Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, June 21, 1954, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextSafari Marquis Child AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Alton F. Baker EDITOR William M. Tugman MANAGING EDITOR Alton F. Baker Jr. SERVICES Full Associated Press, United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Register-Guard's policy is the complete and impartial publication in its news pages 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 he.pful in the development of con structive community policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post Office at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. 8A EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1954 Saftey Training Is Object of Program Parents of small boys, and some parents o small girls, should be pleased at the activities of a group of Eugene men who are interested in teaching gun safety to children. Led by Sheriff Ed Elder and Robert Mollett, a former Eu gene policeman, the adult group hopes fo take classes of children through the "hunter safety program" of the National Rifle Assn., and later through that or ganization's junior qualification course. Of course there will be objections from parents who say they don't want their children to have anything to do with guns. But if the same parents will remember 20 or 30 years back, they will recognize that no force on earth could have stayed their own natural curiosity about guns when they were 10-year-olds. The local program will start with the thesis that kids are going to get their hands on guns. The object will be to teach them to respect them for the dan gerous weapons they are and not to treat them as toys. The hunter safety program comes well recommended. In the first place it has the blessing of the National Rifle Assn., the "mother church" of all shoot ing groups. That organization through the years has taught millions, literally millions, of American children to shoot and it can boast there has not been a single shooting casualty at an N.R.A. sponsored class or shooting match. Courses of the N.R.A. type are now required of juveniles in New York, Cali fornia and New Hampshire before the children can get junior hunting licenses. Bills callings for similar legislation have been introduced in Louisiana, Missis sippi, New Jergey and Massachusetts. The New York program has been a huge success. Hunting casualty rates in the junior age group have been cut at least 75 per cent each year since the program was started. Last year there wasn't a single hunting casualty in the junior age group in New York state. The Lane County organization will start Friday night with an 8 p.m. meet ing at the Fairgrounds. The child boy or girl should be at least 9 years old and should come with a parent, but with out, this time, a gun. Guns will come later. Friday they will see an N.R.A. movie on handling of guns. When the founders of the program see how many show up, they'll know what to do next. It's a program that could provide a lot of good sport for a lot of young chil dren. It should cut down the irresponsi ble shooting now going on in residential areas. It will give peace of mind to farm ers who have valuable cattle grazing in what some people pre-empt as rifle ranges. And it should certainly cut down, eventually, on the number of hunting casualties which annually are a black mark on the state and the cause of sor row in Oregon homes. (R.B.F.) Egyptian Job American Style There's a lot of useless information going around, and it happens that often the most useless information is the most interesting. Take the case of the Great Pyramid of Giza over in Egypt. It has been much in the news the past week after a funeral ship was discovered in side the 5,000-year-old monument. Wal demar Kacmpffcrt in the New York Times takes a look at the pyramid from an engineering point of view and gives 20th century readers a new insight into the engineering achievements of the an cient Egyptians. The great pyramid, built on a square base, measures 775 feet 9 inches along each side, with the sides differing in size no more than an inch. It reaches 481 feet 10 inches above it's base. The an cient Egyptians put it together with limestone blocks, many of which were quarried some 12 miles from where the pyramid was built. To build it they used a series of ramps and (according to Herodotus who visited Egypt when the pyramid was only 2,500 years old) the labors of 100,000 men who worked three months a year for 20 