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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1948 3be !flctus Kemew Publiahad Dlly Except Sunday by tha Newi-Review Company, Inc. larai a aara4 tUa aaatlar Mar 1. IHI, U tka aaat aDaa at Kaaaaarf, Oragaa. aaSar tot af March ft, U7S CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor SjP Managar Mambtr of tho Aaaoclitad Prou, Ortgon Ntwapapar Publlahtra Aaaoefation, tho Audit Buraau of Circulations Baaraaaal.a ar WtaT.aoU.IDAT CO, mc, alrl.aa ra Naw Tar. CMaafa, aaa fraaalaaa. Laa Aagalaa. Saattla. FartUaa. at. Laala. tUBSCBIFTIOIf BATE'S la Orrraa Br Mall Par Taar MM, als aaaatka UM, laraa ajaataa IS.M. Br Cllr C'arriar Par raar llt-M Ha aaraaca), laaa Uaa aaa raar, par aaaala tl.M. Oalalaa Oragaa Br Mall Par aar M.aa ala aaaatha Sa.la. Uraa raaatlia ll.li. FISHERY ECONOMIES By CHARLES V. STANTON The Oregon Statesman, Salem, and the Evening Budget, Astoria, are critical of statements made in this column re cently concerning tax subsidy for commercial fishing. We pointed out that the Columbia River Packers Association made a profit in excess of a million and a quarter dollars in 1947 and that the people of Oregon paid thousands of dollars to help make that profit possible. We are accused of giving misleading information, in that CRPA profits did not come entirely from fish taken from Oregon streams but included fish taken offshore, in Alaska and elsewhere, with a large percentage coming from the tuna pack. An opinion that we were claiming all CRPA profits came from the tax subsidy program could have been formed, we believe, only by very hasty reading of our statement. Per haps we should have been more specific, but we referred definitely to "net-caught" fish, and attempted to show that the Oregon taxpayer had an interest in those fish taken from Oregon waters. We objected to a subsidy of the commercial fishing in dustry on the grounds that commercial fishing fails to put a public resource to the best sconomic use; that recrea tional fishing results in far greater revenue to the state per pound of fish taken, and that commercial fishing "depletes our streams of fish that should be attracting tourist dollars." Both the Statesman and the Budget point out that the state provides subsidies for agriculture, timber and mineral industries, and that subsidy to the commercial fishing in dustry therefore is justifiable. We could accept that argument if it were not for the economies involved. Why should we continue to subsidize private industry which must live off a public resource while constantly losing ground, when the same resource could produce far more revenue if used for recreation, with wider distribution of the profits, and with much less depletion of the resource? ' Thinking Still In Terms Of Food In drawing a contrast between revenue from commercial and recreational fisheries, we said: "We still follow the antiquated theory that fish have only food value and we con tinue to shell out tax dollars to subsidize a commercial fishery V The Oregon Statesman says in proof of our argument of antiquated thinking: Thla papar bellavaa tha atata haa etaka In helping tho eonv morolal flahlng Induatry, both for Ita aconomlo value aa in In duatry and for tho food which tho Induatry provider. Tho vaat majority of people who oat ealmon get It from tho commercial flahermen. They do not catch aalmon thtmaelvaa. They have an Interoet In this buaineea aa well aa the oporta flahermen. Thla laat point anawera tho argument of tho Newt Rtvlaw editor that "ealmon and eteelhead arc many tlmee more valu able aa eporta flan than aa a commercial product" It la not Juat tho tourlat dollar but food whloh It Involved. Only through com mercial ehannela will tha maaaee of tho people gat ealmon to eat How are we to continue to get fish for food if we kill off all the brood fish? How long can we maintain salmon in the ocean if we permit runs to become more and more depleted? J low does the above statement square with criticism of this writer when we were charged with misleading information in embracing all CRPA profits whereas, as our critics point out, the Oregon fish take was only the smaller part of the CRPA pack? If the bulk of the fish food supply is coming from outside Oregon waters, then why not use our limited state fishery resource to its best economic advantage? Our last legislature appropriated $750,000 to subsidize commer cial fishing. Poundage fees for the biennium are estimated t $250,000. Is this good economy? The Oregon Statesman adds: Tha (tateaman hat gone along with tportt flahermen In their programa for conaervatlon. for reatrictlng or aboliahment of commercial flahlng In tha leMar coattal etreame. But It Ilka wlao la a firm friend of the commercial flahlng Induatry and doea not want It put out of buaineea by eporta partlaana, by ovor-iealout dam-buildarm. Nor do we want to see the commercial fishery put out of OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams fllllilllllililllliltMIIII come on in A ipiP I 111 I "l BBOTWEl!fpISOn" ( 1 111' 25 MUCH WITH ME - TmiMB - r,llllUl'B ' WHEN WE GOT W I H; '. V COMPANY ! J i pi bp .igZX J I r v TZZ Mi1' I - wvrY i I THE RglENPLY ENEMY lZVZvVr. J lpj - - By Viahnett S. Martin hj-J