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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1948 Published Daily Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. atarai at aataaa alaaa aaaltar Ma? T, l?a, si Ida paal afflM al aaaabarg. Oragaa, aat.f act af Marah a, 1171 CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN U KNAPP Editor SiJ Managar r Mambar of tha Aaaoolated Praaa, Oregon Newapaper Publishers Aaaoelatlon, tha Audit Bureau of Clroulationa S.araaaat.4 kr WMT-HOLLlDAT CO, INC, atrir.l la Naw Tata. Cklcafa, araaaiaaa, LM Aaaalaa. aaallla. rarllaaa. at. Laala, SCBirairTlOX BATrs la Oraiaa B Malt Paf Ttar II M, ! aiaalki SIM, Ikraa aaaalha ll.fte. Br City Carrier Par raaa ll M (la aavaara), la.a tkaa aaa aaar, far naatk ll.ae. OaUlda Oraiaa Br Mall Par yaaf .aa, ala aaaalka ti.71, Ikrae aiaalka Il.ti. Santa Claus Faces New Hurdles As Another Christmas Season Nears By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (JPl The question this Christmas Isn't whether tht children will continue to believe In Santa Claus. It's whether Santa Claus can go on believing in himself. Every year he must be linding It more difficult, No figure of modprn times except perhaps Mother Goose has had a harder time keeping rus self-conlidence than the tun loving Saint. He has more critics than a French premier, and sea son alter season lie is uniting nim- self crimped and con lined by more restrictions. Take 1947 a really tough year for Santa. Psychologists Issued stern warning that he could de range a child's whole personality by giving him the wrong gift. And the Saint was brought un der municipal ordinance. In one place he was forbidden to show up at department stores for his usual pre-season warmup If he had taken a shot of rockandrye to guard against pneumonia. In some cities he had to have his beard fireproofed. In others they turned the flit gun on the old man his whiskers had to be 99 and 44100 per cent pure. The approach of the 19-18 seas on finds new hurdles, hedges and barriers In the path of the red suited man of good will. Mr. Claus must promise to Quit prom ising the moon to children. And his voice is being de-boomed. The 1948 Santa no longer will bellow "Ho! Ho! Ho!" He will titter 'Tee, Hee, Hee." School Trains Them These new points were decided on this wepk at a one-day train ing school for Santa Clauses held at of all places the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Nineteen Kris Kringles showed up most came by taxicab as well as a number of child psychologists and parent education experts. The conferees, all former chil dren themselves, pretty well agreed that for years Santa's booming laugh has been so loud It startled many lisping small fry. So that Christmas tradition is out. And the Santas present in order to get a gill-edged di ploma certifying they were fit to ut-rii inieiuKcnuy ana sympa thetically" with children, also had to pledge "to make no promises unless they can be fulfilled." The prospect for 1919 and the years to come looks even bleak er for Santa Claus. For if this old softhearted scalawag Is really to fit himself Into the pattern of the atom ape. there are a lot more changes to be made. Fat Must Be Shed Why, for example, should the Idol of childhood remain a fat man? Too much fat is unhealthy. Santa Claus is going to have to go on a diet, train off his blubber and put on some good solid mus cle. Spraying Ms whiskers with I'D I is only a temporary meas ure. He's going to have to mend his past and perhaps change his clothing. Why do you suppose he wcara inai reo suur imi you know that Sanla Claus Isn't mere ly the patron saint of virgins and children? He's also the adopted patron saint of seafaring men, thieves, and yes, Russia. What Is he doing up there at the North Pole anvway? Just toying around? This fellow Claus will bear a lot more looking in to. He's got plenty to explain this mysterious stranger who comes and goes In the night. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams Cf -f SUNSET'S J YES RE B Y CHRTY TRICK- ;Y HE'S RIGHT.' J PURTY THIS BLUE TAkfllM' HER A ' J TURQUOISE, k T EVENlW, HAhVTT ) AMD YAL J THIRTY-MILE MAUVE, 'Ik f IT-WITH ITS JL I MEAN k RIDE SO SHE'LL, SAFFRON. 1 REDS. BLUES ) VELLOW.' CUT OUT THAT AMETHYST I SZX AM' YALLERS 1 JZ ( MAUVE-SAFFROM AND SUCH I V- u.-L T AM'-AMETHYST A BALONEY I S5.,j5N Va4v LANGUAGE.' X IS TOO . Vk.