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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ALTON F. BAKER, Publisher, 1927-1961 Letters In The Editor's Mailbag ALTON F. BAKER JR. Editor and Publisher EDWIN M. BAKER General Manager RICHARD A. BAKER Managing Editor ROBERT B. FRAZIER Associate Editor A. If. CURREY Associate Editor 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 opinion on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful in the development of construc tive community policy. A newspaper is a CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Published every evening and Sunday morning by the Guard Publishing Co. 8A EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1962 Air Shows to Stir Thrills-and Thoughts Anyone who has ever seen the Navy's Blue Angels perform will attest that the Emerald Empire is fortunate to have them coming here to star in Mahlon Sweet air shows this Saturday and Sun day. Their extraordinary flying skills al most defy belief. Description of them is impossible. All who go out to Eugene's municipal airport either afternoon should go pie pared to be thrilled. And perhaps, as they watch the Blue Angels whip through their jet-speed ballet in the sky, these spectators also will be moved to ponder the importance of Mahlon Sweet Field to this entire sector of the state. As the jet transport age develops, this field must be further developed to bring further air cargo and air passenger benefits to the Emerald Empire. Mahlon Sweet is the only air lines' terminal in this area; it serves some 200,000 persons directly and indirectly. And, as the field is improved to keep pace with the rapid overall advances of the aviation industry, its value will be doubled and redoubled probably sooner than most local resi dents are apt to realize. Watching the Blue Angels in action, plus other Navy and Air Force jets, Saturday's and Sunday's spectators may also inspect facilities now in use at Mah lon Sweet then imagine how the field should look and operate five years from now. Five years ago, they may recall, jet passenger service was still in Ihe planning stage. Eugene's city council has already tried to look forward five or more years in planning the development of Mahlon Sweet Field. In fact, that's one reason this weekend's air shows are to be staged. The Eugene Chamber ot Com merce and others backing the city coun cil's plan to put an airport improvement bond issue on the November city ballot are hopeful that these shows will stir ft ft Which Pot? ft George Humphrey, former secretary of the treasury, is on the pan because of his connection with a firm which did big business with the government while he was in office. Politics is playing a part in the investigation, to be sure. However, it is too soon to rush cither lo his defense or to join those who aie throwing bricks at him. Only investiga tion will tell if the affair turns out to be another Teapot Dome or another teapot tempest. Fair for All For Lane County residents, the world's most enjoyable fair will be open ing Wednesday, and they won't have lo make any 500- or 600-mile round trips lo get in on the fun. The .r6lh annual Lane County Fair will play Wednesday through Sunday at the county fairgrounds on West 13th Avenue, complete with every attraction residents have come lo expect. There was a time, not so many years back, when the county fair was of inter est mainly to rural or farm families, when Lane's city folks found it some thing they attended only half-heartedly. In recent years, however. Ihe fair grounds have been greatly improved- and so have the planning and the staging of the fair, itself. Last year Ihe Lane County fair drew well over 100,000 visitors bins and girls, mothers and dads, grandmothers and grandfathers. Few were in any way disappointed with the adroitly mingled features of the fair. They found nothing had been taken away from the tradition of the fair or its prime function as an exposition of the agricultural wealth of Iane County. At the same lime, most of those attending enjoyed the fair's variety of extra features the carnival attrac tions, commercial displays, mass-appeal entertainments and cultural exhibits. The l!Mi2 Lane County Fair has been planned to outdo even last year's. And. at prices which will offer family fun and a chance to marvel at the agricul tural diversity of Lane County without straining the average family budget. more public recognition of the rising im portance of Mahlon Sweet as an eco nomic community asset. Frankly, the Register-Guard hopes that this effort succeeds. This newspa per has held, and still holds, the opinion that ultimately the financing of Mah lon Sweet improvements and operations must be underwritten by a broader group of taxpayers than just those resid ing inside the Eugene city limits. It ap pears, however, that it will be some time yet before arrangements can be made to give the city assistance it needs in building Mahlon Sweet Field to function as it should, with the facilities it should have, five, 10 or 20 years hence. Thus, the Register-Guard commends the Eugene City Council for attempting lo see that what should be done, imme diately is done as soon as possible. If the bond issue the council plans to submit to the voters is approved, land can be ac quired to extend the main runway at Mahlon Sweet, and terminal facilities suitable for the state's second most popu