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JAMES FORRESTAL, HERO
War leaves a tragic wake.
Crippled bodies, warped minds, exhausted nerves fill hos
pitals, convalescent homes and domiciliary facilities with
men who require treatment and care over long periods of
time before they can return to normal life. Many will never
recover completely and some must forever remain wards of
a grateful government.
That this tragedy of war is not confined alone to the men
who faced an enemy in armed battle, but may claim for its
victims those who fought on the home front, is proven by
the death of James V. Forrestal, the nation's first secretary
of defense, who took his own life Sunday in a 16-story leap
from the Naval hospital where he was receiving treatment
following a collapse from nervous exhaustion. His condition
was brought about through patriotic devotion to duty: the
Btrain of overwork and responsibility that continued beyond
the limits of human endurance.
forrestal had no reason to give so much of himself to his
country's service other than the impelling drive from his
own conscience. He had ample wealth to permit a life of
ease and comfort. He left an important civilian position to
accept at much lower pay a post in government service. His
ability, demonstrated In an assistant's office during the war,
made him an outstanding choice as the country s lirst tie'
fense secretary under the program for unification of the
armed services. Undoubtedly petty quarrels between the
services and their "brass" irT resisting unification contrib
uted much to the overwork and strain which finally brought
about the collapse of a strong body and brilliant mind.
Perhaps Forrestal's martrydom for the cause of unifica
tion will break down some of the spit-and-polish, school-tie
obstacles thrown in the path of the plan for consolidating
military services.
Forrestal's name should be placed high on the list of men
who bravely sacrificed their lives for their country.
The Answer Is Still No!
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Flight 179 out of San Francisco
for Portland, was not without In
cidentat least for Mrs. Alger
non liltwuns. The weather had
nothing to do with it, for all there
was a 600-foot celling, rain, and
a 50-mlle tailwlnd. To be sure,
Mrs. B, who had not thought to
look at the schedule for her re
turn trip, was surprised when
they landed almost at once at
Oakland; for a moment she even
thought It an emergency land
ing! She was more surprised when
she learned they were heading
for Klamath Falls. She had gone
down via Medford and Eureka.
That was why she had urged Mr.
Bltyuns to be sure and meet her
in Medford so they would finish
the trip together!
There were only four passen
gers: th man who sat by him
self in the front seat, and the
throe in the center who chatted
about this and that. When the
stewardess had time, sht joined
them.
They seemed to find It very
funny that Mr. Bltwuns might be
waiting t Medford for a plane
that wouldn't be even visible
from there . . . finally even Mrs.
B laughed. (She hoped Agie
would!)
When Flight Captain McKelvey
came through he was sure "the
agent at Eugene would stop Mr.
Bltwuns; he'd be sure to men
tion meeting flight 179." Then
he pointed out Mt. Shasta. The
pretty college student (who could
see Mt. Shasta from her living
room windows in Klamath Falls,)
exclaimed: "Why, Mt. Shasta was
never on that side of the plane
before." The others thought that
was funny, because Mt. Shasta
looked anything but tempera
mental.
In due time, Klamath Falls and
the pretty student were left be
hind, and they passed Mt. Mc-
Loughlln: "Looks just like Fu
jiyama!" said Captain McKelvey.
The sun was shining everywhere
now, this being Oregon; the pour
ing rain had been left behind In
California, where the weather
had been "most unusual" ail dur
ing Mrs. B's visit there.
When the plane set down there
was Mr. Bltwuns behind the bar
rier. He, It happened, had looked
at Mrs. B's schedule and decided
to meet her where he would be
sure to find her: Eugene!
In the Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
West Coast Airlines
Report Shows Profit
SEATTLE, May 24. -(ai West
Coast Airlines has reported a net
. profit of $23,500 for 19-18, its first
year or. mil operation irom nen
Ingham, Wash., to Medford, Ore,
Reelection of the board of dl
rectors was announced Saturday.
The board includes Chet (.umler
son of Portland; E. K. Bishop.
Aberdeen; Nick Bez, H. A. Hunt
er, W. A. Castleton, George Gunn.
D. K. McDonald and William
Calvert, of Seattle.
'Scientist X' Slated
For Congress Probe
WASHINGTON, May 24. i.V
The mysterious "Scientist X," ac
cused last year of giving atomic
ecreta to a Communist organiz
er, was reported today to be a su-1
pervlsor of students holding
atomic energy study fellowships.
