The Eugene guard., January 28, 1925, Image 4

Wednesday Evening, January j, ,
Pago Four
THE EUGENE GUARD
THE EUGENE GUARD
An Indeoendant afternoon newspaper published daily except Sunday.
PAUL It. KELTY. Editor EUGENE S. KELTY, BUBlnesa, Manager
Offices 1037-1041 Willamette Street
Telephone 1200
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27.
Mr. Johnston And Mr. Cleaver.
Clyde N. Johnston ex-district attorney for Lane,
county, -was not, of course, a witness entirely disinter
ested in testifying before the legislative committee which
is investigating George L. Cleaver's conduct of the of
fice of state prohibition commissioner. Mr. Johnston
makes no secret of the fact that he holds to sentiments
considerably less than cordial toward Mr. Cleaver and
all of that official's underlings, as well as toward their
works in mass and in detail. Nevertheless, the charges
which Mr. Johnston mado in his testimony are worthy
, of very serious consideration. They are, as set forth
in an Associated Press. account of the hearing published
in The Guard of yesterday, very definite and circum
stantial. On their face they bear no aspect of trumpery-
The Minnie Cadden Larkin incident, testified to
by Mr. Johnston, was already familiar history to Lane
county and the state. But its relation at Salem brought
from Mr. Cleaver, testifying after, an apparent effort
to "pass, the buck" -in responsibility for Mrs. Larkin
to the governor's office, with a further effort to pave
the way for the governor also to get from under by
Diamine a secretary who is no longer in the governor's
employ for the fulsome recommendation and indorsement
given to the lady bootlegger when sho came here. How
ever, Mrs. Larkin was no worso than a number of others
in Mr. Cleaver's employ who havo boon caught in vari
ous kinds of law-breaking and venal practice. It has
been Mr. Cleaver's way to surround himself with people
of the sort who pursue devious courses. Ho has seemed
to proceed on the theory that it takes a rogue to catch
a rogue. -
One of the most important features of Mr. John
ston '8 testimony, although the news accounts have
given it little spaco, was his charge that Mr. Cleaver,
with the approval of the governor, has made use of
funds a great deal in excess of what ho is entitled to
under tho law. Mr. Johnston says Mr. Cleaver lias
done this by claiming both a prohibition and a narcotic
enforcement iund, whereas the law plainly provides
$25,000 a year and no more for tho entire administration
of the office. This is a charge that needs thorough in
vestigation. It is a gravo churgo-
Mr. Johnston charged that tho chief activity of Mr.
Cleaver and Jus agents in .Lano county was directed
aganiRt himself as district attorney. Efforts were re
peatedly made? he testified, to trap him in violations
of the prohibition law. Resentment, naturally, is a
pretty cortain outgrowth e that sort of thing.
Mr. Johnston has no monopoly among the wit
nesses appearing at Salem of animus against Mr
Cleaver. Every county or local officer who has thus
far testified scorns to hold tho state prohibition officer
' in similar disestocm. All aro agreed that Mr. Cleaver
is a meddlor and an nicompotetit busybody who gels
bowhore and performs no sorvico of valuo to tho slate
or anybody. And the end is not yet.
peace officers In law enforcement.
Mr. Cleaver has failed to get results
became lie was not broad-minded
enough to work in Co-operation witb
tbe district attorneys and the sher
iffs of the counties, lie distruited
tbeni. In many counties be attenpt
ed to bring out candidates against
district attorneys and lberiffs whom
be disliked. The retult was lack of
confidence between tbe stste and the
county law enforcement offlcera.
J. he Herald can see a field for tho
office. Tbe sane thing is to keep the
office and fire the occupant? A man
of the proper calibre can help tbe
cauee of probibltios enforcement in
Oregon, became the state can com
mand ugencies of enforcement which
are not known to the men who violate
the law.
Everybody Gibed, Including Eutsns.
(Salem Capital Journal)
Tbe Capital Journal remarked
aoine time aince that patriotic citirent
bould enjoin Dr. Henry Waldo Coe,
who poses as a "patron of art, and
prevent bis inflicting upon the city of
Portland as a gift, his statue of
Abraham Lincoln, which resembles
nothing so much as a cross betweeu
Andy Hump and A. Mutt, and per
petrates a gross libel upon the mem
ory of the great emancipator.
Of course, to art connoisseurs, like
Mayor Baker, any statue constitutes
art, excepting only those of slightly
draped dancing uialdcna on tbe fres
cos of skyscrapers, and anything
given, even for advertising purposes
to gratify vanity, abouhl be thank
fully received and Installed nt tax
payers expense, where it Will be a
perpetual reminder of the largens and
generosity of the donor. Hence the
offer of the crude caricature of Lin
coln was gratefully accepted as an
other move In the bcautification of
the metropolis through gurgoylcd ornamentation.
