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MANAQINQ EDITOR WUllmre M. Tufman
NEWS SERVICE AaaoHaUd Prtw, United frmm
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' Tha lUfUter-Ouvd't policy ti (ha aomplaia and impart 11
vublleallOD in IU naw pafa of all ntm and statamanta
an ntwL On this pax tha adltora of Tha Rflitr Guard
ottrr thatx opinion on ivinU of tha day and mattara of
trrportanca to tha community, andaavorlnf to ba eandld
IkiI fair and helpful 1a tha development of ooutruetlva
community policy.
NOT RIGHT BUT POINTING RIGHT
Until it is hammered home to OPA that
PUBLIC HEALTH, not price, to the vital fac
tor 'in milk control, there to not going to be
any real peace or safety in the milk situation
here or anywhere. Price control has' its place
in milk control, but it begins properly at the
cowbarn and not on the doorstep. . . .
However, some steps are being taken by
the producers and distributors of milk in this
well-ordered community which may at least
make it possible for us to get an adequate
supply of milk, and keep up our high sanitary
standards while waiting for OPA to get its
red tape untangled.
, Let us see if we can explain this complex
adjustment in such a way that every citizen
will understand his part in it, for citizen un
derstanding and cooperation is demanded:
1. Our producers have been losing i much
as $300 to $400 per month because OPA froze '
retail prices at 13 cents for 4 per cent milk
without freezing the price of hay, grain or the
la-bor of dairying.
2. After months of petitioning, our dairy
men have decided to take a chance on prose-
cution under the Sherman anti-trust act (hinted
'by OPA) and hike their price from 75 cents a
"butterat pound" ($3 a hundred gross) to
90 cents ($3,60 a hundred). Some say they
may still lose money but they can and will
keep their cows.
3. This will pass most of the loss over to the
distributors and since retail price stays at 13
cents, it becomes the distributors' problem to
find economies which will make up as much as -..
possible of the extra SO cents a hundred they .
must now pay the farmers.
4. By cutting the butterfat content from
' 4 per cent to 3.5 per cent the distributor (cream
' ery) can save half a pound of butter out of
. every hundred pounds of milk and this may
1 be worth as much as 27 .cents to offset the
80 cent increase to the firmer.
J. It is difficult' to see any quick way by
1 which distributors in this area can do more
; than they have done to consolidate and econo
I mise on deliveries; they have already cut mile- .
'. age 40 per cent, but they are willing to try more
cuts.
Now there is something to be said for
CPA's contention that in this area we have
been spoiled and demand more cream in our
milk than to necessary because authorities
are agreed that moBt of the food values in
milk are in the "skim" anyhow.
When you accept the new 3.5 milk which
to proposed for this area, you will in effect
be doing this: -
1, Adding to the nation's butter supply a
half a pound of butter out of every 100 pounds
of milk you use, butter which you would other
; wise drink. .
. . . 2. Giving your dairyman and your distribu
tors a fighting chance to stay In the business
till OPA gets common sense.
3. Doing your bit to check the sale and
slaughter of the dairy cows In this area and
to make it possible to maintain a SAFE and
sufficient supply,
OPA talks of rationing milk. That is per
fectly okay so long as we have milk to ra
tion, sanitary milk. People in this community
will not object if they are asked to share
their milk with Camp Adair's soldiers or with
Portland's war workers.
Our fight has been and will be against an
OPA policy which makes experienced dairy
men go out of business and sell their cows,
nd we disagree utterly that dairies can ba
shifted cross-country by Washington's wise
men without definite production loss and
grave danger of nation-wide health disasters.
We commend our local health officers,
Lindgren. Cloyes and Helterline for their
pledge to bear down hard on sanitation re
quirements during the coming months. We
can endure a "shorter cream line" but the
milk must be absolutely clean and safe.
We think OPA is going to have to author
ize a retail price at 14 cents, even with the
3.5 creamline in order to stop losses and cor
rect injustice, because ceilings on hay and
grain and supplies which are now proposed
will not check inflation which has already
taken place.
However, tills community has a long rec
ord of meeting all problems with intelligence.
Our objective is a clean and adequate supply
at all times. As customers and consumers we
can do our bit by drinking a little less cream,
adjusting to delivery curtailments and pay
ing our bills promptly (and ration-sharing if
need be). Our battle to to "keep our cows
for Lane county."
