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Now Comes History's Greatest Buck-Passing Contest
EUGENE AND HIGHWAYS
Again we avail ourselves of the Eugene Register-Guard
editorial writer's talent. This time it is in connection with
the question of designation of a north and south inter-regional
highway in Oregon. Only one route has been proposed as tar
south as Eugene, but south of Eugene there is some dispute
as to whether the highway shouid pass through Klamath
Kails, via the Willamette highway anu the Ualles-Caiitornia,
or whether it should go through Koseburg and Alediord.
Cannily, Eugene is neutral ; it cannot lose wnicnever the
decision. .Diplomatically, the Register-Guard endeavors in ad
vance to ease the pain of whichever side is the loser. It does
this by assuring tne rivals that both routes are and will be
inter-regional, regardless ot the decision. Under the title,
"The lnier-Kegional Squabble," the Kegister-uuard says :
Before the Oregon state highway commission, Klamath
Fans, Bend and tne communities east ol tne cascades are
battling against Medloiu, Koseburg and the cities 01 sou in
ern Oregon over tne designation 01 tne "interregional nign
way" between the Sacramento valley and tne Willamette
valley.
Klamath and Central Oregon want U. S. No. 97 (the
Dailes-Callfornia road) and the Willamette road (Ore. No. 5S
incorporated Into tne "interregional" between Weed, Cali
lorma and Eugene. The peopie on the old U. b. iid line
through hoserjurg and Meuloid are tearing their nair.
Eugene (as represented by the Chamber s highway com
mittee ot which hd Tui nbull is chairman) has elected to take
no part In this controversy. For 'more than 15 years Mr. turn
bun and his group have worked unceasingly lor tne develop
ment ol BOYil ROUTE'S and it stands on that policy.
Legally only one ot the routes can be designated officially
as "interregional" at the present time, but ooth ARE inter-
regional, and because of tne topography of the Pacific Coast,
bom have exceptional importance in the '1RAFF1C SYS
TEM connecting Calllornia and tne Northwest. During the
pre-war period these facts were emphasized in repeated con
rerenees with the U. S. Army's Ninth Corps command at
San Francisco in discussing transport for defense:
1. Through the mountains which separate the
Sacramento valley irom the big northern valles
tnere are ONLY TWO major gateways for railroads
or highways, as contrasted with the broad valleys
where there Is a choice of routes. '
2. Complete development of BOTH GATEWAYS
Is a matter of utmost strategic and economic im
portance. ductal designation as "interregional" means only that
the line chosen gets pavement i leet wider than present
standard and 4-foot shoulders. But there is nothing to pre
vent the Btate from adopting a similar standard tor any alter
nate route, and as far as tnese mountain gateways are con
cerned, we believe BOTH should be brought to maximum
standard.
'.there Is an illusion that designation as "Interregional"
means four-lane super-highway design from end to end
starting now. That is Just'an illusion except where tne
designated inter-rcgional passes through cities of 10,000 or
more population.
Sucn super-highways transcontinental and laterals
were discussed wnen the present federal aid bill was before
Congress, but the idea was abandoned as premature, and the
INTe'NT of present legislation is merely to get fast and ade
quate routes between states and through major cities.
Chances are the present U. S. 99 south of Eugene will get
the call as "interregional" because it serves more cities and
more population; although it must cross some five major
summits where the other route has only one, and although
It will be much costlier to complete.
As a mutter of fact, the Klamath-Willamette route will be
virtually complete to modern standards with the first post
war contracts for the section from Chiloquin to Beaver
Marsh and the section from Pleasant Hill to Lowell, whereas
it will take much longer to rebuild the many difficult sec
tions of U. S. 99 south of Cottage Grove, even with such
priorities as may attack the designation as "interregional."
To the eager rivals and to the rest of the state we would
like to convey these common sense facts:
1. BO TH ROUTES are vital to develop maximum
traffic interchange between California and the
Northwest.
2. EVERYBODY benefits If both of these gate
ways through the mountains are opened wide (with
the scenic Coast highway supplementing).
3. TRAFFIC FLOW between tile Sacramento and
Willamette valleys should be the common objective,
and If we get It there will be plenty of business for
U. S. 97, U. S. 99, U. S. 101 from 6nd to end, and lor
all connecting roads.
