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E D I T OR I A L P AG E OF TH E REGISTER-GUARD Pige Four AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPU (PubtlkhX Bvtrr CvttoJsj aA4 Sunday) BOTTOM AND PUBUWiKB Alt f. IkM UANAOINO EDITOB ...... mOUtsa M. TuamaB NIWS SESVIO AjMett4 Fna. Unltad TM ICEMBBK Audit Buraau im Clrculattoe Batatas at tba roM OffKn tultw Gnfoa at aaao tan Mlf. Tin Hiditrr-Ouvd'i policy ai Ihe aonpleta aij ImMrtKI smblleatloa In Ha nawa of all nw and itatananta a ant On thU nag tha adnata a Tha Rafiitar-Uuara Mar thai' opinions an avanta of tha day and mattara crt lircwrUnoa to tha community, andaavorlni to ba eaadld but Catr and htlplu) a Iba davalosmani oi aoutnutlva aommunttr policy. COMMENTATORS' WINGS CLIPPED In the last week or two there has been a big fuss because the Columbia network has erdered some of the biggest name commen tators to cut out opinion and stick to news. The Big Shots are not taking it kindly. Bob Ruhl in The Medford Tribune (who evidently does not think some of the shots are so big) suggests a very simple remedy for this trouble separate news and opinion, just as newspapers have done for a long long time. In a newspaper, if you see it in the edi torial colyumns you know it is opinion. If you see it in the news pages, it may be pre sumed to be factual report. In radio it may not be so easy to tag the two departments, but it would be helpful to announce a news reporter as a news reporter and a commentator as "a sounder off." And 'if necessary it could be added that neither the network or Blah-blah's good old head ache pills assumes the slightest responsibil ity for what Mr. Shot thinks, i However, there is an unexplored phase of this matter that has not been mentioned: , How far is this effort to squelch the com i mentators due to government pressures through ; FCC? ' Not long ago it was brought out at a con gressional hearing that certain officials in FCC has used some rather high-handed meth ods to, compel radio operators to discharge certain persons not to official liking. That case happened to concern persons employed in foreign broadcasts. ; But it is only a step from government encroachment in little things to control of all things, and the authority of FCC over ra dio is that of life or death. ;; Many of the radio commentators and newspaper colyumnists have outgrown their hats these last few years. Fame and money have spoiled some good reporters and observ ers. They have become pontifical. They know all the answers. They are a pain in the neck. , ',. But the remedy is NOT suppression, least of all suppression by political agencies. Time marches oh and over such swell headed gents. ; ; 11 the draft reaches further into, the gov ernment forces, those fellows will be sitting on Germans instead of chairs. ;! When you don't think much of someone It's irritating to think too much of them. England will be glad to hear that the Yanks are coming again six oi 'em withxthe touring big league baseballers. ; You can yodel the answer to four more points being added to butter. O-le-o! OUT OF THE WOODS By JAMES STEVENS ' England Plans Tree Farms . The drain of war on our forests has given the calamity howler another great day, and ha Is mak ing the most of it in these parts. An amazing number have swallowed gobs of gloom on our for. pst situation, and the result is a general bilious outlook on our forest future. We hear a moaning chorus: "Ruin of the forest Is Just one price we have to pay for victory. There's no help for it." This Is the bunk. A look at what England is hoping, planning and working for in a forest situa tion far worse than ours, and doing under war pres sures immensely greater than ours, should make us feel foolish and ashamed, The full story is in the Canadian magazine, "Forest and Outdoors," for September. Great Britain has six million acres of forest land, about .one-fourth of the commercial forest area of the Douglas fir region. Half of the acreage is deforested. Another two million acres needs "re development" A million acres is in productive forest growth. In World War I, 450,000 acres of Britain's forests were cut over. Even more acreage is being cut In the present war. The forest picture on the small island is indeed one to cry calamity about. Instead the British have been planning. Now the Forestry Commission has turned in Its report. Work on It is. already in action. An Old Story . . , After the Civil Wars of the seventeenth cen tury John Evelyn, leading English naturalist of his time, w.rote: "Truly the waste and destruction of our woods has been so universal that I conceive nothing less than a universal plantntion of all sorts of trees will well encounter the defect." The Napoleonic wars were another great drain on the woods of England. In maintaining naval and merchant marine supremacy during the centuries of the wooden ship, the oaks of England and coni fers