4 Thi Newt-keview, Roieburg, Or. Sat., June 4, 1949 Published Daily Exoept Sunday by tho News-Review Company, Inc. En U fid tectnd class matltr Mr T, 1". t Hoiebuif, Oregon, Badtr Ml f rch t, U7S CHARLES V. 8TANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor nU Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publlshere Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Rer.enl'f by WEST-IIOI.LIDAY CO., INC., rflrci la New Tork, Chlcai. Han Fnncisc, Lob Angelca, StaltU, Part Una, 81. LcbIs. TTRfBlPTinM iitpi I. Dfin-R Mail rmr Tr IS. 04. la man tha 14. M, thr monlhi lt.50. By CUjr Ctrrler Per year Slt-.Oft fin advance), lm than en rear, per month ll.Of. Ontilda Oregon Bjr Mall Par yaar .. lit monfna 14.73. inrao monina a;, to. A STUDY OF POPULATION Writing in the current issue of Oregon Business Review, monthly publication from the Bureau of Business Research, University of Oregon, Dr. Elon H. Moore, head of the De partment of Sociology, and Mr. John F. Staehle, teaching fellow at the University, calculate that Oregon a population will grow from the 1948 estimated 1,615,000 to 2,097,000 by 1960. They predict in iheir report, prepared for the Pacific Coast Board of Intergovernmental Relations, that 100,000 of the 482,000 anticipated increase in population, will settle in the five counties of Southwestern Oregon, giving this area a higher rate of growth than any other part of the state. For the state as a whole they predict a population gain of about 30 percent between 1948 and 1960, as compared with an increase of 48 percent for the period from 1940-1948. They also predict that the in-migrant population will be predominantly in the younger adult age group a group having more freedom to move about the country seeking opportunity for employment and advancement. The two writers give no estimates for population gains by counties in the Southwestern Oregon area, treating the five counties as a single geographical unit, but we believe it is obvious that Douglas County may be expected to have the highest rate of gain of any of the five counties, due to its industrial possibilities. Estimates made by the analysts, however, can be greatly exceeded if, prior to 1960, we succeed in obtaining better utilization of the resource upon which our Umpqua Basin economy is based. We can more than double the estimates if jobs, potentially available through utilization of materials now being wasted, can be created. The lumber industry is now going through a period of re adjustment." Prices are unsettled, the market is weak, orders are few and the future uncertain. The industry as a whole is apprehensive and the uncertainty is reflected in local economy. But while the lumber market wavers, industry is crying for industrial molasses. Molasses can be made from wood waste. We have ample mill waste in the Umpqua Basin to support at least three plants each capable of producing three tank carloads of molasses per day. If we had those plants in operation, employment could be shifted from lumber to molasses production. Loggers, instead of being idle part of the time, could be salvaging down timber. Truckers, instead of biting their fingernails because of worry over their heavy investments and lack of income, could be hauling salvaged logs to molasses plants. Thus we would be maintaining em ployment and firm economy without using one stick of saw mill timber utilizing entirely materials now being burned or left to rot. Someday we will have specialized manufacturing plants, pulp mills, furniture factories, alcohol and molasses plants, rayon factories and facilities for producing atlhesives, chem icals and other products from wood, The sad part is that these higher utilization operations normally do not come until the resource nears exhaustion. Here in the -Umpqua Basin we are utilizing less than one-third of the resource probably not more than one-fourth. Yet more than one-half the material now being burned or left to rot could be sal vaged and utilized. If we had plants for utilizatiqn of wood waste, we would reduce the peaks and depressions in the forest products Industry, stabilize local economies and pro duce jobs to support thousands of wage earners and their families. If our starry-eyed, wren-brained, plnk-tingcd "do-gooders" would forget their socialistic nationalization schemes for a little while and study how the federal government could promote more jobs through stimulating utilization of waste products, we could really be achieving something worthwhile. I Ever Try To Sell An Out-Of-Date Number i II If r. Url .-yts... III "f.U MIA T-- ' .YMEl V7 'W ' Wmm B" via!ltt S. Martin h J Because a Montana cowboy lost his physical sight, 36 years ago, countless thousands have been blessed. You see, that cow boy was J. Albert Atkinson, pres ent vice president and managing director of Braille Institute of America, Inc., a nonprofit, non sectarian, nation wide . institute devoted to the social and eco nomic welfare of the blind. Small wonder that this 33 sug gestions printed in a folder for distribution as a guide to the sighted who want to help but sometimes make blunders, Is in teresting reading! "Some Don'ts to do." ,; ' I do wish that you would send for one! Address Braille Insti tute, 741 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, 27, Calif. - It would be nice to Include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. I learn ed so much from the leaflet! But I was writing about Mr. Atkin son. At the time the cowboy lost his sight there was no Institution, public or private, west of the Mississippi, where an adult could turn for help In self-rehabilitation, getting adjusted to his new life, learning to be independent as possible. So Mr. Atkinson spent seven years figuring things out lor him self. Then he began the Braille Press which later became the present Braille Institute (an or ganization without a branch any where), which has been blessing the world