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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE GUARD July 6, ft : AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Publlihcd vrjr vnlnr xcpf Sunday) BDITOR Xm PUBLISHER Alton F. Bak-r fttANAOINO EDITOR William M. Tugr. an NEWS SERVICE AmociaUd Prn IfBMBER And It Bureau of Circulations Th Ouard'i policy it tha complt and Impartial publication In ta naw pagaa of ail nawa and ataUrnanta en nii- On this fata, tha dftori of Th Guard offar thtlr opinions on vnti of ha a ay and mattora of Importance to tha community, andeavorlny 10 om canaia nui rair, ana neipiui in tn aavaiopmant 01 conatruo tlva oommunlty policy. A NEWSPAPER 13 A CITIZEN OB ITS COMMUNITY IDAHO JUSTICE yOU remember a few weeks back, a fang of bandit cap- tured the lieutenant goTemor of Idaho, held him prleoner for a day or so and robbed him of his automobile and his money before thay were caught It majr Interest you to know that the four youths who performed the actual holdup drew sentences of from ten to twenty-fire years each, but that one "Seattle Oeorte" Norman, 47, the mentor and coach of the cang, cot off with a one to two year penalty. "Seattle George,", of course, was not on the scene of the holdup. He merely told the boys to do It. Likewise, It might be observed that "Seattle George" knew not only bis "onions" but bis courts. "Seattle George" knew how to get legal help to take full advantage of every possible technicality. "BeaXtle George" will be "out of stir" and living high on the money brsajht !n by ! fnp of "voim? stickers" while some of the boys In the Boise job are getting gray haired sewing shirts. You can figure If you wont to, what the four boys will do when they csma out cf JaJ!, what their attitudes toward society and justice will be. President Hoover's commission to deal with crime might study the Impotence of the state cf Idaho In handling "Seattle George" as a very pertinent case. AN ASTOUNDING PROPOSAL ALMOST on the eve of starting work to complete the highway from Mapleton to the Lane county coast, comes the as tounding proposal of County Commissioner Oral B. Crowe and County Engineer P. M. Morse to ask that the route be changed from the water level of the Sluslaw valley to the Mapleton hill route, notorious for Its heavy grades and bad curves. The federal bureau of public roads and the state high way commission, which are the county's partners In the project, probably would not consent to the change. The whole project would collapse. Then there would be no real highway Into Western Lane, perhaps for years. We would see the culmina tion of the lurking opposition which has Impeded the project from the beginning. Luckily, County Judge G. F. Barnard and Commissioner Clinton Hurd do not join the Crowe-Morse move ment, though their protests to It are disappointingly faint. The basis of the Crowe-Morse movement Is tue claim that the actual cost of the twenty-mile project will exceed the state and federal estimates by $300,000 or more, that It will be a $1,300,000 to 1, 600,000 project Instead of one costing $900,000 to $1,000,000 In which case, of course, the county's one-fourth of the cost would greatly exceed present expectations and re quire special financing over and above the $100,000 from the special levy we voted last November and the $60,000 available for ills purpose from the O. ft C. grant refunds. Crowe and Morse claim the county would be Impoverished for other road work, though Judge Barnard has a plan for spreading the pos sible excess costs. That's one side of the picture. On the other side, K. D. Farmer, federal engineer, and Roy Klein, state engineer, deny that actual costs would exceed esti mates by any appreciable amount, despite the fact that rlght-of wy on the twenty mile front Is apt to cost $40,000 more than expected. These federal and state engineers are pretty good ... engineers and experience throughout Oregon has been that they ,re not often far wrong In their estimates. As Mr. Klein sug gests, It might be a good Idea to go ahead and get bids before getting alarmed because the bidding will tell If there has beon any bad slip. But let's see what Mr. Crowe and Mr. Morse have to offer If they get .their way. They say, off hand, that the county's $100,000, with perhaps a little added, could put the Mapleton Hill route Into passable shape for year-round travel even If state and