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Newspaper Page TextFago Four THE EDOENE GUARD -it .it V 'II 1 ,J ) 'I r i i 'j THE EUGENE GUARD An Independent afternoon newspaper publlehed dally except Sunday. PAUL R. KELTY, Editor EUOKNE S. KELTY, Business Manager Offices 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 Tha Eucena nnnril la a member of tha Associated Press. Tbe Associated Tress Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dlspatchea credited to It or not otherwise cred ited In this naner and also tha local news published herein. All rights ol publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The Eugene Guard Is a member of tha Audit Bureau of Circulations. FHIHAV, MAY 29. The Governor Feels So Badly. THE lius and truck tax is hc.hl up. The tnWco fax is holl up. Tho tithing bill is licit! up. All of Gov ernor IVreo's vaunted monsurfs tor rcpincrmeni oire nuos out off by his nnd Jefferson Myers' uifil-miinipula-tion of the tax levy .have gone glimmering nnd the state fnnoK a rlnfipit. nnd miitd. onernte on a warrant basis. But that isn't what the governor is smugly smiling over. Oh, my, no! He has just happened to tinnK noout r funny cross-eyed, white-faced calf that ho saw out in Union county some years ago. The governor really feels very badly about the state's predicament. Ha, lin er, don't make the governor crack his lip. 1 The Glory That Was the Oregon. THE battleship Oregon is coining to end her days and rest her bones in homo waters. T.liey used to call the Oregon the bulldog of the Americun navy. That was in the heyday of her glory. Once, when she came back from Manila after the close of tho Spanish Amer ican war, tho Oregon flew a "homeward bound" pen nant 3M feet long. It was a prideful conceit, indicative of how America felt about her. Tho Oregon was built on the Pacific coast at San Francisco. At her launching Sam L. Simpson, whoso "Beautiful "Willamette" has made his lame immortal, wrote this: . " ' Columbia in his pride will greet Tho Bodiceii of our fleet; And from embattled heights the voico Of cannon make the deep rejoice; And festal sunshine gleam upon Tho green-clad hills of Oregon. Oregon's people woro proud of the groat fighting machine which represented tho last word in naval ef ficiency of tho day. . They gave to the Oregon when she was commissioned n solid silver service which cost $25,000, in manifestation of their sentiments. And later they presented her gallant commander with a fancy, even though quite- superfluous, sword. Tho imminence- of tho Spanish-American war found the Oregon in tho wrong part of the world, to be imme diately effective. Sho was at Puget sound. There was a strong Spanish fleet fn Philippine waters and another one in Cuban waters. For tho latter named prospective theater of action tho Oregon started on March G, 1898, with Cuplain Charles K Clark in command. There was no Panama canal. Tho Oregon went by way of Capo Horn. And sho went fast. War broke out while she was onrouto. In the navy department fit Washington there were fears of what lurking Spanish ships might do to the Orogon. Warnings were scut; to Captain Clark and instructions for precautions. "I am not afraid of the whole Spanish fleet" cabled Clark to tho department from ftno port, , On May 'JG tho Oregon arrived at Sand Key, Fla. She had covered 18,112 miles. She had run one leg of 4,72G miles without a stop. It is a record that still stands for our navy or any navy. When Cervcra's fleet essayed tho forlorn hope of dashing out of the Santiago?, harbor bottle-neck, it was tho Oregon that fired tho first shot. , What followed was summarized in the message of Sampson, two days later. "Tho American navy," ho cabled, "offers to tho American people ns n Fourth of July present the destruction of tho entire Spanish fleet. ' Not 0110 ves sel escaped." ' By tho time tho cheers had died which this message evoked, tho Oregon had finished mopping up and was looking about for something else to do. Dewey hud long since dono for tho Montojo fleet in Manila' bay what Sampson and Schley had done for Cervera at Santiago, but thero was a third Spanish fleet at large. It had started though it never got there for tho Philippines way of Sue.. Whatever of potential sea menace , Spain still exercised was pointed towards the far oust. And so tho Oregon was sent back around the Horn j ngoin mid across the broad Pacific. Dewey greeted j her with a grin anil his gobs cheered lustily, 'but there wasn't njudi for tho Oregon to do around Manila after nil. Dewey hadn't left her anything to shoot at, and as already stated, Spain's vaunted third fleet