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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1939)
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTERGUARD January ; Page Six. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published every evening end Sundayl EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Alton t. Baker MANAGING EDITOR William M. Tugman NEWS BERVICI .... - Auocltted Pr.ia. United Ptmi MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation! Entered at the Pott Ofllee at Eugene. Oregon, ai aecond elase matter. The RegUteM3uard'a policy la the complete end lmrrtlal publlcaUon In ltl newa pagaa ol eU newi and etatemenu on newa. On thla page, the edltora ol The Regleter-Guard olfer their oplnlona on eventa o( the day and matter! or importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful In the development ol constructive com munity policy. RESPONSIBLE STUDENT OPINION It is the opinion of 20 student leaders at the University of Oregon who have been consulted by President Erb that it would do no good and perhaps some harm, if the selling of beer were to be forbidden in an area of six blocks around the campus, as requested by the Eugene Ministerial As sociation. This is the belief of 20 able young men and women who know their 3,000 fellow students perhaps better than anybody else can know them. And these young people have the utmost loyalty to the University and its good name among the people of Oregon. This statement does not mean that "beer guzzling" is in any degree approved and encouraged as for instance in the early days at Michigan and Wisconsin when those schools were attempting to ape the traditions and manners of the German uni versities. Quite the contrary! It means simply that student leaders recognize cer tain facts: 1. Approximately CO per cent of the stu dents in the University of Oregon are over 21, and close to 75 per cent of all students are totally or in part self-supporting. 2. The five establishments which sell beer within six blocks of the campus arc not "saloons"; four are eating places; one is a drug store which sells packaged beer to be consumed elsewhere. 3. Each of these establishments for a long time has had furnished by the Uni versity an official copy of the "1'iggers' Guide" (University Directory), with the date of birth noted opposite the name of every student. 4. Disciplinary records show there have been very few cases where drinking has been even an incidental factor to charges, and the moral tone of the University is un usually high, 5. The evil, if any, in the opinion of these leaders lies in places remote from the Uni versity and therefore not possible to super vise. Now student opinion runs something like this: Most students are too decent or too poor to be bad. There is no use trying to conceal the fact Df liquor which most students sec anyway, in their home towns and their homes. The "smartie" may learn to stop with one beer where there is an example of tem perate and matter-of-fact use; he inclines to get a "snootful of mixes" if you drive him outside. The modern concept of education is not "preparation for living" but LIVING. The liquor question is a good deal like the questions which revolve around such current issues as communism, fascism, war, peaco and other matters controversial. Many sincere people believe students should he shielded. Others believe all issues and all problems must be accepted and met by guidance. Students here have a right to resent the implication that their standards are in any way inferior to those at the State College where virtue is paraded. The difference in the attitude of the two schools finds expres sion in little things. A few years ago the University body abolished freshman hazing and freshman caps. The University pur sues the ideal of .self-control and self-government, and while this doesn't always work, there is much to be said for the campus which says: "It's up to you, now; try to act grown up." THE I OKC.OTTl'.N XMAS SEALS This is the time of year when it is necessary to drop n reminder to all those people who have forgotten to send in the money for their Christmas Seals. It should not be nccssary to go over the arguments for the seals, how they promote public health and finance the war to eliminate tuberculosis. The people who receive packages of seals by mail are those who for a good many years have been contributors and thus have demonstrated their interest. They are peo ple who "mean to give" hut have neglected it in the whirl of Christmas. Verne Hawn wants to close the hooks for the drive. So this is the reminder. It will save a lot of postage and a lot of running around if those who haven't got around to mailing that check will do it now before it Is completely forgotten. The name of the game really should be changed to "footbowl." Ajax McGurk says that perhaps Mr. Roosevelt intended the Hopkins appoint ment as a little Christmas present