years. Kaempffert figures this amounts to 180,000,000 man days of labor. Now, he wonders, how about doing it again? With our modern technology, mo dern materials and "know-how," how long would it take to put up a similar structure in New York's Central Park? Today the job would take up to five and a half years, and the cost would be about $500,000,000. That figure applies if it were built with limestone, and if the limestone could be found within 12 miles of Central Park. It would be easier, though, to do the job with steel and concrete. That way it could be done in some 750,000 man-days in about two years and would cost some $40,000,000. Add another million if you think such a concrete and steel structure should be treated with asphalt. (R.B.F.) Grisly Experiment in Oregon City Two young men who knew each other around 1 he old journalism shack at the University of Oregon have worked to gether to carry out a grisly experiment. While we can hope that their experi ment never gels beyond the cxperi mental stage, it is an experiment that had to be made. It's a good thing for the state, and the state's newspapers, that Hick Revenaugh, editor of the Ore gon City Enterprise-Courier, and Tom Brubeck, information man for (he state civil defense agency, did what they did. Last. week, when Portland and other cities suffered a mock "attack" by enemy bombers, the Oregon City paper put out a special "civil defense lest edition." It went to press al 10:05 a.m., an hour and 40 minutes after (he gianl bomb was supposed Id have leveled downtown Portland. Topics of the special paper were sent to all newspapers in the stale. It's about half the size of the page you're reading, the test edition is, and it is a single sheet printed on both sides. The main story describes briefly the at tack on Portland. "Sidebars" tell of other bombings in the nation, give in formation on first aid, pass along in structions for evacuation of cities and call for blood donors.- Most of the printed matter and all of (he photos, diagrams and cartoons were taken from an "emergency kit." which Brubeck has urged newspapers to have at hand for speedy use in an emergency. In case of such a bombing the state civil defense organization wants the papers lo keep on publishing if they possibly can. Their mission, in such a time, would be two-fold lo allay fear and to help direct disaster relief work. (R.B.F.) A California Gimmick We Don't Want We don't know how this fascinating bit of political lore escaped us In our reading of the recent primary election down in California, Anyway, our atten tion has been called to what happened in n campaign for state senate ill which a Mrs. Mildred Younger defeated .lack B. Tenney, the Republican incumbent. Mrs. Youngcr's name was new lo us. but. Tenney 's wasn't. Tenney is about, as close as a Californian can come lo being like ,Ioe McCarthy, whom he ad mires and who admires him. He cam paigned partially on the charge that "the Jews" were working against him, which we hope they were. The interesting part of the campaign I the device two Tenney henchmen used to try to defeat Mrs. Younger. They found another Mrs. Younger, a woman who had recently been confined to a menial hospital. They filed her name as a candidate, too, thus hoping to confuso the pro-Younger voters into splitting their votes. Nothing in Oregon has been that raw, although i( approached it two years ago when Wayne Morse's name was put on the presidential preferential ballot by persons hoping to defeat General Eisen hower. But at least the Taft people in Oregon that year didn't find another guy named Eisenhower. Of course the story has a happy end ing. The proper Mrs. Younger got 269, 000 votes. The "other" Mrs. Younger got 14,700. And Tenney? He got 131,000. (R.B.F.) In The Editor's Mail Bag some infringement of the law. At once they become belligerent and start giving the officer lip. "What am I being stopped for?" where it would be so much nicer it they would wipe that frown off their face, put a smile on and greet the officer by saying, "Hi, offi cer!" Then step from the car and be cooperative. That would come under self-education. Since retiring, I have been a salesman, and I have found when I am right and in good humor, the customer is always right, and it pays big dividends. You might try that idea next time you are stopped by a police officer. You speak of the officer testing your brakes. If you were asked by the officer to step out of your car, so that he might test your brakes, you would be most an