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.f'i f ' 1 1 . ft '; ' I i ; . i ! SI! ::;!! nan I i vi Hi I ii Page Four THE EUGENE GUARD THE EUGENE GUARD ! $1 or $1.25 ut Lent. This particular furiner Buys tlmt agricultural prosper ity will return but it may not be for novvml yea tt. 'i'liurufuru lite need of An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally ,xctpt Sunday. ; uuikiug tio pf evury opportunity to ' j imiku or save an honest dollar in the Hlttl Well, He Didn't Have to Be So Vehement About It PAUL R. KELTY, Editor EUOENkJ B. KELTY, I3U3lnes Manager Offices 1037-1041 Wlllnmett Strict Telephone 1200 The Eugeno Guard 1 a member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publics tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise crud. ted to this paper and ulsu tho local Dews published herein, All fights of publication of special dispatches heroin are also reserved. FRIDAY, ilAItCU 27. Assessment and the University. W KITING in Old Oregon for Mnrch, Professor F. H. Young, president of tlie Oregon alumni association, remarks tlmt at tho recent legislature there was appar ent "a certain amount" of sentiment favorable to a rather thorough overhauling of tho method of property assessment in Oregom It is a great pity that the sonti ment did not crygtaliao into action. Lack of uniformity among the counties in fixing valuations and in the meth od of assessment, works favor to some taxpayers and injustice or burden to others. It all needs equalizing. Professor Young considers the quostion of assess,' jnent equalization from the standpoint ot its probable er feet upon tho university's revenues. Ho remarks that it would mean lower tax rates and increased yield from the millage taxes. And a further qtrect would bo, be ; thinks, a oloso scrutiny of the present millage support ' a ii. . ' A 12 i. i. pi me university, wim a view to reaujusuneiji. Any such scrutiny or any readjustment could hardly i result otherwise than in advantage to the university of increased revenues, if it were based on equity, as no doubt it would be. The facts of the university's great and growing rato of attendance and of the mulago revenue's uttor failure to keep pace with it, would constitute their own argument for such a result and one that is hnrdly answerable. Not only is the university's attendance increasing, but the rate of that inoreaso is growing in recent years, while tho facilities of the university are lagging in the growth. It is a situation that will have to be jnct before long. There is a full page marked poetry in the latest edition of Old Oregon, tho University of Oregon's maga zine, and not a pair of rhymed lines or a metered verse on the page. Upon regarding it, the exclamation, "0 tempora; O, mores!" tempts one, but then the thought obtrudes that maybe the darn stuff IS poetry. In poesy as in other things, it is a littlo hard for the rest of us to keep up with Youth. A Hubbub At Portland. luirunliiiifl. lla IB 1'iulit ot course. the iiiiin who JilmmU nu.-b advice wilt be ditlipg pru(i' wUvu the tide does turn. That Cold Weather (fiend liulletinj Lust year wu failed attention to 8 h)Ui range weather prophecy that fun-told for l'JL'5 months of unusual rolil. A recurrence of the conditions existing in IMS, known as the year of no summer, w:ih said to be coming, the forecast being buyed on a study of sea temperature, a new thing in tliH Bctwiro of meteorology. Later we Mitw the subject d.scussfd in various other places, investment bureaus and farm journals in particular. U is, of ciourue, as yet too soon to say that the forecast it all wrong. The weather may yet turn cold and slay cold, hut so far It has been not colder but warmer than usual. Febru ary wits expected to be a very cold month but in fact throughout the country it : was mild, as a circular from the department of agriculture pointi out. If the forecast for the year is no batter than' it has proved itself to ho for the winter, thera is no urusi!;:l season to he looked, furward to. ' The Truasaul Waxworks Burn (New York World) It is to be hoped that Mine. Tus saud's wax-works in Loudon were not completely destroyed, by fire the other night. There was something unique under the sun. The great events of history, the great person ages of all time, Cleopatra, Antony, Mine, du Maiqtenon, Lloyd George and flluebeard, were all there, true to life to (he last hair and wrinkle. There were the horrors of the guillo tine, rack, boot, thumb-screw, live drawing and quartering, gallows end electric chair, all executed with a lov iug eye to detail, each drop of blood mid agonized grimaco being faithfully represented, it is said tliat the wax works were the real reason the Eng lish ere so broadminded. If you could survivo a trip through all the cham bers nothing else could ever shock you. And it is snid that the waxworks were the real reason the English are so educated, particularly as to his tory. If you ever saw a great event as done n Tussaud wax you could never forgot it. Never. i . . .