The Eugene guard., August 06, 1929, Image 4

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EDITOR AND PUBLIHUER Alton V. Baktr
MANAQINO PDITOR - - - - - Wlllawm M. Tugmta
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In Ita mwi pvi of all nws and statements on news. On this
tha editors of The Guard offer their oplnlona on eventa of
he day and matters bf Importance to the community, endeavoring
to be candid but fair, and helpful in the development of construe
tlve community policy.
A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY
WHY A PERMANENT PAGEANT?
(An analysis of tha SunsAt Trail success by a
Eugenean who haa sturilnrt (he community closely.)
TN tho aftorumLh of discussion that has been going on ever
alnee the cloae of the Sunset Trail pageant two pointa have
been advanced on every side: first. It Is conceded that Eugene
is to give a pageant every three years, and, second, the feeling
Is felt to be Justified that Eugene has done and can do aomethlng
that no no other community could do so well.
"What has come over this townT" ashed an eminent scholar
who was a professor in the University of Oregon ten years ago
and haa been away ever since. 'Ten years ago Eugene could
no more hare done such a thing than it could have flown; now
!t easily put this pageant over in a manner scarcely any com
munity in the world could surpass!"
Climate Is Right
One reason. It should be noted, Is climate. Climate bars out
ninety-nine hundredths of the towns in the United States. No
such vast and expensive scenic effects dare be attempted where
high winds may rise in the night, or where thunder storms
blow up In half an hour. Eugene will "have no rival in the
East, South or Middle West
On the Paclflo Coast other towns possess good summer cli
mate, but when the list Is pared down to those containing
universities, the number of possible competitors Is evidently
shrunk almost to the vanishing point. For It is only fair and
generous to state freely that the high quality of the Sunset
Trail performance waa possible through the untiring and un
selfish way in which trained university talent Joined in and
took part in a community movement whose heart and center
was down town and even up in the mountain valleys rather
than on the campus. The contribution of the school of musio,
the part taken by those trained In dramatics. In physical educa
tion, in dancing, In design, in publicity, in art, to say nothing
of the fact that the university contributed the author and other
Important and hard-working key men, must be acknowledged
as one cause of the admitted success of the whole show.
Then, of those communities few aa they are that have
both the light climate and a high grade university, if we' are
to eliminate all those that do not possess the democratic spirit
of Eugene, how many possible rivals are left? Like chickens'
teeth or the snakes In Ireland.
All Elements Help
Think of the elements which In most communities tend to
take a snobbish attltud and hold themselves aloof and above
taking part In real community enterprises, and see how lucky
, Eugene waa In the choice of the one theme that could arouse
their enthusiasm :
First, the "old family element," sometimes too busy building
up a "first family" cult to Join hands with community move
ments. Here they were the . very heart and center of tho
pageant, tor they are above all those who possess the heirlooms,
fcnd who feel both a pride and a duty in honoring the pioneers.
Second, the conservative rural element, usually hard to
Interest In movements emanating from the towns. Here they
stopped right to tha front, for they were the ones who owned
and understood oxen and horses, and were alill adept in all
the arts once common among tha Immigrating settlers. And their
place In the pageant waa an honored one.
Third, the wealthy, usually trying to set themselves apart
' as a separate cute which must not be expected to accept the
leadership of others or Join In movements which they do not
kontroL The rich men of Eugene offered the same hearty, un
selfish willingness to do what they were asked, the difficult
and laborious Jobs along with the easy and conspicuous, as
was expected of other people. They proved themselves Just
common good aoouta like the reet of us.
Fourth, the so-called Intellectual element No one will
mention "town-end gown" feuds In Eugene for years after seeing
this occasion. College towns often suffer from lack of sympathy
between the bnslneas and academic elements, but not this town.
Her the city believes In Us University and pours out Its wealth
In Its Interest, aa It did this spring. Here the college man be
llevea In his town and Jolna in Ita community projecta aa no
one will forget who has seen dignified professors and their
wives counting costumes, soliciting support, organising and
doing many of the dirtiest, sweatiest, and moat lnborlous parts
of tha work, besides marchlug in the parades, "carrying a
spear" sa humble members of choruses, and staying home on
their well earned vacations to help the project along.
Fifth, the aged, usually Inclined to hold bark even where,
Indeed, they have not a slight feeling of being excluded. On
this occasion at leaat gray hairs were an honor and a title to
deference, aa In a perfect world they ought to be.
Future Outlook Bright
There, then, are the five elements which are usually found
to be of the most refractory sort, the very hardest to interest
In such community propects. Here, we have happened on a
them that appeala to all of them even more than It does to
the "live wire" element that Is always ready to boost a good
thing.
