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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. 1949 mm yi V! xmm G 1 li N.lfA--.l d v.c fit Published Dally Except Sunday by th News-Review Company, Inc. latere econd elm matter May f, J&3, at tht poil elite rt Boatburr. Oregon, under act ef Hareb S, U7I CHARLES V. STANTON T? EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Membir of tht Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations eprBtfd by WEST-HOLLIDA Y CO., INC., efflcee In New Turk, Chicago, Sib Franc I too. Lot Angelei, fleattla, Portland, Si, Lonla, SUBSCRIPTION RATRft In Oregon Br Mall Per Tear SMS, els month. H B, Ibroa moDtht $2.80. By City Carrier Pof fear SIO.AS (la advance), lets tbaa n year, per month It. Oft. Outilde Oregon By Halt Par yaar IU.0O, all BBontiia $4.7, three cnonthi 11.78. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams A FANTASTIC RULING By CHARLES V. STANTON Some of the rulings by the U. S. Post Office Department are baffling to say the least. . Newspapers are prohibited by postal laws from making mention of any lottery or game of chance. It becomes ex tremely difficult at times to print news of church bazaars at which quilt are raffled, or grange meetings where prizes are distributed, or any other major gift enterprise. The postal authorities can think up all kinds of angles to define lotteries and make it tough on newspapers. The latest is a ruling directed against guessing contests on athletic events. During football season many newspapers offered prizes to subscribers who turned in acurate predictions regarding scores of principal weekend games. A coupon was printed in the newspaper. Readers listed their predictions, and the best forecasts received cash prizes. The idea was a good-will plan- to promote readership interest, but now the postal de partment comes along and turns thumbs-down, claiming the plan to be a lottery. The ordinary interpretation is that any gift enterprise to be a lottery must involve some form of compensation or consideration by the person seeking the prize. Purchase of admission tickets, lottery tickets, bingo boards, etc., definitely constitutes a lottery, the postal department rules. The latest brainstorm is that the subscription cost of a newspaper is sufficient consideration to provide basis for a lottery inter pretation on the sports events guessing contests. To our mind it's a fantastic ruling, but there it is. The postmaster is authorized to reject for mailing any edition of a newspaper containing news of a lottery, thus keeping editors and reporters on their toes trying to avoid penalties and still publish the news. Congress, we believe, should pass some sort of a law which would free newspapers from these freak rulings by postal authorities. We have been reading recently in one of the popular mag azines a series of articles dealing with the obsolete methods of the postal department. Our postal business Is one of the nation's biggest financial operations, yet is handled in a most unbusinesslike manner, the author claims, lie points par. ucuiany to tne method or loot deliveries ot mail from door to door and urges mobile units to handle collections and tie- liveries, picking up parcels, selling stamps, etc., bringing the post office to the patron. Any type of free enterprise having the same problems as the postal department would have adopted a mobile system years ago, the writer contends. He further claims that the application of modern business meth ods would change the postal department from its status of continuing deficit to one of substantial profit margin. And while we're on the subject of mobile post offices, the announcement comes that the first highway post office in the Pacific Northwest is to leave Portland, Oregon, Monday, Jan. 10. The highway post office, which has been named "Pony Express," is n 35-foot motor truck especially designed as a mobile post office. It will serve the towns of I'.eaverton, Aloha, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Carlton, McMinnville, Amity, Dallas, Mon mouth, Independence and intermediate stations between the Portland and Corvallis terminals. A round trip will be made daily with 22 stops to discharge and receive mail. The first trip of the "Pony Express" reportedly is arous ing considerable interest from stamp collectors who are sending self-addressed envelopes to postmasters at Conallis and Portland to obtain commemorative covers from the Jan. 10 inaugural trip. W ALL RIGHT--IF THERE'S HjsJ iSggiipN ffl0WtM& NO PLACE TO PARK IT jgfe Wg'l mS BUT TH' YARD, I DEMAND f g iilll Tn llilfiRV COIN' "ID BE PRACTICALLY 0 W&$ ' iT ils $ft$flfWti CLIMBIM' A FENCE TO -JS'-fgK 1 COPB. BY NEA SEBVICr. INC. Jjf3p