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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER-GUARD Page Six Hw. ' M 't j '1 I? AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAT1B ivuhiuhad Ircm BvtnlM tat ftindwl coitor and puausHO Allra f. inui't.wn mlTHB ...... wllllm I wuib cravirt .... AmwIiM ri U114 LTEMBIH Audit Bumu jt CUcolattaa Ennrl t UM PCM OWc ! Hunt Onfcm IJ mmt Um mttr. Britain Will Have . Th. Hlr-GuMd policy k Iht, ompl.M '"JL'fJ subnotion In IU nfwi pg of U nn. UmJ nlltr tht II oplnloni n .vnH ol th. an nt urastuna in th. community. MOMVOrllig 10 bo caMM kilt (air and helpful la Ux dovoloBmul of community poller. TO DENY A LADY IS TO BLUSH! "... I am In a Jam, and I think you should help me out In my class in Journalism . . . well we have to find A infinitive phrase, a substantive clause, and a direct question in a conventional lead story, at the beginning of the story, and we have to have them by NEXT . MONDAY, so . . . Here's hoping you can help me and save my life! PLEASE HURRY! Bernadlne Loomis, Cottage Grove. Tn learn that the bloodthirsty school marms of Cottage Grove practice the ancient i rite of sacrificing virgins upon the cold altar of Grammar is appalling news, inai wi ' ahould be elected to rescue a beauteous dan I gel in distress warms what is left of the so e ..n.i mnrrnw in these oid bones. How shall i we go about this task is the question. J Oh Bernadine, Bernadine! To think that you should commit such a "barbarism" as to J write "a infinitive phrase"! wnai win yum that is what staeeers! That 5 icobiivm f we should find a bright girl stumbling on. a pittle thing like that! To keep "a" before consonants and "an" ' before vowels is one of the greatest problems , , of the New World Order. How can we make I the world safe for Basic English is the issue I of the day. But that innocent maidens should J be made to suffer for the sins of the multi J tudes, that we cannot endure. ,; We have discussed this matter with Old ; Adrian Fuddle and he tells us he has laid ' down this maxim for his daughter Claribel: i "To keep the runs out of your grammar Is as Important as keeping the runs out of your . ' stockings. That the seams should be straight I and trim is important to both the English lan- ' guage and silk lisle. Can one be a lady in ' speech and style, that is the test." I To save a maiden's life, these lines are 1 Inflicted uoon the world. That Innocent I Blood should stain the immaculate walls 'of J the excellent new Cottage Grove high school is more than we can bear. How can teachers ! be so "crool" is something we cannot under- J stand even in our advanced years. . ON THE EVENTS OF THE WEEK ' The headlines of the week lift us up and ffects (11 the others. Prosperity shares it self. ' Sometimes, the question comes up "How do you define 'community1?" .There is no simple answer. In some ways we are learning that the whole world is one community. The founders of this republic recognized that there must be a nation for national problems, but the states, the coun ties, the cities still have their chores to do, One might say: A community problems come together." In the main, Eugene's parking problem is local to Eugene, although everybody try ing to do business here is interested. But when we come to such things as platting controls, road layouts, drainage and river bank control, health and sanitation, we find that we simply must sit down with our neighbors in Springfield and at least 30 other localities. An "urban area" has grown up in which 43,000 people face many common problems. So we are trying to get at these problems through the Lane County Planning Council which Farm Agent O. S. Fletcher very wise ly suggests should begin as "Central Lane County Planning Council," embracing first only the communities within 6 miles of the courthouse, leaving ,room for North Lane, South Lane, West Lane and perhaps other areas to come in as logic develops. On the Coos Bay peninsula, they may keep a dozen different names but they are all one community, dependent on wise use of the same resources, affected by 'the same "tips and downs." The post-war will be no time for futile feuding. j drop us down .... this week or any other week .... it s a very large worm ana a good sized war .... Mr. Churchill warns us to prepare for "the bloodiest year" in 1944 . . bombing of Naziland reaches a new peak but it remains to be