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AOC -WO ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW Issued Dally b. W. bATKS... UERT ti. HATES.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily, per year, by mall .. Daily, an months, by mail Daily, iliiea uuuitia, by mail ... Daily, single wouih, by mail Dally, by carrier, per muuth. , Weekly Newa-Keview, Dy mail, per year Jlru.rr vl I Ha I'll. AuucUltil IT... .clu.ily li.ii Tiu "il ljtl Til. a.uDi.aii.u br.lu. Aaoilled T. .lu.ivly it i HO fft l tuieieO tu aucuud ci mailer May Oregon, under lb HpafcUUMG, ORfcOON, THOSE DAYS HAVE Conservatively estimating the Roseburg News-Review has a reading patronage of approximately eighteen thousand people in Douclaa countv. There is not another daily paper in the state of Oregon that gives the service this paper delivers both to its read ers and advertisers in a county with a population likened to Doug las county.' It is read in every nook and comer of the county it goes everywhere and its readers rely upon it for a fair and im partial dissection of all news matter, local and otherwise. As an advertising medium it is unexcelled. No better results can be had .anywhere. Many publications with half the circulation of this paper get a far greater advertising rate for their product. Still, with the very best possible service and the enormous circulation for a daily paper published in a community the size of Roseburg, there are some narrow-minded individuals who would like to get space on a hand-bill specimen of newspaper workmanship at a starvation price. They do not hesitate to look after a wide mar gin of profit in their own dealings, but think a newspaper should eke out a hand-to-mouth existence and place their advertising on the counter at a loss for a few persons who have the faculty of getting something for nothing in their business dealings. But the newspapers, within the past fifteen years, have risen to an entirely different plane. Today they are a business insti tution, not a political ball to be tossed about at will by wily poli ticians or others who are bent on making a football of a legitimate enterprise. It costs a whole lot of hard cash and means a great deal of energy and thrift, even in this day, to make real money out of the newspaper business with the constantly increasing cost of production, and the novice who thinks differently, will soon get his eyes opened when once in the game. It is a great satisfaction, however, to chronicle the fact that newspaper men throughout the entire country have taken a hitch in their trousers nulled them up as it were where the bag meets the knee, the rear patches are hidden from the elusive fel low who wants to get them back in the old rut by crying for star vation prices for his advertising, and today their business is just as legitimate, just as deserving of respect, as the fellow who is distributing any other kind of merchandise or wares. The day of poorly fed newspaper men has passed. The diet of soup and beans, washed down with cold tea, no longer is in evi dence. Printers who used to work for the country newspaper shops receive a wage that keeps them far from the borders of charity. They are now an independent set spreading their earn ings among the very people who would like to see them back in the. trench of dispair and poverty. This is a funny world when any individual thinks it is good business judgment to attempt to discredit any legitimate institu tion for personal gain. But every town has these fellows and they usually are the very persons inflated profit to disgurge the .Tnffinrsnn Mnvprs rprr-nilv board of control by Governor Pierce, is a Roseburg visitor today.! Probably no better selection lor been made, for ftlr. Meyers is a linancial experience, his extensive business connections reaching to almost every nook and corner ted to exercise his duties as a member of the board of control and ! the state should benefit to a large degree by his experience. At j any rate, judging from his conversation with the editor of this; paper the taxpayers neea not iook ior anything spectacular lrom Mr. Meyers, but on the contrary a sane and deliberate and most ! business-like administration of all matters that come before the board. And this is what Uie stat of Oregon needs some good, sound business sense injected into its government. What do you think of a set of boys and girls who would un dertake to finance a proposition like the purchase of a 17-acre tract in West Roseburg for athletic purposes? These youngsters are worth while. They are the men und women of tomorrow, and their vision of the future, and what they are doing for those who will take their place in 'the schools of this city is certainly most commendable. o Tomorrow is a big day for all of Douglas county. We are