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J FOUR ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW.- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928. 8 ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW ,. Issued Dally Except Sunday by The News-Ravlow Co., I no. The AiBOclatJd Proim Is exclusively entitled to th use for republi cation of all newa diBputthea credited to It or not otherwise credited lo tht paper and lo all local news published heren. All rights of republica tion of apodal dlnpatrbui herein are alo reaervcd. b. VV. iiATKS.. RRRT O BATES... "iaiierud as ttecoud ciubs tuauer Muy l,' i'J-U, at"iheTiusi oUice at Roseburg, Oregon, under Act of March 2. 1879. ' SUBSCRIPTION RAtfeli uaiir, per year, oy man. Oally sir months, by matl. , oHv. tfrren months, by matl flully, single month, by mall kitlr. by carrier, per muotu ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928. THIS AUTOMATIC LIFE We are pretty ingenious at devising machines to save us from work and. hardship. Nothing in our recent national development is more striking than the great spread of de vices to miike the daily life of the average man and woman easier. And, with all of this, we forget occasionally that hardship and toil may have their value, at times. The Qug genheim. Foundation recently issued a report- on British aviation. It pointed out that flyers operating from the fa mous Croydon airdrome, near London, are greatly handi capped y the prevalence iu that area of dense fogs. But, it added, this very handicap may ultimately prove a bless ing in disguise; for it is forcing British aeronautical en gineers to use their greatest ingenuity to devise new and improved methods of flying through fogs. As a result, the hardships which British flyers now face may in time give tnem r, pre-eminence in the air that flyers in more favorable c!;nates will lack. That is the way life often works out. And it is something that we in America might well think about. For we, above all peoples on earth, are constantly busy making life easier for ourselves. ; Wherever we can possibly avoid physical effort we do so; no automobile, for instance, woujd have a chance of selling in this country if it did not have a self-starter. Yet, after all, the task of cranking an auto is not such a terrible one. Three decades ago. it would have seemed a small price to pay for the pri vilege of riding. Conan Doyle once wrote a fantastic tale about a race of superior beings from Mars which invaded the earth. These beings had progressed so far that they did everything by machinery. They lived in queer metal towers, which had complicated mechanical. legs and arms to carry them about and do their work. ' All the 'Martian had to do was sit at his ease and press a button, even for such a slight task as lighting a match; the machinery would do the rest.' But these people did not last long on this planet. They were too susceptible to disease germs; in a few weeks they all died. They had become so used to an effortless ex istence that they had no resistance to fight off sickness". ' Of course, we are a good many miles away from any condition like that. But wo do have a great urge for letting machinery do our work. Thus far this has worked out very well. But one wonders if, perhaps, there may not be limits. Where' does the value of a labor-saving device end? Where is the point at which fatty degeneration ojf our moral stamina wilt begin? : These are questions we might think about now and then" as we sit in easy chairs, warm oursolves by fires that a distant janitor built, tune .in on music from a theater 600, miles away and light our cigarets with automatic thingama jigs that save us the trouble of striking matches. Charles A. Levine says he is building a giant airplane with a 180-foot'wing spread and seven motors, to engage in regular commercial trans-Atlantic flights. There is many n slip between blueprint and completed product, and