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Page Font THE EUGENE GUARD "Wednesday THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newapaper published dally except Sunday. PAUL, It. KELTY, Kditor EUGENE S. KKLTY, ISuslneBs Manager Offices 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 The Eugrne Guard Is a m.-mtiur of tho Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise cred ited to this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dlsptitcusa herein are uIbo reserved. WEDNESDAY, I'Eltltl AItY 23 Wide Open Again THUS far no Oregon newspaper that wo have seen acclaims the Dennis amendment as an unqualified good thins;. The measure is regarded generally by the state press as something utterly futile and mischievous besides. Senator Dennis' proposed amendment, as has pre viously been said by The Guard, would not settle any thing, even if it were adopted by referendum, because the amendment could be repealed at any subsequent election, if a majority of the voters should decide that i they wanted an income lax law. Meanwhile, wo shall undergo a rancorous campaign for and against the i measure. Some legislators who are in favor of an income tax I voted for tho Dennis amendment. Did they foresee 'the thing that is not difficult for others to foresee, :that its submission may quite- likely result in the sub mission at tho same election under initiative of another 'income-- tax. law and may conceivably result in its passage 7 Up to tho day the Dennis amendment was adopted tho income tax question was pretty well a settled issue. Now it is wide open again. ' The Lower McKenzie and Yesterday OUT ALONG the lower McKenzie highway yesterday the sun- shone warm and brightly. Wild plum was in bloom. So were many dandelions. And a few spots flamed with brilliant yellow mustard blossoms. A meadowlark on tho roadside fence pealed tho music that only a meadowlark knows how to peal. There were robins, too. In a field a horse was rolling on its back, kicking its feet skyward. Two others lay lazily by, en joying tho sunshine. Four mallard ducks and a green pa'ted drake were swimming in a shallow pond. Many fields wore brilliant with green growing grain and others woro black with their freshly turned wet loam. On a well-drained stretch of road a heavy truck was kicking up a dust. At two places man and wife wero working together pulling in early garden. A woman at Thurston was mowing the grass in her front yard with a lawnmower. Beyond AVallerville a road crew was at work, surfacing. High up on a mountain side to the south a slashing was being burned in the second growth timber. Deep blue the smoko rose, and straight upward. The McKcnzie's waters were gray. Its volume was heavy with recent rains and its murmur as it flowed was strident. School children loitered their homeward way. t They wero enjoying tho pleasant lassitudo that comes with spring's' first manifestation. A long tandem of road mukiiig machines trailed by, drawn by a tractor. At the power headworks a pile-driver was pounding nwny and the echoes of its blows came back resoundingly from tho hills. Growing things everywhere were showing delicate fresh greens of varying shades. All nbout woro tho matchless mountains. Over them was the. indescribable I) no haze that is the crowning heritage of glory of moun tains hereabouts. Far up in- tho pass thero a few clouds were visible and at their outer edge a great rainbow. It Was a perfect afternoon along tho lower McKenzio. In all tho discussion of tho normal school question at Salem tho advocates of increased facilities emphasize as tho chief evidence, of their need the fact that thero is scarcity of competent tenchers in Oregon. The -qucstioni should bo rather one as to whether present .normal school facilities aro overtaxed. Thero have ;been from time to time pretty definito reports that such ;is not tho case. Tho lack has been, if theso reports are correct, not facilities but students. Supplying of increased facilities will not correct the shortago of teachers if this is the condition. It would appear to most of us that tho battleship I Oregon in its midst is ono of the things that the state of Oregan can worry along without, in tho present , paucity of our finances. In the legislature apparently i there is opinion to tho contrary. The bill to appropriate !