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o 0 o o 0 a , o S ' .3 o 9 O S3 . AN NDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER HLTON.F. BAKER Publisher ALTON F. BAKE JR. Editor ROBERT. B FRAZIER Associate Editor SERVICER Full Aftuciated Press, jinitedPres5, Audit Bureau of Circulations. The flegister-Guard's policy isthe complete and impartial (titcation In its news pages of all new and statements on news. On this part the editors of the Register- , Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, Vindeavoring to bT-an'd butlair and helpful In the development olenn- itructive community polic?. Aenewspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post.Office at Eugene, tcgor., as second-class matter. 8A CUfcENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1955 We Didn't Steal the' Willamette Marjorie, how about talcing a, let ter? This one goes to J. H. (Rip) Van .Winkle, editor of the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier. . Dear Rip: ; Now, look, you're going loo far. You object, in your editorial of July 20, to the "fact" that "Just north of Eugene, there is a fast-growing community also known as Willamette," and that "The Lane County Willamette sponsored an entry in the 'Miss Oregon' contest at Seaside." You say in your editorial that there is a Clackamas County community also bearing the Willamette name, and that while this Clackamas County com munity has lots of pretty girls, it is too staid to enter one in a beauty contest. You wind up saying, "We just don't want our lovely town mixed up with the Lane County upstart that lacked Imagination in copying the name well established for many years before the southern community was even an idea." Local pride is something we under stand up here at the head of the valley, but we think you probably ought to be shaped up a little on your information. In the first place the "fast growing com munity',1 known as Willamette must be Willamette City, which is not north of Eugene, but southeast, hard by Oakridge. Or do you mean Willamette high school, which is north of Eugene? In the second place our girl earned her title fair and square. She was not "Miss Willamette" hut "Miss Willamette land," a monicker she earned by coming in second in the state's "Miss Universe" contest in Salem. Site got the title in Sa lem, not up here. She lives in Eugene, her name is Barbara Lee and she is cute. In the third place, our claim to the Willamette name for a community is as good as yours, maybe better. The town of Wlllammette Forks was established in Linn County Jan. 10, 1851, and re survey put it in Lane County March 4, 1852 (which was also the date q,f ttie inauguration pf Franklin Pierce), and at that time the spelling was changed to Willamette. Rather late, on March 14, 185-1, a town, of Willamette was estab lished in Yamhill County, and the spell ing was changed to Willammette before the post office was closed, presumably for lack of customers, on July 27, 1852. Our Willamette, meanwhile, was a pros perous community and remained as a post .office until 1884. Preston's map shows it, in 1856, as being three miles north of Coburg. Another Yamhill County town, Wallamette, was estab lished in 1853 and closed in 1857. So, the way we read the book, our claim is pretty good. You write, in your engaging edito rial, as if the Willamette were a round ish river, all in Clackamas County. Last time we saw it, it was rather longish, running from up in our Cascades down past Sauvies Island. It's ours to begin with, although you're welcome to it after we're through with it. Moreover, if the affinity of the Wil lamette for Oregon City is so great, why does the river go past your town so darn fast? Last time we stopped by the his torical marker and looked out across the gorge, it seemed as if the river just couldn't wait to get to Multnomah County. Furthermore, why' is it, as you sug gest, that a staid community can't enter a girl in a beauty contest? We're pretty staid sometimes, and we did it. That's about all for now. Let's be friends and figure that Willamette be longs to both of us, although you can't have it till we're through. Sign that, "Yours in the interest of accuracy." Corrupt Practices The federal government's case against the United Automobile Workers will, we hope, go to court and settle the ques tion of how much part a labor union may play in electing "friends of labor" to high office. The federal indictment says the U.A.W., a C.I.O. affiliate, vio lated the section of the federal corrupt practices act which prohibits a bank, corporation or labor union from using general funds for political purposes. The U.A.W., perhaps the most powerful labor union in America today, should be hold strictly accountable under terms of the law. It has been