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Page Fonf TIIE EUGENE GUARD THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally except Sunday PAUL R, KELTT, Editor , EUGENE 3. KELTY, Bueioeea Manager Offleee 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 The Eugene Guard a member of the Associated Proee. The Associated Press !s exclusively entitled to the use for publlca- "tion of all new dlspatchei credited to tt or not otherwise cred ited to this paper and also the local newa published herein. AU ' rlghte of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31. Public Service Commissioners Governor Pierco says popular election of public service commissioners in Oregon is a failure. It gives us, he tolls the legislature in a special message, commis sioners who serve the utilities ana not tne public. Coming from the governor, who is ever champion of popular government in all its branches, such a de nunciation of some of the workings of the Oregon system would bo Biirnrisiwr except for one thing further, which is the real milk in the cocoanut. That is that the gov ernor recommends the filling of places on tho public service commission by power of appointment to bo placed in the hands of. himself. This, he says, would place responsibility for the acts of tho public service commission upon him. . ; The plain implication is that he would dictate its course' to the commission instead of allowing tho members to act upon their' own judg ment. ; , .-. . It is true that Oregon voters have not always been altogether happy in their 'choice of public service com missioners. There, for instance, was tho case of the Southern Oregon member who was triumphantly elected on tno slogan that six cents was too jnuch tor a ftvo cent rido on a streetcar, and who later voted for. an eight-cent faro in Portland. There was the case of the commission majority which voted a 30 per cent rise in telephone rates and were recalled, only to be succeeded by two nobodies who rode into office whooping for corporation blood and promising everybody telephones at next to nothing a year, and then sat down and rested until the expiration of their respective terms because they didn't know how to do anything else. All this is disheartening enough to normal people. It must be particularly painful to a governor who believes that corporations ought to be disciplined in one way or an other every day. But what would you! All of the gentlemen commissioners of whom we have been writ ing were of the people's own choice, nominated by them ana elected by them, bo were the present commission ers, whom the governor desires to displace with political honchmon of his own. To judge by such samples of the governor's judg ment in. appointments as Cleaver and fcpence, nothing would be gained by lotting him select public sorvico com missioners. However, there is no danger at all of the legislature following the governor's recommendation. The Efficient Y. M. C. A. Membership of the Eugene Y. M. C. A. is larger than it was a year ago. Its activities in all depart ments have increased. . By national Y. standards tho Eugene organization ranks higher than average for cities up to ao.uuu population. AU of thw is gratifying. It shows the Eugono Y. is efficient. Secretary Eber- nari points out in ins annual report that it is becom ing more and more a factor in tho general life, of tho community. It follows, necessarily, that moro people and a larger proportion of peoplo than formorly are interested in the Y. and its activities. , Tho Y. M. C, A., as hfft heretofore been remarked in these columns, is engaged, horo and elsewhere, in building men. Than this no work is moro important. Tho Y. makes a thorough job of it. It trains boys and youths and youjig men spiritually, mentally and physi cally for their places in tho world. No boy or youth Drmnn who has contact with tho Y. finds it anything less than an improving contact. None can bo asso ciated with tho Y. without being beuefittod, if ho bo susceptible tq right guidanco. Tho Eugono Y. is planning for still greater activities for the coming year than have heretofore boonAcanied on. There are increased demands for tho work and thoso demands are to be met. Tho Y. is entitled to and doubtless will roceivo full public support for its pro gramme. , Premier llerriot, of France, repeals that Franco will not repudiate her debts in full. Ho makes it quito clear that Franco hopes to pay in