his pro posed piano may not be ready as soon as he thinks. But that sort of thing is coming beyond doubt. The airplane, for all the pessimists, will very soon be an important factor in long distance commercial transportation.' Nothing is more fool ish than to say, "It never can be practical.' Remember, it is less than 30 years since one of the most eminent scientists I . in America "proved" conclusively that airplanes could never ! fly at all. First American Troops in World War Battle 10 Years Ago Today Members of Engineering nnd Aero Units, Working Back of Lines, Exchange Shovels For Bnyimets nnd Grenades And Join British Fifth Army Under General Cnrey, Resisting Hindcnbcrg's Advance. (."'lal-I 1'IVM l.c.iM-a ttltv) AMIENS. Fianre, Mar. 21. Ton years aKo today ln-gan the 'battle in whleh the flint Anu'rlran troops partirlputed iu tin wmld war. On March 21. litis, Field Mar shal von If tiulfiihurg of (itiintitiy hirled at the allies on the Homme s front the Kfay hordes he had been assembling all winter, iu a mt;hly effort to Htrike u decisive idow be fore the United States amid as semble enough .forces to he of ma terial aid to the a allied cause. Five days later, on March 2(1. with British rtwrvcn all but ex hausted, a small force of American doughuoys', who had been working' on bridges Imhlml the 'British lines, exchanged their shovels for - bayonets and hand grenades and became the first American rnmps to fight shoulder to slmiildnr with tho British and French In the ' front lines. They wore a p:irt of Ihe Sixlh slT,-S. Engineers and Ihe Twelfth and Fourteenth Hallway Engin eers. With parts of the Seven teenth, Tw'Mity-necond, Twenty eighth and One IlumU'cd Ftirty tiBhth II. S. neio suivulrnns, they made up the American ivpreseutn tlott In this major engngcmeitt of tho war. i Paris Is Shelled At this jitneuite von Hind.Mi- htrg derided to deal his master: : fliroko, hoping to Impair the tm-! rale of Ihe French hy dtMiioralUiug P.-iiifl. lie opened lire on the French cnpltal with giant Inns range cannons, big Kiupp guns; which hnd been placed secretly Ui tho vlcluil v of ( repy- Twenty-; seven monst'T shells wero sent ; into the French capital from the unhoard of (listnnco of 73.4 tnflfH. In the, ineanlimn the British I worn becoming exhausted. Jio-j serves wero badly needed. Onj JIarch 2H a force of reserve troops .j'ranViUt and MatutgW Se ere tary-Treas u r er .14 no - I0U - l.nn 60 - .in j was assembled from the lines of communication, casuals of all div i Bcrlptloii and stragglers. The raw American troops were drawn llitp this group, which was placed un . der the command of Ceneral 1 Carey and constituted the British ! Fifth army. i Carey's force took up the key position between llamtl and Mar leelcave and held the line for sev eral days against a withering at tack, thereby saving to the allies the area at Villers-llreloiiueaiix and preventing the German urtil- i lery tire from controlling Amiens : and Its vital railway network el I tectively. i The turning mint cntne 'on i March lis. The German onslnm-ht i , hist nieinenimn and its leaders ( I found it IncreaslrtKly cllfflriill to ! bring U supplies over the shred-: ! detl lulttlelteld of tho Homme. Tlie nttack conlintied until April ti, '' but In the end II wms Imleclsive. j ' Victory Is Costly ! v For the Fnlted Slates the halt It j marked the beginnin ; of actual participation in tho fighting. Imr I lug the height of ihe eugi;enient. ; In which approximately Ifin.win ul ; lied soldiers fell before the tier--: man drive. General Pet n hi, mm j mander In chief of the French 'force', conferred with General Pershing nnd It was agreed that : tho American forces, though not ! yet fully trained, should hn moved into quiet sectors temporarily bo the French might ruh their ct rrans to the Homme front. ; Tho threatened separation of the Pril ish and French forces ; brought to the allies the realiza tion that something must he done to coordinate their fighting ma 1 chines. After a scries of confer eueea General Fo h was clunion generalipr'lmo of all . Ihe allied troop.", bringing the entire western trout uuJer unified ccntiol. 