Eugene register-guard., August 13, 1939, Image 4

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munlty policy.
"A NEWSPAPER IS A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY"
OUR PUBLIC LIBRARY PROBLEMS
Just as our new county library service is
receiving an enthusiastic welcome, and just
as the circulation figures for our Eugene
Public Library hit an all-time high (approxi
mately 118,000) there comes word that the
entire library program is in grave danger.
The City Fathers face the harrowing
problem of meeting that defccit of $250,000
plus in the special improvement bond ac
count which came in depression when so
many property owners just gave up trying
to meet taxes. Either the city must levy an
additional 3 or 4 mills a year for the next few
years (which could have been prevented if
the water board had accepted any reasonable
plan of payments in lieu of taxes) or it must
hack all expenses. The axe hangs over the
City Library.
The County Fathers face no such finan
cial crisis. They are contributing only $3,
C45 to this year's experimental setup with
the state library and WPA to establish the
county bookmobile service, but they are re
ported not very enthusiastic about the more
generous appropriations which ought to be
made by the county to balance city and state
and federal contributions to the new setup.
So if library users in city or in country
want to prevent some budgetary disasters
this fall, it's up to them to make themselves
heard.
Although It may seem confusing, we dis
cuss the city and county libraries together
because they can't really be separated. You
recall about a year ago, our rural neighbors
were kicking to beat the cars because the
Eugene City Library had put a $1 charge on
non-resident cards. This charge was dropped
when the county service was established be
cause the two services help each other in
many ways.
The City Library loaned the county one
of its most experienced librarians, Thelma
Keaville. It helped find space for the county
books over in the city hall. One of the assis
tants in the county project is employed by
the city's library board. Every effort has
been made to coordinate the city and county
library service. Much has been done to build
up the sadly depleted reference department
and the magazine and periodical service and
children's rooms in the Eugene Library and
the rural people enjoy these facilities on
equal terms.
The City Library has never drawn the
full 1 mill support to which it is entitled
(that would be about $12,000 a year). In de
pression, the City Library existed on as lit
tle as $4,005 for 1034. it is drawing only
$10,840 this year. True, it is asking $16,499
for 1940, but isn't it about time to put it on a
respectable basis especially when the mere
purchase of a few up-to-date books has pro
duced record demand?
That deficit in the city's bond account is
sad, but we don't think the City Fathers
should even try to make it up at the expense
of the library or any other necessary service.
Under the law, the extra levies must be made
to meet this debt and we say let them be
made! Terhaps that will make Eugene peo
ple understand the tax inequities which are
crippling the city's development.
The eventual solution for our library prob
lems is a uniform 1 mill levy everywhere in
Lane county to finance town libraries and
rural distribution. The groundwork for that
has Ijeen established. It should not bo dis
turbed by this crisis in bond account with its
ramifications in backward taxing methods
and utility problems.
We hope the thousands of people who are
using this new library setup will be heard
from.
tion by Mr. Roosevelt's good pal, Senator
Pepper, of Florida, with that interesting cli
max demanding "a third term for Roosevelt
(prolonged cheering) ideas" (sotto voice).
It is miraculous what a mere arrange
ment of words can do by accident.
Of course, it would be interesting to know
how many of those raucous Young Demo
crats are beneficiaries of Roosevelt patron
age (the Hatch bill isn't clicking yet). It
would be interesting to know a good many
things about the Pittsburgh sequence.
But as this Hollywood chap told the VLT
the other night, it isn't good for the public
to know too much about backstage tricks; it
spoils the enjoyment of a good show.
The American people can guess at what
goes on, but they are asked not to disturb the
illusion.
Mr. Roosevelt would have us believe that
he is not SEEKING a third term. On the
other hand he has warned us recently that
if there is a terrible war in Europe or Asia, if
millions more are added to our American
unemployed, if prosperity lags at the end of
his administrations the fault lies not with him
but with a dissident Congress.
