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j a Page Four THE EUGENE GUARD THE EUGENE GUARD Ati Independent afternoon nowspspsr published dlly exoept Sunday. PAUL R. KELTY, Editor EUOKNB S. KELTY, Business Manager Offloes 1037-1041 Willamette Street Telephone 1200 The Eugene Ouard Is a member of tie Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise cred ited In this paper and uIbo the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dlpatches herein are also roservod. The Eugene Guard Is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. Publicity at the University. THIS newspaper believes that nil business which the board of regents of the University of Oregon trans acts at its sessions is public business and that the public is legally and morally entitled to full information con cerning it. It believes the board of regents has no justi fication for excluding newspaper reporters from its sessions. Following the May meeting of the board of regents, and subsequent tardy disclosures concerning some fac ulty changes therein decreed but covered up, The Guard charged that information had been witbeld from the public by the university. ' It charged that the custom ihad been generally followed of excluding newspaper reporters from the board's meetings, and of giving out only such information concerning its proceedings as the ?i i i i: c:i i r i, ., ,,,! ! university uumuiiHiriiLiuu buw hi. iu givu uui, uuiugun 'that responsibility for this policy rested with the board lof regents. ( Tho charges wero denied. Senator Fred Fisk, of IHjUgUllC, US tl muillinu Ul. IIIU UUdlU, lit 1. wiiiumiiiufiLiwu 'to The Guard, said: Tho rodents neither at this mooting nor at any mooting havo "c:;ei clued a coiiBorahlp over tho news that is given out con cerning their proceedings or authorized giving the press mislead ing 'canned' statomenta regarding those proceedings." At this meeting, the board' met, transacted their businoss with no thought of publicity or non-publicity, did their duty as they saw it, ad journed and went homo. At no time during the session was the board in executive session, consequently anyone so desiring could have been present. But at the June meeting, held last Monday, the first subject disoussed was whether or not reporters should be 'allowed in tho room. Ono momber contended that no reporter should bo allowed in any meeting of tho board, and declared that tho newspapers of Oregon were sat isfied with such formal statements givon them following the jneetings as had customarily boon given. Soveral iregonts, including Governor Pierco, advocated open meet ings. Tho reporters stayed temporarily. The board iproceeded with a fow matters of routine, and then came down to the business of faculty relations and staff changes. Eegent C. E. Woodson moved that tho board go into executive session. There was no dissenting voice. The reporters wero asked to withdraw and wero told that as soon as tho executive session was ended they would .be readmitted. They were not readmitted, and the news papers obtained their information as to the business transacted in a statement from the administration sec retary, as always. The (iunrd is quite well content to let tho public judge ao to whether its charges that tho proceedings of the bonrd of regents are not open to the public, made follow ing the May meeting, havo been borno out by the course of events at tho Juno meeting. For itself it thinks those charges are completely borno out. There arc closed ses sions and there is a censorship. v The Urge of the Wanderlust w3l--S i'm GeTtvn' Trap op This ol ! 3L&z5S? CivSK? HOLE - FlBsT I rteT feV55 waste, utter uselessners that con thing about it, probably at its next session. N1 Mexico is a backwnrd country because its peoplo are backward. They havo not had tho initiative neces sary to push tho development of their vast natural re sources. Americans, who havo that initiative and are not backward, havo seen great opportunities in Mexico and have seized them. Tho result is that many of Mexico's great industries are in American hands. Among tho more, intelligent Mexicans this situation is, not un naturally, viewed with somo apprehension. Thoy won der, doubtless, how much further American acquirement