going to dedicate the most beautiful ami expensive concrete bridge on the entire Pacific Highway. With over one hundred miles of paved highway in this county the honor belongs to us. o We hate to mention it again. It seems almost superfluous. Then, you might think we are bragging about something that we haven't got. So we will just remark in very low tones: "Isn't; this some weather Mr. Bell is dishiig up?" j . There's a lot of color display hi' evidence in this old town among the gypsies. Why not sick 'em on to greener pastures, or,' is it possible the sucker list needs its annual trimming? o Plugging for Roseburg and Douglas county is still our slo And when we ITt't throilirll gan. kind of a hole, r Beinjr pood doesn't necessarily jrt-t you any here, good for something usually brings home t he bacon. o . , . ... Going off naii-cocKed is like t.iking a oath without anv soap. A fellow gets good wetting, but no rvsulK ' Except Sunday .J'resldect aucl Manager .Secretary-! reaaurer Z.uu Auocuir freu. nlltl-U to in nliuea 10 "-.; All riant, ol r.pabuc.tlun cl Hal uie cor republication 17, at Uie post olllce al ituaubtfrg, Act ol March t. lsJ- bATUHPAV, APRIL 26, 1924. GONE FOREVER. who have at some time used an' pockets of the laboring class. o- flnnnititon n nipmhpr nf fhp si;io. Uie important ol lice could have gentleman of wide business and: of the state. Thus he is well lit-1 ulucirini? ou can nlno- n.o in Hiiv ROSEBURO NEWS . iw'icriJKiicr Iff fB imw -m -fr i"i" i Z jK i Br BERTS BATES . . : J GOOD EVENING FOLKS AM of the Bald-faced calve In thl Neck of the wood Will be out In full force tomorrow. 5 DUMBELL DORA THINKS An orator la a feller who' alwaye ready to lay dawn hi life for hi country. The guv. will be In our midet tomor row and we hope he wear hi om bre ro. e . Lotia guy have the hoof and mouth affliction. Ever" time they open their mouth they put their hoot in it. We'll be glad when the fortune tellin' signs are removed from the main atem. It make thing look like they're goin' to the bow-wow. Take you bath tonight folk It may be a long dry day tomorrow. The Jail-house flapper were warb ling quite beautifully last eve and if they keep on singin' the residents oi the neighborhood may petition the court to release 'em. ICS The village will be full of strangers tomorrow and pedestrian are warn ed to quit jay-walkin' for the day. We'll bet the old Winchester bridge will be enviou tomorrow. 0 The Doug. co. con. band, will play at the bridge if Heck Baker doesn't forget hi big horn. The feller in the apartments may not have a lawn to mow but the) certainly have just a many file to (wat. f Guy Cordon and hi corn cob pipe They certainly do look swell It'd be so much better, folk If It wasn't tit the smell. New that we've spent a week savin the forests, let's dedicate a month to the weed in the front yard. f The bachelors club of young sheikr I eontemplatin' disbandin' on acot of several new Shebas in the village jt d. . In the annual straw derby race uawge Neuner beat Free Johnson this year by appearing on the main atem In last year' edition. Gawgc a can of paint today to re novate the derby and with gooc vainer It should last another caion. Sji 4jt & If you don't think it paya to adver ln Prune pickin' you ouohter strawberries at noon today. Mister A J. Tuck, of Edenbower, who has beer en c.umg our plaintive pleas this w,'um 'for berries, droooed Into our ""lant beriMo'ourTiut'tredesk "" " r were so dern ur. but gosh foiktheyeregood'and . vV f-iKtivtri f " Y 0 5 0 ".ir chefeiicr with onion on his 7nyhoV"m."ay wek p,anted t0 Dr. Wrnrfnll A. Dlobold, of fhlcaRo. nutrition counsellor, is a recent ar rival In ItoKwburK. The doctor Is here for the puroone of locating perma nently and will soon open offices In tills city. RADIO PROGRAMS From Pacific Coast Stations HAD 10 KUO The. Ucncral Klectrlc Company, Oukland, Calif. (312 me ters.) company co-operatinp. Aiti! 2fi 8 p. m. I'niversltv rhrls M.m rhitrrh of llerkeley ofclustra mil vocalist. RADIO KI.X The Oakland Tri bune. Oakland, ("al., (509 meierii.) April 2S :i-r p. in. baseball ncorcs. RADIO K(". W-MorniiiK Oregonlan, rortliiml. ore., (r.2 meters.) accordion: Hotel Portland orchestra April 2ft : 3i p. m., children's pro ethiii with, forem fire gtorv by Aunt Neil. KAPIO KPO Mule ltrothers, Inc.. n rrancmco. (421 meters I April L'ti-2 S!)-S 3i) p. m. Hawaiian imiaic by Aloha troupe: S p in. to ; a. in.. Art Weidner'n Fairmont hotel dance orchestra with KPO trio in soi'.kh during interinissloiis- RADIO KHJ The Times. I.os An- f""1'"- . l'' meters ) April 2. 