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obUeatlea la 1U nawa pales et all news and statements
en ami On thU pafe the editor of Tba Reglster-Ouard
offer their opinions on events at tba day and matters ot
' lmMvtna to the ftnmmunlty. endeavorln to be eandtd
but tan- and helpful te tba development of eonxtructiv
community policy.
WELL, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF 'EM?
It may have come to your notice that on
Tuesday there was an amazing contrast in
Viearflinps in this and everv other daily paper
carrying AP or UP wire news. Let's pass
over the familiar Register-Guard and con
sider the excellent Oregon (Portland) Journ
al which blazoned:
T. B. EXPECTS LONG WAR
SURVEY OF NEEDS PLANNED
LINCOLN'S REMARK RECALLED"
"ARMY SLASH
AT 14-MONTH
MARK SLATED"
The same President Roosevelt who on
Saturday me ashore from his visit with
' OliiwnUi11 ri I 'tVafucAl rt env urA urora near.
er war" was on Tuesday quoting Abraham
Lincoln's famous admonition in the second
year of the Civil War:
"The fact Is the people have not yet made
up their minds that we are at war with the
South. They have not buckled down to the
determination to fight this war through."
And when one of the hundred or more
puzzled Washington correspondents asked
, Mr. Kooseveu ior a aireci quote on ine
situation, Mr. Roosevelt authorized:
"I would say: 'President quotes Lincoln
and draws parallel.'"
It was in mind at first to make, the bitter
comment that President Roosevelt was m-
voking the dead Lincoln to tell the people
nf trio TTniterl States thn truth. Ws withdraw
; that ugly jest. The situation is too danger
ous for any jest.
If the prospect is as dark as stated by
Mr. Roosevelt at midweek this is no time to
teers and draftees to believe they may soon
return to normal civilian life. There may
be some hope that Mr. Roosei'elt may yet
ua BUtucu Mic uutjr ui aajruig man iio juu-
Russia), but Mr. Roosevelt seems to have
little faith in his own formula for he quotes
also Lincoln's memorable remark (on Mc-
Clellan's f uttering) that "no war ever was
' won bv strategy." .
: ine army is coniusea. rne people are
' uMU0bu Aup nrc .u hsw0cvsv uvea
not see clearly the consequences of contra
dictory acts. We lavish billions upon our
brave Allies. The latest move is to admit
ine xiussian Dear vu me jampots.
;' It is not in character for the American
Tipnnle to spplr wars, hut npithpr i it in phar.
acter lor us to Aire or DriDe others to fight
' our fights. One thing the people know, Mr.
ri 1 1 . ii i 1 i .
SEASON OF COUNTY FAIRS
This the season of county fairs. Southern
. Lane leads the way this weekend with the
annual exhibition at Cottage Grove. West
Lane and the Blachly district will follow
suit Then comes the big state fair begin
ning September 1, and finally the big four
day Lane county fair beginning September
17.
Even though there is weather risk so
late in September, it is probably fortunate
that the Lane county fair is one of the last
on schedule. These district fairs in Lane
county serve a real purpose. This is a very
large county as large as the whole state
of New Jersey. Far from impairing the in
terest in the county fair the district fairs
build up interest.
What is needed to make our fairs a com
plete success is more understanding and co
operation on the part of the city folk. Since
Pomona Grange accomplished the impossible
by reviving fairs a few years back it has
been no trick at all to get farmer participa
tion. The lame end of the fair nowadays is
in the commercial and industrial exhibits.
To be sure, there are a few faithful com
mercial and industrial exhibitors who can
always be depended on for a showing, but
the problem is to enlist representative
groups so that the fair becomes an effective
display of every major activity in commu
nity life.
If we might make a suggestion to Fair
Manager Fred Knox it is that Lane county's
economy falls into these principal headings:
1. Agriculture in all its branches.
2. Mercantile which includes Increasing
wholesale distribution.
3. Manufacture lumber, plywood, can
nery head this list.
4. Transport this year air transport is
added to rail and highway facilities.
5. Education.
Why not try enlisting exhibits under
these main headings? The purpose of a fair,
we believe, is to find out what the other fel
low grows or makes.
Mr. Ickes says gas rationing for Oregon
may.be postponed. Now the Old Man says
that if Mr. Ickes can just fix it for about
the opening of college, he may have something.