$20,000 for maintenance of the Oregon in Portland harbor ought to fail and if it does not fail, then hero is a good item on which tho governor might try out his snicker-snee. i ' ! K R Van Fpps, of Orawfordsville, isn't worrying Any about co-operative marketing schemes. The Albany Democrat tells how he raises broom corn as a side line on his farm in summer, cures it in tho fall and makes up his own brooms and sells them among his neighbors during tho winter. That is self sufficiency. Tho king of England is sentenced by his physician, to take a long cruise on the placid waters and in the gentle clime of the Mediterrnm an. It must be terribly hard to be a king. The Asloria Jtudiret has just issued an annual de velopment edition of f'J pages, profusely illustrated, which sets cut comprehensively the facts about the resources and industries of Astoria and Clatsop county. It is a fine edition and a credit, to it publishers. Down in Portland a justice court has just gravely decided that it takes l(i;! oysters to make a pint, and an oysterinan who had been operating on the theory that M were enough has been sent off to jail to revise his eMimite. Another crying need of the day is for a soup that can be guaranteed as noiseless in inhalation. 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Condition are uul at all purulK'l, tor rlondj is tlie winter piajgruuud ut llie liulliouuireit ul Lbe emu, aud Oregon a locution anil ciiuiule lorever bur tliia clubs ul weuiluy pieubuw seekers, it wiu Jfl-ai ily the r.ea tax-dodgem lu our midst but eveu if pabsed will uut materially utiinuluie industrial devulupuient. Au extensive and expensive- cara- puib'U wul prubabiy fuliuw to induce people tu vole fur the measure. e will likely be tuld Unit hundreds of miliiuns await iuvestmeut here, if tlie uiueudiiieut passe, and that it un lucks the duur uf bouudless prusper ity. Probably this cuuipuigu is the iu spiratiuu uf, the measure, for iui meime contributions from thuse af fected will afford fine picking for the propagandists, who will thus be ab sured of prosperity whether their in comes are taxed or not. A Miracle Would Come in Mighty Handy About Now Tha Broom of E. E. Van Epp. Albany Democrat) Borne comment in the always inter estiiig llalaoj Kural KuterprUe, turn ing upon tfae broom industry of lu. h,. Van Kups of Orawfordsville, is ug- zeative of old days and old ways. e uuall not say old and butter ways, but at least they were not worse. Mr. Van Kpps.ruiis a farm, it appears, uud in all ways comports himself in the approved farmer fashion in all ways save one. This way, his broom making propensity, smacks of the cen turies gone when a farm was a self supplying institution on which every thing from soup to nuiB was provided for family use. Mr. Van Kpps does not, as far as we may glean from our contemporary, set out to manufacture his own boots, amuse himself by do ing his vulcanising and black smithing at home, or in general make any no ticeable gesture of practical self-sufficiency. What he does that most of us don't do, is consecrate his idle winter hours to the operation of a little side-line. He can, in consequence, all the better enable himself to patron ire the town hoot-seller, vulcantaer nnd airplane repairer. It does not hamper his summer stylo on the farm to raise twelve acres of broom corn. It does not oc cur to him as a reasonable matter to take the broomcorn to market, be cause the people farmers refer to kindly as "market hogs" gave lnrgcly what they like for farm products, and they notoriously dislike to give any thing. Mr. Van Kpps has nothing to say na to the profit ability of raising broom corn for the broom factory market. lie makes it up himself dur ing tho long rainy duys of winter and sells tho brooms to all comers.. His ovorhead is negligible, tlie time he devotes to it, otherwise dead loss, his brooms are declared to be as effi cacious as those the factories make, and thus, storing up a stock of clean sweepers, Mr. Van Epps supplies his neighborhood and-jingles the coin in his pocket, A Legislative Evil (Salem Statesman) It Ib apparent to any one that