Tbe art commission, however, now
unanimously recommends the rejec
tion of the accepted statue because
nubile sentiment opposes it, after
an extended Inspection of the design
on displuy at the central library. A
vertible flood of protesting letters
have poured in, from those who view
ed It end who seek a statue In some
way resembling the original. If the
neonlc bad had a sny, some of tne
other Statues presented from ' the
same source would nave gone the
same way, an tbey arc neither artis
tic, historical nor correct.
However, Dr. Coo need not dispair.
Eugene will be glud to accept and
pay the freight on anything in the
statue line Portland rejects, and it
can be placed on the uuiverBity cam
pus to point a moral and adorn a tule
of the artistic limitations of patrons
of art.
The Annual Bobbing
for employment in the woods of Wes
tern Oregon. It is thought sll log
ging operations will be running clusc
to normal before February 1.'
A heavy volume of new bjuildiug is
anticipated for Hood River and vicin
ity the coming season. Hundreds of
orchardists will build additions to
tbeir homes, and many new apple
packing plants will be constructed.
The Opium Conference.
Rupture- of tho international opium conference at
Genova has been averted, though at heavy cost to i(s
immediato usefulness. The American and Japanese dele
gations had proposed that n prograinmo bo adopted
for tho gradual suppression to bo completed in fifteen
years of tho growing of poppies and the manufacture
of commercial opium in tho countries of the East. A
group of nations which have opium-smoking colonies in
tho Orient, of which tho chief is Great Britain, firmly
rejocted the proposal. A compromise, was finally roach,
cd-whereby a commission will study tho whole opium
question and try to devise a remedy for its evils.
It is a disappointing outcome, but unquostionablv
the American and Japaneso delegates acted tho part
of wisdom in accepting it, rather than see tho whole ef
fort for opium suppression shipwrecked. Great Britain
simply would not concedo tho fiftecn-year suppression
programme. Her delegates argued, possibly not Avith
out right, that they know conditions in India and that
the programme was not practical for that country, lhr
critics ohargod that Groat Britain desired to continue
to profit from tho opium traffic, oven though it brought
ruin to thousands ot lives every yoar- Similar charges
wore mado against tho government of Persia and in
lossor degroo against Franco, Holland and Portugal.
Naturally such charges brought strain to tho confer
ence. It appeared again and again on tho verge of
ruin. It was the American delegates who finally led
tho way out, through acceptance of tho compromise plan.
Great Britain's rolo in respect to opium traffic has
never been lovely. Sho forced opium on China through
bitter years when tho Chinese government wanted to free
its pcoplo from tho curse. Now sho insists on contin
uing to give opium to India. But beforo wo condemn
Great Britain on this score let us examino our own bouse
Jn the United States wo havo 1,000,000 addicts to tho
uso of drugs which are derivatives of opium. This is
not far below ono addict for every 100 of population,
tho drug traffic is not efficiently restricted in the
. United States.
This is tho kind of a rain that makes things grow
in tho valley and stores up water in tho mountain lakes
and forests to keep tho streams full during tho. summer.
To keep peaco in tho family, dad will havo to amass
between now and tho date for next month's automobile
show, at least enough money for n "down" payment.
Eugene makes a good start for its 1925 building
activity. Not surprising but gratifying.
COMMENT OF THE PRESS
Why Not The Pooplt?
(Salem Statesman)
If the legislature is so certslu that:
the people do not want the child lab"r
amendment, why not submit it direct
ly to the people? That is in the spir
it of American institutions and it is
the practice in Oregon. The plain
fact is the opponents of the measure
are ufrnid to submit it to the peo
ple. They know It will be carried by
practically an overwhelming vote.
Newspaper Progress.
(Christian Science Moultor)
In nruing upon the students of the
1'ulltr.cr school ot journalism nt Col
umbia university, New York, that the
first virtue of a newspaper reporter
is coiiHcieullouKuess, Adolph H. Oohi,
publisher of the New York 'i'linex, did
something more Limn express merely
a journalistic platitude. Kur the day
is not fur distant, it is justifiable to
believe, when the standards which in
many periodical have held BWiiy for
the List few decades are going to be
relegnted to the svraphrap. Yellow
journalism. Without a doubt, is on
the downward path. Constructive
ideals, uisiiy signs Indicate, will be
tho universal order of (lie day In
newspaper activities not long hence,
and those who can read the signs nt
the times are trimming their anils ac
cordingly. Mr. Oclis spoke as a man
of foresight In warning his hearers
nsalnst iuaccuracy, prejudice and
csllouMiess.
