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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ------ Alton t. Baker
MANAGING EDITOR ------- William M. Tupnen
NEWS SERVICE - Associated Preea, United Pr
MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation
The Kcflatcr-Ouaid'a policy la the complete and Impartial
publication In it newi page of ati newi and itatementa
on newt. On this page, the editors of The Reglitcr-Guard
offer their oplnlone on events of the day and matters of
Importance to the community, endeavoring; to be candid but
fair end helpful In the development of constructive com
munity policy.
WHAT OUTLOOK FOR BUSINESS?
There is reason to believe that business
has touched the bottom of the Roosevelt re
cession or depression, whichever your poli
tical inclinations lead you to call it. The
stock market took another terrible beating
during the last week, due apparently to the
chaos in Europe which served as well as
any other excuse for pessimism. But there
is definite prospect that Congress will light
en the load of "undivided profits taxes" and
otherwise ease up the burdens on business
and that some degree of stability will re
place the turmoil in labor.
At least Oregon and the Pacific Coast
may look for definite improvement as spring
comes on. Oregon lumber will be needed
in California in quantities for repairing
flood damage. Oregon farmers except those
in the grain areas will not be affected di
rectly by the new farm act with its highly
speculative results and there is reason to
believe their crops will find ready markets
at good prices. Building is certain to respond
to the more reasonable attitude of organized
labor.
Contracts for the new Eugene postoffice
are due to be let next month and this should
be a foundation piece for a, building pro
gram. According to contractors there will be
at least half a million dollars in new con
struction which will be set in motion by bus
iness concerns once there is prospect of
reasonable harmony. Home construction un
der the new 90 percent plan is expected to
be at least as good as it was last summer.
Business is still afflicted with plenty of
worries. It has been demonstrated clearly
that business cannot be punished and de
prived of profits and taxed beyond the mar
gins of safety and stll function to restore
employment. The sharpness of the Roosevelt
recession may be attributed to the fact that
without reserves businessmen cannot gamble
on operating losses. Layoffs have come with
even more drastic suddenness than after the
crash of 1929 and the paralysis has spread
In the same widening circle.
But there Is no reason for gloom. Wash
ington reports that Mr. Roosevelt is not in
clined to tinker with patent remedies. This
in Itself is about the most cheering news
since he began his experiments in "plan
ning It that way."
IN SACRED PRECINTS OF TV A
If there Is to be an inquiry into TVA, It
apparently is to be conducted by President
Roosevelt's own commission. At least, the
president's suggestion that he will direct
such in inquiry would indicate that he does
not welcome a congressional inquiry. And
the nation may well ask why!
Chairman Arthur Morgan didn't do him
self much good with the public last week
when he decided to submit to inquisition in
the presidential sanctum. To many people
it seemed a bit unreasonable that the en
gineer should doubt even his chief. Now it
begins to appear that maybe Morgan had
reason to question the impartiality of the
president.
Arthur Morgan has charged his associ
ates in the TVA directorate Harcourt Mor
gan and David Lilienthal with virtual mis
conduct. Some kind of an attempted settle
ment with Tennessee's Senator Berry for
some flooded marble quarries is involved.
The deal was blocked and Berry never got
the money but it does appear that he was
asking millions for leases which he had
acquired at some such low figure as a dollar
an acre.
On the part of Harcourt Morgan and
Lilienthal there has been a great show of
laying all facts before the president in con
trast to Chairman Morgan's refusal to tell
the president anything. The president has
declared Chairman Morgan an obstructionist
and virtually exonerated the other two on
the strength of the White House hearings.
But if everything is lily white in TVA,
it is difficult to understand why congres
sional inquiry should be dreaded. No doubt,
mischievous and malicious congressmen
would go far afield to hunt for political
capital in the follies and extravagances of
TVA instead of limiting inquiry.
Or is TVA sacred? Are the taxpayers'
dollars spent there different from other dol
lars? Has the public which pays a right
to know whatever may come out or only
those portions which the allwise may deem
good for them?
G. O. P. leaders say that past Republican
Presidents took a licking when Farley
changed stamp designs.
' WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
THE PRICE OF APPROVAL
(Salem Capital Journal)
The price of approval by the United States
rmy engineers of the Willamette valley flood coo
tat.flSiSCt, afjj mCy hjd cute, rejected tha pro.
posal as being inexpedient "at this time," is ap
proximately nine million dollars, which represents
the difference in construction costs allocated to
the state, counties and districts In the two reports.
