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ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1947
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:UAKLE8 V. STANTON
EDWIN h. KNAPP
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cinity: Clear tonight and Tues
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debt requires PUBLIC MONEY.
'Public money comes from taxes.
'Money to pay off debt doesn't fall,
lllko manna, from the sky.
' On the other hand, public
spending will be reckless as long
,as there is plenty of money to
ispend. The only way to cut down
'spending is to cut down taxing.
'And do it first. We love spend
ing. We dread economy.
I - This writer thinks we ought to
begin NOW to cut tiown reckless
spending and the only way to
do that is to cut taxes first. But
i this writer Is only one individual.
iSlncere opinion varies on this
'subject, as on many others.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN signs
the new succession bill that
places the speaker of the house
next In line for the Presidency
.AFTER the vice-president. Under
the former law, the secretary qf
state came next in linp.
There is now no vice-president.
' (Triman was vice-president, and
when he became chief executive
the office was left vacant until
the next Presidential election.)
So, under the new law, Speaker
of the House Joe Martin will he
come President In the event that
Truman should be unable to com
plete his term. Under the old
law, Secretary of State Marshall
would have succeeded.
THERE is little doubt in this
writer's mind that Marshall
would make a better President In
these troublous times than Joe
Martin.
But that is a question of MEN.
The new law Involves a principle.
The principle Is that the office of
President should be held by men
who have been ELECTED BY
; THE PEOPLE. Secretaries of
slate ate appointed. Speakers of
the house must first have been
elected by the people of their dis
trict before they can become
speaker. .
Over the long pull, the prill
clple Involved in the new law is
sound.
LEGISLATIVE POLITICS
By CHARLES V.' STANTON
The accusalipn by Senator Wayne Morse, the nation's
fJo.Vl' political, grandstander, that Senate leadership, "is
playing politics with veterans legislation," savors of the
pot tailing the kettle black. We cannot see j where Senator
iVlorse has any moral 'right to hurl charges of "politics", in
view of his own performances. 1 ; ' ; .
Coming from some purer source, however, the complaint
might be justified. In fact, if our national leadership, both
in Congress and the executive department, would call a mor
atorium on politics and strive conscientiously to settle some
of oi)r pressing "problems by statesmanship, rather than
kicking every issup around as a 1948 election football, we
woujd have a far better feeling of national security.
Our leadership, however, is deliberately stirring unrest,
keeping the public aroused and confused, as the Congress
and executive department play political pross-tag.
The President has vetoed the revised inpome tax bil.
Why? Respite motives the President ascribes to his action,
the veto obviously is aimed at the Eepublican majority,
which sponsored the legislation, and is a defensive move to
allow time for the Administration to curry public favor at
a more auspicious time nearer next year's presidential
campaign.
Obviously we do not need income taxes as high as when
we were engaged in a shooting war. True, we have a gigantic
national debt, but we are not faced with a financial emer
genpy such as existed during the period of actual warfare.
We are in a position to plan orderly debt retirement over a
long period of years and relieve taxpayers from the exces
sive burden of federal taxation. The President's argument
that proposed reductions fail iij benefits in the lower brackets
is not supported by fact, for the lower income group would
benefit by about 30 per cent, while upper brackets would
secure only about 10 per cent reduction. Of course, when you
compare 30 per cent of $5,00Q, as against 10 per cent of
$1,000,000, the difference in sums makes convincing propa
ganda. But when it is realized that about 90 per cent of the
total income tax revenue comes from the so-called "lower
brackets," while the "rich" taxpayers, for the most part, add
their taxes to business overhead, collecting from their cus
tomers their estimated tyx, plus a bit more to be on the safe
side, the doctrine of "soak the rich" takes on a little different
meaning.
It is quite certain both the administration and the ma
jority party will introduce legislation at the 1948 session of
Congress and we will have a red-hot political battle benefit
ing no one, tfie taxpayer least of all.
We recently have had the sorry picture of political jockey
ing connected with, the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill. Any think
ing person will admit the necessity of curbs against radical
labor abuses. The legislation which emerged, however, was
neither "flesh, fish nor fowl." It proposes certain, restric
tions, but the whole bill is so entangled with controversial
interpretations that it is doubtful if any court in the land
could unsnarl the mess. As a result, attempted enforcement
will lead only to prolonged litigation, the labor issue is' fur
ther confused, and very little actually accomplished in the
way of needed improvement. Instead of dealing openly and
frankly with needed measures to protect both Labor and the
general public from exploitation, the bill was constructed of
political rail fences which go nowhere and serve no realistic
purpose.
