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Page Eight. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published every evening end Sundayl EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Alton f. Biker MANAGING EDITOR William M. Tulman NEWS SERVICE At.acl.ted Pr.M. Un ted Pre.. MEMBER - Audit Bureau of Circulation. Entered at Uie Port OHIee 11 tuiene Orelon, ei teeond cl.M matter. - The RealMer-Guard'. policy li the complete end Impartial publlcetlon In IU new. pnej of all new. end .tatcment. on newt. On tiila p.e. the editor! or The Realiter-Guard oiler their opinion! on event! of the diy end matter! of Importance to the community. endeavorln to be candid but fair and helpful Is the development of conjunctive com munlty policy. . BONNEVILLE'S ANSWER IS WAITED The proposal which the Eugene water board has submitted to the Bonneville man agement is extremely reasonable. Eugene will postpone the building of an additional steam plant to take care of peak loads, if Bonneville will sell power to Eugene over the coming ten-year period in units fitted to this community's actual needs and at rates not higher than our own production costs. To build the new steam plant would cost $600,000, of which the water board would pay $270,000, assuming the rest comes as a grant from PWA. Eugene would save this $270,000 investment, for the present, at least. Also it would save $268,000 of estimated steam plant operating costs over the ten year period. Bonneville would gain a customer, and customers right now are Bonneville's chief need on an over-serviced power market. Bonneville would get at least $203,625 worth of business from Eugene during this ten year period and the chance to sell a much larger amount of power here as the city grows. As to what Eugene's development policy should be after this ten-year period, time would tell. Power plants connected with the Willamette valley flood control project might alter the picture greatly. 'The main point is that under this plan, Eugene's pow er policy is kept firmly under Eugene con trol. Eugene is not relegating its valuable plants to auxiliary duty and Raying a prem ium for base power merely to help Mr. Ross justify the expeilment at Bonneville.- Incidentally, an adjustment with Bonne ville should make it a bit easier for the water board to meet that other problem of some regular payment to the city of Eugene in place of taxes. The disposition of the water board to plunge ahead with costly expansions has had a good deal to do with the recurrent demand from that unfortunate clement of the clientele known as taxpayers. "AFTER YOU, MY DEAR ALPHONSE" Big hearted as usual, John L. Lewis of fers to resign as head of CIO if William Green will abdicate as head of AFL, but Mr. Green is not attracted by this "Alphonse rind Gaston" proposition. Thus a bit of comedy is introduced into the labor war. Nevertheless the warriors may find a good many of their followers taking heart ily to the suggestion. There can be no doubt that the personal bitterness between these two chieftains has overshadowed the real issues in the labor struggle. The problem of organized labor is to find some way of coordinating trades unions and industrial unions, "horizontal" and ."verti cal" organization. In great mass produc tion industries where crafts are of minor importance the industrial union is logical. But in nearly all ordinary industry the old er form of craft unionism is still preferable. Jt is safe to say that most of the dues paying members on both sides of the fence are ssck and tired of the endless squabbles of Mr. Green and Mr. Lewis. They are tired of strikes and jurisdictional disputes which add not a dime to the worker's pay en velope. Maybe the workers will take the hint from the chieftains and vote both of them into obscurity. Both Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green have been using their members very much as a Chi nese war lord uses his private army. There's very little in it for the army. Neither is there likely to be any profit for labor in the class warfare toward which Mr. Lewis has been heading. That rumbling in the ranks of both CIO and AFL is from millions who are war-weary. . A California man was circled constable the other dny by a flip of the coin. A flip of the coin in the right direction has elected lots of people to office. "Turkey to Stress Democracy at Fair," reads a headline. Gosh, hasn't democracy had strebS enough lately? WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK FINISH HK.HWAY8 FIRST lRo.eburg Ke-wi-Rtvtew) From time to time dining the yean mc sortie clever Oregon legislator invented the idea erf tax ing gasoline ai it meant of railing revenue with which tr finance a state highway program, mouths of tax