EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE GUARD
July 13.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
(PoblUhed every evening except Sunday)
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Alton F. Baker
HANAOINO EDITOR - - . William M. Tubman
NEWS BERVICa ...... Aeeoclated PreM
WEifBER ------ Audit Bureau of Circulations
The Guard ' policy U the complete and Impmrttal publication
In Its news parse of all news and statements on ntwi. On this
pare, the editors of The Guard offer their opinions on events of
the day and matters of Importance to the community, endeavoring
to pe oanam out rair, ana tie
elpful
tlve on mm unity policy.
A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OF IT8 COMMUNITY
MILLER SELECTED
frnm appointment of Prank J. Miller of Albany to the stats
publlo ervlc commission aa the successor of the lata
Loots El Bean, of Eugene, will be quite satisfactory to nearly
everybody In this' part of the state. Eugene aa the second
greatest of Oregon's railway centers, has been particularly la
terested In this appointment. Mr. Bean saw the .project far a
cross-state line well under way. We do not want to see It
dropped. The Willamette valley also 1b vitally concerned In
getting lower "Intermediate" freight rates. Mr. Miller, being
from an "Intermediate" city In the valley will probably be In
accord with this effort
Mr. Miller is In the foundry business. He haa had connec
tion with banks. He han had previous expstioaca on the pub
llo service commission. He knows Oregon geography and
Oregon problems. He la known hero and throughout the state
aa a man of Integrity and good judgment The faot that he
Is & well qualified man Is far more Important than whether he
happens to live In Albany or Eugene or any other place. He
lives In the Willamette valley and Is therefore particularly
familiar with Willamette valley problems. That Is sufficient.
With the other members he sits on a commission which repre
sents the entire atat-v
MAKES A DIFFERENCE
TT It greatly to be hoped that the dispute between the Soviet
1 Russians and the nationalists of Chinn over the Chinese
Eastern railway In Manchuria will not re, uH In actual war.
Neither country is in condition tor a war It la a conflict
which might in time embroil many other nations because of the
suspicion which attends nearly every Soviet act Few People
have ever taken serious the Soviet boasts of some day con
quering the- world, either by propaganda or by force. A war
upon the Chinese la not apt to signify any such grand attempt
But It Is apt to emphasise the dread of such aa attempt
Russia owned the Chinese Eastern under the ctar and it
ever there waa an imperialistic enterprise that was It The
desire of ' a Chinese to put this Important line under native
control la natural. The desire of the Russians to hold what
they regard as an established property Is equally natural, even
though In the light of Russian teachings on property It may
seem a bit Incongruous. It makes a great deal of difference
whose property Is being confiscated, doesn't It? The right of
a proletariat to possess everything In sight is rather sacred
with the Soviets unless It happens to be a Chinese proletariat.
The Russians are rather human, at that After the chaos of
revolution they pre progressing by alow evolution toward doc
trines and practices which the rest of the world w'Jl not con
alder extreme. One of the chief evils of a war right now would
be that It might Interrupt this very Interesting process.
NON-STOP FLYING
rV the heels of the phenomenal ten and a half day record
for non-stop flying mads In California by Retnhart and
Mendell cornea the announcement that an effort will be made
to make a non-stop round trip flight from New York to Los
Angelea and return with the help of midair refueling. This
WW ba the first big practical test of the advantages of mld-alr
refueling and extremely prolonged flights.
There has been ample proof that a plane can be refueled
in the air without excesslre risk so long as It Is circling more
or less slowly over one spot There has been ample proof
that the endurance of modern engines and plane structure Is
ample for extremely long flights. Retnhart and Mendell could
have girdled the world during their ten and a half days In the
air had they been able to leave the Culver City field and es
tablish fueling contacts at proper points. .
