The Eugene guard., June 27, 1925, Image 4

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THE EUGENE GCAED
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SATPHIMT, JUNK
Is Repudiation Lawful?
THE lngiil (lopnrtmnnt of the state government of Ore
gon is fiiiitl to have given the opinion that tho remov
al from office of Hugh jMitcliclr, superintendent of Btate
fish hatcheries, was entirely lawful, because the state
fish commission with its present personnel cannot be held
responsible for the acts of tho state fish commission with
its prior personnel. .Mitchell held a contract wlncn naa
two more venrs to run. But because the majority of tho
fish commission has been changed as to personnel since
that contract was executed, the contract can, according
to the state's local department, be torn up.
Notwithstanding the distinguished source of that
ruling, ono finds it hard to believe it sound. It a ciiango
in the personnel of tho fish commission nullifies the
acts of the retiring commissioners, why would not a
similar ruling apply to let ua say tho state highway
commission! The highway commission lota paving eon
tracts. If a large paving contract should be let and
if tho majority personnel of tho commission should be
changed while tho work under the contract was still
in progress, would the newly constituted commission
feel itself privileged to break . the contract and let a
r.ew one for completion of the work under way? For
tho life of us, we can't see any difference between that
hypothetical course and what Jias just been dono in
tho Mitchell case.
If ono stato commission can break its contracts on
such flimsy ground as this, all state commissions ought
to bo able to do so. And if a contract made by a state
commission is good only as long as tho commissioners
who made tho contract shall remain in office, then a
contract mado for tho stato by higher state officials is
good only as long as they hold office. No business
corporation or firm considers its contracts nullified
by change in its majority ownership. Nono tries to
repudiate them on such a ground. Regard for the
common moralities, as well as legal inhibition, would
restrain the private concern from such an attempt,
llow and why can a stato commission repudiate its
obligation when tho state itself cannot do so and pri
vate corporations cannot do sot
Ono could wish that Hugh Mitchell would contest
his removal and sue to enforce his contract, in order
to test this question as to whethor a stato board may
repudiate its definite obligations. Mr. Mitchell ap
pears to bo rather glad to get out of an office which has
been made a political football by tho Governor Pierce
crowd, and to go to ono of tho two or three better jobs
that await his choice. But that docs not alter tho fact
that a stato commission baa repudiated a definite and
explicit contract. Nor does it alter tho fact that the
governor of tho state is tho author of that repudiation,
nor tho further fact that tho governor also, by the
same action, repudiated a plain, specific and definite
promise of his own, which was that if Mr. Mitchell
would take the position of superintendent of hatcher
ies, tho position wonld romain divorced from politics
and its tcnuro remain undisturbed.
The American Rubber Situation Is Growing -Serious
V(e cArtTelte OS) BED SPQMS
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OlO EUB8EC
HEELS WILL HELP
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RUBBERS ANP (3ALOSMES CAM DtSPENSe wft JSw-Jf-Ni
WHEELS AGoGfilHEIJ f
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rife Family Pittas wulpbb eleganT
msofT Pi-Aces such as iawns e7c
An astuteness worthy of nn Edgar Allon Too or a
C'oniin Doylo has jiwt boon demonstrated by tho police
of our neighbor city of Salem. A highly respectable
resident of tho stato of "Washington, traveling by auto
mobile with his son, was arrested on suspicion. Suspicion
of what is not made clear by tho press reports, but no
matter. Thoro was suspicion. Taken to tho station, the
suspect was sweated and his baggago was searched. The
sweating disclosed that tho man and tho boy were on a
vacation trip together. Tho search revealed but one
change of underwear in tho mispoct's grip. Hero was
whero tho Toe-Doylo method of deduction was brought
into play. "Aha!" reasoned the police force of Salem,
"yea indeed, aha! The suspect says ho is out for a va
cation. IIo has but ono change of underwear. Nobody
goes on a vacation with only one chango of underwear.
The suspect must bo a desperate, criminal." So they
put him in jail and hold him four hours. Search of the
statutes by tlint time having failed to reveal any min-1
imum-undorwenr law for travelers, the police of Salem
lot the Washington man go. The moral seems to be
that if you aro driving through Salem it is best to carry
with you at least two extra suits of underwear pre
ferably three and have it all conveniently in sight on
the hood or tho running-board of your car.
Tho always veracious Associated Press tolls us
that on Thursday, tho day when we of Oregon were
sweltering under a 100-degreo temperature, President
Coolidge, at Swampscott, took two long walks in a
steady rain. Tho weather man seems to have opened
his Oregon faucet on Massachusetts and turned the
Massachusetts projector on Oregon, by mistake.