the position of this news paper that labor unions should he al lowed, even encouraged, to engage in political activity. That, as much as "col lective bargaining." is one of the pri mary functions of Big Labor. It is a function that many union members have come to expect. However that docs not mean that the union should he permitted to use gen eral funds, paid involuntarily in some cases as dues from "captive members," to promote political ends that the captive members don't approw. Rather, as the law suggests, the union should act only as a general headquarters through which separate funds, collected and earmarked for that purpose, ate spent in a political venture that has the favor of most, if not all, union members. H will be a -sad ikiy for American politics" if labor unions are barred com pletely from political activity. But it will, be equally sad if their activity js not held within legal ilicck salary Mr. Lattimore was drawing, but our guess is that the three-year "vaca tion with pay" must have cost the uni versity at least $30,000. Mr. Lattimore spent that, and his savings, on his de fense, even though his lawyers worked without fee. When it appeared he'd need another $40,000 to fight his case through the supreme court. Mr. Lattimore almost gave up. He didn't have the $40,000. But George Roas, a Johns Hopkins phil osophy professor, set out to raise the money. He got $36,000 from 1,800 dif ferent persons. That was spent, too, be fore the government dropped its charges. Observing that "It is better to walk with Owen Lattimore through the fires of senatorial persecution than to suffer the sort of trial given Beria in Russia," Mr. Johnson credits three factors with saving Mr. Lattimore from the Beria stylc justice. First is the fact that "American courts arc not yet prostituted to the exigencies of politics; second, the American bar is not yet prostituted to the philosophy of fees first and justice afterward; and third, American univer sities arc not yet prostituted to Fal staff's theory that honor is a word, a mouthful of wind, as compared to com fort and safety. " Expensive . A niv jlat on tin ordeal if Owen Lattimore i provided by Grftilri W. Johnsnrpin Ike New Republic. Mf. John son. former Ba')orp Sun editorial jvritor and a historian, t0s ?.lout the ihanials: of the case involving his fello Baltimorian, Mr. Lattimore. o a Johns Hopkins University, where Mr. Lattimore was working when his case came up, continued his salary al though it dropped him from active teaching. That went on for three years. Mr. Johnson doesn't say how much Green Ones? The city of Salem is putting its po- lico'inon in "plain colored car's." which means cars of green, grey, brown, ma roon, or two-toiHv Thus Salem drivers c.iw't glance in the rear-view mjrror and, spot tie 4-op when he i a couple nf blocks away. This is in contrast to the Eugene systeu of painting" police cars in colors ami designs that positively shriek "Police." , ive recall lfoti Ted Brown, our formoipoiio, hiTf. 't out to see that 'e presence o.police cars nva. in itself, o a deterrent to idiotic driving. 1. he felt, ity police in marked cars Anile) get aroum? tow n often enough to show Se 'citizens that they ugc on yie job. citi zens would tread less heavily on their accelerators. Thus there would be few er accidents. He felt that influencing drivers to drive safely was more im portant than arresting those who drove ' wildly. We think he was right. The-SpisBell Ringer A . f 'otwc ' DORIS FL&ESON : , DfnocratAwit Fe&turfe In DixQn-Yate3-Iivestisation WASHH'GTON-ien. Estes Ke- Tl ctrcumstaies under which fauver has add,ressd k pite Adams entered the PionTfav, note to Sherman Ada'ms, Pjfsi- jnqUjry wre an investigator's fnt Elsenhower's aide, , am The ck,irmin 0( the Se. and. Exchange Commis- ate anti-modopo- subcommittee sion, J. Sinclair Armstrong was his role in the Dixog lates con- refusing to tell the subcomiitl" tract. The note sugegsts that why the SECsuddenly cancelled with the President iit Geneva, hcari?s on !h financing of the there is no desire to press Adam. contract the day the House was to apnear immediately s'net he scheduled to vote on it. Arm- nTust be. unusually busy. strong said Attorney. General It rnifld. cf( course, be added Bfnwnell naa anvisea mm uus- IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG Chief ReDlieS punshiment for their misdemean- ' ors, you would have some demons1 SPRINGFIELD (To the Editor) on your hands. If you have an -In answer to the article in the '".""v' 1UK"- "m',- . Vu . Register-Guard, under Mail Bag, entitled "WANTS ACTION," by Helen O. Pridmore residing at 150 West E Street in Springfield. Miss Pridmore stales that a sex deviate has been running loose in Springfield for several years and you recommend that we