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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948 Published Daily Except Sunday by the ,. News-Review Company, Inc. ' Enttr4 wn4 rl.M mttttr May f, IMi. el th pnrt Mra ! Bibrr, Orfn, andtr act f March I. 171 CHARLES V. STANTON jrrt EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor w5Ai Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations BtprattaU by WMT-HOI.MDAT CO., INC., ffif. la Kaw York, fhlraj, an Franelaoa, L.t Anftlaa, Saalllt, PoriUosJ, St. La a la. Sl'BSrRIPTION BATFft ! Ortrsn Ry Mall Far Yr M M, mastha M.M. thraa manltaa IZ.ft. Bf City Carrlar Par yaar SIS.m Ob (, lata tha ana ?aar, aar mania tt.ft. OataiO Oragaa By Mall Far yaar ISM, all i ant ha II. IS, thraa month. IS. IS. FACTS AND By CHARLES V. STANTON The Bend Bulletin and the Oregon Grange, Bulletin have been engaged for considerable time in a heated editoris' debate relative to the proposed Columbia Valley Authority, power and flood development projects in the Columbia River valley and general policies of water and land management. The Oregon Grunge Bulletin, largely through the influ ence, we believe, of the master of the Oregon State Grange, has been a spokesman for CVA interests and a mouthpiece for the Army Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation. The Grange Bulletin has definitely aligned itself with CVA, while joining the Army Engineers' and Bureau of Reclamation's propaganda campaign. In tangling with the Bend Bulletin, however, the Grange publication has challenged a formidable opponent. Editor Robert W. Sawyer of Bend is recognized as one of the na tion's foremost authorities on the subject of reclamation. Former judge of Deschutes County, a former member of the Oregon Highway Commission, past president of the Oregon Reclamation Congress, director of the National Reclamation Congress, and a member of the Oregon State Planning Board, he is one of the best informed men in the nation on subjects of reclamation, land management and water man agement. Editor Sawyer recently published the following excerpt from the Oregon Grange Bulletin: Of a certainty, the flood was a "peg" upon which to hang an argument for a CVA. At to It being "emotional" aa oppoeed to "logical," we will leave that to be answered by thoie who had their farms and homes destroyed and damaged by waters which could have been held In check by dams at Hell's Canyon, Hungry Horse, Glacier View, Paradise and Albenl Falls dams whlchare not now built because we do not have a CVA. And we do not have a CVA beeause of the opposition of the private power com panies and publications like the Oregonlan and the Bend Bulletin, which serve as their stooges. Commenting on the paragraph printed above, the Bend Bulletin replies : These paragraphs and those that follow In the Grange Bulletin provide a typical example of that paper's method of argument and discussion. Long experience has taught ua that the Grange Bulletin will not engage In clean debate. It prefers to call names and to draw conclusions from something other than facts. Nevertheleee It seems to us desirable not to let this editorial go without comment and so we proceed. To call publications like the Oregonlan and the Bulletin toogee of the private power companies provea nothing so far ae flood control la concerned. Ae a matter of fact we doubt If the Grange editor knows the meaning of the word but, that point aelde, he might call such publications a doten namee and still make no contribution to the flood control problem. All that hie name calling doee Is to suggest ' that this sort of thing rather than clean discussion Is what tie believes will have the greateet weight with his audience that is, his subscribers. We have a higher regard for the farmers of Oregon who belong to the tfrange. So let's pay no more attention to this language. Editor Sawyer continues in his editorial to direct his argu ment directly to the issues of flood control. We believe, how ever, something more should be said about the statements appearing in the Grange Bulletin. The Grange publication goes into the hands of a great many people principally farmers. Because it is a mouthpiece for their organization, they have high regard for it. The editors of the Grange Bulletin should recognize their responsibility to give their readers carefully analyzed facts. Instead they stoop to the lowest type of propaganda. Before any pressure group can achieve its ends it must destroy confidence in the press. So the editors of the Grange Bulletin endeavor to convince their readers that two of Oregon's finest newspapers are "stooges" for private inter ests, thus following the propaganda policies brought to their highest art by