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ALL-INCLUSIVE CHEST
Replies to a questionnaire
Chamber of Commerce predominately favor grouping; all
solicitations for charitable purposes into one Community
Chest campaign.
Unquestionably a single Community Chest drive is the
ideal way to handle the matter. Personally, we are skep
tical of success of such venture, although we sincerely hope
we are wrong.
Affirmative answers to one question, in which it was
asked whether contributors would be willing to give as
much money in one concentrated solicitation as the com
bined total of separate contributions, contain the secret to
success or failure of the all-inclusive Community Chest
If everyone would give in a lump sum, or in deferred pay
ments, as much as they donate over a year's time to in
dividual solicitations the objective could be achieved. But
the average individual normally will dig up $5 here and
$5 there in a dozen campaigns rather than pungle up $60
at one time. It doesn't make sense but that's the way it
works.
Community Chest drives
a heavy thud this year. They
extreme cold weather, while unemployment was at a record
postwar level, and when people were fearing development
of a recession. Few towns managed to reach their goals.
Roseburg fell far short of the mark. Some organizations
have been forced to conduct supplemental drives to main
tain their activities.
, We find as one complication that some orgaizations ob
ject to losing their identities. Fund raising campaigns help
to publicize achievements and refresh the public mind.
The American Red Cross, Infantile Paralysis Foundation,
Cancer Fund, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and others,
furnish good examples.
The annual Roll Call, for instance, supplies the Red
Cross with an excuse to list its achievements for the
past year, recount its many services and, in fact, "sell"
itself to the people.
Campaigns on behalf of the Cancer Fund and Infantile
Paralysis Foundation, in addtion to publicizing organiza
tional activity, have educational value as the public is made
keenly aware of the importance of early diagnosis, recog
nition of symptoms, availability and methods of treatment.
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Salvation
Army and other such organizations have many contributors
who will give liberally to their respective organizations,
but who have little interest in some of the other charities
listed in a combined Community Chest.
Because of this situation, some organizations hesitate
to submerge their identities by uniting in one general solici
tation. Of course, it is entirely feasible to do publicity work
separate from fund-raising campaigns, but the financial
drives furnish a most convenient medium for publicity con
tacts which might not otherwise be available. Newspapers,
for instance, would be more prone to provide news and
editorial space in connection with a general public solici
tation than at odd times during the year. Too, publicity
releases carried without concurrent outside activity would
receive less attention from readers.
Another complication lies in the tie-up between na
tionally conducted campaigns and radio and newspaper
advertising. Over a long period of years the Red Cross,
Infantile Paralysis Foundation, and others have built up
definite periods of the year for their financing efforts.
They secure widespread cooperation from the radio and
motion picture industries. The effect of their nationwide
advertising would be partly lost should their budgets be
included in a united Community Chest not timed with
national promotion.
None of the complications
to a combined campaign. It
sirable to put all charities into one big bundle. But con
siderable work must be done in educating the general
public to full acceptance and
must be raised that none of
ganizations shall be severely dninnged.
It is our opinion that if an all-inclusive Community Chest
is to be attempted, the magnitude of the task and the large
amount of educational work involved will require employ
ment of outside help. Various orgaizations exist for this
purpose. They have experts trained in publicity methods
and fund-raising 'procedure. These organizations, like the
-one which conducted the Community Hospital campaign
in Roseburg, may be employed for a flat fee or on a
percentage basis. The system is growing in favor in most
large cities. If a one-drive, all-inclusive Community Chest
plan is adopted it would be well, in our opinion, to consider,
at the same time, a switch to paid professional management.
Washington Start Istuei
Protest Of Oregon Tax
OLMPIA, June 13. W) A pro
test has been sent to the Oregon
Tax Commission by the Washing
ton Toll Bridge Authority over
the $1,100,000 valuation placed on
the Oregon end of the Longvlcw
prldge across the Columbia Riv
er. Last year the Oregon part of
the bridge was'assessed at $1,052,
000 but the TEA has withheld
bavment of the $34,000 In taxes.
the TBA termed the 1919 fig-1
circulated by the Roseburjj
throughout Oregon fell with
came during the period of
mentioned is a definite barrier
is entirely possible and de
cooperation. Sufficient funds
the deserving charitable or
ure "grossly excessive" In Its pro
test. The Oregon commission began
silting at Salem today as a Board
of Equalization and Review. Gov
ernor Langlle has said he plans
to be present when the TBA's
case Is presented,
FINANCIER DIES
NEW YORK, June U.-(.V)-J.
