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THE EUGENE GUARD
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THE EUGENE GUARD
An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally exoept Sunday.
PAULJR. KELTY, Editor EUQKNB S. KELTY, Business Manaijer
Office 1037-1041 Willamette 6treet
Telephone 1200
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The Eugene Guard is a member of the Audit Bureau cf Circulations.
WEDNESDAY, .MAY 27
Abusing the Referendum.
EIGHT hundred persons who had signed the bus and
(ruck tax referendum petition now request of the
secretary that their names bo stricken off. In all .'10,000
persons are said to have signed the referendum petitions
on the measure.
There has been no more flagrant ease in Oregon to
Bhow the suscentibihtv to abuse ot our laws lor direct
legislation. Here was an act at whose justice, expediency
and desirability scarcely anybody presumed to cavil.
It was an act. to provide from a source whoso ability to
pay is unquestioned, revenue of which the state is in
sere need. And it is held up and rendered temporarily
futile through the activity of paid petition hawkers,
representing an interest wholly selfish.
It is inconceivable that 30,000 voters of Oregon op
pose the bus and truck tax bill. It is likewise incon
ceivable that so many of our people believe tho com
mercial trucks and busses should bo allowed to continue
to capitalize tho highways to their own profit without
paying for tho privilege, "or that they should evade just
payment through the tax for tho damage they are caus
ing to the pavements. JSotning less is to do doiiovoci man
that when the bus and truck tax bill is finally voted
on under referendum it will bo overwhelmingly sustained.
Every expression of public sentiment on tho subject
indicates as much. "Why, then, did 24,000 voters sign
tho bus and truck tax referendum petitions! Just be
cause thev, or most of them, lacked any fooling of . re
sponsibility in the tnatler and because it was easier
to sign than to say no to t.lio cuilcol-tonoct petition
hawkers. They signed without thinking and without
recognition of any duly or necessity lor thinking.
"When tho question was laid forcibly before somo of
them again and tliey did think, 800 ot them petitioned
to get themselves unsigned.
In these days of log-rolling, backroom trading
legislatures tho laws for direct legislation constitute
a valuablo safeguard to popular rights. But petition
hawking needs to be curbed, sharply and decisively.
The American Legion Campaign.
JT is a. fine and noblo purposo that is represented by
tho campaign of tho American legion hero and el.se
Avhero under way just now. It is proposed that a na
tional .endowment fund of $5,000,000 bo raised, and
that -tho interest on the fund ho used for (ho aid of
disabled veloruns und for the widows and children of
those who have succumbed and passed on.
Tho fund will ho administered in emergency relief.
Tho government cares for its disabled veterans when
their cases have become established before it. But
there are always many cases coming up which have not
been so established and which cannot bo allowed to
await establishment of claims before tho government.
It is such cases as theso that the American legion pro
poses lo caro for. Often a disability directly tho re
sult of an illness or a wound sustained in service is
long deferred in developing. Often it develops suddenly
after tho lapso of years. To niako proofs of service
-and proofs of illness or wounding in service in such
cases requires time. Tho American legion jumps into
tho breach and cares for such cases in tho interim.
There are other cases in which tho dependents of a
veteran cannot legally bo helped by the government
under the law's provisions. These cases, too, the
' American legion aids. It splits no hairs and cuts all
red tape when its administration is convinced of the
worthiness of any case.
Here iu Oregon a portion of the fund now being
raised is to be devoted to the maintenance of the Doerii
beeher memorial hospital for the care of sick and dis
abled children. Construction of this hospital is pro
vided for. There is as yet no provision for its main
tenance. Thus the whole purpose of ho American legion
drive for funds is one of outstanding worth, Cut out the
little coupon published in The (hum! and send it in to
the drive committee with your cheek. It will bo worth
while.
357.52 or 6.08 per cent of the taxes
in Marlon county, $10,773.83 or 7.17
per cent of the taxes in Polk county,
$1X1,532.26 or 8.05 per cent of lite
taxes in IJnn county and in some
counties, like Douglas, it paid as high
as 17.86 per cent of the total tax.
Wbst per cent of the Marion or
other county tax did the motor truck
sort auto bus lines that are destroy
ing county as well as stste highways
pay? Not even one-half of one per
cent.
The Southern Pacific is only one of
several railroads, such as the Oregon
Electric, Union Pacific, Spokaoe
Portland & .Seattle, etc., that psy
taxeo, fiirnitfh payrolls, and purchase,
build and maintain their own rights
of way for public service.