Sources close to congressional
sp-hunllng activities said they
understood that is his present po
slllon. These sources said "Scientist
X" and several ottier supervisors
will he called before a House sub
commit top soon.
"Sclenl 1st X" never has been
identified, though he has figured
in House Un-American Activities
Committee Investigations for sev
eral months. He is said to have
worked at the radiation labora
lories at Berkeley, Calif., during
the war on atomic energy development.
8000 Waakilaa
There are over 8i0 weekly
newspapers now being published
in the 1'nlted Stales, according
to a survey conducted early In
19-19.
duty. If the jury system breaks
down (for any reason) our whole
modern political structure will go
to pieces with immense loss to
everybody.
But motherhood Is also a pub
lic duty. If mothers train their
children right, courts and Juries
will have far less to do. A mother
who raises three children right
Is doing her duty to the public.
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This is a good place to observe
that we have some strange ideas
as to public service. Included
among them is the more or less
prevailing fee of $3 a day for
Jury duly.
It doesn't appear reasonable
that the founders of our system
had the Idea that Jury duly should
be poorly paid, because In those
now far-off times $3 a day wasn't
bad compensation. The oddity
arises out of the fact that while
salaries of other servants of the
public have risen somewhat in
proportion to other increases, the
S.1aday Jury has survived to a
surprising extent.
There must be a reason. It can't
be simply because we regard serv
ice on a Jury as WORTH no more
than three dollars per diem. No
one could be so utterly dumb as
to think that.
part of It for the good of the pub
lic. Such an attitude is short
sighted, as well as contemptible,
for the public's business Is
EVERYBODY'S business, and if
the public's business suffers
everybody will suffer. You can
paste that In your hat.
But I still CHn't believe that a
mother of three children should
be compelled to pay $2 a day for
the privilege of serving her com
munlly and her country on a Jury
panel. Nor, for that matter, can
I see any Justice in taking a wage
worker away from a better paid
Job and making him serve on a
Jury for $3 a day.
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rIAT follows here may sound
a little radical, but It isn't.
I CAN see why a person whose
earnings are well above the level
of mere subsistence should be
willing and ready to serve on a
Jury for S2 a day or for noth
ing, so far as that Is concerned.
Such a person has benefited
materially from our free enter
prise system and should feel that
he Is doing no more than his
plain duty when he gives some
of his time to the maintenance
of our governmental system.
LETTERS
to the Editor
Roseburg Fire Chief Has
No Desire To Retire
ROSEBURG. During the past
few weeks I have had so many
people ask me, "How come you
are quitting the fire depart
ment?1' that I think it only fair
to the public that I advise of the
facts.
On Feb. 15, the city manager
wrote a letter to the Volunteer
Fire Department stating that I
would be required to retire as of
May 31, 1949, at about S45 per
month, because of the fact that
I would attain the age of 60
years on May 18.
The public employes retirement
act also provides that firemen
and police may be retained on a
yearly basis after they reach the
60-year retirement age, which has
been done in many cases through
out the state and Is being done
here in Roseburg at the County
uourtnouse.
It is not my desire to retire and
I am sure it is not the wishes of
the taxpayers, businessmen and
residents of this city that I re
ceive this sort of treatment after
spending a lifetime for the bet
terment of the fire department
37 years to be exact.
1 regret very much having
been placed In this position but
assure you that It has been
through no fault of mine, as I
have actually devoted 16 to 18
hours a day to my work since
becoming a city employe Jan. 1,
1933, and prior to that having
served 20 years as a volunteer.
GLENN H. TAYLOR,
City Fire Chief.
Roseburg, Ore.
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must be because we have the
inctive feeling that Jury
service is a IMPORTANT that
good citizens should be willing to
make sacrl flees In order to per
form It when they are called. Cer
tainly nothing is more contempt
ible than the spectacle of a sup
posedly good citizen trying to
wriggle out of Jury duty for no
better reason than that he wants
to devote (11 his time to his OWN
business instead of giving up a
Three Roseburg Students
Awarded Scholarships
UNIVERSITY OK OREGON.
Eugene. Mav 24. iSueotall H.-i.
ty Hunter, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred H. Hunter. Roseburg,
and a Junior In English': James
Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Belle
Sanders. 133 N. Parratt. and l-o-relta
C. Mulvey. 1048 Corev Ave.,
senior student' in Roseburg high
school, have been awarded tuition
fee scholai-shina for the school
year of im'i.'x) at the University
of Oregon by the Oregon Stale
System of Higher Education.
