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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1948 Publishad Dally Except Sunday by tha News-Review Company, Inc. Iat.r.1 aa aa..ai alaaa auiur Ms? 1, , al tk. ! atflaa at lUa.aars. Origan, aoar act al Maro S. Ull CHARLES V. STANTON rr,- EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Minioar Mambar of tha Aaaoelated Preaa, Oregon Nawapapar Publlahara Association, tha Audit Bureau of Circulation Sraaralat ar WrST HOI I.IDAT CO, INC., afftoat la Nav Tar. Cklaafa, aa rraaalaaa, Laa AauLa, aula. r.rllaaa. Bu Laali. IVBiciirtioa aana i. or.r. Br ami r.r r.r iiaa. Hi aaaia. ti t. "Miiaa ISaa. Br eilj C'.rfUr rtt ratr lia.oa Urn aavaat.j. la.a aaa rear, far n.aOi ll.aa. Oalaiaa Or.a Bjr Hall Tar vaar as.aa, aJa aaaaiaa M.Ji. Ikr.i a..ika tt.1t. FREE PRESS-FREE PEOPLE OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams LM7 WW m THIS By CHARLES V. STANTON During the past week we have been diuciiBsing in this column various phases of the American Press, taking ad vantage of the observance of National Newspaper Week, Oct 1-8. We believe it important that the American people under stand how a free press is essential to liberty. On every hand we find efforts to undermine public confidence in the press. The public is told that newspapers are the tools of various , interest the "interests" being the ones to which the malinger is opposed. Labor, for instance, charges the press with subservience to capital, and capital accuses the press of trying to wreck the nation by coddling labor. The Demo crats charge that the press has "sold out" to the Repub licans, while the Republicans claim too much favorable propaganda" for the Democrats. The private power in terests accuse the press of favoring public power while public power interests say the press is subsidized by private power. And so it goes! Sniping and smearing the press continues constantly. Yet it is obvious to anyone who will stop to examine the facts that competition within the press, the wide divergence in editorial opinion, the rivalry between press associations make it impossible for the press as a whole to suppress news or information or cater to any one special-interest group. The open debate carried on between newspapers, as editors comment upon opinions of other editors, is in the best tra dition of our constitutional privilege of free speech. Nearly all newspapers conduct public forums, where their readers may air their own opinions. Thus the American people have access to the widest possible range of information and opinion. ACCORDING TO THIS MAF? WE AREN'T FAR FROM THE M060LLOWS, ANP WHAT 5 JICARILLA , TANKS ? THAT'S PRONOUNCED MOACjY-OWNS, NOT M060LL0NS, AN TH OTHERS PRONOUNCED LIKE HICKORY. HE'S GOT HER.' NOW SHE LL BE WAITIN' FOR SUN SETS TO SHOW HIM HOW DUMB HE IS ON M ALIVE 5. SAFFRONS AN AMETHYSTS AN' HE'LL HUNT UP MORE trr-,r i -ikis ai.i - JICARILLAS jr-V fA 7 St. K1" a JUST LIKE rAARRlED LETTERS to the Editor 0fr By Viahnett S. Martin The News-Review has one very definite policy its news columns are not affected by the editorial opinion of the newspaper, nor are they influenced in any way by any advertiser or pressure-group. No person can buy an inch of space in the news columns. Each member of the news staff has received individual and collective instructions that "news is news" and is not to be suppressed or "colored" because of any stand taken in the editoriul columns. As an example, this newspaper has editorially supported cooperative sustained-yield timber management, yet far more has been printed in news columns from those persons and interests opposing this policy than has appeared con cerning the affirmative side of the issue. Many other ex amples of like nature could be cited. The News-Review has labored under many handicaps. We have had paper shortages, inability to obtain equipment, labor shortage and many other factors with which to contend Only recently we have been able to make a long-planned expansion through installation of a new 16-page press. Already the capacity of the press is being taxed. We have opened a circulation campaign for the first time in six years, and are adding steadily to our family of readers. We have installed door-to-door carrier delivery service in Canyon ville. Riddle, Myrtle Creek, Sutherlin and Oakland, and are serving subscribers along the highways between those towns by means of motor routes. We will expand our carrier serv ice as rapidly as possible, but the organizational