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THE EUGENE GUAED
THE EUGENE GUARD
An Independent afternoon newspaper published dilly except 8unday.
PAUL R. KELTY, Editor EUQKNE IS. KELTY. Business Manager
Offices 1037-1041 Willamette Street
Telephone 1200
The Eugene Guard Is a member or the Associated Proas. The
Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publica
tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise cred
ited In this paper and ulso the local news P'-bllBlicd herein. All
rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Eugene Guard la a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
WKUXESUAV, JUNE IU.
Frothings Will Not Help.
NOBODY in Eugciin is nttemptinp; excuses for the
Eugene, effort to bring about locution of tho South
ern Pneifie comnnnv's division shoos find terminal hero.
It is not, in the Eugene viewpoint, an effort that needs
excuse. There, has been, by those who initiated the ef
fort and who have carried it thus far, a irank and open
statement of what has been done, wliv it has been done
and how. For opponents of the project in Springfield
or elsewhere to pretend that the effort docs not repre
eent the views and the desires of tins business, com
munity is puerile. At a largely attended meeting of
the members of the Eugene chamber of commerce there
was unanimous indorsement of what has been done thus
far and of what it is proposed to do further in the
matter.
There is effort to pretend that Eugene has incurred
the "wrath of the "Willamette vnlley" by the project.
There is the statement that "the state press condemns"
the Eugene action. It is just pretense. Three critical
comments aro cited in support of the pretense as to the
press; two by Salem papers and one by an Albany paper.
Neither the motive nor the animus of these is obscure
'to those who have followed recent comparative develop
ments in AVillametto valley cities. Eugene is growing
pretty fast and the papers of its neighbor cities are not
' unmindful of the statistics. Thus far there has been no
criticism by a newspaper published in any wholly dis
interested city. But if any do develop they will signify
nothing important. The issue is between Eugene and
Springfield. They, with the Southern Pacific company,
aro tho solo parties at interest.' One Snlem newspaper
began with tho ohargo that real estate speculation in
land contiguous to the Eugene project by individuals
furthering the effort, was tho impelling motive. Every
body who knows anything about the matter knows that
chargo is completely false. Even the originator of the
libel abandoned it in a' subsequent article.
This newspaper has said and it now repeats that in
'its opinion Eugene is within its legal and moral rights
in this contest. So is Springfield. Neither will gain
anything for itself by descending to false accusations
and revilings. Frothings will not help.
A Hardy Perennial
A Coming Tax Conference.
THE western states taxpayers' conference has been
called to meet in Portland August 25-26 next. The
prospect, according to a circular letter sent out by the
president, Paul B. McKee, of Medford, is for a large
attendance. The conference includes twelve states west
of the Kocky mountains. Each state organization con
ducts its own study of taxnliou and administration prob
lems during the year. Then tho general convention is
held for an interchange of ideas and action.
The declared purpose of the conference is to encour
age co-operation among tho western stales in tho fur
therance of their mutual efforts to establish the greatest
possible economy consistent with efficiency in tho expen
diture of public money. That is a worthy and highly
laudable purpose. Its pursuit by an organization of
(scope so widespread ought to produce something in the
way of results beneficial to tho taxpayer. Maybe it will.
Tho plan of the treasury department to appoint an
enforcement officer, two assistants, a chemist nnd n
lawyer for each of 22 new enforcement districts to be
created over the country, apparently bears out tho recent
unofficial gossip from Washington to tho effect that the
administration recognized thnt federal prohibition was
not proving as effective ns it ought to bo doing. Pro
hibition enforcement has proved to be a herculean job,
and it is evident tho federal government intends to at
tack it on that basis.
Tho Princo of Wales ushered in his thirty-first
birthday anniversary dancing and kept it up tho rest
of tho night. The momentous news comes to us bv As
Koeiated Press cablegram from Johannesburg, South
Africa, which is the present fleeting seeno of the prince's
skylarking activities. Tho prince's royal grandfather
! never did get past the skylarking nge, although he lived
to be quite an old man. It begins to look as if the pres
ent prince, skylarking at 31, may emulate him.
