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THE EUGENE GUARD
An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally except Sunday.
PAUL n. KELTY. Editor EUGENE S. KELTY. Business Manager
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IT.
Some Phases of Wheat's Rise
TO T1IE resident of an agricultural district such as
ours, the first and most general reaction to the
recent-rapid rise in the price of wheat is one of grati
fication at the seeming indication of increased pros
perity of the farmer. A study of details regarding
the movement reveals other interesting phases of the
situation. .
There is littlo wheat now in the hands of American
farmers, certainly not more than 20 per cent of last
year's crop and probably littlo mora than 10 per cent.
This is to be deplored, for the farmers who already
havo sold the gr.eat bulls of the crop obtained for it
an average of not more than $1.30 or $1.35 a bushel.
All above that price that wheat has brought has been
tho profit of handlers or speculators. Tims there will
be no advantago to the farmer in whatever further
advances last year's wheat has made or is making.
On the contrary there is a disadvantage to farmers
who, liko thoso of Eastern Oregon, lost their fall sown
grain by frost and are now buying new seed wheat at
prices as much as a dollar a bushel above what they
received for their own crops.
The great stores of wheat around which the pres
ent speculation is operating are not in the Pacific
Northwest. There is practically no surplus wheat here.
Tho stocks of wheat of the present are held in Chicago
and a few other middle western cities, in New York
Bnd New Orleans, in Canada, in Argentina, in Aus
tralia nnrl in Tndia. '
Practically the whole of Europe is buying, or trying
to buy, wheat except Spain. So are China, Japan,
Egypt, Morocco, Brazil and the West Indies. In some
of the European countries named the shortage is acute
and there is distress or starvation. Prominent among
these is Russia, once a great wheat exporting country
but reduced now, through communistic misrulo aggra
vated by crop failure, to a position of begging bread
for its daily needs.
Grain market authorities are agreed that tho basis
of tho present high price of wheat is in a genuine
shortage of world supply. Undoubtedly the riso has
been further enhanced by hectic speculation. Not much
is to bo expected- from Russia, but tho other countries
which- had short crops last year may havo full crops
this year. Wheat acreage in the United States is in
creased over last year. These conditions indicate that
there is no certainty wheat will bring an unusually
high price after the coming harvest.
There is another phase of the present situation
that is worthy of consideration; It relates to tho con
Riimer. There aro forecasts of an early and consider
able riso in tho price of bread. Indeed nothing loss
than that can bo expected when bakers , exhaust their
present stocks and go into tno market lor now pur
chases of flour.
M. II. do Young, publisher of the San Francisco
Chronicle and one of tho pioneers of tho old San Fran
cisco, is dead. Ho built up a great newspaper of the
kind that tho San Francisco public approves and de
Tnnnrls. Contomnorarv of Henry Watterson, Harvey
W. Scott, Joseph Medill and Charles A. Dana, ho was
not, in tho degreo that they were, an exemplar of per
sonal journalism. Nevertheless ho was an ablo editor.
Ho was a man of broad charity, as well as of great
enterprise, and his benefactions to his homo city were
, substsiintial.
It was said of a professor of English in an Ameri
can Jiniversity that ho was wont to tell his classes:
it A i.nntintiilmll ia 4lin wrnnn- wnvrl in nnfl Jl ROlit nmn
with." Apropos of which tlioro is this from a recent
number ot John u Ijoikioii s neciuy:
Child I want to bo read to.
Nurse What out of?
Child "Koblnson Crusoe."
(Nurso nets "Swiss Family Robinson" by mistake).
Child What did you bring me that book to bo read to
out of for?
Another preacher, this time ono in Norfolk, Pa.,
has chained a monkey to his pulpit while, inveighing
against tho theory ot evolution. 1 ho news account
tells us that "Tho pastor challenged anybody in tho
congregation to concede common ancestry with tho
simian'' and that "nobody stood up." Did tho demon
stration triumphantly prove anything to anybody t
And if so what and to whom?
Cleaver goes and tho stato prohibition department
is continued. All quite as it should bo.' Now lot us
hope that tho new prohibition commissioner has enough
Btamina to put a stop to llerwig's meddling.
It was snowing yesterday in Eastern Oregon.
