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1 ,1 ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG." OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 16, 1949 NINE Rodent-Infested iermany in Dire teed of Pied Piper By RICHARD KASISCKE BERLIN (.) A crying need i the cities of postwar Germany i a Pied Hper ot Hamelin even i the cities of the legendary liper's home province of Han lover. Some mayors would give their ity halls if they could get rid I the "armies of rats" march tig in the bomb ruins of their lattered cities. In a country pitifully short of ats and other rodent destroyers, at-kiUing campaigns have be ome a necssity. Most musiicipall ies have undertaken such cam aigns, including Berlin, which s estimated to have a rat popu atlon at least equal to its three ind a quarter million humans. One rat extermination drive vas conducted in the city of Han nover, a sea, it 25 miles from rlamelin, the piper's town. Hannover's newspaper, the 'Abend Post", reported the cam paign was overdue because "arm es of rats live in the city's de ris." Lacking a modern piper, he paper said, seven exterminat or firms were given contracts l lead the campaign and enlist Je cooperation of home owners. I Some of the latter, however, refused to Join the drive. The recalcitrants complained that poison laid out for rats Bad killed their cats and dogs. A food deat er wrote the mayor suggesting that it would be "better if my garbage was collected regularly and my basement windows fixed with glass." Nevertheless, Hannover laid out its poisons and posHd warn ing signs for pet owners. "And the rats?" asked the Abend Post. "Did they actually go for the corn bits, enriched with phosphate of zinc?" "Well." t h e health officer, shrugging its shoulders, replied "Nobody ever finds dead rats." Whistle for the Pied Piper. Plywood Drying Speeded By Electronic Hear CENTRALIA, Wash. An ultra modern machine utilizing radio fi-equency lor drying glued pan els of wood is now in Use at the two-shift operations ol the Lln scott Manufacturing Company plant near Borst Park. .The ma chine is called a radio frequency glue press, and will dry in 2d seconds, with the use of electronic heat, wood panels that formerly required at least 40 minutes. The new machine gums about 15.000 board feet of lumber daily. Ten thousand volts of electricity are used as power for the ma chine, and converts into radio fre quency as powerful as that of a small radio station. The new ma chine cost $18,500. MALL CHAIN SAWS Felling and Bucking Units GUARANTEED Against Defective Parts and Workmanship 30 Days Free Service IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE NEW MALL CHAIN SAWS IN OPERATION CALL 499-R-l FOR FREE DEMONSTRATION Pacific CHAIN SAW COMPANY Garden Valley Junction and Highway 99 Phoni 499-R-f- Marshall Plan Appears Worth Huge Cost to U.1 By DeWitt MacKenzio Secretary of State Marshall, in testifying before the House Foreign Affairs committee in Washington regarding his pro posed European aid program, de clared that "If we do not move out to meet the problem In Eu rope today It will certainly come to us here in the United States under conditions far more unfav orable to us." The general didn't place a pre cise interpretation on that grim sounding statement However, at another point be gave this am plification. "European recovery, we feel sure, is essential to preservation of freedom in the most critical area of the world today. Euro pean economic recovery is essen tial to a return of normal trade and commerce throughout the world we want peace. We want securitya great crisis has to be met. Do we meet the situa tion with action or do we step aside and allow other forces to settle the pattern ot future Eu ropean civilization?" Spslls Burdens on People Those statements give us a pic ture, I believe, of an America (and other countries) suffering all the dire disabilities which ac crue from a lack of world peace. Marshall and Secretary of Com merce Harrlman told the com' mittee that the aid program would put burdens on the Ameri can people. Harriman named high prices as one burden and said that the project would add to our difficulties in trying to control inflation. Both secretaries, however, as serted that the gains would be worth the cost It would be highly interesting If we could read the mind of Gen eral Marshall, who. played such a great part in the late war, and discover what more he thinks it might mean if Western Europe weren't rehabilitated economic ally. However, the situation isn't so complicated that we can't fig' ure the things out for ourselves. Two Courses Open In the first place Russia has made it clear that she Is deter BURNER & STOVE OIL Immediate Wholesale Deliveries Phone 876-J-l Signal Oil Co. R. M. McForhind. Distributor mined on Communlzlng Wester Europe and adding It to the area under her domination. There are two ways of stopping this aggres sion. One la to create a military barrier through Central Europe, a task which only the United States could undertake, and she won't da it. The other is to put the countries ol western fcurope on their feet economically so that they can defend themselves nd of course that involves me Marshall plan. Now U the Marshall plan is put