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"A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY"
THE GOOSE STEP PARADE
Men in uniform! These are the men of
tomorrow. This is the "modern spirit of the
time."
At least so says Hans Schwartz, who is
head of the "Uniformed Group" of the Ger
man National Tailors' Guild as it met at
Weimar. (By an odd coincidence, Weimar is
the city in which the constitution of the
German Republic was framed. Yes, there
was a German Republic, once.)
"Nearly a third ot all German men now
are in uniform," exulted Schwartz. "The
German style has shaken off false concep
tions and incorporated the modern spirit of
the time."
If the triumphant Schwartz is correct, and
for his part of the world he certainly is,
then so much the worse for the time.
Who can consider the wearing of uniform
dress a matter of progress? It is a mere
step backward toward ant-civilization, to
ward the robotization of human beings.
The tyranny of uniformity of dress is too
great as it is. Women, all rushing to get
Princess Eugenie hats at the same time, men
insisting on wearing hot coats in summer
because it is "the thing," these uniformities
are things we are gradually trying to fight
clear of.
The best that can be said for uniforms is
that they are democratic. Regardless of his
circumstances, each man wears the same
thing. (Yet even Dr. Goering has been
known to vary the dead monotony of uni
forms with nifty little innovations of his
own.)
But isn't life, in Brummel's name, dull
enough? Is there not enough routine, what
with the daily job, the daily grind, the daily
routine, that it must be still further dead
ened and leveled by always the same clothes?
In certain cases, like the military serv
ices, it seems necessary that uniforms be
worn. But to place gradually, by creeping
slow degree, a whole population in the
straitjacket of uniform dress, is certainly to
stretch a blanket over an existence that has
little enough color and variety to start with.
FARM HANDS AT SCHOOL
Now Uncle Sam is sponsoring a school
for farm hands.
This newest idea in vocational education
will be an interesting tiling to watch.
Many city people may think that a farm
hand requires no training, that anybody
with a strong back and a not too active mind
will do.
That's wrong. Ask any farmer who has
tried desperately to get help at harvest
time, and could find nobody but some sullen
city-bred fellow who didn't know a gang
plow from a manure-spreader. He knows
the answer.
This school is co-operatively undertaken
by the National Youth Administration, the
State Department of Education, and the
State Teachers' College of Arizona. Near
Temple, 67 boys are setting up buildings, Al
ready some have become so proficient at this
that they want to take up the building
trades instead.
Many of the "students" will come from
farm families, but from those situated so
that they never had a chance to learn any
thing but Cotton-picking or .similar low-paid
seasonal labor. To teach them something of
farm work in general may well fit them for
better jobs.
GANDHI AND STOCK MARKETS
It was rather amusing to read that the
Bombay stock exchange and cotton markets
were closed recently because a skiny old man
in a remote province decided not to eat any
more meals. Of course, Mohandas K. Gandhi
is no ordinary old man. There are many
people even in lands far away from India
who think of him reverently. He may be
utterly impractical and lie may even be the
humbug some of his enemies say he is. But
here again we have a man who demon
strates that millions can be commanded by
the force of ideas. Trouble with Gandhi
seems to be that his power is mainly nega
tive. His methods may suffice against British
satraps but they might not work at all in
our western world. Then you think of Hit
ler and his 10,000 bombers, and well
A Baltimore magistrate ruled that an
onion could be considered as fruit. A de
cision which was not in odor.
When a traffic officer in an Ohio town
noticed 10 showgirls riding in a bus, he or
dered the driver to take out more liability
insurance. The show should be worth seeing.
March 21
WASHINGTON LETTER
By BRUCE CATTON
Register-Guard Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 22. You know about
foreign treaties, of course, and about ambassadors
and secretaries of state and such. But did you ever
hear of skippets?
Skippets are gadgets which once upon a time
dressed up foreign treaties in rare dignity. They
are out of date now, but the National Archives
building here still has a collection of them, and
they arc charming little doodads.
A skippet is a metal box for the protection of
a wax government seal. It is made of either gold
or silver, it looks somewhat like a chafing dish
minus its legs, and it is attached to a treaty by a
flossy cord. The box contains the wax and the
lid has the seal embossed on its under side. Fill
the box, press the lid on, and you have the seal
imprinted on the wax.
