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THE EUGENE GUARD
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SEARCH IS NOW ON FOR VITAMIN
Dr. Helen 8. Mitchell Carries on Clot Inveit!iit!c4 of Wr.at Is
Thought to Be An Entirely New Vitamin
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NEW YORK, April 11. W1
There is need for important reform"
In the marnajre law" and their ad
ministration, either or both, in prac
tically etery aut in tha Cnited
Htatea, according to ft 150-paja re
port on "Child Marriajea," ismied
here recenUj bj tha KuMell Sage
foundation as the result of a aereral
yeara inreatication eitendinc Into 9)
citiei in practically ry aection of
tb country.
The report, which waa prepared
by .Mary K. Richmond, nnder whose
direction the etndy waa condncted.
with the collaboration of Fred B.
Hail, takea the position that at thin
stage reform must be effected state
by atite. It calls upon .association
of parents, ministerial associations,
aocial worker, legislators and others
Interested in the problem of child
marriage, to undertake the following
ten atepa toward a solution of this
problem :
1. Work toward a reasonable and
enforceable minimum marriageable
age law; the minimum for (iris
should be at least 16; in man stairs
It la still 12.
2. Procure In states which now
are without It a law requiring fire
days' ad ranee notice of Intention to
marry; auch law la now in opera
tion In eight states.
8. Put the marriage market town
ot of burinem; there are at least
40 notorious Gretna Green where
the exploitation and commerclalicsr
tfon of maniac responsible for
trmerone cMld jaarrtagea.
4r -Through co-operation with ad
Jodning atatea alacourage hasty mar
riage aeroM the state border, where
ono-osVtown marriages are railroaded
tbxougb either at the license offlo
or the Justice of the peace office, or
both.
6 Enow (he work of your Hceaee
Haera, m that fbe difti col ties with
which tbey are bow oon tending aingle
h ended sosor bo brooght to bgbt, and
that they may be encouraged to use
the discretion which the laws of many
atatoa now empower them to exercise.
& Destroy the fee system; In so
far as the system of fees In lien of
salaries to license issuers surrires.
it interferes with the disinterested
character of their service.
7. Strengthen requirements as to
proof of age of spplicants for mar
riage licenses; at present no proof
of age Is required In most marriage
license offices and the practice of ac
cepting affidavits leada to falsifica
tion by ailicants and sometimes by
their parents, making possible the
- marriage of children 11, 12, 13 and
14 years of age.
8. Substitute better eridence of
age for affidavits; no other form of
evidence is so unsatisfactory. Aside
from birth and baptismal certificates,
111 other forms of documentary eri
dence of age are suggested in the
report!
0. Require both applicant for ft
marriage license to appear in pcrsor
before the license Issuer. .
10. Harmonize the different state
lawn in which a minimum age Is re
quired; the minimum marriageable
age should not be lower than the
minimum working age, and the com
pulsory school attendance age should
fit into both theae others.
Adoption of such reforms, says the
report, would act aa a check upon
tbore parents who are willing to
marry off their boys sod girls while
tbey are still children. What is moro
important, they would protect other
parents who at present nerer know
when some designing person or Im
pulse of the moment may spirit
away the Immature girl or boy from;
the home and make the child the1
Tlertm of an administrative system j
which la without proper safeguards. ;
Dr. Helen S. Mitchell
; Detroit Planning
35-Story Building
DnTTROTT, April 11. 0nA
ftoada or so ago a quiet residen
tial street, today a thrtrftig busi
ness artory, Is the transition ot
Washington Bnnlerard, a short
thorough faro starting at Mfcht
ran arenu 1a this city and ter
mrnating four blocks distant at
Park IkrulsTsrd.
Another unit Hi tfc transitory
prog i s Is to come with the er
ection of a BMtory annex to the
; present Book Pu lid trig. At the
intersection of Washington Hrnil.
