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Elgin. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER GUARD AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published tVSTT evening and Sunrfavi EDITOK AND PUBLISHER Allon F. Bilker MANAGING EDITOR William M. Tufman NEWS SERVICE .... Associated Press. United Press MEMBER ....... Audit Bureau of Circulations Entered at tha PotT Office at Eugene. Oregon as second elase matter. Tha Rejtister.Guard'a policy la the complete and Impartial publication In Ita newa paffea of all news and statements on news. On thla page, the editors o.' The He ci-lrr-nuard offer their opinions on event of the dav and matters of Importance to the community, endeavoring to be randld but fair and helpful In the development of constructive com munity policy. "A NEWSPAPER IS A gTBSEN OF ITS COMMUNITY" HOW DO THEY DO IT "DOWN UNDER" There is much that we can learn from that interesting comparison of Oregon schools with the schools of Australia and New Zealand with which Superintendent John F. Cramer entertained the Round Table the other evening. With their equalized school funds and their uniform administration and supervi sion, they undoubtedly can teach us lessons in efficiency and economy, but the impres sive difference is not in finance but in phil osophy of education. They make no effort to hike every child through high school as we do. From the seventh grade on, they "weed 'em out" ruthlessly by stiff ex aminations. Their higher education is open to all who can qualify but accepts no obliga tion to dullards or lazybones. Are we in this country coddling those youngsters beyond the age of 14 who arc either backward mentally or unwilling to apply themselves? Are we right when we say that the schools must adapt themselves to the needs of every child, regardless of his ability? Have the Australians and New Zealand ers achieved "equality of opportunity" in city and country at a loss of essential dem ocracy? Is it better to have an efficient system, in which the average citizen takes little per sonal interest, leaving everything to the ex perts, or our plan, under which, as Mr. Cramer says, everybody who is of age and out of jail can mess into school affairi ? Is there some plan which will give us what is best in the "Down Under" method and retain what is finest in ours? Mr. Cramer thinks we should cling to our democratic ideals, copying only what is best in Australian and New Zealand finan cial and administrative methods. He points out that it is not easy to leap over differ ences which are due to totally different cus toms and traditions. Trade unions in Australia and New Zea land through an effective apprentice system are playing a role in education which our unions have never played. Widespread pub lic ownership in the stair:. "Down Under" has made possible an entirely different ap proach to economic adjustments, They have cut uniformly on all public and private sal aries, interest rates, incomes to avert unem ployment problems; they have no depression debt; no WPA. But even under Labor party government, their social ideology has remained different from ours. They still accept an "intellectual class," look to it for leadership; they do not hold with out Jacksonian theory, that potent ially every Citizen, however poor or Ignorant, Is "just as good as the president." They lack that fine quality ol American arrogance which Mr, Cramer would retain, Whether we approve or not 71) out of every 100 American boys and girls go on through high school Vocational training? Vital to any such program. To set no class above another, to create no intellectual snobs, to teach nil to work with either head or hands this, Mr. Cramer thinks, should be the aim, after much travel ami Stud) ol the admirable cousins "Down Under." WASHINGTON LETTER By BRUCE CATTON Rrf;iter-Giiard Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 13. On duty in his lofty rostrum, Speaker of the House William B. Bank head is stern, efficient. Off duty, he is "just folks" a man wtio likes to put on overalls and putter around in the gardens fl collector of odd items ranging from gavels to pieces of string, a devoted reader of detective stories and a solver of cros6 word puzzles. The attic of his home in Jasper, Ala., is