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Page Fouf THE EUGENE GUARD Thursday Evening, IV. , i THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper publlehed dally txcept Sunday. PATJL R. KELTY, Editor EUQENB 8. KELTY, Business Manager Offlcea 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 The Thfl Eur n. rrn.rrt ! a member ot the Associated Frees Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to -the use for publica tion ot all news dispatches credited to it or not -otherwise cred ited to this paper and also the local news published herein., ah rights ot publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. ' Playing Dirty Politics. Th povernor fires the Port of Portland comrais. sioners, who have a record of high efficiency. His only axnlnnation is that he decided he might as well do it now and' get it off his mind. The "low dowai" on it is said at Salem to bo that the legislature was prepar ing to take the appointment of Port of Portland com missioners out of the governor's .hands, and that the governor proved himself quicker "on the draw" than the solons. Out of it all will come partisan recriminations from both sides. Partisans of the legislature will blame the governor. Partisans of the governor will blame the legislature. The fact is that all concerned are. playing dirty politics. A stage of the battle has been reached wherein the question of who started it all ceases to be of much interest. What the ordinary citizen,' not in politics, wonders now is how far the war is to be car ried and what the whole sum of its effects against the public will be. The first manifestation is rather dis quieting. Soma at least of-the governor's announced ap pointees to the Port of Portland commission are com petent men. The misfortune is not in their appoint ment but in the removal of the experienced. men who already make up the commission. l; Farm Comrnission's Report.' . . Attain the president's agricultural commission, in its latest report, stresses co-operative marketing of larm products as the most important item in the pro gramme of help for the farmers. It backs its conclusion in this instance with a definite recommendation for creation of a federal co-operative marketing board, whose . purpose shall bo to iostcr development ot co operatives among soil producers. Like all others who study the fanners' problem and. who bohove that co-operation otters tho most prac tical means toward its solution, tho commission hns con eluded that co-operation must begin with production; that there must bo grading and standardization of products, and following that co-operation in tho soiling of what tho tanners have raised and made marketable by the standardization as proposed. ' The. commission makes it clear that farmer co operation must bo carried through by tho farmers thom solves, and that the function of the proposed federal marketing board will be to point tho way and to assist but not to bear tho whole burden ot tho movement. The commission has no confidence in such meas ures as tho McNary-Haugen bill, original' or modified. It declares what most students of the problem have concluded, that artihcial stimulation of the production cf any one ' commodity for export will, merely servo further to unbalance agriculture, and that a balanced : ia i. l. .i i .1 !n. ,i i' j ugnuuiiuro must uo esiaDUHiieu, wiia proaucuon Kepi within domestic demands, plus only such additions as can. be sold foreign at a profit. To pass any law which would further stimulate production by farmers Avonld bo rendering them no service but its opposite. . As additional aids to agriculture tha commission recommends adjustment of railroad rates, increased activity by government experiment stations, tariff ad justment in behalf of farm products and financial help to tho livestock industry, At Salem there is a bill to'creato the office of slate real estate commissioner at a salary of $3000 a year. Now, let's liavo a rental agent commissioner and a gro cer commissioner ana a doming store commissioner and newspapor commissioner and any others that anybody can think of. Lot's havo a salaried commissioner for every lino of business, so that all of us will be treated nliko and no business bo left freo from stato regulation ana prying. . At a convention of clothing designers held in Chicago it was announced that men aro to wear Nappy trousers and that thoso who aro ultra-fashionable will wear plaited ones. Awful enough, but not unprecedented. Some 35 or 40 years ago spring-bottom trousers wero considered tony. They wero skintight as far down as tho calves and terminated in spat-liko flares that extended well out toward tho toes of tho shoes. Ask dad; ho knows. The iconoclastic Capital Journal of Salom roasts Dr. Coe for giving statues to Portland, roasts that