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Newspaper Page TextFOUR NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18,1949 Published Daily Except Sunday by tho News-Review Company, Inc. Intent at leeond elan ntttfar May 1, 1820, at lh pott Ma at Boiebori, Orcfon, andar act at Mareb S, 1871 CHARLES V. STANTON fT EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Ll Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Kapraaante by WFST-lJOIXinAT CO.. INC., offleca In New York, Cfalear. San Franclioo, Loa Atiftlei, SaattU, Portland, St. ton la. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Orron By Mall Par tr 11.00, ala montha 14.W, tbraa montha lt.30. By City Carrier Par yanr 110.00 (In Bdyanoa), laia than na year, per month SI. 00. Outfit. Oregon By Mall Par jaar 99.00, all nontfaa It. 15, tore montha ll.M. KIND WORDS By CHARLES V. STANTON Writing- in her column of impressions at the State Legis lature, Esther Geddes has an interesting comment concern ing lobbyists. Mrs. Geddes is writing exclusively for News Review readers. It is her first experience with legislative procedure, and she approaches the experience from the angle of the neophyte. Many others who write of legislative proceedings for newspapers are old hands at the task and have gone through many sessions. Familiar with the law-making operation, they instinctively assume that their readers also know all the angles and they fail to include many interesting highlights and impressions which are so outstanding to the person experiencing a legislative session for the first time. Mrs. Geddes points out that lobbyists are representatives of large groups and are extremely helpful to the legislator. The word lobbyist carries some measure of odium in the public mind. In some cases this impression may be deserved, but for the most part the lobby is a very important and essential part of legislative procedure. Lobbyists could more accurately be called legislative advisors. Usually they are men paid by large groups having a common interest. They are men fully informed on the activities they represent. For instance, the railroads have a very strong lobby em ploying men thoroughly versed in every department of the transportation industry. Auto freight companies also have their lobbies. When a question arises regarding transporta tion law, legislators, many of whom know nothing of this industry, are able to obtain information from experts. As nearly every lobby has its rival, the legislator seeking Information- gets both sides of any controversial issue. Every leg islator uses the lobby as a source of information. No law maker can be expected to know all the subjects in the gamut of bills. Yet he must pass on each one. Thus, in the large number of lobbyists attending the session, he can find per sons who will give him the information he needs on both sides of any controversial issue. The lobbyist is a hard-working individual. His first task Is to become acquainted with every member of the legisla ture and place himself on friendly terms. He must learn the opinions of each legislator concerning the group, industry, business, profession or activity he represents. If he finds opposition to his particular cause, he presents facts and arguments favorable to his side. Naturally, when some im portant bill of a highly controversial nature Is concerned, the lobbyist is a very busy person. The lobbyist must keep in constant contact with legislative personnel. Finding a legislator hopelessly opposed to the project supported by the lobbyist, the latter may try to bring influence from the legislator's home district. Naturally, the lobbies on each side of the issue are going through the same procedure, so that the eventual outcome is that the legislator votes according to the hest information he has available and his own opinions based on that information, plus considera tion of the wishes of the people of his district or of the state at large. Lobbying is not the dangerous practice many people seemjk(,p( disapp(,ring. to believe. There have been instances in which lobbies De came too powerful and exerted too much pressure. There have been cases in which legislators were lured into compromis ing positions and threatened with exposure if they voted "wrong." This type of lobbying, however, is not as prevalent now as in some former years. There is loss trickery, beguile ment and blackmail, and more emphasis on helpful informa tion and persuasion through open argument and debate. It would be extremely difficult to handle the great number of bills passing through a legislative session if legislators did not have available lobby experts to aid them in learning facts. Building Trades Oppose Tech School Support NORTH REND. Ore.. Jan. IS. (.PI The Oregon Building Trades Council wants the state to quit supporting Oregon Tech at Kla math Kails. The Institution, formerly known as Oregon Vocational School, was the subject of a resolution at the semi-annual session nf the coun cil here over the weekend. The resolution urged that the state funds, Instead, be used to establish a state apprenticeship training program. ! Other resolutions asked: A six-1 hour work day if a recession ! comes; a law licensing contrar- tors to fix financial responsibility on them for labor and materials; a prohibition against outdoor privies on construction Jobs. Volney Mail in. Portland, re signed as president and was elect eel executive secretary. Charles Crarey, Medford. was elevated from