The large attendance at last evening's baud con
cert in tho county park block indicated that the gen
eral public enjoys and appreciates bnnd music. It would
seem worth while to complete the fund for continuing
these concerts through the summer.
tfary where they were sentenced many
"moons" ago,
Short Advances
(Chicago Post)
The short skirt and short hair seem
to hnvo come to stay. Now if we can
get the short ballot nnrl a shorter leg
islative session we will feci that there
is such a thing as progress,
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Fining the Tourist
' (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
The Salem Statesman complains
that tourists are boycotting Salem be
cause they-have-passed word along
that the Bui em speed cop runs them
in for speeding and they get a heavy
fine. We do not know about that,
but we do know that any fine above
five dollars for speeding is out of all
proportion to the offence. The legis
lature's fixed an arbitrary rate as
a speed limit. It has very little to do
with reckless driving. The custom of
picking up careful, but fast drivers,
and soaking them in order to main
tain the traffic department is an out
rage that tho next legislature should
stop.
Not That Kind of Heroes
(Cleveland Times-Commercial)
However, it requires a strotch of
the imagination to conceive of John
Paul Jones, Oliver Hazard Perry or
George Dewey chasing a cargo of
beer.
A Fable
(Baltimore Sun)
Once there whs a man who went
through his desk and knew why he
had saved all the papers he found
there.
The Junction City Method
(Junction City Times)
Small towns like Eugene and
Springfield scrap over getting a rail
road to build shops in their towns,
but when Junction City goes into tho
railroad business she builds one and
hns headquarters right at home.
Kolao Needs Thorn All
(Men ford Moil-Tribune)
Kelso, Wash., whope Ilerrin, HI.,
tendencies is sticking tho municipality
on the front pages, has n "Public Wel
fare IjCHgue," and n "Law and Order
Committee," and a "Public Defense
Hoard," and the Kelso public needs
them all.
In Lighter Vein
LAW WAS PROPOSED TO CHANGE PI
Professor Finds Tennessee Legislator Once Tried to Legislate
New Principle Into Mathematics
. There ought to bo distinct improvement
fairs of Oiveoo, now that Mk'lwilitkopoulos
deposed from the premiership by I'iiukuIos.
nnnie sounds so much more reasonable than
in the nf
has been
The latter
the other.
Optimistic; thought for today: There will bo. no citv
water short ago here this Bummer.
COMMENT OF THE PRESS
(Sslem Statesman) . metropolian courts U preferable un
M iih .i.nri.nrcn upprni m . m mr ; uir uic cimmmnmin.
supreme rourt yestenlny. The ba
sis of the nppenl in that the crime
Bgitinut young girls who had accepted
a ride in an nuto with Mncl.nren et al,
was committed in Multnomah instead
of in Clackamas county where he and
his mole companions were convicted.
On trial for a similar offense com
mitted in Multnomah county these
nine youths ramped conviction.
Quite naturally a trial in one of the
The appeal matter docs not claim
innocence of the appellants. Its b a si ft
is the same old thread-bare subter
fuge technicality. Can you beat it?
And still there are many thinking rit
liens who just can't wax enthusiastic
over the "majesty of the law.
The appellant, under the eppcl
have served do time st the penlten ed his dad.
Variability
(Washington Star)
"What do yon understand by Sen
atorial courtesy?"
'The significance of the term seems
to vary," answered Senator Sorghum.
"When I hear It mentioned now I
take it as n signal that there Is some
kind of a disturbance in tho air."
Sensible
(Louisville Courier-Journnl)
"Most sensible tea 1 ever attended.
"How now?"
"The hostess went to a restaurant
and rented a supply of these broad
armed chairs,"
At the Fountnln
(Louisville Courier-Journal)
"What will it be?" asked the soda
clerk.
"Wlmt have you?"
"Oh, everything. What do you pre
fer calories, vitamlnes or iron?"
Cannot Be Done
(Cincinnati Hnquirer)
Ulinks I give it up.
.links Now what?
HHnks I've been trying so to live
that 1 would not break a single one of
our L'O.oeo laws.
Discouragement
(Itoston Transcript)
The neighbor of a man noted for
his extreme thrift saw him on a week
dar dressed in bis Sunday clothes.
"What's up, Jim?" he called out.
"Whv the jlad rng?"
"Haven't you heart! the news?"
"News! What news?"
"Triolein!"
I "Oh. so that accounts iw- organ
the neighbor, when the frugal one in
terrupted him:
"Yes. thnt accounts for my wearing
these clothes. What in thunder's the
use of trying to be economical:"
Dad Explains
(Cincinnati Knuuirer)
Ts." said Clarence, "what do they
mean by inviting trouble ?"
