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Fage Four THE EUGENE GUARD THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newepaper published dally exoept Sunday. PAUL R. KELTY. Editor EUQKNB 8. KELTY. Bualneea Manager Offices 1037-1041 Wlllamett Street Ths KueenA ftiiarrl U a mcmhar of IhA Associated Preaa. Tbe Associated Preaa la exclualyely tion of all news dlapatchea credited to It or not otherwise cred ited In this paper and also the local newa published herein. All right of publication of special dispatches herein are also reservod. The Eugene Guard la a member of the Audit Bureau cf Circulations. MONDAY, MAY 25. Our European Debtors. PEESIDKN'T COOLIDGE lias nntitVd the numerous countries that are indebted to the United States government that the time lias arrived to give consider ation to the (luostion of payment. The news is not re ceived with good grace by propaganda that has been the war, designed to prevail upon inc American peupiu to "forgive" these debts lias strangely found support ' among some classes of Americans. Many of these are naturalized Americans who still feel a stronger love for their native land than for the country of their adop tion. The war taught us that the hyphen is something to he reckoned with. But there is another class of Americans, native born, who advocate debt cancellation, and with great ability and influence. Many of these are the powerful international bankers in Wall street and those related to them in business. These bankers underwrite great bond issues of the debtor nations, sell ing the bonds in turn to American investors, in turn, and takimr a handsome rake-off for their services. It is obvious that the security of these debts of foreign governments to private American bankers and investors would be greatly strengthened if the vast debts owed by such foreign governments to the United (states nation were canceled. The total of the debts to the United States govern ment is approximately $7,000,000,000, exceeding one, third of the amount of the remaining liberty bonds out standing, together with whnt that was contracted previous to the late war: The money which Undo Sam loaned in Europe camo from the proceeds of the various liberty loans during the war. The American, people bought liberty bonds "until it hurt." The money was turned , over to our allies in the war, whoso representatives gave prom issary notes to our government. The American people are paying, and will be paying for years, taxes'to dis charge the debts created by these loans. Nobody es capes. Those who pay no income taxes pay indirectly. Great Britain, our largest debtor, has refunded her obligation to us; that is, has agreed to definite terms of repayment and made a gootl start in performance. So have Finland and Greece, and last week, Poland. Great Britain is creditor of other former allied nations tin only less degree than the United Stales and therefore is interested with us in requiring settlement. The Brit ; ish arc like the Americans in their conscience regarding debts. Undo Sam has been a most considerate and "easy" creditor. Almost seven years have elapsed Binco tho ending of the war. Now he finds.it necessary to send a polite dun. Soon we shall learn how well some of our late allies really love us, if wo do not already know. It is an old saying that the surest way to loso a friend is to loan him money. It applied to nations as well as to individuals. Every day sees more cars traveling north on the racifie. highway, bearing California license lags. This year the California liren.se plates are yellow like those of Oregon, anil at a distance aro indistinguishable from the native plates. It is a relief to the eyes of Oal ifornians to see solid green verdure everywhere. Each year brings a greater number of tourists motoring from tbe Southland, t'alifornians no longer ' regard Ctlio term Pacific Coast as exclusively descriptive of the well known Golden. State. Speaking in Xew York on business problems, Elbert II. Gary, president of the United States Sloel Corpora tion said: 1'naslhly Ihe worst disease lhat affllcta the business alius tlon In tlm I'nlled Ktnten Is thn abnormal, unnecessary, timid. Ill poised nu niiil attitude of Iho manaxcra themselves. Surely, that