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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, .JUNE 10, I94e
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SUWIN L. KNAfl
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U. 6. Weather Bureau Office
Roseburg, Oregon
Forecast tor Roseburg and vl
cinity: Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday; warmer Tuesday.
Highest temp, for any June .. 106
Lowest temp, for any June .... 36
Highest temp, yesterday 69
Lowest temp, last night 43
Precipitation yesterday 0
Precipitation from June 1 02
Deficit from June 1, 1946 36
Excess from Sept. 1, 1945 5.38
In the Day's Hews
(Continued from page 1)
"In the beginning, as we
emerge into the post-war world.
we find that producers are op
erating at high rates of profl:,
as shown by their income st.it
mcnts. They have come out of the
war with a bad case of glve-mo,
"To maintain that high rate of
profit, the price of the necessities
of life Is set beyond the working-
man's reach. He can not pay
those prices and keep his family
housed and clothed and fed. He
needs higher wages. .
"The leaders of his union then
make demands for higher wages.
But they make their demands ex
cessive. They, too, have como
down with a case of glve-me."
THERE will be disagreement
-with Hannegan, of course as
lo which Is the hen and which Is
the egg und as to which comes
first, the hen or the egg. But In
general his diagnosis is accurate
rnough. It la a race to keep up
with the other fellow.
.
HE closes his dissertation on in
flation with a questionable
statement. "Give-me," he tolls Is
Missouri postmasters, "never
ends."
It DOES end. Always.
Either as Germany ended attct
the last war, when It finally took
a wheelbarrow-load of marks to
buy a postage stamp, ,and as
France ended a century earlier
after the Mississippi Bubble epi
sode, OR by the rise of produc
tion to the point where compe
tition takes over.
The first Is fatal.
The second Is wholesome.
THE trouble Is that when (be
cause of lack of production)
demand fantastically exceeds sup
ply and COMPETITION ENDS,
trovemment has to take over
(price control, etc.).
Government then becomes the
Great White Father--the dlspcn
scr of all favors. Business goes
hat In hand to government with
nlcas for higher prices. Lalwr
goes to government with pleas
for higher wages.
Government, lacking the cour
age to act decisively to end the in
flationary cycle before It reaches
the point of disaster, seeking to
please both sides, giants higher
prices, which In turn call lor
higher wuges, which then call lor
STILL HIGHER prices.
And so on.
Or It starts by granting higher
wages, which call fur higher
prices, which then call for high
er wages. -
It works the same cither way.
It results In disaster, cither
way,
It results In disaster, cither
way, unless the cycle is STOP
FED somewhere along the line.
THIS writer (shaking from per
sonal observation) doubts If
anybody is hurt VET. Business
generally Is showing good profits
(as measured in paper di-'lars).
If there Is WIDESPREAD want
or poverty or actual deprivation
anywhere In America las yet)
this writer has failed to see it.
BUT
There IS widespread (ear, bor
dering at limes almost on panic,
of WHAT WILL HAPPEN if we
go on as we are going. People are
generally willing to admit thai so
far they aren't so bad off, but
they are afraid of what will hap
pen next week or next month.
We are nil Jumpy.
In a time when everybody is
jumpy, ANYTHING can happen.
History leaves us no room for
lli.IlM nil il.al t.,,t..t . '
NEW PROPOSALS OFFERED
City Attorney A. N. Orcutt has proposed two alternatives
to the plan offered last week in this column for submitting
the city manager plan of government to voters in time to
start operation by January 1, 1947, rather than delaying the
change until July 1, 1947, in which case it would be neces
sary to go an additional six months without tax income to
support the department, thus drawing from funds needed
for generaVadministrative purposes.
One of Attorney Orcutt's proposals is an improvement of
the special tax levy plan as suggested in this column. The
other is a method by which the matter could be left until a
special election in September or October, at which time a
charter amendment and financing program, through a bond
issue, would be submitted simultaneously.
Attorney Orcutt's first proposal is one that would demand
immediate and speedy action on the part of the city council.
It would necessitate a special meeting of the council, sum
mons to the budget committee, and an order for a special
election after a 30-day advertising period.
The city's budget committee has prepared a tentative
budget which is now being advertised, with public hearing
and final adoption scheduled for June 24.
