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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAMB
iPubiuiMd Kranr Evaofcu aad Cundayt
CDITOK AND PUBUWHI Aim I.
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NEWS SEBVICa . AjKMlaUd Praaa. UaJtat Tmt
SdEMBEJi AU4II BUfMU tUBUIIIMI
EnwrM at lb Port Otflos M aXia, Orate as el
iUm inaltar.
Tha Ras1a1t-Quar"e polity to Ik aonelatt n4 Impartial
publtcaUoa la IU nawa tiM ot ill en. tuieicnu
on UWL Ob U1I1 Hit lha dltor of TU RtfUtar-Uuard
Mltr ihcli opkiloas an evtMa ri Oa Iw u4 nauara
brnortaaoe to tha eooununlty. anilMVorlAJ ta ba canSM
but (air and balpni la Ik dmiasaasl af aaaatnuUvt
eomaunlty poller.
BUT WE LIKE IT THIS WAY
. It is amusing to read that Mr. Ted Friend,
who gave up his job as a top-flight Broadway
colyumist for the "ease" of "country life" as
the editor of a weekly at Susanville, Cali
fornia, is disillusioned happily disillusioned.
That hammock in which he had figured to
spend so many lazy afternoons under the
azure California skies remains "unbent."
Mr. Friend has discovered that country
editors must work much harder than those
on great metropolitan dailies. Reminds us
of the story they tell about our old friend
Tom Nelson of The Juriction City Times. A
salesman who barged In one day when Tom
was putting the Times to press remarked:
"Mr. Nelson, I believe you era builer thin
the editor of the New York Times."
Said Mr. Nelson, locking up a page, sho
ing through a basketful of proofs,1 and gal
loping to grab the phone (probably bringing
a last minute item on the Grange):
"ShucUs, Mlter, you bring the editor of the
New York Times out here and I'll guarantee to
run him off his feet the first week."
- Nevertheless there are compensations (as
the Broadway expatriate is apparently be
ginning to find out). The editor of a great
New York paper "speaks" to 7,000,000 people
but most of 'em "ain't" listening very care
fully. Seldom does the great city editor know
many of his people, and most of them don't
even know who he is. .
In the smaller communities all this is
changed. Newspapering begins to take on a
certain intimate and personal relationship.
The editor's "ivory tower" becomes purely
a figure of speech. Or at any rate, the door
opens right off the street. And jt would be
9 very unwise country editor who would
try to set any barriers between hint) and the
public.
Does old John Smith from B'ar Creek
want to talk about his Smith Plan for Mon
etary Reform? Mr. Editor will be very wise
to postpone that masterpiece he was about
to compose on MacArthur's campaign. Does
the Civic Club want to "do something about
something"?, Mr. Editor's "dogs" may be
very tired but he'd better be there! Didn't
"that new boy" put the paper right up on
Mrs, Jones' porch like he was told? Well,
you may have read the other day how Frank
Jenkins, the Klamath Falls publisher, was
out delivering papers himself.
All these things, and many, many more
the man from Broadway will learn in Susan
ville, but he will also learn, we believe, that
this close relationship to people Is very
precious. The best of America Is In the small
towns and the semi-rural counties which
have not yet "grown up." Where people are
able to know each other they usually get
along. Where government is still close to
the people it is usually good.
Big things can bo done and are being done
by small towns, and in- the small town rela
tionship the job of editing and publishing
fulls into its proper place. There is an old
saw which says:
"A newspaper's Job is to mould publle
opinion."
We do not agree with that entirely. Opin
ion is really shaped by events, and by the
faithful news of those events. In the inter
pretation of that news, the editor merely
helps. He shapes and is shaped by the peo
ple with whom he lives and works.
It is hard work! But the small town edi
tor tnkes on where the Big Shots leave off.
Mr. Gallup and others have developed highly
scientific methods of measuring public opin
ion at any given time on any given subject.
But that is like the work the engineers do
charting the movements of tides and sand
bars. The fascinating job is working with the
people, getting down to earth, the unending
study of actions and reactions, which make
a community tick.
CRADLE TO GRAVE
Fortune Magazine polled business leaders
on the question: Do you think a "cradle-to-the-grave"
program of minimum security for
all in the United States is (a) Impossible and
undesirable? (b)-Economically possible but
undesirable? (c) Desirable but Impossible?
(d) Economically possible and desirable?
