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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD Page Six m vl AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published evsry evening ud Sunday) EDITOK AND PUBLISHER - Alton Jr. Baker MANAGING EDITOH WUHam M. Tujraan NKVV8 SERVICE. Asaoclated Praia, United Press MEMBER - - Audi! Bureau of Circulation! The Rerliter-Guird'i poller If the compter end Impartial publication in its news pagea o( all news and itatements on news. On this page, the editors of The Kegister-Guard offer their opinions on erents of the day and matters of importance to the com munitr, endeavoring to be candid but fair, and helpful in the development of.constructlve community policy. ' A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. AN INTERESTING ADMISSION ALTHOUGH much tamed down sine Sunday night when he made hli first appearance on the radio as the evangel for the Zorn-Macpherson school wrecking bill, Mr. H. Ashley Ely, rorttana, .,.i,,,t the nroeess of distortions and misrepre iontations which have characterized the movement from the start. Wednesday night's Appeal turned away from the difficult subject of moving a 14,500,000 University without expense to the taxpayers and took up the Interesting subject of Improving common school education by moving 1700,000 worth of normals to Eugene for the formation of a great "teacher eollege." Mr. Ely read from the federal survey the criti cisms of Oregon's failure to bring ita normal schools up to all standard requirements. He omitted to read those sections of the report which stated that, on the whole, these schools have been well located with reference to th public they serve and that they, like the University, should be developed where they are right now. Mr. Ely neglected to go Into the high costs of teacher college operation, but he did make an ad mission which is extremely Important. He stated (for the first time from that side) the fact that the Zorn-Macpherson bill Is powerless to create the four-year teacher college with which it proposes to mop up the wreckage on the Eugene campus. Ore gon law provides now for two-year normal work only. The proposed teacher college could not be more than a two-year normal till such time as the legislature should see fit to change the basic teacher law. In view of the legislature's pas' stub bornness about taking on this expense, It is not likely a teacher college would be realized tor years, if ever. ' This admission brings as back to the stark realization ot what th Zorn-Macpherson bill really mesne: Almost total abandonment of the $4,600,000 In vestment In Eugene. ' Almost certain abandonment of the $500,000 properties at Ashland and La Grand because ot prohibitive Junior college cost. Certain abandonment of the $400,000 plant a Monmouth. Probable eventual abandonment ot all the schools except the one at Corvallls. No state has aver been confronted by such a barefaced realty promotion scheme In the nam ot education. are even faintly proud of It, Careful handwriting seems to have been for an age when men had leisure to be careful and patient about such things. Perhaps the reason why Joaquin Miller's hand' writing was ao very bad was the fact that he was surging with vitality and could not be bothered with the petty drudgeries of life. Bad handwriting Is not a pose but It Is a bad habit, and one which Is annoylngly prevalent. Editors who receive a vast amount of correspond dence from careless writers are emong the chief sufferers from the nuisance. Perhaps the only reason why editors tolerate such carelessness at all Is because very few editors are able to read their own handwritten note;. It may have been this choice ot evils which caused Joaquin Miller to turn from being an editor to being a poet. This Is a possibility which the historians and the psychologists and the chelrographers, aroused by this case, ought to try to figure out. SIDE GLANCES NO PYRAMIDED RAKE-OFFS fTlHE hearings which are now being conducted at Portland as to the control ot utility companies there by national "holding corporations" offer con siderable proof that "Big Business" la not always more efficient or better for the public merely because It Is bigger. The Portland rat payer Is learning that th ratea he pays to his local com pany must provide profit not only for the Investors In the eoncern which serves him but tor the In vestors ot a long list of pyramided corporations which link his company with others in other parts f the country. The Portland General Electric must pay tribute to the Pacific Northwest which in turn looks up to Central Public Utility which In turn serves Central Public Service which In turn looks up to various super-corporations which are really th representa tives ot the banking Interests in New fork. Combinations ot ntlllty companies are useful and economical so long as they serve actual operating needs. The highly efficient electric ser vice In all parts of the United States today Is mad possible by far-reaching power hookups which dis tribute peak loads, offer protection against ser vice breaks and make possible the moat efficient use of all lines and equipment. Combinations have another use, however, which is decidedly hostile to public Interest, This Is the pyramiding of control to the point where It Is almost Impossible to determine or to control actual aervlce costs on which rates should be based. This type of pyramiding la designed for the stock Jobber and the profit seeking banker and not In the