Another sample of playing politics to influence the forth
coming presidential election is found in numerous appropria
tion bills. Items such as access road funds, so vitally needed
in balanced management of federally-owned timber lands,
were sacrificed on the political altar, while boondoggling
projects and bureaucratic excess employment continue to
drain tax money.
1 Wo can fully agree with Senator Morse's accusation of
legislative politics, but the implied innocence in his complaint
causes us to snicker.
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Gen. Clay Scores .
Aide for Link With
Jewel Thieves
" FRANKFURT, Germany, July
21. T Gen. Lucius D. Clay
publicly criticized one of his
highest-ranking generals in Ger
many Saturday for the officer's
connection with the Hesse (Kron
berg) jewel theft trials.
An army announcement said
Clay had reviewed the report of
the inspector general "concerning
the- connection of Maj. Gen.
James M. Bevans with the Kron
berg jewel case."
Bevans, who is the army's per
sonnel chief in Germany, was
named in the Kronberg trials as
having "accepted" a silver pitch
er from Kronberg castle just like
one Maj. David F. Watson sent
to his home In Burlingame, Calif..
before he was apprehended and
sentenced to three years in jail.
"General Clay believes that the
evidence presented by the Inspec
tor general shows General Bevans
to have displayed extremely poor
judgment," the army announce
ment said.
"General Clay has decided that
he will take no further action in
the ease against General Bpvans
until final action against the
principals in the case has been
taken by the United States government."
Errors Noted In
Applications for
Driver's License
Many errors are marring appli
cations for drivers' license re
newal, it has been disclosed by
Secretary of State Farrell. As a
result, applicants are being asked
to renew personally through their
driver's license tlerk or exam
iner. In Roseburg expired licenses
should be renewed at City Hall
between the hours of 8 A. M. and
5 P. M. on Monday through Fri
day. No examination is necessary.
Under a new law passed by the
1947 legislature, every Oregon
driver's license must be renewed
during the next two years. The
exact month when each license
expires is shown by a schedule
available free from any service
station, police station, sheriff's of
fice, or driver's license clerk or
examiner.
Mail applications are being dis
couraged because of the errors
they commonly contain. Those
who do use the mail are warned
that only the official application
form can be accepted by the
Driver's License Division.
A license spokesman said that
confusion as to ihe proper fee is
the commoncs. mistake. Different
fees apply to different applicants.
Only the official . fee schedule
gives the coniplete information.
It is available from any driver's
license clerk or examiner.
thus "Socialized Medicine Is the
key stone to the arch of the
socialized state" or Communist
state capitalism. It was the key
stone for Germany, Austria, Rus
sia and other countries. Let us
keep a "Government of the peo
ple, by the . people, for the
people."
MRS. EMMA P. WOODS,
Roseburg, Ore.
LETTERS
to the Editor
ONDON newspapers incline lo
the opinion that the British
government may, In keeping with
the times (which in Britain are
hard), order a relatively small
private wedding for Princess
Elizabeth and Lieutenant Mount
batten. This, the newspapers say,
would be contrary to majority
public opinion in Ihe matter,
which leans toward an elaborate
affair, with a long period of pub
lic rejoicing, in keeping with the
traditions of the past.
The public, you see, in Britain
us elsewhere, loves pomp and
spending and dreads economy.
We're all more or less built that
way. We prefer what we WANT
lo what is good for us.
r
fllE amount of money that
would be saved by a "simple''
wedding would be relatively
small. It would be a token rather
than actual help in meeting the
grave financial problems that
Britain faces.
The spirit of the thing is really
all that counts. The point is that
Ihe WAY WE THINK Is normal
ly the WAY WE I'O. If the Brit
ish people go on thinking In
terms of costly magnificence I hey
will he slow in readjusting their
sptmding to meel their present
grcijtly reduced income.
T
IT'AT goes for us here in Anier-
thinking to greater economy in
government, we'll GO ON
SPENDING.
That is why it seems to this
writer that reducing taxes NOW
would be sound policy fo;- the
United States,.
