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EDITOR AND PUBUSUEH - Alton b. Baker
J1ANAGINO EDITOR - - - William M. Tugman
NEWS SERVICE, Associated Press, United Preie
MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulations
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IF IS A GRAND OLD WORD
IF the national budget can be balanced, Candi
date nooBevelt may not be hostile to a soldier
bonus. If It la not necessary to make huge ap
propriations for popular relief, the budget will be
balanced. If unforeseen emergencies do not arise,
the expenses of federal operation will be reduced
15 per cent, If Mr. Roosevelt 1b elected.
"If," says Candidate Roosevelt, tacking a life
saver onto the end of his otherwise magnificent
Pittsburgh speech, "starvation and dire need of any
of our citizens make necessary the appropriation
of additional funds which would keep the budget
out of balance, I shall not hesitate to tell the
American people the full truth and recommend to
them the expenditure of the additional amount"
Well, that's Candidate Roosevelt! The Pitts
burgh speech was a rather masterly arraignment
of the failure of the Hoover administration to trim
expenses to depression revenues with sufficient
promptness. Looking backward now, It Is easy to
see where many different situations might have
been avoided by prompt curtailment of govern
ment expenses when business began to go to smash.
It Is posslblo to claim many excuses. The president
was unwilling to have the government set the pace
for a general reduction of wage scales and living
conditions. The president had to face many un
, expected emergencies such as Candidate Roosevelt
himself apparently anticipates.
The most ardent Hoover supporter would be
foojlsh to claim that the administration saw all the
consequences of the 1929 collapse from the start
or that .the" administration moved with sufficient
swiftness" and sureness toward the reduction of ex
pense.' But It cannot be forgotten that when
President Hoover did Issue the call for government
retrenchment. It was a hostile congress headed by
Candidate Roosevelt's running mate, Mr. Garner,
that threw every conceivable obstacle In his path
and reduced payroll economies to a farce.
No speech which Candidate Roosevelt has yet
made 'has brought out quite so clearly the man's
evasive tactics. In prizefight terms, he can "hand It
out but he can't take It." Every pledge he has held
forth has been qualified by an IF. The Roosevelt
economy talk sounds great, till you contrast It for
Instance with some of the blunt and tactless but
determined utterances of our Governor Meier on
the same subject. Julius has his faults, but when
he talks cuts he means cuts, and there are no "lfs."
The Great PromlBer has something for every
body, lust like Santy Clans, but there seems to be
sin IF tied to every present.
LION HUNTING IN MISSOURI.
' "JNE of the most interesting stories that has hit
the news wires In many a day has to do
with the St Louis man who tried to satisfy a life
long craving for big game hunting by buying a
couple of Hons from a stranded circus and turning
them loose In the "wilds" of Missouri. The great
Btate of Missouri has plenty of lonely and seem
ingly wild regions where the brush grows tall and
thick and man seems to have handed the country
back to the primitive, but the yearning huntsman
loon found that even so, Missouri no longer
has any place where Hons can be permitted ' to
roam at large even for a tew hours.
Everywhere the hunter went with his lions he
found agitated fRrmers and deputy sheriffs posted
at fence corners to warn him against "turning
them cats loose" In a civilized community. He
finally found a plausible place on a largo Island
In the meandering Mississippi. He turned his
jungle beasts loose and prepared to go after them
In style. But even as he prepared for his great
"asfarl," there were quick shots In the underbrush.
Two men wearing deputy badges stepped forth
dragging a pair of dead Hons by the tall. The
huntsman complained bitterly. Were not the Hons
his own private propdrly for shooting or otherwise?
Had he not paid $10 a day for their board and koep
for many weeks to prepare them for the hunting
day? But Missouri gave tho huntsman little
sympathy. Missouri has outgrown Its big game
days. For Mlssourlans, the feats of Kit Carson and
the like are but a memory. Your Mlssourlan will
do his big game hunting In Africa (If ho has the
means) or In the pictures.
All of which Is a reminder of how lucky we
still are In Oregon. We do not have Numldlan
lions, to bo sure, but we still have big "cats" of
various sorts In our hills and a-plenty. As long
ns our mountains stand and great forests grow
upon them there will bo big game hunting for
those who want II. Two hours out from any city
In Oregon, your huntsman can still find plenty
of adventure.
