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

EDITORIAL P AG EOF THE RE G IS T E R-G U A R D
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urportanca to tha community, andtavorw to ba candid
but fair and helpful la Iba development at oonevuctlva
oomnunlty policy.
THE HITCH-HIKING SOLDIER
"I saw oldler boy of short suture carry
ing two laigo suitcases walking past my win
dow a mile out of town. Traffic was heavy.
What's the matter with Eugene drivers? Are they
stuck up? The meteorology students on the
campus may be having fun, but I wonder what
that poor fellow thinks of Orcgonians."
Note from Header.
The answer, dear lady, Is that there Is no
good reason for an American soldier to hitch
hike, because he is the best paid soldier In
the world, because he gets very much re
duced rates on rail and bus lines when he
goes on furlough (about lVt cents a mile,)
and because he is not supposed to degrade
the uniform by any kind of begging, pan
handling, or mooching.
By this we do not mean that a soldier
should not accept a ride for a short dis
tance from somebody going the same way.
That is done all the time. We agree that
Eugeneans should be hospitable and friendly
to soldiers. It is a nice thoughjt to invite a
couple to go along on Sunday afternoon, if
you happen to be going up the McKenzie
or out through the country.
But the soldier who tries to panhandle his
rides for several hundred or several thou
sand miles when on furlough is an entirely
different case. He certainly ought to know
his orders by the time he has been in service
long enough to get furlough.
As a rule, before furlough is granted the
soldier is called before his commander and
required to show that he is clean and neat
and that he has enough cash. to cover his
travel both ways. If he has lost all his money
in the company crap game, that's his hard
luck; he just isn't going to travel unless
somebody sends the cash from home. In
cases of death or emergency, the Red Cross
advances travel money.
The American soldier gets $50 a month
and upwards, over and above all food, cloth
ing, medical and dental care. If he has a
dependent family, a generous Uncle Sam
matches his allotment to his dependents. The
average soldier after all allotments and de
ductions has at least $25 per month spending
money which is more than a lot of us aver
age in civilian life, more than most of the
soldiers have ever had "just to spend." A
corporal or sergeant usually will have con
siderably more.
So the army frowns on hitch-hiking! And
with good reason. There have been many
cases where criminals or deserters have
used the uniform to cover highway robbery.
It is no favor to the army to be sorry to the
soldier who "can't get home" or "can't get
back to camp on time" because he has been
a fool.
The trouble isn't confined to enlisted
men. There's lots of trouble with junior offi
cers who win a set of shoulder bars and
think they've hit a gold mine. Commanding
officers who know their business get tight
rein on these youngsters and "raise billy
blue hell" when they get into debt, as many
always do. Some colonels forbid treating,
borrowing and other practices which run
into debt, and it's a mighty good rule.
Your ration boards are pestered contin
ually by junior officers who have gone broke
on leave and want "just enough gas to get
to Florida or Texas or Michigan by Sunday
midnight."
We believe everything possible should be
done for the convenience and comfort of the
American soldier but this does not include
any sympathy for the hitch-hiker. The Amer
ican soldier is a very well-paid man. The
kindest thing you can do for that boy in
service is remind him that he should save
a little of that cash for his trips home and
for that grand and glorious time when they
all come home.
Eventually the pain in the neck which
Hitler has been to all of us ;s going to
boomerang. Pass the rope!
The Germans defeat in North Africa is
their worst since 1918. That is. thus far.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK
MR. STIMSON'S ARMY
Christian Science Monitor
One of Secretary Stimson'i points In urging full
public support for an 8,200,000-man armv (a total
ol 11,000,000 In Army and Navy) Is that 'it takes
tuU year to prepare a man for combat In today's
mechanized war.
The problems of Industry and of the farm are
more flexible, the Secretary asserted. This is partly
true. An extra spurt of factory production can be
obtained by such means as working longer hours
for period. likewise, farm emergencies can some
times M met through experiences, as railing school
ehUdrcn and white-collar worker Into the fields
(or a short time.
However, It Is equally true that a really skilled
machinist or fanner cannot be made In anything
like year.