So her, at laat. has been performed a miracle that Is
scarcely recorded of any other community In all the books of
history an entire community pulling together to a man, without
Jealousy, without mercenary motives, without any holding back
Then, there la the friendly feeling of the neighboring com
munltles, tha fact that the Willamette valli-y, of which Kugrns
la the center, waa an unusually early emlsrsnl objective and
much material haa been preserved here, and now, of course,
the fact that the pageant haa been organltod. Is successful,
and counts aa a going concern
For these reasons, every one of which represents an actual
fact that cannot be explained away. It Is reasonable to believe
that Eugene has the opiwrtunity to esirbllsh something unique,
thst will he perfected from triennlum to trlennlnm. repeating
Ita best features and gradually adding new lde. and perhaps
attain the fame of the Oherammercau passion play, or of the
very few other Intermittent celebrations thst attract widespread
attention.
AS OTHERS SEE THINGS
N UNFORTUNATE PROPHECY
Albany DemotratHrald
Paul Hcbieaier, Oroc folate rot
lego football coach. y that the
1 ot re ratty of Kouthern California
3njana will vanquish all the 1'a
nfk rnsst elevrna thla rominc
Veil, tht (Southerner! will win.
If tti other tanie think they mil.
The Aggie roach probaW a
Eivinr an eipert opinion Justified
y evidence, but w teb that he
had not propheaied. It disturbs ua
M a loyal Oregnnian, who la ready
to root for any trfon eleven, to
know I hat our own roaches eipert
the thundering herd of Kouthern
I aliforma to triumph. It take the
rdge off the aeaenn'e play to know
that Oreron teama are predestined
to J" down to ignominious defeat.
The Oct is Uuu lb Ottyt turn
will be defeated. If it eniere the
n eonttmed that the Trojan are
going to win
The California unirernties hare
plenty of material for thetr foot
UQ elevens and they mm out
aome finished product mm every
fall. Hut are rcmmg to the
enneluainn (hit I contributing far.
tor to their aucreaa is the Oregon
Inferiority ton-ntM, which appeara
to be mre willing to grant (hem
the palm than to wrest it fmm
thera. Me should prefer to hav
our roarhes aud teams reoognit
the fact thai the .Southern t alt
forniana are not super men, hut
hijmana even aa we Oregoniana
U'e should prefer frt have our Ore
gon teams unwilling in admit Tro
jaa uper.onij, uaui aitcx it had-
been demonstrated.
Many a football eleven haa risen
to sublime heights on the strength
of ita fighting spirit But aggrea
aiveneat does not coma from ad
mitting an antao?uat'a superior
ity. ,
Can You Believe It?
(The Bend Bulletin)
Tall talea of the trout fishermen
become positively puny when com
pared with the latest from Wood
land, Wazh. Tht; ttnrj which ia
published as fact, has to do with
the appearance of a l:unlc (mephi
tis mephitis) in a hennery, and the
auhnequent appearanm of a young
lady wha grasped nature's greatest
can attack by the lail ana swung
him aloft. .
But the skunk, while enraged at
such Indignity, retained an unuaual
amount of poise. He refused, in
tntt, to become, iitenhitic, continuing
without odorous offenae until fter
the young lady's brother had depriv
ed hira of his bead. And then, of
course, It waa too late.
We wish wa could believe that
story. If we only had faith, ft would
make us so much more .self-reliant
and valorous the next time we met
a woods puasy. But we juet can't.
It'i too much for our credulity, un
leas, unless the lllfated animal were
a refugee from one of those fur
farms where the polecat la separat
ed from hia aroma in early youth.
That, and only that, would make
the episode understandable.
MAIL BAG
SIDE GLANCES
ON CROSSINGS
Editor Guard:
The suggestion jn $ recent edi
torial that ii delinitt i,aii be work
d out fur handling ihi trussing
situation in Kugene, an regards the
trucks of the Southern 1'adfic
company In particular, seems to be
on which ham a great deal of
merit. While no immediate action
U probable which will permanently
establish the tracks and crossings
of the railroad company, neverthe
less ft is the intention of the South
ern pacific company t double track
Ita line through hugene. The ex
pennn of doing this will no douht
have a tendency 'to make difficult
any further change In the grade. A
brief study of the streets In Eu
gene will demonstrate to anyone the
inconvenience whloh arises from
developing a city without a definite
plan. There are still streets in the
most thickly settled portions which
are closed to traffic and this neces
sitates a great deal of round-about
travel.
Why cannot the city planning
commission and the Federated
Women' clubs take up this very
important matter for consideration
and develop a plan which will take
care of the crossing ait'iatinn with
a view to future traffic even heav
ier than that which eziais now
These organisations might perhaps
De able to sent re voluntary aunt st
ance in employing tome planning
eipert. It would be a splendid way
to demonstrate public epirit.
