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Page Four THE EUGENE GUARD Tuesday Evening, M, , u 4 I it , i THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally exoept Sunday, PAUL II. KELTY, Editor EUGENE 8. KELTY, Business Manager Offices 1037-1041 Willamette 8treet Telephone 1200 The Eugene Guard la a momber of the Associated Tress. 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 cud also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. TUESDAY, J1AHC1I 3. Is Ours a "Thoughtless Town"? OREGON is again being flooded with mail order catalogues. In a neighboring county thre6 truck loads of tliera have been distributed within the past few days. Tliey arc all from a singlo largo mail order house, 'binulnr catalogues from two other mail order Jiouses are expected soon. 1 ho result will be, as it always is just following an influx of new catalogues, that a vast amount of money in the aggregato will be sent out of Oregon, never to return. It will go to pay ior goods ordered Irom mail order houses ot tar distant cities, which have no interest in Oregon except to take money out ot it. First cousin to the mail order evil is the house-to-houso peddler or agent. He talks alluringly about selling direct from manufacturer to consumer, with no middlemen's profit, hut what ho sells is not cheaper than what one can buy in the stores, quality consid ered, and it carries no eiuorcoablo guarantee, ior the agent is here today and gone tomorrow. And like the money that goes with the mail order, the money that is paid to trie agent leaves Oregon, never to return. No community ever was built up by the mail order house. None ever was set forward through the ac tivities witmii it of agents or peddlers. Neither of these is a factor in promoting community growth. Neither does anything for a community or its peoplo that. is Valuable. The home merchant invests money in a building to House las business or one is built tor him ior which he pays rent. Ho pays money to his employes, who are people living in the community, spending or investing their salaries there. The home merchant owns his homo, and pays taxes on it. Ho contributes to funds for all sorts of public movements for tho community progress. If his business earns a surplus it is invested in business extensions or in other channels, but always' at home. Thus he is an active factor in his city's expansion, pro gress and upbuilding. Thus again it is tho part of good business, as well as tho part of fairness, for tho resident of any city who is interested in that city's progress, to buy at home. - Read Frank II. "Waggoner's "Thoughtless Town" in another column on this pago today; Is ours a "thoughtless town"! finances and the conduct of affalra In Washington. Tbe J.a FolleUe movement la nut dead. Jt liaa beeu here for years, un der one name or another, and may be here for many more yean. It is a perpetually expanding and retracing inovuiuent too much identified with farm economics to be killed off cas ually iu Clilcaen. 25 Years Ago Army And Navy vs. Air SECRETARY of AVar Weeks says tho army 1ms 3392 airplanes on hand which are ready for active service. General Mitchell, assistant chief of tho air service, says there are just 19 such planes available. Secretary of tho Navy Wilbur says that battleships cannot be sunk by aerial bombing and that tests made with tho Washington proved it. General Mitchell says no aorial bombs were used against the Washington, and that ho will guarautoo to sink any warship afloat by aerial bombing. t Tho discrepancies hero arc pretty wido and rather serious. Tho house aircraft committee, which heard the various authorities named, is noplussed. Which ever of the claims made is true unquestionably is demonstrable Thero seems need that demonstration ho furnished. Js General Mitchell a looso talker or are the! army and navy trying to preserve their own dominance' of tho national defense at the cost of efficiency? I (From Tbe Guard March 3. 