ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938.
FIVE
'Farmers and City Workers Are
Partners'-President Roosevelt
In his Labor Day address President Roosevelt told the people of
the Nation somo pertinent facts about the necessity of farmers aud In
dustrial workers pulling together to guard their common interests. He
cautioned against the small minority in America which is endeavoring
to drive a wedge between rural uud urban workers for their own selfish
economic welfare.
Taking as a text "Wo are all members, one of another," the Presi
dent said:
'"There is no distinction between
those who run furms, or work on
farms, and those who work in in
dustry. Most of tbe people in
cities have come there compara
tively recently from farms all over
tho country aud from farms of the
Old World from which, originally,
we ail came.
"America has always had and
Amorfca, still has a small minor
ity who assume that there are not
enough good things to go around
to give that minority all it wants
aud at the same time to give the
rest of America the overwhelm
ing majority of America a . hu
mane and modern Btaudurd of liv
ing.
"Even today that minority Js
short-sightedly sure that its in
terests must lie in exploiting all
who labor on the farm as well as
In the mill and the mines.
"llut at the same lime, all over
this country the unity or interest
of all common men and womcu
.warm-hcartedd, simple men and
women, willing to live and let Hvo,
whether in factory or on farm
grows steadily more evident,
"Clearer every day is tho one
groat lesson of history the les
son taught by tho Master of Gali
lee that tho only road to peace,
tho only road to civilization, is
the road to unity the road called
tho 'Highway of Fellowship.'
"Hut as this community of in
terest becomes apparent to those
who live on farms and in cities,
U1.0 stratogy of the cold-blooded
fr.vi- ( .lliriiln o iwl rr..w.i in- I,.
'make common men blind to their
common Interests, becomes more
active.
"Class conscious Itself, just be
cause it does conceive Us interest
to be opposed to the interest of all
other people, that small minority
is dollbcrately trying to create
prejudico between this and that
group of tho common people of
America to creato a new class
feeling among people who instinc
tively nro not class conscious.
"Today, abovo all else, that mi
nority Is trying to drive a wedge
between tho farmers on one "hand
and their relatives and their logi
cal partners in tho cities on the
oilier.
"It is trying to narrow the broad
definition of 'labor' in the mind of
the fanner, who, above all peo
ple, has always known what it
meant to have to labor from sun
up to sun-down.
"It is trying to make the fann
er forget that tho people in the
cities who, llko him, labor for
muii uiiny uil'ehi, are ins own peo
ple, flesh ot his flesh and blood
of his blood, Americans -just like
him.
"You who Hvo on the farm know
well how farmers were exploited
by thoso who controlled govern
ment from tho end of the World
War lo 1033 and by tho monop
olies they fostered which still give
us trouble.
"Hut 1 think you realize also
Unit for many long years indus
trial labor was exploited, too.
"Fanners have come to realize
that unlnKfl induHtrhi! I'ibor i
prosperous it cannot buy tho food
GREETINGS
GRANGERS!
L R. CHAMBERS
Used Car Store
Old Liberty Theatre BIdg.
Roseburg, Oregon
and the materials for clothing
which aie produced from the nf.
"Industrial labor Has come to
understand that unless the farm
ers of the country are prosperous
they cannot buy tbe product of
tho factories.
"Economic lesson No. 1 of the
past 20 years is that men and wo
men on farms aud men and wo
men In cities, are partners. Amer
ica cannot prosper unless both
groups prosper. That is the key
stone in the arch of the economic
and social policy of your admini
stration in Washington."
60 Years in Grange
WMtiT"-l--iwi i arr'
An Enojyable Picnic
The Lane County Pomona
Grange picnic hold in Western
bane county at Sutton Lake For
est Camp, September 5, was pro
nounced a grand success, with
about 250 people present and W.
L. Baker, Master of Maple Creek
Grange uud member of the State
Grange Agricultural committee,
acting as toastmaster. -
Henry Gustafsou, Coos county
deputy; tho Gran go Wholesalo lo
cal manager, Uro. Fcuton; State
Master Itay W. Gill, State Over
seer Morton Tompkins, State Ag
ricultural Committeeman Vern F.
Livesay, Lane County Agricultur
al Agent O. S. Fletcher, and Lane
County Deputy Frank Harlow
were tho speakers of the day.