Tha whole manpower question must be one of
ompromlie. Mr. Stlmson says the Army has studied
Ita needs carefully and has scaled them to the mar.
gin considered wise. It Is the Army's responsi
bility to be ready for any contingency to be pre
pared to follow up any advantage, to absorb any re-
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it ytej to ba, computed that a JS'aUou could de
vote 10 per cent of its population to the armed serv
ices. In the case of the United States that would
mean 13,000,000 men, and beside that figure 11,000.
000 looks conservative. But today there arises the
problem of production for a new kind of war, and
there arise, too, the arsenal problem and food supply
problem for American allies. The arithmetic of
yesterday cannot compute the needs of today.
That is then lang delayed Job wich the President
has finally assigned to the committee headed by
Economic Stabilizer Byrnes. A rounded view of
the situation should be before us soon, s
THE VILLAGE GROCER"
(After Longfellow)
(By H. I. Phillips New York Sun)
Under a spreading web of rules
The village grocer stands;
His brow is all tied up in knots,
His head is in his hands.
And there hardly Is from day today
A rule he understands.
His hair Is thin and getting worse,
His face is gray or blue,
His brow is wet with honest sweat;
The set-up is so newl
His customers are dizzy, but
The Grocer's dizzy, too!
Day In, day out, from morn till night,
You can hear the loud disputes.
As the women battle for sauerkraut,
Waxed beans and processed fruits; '
And the grocer's lo'. Is some loud Bronx cheers,
Plus some super-dooper hoot. '
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
(They love to see how their elders act
In a raUoned grocery store,
When both sides figure their total points
And dispute the final score!)
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sees the people meek.
And marvels that they are the ones
Who fought with him all week!
And he's glad there are no value cards
When the parson starts to speak.
Toiling, computing, sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees the OPA
With new rules to disclose;
Each evening sees him totter home
Just a wreck from head to toesl
His business Isn't what it was;
And he knows that he Is through
With the days he knew what he could sell
And knew all the prices, too!
And when "charts" were things that a sailor used
When he sailed the ocean blue.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my grocer
For the lessons that you teach!
Into all lives jome raindrops fall
With a point value for each
I'll take a can of that apple Juice
And how many points for peach?
WASHINGTON LETTER
By PAUL DUNHAM
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21. VISITING
mnny cities In the Pacific northwest a short time
ago were two high executives of the International
Business Machine Co., with headquarters In New
York city. These two big-wigs, Mr. Ray Stephens.
executive assistant to the president of I.B.M., and
Mrs. Gordon Packard, general sales manager, had
a dozen or so of Washington and Oregon towns on
their itinerary. Big cities, such as Portland, Se
attle, Vancouver and Tacoma, where large war
industries are, located, were passed up. These loca
tions are too crowded for the purpose they had in
mind. Smaller towns, such as Belllngham, Everett,
Centralis, Salem, Albany and Eugene and several
others, were visited and looked over from stem
to stern. Their visits to these cities were kept very
hush-hush. Chamber of commerce officials, real
estate men and others in the secret said not a word.
They didn't want to jeopardize their town's chance
to bag an Industry which would employ around
600 people and be one of the largest printing op
erations west of Chicago. I.B.M. was looking for a
western location to house their huge tabulating
card printing plant, which will turn out millions
of such cards yearly.
After looking over the entire field very closely,
they decided Salem, Ore., and the real estate
men as much as told them to write their own
ticket on any property they might want to acquire.
Everyone cooperated 100 percent, and the golden
key to the city was made ready for presentation.
During the two months of negotiations with the
Salem people everything progressed in fine style,
right up to the point of closing the deal, when
orders came to the two executives to look over
the California field; and, with the bands playing
"California, Here We Come," Messrs. Stephens and
Packard headed south. A month has elapsed since
that time and word trickles back to tha national
capital that San Jose, Calif., is to be the lucky
city. With no one to blame, but just a bad break,
Salem missed out on the $64 question.