sunder and Lightning, as we sometimes dubbed our two boyi when they were at a certain age, had been turning over the pages of the big Bible, looking at the Dore engravings. One In par tlcular seemed to Interest them. How pleated their mother was to note auch Interest. . . It never oc curred to her their interest might be tor quite another reason than the one she fondly imagined. Leaving the big Book open they Went out to play. After a bit there came occasional yelps and some times a howl, but nothing that warranted leaving the task the parent wat engaged In. Then the game appeared to reach an Impasse. The same old story! Seeley, loudly protesting that It was, too, his 'urn, stood on the lawn looking up at hit brother. Ernest was standing on the pic nic table. In the midst of a mis cellany of blocks, rocks and other odds and ends collected from the yard. He was trying his best, with his usual air of sweet reasonableness, to prolong his turn. Then Seeley'a wailt hushed aorupiiy, the final one had a sound that the mother well knew. With purposeful fury he was climbing up on the table prompt ly vacated by hit brother.. Grab bing a nice big rock be raised It high over his head: "Are you going to let me have my turn?" he Inquired ominous ly." Are you?" , Ernest glanced windoward, and yielded graciously. "Sure," he said, and assumed an alert, ready-to-duck pose, "Sure, you be God awhile!" : . Satisfied, Seeley now all smiles began heaving every thing within reach at his brother who nimbly ducked most of the missiles. Alas, a voice from the window spoiled the fun. It want ed to know where such an Idea as that had come from! "Why, Mother," they both ex plained," out of the Bible." The Book was still open to a picture Illustrating the troubles of the Amorltea (Joshua 10:11 . " the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them." In the Day's News (Continued From Page Unci Germans had to do waa to walk over the line and ask for It. Very few of them did aa Now they are offered coal on the same terms. WHAT It the scheme? Well, it's like this: Russia wants Germany, because Germany is the industrial heart of Europe. WITH INDUSTRIAL GERMANY ON HER SIDE, Rus sia wli: feel strong enough to tarkle the rest of the world. . WITHOUT GERMANY, the may (eel that thit lin't the aus picious time. troops couldn't even CI-,:!.- 1 llAm!. stage another Bataan. They'd be JIIIAC Ql MIUIIIIl THIS question probably occurs to you: Why doesn't Russia Just reach out and CRAB GERMANY with out all thlt monkey business? She certainly has the power. If business. In fact, the commercial fishery would, we believe, ,n Russians moved In In force, i :,. ...b. ,r ,,. .,.! .i,- t; I shooting aa they came, our little jini'iu; net uinv la vw umpioi rinnmn, vim rA, ipikfii i ..... .... .',,. . . . . , ... - . handful of troops coulcln t evi vi me iUiumniH, were to ue ctmiicieiy cuwu iu iiciwiik lur game fish. More fish would be able to reach spawning beds, and runs should nt least be preserved if not increased, thus improving the offshore trawl, from which the Statesman and Budget claim the larger part of the take comes. Fur thermore, we would be increasing our revenue through Im proved sports fishing, because of the fertilizer effect of salmon runs on ether species, and would save thousands of tax dollars now required for support of a waning resource. It might be different if our coastal streams were capable of supportiug BOTH commercial and recreational fisheries. But they are not. Despite bur great outlay of tax dollars, we are losing ground. Therefore, we believe, our resources should be put to the best economic use for the lcnrfit of the public at large until such time as the capacity of our streams is rebuilt to permit resumption of limited commercial fishing. psychological warfare la as Im portant in winning battles at the ttrategy of shooting warfare. ANYWAY, that la what It going on In Germany. By any peace-time PRACTI CAL standard our effort to tup ply Berlin with food and coal by meant of costly aerial transport would be absurd. We KNOW that by such a standard It Is absurd. We aren't morons. BUT If we can convince the Ger mans in Berlin that we're going all out to feed them and keep them warm in the face of thlt coldblooded Russian effort to starve them Into submission, we may be able to keep them from going over WILLINGLY to the Russian tide. PI much of the Germans, whom we've fought twice. But we're cer tainly not anxious to see them go all over to Russia as the world now stands. Draft Law Upstfs Plant For Future Schooling I their future since they cannot plan a carper or their education." Pr. Darland explained. "Many be lieve their future Is almost en- FOREST GROVE. Ore.. Aug. 19 I "rely In the handt of the govern- (Pt The dean of students at Pa clflc University reports the par ents of voting men believe the new draft law Is making "hums of their sons" because of uncer tainties about the future. Dr. I). D. Darland said his talks with high school graduates and parents indicated many young men are not going to go ahead with their schooling this fall. "Young people don't care about ment. Pr. Parland said he believed military preparedness is essential, hut he said the social repercus sions among the young men ap pear to have been ignored when the law wat set up. 