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TOO MUCH
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Congress now has before it legislation which would put
the government into the telephone business in competition
with existing service.
The proposed measure would authorize the Rural Electri
fication Administration to make 35-year loans at two per
cent interest to extend rural phone service.
According to figures furnished by telephone companies,
approximately , 85 percent of the total rural area of the
country now has service available. The 15 percent not now
provided with telephone communication is for the most part
remote and sparsely settled. Installations in such areas
would be expensive and unprofitable.
We can see, however, how nationalization of telephones
would fit into the political picture.
It would be possible, for instance, to furnish the farmer
a telephone and then pay him not to use it, the same as he
is paid for not growing wheat. By a little judicious wire
tapping on the party line, the government could locate any
farmer who wasn't grateful for his gifts from the Great
White Father and who could be pressured into voting the
right ticket at the next election. Or, by encouraging more
use of the subsidized rural telephones, the farmer and his
wife; kept busy chatting with neighbors, wouldn't produce
as much food, the government being worried over the fact
that too much agricultural production may force down living
costs and thus upset the high inflationary level necessary to
the current free-spending national policies.
At .least, it seems to be the intent of the administration
to "let the voice of the farmer be heard." '
The British Empire was built on a policy of government
partnership with free enterprise. Today the rapidly dimin
ishing Empire is practicing
rather than PARTNERSHIP.
that socialistic trend is most obvious.
Here in our own country we, too, are well committed to
the welfare state, with its subsidies, and "benefits." We
discourage honest and conscientious labor, thrift and am
bition. We encourage a minimum of work for a maximum
of pay. We "hide" the tax collected from the worker
through the medium of withholding taxes which the worker
does not realize are being taken from him. We discourage
the investment of risk capital in free enterprise by pyramid
ing surtaxes on private income, .."soaking the rich," and
excessive corporation and income taxes. Then, in depression
times, when private capital is not available to furnish em
ployment, we resort to pump-priming through public works.
How much different the picture would be if our govern
ment would work as a partner with private industry.
We can find a ready example right here at home. We
are wasting approximately two-thirds of the timber in our
forests. Approximately one-half the timber is coming off
publicly-owned lands. Ample processes exist to extract 100
percent of the values from a tree. Weyerhaeuser, for in
stance, has proven that nothing need be wasted. But in
stallation of utilization processes is costly. Private industry,
facing a tax system discouraging to investment of risk
capital, will not pioneer experimental installations.
If the federal government were interested in a partnership
nrrangcment with private industry, instead of nationaliza
tion only, it would furnish the capital with which to set up
plants to utilize the timber from public lands and then lease
or sell the installations to private industry after operations
had been proven profitable.
By such methods thousands of jobs would be created,
additional sources for tax revenue would be made available
to the government to pay the costs of its investments, free
enterprise would be encouraged to take over an operation
which had been proven practical, we would cease wasting
a resource while building economic and moral strength in
stead of promoting weakness.
We need less interference and competition with free
enterprise and more cooperation, encouragement and part
nership. Grange Would Restore Property
Qualification For Voters On Tax
COOS BAY, June 17. UP)
Delegates to the annual slate
grange convention put an Indef
inite postponement on a tax com
mittee recommendation for elim
ination of state property taxes.
Then they approved the tux com
mittee's resolution calling for
restoration of property qualifica
tions "for voting on all tax
measures."
This latter action was directed
. against the people's vote last No
vember which removed property
tax qualification on voting in
school bond elections.
Next year's convention will be
held at Ontario, delegates decided
In another vote yesterday alter
hca.-ing a number of speeches on
varied topics.
James T. Marr, secretary of the
state federation of labor, said
Oregon labor was with the grange
In approval of a Columbia Valley
administration.
Gov. Douglas McKay said that
as Oregon grows a population of
2.000,000 or more Is forecast for
I960 there must be planning. Me
spoke of Increased stream pollu
tion and slum areas as two prob
lems arriving with Industrializa
tion. The governor said there must
be conservation of soil, water,
timber, wildlife and taxes.
Conservation of taxes, he said,
COMPETITION
government OWNERSHIP
The weakening effect of
Is nn Important factor because
of the need for constant vigilance
in scanning the way In which
money Is spent.
Expansion of Oregon's agricul
ture brings new Jobs, he said,
pointing to the Umatilla pea can
ning industry as an example.
Small fry had their Innings too.
