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.;' !.'f 'ill' Hit; t f.' 'I ft IS I Bill ' :- 1 r '; 'i ,i ' ' :l I " :iv s ;' i; i ;! i ' ..' v ' ' , i ; '- ' . i t. f ; i if ; t ;; il 1ft trim1 if t ft.Bl: 4; r' ' ; ; ! 'i 'J 1 j i fi 'i : i'ti f ! iff ) Rl: j: n . i ; 1 if I 'l.i .1 A j.H' , ! r : ' ' ' ; .'; i..V'ij;i ' . !j - Pajre Foul1 THE EUGENE GUARD TVcdnoBday EvPning , THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newpper publlthed dally except Sunday. PAUL. R. KELTY. Editor EUGENE S. KELTY. Business Manager Offleei 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 The Eugene Guard ta a member of the 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 right of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. tVKDXKSIUY. MARCH IS. The City Bond Proposals. IX THE ist of bond issue proposals to be placed before the voters of Eugene at the special election to be held April 15 next are several that are vitally essential to the city's welfare and progress. In the list also arc some whose advisability uiav be ouestioned. Two in the list are, in the opinion of this newspaper, inadvisable for passage at this time. New bond issues mean added taxes for interest and sinking fund. The tax burden is already too heavy and people generally are in no mood to add to it unneces sarily. Unless there is clear understanding in the public mind regarding the proposed bond issues to be voted on; unless people inform themselves or are informed as to which items in the list are essential and which are non essential, it is not inconceivable that the whole catalogue of proposals may be slaughtered. This would be highly unfortunate. The aggregate of the items in the proposed bond issues is $097,000. Of these the aggregate of items es sentially needed is $'.270,000. The aggregate of items inadvisable for passage at present; is $400,000. An item of $0000 is highly desirable but not essential. The list may bo itemized thus: Essentially Needed . For reconstruction of sewers $30,000 To pay for fire apjiarntus 25,000 , To pave Htreet intersections '. 50,000 New water reservoir and mains 135,000 To enlarge fire department station 10,000 . Total $270,000 ' Inadvisable at Present Time Lower MeKenzie pipeline and water works $375,000 Municipal garbage incinerator 25,000 incinerator under that condition is to embark upon experimentation, and it might prove very costly to the city. The garbago incinerator project should awnit proper investigation as to what is best. There is no provision in law for tho paving of the street leading to tho Odd Fellows cemetery. Owners of abutting property on their own side of University street and 18th avenue are understood to be willing to be assessed for their half of the cost. Unless tho city pays for the other half, there is no way to finance the work. It is, of course, desirable that tie routo to and past the cemetery be paved. Whether or not this is the best time to embark upon the enterprise is tho question to be decided. . It would be a very great pity if all of the projects to be voted on next month should bo slaughtered in discriminately. It is quite possiblo, as stated at the outset ot this article,, that that very thing may happen unless there shall be full information placed before the voters so there may be separation ot the sheep irom the goats. And this newspaper invites discussion of tho subject through . its columns. Communications of reasonable length about its various phases will bo published if received. A former justice of the supremo court of Oregon is cr.ught hiding in the bathroom of a raided place, with a man who is trying to pour a gallon or so of moon shine down tho sewer. Taken to jail with others ar rested, he is booked under en assumed name, given deliberately by himself, although he is known and rec ognized by persons at the police station. After the hue and cry that tho case raises, iie appears in court under his own name and is acquitted! It may bo that Conrad P. Olson was guiltless of the charge brought against him by the Portland raiders. But what is the natural presumption from the known facts as to what he did and how he did it? What a spectacle! There was a scramble in the newspaper "morgues" throughout the country yesterday for pictures and sketch matter concerning John G. Sargent, of Vermont, the new attorney general. Generally it was a fruitless search. Nobody knew Sargent. Maybe that Avas why the august senate found him worthy of its confirmatory approval. Total ..." ' $400,000 Desirable but not Essential To pave street opposite Odd Fellows cemetery $9,000 The item of $50,000 -for reconstruction of sewers is necessitated by tho very rapid growth of the city in re cent years. The sewer system in some districts is in adequate