1000) Ueorga A. IJouck, the well-known rancher and goat man. nas made ar rangeinenta to form a pool of mohair Ior tuts section, with the two-fold ob ject of securing larger return for the rancher and to facilitate the mar keting of the product, .Mr. Houck is the largest producer of goats and mo huir in this section of the country, Searey Brothers yesterday sold the balance of their hop crop, 08 bales. Word reached here this evening of another important strike in Bohemia on the claims of Whale and Gilbert of Salem and Charles Clay of Cot Use Grove. The ledge ia seven feet w.tlu and shows Dative copper, to gether with other minerals that make it valuable, Denjamln D. BorelI of Boswell Springs is a visitor in Eugene today. registering at the Hotel Eugene. v m 9 A telephone line from Cottage Grove into the Bohemia mines is be ing talked of. U. S. Martin has opened up a new furniture store In Cottage Grove. - Aided by a step ladder end a large pair of shears, a young lady was ob served trimming the trees growing in her parents' lawn on Twelfth and tfil yard streets yesterday. A clear case of woman's rights. W. II. Blair of Washington has taken charge of tho Hotel .Sherwood at Cottugo Grove. Pretty Soft! - , . , - AM ItJ.C&NGfcesSAIAN . SM AKB fl" GIVES nIE GCEAT PLEASURE'S INFO&a YouThaT "sour HONESTY, ecciz-ieurV Aun irrAlTV HAS I T BEEN BEWAI2PEP, Vol) WILL . ttVAnnV W A Mice, JUICY NCR6A5E I I A ... . 7 1 . i ' I Annrj MAf7-tl IO'lJ . I A M UA "r"" '"" r'n t in mil . s- . i . -!eJL l ' " JJ'WN i Fellowship of Prayer Paily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. TUESDAY The First Dlsolplee In Lighter Vein There is quito a "yes-yea" chorus around over tho state in praiso of tho legislature for its forbearance, because it passed ho few mischievous measures. Makes one think of Elbert 11. Gary's recent public commen dation of President Coolidge, based on the fact that tho executive had been observing tho prohibition law in his daily life. Suggested menu for economy inauguration day, yhich is tomorrow: Breakfast, 'mush and skim milk; weak tea. Luncheon, Massachusetts bay codfish, boiled; thin bread and butter. Dinner, boiled beef and potatoes;; jmlo; denu-tasHC. , For tho sake of his health John I). Rockefeller drinks lukc-warai water. Of what valuo is health under that condition T Not Enough Tone. (The Purple Cow J Storekeeper "i don't like the tins ot this half-dollar." Customer "What do you want for fifty cents a peal of bells V" Mabel's Car. (Sniper) "I notice that Mabel has an infer iority complex." I hute those foreign cars, don t you '" No Finaerprints. (American J .eg ion Weekly) "Safety first," remarked the detec tive's son us he dunned rubber gloves to raid tbe Jam closet. The Receiving End. (Klods Hans) 'Is Mrs. Mortenaen iu?" 'Vcs. But she isn't receiving to day." , I am. I'm the rent collector." Only Explanation, ( Wutthingtuu Slur) "This taximeter can't misrepresent anything, snid the driver. "What's the nmtti'iV" inquired the pessonger. "Is it broke? Latest Peril. (The HumorUt) A new diHPnttp, railed phrcsphesia tlc. has hern discovered by Professor Inder, of .New York. Whnt a vtutuhl ing-block this word would be to the cross-word enthusiast who stuttered. Whence Satiated. I lloHion TraiiHcript ) Toachnr -"Kobt'rt, give me r sen tence using the word 'naiiitto. Hobby"! took Mamie Jones to n picnic In it summer nml I'll satiate quite a tot ANYWAY, THERE WILL BE CROWDS Many Peoplo Ar. Interested in Tomorrow'a Inaugural, Despite Economy Ukase Tom Sims Says j f AKINO love is ahont like learn ing to drive an nuto. You never will lenrn just by watching someone else. COMMENT OF THE PRESS A Knoekerlsos Town (Qranta lTn.a Courier) There are many comniunioatlona doing lent to the Courier about the janocker. Judging from the letters out In, there la little room here for thein and aa a matter ot (act, one haa not been spotted running at large for some time. Open aeason haa been declared on them here, . . The Garbage Problem (Corvallia Gasetle-Tlnies) Eugene is In vole on a 23,000 bond Issue to etsablish an incinerator plant. C'orvallls will watch Kugene'a experi ment With interest. That la something w. need here. No uptodato city of an; alts 'n coutinue to dump ita gar bage and tin cans along the roadside or In gulleya In recant lots. It It Wrong (Salem Statesman) Several bills that were passed In the last legislature were passed in the expectation that the governor would veto them. The governor ia do ing ao, but It isn't quite fair to ahove this responsibility on to him. However, hn Is meeting It courageously and tak