"Asking the wife's mother to rome
(and upend ft conpte ui Biv.,-
lly CHARLES P. STEWART
(XKA Service Writer)
yASHINGTON, June 27. This is
a bard one. Unless the reader is
deeply learned, as I'm not, he never'M
be able to grasp its fine points. Rut
the broad general principle is clear.
Ever hear of pi? Not pie or print
er's pi. Pi 16th letter in the Greek
ulphabet. Higher mathematically, as
you know if you're up on such stuff pi
is used to denote the ratio of a circle's
circumference to its diameter. It
starts with 8 and ends with an infinity
literolly so of decimals. The dic
tionary runs it up to 3. 14150205 and
then stops, out of breath.
To scientists the impossibility of
arrivals, in' this life, nt the final deci
mal is an infernal nuisance. It pre
vents tho solving of certain riddles,,
like squaring the circle, which it's
every mathematician's burning nmbl
tion to find the answer to. ,
Well, Bpeaking of freak laws, Prof.'
Fisher, tho political economist, has
dug up tho fact thnt a Tennessee
legislator once tried to help science
out of this difficulty by statute. He
introduced a bill to make pi stand for
3 flat.
Compared with anti-evolutionary
enactments, what do you know about
that?
Practically nobody is perfectly bi
lingual. This is very noticeable in
Washington with its Inrge assortment
of foreign diplomats highly educat
ed, especially in the languages, nnd
some of them even longer practiced
in English than in thIr native
tongues. Rut they started with the
tntter and what thdy started with is
what sticks. They moy fool you for
awhile, but sooner or Inter somo lit
tle accent or mistaken interpretation
of a shade of meaning gives them
away.
Morn than anything it's difficult
to write naturnlly in two languages
To illustrate: Connected with' one of
the Latin American legations here is
a secretary whose conversational
English is as fluent and accurate as
any American's but he writes it a
trifle stiltedly. One day it occurred
to me to ask one of his legation mates
what his chap's Spanish was like.
"Oh," said -the latter, "it's as good
as you can expect from anybody who
knows English so well." That's it.
Either one language has a slight edge
on the other or neither is quite right.
The Latin, particularly the Span-'
iurd, has the strango delusion that
his language Is very rich and English
very poor. "We have a word for
everything,' as one Spanish speak
ing diplomat there explained to me,
"but in English you have to use com
binations of them to make yourself
clear." The mere fact that the Eng
lish dictionary contains at least '60
per cent more words than any Latin
tongue's isn't recognized as counting
for a thing except, if you do prove
your case too overwhelmingly, you're
very apt to lose the Latin friend
you've proved it to. ,
Pronunciation will work wonders
with a word. The O-fahr-rail pro
nounced with tho r's strongly rolled
and the accent on the last syllable
family frequently has a visiting mem
ber1 in Washington from Spain. On
the hotel register he signs it O'Farrel.
Ono of the Latin American attaches I
know, a great movie fan, has a lot to
say about Noarma Tahl-mahd-kay
accent on the second syllable but it
wasn't until he showed it to me in
print that I realised be meant Norma
Talmadge. Onco I saw "coktels' on
the wine list in a Rnrcelona hotel and
when I ordered a Martini seco, or dry
I found I'd guessed right.
f As (he World Wags j
Ry FRANK FAY EDDY
TLAY is an art Americans learn
very slowly. It is noticeable about
this time of the yenr when tourists
increase fn the land. Often enough
parties are seen who are making a
serious business of getting from one
place to another; making comparisons
with the home town and gleaning
faces about the country, but bless you
anything but csre-free or joyous.
RELAXATION Is the secret of
'EVOLUTION-
CHANGING TO A BIRD
By Percy W. Cobb, B. S., M. D. .
recreation. Concentration is the sec
ret of accomplishing work smoothy
and without waste of time.
It seems to me that many peo
ple waste a lot of good time working.
Ihey certainly do if they work all ot
the time for such j tided ones arc
never at their best because the bow
of their energies is bent taut all of
the time.
TO PLAY well and joyously one
must become somewhat like a child
and get a kick out of whatever com?s
along. To be too definite; to plan a
holiday and arrange a schedule to be
fulfilled, is the worst way in the
world. The only way is to let every
day open on an adventurous prospect
to be governed by moods and circtim
stances.
