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EDITORIAL" PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published evtry tvenlng n0 SuniUyl EDITOR AND PUBLISH! ' "VVurc SS".T! Audi, Bu,MU CUcuUUon. 1 ' ' ... 11 . th MmttittA and ImDartlftJ Tha Reewer-ouaru - - - DubUc."n in n. P'" 111 newl ,na u"",": on newi Ou Bill U. "" - Th B!,"":0u"a o?i Xlr option, on .nf o th. d . 'J taporunc. IQ Ih. community, ende.vorms to ""J J (lr and helpful In the development o eonitnlcUv. com munity policy. FLOOD WATERS AND FLOOD PROJECT T ET those who have lingering doubts of necessity of the Willamette Valley Proj ect go out and take a look at the swirling torrent which these November rains have produced. Then let them read the statement made earlier in the week by Col, Thomas M. Robbins, the army's division engineer who directed the project surveys: "The 1927 flood cost the people of Wil lamette valley $4,000,000, and that was just a small flood. If a flood the size of that of 1861 comes (and such floods do come once or twice in every hundred years by the law of averages) the cities of Harrisburg, Junction City, Cottage Grove and part of Eugene" will be EIGHT FEET UNDER WATER." Turn back to the survey report made last summer and read what such a flood will mean to the Willamette Valley with its population now more than ten times what it was in 1861 and with close to a billion dollars in property developments. Such a flood, says the report, will be "an appalling disaster." Then recall what R. M. Kipp, executive secretary of the Willamette Project told the Eugene Chamber of Commerce Friday. In the last week the engineers' board at Wash ington has voted to shelve the Willamette Project as something for the indefinite future. Mr. Kipp says: "Lane county has the most at stake and it is up to Lane county to lead the fight. If Lane county lets us down, we are licked." Lane county will not let down Mr. Kipp or its own interests. Perhaps we have been a bit overcome by the vast figures of the Willamette Project seven great dams, five df them in Lane county; $56,000,000 now and perhaps $75,000,000 before the work is com plete; navigation, Irrigation, power as well as flood control. The whole thing turns on FLOOD CON TROL. The whole movement began right here in Lane county about nine years ago when a group of farmers along the Mc Kenzie came in to insist that the Eugene chamber assist in rousing the Willamette valley to the flood menace. The first nine county association for flood control sprang directly from this local movement. So did the preliminary surveys by Tom Russell and a great deal of effort which preceded the army engineers' report. Our fast-running rivers are not lik Mid west streams which leave rich backwater deposits. Our rivers merely cut and de stroy. Flood control is coupled with Im portant future developments but the main point is that it is needed to conserve what we now have. An impressive showing of interest must be made to the present Congress. It is time for every grange and service club and civil organization to send in its statement to the Oregon delegation so that the weight of opinion in this part of the valley may be felt. POLICE IN DIFFICULT SPOT 'JMIE vandals who sallied forth in the small hours of Friday morning to carry on their window-smashing exploits have made a dtrrct challenge to the Eugene police. It is extremely unfortunate that the special policeman selected for the job of guarding A. W. Brumwcll's non-union shop should have been a man with membership in the teamsters' union and till recently employed as a picket. The fact that his name was first on the civil service waiting list is the only redeeming excuse. If this man had been given one Of the routine beats, freeing some other member of Ihe department for the special watch, there could have been absolutely no com plaint. As it is, the man himself has been embarrassed, unnecessarily, and the situ ation is not pleasant for the police. The fact that the man was sent out unarmed war, another mistake. We incline to the view that the man did what he could under the circumstances. Neither this incident nor the man's union affiliations should be held against him when .ie comes up for regular service especially since ho claims to have resigned union membership even when called for special work. The only tiling that really matters i3 the r.Uhcr indifferent handling of a seri ous situation by our police. The police department can redeem it self by seeing to it that vandalism is stop ped and the vandals caught. The public Icn't interested in the charges that the van rials are members of union fjoon squads or th;t they aro thugs hired to bring unions into discredit. People