When, as and it, mammoth superhighways become neces
sary, or economic, it Is quite likely they will AVOID popula
tion centers, and how such lines would be laid out is any
body's guess. In the meuntime, In Oregon we should have
the complete and bring to highest possible standards all
major lines of TRAFFIC FLOW. The Willamette valley
cannot be hurt by development of Central Oregon's vital
U. S. 97, nor can Central Oregon suffer from completion of
V. S. 09 or the Coast Highway U. S. 101.
These gateway routes between California and the North
west derive exceptional Importance only from the fact that
they are absolutely limited. BOTH are needed. It will not
matter much which is labelled "interregional" if we recog
nize the strategic Importance of both of them for maximum
traffic between the great valleys.
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The house of representatives has voted members of con
cress 82,500 each for "expenses," the piirpo.se beinu; to pro
vide funds with which to meet the high cost ot living in ash
incton and expenses. connected with membership in the na
iinnl hnrlv. If itimroved by the senate the money will be
received without any deduction on account of income taxes,
Already, because of this proposal to supply senators and rep-
resentatives with a larger income than that for which they
offered to work when applying for their jobs a new "lUmdles
for Congress" movement has been proposed. We think that -we
have a better idea. Let the expense money be voted but let'
its recipients prove to the country that for each $2,500 they:
get thev have made a cut in government expense of, say, I
$2,500,000.
PROBLEMS OF THE ,
WARTIME MARRIAGE
Parents can do a great deal to
keep their children from drifting
into unhappy marriages, if they
will start early enough in the
work of making and maintaining
true home. The home is the
place of peace and contentment
and of preparation for busy, suc
cessful, and happy lives. If chil
dren are brought up to regard
their own home as something sac
red, as a place where happiness
and sanctuary from the outside
world may always be found,
these same children will work to
establish new homes of the same
sort.
Our greiit granilmothers were
taught that marriage was the only
career for a woman, and they
wcr,e made to feel that a wedding
ceremony was the great goal to
ward which every girl was born
to move. The modern girl is
taught to look upon her individ
ual career and material success
in that career as the onlv goal
toward which an Intelligent worn-
an can move, and on marriage as
a side aisn at tne banquet.
i ne girl wnom you wish to save
from a possible heartache and the
tragedy of divorce should be 1
brought up to steer a middle
course somewhere between the
old-fashioned Idea and the new
one. Marriage, home, and chil-1
dren still constitute the ideal ca-
reer for a woman. They always
will. Let her have the career and
the profession if she wants to '
as a side line. Certainly she should
know the happiness of work nnrt
me pleasures of Independence.!
both for herself and or her chil-
dren. But she should be taught
that in a home and In children
she will find her truest happiness. ,
and the first requirement in that
Instruction Is a belief In the dig-,
nity of the home. i
The mating instinct continues
In war as it does in peace. But the
war marriage raises many prob
lems. The young couple mairving in
wartime ait? obsessed wilh the
wrong kind of time- the fleeting
moments allowed them before Hu
man receives his orders to go
abroad. The time that Is going to
count In the war marriage, as in
any other, is the long time ahead.
If they are to be happy together
then, they must stop now to weigh
their feeling for each other, their
knowledge of each other.
At a time when life is hectic
and uncertain, when the future
seems problematical, it is easy to
forget that the day must come
when the couple who has married
so frenzledly will have to settle
down to a world at peace. WHen
that day comes and the marriage
faces its real test, it will be the
marriage with the fewest ob
stacles to hurdle which will have
the best chance of survival and
happiness. Then the uniform will
be gone and the hysteria of war.
The stranger will be a husband.
If his interests and tastes, his cul
ture and sense of values, his aHI-.
tude toward life, his religion and
his background arc similar to his
wife's, they will have a fair oppor
tunity of coming out all right.
But if they ignored these dif
ferences when they got married
in haste, if they knew each other
so little that they did not even
discover what the other was like,
they are headed for trouble. The
faith of people getting married,
that "it will come out all right"
is like a savage's faith In black
magic. You magnify the quali
ties you like and ignore the quali
ties you dislike. But marriage is
a long affair and the habits that
you disregard now cannot be dis
regarded when you are married.
You are not going to change
the person you marry into some
one else you approve of. You are
going to have to adjust yourself
to the kind of person he is. Mar
riage can bring out your best
qualities but it will inevitably
! bring out the worst too. Stop and
think of these things before you
rush in haste to the license bureau.
Next: Why
Marriage.
I oppose the War
Gehrman, Pacific
Veteran, Returns
Fort Lewis, Wash., May 25 (IPL-Thlrty-seven
veterans of the south
Pacific and one soldier from the
African and European zones were
among the first patients admit
ted to the new Madigan convales
cent hospital, army officials re
vealed today.
Ten of the men were from the
northwest.
One of the men admitted to the
new Madigan hospital was Pvt.
Paul Gehrman, of Bend, who has
been hospitalized in the Philip
pines for the past several months.
