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PLANS AND HUMAN NATURE
From as far back as there are any records, philosophers
and reformers have been trying to plan the ‘‘Perfect StatB.
We have looked Into some of the plans. The oldest o
which we have a rocerd seems about the best. I hat Is the
• Republic" of the Greek philosopher Plato, who nourished
about 300 B. C„ or more than 2,200 years ago. The main
difficulty with putting his plan into operation was that it
took fifty years to train the men who were to constitute the
governing class.
Sir Thomas More published a book in the year 1620,
describing an imaginary nation which he called Utopia,
and the name has been used ever since to designate an ideal
of society. Fifty or sixty years later Sir Francis »aeon
tried to improve on Utopia with an account of the New
Atlantis," another perfect state. Various other phllosopic
speculators have tried their hands at the same game, the
most noteworthy being Edward Bellamy, whose “Looking
Backward.” published in 1888, sold more than a million
copies and was translated into twenty languages.
All of these plans for regenerating society and making
everybody happy have the same fatal weakness. That Is
that their authors assume that human nature changes or
can be changed. None of them would work—unless every
other inhabitant were a policeman—so long as human
nature remains essentially selfish and self-centered. And
we have seen no evidence that there has been any great
c hange in that respect since the days when the Bible was
written. To the argument that If everybody had plenty
nobody would steal or cheat, the answer, as we see it. Is
that we have heard of very rich men who were not always
honest.
It is one thing to make a logical plan, and quite a dif
ferent thing to get people to abide by it. If everybody were
honest and unselfish and so filled with the spirit of justice
as never to do an injustice to anyone else, the Utopian plans
might work. But if everybody were like that there would
be no need of anv government at all!
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Oregon’s tourist crop this year is expected to greatly
outnumber last year as the stream that went to the Chicago
world’s fair again turns this way. Travel agencies predict
Oregon will receive one-third more cars than last year. It
has been estimated that if each tourist who visited Oregon
last year had been induced to stay one day longer there
would have been spent $3.000,000 more in the state. Our
job is to get them to stay the other day by telling them
about the McKenzie and Willamette play grounds.
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The professor who advised the boys of a graduation
class three years age to marry the boss' daughter Instead
of his stenographer says he made a mistake. The steno
grapher at least has a job, while he points out, most bosses
are now unable to do much for their married daughters.
Joseph's shoes have been worn by so many candidates
that we wonder if they will go through another campaign
without being half-soled. Even some of the Lane county
boys running for the legislature are trying to wear them
again.
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Women have keen instinct but poor judgment, so ’tis
said. From the men they marry we must admit there is
something to this last contention.
The sales tax is an added tax claims its opponents. Well,
any tax is an added tax to a person who does not pay any
property tax.
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If we were voting on a measure as to whether there
would be any taxes at all we wonder what the decision of
the voters would be.
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There are 94 attorneys, 53 farmers and 121 ordinary
people running for the legislature.
The Willamette river floods have washed everything
off some of our bottom farms but the mortgages
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It Is easier to make jokes than to take them.
_ «ad wUcbeoataia» Pou» G n a t T r m u »
WHEN PROPHETS SPOKE
The prophets seem to have come in pairs
Arnot, and Hosea; Isaiah and Micah; Ezekiel and Jere
miah.
Micah was a down-state man who had the same pre
judice against Jerusalem that many people now feel toward
New York. It was hopelessly wicked, he said, and merited
destruction f°r its sins:
Washington. D. C„ April 14— Ail
Journment ot congrms by May 16th
is the definite program. agreed up
on by House leader« and the Presl
dent. Hut there 1» still a talr chance
i that the Senate may upset thia, un
less some ot the things upon which
a number ot Senator« have set
j their hearts are agreed on before
| that date.
Moat Important of the Items
which th e I'realdeut Insisted upon
; In hla conferences with t'ougres
i slonal leaders on his return from
his fishing trip is au appropriation
ot a billion and halt dollars to con
tlnue Federal relief work. More
unemployed are now on the gov
ernment relief rolls than at any
previous time; nearly twelve mil
lion persona in «11. The expected
new funds will be added to those
already available for public works,
direct Federal relief and aid to
states and municipalities.
