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An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally except 8unday.
PAUL R. KELTY, fcdltor EUGENE 8. KELTY, Business Manager
Offices 1037-1041 Willamette Street
Telephone 1200
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WKDNESDAY, MARCH 11.
The Warren Rejection
A WAVE of applause swept the bciihIo galleries when
tho vote was announced whereby tho nomination of
Charles B. Warren to be attorney general of the United
States was rejected. Why? Kino republicans voted
with the democrats for rejection. Again why? Was it
an expression of sincere conviction on their part that
Warren was unsuitable? Uno Hesitates so to wmu.
The observer's inclination rather is to look for political
reasons.
Among tho most plausible of these is that advanced
by Mark Sullivan, one of the best informed as well as
ono of tho fairest of national political writers. In an
article published in the papers which ho serves last
'Monday, Mr. Sullivan said, after predicting that Warren
Svould in tho end bo confirmed:
In Warren's case the regular ropubllcan senators are "for"
him. but not "fur" him, to use a subtle distinction In tho enun
ciation of emphasis that has political meaning In the middle
west. For one reason, Coolidge did not consult the republican
senators In advance of tho appointment, lie gave It out in tho
same breath wilh that of Kellogg, and both cumo to the senate
as a surprise. The republican senators undoubtedly think thoy
ought to be consulted In advance, not necessarily as senators, but
as republican party leadors. Coolidge seems to make It a policy
not to consult them. To a slight though not serlouB extent, some
of the republican senators have an air of Implying that since
Coolldgo appointed Warren without consulting thoin, now let
Coolidge get him confirmed.
Tho fact that Mr. Sullivan guessed wrong as to the
result does not detrnct from tho soundness of his con
clusion regarding tho reasons for tho opposition to War
ren's appointment. President Coolidge remarked in the
course of his inaugural address last week that congress
is jealous of its authority and added generously that
it was rightfully so. llo might also have added that the
senate is particularly joalons. And some of tho indi
vidual senators manifest this (rait to an extreme degree.
In tho list of tho ten republicans who voted against
Warren ono finds tho names of those who have quite
generally failed to give to the administration tho support
to which rules of parly fealty might he supposed to en
title it, and tho namo of Borah leads them Borah to
whom as chairman of the committee on foreign relations
tho president, must look fov co-operation in other matters
of very great moment to the nation. Oregon's two sena
tors, it is noted, supported Coolidge.
Tho country looks to tho president and not the
senate for proper cabinet selections, and for thoso selec
tions it holds the president and not tho senate responsible.
Majority sentiment of the country, if wo mistake not,
will bo thnt 4he senate, in what it hns done, has misrep
resented the cpuntry. Certainly that conclusion is justi
fied on tho face of returns of the recent election, which
declared for Coolidge by tho greatest popular plurality
ever accorded a president of tho United States.
Yesterday's result bodes badly for teamwork between
the president and tho senate. And it emphasizes again
a fact often remarked in these columns the weakness
of Coolidgo is that ho cannot lead congress. His leader
ship is a popular rather than an organization leader-hip.
About Wildflowers
THERE was snow on tho Coburg hills yesterday, but
in tho valley a few moro trilliuins spread awido their
petals to reveal their completed loveliness of satiny while,
surrounding their surpassingly dainty yellow centers.
Spring beauties in blossom were running riot by lhe
roadsides. Here or there, was a blooming laiubtongue,
amidst hosts of others in bud.
A week of warm weather and tho country about
Eugene will have beconio a vast garden of wildt'lowers.
It will not bo so recurrently through tho future years
unless. that vandalism is curbed which finds its expres
sion in digging up tho tender plants by tho roots and
carrying thqm away to wither and dio in tho unsuitable
environment of homo flower beds. Tho plneo for wild
flowers is in t.licir natural surroundings and soil in the
wood and field nnd dell. Not all are deliberate vandals
who seek to tako them thence, but those who are not
vnndals are cither very thoughtless or very mistaken
persons.
Ho who wants wildflowers to remain tho perennial
joy that they now are will pluck the blossoms in mod
eration but leave tho plants and tho roots. Wildflowers
need to ho regarded as living things and helpless ones.
