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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY I, 1944.
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The Weather
U. S. Weather Bureau Office,
Roseburg, Oregon.
Forecast for Roscburg and vi
cinity: Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday; warmer Tuesday.
Highest tcrrlp. for any April... 96
Highest temp, yesterday 66
Lowest temp, for any April 25
Lowest temp, last night 39
Precipitation yesterday 01
Preclp. since April 1 3.90
Excess from April 1 1.63
Deficit from Sept. 1, 1943 7.67
Editorials on New
(Cwttaued from pais L)
MORE THAN 6000-uliicd planes
have hit the nazl wrtr machine
with some 13,500 tons of explo
sives." (We've dropped 65,00p
tons in two weeks.)
THERE'S nothing' new from
Russia. The general guess is
that the Russians arc doubling up
Their lists to deliver the mightiest
blow ever delivered by a land
dimy since the world began.
THE tides arc being watched by
the Germans and the Swedes.
'They are supposed to he most
favorable for invasion tn the first
two weeks of May. The Germans
sny they are bombing MASSES
of invasion vessels In British har
bors. ,UH always troubled home
1 front is in unusual turmoil.
,' the occasion is the seizure of
, Ward's big STORE in Chicago,
.' This is the point that worries
' people:
Ward's Chicago store ISN'T on
.essential war industry, it DOES
. N'T manufacture ships, Rtins,
' tanks, plunes or ammunition. If
. it had been closed tight by a
- strike, It Is to be presumed that
.' Its personnel would have been
absorbed by the war industries
' that DO manufacture ships, guns,
' tanks, planes and ammunition.
Thus the direct war effort Would
I have been PROMOTED, rather
. than hindered.
So people wonder uneasily
WHY It was seized by the govern
ment. IF the government can seize
Ward's Chicago store, it can
seize ANYUODYfS store. If It can
seize a store, It can seize a ltou.se.
One can't help thinking:
"If I have a disagreement with
the man who is mowing my lawn,
will the government seize my
house to FORCE ti settlement?"
E
UIC JOHNSON,
speaking In
other night,
New York the
said:
"There were formerly three
economic estates - management,
labor and agriculture. We now
have a fourth a huge, sprawling,
POWER-HUNGRY government."
We see this huge, sprawling
government using Its power to
SEIZE STORES. The sight na
turally disturbs us.
DEWEY, speaking also In New
York, wonders if our foreign
policies (whatever they are to be)
will be carried out according to
CONSTITUTIONAL METHODS.
Seizing a Chleugo store WITH
OUT A WAfJItANT from n niiii-l
ISN'T a constitutional procedure.
Nobody needs to tells us that.
We know It.
So we Join with Dewey In won
dering where all this disregard of
the constitution is going to lead
Us.' , '
A lot of us can't help fearing It
Is going to lead us In a direction
We don't want to go.
NEWSPAPER people, of course,
are more worried by these
trends than others. They have
SALARIES FOR TEACHERS
By Charles
UNLESS Unrest among persons engaged in the school
teaching profession abates in the near future, there is
great danger many 'smaller
communities, will riot be able
school .year. . ' , , ,
Turnover in teaching staffs of schools generally through
out the1 state has been unusually high, , Many teachers have
been dropping put, of the profession, notorious for its low
scale of salaries, to 'enter higher paying war . industries.
This, naturally, leads' to a' reshuffling, with those in the
lower-salaried groups sacking places whore higher re
muneration is obtainable.
At the same time, fewer replacements have been avail
able. Practically no young
sion for the past three years,
tary service or into war production. Young women also
find the war industries a more lucrative field and are
choosing the work bench in preference to the school desk.
.Shortages existing everywhere throughout the state afford
teachers opportunities to move
ing jobs in localities they particularly prefer and to obtain
far more rapid advancement than would be possible, in
normal times.
Douglas county schools are
elsewhere, with a turnover
teaching staff.
Roscburg, for instance, with
lost 15 of its instructors. Sutherlin has lost 6 out of 10.