A NEW potential organization is In the making
which has every promise of success. This new
organization will be known as War Mothers of
America. Only those mothers who have sons In
some branch ot the armed service or merchant
marine will be eligible for membership. This move
ment started here a few months ago and ita present
leaders are women who have been closely Identi
fied with WCTU activities. Fields scouts will be
sent to Oregon and Washington in the near future
to establish chapters. The numerous American
Legion posts, Veterans of Foreign Wars and other
service organizations will be asked to aid the War
Mothers in organizing. It has been estimated by the
leaders of this movement that over S50.000 women
In Washington and Oregon will be eligible for
membership.
House action In abolishing the regional agricul
tural credit corporation is protested by Senator
Mon C. Wallgren of Washington in a letter to
Chairman Richard B. Russell of the senate sub.
committee on agricultural appropriations, in which
he gives notice of his desire to appear at the com.
mittee hearing. Senator Wallgren submitted com
munications from apple growers of the Wenatehee
Okanogan district asserting that no private agencies
can. or are willing to, take over the Job now being
done by RACC. and expressing the belief that
nothnlg should be done to disrupt the RACC credit
proeram. It Is stated that It takes nearly $1,000
per acre to grow and pack the crop and that even
though local banks were willing to extend this
financial aid (which they are not), "their rates
are so high that they would take all our profit."
The house report charged farm credit administra
tion with failure to show that "any producer in
the country would be unable to secure adequate
loans from private lending agencies available to
Ihem "
WITH crime on the Increase, law enforcement
it not essential, according to the war department.
The Pacific northwest, with its influx of migranta
looking for jobs (and getting them), is having tt
share of crime. Sheriffs and mayors are writing
to members of congress that "something must be
done" to stop the armed forte from drafting
deputy sheriffs, policemen and even penitentiary
guards whose places must be filled by elderly. In
experienced men. The protestanta Insist that main
tenance of taw and order Is vitally necessary if the
home front Is to be kept free from crimes of all
sort. FBI man J. Edgar Hoover recently Informed
a congressional committee that J8OO0 federal work
ers have police records and 8.600 Involve major
crimes. FBI learned this from checking the finger
print of all employes. Wardens of state and fed
eral prisons are asking that inmatee of draft age
be inducted into the service, saying that thousand
of prisoners are ready to Join Uie color.
Rainbow
Installation
Set Saturday
By MARIAN LOWRY
INSTALLATION for new officers
for the Rainbow Order for Girls
will be held Saturday evening,
eight -o'clock, downtown Masonic
temple."open to the public.
Miss Lillian Jonsrud heads ihe
incoming officers as worthy ad
viser. Installing officers will be:
Miss Mickey Donovan, installing
worthy matron; Miss Barbara
Huntington, drill leader; Miss
Mary Alice Sutton, chaplain.
VISITOR HERE
Lieutenant Mildred Ann Bohrer,
U.S. army nurses corps. Fort Ril
ey, Kansas, was a visitor here this
week as guest at the home of Mrs.
Cora Olson. Lieutenant Bohrer
will be remembered by Lane coun
ty friends as the former Mildred
Hanns.
AUXILIARY EVENT
The auxiliary to the Railway
Conductors met recently at the
home of Mrs. A. L. Carter, with
Mrs. L. L. McMahan as co-hostess.
A potluck luncheon at one o'clock
preceded a business meeting. The
next meeting will be held June 6.
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BUSINESS WOMEN'S CLASS
The Business Women's class of
the First Christian church will
hold its annual May breakfast
Sunday morning at eight o'clock
in the church annex, with Dr.
William Jones of the political
science department of the Uni
versity of Oregon as speaker.
Reservations are to be made
through Miss Lorene IJerman or
Miss Eva Worden.
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EAGLES AUXILIARY
Twenty-two members of the
Eagles auxiliary from Eugene at
tended the fifteenth birthday an
niversary meeting of the Cottage
Grove auxiliary at Cottage, Grove,
Tuesday evening. The Eugene of
ficers and drill team exemplified
lodge work at the meeting.
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LUTHERAN DAUGHTERS
Finances were discussed by the
Lutheran Daughters of Central
Lutheran church, meeting Thurs
day at the home of Mrs. Lloyd
Hendrickson. Reports were heard
from the recent ' mother-and-
daughter banquet. Mrs. Emil John-
Nile Club Fetes .