the New Deal. They present no argument, as such, except the emotional appeal that homes were destroyed because we have no CVA. They then list the names of pro posed POWER dams and cite them as being necessary to FLOOD CONTROL. Thus the editors of the Grange Bulletin, either through ignorance or design and if the latter they are abusing their editorial responsibility are misinforming their readers and are feeding them the propaganda which is enabling the Army Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation to continue their destruction of our resources. People should be made to understand that a POWER dam does NOT control floods. To control floods we must have many huge reservoirs kept EMPTY except during periods of flood runoff. Each of these reservoirs will destroy useful ness of thousands upon thousands of acres of land, because of fluctuation of water level from zero to capacity. Power dam reservoirs must be kept Fl'LL and thus have little capacity to store or restrain flood waters. Federal agencies want to build power dams. They meet resistance in Congress from private power advocates. So they endeavor to cause the public to believe that their dams are for purposes of flood control and irrigation. The public then puts pressure on Congress for appropriations. We do not object to construction of power dams and the expansion of our hydroelectric resource. We DO object to promoting this project through misinformation, and more particularly to the spreading of propaganda through a publication hold ing the responsibility which devolves upon such an institu tion i the Oregon Grangt Bulletin. PROPAGANDA OUT OUR WAY r? WHV, VES-- A BIGGER JOLT SHE'LL X ( FER. SMALL GST IS WHEN SHE FINDS BATCHES WE THEY'RE THE LIGHTEST, ; .V OFTEN MAKE V FLUFFIEST BISCUITS . iVA BISCUITS ON SHE'S EVER TASTEE? y) TOP O'lH' FLOUR.' ) I NO WOMAN CAM BEAT J tll SAVES PACKIN' ; 'EM, AND NEARLY ANY ) W-Sl V AND DiRTYIN' J V OLD COWBOY CAN S s2j W extra r v . to it.' TT V) pishes A. VLji- . Our road Is on a shelf above the creek, coming up from "99" through a pretty, firlincd can yon. In the three-quarters of a mile below us there have been twelve accidents In a little over a year, all because there are two places In It where there is no way to see around a sharp bend. Two Involved log trucks; in the latest, two cms met .here just as a boy on a bicycle got there, too. The boy plunged over the bank to avoid being hit. All of the acci dents have been duly reported to the proper authorities who are, without a doubt, doing the best they can to remedy the matter. The latest word Is that the "shov el" will be sent here as soon as It finishes Its present job. We who live on this road hope that will be soon! It's really wonderful that Ore gon roads are as good as they are, (or the road men have every sort of handicap to meet, and plenty of rain besides. One soon becomes accustomed to the twisting curves, and en Joys the visitors' reactions. I rend the other days where some Tex an "gave up" and lot someone else drive them out of Oregon. The Texans w ho vsitrd us recent ly were from the Rio Grande Val In the Day's News (Continued From Page Onel The red Russians I communists! claim she was kidnaped by a bunch of white Russians (anti- communists). Somehow the reds got her hack and put her in their i consulate building in New York, i According to their story, they were "protecting" her. The white Russians claim to have been pro tecting her from the red ones. But she throws herself out of the window. Would you throw yourself from the window of a building where you were being nii'mi nrnt-tlnn frnm inmmin i you feared? It seems Improbable. T HE Incident gets Into high di plomacy. In Moscow, our ambassador is called on the carpet by Molotov, who claims that American au thorities "connived" In the KID NAPING of this teacher and another one (whose name Is Sa marlne). In the well know n Molo tov manner, he conveys the Idea that h el l will he to pay If we don't do something about It, and qiTCK. Our ambassador, caught short by the long established custom that the diplomatic premises of one country are sacred from in- vasinn by the country In which n the gospels as saying, which 1 WcientUnger veteran forest they are located, has to talk soft- j seems to summarize the wailing ranger who has been district Iv and promises Molotov that!1',' rnany of the Columbia river ranger in the Columbia (Jorge ' .' . , ... .... ,. flood sufferers In their inlands and retired June 30 after 39, there will be a full public Inves- (()r bi(!),,.r and ,,,,,. I vr. of rontlnuous service. i ligation of the cases of both 1 The foxes, however, have holes : A good man goes on to work teachers. because Ihey imlu-ui ichi!v dig w ith the lumber and timber op- Officials In Washington admit them and the birds of the airjeratora in an Increasingly Im i .u . - f n.riitin" ' n',ve nests because thev labor- pin tatit movement in w ood uses ' that a new element of irritation ,ouslv ,,nsmi(., llrm u hUl, hp imhor and a has been Introduced into .Soviet- i (n,Mt sufferers have been fed and veteran In the public service American relations which can , provided at least temporary shel- come on to carry on the work cause trouble all along the line. ' 'cr wherein to lay their heads. 