lous community can be erected. Some experts contend that the new terminal facilities will literally pay for them selves, once they are constructed. And hardly anyone disagrees with the idea that if this field is ever going to need a runway to handle big jets, now is the time to acquire Ihe necessary additional land. The Civil Air Patrol, assisted by local military reserves and with the financial underwriting support of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, has set the stage for thousands to go see the Blue Angels and the airport which is the Emerald Empire's main link to commercial avia tion, present and future. For a dollar-a-car parking fee, residents of this entire area are being offered incomparable air entertainment, plus a personal oppor tunity to inspect Mahlon Sweet Field and its development prospects. ft ft ft Dirty Pictures The Christian Science Monitor, ever interested in public morality, hails what it calls "the end of the sordids," mean ing the decline of the dirty movie. 11 has information from Hollywood which spells the end, it says, of the "120-min-utc chunks of exaggerated degenera tion," including "sadism, perversion, rape, dope addiction and related themes." Fine. Wc don't need sordidness for Ihe sake of sordidness, nor for the sake of making the cash register ring. In balance, however, the vogue of sordid movies has probably added lo, rather than detracted from, the develop ment of the movie as a true art form. For (oo long movies were so ham strung by arbitrary, nice-Nellie regula tions that they couldn't say anything. All of them, all of them, had to be "family fare," and that meant that most of them were pretty insipid. Neglected by the movies were real and important social problems that can be understood only if they arc talked about in all our avenues of public discussion. There are, of course, dirty movies, just as there are dirty books. But the fact that a movie, or a book, deals with an unpleasant subject in a frank manner doesn't make it a dirty movie or book unless, of course, some dirty-minded person wants to think of it that way. If the movies can shake their recent obsession with cheap sordidness. well and good. But wc hope there will be no return to the empty-headed banality thai has been Ihe rule in so many vcars of cinema historv. Only One 'Veep' Several times lately we have noticed mention of Lyndon Johnson nnd Rich ard Nixon as "the Veep." This is loose usage. There was only one "Veep " That was Kentucky's Albcn Barkley, who served as Truman's ke president. It was a personal name, awarded him by his grandchildren. The title doesn't go wilh Ihe joh 'Fourth Gaze' SPRINGFIELD (To the Edi tor) I take sharp issue wilh your editorial of Aug. 15. "The Senate Does the Lord's Work." The cloture vote on the com munications satellite bill was not a blow to Senator Morse it was a blow to the people of the nation! In speaking of the far-reaching effects of this complicated bill the senator (speaking in Oregon) has pointed out that the bill, as originally presented, is the greatest "giveaway" of all time. Teapot Dome off shore nil and Al Sarcna are dwarfed by this gigantic venture, and Morse opposed in his vigorous and straightforward manner the plundering of the people's re sources. This is to his eternal credit as well as "the little handful lhat joined him." Morse has never claimed the world was out of step, but he will defend the people's rights even if he must do so alone! He does not choose to battle most of the world but will not falter if he is forced to do so. In your first gaze irlo your "crystal ball" you and some wistful-eyed Democrats see him more comfortably in the Inde pendent party. The record in the Senate on Telstar indicates that the majority are too "wistful" to comprehend the dangers in this bill. Your second look into your crystal ball must have been made while it was covered with the velvet the facts were there in the record it is already a better bill, so it won't be neces sary for Morse to ask the voters to believe any more or less than is in Ihe record. Your third "gaze" was most Bill Vaughan Let's Stop Using Time On Singles Charles O. Finlcy, the owner of the Kansas City Athletics, re cently instructed .Manager Hank Bauer to instruct Manny Jimi ncz. the left-fielder, to hit home runs. Reading about it stirred my corpuscles like a bugle blast. Obviously, this is what we need a return to the direct or der. I hope that Mr. Kinley's in structions were noticed beyond the sports pages. Here is that simplicity which ruts through shilly-shallying and pettifogging. What's-his-name told the other fellow to take a message lo Garcia and he didn't ask, "Who's Garcia'.'" or "Do I get overtime?" or "What does it say?" lie took the message. That's Ihe way it used to he around here and lei's not forget H How about all this fooling around in Outer Space, with diagrams and dotted lines and arguments about what's the best fuel and how many stages the rocket should have? Tell the first sergeant lo fall out a detail of nine men and send them lo the moon. And by the moon we don't mean a little hop into the stratosphere. We don't, to para phrase Mr. Finlcy, pay those boys lo hit singles. 