seen whether any great power can be blasted out of war by air pow' er . . . . German ability to launch the coutv ter-drive which took Zhitomir seems to tie with the tough fighting in Italy in confirma tion of "another year of European war" . . . . and though we advance steadily in the South i Pacific, shrewd old Jimmy Grew keeps warn ing that "in terms of Japanese military thinking, Japan has won her war" .... mean ing we cannot delay too long or Japan will have cashed in on early gains. . . , .... more optomistic though indicated in WPB's Wilson's suggestion that American in dustries begin now to pile up orders for post war .... Northwest lumber industry in fine position to accomodate Mr. Wilson .... re funds of 13 billion on army contracts also glad news .... but Congress continues to stall on drafting papas and on farm subsidies, taxes and inflation controls .... aluminum workers demand big wage increase, say "Lit j tie Steel Formula" is dead .... and Wayne j L. Morse who predicted same hangs on in j Washington .... shall soldiers vote, and if I so which and how .... the elections are com ! ing and it is safe to say 15144 will be a cock i eyed year .... i For the end of war we offer no predio ! tions, but we stick to the proposition that it ! is something for which this, and every other ; community had better get set and well pre ; pared. Right here! ' J MA RSI I FIELD AND NORTH BEND ; As might have been expected, Marshfield ; and North Bend failed to get together on the j plan for merger Into one city under the ; name' Coos Bay. Marshfield voted heavily in favor; North Bend slapped it down, In . the 1200 foot "neutral zone" the plan lost by . one vote. ! However, there are plans afoot now to I change the name of Marshfield to Coos Bay, ' to adopt the manager plan of city adminis tration, and to bring all of the suburban , neighbors on "the peninsula" into some pro gram of cooperation on common problems. J This is wise. ; Soon or late, all of the communities of I th Coos Bay community, clear down to Em ; pire, will have to set aside their antagonisms ; nd get together on preparedness for post war readjustment. Whether they ever be ;come one political unit, they are still one ; commumty. An unhealthy condition in one FANTASTIC PUD PROMOTION Seemingly remote from Lane county, but nevertheless worth watching because of the scope of Bonneville Administration's politi cal schemes is the announcement of a PUD election to be held in Hood River countv. January 7 because this vote would authorize the tiny Hood River PUD to: 1. Issue $175,00u,000 in "revenue bonds." 2. Buy out Pacific Power and Light, N"-ili-western and PGE systems in Oregon and Washington, over vast areas including Portland and Salem. 3. Pay rich commissions to Guy C. Myers, the New York broker for selling the proposed bends. 4. Put Bonneville bureaucrats in charge of major power distribution in the Northwest through Its puppet board in Hood River, BOUQUET FOB USO (To the Editor) I don't know whether all the stores In Eugene donated two day's salary com memorating Armistice but to those who did, may I say thanks. I Know that the USO here and abroad offers the only home for many who have no other place to go while trying to forget, Just for a while, those lonely hours so many of us really have. Please thank them all from the bottom of my heart, and most of all to my wife who was one of mem. From one in service SGT. O. O. BISHOP, U.S. Air Corps Flexible Gunnery School, Kingman, Arizona. Fantastic? Maybe. But the scheme is patterned on one which seems to have had considerable success in Nebraska. Of course, the aim is to get around the big stumbling block of "severance damages" in the older policy of biting off little chunks of existing power systems. The plan should fail because it offers abso lutely no guarantee of efficient management; it seeks to ride rough show over "Home rule" in many communities which would not even have the chance to vote. It is a classic example of the utter fail- ure of the Ickes-Raver crowd to understand the people of the Northwest. People here are not hostile to public ownership, but they are not fools. Their local tax structures, their bread-and-butter industries are all affected by changes from private to public ownership. There are three requisites to anv sound approach; 1. Engineers, not politicians, must study the Physical and financial facts so that the basis for every taking over will be sound. 