a sort nf museum. There are ranged all sorts of memen tos dozens of gavels which have heen presented to him, walking sticks that he has acquired, and lucky pieces of all kinds. For the speaker is a mite superstitious. One Easter Sunday on the way to church he ordered his car stopped so that he could pick up a rabbit's foot he saw by the road. He considered the day es pecially lucky because, on his return from church, he found a buckeye on the sidewalk. One time, walking with Mrs. Bankhead, he saw a playing card lying face-down by the curb. "If it's a diamond, it's lucky," he said, picking it up. It was a diamond, and the seven to boot, llanos On To Old Suits Mr. Bankhead hates to buy new clothes and hates to give up his old ones. At one time the Bankhead home in Jasper was fairly overflowing with old clothing which he refused to part with. Mrs. Bankhead solved the problem when a tramp visited the house during the Speaker's ab sence and asked for a handout. To the tramp's amazed delight, she outfitted him completely from head to toe with Mr. Bankhead's old suits, sweaters, hats and overcoats. Then, to ensure a safe get away, she drove him down the road in her car and got him out of sight before the Speaker should re turn. Mr. Bankhead makes himself personally respon sible for his collection of string. When a package is delivered at his home he takes charge of the sti inc. and will contentedly spend an entire evening unravelling the complicated and haphazard knots In It. He usually reads himself to sleep with a de tective story, and right now is putting in hours trying to win a popular crossword puzzle contest. He would have been an actor if his father had not objected. The theatrical success attained by his famous daughter, Tallulali, is the pride of his heart. His own theatrical ambitions find their outlet when he takes his morning shower; instead of singing tunelessly, Ike most males, he recites Shakespeare. In Washington, the Bankhearls occupy a hotel apartment, so his passion for gardening is con fined to his Alabama home. There, disreputably dressed, he spends hours in his garden and woe to any member of the household wtio borrows and fails to replace any of his innumerable garden tools. Puts String To Work in tiis back yard he has a little house for the redbiids to nest in, and he raises sunflowers to pro vide seeds for them to eat. One summer he worried a good deal because the narrows were musceling in and stealing the seeds. His health was poor that summer and he spent murh of his time nn a rot under a tree in the yard: and he fixed a string so that he could give the bird house a little jerk whenever a sparrow flew up to get some seeds. This didn't work so well, so he bought an ex pensive sparrow trap, baited it and set It out. It worked fine, and presently a whole flock of spar rows was trapped, Mr. Bankhead picked up the trap and set off to slay the thieving inmates. But When tie actually got down to it, he found he didn't have the heart. So he set all the sparrows loose and threw the trap away. He loves horSSS and horse laces. Equipped with rabbits' feet, buckeyes and other lucky charms, he can almost invariably pick a winner. He is also a football enthusiast ; used to be a University of Alabama fullback himself, and can't go to a game even now without getting all trembly with excite ment. Mi is also a confirmed and skillful fisherman. In vacations, he usually goes to a Canadian island owned by his brother and fishes. In Washington, he and Mrs. Bankhead live very Quietly, He hates to put on tails and white tie for formal functions. He also hates having the furni ture in his house rearranged, which makes it rather tough because Mrs Bankhead is a confirmed furniture-shifter. The Speaker's one vice Is smoking too many frequently resolves hi cut down on it. But the reso cigarcts. The habit worries him a little, and he lulion never lasts more than a day or so. Mrs. Bankhead remarks that "he takes it out in talking, mostly." (Copyright, 1030, NBA Service, Inc.) Apri Eugene Teachers Named For 1939-40 BBSs AN EDITORIAL ON lir.M ill "COURTESY WARNINGS" FOB VISITORS In a good many cities, the police are is suing special "courtesy tickets" to out-ol-state drivers who hnnnen to violate some traffic law. Hoy More calls