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I. i n 4:1 St I hi 2 'I ; s J 2 i :i 4 J 9 - , Kr n IT M 1 at- i If y V' Page Four THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper publhjhed dally except Sunday, PAUL R. KELTY. E8ltor EUGENE 3. KELTY, BUBlnosg Manager Offlcte 1037-1041 Willamette Street The Eugene Guard In a member of the Associated Press. The Associated Tress is exclusively entitled to the usa for publlca lion of all aews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise cred ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dlnpatches herein are also reserved. The Eugene Guard is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. THURSDAY, Paroles From CLARENCE Wi THOMPSON was cashier in the state treasurer's office at Salem under two administra tions. While so employed he stole sums of money aggre gating, according to his own admission, some $5000, but which in all likelihood was more than this. His thefts spread over a long period of months. Apparently, then, they were deliberate and not the results of sudden im pulse. Thompson pleaded guilty in court to one of the charges against liim, involving the sum of $930 which he had stolen. In making his plea he attempted to smirch others in the state treasurer's office with suspicion of guilt similar to his own. He pretended that much of the moneys which he had stolen had been used to cover up mysterious small shortages in the daily balances of the offices. Ho said $100 went to cover a shortage "which could not bo explained" by other employes. Notwithstanding the circumstances .here set 6ut, Judgo Percy E. Kelly paroled Thompson from the bench, after sentencing him to serve two years in prison. The incident is unpleasantly reminiscent of the recent case of the Coe brothers, confessed Portland arsonists, who also were paroled from the bench, by another judge, after they had pleaded guilty. It is because of such cases as these that there is talk from time to time of repealing the law under which paroles from the bench are authorized. One of these days, if the abuse's con tinue, the law will be repealed. This would be a great pity, because the law, when wisely administered, is a sound law. Its wise administration has resulted in the turning from evil ways of many youthful embryo criminals to whom terms in the penitentiary would have meant confirmation in careers of misdoing. This more than offsets the abuses that occasionally have crept into its administration.. But a judgo ought to have some better reason for granting a parole from the bench than that ho belongs to the prisoner's lodge, or knows him well enough to call him by his given name. In the Morning's Mail. IF YOU were an editor and were opening your morning's mail, and the first letter you came to contained a bill for press ink and the next one was from an irate subscriber who ordered his paper stopped because you had sent him notice that bis subscription remittance was overdue and tho next one denounced' you for the bond proposals you were supporting and the next one criticized you for the ones your were opposing and tho next ono contained a request for a donation of $25 for further ance of tho work of the socioty for the preservation of our nalionnl monuments and the next ono enclosed a poem of 1000 words with request to print and the next ten all contained propaganda publicity of various tin desirod sorts, wouldn't it nil sort-of start your day wrong? AVell,' it happened. And then tho next letter opened was this one: i (ilRAHD, Texas. April 3. Tho Guard. Eugene. Gentlemen: Much lo my do'light 1 got two copies of Tho Guard today. A! thouKh t don't know a person in your city, still I derive an unusual ploasuro from reading your paper. Tho enclosed chock for one dollar pays for two months subscription, and I shall thnnk you to enter my name for that period. 