Fire starting at 2 A. M. completely destroyed the
plant of the Prinoville Central Oregonian. By breakfast
time its editor, K. II. Jonas, had completed his arrange
ments nnd announced that his paper would bo issued
on Thursday, the regular weekly publication day, as
usual. Thnt is action.
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lies In
confer.
the power of New York to
The two-day-old mule coll of Pilot Hock, swept four
miles down n canyon by cloudburst nnd returned un
harmed to its mother the next day, will have something
to heo-baw about to its little grand-nieces and grand
nephews nt story-telling hour in the years to come.
Thirty-six Eugene students nt tho University of
Oregon received honor grades in tho latest reports is
sued. It's in the atmosphere.
"With retirement by the president to the seabeaeh
nt Swiimpsvott, Mass., the vacation season in America
may be said to be fairly on.
COMMENT OF THE PRESS
Religion and Business.
(Christina Bulence Monitor)
A magnzine devoted to the Amer
ican lumber industry would not, on
the surface, be a channel which one
would expect to see utilized aft a pur
ieyor of religious sentiments. Hence,
if it were not fur the fact that reli
gion, or perhaps one ought rather to
say morality, is coming more and,
more to be recognized as a really
necessary ingredient of business prop
erly conducted, (he presence of an
article entitled "Mixing Religion With
Business" in the American Lumber-
man might arouse surprise. "Service
to one's fellow man is a cornerstone
alike of religion nnd of business," this
article reads in part. And it refers in
passing to the recent formation of an
organization in Kansas City, Mo.,
styled tho Christian Business Men 3
federation, "the primary aim of vhuh
as act forth in iu declaration of prin
ciples, is "to aid men in searching o it
and applying the laws of God in all
commercial reunions." Such indica
tions are in the highest degree prom
ising. As the article in question says
in conclusion: "After all, tho direction
in which we are traveling, and the
fact of progress, are of greater im
portance tli iin the rale of progress"
Highway Slfjns.
((Bend Bulletin)
The state highway department is
forehanded. Already it has had the
various highway signs lowered to
meet the new conditions which will Ve
brought about by tho change in tieai
lights which will be made in August.
On the city streets, however, it scp'jis
to A good many that a mistake has
been made. There is sufficient Hg.it
on the corners where these aigns are
to make the lower signs unnecessary
and, at the height they aro, the signs
arc dangerous to children.
Highway Markings
(The PnllfR Chronicle)
The statQ highway department lias
eliminated one of the main causes
of auto accidents by painting lines in
the center of the pavement on curves
between here and Portland.
Motorists must May within the
space allotted by the lines. When this
is done it is virtually impossible for
two cars to crash on ft turn.
Tho highway markings also serve
ns a constant reminder that one must
nay ou one's own sido of tho road.
Before tho pavement was painted
there was the constant temptation to
"cut corners," especially when one
was in a hurry to get gomowherc. Al
so it was not uncommon to see drivers
pass other cars on tho turns. Many
an accident resulted from this prac
tice. Tho state highway department in
doing everything in its power to make
Oregon roads safe for careful motor
iMs. If automobile owners would only
rcHpond by exercising but a moderate I
amount, of caution there would be no
more of the roadside tragedies which
almost weekly occur.
A Very Great Need.
(West Talm Bench Vost)
One thing the world needs is 'in
amplifier for the still, small voice.
A Southern View.
(I'otumbia State
"lie washes the city's linen," a,ts
The New York World of one of the
burbling officials ot Mnntmtsn. Kr "t
what we have read of that "linen"
we had come to the concluion that !t
never is washed.
Hitman Enterprise.
(New Orleans Time a-Ticayune)
Certain manufacturers boast th vt
they can rut a car together In seven
minutes. That s nothing. A fool drl
nnft n tree can take one apart in twt
seconds,
A Likable Girl
Atchison ilbe
Everybody likes a certain young wo
man of Atrhljion She's homely, he
knows she's homely, and she doesn't
worry about it.