It remains to be proved how much actual time la saved for
a plane in actual point to point fllRht by refueling In air and
whether such refueling could be adapted to the conditions of
trans-ocean flying where undoubtedly it Is most needed, it Is
doubtful If mld-alr refueling during overland fllghta will ever
have much practical value because the time necessary to makn
a landing for refueling and adjustment of machinery Is neg
ligible. But In developing trans-ocean service mld-alr refueling may
be almost Invaluable because planes have not been built (hat
can land on water or even on plane-carrying ships In mid-ocean
under all weather conditions without considerable delay and
risk. Improvements In mld-alr fueling msy mean that even
tually we shall have service station ships at convenient In
tervals on all the main lines of travel, freeing the lntnr-oontl-nental
filers from the perils of carrying super loads of gas and
running out of gas In mid-ocean and thereby greatly Increasing
the capacity for speed and the carrying of passengers In long
over-water fllghta.
Eugene Is to hold a celebration on the eve of the pageant
when the whisker awards will be made. Ours may not take a
prize but It we get the moot court's concession to take 'am off
we'll celebrate gladly.
AJax McGurk. the well known right hand man. predlrls that
wives and sweethearts will be glad to celebrate also.
Pictures which have Just arrived prove that John D. Rocke
feller wore bushy whiskers during most of the time when hs
was accumulating his millions, it that proves anything.
Rusty Brown, manager of the McDonald, is showing pre
gllmpses of a new desert picture in which the Arabs also look '
like they were getting ready for a "Sunset Trail" celebration.
A good many women will admit they were Mind when they
got Diarrled, but It remains for a New York woman to rlm (
divorce on the ground that she was unconscious when she mar
ried her present husband. Our right hand man says the men
are always that way.
Maybe some of the chaps who are promoting all the big ne
buildings sround the town will promote a few boards to finluli
the new bridge to Springfield.
Not that AJax Is opposed to progress, but be wonders If
"beautifying the Butte" Isn't about the peak of the superlative
AS OTHERS
WE PROGRESS
("Orvnllfs GMti-Tlmre.
A Hood ftirr eranIiit Is (in-Bouncing-
that th mot.r whirh
tell about a w ago m i dir
tnftssafff) to Hood Kivr Jjponl
t row - tb supreme power. The
iraaaon, ol oouee, tlai Iht meev
in the development of conetruo-
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SEE THINGS
SHjje was fnr Flood vtr Is thM
the Tnffelist Is there, not at
some othrT towns of the hmulren
where the meteor was ieu. U
think poaiibl; th Iity my tia.
Intended to Include The halle,
too, but Catrtaioly Dot any U-
lamctte valley point. The Dalles
Chronicle.
Well, no, not In a Willamette
Valley town. To be aure, we still
have our superstitions, believe In
the devil, hell, the virgin birth, the
doctrine of atonement, the resur
rection, the immaculate conception,
total deprnvity.'original sin and the
perseverance of tho saints, but
we have pawned the stage, wbera
we believe that meteors are a
divine manifestation filled with a
message of either warning or of
hope. In fact, we are smart
enough now that we do longer be
lieve in the theory about the rain
bow being a "promise." That la
moat of us are that way, but we
still have a few Pentacostals who
believe everything anybody ever
thought of And If some pastor would
snggeflt It thev would trail along
with The Dalles and believe the
meteor was a mcaAOge of some
kind direct from Jehovah. We
hate to admit It, but we actually
have people yet who go out into
the street and sing and yell end
pray and whoop 'er up In a dis
turbance of the peace that would
cause anybody else making as much
noine to be arrested. But, we are
getting somewhere. We no longer
believe In the lupernaturalism of
mateors.
TOM SIMS'
BARBS
T'8 an entirely different matter
1 when the roll is called in Wall
street.
A aodety for dress reform urges
that men dress as sensibly as
women. We'll give the aociety credit,
if It can get one man to come to
the office In gym shirt and run
rinar pants.
A conservative to a radical who
was eleeted on the platform of cur
ing tho world's wrongs and who
finds out after he Is elected that It
will take lots of time.
.
Teachers are working to kill the
rule prohibiting married women
teaching. Nobody wants a girl these
days who can't support herself, it
seem?.
A well read person is one who
can tell you who's the leading fig
ure ri&ht now lu China.
Now that the smaller currency is
being put info use, save your cigar
H)uptiis you may have to jiive
one of 'em to a taxi driver on a
dark night.