ing It aa part of the game. No bill carrying appropriations ought ever to be passed by the legis lature unless it is paaaed upon by the waya and means committee. This does not necessarily mean that the 'Ways, and means committee is su preme, but it does mean that under (our system this committee should have the first chance at every bill lappropriatiog money,' Then if the legislature sees fit It ran reverse the fiDdiojs of this committee, aa tbe legislature Itself Is supreme, but to paaa a bill carrying appropriatlona without any provision for payment is wrung from every angle. Pronouncing the Third Party Dead (New York World) Among .Mr. Iji r'ollette'a enemlea there Is a good deal of jubilation over the course of affairs at the Chicago conference of tbe third-party move meut. The railway brotherhoods are back on the aidelinea, declining to help organise a new party, though .Mr. La b'ollette wirca that the time is ripe for it. Thirteen other labor organl sntbue retire with the brotherhoods. The Socialists, outvoted on a ques tion of control, are expected to brunch off Into a campaign o,' their own. .Mr. J. A. H. Hopkins of ths Committee of Forty-eight, the Frank Munary of third-party movements, whose perpetual hope It ia to com bine two winga and preserve the best features of both, attempts a bigger and better compromise, but faila. Mr. l,a Kollette'a opponenta In the Kast take pleasure In asserting that noth ing la left after the Chicago confer ence eave a "one-man' party and a rebel movement which haa failed. We doubt if they are right, or If they understand the third-party movement for what It really la. Mr. l.a Kollette'a party Is not yet a party which exista by strengthening Ita liuea between elections. It ia a pro test party, and ae auch it polled the Working for what you get ia morn important thnn getting want you work for. Keep too many irotra in tbe fire and one of them will bunt ou. ... Tho lazy man'a ambition is a coal and ice busiucsa. As an ico man h could loaf in winter and aa a coal man he could loaf suinmera. All work and no bootleg makes Jack a rich boy. Mayn a good argument la knocked down nnd run over by progresa. Ttelng poor la soinetimea more of n habit than anything else. ... Invest -your money, but If you are taking a flyer in finance tnve a lit tle aa a parachute. ... Balloon trousers and balloon tires are all right. It's balloon heads that are all wrong. ... Bread cast upon the w-ater will not return if ths sharks get it. . Here It la weeka after the first of the year aud some of the movie stare using their MCI marriage licenses. . Then, there Is poetic license. Some poeta consider It a permit to murder the Kngllsh language. Report on County Health Data Made Blennlum reports of the Oregon Tuberculosis association on the extent of the disease In the atate have just been published. These reports contain a itatistical study on each county of Oregon. Tbe following Is the report on Ijins county: Ueath rate per 1000 popula tion, 47; deaths from tuberculosis. X; deatba away from home, 7; total deaths, Ho; total of all living cases. very rrsprctabla numb.r of 6.000.000 ( p.,i,nta who appllrd for state rare totes, last year. How many It polls In but not admitted f.-r la.-k of space. 10: liv.8 and again In lllN will depend . patiente who had private Malta ritiui les upon Us own ftrf sniMHim rtre, 8; fs-srvice mm M .vrru ichemes (ban upon tht sutt of frm j mt hosylul at Wills Walla, By IIAItRY 13. UUNT (NEA. Service Writer) yASHINGTOX, March 3. For the nuns iii iim country s His tory the oath of office is to be admin istered to a president by one of his predecessors. This will be tomorrow when Pres ident Coolidge is sworn into office by ex-dresident Taft. Tuft will be acting iu his capacity as chief justice of the Supremo Court, ile is the first ex-prcsideut to hold this position, and hu held it when the present chief executivo took his oath of office followiuu i'resident Hard ing's death. But on that o ecu ion the oath was administered by Calvin Coolidge's fa ther, John LoolidgCf.in his oid New luth'lHiid furinhoiibe. lieu I'resident Harding took the oath, at the preceding inauguration, it was administered by Chief Justice White. Coolidge's iuauguratiuu may uot be tho "big splash" of former years, i but