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.
This heir will be bright Vega,
the finest star now in the north
west in the evening.
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MONTGOMERY WARDS'
TELEGRAM
TO THE PRESIDENT
Tamiary 17, 1945.
The President of the United States,
White House,
Washington, D. C.
Mr. President
At your personal direction, tKe army seized Wards' stores on
December 28, 1944.
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.
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