When the engineering board of review In
Washington first approved the proposal as out
lined by Colonel Thomas Robins, division engineer,
but recommended against its Immediate develop
ment, the estimated amount of local participation
was about $10,000,000. In its latest report trans
mitting the project to the president and congress
without reservation as to the time of starting con
struction, local participation is fixed at slightly
more than $18,900,000 or an increase of nearly
100 per cent.
The difference, so far as is apparent, is the
price Oregon is being asked to pay for its appeal
for early relief from a condition costing the af
fected area hundreds of thousands of dollars an
nually. True, there has been some revision in the esti
mates of various items making up the total cost
in the revised report, but of the 18 million dollars
allocated to local agencies 11 million dollars is
accounted for In items charged to federal expense
in the original estimates. They include costs of
land and damages, railroad location, fish pro
tection and propagation and the maintenance and
operation of reservoirs when completed.
If the costs of relocating railroads was a proper
charge against the government at one time, why is
not the same charge proper now?
If the government maintains and operates
practically every irrigation, reclamation and navi
gation project built at federal expense over the
country, ' why penalize the beneficiaries of this
particular project simply because of the urgency
of the need?
WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY DUTCHER
Register-Guard Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 21. By common con
seht, it has long been held in the best-informed
circles that one of the screwiest things an outsider
can do is to get into a game where the cards
are marked, where the dice are loaded or where
some of the players have a secret signal system.
The game of international power politics is
such a game and the United States doesn't know
which cards are marked, which dice loaded or
which nations are playing footie and with whom.
Stakes and tensions are rising in Europe. But
the State Department, which loves the game, can
hard!;' dare make the point that "it's the only
game in town."
Simplification of the European situation is risk
ier than it is simple. It would be much easier if
one could accept the current official diplomatic
view in Washington that the "Rome-Berlin axis"
has been busted by Hitler's annexation of Aus
tria. The plain fact, however, is that no one can
tell from this distance how tight is the bond be
tween Hitler and Mussolini or how bright are
England's chances of severing that bond. The net
effect is fairly certain to. strengthen the position
pf those Americans who want to keep their noses
out of European affairs.
Hitler Surprised II Duce
This government has confidential advices
which it believes that active Nazi penetration
of Austria which began when Hitler summoned
Chancellor Schuschnigg to a conference In Feb
ruary, was a surprise to Mussolini and that the
Duce knew nothing of the conference until he
read about it in the newspapers.
Officials believe that Mussolini fears Hitler
now that German troops are at the Brenner Pass
that the interests of Hitler and Mussolini con
flict, that Italy wants and needs a Mediterranean
agreement with England more than anything else
and that Mussolini regards prospective German
penetration into Czechoslovakia and the Balkans
as a menace to her.
Consequently, they infer, it will be easy for the
Chamberlain government to work out an agree
ment with Mussolini on the Mediterranean situa
tion and then to play off Italy against Germany.
. This would be in line, with the British tra
dition of allying herself with various European
powers against the strongest continental power
which once was France, then came to be Ger
many and now, again, is Germany.
Put Britain in Middle
The old British game of playing both ends
against the middle was at least temporarily inter
rupted when Hitler and Mussolini decided that
they could and would put England herself in the
middle.
This arrangement blossomed into an "anti
Communist" pact with Japan which caused Britain
simultaneously to worry about German air raids,
control of the Mediterranean and her "life line"
to India and her interests in the Far East. It
bloomed Into ft climax, at least according to cer
tain likely grapevine reports, when Germany and
Italy both refused to enter into any "appease
ment" negotiations with England until Sir An
thony Eden resigned as foreign minister.
Not everyone iln the State Department is so
naive as to believe that Italy will now decide
to part company with Nazi Germany and cast In
her lot with England in return for certain not too
vital concessions. There are those who believe that
Hitler and Mussolini long ago agreed that Ger
many should have Austria and that Italy should
have Spain and, In each case, goodness knows
how much more territory.
Nothing is proved except the fact that the
United States, with few if any chips on the table
as yet, just doesn't know what's happening or
what's about to happen in Europe and presumably
should stay out of the game.
AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Associa
tion, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine.
