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4 The Nw-keview, Rosebure), Or. Mon., June i, 1949 3be cwsftemew " Published Djlly Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. Enlllll eeeen cli.f metier Mir 1, llil, it lb. put .file, at Koteb.rf, Orefea. aader aet ( March X. UU CHARLES V. STANTON TTn. EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor 4&UB Manager Member of the Aeeoelated Prete. Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Haereieated by WEST-HOLLiOAT CO., INC., afllraa In New York, Ckleafa, San Vranciaco, Lee Anfelee, Saattlt, Partland, St. Loala. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Oregon Br Mall rar Tear II. OS, all monthe M.SS, thraa month! I?.o0. Bjr Cltr Carrier Per year IIO.OS (tn advance), leia than no year, per month 11.00. Outride Orefon By Mall Per year 10.00, alt monlha 14.73. three monthe l'.lo. A PLEASANT DREAM Many Europeans havt the idea that every American is a millionaire. Apparently the do-gooders attempting: to steer the course of our national administration believe we should all live like millionaires; that this desirable condition is not only a possibility but should be the objective of government. So by insisting that our national economy can be lifted by its own bootstraps, they propose division of the wealth through socialization until everyone is in the millionaire class. It's a pleasant dream but someday we must wake up. The U. S. Senate proposes to tax national wealth for about $19 billion to be used for slum clearance and housing sub sidies for low-income groups. News reports from the na tional capital now announce proposed legislation for hous ing aid to middle-income families with annual earnings of from $2,500 to $4,000 the "neglected group" representing about 30 per cent of the national population. How long will it be before we must provide social sub sidies for people in the $5,000 to $10,000 per year group? If one income class is entitled to aid isn't it only morally right that equal paternal treatment should be given every one? Where are we to draw the line? Who is to determine where benefits shall cease ? How long can we afford to play Santa Claus? Recently we talked to a very dissatisfied young man. He was earning good wages had, in fact, a job which paid better than average compensation. He had contracted to purchase an expensive home. He had bought furnishings in keeping with his home. His automobile was one of the higher priced models. He was very unhappy because his earnings were insufficient to support all this style. He blamed the government for high prices. He condemned labor unions because his wages weren't boosted to cover his expenses. He criticized his employers and his fellow workers. Because of his unhappiness his work suffered and he lost his job, his hdme, his furniture and his car. He left town very embittered with the world in general. If this were an isolated case it needn't be taken seriously, but there are too many like it. Many people have the idea today that they should live in the upper brackets regardless of what they earn. And our do-gooder political leadership is promoting this theory for political purposes. Only a few years ago our government encouraged thrift and energy. It was no disgrace to live within one's means, even if the style was substandard. A man was measured by his willingness to work and to learn, his ambition and his effort. Too many people today want to start at the top of the ladder instead of the bottom. And a socialistically minded administration is lending encouragement to this im possible theory. There can be no quarrel with charitable aid for the under privileged, the aged, the crippled and handicapped. But a policy of forcibly taking wealth from one group of people to aid another group as a class, rather than as individuals actually deserving of charity, can have only one end. Event ually it reduces economy to a common level and then gradual ly reduces the uniform level to a bare existence state. People who receive the benefits from expropriated wealth naturally are willing to accept all they can get. Then they become more and more demanding. Gradually more people want to become beneficiaries, just as it is now proposed to include another income group in the federal housing aid program. If the politicians after once embarking on the socialized path ever attempt to turn back, or refuse to keep adding benefits, or admitting more people as recipients of patronage, they are promptly dismissed from office in favor of demagogues willing to win election by acting as stooges for the malcontents. The road to the socialized welfare state is inviting but it Is a dangerous road from which it becomes increasingly difficult to turn back. Ever Since He Came To Work For