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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948 "1 Published Dally Exoept Sunday by tha Newi-Raview Company, Inc. Kataraf aa aaeaai alaaa mattar Maf 1, ISM, al th p.at efflaa at B.a.barf, Origan, aadar m at Matah S. Ult CHARLE8 V. STANTON sTOk. EDWIN L, KNAPP Editor Manag.r Mambar of tha Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, tha Audit Bureau of Circulations apraiaataa b? WrST-HOI.LlDAT CO, INC. sffleaa la Naw Tark. Chleafa, Saa rraaelaoa. Laa Aagalea, Saatlla. Parllane. St. Laala. SUBSCRIPTION RATES la Or.ron-B, Hall Par Taar ISM, ,, m.nlh. K.aS. lar.. noatba St.&a, Bj Cllj Carrier Par raar 110.04 (la ad.aac.), Ibaa ana year, per menth SI-00. Ontalda Oraien By Hall Par rear .. als nanlba 11.15, Ibraa raanlbi H.15. A "Wary" By CHARLES V. STANTON Editorial mail these days is filled with seasonal material containing safety warnings. There is good reason why these admonitions should be circulated at this time. The National Safety Council reports that December has the highest traffic death toll of any month of the year. The Christmas-New Year holiday season is the most dangerous single period of the year. Heavier travel and the festive spirit of the season increase the normal winter hazards, such as bad weather, slippery roads and more hours of darkness. More drinking by both drivers and pedestrians during the holiday season also is partly responsible for the increase in traffic toll, the Council declares. Last year the total of pedestrian deaths in December was 42 per cent higher than the average for the first 11 months. But all deaths are not due to traffic. The National Fire Pro tection Association points out that from a few days before Christmas to a few weeks after New Year's, a plague of fires rages over the country. Many of these fires are the result of hazards existing only during the holiday season. In a little country schoolhouse in Babbs Switch, Oklahoma, where 150 people were crowded for a Christmas party, candles ignited the Christmas tree. There was only one exit. Windows were heavily barred. Thirty-six celebrators were killed In the panic or left behind to burn to death when the crowd stampeded. In a fashionable Selma, Alabama, country club, six women were burned to death and several others injured when a carelessly handled match ignited cotton-trimmed costumes, Four people were killed in a Jersey City, N. J., hotel when a Christmas tree in the lobby was ignited by a toy electric train. Hundreds of homes were burned throughout the nation, many of them with accompanying fatalities or serious in juries. Many other causes contribute to holiday accidents. Sports take their toll. Sleigh rides are turned into "slay" rides. Children are killed or injured. Falls kill, maim and injure thousands during the holiday season when homes are over crowded and when the festive spirit leads to carelessness. Scores of other causes could be cited, but all lead to one aumonmon : we Dareiui l i Make it a "Wary" Christmas and you'll have a Merry Christmas I Farewell to Pheasants? Upland bird hunters are hearing some discouraging news from State Game Department heads. The battle to maintain shooting populations of game birds is rapidly losing ground. Despite large sums of money poured into bird management, the Game Commission is finding that its program is not pro ducing results. A shift is being made from operation of gamp farms to habitat improvement, tions of the state doubtless will be virtually without pheas ants in the near future unless hunters give better cooperation Birds reared on game farms represent only about one percent of the annual take by hunters, Game Department .experts report. Yet the operation of game farms costs thou sands of dollars, far out of proportion to the benefits derived. It is planned to continue a limited'farm program as a means of saving brood stock, but much of the money heretofore spont to propagate birds in hatcheries will be used to improve conditions for natural propagation. This means that pheasant population in the future will he very largely confined to sparsely peopled and non-agricultural areas, public shooting grounds, bird refuges, etc. There is good reasoning behind the Commission's poiicy. In the densely populated areas it is not economically fea sible to attempt maintenance of bird population adequate for shooting demand; too mnny factors operate against survival. Farm mowers and tractors working in fields the natural habitat of the China pheasant kill annually twice as many birds as are shot by hunters, according to a guess-estimate by Game Department scientists. Thousands upon thousands of birds are killed by automobiles along state and county roads. Birds are subjected to constant predation by poachers in addition to the many natural predators, particularly house cats, which increase in proportion to the density of human population. Then, too, there is much resistance. Many farm ers do not want the birds on their land, nor do they want hunters tramping over their property, breaking down fences, trampling crops, scaring and even killing poultry and live stock, etc. Another factor and a sorry one is the lack of sports manship among hunters, who, in addition to failing to recog nize and respect property rights of the landowner, refuse to conform to obvious conservation rules. Although restric tions are placed on the killing of hen pheasants, studies show that the ratio of cocks to hens remains constant proof that this