- : THERE is hubbub in Portland over the special agent, or "stool pigeon" system in prohibition law enforce ment. Tho municipal administration maintains the system. A group lod by a man who wants to bo mayor opposes it. Bo do tho newspapers, for various definite but widely differing reasons, In every metropolitan police department there are detectives. They aro men and women who work in plain clothes or in various disguises, but never in uniform, fer reting out violators of law, In county district attorneys' offices there are similar agents. In the. state prohibition department there are others. Under the federal govern pient thero aro special prohibition agents and secret ser vice operatives. Tho practice- is universal in organized government of employing secret agents, whether under the name of deteotives, stool pigeons, spies or what not. There is nothing n6w nbout it and it was by no means originated in the Portland police prohibition department. It was forced on that department as a means of offort to satisfy clamor led by the very group which now is lo.udest in assailing tho method. In goneral torms it may bo said with entire truth that tho spy systom is ropugnant to American senti ment. The recent rapid growth of that Bystoin in vari ous departments of our government is an unlovely manifestation in the eyes of most of us. But American sontimont nvA tho law demand prohibition enforce ment. Violators cannot bo arrested except upon ovi donoo. It is porfootly obvious that no bootlegger in going to sell liquor to an officer in uniform, nor in his presence. It is cqunlly obvious that no genuino cus tomer of a bootlegger is going to mak9 complaint against him. How, thon, shall cvidenoo of illegal sales ho obtained oxcept through tho work of detectivost asks the Portland police administration, and answers its own question by doolaring that tho choice must bo between effoctivo law enforcement by tho spy sys tem on ono sido and imperfect enforcement or none on the other. Portland's nowspapors aro telling the world that Portland, under its present police administration, is a placo of lawlessness. Tho characterization is un deserved. Portland is comparatively clean. Becently tho group which is now assailing tho police prohibition department sought to have tho police department placed under a super-chief of their own choosing. Tho mayor very properly spurned the proposal. Ono cannot escapo the observation that tho failuro of that demand accounts for most of what has followed. It was a wholly convincing statement published in The Guard yesterday from' Councilman A. L. Williamson, regarding tho necessity for passage of tho $50,000 sewer bond issuo at the special election noxt month. That is one of tho essential items to bo on tho ballot. Think of turning sewage into an open stream such as tho Amazon! That disclosure alono is evidence enough of public neces sity for tho bond issuo for sewers. The truck and bus men who aro preparing referen dum politions on tho tax law enacted by tho last legis lature to take from them a share of what they ought to be paying for tliuir abuso of tho highways, may stave off tho day of reckoning through that means but they cannot evade permanently tho accounting which people generally aro determined they shall render. Another crying need of the day is for somo kind of a necktio that will completely cover up a fraved shirt front. .' Sargent and Prohibition (Christina Science Monitor) ' Bccntisu it is fairly safe to surmise tlmt Wayne B. Wheeclr, of the Anti Saloon T'Bflsue, knows whereof he is speaking on such an issue, his state ment, recently given out, to the ef fect that John G. Bnrgent will disap point those who are expecting any relaxation of law enforcement in the United States, is especially