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4 The News-keview, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., June 15, 1949 Published Dilly Except Sunday by tha News-Review Company, Inc. Enlered m second data matter May 1, mi", at the nnst office at Boaeburc Oregon, under ct of Starch 2, U73 tv CHARLES V. STANTON T?f, EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor ai Manager Member.of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Bepreiented by IVE&T-HOLUIlAY CO., INC, oWrti in New York, Chicago. Sin Franriico. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Ht. Louis. SUBSCRIPTION BATES In Oregon Bv Mail rer Tear IR.OO, six months f.50. three months S2.50. By City Carrier Per year 510.0ft (In advance), less than one year, per month It. Oft, Outside Oregon By Mall Per year $900. six months 84.1ft. three months S3.1.Y BIG TIME ENTERTAINMENT By CHARLES The feeling of Rodeo Week it as you walk along the street; not because you see people dressed in clothing suggestive of the Old West, but rather in a spirit of good humor and anticipation. Everyone seems to be in a mood more cheerful than usual. Rodeo Week has been growing in importance year by year, as the Sheriff's Posse has added facilities and enter tainment features, and has gained experience in publicity and program phases. Each year's Rodeo has been better than the one the year before and this yea.r's event promises to be the best yet. And it will be for three days instead of two. It will be a week crowded with entertainment and sports two or three baseball games, a boxing card, several dances, club parties, booster events and other festivities. And, on top of all that, we will have Rodeo parades more colorful than ever before. Following hard on the heels of Rodeo Week will be Suther lin's Timber Days, a four-day Fourth of July Celebration. For many years there has been an unwritten law that Roseburg should avoid Fourth of July programs.' Many years ago Roseburg had formal celebrations of Independence Day, but surrounding small towns wanted to celebrate, too, and complained that they couldn't hold successful events in competition with Roseburg. As Roseburg at that time was . holding a Strawberry Carnival each spring, it was decided, without written agreement, that Roseburg would drop formal observance of the Fourth of July, leaving the date open for neighboring communities. Now Sutherlin has seized the ball, but its celebration is growing so rapidly and is embracing so much territory that Roseburg is getting back into the celebration in cooperation with Sutherlin. Like the Rodeo, the annual Timber Days celebration is well on its way to becoming an all-county institution. More power to it! And this year, the first time for many years, we will have a County Fair not too elaborate, perhaps, considering that it has been a long time since we have had a Fair and must start from scratch; but, nevertheless, a County Fair with horse racing and everything. And, to keep things going the year around, we'll have the annual Northwestern Turkey Show in December, with plan ning already in progress for that event. We aren't attempting to list every public entertainment scheduled for the year, but we believe we've mentioned enough to prove our point that Douglas County isn't over looking the entertainment field, and that we have some shows that may be classed in the "Dig Time." Advice To The Graduates ' Bruce Biossat, NEA Syndicate writer, whose observations are featured regularly in The News-Review, offers advice to this year's class of graduates. The advice should not be confined to graduates alone. It is suitable for every person who desires to be a good citizen. Biossat says : . You students art leaving the college world, where truth . is thu y.eni, single, unifying goal. You are entering the outside world, where truth competes openly and often vio lently with falsehood, half-truth, and propaganda. You will bump Into baffling mixtures of these elements. If you are ever to play any useful part In bettering the world, learn quickly to recognize these oheap alloys that corrupt truth. Resist their Intrusion Into your own think ing. War upon them wherover you find them. Distortions of truth are a prized weapon In the battle of Ideas raging today. But truth It stronger and will blunt that weapon, however lethal It sometimes Is. You will need courage to oombat the users of falsehood and propaganda. They will too seldom be your avowed enemies. They may be In positions of power. They may even be, on occasion, your friends. But if you flinch from fighting them, you will go down In the struggle to bring peace and order and justice to this complex world. ' Presuming you do stand up for truth, don't resort to