one of the great evils of this legislature has been local bills. They aro not fair and yet there is no way to prevent them under our laws. What wo need in Oregon is an amendment as they have in most states prohibiting local legislation entirely. Few men have the nerve to oppose a local bill on principle and It is a mighty ens? thing lo make a legislator believe that all his people want a certain thing bo cause only those interested are con sulted in the petitions and letters. Most states have alrendy prohibited local legislation nnd Oregon should do so at once we should solve a real bad problem. In Lighter Vein j Unlon Forover, Uudge) Yankee Abroad "I just bought a Iti'inbrnndt.'' Tatriotic American "Well, Amer ienn ears are good enough for me." . No Compliment. (The Yellow Crab) Gladys ''He's so romantic. When ever Jic speaks to me he always say: 'Fair Indy'." Kdwnrd "Oh, that's a force r.f hnbit. He ireed to be a street cur conductor." Going Up. (Louisville Courier Journal) "Hluebelle is disatinficd with her huHband." "('an't he bring home (he ltaeoiu' "She wants turkey' Ambition Near Reallred. (Santa Uarbara News) We know a cashier who wished to he one of the 400 snd now he Is N 8S7. As Simplified. (Inidon Tunoh) Professor Hrown "What's that? Ppell my name? Ortninly. H for Itrnntosnurus; it for ItJiitophorarese; O for Ophlsthothelne; V for Willug baeytt; and N for Nueifriiga." Spirit Work. (Wnlmicton Star) "lift yon think the third party will ever tnnteraltze?" "Woll," nnswiTPi! Senator Sorg hum, "it doer n grpnt d'itt of bli rincing and shows shadowy forms that fill us with mnmt'iitarv awe. Hut I'm not eunuch of s medium to eav whi Oier it will definitely umterisliie or not." COMMENT OF THE PRESS nenantiunfl. nr ntlini fir A nr (1ams. unuubJe gains, profits and income of $ lUOU ur more in any taxable year must file with the coiumissiuuer uf m teiuul revenue at Washington, I. C, a return of infurmutiuu uu form No. 101'f, a separate luriu must bo filed fur eat-h person to whom such pay ments have been made, albo a form .No. 10UO must be tiled showing the lulul number of forms Mo, 10'JU filed by thy tuxpuyer. This is a very im portant subject to be borne in mind as failure to file returns of informa tion subjects one tu a penalty. Theae returns must be filed on ur before I March 15, blanks may be secured irom ine on ice 01 me conecior 01 in ternal revenue. Corporations are also required to file returns of informa tion allowing amounts aud tO' whoja they paid dividends during the year. They are not required' to report amounts of less than $500 paid to any uue person, Income tax return blanks are now being released by the collectors of internal revenue and those who. filed n return last year will receive a blank by mail. The fact that one does not receive a blank does not excuse him from filing a return if in accord ance with the law he is liable for one, so if you are liable for a return and have not previously filed one, or if you have changed your address within the Inst year, you should apply to your collector of internal revenue for the proper blanks. lf your income is practically all from salories and wngea and does not exceed $5000 you should use form No. 1040 A, if your income is' from various sources, or if it exceeds $5000, you should UHe form No. 1040. Should there be any items of your return about, which you are not ce train as to the proper way of handling, assistance can be secured by calling at the office of the collector of iuterial revenue, or in most cases your bank can furnish the necessarj information. Maior Cprr?;- Uneral Willi,.,. , ' T1 - M,l chief of the ordnawe j';''';! tli. American , wa thrown from h-. ? U, ? I in In the loj.," .1 The office ,Bi w I armed at IVkin, 011,, 'j QUIET INAUGURAL IS INSISTED ON President Coolldao Lets Washinaton Know he Meant What he 6ald When he Gave Instructions to Keep Down Expenses By CHARLES P. STEWART (NEA Service Writer) XyASUlNGTOX, Feb. 25. When President Coolidge aid he wanted a quiet, inexpensive inaug uration March 4, he meant it. Washington didn't understand him. This may seem queer. The president was plain enough about it. The fact is, Washington preferred not to understand him. Business Washington, social