welcome. "We hae every reason to believe," he said, "that the newxattorney gen eral will fnilhfully and vigorously en force all Ir.ws, Including the Eigh teenth amendment and the Volstead act." Of one thing Jr. Sargent can rest assured, nsmely. that the great majority of people in America will k nothing mure of him than exactly this, And after all, as a general thing it is a whole lot more pleasant to be on. the side of a msjority, provided it is In the right, than on tbe tide of a minority, no matter how noisy it may be. j Ro well's Comment I Ity CHESTER II. HOWEM, 'T'lIlS resolution for a constitutional convention proposed by the "wets" in tha 1'ennsylvania legislature has the rare virtues of clenr-heudednns and frankness. These wets know and acknowledge that so long ss the eighteenth amend ment stands, no modification of Hie VoUtead act which congress could constitutionally make could go fdr enough to he, from their standpoint, worth making. So they go after the amendment itself. Congress could, of course, Increase the permissible limit of alcohol in non intoxicating beverages from one-half of one per oeut to ono per cent but if what you wont is the "kick" and congress has to stop before that "kick" 1 reached, what diffcrenco does it make which variety of kick lessncss Is prescribed? So the resolu tion rays: "Whereas, the oongress . is now powerless to enact a law upon the subject except under such constitu tional limits as to make ft a remedial value extremely doubtful." This ia the whole point. Those who do not like the eighteenth amendment have a perfect right to agitate for its repenl provided they know and do not conceal that It takes SS statea to change it and only 13 to keep it. Those who do not liko tbe Volstead set have n perfect. right to move for its amendment provided they know nnd d not conceal thot tho only amendments constitutionally possible are the ones they do not want, and that a "beer nnd wine" law would be unconstitutional. The thing they have not the right lo do la to ignore these facts, or, knowing thcin, to concent them froiii Ihc people. Clarence Likens Wins First Clash VOltTLAND, Ore., March 27.--C, Clarence lakens won the first clash in his bsttle against tbe voter nns bureau when Judge Wolverton overruled tho government's motion for a directed verdict in his suit to plnre him on a permanent disability rating. The court further declared he be lieves Likens to he totally disabled and that in his opinion this disability ia permanent. Highway Commission Opens Paving Bids COMMENT OF THE PRESS Tha But Chines (rendlcton East Oregonian) A prominent looal farmer who won out by Bitting tiiht and working hard during the dull timet of TO aaya that In those dnyf he seldom came to town without bringing lometbiiif wilh him to a.ll. Often It wat . II. think. the young farmer today should do aa much at he can towtr.lt making hi living expentes without relying on tha wheat crop, lie t fraid tha tpecula tora know that barveat ta coming and will beat down, the prlcf ut wheat to ROW IN SENATE GREAT SPECTACLE Amusement Promoter Could Have Cashed Big Wlnnlnga If Short Session Could Have Been Capitalized. By IIAItII' B. HUNT (NEA Service Writer) WASJIINUU'ON, JIarch 27. -Many thousands of dollara oould have been gleaned for Uncle Sam's treas ury had provision boon made for cash ing in ou the amusement value of tbe short spccral session of the senate which .convened Murch 4. All the elements of ' drama, for which folks pay our hard cash, jn-ere supplied on a scale that has been equaled by no theutricul presentation seen in this city in,n decade. jaiiy, long queuoa ot spectators waited in line ut the gallery doors for a chuuee for even a few minutes of the free entertainment provided within. But it wut a case of first come first served and those ' who came early and got seats stuck through hour after hour of tho show, wilh tuu crowds of lute couiors gutting never a lookin. Would they have paid for admis sion' ' Well ono doorkeeper esti mated if he hud been able to cash in on the pious personally made to him to "see -what ha could do," with tho hint it would be worth his while. he could have spent the summer vaca tion on a Mediterranean cruisel ... The big crush, of course, came on March 1U,( when the - senate had agreed to vote for a second time on the Warren nomination, which bad previously been lost, due to the mid afternoon nap of. Vice-President Dawes. The senate was to meet this morn ing ut 1U:.'