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4 The News-keview, Roseburg, Ore. Tut., June 7, 1949 3be flews ftemew Published Daily Except Sunday by the Newt-Review Company, Inc. EalaraS aaconS clan miller Hay 1, ISte. at Ibt pnal alllct St Koaabure, Orasani uadar sol tf March t, ISIS CHARLES V. STANTON ftn EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Assocl; ted Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher! Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations araaaatra by WKST-HOI.I.ID AY CO., INC., afllcaa la New York, Cklcaia. Baa Franclaca. Laa Aniclca. Saallla, ParllaaS. SL Laula. SUBSCRIPTION SATIS In Orafan Br Mall rrr Tear IS.oe. all maatha II.M, Ihraa moatha IS.ao. By City Carrier Par year SIO.ee iln bdyanea), leae than na year, per month 11.00, Oulalde Oreoa By Mall Per year IB.OO. ail monlba S4.73, firee montba S'i.15. WHAT, NO Several inquiries have been office asking why there is no with Roseburg's new swimming; pool. We are advised that the footbath no longer is recom mended by the State Board of Health, and, in fact, the orig inal plan, which called for such installation, was amended at the State Board of Health's request. Until recently all public shower rooms have included chemical footbath as an intended safeguard against fungus diseases of the foot. It has been found in practice, however, according to City Manager Matt Slankard, that constant dilution of the chemical bath with water and lack of con sistent attention result in a concentration of germs and para sites in the footbath solution making it dangerous. Chlorine content of the water in the Roseburg pool, Slant ard states, is sufficient to kill athlete's foot and other skin ment is continuous and automatically controlled as the water is passed through the filtration system. The circulation system also contains soda ash which coagu lates all body acids, which then are removed in the filters, Water in the Roseburg pool, as can possibly be achieved and danger of infection or con tamination is virtually eliminated through the automatic filtration and treatment system. Original plans for the pool included the former standard footbath as a part of the dressing room layout, but the State Board of Health recommended its elimination, Slankard says. Bureaucratic Language Explained An idyllic volume, The Call of the West, by Evelyn Lewis Lee has come to our desk from the publishers, Bruce Hum phries, Inc. The author has visited each of the western na tional parks, and has gathered impressive photographs, which are reproduced in full page size with a facing tribute poem. It is a most pleasurable book for the reader who delights in rare photography and rhythmic expression. And, speaking of books, we learn from Federal Prose by James R. Masterson and Wendell Brooks Phillip (Univer sity of North Carolina Press, $1.25) why it is we can never make heads or tails of a formal bureaucratic statement. We learn that a government bulletin which says : "Undue multiplicity of 'personnel assigned either concurrently or consecutively to a single function involves deterioration in quality in the resultant product as compared with the prod uct of the labor of an exact sufficiency of personnel," only means that "Too many cooks spoil the broth." Congressman Harris Ellsworth, speaking before the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service in Congress re cently, told that body that if planned increases In second class mail rates were made, people in small cities and rural areas would be most greatly inconvenienced. Rep. Ellsworth cited actual examples showing how the proposed rate would increase postage costs to small daily and weekly newspapers from six to 20 times and force many of the smaller papers out of business. The small weeklies and small dailies would be most critically affected. "Many small communities and rural areas would find themselves without any medium of local news and information on important civic and commu nity matters," should the proposed legislation be approved, Ellsworth told the committee. The edict has gone out from the office of the Paul Bun yan's Bull of the Woods that residents of Roseburg and vicinity must don Western garb in preparation for the forth coming rodeo. The Paul Bunyan's will retain all fines for their own treasury, the money to be used for community advertising and publicity. The organization's treasury is empty. Wise persons will take note. Editorial From The COMEANDGETIT SALES DAY8 ARE PASSING (Crow's Pacific Const Lumber Digest) We are told that the lumber used In an average home seldom amounts to more thnn 20'.i to of the total cost. For this reason a difference of $10.00 per thou sand Jeet In the prices of the common lumber used docs not In volve an