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Newspaper Page TextPage Foui DITORIAL PAGE OF THE R AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (PnblUhe Iwi Benlnj aoa Sunday) EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Alton t. Balm MANAGING EDITOB ------ Wffliara It. TuamaB KTWS SEBVICC . . . . Aeaodated Preo. Onltad Pram W"" ....... Audit Buraiu oi Circulation blared at fee Post OtDm at Euaene. Oregon, aa eeeontf leas Matter. (at Baeutar-Guard'i palter la tba oomplau and impartial publication In 11a oewa paiaa of all oews and statements an news. On this Data the editors of Tba Realster-Guard tfer their opinions on events of the day and matters of Importance to the conunumlty. endeaTorlne to be candid but fair and helpful In the development of constructive community colic. PACIFIC COAST AND THE WAR Judging by news reports the Atlantic Coast is now experiencing something of the "dither" which we saw on the Pacific Coast immediately following Pearl Harbor. Pres ence of enemy submarines off the Atlantic Coast has led to frantic demands for protec tion against enemy warplanes which are ex pected "any minute." What is a reasonable appraisal of the ac tual danger and .he actual amount of prepar ation needed? Try to put yourself for the moment in the place of the German or the Japanese "High Command". Huh? You don't like to do that even for one minute? Naturally! But try it anyhow, just as a sort of game. If you were the Nazi General Keitel, wouldn't your use of available men and ma terials be governed by the following objec tives in this order: 1. Stop the Russians, and reorganize the east ward push. 2. Parallel drive toward Suez, either through Turkey or through North Africa where things have been bad. 3. DIVERSION AND DISPERSION raids to scatter enemy forces. Or if you were the Japanese General To jo, would your use of available men and ma terials be directed in the following order: 1. Finish conquest of Philippines and Malaya which hold vital oil and rubber supplies. 2. DIVERSION AND DISPERSION raids to scatter enemy fleets and hamper effective con centration of his aggressive forces. There is NO DANGER AT THIS TIME of ny substantial ATTACK IN FORCE either on the Pacific or the Atlantic Coast, but There is very real and ever-present danger of "TOKEN RAIDS", mainly by submarines, occasionally by aircraft. Now then, how serious might such "token raids" be? Is it likely that either Germans or Japanese at this stage in the game would risk a major aircraft carrier? No! Then the danger is limited to such raids as might be carried out by very small suicide squadrons brought close to shore aboard fast cruisers or con verted merchantmen. Sure, there are lots of planes, nowadays big enough and fast enough to cross the At lantic or some parts of the Pacific but not carrying both crews and bomb load, and not with any chance of return. ' This does not mean that preparedness can be neglected, or that the constant vigilance of military and Civilian Defense can be aban doned. Even "token raids" can be extremely damaging and murderous. But there is no need for "dither" (to which the military has contributed its full share of hysteria) ; nor is there need to tie up on the home coasts, vast armies of men and quantities of material so badly needed on critical fronts. The greatest danger to our safety today is that drive in Malaya and the Philippines and tying up of vital supplies and our in ability so far to get effective aid to Mac Arthur or to Singapore. We and our British pals have made some costly errors. MIGHT PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH At the recent newspaper publishers Con ference in Eugene, a representative of OPM held forth at some length on the necessity for conserving all essential materials, among them paper. He urged publishers, so far as possible, to put all communications on the cheaper grades of paper such as news print, and to use that as sparingly as possible. Comes now a Eugene businessman to point out that his morning's mail included 13 POUNDS of mail from government agencies and bureaus (including OPM itself) and most of it on the best grades of paper ob tainable. So he is yelling: "Why don't they begin to practice what they preach?" We have never taken time to weigh up this newspaper's daily "take" from govern' ment agencies and propaganda bureaus. It would be quite heavy. Possibly gov'ment hasn't got around to its own people. Pos sibly they are still using out of largo stocks on hand (one reason for paper shortage be ing tremendous government buying.) Golly! This subject of government econ omy is huge. Take the matter of tires and cars commodities in which civilians are now strictly rationed. The last few weeks have seen a constant parade of government func tionaries, each of course in his own individual car. On some occasions, three or four differ ent government repesentatives have arrived separately, each inquiring into some little spe cial detail when probably the whole matter could have been investigated by one good man, or if necessary by a joint board. However, we shan't undertake to crusade for reform. War is an urgent business and