2. People must have the chance to vote in ' every area where sue! change is proposed. a. Raver must renounce his "driver's scat" demand for control of local operations by die tatlng their rates. The Hood River scheme is another effort to do the job by political sleight of hand. The Bonneville people hate the wirkprl "power barons" and we can feel a certain sympathy. But, they forget that their real job is to get the confidence of the people wmu uve nere in the Northwest. They will never do that until they drop this type of chicanery and come clean. Ajax MeGurk says the GOP chieftains who are united on "Beat Wlllkie" are the same guys who never could find, out how to "Beat Roosevelt." . Uni-hi made a callant stand aoainst Springfield but the Tiders are still looking for the sport pace cuv who called the bovs in blue "the little fellows across the river." One of our recent visitors from New York wanted to know "where you keep your New Dealers." He lust knt bumnino into "I In. reconstructed Americans." " NEWSBOYS (To the Editor) This concerns each and every person who is served by a little local merchant, your newspaper boy. The writer happens to be the proud father of two of these local merchants, whose ages are 10 and 12. I have seen these boys every day regard less of the rain or cold, get up be fore daybreak on Sunday morning and ride their bicycles down to the guard office and get their pa pers, fold them and start to de liver them to their customers, re turning to their home wet to the skin but not complaining. Like wise have I seen them give up time that other kids enjoy playing ball, etc., in order that you get your paper. They buy these papers and de liver them to you and when they take them at the Guard office their responsibility begins, the pa pers are theirs, and they must pay for them regardless of the fact that some people are small enough puu out and leave the newsboy holding the sack for the papers de livered. Then there are others who stall the boys for their money, asking them to come back, they never ave the money. Of course this is only a small per cent of the eus tomers that do this, but if you stop think the newsboy only makes a small per cent of the" money he collects. DON'T ROB HIM OF HIS HARD EARNED MONEY. Then there are others who for the slightest things call and com plain. Maybe the paper is a little late, or maybe you can't locate your paper, or maybe your paper might be a little wet. STOP and THINK maybe your newsboy is wet, too. Maybe he has a flat on his bicycle. In my own boy's case last week, a truck ran over his bi cycle. These and many others cause delays in delivery. Yet THEY DON'T COMPLAIN. Re member each complaint you file costs the boy 15c, if valid. Too the majority of the customers I know that every newsboy would. Join me in thanking you for vour hearty cooperation. Remember if you are going to move, bo to the Guard office and leave the money ior me Doy. Cooperate with him and he will do his best to repay you with good service; AL. J. PEAKE TRUST AND FEAR What makes me feel so sad and lone, . Why : depressed from doubt and fear Why is there no bright cheering ray To change my heart, my con science clear7 I try to see life's brighter side, To keep my heart from sin and dross: ' Yet somehow comes the piercing tnougnt, Am I now saved, or am I lost. At last I found the welcome boon, I laid it all at Jesus feet; He took my burden, cleansed my neari, I now rejoice I found relief. O, if we'd trust our Saviour more, How happy in this life we'd be; To find In Him a resting place, from ctoubt and fear forever free. I pray thee Lord now with me stay; And from thee never let me roam: With angel loved ones soon I'll sing, O praise the Lord I'm safely home. PERCIVAL I. RUST, Eugene, Ore. i are not Britons and we shouldn't be expected to take our wars in the reserved manner of the Brit ish. The American way is to dash In with everything we've got, cleaning up the mess as soon as possible with loud cheers and fanfare while everybody does his enthusiastic best to . help. Yet every time, during this war that we try even mildly to celebrate a victory, out pounce the wet blanket wavers shouting, "Now don't get excited, we haven't won the war yet! We still have ten years to go." And when the people subside into a dazed, deflated silence with all their patriotic fervor evapo rated, the