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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER - GUARD ' : i AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (PublUha Evr Bvanlas and Sunday) DTTOH AWD PUBUSHD .... - - Alton SlANAOINO EDITOR William M. Tinman Krwfl MBViSb - - Aaaociatad Preu. Unltad Prata MEMBER - ...... Audit Bureau of Circulation! Cntararl at ba Post Offlca at JEufcna. Oragon. aa aacond alaaa ir-atur. Tha Raa1atar4luard sailer la tha eornplata and Impartial publication la lu nm paiaa of all nawi and atatamanta aa nam. On UiU pa(a tha adltora o( Tha Raflitar-Guard adfar their opinlona on aventa of tha day and mattera of tmportanea to tha community, endaavorlni to ba candid but fall ard helpful la tha development of conjunctiva oomreunlty policy JOHN L. LEWIS KEEPS HIS WORD It will be remembered of John L. Lewis, the pugnacious head of the CIO that he kept his word. We believe that even his bitterest enemies will admit that his long and singularly successful career as a labor leader was marked by faithfulness to his word. After supporting Franklin Delano Roose velt through two presidential campaigns, Mr. Lewis tried to swing the votes of his vast organization to Wendell Willkie. Dramatic ally he said he would resign as head of the CIO, if the votes failed to follow him. They didn't. He did. Maybe the incident will give a little in sight into the difficulties between Mr. Roose velt and Mr. Lewis. Mr. Lewis is a very rough, tough man. He came up out of the coal mines fighting. In some ways his'code of ethics is not at all what it should be. Neither are his manners those of a gentle man; When Mr. Lewis put $500,000 of his Mine Workers Union money behind Mr. Roose velt he expected certain very definite re turnsto wit scalps of his AFL competitors. He didn't get them. Mr. Lewis is a bitter and an unforgiving man. True, it looked for a time as though Mr. Lewis' CIO was getting all the New Deal favors. There was a time when the AFL leaders cried bitterly against the partizanship of the administration. But Mr. Roosevelt balanced carefully between extremes. When, during the last, campaign Mr. Roosevelt favored Mr. Dan Tobin's team eters with his presence, Mr. Lewis knew he had got all he was going ,to get of Roose veltian favors. It is a sad story, this story of the feud In organized labor. The worst sufferers are the paying members of organized labor and all the unorganized millions who are penal ized by the endless industrial wars. . It is probably a good thing for the coun try that Mr. Lewis has abdicated (though he will be heard from, and plenty, later). It might be an excellent idea if AFL's William Green would also step aside. It would be very helpful if labor had the benefit of real leaders instead of inflated "king makers." In these times of national emergency it is a good thing for President Roosevelt to call upon both factions in labor to lay aside their feuds, but the greatest barrier to labor har mony is the knowledge that most of labor's troubles were Roosevelt-made. As political expediency dictated he has played both ends against the middle and the two factions against each other. It will require considerable patience and patriotism to repair the havoc which politics has made. The starting point would seem to be in Mr. Roosevelt's department of labor the re placement of the unfortunate Madame Per kins by some fair-minded, forceful realist who has a high sense of public responsibility and no illusions about either side. Labor should not seek to run government, but neither should government seek to tun labor. Progress will come once that fact is recognized. A DAY FOR THANKSGIVING It really matters little whether we cele brate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thurs day in the month of November, as estab lished by Abraham Lincoln (till his time it had been mainly a New England holiday) or on the third Thursday, as decreed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Different. We believe the spirit of Thanksgiving Day, as an American institution is portrayed in those pictures of the Pilgrims, marching to church, gun in hand, thankful for survival, thankful for the chance to fight on for those ideals which had brought them to a hostile land. Today most of us take too much for granted. Having known so little of the wars and oppressions and depressions in other lands, we expect happiness to come to us without a struggle because it was mentioned in the Declaration. It might be well to recall that it was "pursuit of happiness" which was mentioned, and only the right to pursue was guaranteed. We expect safety nd security; if we don't find it, seldom is It our fault; it is the fault of the "system." It might be well to recall that these blessings require struggle whether the "system" by svhlch they arrive is "collective" or "Indi vidual." , f We like the pictures of "The First Thanks giving' which show us dignified Puritans in prim broadcloth, but we like better those cartoons which show them, as they probably were somewhat tattered and shaggy after the first year on the hard