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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER -GUARD AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER EDITOR AKO FUSUSKDl - - - Altoa "!" iianagiko) rorroa wuua m. TurmAn JSws SWVJCJ . Amart Prar Unit Ptm JSfflB . . . .... Audit ur.u at CtfcuUUoni Entrd At tb tat OrBee t (una. Own u racond cua mattw. Tb itiditailaani oouey u w ncnro .iKHrt(ATi to tta nawl MM of til ntwi and fUtemenu S'Stt'SrtSoM "t. of tb. 4.T nd "" toporUiiM to th MtnmunitT. 4Mvortn to b. candJdbul rn unity poller. UNVEILING THE POLICE MYSTERY Because the city council's police com mittee chose to make a considerable mystery in the suspension of Sergeant Roy Wilcox, not only Mr. Wilcox but Chief Bergman and the entire police department have suffered these last few days from the perfectly natural tendency to put two and two together and get sixteen. Gossip has had the chief and the sergeant and the force and the committee all pictured as conspiring to put the "shush" on perfectly awful things. As a matter of fact, unless the committee is holding out on internal disturbances in the department, the immediate causes of the Wilcox case are very simple. While chasing a stolen car down West Eleventh one night recently the sergeant ordered the young patrolman with him to open fire. Some of the bullets went astray and entered a dwelling, endangering the occupants. There were com plaints. The sergeant was on the carpet for bad judgment. Just why should it have been necessary for such a simple case ever to go through the rigamarole of the police committee? Is Chief Esrgman running the department and handling his officers and men, or is he tied to the committee's apron strings. If Wilcox committed a serious blunder, it was for the thief to suspend him Instantly. If Wilcox felt he was being dealt with unfairly, it was for him to appeal to the civil servjce com mission and get a public hearing before an impartial tribunal. No police chief whether his name is Carl Bergman or John B. Miraculous can main tain discipline and hold the respect and con fidence of his men if he is deprived of full authority and responsibility. It's(up to the commanding officer to be mighty sure he is fair and right, of course. He can't be trivial or he'll find himself on the spot at civil serv ice hearings Instead of his officers. But there Isn't the slightest doubt that the civil service commission would support the chief in any reasonable program of discipline. . What then, is left for the city council in police affairs? It is still their job to lay down general police policy, to determine, for instance whether we have enough police for ihe town's needs, whether they are paid an adequate wage, whether there is too much or too little emphasis on traffic in relation to other police problems, to consult with the chief or with members of the department on many matters of relationship with the public. : It is NOT the council's function to meddle with the administration of the department which is what the chief is hired for. It's hard to get away from old habits, but the council should remember that when the people voted for civil service they meant to take the selec tion and discipline of policemen and firemen out of councilmanic politics. We have a high regard for the members of the council police committee. We believe the unfortunate reac tions from their methods In the Wilcox case should warn them to stand aside and let the chief and civil service function as intended. A British magistrate advocates a plan to permit offenders to serve prison terms on week-ends. If it catches on here, a lot of people will be slipping up the river instead of down to the seashore on Saturdays. A hat manufactuier says that men's hats will depart from conventional styles and that the summer's straw hats will appear in nov elty forms. And to think of all the nasty things we said about women's hats. Residents of Berlin may not heat water except on Saturdays and Sundays hereafter. Only the government will be permitted to be in hot water during the week. It looks as if Cactus Jack Garner is really serious about being a presidential candidate. Twice in the same week he stayed out after curfew. - London is losing its title as the world's largest city through evacuation, all of which Is probably just as well. Seemed the island .was beginning to bog a little on one end. The federal government Is trying to figure out where it will scrape up $460,000,000 hi ad ditional taxes. How about setting up pig banks in the executive departments? Everything, from bridesmaids to publicity, is furnished for $75 by a San Francisco wed ding service. After the ceremony, however, it s the bridegroom's problem. Trans-Atlahtic planes may cut Bermuda from their itinerary if the British don t keep their fingers out of U. S. mail bags. Doesn't Chamberlain know it's a penitentiary offense to open someone else's mail? WASHINGTON LETTER A southern resident protested against itt iiifi vmal ttet tax because be hud WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 21. In the past 10 days telegrams and letters have arrived from the fruit industry in Oregon asking support for the Barton measure which makes amendments to the wage-hour bill. Briefly, Oregon's fruit industry wants agriculture