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'!!.' : !. V.1 ! i Hi 1. lid-' i( ;. ..J: i t'h ' j .-'I-. 'mm a: v mm M si-ii'i' it) .Nii.'U?r A si SI I 1 '. . 1 i ! I ' I "J ::;t' iVI D,i!.; I! 1 Kv 11 1 ' WW Eugene Register-Guard, Thursday, Dee. 21, 1944 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER T ( Published Every Evantnf and Sunday) XblTOR AND PUBLISHER Alton T. Bktr 3lAN AGING EDITOR . William M. Tugman JWS SERVICE , AocUfd Preas, United Preu IffiMBER , Audit Bureau of Circulation " Entered at Iht Post Otfle at Eugene. Oregon, aa econd p)u mriter. The RegtKter-Ouard'i policy It the complete and lm yJrtUl publication In Ita newa page of all news and ttue Dventf on newa. On thla page the edltora of The Register Guard offer their oplnloni on eventa of the day and mattera Sf, Importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful a the development of constructive Jo mm unity policy. Jt CHAMBERS-WESTMORLAND WELCOME m Z One of the first chores of the new Eugene 2ily administration will be to make the new Jitizens of the Chambers-Westmorland area Jeel that they are truly welcome. When it Js possible to build the new sewer lines for Jvhich the people have voted money, this Urea should be among the first to get that Service because they need it badly. In the Jneantime, everything that can be done to improve streets, extend street lighting, and Jevelop other city facilities should be done. 2 In common with the rest of the West fide, this area, . with a. very heavy school population needs parks and playgrounds, even 3f they are somewhat "primitive" for the time being. The old airport and the large 4ract which the city has saved along West thirteenth near Polk street have good pos sibilities. - People in that area understand that it 'ill not be possible to work "miracles," but 4heirs is an area which in the immediate 3ost-war is destined to intensive develop ment. One of the most important needs is 1o get something resembling a proper plan Sor future streets and highway connections 2n that area. There will be problems which Svill call for tact and patience on both sides, Jut we believe the decision made Wednes day will be on which will bring great ulti mate benefit to all concerned. Z Most of the Chambers-Westmorland peo ple have been sending their children to the Eugene schools for many years, and they liave endured with other West-siders the Jerious overcrowding of the old Lincoln grade school. Superintendent Henry Gunn jjas been working on a plan to open at least three classrooms for "little kids" in some of he buildings on the old airport which were JHtted up at the beginning of the war for Vocational School classes, j. These buildings are not handsome and they are not permanent, but they have ex cellent lighting and good heating arrange ments, and they can save some of the young sters a long walk. The entire area will bene fit from the school plans which are now be ing discussed by the Eugene board and those of some 12 adjacent districts. Z Incidentally there is a bit of encouraging news on the Amazon drainage project. The flood control bill adopted by Congress this week includes an additional $20,000,000 for the Willamette Basin Project, out of which iX. is believed may come some $250,000 for the supplemental works on the Amazon. This allocation is not yet definite; it may riot be possible to get the work done till war is over, but the biggest hurdle has been passed with the basic appropriation. I An extension of city boundaries makes a city "bigger," but this means nothing unless ij. makes it definitely better. The thrifty people who have pioneered Chambers Westmorland, under difficulties, have shown their faith in Eugene. ; NEWS VS. ARMY SECURITY .1 Willi the complaint of reporters on the European front that SHAEF has put too tjght a lid on news of the dramatic German ".break-through," we cannot agree. Perhaps that is because we see too many people who have sons somewhere in that sector of fight tog, and because we share the general con science that General Eisenhower will know IJhat to do and how and when to do it. ; It is an encouraging rather than discour aging sign that our high command takes this Scrman threat so seriously. There are in ijjcations, in the reports which are filtering Hirough, that this German thrust is two linings: 1. Well timed and well planned to take ad vantage of temporary weakness of supply and support on tliat sector of the European front. 2. A fanatical and even suicidal gesture. Z In other words, the German staff seems t3 have done the tactical planning with its tijual skill, although Heinrich Himmler (bat ing for Adolf) may have master-minded the strategy. The American army viewpoint iflay have been expressed yesterday by one experienced field officer who discussed the sljuation with a group of citizens. A civilian saMd: - "Oh well, if a good deal like those last iinute passing attacks which the losing foot- ball team launches In the last minutes of a !ame. They scar you to death but they don't .Set any place." 