of industrial control in their country is to go. This is tho real basis for t.ho ill feeling which has so long boen manifest between tho two countries. There is mutual distrust. Tho remedy is not easy to mako out, nor is thcro prospect of improvement in the situation. In their efforts to secure location of tho Southern Facifio carshops and terminal, in accordance with plans launched a number of years ago, tho peoplo of Spring field aro well within their rights. In their efforts to obtain the shops and terminal for this city, t.ho people or JMigcno aro on equally sound ground of right. It is, or should ho, purely and solely a question of competition I. i . 4K 4 L' 1-11 , . . r .... ni-ini-t.-ii iiia nvtj uii.u"n inr n ingmy ai'sirca prize. I liere is no occasion for ill feeling in the matter, or for charges of ullorior motivcB or bad faith on either side. We of Eugeno nnd Springfield hnvo to live neighbors to each other. AVo ought to keep on neighborly terms. Fneh side to tho present competition ought to coneedn to the other fairness of thought and of motive. The effort is not in tho hands of unworthy men on either side. The running of so popular a feature as "The Flap per no" in a newspaper entails a pretty heavy weight of responsibility on tho carrier boys. Most any tVm-i inino reader is convinced in her own mind that imyi carrier boy who misses her house even onco these dnvV ought to undergo something pretty grave in the line of punishment. pir;:etuated rather than extinguished. liy discouruKluK liiutrltuouy among an exceptional type of women we aro guilty of a crime uKuiust posterity. Thin is especially true when it is re membered tluit 1 lie birth rate mining feeble-minded Hid incompetent peo ple is high ami tile birtli rule among the most competent proplu is declin ing. Take any reprenenUtlvo list of a thousand peoplo who havo uttniued distinction in the United Status and you will find that inuro of them were born of preacher and touelior parents than of ptirents engaged in nny other prnfeasion or occupation. The cilroer of a minister or of a teacher requires far moro self-sacrifice than a career1 uf profit-making in industry or busi ness, and tliosu who have elected to devote their liveB to the prciulling and teaching profession have moral qualities fur above the averjg". These uiorttl qualities, as well as the intelli gence involved, imply a heredity of unusual worth. The minister's son ana tho professor's son have a better average' chance lor sueeoas in indus try, business, finuueo or uny other reputable liiiu of worldly endeavor than the sous of atiyuuu else. 'DiU better average chance is due to then average hign heredity. The initiate ages lost somu of their best and gentlest biood becausu of tho celibacy imposed upon monks, the only teachers in tiiul turbulent era. Today wo lnipoio celibacr upun no one large class of people except school inaams, but the luturc would be bet ter off if we would rliuuso all inferior type lor what amounts to sterilization. School boards represent the finest aspiration of tlie Ainericun civic com munity the unselfish aspiriiliou to educate all the children in the com munity, regardless of race, color or parentage. The school board should bo the lirst to encourage matrimony linu maternity mi Ilia part of u class of women who are exceptionally qualified to become mothers of nil ex ceptional posterity. There are uiuny difficulties involv ed in the siltiutiou, hut tiio way to meet thu.se difficulties i not the crude method uf the Eugene school buardf wllero by urbitary discrimination against married teachers it excludes from a noble protrusion ull who wouU fulfill the noblest obligation of womanhood. BOSSES AWAY; REAL "WORK DONE Washington Officials Generally Flee Hot Weather, Leaving Labor To Various Underlines By CJIAHLK8 P. STEWART (XEA Service Writer) WASHINGTON, June 17. Nobody homo, Tliut'a what the hot wea ther rulu iu Washington the almost invuriiiblu rule, su tar us persons of the BlighUut importance ore concern ed uf t lie slightest impurtnuce offi cially or socia.'iy. Tii ere probity isn't another city in th world which empties itself so completely during the summer. For olio tiling, it's mighty hut. For au otiier, it's the