lor the past 30 years. It was founded In 1919; Incorpor ated in 1929. Is It strange that help should be forthcoming to this courage ous venture? Mr. and Mrs. John M, Longyear of Brookllne, Mass., for years anonymous by their own request, gave $25,000, the only 'string' being that Mr. At kinson should have full responsi bility ... see to It that the wel fare for the blind be done with out discrimination as to race, creed or color, and that the Braille Institute be non-sectarian, and non-profit. This did not mean it could not accept gifts and en dowmentsof course It could! and still asks lor them. To tell about the work there would fill a book. If requested, I think a folder "Braille In Picture and Prose" would be included with the other folder. Social Security Benefit Rolls Near 3,000,000 With social security benefit rolls approaching the three mil lion mark in the United States. the Eugene office of the Social Security Administration is han dling a greatly increased work load, according to its manager, raui . jonnson. Claims applications filed dur ing the first five months of 1949 lumped to 700 for the period. an increase of nearly 30 percent over receipts aunng tne same period, 1948. Applications for So cial Security account number cards are approximately the same mis year as lor the same period jasi year. The Old-Age and Survivors In surance part of the Social Se curity Act provides payments to retired workers, their wives, and unmarried children under 18 years, and to their survivors in case of death. A representative of the Eu gene field office will be at the Oregon State Employment Serv ice office in Roseburg on Tues day, June 7, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and noon. Every one who wishes assistance in filing a claim for Social Security Deneins or wno has any ques tion concerning the Social Se curity Act, should contact him at that time, Johnson said. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) For three years and more we have kept an industrious people In idleness. Now, our officials tell us, an Industrial crisis Is ap proaching and all they can think of to head it off is a PWA program. r AR is bad business, any way you look at It. It Is WORSE business when vengeance is per- mlltarl tn 1 1 nat mmmnn uni. The problem of utilization of waste is not confined alone , hiding. to forests but involves all products of the soil. We could be creating billions of dollars of new wealth, and clearing slums by spreading population, if we would but use money now going into political grants and subsidies in a program of recovering values from products now being wasted. Processes for utilization of waste from forests, orchards, cane, corn and wheat fields, have been well established. They require only initial pioneering. We believe it would be far more practical to use $19 billion to install facilities to utilize waste resources and thus create many thousands of new jobs, than to use the same amount of money to clear slums in our big cities and subsidize un employed, or low-income families to live in government-built shelters. The slum dwellers could be benefitted far more if moved out of their tenements into areas where they could find steady and profitable employment converting waste products into valuable commercial materials. Give us that kind of a program and the population esti mates furnished by the University professors would be blown sky-high. practice of our federal political system. In 80-odd years, we"ve never been able to erase the lines of bitter cleavage that followed the Mrs. Smith's Body Will Be Brought Here For Burial The body of Mrs. William Woe ber (Genevieve Miller) Smith, who died Wednesday in New York City, is being brought to Roseburg for burial. Mrs. Smith, motner oi Mrs. Charles Crlng, waving of the bloody shirt for fSSSl.t many, many years after the Civil War. We're seeing NOW In Europe the harvesting of the bitter fruit that grows on the tree of venge ance. hope you'll pardon me for this outburst of preaching. Every now and then something gets me started at It, and I can't seem to stop.) The Good Book has something worth while to say on that sub jectas on sa many others. It tells us: "Vengeance is MINE, salth the Lord." That is good advice. We'd bet ter leave vengeance to the Lord and take ours out In tolerance, hard work and sensible planning. M' W Girl Scouts Plan To Form County Committee Representatives of Girl Scout troops from Sutherlln, Myrtle Creek and Roseburg met Wednes day night with Mrs. Marjorie S. Kafer, community advisor of Girl Scouts for this area to com- Slete plans for a Douglas County Irl Scout committee. The committee will be made up of representatives from each com munity having Girl Scouting and meet monthly. Mrs. James Joyce of Roseburg will serve as the chairman of the committee. Com pletion of plans for a leadership training course to be given with in the near future will be the first undertaking of this newly formed committer. Girl Scout membership In Douglas County has grown In the past year lo over 250 enrollees and approximately 50 adult lead ers and volunteers. This includes Girl Scout troops In Sutherlln, Roseburg, Myrtle Creek, Yoncalla. Nonpareil and Rlee Vallev. New troops arc being organized In Glendale and Canyonvllle. E have in our history a tradi tion that we ought to study attentively and follow with prayer. At Appomatox, Lee Is supposed to have said to Grant: "General, what shall I tell my (cavalry) men to do with their horses?" Grant Is supposed to have re plied: "Tell 'em to take 'em horn and go to plowing corn and cotton with 'em." AYBE this one would be good to close on: In Des Moines (Iowa) the other day a car owner lost his shirt when a garage owner presented ! him a bill for 51.50 for EXAMIN ING his gearshift to see what (If anything) should be done to make it run better. He blew his top and deliberately CRASHED HIS CAR THROUGH THE GARAGE DOOR. It cost him $300 