Less than one out of five considers such
a program both possible and desirable; only
two out of five would want it if we could
have it. Three out of five think it undesir
able, even if it were possible.
We arre with the three out of five. But
-a would be interested in knowing what the
n.iiss uf the people would say. We should
e:;pecl a different response.
So many Italians decided to fight on the
side of the Allies thut Budoglio finally or
dered them to.
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE
GOVERNMENT PROFIT
The post office department made $33,000,
000 on domestic airmail in the last fiscal year
as compared with less than a fourth as much
in 1941-42 and a loss of more than $13,000,000
ten years ago.
This represents a profit approximately 54
per cent of the gross business done. .The
airmail letter on which you paid six cents
cost Uncle Sam somewhat less than three
cents to handle, including payments to air
lines, airmail postoffices, supplementary rail
road mail services, etc.
If this keeps up, perhaps when more
planes are available Uncle Sam will remem
ber what Woolworth discovered in the five-and-tens.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By JAMES THRASHER
NEA Staff Correspondent
REVEAL WFA FOOD FUMBLING
One of the least publicized but most active
groups In the House of Representatives Is the Rt-
fiubllcen Congressional Food Study Committee, It
1 an unofficial body of some 45 members, appointed
six months ago by Minority Leader Joseph Martin
to try to get the whole war food problem centered
under the authority of one man,
The committee hasn't yet fulfilled Its mission.
The nearest it has come has been to inspire a bill
Introduced by Democratic Rep. Hampton Fulmar of
South Carolina, chairman of the House Agricul
ture Committee, and a similar one introduced In the
Senate by Senator Arthur Vandtnbtrg. The bills art
now resting comfortably in the Rules Committee.
But in the process of trying, It has needled the
War Food Administration persistently. Speeches by
Its members, on the House floor and outside, have
contained some disclosures that must embarrass
WFA, to say the least.
One of the committee members, Gerald Landls,
In the course of his food investigation, discovered
the Army dumping potatoes, spoiled and unspoiled
alike, In his home town of Vlncennee, Ind. Sine
then Landis has turned his attention to the nrlce
situation, charging that OPA is both dilatory and
uniwr in nxing cewngs on certain commodities.
FREE FEA8
The Hooser congressman states that large quan
tities of spinach and .asparagus spoiled ill ware
house this summer because the vegetables could
pot be moved to canneries until a price was set. He
also cites a letter from a Fresno, Calif., farmer who
planted and raised 200 acres of peas at a cost of
$35 an acre. When he (earned the ceiling price on
peas, the farmer writes, he figured that he would
receive less for his crop than the cost of hiring labor
to harvest it. So he simply put an ad in the paper
inviting people to Come out and help themselves.
To bolster his accusation that food Is being
wasted through inefficient scheduling of transporta
tion, Landis calls attention to a recent Food Distri
bution Administration release which asks for cash
offers on 1,900,000 pounds of rolled oats. The break
fast rood, says the congressman, was Infested by
buss while It reposed on the wharves at Wee
hawken, N. J., and can now be used only for chicken
feed,
Landis charges further that 17 million out of J)2
million cases of canned milk, bought by the Com
modities Credit Corp., In 1941, have spoiled be
cause Uiey were not turned over regularly, as can
ned milk must be If it Is stored a long time. He
also says that CCC turned back Z.ooo.ooo cases of
canned tomatoes to the open market after storing
them for a year, because it. had no place to use
them. 1 .
But the Food Study Committee's favorite among
its eurrent findings is an involved story which em
braces feed, coal, shipping and price ceilings.
Last year, a committee spokesman recalls, WPB
and OPA urged East Coast commercial establish
ments and households equipped with oil furnaces
to convert to conl or run Uie risk of getting no oil.
To take care of transporting coal to meet these
added needs, the Great Lakes fleet of 19 wheat
carrying boats was converted to coal carriers and
used to haul the fuel from Newport News ta north
ern coastal cities.
Pigs Get Corn
The narrator now shifts the scene to the Middle
West, and the time to the present. He repeats the
well-known fact that since farmers can get $1.45 a
bushel for their corn by feeding it Into pork, as
against 90 to 0.1 cents by selling it for feed, there
Is a shortage of corn on the market. So wheat is
being fed to poultry and dairy and beef cattle.
Wheat Isn't too plentiful either, he continues.