for, the demands of increased drainage being put upon it. In other new and newer districts there is pressing need for new facilities All this is one of the manifestations of the growing pains to which Eugene! is subject. Considerations ot public health as well us of public convenience ami welfare demand theomproved ' drainage that this item is calculated to supply. t Tho fire apparatus represented by the item of $25,000 proposed under this head has already been bought. An item to provido for its payment was unfortunately . coupled with the auditorium bond proposal which car . ried by a narrow majority lust Hummer, but which is now tied up in the courts. As the item represents an obligation already incurred, it ought, as a matter of good faith to ho carried. ' if tho previous bond proposal for this purposo shall be finally validated, it will simply bo put aside in favor of this later proposal. Tho $10, 000 item for enlarging tho firo -department station is vitally needed because, with the new apparatus, it is not possible to bestow all of tho city's fire-fighting machines properly or to handle them efficiently at head quarters. e There is no money in the fund for tho paving of street intersections at tho present time. Paving of streets in front of property is paid for by the abutting properly, but there is no provision for paving the inter sections except by means of this proposed bond issue. Unless it carries the city's street paving programme will be subjected to heavy delays. Indeed, it will be come necessary to defer some' paving projects until provision is made for pavint; the intersections. The Skinner butte reservoir is worn out nnd will have to be rebuilt. The item proposed for water ser vice extensions is intended to take care of this. The remainder of the $135,000 proposed under tho bond issue for which authority is asked is to put in new mains to servo districts not now served or only served inadequately. Tho item is also vitnllv necessary to the city's welfare. I The largest item on tho list of proposed bond issues is $375,000 for a pipeline and headworks to bring water from the lower AleKenzie river for city domestic con sumption. It is not a necessary project at this time and the city will do very well without it. The water we now get is frequently tested and it is pure. To be euro it is filtered to make it so, but so would water Jrom the Mckenzie of necessity have to be filtered be foro it would bo fit for domestic use. To tho conten tion that tho city's growth is making the present source ot water supply inadequate, tho obvious and complete ,,, lm; supply can ne increased in whatever amount is necessary lor present and near-fuluro needs Operation of the Doernbecher .hospital at Portland b to be financed by privato contributions instead of state funds. That is the way it should have been plan ned at the start. The state ought not to be put in the hospital business. To say this reflects nothing against tho Doernbecher hospital concepiion, 'which is alto gether worthy. Make no date for Friday evening. That is the time when Eiigenc shops are going to uncover their stylo windows. Of courso everybody will want to see them. UNITED STATES PAYS, SAYS MOODY Even If Europe's Debts are Settled,. It Is America who Must Foot Bill as Creditor Nation By ALEXANDER HERMAN (NEA Service Writer) JTEW YORK, March 18. Whether Europe eventually pars her debts of more tbau ten billions to us, the people ot the United States, neverthe less, be footing the bill In the end. ' This briefly ia the view of Jolin Moody, eminent economist, financinl aualy&t And author. It is n view ar rived at after intensivo study, at home and abroad, uf the most involved eco nomic problem of the nice. Moody returned recently from an extensive trip abroad u-here be came Into close touch with the men who guide the situation there, lie is the author of "The itcmaking of Europe" and is said to have as comprehensive a View of the complicated finauciul aitualiou abroad as uoy of tho leading experts. Most newspaper und magazino read ers have become prono to pass ovei items concerning the situation. They hnve become "fed up" on the reports of the billions owed, tho further mil lions desired, nud the complicated analysis ensuing. i Yet the sums owed might be trans lated Into a new automobile for every family in the country, a hundred dol lar bill for each person, or new homes for more than 2,000,000 families! Little wonder then that the man on the Btreet indignantly says, "Englund, France, Italy nnd the rest of them owe us some ten billions. We loaned it to them. Why don't they pay it bucAV" The answer, supplied by iioody, is just as crypc: "It isn't money we loaned I hem," ho eiplnlns. "It never was. It vVun credit book credit. The proceeds