Bones are the solid element of structure which
sustain the body's form and its position. The most
Import attribute of a bone is its rigidity. The mo
ment it is broken or crushed, It loses that rigidity
so that motion becomes possible at the point
where the break has occurred. This is the element
of Importance in a break of a bone.
Since it is Important to get the fragments of
the bone back Into the proper position before they
heal together, the first step to be taken after it
has been determined that a bone Is broken is the
setting or replacement of the fragments into the
proper position.
When a bone is broken there will be bleeding
and discoloration of the tissues around the bone
and a considerable amount of pain because of the
pressure of the fragments of the bone on the
nerves in the area concerned. Motion of the frag
ment Is different from the ordinary motion of the
portion of the body affected. Sometimes the frag
ments can be heard rubbing on each other, scien
tifically called crepitus.
Before the discovery of the X-ray In 1898,
it was necessary for doctors to diagnose by study
ing these signs and symptoms.
Nowadays, one of the very first steps In the
study of a broken bone is the taking on an X-ray
picture. This shows exactly how the broken
fragments lie in relation to each other. It Is also
possible by the use of the X-ray to determine
exactly whether or not the fragments have been
replaced in a position as nearly normal as pos
sible. When the fragments have been replaced,
they are held in a suitable position by the use
of the splint or a cast.
Then healing begins. Lime salts are deposited
by the blood in the area where the fracture oc
curred. Gradually the scar tissue Is transformed
into new bone and then the broken enda will be
found tuDV united.
MONDAY, TUESDAY ARE FEATURED BY CLUB EVgH
Hospitality Club
Party, Meeting
To Be Monday
By MARIAN LOWRY
MUMEROUS meetings are slated
among women's organizations
for the early week.
Pi Lambda Theta members are
to meet Monday evening at the
home of Mrs. Henry D. Sheldon
to elect new officers and to elect
new members.
The Alpha Phi alumnae are to
meet Monday evening with Mrs
Graham B. Smith.
Hospitality club is to have its
regular meeting and bridge party,
Monday evening, at the Moose hall.
The Little Club Around the Cor
ner will meet Monday evening at
Cafe Del Rey with Mr. and Mrs.
William C. Clubb as hosts.
Tuesday Events Listed
Dial club is to have its March
meeting, Tuesday evening, at a
dinner and program at the Central
Presbyterian church. Mrs. M. H.
Douglass is to speak to the group
on her travels in South America.
Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae
meet Tuesday evening at the home
of Mrs. A. F. Barnett at seven
thirty o'clock, Miss Marian Handy,
national field secretary, to be the
guest for the meeting.
Pegasus club meets Tuesday aft
ernoon with Mrs. A. C. Stockstad.
Miss Willa Loomls is to be host
ess Tuesday evening for the meet
ing of the book study group of the
A. A. U. W.
Alpha Delta PI Mothers' club is
to hold its monthly meeting Tues
day afternoon at the sorority chap
ter house.
Union Meeting
The Women's Union of the First
Methodist Episcopal church will
hold its monthly all-day meeting
at the church Tuesday. Rev. Nor
man K. Tully of Central Presby
terian church, will give the main
address at the meeting of the For
eign Missionary society at eleven
o'clock. Division ten, with Mrs.
C. F. Gordinier in charge, will
serve the business luncheon at
noon. The Union luncheon and
social hour will be held at twelve
thirty, and the business meeting,
at one-thirty. Mrs. Charles G.
Howard will speak on "The Work
of the Methodist Episcopal church
in Mexico."
League Meeting
The Women's League of the
First Congregational church will
meet Tuesday at the church. Each
member is asked to bring a toy or
some other article for the nursery.
Mrs. Jessie Marple and Mrs. C. W.
Elliott will be hostesses, and Mrs.
George Spicer will lead devotions.
The Methodist Episcopal Service
Guild will meet Tuesday at seven-forty-five
with Mrs. Stanley Wil
liamson, 613 Eleventh avenue east.
Mrs. Floyd Travis, 1738 West
Broadway, will entertain Iota
Sigma, W. C. T. U. group for
young women, Tuesday at seven-,
thirty.
Lodge Events Listed
The monthly covered dish din
ner of McKenzie River lodge A.