indications ure it will draw just, as lug a crowd. Wush.ngton railroad offices rrport that interest in tho event is nation wide, that the dp maud for tickets iti such that special reduced rates are to be iu effect. itailroods iu tho Trunk I,inc asso ciation a io selling roiiud-trip tickets for one and a half times the price of a one-way fare. The other roads have not yet made definite announcements, but by regu lation of the Interstate Commerce commission they must act in unison iu such matters. Applications for reservations are pouring into the city's various hotels. Those received so for include a re quest from Charles D. Hillen, nation al committeeman for New York stat", for a reservation of 25 rooms and 100 seats at the inaugural parade. Willis B. Dye, of the Indiana State Republican committee, has asked for hotel accommodations and seats for l-o persons. The recent Scott divorce case brought the prohibition scandal in Wasiiingtou to a climax. The real drys realize that they must suppress drinking congressmen who vote dry. Against '.hose who vote wet, the drys cuu't do much in tiie formers' own constituencies. But tho dvys who dr.nk are vulnerable. Tlie drys arc s.ndiug thousands of letters to voters in the districts the wei drys represent, saying, iu effect: "Do you know that your congress man drink a Well, he does. It's up to yon to put a stop to it." This cHinpaign is getting results. The wet drys are iu a state of h.vHter- icri. lint aren't they also somewhat sore on the dry drya'f I'll say bo. Thoughtless Town 2U Hy FRANK II. WAGGUNKH lu you know its utory and where It iSi" Have you ever lived mere? It used to be a splendid town, with Its broad, shared streetu aud well kept homes, its stores that fjnuked .Matu aireet. Its lumber yard and its fiuur mill. Once on a time every tierail was filled. Theu the autos began to ap pear until the hnrse-drawu vehicles became, as uuusunl a sight as the autos had been at fir.st. In those days the stores carried alt that iho commuuity re,uired aud it cat shoe stores, and the town paid tribute to that alien mnuufucturer with the money that was its mer chants'. And another, ombHssador of n man ufacturer of clothing, took orders away from the local clothiers, and tbe towu paid tribute again with the mon ey that was its merchants'. Ami still another, ambassador of a hosiery man ufacturer tok orders away from the local dry goods stores. nd once more the town paid tribute with the money that was its merchants. And so thoj came and .sold and took tribute In every line. Kre long the stocks of the local merchants were reduced to the ex tent of tho goods bought elsewhere. I'he tor burden laid a heavier hand was couteut. Then tho lure of ths city came mid with it the things that because the tribute money bore no make up its lite, and Main street paled in the glare of Hroudway. Hack from the city came the city's merchandise, not to the stores, but to the homes of the residents, and the town paid tribute to the city with the money that was its merchants'. Into the- town, hidden m the mail hags and from all eyes save those of tbe carriers, came catalogs from dis tant houses, resplendent in color and prodigal in sixe, spreading out on their printed p.igef the merchandise gathered from home and beyond the Seven Sois. And order blanks as juietly went back pinned to checks on the houie bunk, aud tho town paid tribute to alieu firms with the money that was Us merchants'. Unobtrusively, as one making a friendly call, stranger folk, some with and some without what might be mis taken for suitcases or hand luggage, share of the town's upkeep. Civic im provements languished fr lack of funds. The town had become a vassal. In New York Bv .TAMER W. PKAN VEAV YORK, March 8. Here's a little tain of tho long arm of coincidence that reached across the sen. Bernard BendJoksen recently bought an old Morgenruder and took it to Kven Olsen, a shipbuilder in Sheepshead Bay, for repnirs. Olsen spied a patch in the hull and recog nized the craft as one owned by his father and in which he had made many trips when he was 14. That waa In Norway f0 years ago. Olsen immediately negotiated the purchase a tl.at all in a lid itt inripplinr It Intn rang the door beJIs of the homes and i . ,- ni,,lllP. .,. entered. They were