Inter ests of the public. Municipal ownorshlp offers certain risks In the form of corrupt and Inefficient management. Pri vate ownership may show a better avorage ot ftlrlency but the risk ot profiteering manipulation Is very great. In Eugene where we have enjoyed for many yoars a municipal operation Mr bettor than the avcrago, we may count ourselvea lucky to he well out of this mess from which other cities are trying to unscramble themselves. JOAQUIN MILLER'S HENSCRATCHES TD GSEARCIIEUS over around Canyon City have discovered an Interesting manuscript In the original handwriting of Joaquin Miller, famed "Poet of the Sierras," and once a resident of Ku gone and one of the original editors of The Guard, It Is a letter of complaint which Joaquin dashed off after a rough Journey by stage from Canyon City to nurns (If he could only travnl the fine highway which joins these two cities today!' Question! Were the hieroglyphics which re aulted Just part ot tho ordinary Mlllor poetic tenv peratnent or were they "the pose of the moment." The poet'a brother, our own George Melvln Miller (champion of th New York to Florence road Ideal aays the scratchy writing was no pose. "Joaquin," saya Ooorge Melvln Miller, "luarned to write with a quill and didn't care which end he dipped in the Ink." One does not have to be a rotten penman to be a poet nor does rotten penmanship make on a poet, and In these days of almost universal typing penmanship does not count for as much as It did once upon a time although It Is still useful In such mntters as checks, but poor penmanship ceems to bo at least a fashion and one which Is not at all limited to temperamental poets. Most business men and professional men allow their handwriting to defaotraU Into a scrawl and Mr. Samuel Instill claims his bankruptcy was genuine and complete, but Ajax McGurk says that a lot of us might be Inclined to pardon Mr. Insull If he would just tell us the secret of how to go bankrupt and have enough left for airplane trips around Europe. Those UCLA Bears will meet Calllson's boys in Portland Saturday and from all reports they will be plenty tough. If Oregon can get through to the crucial part of the schedule without disaster. It will require a little luck. You will know that prosperity has returned when city governments again begin paying librar ians and school teachers. Alabama has a law which prohibits the sale of near beer. Now, there's a Just law! WASHINGTON LETTER By RODNEY DUTCHES (NEA Service Writer) yASHI.VGTON, Oct. 13. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelf has barnstormed the west and returned much after the fashion of a conquering hero. The more he traveled the higher rose a surge of opinion everywhere that he would be elected to succeed President Hoover on November 8. There are several rensons why It Is too early to abandon hope for a republican victory, but In no two party contest since before the Civil War has there been a more complete tendency on the part of politicians and political analysta to predict a democratic year. Seldom have more states been described as doubtful. Never did straw votes indicate such startling switches of sentiment in rock-ribbed republican states. For the first time a democratic campaign manager, Jim Farley, is able to refuse .to concede a single state without becoming an object of ridicule. Betting odds, recently on Hoover, are now against him. Q. O. P. CHIEFS WORRY Revelation of a great anti-Hoover sentiment In the west is one of the most important factors in the rapid growth of pro-Roosevelt prophecy. Seasoned political correspondents were astonished at the. stories they heard and the signs they saw, along with the apparent success of Roosevelt's anneals to the west's nrosressive and independent voters. Row most of them believe that Roosevelt probably will win with the solid south, most of the west, most of the middle west and a highly uncertain number of elec toral votes from the east. Republican managers, mnny'of them privately pessi mistic and all of them worried, have beciin a counter- offensive which they hope will start the tide the other way. President Hoover himself has led the sttack by penetrating the disaffected west for a speech at Des Moines, la., and hundreds of republican orators, led by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills, are being turn ed loose all along the line. The Hoover address at Des Moines has sounded the keynote for the lesser cam paigners. Many republican leaders found cause for renewed optimism in the generally favorable and en thusiastic reception which Iowans accorded to the president. COOLIDGE ENLISTED Former President Calvin Coolidge. one of the party's greatest drawing cards, has at last been billed for a campaign speech at New York's Madison Square Gar den, and Sir. Hoover at a White House reception has made an unprecedented bid for the Negro vote which for the first time has seemed to be hostile.' The Hoover ticket continues to be handicapped by the continued absence of any substantial Improvement In business and by previous failure of Its managers to plan and execute an intelligent, vigorous program of attack. Roosevelt, meanwhile, turns his attention to the East. Thanks to the conservatism of that section and the enmity of many of Al Smith's admirers even though that enmity may have been lessened by the recent public reunion of the two leaders at Albany ho faces a situation which may yet defeat, him through the loss of such states as New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey. He