Treaties used to be dressed up handsomely
often in a velvet-covered book set off with gold
thread, or in an ornate leather binding. Nowadays,
though, a treaty is just typed out on thick vellum
and tied up with ribbons. The last treaty the United
States got with a skippet attached was one of the
Bryan arbitration treaties, signed with Great Britain
in 1914. Most State Department officials now don't
even know what a skippet is; ask about skippets
and they think you're kidding them and get
very unpleasant.
ISattlrship.s for Bananas
An ingenious shipper down south recently
achieved the unheard of by finding a commercial
use for out-of-date navy destroyers. When de
stroyers become totally obsolete thr navy sells
them, usually for junk. This man bought a couple
the Warden and Whipple and made them into
banana boats; has them in service on a run be
tween Cuba and Jacksonville, Fla.
Navy Department folks say there's really no
reason why the boats wouldn't make good car
riers although they never heard of it being done
before. The magazine space, a good part of the
crew space and much of the fuel space (on a
short run like Cuba-Jacksonville) could be used
for cargo, they point out. And the shipper would
have one of the speediest freighters ever seen.
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Quite a number of high officials here like to
collect cartoons in which they are lampooned. Sec
retary Hopkins has a lot of them ornamenting the
walls of his den at home. So has Senator Borah.
Senator Nye puts his In his office. And Secretary
Ickes hangs his in his bathroom.
Speaking: or Lifts
There is a private elevator in the Labor De
partment building, reserved for the exclusive use
of the secretary; but Miss Perkins, who figures
such a device is altogether too flossy for any earthly
use, has never been In it. Nobody has ever used
it since the building was built, in fact, as far as
Labor Department people know except Secretary
of Commerce Hopkins.
It seems Hopkins came over to the Labor De
partment once and got into the private elevator by
mistake. It decanted him into an ante-room off
Miss Perkins' office, and he didn't know where he
was until a clerk discovered him and explained
things.
An elevator in the capitol stopped at the House
floor the other day. Three or four congressmen
got out; half a dozen newspapermen stayed on
board to ride up to the press gallery. One of the
departing congressmen was Charles Gilford of
Massachusetts. Taking a leisurely backward glance
as he stepped nut, he remarked thoughtfully: "Here
is where the scribes stay on and the Pharisees de
part." That Red Tape
Red tape isn't Just a figure of speech. The
government actually docs use it. The procurement
division of the Treasury Department has just put
in an order for some 1311-odd miles of it for requi
sition by various government departments during
the coming year.
It's cheap cotton tape about one-eighth of an
inch wide; it's used for tying up bundles and fold
ers of papers, and so on. Blue and white tape are
also used.
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WEDNESDAY BUSY; MU PHI EPSILON TEA OF
Other Events
Arranged For
Afternoon
AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH
By MARIAN LOWRY
QF special interest among Wed
nesday's events will be the sil
ver tea for which members of the
Mu Phi Epsilon Patronesses asso
ciation are to entertain in the aft
ernoon in Geiiinger hall from
three until five o'clock. Invitation
has been extended to all women's
groups in the city and to friends
of the organization. During the
afternoon, the Mu Phi Epsilon trio,
including Misses Madge Conaway,
Alice Holmback, and Charlotte
Plummer, will play.
Two chapters of P. E. O. meet
Wednesday, Chapter AM with
Mrs. A. F. Barnett and Chapter
AY with Mrs. L. J. Temple.
The regular all-day meeting of
St. Mary's guild of St. Mary's Epis
copal church will be held Wednes
day at the parish house.
Another of the Whiteakcr P.-T.
A. bridge benefits will be given
Wednesday afternoon, at the home
of Mrs. V. J. Gillespie.
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COMMITTEES MEETING
The local branch of the Amer
ican Association of University Wo
men is to sponsor the motion pic
ture, "Moonlight Serenade," at the
McDonald theatre, starting April 2
as a benefit. To make plans for
the ticket sale, committees in
charge are meeting Tuesday eve
ning at the home of Mrs. C. L.
