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lout Council Makes 1944 Wives In Successful Year r . , made ! present figure of 54 per cent." ,.1 ,-nrd made km aciua. . . L.1 pon of the E council Boy .Scorns : 0f the report fea lssioner staff service " ;nn sire Of trust lunu. " rang-' advance- fci. lone Lucky duj, L,nbership. Erief and concise report ofthecouncldur- th comparison v. - -D.k,rt states, "we Lf the accomplishments r and aesiic '-i .nd that of our Lwrship to the Ecout- bbmasters, Lussioners whose con torts have made this Em." Lata, given in the W it. nhortlV'P ,s, first, uie ""j""--CTd of 19 to be .1.- nf '44." sec- ' j maHp during the finally, the objective to during J. Ll Reached U goal for ump i-utj ter training camp of the ,it council, was io op- re-week camping pro- .nrH shuWS that the feted for seven weeks as to four weeks in jhm .....i. in 1942. The L ..amner-and-leader" ring 1944 was 697 as with 314 for 1843 ana Objective for 1945 is a nine-week camping the report shows. :luded in the 1944 ob- aj a goal to develop , nian for the develop- femp Lucky Boy. A plan venture Unlimited was anH launched last year. tn develop the council IniT staff and to have tissioner for every three was not met, although fee number of institutions each commissioner rose In 1942 to 4.7 in 1943 and 11944. i coal to Increase the troop and pack commit- they average five men not auite met. with the average of 4.5 men on kmlttee. The 1942 figure kid the 1943 average was td Set Up prlltivP' hoard nf thp also included in its "by of '44" objectives one to k a tniit fund and to take stepi toward the forma a trust and endowment e." The record shows June 8. 1944. the Rov lust Fund for the Oregon Lncil was established and tic tor the uie of the en- I committee was corn Objective for 1945 la to the work of the endow nmittee, the report shows. al regarding the council's program was met as 53 lory training courses were in 280 men participating, c training courses in eub I .touting were presented, 1 men attending. These which are particularly for leri, numbered only three - with It men attending, en mother'! training "ere started In 1944, with mothers completing the Th 1945 objective In up training ii "to continue readily available basic foductory training to every fin the council and to con fining in troop camping." lament Awwda la advancement also met let ta h i.i At.- C, the report shows. Boy advancement awards pre- ig i44 included the ft: 1020 tenderfoot scout "mparts, to 648 in 1943 la 1942: m a parts compared to 327 in fl 153 in 1942; 201 first Pt awards compared to P3 anH 95 it, nn ards compared to 74 in I 39 m 1942; 59 life scout i -"Hdreo to 30 in 1943 '" 1942; and 13 eagle r ard in scouting, compared J ,s ana nine in 1942. Cub fcnevenient oM-rrf. :rilKaWard5' 137 'olf I : bear cub awards, r!T ,CUb, awards' showing f triple increases com- 'M and 1942. The 1945 "til, wPlacc majr em ftroughout the entire ?om adla,,ccmel" Pr- each district to work 01 lCT1derfoot against Uie present' figure of 54 per cent Outstripping the membership goal which was set to be reached "by the end of '44," the record showed that there were 3331 scouts, scouters, cubs and cubbers in 77 troops and 23 packs as com pared to the objective of 2830 scouts, scouters, cubs and cubbers in 70 troops and 18 packs. This was 501 members over the goal, and seven troops and five packs over the 1944 objective. Two-year increases in member ship showed a 72 per cent in crease in scouts, a 124 per cent increase in cubs, a 97 per cent in crease in scout leaders, a 179 per cent increase in cub leaders, and a 93 per cent increase in total membership. The number of troops increased 48 per cent in the two-year period and packs In creased 64 per cent. The objective for 1945 shown in the report is "to have a total enrollment of 3701 scouts, ieouten, euba and eubben , in 87 troops and 28 packs." Members of the executive board of the Boy Scout council who! served duruig 1944 and whose terms expire next month In sddi tion to Bruckart are L. S. Bee, vice-president, Eugene; H. A. Scullen, vice-president, Corvallis; B. C. Elliott, vice-president, Rose burg; C. E. Lombard, treasurer, Eugene; Howard J. Boyd, scout commissioner, Eugene; John J. Rogers, honorary vice-president, Eugene; Alton F. Baker, Eugene; Walter H. Banks, Eugene; Lloyd Claver, Coquille; George B. Cox, Corvallis: Austin Dodds, Eugene; C. R. Elliott, Reedsport; E. D. Furrer, Eugene; G. E. Gaylord, Eugene; W. H. Gerretsen, Rose burg; Henry M. Gunn, Eugene; Lynn S. McCready, Eugene; George D. Orr, Toledo; L. K. Shu maker, Eugene; Rev. R, Wilbur Simmons, Corvallis; Elmo Steven son, Corvallis, and H. L. Wolfard, Cottage Grove. Men in rnllitary service who are on the executive board are Maj. Harvey M. Blythe, Delbert Stannard and Rev. Willis ton Wirt. North Star Bright Guide For Travellers At Night By J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer, General Extension Division, University of Oregon. In the night we had left our troop ship. Presently, beneath overcast . skies and with no idela of direction we were wear ily plodding through a dark and strange French countryside. But just before dawn the clouds broke rapidly. "The north star!" cried an eag er voice. There it gleamed above the rocky road ahead of us, our "very own" north star. Later, when in the clear June dawn the skylarks sang joyously high above the green fields of Brittany, our directions were still secure even though . our faithful starry guide had faded. ( So very helpful has the north star often been to those lost in the night, that all should know how to find it. Early in the even ing at this time of year, look for the familiar big dipper low in the sky a little east of north. The two outer stars in the dip per's bowl, the two farthest to the right, are known as the pointers. An imaginary line drawn between the pointers, then or very close to another star of about the brightness of these pointers. This is the north star, also known as polarls, or the pole star. Polar. from our part of the world, measures about half way up from the northern horizon to the overhead point. But it looks much higher than this due to the illusory widening of the sky near the horizon. As one travels to ward