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Saturday Evening, January 17, 1925 EUGENE GUARD Page Seven XICflNS HEAVILY I, ftXED TO SUPPDR T DE IT MEXICO CITY, Jan. 17. W) Mflico's nnanciiw mi"- " jaig 070,015 in American money, it it .ttted in report just made public br the minority members of the chamber of deputies budget commis- '"fnMlinr for careful consideration of appropriations for 1023 the min ority commissioners, who belong to the I'nited Radical bloc, assert that the time baa come for the removal of the tax levying power from the hands of the chief executive. For half a century, they declare, the peo ple of Mexico, throunh their repres entatives, have been deprived by rev olution and civil Btrife of the right to levy taxes and, spend their reven- ps. in outlining the history of Mexican nublif finances during the last 100 tears, Ae minority committeemen'B study points out that budget deficits have been the cancer which has sap ped the government's financial strength and constantly added to its indebtedness. The war department is credited with having taken the lion's share of the government s receipts. Jb rora 1U18 to 1122, the percentage of the budget t,,tl devoted to military necessities fluctuated between 00. and 70. Sec ond only in importance was the part devoted to the services on the puhlic debt, which was allotted 550,500,000 1023 and 1U24, although tho He la Huerta revolution of Dec. 0, 1023, forced the suspension of payments. The item in the 1U24 budget for pub lic debt service, however, was $31, 000.000, or 23 per cent of the total. The budget now in the making, the report continues, must accept a de ficit of $3,500,000 from last year, which increases by presidential de cree in various items brings up to nearly $4,300,000. This, added to the principal and accrued interest repres ented under the Lamont Agreement covering the external debt and other obligations guaranteed by the govern ment amounting to $700,300,000; the internal banking debt; the debt as sumed in taking over the. Tehuante pec railway; unpaid salaries of fed eral employes, and approved claims for revolutionary damages already to taling $47,000,000. makes a grand to tal of $308,070,015. Jt is this amount the minority re port asks congress and the executive to consider in framing the 1025 budget. Houston Is Described As Texas Washington In Society Bulletin Many Americans on Air Route Journey WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. OP) Americans develop a penchant for fly ing when they get to Europe, accord ing to Lieutenant John 1, Van Zandt, of the United States air Berrice, who has just returned from a 6,000 mile air trip through Europe studying de velopment of commercial aeronautics. During the Bummer weeks 1,000 passengers leave London by plane for Paris, and the majority are American tourists. More than 35,000 Ameri cans have flown between the British and French capitals, saving from four to eight hours on the trip, and avoid ing the turbulent English Channel which has caused many a travleer to lose his love for the sea. NEW U. S. CONSUL THE HAGUE, Jan. 17. OP) Wil liam Holt Gale, of New York, has been grunted the royal exequator as consul general of the United States at Amsterdam. - Until recently he wus consul general at Hongkong. "Like the city that spread over the District of Columbia, and the capital of Nebraska, Houston, Texas, where the second largest equestrian statue in the world soon is to be set up, was named for one of the outstanding leaders and heroes of America," says a bulletin from Washington, D. C, headquarters of the National Geo- i graphical society. "But because Sam Houston, the subject of the huge statue, carried on his work on the , frontiers rather than in the relatively j crowded east, his fame has suffered. ; "Sam Houston might be considered a sort of average struck between ! Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson, and , George Washington which makes : him more typical of American leaders I of the past century than most of his fellows, " continues the bulletin. "Like j Boone he loved the frontier, was an , excellent woodsman, and was recog nized as a leader by the Indians as well as by his fellow Americans. Like Jackson he was a rough and ready, bnt an admirable soldier. And like Washington he combined military skill with a natural ability to com mand attention in the council cham ber. Like Washington, too, he play ed a prominent part in shaping the destiny of his country. His was the major role in freeing one-twelfth of the present territory of the United States from Mexico and annexing it to the Union as the state of Texas. Honored By Maoy "Few men have held so many posi tions of authority in different juris dictions as Sam Houston. He was a member of congress from and gover nor of Tennessee, commander-in-chief of the Army of Colonial Texas, presi dent of the republic of Texas, sena tor from the state of Texas, and governor of Texas, "The city