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Fife Four. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PubUibd mn wu id 9m4Mr EDITOR AND PUB US MM AJtoo I Btt MANAGING CniTOB WUUva M. Tufmaa NEWS 8KRV1CB .... AmacUVO fnm Untutf Ptw MEMBER Audit Butmu at Circulation Enured at Oi Po Otfle tt Bumm Otmop m weevtf Uia aaatug. Tba RcfiatarOuarart pouav to tt omelet tn lmrtUJ publication as tu orw mim a 1) oi and uumaou urn uv uui m n wujtb or w ffar thatt opinion or vanu of tto 4av and manar o bnportanaa to tba aonununitr. andMvariA u ba cjvluJ ten r aonavuativ aata Calr and hateful to tba tUDftV CMUCT- EUGENE MUST HAVE AN AIRPORT For Eugene voters to refuse to accept the small lew to enahl the ritv tn nhtain a new - j irport would be as short-sighted as it would r.ave Been years ago to deny builders ol rail roads and highways the right to enter this then primitive area. Air travel is not coming tomorrow. It is here today. Eugene has lagged behind. With Friday's encouraging visit from Col. A. G. Fisher and Caritain G. E. Henrv. Eugeneans should become more united than ever in their determination to obtain a field adequate for commercial and defense needs. They brushed aside a suggestion the pres cnt airport be used bv the armv as soon as they climbed from their ship which brought tnem here from ban Francisco. "Yes, its suitable," welcomers were told, "if you can cut down the hills around it! The two officers were cautious in making promises. But they left no doubt in the minds of their hosts that Eugene today would already have its army air squadron base, with more than a thousand men, represent ing a million dollar payroll, if it had a satis factory airport. The army is "scouring" the west coast, they said, for new sites. At the present time ,thcy reminded, there is no army field between Tacoma and San Rafael, a dangerous gap on a Pacific coast threatened Dy Japanese statesmen. The visitors were verv imnresscd with the sites shown them northwest of the city. They used strong words, "ideal," "excellent." Noting the Fern Ridge dam construction, too, they insisted the navy should immediately study the possibility of using the waters which will flood the Long Tom and Coyote creeK Bottoms. Although Colonel Fisher and Captain nenry only have the power to recommend it is known the armv is impressed with facta maps, and figures which Eugene has placed on me with its headqarters. Colonel Fisher is air chief for the nloht corps area, serving in the dual capacity of dminstrative officer and commander of combat units. He works as a direct renro sentative of General H. H. Arnold, chief of the air corps, as well as of top ninth corps officials. Because the site Is regarded as exceptional and the position of Eugene one of great strategic value, action will certainly come soon after the November 5 election, if the voters permit the allowing of an investment of $75,000 to purchase a site. Spokane pur chased an airport site and waited two years for government help. Now it has It, and is the greatest west coast air base. Spokane was ready. "If you were a citizen of Eugene, would you take our airport gamble?" Ben Dorris asked the captain as the pair left for Portland with tickets to the Oregon-Washington clash. His answer was: "Yes!" W. H. THE 'GREAT FRIEND' SPEAKS Roosevelt's masterful Saturday night speech from Dayton, 0., was a continuation of his "bray loudly and carry a feather dust er" policy which has gained for his great but unprepared country the hate of all but one major nation in the world. No dictator combination, he said in direct answer to the axis pact with Japan, can pre vent America from continuing aid to Great Britain across the Atlantic. Western nations have the right to use both the Atlantic and the Pacific for peaceful purposes, he said. Why should the president extend his nation's neck in such a bold dare for enemy interests abroad to try to stop such aid? Why not continue the stream of support, if that is to be Yankee policy, without brags and foolish dares? If the United States had already reached the point in its rearmament program where, as Roosevelt predicts, no enemy clique can successfully assault the far-flung shores of North, Central and South America, his out burst might be more timely. He would have might to baiv up what is unquestionably right. But today, when even if the new deal defense efforts had been conducted with greatest efficiency, the chief is stepping on another dangerous stone in his "brink-of-war" foreign policy. It will be difficult for Germany and Italy to believe, too, that the use Roosevelt is mak ing of the North Atlantic is peaceful. He just hasn't loosed the other half of the two-ocean navy he doesn't have in an outright declara tion of war. Portions of his address were well-spoken and excellent consumption for a western hemisphere which needs uniting in common purpose again! potential attacker. Ha