Sehwering, A. A. U. W. president.
The group gets a percentage on all
tickets sold before April 2.
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CLUB MEETS
The Eastside Neighborhood club
held its meeting Monday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Margaret
Cushman, thirteen members and
one guest, Mrs. Dorothy Cushman
Rosewall, attending. The group
sang Irish songs, Mrs. Carl New
bill gave two solos, and Mrs. Sig
vald Skavlan read a paper on Ire
land. The next meeting is to be
with Mrs. Carrie A. Day.
VISIT IN COUNTRY
Miss Delona George entertained
Miss Florence Skellenger and Miss
Shirley Rose at her country home
the past week.
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MOTHERS MEETING
Delta Upsilon Mothers' club will
meet Wednesday at two o'clock
with Mrs. Frank Price, Hanson
Lane.
CANDLELIGHT EVENT
A candlelight service to honor
new members was a feature of the
meeting of the Loyal Friends class
at the First Christian church Mon
day evening. Mrs. Walter Myers,
teacher of the class, gave the wel
coming speech. The musical pro
gram included a duet by Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Myers, and numbers of
the men's quartet, members of
which are Victor Hershiser, Clar
ence Sargent, Wayne Gibson and
Recipe Ideas
(By NEA Service)
VOUNGSTERS dashing in from
school like a luncheon with a
dash of interest to it.
Buttered Egg Noodles with
Creole Sauce
(Serves 4 to 6)
One 8-ounce package egg noo
j dies, 3 tomatoes, 1 large sweet
Spanish onion chopped, 14 clove
garlic, 2 small green peppers
shredded, 'j cup whole kernel
; corn, 4 tablespoons butter, 1 ta
blespoon olive oil.
Cook the noodles in boiling
: salted water until tender,- drain.
I Combine with 2 tablespoons of
j the butter and put in serving dish.
Creole Sauce
Heat 2 tablespoons butter and 1
tablespoon olive oil in frying pan.
Add onion, garlic and green pep
per. Saute for 5 minutes. Then
add corn and tomatoes. Add to
mato juice or water if needed.
Season to taste. Simmer 20 min
utes, stirring frequently. Serve in
large bowl, with the noodles.
Spinach Pancakes
(Serves 4 to 6)
Try these spinach novelties for
luncheon.
One tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon
baking powder. 3 eggs, 1 cup cook
ed or canned spinach, pinch of salt.
Sift flour, baking powder and
salt together. Add eggs, beaten.
Ad.d spinach, well drained. Heat
butter in skillet and bake mix
ture like small pancakes. Turn
carefully to brown lightly on
either side. If desired, finely
chopped bacon may be added.
New Officers And
Members Elected
By Pi Lambda Theta
JJEW officers were elected at
the meeting of Kappa chapter
of Pi Lambda Theta, women's na
tional education honorary, Mon
day evening at the home of Miss
Miriam Yoder.
The following members were
elected to serve as the new of
ficers: President, Miss Mary
Magers: vice-president, Miss
M a r c i a Steinhauser; recording
secretary; Miss Harriet Harper;
corresponding secretary; Miss
Frances Douglas, treasurer, Mrs.
John Saul, and keeper of the rec
ords. Miss Ruth Hillman.
Another important item of busi
ness was the election of new
members. The following were
elected to membership: Miss
Winifred Putnam. Miss Elizabeth
Ireland, Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps,
Miss Margaret Ilammerbacher,
Miss Mary K. Booth, Miss Don
na Staehling, Miss Elizabeth De
Busk, and Miss Helen Rands.
Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, a
charter member of Theta chap
ter ;tt the State University of
Iowa, gave a talk on "Propa
ganda and Women's Place."
Refreshments were served by
the hostess, assisted by Ola Mc-
j Dermott.
(Radiators Hold
'Dinner, Party
Monday Evening
; CjBOUT fifty attended the dinner
! and entertainment sponsored
by the Eugene Radiators for mem-
! bers, their wives and guests. The
party was given at the Osburn
i hotel. George J. Wilhelm, presi
dent of the Radiators, presided
: and greeted the visitors.
I Dr. L. L. Baker and Earl S.