of Scotland were the nation's main source of material. Yet the British trailed far behind France, Germany and the Scandinavian countries In the practice of forestry. This is why Britain has three million acres of noh-productlve forest land, and why she was Importing 96 per cent of all forest products consumed by her people before the war. The goal of the forestry plan is to reduce that figure eventually to 65 per cent. It Is proposed to expend a sum approximating 200 million dollars on forest planting and development In the first post war decade. Such work, It is estimated, will provide employment for 80,000 men In the forests, and 200, 000 in the forest industries, when the five mil lion acres covered by the plan are in "working order." It is a 50-year plan. Fulfillment would, of course, cost much more than the sum set up for the first decade of work. Left Get Tree-Happy . . . If England can tackle her forest problem with such Joyous abandon and good hope, we should at least be able to shed some of the gloom about ours. There's a little Island tha; was nearly blitzed off the map and which now ha turned it pastures In to air fields, and its towns into billets for the in creasing forces of invasion. Yet its people and its government are prepared and ready to move into action on a studied, detailed 50-year plan for turn ing the country's bare hills into tree farms and making existing forests Immensely more productive. What do we have here to match that? In tha way of forest land we have in the Douglas fir re gion over ten million acres of old-growth timber, more than three million acres of second-growth saw timber, and eight million acres of surveyed second growth of less than saw timber size. And we have a bit less than four million acres of forest land that needs more or less planting to ba made productive. In the way of planning, the forest industries have gone 'ahead with their tree nursery and tree farms projects. Public forestry has its pre-war programs. What is lacking ia strong popular demand tor forest planning on the British pattern, and strong popular support of the projects of both private and public forestry here. It is time for the people of these parts to get tree-happy. WASHINGTON LETTER By JAMES THRASHER JEAStafjCorrCTrjonen MARSHALL RUMORS ARE SPIKED PASS the opium, Pappy, and let's have a look at the general situation. What general situation? Why, the general situation as regards generals, but naturally. m Let's see now, how do we stand? Gen. George C. Marshall Is going to be removed as chief of staff and rendered completely powerless by being given command of all American and British force. - With General Marshall thus shackled and shoved into an obscure corner, Lieut. Gen. Brehon B. Som ervell will be made chief of staff and put to work reorganizing the War Department along global and political lines. First order of business will be a world-wide WPA, which will guarantee a fourth term for President Roosevelt. . (No need to fear those doubtful middle western states if he can car ry Iraq, the Balkans and the Solid South.) General Somervell will fire the five major gen erals who are chiefs of the quartermaster, engineer and transportation corps, the Ordnance Department, and the Chemical Warfare Service. He will then re place them with civilian bralntrusters, recruited from Justice. Felix Frankfurter's old law classes at Harvard. Well, there you have it. Bit confusing, Isn't it? But that is the general situation as set forth by Rep. Paul W. Shafer (R Mich.) in a speech printed in the Congressional Record and later amplified by statements to a reporter and duly published, RUMORS RIFE , It all started with the recent hue and cry about General Marshall being "kicked upstairs" by Mr. Churchill andor the White House "palace guard" and or somebody else. . The hue and cry is a little amazing In the first place, since the rumor of General Marshall's over seas transfer has, been heard around Washington for six months, and was never considered as any thing but a richly deserved promotion. The contention that the British are gunning for the chief of staff because he wants to invade Europe from across the channel is equally surprising. Not only did Mr. Churchill spike that in his recent speech to Commons, but he asked General Marshall to accompany him and Anthony Eden to Africa (where they conferred with General Elsenhower) and to England, after the last Washington confer ence. Seems a queer way to deal with a general whose strategy you distrust and disagree with. As for General Somervell, the villainous role as signed him by Representative Shafer is only the latest of at least three that he has been given re cently. When ha was WPA director in New York he was accused of Communistic leanings. As chief of the Army Service Forces (his present post) he has been charged with being the head of a reaction ary, Fascist Army clique. Now he's cast