never reached tho far cast. Navy styles change pretty fast and by the time tho next war came along the Oregon was' classed as among tho venerables. Nevertheless she served in the reserve fleet and was found still fit and workable for tho little that they gavo her to do. And nfter that the Oregon was held superannuated and ready for the boneynrd. Captain t lark has passed. Sampson has passed and. I Feeling His Oats f." ' -s. M ' i ; y&z&iat&jsdr - v vs- r m mm ao rewr - 'wife. r Martin, world record bolder for air plane efficiency; contends that it was uerfectlv nraetical. The machine Hew, at any rate. Many witnesses tesiify to it. "We have hardlv been able to hmprore today.' aya Martio, "u.ton Horrmr s diWosure m bis IS Hi pat ent office application." u:d and ill, Iwrnnu is spending ins liitt years in poverty. JooueR-DaKroze of Pari, Oneva and Lond n expert lo visit America noon. Hp's an educator, founder of tne cbool of "rythmic expression," which seeks to tram 'mind, voice and bony simultaneously. In Kurope, where method has a wide vtgue, he a a fa mous man. Here be icn't known so uell, but his expeeted visit, on the n- vitaMon of tbe Maret trench scbohi. in Washington, where his system is followed, may make bim so. - Stage Men Issue Public Statement 24 Points In Form of Their Constitution Set Out Schley and Filiiin Hob Kvmmh mid tho great Powoy! Tho Now York nml tho Hnmklvn and tho Indiana ami 1 l.n ft', ...... I it. . .11 1I J . uiu ii-Aim nun uie oiuer ueeiiimies ol the Oregon at Santiago, and Mm old Olynipin, whieh was Dewev's flagship at Manila, have rusted out their hones and gone along. Never again will her great guns thunder Ko more will she elear decks to fight I'.ir the Hag that she has so well supported. Hut the ghost of her former greatness the glory that was the Oregon is coining home to Oregon watept to end her da vs. A south end resident says .he is willing to give the weather man a neat prize if he will bring tm enough more rain right away to drown the sipiawk of the imi tation calliope at the carnival. AVe would feel much lietter ahout the week-end doufile holiday if we could think , of somehodv I.e. sides the newspaper men who has to work as per usual. Optimistic thought for today: Strawberries are red all the way through now. COMMENT OF THE PRESS nnd horrible mutilating a Jew trav eling ninii siiHpected of nssnuKine u white girl at Williamston. Twenty eight were arrested, six made com plete confessions, tho ring-leader got thirty years, his assistant six to ten years, those, who drummed up the crowd got from two to three years, and those who took no active part, but were among those present were fined $500 each and the Jew proven Innocent. This conviction of lynchers is con vincing evidence that North Carolina Is not only the most prosperous sec tion of the south, but the most civ ilized. Wisdom of the Judge fCorvalKs Gazette-Times) Judge MoMuhnn of Kulem says "there orter be a law" to. compel young married couples to, live nt least 1,000 miles from the parents of either one of, them. Would not tho judge also make 'it n violation of the laws re lating to'the mail service for mother and daughter to write to each other? The judge is not only a wise old owl, but he says what he kuows.,Frin atanee, he claims that if every wife whose husband took a drink got a di vorce two-thirds of the people in the country would be divorced. Isn't It pretty neurly that bad now, Judge? , . A Good Omen .. (Springfield Uepublicim) The Htatue of liberty in New York Ilarhor has been formally transferred from the war department to the de part nient of tho interior, a good omen of the time when liberty will have no ueed of war departments. A trend of the Times (Boston Transcript) New York sees the passing of nn other of its famous restaurants, but miliums of New Yorkers nre more Interested in the presence of the neighborhood delicatessen ehop. Tho S a nil iff m Hlfjhwny Becomes a Reality. (Albany ltemor rat-Hera id) Thnt the bng dreamed of Santinm highway across the t 'nscade moun tains by u ay nf I .ehnimn, Foster, fnacadia and the Ssntiatu Pam soon will become a reality is assured by two official announcements which have been made in quick succession within the last few dnys. The first one was to the effect thnt the Uni ted St n lea forest ry department this summer will survey (he hitherto unde termined section cant of (.'ascadia and will denifintely locate the route. The second w.ih the statement made yes terday by the county court that it has reached an agreement with the offi cials nf the Oregon-Washington t nl onirntion company whereby the coun ty will p.y to the company