1 was reading a critical essay the olher day which lamented the failure ot Ihe postwar novelists to live up to Iheir early promise. They're not doing the writing of which the critic thinks they are capable. He went through a lot of tortured prose as to why this was so and why it was too bad lhat it was so and why he w ished it weren't. But nowhere did he come out and say bluntly, "O.K., you guys, write masterpieces." What good does it do to tell our wives that the parsnip cas serole is delicious and that wc understand that the recipe is an old one in her family and that it is very economical and that we realize it would be very dif ficult, on what she has lo spend, lo cook steaks cery night? This sort of criticism is not construc tive. It leads t he wife lo think she is getting by with the parsnip casserole. .lust tell her. "Cook steaks." If she asks how she is going lo afford sleaks tell her that is her business, not yours. Going on to remind her that you are not paving her to cook parsnip casseroles might no! he loo wise, as it could lead to a sharp rejoinder. President Kennedy sends Dean Husk over lo see what Ihe Russians are willing to work out about Berlin. Whal kind of talk is that' He should tell hun lo go oer and settle it. ' You're Not Being Paid to Hit Singles" should be on every of fice wall in the State Depart ment, the Pentagon and any other Washington building which is lagging in home run production. We look to our leadership, in business, industry and labor to receive the spark from Charles O. Fmloy and order us all to hit home runs Whether wc all will he a.Mr lo do it is. of course, beside the point At least, along wilh Maniu, wr ran sav. ' I try I try " l Bell Sndlt-a'e Ffjiu:ir revealing! He will go back to the Senate in 1963 for the very reasons you point out but the people see them in a different light Morse does lash out, and Morse is furious in his tireless efforts on behalf of the people. There are all around us great projects monuments to his ef fectiveness and his grim deter mination that he will not com promise principles to win fights or friends. Justice William O. Douglas in his recent address, "The Sub merged American." said "The supreme issue of our times, for eign policy the issue that may decide the life or death of civil ization is not being debated by the American people." This address was made before the disgraceful cloture vote in the Senate, and Telstar does have great foreign policy impli cations. Please, Mr. Editor, won't you break precedent and take the fourth gaze and then tell us, without sniping at Senator Morse, why we do not get a true account of the forces at work in the world? JOE L. WILLIS 443 12th St. Incentive Plan EUGENE (To the Editor) Ellis Parker Grade School will have a double shift this fall despite protests of everyone in volved. After all, what else can be done in light of the fact that the new Edgewood Grade School is barely off the ground, and the beginning of the school year is barely four weeks away! The builder has "good" reasons ... it was a rainy spring . . . it was a rainy summer . . . the thing that's most distressing is that we all know it will prob- Sylvia Porter ably be a rainy fall! There was a strike, but it was over weeks ago, and still nothing much has been accomplished. At the mo ment there is half a crew work ing on the school and the days fly by. How they think they will be even partly ready by Nov. 1 at this rate is beyond my imag ination. Members of the school board say that they have no tangible control over the contractor, who of course has always known w hen the school year starts. But at the flick of a motion they can control hundreds of chil dren and mothers. . . let the protests fall where they may! I for one do not feel like carrying the entire burden. I say, if the children double shift, then the builder can too! For various reasons there is not a clause in the contract to pen alize the builder for not com pleting the building on sched ule. I can think of a good one. Our children will have a lot of time on their hands after school starts ... a half a day in fact. Why not send them all down !o the contractor's office ... let him figure out what to do with them! With this alternative, I am willing lo bet that the build er will have a triple crew on by morning! (Mrs.) JOAN PATTERSON 4855 Center Way Morse Defended EUGENE (To the Editor) The Register-Guard attacks Morse again! This time because he dared to try to stop an out and out giveaway. How can you use a two-column editorial spread to impugn the motives and personality of your senator without ever tak ing an editorial position on the issues he fights for? If you think that a single corporation. American Telephone and Tele graph, should be handed the billions of dollars of value of the satellite program, the re search and development of which was paid for by our tax dollars, why don't you say so? Then you can attack the sen ator honestly for his convic tions. It cheapens your paper to try to defame him simply because he is courageous enough to fight for our rights. ELAINE HOFFMAN 3248 Bryceler Dr. Drunk With Freedom? EUGENE (To the Editor) Could some one explain what this means? Aug. 16th, page 1A of the Register-Guard these headlines greeted the public, "Officials Confident Despite Russ Feat, 'U.S. Can Still Be First on Moon.' " On Page 5A of the same pper we read "Un ion Pickets Space Center: Gov ernment officials met in urgent session Thursday to consider applying for a federal court in junction to stop picketing that has halted work at the U.S. Space Development Center at Huntsville, Ala." The reason