Headline tells us Rufus Holman is con
ducting hearing in Southern Oregon, but if
we know Rufus Southern Oregon is hear
ing Holman.
Headline writer back East gets prize for
"banner" billing Nazi-Russ war as "Liars'
Contest" but for us the cleverest combina
tion of the year will be our Bill Moore's:
"Man Tries to Extort Money From Mayor
Large; Judged Insane."
Folks who are satisfied to sit around and
wait for something to turn up usually get
turned down.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
HIGH COST OF SPEED
(The Klamath Herald)'
With gasoline shortages in the news and cash
economy becoming important to everyone, motor
ists may show more Interest now than in the past
in the savings in gas and cash which may be
effected through more moderate driving speeds.
One way to hedge against the high cost of
motoring is to watch the speedometer. Speed is
expensive, because it consumes more gasoline,
wears out more tires, increases the danger ot acci
dents. The Travelers Insurance company has prepared
a chart which should be ot Interest to Klamath
motorists in this connection. This table is based
on a 1000-mile journey. Average car, average
roads, average driver. It is worth studying.
Miles Per Hour
25 35 45 55 65
Mi Pr Hr Mi Pr Hr Mi Pr Hr Ml Pr Hr Ml Pr Hr
Oil
Qt. 1 Qt. 14 Qt. 8 Qts. 4V4 Qts.
13c 25c 43c 75c $1.13.
Gasoline
50 Gals. 55 Gals. .60 Gals. 69 Gals. 80 Gals.
$8.75 $8.63 $10.50 $12.08 $14.00
Tires
$1.50 $3.00 $4.50 $7.50 $10.50
Maintenance
$4.00 $5.00 $6.60 $10.00 $13.00
Total Cost
$14.38 $17.88
Cost Per Mile
1.44c 1.79c
$22.03 $30.33 $38.63
2.2c
3.03c
3.88c
It Is clear from this chart that the man who drives
at moderate speeds is saving himself money, saving
gas and rubber for national defense, and assuring
himself and others more safety on the highways.
It's time to take It easy in the car.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By PAUL DUNHAM
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 21. Within a brief
time the conservation program will bo out the win'
dow head first. Soil conservation, which has been
lire saver ior several counues in the Pacific north'
west, through the checks, will be a thing of the
past The idea of prosperity through scarcity is to
be abandoned. From now on the policy will be to
produce, produce ana produce.
This new program will be directed at the farm'
ers of the northwest and it will completely upset
the plans which have been in operation for the past
eignt years. Henceforth the united states is to be
the feed-bag of democracy as well as the arsenal
of democracy. Not again will a slaughter of little
pigs be decreed, nor a curtailment ot any other
production. What the administration is striving
for is more food; more livestock, vegetables, fruit,
milk, cheese and dairy products. In brief, the ad
ministration will urge every farmer to get busy
and raise all he can.
It will' be the business of the farmers of the
United States to produce enough for our own army
and for the armies of Great Britain and Soviet
Russia, and any other nation which may line up
with tne policies or. president Roosevelt ana- wins
ton Churchill as devised at their conference on the
British battleship Prince of Wales. This, In itself,
is a large order, but administration leaders are cer
tain it can be filled, it the farmers are given time.
There is, as everyone knows, a food shortage in
Britain and part of the lend-lease program is to
supply foodstuffs as well as airplanes, anti-aircraft
guns, tanks and the miscellaneous weapons ot war
in a mechanized age.
In addition to Britain, there are commitments
to China, to Greece, to Soviet Russia, although the
Soviets are an agricultural nation. Primarily, the
soldiers must be fed, then the civilian population.
This is the outline now under consideration. Later,
when the war ends, the United States will have to
feed the millions of peoples of other lands who
have been rescued from Herr Hitler's legions, and
this will impose a still further burden on the Amer
ican farmer.
Unless, of course, there is some price fixing
regulation the cost of farm products will soar,
both in this country and abroad. The picture has
changed since that memorable meeting of the Brit
ish Prime minister and the president. To meet the
needs of feeding most of the world, the farmers
will be encouraged to cultivate every acre they
can and speed up production. The secretary of
agriculture, Claude Wlckard, urged dairymen of
Oregon and Washington to increase their herds
several months ago. Pointedly he asked that they
furnish more milk; urged cheese factories (of
which there are excellent ones in the two north
west states) to operate day and night; proposed
that the poultrymen increase production of eggs.