-&&. Jto- nXWa V iV?XS v TO II i i rr rr-aaaa-vvawiti .lis v 'j. 7n,.r ii inmw iiaw a ! asi. i a-s i v i ixmyi i-. u ii I'll .i ii 6. MMf tP S THE CLIPPERS ' CT.R.wiLLiftM I gya ar aravKg. lac. T ai atq y . aar oar. V I X-lvfwW iR- a tContinued From l-'age Onei By Viahnett S. Martin JjZs this step." Mrs. Bltwuns was reading a I could do It He stared at me as I ETS ,akc look at thl "un- fltora " aSnlaA. I ...aii. I saaa 1 uuoi i itrn aiuuiiu nv men Editorial Commenf From Tht Oregon Preis . , Crow's Paclflo Coaat Lumbar Olgeat 000 EAT DOQ ETHICS weoster aennes "Kevenge as "The act of returning Injury for Developments of the past few weeks under a rapidly disinter grating market leave no douht that the buyers of lumber, still carrying the scars of unethical Impositions heaped upon them when the producers were In the saddle and drunkenly applying the spurs, are not going to be timid about getting revenge. 10 iari at ine oottom or the decline In commercial morals In tne manufacturing and merchan dsing oi lorest products it is necessary to point to the fact that, unlike any other Industry, the makers of lumber have never had anything approaching even a near-common cost basis upon which uniformity in charg ing could be based. Often the little mill with no overherd, working in small tracts of pick up mnuer, can turn out Just as good green 2x4's an the overln vested. high-cost plant that can manufacture as big a volume In two weeks as the peckerwood ui-s in year. 10 establish a common starting place in pricing between the widely separated unlls of production has always been and always will continue to be an impossibility. A direct re sult of this has been that timber products have never been priced . on a basis of adding a certain percentage to the coat of pro duction. On the contrary, manu facturers have always sold their lumber for whatever thev could get for It without giving any con sideration for the expense in volved In conversion. In bad times this has meant losses that gave our industry the reputation of being extremely haariious tie cause of tha failures of both small an.d large producers. In good times these same bankrupt and pro f 1 1 hungai v oieratoia dashed In and, feeling, as was true, that the buvers had been ruthless in forcing them to sen at a loss, heaped on the price. There Is no denvlng that a complete lark of resjiect and mu tual commercial interest exists between the manufacturer and distributors of lumber. Tnie. like the storied Martins and MiCovs, mountain fuedlsrs, thev get to gether once in a while for hypo critical gestures of friendly in tenat, but when thce love feasts are held each participant alts down at the festive board with his trusty six shooter concealed in his hip pocket Just In case, and when the honeyed oratory nan ended, goes home secretly feeling that the other fellow Is a grasping Individual who onlv thinks of himself and therefore i is deserving of no consideration. During the past five years. In I tne most extended perloo of pros- tlon buying and needless Internal competition the Impractical who were spending the taxpayers' money and had no Interest in value received, began to permit the inclusion of lower grades and still lower grades until the buyer, regardless of the purpose for which the lumber was being bought, had to take what for a time was little more than log run common. With the manufactuers being encouraged by the Forest Service under the eulse of con- servatlon to dig up windfalls and drag into their mills decayed timber, this grade racket was worked to the point where finally No. 3 common fir was actuallly being sold for twice as much as was being realized on the nest grades of kiln dried finished uppers In former veari and not far back at that, The government during the war attempted to maintain a control over prices through O. P. A. Quite naturally this com plicated and at times Unpractically-directed bureau allowed In consistencies to creep in but by and large the plan was not bail. However, in true American fash ion, when the war had ended there was a clamor for the lift ing of hure.iucr.itlc control. In which this publication vigorously Joined. Our Industry promised that prices would he held to a reasonable level but . . . O. P. A. went nut of the picture everything produced from a log soared upward like an observa tion balloon broken from its anchor. To repeat In brief da-tail the unreasonable ascent of prices after controls were lifted would Involve uslnif more snare than would be available In an entire Issue of CHOWS PArinc COAST DIUEST. The profits to Mrs. Bltwuns was reading a letter from her young niece. Kitty Bitwuns, who had married Algernon's nephew, Jed. "So . . . one word led to another and Jed lost his temper and began to shout. I said, 'Walt a minute; let me open the windows so tne neighbors can hear this. They'll be entertained." It seemed to make him angrier, but why else was he shouting? It couldn't be because he knew he was in the wrong, could