1 STard and flrand Rtrar Itmim !
tha now strnotur will be the tall
, Nt building tn Michigan, and la
bat another unit In the plan to
make tha boulermrd Detroit's
"Fifth Arenae.M
Among other projects annowno
d 's tha new town house of the
Avtatlon Town and Country Club,
also a skyscraper, to be erected
on tha present site of the Y. W.
C A., at ths corner of C11ffr.nl
fttreot and Washington Boulevard.
(By NEA Service)
JJATTLH CREEK, Mich., April 11.
Just aa everybody thought the
whole question of Tit amine had been
thoroughly straightened out along
comes a discovery that has science
guessing.
Dr. Helen S. Mitchell, director of
nutrition research at the Battle Creek
Sanitarium is now carryinjt on a close
investigation of what is believed to
be ft new vitamin christened Vita
min X.
"So little la known about Vitamin
X that It is hard to say much about
It," says Dr. Mitchell. "There is
even some doubt whether there Is
auch a thing and until ita existence
or non-existence has been established
there will be a battel royal among
scientists.
Four Vitamins Accepted
Four vitamins have been accepted
as established.
There is Vitamin A, which is pres
ent in fats, particularly cod-liver oil,
butter, egg yolk, milk and also in
green leaves.
Then there Is Vitamin B, present
la seeds of plants, especially whole
grain, egg yolk, yeast and in many
fruit vegetables.
Vitamin 1) is little known but It
Is generally conceded to be found in
cod-liver oil and certain green foods
and is useful in the prevention of
rickets. !
They are really substances in food, j
the presence of which makes food a i
better diet For instance, the eating1
HONOLULU, April 1L The
non-political .Pan-r'acific conference
of prominent men from seven coun
tries in this area, which will be held
here from July 1-15 aa a preliminary
to a permanent political forum of ail
peoplea of, the Pacific, hid ita incep
tion as a proposed Pan-Pacific Y. M
C. A. conference attended by high
officials of that organiaation, it has
been revealed by the Pan-Pacific
Union, which is sponsoring the meet
ing. from the limit a of t I. M. C. A.
conference, it waa widened to a Pan
Pacific Christian Conference, and re
cently assumed its still wider scope
as a Pacific model ot the Institute of
Politica at YYiliiamstown, Mass.
A number of lecturers and round
table leaders of last year's WUliami
town Institute will attend the Hono
lulu conference, it is announced.
Among those are Xusuke Tsumuri,
son-in-law of Vihcount Goto; Henry
Pratt Fairchiid, New York university,
and George H. ttlakeslee, of Glark
university.
Among the members of the institute
of last year who are on the American
advisory council of the Honolulu
council are Charles C. Batchelder,
former secretary of commerce, tPbii
ippine Islands, an expert on commer
cial relation, Und Stanley' K. Horn
beck, of Washington. L. C.
Harry A. Garfield, president of j
Williams college; A. Cooiidge di- j
rector of the Harvard university H- j
brary and a member of the institute !
board of advisors, and Bernard Bit '
ruch, who financed -the first three
sessions of the institute, have been
cooperating with the American com
mittee in arranging the Honolulu
conference.
J. Merle Davis, executive secretary
of the conference, will arrive here
lute this month from the mainland,
where he haa been obtaining funds
and enlisting American members of
the committee.
ed illegal by the disappearance of
vice mayor Tro.se, who had neglected
to aign the papera which would have
legalized the documents.
The fact that 5O0.000 lire disap
peared with Troiae makes It seem un
likely that he will return, and now
the authorities are searching for a
method of making legal all of the ir
regular demises, illegitimate births
and automatic divorces the careless
official left behind him.
Livestock is Driven
In London Streets
LONDON, April 1L OP) The
custom of driving pigs, sheep and
cattle through the streets, a practice
begun centuries ago when London
was but a village, ia still being car
ried on. However, it is seldom that
the public generally witnesses this
sight as the work is done during the
early hours of the morning.
