Eugene register-guard., March 21, 1943, Image 4

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Snday, March
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community policy.
WAR BONDS AND FAMILY NEEDS
John Jones is a Eugenean, just like any
of us, except that he has been doing some new
and enlightened figuring on War Bonds and
his family's post-war needs. John didn't
think much one way or the other about these
appeals for all workers to put TEN PER
CENT of earnings into War Bonds, because
he has always been thrifty, and he figured
he was doing enough to "do what he could."
Then came a sequence of family incidents
that set John to thinking in an entirely new
way about this form of savings:
1. Transmission In the family Jallopy went
haywire during the cold weather: best John
could do was a patch Job "till they make new
cars."
2. Mrs. Jones Jammed the gears on the old
ironer: no more ironers 'till war is over.
3. Jones put in most ot three weekends over
hauling the old washing machine.
4-. The plumber told John he might just as
" well figure to rebuild the whole bathroom
soon as materials can be had.
S. Young Johnny went away in the "teen age
draft, and unless the Army decides to make
Johnny an engineer there will still be a tech
nical education to help finance at the end of
the war.
Jones is getting on for 50, makes $300 to
$400 a month, has his home two-thirds paid
for, has kept up $10,000 insurance from the
last war, has always had a few hundred dol
lars in a savings account, owns a few acres
of ground "up-river" on which he ha? always
planned some day to build a "little shack."
You know the type not quite "poor," lives
comfortable, keeps "two jumps ahead of the
sheriff." Couple of youngsters besides Soldier
Johnny to provide for.
Jones came looming into the office the
other day with a set of figures he'd been jot
ting down a budget of post-war needs of the
Jones family. Here they are:
New car $1,000.00
. Washing machine ...... . . . 200.00
Ironer ...... ...... 150.00
Radio 100.00
Refrigerator . .... ..... 150.00
New bathroom, repairs ....... 500.00
New furniture, etc. ..... 500.00
Trip back to New York .... .. 500.00
Cottage up-river ... .... 1,000.00
Education fund (kids) . 1,000.00
MINIMUM TOTAL ..
.u $5,100.00
' Jones has developed an entirely new atti
tude toward War Bonds and payroll savings
as the result of his calculations. He figures
that in spite of taxes and insurance and nor
mal living costs, he must try to put at least
$500 a year into War Bonds instead of just
a bare 10 per cent.
"Great grief," says he, "the war will have
to last 10 years to let me lay by cash enough
for all the things we're going to need, and I
don't want that to happen. Neither do I want,
at my age to get involved in a lot of install
ments and mortgages at the end of this war.
And we might need everything we can lay by
for a cushion.' Who knows? Thing that knock
ed me cold was the number of things the Jones
family is used to, that we can't get now, that
will be all worn out and needing replacement
when we get Hitler licked."
We are indebted to Mr. Jones for a very
stimulating idea. We have just finished
reading in Fortune a very learned article on
Inflation and ways to check it "spending
taxes," sales taxes, forced savings, heavier
rationing, all very complex, all requiring a
lot of additional government machinery. If
we could make every patriotic American see
what John Jones sees so clearly the need
to save now for the things you can't get now,
the need to build up a post-war reservoir of
cash buying power, to help make post-war
jobs!
(We heard yesterday of a woman who has
bought 30 dresses and coats in the recent
"buyers' panic." What is that silly female
going to use after the war?)
Now all of this leads to a suggestion which
may or may not find favor with Gordon
Orputt and his War Bond crews BUDGET
POST-WAR NEEDS to set a visual measure
on each person's payroll savings program. In
the last week we have been discussing "a
$5,000,000 stock pile of public works" for Lane
county's post-war program. If some way
could be found to list and set up savings for
all the family needs which can be foreseen,
it would underwrite this community's post
war prosperity and security.
What John Jones has figured out all by
himself Is the necessary companion-piece" to
the patriotic slogan which says:
"Buy War Bonds; put fighting tools Into
the hands of fighting men."
John Jones isn't the kind of guy who
makes slogans but his action says:
"It is high patriotism to cut your spending
to the bone; if you can't fight, fortify the future."
Fortune estimates 22 billion excess
pending power over "necessary consumer
goods"; hence the peril of Inflation through
many forma of luxury spending (wasting)
unless this 22 billion can be drawn oft by
new taxes or War Bonds. This is money
which should be directed to budgets of post
war needs. If the post-war needs of this na
Uoo't workers could be listed the total would
absorb that 22 billion excess for years to
come.
Maybe "gov'ment compulsion" is the only
answer. We still have a lot of faith in Amer
lean common sense and the simple arithme
tic of people like John Jones.