It? Well, anyway, he stood up rather suddenly, and, whether he meant to or not, over went the table, the dishes, my nice new Havlland, and the ham and eggs and coffee ... it was a mess. "Of course, as you know, Jed would rather die than admit he was in the wrong. So he glared at the mess and then he flared at me as if I had tipped it over. He wig speechless for the moment, so I got in a word. He would much rather I'd cry or scream bick at him but where would that get either of us? If I'm going to live with him I might as well start right. Anythlng's better than to be bullied all my life, even by Jed who Is a darling, and funny when he blows his top." "So I said, as calmly as I could, This mess will stay Just like It Is until you pick it up.' and I looked him straight In the eye, as straight as flve-foot-one could do it. He stared at me as if I were a column of figures he was adding up and then he slammed his napkin down on top of the mess, and out the door he went. "Dinah came In, goggle-eyed, but I Just told her, 'Dinah, you've been wanting to go and visit your sister. You may go today and don't come back until I send for you." As soon as she could get her mouth shut enough she began to twitter about the table . . . and I told her to 'forget It.' "Well, to make a long story brief, Jed went to his sister's, and the next monrlng she came bust ling aver to say Jed had asked her to straighten things up and did I make short work of her! 'You tell Jed everything stays Just where he left It until he picks It up. And since I can't live In a place like this I'll go toj a hotel until he does come home . . .' and I did. "It was bitter medicine for Jed but he decided It was worth it. After all we do love each other, and how! When the rug had gone to the cleaner's and I had sent for Dinah, Jed finally said with that lovable grin he has, "Well, kid, you sure can bat 'em over the fence for all you're only heart high." Mrs. Bitwuns laid down the let ter thoughtfully. Mr. B said, "Don't you go getting any ideas!" .Red Cross Aides Assigned to Duty In Military Units what do we see today? At the moment there Is an epi demic of cancellations and claims. There Is a rapidly widen ing return- to s periled buying. Number three common dimen sion and fir board prices have! nrohen in two in the middle; no. 4 common and "E" grade clears can scarcely be sold at all. The American Red Cross has 1 he buyer Is saying how much ; begun to assign additional field . i..imn nr win auow to nirectors and assistants to do be included, if any, and prices ! meatle military installations In on all grades are pointed sharply J order to provide adequate Red downward. Cross service to the increasing The hundreds of retailers who ! numbers in the armed forces, were furecd to place new orders j Basil O'Connor, president, an- ni nigner prices witn the same nouncea m, li. muis mat reiused to ship prev- W'lth the combined strength nf ioua oi'ik-is for the same Hma the armed forces authnr-roH Bi be realized from any branch of ",K,"n t less money, quite natur-1 2,lt6.8, the Red Cross estimat timher orodiieta mnritir,-ti,, ally feel no twinge of conarienra- i es aoDroxiniatelv 300 more tuiirt came fantastic. Wholesalers' wn,"n tn'y reverse the trick and j workers will be needed by next made unheard of marvina. Th retailers were soon realizing more gross profit than thev for merly paid for stock delivered on their own side tracks.. Soon In this orgy of profit-taking a ma jority of the concerns In all branches of the bitalness forgot that there ever was such a thing as trade ethics. The retailer wanted the wholesaler's and mill man's profit so he opened a phoney wholesale company and bouclit himself a sawmill. The wholesaler, seeing the operators of haywire nulla riding around In hich priced cars, built or ! bought a mill of his own and then, observing the mint that the retail business had turned Into, also opened a retail yard or two. The null man went Into some large center and opened a retail yard ami he. too, started a whole sale olfire a.) . lo charge him self and collect for himself a commission going both wavs. Out of all this have come Inevitable dislocation, cliivs-ct and a re turn to the law of the wolf. Two years aco when nrleea were moving up, not every week i nut every u.iy. hundreds of man ufacturers, enough that It he came a common practice, openly aim Hiuiuwi aimtni-v ocean mane cancellations. Inev reel n. Ju v. In addition, thousands nr compulsion to help carry out i Ked Cross volunteers will be re sume academic theory of maxl- j crulled to help augment this and mum utiliuttion when thev re. I other Red Cross nminm, fuse to buy the lower grades of pecially In chapters located