a very luxurious business. All we can do is suggest that maybe gov'ment itself might set the example of saving a good many tons of paper and rubber and a good many gal lons of gas by experimenting with some of the economies which the taxpayer is coming to willy nilly. The Japs may be only 90 miles from Sin gapore but the trout season is only 88 days away. WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK JAPANESE IN FAR WEST (Pendleton East Oregonian) Since the start of the war, many an American, particularly we who live on the west coast, has wondered how many Japanese resided in Oregon, Washington and California, and how many of them were U. S. citizens. The current issue of the Oregon Voter goes into this matter at length. It reports, basing its findings on the 1940 U. S. census, 112,353 Japanese residing in these three states fronting on the pacific ocean. Of this total, the great majority has American citizenship especially in California which has the largest Japanese population in the United States. As a matter of fact, there are only 126,947 Jap anese in all the continental U. S. A. and 112,353 of them live in Oregon, Washington and California. Of this grand total 79,642 are citizens through birth and 47,305 are aliens. Here are the figures for the three coast states: State Citizens Aliens Total Japanese California 60,148 33,569 93,717 Washington 8,882 5,683 14,565 Oregon 2,454 1,617 4,071 Taking Oregon county by county, the Voter finds no Japanese in Benton, Coos, Crook, Curry, Douglas, Gilliam, Harney, Josephine, Tillamook, Wallowa and Wheeler. There is but one Japanese in Klamath a citizen, and one in Lane, an alien. . In Umatilla county there are ten Japanese, five citizens and five aliens. Greatest Japanese popula tion is in Multnomah county with 2,390 of whom 1,422 are citizens. Hood River county is next with 464 of whom 300 are citizens. Clackamas, Malheur, Marion and Washington counties each have more than 100 Japanese all other counties have less. Of all the coast cities, Los Angeles has the most 23,321, of whom 8,726 are aliens. Seattle is sec ond with 6,975 of whom 2,876 are aliens, and San Francisco third with 5,280, of whom 2,276 are aliens, and Oakland, Portland, Berkeley, Stock-Torrance range from 1,790 in Oakland to 1,189 in Torrance. In discussing the situation, the Voter states: "It is the confident belief of many school teachers, high school pupils and other acquaintances of American-born Japanese in Portland that the great majority of them feel strongly American in loyalty. . . . The FBI and other federal authorities as well as our sheriff and local police seem to be handling the situation with intelligence and proper 'consideration." WASHINGTON LETTER By JOHN W. KELLY WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 21. Mayors from the Pacific coast (Portland, Tacoma, Seattle) blinked their eyes when they heard Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, standing before a loud-speaker, declare that the west coast will have to wait before there is a navy to defend that section of the United States. The secretary declared to the 200-odd mayors assembled from all parts of the country that the No. 1 enemy is Herr Schickelgruber; that Hitler must be disposed of first that it will require a long time, and until that is accomplished the Pacific coast people must wait. To a major part of the mayors, coming from the Atlantic, southern and mid-west states, came ap plause; but none from the west coast officials. The country that the United States is at grips with, the active enemy that has given the United States re versals, is Japan and not Germany. The western mayors had a different view of the picture than Secretary Knox. As they expressed themselves after the Knox talk, they recognize that the Pacific fleet has been severely crippled by the Pearl Harbor disaster and that a substantial part of the navy is in Atlantic waters, and that time is required for the building of new cruisers, destroyers and sub marines; but they did not appreciate the secretary's statement that the west coast must muddle along until after Herr Hitler had been disposed of. Anthony J. Dimond, delegate for Alaska, says he is fearful that a repetition of what happened at Pearl Harbor may occur in Alaska and that to all parts of Alaska on the west may be a duplication of the situation at Wake and Manila. The war de partment treats the territory as an outlying posses sion and recently the wives and children of all men in the military and naval services were ordered from Alaska to the states, with steamships practic ally taken over by war and navy departments to get them out. Steamers plying to Alaska have had to increase their freight and passenger rates 45 percent because of the high cost of war insurance. Already, says Delegate Dimond, the govern' ment has appropriated $140,000,000 for five air bases and a submarine base; the naval bases are at Sitka, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. The late Gen. Billy Mitchell, testifying before the military affairs committee in 1935, declared that whoever holds Alaska will hold the world, as he regarded it as the most strategic