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MQMl tIMMNI Some Aren't Enjoying The Trip AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Alton F. Baker EDITOR William M. Tugman MANAGING EDITOR Alton F. Baker Jr. SERVICES Full Associated Tress, United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Register-Guard's policy is the complete and impartial publication in its news pases of all news and statements on news. On this page the editors of the Register Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful in the development of con structive community policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN Oa)' ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post Office at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. 14A EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1953 What Has Become Of Bells In Our City? This is a momentous question. From Lane Blohm, 3rd Grade, Westmoreland school we have received a note of re quest which excites our curiosity and dismay. Lane writes in a very neat "slant" (who says these kids can't write?) as follows: Eugene, Oregon . December 10, 1953 Dear Editor: We are learning about bells. We wonder if there is a church or tower that has bells which can be rung here. We would like to see them. We a!o wonder if anyone in Eugene has a bell collection. Will you please answer this, or print our letter. Yours truly Lane Blohm, 3rd grade, West morcland School. It was with a sense of "shock" we read these words. Since when has it become necessary for a child to ask what the sound of a bell is like? For some of us, born in a luckier and happier time, bells were a part of our daily lives the school bell, the fire bell, the dinner bell, the curfew bell. And of course, the church bells which sang out the glad news of weddings or tolled the sad tidings of death. The bells of the town which united to ring in the great events of the year New Years, Easter, Fourth of July, Christmas. Slowly it came to us that for a long time, something has been missing from our lives. It has been a long time, too long a time, since we have lain abed on Sunday morning, listening luxuriously (and with a remote "consciousness of guilt") to distant bells calling worship pers to church. It occurred to us to ask WHY! A partial checkup reveals that we still have some bells in Eugene at the First Christian church, the First Baptist church, the Evangelical United Brethren church, St. Mary's Catholic church, Grace Lutheran, Bcthcsda Lutheran. Some ring regularly; some do not. Many of the newer churches have been planned without bell towers or bells and this we learn with much Te gret! We heard a report of a city ordi nance prohibiting church bells. Henry Bcistcl, city recorder, assures us there is NO such ordinance. So we are launch ing herewith a "crusade" to restore bells to our community life. So much history has been associated with bells our Independence bell at Philadelphia, the bells which were rung to alert the Minute Men the night Paul Revere made his famous ride. Much beautiful poetry has been written about bells. There was one melodious stanza which kept ringing in memory (we had to ask the always-helpful reference li brarians at the University of Oregon to help us out). Edgar Allen Poe wrote it, and it goes like this: Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! M'hat a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seems to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bolls From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-love that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells,! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! how It tells Of Ihe rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bolls Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! How Felix Cricket- Learned To Sing EUGENE (TO THE EDITOR) Cli rvtt iwu lime is here again with all its priceless mem ories. J have written a little Christmas stnry that should delight the Utile children and same of the grown ones, as well. May I humbly suggest that yon put it in print? J. Frank Bucher ."THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CHIRP" By .7. FRANK BUCHER Once upon a time, many, many years ago, where the desert sands meet the blue, blue sky, there lived a little cricket. Felix, for that was his name, lived with his brothers and sisters in an old-fash-loncd hearth, that was the proud pos session of an old inn-keeper. There were other cricket families living in the hearth too. And, as all good little crickets should, they lived peace ably together, each family with its own little mud home. Many guests came to the old inn, snd after each gigantic meal, all the crickets would rush out and gather the crumbs, for crickets dearly love crumbs. "Don't waste the crumbs, Felix," his mother would caution, "What, you don't rat must be stored away for the winter." For all