By Viahnett S. Martin y""' Fortunately the hens touched by the holiday spirit had been Rpnerous, so there were two more eggs to take the place of the ones I didn't soft-boil for EJ's break fast. It really wasn't my fault the eggs were overcooked! I was do ing all right, watching the egg timer, not daring so much as a glance at the calendar, when a flash of gray on the hill caught my eye. No, It wasn't Mrs. Guinea flying over the gate, as she does a dozen times a day; It was a large gray bird with a speckled breast, a plain gray back, with a tall black crest on Its head. I called EJ, a bit excitedly per haps, for he came with one shoe on and carrying one: "Gosh, a frl low npver knows what's the mat- tfr. Aftpr all It might be the house afire!" He lratiPd on the sink, too, beside me." "Quail," he said, and began remnlscences of his boyhood In the country In Texas. Suddenly I said, "Oh the eggs!" He grinned. "Forgot 'em again? Why don't you tell me when you put them In? I can keep my mind on something for three minutes!" He had a look In the pantry." Couple more. I'll boll these. You tell me how the quail's doing. . . ." Long ago I gave up trying to convert EJ to 'hard- cooked' eggs. I like hardbolled eggs any time but for breakfast. The hens have emphatic no tions about guests who come for dinner. And they see to It none stay If uninvited. But the quail and Mrs. Guinea are acceptable. Mr. Bluejay? No! The hens stand In a kind of a 'pointing' posture, necks outstretched, their beady eyes rlvlted on the saucy bluejay perched on a fence post. He watches his chance; swoops down the hens converge upon him. Off he goes again, with the most uncomplimentary remarks In a raucous screech. After a while the performance Is repeated. It was probably the cold snap that brought so many wild things close to the house? One morning It was a wonder I did any house work at all, for watching out the windows! There was a sapsucker, all day long. It seemed, sipslp sipplng, clinging to the dlamond rldged bark of our giant maple that li In summer a vast um brella with a 60-foot 'stick' sup porting It. A pair of woodpeckers hunting grubs, and finding them? A flock of tiny creeping birds, too small for sparrows, no tip-tilted tail as wrens have; they hunted the bare branches assidu ously. Then lastly a big company of grosbeaks: what flashes of white when they flew! And of course Mr. Bluejay where Is Mrs. B? meddling in every body's business with officious, nolsv chatter. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press I In the Day's Hews (Continued from Page One) easily than they can be driven. So the Kremlin prefers to WIN the Germans rather than to force them. WAR prisoners are a lender sub ject. They have relatives at home. The Germans feel as strongly about these men who are being held In slavery as we would fed. So our demand that they he released, as per agreement, puts us on the side of the Get mans and against the cold blooded slavery practices of Kilssia. (We'd rather have the Germans on our side In this ruckus than on the Russian side. As the mat ter now stands, It's a case of self preservation, and both sides want all the strength they can get.) MORE Important, of course, from every standpoint would he an exact count of the RUS SIAN'S who are held In slave labor camps in Russia. That gets down to the root of the whole situation. and savage practice. But she is supposed to be hold ing millions of HER OWN PEO PLE In slave labor camps. These are people who don't see eye to eye with the rulers of Russia. That, If true, betrays the fact that the Communist rulers of Russia ARE AFRAID OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE. That lells a significant story. THERE is another significant I tale In the news. Dr. Kruno Glritra (a German) resigns from (he SCIENCE faculty of the Russian-controlled Berlin I'nlvrrslty. He does so. he says, as a protest against INTOL ERAHI.E DOGMATIC PRES SURE. Webster defines "dogmatic" as "asserting a matter of opinion as If it were a matter of fact." In SCIENCE, you can't substitute opinion for fact without getting into bad trouble. For example: You can lay down as DOGMA the rule that powder won't ex plode. Hut the test Is tossing a match into It. If the powder ex plodes, the dogma Is wrong. If ! you are killed by the resulting LEGION SEEKS VETERAN PENSIONS AT 60 (Oregon City Enterprise) The American Legion will ask the Slst Congress to enact legis lation granting old ace pensions of $ti() a month to veterans of both world wars upon reaching lid years of age. The proposal came out of the special commit tee of the executive committee and another committee has been named to clarity It In view of previous actions, hut a six point (lireclive has been given to the Legions national Legislative Commission which will formulate the Legion pension hill to le sub mitted to congress. The six points are: 1. The legislation shall Include veterans of both World War 1 and World War II. 2. Eligible for pensiohs shall be veterans w ho served Pfl days or more on active duty or who were discharged for service-connected disability Incurred in line of duty and who were discharged under conditions other than dis- honorable. .1. The pension Is to tie effec tive at the attained age of 60 years at the rate of Si0.