Page 4 Eugene Register-Guard, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 194S
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Alton t. Baker
MANAGING EDITOR William H. Turnn
NEWS SERVICE MMKAltocliUd Prttit, United Preu
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. A state educational administration
incapable of making a constructive recommenda
tion towards bringing a bo i; a desirable result is an
administration that need examination as to its
spiritual adequacy to meet the needs of a growing
Slate.
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