If from "the people" to whom he so often
and so lovingly refers, there comes a clamor
for his peerless leadership, what will there
be for such a patriot but to accept? No other
Hero is in sight. He admits that himself.
Unintentionally, Mr. Roosevelt conveys
his lack of faith in the American people,
even in what he would call the liberals to
carry on by democratic process. In fact the
liberal cause suffers by reasons of his un
willingness to stand aside so that principles
(which should outlive any man if they are
right) may flourish.
We are witnessing human comedy. The
old trouper is sad lest no man be born to
carry on his act.
IS THERE AN "UNDERSTANDING"?
THIRD TERM FOR ROOSKVI I.T (IDEAS)
Some day the smart lads from Hollywood
and Broadway will v,n t" 'he politicians for
tips on stagecraft. You've Rot to hand it to
Franklyn Delano Rieve!t, the master tech
nician, for the build-up which he has started
for his third-term campaign.
Not a word (except Insults) for White
House reporters who have dared M ask him
to give the American people a straightfor
ward answer to the question which millions
of citizens have been asking. N'n .statement
of personal plans or policy which could he
discussed with detachment at American
firesides.
Instead comes first the warning message
to the Y'oung Democrats at their Pittsburgh
conclave that "if we nominate conservative
cundidates or lip service candidates, or a
straddle-bug platform, I personally will
find it impossible to have any part in the
suicide 6f the old democratic party."
Then the keynote speech of the conven-
Persistent reports in and out of Washing
ton for many months have indicated that re
gardless of Congress, the president and his
associates have an "understanding" with
Great Britain and France as to what this na
tion will do in event somebody touches off
the powder keg in Europe. In brief the
understanding is supposed to be that Britain
and France will take on the Rome-Berliners
while we restrain Japan in Asia.
The dramatic transfer of the fleet to the
Pacific, the notice to Japan that we will set
aside the old trade agreement of 1911 and
other executive orders indicate that the
stubborn gentleman in the White House is
determined to make a foreign policy wheth
er Congress likes it or not. The sad fact is
that he can come near doing this.
There has been an amazing shift of Roose
velt policy from the original program of in
ternal reforms to world reforms. The offer
to hold the status in the Orient while Britain
and France crack Der Fuehrer and II Duce
may bo just a big hearted gesture but it
looks like taking on a mighty dirty and costly
job for our young men.
We do not have to go "isolationist" to an
nounce plainly that we will NOT FIGHT OR
FINANCE any more wars to save anybody
but ourselves. Since nobody, not even Mr.
Roosevelt, has been able to think up any
formula for neutrality which doesn't create
some kind of pussyfoot alliance, perhaps we
ought to fall back on these simple rules:
Sell anything we've got to anybody who
can come and get it for cash or goods which
we can use
Stand ready to sit in on any sincere effort
to reduce trade barriers, cut armies and ar
maments or otherwise promote international
intercourse and good will.
Tut our own house in order before we
meddle in other folks affairs.
Most of the troubles which the so called
democracies arc facing they have brought on
themselves. We do not have to accept Nazism
or Fascism or Communism if we refuse to
send our young men into wars for British
and French democracies which have imperial
backyards which smell.
If the exuberant gentleman in the White
House has committed us even informally to
any such nonsense as policing Asia, it is time
for those of us who still believe that democ
racy has a chance to begin in America to let
out a loud veil.
A Philadelphia pastor has been head of
the same church for 4fi years. After that long
a stretch as a visitor at Ladies' Aid meetings,
ho ought to have a pretty fair knowledge
about everybody in the communitv.
A Montana jailbird pulled out a cell radi
iitor with his bare hands. Bring that guy
around some night next winter when the
bedroom radiator is knocking.
Nevada's legislature forgot to enact any
taxv-s for the next year. Members will stage
their next campaigns on a "lack of memory"
platform.
Research discloses that no new sin has
developed m 50(H) yeais. But we're still hav
ing a lot of fun with the uld ones.
