4 Th News-Review, Rosoburg, Of. Fri., July 1, 1949
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DEATH TAKES
By CHARLES V. STANTON
The slaughter is about to begin.
This weekend will see hundreds of persons killed, thous
ands injured and millions of dollars worth of property dam
aged.
We are making no Idle prediction, for every holiday
brings its tragic toll of dead and injured. The Fourth of
July, with its heat, crowds,' fireworks and travel, is the
most productive agency of death, injury and damage.
Motorists will be speeding to beaches, mountains, celebra
tions and other points of visitation. Everyone will be in a
hurry and in a carefree mood, intent upon crowding as
much fun and excitement into the brief weekend as possible.
And while millions frolic, press wires throughout the nation
will be mechanically tabulating the list of dead and injured.
But no tabulation can portray the agony, the blood and
horror-filled moments. Some motorists will die instantly;
others will die more slowly despite ministrations to ease
the torture in mangled bodies. Many will wake from drugged
sleep to face future life as permanent cripples. Still others
will spend weeks and months on beds of pain but, fortunate
ly will have the satisfaction of eventual recovery.
Not all deaths and injuries, however, will be attributable
to motor vehicles. Drowning will claim many lives. Adults
and children alike will be killed, maimed or injured through
careless handling of fireworks. Sunstroke, overexertion,
falls, fights and overindulgence will contribute to the roster
of casualties.
. We will pay dearly for our few hours of fun.
Accompanying our careless waste of human life over the
double holiday, will be a tremendous loss of property.
The Fourth of July, due to use of fireworks, has an ex
ceptionally high incidence of fires. Homes will be burned,
in some cases taking lives of occupants. Grass fires will be
prevalent everywhere. And there will be some forest fires.
Shooting of fireworks in forest areas is prohibited by
law, but we can anticipate many violations. Fireworks, how
ever, are not the sole cause of fires in the woods. The care
less smoker, the camper who leaves his fire untended, or
who departs from a camp leaving unquenched embers and
the person who thoughtlessly tosses burning material from
a motor vehicle can create a blaze which may rage through
thousands of acres of merchantable timber.
As trees go up in flame and smoke, we seldom stop to
realize that we must consider as a part of the cost the
payrolls the trees would have produced as they passed
through various stages of manufacture, the commodities that
could have been purchased with money from those payrolls,
and the subsequent loss of further circulation in various
channels of trade. Too, we must consider the homes that
could have been erected, business buildings constructed, fur
niture produced. We must include taxes lost, both from the
land and from income, together with hundreds of more
intangibles.
We know full well that words of warning are largely
wasted. Thoughts of pleasure outweigh admonitions for cau
tion. In our pleasure we grow thoughtless and careless.
Newspapers everywhere are urging the public to be care
ful, but, at the same time, are proceeding with preparations
to publish the dire news they know will be forthcoming
Hews of tragedy and destruction.
If we seem pessimistic it Is because there is no escaping
facts. Newspaper files year after year contain tabulations
of Fourth of July casualties. The list is proportionate to the
duration of the holiday.
We can only hope that a FEW people will give heed. Per
haps repeated warnings may save a life here and another
there. Someone may be caused to stop and think before he
carelessly sets a fire or causes an accident. If so, the warning
will not have been in vain.
But of one tiling we may be sure death will not be taking
a holiday.
Hoover Opposes Chairman For Joint
Chiefs Of Staffs For Armed Services
WASHINGTON, Julv 1 (P)
- Herbert Hoover sold today It
would be "dangerous, lo the coun
try" to create a chairman for the
Joint Chiefs of Staff of the armed
services as proposed by the Tru
man administration.
Such an office, the former
president declared, would "place
too much power in any military
officer."
Hoover testified before the
House Armed Services Commit
tee on legislation lo amend the
armed services unification law of
1917. Generally, the measure is
aimed to give more power to the
secretary of defense and Iron out
"bugs" in the two-year-old law.
Backers have contended the
proposed revisions will permit
savings of many millions of dol
lars. The Senate passed the
legislation May 2(1.
Hoover endorsed the general
purposes of the bill but strongly
opposed a section which would
create a chairman for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
Each of the armed services is
represented on the Joint Chiefs
bv its chief of slaff. Under the
the present arrangement, each is
equal In theory and they try to
reach their decisions by mutual
agreement.
The proposal to create a chair
man was advanced by the late
Secretary of Defense Korrestal
and has the specific endorsement
of President Truman. Under the
plan, the chairman would act as
chief military advisor to the
President and the secretary of
defense.
NO HOLIDAY
Chairman Vinson (D. Ga.) snld
he agreed with Hoover that the
proposed chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff might become, In
effect, a single chief of stuff for
all the armed forces, Vinson
added:
"I want to put something In
this bill so that It can't happen."