which is the namesake of General Sam Houston is more hap pily and less arbitrarily designated than most communities that bear the names of famous men. It was al most on the site of the city that General Houston, commanding the revolutionary army of Texas, defeat ed Santa Ana, president and commander-in-chief of Moxico, in the battle of San Jacinto on April 1, 1836, and made possible the state of which Houston is now one of the leading cities. From Field to City "If the old general could see through the bronze, eyes of the ef figy which will he set up near the Bcene of his pregnant victory, he would behold a vastly different region from that over which his soldiers fought with their muzile-loading mus kets. The long grass In which 'the Mexican Napoleon' was found hiding the day after his defeat has been replaced by the close clipped lawns of tens of thousands of dwellings of a modern American city. The few old trails have turned into a checker board of paved business Btreets, while railroads and electric lines and shell highways radiate out into a region of farms, orchards and ranches. The place bristles with skyscrapers more Houstonians assert, than in any oth er city of like size. "One of the most noteworthy transformations in that which has made once inlnnd Houston a seaport. Buffalo Bayou, on whose banks 'rex more. Modern fairy wands steam shovels and dredges and a few million dollnre have turned the sluggish old streams Into the Houston Ship Canal which has made the city a sort of American Manchester. Ocean steam ers traverse the canal to a basin on the city's fringe and help to move the 8.000,000 bales of cotton that are marketed through Houston an nually. Name Mispronounced "The population of Houston is an unknown quantity. In 1020 the city had 138.276 inhabitants. The census bureau refuses to guess at the pres ent number. It puts Houston in a sort of hall of fame with about a half doien other cities which, it is j officially explained, are growing no J rapidly that an estimate would be! valueless. Unless Houston requests ! a special enumeration as some other cities have done it will have to do its j own guessing until Uncle Sam's next j official counting of noses In 1930. j "Houstonians have a grudge against i their fellow countrymen of the north I and east. If your name is Saunders and persons you meet carelessly call I you 'Sanders' or 'Zander, you will . understand their indignation and an-, nova nee at the constant mispronun ciation of their city's name. The first syllable is not pronounced as if it were 'house' or whose' but like the verb 'to hew or the masculine Chris tian name 'Hough.' " SCATTERED TO FAR Names Of Cities . Used For Ships BEHLINi Jan. 17. UP) Germany, building new stenitiships, has decided to name thorn after cities of the re public. In other days the names of royal personages cre popular in this field and not a few vessels carried the appellations of famous authors. But old mariners reminded the ship builders that many steamers named after writers had coino to untimely ends, and adherents of the republic are not interested in reminders of the niouurehy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. W Government pension checks travel to the far corners of the earth, seeking out the more than 500.000 persons who have served tho country in the wars that preceded the World war. Into every American state, territory, and possession and OS foreign coun tries and dominions they went durinic the last fiscal year, bearing an aggre gate value of ?22t).004.777. Pension checks issued during the last year were fewer by 14.217 than during the preceding year, going to 52.1.539 soldiers, widows, and de pendents as compared to 539,750 in 1923. When tho pension bureau closed Its books June 80 it found an unexpended balance of more thnn S23.1KK.000 of its appropriation. This was turned bnck to the treas ury. The steady shortening of the roll is reflected in the bureau's bud get estimate for the new fiscal yenr, wuicn cuts approximately $25,000, 000 from the total appropriated last year. Ohio retains its lead as tho placo of residence of the greatest number of pensioners, with 48,702. Pennsyl vania Is second with 44.09,1, and New York third with 41.000. Only 202 pensioners resido iu Nevada. Thero are 66 in Alaska, G17 in tho Philippines, and but one in the Virgin Islands. Canada, with 1,477 American pen sioners within her borders, lends all foreign countries. England is next with 200, and Irelnnd third with 244. Germany is the residence of 229, and Australia 57. Among the countries sheltering but one aro Algeria, Bul garia, Korea, Egypt, Lithuania, Mon aco, Jugoslavia, Seychelles Islands, and the Society Islands. There are two in Syria, four in Liberia, six in New Zealand, and seven iu South Africa. Tho total number of pensioners Tenched its peuk in 1002, when 900. 