'
SEASHORE DAYS, when a fellow
lights a pipe and goes awandering up
the beach to Bee wjiat the tide has
left stranded there this last time of
flood, to sit on a log and sort
meditate and drink in the freshness
of the salty air and feel throbbing
through one the surge of tremendous
power which moves through the ocean
and dimly sense that it is essentially
the primal strength of infinity which
bears our little lives onwurd through
a nebulous -universe. That is genuine
recreation.
TO CRACK OUT a good golf shot.
to hit the ball on the nose and see it
sail away as you gradually relax from
the pose of the follow through, that
too is good. Sport with Americans
inevitably becomes a carefully studied
art, but sport differs from the competition-of
business life, in that tbo
rules are taken upon honor and nil
1b open and above board. Nothing
promotes friendships like playing
games together. There are fortunate
individuals who early develop a co
ordination of muscles which makes
them excel in games. Happy are they
if they do not make games their busi
ness in life, for they have a means
of relaxation which robs life of much
of its dull care.
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AMERICANS are trying to play
more and more as an increasing num
ber of people have leisure and mid
summer is taken as a vacation period.
But it is really a little distressing to
note how very badly most Ainericuus
go about the matter of playing. It
sometimes seems that to achieve sue-,
cess in life according to American!
standards, saps the spontaniety, sucks
the energies out of men and women,
until they can only work and work
and no matter what they turn toward
they make a job of it. Such people
are rushing about the country, a day
here and a day there, living up to a
schedule, missing all the happy sur
prises and never finding that mood
which greets a new day with a chal
lenge to show ma something unex
pected. ;
LAZY FOLKS ought to be the hap
piest but really are not for they louf
too much and have no background
against which to throw a spell of loaf
ing. To mix your dnnks may be a bail
policy in some things, but in life it is
a pretty good piece of advice. Word
hard and play not hard but easily and
naturally and mix the two up tu
rether. That seems to be the way to
get the most possible out ot tins busi
ness of living.
Saturday Evprmj
Today's Cross-Wordpi
This puzzle shouldn't keep you too Iom fr
holiday, but It will make you .top long enough V?Ur, .f,
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25 Years Ago
YHILK reptiles ruled tho world, bird life first started.
ammi cignt to ton n-.Uion years ago. I
Thoy were reptiles, too, rcpiilos thai hud to take to the trees for'
safety from the torrible, monstrous dinosaurs of that time At i'irt i
they climbed tho trunks and clung to tho branches with their claws 1
Uiter thpy floated uotva ;rom the tall tops to the ground, ns In the
course of time, they developed feathers from their scales and wines i
from their Hmbs whirh enabled thorn to sail through the air
The earliest known bird is the, arvheoptervx. whi.h scientists
dug up in lvsria. It still had tho teeth of the rvptu-. tho long
lixard like tsll. daws on threo iingor of its fordimbs. or win and'
a sort of half developed wing. Hero was surely a bird V tho
feathers and wings and the degenerated forolimhs and tail showed !
i """T w 1,1 1UU1 reptilian cnaracloristk ,
I - Mv.vi(fc Hum din repine.
HE goddess of liberty contest is
over. Tho tinai counts suowcu
that Miss Agnes Harris won first
place, and Miss Irene Applegato sec
ond. The former will represent the
goddess of liberty and the second, the
queen of tho celebration.
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Professor and Mrs. John Stranb
entertained . Wednesday evening at
their home, about 50 invitations being
extended.
S. II. Friendly offered fin" cents per
bushel last evening for 2000 bushels
of wheat, but tho fee was refused.
The steel rnilrond bridge across the
McKenzie river will be completed be
fore noon tomorrow. This is a fine
structure.
Mrs. Rose M. Ilollenbcck is pre
senting n class of students in recital
Friday night at the First Christian
church.
The University of Oregon has mail
ed a wagon load of catalogues to
nearly every place in the northwest.
As the demand for catalogues Is large,
it is thought that the attendance will
be larger than ever next year.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Hall ar
rived home today after a trip to Tort
land. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Osburn arrived
home today after attending the Os
burn family reunion at Corvallis.
Mrs. J. L. Tage went to Salem to
day to spend a week.
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Rowcll's Comment
,
Ry CHESTER H. ROWELL
LEAGUE OF NATIONS commit
tee hns proposed, the British
rnilwavs and others have approved,
and nobody in principle opposes, a
srhemc fir a thirteen-month year,
each month to have exactly four
weeks, with an extra New Year day,
not belonging to any week, at the be
ginning of each yenr. and nn extra
"leap day" in the middle of leap years.
The new month, "Sol," would come
between June and July.
Such a calendar would be immense
ly simpler and more convenient than
any now in use. and would hurt no
body, unless It is n few who feiu that
they mighf have to pay thirteen
months' wages or rent, at present
rates.