'in private and public groups to thev should follow the example ' conserve the valued forest as- " , . . of the foxes and birds instead of sets of the public against the rav- J THIS whole spy ring business walllnK , ,)le K,mmir, ,,t,.it fr,age of fire, has got Into our politics In a the government to build and fur-1 It i a gixni time to recall big wav It happened like this; i nish (heir housing - especially as that "Keep Oregon Green" Is i President Truman milled ! 'here Is every opportunity for one ot the most effective pro Iiesldem iruman 1u"r" " ; employment fo finance them. I grams In the field of conserva smartle when he called tne no- ( .jnfl (i,.ri!nl(,n iIlt, photo j Hon and the creators of it are publican congress back Into sum- of a family of flood victims stand-i to be complimented on having! mer session with the sarcastic ing by a big sien board they h ive gone so far. and so effectively j statemert that Republicans have erected having in big letters the in so short a time. And this, statement mat nepuoiiiao. ;(nmvln(,. . nm, ,or .;,lrnpc , month and next are good times, been doing a lot of taming in ; Rllnrtl,, (nr n, nain-but not a j to remember to keep Oregon ; thetr platform and elsewhere bUCk for us. Brother can you i green. I THE MAGICIAN'S BAG iahnett S. Martin i ley, where we went two years ago. A greater contrast I can't imagine. Give me Oregon! The rushing white water of the rivers charmed our visitors, and they delighted in the many cas cades. They had heard much about the Columbia River flood, and were surprised to find they could actually drive along the highway that follows Its course Into the Cascades. The things' they had heard! The flood was bad enough with out any exaggeration to discour age visitors from coming to Ore gon! I Just can't understand how rumors such as they had heard can race over the country; there is enough in the day's news in these days of Incredible Inven tions and, marvelous feats of ac complishment, and for that mat ter, enough In the exact descrip tions of our major disasters to satisfy even readers who like lur id and startling items. Well, the stories that w ent over the radio and through the press wires about (he Long Beach earthquake were astonishing to recipients of the clippings sent back to Long Beach. I didn't see the Oregon flood but I'll take the earthquake. about what OUGHT to be done for the country's good. "OK," he told them, In effect. "The steering wheel Is yours. Go ahead and drive the car your way." (That was really hitting below the belt, liocause every body knows platform talk Isn't expected to be taken seriously any mote. It's Just put out to sound good.) B UT no sooner had congress got Into session than this "spy ring business broke all over the place. About all we can be sure of in connection with it is that a lot of high, wide and handsome per- Jury is being Indulged In, hut as : Vet It isn't clear Who Is doinff the perturlng. The POLITICAL development ....... . , , is that the Impression is growing that President Truman is HOLD- INC. HACK T11K KALI'S. As a re suit hi, special session strategy! has blown up in his f;icc. Editorial Commenf From The Oregon Press FOXES, BIRDS AND FLOOO REFUGEES Salem Capital Journal "The foes have holes, and the birds of the air hae nesis. but Dm a.m nf i u n k . , I, ,..( 11 , to nj,,e hl, nrillt;. j,.MI, ,, By J. R. Williams spare a dime?" Two of the girls of the family tend till. As a matter of fact, the Red Cross has spent $2,000,000 of monies voluntarily contributed by the people in 12 disaster em ergencies In the Columbia area. Many government agencies are spending many additional mil lions In relief and rehabilitation work in addition to funds paid veterans under the GI bill of rights. But the government can not provide everything and the hearty co-operation of the flood victims themselves is a necessity. They must exercise their own In dustry, initative and resourceful ness. Demoralizing doles is no so lution of their problems, nor are marches on the capitol. TEN MEASURES FOR BALLOT (Portland Oregonlan) Oregon voters will find ten measures this year on the general election ballot. They will approve or