'To read the military recruit ing advertisements, one would think the military was taking over the Job of hither education In America," he acidrd. wiped out In no time. BUT In tuch a case the Germana would be sullen and rebellious. They wouldn't co-operate willing ly. They would work for Russia only to the extent they were COMPELLED to work. The master minds In the Krem lin are smart enough to realize that slave labor It never at ef Ilcent at free labor. Hence thlt effort to WIN THE GERMANS OVER with brlbet of food and coal. If they can he convinced that their future with the west ern democracies It drab and hope less whereas with Russia they could get somewhere and be somebody their hearts would be In their work and Germany would become a real asset to Moscow In the job of communis Ing the world. E MIGHT at well be realistic. Thla battle of Berlin Is the BATTLE OF BERLIN. It la WAR. It la Just v ar of a differ ent sort. For the present. It is PSYCHOLOGICAL war. Any ttu dent of military matters knows that In Its way the ttrategy of Plant Not Settled LOS ALAMOS. N. M.. Aug. 20 i.V There were no siens of a return to-work movement today among more than 3,000 Idle con struction and maintenance work ers at this atomic weapons proj ect. This wns the third day of the work stoppage which the Atomic EnerRy Commission has said threatens "serious damage to the nation's atomic weapons program."- The men attended a mast meeting last night at Espanola. where union leaders reiterated their grievance that one contractor- Brown and Root of Houston, Tex. has been Importing non union labor. Participating In the walkout are most members of the AH building trades unions. Exceptions are men employed on emergency maintenance rrewt whom union representative! i nave urged to stay on the Job. The men have scheduled an other rally at Espanola Sunday afternoon. In the meantime, their leaders rautioned them to "watch their behavior" and refrain from passing on rumors about the walkout. They urged them, however, to make it as difficult as possible for non-union employes to find living quarters. I Cong. Ellsworth Wife Arrive Here Congressman and Mrs. Harris Ellsworth arrived home last night from Washington, D. C, after a motor trip across the United States, via Chicago and the north route, through the (Bad Lands) and Black Hills of South Dakota. Their daughter, Jane, remained In Washington. En route they stopped at Chieato to soend a day with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dlttmann (Mary Margaret Ellsworth.) Congressman Ellsworth said he plans a trip up the North Umpqua for a few days rest and then will be in and around Roseburg, probably until the first of the year. tfter Labor Day he will spend a week in each of the seven counties he represents, checking on matters of interest to the Federal government and getting up to date on various projects. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Prett Vice-Presidential Mansion Asked In Bills in Congress By JANE EADS WASHINGTON The current move In Congress to get "little White House" In which the vice president of the United States can live rent free Is not new. Efforts to get a home for the, V. P. are as old as the republic, but it has been nearly 20 years since the subject was last broach ed, mat was when Mrs. Hender son, widow of Senator John B. Henderson, famous Civil War General and statesman, offered her huge mansion on sixteenth street as a vice-presidential resi dence. Completed in 1929, a couple of years before Mrs. Henderson died at the age of 90, the home cost $300,000, had 30 rooms and 10 baths. Replete with turrets, towers and battlements. It is known as "Henderson's Castle." Mrs. Henderson, In a letter to the House committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, wrote that "Ex-President Coolidge in his autobiography calls attention to the need of a permanent home for the vice-president and ap proves Its establishment." Lawsuit Blocks Project At the time. Rep. Gibson (R. Vt.) Introduced a bill to accept the mansion, to appropriate $30, 000 for furnishings and $25,000 a year for mainenance. Congress never acted on the measure. Newspaper files show that Mrs. Henderson's granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice Henderson W h o 1 e a n, went to the District Supreme Court in April 1931 to block the transfer of the property on the grounds that the aged lady was incapable of managing her as sets. Mrs. Henderson retaliated with the revelation that Mrs. Wholean was an adopted child. Then she drew up a new will which dis inherited Mrs. Wholean. How ever, after a long court battle Mrs. Wholean was restored as an heir. That was after Mrs. Henderson's death. This business seems to have discouraged any attempts to house the vice-president officially until the subject came up the other day on Capi tol Hill. ! Then companion bills were In-! t reduced in the House of Repre-, sentatives Gearhart (R. -Calif.) and Gregory (D.