the sum of $r.,Ot for the right-of-way. Both these details have been pending for a long time; ami their final determl nitinn means that- actual t r infor mation of the present mountain trail into a modern macadamised hijhway will take place in the immediate fu ture, The Mngarlnn Stacks (Medford Mail-THhnne) Verhnps you have noticed that the Home Journals displayed in neat piles out in front of the news stands, are alwas five feet higher than msga nines thai deal exclusively with shady affairs of the heart. He-Men nf the Open Spaces (Pendleton Kast Oregonian) The story of two Klamath sheep men meeting out on the desert. o,nr reling and engiging in s fistic battle which resulted in the death of one suggests thst the he men of the open vpaoes are not all in the movies. CAPITAL STILL HAS HORSE CABS "Dey's Eight of us Left," Darkey Driver Telia Patron Who Volunteers as Fare Hy CHARLKS P. STEWART .. TASHlNGTOX, May 20. A horse cab was passing. Just to ee what it felt like to ride behind a horse again, I flagged 'it and got In. ""Home, James," J told the driver, mention ing the address. The cab was of the phaeton pat tern nnd no rattle-trap, but sprucely kept, with a fa t, sleek horse, be tween the shaft and a dignified, whi'.e haired, plug-natted old darkey ou the box. As we jogged along, he gave me some information. "Dey's eight of us leff in Wash ington," bo told me, "'out o' a van mult'tudc. J ii sum ma wc docs vc'y well. Nurn'our pussons rides with us jes' fo' th' cxpe'ience, like you all'H doin'. An dey's fai'ly lib'al mos' gen' iy, seein', I cal'lute, as we's a novelty, an' dey reckon we oughta bo re wa'ded commensu'ately. "Hut in wiuta things gits tol'able oleaginous fo' us. Fi'st place, ya cain't heat his yeah specie o vee hides. An' second place, d' faction ;,' dis yeah asphalt ou a lump's feet gils to'ible when it's col' ti' lippy. "A In' liossmanship vc'y dange'our you ast, with all dese yeah" mat' cabs? Well sub, it's a fac' dey's n cc'tain type o' homogenicty acta to! a Sic reckless an' some of 'em I s'peot o' right down lu'lignancy.. Rut gcn'ly spenkin', folks reguhds us as a dyin' genus an' takes middlin' go-jd ca'ro of us. "Why don't I git me a tax cab? you all asts me, Lawdy, boss, Is too old to degen'ate into no shoofo, Fo'ty seven yeah I bin d'ivin' ho:-s cabs in Washin'tou. I reckons I'll keep at it Ion's I linga.in his yeah vale a' synthetic righteousness." Who's entitled to credit for dis covering Hie airplane? its first dis 'cvcry? Pivfessor Jjmgiey? Or the Wright brothers? Sccreticr; AValcott of the Smitlisouian Institute clninu? it for tho former. Ot-vi!le Wrjgiit I'l.ums it for himself nnd his brotl-or, Wilbur, It belongs to neither, according to friends of Augustus M. Herring, whose application for a patent on a workable heavier-:li;in-Air, flying ma chine is on record in th- p.itcnt office under dHte December 11, 1SW. K. C. Huffaker, who was L.ingley'a assistant in all !iw experiments, is authority for the jtrttcment thi:t tie professor's maebmo which, after his death, proved a successful flyer, post dated Herring's "by more t hi! it a year." The Wrights did not I t gin their experiments .it nit until P.IOi. Herring dido't yet his potent, bow ever. The examiner refused ii, on lie ground that he "regard.' I the ap paratus, as a whole, us incapahle of practical use." As good an authority as Jamos V. Consider Young Griffo An Illustrated Editorial by NEA Service BANK CONTRACT PLACED SPRINi;KH:U. May t'i. i Spe cial. -The contract for building the new First Nation.il tmttk lmildmg Nt Fifth and Main streets has beeu awarded by the bank directors to Wilbur J. l.epley and Leonard J. I.ep ley at $t.0V The butlditig ,mhi-h will he of concrete contrti tion, will take t) das to complete. It will 1"" two stone high with 10 by 17 fret vault room. t jjt'V' v" Mm- if . '1 North Carolina' Example the north as well, by trying, convict- (Salem Capital Journal) , uig and seutoi. ing a m.di of cbival- North Carolina has jusl net a fine ) runs proc tor i f Nui(hern wouinti eiauijde, not only to the south, but ; lioud, who broke jail, tarrying away A THOUGHT O Ird. open thou my lips; nd my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.