Much of this advice and suggestion has been fol
lowed by the dairymen, but what Secretary Wlck
ard requested was insignificant as compared to the
quantities that will be needed. While there is no
large number of hogs in the northwest, there has
been a notable addition. Cattlemen are now mak
ing money; sheepmen are thriving.
Truck gardeners growing tomatoes, potatoes,
carrots, peas and beans ire to be informed that the
war demands require mora than present yields.
These vegetables will be canned and dispatched
to the army and navy of the United States and
Britain. Too many tomatoes can not be raised;
there is a market at the canneries for every bushel
ot these vitamin-bearing vegetables.
While the "ever normal granary" of Vice Presi
dent Wallace (advocated when he was secretary
of agriculture) will be maintained, it will be the
objective to accumulate vast stores of surplus
food. This accumulation Is to be distributed in the
rescued countries when they are salvaged and
while they are endeavoring to get back on their
feet. This task will be monumental and is unpar
alleled in the history of the United States, and to
accomplish it all restrictions on crops, much of the
soil conservation program and federal regulations
must be either revised or abandoned, at least "for
the duration."
Little fanfare has been made over the change
In policy, but the men who are doing the planning
wish to have all the details worked out before the
publlo Is Informed of the program. Naturally, the
farmers wish to produce more than their present
allotment and probably will welcome the change.
With the exception of tobacco and cotton, the pro
gram will apply to farmers of the northwest, as
they grow almost everything that will be so badly
needed,
Thursday Radio
KOAO Camilla- Klleeyelss
8:00 p. m. Music, Masterworks, Vacat
5:15 Eye Openers
5:30 Musle. Instrumental
8:4S Veapertlde
8:00 Dinner Concert
8:18 News
8:30 Farm Hour
T:15 Oregon Farmers Union
6:45 Weather, Marketa
7:50 Music, Solo Instrumental
B:15 Music. Vocal Duet
8:00 Forestera In Action
8:30 Oregon on Parade
8:00 Oregon Caves
8:30 Music. Mesterworks. Orch.
KOIN Pertlan 818 Klleeyelss
(CBS Nstwork)
5:00 p. m Major Bowes
:0o-GIenn MUler
6:15 Prof. Quli
6:45 Leon F. Drews. Oigan
7:00 Amos, 'n' Anriv
7:15 Lanny Rots
7:30-Maudle's Diary '
8:00 Smarty Party
8:30 Death Valley Days
0:00 Paul Sullivan, News
8:18 Shell Party
"8:45 Dick Jurgen Oreh. ,
8:55 Rhythmic String!
10:00 Five Star Final
io:ic Midget Auto - luces
10:30 State TraHie
10:45 Defense Today
ll:00-Ken Stevens 1
11:30 Manny Strand Orch.
11:55 News
ROW Portland SS8 miearals "
(KBO Bad Nstwerk)
8:00 p. m. Kraft Musle Hall
6:00 Cugat Rhumba Revue
6:30 Quiz of Two Cities
7:00 Pleasure Time
7:15 Lum and Abner
7:30 The Housewarmtntf
8:00 The Aldrlch Family i
8:30 Tommy Rlggs and Batty Lett '
8:00 Fathful Stradivari ,
8:18 Good Neighbors
8:45 Musical Interlude '
8:50 Your Home Town News
10:00 News Flashes
10:30 Ed Stocker Orch,
10:15 Palladium Ballroom Oreh.
11:00 Blltmore Orch.
11:30 Florentine Gardens Oreh.
.7:00 Western Agriculture
11:55 News Bulletins
XEX Portland 1488 Kllosyeles
(NBC Bed Netwerk)
8:00 p. m, Grant Park Concert
5:30 Drama Behind tha Newa
8:55 The Nickel Man
5:45 Ted Steele Orch.
6:00 Rudy Vallee Show
6:30 Organ Musings
6:45 News Headlines and Highlights
7:00 New Yorker Hotel Orch.
7:30 Clark Dannls, Tenor
7:45 What Can I Do7
8:00 Easy Aces
8:15 Oregon state Golf Interview
8:30 Portland Baseball Game
10:30 Bal Tabarln Orch.
