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t FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1948 Publlahad Daily Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. taltral as nnM mm Mir T, ISt., al Ika M alflaa at Baaabsrf, Oragaa, aa.ar act at March 1, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON -pt EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Managar Member of the Associated Preaa, Oregon Newspaper Publlthera Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations aaraaaalri ar WIST HOI. LIDAI CO, INC., .ffleaa la N.w Tara. Ckleafs. ea Fraaciatta, Let Aagalaa, Baallla. Jartlaa4. at, Lasts. I'BICaiPTION MATE a In Orafsa Br Hall far Taar IS M, six saaalaa lM, laraa anaalha lt.se. Br Cllr C'arrlar Par aar SIS.es (la asvaara), Im tka na rear, par maath tl.oe. Outaiaa Oraaa Bf Mall Tar last as.se. six aaeaths U.7J, three aaeatks It 75. A WORKING By CHARLES V. STANTON The Trail Dust Saddle Club's annual Stampede, with its parade, dance and rodeo events, calls attention to the large number of persons giving time and effort to community activity. When one stops to think of the many organizations actively engaged in civic welfare the many civic, fraternal and patriotic organizations, municipal and school bands, Sheriff's Posse, Sheriff's Reserve, drum corps, youth organi zations, athletic teams and many others, all contributing something to community life the number of people actively participating could be counted into the thousands. We often complain because there are too few. workers for civic enterprise projects, yet when we actually study what is being accomplished in many fields we can be proud and grateful that our Douglas County area has so many people willing to give of time and effort to all the varied projects which fill the year. How much more, however, could be accomplished if we had organized planning and management. It is our opinion that we should have a county manager to direct a public recreation and' entertainment program. Instead of staging rodeos, races, athletic contests, etc., on a hit-or-miss basis and frequently with improvised facilities and conflicting dates, we should have a paid manager on full-time basis, who would be activities, spacing them as to ment and publicity. We should ties to permit more complete race track should be surfaced have motorcycle, stock car and intervals. We should have scheduled saddle and harness races featuring local stock and riders, as well as attracting the professional racing circuits. The arena should be lighted so that we could have the benefit of night shows, in which attendance always is much larger than at daytime shows. The people willing to work in behalf of such projects de . serve better cooperation from the departments, agencies and boards having charge of the facilities. Public interest de mands development of a managed, entertainment and rec reation program as rapidly as finances will permit Not All Sports Art Sportsmen The saying that "Not all sports are sportsmen" finds cur rent proof in the abuse of unusually fine fishing conditions on the Umpqua River this season. Perhaps some reason can be found in the fact that conditions are so much better this year than for many recent seasons more like 20 years ago L but there is little excuse lor so many sports anglers 10 ue game hogs. We have for many years in this column decried the de struction of fish life occasioned by greedy commercial exploi tation of our fisheries. We certainly would not be consistent if we did not equally condemn game hogs in the sports field. We know men who have spoken vigorously against commer cial fishing in the river, yet have taken advantage of this year's abundance of fish life to kill far more than their legal limits. Sports fishing, if too intense, can be just as destructive to fish life as nets, traps and seines. We have frequently been accused of trying to halt net fishing in our coastal streams, other than the Columbia, because we want all the fish for sportsmen. We are accused, in other words, of opposing "division" of fish life, and de manding everything for the sports fisherman. We have no such motive. We are looking at the dollar value of fish, coupled with conservation. We believe that taking fish on sports gear is just as much a commercial proposition as capturing fish in nets to go into cans or on the block. We believe that the general public and the state as a whole will realize far more financial benefits if all the fish in all our coastal streams, except the Columbia, are used to produce revenue from recreational use, rather than going into trade channels. Not only would more revenue result, but there would be a wider distribution of the dollars spent for recreation. At the same time we must practice conservation. A con servation program can be better managed, we believe, under an exclusive recreational fishery on our smaller coastal streams, than at present. But we must halt depredations by game hogs. We