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Newspaper Page TextI TWO ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 21, fl)Uahai Dally cat aaadaf 7 ta KaVItW COM PAN V, INC. En tar ad aa Mcond claaa nutter Ma IT, 10), at tb puatofflc at RMtrmr. wimi, wuur ac or aurcn a, 17 a. CHAHXU V. IT ANTON ID WIN 1. KNAr . Matobar of na Aaaoetatad PraM. Ora- n nawtpapar ruouanara AaaoclaU ta Audit 0uru ot ClrculaUoaa. lur aa aril ail ONC. BUlMf Is and. . Lnuta. 7 WCfiT-HOLUDAY CO. taoclaro. Loa AnjaUa. SaalUa, PorV 2 ahaarttlw Kataa 0T MaO Par Yaar tlx Montha Ttmm Monthi , ., v fr, bjr city carrta w toonta. by cUy carrtar , Out of State) yoo 1.75 97 90 The Weather U. 8. Weather Bureau Office Roeeburg, Oregon Forecast for Roseburg and vi cinity; Occasional light rain to night and Friday. Highest temp, tor any March .. 85 Lowest tamp, (or any March 18 Highest tr.mp. yesterday . 59 Lowest temp, last night 38 Preoipitation yesterda 0 Precipitation from March 1 ..3.98 Excess from March 1, 148 -..1.81 Exoess from Seot. 1, 1945 7.2 In the Day's News THE SUGAR COATING . S. Army Leader By CHARLES V. STANTON The OPA tells us it is "holding the line" on prices. It (Continued from page 1) by Russians, who were then our allies. ' HAVING made that disclosure, whose gravity can not be over estimated. King proceeds to draw a distinction between the Russian agents who did the spy lng In Canada and Stalin of whom he speaks with carefully measured kindliness. What he knows of Stalin or has learned of him from those asso ciated with him during the war, he says, "causes me to believe he would not countenance action of this kind on the part of his country." I!e then adds: "I believe that when these facts are known to him (Stalin) and to others in positions of full re sponsibility we shall find that a change will come that will make vast difference Indeed." FROM what we know of Hussia's governmental system. It is very difficult Indeed for us to be lieve that anything of this sort could go on WITHOUT STA LIN'S KNOWLEDGE. So we may assume that Pre mier King's words are carefully chosen In order to provide a face saving outlet for Russia In the event that the shaie of events to come should make such an outlet acceptable to her. (We must remember that face saving can be extremely import ant In the conduct of Internation al affairs. Nations are nut unlike small boys, who often get them selves Into a position where they have to fight when they don't really want to, UNLESS they can find a way to save their faces. In seeking to force Russia into UNO, we must be careful not to HU MILIATE her. She might then have to fight to save her face.) THIS Is a time for straight think ing. So we might as well ask ourselves this grave question: "What COULD involve us In war with Russia now?" Tills Is the realistic answer: The grim convlilion on our part that we NEVER CAN get along with Russia and that we'd better come to grilw with hrr WHILE WE CAN HANDLE HER th.it If we wait too long It will be TOO LATE. AT the moment, Iran Is the world's hotlost spot, liut Iran Is ONLY A TOKEN. We're taking our stand las Secretary Byrnes told us the oth er day) behind the United Na tions, and so ate Insisting that Russia shall submit her differ ences with Iran to the United Na- tlons Organisation for settlement. Iran Isn't important enough for us to go to war about. But the PRINCIPLE Involved IS Import ant enough. Also It Is beginning to look like this Is the time for a showdown. IK we can't get along with Rus sia Inside the framework ot the United Nations, now Is the lime to find It out. Iran can tell the tale. THIS is ii time for looking at hole cards. OUR ACE IN THE HOLE IS THE ATOM BOMB -which, so far as any outsider has been ier- milled to know, we alone pos sess In Its completed form READY FOR U-SB. As long as w alone possess the atom bomb, ready for Immediate use, no nation will tfsro 8 10 war with Us. .Suwa. apparently w hRve ' find cut about Russia, now Is the time to do It. attempts to create fear of inflation in our minds, to preserve its embrace upon the country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of wholesale prices, for the period from 1939 to 1945; shows the following price increases: Metal and metal products 12 per cent; fuel and lighting- materials, 16 per cent; house furnishing goods, 21 