frontier. Our American tradition, were not carried across the Atlantic in the hold of the Mayflower, like some of the old furniture. They were made by men and women after they "got here." Men and women left the1 Old World and came .to the New World seeking first of all religious freedom. Under the primitive con ditions of the colonies, freedom began to take on a much broader definition. Pioneer ing does damage to old notions of rank and privilege. It elevates new standards of hu man merit and value. We have an idea that the New Englanders who held the first Thanksgiving were grateful for much more than their little measure of comfort and safety; they had discovered themselves in the mastering of new country. They had learned the pride of self-government which was to result in the republic. We have passed through hard times and we are facing a wilderness of troubles. Per haps we should give thanks that thus far we have escaped actual war. Perhaps we should give thanks that we most of us still have enough to eat and those many com forts which we call the American standard of living. Perhaps we should give thanks that our experiment in democracy has sur vived as long as it has in spite of us. Our choice would be to give thanks for our troubles.' We were growing smug, in different, lazy. The Puritans gave thanks for a harvest and for the courage which they had found to face the future. They left us an idea, an ideal, nothing more. A Coldwater, Mich., stockbuyer was trampled by a bull. And all he wanted to do was send the animal to the slaughter house. Driving an old car has its good points. You don't have to worry about the paint job on a new one. Greeks reported encircling 15,000 Italians -indicating they're fighting rings around If you think of yourself alone that's likely how people will leave you. WASHINGTON LETTER tumuii fait e ... ...Atr anniiniux under n hntterv nf lights at Grand Coulee dam in Washington, where' the mighty structure is rapidly being rushed to completion. By the end jL at! aV ...111 ...cilckln fritm 4wA 1 A ftftA.lr IftWA H VlftllCA HTlitjB- OI in 15 year me urai puwer win ue ovauauic w ,...w..... . 0 0()o 0 4 ft Siskiyou Highway Project Seen As Boon to Privets By JOHN W. KELLY Register-Guard Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 21 Groundwork is being laid to pressure congress early next year to repeal the "cash and carry" neutrality act; purpose being to let the British have war supplies "on the cuft" and ship the material in American freighters convoyed by warships of the United States navy. In short, the plan on which senators and representa tives of Oregon and Washington will have to vote one way or the other means casting aside any pre tense of neutrality. Lord Lothian, British ambassador, gave the tip off when he made a radio recording for the Amer ican people asking for "planes, finances and ships." Colonel Frank Knox, Republican secretary of the navy (he was a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan hill) says "we are going to give Great Britain everything we can short of leaving our selves defenseless." Observe that Knox does not say "short of war." Like Secretary Knox, the sec retary of war, Henry L. Stimson, Republican, favors tossing the cash and carry policy out the window, a a a British propaganda agents (the woods are full of them) and certain officials in the administration are working to have congress repeal the Johnson Act. This prohibits credits being extended to coun tries which have not paid their world war No. 1 debts to the United States. British are saying they will soon run out of cash to purchase munitions and that if they are to continue as the first line defense for the United States they must be given supplies on tick, or else they will have nothing with which to fight off the Germans. If the British can put this Idea across on senators and representatives in the new congress the next step will be to have the government turn over to England some of the destroyers now being con structed in the yards at Seattle and San Francisco and not expect repayment for flying fortress bomb ers, fighting planes, tanks and ammunition. Ameri can taxpayers would carry the load as they did in the first world war. Naturally, for the time being, the complete pro gram is not publicised. The initial steps are calling attention to England's "poor mouth" and the im portance of giving the British all a d in order to save Uncle Sam's own skin. a a Decreasing merchant tonnage is becoming grave and is cutting down the transportation of supplies to the British Isles. The cash and carry law pro hibits American flag ships from carrying munitions (nnrt that includes everything from a can of salmon to TNT), which is another argument for repealing the so-called neutrality act So anxioui are the British to acquire ships thnt they are not choosey they are to purchase 13 tubs built in the first world war, from the United States maritime commission, "as is and where is" laid-up ships which the commission refused to dispose of when a delegation of shipper? from Oregon and Washington appealed