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Page 10A Register-Guard, Eugene, Of., Thura., July 11, ItO AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER iPiiMlihxt Bir Emnlna and Sunday) IOITOB AND PUBLISHES Alton T. Basal MANAGINO EDITOR . William M. Tufmao WEWS FERVICI . Aoelit) Praaa, United Praaa MEMBER Audit Buraau 1 ClKulallos Enured at tha Poat Offlea it Eufana. Oraion. aa aaeon. alaia niattar. Tht Raflatar-Ouard'a policy If tho comp'aU and Impartial publication In Ita ntwi pafea of all nawi and atatamanU on nawa. On thla pafa tha adltori at Tha Baflatar-Ouard offar thalr opinion! on avanu of Oia day and mattara of taportanej to Uia communltji andtavorlns to ba candid but fair and halpful In tha davalopmont of conjunctiva comrounlty policy. Years Overtake P. Waldo Davis Last time we gaw P. Waldo Davis was just a a few weeks ago when the Lane County Pio neers were meeting at the fairgrounds. Mr. Davis played the organ and his old friend, Rev. Frank Cook, sang "Oh Pioneers." Mr. Davis was recovering from an Illness, and he did not bring his bells with him. But when Lester Hulin called for the music, P. Waldo was just as "peart" as ever, and somehow we recalled the quip he made the first time we ever saw him which was many years ago when he came bursting into the office with some meeting notices. Somebody remarked that it would "take a trained sprinter to keep up with him," and Mr. Davis said: "Only thing that can ever catch up with me lj the yearn and I figure to outrun them for a long time." Mr. Davis was always a favorite with the reporters of the RG, and if you will notice the obituary story in Wednesday's paper you will find it has that "little extra something" which newswrilers give to people of whom they are fond. They were telling last night about an incident which happened when Paul Deutschmann (now wtih the Denver Post) was our city editor. P. Waldo had brought in a parcel of announcements and he was arguing with Paul: "Why," said Mr. Davis, "I'm the best re porter on your staff. Do I Have to wait till J'm gone to make Page ONE?" The death of such a personality is in deed Page One copy. It is difficult to think of any person in our time in Lane County who has been more widely known or more sincerely liked. He brought pleasure to thou sands of people with his performances on the bells, and more than that he had the unusual gift of creating the atmojphere of happiness wherever he went. If he had any of the "dark moods" to which most of us are subject, they were never exhibited in public. It is interesting to note that P. Waldo Da vis was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1894 (about the time when Cal Young was coaching the first football teams) and that he spent many years as a profes sional on the Chatauqua and vaudeville cir cuits, and that he had been wheat rancher in Eastern Oregon and a farmer and a busi ness man. Perhaps It is from this wide va riety of interests and occupations he derived his "spice." He demonstrated that It is pos sible to have many "careers" the most im ' portant being to get all the joy possible out of being alive. We cannot improve on the tribute which has been paid to this man by our staff in adopting him as one of their "favorites," out of all the hundreds and hundreds of people who come In and out with messages and missions. He leaves gay memories. Some where in his travels P. Waldo Davis must have drunk from the legendary fountain of youth, Root Out the '5 PereenftrV When President Truman's aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, in an unguarded moment, stated recently that he could "name at last 300 contract agents" in Washington, he was probably guilty of nothing but under statement. The term "5 percenters" is new and catchy. It would surprise us if these go-betweens worked for any such small per centage as 9 per cent. Washington has been lousy with these gents for many years. How far the Army and Navy and Air Corps have been infected is another story. The present scandal affecting two high rank ing generals In the purchasing departments of the Army is not the first scandal. Kerv tucky's former Congressman Mays is still doing time for his involvement In wartime graft, as is one former Air Corps general. It is high time that the whole mess is aired out. However, it should not be assumed that because a few high rankers have been taint ed that the whole military has been corrupt ed, because we believe that the evidence will show that this is not true. The prime suckers for the "5 percenters" have been the business men seeking contracts. Lost in the mazes of Washington, many of them are easy prey for the "guys in the know" (and the list would include many lame duck 'congressmen). Many a business man has paid a commission to get contracts which he would have had anyhow without paying anybody a cent. Apparently the military purchasing needs the same sort of overhauling which Lane county's purchasing methods need. Where there is open competitive bidding on public ly advertised specifications no seller needs to pay for "pull." Uncle Sam's business is only a little more complex than Lane county's. The "5 percenter" and the moocher gets in his bite only where unbusinesslike methods are retained. The World of Tomorrow i. a i mmj v a mm.. Jir If a&Ofs A v -mm?. Tribune Buys Capital Paper WASHINGTON U. Pur chase of the Washington Times Herald by Col. Robert R. McCor mick, publisher and editor of the Chicago Tribune, was announced