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4. t'npro Four EUGENE GUARD THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspsper published dally exoept Sunday. PAUL It. KELTY, Editor EUC1KNE S. KELTY, Bualneit Manager Offices- 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 The Eugene Guard la a member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise cred ited In this paper and a!no the local news published herein, ah rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The Eugene Guard Is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, THITiSIUY, MAY 21. About Jerry Horn. BARBERS found moro iiko for llioir shnnrs than for their razors in llio days when Jerry Horn first be gan exemplifying the lonsorinl nit in Eugene. That wn because many, if not most, men of the times wore whiskers then. Jt was some 42 years ago, in the early eighties of the century last past. Luckily for the bar bers of those days, not all who wore whiskers let them have full, unhampered sway. J lad all done so the bar bers would indeed have been in sad case, wilh nothing much to do but cut hair. But styles varied. Home men wore long side whiskers, with none on the chin. Others wore long chin whiskers with none at the sides. Still others affected the Horace Greeley style, with nothing on the chin, but a full beard sprouting around the throat. And there were a few who preferred merely the goalee and moustache. Thus thero was work for the barbers to do, aside from trimming full beards and cutting hair. They didn't havo to cover as much terri tory per shavo as they do in these latter smooth-faced days, but they shaved porlions of many faces. Never theless it is fair to assume that the barbers of the eighties regarded the legions of hoarded men everywhere in evi dence ns quite u liability to tho community. "Bobbing" was a term unknown to the tonsorial profession when .Jerry IJom began baroenng in Jim gene. "Flapper" in those days meant only a winged thing of some sort. A woman in a barber shop would Jmve felt as much out of place as a man would now in a modiste's fitting room. Twenty-five cenls was tho price of n haircut. With it went a free neck shavo and all necks wero shaved all the way round as a matter of course and of style. With it also went a free application of highly perfumed liairoil and another of Florida water. Ultra-sophistication on the part of some visitor from a distant metropo lis on rare occasions demanded a shampoo. , Nobody had heard of a facial massage. Nobody know what a 'riingo was. Yet the well harbored swain of tho day seemed to gain feminino favor in degree about equal to that of Jiis prototype of 1025. If a barber shop patron of the eighties had offered to tip tho barber, he .would in all liklihood have been thrown iifto tho street on his ear. But nobody did, becauso such a thing had not been thought of. ' ' . . 'When Jerry Horn first harbored in Eugene one could buy a full course dinner for 25 cents. Fifteen dollars was rather a high price for a suit of clothes. Anybody who paid moro than threo dollars for a pair of shoes thereby convicted himself of extravagance. AVhon Jerry Horn first harbored in Eugeno Willam ette street was deep in mud in winter and cloudy with dust in summer. Such sidewalks as it had wore of wood and its crosswalks wore of heavy planking. Wooden lean-tos- extended across the sidewalks from its storo fronts. There was no city here, but only a ..II j . nil i . .. ... Hiunu lown. jnero was oniy tno nucleus or. wiiat is now the groat University oi" Oregon. Tho only rail road was a line to Port laud. To drivo to the metropolis over tho dirt and corduroy road waa a two-day trip. So Jerry Horn .has soon changes hero, not alono in his calling but in conditions round about also. Jerry Horn says he is not going to retire. Wo aro glad of it. lie is part of our pioneer background. Wo need him. Long may he shave! Prohibition Enforced. Til Eli I' is not much in present developments to give comfort to thoRe who have been trying to convince themselves and others that federal prohibition enforce ment is not seriously