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WILLAMETTE PROJECT STILL ASKING
EDITORIAL
So far, President Roosevelt has not said
anything except a few kind words about
the Willamette Project for flood control.
That may be good news. Just before he
started his western tour, he doused the
hopes of the Umatilla project by expressing
his unwillingness to start something that
couldn't be finished with funds in sight. It
is to be hoped this is not an indication of his
attitude toward the entirely different Wil
amette project.
The Willamette project is conservation
and protection quite as much as develop
ment. It Is a program which can be carried
out unit by unit, and as each unit is fin
ished it will be complete and serviceable in
itself. That is one of the strongest features
of the report of the U. S. Army engineers
recommending It as immediate.
' They are ready to go ahead now. But as
Brig. Gen. Tyler, the assistant chief of en
gineers, said yesterday in Portland, they
can't do a thing without an appropriation
and Mr. Roosevelt controls that. The Wil
lamette Valley may not offer much to rec
ommend it politically to the White House.
But it is the home of more than 1,000,000
people who believe merit should be placed
ahead of political support.
THE DALLES NOW A PORT
Tonnage will determine whether Ore
gon's new seaport at The Dalles is to be
more than an ambitious experiment. If
there is tonnage, the ocean-going ships will
come to The Dalles, and all the Improve
ments needed to make the Columbia river
channel safe and easy will be made. That
is a fact we need to take to heart in this
part of Oregon with our plans for the de
velopment of practical ports on the Siuslaw
and the Umpqua.
The people of The Dalles are to be con
gratulated on the faith which has opened
their road to the ocean. The government of
the United States has supplied the money
but It is the faith of the people of The
Dalles and the Upper Columbia region
which literally has moved mountains, cre
ated for Oregon the world's greatest Inland
waterway.
In early days, The Dalles was the "head
of navigation" on the Columbia, and the
people of that region believe history will
be repeated under modern conditions. They
see ,the grain, timber, minerals and other
products of the Inland Empire moving
through their port. This entails develop
ment of those resources, the building of in
dustries, the finding of markets, the creation
of those conditions of industrial stability on
which Investment may be based.
It requires 300 tons of freight each way,
each trip, to justify any ocean vessel in
visiting any port. This is the minimum.
This figure must be multiplied many times
to Insure traffic growth. The government
has supplied a waterway. It is a question
whether it will hinder or help in that part
of the program which must come next.
WHAT MAKES STOCKS GO UP
So swift has been the rise of the stock
market since June 18 that many theories
are being advanced as to the cause of it,
and, we are told in n vs dispatches the SEC
has some Investigators at work. One theory
is that foreign buyers and speculators have
created the new boom. One pet story among
anti-Rooseveltians in Wall street is that
the administration has staged the show for
political effect. Even the miraculous Mr.
Kennedy, now ambassador to England, is
being linked with this plot.
We believe the causes are almost self
evident. The first pump-priming produced
an upswing in the market. Thousands of
speculators big and small knew this. If the
present upswing has gone much faster and
farther than business facts warrant, it is
because it is the nature of speculative mar
kets and something which not even SEC can
stop. The boom is probably unhealthy be
cause It is premature, but a still unhealthier
aspect of the situation is the widespread
gambling fever.
We are living from "shot in the arm" to
"shot in the arm" with chances none too
bright for gain or advancement in normal
channels, and one result is the temptation
to gamble on anything from the "sweep
stakes rackets" to stocks. Normal prosperity
would cure a lot of that.
When Mr. Roosevelt calls a politician
"my old friend So-and-so" it means he's
okay, says a reporter on the great non-political
exploration, but a good many of those
who know the boys best will stick to plain
"So-and-so."
Impoverished nobles are reported turning
to fortune-telling. It's easier telling these
days than hunting.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY DUTCHER
(Register-Guard Washington Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, July 13. With everybody
hoping and praying that the country is about to
move upward from the depression's bottom, econ
omists and statisticians have gathered in enough
facts and figures to permit them to present a
fairly plausible and well-connected analysis of
factors making for the present Inertia.