your opponents' tricks to beat them. Propaganda Is not the antidote for propaganda. Don't rely upon name-calling and label-pinning. Peo ple, like tht world, are complex. No short labels fit them. They are not conveniently divided among saints and sinners. In their personalities they are white and black and all the shades of gray between. So think hard and long before you dust off those handy little badges labeled 'reactionary,' 'liberal,' 'fascist' and 'communist.' Judge people as total human beings, in the full light of their experience. If you can go out from here equipped with these atti tudes, you will have made a big start toward helping crack the problems that beset us all. One Man Commencement PORTLAND, June 15. T 1 Donald R. Grufke of Portland will have a one man commencement at Oregon Slate College. The State Board of Higher Ed ucatlon Monday ordered the school's officials to award Grufke his diploma and list him with the ' class of 1949. The Portlandor had appealed to the board after his diploma became snarled in offi cial red tape during graduation week. His winter term credits had folloH tn elear throueh the Stale Extension System and the Uni versity of Oregon office to Ore gon State College In time for the regular graduation. When he ap peared at the O. S. C. campus In his cap and gown last Mon dny, he was told he was not on the list. Later officials determined that he had completed the work for a degree in business and tech- n0GSke was given a letter say ing he had finished the work and I . 't V. STANTON is in the air. You can sense At O. S. C. Ordered would get his degree In 19.r)0, but the Hoard upheld Grufko's plea despite an O. S. C. protest against the precedent. Dr. A. L. Strand, Oregon Stale President, snld no dale has yet been set for the one-man graduation. E. B. Lemon, dean of adminis tration, said it was the first time In the college's 80-year history that: such a commencement hud been authorized. Sewage System For Sutherlin Is Approved PORTLAND, June 15. -P The State Sanitary authority an nounced approval of three more sewage treatment systems In Oregon Friday. Ihey are the $(100,000 system Proposed for Coos Bay, the $2-18,-00 system proposed for Suther lin, and a $785,000 protected for the Southwest Mills District ad Joining Portland. Lots of Stuff Wrapped Up in Nearly a hundred years ago red and green swing-stages drawn by four horses rumbled down the north side of Lorane Mountain and stopped at the Mountain House. (A recent D. A. R. program devoted to the Old Cartwright Place stated "six white horses drew the limited.") Recently we drove over Lorane Mountain and stopped there to have a pleasant chat with the present owners of the historical landmark, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Addison. Said our host: "I bought this place nearly 50 years ago because it was across the road from my father's. He came here from Illinois; he had the first steam sawmill In these parts. My brother and I batched here. I've done many a repair job on the old house: new roof, raised sagging parts; tore off the old cornice, to mention a few, but I wish It might be properly restored. It Is one of the oldest landmarks hereabouts!" The old house was built In 1853 by D. B. Cartwright, who operat ed It as a tavern, postoffice and telegraph station. An early mes sage was the news of the assas sination of President Lincoln. Americans In Germany Becoming 'Prisoners' Of Conquered People By HAL BOYLE BERLIN, June 15. (P) Americans In Germany have In some ways become the prisoners of the conquered. They are suffering, to a degree at least, the fate of all occupa tion powers through history the fate of becoming a captive of the people they captured. But the Americans are being captured on a cultural and house hold level rather than on a mili tary level, by German music, beer and servants rather than by the theories of Clausewitz. That was the Impression gain ed by correspondents flown here by American overseas airlines on a tour of the war zones. It was confirmed by a number of Ameri cans stationed here for the last three years. The hardening of the1 political lines between East and west has brought a softening of the atti tude between the individual American and the Individual Ger man. Even combat men who ought across this land four years ago have dropped the word "kraut" from their vocabulary. The difference that has taken place on the social level can per haps best be shown by two par lies I attended here three years apart. At a farewell party In 1946 there were some fraulelns pres ent, two Russian officers but no German men. Some newly ar rived American wives gave the fraulelns I he silent treatment all evening, the Gorman orchestra leader taught the crowd