vice-president to president. Congress Votes Raise In Salary of President WASHING TON', Jan. 17 (.? Congress yesterday gave Pits I dent Truman a pav boost from S?".000 to $100,001)' a year and raised his tax-free c.H'nc al lowance from $-10,000 to S'.iO.OnO. By voice vote, the House com pleted action on the pay hike measure which already won Sen-I Ate nillimvll K n tmlii nt tlfi to 9. ' The bill now goes to the White ' FOR LOBBYISTS House for Mr. Truman's signa ture. it also raises the salaries of the vice-president and speaker of the House from SJ0.0OO to $.)0.000 a year and gives them $10,000 each In tax-free expense allowances. Woman Would Protect Housekeeping Allowance GLASGOW, Jan. 18. (.? - Mrs. Jean Maun, happily married Scotswoman and Labor member of l'ai ilamenl, wants Parliament to pass a law forcing husbands to keep hands off any money their wives save from the bousekeep- ing allowance. K u r t he r in o r e, she said, she wants the law to aid this thrifty project by forcing husbands to hand over a "reasonable share'' of their earnings. At present. Mrs. Mann said, a husband legally can lake his w ife's household savings and fre quently docs if Ihe marriage ln:iks up. Mrs. Mann's Invalid husband and her five children, she says, are all backing her. LOOKING BACK ! BIG TIMBER, Montana I.T - i David licn-ics was banging away 1 earnestly but not effectively at an antelope that was moving awav fast but kept looking back over ' its hsoul.lcr at Ihe hunter as Her- ries fired. Suddenly, the animal ' crashed into a fence post and 1. ...... t-..n., b ,-.. telope could regain consciousness! I Monies had killed It. By Viahnett S. Martin Surely sardines packed In East port, Maine, are no belter than sardines caught and packed on our Pacific Coast! I was sur prised, lor two reasons, when EJ brought home some tinned sar dines; surprised to find they had been packed In Maine and so had come all the way across the coun try, or around the Canal talk about carrying coals to New castle! and was surprised to think EJ would consider sardines as a late-snack Item. He eats the most extraordinary conglomera tion of this and that just before he goes to sleep, and sleeps like a baby, but he has never seemed Interested In sardines,' probably because he lived on them for three days during the 1916 storm In Galveston. Sardines and handsful of all kinds of sweet crackers. Who donated the sar dines? Must ask him. Faclflc or Atlantic Coast pack? - EJ stayed that first night In the 11-story American Insurance building; he entered by swim ming through the aperture where a plate glass window had been. He had lots of company, all cold, wet and hungry. They kept track of the rising water by counting the steps from the first landing ' H-ti-n tn the water The atpnc He had intended to make his j In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) that it does have to he there is no way out of it. that u P in Alaska, as elsewhere, they are bothered by the problem of getting enough tax money to go around. A bill has been intro duced In the territorial legisla ture that at least has the merit of simplicity. It calls lor a terri torial income tax with payments amounting to ten per cent of fed eral income taxes. That has the local advantage of shoving most of the cost off onto Uncle Sam. He hires the or ganization to see to it that fed eral taxes are apportioned out to the people. The territory says simply to the local taxpayer: "Give me ten percent of the sum you're going to have to put up to your old uncle in Washington." I I.I. over the country licenses and occupation taxes are get- ting a lot of attention. In addi tion to Ihe 10 percent Income tax. j Alaska proposes also a SJ5 fee to i lie paid by all business, profes ( slops and services, plus one-half I of one percent of gross receipts j above SJO.000 a year. wiesiaieoi asniugion, w nose ; governor has Just called for 75; million to 100 million dollar In i n,,w ri,VPml(1 , ,,, ,., j , , ,. . , lal Impending deficit, wants retail sales tax on PERSONAL , SERVICES - such as those per- formed by doctors, lawyers, den - tM' aml barber.. Washington al- j ready has a sales tax. The new : Familiarity Breeds Contempt ill way out to where his brother, J. W., and his sister-in-law were living In a two-story frame house, but gave up. Sarah was expect ing a baby soon; sne was upstairs in the house. Now and then JW would descend to the first floor and return with a cheerful re port that it was "no worse" he guessed, or "letting up a bit." (I meant to ask Sarah when she was here this summer if she really did believe him or if she helped him along by pretending she did?) Early in the storm, JW opened the front door to have a look and the howling wind hurtled a big tree across the front of the house, ripping off the front porch, and taking that along too. JW braced the door as best he could; after that he, too, just counted steps . . . but didn't inform Sarah of his tally. There's one thing about an earthquake; The ocean stayed where It belonged and didn't come up into the town; neither did the ships, which In Galveston were left high and dry by the storm. And oh, what gratitude the people of Long Beach felt for the 3,000 sailors and marines who, armed and efficient, were ashore in 45 minutes, patrolling and aiding wherever needed. proposal would merely extend the sales tax to Include personal services. The legislator who thought up the idea calls it a "logical step," and adds that "people might as well