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Page Font" THE EUGENE GUARD ThnrsdayEvenj,, j'1 If ! i' it-.-i'f ', Yt'llf ::!! Y';! ,:i ' Y , ;;'j YI.Y , i K ii it i ,1 i t hi,! 11 Y i'. I :'l ii-' Y i V : 11. !v "' . Vi '.i f ' ! p. THE , EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally except Sunday. PAUL R. KELTT, Editor EUOENB S. KELTY. Bualnesi Manager Offleea 103M041 Willamette Street The Eugene Guard la a member of the Associated Press. Tbe Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use (or publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise cred ited to this paper and also the local news published herein. AH rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. THURSDAY, MARCH J2. Taxation HOPS grange, of Alsea, in Lincoln county, has adopted a resolution declaring for an initiative measure to bo placed on the ballot the next election providing that ull forms of taxation except a graduated income tax be abolished in Oregon. ' The Dennis resolution to be submitted under referen dum at the next election, which would abolish all income and inheritance taxes for fifteen years to come, repre sents one extreme of proposed legislation. Tho plan of the Alsea grange represents the other extreme. "Whether its plan will receive indorsement sufficient to gain it a place on the ballot at tho next election is some thing yet to be determined. At present there is prospect that it may. For years Oregon : voters were aced at recurring eleotions with a measure intended to make land carry all the tax a single-tax measure. Always it was voted down. Now, apparently, question before the voters of a measure to let the land carry none of the tax. Singularly among its most active proponents are those who formerly wanted to have the land carry all of the tax. Ouo wonders just what the influence was behind the adoption of the Dennis resolution. Whatever it was, the measure is destined to raise a lot or dust in urcgon this next year and a half. ' ' The Paving Material Suits. SCANT oomfort is to be obtained from the assuranco that the attorney general's office at Salem is prepar ' ing to do what it 6an to prottot the interests of the state in the $750,000 patent suit brought against it by Warren brotherSj paving contractors, for alleged infringement of patent rights in connection with the use of certain pro cessed paving material of their invention. It is . little wonder that at least one membor of the state highway commission favors efforts to compromise the case. War ren brothers, unfortunately for the taxpayers, seem to hold just about, all the cards in the deck. ; ( Eesponsibihty for the state's dilomma bolongs, in v)the main, with a former legislature, because, some five ' years ago it undertook that responsibility when it au , thorized the state highway commission to guarantee se- curity to contractors using the paving materials to which patent was olaimed by Warren brothers, notwithstanding their olaims and their warnings of reprisal. : One con tractor who undertook to set tho warronite patent at defiance was the late Oskar Huber. Warren brothers Biied him for infringement. The suit has quite recently f- been duoided in federal circuit court of appeals in their i favor. Encouraged by this success, they have now be gun suit in the iodoral court at I'ortland against tho I n(nU I, ! n.ii run AnmmiDoinii itOftlP nniilflv wifll fima nmt. tractors and four surety companies, claiming damages at the rato of 25 cents a yard for patented material laid in 1919 and 1920 on Oregon roads. In view of tho outccmo of the Ilubor case it is not easy to foreseo a result any more favorable to tho state in the present cases. It would appear that tho member of tho highway commission who favors settlement by compromise, if that can be brought about on favorable terms, proposes to seize the less ugly horn, of a very painful dilemma. ' Last year a committee headod by Senator Wheeler made grave charges of ill doing against the department of justice as then constituted. Tho department of justice countered with charges of unlawful acts against Senator Wheeler, which aro still pending, lleoontly a committee headod by Senator Couzens brought charges of gross favoritism to various so-called trusts against tho treasury department. The treasury department now bririgs a charge of incomo tax fraud against Senator Couzens. The reactions of tho public to such situations as these aro those of doubt of everybody concerned on both sides, tingod with disgust. Whatever the original morit or any question arising in congress nowadays, political bickerings soon obscuro tho real issue. Apparently no party nor any faction is free from participation or blamo. In tho person of Emory K. Buckner, Now York has a new federal district attorney who indicates an inten tion to make prohibition enforcement a reality. Under tho tonus of tho padlock injunction law ho has closed for a year the Now Kochello hotel and ousted its fifteen tenants, including a furnishing