Drain 5 out of 12, Reedsport
of 5, Myrtle Creek 2 out of
Oakland 4 out of 9, Canyonville 3 out of 6, Gardiner 2 out of
5, and Glide 2 out of 7 a totiil of 45 vacancies out 6f 130
positions. The figures Quoted
of the places having been filled by contracts since resigna
tions were listed. Tho Roseburg board already has sub
mitted contracts to ten teachers leaving only five vacancies
to be filled.
The wide disparity in salaries is one reason for the pres
ent rate of turnover. Teachers are hot to be criticized ff
they can improve their condition through the opportunities
offered by the emergency. , With all districts clamoring for
teachers, it is only to bo expected that those paying the
highest salaries shall have the opportunity to select the best
instructors whilo other districts will have an opportunity
to pick and choose only in proportion to the ratio of
salaries paid.' ' , . ;
That is one reason the directors of the Roseburg school
district have authorized an increase, at least for the perlotj
of the emergency, in, salary schedules.
Among 12 first class districts from Salem south, liose
burg's rates of pay have been extremely low. A survey eml
bracing the, schools of Salem, Albany, Eugene, Corvallis,
Cottago Grove, North Bond, Marshfield, Roseburg, Grants
Pass, Medford, Ashland and Klamath Falls place Roseburg
salaries in the following relative positions :
Senior High
Junior High
Elementary
The ratio of salaries for
elementary 10th, junior high Gth, senior high 9th.
It is quite evident from the figures above that Roseburg
must increase salary schedules if qualified teachers are to
bo found to fill vacancies. Yet, therein lies another danger,
If school districts start bidding for teachers on a competi
tive basis, a dangerous cycle, creating a most unhealthy
condition, can arise. The richer districts call make the
highest bids for teaching services and thus freeze out the
districts with low Income. j
Teachers, as has been stated, have been notoriously under
paid. They are entitled to salaries in keeping with educa
tional qualifications, experience and length of service. An
Increase to bring tho profession in line with salaries and
wages paid in industry and business is essential. But some
organized effort should bo made to prevent runaway com
petitive bidding. ,
At best, the small rural school is going to find it mighty
tough to provide staffs for the forthcoming year. Consoli
dations and transportation may provide the answer to part
01 me problem, but the shortage is too widespread and too
acute to bo solved entirely by such means. Instead, the
u-aciiing proiession must be .made sufficiently attractive
to draw back those who have gone into business or indus
trial pursuits.
seen their own COOPERATIVE
enterpilze, the Associated Press
(exactly similar to a cooperative
creamery or a co-operative can
nery 1 bludgeoned by the govern
ment when It declined to admit
to its membership a RICH AND
POWERFUL FRIEND Of THE
GOVERNMENT.
FRANK KNOX, secretary of the
navy tiles. ", ; ,; :
The death of this sincere, pa
triotic American brings us face
to face with this stark, unavoid
able riiet:
We shall now HAVE to change
A horse In the middle of the
stream.
Days Creek Students
To Present Comedy
DAYS CREEK "Galloping
Ghosts," a three-HCt mystery-comedy,
will he presented by the
Days Creek Juniors and seniors
at the school auditorium Friday,
May 13, at 8:13 p. m. The parts
are played by the following stu
dents: Jean MeGce, Roy liratten.
Wesley MeKenzle, Willis Uensen,
Mux I no Wright. Dorothy Free
man. Dorothy Brown, Henrietta
Ulam, Robert Wright, Lois Mut- j
V. Stentos
schools, particularly in rural
to operate during the next
men have entered the profes
having been called into mili
about almost at will, pick
about on a plane with schools
of roughly one-third of the
47 teachers emnlovfed. has
4 out of 17, Days Creek 1 out
10, Camas Vallev 2 out of (5.
are original vacancies, some
Low
9th
..9th
12th
Median High
11th 8th
8th ' 9th
7th 7th
nrincinals at RoRohnro- n
thews, Jack Ilium,
The play Is being directed by
Mrs. Guy McGee.
Preceding the play, the P. T.
A. Is sponsoring a penny supper
from 6 p, m. to 7 p. m.
Virginia Hose, a senior of the
local high school Is reported to
he Improving at the Sacred Heart
hospital In Eugene, whei-e she
underwent a major operation.