of this credit were not put into profit able production, hut were put into n war effort where they were entirely destroyed. "That credit Is gone forever. "Iu time new credits may be es tablished. With Ihesc.oiir debtors may try to puy us back. But will they be able to do so? "Take France, for iiretauce. Sup pose she collects from (iermauy, in creases her own production, and gets a surplus with which to pay us. She will not be able to do it with gold, for there Isn't enough to go around. Hhe therefore, will havo to build up her foreign trade, paying us tack with her goods. He will hnve to buy from her more than she will buy from us. The balance of trade will have to become lop-sided in her favor. , "When Kronee's goods start flood ing our markets, our own nianufnc Hirers will start howling. For they will have to compete with a product manufactured nt a labor cost much lower than our own. "Then congress will Bet about mak ing new tariff laws. If these are put too high, they may keep 'the trade out and France will1e unable to get the batauce of credit that she must have to pay us. "If the tariff regulations a rent too severe, the French may come in but then the American consumers of their products will have to pay the added cost." The whole business is euch Ihot the debtor of one nation can pay its debt only by passing the buck to tne creu itor, Germany doing the trick first when she starts pavinr France. France carrying it on when she begins to pay the United States. "Hut where can wo pass it to?" Moody ehrugs his shoulders. "In time within three years, per htps," says the economist, "Russia may settle down. Then she will be one of the biggest factors in the sta bilization of the whole world prob lem." "Before the World war," points out Moody, "the United States was a deb tor nation itself. With the coming f war, European interests began liq uidating their Investments here. We had to buy back some $0,000,000,000 of their American securities. "At the same time foreign produc tion fell off, and we began to be kept busy supplying the world. Our exports 'nerensed. We soon shifted from tho irdtor class to tho other side of the scale we became the great creditor notion of the world. ' "It was the beginning of a situation thut has remained nnd always will remain. For probably never again wul we be a debtor nation. "We are now in a position better than ever before. For we used to pay tribute to the rest of the world. Now it pays tribute to us." Oregon Briefs Both big sawmills at Bend are now running to full capacity, the Shevlin Hixon with 1350 men and Brooks- Scanlon with 1100 men. The graduating class of the Pen dleton high school that will complete its work in June will include between 55 and (10 students. An organization known as the. Wo men's Institute club has been or ganized nt Forest Grove with Mrs. llarry Giltner president and Mrs. Mary Miller secretary-treasurer. Machinery is one the way to start a prospect well for oil at lone. Three test holes are to be drilled, the first of which will be started ns soon ns the machinery reaches lone. . The San I in m Cheese company has made 83,000 pounds of cheese in the past seven months. The product for 1U115 is expected to he much larger than ever before. A group of Warrentou and Astoria men are asking the Warrentou city commission for a grant of land on the gikipanon river on which it is pro posed to build a cooperative salmon cannery. The city of Gearhart has applied to the public service commission for au thority to construct a grade crossing over the tracks of the S. 1". & S. railroad company on Sixlb street iu that city. Rowell's Comment By CHESTER II. ItOWELL IIIANCH will not ''repudiate'1 iU debts. Ob, nu. Tbat would iiurt Fmnce's credit, fur future louns. The siime with Itnly. As they hope for fu ture fuvurv, they will not repudiate l i;.",!nns. Not they! But if America were graciously to i'l... . i.i ut ui!, timt would be dit fetcnt. Au old debt forgiven does not preclude Inter contracting another. Theso debts, ,they fx pin In, ennnt be paid. Mlie money is ut in Hiht and the people, whose consent to taxation would be necessary, do not think tbey ought to be paid. But tbe remission must come from us. Thpy, to save their future credit till "promise to pay." We, for the same purpose, must take the initiative in requesting them- not to keep that promise. ' ' AH of -which is merely the game of bluff preliminary to finding out, so berly, on the facts, nnd then Arrang ing, against the wiil of their people, for them to pay that, and again-st tho will of our people for us to forfivo the rest. Fellowship of Prayer Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared fur Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. WEDNESDAY ' The Mission of the Disciples Iiead Luke 0:1-0. Text;. 