should put on a special police hunt for this subject, declaring it an emergency. You are correct it has been classified as an emergency with us for a long time and we are and have been bending every cf tentiaries." You will "find that the United States built the Tirst penitentiary, the Pennsylvania type with individual cells, in I'm scared to death that some of our otherwise sensible people may forget. We can reasonably expect suc cess at Geneva and I will be first to say I don't have any idea how to define "success" in this con text. I fully expect Geneva to be 1783. The notion at that time was a milestone on the long haul; the that through solitary confinement confidence and hope expressed by radio and newspaper is, in deed justified. We have had a long, cold war; it is the same one we got excited about 7 Decem ber 41, remember? There is a particularly surpris ing trick of judo that has as its' first step the accepting of the handclasp of friendship. In order and reading of the Bible, the in mate would be reformed because he could see nothing and do nothing except read the "Good Book." The intentions were good, but it just didn't work. The en cyclopaedia will tell you that it caused more insanity than refor mation. All people need HOPE; fort to aoorehend this subicct lncy nteu lo ce uwl u"- to achieve the aim of world dom- for the safety of all concerned, working toward some goal and ination, the fat shrewdies that Our police have investigated sev- are mal(in8 progress and that run Russia, Inc. can afford lo oral calls on this subject. Often someone cares about their peace hold our hands for a while. Until the calls come in after a lapse ot mincl ancl tncir suffering. Then enough of the political budget- of time after the subject has left ,00- tnink ot tno custodians and cutters have slashed our defense which handicaps. We have one guards. What a life for them, mechanisms to small pieces; that lady who was attacked by this Jvlan s innumanity toward man re- long they will wait. You sec, it liecis, retracts ana pivots arounn, cutting its swath in human suf fering. We now have scientific knowl subject who can identify him, now living in Germany. We have esent her photographs of all the known and suspected subjects to see if she can identify this sub ject. Suspects we have picked up have been viewed by victims in police lineups, but only the lady mentioned in Germany can identify this subject as far as we know. In the past there has been a great number of suspects and at this time there is still a number of suspecls under sur veillance that arc known to us. Police officers on all three shifts have spent many hours on their off duty time in civilian clothes searching for this badly wanted subject. If you have any further sug gestions, or know anyone who may have any helpful informa tion concerning this subject, we will be more than pleased to in- rnKr Half Wav? vestigate any leads that will help nly ndll-VVdy. anytime has struck me that the pattern is repeating itself in world af fairs: the Reds were losing in Korea; we could beat them and edge in the treatment of behavior kn(;w u ? inst,ei"' l 'I"" problems. Let's use it. Do you know what a noted psychiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger has lo say about mental illness? He says, "of all the serious dis eases that confront mankind, mental illness is one of the most hopeful of recovery." We need more mental health clinics and more trained people to work in the hospitals, clinics and research laboratories. We need a better informed public, MRS. FLORENCE REED COOK 156 Elkay Drive, Eugene locate this subject day or night. Respectfully, HARRY W. HOWARD, Chief of Police. Is Concerned Et'GKNE (To the Editor) I am concerned about our institu tional problems. An incident oc curs in the fields of juvenile de linquency, crime or mental ill- S1DEGLANCES ness and the public is incensed and aroused. Then what? The vio lators are committed to an insti tution and the public nods its head in approval. The public is told that we have experts in the correctional and treatment insti tutions where the inmates are properly guided and instructed. And that is ahout all the public knows. Incidents occur occasionally, ' such as prison riots. The public then shudders and sympathies with the, prison authorities, fret fng p.erhaps we need harsher methods of dealing with these incorrigible and ''mean crim inals." True, the criminals shoulrt not run the in!itutions. and "the public ocds to be protected from criminal acls. Rut, cVl ou er top lo vond- how these inmates were.kving rior to th rioting The Walla 14 .Jla incident is an cN'nplo. These men were ineg retation. Do'you know what tha' means' It means in Orcw'm that ty are locked up in -KtniiliMl cells with hltle ot no exerci-, no