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BxseueIffluatti AN INDeTenDEnT'nEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Alton T. Baker EDITOR William M. Tugman MANAGING EDITOR Alton F. Baiter Jr. SERVICES Full Associated Press, United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Register-Guard's policy is tho 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 tractive community policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post Office at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Docs Everyone Remember Old Rip Van i 7 Winkle? 8A EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1954 llnf Huh? Few days ago we picked up a copy of "Coronet" one of those pocket size mags where they boil down lengthy articles and even books to fit the ever decreasing "attention span" of the "hurry-up-Amurican" and we were at tracted to a piece by one Tris Coffin on "Wonder City of the Wilderness" a place called Arvida ifp in the Saguenay valley north of Quebec where the Alumi num Company of Canada (blood kin of our Alcoa) has completed a vast hydro power and aluminum processing project. (The development is actually in the south central part of the Province of Quebec although it is some 150 miles north of Quebec City and is spoken of as north. We forget that the Province of Quebec runs more than 1,100 miles north from the St. Lawrence river to Hudson straits and is more than 5 times as big as the stale of Oregon with all of Labrador notched into the east side of Quebec against the Atlantic ocean.) Arvida is a masterpiece of good city planning, according to the author. It will be home to some 15,000 aluminum and power workers, mostly French Cana dians and not a thing that could con tribute to their comfort and well being has been omitted broad streets, fine schools and churches, parks and play grounds, well planned homes and now we quote: '"Workers live in attractive six (yep, six!) bedroom houses that rent for an average of $35 a month or can be purchased for 14 times their annual rent ($5,880). The size of a man's house is not determined by his wealth or position, but by the size of his family. Thus a French-Canadian pot-lender with ten chil dren has a larger home than the plant man ager. This start at pure democracy is carried through the town and lately in the company. Arvida citizens elect their own mayor and council. Alcan, as the largest property owner, has only a rarely used vote on the council and a veto on bond issues." (There's a slock pur chase plan for employes, loo.") i All this we applaud especially in telligent urban planning, although we do not like our cities to be entirely Thank You Kindly, Mr. A few days ago we cribbed from the Itoseburg News Review a brief report on a book of reminiscences being written by Claude A. Riddle, of Riddle, one of the real old timers in Douglas County. Somehow we got the impression that Mr. Riddle was arguing against modern theories of forest and wild life conserva tion, and he has hastened to set us straight: "I merely tried to tell how conditions used to be and briefly stated present conditions, which we all know exist. I do not for a min ute believe nor advocate a return lo the prac tice of burning as Ihe Indians did . . . (and with reference lo fish life). ... To my mind the whole question is a mailer of food supply. . . . Our game officials seem lo think there are as many blacktail deer as there used to he. This is an 'inverted Hathaway dream' and is ridiculous to one who hunled in the old times. . . ." Fortunately Mr. Riddle sent us a copy of his little book "In The Happy Hills" (M & M Printers, Roseburg $1.25) so that now we can give you not only a more complete appraisal of his work but explain that delighlful reference in Mr. Riddle's letter to "an inverted Hathaway dream." This Hathaway was a famous packer and mule skinner in Southern Oregon, a great native story teller and a full fledged rival in this art to our McKcnzio river's accomplished "Huck" Finn, of Finn Rock. Mr. Riddle devotes a whole supplement to his own narrative to "In the Hills With Hathaway" a prospect ing trip to the Rogue country in 1903. Hathaway appeared to pack 'cm out: "So you didn't find ynur ledge. Year or so ago I was drillin' some holes on the face nf a ledge over on Cattle creek, and 1 heard the bells on the animals slarlin' out the trail tor home. Dropped everythin' and ran to head 'em off. Didn't get back to the ledge for a Massachusetts Caters to Exemption from personal property tax on goods stored in the original pack age in a licensed public warehouse if the owner is a non-resident of Massa chusetts is the bait which that state has set up to promote the warehouse in dustry. We find the notation in Public Administration Clearing House and pass it on to our local industry promoters. The bulletin says that eight other states are in this competition and recites: In the northeast, three slates Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania do not lax tangible personal properly al. alt. This has led three other stales in that area Connecticut, New .lersey, and now Massachusetts lo make similar compensations lo interstate shippers In Ihe form of lax exemptions for stored goods. In the midwest, Wisconsin also exempts ttored property of non.residenls. Michigan's xemptinn is one for home-grown food prod ucts that are stored in a public warehouse and "tailor made." A city, like a house or a university or a cathedral is a place to be lived in and it should never be com pletely "stylized." A city, like a cathe dral, is at its best which it reflects the loving care and effort of many gcncra- tions striving to rebuild it to their needs and to their dreams. What puzzles us a bit about this Arvida piece is the boast that this is NOT SOCIALISM, that this kind of com pany town is peculiarly an achievement of free enterprise and that corporate benevolence is essentially democratic. If this kind of corporate paternalism is essentially different from governmental paternalism, we are inclined to revert to the slang of 40 years ago: , "Who's looney now?" (Ajax Mcfiurk sug gests we call on Dave Hoover to straighten everybody out.) Sure this type of developmnet marks a great advance over the old time "com pany town" and we have seen many which and ante-bellum Southern slave owner would have been ashamed to offer to his blacks. But in our book, dem ocracy is not democracy where it exists by permission of any person, party or corporation. Democracy is something which grows in nature out of the hearts and minds of humans who are conscious of their dignity and their rights. It is like the native grasses which cover and replen ish the earth no matter how many times they are torn up or beaten down. To set things straight, let's say that Alcan had a tough problem of attracting a lot of workers to a place remote from the bright lights and flesh pots of our so-called civilization, and they did a darned good job of it, and they are very wise lo encourage democracy to grow there, because, it will whether they really want it or not. Riddle! Thank You month or more. When I did the gold was just oozin' out o' them drill holes." On sighting some deer, Hathaway was reminded: "One day I come along here and there was seven deer. in that lillle draw. One of them was black as coal. I had never seen a black deer, so I shot that one, and when I, come up to him, I sec he was just a mass o1 fleas." Hathaway could tell of the cabin fireplace that "drawed so good that all you had lo do to clean up the cabin was just start a fire, open the door and let 'cr suck up anything lying loose; about the potato vine that bore so good "about two bushels rolled out before I could plug up the hole." For every turn in the trail, Hathaway had a new one. This part of the book alone is worth the price. (Used lo be Oregon had lots of great story lellers. Nowadays we have a .lot of Liars' rltihs and competitions for semi-pro liars, but Ihey are not Ihe real thing and we can prove, it by O'Duilarga, the great Irish authority on folk lore and native slnry tellers.) Mr. Riddle has a remarkably easy and charming narrative style. One of the best stories in the hook has to do with the Riddle Rod and Gun Club and the great venison barbecues lo which they invited sportsmen from all parts of the state and the "barbecue to end all bar becues" (1916) or "the barbecue chef who failed." (Old timers in Ihe Order nf the Antelope who were on Hart mountain Ihe year their barbecue burned up should share their sor rows with the old timers at Riddle.) We shall treasure this little book of Mr. Riddle's. It is more than Ihe ordi nary collection of reminiscenscs. It is an Orcgonian's affectionate valedictory to a country and lo a way of life that he has known and loved well. Warehouse Business are consigned to an out-of-state destinalion. In the west, Arizona, Nevada, and Wyom ing give exemptions for various lengths of lime only lo slored goods lhat are on the way through the state. The change of emphasis in those laws is probably because of Ihe volume nf goods moving through those slates between Ihe west coast and points farther east, the study says. Thirteen stales set special conditions for goods in storage, wilhout mention of slorage warehouses. They are: Utah, Maine. Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Washington, and Oregon. Eugene is at the hub of one of the best highway, rail, and air distribution networks in Ihe west. We may be too distant from big population centers to compete for interstate warehousing and there arc many other things to consider, including whether any such plan is right and fair. But it's an "idee." ,5 i. Paul Harvey Jr. Oreaon's LawmnU.. r A $50,000,000 Prob) rtijj&ivi ut-i wit-gun KiiMa- levy to sjx hire, which meets in only five million dollar. ' 4 more months, probably will have The rest nf lu to find at least 50 million dollars could be coll,, i of new revenue to finance the Hnu. .J, "br state general fund for the next because the m N two-year budget period. 