Yets Bond Cashing,
Allowance Boost
Pass Senate
WASHINGTON, July 21. i.V)
- The Semite passed and sent to
the White House Saturdav a bill
permitting the veterans to cash
$1,800,000,000 worth of terminal
leave pay bonds.
Passage was by a vote of Ki lo
0. The hill was passed by the
House 3H6 to U about two weeks
ago.
The bonds are held by approxi
mately 0,000,000 veterans, most
of whom are former enlisted
men. They were Issued last year
after congress voted to pay en
listed men for unused leave
which they bad accumulated in
service. Officers were paid In
cash for accrued leave.
The hill sent to the White
House would permit -- hut not
require - cashing of the bonds
any Mine after September 1. At
present the bonds have a matur
ity date five years from their
Issuance.
Prvctously the Senate passed In
voice vote and sent to the House
another bill to increase living
allowances to veterans attending
school under the Gl bill ol rights.
The living allowance bill would
Increase subsistence pny as fol
lows: Single veterans, from the
present $05 a month to $';.') : mar
ried veterans without children,
from $00 lo $103; married veter
ans with children, from ?!)0 lo
SIL'I).
Senator Taft i H. Ohio) told the
Senate the bill will cost $l!0O.0O0.
000 a year, "but I believe II is
justified and that it will enable
more veterans to continue their
education."
The veterans legislation was
shoved to the front in an effort
to get action today as tha leader
ship strove to brin this -s s:o"
to adjouriimiut itb..t fcuturda.
Swiss Bell Ringers
Dated at Baptist Church
The nationally known Mason
Swiss Bell Ringers, consisting of
Ihe Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Benard
Mason of Los Angeles, Calif., will
present a sacred concert at the
First Baptist Church in Rose-
nurg, Wednesday, July 23, at t
P.M.
The program will Include
familiar hymns and gospel songs
played on a large array of musi
cal Instruments rarelv heard on
any entertainment platform.
Some of the Instruments to be
used are as follows: Swiss hand
hells, musical glasses, singing
saw, golden vibraharp, the
world's largest set of triple octave
chimes and Ihe instrument of
mystery, "The Victor Theremin."
The latter Instrument has no
key-hoard, strings, reeds or pint
and responds to Ihe motions of
the players hands waving over
it in space without being touched.
this instrument iniisl be seen
and hoard to be appreciated.
There will be no admission
charge to this concert but a free
will offering will lie received.
MOTEL PLANNEO
Plans for H completely modern
tourist court and motel on the
former Corrigan Auto Court pro
erly at Myrtle Creek was an
nounced Saturday by Frank Bo
din. Roseburg hotel manager.
The Corrigan properly was pur
chased last week by Mr. and Mrs.
Botlin and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Col
burn, recently of California. The
new motel w ill be operated by the
Colburns. Business transactions
were handled by Frank Burr,
local realtor representative.
BACK TO WORK
PORTLAND. July 21.-MV-The
city Jailers reported some re
conversion there.
"The bovs are now working out
the $20. SJ0 and $50 fines, some
thing they r.ever d!J durir.s the
war". Jcjier Howard Phillips s,ajd.
Socialized Medicine
Plan Declared 'Red' '
Am wondering if I will ever be
able to understand the things
which seem so puzzling to me
now. "Socialized Medicine! what
does it mean? Why should our
President advocale socialized
Medicine?" Why should he insist
upon a bill making it a law? Has
he been hlinded to what it really
means to a free people?
What does the word mean? It
means "Communizcd." And what
does it mean when applied to
medicine? It means just another
"take" out of every wage earn
er's cheek so the government can
pay your bill or use your money
lo pay some other person's biil
if you haven't needed a doctor.
But all of us are very particular
and, as the old man said, "notion-
ate" about w hat doctor we have.
Communism when it takes over
takes to itself the ownership of
our homes, farms, cattle, farm
machinery and equipment, our
schools, our churches, the money
out of pay checks to pay doctor
hills and every other freedom we
have.
Our churches they do away
with and "Socialized Medicine
if we are not' pleasing to the
power vested ill a totalitarian
government a Capitalistic State
it is an easy way to victimize
through suffering or liquidate en
tirely. We iM'ople of today want a spe
cialist for our pecular or special
ailments and we want to select
him and pay the bill even though
it may seem excessive.