Folks here were picking daffodils.
oratorical, magnetic or rjulchrltudi
noua. lie has neither intriguing ad
dress nor imposing front, but be has
more information in his bead about
state government in Oregon than any
other individual in the state, bar none.
Ilia information ii not only in his bead
but it is classified and readily avail
able. His judgment ia conservative
and sound and of course is well for
tified by facts. The affairs of this
great state would be safe in bit
bands.
He would have so chance whatso
ever to be nominated by any conven
tion, fur be does not play politics
and scorns the arte of the wire-puller,
lie would stand an elcctional chance
at a direct primary. It is doubtful
whether Oregon can find a more ca
pable man for the office, and it is cer
tain it could not find one who is more
conscientious or devoted to duty. Sam
Koier is J 00 per cent honest.
Save (ha Highways
'(Salem Capital Journal)
Beforo the legislature adjourns, it
is to be hoped that sufficient penal
ties will be exacted from auto-truck
and bus lines to recompense the state,
at least partially, for the highways
they are destroying by using them as
a free right-of-way .for commercial
profit at the taxpayers expense.
JUghways never were designed as
arteries of commerce to supplant tax
paying railroads that maintain their
own right-of-way. as is proven by the
fact that Oregon's magnificent high
way system, built for the convenience
of the people and the attraction of
tourist traffic, are rapidly being
pounded to pieces. Every year the
auto busses are enlarged to carry
more passengers and tho tracks In
creased in size and capacity to carry
more freight and the tremendous
pounding of these heavy loads is di
rectly responsible for tho disintegra
tion of the highways. In a few years
more, it something is not done to limit
this traffic and curtail It. it will he
necesssry to rebuild the roads.
An Investment by the public of $80,-
000,000 is at stake. The tax should
be high enough to provide a repair
ing snd rebuilding fund. If the Blare
and truck lines cannot pay it and
make a profit the public will be bet
ter off if they go out of business.
The fees provided in the bill that
has passed the bouse are too low to
either restrict trsffic or provide the
necessary revenue. They should be
greatly increased.
No Luck! . I
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Ml 'mmmBk
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In New York
By JAMES W. DEAN
JiEW YORK, Feb. 17. He's a roly
poly little negro who earns his
daily bread by hoofing nightly in a
Broadway cabaret. And he is not a
dancer so much by inclination as by
necessity. As be puffed among the
tables the other night one of the pa
trons asked "Can't you aing for us?"
Between puffs ho answered, "No, suh,
Ise can hardly dance."
The familiar sight of two top
heavy patrolmen riding around in a
flivver is no more. They wero dopu-
larly known ns "Dolly Sisters."
now the flivver cops work solo.
They drive around every street of a
police .precinct, reporting to hear
quarlers by phono every 20 'minutes,
tnus being able to reach any scene of
trouble in a jifty.
When they worked in pairs they had
a much-coyeted Job, but It's pretty
lonely business driving a flivver eight
hours by yourself, with no opportun
ity to chat with anyone.
Valentine day is becoming quite an
occasion for gift-giving, shopkeepers
along the avenue tell me. Artlclca of
personal adornment for the ludies and
such porsoual things as cigaret cases
and cigar holdera for the men are be
ing sent instead of the old-fasbioned
lacy valentine.
Inconsequential statistics: 250,000
noonday lunches hsve been served to
underfed children in New York tho
past year by the Children's Aid So
ciety in its ten health centers
$'Ju will give ons child a noonday meal
for each scboolday of the yeor
Tho Shady Best Golf Club at West
Field, N. J., pntroniied by many New
York negroes, is tho largest social or
ganisation of its kind for negroes in
tho Vnited States The New
York Women's League for Animals
cared tor ll.llft-t animals in 1021,
homes being found for healthy stray
cats snd dogs and unhealthy ones be
ing put to death. Watering places for
20,000 horses a day wero provided
during the summer
Heavy snow piles have been on New
York streets for the past month. In
thoso snow piles six deserted babies
hsve been found. .
One of the greatest street corner
heroes of our blir.zard days Is s bruis
ing big fellow who strips to his ath
letic underwear and delivers lectures
nn IiahIiI, Ktnmlmv there ill tliA u-tn-
try blasts he serves as argument for
the snlo ot bit boot on now to Keep
well.
PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY TALESMAN
Everltt Sanders'
Persuasive Ability to be Tested In Pushing
"Coolldge Line" In Whltehouse
By HARRY B. HUNT
(NEA Service Writer)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Fitting
administration shoes to congres
sional feet That, figuratively, is the
really important job Everitt Bandera
of Indiana must undertake in his new
position as secretary to the president.
His eight years service in the
house has enabled him to gauge rath
er accurately the size and shape of
congressional "understandings."
' If Sanders isn't able to "sell" the
Coolidge line, built on "common
sense" soles and with Puritan vamps,
then he's lost the knack of salesman
ship he acquired as a shoe sulesman
back in Terre Haute and Blooming
ton, Ind.
If ho"scllB" the line, then con
gress will msrch comfortably along
with the presideut for the next two
or four years.
If he dooBU t then there'll be a lot
ot limping, much pain and anguish,
and many gaps in the runks where
stragglers with misfits have dropped
out of line.
Sanders, liko Coolidge, is a serious
sort. Son of an underpaid Hoosier
minister, ho hod to moke his own way
through normal achool and college.
H In le clerking in a Terre Haute
store, the year before he entered col
lege, he intimated to the proprietor
one evening thst he'd like to take tho
next Saturday off.
That a not a very convenient day,
his employer answered. "It's ahvaya
COMMENT OF THE PRESS
Clear Lake Not Needed.
(llnrrisburg Bulletin)
Kugene has declared that the Clear
Inks water project Is a boautlt.il
dream and wai ns I lie legislature to go
slow in enacting uieaKiires that would
et up machinery for forcing Joint
niunicipal experimental Improvements
at tremendous expense. The attitude
on the part of Kugene is somewhat
startling. It knocks a leg from under
a ten or fifteen million dollar adver
tising scheme for the Willamette val
ley. All at once Kugeue has discovered
that Its water is pure enough and
thst Its municipal power plant Is quite
adequate or ctin eashy be made so.
And that settles that.
So far, Ilsrrirburg bssn't ssld any
thing. We haven't even enjoyed any
pert of the beautiful dream thst Eu
gene speaks about. The thing has
been more ot a nightmare, an elualve
ttlng that the smsll town doesn't
gratp.
If there has been a point about the
Clear lake water plan that our people
took interest in It was thst whlcji
promised s lower rate and abundance
of wnler for Irrigation purposes. W'i
want pretty hums and greenery about
our homo. Wo want an abuudnuce of
water and we want It cheap. We are
weary uf tho excuse thnt people give
for not Improving their lawns snd
the parking adjacent to their lots. We
wnnt s town hriiiitiful but the rank
and file of our home owners csnuoi
j t ford to pay the price which the pub
lic service commission has authorised
Uie local water system to charge.
There is an abundance of water
here, pure, sparkling water, aa good
ai need h, there is no dream shout it.
We do not need Clear Iske water, as
wonderful as it founds. What
want Is a rate for Irrigation that wilt
put the skids under the dry lawn and
stimulate the home owner to make
Hsrrlehurg the most beautiful town in
Oregon.
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About Sam Keier
(Oregon Voter)
Sam Koier Iscka several of the at
tribute usually associated with guber
natorial timber in thst ! neither
Oregon Briefs j
I'nion county orchardists have pool
rd nn order of nitrate of silver and
will soon have a carload at La Grnn-lt
tor d'stribution.
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Due to lack of steady orders, the
greeu niachiuca of tho plsner sheds
nnil the loutliug docks of the Silver
Falls Timber company st Silverton
have been closed temporarily.
Walter 'A. llolf, county agent, has
placed an order for 4IH) pounds of
certified tirlmin alfalfa seed which
will be planted this spring by tho far
mers ot Clacksnus county.
The cold weather nirt not Injure the
grain In the Lscomh section of Linn
county and the fnll sown wheat look
unusually good for this time ot the
year.
Ployd King and others at IlcrmR
ton several days ago Itoughi 750 head
of horses from Hill Switsler for $;l.."0
a head. The niiiniitls will be slaughter
ed lor their hides and hy-prodocis.
Don A. Skene has sold the farm he
formerly occupied in the Maple I.sne
district of (Isckama county to Frank
Davis. T6e place contains 20 acres
and was sold for $10,000.