wise crickets know that a crumb saved is a crumb earned. , Sometimes Felix would help his father and mother repair their home, snd build new crumb storage bins. "A little mud in time saved lime," his father often told him. ; In the evenings when the nights were fair, all the crickets would gather under the bright, bright stars and sing. For if there is one thing that crickets dearly love to do, it. is to sing. They would spread their wings to heaven and sing of the night with its countless stars; of the swaying palm trees in the gentle desert breeze; of the sweet smell of spring flowers; and above all, of the warm, crackling fire of their native hearth. That is, they would all sing except Felix. For although Felix was a perfect cricket in every other way, try as he would, he simply could not sing a note. Now nobody but a cricket knows what it means, not to be able to sing. Not to be able to sing? Never to raise one's wings in sweet chirps to HIM, who has created so beautiful a world, and made the fire's crackle so warm ind friendly? It was unthinkable! One could as well have fewer than six legs, or no antennae, as to have no voice. But Felix's mother was very under standing. "Be a good little cricket, Felix," she would tell him, "and some day you will turn in your little black wings for white ones. And the music that will come from the heavenly crickets will be more beautiful than you and I have ever heard." "And shall I be able to sing?" Felix would ask. "Like an angel," his mother would assure him, "like an angel." Felix would smile, wipe away a little cricket tear, and utter up a little cricket prayer, "Dear Builder of the Hearth, make me a good little cricket. Amen." Days passed by quickly and the warm summer gave way to winter's cool, crisp nights. The cool nights made the cricket world drowsy, and much time was spent sleeping, and in eating the crumbs, that had been stored in summer. But one night, Felix could not sleep. Something tremendous was in the air. Perhaps a little air would be good for him. Felix decided to go for a walk. It was always peaceful down by the old stable. But! What was this? Something was doing down there. The winter stars were so bright! Felix look a good look. Could he be dreaming or was one star much brighter than the rest? If he did not know better, he would swear that it shown down on the old cow barn. Then he heard it! First far away, then nearer and finally rising to a mighty chorus: the most beautiful music Felix had ever heard. At first Felix could only stand In silent wonder. And then as the heavenly choir raised their voices in tumultous praise, Felix could hold back no longer. He just had to sing! He could sing! He just knew he could! And raising his an tennae (o the stars, Felix sang to the top of his wings. When the heavenly host had finally finished Ihe anlhem, and were arrang ing themselves for another choral, Felix felt the gentle caress of an antenna on his shoulder. He turned. It was mother. ".lust like an angel," she said, like an angel." And thai, little children, is Felix the Cricket learned to sing. And as Icltx often said, "Peace on earth, good will to men, and to crickets too." his "Just how TWB1-Y Peter Ed son A-Plan Could Succeed Without Red Help Edson WASHINGTON (NEA) Any idea that the United States and the Soviet Union would be the only contributors of atomic ma terials if President Eisenhower's new plan for peacetime d e velnpment o f atomic energy is put into effect, would be com pletely wrong. There is enough atomic know how in a dozen other free-world countries to make the Eisen hower plan a success even if Russia decides not to join up. The non-Communist countries with active atomic energy pro grams are Britain, Canada, France, West Germany, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Bel gium, Switzerland, Italy, India. Australia and Bra zil. There is, in addition, a cooperative European Council for Nuclear Research, with a labora tory near Geneva, Switzerland. This organization is set up under the United Nations. Being well established, this is an institution which could carry President Ei senhower's idea forward. Gordon Dean, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commis sion, made a complete roundup on the programs of these other countries in his book, "Report on the Atom." The most import ant point he stresses is that the United Slates doesn't have, and never did have, a monopoly on atomic energy development. The greatest security risk we have, as Dean declares, is in Mother Nature herself. Any group of scientists may discover things not known in America. And for the protection of future development of the U S. atomic energy program, it is necessary that the research results of for eign laboratories be made avail able to this country BRITAIN IS THIRD Today Britain has a completely integrated atomic program and the U. K. is the only country other