part. Ho reminds one of the man who indignantly spurned tho accusation that he had misappropriated a hundred dollars; declaring that it was only eighty-nine dollars. Somebody at Salem wants to make co-operative marketing by fanners compulsory. Tho sehemo seems to bo to muko an ever and ever more paternalistic stato responsible for prosperity .by compulsion. ."Will some kind legislator please introduco a bill to make news papers prosper thatawayl Tho movement for stato regulation of every activity under tho sun progresses npaeo at Salem. Senator Clark has introduced a 2000-word bill for creation of a stato board of auto-maehinist examiners, with license fees and plenty of inspection. . The city of Engeno is solvent and comparatively little m debt, its financial audit, just made, shows. The report makes pleasant reading for Eugono citizens and reflects credit on its city governments, past and present. Glittering Gloria is a bride again and a marchioness, enroute homo for Hollywood and with convenient prox imity to llono in prospect. meul ut Oregon wight have been an uutruiueut lui great good. Unfortunate ' (Albany Hi-raid) Governor i'jerve wade a big blun der when be fired the whale I'ortloud port couiiuiiiloi, fur be supplied ful tut a hostile legislature, to burn in consuming him. 'rue executive's act was ill-advised, because it cannot ne Justified. Tne reult will be that the legislature will pass a law taking con trul of tbe commission out of tne governor's bauds and putting it iu U. own bunds. Worn In Office (Oregon .Labor i'ress) Two women now are state gover nors. There's Governor Nellie Koss and Governor Ma 1'erguson. Up to date Miey are going about tbeir busi ness iu a way that indicates fairness, good sense and civic conscience. tVoinen bold a goodly number or high oifice in state and national gov ernments today and tbe first graft expose under a woman's regime bis yet to come. It isn't sometuing; that cam uappen. out mat it nasn t hap Iieued u a most encouraging circuui stance. The country inciuuing labor will watch the work of these two governors with a deep and sympa tbctic interest Buckwheat and Sausage 'j uvuibviiio courier-journal; It is a grave charge that senators out of harmony wim the president are making against in. Cuolidge, Subtle not to say sinister expedi ents sre being used by the adminis- tration, whisper Its critics, to whip tbe wavering Into line, to cajole the obdurate, to Intimidate tho potential "jnovencks." White House, breakfasts, attended by lame-duck - congressmen and po uticiuua with open minds, are, ac cording to senate cloak-room whis pers, being staged with irritating fro. qnescy. Toomsny senatorial knees are be ing thrust under tbo White House breakfast table. Florida grapefruit is prostltued for base political purposes. Vermont maple syrup is corrupting the incor we, or any one else, lick tho White House is bonUmredlng recalcitrant senators and representatives with buckwheat "big Berthas" loaded with two-Inch sausage shells. "We can beat tbe chief of the White House," protest tbe. anti-ad ministration senators "but' bow can we, t rany one chie, lick the White House 'chef? We can stand the ma- chine-gun fire of. patronage with held, but bow can we retort to grape- iruus sniping r we csn resist nresi dentist vetoes, but what defense can we put up against these maple syrup attacks? We can dig ourselves In against anauiemas excommunica ting us from tbe White House grounds, but what's the use in try ing to duck these' buckwheat and sau sage bombs 7 ' It.isn t civilized poll Ucal warfare, protest the anti-ad ministration men. It isn't playing th? game, it lin t fair. Maybe It Isn't. But It always has been and It always will be the White House way. When the lion's skin falls the White 'House ekes it out with the fox's. No wise president ever let hot buckwheat cakes stand between him and high achievement. No re sourceful chief magistrate of . the American people ever permits sau sages to block the success of bis ad ministration. Extremes (Springfield News) Bruce Dennis' senate resolution which would forbid the passing of on iucome tax or inheritance tux in Ore gon forever is carrying the tax Issue to the extreme, Proponents and ex ponents are always going to one ex treme or another in legislation, when what the public is demanding is com mon sense middle ground. In Lighter Vein j COMMENT OF THE PRESS Rests en the Governor " (Hood Rlrer (llsrier) . In