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NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1948 FOUR Published Dally Except Sunday by th News-Review Company, Inc. InttrU Meend ) matltr May 1. poit rflM a Beiabirf, Or ran, andar act ( Mroh S. 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON csT EDWIN L, KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations BeprMtntr by WEST-HOI.LID A Y CO.. INC., fflcM la Nw Trk, Cfcleafo, . 8aa rnelac. Lai Anftlea, attla, Partlan. St. Lanla. UB SCRIPT ION BATES In Orfan By Mill Far Tear IS. SO. ! an ant ha 94, St. Ihraa mantht . 50, Br CHj Carrlf r Per yw llO.ot (la adraaca), I eta thaa na year, par mantb $... Ontalda Oragea By Mall Par jaar , al months $4.11, tfara oionlha It.lft. VOTE WITH PRIDE This column was devoted almost exclusively last week to discussion of election issues and candidates. In these discus sions we made certain recommendations. We ask no one to agree with us. We presented our own ideas and opinions, not for the purpose of trying to direct anyone in the way he should vote, but to stimulate thought and study. We ask no voter to follow the recommendations we have made. We ask only that every voter go to the polls and vote intelligently. It is not enough that we go to the election booth and mark a ballot. We should recognize that we are performing an important act of citizenship; that the office of elector is as responsible in our form of government as is the job of the President of the United States. We would not long tolerate continuance in office of an elected official who remained away from his post, or who attempted performance of his duties without study of its problems. In our form of government every citizen of voting age has a responsibility to serve his government by casting his ballot. Yet some will remain away from the polls and others will cast their ballots more or less blindly and with little knowledge of candidates or issues. Every voter should have extreme pride in his right of franchise. lie should have sufficient pride that his vote could not be subjugated to selfish Interest. No elector should per mit himself to be induced to use his sacred privilege of fran chise in the interests of any individual or group who would make good government secondary to pvate aggrandizement. We have seen in late years many efforts to produce "mass" voting by special groups. Frequently candidates, who lack general qualifications for the offices for which they are chosen, are put into places of power simply because they succeeded in gaining endorsement and support from one or more groups having special interests to serve. This is not good government. Every candidate should be measured by his ability to faith fully represent ALL the people, not a select few. Every candi date should be considered on the basis of his qualifications to serve the government as a whole, not a minority faction. Yet how often have we seen a a "stooge,", pledged to the selfish interest of a certain clique, gained the election. This comes about only because some voters stultify their citizenship; because they fail in per formance of their duties. Good government requires that every voter approach the ballot box with the same spirit of patriotism and love of country that causes him to offer his life as a sacrifice when the nation is at conflict with an armed enemy. Webster defines democracy as "a form of government in which the supremo power is retained by the people and exercised either directly or indirectly." Our form of govern ment is that of a "representative democracy," in which the people choose the men and women who are to serve as their representatives in the offices of government. We are now at war. It is a "cold" war in which the fight ing is in the political, economic and ideological arenas rather than upon the battlefield. Rut enemies of democracy are try ing just as earnestly to destroy our form of government as if we were being attacked with guns and bombs. Nations throughout the entire world are anxious observers of our strange election. It is strange to them because no other people in the world are so free to exercise their choice. They cannot understand the American brand of politics, with its ballyhoo, showmanship, controversy, open debate, etc. Nor do they understand how we can be so divided in our opin ions during an election and then be solidified as a nation the day after the leadership has been chosen. These are puzzling things to liberty-loving people in other lands, yet they know that under our system of government the United States has risen in a short space of years, as history is counted, to the peak of world power. Tomorrow's election not only is important in our own nation, but it will have a vital bearing upon the world's future. When anxious observers see how a free people can conduct a free election In