With a bountiful dinner furnish
ed by tho Western Lano Grang
ers and melons furnished from
the Willaiuctto valley, everyone
had a fine time. This is an annual
event and overyono is invited.
Come again next year.
o
Child Labor Ban Takes
Effect September 24th
Generally obscured by tho wago
and hour provisions is the fact
that tho Fair Labor Standards Act
will effect a complete ban of child
labor after September 21.
This date Is one month before,
tho act as a whole- becomes offec
tive. Teeth provided In the child
labor section of tho. act bring this
ubout.
The act prohibits shipment In
interstate commerce of goods pro
duced in establishments in, or
about, which oppressive child la
bor has boon ompioyed within 30
days.
Thereforo, an employer may not
abandon child labor on October 23
then ship goods produced by such
labor on October 21. He must wait
HO days after abandoning child la
bor. Oppressive child labor is de
fined as: Employment of anyone
under lti In manufacture or min
ing; employment of anyone under
16, except by a parent, in any oc
cupation; employment of anyone
between 1G and 18 in occupations
declared by tho Children's Bureau
to be hazardous or detrimental to
health.
In occupations, other than
manufacturing of mining, children
between H and l(i may bo grant
ed permits for work if the Chil
dren's Bureau finds such employ
ment will not interfere with
schooling or health.
Nehalem Valley Grange
Thanks Many for Help
Mrs. Tynne Twombly, Secretary.
Editor Bulletin: The Nehalem
Valley Grango in Clatsop county
would like to thank the. following
Granges for their help recently
given us:
Sparta, Stewart, Dixie, Keating,
Summit, South Benton, Tualatin,
Warner, Damascus, Eagle Creek,
Colton, Foothills, Columbia, Natal,
Wincma, Canaan. Arch Kock Cen
tral Point, Altmont, Four Oaks,
Crow, Dorcna, Lower Urnpqua.
Gravclford, McKlnley and Kock
ford. We also wish to thank tbe
Granges that so kindly wroto us
I but were unable to help.
Right of Way
There seems to be a great var
iance of opinion among motorists
as to tho Interpretation of "right
of way." Arguments are usually
settled in this fashion. Tho fel
low who gets out ot the hospital
first has "the ridtt of way."
CARR'S
H 100 25 Variety Store
A Department Store of Small Items
Quality at Popular Prices
We are the nly Variety Store giving
Grange Sales Slips
ROSEBURG
REEDSPORT
J. T, Chitwood, above, Is a
former chaplain of the State
grange, whose home is Boring.
Clackamas county. Has bnen a
member of the organization for
more than 60 years. Has attend
ed sessions of the Oregon State
grange when less than 30 Oele
gates were present. At the Klam.
ath Falls meeting last June there
were over 600 accredited dele
gates. 1
Guerrillas Will Beat
Nippon, Americans Say
The guerrilla tactics of tho Chi
nese have been so enormously suc
cessful that the Japaese army in
China is "slowly bleeding to
death," according to two medical
missionaries now making their
first visit to tho United States
siuco tbe outbreak of the war aft
er having spent many years in
hospitals and lied Cross work in
China.
The two men are Dr. Walter
II. Judd, an American, who lias
been in charge of the Fenchow
hospital of the American Hoard
of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, and Dr. Hobert McClurc.
a Canadian, who has been field
director for the International Hed
Cross in Central China.
Dr. McClure was cxtromely opti
mistic about China's chances for
victory, lie said his own observa
tions had convinced him that Ja
pan "hasn't tho ghost of a chance"
to win the war aud explained that
tiiis opinion was shared by all for
eign military attaches in China.
Uoth medical missionaries bas
ed their faith in Chinese victory
upon the activities of tho Chinese
guorrillas. In support of their
conclusion, they offered the cases
of two Japanese divisions that
have been slowly annihilated by
guerrillas.
They said that one division of
20,000 men had been reduced to
5,000 within two months although
it had not fought a slnglo battle.
A second, division, which arriv
ed In China In January, was cut
from 20,000 to 12,500 men by
l-Jiistcr by guerrillas who ambush
ed or otherwise attacked small
groups of the division at various
times. When tho Chinese cut the
dikes of the Yellow River, the re
sulting flood killed off 12,000
more men, the missionaries said.
"Of the original division of 20,
000 men, only 500 are left now and
the commander has gone back to
Japan to organi.c an entire new
division,", they emphasized. "That
is what has been happening to
Japan all along the line.