There is no assurance that such a diagnosis
will be helpful in warding off economic depres
sions of the future. But you never can tell.
Lauchlin Currie, assistant director of research
and staUstics for the Federal Reserve System,
whose business figures are widely used in indus
try and government, recently summed up his con
clusions in a confidential survey.
He stresses the factors causing the inventory
and forward buying boom of 1936-37, the decline
in residential building after April, 1937, and the
abrupt decline in net federal expenditures in 1937.
And he achieves some distinction by admitting
that his is a "hind-sight" view, based largely on
figures available only this year, and not some
thing he was predicting all the time.
Currie groups essential depression factors
roughly as follows:
The Money Rolled In
National income: From 1933 to 1938 forces
tending to increase the natlonol income were
ascendant. Government kept adding to buying
power more than it took in taxes. Business in
creased expenditures on inventories, plant and
equipment. In 1936 a residential buljding boom
got under way. National Income increased from
less than 40 billion dollars in 1933 to 64 billions
In 1936. The increase of nine billions in 1936 was
one of 16 per cent, highest rate ever known in a
period of stable prices.
Prices: England's rearmament inspired specula
tion in certain raw materials and inspired infla
tionary sentiment. In a quick transition period,
labor won substantial wage and hour concessions.
A sellers' market resulted from anticipation of
rising prices and fear of Interruptions by strikes.
Industries passed on higher costs in higher prices
and some encouraged excessive forward buying
by announcing price Increases effective on future
dates. From October, 1936, to March, 1937, whole
sale prices rose 7V4 per cent, at an annual rate
of 18 per cent, in what Currie calls "one of the
worst periods of forward buying and inventory
accumulation we have ever experienced."
Inventories: Dun and Bradstreet's survey cov
ering 17,000 firms indicates that manufacturing
and merchandising Inventories increased by about
two billion dollars in 1938 and three billions in
1937. Federal Reservb estimates what Currie
calls an "astounding increase" of five billions in
the 12 months ended September, 1937.
Government expenditures: Here came the big
gest, quickest drop of all among factors tending
to increase national Income. Net excess of activity-creating
federal expenditures over and
above tax collections was four billion dollars in
1936. This excess dropped from about $335,000.
000 a month through 1936 to less than $60,000,000
monthly from March to December, 1937. Bonus
payment swelled the total In 1936 and collection
of a billion social security taxes shrank the 1937
figure.
Other Factors: The speculative movement had
to subside sooner or later; this one ended In April
of last year. Pressure of Inventories began to be
felt and industries began to sell from accumulated
stock instead of new production. Increased re
serve requirements and Mr. Roosevelt's warning
against certain high prices dampened Inflationary
sentiment "may have," says Currie. Effect of
the armament boom seemed to have been over
emphasized. The labor situation became mere stabilized
after the U. S. Steel and General Motors agree
ment with C. I. O., discounting another specula
tive factor. Statistics begun to show that install
ment credit had been extended dangerously. Resi
dential building began to fall off aft.r April, 1937,
apparently because of cost and price advances.
Industry was sufficiently confident to go on in
creasing new plant and equipment expenditures
through the third quarter of the year, total such
expenditure being seven billion dollars in 1037 as
compared with five billions in 1936. But adverse
factors eventually flattened out that factor, too,
and everybody knows the rest.
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THIMBLE CLUB PARTY PLAmEDTHmSDAY AFTER
I I 1 T" A
Annual Dreu.iui
To Be August 9
AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Associa
tion, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine
The entire gnstro-lntestinal tract of a human
being is from 25 to 30 feet long. Nine or 10
Inches of this make up the esophagus, which goes
irom ine uiroai to tne stomach, and the stomach
itself is about the same length. This represents a
considerable area over which it is possible for
cancer to appar, because the lining of the intes
tines is of the type of cells which may give rise
to canrer.
Apparently cancers appear more often in those
portions of the intestines where the material
which passes along may stagnate or set up irrita
tion. These are the places particularly where the
Intestines become narrow. In the esophagus, there
is the possibility of Irritation from food that is
coarse or Insufficiently chewed, or from food that
is too hot or irritating.
