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THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER
< IHlil.lA It. FISHER, Editor unil Publisher
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1908
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COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION
The Commission on Country Life, appointed by President
Roosevelt, left Washington a few days ago and will visit several
Educational centres of the West for the purpose of obtaining in
formation on the condition of Western country life, whether any
thing needs to be done to improve it, and if so, what it may be.
It is proposed to hold hearings at agricultural colleges so far
as possible, as these institutions provide effective organizations
for securing the attendance of persons who are well qualified to
express an opinion on the country life question. In particular,
the commission invites the attendance at these hearings of rep
resentative farmers, teachers, business men, physicians and
others who live in the onen country or have direct relations with
it. Accredited delegates from granges, farmers' clubs or similar
orgazizations as well as farmers and others, who come on their
own responsibility and who are likely to be helpful in the investi
gation will be welcome. The meetings will be public, but are
not held for the purpose of making speeches. Full and free dis
cussions of the various problems affecting the life of the farmer,
especially those relating to the larger economic, social and san
itary questions of the open country will form the basis for these
hearings. As the commission can meet only a short time at each
place a portion of the conference will be devoted to mapping out
plans for further consideration and study of these questions,
the results to be submitted at a later date for the use of the
commission.
The whole idea of the administration i? to bring the people of
the country, and by this we mean the entire nation, closer to
gether. Specialists will be employed to give them information
concerning country life in other countries, and how to make the
most of their opportunities and resources. The plan is an excel
lent one and will be the means of greatly improving the manner
and methods of living.
CRUELTY TO PRESIDENTS
MISS ELKINS’
DUKE REFUSES
TO ACCEPT TERMS
worth living. Now another man, who has retired on a compe
tency, has written a letter to one of the New Yoik newspapers,
asking for suggestions as to how he should keep from dying of
ennui. In answer to this letter, which was published by the ac
commodating editor, a perfect flood of suggestions has been sent
in for publication in the same paper. Some of these suggestions
are serious and fairly sensible, but most of them are too silly to
deserve consideration. The poor rich man deserves universal
sympathy. He supplies one of the most powerful arguments in
favor of a college education. If that retired merchant had had
the advantages of a college education he would not lack some
thing to fill his life’s sunset days; there is always baseball, foot
ball and boat-racing to interest a college man.
The Providence Journal, a leading Republican paper of New
England, says of Oregon'« senatorial situation: “An unusual
situation exists in Oregon, where Senator Fulton, Republican,
whose term expires next March, and who desires to be re-elect
ed, is opposed by Governor Chamberlain, Democrat. Mr. Cham
berlain won in the senatorial primaries last June, and is entitled
to the office by virtue of the fact that a majority of the members
chosen to the new legislature pledged themselves to vote for the
candidate receiving the largest primary poll. Of course, the Re
publicans are irritated at the existence of a Republican legisla
tive majority, whose hands are tied by such an ante-election
agreement, and ways are being sought to prevent the fruits of
his triumph from being enjoyed by the popular governor. The
scheme, however, deserves to fail, and probably will fail. Ore
gon is a Republican state, but it cannot afford to go back on its
word for the sake of keeping a Republican senator at Washing
ton.”
It is a fact not generally known that the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia bear the most of the expenses of the presiden
tial inauguration, but there is a growing feeling throughout the
country, according to the Des Moines Capital, that the federal
government should bear this burden. A presidential inaugura
tion can certainly not be looked upon as a purely local affair.
True, the hotel, restaurant and shopkeepers may derive the
largest material benefit from the function, but all that is mere
ly incidental to the event in itself. Even the District of Colum
bia is regulated by congress and is the capital of all the American
people. The president is the chief executive of the whole United
States. We think, therefore, that no murmur of disapproval
would be heard if the movement contemplated by Representative
Boutell of Illinois to shift this obligation from the district to the
nation should materialize.
One of the chief features of the American Playground Con
gress, held in New York last week, was the spirited attack of a
young Cincinnati woman, Miss Maud Summers, on the comic sec
tions of the Sunday papers. Miss Summers, one of the best
known story-tellers for children, was vigorously applauded when
she declared that in the papers emphasis was placed on deceit,
on cunning and on disrespect for gray hairs. “The comic supple
ment of the Sunday newspaper is lowering the standard of liter
ary appreciation,” said she, “axd debasing the morals of the
children in this country. It teaches children to laugh when boys
throw water from an upper window upon an apple woman or out
wit an old and infirm man. Humor has its place in the literature
of childhood, and it would be well if gifted writers for children
could be found capable of substituting genuine fun for the coarse
vulgar type now so prominent.”