RAILROAD FAILURE HELD MYSTERY
Congress to Try to Find Out What Really Happened to St. Paul
Railroad
By CHAKLES 1 STEWAKT
fXKA Hervice Writer)
YVA SLH I NO TO N, June 24. Mystery
in the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. l'aul railroad failure V A good'
many public men think so.
So much so that it probably will "ie
congressionally investigated next win
ter. Bankers' influence is suspected
an attempt to freeze out the smaller
fry.
Otherwise bow could so great and
prosperous a system go on the rocks
so suddenly?
"No myatery at all," aays B. F.
Yoakum, dean of the country's big
transportation men.
"The St. Paul road," he continued,
"grew great and rich with the growth
of the great, rich, agricultural middle
northwest. But its territory was lim
ited. "Finally a time come when thj
management realized it must expand,
build to the Pacific, Otherwise it Jn
eviubly was going to bo swallowed up
by other powerful roads which wcro
readier to do so."
"In the light of what now is past
history," said the veteran railroad
man, "we can see that it would have
been better if the St. Paul hadn't done
thin, but it was impossible to tell in
advuuee what was about to happen.
The extension, of course, was expen
sive. "To meet its cost it was necessary
for the road to have a thriving traffic
over its new line. And just nt this
juncture, his 'prosperity props were
knocked from under the farmer.'
'The answer to tho puzzle is per
fectly plain. It'ia, as Operating Ki
ceiver II. K. By rum concisely and
accurately puts it, "Depressed agri
culture.
"He adds, 'On western railroads
agricultural products form a tnucli
larger proportion of the total tonnage
than on roads serving other sections
of the country. "
"llallrood and farm prosperity aro
interdependent. Impoverishment of
cither means improverlshment of the
other. A decrease In the farmer's pur
chasing power means reduced incomeB
to the stockholders,
''Railroad managers appreciate the
vait difference between the farmer's
power to buy only the scant supplies
of what he mint have and his ability
to buy all he ought to have. To rail
roads it means the difference betweon
big steady earnings and much reduced
earnings the difference between
prosperity and hard times.' '
"No railroad nerving an agricul
tural section, with prosperous farm
ers as its patrons, will suffer, under
any conditions, a serious loss of re
venue. Jf the farmers have money,
their patronage will offset other ad
verse conditions that may overtake
the railroads.
"No other favorable conditions will
offset the railroad losses inevitable
from agricultural depression."
"Never was there a better illustra
tion of this than the story of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
With farm prosperity, it grew, by de
grees, into a system of towering
strength In the transportation worli,
serving a splendid country and indus
trial communities.
"With farm depression from the
Height of its strength, In a few year,
a receivership.
"And the point of this, story is:
The railroads need fear neither loss
nor criticism by helping not finan
ciallyto establish a national syste:a
of marketing tinder which the farmer
will be insured his justifiable share
of the prices paid by the last buyer of
his goods the ultimate consumer.
"On the contrary, they will aid
greatly in eliminating both by friend
ly co-operation with the fanner."
I In New York I
By JAMES W- DEAN
VEW YORK. June 24. See-sawine
1 11.1 tt.wl flnu-n llrnartn-nr 1 caw
Fred O'Brien, the tsle weaver, far,
far from the South sens, and in the
midst of one of our very best heat
waves he remarked that he was home
sick for a really worm day in the
tropica Saw Benny Leonard,
the boy who quit boxfighting because
his mother wanted him to, and a mean
hoof he was shaking in a Charleston
in the cellar cabaret called "The
Everglades" Saw Stuart Sher
man. In bulk and brawn he app'earB
moro like a wrestler thnn the moun
tain of erudition he in and from which
springs such erudite book criticism. I
am told that since he came from Il
linois he has learned to play poker
-EVOLUTION-
THE FROG'S HISTORY
By Percy W. Cobb, B. S., M. D. .