A herd of cattle, delayed on its
way to the market, got into' a traffic
jam recently in Holborn, one of the
city's main thoroughfares, and extra
policemen had to be called to assist
the drivers in their task of getting
the animals started again. The pres
ent day city regulations provide that
live stock can be driven through the
streets only between the hours of
midnight and five in the morning.
Fast Traveling Colt
PARIS, April 11. A French year
ling colt, owned by an attache of the
Dutch legation in Paris, is the first
race horse ever shipped by airplane
froinNone country to another. The
colt was carried from Paris to the
owner's farm in Holland in a plane
with a special horse stall.
E
TO FOR STEAKS
NEW YORK, April 11. W
Alaska has ita eye on the gradual
falling off In American beef produc
tion, and aspires to develop an equiv
alent of the once famous Texas steer
in its own Arctic reindeer. Chsrles
DeWItt Brewer, a New Yorker who
has lived 41 years In Alaska, told a
gathering ftt the City club recently
that New York city waa, already tak
ing 150,000 pounds of reindeer beef
a year, and predicted by the end of
1025 it would consume 375,000
pounds.
What Mr. Brower called a defi
nitely established beef industry In
the north rested, he said, upon herds
of 300,000 beef-bred reindeer which
fatten In a great grass triangle as
large as Texas whose apex is Point
Barrow, 200 milea north of the Arc
tic circle. By 1940 he expected 4,
000,000 head.
Nome was the packing house cen
ter, and so far the meat output was
only about large enough to meet the
domestic demand, according to Mr.
Brower. However, the nucleus of a
future export business was provided
in the growing New York trade, and
refrigerator boats were bringing
beeves direct to the Hudson river, by
way of Seattle and the Panama canal.
The reindeer, Santa Clatis to the
contrary, had become s.vnonomous
with steaks and chops in the north
country rather than sleigh bells, said
fr. Brower. Sledging there was now ,
done exclusively by dogs, which could
traverse stretches reindeer could not.
Beef possibilities of the reindeer
were first discovered when Pr. Shel
don Lewis, a missionary, imported
them from Siberia to succor the Es
quimaux who were threatened with
atarvarion by extinction of game ani
mals. The present herds bsve been
bred up from the 1.2S0 origins! ani
mals brought over Bering sea be
tween 1S92 and 1902.
Heindeer calfskin furnishes what
Mr. Brower said was the warmest
fur for its weight In the world, spec
ially favored for clothing bv
maux and Cbukrheeti, mhai
and explorers. Alaskan cnU.
ever, were too valuable a bt
Alaska is arranging to huT
from the Russian sovirt ia ;
where there is at present a:
supply of reindeer meat.
Radio Band at Se
CAPE TOWN, 8. A.. Apr
A band concert on a vessel ;,
out to sea recently was reA J
iua v.i"i " " au;o Stat
then rebroadcast
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Stockholm Evicts
Prosperous Tenants
STOCKHOLM, April 11. (API
A landlord who puts out his
tenants when they become too
prosperous, ia order to make
room for poorer ones, preferably
those with children. Is the cur
ious spectacle presented by the
city of Stockholm. Aa there is i
a shortage In housing, the city
has ordered those who can af
ford to pay higher rents to more .
In order to provide homes for
those with less means, many of
whom are now llvlnc In tempor
ary shelters. J
It Is only after careful lnvestl-
f atlon, bowever, that the city aa-'
thorltles rive a tenant notice
Thus, out of 600 families propos-j
ed for ejection thli year, only 1
of green vegetables which contain
these vitamins supplies the body
with certain substance which are ne
cessary to proper development of the
body.
These known vitamins, A, B, C,
acd I), are really food balancing
substances and help to put the body
In a position where it can ward off
disease.
Vitamin X is different. It Is be
lieved that the new vitamin, if it ex
ists, affects the reproductive powers
of at least animals.
