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Faf Eugmt Xegftter-Gusrd, Tuesday, Not. 21, 1944 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IPubllahed Every Erenln end 6un-1ayt DITOK ANP PUBLISH! AJWn I. Baer UANAOINO 0)TO . WUll.ro M. Tufmkn KEWS 8EXV1CB Awocltd Pres.. United Preae urinjp Aiimi Bureau 01 Circulation ta4 t Um Foe. Otilce It Emene. Onion, aa second, ateae .natter. TM lUaletae-Otiairey. poller It tfa complete and tro ertial publleaUoa la He nm pasee of all newa and etata snenta an wt On thla pa(e the adltora o( The Rellater Gu.nl oHar their epinlona on avanta of tha day and matt"; of Importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful In tha development of oonitrucllve , community policy. SURPLUS PLANES FOR COLLEGES What to do with our surplus warplanes In peacetime is a question that has been bothering a lot of people ever since our air craft industry achieved its undreamed-of production heights. It has seemed that the mighty fleet of airplanes which has done so much to make victory certain might turn into a large herd of white elephants once that victory was won. But Ernest R. Breech, president of the Bendix Aircraft Corp., has come along with a plan that promises to achieve at least a partial solution of the problem and at the same time render this country a valu able service. Mr. Breech suggests that the govern ment, under the new Surplus Law, sell or lease these craft to colleges and universit ies which now give aeronautical courses or which plan to institute them after the war. His suggestion was preceded by a survey of schools, and the result assured him that there would be considerable academic in terest in the used warplane market. Only 455 out of 1200 colleges and uni versities polled answered the questionnaire. But 212. of these were found to be giving courses in aeronautics already, and 95 more include such courses in their postwar plans. What is more, 76 schools reported that they now have adequate facilities for a perma nent program, and 160 others have some, equipment. Mr. Breech's plan apparently has the ap proval of the whole industry, and its ad vantages are numerous. In the field of national defense, collegiate aviation instruc tion could be included in ROTC training, with requirements high enough to turn out pilots, navigators and mechanics of mili tary standard. Such instruction would also help to guarantee our continued leadership in world aviation. The end of the war, which will find us the world's greatest air power, will also signal a great expansion of commercial aviation throughout the world, and of fly ing in general. If we wish to maintain our leadership, we must look for the new lead era in the shops and laboratories of our colleges and universities. If the Breech plan will hasten a program for developing our future aircraft designers, engineers and technicians, it deserves a try apart from Its merits of usefully salvaging surplus planes. Of course, the aviation industry's inter est in this plan might be called selfish, but It la selfishness which works for. the com mon good. The industry, naturally, is inter ested in market. Air-mindedness is a requisite of those markets, and there prob ably are few better ways of spreading air mindedness than from our colleges. But markets also mean jobs. Aviation is now in the awkward position of Ijeing one of our youngest as well as biggest industries. Obviously it cannot maintain anything like its present size in peace. But it should do everything possible to avoid a sudden col lapse of activity. If college aeronautical training can do anything toward easing the transition from full wartime to full peacetime production, then Mr. Breech deserves three cheers and a tiger, on and off the campus. A WELCOME DISENCHANTMENT In the last days of the political cam paign, when truth and reason were looking decidedly groggy, we came upon two ad vertisements which renewed our hopes' for the survival of those estimable virtues. Turning back to those ads today, now that the hurly-burly's done, we stili find them encouraging enough to pass along as a pre view of a possible better world to come. One ad was put out by an aircraft manu facturer, the other by a maker of shaving cream. And both approached their subject with candor which copy writers commonly shun, apparently on the assumption that such an approach is too true to be good. The aircraft concern is talking about the helicopter, which it plans to make after the war. Now the helicopter, as everyone knows, has had a tremendous buildup as the air flivver of the future one smart New York shop has even had a "helicopter fashion show." But here is the gist of what one of Ita future manufacturers has to say: "Flying a helicopter Is not a job for a novice . . . Helicopters, if they could be purchased on the market today, would be more expensive than the most costly auto mobile . . . Helicopters are likely to be cost ly for some time to come ... It has not yet been demonstrated that a helicopter is any more safe or less safe than anv other air craft." The ahaviag cream people went about selling their wares by staring a painful truth which has too long been avoided. "The