1 PPUME PICKING 3 The first fly '' Of the season Landed safely On the paste pot In the sanctum Today and Immediately Thereafter all His aunts and Cousins dropped In fer a visit. 4 An Ohio man Is waiting for the right kind of atmospheric condi tions to fly to Venus In a specially built rocket . Mebbe he's doing It just fer a little atmosphere . . Venus Is 63,000,000 miles away. He minht miss the planet by only a million miles or so, but that would be a close shave compared to the distance some people we know are going to miss the White House. . . . Of course, as the scientists say, 63,000,000 miles is the mean distance. We didjn't know they had taken up slang . . . He hasn't announced any companions for the flight. It seems a shame he doesn't take Levine or Heflin or some lady who has had her appendix and tonsils removed. . . . Oh, well, it seems to us Just a kind of balmy voyage, anyway. Tho politicians are politlckin' on the main stem these days, the smart ens passin' out campaign cirds without a photograph of themselves. We note that a feller in New Yawk has invented' a reversible vest. Not a tad Idee for the fel lers who Insist on splatterln' gravy durln' the noonday rush tp the vil lage beaneries. Ye ed. attended a legion meetin' yeetiddy p. m. and as in our army days got on a lumber packin' de tail while a flock of erstwhile sek und toots looked on and shouted orders. LAFE PERkFns SEZ "The bottle cappin' season Is fast approachlnV BOY RUNS AWAY AFTER RUNNING -UP SMALL BILLS SALEM, Ore., Mnr. 21. The story of a little hoy who inn away from home rather than faco a dis illusioned mother wan slowly un folded to Salem iiollco officers to day. . Tho flaxen-haired youngster Was taken Info custody Into last night ns he wandered aimlessly on the streets,' without a hat and clad In overalls, but it was not until today that officers found that his name was Biluey Ellington and that his homo is lit Hltlsboro. All he would say last night Was that ho was 9 yours old and that he hud beaten bis way from Port laud to Satem on the renr of a mo tor bus. Officers ' attempted to frighten him into giving up the de sired Information by a threat of de tention in tho state roform school, lie said ho would rather go there than tell his mother about his trouble. A llttlo lulor ho weakened nnd called for an officer, to whom he admitted that ho had run up some small bllis on merchants iu Hills- boro. , t No charge will bo mado against tho boy. His parents say they will pay tho bills gladly, and. will couio to Salem for him today. RUMOR CIRCULATED THAT PLANE FOUND BANGOU, Maine, Mar. 21. In tense excitement was caused to day by circulation of a rumor that the plntie in which Captain Walter JUnchllfre nnd the Honorable El sie Mackay began a proposed iranti-AthuUic flight from England last Tuesday has been found, with - their bodies, near Patten, Maine. Careful Investigation, however, hy The Associated Press, failed to confirm the rumor. BIRTH RATE DECLINES j SAN KHANCISCO. Mar. 21. Slump In Ihe San Francisco birth rate from 9,030 to 8.:t U annually since l!l was reported hy the health bureau. Tho decrease was blamed in part on the lact that Sau Franc' sco has bertmio a city of, apartment house dwellers. COMING EVENTS IN ROSEBURG Cut out this list of dntcB of outstanding events for the yenr nnd keep it in your pocket for fmody reterence. Watch for changes nnd nddilionul announcements ns they mny be arrnnged. , Conference District Kiwanis Officers Unipqun Post Smoker Specinl City Airport Election Ladies Glee Club of Willamette University benelit iMclhoilist Church .... Conference nnd oraniiition of fire insurance ngents April 9-10 Kcmovnl of nnt-Jing limits on North and South Ump qua rivers nnd restoration 6-inch trout limit April I 5 Last Day of Registration for '-hnstian Church Dedication Primary Election Stale Convention of Business Professional Women's Clubs. I. O. O. I'. Grand Lodue Strawberry Carnival State Convention of G. A. and W. R. C K.pworlh League Institute on Slate P. T. A. Convention National Election Stale Horticultural Meeting Spring's Latest News All fashion centers indorse it. New York is now wearing green. For here in the Tog gery our first showing of green Shirts and accessories has won enthusiastic atten tion. Men with an eye for good taste and harmonious coloring are wearing green. 