city for accepting thorn, roasts Mayor Baker for tho quality of his judgment in art and roasts Eugene for an alleged willingness to accept whatover Coo statues Portland may rejoct. A good deal of which is more diverting than genuine Ve have been unable to decide whether most ad vertising is being given Dorothy Ellingson by the newspaper space devoted to development in her case, or by tho printing of tho various communications of protest against publication of anything concerning the case. . A Portland newspaper inquires as to what justifi cation there is for continuing tho office of, constable of Multnomah county. Yes, or any other county, AVhat does a constable do that couldn't bo better dono by n .sheriff's deputy! May wheat is quoted at approximately $2 a bushel in Portlands and Chicago". That ought to go quito a distance towards solving the fanner's problem. COMMENT OF THE PRESS A Liability (Pendlrton Ksst Orponian) Khuuld tha Irtislaturo take tbe gov ernor's appointive power awny from him it will be sonrrelljr fonniilcrrd as bd act of litllrneaa on the part of the iFfiiliturc and won't hurt tbe gover nor anr. The sppointlve power It a liability, not au asset to a sovernor. Farmers Who Art Net Tarltf-Hum-bugged. (New York World) That sericulture u not now sharing in the benefits of tariff protection but that It must have an equivalent bene fit at tbe bands ot the government or it will seek tbe destruction of tbe tariff system such in substance is the notice, served upon President Coolidge's Agricultural Commission by tbe American Couucll of Agricul ture. This council seems to be largely representative ot form nr.flni,.inn. including the National Urange, the National Farm Bureau, the Farmers' Union and so on. It evidently speaks with great weight of authority. And what it says must be highly disturb ing to tbe administration in its way of settling the furin problem. It says in effect that the Western Republican farm revolt has not been killed off by high prices of wheat caused solely by an unusual shortage abroad. It says what is true that tbe tariff is a humbug so far at protecting agriculture is concerned, and that tbe farmer knows it as well now as before wneat began to go up. It says that as long ss tbe government permits the actual beneficiaries of the tariff to tax the farmers though high prices, the government must do ss much for them in other ways or something is going to happen to tbe republican tar iff system. Here is a fundamental part of the farm problem, and soon or late it must be faced as such. No government oun go into the business of subsidising or specially protecting some 'indus tries without meeting serious trouble from sll other industry. It Doesn't Deter (Oregon Journal) Capital punishment isn't checking crime. Delays in tbe courts, the laxi ties in justice, the many advantages given criminals on trial, tho fuilure of juries to convict, snd, above all, the easy-going public with its little concern over the increase in crime, all these combine to make capital punishment a dim and distant pros pect for the mun who kills. Besides, the death penulty doesn't deter. A Vielous Measure (llarsbflold Nows) Another effort is to bo made at the present session of tbe legislature to repeal the affidavit of prejudice law. A bill with that end in view has been introduced by Senator Davis. Among those who huvo expressed approval of the measure is Senator Upton of this district. The affidavit of prejudice law is a child of necessity. Throughout the state wero judges who forgot the high honor bestowed upon thein by the people and carried onto tbe bench their prejudices and hates. The evil had grown so great that something had to be done and the result wss tbe pannage ot tbe affidavit of prejudice, which permits of the filing of an af fidavit by attorney or client, who have reason to believe tbat the judge is prejudiced, asking that the -case be tried by another judge. 1'crhups no county in the state has been so much cursed in this respect as Klamath county. Had it not been for the affidavit of prcjudico many clients would have suffered gross In justice and become unwitting victims of the unreasoning hate of him who was supposed to deal out even-minded justice. This law was a god-send here and we have no reason to doubt but that it was a god-send in other coun ties of the state. .4 Eugene 25 Years Ago. - v.. , . . . A Busy Man's Newspaper I Great Pianist? (From The Guard, Jnn. 20, 1000) Cottage tlrove Information has leaked out that a company fa being formed to build a railroad from this place to the Bohmeia mines, a dis tance of 35 miles, and it is snid men of large menns are behind the pro ject, it is estimated there are 50,000 acres of timber hind tbtit can bo reached by such a railroad. A serious obHtuclo iH the Cuscade timber re