1 expert to iniiko my home In your city as soon, as I can dispose of my holdings here. Very truly yours, r John R. MrCrary. "Wouldn't it sort' of restore the balance of things, and chase (he gloom and give the day's outlook a more cheerful appearance. Weil, that happened, loo. Just inside the south entrance tn the postoffice grounds are two rows of Caroline Tent out rosehushes. They have been well and correctly pruned and now thev are coming into foliage. Their foliage is distinctive ami easily recognized by those who observe roses closely. Its greens and ils reds and their shadings into one another produce a particularly fine effect. Ono who cares for them need not wait beauty in roses. I ho delicate pink blooms that will be Hie Teslout's crowning glory in their own way, the greens are very splendid. A bright young baseball writer for a Portland news paper, who has been following the fortunes of tho homo team in training camp, wired all his friends at home just prior to the opening ganio at Los Angeles Tuesday, on strictly insido information, advising them to bet their money on Los Angeles. They (lid so. Score, Portlnnd 7; Los Angeles 3. When he sent his telegram tho young baseball writer all packed, ready lo start it again, and is trying to decide whether to go to Texas or try to get a joh in Jjos Statistics just published United Mates one automobile truck for every (!!) per sons. win. oi i ne experience oi driving me lnciiie highway at night between conclude that the statistician undercounted tho trucks or over counted tho people. In tho first three months of this year 4731 auto mobiles from other states is to bo our biggest year thus far in point of tho number or auiomoouo tourists who win visit, us. mo con ditions for that result nro all laid. COMMENT OF THE PRESS If Results Are Desire). (Pendleton Kast Oegnnian) Two Portland policemen were ar rested near (.'ape Horn, Waali., a few days ago on a charge of hijacking The story rs interesting for neveril reasons. The men were trapped through use of two fedeml officer: who had been asked to Join in on the enterprise. They were instructed to fpigu eqtile.eme In the plan and go along. They did so and the erriiu policemen were caught red handed, in other words the officers used Telephone 1200 Al'IUL 0. the Bench. until blooming time to seo then will be beautiful, but and reds ot lis foliage now is said to have had his grip lor home.. Jle lias unpacked Angeles. indicate that there is in the here nnd Portland one m'urht registered in Orecon. This two federal operatives as "itool pig. eons," one might say. What was wrong about that? Nothing that we know of. If law -violators are to be caught then officers mint be able to use such method sa will suffice, be they after bootlegger, bank robbers or nhat not. If we expect results we must permit officer to work effec tively. The Pupa Horn incident prove the cane. Yet, when the same method are followed in apprehending boot- lexom or inciouihiuer- there ia ofUo loud complaint. There are new-urn. pera that openly object to the um of "stool pigeon" to catch a booze run ner. How do the get that ay? Wh is the booze runoer any better thau aoj otoer violator f Has the Administration a Policy In Snip? (New York World) ihe Washington bureau of the Hernld Tribune has discovered white ho life spokesman" who thinks Sir. Coohdge may take o hand In die quarrel of the shipping board over the bale of five ships af bargain prices. Jt is suggested that Mr. t oolidge "miy see: fit to instruct the board to with- draw from the sale list the ships in volved in yesterday's action." Now there is some question whether the president actunlly has authority t interfere and to take that action which' the Herald Tribune forecasts as a possibility. But there Is no que- tion ot the president power to let the country know where the adrain- Istrntion stands. A majority of the shipping board has set out "to take- the government out of the shipping business (1) by selecting for sale five of these comparatively few ships amocg many thousands of others which are actually operating at a profit to the government; (2) by selling those fillips at a fig ure representing 10 cents on -the dol lar of their cost to the taxpayer; (3) by requiring of the purchaser only five years of guaranteed-service operation when the ships tire bis to run. No one disputes tho facts involved In theBO negotiations. For that rea son especially there is certain to be a good deal of legitimate public int-ir- st ns to where the- administration lands in the affair, Good Advioe. (Christian Science Monitor) It was good adfice which Stanley P. Daviea, executive secretary of the New York state committee on mental hygiene, gave over the radio the othr night, when he. urged his bearers to drive the worries out by filling their "minds so full of cheerful things, that there will be no room left for them.' And then 'he said, "We must not let such unwholesome emotions, as aDger, fear, jealousy, envy, rage, hatred, etc., become so much a part of us that they control us instead of our controlling them." Ho added. "Our dispositions are not things that are fixed, like tho color of our eyes. They can be