Next on the President's program
of essential legislation Is the Stock
Kxchange regulation bill Thia had
been amended so that It will not
put the stock exchanges out of
business, as the original measure
was calculated to do The vital Im
portance of maintaining an open
market In which anyone who wants
to buy or sell stocks and bonds can
always do so. at a price. Is assured
by the bill as It stands, and the
drastic provisions which would
compel the liquidation of bllllous In
outstanding bank loans have been
modified. There are still plenty of
teeth in the bill, however to dis-
courage wild speculation, which la
its main purpose. Congress and the
administration still believe that all
of our present troubles started In
Wall Street.
T h e S e c u rity A c t
The President also Is Insistent
upon the passage of amendments
to the Securities Act of last year.
It has been learned, from nearly a
year's experience, that It Is Impos
slble to get honest men to take the
risk of offering new securities for
sale, when under that law they
might be sent to Jail because some
I salesman of whom they had never
heard, long after the securities had
passed out of their bands, did not
tell the whole truth about them,
and any time within ten years any
one who bought them and was sick
of his bargain could claim his
money back from the original
issuers.
Since there Is only one way
whereby private capital can Invest
in business and Industry, and that
Is by the purchase of bonds and
share« of a business corporation,
and nearly every Industry la con
stantly In need of fresh capital,
particularly so at the present time,
the Idea la to make It safe for the
Industries to float new bond and
share fasues. and so put private
capital at work as well as govern
ment funds.
The understanding here is that
the President would be satisfied
to have Congress pass those three
major pieces of legialation and then
go home. But the Indications are
that Congress Is going to take mat
ters Into Its own hands and pass
■ another Inflation measure. This
i will he the Dies silver bill, as modl-
: fled by amendments drafted by
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, and
i on which the “farm bloc” and the
j “silver bloc" are in agreement and
, are certain they can get enough
votes to pass the bill. This would
| raise the price of silver, put »50.-
000,000 a month of new “liver cer-
i tlficates Into circulation, and put
a premium on slier used by foreign
LUMBER MILLS SHOW
NEW BUSINESS GAINS
buy is for American agricultural
products.
The L a b o r L e g is la tio n
There la less likelihood us time
goes on of the pnasaae of the Wag
tier bill to limit hours of labor to
SO a week. The prop« ala for un
employment Insurance under Fed
. ral control will go over to the
t.cxt session that Is to say, to the
next Congress, for this Is the final
session of the 73rd C on gree. For
the first tim e since the latest
amendment to the Constitution was
adopted, the Congress ilected next
November will take office early In
January and begin Ita work with
out any “lame ducks” nr member»
who have been defeated for re
election but still hold over, amorg
them
Another major piece of laglsla
lion, however, which probably »III
he law by the time this Is printed,
is the new Income tax bill, which
takes a good deal of the burden
off tile should -r» of the poorer
i l«ss of taxpayers and piles more
of It on the rich, especially upon
Inherited estates
As to other Administration plans
which do not require additional
legislation, chief Interest canters
upon the efforts to reorganlxe the
NRA to make Its provisions under
the codes enforceable. There Is u
good deal of aonfualon inside the
NRA offices, and a growing vol
um e of protests from Industry and
business against some of the code
Interpretations. It Is ton soou to
■ ay that “NHA has broken down."
as many business Interests con
teud. but In practice It Is not prov
ing the benefit that It was expected
to be
Turn to Economic Stability
Much thought Is being given to
the effort to work out a satisfac
tory plan to encourage home build
ing. but without any success so far
There Is also cooking up som e pro
gram for aiding the -.«-called “cap
ital goods" industries, meaning the
makers of m achines and equipment
which are not consumed but are
used to make consumable goods.
The feeling la growing, even in
side the Administration, that the
time has come to let up on social
reform“ and concentrate more on
economic stability and re-employ
ment- One strong stimulant to that
line of thinking Is the doubts raised
by Dr Wirt's warning as to wheth
er or not all the social reforms
have a practical, workable basis,
or may have the effect. Intention
ally or not. or slowing down econo
mic recovery.
Washington is more crowded
than ever before
The pust year
has been a wonderful harvest-time
for Washington hotel-keepers, and
the climax came with the annual
cherry-blossom festival, when there
was not a single room In the city
available for the late arriving vis
Itors.