-Ps. M:1S. Karth with her thousand praises liod. - Coleridge. TW IS is Young (iriffo. Once lu was a champion featherweight fighter. lie was lightning fast, a phantom in tho ring. lh was so tpiiek on his feet that other boxers couhl har-lly touch him with a glove. J lo isn't so young now. Fifty-four. Ami he is no longer featherweight. His hones are brittle. Young (iriffo couhl have been a rich man Imtl he conserved his earnings of prizefights. Thrift enthusiasts might draw a fine object leson about this photograph. However, this is spring ami a different spirit moves tho writer of these lines. Uriffo spends much of his time sitting in a New York doorway, just a step off Times Square, watching the world pass by. Friends come to see him ami chat with hun. Fame, to hint, is an empty bubble, "Contentment, even in his humble Io, means more. And contentment is something few of us achieve. The Oregon motor stage associa tion, which has just- filed 'a, petition containing 10,83J signatures, asking for referendum of the truck and bus tax bill passed by the last legislature, is Bending to the press of the' state a statement giving its position in the controversy over the bill and the ref erendum. Following are 21 items cap tioned "statements of fact" from the circular: 1. Tho justification of stage op eration is recognized as being based upon public CONVENIENCE and public NECESSITY. 2. Stages are needed and wanted by hundreds of thousands of people. 3. Stages run with frequency. - 4. .Stages run where no other kind of public conveyance is to be had. 5. Stages stop at almost any point. . (t. Stages bring people nearer their ultimate destination in tbe cit ies or on the road. 7. Stage travel has tremendously increased the value of the American highways by making them serve a greater percentage of the people. 8. Stages reduce the cost of trans portation to the public. 0. Stages carry the public over the public's roads. 10. Singes nre NOW regulated. 3 1. Stiiges "WANT regulation. 12. Oregon stages have no fran chise rights. 13. California stages nnd Wash ington t2?os are recognized as hav ing rights of irsnchisc and are issued certificates based .n public conveni ence and necessity. 14. Oregon stages now pay per cent of gross earnings in taxes 11 per cent of value of their equip ment. 35. Oregon stages now pay the following taxes: Gasoline taxes (for maintenance and upkeep of highways). Incense fee tax (for liquidating original cost of highways). Seating capacity tax (Special stage tax for privilege of engag ing In for hire business.) Federal taxes (a war revenue measure), s Municipal tases -(fees assessed by municipalities through which stages operate to take care of cost of regulation). Public Servii-e Commission taxes fn tax used to support regulating body). . Hi. House Hill -113 would raise the taxes to Y2. per cent of gross earninc. IT. House bill 4 1 It would raise taxes on stages to 33 per cent of the value of their equipment. 38. House Hill 413 wis declared unconstitutional by the attorney gen eral. Ifl. House Ttill 413 wits originated with the railroads and ws designed to fight the stage competition NOT ns an equitable tax measure to protect the highways. 20. House Hill 413 was literally railroaded through by a powerful railroad lobby, 21. Stages are for an equitable tax measure to protect the highways. 22. Singes have built their busi ness on a basis of public service not on a "p'iblic-be-dammed" policy. 23. House Rill 413 bears heaviest on the comparatively light 'motor stages (operated on pneumatic tirs. If House Hill 413 hpcnme effective to addition to gasoline taxes. A regularly operated 20-passenger stage weighting 11.000 lbs. (pneumatic tires would pay to slate per year $10".". A regularly operated 5-ton common carrier freight trurk weighing 22.000 lbs. would pay $."00 per yene. A regularly operated S-tn private trurk would pay $140. Tn addition enrh vehirle will pay 3e per gal. of gasoline used. In addition the rtnge will pay-federal and munieipnl taxes. 2t. Th heiviest stage weighs 11. 000 "lbs. The average lens than ROOO lbs. per vehicle. 2". Should this tax beoome effect ive and if the Public Service ronim:s sion would not allow sn increase in i rates. per cent of the stago com panies would be compelled to quit. In New York P,v JAMKS W. HE AN VKW YOllK, May 20-A revel is 4 offered the old-timer at tbe pub lic library. Thse who visited or liwd here a generation ago would find two exhibit in the library just about the moit interesting thing in town. One i the Eno collection of prints and the other a collection of photo graphs and programs rf the stsge for! tbe past 60 years. 