Us -IIMll Bv Ffaftmtt S. Martin fpjs For years two little newspa per cartoons had a place on Mrs. Algernon Bltwuns' desk. One was a sketch of a mule hitched to a cart, a mule kicking high In the air, getting plenty of ex ercise but accomplishing nothing. Below was the caption: "A Kick ing Mule is Not a Pulling One." Mrs. Bltwuns laughed, delight ed with the humor, then an Idea struck her. To be sure her 'kick ing' at the moment was entirely mental but wasn't there a simi larity? She was, It seemed, 'all burnt up' over the unintentional cruelty she was positive It was unintentional! in a large adver tisement. The theme was used by the advertiser, an insurance company of prestige, to Illustrate point in the need of Insurance. But to any handicapped boy, like the one ln-the picture, the theme also suggested a thought that seemed cruel. She decided to stop her mental kicking' and write a letter. Eearnestly, courteously, she spoke her mind. Then forgot It. In a few days there came a reply from the president of the com pany In which he thanked Mrs. Bltwuns for her suggestion; said the advertisement had been with drawn from several publications, all that could be reached In time, and that no one In the home of fice could understand why the Idea had not occurred to them before; they were In agreement as to the point Mrs, Bitwuns raised. Well, thought Mrs. Bitwuns, It was one more proof that words written, earnestly and courteous ly, with the right motive, car ried something more with them than marks on a piece of paper. Just one more proof that "Just one" thinker could help a bit. The other cartoon was clipped on a day that Mrs. Bltwuns felt greatly burdened by anxiety over a course of action contemplated by one very dear to her. Reading the paper that day she came upon a sketch of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which, she recalled, had been leaning for some centuries and doing all right, too! At the base of the tower was the tiny figure of a man pushing against the tower with all his might! No caption was needed for that one. Mrs. Bltwuns laughed. But she stopped 'pushing' and decided that the 'tower' might lean a lit tle (in her opinion) and still not fall. Everything worked out In a way Mrs. Bltwuns had never even thought of and the 'tower' was undoubtedly a little stronger for the trust and faith that re placed the 'pushing.' Red Cross Program Aiding Veteran Patients Drawing Many Volunteers Foreign Birth Of F.D.Roosevelt Jr. Revives An Old Legal Question By BRUCE BIOSSAT The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to Congress by a whop ping margin promptly stirred talk that he might some day try to follow In his father's footsteps by seeking the presidency. There was a quick rejoinder. It wan sum the uonsi union duis him from that office because he was born on foreign soil, at nis family's summer place on an is land on tne coast oi lhiihuh. Now no one knows, of course, whether young Roosevelt would ever gel a craeK at tne i-rrsi-dency or whether he would want it. But reporters fishing In Su preme Court files have raised doubts that he or anyone in simi lar circumstances would neces sarily be barred Let's see first what the Consti tution says. To be eligible for the Presidency, a person must be at least 35 years of age, must have lived in this country 14 years or more and must be a "natural born citizen." It does not explain what "na tural born" means. But the view has grown through the years that the term includes children of American parentage who are born on foreign soil. j Tile Supreme Court never has expressed Itseir on me issue as it refutes to the Presidency. In 1S!8, however, Justice Horace Gray handed down a decision noting that three distinct nationality laws declare that foreign-horn children of U. S. parents "shall be considered at natural born children." And court attaches refer point edly to a case decided by a Mary land court under the 11)40 nation allty act. The court held there are only two typos of citizens-native-born and naturalized. It said children born of American parents abroad are In no sense naturalized, and hence must be considered native-born. With this barkeround of law and Judicial opinion, it would lie no surprise were the courts to de cree some day that children born under such circumstances are in deed eligible for the nation's high est office. Without wishing to endorse anybody's possible candidacy, we think a ruling like that would be fair and soun... American children born abroad are as much Ameri cans as any born In Chicago or Dallas. Provided they live in the coun try long enough to know It well, as the Constitution seeks to as sure with Its 14-year residence re quirement, why shouldn't they have a chance at the highest of fice? Still, until