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Page four. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSFAM3 ihUUM sm imi ax stulirt eorm and nnutim ...... aim r. luaiaimi ssnon ...... ruuua M. 1 NEWS SEBVIGB IMIHII fTI. UKW KXMSEB ....... Audit loin u ClraalaltM Enttrtd at the to O&cm mt tiw Cnm w ml Tha stetf.Ur-OuarS' palky Is tfea aonptaU and tmttai aubUcaUoa la 1U m pu ol an an on am. On this nh tha dttara K The lUcsMr-Ouard attar th.tr opfcUoa an event. the ear aaa Mtun Urcoruao to th wnnimintty. d4mwuu) te h BMgj em ur m budhi bi u budrf soucy. HOW BUREAUCRACY GROWS .It is genial "booster habit," whenever eome new government agency enters a community to speak of "the federal payrool to be created." Just as it is also "habit" for the average business man to wail about "freedom of enterprise" and turn around to give three cheers for some big "federal contribution" whether to some war industry or some public project Bureaucracy has been creeping up on us, and most of us have aided and abetted in the process at some point. We do not agree with those who contend that all forms of "federal aid" should be abolished. The prob lem, as we see it, is to define how far federal usurpation shall go and where it shall be slopped. In this connection some new official fig ures compiled by the Oregon Tax League from the Byrd reports are enlightening: Civilian Monthly Employes Payroll State of Oregon .... 7,309 $ 811,000 , U. S. in Oregon .... 22,000 3,564,000 All United State ..3,034,700 861,487,000 Relatively, Oregon does not have as many federal civilian employes as many states. In Oregon the total of all state, county, city and school employes 34,418. For the na tion, the federal civilian payroll runs 50 per cent above that of 48 states, 17,792 cities, 8,061 counties and 17,667 other local units of government. It is costing the nation $6,750,000,000 a year for federal civilian employes not counting any part of the military. ' You hear somebody say: "Let Uncle Sm pay that bill" It is pertinent to ask several questions: 1. Is this properly job for "Uncle Sam"? 2. Who is this "Uncle Sam"? Think of this the next time you draw your pay with its federal tax deductions, or the next time you go to a show or buy any article to which a federal tax is appended. In federal spending as in all other spend ing the question is not how much is spent but if it is wisely spent. And behind this vast and subtle growth of federal bureau cracy lies the great issue: "Can local self-government survive?" In Washington they laugh over the ad dage that "a good bureau never dies." It is no laughing matter. The other day they exposed and kicked out of a $5,500 job as "principal economic analyst" to the Office of Economic Warfare one John Bovington, whose antic dances and communist proclivi ties had excited the Dies committee. The Salem Capital Journal remarks: "No teari should be prematurely shed for Mr. B, because he will probably be kicked upstairs to a better Job as have so many other 'canned' as a sop to public opinion." Oregon lumbermen are laughing because on going to Washington with production troubles they find that one of the chief "con sultants" for WPB is a man notorious in Southern Oregon for having been fired or in bankruptcy on every lumber job he ever had. Is it a laughing matter? Uncle Sam is "us." The thing we call "gov'ment" is not Uncle Sam nor even Santy Claus. It is a political machine and it has grown much, milch too big. HABEAS CORPUS One reads with mixed feelings that Lieut Gen. Richardson, commanding general of the Hawaiian department, has defied the author ity of the United States District Court in a habeas corpus case, and has forbidden the court to take further action in the case. In times like these the military must not be unduly hampered in its task of defending the nation. But there is a big question whether General Richardson's course was defensible. Instead of the high-handed course he pur sued, he might have obtained equivalent re sults through democratic processes by re sisting in the courts. Obviously Judge Metz ger would not attempt to have the command ing general imprisoned, so no interference with military activities need have resulted while injunctions, mandamuses, appeals, briefs and counter-briefs worked their weary way upward through the judicial hierarchy. It might be well for somebody resembling the Commander-in-Chief to notify General Richardson, quietly, that the American peo ple will not tolerate a military dictatorship by anybody, at any time, in any place. WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK THE COMMON TONGUE The Bend Bulletin In his speech at Harvard on Monday following the conferring of an honorary degree Mr. Churchill quoted Bismarck as saying that the most potent factor in human security at the end of the 19th cen tury was that the British and American peoples spoke the ssme language. The gift of a common tongue, Mr. Churchill declared, "may well become the foundation of a common citiienshlp." Pursuing the subject Mr. Churchill spoke of the value the possession of common tongue bad been in the EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE Joint staff meetings in which the action of the war had been planned. Inevitably, as one reads the Churchill speech, there comes to mind certain verses from tha 11th chapter of Genesis. Read from that chapter tha first verse, thus: And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. These who had that one language, you will re member, decided to build a tower "whose top may reach unto heaven." And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people la one, and they have all one language: and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have Imagined to do. Mr. Churchill did not labor the point but he might well have gone further in his reference to the bond that ties the British and the American peo ples together through the use of the same speech and he might well have urgei that having all one language nothing will be restrained from them which they imagine to do. Certainly, the United States and Great Britain will "imagine" to keep the peace of the world and this time, united, wiU keep it. WASHINGTON LETTER By PETER EDSON (Register-Guard Washington Correspondent) There's a motley collection of publications in the the Nazi line and as yet untouched by any indlct United States unconsciously or not still following ments, withdrawal of mailing privileges or restric tions of any kind. Most pretentious of the lot is a magazine called "Destiny' published at Haverhill, Mass. It is edited by Howard B. Rand as the organ of. the Anglo. Saxon FederaUon. Until recently William J. Cam eron, the voice of Henry Ford's Sunday evening hour, was openly associated with the federation. Despite the fact that "Destiny" includes the British as Anglo-Saxons, Rand's organization has been anti-British for years and to that it has added a strong line of anti-Communism, blaming the Com munists for the recent race riots and anti-Semitism. Where "Destiny" gets in its subtle punch is in arguing that Jews are not Israelites, that the Anglo. Saxons are the true Israel and God's chosen people. In these ways, it does a job of preaching race hatred that is hard to beat. "Women's Voice," a publication which made its first appearance this spring, is the organ of "We, the Mothers, Mobilize for America," headed by Mrs. Lyrl Van Hyning and Mrs. Grace Keefe of Chicago. This is an anti-international bankers, anti Jew, anti-Communist organization which was ac tive before Pearl Harbor, then went underground for over a year, to emerge with new backing from some mysterious source to preach the doctrine that "the international bankers must not be permitted to take part at the peace conference. None but CHRIS TIANS should participate." PEACE DEMAND But the big line of the "Mothers" Is a demand that Congress enter "immediately into conferences tor a negotiated peace which our enemies' have been proposing since October, 1939." Tha paper, 'Women's Voice'' lists the name of no editor, but announces that at its offices at room 800, 837 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, open house is held every Thursday afternoon. Elizabeth Dilling literature is distributed there, even though Mrs. Dilling herself is under indictment for sedition. Another women's outfit showing renewed signs of life is the American Women Against Communism, Inc., of New York, which has had great success with color leaflet showing how the Stars and Stripes will gradually be changed to an international flag on which there will be only the yellow star of David. The first step, according to this leaflet, is the re placement of the 48 white stars by one white star and the inclusion of this one-star-and-stripes flag with the emblems of all the other nations, including those of Japan, Italy and Germany to make a United Nations of the World flag. Next step is supposedly the flag of Union Now. The stripes of the stars-and-stripes remain, but in place of the blue field appears the union Jack of the British Empire, and in the center of the union Jack appears a single, yellow gold star of David. Final step is the disappearance