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THE REGISTER-GUARD EDITORIAL PAGE OF AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Tubllahad am avastes and Suodayi OTTOS AMD FVBUSHD ...... Altoo ' u"" MAjUOINO E3ITOB . William M. Tufmu nHmVOVT ... AMatettd Praaa. Unltad Prat. I MOU " I tfea Fort Offleea Com Oraatm. aoond TV. Kan.MrOiiad'a pollcsr If be eomplata and Iropartla aruuTam Paaaa e all naw. and wu a. nTon this pas. In editors ol Tha Ragatar-Ouard ettar Mr oplalooj on aranta of Uia day and mtr of Inportanaa lo aa community, andaavoring fo ba candid out (atr and hatsaul tka oaralapeMnt of aoutnictlva com a unity policy. HAZING MEDICAL PROFESSION Indictment of ranking officers of the American Medical Association and three medical societies in the District of Colum bia for alleged violations of the anti-trust laws amounts to hazing the medical pro fession. It is a procedure which will not set tle any of the problems involved in the con troversies over state medicine, cooperative medicine and private medicine, but it is rather typical of the sophomoric zeal of those ardent leftists who have been direct ing the latest phases of the New Deal. Even though it must be admitted that the doctors have brought much trouble on themselves, the sins of the few do not war rant this effort to rouse prejudice against the entire profession. On the whole the hu manitarian services of the medical profes sion outweigh by far all those sins which may be termed "commercialism." Furthermore, here and in many other parts of the country, the doctors themselves are making many experiments in the di rection of cooperative health service. And experience has shown that such enterprises must be approached with a large measure of caution. It is not protecting health or helping those of limited means if standards are lowered. In Oregon, it has required considerable alertness and effort to prevent the gypping of the public by purely commercial organi zations pretending to offer group service at cut rates. There is a point beyond which rates cannot be cut without either subject ing the patient to treatment by doctors of Inferior ability or lowering the standards of hospital care and these practices are very ' dangerous. . In those countries which have tried "state medicine," it has been found that there are quite as many problems as in free practice. State medicine involves all of the troubles which we have found under con tract medicine and more. Laws cannot be made to set aside the human fact that the relationship of healer and patient is or should be a personal matter. The problem in this country today is beat expressed In the statement that except for the very well to do or the very poor the beet In medical service is "beyond means." Doctor themselves recognize this problem, hope earnestly to find the answer. Maybe it will be found in the larger endowment or public support of hospitals and clinics, or In forms of group practice which do not eliminate the personal relationship. The answer will not be found in pub licity prosecutions. The greatest sin of the A.M.A. is that It has not come freely to the public with its problems. It has chased ethical rainbows instead of dealing boldly with that minority which tears down the good will earned by the thousands of con scientious self-sacrificing practioners. $600,000 additional steam plant. It is still a very conservative bite into the net profits of the water and light systems which earned last year a net of approximately $333,000, It will not jeopardize the program of bond retirement nor will it retard the policy of building cash reserve to replace obsolete plant and equipment. That the move is a by-product of the re cent campaign is reasonably clear. Even the $5,000 reduction in city rates shows an unbending in the Water- Board's attitude toward the city government, but the distri bution of the lion's share of the "dividend" to the water and power uses indicates the desire to perserve the position that first duty is to the consumers. The issue of some fixed annual payment in lieu of taxes remains definitely unsettled. The Water Board still has leeway in case it encounters taxing legislation in the legislature. WASHINGTON LETTER By JOHN T. FLYNN NEA Service Staff Correspondent The principle of incentive taxation now being discussed by a Senate committee is almost as old as the government. Tariff legislation is, of course, incentive taxation. It is taxation imposed in sucn a way as to encourage production. But a more direct type of Incentive taxation is in effect in New York State and New York City now. As far back as 1921 the City of New York, under a state statute, passed a tax exemp tion law to encourage new building. At that time residence building had come to a standstill. The city was faced with an acute housing shortage. But labor rates and "labor rackets, material prices and material rackets and contractor agreements had tied the building business in such a knot that