Frederic Bvers. Sr., 67, chnlrman
of the board of A. M. Byera & Co.,
and a director of many large cor
porations, died In Roosevelt Hos
pital here Saturday.
It Would
fpjffi By Viahnett S. Martin fJZD
Someone, who knows a lot
more about such things than I
do, writes,
"I sympathize with your brief
(a recent M. B.) for the clerk
who must stand but lo and be
hold! there's a law against com
pelling any female clerk to do
so, and requiring the employer to
provide a seat for resting. Ore
gon Code 102-324. . . the fine, by
the way, is $25 to $100." Thanks
very much to the writer who, I
think, did not intend to have his
name used.
State Library has a list of Mys
tery and Detective stories with
date of publication: 1946-49, in
case you are Interested. Nearly
200 of them! And such titles:
'Murder Makes Me Nervous"
Writing about It would be worse
on the 'nerves,' I'd think! "Wom
en Are Skin Deep." "The Lady
Forgot" (I left the key In the
front door the other day. You
should have seen EJ's expression;
we were half way down the can
yon when he found out. He
doesn't know it until now but
the key was in the front door for
three days once while we were
off on a weekend.) "The Mov
ing Toy-Shop" just ask any par
ent of small children about that
In the Day s News
(Continued From Page One)
from the Washington dispatches.
Instead, you get the distinct Im
pression that congress thinks the
sure-fire way to get re-elected Is
to blow It like a drunken sailor,
giving everybody everything he
asks for.
And so on with a lot of other
things besides spending.
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IF congress, as Senator Morse
asserts, IS out of step with the
thinking of the people, why Is It?
How did It come about? How do
good men (for there are many
good men in congress) get that
way?
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WELL, believe It or not, the city
of Washington Is as effective
ly insulated against the country
as a whole as a frozen steak in
your refrigerator Is Insulated
against the heat of a summer day.
It's a strange place. The life It
leads is a strange life. You might
call the city of Washington the
Land of the Lotus Eaters and not
be far from the truth.
a a a
TAKE Us social life.
It Involves constant contact
with fascinating people from all
the great capitals of the world.
It is ruled by precedent and pro
tocol in alt of its official aspects.
At a formal dinner, you alt where
your RANK entitles you to sit.
Those higher than you are above
you at the table and those lower
than you are below you.
(Incidentally, a member of con
gress ranks a major general.
That, In itself. It an upsetting in
fluence. Nothing gets you farther
away from the common people
than the glitter of uniforms es
pecially when many of the uni
Simplify Things Considerably
' '
one? It's never safe to take a
step In the dark, is It?
Another Item of thls-and-that:
A reader, a man, writes: "Why
do you call him EJ? What is his
name? Why don't you tell us?"
and at the end of the 'very nice
letter he asks: "How's Initials
liking this rain?"
In case EJ li getting too much
sympathy as a hen-pecked hus
band, I'll just say It took years to
induce him to write "Ernest J."
on checks, etc. I wanted to use
the "Ernest" and the bank would
not let me unless he did. It's just
a family quirk, Mr. Inquirer. His
brothers do It, too. So did his
father. Oh yes, "Initials" likes
the rain, same as you do. Par
ticularly on the porch roof. And
on our trees. (I like It, too, al
though you don't ask about me.
It lays the dust on the road!
If it rains hard enough.)
Has anyone a copy for sale of
Lewis McArthur's Oregon Geo
graphic Names? If so, please let
me know. (Oh-oh, maybe the
'classified ads' will get after this
column for competition.)
I did so enjoy meeting or tele
phoning some of the reader
friends when in Roseburg, the
other day. Sorry I couldn't con
tact more. Next time!
forms are placed BELOW you at
the table.)
It all tends to give you delu
sions of grandeur.
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THESE delusions of grandeur,
unfortunately, aren't knocked
out of you when you come back
home during the recesses of con
gress and at other times, In your
home town and In fact all over
your district even all over your
slate you are carried around on
a chip. .
It is an honor for a hostess to
entertain you. Having you at her
house on terms of friendly In
timacy gives her a little edge over
the other gals. The Rotary and
the Klwanls clubs fight for the
honor of having you address
their luncheons. When you ap
pear on the street, little knots of
people cluster around you. The
man who can go up and shake his
congressman by the hand and
call him by his first name thereby
becomes better than the common
herd. The act makes him a SOME
BODY.