meant. There is, for instance, this extract from an Associated Tress dispatch received over ,Tho Uuard's wire yesterday: Thirteen atenmora nnd schooners are tied up at Halifax. Flvo arrived yesterday. They don't know where to turn. Heme of them lntond to itlschnrno their cargoes nnd n'turn to lenitiniHto frelKht traffic. The Halifax situation confirms statements in coast guard circles that rum row hns been vir tually clenned up. Ono ship of a fleet of 80 mm ships remains. It la a Herman vessel, anchored 40 miles off Kundy Hook. That is to say, where 80 vessels formerly lay off Sandy Hook, awaiting opportunities to sell 'liquor to smugglers, there is now but one such vessel. Tho now coast guard policy of tho federal prohibition depart ment has broken up the Atlantic, rum fleet and its trade. It is mobilizing a guard fleet on Lake Ontario nnd the SI. Lawrence river to combat smuggling across the border there. Simultaneously with this news there comes another dispatch over the Associated .Press wires, telling how tho national administration, from President Coolidge down, is determined to enforce the prohibition law "to the limit." A transcript is made public of secret hearings conducted by n senate committee which is in vestigating the whole subject t' prohibition and law enforcement. Mouthers of the committee, the transcript disclosed, have charged that the reason prohibition en forcement has not been successful is that effort was not aimed against chief sources of snpplv. The recent operations of the coast guard fleet have first shown that criticism to have been well founded and then have overcome it. Thorn has now been a campaign against a main source of supply, and it has proved effective. Some people say the popularity of tbp cross-word puzzlo has waned to negligibility. 'The (Juard thought they might be right, and to test the question omitted its cross-word puzzle for three days successively. A flood of protests gave convincing 'evidence that The tiuard's readers still want it. So it is reinstated. In accord with the spirit of the times, the Eugene street railway company intends to paint all its trollov cars afresh. Sprucing up is a Eugeno habit. erstion for a period of several months. Such a postponement would be eon trary tu good public policy, sud f stroking example of the abuse of the referendum privilege. If tlie people of the state are re fusing to sign the referendum peti- tiona, then there is really hope, at Inst, of reforming the so-called Ore son system, so time it will advance rather than retard the progress of good government. For such s refusal would demon strate that the people are beginning to use discrimination and restraint, in tbe busineis of putting signatures on petitions regardless of the charac ter of the movement behind the sonct- tstion. Heretofore. It hss been generally acknowledged that the only obstacle to securing signstures, regardless of what the signstures involved, was money. Experienced csmpaigners have openly sdmitted that with aufficient funds tbe people would sign anything and experience in thia state, baft dem onstrated st least a tendency in tnis direction. Hut if the truck and motor bua referendum la falling .behind, then this contention can no longer be true. For the referendum movement has been generously financed. Lack of signatures can only mean that the people of the state have at taut awakened to the dangers ot our miscalled "pure Democracy" snd real ize at last that direct political action can bo used to benefit selfish inter ests at the expense of the people, unless the people themselves, have the intelligence and initiative to pre vent it. (, 860 Municipal Plants Quit " (Tlie Open Window) The Oregon Public Utility Inform ation Unreal! has received figures compiled from authentic sources which show that less than five per cent of Ihe entire electric power pro duced In the Unite-d States Is gener ated by municipally owned and oper ated systema. During the past 40 years a total of 800 American cities eud towns have by vote of their taxpayers abandoned or sold for private operation their municipal electric light