-I0. By 0 a. m. Capitol Hill had much the same appcarunce as on March 4, when President Coolidgo was to be inaugurated. A steady stream of automobiles was discharg ing excited and interested . graud dames and gentlemen. More lowly folk packed the footpaths and over flowed into the streets. I met Senator Willis of Ohio on the gallery floor at U:J0. He was out of breath and bis clothing wug uwry. Only hia old technique' us a foot ball pluyer hud enabled him, iu spite of tbe right of way he wus supposed hjmvo as a .senator, to get uu influ ential, constituent inlo tho packed gallery. ' "Looks as If you're going to hnvc u good audienae today, senator," 1 observed, - Willis wiped a perspiring brow, "All I've done all morning," ha suiil, "is help provide the audience. Eight million peple buve been iu to see inc. They all want seats. There wouldn't be In. If enough if I had 'em all. I'm going into hiding, right now." , In New York By JAMES W. DEAN NEW VOltK, March K7. Jack Osterman, vuudoville performer, suys tho best comiNiuiou tor a iirouuwuy night in these evenings of pudlocked cufes would be Hurry Houdinl. ; www Osterman Is one ot the most un usual cliui'aclei's I huve piut nmuug stuge people. I first mot hira five or six yenrs ago in Lincinuutl. Walking down Vine street with Ted Lewis, llio orchestra leader, Oatermun slid over to a mail box, kissed a letter nnd dropped it in, murmbriiig "Good night daddy dear!" Others in tho parly joshed Ostor mun about his nightly letter to a girl.. Ho solemnly declared that the letter wus to his futlicr and that be sent one every night. Bevcrul years later I met his father, a man named Uosenthul who was connected with George M. Co han't office for many yeurs, and bo told me that his ton hud mailed him il lettor every day of his life that they bud been scpuruted. ... After the effeminate styles of tbe older boys a movement to make tho smaller fellows moro masculine seems to huve been etnrtcd. All the styles for boys from three to oighk show long trousers, vests and couls cut like their duds' business stills. The outfit alto iiu hul.'s a walking stick, mnnnish gloves, stiff collars nnd fore-in-hand ties. Tha youngttors nro Jumping direct from rompers to com plete maturity, It seems. ... The lamplighter is a romantic fig ure of fiction and poetry. He was pic tured as a rugged man who carried a ladder wilh him and in storm nnd wind pursued hie- rounds of lamps. Tho lamplighter Is still wilh us, but he Is no such figure now. Around tho streets In the vicinity of prospect Park, Brooklyn, he Is a boy on a bi cycle He unlocks a little door at the bottom of the post anil switches on the electric light above him. In lower POIITLAXI), Ore., Mnrch 27. -Tha state highway commission began its March meetiug yesterday afternoon, Bids were opened for 1S.1 miles of viiii. r2.8t miles ot grading Slid surfacing and for one overhead rail- rond croiwing at Jefforton approxi mately t.TOO.UOO ta Involved In con tract to ha let. A number of dele gations from various conntlea are here to urge work In their localities. Ten out of every ll) Herman m.n are geniuses, aay "emu v-v- BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY Whosoever will come aftor me, let him deny himtelf, and take up hie cross, and follow me. Eor whosoever will save hit life shall lose it; but whosoever hall lose lilt life for my take and tht gospel's, the sme shall save It. Murk S:HI, 35. Bltl Question. (Look Vp th Answer) How should brethren dwell T I'l.lm 1K3:I. ' Broadway tho lamplighter is an ur chin who makes his rounds on roller skates. .... Professional prize fights ore held right on Broudwuy every night, now tlint spring ia here. The fighters are small boys from Hell's Kitchen who step over onto Broadwny. In the lobby of a clothing store they sturt n free-for-all. The fighters earn their purse, for some real blows nra struck and contuct with tho tiled floor of the lobby often brings blood. Eeh of tho fighters has a second. It is his busi ness to see that coinB are dropped in a enp on the sidewalk and that his "man" gets his share, win, lose or draw. Tom Siins Says Nl in Manila, the home races are ing all day fur cussing. California reports a new coreless apple, reminding us of tho regular juiueless grapefruit. Dog team broke all records in the. Arctic, it ran so