2 The field officer did not take any such complacent view of the German "passing attack." He said: "We've all seen aome games lost by getting loo cocky. Not being on the ground, I would n't venture to guess how serious this may be, -but I can assure you that no leader In the field .fever takes these things lightly. The Germans could not hope to drive us out of Europe, but 3hey could knock our winter offensive off bal ance and delay victory by many months and -too many lives." The partial reports indicate a "highly fluid" and confused battle In the sector of the German punh. This in our opinion justified Eisenhower in delaying or holding out reports which might jeopardize Ameri can units which have been "overrun" or others which are moving up to relief, and you can bet your bottom dollar that plenty are moving up. There is no reason to be "panicky," to feel that the Germans might possibly have developed some super-weapon or tactic which would undo all that has been accomp lished. Neither is there any reason for the kind of complacency which expects the Ger mans to be trapped and annihilated in the salient which they have created, and that the long awaited "crack-up" In Germany will follow swiftly. We are fighting a ruthless and desperate but extremely skillful foe. We shall prob ably have to take quite a bit of "counter punching" before this is over. OUT OF THE WOODS By JAMES STEVENS THE FIRST BUNT AN The words I don't remember, but the story Itself always rises in my mind at this season. It was the first Paul Bunyan yarn I ever set down on paper. The time was December, 1918. The place was the village of Contre, France. Earlier In the year the Stars and Stripes had run some Bunyan stories. I remembered this one among others I'd heard In the wjods and wrote it for the AEF news paper. Here's my first Paul Bunyan, in new words: Paul Bunyan's Seven Axinen were the hardest workers that ever raised a sweat or grew hair. Whenever they had a job to tackle, they'd bull right into It without a worry or a thought. The Seven Axmen were hardly ever known to use their heads. The which was likely why they never rose above the rank of choppers in Paul Bunyan's logging crew, even though they were such workers that Paul used to have to chain 'em up In the bunkhouses on Sundays, Christmas and the Fourth of July and they weren't busheling, either. The Seven Axinen always toted doughnuts to the woods in te mornings, of such a size that each man could wear one like a ruff around his neck. When the dinner horn blew at noon the Seven Axmen would not miss a lick. Chopping on, they'd start gnawing at their doughnut ruffs, shouldering them around and around with every ax lick until the last crumb was gone. A Strange and Wonderful Tree One day, in a thick fog, the Seven Axmen lined up to work on the biggest shape of a tree they had ever seen In the woods. With the first strokes of their axs, every man had a feeling something was wrong. The bark of the big tree was as tough as leather, It looked like leather, and like leather it smellecl. But the Seven Axmen chopped on, each working like seven regular axmen, or 49 in all. Then the bark changed. The chips that popped out now from their axes looked to be all wool and a yard wide. The tree seemed more and more peculiar to the Seven Axmen, but they would never stop their work to figure on a Job problem. The Seven Axmen chopped away like fury. The undercut deepened. There was no more wool. Instead, a most peculiar kind of sapwood was bared to tho blades of the Seven Axmen. It was white In hue, with huge rusty splotches, and there were whiskers on It. It was more like hide than wood. "And that's what It Is, by the old Mackinaw!" one of the Axmen suddenly hollered. (He was tho only smart one of the seven Brain Brainson by name.) "I mean human hide, and it's got freckles on It men, this here ain't no tree, but the leg of the Big Swede we are choppln' down! Run fer your lives!" A Bunyan Proverb . The warning came too laic. It was indeed the leg of Hels Helson, the Big Swede, who was so big he could use Niagara Falls for a shower bath. Even as the Axman yelled, a blade bit through one of his leg freckles and drew blood. The Big Swede kicked like a hundred. horses, he roared like a hundred bulls, and ho knocked down a swath of limber a hundred yards wide as he tore off through the fog, bellowing, "Snakes! Snakes!" In his wake the Seven Axmen they were mites of men beside the Big Swede, not one of them measuring more than three yards around the ribs were heaved and banged about like bugs In a cyclone. It was three weeks before they were fit to work again. Then Paul Bunyan gave them a moral to ponder. Tills was the moral: "No matter what a rush you get into, "men, always remember you ain't used a particle of to morrow yet." P. S. The Stars and Stripes did not print my contribution: but now, 26 years later, my Paul Bunyan book has been printed in an "Armed Services