Wash ington and official Washington love a big inaugural splurge. The bigger the splurge the bigger the crowd. Whnt business Washing ton doesn't know nib out squeezing money out of crowds isn't worth while finding out. For instance, although the Bhow can't possibly last more than a day, Washington hotels announced that they wouldn't consider room reserva tions for less thnn four days, the idea being to charge four days' fancy prices for & one-day blowout. That's why business Washington likes a huge display. Chance Given Society " Social Washington likes it because a big show affords society a chance to show off. Official Washington likes It on ac count of the chance it furnishes to put visiting constituents under obli gations for various small services rendered, and, besides, official Wash ington has certain interests which merge with business and social Wash ington's. Business, social and official Wash ington undertook to handle the situ ation so they thought diplomatically. They said the inauguration would be a quiet affair, of course. That was what the president wanted. That was what he'd get. Still, there would be a big parade. There'd be stands, with seats at .$3, $4 and $5, to view the parade from. There'd be a court of honor. There'd be a big inaugural ball. . These different items were added on, inconspicuously, from time to time. Nobody would realize, so the managing committee assumed, that a monster celebration was being built up, bit by bit. Coolldgo Cuts Things Unfortunately President Coolidge did notico that, a little at a time, the inaugural ceremonies were swelling up aud up and up. Then, once more, item by Item, he began cutting them down. He wouldn't attend the inaugural boll. ' Ho never said he would but tlie committee had calculated that, at the last minute, he'd have to. He vetoed the court of honor. The parade? From a pageant which would have taken hours and hours to get post "a given point," he trim mcd it to 45 minutes at most. Regretfully the committee is re turning the money it had collected, to provide tlie classiest inaugura tion in Ui is country's history. Still more regretfully it has noti fied congress it had better take back its appropriation of funds to pay for fireworks, and the decoration of "his toric sites." President Coolidge, it appears, wants to be inaugurated quietly and inexpensively. Tho committee hadn't known this before. gracefully carve a roast fowl. When I j was a boy the ability to carve was a .matter of pride with the heads of houses. I At the recent corset convention here it was decided that curved lines are to supplant the straight line. As a result the flapper now becomes the "dapper," according to one of the corset experts. Fellowship of Prayer rVoily Lenton Bihle reading and meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council xtt Churches of Christ in America. ASH WEDNESDAY The Forty Days Read Luke 4:1-W. Text. 4:1, 2 And Jesus was fu the wilderness forty days being tempted. f EDITATIOX Christ was tempt ed in the loneliness of the wilder ness. It is in tiie secret places of our own souls that we meet ami must master our temptations. The contest with sin wages in our Inner lid1: Thero each one must conquer his own temptations, nnd in the strength tint comes from liod we enn stand firm and experience tho joys of victory ns did our Ixtrd. A Prayer for the Lenten Season Almighty God, Father everlasting, who .hast set us in the fellowship of Thy Son Jesus Christ be near us in this time of meditation and communion. May our hearts be open to every holy affection, and ready to receive and cherish every sacred memory and ser ious impression, liive use to know the power of that life and death, which this season commemorates. Let a por tion of the spirit which led our -viour to the cross, descend upon us and fill our hearts with the love of (iod nnd man. IWe and now. may every selfish ptiwion and desire be stilled and may the peace of God which pasaeth all understanding keep our thoughts in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen. (Copyright, 1025, F. L. Faglcy) Freak Len'lnl"n fOeunia bill submitting to referendum (Salem dpiirtl .lounml) lh), HIIl0111mi.llt baling h1 inn,me uti That .Oregon Is