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i : U Ik. Pajro Four THE EUGENE GUABD THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper publlihed dally exoapt Sunday. PAUL R. KELTY, Editor EUGENE 8. KELTY. Buslneaa Manager Offices 1037-1041 Wlllamatta Street Telephona 1200 The Eugene Guard Is a member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prosa Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news 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 dispatches hereto are also reserved. Tug Eugene Guard Is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SATL'UDAV, .MAI 2. May Our Governor Punish Us? IS THE governor of n htnte u Berviml of the people who olcot him, or (heir master? , In it n governor ' duty to execute the will of the voting majority, or is it his rif,'ht to give them orders T AVe have in mind, of course, our own Governor Pierce. Governor Tierce keeps right on saying .publicly and privately that the people are to blame for the state's prospective financial predicament, because they repealed the stato income tax. His is a presumptuous and nn arrogant assumption. The voting majority, noting upon its unquestioned constitutional right, repealed the state income tax law last November. The governor knew then that tho state would be thereafter without the reve nue mat tno sialo income tax liaa . nrought. it was n 'month later when ho directed the manipulation whereby tho property tax levy was cut to a point more than a million dollars below the state's altered requirements It was yet another month later when, because of his fear of tho ridiculous Dennis amendment, ho vetoed tho act lor a special rctcrenduni ejection, thus paving the way for a hold-up of thu special tax measures which would in part hr.ve made up tho revenue lost through his mal mnnipulution of the tax levy. ' Tho governor nooma to think that he possesses dic tatorial powers, whoso disregard by tho people lie is entitled to pumsu. Jiis reaction to the present situation Becms to bo ono of smug self-satisfaction, rather than nnxiety at tho prospect that the state is to bo plunged into a slough of financial despond. It is a remarkable nttitudo for a governor to take. Inf inreitlfated the condition of the school district finances, we had a cur osity to know how they were roinc to an it. We rifured that If the For ward Lookers could build a hundred thousand dollar school building on the lew cents left In our legal bonding limitation, that It would be worth while to hire them to null the countrr club out of the financial morasa and raise the money needed to finish the new hotel. But alas and alack! After the thing hud all been completed but moving In the furniture and turning the discipline over to the kids, Ueorge Uemnnn was called upon. Ueorge Is a cold blooded cuss and when he got tnru mere was Just about enough left of that new school houBe to oar a Janitor for cleaning un the debris. Said (Jeorge. in effect, "We have a le gal right to bond up to L'07.2I5. We are now bonded up to $iiu7,OUO. That leaves f!MS with which to build a new school house." One of the (lo tetters suggested that we hae the assessor double our valuation. That, of course, would also double our state and county taxes. Hut that's a sun II matter. lour real Co Getter carea nothing about taxes. He ia a born spender and Community Booster. If he were wrecked on a desert island the first thing be would do would he to organ ixe a service club and issue bonds to sdvertise the deHert. The Horrible Example "The Careless Few." TpHE careless few" among fishermen who havo been i- visiting tho Lake creek district recently have, ac cording to a communication from a Lake creek resident, published yesterday in Tho Guard, dono theso things: Jirnkcn down fences, left gates open, trampled growing grnin, entered school houses, littered campgrounds and noted superciliously toward people on whoso property they wero trespassing. How enn farmers in tho Lako creek district bo ex pected to do othorwiso than post notices on their property forbidding pcoplo to trespass, ns the correspondent says they aro doingt "Who of us in town would tolernto the injuries and affronts that, according to this correspond ent, aro being put upon tho pooplo who livo about Lake creek ami own homes and property there T Offenses of tho kind charged by this correspondent denote nothing less than a plain disregard by