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4 Th Newt-keview, Roseburf, Published Dally Exoept Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. Intent Mnni elm mltr M.jr 1. Utte. ml tht nil tltlf t Roubarf. Orno.. Indii ct .1 March I. 8!2 CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor 3&SI Manager . Mambar of tha Aaaoelated Preaa, Oragon Newspapar Publlahara Aaaoelatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Ciroulatlona BtpreitMea br WEST-HOLLIDAT CO.. INC., flleii la Nw rk, Calofa, fit VrneiM. Lai Auctlei. Seatll.. PorlLna. 81. Laalt. OBSCHIPTION BATfS In Or,.n Br thru months il.M. Br Clly Citrltr ana rear, par monm ii.ua. uimat monlhi li.78. Viraa monina as.ia. DISAPPEARING The South Umpqua Rod and Gun Club, at its regular meeting last Tuesday, voted down a resolution to close the hunting season on Chinese pheasants in Douglas County ior a period of five years. Sponsors of the resolution, hoping by a closure to bring back the rapidly disappearing bird, sought endorsement from the South Umpqua Club preparatory to presenting the matter before the State Game Commission. Tha rPHnlntion wan beaten on the erounds that closure would not increase bird population and would merely serve to penalize law-abiding hunters for the benelit or poacners. The problem of the disappearing pheasant is no mystery when one stops to analyze causes. On the other hand, a solution is available if and when enough people become interested. Pheasants are disappearing because they cannot stand competition from human population. Pheasants and people both want to occupy the same fer the low, level fields. Their habitat is open country rather than covered hillsides. Consequently they become farm pests. It is a beautiful sight in the late summer to see a rooster flying over a wheat field flailing out the ripened heads while his brood fattens on the scattered grain. But it is not a sight to be enjoyed by the farmer having a tidy sum of money invested in the wheat and looking to its yield for a profit. And, while most people enjoy a parade, the farmer does not enjoy the parade of pheasants marching behind his corn planter, nor the early morning feasting on tender green corn stalks just breaking through the ground. Consequently a good many farmers stock their own larders with home-raised pheasants while inviting their city friends out to kill pheas ants whenever the notion strikes them in season or out. Too, an increasing number of farmers, having suffered damages from the indefensible hoodlumism of a few irre sponsible characters, doesn't want hunters on his property, so he attempts, in addition to posting his land, to get rid of the birds, thereby removing temptation to trespass. But enmity from the farmer is not the sole reason for scarcity in pheasant populations for there are enough farm ers who welcome both birds and hunters to keep good shoot ing if other conditions are right. But pheasants have a habit of nesting in wheat and hay fields. The mother bird is hard to flush from her nest; Con sequently thousands are killed annually by farm machinery. Many farmers and field workers carry guns on their mowers or cultivators to mercifully kill birds crippled by machines. Every highway bears mute evidence of the thousands of birds killed by automobiles, undoubtedly more in number .than shot by legal hunters. Due to the fact that pest hunts largely were eliminated during war years and have not been renewed, skunks, wea sels, raccoons, foxes, house cats and numerous other pests preying on pheasants have greatly increased. But an even worse predator is the human bird poacher who, in utter dis regard for the law, knowing that our enforcement facilities are extremely inadequate, slaughters pheasants the year around. So, with all these factors working against him in heavily populated sections, the Chinese pheasant is on his way out. But he can be made to dwell in the midst of human popu lation and furnish top sport, while increasing in numbers. The first requirement is to gain cooperation from the farmer on whose land the bird must feed. This can be done only if the farmer is given more compensation for damages suffered from the bird's presence. The farmer can use the pheasant as an extra-income crop. By promoting bird population on his land, then charging fees to hunters during season, he can recapture in dollars the food the birds have consumed. In some states sportsmen use script books, paying the farmer in script redeemable in trade at any store. Oregon has knowledge has never been used But before the fanner will welcome both the bird and the hunter, the hunter must eradicate from his own crowd the gunners who leave gates standing open, break down fences shoot recklessly in or near occupied buildings, frighten live stock and poultry and through carelessness or malicious in tent damage the farmer's property. Until