Eugene 25 Years
Ago. 1 -
I Tom Sims Says
A man who works to forget Is bet
ter off than one who forgets to work.
A bachelor who says he couldn't
stand married life is like a man cuss
lug a show be has never seen.
Winning a war is almost as bad
aa losing one.
As a man thinks so is be, if it is
thinking ot others.
Kducution mskes you understand
how littlo you really know.
The nice thing about everything Is
that it is Just sort of temporary.
Time cures all things, even youth.
A cynic la a man who blames a
dend tree because it fails to become
green In the spring.
There are worlds of thoughts. De
cide If you would like to he where one
la going before you fallow It.
Keep your eyes directly on your
goal and you miss a lot ot scenery.
-
A social success is one who can
listen to a Joko he has heard before
ami preteud to enjoy it.
The Prehlbltlo Director! Office
4 (Allisny Herald)
1 Notwithstanding populsr demand
' and the resolutions of the state sher-
Iff", we are not rertaln that shollsh
, unfnt of tbe state prohibition direct
or's office' would be wise at this
time, (irauted that Director Cleaver
has marie a mess of his work and an
of himself there is pleuty of op
portunity fr atate prohibition op.
rratirrs to be a real help to the ,nl
Oregon Briefs -
Mrs. Nina .Schick, one of the old
est pioneers of Oregon, died at
Brownsville Isst week, a led 81 years.
She was the widow of the late Johu
Schick.
lr. J. H. McCook of McMiniirllle
wss seriously injured last week when
the coupe he was driving between
Dundee end Dayton skidded and went
into the ditch.
Pine lumber shipments from llend
during ItKM amounted to KUI.'O cars,
approximately l.tKHVWW feet. Ths
output of all Central Oregon mills
waa greater than in IP.:).
The Methodist, Presbyterian and
Christian churches nt Prineville ha?e
decided to pool their property and
combine under one head with one
pastor.
Salem poll? are searching for an
ex-service man who on Saturday
pawed a number of worthies checks
on the merchants and later left the
city.
ICira ere leaving Portland daily
FRANK B. KELLOGG IS "POOR MIXER"
Aloofness Which Amounts to Shyness fs Characteristic of
-Successor to Huahes as Secretary of State '
(From The Guard .Tan. 2S, 1000.)
Junction's telephone lystem is now
complete. '. lf.
Examinations nt (lie university will
be given February 1 and continue un
til February 0.
Commibwionrr Scott bad a force of
men today clcmilng up Willamette
Htrect. The work was badly needed.
Rev. It. C. Hrooks arrived homo
yesterday morning after u trip to
Cnlifuru.a,
Mrs.' II. 1 1, Veime left this morn
ing for I'orvnllta to visit her daugh
ter, Mrs. K. It. Hryffmi.
Miss Anna Ogleflhy is in Kugene
for a duy or eu from Junction City.
.1. K. Young and Harry Hrlstow are
in town from Co tinge Orove uu bus
iness. , ,
John Sellers of I'ienMnt Hill
brought to the (iuard off. re today u
limb from 'a cherry tren growing on
his place at I'lcnsnnt Hill whicb is in
full bloom.
V C. Edwards is a visitor in tbe
city from Full Creek.
In Lighter Vein j
Might Have Been Worse
(Yorkshire Tout)
It wss toward the cud of a the
atrical performance, when one man
turned to another and said in a hattdi,
grating vo.ee: "Iook here, you have
a tit. on my silk but. It is ruined."
Tho other looked at the silk lint. It
was indeed a wreck. "I'm sorry," he
said. "This is too had, but," he added,
"it might have been worse."
"How might it have been worn;?"
exclaimed (lie first man angrily.
"1 might have sat on my own hat,"
came the unfeeling reply.
Safe.
(London Opinion)
Kiln "Soineth.ng is preying on
Dick's mind."
Jack "Hou't worry; it will die of
starvation."
His Forte
(Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph)
Irvin Cobb was a guest at a dinner
party in New York where table-rapping
and other phenomena were dis
co nt.
"Are you ft clairvoyant?" a woman
asked Mr. Cobb.
"Not that 1 know of," he answered.
'o you ever talk in your sleep?"
she went on.
"No, but 1 often talk In other peo
ple's," he said. "I am a Cbautau-.ua
lecturer'
Mystery
(Medley)
"How do you sell this Lhnburger ?"