in and out of unions will not be satisfied till the criminals are caught, and this is plainly up to the police. Shotgun squads are in order to combat these motorized gangsters. It isn't the breaking of some plate glass which is so serious as the idea back of it, whatever the special policemen selected for the job of most forceful and alert attention of the police. RED CROSS AND ITS BUDGET JF there is a really serious flood in Lane county between now and next Thursday which is Thanksgiving Day, you may be certain the Red Cross will be first on the job to render aid, and no questions asked. It is not nearly so certain that between now and Thursday which marks the end of the annual Roll Call drive for the Red Cross in Lane county that Lane county will have contributed the $6,000 needed to carry on the local Red Cross. Rather strange in a community which raised more than double its quota for Bandon and has always done its full share in any dramatic call for emerg ency relief. Perhaps, Lane county people will give a little more readily if there is some ex planation of the $6,000 local budget. Out of this $1,500 is assigned to the national organization to add just a mite to the emergency fund. Last year for instance, this emergency fund furnished $25,400,000 almost overnight for the terrible Ohio floods. The remaining $4,500 will be spent in Lane county. Tis includes the $1,980 for the salaries of Miss Irene Ritchie and her as sistant, $400. for veteran aid, $350 for serv ice calls, $300 for the life saving program, $100 for first aid education, $150 for small local emergencies, and the remainder for supplies and expenses of the work. Every family should be proud of mem bership in the Red Cross which costs only $1. Those who can afford to give more should not hold back. The day to day work of the Red Cross is not so spectacular as the great disasters, but it is a necessary preparation for what may always take place. Ajax McGurk sees some similarity be tween the crumbling Chinese defense and Oregon's football hopes. But both Chiang and Prink have a lot of promising sopho mores and if they can ever get a little good beef for the line there will be hope. Old Rosybeak notes McGurk's comment on the need of beef for the Oregon line and says that's okay, if the beefing from the stands doesn't get there first. Claude Ingalls coincides with our sug gestion for "Be Kind To Business Week" but doubts if F. D. could stay put for as long as a week. Cheer up, Claude, even a Republican dentist would tell you what he needed was to get that tooth out. THE HOUSE THAT COST TOO MUCH JACK TO BUILD ) his is -rue house that WASN'T BUII.T. 117.'.', I (, wi'J S'. I w iii PURCHASEP BY THE CONTRACTOR WHO WAS NOT ENCAGED BY THE MAN WHO DOiTSM'T LIVE TH6 MOUSE THAT WASN'T BUILT. HIS IS THE MAN WHO DOESN'T UVB IN THE HOUSe THAT WASN'T BUILT. HIS IS THE CONTRACTOR WHO WAS NOT ENLACED BY THE MAN WHO DOESN'T Live IM TH6 HOUSB THAT WASN'T BUILT. . ARC TH6 MATERIAL WHICH WERE NOT fnese ARE THE LABORERS WHO WERE. NOT EMPLOYED TO WORK WITH THE MATERIALS WHICH WERE NOT PURCHASED BY THE CONTRACTOR WHO WAS NOT ENCACTED BY THE MAN WHO COeSN'T LIVE IN THE HOUSE THAT WASN'T BUILT, ?H6Se ARE THE: WAGES THAT WERE NOT PAID TO THE LABORERS WHO WERE NOT EMPLOY6P TO WORK WITH THE MATERIALS THAT WERE NOT PURCHASED BY THB CONTRACTOR WHO WAS NOT EN CAGED BY THE MAN WHO DOESN'T Live f THE HOUSE THAT WASN'T BUILT. AND SOME PeoPLE THINK THEY'RE A LITTLE TOO HIGH. IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG Our only real disappointment in the foot ball season is that we can't push that boom to make "Prink" Calllson president, but McGurk says that might explain the de feats. The Oregonian says we've rid the roads of rattletraps and now to get rid of the rattlebrains. Why not build a sperial high way for 'em and let nature take care of itself? Senator Dixie Bibb Graves (Mrs. Gover nor Graves) who took Justice Black's seat in the Senate made her maiden speech agin' anti-lynching laws which would indicate that she is a" worthy successor. to the great liberal from the South. Hoover couldn't get the G. O. P. to hold that special convention but you can bet Callison will turn his boys out for spring practice. It is time to start figuring out what to give thanks for, including some of the things you missed. The Old Man will give thanks for the fact that Christmas is still a tew weeks off. Observers commen that Stalin is gamb ling on his future in Russia, which is a more complicated way of saying he's just going to shoot the works. England is building a liner bigger than the Queen Mary, and some hoary dreamers recall that they thought of building a bridce over the Atlantic years ago. . One