Eugene register-guard., June 21, 1939, Image 6

EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
(-UDainea every iviiiuii . .
lOTTOR AND PUBLISHER Alton T BUM!
MANAGING EDITOR William M. Tugirian
NEWS SERVICE Aaioclated Preie. United Preu
MEMBER .--..- Audit Bureau ol Circulation
Entered at the Potl Office at Eunena. Oreaoi) ai tacond
elan milter.
The RexUter-Guard'i policy li the complete and Impartial
publication in 11a new paa- 01 mn new .....-......-..-.
en newi. On thli page, the adltora ol The Reslster-Ouard
ofler their oplnlone on evenu ot the day and maltera oj
Importance to the community, endeavorlna to be candid nut
fair and helpful In the development of conitrucllve com
munity policy.
A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY"
AN OVERLOOKED OPPORTUNITY
Americans, Oregonians, and yes, even
Eugeneans, are failing to take advantage of
some of the sweeter things in this life since
they've been injected with the spreading
madness to go some place and get back,
just as soon as possible.
Tensed people are not taking enough
time to enjoy, among unmentionable other
treasures, books, magazines, and even news
papers. Yet the libraries are being stocked even
higher with the literary efforts of a great
civilization, critics and the intellectuals real
ize that the products are gratifying.
Enlightening periodicals are competing
favorably in circulation with the shallow
pulps which abound on every corner. They
offer1 the very latest and most authoritative
articles on international affairs, music,
drama, poetry, religion, science, philosophy,
psychology, professions, education, and
business. The vastness of this great field of
educational magazines is beyond the imag
ination of too many Americans. It is so
shameful that so great a people should not
get a maximum value from this source.
Volumes of books of every description
weight the shelves in several Eugene librar
ies. There are hundreds of thousands on
the campus in several centers. In the main
library there is a spacious, modern room,
carpeted with oriental rugs and lighted
from indirect lamps. Instead of straight
chairs, there are davenports, easy cushions,
foot stools of every kind. Into this room, the
browsing room it is called, is welcome any
one in Eugene.
The downtown library offers many more
books, always available to anyone. There is
also a travelling library which is sent about
the county to various rural communities, to
those who do not have such easy access to
the established centers.
Read a book, folks. Subscribe to a maga
zine. It's great to explore with the adven
turers, think with the philosophers, fight
with the soldiers, romance with the vaga
bonds or pray with the religious. Read a
book, thumb through a magazine.
. REFRIGERATORS?
Governor Sprague told Eugeneans the
other night he thought the depression was
over. He advised business men to expand
now, or they might get left at the landing.
Perhaps the governor was a bit Inspired
to make this statement in Eugene. Maybe,
as he drove down Willamette street he saw
the scaffoldings wrapped in flapping can
vas coverings. Perchance he poted the
"new" buildings where a few months ago
age-worn structures stood, begrimed and
unimposing in this day of moderns.
For during the past year, Eugene down
town property owners, who must be having
better business than during the depression
several years ago, remember, he said it was
practically finished have been making
many improvements on their property.
Fancy little stone carvings and borders,
from another age of architecture, have been
chipped from building fronts by chisels of
stonemen. They have been replaced with
the cleanness, the utility and the simplicity
of 1939. Enough of these we mustn't use
that overworked word, "streamlined," im
provements have been made to give the
Eugene business district a metropolitan
smartness.
The neighbor boy said the jobs made all
the buildings look like a well-known type
of refrigerator, but to the man who says the
depression is over, it looks like good times,
Eugene.
WASHINGTON LETTER
BY JOHN KELLY
Register-Guard Washington Reporter
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 21. President
Tlooscvolt is provoked at bushy-browed John L.
Lewis who wants labor turmoil to continue indef
initely until he Is undisputed boss. Statement of
Lewis that peace is secondary to his plan for
building up his organization docs not sound well
at the White House and the president's advisors
are urging him to take direct action in ending the
war between AFL and CIO which has retarded
recovery.