to sing a German song, but most of the tunes the band played were American. This week the correspondent group went to another party. The wnd played only two American tunes. The Americans sang and j danced to German songs. No Rus sians attended the party, but there was a frauleln or two there and several German men. The American wives danced gaily with the German men. Living Cheaper Than In U. S. Living Isn't so lush for Ameri cans in Germany today as It was three vears ago. But they can still live more cheaply here than thev can at home in terms ol parties and servants. wnat (to tniugs cosi now at By Viahnett S. Martini The holes left by the wires may still be seen, and insulators are deeply Imbedded in one of the two magnificent walnut trees shading the place. "Even 50 years ago," said Mr. Addison, "it used to take a week to go to Salem for supplies. Sev eral teams made the trip, so if one got stuck there was help at hand." Our attention was drawn to the hand-sawn cedar siding, and the hand-made heavy doors. A huge brass key locks the big double doors. To the left of the front doors is the room where the postoffice was. A corner fire place has two very high small cupboards over It. Did the post master store valuables there? A beautiful view of the Lorane Valley Is seen there; Lorane is a mile or two further on. Some time ago the D. A. R. placed a temporary marker on the Moun tain House; I'm sure they do not know It has become nearly Il legible. Mrs. Addison said they had to melt snow last winter. Even the well Inside the house was frozen. They had about two feet of snow. Well, It was an "unusual" winter, wasn't it! home Is the housing situation any better?" they ask. One way in which the Ameri can victor Is being captured here is by his conscience. "Wives who come over look at the misery around them and it troubles them deeply," one man said. "They start doing things to help German children, and before long they are more active in charitv work than they ever were in their own home towns." Many American families are disturbed by the problems of rear ing children here. One husband whose child is just learning to talk said: "I don't like the fact he can understand his German nurse bet ter than he can me." Not Loveable Folk An Intelligent wife said one of the most depressing things to her was the struggle for power that went on among German servants In her household. "They'll do anything to each other, no matter how petty or cruel, to get a favored .fob," she said "And they haven't in any way lost their desire to dominate. "They show it In small ways. For example, we just bought a young dog, and I have been try ing to train It. If I either praise it or discipline it, I know that as soon as I turn my back my cook win go io me iconox and get a bone lor the dog. And that's the lesson she wants it to learn, T have lived In Germany be fore and since the war. In nil that time I have never met a German I felt like throwing my arms around and saying, 'You sweet old thing, you.' They aren't love able and they haven't changed. And that gives me a hopeless feeling." It Isn't much fun to be a con queror when the guns cease firing and you become a stranger In a land that doesn't want you. the Package In the Days News (Continued From Page One) sia, it will be because we have convinced her that we mean busi ness and are prepared to back up what we say with deeds.) T HE rumor going around Paris is that our side is trying to get the conference adjourned by Thursday of this week. That Is probably a good Idea. Never fool around with explosives any more than you have to. This foreign ministers' conference on Germany is high explosive. IN Warsaw, a "highly qualified Informant" says the Cominform (Communist International Infor mation Bureau) is meeting In Poland to PLAN ACTION AGAINST MARSHAL TITO OF YUGOSLAVIA. Hold your breath and hope. The downfall of the big Chicago gangs started when the gangsters began fighting among each other. s ECRETARY of Agriculture Brannan, addressing a big mid-western Democratic confer ence In Des Moines, tells his highly political hearers that America's farm productive power Is like atomic energy it can be used for either good or bad. The way to use It for GOOD, he says, Is to support the Truman administration farm policies and so help to prevent "the greatest economic crash in history." He adds: "Our great productive power makes possible the biggest sur pluses, the most colossal waste and the greatest economic crash the world has ever seen ... If : we allow abundance to become a j curse, we open wide the door to : the foreign and native totali tarian who stand ready to pro claim the end of the great Ameri can experiment of diplomacy." WHEN a diplomat uses double-) jointed