our attention to the polite reminders which tourists are get- I ting in Spokane. Spokane says: "Welcome to the friendly city of Spokane. We hope thai your visit has been pleasant and that you will return. Doubtless you nrc unaware that you have violated Traffic Ord inance No. by . We excuse you this time, hut suggest that you familiar ize yourself with our Traffic Regulations ind thus assist in preventing accidents. The nearest police officer is your friend. Do not hesitate to consult and avail yourself of his services." Eugene could afford to stock up some courtesy tags for the summer season. Or better still, Herman Kohrli's League of Ore gon Cities might work out n standard cour tesy tag which could be used by state, County or city officers anywhere in Oregon And citizens of Oregon can set a pattern tor vis itors by driving with courtesy and cue. By DR. MORRIS KIS1IHEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine Most significant among recent developments in use of drugs Is the widespread and promiscuous employment of derivatives of a steep-producing medicine known as barbituric acid. So important is the fiend that the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association de cided in 1037 to make a study of the situation and to see what ought to be done in the way of pro tcting people tinder the circumstances. The evils of these drugs Include the formation of habits and the fact that their poisonous effect tends to cumulate in some instances in the human body, They arc sometimes substituted ICT alcoholic drinks In producing a strange form of Intoxication Apparently their use in attempts at suicide has Increased, Some of the sleep-producing drugs are found to he the basis of motor accidents. In the perpetration of crime, they are employed by crim inals to lower the resistance of their victims. Now the Investigation has been completed, and some extraordinary tacts and figures have become fevaliable, In the United States, apparently, our people take mere than 1110.000,000 doses a year of such preparations, which means more than 2.200,000 doses every day. l' 10 mat, the deaths of 408 peo ple from the use of such drugs were recorded in medical literature. An analysis of figures available In hospital files revealed 118S cases of poisoning with nicn drugs and 124 deaths during the same period. There were 13ft cases of poisoning and 17 deaths from the coat tar, pain-rehcving drugs like acetanilid. in Qertnany where the barbituric acid deriva tives ate much more widely used than in the United States, the percentage of suicides employing such drugs has been far greater thsn in the United All teachers who were on the payroll of the Eugene school sys tem for the year 1938-39 have been re-elected, with the excep tion of three who resigned and are being replaced by teachers on leave of absence last year, Su perintendent J. F. Cramer an nounced Wednesday morning. Final assignments have not been made for the staff for next year, Mr. Cramer said, and there is a possibility that a few resignations at the end of the school term will necessitate some shifting of the teaching forces at the various schools. The following is the list of teachers who were re-elected, with their schools at present, but Mr. Cramer stressed the fact that some reorganization and transfers are contemplated: Lincoln: Ada R. Shuey, Flor ence Armsworthy, Clara F. Bei tel, Vera Collins, Bertha I. Dun lap, Florence Fulton, Alice M. Jenkins, Jessie M. Kinney, Le nora H. Pyburn, Wilhelmina Schmidt, Lila Schumacher, Opal L. Thorpe, Frederica Weatherly. Washington. Fay H. Robertson, Alice Guilcy, Edna S. Huff, Mabel Lusby, Vera Mannel, Mabel A. Masterson. Whiteaker: Dallas W. Norton, Edith Cummins, Tillie Dorffler, Viva Green, Louise Hallyburton, Elizabeth Anne Jones, Betty Ma hany. Roosevelt Junior: Viron A. Moore, Hazel Archibald, Nina Boesen, RuftU M, Franz, Bruce Halm, Margaret Hammerbacher, Orest Houghton, Paul Hughes, Laverne Lamb, Daye Marshall, Max McKinney, Gertrude Sears, Mildred Williams. Condon Gaile H. Goode, Ray ma Beerman, Sadie Kaser, Selma S. Nelson, Alma Sarpola, Hazel Stephenson. Edison Gaile H. Good, Edna E. Broekman, Lorene C. Herman, tola Houghton, Mildred Martinson, Anna Moses, Margaret Rice, Marie Tinker. Frances Willard