.Motor truck and auto bus lines pay
no taxes and build and maintain no
right-of-way, but utilize the $0,ooo,
OfH'l highway system of the stste,
which they sre pounding to pieces st
public expense for private gain.
Why should we soak the taxpaying
railroads, who utilize their 'own prop
erty for public service and let off sent
free non-taxpnying motor trucks and
auto hoaxes utilizing public property
for private profit?
Why should snyone sign the peti
tion to referend the proposed very
light tax upon motor trucks and auto
busses to provide a repair fund to
partially make good destruction caus
ed, snd thus permit free destruc
tion for two years more?
If you have signed this referen
dum petition, under misapprehension.
request your name be eliminated.
Maybe It Will
(Medford Mail-Tribune)
It is alleged Ihnt Kin mil 111 Falls
now in the midst of a railroad row,
will eventually wind up with ns many
depots as it has court houses. -
Enough of This Entertaining!
ay 2;
Woman Patron of Jerry
Horn Writes
Mrs. W. L. Bristow Had
Shingled 1886-1892
Hair
FLEASANT HILL, May 24. (To
tho Editor) I read with much in
terest the account of Mr. Jerry
Horn's history as a tonsoriul nrtist,
and also your editorial on the sumc
subject. In recalling early days Mr.
Horn refers to women putrous being
conspicuous by their absence. I wish
to state that I was a regular patron
from 188(1 until 181)2. Instead of
wearing the "shingle bob" my hair
was shingled without the bob. On
oach occasion 1 was accompanied by
a friend. I well remember the cour
teous treatment 1 always received.
Yours truly,
MHH. W. L. 1IHISTOW.
i -- v-wo ffri. .
In Lighter Vein
Too Educated.
(Londou Tit-Bils)
"Thflre, you've missed fain. ! I ccr
t'ny am surprised. How come you
didn't hit flint rabbit, Uncle Bill?"
"It was this way, boy. You hoc, dat
rnbbit io whs nmiiiu' zigzag. I aimed
at bim when he was in xig, aud
'fore J could shut my ahootin' eye
dnt rabbit had shifted into zag! Dcm
rriltrrs is gittin' more eddiratt'd every
day."
- Consolation.
(Punch)
Wifo (in n panic) Oh, .lark! Jak!
Ruby's been and swallowed a Kix
ponco! Huatmnd Oh, well, my denr, oye
can't buy much for sixpence imwa
daya. ,
Pleasing Sights .
(Kmisas City Ktnr)
Next to seeing n ukulele fed to a
biiss-fnw, the sight we moat long fjr
In n saxophone dropped in front of a
steam-roller,
A Seasonal Tip.
(Chicago News)
This Is a good time of ynir for
swimmers to make up their minds
never to dive Into shallow writer.
Safe Bets.
(Cincinnati Kmniirer)
If you don't look before you start,
the gas will givo out before you reaoh
the noTt filling station.
Wp'U be kicking nbout th heat be
fore the Himmor's over.
The barbers won't advocate a law
prnbihlting bobbej hair.
There would be fewer accident if
automobiles were nil fold for cash
only.
Kadi tiny U'ksciih tho hopn tlmt Amuuilspn mnl his
companions will return through tho air From their von
turn into thn North. W living the clumees that they
will eventually be rescued are gout!. Resoureefui,
Htroiitf and experienced, they can cope with Arctic
danger. That they did not return in accordance with
their programme indicates that their pianos were
smashed, but whether the men escaped injurv or death
in yet a question of pure hperulntiou. What of the
Htrano urgo that. impelH men to such chances? Trans
oceanic, flights, round the-world f lights, the Xortlv lVh
the South Pole, 1 ho peak of Mount Everest, a n.w route
acrosH tho Sahara Desert, the fetid jungles of tho Am
hzoi.'h Hource. Tho -more , certain tho perils, the more
arduous the toil, tho stronger is tho lure. Xovor arc
wanting volunteers for any rendezvous with Death.
Blue-eyed and fairhaircd, they flin forth their earn'
yan with a smile. This is something altogether fine
in Jinn which makes the customary sordid pursuits
of civilization seem mean indeed.
An Ohioan's Memory.
(Ohio State Journal)
Our memory goes bark lo the lime
when people who were expecting n
baby often hoped it would be n girl,
on the ground that girls gave you to
little trouble as they grew up.
2o Years Ago
. :
(From The Guard May 27, 1(100)
"MIR thirteenth annual convention
of the Christian Kndenvor union
of Oregon n in sesnion nl Albany.