410 names were on the roll, and since that year the figure has de clined steudily, with the exception of 1005. when the total rose to within 1,0000 of the top. The government, since the year 1700, has paid out J0,S36,351,308.8tl in pensions. FAMOUS BUGS BIG IN DDI I battles with swords and bludgeons, but at last the town has won. From being one of the most beau tiftil cities in rlurope Oxford bids fair to become the ugliest. English ar chitecture, and especially public and commercial architecture, has created very little of beauty in' the past 200 yearn and is not now changing its huhits. In Oxford even the best ef forts of noted modern architects bare created only ugly and ill-proportioned piles of stodgy Renaissance and hole-and-corner Gothic, while the suburbs are one dreary wall of the worst brick and gingerbread. Tho noise of street traffic ban be come a great nuisance to students who want to work. Time was when a noisy carter of drayman was pretty sure to become the target of cloth yard arrows shot from tho windows of furious scholars, but today a regu lation forbids the use of Hows and ar rows except for innocent sport, and now the motorist may honk his loud est in sufety. OXFORD, Eng., Jan. 37. OP), The Roebuck on the Cornmarket, ! famous in the days of coaching and well known to American tourists as one of the old inns of Oxford, is to 1 be torn down to make way for a Wool worth store. Tnis is but one of the changes Oxford is soon to know, for many of the old lenses will soon expire and tho stately timbered houses of the Broad and Holywell, with their carved facades and over hanging upper stories, will be replac ed by modern shops and garages, Oxford is no more the quiet re trofit of the scholar, but a busy and dirty trading nid manufacturing town noted for tho production of marmal ade, beer and cheap motor cars. The university which once held complete sway, enforcing order with its own police und bulyiug nil mere trades men, is now becoming a secondary interest. Tho gown has fought the town for 600 years, often in pitched Power Projects To Spoil Beauty Spots PTTBLIN, Jan. 17. OP) In addi tion to the project for harnessing the River Shannon for the generation of electrical power for the Free State, which baa been entrusted to a Ger man firm, plans have been placed be fore the Free State parliament for the utilisation of the River Liffey, which runs through Dublin. Objection has been made on the ground that the plans under contem plation would result in spoiling the fnmous salmon leap at Leixlip and the fulls of Poulaphuca, both beauty spots. At Poulaphuca 5,400 acres would be flooded and eight square miles of County Wicklow would be submerged. The destruction of scen ery aspect, however, has not greatly impressed the parliamentary coin- mittes. National Thrift Week, January 17-23 (Seven Days With a Purpose) Throughout the Entire Country National Thrift Week Begins Saturday, Jan. 17 the Birthday of Our American Apostle of Thrift, Benjamin Franklin. 'It continues Through Seven Days, Each Day Being Devoted to Some Specified Thrift Purpose. Many persons have a mistaken conception of what thrift really means. They think of thrift in terms of pinch penny" miserliness and on that account, rightfully shun it. National Thrift Week teaches us that money should not only be saved. It should also be spent wisely. There is a place for spending and a place for giving in the new thrift creed. The founders of this movement wish to cite an example. The first day of this occasion is called "Pay Bill Day," and during its course special emphasis is placed on the value of preserving your credit by prompt payment of bills. . ' Days of National Thrift Week SATURDAY, JAN. 17 (ray Bills Promptly Day) SUNDAY, JAN. 18 (Share With Others Day) MONDAY, JAN 19. (Bank Day) TUESDAY, JAN. 20 ' (Make a Will and Lifo Insurance Day) WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21 (Own Your Own Home Day) THURSDAY, JAN. 22 (Budget Day) FRIDAY, JAN. 23 (Safe Investments Day) The Tea Point Success Creed! 1 WORK AND EARN 2 MAKE A BUDGET 8 RECORD EXPENDITURES 4 HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT 6 CARRY LIFE INSURANCE t OWN YOUR HOME 7 MAKE A WILL 8 INVEST IN SAFE SECURITIES 9 PAY BILLS PROMPTLY 10 SHARE WITH OTHERS Immediately following it is "Share With Others Day." The benefits to be derived by sharing with others in the proper manner are known to most of us. And so on down the list each day is set aside with some definite purpose in mind. The value of such an educational force in this com munity cannot be over-estimated. Not only for a week, but for the entire year does this event act as a reminder that thrift is one of the cardinal purposes of success. Those who have signed this co-operative advertisement ask you to follow National Thrift Week day by day. It is 3n investment of time which will pay you and your community big dividends. EUGENE CLEARING HOUSE BANK OF COMMERCE UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK EUGENE LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK FIRST NATIONAL BANK