(Kl a month and at the attained age of (tt years at the rate of $!K).00 month. 4. Before attaining the age of 60 years, the following degree of non -service-connected disabil ity shall be payable. SJ0.OO a month on a 20 per cent disability rating. $10 Oil on 4(1 per cent. S60.00 on (0 per cent. $!K).XM on total disability. :t. Those veterans having service-connected disabilities and re ceiving compensation shall con tinue to receive such benefits and in addition thereto shall be re cipients of the old age pension. (i. Income shall not be consid ered UH)ii application for pension. The Legion also Is making bias about ailments of the mind. Except as mental ills are asso ciated Willi war service Uhe Le gion says that 53 per cent of all hospitalized patients In the na tion are menial cases) the effoit in behalf of the mentally 111 may not Increase the direct cost of war. hut the "60 at til)" pension proposal looms very large as a war cost that a good many prob ably never considered. As the pension plan reaches Congress we look for a lot of false patriot ism to explode In public places. 22 Flee Hungary by Air To Escape Red Terror MUNICH, Germany. Jan. 6 (.Ti A group of refugees who lied Hungary aboard a comman deered plane say they were es caping "Communist terror." The fugitives made a surprise landing here Tuesday night aboard a Hungarian' National Airways Liner. Twenty-two of those aboard were In the escape plot. Three others said they want lo go hack to Hungary. The pilot, Capt. Janus Majoros, said he hatched the escape plot because his life was In danger for antl-Comnuinist activities. "It was a question of lite or death for me lo get out," he told newsmen. California Gunmen Get Jobless Money SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 6 (.t) Two gunmen held up the State Department of Employment of- Truman Message Draws Praise And Sharp Criticism (By Th Associated Press) President Truman's state of the union message to Congress Wednesday has drawn a varying response of sharp criticism and praise from a cross section of American newspapers. Sample editorial comment! Chicago Sun: "Economic Demo cracy an idea as old as Ameri ca, but one which demands new applications for the 20th Cen tury America that Is Mr. Tru man's message. We believe he has the people behind him in proclaiming it." New York Herald Tribune: Mr. Truman's proposals "do not total up to a consistent economic or social strategy, In terms either of the 'planned economy' or of the enterprise system. Moderate as it is In tone and at least super ficially coordinated, it Is still a 'rag bag' message in the Truman tradition, and its several parts will have to take their several chances unsupported by any single, consistent view of the issues of our times." Philadelphia Inquirer. "It is reasonable to Interpret this mes sage as an effort to re assure business that there will be no reckless crack-downs. No blows at the essence of our free enterprise system." 'Ruinous Socialism' Chicago Tribune: "His legis lative proposals are for the same ruinous socialism that he advo cated on the stump. there are enough Intelligent members in the new Congress, it is fer vently to be hoped, to turn down most of Mr. Truman's unsound proposals. If there are not, the people of the United States are in for a bad two years." New York Times: "We do not see eye-to-eye with the president on the Taft-Hartley Act" or "Sup port of farm prices . But these two points excepted we find ourselves In agreement with the purposes at which Mr. Tru man is aiming . Belter housing, better health, better schools, broader social security, more areas reclaimed, as TVA has reclaimed one mammoth val ley surely these are all proper objectives . Huge Job Posed Los Angeles Times: "He has demanded more of Congress than anybody could accomplish If it remained in continuous session throughout his four-year term. If Congress takes him at his word , the nation is in for a tough and disturbing time." Rocky Mountain News .Denver): "If the Slst Congress in the ses sion ahead enacts half the (Tru man) program, It .will be a prodi gious performance. And a pro digious