is enoiig'i. If Judge Gary describes a true condition respecting business management it is remarkable tliat, business remains so good. A timid, ill poised attitude is the saddest possible handicap of any condition of life or affairs. Eugene as the point of entry by rail or highw'ay from the Klamath country. Central ami Eastern Oregon, Coos Bay and the South ("oast means something. The remarkable growth of population, building construc tion and business volume in Hngeno is only a foretaste of what will come when the new transportation develop ments now under way and projected have been completed. Bli..ards prevailed over great sections of the Eastern United Ntittri only a few weeks ago. Now we read of a record May heat wave, with at least one death from sunstroke, in the Middle AVest. How many people living in Eugene and its surrounding territory appreciate the blessings of our climate! No heat pros- trillions, no blizzards, earthquakes or tornadoes. Where ebe so smiling a landscape with such mass of green foliage and niyrnid wildl'lowers f Wo have been expecting from day to day a ringing denunciation from Governor Pierce against the practice by many state officials of doing all their official travel ing by private automobile and then charging the state n.ileage at ten cents a mile. , Surely it cannot be that Uie governor Imnselt but of uses u state-owned car. , Just as we predicted, last Saturday's edition of The Guard was n humdinger. The journalism students of tho University of Oregon, who produced it, did themselves proud. COMMENT OF Completing tha Rail Map (Salem Capital Journal) I'urehae by tbe Southern Fadfic of the Neada. California end Ore - goii, extending from KusnvUle. Cal- ifornia, o Lakevjew, Oregon, and of the Oregon, California and Eastern, of Slrahoin railroad, projected to c-.tn- nett Klamath Fulls and lakrvlrw. Telephone 1200 entlUcd to the use for publica the debtors. The persistent carried on since the end of is left of our national debt course not. Th governor THE PRESS u, with the N.tron Cut off, pro- j (vide thr Southern lV'tfic a short cut i j to tbe Dgden gateway which will be' ; the mmu line for future trauscon- ' ! titientnl I utne fn-ni Oregon, iiiocj h,rtrr then tbe nrcuitous route now traversed via Hoseville. j The new line Kill brnmb from the present route at Eugene, ibrme via i KInmsth Falls and Jakeview, connect with (he main line at 8usanville, near the California-Nevada border. The Ho other ii pacific, ibiia annex es to Oregon the south fpntrsl por tion of tbe at ate, tbe bu sines? of which now fofa, to California, which baa furnished most of the capital for ila development, and which bas bad the advfintngfl of mil connection. It opens the .Portland and valley mar ket to the livestock and produce of this region and provides a direct route east for lumber and other pn.durti of western Oregon. Activity of the Southern Pacific is due to the announced intention of the fjreat Northern-Northern l'acifrc in terests to extend to Klamath f'alla to secure a share of the lumber busi ness, and from thence probably into California to invade Southern Pa cific and t'nlon Pacific activity of fifteen years ago, so it is the tardy carrying out of James J. Hill's plans now that ia responsible for the pres ent construction and expansion era. Announcement of Southern Tacific plans, will in all probability only strengthen the determination of tbe northern lines to invade the same re-! gion. surveying parties are already in the field for an extension from liend aa an alternative to a common user privilege of the Southern Pacific lines. If the latter can be forced, the Oregon Electric could then utilize the Natron Cut-off as well at tbe builders. These moves will eventually force the Union Pacific to complete its line across the state via Ontario and Hums and probably over one of the Sunt Jam passes into tbe Willamette valley, thus completing the railroad map of Oregon a consummation de voutly to be wished- Railroad Development (Corvallia Gazette-Times) More railroad development for tbe atute of Oregon is under way just now than bas been even casually men tioned with any degree of hope in the past ten years. Most of this develop ment concerns south-central Oregon