those who commit them, of the rights of others, l'eoplo used to commit such offenses through thoughtlessness or ignor ance, but they no longer havo such excuses, because newspapers, forestry officials and various organizations I mieicHieu in reoroaiionai and outdoor nctivity havo for several years past carried on a campaign of education ii nd information against such things. It is high time for tho orderly majority or sportsmen and others who enjoy tho outdoors to organize themselves for tho curb ing of "tho careless few." If something of tho kind is not done, fishermen and hunters and picnickers may Boon find themselves facing trespass notices whereveiv they go. If this conies to pass nobody can justlv blame ino l armors. Plant Pears (Salem Capital Journal) Kruit crops of the country aro hav ing their usual spring destruction at the bauds of the experts, it is usu ally necessury to destroy them at least three limes before a bumper Harvest. However experta tell us that the prune and chcrrv croua will be light but the pear and peach cropa good. The freeze of lust winter is blnraed. Why do not the growera set out more pear acreage' Year in and year out, pears aro na profitable aa any crop grown, more thnn most, yet there aro three eommercinl nenr orchards In the Salem territory. The Willamette valley is peculiarly adapted to pears, psrticulurly as a canning product. Climatically it can not be excelled, for It is immune from rire-bllght, the dreaded destroyer of most pear regions. Frost seldom takes a heavy toll and the trees are freer from peats than elsewhere. In order to aecure pears enough to operate their plant, local cannens have to Import them In iuuntiiy lota from southern and eastern Oregon and Washington districts. Tnere should be pears enough raised here to eliminate this Importation. Diversity la the salvation of the fruit-grower, as It Is of the farmer. Tho wise orchnrdist will Include u peur block with his prunes or aimlcn or nuts, so that In enso of fuiluro of ono crop, there ia another to rely upon, while occasionally there will ho bumper yields of all. - , Satnrday Evening, May 2, ifo- Iho "Mother's Inn" man camo all tho way from Tangent a day or two ago to tell how much benefit his T.laeo is i receiving from nn advertisement which the United Mates National bank has been running in the ' ;;?,K,h Vn,V,'H, 0,,rrJ'i1llK complimentary reference to li-m i long n?" ""d Rn'iC0- who enugrn George W. Stnploton.' dead at Rensi.lo. Wild 11 Al.MIAn.. crossed tho plains by covered wngon in tho later ,'rahon from tho middle west. Ho was a self.,,,,,,!.. " K 'r e,,t.ei1( a community leader and an able I'lli n "Vr1'00-f ,,ho IW'"C0 nml laUr "a circuit Jiulgo. Jlo will bo missed. Tho courts tried to settle it once, but now wo of .gee are to have opportunity to decide for ourselves iSl iif. Z d qUU8,ln CnwrninK S,r' G""Kl'er It is heartening to rend this answer bv tho I ,,,, county court to a ,,ues.io by ,u) fllniu s J?' ::;" uz h,Ws ,,s- Wit. h Z ! 1,0 .t"ri"" nro among s nlron.1v fitness the M registration at tho K,,. " .'"'; ' ''""' April. More of then, are coming 'I'lm i-;.,., ...Z-. ". : ..... .......uivks im a Hazardous non oreii uuoiiicr nticnipt on tl ea h tiir 'pi u life of lioris U.,1......:.. Get ready for straw hat ln- In Lighter Vein Even More Dangerous (Cincinnati Eniircr) "Medical science has been able to chock a great many of theso chil dren's diseases." "Yes; but children todsy, Instead of getting scarlet fever or diphtheria, get a motor-car, so we really are not much bettor off than wo used to be." e Bigger and Belter (Progressive (irocer) Small Nephew That dune you ...... nuppeu inrougli a hole in my ,'OVKUI, I'ncle Well, hero'a another. Don't lei it an inc same. nephew Perhaps half a dollar wouiu ue sster, wouldn't It, uncle? A Rare Run (Cincinnati Kn,iiirer) Well, what kind of a run did you havo today V" usked I lie engineer's s tney sut down to their eve ning meal. ery unusual." he replied. "Very unusual. Wo didn't hit a single motor-car on any of the crossings during mo mure trip. A Safety-valve (Vancouver Xun) One thing that k America f. ... ,..,.,.. in w met t tint one excniug sport season blends into an- uiuer, Tempered With Politeness (Huston Transcript) -Mother Share this apple with your sister and show a Christian spirit. Walter Wha' Ja mean a Christian spirit? .Mother Take a small bite vourself nun give tne rest to llessie. Walter After you, llessl New Air Peril (Sydney llulletln) "These airplanes art getting more danrrroua than ever." ' Some ono killed?" "No, but 1 see a chap got married In one yesterday." 