The Eugene guard., January 31, 1925, Image 15

LndavEvemng. January 31, 1925
THE EUGENE GUARD
Pnj? Five
Building Outlook
J J . r- T TT
for lyzo is rromising;
Realtors Are Optimistic
ru(n,'l real estate and building
... jn in Disiorj.
. J U lt i'iniou ""re"td
i, teal estate owners, contractor.
, j.ipr in builuuig uii.i
''S?," a record duruu.lWM
' Sed ail Previtfui building
Mt ih. city imisbed the first
I.b..o.a..batex,
led, that of .ix "uti8,,it W--iH.
,Ull.nder, city building inspector
' " , , s. V. Straus and
EmMDy. wbo compile '.monthly and
ET iuildiug surveys over the en-
r The actual ioiw wui
CVior. thin 15 per cent more than
Ljsder declared, which would bring
l,00,f. m :t.l.U2-J. The
rr i ,.,ivers hhort estimates,
L applications not turned in.
lo.necta are exceedingly bright. Al
F '.' i nffw.cB sre beina: besieged
Eio inquiries in and around Eugene.
any letters ir.
tnt of nearoy ami"., -o v...
Eroia, Washington, Idaho and Mon-
Laa. However, too icnueuiy w m-
itijate tne niinumi" your, -.....j
in innniries from South Da-
Eta, Michigan, Kansas and several
western states.
Small tracts seem to be the most
ipular, many of the Inquiries asking
prices on tarma 01 irom live iu
. . a ntimhpr are neonle who
Ere lived in town all their lives,
ki are seeking a gooa rami upon
fbich to retire.
There ta a noueenDie iul m wna
i -Anai.tr. Kueene realtors re-
"... T!.i in in linn with the State-
lt by a land authority recently
tat "the arming industry uas turnea
the comer. Anyone who thinks be
can buy a good farm six months from
now at the same price be is paying
now is kidding himself."
That Kugcnc is destined to become
the "Los Angeles of Oregon" is the
statement of a local realtor, who de
clares the city ia so topographically
situated as to ha the greatest farming
and business center in Oregon.
The couung year will see great
headway made on closing the gap be
tween the stub ends on the Natron
cutoff, now operating from Klamath
Kails north to Odell, end from Eu
gene several miles cast of Oakridge.
The prospect that the Oregon Kast
em, now operating rrom Ontario and
Vale, to Burns, will bo pushed on
across the state to connect with the
Natron cutoff at Odell lake, the low
pass on the Cascade range, thua giv
ing southern snd esstern Oregon ac
cess to Eugene, is turning the eyes
of homeseekers toward Lane county.
Another source of new settlers for
this section is in the ever-increasing
tourist trade. Thousands of visitors
go into the Cascade forest regions
every year, and ninny decide, nfter
their trip, to make Eugene tjeir
home. The University of Oregon,
Eugene Hible university, business col
lege, high schools, junior high and
public schools, churches, shops, fac
tories, mills,- wholesale and jobbing
houses are all intellectual, moral
and material assets that make the
city attractive to any prospective
homeseeker. '
So Eugene business and profes
sional men are making no secret of
the fact that they are looking for a
bigger and more prosperous year in
1!25. Everything points that direc
tion at the present time, one big step
has already been taken in the build
ing record made in the first month,
and to predict that the city has much
ahead of it in the next 11 months
would be putting it mildly.
Parana River Tears
Down Island; Builds
Up Others In Place
Psnsrla has a Kicking Horse Riv-
r; Argentina, has the Parana yhich
Moras that way; and just now is.
idnlrina id ita perennial delta tncK
if tearing down islands and rearing
ti new ones.
A trip up this beautiful, eccentric
ream is described by William R.
iarbour in the following comraunica-
ion to the National ueograpnic oo-
lety: .
I "We left Buenos Aires one cool,
SWerv morning in December (early
tmmer) on the side-wheel, twelve-ot-draft
steamer Berna, and after
iug out of sight of land for hours,
a turbid, muddy sea, reached the
tintluence of the Uruguay and Par
tus rivers and turned northwest up
he. latter. The "Stream was miles
de. the color of coffee with cream,
Ind broken by numberless marshy
lands. The shores on the left Were
kivcred with plantations ot poplar
lid willow.
At Second City
Next morning we made our first
op at Kosario, the second largest
sty of Argentina and a notable ship-
ig point for grain and flaxseed. It
located on high clay bluffs west of
lie river along whose banks there lie
lure grain warehouses and elevators
hich cut off our view of the city
Iroper, with its 250,000 people, a
rge part of whom are Italians. The
ater beside the Roeario docks is
ren enough for ocean freighters, and
c city serves as port of outlet for
treat agricultural section.
