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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1939)
. SSL Page lwo. THE REGISTER-GUARD. EUGENE. OREGON Merchants Approve Penny Meier Test (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) day or whenever traffic begins to grow heavy all parking space could be left free. Revenue which the city would derive from meters could be used to finance parking lots or other improved traffic fa cilities. The merchant tentatively dis cussed a plan whereby if the meter test is made they will hire at tendants during the first few days to show all parkers how to use the new devices. It was pointed out that it Is mechanically pos sible to have a certain amount of free time on any modern meter and some cities do this. "Cooperation must be the key note of whatever plan Is tried," said Mr. Morse. "Decidedly, the revenue from any plan Is second ary to improving traffic conven the United States is wrestling the Untied States is wrestling with the same problem, and if we work together we can find the answer." It was pointed out that the new Pacific highway across Eugene, when it is built will take through traffic out of the business streets j but it will not afford any material help for the people who wish 'to do business here. r 9 Jt . '"si 3,000 Unemployed In Lane County (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) during a week, Mr, Martin stated. Last week, the office found woi for 148 persons. The work of the unemployment office Is of two kinds, registration of the unemployed Hnd place ments. After the applicant reg isters, he is Interviewed and clas sified according to occupation. Of the 8000 different vocations recog nized by employment offices in the United States, about 800 are found in this county. ' . The files are divided Into two parts, Inactive and active, the lat ter containing the names of those who are unemployed and looking for work. The number of names in the active file has varied from 1500 to 8000, Mr. Martin pointed out The other major work of the employment office is placing the applicants. In this way, the offic; JAPANESE soldiers watch while bombs clear Swatow harbor of mines left by retreating Chinese. A few I ... i i i . An. fhl ctrntofflf. Chin I hours later Japanese warsnips enierca ine jiaruu. mu wiumi pi ...... . - port. acts as a personnel bureau for small businesses which cannot maintain their own personnel of fices. Mr. Martin emphasized the fact that the employer has the privilege of making the final se lection from the applicants pro vided by the office. Special services of the local em ployment office are farm place ments, junior placements, which uie for young people from 18 to 24 years of age, and services to veterans groups, The local of fice recently started a radio pro gram, which is held each Monday at 7 p. m. over KORE. Applicants are Interviewed and asked to ght; their qualifications. Antelope Leave Valley For Eastern Oregon (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) famed Malheur migratory bird refuge, and will continue on to the "Blue Sky" hotel on Hiirt moun ain. The southern Oregon and ' ' r " 7' " ' ; McGurk Tells Opinions Of Washington, D. C. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) CONGRESS Juggled WPA federal theater project, dropped it by ordering Idea abandoned. W hile thousands strike on YVPA Jobs as result of new wage scale, Edward Nello, one of 1000 who reported to theater prnjrrt at l.o Angeles, still Juggles his plates, holds hope In balance. Local officials await definite orders to kill project while Nrllo, former vaudeville star, kills time, and keeps in practice. RAINIER BREWING COMPANY. Western Wholesalers. Ine, Distributors. Thone 303 California "herds" will meet at Lakeview Saturday, from where they will go to the famed area of the antelope. To the allure of watching the speedy antelope in the famous Hart mountain area, the members this year have added a tour of the Malheur reservation, where the sight of millions of ducks, geese and other wildfowl is un equalled in the world. After spending part of Saturday in the bird refuge, the entire party will slay all day Sunday on Hart mountain. The program, as in former years, has been kept secret, but the official announcement, sent out by "Chief While Tail" Henry Semen of Klamuth Kails, says. "We haven't let you down in seven yearsmiff said!" Tort of the program, however, will be con ferring of the order's "Wild Jack ass" degre on deserving initiates. Officers of the order, headed by Chief White Tail Semon, are: Rod ney Keating. Portland, King of the Desert; Henry Fowler, Bond, Sage Jumper; Jean Branson, Hart Mountain, Chief Lookout; Walter Pearson, Salem, state treasurer, Keeper of the Canteen; Dr. L. E. Hlbbard, Burns, Keeper nf the Prongs; George Aiken, Ontario. Grand Orator; Tod Powell, San Francisco, Keeper of the Wampum; Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, chancel lor of higher education, Guardian of the Water Hole; Forest