work is slow because of many technical problems involved. We have added to our mechanical equipment as rapidly as new machines were available. The latest addition has been another typesetting machine. Our future plans call for constant expansion of our mechanical department. The number of persons employed has almost doubled in the past two years. The News-Review has gambled heavily on the future prosperity of Douglas County. Expansion of service and mechanical operation has been extremely expensive, par ticularly at existing high prices. Income has not kept pace with expenditures required by the expansion program, but we have faith that the investment will be fully justified as our community continues to grow both in population and industrial development. The News-Rrrirw proposes to keep pace with community growth and to use whatever influence it may possess to aid in the advancement. And while we strive to serve our community, we are proud to be a part of a great enterprise which is the very foundation of freedom a free press. No one is more aware of the faults of the press than those who serve it. Hut the press of this nation has made gigantic strides in recent years. It is on the verge of many improvements, particularly in the field of technical operation. I!ut the personal element involved in the production of a newspaper undergoes little change. The fundamental purses of a newspaper the col lection and dissemination of news, information and opin iondoes not change; only the method of presentation. As long as the press of this nation can maintain hik'h ideals of service in the minds of the men and women w ho serve it and can fend off the vicious attacks of those who for self interest would alienate the confidence of the public, the people of America will remain a free people. A young veteran and his wife- let's call him Joe are running a successful cafe where many of hit customers are people who have been eating there ever lnce he opened up, nearly two years ago. The other dajt a big blustery ort of a perion dropped In for meal. He ordered a (teak and other thing! and practically 'licked the platter clean'; at least he picked up the steak bone to get every last shred of meat on It. When time to pay the check came, he began to browbeat the young waitress about a meal that was "the worst meal I ever ate." This was wrong and that was wrong, although he had left no samples on his plate. Confused the waitress called the proprietor, busy at the moment In the kitchen. Now Joe Is the kind of chap who gives the best he has to the Job of seeing the customer Is sat isfied. He Is concerned If food Is left on a plate: "Anything wrong?" he will Inquire. Well Joe listened a minute and then he did the very thing that big, bluffer probably figured he would do rather than have a lot of talk: he refused the money for the check. "Mister, you take your dollar and a half and get out of here. And when you come past here again, don't you stop in here . . ." and there was plenty of contempt in his voice. Believe It or not, the man walk ed out without paying his check. I was thinking about the Inci dent and it occurred to me that he may be working this scheme in other restaurants up and down 99. Surely If he Is, one of these times a forewarned proprietor could do something about It? Just what I don't know. But from his very assurance it might be guess ed he found the method of getting a free meal profitable. So maybe he has been "working" the scheme at other places. Of course when we do get really poor service or poor food It should be reported, or we Just encourage more of the same, don't we? But we can be reasonable Not like a certain small boy whose grandfather had said whimsically "Come to our house for Thanksgiving dinner and we'll have some wienies."' And the small boy liked wieners! Crandma's beautifully served roast turkey with everything to go with it was perfect. But the small boy howled In anguish: "Grandad said we were going to have wienies!" In the Day's News (Continued r rom a'.ige one) Public Hunting Area In Malheur Refuge Planned PORTLAND, Oct. B.