Eugene register-guard., July 21, 1944, Image 4

Pag 4 fofn aUgtater-Guartl, Friday,
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
iala Inn
BfTOa AICO MlUIOt ,
MAMAODfa nrroa -raw
rancs
-AJlaa . aM
M. Tulmao
WUd Praia
taoelatad ho UoJUd
.Audit Buraau Of emulation
Mara at th fmt OtOaa at iw Otagoa. M aaoonaV
Tlx UMi amiOt aaUaf Ou tanpltw an no
samal uUosUe Is Ma mwi puaa all W"i an ata'-a.
Mta as aam, Om Skat naa tba aaitora of Tha Wr
Guar attar that? apaUaaa aa avana) at tha day and mattari
a aiiiailaain k tfc "t anatarorlii Is ba candid
kut (air and halsaVI at la tiialmil at aooatrueUva
REHEARSAL FOR RECONVERSION
The dispute over the first step toward in
dustrial reconversion was not wartime Wash
ington's most spectacular battle, but it was
one of the most Important. Apparently it
was also bitter. But the final agreement
seems sensible, fair and promising of progress.
WPB Chief Donald Nelson has been de
clared the winner since his four-point pro
gram was finally approved. But it is more
significant that no one seems to be the loser
not even the Army and Navy, Manpower
Commissioner McNutt, and the various WPB
vice chairmen and business men who op
posed the program strongly.
First of all, there is the assurance that this
step toward reconversion will not upset
Army and Navy requirements. These require
ments change with tactics, and tactics change
with the tides of battle, so production sched
ules will still be subject to change without
much notice. But war needs manpower as
well as material will come first. Certain
ly there can have been no fundamental dif
ference on that score among the disputing
parties,, however many acrimonious words
were spoken.
The start toward reconversion seems, to
put it simply, like the type of play rehearsal
called a "walk-through." This takes place
early in the play's preparation. The actors
don't yet know their lines. Their main con
cern is learning where they enter and exit,
when they stand, sit, cross the stage, and s6
on. They may bump into each other a few
times. But by opening night everybody
knows what to do (if the company is profes
sional) and the perfbynance is smoothly in
tegrated. . .
This wouldn't happen if the actors simply
sat and recited their lines until a week be
fore the opening. Neither would reconver
sion work smoothly if an entire industry
waited until its last member in war work
had fulfilled its contracts.
To pursue the theatrical comparison, the
company's most experienced actor will prob
ablv learn his lines and stage business much
more quickly than the fledgling performer.
And t the best established organizations,
though their efficiency my keep them longer
at war work, should be able to reconvert
and regain their positions more easily than
the less efficient factories with a head start.
The new reconversion program is not go
ing to produce any appreciable amount of
consumer goods immediately. And it isn't
a cure-all for the hard work and shortages
ahead. But the preparation now should help
to prevent unemployment and chaos later.
As Senator Truman of Missouri said of
the plan: "The time for discussion is past,
and there is no satisfactory alternative for
action. A start now will provide experience
which may save many months when the rush
of reconversion begins."
PROGRESS
Germany has abandoned plans for a
massive, Hitler-designed monument to com
memorate the "total defeat of the Allies."
It was to have been 4200 feet long, 2500 feet
-i 3 ,nnn J i 1 : -1 A J J .L. n
Wlut, ana luuu icet uign. niw m mc cimugc
of plan we may note a slight but encourag
ing sign of human progress.
Mankind couldn't prevent Cheops from
building the Great Pyramid with slave labor.
But after nearly 6000 years, civilization has
advanced to the point where it can thwart
plans for a similar monument erected by
similar means.
Most of the writing on the wall is done
by little children. Grownups, however, are
the ceiling violators.
OUT OF THE WOODS
By JAMES STEVENS
HONORS TO P. BliNTAN ....
Ssyina; that Paul Bunyan is tha only fictional
hero of America who deserve a place with tha
real heroes of our history, Fortune Magaxlne con
cludes a series of eiays on these great and good
personages of the past with powerful piece on
Paul In the July Issue.
This Is honor indeed for the one and only Vlni
Jack of tha lumber woods and for the men who
made him the plnetops of the Lake States and
tha bullteam loggers of the Douglas fir, for For
tune is recognised as the top number among Am
erica's quality publications.