the face of all subversive influences attempting to undermine every foundation, they will take new courage in resisting those forces which would hold or bring them under totalitarian subjugation. Every ballot in tomorrow's election is a gun. It is a bomb carrying more power than the atomic creation of the late World War. It is a power unequalled in the world. Every voter should realize the privilege that is his as he casts his ballot. He should cast it as a true citizen, with honesty, in telligence and, above all, with pride. We care not what a voter's convictions may be, whether or not they agree with our own. We desire only that he vote his convictions with a patriot's sincerity. Oil. Observes 80th Birthday OREGON STATE COI.LECE The eightieth Anniversary of the founding of O. S. C. a;: a slale sup- fiorted Institution was observed iere Oct. 27 with n special slu-dent-faculty convocation. Review ing some of the Malory and projecting the future were'Edgar W. Smith, president of the state board of higher education; Dr. A. L. Strand, 'president of the col lege, and Tom House. Portland, president of the associated stu dents." It was In 1SCS that little Cor vallls college, operated by the good candidate rejected while Methodist Church South, was des ignated by the legislature to re ceive the federal nionev allocated to slarl a new type of 'coHi-ge for j the masses, which later came to be known as "land grant col- j leges." i In ISS. the collece was taken . over completely by the state and a few years later was moved to its present location, occupying first a single building constructed by the people of Henton counlv. Now the campus is more than 2tV) acres in extent and this year close to 7.500 students are registered for fall term. Planetoids or tiny planets were formed, according to one theory, by the explosion ,of a larger primitive planet. I don't know II the fact that my grandfather built the Elephant House (I still have the blueprint) at the London Zoo had anything to do with it, but I have always been keen about elephants. They fascinate me. So when the De troit school children pooled their pennies and bought a baby ele phant, our babies were encour aged to share in the general ex citement although they were too young for school. Ah, Sheha! How the City of Detroit took you to its heart! What was the place every child begged to go? Belle Isle, of course! "Let's go see Sheba!" Ninety-nine percent of the cir cus to me has always been the elephants. But sometimes I won der why it is no one is afraid of those huge creatures, standing there swinging their trunks, hun grily snuffing every peanut to put in ihe mouth, tethered by one foot to a peg they could so easi ly yank up if they had a mind: (A circus tent blew down In a storm, I've heard my parents tell, In Warsaw, N. Y., and the great animals stampeded.) It never oc curs to anyone to be afraid of them, does It! So probably that at titude, that affection one has for animals, reaches them in some ways and they respond. Political Chaos in Southern States Putting Zest in Two-Party System By JAMES THRASHER The Southern turmoil produced by President Truman's civil rights program may end up by Illustrating the sweet uses of adversity. For the bolt of angry Dixiecrats and the disaffection of Democrats, who approve the Dixiecrats' motives, if not their methods, has done a remarkable thing. It has threatened to make this week's presidential contest a two party affair in several Southern states. Newspapers In Virginia and Georgia and Texas have come out for the Dewey Warren ticket. Solvent, substantial eitizens of Im peccable Southern ancestry are working for the Republican can dates something that would have been branded as heresy, and maybe treason, a year ago. And both the newspaper and the citi zens seem to be doing this wllh a minimum of fear that their business and sorlal lives will be ruined in atler rears. Would Help South Of course, the sure and solid ! Democratic stales of Virginia. North Carolina. Florida and Tex as picked Herbert Hoover over Al Smith In Ifll'S. Hut the Issue this time seems to go down deeper Into political bed rock. Whether the Issue will be toppled before another four years is up remains to be seen. The need of a two-nartv svstem ! in the South has long been admit- ted. even by many who ordinarily ' wouldn't be caught dead putting! an X In a ballot's Republican col I umn. Hut there has never seem- ed to be any way of getting the, movement going! Now. possibly. ! that whv has been found, and : through no more intricate means than tlie civil rights program and the South s reaction to It. The benefits of an active and actual two parlv svstem In the I southern tier of states would be j considers .ile. First of all It would : help the South politically and materially by removing an 80-year-old condition In which the Democratic