building ceased. Kesults Came Hurrying To encourage building the city exempted from taxation for a period of 10 years the improve ments in the case of any dwelling structure to the extent of $5000 per dwelling unit. The effect on home building was immediate. The day following the passage of that tax exempt law the builders lined up in droves with their plans before all the building offices of the city to file their blue prints. The city went off on such a flight of house and apartment building as it had never seen before. The law was far from a perfect law. It was not passed, to stimulate business but to get the city out of the most serious housing jam it had ever known. Later that law was amended and improved several times so as to limit the tax benefits to low-cost tenements and then only for limited divi dend corporations. But the law is still in exist ence. The idea, of course, is to extend this plan to other lines of industry. The New York tax exemp tion law amounted to a 2 per cent subsidy for 10 years and made a considerable difference, of course, in the cost of the house. One may well doubt if the tax exempt law would have done so much if at the same time Samuel Untermyer had not broken up the labor and contractor rings that strangled the building business. Three Kinds of Tax Contemplated One idea proposed now for all Industry is to divide the federal taxes into three grades nor mal, surtax and super-surtax. The normal and surtax taxes would apply to all. But the super surtaxes would be subject to numerous deductions for the purpose of encouraging manufacturers and builders to engage in new enterprises. Like the building business in New York, it may well be questioned whether tax relief would do the trick unless many other adjustments were made. And then there is always the question whether a tax exemption on one group of enter prises would not be a tax penalty on all others who have to compete. (Copyright, 1038, NEA Service, Inc.) WATER BOARD'S DIVIDEND Very timely and also very interesting is the Eugene Water Board's decision to make cuts in power and rate cuts which will save consumers $76,500 in the coming year. The detail of how these cuts will be applied to the various classes of consumers, household, commercial and industrial, has not been an nounced but the city government is to re ceive reductions which will approximate $5,000 this year. The Water Board evidently is moving to forestall the possibility of being included in the plans to tax municipal utilities and utility districts which will come before the Oregon legislature. The Bonneville Federa tion, which J. D. Ross is guiding, has draft ed a bill which includes among other things provision that public utility districts shall pay 5 per cent of gross earnings in lieu of taxes as is required in TV A and many Mher operations. There are other measures which will seek a reapportionment of the taxes which privately owned utilities pay in order to give urban districts a larger share of the revenues now going to rural districts where plants are located and the legislature's Interim committee has con sidered bringing municipals into line with this program. The Water Board's $76,500 rate reduction is more than twice the $30,000 which would have been involved in the defeated charter amendment to require the Water Board to take over the function of street lighting and municipal power and water supply. This Is interesting mainly in view of the campaign cry that the $30,000 concession to taxpayers would have made it necessary to raise rates. The $76,500 rate cut is made possible by the decision to buy peak load power from Bonneville rather than proceed with a AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine The New York State Department of Labor has given special consideration to carbon monoxide poisoning, and has issued the following advice to be adopted when difficulties occur: (1) Keep windows open as much as possible. (2) Do not permit the engine to run and dis charge exhaust gas directly into the air of the work-room. Every workroom should have a flexible tube which can be attached to the ex haust pipe, and through which the exhaust gas may be carried outdoors. (3) Remember that carbon monoxide gas has no smell. You cannot, therefore, know If carbon monoxide gas is in the air by the smell of the room or by cloudiness of the atmosphere. (4) If you suffer with headaches, report the fact at once so that the air conditions may be in vestigated, and proper ventilation established. (5) If you do not feel well, sec a doctor at once. You may be particularly sensitive to carbon monoxide gas, more so than the others. In that case you had better change your occupation. It is not safe for you to be exposed to even very small amounts of the gas. Do nnt linrrv nrrtnnH nnnnra;Garilu at vaiik work. The more exercise you take, the more car- Don monoxide gas will get into your blood. If one of your comrades faints, get him out into the fresh air at once. Put