this matter Is settled more definitely, we might well advise all expectant mothers: If you think your child will be a boy and you want him to be President some dav. don't go skip ping off to foreign lands until alter tne Dig event. Rv .1ANK FAnS WASHINGTON From calling square dances to .caching mathe matics, men volunteers are assist ing in increasing numbers In the Red Cross program lor vet eran patients throughout the country. National headquarters of the Ked cross reports mat l, 050 men ranging In age from 18 to 80 college students, retired bank presidents, a chemist, a re searcher, a truck driver, a broker, a dairyman are volunteering tneir spare lime to tne program. About two-thirds of the men volunteers are themselves veter ans, Including one, a chess teach er, from the Spanish-American war. The largest number volun teer as teachers, entertainers, leaden of hobbv clubs and movie projectionists. Other services giv en by the men include ward vis iting, staging parties, escorting visitors, pushing wheel chair pa tients to hospital activities, driv ing, leading sports events, story telling and acting as pin boys for patients' bowling teams. Mrs. Joe Hume Gardner, nation al administrator of the Red Cross Volunteer Services ( VS, says that most of the men volunteered their services because of a "feeling of being needed." Second reason most often given was a ilssire to do something constructive for veterans and to add some new Interest or recreation for the pa tient's enjoyment. Mrs. Gardner, who lives at "Cab In Hrjinrh Farm" In nparhv Con- de. Va and has devoted full time to her volunteer Job since lSH.i. says that more than 400 Red Cross Chapters are now providing men and women volunteers for Vet erans' Administration hospitals and domiciliary homes. Oth.r Organization. Aid Working through the Veterans Administration Voluntary Service plan, the Red Cross is Joined with approximately 300 other organis ations to provide supplementary assistance to the VA staff, which is charged by law with the re sponsibility of giving ill and in jured veterans "medical service second to none." Contrary to popular opinion, the VS is not responsible for all the volunteers in the Red Cross organization. The million or more who serve as chapter executives, first aid, water safety and home nursing instructors, board mem bers and In a variety of other ways do not come under its juris diction. VS is concerned with the men and women who are trained mem bers of nine specialized volunteer services. Mrs. Gardner says that last year reports Indicated some 2til.000 gave approximately 13, 000,000 hours of service. Health Insurance Dut For Attack AtAMA Meet ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 6. rtV-Lambasting of President Truman's call for compulsory health Insurance was high on the program today at the opening of the annual meeting of the Ameri can Medical Association. The world's largest organiza tion of doctors announced it would hear some 300 reports on medical and surgical advances, but pointed out In its statement that its policy-making house of delegates would: Consider manv problems. In cluding such matters as education of the American public against tne dangers ot compulsory sick ness insurance." The association, which' repre sents organized medicine in the nation, has called for an assess ment of $25 from each of its members for what it terms an 'educational" campaign. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) PLUCKY BOY LOSES VERNON. Tex.. June 6.-.F Connie Woodward died today. Ihe plucky Hkvear-old farm lad, who had amazed doctors by surviving horrible burns, suc cumbed this morning. Ihe young son of tenant farm er had been hovering between life and death since May 10, when 70 percent of his body burned. that this is one of those times. . IN his speech to the New York ers, he went on: "The Russians have what they want politically . . . They have no real understanding of democratic processes and the secret police is much more efficient than It ever was during the czarist regime or anywhere in the world . . . any uprising against the present Soviet regime is unlikely." ... LETS put it this way: The Russians have always been told what to do or else. They're used to it. They are being told NOW what to do or else. They don't resent it, because so far as they know that is the way things are done. And what they have now is as good as or better than what they had under the czarist regime. So why should they rise In revo lution against something they re gard as progress? e e THAT is what General Smith is telling us. When you fit it into the background of Russia, it makes perfectly good sense. ... FROM Oakrldge, (the atomic town) comes this terse dis patch: "A strlkf of 2,000 workers In a