the first analysis the failure of the department of prohibition must test on Govsnor l'ierce. How many times has be been told of the dclin quenlres, as sn official at least, of nls man Cleaver? Yet the governor re ferred to thst dignitary as a square jawed fighter snd fixed him s little more firmly In hlapoiltlou. The pro hibition department baa paid too murb attention to obnoxious nosing ! smaller affairs that county offi cials could, and would have handled. It even tried to set aalde solemn treaty of the federal government whh soother sovereign power, lis head has paraded up and down the state like the chief player in an opera bouffe. It has tried Us bsnd st met ing out polillesl vengeance. It bus appeared so small calibre and at times has seemed so vertically virions that the practical minded cltiaenry of Ore gun are ready to sweep It In to the garbage ran. And yet the prohibition enforce- Why He Didn't Suit (Everybody's) An Oregon man was trying to sell a borae. The animal was wind-broken but sleek. The owner trotted bim around for inspection and bringing him bark to the prospect bo stroked the horse's bock and remarked, "Hasn't be a lovely coat?" Tho prospect removed his pipe from his mouth snd said, as he looked st tbe heaving flanks of the animal, "Veah, bis coat's all right, but I don't like bis panta." Historical Note (The Humorist) According to a llostou newspaper, (he crons-word puszlo bud Its origin In ancient Egypt, This explains why tho Israelltca wero su anxious to flee Into the wilderness. The Widening Field (The Humorist) Threo rhiinpameea are taking im- potrant parts in a new film. After this more popple than ever will he justi fied In thinking that they have a film face. ' Power of Suggestion (tlood Hardware) Aunt Muuily kept her housa spot less, coiiseipienlly poor Sambo was rnnsteutly being nagged about his un tidy habits. line dny Rsmlio came homo to find that .Mandy had presented him twins. lie viewed this sa something of a calamity end said rather mournfully: "Mumly, l'sa done cautioned you time ngalu to let imt ole Hold Oust stuff alone now, ah reckons you'll listen to me some heahaftah.'' Salesmanship Plus (Pittsburgh t'hrouicle Telegraph) The new salesman, although very enthusiastic, could not be described as altogether convincing. 'This," he said, "is one of the fin est blankets produced today. In ma terial and in construction It la far above anything at present on the mar ket. For the price there is nothing to touch It." "What Is the price?" his customer Inquired. "Just a minute and I will Impure," waa tlie reply. Oregon Briefs j o o Probably the oldest married couple In Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stillwell of Itiindon, last week cele brated the UlUh smiivcrsray of tli.-ir wedding. , Jetty construction en the north side nf the entrance to t'oos hay now et ttudi almost uue mile to sea, while On Another Rampage! Fz 7" " ".TT".'7aTi." " " ii " r mi" i y Sr - xNV r I BE GV?eFUL how tbo MWfK V AWfc'NG SUCH AS 11 - ' immM- PebS aqeeemenTj ok M.. ." I I. .. ffifU.. Ml i Saturday Evening, Jan . ;r liu,0 FORBIDDEN! By KATHEEINE MOORE Author of "Love" WM. S. LAHMAR HOLDS HIGHEST JOB Custodian of Washington Monument Look Down on Whole Host ' Of Officialdom In Nation's Capitol BY HARRY B. HUNT N1SA Service Writer '. WASHINUTON, Jan. 31-Most folks think of President Cool idge as holding the highest job in Washington. But he doesn't. The highest job goes to William 8. Lobmar. From bis pinnacle of employment Lohmur looke down on tbe whole boat of Washington official dom. - Probably you never heard of Lob mar, He is the custodian of the Washington monument, and his of fice is away up at the very tip-top vi that towering 000-foot shaft. 1'or the last month, however, Lob mar baa found his job wearying. Normally he rides to work, being hoisted to bis post of duty by the elevator. But this being tie slack season for tourist visitors to tbe xnonu ment, tbe elevator has been shut down for overhaul and repairs, and Lobmar bsB to walk. -J Fifty flights up, : each, ' morning. Fifty flights of IU Bteps etch. Fifty flights down each evening, after the windows at tbo top have been closed and the final visitors have departed. . Gives one a cramp in tbe legs just to think about it, doesn't it? But then one must be willing to climb if one aspires to the capital's highest job! ' e ' Iliibbi Stephen Wise of New York, who came to Washington to address Carrie Chapmnn