sharp sports fan suggests sending a few of the best bicycle riders from our prize fight ring to help the Chinese retreat to victory. A KABLER TALE CUGENE. (To the Editor) Out here In the sticks considerable navoc has come upon poultry, lambs, pigs, and kids. Early In the spring Fish Fingerling lost a half dozen lambs, a lew young turkeys and a pig or two. Jake Bump lost a iew kids and tur keys too. Divers other people were short of this or tnat young thing. As no bones, feathers, or skins were left the. stickers Began to suspect that folks from Spook hollow were making nocturnal forays upon the stick farms. Then one day a sticker saw an un usually big bird laboriously wing ing his way toward the coast range. So heavily was the bird encumbered he was not able to rise nearly so high as the firs amongst which he flew. The man had no gun but he was ac companied by his faithful dog. The dog spied the big bird too. "Sick 'cm! sick 'em Shep!" cried the man. Shep did. He ran under the bird barking so loudly and snarl ing so viciously that the bird be came excited and in his- exdte- I ment or on account of his desire to rise higher, dropped his prey, which was a plump kid of the four-legged variety. An eagle, everyone said it was. Two eagles there proved to be with a nest somewhere up Spook hollow. After that people began to picket their flocks, their bands and their herds, bearing shot guns, rifles and clubs instead of "Unfair to farmers," placards. The eagles saw the guns and heard one or two, so they went away to come no more. That reminds me that a bird of prey is loose in the world. Five yean ago he flopped and flopped over Manchuria., Three years ago he winged his way over Ethiopia. A year ago he swooped down on Spain and now his mate is dev astating China. We call him war but .that is only half his. name. The other half is money. His full name is Money War which in the king's language means war for money. Statesmen have all kinds of conferences, meets, congresses, and what not playing that they are trying to stop and prevent this bird of prey, but they never use the right sort of guns. They don't want to. They would ex pose themselves or some of their dear, dear friends. Let them publish daily the names of the men and institutions that are furnishing the money to carry on the wars. Instead of Mr. F. D. sending Davis to Brussels let him an nounce in one of his chats, "Jim Smith has loaned Tik-tok three billion dollars. Tom Long has loaned General Lahissaniore five billion dollars; the Earl Hazelnut has loaned the Ace ten billion dollars; and Lord Plushbottom has loaned the Piciolia steen bil lion dollars all for the purpose of carrying on war." Tomorrow the war birds would wing their way to uninhabited mountains Instead of devastating civilized countries. KABLER. , Law revisions give New Yorkers the right to have bean shooters within the city, but LaGuardla retains the monopoly as a tiger hunter. Congress may be too late too pack the court but just in time- to pick the AU-American. MI CH MISUNDERSTOOD JTUGENE (To the Editor) I wound like to bring to your notice a few words in regard to your editorial of Nov. 6: "Poor Lit tle Ex-King." Man is a three-fold individual. First what the world sees him to he; second, what he thinks himself to be, and third. what God knows him to be. King Edward was checkmated while he was the king of England until nis only fighting move was the one he took. No real mnn will be hog-tied. straight-Jacketed, held incommunicado, without a real ef fort to get away from it all. Every upstanding young man would like to have something to say about his own life. You write "If there ever was a man who seemed fated to live out an acute tragedy on a public stage, that man must be the Duke of Windsor." So it must always be for the one who sets out to solve the sin-cursed world problems. Because the hu man heart is "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" Jer. 17, 9. Jesus says, "From within, out of the heart of man proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, ornications, murders, adulteries, fornications, murders, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within and defile the man." Mark 7, 21 23. It will be of small value to doc tor the symptoms; the need is regeneration, reformation will only deepen the world sickness, and cannot solve any one of its prob lems. We must find that all plans for human betterment in the sci ences, arts, inventions, human gov ernment, are but different forms of rebellion against God. All of these seek to mitigate the curse of sin, without accepting God's plan for its removal. Jesus said "Except a man be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3, 