The Eugene guard., June 25, 1925, Image 4

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THE EUGENE GUARD
An Independent afternoon newspaper published dally exoept Sunday,
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TIIUISPAV, JI NK 25
Let's Have Lots of Counties.
rpHE COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, which, we hasten
1 to say nt llio outset, is the very host semi-weekly
newspaper published in Lnno county, has discovered
that there is nt present a loud find insistent demand tor
division of this county into tliree, wun a cuuuiy bl-ci
fi-i n f ,.r.ni-oo nnl nnother somewhere in
what is now western Lane.
"10nr flu. first. 1 into in vrars." declaims the bentinel
"Ncsmith county, witli Cottage Grovo as the county
seat, has been seriously considered." And, "It could
he said with equal force that if the western end of the
countv wishes to lie set aside in a new county, now is
the time for the effort. " Very much in that latter man
ner argued the advocates of the secession of the Pacific
const states in the trving limes of the civil war. They
thought it would he nice to set up a 1'acitic coast tecier
ntion. May the suggestion he permitted thnt the Sentinel s
Suggestion does not go far enough, and that it is rather,
discriminatory! Junction City is a live, virile town
nowadays. Thero ought to he a new county created out
of northern Lane, with Junction City as the county scat.
'And how about the Onkridgo section! Thero is no more
hustling town in all Oregon than Onkridgo. It ought
'by all means to be made a county sent, with a county
carved around it to suit.
By all mentis let's divide up this county, but let's
make tho partition complete and impartial. Let's have,
not three counties as tho Sentinel suggests, hut five, or
maybe six. Let's divide our lands, our towns, our
solidarity everything, except our money. Lot's cut up
our county jail and send a section of it to ench of the new
county seats. "United wo stand; divided wo fall" is all
out of dale, in the Sentinel view. Let's do -eomeUiing
about it. If wo can make six counties blossom where
'ono blossomj now there ought 'to bo county offices
I enough to go nround, so thnt each and every one of us
could hold office and we could all stop, working so hard.
"There need bo no hard feelings on the part of Eu
geno in caso a county division movement should be
'Started," says tho Sentinel. Wo should say'not. Eugene
has as keen h senso of humor as any community in Lane
county.
Newspaper Comics And Health.
CURE for neurnsthenin: Rend the newspaper -comic
sections. The proscription is that of Dr. Frederick
W. Seward, neurologist, of Goshen, N. Y. "I advise
neurnslhcnics to look for tho funny side of life," said
Dr. Seward, in nn address before a convention of doctors.
"Tho liberal sprinkling of our newspapers with comic
strips is a decidedly beneficial thing from a health
standpoint."
So there you hnve it. There is vindication for Mutt
find Jeff. Thero is a complete reason for tho existence
of Andy Gump and Jerry on tho Job. Thero is an alibi
for Jiggs and nn excuse for Happy Hooligan. We need
nil of these gentle characters for the benefit of our na
tional health.
Intellectuals may scoff and esthetics may sniff and
purists may gesture despairingly, in contemplation of
what they all think wo are coming to, as evidenced by
tho general public tasto in newspaper comics. They may
1 0i.ll us crude nml lowbrow. But highest authority is with
tho daily student of those same comics for what he does.
That student is keeping himself from becoming a neuras
thenic when lie guffaws at Mutt giving Jeff a black eve.
He is safeguarding .his health when ho shrieks his mirth
at Hans dropping a cannon crncker explosively under dor
Captain's chair. He is just taking tho doctor's proscrip
tion nccording to directions, nixl can tell anybody so
openly, instead of pretending, as formerly, that' ho mere
ly reads the comic strip to nmuso the neighbor's little
bov.
The Newest National Sport
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C? I . OLD50CK. AFNE BAY.
-r K ? I MISSED CN6
V fflfmJMd njl,,- Though, ms
res do not understand.
There are Mohammedan schools
whose entire instruction consists f
sing-songing the Koran, in an ancient
dialect.
The Vedic hymns and the Ban
script epics were handed down for
aces by the same process. To these
peoples, the text itself, irrespective
of meaning, has a magical value.
If the bible is that sort of a book,
that ia the way to treat it. Kridently,
there are those who think su.
The Wild Bleaorwrs.
(Penn Punch Bowl)
Reporter What shall I say about
the two peroxide blonds who made
such a fuss at the game?