of both the stars and stripes and the emergence of Just one big yellow g61d star of David, the emblem of the Jews, on a white field, as the flag of the Unite States of the World. CHURCH ORGANIZATION DENOUNCED If this isn't enough for you, tills same leaflet contains a violent denunciation of the Federal Coun cil of Churches of Christ in America, made up of nearly all the Protestant church organizations in the United States, which is blasted because the Council is on record as favoring some form of (eventual world government to maintain peace. One of the leading lights in the American Women Against Communism movement is Mrs. A. Cressy Morrison, intimate menu or tiiizaoetn Billing and a "marcher" with her to Washington to nrotest against Lend-Lease. Mrs. Morrison also backed Allen Zoll's "Patriots of America" movement. In the same company with all these relatively unknowns are the old-timers: The Rev. Gerald K. Smith with his "The Cross and the Flag," now try ing to rally his own and the Coughlinite followers into an America First party. And Joe McWilliams of the old Christian Front, now trying to rally serv icemen with his new "Reconstruction Plan," is an other one. OLIVE BARBER'S OBSERVATIONS SOMETHING ON BIRDS . My interest in birds is of many years' standing and much of my knowledge of them has been ob tained from watching those about Hillside. Yet I find I'm much more keenly observant of birds when away from home distractions. The cackle of a hen whose nest I've not located will come Just when I've heard a new bird call. Of course I sleuth the hen. And you can't very well watch a flock of siskins settle over a tall fir too JLVT if you'-e hoeing vegetables. Oh, I have, but always regretted it. I i, f I Today I'm away from home. kmsaj Yet I began to think I might as wen not have been. The pine squirrel at the spring had as vitrolic a vocabulary as the one now berat ing me from the fir tree nearby. Though I did have time to marvel over the way its tail operated in utter independence of the rest of it. That tail kept having spasms, seemingly trying to quit the body to which it was attached. It jerked and tugged; twisted and yanked with violence and would have frothed at the mouth in sheer rage over its futile efforts had it had a mouth. Cedar waxwings were no better tailored than those I'd seen primly spaced over the cherry trees at Hillside. Band-tailed pigeons were just as noisy as they flapped across the lagoon before me as inose wnich rose in clouds from the blue elderberry bushes along the home fence. A kingfisher shrieked his noise-thumbing taunt. So do they shriek along uie banks of isthmus inlet. Over the surface of the lagoon I saw how water bugs spun a lively lace, only to have the pattern smooth out as their sprangly legs fashioned new, and equally transient, designs. So do they on the surface of the pool below the spring. I remembered Burroughs said he counted that day outstanding on which he saw, or heard, some thing new In the world of nature. This was not to be one of those outstanding days for me, I thought, and regretted. I get to leave home so sel dom. Just then a bird settled on the downy top of a ripened thistle bloom. Larger than a goldfinch, and of a deeper yellow, it had black wings; wings marked with a clearly etched, ocherous vee. I'd not seen this bird before and was unable to Identify it. The swaying thistle, the drifUng parachutes of the seeds the bird discarded as it ate, even the way it occasionally stopped dining and scratched its neck with a prongy foot oh, it .made a most delightful picture! And to this was added the mystery of its Identity. An outstanding day after all, and will some one please tell me what bird it waa that made it sol New Officers- Head Obsidian Princesses v.... nffimrs nf the Obsidian Quota Hears Talks Upon Princesses took Politics ness meeting Monday evening, which followed a picnic supper held at the home of Mrs. Henry Korn. Mrs. Paul Wiser is presi dent, Mrs. J. W. McCracken vice president, and Mrs. Joseph Held enrich, secretary-treasurer. Projects for the year were planned. The group will continue its Red Cross work, it was agreed. WOMEN In politic was the theme of the program for the dinner meeting of the Quota club Monday evening at the Osburn hotel. Mrs. E. A. Lunoy was pro gram chairman. Mrs. Jennie Ste vens presented a paper,' written by her sister, Miss F. Ina Burgess, "What Every Woman Can Do in Westfir Wedding At Home WESTFIR A pretty heme wed ding was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Elam, Wednesday evening, when their daughter, Blllle Jane was married