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Page 4 Eugene Register-Guard, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 194S AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published Every Evtnlnf and ftundiy) EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Alton t. Baker MANAGING EDITOR William H. Turnn NEWS SERVICE MMKAltocliUd Prttit, United Preu MEMBER . ..Audit Buru of Circulation Entered at the Poet Ofilce at Eufene, Oregon, ag eecond claae matur. The Reiliter-Guard'i policy It the complete and Inv pertlal publication In Ite newa paieg of all newi and ltate menta on new. On thU page the editor of The Regltter Ouard offer their opinion on evente of the day and mattera of Importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful In th development of constructive community policy. ERNIE PYLE SUFFERS "FAME" On the eve of his departure for a new tour of duty at the fighting fronts (this time with the Navy in the Pacific), the most famous of all war reporters, Ernie Pyle, has composed a piece which we believe will en dear him more than ever to the American people. Mr. Pyle is not enjoying "fame." Here are the important parts of his lament: I have never aspired to be famous. If I had, then I could say to myself, "All right, brother, you made your own bed, now lie in it." But this thing Just happened. It came with out planning or aspiration. I guess it comes in the category of an act of God, like a blizzard or slipping on a banana peel. You have to adjust yourself to this new con dition, or else you're lost. You can't fight it, you can't Ignore it, you can't run away from it. You've got to accept It. I do accept it as graci ously as I can, but I feel sad about it. I feol sad because it has given me the big things of life, and taken away the precious little things. It has given me money, yet I dread to hear the telephone ring. It has brought me a measure of renown, yet made me afraid to go into a restaurant because people whisper and stare, and I feel self conscious. It has put my book at the top of the best seller list, but robbed me of the time to read other people's books. - ' It has put me on easy terms with the great, but forbidden me the privilege of sitting alone with my old true friends. It has made my homely face familiar throughout America, but taken away that sav ing gift of serenity of mind and soul. My life now, dny and night, is a frenzy. There is no mental leisure in It; never the freedom to sit down and let your mind go blank. v Mr. Pyle promises that he will continue to try to be just Ernie Pyle, the simple, down-to-earth reporter whose greatness is his simplicity, his ability to understand war as the ordinary GI understands It, and his ability to translate all that into words that anybody can follow. "Soma men are born great; others achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." Take your choice in the case of Ernie Pyle. In this country we are hero-worshipers and do a great deal of "thrusting." We built legends (and the press was largely guilty) around the bashful Lindbergh. (We made him what he is today, partly). We incline to glorify almost anybody whose ex ploits achieve "national publicity," and often we make the mistake of expecting all vir tues Jn very ordinary heroes. Of the many who have "suffered fame," Ernie Pyle is probably more worthy than most in our generation. He is a very great reporter because he really likes people and is interested in all the little things which Interest them. There are many such report ers to whom fame and fortune probably will never come because they have not chanced upon dramatic assignments. They are in every newspaper shop In the land, tending patiently and faithful! to thousands-of little "items." From his emmlnence Ernie Pyle looks back and envies them. Probably there will be a whole crop of new writers who will try to "be like Ernie Pyle." Maybe, for a time, editors will be spared so many recruits who "hate items" nnd burn with a yearning to write something that will "change the world." But it is not possible to be inspired by little things unless down deep you feel that way. It is not possible to "make something" out of a family reunion item from Bear creek, or out of the next natural wonder from Route F or Dorena, unless you are Interested in family reunions and "little things." And there will always be a chosen few who have the gift "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest . . (lushed to a police beat). That's the way it is in newspaper busi ness. Ernie must go on bearing "the cross of fame," and the unknown and unsung must mind their chores from payday to next payday. But there is a lesson for all who spire to "Journalism" the first requisite is to be interested in people and in all the things they do and say. The great stories do not require "fine writing." Shasta and the great man-made lake behind the Shasta dam to the broad Sacramento valley. Its a swell piece of "copy", but whenever a high-powered advertising artist gets to tinkering with railroaders and their geogra phy, he's asking for arguments. One of our favorite "hoggers" called up the other night with this squawk: "The guy's got that train going down grade outa country that might be below Weed, in which case the mountain would be Shasta, but if that ain't Diamond Peak in that picture I'll eat it. And if it is Diamond, then the lake ought to be Odell and he's got It on the wrong side. Besides, Odell doesn't look like that and neither does the Shasta pond. Personally I like old Diamond a lot better than Shasta, maybe because I see it Just about every other day, and there isn't any picture in the whole mountains that's prettier than when you get Odell and Diamond together. Maybe 1 hadn't ought to be so fussy, but in my job you get to wantin' everything on time and in its right place." Pity the poor artist, whose job is to compress a lot of ideas into a very small and exact spac! No doubt the guy worked from photographs, and he certainly showed good taste when he picked Diamond for his mountain and Odell for his lake (or at least let them govern his Inspiration). Now if you want to hear our notion, we think that train ought to be moving up-grade and not down, and the trees ought to be mountain fir, and that California rock ought to be brushed out of the Oregon landscape. However, it is still "a swell picture"; it will convey the main idea to the millions who will "see without knowing better". It conveys the West and the magnificent war job our favorite railroaders are doing. After all, the boys in our own "ad department" say that the main purpose of an ad is ac complished when it makes people talk. Boy, there's nothing like an argument over whose mountain is which. SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS By MARIAN IOWRY WASHINGTON LETTER By PETER EDSON Register-Guard Washington Correspondent "A SWELL PICTURE, ANYHOW" Southern Pacific's 85,000 men and women, from president to section hand, are doing one of the greatest jobs In all transportation history, and the management of SP is not exactly blushing with modest pride. It is running a series of "ads" in national maga zines which tell and retell the story, and the latest is one which shows how troop trains are handled on "our division". There is a picture of a snow-clad moun tain and a lovely lake and a long train gpeeding along a roadbed carved from rocky cliffs. Forests complete this landscape. The "underlines tell how the troop train comes up the green Willamette valley to Eugene where the mountains really begin, how the lielpers are put on at Oakridge, how the great train is lifted up over the summit to Odell lake and the great Central Oregon plateau, and how it goes on through Klamath md over another high divide and down past MR. WALLACE VS. MR. JONES WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. 13.Only a welter of conflicting impressions and unanswered ques tions comes from sitting in on the two-day Wallace-Jones hearintr hfni-j. Ih- C.n,. Committee. No one can Judge this sanely. It Is an Inna inkinU ...111 I -I I J i i ... w" n" ueciaea oniy oy prejudices and emotions. Partisan followers of the two men can- nut oven uhk aooui ii rationally. The Committee is supposed to be deciding merely whether it will divorce th Department of Commerce from RFC and the other Federal Loan agencies built up by Jesse Jones in the last 13 years. Actually these Senators there were more than 30 of them present and they lapped up every word with far more attention than they ever show during debate on the floor of Congress are try- 125 . ,JUJffe the tV1"? blIit' 01 Henry Wallace. What la the combined business experience of the JO Senators? Chairman Bailey was for 14 years editor of the Biblical Recorder before he became a collector of internal revenue and lawyer