Wo of today were horn a free
people under a constitution that
constitutes freedom.
Our representatives in bolh
assemblies ol Congress will soon
be home and let us convince them
we do not want to scrap our free
dom or put our necks under a
yoke of Communism.
One writer lias expressed it
Oregon Law on
Political Groups
Subject of Ruling
SALEM, Ore., July 21. (JP)
The new Oregon law halving the
number of members in political
parties' state central committees
need not result in the reorganiza
tion of such, groups. Attorney
General Neuner ruled Saturday.
The present officers may con
tinue in their capacities whether
or not eliminated from votine
membership in their committees,
Neuner held. The act provides
that the present two state com
mitteemen from each county
shall be dropped, leaving mem
bership In their state bodies con
fined to the president and vice
president of the county central
committees.
Neuner's ruling supported the
decision of Byron Carney, Port
land, president of the Democratic
State Central Committee, who re
fused recently to call a reorgani
zation meeting of his group.
The new law provides that a
quorum of the newly-defined
groups shall consist of a maiority
of the members or their alter
nates. At present no alternates
have been selected.
Anticipating further complica
tions under the new plan, Neuner
said, "in view of the rather con
fusing condition existing since
the 1947 amendment to the law,
it is quite probable that other
questions may arise." .
. I
Utah Celebrates
109th Anniversary
SALT LAKE CITY, July 21.
(JP The curtain gees up tonight
on Utah's centennial musical dra
ma "Promised Valley," by Arnold
Saundgaard, and before it comes
ddwn on the last performance
the 100th anniversary of the set
tling of Utah will have passed.
Opening a major week In the
year long centennial celebration,
the musical is being put on at a
cost of $150,000 by Sundgaard.
author of "Triple-A," "Plowed
Under," and "Power," both pro
duced by the Federal theater pro
ject of the old PWA, and other
nationally known directors.
1 he Mormon 1 ahernaele cnoir
prest-nied "The Restoration" last
night, another feature In the
crowded program o events for
the ccniennial.
t Some 5,000 Bpy Scout.-, from all
states of the west, Canada and
Mexico opened encampment on
the Fort Douglas reservation to
day, combining Scout act ivitiesahd
competition with participation in
centennial events, including the
tirst ol Ihe two major street
parades scheduled for the com
ing week.
A motorized trek of the Sons
of Utah pioneers which began
at Nauvoo ,111., a week ago, wi)
arrive in Salt Lake' City tomor
row alter completing their mod
ern day reproduction of the
march of Mormon pioneers to
Utah 100 years ago.
KRNR
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10:15 Nocturne.
10:30 Ten-Thirty Club, Lawson'f.
In
00 Platter Pirty.
30 Sign Of.
REMAINING HOURS TODAT
4:00 Ray Henley.-
4:15 Frank Hemingway.
4:30 Traffic Safety.
4:45 Enoch Light. i
5:00 Johnny Bothwell.
3:15 Melody Theater. i'
5:30 Adventure Parade.
5:45 Tom Mix. Raltton Purina.
0:00 Gabriel Heatter, Carter Products.
6:15 Big League Baseball Score.
B a reus Sales and Service.
6:20 Musical Interlude.
e:2PA-State and Local. Newi, Roseburg
Motor- Co.:
6:30 Hit Parade of Novelty Tunes,
. Howard Hardware, Hayden
DeCamp, Real Estate.
6:45 Rene Savard's Serenade, Ray
Buckley Motors.
7:00 Veterans' Information Guide.
7:15 Dick Jurgens.
7:30 The Cisco Kid, Modern Furniture.
8:00 Richard Davis, Private Detective,
Union Oil.
8:30 Snapshots, Douglas County Flour
Mills.
8:45 Songs of the West, Lock wood
Motors.
9:00 Alka Seltzer News, Miles Labs.
B:15 Skinny Ennis.
8:30 Cliff Edwards Show, Carsten
Furniture.
9:45 Henry J. Taylor. General Motors,
10:00 Ray Henley, Miller's, Inc.
10:15 Nocturne. ,,
10:30 Ten-Thirty Club, Lawson's.
11:00 Platter Party.
11:30 Sign Off.
TUESDAY, JULY 22. 1947
6:00 Farm Bulletin Board.
6:30 Yawn Patrol.