knowledge othow lothry jWill be so confined. We win about the humane treatment of our dojs cat s'but ha!tiout our hum?ti hemes? I'o resident would Vep a human being in a roo?n for any length of time, the Humane SiH'icty would be af'r that individual. Yet, we tnli rate that condition in our correctional ' Institutions Think of onr vvn children. If jou used that sort of SPRINGFIELD (To the Editor) Re: Editorial, "Can We 'Push Back the Indians'" Your comments were quite to the point hut, 1 feel you only went about half-way. It worried me to know, for a lot of years, that any time I heard whites of their eyes, in Geneva. a trans-continental bomber over- c. . head it very easily might be Sincerely, carrying a red star on it. Geneva RICHARD W. WOODBURY is not going to eliminate that but 321 "E" St. ammunition they started firing words and time at us across a conference table ... they won too! (In a war, someone loses and someone wins. Korea was a war. We did not win in Korea. Therefore, we lost.) Probably be cause of better intelligence ser vices, the Reds think we could obliterate them - - - in a sense, they are losing . - - they have had to make some concessions to get us to Geneva but they're playing to win (they can hold hands a while) so, now, watch the time and word ammo roll. Yes, Bulganin and his 'happi ness boys' are the star attraction in Geneva this week". The cast is gigantic. You may well listen to some of the lyrics but they won't tell you the "score ". And while the whole world watches Ivan's boys vodka-ize the whole of Switzerland. I sincerely hope the boys flying patrols out of Thule keep their eyes peeled and their trigger fingers warm. You see- - -, we arc seeing the By Galbraith , i '-x:s- 'v ;rAr to h ..o . . A A. 1 Af.JuT: i ss at TJIultl Fit M 6f 41 hi Nf t WM. . 7- that there is no desire cn the subcommittee's part' to put on. the star actor of "Dixon-Yates while 'Geneva is monopolizing-the" nation's headlines. For in dis covering that Adams played a part in that controversial affair, Democsats have at last, arrived where they have longed to be, which i squarely in the immedi ate vicinity of the President's desk. AS' 4 3TANT PRESIDENT Adams' duties can truly be de- fell within the president's prohi bition on revealing prfvate White House conversations. m ADAMS CALLING With this clear indication that , at last they were getting some- f where the subcommittee sent Armstrong home to talk it over with the attorney general. The next day the SEC chairman testi fied that Adams had. called and asked for postponement. Then he clammed up again. The subcommittee didn't mind serihed ns those nf assistant Dresi- that new hose of attempted sec- dent and Eisenhower himself has recy at all.' It is too happy to have reason to can a presioen tial intimate, a roan closely iden tified with the President in the public mind. Washington at least knows that "Adams calling" rates next to "Eisenhower calling" in the power to get action. Adams, charming socially and gruff politically, has not been tested as a congressional witness. said "Sherm" makes his life possible. This feeling of obliga tion was the real reason for -the President's recent New England safari, Adams being a former governor and member of the House from New Hampshire. With Adams, Kefauver hopes to break the jinx which has marked other Democratic efforts to put the blame for mismanagement in 'The question of how he will do the President's lap. Parents wor- in his baptism of fire will crowd ry about the Salk vaccine con- the hearing with curious specta- fusion but they blame Mrs. Hob- tors. by. Educators are angry about He is in a difficult position, inaction in the school field but He must know the whole story they blame Mrs. Hobby, Treasury 0f Dixon-Yates. If he takes Secretary Humphrey and the refuge behind the President's Democratic Congress. The postal prohibition as Armstrong first workers arc mad at the Post- attempted to do, it will produce master General. Secretary Dulles an effect of secrecy bound to be takes the rap on foreign policy. harmful politically. This is one It is all very discouraging for hearing in which both sides will a party in search of an issue. be wary and well-prepared. FREDERICK C. OTHMAN Citizens Uncertain About Neighborhood Full of Cops WASHINGTON All I know for certain about the super-secret, hush-hush Central Intelligence Agency is the fact that its bosst Allen W. Dulles, smokes an ex cellent grade of pipe tobacco. tor of the weekly Providence (name of our township) Journal, and Carleton Massey, our county manager, said you couldn't stop progress. ' They figured our precincts Fragrant. Probably costs him $3 would be built up soon by new per pound. All other information concern ing his globe-girdling organiza tion of sleuths to me is a mystery, which rapidly is growing mystcri ouser, Consider, for instance, surplus property from the Central In telligence Agency. This property is secret. I tried to get some idea what it might be, aside from maybe an oversupply of false residents, anyhow, and why not get some high-class ones, like those CIA people? I, myself, not know how high-class CIA folks are, because the only one 1 can recognize is Dulles, the pipe-smoker. His helpers may be the finest citizens there are, but there's no way of telling because none of 'em even will admit they work for him. (Copyright,. 