for them about a year ago. Once the American vessels are available for carrying munitions, the public can look for assign ment of American warships to provide them pro tection across the waters of the AUantic. a a a These consecutive pictures will unfold In the months ahead and the halls of congress will re sound with argument for repeal of the Johnson Act (Its author, Hiram Johnson of California has been re-elected and will defend it) and the cash and carry provision of the neutrality act When the cash and carry was substituted for the embargo neutrality act prediction was made on the senate floor that Britain would fenagle to cir cumvent cash and carry and once again talk the United States into holding the bag. The fenagling Is now in process. a It will be news to the lumber industry of the Pacific northwest to hear that because of the scar city and high price of lumber only a limited number of benches can be built to seat the inauguration crowd on January 20. . . . Population of the United States is 130,000,000; number on the govern ment payroll (exclusive of army and navy) 1.053, 586. as of 60 days ago. Of these 75 out of 100 have permanent government Jobs: government pay. roll In the national capital for September was $25, 201,714 for 145,572 workers. . . . Federal Re serve will station a man in each reserve bank and branch to handle defense financial problems of sub contractors. . . . Lieut. Colonel Arthur B. Mc Damel, now In the office of the chief of the air corps here has been ordered to the new air base to be established at Spokane. Lthroueh all the noise that around us. He says, "Be still and know that I am God Rome sav. "If God rules whv all this trouble in the world?" Completion of and opening of the new, modern section of trie Pacific highway. (U, S. 99) over the Siskiyou mountains of south ern Oregon and northern Califor nia is receiving wide national pub licity this week as the result oi a detailed release announcement sent out by the travel and information department of the Oregon btate highway commission to more than 500 motor club headquarters-and branches, other travel bureaus and automobile departments of news papers of the western half of the United States. It is expected that the rebuilding on modern standards of the Siskiyou mountain stretch of this major mirth and south highway will have definite effect in increasing traffic over the route. Following is the news story re lease sent out from the state high way department to newspapers, motor clubs, travel bureaus and other organizations concerned in the routing of travel; "Folk, not only from Oregon and California, but from more distant regions who have occasion to travel the Pacific highway over the Siskiyou mountains ot north ern Calilornia and southern Ore gon will have a pleasant surprise on their future tilps. The more than a score of winding, twisting miles that once carried the travel er over the summit of the Siski yous are gone. A few days ago when the California highway de partment completed oiling of its stretch just south of the Oregon line, the state highway department of Oregon threw open its last con necting link, approximately two miles, which has been completed for a considerable time and only awaited the finishing touches on the California side. "Approximately $2,000,000 has been spent by the Oregon state highway department in the past five years in realigning and mod ernizing the route over the Oregon side of the mountains. From Green Springs junction just south of Ash land to the California line the old route was 20.8 miles long. The new, easy grade, wide, modern highway devoid of sharp curves cuts off more than four miles. It is 16.1 miles long. Approximately six miles of the new route on the Oregon side was opened this year, the balance having been com pleted at intervals since 1936. "The new highway over the Siskiyou mountains not only will make for easier and safer driving generally, but will be of particular vaiue in ume of winter snows when sharp curves and steep grades increase hazards, it Is point ed out by the travel and informa tion department of the Oregon state highway commission. The new route will be easily cleared of snow. Engineers estimate that it will save motorists an average oi approximately 30 minutes in driv ing time over the Oregon section of the Siskiyou mountains. "Dedication ceremonies and formal opening of the new high way section are being planned under the auspices of the Ashland chamber of commerce the after noon of Tuesday, November 26, at the Oregon-California line. Mem bers of the highway commissions of California and Oregon and rep resentatives of 12 counties between Eugene and Redding, California will be present. "Another major improvement of the Pacific highway was author ized by the Oregon state highway commission at its November meet ing when it let a contract for grad ing of nearly two miles of new route over Sexton mountain north of Grants Pass. The sum of $236, 390 has been allocated for this work which will eliminate a large number of curves and give a mod ern grade. . . j Mailbag AMERICA'S FUTURE