To be eligible, students who
have prevlmu.y attended an In
stitution of higher learning must
have a grade point average of
2.50 or above and an entering
student must rank in the upper
third of his high school graduat
ing class.
Objections Registered
To World Calendar Plan
ROSEBUR G. Exception Is
hereby taken to the proposed
"World Calendar" described un
der by-line of Jane Eads in Thurs
day's paper. Far from being the
panacea for business, education,
sports and the like, this new cal
endar being sponsored by the
World Calendar Association will
create dissensions cutting deep
Into the moral and religious fiber
of every conscientious Christian
home. i
This World Calendar, along
with its very fine objective of
equal months and quarters, pro
poses the addition of an "eighth"
or "blank" day at the end of the
52nd week of every year and of
the 26th week in leap years. Of
course, fancy names are given to
tliese extra days, termed holidays,
hut which still must be accounted
for by every utility, every milk
distributor, every farmer, every
railroad handling perishables,
every policeman, fireman, bus
driver, hotel clerk, and so on al
most without number. It is readi
ly to be seen by thinking people
iViat ALL business Just can't be
shut down for one day and not
make some accounting for it in
payroll and production records,
etc.
Worse than this, this "eighth"
day interposed at the end of each
year will disrupt the continuity
of the traditional seven-day week
ly cycle observed by Catholics,
l'rotestants and Jews for millen
niums. To establish such an Invasion
Into the religious rights of any
minority by law is a violation of
our concept of freedom of re
ligion, for which a war was Just
fought. It is contrary to the
spirit of our Constitution.
From my many years of study
of this and other calendar re
vision plans, I urge each reader
of this letter to protest strongly
to his congressman the passage
of any such threat to religious
harmonv in America.
E. F. NORTHROP.
946 Military St.
Fire Kills Child
Day Father Due
From Overseas
MT. VERNON, May 24. (JP
A two-and-a-half year-old girl was
burned to death and her mother
and brother suffered serious
burns Monday as fire destroyed
their home here, Fire Chief Ro
land Thomas reported.
The victim was Kathleen Close.
Her mother, Mrs. Lester B. Close,
27, escaped from the home with a
son, Michael, one year old. Both
suffered critical degree burns on
the head and body.
Another son, 5-year-old Bruce,
was playing outside when the
fire started and was not injured.
Thomas said the flames swept
through the two-story, frame
structure so quickly that no ef
forts could be made to save Kath
leen. Thomas reported when fire
men arrived, the hysterical moth
er told them the child was in an
upstairs room, but when the
blaze was put out, firemen found
her in a downstairs crib.
Close, a Navy chief petty offi
cer, was to arrive here today
from San Francisco. He recently
returned to this country from
duty In the Orient.
Communist Leaders OpenDefense In N. Y. Trial
NEW YORK, May 24.
Eleven top U. S. Communist lead
ers opened their defense Monday
after Federal Judge Harold R.
Medina refused to dismiss con
spiracy charges against them.
John W. Gates, editor of the
Daily Worker and one of the de
fendants, was the first defense
witness to take the stand.
Gates and the others are charg
ed with conspiring to advocate
the overthrow of the United
States government.
The government rested Its
case last Thursday after 123 days
of evidence and argument.
Judge Medina on Friday denied
a defense motion for a mistrial.
He repeated the denial Monday.
Also denied were motions for
acquittal, for dismissal on grounds
of insufficient proof and to strike
out testimony given by undercov
er agents planted In Communist
ranks by the FBI.
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State Timber Harvest
Tax Revenue Declines
SALEM. Mav 24 lm rv.Ho,.-
tions from the slate timhAr har
vest tax totaled $263,085 in the
past nine months, or 58,000 less
than for the similar period a year
ago, State Tax Commissioner
Wallace S. Wharton reports.
Collections In the first three
months of this vear wprp nnlv
$33,492, compared with $101,218
in the first three months last
vear. This dron was paused hv
the severe winter weather which
hampered logging operations.
F. W. Leadbetter Oregon
Estate Is Reappraised
PORTLAND. Mav S4. (JP
The Oregon estate of Frederick
William Leadbetter, lumber and
pulp industrialist who died last
December in Los Angeles, has
been appraised at $276,687.50.
About $190,000 of the amount Is
in 2,500 acres of industrial
North Portland tracts. He placed
the land in a trust with funds to
go to Willamette University.
The bulk of the remaining por
tion was to be distributed to relatives.
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