appreciable amount when the slight additional ex- fiense means getting lumber that s dry, carefully manufactured, carefully graded and avallnble In specified quantities which reduce wastage to a minimum. There was a time when the manufacturer of fir figured that to operate successfully he must be able to put two-thirds of the log Into "cutting" of some kind. It was during that era that the term "side cut" was coined. "Side cut" m.ont luaf what It anvil, litm-nltv. It was looked upon by many mills as a by-product which accumu lated in the process of cutting timbers, ties or other heavy Items Into which the Inside of the log had to go. Facts are, untold mil lions of feet of ties have been cut In bygone years where the log was squared up with as few mo tions as possible because of the lack of facilities with which to salvage the side cut, which could not be sold profitably, and In heavy slabs was run into refuse dumps and burned. In those days It. was claimed, and truthfully, that a good tie mill could get lis lo? scale out of the ties and other cutting without saving the side cut, so why bother with It. i FOOT BATH? received at The News-Review chemical footbath in connection germs and parasites causing diseases. This chlorine treat Slankard states, is as clean Commenf Oregon Press The treating of ties with pre servatives has prolonged the life of a tie to such an extent that the slam bang tie mill of the past, lo cated out In the brush, burning nil of the log but that which went into ties, has passed from the scene. Prior to the last World War it had already become clear ly apparent that the only fir pro ducer who would remain in the picture must be prepared to save all of the log and cut It Into smal ler sizes. Even during the war this trend grew until It had an astonishing expression In the rapid expansion of the so-called "it-manufacturing plants." These were mostly resaw and planing mills located at convenient places on railroads where they took the small mills' ranch nroduct and converted it Into surfaced boards and dimension. Out of this new swing grew the establishment of ml I is manufacturing nothing but 2X4-B. an item that only a com paratively few years ago suffered the inferior position of being a surplus short length which, sold alone, had to go at a sacrifice. Into the building Industry came the fellow who, with the aid of the FHA racket process of building a government-Insured block of Jer ry, small buildings to palm off on a nlgger-rlch public, did not care whether the common lumber he used was dripping green or dry J list so long as It would hold to gether sufficiently to drive nails Into It. lhe government, in lite emergency of war needs, offered big schedules specifying "Doug las Fir andor Red Cedar. West ern Hemlock, White Fir, Kir A The Relative Importance Of WMM By Viahnett S. Martin ' "And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days . . ." Every year, in June from the time our children were babies, we emphasized the prelude from The Vision of Sir Launfal." To be sure, we didn't expect them to "understand" It, but there were many familiar words and a good rhythm which, sometimes, I stressed a little. I remember a 'gang' of boys under our grape-arbor, clapping hands ("softly, please!") to the rhythm of: "The little bird sits at his door In the sun Atllt like a blossom among the leaves ..." ' Dear me, what If we emphasize the rhythm? We were finding out there's something more to poetry than words strung togeth er, and, sometimes, ending In the same sounds! It was the custom at our house, when I was reading aloud, for any child listening to chime right In and "say" any words he or she knew. So a poem was likely to be a chorus, and sometimes I would hush and listen, picking up Larch, Sitka Spruce" and our In dustry had its production capacity expanded to its present potential vomme unaer inn oaa scnooiing. It Is said, during the war days when anything and everything could be sold green from the saw at fabulous profits, that the liqui dating and dismantling of many large sawmills actually resulted In a lowering of the dry-kiln ca pacity of the fir industry as a whole. There was a ready and eager market for all of the equip ment of these big plants except . . . their dry kilns, from which the salvage value Is never great. What has been the result? The comparatively few fir mills that are prepared to supply kiln-dried boards and dimensions to be shipped along with kiln-dried fin ished uppers are today in many instances actually oversold at prices ranging from $10.00 to $15.00 more for identical Hems than the green product of other producers Is bringing where It has to be sold In straight cars of ranuom lengths dripping wet from the saw. The fantastically high prices to