spender have watered for a bit of this luscious ever-bearing tax fruit. Fortunately all Mich efforts have thus far been rrj.sted. It is not ejy, therefuie, to look with favor upon the tuggeMiun advamrd by an tuiuniintion known m the Lejgue of Oiegvn Cities, that l M) per capita ba set out from tne highway funds re ceived from gas taxes and given to cities pf the tate with whirh to rebuild and maintain citv streets. The Idea ha a dtitinctly nwlfopolitan flavor since the greatest strict problems are In the met ropolitan areas. If that is the case, tourists and other users of gasoline in Oregon should not be required to help build and maintain streets in Tortland or, for that matter in any other city. The gasoline tax is the easiest tax to collect, the most certain of steady income, and it is the one tax that has, with the exception of the year 1938, been increasing each year. But with the ; i -v rn.intE ihpre Is an ever in- increusc in b " . . creasing demand for highway improvement and( construction. The highway system of the state i is not in perfect condition by any means nor is I it complete. So far as this newspaper is concerned , it prefers to see the highway funds let alone and I ' . . i. 1 iUoif r t root rii-nrS. I ICt Ihe ClUCS 5irUgKlt? uiuns wiui WASHINGTON LETTER By RODNEY DUTCHEH (Register-Guard Washington Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. The Roosevelt appeal for C. I. O.-A. F. of L. peace hasn't brought it a bit nearer. There just isn't any peace in sight or even in the wind. The chief reason is that no one can devise a formula by which the two groups can reunite without giving one or the other an upper hand. A. F. of L. leaders wohld have every reason to expect an end to their control if they took C. 1. 0. 's millions in on an equal voting footing. C. I. O. leaders are sure many of their unions would be raided and carved up if they joined A. F. of L. on any other basis. Neither side, in the words of one labor leader, wants to "put its head on Ihe chopping block." John L. Lewis stands on the assertion that C. 1. O. would move into the A. F. of L. "tomorrow" if each C. I. O. unit were promised a charter sim ilar to those of other A. F. of L. unions, with the further provision that jurisdictional disputes be settled by the unions involved. Unlikelihood of an early merger doesn't mean there's no chance of a cessation of name-calling and warfare between the two groups, as suggested by Mr. Roosevelt. But events at the A. F. of L. convention indicate there's no immediate prospect of that. A Good Example Labor's chief victory In recent months has been the success of Sidney Hillman, widely known as "labor's statesman" long before C. I. O. days, and Philip Murray in reconciling the battling factions of the United Automobile Workers. That struggle threatened to damage C. I. O. even more than it has been hurt by the depression and might easily have gummed up the C. I. O. convention scheduled for Pittsburgh November 14. One important expected result is elimination of both Lovcstono Communists behind President Ho mer Martin and Stalin Communists, who worked with the group of suspended officials now rein stated, from the union's policy-making councils. When C. I. O. Vice Chairmen Hillman and Murray went to Detroit few believed the break between Lewis and Martin over U. A. W. peace terms could be healed. They were threatened with physical violence and gunplay. Arguing with In dividuals one at a time and supported by rank and file union members interested in union preserva tion rather than leaders' squabbles, they finally convinced a majority of Martin's board. Martin, isolated, gave over control of the dispute to Mur ray and Hillman. Lately a united board has been referring all problems and disputes, willingly and gratefully, to the two arbitrators. Lewis and William Green apparently can't work out a peaceful agreement like that because there's no higher authority to whom they would he willing to refer differences. Roosevelt can't do anything about it. Neither Green nor Lewis has any present Intention of asking him to try. Problem For Miners One wouldn't expect the United Mine Workers to have much trouble getting coal to heat their big, handsomely renovated offices here. But there ore some problems involved. First they had to be careful where the coal came from. It must be union mined. Then the question of a fair price came up. Now the diffi culty is in getting the coal delivered by union teamsters, Teamsters aren't organized in Wash ington. (Copyright, 1038, NEA Service, Inc.) AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH Experience Social Of Grove Church Nets Large Sum COTTAGE GROVE, Oct. 13. (Special)ij-One hundred eighteen dollars was netted at the annual