federal authorities could not be Induced to shift the major highway to the hill route. This Is, of course, a makeshift propo sition. The state and federal people rejected the hill route be cause careful Burreys showed It would cost approximately as much to build a standard, highway over the mountain as it would to follow the river route. Therefore, after" spending the money which the people of this county voted in expectation of getting a real highway to the Coast, there would be what! Not any kind of a state highway because the state wouldn't cooperate at alt. Not even a standard market road because the county couldn't rebuild the entire route. There would be merely en Improved mountain road, passable, perhaps, but abso lutely unsafe and unsulted for any kind of heavy traffic. ow the purpose of the highway to the Coast Is not morely to get a road that can be navigated. The purpose In to get a highway that will complete the east-west route across this part of the state, that will furnish a fitting connection with the Roosevelt highway, tb will carry not only passenger travel but heavy freighting movements between the Willamette valley and this Coast, that will open up all Wostern Lane to develop ment, end Western Lane la rich, not poor, in possibilities. In Southern Oregon they are trucking In from tidewater at Crescent City to avoid excessive freight rates. We have only to look at the rapidly Increasing traffic over the fine new road to Reeds port to see what a Coast road can do. It Is a narrow vision which sees this connection merely as a favor to tha people on li t Coast, It I a connection that Is vital to all Lane county. THIS MENACE OK NOISE rpUB Chicago health commissioner, llr Arnold M. Kegel, has liken up a subject that we have been yearning for years to see some such official tackle. He has issued , blast at the great volume or unnecessary nnlee (hat pervades all of our cities. Most of this noise, he says. Is unnecessary, and could he avoided by the use of proper equipment or the exercise of a little forethought, nut we are so used to It that we do not bother to figure out wb.vs of eliminating It. Yet noise, Dr. Kegel point, ouU i, ,ctull) m,nlr, , hfRlh It seriously Impair, efficiency, reduce, the amount of rest one gets during sleeping hours and may even cause an actual break Ing down of the nervous system, A few years ago every city assumed that an overhui.ln. moke cloud was a necessary evil. Then health official, got busy, and now the somite cloud, are being eliminated. The sunn thing-let us hope devoutly -may nappe w, ,he ritf, , It Is a harmful thing that rsn be got rid If . ( ourselves to the Job. AS OTHERS SEE THINGS" Perverting the Press (Hal 'in Capital-Journal Much of 1 1m crilickntn iurlf rj it the perns of the country ia unjuiil fied, for the new column of th nnpnpfrs simply paint lif at It IOti, hut thr in tin iindouhttvj Undent1? to Amar MlTrnn r..inri htiFH in in dirpntporlii'it'1. p-tii'M- IobipIiium that jriifg i!tf ftr"tisiif end unnwil tUu-t poriravH in eubut art. In tiiie caUtfor Uk tiie t upon it in the metropolitan preie. .Neither of tU ptiiiclpak ii a pub lic figure, nor nationally known, nor are their private affaire of real public interest. Certainly no public good can come of this pandering to iranda 1 mongering which hae be come the exclusive field of the city tabloids catering to morons. Vet here are such canting para foni of journalistic purity as the ortland Oregonian. playing up day uttrtr day the tawdry details of this very commonplace comedy ae the paramount new of the time. Of course if the parties were Port lnndera or Oregonians, or even na tionnl characters, the space might he justified aa news, but the treat ment the story is receiving justi fies the criticism that the pre a ap parently delights to foster. t It Is a nerveralon of the law to lend Itself to such cold-blooded ahakedowns aa these heart-balm suits. It i no less a perversion of the functions of the press to lend themselves to unjustifiable explo itation of their trivial details about personages of no moment r SIDE GLANCES TODAT IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF Ullftft DllftMAfl a QtelL. QN July 6, 1416, John Hun, Bo , hemisn religious reformer, w.. burned at the .take for h.re.y. Hub., a Catbolio print, became intcrewted in the writing, of the Knirlish theologian. Wielif. which he read eagerly and obtained permis sion to lecture on tbem in the Uni versity of Prague. Wicllf bad not escaped tha charge of heresy and Hus. wa. forbidden to discuss 45 of hi. theses, derived mostly from Wiclif. Hus. stirred the hierarchy, priests and the monks by denouncing, In Imitation of Wicllf, the corruption vi inn cnurca. in J1U, Muss and nis ronowers were excommunicated In 1411, Pone ,lehn XX HI nro- elslmed a crusade against King ijauime. 