noyed, and it is not necessarily the officer's business to do that. In regards to running a red light, I am afraid the police department woundn't be in a position to edu cate the people on that. That would be a case for the optome trist so that the person could have his glasses changed in order to tell red from green. If one of our Eugene officers were to write a half dozen tickets during their tour of duty of eight hours, there would be many times that number of warnings, and it is too bad you are not one of the fortunate ones to get a warning. And, if by any chance, you think the neighboring states, to the north and south, don't write cita tions, you had better visit them. You will get a surprise. The Eugene police department is very efficient for a small city. It is not possible for them to have a million dollar training center as does the city of Los Angeles. I have been asked when a po lice officer, if I was influenced upon stopping a car for a viola tion, where the fenders of the car were all banged up showing that the party had had several small accidents. My answer was, defin itely, yes. It could be possible that the little citation some one receives might be the prevention of a bad traffic disaster some time. Yours very truly, S. G. STAAEL Triangle Lake PORTER OBJECTS To the Editor: Your story con cerning the Eugene Water & Elec tric Board meeting Monday night asserts that I have stated "that power could be developed more cheaply at Cougar Dam by the federal government, rather than the EWEB which proposes to help the federal government pay for the dam's construction under a partnership agreement." That is incorrect. I have never so stated. My objection has been that Bonneville power can be ob tained at a lower cost than the EWEB can obtain from gener ators at Cougar. My plea has been that a hearing be held in Lane County so the EWEB rate payers can know the facts about the relative costs. Whether this misrepresentation was the error of your reporter or someone at the board meeting I have no way of knowing. In any event, I do not regard the board meeting as the place for the hear ing I urge and I should be pleased to have an opportunity to express my views in person be fore the board if the board chooses to discuss them. The story goes on to say that Byron Taylor and Burk Hayes said that my criticism, as mis takenly represented, was not valid, their reason being that Cou gar would be operated as a peak ing plant. "Even should Bonne ville power remain at present levels," Hayes is reported to have said Cougar Dam would bring "long-range savings as compared with EWEB purchases of BPA energy." As set forth in your story, the above assertions are unsupported. In my opinion, based on opinions of experts and the EWEB's own record, I say they cannot be sup ported and that if EWEB incor porates Cougar Dam power into its system the Eugene ratepayer will pay higher rates than if Bonneviile power was purchased. Of course I favor the building of Cougar Dam for its flood con trol benefits. I do not favor break ing up the integrated Bonneville power system, however, nor do I favor paying a premium price for power when cheaper power is available. Sincerely yours, CHARLES O. PORTER (EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Porter undoubtedly knows best the exact manner in which he has phrased his criticism. Eugene Water & Electric Board engineers, how ever, continue to be firmly of the opinion that Cougar Dam power, produced with EWEB-owned fa cilities for peak demand periods, will prove less tustly than power purchased from Bonneville for he same purpose. Mr. Porter evi dently is not aware lhal peaking power is more costly than firm power, even when nurchasod from the BPA.) ticular little song or air. Some of them are very lovely. William Byrd, one of the greatest of the Elizabethans, has left us a very interesting little keyboard set of variations, entitled the Carman's Whistle, on a theme current among drovers and carters of the 16th Century. Street hawkers and vendors had their special little tunes. The night watchman developed a fine body of music, highly stylized, to relieve the monotony of their rounds. Selling and singing went together. If anyone has heard the great English lutenist com poser's work, John Dowland, he will perhaps recall the charming little song, "Fine Knacks for Ladies," which goes as follows: (First verse) Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new! Good pennyworths, but money cannot move: I keep a fair but for the Fair to view, A beggar may be liberal of love. Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true, The heart is true. There is nothing inherently false in the idea of the singing commercial. We owe some of our finest music to the vendors and hawkers of the 16th Century, short themes frequently lifted whole into the madrigal or air for lute and voice. If the huck sters of our time would get busy it wouldn't be difficult to restore this lost art. Sincerely, ROBERT PRESCOTT JR. 151 River Ave. MORE ON TICKETS BLACHLY (To the Editor-I feel as though I should answer Mr. Bates' letter since he mentioned my name six times in his letter. What some people wouldn't give to have their name in the news paper that many times! But what 1 love best is living on the north lakeshore of Triangle Lake. I am wondering, when looking through the eye of the police of ficer, why people carry a chip on their shoulder for an officer. I have seen, many times, people being stopped by an officer for SIDE GLANCES By GALBRAITH LOST ART EUGENE (To (he Editor)-We had some friends over the olher evening and during the talk some one mentioned the singing com mercial as being, next to Mc Carthy, the most repulsive aspect of 20th Century life. Mrs. Pres COtt and 1 don't listen to the radio but for several subsequent eVGftingS we investigated the sing ing commercial and this is in the nature of a report. Our friend is right. Next to McCarthy the singing commercial is the most repulsive aspect of American life. However, unlike McCarthy, the Singing commercial has an an cient and lovely heritage. Whether or not McCarthy has antecedents I do not know, but the singing commercial has. The Elizabethans were very fond of the singing commercial and used it copiously. Nearly every trade had its par- HI '' 'Kt ij Ktl taw, !, Committee Head Ousters Have Senate Precedents WASHINGTON (NEA) Republican Son. Ralph E. Flan ders of Vermont raised a fine point in urging that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy be stripped of his committee chair manship if he does not clear. himself o charg es involving his personal financ- W7TM mm hf mmmti The Senate has removed commit tee chairmen atj least five timesi in its history. So' there are prece- Chllds dents for this action!' In 1837, following the election of Andrew Jackson as President, the Senate itself voted to remove Henry Clay as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and Daniel Webster as chairman of the Finance Committee. Both these men had opposed Jackson and his folicies. Presi dent Jackson was, of course, the originator of the political spoils system, mistrusting entrenched power and believing in rotation in office. Clay and Webster were re placed by two of his own follow ers in a purely political move. In the second instance, the Democratic majority caucus of the Senate took the action. This was in 1859, when Stephen A. Douglas was removed as chair man of the Committee on Terri tories. The reason was that Doug las opposed the policy of Presi dent James Buchanan, though both were members of the Dem ocratic Party. In Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's sec ond administration, the Repub lican caucus this time took simi lar action by removing Charles Sumner as chairman of the For eign Relations Committee. SUMNER SNUB The reason given was that Sumner did not speak lo or meet socially with the President and his Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish. This made it impossible for him to carry on his duties. Getting down to more modern times, in 1924 the progressive Republicans were able to block the appointment of Sen. Albert B. Cummins of Iowa to the chair manship of the Interstate Com merce Committee. He was an "old guard" Republican. Though his appointment had been decided on by the regular Republican caucus in the Senate, the insurgents refused to ratify on the Senate floor. They were able to force a floor vote for three candidates. In the election, Sen. E. D. "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina won, though he uins ., . mlnn.lt., r,-... " ""oer nf n .:n ---."" ran. ouu unoinep n, , ' Spnaln Mil . ma re n. - . iuivcq I t u.. Min ir. ....... ti ...id lv iinvn, J. Carolina, in ""w"? ,ltK uem..M tier, son mu,. -"ut: , muuii u T, NOT FIRED Senator Rdunnu. with Nazi Germany ..' era of Dreni.an.. lT lir... wr " Kir U not in moves. He ... r Senate Commiti,. ... '". Ink t ..