to Sgt. Fred Follett, U. S. army, son of Mrs. Frank Babcock. The bride wore an afternoon Pontics," and Mrs. V. N. Free man, member of the state board of the League of Women Voters, spoke on women's work in politics, and especially of their work through the league. Mrs. Laura Harris, mother of Lawrence T. Harris, local attorney, was called upon for an impromptu talk, and told of women's early ef forts in school matters in Eugene, before suffrage was established. Guests at the meeting were Mrs. R. W. Schlska, Mrs. Ethan New man, Mrs. C."B. Swango, Mrs. Laura Harris, Mrs. Jennie Stev ens, Mrs. V.. N. Freeman, Miss dress-of blue gardenias and pink Mabel A. Wood, Mrs. V. B. Jensen, Miss Elenna Jensen of Turlock, Neva Wilson of Seattle was the only attendant and wore a frock Cal., Mrs. Ted M. Lundy, Mrs. Glen Pirtle, Mrs. Alberta McMur phey, Mrs. Julia C. Harvey of St Louis, Mo., J. F. White and Sam of brown and beige, with a cor sage of yellow rosebuds. Mrs. Martin Elam sang, Truly," preceeding Mikkelson. Rev, Rowley of Standard -church Reception Held Following the COMMITTEE TO MEET The executive committee of the Santa Clara P. T. A. wiU hold its first fall meeting at the school, Thursday afternoon at two-thirty o'clock. All members of the com ception was held Mr. and Mrs. cousins of the ent were Sergeant and Mrs. Fred Follett; Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Elam; mittee are urged to be present. - MEETING CHANGED T. D. Elam, of er of the bride; Poetry group of the Women's of Seattle; Mrs. and Mrs. Martin City club will meet Saturday af ternoon at two-thirty o'clock, at the home of Mrs. G. P. Winchell. This is a change from the usual custom of meeting with. Mrs. ter Marlene; Mr. Johnson and Marie and Maxine. After a short Ralph Crow, who- at present is on vacation. Klamath Falls, will report for TRYOUTS HELD Wanted Antiques, Jewelry, fur Twenty-three prospective niture, and China. members took part in tryouts of the Women's Choral club at the Central Presbyterian church chapel Monday evening, conduct ed by Glenn Griffith, director. The'tryouts will be continued Tuesday evening at seven-thirty. All former members as well as new ones must take part this Shop. year, by biennial custom. Regu lar rehearsals will start Monday evening, Sept. 27. REGENTS ELECT " Officers were elected by the Graduate Regents of the Women of Moose, meeting Monday eve ning at the home of Mrs. Rosa Wood. Mrs. J. L. Copenhaver was named president; Mrs. Claude Al lenbaugh; vice - president, and Mrs. Allie Clarke, secretary- treasurer. The evening was spent sewing enair robes tor nospltals, and the hostess served refresh ments. The next meeting will be Oct. 18, at the home of Mrs. Elm er Geiger. Recipe (By AP Service) CORN MEAL COOKIES One cup shortening, 1 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, Vi cup raisins, chopped, 3 cups sifted all-purpose enriched flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, V, teaspoon salt, 1 cup yellow cornmeal (un cooked). Cream shortening, slowly add sugar, then eggs, beating well. Blend in lemon extract Dredge raisins with cup flour and add. Sift remaining flour with other dry ingredients and add. Mix well. Drop by spoon and flatten out with a fork, or roll out 1-8 inch thick and cut in desired shapes. Dough may be made into a 2-inch rolL wrapped in waxed paper and refrigerated until needed. Bake 10 minutes in pre heated oven (400 deg.). LEMON OATMEAL COOKIES (Makes six dosen cookies) One cup shortening, 3-4 cup brown sugar, 2 eggs, H cup dark corn syrup, 2 cups sifted all-pur pose enriched flour, teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking' powder, 4 teaspoon vanilla, 2 cups quick-cooking oats, 4H teaspoons grated lemon rind. Cream shortening and sugar, add eggs and beat well. Add corn syrup and beat thoroughly. Sift flour with salt, baking powder ana soda, and add alternately to creamed mixture with milk and vanilla. Add oatmeal and lemon rind, beating- well. Drop, by tea spoonfuls, onto a greased baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes in preheated oven: (375 deg.). One cup of orown sugar may be used instea-i of the corn syrup by add ing 3-4 cup of milk. ENGLISH TOBY JUGS Recent Imports Assorted Sizes. 