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THE REGISTER-GUARD. EUGENE. OREGON
Merchants Approve
Penny Meier Test
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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.
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3,000 Unemployed
In Lane County
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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;
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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
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famed Malheur migratory bird
refuge, and will continue on to the
"Blue Sky" hotel on Hiirt moun
ain. The southern Oregon and
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McGurk Tells Opinions
Of Washington, D. C.
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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.
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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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