A note addressed to Hitler and printed on
a bomb by an American soldier read, "This
is on me." How about one that will be on
Adolf? - , . .
frBAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
AVI. BPRAGUEl VALE CURTIS
(The Bend Bulletin)
Whenever the state senate organizes (possibly
before this appears In print) Charles A. Sprague
will leave the governors office and step over to
the editorial office of his newspaper, the Oregon
statesman. We shall welcome him back In the
fold. He always was a good newspaper man. He
has been a good governor, his loss of the office hav.
f"" 0Ut.?,' '" "I personal popularity
ccut've ,ooi ,6b ' Chle'
.. nT1Le,r,u.rn of chrlM Sprague to hi. newtpaper
S i ubri.n.f ? 'nd ,he tmr yftr editorship of
llalph Curtis who has supplied the editorial col
umn while bpmgue was in the stale house. As we
welcome the Spragut return we otter word of
praise to Ralph. In a difficult position, with every
opportunity of having his writing misconstrued Cur
tis has maintained a detachment, an honesty and
an independence of thought and opinion for which
too much praise cannot be given. His parting edi
torial, "This Is Where We Came In." is perfect.
And incidentally, going back to Charles Sprague,
Ralph Curtis could not have done his Job- so well
had it not been for the former's willingness to keep
his hands off and to make no effort to be governor
and editor, too, or even editor only now and then.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By JOHN W. KELLY
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 21. For generations
the dairyman has been held in bondage to the cow.
From before dawn until late at night, on holidays,
on the 52 Sundays in the year, the dairyman has
labored. The cow had to be milked, and that was
that. Now, with a global war and every pound of
milk needed, the farmer is throwing up the sponge;
he Is quitting. Appeals of Claude Wickard, secre
tary of agriculture, that the farmer increase his
milk production 2. per cent over the 122 billion
pounds of 1942 leave the dairyman cold.
"Government office help is receiving an Increase
of 10 per cent in pay," writes a dairyman in one of
the coast counties of the northwest, "but we are
not entitled to a living, apparently."
1.0 me oince or price administration this farmer
tells his story. He Is one of scores in Washington
and Oregon; one of thousands in the United tSates,
who are being forced to escape bondage from the
cow. Everything on this farm has gone up in
price except milk which, in this instance, is 11
cents a quart. Two of his sons have been called
to military service; two other sons, of high school
age, go to the barn at 3:45 a. m., and start milk
ing; the farmer and his wife are washing milk bot
tles at 8 a. m. The farmer takes the milk truck to
a military cantonment, returns home, working until
after dark. In 1941 he paid labor $55 a month,
with "found." Today he can hire only one man,
who has a family of six children. He pays this
man $lCu a month, furnishes a house, fuel, light,
,I,.4.K n4 trxnA . Tha fo.ma. 41.!.. I.
much, for this man could receive $250 to $300 a !
montn in a snipyara
Zonta Club.
Plans For
Day Rooms
By MARIAN LOWRY
QT the meeting of the Zonta club
Wednesday evening, a long list
of articles was compiled to be
turned over for the forty day
rooms Lane county Is furnishing
for Camp Adair.
Thirty-five dollars were pro
vided from the club service fund
and from contributions from
members to be used In repairing
some of the useable, substantial
pieces of furniture enough of the
money, also, to be used to tune a
piano after it arrives at the day
room. In addition, to the cash,
members listed some of the fol
lowing items: A piano, to be pre
sented in the name of the Zonta
club; music rolls .for the piano;
one large davenport; some writing
tables and two desks; chairs;
cushions and hassocks; books and
picture; game chess and check
ers and playing cards; wanted
phonograph records.
Initiation was held for four
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ivsTM irn in Eiirene recently was Helmerlna council. Pythian Sunshine Girls. The membershlD Is
members, Mrs. A. R. Frederickson, I pictured here. Back row, left to right: Misses Vtrgene Undley, Elnora Aydelotte. Jeanne Mannel, Joanne
Mrs. c. A. Huntington, Ms. A. c. Goodllng. Dorothy Morris, Franclne snrode. Middle row, leu to rl&nt: Misses Helen wngnt, joy Ward,
Stockstitd, and Mrs. George A. 1 Joan Lockard, Dorothy Speck, Mina Zebley, Patricia Quam. Front row,, left to right: Misses Mary
Metzger.
The meeting was held at the
home of Mrs. Eva Collins, dessert
being served, followed by the
initiation and business meeting.
Next luncheon will be February
Brandy, Clarice Blair, Lois Famsworth, Barbara Dragoo, Doris Jean Miller, Iallne Meyers, and Helen
Smith. (Cari Baker photo, Wiltshire engraving) -.
5 at McCrady cafe. On February
nere is, me way costs nave gone up since 1941: 1 IB the monthly social will be held,
Milk bottles $7 a gross, now are $10; feed was $32 'at the home of Mrs. L. M. Orch
to $35, is now $53.30 to $58; alfalfa hay (when he 'ard, Dr. Erma Gordon of Portland
wax Bcl 11 wao flu W 9lO, JS 11UW WJ $dU, UU LU
and vetch hay was $9 to $11, is now $24. Aside from
pasture, there is not much feed down on the coast
so he has to pay freight, and this is up.