fast. !So maybe a dog catcher was driving it, The Pacific Ocean Is being measur ed ngnin. If they find tho middle It ia a fine place for a singing school. They have dug up onrither ancient king, another King Tut, with a tin me liko n dozen radio stations, 4 A congressman wants to protect oysters, which are a little backward about speaking for themselves, A man can be pretty smart, but never both pretty and tinart. m w A family may come in handy. You enn auk the judge to let you off just this once for their sake. Moving all the seasons up about three months would satisfy all of us. The man who tells a girt he would die for her wouldn't be so rash if he had ever tried it. It won't really he spring until we get the street car windows open. Xow and then you see a fellow who expects to become a howling success by nothing but bowling. on the state ruilroud, nod here's my first duy s pay. ' "What kind of job is it?" ho was osked. "Well," he answered, "you know there's a chap at esch station who goes the length of the, train tapping the axles with a hammer to see u everything's all right?" "VeB." "Well, I'm his listener." A Sensible Slogan. (Vnncouver Sun) Make the World Unsufo for Hypo crisy. Sufficient Unto the Day. (Washington Star) "Since you are discouraged, why don't you sell your farm and move to the city?" "I've heard about them prices for flnts," answered Farmer Corntossel "I'd rather go on bein' discontented thnn toke a chance on bein' plain des perate." ... Evening Up. (Pittsburgh Sun) "Well." said Farmer Briggs to the nrtlst. "how much will you charge ro paint my fnrmhouse with me standing at tno door r "Oh. fifty dollars,' said the artist, "Done," snid the farmer. "Oome tomorrow." In duo course tbe painting was fin ished. But alas! the artist forgot to paint in the fnrmer. "Yes, I like it," said the farmer; but where s me where a me?' The artist tried to pasg off his er ror with a Joke.' "Oh, he snid, "you'vo gone Inside to get my fifty dollars," "O, have I?" was tho fsrmer's re ply. 'Perhaps I'll be coming out soon, and If I do I'll pay you; In the mean time, we'll hang it up and wait." ... Wrong Word. (London Humorist) Aggrieved Person (a cross-word en thusiast) "That girl in there carries n joke too far. I goes in an' says, jovial-like, 'I wnnts a drop o' liquid refreshment in four letters' an' Itimme, she brings me a glass o' milk!" f Oregon Briefs Friday Evening, Man TTlllrirt?Vaf of Prayer Ooily Lenten Bible reading and invditution prepared for Commission on Evangelism o! Federal Council of Churches ot Christ in America. FRIDAY Watchfulness Jtcad Luke U':a5-48. Text: U:3i. lie ye yourselves like uote men look ing for their lord. Meditation In this story Jesus pictures to his disciples a man's joy wheu ho finds u welcome on hi. re turn home, This sort pf u reception Jesus craves in our hearts, (jod's spirit is ever waiting lo enter buinun life but the spirit don pot enter where there Is no hearty welcome. "Uod iu an ever present fact to he ready every hour for every demon stration Uod may make is to live. If wo re trustfully ready to own him in ll u hour when confession means sacrifice, eagerly ready tp go for wurd with him when his kingdom ad vances, humbly ready for the judg ment of his sou. If we are ready fpr (iod it makes no difference whether WO are Tich or poor." Prayer Our futlior, may we be this duy as watchers on tho wall, aLrt to guard our lives uguiust the approach of evil. Anxious to welcome all good influences. Let us watch not only our own lives but be ever ready to guaTd the best interests of all thy children. Through Christ. Amen. (Copyright, 1023, F, Ii. Fagley) 25 Years Ago (From The Guard of March 27, 1900) Almost fl frost this morning. The thermometer 'registered US degrees above. ... . The Iron rails recoutly purchased by the Lebunon Paper cumpiiny from I noKicu prqtncrs ot tins city are be ing ionded pu curs today for ship ment. George Fisher received this morn ing from George Chrispinn, poultry fancier of Stuyton, Oregon, a coop of thoroughbred white Wyandottes, con taining one cockerel nnd three hens. This is ono of the finest lots of Wyandottes ever brought to Lane county, ... Democratic primaries next Satur day. : i w w i Fosters for Bryan's address have ' been pla-ed about tbe city. , ... A! Hampton has been selected us grand mondial for Bryan day and will appoint aides. ... Jerome Knox, resident