blankets under and over him, and surround him with hot water bottles or hot bricks. Keep him warm at all costs or he may develop pneumonia. Persons who become asphyxiated with carbon monoxide gas are peculiarly susceptible to pneumonia. Call the gas company and an ambulance at once. You must always call both of these, because ambu lances are not equipped with resuscitation ap paratus. In the meantime the patient should be given artificial respiration by what is known as (he 'Manual" or "Schaefrr" method. Everyone working in industries where there is a possibility of exposure to carbon monoxide gas should be familiar with this method of re suscitation. It is easily carried out. Anyone can learn how to do it. He may thus by his knowledge be able to save someone's life. If the Schaefer method of artificial respiration does not produce results, it is now a standard procedure to administer, together with the arti ficial respiration, a mixture of oxygen and small quantities of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide stimulates the brain center associated with breath ing and the oxygen will help to displace the carbon monoxide from Its combination with the i-ed coloring matter of the blood and thus give the tissues of the body opportunity to recover. Four Former Members. Are Guests at Event By MARIAN LOWRY Q SOCIAL meeting was held by the Spinsters club Tuesday evening, Miss Madalena Giustina, president of the group, being the hostess. Twenty attended. Hour former members were guests, Miss Marian Morse, Miss Brandon Young, who has been in San Francisco studying harp, Miss Gale Buchanan, home from Palo Alto for the holidays, and Miss Elizabeth Ann DeBusk. Misses Jean Taylor and Phyllis Atwater were hostesses with Miss Giustina for the meeting. Miss Janet Hall will entertain the group of January' 10. ' ' HOME FOR HOLIDAYS Mrs. Roberta Spicer Moffitt, who has been studying cello under Miss Miriam Little at the Univer sity of Idaho at Moscow, has re turned to Eugene to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Spicer. a TO ENTERTAIN GROUPS Mrs. Foster Burnett will enter tain for her card club at a Christ mas party Thursday afternoon Additional guests will be Mrs. Henry H. Norton, Mrs. Milo Mar- latt, and Mrs. Keith Fennell. On Friday evening, Dr. and Mrs. Burnett will entertain for their supper club. a CLASS MEETS The monthly business and social meeting of the Marie Fletcher class of the First Baptist church was held Tuesday evening at the River Road clubhouse, with forty-four members present. Included on the program were a solo by Mr. Ban ton, a reading by Mrs. Clark Devereaux, and pictures and a talk on her trip to Norway by Miss Doris Hansen. An exchange of Christmas gifts was held. a MRS. READE SPEAKS The Matrons' Guild of Central Presbyterian church met Tuesday afternoon in the church chapel. Mrs. J. F. Reade talked on her trip to the Holy Land. Miss Ruth Sprecher and Joe Keever sang a duet and Mrs. E. A. Stacks led devotions. a a CHRISTMAS PARTY The annual Christmas party of the Women's Alliance of the Com munity Liberal church was held Tuesday afternoon at the Osburn hotel. Christmas carols were sung, with Miss Wanda Eastwood accom panying on the violin. Miss Arlene Soasey sang a solo. After the pro gram, tea was served and gifts dis tributed. Mrs. Harry Woodhouse and Mrs. Belle Lydick were hos tesses. a a R. N. A. EVENT The Christmas entertainment of Royal Neighbors of America was given Tuesday evening, with the Juveniles of the group presenting the program. Mrs. Frank Hyland was in charge of the children's work. About one hundred fifty members attended. a a WIN PRIZES Mrs. Harry C. Farley and Mrs. Alice Goepferd won prizes at the card party held by Women of Moose Tuesday afternoon. About twenty women attended. At the next party, January 3, Mrs. George Simon will be hostess. a a a AUXILIARY EVENT A Christmas party with exchange of gifts was held by the V. F. W. auxiliary at the home of Mrs. Rose Summerville Tuesday afternoon. The business meeting of the auxil iary will be January 3. a a CAROLING PARTY A caroling party will be held by Theta Rho Girls and Junior Odd Fellows Thursday evening. The group will meet at the home of Miss Erma Miller, 1571 High street, and after the caroling, will return to her home for refreshments. a a DINNER PLANNED A covered dish dinner will be held by the Genevieve Turnipseed class of Central Presbyterian church Thursday at six-thirty in the chapel. The evening will be spent filling sacks with Christmas candy. MR., MRS. TERRY HONORED ON ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Fred Terry wore honored Saturday evening on the occasion of their first wedding anniversary at a party given by Mr. and Mrs. George Terry. Entertainment was furnished by Lee Potter. Among guests invited were Mr. and Mrs. Arleigh Powers and Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Powers and son of Monroe; Avery Powers, Mrs. Sarah Powers of Junction City, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Potter of As toria; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knox, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rabenan. Miss Elsie Putnam, Mr. H. Jones. James Dorr of Springfield: Mrs. A. Stou and Waller Stou of Philo math; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Terry, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Terry, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Terry, Mrs. A. w. urumwell, Mrs. Earl G. Biumwell, Misses Irene and Al- verra Terry and Frank Rood of Eugene. C.Y.O. SKATING PARTY TO BE WEDNESDAY The Catholic youth organiza tion is sponsoring a skating party, Wednesday evening. The group will leave the parish house at seven-thirty o'clock. Following skating, the group will return to the parish house lor refreshments. . . 1 . '""J11' CLUB HAS SOCIAL : MEETINQ ON V HOMEMADE stuffed dates belong in the. "folksy" Christmas gifts that carry on the good neighbor policy- at this time of year. Use as many different stuffings as you can think of, and package your dates gayly and if possible, in useful containers'. Many Children Attend Annual Party of Group piFTY-FIVE children were guests for the annual Christmas party given by the American Legion auxiliary Tuesday evening at the Moose hall. The auxiliary gives the event each year for children of members of the Legion and auxil iary. An unusually beautiful Christ' mas tree was set up by the com mittee for the party, Santa Claus called to give treats to all. The auxiliary members also provided treats for the thirty-seven mem bers In the Girl Scouts troop they sponsor. For the program, Charles Gran- zer and Dorothy Bruhn played harp duets; a 'cello quintet played, including John McGree, Tommy Tugman, Billy Hall, Donald Talbot and Edgar DeCou; and the Merrick dance studios presented a tap dance number. Games were played. On the committee for the party were Mrs. J. P. Schimberg, Mrs. W. B. Card, Mrs. O. H. Ford, Mrs. W W Wnttera Mrs. T.nlii Rnrn Mrl. Myrl Garnett, and Mrs. E. D. Lake. Calendar Today's Recipes (By NEA Service) pLUM PUDDING puts the merry in iu lamids lu many (jcupie. Whether it comes in flaming and pungent, or is followed by a bowl of special fruit sauce, Its the tra ditional finale to the family Christmas dinner. - . Plum Pudding Delight - Two and one-half cups seedless raisins, 2 cups cooked prunes, IVi cups cut citron. cup cut pre served orange peel, 1 cup sliced candied cherries, 1 cup coarsely chopped walnut meats, cup plum nectar, 1V4 cups ( pound) butter, Vi cups granulated sugar, 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, 2 cups soft white bread crumbs, 3'a cups sifted all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 tea spoon ginger. Rinse and dram raisins. Cut prunes from pits in small pieces. Rinse citron, orange peel and cherries; drain and dry on a towel before cutting. Combine fruits, citron, peel and nuts. Add nectar and stir to blend. Let stand while preparing' batter. Cream butter, add sugar, and cream thoroughly. Add beaten eggs and flavoring and stir to blend. Add bread crumbs and flour, sifted with soda, salt and spices, and mix. Add fruit mix ture and stir until fruit is well distributed. Pour into greased pudding molds, cover and steam. Sufficient for one 2-quart and one 1-quart mold or three 1-quart molds. Two-quart moid will require approximately 4 hours steaming; one-quart molds 2V4 to hours. Test puddings for completion with a cake tester pick before removing from steam er. Allow puddings to cool uncov ered in molds or serve hot. They may be reheated. Serve flaming with brandy or nectar sauce. Nectar Sauce (Makes approximately Wt pints) Three-quarter cup plum nectar. 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 3 table spoons cornstarch, 1-8 teaspoon salt, 14 cup butter, 4 cups confec- uoner s sugar, 1 egg white. Combine nectar. lemon juice. cornstarch and salt, and stir to blend thoroughly. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring until very thick. Cool but do not chill. Cream but ter, stir sugar into butter slowly, !fii(a"t:ct Shirts & Ties 5 S Men's ROBERTSON'S Wear L61 E. Broadway Eugene j MftMMiMMiMiMiMiMiMt! Wednesday 7:15 p. m. Frances Willard P.-T. A. meets at the school house. 7:30 p. m. Dessert of Past Matrons of Willamette Court of the Amaranth with Mrs. Oren C. Davis. 8 p. m. Artisan's Christmas party at Moose hall. 8 p. m. Card party of Wo men of Moose at Moose hall. 8 p. m. Rebekahs meet in I. O. O. F. temple. 8 p. m. Christmas party of Central Presbyterian choir with Mrs. E. E. WyatU Thursday 6:30 p. m. Dinner of Gene vieve Turnipseed class at Cen tral Presbyterian church. 