We know today that little Is to be accom
plished in the control of cancer of the stomach or
of the Intestines unless the condition is discovered
early. Certain types of cancer are less difficult to
control because tiiey grow slowly and because they
make their presence known by bleeding. Others
make their presence known by producing obstruc
tion of the bowel at an early date.
Cancers that are hard to recognise are the
small, hard cancers which do not bleed and which
rroduce little Irritation or obstruction until they
have become so large that they produce complete
obstruction.
Nevertheless, the outlook is not hopeless be
cause we are learning more and more about the
changes which occur in the development of new
growths in the intestines and stomach.
We have a great many new tools which sci
entists are able to use In studying these tissues.
We have instruments like the gastioscope. the
esophagoscope, and the proctoscope in which it is
possible to view at dott range the lines of the
tissues concerned with these devices, and thus to
aid early diagnosis.
Moreover, we have now the X-ray. which Is
most useful in determining the presence of new
growths in the gastro-inlestinal tract. Nowadays
the patient may swallow a mixture of milk and
certain salts which are opaque to the X-ray The
pictures will then show interference with the
smoothness of the lining of the wall of the stom
ach and of the intestines. These examinations
should be made early.
There are more new methods tor attacking
cancers in the esophagus. It becomes possible to
open the abdomen and to go after the tumor from
below It u also possible to treat such tumors
with the X-ray or to use radium. Moreover, there
are new devices in the form of electrical coagula
tion which can destroy uch grvmuu if they can
be leached by the uuUuuieuL
Luncheon to Be
Held at Goodwin
Home at 1 P. M.
By MARIAN LOWRY
ONE of the week's most interest
ing social events will be the
party for which Thimble club
members will be guests Thursday,
Mrs. Marsh Goodwin and Mrs.
William Barker entertaining the
group at the home of the former
at a luncheon.
Honor guests for the affair will
be Mrs. Myrtle Kays of Los Angeles
and Mrs. Julius Goldsmith of Ore
gon City, both former residents of
this city and charter members of
the group.
Thimble club Is the oldest social
organization for women in the city
and was organized thirty - nine
years ago this month. Members ire
making plans to observe tneir
fortieth anniversary next year. The
club was organized at a meeting
held at the home of Mrs. David
Link.
Mrs. Kays is spending the sum
mer here visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Goodwin, and friends; and
Mrs. Goldsmith is to arrive Wed
nesday evening to be house guest
of Mrs. Alberta S. McMurphey.
Members of the club arc: Mrs.
Frank L. Chambers, Mrs. Fred E.
Chambers, Mrs. W. L. Cheshire,
Mrs. A. T. Cockerline, Mrs. F. S.
Dunn, Mrs Walter P. Fell, Mrs. W.
T. Gordon, Mrs. R. M. Pratt, Mrs.
David Link, Mrs. Alberta S. Mc
Murphey, Mrs. C. A. E. Whitton,
Mrs C. B. Willoughby.
Other guests at the party will In
clude the two honor guests, Mrs.
Kays and Mrs. Goldsmith; Mrs.
Hill, who is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Cheshire; Miss Mabel Simmons,
sister of Mrs. Cockerline, Mrs.
Clara Stocker, mother of Mrs. Fell;
and the two hostesses, Mrs. Good
win and Mrs. Barker, who are
daughters of club members.
.
VISITING HERE
Mrs. H. D. Hackman of Portland
is spending the week here as fcuest
of her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Orlando J. Hollis.
Calendar
Wednesday
6:30 p. m Phi Mu alumnae
club's picnic. Swimmers De
light. 7:30 p. m Theta Rho Girls
meet in I. O. O. F. temple.
7:30 p. m. D. U. V. meets
in armory.
8 p. m. Neighbors of Wood
craft meet in Moose hall.
8 p. m. Eagles auxiliary
meets in Eagles hall.
Thursday
9:30 a. m Synodical so
ciety meets in Gerlinger hall.
2 p. m W. R. C. reception
in ine annul jr.