The public service commission hss
ordered the California anl Oregon
Coast Railroad company, which op
erntes a line ort of Giants ras. to
replscs within 20 days a bridge which
was recently Slashed away.
25 Years Ago
our busleat time. Wouldn't some other
time do just as well?"
"Well it would be a bit inconven
ient,' Sanders is said to have replied.
"You see, I've arranged to get mar
ried Saturday."
Unlike C. Baacom Slemp, whom he
succeeds as aid to the president, San
ders is lacking in that indefinable
quality known as "magnetism" or
"personality."
By contrast with the tall, swarthy,
suave Slemp, he seems unimpressive
and colorless.
Physically of rather stodgy build,
with a large head and heavy should
ers, Sanders looks miscsst in a secre
tarial role. There ia a sallowness to
his Bkin that suggests his big body
would be benefited by an outdoor job.
The tensely intent lines on his iuee,
too, suggest that it is his will power,
his determination, rather than his
personal preference, which holds hiin
behind the big flat-topped mahogany
dcsji in the office adjoining the presi
dent's. For a time at least, following in
auguration, the White House is to
lose its "Btar boarder."
That title has been bestowed, by
common consent, on the pudgy, well
fed figure of Frank W. Steams.
Not in the memory ot the oldest in
habitant has any individual not a
member of the presidential family
spent so much time at the White
liouse as has Stcarns.-
Uut after March 4 he is leaving for
a two-month stoy in Europe on vacation.
fire?" he said. "Well, he's just put
the wrong cud of a cigar in his
mouth!"
So much snow a farmer claims he hsd
to jack up his cows to milk them.
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If it keeps snowing in Maine they'I
have to sweep the snow off the lawns
next spring so they can cut the grasj.
Another movie star married again.
It's always again. A movie star must
feel Uirilled when she is married first
time.
A young lady who married recently,
tells us she just can't get over lis
tening for the chaperone. i
Boys are not as much trouble as
girlB. You know a boy will do things
he shouldn't, but you always hope u
girl won't. .
A confiding daughter Is one who
tells mother all about her little neck
ing partieB.
(From Tho Guurd Feb. 17. 1000)
Louis Ava has purchased the tin
aud plumbing shops of the Griffin
Ilardwaro company, and will tako pos
session on March 1. The shops will
remain as at present in the annex
of the Griffin company store In the
I. O. O. F. building. Mr. Aya is mov
ing his other business from his pres
ent qusrtcrs in the Grange building.
Frank Jordan Is visiting in the city
from College Grove.
The eection men on the railroad
are busy pulling in several hundred
new tics in tho Kugene ysrd.
Some water pipes were frozen Ihis
morning. Look out tomorrow morning
fi you want to save a plumber s bill.
Cottage Grove has SOO school chil
dren ss against S.M) a year ago.
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At 0 o'clock this morniug Iho ther
mometer registered 27 above.
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F. L. Chambers has just received
one-halt tun garden seed in hulk.
W. II. Alexander, the well known
building contractor of Eugene, has
gone lo Cottage Grove to look over
the situation In regard to building im
provements this summer.
f In Lighter Vein
Cigar Magic.
(London Tit-Kits)
During a music hall performance
there was a sudden commotion st the
back uf the stage, and the manager
dashed behind.
"Look here," he said, "what the
deuce Is all this row?"
A scene shifter smiled broadly.
"D'ye know the magician who enli
lin ppy.
.Then
Ro well's Comment
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BIBLE THOUGHT
FOR TODAY
Is Not This tho, Fast that I
have chosen? to loose the bands
of wickedness, to undo the he.i
vy burdens, end lo let the op
pressed go free, and that ye
break every yoke? Iui.ih
P.S.fl.
Bible Question.
(Look Vp the Answer)
What act of God should wl
particularly follow I. John
1:11.
Dream Clouds.
(London Answers)
Their lifo had been very
Not a cloud had marred il
one morning the wife came down lot
breakfast morose and wretched.
Iie would hardly speak to him.
Finally the young man insisted
that he be told why his wife was
treating him eo badly. She looked
up with teara in her eyes, ind said
"John Smith, if 1 drcsin again that
you kissed another womau 1 wou't I
speak to you again as long as I live.
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Force ot Habit.
(l'enn l'unch Howl)
"Whst's all the noise?"
"Oh, that's just a barber shaving
himself."