close both uppers and commons. And so we see what Is only the beginning of another phase of the "Dog eat dog" merchan dising methods of our Industry, and who Is to blame who? The sorry feature of this whole to large military establishments, air. o Connor asserted. The increase in trained Red Cross personnel to serve mili tary establishments began in August as several World War II camps were reactivated and oth- perity the Industry has ever ! ship the last lamkeil, I anown, tne producers nave l-cn firm and unyielding In tellini; the buyers what they could have, when they could get It and what they should pay for It. Wastrels In our federal government have led the parade of mounting pri ces, decreasing quality ami un sound financing with 'which the flames of this Inflation have noon fed. In the days of big-scale auc- prnvn oMiei s nrsi. ney bracnlv demanded of their c.itom,Ta price Increases on old orders that had been shelved for better busi ness which came In later. Tliey maile the retailers and other buy. ers take the graiies and Items the way they found It easiest and most profitable to furnish them and there were abuses that eriat. ed mounting 111 will no ... . orgy is that when we finally1-1? 'nrrF"ra ,roP "rengtn. come back to earth, as Is Inevita-1 Thr' number ot uch P'd work ble, the producers, wholesalers on dll,y Au- ln lh, l'nl"'d and retail distributors o( ,0,1-' 1.307. Of these are golnir to discover that their : : wortung wnn tne anie- greed and lack of balance have I an.1 ,w ?rn assigned to Incubated a lot of difficult com- m! "ary nP""'- petition In their own ranks while , lhf', curre"' ilrd fr0M "pan at the same time they have In- n ' rn"lnl.v confined to do vlted and made possible the ent- military Installations, al- ranee of a lot of timber products ! lnouR' Hed, -r0 recently an substltutes In tha building iield .Tr0"! "'Rnm''?, S' 2T,'!Tw'n' that will be here Indefinitely to i '" e,.10 "T nr? 1 ' Slr Frcf take business away from all of I '1- i-"K1"n' nd to them. another Air Force baae In Trip- oil, North Africa. Working closely with chanter Home Service representatives. Red Cross field directors serving with the It. S. troops seek to ease personal and family prob lems which affect the morale and efficiency of servtrernen or which are upsetting to their fam ilies. Mr. O'Connor said. Among the many services pro vided by Red Cross are: consul tation and guidance; emergency communications; financial aesis- ETS take a look at this "unl- lateral" business around which the Incident revolves. "Unilateral" is one of these fancy words the diplomats love and nobody else fools with. Webster defines it: "ONE-SIDED; done, made, under taken, shared by ONE of two or more parties or persons." In the ordinary business language of the street, when you take "unilateral" action you run out on your asso ciates. (No businessman, of course, would be caught dead using such a word; it is reserved for diplomacy.) Here is an example: If you and two other guys are working on a big deal with a fourth guy and all of a sudden you get a brainstorm and run out on your associates and make a deal on your own, without even consulting your partners, that Is unilateral action. When you remember that Secretary Marshall was doing our dickering In Paris, you can understand why he was upset when he heard what was In the wind. a M this simplified comparison of International and business eth ics (in matters of unilateral ac tion) there Is one vital difference that should be understood. In a business deal, profit and prestige are the chief considera tions. In this business at Paris, between us and the free nations of Western Europe on one side and Communist Russia on the other, LIFE AND DEATH ARE AT STAKE. Whenever the Red army divi sions begin to move, whenever the Russian guns begin to roar and the Russian planes begin to rain death from the skies. It will be the people of Britain and France and Belgium and Luxem bourg WHO WILL DIE IN AGONY FIRST. They, you see, are taking FAR HEAVIER IMMEDIATE RISKS THAN WE ARE. Naturally, under such circumstances, they are disturbed when they hc,ar that we're hatching up a scheme to make a deal w ith the Russians on our ow n. Murder of 12 in Bank Theft Charged to Jap TOKYO. Oct. 12 (.n Sails- l muni tiirarawa, landscape artist, was Indicted today on charges of murdering J persons In the cyanide poisoning of a bank staff to rob the bank. Four others were poisoned and ainiosr men in tne rontiery otitance on a basis ot need; ver I li the Shllnamarhl Bank of 164.000 : cation of situations which enable yen Ust spring. military authorities to decide Hlraawa Is accused of posing ' w nether or not to grant emer- n urn. in iK-panmriu inspector i gency leaves; and supplemen- LETS get the little man from Missouri straight in our minds. So far as he was concerned, he WASN'T welshing out on our associates. He wasn't (In his own mind) planning to run for the brush and leave our comrades to die In the bloody mud of Western Europe under the crunching wheels of the Russian Jugger naut. He Just got to thinking things over In the still, small hours of the night, and In his friendly, folksy way he Just couldn't bring him self to believe that ANY nation Rntliee Ynl rwiiU rfn u-h. P.