Kugfiie delegates are Mrs. H. McMur
phey, Hlsucbe Taylor, l.iniie Criffiti,
H. fi. Spenrcr, Kred Strange, Mrs. J.
A. Clelsnd.
The last recitation of the year at
the university tomorrow, and then
examinations. ,
Well, well, look who's back under the white lights
cf Broadway apain! None other than our vouiur-ohl
friend Harry Kendall Thaw. At his re-dobufhe threw
away $1500 in tips and danced everv dance on a cabaret
programme. Apparently Mr. Thaw 'thinks he is through
with rmyinff tho fiddler fi;urativel Literally he
gavo the orchestra five hundred of his dollars. "
Planned your summer vacation yet? Neither have
TVC.
Kd Hanson arrived homo
from a trip to 1'oriUnd.
today
-TENANTS MADE HIM WEALTHY
Death of Andrew E. Walker Recalls Capital Rent Profiteering
Days
Hy CHAKLKS P. STEWART
INEA Service Writer)
YA,SJ11N0TON Iay 27. Between
tte lines of nil the obituaries
published by the Washington1 news
pupers a few days ago, following the
death of Allan, K. Walker, prominent
real estate inau and builder of the
capital, runs a story quite distinct
from that of the career the various
articles' authors thought they were
confining themselves exclusively to.
flt is the story o t'be merciless ex
ploitation of Washington's tenant
class since the year of America's eii-,i
try into the war,
Allan E. Walker died at the ano
of 4(1. His father, the late It ed ford W.
Walker, was a real estate man before
him. Tho aon entered the business
when he was 10.
llo combined apartment house pro
motion with his trade iu city lots, At
the end of 10 more years 'iio was ra
ted at about $50,000 and it was con
sidered he had done unusually veil,
his business ranking perltups second
among ull of its kind iu the capital.
That was the year of America's
declaration of hostilities against the
central powers 1017. "It was about
the year 3017, one obituary quotes a
friend of tho late real estate man a
saying, "that his business began to
grow by leaps and bounds." Ho left
an estate estimated nt $4 .000,000 an!
it would have been $1,000,000 more
but for a single quite recent unlucky
speculation.
For 10 years Walker aved money
at the rato of about $'J300 annually.
During the last eight years he accu
mulated It at thn. rate of $tfJ5,000 a
venr. Ho snw his chance and took It.
No blame attaches to him, as an indi
vidual Hut Washington tenants foot
ed the bill and tbc bill of many an
other real estate man in these last
eight years.
An attache of one of the Latin
American legations here, a email,
dark man, with keen, black eyes, a
raveu mustache aud a high -bridged,
oriental-looking nose, told me this
story: Visiting New York recently, "o
had occasion to travel by the ML," o
ascended to a station platform and
was waiting, inoffensively, for bis
train, when he was set on by a gang
of young hoodlums of the type com
eou to Manhattan's lower east side.
lloughly and intentionally bust
led and bustled, he lost his temper.
"Quect cet!" he exclaimed, "t well
'ave you arrest." Something in his
accent caught one of the young ruf
fian's attention. "What are youV" he
asked sharply. "Un Central Amer
icano," rejoined the diplomat. "Hey,
fellers!" cried the youth, springing
into action with the horrified expres
sion of a participant in a lynching
beo who suddenly discovers the wrong
man is being srung up. "Lay off! Lay
off! He ain't a kike."'
Senator and, Mrs. Ilurtoii K. Wheel
er have decided on Marion Montana
as t.he 'first and second names of theri
new little girl. Marion i for Senator
Itobert Marion LaFollettc. Montana is
for the Wheelers' homo tate. lloth
the senator and his wife have heen
deluged with telegrams from there
ever since their daughter's birth, urg
ing them to call her after it.
In New York
N1
COMMENT OF THE PRESS
Why Discrimination?
(Salem Capital Journal)
According to official figures, the
Southern Pacific paid $l.:;is.itii7.4tl
taiet In Oregon In lO.'l, or per . prf Nothing
Cent of all taxea levied lu the state, j The Southern t'netfic paid $U1
and 7.;i4 per rent of the total taxea
of roimtic in hirh it opeartes.
What did the motor truck aud
bus line, whi.h are traversing the
sum counties dent rowing the high-
Mrs. llosa M, Hollenbeck presented
n class of students in piano in recital
Saturday evening.
v M. Miljneue ia a visitor tn Kngme
today from Cottage drove.
William K. McClure. a former F.u
geneauaand an university alumnus is
to graduate this year from the depart
ment of law, Columbia univereity,
W'aihlngton, I. C.
Hert IVter is home after a trip
to eastern Oregon.
There ia some more sunshine today
(or a rhange.