are faced with the fart that not all sports are sportsmen. We can cure a lot of non-sportsmen of their tactics by increasing police forces, but it is to lc hoped it will not be necessary to obtain sportsmanship and conservation through fear of penalty. A better method is through education. In the Day's News (Continued From Pace Unc) Russian-dominated police (the city hall Is In the Russian rone of Berlin) look on and decline to In terfere with ths riot. THERE la talk that the Rorlln council mlRht move over the line Into the AmorlraTi . one, where It would have .he protec tion of the western half of the Berlin police force, which la antl commuiilst. At first thought, that seems a smart Idea. The aoherer second thought vrtooa It. It would proh ahly mean a communist hlltz on the anil communist city officials left In the Russian zone. It would POPULATION in a position to coordinate the time, and assisting in manage speed construction of facili use of our fairgrounds. The in such manner that we could midget auto races at regular amount to going off and leaving our friends in the mrch. You can't do things like that If you want to command respect. The situation is the same as in Berlin as a whole. We could pull out of the city, of course. We know we can't defend It if the Russians should start shooting. Hut If we pull out of Berlin and leave the anti communist Ger mans to the far from tender mercy of the communists, our reputation In Kurope won't be worth a last year's bird nest. H' INDSlGirr being what it Is, wouldn't It be wonderful If our divisions that got across the Elbe In the spring of 1!M3 had been allowed to go booming on Into Berlin and maybe clear on to the Polish bonier T Our position would now be OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams f WE'LL MAKE WHY, SODA'S YOU MEAN) A I BUNCH O TH V FUN.' ) TO GIT OWES IT LITTLE ONES ANT VI V ALOMG ALL FER I'LL COME IN) WITH J OM HIS TWO YEAR mk) ( lVAPVAMCE) jotM $rvicf tic t htg o t pre- Rosenbergs to Remain Intact " fTSC'X r""""7;-T1 Editorial WS A Commenr IT t'i 1 , " ; " J From The Oregon Press m III ',:' :;i , ' (NEA Teltrt Virgil D. Dardl (lrft, of the Blair Holding Corp., haa announced the purchase of Rosenberg Bros, ck Co. fr: Mstr?r TreTS . K "thl cago. Completion of the sale of the California, cone.-., .m..- ;aa end plana for piecemeal liquidation of the firm's nut end fruit dry Ins: plants. The liquidation would have aertously hampered the pro cessing of fruits and nuts now ready for market in California's Inland valleys. Arthur C, Oppenhelmer (right), poreaUng head of Rosen berg for many years, will continue as general manager and chief ex ecutive of the firm. . 7s ' v;'--y.-.u Du Viahnett S. Martin She was seventy years young; she had never been 'much of a reader,' and now with lots of time on her hands she was reading but not liking the books 'every body was reading." What ihe wanted, she said, was a nice book with lots of action In it, but no 'triangle stuff,' no gangsters, no blood and thunder, no, not even a 'whodunnit.' She wanted Just pleasant reading, happy kind of reading, with n good story in it to hold her interest. I offered "Coat for a Soldier" but 1 didn't say It was a Juvenile book; I Just told her it was a book I had liked very much, and that was true. You will like It, too. If you happen to have an old coverle. In your home that your grandmother wove, for It's an ex position of Just how she did it! "Now," said the little lady," that's a lovely book. It was like bring right with a lot of young folks. ... I'd like more books like that." Thus encouraged, and delight ed, I suggested "Johnny Tre malne," a Newberry Book, of course. Silversmlthlng comes In to that, and Paul Revere. The writer had put In " lot of re search to give us audi a vivid picture of those days. So had the much better If that had happened. rn.VKST Ileuter. the snclallst L w ho was ELECTED mayor of Berlin but whose election vetoed by Russia, says: w as ' "The communist cripples who stand in front of us and debate with us WE DON'T FEAR. But behind Til EM stands an atrgres. slve, ruthless and Imperialistic Russia w hirh seeks to force us to ' our knees." REMEMBER Czechoslovakia. . There, la a situation surpris ingly similar to that which Is now developing In Berlin, the com munists, who were In the minor ity in fragile as they are In the minority in Berlin. SUDDENLY STEPPED IN AND TOOK OVER. They were enabled to step In and take over because they had the backing of Russia. THIS thing that Is happening In Europe (the rise of commun- author of "'Coat for a Soldier" but as you read it you are not aware of all that. The story is good and It carries an adult read er along In a very happy fashion, although written for the adoles cent world. Oh yes, another book that charmed the reader mentioned was "Traveler's Candle," a atory of the days when the connection between New York and Phila delphia was a path through the wilderness over which horsemen rode. It