Beeson from the committee ar
ranging the party introduced the
entertainers. Charles Granzer
played several harp solos. George
Saunders of the university sang
several songs, accompanied by
Miss Zoe Brassey. John L. Casteel,
professor of speech at the univer
sity, gave a reading. Dick Necly
and Kenneth Murphy, young
speech students of Mrs. W. E. Cof
fee, gave a dialogue and each a
reading. Concluding the program
was a stunt by Dr. Baker, P. Waldo
Davis, and two members of the
American Legion drum corps, Dr.
Baker giving a harmonica solo
first, playing his own accompani
ment, and then playing a harmon
ica number with Mr. Davis at the
I piano and the snare and bass
drums for accompaniment, the
! quartet concluding with Dr.
Baker playing the fife.
Following the program, cards
were played in the tearoom, hon
' ors ging to Mrs. Norwald Nelson
and Mrs. Clarence V. Simon for
the ladies, and Darwin E. Yoran
and J. W. Silva for the men. Mrs.
Earl S. Beeson was in charge of
the card room.
Attending the dinner and party
were Mr. and Mrs. George J. Wil
helm, Mr. and Mrs. Darwin E.
Yoran, Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. Bee
son, Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Baker, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Hodes, Robert C.
Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J.
Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Pet
erson, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Jurgens,
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wright, Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Miller, Mr. and
Mrs. A. A. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. C. S.
Dillon, Mrs. Clarence V. Simon,
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hamlin, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert M. Fischer, Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. Norwald Nelson, Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Anderson, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Silva, Mr. and Mrs. L.
H. Jessen, and the entertainers,
' Mr. Casteel, Mr. Saunders, Miss
I Brassey, Mrs. Coffee, Charles
Granzer, 1 Mr. Davis, Dick Neely
! and Kenneth Murphy.
CALENDAR
INTERESl
SEE SOCIETY
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Inventions Wanted Leave your
I plione numhor or address at Ore
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HOLD BASKET SOCIAL
COBURG, March 21. (Spccal)
The basket social which the
West Point Order of Odd Fellows
and Diamond Rcbekah lodge
sponsored last, cleared approxi
mately $26. A number of attrac
tive baskets were sold. First prize
for the ladies was awarded to Mrs.
John Knott and second prize to
Mrs. P. Rltthaler; first prize for
the men went to Ben Adair, who
made the highest bid on a basket
and second highest went to P.
Rltthaler, Following the auction
aarinff. n sncinl hour was enioved
i with the refreshments of the bas
kets.
Tuesda)
6 p. m. Progressive dinner
of I mo Ruyle circle of First
Baptist church.
6:15 p. m. Dial club meet
ing, St. Mary's Episcopal
church parish hall.
6:30 p. m. Potluck dinner
of Helmetta temple of Pythian
Sisters at Knights of Pythias
hall.
Tuesday evening Benefit
dance of Women of Moose at
Moose hall.
8 p. m. Benefit bridge
party of Job's Daughters at
McKenzie River Masonic
temple.
9 p. m. Kotillion club dance,
at The Holland.
Wednesday
All-day meeting of Women's
Council at First Christian
church.
All-day meeting of St.
Mary's guild, St. Mary's pa
rish hall.
12 noon Weekly golf day
for women at Country club.
1 p. m. Helmetta club
luncheon with Mrs. L. J. Man
nel. 1 p. m. Meeting of Chap
ter AM of P. E. O. Sisterhood
at the home of Mrs. A. F.
Barnett.
1 p. m. Meeting of Chap
ter AY of P. E. O., at the
home of Mrs. L. J. Temple.
1:30 p. m. Coterie club
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Frank Agule.
1:30 p. m. Whiteaker P.
T. A. bridge benefit, at the
home of Mrs. V. G. Gillespie.
2 p. m. Martha Needle
club meets with Mrs. Cora
Kaufman.
2 p. m. Central W.C.T.U.
meets with Mrs. M. Y. War
ner. 2 p. m Delta Upsilon
Mothers' club meets with Mrs.
Frank Price.
2 p m. Wednesday Bridge
club meeting at the home of
Mrs. Frank N. McAlister.