which has long been in need of trans portation linen to insure its being set tled and developed. Tbe projection of the Southern Pa cific Into the picture in connection with the Straborn lines lends assur ance to the feeling that the road is not being built for speculative pur pose a, to be unloaded on the public, but that It Is a line thn( gives much promise of remunerative business in the not distant future. Corvallia people should not lose sight of tbe further possibilities of extension of the Southern Pacifltr electric lines to Eugene nnd the rout ing of at least one Portland-Sun Eruncisco train each way via Cor vollis. If the port developments nt New-! port materialize as they ought to, ', there is no reuson why the S. P. ; might not straighten out its cork : screw line from hero to Toledo, and connect eastern Oregon directly to an ocean part at a Having of -DO miles t6 j tho ocean. Southern Oregon Can't Lose (Medford Mail-Tribune) Often fights are excellent things, for the iion-coinlmtants. Wc doubt If tho well-ndvertiHi-tl war between the Southern Pacific and Hill linos In crease 'the dividends of cither com pany, but H can't very well avoid benefitting the people of Southern and Southeastern Oregon. The an nounced nllhtm-e between the South ern Pacific nud It, E. tStruhorn, oc casions no surprise; for those famil iar with the sub-surface manipulation have long since surmised that Stra born wan not building new railroads on his own. With the O. C, and E. and N. C. O. under tho S. P. wing, tho next move is due from (he (irertt Northern and allied force. Let the merry war go on. for which ever side wins, southern Oregon can't very well loso, Rftklnrj the Rake (Cottage tirnve Sentinel) When we read the columns of bunk written about that lake, tho Prince of Wales, nnd note how Iho maidens of every class seek Imk fnvnr we are constrained to inquire, "What 'a the use of being decent V Howell's Comment Py CHESTER 11. ItOWEI.t, JT'ST a brief paragraph from Cairo, announcing the completion of the Mnli war dam, on the Hhm Nile, Illus trates the real issue between England and Egypt. This dam will Irrigate n vast area if rich and cheap Sudanese land" with water which otherwise would have flowed through Egypt. Egypt lives on wnter that flows first through the Sudm. Whoever con trols the I'pper Nile can rule or starve Egypt. As a matter of people, the Sudanese are better off tinder British rule, ami the Egyptians are wiling to take the risk of ruling themselves. Hut as a matter of water, the Nile ia one unit, and the whole of It should be controlled by some one Interested in the welfare of Egypt, Therefore, England sas both parts should be in British, ami Egypt nnya Hint both should he in Egyptian control. The Egyptians are logical ami the PritUh are practical. Let it be hoped that they will muddle out aomo illog ical solution that works. 23 Years Ago (From The Guard of May i WOO) I'L'GENE will celvbiste. This is assured. The committee having the matter in charge has been rust ling. In fact It is composed to rustlers And the committee says the relebr;i tioti July 4 this year will be superior to any up to this time. T. A. Shaffer and in mil r arrived ! from eastern Nebrakt last oitfht anJ will locate in this vicinity. k k v I...L- th. for spring grains and gardens. C. M. Uftnlerer i a visitor in Eu- gene today from Cotfuge Urove. The CnivemtT of Oregon athlete ; are all right. Torn out to the hrnef t stbletit them. sotal tomorrow and a I. K. Mejer and Vcmie I'utnam have beeu grjinud a mtirmge ticeuv by the county clerk. ( Mrs. It. l Murplirv went lo AlKiuv today ith her lnblrcn to be gone for A few da on a wit. Henry I , FURTHER RESTRICTIONS PLANNED Putting of South America on Immigration Quota Basis Likely To Offend By CHAKLES P. STEWART (NEA Service Writer) WASHINGTON. May 25, Secre tary of Labor Davis in going to urge eougress, when it meets nexc to put Canada and Latin America on A quota Immigration basis. Canada, which is pretty independent, may not care. Latin America 1b very sensi tive. Except of Mexicans, the number of Latin American immigrants into the ulted Statra is negligible. Secretary Ibtvis admits it. He agrees tlmt South Americans would be -practically excluded on the quota