is a charml.ig story of a Quaker family (the 'thee' form of speech has always been a de light to me) who kept a lighted candle in the w indow every night that passers by might see It and feel welcome to spend the night. And the book tells what hap pened when one passerby did ask for shelter. This reader liked the Phyllis Vehitnry books, too, and similar vocational stories. However she 'felt tunny about going to the children's library' which was separate from the adult floors, but j an understanding Reader's Aid and a good friend in the Chil dren's department worked that out for her. There is fine reading In the children's world of books! ism and Its Impending march to- ward 'world conquest I is so bi zarre and strange and monstrous that we find It hard to believe It can happen. It has happened before often. From time to time In the an cient A-orld the Scythians swarmed down out of the area that Is now Russia and tried to overwhelm the city states of Gm-ce, where democracy was getting its start, Later, Attila and his Huns came booming out of this same area with the same purpose. And Genghis Khan. And Timurlane. And the Ottoman Turks. What has happened before can happen again. Today's Russians are the lineal descendants of these othrs. B UT don't forget this: They were all STOPPED, eventually. This thing we call democracy has been a PERSISTENT thing. 8UNNY DAYS AHEAD The Oregon Journal We dislike exceedingly to be so trite as to repeat that everybody talks about the weather but no body does anything about it. Somebody has done something about it and he is Col. Eckley S. r-inson, senior meteorologist of the U, S. weather bureau. Col. Ellison has been courag eous enough to stretch meteor ological science a bit and give us some good news. This August of 194S has literal ly caused more talk than the spy hunt in Washington, the blockade in Berlin and the conversations in Moscow. The 25 -year -old Item on The Journal editorial page, Tuesday, related: "Freak weather, over coats In August, has worried gov ernment scientists, who are in- f-;M;;atlng this question: Has the sun gone on a strike?" Col. Ellison states, neverthe less, that he had gone back in weather chronology to 1910 in order to find an August so ab normal as the present month. The rainfall, so far, has been four times normal. The sun has been conspicuous for its absence. All sorts of conjecture can be heard whether the atom bomb blasts at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini are still collecting their radio active dues of peni tence In the form of upset weath er. This, the meteorologist shrugs aside. The dark days and the rainfall, he says are simply ex plained by weather circulation, with low pressure areas from the north supplanting high pres sure areas In the south. But and this is the good news Col. Ellison forecasts, even if not officially, that August In its last days will be brighter, with adequate sunshine, although prohanly with overcast mornings. And then he expects that Sep tember will come In smiling. There will be enough bright, warm weather to ripen those re tarded tomatoes. There might be a series of dry days extended enough to Induce us Oregon peo ple, w no always pray lor rain w hen It doesn't, again to send ud our petitions. nut we won t until the tomatoes ripen. "GOVERNMENT BY HEADLINES" The Bend Bulletin The Orecon Journal is Histurh. ed ovpr what It calls "tkvern ment hy Headlines" and in its editorial discussion under that head refers to legislation hy ap propriation bill riders. This, de scribed on thp Journal' editorial pane as an "Invasion bv the 80th congress or tne executive or ad ministrative branches of the gov- eminent." it calls "grotesque and object ionahle." The Journal continues: "This congress moved into the executive field by employing a technique of legislation by" appro priation. For example, it wrote 48 different restrictive and regu lative provisions into department of Interior appropriations bills. And it actually wrote Job de scriptions that had the effect of "firing" Mike Straus, bureau chief, and Richard Boke. chief of the Central Valley project, next January 1. "These crudely disguised usur pations of Judicial and executive authority by the legist a t i v e branch are beneath the dignity of the congress of the United States. They endanger civil rights. They set a dangerous pre cedent. They should cease." To the uninformed reader these words from the Journal editorial giye the impression that use of the appropriation hill rider Is an evil thing invented by the re publicans who ruled trie present congress. This, of course, is not the fact. There have been such riders attached to appropriation bills In congress atter congress, democrat or republican. In other words, the Soth congress set no precedent, though the Wournal would have tta readers think otherw-l. A rider In Its effect not unlike that relating to Messrs. Straus and Boke was attached to an ap- Abuse of Freed Yankee Prisoners