"About sunset, imposing white
Kuecoed church towers came into
ht abend, and rounding a great
kad we came to Parana, capital of
e province of Entro Rios. It is a
wn upward of 50,000 people, and
ports large amounts of hides and
reals; its wharves are equipped
:!b traveling cranes and backed by
Iflidly built concrete warehouses.
ben day came the character of
a country had changed. On each
ie stretched endless reachcB of low.
IsrlUlly inundated country, densely
loaeu with strange tropical trees,
itersnersed with in nrnooinnnl 'fen
ftr-duster' palm. The wide flood
" dotted wilh islands, lnrge and
Mil, among which the buoyed chan
'1 meandered. Camalotes, which the
I'snish dictionary defines as 'river
'Ms in South America resembling a
"ting island,' began to drift by.
""ally onl.v a few would be ioined
N'ther, but occasionally our boat
'"lid swing abruptly aside to avoid
itches nliit-h had collected about
'me Hosting uprooted tree to form
snds fifty feet across.
Stranded "Islands"
These camalotes make their en
trance in times of high water, be-
Mirrim out into the current from
adjacent strum, ,
"hot many Mink. In V.Hih a grr'at
flood brought so many of these 'is
lands' down the river, that they
stranded on the 'banks near .Buenos
Aires and thus constituted a public
menace. Thousands of snakes, with
an occasional wild boar or other ani
mal which had become marooned,
went ashore into the thickets between
Palermo Park and the river, and a
large force of policemen armed with
machetes tad to be put to work kil
ling them.
"By the third morning the territory
of the Chaco lay to the west of us,
its largely unexplored swamps and
jungles covering an area of at least
200,000 square miles, in northern Ar
gentina, western Paraguay, and
southwestern Bolivia. Were it not
the home of the quebracho, that tree
which is so important a source of
tannin, the region would be even less
known than it is.
"In the forenoon we reached Cor
n'entes, capital of the province of the
same name. It ia a typically Spanish-looking,
sleepy old place, with its
one-storied whitewashed brick homes
showing only blank walls to the nar-
rnn.. filth, rmiirhlv rnhh1fri utrtmtu
"Immediately above the" city the
river is very wide, but, thanks to
high water, we were able to stay
close to the west shore, behind a
string of islands. Fresh-water gulls,
small etanefl, ifnd large,1 dull-blue
kingfishers vied for interest with the
alligators basking on the sunny banks.
Soon we reached the confluence
of the Parana and Paraguay rivers,
and continued up the latter."
NEAT COLONIAL HOUSE FITS SMALL LOT
Well Designed and Skilfully Planned Residence is But 19 by 31 J Feet In Dimen
sions', But is Cozy and Well Arranged
33
1 1 11 3I"6' " T ' t - zi p f
FIRST, FLOOR PLAN
Porch
6-0
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
Yv
.(Copyright, 1U23, NEA. Service, Inc.)
ILIU' ia a Colonial bouse for the
tiny lot a house only 10 by 31
feet, hut well designed and skillfully
planned.
The stained fihingle roof and shut
ters afford touches of color in this
''little white house with green blind."
You will get lots of enjoyment out of
the big open porrh. The balustrade
above it is characteristic and pretty.
From the entrance door one faces
the handsome open stair on. the op-J
posue sine oi tne living room, iidisupci
in mahogany and ivory to carry out
the Colonial motif. French tdoora in
vite you into the dining room. A rear
door from the living room leads to
kitchen and basement.
The dining room is also at the front
of the house. Built-in china closets
in two corners take care of all the
china, silver and linens, and yet take
very little space in the room.
The kitchen extends just enough
beyond the main' portion of the house
to permit of a door and service porta
accessible from the front. Its long,
rather narrow shape is convenient to
work in, and there is ample room for
the built-in dresser and work-table, as
well as the sink, refrigerator and
range.
The bathroom is conveniently lo-
4-UallU;j .
Courtos "Curtis CompanUs Clinton" IaV t -
Floor plana and front view of small colonial house.
cated and compact. In the hall is a
linen closet with sliding trays, and
drawers.
Both bedrooms hare cross circula
tion of air. One of them has, in ad
dition to ita regular banging closet.
a built-in dressing table that is sure
to make this the favorite room in
the house.
It should cost about $.1150 to build
this house, figuring the cost at 30
cents a cubic foot.
GREATEStOF ALL
LATE MIGRATIONS
Bakhtiari tribesmen, again in re
volt against the Persian government,
provide a modern prototype of the
march of the Children of Israel out of
the wilderness, according to a bulle
tin from the Washington, I), C.,
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society.