modified mora or leas, if wo will do some thing About It. It is not easy to get rid of a wrong mental babit and put a right one in its place. But it can be done, and the result in Increased happiness and effi ciency is well worth the effort.' It is really wonderful how the truth of right mental activity Is leavening the thought of the whole world. And Paroled. (Oregon Journal) A sentence of two years and a par ole from the bench! That is all the penalty put by the state upon a paying teller in the state treasurer's office for n default of $5000, of which $1031 was paid bark. Why the parole? The money was taken. It was throughout a period of fine years, which menus it was de liberately UUoii. It wm a rute of high public position deliberately be trayed. Why a parole? lite law fivtd a penaltr. But u urtsu't nppiiud. It was not applied In t!i!t cast', fiough in thoimn-la ot other onij, perhaps with iq i il o: iioi'fc rennon lot leniency, it a np plied. With the judges excusing crim inality, n'hat enn you eipeet juriea to do? In a recent cflso of proven guilt In Portland the jury acquitted.- A woman juror said hlio voted for ac quittal because the defendant ha a wife nnd two children. One 61 the male jurors said the caso ?auio ip from the polire court, that he had a run-in a year faoforn with the police court, and that he was against any thing that cam ft up fmm thnt. court. So he voted for acquittal. In our present mood, law in cih- in lo be law. It Is no trifled with by people, courts end Juries that Its auth ority and its deterrent power are waning. There are so many gnps through which to escape it that crlm Inals are emboldened. And never before was there so much crime! RAIN IS WELCOME PKH MOINES, In., April l. "A million dollar rain" pattered down throughout I own yesterday. With a large per cent of small grain seeding in the state completed, ttie rain is ex pected to make growing conditions ideal for oats and winter wheat. j In Lighter Vein j A Sporting Proposition ( Boston Transcript) Klrt Insurance Mn Well, I wrote $o,lHX) on Olraport today. Kacnnd Iittn What I I've been aft er tlint old fellow (or a1 year. Klral You didn't know how to Inrkle him. 1 offered lo bet him $. (HIO nRiliiiNt Ihe amount of the first payment that ho would live another year. Not a Hopeful Outlook (Ohio State Journal) Another evidence of (he arrival of Ihe brotherhood of man will come when the 1'loridn realtora are sin eerely distressed by Ihe news of an other earthquake: In California. ... Lock,. (Wilmington Kvery Evening) New York haa her padlocks, th Delaware leainlnture haa its dead Mrka. Time haa lla fornlork and Mr. Coolldito has hia Woodloek. , . Correct t Punch) ltratrice la tuy bat on itraijlit? llrnedlct No, darling. IJeatrlce That's all right, then. , Temporary Relief (Detroit Free Press) C rossing a crowded street soma times helps a man to forget his rheu- niatism for a moment. What's In a Namf tl'onca City. Okla,, .News) Two Indian women who were al leged to hnve engaged in a personal encounter as tile result of personal differences were booked on charges of fightiug end disturbing ihe peace. One of the women, (liace Cries-Kor-War. was fined JI5 and the other women, llada llluehack, was di.uilss ed by Judge James llu:.hitn. THE EUGENE GUARD TRIAL NOT WHEELER'S SOLE WORRY New 1 Arrival In Senator's Family Expected at About Time he Will Face Court l)y IIARUY B. HUNT (NKA Service Writer) yASHlNGTON, April 9. Senator .burton K. Wheeler, late progres sive candidate for vice-president, twice indicted on charges of having helped 'a Montana oil land scheme, in violation of law, left Washington March 30 on bis way to trial. Wheeler's friends have insisted that hia Indictments are persecutions rather than prosecutions, inspired by political and , personal enemies. Whether or not that is true, it does seem that Fate has taken n hand in making the time of hia trial at Urcat Falls, Mont., a period of extreme an xiety and distress for him. ljor on tho very day Wheeler is scheduled to face the court for trial, Apria 10, Mrs. Wheeler is expected to ut n lucul hospital a waiting the arrival of a new hoir. If Wheeler's enemies had, with malice aforethought, sought to forcei him to trial ut a time most tormenting to him, they could not have picked the day belter. 