"But why nil the noise';
"He's trying to persuade himself to
have a ebainpoo.
How Great We Are.
(iAindon Tlt-llits)
On the host train a visitor from
the United States was comparing the
ntensiva railwavs of America with
tho short systems of the United
Kinffdoin.
"Say," he said. "I can board ihn
ecn in mv home slate of Kentucky .it
seven in the morning, 1 can travel all
thnt ,lav and all that night, and it I
eight the next morning I am still in I
Kentucky. Jl goes me oiu conuiry
ran't tbow snrlhiug like thst.'
"Ah!" replied a voice from behind
a roper, "we have got trains like that
but we don't boast about them.
Sat Upon
(American Legion Weekly)
jin((."Stella, who eat on thnt new.
y pointed bench 111 Hie gnrdeu?"
Slells "Harold aiid I."
"Well, you must have ruined your
clothes both "f you."
't.Not both only Harold's."
Good Tactlrsj Wroag Place
(American Legion Weekly)
Kind tientleinan "You wouldn't be
iu jail now if you had learned a bus
iness and gone in for yourself when
you were young."
Sad Convict "But that's Just what
1 did do. I worked iu a miut."
By CHESTER H. ROWELL
Newspaper and political discussion
of the French debt still treats t ns
if it were merely a question of right
or wrong.
We think we have proved something
when we show that, morally, the
French ought to pay. ,
The French wasted six years dem
onstrating the same thing about Ger
many. Then they woke up to realize
that it had exactly nothing to do wita
the case.
You cannot escape the inevitable
merely by arguing it is wrong, nor at
tain the impossible by proving it is
right.
Of course it is right that the
French should poy, and wrong that
our citizens must be taxed to rixy
what we borrowed to loan them.
Trove that until you are tired.
Then forget it!
The real solution begins only when
that state of mind is ended. Then we
may he ready for some Dnwcs com
mission to find out what, and when
and how, France can pay.
Takes the "rush" out of breakfast!
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triple-quick time Albers Minit Oats spring to your
breakfast table piping hot, ready to eat !
' Tut magic of preookirig does it ! Scientific prc-took-ing
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Albers Minit Oats bring you all the health-enjoytnent
of old-fashioned oats plus new-fashioned convenience.
And, in addition, a new, delicate, nut-like flavor-
toasty taste you never found before in cats.
Ask your grocer!
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Schedules
Routes
Reservations, etc.
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SB 91
Tom Sims Says
ISN'T It pity Sot cn't trade In
your old shirt on a new one like
trading in an old suto on a new auto
Bad news from Psngor, XUIn.i.
penny for a cot
ton ball,
penny for a
needle.
That's the way tho i
money goes
OLD BONO
HOW DOES YOUR
MONEY GO?
Small sums, wheth
er spent or s.ivort,
mount up rapidly.
You must spend
hut you can also
save. An imprest
nccount with us en
courages thrift, on- '
alillng you to make)
small deposits rcg. ,
Hlsrly nt compound
Interest. THAT'S
THH WAY THH
MONEY GROWS.
11 Is ciisy lo opi-n
an account. Just call
and mnko your first
deposit of ti.oo or
more.
Bank
OF
Commerce
EUGEN E.OREGON
Iisssi :
That All May Know
--At A Glance
Ovor six hundred years ago, when Edward I wns rnl.nj
merry England, every baker wns required lo m"k" ,,'',
bread so that "nil people inny know nt a glance t""'
which they buy."
Down through the ages the trado mark lias been , a
pledge of superior service In which customers nam
placed great confidence.
To a multltudo of Eugene business men the words
U. S. Natlonnl Bank haya grown to be a mark oi
telilgont. constructive and efficient banking serv ire. "j- .
S. to them moans reliable assixtnnee. Profit ) ' ' .
experience when you think of the U. S. National, mini
of progressive banking.
UNITED STATES NATIONAL
BANK
The Bank for Service
EUGENE LOAN XND SAVINGS
BANK
The Bank for Savings
SOMETHING WRONG
Ilendache? BacknaheT Nervous T AH l"n nr.d out
Pon't neglect yourself. Neglect may lend to seri
ous illness.
CHIROPRACTIC
Removes tho cause Health returns
GEO. A. SIMON
examination Free 9;t Willamette St.
Phone
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