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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
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wedding trip to
Sergeant Follett
duty at Dayton, O.
Super Service Paint
LIGHTNING'S
1151 Willamette Fbone 1316
Dorothy Dure
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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
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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
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