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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-
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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-
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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,
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"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
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