The Fortune essay points tha moral that Paul
Bunyan represents the first big Job in the making
of America clearing the land for agriculture and
doing tha groundwork for Industry. Also, tha
imple, straight facta ara for once told on what tha
original lore of Bunyan actually was and on how
It grew into printed stories and books.
Bow tha Stories Started ....
All tha avidenca I have dug up In 20-odd years
Of prowling for facte and clues to facts on tha
start of tha Bunyan legend shows the Saginaw
Valley of Michigan as Its birthplace. After Die
Civil War tha tales were spresd through tha Lake
States pineries by the Irish shsnty bovs.
Except with rare and special lumberjacks, the
Psul Bunyan legend lived, and grew among woods
men In tha war of brief, solemn, casual refer
ence. An old Jack would make such reference
to another eld head, nearly always for the benefit
of one or mora greenhorns, and then go on to a
new topic as though nothing unusual had been
said.
Sample: "Wasn't you on of Paul Bunvan'a
river plft tfeat atviBg ba worked a drive tor 'lavas
July 11, 1141
weeks, and then found the blistered river was
ROUNDT . . . Thought so ... Well, wasn't that
tha spring before the spring Tiny O'Teeney broke
his leg three feet below the knee? . . . What I
was thinkin' of was the time I got my collar bone
broke? Didn't I ever tell you? . . . M Just about
like that.
Born story tellers among the Immigrant Irish
shanty boys, would of course take the Paul Bun
yan gags and weave them into grand tales, like
those of the gianta of the Ould Sod.
So, as briefly as one may tell It. the Bunyan
legend came into being and was carried on. That's
my belief anyhow, after year of investigation.
Paul Written I'p . . . .
In 1914 Douglas Malloch, "the lumberman
poet," wrot "The Round River Drive" in verse
for the American Lumberman. Reference to Paul
Bunyan had appeared in print before then tha
earliest in 1898, as my record goes but Malloch
was the first to make really literary usage of tha
pine woods legend. In 1920 Lee J. Smits, a Michigan-reared
newspaper man, published all of the
old Lake States Bunyan story themes in a Seattle
Journal. Ben Hur Lampman followed suit in 1922,
In the Oregonian. At about the same time the
Red River Lumber Company of Minnesota and
California published a booklet of the Paul Bunyan
material it had been using in advertisements sine
1914. with text and drawings by W. B. Laughead.
My first Paul Bunyan book was written in
1924. I used the old theme a texts for tales
which I Invented, in the way that I had don in
the woods. Other writers have produced a total
of IT Paul Bunyan books slnca. Practically all
have presented my Inventions as old, old stories of
the shanty camps. Heh-heh.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By PETER EDSON
(Register-Guard Washington Correspondent)
THE NEW "BUSINESS AS USUAL"
The big rumpus over Navy's cancellation of the
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation contract brought
forth a strange rallying cry that sounded a good
bit like a plea to continue "War as usual!"
Remember the old wall of "Business as usual!"
back in the days before Pearl Harbor, when indus
try was reluctant to convert to all-out war pro
duction? "War as usual!" Is the successor to "Business
as usual!" It Is inspired by tha same selfish mo
tives and you are apt to hear it a lot from here on.
The prayer to continue war business as usual
comes from business and labor groups who, hav
ing once been persuaded to convert to war pro
duction and having made money out of it, want it
to go on forever. While moaning out of the cor
ner of the mouth about the hardships of govern
ment wartime controls and restrictions, they are
yelling out of the other side whenever there is a
move made In Washington towards relaxing gov
ernment controls that would give an advantage to
a competitor.
The result Is a reconversion babel that beats
anything heard In the days of conversion, and it
reverse headaches in getting back on the tracks
of peace, unless preventives are administered quick
Indicates that the country is In for a long spell of
ly, before invasion success makes cancellations of
war contracts the rule Instead of the ratify.
Two Waya To Do It Both Difficult
There are two principal schools of thought on
how to go about ending "war business as usual."
The first is to set up some kind of agency in
Washington to plan and boss the Job. A some
what faltering step In this direction was taken
towards the end of May when War Production
Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson announced the
naming of a new committee of Army, Navy, Marl
time Commission, Manpower and WPB executives
to make plans for reconversion on X-day the date
of Germany's collapse.