Those who lovo them wisely will treat tlrcin as other
helpless, living things are treated.
Tnris society is sold to tho idea, apparently, that
not nil is gold thnt glitters. It declines to open its gales
to our (jlilleriiig Gloria, notwithstanding that she is
heralded to tho world as a newly-become nuinuise.
llcr marquis, it finds, spent most of his tiino in this
country behind a bar. Now ho and tho marquise find
a bar raised against them.
Myrn, second largest known star, is found to be
250,000,000 miles in diameter. Antares, the largest
known star, is 400,000,000 miles in diameter. Our earth
is 8000 miles in diameter. What stars are beyond Myra
and what beyond Antares? And how can any man
fancy his world or himself great?
Ono finds it dificult to get excited over tho effort
to mandamus District Attorney Medley by tho attorney
for a man accused of violation of tho prohibition laws.
Since his recent assumption of his office tho district
attorney has shown both the will and tho ability to
fulfill its warranted duties fully.
fied befure the congressional investi
gating' committee declaring that the
buttk'Mli.p is now obtulete and that
future conflicts will dfpend upon air
craft, thus juistsuiilig the position
taken by .Mitchell.
Tiie truth uf the situation seems to
be that the nutionul defense depends !
upou obsolete wur craft, powerless j
before attack.ng aircraft, and that our
own aircraft development has been so
badly neglected tliut ouiy a few war
planes are available for defense and
none of these a match for the super-
war planes that the (Jcrmaus aro
building for Japan or that Britain and
1'Vunce are constructing for their own
defense.
General Mitchell has rendered a val-.
uablo public service by bringing out
the fucts regarding the weakness of
the national defense and tiie official
condemnation of the red-tape burestl-
erntM, who are still living in a day
that hue psgsed, will only serve to
popularize linn.
The Bus Law
(Corvsllis Gazette-Tiroes)
We should be grateful to the found
ers of Oregon fur leaving a loophole
in the constitution for a governor
when he d.d not have the intestinal
adequacy either to veto or approve a
w em u re. If they hsd not done so, the
only constructive piece of legislation
accomplished at the last session might
not huve become a law. This was the
b.li increasing the toll to be paid by
the b.glnvuy destroyers the buses
and trucks. Home day the people will
wuke up to the fact that these private
interests for purely commercial guin
uro destroying the public highways.
Ilio people will realize this when they
have to rebuild them and then tbey
witl enact legislation that eliminntc
truck and bus traffic entirely- The
only trouble with the present bill is
that it doesu t go far enough.
A Teachers' Protest Against "Drives"
(New York World)
Teachers complain that they are
tired of "drives," which they declare.
serve only to disrupt class-room work
and add to tiie teacher's burdens. The
gist of their complaint is mudc pub
lic by City Superintendent of Schools
William J. O'Shca.
The bill-bonrds cannot hold all tiie
"drives" ive have had and the calendar
cannot hold their "weeks." They all,
of course, make a scramble for the
schools, whero they proceed to abuse
the teachers' obligation to public ser
vice. We yield too deferentially to -whatever
Is done in the name of progress,
regardless of how absurd the particu
lar cause may happen to be. H would
bo a wholesomu tiling If opposition
wero expressed when some cnccinlly
absurd campaign was luunched. With
such a possibility starting tliemin the
face, the proponents of such drives
8s I.enrn-to-Swiin Week, held during
the chilly days of lust month, might
not be so rash.
And in the Meanwhile
Oregon Briefs
The work of paving the new Lewis
and Clark bridge below Astoria had
been completed and the bridge will be
thrown open as soon as adjustments
to the Bpuo lifting machinery have
been made.
Mrs. Louise T. Sweetinan, promin
ent realtor, who was stricken witli
paralysis a few days ago, is dead nt
bur home In Marslifleld. Mrs. Sweet-
man came from Oklahoma to Muisii-
field 1!0 years ago.
Orin W, Trniu, 09. well known
farmer of Jackson county, was found
dead mi his ranch in the 10 vans creek
district wilh a bullet through hjs bend
and a revolver in ouc hand.