Victor N. Phelps, Joyce Y. Atkinson, Fran ces E. Baker, Edith Coleman, Beryl Deford, Mabel E. Getting, Josephine Hayes, Edith Hays, Blanche Heflin. Blanche Jackson. Vera R. Lee, Mary Magers, Merle Nimmo. Supervisors Anne Landsburv Beck, Wilbur H. Dutton, Hazel G. Fishwood. Alta Frazier, Mabel Kirschman, Douglas W. Orme, Alice Hudd, J. N. Wray. Eugene high school Harry B. Johnson. Harold W. Allison, Earle F. Arrell. Dorothy Ball, Clara M. Blais, Maurice C. Buchanan, Ethel C. Christie, Clifford A. Coulter, Iva R. Curtis, Gertrude M. Deierleln, Clarence E. Diebel, Hazel C. F'ishwood, Juliette C. Gibson, Edgar A. Goodnough, Huth E. Graham. Glenn Griffith, Hussel G. Hendricks, Barbara E. Mollis, Martin F. Johnson, Bert C Kerns. Will M. Kidwell, K. I. Klenlle, Mae D. Kinsey, Fred Kramer, Ola McDcrmott, Odine N. MiCkelson, Kathryn M. Mitch ell, J. Ladrew Moshberger, Rita Morris, Marian Notvedt, Douglas W. Orme. Philip B. Park. Paul J. Ryan, Lyle L. Smalt, Mildred P. Warren, Carolyn L. Woods, Leola Gates Hllles. University high Ralph U. Moore. Howard P. Backus, Mary tlltabeth CostellO, Raymond C. Hendrickson, Jos. a. Holiday, Vernon Kcrley, Audrey May, Martha Lois Smith, Staniey Wil liamson, Veola p. Wiimot. Wood row Wilson Junior Stan ley D. Eaton, Mildred Baker, Dor othy Bergstrom, Kenneth C. Dart, Josephine Enright, Delbert Ed wards. Marie Groves. Neltie Mae Haugen, M.ixme Hill, Vcrl L. Hoover, Ruth Hopson, Gertrude L.arsen. Louise Nimmo, Sylvan C. Osmundson, Pauline Pearce, Rob ert U Phillips. Pearl Ream, Alta Schneider, Eleanor Schroeder. Huth Buck. Edith Thornton, Mau rice Weis, Ruth Wolcnberg, L. A. Wright, Mary Trotter. sssto.; . . , :, j llsSTv iVafl Oregon Merchants Meet Here Monday Busy merchants from every sec tion of Oregon will lay atide their current business next Mon day and Tuesday and spend two days seeking, through advice from experts and from discus sions, ways and means of pro gressing in the future, when they meet at the University of Oregon school of business for the third annual Oregon Retail i Institute. "Shop" will open nine o'clock Monday lowing registration n Morris, dean of the business, will deliver address. His talk will by the presidential trie M. Stanford, PrJ tion o officers will fo -. ; In Europe, charcoal popular. Native EUR them after meals to elii gases. TO woo the muse, Walt Disney makes himself comfortable on a sofa in Philadelphia where l.e went to discuss a new film, "Fantasia," with Conductor Leopold Stokowskl. committee's report without dis sent yesterday, Mrs. Clarence W. Walls of Portland became almost certain of re-election as presi dent. 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A. Nomination KLAMATH FALLS. April IS. 0 When the convention of the Oregon congress of Parents and Teachers accepted the nominating G-Man Hoover met John fl n r n o r in Washington for the first time the other day. If Hoover can remember who this ice pit ; dent was 20 years from now, he'll be . raaJ detective. In the records of the census department and In the statistics of the various health department:-, these deaths Sie usually classified as accidental deaths due to over-doses of sleeping pow ders or as accidental deaths by poisoning The number of suicides seems to tie increasing with a I.i 1 1' desire of rapidity, so that apparently there were S00 SUCh deaths in 1836 and about 400 In 1M7. The survey .-hows that more than 1.200.000,000 trains of such derivatives wete sold in the United States In 1936, thai the incidence of suicides during the period 19331636 represented 4 2 per cent of all poisons, ami that dining the ye. us front 19381981 the figures for seven large cities showed that the use i.f the drug represented 8.1 per cent of sui cides by poison. The rates for the huge nf.es are twice as high as (01 the country a n whole The trend is defi nitely upward and the Situation is reaching the point wiicie acme SCtion will luvs tu lie Uhcu. BORBOV otv your signature SIGN AND RECEIVE! Monty Ctn be borrowed here the tune one Ukes won dtFtn where to turn! By our L'm pl.m, you end money qua t.dt it ies, quick r$ the troke of n pen. No delays. No publicity. A strictly pri vate friendly Loan. Arrang ed to be as. ''easily' repaid as obtained! 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