Can WPB do this Job? Can any agency of hu
mans be set up that will be big enough or smart
enough to deal with all the problems of business
reconversion by government control?
For example, there is still no place In Wash
ington where anyone can go to determine what
effect cancellation of any one prime contract will
have. Nobody in Washington knows where all the
sub-contracts or the sub-sub-contracts are placed,
and who will be thrown out of a Job in Connecti
cut, Kansas or California when a prime contract is
canceled in Portland, Mc., or Portland, Ore. No
body in Washington knows what the Inventories
of parts or stockpiles of raw materials are in all
these sub-contracting plants, nor does anyone know
to what each of these plants could be reconverted.
The "Free Enterprise" Theory
The second theory on bringing an end to "war
business as usual' was advanced as long ago as
last October by the Senate Truman Committee
Investigating the war production effort. It is that
the government should not determine nor even
strongly Influence determination of what civilian
goods are to be put back In production by whom,
in what quantity, or when. In other words, remove
restrictions on use of materials as fast as surpluses
develop, then cancel contracts as fast as possible
and leave the rest to Industry.
This is nothing more nor less than exercise of
the free enterprise system that business has been
yelling for. Maybe business doesn't want this
freedom of enterprise as much as it lets on. The
Brewster case would seem to indicate that labor
as well as management wants government controls
left on.
No reconversion of one automobile company, for
instance, until all can get back in the game . . .
"war business as usual" until all the selfish pres
sure groups have made sure that they are going to
be taken cara of, regardless of cost to the taxpayer.
OLIVE BARBER'S OBSERVATIONS
THE CASE OF JUDY
Judy is a very real young woman and I hav
the feeling you will think rather as I do that
her husband, Joe. should turn her over his knee
and paddle her posterior until she comes to her
senses.
Before the war friends said Joe and Judy wer
an ideal couple. They complemented each other,
as man and wife should. Joe, in an advertising
agency, earned the living; Judy was a good home
maker as well as a good housekeeper. They liked
and respected each other as people; they loved
each other as man and wife.
Then came the war. Joe was drafted. Judy
took his Job in the advertising agency. Not that
she really could take Joe's place, she'd tell friends,
but she'd do the best she could. Joe felt verv ten
der towsrd Judy, seeing her timidity at ventur
ing into a world so foreign to her previous expe
rience. So he encouraged her, telling her she'd
do fine and that he'd soon be back.
Then instead of going Into active duty as Joe
had expected he would, he was staUoned near
home. He and Judy still could go places together;
could go with the same old crowd.
Judy did do fine; so fine, in fact, that it went
to her head. At a party Judy soon got so she
would tell of her Increasing success; then of how
she'd landed accounts Joe had been unable to get
though he'd tried eer so hard.
At first Joe took her boastings In high good
humor; later In a sort of wry good humor; later
still he Just sat and said nothing when Judv went
Into the theme song of her success. And Judy never
noticed the disapproval on the faces n(" th.ir
I friends; never noticed their glances of sympathy
For their friends knew these were not normal
times: that Judy's success was but another tem
porary phase of tlwe feverish time. And there
was something repellent to them in the young
wife's boastings over her husband; making them
competitors instead of partner. Toe, Joe was dou
bly defenseless; not only hsd ha been removed
from the industrial life but Judy was his wife and
If a man is a decent sort he doesn't belittle his
wife; you support her, even in her small vanities.
Yes, Judy is being bad; very bad. But she's
worth saving and a good spanking. 1 think, would
do tha Wuk.
SOCIETY. WOMEN'S
By MARIAN
JUNIOR CHAMBER
AUXILIARY ENTERTAINED
Junior chamber of commerce
QUOTA FOR HOME
NEARLY REACHED
Tyval mint for aUDDort Of th
auxiliary met on Wednesday eve
ning at the horn of Mr. Mauri
horn at Eaton
been reached, it
Jacob., Mrs. jack Naaholm and , meeting of
Mra. William Thompson assist- ...ZL. which waa
ing. Seventeen member. If'
. ' . . Knutaon and began with cov-
Hon,.IVt c,rd went Mrl-Ured dish dinner. The horn I on
Hale G. Thompson. . 'for ph,,,, 0f service men, and
Next meeUng Is to be Aug. fin,nced exclusively by th
it the home of Mm. Hal O. I VFW and auxiliary. Mrs. Lester
Thompson, a wiener roast to be Hill, home fund chairman, an-
held with Mrs. Clinton Hartman nounced that the
and Mrs. Fred Buell assisting.
sent as Is don annuaiiy.
