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WELCOME
fYUB welcome to the Oregon editors gathered here tor their
annual conference 1b perennial but sincere. We are "at
home" to the Ylsltors. They are Invited to step In and look Ui
over and aee the big new press In operation and swap shop
talk and Ideas. And any visiting scribe who gets homesick tor
a typewriter, as often happens when a newspaper man wanders.
Is hereby encouraged to come in and (try) to use ours.
These annual conferences are chiefly useful because they are
Informative. So far as we know, no two editors were ever
known to be In complete agreement on anything, but through
such meetings they develop a broad and tolerant viewpoint
One thing we hope the editors will do while they are here,
whether they are partisans of Oregon State College or of the
University. We hope tbsTTl visit some of the congested lecture
courses at the university, have a look at the library, at the
Infirmary, and other facilities which are inadequate.
We don't hope to have everybody agree at once on any
particular plan of relief. But a little examination into the
situation will lead to a better understanding of why the univer
sity Is asking relief from its handicaps.
EVERY FARMER KNOWS IT.
ItTANT a lane county tanner, we fancy, got a chuckle out of
the little dispatch from Chicago ' In yesterday's Issue of
The Guard telling about the woman who has declined to pay
$1500 in notes for "absent treatment" for cholera In hogs. The
so-called psychologist, 01 In other words, the quack who sold
the treatments, Is suing for collection. The' farm woman Is
refusing; to pay. A learned Judge, or at least one of the kind
they have In Chicago, Is making an Investigation, and things are
In quite a state.
Any real farmer, here or any other place, could tell the
judge the answer. Whether it's hog cholera, or grain rust, or
potato bugs, or watering the stock or anything else pertaining
to the farm, absent treatments never work. There's no business
where constant attention to duty Is so vital as In farming.
There's many a fine acreage that has passed through fore
closure because It was subjected to absent treatments of some
sort.
Of course, every person who has farmed can understand the
feeling of desperation which might drive a lonely woman on a
farm to try any kind of remedy for the hundred and one Ills
that are always cropping up to haunt the farmer. The Incident
Isn't really so amusing after the first glance. It's terribly
pethetlu. The amazing thing Is that any court anywhere should
pause tor a moment In the punishment ot such a quack.
A NEW PEACE MOVE?
TT Is Interesting to note that one of the first results of the
passage of the cruiser bill by the Congress of the United
States is a report that Oreat Britain will be the point of origin
for the next call for a conference on world peace through dis
armament. Premier Baldwin has mode haste to deny that any
thing Immediate Is contemplated but there Is good reason to
believe that some such plan is being earnestly discussed In
Downing street.
There were those who held that adoption of the cruiser program
on the heels of ratifying the Kellogg pledge to world peace was
grossly tactless and Inconsistent. It may have been all that,
and some harsh things were said about us on the other side ot
the Atlantic, but In the International poker game In which we
ore participating the move has certainly had gratifying prac
tical effect
We have said to the other nations: "Certainly, we'll play the
game according to Hoyle, but if the rest ot you are going to
tote guns to the table, we'll tote Just as many as the next fellow,
just In case, mind you, that somebody should try to stack the
deck." It's a style of play in which no other country wants to
cornpato with us. Hence this new seal to call a new meeting
and get down to real bulness in talking disarmament and peace.
It is usually a good thing to be soft-hoartod (and America la
known tor that). Sometimes It la necessary to demonstarte
that you are not soft-headed, to boot
There Is a bare posslbllty that the cruisers may never have
to be completed It In the next discussions there Is something
besides the attitude of tnlklng high wide and handsome about
abolishing war but with the reservation, "let Ooorge do It"
TEACHING TEMPERANCE
STATE Prohibition Commissioner Rupert R. Beetham of Ohio
told an audience of church people recently that enemies ot
the liquor traffic should get back to the old-time methods ot
teaching personal temperance by showing the effects of alcohol
upon the drinker.
There Is good sense to that suggestion. The prohibition law,
of course. Is on the statute books and must be enforced; but
It the old "temperance movement" could be revived and made to
go hand In hand with It the task would be a lot easier.