Nydia Temple Queen
Eugene club. Daughters of the
Nile, entertained Mrs. A. B. Smith,
queen of Nydia temple, Portland,
and her officers at the monthly
luncheon of the group Wednesday
at the Eugene hotel. Accompany
ing Mrs. Smith to Eugene were
Mrs. Tommy Luke, Mrs. Charles
H. Castner, Mrs. Fred O. Jenning,
all of Nydia tfmple. .
The committee in charge of the
meeting included Mrs. Stanley R.
Stevenson, Mrs. Harry W. Titus,
Mrs. R. L. Collins, Mrs. C. A.
Huntington, Mrs. Charles Wiper,
and Mrs. Clair N. Hofllch.
The next meeting comes the
third Wednesday in June.
Two Initiated At
RNA Gathering . "
Mrs. Leonard Oswald and Rob.
ert Dale Smith were initiated as
new member of the Royal Neigh
bors ot America at the meeting
Thursday evening of the lodge,
at Knights of Pythias hall. It was
voted at the session to send gift
to each of the nine members who
are in armed service. Mrs. Allie
Clarke headed the committee
which served refreshment at the
close of the business meeting.
The committee for the next
regular session, June 17, will be
Mrs. Olive Robinette, chairman;
Miss June Robinette, Mrs. Olga
Jones, Mrs. Charles Smith, Mrs.
Lottie Meek, Mrs. Marjorie Wil
liams, Mrs. Esther Gross, Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Arey and Miss Beverly
Arey.
son led the study topic for the day,
and Miss Marta Vik had charge of
devotions. The next meeting will
be held June 3 at the home of Mrs.
Lorin Carmichael.
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SATURDAY EVENT
Illahee division will meet for a
potluck supper Saturday evening
at six-thirty o'clock, at the
Knights of Pythias hall. Initiation
will be held as part of the busi
ness session to follow.
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HOSTESS TO GROUP
Mrs. Harry Gordon, Jr., was
hostess to members of the Fair
mount Guild on Thursday after
noon. A short business meeting
was held, after which the hostess
served refreshments. The next
I meeting will be held at the home
of Mrs. W. A. Herring.
Installation
For Zonta
Wednesday ' N
Q FORMAL banquet was held by
"the Zonta" club, Wednesday
evening, Eugene- hotel mirror
room, a the annual event for in
stallation. Thirty attended, in
eluding five guests Mrs. Omar
Fendall, secretary at the Lane
county USO; Mrs. Leon Anders
son, Mrs. Warren Korstad, Mrs.
Hazel Rader, all three charter
members ot the club; and Mrs.
Ralph A. Hope, inactive' member.
Mrs. Fendall talked to the
group on the work and program
of the USO and expressed appre
ciation to the group for the assist
ance it ha given from time to
time.
Mrs. C. A. Huntington presided
aa toastmistress. All charter
members attending were Intro
duced, and short talks were given
by the past presidents, including
Mrs. Eva Collin, Mrs. Genevieve
Tumlpseed, Mrs. Robert M. Fisch
er, Jr., Mrs. Ralph A- Hope, Mr.
George Korn, and Mrs. Thomas E.
Carey, who has served the past
year.
Mrs. Harold Miller and Mrs. J.
S. Rosencrans were Initiated as
new members.
Installation Held
Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, past
president 01 ine local ctub and a
past district chairman for the Ore
gon, and Washington Zonta clubs,
wa installing officer, the follow
ing being installed':
Mr. Fanny Marlatte, president;
Mrs. C. A, Huntington, first vice
president; Mrs. Thomas E. Carey
second vice-president; Mrs. Rob
ert M. Fischer, Jr., secretary; Mrs.
L.' M. Orchard.' treasurer: Mrs.
Frank A'. Graham, Mrs. George A.
Metzger, Mrs. A. R. Fredrickson,
board members.
Mrs. Marlatte announced her
committees for the new year's
work and highlighted some of the
suggestions for the new year.
Next meeting will be the luncheon
one, the first Friday in June.
Mrs. Frank A. Graham headed
the committee in charge of the
Wednesday installation event, and
was assisted by Mrs. George Korn,
Mrs. C. A, Huntington, Mrs. W. L.
Davis, Mrs. L. O. Meisel, Mrs.