The Missouri huntsman Is ridiculous hut at
the snme lime pathetic. His craving for thrills Is,
after all, more natural than unnatural. It seems
unnatural only because of Its over-populous setting.
Porhaps somebody ought to advise the man to
move to Oregon.
COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
RETIREMENT of tho veteran K. J. Moore makes
tho rnco for county school Huperlnlendont a
real fight this year. Laurence C. Moffltt, who has
boen assistant to Mr. Moore the last two years,
holds the Republican nomination. Mrs. Vera Todd
Crow Is the Democratic choice. The candidates:
LAURENCE C. M 0 F F I TT born at Garfield.
Wash., In 1903. Graduate of high school there.
Attondcd Spokane university 1922 to 1924.
Graduated from three-year course at Cheney
Normal In Washington In 1927. Now taking
work at University of Oregon and expects soon
to take degree In education. Taught rural
school In Washington 1925 to 1927. Three years
principal of grades and Junior high at Lincoln
school, Springfield, Oregon, 1927 to 1930 when
be became assistant to Mr. Monre. Married.
Hu two children. Member of Christian church.
Claims good health and past experience In
office as Important qualifications. Promises
' uonomlcal operation Ot under present budget
tf WiSl ft X4, cgonecatiM sjy, djfti&t teHrdlQ
In progressive modernization of all schools and
teaching methods. Will operate without hiring
an assistant. Pledges cooperation with 4-H work.
VERA TODD CROW born In Michigan and
educated there, graduating from University of
Michigan In 1912. Has had wide variety of
teaching experience in city and country schools
of Michigan, Kentucky, Idaho, Washington,
California and Oregon. Came to Oregon in 1912
and organized high school at Mapleton. After
two years there taught five years at Thurston
union high. Head of mathematics at Le More,
Cal., high school for two years. Taught history
in Woodrow Wilson Junior high In Eugene and
has often done part time teaching in the other
Eugene grade and high schools. Married R. C.
Crow, Eugene watchmaker. In 1923. Has one
adopted daughter. Lives on South Willamette
Just outside city. Member of Unitarian church,
City club, American Association of University
Women. Promises aggressive policies for better
ment of teaching and scholarship standards
with full cooperation of district boards. Would
not drop 4-H work but believes economy can
be served by segregating It from rest of county
school budget
The office of county school superintendent is
different from that of city superintendent. As our
laws now stand it is an advisory office rather than
an administrative one but it transmits from the
state superintendent to the local schools and has
Important work in coordinating and Improving
schools throughout the county. It is an office which
requires unusual capacity for leadership.
The question Is whether the BChoois of Lane
county need the vigorous leadership of which Mrs.
Crow is capable or whether they will do well
enough under the somewhat conservative Mr.
Moffltt. We recommend Mrs." Crow, because we be
lieve that for an office of this kind outstanding
capability and experience should outweigh other
considerations. With an exceptionally quick and
well trained mind, Mrs. Crow combines the self
confidence that comes with varied experience and
we believe she has the native tact and Judgment
to command cooperation in programs which will
improve education in Lane county.
Perhaps the vogue of red dresses Is merely
meant to match the color being used by most book
keepers nowadays.
Kansas editors have been holding a golf tourna
ment. That may have been the noise you heard.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
HIGHER EDUCATION COSTS CURTAILED
(Klamath Falls Herald)
J)R. WILLIAM JASPER KERR has again justified
the faith of those who advocated his selection as
chancellor of Oregon's higher education system.
At a meeting- of the state board of higher education
in Portland, Dr. Kerr outlined a atrlct economy pro
gram, the board approved that .program, and Dr. Kerr
will carry it out. This plnn Is based on three points
no increase in student fues, no requests to the legisla
ture for additional appropriations, and adjustment of
budgets on the basis of money available from present
legislation.
