells ul (.. v 1 v. -1 1 Ur.S .-.,uu are uses In, way. toeether w ih M es. 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