the earth's pole, the north star appears higher and higher in the sky. Right at the pole It is practically overhead. At the equator, polaris is on the north ern horizon; farther south, al ways below the horizon. For general purposes we may assume that the pole star ap pears fixed in the sky and is always due north. But it Is ac tually one degree from the real celestial pole, or the place among the stars right over the earth's north pole. Thus it seems to move in a very small circle around the true pole during a day. Twice a day, when it Is right above and below the true pole, the star Is due north. Polaris is slowly approaching the celestial pole. At the time of Socefy Slates Field Trip, Campus Lecture Some recent , discoveries about fossil whales and turtles in Ore- ' gon will be presented by Dr. E. L. Packard, head of the geology de- j partment at Oregon State college and formerly with the University of Oregon, at the January meet ing of the Eugene Natural History society Friday at 8:00 p.m. In room 301 Condon hall on the campus. Dr. Packard has done original research on Oregon whales and turtles for some years and will r illustrate his lecture with slides. Sunday the field trip will be to Cottage Grove dam to visit fossil localities. Both the lecture and the field trip are open to the ! public as well as members. Trans portation for the field trip will , cost a cent a mile. Old clothes : should be worn and lunches pro- i vlded by all participants, Dr. Warren D. Smith, president of the society advise. Eugene Register-Guard1, Sunday, Jan. 21, IMS Students Study Load Subject Of Survey The possibility that the able college student carrying the usual 16-hour schedule does not have enough to do Is brought out in a recent study of th effects of ac celeration of the college course, made at Ohio State university and sent to the psychology de partment at the University of Oregon. While such studies are not the final word, Dr. Howard Taylor, head of psychology training here points out, the conclusions reached are Interesting because the ac-1 celeration of studying precipated by war necessity has been much questioned. Columbus, it was 3 degrees dis tant; in Julius Caesar's day, 15 degrees. It will now continue to get closer and thus be a still better north star until 2100 A. D. when It will be less than one half degree in error. But by 15,000 A. D. our star will be so far from the pole that some other must inherit the name. 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On the same day, you directed that a suit be filed in tKe federal court to decide whether you had any right to order this seizure. The constitution makes it the supreme lav of the land that, "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty t or property without due process of law." The supreme court has said that an order which" is before the courts should not be executed before the judges have declared its legality. In defiance of this safeguard of liberty, you have ordered the army to place in immediate effect the arbitrary and illegal orders of the war labor board without awaiting the decision of the court. You have ordered these war labor board directives placed in immediate effect despite the fact that the courts have held them to be legally unenforceable, and despite the fact that in issuing them the board refused to give Wards the hearings required by the war labor disputes act. . You have ordered the army to place in effect a wage directive at Portland, Oregon, which a representative of the war labor board admitted on January- 9, 1945, was unworkable. ' ' ' '.. You have ordered the army to place in effect wage directives" at St. Paul, Minnesota, which unfairly discriminate against sixty per cent of the employees. When several hundred walked off their jobs in protest against your command, the army forced them to return by threats of criminal prosecution. . j You have ordered the army at Denver, Colorado, and Jamaica, New York, to increase wage rates which the war labor board ad mitted were already higher than those paid by Wards' competitors. No increases have been ordered against these competitors. ' Finally, and most importantly, you have ordered the army to im pose that form of the closed shop called maintenance of member ship. Obedience to your order will require the discharge of all em ployees who have chosen not to maintain their union membership, and deny to them the liberty to choose whether or not they wish to remain union members. Wards, in opposing the closed shop in all of its forms, has not been prompted by any feeling of anti-unionism. Wards has fully recognized the freedom of all of its employees to join or not to join a union, as they wished, and has assured all employees that their opportunity with the company will be the same whether they are union members or not. Wards' refusal to accept t h e closed shop arises solely from a determination that its employees be secure in their individual liberty to join a union or not free of t h e f e a r of physical injury, damage to their property, or loss of their jobs. Wards, in opposing the closed shop, has not acted against the wishes even of its unionized employees. In the seized store at Chi cago on December 15, 1944, ninety per cent of the employees through a signed petition declared against the maintenance of membership requirement. Spokesmen for the unionized employees in the four seized stores at Detroit have openly stated that they do not desire maintenance of membership. Wards has been singled out for unequal treatment. The army has been used to enforce orders of questioned legality without first giving the courts an opportuntiy to make a decision. These are the methods of dictatorship. The legality of your order commanding t h e seizure of Wards properties is now before the courts for decision. Wards respectfully calls upon you to order the army to withhold he taking of action which would deprive Wards employees of their liberty, and Wards and its customers of their property until the case has been decided in the courts as required by the constitution. MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. RKWEI.L AVERT Chairman Pat 1 PHONE 4200 "-Heard tod,,. 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