01 iapies anu promised in dulgences to volunteers, Huss gave out a university debate on indul gences which widened the breach between himself and the clergy. In 1414, obedient to a summons, Hum went to a general council meeting at Constance. He was ar rested and accused as s heretic, with 81) charces being filed aminst him. His books were Durned and on July 1 his attempt to com. to an under standing with the prosecutor, fail ed oud he was burned at the stake for heresy. The death of Huss caused sorrow and Indignation throughout Bohemia and led to the so-called Uuaslte wsr. TOM SIMS' BARBS A VISITING Britisher ssys Amerios uses bad English. And some of the Scotch is terrihle, too. : Maybe the reaaon why so many Scotchmen have won success In this country is that they will giie no quarter. ') The professor, tell u. that every musical composition hs. a motive. Sometimes, Judging from some of the tunes you hear over the radio, it must be sheer mesnness. How much you get out of yonr work often dapends on how much you put into it. An Ohio girl set firs to he? a uiMinr. .uayne sne oniv wanted to be sure he didn't sleep In 1MB BUCKS. Over In Englsnd the other day they found s ltoman skull two In ches thick in places. There surely VLT. V... .'lifri-ltt. In !.).. I -l 1 as thnt of a senator. m m m The Lahorltea scored s victory In the recent election in Enitland.'but the Liberals hold the balance of power. Tliot sounds like one of those strategic triumph, of the Mexican revolution. "Now, mem, when you meet this date plsass don't tell him how It seems only yesterday I was running around barefoot and making mud nl.s In the read." Losing Your Hair? There Isn't Much You Can Do About It By Dli. MORRIS FI&rLBEIN (Kditor Journu. of the American Medical A.ei9tien and of Hy geia, the Health Magazine) JF there ia any one subject that disturbs the average man more than any other, it is the gradual dissipation from the top of his scalp of the rihsute growth which he has learned to associate with the ap pearance of youtlifulnecs. Fortunately for Umi, there Is now available a prognostication by one of the most noted untliropologists in the world that the whole ten dency of mankind is toward a com plete disappearance of hair from the surface of the body und that one hundred thousand yeaia from today, if human beings are still upon this earth, they will be en tirely without hirsute adornment. Hence he may reply to the taunta of his mora hairy colleagues by say ing he is one hundred thousand years ahead of his time. Hopefulness of the average man with relationship to the preserva tion of his hair by hair tonics, scalp treatments, dandruff cures and nim llar devices is pereunitil. However, the vast amount f evidence tndi cat ob thAt in the majority of en sen baldnesa is hereditary and there is so treatment that haa specific vir tues for creating new hair. For many years it has been no ticed that workers in certain types of industries involving the taking Into the body, for example, of ar senic, had hair that was particu larly glossy und fine. It ia also ap parent thnt the food one takes into the body may influence the compo sition of the hnir to nome extent since the quality of the hair de pends on the quality of the food. Hair consists for the most part of a protein material known as keratin. What could be more nat ural therefore than that the eating of keratin would benefit greatly the growth of the hair? Attempts have been made to feed keratin diets to sheep because the quality and thickness of the coat of the sheep is a matter of commercial importance. The chief content of keratin is a chemical substance containing sul phur known as cystine. The high content of hair in cystine and the possibility of measuring the growth of the hair made It important t conduct some experiments on the feeding of cystine. Investigators in the University of Michigan have re cently completed work on this sub ject They found, thnt the feeding of cystine would influence the amount of hnir