words, it means that he is stalling for time. When a ' politician uses them it means that he Is springing something new as ' a vote-getter. Brannan is springing the new ' Idea of urging the farmers to pro-1 duce all they can of certain kinds of food (especially meats, dairy and poultry products) and when the price drops in the face of In creased supply, pay a subsidy out of the Treasury to cover the difference. His crack about "preventing the greatest economic crash In history" Is designed to scare the taxpayer Into standing for the subsidy. H E twits the Republicans with opposing "'regimentation" for farmers because they didn't think of it first, and adds that Demo crats regard opposition of that sort as a high compliment. As I understand it, the (New Deal) Democrats first tried regi mentation in the form of plow ing under the pigs, and now that plowing under the pigs Is no longer popular they propose to hire the farmer to raise all the pigs he can with the Idea of sup plying the rest of us with cheap pork at taxpayer expense. Politics, like war, Involves frequent shifts In strategy. City Court Has Busy Session On Petty Offenses Municipal Court was a busy place Monday. Judge Ira B. Rid dle reported the following per sons, arrested by city police, were either fined, committed to the cit" jail in lieu of fines or forfeit ed bail: Homer Trusty, Roseburg, drunk and disorderly conduct, $30 bail forfeiture; Carte Doyle Jr., drunk, Myrtle Creek, $20 bail forfeiture; George Harrison Bowman, Rose burg, drunk, $20 fine; Albert Ar thur Hudson, Kirk, Ore., drunk and disorderly conduct, commit ted to the city jail for 15 days in lieu of a $20 fine; Morton Eugene Loop, Roseburg, drunk and dis orderly conduct, $30 bail forfeit ure; John William Jones, Rose burg, drunk, $20 bail forfeiture; Delbert Raymond Snider, Idleyld Route, drunk, 10 days committed; Morris Everett Roy, Roseburg, drunk, 15 days committed; Jess Brotton Cleland. San Diego, drunk, 10 days committed; Glenn Ellsworth Nordling, Caspain, Mich., drunk, $20 bail forfeiture; Elias Roland Stilwell, Roseburg, drunk, $20 fine; Ray Jackson Kell, Glide, drunk, 10 days com mitted: George John Kufner, Sal em, vagrancy, 10 days committed; j Ebeh Bryson Mode, Roseburg, $20 Ban iorienure; noneri uueiks, Roseburp. drunk. $20 fine; Lionel ! Clar Baker, Canyonville, drunk, $20 fine; James iidwin fetors, vagrancy, $20 or 10 days, sus pended and floated; Ray Pake, Prospect, vagrancy, 10 days com mitted. , I Magnus William Nelson, arrest-1 ed for being drunk, June 11, paid j a $20 fine, and was released, i then rearrested on the same charge June 12. This time the judge fined him $30. i Crash Near Oakridge Puts Three In Hospital EUGENE. June 15. VP) Three Milwaukee residents were under treatment at Eugene Hos pital yesterday after the car in which they were riding skid ded and overturned Monday aft ernoon on a curve three miles west of Oakridge on highway 58. Harvey S. Miller, 69, received a back injury; Edward Young, 73, suffered an injured neck; and Mrs. Katherine Young, bit, sui fered head and rib injuries, ac cording to attendants. The car reportedly rolled over three times before crashing into a tree. Soviet Spurns Huddle On Peace Pact Violations MOSCOW, June 15. UP) Russia has rejected British and American proposals for three power conferences on alleged peace treaty violations by Roman ia, Bulgaria and Hungary. Russia's answer to the pro posals, reported by the Soviet news agency Tass, charged rthat Britain and the United Sfa'tes were attempting to Interfere in the internal affairs of the tlirce countries and influence their foreign nolicies. letter: to the Editor Girls Drum Corps Makes Hit At Portland Festival PORTLAND Your Roseburg Knights of Pythias Girls Drum Corps certainly put Roseburg on the map during their appearance at the Rose Festival. Their youth, gaiety, friendliness, charm, com ings and goings, costumes, color, gracious farewell selections to their hotel (Auld Lang Syne) and restaurant (Stars and Stripes Forever) added such zest to their neighborhood that their disciplin ed stowing away of gear into their bus caused a pang of real regret. May the great kids come again! RAY W. FROMAN, Portland, Ore. DID YOU SAY Business Residence Store Rental and Storage? Yes, all for the one price, or would take a modern home as down pavment. This setup nets $300 to $f00 per month for five days a week. A real propostion for a live wire. No phone information. See Forrest Losee FULLERT0N REALTY 230 N. Stephens Roseburg Music by Happy Valley Cowboys at tht Armory Prizes for Best Dressed Cowboy Cowgirl Cow Couple m r.v. Cowboy H 1 Dance i Si I "l! V'-" R V& FrMav. Juno 17 , I ! TO! 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