Cntt's "Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, worked in one of tbe government shipments during the late affair with Uermany. As a rabbi he didn't feel called upon to enlist for front line service, but as a pstriutic American be wanted to "do bis bit." That was why he took tbe shipyard job. At a recent gathering attended by Wise and Charley Schwab, Schwab, who as head of ths shipping board had been the rabbi s war-time boss, recalled how the - celebrated church man had labored In mechanics cap and overalls. He told how, on the occasion of one visit to the great shipyards at Hog Island, be bad watched with admiration the stalwart rabbi, with aweat atreaming down his face, driv ing red hot rivets into plates of a great ship. - '.. But Wise could have none of it. "It's all wrong," he said. "I used to have great faith in Charley Schwab's veracity. Now I don,'t know what to think. "To begin with, I'm a mechanic. I never drove a rivet in my life. My work in the shipyards was that of common laborer, or helper. "And as for Hog Island" Wise threw out his hands in an expressive gesture of denial "I worked at Stamford, Conn. "What sort of rabbi does Char ley Schwab think I am, anyway to work at Hog Island!" trestle work Is more than one mile from Uio receiving plant. The total tax roll of Clatsop Sounty to be collected this year amounts to t.210.20'.'.58,' or an Increase of t Mi. yf5.&4 over tbe amount up for collec tion last year. W. H. Hale, prominent farmer and contractor, a natlvo of Centralis, Wn. but who had spent all his life in Uma tilla county, died recently in Pendle ton, aged 71 years. . Tom Sims Says The value of wishing is it makes you sn dissatisfied you go out and see thut tlie wishes como true. - Common sense is what makes s college education valuable. Concentrated education is about like drinking beef tea instead of eat ing steak. Nice thing about cussing cold weather la you don't have to stop to slap a fly off your nose. Rrsding the wrong kind of books is just the same. as associating with tho wrong kind of people. Success is living because you want to instead of bccsiise you must. Truth 'Is changeable like the weather, and Just because the weuther chougea you can't say there isn't any weaiher. If today la a blank It is because you regarded It that yesterday. rerhana modern mu!ic doesn't last long because It goes so fst. People spend eara lnnikng for tilings to find happiness in without realising it Is Inside. The man who spends his time bragging ahoAit his ancestors is not likely to have descenilann who will brag sbout htm. PI. Iiuis doctor ss)s 40 is the idesl sge for love. Wonder how old he is? We would soy about W. A man tells us he kept his wife under his nose until one tlay sire got sd and punched rum on It. l-'lne laces are worth their weight iu gold, line weather is njirth Its weight In coal. I.os Angeles chorus girl got J.".iS0 broken heart. No telling what Eugene 25 Years Ago. From The Guard January 31, 1900 Our neighboring village, Irving, we are pleased to state, is taking on new life. John Zumwalt is starting up a harness shop In tbe Odd Fellows building, snd W. B. Yates is putting a stock of groceries in the same building. Mrs. F, L. Washburne entertained the ladies of the High-Five club yes terday afternoon at her home on Eleventh avenue east. Water in the Eugene mill race is low, reused by a break in the mid river dam at Judkin's point. Work men era engaged today repairing the tank. Miss rautiue Hodes went to Port land today. O. N. Fraier, the foundryman from Saginaw was in town today. iUe would have broken her leg. gotten it she had C. M. Young is having the interior of his market remodeled. W. W. Chessman, She hotel man of Springfield, wsa In the city today on business. Mrs. A. M. Hendricks arrived home from Creswell todsy. TODAY (Continued from page one) hla fitnesa. Merely wishing for self government does not constitute ca pacity for self-Kovernment. Ask Kg.vpt or the Philippines. Mrs. Roaells l'.vne has still to learn that sail experience Is the only teach, er. To frighten awsy rats she kept an her bureau a loaded pistol, with a piece of cheese just In front of the musxle. "They'll go to the cheese, see that my pistol la loaded, then rue away from my apartment, fur fear I'll BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY W11KN THOU PASSKST through the waters. I will he with thee: and through the, riv ers, they ahall not overflow