first law of conservation is being ignored. Futhermore, while definite bird shooting seasons are set by law, it is a well known fact that pheasant poaching is a year-around practice, too extensive to permit of enforcement without an army of police officers. Populated sections of the state, therefore, soon will be withoUt pheasants unless there is a prompt improvement in hunting etiquette, a real effort put forth to improve habitat for natural propagation, and more cooperation between hunters and landowners. BAD SERUM TAKES TOLL TOKYO, Dec. 21 P Diph theria immunization deaths in the city of Kyoto yesterday to taled BO children. Impurities In the injections were blamed. Christmas which means that many sec TO HEAD CANCER FUND PORTLAND, IVc. 21 (. Next year's state cancer fund campaign will be headed bv Wal ter W. R. Mav. niihllahor nf tht OUT OUR WAY HAVE TD BLUB- VrJ BETTER CUT THErV l i "lllaiH PUT ALL WIGHT IKJ PIECES? YOU I : OM IT IF--MPH- yfPggl PON'T HAVE MUCH ftWZMb. WE'RE GOlW ' ROOM TO WORK JF Today, December 21, the time of the Winter Solstice, or "stand ing still of the sun," has been for many years ever since my father opened my eyes to the wonder of It one of the year's most exciting days. It Is a hap pier day than the Summer Sol stice, this turning of the year towards longer days, towards Spring! The Summer Solstice Is like the time of geese flying south; but, the turn of the year, the winter turning from the ebb of daylight hours to the flood of full summer ah, that Is like the geese flying north again, lifting our hearts in a surge of excite ment, knowing that spring Is nearer! What If the coldest days are ahead? We have passed the turn of the year! Each day is a little longer. Not much perhaps, but still a little. We are glad of the little. I used to enjoy being out in a boat In an Inlet Just before ebb tide ended. Waiting. Waiting for that moment when there would come a stillness, a sudden breath less hush (what is the use of imagination if one can't use it?) that preceded the first tentative swirls of the incoming tide. Bit by bit the incoming water would In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) Chinese nism. WON'T LIKE commu- w HYT Well, did you ever notice that Chinese in this country LIKE TO OWN THEIR OWN LITTLE BUSINESSES? A few genera tions ago, the Chinese In the small towns of America were rather generally In the laundry business. In that way, they could work for themselves and build up a business that would be THEIRS. COM wa OMMUN1SM doesn't work that ray. The big shots who run communist states are SUSPI CIOUS of people who run their own little businesses. Such peo ple are apt to be independent. They don't like to kow tow to the big boss. There Is no place In commu nism for Independent . minded people. a a a A LITTLE while back, a blind Portlander hitch-hiked across the country to New York, where he hoped to obtain an operation that would restore his sight. He got two operations. A New York business man paid his hos pital bills. (Business men, you know, are supposed to be hard boiled, tough, mean, grasping.) The surgeon who operated wouldn't take a cent. Everybody helped. Nobody would take any money. The blind man is back in Port land, still blind but with the hoi that another operation six months hence will enable him to see. He says: "Seems like I've had nothing but Christmas ever since 1 started across the country in Sep tember ... the farther I went the more people wanted to do for r i BLUP LIB -I'LL " WELL, H ADM' T I ?0r4 THIRTY YEARS TOO SOOM T. ,I0. , T. , A By Viahnett S. Martin push upward. I don't like ebb. tides, although we must have them, but there Is an excitement to the exact moment when the tide starts up. A woman, still desperately ill, keenly aware that discourage mcnt surrounded her in every thought but that of her nusband, began to think of Christmas as well, not happily. The day came. Into her hands her husband placed a small package, smiling as he did so. She found the gift was an exquisite little white bag embroidered with gold beads . . . the kind of thing no one would ever use except for a special oc casion, a party-like occasion, one for which one would be dressed and on one's feet . . . wpII! She wept but it was for her moment when the ebbing tide, at Its lowest point, begins to turn. Out went the discouragement ; In came the flooding tide of joy and confidence. Her husband must really think she was going to get well! It was a while before anyone else saw any Improve ment, but she and her husband shared the Joy of knowing about that turn of the tide. On special days like Christmas why give someone burdenpd with illness a gift that Is at all "prac tical" or "sensible!" Why not a gift with a future in it? me . . . New York City (accord ing to all the dope hard and cruel and uncaring) has a heart as big as New York." T HE moral? There Isn't any moral. One of the fundamental facts of life Is that people as a WHOLE are better-hearted than they get credit for. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press SANITY RETURNING TO LUMBER INDUSTRY (The Oregon Journal) There are signs that the ab normal lumber boom is about over. It is well. Lumber prices and quality went clear out of hand. Between Aug ust, 1939, and September, 1943, cement went up 146 per cent, brick and tile .went up 174 per cent, while lumber went up 352 per cent. In. most cases quality went completely haywire, and the gray market flourished. Al though many of the established lumber firms attemuted to keep standards, the urgent demand for lumnor any kind of lumber created a pressure that brought speculators, "easy money" bovs and opportunists into the In dustry seriously to undermine its standards. Representatives of the Nation al Association of Manufacturers say that recent national slump in building activity has brought about a 20 per cent drop in mill prices. Inventories are good, pro duction Is high, and the market is still good. And it Is a healthier market now. Buyers are insist ing on better lumber and compe tition again is beginning to be come more than a word. Price reductions, better grades, an end to Indiscriminate cutting and gray market dealings benefit not only the home builder but also the lumber industry, which Is so Important lo this region. The sooner prices settle down and quality is reestablished, the better. It puts the lumber In-' Williams dustry and the Pacific North west on a sounder basis. A Danger to Be Eliminated Coos Bay Times -The' 120,000-volt power line from Roseburg to Coos Bay is out of commission today, having broken during the storm Satur day night somewhere between Sit kum and the top of the mountain to the east. The breaking of this line causpd a power shortage in Coos County Sunday. It made necessary the shut-down of a number of mills today, and curtailed other nor mal power uses. All this should be enough to make us think quite a bit about the 120,000-volt line today. But it has been in our mind over the weekend for an entirely different reason. Saturday, while the storm was still in progress, we went over the Coos County road from Fairview to McKinley. Happening to look up, we saw the heavy cables of this 120,000-volt line overhead. The wires were not exr.ctly hang ing motionless, either. The strik ing motionless, either. The striking Ihing about the power line in this area is that it runs parallel with the county roadway and over the traveled section most of the way for four-tenths of a mile. It Is bad enough for a high voltage line to cross high ways. But when such a line runs prac tically over the roadway for a con siderable distance, it strikes us that this is a situation which needs remedying. Particularly IS this so In such a location, where high winds sweep down canyons: where trees fall across lines, and where other hazards to power lines exist. The line Is the property of the California-Oregon Power Com pany. It is of extreme Importance to the Coos Bay area, being our only link with "outside sources of electrical energy. But school busses travel this McKlnley-Fairview road. There is considerable other traffic. And we have heard of freshly-snapped power lines snuffing out lives in other section of the country. If we were a member of the County Court or of the rural school board or of granges In the McKinley - Fairview (area, we would certainly look Into this ? lower line location. A hundred eet one way or another should eliminate what we consider a very real and immediate danger. Vocational School Elects; Yoncalla Students Enroll Charles W. Clark of Roseburg was elected Friday to the posi tion of treasurer of the student body at the Oregon Vocational School at Klamath Falls. Clark is a student in Ihe school of busi ness at OVS and has been active in student affairs on the campus. He will take office on Jan. 3, for a six-month term. Heading the student bodv Is Wade of Coos Bav who defeated Paul Helns of Albany for the office of student borv president. Aldo Bellotli, Klamnfh Falls, was elected vice-president; and Earl Mcuaugney. also or K lama in Falls, was elected secretary. Among new students register ing at the Oregon Vocational School during December are Er nest Jackson and Aaron Baldwin, both of Yoncalla. Both Jackson and Baldwin have enrolled in a 26-month course in auto mechanics, where they will train In the school automotive shops In all phases of automotive repair Including motor overhaul ing, power train, brakes, steering and chassis, electrical systems, cooling systems, and carburation. A portion of the time spent in the course will be In machine shop practice which includes experience In crankshaft grinding. Traffic Accidents Kill 2 Persons in Salem Area SALEM. Dec. 20.-(rVTwo persons were killed in automobile accidents here yesterday. Emil Moen. Salem, was killed when the car he was driving was sldeswiped bv another on the Pa cific Highway three miles south of Salem. Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, 74. Sa lem, died after she w as struck by a taxlrah while walking across a dow ntown street. By J. R. Early-Bird Congressmen Start Framing Plans for 81st Congress By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. Senators and representatives blown back in'o office by the recent elections have been homing on Washington early, In order to sound off on what big things they are going to do next year. The result Is that they have now outlined for . the 81st Con gress a program that is every bit as definite as whatever may be proposed by President Ti uman in his State of the Union. Budget and Economic Report messages. ungressionai rorecasts also give some idea of how the President's proposals will be received. Biggest issues are nmhahlv labor, farm prices, housing, con gressional reorganization, civil rights, inflation and taxes. Rep. Mike Monroney of Okla homa, co author of the LaFollette Monroney Concessional Renr. ganization Act of 1946, wants to revise this measure further. He would curb the Dower of the House Rules Committee and hv the Senate