The city attorney suggests the possibility of canceling all
budget proceedings to date, recalling the budget committee,
inserting an item to provide for city manager operation for
a period of six months the cost roughly estimated at $6,000
and submitting the budget to a special election, as the
$6,000 item, amounting to about one-mill additional taxes,
would be outside the six per cent limitation,
As it is necessary to advertise an election for a period of
30 days, and certification of a tax levy to the county asses
sor must be completed by an early date in August, even if
an extension of time from the July 15 due date is granted
by the assessor, no time could be lost in preparations to sub
mit the issue to voters. There is time to follow this procedure
if the council is willing to put on a burst of speed: If this
plan is to be adopted, work must be started at a special
session of the council prior to its regularly scheduled meet
ing June 17, as this latter date would be about the latest at
which the election could be authorized in time to permit ad
vertising for 30 days prior to the vote.
An alternative proposal is that financing be accomplished
by a short-term bond issue. This latter plan would provide
time to prepare a charter revision setting forth the details
of the city manager program. The revision of the charter
would be submitted to voters in late September or early
October, ahead of the general election in November, when
a full slate of city officers will be elected. Simultaneously
there would bo submitted a proposal to vote bonds sufficient
in amount to finance the six months period between January
and July. These bonds would be sold prior to January 1.
They would probably be of only two years' duration, bearing
interest at 2 per cent, a carrying charge of about $240.
Attorney Orcutt's first proposal would involve an expendi
ture of about $60 in advertising cost, as the budget hearing
notices already published would be canceled and new notice
given.
. On the other hand, if the first suggestion is adopted a
tax levy would be authorized for November of this year
while, by the second plan, collection of taxes would be post
poned to November 19-17, although interest charges would
be added.
Each of the city attorney's proposals has merit on its side.
One would save money but would necessitate speed. The
other would give time for more orderly consideration.
It is our opinion that the city council should be called
immediately into special session to determine which course
is to be pursued.
Whitney, Johnson Accused of
Pulling Rail Strike to Raid
Membership of Other Unions
By PETER KDSON
(NEA Washington Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, D. C (NEA) This Alvanlcy Johnston and
that Alexander Fell Whitney to whom President Truman gave such
a terrible dressing down In public are also cast as the villains in
long-standing warfare that goes on beneath the surface of railroad
labor brotherhood tranquility. It is a bitter jurisdictional and membership-raiding
dispute with a long history. It was one of the prin
cipal reasons for the strike, though it has never come out in the
open and has never been the subject of a dispute wilh railroad
management.
In brief, the charges are that
Whitney's Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen and Johnston's
Brotherhood of Locomtlvc En
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The average weekly take-home pay of the U. S. worker is well
above his 1940 earnings, but stands to go still higher if strike com
promises result in proposed increases. Increases like President
Truman's recommended 1814 cents an hour for steel workers would
boost overage for 40-hour week to $45.50. Wartime pay of $47.50
was for 45-hour week
f;lneers arc putting on lug organ
ising drives, raiding the other
railroad brotherhoods and trying
to gain control of, or the domi
nant position among, all the so
called "operating" railroad men,
meaning the people who run Ihe
trains.
It Is the belief of many railroad
labor experts that Johnston and
Whitney deliberately pulled their
strike to gel more for Iheir mem
bers and so build themselves up
as the real leaders among rail
way labor.
Other Unions Peaceful
Whitney and Johnston are the
only Iwo railway labor leaders
whose brotherhoods are not rep
resented in the Association of
Railway Ijibor Executives. lead
ers of the 18 hrothrrhnods which
are in the association don't like
to discuss this fight. They are a
lieneeful, decent bunch, and they
don't think their dirty overalls
should be washed in public. They
believe thai some day soon there
will be new heads of the engi
neers and trainmen, and that
then unity can be restored In the
ranks of railway labor.
Today, Whitney's Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen has a total
membership of LMK.dOO and is the
biggest of the oorating hruthcr
boods. Johnston's Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Enginers is the aristo
crat of all unions.
The other three operating
brotherhoods with whom Whit
ney and Johnston are principally
in conflict are these:
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, IIN.OOO
members, David B. Robertson,
president.
Order of Railway Conductors.
00,000 members, Including a num
ber of brakemen, H. W. Eraser,
president.
The .Switchmen's Vninn, 15.000
members, smallest of the group
but tremendously powerful and
financially well off, T. C. Cashen.
president.