Thursday in a front-page box in the Times-Herald. The brief announcement said: "The executors of the estate of Eleanor Patterson announce the sale of the Washington Times Herald to the Tribune Company of Chicago, 111. "Col. Robert R. McConnick, president of the Tribune Com- No SLkJ casclosed '- In Chi.... . Wednesri;."' MmemfflVj - i DSt w " niafc-gf ... Dad "McriDHn. :kjaiw PRocur UP TO 5W Music is like medicine, says a doctor. We'll agree that some of it is hard to take. If you break diet and gain several pounds, don't complain. The weight of the trans gressor is hard. A lawyer can keep himself pretty well dressed on two or three suits a week. WASHINGTON LETTER By Peter Bason NEA WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT 'And the Band Played On' It has been suggested that Eugene's new Concert Band (formerly Municipal) should adopt a thptne song and that the song should be that old familiar: "Casey would walti with a strawberry blonde And the band played on . . ." The band will not be disbanded for lack of support out of city funds. By tapping the reserve (record) fund of the Musicians Un ion, by enlisting the Active Club to take enre of incidental arrangements, and with the rnnlinimrl Ipnriarcrtm ft Tnliw Qlnlt, ' have a program of four more park concerts this summer . . . "And after that, next year Is another year." Before another year It should be possible to find an effective sponsoring group to maintain the band program. If It is not pos sible or advisable for the city government to use tux funds and act as sponsor, the city can still buy a schedule, of concerts within the limits of available funds. Much of the credit for saving the band from dissolution belongs to Maxwell Morse who presents the rare combination of be ing a merchant and employer along with be ing a musician and president of the local Musicians Union. The Informal agreements under which the band will continue to serve the community are a tribute to his skillful and persistent leadership. You know, in other cities they often ask this question about Eugene: "How rome you people In Eugene have civic orgimiiatloni which seem to go on and nn forever whereas In most towns they (tart and stop and never seem to find a firm foot ing" We have never been able to frame any properly logical or modest answers to this question. Eugene is just that kind of place. For years it was Frank Gilstrnp and a little Croup of old timers who kept the hand from withering away. Now conies a younger group Max Morse and the Actives and the Musicians Union. The formula will be changed, but the Eugene Concert Band will piny on . . . and on! The theme song would be appropriate. 'Billions for Defense' Must Be Balanced, Says Noorse WASHINGTON (NEA) Efforts to hack a blV lion dollars off the $15,000,000,000 U. S. defense budget, together with congressional reluctance to take up the $1,800,000,000 program of military assistance for Europe, raise an old question. It is how much the United States can afford to spend on preparedness in time of peace. Chairman Edwin G. Nourse of the President's Council of Economic Advisers analyzed this ques tion during a recent Joint Armed Services Orienta tion Course for civilian Industrial leaders and tha press. What he tried to do was define the balance between military and civilian points of view. Military planners sometimes trunk that the armed services should have first call on all U. S. resources. Civilian economists think principally of providing customers with the greatest possible volume of goods and services. To them military security is secondary. The old Idea that an army travels on its stomach must now be expanded, says Dr. Nourse. It must now include the idea that the armed services travel on the national economic machine. After V-J Day, everyone looked for peace and reduced spending for war. But in March, 1948, President Truman gave Congress the bad news that $3,000,000,000 more would be needed to bolster national defense. The result was that a downward trend in prices was Immediately reversed. It be came a new burst of inflation. By early fill it hid carried wholesale and retail prices to new peaks of inflation. Saw New Controls Necessary . Dr. Nourse says he then came to the conclusion that this extra defense effort would so aggravate scarcities of both materials and manpower that new inflationary controls would be necessary. And, since this was a cold war instead of a hot one, there was some doubt whether more controls would be acceptable to the American people. In making up the 1350 military budget, it there fore became necessary to set limits on military ex penditures. As the late Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal put it, undue enlargement of military spending would weaken the national economy. The President decided to hold military spending down to $15,000,000,000, even though this might involve some risK. Since that time, a new recession has set In. Dr. Nourse says II is still too early to tell whether this decline will continue to further depression, whether It will level off. or whether it will lead to new ex pansion. But while this recession is on, there is Ernie Pyle Rests in Quiet Beside Heros He Described HONOLULU (U.R) Ernie Pyle and one of the unknown sol diers he depicted in his writings rest side by side in a new ceme tery overlooking the Pacific. Both were laid to rest with three other heroes in ceremonies open ing the National Memorial Ceme tery of the Pacific, where 2000 dead