'X often wonder myself, ma'am." '
Adjuitabla
(Western Christian Advocate)
Caller "So this is the old settle
you told me you had picked up at such
bargain. My dear, it's a perfect
treasure! It looks ss if there might
be some real old hgend connected
with it."
Hostels "Well, there was, but at
the pr'.ce I offered, the dealer said he
would have to keep the legend and
connect it with an antiijue bedstead
that be had."
BIBLE THOUGHT
FOR TODAY
Re sure jour sin will find you
out. Numbers J.'.VJ.'t.
Bible Question,
tt.rtwk l'p the Answer)
What armor i no.ryMrr to
protett us? Kph. tin.
By HARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Writer)
WASHINGTON, Jan. What
ever knowledge of law, domestic
or international, Frank B. Kelloig
has. he dug out for bimselC
Whatever capacity he may reveal
for diplomacy aod statecraft, in the
position of sevretnry of state, to
which he has been appointed, will he
due to bis own diligent struggle for
self-development.
Kellogg did not get his foundation
iu law from tho lectures of any
learned LL. P.
He had to work the whole thing out
for himself, except for such crude
nuggcNtions ah he received from the
old-vchool lawyer who permitted him
a reefs to his library in return for
bin services as chore-boy and general
helper. 1
This condition is no doubt respon
sible for the deeply serious bent of
the new secretary-to-bo.
Kellogg, as a youth, was a "grind"
without the advantage of n college.
Mo had to do Ida grinding by himself.
But while thin developed reserves
of mental ntrengtli, vigor nnd in
Hourrefiilnens beyond what be might
havo developed, alao, an aloof iipsh,
a reserve amounting almost to shy
uens in personal contacts.
Nest to President Coolidge. Kellogg
is probably the poorest "miser" in
public life.
This extreme diffidence, amounting
to actual timidity in his early years,
almost cost him adndasion to tbe bar
when he first sought to test his legal
wings.
After some years of self-directed
study in the law office of II. A. Eck-
boblt, in Rochester, Minn., during
which time be earned bis board and
clothes by doing stable chores and by
working on nearby farms during seed
ing time, young Kellogg came up be
fore a committee of lawyers for ex
amination for admission to practice.
He was nervous and plainly rattled.
He floundered about, unable to ex
press plainly even- what he knew.
One of the committee frankly Btat
ed he didn't think Kellogg would do.
A second member, C. M. Start,
later chief justice of the Minnesota
courts, na id he thought tbe young
man knew a lot more law thou Jre
was able to tell.
The third member was won over
to this viewpoint and tho committee
finully decided to license him. He
got by, but it was 'a "close squeak."
No man who gets into tbe law by
such self-denying labor ever forgets
his "first case." Kellogg never has
forgotten his.
The suit was over ownership of
n horse. KeHogg's client had posses
sion of the steed, ownerHhip of which
was contested by the other party to
the notion.
For hia services, Kellogg was to
he paid !f0 in cash nnd was to receive
transportation to and from the coitu
ty seat, lii mites away.
Kellogg rode with his client to
court, won his case and collected $tt
of his fee.
Then they started home. Three
miles out of town the horse dropped
dead nnd the victorious young bar
rister had to walk the remaining 12
miles home. The other $3 of his fee
are still among his "accounts receivable."-
In New York
Bv JAMES W. UEAN
JSJEW YOKK, Jan. 2S. Hre-snwinj
up and down Ilrondway I sSw
a girl la galoshes dancing a (ox-trot
in a chop sney rsbnret and not a hit
graceful wis she Seeing more
and more white girls out with yellow
men, dining and dancing with them in
Hrondway restaurants. Formerly
white girls were to ha Been with yel
low men only in ont-of-lhe-wsy place
...... Saw Kelcey Allen who has
been reviewing Uroadwny shows for
117 years Saw Vincent lopes,
the orchestra lender, who aiwsys re
minds me of a little boy. Why, 1 do
not know Saw Ted Lewis, an
other orchestra lender. lie aiwsys
makes me think of a barber, 1 know
not why Paul Whiteniau al
ways reminds me of Santa Clans..,.
Saw ltori, the operatic singer, and
she seems '20 pounds heavier than
when I last saw her two years sgo.