7 LEGION POST TO HOLD BOXING CARD FRIDAY (Continued from pase 1.) nick has also, appeared In Rose burg before and is known to be a good boxer. It Is possible that an other bout may be offered as a curtain raiser. - - Tho general public will be ad mitted to the boxing matches. which will start at 8:30 p. m. An jii f tc rmrimrf nil f.nt thn Px-snrvlco ! men, who, as has already bean A. short time ago a tract of, 5 stated, will be admitted free. acres, less than one-quarter of a It is possible that tho newly mile from the proposed airport, formed American Legion hand will ; sold for $1,600, while a 10-acrb make its appearance at this evcut,atiact. loss thau a half mile away, providing the necessary arrange-f ments can be mado. Tho band has hud one special rehearsal and is-ifield is being procured very cheap pmctlcihg regularly with' the ly and Hosoburg has an opportun Itoseburg Municipal Band, so that ;'"y that can never again be equal it will be ready nt any time for, led, for there is not another tract public appearance and may be out, within six miles of the city, that Friday night to furnish enter- ca be converted into an airport talnnnmt Imtwnnn hniits. i : n ; iproposeu noui, ana u ins PiW" I ' TWO KIT I Fn IN " !fails Roseburg doubtless will ' nev- ODD SENTENCE IS tV! Tier again be able to purchase it for lAIPtOQFn HW VHI ITU BOOTLEGGER FEUD the low price for which it Is now I IMrUotLi UN YOUIH I j offered. ' CLEVELAND' Ohio -lar 21 This argument that these few MUSKEGON, Mich., Mar, 21. Morria rindol! bootlegger who ' People advance has in the past lost 'John Yokubpnes; lG, has dlscfcarg shielded Pat McDermoU, one of-any valuable things for Roseburg ed his first obi gallons under a those convicted of the killing of nd it' Is time that the argument sentence g ven him a few days Don R. Mellott, Canton editor, and beiK considered in its true S by Probate Judge Ruth Thomp- an unidentified companion were WU. son to serve as a big-brother 'to found slain In their automobile on At 0110 time Aaron Rose offered wo small boys he made fatherless a lonely road near here this moru-ito city Uie beautiful grove that two weeks ago when his car in ' NadePs head and shoulders had 1ft hlt u-m.n.U whtln aov.m hu. lets had entered his companion's; body. Authorities said they appar-' cutty had been shot from the rearj seat after, being Inuuo.d to take at least iro guumen for a ride. The tU1,,ru D.fntm.l 1, a,,.t(li,.i. ,t, i'Vf,ir,;,,ln,. , T .1 ' Ottlcom bolleved tho slaylnga wero an outgrowth of northern I Ohio ' bootlegging feuds dating! htirk to liquor investigations which followed Mellolt's killing at Can- Nadel, convicted of harboring a felon through hiding McDermottl before the hitter's capture, was free under $35,000 bond pending J sentence. McDermoU is serving a! Roseburg has lost opportuni life sentence in Ohio penitentiary ; atter opportunity by istening fe tor his part in the killing. those who always had a protest about the "price ot the land.' The . DR. NERBAS . ." DENTIST Painless Extraction " -' Gas When Desire' -Pyorrhea Treated I'hono 4hS Masoulc BMg. March 20 March 23 March 28 March 28 of State Association Primary Flection ....April I 7 ..