in North Carolina. Burton was mayor of Cleveland. Welsh- born RnhftHjinn Urimmlnn - U tr V, : , . - """a taiitiioi, vanaenourg Clranii RnnM I i.it-i ... " Ii - nuuuauu puuusner. Most were small town lawyers George in Vienna, Ga.j Pep- I., n i,, na.; mci-ieiian in Camden, Ark.: ?,7,w,tS!"t '1 D'xier- Me.; Bilbo in Poplarville Miss ; Etlender in Houma, La. O'Danlel was a Tex as flour salesman. What are the rights of these to pass n who Is a big enough business man? Answer? i hp Ih. 4.iw - ....... of the people and through them the people pasa judgment on how things shall be done. This is democracy at work. FDK's Letter a Kiss of Death? - uui wnat about this letter of the President's to Jesse Jone. In uMnh tUm D-.l.l-... u Wallace, thinks he could do the greatest amount of JJopHrimeni oi commerce" Is this just getting even with Jesse Jones in the belief that it Wat ha. JnnM lukn ln.niJ U. m - ' ' mw icaui revolt against the fourth term? Or is this another kiss of v.u, laivci tine uie one Kooseveit wrote Dem ocratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan at the Chicago convention, consigning Wallace to the political wolves'.' A strange character this Wallace. Is he being vindictive in wanting to take Jones' job away from him? Is this sweet revenge for their last bout, which Wallace lost? Or Is Wallace just the simple unaffected, child-like character his intimates say he is? He's a dreamer, they say this Wallace is a mystic. What's he driving at in his suggestion that Con gress investigate the HFC? What does he mean by daring to question the sanctity of the Federal Re serve system? Seems he wants to liberalize them so they will make more loans to small business men, more character loans. Bankers used to giant character loans to good honest upright men who went to church regularly, raised a family and seemed willing in u.-r,,-lf ! nl. n i .... ...... - a , v. , uuui, n uaj 10 pay off their debts. Veople don't go to church as much as they used to. Maybe they have lost their character. And Wallace is talking about shorten ing the work week and paying people more money for it, too. Wallace's Answers Not to the Point Wallace, in fact, again outlines the President's eight-point Bill of Economic Rights. The right to a job, to food, to a home, to produce, to buv and sell, to health, to old ago security, to education. Yet Senator Bailey asks Wallace shrewd and pertinent questions. How's he going to get all those things? Wallace's answers aren't sharply to the point. He misled here. If he advocated unemplov. nient, hunger, sickness, poverty. Illiteracy for the masses, of course he wouldn't have been asked such embarrassing questions. This Is the battle of the century the next cen turythe next generation at any rate. The theme song for this two-day side-show might well have been. "Where do wc go from here?" Into new fields with Wallace, or back over the conservative paths trod by Jones? These two men personify the future. Which character will be remembered longest? Which will have the greatest place in history Jones for his realistic solvency and respectability or Wallace for his impractical and apparently consuming de sire to improve the lot of the common man? BLUE RIVER CHAPTER OF OES MEETING Blue River chapter. Order of Eastern Star, Is holding Its regu lar meeting Wednesday evening, McKenzie River Masonic temple. There will be Initiation. On the refreshments committee are Mrs. K. K. Folgedalen, Mrs. Glenn A. Harnden, Mrs. Mary Crabill, Mrs. C. W. Hall, and Mrs. Harry Hamilton. Mrs. C. B. Ruth and Mrs. T. E. Furnish will pour. WEDDING REPORTED REEDS PORT Mr. and Mrs. Ward Powell announce the mar riage of their daughter. Miss Dor othy Annette Brookman, to Wil liam Rodney Rosier, son of Mr. Steven Rosier, which took place Saturday afternoon at four o'clock at the Rosier home in Reedsport, Rev. Jesse K. Griffiths officiating in the presence of a small gath ering of relatives and friends. At tendants were Mr. and Mrs. Lor raine Wassell, brother-in-law and sister of the bridegroom. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Rosier will be at home at the Reed motel, in Reedsport. VISITS AT MARYHURST Miss Helen McAdams has re turned from spending the week end visiting her sister, Miss Mar garet McAdams, who is a student at Maryhurst college out of Port land. The two attended the opera, "Faust," in Portland Saturday evening. i 1 COMMITTEES NAMED BY USWV AUXILIARY At the business meeting of General Lawton auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans, the presi dent, Mrs. John W. Gates, an nounced committees for the year. They are: Legislative, Mrs. Judd Stauffer, Mrs. Ella Clark, and Mrs. T. C. Hall. Executive, Mrs. B. H. Strobell, Mrs. J. A. Russell. Membership, Mrs. Archibald Stelle, Mrs. M. A. Kelley. Auditing, Mrs. W. G. White, Mrs. Fred Schwietering, Mrs. Fred Wentworth. Finance, Mrs. Arthur White, Allies Consolidating ' After Italy Setback ROME, Feb. 13 (UK Regi ments of the 82nd Infantry divi sion were consolidating positions today after being forced to yield recently captured ground under repeated German counterattacks In the Sth army's west coastal sec tor. The units have fallen back to approximately the same lines from which they launched their attack Feb. 8, headquarters said. Their casualties and tank losses were reported "relatively high." Aggressive enemy counterat tacks were reported continuing In the Serchlo valley with harassing artillery and mortar fire falling In forward areas. Mrs. Horace Burnett. Relief, Mrs. C. B. Maxfield, Mrs. N. L. Helterbrand. Cards and flowers, Mrs. R. C. Faust, Mrs. Colin MaeKenzie, Mrs. G, W. Thompson. TWO EUGENE WOMEN ENTER NURSE CORPS Miss Marjorie Wilkinson and Miss Mary Kern, both of whom have been with Sacred Heart gen eral hospital here, have entered the army nurse corps at Madigan General hospital, Fort Lewis, Wash. Msis Wilkinson was graduated from St. Antony hospital, Dodge City, Kansas, in 1934. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Wilkinson of Eugene. Miss Kern was graduated from St. Vincent's hospital, Portland, in 193S. She is the daughter of H. Kern of Portland. Upon completion of basic train ing, the two women will go to Bushnell General hospital in Bringham, Utah. NEEDS FO RHOME ARE ANNOUNCED A shower is to be given for the Alice Marie home by the Lane County Federation of Women's Organizations in April. Articles listed as needed at the home include the following: Children's pajamas, three to eight years. Children's handkerchiefs. Cereal bowls, cups, dish cloths, window shades, thirty-six inches; bedroom scatter rugs, large white table cloth. NEEDLE CLUB Needle club of the Women's Relief corps will meet Thursday afternoon at wo o'clock, at the home of Mrs. E. J. Collins, to sew. AUXILIARY MEETS The recent monthly meeting of Canton Hovey auxiliary was at tended by two special guests, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. McLaughlin of Chemawa. McLaughlin is head of Patriarchs Militant, depart ment of Oregon, and his wife is matron of the hospital corps of the same organization. Mrs. Gol die Kyle of Salem, publicity chair man for Oregon for the auxili ary, and her daughter, Mrs. Vic tor M. Koop, also of Salem, were other guests. Refreshments and games fol lowed the meeting. UNRA WORK TOLD AT JOINT MEETING "The bridge between the time of war and peace is a more dan gerous crossing than we had fore seen, and UNRA is an example of working together in effecting this crossing," said Dr. Edna Landros In introducing the panel discus sion on the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration Saturday afternoon before a joint meeting of the American Associ ation of University Women and the League of Women Voters. Other members of the group were Dr. Pierre Van Rysselberghe and Dr. Leona Tyler. Dr. Landros pointed out that the organization was based on the theory that a final and perma nent peace depends not upon competition, but upon sharing. "There are 44 nations combined in this effort which proposes to follow the army and give relief where needed. It is concerned with immediate needs which may be grouped under the headings of food, clothing, temporary shelter, medical aid, replacement of pub lic utilities and replacement of peoples. "Each member nation Is to con tribute 1 per cent of her annual Income; there is no distinction made as to race, creed or politi cal philosophy In the services rendered. The organization will assist until some semblance of or der is established in the countries where relief is given, and it Is hoped that Its services will not be needed longer than two years following the close of the war." Following Dr. Landros intro ductory remarks on the organiza tion and purposa of UNRA, Dr. Van Rysselberghe spoke on the food and agricultural aspects of the administration. He said