store and a restaurant, lie announces furthor that ho will bring similar pro ceedings agninst 1000 other places unless their owners clean up. The fuirness of his method is open to ques tion. Ono might say that it will bo likely to make pro hibition enforcement obnoxious but for tho fact that in INcw lork it already is as obnoxious as it possibly can bo. No scheme of punishment of the guilty is justi- fiablo which penalizes tho innocent. Steadily tho fund for enlargement of tho children's farm home at Oorvallis is being augmented. At Port land a big benefit show is to bo held at tho auditorium, tho entire proceeds of which will go to the fund. The fund for the Lano county cottage has not yet been com pleted, but has made substantial progress. Need for prompt enlargement of the homo facilities is shown by tho faa that SI children aro now quartered in throe cottages who normal combined capacity is 0 children. (, If it should develop that Wnllaco McCnmant is Pres ident Coolidge's new selection for attorney general of the United States, he would be tho second man from Oregon to occupy that position. The lato George II. Williams, of Portland, was attorney general in tho cab inet of President Grant. COMMENT OF The Buiy Business Mtn. (Itosf burg Newt-Kevlew) Tblngi are pretty lively for the average business man and propfrty owner in Orrgoo just at the preseut moment. Jurii'g the mouth of t'ebru- Telephone 1200 Extremes there is to bo a perennial THE PRESS ary the county presented Its "clients" with 1I1'4 tai ststemrnts, the for ernment silted for a checking of yorr iwonn for the aami year, with a re minder that Income taxes must lie paid by .March 1A. thi year. And, for 1 Hear you might fear a stray penny in jour overall, th state if going to collect that unpaid portion of tne 1024 atata income tax. They ought to find aomething else to bang on the taxpayer.) Just to keep them wa.3 until apring arrival. Broccoli and Froat. (Grant I'aaa Courier) Truck grower are making a broc coll tour on Wednesday. It would-be hejpful if they could Bee the condi tion of some of the bloccoli fielda to the north, which were just about wip ed out by the heavy froats of the win ter. A comparison with those of Jose phine would do much to show them that this is tbe most favored spot in tho Btnte for this crop. Ad PrUon Full. (Salem Capital Journal) t With, 017 convict in the state peni tentiary and with a dozen more eu route, the record of prison population is at its highest peak. Ho crowded has the institution become that it is nec essary to place three' prisoners iu some of the cells. We can hurdly believe this, for pro hibition was to empty our jails, pris on and asylums yet alter 10 years of atate dryness, there are more peo ple in jail, in prison and in the asy lums in Or t gun than in her (history. .Moreover, in the old duys most of the. convicts were men over 40 years of age. Today 00 per cent are in the early iJO'a. j Tne ame condition exists through out the UuUki States. There is more crime today than ever, more law- hranlr inn atA mnm iiimtnitr 'I lip rnr- ord of arrest a in all large cities is at its zenith while the record of unsolv ed crimes looms larger every year. All of whioa shows thut as an eli minator of crime, prohibition hiu been a failure but as an inspiration to law breaking it has been a phe- noimnal success. Not Highest Prison Population. (.Salem Statesman) Several Organ newspapers have In the past couple of duyu published th statement that the Oregon peniten tiary thud the highest population in its history Which was not true. The number of prisoners yesterday waa 617. The record number was 500, in 1010. There la nothing to the itulcment that prohibition has . increased the Oregon prison population. The fact is, It decreased it. There were only &U7 men on Januury 1, UKH, and the num ber of men ibaa for a long time run around 850, which is very low for u state with the population of Oregon. Some of the increase of our prison population is due to the growth of our general population. We had about as many prisoners in the Oregon peni tentiary, in the days before prohibi tion, when the population of our state waa not more than half what it is now. There are some bootleggerB and moonshiners among the present prison population; but very little of -the growth of late can In any other way bo attributed to prohibition. A great deal of the Increase enn be attributed to the unsettled conditions following the war. A lot of young men who were uprooted from former environ ments have never siuce became set tled. 25 Years Ago (From The Guard of March 12, H00) Green ten f Itom When Hazel Wtheeler was on her way to Eugene recently she followed the track of u small bear in the road up Chickahom iny mountain and near tho top pars ed the animal, which sat on a log near the road. Hazel's horse seemed to be more scared than she, but she passed iu safety. Wheat in Junction is bringing 85 to 30 cents per buahel, while iu Eugene it ise worth 88 to 80 