-fD-A public hunting area for mina tory waterfowl will be opened in Malheur National Wliuuie itei uge. Leo L. I-aythe, regional direc tor of the Klsh and Wildlife Serv ice, talc) the area, comprising about eight square miles, will he operated by the Service and the Oregon State Game Commission. Tnere are no lHi-gc bodies of water In the area, hut many potholes and sloughs have suffi cient vegetation for mver. Cnythe said It should provide timid shoot ing for a limited nunilvr of hunt ers. A checking station will be set up on the Uurns-llienchglen highway. There are SO species of kangaroos. thing that had happened away out in the wilds, beyond the limits of dependable telephone service, away from roads over which an automobile ran be driven rapidly, where ydu can't even land with an airplane? It's not an easy Job. aaa THERE Is hardly a day In this business when our faces aren't red. Probably, by waiting a day or so, we could get the straight of It and keep our faces from being red. Hut people are Impatient. They don't like to wait. They want to know what there la to be known at the earliest possible moment. That spurs us on to take a chance and hope for the best. a . a DID you ever shoot off your mouth too aoon and w ish later you'd waited a little longer until you knew better what you were talking about? Probably so. It's a human failing. But hat kind of world would this he if nobody ever shot from the hip? aaa DID you ever stop to consider the number of times you've said: "I saw In the that . . .?" How would you like to get along without ever seeing in the paer something that hadn't been sifted and shaken down and picked over until there was no longer any human possibility of error In connection with It? It would he good, of course, but by the time you got it It might be a little dry and woody. News, like eggs, needs to be fresh. At least, people WANT it that way you like to get along without it? If you're completely truthful with yourself, you'll probably ad mit that you'd rather have it as is than not at all. Maybe you even PREFER your democracy not too perfect. Hu man beings are funny that way. Remember? Back In the days of hcxp skirts and powdered wigs, the ladles (who are no mean Judges of human likes and dis likes) used to stick a little black patch on their faces. The pur pose was to provide a minor Im perfection so as to call attention to the desirability of the product as a whole. We working newspaper people hope you feel the same way about newspapers. Many of Nation's Notables Began As Newspaperboys In the United States there are more than half a million school boys In business for themselves. They are the Nation's newspap erboys. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and California's Gov ernor Earl Warren, Republican candidates for President, and Vice-President of the United States in the coming election, were In the same business when they were boys. So were Bob Hope, Red Skelton and any number of other well known men. There are many successful men In every community who started out in the same business as npwspaper boys. Because so many of yester day's newspaper boys are today's leaders, and because so many of today's newspaper boys will be the leaders of tomorrow, the en tire Nation salutes them on Oct. 2, which has been set aside as National Newspaper' boy Day. While the average newspaper boy spends only about an hour a day In handling his paper bus iness, his profits average 90 cents an hour. Some of the boys use their money for clothing, some save for a college education, others spend it on hobbies. Each of these boys is learn ing how to do business how to meet people, how to sell, how to collect his money and keen accounts, how to give service and figure profits. No wonder so many newspap er boys become successful busin ess men! Such training builds self-reliance and develops abili ty. So hats off to the dependable and alert newspaper boys of America, not only on their spe cial day, but on every day of the year. Impressions of Roseburg Stress Opportunities To the Editor: For three years and two months I have been a merchant in Roseburg, endeavor ing to furnish transportation, trucks and cars to the residents of this city and county. With the acute shortage of materials, strikes and limited allotments of merchandise, the task has been a difficult one to say the least I came to Roseburg from the Navy and the readjustment was difficult. Not at all like the lush days of 1939-40-41 with plenty of salable merchandise. Trouble then was finding the buyer. I don't suppose any man In business can keep everyone satis fied and he, himself, makes mis takes. However, I do wish to thank the residents of this com munity and county for their tol erance and patronage. I have sold my business to Roy Smith, a capable merchant in his line and deserving of the community's support. I Believe Roseburg offers as fine an opportunity