So bitter is Lewis against William Green, of
AFL, that he refused to attend a white House
conference where King George VI was given an
opportunity to discuss at first hand the labor sit
uation, social welfare, WPA, PWA, and the rest of
the new deal program. Mrs. Roosevelt invited
both labor leaders. Green accepted and on learn
ing this Lewis absented himself.
Most of the strikes which have caused so much
idleness (nine million paylcss days In 1038), arc
jurisdictional; fights between CIO and AFL for
control. There are fewer strikes on account of
wages and hours than might be supposed. The
strikes worn not against the employers but were
caiico Dy one larjor group or the other to gain an
advantage for tholr own organization. Latest fig-
uiw oi ine iaDor department show 1,723,000 pay
less days in the first three months of this year;
345 strikes In March alone.
Mr. Lewis disclaims any responsibility for fu
ture difficulties; disclaims responsibility for col
lapse of the peace negotiations initiated by Presi
dent Roosevelt. His position is that peace can be
accomplished if Green will submit to the terms of
Lewis. And Green is not in a submitting mood.
More than the economic royalists, Tories, cop
perheads.'tax evaders and money changers in the
temple, the Lewis-Green feud has given Mr.
Roosevelt a headache. He has been patient, hop
ing the labor situation would iron itself out with
out stepping into the ring himself and knocking
their heads together. At a White House dinner
recently, attended by some eight big shot indus
trialists, who were assembled by Harry Hopkins,
secretary of commerce, when the president solic
ited their frank opinion and suggestions on recov
ery, to the last man they declared that the juris
dictional dispute in labor was a principal stumbling
block. Mr. Roosevelt recognizes this but has re
frained from making a public admission, although
Insiders are acquainted with his view.
Only point where CIO and AFL unite is against
the new Oregon anti-picketing law enacted by the
people last November. In this cause they are
mutually interested.
Mr. Lewis sweeps aside all "aspiring states
men", asserting none has a program. This was a
knock at Senator Bob LaFollette, chairman of the
Civil Liberties Committee, who is nursing hopes
for 1940, and whose committee has catered to Mr.
Lewis' group. The CIO chief dismissed all repub
lican and democratic aspirants, narrowing the
field to himself and Mr. Roosevelt.
An Immigrant who plans giving jobs to thou
sands of Americans, possibly up to 10,000, was
turned back at Ellis Island two months ago. He
finally managed to enter the United States and
this week work begins at Belcamp, Md. on a plant.
The rejected immigrant is Thomas Bata, Jr., head
of the Bata Shoe Co., the greatest industrial unit
of its kind In Europe. When Hitler seized Czecho
slovakia the Batas (uncle and nephew), decided
to pull up stakes. Policy of the Batas was to make
cheap shoes and pay workers the highest wage
possible. There is no shoe factory in the United
States as efficient and congress has for years heard
complaints that Bata shoes invade the American
market.
There Is a break for youth, too, in the enter
prise. High school graduates are to be given spe
cial training for the trade, the lessons beginning
next autumn. Production is set for 1941.
Immigration service of the department of labor
came within an ace of preventing the establish
ment of this payroll.
Proposal to limit PWA projects to $500,000 and
that grants be limited to $225,000, or 45 percent of
the cost of a project, would affect only one pro
posed project in Oregon, but would hit 15 in Wash
ington. Oregon's application is for a grant of $266,
405, and estimated cost is $599,010, which would
throw it outside the limitation advocated. There
are 15 applications in Washington requiring grants
of $8,978,915, with estimated cost of $19,953,146.
Mr. Ickes, who has administered PWA, is protest
ing against such restriction. Had they been ap
plied earlier Oregon could not have built its new
statehouse.
Determination of the house to abolish the the
ater project financed by WPA is not expected to
prevent this particular project from staging a
"Paul Bunyon" production at Timberline Lodge
during the summer Mrs. Roosevelt wrote to the
mayor of Northampton, Mass., (old home of Cool
ldge), to give his reasons for ordering 10 married
women to resign their jobs at the city hall. Back
to Mrs. Roosevelt came the reason: "A married
woman should expect her husband to support her."
AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Associa
tion, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine
The development of speech is a valuable
measure of intellectual progress. A baby four
months old has, as a rule, mastered control of the
vowel sounds. At six months, he can combine
certain vowel and consonant sounds, such as "da"
or "ma." He makes random babbling sounds. By
nine months, the random babbling becomes more
rhythmical, similar to the rhythm of speech.
The child, six to nine months of age, is begin
ning to recognize his own name. At nine months,
he can usually understand the word "no" or the
tone in which it is spoken, when it is used to
forbid something.
At two years, the majority of children can use
complete sentences. The progress . in knowledge
from then on continues steadily. From three to
five years of age, children learn to use prepo
sitions and to employ descriptive words.
A University of Iowa specialist showed that at
two years of age the average vocabulary is 272
words; at three years, 896 words; at four years,
1540 words; at five years, 2072 words, and at six
years, 2562 words.
The rapidity with which language develop
ment occurs depends on the efforts to teach the
child. If a child spends but little time in the
company of adults and hears but limited amounts
of speech, his language development will be slow
er than in the case of the child surrounded by
talkative adults who really make an effort to
teach him to enunciate properly.
Mental retardation Is, in many cases, the cause
of slowness in the development of language abili
ty. The exact degree of the assoclaUon between
mental retardation and the acquisition of speech
has not been determined.
Studies of feeble-minded children showed
language retardation in all instances. Studies
of superior children showed acceleration in the
development of speaking ability. Children who
talk unusually early are probably superior men
tally. Feeble-minded children are always late in
talking.
It cannot be assumed that all children who are
late in talking arc feeble-minded, for there are
other causes for the delay. Defective speech ap
paratus may be responsible.
There is a disorder known as word deafness in
which the child, although he hears sounds, can
not form the associations necessary for giving
meaning to the word sounds. Deafness is also a
common cause for retardation In speech. Inability
to talk should call for an immediate examination
of the hearing.
Youngsters who live In Institutions for depen
dent children are slow to acquire language, no
matter what their intelligence may be because
they do not have opportunity for hearing speech
of the right sort often enough.
Children of superior Inheritance and intelli
Kencc may be slow in learning to talk because
they are cared for by nurses who do not under
stand the need for talking to the children under
their care. Perhaps the nurse may be limited in
expression and may be slovenly in her speech.
Naturally, the youngster will develop the same
faulty habits ot talking.
.Occasionally a child is slow in learning to talk
because he does not need to learn. He receives
such constant attention that his wants are antici
pated. By merely making a grunting sound "and
pointing to an object, he secures what he desires.
Parents who are over-anxious may develop a
spirit of resistance in the child so that the young
ster will not make his best effort. He may be
come dlsvourvgecl, which causes his language de
velopment to lag.
Quake Recorder Rings
Bells, Flashes Lights
When Earth Starts Shaking
SAN DIEGO, Cal.-(U.R) Bright
er and brighter grew the red glow
from the bulb marked "north ;
below it on the switchboard a
white ljght marked "south" sud
denly came to life. The needle on
the near-by milllammeter juggled
convulsively somewhere, hun
dreds of miles away in the vast
desert fastness of Bajo, California,
the earth was quaking.
"That's a north-south move
ment," explained Fred W. Robin
son, 49-year-old amateur seis
mologist, gazing intently at a
switchboard of flickering bulbs
and cavorting gauges that record
ed the temblors of an apparently
stable earth.
Robinson, an electrical engineer
who wanted to know "why" the
earth quaked, became Interested
in seismology about five years ago
and has constructed from odds
and ends a seismograph that not
only marks on paper the move
ments of the earth, but which rings
chimes in his near-by house, lights
lights to show the tendency of the
shock and moves a needle back
and forth on a dial, enabling him
to see the slightest shock that
occurs.
Two Temblors in Japan
Recent shocks recorded by Rob
inson's seismograph have been of
varying intensity. Two have been
located in the northern tip of the
Japanese Peninsula, the other
seven "somewhere" near the up
per .end of the Gulf of California
in the uninhabited sections of So
nora state in Mexico.