place In the world. From Dutch Harbor to Tokyo is 2,500 miles but only 1,730 miles from Attu, the last available place for a take-off for Japan; but Attu is only 635 miles from Japanese territory where there is a substantial naval and air base. It is assumed that the Japanese submarines which have been operating off the coasts of Wash' ington and Oregon and near Kodiak island came from the Japanese island of Paramushiru, where the naval and air bases are located, following the great circle route, the traditional and shortest from Columbia river and Puget sound to the orient. Just as a letter-writing campaign was under way promoting Associate Justice William O. Douglas, formerly of Walla Walla and La Grande, to be the one man to mobilize America's resources and man power. President Roosevelt stopped it in its tracks by naming Donald Nelson to have complete charge of production for war. By selecting Nelson the president also ended criticism due to the fact that neither OPM, SPAB or any other agency had authority. From Bernard Baruch, who was head ot the war industries board in the first world war. down to understrappers there was insistence that someone should be vested with power to have things done. Wendell Willkle, a strong supporter of the president, nad sent out advance copies of a speech in which he protested the absence of anyone with authority. An hour before the speech was to be delivered the president announced Nelson s new Job and Willkie had to delete a large portion of his pre pared address. The two men who caused the president to make this decision were Winston Churchill, British prime minister, and Lord Beaverbrook, minister of supply. In their days at the White House these visitors stressed the importance of establishing a responsi. ble head. Churchill declared a war cannot be won by commissions, and Beaverbrook outlined to the president what the job requires. Selection of Nel son is the first step in the organization of a super suppiy sen-ice wnicn win worn in close agreement with Beaverbrook and ha is reportedly slated to be the head man of this international croun inasmuch as the United States has the role of providing most oi tne airplanes, tanks, tjuns. shins and ammiini. tion. It will be Nelson who will tell the various Industries what he wants them to produce and see that production Is made; he will designate priorities no auounenu ne wui ot "in dom. ' YMCA Favors 'Chest' Drive The boards of directors of the city and university YMCA's in a combined session at YMCA house Tuesday evening voted favorably on a proposal to organize a com munity chest for Eugene in 1943. The two boards held that it would be highly desirable it all welfare agencies would participate in the chest because of. the need for increased community cooper ation during a time ot war. The meeting also expressed a hope that it might be possible for the annual Red Cross roll call to be conducted parallel with the chest campaign although it was recognized that the Red Cross effort would neces sarily have to be a separate cam paign from that ot the chest. It was pointed out that this gesture of "all out" community coopera tion would be a valuable asset for the city of Eugene. Nathan Rubenstein and Karl Kossack, co-chairmen of the com bined YMCA finance committee, presented plans for the annual campaign for operating funds for the two "Y" units for the current year. A committee, composed ot Roy E. Morse, Nathan Rubenstein, Karl Onthank and Victor P. Mor ris, was named to initiate the necessary campaign organization. The cooperative plan of the two YMCA's, particularly with refer ence to the YMCA house project was given a unanimous vote of approval. Also approved by the city YMCA board was a plan for YMCA membership in Eugene which had been recommended to the board by the program commit tee of which J. F. Cramer is the chairman. lieity, Lavelle Paris; cards, Helene Richmond; flowers, Cora Inman. POLICE RESERVE SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 21. (Spe cial) The fifteen newly-appointed members of the permanent Springfield police reserve will meet with Chief Ted Finucane Wednesday evening, Jan. 21, at 7:30. This will be the first meet ing of the organization, and will be largely concerned with the elec tion of officers and appointments to committees. Chief Finucane has promised an additional attraction, however. The original "Terrible four corporals. These officers will entertain the corps with demon strations of his bone-crushing abil ities. Monday evening, Jan. 26, the re serve will have another meeting, this for the appointment of the corns cantain. two lieutenants, na for corporals. These officers wijl then be in charge of the auxiliary police force. NEW PATROLMAN SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 21. (Spe cial) Lee Martinson, for several years a resident and property owner in this community, will take over the duties of night patrolman on the regular police force begin ning Wednesday night. January 21 Martinson will temporarily fill the vacancy left by the resignation of W. J. Backman until the mayor has opportunity to confirm his ap pointment at the next council