. ,
with Don Marquis and other members
of "The Inside Straight Club"
Saw Sinclair Lewis, progenitor of
veore V. B-hhit. and metbinks his
hair groweth redder and redder eacii
year Say Clarence uarrow, urn
noted barriater, abroad in our streets
and he do have a nervous habit of
snapping hia suspenders and yanking
up his trousers as be talks saw
Samson Itophaelsen, whose name you
will know next fall when his first
play is produced and .be tells me the
worry over its accepton.ee by the pub
lic ia greater than over its probable
boxoffice success...... Saw Art
Youns. the cartoonist, and he seems
to me to be the youngest old man in
all the town, exer having fresh enthu
siasms and bis eye and hand always
open to the promising youngster
taw Peter B. Kyne, back trom Eu
rope, and bis sister was visiting from
California and neither knew the which
of the other Saw Fay Templi-
ton, back on the old street otter all
these years and radiantly happy be
cause an audience hnd given her a
fine welcome Say Godfrey Lud
low, the Australian violinist who plays
over the air on Sunday evenings. I do
tike his fiddling better than that of
any other fiddler except the incom
parable Fritz Kreisler...;,.
He is first cellist in one of the
town's, foremost theaters. He has
studied in Europe and is a finished
musician. He has the background, tal
ent nnd training to be a great concert
performer or a high class teacher of
inunic. But he hasn't nerve enough, to
break away from bis salaried posi
tion. And his salary, although com
fortable, doesn't permit enough sav
ings to bring independence. He ia past
50 now and it is uoubtful if his genius
ever flowers.
At Plum Island is Sheepshead Bay
is the world's shortest ferry. At low
tide the island is only two row boat
lengths from the mainland, but the
ferryman gets five cents from each
passenger.
A press agent dug up an old moth
eaten joke this week and tacked it
on one of his clients, issuing the joke
to the local papers. Since then I bava
heard the joke a dozen times and each
one who told it suggested that it
would make a good item for this col
umn since it was Broadway's latent
gag. And hero it is:
A certain actor went into a res
taurant and asked for coffee without
cream. The waiter answered, "Sorry,
Boss, we ain't got no cream, so you'll
have to take your coffee without
milk."
Wednesday Evening, June 24,1305
I 25 Years Ago
(From The Guard June 24, 1900) 1
'pHE circuit court commenced this
morning nt 0 o'clock, present
Judge Hamilton, of Hoseburg; Prose
cuting Attorney Brown of Hoseburg;
Sheriff Withers, and Clerk Lee.
J. M. Martin the owner of the
brick yard west of this city Informs
us thnt he has completed the kiln of
160,000 brick and has 100,000 yard
more molded on the yard.
One of the delivery wagons took n
epin this afternoon. The wagon turn
ed over on the horses at the T. O.
Hcndrirks lesidence. Dune Scott and
It. Seal liberated the cquines. The
wtgon was injured to the extent of a
few dollars. The horses arc about as
good as ever.
A carload of excelsior was shipped
out of town today.
. j
The Eugene Shakespeare club will
entertain for Prof. Luctla Carson this
evening at the rottar-Washi:urne res
ie'ence on Willamette street.
J. E. Young and J. R. Medley are
visiting in town from Cottage Grove.
m
Trofessor 'Washburn went to Tort
land today to address the State Med
ical society.
J. W. Shumate the Walterville post
master and merchant, is in Eugene
for today.
Tom Sims Says
waeres brothur ond Healfdenes on
Westscaxuin on DefenaBcire mid xxili
scipura; ond hlne mon thaer ofslog
ODd dOL'C monni inl.I him nn l
ua ms neres."
Already in the time of Aethelberf,
grandfather ICcjbert, and of hia father
Aethelwuff, the Norae raiders came,
and during the fifteen years of the
reiirns of himself and his two brothers
thejr overran the northern country
and harried even Weaiex.
.Not until the time of his younger
brother, Alfred the Great, was peace
made with them, and with it the foun
dation of what
v-v uiUWUl
of Ln gland.
it was a sorry reign, of which now,
thousanrl vtiri lra ...
minded by the digging up of a coffin.