for "Humpty Dumpty" falling off the wall has never been given to my know ledge. We are only told the re sults. Was he so drunk with freedom that he staggered off, or had he become so used to following orders that he could not think to turn when there was a bend in the wall? Freedom, to he effective, de mands responsibility on every one's part. D. E. ANDREWS 724 Vi E. 16th Ave. Price Index Being Updated Porter The first major overhaul in more than 10 years of the Con sumer Price Index the only measure we have of changes in our cost of living is now well over the half way mark. In November Ihe Bureau of; Labor Statistics will start releas ing its findings on the spending habits of fami lies in H6 cities today in con trast lo their spending habits in the earlyl950s. Next year these city-by-city studies will become the basis for up dating the CPI so it will show how "real" families of city wage-earners and clerical work ers are spending their money now and on whal. In January 1964 the new index will be ready to chart price movements in the city family's marketbas kcl of goods and services from month to month. This index has been called by one congressional, subcom giiltce "the most important single statistic issued by the government." and there is no doubting its enormous impor tance. The wages of millions of workers are directly tied to its fluctuations, the paychecks of tens of millions more are indi rectly affected by its move ments. The psychology of U.S. businessmen, consumers, law makers and of financiers the world over is profoundly influ enced by its trend. As of now, though, the index is dreadfully obsolete and no one denies, as another congres sional subcommittee put it, that it could he "measuring a pat tern of living that docs not exist." For instance, simple common sense tells us that the typical city family is spending a far larger proportion of its income today on such services as medi cal care and education and such big-ticket things as cars than in Ihe early 1950s and is spending a far smaller proportion of its income on such necessities as food and probably less on clothes too. To be more specific, even before the findings are disclosed: B'ood: The index now gives a weight of 28 per cent to food, meaning it assumes the average city family spends 28 cents of every $1 just on food. This weight is slated to go WAY DOWN. As incomes rise, families need to spend less of their total pay on food and incomes have climbed spectacularly in the past 10 years. Families are spending a record dollar total on food, yes but a much small er percentage of their total dol lar income is bugeted for food. Significance: Changes in food prices, at times violent, will have less influence on cost of living trends in the new index. Transportation: The index now assumes the average city family spends ll'i cents of every $1 for both private and public transportation. This weight is slated to go way up. Not only do many more mil lions of families own one car but also millions more ow-n two or three cars and tens of mil lions spend a record high per centage of their incomes on their car's gas, insurance, re pairs, etc. At the same time, tens of millions are still using trains, buses, subways for trans portation. Significance: Fluctuations in the cost of buying and maintain ing autos will have a much greater impact on living cost trends in the new index. Medical and personal care, reading and recreation: The in dex assumes the average city family spends 6 cents of every SI for medical care, 2 cents for personal care (such as haircuts, cosmetics), 5'j cents for read ing and recreation. Each cate gory's weight is slated to go up. You don't need any survey lo confirm Ihis. You know how much more of your income you're spending for such serv ices as these. Significance: Increases in service costs will tilt Ihe new price index up more than the old. It's a good thing that the bulk of the rise in the cost of most services is behind us. Clothing: The index assumes the average family spends 9 cents of every $1 for apparel. This weight probably will go down. As is the case with food so it is with clothing. The higher the family's income, the less of it the family must budget for ne cessities, and clothing goes under the heading of necessities. The implication is that changes in clothing prices will have a smaller impact on the new index. Over-all significance: The new findings will be a tribute to the most affluent society in the world. That's the fundamental meaning of an index overhaul which downgrades the percent age an average family spends on food and clothing, upgrades what it spends on autos and on services ranging from medical care and education to TV repair and the hairdresser. Distributed. 