per cent; hides and leather products, 21 per cent; chem icals and allied products, 25 per cent; building materials, 32 per cent; textile products, 45 per cent; foods, 54 per cent; jarm products, liu per tent. Is this "holding the line 7 It is interesting to note that foods and farm products, Items upon which the public is most reluctant to release controls, have advanced most in price. Considering claims that prices are not as uniformly high as in the inflationary period following the first World War, we must heed the fact that OI'A pricing policies have crowded thousands of low-cost items, particularly in manu factured goods, off the market, thus forcing purchasers to buy more expensive items. Buyers have been required to spend money for expensive substitutes. We must also con sider that some of this talk of holding the line on prices does not include the fact that existing prices are possible only because the government is paying billions in subsidies. Instead of paying our money for GOODS, we are paying our money in TAXES. Even now we are in the midst of inflation, but it has been sugar coated and disguised to tempt us into swallowing it j without realizing we're being doped. The percentage of dollars in circulation in 1915 was 191.86 per capita, as compared with 61.38 per capita in I 1920. Thus we have nearly four times as many dollars to ' play with as we did in the last inflation. But our dollars I will not buy goods because production is lagging. One reason production is down is because of OPA price juggling. Hundreds upon hundreds of manufactured items are not being produced today because it is more profitable to produce something else. Women, for instance, have much difficulty in finding cheap house dresses, because the manu facturer cannot make a profit on such items and turns to a more expensive line where he can afford to produce. Over alls, work gloves, men's shirts, sheets, work socks, and numerous other items are no longer available in sufficient quantity, largely because OPA has upset price balances. Whenever prices are adjusted in one spot, something else is thrown out of line. Price adjustments can be brought into balance only through froe competition and operation of the law of supply and demand. We have been made to fear the possible effect of removal ofOPA controls. But there are two sides to the fear.' A 'it-cent poll of Koseburg merchants showed a majority to be favorable to continuation of price controls. Certainly they were not of that opinion because they love the OI'A. They know that if controls are removed prices will go down, not up. They have invested heavily in expensive merchan dise, and, when prices go down, they will tako a substantial lass in profits. Therefore, they prefer OPA price ceilings as a cushion during the period of price decline. Immediate removal of OPA control doubtless would cause prices on some items, particularly those most scarce, to rise temporarily. But, on the other hand, we would more quickly return to a wider variety of merchandise, including many of the now extinct low-cost items. We hear it said that the American public, with a huge backlog of savings, would go on a spending spree if price controls were removed. This might be true to some extent, but we doubfif it would be as great as some would have us believe. Talk, for instance, to people planning to buy new auto mobiles. Aside from those desperately in need of transpor tation, you win una the majority plan to wait a year or two to get a look at promised new models. All available money is not going to leap out of pocketbooks the moment price controls are lifted. It's not succumb to the doctrine of fear being so earn- e.stly preached by administration propagandists. Let's lick some of the sugar coating ofT the inflationary soporific and analyse the contents before we let it bo rammed down our throats. 1 HORIZONTAL 1,7 Pictured U. S. Army leader, Maj.-Gen. 13 Creative ' worker 14 Regret 15 Scot It Finale .' 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KaUan raitaa, a (.ahrlrl Itratlrr. KrMl H I.V Muairal IrtlrrhMlr a Mala ana tatal Niat, Ka.elHrg Mniitr K a. aalllfM ana, I'ara ala 1 aa-Hrn,, J tailor. t.aiar M4ar. lla Mat tan Kaanal a, laifcajaatf Malar. ? W Th9 i lacn Kid. Mt4 Tara. H rf aaaa r n nv -Tha t'arrinto' iMaxt h4M4. aw Alka sMr Na. IS-lM MMIff. R at.4 W tlnf rai.4. Ml htigliaar. t arait larnliar. !