the hunter is will ing to cooperate with the farmer, he should not expect the privilege of recreational use of the Iatter's land Bnd wanton abuse on the part of some men who call themselves sports men is a lot more common than is generally realized. Other essentials to pheasant population recovery lie in limiting predators, both wild and human, and improved law enforcement. Until we can accomplish these constructive tasks we might as well kiss the pheasant goodbye, insofar as any substantial sports value is concerned. Under current conditions, closure could be continued for 100 years without benefit to bird population. Pheasants have a hard enough task existing in face of unfavorable weather cycles and normal predation. They cannot survive under conditions now existing. But they could be brought back if given substantial assistance. Silverton Mayor Fails In Two Efforts To Quit SILVEKTON, June lO.-W Mayor C. H. Welhy wants to resign but councilmcn won't let him. He hai tried (wlce and both timet been turned down. Not long back be took a posi tion which takes him out of town much of the week. So he resigned. The council rejected Of. frl., Juno 10, 194 M.ll r.r Tr tM. til Per y..t IIO.M " M l! "r ' PHEASANTS land. Chinese pheasants pre a script law which to our on any large scale. the resignation. He tried It attain this week, saying the Mayor should be In town most of the time. Shucks, the councllmen said, during the fishing season there wouldn't any of them be In town much of the time. Mayor Welhy said he'd con tinue in office "for the time being." Some speclei of bamboo blos som only about every 32 years. v Pltfrffff By Viahnett S. Martin J- Perhaps all roads to the Coast, here In Oregon, are equally love ly this week; but our vote goes for the one along the Umpqua, because we drove to the Coast last Sunday by the route, 38. Do, oh do If you have not driven to the coast within the past week, go soon. I hope next Sunday (June 12) will find the glorious color displays Just as wonderful; last week they were perfect! "Wild lilac" (I heard someone say "ce-ano-thus" over radio, so I looked It up Just In case. But our unabridged says ce-a-nothus.) Well, I like . "wild lilac" better anyhow, don't you? What' a heavenly blue! Then there's the wild broom (gorse, furze?) with Its golden yellow. I'm afraid the ocean spray will be completely gone by Sunday; It was browning fast. But I think Its white "foun tain sprays" are so beautiful. Wild roses did you ever make wild rose Jelly out of the haws? Lupines and purple vetch vied with, each other for color effect. In shaded, moist places the vetch made banks of purple! In the sun It was thinner not so showy. Editorial From The STEP BY STEP (Baker Democrat-Herald) Who would have imagined a few short years ago the speed with which socialism would be foisted upon the country by its officialdom, with the mass of tne people hardly realizing what is happening. Let's look at the events of recent days to see how the collectlvlst principle is moving forward on many fronts. President Truman calls for a C.V.A. for which scant call has come from the region affected, which it is dented means social Ism, but which significantly has the vigorous support of all per sons of unknown socialistic In clinations. A farm bill Is offered to guar antee the farmer his Income, but at the price of rather com plete bureaucratic control over what he may produce, how much and when. .Control over how he may vote would lie only one additional step, and likely to fol low if the farmer trades his In dependence for a "guaranteed" Income from a government run ning in the red again, and sure to ran deeper In If present pro posals are enacted Into law to pyramid its operating costs. Another hill proposes socialized medicine. No. not quite whole hog, per the British pattern. But It goes a long way toward this goal, leaving the rest to he re alized later, when resistance is broken. President Truman is talking of stumping the coun try for It. It Is also proposed that the federal government subsidize edu cation. And past experience has shown that what the govern me subsjdlii.1 it soon controls. There are numerous other bills promising "benefits" from a gov ernment unable at present tax rate to finance all the undertak ings It is already committed to, socialism sugar-coated, with noth ing said about the cost In loss of Initiative by the cltlzenrv. What of the opposition? It is strong, and likely to whittle down the program in Congress, maybe to halt it for the present session. But the push for social ism is extremely formidable con sidering how little public de mand there It for It and how Wings Over Washington Berries were in blossom (near the coast I saw reddened ber ries!) Now and then the flat white cymes of the elderberry, tiny blossoms preceding delect able berries for pies whenever did I have a taste of