Obviously, It won't be nearly so hard to enforce this law when
a larger percentage of the population la convinced that liquor
Is a bad tiling.
AS OTHERS
Wolves 1
(Baltimore Hun)
It Is quite clear tha thej are
having cold weather In Kurope.
The wolf stories are creeping daily
Into the news. In such places as
Jogo-Hlavia, Cieeho-Slovakia and
the Balkan states the hungry infin
ites of the woods are coming
cloear and closer to the towns. If
we are to believe what the corre
spondents have been told, the gray
terrors lwve already surrounded
a schoolhouae, broken through its
QVid walla ami torn to pieces and
favoured aixtcen children.
If thla la trail on in middle Eu
(WpftVtJi say if this la noing on
lOeji think what muat be lite situa
tion farther east in Ituaaia. where
the t0m 'snow-covered ati'iM"'
stretch to the far lioriron and the
occasions! hut of tha niujik la hiQ
led to tin eaves In tin crystalline
paJL
Wowadaya, alaa. news vrom Rus
sia la acarce. Hie rer.Owoif story
hasn't rums over the eablea since
the Hays when Ciar Nicholas sat
on the Uirona and ariat..rrata sat
peasants toiiether made merry on
the frosea Neva. But at Uaat ouce
SEE THINGS
a year In the eld days the story
cams:
It was bitter cold. Katarlna.
young daughter of tht Pskov dis
trict of White Ruesla. was taken 111
and it was neceatsry to carry her
to town. The droahky was harness
ed aind the landowner, nccomiian
ied only by hia faithful hoily
ant, Ivan, biitullfd the ailing child
In fura and atarted ia the doctor's,
inhtfn vernts awa. The drnnhky
Mis tinkled merrily in the still air,
but the cold van Intfnne. Kivf miles
out a terrifying aoundawaa heard.
Wolveal
The, freniied fnther laahad h!
horses. Ivan took hia ponltion on
the high seat in tho rertr. Tha animals-
a core of them appear
ed. They were gnum, driven mad
by liuntier. They r..-P j. iVin
took aim a in I fired. The lender fell.
His rointMititons immediately de
Toured him, but kept on. Another
shot, another dead wolf and an
other vernt was rrvereV Another
snot and another. Precious 0H
added tn the total. Hut alas, Ivan
has ethsusted hia aupply of car
indies, tind the Hirsnt and him
fries! wotres are now at the very
heals ot lUe horsaa. Iran ds not
hesitate. Be throws himself to the
mom tare. They stop to devour him
and the droahky slides Into the
tockade aa tha horaes alump Into
the death of exhaustion.
That is the real wolf etory, and
it hasn't been printed for fifteen
years.
Soak the Poor?
(Oregon Journal)
And now the Oregon legislature
ia offered a sales tax.
A aales tax ia a tax that ia pass
ed on to the conat.--
A sales tax ia a tax that la piled,
100 per cent, on the buyer.
A sales tax ia not a sales tax;
It ia a buyer's tax.
It la always an emergency tax. It
la a tax resorted to most in time
of war or in a crisis. It ia a sort of
tax of last resort to be Invoked
in desperate situations and when
other sources of revenue are at ap
proximate exhaustion.
That state of exhaustion has not
been reached In Oregon. The L N.
Day tax investigating committee
had access to the federal income
tax returns in Oregon. After a
study of these returns, that com
mittee reported that 80 per cent
of the taxpaying- ability in the state
la little drawn upon. It referred to
the hundreds of millions of dollars'
worth of securities locked up in
safety deposit vaults and drawing
a steady and comfortable income
but paying not one dollar of tax.
That vast Oregon wealth , lies
there still untaxed and untouched.
The legislators ail know it. Judge
Bean in the bank case, in effect,
told them that hundreds of millions
of that kind of wealth in Multno
mah county nays no tax.