F. and A. M., and Blue River chap
ter, O. E. S., will be held Tuesday
at six-thirty at 850 Fourteenth
avenue east. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Little, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Lesley,
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Porterfield,
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Anderson,
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burch
will be in chaise. Mrs. S. A. Con
ner and Mrs. Charles Emery will
be in charge of cards. All Masons
and Eastern Star member! are in
vited. An informal dance will be held
by Helmet lodge No. 33, Knights
of Pythias, Tuesday evening at
nine o'clock at the Knights of
Pythias hall. Dr. V. L. Brooks,
Vernon Poindexter, and Francis
Shrode are the committee in
charge. A. A. Reld will be floor
manager, and Floyd Wood's or
chestra will play.
Benefit Planned
Neighbors of Woodcraft will
hold the first of a series of bene
fit card parties Tuesday at two
o'clock at Applegate's furniture
store. Bridge and five hundred
will be played. Mrs. Prince Glaie
is chairman.
The Aeneas club will meet with
Mrs. Walter Williams in Spring
field for a one o'clock luncheon
Tuesday.
.The tea planned by Central
Women's Christian Temperance
Union for Tuesday afternoon at
the First Christian church has
been postponed indefinitely.
The Missionary society of Cen
tral Presbyterian church will mt
with Miss Susan Dlmmore, B1
Twelfth avenue west, Tuesday al
two-thirty. The discussion of
Japan will be led by Mrs. George
E. Thirlwell.
Whiteaker Groups
Plan Events
The regular Whiteaker P.-T. A
benefit bridge party will be held
at the home of Mrs. John fiwof
ford. 1280 Third avenue wnt, Wed
nesday, at one-thirty o'clock. Mn
Burton Young la to be assistant
hostess. All Interested are Invited
The arta and crafts clu of the
Whiteaker P.-T. A. la in met
Thursday afternoon at on-lhlrtr
o'clock at the home of Mrs Ike
Lane, 844 Second avenue 'it,
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DRAPERIES
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Surprise Party
Miss Arlette Helde, whose en
gagement to Gaylen Holting was
announced recently, was the guest
of honor at a surprise party given
recently by Miss Ruth Christoffer
son and Miss Lila Hughes at the
home of the latter. Guests were
Miss Iris McNutt, Miss Doris Han
son, Miss Leona Wike, Miss Ruby
Dunberg, Miss Leva Redahl, Miss
Selma Christofferson, Miss Bea
trice Sadler, Miss Doris Dunberg,
Miss Opal Wick, Miss Gertrude
Josephson, Miss Lois Allred, Mrs.
Ragna Christofferson, Mrs. Oscar
Heide, Mrs. R. R. Hughes, and
Miss Betty Hughes.
Annual Dinner of
Church Group
Tuesday
THE annual progressive dinner
of the Imo Ruyle circle of the
First Baptist church will be held
Tuesday evening, with cars leav
ing the church at six-fifteen. The
courses of the dinner will be foods
typical of several foreign coun
tries, and will be served at the fol
lowing homes in order, Mrs. Glenn
Newland, 1080 Jackson, Mrs. Gene
Lockard, 1152 Twelfth avenue
west; Mrs. Willis Finley, 1180
Madison; Mrs. Clifford Travillion,
678 Fifth avenue west, and Mrs.
Bernald Holtan, Chase Gardens.
Mrs. J. W. Mobley will be the
speaker Assisting the hostesses
will be Mrs. Ted Brown, Mrs.
Howard Heider, Mrs. Harris
Hurd, Mrs. O. G. Sullivan, Mrs.
Fred Haley, Mrs. Arthur Smith,
Mrs. James Dunbar, and Mrs. Clif
ford Balrd.
GIVE DANCE
LEABURG, March 21. (Spe
cial) The Leaburg high school
girls sponsored a dance at the
Leaburg gymnasium last week.
The dance was an invitational af
fair and a large group of guests
were present.