The Syracuse Post-Standard has begun a war on the sense
less custom of presidential inaugurations in the United States.
That paper asserts that one or more deaths usually follow every
presidential inauguration by reason of exposure to inclement
weather. The demand is made that for the coming inauguration
of President Taft some of the glittering military display be dis
pensed with in the name of humanity. The Post Standard says:
The pastor of the Second Reformed Church in Jersey City
William Taft is a strong, healthy man, accustomed to all
gives
out an interesting story of what he considers the efficiency
the climates of the world, excepting that of the Polar Circle, and
it is not to be feared that the ceremonies of inauguration day of prayer. A woman of seventy-five was desperately sick about
will hurt him, no matter how inclement the weather may be. one month before the last election and there seemed little hope
Yet a cold and windy fourth of March generally results in the that she would live long enough to find out who was elected
death of some of those who attend, and four years ago resulted president. As she was greatly interested in the outcome of the
election, she asked the members of her family to join her in
in the death of a prominent citizen from that cause alone.
prayer,
that she might live long enough to see Mr. Taft elected.
“It is the opinion of Julius Casear Burrows, of Michigan, that
Her
prayer
was granted. She actually lived until the Friday af
the inauguration ceremonies should be simplified by omitting a
ter
the
election.
The story is quite touching, but, without irrev
gre
part of the military display and confining the ceremonies
chielly to the oath of office, the address of the president, and erence, one cannot help wondering whether her prayer would
a religious service. That might be better; certainly is would have been granted had she asked to live until Bryan was elected.
If she had, what a long life the devout woman would have had
save expense.
What is there in law or custom that makes it impossible before her, and what a mistake she made that she did not try it
for inauguration day to be moved over into April or May? The —if she really loved this life.
constitution seems to contain nothing that would prevent it un
less it be the provision that a president must be elected to hold
The Japanese may be experts along all mechanical lines,
office for four years.
and perhaps they possess all the valor attributed to them in
“But if Taft were elected to succeed himself, who would war, but they have been completely vanquished by Mike Fisher's
object to adding a month or two to his first term as a matter of baseball aggregation of all-star twirlers, who are over in the
prevt ntion of cruelty to future presidents Republican, Demo- 1 land
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of the Mikado for a winter's engagement. Big Bill Burns,
cratic or Prohibitionist?”
of the Standard Oil town of Richmond, shut out the team of the
little brown men the other day, and strive as they might they
There is more than one ‘pace that kills.” says the Fresno Re- , were unable to hit the popular southpaw's swift balls. But
publi an. The debauchee, who eats and drinks too much, sleeps they are new at the game, and it will not be surprising if there
too little, works not at all, and wastes his physical substance in are vast improvements in the Japanese team before the end of
riotous excesses, soon pays the penalty. But we have been hav- the season, for the Nipponese are not accustomed to being the
ing some examples recently of another pace that kills—the paces under dogs in any of their undertakings.
of big business graft. Big business work does not kill. Great
captains of legitimate industry thrive on it. But big business
Like every other thinking man in the nation, President-elect
worry does, and there is no source of business worry like busi Taft recognizes that it is time the tariff laws of the country
ness wrong. Nearly every man exposed by Hughes in the life were amended. It is time that some of our “infant industries,”
insui ice investigations is now etiher dead or is a nervous phy- which have long since outgrown their swaddling clothes, and
V al wreck, and lately comes the news that H H Rogers is a ner have become veritable giants in strength and stature, should be
vous wreck. Harriman and Morgan are still physically sound, left to their own resources and compelled to battle on an even
but let some corruption legislation touch them personally and plane with the world s commerce. The people have some rights
they will age twenty years in a month. It does not pay. The and these, it seems, are to be recognized by Mr. Taft and the
debauching of the public honor is beginning to cost the
. ’ administration which will go into power on the 4th of next
price that the debauchery of private virtue always costs,
»larch. There are the paper trust, the meat trust, the flour
too high a price to pay. whether for pleasure, for money or for rust, the steel trust and a hundred others that might be named
success. We shall soon be able to add to Ben Franklin's “hon- which should be taken from the nursery and no longer recog
esty is the best policy” the newer discovery that “honest men nized as incapables. Let the people, the consumers, have a
can eat and sleep and work and grow old.” Evidently the dis chance for their lives for a brief period.
honest man cannot do it much longer.
This is a queer world! Not so very long ago a man who had
retired from active business after he had accumulated a consid
erable fortune, committed suicide, because he did not know what
to do with himself and life without some occupation did not seem
Rome, Italy. Nov. 30.—The Elkins-
Abruzzi betrothal is now at an end
for all time, according to information
from a most trusted source.