3. The greatest desire of the hu man race today is for peace. But if all the armaments of the world were destroyed today; tomorrow men would fight with tooth and nail, club and stone, for the good things of this world. The have nots are seeking to take away from those that have the world's wealth and opportunity. Poor litUe ex-king; poor little world reformer; poor little who ever it may be, who tries to bet ter conditions without first know ing that in the wisdom of God "there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." Than the Crucified Saviour, who saves men from their sins. Sincerely, W. L. STRANGE. TEMTERANCE ITUGENE, Ore. (To the Editor) World Temperance Sunday, Oct SlsL Hqw many evaded the fact? How many Sunday school teachers ran all around the bush and manged to cover up the real issue? How many pastors even touched the subject? I carefully scanned the Topis of sermons in Saturday's Register-Guard and found one, among about fifty no tices, that had any reference to temperance. That was a little rural church, conducted by a student, I surmised, who hasn't learned that it "isn't policy" to mention tem perance these days. The power of the pulpit is unlimited. Where Is its influence pointing? "Ye are the salt of the earth." There is no saving power in salt unless It hits the spot where needed. "Ye are the light of the world." Light is no value hid under the bushel of unconcern. Our responsibility is Christian citizens does not end with paying taxes. We are responsible for the graft, greed, general corruption in government If an army of in sects invade our crops, no time is lost to exterminate them. If an epidemic attacks our hogs or poul try all resources available are speedily assembled to fight it; but when an army of distillers, brew ers, saloons and all sorts of. low dives swoop down upon us, de stroying our children, body and soul, we bemoan the horror ofj it; perhaps a few feeble protests, old , hands and say "There's nothing we can do." Our children are our most precious crop, yet we pas sively see it laid waste by liquor, cigarets and vice. What a pitiful harvest of decent men and women we will garner in the next gener ation if ive allow this wanton de struction to -continue! LAURA TRACHSEL. BUDGETS, ETC. CUGENE, Ore! (To' the Editor) I was struck with the "col ossal innocence" in some of the statements of our esteemed ambi tious political head of the nation in his Chicago speech, in his Sunday night's fireside talk, and in his in structions to the special session of congress. There was one statement that caugh my eye, and that was the great concern evidenced by him in keeping down the useless waste of funds, to the end that our gov ernment may be run on an econo mical basis. For instance (said he): "A large saving in the cost of government can be made only by cutting down or eliminating government func tions." . Isn't that just like our "economy loving chief?" If my memory has not failed me it was one of his major aims, when elected to the presidency, to "cut down" a lot of useless bureaus and deparments at Washington that were simply eating up the taxpay ers money." Scandalous, nought the ambitious one, to squander the hard-earned pittances of the poor. I'll stop all this useless spending of "other peoples' money." Did he do it, when elected? He sure did. He made "soup of the alphabet" to reduce expenses of government functions. Upwards of 700,000 additional employes ef the democrat faith were added to the "crib" to stop wasteful spending. If a barber cut a man's hair for 35 cents, when he should have charged 40 cents, the barber was "soaked" and the functions of gov ernment made that much to the good. My, how that treasury began to swell and almost burst with the higher cost of living to the con sumer, and the bottom dropping out of the money bag. That wasn't the only benefit that was heralded far and wide, ALL GOLD DOLLARS DISAPPEAR ED. What a saving to the people. Yea, the people became drunk with the intoxication of the spec acle. If seventeen million Republi cans stay intoxicated, "We won't even need a constitution" FDR will be enough. Hurrah for cheap gov ernment functions. Before the general election last fall, one of the "economy agents" of government cost reducing func tions, called upon me and spread out a large sheet of paper, ready to take my picture of daily, month ly and yearly activities. Said agent, (bent on cutting down and elimin ating costs of Republican misrule) wanted to know what I owned, what I earned, what I spent and what I bought with all my idle money. "Who wants to know?" I in terrigated. "Our government," quoth the agent of economy of wasteful spending. "Well" my fellow citizen said I, "just fill in all the blank spaces just as you think best and it will be perfectly satisfactory to me." What do you suppose became of all that money that was saved by FDR's efforts through that nation wide questionnaire to ascertain what you and I did with our filthy lucre? It's my opinion (?) that he in tends to balance the budget with the millions spent In paying the. salaries of another army of demo cratic money savers. The latest method (heard over the radio) was to open up the undeveloped possibilities of two more branches in the cabinet All these new methods never tried before since the founding of these United States ar m K.