ONE OF THE PAGEANT VETERANS
One of the veterans of "the pageant
period" in Eugene was Alfred S. Walker,
whose death we have recorded this last week.
At 78, Mr. Walker had lived a long life and
a good life, and death may properly be called
"rest." Nevertheless many of us will re
member Mr. Walker with fondness. He was
one of the group of stalwart "old timers" that
Doris Smith gathered around her. She called
them "her boys." (They called her "their
gal" and "Dorrie"). Charlie Farmer, who
used to do the Jim Bridger ride! Sherman
Robberts, a good two-gun man from the old
west! Alf Walker, a good hand with man or
"hoss"!
Men of the real Old West these were, and
gentlemen all of them. Men who had seen
a great deal of life when it was rough and
raw and had learned a great deal of the wis
dom not found in books. The civilization
which they helped to create arrived and ma
tured and passed somewhat beyond them,
but they carried over into the roaring age of
motor cars and airplanes much of the tradi
tions and philosophy of saddle and horse.
Sometimes we have wondered 'if after
this war, the custom of pioneer pageantry
will be revived, and if it is whether there
will be any to take the places of these men
who really knew the Old West. To be sure,
we can always train riders and there will
always be horsemen, for horsemen are born
and not made? but they will be a different
breed from these old timers.
The most impressive quality of these old
timers was a certain gentility, a courtesy,
even an elegance of manners which was a by
product of frontier life. They were men
trained in a school where it was dangerous
to indulge in "b(g talk" without the skill and
courage to back it up. There comes to mind
a "stormy night" in the stables of the 1934
pageant with Alf Walker quietly and effec
tively doing his stuff as stable boss, a remark
able old gentleman, a man worth knowing.
From the files of the Eugene pageants
we should draw up a list of these old timers
for an honor roll. We owe them much.
WHEN JANE THACHER PLAYS
When Jane Thatcher plays, as she did
Wednesday evening for the Red Cross war
fund, there are a great many people in this
community who feel that it is an event which
they must not miss. For Mrs. Thacher is not
only a master of music and the piano but a
person who has gathered much from living
and added it to her attainments.
In this University town we are visited by
many world famous artists who give us "a
show" and go their ways. We have living here
many fine artists who have not chosen the
highroad of the public stage. Sometimes we
get the feeling that it is through these we get
"real music." 1
Thus over the years we have heard Mrs.
Thacher's interpretations of a vast repertoire.
We have heard Beethoven and Mozart and
Chopin and most of the masters through the
medium of a brilliant and gifted woman
whose interpretations bear the inflections of
her own experience. Familiar music takes on
new beauty from an artist whose high cour
age and great personal charm have enriched
our experience.
Thus on Wednesday evening, Mrs. Thach
er chose to play Brahms, sometimes classed
as the last of the great "romantics" of the
pre-war epoch. It was not only Brahms, Mrs.
Thacher's friends heard but Mrs. Thacher.
There was a triumphant understanding in
her rendering of the magnificent F-minor
sonata. Mrs. Thacher has not yielded any
of her exceptional dramatic power; rather
she has added a rich humor and delicacy in
presenting the many moods of the Brahms
sequence.
It is a privilege in these times to hear
such music. And it is proud we are to live
in the same town and to claim as a friend and
as one of us an artist who has chosen to give
us her music.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
Reedsporf's War
Relief Funds Soaring
REEDSPORT The annual Red
Cross drive for Reedsport's quota
of $1200 has progressed more
than half-way In the first week
of the solicitation, according to
Mrs. Delbert Keith, general chair
man. A total of $600 already had
been reported by the various dis
trict workers. Mills and logging
camps of the district have not yet
been heard from and any Individ
ual who is not contacted is re
quested to mail his contribution
to Mrs. Delbert Keith, Reedsport,
or to telephone one of the follow
ing chairmen who will call for the
gift: Scottsburg, Mrs. Paul Apple-
gate; Loon Lake, Mrs. Ben Moore;
Winchester Bay, Mrs. Tom Rich
mond; Gardiner, Mrs. Adis Jones;
Booth, Mrs. Clare Melvin;. Deans
Creek, L. F. Naappi, and Smith
River, Mrs. John Weiss.
Services will be held Sunday
afternoon at St. Mary's Episcopal
church, Gardiner. Rev. George
Tourney of Marshfield is the rector.
, Rev. G. W. Mathlasen, of Cal
vary Lutheran church, Marshfield,
will conduct services at the Reeds
port Assembly of God church, 2:30
o'cl'ock Sunday afternoon, March
21.