word pleasure," they said, "shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath with shaving ... . the whole business, we say, is at best a nuisance and a bore." " Such talk can scarcely fail to have a healthy effect upon our civilization. Think, for instance, of the sadness and confusion that must have resulted already from the unnatural association of shaving and pleas ure. Downy-faced youths have approached the brush and razor with the notion that these symbols of manhood would combine the pleasures of a turkish bath and massage. There Is no need to dwell upon their disillusionment. Time passed, the beard toughened, and shaving became a "nuisance and a bore." Yet the ads continued to pro claim its pleasures. It was enough to shake a man's faith in things generally. Now if the same disenchantment can be forestalled in tomorrow's wonderful world of plastics, electronics and family helicop ters we shall all be happier. Not that we doubt that these things will come. But too many -people seem to have the idea that because we have been forced to stop our normal progress for the grim busi ness of killing and. destruction, we shall im mediately step through the looking glass on the day of victory into a new wonderland. e . Dr. W. B. Merriam, distinguished paleon tologist, has made some excellent research into the effects of climate on human be havior and he says it's climate makes the Mid-West chronic agin'ers. We didn't know Hillman had organized climate yet. WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK GAMBLING IN BEND Bend Bulletin This is written 'on election day before there is any knowledge regarding the membership of the city commission when the new terms begin in January, 1945. It has to do with what has been said to be one of the chief issues of the city elec tiongambling in men's resorts though none of the five candidates has publicly Indicated this to be the case. And, of course, the fact that this has been said to be an issue does not necessarily make It one and silence on the part of the candidates may well mean that, in fact, it is not one. What we have to say is said on the chance that this gambling business, if not now an issue, may become one. Written before the results of the election are known it wilt be apparent that personalities are not in volved. After gambling in men's resorts had been banned by official action some months ago it was said here that the city officials who were back of the move would find it difficult to permit a return to former conditions. The statement stands and is now made with respect to any new set of officials. Gambling, so we are told, went on on a fairly open basis down to the time of the ban. What led to the shut-down has never been stated but it is believed that the Incident of the elderly man re ported in the news as having lost at gambling a large sum received for accident compensation was what touched off the action. It came after he had complained or complaint had been made on his behalf. There are, or used to be, cases of large losses and no complaint made. When there was a com plaint, so we are now told, the practice was for all resorts where gambling went on to "chip m" on an assessment to repay the loss and stop the com plaint. For some reason this was the method fol lowed instead of restitution by the winning, house. In the case just mentioned one operator balked and asserted that he was going to see that the whole business was stopped. It stopped. Whether or not this is the story is not im portant. The important thing is that gambling as it was once carried on is now at an end. It can begin again only if the police chief and his force return to a shut-eye routine, the city manager backs up his appointees in that routine and the city commission backs up the manager. That is the line of responsibility. The majority of the people of Bend, we think, though not vocal about gambling when it was go ing'on here would object, now that it has stopped, to see it resumed. Resumption would be apparent, if it came, and the responsibility would rest in the city hall. That, as we have said, would be difficult for old or new officials to take. SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS By MARIAN LOWXY OLIVE BARBER'S OBSERVATIONS AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL The youngsters were being served dinner when I arrived at the Children's Orthopedic hospital in Seattle. Superintendent Thompson turned out to be very different from the mental picture I had of her. A little on the plump side, her blue eyes twinkled merrily and had the jolliest way of crinkling at the corners; even her nose tort of twinkled, laughter wrinkles forming across its bridge. The stiffly starched white uniform which would have looked austere on any one else, wasn't so no her. Its swish and crackle was a low chuck ling about her as she went from bed to bed where children were eating from trays; when she stopped at low tables where children well enough to do so dined family style; when she stooped over weirdly trussed-up little figures lying on their stomachs and eating the best they could from dishes tucked under their chins. Nothing so natural