-)!. Law la, Jr., aaara Pharma . ! Meaatr pljval, H (V Xn turn i ia lan-iairir u, 4 Washington News From an Inside View a a a Argument, Sentiment, Comment By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Congressman, Fourth Oregon District Skipper Ready to Bet Ship Win Survive A-Bomb BREMERTON, Wash., March 20. (.) The skipper of the bat tleship Pennsylvania said yester day he would "offer a 50-50 bet I'll) take the Pennsy back from Bikini to her berth at the Phila delphia Navy yard." The big battlewagon is In har bor here, loading tanks, trucks and lashed-down airplanes, set to sail Sunday for a spot she'll oc cupy as one of the target ships in the atom bomb test in the Pacific. "Nobody can say flatly whether the bomb will sink a battleship," said Capt. Carl 1L Bushnell as he supervised loading operations at the Navy yard here. "I've talked to scientists work ing on 'Operations Crossroads' and it's my opinion the Pennsyl vania may come through." Back Pay Pledge Doesn't Cancel Call for Strike SAN FRANCISCO, March 20. HP) The CIO Longshoremen's Union won a formal pledge for payment of $8,000,000 in back wages yesterday, but announced that a coastwlde strike still is scheduled for April 1. Harry Bridges, president of the International Longshore- men's and Warehousemen's Union, said that members of the negotiating committee would leave this week to take ud Dosts along the coast and get strike ma- cninery going, unless something happens between now and Thurs day?' Union officials explained that Atomic Bomb Test Elaborate preparations to make a test of the effect of atomic bombs on naval craft have been under way for some time. All of the plans and specifications had previously been worked out. I believe even the lists of scientists and War and Navy Department personnel wno win be permitted to see the tests are also nearly complete. But it was only this week that the bill to authorize the use of Navy ships for targets in tne test was passed ty the House. It was argued on the floor by a few members who were opposed to the conduct of the tests that it was wrong to destroy a number of our ships, some of which have oeen completed less than t-o years. The answer to this objec tion was that uc cannot tell what soj't of ships tn have in our fu ture naval (k'fense unless . We know definitely what happens' to ships when they are attacked with atomic homos. 1 ne comple tion of some ships now under con struction has been delayed until these tests are- made. It was pointed out that, unless some mod ern ships are used as targets, we have no way of knowing how modern construction will react. I have been invited to witness tha tests and may do so if too much time is not required, and if there is a lull in Congressional business. Lend Lease Still Going Believe it or not. we arc still shipping vast quantities of goods on lend-lease commitments. I-cnd-lease officially was declared at an end on VJ Day, but it was later agreed that -goods being manu factured and in transit would be delivered. Such goods. Inciden tally, include 18,0IX),nS) feet of hardwood lumber, considerahle of which could be used as flooring lumber for homes. The countries receiving lend-lease goods since the actual end of the war have agreed to pay for them over a period of thirty years at an inter est rate of two and three-eights per cent on the unpaid balance. This week, an attempt was made to reduce the amount of these commitments by SUOO.OOO, OKI, hut on a straght party vote. Republicans voting to save the money and Democrats voting, to spend it, the House Insisted on go ing ahead and spending the $-'00,-Oon.noi). The vole was close - 171 to 1 IS. Magicians In Congress I w as reminded by the announce ment by Congressman Kill iJin hain of Texas tha' he wouftl not seek reeleciion anil would retire from Congress that we have at least two excellent magicians In the Mouse of Representatives one Repuhliean and One IVmo cial. Kin lauiham Is positively a genius as an amateur magician. I have seen him ri't his act, and I helicvc he Is tar hettcr than most Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No tonr tx? nnorxl or frrl HI at twcaHi'x' of l)Hr 'Marthlv false ti-eMh fAitTfTTH. an Improved alka line i non acid- poi (let. prlnkV(1 oft otir pUlca hnkis