0-2. Aud he sent them forth to preach the kingdom of Cod. ileditation Seut forth to preach the kingdom of Hod, this is the com mission of every believer. The ways of preaching are as manifold as the ueeds of men by work, by kindly deed, by example, by leadersl.i in the world's work. No man is compell ed but all are invited to this ministry, '. "rniau must show himself a true man by choosing tho great adventure. The drifter, the moraily lax, the man whose spirit- sinks down into flesh does not get ou well in the midst of the mysterious facts of life. A man must gird himself tightly and move out boldly after Christ, lie must tuke up life resolutely aud put it decisively into Christ's enterprise, to be and to do all that an unfolding sense of duty may reveal." ' l'rayer Our Father God, may thy kingdom be powerfully preached by thy believing children. Let the minds of men be open to thy gospel, their at tention arrested r.nd their minds sub dued. Teach us fulthfulncss in the work of thy kingdom at home and abroad, Amen.' (Copyright, li)2j, F. L. Fagley) In Lighter. Vein Depressing, But So. (Itoanoke World News) One mustn't tell Willie, but most of the great men have forgotten all they ever knew nbout algebra. Different I "Did you say thut Skinner suc ceeded by getting around him better men than himself?" , "No, by getting, around better men than himself." Deadly All Around , tThc Continent) "Is it true, doctor," asked the gush ing young lady, "that you aro a lady "Mudam," replied the doctor, "I make no distinction between the sexes. Health Hint (The Humorist) "Take care of your teeth," says an advertisement. Wo have nothing but scorn for the csrcless person who leaves them smiling inanely in the bathroom. The Peculiar One (Hoston Transcript) Customer "You've made two mis takes iu this bill, one. in your favor und ouo' in mine." tlroccr "In your favor? Where?" No Dangor l.c Mat in Lady "If you don't go away, I'll call my husband!" Trump "Ah, I know li'n. Last week he threatened to call you if I didn't go away!" Nobody Safe (The Humorist) By means o a stentorphone which has been inslullcd on the liner Cera mic, sound from n ordinary gramo phone record is made to reach every corner of the ship. The Men, wo be lieve is not so much to annoy pass engers as to discourage Btowaways. cd turban hat, one of those litilo affairs put together by wrapping one piece of cloth around a frame, is slill working iu the millinery department of n Fifth avenue department store. Many men became wealthy making ilioso hats, but the girl who originat ed the idea got nothing. You ran still see a bit of Old New York a step or two off Fifth a.c nue in Fast Thirty-fourth street. Severn! old frame buildings of the ar chitecture' of 1870 stands there. A passage leotls to a court in the rear whero several scraggly ..trees grow. Tho first floors are occupied as apartments but have no modern con veniences. I saw an ord-fushioncd. oil lamp burning in a window the oilier night, l'lans have already been made to erect a modern office building on the site. If the present raie of growth of commerce in Manhattan continues there will bo no residential section below Central l'nrk 2D years hence. 25 Years Ago (From The Guard March IS, 1000) The curfew bell has been placed in position and will be rung hereafter regularly. Tha proper thing. The Mnrch term of the Lane coun ty circuit court began this forenoon at 0 o'clock; the following presiding, Judge J. W. Hamilton, Prosecuting Attorney George M. Brown, Sheriff W.. W. Withers, Clerk E. U. Lee. . F. E. Sharke arrived down from the Lucky Boy mine, Blue Biver, to duv. brineintr with him th t.lt nt another cleanup which he shipped to me uiiue. no reports everytning going nicely at the mine. ' v . The Eugene fire department met Saturday evening and declared the office of chief engineer vacant m,l set Tuesday, March 27. as the date to elect a new one. Bert Jennings, W. W. Stevens and William Hodes were elected as judges and clerks, C. F. Hurlburt of Junction is a, visitor in tho city -today. Miss Vlnnio Knapp arrived home this afternoon from l'ortland. w 9 m H. B. Miller attended a creamery meeting at Hoseburg Saturday. . J. Ti. Cartwright, the well-known Harrisburg hopgrowcr, spent the past week-end in Eugene. In New York J? '- -'v MR.HAPPV wm ' PARTY :'-'-;-V'.r- A CHOICE TENDER. ROAST OF VEAl -TO APPETITE'S UKE Mme APPEW-l jt7E KNOW how you'll fuel about our vonl when onca you've tried it. It's just as tender and delicious as the other meats sold at this purity shop. You'll meet with jurtesy hero. And your dors fwUl he delivered quickly. Watch for Mr. Happy Party arch 15 Be eady For Opportunities " you are0trMi for opportulllu.; wnei1 'hey app "'l often ia: th slip