E. Cooper, Lakevtew. Grand Secre tary; Bob Ellis, Klamath Falls Grand Chef. I ANNOUNCING the Opening of our New Garage and Sales Room SUNDAY. JULY 23 1030 OLIVE ST. ri IM ill sKUHivr, 111 til Jill i-JL-U-'"" . . (Q o;0rdia11Iyinvilf youtocomo in and inspect-our rovr ,mPlete modern homo. Find out for yourself the cor- WALTER HOEY MOTORS, INC. Main S.or. 1030 Cton-toJSttftf & PLYMOUTH DISTRIBUTORS FOR SO. OREGON Usd Cat lot 1064 Olive-Phone- 1036 and his lady in their carriage taking the air in the dusk. The Marine Band (Sousa) played on the Plaza in front of the capitol steps. The gov'ment had not yet grown up. "Stupendous" Today the spectacle of gov ernment in Washington is stu pendous. Miles of monumental buildings! Buildings so huge, some of them, that you could dump the University of Oregon's new li brary and McArthur court and half a dozen minor structures into a wing and lose them. With more being built. More coming, if you consider "alphabets" which arc housed in rented buildings. And that prodigious thing called social security boarding out in Baltimore 40 miles away because Washington hasn't yet found a space big enough for it! Washington, D. C. has become one of the great capital cities of the world. But it is different from all other world capitals in that it is solely and exclusively an offi cial city! Take government away and it would cease to exist. Only the caterpillars and the cinch bugs would inhabit its marble spaces. There may have been a time when its location at the head of the Potomac tidewater meant something to sailing skippers, and there still is an obsolete navy yard downstream, but Washington as a seaport lingers only for the president's yacht. The great rail roads and highways defer to Washington's official position, but commerce hastens by to Baltimore or Norfolk. If the Official City of the Unit ed States is more official than any other capital in the world, perhaps the reason may be found in this. Directly or indirectly all those who dwell there are pre occupied with government. Washington has been made beautiful, magnificent, gorgeous. Even the ambitious plans laid down by Major L'Enfant, the French engineer who surveyed the Paris of the wilderness, have proved inadequate for modern no tions. Expense has been no ob ject in tearing down and putting back and elaborating his rather simple prospectus. Good Fair Stand on Capitol Hill today and look out across the city and you have a panorama which seems to combine all the most impressive leaiures of the Chicago Worlds fair and the St. Louis World's fair and the glories which were Rome and Athens. It is a city of palaces and temples and shrines and he roic monuments. The humble shacks which once attended greatness have been pushed far ther and farther into the back ground. They can be found (and how!), but the stifling slums where dwell those who merely at tend officialdom have no part of the official city, the Washington which is always on parade for the folks from home, the sight seers, the seekers, the pilgrims. Official Washington has con quered climate, so far as climate can be conquered. Official Wash ington is completely air-conditioned (and God help them at this season of the year if they weren't). In the White House and in the great halls of Congress, in the palatial offices and in most of the mansions and apartments and hotels where government works and lives there is refrigera tion. Between the torrential thunder showers which sweep across the official city about once an hour at this time of year, the sun blazes and the humid heat rises from the broad pavements and is reflected from every gleaming building. It is exhausting to walk half a mile. For those who cannot afford air conditioning the sweaty nights are a terror. But official Washington lives and works in an atmosphere as chill as that which sweeps the mow capped summit of Mount Hood. It is unnatural, of course. Doors and windows closed tight to facilitate the functioning of re frigeration. They tell you air is filtered and purer than nature but it still seems stifling. Cabs Popular You soon learn how to get about in Washington TAXICABS! As near as we can figure out all the republicans who once held jobs in gov'ment. are now driv ing taxicabs in Washington and hoping for that Great Day that's coming (maybe). Fares are only 20 cents for any number of passengers in anv "zone." So that leaves the 10 cent street cars to the proletariat (you couldn't stand the walk to carstops anyhow). Of course, there are fleets of gov'ment cars in Die streets, and no doubt many Washingtomans do their own driving, but the strang er who would attempt to drive himself invites m.my disasters of ficii! and unofficial. There was the chap, for instance who thought to drive his own family car down to Mount Vernon to ee Washington's old home rlai-e. His natural course was down Constitution avenue with a left turn just beyond the Lincoln Memorial to hit the Potomac bridge. He started at p m . for sev.mg thai at 4 p. m , gov'ment