1955, by United 'So They Say'- whiskers, but the man from the feature syndicate, inc.) General Services Administration said he could say only that it was confidential equipment. His job is to get rid of it. So it would seem that secret bidders must make secret bids on secret merchandise, which they're not going to be allowed to see. Here I'm spoofing a little, but not much. This CIA business is so danged secret that to an outsider like me it begins to look ludicrous. Give them (parents of delin quent children) a big fine, not the jail. The jail is only for guys that steal and hit people on the head and things like that. Rocky Graziano, onetime ju venile delinquent who became middleweight champion. COPS IN MUFTI That brings us to (op sleuth Dulles, smoking his beautiful smelling pipe, and appearing be fore the Senate Appropriations Committee , on the subject of w here he's going to build his new, $4R 000.000 headquarters. Reporters like me had to leave, of course. Dulles' testimony had to he secret. But it's hard to keep a secret in a Senate committee room and I'd hardly been allowed to return an hour and a half later, before I was told confidentially that Dulles had insisted he want ed to locate his intelligence cen ter at Langley, Va. In the field of long range planes, the Soviets are lagging behind the West and specifically behind the United States. General Gruenlhcr, SHAPE commander. Throw away an orange? I like oranges. Boxer Harold Johnson when asked why he didn't discard an orange which was alleged ly doped. . My banker tells me if I don't quit it, I'm going to have to move my overdraft elsewhere. So from now on, 1 11 be glad to send such Well sir. this happens to be half a (four-color United States) map a mile down the pike from mv own beaten-up acres at McLean and into the room rushed a score or more of my neighbors to dis cover, if they could, what the international hawkshaws intended to do to our countryside. About half of them fieured the CIA would be a neighborhood; the other half were bitter against turning our rural area into a city full of cops in mufti. Attorney Sam N'ecl, who boucht a horse from me a while back, chargrd that Dulles in tended .to build a junior.sized pentacna smack-dab in the mid dle of what we residents like to call our farms. 'otnsellor Kocef T Fisher insisted the CIA's proj ected building would be six-and-a-tialf times bigger tha the pres ent department of state, whicll isn't exactly a two-room shack. ROTfl SIDK .. . to anyone who wants it and w ho encloses S4. Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tox), says he's going broke sending out maps that cost him $4 each. They (Russia) will have lo in vent it lltnmi. ,..hl ..... boon to our v h,,t r ., .i... i , ..i i-unr iii.il in me enu they will say they were first. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash). .' 4 I predict we will have a two hour work day because of auto mation. Albert Whitchouse, director of United Steelworkers and viceV president Nationar Council ok Churches. You have e;ther.gnt to. talk or you have fc shoot. An t I think if is much better to a than $0001. ' t- i." , . ." . S(,n- Homer Capehart on pro-. .Fishers ca eolations indicated . pose-, BigTour conference to Dim. he said, that the VIA in- . i trndc to frect a strucire large a u enouch V hold 16.100 federaP hawkshfws ar0! secretaries Dulis mutterel prott. but he chose not to tell how manymp es he actually would have. That's a. e- crei, too. 0 Fisher insisted that 0,rh 9. miehty influx of tcdcra?dctfc- memrer r e THE ASSOCIATE PRESS Any Prf li .. . k.li A iw. . ...2,,.... HERBFjT C KElf? ,B,s,nf Editor " "i "iera,-orjcc- " " 1 Nw Mltot Otives would rtorupt property va!!?" H- s.V.lakd city JMnoill "Smith, I've enjoyed this evening1! fun no end! What make it nicer is I know you're one employe who wouldn't try to polish me up for a raisel", 0 f urs, ciok roans-inrworflj us tax- , pa-ers to foot We bills for mi tttv 6 9 w.9 r and sewer system . ,w. r.DWi.s m JAKER. Bilr$M9nar presenMv need. C 9 it- rgfSsWAN. Ad.,rt,, ,., The other side. rOwntd bv O!tTR0MM,d -O. V. Carper, our L, contrae- - f" tor; Dick Smith, the erudite edi- ""J JFoC'ulJl,0,, "'"" vn ......... Auaicr