aa the menace in the fourth-term plot. In short, a versatile man. . i Some of the five major generals whom General Somervell Is supposed to fire, If Representative Shafer doesn't avert his appointment as chief of staff, are General Somervell's own choices. All have worked with and under him in ASF and, judging from the course of the war, have done a pretty good job. Major Gen. C. P. Gross, chief of transportation, was a West Point classmate of General Somervell's, and remains one of his choicest friends. HARVARD MEN Representative Shafer told the press that among those being considered as replacements for these five men are Dr. Ell Ginsberg and James P. Mitch ell, He said he "understood" that both these civilians are graduates of Harvard Law School in the days when Justice Frankfurter taught there. The fact is that Dr. Ginzberg never went to Harvard, and Mitchell has no college degree of any sort. Tha latter is director of industrial personnel (civilian) In the .ASF, while Dr. Ginzberg is statistical clerk In the ASF control division. Representative Shafer bases all his charges on a "blueprint of a plan which presumably would streamline the War Department, but in reality . . . convert that great department into a New Deal pol itical organization." It's no secret that a streamlining plan is In the offing, and has been worked on for some time. It has been talked about, too, but Representative Sha fer is the first person to discover anything remotelj resembling a "New Deal political organization." OLIVE BARBER'S OBSERVATIONS THE FIRST SCHOOL BELL The first school bell of the fall term rang this morning. Suddenly I was no longer a matron with two six-foot sons and a twenty-two inch grandson. She was a thin, fidgety child. Her boney little knees ached from pressing into tne bare boards of the kitchen floor as Father led morning worship. His prayer was nesrly through. He'd got past "Give wisdom to those in authority over us" and was now Dravine for the individual JlSTT members of the family. "And help M x is5. I Olive to be a good girl as she goes T Vaawf j this morning to her first day of MaMWM scnooi. inis maaa ner reel im portant. Even God now knew she was going to school! At the ends of her two brown braids, red ribbon bows were gay butterflies. Her high-top button shoes were squeakily new. She was afraid of the Big Boys, soma of whom were much larger than Teacher, Teacher was a young ladv of seventeen; not old like Mother who was twenty-four. The smaller children waited respectfully In line while the Big Boys drank from the dipper at the bucket on the bench In the hall. What water was left after each drinking was thriftily tossed back in the bucket. When it came Olive's turn to drink, she was careful to leave some so she, too, could toss water back In tha bucket She had a little slate bound with red felt. A sponge was attached to It with a string. The Big Boys thought a sponge slsslfied They spit on their lativi and nihhad with their elbows. At recess they all ate the choicer bits from their lunch buckets. A scrofulous-eyed girl saw the piece of cake In Olive's bucket and offered her cud of gum "to chew until school takes up" in exchange for It The gum was disappointing. By the end of tha month, the little girl could glibly rattle off "Can the cat catch the rat?" and "Fanny has a fan" from her primer. Nofc that she could read but her memory was good and her Imagination better. Taken together, they served her well Her report card gave her 98 in reading. But an ignominious 70 in Numbers, the intricate figure 8 having proved too much for her. Deportment however, was 100. God has an swered Father's prayer. Olivt had been a good little girl Teacher came to the schoolhouse door with a bell which she let a little girl ring. Some day after God had helped O'.ive be very good for a long long time, mavbe Teacher would let her ring the bell The thought of it sent delicious little chills up and down bar spina, Scout Group Plans For Activities By MARIAN LOWRY QT the Girl Scouts council meet ing Tuesday it was decided to hold the opening church service of Girl Scout week, Oct 31 to Nov. 5, on Sunday, Oct 31, at the First Methodist church. The rally concluding tha week will be .held tha evening of Nov. 5 at the Roosevelt Junior high school. Each troop and each scout is to be given opportunity to par ticipate in this event . Committee appointments an nounced for the council. Tuesday include: Membership, Miss Flor ence Alden, Mrs. Arthur W. Priaulx, Mrs. Robert Leeper; nominating,' Mrs. M. H. Kendall, Mrs. Paul D. Green, Mrs. F. L, Huber. a a MEETING THURSDAY i St Clare guild, St. Mary's Episcopal church, is to meet Thursday evening, seven-thirty o'clock, at the home of Mrs. J. Don Peters. , . a a a PI LAMBDA THETA The meeting of Pi Lambda Theta will be an event of Wed nesday evening, seven-thirty o'clock, campus Y. W. C. A. build ing. a a a THURSDAY EVENT