Elizabeth Romane.
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les offer such a wide variety of
cnoice mat tne most widely dif
ferlng tastes are sure to be pleas.
ed. Attractively arrayed in cookie
dishes or on trays, sweet biscuits
served with fruit punch furnish
just the right touch a clever hos
tess wants for a friendly gather
ing 10 nonor this year s war bride.
TIME IS RATIONED, too, nowaday, when It comes to riving
bridal shower. But no matter how Impromptu the party, refresh
ments can be pleasant and help make the shower a real success. A
platter heaped attractively with a variety of cookies from the grocery
store solves ration problems and kitchen work and pleases every guest.
a suiuMo iruit puacn i an uie aaauionai rerresnment needed.
In this year, it's usually onlv a
matter of days when, following
the announcement, a friend will
be off to the altar for her wed
ding. No matter how short the
notice, the occasion must still be
made memorable by a reunion of
friends.
There Is rarely time to plan an
elaborate repast, let alone carry
it out Nor would anything fancy
be in tune with the times. Light
but toothsome refreshment are
the order of the day, and a wide
variety of sweet biscuit from the
grocery are the perfect answer to
today' informal entertaining.
A cool fruit punch, and a
tempting assortment of cookies
will fill the bill. Dozens of va
rieties of biscuit dainties are of
fered tha good hostess at her
grocery store. They're unratloned.
they're lees expensive than any
foods of comparable richness she
could make herself or have made,
nd thus ty spare her own but
ter and sugar while saving her
coupons, her time and her labor.
Dessert-type biscuit and cook-
Armsfrong Linoleum
Gold Seal Coneoleum
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Service Mothers'
Group Is Formed
Women of the First Christian
church who are mothers of men in
the service met this week at the
church to 6rganize a group.
Officers elected include: Mrs.
H. V. Johnson, president; Mrs
Myrtle KidwelJ, vice-president;
Mrs. Arrah Stump, secretary; Mrs.
Will -Ft. Robertson, assistant sec
retary; Mrs. M. E. Jepson, treas
urer; Mrs. Wayne R. Robertson,
publicity chairman.
The club voted to meet the third
Tuesday of each month in the
church annex.
Catholic Women
Elect Officers
The second division of St
Mary Catholic Altar society met
on Wednesday In the garden of
Mrs. Ansel Ciustlna's home for
their annual potluck luncheon.
Then were three guests. Rev
F. P. Leipzig, Rev. L. H. Sohler
and Mr. E. Pedron and twenty,
five members present.
The following new officers were
elected: president, Mrs. E. J.
Eberdt; secretary-treasurer, Mrs.
J. T. Heldenreich. Retiring offi
cer are: president r.Ms. F. J. pen
dergast; secretary-treasurer,. Mrs
B. E. Daoust. There will be no
more meetings of the group until
fall.
Kindergarten
Plans For Tea
Mother ot kindergarten pupils
of Lincoln school will entertain
Monday afternoon at a tea In the
kindergarten room at the school,
to which they have invited all
mother of that school area who
have 'children eligible tor entering
limrl In tU .11 rU;i.J ,,,
who will reach five years by Nov. the honT-i ,
21 will be of an age to be enrolled, for a covert JT.t l
Girl Scouts will maintain a! teen aHS?."?
nursery room for infant and! meeting which X S
younger children, in another; ner, Mrs
scnooi room, so inai mouiers may . report of her s
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Wins Scholarship
Alpha Iota Group
Holds Installation
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a formal banquet and "buddy
party" in the mirror room of the
Eugene hotel last week.
After the banquet the new offi
cers were installed Into their of
fices as follows: president. Miss
Helen Clouse; temporary vice
president, Miss Adeline Vossen,
recording secretary, Miss Audrey
Llewelyn; corresponding secre
tary, Miss Wretha Miller; treasur
er, Miss Marie Cole; - historian,
Mr. Fred Wullschleger.
POETRY GROUP t
The poetry group
Women's City club is
Saturday, two-thirty
home of Mrs. Qulrinus
Mrs. L. K. Page is to have the j body play.
program on "verse oi uur negro
Poets."
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recommended by It pnqi'
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