there had proven to be much less de struction of agricultural areas in some parts of France than was expected, but in other areas in Europe there is an acute shortage of food. He felt a balance be tween agriculture and industry must be worked out, and as a possible solution he would "change the face of Europe. I am not at all sentimental about boundaries." On a map of Eu rope he charted several possible "economic blocs" which might be effected to advantage. Dr. Tyler spoke on the replace ment of peoples as a part of the work of UNRA. "Estimates range from 20 million to SO million per sons displaced. These figures in clude those who were forced to leave their homes because of ac tual fighting in the areas and those who have been displaced because of political, racial and war-work reasons," she said. She cited specific cases In which UNRA is helping to bring fami lies together. Mrs. John MeCloskey, vice president of A.A.U.W., presided and Mrs. Erie Peterson, president of the League, introduced the members of the panel. Mrs. Ksrl Peterson spoke briefly of legisla tion now before the Oregon ses sion in which members of the two groups are interested and urged that support be given the county manager bill and that disapproval be voiced of H. B. R. No. S on the limitation of income taxes. IT. FINDTNER ASSIGNED Second Lt. Janice L. Findtner woman marine and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Findtner, 1291 Willamette street, who recently was graduated from the quarter master school for officers at Camp Lejeune, N. C, has been assigned to duty at headquarters, U. S. marine corps, Washington, D.C., as uniform officer. Miss Findtner was commis sioned last October. it for fish, Wf I an4 ttoaotnjl BEAUTY SHOt exunt iVTH 'Ml. TOP HAT SPECIAL CAKE A family cake as fresh and flavorsome as though right from your oven. Two layer cakes, generously frosted, sad packed in a box. Save sugar, time and effort yet serve the finest ever. t Your Grocers' Services In Lent ' Listed For Church j St. Mary's Catholic church will commence Lent on Ash Wednes i day, this Wednesday, with three ; masses at 8:45, 8 and 8:30 a. m., conducted by Fathers Edward i Lagan, S. J., Father Albert Rods I kowskl, and Father Francis P. I Leipzig. Distribution of the ashes will be given following the 8 and 8:30 a. m. masses, 4 p. m. and at : ter the 7:30 p. m. Lenten devo i tions. Lenten devotions will be held on Wednesday, Friday and Sun day during the Lenten time at 7:30 p. m. On Sunday and Wed I nesday evenings the devotions will consist of rosary, sermon and benediction. On Friday evening the way of the cross will be held, followed by benediction. 1 An additional mass on Sunday j has been added during the Lenten . time at 8:45 a. m., thus giving ' four masses each Sunday at 8:45, ' 8. 9:15. and 10:30 a. m. Father Edward Lagan, S. J, of Port Townsend, Wash., will assist in St. Mary's Catholic parish until Easter Sunday. I . -4 i Eighth point of the Boy Scout j law is, "A Scout is cheerful." Reducing fuel bills. INSULA TION soon pays for itself. Twin Oaks, 669 High. United To Employ Vets Looking toward post-war ex pansion of its transport fleet, and to meet present wartime needs, United Air Lines has instituted a detailed program for augment ing its pilot personnel from the 1 ranks of returning world war II ! airmen, it was announced today ! by W. J. Addems, Unlted's direc- j tor of flight operations, and R. F. 1 Ahrens, director of personnel. Patterned along the lines of United's general plan for wel coming home and providing lobs for honorably discharged veter ans, the pilot program inoludes ! reindoctrinatlon procedures for United Air Lines crewmen who ; have been on military leave as ! well as strict training school re- i quirements for new applicants 1 who have learned to fly in the armed services. $"" VI trn ' U3OMNMIl,OIRIOOI ! t-5 is. oue aaiavfiTi LliMili'HiUilia One Best Home Way To BUIIDU? 3REDO100D i WHAT OTHER EDITORS THINK DENTAL rOl.I.EGE (The Oregon Voter) If our unified state system of higher education cannot rise to the opportunity of taking over the self-supporting North Pacific Dental College, which must be abandoned It it cannot be permitted to be come part of a established university's medical unit, it is a severe reflection upon the ability of our state system to make adjustments required in the public interest. 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