In Washington, of course, you're
a little tin god to all the brass of
all the government departments,
because the time might come
when you held the deciding vote
on an appropriation the depart
ment wanted badly in order to
be able to keep up with the other
departments.
All In all, you have to have a
pretty sound head or you'll get It
badly turned.
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SO, you see, Senator Morse Is
probably right when he says
that congress has lost the com
mon touch. In fact, I think the
senator himself Is not above a Ut
ile Inflation of (he spirit and per
haps of his ego when, as happens,
a hush falls for a moment when
he makes a dramatic entrance at
an assemblage of nice people who
know who's who and can spot a
Chief Harry Bridges
May Not Come To Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.
JP) CIO Longshore Chief Harry
Bridges may never come to trial
on charges of conspiracy and per
jury growing out of his natural
ization proceedings in 1945.
Bridges has been indicted by a
Federal Grand Jury on charges
he swore falsely he was not a
Communist at the time of his
naturalization.
Also Indicted were Longshore
officials J. R. Robertson and
Henry Schmidt. They were
charged with conspiracy.
But the statute of limitations
may Intervene to throw out all
criminal action against the de
fendents. Such a possibility was broached
by counsel for both sides and
Federal Judge Michael J. Roche.
F. Joseph Donohue, special as
sistant attorney general said:
"We expect our entire case to
be attacked on the ground that
the statute of limitations has run
out. We hold that the statute is
five years in Immigration mat
ters, not three. The Supreme
Court has never ruled on the
point and such a ruling may be
had in this case."
Cherry Growers Threaten
Not To Pick Their Crops
PORTLAND, June 13.
Cherry growers are threatening
to leave this year's crop on the
trees because of prevailing low
prices.
From Newberg and Salem
came reports that some grow
ers had decided not to hire pick
ers, while others' were consider
ing the problem.
Brlners have Indicated they
will pay five to six cents a
pounds for Royal Annes and 4J
cents for other varieties.
LEWISTON, Idaho, June 13.
(JPl Growers of brining cherries
in this area, who were to have
started their harvest today, may
leave tne iruit on tne trees be
cause of a second recent cut
in prices.
The Smith Frozen Foods of
Idaho, Inc., which purchases the
bulk of the Lewiston-ciarkston
cherries used in brining have
dropped the price of black cher
ries to 4i cents a pound and
white cherries to five cents. The
scale went Into effect Sunday.
Art Ketchum, vice president
of the Lewiston-Clarkston coop
erative, predicted tne iruit win
go unpicked at those prices. Pre
vailing wages for pickers are
three cents a pound.
Nation-Wide Drive On
Syphilis Is Planned
NEW YORK. June 13. (JPiA
coordinated federal state drive
against syphilis will takeplace In
July and August In 27 states
and the District of Columbia.
Dr. Leonard S. Scheele. surgeon
general of the U. S. Public Health
Service, announced at a Colum
bia University news conference
that the campaign will be spon
sored by his department and mu
nicipal and public health services.
He said the stales to be covered
Include: Oregon and Washington.
Free treatment will be given
every person who has syphilis, he
said. He estimated 3.000.000 per
sons in this counlrv have the di
sease and that 1,000.000 "have
syphilis and don't know It."
TWO HURT IN CRASH
EUGENE. June 13. I.W
Charles S. Brasher, 48. Downey,
Calif., and James A. Bush, 21.
Tacoma, Wash., were in Secret
Heart Hospital Saturday after
noon following an accident on
Highway 58, near Eagle Rock,
about 25 miles east of Eugene.
Both are reported to have re
ceived minor Injuries.
Greenland was first settled In
the 10th Century.
coming man.
Really, everything considered,
the wonder Is that Washington
has any touch at all with the
thinking of the common people.
Stranger From Mars Descends On
Congress, Asks Pertinent Questions
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. "There are a lot of things around here that
I don't understand," said the Man from Mars.
"Do tell," replled.the Man Who Knew All the Answers. "Pray be
a little more specific. Let me enlighten you."
I thought that because your
Coneress Dassed a law to set up a
national radar screen network, it
was all-out for national defense,"
began the Man from Mars.
"It is," said the Man Who Knew
Everything, with assurance.
"Then why didn't they raise the
pay of the armed services?"
That was for reasons ef econ
omy," said the Know It All.