The suggestion made by some
one that several of the important
streets, namely, Eighth avenue
eakt, Broadway and Lleventh ave
nue east, be closed to traffic and
the travel on these atreeta be di
verted to one crossing of the (South
ern I'acmc tracks Anems to me a
very alarming one. The idea of
sending all traffic on these streets
through a bottle neck Is certainly
short sighted. Our traffic is bound
to Increase and should be provided
with more avenues of passage In
stead of being reduced to a fewer
number.
It Irt certainly to be hoped that
the city council will take no definite
action on thla matter until a very
comprehensive study haa been made
of the situation with a view not
only to present conditions but with
a liberal forecast for the future.
GEO. O. GOOD ALL.
it,1
"Young man, oan you direct me to the Rembrandt Galleries?"
aily Health Servic
Athlete's Performance Depends
Largely on Nerve Efficiency
TOM SIMS'
BARBS
A DOCTOR says that man will
be without toea in ft(X centur
ies. .Inat what will people do with
old safety rasor blades then?
A Pennsylvania bridegroom col
la peed twice while the wedding
eerttmony waa being performed.
They made him go through with
It, however.
An optimist fa a bridge player
who pasaea after hia pwrtuer has
bid "one weak no trump." You
might also call him a pessimist.
(Copyright .920 NEA Service Inc.)
By DR. MORRIS FIBHBEIN
Editor Journal of tha American
Medical Asportation and of Hy
gela, the Health Magajlne
CINCE the physiologists have dis
covered that the maximum
speed of a runner or of an athlete
in any performance depends on hia
vital capacity; that ia to any, rh
amount uf oxygen that he can use
in turning out a certain amount of
work, as well aa on the efficiency
of hia nervous and muscular sys
tem, experiments have been con
ducted in various laboratories to
find out what la the greateat speed
and efficiency that can be devel
oped In varioua types of muscular
performance.
When one rides his bicycle he is
concerned not only with the amount
of rapidity with which be can cause
the pedals to go round, but also
with pushing against a force, keep
ing his body in the seat and similar
problems). Dr. Sylvia Dickinson
in the University College, London,
has studied the efficiency of bicycle
pedaling aa affected by the speed
and the load for the Industrial
Fatigue Research Council.
Hhe points out that the relation
previously found between the max-
WASHINGTON
LETTER
By RODNET DUTCH ER
(NEA Service Writer)
WASHINGTON, Aug. a. Sen
" ator J, Boom boom McWhor
ter'a most recent weekly news-letter
to the newspapers of his home
stale:
"Oil's well on the Potomac. In
other words, everything is lovely.
At no time within my recollection
have there been such manifold rea
sons for contentment and pleasure
on the part of the voters over the
patriotic efforts of their duty
chosen representatives fn Washing
ton, especially the senate in ita
wisdom.
"As my able colleague Sens tor
(oosegrcaae has often and truly
said, we all ought to be humbly
imura speed of pedaling a bicycle
and the force overcome leads to
the prediction that the mechanical
efficiency of bicycle pedaling would
vary with the speed, and that there
would be an optimum speed at
which the efficiency is highest.
Experiments were made to deter
mine the efficiency of bicycle ped
aling over a wide range of speeds.
Th optimum time of one foot
movement ( half a pedal revolu
tion) was found to be nine-tenths
of a second. At a constant speed
of S3 complete pedal revolutions
per minute, it was found that the
efficiency was not appreciably af
fected by any change of load with
in a considerable range at the
pedal.
Here is an attempt to reach a
constant of the efficiency of human
muscular action in a certain type
of performance. Aa one might
presume from this investigation,
a six-day bicycle racer who had
achieved a constant pace of 83
complete revolutions per minute
sustained during the entire six-day
period would invariably win; at
this speed he would be constantly
at- the maximum of human effi
ciency in bicycle pedaling.
thankful that we live under the
rippling folds of Old Glory with
all the other countries owing ua
money and with 05 per cent of the
world's automobile production.
"I suppose my readers are won
dering what old t'nele Moo m boom
has to say about the tariff. Well,
Uncle Boom boom, although he can
not tell all he knows, predicts this:
We are going to have a tariff law
that will protect both the producer
and the consumer. It will protect
the consumer from low prices,
which sre bad for him. and the
same goea, of course, for the pro
ducer. I can promise with reas
onable assurance that there will be
no increase in dm on ice water,
gypsy moths, chop suey. Cape Cod
oysters, thunder and lightning, bob
bed hair, Mohammedans, debt pay
ments if any. homing pigeons,
birthday suits, barnacles and fog.
"Above all, this tariff law is go
In to be something that the re-
Suoticans will cheer about and the
emocrsts will squawk about. What
more can you ask from a tariff bill
How He Gets That Weigh!
than tilat? Everybody will be happy.