-iii ing, so intoxicating, that some morning (.aiier we come to) we will find another Hitler in th saddle. H. W. HALL. WESTERN OREGON Yes, we love this country of ours as it now appears, West from the Cascade tnwrr. towards the shores of the sea. Yes, here are delightful days during the entire year. down from the mountains Lnd valleys beautiful flowers appear. Yes, here the Pacific rolls its mighty waves inland Lakes and Rivers grandure, touches its shores and leaves from its mountain scenic splendor. Valleys of the fairy Willamette, the McKenzle, the Umpqua and the Rogue, Thousands of cheery peoples art delighted with their heartfelt abode. Yes, here we have tl.e Sisters, Diaomnd, Jefferson and the Hood, with theirs perpetually vested in clothing so white and so pure; from them fragrance tnc moisture spreading to the Fir, Pine and the Spruce, standing here on the mountain sides which no land can equal to jro duce. Yes, here the sportsmen are de lighted with its mountain streams so pure, thi Redsides so aame and so flighted excites the anglers with his lure. Here in this wonderland of Oregon, Red apples, peaches, pears and the prunes, soothes the palate of the wayfarers anon, with the invigorating fragrance it assumes. Yes, here the mighty Columbia, the gateway front the inland to . the sea, from its harbors, the greatest flotilla, carriers of our products to every port. ' Yes, here I have told you the story, that enhances the longings for such a land, nowheres can nature duplicate its glory, in this land of liberty and freedom of man. 10 get tt "nTllr4 car. ""fiikajj ttag,?fe5 Kiven in each caT?3 one sou . r ttV7 one source of dTi A REVESti"" ;"lu"8 uie leaves unmi IgazeatthebwutrSi And watch the sJ TVi V.I11 . ,1 , - are in their w The bees bath Trfc gold; mn,l a Holds many secret! unSju ' LP,aU.le'n,my ...u cageriy scan the fa I The heavens have a luEial As the snowy cloud. oeiore the Z The heavens have a lnllSSl A soul is at rest wither1 -LOIS ELAINE BAmwj . . II OUR FEATHERPn r.,.. JUGENE. (To the siMy ,. UBI wing south brought back ture of 70 to 80 yean an. Jt thousands of geese-gIeyE white spent much nf ikI J ter in the Willamette vallejrtJ they found moisture-tni Z gentle rains, Description of Western Oregon, in verse, by M. Svarverud, of Eu gene, Oregon. CRIMINAL DRIVING JTUGENE, Ore. (To the Editor) Do we need wonder at the rapidly increasing number of high way accidents, when heartless and vicious drivers get by free, or with penalties that are merely a passing joke to them, In walking south of Olive street today, west side, the writer let three cars pass first, going west on 6th street, the state highway, then with no cars coming either way within a half block, we started across on south, but when we reached the center of the street, a driver who apparently was aiming to get going west, dashed sudden ly, in frnt of us, coming off of Olive street from the south, and in so doing barely missed knock ing us down, and then only by just missing the curb on the southwest corner of this intersection. Plainly in violation of our laws for pedes trians, as well as other cars coming from the west, he whisked rapidly out of sight before we were able Before drainage ditcha t cut, hundreds of ihillow and small lakes, along wiam, fields of growing grain, taLy water and feeding gronndi k thousands of geese and ducb.1 was nothing uncommon ta uieiii in great iiocki OB tow ej uidi&uy ground leeawg and ing to each other while i wise old heads kept watch. Many of the flocki would one-third to one-half pun tfc ones, uniy a very cold would drive them farther Now and then a few white would be seen with then. The Willamette valley (undid this wildlife winter havin:tK ful feeding grounds and had thousands of years. No planes or electric It then to disturb the flights. Xtt and then a shotgun would brat down a few as they were alnn flying very low. Dunn ft early years thousands oi miK ducks nested and raised ttr young around the ponds and ski- low lakes. 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