if not the best, of any town of its compar able size on the Pacific Coast to anyone seeking employment or a business future. I, leave because of necessity for a change In cli mate to benefit my health. Im paired because of an accident some nine months ago. u Lamornia had the North Fork of the Umpqua, (let alone the South Fork), never would a commercial fisherman desecrate its waters. Tourists n years to come will make Roseburg and us environs really lamous. I was in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and San Francisco In May and all the people there talk about Is their desire and Intention to fish in the Umpqua. Diamond Lake. etc. and they want to know about tne accommodations revenue possibilities. There is a mlphtv fine prniin of business men in Roseburg and wnn tne neip and hard work on the part of the Chamber of Com merce, the service clubs and the people as a whole. Roseburg can be If It wants to be, a top com munity from both a business standpoint and a recreation cen-, ter. The News-Review is and al ways has been a recognized top paper. I have enjoyed my associations here, and I leave most unwilling ly and not permanently as I will be back to see how the fish bite in the North Fork before too long, how Ward Cummings and the Country Club keep progress ing so nicely, and look with pride, I am sure, at Roseburg's future steady and permanent growth and development. (Signed) B ay BHr-tT FY tlmate of 1,200,500 population by 1950 missed today's 1.500,000, Its report Indicated official- aware neas of the state's potential growth. So the old-timers really should not be too surprised, nor should they look tod disdainfully upon the new faces In the streets. Chances are that many of Ore gon's present "old-timers" were members of the great wave or migrants settling here In 1935 and 1936. WINS FFA EMBLEM WATERLOO, Iowa. Ort. - 8 WP) Leo Stephan of Warren, Ore., today was awarded a gold emblem for Judging In Future Farmer of America competition at the National Dairy Congress. He was a winner In the Judging of dairy products. Mix a tablespoon of cinnamon with two tablespoons of sugar and sprinkle the blend over hot buttered toast; place under the broiler for a few seconds. 1 The Latest I MILLER'S 1 RENTAL LIBRARY I CEDAR SHINGLES FOR SALE Wholesale-Retail ROSEBURG SHINGLE CO. 3 miles out on North Umpqua Highway Phone 1273-J Editorial Comment From Tht Oregon Press paper T HE newspapers are a rood deal like democracy. They're full of faults. Still, having had democracy for a long, long time, how would U. S. to Compensate For Bonus Pay End Abroad WASHINGTON. Oct. H.I.PV Government employes overseas will get laxeMcmpt cost-of-living and other allowances to replace the 2S per cent bonus pav to be cut off Jan. 1, it was learned yesterday. lne net gain or loss In take- Convicted Killer Absolves 2 Others Awaiting Death NEW YORK, Oct. 8.(.T)A convicted murderer says a Priest's advice and the sight of doomed men trudging past his death house ceil on their w-ay to the electric chair led him to sign a statement absolving two men sentenced to die with him for a waterfront slaying. ! Andre Sheridan, 4t, formerly of Jersey City, X. J., was brought from the death house at Sing Sing prison to general sessions court Tuesday to tell his story. Arguments were heard on a motion to set aside the convict ion of John M. Dunn and Daniel Gentile, both of Queens. They and Sheridan were sentenced to death on first degree murder charges for the slaving of boss Slevadore Andrew Hintz Jan. 7, 1947, in a waterfront feud. Dunn and Oentiie also were home pay to Americans working In over seas areas will not be ; awaiting execution In Sing Sing known until the State IVpart- Last Aug. 7. Sheridan said in ment and Civil Service Commls-1 a sworn alfidavit that the slay slon Issue new regulations be- ( ing was committed by Jeff I.e tween now and IVc. 31. po't. reported missing by his Iost differentials, cost-of llvlng 1 parents, and John Duff, who died and quarters allowances, which ' recently. will vary from place to place. 1 Yesterday. Sheridan testified that he planned Tint slaving are being worked out. Firecrackers Used In Home Fire Alarm Set-up and supplied the weapons for the shooting. Sheridan said he was clearing the other two men because he "talked It over with the Iriest and he told me that I should make a complete confession of it to the authorities." He added: "I thought It was the only de- nd other hazardous ""luT. T '.VL "l"' Ul KUIIIItlK HI UJ Willi CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. T Want a home fire alarm that costs only a few cents? A Chattanooga safety leader says his system consists of tire- crackers stuck In closets, base ment, attic enclosures. 