basis, because next to none of ihem arc here now to bnse the basis on. But more may come later, he ar gues. Not for quite a while. South America, not a tenth an thickly set tled as the Cuiled States, offsra In ducements to good hmnigrnnts to come her way, South Americn's living standard is lower than North America's, insists Secretary Iavis. St It is, because the hulk of South America's lower class won't work for a higher standard. They con get along with their etau dnrd in their climate. Here tlifty couldn't except ot Miami Beach per haps. . They're going to stay where In Nqw York By .JAMES W. DEAN VEW YORK. May 2.V This vast city is composed of many little worlds stacked one against the other and one ban to step only atom street to be In an entirely changed environment. List night I walked for several hours through the streets of the East Side, Eirst avenue, 1 found, was black and dark and a sinister quiet pre vailed. The block of Twenty fourth street, east of Elrst avenue, is the calmest spot hi all the city. At ten o'clock only three windows in the tenements were alight. Then was not one pedestrian or vehicle on the street. On Eirst Avenue the people seemed dull snd spiritless, and dark as their surroundings. At Fourteenth street I crossed over to Second avenue and there I found the brightest patch in all New York. They call it the-' Timea Square of the East Side," but Timet Square never saw such spontauiety, such sheer Joy of living. From Fourteenth street to Hous ton street She thoroughfare is lined with theaters, gay cafes, soft drink stands and music shops. All about are bright lights, laughter and the spirit of carnival. Here, if anywhere in this broad country, "life, liberty and tbe pursuit of happiness" is achieved to Its fullest and the expression of it Is ss varied as the characters ' who j seek it. One enre has tables en the side walk, shielded only by n light lattice. One Russian restaurant serves "a regular dinner for tW cents," -while a three-piece string orchestra renders music of the highest quality. Boys 1 ami girls stroll alone singing new (ditties to the accompaniment of uke. I leie and mandolin. At Tenth street, in front of the historic St. Marks-on the-Bouwerie. h bo is beguiling the tenement i ''seller with tales of tbe woods sod' , the open road and thus i mincing them I to buv his poem for a dime. In five i minutes I heard him quote Rabelais. I A THOUGHT j ! Thy word U a tamp ante my feet, and a Usht anto my path. - ps. II9-I0S. j ... i Light i (he stmlnd of tmth. i j - Lowell. r Will Try Anything Once they can be pretty comfortable with as little effort as possible. Ineligible aliens are being smuggled constantly across tbe Canadian and Mexican borders, points out Secre tary Davis. That's illegal anyway. Putting Canada and Mexico on a basis won't make it any more so. Net conclusion: The quota basis for South America .will have no effect except to offend South American-, who are very doubtful already whe ther or not to like us. They were flattered at having an exceptiou made in their favor under the pres ent law. 0 Incredible ns it may seem, the American Humane association, in lnuncbing a campaign against the cropping of dogs' cars and shortening of their tails, isn't asking a law on the aubject. Tbe association doesn't believe the average pet dog owner would mutilate him or prefers him mutilated. It surmises that the mutilating ii done before his fin.il owner gets the dog. by the breeder, under t lie im pression that it makes his riogship more saleable, and that the buyer takes him that way because that's the way be finds him. The association's tippeal, then, is to dog lovers not to accept cropped nnd chopped clegs. Iongfellow, Chaucer, Plato and Dar win. At Houston street there is a dou ble theater. In one classics are given in Yiddish. In tbe other is pre sented the vilest burlesque in this country, with thn oldest and ugliest chorus eer assembled. When these theaters let out taxi cabs cause a greater congestion at that corner than that of the theater hour in Times Square. The drivers bargain with patrons, giving excur sion rates to parties going to distant sections of the city. Night life as it is on Second ave nue is one of the five most interest