faction. Not but what government business goes un ns usual, but it a transacted by asiflstants. They underdluiid it better, on un average, than the department beau. Many of them have spent iifctiines iu the juhs they imndle. Their bosses are jiit Herviiig comijuralively short poli tical terms. As tot actual scconipUshment, there doubileya is moro of it right now Ihun with all the impreMme chiefs vu hata to butt into matters they're unt'amil iarwith. lint if, for some reason, or other, you do want to see one jf these exalted individuals, his office in Washington's the Inst place where you're likely to find him at present. Tiy liar harbor, Newport, Atlantt City, back home, almost any place except here. You simp.y will be wast ing tim bothering with (be capital. i According to the puprrs, about M Irtuling universities and college& sought to "hoR,r" Tresideut Coolidge on their respective commence tneut days by conferring academic degrees on him If they were so anxious to "honoi him, why didn't they ko nhend nnd do their conferrim;? Itut it's to bo noted that, in almost every instance, the degree was contingent on the presi dent's appearance in person to re ceive it. Why? Were the universities afraid they might "huor'' the wrong presi dent unlesB they had the only genu grens simply will have to do tome hand, duly identified, mugged and tbuinhpriuted? Not a bit of it. What they bad in mind wasn't so much "honoring" any body as ndvcrt.isng, and not advertis ing Tresident Coolidge, either. The iinirersititK wanted the presi dent just as e icli wants a crack foot ball team to mtke a splash for it self with. The president is half a dozen times a "LL.D." anyway. Evidently he didn't consider it necessary to have it rubbed in by an additional score of universities, for he accepted none of the latest batch of invitations to be "honored." When Secretary of Commerce Hoover called recently for a reor ganization, recliusificntion and sim plification, together with quite on ex tensive exteminntion, of the govern ment's almost innumerable bureaus, boards and commissions, "employing several hundred thousand people, di rectly under the president, directly under congress, or thrown hodge-; pudge into 10 different executive de partments'" when Secretary Hoovir did this, be outlined a job to make the hardiest politician shudder. The present system just "growed." bit by bit, until the war, during whi?h and ever since which, it has "growed" like a 1,000,000-horsepower much room, Its complications are inexpress ible. Compared with taking it apart, scrapping a lot of it and putting it together scientifically, destroying the whole government nnd creating a new one would be cusy. Besides, every stage of the work would be fought tooth and nnil by of ficials, fearful of losing their jobs or a mite of imprtnnce. However, Hoover so fully made out his case duplication, inefficiency. According to tho Astoria Rmljit tho stnto fish com mission is about to dismiss J I ugh Mitchell, supervisor of hntcheries. Quito likely. Sueh n movo would ho in furtherance! of tho lilninlv nnninvnl ili.l..i-..i;,.i;.. ... ..: 1 . ,' ; ' . i- un , , Anyhow. MiuMilhin h ui C.1I1IU1IMHI..U mm mi us woiks OI BllVOOUV WlU) knows .ins to b- Wn oil his sunrd. II il V . 1. ...k 1. t " HIlVllllII (1 IK ill l JIMl. 1 a Insuro Potnr Titles. i (New York World) An mi Arctic explorer. lonald It. MucMilUti is a puuKnt persou. He doe a not propose to take any un ueeesHSiy chuuees after he starts north. So he has asked the state de partment to let him know in ml v a nee exactly where it will tit mm in case he discovers nu' unexplored c ntinent. A Canadian minister the other day announced t hut t it inula clamu d nu immense stretth of unoccupied terri imv Ivmif imrth ot its aeeeoted luitm- d.i iii's us Ht.owu i'n tne map. It in i ; pretty big order, for t'auad lias n t nvttled or surveyed (he laud, mid tor: that matter is not sure how much . laud it pretends to own in the Aictic: region or how much of it m.iy turn out to be just ice. It is m t a question uf ilituiniiK everyihittg in Might but ti : cbiuiiing tt great ileal which imtm.y J litis eer seen, nnd mill more bejoild. i That is whit bothers MacMibau, ! ami be wishes the beit expert advice, that can