In Lighter Vein j
.
Loud Speaker.
(Itudio Magazine)
Xot all til. flhRonriminilarfn... j
confined to college professors. Take
iuo ns. oi jimmy nuisiDBon, lor In
stance. The Other rinv. nn tha Kail ln.
some one asked him u'hnt ha
faster,
'Cincinnati. C.hMnrn. Tlnn.. anl
local stations," answered Jimmy,
Figures Are Correot.
(Philadelphia Sun)
Tho teacher asked the class to
write down 11 Antarctic animals, Jim
my Jones quickly wrote down his ans
wer and took his slate to the teachers
tiesk.
This was what she read: "Six seals,
four polar bears ond one walrus."
...
On Logical Woman,
(liostou. Transcript) '
Saleslady That hat makes
look ten years younger.
Customer Then it won't do. When
J took it off I should look ten years
older.
...
Answer This,
(Vikingcn, Oslo)
Jacobs Does my birthday come ou
Monday this yearV
Mother les, dear.
Jacob And last year on Sunday?
Mother Yea, dear.
Jacob Umnh! On how manr dnvs
In tho week have I been born?
. -
i Real Bribery,
(World's I'ictorial News)
She Insisted hotly that, economy or
no economy, a new frock she must
have, and hel with equal warmth, de
clinnd to produce the cash,
1 II never speak to you again! ' slie
sucried angrily.
"How like a woman." he sicheJ.
"When everything else fails you trv
tribcryl"
Financial Diagnosis.
(Buen Humor, Madrid)
"Did you ever make a wrong diag
nosis, doctor?"
Only once. I dincnosid a simnle
indigestion and found out afterward
thnt the patient was rich enough to
have had appendicitis."
Safety First.
(Dayton News)
When a man is sure he has tho
right of way thnt is a good time to
stop, look and listen.
...
The Best Instalment Plan,
(Boston Globe)
One of the best things to buy on
the instalment plan is an account at
a savings bank, i '
you
Party
i
01nr ha.mS Wl '
are eloquent appetl,!
coders. You'H tj
eating your breakfast ,
matter how early y01l ,
P your nice fre,a f1
6et acquainted with our
nperior hams and bacon,
in the meantime.
Watch for Mr. H
Party
appy
a-. Tin I
Exclusive Dealers
Office Machinery
Supply Co,
1045 Willamette St.
Phone 148
SCHR0FFS LEAVE FOR CARMELj
1'rofossor ond Mrs. Alfred H.
Schroff leave tomorrow morning by I
motor for their summer home nt Car- I
mel-by-the-Sea. California, to speud
the summer months. They will be nc- i
compnnicd by Lester F. Chaffee, of J
Amenla, North Dakotn, who will join !
hisf mother in San Francisco.
MOVED TO NEW LAW OFFICE
Attorney O. K. Immel hns been
moving into his new law office in the
First National bank building in rooms
formerly occupied by the millinery es
tablishment of Mrs. Ruth McCnllum
Carton
F. J. BERGER
18 8th Ave. West
QNE thing about bathing suits is
you no longer have to take a girl
at face value.
Silence is usually mistaken for
sense.
Kvery man has a lame excuse for
getting his leg pulled.
'
One way of getting what you want
ia by wanting nothing.
The value of a hug depends upon
the law of supply and demand.
V
Some women are so foolish they
should have been men.
Work was invented by people who
were too nervous to sit still. I
A popular person is one who en- j
joys being bored. !
m
An Arctic explorer would be safer 1
if he would wait and go with hia '
relief party.
Opportunity doesn't knock. It
boosts. :
I
A cynic is one who got mad and ;
quit playing. ' i
The practical man puts two nnd ;
two together and gets four. The :
dreamer gets 22.
What is so rare ns a swim in June?
These nre the days when you can't
tell if it is a sawmill or a mosquito.
S
Juno 24, at
Brothers welcome.