Edition" for the fighting men overseas Merry Christmas. OLIVE BARBER'S OBSERVATIONS Mailbag CHRISTMAS "Twas Christmas day In Bethle hem, And in a manger lay a babe, Destined to save the world from sin. For He was born all may be The Wise Men watched the guid ing star That led them to Christ's humble birth; Angelic hosts sang In the sky God's only Son had come to earth. When Christ was only twelve years old, He taught the Jews to watch and pray. That they could have eternal life, For He was life, the irutn, me way; Some of the Jews would not believe And Pharisees did threat and peeve. He spent His life In doing good, He fed the hungry, gave them food. The leper cleansed, the blind could see. And many healed in Galilee; He raised the dead, the lame could walk. The dumb were blessed so they could talk. Christ suffered on ' that rugged cross, From nails and thorns and cruel spear; And yet He cried, "O Lord, for-trive. They know not 'tfs thy Son that's here." In three days Christ arose again, Ascended to His heavenly throne; Now all who will believe in Him May find in Heaven their happy home. O what a meeting that will be. When we shall gather round God's throne, Sing halleluah to the Lamb That came and claimed us for His own; I pray thee, Lord, with all my heart, Cleanse me from sin and set me free, That I may love Thee more and more, And praise Thee through eter nity. Percival I. Rust. lav I PAT 'EM BACK They have had an earthquake In Japan so they say, Right on Pearl Harbor day. Now with our Superforts coming in high or low, Give them bombs instead of drugs and bandages, That will make them rock to and fro. So they will not forget to re member it is not the same as It was Just tewenty-one years ago. Dec. 9, 1944 Editor, Dear Sir: I thought maybe you would like to print this' In your paper. Yours truly, H. E. Baldwin, Oakridge, Ore. (Eugene, To the Editor) Gentlemen: I want to commend you for the splendid way in that you cooperated with the "Our Churches" in so many ways. The daily Bible reading, and numer ous other items of religion. It really means a lot to so many of us. And many read these pas sages of the Bible in the paper, who don't read the Bible. I am very" grateful, Mrs. Janice McClaln. P. S. I am wishing you a grand Christmas, 1945' Calendar, 35c 12 Beautiful Views of Oregon Valley Printing and Stationery 76 West Broadway $100 a Month for Life SOME ACTS OF KINDNESS Folk behaviour: Because demand Is greater than supply, the lack of competition is bringing out a new courtesy among clerks. When compe tition was keen, clerks sometimes tried to sell an article to a customer against the customer's bet ter judgment. Now that clerks know they'll sell everything In any case, they not infrequently ad vise the would-be purchaser against buying. It a woman who was trying to find a becoming hat, pleased me, the other day. to hear a clerk say to "Well we've tried them all nnd I can see you arc no more satisfied tnan 1. Why dont vou' try the store down the street. They carry a larger line of hats than we do." Waiting in line at the posloffice to mail a pack age, the wait was lengthened because a bov brought n packaRe winch was poorly wrapped. It was be ing sent overseas to his brother in the service. The woman clerk at the window exclaimed over- the awkward wrapping, then raised the window grill, took the package and rewrapped it herself. Though the waiting line was long, I saw no one look irri tated at the delay. Instead, everv one in the line seemed Interested in the rewrapplng job going on at the window. And again it came to me as it so often does, we're pretty fine folk, that's what we arc! I didn't see the following Incident but a friend did and tnld me of It. The meter system for parked cars is used here. The car must either be moved or another nickle dropped In the meter when the hour is up, or the car is hauled away by the cl( '. Which will cost the owner a pretty penny be fore the car Is returned. My friend happened to be near a car the other day when a little woman rushed out of a store and to her car. She had parked overtime and she knew it. She was poorly clad as were the four children waiting for her In the delapidatcd jaloppy. Looking at the meter, she saw her parking time had been extended. She exclaimed over this and the oldest child told her a man had come along, noticed the parking time was about up and had put some money in the meter. Little incidents like this seem especially dear during these times when "mans inhumanity to man" is a constant and in creating horror. m The Golden Years Plan giyei you insurance protection now and a monthly income for life when you retire. Details will be gladly explained by any Oregon Mutual representative. OregonMutualLife IN.SUKAXK COMPANY RICHARD H. HOPPER 343 Miner Building Eugene, Oregon Zenith Hearing Aid DR. ELLIOTT Optometrist fcyeslfht specialist 87 East Broadway Phone 419 WAXES ONCO, JOHNSONS Cleans . Waxes . . 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