thee; when thou walkrst through the fire thou shall not be burned; neither shall ths flsine kindle upon thre. Isaiah Bible Question (look up the answer) What are children command ed to do? Eph. fl:l. shoot them," said she in foolish hope. Not even human beings are as in telligent as that. A little while ago they looked into the barrel of a gun labeled war. It went off, and killed 20,000,000 of them. But even that won't make them keep away from war. They used to hang murderera in pub lic and other criminals gathered to see. But tbet did not stop murders. ' In Madison Square Garden, Ugb Frigerio, world's champion walker, showed America how to walk. He gave the best of our walkers a big start, and beat tbein, with e mazing ease. That power Frigerio, an Italian, inherits from his ancestors, the fight ing Roman soldiers of long ago. They built tbe roads of the world, in far off Britain and Asia, over the Alps, wherever Roman conquerors' led the way. And over thor' r-n roads the ancestors of the Italians walked up and down the earth to victory. Merely to think about the walking done by a Koiuun soldier chewing his hard raw wheat as he walked, would exhaust many a modern young danc ing American. Congress, having decided to turn over tne people's property at Muscle Shoals to a private concern, allows that it cares little for public opinion. But it does not show complete lsck of intelligence. It objects to having tienstor Norris on the committee chosen to adjust matters between House and Senate. Tnat's intellgent. A men like Norris, honest, able, bel ligerent and not afraid to call a Sen ator a grafter, when he happens to be a grafter, can be. a great unisance on an important committee. When there Is real sickness,' you need a real remedy. At Nome in Ala- ka, there is an epidemic of diphtheria aud none of the anti-toxin that cures diphtheria. Xbe epidemic will proceed and inuny will die, until the anti-toxin can be provided. Then the danger will pass. It takes reel science to combat a real. disesse. Those that deny the value and power of scientific vaccingtion belong in the lower kindergarten grades. Such a statement annoys many well meaning souls but that can't be help ed. Others of the same type arc an noyed, if you say that Shakespeare wrote his ewn plays and a few still resent it, if you insist that the earth is round. Jacksonville proposes to regulate "jsy walking" by law. The pedestrian who often acts as though his life were of little consequence, will be compell ed to walk tho streets, as though he knew that .automobiles exist. Reading newspapers as you cross the street or rushing into the road with your bead turned backward to wave at your loved ones is apt to make the loved ones miss you for nil time. Chickens, dogs, even pigs sre rspidly Ira mine thjit automobiles are danger out. Cows and human beings never make the discovery, i The Jacksonville jay walker hae en advantage over his jsy brothers in New York, t'blrsgo, etc. Kvangelist Raymond T. Hichey is in Jacksonville saving souls with a rapidity that is nnrvelous when you consider how hard it is to mske a man think about bis soul, in the middle of a real estate boom. Already Mr. Hichey has saved .'tfx0 by actual count. If they stay saved It does not matter much whether they get run over or not. They sre ready. But it Is hord to understand the msn that has not got religion and still persists in jay walking, lt'a tak ing a foolish double risk. nuiy i-iioimv riioiihi in., man in i exhort the jay walker. "The first foolish step takes you in front of the rushing car and the next step will be hell, etc." Csn you imsgine how vivid he would make it? WE SAY GOODBYE i Chapter 77 At last tho day that I bad so long dreamed of, came to pass. The Grand Central station was thronged with eager, rushing crowds that hurried this way and that, each intent on bis own destination. But in the ststlon that day there were five people whose hearts and eyes were full of teers. We were not hopeless ly sad, but our feelings were wrung with the aadness of parting. And it was all because a few yeara of friend ship had bound us sweetly and tender ly together. Kent and a red-copped porter were endeavoring to manogo two large suit cases and a golf bag. My hand gripped firmly into Kent, Jr.'s and I eyed him zealously, de termined not to let him out of my grasp for a second. Tom snd I.lllion Barney had come to bid up goodbyo. They were sad faced, yet trying their