than the U. S. and USSR making atomic weapons. Britain has low and high-powered re search reactors and is well ad vanced on studies of atomic en ergy heat and power. Canada is not interested in bomb production but it has a complete research center at Chalk River, 125 miles west of Ottawa. It has three reactors. Additional research is done in five universities. Canada's uran ium deposits are among the lar gest in the world. The French atomic energy pro gram, unlike those ot America, Britain and Canada, is operated with little or no secrecy. France has three reactor centers near Paris. She has ample, uranium in her own borders and in African colonies. Recently, Fiance an nounced a 15-year, $100-million program to develop an atomic power program because the coun try has no petroleum. Norway and The Netherlands jointly operate a reactor near Oslo. The Norse have contributed heavy water and the Dutch ur anium. None of the research is secret, and the scientific staff comes from all over western Europe. , SWEDEN HAS BEST LABS The dutch also have' a research center near Amsterdam, headed by C. J. Bakker, who also heads the European center in Switzer land. The Netherlands and Bel gium are both interested in atom ic power as they have no exten sive fuel resources. Belgium has the world's largest uranium de posits in the Congo, but is only now completing its first reactor. Sweden, next to Britain, is said to have the best nuclear re search laboratories in western Europe. It is building an under ground power reactor near Stock holm and is interested in power development. Denmark has no national atom ic energy program, but the Uni versity of Copenhagen's work un der Niels Bohr makes it one of the most famous research centers in the world. Germany is prohibited from having an atomic energy program now, but ratification of the Euro pean Defense Community agree ment would give its many able scientists a green light for future development. West Germany has no uranium deposits, but East Germany has. Italy has no gov ernment program, but a group of industrial concerns is privately fi nancing a research program. Switzerland is' building the world's most powerful particle accelerator for research at the UN Central European laboratory. India is the only Asian country that has shown an interest in nuclear development. India's main resource is in thorium de posits, not yet developed for ex tensive use in fission. Brazil also has thorium deposits and a research program in its principal universities. C. M. G. Latt.es, head of this work, is cred ited with a leading role in arti ficial production ot mesons at University of California, one of the most important postwar dis coveries. Australia, with promising ur anium deposits, has research centers at Canberra and Mel bourne Universities and will build its first reactor in the next few years. Australia is interested in atomic power possibilities. It is now supplying the raw materials to the U. S. and is, in addition, the site ot British weapons testing. In The Editor's Mail Bag PROPERTY RIGHT Springfield (To the Editor): I have read the articles about Socialism and Communism by Geo. Owen, particularly, his last one, Mon. Dec. 7th. I think, despite his assertion that he has studied both isms ex tensively, that he too misses the point. I claim that there is noth ing idralogical about cither ism, Mr. Owen's assertion in a pre vious article, that both aim at the same goal, but that Socialism is the least violent of the two is quite correct. The basic tenet they have in common is rejection of property rights as applied to the Citizen. Both of them would deny Ihe individual the basic human right to use and enjoy Private Property, the denial ot which is the rejection of every thing mankind has striven for and attained in all history. Private Properly, is now and will always be the symbol ot Human Progress. Destroy it and your destroy progress. Limit it in any extent and you limit the progress of civilization in equal amount. We have always had among us those who for reasons ot laziness, stupidity, cupidity or for the plain and simple reason that they are going to get (heir's one way or another by hook or crook and who can not win in the bat tle ot life by the established rules. Those people constantly seek In change the rules of life to their own favor. These people manifest themselves In many ways, Ihe various 'isms are only one way. The Penitentiaries of the world are full of them, they being the more direct and vio lent specimens. The "Isms" arc only slightly less. They, however are more clev er and subtle than the criminal element, for they seek to take over the physical means of Gov ernment and thereby eliminale interference from Ihe police. At the same time they would as sume the function ot police. We have an excellent example of this in Russia. Can anyone honestly deny that from what history re cords, the