l'artv took the region for granted, and the Republican I Party couldn't have wooed the; Everyone's Out of Step haw By Viahnett S. Martin I have ridden on the zoo ele phants in the little howdah pro vided for children. Ridden the camel, too. I remember flapping the elephant's nearer ear, for what reason I don't know. A child doesn't have to have a reason! A family story I never tired of hearing my mother tell was about Jumbo, the world's greatest ele phant, In the London Zoo. When P. T. Barnum bought Jumbo In the 80's to bring over here, the loading of the great animal be came a real problem. Jumho re fused to cooperate and was get ting a bit cantankerous . . . some one suggested "Send for Boxer." Now my grandfather had a blinded horse that had become a family pet, and the personal charge of -ny Uncle Dick. Uncle Dick would drlve Boxer, attached to a cart, around the zoo paths . . . In some way Jumbo and Boxer became real friends. The horse and elephant spent much much time together. So Boxer was sent for, and Uncle Dick, the only person who ever handled him. Uncle Dick led Boxer up the gangplank, Jumbo followed as docilely as a lamb be hind, and that was all there was to It. Except that Uncle Dick wasn't happy about it, I think. majority of its voters by offering I hem the moon. Might Get President Extension of the system would Improve the operations of Con gress by giving the Southern members more freedom of thought and action. It might even put a resident of the South In the While House which it you except Andrew Johnson's com- diction of Lincoln's serond term i sn 1 happened since Zachary j7,lor of Loulslana ws elc""a 100 years ago. A two-Dartv svstem mlcht also prove an easier remedv for some of the Souths political Ills the poll tax system, for Instance than has yet been prescribed or suggested in reports and proposed 1 legislation. And, by making our! governmental processes more truly democratic, it would remove j one of the favorite targets of I our eager critics in other cottn- tries, All this is only speculation, and nothing lasting may come of it. Hut at least it adds an intriguing footnote to a campaign already remarkable for Its great amount of complex political interest and its great dearth of popular enthusiasm and excitement. The average octane number of premium gasoline has increased irom m to NO octane number since 1M0 - - The average motorist today has a belter grade of fuel for his car than Lindbergh had to fly tne Atlantic. An automatic bottle-making machine was invented In 1903. But Joe In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) much of our liberties that we're willing to fight for them If that is the only way we can keep them. THUS, you see, Uncle Joe could be right. If we're going to be stubborn about this liberty bus iness, it could be that the policy we are pursuing could lead to the "unleashing of a new war." e INCIDENTALLY, the circum stances of Uncle Joe's pro nouncement are at least faintly Interesting. You may have noted that In or der to get this thought about the course we are pursuing off his chest, he CALLED IN A PRAVDA REPORTER. First, let's get that straight Pravda is an of ficial Russian government news paper. Stalin is the official boss of Russia. So, in newspaper par lance, he is Pravda's PUB LISHER. When a newspaper publisher has to call in one of his own re porters in order to get some burning thought into circulation, his fellow publishers nearly al ways suspect him of having some propaganda purpose in mind. UNCLE Joe, you must remem ber, rather likes to be Inter viewed in the pinches. But up to now his method has been to pick SOMEBODY ELSE'S PAPER to spring the story in. Once he called in the corre spondent of the Associated Press in Moscow i nd gave him some world-shaking opinions I most of which laler turned out to be the bunk.) At another time he called in the Moscow correspondent of j the London Times. We are at least justified In be- j lieving that when he is reduced j lo the point where he has to call , one of his own reporters upstairs I to get his opinions Into print something significant has hap-1 pened. ... AT any rate, In Paris a United Nations "source" says:" Prem ier Stalin's attack on the Western Powers may have been prompted by a fear that world opinion is I turning against the Russians j more than ever since the Berlin I blockade." j That's another way of saying that it's another propaganda scheme. ! State Jaycees' President To Meet Roseburg Group Johnny Sandmeyer, slate presi dent of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will te a guest of the local Jaycees nt a board meet ing Monday at 7:S0 p. m. Presi dent Charles Williamson urges as many members as possible, whether or not they are on the board of directors to attend. The meeting w ill he held In Ihe Cham ber of Commerce room. Aboot 25 couples