is now expected to stress the issues of prohibition and unemployment relief. It is no longer argued that a democratic candidate can't he elected without enrrying New York's 46 elec toral votes, but Roosevelt's failuro to carry his home state would make his tssk a lot harder. New York is now regnrded as doubtful. If they can't win New York, Iht democrnta expect to offset that loss by taking Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, with a total of (11) electoral votes. They talk, not unrensonnbly judging from other reports, of carrying Illinois by liOO.inil) votes, OJiio by 200,000 or SOO.IKHJ and Indiana by KIO.OIKI. 47 VOTES MIGHT WIN . lot prognntiicntors give Roosevelt a minimum of ISO certain electoral vntes to start with thone of Ala bama, Arkansas. Florida. GeorRin, Louisiana. North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texns and Virginia. Add Illinois, Ohio and Indiana, and Roosevelt would have "ID, needing only 47 more to win. If there is anything to the almost unanimous re ports of sreat Hooncvclt strength In the west, he would have no trouble picking up those 4". Among the slates reported leaning toward him at this time and, according to some impartial predictions, almost certain to go for him, are Nebraska with 7 electoral voles, Washington 8, Montana 4. Maryland 8, Oregon 5, Nevada. Arlisona and New Mexico with 3 each, Kentucky 11 and Minne sota 11. He Is said to have a reHl chance at such normally republican states as Kansas. Iowa. California, Idaho. North and South Tinkota, Wisconsin, Colorado, I'tsh and Wyoming, with a combined electoral vote of 71). And as thine stand now, he ouht to he able to break Into one or more of them. Straw voles In Iowa and California, for instance, show him running well ahead. There are 140 votes in New York, Pennsylvania. New Jersey, and New F.ngland an area which Is lighting ground with the exception of Pennsylvania and Vermont, a HOOVER NEEDS BREAKS Just a glance at that electoral vote picture shows why there is now such a widespread belief that Roose velt will win, It seems to most of those who have been studying the slates and cnmiting their own counts that Hoover will have to get just about all the breaks from now mi it he is to upset the dope. N't'hme more significant hns appeared during the cam pan ii than the figures In the Literary l'igest's poll which show 40 per cent of Roosevelt's straw vote to be derived from persons who voted republican In W1K while only wit per cent of Hoover'a comes from 1128 democrats. This represents the most concrete evidence to date of the widespread disposition among voters to blame Hoover for the depression or for his methods of enmtnttlng It. Politicians are watching the poll closely to set nether later figure coutinue to indicate a astilca. ' t ism sv hi soviet twe. at, u. a w. err. "Now, pltait wait until everyone Is up from the table, before you start (Selling them insurance." FITTING WORKER TO JOB CALLS FOR STUDY OF MIND AND BODY By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine 'IFTY per cent of our working population are in jobs that are not particularly auited to them, soino experts have estimated. This is only an estimate, but It Is taken for granted that many persons are in positions to which they are not tit, and both physicians and psychol ogists ara giving attention to the problem and doing what they can to help workers get into the work best adapted to their qualities. There are. of course, two posslml- itlea adapting defectives to a job and eliminating those who cannot possibly undertake certain jobs. In vestigations show that practically everyone has certain correctable de fects. Not all of these defects, however. will interfere with working, up to a certain point. Decaying teeth may permit workers to go on for a long time, but constitute a potential hazard. In a consideration ot tills subject before the British Medical association, Dr. Angus Macrae points out that suitable adjustment is concerned not only with keeping out workers who are not fit, but in aiding workers who are particularly fit. Sometimea the requirements of a job are either far above the capacity of an individual or far below his ca pacity. In either case he will be dis satisfied. Jn some of the instances the trouble is due to lack of special aptitude to the work. Sometimea people have gifts which they long to use but for which their work provides no exercise. As an example, a young man may find the greatest of pleasure in working with figures and calculations snd ought to be la the accounting department of a great department store, but finds him self instead selling haberdashery. One English investigator studied the output of three girls who hsd the job of sorting soiled linen in a laundry. Two of the girls were'sls ters, and worked much more quickly than did the third. An investigation showed that the difference in speed was not due entirely to any differ ence in, natural quickness. But the slow girl was disgusted with the work and indulged in all sorts of facial contortions at the sight of an unusually dirty article. She handled it with such extreme care and showed her disgust so plainly that it was clearly responsible for her slowness, -y The person who aims to guide oth ers ss to vocation must be concern ed not only with working hours, but also with those used for leisure. Other members of the family must co-operate in these studies, because work constitutes after all but six to eight hours of a 24-hour