"For 18 hours a day we work, my wife and I.
She is 59 and I am 62, and we can't take it as we
to be guest speaker.
ENTERTAINS GROUP
Obsidian Princesses cldb was
entertained Monday evening at
did when we were younger. If OPA does hot give i the home of Mrs. Ray Sims, Miss
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US a price at which we can live we must sell off
our herd.
. This dairyman works 128 hours a week, or three
times the hours that the shipyards require.
IT WILL probably please hop growers of the
Yakima valley, but powers in the Willamette val
ley have been wipid out wherever their yards
were on lowlands. The flood waters took out wires,
poles and roots of vines.. Hops have been classified
as non-essential, which means that no priorities
are available for material notwithstanding th a t
American troops are being served 3.2 beer in can
tonments. It develnpes, however, that if hopgrowers
of California, Oregon and Washington set together
and make a demand hops may be designated as
essential. Once so designated, war Droduction board
will grant priorities for the trellis wires in Will
amette valley and the ruined yards can be re
stored. Partly because of the disaster, old hops
which have been held for several years will be
given a new ceiling. The lost wires were rolled
into tangled masses and owners declare it is a total
loss. There is some talk of Willamette valley hop
growers filing claim against the government because
army engineers dlr" not build revetments on the
low river banks.
EVERYONE who can still travel on a train will
be interested in the demand of Jlminv Byrnes.
economic stabilizer, to the ICC that the proposed
Increase of 10 per cent in railroad rates, effective
February 14, be annulled. ICC granted tills addi
tional charge for passenger tlcketa to enable the
railroads to meet tha demands of railroad employes
for more pay. Jimmy estimates that the increase
will approximate far more in revenue to the car
riers than the Increased nav to tho unrVan in
this he is Joined by other war agencies. There is !
aiso a o per cent increase granted in freight rates
and Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, having the
interest of farmers at heart, is protesting against
tills. Nothing is heard from the U.S. treasury, be
cause if the rates stand the treasury will collect
much more taxes, there being a tax on passenger
tickets and freight movement. All the war agencies
contend that the Increased rates are not necessary
for the reason that the railroads have now, and
will have for a long time in the future, all the
business they can handle. To this the railroad com
panies say that Just because they are beginning to
make money is no reason for not carrying the new
rales into effect. The case is known as "Ex Parte
148" with ICC.
Ruth Hopson assisting. The
group did knitting for the Red
Cross and donated five dollars to
the Red Cross fund for kits. Ten
were present. Mrs. J. D. Hamlin
will entertain for the next meeting..
OLIVE BARBER'S OBSERVATIONS
TOOTHLESS KAY
Kay Is a "toothless old hag" whose age Is about
one year; toothless, that is. if you discount the
two saw-edRed affairs which havt lately poked
mrougn tne pink gums of her
lower Jaw. Every one has worried
over the laggard teething of Kay
except Kay herself. She has ta
ken the attitude that cutting
teeth is an act of God, and nothing
ati-r can d0 wlu hasten their ap-
yf pearnnce.
f Vwwf 1 But walking, now well a
f iTii i I person could do something about
walking. Not that she couldn't
get around on her hands and knees she could.
But there was much to be said for walking. For
one thing, It would leave her hands free to pull
at table covers, and scatter books and throw
things.
Her first teetering steps from her father to her
mother's outstretched arms were negotiated with
out mishap. Thlt success went to her head. She
wrongly assumed this lifted her out of the ama
teur class Into tat or the professionals. She felt
she was now ready for a safari from one chair
to another half way across the room.
Of course she fell. The greatest Injury was to
her feelings. She seemed to have vowed she'd
not risk such humiliation again, for weeks went
by before she made another try. Aialn .h i
defeat. Maybe she wasn't meant to walk on two
legs. Maybe she was like Blackle, the dog and
was supposed to go through life on all fours. Or
so her parents were driven to conclude she'd de
cided, as more weeks went by, with Kay seem
ingly content to crawl.
Then one day her mother took her to a party
a children a party. There she saw oUier Indies
. vJ-I ","''";'"' na 10 lne woman, they
walked upright. While they made their way about
the room, she stood marooned by her mother, for
she couldn t bring herself to crawl when walking
was so patently the current mode. So she stood
and gloom had Its way with her. What did they
S .have.,h0h morosely, that she
able. Th.yd think h.r a sissy, and still tied to
her mothers apron strings. She felt herself a
social outcast. "-eu a
She evidently decided that the time had come
for desperate measures. Balancing herself for a
minute on wide-spraddled legs, she tooks one step
toward the corner of the room where her con
temporaries were gathered: took another step: an-
lady with the blue bow in her hair tn arrogant
Shed show 'em!