same gentlemen shriek, "The American people don't know there's a war going on, they are complacent!" , We're getting exceedingly tired of that word, but perhaps we are complacent in some things. We can't be allowed to fight a war just to save these United States, we must alwavs have some hlghfalutin' slogan to fight for such as "making the world safe for democracy" or the "four freedoms." Then after we have won the war but have failed to reach the heichta nf the lously unattainable, we feel bilked, cheated and disillusioned and we miss altogether the satis faction . of knowine a well done. w ... crusade to give or if necessary to force niir 'fn,, t- i -- iiccuujiiB- upon the world. , Freedom from ing Puerto Rico upon our door step mismanaged and exploited for forty years, and Cuba not .wuiii uener. Freedom from fear, with con ditions in our deep south a hide ous blot upon the face of hu manity for 300, years, the screams of dying negroes in the Detroit race riot still ringing In our ears, and with shameful talk on pur Pacific coast of "massacre mg Japanese-American citizens S ,Sr8 ntuttnalJy en titled to Uncle Sam's protection as you or I. World-wide freedom of relig ious belief would be a fine thing, but any attempt to give the of ficial sanction of the U. S. gov ernment to the religious belief .L LI" . any "reign nation should be Vigorously stpped upon by the American people. t m VI1" t0 think we m es tablish freedom of thought and speech over the entire world, yet nu i?Mf,ntly resented . Winston Churchill's d i at Just as the- British mn w resented our airy solving of her Indian problem. Nothing Is quite so tiresome as the pussy-footing of official Washington D. C. be cause 1944 is an election year, unless it is the warmed-over bal lyhoo for Wendell Willkie. Will Itie will never be President of the United . States, and if the Republicans can't find anyone for their candidate but that shirt tail hanger-on, they had better brace themselves for the end of Republicansim and the two party system In 1944.. The scintillating, perambulat ing, narrating, tlntinabulating, wire-pulling Lady Eleanor bores us to tears. The following prayer recently appeared in a well known magazine: "O Lord, have mercy upon this weary, long-suffering nation and grant us a bachelor President in 1944." We join the magazine editor in a fervent "Amen!" . ' . (MRS.) ETHEL GABRIO. What Goes on at The Statehouse By JERRY HANNIFIN SALEM, Ore. 0J.R) Oregon housewives and the Mate's board of control have a common worry what to use butter or margarine? A recent Increase in butter ra tions to 16 points a pound and a hint that it might go higher has made several state institutions short on butter. And 10 days ago the house agriculture committee in Washington laid aside legisla tion which would have lifted fed eral taxes and restrictions on mar garine. Oregon's Fairview home for feeble-minded at Salem has had more trouble than other state In stitutions In obtaining sufficient fats for its inmates' diet. Its of ficials have asked the state board of control for permission to use margarine to supplement fat ob tained through butter. The board refused the request and suggested the Institution should ask OPA for more ration points. Meanwhile, pork and pork gravy were used to supplement the fats portion of the patients' diet. An act of the 1943 lgislature auth orized the use of margarine in event of a butter shortage. How ever, the board of control must ap prove its use. During the board ' session in which the Fairview officials asked oermission to use margarine, State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott said he was advised the Russians used lend-lease butter "to grease their boots." ' He didn't, elaborate on the re mark. The OPA says there Is a short age of butter. The board says there is not. The institutions get butter from Oregon state college, but must give up ration points for It. The Oregon state hospital also has asked permission to use mar garine. The board refused its re quest and the hospital has Increas ed its butter use by giving up more points. The U. S. forest service reports Orepon and Washington forests produced the largest amount of money ever taken in receipts from the nation's forests during the year ending June 30. ' The Pacific northwest states ac counted for $3,445,733 of the $10, 056,448 taken during the year. The Oregon-Washington total led the other 