The l.lnu county forum has been m
vited to co-operato with the forum nt
Lacombe March, 11) in n joint effort
to booNt fur the consolidation of
school districts in thnt section ami to
etititblish n uniou high school.
Snm It. Thompson, prominent busi
ness liiiin nnd director of the l'cndlc
ton louiiil-l'p, wlm has been in a
critical condition in it Hcstnn hospital
for omo time, is now convalescent
nnd Is expected to return to Pendle
ton within u month.
l'ostoffico Inspectur It. (.'. Mcllisli
of I'cmlMon, who mode an official In
vestigniioo of the postoffiro nt
Princeton, in llnrucy county, last
week, demanded the resignation of
Mrs. Koliler as postmistress nnd
placed (ieorgii C. Christopher in
charge.
The largest building project in As
toria beciimc assured last week with
the signing of a contract by the As
toria linpvovement company for n
three-story hotel, theater nnd merenn
liie building at Seventh and Commer
cial streets.
The most powerful electric search
light in the world has a range uf fill
mih's. It is part nf tho equipment
nf the 1'. M. lighthouse scrvico on
Stnten island.
WHAT'S THAT?
llig Hosing event at the Winter
Gnrdcn Monday night. mid
BIBLE THOUGHT
For Today
Thou are my lnmp, O Lord:
and the Lord will lighten my
dnrkuess. For by thee X hare
run through a troop: hy my
God have I leaped over a wall.
2 Samuel "V:2i 30.
Bible Question
(Look up tho auswer)
What shall be don with who
abide not in the Lord? St.
John 15:6.
COMMENT OF THE PRESS
Mltclnll's Demotion
(Salem Capital Journal)
General .Mitchell has suffered the
usual fine of army officers who rrltl
rlae the policies of the autocrats of
the general staff. He has been demot
ed from brlgadler-geueral to colonel
and relieved of command of air forces.
He will be lucky if he Is not rourt
lusrtinled ami discharged.
It la an interesting coincidence that
on the dy, General Mitchell Is remov
ed fur Insisting upon the necessity of
a reorganization of aircraft service,
officers of anti-aircraft defenses ad
mitted defeat in tests at Fortress
Monroe, Virginia, where antl-nircrutt
guns failed to score in a single hit and
illuminsling devices failed to pick up
aircraft! flying in darkness.
Mitchell's punishment also follows
shortly ufter Admlrul Sims had trstl-
sat- i wvrfi& ) yj? wf vivr a (rasi
BK3 AS TbSSIBLE IA C?OTZ WflV.-r
"OUTS" ARE GETTING AFTER "INS"
Democrats Prepare to Make" Assault on Claims of Republicans
Reaardlng Party Accomplishments
By HARRY B. HUNT,
(iNKA Service Writer)
WASHINGTON, March IX. An
important part of democratic activity
during the next two years will eon
b.st m "keeping tho record straight"
with respect tu various ami sundry
cluiius of "republican accomplishment."
The party of lhe "ius naturally
uud necessarily broadcasts to the na
tion the news of every inovo which
promises to hold old votes or gqt new
votea nt the next election.
And the party of the "outs" if It is
to stumi any show whatever of get
ting back into power must be con
stantly on guard to expose and punc
ture all claims that a.e not 100 per
cunt puncture-proof fact.
Already it is apparent that the O.
O. P. bulwark in the campaigns of
uud '18 Is to be the party's rec
ord on economy.
An das thin breastwork is being
built, dollar by dollar. In the record
for uiouey saved or expenses reduced,
demoemtiu scouts are ecrutinizing
uud analyzing each inch of its con
at ruction to locnto.wcak spots or
false work that may weaken-its de
fense when the tiino for the net "Cam
paign offensive arrives. ' '
Chief amoug the democratic statis
tical experts who will check republi
can economy claims in the hope of
finding weak spots to attack is Cor
don Hull, ex-national chairman, and
for 10 years member of congress from
Carthago, Tenn.
As a good democratic Tennessee
sharpshooter, Hull has drawn a bead
on the recent economy claims of
President CooLdge and Budget Direct
or Lord.