Many Present at
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Sweetsers
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j a MRS AT
and members of theiS J
dist Episcopal Cft1?!
tion held Friday at Ik. .1' "
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march and Miss CsroL14
granddaughter tuT
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The Business Side of the Ledger
-and the Human Side
5
The Business Side - for 1937
Th Mttropolitan Life Insurance Company presents its report for
the year ending December 31, 1937. (In accordance with the Annual Statement
filed with, the New York State Insurance Department)
$845,465,9l.71
1,6SS,20S, 167.35
ASSETS
everaaieat Sesarlrlet:
U. S. Government,
$782,172,007.89
Canadian Qovernment,
$63,293,911.82
Otter headst
V. S. Bute and Municipal,
$130,036,072.20
Canadian Provincial and
Municipal $ 108,728,136.17
Railroad $604,695,039.09
Public Utilities $479,281,913.48
Industrial and Miscellaneous
$332,467,006.43
Sleeks:
. ' All but $38,047.76 are Preferred
or Guaranteed
Mertfai e leeei Reel litefe:
First Liens en Farms
$73,652,107.08
First Liens en other property
$920,444,605.49
Leeai ea Policies
Reel Itrete Owaed:
Includes real estate held for Conv
pany uas
Cask 102,584,804.52
Prealeas eefiteedini aed
deferred
laterest dee aid eccraee, eta. ,
TOTAL
$1,482,738.76
994,096,712.57
513,947,839.36
383.912,335.74
3,727,136.16
59,295,142.84
$4,719,720,827.01
LIABILITIES
Staretery Parley Reserves! $4,141,778,793.00
Amount which, with interest
and future premiums, will as
eure payment of policy claims
MvMeae's ta Pelicykelders: 101,023,188.00
Set aside for payment for (ha
year 1938
Reserve far patera Pevsners ea
Seapleaieetary Cea tracts . , 74,737,947.93
Held far Claim.: 20,479,248.83
Including claims awaiting com
pletion of proof and estimated
mount of unreported claims
Otter PellcyOkllgarioes: 16,055,985.81
Including dividends left with
Company, premiums paid in
advance, etc
Miicallaeeees UaklllHas: 44,141,003.74
Including leseitea for Accident
and Health Insurance, accrued
tans payable in 1938, etc.
Sareles aed Oeaeral Velaatery
Reserve! 311,504,659.62
This serves at a margin of safety
a cushion against continien-
cwa which cannot be faramn
TOTAL ,
, $4,719,720,827.01
Tefal lira laureate Is Ferce:
Ordinary. ........ .$11,400,690,229
Industrial 7,511,537,957
Group 3,67 1,865 J 12
ThUl $22,584,093,698
Accident and Health
Weekly benefits 19,699,024
Principal sum benefits .... 1,510,264,310
Pevsners fa teaef efsrfei eie PeMeykeMersi
Ordinary
Industrial ,
Group Lift, Health, and
Annuities ,
Personal Accident and Health ,
, $228,626,251.52
, 234,266,144.68
60,451,881.28
2,531,994.01
Tottl $525,876,271.49
The Metropolitan is a mutual ortaniiatkm. Its a seers are held for the benefit of its policyholder,
and any divisible surplus is returned to its policyholders in the form of dividends.
The Human Side -for 1937
r rs WIRE to let the figures above describe the
Metropolitan'! aetivitiea last year, the story would be
far from complete-tor there is a HUMAN aide of the
ledger, too.
Policyholder! and beneficiaries received from Metro
politan in 1937 almost $526,0Cr0,OOO much of it in aa
hour of genuine need.
Death claims were paid,
on 6,107 policies in force leas
than three months, and on
18,562 policies in force lass
than one year dramatic
proof of the value of life insurance.
One could scarcely nam a catastrophe which took
human lives, in the United States or Canada, where
Minds provided by Metropolitan policies had not helped
lighten tne burden for afflicted families.
Each day, visiting nuree)
representing the Metropoli
tan ministered to persons in
sured under Industrial, In
termediate, and Group poli
cies who were in need of
skilled cars. These nurses
Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company
i MUTUAL C O M FA ST)
made 3,766,240 calls during the year.
Every half second during 1937, a Metropolitan
let, containing useful health information, was placed it
somebody's hands.
Each working day through out the year, new Mttro
politan investments went
into communities in virioui
parts of the United Stitei
and Canada. These invest
ments helped to creates
mand for goods, aid W
values, give employment,
and serve other modern social and economic needs.
There is more we would like to tell you boutJ
1937 Report This is contained in s booklet tiUe J
Human Side of the Ledger," which we shall be V w
send to you upon request
Frederick H. Ecker, Chttrmm of 0
Leroy A. Lincoln, Pmidmt
Soars
ttmerouTAM Lots Insctuuks Comvaitt
1 atadisan Avenue, New York, N. Y. rf
Flaaw send me, without chame or oblitti. Bf
the booklet, "The Human Side of the Ledter-
Street
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