Europe must be a nice place to
live. If you owe anybody anything
all you have to do is call a confer
ence. e e e
The PwIfs are the richest people,
per capita, in the world. But then
they have very few night clubs, and
those for the tourints.
What's wronn with this sentence:
"T would buy this myself if I had
your capital?"'
(Copyright NEA Service Inc.)
20 YEARS AGO
(From The Guard, July 13, 1000)
DIAIE laws woro brought before
tho city council last night with
the presentation of an ordi
nance to prohibit cigar stores
and pool rooms from run
ning on Sunday. Tho council ques
tioned tho legality of the proposed
measure mid laid over the ordinance
for investigation.
e
Mrs. W. M. Itennhaw'a horse,
"Bsbe," who whs shot by the des
perado who attempted to hold her
up on the Coburg road a few weeks
ago, died Saturday from the ef
fects of the wound.
Dr. J. W. Harris, on his way
home from Iornne this afternoon In
company with his little son, George,
saw two female deer whicli stood
at the roadside twenty feet away
and gneed at them until the buggy
unused.
e
The W. C. T. V. will meet to
morrow afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Srarltrough at ftrtS Uncoln
st rret.
Indications are that there will be
a large crop of hazelnuts this year.
The buohes which ara seen from
the rendu seem to be filled with
nuts. It will he several weeks,
however, before they are ripe.
,SIDE GX'ANCES
"I don't know why you Insist on oomlna to thle place when you know
their meat orders aren't big ennugh for two."
Daily Health Service
Overexercise Is GraTe Danger
To Ardent Tennis Player
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
(Editor Journal of AmeruHH Medi
cal Association and Hygeia,
the Health Magazine)
IN the course of a tennis tourna-
ment or continuous playing, one
of the most important demands is
for sufficient rest and sleep to keep
the tennir? player in good condition.
If he is playing daily, he will re
quire at least 0U to 10 hours of
sleep. The demands on the nervous
system interfere greatly with ap
petite. Nevertheless the tennis play
er must eat a considerable amount
of food in order to provide suffi
cient energy to take care of the
needs of hie sport.
In selecting hia diet he will nat
urally take food that will provide
energy and at the name time not
interfere seriously with the di
gestion. Such foods include milk,
eggs, meats, cereals and plenty of
WASHINGTON
LETTER
By RODNEY DUTCHKR
(NEA Service Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 13. After
lengthy and exhaustive studies
of retail credit and installment buy
ing, Dr. Wilbur C. l'lumnier, uro
fexsor of economics at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, comes to
tho conclusion that the ratio of
honesty among Americans is re
markably high.
Of course there are lawa and po
licemen and cautious credit bu
reaus which reatrict our opportuni
ties to be dishonest, but Dr. Hum
mer, who is temporarily attached to
the Department of Commerce to
direct a national survey of retail
credit, asserts that the success of
the retail credit structure and Its
very low proportion of bad debts
Is convincing proof.
"The strongest argument that
Individual consumers nre honest is
that although the most desirable
credit principles are not applied
In exteuding credit, we yet have
Reporting for Active Duty
S If w jMiti-w.-
a variety of vegetables.
The tennis player dimply cannot
overdo the use of tobacco or of cof
fee, and he tnunt watch carefully
the effects of heat upon his nervous
system and upon his body gen
erally. One of the earliest symptoms of
overexercise in tennis, uh in any
other sport, is the appearance of
albumin in the excretion? from the
kidneys. This happens not infre
quently in the case of the person
who has taken insufficient fluid or
in the person who goes into the
sport without sufficient prelimin
ary preparation.
In order to guard n pa hist the de
velopment uf this serious condi
tion, it w advisable to have fairly
frequent eianiinatinns of the ex
cretions. Thene will indicate whe
ther or not the kidney is able Jo
undergo the strain.
this low proportion of dishonesty,"
he says.
Enormous Credit Sales
"Studying the affairs of 1S70
retail establishments department
stores, automobile dealers and gro
cery stores with un annual busi
ness of a billion and a hulf dollars,
we found that one-third of the de
partment store sales, two-thirds of
the automobile dealer sales and
more than half of all grocery store
sales were made on credit.