7:30 p. m. Caroling party of Theta Rho Girls and Junior Odd Fellows. alternately with slightly beaten egg white. Fold cooled nectar mixture into butter and sugar mixture. Serve over steamed pud ding. Apricot or peach nectar may be substituted for the plum nectar in this sauce. Guild Meeting , St. Clare Guild of St. Mary's Episcopal church met for a Christ mas party at the parish hall, Tuesday evening. .There was a Christmas tree with exchange of gifts. For the program, the dra matic group from the Business and Professional Women's club presented . a skit and Miss Lois Greenwood read the play, "How Come Christmas" by Bradford. Hostesses for the meeting were Mrs. Milo Glassman, Mrs. Henry H. Norton, Miss Lois Greenwood, and Miss Grace Griggs. The next meeting will be on the second Monday of January. He Streaked Into Her Heart Sally would never forget that first moment when she saw Dan Reynolds, a dark figure poised high above her head, next a lightning streak, skim ming down the trail of the slick, steep slope toward her. Actually, that moment Dan streaked into her heart, but Sally was to learn that love does not come so easily without a price. Her story is revealed in the romantic new serial Beginning Wed., Dec. 28 Register-Guard Kotillion Club Dance Attended By Large Group JOTILLION club's Christmas dance was an event of Tues day evening at the Eugene hotel, forty couples attending.- On the committee for the party were: Dr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chaffee, Mr. and Mrs. Damon Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Moore, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Moore. A dinner dance Is being planned for January, and on the committee will be Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Large, Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Cramer, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Dutton, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stalsberf, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph runaier. ESS SEE CLUB PARTY HELD MONDAY SANTA CLARA. Dec. 21. (Soe elal) The annual Christmas party of the-Santa Clara Ess See club was held Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. George with a dinner at six-thirty o'clock. After dinner bridge was played, honors going to Mrs. C. D. Chezem, George Phillips, Mrs. Fred Dotson, C. P. Hart and Mrs. Archie Meyers. The following program was given: Recitation, Veneta Chezem; piano duet, fctnei Hart and Jo Dotson skit, Ed Hart, Vivian Meyers, Harry caaore and George Phillips: music, harp, kazoo and bells, Clinton Chezem, Vesta Shaffner, Paul Wei ser and Fred Dotson; skit, Alice George, Preston Hart and Hal Dob son; Christmas carols, Cora Phil lips, Hazel Dobson, Archie Meyers and Arthur Shaffner; recitation, Florence Hart, introducing Santa Claus in the person of Elsa Cadore, Gifts were exchanged. Lastly, each wrote a letter to Santa Claus, the letters being shuffled, redrawn and read. Enjoying this party were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weiser, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Hart, Mr., and Mrs. Arthur Shsffner, Mr. and - Mrs. S. S. George, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dotson, Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Dobson, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Chezem, Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cadore, Mr. and Mrs. E. C Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Meyers and Mrs. Rebecca Watson. BUSINESS VISITOR SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 21. (Spe cial) Arnold Acheson of Donna was a business visitor In Spring, field Wednesday. All-Church Supns, .Planned By Sf ne next ill.ri,i. per of h. pi " '"Pit e.I Pal church Kr'H j January 19. t Th5l the business' lZl!T 3 men's Union t..-?. J" ? wj Division two will h. L rH table setting J n,.! of making the coffes KkSH Division four vm Zl-'i ity commits ti,. e ary sietyeUng"1 the mornin. tw. d day table at the un were Mrs. M. Y W. Mrs. Snnhi. u..... .. frtel Parker. Mrs. r,'lS.r'!'M R. Sweetser M . mS m1 hue, Mrs. N. ri Martha Drum, and Mr,. Louis E. BeaiT prH sone servira u. k.u leading devotions. M Tt A NaUvi,y.MrE.V,2l Danied h, Mr. p n f' ,cc4 a solo. Miss MaA, v r.i u, were given hr a v sion secrat.H.. m .-1?.4 mond reported on the'reil.l'3 r Bethel Pupils To Give Christmas Program BETHEL. Dv 91c..m, The P.-T. A. of Bethel kU wm sponsor a Christmu jJ ffram and tri.a Th,,Mi n beginning at 8 nVlivV Tk. i3 grade pupils will present uJ w..., ooiims vacation, ipj the UDber srsda nuniu n .71 vide the music. Mrs. rioiaj Bennett and Miss Violet Bleco quist are in charge of the JJ nlu ijci&n rain, me singing. Operetta Is Planned By Danebo Pupils An operetta, "Ths End of & Santa Claus Trail," will be pn sented by the pupils of the Dot bo school Thursday at t p. i The teachers. Marguerite Vtal slid and Irene Chapman, in dii recting. Dorothy Stump will pn sent the opening number, lis between the acts will be pn vided by Evelyn Berntzen, aid quartet composed of VioU Wiei Genevieve Garoutte, Rojersai! zen, and Robert Larsen, ha. The New "CART WRIGHTS" Are In 1 For Your Holidares ! Swiihy taffeta, swirling net, or JZ for gala evenings. 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