Mr.. Betty Jones of Portland
was a special guest. Th next
meeting will b t regular busi
ness session at the Knight, of
Pythias hall, August 3.
a a a
VISITING HERE
Sergeant and Mrs. Bertrsnd J.
Dotson (Lolma Roden bough) ar
her from Fort Riley, Kansas, Sgt.
Dotson being on furlough. He is
with an observstion battalion.
They are visiting Mrs. Dotson's
mother, Mrs. A, F. Neat, SOS
Sunnysld drive.
VISITS LODGE
Mr.. Lulu Whobrey of Lowall,
district deputy, ws t visitor t
th mting of Eugn Royal
Neighbor, of America, Thursday
Sgt. Dotson is th ion of Mrs.
evening. A watermelon supper
Clara J. Dotson, who 1. now with . foUowej th nweting. Mr.. W. E.
the air Wac stationed In Wash
Rarlrar haa bean
ington, D C, and of Glendon H.
Dotson of Eugene. Both th young
people are former student, at the
University of Oregon.
man of refreshments for th next
meeUng. ...
FLAG PRESENTED FOR -USE
IN PARK .
Doien. of mll flafs howrd
down upon the heads of wtehr,
from the folds of the large flag
presented to Skinner Butt park
Thursday afternoon by J. W. Geary
post, Woman's Relief corps, as
the large eight-by-ten-foot bannr
was unfurled. Gathered for the
ceremony were representative, of
the city and of other patriotic
groups, as well as members of the
corps. Ceremonies were held at
two o'clock, following n earlier
DORCAS SOCIETY
Meeting for potluck luncheon
Wednesday, the Dorcas society of
the Church of the Nazarene
changed its afternoon program
from a sewing session to one of
clean-up at the church. Devotions
were held at the opening of the
meeting, by Mrs. E. C. Furtwang-
ler. No meeting will be held dur
ing August.
SERVICE MOTHERS
Service Mothers' club '.of
the ' picnic luncheon
First Christian church held its
Mra. Dan G. Driscoii, presiami
of the relief corps, acted ss master
of ceremonies, introducing speak
ers. Following singing of America,
en masse, Mrs. John Newman, pa
triotic Instructor of the host order,
presented the flag to Mayor Elisha
Large for city use in the park.
He accepted the emblem with a
short speech. Rev. F. L. Cook
offered an invocation, and Care
taker Fred Lamb, assisted by Mrs.
monthly meeting Thursday eve-1
ning, with twenty present, two of I
whom were guests. A' business
meeting followed devotions, and
it was voted the group will help I
with a plan to furnish fishing
tackle to the marine hospital base I
at Klamath Falls. Dr. George
Simons showed moving pictures
of Mexico, and talked about the .
people and conditions of the I
crsntry as he showed them. The
August meeting of the club will Newman, raised tne nag.
be with Mrs. R. O: Evans of Bauer Mrs. Lillian Rice, chaplain of the
Lane. , corps, gave a patriotic reading,
and Lew HansJn .led in group
singing of God Bless America,
with Lester G. Hulin playing or
gan accompaniment. The flag was
dedicated by Mrs. Newman, and
the ceremony was closed with a
prayer offered by Rev. F. L. Cook.
Fan Dnl
I Y a r e yftJ j
J . By Ciena Hastalroeth i
Western Pine
Jumps 50 Per
PORTLAND,
At the McDonald:
FOUR JILLS IN A JEEP
An "all-star" musical again, but ' Output of western
with a difference. This one la
based on the book and Post serial
climbed from a trough of in
activity last week, with produc
tion increasing more than 50 per
cent. '
' Comparison figures, as released
.by the Western Pine association
today (in millions of board feet):
Last Prev. Last
Week- Week Year
Orders 64.767 46.90S 92.649
Shipments .65.254 46.085 87.982
Production 77,719 50,444 94,349
by Carole Landis, who wrote the
experiences of herself, Mltzi May
fair, Martha Raye, and Kay Fran
cis, when they planed tj England
and Africa to entertain troops in
the winter of 1942-43.