'DEESTR1CT" CASE TO HIGH COURT Cause Celebre Arising Out of Chicago Squatter'i Doings, Long In Public Eye. Tom Sims Says brad of of the yilY argue about who la the house? The boss u,i,,est iiomt we have seen is four nuuiths old. Women are so curious. They re fuse to believe things unless they are true. COMMENT OF THE PRESS Honor lo a Benefactor I Christian Science .Mnll,.r) ll"t,or Indeed should he paid to h,.,n honor Is due. Ilvnce the action tsken II, e .!,,., ,.,y l,y nearly ;el members of Hie l!rpul.li,on club of Die rifleel lh Assembly li!rict, Now l"ry City, ami their gurls wrl! dviMil In adopting a resolution of gialitinle to the unknown New I ns land Sevnrin who was the f,rt ninu to miul.iiii. I.ii k il I, ,aiia a, ,r .bread. lwliire It ,.(( ,t, romed be.f and cal,l.,iie. ar l call the oiiiliuird j re.ull a -New Cnglnnd iliunrr." In--HlrtM.v the s'or.v is told ,.f the man' in a wrafrrn city v. In, n iiitrmini'ine a well known speaker who hie, from It'.ston. In ins n-mnrks he rnoililid ! on. till.ng every im.ig.im Me point ut : interest concerning his voitor'a hJiue I Instead of .spring clrsnlng msnv of us take advantage of the silly season to clutter up our minds with trash. you enn have is a rlesu shirt. The ol.ler the argument the harder it falls. Ity CHAW.KS P. STEWART ' (NKA Service Writer) yASIUNGTO.N, May 1!. After quarter of a century In state and federal tribunals in Chicago, the fa mous Deestrlet of Lake Michigan cope ia coming up to the United States su preme court on appeal. It dates so fur back that not mnny people re-' member just how it sturted. Tho Deestrict is a big tract a good many acres of "made land" nn Chicago's north shore lake front. At first it wae Just tho North Side city dump. A North Sido as big aa Chi cago's lias a lot of refuse to dispose of. Thia dump grew fast, nway out into thu loke, lu or 15 minutes' walk, and about twice that far north and south from the foot of Knst Chicago nvenui a duxen or so of city blocks. It consisted of cinders, old bottles, bones, tin cans, all sorts of junk. It wasn't nn attractive spot and Chi cago in those days wasn't as crowded as it is now, so the land wasn't needed immediately and it seems th have occurred to nobuily to claim it until, unexpectedly, "Cap" tieorgo neiungion .streeter did. Then every body wanted it. The "cap" has been described as a squatter. Nothing so unromsntlc! llo was master of a barge on Lake .Michigan. One night liis shallop broke loose from the tug which wos towing It through a storm toward the shelter of the breakwiu.fr at the mouth of the Chicugo river, and the waves dashed it uu on Hie ilnim, Then the "cap" had an ispirutiou. lie claimed the const on which he had neen east away, "by right of dis covory. nnmed it the "Deestrict o( ,ako Michigan" and hung onto it for years. His ense waa better than it looked at first glance. The lieestrict wns hounded un its landward side by a rondway, which origiunlly had run right along tho lake front, so that there were no actually abutting prop erty owners. It really lay off all by itself and the "cap" was the first peraon who ever had laid claim to it. A score of interests Immediately took steps toward evicting him. The "cap" full of fight, organized nn array of about a dozen men armed with lilies, too to defend himself. The Knst Chicago nvenue police came on the jump, also with Winchester. Hut on second thoughts, there wasn't much the police could do. If the bind belonged to tho "cap" and no body was in a position to suy it didn't he was entitled to keep trespassers off, Tho affair finally resolved itself into a legal contest, but with the threat of un armed clash always loom ing in tho background, like the llulkun menace in a Chicago setting. Pres ently tho "cap" began quit-claiming little patches in the Deestrict for settlers to build shacks ou. Thus arose tho city of Streeterville popu lation 2VO or 1)00. Tho courts were luw. . itivul claimants against tho "cup" grew impatient. At length they decided to oust him at nil costs. Once out, they thought they could keep him out. So one night a strong party of claim jumpera descended ou tho Deestrict. They fouud the "cap's" army right on the job. Not ouly were they repulsed