3-5 p. m. Mu Phi Epsilon
Patronesses association tea,
Gerlinger hall.
6:30 p. m. Potluck dinner
of Eugene lodge, No. 11, A.
F. & A. M., Evangeline chap
ter. O. E. S and Willamette
Court of the Amaranth at
the Masonic temple.
7 p. m. Theta Rho Girls
meet in I. O. O. F. temple.
7:30 p. m. D. U. V. meets
at the armory.
8 p. m. N. O. W. meets
at Moose hall.
8 p. m. Ladies' Auxiliary
to the Fraternal Order of
Eagles meets at Eagles' hall.
County Groim
Plans Meeting
For Friday
pRESIDENTups J
'ne Countv FederU 1
Women's Clubs will :on I
Skinner Butt p j
Ihe regular quarterly I
dish luncheon of, he COVtl
Friday of this week .fEfJ
thirty o'clock. tWel
The president or a renr. J
Ive from every membe? ,11
invited, All countv board " J
bers and heads f standing l
mittces are expected ,1
Tlis is the fi'mee, gt
the new board. "1
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entertained the Laf-A-Lot rfSl
the home of Mrs. Vilijam bi ' 31
recently. Three tables
in Play. Mrs. Sena HickTcl
Ferrol and Clara Jen GJ
guests. Mrs. Brown won J
score and Mrs. Sena Hicks conl
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ANNIVERSARY
By DR. MORRIS F1SIIBKIN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Associ
ation, and of Ilygeia, trie Health Magazine
A survey of all that medical science has found
OUt about the effects of tobacco smoking on di
gestion indicates that little has been done that is I
really scientific to determine exactly what happens 1
in many cases.
Doctors sometimes record Instances In which
people with ulcers of the stomach or with dis-
turbanccs of the bowel improve tremendously
when they stop smoking.
People themselves frequently report that sleep- j
lessness, irritability or similar symptoms disappear 1
when they stop smoking. But these are subjective 1
Impressions differing greatly from the scientific
studies that are necessary to be certain.
It occurred, therefore, to physiologists Schnc
dorl and Ivy of Northwestern University Medical
School n Chicago to study the effect, of tobacco
smoking on IS chronic smokers and five non
smokers. They found that smoking stimulates the flow
of saliva, due to irritation of the lining of the
cheeks by the smoke. Apparently the nicotine
that is absorbed from two Or three cigarets is
not significant In relationship to the flow of sa- !
Uva, Some smokers do not have an extra flow of 1
saliva when they smoke because apparently thev
have become so used to it that they arc insensitive
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When human being is hungry, his stomach
contracts, and these contractions are called "hunger .
pains." The experts found that thr contractions of
the stomach due to hunger cease after the tint I
few puffs of smoke. Indeed they will stop after
the smoking of one cigaret and may not occur
again for from 15 minutes to an hour afterward, j
Women who have been dieting know about this
effect ot cigaret smoking and frequently utilize
II to help them avoid eating when they arc trying
to reduce.
The Investigators also studied Ihe effects on the
secretion of digestive Juices by the stomach and
Intestines of smoking from four to seven cigarets I
over a period of two hours. They found that the
Smoking of an ordinary number of cigarets seldom j
Increases the amount of acid put out by the !
stomach and that the total amount ot increase was :
so slight as to be of little serious significance. I
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Smoking also failed to have much effect on the ;
secretion of bile, In some cases, however, pa- i
lictits with ulcers of the duodenum fainted after -smoking
two or more cigarets. Obviously anyone
noting BUCh an effect on the heart and circulation i
OUghl not to smoke. In certain people who seem I
to be especially sensitive to tobacco and tobacco
products, smoking is followed bv changes in the
circulation Of the blood in the small blood vessels I
near the surfaet Of the body. For such people, of
course, Smoking must be considered in an entirely
different way from the effects of smoking on
People who are not thus sensitive.
The investigators found also that the person
who smokes develops all sorts ot habits in rela
tionship to the smoking. For instance, some persons 1
develop the habit ot smoking regularly in relation- i
ship to the regulation of bowel action. Since such
regulation is largely a matter of habit, the two
practices soon become closely associated and de
pendent upon each oUier.
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