realize right now that this legislature must Impose some new taxes If the state is to remain financially solvent." ALONG time ago, a wise philosopher offered this con elusion: "The best tax is the one gets the most feathers from the goose with the least squawking." MEANWHILE, we get an inter esting little story from Phila delphia, where police have Just seized $1,500.01X1 worth of Irish Sweepstakes tickets. At the same time, they nabbed 50.000 tickets on the Grand National Steeple chase In England. i in- jiwiui sc, -111.1 u if Mini. pie yell bloody murder about taxes but LOVE TO GAMBLE. H ERE in our own Oregon, Sen ator Irving Rand nf Portland proposes a dirty trick. He says he's thinking of appointing him self to the job of keeping score on bow each Oregon senator is fulfilling his campaign promises. He adds that legislators are go- Ing to have a hard time living up io ineir promises because "some potential dandies were tossed Into the recent campaign." Xha, w ,d b nili M political belt. In this country we've more or less built up the ida that the wav to get office is to PROMISE ANYTHING during the campaign and expect the saps to forget it after election. Remember, uow RltfUTeNEP OF HIM luecTooeTwHEM HE WA JUST A little one Billion collar KITTEN 7 High Crime Rate Blame Fixed By Director of FBI WASHINGTON, Jan. 18-4?) One out of every 20 persons in the United States has been ar rested and fingerprinted at one time or another, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover says. The FBI last year handled a record total of 759,698 finger prints resulting from arrest, Hoover reported, adding that the arrests Involved more 21-year-olds than any other age group. 'The continued high crime rate in the present peacetime era," he said, "is a serious reflection upon the failure of adult Americans in the discharge of their responsibil ities of citizenship. "Many communities have failed to provide law enforcement agen cies with adequate facilities and sufficient funds for operational and training programs to meet the present-day crime menace. The need for sufficient recrea tional facilities to absorb leisure time has been overlooked to the detriment of voungsters. "Many Individuals, indifferent to the responsibilities of parent hood, have failed to provide their children with proper training and adequate supervision during adolescent years. "Home life, in many instances, has been neglected and too many youngsters have suffered as the result of broken homes." The 1948 statistics showed that while 15.3 percent of the total arrests were among persons un der 21, these minors accounted for 44.7 percent of all auto-theft arrests, 38.5 percent of all burg lary arrests, 3:.,6 percent of all rape arrests, 27.1 percent of all robbery arrests, 25.9 percent of all general theft arrests, and 12.3 percent of all murder arrests. Compared with 1941, the ar rests of boys under 21 was up 3.1 percent last year, while arrests of girls under 21 Jumped 20.9 percent. Of the total arrest records pro cessed in 1948, 410.87258 per cent showed previous arrests. The repeaters among persons un der 21 totaled 33.5 percent, among those between 40 and 44 years of age, 70.5 percent. The repeaters In the age group 25 to 29 ran to 61.4 percent. Navy Asks Congress For More Money WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 Pi- The Navy signalled Congress to day that more money Is needed if It is to keep pace with the atomic era. It estimated that its operating costs in the fiscal year endin? June 30 will "again exceed ap propriations hv more than SI. 000.OlX1.OiX)" and that it won't be able to keep on drawing upon dwindling wartime stockpiles nl enninmenr tn mnk. nn tha Hiffor. I eilCe. Some senators who helD hold the nation's purse strings prompt ly said they thought the emphasis should be on air power rather than ships. Secretary of the Navy John I.. Sullivan In his annual report, is sued over the weekend, advised the Congress that the Navy's dol lars "in their shrunken condi tion" have failed to accomplish all that was planned for them. "Technological advances which have greatly increased the range. efecliveness. power and speed of weapons, planes and ships have also greatly Increased their com plexity and cost," he added. President Truman in his budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, suggested a three-wav split of about $14,000,000,000 for the armed forces, composed of the Army, the Air Force and the Navy. Classified advertising Is as near as your telephone phone 100. Flood of Gadgets Shows Science Needs Someone to Holler 'Whoa' By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK. The poor man's philosopher says: Science needs someone to holler "whoa!" Right now. Before something climbs out of a laboratory and overwhelms the human race. What's going on here? What's buzzin'. cousin? Where are these test tube savants and nabobs of nuclear energy taking us? What have the blimp Jockeys got com ing up next on science's radar? Who's In such a' hurry to go where? The warplane? It's a toy of the past or soon will be. The atom bomb that was supposed to have the power to destruy civilization is getting to be old stuff, too. The military is reported to be plan ning a man-made platform in the ionosphere a circling satellite to serve as a kind of pitcher's box from which to throw the weapons of the future. Space ships and rockets to the moon they are in the offing. Only optimists will buy a round trip ticket. As if these Jules