Among social events tor Thurs day evening will be the buffet supper for the club of wives of army, navy, and marine officers, Eugene hotel. a a a TO ENTERTAIN CLUB The S. D. club is to meet Fri day evening at the home of Mrs. John Jensen, seven-thirty o'clock, a a a WEDDING REPORTED Miss Betty Jean Barnes, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Barnes, of Gresham, was married to Rob ert A. Meacham, son of Mrs. Annie S. Meacham of Cottage Grove, on October 10 at a ceremony held at Gresham. The couple will make their home in Vancouver, Wn. a a MISSIONARY GROUP Santa Clara Women's Mission ary society will meet Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, at the church parlors. a a a INSTALLATION POSTPONED Postponing their installation of officers for two weeks, Until the next regular meeting, Pythian Sunshine girls held a routine business session Tuesday night at tne limgnts oi fythlas nan. a a INITIATION HELD . v Three new members were inlti ated by the Eagles auxiliary Tuesday evening, Mrs. Forrest Anderson, Mrs. William F. God dard and Mrs. Edward Kadrmus. A noodle supper was served by the refreshment committee fol lowing the meeting.' a a DRILL TEAM A meeting of the drill team of the Neighbors of Woodcraft was held recently at tha home of Mrs. F. Sederlin, to plan the fall work of the group. In the team are Mrs. H. F. Bond, Mrs. Clara Evans, Mrs. J, G. Coburn, Mrs. N. L. Thomason, Mrs. E. C. McEl roy, Mrs. Harry Morgan, Mrs. Roy McBain, and Mrs. C. O. Eaton. All were present The next meeting will be Nov, 8, at tha home of Mrs. Bond, 'sea WOMEN OF MOOSE Mrs. Steve Brown was given initiation as a member of the Wo men of Moose, at the recent meet ing of the women's lodge, a a a AUXILIARY EVENT Auxiliary to the Typographical union met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. B. Hill. Dis cussion of future entertainment plans was held during the busi ness session. The hostess served refreshments. Miss Cora Kreamer will be the next hostess. Recipe (By NEA Service) AMERICANS like their sweets. Deprived of them too often, they lose some of their fighting morale. But nutritionists are urging that all sweets, such as candy, desserts and sweet sauces carry also some nutrients. The home-maker can combine nutritious food elements in her desserts, cakes and sauces too, such as eggs, nuts, enriched flour; ' Make it a rule to serve no sweet without some good nutri tion in it Nat Strips One-quarter cup shortening, cup brown sugar, I egg, V4 tea spoon . vanilla extract, 2 table spoons milk. V? cup flour, sifted, H teaspoon salt, Vi teaspoon baking powder, 1-3 cup broken walnuts or peanuts, t tablespoon confectioner's sugar. Beat shortening and sugar to gether until light and fluffy, add egg and vanilla and beat thor oughly. Add milk. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. Add, to the cake mixture and beat very thoroughly. AdJ the wal nuts or peanuts, pour the batter Into a , well-greased one-quart heat-resistant glass utility dish. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) about 30 minutes. Cut into strips and sprinkle with confectioner's sugar. These are especially delicious warm. Mousses Syrup Spread One cup molasses, 2 tablespoons butter or fortified margarine. juice of 2 lemons. Mix molasses and butter or margarine together and bring to a boil. Add lemon' juice. Serve warm on French toast griddle cakes, fried mush or hominy, or use as a sauce over puddings. Butterscotch Sauce Three-quarters cup brown su gar, 1 tablespoon all-purpose en riched flour, 1 tablespoon corn starch, Vt teaspoon salt 1 table spoon butter or fortified marga rine. 114 cups water, 1 teaspoon vanilla. - . Blend flour and cornstarch with the brown sugar and salt To avoid lumping, stir in water slow ly. Cook 5 minutes, stirring con stantly. Add butter or margarine and vanilla. ., . Local Girl Leaving For WAVES Drawing a large 'grouo on .Thursday evening will be the formal dinner and program of the Eugene Business and Professional Women's club as the climaxing event Tor the observance of na tional business , women's week here. The dinner will be at seven O clock at tha Osburn hotel. An pearlni on . the panel discussion following the dinner will be Mrs. Wilbur H. Dutton, Miss R. Louise Fitch, William M. Tugman, and Dean Victor P. Morris. Members of the men's service clubs of the city as well as husbands of club members will be guests for the evening. STEMSON BIG EMPLOYER Civilians in the War Department have increased in number from 110,000 in July, 1939, to 1.3 mil lion In 1943. Increases in the Navy Department have been from 85, 000 to 580,000. IN SAN FRANCISCO Mothers Club Has Meeting Monday Phi Sigma Kappa Mothera' elub met Monday evening at tha home of Mrs. L. G. HelterUne. At the next meeting, to be held the last Monday in November, cards will be addressed to sons of members in the service. Attending the Monday meeting