as child behaviour and so there was no pretense in their joy at seeing her approach. One of the attendants told me in an, aside that it is always so, though she pass among them many times a day. The room whose curtains and walls were fes looned with gaily disporting rabbits was. of all things, the one whore anesthetics are given: given not in the familiar breathed-ln manner but through the rectum. With a rag bunny clasped to its breast and with other bunnies being funnily acrobatic on the walls, a child just slips off to sleep, unfright pnod by masks and strange odors. All hospitals are kind to children but here was a loving kindness coupled with wisdom and understanding of childish minds. Approaching a ward containing children who had been severely burned, the superintendent said she called these the war casualties, for many 'had been burned through being left alone while the mother worked or when they had been left with in competents. "Children don't have to be bombed and strafed to be made casualties of war," she said, the natural gaiety of her face absent as she told me the histories of some cases. One ward held six little Eskimo patients who had been flown in from the far north several days before. In another ward were several boys enough recovered to rouRli-house the place. Pillows had been thrown; books tossed about. Though she was stern before them, when away she said it was good when a boy got to acting normally. Oh she knew what normal boy behaviour was all right! The hospital is helped by many organiiations but most of all 1 like to think of the women who met and made those jolly rag rabbits to the end that a litle child might enter the lonely wav to healing a little less lonely because ot the bunny he bolds In hu arms. COMMITTEES NAMED FOR CO-ED CAPERS Freshman entertainment for me rruaH farters, annual feminine frolic on the University of Oregon campus, siatea mis year tor Jan uary, will be handled by the fol io w i n g committees, announces Miss Barbara Johns, Portland: Misses Betty Hanks, Ann Bur gess, Sue Schoenfeldt, Virginia Wood, Joan Preble, JoAnne Bush, Vida Everts, Victoria Utz, Bar bara Hawley, Rosalee Killiam. and Norma Green, all of Portland; Martha Berg, Coquille; Marjorie Leachman, Gresham; Helen Steele, Milwaukie; Celeste Olsen, Asto ria; Nancy Bedingfield, Marsh field; Lartha Lance, Yuba City, Calif.; Barbara Fullmer, We natchee, Wash.; Margaret Payne, Berkeley, Calif., and Jeanne Mer win, Santa Cruz, Calif. Miss Johns Is chairman for the freshman skit. e a e SHOWER GIVEN FALL. CREEK A pre-nuptial shower was given recently for June Kintzley at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kintzley. Those present were Mesdames W. B. Scott, Katherine KoUais, Dot Kintzley, Elizabeth Brewer, Mildred Prow. Mae Smith. Eva Goode, Clara Wiscarson, P.' J. Leavitf, Miss Minnie Leigh. Mes dames Effie Stevick, Frances Jackson, Ada Palmer, Gladys Deadmond, Vesta Carpenter, A. W. Wetlean, Ethel Hake, Given Scott, Ardyth Kintzley, Gladys Miller, Doris Wicks, Katherine Neet, Mima Barney, Grace Nep per, Lucille Burrighs, Cora Orampton, Rose Younger, Theo Brown, Martha Spaulding, Lola Brewer, Ida Shurtz. Cora Walsh, and Clara Male. The afternoon was spent in conversation, a e e QUOTARIAN8 HEAR ABOUT POST-WAR PROGRAM Twenty-six members and guests were present for the dinner and program meeting of the Eugene Quota club, Monday evening, Os burn hotel. Some of the post-war adjust ment problems coming for return ing veterans were highlighted by William M. Tugman, managing editor of the Register-Guard, in a talk on "Relief and Rehabilita tion." The speaker discussed plans being made here to meet these' problems, and pointed out the at titudes and assistance that are needed in meeting these prob lems. The program was arranged by the service committee, of which Mrs. Arch Townsend is chairman. Special guests at the meeting were Mrs. William M. Tugman, Mrs. Leona Lefcbvie, Miss Beth ene Hopson. Miss Hopson played piano numbers. Announcement was made the group would man the seal sale booth on December 15. Birthday gifts at the Monday meeting were won by Mrs. Max Burris and Miss Wilma .Parrish. a HOSTESS AT PARTV Mrs. Jack Bryson entertained last week at a dessert party to honor Mrs. Walter Johnson, those attending including Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Gordon Tripp, Mrs. Wood row Ware, Mrs. Dan Martin, Mrs. Bernard Lockman, and the host ess. . a e e MEETING CALLED OFF There will be no meeting ot the study group of the Eugene 3arden club- on Wednesday of this week. e HERE FOR HOLIDAYS Mrs. Edna Davis has arrived from Portland to visit her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Douglas, and will be here over the holi days. Later, she will join her sister-in-law, Mrs. iVncent K. Douglass, at San Bernardino, Calif. e a e LOGGING SE.SSION SHIFTED PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 21 UP) The 1945 meetng or the Pacific logging congress, originally sched uled for Portland Jan. 10, 11, and 12, has been shitted to Seaside, Ore., A. Wisnant, secretary, an nounced here today. There will be no change In dates. e e INNER CIRCLE Ninety-eight Inner Circle