May be Balancer
"Personally I am rather inclined to
believe that what we think may be
a new vitamin isn't a vitamin at all
but some other substance, or per
haps a better balance of substances
already known," Dr. Mitchell Bays.
Experiments with rata by addition
al diet have proved successful in j
changing; reproductive power.
Just what effect the experiments 1
will have on the human rare is at
this time problematical. Kesearch i
experiments, however, on rata are
duplicated to a great degree in hu
mans. If there Is a Vitamin X It may
mean that future generations will be
improved because parents knowing of
this vitamin can eat food containing '
it. , j
The whole thing contains tremen- j
dous possibilities and advantages if;
there is such a thing as Vitamin X. i
And that is what science is now busy '
trying to establish. j
200 have been selected. Thfse
are chiefly bachelors or childless i
couples whose incomes are out j
of all proportion to the low rent'
they pay, and special considera-1
Hon has been shown for aped i
couples who hive lived for a long l
time In the same 'quarters. By'
next fall the city hopes to have i
adequate dwellings for all the '
war-time squatters. J
Official Vanishes
And Causes Alarm
NAPLES-, April 11 0P All the
the marriage Licenses and marriage,
birth and death certificates issued
during a recent' period of several
weeks by one of the district mayoral
ties of this municipality were render-
Now Is the Time
For remodeling and repairing
of ladles' and men's appareL
Also cleaning and pressing
work guaranteed Reasonable
prices.
W. L. SCROGaR
S31 Willamette Pnone 753
Upstairs
We call for and deliver
Have You
A Safety
Deposit .
Box?
Most everyone has
documents, jewelry or
heirlooms which are of
vnlue to them alone.
Perhaps if fire or theft
would occasion their
loss, they could never
be replaced.
Are you one of those
wlio are enjoying com
plete protection for
their valuables by keep
ing them in a First Na-H
tional Snfetv Deposit
Box?
FIRST
NATIONAL
BANK
Eugene, Oregon
Arkansas is After
Mills for State
t.rrnjE rock, at Aprn 11.
W Tbt Arkansu Ircltlalurt mil
trull, mill, la tha tut. nd wtxild
titoipt thta from UiiUpb for rra
jur. Th quutloa will bt w4 on
In th. form of a eonititarloBa) aoiaad
m.nt at tat n.it itata tloctfoa,
Tvtra hofora th l.inlarnr. b.a .
trmptrd to tndn mill to coma to ts
.tato K ruttint ont taita orrr a p.r
toyi of ;ra. Kara Man tha tftort
hi failnl. duo to cot MrotioBat pro
i'l"t rrdint tha adoption of roa
atituttoaal atnr ndraanta.
Wood and Coal
Wood ftndar corar aa
lana-th
Kloi Coal Oak
Card W ood A aft
ti ao wood Map l
MANERUO
HUNTINCTON FUEL CO.
tat National Bank aid.
Roem M
on Ml
Condensed Official Statement of the
Bank of Commerce
Eugene, Oregon
At the close of business April 6, 1025
RESOURCES
Loans
Bonds and Warrants
Excess Real Estate (contra below)
uanicing .House
Furniture and Fixtures
U. S. Bonds
CASH RESERVE L
Total Reserve
.$ 86,350.00
317,319.86
.$637,323.02
214,734.6-t
40,01X100
50,000.00
7,400.00
403,669.86
Total Resources .
LIABILITIES
$1,353,127.52
Capital Stook
Surplus
Reserve against excess Real Estate
I'ndivid.vl Profits
Dividends I'npaid
DEPOSITS
50,000.00
50.000.00
4n.0O0.0i")
1.2S5.53
87.50
1,211.754.47
Total Liabilities . .
April fi, 1925. Deposits
December 31.v1924 Deposits
(Jain since last statement
.$1,353,127.52
$1,211,754.47
. 1,093.442.30
118,312.17
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