one invader wub killed. his own parlor, or the parlor of his boarding house. His office was his desk, on the floor of the House of Representatives chamber, where he wrote hia own let ters, by band, with a pen. His busi ness with the departmenta he con ducted by tramping around to them himself, on his own feet. And yet, there wns more attention to public affairs, and more reputation to be made in Congress then than now. The new offices are, of course, needed. Modern business methods make modern equipment necessnry. Itut if half as much attention were paid to modernizing the methods of Congress itself as to the physical equipment and assistance of congress men for their personal wort, it might save the people the price of a dozen office buildings in a singlo week. reforested from twenty to forty years ago. Now, why should you ask Uncle Sam or a private citiaen to spend from 13.00 to $25.00 per acre to reforest when nature will do It so much bet ter if she has chance? But what chance baa nature ro re. forest successfully, what chance has Uncle Sam or the private citizen to recover hia investment of $5.00 to $25.00 per acre when in Oregon every yenr for the past fifteen years the hand of man in criminal carelessness sets more than two thousand fires, and for the United States as a whole, sets more than fifty thousand fires annually, burning up more timber than is logged, more natural refores tation than man could plant in several years, destroying values up to half 4 billion dollars annually, carelessly murdering from a handful to several hundred human beings in a path of name equivalent to a Btrip more than six milea wide across the continent from ocean to ocean. When thia an nual orgy of fire ia atopped, then and only then Nature will make progress in reforeatation. Why should a few plant trees when many bv criminal carelessness wait to burn them uu? The individual citizen is responsible. Lnttt ne learns to bo careful, until he and the majority condemn the criminally careless forest fire setter, whether he be logger, camper, smoker or slash burnor, us much as thev now do the man who seta fire to our dwell ings, or murders by careless driving, tnere can be no progress in reforesta tion. And it iB only through such gen erous and hearty cooperation as your paper has given us in building this public sentiuient that we can hope to make real progresa in forest protec tion and reforestation. Very truly yours, N. F. MACDUFF, Forest, Supervisor. tutional restriction, ,Dd ,, " of placating ,nd l,idll" a htical forces. 1 ""s . As a president thereto,, i useful if he ha. W adders. He probably sess power enough to " injury, were he so i, tr,a not revive the vain-gE . " . th.tw.a. But hi, that the Germany much from the Germany w, V'" to be wearing sack-cloth MS Von Hindeohur, ' . "."d 'W not particularly d,Dgern! T cant: aa ,.. , " or Ov ts'0- of the thin,. - """"'Mies in their heart.. Thereto V u"" denburg's triumph sent a eh"'l . ' prehension abroad as well i, ,:" Gone are the miahie ' "'' the lives and the money, 1lJ? the land once so proud. Von li , burg is but a bogie man. J, ' n' wove his wand and recreate ,C c'"' many of 1U14 under i aild i Lf" zollern emperor. Vet a ln.l' start , city burning .nd" e'"c witted old man might "hZ tfl in the powder magazine whicL ii r rope. Fortunately hi, pBPt j, , ited while his prestige i, able ministry may possibly ',; prestige to bring a unit, an0 " bility into Germany such as it ha ' had since Von Hindenbur,', Oregon Briefs The state treasury Mondnr j of J100.000 worth of state induS accident commission bonds a, a D.7 iniuin of approximately lf3JT5. As the World Wags 'I That wns the "cop's" undoing. He Hot n year in Iho penileDtltiry. Tak ing advaulnKo of his enforced absence, the opposition gained possession of ihe lteetitrect. The "cap" never re covered it. Ho Itept on mumc, how ever, until his dentil in Now hi widow is pushing the case. , The l'eestrk-t today is worth mil lions and the Imildings on it are worth millions more. Aud there must bo big money behind the "cap's' widow, oh there must have been be hind the "cap." Ah to the insues at stake, they're plenty importnut enough to he worthy the attention even of the I'ulted Slates. Reforestation And For est Fire Protection Supervisor Macduff Discusses Phases of Both she made the succulent sandwiches. Mot today I heard what became of her and t am happy. JutU three