which stumpage climbed during the postwar days left a lot of manufacturers with plants of ex tremely limited ability to refine the product of the log and produc tion costs that make It Impossible to return to the low levels at which common boards and dimen sion were selling ten years ago. To a grealer extent than most realize, substitutes for timber products have moved Into the Die- lure to remain and grow In com petitive strength. The most out standing example of this Is seen in the ground lost by the Red Cedar shingle Industry, ground which It will never regain. One of the greatest stumbling blocks for the shingle producers Is that the manufacturers of other roof, ing materials. In addition to hav ing greatly Improvrd their prod uct, make it available to the re tall distributor In lersthan-car-load lots from stocks which they maintain at convenient points for this very purpose. In other words, the folks who have competitive building materials to sell are w til ing to carry Inventories sufficient to keep them In a position to give their customers exactly what they want when they want It In quan tities to suit their needs, without heavy Investments in Inventories. Most of the retail dealers want the lines when a break came as if I had never stopped speaking. At bedtime when I was reading the Bible, the boys, when little, would chime In whenever they knew the words by heart. We read something "old" which they chose; and something "new" which I, of course, chose. I never "told" them stories, especially from the Bible. I read the words, even If I knew them by heart, too. With long Bible stories I checked the verses which were needed, to shorten the story of David and Goliath,' for instance, but now and again I'd read it complete, so the boys knew what was left out. Children love repetition. Over and over and over, the same dear story! And, surprisingly to me, one boy often asked for The Ser mon on the Mount: "read it all, Mother!" When he could read to me, he would turn the big Bible there and choose that. We had a favorite game "in vented' by one child: '. "Guess what poem this Is?" (we played It on long rides, too) Then the one who was "It" would tap out a nursery rhyme or familiar poem with a marked rhythm. It's fun! to buy dry dimension and boards. As we drop back into a normal economy the manufacturer of softwoods who does not equip himself to supply what the dealer wants from time to time in lots to suit his current needs is going to find himself in the same old "whatulgimme" sales position that he has suffered In the past. If he does not, the folks who real ize that they must again have full pile bottoms and sheds and dry kilns of sufficient capacity to han dle their entire output, if neces sary, will continue to merchandise their product at prices many dol lars higher than the trade Is will ing to pay for green lumber bulked off on the buyers In as sortments that are not wanted. This 's not just a theory. All you have to do is to look around and see what is happening. The lum ber markets today are very soft for everyone except those who are smart enough to know that they must from now on have an alert sales program timed for the long pull, In the hands of capable sales executives, and who have a willingness to again carry Inven tories of desirable stock In suffl cent footage to have a service and quality to offer, which are being Increasingly demanded bv the best trade and that means by the folks who stick to a good source of supply and have the money to pay their bills. FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT (Corvallls Gazette-Times) Senator Byrd. Democrat of Vir ginia, is the best friend the tax payers of this country have. He is chairman of the Joint Commit tee on non-essential expenditures and stated last week that "bu reaucracy Is out of control with respect to personnel." He pro posed In a formal report that longress separate at least 900. 000 emploves from the govern ment payroll in the coming fiscal year. i His report shows that there ; were 2.102.043 federal emploves Inside and outside the United States on March 31, 1949. Of this total only 214.035. or about 10 per cent, have Jobs In Washing ton, contrary to a widely held concept of the top-heavy concen tration of government Job hold ers in the capital. In the six de fense and war vears from June 1939 to June 1945 the govern-, menfa federal civilian force Great Issues In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) drunk just as you or I would have and paid no attention to him. ,'' WE poke fun at souses and pro fess to believe they are hav ing themselves a wonderful time. But did you ever notice that EVERYBODY DODGES A DRUNK? There is no worse bore than someone who is oiled too liber ally. BACK in