1 - ( Ah a friend of the family puts It: "While Wheeler will be fighting for his reputation in urcat rails, Mrs. Wheeler will bo fighting for her life here in Washington." Washington will bavo its chance to bid for literary immortality late this month when Bevernl hundred literary ladies, some with long hair and ninny with short, some poets, some nov elists, some scenario writers and some dramatists, assemble here in the annual meeting of the .League, of American Pen Women. If the capital rerognir.es its oppor tunity nnd reveals its real self, we mny look forward to a new series of novels, plays and poems dealing with the beauty, mystery, intngun and romance of Washington. Too bad cougreas is away. For con- In New York j JOEW YORK, April 9. AVho seta the failiious for men in Amer ica? We have no Prince of Wales and tho movio heroes, such as Yaleu- tino, havo little influence any more. I went to a wholesale clothier in search of information on the subject. Three classes of men set the stylej, be told me. "We watch tha college boy to see what new things be bringa on the campus,' the clothier loiu me. -ve wnrrh the big business men of Wall street and ,wo watch the vaudeville performers, t "More styles for young men orig inate at Princeton and Yale than at any other place. laot fall we had two spotters' at Princeton, racy saw Mire men wearing yellow corduroy knickers. Now young men are wearing vallor corduroys all over the count rv, Boys In high school and young fellows in town copy the clothes college boyn wear when they go home on vacation, "We watch for the return of such men as Tom Uamout, Jesse I.lvermore and other brokers from Palm Bench or Kurope. We know what they wear will affect the styles of men In leaner position in Wall street and that these styles will bo into classes. 'Vniiflevllle performers are wont tn create new and birarre fashions. Of course, the things they bring out are too extreme, but wa modify the Me and thus get our styles for the sporty young men." ' Women's styles are created mostly in smart shops in the uptown Fifth avenUe district or in Paris. Within i!l BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY Ascribe ye iresmrsa unto our Gvl. He la the rock. lii work i perfect: for all hi. a) are Judgment. Jirst ao. I right l he Dfuteronomy :i-MS, Bible Question. (Look l'p the Anweri What In said of tlie tannl mimi; - Unmans J 7. The Bodyguard gross is the ciptal's richest mine of "local color." . Prohibition agents arc getting set for spring houaeclcaning. Spring rather than winter, it seems, is the time when the wove of contra band booze, both smuggled and home mode, reaches its crest. And it is this wave Uncle Sam's agents have been ordered to mop up. Increased quantities of Scotch and Canadian whiskies arc reported to be coming in across tho New England and New York borders. Facing what threatens to be the greatest spring drive by rum runners in the history of prohibition, Commissioner Hnyrfes has assigned additional men to the dry squads there. Warm weather, It is explained, stirs anew old appetites .that crave the highball, the rickey and the julep. Spring-time fishing expeditions, too, swell the demand fr potent bottled "fish bait." And with an increasing seasonal demand, there ia an increas ing activity by the bootleg brigade, than which no other line of trade re acts more quickly to the old law of "supply and demand." t w w m Hirth control advocates, who have just concluded a convention in New York preparatory to launching a drive for federal legislation on that sub ject next winter, may ns well mark one United States senator off their calling list. - A woman representative of the "Voluntary Parenthood league," an agency working for birth control, sounding out members of the new senate, recently called on Rice W. Means, new member from Colorado. Means laid down an ultimatium: "I don't want to discuss it now or at any other time. Moreover, I wouldn't discuss it with a woman," As the V. Ii, P. worker left, a clerk in Means office explained: "The senator is a little old-fashioned, you know." hours of a new dresa being put in the window of an exclusive shop It is be ing copied by manufacturers of cheaper dresses. It is a common sight to see men from clothing houses copy ing women's dresses and wraps on Fifth avenue. 