"Tho Japanese Army today con
trols a sni'Ul ribbon, about ten
miles wide, along tho main rail
roads, and that .is all, aud at
night even this so-called occupa
tion is reduced.
"The word 'occupy' when it re
fers lo the .lapaneso advance in
China should always be used with
quotation marks. The Japanese
control in reality is extremely lim
ited. Behind the ribbon of Japa
nese control, the Chinese go on as
usual, their anti-Japanese spirit
grqwing stronger and stronger.
"lhe Chinese do not expect to
win any big battles. They yield
to the advancing Japanese Army
as a river yields to a rock in the
way by going around It. Hut in
time, just as a river conquers all
in its path, so will China engulf
ad destroy the Japanese."
Conference Program 1938
12 noon. Cooperative dinner.
1:45 P.M. Open with singing.
2:00 P.M. "Orange Opportunities." Ray W. Gill.
2:15 P.M. "Agriculture and Its Future." Morton Tompkins.
2:30 P.M. "Hitch You Wagon to a Star." Mrs. G. W. Thicsscn.
2:45 P. M. ."What Next?" Bertha J. Beck.
3:00 P.M. Floor Demonstrations In charge of state deputy.
3:20 P. M. "What Clubs Are Doing For Us." Mrs. W. J. Wilcox.
3:35 P.M. "Problems of the Juvenile Grange." Mrs. L'Rena Slack.
3:40 P.M. "The Grange Bulletin." Article to bo read.
3:50 P.M. Talk by county agent.
:05P. M. Question Box by state deputy.
:25 P. M. Recess.
5:00 P. M. Dinner.
7:00 P. M. Group meetings Masters, Lecturers, Secretaries, H. E. C.
and Agricultural committees.
7:50P.M. Talk on National Grange. Ray W. Gill.
8:00 P. M. Fifth degree.
9:00 P.M. Grange Fire Insurance. C. W. Pattison.
9:15 P.M. Sixth degree.
CAST FOR SIXTH DEGREE
Master Ray W. Gill.
Overseer Morton Tompkins.
Lecturer Mrs. G. W. Thiessen.
Steward the state deputy.
Chaplain Bertha Beck.
Pomona Mrs. W. J. Wilcox.
Flora Mrs. L'Rena Slack.
Lady Assistant Mrs. Nan Gill.
The other offices will be filled locally In each district. 1 The
do not have speaking parts in the degree.
European Quarrels Are
. No Business of America
Thoro linn been much agitation
ill this country on tlio part Of var
ious groups and from time to time
on the part of liiKh government
officials to lure tho Anioicun
people away from a policy of neu
trality Into ii willingness to take
an active part in the settlement of
huroiiean quarrels. If time is on
tho side of peace in Europe, it is
certainly on tho Ride ot Deacc in
this country, whatever happens in
Europe, for the more time Ameri
cans have to observe and think
about what is going on over I hero
the more they must be convinced
that a thorouKh-goini; readitisr
ment which only Kurope itseir
can make is the ono thing that
will serve any useful purpose.
Although the administration
has made it clear that it will at
tempt' to do away with the neu
trality law at tho next session of
Congress, it Is an Interesting in
dication of tho way the voters
. feel about it that Senator Nye,
I sponsor of the neutrality law,
: was renominated, anil Senator
I'ope, learling opponent of the
I law, was defeated for renomina
jtlon. A determined effort on the
part of the administration in the
!next Congress, to repeal the neu
trality law In order that the presi
dent may be entirely unhampered
Douglas county grange membtirs
will have an opportunity Saturday,
Octuber 1, to uujoy the annual
grango conforonco program,
brought to this city by the officers
of tho state grange. Tho confer
ence will lo hehl at Kivorsdule
grango hall.
Designed particularly ns a school
for officers and committee chair
men, theso conferences, which uro
held In principal centers through
out the state, uro open to all grunge
members, and h!,v". in tho oust,
been attended by huge numbers ot
the Douglas county grangerr,, who
have found tho sessions to be of
great interest aud very helpful.
Various officers anil chairmen of
stale grango departments will give
short talks concerning grange work
and activities, after which there
v. Ill bo opportunity for round table
discussions by the members.