Washington
Column
By Peter Edson
(NBA SUif CorrauoiKlent)
San Francisco, Calif. -The sad
fact is that after nearly ' three
weeks of labor this United Nations
conference hasn't done anything
more about writing a world char
ter, which is what it came out
here for, than to agree on some
more principles. '
That Isn't auite fair either. The
conferees have also isolated a few
principles on which they have
agreed they can't yet agree.
Ponderous 49-man committees
have actually spent days trying
to draft single sentences and all
the real news about the charter
thus far developed at San Fran-1
Cisco could tnerelore be put in
one eye without causing a squint. 1
There have of course been some
nice fights about Poland and the ,
Argentine and a lot of smoke has
come out of the pots of freedom
for Korea, Yugoslavia, India, ;
Spain and waypoints, but these
side issues don't help the charter j
get written.
This being the situation, a good
third of the working Dress corps
originally assigned to cover this J
historic occasion has gone home
along with Molotov and Eden, and ;
there are great open spaces in the i
press headquarters at the Palace I
hotel where once all was merry i
din and shop talk.
This doesn't mean that the con
ference has bogged down and will
fail. The doldrums of actual com-
position were predicted way in,
advance and here they are.
to tne people at home whose!
role Is merely to pray for peace.
and to the outsiders and observ-
ers here at San Francisco, it may !
appear that the business of writ-1
lng this charter has been made 1
unnecessarily complicated. When
it was found that the executive !
committee, the steering commit
tee, the four principal commis-1
sions and their 12 sub-committees '
trying to write the charter in sec-;
tions were not making much prog
ress something new was added
a co-ordinating committee.
This 19th commitee, like the
19th hole, is now something to
watch. Committees of 49 mem
bers being too unwieldy to get
anything done with dispatch or
finality, the size of the co-ordinat-
lng committee has been kept at 14 1
members and it is made up of the 1
deputies to the 14 members of the I
executive committee.
As Secretary of State Edward
R.--Stettinius is U. S. member of i
the executive committee, his dep- i
uty, Leo Pasvolsky of the state'
department, is U. S. member and I
chairman of the co-ordinatine i
committee. Similarly. No. 2 man !
from each of the 14 delegations
on the executive committee, the
technical expert who is supposed
to know the most about the Dum-;
barton Oaks proposals as amend-1
ed, is the man who will sit on the
coordinating committee.
In short, this co-ordinating com
mittee is apparently going to do
the work at San Francisco the
editing and the final drafting to
remove the bugs and the incon
sistencies and make the United
Nations charter a practical docu
ment '
STAMP SHORTAGE CHARGED
Portland, Ore, May 25 UP) The
OPA on Thursday submitted
charges 'of carelessness and neg
ligence in handling rationed shoes
in the case of Cashman s shoe
store of Bend.
Hearing commissioner Marvin
E. .Lewis took the case under
advisement and a suspension ord-
er, if one is Issued, will
nounced later.
Store manager H. M. Thorn.,
appeared in behalf of the own.
Marie A Cashman. He admittM
but stated that shoe clerks tnS
have sold shoes with promises
customers to submit stamps Ut
Any negligence in the handlin.
of . rationed shoes in the locfi
store might be attributed to tS
zeal of clerks, working on a cob!
mission basis, not to an intent
on the part of the store maoW
ment to violate OPA regulaUoni
H. N. Thomas, manager, point
out at the hearing in Portland
The slime gland of. the snail
opens just beneath its mouth.
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Bend's Yesterdays
(From The Bulletin Files)
sheepman, comes to llenti on
business.
HeiilK-n A. Long ol Silver Lake,
Is a Bend caller.
C. E. Griffith of Sisters, trans,
acts business here.
J. W. Kagen of Culver, visits
Bend friends.
TWENTY-FIVE YEAKS AGO
(May 25, 1920)
Bend voters, by two to one, ap
prove a bond Issue for $21,000 for
a park, on the east side of the
river. : :
Sale of the Swamp ranch,
owned by the Wurweiller Inter
ests, to Ilaswell brothers of Mis
soula, Mont., for a consideration
nl V1 rMYl i rynnrtptl.
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dent of the Bend Industrial Y. M.' ' ii,, ,1.!lvi.
MI Adds to Milence
Cheyenne, Wyo. mv Set. Hob-
iert W. Anderson of Walden, Col.,
in military policeman, got to take
a free train trip to Washington.
P. C, recently. The trip was In
reward for his having traveled
more mites on a tram while on
P in (his
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miles.
C. A., with Victor Agren chosen
vice-president, and F. L. Minor,
trra surer.
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