Declamatory contest winners In
the ages 5 to 10 group: 1'alrlrla
Scott, Ada Grange, Ijine County,
first; Patricia Clayton, Cherry
Park Grange, Wasco, Second:
Joyce Ann Blllerhack, Pleasant
Grove Grange, Union, third. Ages
11 to 14: John Huberts, Smith
River Grange, Douglas, first; Kay
Richman, Pleasant Grove, second;
Joan Petersen, Klmlra, third.
New Juvenile state grange
master Is Dick Everest of Sixes
Grange, Curry County.
OCCUPATION IS GOOD
TOKYO-f.PI-Of the 400.000
fan letters received by Gen.
Douglas MacArlhur from the
Japanese, one stands out.
It is from Masashlge Takahashl.
He approved the Allied occupa
tion commander's work so en
thusiastically that he wound up
asking Mac Arthur to become his
brot her.
There Is no recoid of MacAr
thur's reply.
"The Dalles News," said my ex
Texan, "put out a 442-page Sun
day edition on May 22." His
casual tone suddenly turned to
surprise. "Funny nobody sent us
one!"
I glanced at the Texas Almanac
which the Dallas News has been
publishing for ninety-one years.
It stands in the long row of book
tools I keep handy on a shelf over
my desk In the kitchen. The
World Almanac takes 912 pages
to cover Its field; the Texas Al
manac Just begins tq tell about
TEXAS In its six hundred pages.
The first issue was in 1857, "A
compendium which In addition to
telling Texans themselves . . .
could be used to bring population
by migration." Now the Roseburg
Book Store proprietor told me the
other day that the one hundred
copies he orders annually of the
World Almanac "sell like hot-
cakes." Imagine how Texans
storm their bookstores the day
the new Texas Almanac comes
out!
Each of the 254 counties Is
mapped, pictured and described
in detail. It doesn't bother to tell
about postage rates, but It
thoughtfully lists the 2,017 post-
In the Day's News
(Continued From Page One)
age gossips, this ex-postmistress
has incurred the active displeas
ure of her townspeople who will
hold it against her that she didn't
let them in on the dirt.
s
HE was sacked from her job
as postmistress and the chair
man of the court (corresponding
roughly over there to our Justice
of the peace) fined her 100 pounds
(400 smackers) and told her:
"The whole fabric of this vill
age's life might have been under
mined by your action."
(One seems to detect a certain :
edge In his words of reproof. Do !
you reckon he might have been
wondering if she read any of HIS
lettc-s?)
B
ACK In Oklahoma City, a Mrs.
Sylvia Edmomlson came
back to her parked car and found
some untidy chalk marks on her
nice, clean tires. So she rubbed
them off with her hankie. A cop
caught her at It and hauled her
into court on a charge of violating
the parking ordinance. She ex
plained to the judge that she likes
to keep her car nice and clean
and those nasty chalk marks riled
her.
The court, taking a broad view
of the situation, fined her $3 and
suspended the fine. "This Is not
an easy question to rule on," he
commented.
a:
FTER the manner of these hot
hot commentators, who want
it clearly understood that they are
smarter than common folk,, let ,
me predict:
The time will come when park
ing cars in the street In the con
gested districts of our towns and
cities will be forbidden entirely.
Incorrigible
llL S&tfrCs JHS aone WANNA
By Viahnett S. Martin
offices In Texas where you can
find out. It also lists the 3,450
"towns of all sizes from the cross
roads hamlet of less than ten per
sons to Houston with 565,000"'
. . . gives the number of business
es in each, too!
I Imagine the advertisers stand
in line to "be in the Texas alma
nac." Other states, Oregon for
instance, has advertisers. Why
not an Oregon Almanac? Maybe
not 600 pages to begin with, but
we could do it!
The Dallas News first distin
guished Itself with its "first hand
reporting of the Mexican War"
. . . followed by Its "coverage in
the era of the war between the
states, despite the drastic short
age of manpower and newsprint."
Other "repertorial achievements"
are listed in the 5-page history of
the News. There are nine pages
for "The Calendar for Texas."
Then the history of Texas . . .
and the answers to Just about
anything one might want to
know about the Lone Star State.
There's a good index in the back.
The Dallas News, in the bus
iness for over a hundred years,
certainly does a fine thing In pub
lishing its Texas Almanac. Good
reading!
Why? Well, there just won't be
room enough In the downtown
streets to hold the cars.
Here's another prediction:
We'll all be madder than wet
hens when It is done, but after
we've got used to It we'll LIKE
it because It will speed up traffic
In the busy streets, cut down the
number of bashed fenders and
make It easier and quicker to get
where we're going.
w
E'VE been dealing here with
what transpires in American
and British courts and the human
nature that enters thereinto. Let's
take a long Jump clear Into
Communist Albania.