still the "fool nf the ; inlirrltniiri- mx bgislHtioii for a per fitfully" when it rumen t fmik egi-fi.d of 15 jean. Hitherto tho fteak tlon is shown by the paife of (he leginiation submitted to popular vuU GRAND JURY CALLED HOOP RIVKlt, Ore.. Feb. 23. (HneciaH The grand jury will be called in nett Thursday by Circuit i , Judge Fred W. Wilson to nmke readv i for the Mnrrh term of criminal court, j I Several moonshine charves and a lar ! rvny charge have been held from , justice ceurt BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY jesvs s.u 1'xto unt, I am the resurrection and tlie life ; be that belie eth in me, though he were dend, et shall be live; And whosoever liveth and believeth In me ahull never die. John 1 1 Bible Question (Look up the answer) What Is sa:d of fat wit ness r-- Prov. 'Jo. Is. In New York By JAMES W. DEAN JEW YORK, Feb. 23. There are less stogies, cheap Filipino cigars and five-cent ropes sold in the negro section of Harlem than in any other section of New York, a manager of a chain tobacco shop tells me. "The boy a in Harlem usually smoke two-for-a-quarter brands," be says, "aud there is a big demand for higher grades." 9 . Recause of the great shopping pub lic hero there are many stores which specialize in just one line of mer chandise, probably the most unusual of these is a furniture store of Fifth avenue that sells only furniture for children, handling miniature beds, chairs, dressers and even dwarf pi anos' costing huudmla of dollars. Stepped off Fifth avenue into one of the Thirties the other day to buy some socks in a haberdashery. Seeing some that strm-k my faucy 1 inquired the price. "Our socks are as low as $3 the pair," the clerk answered. After I realized that he wasn't joking 1 wended my way out, telling him that 1 would call again. Roth of us knew that X didn't menu it. There are many ways to live by your wits in New York. Some of our biggest concert and stago stars have Just learned that tho woman who sold them "rare and unusual silks and broadcloths" at fancy prices bought them in local department stores. One very conservative broker ad vises his client a to buy stocks mid bonds ouiright and not to dulble in : margins. He has a utile verse, sev erul centuries old, printed on business tennis. Il runs: I "On Monday I bought share on share. On Tuesday 1 was a millionaire, ion Wednesday took a grand abode, On Thursday in my carriag r.de. Fnduy drove to the opera b.ill, On Saturday came to the pauper's hall." Went to a family dinner at a ymtng man's lo'tnc the othi-r night and a roast turkey was in the m.ddlt of tn table. When il was served a servant was cnlied to do the carving. Table carving has become a I st an. 1 do not know one young man who can Oregon Briefs R. H. Laughlin, secretary of the Marshfield Longshoremen's union, has been elected secretary of the Coos Ray Central Lobor council. A total of 45,371 acres in the heart of the Deschutes river valley, which a few years ago was considered al most valueless, produced in 1924 crops valued at $771,078. While driving some hogs along the road near Halfway, C. M. Barclay, a resident of Pine Valley, fell dead. ChaBing the hogs is thought to have brought on a heart attack. Plans for the annual strawberry carnival at Roseburg during May have already been started by the Umpqua Chiefs, who staged a very successful festival last spring. ' V j Mrs. Elza Robe, widow of the Rev. Robert Robe, pioneer Presbyterian , church organizer, recently celebrated her KUth birthday at her home in Rrownsville. The average fine paid in liquor cases to the number of 140 in Coos county last year was $330. Only seven verdicts of not guilty were rendered during the year. The gasoline schooner Acme in try ing to enter Siletz bay Saturday was capsized and the five men aboard had a narrow escape from drowning. All supplies were lost. 1 Farmers of Umatilla connty are re ceiving $2.03 a bushel for their Hard Federation wheat, which is in great demand for reaeeding purposes in Walla Walla and other Eastern Ore gou counties. Tom Sims' Says rrOM Edison and Honry Ford went fishing. Ret Tom caught a few big ones and Henry a million little ones, Coolidge has a mechanical horse in his room. Pushes a button to stop