The significance of this program should be fully
understood by the taxpayers. It menns that the schools
will operate in the next men mum without one cent of
special appropriation (the last special appropriation
totaled more than $1,000,000). It means that in spite
of this rigid curtailment of tax-raised funds, boys and
girls from Oregon homes seeking an education at the
state institutions will not be loaded with additional bur
dens in the way of tuition and fees. And those who
know Dr. Kerr know that the maximum use will be
made of the curtailed funds available, to maintain the
effectiveness of the schools under his administration.
Ihus, again, Is answered the cry of the sponsors
of the vicious, and dangerous and rashly experimental
Zorn-Macpherson school juggling bill. They seek to make
the most of the present-day demand for economy in
public expenditure. What more could be asked by the
taxpayers than thnt provided In this three-point pro
gram of Dr. Kerr's?
And that program, it should be added, does not call
for tho uneconomical abandonment of one whole- campus.
the uneconomical use by a teacher s college of a campus
built for a university, the jeopardizing of real estate
values in several Oregon communities and of bonds
held by many Oregon people, nor any of the other
unsound features of the Corvnllis real estate scheme
knnwn as the orn-MncpherHon school bill.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY DUTCHES
(NKA Service Writer 1
yyASIIINGTOX. Making a last how to the great
open spares and hurling a few more thunderous
blasts at the middle west, the presidential campaigns
aro veering toward the east for the final battle.
The "Four Horsemen" of 11132 nolltics reserved their
heaviest fire for the Industrial area' which stretches
front Wisconsin along the Great Lakes to Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey and New England with a total
of 240 electoral votes.
These are tho "Four Horsemen," the only real big
shots who are participating in the campaign:
President Hoover, fighting with Ills hsck to the wall,
forced to carry his rnuse from the White House out
Into the country, vigorously defending his own record
In a fight for survival which he must make virtually
alone.
Governor Roosevelt, riding on a wave of Hoover un
popularity, also doing most of his own fighting, proving
nimseit a shrewd politician and soon to he facing a
final test In the section where his cause Is weakest.
Calvin Coolidge, the only other Ucpubiican speaker
who can command a national audience, who wos per
suaded to emerge for s single speech at New York in
the hope that his wide popularity might swing votes
back to the G. O. 1
AI Smith, still the personal Idol of millions, who has
heen persuaded to bury his grouch against Roosevelt
ami help try to rei'lnim the Inrgc body of his followers
who have threatened to ruin the Roosevelt ticket in
New York, New England and New Jersey,
Roosevelt has a good chanre of carrying New York.
hut the campaign Is so well along and the evidence of
Hoover sentiment in New England so pronounced that
there is plenty of doubt whether Smith will turn the
tide.
About ISO electoral votes In the south ere In the
hag for Roosevelt, apparently along with the IB votes
of Missouri. There are a few more than 100 votes In
westorn-nortliwestern-southwestern states, outside the
industrial ares, distributed over what Is considered
fighting ground, in which the heavy plowing is shout
over. There are 80 more In the border states of Ken
tucky, West Virginia and Maryland plus Delaware.
...
Thus the 240 votes of the WIsconsin-to-Molne In
ilustrial area are of paramount Importance, that number
belne only 20 short of an electoral college majority.
Wisconsin, normally Republican, may or may not go
to Roosevelt this year wllh her .12 votes. Michigan
with 10 votes is supposed to be una of the most Repub
lican or all the states, out shown a Democratic majority
in the straw votes and so niay he considered douhtftii.
Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are at this writing re
garded ss W32 Democratic territory a combined 8l
votes. Hitnver seeks to reclniai them.
Even Pennsylvania, usually conwidercd the most
rorksound Repuhlirsa of the more populous states, is
slightly doubtful with her H6 electoral votes and various
local politics complications.
New York has 47 and New Jersey 10 mid New Eng
land 4t electoral votes. New York. In this (roup, has
seemed the most likely to go to Roosevelt since the
Smith-Itoo.evelt reeoncilistlon. The rest are likely t
so to Hoover and. even from the Democratic uad
Boi ft A tit moment extiemelj doubtful.
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INVESTIGATION SHOWS NO DIFFERENCE IN
FOOD VALUE OF RAW OR HEATED MILK
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
(Editor, Journal of American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine)
DECAU8E it wos found that the
heating of milk in the process
called pasteurization made it safer
as a food, most of the milk used In
the United States today is pasteurized.