Dairy herds and poultry are being sold in feed
short areas. But It was discovered that Canada had
some surplus whest, Then WFA remembered that
the grain carriers are now coal carriers on the At
lantic Coast.
The solution to this problem, the committee
spokesman says, has been to reconvert the wheat
coal ships to their original Job. And that, he point
out, seems to leave the coal problem about where it
was before.
OLIVE BARBER'S OBSERVATIONS
ON CHRISTIAN LIVING
We know the days must seem very long te tht
old ltdy who sits in her chair all day by the win
dow. Her failing sight prohibits much reading or
sewing. She likes the radio but
no one can listen to It all the time.
Through the active time of her
life, she was what is known as a
home-body.' That is, her family
made up her entire world. No last
ing friendships were formed and
she wsa never active In either club
or church work. But her children
grew up and established homes of
their own. A few years ago her
husband died.
So she situ in her chair by the win
dow and waits for she knows not what.
I say this last advisedly that she doesn't know
whHt she's waiting for. You might say she is
waiting for death. I don'l believe she's gone even
that far. I asked her daughter, "Has your mother
no hope for the future? Isn't she a Christian?"
The daughter hestitated. then replied, "Mother
has never been a religious woman."
I thought of my own mother and father, now
IS and B4. reflectively. Especially did I think of
my mother, who has been In 1 wheel chair for
eight year. Yet because they are Christians and
have a lifetime of church activity behind them,
they have a forward-looking view and fellow
church members are constant visitors. They are
one of the busiest and happiest couples I know.
Heaven, to my dad and mother, Is as real
place as the county seat. And oh, much, much
nicer and more exciting! They've never been there
but they're going! They don't say too much about
it, but we see the blithe expectancy on their faces
when they do speak of it. One of the "many
mansions" is to be theirs and they art as sure of
their final occupancy as you or I would be if we
had a house under construction and it were almost
finished.
Sometimes I hear them talking with other eld
erly Christians of the delights they'll share when
they "go home." as though they were colonlsta on
their way to settle in a Valley of Delight.
They're never tearful over the prospects of leav
ing the rest o' us. "You'll come later and we'll bt
on the reception committee to meet you," they'll
say. Once In mock reproach, I accused them of
being smug over getting there first. Then we re
membered my sister. Ruth. She was already there.
Christian living gives mighty good raturns, not
tht least of these being a joyous old age.
First 1944 Christmas Seals
Sold As '43 Check Arriv.es
It is never too late nor too
early to buy Christmas seals, drive
leaders pointed out Thursday. Oct
IS brought in the first buyer for
the 1944 ctamps as well as the
last one, to date, for those of 1943.
When Mrs. Judd S'auffer, booth
seal sale chairman, dropped into
headquarters office to talk over
plans for this year's booth sale
and her check paying for her 1943
stamps. She explained that she
had Just found her stamps under
tome old tax receipts.
Other late returns havt been
coming in all through the year
and although the stamps paid for
were- not used on letters and
packages to send a word of cheer
last year, the money was Just as
welcome in the year-round fight
on tuberculosis, it was. emphasiz
ed. .
Mr. Sleuffer, trre early pur
chaser, is anticipating an unus-.
ually Urge booth' salt this year,
due to the great influx of new
arrivals In Eugent and vicinity
who are not on the regular mail
ing list. If any of these new peo
ple or earlier settlers who have
been unintentionally overlooked
Mail Bag
EUGENE (To the Editors
Much has been said in regard to
the dairy industry but the half
has not been told. When choice
dairy fat cows have been sold at
the Portland yards for twenty
five dollars per head and veal
calves are below cost of produc
tion it simply means a lot of
dairy calves will be killed at
birth.
Then there are tens of thous
ands ef beef cattle with no buy
ers. We are told storage is full
of dressed meat while the public
Is clamoring for meat. We have
tight million more cattlt than we
evtr had. ' Fancy, prime, fat
Shrti4hnrn- rmvi allln In, t3S
will send or phone In their names
and others arriving at the stock ! addresses
yards and their owners hauling
flct In tht Walling building they
will receive their stamps through
the mall and avoid tht Christ
mas rush at the downtown booths.
them bacx home.
No wonder the black market is
growing by leaps and bounds.
. Be it understood the stock man
carries the maximum number and
If they can not bt sold he can
not produce more. The sheep
business' is little or no better off.
It The blight of the bureaucracy
to ruin Industry?