were Mrs. Sam C. Bond, Mrs. G. D. Hoffman, Mrs. W. C. Wilson, Mrs. Roy E. Morse, Mrs. J. W. Llnd, Mrs. W. E. Schick, and Mrs. Helterline. President this year is Mrs. Helterline, Mrs. Wilson the secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Bond will entertain for the next meeting. MISS AGNES MADGEN Club Program JfEEPING pace with the war service record of her brother, Miss Agnes Madgen, Route 4, Eu gene, has enlisted in the WAVES, women's service of the U. S. navy, and is awaiting assignment to the WAVES training school at Hunter college of Columbia university, j New York City, it is announced by Chief William E. Bell, in charge of the U. S. navy recruit ing substation at Eugene. Miss Madgen was formally sworn into tha WAVES at the Portland branch, office of naval officer procurement Miss Madgen is the second member of her family to enlist in the armed services. A brother, Fred Madgen, is a private in the U. S. army, now stationed at Camp Calan, Cal. In 1941, Miss Madgen was grad uated from Junction City union high school, where she was presi dent of Girl's Athletic association and a member of Girls League. For the past several months Miss Madgen has been working in Eugene.' She Is a member of the First Baptist church here. Miss Madgen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Madgen, Eugene. Committee Reports Due for Realtors Further plans for their annual "First Citizen" banquet to be held In January will be made by mem bers of the Eugene Realty Board at their regular luncheon meeting Thursday noon, Wills, cafe. For the duration, this event honors all mn and women in the armed forces. The. war fund and community chest urban survey committee named by the board also will give its report Thursday. On this com mittee are Frank Cashman, F. M Bennett R. A. McCully, W. R. Robertson, J. A. Plummer, Robert W. Prescott P. Aug. Peterson, R. N. Stevenson, M. Wuhelra, John Mencke, and C. S. Benjamin. First Rotary Club was organized in Chicago ir 1905. Hot Lunches for School Discussed Hot lunches for the school chil dren during the coming winter was the main topic unaer discus sion at the regular meeting of the Stella Magladry P-TA unit held Friday afternoon at the school house. - , The lunches will begin on No vember 1 and .will continue through the entire winter. Mrs. Laura Patton is hot lunch chair man. The next meeting will be held November 5 and will be an eve ning one with the men of the group in charge. Committees for that event will be announced later. There were about twenty five members present at Friday's meeting and the first and second grade room won the attendance prize. The executive committee was in charge of the social hour. Harvest Festival At School Friday The Edison P-TA Is opening its season with a harvest festival at the school building, Friday eve ning, Oct 15, at seven o'clock. Parents are expected at this time to bring their, donations of food for the lunch room. The school rooms will take on a festive air with Halloween decorations. No admission will be charged but dessert will be sold in the library for those who wish it The committee in charge for this event is Mrs. C. H. Schaeffer, ways and means chairman Mrs. Allan Smith, hospitality chair man and Mrs. Eldon Kraal, lunch room chairman. The room mothers will also act as hostesses in each of their respective rooms. Brenda Will You Step Out With Me Tonight? I know I've been ui awful crouch not Uk tnr row any place lately. But after lUndini all day at my new job. my fen darn near killed tnt with callouses and burning. Now I've raf ormed or rather my feat have -thanks to tha let-Mi a you advised. Never triad anything that seamed to draw the pain and Are richt eyt so fast- and the way It helps soften callouses It nobody's builneul Been able to set soma extra over, time money so what do you say, let's 10 daneing tonight, Vou eaa tUp on my Ice Hint feet ail you want. County P-TA . : , An event of county-wide Inter est on Thursday will be the ses sions of the County P-TA coun cil, Fairmount Presbyterian church, starting at ten-thirty o'clock. Mrs. J. K. Sayre, state membership chairman, and Mrs. H. H. George, a regional vice- president, will be here from Portland for the event. A piy luncheon will be served at noon. All Lane county unit presidents and committee heads as well as members generally are Invited, this event being a school of in struction. Flower Group - The Eugene Garden club flower arrangement classes will meet at the clubhouse, 1845 High, Friday at two-thirty o'clock end seven- thirty o clock. Each Is to take a fall container for flowers and foliage. This is one of the most Important lessons. oincer state. Tne public Is in vlted. There Is no charge for les sons but the club asks that you become a member of the elub. which also entitles you to attend au tne different groups of the or' ganlzation. 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