Three of the shocks were strong
enough to be felt by the local citi
zenry who needed no seismograph
to tell them there was an earth
quake in the vicinity.
Even as he spoke, the needle on
Robinson's milllammeter continued
its nervous movements, and by
peering through a magnifying
glass it was possible to view slight
eccentric motions of the needle
on the paper. The earth beneath
Robinson's feet moved not the
slightest.
The home-made seismograph
records three types of quakes,
those which have a north-south
movement, those with an east-west
movement, and those of a vertical
movement.
Three ink-filled quills leave a
track on the revolving drum. The
slightest earth shock writes Its full
history on this drum and gives the
seismologist an insight on its char
acteristics. From the scribbling recorded on
the seismograph drum, Robinson
Is able to determine the quake's
approximate d i s t a n ce, intensity
and type.
"Earthquakes," Robinson ex
plained, "are generally believed to
be caused by the sudden relief of
accumulated stresses in the earth's
crust. These disturbances usual
ly occur along weak spots in the
earth's surface known as fault
planes. It Is along these fault
planes that the readjustments
usually take place in the form ot
earthquakes.
"Most of the recent sh6cks re
corded by Pacific Coast seismo
graphs have occurred along the
San Andreas fault which paral
lels the coast from the Gulf of
California northward and dips into
the sea north of San Francisco,"
he said.
Like Ripples on Fond
"When the readjustment oc
curs, seismic waves, similar to the
ripples on a pond caused by a
stone falling into the water, radi
ate in all directions through the
earth and along its surface. These
waves are picked up by the seis
mograph and transmitted to the
printed paper on the drum."
From the few known facts
ivhlch science has gleaned from
the peculiarities of these waves,
Robinson explained that scientists
are able to interpret the nature,
distance and probable location of
the shock.
"Similar to sound waves," he
said "seismic waves travel through
the earth at fairly uniform rates
of speed, seldom less Uian two-and-a-half
miles a second or more
than four-and-a-half miles per
second.
Time Factor Important
"Thus, after the first shock Is
recorded we merely watch for the
second and third waves to appear,
mark the number of seconds be
tween shocks and multiply them
by the rite of speed of the seis
mlc waves. This gives us a gen
eral idea of the distance the seis
mograph is located from the epi
center, or scene of the quake.
"Naturally, our knowledge of
direction is limited to the east
west, north south, or up and down
recordings on our seismographs.
However, it must be remembered
all stations in the locality receive
the waves which radiate from the
epicenter and when two or more
stations compare the distance and
direction of the quake they are
able to cross lines on almost the
exact location."
Despite the apparent complexity
of the seismograph machinery, its
operation is quite simple. Robin
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Bars Transmit Disturbance
Pieces of spring steel are im
bedded in a concrete block sunk
deep into the earth. Atop these
three-foot steel bars are weights of
350 pounds giving them a con
struction similar to an inverted
pendulum. When the earth quivers,
these tempered steel bars pick up
the shock and begin to vibrate.
The vibrations are then recorded
on the paper drums by means of
attached arms which magnify the
intensity of the vibrations so they
may be interpreted easily.
"Of course," Robinson added,
"there are complexities such as
periods, dampening, ratios, timing
and other factors which must be
considered. It Is suffice to say the
seismograph is merely a device
whtch makes the earth draw a map
on a piece of paper, detailing its
slightest vibration.
Oddly enough, the off-coast tar
get practice of the largest battle
ship never affects Robinson's seis
mographs nor do any local explo
sions. Not Affected by Explosions
"Concussions from fired cannons
and explosions are air and not
earth vibrations and thus cause no
seismic waves."
The engineer does, however, have
trouble with San Diego's sunshine
which causes expansion and con
tractions of the earth's crust.
"In summer the warm sun shin
ing oh the hills north of San Diego
causes the machine to have a slight
northerly tilt. In winter the
weights return to an even keel."
