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THE EUGENE GUARD
Thursday Evening,
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THE EUGENE GUARD
An Independent afternoon newspaper publlehed dally txcept Sunday.
PATJL R. KELTY, Editor EUQENB 8. KELTY, Business Manager
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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 "
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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
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in Sunswept California
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A combination that settles tha heating F'3
forever.
Planer ends are the ideal summer wood, also Jtjjj
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winter days. ' -Now
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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
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