12:3i-l : 15 D. m. K J Onius and the Hichlauder: s 10 p. ni. Program presenting the Mary Chris tiue Albin trio; Floryano Thompson. Cut beiuff sc-lano. j j RADIO KFI Earle C. Anthonv. Inc.. I.os Auseles. (4H miters. I Af I 2ti 4:45-5 4.". p m. news; 6 4S- ; ' P- "1. Ruth May Sliatfuer direct- i "'" vocal program: s s p. m.. Aicar ll: - REVIEW, 8ATUHDAV, APRIL 8 '92 )$4 WT LETTERS FROM THE I PEOPLE r l PARCEL POST LEGISLA- TION AND Tnt run"" Farmers wilt have to pay three timea as much parcel pout charge f Uie bill now being considered by a special committee of congress be comoa law. Not only does It pro pose to Increase the rate on parcel DOht nackaees but it would greatly in crease the charge on fourth class I natter. This Is of greater iinponuuct. to farmer than any other class al :houKh the parcel post, of course, Is universally used. It catche the farm er both goring and coming, for he ha to pay 'postage on what he receives; and, as a producer, he has to pay nostane on what he ships, and his prices are not et by himself, but by the quotations on his market whether it be close or at a distance. The par cel post charge In this respect are no different than the transportation rate on the railways, and farmer have long realized that they pay the rrelsht both way. When the parcel post was Inaug urated in 1913 it was recognlied that It would be a benefit primarily to the farmer and to those living ln small towns. No one will challenge the statement that the service has lived up to expectation. Condition are such at this time, with the purchasing power of agri culture reduced to its lowest ebb, that any Increase in the parcel post rate will Jeopardize the whole parcel post system, and this applies as well to fourth class matter. The par eel post rates now, considering the service that is rendered, are so close to the express rates that any Increase ln the former will mean that ship ments by parcel post will be gTeatly curtailed to the benefit of the express companies. Further the post office department is a service department. N'obody expects it to make money. All branches of any business are not equally profitable and cannot be ex pected to be made so. If an extra burden of Increased rates is placed on the parcel post system it will only make it less profitable than at pres ent. There is a grave question as to whether the parcel post system Is not practically aelf-supporting at the pres ent time. At any rate, congress ap propriated one-half million dollars for the purpose of making detailed study of the cost of carrying all mail, in cluding parcel post. The proposal now if for congress to forget that expendi ture and with blind wisdom try to re adjust the postal rates, making the burden of increase fall whollly upon parcel post and fourth class mail. Taxes are high enough now without throwing one-half million dollars aside and making an unscientific re adjustment of postal rates. The post 'flice department has compiled all of the data at Immense expense; yet, 'or some reason, congress has gotten nto a feverish haste in which It wishes to revise the rates this session before the post office department can advise it intelligently regarding the proper distribution of costs. It will take the department three or four months or more to analyze the vast volume of records which they have secured through the expenditure ot his one-half million dollars, and therefore any action which congress takes during this session in revising narcel post and postal, rates cannot be based up on the results of the de partment's studies. Any congress man who votes for a change must do so ignoring the fact that about a year igo he voted for an appropriation of me-half million to be expended so as to guide him in his vote. j This proposal to increase the par-i eel post rate on the things the farm er buys and sells undoubtedly has its origin in the determination on the part of somebody to increase the salaries of postal employees. It is eenerally admitted however, that the postal employes, taken as an av erage, receive as high wages or sal aries as is paid in Industry for siml 'ar positions. Of course, there are in equalities as in any large institu tion and these undoubtedly will be ad lusted. The point which the farmer makes, however, is: Why make them carry the entire burden by increasing the rates on parcel post nnd fourth class matter! Certainly it is a most Inopportune move to do this, especial ly at a time when a million and a quarter farmers annually, for the last three years, have left their farms be cause they cannot make a living. With the purchasing power of farm products at 74 per cent of what they were In 1913, and with the purchas ing power of all other classes about twice as much as the farmers' why should they be called upon to bear any deficit in this service depart ment of the government if there Is a deficit. Farmer long have wished for an Increase in wages. They have learned to do without the things thev need and wish very much, hut thev are not keen to bear an additional burden