In fact, competent authorities assert
that 87 per cent of all the milk
that is now used has undergone the
heating process which destroys germs.
Following the discovery of the vita
mins, those who advocated the taking
of raw milk have contended that the
heating affocted adversely the health
fulnccs of the milk and its capacity
to aid growth.
Much of the argument' was based
on certain studies carried on at Ohio
State university and also at the Brit
ish national' Institute for Research in
dairying which indicated that white
rats fed on heated milk .did not grow
as well as white ruts fed on raw
milk.
Then Dr. Leslie 'C. Frank and asso
ciate investigators in the ' United
StatcB public health service determin
ed to make a careful study of this
point, checking the effects of row
milk and of heated milk on children.
They point out, incidentally, that
very few American children live ex
clusively on milk except for a few
weeks. They ore given supplementary
foods soon after weaning, indeed even
during nursing nowadays they may be
provided with orange juice and cod
uver oil.
A study was carried on in some 40
American cities and involved exam
inations of almost 4000 children.
Children who had received raw milk
for more than half their lives were
compared with those who had receiv
ed heated milk for more than half
their lives.
It was found that .the children who
had received heated milk showed a
slightly greater average weight than
those who had taken the raw milk
and that they were one-tenth of an
inch shorter.
A study was also made to find out
wh- ther or not the children who had
taker, the heated milk suffered any
less with the diseases commonly as
sociated with Infected milk than did
those who took raw milk.
It was found tr.nt those children
who had received raw milk predom
inate Buffered more with diphtheria,
inantly suffered mora with diphtheria,
ana rickets, than those who had re
ceived heated milk.
As a result, the authorities conclude
that the growth promoting capacity of
heated milk in addition to the supple
mentary diet that the average Amer
ican child of from 10 months to six
years regularly receives is not meas
urably less than the growth-producing
capacity of raw milk plus the sup
plementary diet.
,Waldport News
WALDPORT, Oct. 21. (Spe
cial) County Judge Waterbury was
guest speaker at Lions club Monday.
He gave an Interesting address. A
banquet and dance formed the eve
ning's entertninment arranged by
Lions Ricknrd ond Keody.
C. B. Hallmark and a party of big
gome hunters ore in eastern Oregon.
The Lioness club held a meeting
at the home of Lioness Pearle Ander
son. Lioness So rah Fulp was appoint
ed secretory to fill the vacancy left by
Lioness Xsoml Gould. The next meet
ing will be held at the home of Lion
ess Doty November 10.
T. E. Combs Is exhibiting a turnip
that tips the scales at seven pounds.
It was raised near VValdport.
Mrs. Leroy Bore is visiting rela
tives in Silverton.
Mrs. C. Hammond is in Salem vis
iting her sister.
Les Willey and family departed
Monday for Phoenix, Arizona, where
they expect to make their home. Mrs.
Willey has not been well for some
time and it is hoped the change of
climate will benefit her.
A communication from Lobster val
ley reports work progressing on the
Lobster-Triangle Lake cutoff ond an
interview has been asked for with the
Lane county court.
SrEfHAL Children's Haircut, 13c.
I I I Y WWII', tlAK ST.
Classes
in
Physical Education
Fail 1932
Monday Nights
7:30-8:30 Life Saving Corps Mr. Eberhardt
Open to senior life savors and examiners men and
women, town, faculty and students. Call 419-J in
the evening to make arrangements with Mr. Eber
hardt. 8:30-10:00 Faculty Swimming
Xo charge. Open to men and women faculty mem
bers and administration staff.
Tuesday Nights
Tap Dancing Mary Jo Alllngton Ivans
Instructor In Department of Physical
Education for Women)
Social Dancing Mary Ja Alllngton Ivans
Swimming Miss Jusnlta Young
Gymnasium open for games basketball,
UAllauk.ll -
These classes, except the swimming, are open to
town and faculty both men and women. 'The
swimming is open to women onlv. There is a
charge of $2.50 for fall term for any of the classes.
Anyone? signing up for one of the activities mav
attend any of the others.
A minimum of 20 members is necessary for
the continuance of the class.
7:30 8:30
8:30 9:30
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