0f slannin. Z 1 N This bad news means that Tne Property t,,"'! .. , i. .Sfccnrl . Wd mere prooaoiy wiu nave 10 oe --"- nunout the t 50 million dollars worth of new a chance to defeat it I ...:n ju. i i Ppnnln n. .: taxes, ii wiu give wo mwuiaKcrs . , "uen Dlarne ll s serious financial nroblcm. 11110 far spondino ' The picture looked just as dark Son't'0'?.011''' Bl UUS lime will yvain B. nui enmoe t "lutl H suddenly, the income lax yield mPS 10 vnj lo iJ major source of state finances NOT SO EASY look a big spurt with a pickup in Of the 193 miir I business, and that balanced the ed by the 1951 "fSf budect. neon e vninj 1. t! But now, prospects are that in- nt it. This latter inl!'!! come tax receipts will decline. With so many unemployed and with business suffering from the it looks like Douglas Larsen Brewer as Modest as CIA Is Secret WASHINGTON (NEA) A group of fortunate employes of the gov ernment's super-secret, Central In telligence Agency no longer have to stand in the rain while waiting for a shuttle bus to pick them up, thanks to a prominent Washing ton citizen. One rainy morning recently Christian Heurich Jr., president of the Christian Heurich Brew ing Co., was driving to work and noticed a group nf people stand ing in the downpour at the bus slop next to his brewery. Inquir ing as to who these drenched peo ple were, he learned that they worked in the nearby CIA annex. Next day Mr. Heurich ordered his carpenters to erect a shelter at Ihe bus slop. He went as far as to have benches and ash trays installed. The brewer sought no publicity for his act of kindness and was content when he received person al notes of thanks from most of Ihe CIA workers who were bene fited. The brewery's advertising department couldn't resist Ihe chance for an ever-so-small pro motion of one of ils products, however. On the back of the benches are Ihe words: "Old Georgetown Beer." Ken. Barry Goldwaler (R-ArbO believes it's good for the Presi dent lo play golf frequently and got a bit rankled over a remark by Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind., Ore) on Ihe floor of the Senate. Sen. Morse said, "I wonder if what we are doing is substituting Ihe golf stick for the public power stick." Goldwaler answered: "If the remarks of the junior senator from Oregon were direct ed to Ihe fact that the President plays golf for recreation I would just like to suggest something. We have had presidents in our time who have hunted. We have had presidents who have been yachtsmen. And we have had presidents who have played some poker." Army officials have decided lhat it's lime for the public to get more facts about germ warfare. A lot of misinformation on Ihe subject has been circulated wide ly and the feeling is that the time has come to set the record straight. Numerous reports on biologi cal warfare are now being re viewed for possible declassifica tion and their release to the public. When friends ask him about some aspect of his job Joseph Campbell, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, tells a story about the young preacher just out of divinity school. This preacher went West and only one old cowpuncher showed up for his first sermon. The embarrassed preacher asked the old man if he thought it was worth while to give a ser mon to one person. The cowpuncher said, "I reck on if I loaded up the hay wagon and went to the water hole to feed the cattle and found only One of the troubles which Ihe Air Force and other services have had is commanding offi cers' habit of ignoring the train ing and special schooling a man has had. They give him an as signment lhat just happens to need filling at the moment. This wastes millions of dollars. But the Air Force has come up with a remedy at ils Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, where pilots are taught how to fly on instruments. The course is so comprehensive that graduates are expected to become instructors in instrument flying on their next, assignment. When Moody officials found that their graduates were being made everything from mess offi cers to personnel men they came up with their solution. They created a special short course exclusively for senior of ficers. It was aimed at convinc ing them that it was a gross wasle of manpower not lo put graduates of the Moody school where they belonged. The plan is working. In The Editor's Mail Bag ANY TEN PALS? LAGOS, N1GERA (To the Edi tor) How are you over there? Hope everything is going on sys matically. Well, it has been over Iwo and a half years lhat I have been seeking for some reliable men as pen pals, hut I couldn't got any at all. But fortunately for me, I came across your bene ficial name and address through one of my best friends who told me that you were a good and trustworthy publisher who can help me In find pen pals by pub lishing my name and address in your reliable newspaper, as a Nigerian student who needs pen