criminal gangster cle ment has taken over that coun try? Has not the same been re peated in what we refer to as the "Satellite" countries? We would have approximately the same condition in this coun try today if the Capone Gang had been able to accomplish what Lenin, Trosky, and Stalin did in Russia. I maintain that sooner or later mankind for it's own physical safety, will have to face Ihe facts ot life and accept Ihe burden bt exterminating these "human weeds" as fast as they show up. What Is the accomplishment of confining these people in prisons after they repeatedly demon strate a violent and hateful atti tude toward Ihe rest of Human ity? In that respect, criminals and communists and the lesser "isms" arc all cast in Ihe same mold. Sincerelv. RUSS STEWART a Republican or Democrat, but my' father, the Rev. J. Frank Bucher, M. A., D. D., was an ar dent Socialist. In' respect to him 1 will try to explain, intelligently, what Socialism is. " Socialism means ownership of industry by the government or people. The post office is a good example ot a socialized industry. Another example would be government-owned electric power. In the socialist stale the govern ment would assume responsibil ity for the welfare of the people. Social security, old age pensions, veterans' pensions, etc., are ex amples. In a completely social ized government there would be no unemployment. As you can see, Socialism is an idealistic dream. Because Christianity is such a highly idealistic philosophy, many ministers, like my father, believe that a Christian worlcT can exist only in a socialist state. It will take many, many years to prove it there is any truth in their be lief. As for the government ot Ihe U. S.: It is not a question of whether it will go socialist, but how far it will go. The U. S is already partly socialized. J, Frank Bucher. SOCIALISM TO THE EDITOR: I do not wish to write n column in your paper, but someone should an swer Mr. Owen's letter on Social ism. 1 have never been anything but ASK OWFAS! EUGENE (To the Editor) -Would it be out of order to inquire if Geo. E. Owen's letter of Dec. 10 is some kind of a review of the J. Whitlaker Chambers book, "The Witness"? D. M. DeLONG km Hal Boyle Catch Up on During Long NEW YORK Wl Those long winter evening commercials on television have revived the lost art of reading. There is no belter time to pick up a good dook and settle back for a reunion with Ihe printed word lhan during those cheery interludes on your video screen during which the an nouncer tells you how you can ' avoid body odor and protect your Boyle lungs by drinking only filtered beer, packed in a king-size re frigerator that can be thrown away after using only once. "During one long commercial I read my way through three feet ot Dr. Eliot's old five-foot book shelf," a man bragged recently. "My wife, who has read all our books, knitted a sweater dur ing another commercial." GIVE A BOOK So, it you want to do your friend a real favor this Christ mas, why not refresh his cars by giving him a heart-warming, old-fashioned present a book? If he has forgotten how to read, surprise him with a color picture book. To guide you in making the right choice, here is our annual list of Christmas book suggestions just in jest for folks in and out of the public eye: "How to Make Doll Clothes" Marilyn Monroe. "All Done from Memory" Har ry S. Truman. "How to Play your Best Golf all Ihe Time," President Ike. "A Practical Guide to Job Hunt ing" Sen. Joe McCarthy. "The Boy who saw Tomorrow" Vice President Nixon. "Our Animal Neighbors" To the family next door. "The Borrowers" To the other family next door. "For More than Bread" To your favorite employer, the boss. "You Must Relax" Ditto. "Brother to the Dragons" The boss's assistant. "Some Enchanted Evenings" June Lockhart. Your Reading Commercials "1 Reached f. . , .. Sinalra. " lt '-tt "Notes Wiih,.i . ny Ray. ""'""-Job,. TO GENERAL DEAN con. sented with a salute) (t frcy?" Tn,s"-ArtW H JTheC'aine Mutiny J Bj;A Pail of OyMers'J "Kiss Me Ana!. For Pcnclop'aM old maid Plalvnn. I "What Can a Man Believe Publisher Bonnr-it rv-t "' "The Age of Suspicion"-!,., Icne n elr Kh "l'im ., .l '.:. . . . aim nine Agam'-i.. Gardner. A" "Ways of Mammals"-.T,, lah Bankhcad. "Until Victory-Adlai Stevtt !!',?. luUlC ot Architecture- ucu,y UldUlU, "Meet Me at the Morgue". Premier Malcnkov. "Songs for my SUppcr"Cl, Lombardo. ' "Pocket Guide to the Birds"- lour lavorue politician. "What Time Is II, World" Winston Churchill. "Live Them Again"-Bernard Baruch. "The Enchanted Cup"Yoir jiivunie Dancnacr, FOR HUSBANDS "Lord Vanity" Many Witts are buying this for their husband althoueh I don't know . on. ' prefer "The Man who Wouldn't Talk." "The Heart ot the Family". Your wife. "A Law for the Lion" Ditlo. r lying Saucers from Outer Space" To a butter-fingered mi. ter. "By the Dawn's Uclv LirM" Fine for throwing at alarm clocks. "Life