experience social of the Presby terian aid society Wednesday aft ernoon and more has been pledg ed. Mrs. Georg Bjorsct, presided and Mrs. James A .Smith led de votionals. Mrs. Roy Short and Mrs. L. W. Coiner were captains of the teams, Mrs. Short's side being the winner. Plans were discussed rel ative to buying a new carpet for the Sunday school room. Announcement . was made that the aid is sponsoring a benefit silver tea and doll exhibition at Ihe home of Mrs. Short, Wednes day afternoon. November 30. Mrs. j J. P. Graham will be in charge of the doll show. The public is invited. Refreshments were served by the hotsess committee, Mrs. S. L. Godard, Mrs. Joe Smith and Mrs. Oliver Veatch. lt i.. . notluck dinner was soiled" at noon followed by a di versified program conducted by Cleo Kern, the regular lecturer, Mrs Jessie Haidcastle, being ab sent Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baker, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Black, Miss Clco Kern, Mrs. W. G. Morton ana Mrs. Lulu Titus of Maple Creek grange and Mr. and Mrs. Millard Martin and Mrs. Fred Flack of Ada grange attended the grange conference held at Eugene last Saturday. ' AT IIARRISBURG HARRISBURG, Oct. 13. (Spe cial) Mrs. Cora Goodman left last week on an extended visit to her children. While away she will visit her son. Myron Goodman, at Detroit, her daughter. Mrs. Joseph ine Munscy nt Milton-Frecwater and a son, Duaine Goodman ut Tacoma. Her sister, Mrs. Frances Platts also left last week for a visit in Portland. While the ladies are away the Goodman confectionery will be in charge of Don Goodman, Mrs. Earl Tyler and Mrs. Wallace Starr. Recent guests at the W. F. El liott home were Mrs. E. J. Wilson of Boise. Idaho. Rev. Oscar Paine and wife of Salem and Mr. and Mrs. Lark Elliott of Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Chrisman of Rowland went to the Burns country on a deer hunt .which will keep them away for two or three weeks. While they are gone the store is in charge of Mrs. Hazel Bault. Among others who have gone deer hunting are Royal Car penter and Lester Coats to Wild cat mountain, and George Belts and Ray Nott to eastern Oregon. PARTY OX BIRTHDAY LOWER TRIANGLE LAKE. Oct. 13. (Special) A surprise birth day party was given at the V. A. Parker home Tuesday evening knn,.i Mre V. A. Parker and Virgil Post who are twin brother and sister. The evening was spent , ..icitinn and nlavine Eames. Re freshments were served. Those nrnnni wprp Mr. and Mr. Frank Savage and son Norman. Mr. and Mrs. George Worthington and daughter BeUy, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rob ertson and daughters Juanita and Eva, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Virsil Post and chil dren. Merle, Muriel and Vivian, Pontius, Ed Robertson, F. L. Nor ton, Mr. and Mrs. Harold O'Flyng. Sam Pritchard and the host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Par ker and three sons, Francis, Deri and Bobby. s.ii-l'U TP I A Vfll.hl LAKE LOWER TRIANGLE LAKE. Oct. 13. (Special) Paul Glover of Cheshire visited relatives in th:s community last week. Those attending the benefit so cial for the E. O. Rust family at the Triangle school gymnasium re ported a large attendance. FORMER RESIDENT DIES YONCALLA, Oct. 13 (Spe cial) Wcrd has been received here of the death of Captain Oli ver Cromwell Applegate at Kla math Falls. Oct. 11. He was the son of Lindsey Applegate and was born in the Yamhill district of what is now Polk county, on June 11, 1845, coming to Yoncalla at .i ni f,. vears. In 1860 he moved with his parents to Ash land. He leaves many relatives in and near Ycncalla. LODGE MEETS MARCOLA, Oct. 13 (Special) Mt. Home Rebekah lodge met Tuesday evening with 13 members present. Mrs. Mae Wiltsie was taken into this lodge by transfer from Mt. Ryderwood lodge No. 311 Rvderwood, Wash. Plans were completed for the dinner for the Springfield past noble grands who are to be here Tuesday, Oct. 18. October n'jj, are on the committee fn. social evening in i those who attend this ne meeting are asked to brrn,! mg or some number for iv of the order. r ft - Fine Stationery yaufT DRAPERIES " and UPHOLSTERING Expert Workraanshl, Applegate Furniture, p. nth & WillarMtt. IX HALSEY HALSEY, Oct. 13 (Special) Mr. and Mrs. Francis Leeper and son Jerry and Mrs. Maria Leeper have moved into the Daisy North rup house recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Alcorn. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Bond have returned from Portland where they enjoyed a five-day vacation and attended the international livestock show. C. V. Averill was elected choir director of the local Methodist Episcopal church choir at the first fall meet of the choir. TO GIVE PROGRAM HALSEY, Oct. 13. (Special) A program of interest to all will be the reception for the 33 ne-,' members taken into the local Methodist Episcopal church last year and the newcomers in the community on Friday evening, October 21 at the church. The pro gram committee has secured Mrs. Evn Nichols of Albany, just home from a trip around the world, to tell of the boat trip and Cairo. Several other features will be heard on the program and games and contests will be enjoyed. Awards for ability in the contests will be fruits and vegetables and home-made candy. Refreshments will be served. LODGE MEETS YONCALLA. Oct. 13. (Spe cial) The Neighbors of Wood craft met at the I. O. O. F. hall Tuesday evening. A short business meeting was held after which a social evening was enjoyed. Mrs. Ruth Edes and Mrs. Hazel Hanan served refreshments to the follow ing: Mrs. Golden Kruse, Mrs. Ber tha Wilson, Mrs. Mamie Lee, Mrs. Nettie Hanan and Mrs. Anna Kruse. George Westinghouse, Jr., first patented air brakes in 1869. GRANGE MEETS CANARY, Oct. 13. (Special) ; The regular meeting of Maple Creek grange was held at Ihe hall ' ' Quality Fountain Pens and Pencils Conklin Pen and Pencils at Half Price KuykendaU Drug Co. 810 Willamette, Eugene li? ! FrMn crisp and new as the feel of FALL in the air! New FALL STETSON AND HARDEMAN HATS Well worth seeing! Men's and Young Men's SUITS "SECOND GUESSING" is out when you select your Fall suit here. No need to guess about fashion, nor speculate about quality and value at The Man's Shop. If you've shopped around for your n;w Fall suit MAN, you're in for a surprise here. These are beautiful suits . . . newest tailored styles, smart, popular colors . . , your favorite pattern in better tailoring! The Right Answers to the Question of Fall TOPCOATS Football scores! Campaign speechesi Sure, it's fall. Time to choose your new Fall topcoat. Our coats this Fall will allow you to in dulge in a little better topcoat and enjoy The Man's Shop habit of a little more for the money. Choice new '38 fabrics, styles and patterns. Incidentally, for curiosity, come in and see what YOU think of them. Warm as they are smart, they're tailored to look like higher price. BYROM & KNEELAND 32 West 10th The Man's . Shop Your ARROW SHIRT Store Phone 364 3 Mew Silver Streah for 193k By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Associa tion, and of Ilygcia, the Health Magazine One of the most astounding mechanisms of which we have any knowledge is the human hand. The human animal is the only one who uses tools lo aid him in his work. He is also the only animal who uses the index finger separately from the other fingers, He is the only animal in whom there are separate muscles that go only to this finger. In the development of the human body, the position of the thumb is different from that in other animals, being opposite to the fingers, whereas in other species the thumb is on the same side as the fingers. An irhimal with the thumb on the same side as Ihe fingers has great trouble in trying to use any tools. The human hand developed Us present flexible form in response to the needs of mankind. When the anatomy of the human hand is studied, It is found that, first of all, it rests in a certain position that is, flexed. The resting posi tion is not the best working position. The ten dons on the backs of the fingers do not need tun- els to control their motion, because the fingers cannot be ivnt backward. The tendons micht however, slip sideways over the knuckles when me fingers are flexed, were it not for the fact that the tendons on the hack of the hand are lied together Mdewise by Kinds of tissue. This construction of the hand is Important In relationship to its ability to function. For that very reason an injury to the hand is of the ut most Importance, because it may interfere with Ihe ability of Ihe individual thereafter to work, e The wear and tear of life exposes the hand In an unusual decree to nil sorts of injuries, as well as to infection by bacteria. Sometimes the hand is infected following in jury with a pin or a thorn; sometimes infection incurs after a sever bruise. The structure of the hand gives opportunity for the infection to burrow deeply. One of the commonest infections of the hands is the formation of pus after an infection in the pulpy part of the finger tip. Frequently felons he come so serious that they have to be opened bv surgery. If the felon penetrates deep enough to invohe the bone, the end result may be a short mine of a tin.er. An infection around the fnigerna'ts is called carom chu. and because it spreads along the line of the nail it s often called a "run-around." Fre quently these infections develop after unclean manicuiing. 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