meeting. Lane Manufacturers Waif OPM Opening Co-ops Head U-0 High-Grade List Two women's cooperative houses at the University again topped the list of grade averages for campus living organizations, according to figures for fall term released Tuesday by C. L. Constance, as sistant registrar. The houses are Hilyard co-op, a consistent scholarship leader on the campus, and Highland house, another top ranking house. They were followed by Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, highest among the sorority-fraternity group. Uni versity cooperative women's house, Pi Beta Phi and Gamma Phi Beta sorority ranked fourth, fifth and sixth respectively. Highest on the list, of. men's jiving organizations again was Sigma hall which, however, rank ed only seventh in the entire cam pus list, falling below the afore mentioned women's houses. Other houses above the Uni versity average in order of rank ing are Hendricks hall,.. women's dorm, Delta Delta Delta sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Alpha hall, men's dorm. Gamma hall, mens' dorm, Campbell cooperative house, Susan Campbell hall, wo men's dorm. Orides, independent women; Kappa Alpha Theta. sor ority; Kirkwood cooperative men's house; Yeomen, independent men; Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, Al pha Chi Omega sorority. Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Gamma Delta sororities. Odd Fellows, Rebekahs Honor Founder SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 21. (Spe cial) Following the regular ses sion of the Rebekah lodge Mon day evening, Jan. 19, the ladles of the lodge joined with the Odd Fel lows for a program honoring the birthday of Thomas Wildey, found er of the two lodges. Features of this event were speeches by Elmer Pyne, grand master of Oregon, and Oswald Olson, grand high priest of tne grand encampment of Ore' gon. Mr. Pyne spoke on the ori gin of Odd Fellowship. Other por tions of the program included ! reading by Abbie Levee, "The Beautiful Things in Life," histories of four patriotic songs by June Korf, Audrey McPherson, and Glenn Stone. . Accompanied by Doloros Chellis, Gloria Green of fered a clarinet solo. Refresh ments were served following the program by Leona Geoptora, Sarah Johns, Cora Inman, and Sylvia Jones. During the regular Rebekah meeting the. following new com mittees were appointed: Finance committee, Alice Doane, Florence Martin, and Leona Goepford; ways and rneans committee, Juanita Mathis, Stella LaJoie, Laura Den ning; good of order committee, Naomi Putman, Marjorie Barthol omew, and JoLana Martin; pub- LAUNDRY WISE is Health-Wise Eugene Laundry Band Box Gocmers 178 West 8th Phone 123 or 124 Mason District Meeting Set Another attempt will be made to hold a' district meeting of the Masonic lodges in this district, ac cording to Dan W. Stewart, dis trict deputy grand master, oi Eu gene. The meeting will be held at the Masonic temple of Liberty lodge in Springfield, Friday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p. m. This meeting was ori ginally scheduled for Nov.' 15, 1941, . but the flood conditions prevailing at that time caused Ar thur D. Hay, of Lakeview, most worshipful grand master, to cancel it. On his way back to Eugene from Springfield, the grand mas ter was caught in the flood near the Ferry street bridge for two hours, The nine lodges in this district are: Florence No. 106, Siuslaw JNo. 192 at Mapleton, Thurston No. 28 at Harrisburg, Junction City No, 128, Eugene No. 11, and McKenzie River No. 195 in Eugene, Creswell No. 112, Cottage Grove No. 51 and Liberty No. 171 in Springfield. All Master Masons in this vic inity are invited to be present for this important meeting. A pro gram has been arranged and light refreshments will follow the meet ing. Hi-Y Council Will Plan For Conference The Lane County Hl-Y council, composed of the officers of Hi-Y clubs in Eugene and other Lane County communities will meet in Eugene Sunday afternoon, Febru ary 1. ' ' Plans for the annual upper Wil lamette Valley Hi-Y conference to be held in the new high school building at Creswell sometime this spring, will be worked out at the meeting. Bill Cramer and Elliott Wirt of Eugene high school are serving as president and secretary of the council respectively. The University Hi-Y club will hold their regular weekly meet ing at YMCA house Wednesday evening. Lane county manufacturers can now begin making definite "pool ing" plans for the securing of national defense contracts through the branch office of the OPM which will be set up in Eugene within the next ten days, an nounces O. A. Houglum, chair man, of the chamber ot commerce industries committee. Fred Brehne, secretary of the Eugene chamber, conferred Mon day with John G. Barnett, Port land director of OPM's division of contract distribution there. Named by the Portland office to be head of Eugene's contract set up are George R. Moscnp and V. A. McNeil. Moscrip has been dis trict representative of the McCor mick Steamship company of Spo kane and an associate contract specialist in the Portland OPM office. McNeil, formerly with tHfe Portland and Eugene chambers of commerce, has been an associate