and power and gas plants. Except for three notable exceptiona, Cleveland, Ixts Angelra and Seattle, the vast majority of the municipal nlanta now in onerntlon ore located in very finall communitica, towna and cities of 10,000 population or less. The records also reveal the fact Hint each year an Incroaaing number of these small publicly-owned plants are being taken over by private companies for operation. In Oregon, during the past year, two such planta, one at Stayton, and one at Srio, have been purchaaed by private intercats and the testimony of business men in these towns Is that there hss been mark ed improvement in service. Www Where to Investigate tho Wheat Smash (Xcw York World) The government, through the de partment of agriculture and the Grain Future Administration, la in- iiiirliiir Into tho causes of the smash in wheat prices from $'J to $1.S0 or $1.00 a bushel. This is being done on the thoory that the mnrkct was arti ficially broken by "short" selling. Short selling has never DroKen any market like thut except for a moment. And this wheat break has endured since last March. Die break must accordingly be due chiefly to natural causes, and if Ihis la Ihe case then the true reason is to be found In Ihe fact that wheat prices wero pushed tin loo high through man ipulation on the bull side of I lie mar ket Inst aiiiiinier and during the pres idential campaign. That is Ihe spot which needs inves tigntlon. Such a boiling wheat bulge aa was then produced must have been worth more thnn a million votes to the republicans. What are tho facts about wheat? They arc more perti nent In the truth of the matter thnn the facts about $1.(10 wheat now. t In Lighter Vein These Are Hard Days For Slapstick Artists I YOUGI All UffJ M Mwm- fllACe WOK'TOREH A Forbearance. (Washington Star) "Are you 111 favor ot prohibition?" "Of course I am." answered Senator Sorghum. "Hut out in my district a man has got to be kind o' patient when he finds he can't have absolutely his own way about every little thing." His Gloomy Outlook. y HoMon lilolie) luty HillTines is growin hsrd er every dny, pal. Itusty l'lnl Wiuit niakss yer thing so? Dusty lli'l I've been offered ten Jobs since noon. e Borrowing, As a Fine Art. (Boston Transcript) "Hello, llrownl Are you using your Iswn-mower this iiltevno'-nV" "Ve, I'm afraid I am." "l.ootll Then ,vou won't be usinrf your tennis racquet I've broken mine." Boy and Man. (Fort Wayne News Sentinel) The boy who used to spend about In yesrs wishing he could put i n loug psnts bus grown to he a golf -worship-ping ninn who spend Ihe whole win ter awaiting an opportunity to puj on short ones. More Ways Than One, tNorth lr,-lma Buccaneer) "No, I never allow anjone to e.n brace me." "Yi.u don't? l.el'a dance, then." "All right." . Eturg:ais' Mistake. (Oeoriia Yellow Jacket) Minister s Wife- Wake up! There are burglars In the house. Minister Well, whst of It? I.tt Ihem find out their mistakes them selves. e Disaster. ll.ehigh Burr) 'Were yeu ever ter?" "Onlf once. Then t kissed the w rong girl going through the .tunnel." QUICK MORE THAN BOOK WRITER Interesting Sidelights on Late Writer and Official Given by Former Associate By CHARLES P. STEWART (NEA Service Writer) WASHINGTON, May 21. Herbert Quick, tho writer and ex-meinber of tlie federal farm loan board, who died recently, was even more interest ing face to fare than in his extremely interesting books. I had an office, with him for a while during his early days as a lawyer In I own, was hi secretary as mayor of Sioux City, and fie took dinner at my house, here in Washington, not many clays before his death. He was just starting to write his memoirs. Indeed, he came intoMbc capital, from his homo nt Berkeley Springs, W, Va., to talk over with me some of his adventures in which I myself had a share. Quick had known no end of cele brities and eccentricities, had had n hand in a lot of important and unusual ImppcninffH and told his experiences in tho queerest way. He looked ut them from an angle all his own not a bit like Any other angle. '' 'h ' At the proper oge for it, he had had infnutilo