serve which extends to the foot of the mountain 115 miles from here. The Bo hemia mines have grown to sufficient importsnce to demand tho railroad, 110 four-borne, six-horse, and oight-borse teams being used last year in bsullng freight. T. D. Linton hat thus far shipped 000 bales of hops from Eugene. Registering is now quito lively at the courthouse. . Fred Bellman hns a force of men St work excavating for the proposed extension of K. 11. Ingram's storo on Ninth street. II. B. Miller went to Portland to day for a few days stay. J. B. Chambers bus returned from in extended trip to southern California, Mrs. F. A. Rankin went to Sods- vllle this afternoon to be gone sev eral days. Miss Martha Medley left this aft ernoon for her home in Cottage Grove. TODAY (Continued from page one) going out during the eclipse, decided thst It meant the end of the world, ran amuck, rntor in hand, and slash ed one nuin before nc wns overpow ered. He acted quito naturally. rear takes men back to the animal condition and uuikes nuimats of them, You aee It in war, when horrPuV brutalities, often disgrace both side. rear has more to do with fighting than courage. You see what fear does in idiipwrei'k. causing man (n trample down women nud.childreu fighting for the luchoiita. It I peefeelly natural that the an cient negro, frightened by the world coming to an end, should Instinctively feel that he wanted to cut somohotly with his rsior. That's what fear does. The strtuge thing is that anybody should be worried about the world end. The same thing would happen to everybody and nobody, except, per lisps, the real ettsle owner would hava cause for especial protest. French fliers on their way In Lake Tchad In tbe Sudan, landed at Col omb Itechtr in ttta Sahara (IcsitI, promptly on time, reaching their f i r -t topping place at 3:30 Sunday afternoon. While this country, where flvins machines were invented, wUhet It had (lying niachinet and does nothing. K. ropcan countries manufacture them .and use them. British companies make three round trips a day between Par is and London, currying passengers. Tbe round trip costs $00 and the journey takes three hours. It used to mean a tram from London to the English channel, then the steamboat across the channel, then a train from the channel to I'aris. Now it means one straight flight. The French and British govern ments subsidize commercial flying as they should do,- and as this country should do. They encourage aircraft manufacturers, that they may havo plants ready, and ablo to turn out machines tu case of emergency. , : This country will fly eventually, after having Wdiched and waited for Europe end Jnpnn to teach us. Tbe day is coming when winter re sorts, summer retorts and mountain resorts will look up Into the sky every Friday aftesnoon to see the week enders come flying from the big cit ies. The father in New York, Bos ton, Detroit, - Chicago, will send his fnmlly to a warm place in winter, a cool place in summer and distance won't matter. To fly a thousand miles to spend a week and fy back again for business on Monday will be no more tnamgoing now trom rs-esv lorit to Atlantic City or from Wilwaukee to Oconomowoc. A great change is coming in trans portation. Henry Ford starts it with his steamships thst lesve the heart of the continent, starting from the River Rouge in the Great Lakes re gion, stopping to unlnsd at seaports sll along the coast and around on the Gulf of Mexico. c Coming back these ships will soon organise return freight of local pro ducts, which will -be the beginning of economical distribution. The watchword of tha future will be freight by water, passenger travel through the air. In Lighter Vein Bills Seldom Go Astray. (Marion Star) Twf nty-two million letters were sent to the dead-letter office iu Washington lost year. And there probably wasn't a bill in any of 'em. Worse. (London Tlt-Bita) "What could be more sad," said tho schoolmistress, "than a niuu without couulry?" "A couutry without a man," nnv wcred the pretty girl. Mild But Fatal. (News Item in St. Louis Leader) Mauy minor accidents wero report ed, though no serious fatalities were recorded in the immediate vicinity. Helping Him Miss. (Chicago Continent) Feeling In unusually good form one day, nn Kugllsh sportsmen who prid ed himself on his accuracy with the gun said to the boy who had the job of reloading his guns: "Look here, my lod! For each blrl I miss I'll give you a shilling!" At the end ot the dny's shoot, wheu the boy had rejoined his palB, he was asked what kind of a day he had hud. "Well,t foir!" was the reply. "I've made seveu bob. 1 should have 'made a quid, only I had no more blank car tridges." i Canine Florsws. (Iiondon Telegraph) ''Yes," said the leaeher, "we have several plants and flowers named with the prefix 'dog. Of course, hc 