These three unions are backed
to the limit against Whitney and
Johnslnn by the 15 non-opcrating
brotherhoods the telegraphers,
s h o p m e n. mainienance of-way
men, and .so on.
Red Cross Executive
Position in Douglas
County Unit Filled
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Mrs. Jack Maris, above, has as
sumed the position of executive
secrelary of the Douglas County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross. Her appointment was ef
fective June 1. it was announced
this week by Earl Plummer,
chairman of the local chapter.
Mrs. Maris served three and a
halt years m the Women's Army
Corps during the war, enlisting in
(ew 101K during ine summer 01
IIM2 after her return from Ha
waii, where she was an instructor
at the Mid-Pacific School In Honolulu.
After her enlistment and train
ing at Ft. Des Moines, la., she
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant in February, 1H4.'). and A-as
discharged as a first lieutenant
following the war.
Before she went to Hawaii in
lil-U, Mrs. Maris served seven
years with the Oregon State Pub
lic Welfare Department. She is
the daughter of Charles Bradley,
Roseburg. 1
5th German Girl Found
Dead in Gl Quarters
FRANKFURT, June 10. UP)
A 17-year-old German girl was
found shot through the head
Thursday In an American en
listed man's billet near Bad Kis
singen, the Army announced to
night. She was the fifth Ger
man girl to die in soldiers' quart
ers within a month.
The theater provost marshal
said that the girl an employee
of the American Red Cross "is
alleged to have shot herself."
The girl, Doris Krath, was
found on the second floor of bil
lets used by enlisted men of the
Third Battalion of the 15th In
fantry Regiment.
Three of the German girls who
have died in American soldier's
quarters in Germany one of
whom was pregnant were said
officially to have committed sui
cide In despondency over the
scheduled return of American of
ficers to the United States.
10:30 Queen (or Day, Mitel Lab and
11:00 Band Concert.
11:19 Let's Go Bhoppinf, Loaee and
Clark'a Studio.
11:30 Character Clinic, Preibyterlan
Chureh.
11:45 Eay LUtenin'.
12:00 Musical Interlude.
12:05 u. 8. Becap of Sports, U. S. Tire
Store.
12:15 Musical Interlude.
12:20 Buyer's Guide, Associated
Distributors.
12:25 Rhythm at Random.
12:40 State and Local Mews, Hansen
Motors.
12:45 National News, Douglas County
State Bank.
1:00 Man on the Street, Henninger's
Marts.
1:15 The Johnson Family.
1:30 Mall Order Melodies, Montgomery
Ward.
2:00 Zeke Manners, Sterling Drug.
2:15 John J. Anthony, Carter Products.
2:30 Bill Gwinn Show.
3:00 Voice or the Army.
3:15 Organ Reverie.
3:30 Message from Emily PosL
3:35 Sentimental Serenade.
4:0O Fulton Lewis, Jr.
4:15 Rex Miller. Nabisco.
4:30 Erskine Johnson.
4:45 FUt Frolics. Standard Oil of N. J.
5:00 Musical Clock, Modern Furniture.
5:15 Superman Kellogg Co.
5:30 Captain Midnight, Wander Co.'
5:45 Tom Mix. Ralston Purina.
6:00 Gabriel Heatter, Forhan's Tooth
paste. 6:15 Musical Interlude.
6:25 state and Local News, Roseburg
Motor Co.
6:30 American Forum of the Air
7:15 Music You Remember, Douglas
Supply Co.
.ob"-. 'n"oiT5orsiteJ. E. G. High.
8:0OCount of Monte Cristo, Mrs.
Wright's Bread.
8:30 The Falcon.
8:00 Alka Seltser News.
2 i5 i"nLef Crowley. Wlldroot.
2 22 Frefddie Martin's Orchestra.
.n SJr5'f.p,ak.e Tlme- Knudtson s.
!o.ft:NSc,,0nrWl' Jr" ""a,
lO-Ten-Thirty Club. Lawson's
Jewelry.
11:00 Sign Off.
A StCKS:.MAUTy
PRODUCT
SICKS' BREWING COMPANY SALEM, OREGON
The farm income of the United
States in 1945 totaled twenty-billion
dollars.