produced and the chemical composition of the hair, but that the demands for this substance by the growth of the hair were secondary in importance to the demands of the growth of the body generally. In other words, there is a possi bility thnt n further continuance of these researches may yield some thing of practical value, but nt present the prevention of baldness through diet is not in sight. WASHINGTON LETTER Ky HODNEY DUTCHEIt WASHINOTON, July 6. It does " not yet seem to he settled whether President Hoover is niak- "I'.ce and prominence hei,.., , the .tlempt of an Os!li..m sdirn !"""' to M.c.matl . ,i,,rly l,t Zi i .L l,J,n, t""IX" out of IJAOMK) u bf-O b.im fr . hre,U,,'f . en,.(e.,, UMin.l. in mi ,M, ,h ,lf tiring "mad, , ,huni ..f ' ami eifloued fur hi. nwurj. K course the aco-nut ..f il, i news. I, ,ii t ,. f I'01! ' euffi. , , to junUIj Ui. m uii O.C;OOGO I This $40,000 Potential Loss Could Have Been Avoided By An Investigation By A Certified Public Accountant The following report 1b reproduced from a recent issue of a local newspaper (names omitted), and tella an all too familiar story of a purchaser's misunderstanding. Realty Deal In Court Purchasers el Property Seek to Recover From Dealers Aliasing misrepresentation In sale of the thealrn and apartmeut build , ing at 1 aronue. near , ' street, a suit seeking to recover $40,000 and 110.000 exemplary damages was filed In circuit court yesterday by against local real estate dealers. The plaintiffs, the complaint states, turned orer Klamath county property, bonds and cash for the purchase of the Kugene property on representation of the defend ants that former owner, held the properly at $135,000. The plaintiffs allega that the owner was willing to sell the property at $.".;. 600. The plaintiffs state that the srosa inroms from the property wns represented bv the defendants to be $8!3f. a montji with a net of I11J0 The gross is only $i;o sad no est, the rcsiplasat a'a'ea WotMitan.;. topor. rushes a bm upon Lh ther , ei Ln5"e r n"nl,r,M"","1n f financiHl condition of 111, 1 ipencer ft Collins CEgTFWBD PUBLIC 4CC0NTANT Miner Building O Phone 17ft Eugene, Oregon ing a large success of hi, attempts to boss congress or whether con iveog das been running or the president. Nearly everyone who has written about this seems to hare tried to prore one thing or another. The important point Is that If Hoover does as well in his relations with ths legislstive branoh in tli future aa he has done to date, he will hare little reason to complain. Unfortunately, there is reason to fear that his troubles bars merely begun. The reason concerns the tariff. Already the tariff problem has the president in something of a hole. It may not prove to be so much of a hole, or the president msy jump out of it into whst be considers a more favorable one, but the democrats are hoping to coa vert it into a sucking quicksand. A Dangerous Subjeot There Is no more effective way for a president to get his feet wet than to allow a tariff revision to enter his administrstion. The re vision now proposed by republicsji lesders in both houses of congress is the fourth in 20 years. The only one smong the other three which is comparable to this Dne is that of 1910, which is so often credited with wrecking the Taft administra tion and putting ths democrats back into power. The Underwood tariff revision 111 the first Wilson administrstion was a revision downward; because of the World war no one know. Just how it would have worked out. The Fordney-McCumber Act, passed early in the Harding administration, was a revision upward and there has been plenty of argument whether America's industrial prosperity of the inst few years has been bs cause of or in spite of it. Now cornea an upwarfl revision under what may be denominated as nor mal cutidiliubs and almost anything csn bsppen. Except for the tariff, neither President Hoover and the republi can party nor the country has found nnytliing very new to worry about since March 4. Hoover got bis farm bill through as he wanted it, which is the main thing to consider, and whether tne relief provided in the act will do any particular good is something to worry about later. On the other hand, hardly anyone ever supposed that the president would have dif ficulty In either house such as de v.loped with the senate's tempor ary revolt against passing the bill without tha debenture scheme In it. Borah's