were pres ent for the Halloween party and dance held bv the Javcees," their wives and guests Friday night at the Country Club. Mariv strik ing costumes were reported In evidence during Ihe evening, and prizes were awarded the best men's and women's costumes. More than 2.200 new compan ies have started up as oil pro ducers in this country in the last four years. Collie Left In Norway Rejoins Master in U.S. DUNELLEN, N. J., Nov. 1 (JP) The two-year-old shepherd collie Johan Jacobsen left behind in Oslo, Norway, has come brck to Dunellen, N. J. and nobody is quite sure how. The dog was found wandering on Long Island, N. Y., Sunday and was traced by Jacobsen by a collar tag which bore his name and home town. Jacobsen said he left the dog with friends in Oslo when he returned here last spring. The friends later wrote they were moving and would have to give up the idea finding transporta tion to this country for the dog. A little information on the dog's saga came in a letter Jac obsen rereived from a Norway man who reported seeing the collie on a plane bound for Ameri ca. The man, who Jacobsen said he didn't know, wrote that he hoped the dog would reach Jacob sen by means of the collar iden tification lag. In New York the Scandinavi an Airlines said the dog arrived in a crate by plane or. Oct. 22. It escaped from the cargo room, the line said, when an employee opened the crate lo feed and exercise it. Unable to find the dog after a three-hour search of the airport, the Airline said it notified the police of the dog's disappearance. The dog had been consigned to Jacobsen. Security Agent's Yisit is Altered Because the Oregon State Em ployment Service office will be closed Tuesday, Nov. 2, William R. Pierron, field assistant of the Eugene Social Security office, will hold the regular Roseburg itinerant service in the Civil Ser vice room, basement of the U. S. Post Office Building, on that date between 8:30 a. m. and noon. Future Roseburg visits will be held at the employment service office, 437 No. Jackson, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month as in the past. A large proportion of social security bookkeeping errors re sult from incomplete or incor rect information turned In by employers on their social secusi ty tax returns according to Pier ron. Employers who secure their employee's names and numbers directly from the worker's so cial security card are making sure that the worker does not lose any of the wage credits on which future social security claims will be paid. Mr. Pierron said that while I he Social Se curity Administration wants to pay all claims in full, It is ap parent that this won't always be possible unless social security re ports from all employers show full and correct information. Awards Presented Cub Scout Pack Benson Cub Scout Pack 334 held an award presentation Fri day night in the Benson school. Don Reed is the cub master. Awards were presented as fol lows : Pat Beckley, bea r badge and denner stripe; Milo Coffman, assistant denner stripe and wolf badge; Bob Kett, lion badge and certificate, gold and silver arrow; James Roade, denner stripe; Ken neth Overton, gold and silver ar row on lion badge; Arnold Stew art, bear badge and certificate; Wesley Buzzard, wolf badge and certificate; Mil ford Biddington, wolf badge and certificate with gold and silver arrow; Lary Archer, wolf badge and certifi cate; Charles Schick and Morris Shultz, bear badges: Gregory Young, Melvin TrornmeU and Freddy Hargis, each bear badges with gold and silver arrow, and Wavne Klemin. wolf b.dcp. New members who were pre sented membership cards and bobcat awards included: Barney Weimer, Dean Lou ns bury, Don ald VVilfang. Donald Morton, Rich ard Moser, Michael V'asey. The .ext pack meeting to be held Nov. 19, at the Benson School. MONEY SUIT FILED Western Mercantile Agency, Inc.. has filed suit in Circuit Court against V. E. Ksselstrom and Robert .lanu.-iry, asking judg ment for S2H7.60, plus interest and costs, as the balance alleged due and owing in an account contracted with P. .T. Hans Com panv. between Jan, lri and Mhrch 2i, '1345. The defendants were listed as partners in a logging business at Klkton under the name of January and Essel strom. DRIVER EXAMS DATED A driver's license examiner : will he on duty in Rosebui i Thursday and Friday, Nov. 4 and 5, at the City Hail between 9 ; a. m. and 5 p. m.. according to :an announcement from the Sec retary of Slate's office. RELIEF AT LAST For Your COUGH CreomulMon relieves prompdy became ii gr right to the teat of the trouble li help liMisen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inrlamed broach il mucous membrane. Tell your druiit to sell you a bottle of Lreomuliion ith the undemanding you must like the av it quickly- llat the rough or nni are to hae vour monev back. 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