through the increase in par cel post rates. The Douvlas Co. Farm Bureau has been working vigorously against this proposed Injustice. Our representa tives in congress know where we stand. We speak only for those who hih uieniiiied with us as members. We suggest farmers, who are not members of our organization make known their wishes promptlv to the Oregon representatives at Washing ton. 1). C. DOfGLAS CO. FARM ni REAI H E. KRIV.KR. Pres. C. E. MOVER. Sec. BOYS' WEEK Urns' Week heslns next Sundav. The dads and lads are invited to at lend the special service for them at the Baptist church at 11.00 a. m. Quality-Service Price-All right. Page Lumber Fuel Company. T.iwti mowers ot quality ell's Furniture Store. at Pow- Emery wants to buy your wool and mohair. See hi:n before selling. IfinilNTV IIHIIIIIIRFR'I? SS UUUII I I UIIIIIilUUil II BE Delegate Meet to Consider Plans for Land Settle raent Work. LISTINGS ARE MADE Appraisal Committee Is Ap pointed to Work With State Chamber County Unit Considered. Dougla County will have a cham ber of commerce- If the wishes of the delegates from the various towns in the county who met at the Hotel Vmpqua Thursday evening are carried out. This decision wag reached after the regular meeting of the couuty unit organization of the land set tlement plan of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce. The coun ty unit had a most interesting meet ing which was presided over by Chairman Guy Cordon. Those pres ent were a follows: Earl Strong, Yoncalla; Arthur Foster, State Chamber of Commerce, Portland; IS. F. Burnett, Oakland; Guy Cordon, Roseburg; Mark Tis dale, Sutherlln; D. S. Deals, Riddle; C. P. Cloud, Riddle; R. O. Thomas. Klkton; H. A. Adams, Myrtle Creek; H. M. Shirtcllff. Myrtle Creek; R. A. Tull, Myrtle-Creel ; C. H. Bus sey. Myrtle Creek; H. P. Rice, Myrtle Creek; G. R. Bates, Myrtle Creek; Will E. Holbein, Chamber of Commerce, Roseburg. Chairman Cordon explained the object of the meeting, and Mr. Foster of the land settlement de partment of the Oregon State Cham ber of Commerce explained in de tail the working of his department in regard to listing and appraising of lands la the different counties ot the. state. , It was moved, seconded and car ried that a land appraisal committee of which the chairman should be a member should be appointed to ap praise the lands listed with the Douglas County unit. The follow ing is the appraisal committee: Guy Cordon, Mark Tisdale, D. S. Beals and Earl Strong. Several listings were presented to the meeting and the appraisal com mittee immediately went into a ses sion and made the necessary, ap praisal. These listings have to come through the real estate men of the county, and It is not intended or ex pected that many listings will be handed in, for too many of these listings would have a bad effect. A selected number of them will be published in a booklet each month that the State Chamber of Com merce will get out to send to the eastern states, so that every county subscribing to the plan will be rep resented in these listings, and all have an even break. General discussion followed rela tive to the 'formation of a County Chamber of Commerce. It seemed to be the unanimous sentiment of those present that such an organiz ation should be pertected. Secre tary Holbein of the local Chamber of Commerce reported that fill the other towns in the county that were not represented at the meeting had expressed a desire for such an or ganization. It was therefore, mov ed, seconded and carried that the Douglas County Chamber of Com merce be organized. It was also moved that the following procedure be followed and suggested to the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce: That the Board of Directors of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce be the executive committee of the County Chamber of Commerce, and that the delegates to the county unit organization become the di rector of the County Chamber of Commerce for the present year. It is expected that some general advertising matter in regard to the resources of Douglas County will bo published, each local chamber of commerce in the county purchasing whatever is needed for their nartlc- ; ular towns. In other words, all ad vertising matter will be pooled for the general good, and a great deal of unnecessary expense to the local chambers eliminated. The action of the meeting on Thursday evening will be brought up at the general membership din ner meeting to bo held at the Arm ory in this city on Tuesday evening. May 6th, for ratification of the I members of the Roseburg Chamber j of Commerce. There can be no doubt that the action of the men from the various ; parts of the county last night will ; have a far reaching effect for good I to the entire country Sn the months l o come. There is a