weeks ago a big fellow from Texas, one of the ten-gallon-hat kind, walked into the lunch room and ordered combination saudwkh. He watched her make It, said something nhoiit it being a nice day, ate the sandwich and ordered another. The next day he returned and ord ered another. "That's a great com bination' he remarked. He hesi tated a moment and then blurted out, "Hay, you and ine would make a great combination! What d'you say?" "Quit your kidding! she answered as she went on slicing bread. He came back every day and re peated the proposal. Then she ae- Also she had a way of calling the j cm. ted. They were married, took n attention of the male waiters to men j hort airplaue flight and then boarded ustotuera being neglected for gigg- i the first train for lexaa, a place the man had been homesick for since the day he arrived in New York. "And jut to think that all started with a combination sandwk-hl' wailed the woman's employer as he started to look for another sandwich maker. I In New York I . Hy J AMI'S W. DEAN EV YOKK, May 2. She. worked -mug umirs a iiio uincn counter in skyscraper on Kighth nvenue, mak ing sandwiches for stenographers and busy business tyen. She knew how to make just about all the tasty combi nations of meats, chesses, fish, to mato and lettuce that wpre ever put between two slices of bread. She was as much an artist in her wnv as lialli-Curd or Pavlowa are in theirs. She waa middle aged, but up-to- date. She had a matronly waist, but she wore her hair in a boyinh bob. She appeared to be at once sensible and modern. And ahe had a whole hearted laugh such as is not often heard In this town. W b' uat last the .peaker of .he wning oht.med the flwr he saw .-. urai lank mu,( be t() b ma nenrrrs bv flappers. Never a man came into that busy place but what ahe saw that proper attention waa given to him. Whether they were old or young ahe assumed a maternal atti tude toward meu. And that, too. is One of the best business friends attitude little found in skyscrapers. ho it wai that tne two ot us ire- Now wt don't think I am roanti m.ently chatted about Common sub- j f!ieturuiJ, t bit of (iction aluDf the O. Jects such as how Ivmatoe can b ,me Thi, romance of Hag kept fresh until past Thanksgiving , Unj.on.tD-subway occurred in the hv h.iifiti. the olant he its roots in'. ... . L.t. i 11- 1 .C 1 1 . .-i i 1. j ; tmtimng in wnirn ; It takes nerve for a rouna snriiee 1 the cellar, and hoi tree to grow up knotting It maj be- ere in the spring, coins paper for a cheap noreL work. The lun- AKK..tn .IiiIimi 1 (enviev Yedlin. and so on. !lie j yhf ,llinlNI trora Teiaa ia llenrj beautiful orchards broil, 1 told me about her bM, her only one 1 .......i., - ..,..,. hr. hi-.-Lr . 101 loree nainiin, wow u.u rm..ini So he! The chance, are you wi,h you were when he was still In hia teens and Intro. 111 "n,p other person's stroes, and if 1 had gone to sleep forever among the ITnU W.ra li... 1 . 1.. .1.. ..J a,ured ' ' --.. uuru ... Ana PO 1 nus"U urr jrirm.j when X went to the counted where lo earth. .vi,,mru,-e, by thanking hi di.cer fr hi. welcome, hut no nuiueuce thai nti i... . Ii mI hern forg Mten in th. ,i,r )f ' Traveling to see new things isn't the city of hU origin. Mr .So ami So ilw, " Interesting as silting still be said, omitted to le ,u (h,t 1,,.' "a seetng lb, change. I"li is rhieflv f.m.iu f... . , ; V,1. L...1 uu orown nrea.i: ! pnu pave your money and vtiru you are old you can have at Ihe For a New School Hea, (I'oriHlli. Caseite-Titnee) e ait, i,, , I'T A meeting nign M....I la. M .n.hty night l.ai,.. The South,, .,.., m, iini,emient trd,r "( tJo loiter, nn, g.,ih, , , new huh .. ho d Imi.1.1,:, ,, j tne neiglilHirhiHHi of ltal,tX.. til, ttllllg, outy SMUtl, ueonl. ,.n Jy. . Cifi,' IInillSlMll aS.)Ill. IMtiT h. utt apphcmieii with th put!ic Tt'.' rointnusi.,n for per m.sion to cli.a ,!, ,,,. ti Havjlo ltenion couuty. I Howell's Comment A THOUGHT The tongue is a little member and boastctt. great things. He hold, how great a matter a little fire kindtftb Jas, 3;iV Mauy a man's tongue shakes eut his master's und Shakespeare. Ut CHKSTKU II. KOWKI.I. rPHKY are prowaiug to spend $V A ln.MUta for aa additional office ; building for the House of Itepresema- ; tives in Washington, in onler ihatjrrs ago. Nature j repreaentath es. like senator, may ! hae at leant two office rMtn apiece, j As It is. Il"e mewlers "have but 'one rxom each, in