SAFETY COUNCIL ADOPTS
STATE MOTOR CONTROL
Many portions of the procedure
followed in Oregon in the adminis
tration of the automobile operators'
examination law have been Includ
ed In a publication, “Manual for
Examiners" which has Just been
Issued by the National Safety
Council.
The Council Is now suggesting
the use of this manual in all states
that test the driving ability of mo
torists. thereby creating a uniform
ity of state regulations
Analysis of the system s used In
eastern states and in California for
a number of years prior to Oregon's
enactment of the examination law
and careful adaptation of such pro-
cedure as seemed to have best
stood the test of experience made
possible a program In this state
that has been given national re
cognition several times for Its ef
fective development. Oregon, In
turn, is now contributing the re
sults of Its experience to the na
tlonal study of uniform practices
Spring, Beautiful Spring
pn the f l r l quarter of 1934. l.«7o
Seattle, Wadi.. April 2« A total
new passanger ears were sold In
of 5X4 d > wii anil upernllig tnllla In,
Oregon while In 1933. the total
Oregon i ml Washington which re
only reached l.JM
March »ales
ported to the West Coast Lumber [
«ere 1.339 In 1934. and 514 In 1933
men's association for the week eml
lug April 14. praluicii »X.XX9.995
The truck sales were 710 for the
hoard feet of lumber. This was ap first three months of 1934 und 1X4
proxlmately ».000.000 feet over the for (lie same period Io 1983, sox In
preceding week Tile average pro Mu rill y of this year, and 77 lu
dnetlon of this group of sawmills In March 1933
IB.Y-4 ha been 44.844.471 feet; dur
log the same period III 1933 their
weekly average was 57.10X.XX3 feet
The new business reported last
week by 577 mills was X3.431.774
hoard feet against a production of
rX.«20.447 feet anil shipments of
X5.XXI.25« feet. Their shipments
N E W YO RK . . . Max Raar
t shove), giant Californian who
were under production by 12 0 per
knuikrtl out Max Rrhmeling lost
cent and their current sales were
sumoirr, gets his rhancs at I'rlm o
under production by 1« 4 per cent
,'aruers's world heavyweight chain-
The order« booked Inst week bv
piousliip, brought about by a aerlas
of rirvuinstaai-ea which forced the
this group of Idontlcal mills were
Madiaoa Square promoter« to .leal
under the preceding week by shout
with Baer ami concede percentages
.'I.XOO.nOo feel or 4 5 per cent
to lake rare of JarU Ih-nipsey's cob -
a t The Neuit O ffice
The unfilled order file at these
tract with Baer. The User iXraera
mills
stood
at
3X2.145.514
board
title bout Is scheduled here June 14.
feet, a decrease of approximately
5.500.000 feet under the week be
THREE C COMPANIES
fore.
SHIFTED THIS WEEK The aggregate Inventories of ISO NEW V-8 FORD NOW
ON DISPLAY------
New Companies Occupy Felknsp mills are 10.4 per cent more than
and Wendling Camps; Coast
Camps Closed for Summer
at
For Demonstration
th is tim e Inst y e ar
Call Elmar Pyns at
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Student Visit»— William Pollard
ANDERSON MOTORS
The final movement of six CCt. was home from Porllaud Sunday to Ph. 49
5th A A Springfield
camp companies from the Eugene visit with bis parents. Dr and Mrs.
district to the middle weal took W. It Pollard.
place Tuesday morning when the
men who have been at Wendllng.
Belknap, and Powers campa left by
special train The Wendllng coni
pnny will proceed to t'iuiuiaruu,
The drug store of fern yon the opportunity to "Buy
Kansas, while the other two com
Oregon" an well uh other linen of bmdneHH. We have
puutes will proceed to Fort Leaven
Oregon Made
worth. Kansas Io lie reassigned
MINERAL OILS
BLOOD REMEDY
The company now at Cape Creek
RUBBING ALCOHOL
CORN REMEDY
I, moving into the Wendllng camp,
MILK
OF
MAGNESIA
KIDNEY
PILLS
mid the Reedsport company will
ANTISEPTIC SOLUTION
bi* moved to Belknap. The Fall
Creek company Is moving to Odell
lake, and the three ramps at Cape
Creek. Reedsport, and Fall Creek
LOYAL B. SCOTT. Prop.
will be d osed for the summer
The first special train with three
companies for Sturgis». South Da
kota. left last week With It went
the Coquille company. Remote com
pnny. and Tye,- company.