of the auxiliary to United Spanish War veterans met at the home of Mrs. Allen Hart Monday afternoon. Members spent the time at sew ing, and discussed plant for a rummage sale to be held Dec. 9 at the Hampton building, also for a Christmas party later. a' e a HOSPITAUTT CLUB PARTY HELD MONDAT The Eugene Hospitality club members honored their past presidents at the semi-monthly card party Monday evening at the Osburn hotel. Past presidents Introduced and honored with a gift presented; by Mrs. Dalton Ward were Mrs. Al berta S. McMurphy, Mrs. Laura Harris, Dr. AUie M. Smith, Mrs. Frank L. Chambers, Miss Eleanor Skene, Mrs. F. L. Shinn; Mrs. Roy B. Wilcox, Mrs. Lawrence S. Hunter, Mr. T. Edgar .Furnish, Mrs. Charles E. Hunt, and Mrs. Margaret Fleetwood. Each presi dent on- being Introduced gave some highlight from the time she served; A guest present was Mrs. Henry Langkoff. 1 There were eleven tables of cards, four of contract and seven of auction. Honors In contract went to Mrs. T. E. Furnish and Mrs. Charles E. Hunt, In auction to Mrs- Edna Allen and Mrs. John Jensen. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. T. G. Busch, Mrs. Katheryn Wilkins, and Mrs. Henry . Mc-Adams. AT IOTA SIGMA Mrs. David Campbell spoke on India and China, at the meeting of Iota Sigma club Monday eve ning, at the home ot Mrs. Henry Burch. The group met for des sert before the business and so cial, session. Mrs. Campbell also displayed her collection ot dolls dressed after the manner of wo men of the various castes of In dia. V . Gifts for "secret sisters" were exchanged, and new names drawn for the next year. Plans were discussed for a Christmas party at the next meeting, to be held at the home of Mrs- Jeppe Jen sen. ' a a a NAVY MOTHERS MEETING The Navy Mothers club will meet in the bamboo room at the Eugene hotel, Wednesday eve ning, eight o'clock. There will be no sewing on Wednesday. . j The club is sponsoring a rum- mage sale on Saturday, Novem ber 25, in the Chambers building, Sixth and Willamette. Those hav ing rummage are to leave it at the building, Friday afternoon. a a ; SOCIAL CLUB Social club of the auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans will meet Friday afternoon at two o'clock, at the home of Mrs. John Starr, a Latest Totals Tallied For FDR And Dewey WASHINGTON. 0 Latest to tals of the popular vote in the Nov. 7 election stood Monday; Roosevelt 24,396,261, Dewey 21, 267,416. The total of the two major parties was 45,663.677. The official canvass of the vote in the states Is proceeding accord ing, to their laws and it is ex pected they will not be completed before mid-December. MISS GOS8EN IS HONORED AT PARTY Miss Helen Gossen was honored wiUi a miscellaneous shower given by fellow supervisors of the Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph Co., Thursday evening, in the girls' rest room of the telephone office. Many gifts were received by Miss Gossen. The party was attended by about a hundred associates, in cluding Mrs. Irma Kirkpatrick, visiting from Los Angeles, where she is a supervisor in the toll of fice. A mock wedding added to the hilarity of the party. The bou quet of fresh vegetables was obligingly tossed to the bride-to-be. Miss Gossen is leaving the com pany Dec. 1 and after her mar riage to Harry Bryson will residej in Koseburg. LOYAL FRIENDS I. Loyal Friends class of First Christian church met for dinner' at six-thirty o'clock Monday eve ning. The meeting was dispersed early, In order that the member ship might attend a lecture by Dr. Laubach, noted educator. How Sluggish Folks Get Happy Relief Before storing window screens, cover them with paper and nail down on both sides. Sea Foods Car Owners Advised ! On license Steps Numerous Lane county auto mobile owners have ; applied at the sheriff's office for their 1945 license since receiving the appli cation blinks recently from the secretary of state, but none will be Issued from this office until Dec. IS, It was announced Tues day. On and after that date the sheriff's office will Issue tempor ary windshield stickers and it will cost the car owners 25 cents ex tra by applying there for their license. Car owners are being advised to send directly to the office ot the secretary ot state if they want their new licenses now, filling out the blank reclved from that office or, better still, sending the 1944 registration certlficiate, us ually carried on - the steering wheel post ot the ear. , : Among the animals to be found in Norway art the bear, lynx, wolf, deer, elk, reindeer, glutton, lemming, fox, hare and beaver. FOR Thanksgiving Fresh OYSTERS "Pacifies" Jumbo . . 60c pint Large . . . 65c pint Medium . . 70c pint Small . . . 75c pint Fresh Oysters Maryland Easterns Selects $1.00 Pint For The Cocktails fresh Crabmeat FRESH Shrimpmeat For The Fish Course Fresh Fillets Red Snapper Fillets Sole Fillets Sea Bass . Halibut Steak NEWMAN'S Fish Markets 39 East Broadway and Producers Market l 0" eMaejajajajajajajajaMaaaajejaMajaj New Cream Deodorant Sttjely helps Stop Perspiration 1. Does not irritate ikin. Does not rot druses or men's thins. 2. Presents ander-irrn odor. 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