Attached to a plumb-bob string
is a ring similar to those sought by
merry-go-round riders. Suspended
through the center of this ring is
a brass rod. The slightest quake
causes the ring to sway and touch
the rod, closing a relay and setting
off a series of chimes in the Rob
inson home. Thus day or night the
amateur seismologist, is warned of
shocks.
Lights Ingeniously Arranged
The light bulbs are lighted by
electrical resistance set up by the
movement of the axis when a shock
occurs. The waverings of the steel
springs are interpreted on a milli
ammeter whose jiggllngs reflect
the earth's movements.
The red light faded and the
white one slowly darkened. The
nervous movements of the milll
ammeter needle quieted and it
slowly settled back against the side
of the gauge and moved no more.
Somewhere in tfte fastness of
lower California the earth ceased
its quiverings and it too became
quiet.'
"Show's over," Robinson said,
turning out the light, "let's go
home."
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TT'S not baby talk when adults begin on "Patty-cake," for that's the
I name of a new dance being- demonstrated by Mary "Punkin" Parker
and Joseph RInes, N. Y. orchestra leader credited with having intro
duced the Lambeth Walk.
Home Economics Club
Gives Program For
Willakenzie Grange
WILLAKENZIE, June 21
(Special) Willakenzie grange
met recently for its five-hundred
and sixty-second regular session.
The charter was draped in mem
ory of brother James Baker who
died last week. Mrs. J. S. Walls,
chairman of the Home Econom
ics committee reported on the re
cent entertainment sponsored by
the home economics club and
made a motion that the proceeds
from this source be added to the
curtain fund. It was decided that
the home economics committee
be allowed to purchase a new
stage curtain.
Frank Hatlow, Lane county
deputy, obligated Harold Olsen,
Neil Koch, Iva Hope Koch and
Donald Koch in the first and
second degrees. Reports were
given on the recent state grange
meetings at Corvallis. Joseph
Holiday gave, a summary of the
highlights of state Grange Mas
ter Ray Gill's address. Mrs.
Frank Hyland reported on the
home economics and lecturer's
sections of the state meetings.
The evening's program was in
charge of the Home Economics
club with Mrs.' John Walls as
chairman. The junior grange pre
sented sketches of the various
foreign types of citizens in the
U. S. A., each type being read
by a member of this organization
with Mrs. George Saunders, ju
venile matron, giving an intro
duction. The members of the
H. E. C. club sang the state
Home Economics song, accom
panied by Mrs, Noble Bond. Har
old Rutherford, accompanied by
his father, gave two tap dancing
numbers. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo
Chase showed motion pictures of
their recent trip to Alaska
Alice Berreman sang, accompa
nied by Mrs. Donald Kingsley. A
skit was presented by Mrs. Clar
ence . Hover, Mrs. Cecil Griggs,
Mrs. H. E. Walter, Mrs. Noble
Bond, Mrs. C. S. Calef, Mrs.
Carl Rutherford, Helen Ruther
ford and Donna Johnson. The
program closed with singing by
Helen and Marie Rutherford,
with the club and grange singing
WITH MRS. BRoww
SHF.nn t.,. . . '
The Happy Neighbor? Mr
Greenback district M the
at the hnmA nf M,
The rooms were
June flowers. Mrs ri.
Windom had charge of a rZu
of stunts. Refreshment, Z'
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Windom. Mr "S' ?arce
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Starr, Mrs. T. R. Sprier m'
Dollie Seifert, Mrs. Anna L'
Mrs. Gene Davis, Mrs. Ida Brl '
Miss Bertha Brown, 2 c $
Barton, Miss Lizzie Barton, 'and
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u v . "iigiun pant will
be held next month instead
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meeting of No. 192, Albert Slack
-. "ileum ana Ms
rion Wheeler, clerk.
Judge and Mrs. Harry Bown
have moved tn F.t.on. i '.. . . 1
. -b'-nc iur an in.
definite stay.
John Sprague has left for San
Diego, to join the marines.
aim idmuy are ex
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