Miss Jenney To Wed
Mr. Welch In Fall
Mr. and Mrs. Walker H. Jenney
have announced the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Inez Jenney,
to Robert Welch, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert T. Welch of Lake
view. The wedding will be held in
the early fall. Miss Jenney is a
graduate of Eugene high school.
Mr. Welch was graduated from the
University of Oregon law school in
1938, and is a member of Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
A shower honoring Miss Jenney
and Mrs. Herbert M. Simmons, who
is visiting from Santa Monica, Cat,
was given by Miss Dorothy Parks
Tuesday evening. Guests were Miss
Jenney and Mrs. Simmons, Mrs.
Richard Jenney, Mrs. Hugo Ree,
Mrs. Kenneth Lichty, Mrs. Kenneth
Lucas, Mrs. John Conner, Mrs.
Jerry Blair, Mrs. Oren Brownsun,
Mrs. Edward Franzwa, Mrs. Mil
lard Wilhelm. Mrs. Roland Carnine,
Mrs. Ruth Arey, Mrs. Robert V.
Betts, Mrs. Walker H. Jenney, Miss
Jo Skene, Miss Mary Graham, Miss
Virginia Endicott, Miss Helengray
Boykin, Miss Jean Marlatte, Miss
Kathleen Latham, Miss Margery
Lawson, Miss Marion Miller of
Portland, Mrs. E. B. Parks, and
the hostess, Miss Parks.
Business Women
Plan Luncheon
For Thursday
ONE of the larger club gatherings
. ...t ,im1I he the July
Ul UIC ni'i ..... -
luncheon of the Business and Pro
fessional Women's ciud inuiauaj
noon at the Cafe Del Rey.
Dr. Ernest Hilgard of Stanford
university is to spsak to the group.
He is here for the university sum
mer session. Mrs. Ella T. Edmun
son is chairman for the day.
HERE FROM MEDFORD
Mrs. Lee Bown and two children
are here from Med ford to spend a
month with Mrs. Bown's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Fell.
HOSTS TUESDAY
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Walker were
hosts Tuesday evening for a card
party for a group of seventeen, Mrs.
Walker arranging the party in
honor of Mr. Walker on the occa
sion of his birthday anniversary.
PICNIC HELD
Alpha Delta Pi alumnae held a
picnic for members and families
Monday evening In Skinner Butte
park, about twenty attending.
The alumnae plan to meet dur
ing the summer, arranging either
picnics or garden parties.
TO GIVE PICNIC
Royal Neighbors of America will
hold a picnic Sunday evening at
six o'clock in Skinner Butte park.
Mrs. Allie Clark and Mrs. William
F. Davis will be co-chairmen.
NAMED ALTERNATE
Mrs. J. A. Russell instead of Mrs;.
Harvey Vealch was named alter
nate delegate to the national con
vention of the United Spanish War
veterans auxiliary at the moc'inr;
of the local auxiliary this week.
PLAN FOR CONVENTION
Westside W. C. T. U. discussed
plans for the state convention of
the W. C. T. U. at its meeting Tues
day afternoon. The stale meeting
will be hold October 11-14 in ILu
gene. Mrs. Ellen Conn and Mrs.
A. W. Fletcher gave readings. The
next meeting will be July 26 in the
Church of the Nazarene.
Plan For Party
The Young Married Couples'
class of the First Baptist church
will hold a "mystery party" Wed
nesday, July 20. Cars will leave
the church at seven-fifteen. Each
one is asked to wear old clothes.
About seventy-five members at
tended the meeting and potluck
dinner at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Earle Chase this week. Those
in charge were Mr. and Mrs.
Chase, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Carlyle,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Chase, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Teague, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Pengra, and Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Ballentine.
Reception Thursday
Department officers of patriotic
organizations will be honored at
the reception to be given by the
Women's Relief Corps in the ar
mory Thursday afternoon at two
o'clock. Groups from Corvallis
and Cottage Grove are being in
vited. Mrs. Diva Rounds of Port
land, state president of the W. R.
C, is also expected. Mrs. Charles
B. Patrick will preside during the
afternoon.