1.50 to 7.25 English Lustre Pitchers 98c to 2.75 Quackenbush's REGISTER-GUARD Sixty-five At Annual Club Breakfast charge of the busi CIXTY-FIVE men and women mUmA 4U. annual "Bosses' Brekafast" of the Credit Women's Breakfast club Tuesday morning at seven-thirty, at the Osburn hotel. Tables were deck ed in autumn colors, with a fruit bowl centerpiece. Miss Jerine Newhouse sang two solos, with accompaniment by Miss Margaret McAdams. . Mrs. Wilbur Dutton gave a reading. Mama's Bank Account" Guests were introduced by Miss Frances Travis. Miss Eva Haines was pro gram chairman. Mrs. Fanny Marietta, president, appointed a nominating commit tee, consisting of Miss Mardelle Edwards, chairman, Mrs. Lee Moore and Miss Emma Erickson in preparation for October elec tions. She also named Miss Eliza beth Richard general chairman for an installation and birthday with a corsage of party to oe neid later. rosebuds. Miss Inner Circle Resumes Meeting After Recess Ninety-eight Inner Circle, meet ing with Mrs.- Judd Stauffer Mon- "I Love You the ceremony. day afternoon, after a two-month vacation, answered rollcall with the Oakridge Bible officiated. ceremony a re suggestions for increasing interest in meetings. A rummage sale to be held Nov. 6, in the Chamber at the home of building was planned. Mrs. Stauf fer, who served refreshments after the business meeting, presented each guest with an embroidered tea towel. The next meeting, In October, will be an all-day session with noon potluck dinner, the place to be decided later. Charles Johnson, bride. Guests pres Seaside, grandfath Miss Neva Wilson James Gavin; Mr. Elam and daugh and Mrs. Charles daughters, Alice 2 gmxG wedding trip to Sergeant Follett duty at Dayton, O. Super Service Paint LIGHTNING'S 1151 Willamette Fbone 1316 Dorothy Dure "s r r "'iiw 1 ' m The promise of the new industrial West Less than a century ago the Wet wa$ gold and furs and sheltering Missions. The trail-blazer fought toward this goal and he was followed by the pioneers in covered wagons. Here in this new-discovered land S.P.'s first tracks were laid in 1863. Agriculture, mining, stock raising, lumber these became our chief industries. Great cities sprang up along the Coast, and year-round the tourists came to view our scenic marvels. But still the West was "new country". , . s Then Amuica marshalled its might or war. And over nightalmost like magic the western states began to grow giant-size industrially. An estimated million and, half new "settlers" hurried west to help make vital teblt of war. Today SI per cent of America's shipbuilding industry is on the West Coast Aircraft factories here turn out about half the nation's planes. A steel mill in California now makes 900 tons of pig iron daily and the state produces a mounting tonnage of steel Steel plate is also made in Utah . . . Texas is humming with war industries. Entirely new are the great aluminum plants of the Paci6c Northwest . . . magnesium plants in California, dote by prune and apricot orchards, Tues'day Alpha Iota Chapter narchases $50 Bond Delta Phi chaDter of Alnt,. t.i. m 79 Wtt aawj held a business session Monday noon at the Wills cafe, deciding ;- vuy au war Dona. Mrs. Ross Godard, who has been in the east for several months, was "ber aMisSS.. installed as vice-president Miss Lela Johnson wn elects ponding secretary to fill a vacancy. Home Extension Groun In First Fall Meet vice chairman. treasurer- iZ w-.! wr' John 23 At the first fall mMtina Lane county home extension com mittee at the home of Mrs. Frank Sanborn in the Alvadore com munity Monday, plans for an of- ran, ivin uL." Creek, Mrs. a A SI" ?re, Mr,. GlenS! no miss Nellie J iicer training meeung to be neld R. E. LAFFERTY A SON, Distributor ft' f' f SWEWAMt U rteSSEr iu if S . ' V , success -ttAH f yA W6HT "VTNAT f V!! J WITMVWHlppEo I l-Ml. 1 - . This iamoab's big mala job Has slwiys been toctnr west-'grown f ruits and vegetables east To move tanb, sulphur, copper, potash, cotton and woo manufacturhig centers. To bring back finished good Now our task has broadened, as has our "PP0 We serve the West's new manufacturing well as western agriculture and raw material proa w Ahead of all iv sen our country . . . Southern Pacific I. moving a record load of . JJH military supplies and U. S. fighting men. Short of a power and equipment, we are doing our best with ?M we have to work with. 1 Whjn this wai is over it seems eert.ln thai lom will be "home" to many more peo manufacturing activities here will rarely neip -more stabilized, diversified employment S.P.i.doingiunrmo.ttowellwertetodoto now geared to war production. And we railroad service will be needed in the convenes industrial, production from war to peace. P give good service then, too. Strengthened for war and with enlarged eapa railroad will continue to be an important factor 1 f . I MiintrV. ateaay progress 01 uui A. T. MERCIER, ?rtO Tht frhndly JoufAirn PW War1 For Amarica's Victory- ktp on tW c gel