Rep. Short (R.Mo.) said lie Is
"a lillle alarmed about the tre
mendous powers" proposed In the
but ror the secretary ot defense.
Hoover told this siory today as
Illustrating the need (or closer
coordination of the armed serv
ices: "A friend of mine is acting as
a medical consultant for all three
services on the same subject, and
he gels three salary cheeks. He
told me that a little coordination
would eliminate two of these
checks, and he would lie glad to
see It happen.
Old Tim Gospel Meets
Continued At Oakland
Old Time Gospel meetings ate
to be continued indefinitely,
weather permitting, in the little
tent at the east end of the City
Park at Oakland, announced
Evangelist William Elmer
Brown, who Is conducting the
meetings,
Brown announced that he win
preach "God's word In Its full
ness, as was preached by the
early apostles and disciples." All
Bible subjects will bt preached
and taught.
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The dear little wrens with their
tip-tilted tails went back and
forth (to continue from yester
day's column) from dawn to
dark, In rain and sun, while the
babies held up widely gaping bills
for food. Sometimes they worked,
Indefatigably, until after eight
o'clock In the Oklahoma twilight.
The thing I remember so vividly
Is the way they always paused a
moment on the clothesline, both
going and coming, and trilled one
of the most exquisite bird-songs
to be heard. ,
How they could sing, with a
green worm on the way to the
nest! They paid no attention to
us, flying within a foot of Mother
as she washed In the basement
under the back porch; the electric
washer troubled the wrens not at
all! They fed the young while we
watched Interestedly, And then
on a Sunday afternoon, right
after we came home from church,
the parents decided the time had
come for the wee ones to fly!
Smaller than the tiny wrens
were the "winged jewels," ruby
throated hummingbirds, dipping
their long bills Into Mother's
prize scarlet gladioli, the dark
purple velvet of a wall of morning-glories,
every bright-colored
chalice In the garden. And oh,
Oregon Seventh Among States In
3-Year Highway Building Projects
Durtnp the nasi three venrs
(1946-47-48) the Stale Highway
Commission has been contracting
a three-year highway construction
program which has totalled ap
proximately $52 million In money
and which will result In the Im
provement of some l.Sill miles of
roads in the extended motor trans
poration gYul of the state. In com
parison with the pi-ogress made in
other states in the conduct of its
highway construction program
for this period, Oregon stands in
seventh place among the 48 states
of the Union.
Of the SS2 million, approximate
ly $40,3IX),OnO represented federal
aid projects, the remaining Sit.
700,000 state projects to which no
federal money Is attached. This
work constitutes what is called
the "first postwar program," asK.! A couple was married
Initiated by the 11)44 road act of
Congress, which earmarked $36
million t$21 million of federal
funds and $15 million of state
funds) for federal aid construction
in Oregon during the three-year
period.
The second postwar federal aid
program was authorized and ini
tialed bv the Congress in June,
1(118. Under this program, the
Highway Commission will have
available approximately $21 mil
lion In both state and federal
funds for construction work dur
ing the coming two years, the pro
gram for which was set up, in ma.
jor part, bv the commission at its
May nicotine.
On June 27 and 28, at a moet -
Ing held In Portland, the commis-
slon let contracts totalling approx
imately $3 million. One of the I
largest lettlngs In amount and
number of protects In Ihe history
of the commission. One $300,000
oi ine cumnussmn. woe ,nM,isvu.j..w . ,
,-.,l.,.,t l,.i,,,l.i t. ,1,., ll.i lu r.,.. , ' "'r-'
construction work on the ' Ochoco
Highway and Is a segment of thej" "" unempuneu, saio no noney-
second postwar program, the re
mainder being remaining con
struction Items of the first post
war program. There will remain
for subsequent contracts about
.Z5n.ono of the first postwar
program, of which $1,700,000 cov-
ers the completion of the Harbor!
But Still Impregnable
By Viahnett S. Martin
what , a garden! With a "bird
pool" In the center made of a
deep tray.
There was a great oak tree
near the house. Hundreds, really
hundreds, of birds setled down In
It every evening. It was some
thing to hear! The twittering,
and at last, sleepy cheep-cheeps.
One night I heard the plaintive
sound of a lost chick. Rather than
disturb Dad, I took a flashlight
and went out Into the moonlight
to find the chick. I heard a
chuckle. "The chick is about fifty
foot up In that tree," said Dad.
The mockingbird had played a
nice trick on me!
It was there I saw my first
cardinal!
I liked to watch a long line of
scissortalls perched on the wires,
having a noisy caucus; never saw
one In the ground. I never tired
of watching one shoot up, then
straight down never, I think,
was the prey missed!
Then there were the showy
Impudent kingfishers along the
bank of the little creek. Oh what
a lovely summer this "Oklahoma"
32-page book brings back to me!