by J Proved. Nowu S Ban. 10 Bak your tond, regularly wi(a7' 3re Interest P,d 0 Spinas Accounti Bank Commerce EUGENE.OREG0N to SAN FRANCISCO Stage Terminal Flione I860 The Busy Man's Newspaper n.u u source ami at comparative v little ex pense. later years Eugene will wnut i,rillJf iron, n bet or m.ureo than the lower MeKen.ie anvw ay It is no valid argument, for tho lower MeKeiuie ro jee to say that it ean ho utilized- later as a , it of ti e lancer project, unless there is , , i c . ' , 1 Ult mi. . "'v "V mM- i"i ine pro . - by furllK, 'development of pnSt our e 'of lho problem of gurimiw dmposal is a pressing one I A city of Lunelle s sizo cannot Ko on throwing iu Knr bnRO out ot doors on unscientific nnd indiscrinunato dumps, lho lnethoil is unhonlili fill nnil wnsitof 11 1. ii Bay nothing ot. tho nnsihtliness nnd undesirability of the dumps thus created. But ... ,-,.(.edent to tho adoption of nny system of Karjinco disposal for Euirene, there should be thorough investiiration of various meth ods followed in other cities, hiehe.ver one is found best is the ono that should be Adopted. Thus far there I fj Ky JAM ICS W i:EAN NEW YOHK. Mnn-h IS. See-saw. iiig up and down If road way 1 saw A. Hamilton tJibbs, author of "Sound ings," just over from England And hunting for quarters m Greenwich Village. He's a brother of Sir il'btlip Iti boa and Cosmo Hamilton- E6JGEPIE i PACKSNCiCOJ ) ,75WiliamGtteSti Saw Tim Murphy, back on Broadway after n long absence. Heme inhered here for "Tho Texas Steer," which was written especially for him Saw David lavidovitch Iturliuk who has 4U fancy waistcoats and a fancy earrinff to match each , Saw Theodore Drieser looking abit under the weather Saw Neysa Mc- Mcin, proud mother and noted artist Saw Sidney Blackmor, lho ac tor, who has tho softest voice of auy man on Broadway Saw Kugeuc Brewster, the magazine publisher, re spleudant in a green suit with white stripes ..Saw liudolt r nml just i back from California and ready to j writo more tunes for the musical shows and phonographs Saw L'arl Van Uoran, the author, who j has a haircut like no other man ex j cept his brother, Mark Saw 1 youug .Mr. Crane who draws "Wash- ; ingtou Tubbs," the comic strip, and ! a very quiet, modest youth he is, as ) aro most of the fellows who create 1 the roistering figures of the "funnies" Saw Ulnf Fonss. here on com- ' misKiou of the king of Denmark to study stage and srreeu for his gov- eminent. He's another of thee fel- ' lows w ho keeps familiarity at a dis- tam-e by wearing a monocle Seeing open street cars, cops eh using ; kids off park gras?, straw hats in display ' windows. Coney Island sub waysJainmed on Sunday, girls jump- . ing rope, boys playing marbles, and I know spring has come, tra, a! j The girl who made the first drap- Valley Printing Co. Over IT. S. Nftt'l. Bank. WEDDING AND BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL PRINTING ' . FOR QUICK SERVICE CALL 470 Wood and Coal Wood under cover anj length King Coal OaK P.nrri Wood Aih Slabwood MapU MANERUD HUNTINGTON FUEL CO. 1st National Bank Bld Room 24 Phone 651 lt PUBLIC DANCE DREAMLAND HALL Every Wednesday "i Saturday NigM BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY - UK KI.MlI.Y AK1KCTIO.V Kl one lo another with bro therly love; in honour prefer ring one another; rcr"npeo!ie to no tndn evil for evil. I'ro vitla. things honest in the sight of nil men. He not overcome of evil, hut ovtm-oine evil witn gooil. ltoninna VJ:10. 17, "Jl. '7 The Constant Stream Turns The Wheel i nf the &priB' The colonll miller didn't depend on the niKii flood to run Ills mill. It whs tho constant SIr' Me1 t,a on which he could depend nil year 'round mm to grind out mpal and profile. And so In your work today. It ia not the ""'"'""i,." m the extra help given when you are down ana m that will keep your business rolling alone at a i neJi speed. Consistent, day in and day out help ami e- from your banker that will cheer up and -p work Is the service that means most In the n . ,. r s Nii0'" It is Just this that encourages rat"1" ,nt ,a timp'"" Hank. They are sure ot receiving Intelligent a nu financial assistance: but even more Vi,,u,u1'', b,nl( s advice and encouragement of the officials of b0Jiatii a day by day help Is pushing them on to 8 activity. . UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK The Bank for Service EUGENE LOAN AND SAVINGS . BANK The Bank for Savings i t Blblt Question ' 1.00k up the an er) Whatabont gelling vixlom! 1'rov. I U.S. SOMETHING WRONG HoiKlui'he? Backache ? Nervous I All 'Io"","" ri Don't neglect yourself. Neglect mny l''a oils illness. CHIROPRACTIC Removes the cause Health ivturlls GEO. A. SIMON Examination Frao 916 Willan-.etta St. Las been no such investigation, to vote bonds for an