ing sights for visitors to see, I be lieve. On First aventi nn old man with eight dogs passed. I was told that he works as porter in a butcher shop in return for the bones and scrap meat and the rent of a room in the rear of the store. In this room he keeps 0 dogs which he at various times has found on the streets. Each night he takes tbrm out for s walk through Stuyrcsant Vark. I In Lighter Vein 1 Exchangeable Benefits (Boston tllobe) Mrs. Blake If I engage you, Ina. I want to tell you beforehand that you must stay at home when I wish to go out. Lens I shall do that. Missus Blake, if yon will promise me the snte. Efficiency (Boston Transcript) "Time never draes with, nie; 1 tackle the J.Mi nearest ar hand and am si ays buv.' 'I tee. To make tbe hours go fast you use the spur of the moment." Add Oeflaltlens (Cincinnati Enquirer .n optimist is a mnn h.-'ll use the rent money to py the first stallment on ' Raal Cea(l4ooa tl.eB.lrtO TtHn.) ". too think. T.Miiif mn th.it ii twiilit ti'e my Hsu.lirr 'l h k f.r I think ." miifmnrfil the lorer ba.kfuliy. ' She v h. mn'i only ! me." ' Haw Upright Ha In I IWftMrhifr. Hrtlinl I'ri.en Inrector WhJt? V.,it here' gsjHOV DOEsN TUWK I HE HEAP J again? I thought that you last term would have bettered you! Old Lag It did, sir but I want to be better still! Wall, It Was (London Tit-bits) With tbe object ot becoming a cit izen of the United States, one Jacob Provin&ky filled in a naturalization form. Three of the questions be answered thus:" Name; Jacob Provinsky. Born: Yea. Business: Rotten. The Wealthy Oone (Eliegende Blatter, Munich) "Six of my sons are studying to be artists and writers, the seventh is learning to be a bricklayer." "Aren't you rather optimistic, thinking that he can support the six of them?" Mr. Garrett Opposes Crossings Closing Thinks Railroad's Application Should be Denied KEGENE, Ore., May 23. (To the Editor) The Southern Pacific com pany has applied for permission to clone several streets in the Fairmount section of Eugene nnd abolish cross ings on these streets over the South ern Pacific track. It is not entirely clcor to the residents of that section just which streets are selected for closing. The attorney representing tbe railroad company, in his presenta tion of the case to a meeting of the East Eugene Improvement associa tion a few evenings ago, said tbe com pany desired to close four streets. If this number of street a is closed it will take practically all the open streets from the University cast to the boulevard. This presents a very serious situ ation. Every modern town faces the traffic prohlem in a virulent form. It is becoming increasingly more dif ficult to route traffic eo that, it will move with safety the expedition. Eu gene lifts a particularly difficult, proh lem in this respect, and of all parts of Eugene the section east of Wil lamette street extending psst the University groituds Is in the worst condition. Traffic must move through either on Franklin boulevard, East Eleventh, or East Thirteenth, or else go clear out Alder street tn Nineteenth before there is an outlet to the east. The University grounds, the Southern Pacific tracks and the Odd Fellow's cemetery block the way. leaving only a few outlets. The Argument of the Southern Pa cific company that the cause of safety will be served by abolishing these crossings does not seem a sound one. The effect will be to crowd more traffic into Thirteenth street which is already so congested at some hours of the day that it is not safe and past the Patterson school where one fatal accident has already occurred. During the Canoe Fete Friday even ing East Eleventh was closed to traf fic for some time. Consequently the streets across the trsck which the Southern Pacific company proposes to close were necessarily used a out lets for sutomobiies. It does not ap pear what route would have been used by the cars if these streets had been closed. The people of the Fairmount sec tion are the ones most directly, af fected, but it is to the interest of the whole city that no more streets should be closed. The council has been busy during the last year or so opening streets at considerable ex pense am trouble. If these street arc closed it will be alnmet impos sible ever to