Lenten services will be held at
o'clock each Wednesday evening,
at St. Ann's Catholic church,
Reedsport, and mass at 8 o'clock
each Thursday morning through
out the lenten season. Rev. Wil
liam J. Killlan is the pastor of St.
Ann's church, Reedsport, and of
Holy Redeemer church, North j
Bend.
Officers Elected
Election of new officers tookj
place at the meeting of the Mis- I
sionary society of the local Com-
munity Presbyterian church held
last week at the Albert Burling i
residence. They are: Mrs. Albert
Burling, president; Mrs. Walter j
Keating, vice-president; Mrs. C.
H. Bennett, secretary, and Mrs. !
Mortimer Bailey, treasurer. Mrs.
Bennett will be hostess for the
next meeting of the society.
Several hundred persons packed
the Reedsnort hiffh school audi
torium last wer' to hear the con
cert given by members of the
104th Cavalry band of Camp
Adair, under the ' direction of
Sergeant McLaughlin. A dance fol
lowed, the music being supplied
by an 11 piece orchestra chosen
from the band.
Members of the Reedsport
American Legion auxiliary enter
tained Legionnaires and friends
Friday evening in the Legion hall,
the 24th anniversary of the
founding of the American Le
the founding of the American Le
gion. A large crowd attended and
enjoyed the festivities.
Jack Dunn, Bill Vian and Ed
ward Gerhard, who had applied
for voluntary induction into the
U. S. marine corps, have finally
been assigned to that branch ac
cording to word received here by
their parents and left Portland last
week for San Diego.
James McCulloch, son of Post
master and Mrs. George McCul
loch, left Reedsport last week for
San Francisco, where he has been
assigned for naval duty following
his graduation from a yeoman
school at the University of Indi
ana, Bloomington.
Lieut. Mike Morris, formerly of
Gardiner and Reedsport, was a
visitor at the Ben Baldridge home
during the past week enroute to
his new station in Florida.
Moilbag
"NOT FUNNY"
CTJGENE (To the Editor) Af
ter reading your playful item
concerning the lady driving up to
the market and stealing mdse., I
have been waiting for further de
velopments. Is it possible that is
Just a cute trick, when our boys
in service are going without
butter and many other things.
Why is this act going unpunish
ed? Taint funny, McGee.
Very Truly,
MRS. A. SCHULTZ, Eugene,
River Road Play,
Thursday, Friday;
Production Comedy
RIVER ROAD "A Pair of
Country Kids," a three-act com
edy, will be presented by the Riv
er Road P.-T.A. Thursday and
Friday, March 25 and 26, at 8 p.m.
in the school auditorium. This play
is a successor to the widely ad
vertised and produced play "Aaron
Slick From Punkln Crick."
Many of River Road's old play
ers will be seen with a number of
new ones. The cast is as follows:
Marie Andersen, Doreen Ander
son, Meta Mae Coleman, Lila
Smith, Hanne Pitney, Dwight
Newman, Archie Holeman, Jack
Clark, Glenn Harnden, and Jim
Walker. Mrs. Irene Holeman is
directing the play.
Creswell Mission
Society Meets
CRESWELL The postponed
meeting of the missionary society
of the Presbyterian church was
held last week at the home of
Mrs. F. D. Lacey. Mrs. Lacey pre
sided at the meeting and read an
editorial on Lent She alio con
ducted the devotions. Mrs. E. W.
Hoagland was the leader of the
lesson, "Our Emigrants." A poem
from "The Guiding' Light" and
correspondence trom Presbyterial
secretaries were read. The pro
gram of study for the year was
approved. Refreshments were
served by the hostess and a sur
prise feature was the presentation
of a large decorated birthday
cake for Mrs. Lacey, supplied by
Mrs. Richard Campbell.
A meeting of neighborhood and
community leaders will be held
at the grange hall Monday eve
ning, March 22, with Nellie C.
Lyle, county home demonstration
agent. In charge. The topic isi
"Victory Gardens and Family Food
Supply."
A benefit St. Patrick's party
will follow the regular meeting of
Honor Rebekah lodge Wednesday
evening; A program and games
have been panned. All friends
are Invited.
Practically every student of the
high school was given the tubercu
losis test by members of the Lane
county health unit. A large num
ber of pupils of the grade school
also were given the. Innoculation.
Georpe Harold Sears, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sears, an air
plane mechanic stationed at
Providence, R. I., has recently
been promoted from corporal to
sergeant.