1 even have seen them doing it in the theater district nt night. Thus a woman who pays $V0 to SlajO for a dress because it is the only one of Its cut and trim in existence may see replicas of it io cheaper ma terial at $15 a few weeks later. Sev eral of tho exclusive shopes will not sell goods on approval because they cometimes fall Into tho hands of pro fessional designers who use the drens or wrnp for a pattern and then return it, thus being ablo to get the cheap copy on the market before the original is sold. The first cable thrown atfhore when the Leviathan docks here voutnins telephone line which ia plugged int exchange connection. Thus homeward bound passengers can talk to friends anywhere reached by the 10 million telephones in North America before the boat ia dockrd. They can call up their business offices or make hotel reservations. Iont believe that New York i en tirely heartless. Consider the case of Richard Walsh, a white-haired old nuiu of 72 who collected $-5.75 in fiv. minutes in a Seventh avenue subway After he was sentenced t ) six months in the work house because it was hi ! eighth conviction for begging he told the police u was s poor cr m ttJH n he hadn't been able to collccet mor than $SX). I have nern this old fellow doled as much as three or four dol lars in one cur in two minutes. Howell's Comment MTH TrnW.n 1- Uoosrflt try iuf t reform th drmocnittc partr nnd Ttaeodor Kooievrit tryitif to wake up tli republican party, there ahould be toturthinr doing. Cer tainly, both parties need it. The democratic party, uplit between the foreign born l aiholif, "wet." metro politan, feudal-minded eastern group nnd til old-American. Protectant drT," rural, iiiditidualiatie aouthern group, haa lost the tradition and for gotten the principle thnt once held it together. Itonsi'velt iKrankhn l. think h can fnd Iraderthlp. ni the only other basis of unity. The repub lican party, compounded of conserva tives, liberals and progressives, tra ditionally n Farmer-Business party, is pulled between two movements, one of which interprets the victory as li cense to restore the era of Mark Hanna, and- the other of which is sure that the victories of 1928, 1932 and the rest, can not be won on the slogans of 1884. Roosevelt (Theodore) thinks it will take young men to make the necessary readjustments. "What both parties need is principles, and contrary ones. But the time when they were divided by doctrines, instead of men, is ancient and almost forgotten history. Tom Sims Says j LEGISLATOR may grow purple in the face with anger, but you never see one speechless. You never know what some people think until you make them . mad enough to tell the truth. Swallowing insults eventually ruins your digestion. On the other hand, a great many uf those trying to assert themselves have nothing to assert. (rand opera was thought up by a man who had just finished mashing his finger with n hammer. The way to see how far your car will go beforo it needs repairs is t lend it to a friend. 9 The bigger the house you live in the more liablo you are to move to a sanitarium, - , Much misery is caused by peopl trying to be happy. New York jury decided a woman's husband was worth $27,000 to her. Will your wife believe it of you? Melba, singer, .says woman should learn to sing at home. What if they have nothing to sing about? Let your little boy play In the dirt and be may he a divorce cas lawyer when he grows up. Oregon Briefs y a vote of 107 to 17, taxpayers of Marfthfield havo Authorized a -?3V 000 arhool bond issue. Organized labor of Coos Boy nnd environs, at a meeting nt Marahfield lant week, indorsed Lhe old nge pen sion for Oregon. J. A. rilcher, for 50 eara a resi dent of North IVjwdor, died nt a lin ker hospital last week from a disease pr.onomiced sleeping sicknteM. ' Twelve state highway surveyors have arrived in Wheeler to begin sur vey of the ltoosevelt highway from Hrighton to the overhead crossing nt Nehalem, Three hundred and seventy-one pu pils and 13 teachers are uhcent from tho Itend schools because of In grippe and influenza. Iave (IcrvaiP, one of the oMiimers of tho Nehalem country, left his home at Wheeler in his bout and -tins not been heard from since. U is feared ho haa been drowned. " The state board of control has ap proved a reflueat of lr. It. K. Lee Steiner for the erection of a garage nt the Oregon shite ho. pit.il to cost approximately ?