QOTTAGE GROVE (To The Editor) We see and hear so much these days of politics that we hope to never be a politician when we see the strain that all are going through. So I am not writing for either side. . They all Dave my sincerest sympathy. mere is great comfort in the knowledge that God still reigns and all this babble and confusion is not of Him. It is only when we "dwell in the secret place of the Most High," that we can "abide under the shadow of the Al mighty." God is not the author of confusion but of peace. When we turn to the Bible, which is the source of all true wisdom, we are sure to find com fort and peace of mind. We can be sure that God speaks through its pages and if we listen closely we can hear Him speak to us establish a living connection with Omnipotence." "To be a Christian is to be lib. Christ In all His contacts with human beings He did unto each ot them as He would that th hni,M do to Him. Which nation today can claim to have been Christ like all through the years? "The keeping, of His Command ments (Exodus 20:3-17) wnnlri completely revolutionize the world over night. It would stop all war, destroy all animosty. feed the hun gry, ciome me nanea, and bring us happiness such as we have never known. Thoan nrhn ,,,. a vital connection with God need hive no fear from the hand of the destroyer." tioa snu rules, will we let Him rule our hearts? What of our be loved America the land ot the fre and tha hnrna nf tVi V...9 t wish It were possible to quote in iuu xrom an article I read recent ly entitled, "America's Amazing Future." But the writer shnuwi very clearly and gives proof for mi naiemenr, inai tne United States of America la rani it W mow ing to the leading role among the nations. In the San Francisco Chronicle of September 11 is this statement. "This suggestion (that America might run away with the prize of worm nonunion; nas now appear ed several tlmea in fnrAlim papers. Japanese newspapers have also expressed the conjiction that ?ituaoniijrrj '"uon to launch iu2,id There mirt. Tr" Us!? some, it i, tSl more definitely "" mgh -'"wa I" ' en. Cannnt t. ""che. the TLlV ny. one would h,TLl having the fuUZ?iJ i refer to I ahailtl'l? uul "large. """ PLAIN ft. GARMPvto i. . If Est Side ClirJ PhflH lie . - U Three jreui. J? for Home taproTtw 17m n bi-V" AtCltyLtaltoNortt jStl "Why are not all these prayers for peace answered?" .In an ar ticle entitled, "Why doesn't God answer," that able and interest ing writer, Murl Vance says, "The answer is not hard to find for any one who searches the scriptures. God has plainly set forth in His word the conditions upon which He will answer prayer. The na tion or individual who does not meet these conditions cannot ex pect God's favor in the day of trouble. He has definitely de clared that He will not manifest it says God, "Because I have called and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regard ed; but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh, and when your destruction cometh as a whirl wind; when distress and anguish come upon you. Then shall they call and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; for that they hated knowledge, and did' not choose the fear of the Lord; they would have none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof. There fore shall they eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turn ing away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from the fear of evil." Proverbs 1:24-33. "This does not mean that these nations are any worse than other nations that have so far escaped calamity. They are nominally Christian nations. But it takes more than nominal Christianity to CHRISTMAS CARDS Don't wait till later on when selections will be depleted and you'll be rushed for time yourself. 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ECONOMY SHOE STORE 1032 WILLAMETTE A Statement To Music Lovers From The Mutual Broadcasting System What a third network could mean to Ameri can listeners and to Independent radio sta tions has never been more clearly Illustrated than In the announcement of the Mutual Broadcasting System that this station-operated network will bring to the listening audi ences of the United States and Canada, and to the rest of the world by short wave, the regular Friday afternoon concerts of the Phila delphia Orchestra under the batons of Leo pold Stokowskl and Eugene Ormandy. The Mutual program schedule will be further dis tinguished this year by the regular Monday ieventng broadcasts of the Chicago Opera Company, which will bring to the air a bril liant roster of artists, among them Lily Pons, John Charles Thomas, Giovanni Martinelli, Tito Schlpa and Helen Jepson, and by the presentation on Thursday evenings of the Standard Symphony. We are particularly proud to announce these programs at a time when culture Is so largely the responsibility of radio. These programs may be heard locally over KORE at the following times: Standard Symphony, Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock; Philadelphia Symphony, Friday at temoons at 12:15, Chicago Opera, Monday nights at 11.