ban filibusters by re quiring all speakers to confine ineir remarKs to the question under consideration, instead of being allowed to ramhln nn nrl. lessly. Filibusters Target Revision of Senate rules to dr. away with filibusters will have bipartisan support. If the Repub licans had retained control of the Senate, a Republican committee under Sen. Robert A Tnfi r.f Ohio had intended to force limita tion oi oenate by simple majority, Instead of the two-thirds vote now required. The only reason the LaFoIlette Monroney bill was permit ted to pass in 1946 Was that the renr. ganizers agreed to make no change in House rules. Rep. Alme Forand of Rhode Island has an Idea of enlarging House Rules Committee membership from 12 to 15. This would break up the six-to-six tie that snarled up so many measures in the lat Con gress. It would permit the Demo crats to name three more mem bers to the committee, to provide a safe working majority favor able to President Truman's pro gram. The President himself will probably consider these matters as problems for Congress lo de cide, and will keep his hands ff. Both questions will probably hav iu ire semeu, nowever, Detore any GOP-ConfroIled Group to Request T-H Law Changes WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (P) The republican-controlled con gressional "watchdog" committee on the Taft-Hartlev law decided yesterday to urge the new Demo cratic Congress to make about nine changes in the act. Six were described as "fairly important." Senator Ball (R-Minn), chair man of the Senate-House group, announced the committee's action after a closed meeting. Ball, defeated in hia hiH fnt- -. election to the senate, told news men me proposed changes were approved by seven Republican and one Democratic member of the Committee who attended. One Republican and five Democrats were absent. The Democratic platform calls for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. President Truman also has urged repeal. pall declined to go Into detail about the changes the committee majority has in mind, but he said they deal generally, among other things, with: 1. A provision requiring an election lo authorize a union shop. Under a union shop, workers are required to Join the union short ly after they are hired. ' 2. The section aettinr im ma chinery to deal with "national emergency" strikes. 3. The provision covering mass picketing. The act forbids it. but there has been some confusion as to what constitutes mass picket ing. 4. The Jurisdiction of the Na tional Lahor Relatione RnorH t,a matter at issue is the extent of the board's authority In particu lar Industries. Ball told renortpra the mmmli. tee's final report will be filed In Congress Dec. 31. It probably will ue maoe puonc ac mat time. U. S. May Have to Pay For Japs' Evacuation ONTARIO, Ore., Dec. 21 Uncle Sam may be called on to pay damage claims ranging as high as $100,000 In some cases for evacuating Japanese and Nisei from Pacific Coast areas early in the war. More than 200 lower Snake Valley residents met here in two groups to discuss claims they plan to present to the federal gov ernment. Attorney Martin P. Gallagher said the basis of the claims would be broken farm leases, money lost through quick disposal of machinery and real personal property and the cost of moving. He said the claims would varv , as much as a few hundred dollars to S100.000. The payments are permitted under federal law over a five-year period. Older Japanese-speaking resi dents met with an interpreter. The younger, English-speaking Nisei met with Attorney Gal lagher. The sessions were sponsored bv the Japanese American Citizen's League of Snake River Vallev. New York has about 2.000,000 Jews, more than there are in Palestine. INSURANCE AUTO LIFE AUTO FIRE State Farm Mutual Insurance ROSE ALLEN P. O. Box 489 Phone 288 116 W. Cass Over Douglas Countv Bank action can be taken on the Presi dent's civil rights bills. No one has yet stepped forward to say he will be the hero in pushing civil rights legislation. Republicans are ror it, and the Democratic platform promised It. The votes are there to pass it. But a number of Southern states men have announced they intend to modify the original proposals. Farm Prices at Issue New Agriculture Committee chairmen Sen. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Rep. Harold Cooley of North Carolina have sounded off against flexible price support provisions of the long range farm bill passed by the 80th Congress. Both want to keep high farm prices, particularly on cotton. But when the 80th Con gress passed its farm bill, the thing looked good politically be cause it promised a little relief in lower prices. The issue is headed for a fight because the Truman administration has promised (a) to keep farm prices high and (bi to cut prices for consumers. Revision of the Taft-Hartlev law offers another snarl. The ad ministration is pledged to repeal. But Senators Elbert D. Thomas of Utah and James E. Murray of Montana, who will have major roles in writing the new law, have taken a moderate approach to the question. Senator Thomas savs good la bor relations must come through education, not legislation. Sena tor Murray says repeal of the T-H law must come only when a substitute law Is passed. There Is a bipartisan diive to get low-cost public housing legis lation passed. This time, the coali tion hopes to enlist the srpport of Senator Taft, who deserted his cause in the special session. 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