(Tentative) April 29 ....May 18 :.. May 18-19-20 Mav 21-22-23-24 .'May 24-25-26 and R. June 27-28-29-30 Litllc River si(e ...July 9-16 October (no date ..... November 6 Nov-.,Vor (no date set) i Xi Today S II i Continued from page 1.) committee met to discuss a social ist national I la t form. uuU solemnly decided that republicans and den ! crats "servo corrupt oligarchies." Hard words, but luckily many good;!" Utuo cupcakes splashed auom republicans and democrats do not know what an oligarchy u. Corrupt corporation "oligarchies rule the repubMc, say tho social hits, it is just 'a two-party capital istic mac nine. Nevertheless, oil or no on, Donus or no bonus, one orIake. Come on uow try and the other half of the. republican- - Th TtntP thnnt-ht fnr democratic "machine of capitalism" Win win next iuil t " -The, earth has not settled down yet, in spite of the fact that sci ence proved it to be more than a thousand million years old. In far away Java, volcanoes below the water blow up steam and lava. building new islands, and earth- j quakes shake 'trees and houses in the Adiroudacks and other uortn eastern parts of New York state. The British cannot niake up their mums about a new prayer book. The bishops wrote one. The lords approved , and his majesty was said to approve, but the house of com- nious threw it out. What does a liouse of commons know about a prayer book? A second new book was written, with much earnest j prayer, before and during the pro- , u. ,. . u" doubtedty reject that also. An old plan that settled tho gen-' uino and apocryphul books of the Bible might be tried. The various books were left by themselves out the floor. Those that miraculously jumped upon the altar were 'de- clared genuine, the others were not. But in these skeptical, mod ernist duys the prayer books might not jump. Once a miracle happened whenever It was needed. Now it happens rarely. Al iRoseburg's Great Need (Cuuutiued ii om page 1.) as assessed valuations are consid erably below the hctual cash valua tions, it may be easily seen Uiat ilh iimnnnt nakori hv thw nuimN iu far from being excessive. so1" about ?325 per acre, At a price of $100 per aero ii..' having equal advantages with the Liion iay west ot me trucKs to De used tor city park purposes. aud SKeU Ollly $1,600 for tile eutiro tract. The same class of knockers, who now "howl" ubout the cost of the land for an airport, protested . the purchasing of the park because -n k1 i V . , , ' . . "unl;uul(i (. ft ui.li. luunj would bo worth many thousands of u0""8' .. ' , ' 0lll' a fow fmm 1,150 t,ie Nach- iar I,lult' which is nov the beautl- lit, ui.uibiHuuu iui..n.,u, was offered to the city of Rose- burg tor $7,1)00 tor city para pur- Pse; aml again the same cry wul. Ur too much money,' and Roseburg lost a park that today could not be duplicated for many times that sum. purchase of this proposed airport at $100 per acre is sound iuvest ment even though the land might tiatrn nhenlnlt.K- nn m-ntlilrt ivft P value. The future rise Iu land val ues that is cerlaiu to occur will ' jiermlt the city to sell iho properly I at any time for more than it has Invested, should Ihe lime ever; come wheu airports are no longer j necessary, which probably never will occur. The land, in compari son with .other property in the same vicinity, Is being offered at a price far below the actual cash value ami Koseburg is going to lose another gulden opportunity if this project falls of passage. UNDERGRADS HELD FOLLOWING RIOT f WVM.vl 1'friU tAWl WiTlf PIUI.ADKLPH1A. Mar. 21. Fit teen Inl'eTnity of Pennsylvania undergmduntes, including the president of the senior class, were arrested early today after celebra tion of Penn's defeat of Princeton for the easti'rP tntcrcoUceiate buskethnll lea am championship. A disturbance, in which .00 student part:t :pated. took place In the section ef Went Philadelphia adjacent to the campus and It was not quelled until firemen drench ed thf celebrants with water from hose linei. For scversl hours sin- I dents battled police resorv5, lied up traffic nnd stPrteit a bonfire. V.Hk hotlle iri hurled, ami one police;". :-n was