calls it a day and Constitution avenue (which is broader than anv Jurer-highwsy jn Oregon) be comes a "one way" (outbound). He was caught in a veritable tide of home-bound, carefree gov'mfnt employes. Out of the parking yards which a benevolent Uncle Sam provides for all his help poured a rushing river of uUk- which mU ih luiih Potomac rolling the other way look like Yellowstone rapids. "I was about half way to Balti more in the Maryland hills be fore I could turn out of it, said the sweating and luckless stranger. He had to double clear back to Washington and cross me Poto mac when the rush was over. Few See "Beyond' Washington has become stu pendous. Of the millions of tour ists who go to Washington every year it is doubtful if more than a few even sense the complexity of the machinerywhich lurks behind those magnificent exteriors, a ma chinery which more and more seeks to fix the pattern of Amer ican living. . The tourist is regimented into certain established paths for sight seers. His congressman or his senator will give him nice little souvenir cards admitting to the "reserved galleries" for house and senate sessions. His congressman and his senator will vie to give him a little personal note which is supposed to admit to portions of the White House not usually open to visitors, but at the White House the lettered and the unlettered are herded through the same channels by bored guards the East Room, the Red Room, the Blue Room, the Green Room "K eep Moving! Don't touch! Take your hat off!" The tourist may tour the Smith sonian (and it's worth it); he may penetrate the lobby of the Lib rary of Congress and stand rever ently in the presence of the Declar ation and the Constitution. He may ride or climb to the top of the Washington monument and he may feel the beauty of the Lincoln Memorial the noblest monument in America. If he reports at the nroner entrance at the proper hours, he may join a tour of the FBI and look with awe upon tne guns which were actually used by Dillinger and other famous crim inals. He may peek at the supreme court, if it is in session and he may stand before the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington. He may visit the Corcoran art gal lerv or see the place which is being erected for Mellon's gift to the nation. The tourist could spend a week or a month pleas urably without ever really getting tangled with officialdom excepi as it is embodied in guards and policemen. The fountains play under col ored lights at night. The dome of the capitol and the great statue of Freedom shine forth by night or day. Now and then a fanfare sounds and some Distinguished Personage pares by with fitting pomp and ceremony. Through the tall iron fences and the shrub bery he may get a glimpse of an Embassy Tea. Somewhere be hind the stately porticoes of the White House the Good Man la bors for all of us. To the innocent Washington can be fairyland! Something which expresses the hopes and the aspirations and the dignity of 130,000,000 people! Congressmen Guide To the visitor who has some errands with government, Wash ington can be something entirely different. It is the Labyrinth of the Bureaucratic centaur. If your congressman serves any real pur pose, it is to try to guide you through the mazes, and even your congressman will not know all the answers. He gives you a note or he sends his secretary with you to see the 17th assistant to a Somebody. You grab another taxicab and finally convince the driver that No you DON'T want to go to Arlington. You cool your heels m an elegant waiting room till the 13th secre tary to the 17th assistant asks for your card. "From Oregon?" she says, with misplaced eyebrow daintily lift ed. "Didn't they tell you Mr. Goofus has gone to Keokuk to make a speech? Couldn't you put your matter in a letter? Secre tary Somebody? Well, really, he's a very busy man. Could you be here the first of next month? He might be able to make an ap pointment then. Are you sure you have come to the right depart ment. I'm sure it would be better if you wrote a letter." You give it up and find your tax driver and hunt a nice cool spot and buy him and yourself a long Tom Collins and try not to think it over. 'Me," says the taxi driver. "I'm from Marion, Kansas. Come here in '28 to take a course in a school that claimed to know all the ans wers on civil service, but I guess I just didn't ever know the right congressmen. Been trying to make enough to get away from here ever since. Tell you what I'll do. If you can get me a job in Oregon, I'll drive you all the way out there if you'll buy the gas." This makes a good point at which to remember that you left the Missus in the Smithsonian! Sunday: Goodbye Washington. GOP CLEAN-UP MESS? PORTLAND, July 21. OP) It will take a republican president in 1940 to "clean up the mess," Marion E. Martin of Maine, vice chairman of the republican na tional committee, told 500 persons at a republican picnic last night. 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