be had. Suppose he is the' actual discoverer of an unknown c-'ii- linout will it be Canada's, or his t j plant the American Hag on? Will he j be trespassing, or is it anybody's country, if it exists, for nemg the fuel! to fin.l it Y The mate department has not de cided yet. It is not an easy problem f where there are no clear precedents EVOLUTION A PRIMITIVE BODY By Percy W. Cobb, B. S., M. D. In New York By JAMES W. DKAN EW l'OKK, Juno 17. Most New Yorkers are Just rush mad. They rush when there is nothing to rush for. This is especially so of the com muters. They may have 15 minutes m which to catch their trains at the Urand Central or the l'enn-sylvania, but they run tn rough the depots. When a ferry lands at tho Battery people, who have taken the ride to cool off, rush up the gangplanks and to the subways as though they were going to a fire although they have j the rest of the evening to reach their homes. The result is that they lose all oenent 01 ineir coonug uut nu-. Each morning and evening there is a stampede at the ferries to and froin the Jersey depots. There is no pa: ticular reason for this rushing. It just seems to bo in the blood. . 0 m m One indoor sport that flourishes in all sorts of weather is dancing. A new public dunce, hall seems to opsn here every week and several of the larger ones broadcast half an hour of their music over the radio once or twice a week to give prospective pa trons a sample of their orchestra' worth. Several chains of dance balls are being projected, with various or chestras rotatiuu over a nation-wid vircuit. The backers of this plan be lieve that people would rather pay 50 cents or a dollar to entertain them selves than several dollars to be en tertained in a theater. , These are hard days for vaudeville booking agents. The heat keeps peo ple from the theater and house man agers are generally in a fault-finding mood. This results in 'the conciliation of bookings fur many acts, especially the higherpriccd ones. One of the most successful booking agents is a woman, much of her success being due to the fact that she is a woman. am told that when she fails to book an act in a vaudeville house she will sit in the manager's office and cry until be books the act to get rid of her. t Signs: One on the rear of a passing auto "If you'rs close enough to read this sign, you're, too close." On a Broadway corner where the thermometer reads 100 in the shade "Do you know that it is now summer time in Miami, Kla. V On a house on Long Island "Pete and children boarded during the sum mer," Much of this talk of tho high cost of living is unfounded. 1 know a photographic printer who won $500 in a baseball pool and celebrated by buying a new outfit of clothes. He purchased a suit of clothes with two pairB of trousers, a straw hat, a pair of shoes nnd a necktie at a total cost of $17.75. Asked how he did it, ne answered, 'It all depends on how you shop. Most poor people pay for their pride by going to stores where rica people go." Howell's Comment The latest roernit to tho stnff of tho defense in the Reopes euso is Thoinns A. Ellison. If this thing keeps up tho roster of tho defense will (soon look like nn edition of "Who's Who in America. " Postoffico box rentnls in Eugeno nre to be advanced. Oh well, we would take on metropolitan growth and airs. COMMENT OF THE PRESS nski the government to search an-! insure title to any unknown continent hf f. iy itht in the direction of th- 1r hnhr in horn In Aumt it In mor Hkelv to live than if it w born: TV 10RK conturto ..' ih. .ImnlA nnl ord show. room sod sitting room with wireless. He will have to do better thsn that. ' ... Know tha Cigar . (Punch) A new lire'alarm rings when oper sted by the smoke of a cigar. We don't know this fire slsrm intimate, ijr. but we think we know the cigar. Australia Welcomes Our Fleet. (Smith's Weekly, Sydney) It is stated that the American sail ors' orders are not to go Into the hotels. We hope they won't be carried When the American eallor siks for R drink it will be no use giving him a soft answer. American gunners will sink a few stliooners in Sydney, Americsn slogan for the fleet visit: "Never say dry." ... " Cure for Conceit. (Philadelphia Record) Blobbs That fellow Singleton is a most self-sufficient ass. I wonder if there is anything that would take the conceit out of him? Slobbs Goiug to his own wedding might. He Took a Chance (Philadelphia Bulletin) The late Guernsev Mnnm. th wail- known artist, disliked illustrations that did not accurately follow the test they were supposed to Illustrate. . "I was talking to a famous illus trator the other day," Mr. Moore said in . Germantown, "and I asked him this question: " 'Penn. u'hat in th mnwt ki... esting story you ever illustrated?' " 'Dunno,' said Penn. 