"Only in the case of the ttakhtiaris,
who live in the 'wild west' of I'ersia,
their pilgrimage is accomplished ev
ery six months, and the trail tra
verses suow-covered mountains, icy
streams, nn4 other obstacles along
what has been called the 'wickedest
l'(K) miles In all the world.'
Thunder of Hoofs
"Along with fiO.tKK) of the men.
women and children on their semi
annual Odyssey go some half a mil
lion cattle. The tribesmen live on
the cattle and the cattle live on grass.
Only during tbo winter months is
there grazing on the scorching littoral
of the Persian Gulf; and only in the
summer months is there grass on the
nlateau country back of the Bak
htiari Mountain range. Hence people
and cattle have to move with the
seasons.
'"When the Bakhtiaris knock down
their black and orange and white
tents to go in search of grass they
pile their household effects on the
backs of their animals, and atop these
cargoes ride the lambs, the calves
and the chickens. Their women Btrap
to their backs their crude wooden
cradles, In which they carry their
babies and their husbands guns.
Goats Decline
"If an observer would get the epic
quality of this mammoth migration
he should station himself beside a
stream one of the torrential, icy
cold mountain rivers. First the tribes
men make rafts underlaid with in
flated goat skins and on these they
entrust women and children, the
younger auimals and their meager
household effects. Then they drive
their, norses, cqws, ana sneep into
the BWirling stream. Tbo goats alone
refuse to swim and, perhaps in re
turn for the use of their dead com
rades' skins, cross on the rafta.
"The roar of the falls above, the
screeching of animals, the cries of
the dying beasts caught in whirlpools,
and the yelling men go to make up
a din that is wicrd and unpnralleled.
Finally the men themselves take the
icy plunge. This scene is not a mat
ter of hours, but of days, and the
the crossing is continued through the
moonlight nights.
Cross Snow Trails
"The neit high light of the trip
comes with the mountains where men
and women, discard shoes and break
trails through snow-filled ravines and
along icy passes, ever higher nnd
higher, until, when the summit is
reached, the weaker humans and ani
mals have been left bleeding, freez
ing and starving on the steep trails.
A panorama of the serpentine lino,
twisting and twining from the valley
below, as far as the eye can sec, is
one of the most picturesque spec
tacles of human geography, The
climax of the mountain climbing
come swith the ascent of the giant
and seemingly inaccessibto Zardeb
Kuh. some lL'.OKMI feet high.
"The Bakhtiaris do not bow to Te
heran: they continually are at war
wilh the I,urs and other neighboring
tribesmen. They are ruled by tribal
chieftinns. Their men value women
lightly, using them asbeasts of bur
den, and pay slight attention to their
daughters. Their sons they teneh
to shoot and swim and ride by the
time they are nine or ten years old.
LITTLE SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR HOME
An Old Bookcase May Be Made Into Kitchen Cabinet; Slipover is Help For Old
Furniture; Desk Finds Good Place by Window
THEODORE ROBERTS BROUGHT
BACK IN FILM 'LOCKED DOORS
Famous Character Actor Does Wheelchair Part In New Play
In Which Betty Common Features
By JACK-JUNGMEYEE
(NEA Service Writer)
JEW VOKK, Jan. 31. It takea
'days to teach a woman how to
handle a trout line,' but once or twice
in a lifetime a man doesn't begrudge
the time required.
So reads a subtitle In William de
Mille'a Paramount picture, "Locked
Doors," which proceeds to divulge
entertainingly what this (fortunately
rare) altruism on the part of a fisher
man may lead to by the way of trou
ble.
If the piece carries a moral, it Is
probably warning to Waltonian gen
tlemen not ta desecrate the fine art
of fly-casting. At any rate, the trou
ble starts innocently enough along a
mountain stream with a pretty flir
tation when John Talbot (Theodore
von Eltz) anags his book on a shrub.
.Mary Carter (Betty Comnsonl dab
bling her feet in the brook, and her
self unobserved, disengsges the hook
nnd mischievously attaches her ker
chief to it.
John, as it falls out soon enough,
not only hauls in the bit of lace but
Mary's heart as well.
He invites her to partake of the
trout at bia nearby camp. There is
a savory scene where the fish are
shown browning in the pan, in the
solitudes of the Sierras. Literally
and figuratively, Mary has lost ber
wedding ring in the stream.
from this camp, with its sudden
development of romance, the two leap
from the frying pan into the fire,
the latter being a burning house in
which the husband ofv.Mary, played
by Hubert Edeson, discovers the guil-
THEODORE ROBERTS
ty but overwhelming love between the
two.