cents. The little steamer Gypsy Is work Ing on the upper . river. The boat went to Monroe Friday loaded with 70 tons of freight. The Excelsior mill is' now running full time. The fimt car load of tho manufactured article will probably be shipped from this point Wednesday. After that ditto there will be numer ous ones sent sway, The Congregatloual Endeavor so ciety will meet tomorrow event ug with Mr. and Mrs. It. McMurphcy for the monthly business and sociul ses sion. In front of McClmig'a store thin afternoon a couple of ladies were driv ing along in a buggy when one of th) lines broke. Attorney lUlyeu wit Deni ed the us mo and Immediately jumped to the fore and caught the horse as it started to run swaj. Miss Anna WMttaker went to Port land this afternoon to visit her sister. Oregon Briefs Forty building permits were Issued iu llend during February for new residences to cost f-S.tlM. Msrehfteld school bonrd has set 1 March 80 as the dafe for a special election to vote on a proposed iasue of $:to.lHH to cover building needs of the city. Exports from the port of Astoria for the month of February mounted In value to SUlU.POO. The same month lstt year tho exports totaled filVH,- 100. I Partus Jevome Dunn, well known; Oregon pioneer, tiled a few days sgo nt his home near Tillamook where he had lived for more than 60 years. V V Mrs. Klixabeth Ine, wife of Judge bene of Cascade Locks, was serious ly burned Thursday when sho slipped and fell agaimt a red-hot stove. Fa ul Mutlke was Instantly killed Inst Thmursday when he was caught and crushed between two moving U'gs at tbe hvlin-Hixon camp near Item. Completion of the Hood River- i White .Salmon interstate bridge and i tbe opening of the Mount Hood loop highway will be celebrated simultaa euusly at Hood ltiver in June. The new bridge over the Iwis and CUrk river blow Astoria was com pleted last week and opened to traf fic .Sunday. Ths structure cost W.W 000 and was started in August, 1U-3. i n mi n tt WASTE, GREAT AMERICAN MENACE Head Waste Eliminator of Country Says We Throw Away Ten Billions Yearly JJy I.AKHV HOA HUMAN l.NKA Service Writer) WASHINGTON, March VI. Amer- k-a iu fuciug a menace more than oolsuevism or ouy of the other bogeys which have been held up for our awud consideration It is the menace of wuste, Yet the amount wasted in the Uni-liug Uf the amount wasted iu the Uui- lion dollars could easily be saved? This is the statement of ltay il. i Hudson, the country's head ., waste eliminator. . ' : V Hudson's official title is chief bf tho simplified practice division, Ui S. j consumer. Bureau of Standards. His organiea- "To illustrate how the system has tion is the government's combat unit worked take the case of a man build assigned to fighting the afore-men- ing a home. )Vhcre there were for tioned menuce. merly 80 variations in the size of face Here's how he describes its war. operations: The waste menace is so deep- rooted that it is levying a constant inn do in 30 sizes. Now It is made in tax on every ninu, woman and chlldj 10 Meta ifath was formerly sold in iu the United Status: The tax. iu P'fSfa aizes. Now there aro only 24. cd upon us in the form of costs' . af? "The variety of items of yard lura articlcs in every-duy use costs which ;j ber has been reduced GO per cent, and are passed on to us by the manut'ac-1 the home builder now knows for the Hirers nud distributors, "A report uiado by 18 leading indus; trial engineers of the country to Sec' rotary of Commerce Hoover stules that in six major industries the waste of material, time und effort averages 50 per wcentl "It Is this same report that dd dares 10 billion dollars of the pres ent waste could be recovered. J':- "One of the methods now being used in nu effort to curb this huge loss Is simplification. This means the study of an industry, of the variety of cvery-day goods it offers, of the demnnd for the Items. i The sequel to this is the presenta tion of such facts to the producers, distributors and consumers to enabli them to weed out the dead wood. "Experience has shown that 80 per cent of the demand in the average in In New York ly JAMES W. DEAN MEW YOltK; March 111. The most congested district of NeW York is comprised of the six blocks that lie within avenues I) and E and Third und Ninth streets. Thirty-three thou sand humuns live in that small area. They arc mostly Kussiau Jews, Irish und Italian, the proportion being in that order. However, just ub ut every nation of the earth is represented iu the dUtrict. A few statistics may help you t" realise, the congestion in which theyc peoples live. They average 7lt5 peo ple to the a roc or 4TO.U7U to tbe tn) tut re mile. These figures take on nn added sig nificance if you can picture the pop ulation of Milwaukee, or Washington, or Newnrk, or Cincinnati, or New Or leans any one of laem living in ouo square mile. What cau life belike whore Ini- j mans are packed together in a massi t It nt resembles nothing s much -im mushroom spawn, presnfij between great gray walls when a hit of sun light la a blessing? h the littered streets on a cool day you see the baby buggies lined up r - . . . . . . : . , i... i;.. i i mer days you will see thein lined on J . v , i .K., , , ... , ... , ) community this area protmbly can boast the hlghf.t birth Tats ot.au; cummuntty in America. ... Vp In window blooms a brijcht geranium. For those within and for many who pass it is a shrine of beau ty, a breath of free life. For where o many crowd together poverty tass BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY He thst will lore life, and set good days, let hini refrain hi, tongue from evil, and his lips that they apeak no guile. 