-Ky.) asking Congress to appropriate not more than $2,500,000 for the entire project. Mr. Gearhart. who thought up the idea, pointed out that many vice-presidents have not been wealthy enough to live In the style to which Washington is accustomed. In Introducing the legislation, he pointed out that Vice-President Garner lived In a couple of rooms at the Wash ington Hotel and that Charles Curtis made the Willard Hotel his quarters. from time to time. Beginning Aug. 1, rice was added, for in stance. The world shortage was abated sufficiently to permit It to be Included In packages. The grave of the Rev. Joslah Henson, the original L'ncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is In Dresd en, Ontario. A WISE POLICY Astorian Budget The International Fishermen and Allied Workers union seems to be following a policy of keep ing right on fishing while a price dispute is In progress. lhe Lolumbia Kiver Fisher men s Protective union, an IFAW affiliate, fished through many weeks of the spring sal mon season while the price to be paid for the season was still in negotiation. INow me pilchard fishermen are engaged In a price dispute, but are following the same policy of keeping right on fishing. Fishing seasons are so short that there is an Irreparable eco nomic loss when one is Interrup ted by a strike. The IFAW seems aware of this and hence does not permit a dispute to tie up fishing if it can avoid it. This Is a wise and commenda ble policy, one which might well be emulated In other Industries. Almost all strikes end in compro mise negotiations anyway, so why not keep on working and get the same results? WHAT WOULD LEWIS AND CLARK SAY7 Astorian Budget The Oregonian has been in spired by discovery of Fort Clat sop s actual location to dig up the Lewis and Clark Journals and peruse them. The Oregonian has reamed tne conclusion that the explorers, were they here today, would tell the diggers to "leve It laye." The Uregonlan discovered that Lewis and Clark were perhaps tne worst spellers wno ever went tn school and that thev appar ently had little love for the hun ger, wetness and cold of Clat sop. We of course resent any Impli cation in the Oregonian i story that this country is not a good place to live. Had Lewis and Clark been able to enjoy good food and a comfortable spot during their winter here, they might have looked upon Clatsop county with a more favorable eye. Spoiled elk meat Is not a diet to build a cheerful outlook upon life. The Oregonian reproduced Lewis and Clark's map of Clat sop county to accompany fts story, adding modern nanies to those given by the explorers. But the Oregonian mapmaker appar ently doesn't know much about geography down this way. for he mislabelled several streams. Youngs river he calls Klaskan Ine; to Lewis and Clark river he haa given the name of Youngs river, while he saves the Lewis and Clark name for the Sklpan on. despite the fact that Lewis and Clark's own name for that stream Skip-a-nar-wis Is close enough to Skipanon that any one should be able to tell they are the same. Despite the Oregonlan's deduc tions, we inspect that It Lewis and Dark came back and saw I CARE Packages Reaching Needy In 15 Countries By JANE EADS WASHINGTON The CARE packages you send to Europe are your own little Marshall plan. They reach the hungry individ ual personally and each one knows he has a friend In Ameri ca. This is what officials of the Economic Cooperation Admini stration believe. They hope the programs of CARE and other voluntary agencies engaged In foreign relief will continue. There has been some confusion on the part of many Individuals as to the extent of the ECA program, and CARE officials say the sending of food packages abroad dropped about 50 per cent when ECA went into action. "ECA Is not distributing re lief," C. Tyler Wood assistant to Haul G. Hoffman. ECA admini strator, explained recently. "We are bankers for recovery using normal channels of private trade to the maximum possible extent. ECA seeks the partnership of in dividual Americans In the great undertaking of European recov ery. The individual American, through the voluntary agencies, can do the supplementary relief job. He can also supply the per sonal touch, as contrasted with the necessarily Impersonal char-a-ter of government programs." Mora Than $50 Million Sent More than JoO.nm.OOO In pack ages has been delivered In 15 countries through the CARE or ganisation since It was founded. About 85 per cent of the pack ages are still sent to friends and relatives, but about 15 per cent are now being sent on group-to-group basis or as "general re lief." Paul Comly French, executive director of CARE, reports that the studen's and teachert of America's grade schools, high high schools and colleges have sent $li(10,000 worth of CARE packages to similar groups in Europe. The AKL and the CIO have sent close to a million dol lars worth of packages to trade union families in Europe, and numerous religious, rural and civic groups have also participat ed in the program. CARE packages cost $10. "CARE'S operation is feasible only If $10 worth of food or tex tiles in the United States ex ceeds that value In any country served." Mr. French explains. "When $10 will buy equivalent food abroad. In commodltlet which contribute to health and welfare. CARL't service will no loncer be needed." Mr. French adds that CARE is a service organization that re sponds to changing conditions. 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