which to rrrue ! visitor, hold c.nferencea, and houe three ot four clerk. tirfi1, Bot s mjn.T ag when congre-ntn oil no I vfthTS at all, and no clerks. Ka h j karae 4 1 mgreiuan a revepuoo ivow slit,a five ibouaai acres which nature shakes j three ot four ci om(E J There was a f ' year ag when KUG1CNE, Ore., Mnyv 1. (To the Editor) In your editorial column, April '2$, referring to Araericnn for est week, you express the idea that ulthough good progresa hits been made in protection of forest from fire, but little progress bus been made in reforestation. I take issue with you on .both points. A little progress has been made in protecting our merchantable timber by more intensive methods, better communication systems, look outs and Inw enforcement, und per lups slight progress has been made iu protecting second growth (or re I'l'oduction as it ia sometimes culled) naturally, reforested ureas. .Moat men engaged iu forestry work will Uftinit that our grcutcr progress has been in better methods aud equip ment for fighting ftre rather than in forest protection by preventing fire rather like locking the barn after the horse is stolen. Now, as to refosetatlon, I presume vo'j are thinking somewhat along the line of those who suggest that loggers tt compelled to plant a tree every t me they cut one down. That would b very expensive in thia region for in our 111:1 tu re merchantable ataud itacro would be only from 60 to 150 trtea per acre. To plant that many trees would cost, I presume, from T'.00 to U-00, a capital investment n n which interest must be com l m-nded for forty years or more be fore any return is possible. Further more, with us few trees aa that per acre, they would all have plenty of room and light and instead of growing tall ond free from limbs, would be hort and fut with limbs all the way vo tne grout.d, and after forty or more ycaia would produce a minimum, imount of very ktrotty lumber1 re-, memher.every limb ia a knot and when the lumber denier sella you a board with a knot in it, you think he's a r bier. 1 Hut why should Uncle Sam or the ' pmate citizen plant trees in this re gion, doing inefficiently and at great expense what nature will do efficient- I ly aud cheaply 1 A moderate sited Douglas fir will shed I'o.tHHj or mire seed in a fair red year. These aeed will furnish f.od for birds and rodents and still ihere will be enough laying dormant m the ground to germinate and start growing from I'.ouO to 1U.U0O trees er acre at soon as sunlisht rpaih them. With so raany trees per acre ctowdmg one another for light, they all (.In Ht up rapidly, growing tall aud lender, the lower branches dropping off a.u the weaker treea dvin ...! tf.er forty years there may remain of tee original thousands only a few huudrvd. Hut Hiey will furnish a mar itLuiii amount of food lumber. 1 nay nature will do this. She ha jjn f't rvfeatidlr and j doirr it. Th- .!i. around Eugene are crowned with na ture's reforestation of ten, twenty. 1 thirty, forty and fifrv Trim , 1 T .w- . ... ..... . . ' " ' op ,ne .iit ieniie ktm from the tipper end of Shell Heck gisde on the south sde is a hiiUi,e mat I'ncle tieorge FrisseU saw b.ira over, clean, sum thirty or f rty r.ir ago. Aiture hA tvtoreatcd it aost nmforw in dimeter and higit Another ten vt twenty jesra toj tr.ey tl mat lumber, t can cite you to area alter a, re a in Urf county u th state where nature reft.red de nuded arejs f,ve. en, fifen. up "''""1 years aao. Kan clean sgx.n U-t Tear By FRANK FAY EDDY 70 N H1XDENBURG-S election to the presidency of the German Re public should not have stunned the world with surprise as it seems to havo done. It may- rather be taken as an indication of a revival of Ger man nationalism, after a prolonged period of repression. Post-war Germany has really been repressed and somewhat dazed nation but has not been crushed under a humiliating sens of defeat and ruin to the extent her victors imagined. Von Hindeuburg personified, almost alone among the public men of Ger many, the glory of a mighty and ag gressive Germany which had suffered an eclipse. Ho has never conceoled s opinions or truckled for the favor f bis foes of yesterday or condoned socialistic and bolshevistic politics. The fact of tho case ie he looms up to the German consciousness as a hero, whatever we may think of him. He is their hero not ours. George Washington looked as little like a hero to the majority of