Billions Lost In
Nation's Strikes
WASHINGTON. June 10 t.V)
- Rep. Hoi an (R.-Wash.) pre
dicted jn a statement it would
not be long until "the dawn of
a new day when reason, founded
on law, will rule in labor prob
lems" and prevent the great fi
nancial loss caused by strikes.
Horan asserted the financial
loss from strikes alter World
War I was estimated at $2,000,
000,000 for 1919 alone and said
strikes since the end of the last
war bad caused losses in wages
for the workers estimated at
$-180,000,000.
"The Wcstinghouse strike cost
employees Sti-12,001) a working
day," the representative con
tinued. "Total loss to business
was well over 5100,000.000. The
General Minors strike had cost,
on ils IOO1I1 day over $750,000,
000."
Our system of freedom has
made strikes the only recourse
for oppressed workers to effec
tively demand col l ect ions. New
procedures and new tribunals
must be developed so that equi
table corrections can lie made
without the inestimable cost of
continuing strikes and lockouts."
Horan said the coal strike in
1902 lasted from May .12 until
October 23 and cost the operators
an estimated S Iti.OOO.OoO and the
workers upwards of S'.ryOlkVQOO.
KRNR
Mutual Broa dcaitlng System
1490 Kilocycles.
REMAINING HO UBS TODAX .
4:00 Fulton Lewi. Jr. '
4:lVncx Miller, Nabisco.
4;:i0 Kr.sk Ine Johnson.
4:45 Evening Vetperti, McthodUt
Church.
5:00 Musical Clock. Modern Furniture.
5:19 Superman, KelluKU's.
5:30 Captain Midnight, Wnnder Co.
5:45 Tom Mix, Ralston Purina.
6:O0 Gabriel Hoattcr. Kreml.
6:15 Musical Interlude.
6:23 State and Local Newi, Roseburg
Motor Co.
6:30 Spotlight Bands, Coca Cola.
7:00 Bulldog Drummond, lewis Howe
Co.
7:30 The Cisco Kid.
8:00 Michael Shane. Union Oil.
8:30 Rhythm Round-Up, Lock wood
Motors.
8:45 Dance Music.
8:35 Crown Mill Mysteries.
9:00 Alka Seltzer New.
9:15 Hex Mille;-. SAW Fine Foods.
9:30 Hi Neighbor, Cars ten's Furniture.
9:t5 Henry J. Taylor, General Motors.
10:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr., Roseburg
Pharmacy.
10:15 Message From Benny Leonard.
10:2ft Nocturne.
10:30 Ten -Thirty Club, Lawnon'a
Jewelry.
11:00 Sign Off.
1946
TUESDAY. JUNE
6:00 Farm Bulletin Board.
H:3(i Yawn Patrol.
6 40 The County Agent.
6:55 Schrlckcr Auction.
7:00 Frank Hemingway, L. A. Soap
Co.
7:13 Rise and Shine, Sterling Drug
Co.
7:30 State and Local News, Boring
Opticat.
7:35 The Beehive.
7:40 Rhapsody in Wax.
8:00 Haven of Rest, Crew of Good
Ship Grace.
8.30 Wally s Wake Up Time. Wally's
Grocery.
85 Victor H. Lindlahr. Healthaids.
9:00 l.yle Van and the News. Kreml.
9:15 Morning Melodiex.
9:30 Man About Town, Josse and
Lirtvells.
9:43 Shopper's Guide. Harlh's and
Marshall-Welts.
9:55 Musical Interlude. ,
10:00 Alka Sclter News.
10:15 Smile Time.
Real Estate
LOANS
CONSTRUCTION
REFINANCING
Low Interest Rote
Ralph L. Russell
112 Cass t. O. Box 1244
. Telephone 913
Mrs. Minnie R. dishing
Dies at Jennings Lodge
Minnie Richardson Cushlng, a
native of Douglas County, died
Thursday at Jennings bodge. Ore
gon, where she had made tier
home in recent year. . ;.
bhe uak burn at Ouk deck,
near Roseburg, Dec. 9, 1871!, Ihe
daughter of the late ,T. J. and
Sarah E. Singleton. She was a
sister of Walter Singleton and
Mis. Virginia Thornton, Rose
burg, mid Mrs. UMnia Clements,
Jennings Lodge.
Funeral services were held to
diiv In Portland with Interment
following ut Rose City Cemetery.
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