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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.
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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. Many t boy took 6i
duck eggs from a nest hi U
found, had a mother hen ki'a
them and then chase them itel1
a bit of water eress until the?'
were ready to take winf.
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