dav. MAIL BAG ON FIRE HAZARDS WALTON, Ore. (To the Editor) appearing In the Register-Guard of Oct. 7, relative to the efficiency of forest organizations and unfavorable comparisons made between federal and' other forest protective associations, The closing statement in the edi torial, "Most big and expensive fires everywhere can be traced to some form of neglect or carelessness," Is bsolutely true but taking all condi tions into consideration and basing your findings on a ten year period it will be found that other protective or ganization will compare very favor ably with national forest organizn tiona in efficiency and vigilance. A carcfull study of conditions will re- enl the fact that there arc greater hazards outside of the national forests than within them and that in very recent years the natiounl forects have had some very disastrous fires cover- Frf hundreds of thousands of acres. In the area west of the Cascade mountains there are 100 sawmills outside of the national forests to one ithin, each with s large cutovcr nrca making an extreme fire hazard; there are 9U per cent more aettlers outside of the national forests, nfnny having small slashings to burn each consti tuting a fire hazard as they must be burned before the rains come; many more hunters and campers go Into the forests outside of the nntionnl forests on account of the easy accessibility and close proximity to their homes. The above comprise all of the fire hazards that exist In western Oregon with the exception of lightning. This season more hunters' fires have occurred in the western Lane patrol nrca than for many years, prac ticnlly nil late fires being attributed to hunters. The .Mary's peak area and the area from the Siuslaw to the I'mpqua including the Smith river basin have been ctosed to all travel. C. V. OULKSBY. ' RAPS COUNTY OFFICERS ClMilNGKIK.l.l). Ore. tTo the Edi tor). In a recent Issue of your paiwr the writer noticed where Judge Barnard was to take a swing around the state, taking his first vacation in 11 years, it is to be regretted that Commissioner Hnrd eouUl not of ac companied him. on this trip so they could both of taken a nice little vaca tion while on county pay. For unless all signs fail, especially in the rural districts, the voters of l.nne county are going to the polls on Nov. 8 and arrange for them to take a permanent vacation without pay. ThrouKh a number of unfortunate events during the past two years there Is passing from the political field this fall our veteran sheriff, Harry L. Down, who the writer be lieves has been one of the most honest aad faithful public officials that has ever served Lane county, we are for tunate however that the republican party has nominated a man for that office in the person of C. A. (Tom) Swarts who will mnke a worthy suc cessor and fill the office of sheriff with credit to both the . county and himself, the writer has known Tom and had business dealings with him for nearly at) years, and has always found him honest, courteous aud effi cient. The acid test of time prompts me at this time to urge every republican voter (and as many democrats as can consistently do so) to go to the polls on Nov. 8 and help place Tom In the sheriffs office by one of the largest majorities ever cast in Lane county, not even excepting my good friend the county assessor, the unbeatable Ben, and In voting do not overlook our veteran county clerk, Walt Dil lard. He is honest, courteous, and has made good. Vote 317 No! at J. DRuar. , A "WET" PSALM PUGENi;, Ore. (To the Editor) If acreenble, would like to have you print in your Mail Bng column, the following: For consideration of those who have registered to vote this coming elec tion, the following wet's version of the 23rd psalm may be of interest: 1. Alcohol is my shepherd; I shall always want. 2. It maketh me to lie down In the gutter: it leadeth me beside troubled waters. 3. It destroyeth my soul; it lead eth me in the paths of wickedness for the wet's sake. 4. Yea, though 7 walk through the valley of poverty, and gat delirum .,. I will clinx to evil; for thou are with me; thy bite and thy sting thv torment me. 5. Thou preparest an empty table before me in the presence or my ram lly; thou anointest my head with fool ishness; my cup is empty. Surely destruction and misery shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dv.'ell in the house of death forever. O. A. i'Kii,ojtt. 1374 High street. 1 MY ALMA MATER Dear College Mother I love her ivy clad walls. Her shady paths and sacred halls. Her grand old men of a time long past. Many gone to their reward at last. I love her traditions of all things fine Which fasten to my heart like her clinging vines. I love the memuries of the brave pio neers Who worked for her during the pass ing years. When they came to the new land homes to build Their hearts with love ot learning thrilled; ' So near the banks of the Willamette river. A college they built whose spirit can not wither. The University of Oregon ia her name, Whose men and women have to her brought fame, Scattered over all the world are they now. And to their Alma Mater will keep their vow. Never can my College Mother's spirit fsil " " For her sons and daughters love will avail To keep her memory like her sturdy oaks 1 For her children's children and their hopes PAULINE WALTON. IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED Golden Henrt Celery you may not know how tender and aweet celery can be. Try it. PAUL D. 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