exempt from the wage-hour law, as was originally intended by congress when the statute was enacted, but the administrator has been including more or less agricultural products and it has injured the fruit growers and canners of the Pacific Northwest. It is a fair prediction that there will be no wage hour legislation at this session because of a very peculiar situation, one of those congressional quirks revealing the absolute power of committees and of chairmen in particular. To the uninitiated, the ex planation will be an eye-opener. Mary Norton, stylishly stout chairman of the house committee on labor, has an administration written and backed bill amending the wage hour act. In her committee are two other bills, dealing with the same subject (Barton's is one), which neither Mrs. Norton nor the administration want. As a chairman is the unquestioned dictator of a committee, Mrs. Norton has not permitted her com mittee to consider the other two. Last August Mrs. Norton went to the rules com mittee requesting a rule for her bill and the rule she received was like Dead Sea fruit. Committee on rules is, in final analysis, the steering committee which decides whether a controversial measure can get to the floor and only a petition signed by a ma jority of the representatives (218) can override the committee. Here is the rule given Mrs. Norton: She can have her bill (H. R. 5435) debated for three hours in the house, sitting as a committee of the whole house, after which the bill will be read and after reading the first section all shall be stricken out except the enacting clause, ana suDsmutea ior me part stricken will be the text of H. K. 7439 (Bar ton's bill). Sounds screwey, but that is congress. Mrs. Nor ton wants her own bill and no other reported favor ably by her committee. If she brings out her bill all she gets is general debate and then her bill is cut off behind the ears and the Barton measure substituted. Based on this situation it can be as sumed that Mrs. Norton will stand pat; will not lead her own bill to the execution nor report out the two bills she does not like. Ergo. No Imme diate prospect of wage-hour act being amended by the house. Just as gossip of the national capital has been predicting for a year, that the Jimmy Roosevelts would split the blanket, the same gossips have been predicting for many months that the Franklin D. Jr.'s are headed in the same direction. Young F. D. R. is a night club frequenter. At the recent birthday ball held for his father, young Franklin did his dancing with two visiting movie stars, ne glected his wife( former Dupont heiress), and she left the White House returning home alone. This sort of gossip (there is plenty more of it), is not merely whispered it is printed. Three of the president's children divorced since the family entered the White House, with rumors of a fourth crash, Is a record. It is causing eye brows to lift and the question asked what kind of bringing up the president and first lady gave their progeny. Howard Cosllgan, Commonwealth Federation leader of Washington state, and Irving Goodwin, Portland lawyer, have been in the national capital wanting federal action to protect civil liberties in the Evergreen state, where the wife of a CIO or ganizer was killed in Gray's Harbor district. Chairman Dies of the committee investigating un-American activities, plans looking into the causes leading to an attack on a communist dance by Finn sympathizers. Assertions have been made that the reds are so bold in two districts of Washington state that they should be Investigated. t . . Since 1035 NLRB has been "after" the Washou- gal (Wash.) Woolen Mills. The case dragged along until for the past year and a half nothing was done. Then the board issued its preliminary order. Last week lawyers from Vancouver and Portland, repre senting the union and the employers, were permit ted to argue their case. There are 1200 pages of testimony in the case. NLRB gave the lawyers 30 minutes in which to hit the high spots and get out. In the local police court a woman was given a hour to explain why she should not pay a fine for violat ing a traffic parking rule. w m The president has approved as eligible for $26,591 of WPA funds a project under army engi neers to clear and grub the Cottage Grove and Fern Ridge dam and reservoir sites, which are part of the Willamette valley project for flood control. AN EDITORIAL ON HEALTH ITifJ BISCUITS COMING UP When an egg-beater beat out a T-square in the affections of Tommy O'Grady, Alabama Polytechnic Institute sophomore, he gave up civil engineering and went into home economics. Above, he mixes up biscuits. Professor DeCout Praised By Math Society Journal Allied Force Is Ready Recognition of the recently or ganized Portland Council of Math ematics Teachers, and warm praise for E. E. DeCou, professor of math ematics at the University of Ore gon, was accorded by the National Council of Teachers of Mathe matics in the recent Issue of the society's Journal, copies of which have just been received on the university campus. The Portland council was formed last year, after Professor DeCou, Oregon representative of the na tional body, delivered an address before mathematics teachers in Portland. The article describes progress made by the Portland group, and