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PORT OF AN EMPIRE All wool and moro than a yard wide is this scene at the port of London,
Eiuland, where wool's being unloaded for late r auction sales at the wool exchange. Control of
London's 45 miles of deep-water quays is vested in the Port of London Authority, which oversees the
clearing of more than 45,000,000 tons of goods annually, carried by 62,000 ships.
IN THE EDITOR'S MAIL BAG
LABOR GOONS VS. EMPLOYER
LAWLESSNESS
PUGENE (To the Editor)
Some day, we trust that the
people of Oregon will awaken to
the fact that Oregon is a part of
the U. S. A. That the U. S. con
stitution and federal laws apply to
Oregon as to other states of the
union. We have been passing
through an era in Oregon where
in employers have flouted feder
al law, wherein ex-governor, iron
pants Martin, exhorted farmers to
go after labor organizers with
pitchforks, and the law enforce
ment officers to club them down,
and wherein he placed his stamp
of approval on employer vigilante
groups who chased labor organ
izers from the city of Baker. We
have witnessed the editor of the
Eugene Register-Guard lauding
the 4L and the IEU and declaring
it a legitimate union.
We have watched the press of
the state, defend the employers
in the formation of company
unions and the denial of employes
rights to form "legitimate unions.
City councils, dominated by em
ployer associations have passed
unconstitutional strike regulatory
ordinances. As a result, certain
labor leaders, in their desperation,
attempted to fight fire with fire,
and were caught in the dragnet of
the law, and swift punishment has
been meted to them. We have
witnessed the people of the state,
propagandized by strong employer
associations, passing an unconsti
tutional law to restrict labor
unions.
Now, after four years of indis
criminate violation of Uie National
Labor Relations Act, employers
who formed the Willamette Val
ley Lumber Operators Association,
have been ordered by the Labor
Board to cease their lawlesncss
and to withdraw recognition of the
company dominated IEU and to
return all duos collected by the
check off system since July 5.
1939. Let us hope that the un
constitutional anti-labor law en
acted by the people of Oregon,
last fall, under the barrage of em
ployer propaganda, will soon be
annulled.
In the U.S.A. employers have a
right to close down operations if
lab.-.r demands conditions which
they cannot meet. By the same
token labor has a right to refuse
to work, to picket and boycott.
even in minority groups, if con
ditions of employment seem un
bearable to them. If Oregon is a
part of the U. S. A. we must abide'
by the V. S. Constitution and the j
Federal laws. Let us hope that;
Oregon people will realize that '
we are a part of the V. S. A. j
C. A. PADDOCK SR.
POTTAGE GROVE (To the 1
Fditor) The writer has been
much interested in Judge Kurd's
little g.is scandal. This practice
was born mid raised to full bloom
under the Pnrn.ird and Hurd coun
ty regime prior to 1932. Referring
to one instance, a county foreman
in 1931 advised the writer that he
was invited to and did take a five
day fishing trip to eastern Oregon
lakes, this in a county c;ir of the
bridge department, us'.ng a county
script book to pav for the g.is.
Both of these men. Bivord-ns to
published leeerds, v ere paid their
full month's s-n' ti y tor the month
in which this trip wss taken. Has
Mr. Hind forgotten this'
His he fo'.got the campaign
In the fall of 193: when every
mile of county ro.-i.is and about
90 per cent of the barnyards
were Inspected in a county car.
Tlie writer brought up the g.is
issue in the primary in 1932 but
at that time Mr. Hurd, in a speech
at the Eugene chamber of com
merce rooms, branded the scheme
as not feasable, in fact, being fan
tastic and cockeyed, and what gas
was used was of little consequence.
Now he is all broke out in rash
with a holier than thou attitude.
But the whole thing smacks of
politics, as he has only named
one offender, Mr. Stauffer. If Mr.