Of particular iiuportauco in con
nection with the fiirlhcomlng con
ference will bo tho fifth and sixth
degree ceremonials, at which time
u largo class, made up of members
from tho various cuhordinutc
granges of tho county, will nssumu
the obligations. Thuso two ilogrues
uro preparatory to tho Bovonth,
or national, degreo, which will bo
conferred at thu natluual conven
tion in 1'orlland.
Visit Ing stale officers will oc
cupy tho various chairs for tho do
gree work, while tho treasurer,
secretary, galekeeper, Ceros and
executive conunilleo will bo se
lected from among qualified Doug
l.ui county grangers In attendance.
A picked group of 1(1 ladies from
several granges will bo presented
in coslumu to conduct tho beautiful
lioso drill con. ecteil with tho de
gree work.
and unrestricted in deciding
whether the people of this coun
try are to faku sides In foreign
conflicts, will bo difficult to meet
artor. Congress gets back to
Washington where political pres
sure can bo really effectively ap
plied. If Congress is lo be able
lo resist tho drive for repeal of
neulrality it will only be because
during this coming campaign and
while they are at home they have
been left in no doubt of the will
of the people wlio elect them.
Nova Scotians Starve
In Midst of Plenty
Harold Dlugmau, staff corres
pondent ot the Toronto (ilobo and
Mail, writes that at one time
Nova Scotia was tho richest area,
per capita, lu Canada, but now
"I hey throw fish in the sea, and
the coal minors go hungry; they
shovel the apples inlo the ocean,
and the miners ami fishermen buy
California fruit to balance their
meager diet; I lie mine machinery
rusts in the sun, aii(l foreign coal
piles up on tho Halifax docks;
thoro are vast areas of abandon
ed farms, ami Nova Scotia Im
ports $20,0UU,0UD worth of food all
nualy." '
Saluting llie Flag
Iteccntly tho California Su
preme Court decided (Jmt children
who refused to salulo the United
Stale flag could be denied the
privilege of attending public
schools -in that stale of ".'!0 every
Thursday" and other freak propo
sitions. No ono suffers but tho children
who uro denied an education, for
in such cases tho boys and girls
are dominated by their parents
who probably are foreigners or
never had an opportunity for an
education.
It seems lo tills writer that il
would he much better to keep llie
children of such parents in sr-hnid
and teach them patriotism than to
let them go uneducated with n
chip on tliulr shoulders- ugainsl
the flag.
Fifty years ago wo had no flags
in school or knew what a Hag su
lulu was, but many a boy from
(he liltlo red school house has
since died following that oanio
flag.
1'ulriolisin cannot ho developed
by compelling children to saluto
tho flag. Idealism for ono's coun
try can only onsuo from educa
tion and by giving every man and
woman In America an opportunity
of earning an honest living and
owning a piece or God's green
earlh. No mail will risk Ills life
for a boarding house, but he will
fight for his' country and home
provided li'o iias a home.
Grange Mutual Lowers
Rates on Many Risks
At the meeting of the lloard ot
Iirootors ol tho flrango Muluul
early this month Insurance rules
ou many types of property owned
by I'atrons wero lowered. Tho
new rates will lower costs on the,
hotter typo of risks In protected
towns rroni (il) cents lo fill cents
per hundred for llireo years.
At th" n iitimil meeting of Ihn
association in Klamath Kails,
Howard Mayfiold of Deschutes
county, was elected director. Tho
board now consists of Jerry Sav
ior, Itay W. dill. Win. Maxwell,
It. K. Nealon and Howard May
field. Our insurance co-op is in good
financial condition. July 31,
which was tho end of tho first
quarter of tho present year, ?!lll,
1)0(1 of new Ir.suranco had been
added, making a total of more
than threo and throe-quarters mil
llnim of Insurance in force. Losses
paid during the quarter were
$2,H10.7D Iroin the burning of two
barns, one garage and ono woodshed
LOWELL'S
KNOWN FOR
Beautiful Styles
Extends
Best Wishes
to the
GRANGERS!
Workers and Employers
Cooperate in England
Report of tbo commission ap
pointed by President Roosevelt to
study labor cpndltlons in tbo Bri
tish Isles haa been made public
aud contains very little to console
our economic royalists. Person
nel of tbo commission included
Charles It. Hook, former Presi
dent of tbe Nutionnl Association
of Manufacturers, and Henry 1.
llarriiuan, former President of tbe
United States Chamber of Com
merce, organizations that have in
tbe past uud still aro, notorious
for their hatred of collective bar
gaining through labor unions con
trolled by the workers, Thero Is
nothing, in the report that could
not have been ascertained in any
modern library.