cut by flying gla?. Mihn McDowell, senior presi dent, was arrested on a cliarge of Inciting lo riot and held In jail for some lime Ire fore being rVt-eased to awatt a bearin;. SKttf liAl was a very pretty ftHght, this .irosung iaae oi Dninani v. mm. and had a lot of fun. Said Clowny, "Why stand way up here, when we can all run down real near? j Come on, let's go down by the Then one small cupcake yelled, 1 "Hello! I'll bet you Tinies do not know why we are splashing iu lint quite a while. Then Scouty an- Uwered with a smile, "We've tried to guess the answer, but we can t we must confesa." - The cupcake then said, "Well, you see, we must be sweet as wo can be before they take us to the j store and put us un for sale. So, nuau jump uuu una iaKU, wo soon are more thau just plain ' cake. It covers us with frosting 1 white. It never seems to fap." I "Well, well," s a i d Scouty, "That's sure neat. No wonder cupcakes taste so sweet." nd 1 then he stuck his finger u. the lake, to take a taste. "Oh, tiuu't ! do that," one cupcake' cried. "It jby the baker you are spied, 'twill make him mad. He doesn't like to bog this go to waste." Au fight,, we will not start a rnec vmivo n, piay wItn us;.. yaI(l rjoppy, ' ana the cupcakes soon were running out on shore. "Don't 1 look nice?" one cupcake, said, "with frosting spread upon my head." Just then the Tinies beard a very . funny sounding noise. A They looked (around,! and right near by a paper bag cried loudly. "I have come to get you cupcake. Will, you kindly all stand still. The cupcakes then began to tout, "Oh, please don't take us to the CAPT. WILKINS AND PILOT SAFE (Associated Press Leased Wire) SEWARD, Alaska, Mar. 21. Captain George H. Wilkius, Aus tralian aviator-explorer, and Lieu tenant Carl Ben ISilson, his Alas kan pilot, are safe at Point Bar row, preparing for their contem plated flight into the Arctic "bliud spot" enroute to Spitsbergen cn the other side of the Norttf Pole. Fears that they had met with uio.ibii-t :UUUHV III Hie enu OI ineir ! hazardous 50t mile hop from Fair- banks to Point Barrow, were allay ed when Wllkins re-estnblfshed communication with Seward last night. I uiidt night Wllkins radioed Cap tain Robert B. Woolverton. Sew- ard radio officer, saying "all okeh." nu, lupruitru lite iueaBagH Beverai-t limes, ,then added; "Clear vand cotd.-At r in is point an amateur ra dio station began sending on the aa.mo wave length 'that Wilkins was using, making furthor, recep tion impossible. ' . . nin uuu nineu r ioya lorrey. The youth, who works at bench In a shop here, took several bundles, including toys, to tho boys, Gone Torrey, 6, and Paulle Torrey, 8 year old, and promised to visit thorn again soon. He vis- , ' 1 , . 11 , , UL U1L" il nilllllllll liui, m 1 8. JflllllU I Ol I (.V, with whom thoy are now makliii; meir norno. and saw them ror tbe first time. Ho came awny expressing a do-, .... . ...... .... .1..,... I . . vj woman probate judge, who rofus- OUT OUR WAY ma sex .-TrAer?". "" ' i -' T-pl - ' VJOW'T BE OkiE ?si?- : ST O'-CAKfe.Pur - PIP C M-k ) : , f' Mm, f. . '!. . . mMmmLJ 7 -tea WtU:lA W St W I ' ' CJ .11 ' ' ME. ROE. S ARE MAOE. -MoT BoRM COGUtAH PICTURES M WCCtt L l r V lAlWv M ml Tl MM Avmi ' tffc gii92B, BY HEA I READ THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTURE store." And, as they ran away the bag pursued them o'er Uie hUl. (The Tinymltes (Jet a nevv sur. "By George! That new courthouse struction." ca to permit prosecution ot tho youth, sentenced him to visit the fatherless children ut least once U'lilJ I. U CI3 IUI lU JCHra Ullll to spend at least $400 of his enrn- ' 'SIDE. QLANCES By George Clark I "By George! That new courthouse at home will be a price In the next story.) (Copyright,. 1928, , NA- Service, lo.) at home will be . tnirvel In con- Ings for their support during that period. - The unusal sentence Is regarded as an experiment and is attracting widespread attention here. ByWffliaiwH