There, according to a dispatch
from London, the Albanian vice-
premier, one Kocl Xoxe, has Just
been shot before a wall by
firing squad. He had been con
victed by the Alibanlan Commu
nist high court of "traitorous ac
tivities" his treason consisting
of siding with Yugoslavia's Tito
in Tito's feud with the Russian
sponsored Comlnform.
I'm quite sure I prefer the
American way.
Columbia Forest Now
Bears Pinchot's Name
WASHINGTON, June n.-f.W
President Truman's signature
Wednesday changed the name of
Columbia National Forest In the
State of Washington to Glfford
Plnchot National Forest.
Plnchot. who died In 1946. was
the first chief of the U. S. Forest
Service. Throughout his adult life
he was a prominent conservation
ist. He was a Republican who
served two terms as governor of
Pennsylvania,
The forest, which Plnchot help
ed establish, covers both sides of
" Cascade nRe fr ,m ,,, A.KAf.
:,:", "'';r "T,-v.".T,, ;
..... --.I.tf. HI,,, llMIUII VI
Mt. Rainier south to the Colum-
mla Gorge. It Includes about 1
263,000 acres.
The area of Norway is 124.556
square miles.
Senate Approval
Of Military Pay
Raise Indicated
WASHINGTON, June 17 UP)
A warm Senate welcome Thurs
day greeted the battered but
only slightly bent military pay
bill.
It passed the House Wednesday
on a voice vote after several vain
attempts to shave down increases
for the top brass and to cut extra
pay for flight and submarine
duty.
Chairman Tydings (D.-Md.) of
the Senate Armed Services com
mittee promptly announced that
hearings would open on the bill
today with Secretary of Defense
Johnson as the first witness,
backed by a staff of military pay
experts armed with charts and
figures.
It took two tries to get the
measure through the House. It
was opposed both times by young
World war II veterans who want
ed to concentrate the largest pay
raises in the junior officer and
enlisted ranks.
The first bill would have cost
about $106,000,000 a year. Increas
es under It would have ranged
from about three per cent for
the next to lowest enlisted rank
up to almost 50 per cent for briga
dier generals and Navy officers
of equivalent rank.
The new bill, which the House
debated for two days, would cost
about $358,000,000 for the first
full fiscal year it is In effect, but
this would drop off to about $302,
000.000 a year after 1952.
The Individual Increases would
run from three per cent for the
lowest rank after four months'
duty up to about 37 per cent for
brigadier generals. There also Is
a provision continuing family
allowances for enlisted men
through current enlistments.
The new jiy scales, product of
the first general military pay
revision since 1908, would go into
effect October 1 this year. The
bill would apply to all the uni
formed services, their reserves,
the National Guard and the Ail
National Guard.
The bill would create a special
fourth grade enlisted rank for
men with seven years' or more
service. Men in this category
would go from $141 a month to
$238 an increase of 69 per cent,
the largest in the bill.
Melrose
Mrs. Georgia Imrle Funk and
her son Billy of Los Angeles,
Calif., are visiting the former's
mother, Mrs. Everet Cooper, and
other relatives here.
Mrs. Nellie Meyers went to
Portland with Mr. and Mrs. Hun
gcrford for a few days of visit
ing and shopping last week.
Jim Reece of Seattle is spend
ing a few weeks visiting his
brother, Fred T. Reece. They
went to Sutherlln Thursday to
visit with Mr. and Mrs. Conard j
Lundeen. I
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bushnell of
Coquille visited one day last week
with Mr. and Mrs. O. O.
Matthews.
The local Campflre group, with
their leader Miss Betty Stldham,
ramped out at the forks last
Wednesday night and Thursday
in order to earn a rank in their
work.
Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Conn and
their son Blake, attended the ro
deo at Grants Pass last Saturday
and on Sunday, visited the Ore
gon Caves.
Mrs. Paul Krueger spent last
Tuesday in Eugene where ahc
shopped and took her small
grandson to the circus.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Ransome
of Spokane, Wash., spent the
Memorial Day week-end at the
home of the former's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Ransome.
Mrs. Joe Matthews accompa
nied Mrs. Dora Ritzman to K.
Falls last week where they at
tended the wedding of the latter'
nephew.
Mr. 1-ee Brown suffered a frac
tured back, when he fell from a
cherry tree at his home in El-
carose last edncsdav. He is In
hospital in Roseburg.