paralysis which left him, not crippled, but with a noticeable peculiarity of gait. Infantile paralysi, he contended, was a very valuable thing to have had It greatly streng thened nnd improved the intellect, provided the patient lived. He didn'i say that nobody became great who hadn't had it, hut he iid inist that practically everybody whi did have it becuine great. Or poimi$lj only the potentially great were sub ject to it. He wasn't sure which. He was very proud of the fact th.it crooks and criminals of every variety had an tnstictlve liking for him. It was true they did. He was brought in contact with all the shady saloon men, dive keepers, gamblers and miscellaneous bad characters in town during the period of his Sioux City mayoralty nnd they were pretty plenty there then and every one of them took to him at first Bight. It wasn't that he did anything to win their kindly regard. Tbey simply gave it to him unasked. Even when he closed them up, they spoke well of him just the same. He didn't like crime, ho said, but he condoned a TPABomible amount of vice. Within bounds, he explained, though reprehensible, he considered it the vicious individual's own affair. f Probably this attitude was what endeared him to the liberal element. Jt didn't endear fcwn lo puritans, how ever, aud one term ns mayor was all be got out of three candidates nnd the first out, before the literal-minded better part of the citizenry had found out what kind of character they sub sequently thought he was. His humor was too subtle fur much success in politics, As I say, I knew him very well. 1 think this is the sort of eulogy he'd like. And I'm sorry the world never will see his memoirs. Lights O London By MILTON BHONNKR (NEA Service Writer) ONliON, .May ill. Funny folk, these English, for iustnucr: the other dny the chancellor of the ex chequer was tu make his long and eagerly awaited speech iu which hi would set forth the budget and Ihe luxation for the coming year. And members i( parliament formed in a queue to get in, one enterprising porno u coming on the scene at i:u4 in the morning so iu to be sure tu grt a seat for a cueech which was to take place at 1 iu the afternoon. Such n thing would be impossible and unthinkable with our congress, Bui it's all duo to the smallnesg of the chamber iu which tho house of commons sits. Tho only people whi have fixed seats are the members u( trie camnet ana tueir urumism, nuuj the otfirinl leaders n the opposition. With the rest ol the members, sit ting is a sort of haphaxa.nl thing which works out all right except on extraordinary occasion.. Then tin seats are not sufficient for the mem hers, many of whom go into the gal leries or stand up. This is in striking contrast with the fixed seat ea'h f our congress men has. Kurt her more, the member of the commons gets no handsome office furnished by the government such as our congressmen enjoy. Nor do they gel a nice lump sum for tViv tarinl hire. In a word, our congress men are the bent paid and the best treated unions in the world, ihe conformatTon of the streets, it is not considerod feasible to put on more curt. So the Soviets bad a delegation investigating the construction of un derground services. Their trouble is going to be to find Mincbndy foolish enough to put up the money needed for the building of such lines. Wilh Soviet credit In the world pa.it the vanishing point, it looks as if ;he underground railway will only exist on paper for a good m.my years to come. Not long ago some wag addretsed a letter: "Monsieur Alexandre Millerand for mer presideut of the republic, former premier, former cabinet minister, sen ator from the Seine district, attorney in the court cf appeals, Paris." And a wise and up-to-date pnt office employe in Paris sent it ha.'k to the writer with this endorsement; "Address unknown," Imagine an American postal employe doing the same thing with a letter ad dressed to W. H. Taft, chief justice of the supreme court, former presi dent of the Vnited States, former retary of war, former governor gen eral of the Philippines, former fed eral district judge. Howell's Comment j By CHESTKtt H. ROW KM. 