The
marriage has been abandoned defi
nitely and there is not naeiy again to
be any question about it. All efforts
to ascertain the exact reasons have
been unsuccessful, but it is evident
that they are based on family objec
tions on both sides that cannot be
overcome.
This information is confirmed by
the fact that "Parseverenza," of Mi
lan, the newspaper which is regarded
as the mouthpiece of the Italian for
eign office, declared the engagement
is now off. The paper says:
“It was the Duke de Abruzzi who
decided to abandon
the marriage
I w hen, after mature consideration, he
became convinced that it was impos
sible.
Not to speak of certain de
mands made on the Elkins side, the
I duke became certain that Miss El-
I kins’ position at court would not be
I what it ought. Then he concluded
that it would be best to abandon the
: marriage.
The Elkins family con
curred in the decision and then
I duke’s cable message closed the
j fair.
■‘Thus there remains of this
' pleasant affair only an unpleasant
j memory of the indecent behavior of
the yellow section of the American
ARTIST LEAVITT
TO RETURN TO
Where the^j
Door Opens
Constantly
Yau can quickly hat ln(| i
sozy ths sraug'.ty kafl ,r coW
no matter w'
the weather conib».
sre—an* il ysu only lu.ew h«w mixi
real «oiuhrt yW
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PERFECnON
Oil Heater
(Equipped with Smokeless Desie«)
in weight-
carried Irom room to room. Every licat"r werra '
steady light—ideal to r ! or
study by. Madt of brass—nickel plated, laic: 1 im
proved central draft burner. Every lamp war:anti
If your dealer does not carry Perfection Od Heater
and Rayo Lamp write our nearest agency.
1» Oil. COMPANY
WIFE, SO HE SAYS
Paris. Nov. 30. The Societe de
B aux Arts is arranging an elabo-
r te collection of canvasses by its
n embers to be sent to America early
in jnog for exhibition in the prlncl-
■nrnorated)
STATEMENT FROM
SUPERVISOR SEITZ
CHICAGO M BEAT MARKIT
Chicago, De< 1
December. $1.05-
May. $1.08 5-v July, $1.02 3-i.
Daniel Daly, of Cottage G-ore ii
in the city
Corrects Misstatements About
Land to Be Opened
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Editor Guard:
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Dear Sir:- Owing to many mis
leading statements made regarding
the character of the lands to be ell-1
(now
minated from the Umpqua
many
Sluslaw)
National
Forest,
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deserving persons who have worked I regulate the Bow
h:.- >y Vegetable.
hard for their money and cannot
'
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afford
to
lose
are
liable,
be I ¿KALL PILL S'
cause of misrepresentation,
to be
hasty and to Invest in worthless lo
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j -ist Bear
cations; hence, I desire to caution ■CARTERS
fl.
sic ¿.g'at'jre
prospective applicants for such lands C^ITTLE
that most of the land to be opened
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is either patented or filed on, and J PIU.S.
that which is not is, in the main,
I
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For
these
valueless for timber.
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very reasons the land was eliminated
from the National Fot^st.
Had it I
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been valuable for timber and not
filed on, It would have been retained!
for Forest purposes.
MHS. KI TH BRYAN LEAVITT.
The statement “choice farm and
dairy lands will be opened to entry”
pal cities. W. H. Leavitt, William J. is very misleading. Such lands are
Bry ip’s son-in-law. has been asked to not to be found in any portion of
tako charge of the exhibition, and act the elimination, and I cannot too
as 'he American representative of the forcibly urge the public to first see
soe'ety. Mr. Leavitt, who is engaged the land offered them before In
in the completion of a large painting vesting any money as location fee or
1)2,000 ACRES OF TIMBER
of 'The Ixird’s Supper.” has not yet ' otherwise.
AND AGKIII I.Tl BAI. LAND
accented
Mr. Leavitt has announced
in tlx- I MPVl I FOREST RE-
Very truly yours,
that he Intends to resume residence
CLYDE R. SEITZ.
!
SERVE. OREGON. to 1* OF*
with his wife at Denver as soon as he
Forest Supervisor.
en to entry January 20,
finishes this painting.
For lists, blue print map« w’th
lands marked tliensm, anil full
What »hall W* Hava for Deswei-t?
information regarding filing
AND
etc , ;cnd S2.eo to
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The Salem Statesman is kept pretty busy nowadays urging
its readers to imitate Eugene's example. Here is a sample “Eu
gene gets her $50,000 Y M. C. A building .the canvass for the
money having closed successfully. That is very good indeed, and
friends of the Salem Y. M C. A will have to take notice.”
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