Englishmen at the conclusion of the American revolution. . Von Hindeuburg aa president may conceivably bring a certain Btnbilizing strength into the government where there has been but wcakneBB and vacillation hitherto. So long as he is In power Russian influence will be check-mated. He unifies the more conservative interests of the nation behind him ns no one else could. Toward France his government will present a more determined front, which may not be altogether a had thing for the rest of the world, and now that the success of the Dawes plan depends on the revival of Ger man industry and the sole possibility of snving France from utter bank ruptcy lies in obtaining revenue from Germany through tho working out of the Dawes plan, the cool calculation which the Frenchman always hns con cealed benenth his eloquent protesta tions is likely to assert itself. Mrs. Mary J. Shelton whn i. J week at. Walla Walla, aged Hi . one of Baker county's earlipst peers, her parents settling near Bjk?r Frank Durant, CS. well known mi. dent of Woodburn for more than W years, died Monday night at his home after a brief illness. A. W Soddinder has presented hii Elks' lodge at Ashland with a garl mode from a tree planted by Abrihia Lincoln in front ot bH resnlecct i Springfield, 111. Owing to the rapidly adranrinr price of quicksilver, the old quicksilver mues in ine uold liul district, wfiiri nave been closed since the war, : opening up ond resuming operationi The Corvallis branch of the BeD Telephone company is installing an additional switchboard in aminjiatijo of the extra business required by the new notei, now nearing completion. . Tollef Anundson. 78, old-time re.i. dent of Silverton, died last Rn turds?. leaving a wife and nine children, twj of whom, Alber Anuusun and Mn. Edna Turner, live in Portland, 25 Years Ago As n dictntor, Von Ilindenbtirg would be a menace. Judged from a distance in the light of his expressed opinions and the course of his career, he seems to be a rather stupid old man who clings with pimple-minded sincerity to the ideas and ideals of the junker clnss, all powerful in the old empire. He is of that tempera ment that he might become defiant enough to rekindle the wnr fever again, if he were not limited by con-1 (From The Guard of May 2, 1900) Reports from the Oregonisn tbrt morning say the county court of Lao county has now under considers tics the mntter of building a substantial bridge across the McKenzie near what is known us Hendrick's ferry. Hon. E. R. Skipworth and L. BUyea nddressed a good audience at Elmirt yesterday afternoon, considering tbt bills not posted until Wednesday. Sheriff Withers has returned froa a trip to Salem. Prof. John Straub will address the schools at Lebanon tonight. m Mrs. W. W. Haines returned todir from Portland where she bn bea for the past several dnys. Street Commissioner Scott ban ae , cepted a position as forest rnnger. Considerable discussion is goinS about ns to whether Eugene ii celebrate the Fourth of July with an? 1 special ceremonies. After much discussion and wranf ling Pacific university and Vniversity of Oregon will dobate Saturday Hi?'1 in Villard hall. Mrs. E. U. Lee hns gone to Jun tion City to stay for a few days vim- ing. Consider Mother's Inn On the Taclflc Highway at Tangent Is a gigantic sipn reading Motnori- Inn." stop thoro any day and you will haras dirrfrult time to Ret a scat, unless you're early. And when one of Mother's home cooked, country chicken dinners comes steaming out of the kitchen and onto the table you no mors wonder why her table is always crowded. Mother's big sign and cosy cottage would both be of llttls use if mother were not in the kitchen. The same would be the case here In the U. S. National. No matter what claims w6 made, or how big our building or elaborate our furnishings we could not be one of Lane county's lesdin banks It we did not give exceptional assistance to ererr one who cornea to us. By following to a letter. Si5 dara in the year, the broad and progressive policle. laid down by the founders of tW .J J bu"t the rePttion we now enjoy. Ask anr mSS ,h tV S''rTved."n,, hs wl" Blve you this sound advice: Wake the U. S. National your banking headquarters.'' U. S. NATIONAL B A N K Gne Bank cf Service EUGENE LOAN SAVINGS BANK. Che Bank for Savings Dr. Geo. A. Simon CHIROPRACTOR "U ill move into Ins now location over Penney '3 tore on or about May 11th.