'PHIS is a time of reaction against these apologists of reaction are theor ists, who ignore facts. The lower house did, indeed, change its rules ." years ago, but the change was nut to 'cut off debate. It was to cut off filibustering; by other means than debate by con tinuous roll calls on dilatory motions and by breaking a quorum by refus ing to answer to names. Speaker Reed ruled that if a member was actually present, ho should be count ed so, whether t he chose to answer to his name or not. As to debate, the House had al ways had the cloture, and the hour limit. So baa the British House of Commons, still tbo most conspicuous center of debate in the world. It was not curtailment of debate that extinguished the House of Represen tatives. It was the abolition of lead ership. t 25 Years Ago f (From The Gpnrd May 21, 1000) JROM prominent - farmers from every section of the county we learn that the full wheat has turned yellow, has rusted badly, or some thing else hns: happened to it. The blades are nil dead and the heads are formiug about half tho usual size. If this is correct it will be a great mis fortune. The meeting at the court house last night for the purpose of attending to the matter of . a Fourth of July celebration resulted in the usual pre liminaries. Mayor Harris nppointcd a committee to go ahead with the work. Ihe committee consists of . C. lo rau, 1'. K. Snodgrass, F. L. Chambers, C. C. Kauffman. It is virtually as sumed that the celebration will be an enjoyable one, I School Superintendent Miller left j for Florence today to visit the schools j of that vicinity. i Former fSeorge A. Dorris is about the ciiy today. A force of workmen has commenced work on the foundation of the new : bauk building. i The city council met Monday night I in special session. Among other busi- ness a resolution was passed as fol low: "That one-half of any fine paid in for violntion of the bicycle ordi- j nance shall go to the informer." ' W. W. Oglesby is a visitor in the ! city from Junction City. j Thursday Evening, naT college of the city of New York, which he founded. Describing troubled conditions ex isting in Japnn in 1S50, when Mr. Harris arrived in Tokio, and was re ceived in many international compll cations, the ambassador declared the American minister was the only for eign envoy in Japan willing to evince a lenient aud friendly attitude. Jeweler Loses in Diamond Robbery CHICAGO. Mn 2! um I ear, Ono diamond robbery on the eleventh nuur in uie uspitoi Building-, the for mer Masonic temple, was reported to tho police today, by four victims. Mharles P. Goliberz. Xew York cit7 was the largest loser, reporting that he was robbed of unset diamonds val ued at $50,000. GoldberL' flnrl tliroa i- . . " " lucii, in cluding the proprietor of the Hein sius Jewelry shop, told the police they were held up in Heinsius' shop by three men who took only unset dia monds. . . THE BUTTON SHOP Pleating. Buttons nri H.m.,i,.i.i 80 7th avenue east. Phone 1715-J. ' INSUH3 WITH HENRY TROMP. Try Eugene Special lor a good cigir. 21. lr w n- Tom Sims Says j yOMEN in Persia hnve stsrted to hnh their hair. Hia the neighbor, cill tliem,I'erei:in rats. j Four were killed first dsy of Saflpy I Week in I'foria, 111., but it comes only ' one year. ... . I sine is nsmed head of packers'' bureau. TIia news should have hepn ! headed, "Coolidgt? Kaises Caine." Vrench say they will welcome any, siiaefstions about their debt to us. I We beg to sugcent she pay. everything. The g"ernnr of Washington even renrt against "child welfare." He thinks the not'lnl n-nrW. The .average member of the h -n -r- .h,,uld mnr in the "old fnshinn f not try to ran h it of commons would tninn ne was "y 1 American twine and attend to their ing In clover if he ere treated haif!wn busine, instead of guilt, anting so well. i shout coddling children. I NmumMv, hi tnnt'lusion Is nt Moscow ft isikint and it may nt ' troubled by the mere frt that thert mount to more than talk f having t is no such thing ss "the old lashmnrd r ; aq underground railway system to 1 American hme" and that noKdy ! ' be god dancer. j rope with the growing transportation 1 would live in it if there were. Wnv I I problem if that big ntj. I seek farts when phras are racier? 