pals in your country. Being a Nigerian student whose favorite subject in Ihe school is geography and who knows very little about part of Ihe globe, I, therefore, appeal for your assistance. Well, here is a brief description of myself. I am a boy of 18 years old, having black curly hair and fair in com plexion. My hobbies are dancing, swimming, collecting maps and movie books. I would he glad lo correspond wilh the Eugene residents and make Ihe friendship more inter esting I would exchange our pro ducts for those of the American ones. These are the following African products that I may like to ex change with the American ones ebony carvings, dagger knives, dolls, ivory carvings, raffia bags, snakeskin bags, wallets, purses, holts, shoes and slippers, croco dile skin bags, alligator skin hags, leopard jackets and the full length of the above-mentioned skins, etc., etc. The above-mentioned products ran be exchanged with Ihe fol lowing American ones, such as maps, stationeries, shoes, ranger hells, magazines, shirts, and socks, etc., etc. I would like anyone interested In wrile me for any article they desire lo get from me so that I can send it lo him or her imme diately. Hope to hear a favorable reply from you soon and many (hanks in advance for the space allowed. I beg lo remain, your BABSON ONAWUMI 15, Palm Church Street Lagoe, Nigeria B.W.A. NATURE OF STRIKE EUGENE (To the Editor) The nature of this lumber strike be comes apparent with the remark of CIO President Hartung that the only thing for labor to do is vole the straight Democrat ticket. It thereby looks suspiciously like the strike has political aims rather than the aim of labor wel fare. The big decision Ihcn it seems for Ihe individual worker as he ponders on whether lo return to work, picket line or not, is whether he wants to belong to the union of the United-Slates or to the industrial unionism class struggle movement. Personally, my big cheer goes lo the "gutsy" guy at Springfield, who, although willing to join the union, refused to take the union oath hecause he said that it con flicted with the Constitution of the United Slates. How right he was is indicated by Ihe AP story of Ihe. testimony of William Odell Novell, Com munist Party member from 1929 to 193B: In 1934, he said, the plan for Communist unions was dropped and the Communists instead were instructed to use infiltration as Ihe major means In get in on the foundation of the CIO, which they did. They espoused industrial union ism in the United Stales, he said. Industrial unionism, according to the Communist concept, is rev olutionary unionism based on the class struggle and is not designed In elevate the living standards of (hose who work in industry but lo use them as political instru ments of the proletarian revolu tion. I wonder just how our many good, loyal American workers hereabouts feel at. being thus used for Socialism-Communism pur poses of class warfr:e and revo lution, the purposes that always seem to wind up with labor be coming totally enslaved in a to talitarian state. MERT FOLTS, 350 Fairway Loop. EUGENE CULTURE EUGENE (To the Editor) The University of Oregon sum mer session, in presenting Alice and Elconorc Schoenfeld, gave us six recitals of the very best vio lin and cello music. The large and most appreciative audience was indicative of Eugene Culture. I was especially impressed with the pianist, Amy Lee Aurney. IJow surprised was I that she is not from Hollywood, but a resident of Sheridan, Ore., and a member of Ihe faculty of Linfield at McMinn ville. HOMER L. WEBBER 130 Ascot Drive Eugene 68 milium. tai RpHnritift -1.1 In the f,rst pi,, 1 of the budget it usJl" lon. This incU.. . fnr Wade and hishrt! " per cent fort," university. 1 Another 14 ner . nubile ,.ir. : , ""i "noun, used for state institutioj Those costs are hardti. cause Ihe number t ,j ine M-noois is n.,.. population of stal.i.,2 on the rise, anddenud "L,c ROW. The cost of tmmt , and some money for new college '"'"'s only fl,7 pr lumber strike, it looks like in come tax receipts will drop. The deficit could be more than 50 millions. VANISHING SURPLUS The 1953 Legislature had a surplus fund amounting to 44 mil lions, but the surplus facing the next Legislature will be down to seven millions. That means the last Legislature was 37 million dollars better off than Ihe next one will be. On lop of that, the new Legis lature will have to find an extra five, millions for public welfare, one cow there I would feed that ' cow. So the young minister gave forth wilh a sermon incorporat ing the four years of theology he had learned in divinity school. When he was finished the cow puncher grinned and said: "Well, I reckon if I filled up the hay wagon and went down to feed the cattle, and I reckon it I found only one cow, I would feed lhat cow, but I don't reck on I would give him the whole load." and institution buildings. Add this to increased costs in other branches of government, and you have the extra 50 mil lions