elderberry pie? Do Oregon boys make whistles of the stems? I recently learned that their botanical name "sambacus" comes from the fact that the ancients used to make a kind of flute from the stalks. (Don't tell any small boy this but they used to make pop-guns of 'em, too!) Oh, the road to the coast was a bit o.f paradise. I love It any time, but the flowers last Sunday were, It seems to me, the best ever! I do hope when you drive that way you will, stop, as we did, about a mile this side of Reeds port, Just where the road goes up sharply and curves to the left. There's a lookout point, where one may look BACK and see a view of the river that no one In the world could ever forget. Or Is it that I Just think the Ump qua Is the most beautiful river of them all? Comment Oregon Press Ineffective a largely unorganized opposition is against an entrench ed bureaucracy growing more poweriui Dy the hour. The Issue of whether America Is to remain a free enterprise or a socialistic country trembles in me Daiance, with the average citizen as little concerned as if his future and that of his chil dren did not depend on an out come ne win do little to influ ence. A dramatic crisis In our history is developing In a most undramatlc way. AN ALICE IN WONDERLAND WORLD (Capitol Journal. Salem) A man standing In line at tha Dutcner s counter awa t ne serv. ice the other day was preceded Dy a woman wno Hashed a led eral check In payment. "It's good. it s from uncle Sam paying my husband for not worklne. she said. nomer saiemite wno owns a farm drained a winter time onnd on a low place by the simple ex pedient 01 aigging a ditch. He was surprised on receiving a check from Uncle Sam for the expense Incurred for "Improving me mrm. Other federal checks are dish ed out by Uncle Sam to pay farm ers for not producing wheat and other crops and reducing their yields. They also got paid for not working, or a subsidy for utilizing nip mrm in oiner crops. Farmers are receiving millions of dollars for surplus potatoes from generous Uncle Sam at a price far above market price and the spuds have to be given awav or. ilestroyed at taxpayers' ex pense to uphold the narltv price of potatoes. And the same price support is extended to other crops to insure the farmers profit and keep the cost of living up in spite o( the law of supply and demand. Now Secretary of Agriculture Brannan proposes a two-price system, to give consumers "a real break on food prices and farmers k stable, fair Income." using the mechanism of government price on Income to farmers. Prices would be allowed to move freely under Influences of supply and demand, but the farmer would In the Days News (Continued From Page One) line, no matter where it leads. For example: In the early days of World War il, when Nazi Germany and Communist Russia were Joined In a mutual assistance treaty, Com munists everywhere were against the war. They opposed it because Moscow told them to oppose it Then Hitler broke off the treaty and attacked Stalin. Communists everywhere immediately reversed themselves and were FOR the war, because In the reshift Mos cow had become an ally of the United States, Britain and all the nations that were fighting Germany. After that i ' The war ended with Germany's defeat. Moscow returned to its own No. 1 interest, which was the spread of Communism throughout the world. Whereupon all Communists switched again and began to oppose anything the United States, Britain and other democratic countries wanted. a SO we can assume that if that is the Communist attitude toward war it will be the Com munist attitude toward education. In other words, WHATEVER MOSCOW WANTS TAUGHT the Communists will teach. - I, for one, don't want the edu-, cation of American children to be Influenced by whatever the Com munist rulers of Russia happen 1 at the moment to want. ... j AT that, though, I think I'd rather have our children j taught by open and admitted Communists than by those who ' refuse to say whether they are ' Communists or not. The avowed Communist is at least recogniza ble for what he Is. He can't very well pose as anything else. To that extent, he Is less dangerous than one who masquerades under the banner of "academic freedom" and so has the opportunity to feed his students poison under the guise of food. COMMUNISTS are a breed. For Instance: queer A New York dispatch tells us that: "Max Perlow, secretary treasurer of the United Furniture Workers of America, says he has resigned from membership in the Communist Party ... to become eligible to sign a non-Communist affidavit under the Taft-Hartley lay. "PERLOW DECLARED HE STILL KEEPS THE BELIEFS HE HAD AS A COMMUNIST MEMBER." get government money for his loss of profit, a political device to make both producers and con sumers happy at taxnavers' ex- j pense. ino wonder the President de mands a $4 billion Increase In taxes, first on the excuse of check ing inflation, now to stimulate It. Much inura. thin fha tJ killinn mA ditlonal taxes will be needed If administration plans are carried out. for "welfare needs." social!