Mrs. Amy Kruse and her
Communists In Cold War
Now On Defense; Showdown
Held Likely In Yugoslavia
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, June 17. UP) State Department officials
found evidence today that even the Communists feel they are now
on the defensive In the cold war in Europe.
The clue to what may be a radical turn in communist leadership
estimates of the East-West conflict came in a bulletin of the Com
munist International Information Bureau.
As reported from Bucharest.
Romania, where it Is published,
the bulletin declared it ' is now
the "cardinal task of Commun
ists to block the spread of
Americanism.
Officials here took an Interest
ed look at the defensive nature
of this declaration. They said
that this, coupled with the charge
that the United States is trying
to "poison" working classes with
American ideas, indicates the
Soviet-led Cominform is deeply
concerned over the West's success
to date in fighting Communism.
They speculated that this con
cern now dominates top Com
munist thinking in contrast with
an earlier Communist preoccu
pation with expansion of their
own power and influence. If
this analysis is correct, it may
mark a switch in Communist tac
tics In Europe from primary
emphasis on expansion westward
to a new stress on holding the
line in Eastern Europe.
Yugoslavia Testing Ground
This view of what the Com
munists themselves may believe
is in accord with official Ameri
can estimates of the cold war
struggle. According to these, the
next phase of the battle between
Western influences and Soviet
Communism apart from Ger
manymay well lie in Eastern
Europe, with Yugoslavia provid
ing the initial testing ground.
Several current developments
are cited to support this view. On
the western side these include:
1. Negotiations between Bri
tain and Yugoslavia for an $800,
000,000 trade agreement under
which Yugoslavia would receive
badly-needed manufactured goods.
2. A conference this week in
Paris between Secretary of State
Acheson and American Ambassa
dor Cannon, envoy to Belgrade,
on relations with Yugoslavia.
This also is believed to have been
concerned with making available
to Marshal Tito a greater flow of
goods from the west.
3. Diplomatic authorities here
expect a continued loosening of
American restrictions on trade
with Tito, short of allowing him
to buy materials having military
value. The American govern
ment also is prepared to support
a Yugoslav application for a
multi-million dollar loan from
the World Bank for industrial
development purposes.
Target of Cominform
On the Communist side, all
signs indicate that the Comin
form is getting ready to try to
crush Tito. This may take the
form of intensifying the eco
daughter Darlene, went to Port
land Thursday to attend -the Rose
Festival. Also attending the rose
show were Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
busenbark.
Mr. and Mrs. Clvde Kenvnn and
their four children left Thursday
evening for Southern California :
to visit Mrs. Kenyon's father,
who is quite ill.
Ueorge Handv SDent several
days last week in Eugene visit
ing his daughter, Florence Knut
son, and her family.
ivir. ana Mrs. Howard Ran-
some were given the first and
second degree obligations at the
Melrose grange meeting last
Tuesday night. During the pro
gram hour, Herman Adelyotte
showed moving pictures. The lad
ies were appointed to close
grange while the men prepared
the refreshments. They served a
two-course supper to forty mem
bers attending.
Mrs. Louis Sweely left Sunday
for Hayward, Calif., to spent a
week visiting relatives and
friends. She went down with her
uncle from Riddle, who will !
spend a month at Carmel, Calif.
Mrs. Floyd Beck (Geneva
Fritts) and baby son arrived this
week from Fairbanks, Alaska, to
spend two months visiting her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fritt
on Doerner Road. Mr. Beck is
manager of a general store there.
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nomic blockade maintained
against Yugoslavia by the Russian-led
Eastern European Com
munist countries.
Tito and the Cominform split
last summer and have been wag
ing a political-economic war ever
since. American officials say
the real cause of the split was
Tito's refusal to obey blindly all
orders from the Kremlin. The
latest moves against him are re
ported from Warsaw to have
been planned by a Cominform
meeting In Poland during the
past few days.
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The Azusa, California post
master, Thomas Barclay Thomp
son has published more than
100 short stories and novels.
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District Oregon Offices
Planned By Health Dept.
PORTLAND, June 17. UP)
District offices for sanitation per
sonnel will be established through
out Oregon by the State Board
of Health.
At present a state restaurant
inspector is headquartered at
Pendleton, and state plumbing in
spectors at Salem and Eugene. All
others must travel from Portland.
Dr. Charles E. Hunt, president
of the State Board, said district
offices would cut travel expenses
and simultaneously "result in bet
ter oublic health service." The
offices will be located in existing
County Health Department quarters.
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