Editor Why, jirst eiiy the bleach
ers went wild.
A Lob AnjrWt's cafe proprietor installed ns a mural
decoration in hit place of business a painting of a tore
ador in the aet of throwing tho hull by tho tail. Beneath
thin gem of art the inscription was painted: "The snirit
of Lo AngolcK." Could effrontery havo gone further?
The rafe man painted out tho inscription after tho chain
lr of commerce committee had finished with him. "Sub
tly art isn't appreciated when it hurts," he said sadly,
didn't know in time that the Los Angeles bull is in
reamy n sacred cow.
organize and control his product. The
grower will continue to sell at a loss
as long as he signs fool contracts or
until lie controls his output, either
by doing his own packing and market
ing, or by cooperation, forcing buyers
to pay a fair price.
If the grower dooan t help himself,
he cannot expert the speculator to
hrlp him. The speculators' game is to
skin the grower.
Oregon Greenery
(Albany llerald-Democrnt)
The croon forests and mountains
and valleys of Oregon form ono of the
state's greatest attractions.
This is the opinion ol two Portland
citizens who hove just returned from
a two weeks' jaunt through California,
which took them y the farthest
south western point in the United
States, Point Ijomn, California.
After viewing brown hills and val
leys for several weeks, the green
ery of Oregon was to them refresh
ing. The transition from the dun to
tho colorful green coincides utmost
exnetly with the dividing line between
the two states, they say.
California has its good points and
its attractions, too. There is no deny
In that. Hut it nlso has its stretches
of brown and yellow desert lands,
which require expenditure of money
to reclaim. Here in Oregon, there is
none of thnt dried-out, burned up ap
peiirnnce. TwpIv months in the year
Oregon in verdant, a soothing, cooling
green, which makes it peculiar to it
self and especially desirable to thoBe
who have grown accustomed to it.
Or Into Oregon
(Vancouver Columbian)
Here's hoping thnt the open season
on editors in Cmvtiu connty does not
extend into Clarke.
A Hopeful Incident
(Christian Science Monitor)
Tucked away in an obscure corner
of h recent- detailed newspaper nc
count of n destructive fire in a large
American city was a sentence which
casts a brighter bant upon the prog
ress of humnnilnrinnism in civilized
countries today than volumes of en
cyclopedic or statistical information.
The pnrngrtiph including it told of the
fact that the boss stableman of the
place aided by four helpers succeed
ed in leading to safety fnur'.een horses
from the company's stables. And the
sentence itself whs a classic for Its
simplicity: "They also saved two kit
tens which were in one of the Btnlls."
World wars may come, nnd world
wars may go, but so long as this
spirit of kindliness is in human con
srtoumcfi one need never despair of
the future.
a
Hard to Do.
(Milwaukee Journal)
It is nil very well to tell people to
forget their troubles, but when we
forget ours the creditors become impatient.
PLAN IS TO CUT MID-COSTS
Better Prices for Producer; Lower Ones for Consumer, Aim of
Ashburn
By CHARLES I STEWART
(NEA Service Writer)
WASHINGTON, June 25. To re
duce the spread in Prices be
tween what the American producer
gets and the ultimate consumer has
to pay to give the former more for
bis product and the latter his living
at lower cost let's get back to our
old-time utilisation of the country's
inland waterways. i
The suggestion is Brig. Gen. T. Q. j
Ashburn's.
Ashburn is chairman of the Inland
Waterways Corporation, crented by
CougreHs a year ago a government,
enterprise, but intended to be run gov
crmnentally only with a view to dem
onstrating "the feasibility and econ
omic value of water transportation."
It is then to encourage "the re
establishment of private corporotions
upon our navigable streams and can
als, operating common carriers which
will be of mutual benefit to tho public
and themselves." ,
i
America, General Ashburn remarks
in a pamphlet he has just issued
through the government, has exper
ienced two stages of transportation
and is entering a third.
The first was the wagon and water
stage; the second, rail; today we need
every nvnilnble transportation means
rail, the automobile, air we already
arc using or beginning to use all
these and water.