best not to show it. Stuck deep into one nf Tom's big overcoat pockets I noticed a large box, presumably candy, and I felt positive of its destination. Lillian bod alreody given Kent, Jr. some bright yellow jonquils, the first promise of spring to deck tho flor ist's window. ' He held them up close to him, firmly grasped in his band. "Come, we'd better go through the gate now," Kent suggested finally with just a trace of nervousness in his manner. - He shifted the golf bog to his left hand and for a few seconds his right hand gripped Tom Barney's and held it firmly. Then he turned to soy goodbye to Lillian. Tom stooped down and lifted Kent, Jr. up in biB arms for a minute and kissed him tenderly. "We must not bo foolish," ,1 said, trying to laugh, and at the same time blinking some tears back from my eyes. "We are not going so very far away, and you must come up to see us often. Remember, Kent will tele phone just as soon as we get to rights," I encouraged. "That'a it, come up often for over the week-end," Kent urged warmly. "I'll see what kind of a golf course they have up there and let you know about it we might join," he added, turning to Tom. -"Maybe you will both want to move out into the country after you have visited us a few timee," I suggested. It was a little silent hope I was hold ing in my heart. Kent slipped his watch out of bis pocket and compared it with the sta tion clock. Saying goodbye was tell ing on bis nerves. Come, it s nearly time, Babs, he said, picking Kent, Jr. up in one arm and banging onto the golf bag with tho other. I think at that minute Kent, Jr. was the only one of us who was not blinking back the tears. He held the box of candy in one band and the yellow jonquils in the other and smiled at them over Kent's shoulder. 'Goodbye!" 'Goodbye!" we called . back. "Goodbye, Uncle Barnee." And then we went through the gate toward our train and left them standing and waving their handker chiefs to us. After the train had started and we had gone a few miles Kent turned to me as if he bad been reading my thoughts. "You must not feel so badly, dear. Friendships like that do not slip eas ily out of one s life. They have touched too deeply. They will always be with us even though we cannot see tnfm so often." My eyes turned from the window and the swiftly moving landscape just in time to see Kent, Jr. slip a la rite chocolate candy in one large mouthful between his rosebud lips. A happy smile rushed to ,. d memories Uimblfaf the future would holdiiii sion for me-aud it I''! work well, I would baJJS hsppy mother. "H,, A-V EPlLOCr, If you should taks ' out of New york " Wbj tral .tstion and ride 1 minutes, you would flJ H riving at an srti.n. . brick station. Then If the way to go. or h,i Z! would bring you te a J5 white colonial cottars fuL slant ni. , . '"li sturdy, red brick cC-l At one aide nf iv. over-hanging a brood piJ!S quaint old apple knotty, epreadine h. abundance of cool tt" if it were the snrinr r " would see the appl, ,r rVJ: gorgeous, pink bios,,,,,, J I lightful fraeranr . you as you li.n,.j "H white gate. 1 nut if it were in the hit year and the !... .."m tree wero half blown ami C uui, juu miKni 1111(1 M-j,.-! watched he would let fly i etuis; I surprising vigor snH shower of bright red mSI come clattering down and n J over and over in all diwcUcni 1 V" v", uon"i " m b and the apples were all Ml the old tree, sove two rtinii ing, half-yellow little "?' most bough, that hH h... il dodge tho onslausht of tkitl oticlr irnn irnnM 1 ... - , ....u.v. vi-K omUDrhfc greyish smoke issuing frw the red chimneys Then if you hurried the f innt nvr.l, ...J y.t. umbo KDguier on tne stoEl uvvl. juu nuum una i noa'J n.uu. -anil's ior yon ucrjf, i-uiuiuriaoic cnair vs iln.irn 11.. ...... H uic ireitnrf "S or" "U .vou WOllia UHotf! to feel exceedingly welcome ut soothingly honor. But best of all, if ion a toe up the porch and steal tit;, unheeded through the door r, an obscure seat somrabtrt iJ tne abadows, you would eojey self evn more. For within the soft, mi from the open fireplace, im see a m.