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Divisions Of Aid
Report Meetings
Division meetings of the Women's
Union of the First Methodist Epis
copal church were held Tuesday
afternoon. Twenty-four members
of Division two attended the annual
picnic in Skinner Butte park.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. C. Small
of Idaho. The Bessie Rankin divi
sion held a luncheon at the church,
with seven members present. Plans
were made to service the luncheon
at the general meeting July 26.
Mrs. Louis E. Bean was a guest.
Ten members of the Jennie Curroll
division met at the home of Mrs.
W. T. McDermott. Mrs. M. J.
Spicer, one of the oldest members
of the club, was honored on her
eighty-first birthday. Mrs. Carrie
R. Norris presented Mrs. Spicer
with a gift from the group. Visitors
were Mrs. Sarah Randall and Mrs.
Louis E. Bean. The Emma Walton
division held a picnic at the home
of Mrs. E. A. Droste. Mrs. J. B.
Ward gave a review of the book,
"Victorious Living." Guests were
Mrs. I. T. Loomis, Mrs. A. G.
Loomis of Springfield, Minn., Mrs.
T. S. Zimmerman, and Mrs. F T.
Findtner. Twelve members of Di
vision nine met for a luncheon with
Mrs. C. E. Hunt. Mrs. John Field
was assistant hostess. A birthday
surprise party was held for Mrs.
J. H. Moeller. Guests were Mrs.
William Kuykendall, Mrs. Frank
Chambers, Mrs. C. J. Smith, and
Mrs. C. R. Clark. The next meet
ing will be a pay luncheon, Aug P.
An average adult has 28 pounds
of blood.
The annual breakfast of the Mis
sionary society of the First Chris
tian church will be held August 9
at the church, it was decided at the
meeting of the society Tuesday
afiernoon. Mrs. Lila Yoder will be
in charge of the program, and Mrs.
Anna Larcom, of the tickets. Mem
bers of the Cecile Harding group
will serve. Reports on' the recent
ctatu convention of Christian
churches at Turner were given at
the meeting by Mrs. Louisa .R.ei
lems, Mrs. Cassie Hyde, Mrs. Peter
Brunk, Mrs. E. V. Stivers, Mrs. M.
W. Cooper, Mft. Minnie V. Nim
mo, Mrs. Ernest T. Long, Mrs. Liz
zie A. Daniels, Mrs. Thomas Bai
ley, and Miss Martha Goodrich.
Mrs. Bailey, president of the state
missionary group ior the past ten
vun pave a resume of the fifty
years of Christian church mission
ary work, which was discussed at
the convention. Miss Goodrich re
nnrtori on the talk eiven bv Alex
ander Powell, national Oriental
secretary. Mrs. E. E. Kellems led
the singing, and Mrs. Stivers was
pianist.
Earl Kast. slrv .n.
Mrs. Glen T
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Mrs. W. W. Watted
Mrs. W. H. AnH. '
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Installation For
Auxiliary Held
Installation of officers was held
and committees for the year ap
pointed at the meeting of the
American Legion auxiliary Tues
day evening. The elective officers
are Mrs. Spencer R. Collins, presi
dent; Mrs. Myrl Garnett, first vice
president; Mrs. C. S. Dillon, second
vice-president; Mrs. E. N. Rinde,
secretary; Mrs. E. F. Mack, treasur
er; Ms. H. F. Halverson, historian;
and Mrs. Elmer Geiger, Mrs. Lulu
Burns and Mrs. Larsen Wrirjht,
members of the executive com
mittee. The officers appointed at
the meeting are Mrs. Cecil G. Deal,
sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. Glenn Mor
gan, color bearer; Mrs. Delia Borin,
parliamentarian; and Mrs. May
Moon, chaplain.
Members of the committees are
Mrs. Elmer Geiger, Mrs. Earl Kast,
Mrs. Glen Lewis, Mrs. Clarence V.
Simon, Mrs. Richard L. Moon, hos
pitality: Mrs. Myrl Garnett, Mrs.
C. S. Dillon, membership; Mrs.
C. D. A. Uv.
To Be
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