of World War II will be buried In days to come. 2000 Present More than 2000 persons watched as the former Scripps-Howard and United Feature Syndicate war cor respondent and author, killed by Japanese macmnegun fire on Ie Shlma in 1945, was laid to rest. His eternal burial place was the majestic green setting of Punch bowl Cemetery on the side of an ancient crater overlooking Dia mond Head. In adjacent graves were placed the remains of two Marine pri vates, An Army lieutenant and the unknown soldier of the Pacific. Others Burled With Pyle's remains were those of Marine Pfc. Francis A. Riese, son of Edward C. Riese, Massillon, O.; Army 1st Lt. William A. Syl vester, of Bakersfield, Cal.; and Marine Private Eruce A .Mitchell, son of Mrs. Isabelle Westgarth, Seattle. Among the wreaths and flower- ad plaques that banked the graves was a flowered quill fashioned from orchids and yellow roses pre sented by Bert Buchwach, presi dent of the Honolulu Press Club. Ernie was a GI's reporter and died reporting the GI's story of the war," Buchwach said in trib ute to Pyle. "There was no better soldier than he. Ernie sweated and suf fered with infantryman and more than anyone else helped America' understand the heroism and sac-l rifices of its fighting men. ! "He was a little guy who loved the little guy and he brought the front to the front door of every American home. ' "His name lies above all in the Integrity of what he wrote his! byline meant truth and he had noi regard for safety and comfort in1 getting it." 1 Edwin C. Heinke, assistant managing editor of the IndianaD- olis Times, represented Pvle's father, William, and his aunt,) Mary Bales, al the graveside.! Heinke presented bouquets of or-1 chlds and red roses for the fam-l ily and the Scripps-Howard news- i papers. Other floral pieces came from! Pyle's alma mater, the University of Indiana, and his fraternities formerly of the United Press; Webley Edwards, formerly of Co lumbia Broadcasting System; and Leif Erickson, of the Associated Press. Prayers for the five hero s wera read by Protestant Chaplain Maj. Albert F. Click, Greenville, "Tex.; Catholic Chaplain Eugene L. A. Fischer, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Rab Walnuf Aphids Seen NEWBERG (P) An out break of aphids on walnuts is re ported by Lloyd Baron, manager of Oregon Nut Growers Inc. Baron said a check last Sunday showed two types of the aphids: one on the underside of leaves; the other on the leaf rib. The Ore gon State College Extension Serv ice recommends a 4 per cent nico tine dust against both species. Some growers believe that aphids may be contributed to the poor quality of nuts in the last bi Emmanuel Kumin, Honolulu, year's harvest, Baron said. REDUCTION! 2 -footwear 11 CM (journalistic). Four wartime Pacific corre spondents were among the honor ary pallbearers. They were Dan McGuire and Joe James Custer, some pressure to increase military evnenditiirea. Th- idea is to restore business confidence and'",ere Sigma Alpha Epsilon (aca mu-Inin prosperity till the middle of 1950. idemics) and Sigma Delta Ch ur. nourse admits there is some validity to this theory, but It requires qualifications. If military expenditures were cut at this time, it might pro duce a serious recession. On the other hand, it cannot be argued that Increased military expendi tures would be an unmitigated good for the country. During the war many domestic expenditures had to be cut. School construction was retarded. Streets and highways were neglected. Houses were not built as fast as new families were formed. "Brownouts" In many areas showed electric power production needed expansion. Draws Striking Comparison As a basis for comparison. Dr. Nourse points out that $15,000,000,000 a year military budget means spending at the rate of $300,000,000 a week. Three hundred million dollars is about what the President proposes to spend next not Just for a week on housing, aid to education, and rural electrification. All the money that can safely be spared from armament, says Dr. Nourse. can therefor be naed to raisa tha livlns tanUiia n ma.lor segments of the V. S. population. If VflU IlKtoll ft Befnrn llllv lid Military preparedness must therefore fee baLi M 1 " W'0rB JUI' 3i anced with economic and financial preparedness. ' to la uowi i,-, he concludes. That is why the Marshall Plan, the JL 7'! w' President's program for economic assistance to un- rwva-v Ior winter before the derdeveloped countries, the North Atlantic Pact and rush. And get the famous Cole- On Your ((ffisml FLOOR FURNACE Who can remember when you used to be ab'e to tell if the motor was running by watching tht tail lifht ahaite? military assistance for Europe mint be considered pari oi an integrated national poller. Thev are not lust parts of a separate. International policy. Thev are intended to enable the United State to buy maximum national security for each dollar spent. Coming from the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, this presentation by Dr. Nourse gives a revealing exposition of some of the thinking that has gone into preparation ot the administration's program. final decisions on all these Issues are now be ing made by appropriations committees and the Canary, man that gives you Automatic Heat Clean Heat Warm Floor Heat S A Demonstration Today L. D. CURTSINGER "AatomaUe Heat Merchant" 267 Vaa Buren Dial 5-4033 SAVES Y DIRECT FACTORY 01 $6000 ON THIJ NATIONALLY ADVERTISE! 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