reopen them. Tbe sat uration point in the manufacture and s!e of automobiles Csn not be pre dicted. The next few years will see a larce increase in traffic. The East Eugene Improvement association has expressed itself as being cppot4 to the closing of the street. It may or may not be significant that the Southern Pacific company officials were not impressed by the dancers j existing at these rroina until pav- mg operations started in the Fair- mount section. One who is indineil ; to question the philanthropic nmti. of this great corporation might feel ; that thr imprilint rns.10 for rlnjint , the trri i. a ilr.ire to .r.,,,1 .. .... iiin!.r rnilHT mU all- ut? a. I. puhhc vplfar. It i the opitiH'ti ( tbe wrtt.r. ho reprr.ral. a font many otbr f like opinion, that !!. utrrrt. hniiUI not h- c!..iit. Thn liii. be pav-. lbrmih to Franklin btuif rd ncl if thr t-romg. arc lUnnrr- Today's Cross-Wordfa It would be rather unfair to give you v. , "-w puzzle. So the unkeyed letter in the second i you. The rest being keyed with wrli.nl get it. " u" 'r I 1 " r-ftX r' r j-Ja !LZlfcfc : LT - 9 1 Tc HORIZONTAL 1. To free from filth. 7, Landing stages or wharves (un keyed letter is h). 13. Place of public contest. 14. To scorch. 15. Kiln of dry hops. 17. Mistake. 1ft. Long slippery fish (pi.) 21. To employ. 22. College councils. 24, Adverbial negative. 25, Seventh musical note. 26. Something to gossip to. 27. To apply one's self. 29. Point of compass. 30. Proclamation. 32. Modern enthusiasm. 34. To fluctuate. 30. Slight depression. 37. To warble. 39. Sailors. 40. A blow on the nose. 41. Homes of birds. 42. Pace. 44. To make reparation. 41. Not as much. 4i A very gay foreign city. M. Sneaky. r2. An nmber-like substance. T)3, Pal of either. r4. To assist. 50. Fish pole. 57. Toward. 5S. Anger. GO. Practice of religious contro versy. 03. Constellation. (14. Instrument similar to harp. 00. Ciphers. 07. A small bunch of straw. (VS. Violent seizures. 70. Treadle. 72. Far nwny. 73. Made-a noise as high spirited horses do. VERTICAL 1. Struck (slang). 2. To relieve. 3. Skill. 4. Point of com pa S3. 5. To jeer. 0. To merit. 7. To discolor or stain. S. Weights of containers. 0. Mennuro of nrcn. 10. What Eskimo homes are made of. ous the public, service commission has the power to require adequate safety devices to protect the public. This is not a question of a few days or a few weeks, but for oucn the city of Eugene should have vision enough to provide for the future. T. II. GAltUETT, Chairman of committee of East Eugene Improvement Asu. MODERN DANCE DECRIED EUGENE. May i3.tTo the Edi tor). Wherever a p.nple undertake to chase a preacher out of their mid-t because he condemns our moilpin dince, then it is time for prions mindfd people to become alarmed, shout the welfare of our country. The modern jazz craze seems to be so popular these days, that a modern write them. Yet thta humble praise, if it hut -.linlitlj- M"J'J innae who relt the loss, ia off red with wnuienean ness: Let the place In eternity of those who died f"r il . cause of their country be higher th.in ours. f"f they died that we might prosper happy. U. S. NATIONAL B A N IC "Che Bank cf Service u EUGENE LOAN SAVINGS BAN &e Bank lor Savings At .that Female, of tne ,Mt Valned Seated. 23. To hem. Morbid heart. placement of Gossiped. Interior. Harbors. A cent. Flower containers. Fanciful way of saTbr v Sheltered. ' "What's wrong with other feU'i To loiter. Greater age. Local positions. Pried (in others affair). To drink delicately, legendary bird. Twelve. Got up. Sins. For fear fh Implements for washing floen To supply your stomach irhi Fight among nations. The family bread winner. To accomplish. Answer to yesterday's crost-tori I puzzle: "hotel scorns incomplete witlwat I i diincinc iiavilioit. 1 venture to pny tbiit unf-Mf-- the immorality of our daj can" direcrlv op indirectly br the n-i dance. I contend that tlie (law one of our worst erils junl it some people protest HC-tinst it. H we. nil do as the Ibuiiaii' bU f(,n.,,ii1MHv iniiot co tlie way is- Itoman. I nm Pure aUo tlt;tt the m U t ..imnv for mtnv diiurers.rf" man would tike to ee Eii wifr i with an-ther man, unless U tn p..f riii of her. 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