10:15 Dance Hour
11:00 This' Moving World
11:15 Portland Police Reports
11:18 Bill Sabransky, Orgonist
11:80 News Roundup
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Friday Radio
KOBE Engene 1488 KUoeyelea
(Mutual-Don Lee Netwerk)
6:00 a. m. News
6:15 Early Bird
7:00 News
7:15 Evangelical Church
7:30 Morning Varieties
7:45 Morning Devotional
8:00 Haven of Rest
8:30 News
8:45 Morning Interlude With Musle
8:55 News
8:00 John B. Hughes
8:15 Helen Holden
8:30 Front Page Farrell
8:45 ru Find My Way
10:00 News
10:15 Morning Varieties
10:45 Grocery Grab Bag
11:0(1 Mm mtA
11:15 Eddie Bush's Hawailans
ic?p -runes, of tne Day
11:45 Muse and Musto
IS'i; J- m. What Lane county Thinks
i.;-vonnBon ramuy
12:45 Refreshment . Time, Sinful' Sam
1:00 Singing Strings
1:15 Confessions of tha Corsair
1:30 Tango Time
1:45 At Your Command 1
2:15 As the Twig Is Bent
2:30 At Your Command
3:00 News
3:15 Here's Morgan
SI30 Stanley Kenton Orch.
4:00 Studies In Black and Whit
4:16 Ma Perkins
4:30 Musical Matinee
4:45 On Parade
5:00 p. m. Front Pag Drama
5:15 Senator Joseph Gufea
5:30 News
5:45 Muslo for You
6:00 Raymond Gram Swing
6:15 Dinner Dance
6:30 News
6:45 Musical Interlude
6:50 Howard and, Shelton
7:15 Fishing News
7:00 Hits of the Day
7:30 Lone Ranger
:oo-serenaae In Waltltime
8:15 Tango Tim
8:33 BBC News
8:35 Marvin Dale's Orch.
8:45 Dick Jurgen Orch.
8:00 News
8:15 Ernie Heckscher Orch.
8:30-JVsnk Blair
8:45 Jimmy Joy Orch.
10:00 Jim Lawson's Lumberjack
10:30 News
10:45 Stanley Kenton Orch.
11:00 Charlie Barnett Oreh.
11:30 Ted Flo Rlto Oach.
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13:13 Night Owl Bandwagon
10.00 a. m. Weather. Today's Programs
iu.w new,
1 n-1 Wibiji.i.j tt
11:X Tragedy of Wutherinf Height
must ana vrcn.
12:00 News
12:15 p. m. Farm Hour
12:30 MftrVt nrmm W..IV
12:45 Pest Control
1:00 Music. Masterworks, Plana
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SPIRIT OF SOMETHING Ribbons of paper made up to
resemble seaweed blow prettily across Nancy Bnnckman,
beauty contest entrant who is you guessed it the. 'Spirit of
Mardi Gras" for a four-day beach fete at Venice, Cal.
8:00 p. m. Eyes of the World
6:15 Studio
8:30 Hollywood Premiers
6:00 Penthouse Perty
6:30 School of Air Conference
6:45 News of the World
7:00 Amoe n Anay
7:15 Lanny Roes
8:30-Jlmmle Fuller
8:00 Claudia and David
7:30 Great Momenta
8:45 H. M. S. Pinafore
8:00 Leon F. Drews, Organ -8:15
Red Nichols Orch.
8:30 Bill Henry
:45 FUhlns Bulletin
10:00 Five Star Final
10:15 Hal Grayson Orch.
10:30 Jantsen Beach Orch.
11:00 Ken Stevens
11:30 Manny strand Oreh.
"iNews, M
kuv ronisDn ev nueeyeiss
(NBO Bed Network)
6:00 a. m. Sunrise Serenade
6:30 The Early Bards
A:R5 Handy Dan
7:00 Newa Headlines and Highlights
I i id aiuNU ui .aime
7:45 David Harum
6:00 Sam Hayes
6:15 Stars of Today
6:45 Arthur Godfrey
8:00 Benny Walker' Kitchen
8:15 Bess Johnson
8:30 Ellen Randolph
0:15 Dr. Kata
10:00 Light of tha World
10:15 The Mystery Man
10:30 Valiant Lady
10:45 Arnold Grimm's Daughter
11:00 Against tha Storm
11:15 Ma Perkins
11:30 The Guiding Light
11:45 vie and sane
12:00 Backstage Wife
12:15 p. m. Stella Delia
12:30 Lorenzo Jones
12:45 Young Widder Brown
1:00 Home or tne srav
1:15 Portia Faces Life
1:30 We, the Abbotts
1:45 Story of Mary Marlln
3:00 Pepper Young's Family
2:15 Lone Journey
2:30 Strictly From Dixie
2:46 News
3:0O Blltmore Orch.