for busi ness. Business, Santy Claus is here! Hitler's lads are going to drop their scrap with Ickes but they don't think he has much Christmas spirit. Hooray for Hit ler! He kept us out of war. Chamberlain's threat to withhold British credit from the German Reich would seem to indicate that the pound will carry consid erable weight with Hitler. Neville Chamberlain shuns role as medi ator in Italo-French dispute. Yeah, verily, Neville, experience is a great teacher. U. S. Treasury reports there was $51.96 in circulation for every man, woman and child in November. We'll settle for the S51. New slant on a "white Christmas"; New ark, N. J., Santas have been ordered to keep their beards clean. WASHINGTON LETTER By JOHN T. FLYNN (NEA Service Stuff Correspondent) The Sheppard Committee of the Senate, report ing on WPA political abuses and making recom mendations for reform, singularly leaves out the most important recommendation of all. That is to take the Wl'A and all of the recovery and re lief activities of the government lock, stock and barrel out of politics. It is all right to prohibit politicians from solicit ing funds from relief workers and other persons on the government pay-roll; to prevent politicians from getting their names and addresses, and so on. Hut the place to strike is at the root. First of all, the entire administration of recovery and regulation and relief must be taken completely out of the hands of political employes. As early as December, 1934, the present writer observed the amazing degree to which the old spoils system was being revived. There was some criticism of it elsewhere too, but it was all blamed on Jim Farley. Then I wrote: "Nobody knows Farley better than Roosevelt. Since the partner ship was formed Farley has been nothing but a messenger boy. Takes Orders He does what he is told follows Roosevelt's orders with childlike simplicity. But this much must be said for him. He said over his own signa ture: 'Patronage is a reward for party victory He never said, for instance, 'I think that every body who has studied the question is in favor of the civil service' That was said by Roosevelt." Kvcry man knows what are the weaknesses of human nature. The President knows them. He knew as everybody knew, what the writer tried to point out in that 1934 article that you cannot spend billions of public money and entrust it to political appointees all over the map. It will be used for politics as surely as fire will burn wood. The first thing to do is to reorganize the entire Wl'A and all relief agencies. It is not enoue.li merely tn appoint another administrator, with the same philosophy guiding the man who dominates it all. The men who rule the WPA should be chosen on n merit system. Promotion should be on a merit basis. Administration should be as coinplelcly divorced from the influence of the politician In the county, in the State House and in the While House as is possible. Sweeping lmiulry Needed What has happened in relief has happened everywhere in the government. Thousands of men have been employed under the spoils system and then the President, with a pious gesture, has an nounced that they should be put under civil serv ice. Not only are his spoilsmen put into jobs but he attempts to keep them there forever by a spurious civil service. Why does not a Senate committee send out a (lucsiionnaire to all employes of the government in Washington and ask how much they have con tributed to the various campaigns since 1933, and whom the money was given to, and who solicited it',' The public service has been combed and hounded for political contributions just as the re lief workers have. Congress should Investigate the whole subject. Symphony Group To Play Modern Work At Concert A new unpublished work by the contemporary California com poser, Frederick Preston Search, and friend of Director Rex Un derwood of tile University of Oregon symphony orchestra, will bo played by the group for the first time in this locality in con cert in the music auditorium on Tuesday, November 24. Mr. Underwood met the com poser when they were both study ing music in Leipzig before the war. Since then they have car ried on correspondence. It was through this that Mr. Underwood first heard of the .work, "The Dream of McCorkle." Dealing with the life episodes of this legendary adventurer of the days of '49 in California, the work tells in representative lasn ion of the Paul Bunyan of Cali fornia, McCorkle. Sometimes a preacher, bartender, barber, hunt er, miner, he was best known in the old mining towns of You Bet and Red Dog. He is credited with the doubtful glory of setting fire to the boarding house of Mrs. Stitch at You Bet. In addition to the Search work, selections by such favorites as Tschaikowsky, Dvorak, Johann Strauss, Saint-Saens, Mozart, Paul White, and Von Weber will also be offered by the orchestra. David Campbell, pianist, and Doris Helen Calkins, harpist, will be soloists. HOST TO TEAM YONCALLA, Jan. 13 (Special) Howard Parks entertained the Yoncalla basketball boys in Eu gene recently at a basketball game on the McArthur court, between Oregon State and Wasningion State. Those going were, George Roberts, Stanley Ludwig, James Huntington, Bill Wittmeyer, Bill Gross, Bill Ellison, Max Dodd, Lloyd and Floyd Paul, Stewart Mathis, Howard Applegate, Don ald Cockeram, Merle Mulkey, Norman Main, and Leo Morin. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Berriel of Goodland, Indiana are visiting at a And thM dtlieimu bum fruit product! r good tor youi children too Srr9 thorn Dicklnion'i nd broad botwoon moaU and lor lunch. AT YOUR CROCERS the Ed Newby home. The women are sisters. TO ELECT OFFICERS THURSTON, Jan. 13. (Special) The Thurston Sunday school will hold election of officers next Sun day, Jan. 15, during the Sunday scnooi nour. The diff will announce their t-" This Snn.:'-'1 holds its election the beZ.H tho, vpar LUDFORD'S Plctm, lvt'Z ASK MOM IF SHE'LL MAKE" PILLSBUfcV PANCAKES TOMORROW; Made with extra-soft, cake-type wheat. Just add milk or water! AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH By Pit. MORRIS FISI1RE1N Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of llygcia, the Health Magazine Until ineptly parents and physicians paid little attention to colds as they occurred in children Ihe reason being that every child was expected to have a certain amount of colds. Now. however, the development of new methods of study in medicine has indicated that several conditions resemble colds and are themselves far more serious than an ordinary cold. For this reason the expet ts lccomincnd special attention to re peated colds which occur in children who are otherwise well, to children in whom a profuse nasal discharge is almoM continuous, to children who have sec,o coughing spells, particularly at night, which are not explained by whooping cough or by any changes in Ihe bins, to children who frequently have fevers in the afternoons and to those who sutler with constant lack of appetite. It has been lound that in a good manv of these cases the difficulty lies In chronic infections or inflammations within the sinuses. There are several technical methods of investi gating the sinuses w hich are useful and which have yielded evidence pointing to the sinus as the source of the dislui bances that have been mentioned. One of these methods is transillumination. In this method the child is taken into a dark room and light is thrown into the sinuses which then become illuminated. If there are obstructions within the sinuses, shadows will appear which in dicate to the physician that something is wrong. Then the sinuses may be studied by the use of the X-ray whuh will also show changes in the density of the bones around Ihe sinuses and the presence of chances within the sinuses. .Some investigators have discovered that chil dren with chrome inflammation, of the sinuses may he divided into two types: one includes children who are sensitive to aiuuis protein substances. 'P.if general characteristic of this type is a chiotuc watery secretion from the no-e without, however, very much physical illness. In such cases the nc, r-Miiy skin tests may demonstrate sensi tivity to one or another piotrin substances and control of this factor may lelieve the condition. In the second type there is definite infection of I hi- sinuses by genus of v annus kinds, chiefly, however, by the onanisms which regul.u Iv inhabit the nose and lluo.it of man. Indications i learly demand persistent study and treatment of little childien who are found to have sinuses which are constantly inflamed be cause of cither alleigy or miection' Failure to take care of these conditions may result m chronic dis turbances iifuvtniit the throat, the blood vessels, the hints, the heart, or toe Kidnevs which mnv in c.nparitate the child for hfe. The mere dropping into the nose of various oilv solutions containing substances to diminish the di.--eharer will not cure the condit'on Indeed there is some ciuestion as t w hcthcT or not it may not make Uie condition worse. CAREFUL ajr JT ATTENTION I Y? NT GIVEN ALL vj C. O. D. Orders 1 iX DELIVERIES QUALITY COUNTS MOST! Low prices on off Brand end unknown Products means a gamble . . . because there Is no sure way to teU whether or not the quality Is backed by a reputable manufacturer .... That's why we feature nationally known and advertised brands . . . and at low prices, tool THESE PRICES (EXCEPT MEAT AND PRODUCE) EFFECTIVE FRIDAY. JAN. 13 to THURS, JAH.J flews; BLUING' Stewart's ... 2 bottles 27c CORN Garden 300 tin 2 for 15c BEANS LaNr 3ior25c 7 PEAS Milton 30Q tin 3 ior 25c Pillsbury's Best 49 Lb. Sack FLOUR Baby Food "215 Tomatoes n!18? tjn3 for 25 MACARONI;. ..,..11 RICE Cello Bag PABLUM 11 KRAFTS CHEESE Swiss, Rriek Aniprituii, Pimento iPECIAUi - EC!GS. j J Extras Large I . 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