10 national forest areas. Receipts came from timber sales. grazing fees and special land use tees. - . . ' PICTURES ricture Framlni Ruth Wheeler's. 122 E. Broadwu MIDGLEY'S Sashes Doors I Phone Cabinet Work 1059 Florsheim 8no, For Men A Women . Exclusively at BU RCH'S 1060 Willamette ZEMACOL Guaranteed Rellel From Poison Oak Penny-Wise Drug 40 E. Brcadway 169 W. 6th I 4 JwniUiie r I m$m(i$ Cheer- LADY IS WEARIED COTTAGE GROVE (To th Editor) We heartily agreed with the editor when he said he was tired of the babble for a second front In Europe, and even thouah we now have established a second rront the babbling continues. We fall to see why possible hundreds of Uiousands of American and British bovs should be uprtfirerl upon German fortifications along I g ine cngnsn cnannei merely as a friendly, gesture to Russia, and we believe our allied military leaders are competent to tudie the proper time for the Invasion of western Europe and to carry ii mil without being egged on by the American people. mere are many other th nss that make us tired. Americans Only 5 Shopping Weeks 'Til Christmas We urge you to do your Christmas shopping early and avoid the rush as well as the scarcity ol Items. Our stocks are now as com plete as they will be. Below are listed just a few gift suggestions. Portland preacher suggests for Thanks giving that "we have learned that we can take it and dish it out." We have a hunch that the guy li another black Republican. Kuppenheimer Clothes The Man's Shop BYROM & KNEELAND S3 Cut 1Mb Which reminds us that this town and every other has a lot of little kids whose daddies won't get home for Christmas, so maybe while shopping early, it'i a good idea to look around. Christmas Cards 15c to 39c a Box ADAIiTS .formerly C M. I'rey Ca. (th Olive Hassocks Coffee Tables Lamps Mirrors Pictures Book Cases Swing Rockers Shelves Occasional Chairs A small deposil will hold any items you chooso for Christ maa delivery, , lave OM E . . . For AIJL Euoen. Community Chetl and National War Fund . Js"on Furniture Co.! " MJluuUf More Yule Turkeys u- m ere will b. 80 per cent more Christmas tur- kev rilnnr In ):. . 1 thn i; "V" r 1018 yr 7: ministry of fnnH said, estimating that 1,600 000 pub.WUld be 8vaiIable:t "he They 'will be sold at a controlled price through normal trade chan nels with efforts to insure etuit able distribution. Last year's were so cents a pound live, and 90 cents dressed. These turkeys will be in addi tion to 85,000 turkeys and 35,000 forces?" marked for. the armed Nutrition Display Gives Food Slogans The Lane county nutrition coun cil sponsored an attractive dis- frH"8 the ",ood fihts freedom' program. In th nn.. ette street show window of the J C. Penney company store for sev- wn d.-last week- The disP'ay uyw ivionaay. The display is the . students in Roosevelt sni mhi junior high schools, and Eugene ..... ..Iuut na several 4-H clubs In the countv. Cantlnn .u. different sections of the display read as follows: "Produce: con serve:" "Eat the rich fnnrf,. "Sharing is rationine. We h,! enough to share with those who have too little;" "Take what you want, but eat what you have." The UlJ I ,cu fate, iaftaZTSVJ "am Hen S3 -.VIVM -iinon, at " ter, Mrs. iw . J"- set: ten Funeral .m,n.-. announced later fT V thoiomewCi neid. - w last has rak..--. . thin. 7. h art, WRING wythlnr tlM SIGWARH Just Men YouHarit Day Off... BnA mml UL1 Christmas shopping . . . yeu remember the WMhlttj) still in th hamper. Phone 82S and try our Hog fc Senrlcs. . . today! NEW SERVICE LAUNDRY 839 High . , foV yssa'B at all distances Bc4ftcally MEETING EVERY VISION DBr turn Come in and let us explain the mony odvoiv tages of the greatly improved Tri-F giving you another zone of Perfect Vision. Tri-Focals are Opticol Science's newest oJ end eyestrain . . . enabling you to see clearly. Truly, they are All-Purpose gl in addition to helping you read more eosr and see better at a distance, they also e" you to view objects at arm's length wimw squintinq, straining or craning your HAVING A PAIR OF TRI-FOCALS... r like owning on extra poir of glow. SEMLER'S OPTICA. Bl"' in dwfl pt. naff FREE OPTICAL EXAMINATION ! out U rM re In nttd el floiMi by tad. eaVantef f Or. Stmltr's frte epticel t m I n I . GIMt will net k prescribed lin ebMlirrt tr ntfttMry. Rent Vour Extra Room to a Wr MM mw m -mbM I wTI " I Tslephons 2693 ! 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