"The average bad-debt losses of
department Btores were only 0.4
per cent on regular charge account
sales and 1.1 per cent on install
ment sales.
"Automobile dealers showed a
reverse situation with regard to
open credit and installment ac
counts, with losses of 0.0 per cent
and 0.4 per cent respectively.
"Grocery stores, numbering 843,
which did a credit business showed
a percentage of had debts on
charge accounts of O.H per cent.
Thn t makes an a ve ra ge for the
several groups of averages of alraut
0.7 per cent. Dr. Hummer points
out that there are two dnstes of
persons responsible for bad dehts,
thone who can't pay and those who
don't want to pay.
"It isn't possible, of eonrse. to
tell just what proportion of debtors
are those who simple don't want
to pay," he saya. "But the dishon
est fellows as a rule are those who
haven't anything.
"And the proportion of knaves
among the customer simply can't
be above that figure of seven
tenths of one per cent and is pre
sumably well below that
"Only In very exceptional cases
does anyone try to get away with
goods without paying for them. It
seems to me that the figures ehow
a very high rate of honesty. Of
course there are a few people who
are always trying to cheat the
stores and dealers and these have
the most difficulty In getting credit.
"Easy credit puts many mer
chants out of business, but in any
trade as a whole the credit losses
are low. It'a the me reliant who
goes too far in extending credit
who meets with disaster. Credit is
all right, but loose credit is dan
gerouB and it ha become one of
the chief causes of failure among
retail grocery stores.
"Credit is one of the weapons the
Individual store has against the
chain stores. If he adopts a too
lenient credit policy, however, he
will attract customers who have
no intention of paying and others
who have difficulty in obtaining
credit elsewhere."
Credit In Bankruptcy
Dr. Plummer has just made a re
port on a study of credit conditions
and causes Ut failure among gro
cery stores in Louisville, Ky., where
416 stores were examined. This
ohowa that among 30 stores which
were on the verge of bankruptcy
the average credit loss was several
times nt great as among the other
3R0. Five of them had ratios of
ba ! debts to credit sales of 31.8.
17.5, 10.2. 2fl and 37.4 per cent,
whereas the nverage predit loss for
well-conducted grocery stores is less
than 0.5 per cent. The fact was
Steady
Twelve hundred and sixty-one new savings de
positors have added to our growth during the past
year; this without any special campaign. Our total
number of customers in this department now more
than equals one-fifth of the population of Eugene.
The half year's interest paid to our savings de
positors on July 1 amounted to $26,415.03, which
exceeded the total of any former period by a large
amount.
This interest has been added directly to the account
of each depositor, and is now drawing interest, so
that it is unnecessary to present the savings pass
book to be written up until some time when it is
convenient to do so.
The First National Bank
of Eugene
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brought out that the larger the
store the smaller the proportion of
bad-debt losses. 9
There are three sound principles
for Instalment credit," Dr. Plum
mer says. Adequate investigation
ought to be made of the individual's
hones t and ability to pay. A down
payment ought to be required large
enough to Insure the teller. An
other thing the stores should find
out, which they don't is the Biae of
the buyer's income and his existing
instalment obligations.
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TODAY Ifl THF!
ANNIVERSARY
Early Virginia Colony
QN July 13, 1G85, the first expe-
dition of settlers sent out by
Sir Walter Raleigh from England
landed on Roanoke Island, on the
Carolina coast.
Because at the time he was In
high favor with Queen Elizabeth,
Raleigh was not permitted to leave
England and. ar a result, com
mand of the expedition was In the
hands of hia cousin, Sir Richard
Grenville.
The expedition of seven ships
nlanted its colony and chose Ralph
Lane as governor.
It however, was not destined lo
last. Internal strife among the set
tlers, trouble with the Indians and
lack of provision caused th col.
onlsts to return to England in 15S6
Although this first attempt of
Raleigh to found a colony failed,
one lasting result woe achieved. Tho
enterprise resulted in the Intro
duction of tobacco and the potato
in Europe upon their return.
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