industrial specialist at Portland headquarters. They will begin making a survey of Eugene's metal, shop, and woodworking indus tries immediately. The Eugene of fice will secure contracts for all the lower Willamette valley. Masonic Dinner Scheduled For 6:30 A dinner meeting is to be held at 6:30 Wednesday evening by Eugene lodge No. 11, A. F. and A. M. at the Masonic temple. Col. R. M. Lyon, head of the military science department at the University of Oregon, will speak on "The Situation in the Pacific." During the dinner Fred McKin- ney, pianist and Stewart Lay, ac cordionist will play. The two men are members of Hal Hardin's band which will play later in the eve' nine for the war relief benefit dance at the Wintergarden dance hall. Tree Farm Topic At Chamber Meeting Walker Tllley, manager of the first cooperative tree farm project in the United States, the "Willam ette Valley Tree Farms, Inc.", will discuss the organization for Eu gene chamber of commerce mem bers when he appears as featured speaKer at tne puoiic aitairs lutv cheon Friday. Five local lumber firms are members of the cooperative, which was formed for the DurDose of Dro- moting sustained yield and con servation of trees. Dr. Charles E. Hunt is luncheon chairman. It will be Friday at 12 noon at tne usbum. Gleemen To Give Silverton Concert Thursday Evening The Eugene Gleemen sing their first concert of the 1942 season Thursday evening at Silverton. The program there Is being given under the auspices of the Silverton Rotary club for the benefit of the community youth fund. Featured on the program will be numbers by Verne Sellin, violin ist, guest artist; songs by the Gleemen quartet from the mem bership of the chorus; numbers by the brass quartet from the Uni versity school of music instrumen tal department. John Stark Evans, chorus conductor, and Cora Moore Frey, accompanist, will also direct and accompany for all solos and quartet numbers as well as the chorus songs. The Gleemen give their mid' winter home concert February 2. George H. Miller, executive secretary, in discussing the Glee men's annual associate member ship campaign, asks that all per sons not personally contacted to renew or take out associate mem' berships, call either him at 366 or Percy W. Brown at 91 and the memberships will be accepted. Mrs. Emma Jacok uies suddenly Emma .Tai.- .. her homo L1 iWjJ -ouijr evening, cC"" aw. and Mti , i.ave celebrated their si"1 ding annivor.1. 1 home hereM She is Ktirvmaj l . I and the folloing7h( Jacobs, Harrisburg- Egger, and Mr, w JH both of Portland; Dtp W ego; Harry Jacobs, Duyn, Mrs. Jr'S5i'M Marcin Mniv.h n."'nl all of Eugene. TOOtd Funeral Friday at 9 a.m. at thTsi J Catholic tVllin.1. Francis P. Leipz, "IJ Rosary will be said nmg at 7:30 at th, vl park, 4. Hospital Staff Holds Annual Meet The annual meeting and elec tions of the medical and surgical staffs of the SacreaVHeart general hospital were held this week. Following are the officers chosen: Dr. Glenn S. Morgan, chief of staff; Dr. Gilson Ross, vice president; Dr. N. Paul E. Ander son, secretary-treasurer; Dr. A. F. Barnett, member of the governing board. Dr. H. M. Peery, retiring chief of staff, presided at the meet ing. The staff membership Is report ed at 28 regulars, five courtesy ones, 15 associate members, and nine members absent on military duty. KRONSTEINER ARRAIGNED Carl Kronsteiner, alias Harry F. King, was arraigned in circuit court before Judge G. F. Skip worth, Wednesday afternoon, and he will enter his plea Thursday morning at 9:30. He had waived grand jury action. f . GENERAL ELECTRIC R TABLE MODELS R A CONSOLES and A D RADIO-PHONOGRAPH D I COMBINATION I O LIGHTNING'S O 8 1151 Willamette 8 Soldiers Invited To Friday Social Next Friday evening will occur the second of a series of weekly Friday night social events at YM CA house for students of the Eu gene Vocational' school's "person ality class and the local N. Y. A. Directly in charge of these events are Mrs. C. H. Conrad of the Vocational school faculty, Linn Hutcheson of the N. Y. A. and A. F. Holmer of the YMCA house staff. Assisting from time to time in making these events even more attractive to young people will be tne hospitality committee of YM, CA house of which Mrs. Harry G. Talbot is the chairman. Other guests, including soldiers quarter ed in the Eugene area, will, from time to time be invited to partici pate. . DIES WEDNESDAY ' Mrs. Rose France died Wednes- oay at 10 a. m. Funeral announce ments will be made later from the Veatch- Hollingsworth chapel, flutpoinj- ELECTRIC RANGE Three Decades of Leadership LYONS & PETERS Former Euaens Teacher Dies Funeral services wsr J V . . weeK "'Mil McMicken Murrow, ho merly a teacher at &. school. Mrs. Murrow was (J Hum me university oIOiJ "n anu luuKiir inr in. years at the hieh srhmi a member of Gamma pji eururuy. j Besides her husband, Sid is survived bv A HaiioM.1 Murrow. who is nnw J tne university campus iMJ uem oi me uamma m m lority house. WANTS HOME FORM A 7-month-old lox ttmrt wire haired terrier Mia J longer be cared for hr ftitf at 1944 Friendlv. Thiwtl is used to children, mil til away. 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