Hurd is honest in this matter, he
should name all offenders or none
and not kick Jurid just because
he happens to be a Democrat. If
he is honest in this matter, he is
to be congratulated, but until he
furnishes the public with the
names of all who got in on the
free gas his motives are open to
question.
' M. J. DRURY.
HAY FEVER
When the mocking birds are
singing
And Spring is in the breeze,
It brings back my hay fever.
I sneeze and sneeze and sneeze
When the goldenrods start blooming
And soft winds blow thru the
trees,
I would like to sing and whistle
But I sneeze and sneeze and
sneeze.
When there's flowers on the clo
ver Covered o'er with busy bees,
Everybody else goes swimming
But I sneeze and sneeze and
sneeze.
Oh! What a sad vacation
With vacations I am through,
What is the use to have them
When sneezing is all I do.
HENRY CASSITY.
WANTED: A PROGRAM
JTUGENE (To Uie Editor) We
are not so particular as to
who may formulate the program
The necessity is to have an ade
quate program to protect the
weak, to provide work for every
one able to work, and restore op
portunity to youth. The greatest
evil of this present system of gov
ernment is interest and profits.
High and unreasonable profits
drain away the buying power of
the masses, and reduces produc
tion down to the buying power.
Interest is a scheme to make mon
ey earn more money without la
bor. A hundred years ago the medi
cal doctors used the leach and
bled their patients for almost ev
ery sickness. Economically we
are sull continuing the bleeding
method for our NaUonal ills. Our
national currency is the life blood
of the nation; and we have given
the National Reserve Banks the
authority to deflate and contract
the buying power of our people
as often as they please. Of course
they are making great incomes out
of the distresses that the common
people are plunged in. This is the
real cause of the great depression
which has now lasted ten years
and plunged our nation into such a
debt as will be nearly impossible
to ever liquidate.
When money is scarce and high,
products and labor are cheap.
The labor unions are still holding
up the wage scale; but labor sav
ing machinery, and a reduced pro
duction has thrown the millions
out of employment and driven
them into the beggary of relief
and the WPA and reduced the
farmers of these United States to
peonage. There are so many of
them that have lost their farms
and are joining the ranks of the
unemployed.
There is a danger point in this
vicious circle of making the rich
richer, and reducing the masses to
the starvation or malnutrition line.
I am alarmed that the greed and
ambition, love of authority and a
great name, will soon beget such
a revolution as this world has
never before seen.
The right program, is the cor
rect way to restore the buying
power to the masses, the righti
circulation of the money of our
nation. It must be sufficient to
increase production to put all to
work and drive the wolves away
from the kitchen doors. No one
wants high blood pressure, just a
healthy working circulation, in
stead of the stagnant disease
breeding pools called banks.
The common people have been
bled so much at this time they
cannot borrow money as they have
no security to offer the banks. In
deed there is a danger of heart
failure. High salaried political
jobs. High salaried men every
where, and millions on the bread
line.
The Townsend plan will start
the circulation, if only some pro
gram will be offered to keep the
money circulating instead of pil
ing up In the banks to make the
final holacaust or revolution still
more terrible. America to be free.
must rid herself of the so called !
leisure class. We cannot borrow
ourselves out of poverty. Pay
day comes.
YES our great necessity is an
ADEQUATE PROGRAM. O for an
Andrew Jackson with the courage
of his convictions to take over the
control of the money of our coun
try. That no coterie of men may
loll in luxury while so many arc
short of the necessities of life.
Sincerely
W. L. STRANGE
2565 Onyx St., Eugene.
Lane Hop Growers
Going To Corvallis
Lane county hop growers are
planning to attend a hops field
day program at the state college
at Corvallis, August 15. The pro
gram will be given in room 105
Memorial Union building begin
ning at 10 a. m. The program has
been revealed at the office of O.
S. Fletcher, county agricultural
agent. It is as follows:
10:00 a. m. Registration.
10:30 a. m. to 11:00 a. m.