1962. bv Tha Hall Syndicate, Inc. Carmichael Thoughts Then the Lord said to Cam, Where w Abel your brother? lie said, 1 do not know; am I my brother's keeper? liencsts 4:9 There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None rocs Ins wny alone: All that we send into the lies of others Comev hack intn our own Kduin Markham Do ynu not soy. Titer e are yet tour months . then comes the harvest? I teil you. lift up your eye, and see how the fields cTe already white for harvest. John 4 3.5. Think, oh. erateful. think! Him Rood the (.iod of Harvest is lo ou; Who pours ahund.uuT o'er your florins fields. James Thomon let "ot htn uhn ears dc.yu '""i uhn abstains, and let not htm uhn abstains pass judo t'trnf fi h;,rt u n fj!s; fnr God h(TT welcomed him. Romans 14:3. If we will measure other peo ple's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed. J. G. Holland. .So thai the lair was our custo dian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. Galarifin 3 24. Faith is the bond of union, the instrument of justification, the spring of spiritual peace and joy. the means of spiritual peace and subsistence. John Flavel. lie who goes about gossiping reveals secrets: therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolish'; Proverbs '0 19. The more accurately we scarih into the human mind, the stronger traces we every where find of the wisdom of Him who made it. Edmund Burke TTl 1 f AUTOMATIC lim THEY WOUt RI4 fWlflC AM OPERATOR ON THE6 flWtf- MEMBER Or THE ASSOC IATLD PRESS The Associated Press U entitled exclusively to ttie use for repuhlt. ration of ali the local nea printed In this newspaper MEMBER OK THE At PIT BUREAU Of I IRVILATIONS Sorskes tinted Press International McGUI Everyone WILLIAM WAJ-MAN.N. IX1N.N L. BONHAM, sews Editor City Ldltor ROSS O. JOHNSON. Advertising Director JRt. rt'GI.r. Circulation Manatee W JOHNSTON JR Auditor ROBERt K BERTSt.H Promotion Ralph McGill Hard Fact: Some Jobs Disappear Washington Notes: Wa will not, of course, have a repetition of the panic of 1929 any more than we will repeat those of other years. But the times most urgently re quire of us that we realize the new situation in which the world economy exists, if we and our country are to avoid troubles pro duced in eco nomic convul sions, seems to under stand there are new condition in the world. But there is re sistance to measures necessary to cope with them. It is a fierce ly competitive world and will become more so. The United States, for all its mastery of mass production techniques, and its vast productive edge, cannot increase the national growth without selling abroad. It may not do that unless it also buys from other countries. The crash of 1929 became, worldwide in part because our leaders of that time tried an absurd plan. They lent Euro pean nations money with which to buy from us. They raised tar iffs to prevent their goods from competing in the local market. The protective tariffs of those days seem unbelievable in the light of today's worldwide eco nomic climate and the nation'i almost desperate need substan tially to increase its export rev enues. The 1929 crash wai predicted by many persons. Woodrow Wil son spelled it out in his last message the veto of a tariff bill. He said disaster would re sult from the folly of lending nations money with which to buy our goods, while we ex cluded theirs and thus denied them any opportunity lo attain economic stability. The crash did come. We cannot have a 1929 de pression in 1962 or any other year. But we can encounter, or create, a situation in which our economy will suffer and our po litical house be shaken. The problem essentially is one of competition. Labor leaders, especially tha older and less resilient ones, are as puzzled as experts in other fields. The labor force paradoxically grows despite a stubborn, dangerous unemploy ment total. Most of the growth in jobs is in the service indus tries. The standard bread and butter appeals of unions do not reach many of these so em ployed. New organizing pro grams are announced and with drawn. Government, labor, business, and finance all recognize new conditions. The more astute) members of the Congress are not blinded to facts. But public opinion lags. It clings to the old images. Hence, congressmen, dependent on votes to stay in office, too often must go along with old concepts which they know no longer are valid. Labor and sociologists, for example, are peering at a recent study released by the Illinois State Employment Service. It reveals that Chicago lost 139. 000 jobs between 1957 and March of 1961. Some jobs moved to the sub urbs as industries and service companies relocated. The sub urbs gained 43,000 employment positions. But the cold and uncomfort able fact is that in four years the six -country metropolitan area lost about 9O.000 jobs. They did not move. They disap peared. About one-third of the van ished work opportunities went with the abandonment of obso lete slaughter houses and the decentralization and automation of the meat packing industry. Chicago is no longer big butcher for the nation. It still is a city of big shoulders. It is tool mak er and freight handler. But the stockyards are almost a mem ory. The stale report also noted a decline in production of wear ing apparel in the Chicago area. This is a national story. Firms arc moving from old, congested city areas where park ing is not lo be had and where traffic is slow and costly. (There is every reason for the Congress of the United States and local committees to move quickly and vigorously in the field of urban renewal) New plants with modern techniques of a continuous process require locations which permit neces sary construction. Old buildings which could be remodeled in variably present an impossible cost factor. It is cheaper to move and house the new tcch nolosy in a hricht. clean struc ture desitned for it Cities and states which refuse to face the new situation, both economic and human, will do great harm to the nation whose overall prosperity is necessary to us all. TtWr'bu'M 1J, fee The HaU Sjndlcatt, Inf.