as they announc-1 ea memseives. amoaassuors ana mm-1 A trio of Gordons prominent on isters plenipotentiary from the court (hs M th. nm of h of the great manufacturer.. Pwnt. f . copyread- ing their credentials to those who had ' j (?on,nn , QtrtiHo urrn "ruTVini as .mitiij o, , ur iiifii old heirlooms here find more work than they can do. Their art lies chiefly in being able'to glue together shattered bits of china and porce lain and then deftly extending the or iginal design of the article to cam ouflage the scars. Telephone pay stations are no in considerable adjunct to many busi nesses. Two cigar etores in tbe Times Square district employ men who have no duties other than to serve tele phone users. They see that those waiting to use the phones keep their proper places in lino and that they enter vacated booths with dispatch. They also carry change for patrons w-ho need nickels. Some stores hare as mauy as a dozen or more phone booths for each of which they receive commission rentals from the tele phone company. Each subway station has one or more telephone pay stations display-1 ing the familiar legend "Local and hong Distance." The joke of thnt is that when a subway train passes ! til rough the station, which happens about iour times to each telephone conversation, you cannot hear your self shouting. Bead Luke 5:1-11. Text; 6:11. They left all, and followed him. Meditation What are we called upon to leave to follow Christ? Only those things which work against our soul's welfare, tie sins of the world, the selfishness of our lower nature, our fears, our alotb. Christ calls every ooe to leave his burdens of sin and come into tbe larger, freer life of Christian experinece. God haa set a lamp to guide the feet of his disciples, it is the lamp of Faith. We cannoa know where God will lead. The faith ful disciple is glad to know "one step" and will not ask to- see "the distant scene." "And that is faith, to do God's will here and now, quietly leaving the re sults to him. Faith ia not concerned with the entire chain; tis aevoted at tention is fixed upon the immediate link. Faith leavea something to the Lord; it obeys his immediate com mandment and leaves to him direction and destiny." I Prayor Give us, O God, faibb to follow in the way Christ rhas led. Help us to lay aside all that hinders our free Christian living, May we rejoice as children of the morninz, with bright faces and joyful hearts. Amen. (Copyright, 1023, F. Ii. Fagley) Ohio has Touch Of Zero Weather COTjTTMRtts. r Mnh a tt-.,.. cedented cold weather for March pre vailed throughout Ohio today, the temperature dropping to nearly zero in inany' places. It was five above here. Weather bureau records show it was tho coldest 'Marcu 3 here in history. FOUR DIE IN FIRE NEW TORK, March 8. Mrs. John Carroll, her 8 year old son and 6 year old daughter perished today in a fire in a five Btory apartment building at Jonnson street in tne Borough Hall section of Brooklyn. An unidenti fied child also was burned to death. A dozen tenants were injured, and six firemen were overcome. Why YOU Should Have an Account In THIS Bank A. TosafeSUdy tnonay. P. For protection In adversity. c- For aid ia bo ness. D. For future oppor. tunlty. To promote ,our welfare io all Io ways, open an ac. count and become a depositor In Bank Commerce EUGEN E.OREGON $15-50 to SAN FRANCISCO Stage Terminal . Phono 1860 t YOUR LITTLE BUSINESS Xj V Oregon Briefs According to Peter Card, park ranger, there are now IS feet of snow at Crater lake rim. The snow is packed down and frozen hard. m Control of the State Bauk of Inib ler has been taken over by Sherwood Williams, president of the La Grande Investment company. Frank whit lock, 71. died M'ednes-; day near Milvorton. He was ... on j of Mitchell A hitlnck, pioneer of 1S4",, ann spent nia entire nto on the farm I where ho died. Plana are being mode ta build a Bible (tchonl and orphanage at Can yonville during the coming summer. These institutions will he in ronnpr Hon with the gospel mission nt thnt place. . The first carload of lime for fer tilizer waa unloaded at Hillsbnro Wednesday and will be distributed to the farmers of Washington county. Three more cars will be receired Int er in the spring. W. P. Hawley Rr. and .Tr. will leare Oregon City in a few days for the past, where they will Inspect paper manufacturing plants before select ing the machinery for the St. Helens plant. V Arrangements hare heat. ,!