warning against accepting overseas assur ances the west win pe sale was healthy. His accusal of nations sponsoring the fifth column and his prediction of its rout was warming. But until America completes "total de fense on land and sea and in the air," Roose velt could Bain manv votes for November 5 if he would adopt his cousin's old policy of carrying a plenty big stick and of not stirring enemies to the point of declaration of war by wistful speeches. Fewer words, speedier action might well be good advice to the great democratic " friend from his people. W. H THE AXIS VICTORY BLUFF Although bluffs are dangerous, as they are sometimes "called," the recent bristling of Japan may be stronelv alone that line. The greatest fear for the dictators, no doubt, is that their only remaining Euro pean foe, Britain, the toughest, will be aided by its Yankee cousins, as it happened once before within their lifetimes. Probably the main converstation in the corridors of Ber. lin when Japan was "roped" was on methods short of war from keeping America from helping London. If the United States can be kept out of the European red hell by bluffing, the axis win teriaimy continue io try lo do it. Their first action, it is becoming more annarpnt tri daily, is to place the Japanese on their boxes to maKe a big crisis in the Pacific. That noise has, perhaps as Hitler cleverlv plannpd. aroused grave concern in Washington. Al though an American is not easily bluffed Hitler and Konove will find. Yankee at. tention has certainly been drawn from the British isles and sufferine London. Whereas a tew days ago there was little street talk oi naving xo 'stop japan, now there are more fears war will come in the Pacific before in Europe if it does come. So Japan will play bluffs, as manv as the cable from Berlin advises. Perhaps thev are prepared, even, for war, if they fail. The dictators are convinced, within themselves as well as in their press and to the world, that they can beat the British without Roosevelt help. If they can keep the Ameri can fleet watching and waiting in the orient, half way around the world from Lands End, they perhaps hope to have the islands stormed before Washington realizes the dirty joo is finished., w. H. BULB TIME In the mails now. to tell home just how deep, how far apart and what kind of soil, are pamphlets from favorite bulb dealers. Though the world marks lUnrr-V, when whole fields blossom with Inline anA daffodils, when yard borders are rnlnrH with the crocus, the narcissus and the iris, as bulb time, it is really only bloom time. uctober is bulb time. Snacinns hinc stacked and piled with brown, labeled and priced and tagged with five-color illustra tions ot lust what can be expected with care in a few months. October is the time when extra chanee goes into the earden bunVpt tn nru. funds to purchase tha t dozen Kinn AlfrA or Spring Glories, the Inglescomb Yellows or Grenadiers, so the backyard will be a little Holland in March. It is difficult to ber from March, through the summer and autumn, when flowers much mn.-o find,,. than a bobbing red tulip or a modest vcllow daffodil, bloom In their splendid nrftfucinn How hard it is to recall the list of favorites scribbled during the shower at the bulb farm when dahlias as big as dinner plates and zinnias the size of soup bowls are still break ing their stems by the kitchen window. But if March is to be blossom iim if there are to be forerunners in the garden to the violets and the lilacs, the cold hearing its season of rest, must be given its rows of bulbs. With the sprinkling of a few handsful of sand in the trench, careful .-mor. ing, just as the florist instructs in his little pamphlet with the pictures, and an eye kept on the cold weather, the tunnv s.-l i basemcnt, and the gopher trap. Holland in maren win he easy. W. H. IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG Suggestion is made to the U. S. should have two vice nrecirientc T stead of having little to do, they'll have twice as little to do. WAR SCENE PUGENE (To the Editor) The people of the U. S. have practically no conception of what terrible experiences the refugees of countriea in Europe are com pelled io eo tnrouffh. extent per haps from letters that manage to get through. One such letter from Bordeaux states that a man with his wife and seven children were trying to escape from the approaching Ger mans, and saw five of them killed by machine guns used by the Ger man aviators UDOn helnlesg men women and children. A trainloaH nf refupea. was bombed, a mother slain anH ban tn be left unburied, while the father ras comDelled to keen aroint with the rest of the family. No doubt thousands of such cases could be recounted. A Mr. and Mrs. Cormerwheat Americans, were in Paris whan the Germans wer ahnut in nf They had to have special permits to leave, and these must be ob tained five days in advance with photos