By Russians Told SEATTLE, Aug. 28 UP) Radio Commentator George Moo rad said yesterday American pris oners of the Nazis were mistreat ed after liberation In Russia- In 1945, then were forced to sign pledges of silence. Moorad, former chief of the Moscow Bureau of Columbia Broadcasting Company, spoke at the national convention here of Sigma Chi Fraternity. He now is with station KGW at Port land, Ore. Some 10.000 Americans, British and French prisoners of the Naz is were liberated In March of 1945, Moorad said. "To wander across eastern Poland and Rus sia, sick, 'fed by the grace of the starving Polish peasants, oft en beaten and robbed by Soviet Secret Police of the few person al possessions the Nazis had al lowed them to keep." Moorad said the Russians would not allow waiting Ameri- i can rescue teams to aid the liber-1 ated prisoners "until our boys ! had struggled a thousand miles to the Black Sea port of Odessa, where they were clapped behind barbed wire waiting our repatria tion ships." I The commentator said he and ' five others reached Odessa at the time "quite by error of our Soviet pilot, and were strictly forbidden 1o see the concentra tion camps." "But they somehow learned we were in town," he added, "and that night some of them tried to scale the fence. Two of those boys who had spent months In a Nazi prison camp were shot and killed by Soviet guards. "These stories were never per mitted to be told. They were censored by the Soviets, of course, and each American who boarded the repatriation ships was required to sign a pledge that he would not write or talk about his experiences with the Kussians. International Rule of Antarctic Regions Proposed Washington; Aug. 2S-wu The State Department said today the United States haa opened talks with seven other nations aimed at some form of an Inter national administration tor the Antarctic. It said "some form of Interna tionalization" would be the most effective solution of conflicting claims to territory In the frozen far south. Approaches already have been marie to the governments of Ar gentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. London dispatches said Britain has agreed in principal to the proposal for an international re gime. Argentina and Chile are re ported to have raised objections. The State Department said talks so far have been informal. It added that until they are com pleted no international confer ence Is planned to try for settle ment of the various claims. The U. S. has not made any of ficial claims to .'.ntarctlc terri tory. The State Department has em phasized It reserves all rights there. American explorers have taken the lead in scientific expe ditions and have raised the Amer ican Flag over w ide areas. French Landlords Given Nod to Increase Rents PARIS, Aug. 27 (.It The French National Assembly au thorized landlords today to raise rents, for the first time since the liberation. The new law established a sys tem for determining new rents every six months In accordance with space occupied, sanitary in stallations and location. Legal rents, set before the war, have become ridiculously out moded by postwar Inflation jnd umier the successive devaluations of the franc. For example, the legal rent ' of a moderate-sized apartment In a fairly fashionable section of Paris has bean 6000 francs (roughly $20) a year. propriatlon bill In 1943 by the 7Nih congress. This congress was controlled by the democrats and the rider was intended to deny salaries to Robert Morss Lovett, Goodwin Watson and William E. Dodd. Jr. Did the Journal pro test that rider? What riders has it protested? Having given this expression to its views of what It calls the invasion by the congress of the executive branches of the govern ment and "These crudely dis guised usurpations of Judicial and executive authority by the legislative branch" we wish the Portland paper would make known its opinion on legislation by the executive branch. There was such legislation In the wide ly discussed solicitor's opinions relating to Grand Coulee power rates. We have it on the word of democrats and republicans alike that congress intended to have its word in certain legislation mean a definite thing and thought it had done so. The recla mation bureau solicitor said it had hut his superior, the solicitor for the interior department, ruled to the contrary. The pres ent bureau head has fought bit terly to maintain the solicitor's ruling though the bureau of the budget has said It is wrong. He insists that since congress has not restated its original Intent, an act he jas done his best to prevent, the ruling is now law. How about that for a crudely disguised usurpation of legisla tive authority by an executive branch? All-West Europe Parliament Plan Backed by U. S. WASHINGTON. Aug. 27. (Pi The United States gave its backing today to a move led by France to set up an all-Western European parliament with advis ory powers. 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