thiii firmer o lhay frel mora f'tiiuforlaiilc. Soothing and cooling In gums mndt? aor tv ?t-rv1v? acid mouth Avoid aiTirwrrn wienl canoed by l.ntaa plain llt tAM'LKTH today al any drug atortj. PiKWORMS LICKED AT LAST I rWl A.t talk ah.1,1 Hn.Wnr,,. V,l J itu,vt kv is ufir lieu-iaii on Ikwr.M, a a oota,w Ktmtrt to i ,r7T. nrj w """ - r-u m p-w, is ktwill, ,a,v.t,i.t4ba f. Equally good is Paul Shufer of professionals. Congressman iMichigaa. Although not a member of Con gress, Carl D. Shoemaker, also an excellent amateur magician, has been closely identified with the work of Senate Committees for a number of years. Carl Shoe maker has done his act for the Oregon State Society and numer ous other groups. He is a for mer Rnsebure man. His brothers. S. J. Shoemaker and Dr. B. R. j Shoemaker, live In that city. 1947 Agriculture Yearbook The 1947 Agriculture Appro priation Bill, now pending before Congress, includes an item for a new Agriculture Yearbook which I will be known as the 1913-47 edi tion. Tho title will probably be ! "Science and the Karmor" and ' will cover recent developments on such subjects as animal breeding, nutrition, plant breeding and dis eases, soil, fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, and kindred subjects. The new book will go to the printer late this year and will be ready for distribution some time in 1947. This will be the first new yearbook since the 1942 edition, publication having been suspended during the war. I still have available for distri bution a limited number of the 1942 Yearbooks entitled "Keeping Livestock Healthy," a copy of which will be sent on request as long as my supply lasts. the strike had been voted by the membership and it would begin automatically unless further member action . were taken at coast points. Rusa-Swiu Ties Renewed BERN, March 20 . Swltzer-' land and Soviet Russia have agreed to resume diplomatic rela tions after a lapse of 22 years. ' Ties severed by Russia in 1924 after a Soviet official was assas sinated on Swiss soil. ' The Empire State Building In New York has seven miles of ele vator shafts. Hammering & Gumming Saws a Supplies Work Guaranteed .. Chas. W. Hazzard Located Reap Henninger't Mart No. 2 Just off Stephens St. Rom where I sit ... Joe Marsh Shaking Heads and Human Liberties It's a funny thing. Now that the war's over, there's a lot of bead-shaking In our town. People saying: "What's the younger gen eration coming to?" "How can we end these strikes?" "The country's going to the dogs!" "There ought to be a law!" etc But when the younger genera tioa was walloping the Axis "super Men" and labor was doing the soat colossal job in history you Ter keard a murmur. But now that we're back to our traditional Ufa of personal liberty, just see how the heads begin to shake again. I guess there'll always be head ahakers folks who feel "there ought to be a law" who believe that the best form of regulation la suppression, whether it's applied to beer or baseball. But from where I sit, America's done pretty well with the idea of personal choice and Individual lib erty. I guess that's just the way aVmcricjuu are made. Copyright, 1946, United Stala Brmtn Foundation Bonded Collection Service 327 W. Cass Street Room 4 Second Floor (Parkinson Building) Lillian W. Compton Manager Licensed and Bonded No Collection No Charge COOP TIRES AND TUBES Batteries, Spark Plugs, Oil, Grease, Gasoline, Upperlube Tractor Hitches, Car Jacks, Bumper Jacks Measuring Cans, Quarts and Gallons BE SURE to flush your radiator before summer weather starts, with Mobil radiator flush. BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE EARNINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 98 Located W, Washington St. and S. P. R. R. Tracks - P BjaajatWaVisianaBaaaaaaaaaBaMBBmaV SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. MARCH 22-23rd Coffee Shop at your modern neighborhood Red & While Food store. You will find a wide assortment ol fancy Red & White brand foods, dairy goods, bakery goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, quality meats. In fact, you need look no further ior all your iood needs. Shop in comiortl Save on quality! Red & White Pound lar 33c SWAN LUX" LUX Toilet RINS0 LIFEBUOY SPRY Turn In All WASTE FATS To Your Butcher . .... 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