attached. Thev stood in line two hours in order to eet their papers stamped. Thev arrived at the depot two hours ahead of time, and "what a scene." They wrote. Everybody seemed to be leaving r-ans. police were simply swamp ed trying to get the thousands of vehicles into some semblance nf irder. The station wac a ma r.f swarming humanity. Each one loaded down with all their belong ings wmch were portable. Several trains stood reariv tn take "refugees only," and here and mere were manv mnth-rc e,,r rounded by their children hold ing last to their precious baggage. Finally the trains started lnarf- ed to capacity, all liahts out nnri thick curtains covered Mia win. dows. At midnight the slow mov ing trains came to a halt. A signal had been hlown that airrraff overhead and had gone into action. "These were exciting moments would our train be hit?" wrote Mr. CoDDerwheat rSn had been there). "For an hour we remained stalled, then moved only two or three hundred yards at a time. The engine crew feared that the track had been destroyed ihead of them." (The strain unnn tha npvAE tu. sadness, the sorrow, the suffering, was indescribable. Mr. former-' wheat wrote). From En eland pnmM wnrd that ine laitmui norse is no longer em- pioyea m tne war now going on. janns, ana more tanks Is the cry. In Belgium, when th nr. mans overran that country, thous ands oi tanKs were employed. Army reports stated that so many dead Germans filled five feet high, that tanks had to pusn ngnt tnrough them irpianes sprinkled helpless citizens wnn machine mm hniutc not caring for the children. (Referring to the parachutist we heard about over here, the army reports states)- "ITsnailv a party of 12 and often more, armed with a small quick-firing gun. re volver, and a letter tn nm.n- likely to helD. Thev wer id in Finland bv Russia and adapted by the Germans with some success. 'Strange to relate." (the .urit.r goes on) "is that the parachutist is dressed sometim battle dress, sometimes in tver,,-:-, sometimes in Dutch, sometimes in women s dress, sometimes in pri vate dress but most peculiar of 11. sometimes in min(tta' clothes. Imagine seeinp a soldier with a rvnK- tM i.;..i dress. What could a dozen of these do? One of the most ungodlv. hateful and hypnc ritical usages pretending to be holy, YET FULL OF HATE." The late Vnodrn. w,w- (for a time at leant) "in t.i bed for keeping us out of war." (During the plertinn ,;... 1 But we know that his immortali zation was of short duration. Are we gome to make nursau.ac Ish believing that Roosevelt is go- . nn any Deutr than Wilson? It looks more and more as though ..i.i irri re going to be caught in the net of war. If General Sherman could have seen the "real thing in Belgium rraiu-e. Poland and v,i.j v.. wouldn't be able to find a word "m wouici describe what war is today." l et's not forget the "Blue Eagle" attempt to rob us of our blood bought liberty of 'T and 1812. Had it not been for the supreme court "killing the Rlue Eagle" ...in ureriy would already be inmg or the days BEFORE superman r DR rim im tatorial power. " H. W. HALL bottles, soup in cans, bedding, blankets, anything else you want, and sorry you have to use a can opener. Thev beheve in discouracing private business by taking away most o: me earnings oi me in dividual through income and ex cess profits tax. This is the same as if John Smith had gone to the granary of the thrifty and taken the Greater nart nf his mm and passed it out to keep John Smith in omce. how long would tnai man's ambition last? How can business men furnish jobs for the unemployed under such treat ment? . America's problem today is this: Families are cooped up in houses on small city lots, without access to the soil, and no job is furnished. It was our problem when Mr. Roosevelt took office and it still is. Subsistence home steads furnished a rich man's buildings on a poor man's farm, the occupant couldn't stand the pressure of interest payment so generally lost out. The U. S. A. can be likened to a gigantic farm when Mr. Roose velt took it over it was mort gaged. He has increased the mort gage to the limit to buy improve ments; whether needed or not. He has built monstrous irrigation projects to irrigate more land to raise more crops that aren't needed. One can borrow govern ment money today to put down an irrigation well even in the midwest where one must go two hundred feet for water while on the same farm the government is paving the owner tn let nart nf his ground lie idle to reduce the surplus crop. If some, one in Lane county has a farm to let out, with the same mortgage priviliges granted, to Mr. Roosevelt, I promise you a dandy joy ride as long as the money lasts. Bridges can be built, cams constructed, fountains made, even a few electric generators can be installed here and there over the place, a lot of help can be hired, and all will have a swell time until the limit of the bor