The nmin ohjeet will be inertia.
The old changes in the enlendar
were mnrie by emperors snd popes,
who could issue orders. Any new
-hangps will hsve tn he made by the
popular consent of a dmnoratie
world, composed of people- who mostly
tl ink wilh their memories.
HORIZONTAL
1. Current.
6. A clearing.
11. Fixed.
13. To halt
14. Man of valor.
15. Implement for sweeping.
17. Tapered wooden pin.
17. Hamlets.
21. Sweet secretion left by plant
louse.
22. To put new turf on ground.
24. Existed.
25. To recede.
2B. RIack viscous fluid.
27. Game.
20. Accomplished.
30. In the same wav.
83. Diving bird.
34. Granted facts.
35. Artifice.
40. Twice.
42. Sward.
43. To prevent entry.
44. To wager.
46. Decays.
48. Animal of cat family with a de
cided black and white fur.
50. Largest plant.
51. Growing out.
53. To make lace.
54. Breakwaters.
55. To grow weary.
57. Story.
58. Covered with blood.
50. Females having same parents
(sing.).
60. Tenant under a lease.
- VERTICAL
1. Barn.
2. To suclr in again.
3. To bar by estoppel.
4. Particle.
5. Geographical drawing.
C. Tree with tough wood.
7r To cast off (as hair).
8. Goat antelope.
0. Loved.
Threw.
IregL.
Revolution.
Fairy.
Cyma (arch.).
Pirate ship.
Engine of war.
lrone bee.
Colors.
More aged.
Cry for help at sea.
Quantity.
Sweet potato.
Iargc mythical bird.
j'jnirnnce.
To advocate.
Natural passage between tuj
banks.
Bursts.
Mentions.
Raises.
Hard coating of seeds.
To economize.
Sail rope.
Pieces of baked glazed dir
Gaelic.
Panel of glass.
Organ of hearing.
Plant (sesame),
nswer to Yesterdayb CrouworJ
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Ry JAMES W. DEAN
JEW YORK, June 27. The Play
boys of tho town have revived the
old-fashioned limerick as a gentlo
pastime to bridge over the hiatiiB in
the cross-word puzzle craze. So ar
dent hnve they become in pursuit of
the elusive rhyme that they have or
ganized the Limerick Society of
America and hold regular meetings
to discuss their hobby.
Tho other night, they held a con
test for members in tho composition
of a limerick, the first line of whijh
was given as "There was a young
fellow named Bryan." Berton Braley
won with this effort:
"There was a young fellow named
Bryan,
Whose voice was forovermore cryin':
Do you think that my shape
Was derived from an ape?
Well,, I think Charlie Darwin was
lyin'.'
Immediately thereafter there arose
a debate between Sigmund Spaeth and
F. Gregory Hartswick, formerly one
of the nation's foremost cross-word-
ers. The matter ia dispute wn vb
thcr the final "g' might be dreppri
in words to rhyme with "Brju,'
"lion,' 'etc., and whether New Lrt
esc might be employed to malie 'Si
beriar'' rhyme with "furrier." Tit
debate continued long, long after tin
meeting adjourned.
Just as the amount of fad airi
gives you nn idea of toe power of ts
eugine, the amount of provender f-
sumed by the populace of New Tori
indicates the great sir.e of the plin.
For instance, there is the small ites
of butter. New York uses half a mil
lion pounds of butter a day. Mo
than one-fifth of all the butter mi
in the United States is shippeo nt
some part of it being re-ihippL
course, but the supply is draws frtf
30 states, Canada, Holland, Ami
lia, South America and the &ci
miviau countries.
Ren Bernie is an orchestra cond
or who made quite a reputation t
himself through broadcast jan it
through a local radio station. No h
is to receive $2500 a week for iw
tures in a Broadway mom thtittf.
For that man
who does things differently
Progressive enthusiasm will never starve for lack of uPIrt
from the U. S. National Bank. Show us tho man wlio
to Improve the old' run ot things whether by restoc i
farm with blooded cattle or running an old business
lines and we are immediately interested.
Tosslbly you have a plan not too common. If o e '
that you call on the officials of this bank for
We will sincerely and conscientiously study your
advise and assist you as conditions warrant Accepi
invitation call.
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BlMsrd ire tho pscf mnkort
for they nil bp called the
chililrrn of li 'cl. Matthew 5:0.
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Ah: When shall all men',
j..od be M.-h man s rule, and
univeml i-race lie like a shft
of lifhl H'tox the land? Tm
m s 'n.
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