The following new books haw
been received for the school li
brary and more arc expected to
arrive In a few days. They wore
purchased with nionev donated
by the P. T. A.: "The House With
out a K.y", Blggers; "Until the
Day Break", Bromfield: "Suez To
Singapore", Brown; "We Follow
ed Our Hearts to Hollywood",
K I m b r o u g h ; "Lassie" Come
Home", Knight; "Girls at Work
In Aviation" Meyer; "Passage to
Marseille", Hall; "At the Foot of
the Rainbow", Porter; "Here Is
Your War", Pyle; "Burma Sur
geon", Seagrave; "Air Force
Girl", Shann; "Joe Foss", Sim
mons; "A Yank In the RAF",
Thomas.
More than 120,000 graduate
Nurses Aides are serving hos
pitals In the United States and
territories.
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TUESDAY
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9:00 Boake Carter.
1 1 115 Organ Chimes.
1:30 Pull Speed Ahead. '
2:00 Walcome Inn.
3:00 Griffin Reporting;. '
6:304 Music You Remember.
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4:45 Music Off the Recoi ff.' "'
5.00 Moods in Music.
5:15 Superman, Kellogg' Pep.
5:30 Musical Cocktail.
5:45 Gordon Burke News, 6tu-
debaker.
6:00 Gabriel Heatter, Kreml.
6:15 The Adventures of Nick
Carter.
6:30 Army Air Forces.
7:00 Henry Gladstone.
7:15 State and Local News,
Kel Motor Co.
7:20 Musical Interlude. , "'
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8:00 Chuck and the Bunkhouse
Boys Umpqua Cleaners.
8:30 Point Sublime, Union Oil
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9:00 Alka Seltzer News. '"
9:15 HI Neighbor, Carstens
Furniture Store.
9:30 Fulton Lewis, Jr.
9:-I5 Music fof tho Night. '
10:00 Sherlock Holmes, Petri
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1014
45 Rise' and Shine.
:00 News, Los Angeles Soap
Co. .
15 County 'Agent Program.
30 State and Local News,
, Boring Optical.
35 The Beehive!
40-Rhapsody In Wax. ' '
00 Haven of Rest.
:.'!0 Happy Joe and Ralph.
:4S Shoppers Guide. '
:85 Strictly Personal, Gotham
Hosiery Co.
00- Boake Carter. '!
15 Man About Town.
30 Service Salute E. G,
45 - Melodic Varieties.
High
00 Alka Settler News. ""
15 Jack Bcrch, Kellogg's '
All. Bran.
:30 Luncheon With Lopez,
1; -Musical Market Basket.
00 Cedrlc Foster.
:15 Organ Chimes, Presby
terian Church.
30 - Skyline Serenade. ' :
:45 Around the Town, Kel
logg's Cornflakes.
:00 Musical Interlude.
:10 Sports Review, Dunham
Transfer.
: 15 Rhythm at Random.
40 State News, Hansen Mo
tors. 4.1- News ltevlew of the Air.
25 Terminal Market Reports
$ig Fett.
00 Gardener Nursery Co.
05 Musical Interlude.
15 - Open House.
30 Full Speed Ahead.
00- Welcome Inn.
15 Musical Hl-Jlnks.
45 Radio Tour.
(XI -Griffin Reporting.
15 Dutty Records, Hennlrt-
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15- Johnson Family.
00 Fulton Lewis, Jr., Plough
Chemioal Co.
15 Care and Feeding of
Husbands, Malt-O-Meal.
FDrwi
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4:30 Lullaby in Rhythm.
4:45 Music off the Record.
5:00 Assembly of God Church,
1 1 Good (News Program.
5:15 Superman, Kellogg's Pep.
5:30 Musical Cocktail.
5:43 Gordon Burke News, Stu-
debaker.
6:00 Gabriel Heatter, For-
ban's Toothpaste.
6:15 The Adventures of Nick
Carter.
6:30 Music You Remember,
Douglas Supply CO. .
6:43 The Male Quartet, G. W.
Young A Son.
7:00 The Forester Reports.
7:15 State and Local News,
Keel Motor Co.
7:20 Musical Interlude.
7:30 San Quentin on the Air.
8:00 Eye-Witness News, Copco.
8:15 Morse for Senator.