Out of that trip, Miss Landis
got a husband, in the picture,
fictionally, Miss Mayfair teams
up with Dick Haymes, and Miss
Francis with an army doctor; the
adapters have made an attempt
to ring a dim halo around each
one of the "Jills," but otherwise
the quartet do convincing work.
Slapstick is not underemphasized.
Impressiveness is added by
guest-star appearances of Betty
Grable, Alice Faye, and Carmen
got a great kick out of her rou
tines. Miss Mayfair. who was hardly
noticed by the movies until she
made this overseas jaunt, dances
with an elfin grace and proves to
be pretty and pert in the bargain.
Kay Francis doesn't do much but
Miranda, each singing one of the
..... , w..Q& ut w ... . mane ll"w"i-ciiiciii3 uwv-mwo
songs which helped to make her babies, but she does both very
famous; George Jessel, master of nicely,
ceremonies; and several stint, of I , , ,
dlg-dig-dlg by Jimmy Dorsey and ' 8AN1TONE
orcnestra. i
Biggest surprises ar Dick I
Haymes, the swoon singer, and !
Martha Raye and Mltil Mayfair.!
Hia voice should stand him in good ;
stead as long as his type of croon
ing remains popular, as long as ha
can sing as well as he does "You
Send Me," "How Blue the .Night,"
and "How Many Times."
Martha, as you know, delivers ,
a brand of comedy which could
hardly be termed subtle. In "Four !
Jills and a Jeep," her ebullient'
ELECTRIC CLEANERS, Ph. 300
Special
$7.50 Machlneles. Oil
Permanent
,or5.00
for 8 week. only.
Michael's Beauty Shop
Over Seymour' Ph. 1721
moments are well spaced and
timed, and we have the word of
Miss Landis and Ernie Pyle that
the men in Africa and England
Working at top speed, a. we sD do
these dys, skins often begin to dry
and look older. How can busy wrxlt
ing women recapture "thst younger
look"? With many, it can b done.
Science hu discovered nature's: secret
thit gives the bloom to pretty young
jkins. The counterpart of this; ritlu
ing substance is called" ACTTvol,
found only in iNDOCRJMg.' Acrivo!
poes to work beneath- the surface,
helps to firm tissues, builds cell) so that
most skins begin to look smoother,
fresher. You om e it to yourself to get
voir u of Endocrcme today. It will
only cost you UVs a day to Use.
K Jli'mtfly tt. SO tur
keep thlXjt
Containing ACTIVOl'
TOILETRIES DEPT. MAIN FLOOR'
JT'i out P1XUUJU TO UftVX -YOU"
ORGANIZATIONS
LOWBY
STANDING COMMITTEES
NAMED IN REJIEKAHB
Standing committees were sp
pointed by the noble grand, Mrs.
George Mast, in the meeUng of
Eugene Rebekths Wednesday
evening, at which she first
assumed her office. Those named
are as follows:
Finance, Mrs. W. F. Wendt, Mr.
Charles Croson and Mrs. Karl E.
Dannehl; courtesy, Mrs. Olive
Whltmore, Mrs. Roslna Pattrick
and Mrs. Harry M. Schrenk;
flower and card, Mr. and Mnj.
John Starr; home, Mr.. Roy Over
gard, Mrs. Kathryn Luken and
Mrs. W. E. Keinke; publicity, Mr.
Genevieve Nettleton; good of or
der. Mis. Ruple Ross, Mlsa Myrtle
Rapids, Mich, ha
was announced
the Jjuxiliarj -to
check had Dean
Porter; cheer, Mrs. Loree Ridge-1
way, Mrs. Wills Wray and Mr.
Charles Croson; visiting, Mrs.
William Forrester, Mrs. Roy Over
gard and Mrs. Harry Osborn.
To promote activity within the
order, contest ha been started,
which will last until November,
with Miss Myrtle Porter and Mis.
Ruple Ross a. chairmen of sides.
Team will be known a Waves
and Span, and will be graded on
attendance, obtaining new mem
ber., decorating and making mem
bership call..