feeling ot op timism prevailing, and the old grudges and suspicions are being ironed out. and all ar.3 beginning lo feel that Douglas County is enter ing a new era in its onward pros res. COMMERCIAL CI.VI1 AT MYRTLE . CHEEK The Commercial Club of Mvrtlo Creek has taken on new life, and Is taking the bad in puttinp that thriving town on the map. A fund was raised the other day to equip a first class night camp tor motor tourists, and new officers elected (or the ensuing year. Tnesc offic ers are: .r,.i ler.t. 11. p. r;-..; v!i. president and t:eaurer. G. R. Hates and secretary, c. H. I!usse-. Ijirge .;niber of new rugs now In stock at Powell'. Mr FORMED filarial A. r "'moancerne,,, ART AND BABY SHni" Moving to our Jl"0. ,. ... '"Wllllnl Enabl of our """18 Pparel On all Linens and Mercerized Star a reduction of StamPl Cooi, On all Infants' Lines a'redu'ctio 10 Many women begin early to plan f ' removal sale offers oppS? fc2 this ldea at a saving. y Ior ""yijijoj (C E Spence. Market Agent) Realizing the benefits to producers from the potato grading and inspec tion law, Jocal granges are indorsing it, and Uie state market agent has re ceived many indorsements from farmers ln man parts of the state. Boring grange Is lite latest local to take sucb action. March 8 it passed a resolution as opposing any change in the layr that would eliminate the growers' names and addresses from the sacks, and that the law was pro tection to both grower and producer. The law is rapidly gaining la popular ity. Benjamin F. Youkum, ex-chairman of the board of directors of the St. Louis and San Francisco ailioad states that one family is supported by selling the food produced by about every two farm families of the Uni ted States, and that there are 3.71)3. 000 food dealers selling the products of 6,500,000 farm fumilien of this country. He declares that it costs J to distribute the products the farm ers get (1 for, including the middle profits. He recommends cooperative selling agencies and the pushing of consumers cooperative organizations in the cities. If cooperative marketing associa tions never Increased the selling prices of commodities a dime; never accomplished more than a system to get the products to the ultimate con sumer by the very shortest possible route; if they never did anything more than become their own middle men and retained th eprofits of the speculators and commission interests, they would be most successful. Such a system would save waste, needless expense in distribution and would standardize products. Cooperation is simply business, good business. Its purpose Is to get more for what Is old and to pay less for what is bought. Fear of the spread of the foot and mouth disease into Oregon and Wash, ington from California has resulted in drastic preventative measures be ing taken by the state livestock sani tary board and Governor Tierce. At the Portland public meeting held be fore the sanitary board the senti ment was unanimous to give the board unlimited authority to lake any action necessary for precautions. State Market Agent Spenre's iesolu-; AUCTIONS! I will sell at Public Sale at my place, sitoatel Two Miles West cf Roseburg, Oreg: ON THE LOOKING GLASS ROAD. ON WEDNESDAY, Sale to commence at property: 1 Wagon. 1 Hack . SO rods hog wire. 2)0 rods barbed wire. 1 Gang Plow. 1 Walking Plow. 1 McCormick Mower. 1 Range Stove. 1 Heater iUove. 1 dining room table. 5 Dining Chairs. 3 Rocker Chairs. 1 China Closet. 1 Sewing Machine. 4 Kims. 5 Beds. 1 Commode. RADABAUGH, Auction ArtNeedlecraflanii . Infant.' A I tid your ryvtm of CnJ." caused by C4 Mi,Wli.i M.CHDVntSI ition for in iteolfttkl. ! vegetables Irnn, r.njr' ' disease u main 1 ' barred unli ms2?h permitted to wterOwrVJ the stations on tke OmiiP, off frnm ,. j .. - 'r. II !. rigid quarantlMi, I luijiruvw me fln( b will be ramiffiei 0i!ktj, ue iiguieaca. There re pit talnf j. ftdno ui me kc.oiitti export bill. Tie ten rums ar.d the niiiia orucrea inuEtajtn there are "mala asm its t.cal reasons il; iw i policy to coiitliit&yjEn of raisins mills run wheat and lelkrj u . the cost ot prtKliaa Ur ana Of U1I8 Dill Dld(M changes and ttvoaaiU business, but isaa present S)st; n f alii farmers out of tacabau effort on the puirf&fcai do with wheat tti k ta ducts what tiieauJuraii their outpuU-toiftl Eastern OrefM " season. Thai (fir 4nii a?e of rainfall uid il1 snow in the omaaft sections are Irtrful 1 1 "f the water suppis MaieHoujcttoffltk RE-SURFACE YW FLOORS No need to put lcntn''r Just re-swta tlHli they will be M dirt, taic. un,n-1 li'liiea i"" . . j lew and in 3 guarantee , - APRIL 30TH, 1S24 1:30 P.'M.fn , letter f-A 1 Ubrarj T.W l Krlw T"t IKiu-h-OW 1 rui 1 cntrf Tab I Tubs. 1 Coppef 1 0 P Canned f" . u., Baby Cf" slriniaidU. l,.e feet V Garden mentici .teu TERMS "'"",' r fif WALTER BELCHERM