'r! f n eastern .hnnl are j Sinre the Soviet prn .rally smash- I The same tenden-y is rvi.lrn in the ! bivle ber.vi.e eter--.se 1 ed ami abandoned Petersburg or ! commonest argummt aj.iirrt M e n,k"!l arm bmtifnl. ilVtrorad or Leningrad or whatever President lawea' rrusade for the re- S it name may be, Mon-ow has grown ' form f he Senate rub-i. -The! count. That's hy g.jtns t . i sii... and grown until now it ia a town of , more helpless t lie enate is. the ,r! more mm nam tub, in a railroad disss- j hnrm it c,n (o Why mUe it effi- cirnt : i ne ni'Mm w me tnnmrnt ninrneo. msn. scctns to he that evrrb-My i ":it.n" ! ' everything. ill Srnstors themselves hsve Invented ! " t"' I IrtlSeU If Mr. MirMill.in finds a striped vnt up the North IVIe he had be'ur An optimist is a young MI-.W hn; thinks msvhe hr fjthrr nss only! walking in bis sl-ep. ... i Von rerminlr h.ve to ke.p on ynur The TOO tram cars last year csr tied :it3 million rassengirs. Owing o COMMENT OF THE PRESS A Good Sign , Iriislslure, plrssed evervone, app.r- (Mrdfonl Jinn Tribune) enlly. but the trurk and motor bus in. The Nunday Oregonisn iteclaies the ! trrrsu, wh.i naturally don't rare to truck and niolnr bus referendum t I tmy a tax if the same ran he avuidrd. having hard sledding. W e hope Ihe Orrgunisn Is correct. This measure iafd ,hy the reieul LIQUOR TRICK ODD KKATTI.K. Wash . May '.'I. ( j divisional Federal Prohibition t'tikf K. A. llnseltine, dirnvrred somethn4 new here today in liquor traftivkinc. It ws. an old delivery truck vuifittidi its a peiinnhuUting distillery. Tonvi ; Mnta was arrested as he was Icavint a saiase here the msde-wiiile- yo'i- i The prectieal effect of 4 referen-i wsit llmor was found. One hundreli ilom would he. not to repeal the meas-I and seventy gsltous of moonshine j ure, but merely to poktpotie its op-'were seised. i A THOUGHT Ver every ne that doeth ev'l hatetb the light, neither eometh to the light, test dee Is should be rrprixed. John 3:10 :i. . . 1 am the light of ihe world. Itible. ia new argument. They hold up ihe i J I House of KeprejenlntiM j a. a ,ri.j. j j i ble warning, t ormer Senator V sl.li ,. J i points out that the lloii-e was once XEtV YORK May "I iPi tu jjthe center of p..er and it. ebief : pirt played by T.....-M U,ri, I men were the most t. e,,rs of : first American minister lo J, i (the nation . ! establishing a ...i,.r of fnen '... k i .X.inr n.,li,Mlv IA.nr. .. h i ; i - - - tin,-. ,m nx-eii me i l ; lae small clique in.it runs the llimse J ; "" ' ; " ; .l.i..nr,. m-s..M.i.,P t.. Washing.,.,). 1 !.,,,, , , i m an ad.lri-s. here tda. 4; nv I""- I ke i.i. ,,,; I lie a.rt-.is no I".... meiiisei.r. p,a. ,,,,, ( , For Duty in Japan nullifies, ws. le.onnt. 'I and praise,! I.. Touneo Matoudaira EX.fc:RY nerve. l w , body must ,ere,t share of vital tZ ' ti the brain T retain your healS,' a displacement f a ." tebrae occur, a, i praetor seeks th, C1in' spot and an liL?"1 removes OiSS. "What? Me at Del - Monte this Summer?" "Why- that's where millionaires spend their vacations ' w.s what of It. Couldn't you thrill at the romance of tha 1 Spanish pirate cove as much as an oil moRnet? Th . charm of the Del Monte oaks .the weather-beaten vet" cypress tress on' the cralgs and the delightful old home. tS hark back to the days when Robert Louis Stevenson iwS there by the bay where could you find a more saUstyh, treat away from the humdrum of business life? Such a vacation Is within the reach of everyone ot yon It are ready for It. Start laying aside a regular vacation fS! and add to it every week. A savings account with ns .in keep your funds away from temptation and will tZZZ them with liberal interest. Stop at the savings window your first savings deposit today. u U. S. NATIONAL BANK. ' "She Bank of Service EUGENEIOAN & SAVINGS BANK. one Ban A for Savings SLABWOOD PER. CD. Order Before June 1 There Is A Reason MANERUD-HUNTINGTON FUEL CO., Inc. 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