- 100 his title.' """m' le' These nnnJ..i n.wv xa rt wiuc var -f nHs hv urhUh o. J UI 4 u; "lt LU "".m, may np rom... mwu ma powers, 1 no law or Senate ruIP chairmen. c Hut there arp w... X . -VMC-fllJ tuaiuuia ana irari f n. . nave annual inn imvo -t n luit-o, dim wnicn won ri k ---. kUIUIJI lif. nun mm nn io . " 4l "J Jung as in i:nn0focc mii,. l. - 0m, nuiL-flS rifj Cfig loinime To an nth a ana u nis seniority entitles in hi i mr 'j i, ,,,:,, bers nf rommitfaoc according to their years of V1PP. Thp oninr l ... , UV...U! lueiuuer matically is designated for another standing committpo vci amue iaw, it Has Sonata nranfio in i.. . t H.u w inane it Ino annninfmanti u n. ices on uomnnttees-one n:i"h Ttit,r .. leaders. These submit ftair to the Senate for approval matter ot iorm. In only one instanrp.- oi oenaior uummins, cited hn.n lUn 1 ,. ..-. vuv uw uv.cn uuea V UIVll UIV.U, JJUL LUC IHIW in tiiduge a uitMiiuersnip lieved to be inherent. Prior to 1846 the Senate cu an. luniujiiii'ca dim cu un airmen oy Dauoi. rne bers got their rank by the ber of votes they received. nractice lea 10 anuses in no trading jor me cnoicer mpnts ah f nnfjrrss m rp or chairmen on a merit basts failed. Hal Boyle uermanv s uvnam c ju r i Impresses Yank Tourists "I hat to disturb J. B. it's a speech we've all heard several limes anyway!" PARIS UR - What is the differ ence between France and Western Germany now? Nine years after the end of the last war the average American soldier abroad prefers to be sta tioned i n Ger many, the old en emy, rather than in France, the old ally. This preference annoys some French, affords the Germans a hearty Teutonic chuckle. Boyle The average American tourist, like the U. S. soldier, also quite often is more impressed by West ern Germany than any other country in Europe. Why? Both soldier and tourist, if pressed for a one-sent?nce an swer, probably would reply "It's more like home." JUST LIKE HOME The phrase "more like home" covers more than the superiority of German over French plumbing. Some Frenchmen feel Americans would prefer Hades over Heaven if the Devil would just put in more bathrooms. But the impression Western Germany makes on a U. S. visitor can't be dismissed or explained merely as a psycho pathic admiration of better plumbing. There Is a great difference in spirit between the two lands. The visiting Americans todayfindsfew scars of war left on the face of France, but detects many scars in the Frenchman's heart. The war scars still stand on every hand in Germany al though rebuilding is going on everywhere but the German keeps whatever post-war bitter ness he has pretty much to him self. The French give an impres sion of being tired and resentful and envious, like an old beauty who can't quite forgive time for taking away the empire of her charms. The Germans are like a club fighter who, knocked kick ing, gets up off the floor and asks, "Where do we go from here?" They want to hit the comeback trail as a people. YEARN FOR GLORY The visitor gets a feeling the Germans know where they are going, and that the French wist fully and fearfully are trying to hold on to something they are losing. The most striking difference between Germany and France is the difference between this at mosphere of self-confident self-doubt. The rrencn yearn for glory, and ( ance, and the Germans are inrmpr wm hull vouwvhu.pi ,t ......:.. tt.. ...... riArmon wn XJLIU,V1, ics minister, spoke of his for a unified Europe that added: DYNAMIC SPIRIT "It has often been said i urn in v 111 jjiin'M1-' .tu;.,,r in that arA. if . i- . i .....in., fii'tiam In, It m iiiwi-"" ". pansive spirit that can i iru.i t Minnncn StllTlS U iiioh ' t i rut amp real reusuii ieei mule i inwuv - mi Inn iMlklltff 0 inev itui uiu 'u"'"q . . i . 1 1.,. m r nrnwm auuut incut. - 7. nnei- StflOC anion ox uie nunu - nneaa. inev naws 3ia.o- uermany iney husv hammers, in France are too often only aware anvil chorus of complaint. ... . f i i hn Wl wmn wars rfitti i"v . is T tin nuiereuvc : . a vicitnr leeis uci limn; : nofMv It is a difference about the future 01 i a world divided. So Thev Say iin,., nan those masses of . . , .. ...,,i the tnn etanrt tnnaV OUli " Ia hnvn t 10 SCBIIU" . before them 01 nwu - l nL.:.il.n. and Vet lO UC Vmi3W'J nut anv visible ream - ties? Francis wu" man. i,ni fear ,, v --- m ex ..j cmh for truth on ine 4U-4 u mit,lil heconie Limb 1IC iiib- j an ,m i-inH nf nropasan"". , .utnino hrass for go n- Reuben Gustavson, , P" sources for tnc mi I got the lmpll M getting an affec tion (dancing instruct or KP ?. SET .n."ihef p"P" UIllBB ni".' . J a to and ave mea nug - j land, tells why he qi- sons.