West Virginia they had a jail-break that really was a jail-break. Fourteen men sawed their way through the bars and took It on the lam. The next night, one of them walked into a country store out In the hills ten miles away from the West Virginia penitentiary. He made a t bad mistake. The storekeeper grabbed a handy rifle. levelled it expertly at the des perado and ordered him to "put 'em up." He did. That ended the incident so far as he was con cerned. Country storekeepers back in that mountainous part of the world aren't safe to monkey with. AT this point, a disturbing thought occurs: If all good citizens (includine US) were as alert and efficient ar that country storekeeper out in the West Virginia hills, there would be comparatively little crime and law-breaking and the staggering tax bill we pay for law enforcement could be satisfying ly reduced. Put that thought in your pine and smoke it some evening when you're relaxed and In a contem plative mood. a HERE'S another thought that's worth while In these days: If the cost of government (in cluding, of course, the cost of law enforcement) were materially re duced, we'd all have money to Jingle In our pockets and spent for the things we really want. OVER the generations, the dema gogs have succeeded in selling us the idea that a sprawling, cost ly, spendthrift government is an impressive and a splendid thing for a free people to have. (The demagogues, you know, quadrupled from a total In 1939 of 968,596 to 3.769,646 at the war time peak In (June 1945. Federal employment began Its decline aft er the middle of 1945. Bv June 1947 It had fallen to 2,100.000, still more than double its 1939 peace time total. Today the total figure is still twice that of 1939. In 1941 the average pav of a ffovernment amnlm-a u-a co n In 1948 this had Increased to 5J,wi. Approximately 90 per cent of all federal emploves are In classified positions. Phone 100 If you do not receive your News-Review by CMS P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 Secretary Faces Trial For Murder In Boss1 Slaying RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 7. UP A courtroom drama that is expected to De one or the most sensational In the history of this citrus capital gets underway to day. Mrs. Agnes Gamier goes on trial for murder in the slaving of her boss, wealthy John Owen, iriena or Actress Irene Rich. An all-woman turv was chosen last week. Counsel for the 50-vear-old con fidential secretary said she will contend the shooting was acci dental. The state announced that it will charge that the slaying followed an argument over a set of cocktail glasses given the wealthy rancher by Miss Rich mat it was deliberate and prompted by Jealousy. Owen was slain in a bedroom of his ranch home near here last April 22. Mrs. Gamier, manager of many of his real estate hold ings, was with him at the time. Miss Rich is not expected to testify. DISTAFF AID FOR C. C. ASTORIA. Ore.. June 7. VP Chamber of Commerce programs nere are going to get a lilt from the women hereafter. Secretary Al 'Hetzel said about 25 secretarial workers, members' wives ana Businesswomen nave invaded the usually all-male or ganization and declared their plans lor an auxiliary unit. when they get elected to office, have all the fun of doing the spending, while we poor deluded saps down at the bottom of the heap do the pungling up. It's REAL FUN to spend other peo ple's money.) Did you ever figure up just how much good YOU PERSON ALLY get out of reckless govern ment spending and how much more good you could have got out of spending your share of the money yourself? a fJROM Hollywood comes the de- pressing news that "pint-sized ! Mickey Rooney and his third wife ' will have no honeymoon." He is scheduled to start a picture next week, and business must come be-! fore pleasure in these days when ! the big boom seems to be going I on the rocks. j Oh well, Judging by past per-; formance (she is his third, he is ; her second; he is 28, she is 24) they will have plenty of other J chances. I WINDOWS DOORS FRAMES Priced Right PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 IN A WIDE VARIETY OF PATTERNS AND COLORS Room-Size Rugs or Wall to Wall 5 95 SQUARE YARD BUDGET PAYMENTS MM finwnwiE tOMPflNV 117 W. Cass Officers Of Reserve Corps Lt. Co!. Robert P. Kidder, com manding officer of the newly ac- ritcatari th Rasa funeral Train ing Depot, Organized Reserve Corps Unit, announced the as signments of the following offi cers to their principal duties with the unit. Maior Jack P. Bathrick, execu tive officer; Captain Walter H. Qmith lahnr flnri warehouse equipment officer: Captain rranK von Borsiei jr., wdirnuuw and supply inspection officer; Captain Frank J. 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