1 Prints of scenes of the old diys ; were collected by A mo K. Eno wh lived SI years at Eifth avenue and Tenth sucet. There are prints of lot-j tevies on the old city hall steps t!ie; brewery at Five Points, torn down in j IS.VJ b ihe ladies' ICme Missionary; society; the forerunner of the suit-j way, a sleigh car being pulled by eight pairs of horses aiong liroadway; I a boy peddling shoes hung fron a i stick: and the famous. Crystal palace; that stood on the site of Bnant park. H w times have changed in three quarters of century is aptly t rated in a serie. sowing the evohi-j thn of the corner of Eifth avenue' and Twenty-third street. (n K'Hl a nwdhon mood there, displaying the: sigu. "Siagei leave every fioir min- i 1 replaced by Erancwm' 1 H'-ppodrome which had a tent i -t. IK.tta ii dine and u,t mnt ihe old Fifth Avenue hotel. Tuat repUL-'i ed by a great office building whic sua suinus. Interest in fbe theatrical collection is divided between the portraits on the wall and the living portraits in the gallery. Old-time actors aDd act resses amble along in grand manner front photograph to photograph, liv ing in the dull embers of a past glory. "Well, well! There's John Drew. 1 played with him in 'OS. And Otis Skinner. The old fellow's still play ing." Young flappers come to admire Lillian Jtussell. And Phoebe Itusscll, too. There is a great portrait of Joseph Jeffersoe. And announcements of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the appear ance of Richard Mansfield and HbjH Kirk. And here you see players of a former generation who still trod .he boards. Mrs. Eiske and Francis Wil son. The latter once gsre up a salray of $1 ft) a week for $l,j a week in a legitimate role. Those portraits will hang until Sep tember and until then the gallery will be the nieeca of many who will come to catch one last glimpse of scenes ?f the long ago. t " " My favorite success story concerns Tony, the bootblack at Grand Cen tral (ation.J He is 70 and has been shining shoes 50 years. Any fellow who holds one job 50 years no matter what, seems a great success to me. J25 Years Ago (From The Guard of. May 29, 1900) VTUDIES in the university and k public schools ceased . today, and now for examination. , Judge Potter returned today after a trip to, Cottage Grove. Mrs. AV. J,. Cheshire left today for Scottsburg to visit iier parents. Mr. nnd Mrs. Charles Henderson of Salem are in Eugene for a few days, visiting relatives. Born, at Moscow, Idaho,, a daugh ter, Nina Kathleen, to Prof, and Mrs. H. T. Condon. Grandpa Wilkins is nil smiles today over bis new honors, but Pi'nfpsnnr t VinHnn in baa ilia m - m . - quite considerately. w m m C. H. Park left today for the Bo hemia mining district. F George Lee is a visitor in the city from Cottage Grove. . "Workmen are preparing to move the Da vies building to the rear of the lot. In Lighter Vein nvr is 0R P" pork b, this 8 th' community; Is irresistible. Watch for Mr. Happ Party DANCE At. Noti, Sat. Night! Music by Mrs. Simpson' Orchestra EVERYBODY WELCOME The Installment Baby (Saturday Evening Post) 'T just paid the doctor another ten dollars on his bill." "Oh, goody! two" more payments and the baby's ours." Sore Vexed (London Morning Post) A class was asked in a Sunday school examination to give the mean ing of the word "Sclah." For a while no answer was forthcoming. Then a small hoy diffidently held up his hand. "Well?" said the examiner, hopefully. "Please, sir," said the lad, "that's what David used to say whenever be broke one of the strings on his harp!" No Below Zero (Washington Cougars Paw) SOPH But I don't think I deserve an absolute zero. PROF. Neither do I. hut it is the lowest mark that I am allowed If, give. -j I $15-50" to SAN FRANCISCO Stage Terminal Phone 1860 Wher Quality Counts Call Tho A Phone 450-V Rud. Vlnecnt 437 Lawrence St Lives Unselfishly Offered The few humble words that we can offer In praise of t who so folfj shly gave the ver greatest of all gifts, ml 8,T' for a mere principle in which they had faith, are so mesf" In comparison with their magnanimity that wc mwiu'e write them. Yet this humble praise, if it hut slightly tat1 those who felt the loss, is offered with wholehearted esrnsl ness: Let the place In eternity of those who (iird for the cause of their country bn higher than ours, for they died that we might prosper happy. U. S. NATIONAL BAN K 5i? Bank of Service EUGENEIOAN SAVINGS BANK Zfie Bank for Savings CHIROPRACTIC Its . growth and success merits your Investigation, Headache, high blood pressure, rheumatism. u bowell trouble are cured by scientifically t1"""" principles of Chlropractio with elcctrotlieiaW. Phone 355 J DR. GEO. A. SIMON OVER PENNEY'S STORE , J) ENDOWMENT FUND COUPON . ... imH For your contribution to 'the American Legion fun" ' and orphans of veterans, and Doernbecher Memorm children. , AMKRICAN' LEGION', Eugene, Oregon I want to help. I enclose my check for NAME Address Fill In this coupon and mail It to The Euge " , It In to the office. liHl Willamette Street. !" c to The American Legion.