is Worth Living" and "The Power of Positive Think ing" Buy 'em for yoursclf. and give your own mind some tresa air and exercise. Childs Marquis Ch'ilds Public Temper Will Dictate Much of President's Program the aim of Gov. Thomas E. Deue; wno wanted the site developed bv the New York State Poffer Authorijy. Dewey, who has warn ed that if the state does not tali it over the federal government certainly will, came to Washing- ion and hehinH srenp: used ill his influence to get the Miller Bill blocked in the senate. Iron ically it was Dcwcy who javt Miller his start in politics. In a speech to the Rotary Club I in Buffalo, Miller said, at quoted in the Buffalo Courier' Express, that he was sick and tired of hearinff Congress Com- plajn about being hamstrung by pressure groups. The farmer, the American Legion, the Catho lic Church, the CIO, the chamber of commerce will each let you know they don't like what you are- doing if they disapprove ol legislation, Miller was quoted u saying. Friends of (he able 39-year-old congressman say he felt the need to return to his private law prac tice to make money. But those who fought him on the po issue insist it is opposition to hi! stand that caused him to wiuV draw. Labor leaders last August brought Rep. Franklin D. Boost velt Jr., to speak at a rally at Niagara Falls that drew 10,000 people who heard Miller's posi tion denounced. One ot these leaders, Anthony Sabatine, ot IM, CIO, was later elected lo the city council in that Republican com munity. COMMITTEE FORMED Without any publicity Northeast Electric Power Con sumers' Committee was forme Dec. 5 in a meeting at Albany Present were representatives the REA coops, State J Bureau Federations, The Far, ers' Union, CIO and AF ot b from New York and the M England stales. They were to that while the area had me o the highest power rates in country, hydroelectric develop ment by the federal or state crnmcnt or both could mean one of Ihe lowest rates. The groro work was laid for a campaiCT with significant political e tones to get approval for I P lie project. Such straws in' the wind had not a little to do with ing the program Presidcn t &' hower will seek to get throug" Congress. Extreme consent'" in his own party, and son i them are key committee cna men, will find much of it 1"8 distasteful. But it embodies Ihe president and his believe to be essential both I the parly and the "' ' (CopjTfcht 1933. ny I'nJ WASHINGTON No President could go farther than Dwight D. Eisenhower has gone in trying to win Ihe leaders of his party in Congress by friendly persuasion. Committee chairmen were wooed with breakfasts, lun ches and dinners all through Ihe first session of Ihe 83rd Con gress. In many in stances Ihey ac cepted Ihe White House hospital ity and the pres idential offer of goodwill and then went back (o Capitol Hilt to at tack the President's program. Now. if members of the While House staff are correct in their appraisal, things are going to be different. Hewing lo his own line, Eisenhower will summon mem bers of his party in Congress to follow hiin if they want to win the support of the American peo ple for re-election. Whether key Republicans, long conditioned to a kind of automat ic opposition, will follow the new look in leadership remains to be seen. It may work as it is intended to work with a far more positive and determined President call ing the turn. BROAD APPEAL One factor could help to under write the President's authority. The middle of the road program he is sponsoring, embodying a broad extension ot social security benefits and a rise in the mini mum wage, is designed to appeal to the great band of middle of the road voters which includes not only Republicans but Independ ents and Democrats. Reports lo Republican headquarters indicate that failure to adopt at least a substantial part of such a pro gram would put the parly in an awkward position before the vot ers next fall. In fact, grass roots discontent reflected in farm organizations is causing the administration to modify its power program with less emphasis on a switch to pri vate power companies, This change of emphasis has been conspicuous in the Missouri Basin region. In Ihe Pacific Northwest 20-year contracts for power from Bonneville Dam were signed with private companies on Sept. 15 be fore the grass roots reaction had made itself felt in Washington. VSED INFLUENCE One of the most effective champions In Congress of the pri vate utilities in Ihe contest be tween private and public power has announced that he will not seek re-election. Rep. William E. Miller, Republican of New York, sponsored the bill passed by the House lo turn over lo five pri vate utilities a major power site on the Niagara River. This was passed by the House 262 to 120 with Ihe support of the entire New York congressional delega tion except Rep. 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