"Is thet why the House u.i
passed this new Rankin $65,000,-
000,000 veterans' benefit bill?"
asked the Man from Mars.
"Your cuestlon is so ridiculous
it doesn't merit an answer," said
the Authority. "Haven't you no
ticed how worried Congress is
about allowing the budget to get
out of balance?"
The senators dldn t seem very
worried about it when they were
restoring House cuts on that 'pork
barrel' rivers and harbors bill,"
observed the Man from Mars.
'That," said the Expert, ''is dif
ferent." ,
"Time Important"
"It sure is," said the Man from
Mars. "But you have so many
things different. Your Senator
Tydings thinks congressional sal
aries should be cut 5 per cent to
save money. Your Senator
Bridges, who is a great advocate
of economy, says that isn't neces
sary. And your Senator Pepper
seems to think the Congress
should buy a lot of autos and set
up a motor pool to give congress
men free rides."
"That last," said the Big An
swer Man, "Is to save time?'
"Oh, Is time Important around
here?" asked the Man from Mars
in amazement. 'The way they
spent three weeks filibustering
that proposed change in Senate
rules, and the way they're going
to SDend three weeks or more in
vestigating your Atomic Energy
Commission, I thought they had !
all the time In the world." :
Congress must adlourn bv I
August, replied the Information
Specialist with finality.
is tnat wny tney re in such a
hurry to do nothing about ratify-1
ing the North Atlantic Pact and j
providing for foreign military as-1
sistance?" querried the Man from i
Mars. "I thought you were con-.
cerned about the threat of Inter-1
national communism."
We are, responded the Wise :
Man. "Just look at the way some
of the congressmen want to give
more aia to unina to ugnt com
mies."
And look how the Senate Is i
planning to cut the Voice of !
America appropriation and how
the House cut next year's funds ,
for the Marshall Plan." !
Too Inquisitive
for a compete straneer. the
Man from Mars seemed to be
catching on fast. The Man Who
Was Supposed to Know All the
Answers was squirming a bit un
easily In his seat. "Next year,"
he exrlained. "Coneress will nut
all its money bills into one and
so end what now may seem to
you a little confusing."
But thev ve been supposed to
do that ever since your Congres
sional Reorganization Act was
passed in 1946," exclaimed the
Martian.
'Was there anvthin? else vnu
wished to consult me about?"
asked the Source of All Wisdom.
1 ve lust beeun." said the Man
from Mars. "Congressmen let the
taxpayers maintain a health clinic
for themselves and their families.
yet a majority of them seem op
posed to such service for the vot
ers. Congressmen complain there
are too many eovernment em.
ployes, yet they haven't so far
Portland U. Lists Two
Grads From Roseburg
PORTLAND. Ore. (5n..n
Two students from Roseburg
wcit among ine Jtw graduates
to receive diplomas from Uni
versity of Portland riurln Im.
presslve ceremonies on campus
last sunaay.
Erika Brust Graham, daugh
ter of Mrs. Helene Brust, 508
Fowler St., received her bache
lor's degree from the college
of nursing while Keith S. Hunt
er, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
Hunter, waa nwnrriwl Ma ilmrraa
from the college of science.
numer graauaiea witn magna
cum laude honors.
The first settlementa In Trwlanri
were made by Irish monks.
Tele-fun
by Warren Goodrich
"I'll give UikIo Lordo plenty
of time to onswor he'll
at dinner about now."
Please give the person you're
calling plenty of time to answer
-at least a full minute. The
Pad Ac Telephone and Telegraph
Company.
WbX?' f"" 'i
!
been able to agree on a bill that
would let the President reorgan
ize the government."
"I fear," said the Man Who
Knew Everythjng, "that you are
a subversive character. I thli.k
I shall report you for a loyalty
investigation. I believe you should
be deported, back to Mars."
A. F. Walter Kreise, M. 0.
Physician and Surgeon
U. S. National Bank Annex
Room 217
Office Phone: 1500
Res.: Hotel Rose Phone 622
Office hours: Mon. Thru Sat
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Astoria Spruce Sawmill
Sale Belnj Negotiated
ASTORIA, June 13. W) Sale
of the Astoria Spruce Corpora
tion sawmill and box factory to
tht. Van Vleet Logging Com
pany was being negotiated here
today.
George Van Vleet, who has
been logging in Clatsop County
since 1935, said a definite de
cision has not yet been made.
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