8:15 News of the World
3:30 Hollywood News
3:45 News of Frank Bingham
4:00 Stars of Today.
4:30 Organ Concert
4:46 Cocktail Hour
KEX Portland 1408 Kilocycles
(NBO Blue Netwerk)
8:00 a. m. Tha Quack of Dawn
7:00 Western Agriculture
7:15 Breakfast Club
8:00 Amen Corner Program
8:30 Farm and Home
8:15 Between Bookends
8:30 Democracy's Spiritual Def.
8:45 Musical Interlude
8:50 What's News
10:00 News
10:15 Art Baker's Notebook
10:30 Hollywood Headllners
10:35 Tony Pastor Orch.
10:45 Charmingly We Live
11:00 Orphans of Divorce
11:15 Amanda ot Honeymoon Hill
ll:30-John's Other Wife
ll:45-Just Plain B1U
12:00 Xavier Cugat Orch. .
12:15 p. m. Your Livestock Reporter
12:30 News Headlines and Highlights
12:45 Market Reports
12:50-Household Hint
12:55 News
1:00 Richard Brooks
1:15 Women' World
1:30 Charles Dant's Muslo
1:45 Curbstone Quiz
2:0O-JThe Quiet Hour
2:30 Lost and Found Items
2:33 Rose City Calendar
a:45 Wings on Watch
l!lS Variety Half Hour
1:45 Music. Masterworks. Violin
2:00 Seeing the Americas
2:15 Music. Variety
2:45 Monitor Views the News
8:00 Music, Muslcale, Instrument
3:15 Trafflo Safety Quiz
3:30 Music, Negro Spirituals
3:45 News
4:00 Artists In Recital
4:30 Stories for Boys and Girls
5:00 p. m. Music. Concert Piano
8:15 Afternoon Review
5:30 Music, Gilbert and Sullivan
5:45 Vespertlde
6:00 Weather Forecast
6:15 Newa
8:30 Farm Hour
8:45 Marketa
7:00 Weather
7:15 OSC Horticultural Dept.
7:30 Great Symphonies
8:30 Oregon on Parade
8:00 Springfield Community
8:30 Music, Masterworks, Orch.
KOIN Portland 870 Kilocycles
(CBS Network)
5:30 a. m.Early Worm
6:00 Northwest Farm Reporter
6:15 Breakfast Bulletin
6:02 KOIN Klock
7:00 Treat Time
7:15 Headllners
7:30 Bob Garred Reporting
7:45 Consumer News
8:00-Kate Smith Speaks
8:15 When a Girl Marries
8:30 Romance of Helen Trent
8:45 Our Gal Sunday
8:00 Life Can Be Beautiful
8:15 Woman In White
8:30 Right to Happiness
8:45 Gems of Melody
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Listen to the Standard Sym.
phony Orcheitra under the
baton of the distinguiihad
conductor) Werner Jantien,
in s full hour et the world's
finest music. '
STANDARD
SYMPHONY HOUR
:M.t:00 P. M. Vitnttf
gpringfield ""heater
Ellen Drew snd Robert P&lgo In
"THE MONSTER AND THE GIRL"
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Grent Mitchell and John Lltel in
"FATHER 13 A PRINCE'
SerUIt "Whits Elite"
Cu-toon Newi
Bfoit Sto 15c Children 10c
10:00 Big Skier
10:15 Aunt Jenny
10:30 Fletcher WUey
10:45 Kate Hopkins.
11:00 Man I Married
11:15 Golden Treasury of Cong
11:30 Hello Again
11:45 Meet the MIssui
12:00 Newa
12:15 p. m. Myrt and Marfe
12:30 Woman of Courage
12:45 Stepmother
1:00 Hymna of AH Church e
1:15 Refreshment Time Stnjln' Sam
1:30 The O'Neills
1 :45 Here's Elmore
2:00 Knox Manning
2:15 BUI Henry Calling
2:30 Joyee Jordan
2:45 The World Today ,
3:00 Second Mrs. Burton
3:30 News'
3:15 'Young Dr. Malone
3:45 Newspaper of the Air
4:30 Feature Page
4:55 News, Elmer Davis
4:45 Special Edition
Friday and Saturday
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