1 ;
LOCAL SALESMAN HONORED
Richard H. Hopper of Eugen
hsa been honored by membership
In the 1944 Leaders' club of the
Oregon Mutual Life Insurance
company. Hopper Is the local
representative for the Perry H.
Walbrldge general agency. -
Membership in the club is at
'...ined by agents who meet their
production quota on a volume and
premium basis. Hopper has qual
ified on a double basis. In pre-v.-ar
years he and Mrs. Hopper
would have attended a Leaders'
club conference at some resort,
but for the duration these con
named SS chair
by the corps.
ventions have been discontinued.
In recognition of hi. outstanding
work, Hopper is being furnished
an advanced underwriter service
and Mrs. Hopper is being given
Irish table linen.
The flags of France. Spain,
England, the Confederacy and the
United States have flown over
Biloxi, Mississippi.
FREE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE Mayflower Theater,
July 24, 8 p. m.. Auspices First
Church of Christ. Scientist, Eu
gene. You are invited.
Output
Cent Mark
July 21 M
pine lumber
Phone 1171
Publio Marker
HOT PRICE
is one that cuts
your cost to
the bone--You'll
find our shelves
full of
HOT PRICES
KERR
Fruit Jars
Pts. dz.67c
Qts. . . dz.79c
WHITE ROSE
Wonder
BLEACH
CLEANING
Qt - -?!
gal. -1
gal.
God's Word
Knowing that a man
is not justified by the
werks of tha law, but by
tha faith of Jesus Christ,'
ven we have believed
In Jesus Christ, that we
might be lustlfied by
the faith cf Christ, end
not by the works 61 the
law: lor by the works of
the law shall no flesh
be lusiilled. Gal. 2:16
RZAQ: Gal. 2.
Only Cream
IScmtt
i
0
Personal Contact for
Fire Permits Advised
. Reticent of th vail., seeking
fire permit wer -asked Thursday
by H. W. Lfttau, fir warden for
the Valley Fire Patrol associaUon,
to personally contact him for per
mits. Explaining that It is difficult to
itcirtrn th exact fit informa
tion necessary lor permit, over
th telephone, Lettau released his
P-m.; Danebo, s mj I
f. T:3M:WVJ
Tueutav. t- ' . I
district,;,. IWiS'
v aiui unn
traveling schedule to assist those,
valley residents, who wish to burn
during the closed fire season.
Saturday: Coburg, 8-9 a. m.;
Springfield, 9:30-10 a. m.; Thurs
ton, 10-10:45 a. m.; Jasper 11-12
noon; Pleasant Hill, 12:15-12:45 p.
m.; Goshen, 1-1:80 p. m.; Central
Grange. 3:45-4:15 p. m.; CresweU I
1:45-2:45 p. n.; Elmlra, 4:30-5:00
. BUTTEB
rt' made fresh in, w
own plant and toJli'
you at th. peski?
ness chum-fresh.
H9 East BwW
EC
EUGENE PACKING
75 WILLAMETTE
GOOD AND COMMERCIAL GRADE
nuotrtnr!
LAMB ROAST '., a J
GOOD AND CHOICE GRADE SHOULDER
VEAL STEAKS
BACON JOWLS t
PURE LARD 44
SLICED
PORK LIVER 2
590 Willamette US East BmM
Phone ST85 i Phou ttt
Most Sepclals Good Till July 27th
rm o
POINT IFIMEE IE
CANNED MEATS VEGETABLES - FISH ,
SPAM
PREM
TREET
SALMOI
Alaska Pink
2
29
12 Oi. Tin
12 Tint $3.45
No. 1 Tin
.' LIBBY'S :
VIENNA
SAUSAGES
STANDBf
CREAK
CORN
12
mw .
lifebuot.jM
I UN.. 2 Tin IJ
J L
' LIBBY'S ( MT.H00D
DEVILED clt owe
MEAT BEAKS
15c . . . . 7c
23c fry : . iQcj H0-2'1"
LVTi "t hit, tan: fJI3Jl!aV'
W-l 00 AlL Y0UR YTffimL .
Ri COOKING AND J filljffit
rSt' W1TH ZS)
6c 2.v r-fw
LUX FLAKES 25c
Lu Toilet Soap. 3 for 19c
SWAN, rcfr
iraf
ensen',1
!
i
1