This latter method was abandoned
during tho period of our great rail
road development but ought to be
getting back to, for the hnndling of
bulk froight, because "it's the cheap
est means of transportation ki.ownt"
To show how very much cheaper
water is than anything else the gen-,
eral cites figures gathered in connec
tion with his operation of the govern
ment's experimental Mississippi, War
rior Itlver and Louisiana and Ala
bama coastal lines. The following is
typical:
"When I toll you thnt a lnrgc man
ufacturing concern of Alabama, which
uses a certain kind of ore in its man
ufactures, nnd owns its own mines of
this ore in the state of Alabama, ran
yet get this same ore from Sweden,
transport it by sea to Mobile, thence
by our Warrior line to Tuscaloosa,
Ala., and deliver it at its plant cheap
er than it can produce its own ore nt
Its own mines, and transport it by
rail to its manufactory, it will be
brought home to you that there is
something radically wrong in the pre
sent situation."
i
General Ashburn isn't trying to fur
nish a substitute for rail transporta
tion or to force the railroads to cut
their rates.
He recognizes that many and per
haps most water hauls will havo. to
be supplemented by the roads, on
some equitable' rate division which
tho Interstate Commerce Commission
presumably will fix.
Hut setting everything else aside,
lie snys, "the increasing demands of
the country's commerce" will soon be
beyond the railroads' power to meet
without a tremendous enlargement of
their facilities.
He estimates its coat at 10 billion
dollnrs in the next decade. His theory
is that it will be better to minimize
this expenditure on the railroad's part
and .to devote part of the money to
waterways development, which costs
far less and can be made, he thinks,
to accomplish just as much or more.
Besides, the general doubts if the
roads can possibly manage the neces
sary expansion of their services, at
any cost.
"When we reach n point," he says,
"where it costs more and takes a
longer time to get n enr in nnd out of
a city like New York than it does to
move it from New York to Philadel
phia,' the transportation system is
pretty well saturated.'
f Rowell's Comment
By CHESTER H. ROW ELL
'CHE California church that put on
a three-days' reloy stunt of read
ing the whole bible through in con
tinuous session 'should have checked
the flow of words for a moment's
thought nt the text, Tse not vain
repetitions, as the heathen do; f r
they think thnt they shall he heard
for their much speaking.'1
Whnt is the bible thnt its mere
words should thus be made a fetich
of?
There are Tibetan lamasaries that
intone day and night their version of
the Buddhist scriptures, in n Inn
guage which the celebrants themsel
27) Years Ago
Vancouver, oriiriniilly in tho Orccon count rv but now
iu the stale of Washington, is prqmriug to eeli'hrnte tho
one hundredth (inuivorsnry of the fouiulinsr of itx i'm-t
with a f.lehriition im.l imonnt during the "week August I evil's!
,37-2.'!. One hundred years is n span of existence to be ! toils.
proud oi. auh aneouver is hitler of tho vim of vouth
now than ever before.
rr"Iirc jury In circuit rourt wss dis
olisritPil nt 10 oVIork this fore
noon for the term.
EVOLUTION -
ON THE DRY LAND
By Percy W. Cobb, B. S., M. D.
.lernme Knox and Hen l.nrch of
sue (irovs re visitors In Kuiene
Onkridge mad may hnve n few sharp turns in it, as
Die county commissions s point out, but that fact isn't
Koing to fjini! (Inkride's big Fourth of Julv celebration
plans, nor keep the crowds front going there. The road
has been made entirely passable, with careful driving
JScsideK, Onkridge is on the railroad. That makes it
tasy of access.
COMMENT OF THE PRESS
(Ms If in Capital Journal)
VHY Is ft that Halem growers re
ceiv less for their fruit than
grower of other sections?
Why Is It, with shipper pamg as
, high si 8 tn 17 cents in other dittrirts
for black rhrrrJea. Hslem grower
sign contracts (which only bind th
giower) for two and n hilf cents a
pound on drlivery, plui whatever the
shipper wants to bnnd out at the elo
i of the senson?
Why was it thnt lfit yrnr the
grower aold black cherries fr five
cents ind the shipper netted from ten
expenses
The Booth-Kelly telephotio line to
Coburg is completed. The poles are
nearly all up from Springfield to
Wendliug. In less than two weeks
all the unwmllls of the company will
be connected with Eugene.
Miss Belle Louise (ireene, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs, I, N. Greene, Hr,,
of this city and Kdwin t Judd were
married Monday.