What apell, what dead hand,
what irresistible influence, paralyzes
legislators, benumb their energies,
chloroforms their wits and turns
them away from taxing this vast
untaxed wealth and leads them to
ward a plan of laying a tax on the
poor man's table and on the cloth
ing of his children?
How can legislators think of ,
taxing the widow's mite by levying
a sales tax on the food and shoes
of a fatherless family all the while
allowing deposit vaults that pile
up millions a yeaf in interest and
dividends to escape its share of the
cost of government?
Tax the widow's mite and the
orphan's dole but let the swollen
fortunes In bonds and other securi
ties go untaxed that would, in
deed, be triumphant statesmanship
by the Oregon legislature, ,
WASHINGTON
LETTER
By BODXEJY DUTCHES
(NBA Service Writer)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21r
,VV Thia," remarked Congressman
George Huddles ton of Alabama in
the course of a general conversa
tion, "is the most foolish age in
history."
"1 wish," suggested your corres
pondent, "that you would fully ex-
Slain yourself for a very large num
er of readers who probably would
like to know why."
George Huddleuton is one of those
rare members of congress who, ex
cept in matters involving a question
of good taste, is willing to see in
the newspapers anything he says in
private. None of his votes conflict
with his beliefs.
"There are," he proceeded to
say, "a half dosen reasons fo. the
assertion. By the reliance of this
age upon force, I mean both phy
sical force and law. And coupled
with that la our lack ot regard for
principle, political, economic or
otherwise. This is the day of the
opportunist; the man who gets
while the getting is good. It is most
distinctly not . the day of men of
wisdom, vision and principle, for
whom we have lost nearly all re
gard. e
"Our present position in respect to
spiritual concern as distinguished
from material concern I trace back
to the development of industry and
commerce and their tremendous
multiplication of human conven
iences, luxuries and opportunities
for financial gain. Men have amass
ed fortunes and the poor have had
luxuries denied to princes in other
times,
"Tho result is that all of man's
Interest and attention has been di
verted away from the spiritual life,
which embraces religiou, art and
politics In the purest sense, and con
centrated on tho material aide on
things that one etui see, smell, feel
and hear. Ho we have elevated to
the supreme matters relating to sex
a low form of materialism, and
to food, drink, fine clothes, auto
mobiloa, buildings and other things)
shading up to the power, Influence
and prestige that cornea from the
possession of wealth.
"Thus every human activity la
tainted. Even the preacher preaches
at his richest parishioners, preach
ing what they want U- hear so that
thny will contribute and give him a
fine home and hia trip to I'ale
tine. "Tho professional man sells his'
talent to Uio highest bidder and
measures sucoobb by the site of his
feos and retainers.
"The politician lends himself to
organised selfiiih interests so ss to
hold his job a nd the am o lumen ts
and dignities connected therewith.
"And so on down to the work
man who scabs on a Job so that he
can ride in a second-hand car and
f;et a bottle of bootleg li-juor once
n a while." George Huddles ton la
nearly 0O years old.
"Among nations." be continued,
no reliance is now placed upon
honor or chivalry. Kren courage is
no longer at the premium. Ingenuity
in devitung safe ways of killing men
ia now the vogue.
"With 'ta tmst experience one
might suppose that this world
would long ago have abandoned en
tirely the practice of relying on
force to settle Its troubles. Hut we
continue to build cruiners and to
admit that our anti-war treaties
really do not mean very much.
"Among ourselves we have come
to put our faith In legal forces. We
are now treating prohibition as a
legal and political question instead
of a a moral guention.
"The prohtbftHHiists made two
great original mistake. In obtain
ing paftRage of the prohibition laws
they anticipated piblic opinion and
expected the law to enforce itnelf in
communities where sentiment wa
against it. Second after enacting
lA awM ther fa'") to etippnrt
tlwn. Many prohibitionists violate
the law openly and ,.?., who do
not are willing to take to their
bosoaia tho who do.
"If we are to have prohibiten
In this country and I believe a
majority of the people wants it a
majority must get up n hi hind
legs and finht (Vr it. Wis utterly
"M-rnainr i. .t irtjthl'
I'roimu- i
noni-n run give OMintensm
re-.peif patronage to
violators.