into effect, Moscow plans to fight it tooth and nail. That's of ficial. If the Soviet union can defeat the plan, then the road will De open tor ner to sweep inrouj;n to the English Channel. And if there Is no Marshall plan at all, the conquest of western Europe will be so much the easier for Bolshevism. What then? Answer: Russia would have all Europe as a base for operations against the rest of the world. We don't need any diagram to show what that would signify. Most certainly it would mean another World War, with the United States holding the de fenses of democracy against that swollen Bolshevist empire. That s what we face it there is no Marshall plan, or if there is one and it fails. However, the general says the program can succeea, ana ine muicuuuns ure that the countries of Western Europe are eager to cooperate. Why skouldnt' they be, when they are sitting right under the big guns of an aggressive Com munism which all of Uiem fear? Douglas Livestock Assn. Dates Annual Meeting The Douglas County Livestock Association will hold its annual meeting at the Knights of Pythias hall in Roseburg next Tuesday, January 20, states J. Roland Par ker, secretary. The program In cludes a wide variety of subjects and will start promptly at 10:00 A. M. P. M. Brandt, head of the animal industries division at Ore gon State College, will speak on disease problems concerning the livestock industry in Oregon. Range improvement, develop ment of permanent pastures, pre datory animal control and gov ernment programs affecting the livestock industry will be dis cussed. All livestock owners of the county are Invited to attend the meeting as all phases ol the day's program are open to the puDiic. 13 Eugene Boys Nabbed For "Bombslght Thefts EUGENE. Ore,. Jan. 16. Police are fighting la protect the Buicks. Thirteen boys have been ar rested here for stealing bomb- sight ornaments from Buick ra diator caps to make bracelets for their girl friends. One was fined $50 and ordered to buy. the car owner a new ornament. Police said arrests would be made until the bracelet fad stops THIS PUZZLE Here's Ho To WIN J250.00 Nothing Else To Do Cawses Stewart fleer FlMrpe Doucet 1 Marjlutl woks Boyd 6o1m KJrty Bsker PUke Alkeny b Leeds UrmrA Cnyosu Clayton. Mlsgan Bow" Montello Aafonio Cssske , Yuei yWostiie All yon do is to get the largest number of towns shown in this map composed entirely of the following letters: N-0-l-A-V-T-M.U-Y-S.E-R For example Blockton can- not be used because there iinoBorLorCinthe list. 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It Is concerned with a traditional rite of American politics that la pec formed every four years. The participants change, but the rit ual remains unaltered. The naming of a candidate for vice president climaxes this rite, but it gets scant attention at the time. It is hurried through as an anti-climax to the usually ex citing business of selecting the top man on the ticket. Not only do the people have nothing to say about this choice; even the convention delegates are virtually voiceless in ine matter. Not Democratic Method This does not mean that cap able men have not been chosen by this method. It does not mean that they are incapable ot being elected in their own right. Theo dore Roosevelt managed to be, and so did Calvin Coolidge. Mr. Truman may make It three. But however able an elected Presi dent's successor may be, the man ner of selecting him is a con tradiction of democratic government. Of the 26 men who have been chosen President by popular elec tion, seven nave cueo. in oiuce. One would think that this is a high enough percentage to per suade politicians that their can didate Is mortal. Yet the possible occupant of the White House is chosen privately by a small group,, or sometimes oy an inai victual. And, as a rule, the rea sons for the choice have little to do with presidential qualifications. The choice for vice president must not come from the same general neighborhood aa the op positions canaiaate, tnat is sup posed to be so much the better. Voters Share Blame All this reasoning may be sound, but it seems to be directed at state political organizations rather than at the voters. For the voter must take the politi cian's choice for vice president. And we feel confident In saying that the number of votes influen ced one way or the other by this second-Dlace choice is consider ably smaller than the number of votes tne iToniniiion rany s can didate for President will noil. Such indiferrence makes . it seem that the voters are as much to blame as the politicians in this matter. But, under the cir cumstances, the lack of interest can be understood. They arc of fered a candidate for a high sounding job whose routine du ties could be filled by any in telligent government clerk with a knowledge of parliamentary procedure. The fact that this candidate might some day be president is suit pedaled by- both parties. ' It has been suggested that there should be preferential primaries in all states once In four years which presidential hopefuls would have to enter. The idea is worth considering. And It would be even better If the second plare aspirants were required to do the same. 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