The Eugene and Springfield flour
ing mills raised the pric nf flour to
grocers tinlay 40 cents a barrel. Tins
will compel them to retail It at M
cents a sack.
to fifteen cents, with all
piid, in eastern markets?
Halem! chcrriej nro us fino as
grown anywhere, finer thn most,
1'roperly sprayed, they are worth as
much or hireneM of season, nearly as
much as cherries from other localities.
yet the grower barely gets exoe-.Jies. j
The fault lies with the grower. Hi ( l n' W,,PM liberty content is
dippers ti speculators cannot be ol,in "rm'ti T?T, ""' Wellies
blamed. Tiny buy as low as they can ! d,ny M ock the cunt rat
and sell si high. They pay no more j c J"""' , M,M "rri 1 "'" " iH in
than they are forced o pay. and If I ", ,a,,
they ran force the grower to hold the
Both Routes Good On
Florence Highway
Strong Inducements For East
ern Tourists Pointed Out
EUGENE, Juue 23. (To the Ed
itor) I have read with much inter
est the articles recently published re
garding the locution and completion of
the highway to the coast section of
Lone county. I do not wish to enter
into the controversy ns to which route
should be followed from Rainrock to
Florence. There are desirable fea
tures in both routes. The route down
the north bank of the Siuslaw, if built
into standard highway, will be a won
derfully beautiful and scenic road, and
can, with the expenditure of enough
money, be free from danger and on
eosy grades. It will benefit fl consid
erable number of people along the
river and afford a road out for the
whole coast region. The road up
Thompson Creek and down the North
fork may be more easily built and
would accommodate the people in the
rich Indian creek valley and the peo
ple in the North fork valley and af
ford a way out for the coast section.
In addition with a little more road
building a road could be constructed
from this highway in the upper part
of the North fork valley over the
ridge and direct lV down to tho Roose
velt beaches. Such a road would avoid
all the sand that makes the road from
Florence to these beaches difficult. I
am quite euro that all these roads
will be built in time, if the influential
people of Eugene and Lane county
ever awaken to the great opportunity
we have of being the gateway to the
great coast region of Lone, Douglas
and Coos counties. When the South
ern Pacific sought a route to reach
these coast sections, they chose the
route from Eugene, but in highway
building the Eugene people have al
lowed the rood into this section from
this point to log, while to the north
and south of us good highways have
been built to the coasts.
When people of the upper Willam
ette valley wish to go to the const
either on pleasure or business, they
must either drive north to Newport
or other beaches farther eway or go
south eighty miles via Roseburg and
thence to Bandon nnd the Coos bay
section. TlVe writer bad occasion re
cently to go to the noulh of Coos
bay. ITe had to drive eighty miles
south to Rosebng, thence west over
an excellent highway to Myrtle Point,
thenre north some thirty miles to
North Bend. In other words the route
is ot leost sixty miles fnrther than
n road would be from Eugene west to
the const, thence south to the Coos
bay region.
The Coos Bay region Is rich and Im
portant,. A considerable population
live there. 'Many people have occasion
to go back and forth from this region
to Eugene, Salem or. Portland. If we
bed a highway by the Florence route,
most o that traffic would come this
way.
As Mr. George Miller points out,
that with the completion of the Mc
Kenzie highway, Eugene can become
tho gateway for vast throngs of peo
ple who wish to visit the Tncific ocean
for pleasure of profit, to come direct
ly from eastern points even as far
away as New York or Chicago.
Is there not ample reason why
eastern people might be interested in
coming over the Lincoln-McKenzie
highway to Eugene, thence to one of
the most benntifnl 'const sections to
be found? I believe that Mr. Miller is
right, and I wish more people of Eu
gene'bad the vision he has of the great
possibilities we have bb the gateway
to tho Tacific.
J. G. SWAN.
Today's Cross-Word Puzzj,
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Besides beinW a crn'ns ornRAwnr l m.v.i. .L .
at the number of unkeyed letters in i t, which mli.8? puulill on, i.
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HORIZONTAL
To recede.
Large machine for recutting.
Constellation.
Smelled (from fumes).
Swifter.
Epoch.
Colors.
Night.
Golf term.
Organ of bearing.
Emperors,
Every.
Thorny bush (variant).
To flavor. .
Pans for priming in flintlocks.
Famous.
Thoughts.
Affirmative.
Mistake.
To perch.
To total.
Moor.
Buffalo.