S IDE GLANCES
. i
)ma BV MA SCTVKC, sn. f t
an.aaMT.orr.
I t
"We're petilng the Indersemont of all the merohants In this neighbor
hood, and we'd like to have your name on the list."
Daily Health Service
These Books Are Safe Guides
To Health
L
1 By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
rMitor Journal of the American
Medical Association nnd of Hygein,
the Health Magazine
fNE of the most fascinating fields
of study in relationship to mod
ern medicine is the question of in
heritance. Certainly human beings are tend
ing to become more and more hair
less. Feet are becoming smaller
and toes more and more useless.
Meanwhile Investigators nil over
the world are studying the mech
anisms by which changes occur. It
Its known, for instance, that the
Chinese binding of the foot does
not result in girls being born with
mutilated feet. .
Investigators In laboratories hove
eut the tails off one generation of
rats after another, but the new
born rats continue, to have long
tails. Nevertheless some investi
gators believe that it Is possible
For acquired characters, as the so
mutilations are called, to have their
CSS
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A SOUTHERN gentleman long ago tolled with the
. roasting of many different choice coffees together
until he achieved a blend of such unusually rich and
mellow harmony that it delighted even his critical
palate.
That fine blend Is Maxwell House. It took its name
from the hotel where It first became famous the old
Maxwell House In Nashville, celebrated throughout
the South for its hospitality, its old-time Southern
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influence and they believe that if
the mutilations were persisted in
Jong enough the results would
eventually be noticeable in the off
spring. Dr. O. A. Beadle has called at
tention to the fact that peculiar
formations of the jaws or teeth
may be Inherited. In one family
he traced the sporadic absence of
one or more teeth of both seta
through three successive genera
tions. In studying defects of teeth Dr.
Beadle became convinced that there
are three types of congenita teeth
defects: first, tho Be that are due
to bad nutrition and which are not
inherited; second, those that are in
herited but which do not appear
regularly, and third; those that are
inherited and appear consistently in
the offspring.
The exact cause of harelip la
not understood. A Oermaa inves
tigator, Werner Birkenfeld finds
that In Europe there is one case
pr ;k
of harelip or cleft palate to STery
2400 children that are born. Boys
are affected more often than (Iris
In the ratio of three to two.
In 20 per cent of the cases there
was evidence of other cases In
previous generations of the family.
frurtJwnnore, patients with harelip
were found In most instances to
haTe other defects of structure as
well.
It has now been definitely estab
lished that extra fingers and toes
tend to be inherited. A disease
called brittle bones runs In fam,
tiles and a tendency to bleed called
hemophila la directly Inherited, In
deed, it Is sez-llnked, being Inher
ited only through one of the sexes.
More and more It is becoming tri
dent that improvement in the race
is dependent on a study of all of
these factors of Inheritance.
TOM SIMS
BARBS
pEORGB WASHINGTON, they
say, never told a lie. But then
George never went into the oil
business.
,
A combined saxophone and bag
pipe has been invented. Scientists
also discovered a new lethal gaa
recently.
Professor Einstein's scientific
formula probably won't make a for
tune out of science, but think how
irofitable it might have been in the
aundry business!
It Is predicted science eventually
will be able to control the weather.
If science is wise, it won't try any
thing like that
Girls on Mars are reported to
have six legs apiece. The very
place for a Scotchman to get his
money's worth at a burlesque show.
(Copyright, NEA Service, Inc.)
20 YEARS AGO
(From The Guard, Feb. 21, 1909)
DRELIillNAJiY surveys for the
proposed electric railway be
tween Eugene and the mouth of the
Siuslaw river, which Is being pro
moted by the Lane County Asset'
company, were berun today.
Such words as "plggers" and
"pigging" in the University of
Oregon slang will become obsolete,
if the crusnde against them, which
the "Midnight Doughnut" has be
gun la successful. "Pigs," "pig
ging," and "pigger," are words that
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