- Vd for the building-of the California Oregon coast railroad trestle over Rogue river. The work is being done under the receivership appointed lat week by Judge C. M. Thomas, t A number of fossil mnstadoo tooth in a fair state of preservation and some of them nine inch en long are on display at the public library in Baker. They were found on the link-' er-Cornucopia road and presented to the library by Raymond Lore. YOUR LITTLE BUSINESS PROBLEMS Many of you have seen tho time when you wanted to have a lienrt-to-heart talk in absoluto confidence about some little business problem. You have felt it was too trifling to bother the busy banker about and yet it was big enough to worry you. We are never too busy, here at tho First National, that we cannot listen to you and help with all the means within our power. tC 10 YEARS OF HELPFUL SERVICE (fflB i& First National Bank M Robert B. Kelsay Dies at Creswell honor of bfinn privileged to bur di' reiv and svoid tne mmit to wools- Blcr and retailor as wi-11, and who were to enjoy thft adrsntsics of mak ing tbrir sslfotlons in ths comfort and Bei'lusion of their own homes. And on, of thesa strangers, beln, the ambassador of a manufacturer of shoes, took orders awaj from ths lo- BIBLC THOUGHT FOR TODAY LET VS REASON TO CKTHKH, satth the Wd; thoufh tour sins he as ear let, ther shall he as white as CKESWEI.T Mnrch S(Sn...;.n Robert B. Kelss.r died nt the home : of his daughter .Mrs. R s with the Metropolitan opera, Jean i on Monday morning. Mareh 2, at the' Cordon is playing in n light comedy and Joan Gordon has a character role in another play. " 10 ,enrs. jie irares him sur viving six daughters and three so. Mrs. F. S. Robinett of Creswell, Mrs. John Ksrrier of Drownsrille. Mrs. K. E T'yer of Kugrne. Mrs. 1,'has. Ihlls of Oakridge. Mrs. Amos Hill of Elms ..s.mngion. .miss istha Kelsny of snow. lsa. 1:1R. Blkle Ousetlcs tl.ook up the answer) How shsll we know? 2. Or 0 0. The janitor of an apartment house! on Twelfth street is a negro who owns a fine auto, several valuable pieces of real estate and a big bark Salem, W. E. Kelsay of Deuer. Floyd account. He hirea another man to Kelsay and Clayton Kelsay of no me jaouor wora ann paya mm sou.. more than he receivea for the work. He wants only to hare his rent free in ths basement apartment set off for the janitor. Mr. Kelsay csme to Oreion in 1st.-. and lived at Landsi about fortv years. The funeral will be held at the ltuh ! Island cemetery at l-onda on Wed- i nesdar morning at 10:0 oYlork Ti, I Those who know her call her "the 1 funeral arrangements are in thargrj ily who moves." 5he is a widow ! f E. A, Schwering. Infant Mortality It Is astonishingly high among, business ks wH bahlos. The hardships of shrewd competition. ,M fevsr of spending too much for overhead, Iho fm' of over-entliuslBBn- nnd under caiitlon nil these dangers must be watched and cored for by nn experienced business counselor. We have helped many a young Eugene business lnrn"j the dangerous first years ot Ita life, nnd have asslsl M It to gain worthwhile success nnd solid profits. Tma has been possible because we have had the years ot experience necessary to teach tia what can and can't be done in the Eugene trading territory. Feel free to bring your business problems to the official of the U. S. National Hank. You will at once notice that spirit of co-operation that has meant a great deal to the success of our patrons. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK The Bank for Service EUGENE LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK The Bank for Savings lad: whose children hare grown up and married. She will not live with any of them, but she is restless and moves from place to place with great frequency. 1 at month she packed and uupacked her furniture four times. One of the most Interesting occu pations In town Is that of bric-a-brac surf try. Eipert menders of SOMETHING WRONG Headache f Backache? Nervous All down and out' Don't neglect yourself. Neglect may lead to E(rl' ous illness. CHIROPRACTIC Iienioves tho cause Health returns GEO. A. SIMON Examination Fre (is Willamette 8t. Pho