'Never read any of 'em.' " i Wednesday Evening, JttB, 17 - t' f ' U iJi kllirlSi ill il) Eugene's Bad Eugenics. (Oregon Voter) A step harkwnrd was taken by the school board of r ugene in ruling thai ffereafter married women will not )e employed as leather.. Ponming the Amerlrsn tchonlina'am to celibacy l depriving the future of the fruit uf her potential mnlirnlly, a serious Iom to the rare. The Inherlud iiunlitiri if mind aud rbarnoter hicti euelilf her to succeed !n her vmaiicp are of the chnlreet strain and should be A THOUGHT 1 ay to every man that is among you, not to think more highly of hinmelf Hum he ought to think. Hoiimne l-:ll. ... It is (he admirer of hiumelf, and not the iilinlrer of virtue, nlio tliiuki him.ett auperwr to otliere. I'lutsrrh. pasod. The bottoms hei-anie ihivk with the simple animals of Pr Camhrian timos. eighty or more mil lion years bko. The search for food, exifltem-o Itself, bomme a strugitlo In which the fittest seemed to survive. To exist, to survive thronah this struKglw. tho animals hogun to develop more efficient methods for obtaining food, to build up organs for otfonse and dofense, to organize mtins for protection. The animals boann to put dofinite colls aside to perform deflnlie duties, nil to combine In the one purpose of survival ami self presorvntlon. The simplest form of such progress is demonstrated. In tho llydrn. a bright green, plant-like animal about half an inch Ion, with Its organ and cells set aside for definite duties Clinslnit bv lis base to green plant stem, almost Indistinguishable from It. the. Hydra stretches out a rroup of waving tentacles. Thev grasp Its proy and injoct the victim Into its mouth. Its young bud from Its stem and grow like thlr parent. iiv,mptDK off t maturity to seek a new location. By CHESTER H. HOWELL VVHI niako any point of the "houest ' differences of opinion" on this Tennessee evolution muddle? Of course there nre such differ ences. But what of it? It is not tiio "honesty" of an opin ion, but its intelligence that makes it valuable. If some highly virtuous person who never saw your house chooses to sup pose that it has nine Tooms, while the swearing, tobacco-chewing carpet layer wiio measured nil the rooms knows that it has only seven, what have the good habits of the ono or the foul mouth of the other to do with the value of their opinions? One knows and the other doesn't. And the opinion of one man who knows is worth more than that of .1 million who do not. If those who know the facts nre agreed, he who would have his dis agreement considered should fint qualify with like knowledge. Certaiuly, those who do not know what evolution is, now how the con clusions regarding it were reached who, like Mr. Bryan, do not evi-n know what "hypothesis" means, and think it is the same thing as "guess," or who think that "theory" is the op posite of "fact" and "truth" are not equipped to hnve their "opinions." however "honest," weighed against the practically unnniinous view ol ex perienced observers. . In Lighter Vein How Ho Knew . (Philadelphia Bulletin) He's been sittin' there ull day, doin' nothiu' but wnstiug time." "How do you know?" "Heoause I've been sittin' here I watehin' him." . A Real Need (Dayton News) What we really need is less miles per hour rather than more miles per gallon. ... Surprised (Motor MRgazine) The motorist wis quite certain he hod not been exceeding the speed limit, so he was astonished when the village cop held up his hand and brought him to a standstill. "fay." protested the driver. "I wasn't doing more than ten miles an hour. I swear it." 1 "Oh, that's ell right!" replied the i I officer; "but I'd be obliged if you'd ! I lend me a drop of gasnliuc. I m going j to s wedding tomorrow and I want to clean my gloves. ; ... You Might With Soma (Science and Invention) Con The radio will never take the place of newspapers. I'enser Why? 1 t on You can't start a fire with a' railio set. ... The Liberators Keith Preston in t'liicagn News) ' Among our liberty scenes, Saddest this figiit to me; j Tlie graves of little mag.uines j That died to make verse free. t ... ( The New Royalty 1 (Punch) I A resident of S'oke N'ewington. ad- i vertiing f r a domestic servant, sn-:n-'.n,e that there is no washing, no cooking, no windows, no knives, no; 1 boots, no youug clr.ldreu. 