-.I. . arwilivi WW. be preparing to do. In his agony of mind It came to him that some how. In some way, we ought to be able to get together YET and fix things up with these Musco vites. So. off the cuff, he decided to make a stab at It. Ballots Ready For Scrutiny Of Electorate Races Listed for Major Offices, but 5 Posts In County Not Contested Ballots containing the names of all candidates and issues for the Nov. 2 general election have been printed, and sample ballots are available at the County Clerk's office and several other places In Rosebure and about the county. The ballots list all candidates running for office in the presi dential and congressional elec tion, candidates for state, county and city offices, and various measures upon which the people oi uregon win oe asked to bal lot. Instructions are that voters must place an "X" between the number and name of each candi date of his choice. Heading the list of names on the ballot are the candidates for the offices of President and Vice president of the United States. Listed are: Republican candidates i nomas t. Dewey lor President and Earl Warren lor Vice-President ; Democratic candidates, Harry S. Truman for President, and Alben W. Barkley for Vice- rresiuent; progressive candi dates, Henry A. Wallace for Pre sident, and Glen H. Taylor for Vice-President; Independent can didates, Norman Thomas for Pre sident and Tucker P. Smith for Vice-President. The names of presidential elec tors to the electoral college ap pear with the name of tne re spective presidential candidates, so no extra voting for electors is required. Cordon. Ellsworth Oooosed Candidates listed for U. S. Sena tor in Congress are Guy Cordon, oi Douglas County, Republican, incumbent, and Alanlev J. Wil son of Columbia County, Demo crat. For Representative in Con gress. Fourth District, compris ing Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jack son, Josephine, Lane and Linn Counties, Harris Ellsworth, of Douglas County, Republican. In cumbent, and William F. Tanton, Lane County, Democrat, Pro gressive. The names of Lew Wallace. Multnomah County, Democrat; Wendell E. Barnett, Marion Coun ty, Independent; and Douglas Mc Kay, Marlon County, Republican, appear as candidates for the of fice of Governor of Oregon. Other state office candidates Include: for Secretary of State. Byron C. Carney, Clackamas County, Democrat, and Earl T. Newbry, Jackson County, Repub lican, incumbent. For State Treas urer, Howard C. Belton, Clack amas County, Republican, and Walter J. Pearson. Multnomah County, Democrat; fop Attorney General. William B. Murray. Multnomah County, Democrat, and George N e u h e r, Yamhill County. Republican. Incumbent. For Senator. Fifth Senatorial District. Douglas County, Thomas Parkinson, Republican, incum bent, and T. W. Weaver. Demo crat; for Representative. Fif teenth Representative District. Douglas Countv. two to be elect ed, James M. McGinty and Chris tina Micelli, Democrats, and Paul E. Geddes and Robert C Gile, Republicans. Count Job Aspirants Countv office candidates In clude; For County Commission er. Richard G. Baker. Democrat, and H. B. Roadman. Republican, Incumbent: For Sheriff. O. T. Carter, Republican, incumbent, and A. P. Smith. Democrat; for Countv Clerk. Roy Agee. Demo crat Republican, unopposed: for County Treasurer. Oliver L John son. Republican-Democrat, unop posed; for Coroner, Harry O. Stearns. Republican Democrat, unopposed; for County Surveyor, Ben B. Irving. Republican-Democrat, unopposed; for Justice of the Peace. Deer Creek District, A. J. Geddes. Republican, and R. D. Williams. Democrat; tor Coun ty School Superintendent. Ken neth F. Barneburg, non-political, unopposed. For trustees of the North Vmp-qua-Diamond Lake Highway Im provement Dist rict. seven to be elected, candidates are: H. O. Pargeter. Republican: George H. Smith. Republican Democrat; Charles V. Stanton. Republican Democrat; Leonard W. Tyler, Re publican: J. R. Wharton. Repub lican Democrat; Earl Wiley and G. V. Wimberly, Democrats. Mor- ria C Bowker and V. V. Harp ham, Republican-Democrats. 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