Uev. Mac 11. Wallace and Prof. I.
M, (Hen of the Vnivriy of Oregon
have been selet-ted as the speakers for
the Fourth of July celebration in . i
Kitgeue. ltevereml Wallar i pastor j j
of the Kugen Congregational church, j J
Hon. S. It. Kakin has ben selected j f
president of the day. The mimical j S
program Is to be announced in a few j J
By .TAMILS W. TKA
JEW VOHK, My 1!7. The most
generous of U New Yorkers are
the people of the stage.. And that
nenerosity ia never ao evident as it is
at this srsson of the year when many
dhows close and thousands of t$r
formers are out of work.
Those who have saved part of their
earnings during the fat months share
their rooms, their meals, their cloth
ing and their money with less fortu
nate or less provident fellows of their
craTt.
Yesteday I "Pt young woman
who was innch before the public for
a few brief days because the Prince
of Wales had taken particular notice
of her when ha was here last sum
mer. She told ma that all sho had to
her name was five dollars earned Im
posing for a fashion picture. She had
left n sick bed to do that job.
"Everything I had was spent during
an Ulnes that kept me abed for three
months," she mid me. "Even that
would not have been sufficient. 1
wo4ld have become a public charge if
o'ber girls had nt helped me out.
When t get on my feet again they
probably won't let me repay them a
cent. All that 1 can hope is that some
day 1 may do a g-l mm R0,nc"
one else in trouble."
All show girls do not come of poor
families and an are not entirely de
pendent on their earnings. 1 know of
a show girl who lives in Yonkors
whose father ia comfortably wealthy.
iM.ring the summer as many as six
or eight girls arc her guests for
weeks at a time.
The show girt usually Is a creature
of Impulse. When her purse la full
kU lives at the best hotels, eat
breakfast in bed and buy amart
clothes. The thought of the long lean
months of summer when she will live
in cramped quarters and on a precar
ious diet troubles her not at alt.
able to find his way intelligently in
a scientific world.
They represent education, as dis
tinguished from technicul training.
And they arc, more than two to one,
women!
Throughout America, unless it be
in the extreme east, similar propor
tions obtain. It exteuds into the high
schools, A majority of high school
pupils, and a still larger majority of
those taking the cultural courBes, are
everywhere girls.
We have long passed the stage of
agitation for mere equal educational
opportunities for women, lu fact,
we no longer even ifcpe for equal
education of men.
Tom Sims Says-
Perhaps you've wondered how men
team the stock and bond business.
It's very simple, J. Parnell Thomas,
a young man who no is a sales man-
days.
i Last yesr thV healthiest ever
knnmin the Pnited Stated and
I Canada, according to public health
i records.
A THOUGHT
Confidence iu an unfaithful
man in time of trouble is like a
bveken tooih, and a foot out
joint Prov. 25:11V
To be trusted i a greater
compliment than to be loved.
MclMnald.
oger In Wall street with 40 men un
d'-r his direction, started in six years
ngo at $lL,'.r0 a week. Then he didn't
know the difference between a bond
and a stock. He was told to enter a
akyjeraper, begin at the top and call
a, every office until he reached the
ground. By then he had begun to learn
a bit about the business.
The past season of (ndoor sports
has been notable for its lack of for
eign lecturers. A few years ago flocks
of reporters vera assigned to every
incr-ming ship to interview flocks of
imported lecturers. There were H.
(i. Wells. Margot As'ith. Lord lnn
sany, John Galsworthy, Habindranath
Tagore and Blasco Ibanex amng the
many.
James B. Pond, who books many
of the lecturers, says that their num
ber has dwindled because most of
thera are writers and have learned
thst they can arn more by writing
hooks for America than by lecturing
here.
He recalls that when the influx of :
lecturers was at its peak one Chicago ,
paper printed notices of their arrival j
under "Calamities of the Pay." When j
!,nrd Hunsany read the notice he
could hardly be persuaded to continue
his schedule.
I Howell's Comment I
;
IU CHESTER H. HOWELL
VNIVKHH1TY turned out. the
other day. a graduating class of j
,'t0O- probably the largest clasi ever
graduated by an American university. I
There were graduates in law, en-j
gineering. medicine, dentistry, pliar- j
macy, agriculture, commerce, various j
sciences, and in the general count in
"arts." as well as numerous higher j
degrees.
The majority of the graduate, in
most nf the professional course. :
were, as usual, men. Hut the Utg'it I
single group, the Bachelors of Arts, i
from the College of Letters and Sci-;
ences. was mostly women. There '
were 11-4 of them, snd of thee, if
a hasty count is correct, 7.'! were j
women, and men.