digestion our country will i have to have to adjust itself to so many new taxes and changes I in such a short time, and be able j union is slill as good." Dallas News: "The president (says) he has to have higher taxes. At the same time he urges greater production and lower prices which In large part are dependent on tax policy. He can't have his cake tnd eat It. too.v Baltimore Sun: Mr. Truman "has proven how right were those persons who prophesied that he would seek to take the country much further along Into a planned economy." Ietroit Free Press: "Enact ment of the total 'Truman Deal' would set this country much far ther to the left of center than ever Mr. Roosevelt dared to go." St. Paul Dispatch: The mes- cage is a digest of the.tlli speech' Dimes March Ball To be Sponsored By Active Club The Roseburg Active Club Wednesday night voted to take on the responsibility of sponsoring the March of Dimes dance the latter part of January. The exact date and place for the dance will be announced as soon as arrange ments can be made for a hall and an orchestra. The Armory will prooaoiy De secured it a satisfac tory date can be worked out. In addition to the dance, the ciui) win put out the coin collec tion containers in all public places in Roseburg and vicinity, cover ing the area from Winchester south to Dillard. They will be taken out Jan. 13, in order to be ready for usa at the start of the campaign Jan. 14. Officers for the coming six months were installed. Paul Wray assumed the position of president, replacing Ray Alder. The other officers include Ken Atterbury, vice-president; Lowell Atterburv. secretary; Jack Schoonover, treas urer; Lloyd Nelson, historian; Bill Hansen and Arlo Jacklin, di rectors for one yeai, and Clar son Chitwood. director for six months. Gordon Todd and Dick Gilman are holdover directors. Semester System Urged By U. of O. Faculty EUGENE. Ore -Tan 7,T) The University of Oregon faculty wennesoay voted to recommend that the universilv Pfl nn a semester system" instead of the term system now in effect. The close vote of the faculty group is merely a recommendation to President Hurrv k' Mnu hnrn onH does not bind the president or the aiaie eoaru oi mgner Education to any action. About 600 colleges and univer sities in the United States are on the semester system, with two semesters a year, while only about 100 observe the three-term svstem used now hv the llnlt.ar-. sity. The University of Oregon operaieo on me semester system u om auout inyf to lyiv. Ousted Police Chief Hints at Revenge Reason CHENEY. Wash.. Jan. 7. JP James A. Crawford, 46, Cheney police chief for the past three years, said yesterday he was fired ivionoay. He didn't know why, he said, unless it was because he "had stepped on some people's toes in making arrests for traffic viola tions and so on." He said Mavor Lloyd Holladay signed the letter asking for his resignation. "Mr. Crawford resigned and the council accepted his resigna tion," the mayor said. "His suc cessor has not been chosen." He declined to amplify the statement. Don't Ask for Money, Oregon Lawmaker Says MADRAS. Ore., Jan. 7. (P) A state legislator told his con stituents yesterday not to ask for money. Rep. William B. Morse, who Is starting his third term as Crook Jefferson Counties' representa tive, declared that Oregon's bud get is hadlv nut nf fmlanr-o nnH should not be hamstrung with u iiiaimn iui iiiuitj iippiupi lHUOnS. Morse, a Prineville business man, said he would not welcome any request for appropriations, unless thev are "absolutplv neees. sary." Morse serves on the Wavs and Means Committee of the House. Girl Found Hanging From Altar Post in Church PRESTON, Eng., Jan. 6 f.P) A German girl was found hanged from the altar post in St. Hilda's Parish Church yesterday, authori ties reported today. The Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt. Rev. Wilfred Marcus Askwith, said he Is seeking a ruling from High Church of England authori ties whether it will be necessary to reconsecrate the church. Even if It isn't he said. "I shall, In anv case, have some sort of service there." The dead girl was Identified as Gertrude Rosa Gammisch, 24, who came to England as a volun teer worker in a cotton mill. U. S. Slaps at Dutch For Conduct in Indonesia WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-fP) In a fresh slap at The Nether lands' military action in Indo nesia, the United States has re called its delegate assigned to the United Nations group trying to settle the dispute. The State Department said it recalled delegate H. Merle Coch ran for "consultation" because The Netherlands action had "abruptly interrupted the efforts of the committee of good offices to find through peaceful