00 bed- U If r-e Jr-'.'il t 25 Years Ago From Thn ftiiarrl nf .fun If lonn HPHE following are the Eugene dele- World district convention which con venes in Med ford. Wednesday: M. S. Barker, C. M. Kissenger. W. C. Yor an, Frank Gilstrap, C. S. Hunt, L. O. Beckwith, C. S. Farrow, W. M. Green. MrH. F. M Willrina fAturmssyl he.m. today from Moscow, Idaho, where ehe had gone to visit Prof, and Mrs. H. T. Condon. Policeman CVnupr nnr) fnmllu ora home from Frissell's. The framework nf thn nav P?ncron sawmill at the west end of thm hnrta is nearly up. Mrs. H. N. f!nnltrliTiA xcotif tn Al bany for a visit this afternoon. Mrs. Af. TV Wntto want t Pref1snr! yesterday afternoon, to be gone for a few days visiting. The nrevailinff rains urn hnrd nn th crop of cherries. Al Kuykendall has rented the Hol- den cyclery and will at once open up tor business. TIMBER 0lNJeN YV " NN thtt h wlU b9 hom, , dinner fx h. know, sotag to get a roast that was purchased at this "hop. The menfolk, of this town are beoomm. acquainted with the tM that we sell meats to their liking. Watch foe Mr, H,ppy Party I Tom Sims Says- gOMETIMES a man gets so mad he quits being a hypocrite for a few hriof minutes. . Marry a manicurist If rou eet anv fun out of ploying hands. There are sermons in stones, and large stone in a ring gives a girl the right to preach. The college boys are back home again for their vacations. Three months is a long time to stay sober. m w One thine you have which very few of your friends can get is a phone number. You can't trust some people out of jour sight, You can't trust others un til they nre out of your sight. Who remembers when the age of discretion was the parentage? m V W These June college graduates had better admit it to their bosses before it is discovered. The burning question of the day now is the sun. : few The world's a stage. Dodge the exits as long as you can. RUSSELL'S SHOP Hrmatitchinit and nicotinz. Beards. Soti Willamette. Phone 1090. jyO Can Give QUICK SERVICE on Cupboards, Doors, Screens Quality and Price Right Terrell-Voigt Planing Mill " 1th and Pearl Phone .122-R V3K DANCE Hard Time Vsneta Saturday, June 20 Put on your old clothes. Let's all go! Snappy Eugene Musio HOTEL ASTOD 2nd A Hill Los AntslttA Every Room has Prlvats Tslla B0 Baths New, Modsra CIobs to Shopping District u4 Theatres Free Garage Tariff fram l Valley Printing Co. New Location, Stanley BIdj. WEDDING AND BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL PRINTING FOR QUICK 8ERVICE CALL 470 LANDSCAPING Lawn seeding Stone Work Sprinkling Systems Laid House and Root Repairing Work Guaranteed Chas. B. Denison Phone 7761 Is Your Kiddie Going to the University? That question may seem a little far fetched to be asked no, so many years in ailvanco. Yet boforo you are aware 01 i you. will be face to face with tho problom of paying fees, student body fees and the hundred and one lltue on that make a University education so expensive. There is one" plan, if unflinchingly adhered to, that trffl remove any element of uncertainty over this ""- p a "college fund" for your Bon or daughter regularly. $4 a week will magically turn into $112i.3 " " years. $5.00 into $1401.73. Make a deposit today, im -be tho guardian of your kid'dles' education fund. U. S. NATIONAL . B A N K Zihe Bonk of Service EUGENE, LOAN f SAVINGS BANK. Zne BonA for Savings CHIROPRACTIC Its growth and succobs merits your investigation. j Headache, high blood pressure, rheumatism. J?tuJt U l bowell trouble are cured by scientifically co-oraiu principles of Chiropractic with electro-tberspy. Phone 335-J DR. GEO. A. SIMON I OVER PENNEY'S STORE 3 1 - 1