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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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 .
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$214.50 and $205.50. Sale Prices ...
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Sale Price
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DISH SETS
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Rag, $4.95. Sale Price v
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WAFFLE IRONS
Electric automatic. Reg. $7.95.
Sale Price
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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
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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
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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
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VAUGHN, Feb. 21. (Special)
Mrs.' R..R. Harbert gave a sur
prise party recently in honor of her
husband's birthday. The evening
was spent playing cards and Chi
nese checkers. Luncheon was serv
ed, the birthday cakes being made
by Mrs. Weldon. Mrs. Tompkins
and Mrs. Harbert. Those present
were Mr. and Mrs.' Henry Elling
sen, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tomp-
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