-0(H. The Misses KHzabeth and Anne M. t.ang of The lalies were named ehirf beneficiaries in the wdl uf the late Malcolm A. Moody. The estate is es timated at about $100,000. Wood and Coal Wood under cover any length King Coal Oak Cord Wood Ash Slabwood Mapla FUEL CO. til National Bank Bldg. Room 24 Phona 8S1 Fellowship of Prayer Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared . for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. THURSDAY The Last Supper. Read Lk. 22.7-23. Text: 22:19. This do in remembrance of nie. Meditation In this last meeting with his disciples Jesus sought to bind the hearts of his intimate friends to himself and to (iod forever, lie bad learned through the years the way to God and had been strengthened again and again by the holy spirit. In this hour he gave bis disciples an oppor tunity to share his communion with the father. As we join in this sacra ment in memory of him, his spirit comes to our souls and we learn the true value of things. No one can par take of the communion in truth and retain a frivolous or flippant spirit. "Always when my soul has sur rendered itself to the divine will I am refreshed. The laying down of self is the taking up of God. When I lone my will 1 gain the infinite. The mo ment of surrender is also the mo ment of conquest. When I consecrate my weakness I put on strength and majesty like a robe." " PrayerrEternal God, may the pres ence of thy spirit in our lives give tis strength to do thy will. May we have true communion with thee and come to know t'liee as our father, infinite in love and tenderness. Let us be ns faithful gardens bringing forth al manner of good fruit in the spirit. O abide with us, in Christ's name. Amen. 25 Years Ago (From The Guard, April 9. 1900) Invitations are out for a ladies so cial to be given by Eugene lodge 357, B. P. O. E. on.' April 17. - An effort is being made to locate a coloney of Danes in Lane county, and negotiations are pending for a large tract of farming land. E. H. Ingham has, gone to San Francisco for a while. Andy Taylor has sold his "yaller team" to a man in Albany. An unusual sight seen in Eugene today was a string of four wagons behind one team. It is the general impression that the frost did not do much damage to the fruit crop. T. Campbell is tearing down the old building in the rear of Link's Bhoe store. The Eugene Oratorio society is to hold a meeting Wednesday tight in Frank's hali. . ( N. Ij. Cornelius has returned from a trip to Portland. DO YOU WANT TO BUY, SEI.U. RENT, LEASE, TItADE OH FIND A LOST A1ITICI.K? WATCH SAT URDAY'S CLASSIFIED. ,. OREGON MOTOR CO. 1'bone Oil). 1)30 Olive tf BRICK BURIAL VAULTS DRAIN TILE IRRIGATION PIPS SEWER PIPE CULVERT PIPE HOLLOW TILE BLOCKS SEPTIC TANKS Eugene Concrete Pipe Co. . '5 Blair. Phone 903 tan be yours. IC0f.Ci.ETE Thursday Evening April 1325 Oriental Handicraft Exhibition and Sale at LARA WAY'S Music Store April 9, 10, 11, 1025 Household Linens In Chi nese Embroidery; Tapeslrltj and . Brocades, Porcelains, Japanese Kimonaa and Haori Pictures, Stationery, Brldo, Prizes and Favors. A percentage of proceeds ol. en to the University of ore. Oon Art-Museum Bulldlno fund. 0 Mrs. Ruth B. Wheeler . Eli fi g to IfegUiZiktggjJLtg FACTS ARE STUBBO&. TH'NCtS Chiropractic facts about Chiropractic are that it is a drugless sci ence and that it opens up the way for ' Nature to completely restore health to a person whose mis aligned spine has reduced the supply of nervous force. to SAN FRANCISCO Stage Terminal Phono 1860 PANTS Cut anil made specially for. 5-ou any style or erode in our I own shop. Guaranteed to lit. LISTON MFG. CO. 719 Olivo Elks Bide. PUBLIC DANCE DREAMLAND HALL Every Wednesday and Saturday Night COOKED FOOD SALE Will be held nt Ax Billy's Saturday, April ttlh ii SIS-50 When Our Bank Site ! Was a Garden Plot In the early ISOO's, vchon Ihls district c.nst:te,l ut ratichen nnd rolling farina, men llvod ip.oro Independent nd resource ful Uvea. Each was livlnft fnr IiIimrcIC; ,his own Klirewrt liire aight and coivmatidlng atlllty sp.'lkd either l'.ts stices.i or failure. As civilization slowly followed tho pioneer, ?:;iMeiH'n Baw less Btrenuoua. The law cared for his n.ifety; tho railroad for his travel; tlsa bank netured a:itl he'.vH ItKMCje h: earning power. And as business became more anil aior'cofr.jjti x one b.'tnl-- in particular became outstr.mlini;. Husine.-s nttn noticed that it kept ono Jump ahead of the absolute necessities cf tho )ay That bank wns the U. 3. National. Today you aee the result, of this polity In the exceptional assislance the officials of the I'. S. .National itlve those who come to them for advice. No mntter how large or Fmall Is your problem, here it is nnyT.r:! for Tie nM;!nr. This service U. S. NATIONAL BANK. T5he Bank of Service EUGENEIOAN f SAVINGS BANK one Bank jor Savings SOMETHING WRONG Headache! Backache t Xervoust All down and outf Don't neglect yourself. Neglect may lead to seri ous illness. CHIROPRACTIC . V Hemoves tho cause Health returns GEO. A. SIMON I Examination Free Bit Willamette St. Phone 355J jj n