'dog- rose' and 'dog-violet' are well known. Con any of you tell me others?" ' A bright idea illuminated the face of an urotain and up went his haud. "Collie-flowers, miss: A Theory Confirmed. (Philadelphia ltiillrliu) Five years of Volstead prohobith n have passed, confirming the theory thst the first hundred years are the hardeat. "AMERICA IS DUPED" SAYS HARVEY Former Ambassador to England Doesn't Think so Much of Mr. Kellogg's Achievements la Regard to Reparations Settlement Music to be Heard at I Laraway's Afternoons From 2 to 4 Daily You are cordially invited to hear tho great a . Artists playing "Ro-Anacted" by tho wofe true to life "Ampico Reproducing Grand Pi in our music store room. Come hear this rnWi ous instrument stay as long as you wUWjlr absolutely free. . 11 " ;Godowsky Bauer Levitzkj Rachmaninoff Kreisler Ornstein Volavy " Kmita ' "i-at The Ampico Knaba and Fischer Laraway's New Laraway Building Bruiwltg VlctroU ; PhlriW and By .HARRY B. HUNT (XEA Service Writer) WASHINGTON, Jnn. 29. George Harvey late ambassador to Great Britain, is more than diplomatic in nis estimate of tho work of his su; cessor, Ambassndor Kellogg, seciv,-tory-of-state-to-be, in securing for Uncle Sam o share of the collections to bo made from Germany under the t-mwes plan. America's share of these schedul ed collections, amounting over a long period of years to some $250,000,000 is to repay us tho cost of our army ot occupation on the Rhine. This amounts to slightly more than 2 per cent of the total collections plnnned to be effected through the Diiwes system. . By thus bulking our claim with the reparation claims of other allied na tions against Germany. Harvey holds our government has ot. one move nul lified Its wholo policy of aloofness and non-participation in European affairs and that we"nre, as a result, os effectively ensnared in the Eu ropean imbroglio as though we were a member of the league of nations. "America has been duped," Harvey shouts, while Ambassador Kellogg' nomination as secretary of state still swaits action. "We have been trap ped by European diplomats in Paria. 'Here we are, pledged to inter vention In the cockpit of Europe during the next half century: stalled, if you please, in a corral 'borne high and hog tight." - Strong words, those, for the man who nas Deen tne editorial cham pion of President Coolidge the man Who Clnimed to hflVA turned thn Hrio toward Coolidge in the late election oy nis slogan: 'tJooiidge or chaos. Now, seemingly, George is of the mind that although s-n havo f'snliHi.o wo msy be headed for chaos anyway. une ining eeems certain out of tuo situation. We will be in for a period of prolonged debate in the senate, in which tho whole scope of Uncle Sam's relationship to Europe past, pres ent and future will be raked over again. Senators who bold tho Harvey view point including the old irreconcilable battalion of the league of nntions fight will claim the Kellogg agree ment ineffective and without force until reviewed and approved .by the sennte. If thin pnnlAnlinn 4a nuetoina long wrangle In the senate, with all tne. oiuernesa and uncertainty that accompanied, the league fight, seems Inevitable.. Should President Coolidge approve the Kellogg agreement, he will pre cipitate a breach in hia own party nn tbe verv eve of tho boBinnlnc of hu new administration. Should he reject, the agreement, he la placed in position of repudiating bis own selection for secretary of state. Oregon Briefs Channel bensons in the Columbia river are being re-established west r.f Rainier. A big pile driver is working down stream from that city. A special election has been called for February 3 at Monmouth to de cide upon the issuance ot $35,000 worth of bonds to construct trunk line sewers. James B. Howell, who came to Oregon at the age of 16 with his par ents, died recently nt his home in Wasco, aged TU years. The $250,000 Elks, temple at As toria has been completed and the first regular session in the lodge room of the structure was held lost week. Mrs. Hose E. Barrett, who has at tained national distinction as tbe city nisnager of Wnrrenton, has announc ed her resignation to engage in pri vate' work. The new $250,000 highway bridge ncross the Lewis and Clark river be- Inn, lilnpii 1 faat annrOnfhinir in,,,. pletion and will be opened to traffic ihortly after the firat of February. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also iu him; and he hall bring il to paav l'ain i!T:3. 