that are needed. The two-year budget nt the 1053 Legislature totaled 193 mil lions. The new budget will be well over 200 millions. Where will the needed 50 mil lion dollars come from? The Legislature could levy 24 million of it by a lax on property. Oregon hasn't had a state prop erty lax since 1940. There's a 1 law that limits a state properly s you can't q budget there, Of the tola! budget, lit comes from income l'na a good source when e conditions are sood. A r provement in business gain in stale income 111 But when business (4 little, income tax rec3 taxe a Dig drop. Income lax receipt n about 10 per cent tan ago, and the prospect olij drop causes cnnsiderit'i among the men hota ance the hudRet. Atlanta, his three ctirl likes golf, too, but In traveled 140,000 miles selling his carpetini-iBl has 30 salesmen on 111 jd "I believe I talked torn as many rug buyen lad 1 as any other mill nd the country, he said. HARD WORK "Any man ought ton if he owm his on k That's what is wroaji many businesses todiH ran by professioaal who don't even own slid own concerns. Barwick, who once pi! al the University of U lina and still looks life I eet down the field tun nass. flies about in kuH "Riding in plushei-J plane gives me 111 some men used io gni ing a private railroilij said, smiling. "I call my plane V nant' because any W man knows his prow up in remnants." Hal Boyle He Bet a Million on a And Made a Million NEW YORK (flV-"It takes a good man to owe a million dollars," said Eugene T. Barwick. It takes a pretty good fellow to go on from there and cam a million dollars, too. On both counts Gene Bar wick is quite a guy. Now only 40, Barwick in five years has par layed $4,500 cash into a 30-million- dollar yearly bus iness in tufted carpets. This has Boyle given him a reputation of being one nf the top boy wonders of industry. .While some rug manufacturers were using their product to dead en the sound of their own falling tears, Gene has built his carpet ing firm to a point where it is now the fifth largest in the world. "But we believe there is room for a 100-million - dollar - a - year business in tufted rugs and car peting," he said, "and we are willing lo be the first." THEY GUESSED WRONG Barwick figures he can do this if he can make wall-to-wall car peting customary in the Ameri can home, and if he can mass produce carpets cheaply enough so that a housewife will feel she can afford to change them every time she changes her draperies. Small tufted cotton rugs boomed during the war period, but many manufacturers thought house wives no longer would buy them when wool was more plentiful. "They liquidated," said Bar wick, "and they were wrong." In 1948 Gene, who had served as a naval lieutenant in the Aleutians during the war, quit his job with a Chicago mail or der firm. Ho had been buying its carpeting for years and felt he knew the kind women wanted inexpensive but durable. "I met a bedspread -manufacturer who had gone broke for $70,000," he said. "And I taught him how lo make tufted cotton carpets. "I had only $4,500. I invested $2,500 in a latex-coating machine that would keep the carpets from skidding. Then I took to the road and the other $2,000 went into sell ing expenses. Did it work? It had to work." It worked so well that in mid 1950 the firm was doing a three-million-dollar business. The part ner, deciding no good thing lasts forever, sold out to Barwick. Gene kept right on expanding, went into debt developing new and more efficient machinery, Now he has five plants in Geor gia, machines that can turn out a 9 by 10-ft. tufted cotton, nylon or rayon carpet every 29 seconds. Weavers from Scotland and Eng land come to study his new tech niques. HEAD THE PARADE "The worst thing a fellow can do is to worry about being ex posed," said Barwick.- "Why watch a parade if you can be in it? And if you get in it, you might as well try to lead it. But you have to remember it takes a damn good man to owe a million dollars." Gene has an honest enjoyment in his success, his fine home in Red Stm Turned D( On U.SM WASHINGTON J by 15 Russian students visit the United Stalls' given a ponie i trv aft. suggesniMi i 1 j 1 The Soviet sludenlij which appeareu - . .. ..nf! fit tH Aiianuc i"""s ,-.. post-Stalin cultural asked for a chance quainlcd with it America. . The U. S, govertofl now" was pinned to . . nmettme- nacl cnosen -- , School's out in Auc tion noted, and -later date be be r. Officials said today J , ind ivett3 cation weui i. j U. S. embassy at Ho" Soviet foreign ou 1, mm U Tne renuesi. dents came as a tew ture. As pictured, w visit would be inrtBB. made to Russia M ' can couege ;- past year m The Soviet sW out an amDiuu. . . vel to. schools in i- -San Francisco, W - Atlanta. Several um.." - mitted nneiij tend a ski meet. Be r Russian, chess te permission tt tournament at ft States and Bu J been on tne tween.the wrf ain. The mo-- j,, lee, heading a P" oarly leaders. . son was isk - h, the agricultural sr. J ened at Moscow A