Verne night mares weren't enough, a British scientist has come up with a hor ror to end all horrors a mechan ical brain. And that's why somebody'd bet ter yell "whoa!" right now to the hoys who burn the midnight bunsens. This scientist. Dr. W. R. Ashby, helped build a machine which he says is beginning to think. Well, there you are the machine at last is on a mental par with man. For man, after all his stormy cen turies, is only beginning to think, too. Illusion Corrected It's been a fraud all along this idea that man was master and the machine the slave. People used to have a fear that the machine would throw them out of work. That was nonsense. The machine intended all along to put molt and more people to work and to make them keep working, too. And it has. When the original traitor to mankind discovered the first ma chine the wheel how many men had to labor for a living? And how many have to work now? Millions upon millions more. The machine led man Into slav erv slowly. The saying arose: "All you have to do to get ahead is to put your shoulder to the wheel." Ho, ha, ha! Does that sat isfy the machine today? No, it demands your whole an atomy. To drive a car to work you have to climb completely in side the machine. You have to use your head, your hands, your feet, your eyes, your nerves, your muscles and often your vocal chords. And when you get to work Is the machine willing to let you put merely vour shoulder to the wheel? N'o! It demands now that you keep your nose to the grind stone tne last Indignity. Robot's Wants Envisaged Dr. Ashby bases his belief that his machine is beginning to think on the fact it automatically ad Justs its electrical balance to make itself feel more "comfort able." Well, the desire to he more com fortable Is a fundamental quality of all life from a one-cell amoe ba to a one-trunk elephant. Dr. Ashby sees no limit to the com plexity of thought the hrain ma chine may achieve in time. So it is silly to think It will be satisfied with Just adjusting its electrical balance. It's going to want the good things of life song, feminine companionship, wine, laughter, freedom. But the only way the machines can get these things, as they wisen up, is to make mankind work harder to support them in the style to which they will want to become accus tomed. There goes the 40-hour week. Machines already are too smart to wage wars. When they hit their real brain stride, the ma chines will probably keep armies of pet men and bet on the out come of their mortal but point less battles Just as some men now bet on two trained roosters slashing each other to aimless death in a bloody pit. All right, go ahead and laugh at a poor philosopher. People laughed at the Wright brothers -INSURANCE- LIFE AUTO FIRE State Farm Mutual Insurance ROSE A ALLEN P. O. Box 4S9 Phone 288 116 W. Cass Over Douglas County Bank when perhaps they should have V,eu,'t Hnn't hlame me if your great-great-grandson meekly has to carry a breakfast tray in every morning to a sieii-imwu . ing abed witn a creatty nangover a breakfast tray carrying, per haps, a shot of Bourbon with a fuel oil chaser. The best thing science can do with all thinking machines is to throw sand in them strip em from gear to gear. Now! Capital Taking On Inaugural Dress WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -? This 150-year-old federal city just about finished dressing up today for the nation's 41st inaugural ceremony one that may go ill NEW LOCATION! Dr. H. B. Scofield Palmer Chiropractor Rifle Range Road 410 mi. North of County Shops Office Houri 10-12 and 3-8 Saturdayi 10-12 A. M. X-ray neuro-calometer ervlc fof Dinal correction m Plumbing's An Art l.t takes mora than a knack for tinkering" to be a good plumber. Because we are craftsmen at our trade we take a Justifiable pride ao oompllshlng exceptional work. Pay for your plumbing on terms If you wish. KIER-CROOCH 318 Mill St. Pine and Saw im Him lf iifTOriTTJ Missionary Rally Tonite 7:45 P. M. Rev. and Mrs. Ray Jackson, returned from Dutch East Indies (having narrowly escaped from Jap invasion) will speak an important message to all! Drive-ln Cleaners Phone 173-R for Free Pick-Up and Delivery 705 S. Stephens Plenty of Free Parking Space down in history as the most fes tive of all. Out of town visitors who began streaming in for an entire week of celebrating saw a mass of white enveloping the stand and seats built in front of the great domed Capitol where Harry S Truman and Alben W. Barkley will take the oath as President and Vice President Thursday at 9 a. m. (PST). They saw the circus rams 0f more somber hue stretched out along well-trod Pennsylvania Avenue awaiting some of the 750. 000 or 1,000,000 persons expected to see all or part of the formal launching of the Truman "fair deal. Lamp posts clutch American flags and blue-gold presidential seals on shields of wood. Another great white pine-boarded stand has been constructed in front of the White House where the Pres. ident will watch a two-and-a-half, hour parade of troops, cadets, bands and state floats in which 40.000 persons will take part. GUARANTEED RADIATOR REPAIRING L0CKW00D MOTORS Roieburg, Oregon Phone 110 PLUMBING CO. Phone 1242-R Flocd Streets i JUST ONE IDEA: Casement Doors, that add so much charm to a room, are but one of many Mill Work features we can suggest for im proving your home. Modern Mill Work not only adds to a home's beauty, but to solid value as well. Our Mill Work can make your house Modern as tomorrow inexpensively!