5. Bible Queitloa, (Look I'p the Anwert How shall we serve the Lord? - I'-alms UK). A slide of about 10,000 yards of debris has completely blocked the Coos Bay-Rccdaport highway at Sug ar Loaf, in the t'oipiille river middle fork canyon. The slide followed a three-inch rain. Because of coyotes preying upon sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens Snd pigs, formers in tbe Brownsville and neighborhood communities are organ ising for a extermination of the animals. A $10 bounty Is being of fered for each coyote killed. In New York By JAMKS W. HF.AX VKW YOUK. Jan. 211. A new i.f 1 flee building going up on Times Square will he open day and night. The owners ak prospective tenants to consider the possibilities of dotng business 21 houra a day, pointing nut that many out-of-town people com bine business and pleasure and that they could go dircvt from the theater to offices in the new building for all night conferences. The moat elegant wraps in town are worn to the opers. l-ast night I aw women and girls leaving the Met in white ermine, silver cloth, gold cloth, red plih Spanish shawls and Itussian sables. The rnst of any one of those losks would keep tny family living one block in the rear of the opera house for two years. When Louis Judd graduated from Amherst in 1SS4 he had not decided on a career. Seeing that the Astor Li brary wonted an assistant he applied. When it was one of the units amalga mated 14 years ago to form the New York Public Library, Judd moved up town and has been there since. Now at 00 he is known by hundreds of read ers, mony of thein great scientists, educators and business men whom he hns helped with suggestions for read ing and references. Snow shovellers have been at work on Alnnhottnn streets for more than two weeks. These gangs are the most colorful selection of 'unskilled laborers to be found any place in the world, 1 believe. Some of them are rogged tramps. Some are foreigners just over from the other side. SoiAc of them ere aged men, too weak to lift a full shovel of snow. Some of them are men of affluence fallen to low estate. Some of them are men who labor nt other jobs and shovel snow in off hours to stretch tbe family puree a bit. At Sixth avenue and Forty-fourth street tho other night I saw one of the snow shovellers wearing white spats and kid gloves. On Thirty eighth avenue, a day or two ago'l saw a man wearing a derby hot and frock coat. He worked on the fringe of the gang, doing as little as possi ble, trying to appear as though he did not belong to the uncouth gang j Tom Sims Says j! Koinaure is not dead, h is just1 trifle diszy from watching the other emotions move so fast. ! H Is often hard to see how some I people act the way they do unlil yon feel inclined to act that way yourself, i While an operation is painful ,t ' may improve your- health. The smn'i is true of cutiing ut n bad habit. ' i A 'conservative is a man who i, ', either wise or a coward, sll accord ing to whether you are a conservative or nn. j Absence frequently has a tendency to make the appetite- grow stronger.! Perhaps others don't think as you think because they think more. A train of thoughts travels fastest ' when it is runniug eiprrs.s instead of local, but it Is more likely u, j,4Vtf ; a wreck. Being sure you are right Mutr 1 fiing ahead would h I, en.. ..!.:.- ., jou cumu ever ue sure of auytkbjg. Wonderful Values $1.98 SALE Pongee Silk, regular $1.25 value, .2 yards for $1 Table Linen, $3.25 value ...... $4.00 Dress Goods, 58 inches wide jj'jj Hand Embroidered House Dresses, plain colors $2-75 values 35o Bleached Huck Towels, 8 for 11 yards Bleached Muslin, 36 inches wide for jijj $10 Women's Coats, full lined $l!gg ,25c to" 35c Women's and children's hose, 8 pairs for ji jj t njj n i i - , J to !)IU values jjjj ir -men a uyu joaiB, aa Wool ( jj, . $5 to $10 values . jj jj 5 Southern . Calif. Express to Los Angeles dally at 1:45 P. M., also car ries through RlnAHAe fnv Com ' Francscp. To San Francisco "Shasta" 12:10 P. M. "Oregonian" :08 A. M. "San Francisco Express" 1:25 A. M. WINTER in Sunswept California Enjoy this winter the warmth and til healthful outdoor recreation of Califoni playgrounds. flOD.DU geles; on gaie dany up toaid Including April 30; return limit May 31 Travel in secure, cozy comfort via thecfr fortable, convenient trains of the Sham route. You'll like Southern Paci6c dining car lervlw high est quality food delidously prepared and at your accustomed meal-time. Full stopover privileges en route. For full information, ask Southern Pacifx F. O. LEWIS, Ticket -Agent u leleplione 41 SLABWOOD and PLANER ENDS A combination that settles tha heating F'3 forever. Planer ends are the ideal summer wood, also Jtjjj the thing to start the fires off with a rash on winter days. ' -Now is the time to lay in your supply. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. Mfe anI xr;n,- ... vhntit & WW auu vv iXtVaLUClLU Ola. v SOMETHING WRONG Headache r Backache f Nervous? All down Don't neglect yourself. Neglect may h ad to r ous illness. CHIROPRACTIC .Removes the cause Health returns GEO. A. SIMON Eaamlnatlon Free 9'i Willamette St. phaM 22 r