of Cottage Grove, is visiting in tho city today on ( business, i ... ! The' Fortnightly club will give u1 Lenton mutinee at Frank's hall Sat urday, March HI. Proceeds are to be used to buy books for tho library. ... . Honry JohnBon Is a visitor in Eu gene from the Bohemia mining dis GROWING PAINS- , "lmy, health, "nnal youngtte r, wbu ' CUin, the p" Th ntiUeii growth ,d dt , " !nt of this .ommuS: y. in which har, been permitted to "hare, has mad, b necessary to provide larger nuarterj 0D,i . increased fodlltie, ;or our growing clientele. We will b n new bunking 00m! sometime dring u middle of the ,mmt row accounts Invited. Bank fV. Commerce EUGENE.OREG0N Mutual Lifo, U. M. Bprague. 20 E Bth, - tf INSTJUE WITH IIBNBY TROUP. 33 W. Oth. tf THE MEATS THEY 5ELU ARC GUARANTEED 1NGUAUTV THEY 'SUPERSEDE? 1 1 -9 VE guarantee tho high quality ot the mead we soil because we are acquainted with their pur ity and their wholesome neas and their other strength-giving, body-build, lug qualifications. ' Of course we guarantee our meat we know whereot we epeuk. Watch for Mr. Hnppy Party NIMROD INN Opens April 1st The drive for the new members started by the Sulem cluunber of com merce a few days ngo resulted in the addition of f4 new names on tbe roll, Tbe Oregon Iron and Steel com pany's timber tract south of Mills boro. together with a tract of land near Scbolte, has been purchased by a , logging compaup for a millsite. ; Dr. E. Kichnrrts, a member of tbe O. A. C. animal husbandry department for three years and later county agent ' in Lake county, has taken up his ; work as county agent In Grant county. Sam Hill has been granted a license to operate a ferry on the Columbia river in Sherman county. The new ferry will be down the river from the present Mary bill ferry. The Hanks ITornld and Tribune, weekly newspapers, hnve been con solidnted and will be published under the name of the Hanks Tribune by 'J'. C. Andorson, lnte of Detroit, Mich. At the home of his wife'-s parents in Wallowa, .Toe Cloy shot Hert Hop kins three times through the body. Clay claims self-defence, charging; that Hopkins attacked him. At tha last meeting of the Wheeler city council both Mayor Churchill and Itnrorder Clawson handed in their resignations, statins that "a clique of citisens were not co-operating with the executive and thus causing friction. i ' : i i to SAN ' FRANCISCO Stage Terminal Vliono 1860 3 S 31819 B "Aberdeen," Utah's! TJoot " "PfiUCOCk." m JfJVj - H Rock Springs Coal, Gasco Briquets. ! Rainier Coal Co. m S 15 E. 7th Phon. 4I !l tm EH E3I , l In Lighter Vein Easy Job. (London Antwers) In Iterlin they tell tha story of a Herman who in tbe days of tbe slip ling mark came bustling into fash ionable restiuirnnt with a big valise filled wsilh hank nnt. I "Hooray I" he cried, "I've got a job i NOTICE to SUBSCRIBERS Effectivo April I, 1925, the Eugene Guard will adopt the policy of stopping- all mail subscriptions on tho day on which they expire. This policy is now in effect on nearly all the larger newspapers of the country. It Is made necessary by rapidly Increasing costs of newspaper production. Subscribers will be given nt least a week's notice prior to expiration date. Expiration date Is ahown on the address label on each day's paper. Is Yours A Young Business? If -you must' answer "Yes, ours Is one of the youngs iten Willamette street," you can well stop to consider in" a question: "What will my bank be when we are oou" rizo?" The "old timers" on the street know that doing ' ),u'"J',J,i Is different problem than when 8th and Wilianr u mud puddle. And they will tell you that in tnnse rf well ns now, the U, S. National Bank was '0ms, to help Eugene business mon with their financial f . That Is but a sample of the operation of our liberal, far oJ banking policy. It enables our organization " J5 ba8lnes change with evolving business conditions. As J Natlonl grows and changes you will find that the l. Be Bank has grown nnd developed with it. TJai i businesses can well afford to bank here. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK The Bank for Service EUGENE LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK The Bank for Savings SOMETHING WRONG ' Headache t Backache f Nervous f AH do.vn,T ,eri Don't neglect yourself. Neglect may lead ous illness. CHIROPRACTIC Rcraovoa tho cause Health returns GEO. A. SIMON Examination Frit 016 WlllametU St pho 15