Saw Odette Myrtil. Dorothy
Francis and Evelyn Herbert, three
young Isdies of musical comedy who
sing together in right good harmony
Saw a phonograph record
snlesman who told me that in one day
his store had sold its entire consign
ment of rtH) records of a song recent
ly broadcast over the radio and that
fully that many more had asked for
the record Saw a bohbed mi,s
wearing a monacla at two "first
nights" this week Saw llichard
Bennett who of late has taken to an
oriental fad. living" in au apartment
furnished throughout in tho Chinese
manner and wearing elaborate Chi
nese dressing gowns Saw Flora
1.0 Breton, tho so-called "Mary Pick
ford ot England." Flora Is a beauti
ful blonde, very beautiful Saw
Msrjorto Itambeau, looking radiantly
happy
llaby buggies aro ont of thebi(grat
problems of apartment house life in
New York. Mothers trundle In their
sleeping babies and grow wrathy w hen
they must lift tho babes out while an
attendant takes tho perambulator to
the basement. A Hrookljn mother has
started suit against a landlord be
cause ha permits pet dogs, to lesvt
and enter by the front door, but in- :
sists that baby buggies use the rear
entrauce.
. a
On Ninth avenue Is a saloon oper
ating under a 30-year leaie, drawn up
Sll years ago. The lease was recently
sold. One of the written rlsiisea stip
ulated thst Charlie (last name not
given! was to be allowed to rHm in
the place for a term of the lease at
the rale of al dollar a month and i
was to be (it en his meals (ret. It was I
also stipulated that he wss to he giv
en enough employment to keep him
content.
Ten years ago Charlie, a dull wittej
nut loyal sort, entered the saloon to
earn a meal by doing odd chores and
earned a sinecure for the) rest of his
days.
WIMAWHALA BANQUET
All Encampment memhers nnd their
fsmilies are invired to a banquet at
the I. O. O. F; Temple, Wednesday
evening, 7 o'clock.
Pit. Ij. h. BAKEI1, -J2(
Chief Patriarch.
i WM ' NC Ml Wmr af m
but an iMrtt (Mux. 7
MR- HAPPVyr
THEIR. LARD FOR"
SHORTENING- VSRiaHT
T SHORTENS NCYT
I Your appetite- I
QUR lard Is pure and
rendered scientifically.
It will make pastry bake
better and taste better.
I fa the lard that will
hnrtan your labor nnd
lengthen your appotlte.
Watch for Mr. Happy
Party
i EU&EftiE i
r PACKING CO.
V JZSWillamettPSt
4
JkfaaTI 1 llamHA 3 U
PerrrwTttnt '
roadjort,
Coodinuejtrru,nt
; iwt an exjxrm
, i
90 Pec Cent ot
Worfld'cMotor
Cars om Our
MgSnvayc
There are 16,000,000 motor vehicles
In the United States approximately
90 per cent of all in the world.
This total is being increased at the
rate of 4,000,000 a year.
What is the saturation point?
Ask any one o! the 16,000,000 motor
ists trying to make headway through
the countless traffic jams on some oi
our concrete highways. He will tell
you, from the standpoint of comfort and i
safety in driving, the saturation point is
already in sight. 1
Not a very encouraging outlook, is it,
for the man about to buy his first auto
mobile? '
So you see car owners and prospec
tive car owners are both interested
and have an immediate task confronting
them. .'
.
What are you going to do about it?
Even now you are curtailing the use of
your car because you do not want to en
dure the discomfort, inconvenience and
danger of traveling on congested, nar- .
row highways.
Your highway officials need your sup
port They can't do much unless you
stand squarely behind them.
To delay building more highways
wide enough and strong enough to meet
all the requirements of modern traffic
will cost you more money than will an '
adequate system of Concrete Roads and
Streets.
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
Gasco Building
PORTLAND, OREG.
A National Organization to Improve and v
Extend the Uses of Concrete
OFFICES IN 29 CITIES
Li
Great Pianists
Music to be Heard at
Laraway's
Afternoons .From 2 to 4 Daily
You are cordially invited to hear the great Ampis I
Artists "playing "Re-Anncted" by tlio wondcrtil
true to lite "Ampico iteproclueiiig uranu nam
in our music store room. Come henr this niand-
ous instrument stay as long as you wish it n
absolutely tree.
Godowsky Bauer Levitzki
Rachmaninoff Kreisler
Ornstein Volavy Kmita
at
The Amplco
Knabe and
Fischer
Laraway's
New Laraway Building
Bruswlcl
VlctroU
rhonocrsplu
and Kecort"
SLABWOOD
and PLANER ENDS
A combination that settles th9 heating: Prol,lfa
forever.
Planer ends are the ideal summer wood, also jtfj
winter days.
Now is the time to lay in your supply.
The Booth-Kelly Lumber ft
5th and Willamette Sts. Phonal
SOMETHING WRONG n
Headache! Backache! Kervoust All'
Ann nnM
, Don't neglect yourself. Neglect may
CHIROPRACTIC
Removes the cause Health returns
r , GEO. A. SIMON .
Examination Fraa 91s WILLAMETTE ST.
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