1 l'eter 3 10. Bible Qaestls. tIook I'p the Anner) What is the new command ment? St. John 13:34. Ah-h! His Music Is Improving duslry is for but I'O per cent of the j variety of goods. In other words, tho' manulartuuT vroduc.es per cent of his variety of goods to satisfy a 20 per cent demand and he passes the extra cost on to the majurity con sumers. "The cooperative method of bring- producers, distributors and con- j sinners to act jointly for the interest ; of ull is the common ri;une way of cor- reeling this condition. Already it has ! saved millions of dollars, and, under la competitive system, such saving j must be passed. on to the ultimate I brick und 44 siz.es of common brick there is now but one size of each. Hollow building tile was formerly i first time how thick a standard board is. "These reductions are of Immediate influence on the work of the architect and the contractor as well as the building material dealer. "These examples are but a few of many. - t "More and more of the firms which have had a part in this form of waste reduction are emphasizing it in their advertising. "And as the movement goes on it will become more and more apparent to the consumer that he can help to make his owtl burden lighter by using his purchasing power to indorse poods which have been simplified. "When he does that a great part of the waste tax will be removed tnd the waste menace will be stopped ;u its tracks." , along, and in poverty u,ch as one sees in these east side tenements a scrawny geranium muy be as a field of roses. Oreater ;oy lies in a second-hand phonograph than in all of the Metropolitan opera, A bright new shawl may be worth more, relatively, than till the finery of Fifth avenue. However, there nrc seme windows In which no geraniums bloom. There are flats so crowded that some must sleep nu the floor. In some instances beds arc occupied 1 hours each day, night workers and day workers sleep ing iu shifts, t In the mornings ami in the eve nings when the workers are on their way to nnd from their homes tho streets teem with the milling throng. Watch tJiem pass, human spawn out of which may evolve a presfdeut, statesman, a merchant prince, a gre;tt man of letters or an arch criminal. Anything is likely to Incubate behiml those great gray tenement walls, m In Lighter Vein Dominating. (Los Angeles Times) a.rn m uie iiiierviewrr ni the bedside of the aviator who hud t .... U,U11, t . us. (alien &WQ feet and bit (he earth, True to his record for coolness. the aviator lit a cljtret, smiled nnd said. "Why, I think the thought that Im pressed me most waa that 1 wss about the only thing that wasn't going up.'' ... A Strategle Silence. (Washington Star) "You have been strangely silent of late." "I hare decided," answered Senator Sorghum, "that the people do not like a man to talk continuously, lt'u better to permit the impression that you are taking time o(( to do little thinking." . Cheaper Odors, I Detroit News) The scientist who round that d a monds ground to powder frhe off a repugnant- odor will progaSly admit that boiling a cabbage is cheaper. ... Complimentary, i Stanford Chaparral) Us Your couim refused to terog. nizc me nt the hop last night. Thinks j I'm not his enuil. I suppose. I She Kidiculous! Of courso you ! are. Why, he is nothing but a con ! ceited idiot. That's Different. (London Daily News) Clarence," she called. Ha atonned i ne car ami looked around. "I am not accustomed to call my chauffers by their first names, Clar ence. What is your surnjuief "Darling. Madnm. "Drive on, Clarence," The Crown Prince. (Bueu Humor, Madrid) 'Why do you think Funny doesn't like you 7" "I told her there was a fool in every family." "What did she say?" "She asked if I were an only bod.v The Vicious Cyole. ((Amherst Lord Jeff) "How did you lose your hair?" "Worry." "What did you worry about?"' "Losing my hair." Tom Sims Says It's spring, .beautiful spring, when you feci so darn lazy you don't give a ding. The snp is. flowing in the treen, there is a weakness in our knees, we've Bhed our heavy beeveedeeze. . - In the Tennessee mountains a dude is a man who gets his hair cut in March instead of April. ... Oh, what is so rnre as a day in June? Our guess is a player piano in tune. . An Alabama dude ia a man who cuts a chew of tobacco with hia knife i instead of biting it off. I . In Mississippi, a lazy man is one I who hnsn't energy enough to make his ' boys go to work. I ... "lou never enn tell when a worn-1 an s going to change her mind." That's a new aong. We can. "Always." ... And If you don't know why one changes iher mind it's because "be cause." We kicked the moth out of our bathing suit lest night. He had eaten a hole big enough to make six dough nuts. In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of nothing. I Howell's Comment V . My f'HKSTER II, ROWELL JEFOltMEUS in New York are ap proaching the point where they will spyrhut "even a democrat" to beat Tuiiiiuany, Strange survival cf the lowbrowest of low-brow prejudices among tho higlihrows. KsscnUally, the virtues of the bih. brow reformers and Xauimaoy are at opposite extremes. The reformers believe that prin- ciples are more Important tian men. ' They wmild vote against their friend if he ran on the issue of doing the' thing when elected which they thought against the public interest, and sup port their enemy if they approved his 1 policy. To vote for a man becnuse h. had done them a personal favor, they ' would regard as treason. . Tammany is the opposite. "What it the constitution between friends?" ' There are only two Tammany com mandments: ; til Stand In with yonr friends. (") If you teli a mon you will do him a certain favor, do It. These were tbe feudal virtues, alao. The modernUtn regard them as vices! wnen iney l.a.1 to diaregard of im- personal principle. But even they mate one exception They have to go through travail be-' fore they will support ' even demo crat" for mayor, an office in which It ought to make no difference if he ts a whig or a mormon. WHAT'S THAT? Big Holing event at the Garden Monday night. Winter mill 1 r KVfiENF.Cnu.KtTlON A f? ENVY T7 WII.K STHEKT.. PHONE oui' v.va uloweus, Muit . a Fellowship of Prayer Daily Ltnten Bible reading ad meditation prepared (or Commijiion on Evangelism of Federal Council ol Churchea of. Chrlet in America. THURSDAY The Foundation of Faith Head Lk. 7:18-23. Text: 7:22. Go and tell John tha tiling. . nruui ye have seen and beard. MEDITATION Phlrqf Mi i pose an tindna fif nn hi. ai when he asked them to believe on him ili miracles appealed to their eyes' Ills truth tn Hiaii m!n(D. 11- ' -- --o, uui person ality to their hearts, how could they "merwise man Delieve in him and how can any one resist- him? If we put our faith to work wo shall come to know him as our personal Lord and Saviour. To every man there openeth A Wajr, and Ways and a Way. And the High Soul climbs the High Way And the Dow Soul gropes the Low; And In between, on the mighty flats, The rest drift to and fro. ' But to every man there openeth A High Way and a Low, Aud every man decideth The Way his soul shall go. PHAYKH n t.j ------ vu vjuu, give us a desire for knowledge of thee that we may draw all men to thee. We pray that thou wouldst knit our lives into thine with holier and strong, er bonds. DrIIvap n. n t.j whatever would separate us from moo. Aiuen. Meal Checks Cut Visits of Beg-gars BERLIN, March 12. OP) An ef fective method of getting rid of pro fessional beggnrs has bn deyised by the Berlin Womens" club. It has Issued books of coupons in denomi nations pf five nid ten pfennigs, which Berlin families can purchase with a view to handing these meal checks to beggars. The beggar takes them on the mu nicipal district welfriFA nFft vi- district, whereupon he Is given a free .... t uie snmc time his case is looked Into by district welfare work ers. Professional beggars never come again to a house in which they receive a meal check instead of cash In fact, tha nlirn ... . faimlies for display and reading. v.. niitrii sjuiy in the form of muni ha.ha i n IIIUS art sTIFAn haea 1 enough to scare them away. ' BOXINQ FANS Monday niehfc nf th n-- den at 8:80. mi 81owanda, the cholc if the smoker. Insure with Henry Tromp. Phone 121 Looking Both Ways in Business If you could mount an observation tower, clear above tha stream of life, what would you seI In the past a line of achievements, and alao mur possibilities never followed up. In the future, more roads of opportunity, some leading to success, others not ' But If you are a patron of the U. 8. National Bank you would see, running along ahead of you in the coming years, a line of guide posts mirk Tig the road to success. These signs are the services that will be yours as a member of that large band of people who make the U. S. National their banking headquarters. For the U. S. National is fitted to guide ytu t cause of its years of steady, firm growth, and be cause of its policy to see that every customer l helped as much as possible. If you- are concerned ' with the future as well as the past of your busi ness it would be well po bank here. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK The Bank for Service EUGENE LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK The Bank for Savings ii W. 0. w. 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