!
This is the course which stand
for what used to be called a 'colg
education"; the nnn-profesnional ten-!
J j eral preparation for life. It is these :
( i graduate wno mo iiinn'n me nm-H-s
! ground of culture and of general
knowledge.
They are the mi who hand down
to the future the heritage of the pst.
enrihed by the snnu(ilation of ih
present p his'ory, its phitotopb,
its lantuate and bterautre. it
e-onomi , it msthe-ndtit, snd thm
grp of st-tftice wbuh makes one !
yE got down late today. The
nn clock rang but we decided
maybe it was the wrong number.
Women and elephants are afraid
of mice. Men, however, are afraid
of all three of them.
What tho United States needs is a
substitute for substitutes.
Wealth may not be a curse, but -it
causes a lot of cussing.
.
Life has its ups and down. The
best way -to forget the dowus is by
remembering tho ups. - t '
Funniest news today' comes from
Peoria, HI. Frank Nohootch was fined
for having booze.
Movie man admits he is getting
only $S30 a week. Wo don't see how
he manages to live on it.
Wonder if any of the popular songs
of today will recall any fond mem
ories in tho future?
News from Paris. Famous painter
saya he uses his wife for a model.
That's a model wife.
BODY IS RECOVERED
PORTLAND, Ore., May li7. The
body of Arthur L. , McCutcheon,
Portland traffic patrolman drowned
a week ago Saturday in the Desrhutea
river near Gateway, was today recov
ered by a track walker at South Junc
tion, seven miles below Gateway, ac
cording to a wire received by Chief
of Police Jenkins.
Todays Cross-Wordpjn
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this gala occasion. To show how smart our ,70rd paait 01.
their skill ob some of the sticker, contained here ''
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HORIZONTAL
Neuter pronoun.
Graduation certificate.
Like.
Beam (of light).
To assist.
Nothing.
Pierced (by animal horns).
Strip of leather.
Groove,
Stout.
To sin. '
Preposition of place.
Third musical note. .
3.1416.
Part of verb to be.
Employer of property.
Mineral used in making pow
ders. Morindin dye.
Within.
Seventh note in scale.
Above.
Finish.
Flagrant oleoresin used for med
icines. Age.
A gash.
Savage.
Striped camel's hair doth.
Inlet.
To be sick.
Yes.
Instructor.
Therefore.
VERTICAL
Fish of salmon family.
"To recolor.
Father.
Conscious existence.
Alleged force producing hypno
tism. Provident insect.
SPEEDER FINED $5 j
Arthur Steinmetx, driver of the
Blavk and White Taxi, was fined $-" ;
and costs in the justice of tho peace i
office this afternoon on a charge of !
speeding. Be plead guilty and paid the
fine.
Biilly
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HAM "THAT'S Ml?HTY
.TANTALIZING- -U
WILL FIND IT
APPETIZING- !
VOU'1,1, NOT O N 1. V
FIND THK FLAVOR OK
OIR HAM M Kill TV
TANTALIZING, BUT
YOU'LL KINO THK
tiOODNKSS OF ALL
TUB MEATS WE SF.L1.
VP TO THK rtBH
FOOD MARK. AND
YOU'LL FIND Ol R PR1-
ces down to runup
FAVOR AND YOU'LL
KIND OUR COURTEOUS
SKRV1CKS AT YOUH
DISPOSAL.
Watch tor Mr, Happy
Party
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S. To disturb,
10. Skill.
L'l. Anger.
U. Those nl,0 !mA tchM,
To acoimnlish.
Point of compass.
Srhool head.
Young women.
Silk material.
Small vegetable
To set in wood in
ame of a mounnin urn 71
To daub.
Kxpresaion of iimnirr.
Narrative poetrr.
Provided.
Silk worm.
Seated.
Organ of hearing, '
Sua god.
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A TOif Y aUd sUsli
B A PfgjE LHE UlCiHjP-;
iai1e aIsi i IdIeMeIy
Lives
Unselfishly
Offered
The few humble words that we cap offer in praise of the j
who so selfjshly gave the vpr greatest of all gifts, and ! I
for a mere principle in which tiioy had faith, are so meij j
In comparison with their magnanimity that we hesltats tt ;
write them. Yet this humlilo praise, If it but slightly htrt! '
those who felt tho loss, is offered with wholehearted earafit- j
ness:
I.Pt the place in eternity of those who died for the !
cause of their country bo higher than ours, fur
they died that we might prosper ha;ipy.
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