-1 zntion of medldne and other i costly Diagrams. ' truly we live In an Alice In Wonderland world, with not only the clock set ahead for an hour, but government Itself many yean ahead of income. Sound Truck To Lead Safety Bicycle Parade The sound truck has been se lected to lead the spectacular Bicycle Safety Parade in Rose burg on June 16. Nearly 300 costumed riders on gaily decorated bicycles are ex pected to participate in this col orful event, sponsored by Mont gomery Ward & Co. with the cooperation of the Roseburg Po lice Department and Safety Coun cil. These valuable merchandise prizes will be awarded to the best and most originally decorat ed bicycles: 1st prize, boy's or girl's DeLuxe bicycle, donated by Indian Theater; 2nd prize, bi cycle trophy, donated by Rose burg Jewelry. Eight other addi tional prizes will be given. All other prizes will be donated by Montgomery Ward & Co., and are now on exhibition at the Indian Theater. In addition to the many prizes, every contestant will be given i a free pass to the Indian Theater. Passes will be given only to those contestants who have filled I out; an official entry blank by ' June 16, 12 noon. Mr. Hane, manager of Wards sporting goods department, states that final selections of Judges for the contest have just been completed. The names of the three judges, prominent local citizens, will be announced in the News-Review tomorrow. Nebraska Tornado Hits Village; 3 Dead, 7 Injured BELVIDERE, Neb., June 10 UP) This Southeastern Nebraska village is struggling to recover from the effects of a tornado which killed three and injured seven. The main part of town was without lights, only one tele phone was In operation, the wa ter supply was threatened by the power cut-off and one building was demolished and several others were in shambles. The tornado struck without warning about suppertime Wednesday night. Sweeping j aown ine main street or tnis vil lage of some 300 persons, it lev eled a cafe and dance hall and partly wrecked a bank, the post office, a lumber yard, and a locker plant. The three who were killed were all In the cafe-dance hall, a two-story brick building. ECA Head Will Quit If Fund Cut Too Heavily WASHINGTON, June 10,-fff) Paul Hoffman , said in effect Thursday that he will resign as teonomic cooperation administra tor if the Senate cuts European recovery funds too drastically. Hoffman told reporters that he will step out if he concludes he can not make a success of the program on the money appro priated bv Congress. A reporter told him he had Im plied In testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee that he would resign if ECA was cut to spending $3,568,470,000 during the next full fiscal year. "I meant that implication,' Hoffman said. "If I conclude I can't make a success of the pro gram, I'll turn It over to some one who thinks he can." GOP LEADER DIES PONCA CITY, Okla., June 10. UP) Lew Wentz, Oklahoma oil millionaire and Republican Na tional committeeman, died at his apartment in the Arcade Hotel here Thursday. He was about 68. Wentz died following.an attack of coronary thrombosis. Phone TOO If you do not receive your News-Review by 8:15 P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 Building Material SPECIALS ROOFING. Installed Hexa gon's $9.50, 3 In 1 Thick Butt, 218 lb., $12.00. All work and ma. terial guaranteed. First Grade Roofing Shingles Hexagon 5b.su so. 3 in l Thick Butt. 2181b. $8.3fT Rolls 451b.. S2.10 55-lb., $2.4065 lb., $2.90 90-lb., $3.50. Galv. Pipe 4", 124c ft. V, lbc 1", tc 1 V, 3ilc IVt ". 38c 2", 53c. Soil Pipe 4" S. H., 95c ft. U. H., 51.04. Orangeburg Solid 4" 33c ft. 4" Drain 25c ft. Nails 8 P. C. lOVic lb. 16 P. C. 10c lb. 20 P. C, 10c lb. Sheet Rock Gypsum Board Vi" 54c sq. ft., 3 8" 5c. Many other items all priced right. When vou buv here vou save the Middle Man's Profit. Open AH Day Saturday. Sunday 9 to 1, Denn Wholesale Co. North Umpqua Rd. Phones 2 JX1 4S1-R I Notice of Annual Meeting The annual meeting of tha atockholdera of the Umpqua 8av. Ings and Loan Association will be held at 147 North Jackson Street, Roseburg, Oregon, or, Wednesday, June 22, 1949, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. for tha election of directors and audltora and far tha transaction of eueh general business as may properly ome before the meeting. UMPQUA SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION By H. O. Pargeter, Secretary-Manager Read Your Classified Ads. Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank SPECIAL KILN DRY SHEATHING and Dimension Lumber Special low prices to quantity purchases. Why use green lumber when kiln dry costs no more? DENN-GERRETSEN CO. 402 W. Oak pp JUNE Phone 128