By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Associa tion, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine In 1785. William Withering, a distinguished physician in Birmingham, England, published a book on the medical use of foxglove, or digitalis, for dropsy. Apparently Its use originated with the old gatherers of herbs who found out purely by chance that the leaves of the foxglove had a specific effect on the elimination of collections of fluid from the body. In the time of William Withering dropsy was regarded as a primary disease. When Withering began to use digitalis In nn attempt to remove all sorts of accumulations of fluid from the body, he was surprised to discover that collections of water In Ihe brain (called hydrocephalus) and collections of water In sacs In various organs of the body (like the ovary and the kidney) did not disappear. In 1776. withering learned from an old woman In Shropshire, England, that foxglove was good for dropsy. He began trying It, observing its effects. He discovered that digitalis had a special effect on the heart. His exact words were that it had "a power over the motion of the heart to a degree yet unobserved in any other medicine, and this power may be converted to salutary ends." m The value of digitalis was so apparent and so definite, as far ns concerned its ability to slow the motion of the heart and give It added strength, that there was little gain In our knowledge of the drug during the entire nineteenth century. During the first 10 years of the present century, however. careful studies were made and during recent years the discovery of the electro-cardiograph (which traces the Impulse that passes through the heart when the heart bents has helped us to learn a great deal more about the effects of this drag. Today it is recognized that in certain forms of congestive heart failure digitalis saves life. When hearts fall and when the rhythm of the heart Is dis turbed this drug tends to bring about conditions In which the heart Is able to carry on Its work. There Is probably no drug In medicine which demands greater knowledge for proper use than does digitalis. Digitalis, like Ihe other Magic Medi cal Bullets, is i drug with which It Is possible to destroy life as well as to snve It. The dosage of the drug must be calculated with the utmost care for every patient and changed from time to time ac cording to conditions that develop. NKXT: 'Old Oregon' Shows Campus In Pictures Crammed with pictures, In Jour nalistic streamlined style, the B'eb ruarv issue of Old Oregon, alumni publication for the University of Oregon, appeared Monday. The number, the first to be edited by Roy Vernstvom, recently appointed to the staff, also fca Germany two years ago. Assen dorf, exchange student here from Germany two years agog. Assen dorf vigorously defends the Ger man position, and also gives con siderable inside information on war conditions abroad. An article by Carleton E. Spen cer, professor of law and director of civilian pilot training for the university, describes the work of the students who are learning to fly under the federal arrangement here. A new feature, "The fact man" edited by James Bank, gives a history of the career of George S. Turnbull, professor of journal ism, whose recent book on the his tory of journalism in Oregon has won wide praise. The issue also contains consider able campus news, a review of sports and items of various classes. lists the officers. Miss Lesta Hall, Grant high school, is 'president; Olin L. Wills, Lincoln high school, is vice-president; Mrs. Genevieve Simpson, Grant, is recording sec retary and editor, and Wayne L. Bauer, Oregon City, is secretary-treasurer. Coeds Nominate For Three Groups Three all-campus' women's or ganizations will hold annual elec tions in Gerlinger hall at the Uni versity of . Oregon Thursday. Nominations . for- offices . are as follows; " Associated Women Students Grace Irvin, Redmond, and Betty Buchanan, Salem, for president; Bette Norwood, Jamieson, Bar bara Stallcup, Montague, Cal., and Pat Taylor, Milwaukie, for vice president; Phyllis Sanders, Pied mont, Cal., Betty Plankington, and Maxine Hansen, both of Portland, for secretary; Elizabeth Steed, Sa lem, and Billie Christensen, La Grande, for treasurer; Billie Wade, Condon, Adele Canada, Portland, and Betty Jane Biggs, Yuba City, Cal., reporter; Helen. Moore, Klam ath Falls, Virginia Malloy, Port land, Mary Ellen Smith, Oswego, and Caroline Holmes, Berkeley, Cal., for sergeant-at-arms-. Nominated for offices in the Women's Athletic association were Bette Morfitt and .Joanne ;Riesch, both of Portland, '. for president; Janet Morris and Hope- Hughes, both of Eugene, for vice presi dent; Becky - Anderson, Eugene, Jean Burt, Colton, and Nancy Ann Johnson, Troutdale, for secretary; Barbara Bamford, La Jolla, Cal., Ruth Larkiri, Eugene, Ethel Dixon, Klamath Falls, treasurer; Martha McClung, Merced, Cal., Mildred McCarthy, Grants Pass, .Hazel Uldtield, Leaburg, custodian: Mary Belcher, . Tacoma, Wash-., Marge Dibble, Portland, reporter; Pat Lawson, Paisley, Betty Mae Lind Eugene, Margaret Shipler, Os wego, Nancy Allen, Beverly Hills Cal., for sergeant-at-arms. Named for offices In the Uni versity Young Women's Christian association are Marge Montgom ery and Jean Crites, both of