-n and a woman, tit! J drawn very close together, J intertwined across the scittirj between. Ana in a corner ot tut r.sl up on a window scat and viii bent intently over a book, udo of thick red-gold hair falling p nigh forehead, you would discover a boy, sturdy and hikJ As the evening cane on, ni shadows crept across the risk over the book, the boy trouM ks himself comfortably and dos book and place it dotrn beskk on the window cushion. And then - most likely, in minute he would bound ir room. "May I play the YictroliM er?" he might ask in a tlm.q voice. And the answer wonli softly, "Yes, Kent." Then if you listened csrtte" would catch some of the itrt a song, "or shall brick ltd wj bold warmth snd love insidt if you did hear, you would miM why the man sittiug in one chairs by the open fire leinel and placed bis aria lovingly H the woman s shoulder. TIIE END Asthe World Wags By FRANK FAY EDDY THE LEGISLATURE cecms to be doing remarkably well at the business of discrediting itself. Governor Pierce baa bis faults but bo looms like a rail fir beside a tumble weed com pared with the average legislator now ln evidence at Salem. Governor Pierce has played politics, bus been busy kiuilding up a machine as every poli tician uitibt uecdB do, if he lasts long in the intricate gauicuf politics. But governors come and govra-uors go and most of us thluk it is better to bavo the appoiutive power vested in the hands largely of ono man and a board closely associated with him than to have it lie in the power of boards and commissions dependent for existence upon the legislature. Tbe present legislsturc is disposed to use its Jorge partisan majority to take from the governor's office most' of its political power and incidentally rob it. of the burden of responsibility. The legislators would muke of the governor of Oregon a figure-head. -THE CHILI) LABOR AMEND MENT was defeated by this, legisla ture, giving a needless affront to the plea of the great majority of women voters of the stale, to most of the la bor unions, snd to a great many indi viduals who hoped against hope that the prevailing asininity in the legis lative chambers of Salem might he adorned with ono gleam of intelli gence to save Oregon from beipg numbered on the roll of stales dis graced. Here again I'iercephopia cast its sinister influence, l'ierce was for the amendment, therefore the legisla tors were sgainst it. Debaters Named For Springfield Si'HlNI.KIEI.I), Jan. 31. (Spr-i cisll. Affirmative and negative teams for the coming debating season were chosen in the Springfield huh I school yesterday after trjouts on the i Japanese immigration question. Klisa-1 heth Walker, senior, ond Iteulsh Thurman, senior, will be the affirmav live team, ami Gilbert Marguth, so phomore, and Remold llolton, srnior, ! will be the negative team. The nega. 1 live team, including Marguth. Holianj and Ada t'arr won In the debits this morning. Trlnclpal Vern V. Rain, and Professors ,lfred 1. M-irsan and ; Randall B. Scott were judges. i CLEAVER also is getting bis medi cine, less for his own offenses than because he has bad the aupport of l'ierce. That Cleaver bos been per heps needlessly offensive, and antago nistic to county officials sod ke ed even to null in iarnniny w federal officials is quite ender ':. J ,.., ha b( ll Ul'I'B HOI U''!ui iu.i a anything but shn-ere in Hi Ay at prohibition enforcement, lit"! matter of nrohibition emorasti a slimy rutten mess andltoai gation shows quite pln.nly U hove hod three sets of offWn stale bent on douUe-trcnisl ' other rnlher more than te.S suits in the way of la fn!r One thing is certain, to dtp" county officers alone can 01.7 in' a worse farce than eve" Insin. fiifht with the bootM the moonshiner and their M able customers. THE STi-'HIiITYof theeeSi united ot Salem in a ci'Hitw smite l'ierce, in the front w flsnk, will dawn on tk other election ensues. Ten that they have- furniibfd s barrels of ammunition to w .1 1 ...... ),! utipmiel so infill nnu run -d mit Hint. Waller is some cisF'l Probobly no man in Onr"', sway an audience of ',' J,...i..i . nir. Perce. ' SN fl IIM-I l VI.I .t i .-.- ..I I'erceW Inture is only g" 1 :""irA ONE WAY of service .. . . . it l ni' " ine i.kiiiiiiii -- , n-f nod swayed with nunnnoT" . hia end that is to '"'"""Ti,. soon. There is little "l Mtnm Or - thing hut norm sessions. The sooner t ' the better. Trie bony m j. Point vouth who wsi ar- , foquille river last "-., Uondnv afternoon sM low the scene of hiM masTue'raoe Stevens Hall. V"t'fl; dav, January ' .j for best (cuple) sa rt.J r. , for a icrs. oecoou .. couple. Free I rest IJ, SOMETHING WRONG Hcndachet Backache? Nervous T All dowii n5 Pon't neglect yourself. Neglect niny IfsJ ous illness. " - ' CHIROPRACTIC Removes the cnusc Health returns GEO. A. SIMON Examination Free tit Willamette St. pee 1