huge atomic plant here is planned for next Thursday. If the strike comes off, it will stop production of uranium 235 In one of the lar gest Industrial plants in the world. U-235 IS THE FISSIONABLE ELEMENT THAT GOES INTO ATOMIC BOMBS." That is. U-235 is what makes the atom bomb tick. ... LET'S grant that the bark of this threatened strike Is worse than its probable bite. Modern strikes are Industrial war. War Is usual ly preceded by tough and trucu lent talk. Much of this talk Is for the enemy's consumption, In the hope that it may scare him and weaken him. The some strategy is used in strikes. ... ETS grant something else I, uecause we Know it Is true: The bulk of these workers at Oak rldge are good American citizens. They have no taint of treason to their country. ... TUPPOSE we had Just gone to J war. Suppose the atom bomb was ' our ace in the hole. With plenty' of theni we could win. Without plenty of them we could lose. Suppose somebody WITH TOO I MUCH POWER IN HIS HANDS ! should call a strike in our atom, bomb plants and succeeded In I stopping production In them IV THE CRITICAL FEW HOITRQ ! THAT IN ALL PROBABILITY WILL DECIDE THE OUTCOME OF FUTURE WARS. 1 ... IT Isn't likely to happen. ! But It gives US the Shlvar. llhan ; we stop to think what It could i mean if it did happen. It provides for us a startlino .v. , ample of the unwisdom of per- mining too much power to ac-i cumulate In too few hands. Weekend Violent Deaths Total 12 In Washington 'Br th. AuocUted Praul Washington State counted at least 12 violent deaths this week end seven oy drowning, three by fire, one traffic, and one in a rail way accident. Elbert (Dick) Hardison died yesterday in a Tacoma hospital, the third victim of a fire wihch destroyed his home in Roy Fri day night. His wife Elizabeth and their two-andahalf-year-old son, Wesley, died earlier. Of the seven drownings, three were in the Spokane area. Mrs. Jerry Lee Call, 24-year-old Spokane waitress, perished in the Spokane river yesterday near a picnic grounds nine miles north of the city. After three attempts, firemen recovered the body of Mrs. Anna Berg, 65, from the Spokane river yesterday. Walter Reiff, 42-year-old Adams County highway employee, drowned In Deer Lake, west of Spokane, Sat urday when the boat from which he was fishing capsized. Three others occurred in lakes in. and around Seattle. Delbert Hicks, 16, of Seattle, sank near the end of a diving float at Angle Lake, Just outside the city. Thrown into the water when his rowboat overturned, James J. McArthur, 70, of Seattle, died on a fishing trip at Lake Desire, near Renton. Dragging crews grappled yesterday after noon after searching the waters for nearly 24 hours. The seventh drowning victim was Philip W. Brackett, 33. of Castle Rock, who died while at tempting to rescue 10-year old Virginia Pauley of Longview from the Toutle river. Bystanders pull ed the girl to safety. The only reported highway fa tality was marked up yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Esther Caine, 35, of route 2, Wenatchee died oi Injuries sutlered in an accident near the Chelan Junc tion. The state patrol todav con tinued an investigation of the mysterious circumstances sur rounding the death. Officers said she was found injured beside the road after what appeared to be a tumble from a moving car. 92-Year-Old Is First To Join New Society MEDFORD, June 6. (JP) J. B. Russell is 92, but it hasn't less ened his interest in life. The elderly man, now a resi dent of Yreka, Calif., was one of the first applicais to join the newly-lormed boutnern ure- gon Historical Society. Russell in issm laid tne foun dation of the Historic Jackson County Courthouse, which will be used by the society as a museum. FIRE DAMAGES ARENA NEW YORK, June 6. UP) Sixty firemen were treated for smoke Inhalation or minor in juries early today in a four- alarm Manhattan lire. The blaze caused extensive damage to a 50-year-old building housing St. Nicholas Arena and a ballroom. DON'T MAKE A MOVE til you see FLEGEL Transfer and Storage Phone 935 I W'll renair vaur rer 1 i n just like new if you hove a misfortunate accident. Call us today. I I HANSEN ! I MOTOR CO. ok A Stephens Phone 44e Twin Engines' Transport Explodes Over China CANTON, June 6. " A twin-engined C-46 transport, re portedly loaded with silver, ex ploded ort a flight from Canton to Chunking, advises reaching here said Saturday. Presumably all its crew was killed. The plane took off from Can ton Thursday for the flight to the Western China city which has been mentioned as the possi ble Nationalist capital should the government flee Canton in the Phone 100 If you do not receive) your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. 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