Eu gene, for president; Bobsie Roehm, Berkeley, Cal., Lois Nordling, Eu gene, for . secretary; Kathleen Brady, Allegany, Trudy Anderson, Portland, for treasurer. The girl receiving the ' fewest number of votes in the presidential ' contest will be named vice president. : . - Lenten Lesson Masons Confer Degree FLORENCE, Feb. 21(Special) Seventy-eight Masons attended the special meeting of Florence Lodge 107 A. F. and A. M. re cently when the master mason de gree was conferred upon; Harry Price, local state police officer, by Captain Lansing and his degree team composed of members of the state police force. Following the conferring of the degree a ban quet was served in the dining room with L. R. Swarthout, wor shipful master of - Florence lodge, presiding as toastmaster. Lodges represented were Salem, Port land, Roseburg, Eugene Maple ton, Newport and Gardiner. . Funeral services were held at the Evangelical church in Flor ence this week for Galen E. Morse who died in Eugene at the Eu gene hospital. Until the past few years, when he had made his home at Westlake, he had made Florence his home and operated a barber shop here for many years. He was a member of Florence Lodge 107 A. F. and A. M. and Heceta Lodge 111, I. O. O. F., the Masonic order being in charge at the church and the Odd Fel lows at the cemetery. POPULAR PIANO INSTRUCT'N Earl Gibson, 861 Will. Ph. 1691 , LUDFORD'S Picture Framing Wednesday Special CHERRIES Chocolate Covered ' Of) Pound box aSOC Matrnnnlifnn tnrn ....... 735 Willamette J Anesthesia one of mankind's greatest HELLO FOLKS Our Pre-Inventory Sale has been fine) and we really got action. There are 3 Malestlc Consoles left at a real cut price, several Floor Lamps, and other electrical Items, also a 32 piece Dish Set decorated at $3.23 which ola reouiariy at S5.75. Our Sale ends Saturday. If you mUs thli sale you've really missed something. Come in and look around. Thanks. Dick Matteson . ELECTRIC RANGES Only 4 Floor Samples left. Regular prices $99.504114.50 $214.50 and $205.50. Sale Prices ... $8950 $9850"17950 $13500 EMERSON RADIO 5 tube mantle sets. Reg. $14.95 Sale Price $12.00 DISH SETS 32-plece Gloria Gold Band pattern. Rag, $4.95. Sale Price v $2.98 WAFFLE IRONS Electric automatic. Reg. $7.95. Sale Price $5.95 LIGHTNING'S 1151 Willamette Phone 1316 PMIippians 2:1-12. If there be therefore any- con solation in .Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies. fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like- minded having the same love, be ing of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife and vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on me things ol others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him. the form of a servant, an dwas made in the like ness of man; and being found In fashion as a man, he humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross Whereforth God hath highly ex alted Him, and given Him a name, which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee shrould bok, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; . 1 1 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Chirst is Lord, to the glory of 'Gild the Father. 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now. much more in my absence, work out kirn is. w j . Mr. and Mrs "ttfcj SnelUtrom . R- Hubert. "r'ife1 your own salvation with fear and iremDiing. SURELY -not His intellectual mind.' We can never hope to have a mind as luminous and ioftv our-Lord's.- It is His mlndedneK In one ticular .that is meant the humil ity of His spirit Think! He was equal with God, yet consented to be made in the likeness nf mar, He knew how it felt to be despised and1 rejected. He submitted Him self to be mocked and scourged, and finally to be nailed on the cruel, the ignominious Cross! He humbled Himself and be came obedient as that, for your sake and mine, the death of the Cross! One of the saints was acltori what was the first steD to heaven, and he answered. Humility. They asked him what was the second itep and he answered aeain. Hu mility. And when he was asked what the third step was he an swered, Humility. Humility is the whole way. Humility is ODOosite to proua ana seu-sunicient, and thinking we can get along with- , from Portland - ttO out th nnupr anrl lmro rtf ClnA . Porter Strvip ..j ... """"I x . ' wu. i im nueit,iv It is putting the glory of God STREAMLINER . above the praise of men, in all we i s.v 17 in "V think and do and say. It is letting! "0,i"CMckujJS.ti Clnrl h. r.nA . Bullet 3 .1U, .Z?.I?M w !,,., T'- "WI, 631. .1 j ou, vuu rcsisiesi uie proua porti Illn ia givest grave unto the humble. T nua -9a5 tjj -9 fc. $65 Round Triii u CHICAGO W5ACH 0 famous TMlHjJ and givest grave unto the humble. Kram unto us true niimi irv. attar . -Mwcia-ij the likeness in which Thine only i p"pnl?2SlJL,riT.'.,n5 Son revealed it -in Himself. Whni Coach and PuUm...im,J,H havine humhlert Himsolr hath hoov, PACIFIC I Hunt ... I . .. ,,,, t ..h;!, ... exalted; to whom be glory forever, i Coach.i, Puilmu-tom tul Winter Sporf j Pflf0(f J sun valley, Ideke SkllnLdlutnum,,,, mounl.ln top,. Imii,Su.0,! wlmnlng pooli. S. Y&jUiJ Clullm j.r Im, Ckil.u fc2 w"'7 "7 UB10B rtClllc SURPRISE PARTY VAUGHN, Feb. 21. (Special) Mrs.' R..R. 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