to fix the en suing damage. IF what Grant said to Lee had been carried out in practice the scan of our bloody Civil War would soon have healed. It wasn't done. Instead, hate and venge ance were permitted to rule the dealings of the victorious North with the defeated South. As a re sult we have to this day the strange political phenomenon known as the Solid South, which still upsets the whole theory and Wife Of Suspended Cop Kills Herself And Son SEATTLE. June 3 (.PI The 25year-old wife of a suspended motorcycle patrolman used her husband's service pistol to end her own life and that of her 4-.war-old son, police reported to night. Neighbors ald George Robert Horn was napping on the front lawn yesterday afternoon when four shots sounded from the house. Investigating, Horn and neighbors found two farewell notes, neither supplying a motive for the act, and the bodies of Mrs. Honz and the boy. Honz recently received a five day suspension from the Seattle police force for speeding. Honz, 29, said that his wife had been extremely nervous and that while he was In military service In 1S4B he received leave to come home from Okinawa because of her condition. In the Catholic cemetery beside the body of her husband, who died here three years ago. Mrs. Smith, who was 61 years of age, was the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. George Miller, and was born at St. Marvs, Kan. She was educated In the Con vent of the Sacred Heart, St. Louis, Mo. She was the mother of seven surviving daughters. Mi's. John Shlach, Seattle; Motner Margaret Smith, Convent of the Sacred Heart, N. Y.; Mrs. Cring, Rose burg: Miss Jane Patricia Smith, N. Y.; Mrs. Charles Pingbank, Stamford, Conn.; Mrs. Arthur Norman Seymour Jr., Norwalk, Conn., and Mrs. Seymour, Suth erlln. She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Phillip Kreuscher, Milwau kee, Wis.; a brother, Edward Miller, Los Angeles, and eight grandchildren. Funeral services, which are to be private, will be arranged by the Roseburg Funeral Home. U. S. Health Law Certain Morse EUGENE, June 3. (.TV The U. S. is going to get health legis lation whether the doctors want It or not. Senator Wayne Morse said here last night. He told a Eugene audience that the medical profession is in the same position that organized labor was in 1947. "Labor then thought that no labor legislation should or could be passed by Congress. But the labor leaders were told they were acting out of the framework of public opinion. Health legisla tion is going to be passed in the V. S. within the next decade" Morse said. He continued, "I take the posi tion that we should not make doctors employes of the state. but if organized medicine takes the position that no legislation will be passed, and. If thev want to take on the politicians In a puuiicai ngnt on tnat assump tion, they will lose. The people want health legislation." Boy In Germany Aids Band To Attend Rose Fete BUTTE, Mont., June 4. IIP) A youngster In Germany has a hand in sending the Butte High School band to Portland's Rose Festival. Shaun Murphy, 13, sent $5 from Esshlngen, Germany, to help pay for the band's trip, and with it came a letter which said he had saved the money from the SI he gets each week for practicing on the piano one hour each day. "I'm glad It goes to the town I still love best in all the world. Butte, Mont.," he wrote. The boy lived here for five years with an uncle and aunt while his father, Capt. John Murphy, was in the Air Force. Since leaving here he has lived in several European countries with his parents. His father sti.' is In the air force, stationed in Germany. ine autte band will take part In the Rose Festival band lam- boree which will attract 2.000 high school musicians June 9. Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. i Douglas County State Bank Tht hHnP sfirimn tVttinri all fiuor the world. ri rpnrnrinnoH hu nn. fertilized eggs. Phone 100 If you do not receive your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 yiHMAliaiyrV 1 -':? AUTO-TRUCK GENERAL LIABILITY' FIRE Log Truckers for insurance tee our agents at Glendale, Canyonvillc, Rid dle, Myrtle Creek, Elkron, Drain, Suth erlin, and Roseburg. All in Douglas County. They will serve you. Paul H. Krueger District Agent 36 S. Stephens St. Roseburg Phone il 8 Why We Caution: . . . choose jewelers before choosing gems! You see, Just anyone may call himself a "jeweler." There are no fed eral or state laws requiring examination of his gem-knowledge, honesty or integrity, such as those governing your doctor, lawyer or investment broker. This void leaves the door dangerously open to as many kinds of people as make up the world. Some are pillars of honesty others, unfortunately, are totally unreliable as to advice and trustworthiness. For example, just any "jeweler" might describe a gem as "blue-white," implying great value. When in reality, that gem could be highly inferior in its color as well as in other equally important requisites such os clarity and cutting. There are countless other ways in which the buyer could be con fused and deceived. Since it is impossible for the layman to accurately evaluate a gem simply by looking, he must lean upon his jeweler's honesty, scientific instruments, and specialized gem-knowledge. But how does one know if his jeweler has these qualities? So that the buying public may be protected, may know and be oble to identify such trusted jewelers, the American Gem Society has banded to gether certain outstanding firms whose unquestionable honor and highly specialized gem-knowledge qualify them for membership. No claim is mode or implied that all the trusted jewelers are members of the American Gem Socity. It is rfot our place to pass judgment upon others. But, we do know ond endorse our own screened membership . . . the Registered Jewelers of the American Gem Society. Amrrlraa Qrm Serin? At IN IN WMI Post JEWELERS Across from Douglas ' County Stale Bank s