ELKS
ATTENTION
Regular session of
Eugene Lodge No.
357 B. P. O. E.
Elks, Wednesday,
p. m. Visitlnjc
Secrctnry,
STOCKS AND BONDS
We solicit inquiries to uf
or sell any marketable listed,
local or unlisted securities.
Active markPt for Duranu sw
Flint, and Rlckenbacker Motor
icomoo rnhHr. Utilities.
Prompt attention given all or
dera. Cash paid for purchu
os: no delay. Quotations m.
nlshed.
HOOD BROTHcKo
8 Chamber of Commerce Bid!
Portland, Ore.
Howell's Comment
(New York World)
HV HOLKMN referendum of the vot
ers, corned Kef and cablmiie h
been declared the mot popular lb!i
nn the nicnurs of X York. The plu
rality wil and liefore suth an
overwhelming popular verdict cue ran
hut bow In amuirscrnre. "Vox pop ill
)ii." Hut In tho flilkh of victory
rnrnnl beef nnd cnhlmce should nol
forift that certain warred ohllgntlonM
g i with the high honor that lias been
conferred upon i'. Let It always keeu
itself nholesme and pleasing to the
teeth. l,et 't always see that the cab
bage is green and of Ingratlatir.g suc
culence. Let it rrtiist any impulse to
be made of scraps and let It keep it
.elf free from gri.tle. Abote all, let
It always be well corned. If there in
an alKmiinatlon f abominations It is
half-corned beef. , . rrovidltu
it keeps these precepts in mind, there
la no rrnsnn why it should not lonj
enjoy the highest popularity which It
A THOUGHT
Ointment and perfume re
joice, the heart-, an doth the
sweetness of a nun's friend !y
hearty counsel. I'rov. 27:0.
...
ticod counsels unserved are
rlslma of grace.- Thorns. Fuller.
A N1MALS living today furnish evidence, in the course of their
lives, of the slow changes that have taken place In the millions
of years. Tho life history of tlio frog Is a well-known example.
The development of tho Individual form of this amphibian points
clearly to evolution from a single cell, like Amik ba. through tho
many cellfd spineless animals of the seas and the jackboned fishes
to the amphibians of today.
The egg Is a single cell. From It hatches the manv...1t
jwlth Its external gills, soon replaced by Internal ones, and the larva
j becomes , water breathing, legless, swimming tadpole. Uter the
hind legs begin to grow out. then the fore legs, and the iall 'soon
! shortens up and' disappears as the young frog begins to live upon the
jland. an air breathing animal.
Thus in a few weeks of his life, the frog repeats the development
j of earlier life extending over millions of years.
! nv CIIKSTKR II. ItOWKLI,
I KCHAKULIRIY makes history
news. So when workmen exca-
yating Sherborne Abbey dug up the
; prone coffin of Aethelbert, king of the
; West Smi-ns, who had lain in merci
! ful oMirinn for over a thousand years,
dfiihtless many newspaper readers
I hsd at least a momentary curiosity
j aroused as to who this Aethelbert
t w as.
I There is not much to tell. The
. five brief years of his reign, from StiJ
! m NS, were among the lean glori
j oils of ltntith history.
I It was the time of the Viking raids,
one of wh;.h the Anglo-Saxon t'hr..n
! tele dr-rilF in want was then the
Knglish Isngusce:
i Ond tliu-s ikau wintrrs yvaes Iu-
For that man
who does things differently
Progressive enthusiasm will never starve for lack of !UPJrt
from the U. S. National Bank. Show us the man who
to Improve the old' run of things whether by restormni o
farm with blooded cattle or running an old business on n
lines and we are immediately interested.
s Possibly you have a ,plan not too common. If "o
that you call on the officials of this bank for n"-'":
Wo will sincerely and conscientiously study '"ur r1' ,
advise and assist you as conditions warrant. Acccpi
invitation call.
U. S. NATIONAL
BANK-
rie Bank of Service
EUGENEIOAN fr SAVINGS BANK
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