"Somebody ia t.il the time writing
In to ask where I arand on prohibi
tion. I do not like to get such let
ters because they indicate that
there la some doubt about where I
stand on prohibition. For the
benefit of new votera, however, I
want to reiterate for the thousandth
time that McWhorter stands for the
Stars and Stripes, the rights .t the
working luau. the sanctity nf the
home and all other experiments,
however noble.
"Now, take world peace. I think
we are all agreed that peace la a
fine thing whn It isn't abused.
What an inspiring spectacle it was
the other day when our nation told
Russia and China not to do any
fighting! But I do not want my
readers t think that we have
thereby given Russia and China the
right to ask us to stop whenever
we want to do some fighting of our
own. Just let those heathens try it
and see where they get off! Of
course, we all know that when our
country sends soldiers or marines
to fight anybody it is only in ft
holy cause and none of anybody's
business.
"I am sure that you are now all
convinced that each and every one
of us has something to be happy
about as he contemplates our na
tional affairs. Mr. George W. Wick
er sham has achieved tho impossible
and said something that made both
the wets and the dry happy at the
aame time. The drys think it is
just wonderful that Mr. Wicker
sham and President Hoover want
to make the state help enforce the
dry laws and the wets are happy
because the more enforcement there
is left to the state the less those
states will have which don't want
it."
To Real Estate Dealers
My property at 7H7 West Rth St.
Eugene, Ore., haa been withdrawn
from the market. Dated this 2nd day
of August, 1929.
MRS. G. W. BILLMIRE.
D WARD TRAPP, MANAGER
Credit Adjustment Bureau, Ph. 2870.
We collect when ethers (nil. Notes
accounts bought. 201 I. O. O- F. Btdg
TODAY 13 THE
ANNIVERSARY
OF
, Holy Roman Empire
QX Aug. 6, 1S06, Lhe Holy Ro
man Empire ceased to exist
when Francis II resigned the Im
perial crown after having assumed
the title of emperor of Austria.
The Roman empire wan the crea
tion of Otto the Great, who was
crowned emperor by the pope in
Rome in the year 962. Technically,
it was a prolongation of the empire
of Charles (Charlmang ). It was
based upon ideas essentially the
same as those which brought about
the coronation of Charles the Great
in 800.
The restored empire included,
reckoning strictly, only Germany
proper and two-thirds of Italy; or
counting subject hut Beparale king
doms. Burgundy, Bohemia, Mora
via. Poland, Denmark, perhaps
Hungary.
Under Otto, the Germans became
not only a united nation, but were
at once raised on a pinnacle, the'
possessors of Rome and Rome's
authority.
In 1254, at the end of the Hoh
enstauffen dynasty, the empire be
gan to sink rapidly in importance
aud owed any reul authority which
is possessed to the strength of the
ruler who was emperor.
The bonds which held the empire
together were greatly loosened In
10 IS when individual eta tea were
accorded the right to enter into
foreign alliances.
20 YEARS AGO
(From The Guard, Aug. 6, 1900)
"TTTERE was a rumor on the
streets today that the Oregon
Electric Rain way company hud
bought the local street railway
system from the Portland, Eugene,
and Eastern Railway company and
would soon extend Th Saim a i
l"tnri linn f. V
-uBne aod
the local system in conn.
the trunk line. MtWB .
During the month 0f ju
btrths exceeded th. death.
mum. hv nina . ' L.
Lan count? bowers c,i f"
many people come t thi, L.U''
The team represent,,,
compete in th. JJJ.:" i
with thirtv r ,. . " '
with thirty of forlJ otk.
for which a prize , j
TO
to Los Angel
These extremely low fares are anil
able every day on four daily tnim
By train you enioy greater fomlott
and speed. Tickets are goodio
coaches and in
Tourist Sletprrs
on "West Coast", "Klamath",
"Oregonian" and 'Shasta" (is
tourist sleeper on "Shasta"). The
coach fare and tourist ticket un
nearly half the regular travel aw.
Southern Pacifist
F. G. LEWIS, Ticket Agent
Phone 2200
The Trail That Was
Overlooked
IT was a beautiful pageant "The Sunset
TraiL" We'll all agree to that. A
gwrgeous and memorable spectacle. But
there was something mtssing a Trail
that was overlooked the Cow Trail.
The real Pioneer of the Oregon country
was the cow. The first trails were Cow
Trails. It was those narrow but signifi
cant pathways pushing ever westward,
in the search for fresh grazing lands, that
led to the discovery, and, later, to the
, setlement of the richest areas of our state.
And the Cow Trail is still the trail that,
for the average farmer, leads to success
and prosperity.
BANK of OOMMERCE
Heme orison
J.C.PENNEY CO.
940-46 Willamette Street, Eugene, Oregon
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