Plant sesame.
Astonishes.
To purify.
Any fat fish.
To torment.
Product of a hen.
VERTICAL
Age.
One who asks for alms.
Honey bringing insect.
To rot by exposure.
Trcpare for publication.
Later in time.
Existed.
Devoured.
Insurrection,
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Hard black urmH
Opening made by splitfo. u,
Craft. " v
Series of steps.
Animals similar to donlm.
Smallest.
2.r. Beer.
27. Conjunction.
'10. A swellini.
32. Ventilating.
3.1. To lift up.
30. Smells.
3!. Fashion.
40. Part of a lock.
41. To waser.
42. Born. '
4.'t. To bind.
44. Limb.
Answer to j-csterdays crois.rf
puzzle:
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NOTICE
Mo?cd to JS 8th Avenue West. .
cf FRANK J. BKRGEH. Realtor
RUSSELL'S SHOP
Hemstitching nml picotln?. Bfiri
S.'iO Willamette. 1'honc 1056. j)
im I it II I 11 u
Spencer Hutte lodei', No n, I. O.
O. K., plans to hsvo well din In
their cemetery and a windmill In
stalled to pump th water. This will
be n Improvement appreciated by
all living lot holders.
In Lighter Vein
(Boston Transcript.)
HUB Of the two places we have
dinner invitations for I sbould
much prefer going to tho Lesters. I
don't see why you've chosen the Bur
tons' whom wo detest.
Wife It's perfectly plain, my dear.
Mrs. Lester has already seen this
gown and Mrs. Burton hasn't.
Just the Thing
(Knnsas City Star.)
"I could relate instances thnt would
arouse your righteous wrath!" de- i
clared the Hon. Thomas Hott in the
midst of his address. "I could tell
you things that would make you i
blush"
"Tell us! Tell us!" cried several
eager voices from the crowd.
Hit Guess
(Kansas City Star.)
"What kind of a store is that fel- '
low over at Toad Hock running?"
anked n motorist.
"Welt, he has Kord parts for sale."
replied the attendant in the filling
station at Ten lenrecR, "buys but
ter, eggs and poultry, deals in real
estate, paints houses, marries folks
in his capacity as justice of the peace,
runs the post office, sells stamps, ;
hams, molasses, &c and takes board
ers upstairs. I reckon you'd coll it a
drug store."
Too Absent-Minded
( Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.)
They were discussing the absent
mindedness of an acquaintance who
had just parsed.
"That habit nearly post him his life
i when he was on his holiday' remark-
ffe's ComincPTo-morroW WjUj
The artiwor ia ai fault tut failure to Kuiene from hta hnm r nt. lii.-. : n- ...... ' . ,7.. Vi "'k"
' - ",,T, lvi mm i'ijifu iv or i million years ago.
Fflit Spuria
AS the amphibians of old found the land nion inhabitable, thoy
gradually drew awny from tho water until tho Permian nae
form of these lnmt uno.' water animal keeping entirely to the land. I -uv was that'"
The ancestor at these first land anlmsls. from which the long line I ' lie fell overboard and forgot that
cold blooded, laying eggs for hatching Its young, moving about on four '
short logs and steering Itself with a long powerful tail. U abandoned : r
gill, or water, breathing altogether, and adanted itself i, ,.., , I
air, breathing. i
I Its nervous system became more" adapted to land living. And as !
I some of Its descendants In the branch ot reptiles moved further Into' 1
j the land', their legs became slender nnd faster, whllo their skulls, i !
clawa and teeth became more powerful and more adaptable to the ! J
i airuKKie lor survival. i
For that man
who does things differently
Progressive enthusiasm will never Starve for lack ' "J
from the U. S. National Bank. Show us the "" ". , w
to Improve, the old' run of things whether by resI" ,
farm with blooded cattle or running an old busmen
linos nnd we ore Immediately Interested.
if so ns gnK?f
Possibly you have a plan not too common, ti 1,j110j.
that you coll on tho officials of this hank lor c
We will sincerely and conscientiously sttin " ur' t
Bdvlse and assist you as conditions warrant.
Invitation call.
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U. S. NATIONAL
Ztie Banft of Service
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A Thought
lie that lnveth ntit knoweth
not (1ml: for (lad is love.
John I. 4:8.
Ta love is everything: love is
U'hI. I.eon ttotlan.
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