8:30 Freedom of Opportunity,
Mutual Benefit Ins. Co.
9:00 Alka Seltzer News.
9:15 Rex Miller, Wlldroot.
9:30 Fulton Lewis, Jr., Hunt
Bros. Packing Co.
9:45 Music for the' Night. " '
10:00 Sign off.
LETTERS
to the Editor
NATIONAL PERIL SEEN IN
LIQUOR TRAFFIC RAVAGES
Editor News-Review: 1
Recently many things have
brought to my mind the thought
that we ordinary folks have not
given proper and due considera
tion to the ravages of the liquor
traffic.
Wo Americans rightfully boast
of ourselves being a race of "su
perlatives." We hear of the ex
ploits of our fighting boys and
we are proud of them and thank
God for the heritage which made
them. We consider our war pro
duction and have reason to pat
ourselves on the back; although
we know that excepting our farm
production, the remarkable war
effort accomplished in our de
fense plants is largely dependent
on the genius of a, few, the very
weight 'of ; 'numbers and the ex
cellence of our machines. If we
knew the acitual efficiency of tho
average laborer, we would be
shocked. In fact, we have been
patting ourselves on the head to
such an extent that we have
knocked ourselves into a stab; of
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comedian
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1 1 Nets
13 Symbol for
platinum
14 Eat
16 First woman
17 Parent
19 Brazilian
macaw
deprcsfion
5 Liko
6 Look askance
7 Exist
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9 Symbol
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10 Leather strip
12 Bow ling term
13 Golf term
15 And (Latin)
18 Consumed
21 Clothins
20 Mimic
22 Baseball stick 22 Evil
23 Absorbed
25 Peel
26 Nuisance
23 Conceal
29 Sloth
30 Within
31 Bird
33 Canvas shelter
36 Wafers
37 Forefather
39 Age
40 Teacics
45 Metal fastener
46 Ells Scotch
(abbr )
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48 Terror
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55 He appears on
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COPR. 1944 BY WE SEHVICf . I!?.
semi-consciousness. We are so
blinded by propaganda that we
cannot see our own blind leader
ship and the ultimate pit; that we
ore the most deluded of all present-day
nations; that our diet of
deceptive half-truths is our most
destructive enemy; that the mor
al delinquency, especially of our
youth, in the past decade is so
terrible we refuse to believe it;
and that the apostasy in the last
few years, In the light of our for
mer divine blessings, reaches
even beyond the superlative, and
that these evils are largely trace
able to booze from 3.2 and up.
Our indifference would ascend to
sublime heights, were not the re
sults so hellish.
Monday evening, the people of
Roscburg and vicinity wfire priv
ileged to hear truths on which
the very existence of our nation
depended. In the audience were
less than five persons who might
be classed business or profession
al men and so-called moulders of
public opinion or appointed, or
self-appointed, guardians of the
public welfare. The questions
arise: are these master minds too
busy to have time for anything
dealing with morality and com
mon decency? Can only personal
profit, political advantage or the
urge of self-security motivate
folks today? Are w4 to believe
that we Americans are willing
that the souls and bodies of our
neighbor's sons and daughters be
spent that their own self-gratification
or security, may be appeas
ed or secured?
We who are giving our boys
that American ideals and tradi
tion may be preserved, and find
that one of the primary planned
purposes is the development of a
postwar beer appetite, we should
soon be past the wondering stage
end begin to do something about
it.
HERMAN R. LARSON.
Oakland, Ore.
Ninety-foUr cents of every tax
dollar during the 1944 fiscal year
has been earmarked for war ex
penditures. DOUBLE DUTY
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31 Pithy
32 Greek leller
43 Tidy
44 Hindu
garment
47 Feminine
undergarment 1
49 Discncumbe-
52 Railroad
(abbr.)
53 Toward
55 Symbol foi
sclonlum
34 Clamp
35 Hackneyed
36 Honey maker
38 Entomologv
(abbr.)