6:40 The County Agent.
6:53 SchriCKer Auction.
7:00 Frank Hemingway, J. A. Folger
Co.
7:15 Rise and Shine, Sterling Drug Co.
7:30 State and Local News, Dr. Bruce
Tuck.
7:35 The Beehive.
7:40 Rhapsody In Wax.
8:00 Haven of Rest. Good Ship Grace.
8:30 Wally's Wake Up Time, Wally's
Grocery.
8:45 Art Baker and His Notebook,
Montgomery Ward.
9:00 Kate Smith Speaks, Lindsay Ripe
Olive Co.
9:15 Victor H. Lindlahr, Healthaids.
Lowell's.
9:45 Shopper's Guide, Harth's and
Marshall-Wells.
9:55 Musical Interlude.
10:00 Alka Seltzer News, Miles Labs.
10:15 Muse and Music, Roseburg Color
Center.
10:30 Nora Martin.
10:43 Easy Listenin.
11:00 Character Clinic, Presbyterian
Church.
11:15 Lenny Conn.
11:30 Queen for a Day, Miles Labs, and
Philip Morris.
12:00 Musical Interlude.
12:05 Sports Review. Courier Pearson.
12:15 Rhythm at Random.
12:40 r State and Local News, Hansen
Motors.
12:45 National News, Douglas County
State Bank.
12:55 Terminal Market Reports, Sig
Fett.
1:00 Man on the Street, Henninger's
Marts.
1:15 The Johnson Family.
1:30 It's Requested, Roseburg
Pharmacy.
2:00 Heart's Desire. Philip Morris.
2:30 Freddie Martin, Montgomery
Ward.
2:45 Florists' Show, Umpqua Florists.
3:00 Say It With Music.
3:15 Matty Malneck Orch.
3:30 Earl Sheldon.
3:45 Standard Male Quartette.
4:0O Ray Henley.
4:15 Frank Hemingway.
4:30 Flit Frolics. Stan co. Inc.
4:45 Good News Program, Assembly of
uoa unurcn.
5:00 Peggy Lee.
5:15 Melody Theater.
5:30 Adventure Parade.
5:45 Tom Mix, Ralston Purina.
6:00 Gabriel Heatter. Healthaids.
6:15 Big League Baseball Scores,
oarcus sales ana Eserv.ce.
6:20 Musical Interlude.
6:25 Slate and, Local News, Roseburg
motor i-o,
6:30 Gardening Today, Farm Bureau.
6:45 Loo Sullivan.
7:00 Warden's Crime Cases, Trimount
Clothing Co.
7:15 Music You Remember, Douglas
Supply Co.
7:30 Sing America Sing, Patterson's
Bakery.
8:00 Count of Monte Cristo. Pepsodent.
8:30 The Falcon. American Safety
Razor Corp.
9:00 Alka Seltzer News, Miles Labs.
9:15 Claude Sweeten Orch.
9:30 Voice of the Army.
9:45 Jack Fina Orch.
10:00 Ray Henley, Umpqua Valley
Hardware.
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, 75 x 100 Lot
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2 fi acre tracts
Railroad Frontage
3 12-acre '
Garden Tracts
, Also number of fine home
sites 1 acre and up.
JACK WEAVER
Waite & Cedar Sts.
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Prison Slaying Blamed
On Chain Gang Abolition
BRUNSWICK, Ga., July 21.
iP) A county grand jury has
blamed abolition of Georgia's ill
famed chain gangs for the mass
escape attemnt recently In which
eight Negro convicts were slain
by officers' pistol and shotgun
fire.
In a special 900-word present
ment, the jury contended the vio
lence would have been avoided if
the prisoners had been wearing
chains and stripes.
The renort absolved Warden H.
G. Worthy and fl'e guards for
blasting away as the Negroes
sought to flee the 12 foot barbed
wire orison stockade in Southeast
Georgia after a day of disorders.
Georgia chain gangs, made
famous by Robert Eliot Burns in
hhis book and movie, "I am a
fugitive from a Georgia Chain
Gang," were outlawed, after a
storm of national criticism re
sulted in a penal reform move
ment under the administrations
of former Governors E. D. Rivers
and Ellis Arnall.
Owen Wister, author of "The
Virginian, practiced law in Phil
adolphia before he devoted him
sef lo writing. ,
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