The covert affection Is dramatical
ly legitimatized in the fact that the
wife had never loved her husband, a
situation Suspected from the first by
him. Nevertheless, and despite the
warnings of his sister (Kalhlyn Wil
liams) he permits her to go on a
mountain party where all but she
turn their backs on nature, ' as a
subtitle sarcastically informs.
Returning home, their Identity not
yet established for each other, John
and Mary meet again under the hus-
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MANVILLE BROS.
bnuU'i roof whrn he, confided the lore
lit young ,i rott-ft- bus fouud (or !
"koiue in mod woiuun," givet htni
unwittliitfl)' iiuo itia hospitality of ;
tilt wife u that "bao uiuy help him '
forger," his iuUtuutiuu. Tberu you
buve t ho ttiluiuiou whu-h eventuate
In (be fire and the revealuig im-idt-nt.
'"Locked Doora' nerves lo bnug 1
back (o the screeo after many m on-;
tha absence from leriuua illness The-,
odore Roberts. ;
Appropriately enoujh, he shows up
in a wheel chair, us Mary'a father,!
contributing comedy as n character ;
who cheat at solitaire and inveigle
everyone into giving him more tuau ,
hia allowance of "tonic." The part 1
seema to have been written in cape- j
cilly for Roberts, and isn't signifi-
cant in development of the drama. He
is permitted a number of titles cu- j
lngixing the climate of California, i
which even the uiott rubid auti-Cal-
loroian wtu not ucKTiiuga mo gritiiu
old man of films when it is known
that he recovered hia shattered henlth
in the hills of Hollywood, overlook
ing the studios where he champed
to resume work.
Hetty Compson graces the picture
by her presence rather than by her
acting. Kdeson Is excellent. Yon
Kits is pleasing aslhe young inter
loper who makes heroic but futile
effort to check his infatuation. And
Knthlyn Williams la her usual state
ly, charming self, though she, like
Roberts, has little to do.
POTENTIALITIES OF
PORT-AU-PRIXCfc. Hsiti, Jsn. HI
UP) Desiring to bring before
American public s, true picture ot
economic conditions in Hsiti, and the
possibilities in an agricultural way of,
ita wonderful soil, Uenersl Kusseli,
the Americau higJi commissioner,
made certsin specific recommendu
tions to Washington. As a result E.
Verne Richardson, of the American
consular serrice. was sssigned the
task of making an economic survey
of the republic, and is already at
wnrk.
While the productivity of Haiti's
soil is vaguely knowu to the people
of the United States, few sre aware
that 70.000,000 pounds of the finest
enffe. are harvested annually from
planta growing in a wild slate and
that amount represent less man iw
thirds of the berries that could be
harvested by intelligent picking. L.oa,
staple cotton nearly the equal of sea
island and superior to that grown
in the United states, flunsnes in a
wild state and produces annually
about 8.000,000 pounds. Alligator
pears grow wild and they aro large
and have an excellent flavor.
Haiti has tho soil, climate and
cheap labor to produce vegetables for
the winter months to supply the east
coast of the United States; all it
needs is American capital and energy
THE BUTTON SHOP
Pleating, Buttons and Hemstitching.
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Wlllomettc St. Phone 817. tf
Rialto Theatre
Junction City
Sunday
Tho life
Romance
of the
Greatest
man
America
Ever
Produced
NEW SHOW
TODAY
The $ew Western
Star
BOB CUSTER
IN
"Flashing Spurs"
'S this two-
fisted, lad
who knows
no danger.
Ride with him on his beautiful snow-white charger
race with him over plain and prairie In this
tornsdo love story of the cactus lands.
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A drama of a
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featuring
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CLIVE BROOK
WARNER BAXTER
VAN KEITH
WALTER HIERS
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A nice evening's drive good
mualo-t-comfortable seats
LADIES JUST A MOMENT PLEASE
How do you nil expect to got a palntor and paper honner
Juat exactly when ynu want him If you wait until everyone
la doing tho spring houseclcanlna; and the bin building pro
gram Is going on. Give him a chance to do your work right
away and tell him to got the materials at
Ox
ner!s Paint Store
8th and Olive
.l,.16'1 boo""" may be converted Into .useful auxiliary kitchen cabinet or group
on..!; ',h 1 ""' J ""her be placed over the sink board, or even on the floor
" I spare wall.
A .lipC0vep transform n old and ugly piece of furniture Into one that tones In well with
' of tn, room, it can be made to cover th. chair completely, with . ruffle along the bottom.
de.k, especially . fl.Mop suitable for horns use. finds a good place dlrec y In . window
is ?. m,,,i "h l '"ll on It. In this eaie, thi deik ihould be placed so that its s.d. It toward
"0, and the window Is to the left of the penon alttira there. j
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