it. Saves him from saying anything. Florists say tbe outlook for spring is very rosy. Gardeners are planning plots all vegetables and a yard wide. We hasten to explain the mechani cal horse Coolidge rides for exercise is not a flivver. We will have a new secretary of agriculture in March. He should Btresa that agriculture is more im portant than just culture. Mozart's opera, composed at 12, is being sung. Most operas composed at 12 are "I dodn't do it." ) A movie comedian says he doesn't want a divorce. Perhaps there is something in these predictions of the world's end. Our philosophy is that the world ends every night and starts out new again every morning. Lincoln's lost speech has been found. Coolidge's hasn't. In Fremont, Neb., a crazy man was found in the street eating raw corn, instead of drinking it, LADIES SHOPPE Dressmaking, hats, lingerie and novelty fancy work, 700 Willamette, upstairs, Phone SSI. ml7 Geo. N. Mcl-ean. Insurance, 800 Willamette St. Phone 617. tf $15-50 to . SAN FRANCISCO Stage Terminal Phone 1S60 I Works Well in Either Single or Double Harness Thrift can lan be depended upon for efficiency work ing well in eithet single or doubl, har ness. An account with tba BANK OF COM. MERCB will enable you to save more1 money. 3 Per cent paid on Savings AccounU. Bank ni? Commerce EUGEN E.OREGON 25 Years Ago (From The Guard Feb. 25, 1900) S. M. Titus today let the contract for a one-story brick 41x70 feet to be erected on Willamette street just south of his present brick block for the sum of $LMjr0. It will have a hand some plate glass front and will be occupied by Mel Green. Sue bids wen submitted, L. N. Koncy having the smallest. ' The annual meeting of the Intercol legiate Aamateur Athletic Association of Oregon wos held in Salem yester day. PelegRte were, in attendance from I'niversity of Oregon, ( treg.in Agricultural college, Pacific college, Nowberg. The northbound daylight overland was eight hours late yesterday and two hours late today caused by the wreck of n freight train at Cabin creek near Oakland. Miss Ada Hendricks is home after a trip of several days in Portland. M. O. Warner left for points south today. K. Yoran weut to Albany today on a business trip. P. J. JenningM, Hohemia mining man, is in the citv. t John Williams and family of Fair mont) t are moving into the former rriul'tn-e of .1. II. F.il:m, corner of Thirteenth and llilynrd s:rfpi. HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND FCR GROCERIES? The chances are, If we en to ask you what you pill for groceries a few month back, you would not be iba to tell us. Tet, if income and outgo a to be kept in the const proportion, a record iaou!i be kept so as to see II jes expenses are growing pest er. Use a First Nattoail Checking Account to M you this record. 40 Yean ot Helpful Servl FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Eugene' a i net; Illl A Grip On The Road Rain slick roads call for tire chains-then ! careful motorist can drive on with confidence. So It is In business. The road to succeei li J too often steep and slippery. With assistance Ul driving especially wi.th financial problems. Many Eugene people have been helped "".j dnnperous places through the aid of the U. S. " Hank. They hnve been given a "grip on ttle ,0. bv virtue of the sound financial program that low; they have gained confidence to strive ane" speed through our policy of honest dealing ad " , shooting. Do you want Just such banking " It awaits you here. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK The Bank for Service EUGENE LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK The Bank for Savings Your Income Tax i j Tiii is the lust cf a cnej nf i j irti-lt'R rxpl.iiniiiK tli inrnmr tflx j to the la) num. It hit been pre ' pared in vifw of rtMent ch.initp I in tlie income tm law. I ly It. A. foXKKV ' (Tax t Vnn!l;in' I i 1.1. (utt-oih. in wuali'vrr ruparilj aolmu. making payment lo nn oikor M'r;on. oi iiitm1', rout, iai.r lire, iti, imuiui:i, timuiuc., coiu- SOMETHING WRONG ( IleAilachet Backache t Nervous! All ilwn C(J Don't nrploct yourself. Neglect may led to "j ous liliiL'sa.. CHIROPRACTIC Kenioves the cause Health returns' GEO. A. SIMON Examination Free 918 Willamette St. I