He thinks these are vulnerable and
already has taken a test shot or two
at what he thinks are weak spots.
Uue item aloae, of 780,711,000,
or close to half of the total suving
claimed by the G. O. P. for the year
lU-li, Hull claims is merely camou
flage, not a "saving" in the real sense
of tho term at all.
"The big cutch in the favorite re-i
publican 'econoniy figures'," says Hull,
was disclosed by President Coolidge
and General Lord on Jan. 20. Presi
dent Coolidge said on that occasion:
'In the fiscal year 11)21 we spent
$5,3:W,0U0,0OO. It is estimated we will
spend this .fiscal year $.534,000,000
This will show a net reduction of
004,000,000.
General Lord said on the same occa
sion: ''Federal expenditures in 1021
were $5I115,DL7.US1.30.'
.
"This is the sort of hopelessly con
fusing information being broadcast
over the radio by the highest govern
ment officials.
"Both President Coolidge and Gen
eral Lord, carefully omitting the
slight reductions for 101' and 111-4,
rely almost solely on the single re
duction of $1,700,000,000 in lOL'li, as
constituting a continuous three and
one-half years' record of outstand
ing economies.
"It would have been equally sound
and accurate for the Wilson admin
istration to havo claimed the reduc
tion in war expenditures from $1S,
514,000,000 in 1010 to $0,4 0.1, 000,000
in 1020 reduction of $12,111,000,000
as an economy and saving. '
"For one item, affording nearly one
half the claimed republican 'saving
pertained to government operation of
the railroads, now permanently re
turned to private ownership and op
eration." '
23 Years Ago
(From The Guard March 11, 1000)
Attorney L. T. Harris returned to
day from Rose burg where he hus
been on a business trip.
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The peoples' party county central
committee, met in the courthouse at 1
o'clock this afternoon. It was moved
and passed that the organization send
10 delegates to the state convention.
"Oregon is peculiarly adapted for
the raising of flux," said Marcus
Simpson, manager of the Portland
Linseed Oil works of Portland, at The
Hoffman this morning. A fiber mill
in Kugcne should be the goal for bus
iness men of this city, according to
Simpson.
The surprise banquet seems to be
epidemic among the various orders of
the city und the G. A. R. was not al
lowed to escape its pleasures. And
the order enjoyed a merry time last
evening.
Miss Fannie llcmcnway, who Is
leaching at Waltcrville, is a visitor
in the city today.
Miss Ada Hanson arrived home to
day from on . extended visit in Ta-
I coma.
Fellowship
of Prayer
Daily Lenten Bible resdint
snd meditation prepared for
Commission on Evangelism of
Federal Council of Cbuicbes of
Christ in Amerlcs.
WEDNESDAY
. Oostf Among Men.'
Head Lk. 7:11-17. Text: 7-16. God
bath visited his people.
MEDITATION Cod has given us
muili both within our own Inner
lives and in the world about us to re
mind us xt himself.. There are deep
in flll men "ir timnrinna nf 1mn.r..ini.
Ily" and a reaching out for kinship
viuu me ureat opirtt mat rules the
Universe. Vi'a knnw ha 1. hv lhA i.ci.
moor of our own souls. In the world
about us how often are we remind
ed of him, Earth with ita thousand
voices praises Uod; the height of
mountains calls the oul to reach up
ward; the broad sweep of the sea in-
uci uie soui eo wiuen its noirzon and
to these Voices nf nnlnrA nit,' im.i.
responds. Jesus came revealing the
Ciod of our ow nsouls and of tho uni-
VOrSO SB A ll'lltllfiiv infinlt in 1
and mercy. God was in Christ renew
ing mm comiorimg tuo souls ot men.
lu Christ, God visited his people in a
new way. that ita miaht hnva :.,,.
knowledge of our Father in heaven.
IKAltU ttcrnol God, we are
ever thankful that thou'did'st reveal
tnyseit in Jesus Christ. We would al
ways think of thee and love tbco as
tho Father ErornnK T.f ,, .unii.
suro and kindly fellowship with thco
andall thy children. Amen.
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Compound to women who are
weak, run down .and nervous."
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