reject: Modification of the 6 per cent tax limitation; authority to use state credit, for reforesta tion; establishment of a boys' camp; a phase of public acquisi tion of hydroelectric protects; re moval of property qualification for voting in school elections; an increase in old-age pensions; an Increase in personal income tax exemptions; a liberalizing of the Knox liquor law; a veterans' bonus and a prohibition of fixed gear in Columbia river salmon fishing. Submission of meaures has got down to a normalcy In numbers' in recent years. In the last four general elections the number ranged from seven to nine. In the early days of enthusiasm over di-' rect legislation we had in one ' election thirty-seven measures on the ballot. The record of the system Indi cates that pretty generally the sponsors of measures need tie less i hoeful of their approval in a presidential election year than in i other years. Presumably a con-' siderable element feels annoyed by them at a time when Interest and enthusiasms are centered on national candidates and national issues. They neglect considered Judgment of bills and amend ments, and are prone to cast a resentful "no." In 1928 they turned down the entire list of eight measures; in 1!U2 approved only live out oi thirteen submitted; In 193fi they rcerted all eight that were pre sented: they turned down all nine in 1910. The presidential vear of' 1941 was rather an exception, for! they approved six out of nine that j were offered. I The conflict between general ; interest in partisan phases of an ! u.i... election and tne pressure oi legis- matters was Illustrated in lha Mat- nrimarv uhpn A critical. Iv neeoeo tax lew ror county -Mir- Pes was rejected, only to be j approved at a latter special elec-1 ,; wnrn jt, mPrit mlM be hp,. tcr presented and heeded. There is no intent herein to de-1 " - '" " " 1 thnuuht that in adopting direct legislation wp accepted an onnea lion to make it work to the host of our ability. KEEP OREGON GREEN . Oregon City Knterprise Charles Ogle who did a splen did work In promoting the Keep Oregon Green movement has re tired as executive secretary of the association to become mana ger ot the Associaten roresi 1 industries of Oregon, with head-1 1 quarters in Salem. He has been i It. ,l,.i k'.u.n i rtntn , .ytH,n As.K-iation bv Allien LETTERS - to the Editor Clean Campaign In Hospital Project Urged ROSEBURG I have followed with some interest the Commun ity Hospital fund drive, and have seen various pieces in this paper promoting this drive I submitted by the committee in charge of the drive). I realize as much as anyone that additional facilities are need ed in the community, BUT I take exception to the things that have been said AND inferred about the existing facilities. It has been said that the Sis ters of Mercy have not expanded in keeping with the times. Do you think for one minute that they haven't been aware of the crying need for added rooms and con veniences? Who are in a better position to know that than they? Aren't they in constant everyday contact with thjs situation? Haven't they had plans and great hopes in having a new hospital? Just ask them! Then the com munity repays them for the years of work and humble service by telling them they have an old fire-trap of a building, and in ferring that they literally set patients out into the streets to make room for another patient newly committed to the bed. I may be wrong, but every time I have ever been in a hos pital I didn't get out until my doc tor released me, no matter if I felt that I was ready to go home. It seems to me I have read that medical , science has discovered j that patients recover more quick-' ly and thoroughly. If they are up and about before their muscles be I come flaccid from disuse. There are of course exceptions to the j above, but not being a medical man I wouldn't know. It doesn't appear to me that the j blame for lack of cooperation has been fairly placed in its entirety. I The Sisters are not putting on a big publicity stunt and concen trated drive for funds, nor are they entering into any malign ing or mud-slinging campaign. They will go on about their mis sion in life that of unselfish service in humanitarlanism con tent to know they have served faithfully and well. I say: Let's keep this campaign clean! R. B. WANDLING, Roseburg, Ore. The Weather U. 8. Weather Bureau Office Roseburg. Oregon. Forecast for Roseburg and vi cinity: Generally fair and slightly warmer today and Tuesday. Highest temp, any Aug .106 Lowest temp, any Aug...... 39 Highest temp, yesterday .. 78 Lowest temp, last night. ......... SO Precipitation yesterday T 1 Precipitation from Aug. 1 . .10 ! 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