Suddenly she knew herself to be one of the
gang. t.ivc her a little time, and she'd get some
hove: reached over and took rattle from another,
teeth, loo. Getting tilings one wanted In life hf
",u m,u:r ' Vf-connUci.ee. Going to a
party had given bcr that.
AT DIAL MEETING
At the Dial club meeting, Tues
day evening at the Red Cross
headquarters, the group sewed
on drapes for Camp Adair day
rooms. Twenty-four attended
the meeting, dessert being served
preceding the work.
For the February meeting, Miss
Vera Mannel, Mrs. Arthur War
ren, Mrs. C. J. Fulton, and Miss
Elizabeth Richards will be hos
tesses.
I IMO RUYLE CIRCLE
' Imo Ruyle Circle of the First
Baptist church met Tuesday eve
ning with the theme being "Chris
tian Homes Throughout the
I World." Mrs. William Country
man reported on Central America;
i Mrs. F. A. McMuIlen, China; Mrs.
C. F, Gray. Africa: ' Mrs. Fred
' Haley, India; Mrs. Paul Scheiwe, i
; migrant and refugee homes. Mrs.
ieo jjerrenoacher led the devo
tions. The February meeting will
be on "Burma."
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REBEKAH LODGE
Robekah lodge held a regular
business meeting Wednesday eve
ning at the I. O. O. F. hall and
planned a trip by seven members
to Walterville on February 6 for
a district meeUng,
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
Women's League of the First
Congregational church met Tues- I
day afternoon at the Wheeler
room of the church to hear Mrs.
Eve Gallup, Eugene police matron,
speak on "Juvenile Delinquency."
GUILD EVENT
Methodist service guild met
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs. Robert Jones with Mrs. Rob-
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Garden Glub
Program
Fifty-four persons attended the
meeting of the Eugene Garden
club in the Eugene Hotel Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Fred Broders gave a talk
about forcing spring blooms and
a demonstration of flower ar
rangements. - Mrs. Frank Boyer
told how to plant seeds in flats
for bedding plants.
Mrs. Sam Mosher gave a report
from the state association regard
ing the importance of Garden
clubs during the war era and tell
ing why they must function in
full capacity durig these times.
A report was made by. Mrs.
Lester Read on the Christmas
fireside tour when Garden club
members held open house for a
progressive party that took the
place of the December Garden
club meeting. Thirty-two mem
bers attended this tour.
Mrs. Kenneth W. Moore report
ed that two flower containers
had been, presented to the Edi
son and Condon schools as prizes
for a flower arrangement contest
conducted by the children, and
sponsored by the Eugene Garden
club.
Miss M. B. Estes told of the gift
to the Garden Club by Mrs. A. R.
Sweetser of Professor Sweetster's
own beautifully bound book of
articles and notes on wild flow
ers. The club prizes the books for
the library of the club house the
club is planning on building in
the future.
Bazaar Success
A report was made on the
Christmas bazaar which was a big
success and it was decided to
make it an annual affair with
proceeds going into the building
fund.
The club will also hold a rum
mage sale soon for this same
building fund. .
Mrs. E. A. Barette, Mrs. R. D.
Busey, Mrs. Ralph Buck, Mrs.
E. R. Knollin, and Mrs. E. F. Mc
Bee were appointed to serve on a
telephone committee. '
Mrs. Marvin Milford was ap
pointed to keep the horticulture
arid hobby "Who's Who" book of
Eugene.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Paul. J. Cauthorn, Mrs. B. W.
DeBusk and Miss M. B. Estes,
while kodochrome 1 slides . were
shown of flower arrangements
from the Seattle and Eugene flow
er shows.
The next meeting of the club
will be Feb. 18 alt seven-thirty
o'clock in. the Jugene Hotel,
Dance Postponed
Bonne .Heure Dance club an
nounces Its party planned for
Thursday evening has been called
off because of the weather. Fur
ther announcement regarding the
date for the event will be made
later. .. . .
Early -railway track was laid
directly on the ties; now tie plates
are used to prevent sinking.
Nile Club
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gene club.
Wednesday..,"?
eon ana meeting h, r5'!
hotel Mr,. .7c
ed vice-president? !
". treasure, '
ficers were; Mrs.
dent; Mrs. j u
president; Mrs (w0)
Mrs E.M.B'ai
The tw.nt. .'e
anniversary 0f Uw?
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ed the hUtory if 2?"
officers win ha" 5.
February lunch!
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