PFC E. Earl Smith left Friday
for Portland to visit with his bro
thers, Allan and Robert, before
returning to his medical detach
ment at Tomah, Wis. He has spent
a week with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Smith. His mother ac
companied him to Portland.
Mrs. Walter Ransome left last
week for Spokane' after a visit
with her sister, Mrs. C. C. Fox
and family. Jeanne Fox accom
panied her and will look for work
in the city as will Betty Redding,
who went with them. Betty has
been nurse aid at the Sacred
Heart hospital.
Announcements have been re
ceived by Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Hoagland, parents of Cadet Pilot
William Hoagland, and by friends,
of his recent graduation from the
aviation cadet training school of
the army at Ellington, Tex. Cadet
Hoagland has not been able to
visit his home since enlisting a
year ago in November, but has
made steady advancement in his
studies.
Mrs. Marjory Overholser, who
has been visiting her father, C. E.
Warner, left this week for her
home at Seattle. Upon reaching
there she found her husband had
been called into service and she
is planning to return to Creswell
for a time.
Only since the 18th century
have separate shoe lasts been used
for the right and left foot
WENDLING The Ladies aux
iliary will hold a social evening
of the wives ot the members of
the AF of L union in the ladies
room of the Community hall at
the next AF of L meeting, Tues
day, March 23.
Mrs. Seth Byers has been visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Wearln of Walterville.
Mrs. Harlow Stewart, Mrs. Jack
son, Mrs. Susan Bailey, and Mrs.
George Gilbert are now employed
by the Booth-Kelly Lumber com
pany. This makes a total of nine
women working in the mill now.
Sergeant Shields of Eugene in
spected the observation post re
cently. William Davis, who was Induct
ed Into the army February 27, Is
stationed at Camp Barkeley, Tex.
He is in the medical corps.
PLAN CABNTVAL
WENDLING Th. w0ji:
P -T. A. wlU hold a carnival at
the Community hall the evening
of Anril 1. EntertAlnmant ...ill i
provided for all ages. Everybody
BUYS PROPERTY
CRESWELL Otto C. Worman
of Yoncalla has nurrhnA th
John Lindsay property and wiU
nine possession ai once.
A law prohibiting shoes which
extended more than two Inches
beyond normal feot length was
passed In England during the
reign of Edward" IV.
bv ,. , rj ""rraj.
more than Unn 3
o' bond, and ruZ'"
Se did a fine is
?370.70 worth. '
Based An k.
I the s,x weeks period, ,
SCHOOL SELLS BONDS
WESTFIR Bond selling reach
ed a fairly high tempo in the
Westfir grade school recently,
when the eighth grade, under
Clifford Baxter, and the third
grade, under the direction of Mar
garet Leum, staged a contest
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"MRS. MINIVER" DESERVES IT
(Medford Mail Tribune)
For onrA th Mnll THhttn nar.
... ....... - . ......... vol. ae.lv Ileal Ul.T
with the award of the chief annual movie "Oscar."
, 1 J . Wf A 0 . 1. 1 . ... .
luuuvcr in ocsi mm or una, miss
Greer Garson did a fine bit of characterization, and
supporting honors ure nttrlv ...m.. v... Kti..
Teresa Wright. It Is so seldom these awards come
out that way, at least as far as the "movie expert"
of this Journal Is concerned.
There is always some fly In the ointment how.
ever. And the fly In this particular case is James
Cagney singled out for his "brilliant characterira-
i nil" nf Ik. rij.n-n. At rl
. ... ....... ,s " 1 . V.UI1HI1.
In our Judgment that was one of the worst films i
oi uie year, ana - Jimmy uie tag." was no more
vjeorge oi. vonan, man ne was like Mickey
Rooney in fact not half as much. But we grant
such a verdict was shared tw f-. . .. j . j
- - ? mig UIMI , UCUT
a strong personal prejudice against J. C. whenever
vtuiuia wi m ins uaiurai element which is
gangsterdom. In other words In our Judgment
Cagney is definitely typed, not by the public but
by himself and his own limitations.
However, all In all the awards were excellent
and the committee responsible (or them, should be
congratulated upon ubviuui uicumiptibility and
guod Uute,
Ohio Flood Waters
Claim Two Lives
CINCINNATI, O., March 20
(U.R) Spring floods from inland
creeks and smaller rivers washed
Into the Ohio river today sending
it three feet beyond the 52-foot
flood stage at Cincinnati after two
lives were reported lost by drown
ing in Ohio and much property
damage caused In lowland farm
areas ready for spring plowing.
We Still Have a
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We're sure you're having trou
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so send your draperies, cur
tains, and bedspreads to usl
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