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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.
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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.
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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. - . . '
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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
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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
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(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.!
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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
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