rowing spree is reached. Then what? It wouldn't take a smart man to spend your money would it? Government in business nlart e bayonet at the citizen's back be cause all authority lies in the government. Remember it was Mr. Roosevelt who told the WPA: "You can't strike against the gov ernment." If WPA can't, then others can't; then where is our redress for grievances? W. W. WHEELER. HE CANT BOMB GOD In this world of strife and woe; Our men are killed, our children go, He who slaughters with a nod Does he think he can bomb God? Smaller nations he has taken, Larger nations he has shaken. Now he covets Liberty's sod. Does he think he can bomb God? This devil who the world would rule Will he realize he's naught but "fool"? While old Satan stands by to laud Will he try a Blitzkreig on God? "God Bless America," immortal song. Trust we in God we can't be wrong; Don't drag His teachings in the mud Remember this devil can't bomb God! No! By bur faith in Heaven. No! This devil, like the rest will go! The Lord will smite him with his rod. Because, by Heaven, he can't bomb God! ETHEL TRUEAX October 13, could do something decisive about a war? After all we have Nylon. MRS. MAUDE TURNBOW. Our boy has gone into service, On duty for old Uncle Sam We're lonesome without our lad die For nineteen is not quite a man Seem's like onlv yesterday he was my baby But now he has gone away To help defend his nation, because They say it has to be that way. For they sav the vounger the better Some how it doesn't seem right For the vouth of the nation to suffer And even die if called to fight. They will teach him how to murd er They call him a gunner first class A boy, who was always so gentle God! why has this come to pass? For I am the gunner's mother God, please watch out for the lad And keep him safe for us always Is the prayer of his mother and dad. "His Mom" I WANT TO BE A CAPTAIN I want to be a captain in the good old U. S. A. I want to be like "Elliott" with a rank and higher pay Three sixteen bucks per thirty davs. mv what I wouldn't do. I'l yell like "Hell" at all the rooks and bark out orders too With shiny boots, two spurs at tached and baggy pants all creased. A Sam Brown belt of leather made just out of "hock" re leased; I'd strut and swagger, through the camp, boy would I do my stuff. No flat-foot could every aay "there goes a new cream puff" Above my door in black and white these words "La Officier" I'd paint them big, I'd paint them Drigm, i a paint tnem nice and clear, And from my desk and swivel chair I'd serve my Uncle Sam u always am nn . . . to eat my beans N And when I'd hear 1 call, the call for 4nM I'd want to be lik. .nifr 'N lots of golden braid u 1 And as I'd pass in fuii my happy face a bej1 I want tn h. . r..Ma. WALLACE R. , orinS. Orej;. ARROW MESSENGER BUTTER-KRli THAT GOOD BREAB BAKED BY WHLIami BUILDING MATERUtT AT LOWER PRf8U Three years to for Home taprovenwn Mogcm Lumber Ce. 17K ' ci..v . At City Limits North PhowJ NYLON BOOSTrn U G E N E (To the Editor) If the United States govern ment economic authorities believe Japan could not survive a year if American purchases of silk were discontinued, isn't it up to the woman? It isn't very logical to wear Japanese silk hose, to furnish them with the monev tn turn around and wage war on us. isn t it one time the woman FRUIT S LOOM SHIRTS LMS Not only whta you itand lik this bul alio whta you itand naturally OIdfMliloBd sUrtc war cut quar across ilv and shoulder and na turally "bunehtd up" uadsr th armi and aerou lb beiom whta you drepptd your arms. - - FlGURIZED hlrlB, bacaus el tbtlr xcluilvs fheuldtt and - bourn construe Hon. nvr ba7. bunch- or balloon out of your vast tbT ro mart as a whip horn J I collar to Up. Extraordi- r nary valuat at 1 65 a I EXCLUSIVE. IN EUGENE AT PAUL D. GREEK'S I WE GIVE S & H GREEN TRADING STAMPS STORE FOR MEN 837 WILLAMETTE a the die- British coif club decides that V,,n bo lifted from a bomb cratrr u-iii,t .... i.l. of a strokr, which is thf onlv thing thr duffor thanks Adolf for. Adolf Picks Ilcrm Uocrmg as the world's No. 1 man. What that docs to the rest of the scale makes it pretty tough on a lot of people in this world. of ; enjoy j labor. Demand for money places V. S mint on a even-day week. As if there hasn't alwavs peen a demand for money. The map of Europe is likely t,, continue changing unhl somebody gels around to dunging Hitler'. WANTS JOHV SMrru n-T gTRINGFlELD (To the Editorl WHm t.l. r- ., .... ...... ,. .-Mm in lam down the ruling necessary for the sur vival of Jamestown vu: "He that i n" work shall not eat " he i lid a foundation of individual j ism wherein each man or family ; "uia oe sate in possession property and each could ."'I the fruits of his own .uui,, aoousnect the "com mon storehoue" and as laid do vn by John Smith has been one ba,c law of our land which haj m.ide America famous. 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