Deteotlon Expeoted Ths loss of Senator Borah as a Hoover leader position he ac cepted during the campuign waa f.nerally discounted in advance, 'ew expected that Borah would stsy put there very long. And Hoover hss demonstrated that, in his army there is, as in the past, only one general the rest aro lieu tenants. Nevertheless, it wss shown thst the old progre.Bive-democrstic combination whnch has so often sickened republicans hsd not been killed by events of the campaign and final passage of the farm bill doubtless found ths president with mixed emotions. He took a licking on the national origins legislation, but not ' any more of a licking than was needed to prove that the senate often dis regsrds a president's wishes. The senate has always been like that and this waa no serious defeat. Probably of even more significance was the fact that congress failed to appoint the congressional prohibi tion enforcement reorganization commission, which Hoovsr wants to move enforcement from the treas ury to the justice department, al though there is no grest rush shout that. The significance seems to lie in reports that action was de liberately omitted because Repub lican House Lesder Bert Knell was food and sore over presidential neg ect regarding patronage in New York 8taU. Hearing From tha Vetera Now most members of congress are at home, hearing what the coun try thinks about the tariff bill which the house sent to the senate. It is too early to get a good 'Idea what they are bearing, but there is Elenty of reason for belief that the ard-bofled senate finance commit tee will produce an even stiffer bill. Already it has gone fsr be yond Hoover', expressed idess of what a tariff bill uusiit to be. Unless the senate tears the com mittee bill all to pieces dent probably will hats' te p"1 a measure calculated to nJtn' hair stand up. Whatever i ' will be pretty certain to makY.1 ble for blm. He will ,imi V to decide which exit is likeii , off the least hair. la 20 YEARS AGO (From.The Guard, Jul. a ... DUILtlNO Inspector mM reports, the largest mon?1 permits during June in tha i- 1 of bis office. " tb' S . Ctn Arn'Plger, the well football player at the univsr, secured the position as asBiiu,, engineer in Medford. Ul"i The Wisconsin people in En, will hold a picnic on Julv B ., end of the carllne. Not o0lV Wisconsin people invited, but i friends have beenusked to cob? floy Davis, the' Eugene bo. J graduated in June at the Aaniiw naval academy, received orden i Saturday to report for dut, , ' battleship Kansas, at Prorli,? B. . I The tent skating rink wti J for business yesterday snd took, a good sum. ' ORTHODONTIA Prior to the year 1000 the ening of teeth was very much if. experiment ,v:tucut aa siJ knowledge of whut was taking 3 in the jaw bones when teeth moved or suitable millennia fori plianees to produce the dealred at nieutg. Since then extensive ... hus added si'ently to the knol' of the physiology of tooth moviy and the perfection of temperatltt loys of noble metals has mmfe i sible a deliniteness of terhnle J was not imagined a few Years .... DR. J. E. RICHMOND Practice limited to ORTHODOX STATEMENT OF CONDITION The First National Bank of Eugene, Oregon at the Close of Business June 29, 1929. RESOURCES Loans Overdrafts '. . Bank Building and Other Real Estate Stock in Federal Reserve Bank Other Bonds and Warrants U. S. Government Bonds and Certificates Cash and Sight Exchange L 855.53 177,117.91 . 12,000.00 . 865,046.94 . 839,931.13 . 935,051.03 Total ;. $4,973,025.35 . LIABILITIES Capital : Surplus Undivided Profits ; : Reserved for Taxes, Interest and Depreciation.. Circulation : : Deposits: Individual , .$4.345.342.49 Government -Other Banks 47,226.29 200,000.00 200,000.00 49,338.87 5,460.87 100,000.00 4,418,225.61 Total .: $4,973,025.35 3 Per Cent Interest on Savings Accounts and Time Certificates I Combined Statement I I The United States National 3 Bank , j Eugone, Oregon , i The Eugene Loan And Savings Bank Eugene, Oregon At Close of Business, June M, 1929. RESOURCES: Loans and Discount United States Bonds Other Bonds and "Warrants Federal Reserve Bank Stock Bank 1 'remises Other Real Estate (trior Resources .62 Cash and Sight EscJiang tUtlLrttES: o Surplus tvid Fp.fifi . iVpits Fl O l9 o -$1,099,017 51.S00.00 - 744.366.19 5,550.00 69.338.o0 44.970.29 1,014.81 - 496,050.59 2,912,101.00 $ 150.000.00 S0.K29 1 2.281,278.79 t Mi 4&512,108.G9 o o !