The Coquille and Remote camps
have heen closed for the summer
Will Make Her “Sweet" on you!
while the Tyee camp will be oc
cupied by n new company.
Candy in the one g ift flin t In ulwuyn welcome, it
The Brice Creek company 1«
is
just
in fo rm a l enough, ami yet you can buy tin grand
moving to the Ochuco forest east
of Prineville. The Gunter company
tt box as you like. F air Indios about tow n prefer Kggl-
moved to Its new site at Susanville,
hianti'H chocolates to any other kind.
near Baker. Oregon The Sltkum
They are made In the old fashiontH) way—rich,
company has moved to Mottett
creamy and pure.
Creek near Pendleton. The camps
formerly occupied by these com
panies are being closed for the
summer.
Buy Oregon Products
Scott’s Drug Store
CANDY
ELECTION PAMPHLETS
SENT TO ALL VOTERS
Copies of the official Oregon |
Voter's pamphlet have been re
ceived during the past week by
registered voters In all parts ot
luine county. The pamphlet t h is ,
year Is a combination of two form
er pamphlets, and contains b o th ;
the statem ents of the measures to j
be voted on anil arguments for aim
against them, and pictures and
statem ents ot candidates for public
office.
Separate pamphlets are Issued
for republicans and democrats, anil
all pamphlets have to be changed
for each of the legislative districts
ns well a , the Judicial subdivisions
U. O. ENROLLMENT NEAR
2000 FOR SPRINC TERM
F G G IM A N N ’ Q
“ W h e re the B n .v ice I t D M Ie ran l"
MAKE MILK
A Part of
EVERY MEAL
Is the advice of food specialists. It I h the one
great health food If pure and wholesome. The one
way to be mire about milk In to urn* only pasteurized
milk.
Our milk I k a home-product the name uh our but
ter, Ice and Ice erenm. When you buy home product*
you help both your neighbor and yourwlf.
Ask your dealer in Eugene or Springfield for
Maid O' Cream Butter
Springfield Creamery Co.
Enrollment at the University of
Oregon, for the spring term, neared
the 2000 mark, with I9«4 now on
th e campus. Till is a decrease of
only four percent over spring term
a year ago. and a less than usual
decrease over last term. I’WA Jobs
for approximately 200 students
have helped to keep enrollment up
this term, officials state.
but not to mother
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake he plowed as a field,
and Jeru-alem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
boutfe as (he high places ut the forest.
Isaiah, on the
life, at home in the
vities of the court.
he said, in spite of
contrary, was a city mail, loving town
bustle of the market-place and the acti
Jerusalem was a grand town to live in,
its sins, and God would take care of It.
Therefore saltb thu Lord . . . I will defend this city (o
jbve it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
These two quotations encourage us with the knowledge
- much needed in these controversial days— that two men
< an be equally good and acceptable to God and yet hold
absolutely contradictory views. Micah and Isaiah agreed in
path to salvation, but they disagreed violently in respect to
Jerusalem. Both were right and both wrong. God did de
fend the city for a long time after the northern kingdom
surrendered to its enemies in 722 B. C. But ultimately, in
580 B. C., the destruction which Micah had prophisied came
true.
In speaking of Micah and Isaiah as a pair, we mean that
they lived at the same time, not that they were on the same
level, intellectually or in the importance of their message.
Isaiah was one of the outstanding religious leaders of all
history. He was of high birth, and may even have been re
lated to the royal family, for he had free access to the
palace, and he appears to have been a preceptor for one
king Hezekiah. His ministry began in “the year that King
Uzziah died,” the king who had been his hero.
Isaiah had to rebuke sin in high places, to offend
princes and priests and politicians, for he belonged to the
stormy period when the Assyrians were invading adjacent
realms, and his own little kingdom was trying vainly to
make its future secure by an alliance with Egypt. This he
denounced and thereby gained the ill-will of many powerful
tnerest*. But when the time came that Jerusalem needed
Egypt’s help, Egypt had her own hands more than full. On
a desperately tragic day the Assyerian army camped before
Jerusalem, and the king and his counsels were in terror.
The king covered himself with sackcloth and sent for Isaiah,
the one unterrlfled tuan in town. Isaiah’s day had come.
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