negotia tions a satisfactory settlement of the three-year dispute." SK ATfcR DROWNS OREGON CITY, Ore., Jan. 7. CP) A young man who recently moved to Oregon from Iowa i owned Wednesday when he plunged through the ice on Engle- brecht Lake while skating. Police said Keith Wayne Kee ney, 18, was unable to reach boards thrown toward the hole by a passerby who saw him strug gling in the water. Starts SUNDAY One Week Umpqua Valley Hardware A Home Owned and Operated Store 202 N. Jackson Phone 73 ""'VATtlE I WALTER BRENNAN I I MNtetMry (LIFT JewM Mil I j INDIAN THEATER I with CENTENNIAL Count on Centennial Egg Mash for real economy and greater poultry profits. Centennial ' HIALTH-IULEI y EGG MASH; I 80LD BY Quality Feed & Seed Store Short and Burke Streets Phone 1294-R Roseburg, Ore. VENETIAN BLIND SPECIAL Kilglore Auto VBlind FREE with every VBlind or Drape order of $50.00 or more. Roseburg Venetian Blind Factory We Use Flexalum Aluminum Guaranteed by Good Housekeeping Phone 1098-J 61S N. Jackson Roseburg Evangelist-Magician Dated at Roseburg High Stanlev Cain, evantrniut man). clan and youth leader will appear at the Senior High School Satur day Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m. He will use professional magic lo illus trate Bible truths. Before his conversion, Cain was a professional magician, traveling in many Western and Central Stales and in Canada. He has since been using his magic in t Ills novel form of missionary work. He is a graduate of Northwest ern Schools, Westmont College, and has attended Winona Lake School of Theology. Your Best Investment For Future Security... U.S. SAVINGS BONDS They give you so much ... In 10 years you get back tour dol lars for every three you put In. Sign up with your firm's Pay roll Savings Plan or through your bank's Bond-a-Month Plan. Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Deposit Imuranca Corp. jji The Latest j MILLER'S I I RENTAL LIBRARY EDWARD R. BURT & COMPANY Certified Public Accountants New York City Announce the opening of accounting offices at 821 Equitable Building, Portland, Oregon, The merging of the practice of C. W. Wray, Certified Public Accountant 516 Hall Building, Coos Bay, Oregon 401 Pacific Building, Roseburg, Orezon 12 City Building, Reedsport, Oregon And the purchase of the practice of James Dutton, Certified Public Accountant 821 Equitable Building, Portland, Oregon Tax Consultation Auditing System Installation Resident Partner, C. W. Wray, C. P. A. Roseburg Manager, D. D. Evans Hear These California Evangelists Singers . . . Musicians ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH fice here '"day and escapee I with lP,"he m,ule in the campaign last between $30,000 and $40,000 in state unemployment funds. The two men, one of them wearing a red bandanna hand kerchief over his face, entered the cashier's office on the second floor of the otfire building at j liiOl) Mission Street a few minutes i after an armored car had u War Is an ancient and cynical explosion, you are ns dead as if ,.""i lmo ,np (l(,l '"r mental . liveied the cash business. In earlier centuries, It was quite the custom to enslave conquered peoples. It isn't at nil surprising that Russia, being what she Is, should go back to this old gerous road there had been no dogma. If the Russians are going to substitute dogma for scientific FACT, thev are travellnu dan.!".' 81 ''immunities to encourage illness and Its national medical advisory board has called upc.nl Add mixed cooked vegetables the 17.1KI posls and 12,tii"-r. auxil- to a ring of tomato aspic and iarlos to undertake a campaign I serve with deviled rim for fall. What It all adds up to is a redeal of the new deal." ATTEND 'FR AT' MEET Mrs. Margaret Adair. Mrs. Verna Carothers and Mrs. Lula C. IJorrcll attended a recent ban quet and meeting of Delta Kapoa t,amma. honorary sncietv for women educators, at the Oshorn Hotel in Eugene. Chancellor Emeritus Frederick M. Hunter of the Oregon System of Higher Education was the principal ncourao a luncheon dish: fill ihe ivnttT tviL-np rho T.J...1..,-.- r the development of mental health j of the ring with short spravs of the society will be held in Eugene clinics and to dispel public pho- i watercress. iSsiuid.iv IT 'i IT i . -.T 1 '! i r f - v ; , : "W"''-TM1 948 W. First St. ;;XV" Nightly 7:45 .J . v Mnri Jan 23rd . ' V t- (Except Mondays (Except Mondays and baturdays) Tonight "Obtaining Our Inheritance" By Gladys Pearson Colored rhalk talk drawing by Mrs. Henry Carver to be given lo the one bringing the most new visitors to the service. i Marcaret Plunkett Sunday Subjects: A. M. "The Lost Coin Margaret Plunkett. P. M. "Will Son Be Judged' by Gladys Pearson. by i ',;n' I imiti,tiMi "r' tmn r 1