Collective bargaining between
employers and employes is ac
cepted without question in Eng
land, says tho report, and "is a
definite part of British life, with
nogliglblo exceptions, employers
of Ilrltuln would consider tho dis
ruption of thu labor movement
almost a calamity,"
K Inborn to machinery for concil
iation and arbitration are in ex
istence, but there is nothing that
suggests compulsion nnd "wo
could find no desire on the part
of cither employers' associations
or unions to seek legislation
which would make tho voluntary
agreement legally enforceable,"
bard pressed for funds. So tbe
Jews ure to be despoiled, no mat
tor how proven may be their loy
alty to Italy, bow admirable their
conduct in public and private lifo,
or how much they have contribut
ed to tbe country's progress and
welfare.
This is stark and Infamous ban
ditry; and no government deeree,
however phrased, can alter its es
sentially atrocious character.
Tho grange favored federal ap-.
proprlations for the eradication of
tho gypsy moth, boll weevil, corn
borer, San Jose scale, Japanese
beetle, cattle ticks and various
other destructive insects and
plant and animal diseases.
In tho United States, for every
square mile of land fit Tor cultiva
tion there are about 100 persons;
in Japan, 2100 persons.
Women Put One Over
When Ford, -Kan., olected an all
woman town council this spring,
tbo men began to speculate as to
whether they would permit tho
sale of boor in town. , Word wont
our from tho city hall that tho
women would grant boor licenses
"under certain restrictions" fur
the benefit of those male citizens
who thought thoy bad lo havo
their beer. Tho beer ordinance
was duly paused but thero Is a
"joker" iu it. An insignificant
clause suyB ttiat no bcor can bo
sold within 300 yards of any
church or home on tho towns! to.
Thero Is no spot within tho city
limits that can qualify.
He Is No Politician
, Last winter, tbo stale legisla
ture of Mississippi raised salaries
of several state officials, among
them that of Dr. V. 1 Hand,
state chemist, granted an Increaso
of $1,200 a year. Doctor Hand ro
fused it, protesting, "I am receiv
ing adequate compensation for my
work now."
The Roseburg Piggly Wiggly is locally owned, independent,
with no far away interests or stockholders to cater to. We
feature Douglas County Fruits, Vegetables, Eggs and other
local products.
BRING YOUR
TO
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SENDS
Greetings to the Grangers
For the Finest of Upholstery
Workmanship--See Us
Let Us Make Your Old Davenports and Chairs
Like New Free Estimates Gladly Given.
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PHONE 161
Mussolini Needs Funds,
So He Despoils the Jews
Mussolini's rccunt decreo cub
ing fur tho expulsion of all Jews
who bavu .becoino residents of
Italy siuco 1!)1D is as cruel as it
is abominable.
It Inilk'ts so much needless suf
fering and misery ou penplo un
able to raise a hand lu thoir own
defense as lo reveal ouco more
tbe essentially sadistic nature of
the present European ' dictator
ships. Aud It also strongly suggests
tho lengths to which Mussolini
has mirrcudered bis own judgment
to the example of the psychopa
thic bully who controls the des
tinies of (lonnany. .
Mussolini iiopiIh money. Ho is
BEST
WISHES
GRANGERS!
MORDLING PARTS CO.
131 SO. STEPHENS ST.
YOUTH
and the
Future of Douglas County
If Douglas county were lifted iih a geographical whole from Oregon mid
placed as an island among those of Japan, it soon would have about 2,000,000
population living from the land and water.
I he pressure of great population has not been felt in this favored spot,
so outstandingly inhabited by U. S. citizens a comparative wilderness of
uncounted resources.
In the never-ending world strife for better life, this Hank support:! the
4-H Boys' and Girls' club with the aim of helping to bring in the latest ideas
in agriculture, marketing and home making.
This Bank joins with the 20 county Granges of about 1000 members in
promoting 4-H work, highlights of which are contests, county and state fair
exhibitions, and scholarships for summer school at Oregon St..le College. A
free trip sponsored by the Bank to the Pacific International Livestock expo
sition al Portland offers a fitting climax for the year.
The teaching for better American rural life by the Grunge is entitled to
praise.
The Douglas National Bank
ROSEBURC, OREGON
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
, OLDEST BANK IN SOUTHERN OREGON