It this a government for the
people by the people or is it a
govtrnment by Bureau manned by
a few who seem Ignorant of the
situation?
G. G. Bell.-;
OLIVE BARBER
EUGENE (To the Editor) I
get a kick when Olive Barber,
tells how keeping track gets,
harder, as tha years go fleeting
by, no matter how folks seem to
try. She loses Frank at every
aaart'd. ' TKt
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I turn, it seems that neither one
can learn, to meet where they
arrange to meet, but chase around
from street to street. And then
she plays another role, which gets
us humans bs, a whole, she tells
of boys who write and say, that
every night they kneel and pray,
1 wonder If that takes more grit,
than scrapping with Hun, or Nip.
Then soon she takes another
strain, how victory garden folks
explain, about the friends who
visit tnem and say your garden
Is a gem, while theirs has failed
to raise nice stuff, it may be
true, or, excuse enough; and so
these visitors will get, somethings
they never raised 'you bet'. That's
getting tilings tha easy way, some
folks will rather beg than pay.
And with this writer day by day,
all kinds of subjects in relay. She
tells of birds, also of books, of
chunky folks, and mallard ducks,
of berries found along a way.
that can't be traveled any day.
But oft we find her subject stuff.
is how her man and her will
bluff, but when they get as old
as me, they'll both stay home
lots more, you'll see.
T. E. Hayes;
Rt. 3, Eugene.
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DROP IN CATTLE SEEN
WASHINGTON m Tht agri
culture department sold the cattle
feeding situation at the end of
September pointed to a rather
sharp reduction in the number of
cattle to be fed during the com
ing winter and spring as compared
to a year ago.
Kuppenheiraer
Clothes
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BYKOM & KNEELAND
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shins. Does not imtitt skin.
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LOGGERS' PROTEST
LEABURG (To the Editor)!
have read many times In the Reg
ister-Guard an arucie canea,
Saw." Would you please think
about putting, this in?
she decided it was good tone JZlrTtS oarU at S
Christmas packages. . j ovloJdedi Thcy were not ,Uow-
Almost at the time she was 1,4 go empty their loads and
paying for her stamps the post- mo,t , tm sat there all day and
man delivered a little note of night( Iosing around 20 loads while
apology for being so tardy, from ! tney are waiting. 1
mrs. nanytaoore 01 sanw . 1 ..., ,. i all-oiit war?
If that isn't holding up production
then nothing else is. Because most
all of those logs are made intp ply
wood and plywood is used in the
manufacture of airplanes and
many other articles that are bring
ing victory to this country and
our allies,
(Mrs.) J. A. M.
IN ALV ADORE
' ALV ADORE The recent rains I
havt been welcomed by the farm
ers of the Alvadore district. The
last of the apple crop was gathered
before the rains started.
. Mrs. Bob Crouter and two small j
sons of Cralgmont, Idaho, are '
ZEHACOL
Guartnteed Relief
From Polaon Oak
Penny-Wise Drug
to the seal salt of-
lit B. Bnadwsy Itt W. SUi
Hlf tf plain tat I tha aitiavtn car
wmlld give
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smart appearance.
Thursday, Octo
I visiting with her parents Mr. and
I Mrs. B. King.
A group of girl friends surpris
ed Luella Hansen on her eigh
teenth birthday anniversary. Those
present Included Margueretta and
Mary Bailey, Betty Snyder, Ra
mona Vernam, Charlotta Jensen,
Ann Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Han
sen and the honor guest, Luella
Hansen.
The Thursday club met last
week with Mrs. O. A. Drew. The
next meeting will be with Mrs.
F. Eagan.
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to folder. V1.TV:
Registrations of passenger cars
throughout the United States as of
May, 1943, showed decrease ef
approximately 2,500,000 from the
previous year.
FIDILLER
MIUS1K1ES
Are on Sale Friday and Saturday of Eod
Week at the Fuller Brush stall in tht
Producers Public Market
Home Demonstrations by Appointment Phon. .
Ple Orders New for Christmas Gifts of Ftill JJ
PULLER BRUSH STALL
PRODUCERS PUBLIC MARKET
Awy Important SitHuttt $f tkt Sum
Bonnets; pillboxes, berets, bumpers and brimmed moMi
in the smaller, feminine shaoes that are ao new this yseff-
True to tradition. Newberry's brings you these lovely hatl
at low prices that assure vour wartim tvonomv and
BASEMENT SALES FLOOR
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