11. C. Harrington, former chief ' " ' e going to die. I of the Rome, Ca., volunteer lire ! km"w ' "!." ,ne chlr department and now a leader on ln "h"r' 1 imr . . , . the safety council here, savs ! .Sh,".rld',n ,al(Lne plfnn'd "Just use the firecrackers and , "'"'JL ""Tf1" you can be certain of never be- Stevedore "v. as out to kill me.' Ing trapped He said the alarm svstem had Soften a small rake of cream never been called upon at his cheese at room temperature and house, but that several of his cream with a cup of confection Itiends have been amused when; era sugar: flavor with vanilla fire set off the firecrackers in i and thin ulth strong hlack cof their homes. foe. I'sc to frost devil I food eake. ASSAYING THE NEW BLOOD Oregon Statesman Talk to almost any old-timer and he'll begin to lament that not so long ago he could nod hello to everyone he met on the street. But now. "Why, there are so many newcomers crowding In you hardly see a familiar ace any more!" People act as though the west's population boom was something new and unusual. Newspapers point with awe at Oregon's ex pansion and chambers of com merce are beside themselves. School superintendents sweat, businessmen polish their palms. And the old timers Just shake their heads. "Although their region Is bur geoning beyond belief, many peo ple on the coast are not sure they welcome the newcomers." Richard L. Neuberger writes in the New York Times. Trailer camps and temporary housing projects fringing our cities are regarded with mixed feelings. The new negro population and foreign accents discordant to many western ears have brought up the problem of discrimination and bigotry. Middle class communities, once only retail trading centers, eye suspiciously the new Industrial workers and Immigrants become a convenient scapegoat for reg ional wrongs, Neuberger con tinues. Politicians, especially, feel that all moorings are loose. Most surveys show a preponderance of the migrants to be democrats and in Oregon, "the most con genially republican of anv west ern state." that fact Is not apt to be hailed, democrat Neuberg er Intimates. "It is all rather confusing to the oldtlmers." he concludes. Well, it shouldn't be. Immigration is not new to R ...-pis- jwi iia.ru i inn I It rubbed In so much before. But way back in 19.M the Ore-1 gon state planning board issued a report thai tf past trends con- j tinued more than one half of all j future Oregonians will come from other states. i In 19.K), the state's birth rate j was only 14 1 per 1000 popula-1 tlon. the lowest in the nation, j Only New York and San Francis-1 co counties had fertility rates lower than Multnomah county's, and Curry and Jefferson coun ties were the only ones who man aged to keep up falrlv well. Only 40 per cent of the 1930 popu lation were native-born Oregoni ans. But In the 190 to 1930 de cade Oregon's population In crease of 21 8 per cent was al ready higher than the national average-and migrants account ed for most of It. Ten years ago the planning board was welcoming "the strength and energy Infused bv new blood . . . and more prolific people. and urging the state pre pare to receive the continued mi gration. Although the board's fa-1 HARDWARE -PAINT TOOLS-HOUSEWARES You'll Profit By Buying At flgnuglas ljl,IH',M'.n!illl.llJIJlR 906 S. Stephens Phon964-J ROOFING COMMERCIAL Johns-Manvill Certified Applicator RESIDENTIAL JOHNS-MANVILUE CERTAIN-TEED CALL US FOR FREE ESTIMATES DENN-GERRETSEN CO Phone 128 402 W. Oak St. RELIABLE day in and day out Douglas County State Bank Mfmbfr Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, WHY LANDLORDS AND BUSINESS FIRMS NEED PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE What constitutes an unusual haiard er a defective condition is often a matter for determination by a jury. Where is there a man who wishes to leave hit bank account and his other possessions to the tender mercies of a jury? PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE does not cost a fortune but may save a fortune! KEN BAILEY INSURANCE AGENCY 315 Pacific Bldg. phone 398 NEW -OFFICE LOCATION Dr. H. B. Scofield Palmar Chiropractor Wishes to announce his new office, 4 10 of a mile north of County Shops on Rifle Range Road. WILL BE OPEN OCTOBER 11, 1948 Dr. H. B. Scofield Chiropractor