Physical and chemical analysis of
hops. D. D. Hill, D. E. Bullis.
11:00 a. m. to 11:30 a. m. Hop
insects and their control. H. E.
Morrison.
11:30 a. m. to 11:45 a. m.
Downy mildew ol hops. G. R.
Hoerner.
12:00 noon to 1:30 p. m. Lunch
eon at Benton hotel. Dean Wm. A.
Schoenfeld, presiding.
1:30 p. m. to 3:15 p. m. Discus
sion of breeding. Irrigation and
cultural experiments and inspec
tion of experimental plots, R. E.
Fore.
3:15 p. m. to 3:45 p. m. Inspec
tion of insect control plots, H. E.
Morrison.
3:45 p. m. to 4:00 p. m. Inspec
tion of irrigation equipment, F. E.
Price.
Victoria Heights
Grade Is Widened
The grade to the new addition
to Victoria heights is being widen
ed under a contract entered into
this week, according to Edward
Rostein, owner of the property.
A six-foot widening of the grade
will be made, bringing the total
width to 24 feet. Work will be
completed in a week or 10 days.
Fifty lots are being offered for
sale in the scenic new addition,
which offers the best view of Eu
gene and vicinity available. The
property is being handled by the
Sam Rugh Realty company.
Real Estate Deals
Of 2 Weeks Reported
Several good sized real estate
sales have been completed the
past two weeks by the Oregon
Settlement association. They are
listed as follows:
Forty acres near Crow belong
ing to Margaret Pifer was sold to
Mrs. Florence McCarty of San
Francisco; 40 acres in Triangle
lake district, belonging to Mrs.
Fletcher, sold to Steven C. Coran
of Peerless, Montana; one-acre
home of George Marx at Walter
ville sold to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Briggs of Springfield; five-acre
Erickson tract, near Veneta, sold
to H. B. Reitmeyer f.f Illahee,
Oregon; John L. Harpham of Eu
gene sold his house at 2488 Onyx
street to Jennie Bennett of Eu
gene; Wallace W. King of New
Mexico purchased two and one
fourth acres from Frank Need-
ham to add to hiTl "1
new highway two nvif'"tl
Eugene; zllZ
acres on East v1"5!
in SpringfieW g
aederlin. "Cltl
Mr- Newhouse In
Charge At Williams
Inc.-eheremV
Saturday. He ha,
firm since 1935 1 .??sd
servmg as assist
In taking over hi. . ft' I
Mr. Newhouse' tfeM
there has been no T?3 H
fortheWCH
Pany m Oreeon L "'J-.
F. Moore, who formerly?'' 'I
the Bon March. ..al
in 1870; the Con-XfcN
the Eugene store ttl
Policies of the Eugtte
ahead intact, m. f ? cr k
tern, Mr. Newhouse s2 f
personnel continues the
the store win carry
all its same lin kl
Newspaper Man
Ousted From Italy
ROME, Aug. 12.-JJai
Ekins, Rome bureau sunn, t
the United Press, wSS
frorn Italy today by order oiP
ler Benito Mussolini
Ekins and his wife, rtotc,
to Rome only a month ago,leftc
... Aiuea ai 12:30
anrnmnania k.. . . . ' "
WJ lwD piamcicfia
men who rode to the border in a
luaiu uenma mem.
Mrs. Winchell to Be
Speaker For Circle
SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 1!S
cial) Mrs. George P. Wkdi
will speak at the meetinf of Oti
No. 2 of the Ladies' Aid efti
Methodist church August 28 it fi
home of Mrs. Walter Cjie.
acting chairman of the drdi Xn
Winchell will discuss her rear
trip to New York City and otic
points by way of the Piaia
canal.
City Counci
Planned For
I Meeting
Monday
SPRINGFIELD, Aug. IS (Spe
cial) The city council will hai
its regular meeting Monday it W;
p. m. at the hall. Routine micti
will be discussed.
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