40 Leaping
amphibian
41 Rajah's wife
42 Whether
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II'h'e k n CHARLES StStg l.pl
Ag C0BUCN
Vote in Big Cities
Will Decide 1944
Election, Cake Says
Oregon Republican Leader
Speaker In Roseburg; Tells
Why Wlllkle Quit Contest
'
The republican party will
either win or lose the next gener
al election in the hig cities of the
country,. Ralph H. Cake, national
committeeman from Oregon,
told a group of Douglas county
republican leaders at a luncheon
meeting at the Umpqua hotel Sat
urday. The republicans lost last
election by only 500,000 votes,
Cake stated, and in every In
stance the deciding factor was In
the large cities. A half-million
votes properly divided In metro
politan centers would have de
feated Roosevelt and elected Will
kle 'In the electoral college, he
said.
The national committeeman
charged republican leadership
with many failures in past years
and emphasized' that an aggres
sive campaign must be waged
not only on a national scale, but
more particularly in each Indi
vidual precinct and by each re
publican party member.
Cake, -who has become one of
the outstanding national leaders
In the republican party, and who
was actively campaigning on be-
nail ot Wendell Willkie, reported
that Willkle's decision to rest his
fate on the action of Wisconsin
voters was reached as early as
last January, i , ?
New Deal's Defeat Wanted
"Willkle's one purpose is to de
feat the New Deal," Cake assert
ed. "He is willing to sacrifice his
own interests in order that a
change in administration may be
achieved. It was fully decided
that convention time would be
too late to start the campaign for
a republican nominee, particular
ly u sores Had been left by pri
mary fights. Consequently Will
kie agreed to stake his entire po
litical fortune on the outcome In
Wisconsin and when defeated in
that state, he withdrew graceful
ly, as he had promised to do."
The action of tho present ad
ministration in seizure of private
property without due process of
law, Cake said, in referring to
the president's action in forcibly
taking over the Montgomery
Ward company store, has caused
people to stop and think.
. "There is nothing we can do
about it," he declared. V'As long
as the federal government, is((o
be operated on such policies, no
private enterprise is safe. The
only way such nets, can be stop-
pea tne only way total regimen
tation can be avoided is to make
a change in administration and
that is my one purpose In this
campaign."
Mr. Cake, a candidate for re
election as national committee
man, stopped in Roseburg, en
route to Coos Bay. He was ac
companied by Hugh Rossen, for
merly with the University of Ore
gon, now serving with a large
insurance and loan agency. .
The Committee for Economic
Development estimates from 53.-
000,000 to 56,000,000 civilian Jobs,
as compared with 46,000,000 in
1940, will be necessary to avoid
mass unemployment after the
war.
How to get twice as
many Free Red Points!
J SAVE all bits of fat you trim from meat Once a week
melt them down,
2 SCRAPE pans before washing them. No grease Is too
black to be ot use. '
SKIM stows, soups, and gravies while they cook. After
wards, chiI them and scoop off the fat
SAVE water In which you cook hot dogs, Sausages, and
ham. Chill, and scoop off the fat
CJ SAVE fat scraps left on plates. Melt them down with
the meat trimmings.
Q KEEP the can (any tin can will do) on the back of the
stove where It's handy. When can is full, take it to your
butcher and get 2 tree red points and 4 for every pound.
Start today!
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NEWS or OUR
MENwWOMEN
IN UNIFORM
On duty at Camp Elliott, San
Diego, Cal., is Roseburg's Ma
rine Private Faith E. Young. Re
cently transferred there, she Is
now working with the fleet ma
rine force. The Roseburg ma
rine is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy O. Young of 220 South
Kane street. She is a graduate
of Roseburg high school, and at
tended Oregon State college for
one year. Prior to her enlistment
last December, she was employed
by radio station KRNR In Rose
burg. Active in civic affairs,
Private Young Is a member of the
Chi Omega sorority, past honor
ed queen of Job's Daughters, past
president of the Roseburg Camp
Fire Girls, 'and was musician for
the Roseburg Lions, club. Six
weeks' recruit training at Camp
Lejeune, N. C, training center
for all women marines preced
ed Private Young's recent trans
fer to Camp Elliott.
Private Donald Roth, Camas
Valley, has won the right to wear
the wings and boots of the U. S.
army paratroops. He has com
pleted four weeks of Jump training,-
during which he made five
Jumps from a plane In flight, the
last a tactical leap at night, in
volving a combat problem on
landing. :
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