I'm sure the . Oklahoma State
Highway Commission will send
you one, too, for the asking; Ok
lahoma City, of course, is the ad
dress. Drive Improvement In Portland.
Before the close of the present
year the commission expects to
let contracts covering all remain'
ing fragments of the first postwar
program construction, together
with the major portion of the first
year of the second postwar sched
ule, as set up at the May meeting
of the commission.
Blindness Doesn't
Mar Happiness
At Wedding Rites
SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 1,
Wednesday night In a setting of
pretty flowers they could not see
and spotlights which beamed
against their darkened world.
All of the principals In the
wedding ceremony at the Mary
Bryant home for women are
blind. Some 50 guests, many of
them blind, attended the wedding.
The bride, Ida Mae Weddle, 48,
walked unassisted to the altar to
the strains of a wedding march
played by Mrs. Margaret Howse,
blind pianist.
The blind bridegroom, Clifford
English, also 48, and his best man,
Verne Campbell, president of the
Association of ii;c glind at Spring-
iinii, .ano Lampoons wile, Hon-
lnie. the bridesmaid
j to the altar without aid.
The Rev. Robert S. Kieser, blind
pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church who conducted the cere
mony, was led to the altar bv a
I English, an electrician cur-
moon was planned. His bride, w ho
has given up her lob as oneralor
of a candy counter In the City
Hall, said she is ready to start
housekeeping.
"We're pretty lucky people,'
she said. I dtdn t Know anyone
could be so happy."
In the Day's News
(Continued From Page One)
port raw materials, process them
and export the finished products.
In order to export successfully,
they must produce at a price that
will meet world competition. Here
is the nub of Britain's "deepen
ing" crisis:
HER PRESENT PRICES ARE
SO HIGH THAT SHE- CAN'T
SELL ENOUGH IN THE
WORLD MARKETS TO MAIN
TAIN HER ECONOMY. Her
prices are too high because her
costs are too high.
in a town where all your com
petitors were underselling you,
you will understand Britain's
problems. You have to sell to live.
If you sell at a loss, you're sunk.
You can't raise your prices, for
If you do your customers will
buy from your competitors and
that will cook your goose. Your
only hope Is to cut your costs.
That is Britain's fix. She has to
cut her costs or her economy will
wither and die. -
THAT brings us back to the prob
lem of politics.
Britain Is governed by the
Labor Party, which has strong
Socialist leanings. The British
economy has been extensively na
tionalized. In the nationalized In
dustries, the government is the
employer. The government fixes
wages.
British labor Is growing restive
under present wage ceilings. It
wants more money. The govern
ment,, under stern necessity to
hold down costs, has so far re
fused Increases. That tends to
shake the confidence of wage
earners In the Labor government.
Meanwhile Britain's exports
continue to shrink alarmingly.
e
UIHAT will the Labor govern-
II ment do about It?
I wouldn't know. But It is rather
generally expected that It will
"devalue" the pound. That Is too
complicated to go into here. Suf
fice It to say that It would amount
to cutting British wages by the
device of paying labor In money
that would have less purchasing
power in terms of Imported
commodities.
As to that, we shall see what
we shall see.
HERE Is what I'm really driving
at:
In the United . States last No
vember, postwar prosperity was
still running high. The "experts"
thought there had been a change
in political philosophy and that
Dewey would win. But, when it
cttme to the pinch, the voters re
fused to shoot Santa Claus. They
declined to change horses In the
stream. They preferred to let well
enough alone. The same thing
happened In Canada with per
haps less surprise.
But In the United States and
Canada the tide of postwar pros
perity was still running strong
when the voters voted. Nobody
has ever yet shot Santa Claus.
e
IT seems to me that the real
test of the leave-it to papa po
litical philosophy that has been
and still Is sweeping the world
will come In Britain.
X In Britain, the tide of postwar
Output, Distribution Costs
May Be Detrimental To Big
Firm Facing Competition
NEW YORK, July 1 UP)
Maybe some companies have been
getting too big for their breeches.
The American mass production
gystem is topi when It comes to
getting more goods to more
people at less cost than any other
yet developed. But that doesn't
mean that some companies may
not now be more the victims of
elephantiasis than examples of
efficiency.
At least, the distribution com
mittee of the American Society
oi Mechanical Engineers suspects
as much. Its chairman, enton
B. Turck, New York engineer,
thinks, naturally enough, mat
most companies would oe better
oil if they called in mechanical
engineers for a good look into
their uisiribution costs.
Those who believe like Turck
say its possible for a company to
get so Dig it can't compete on
even terms with smaller ones
this, despite the accepied Ameri
can view that big companies al
ways have the advantage over
small. .
Some companies may have
tnea to reacu out for too much
since xhe war. They may be too
set on blanKeling ine nation
with their prouuet, when they'd
do better just to be regional.
After all, tne United States is a
regional proposition in many
ways, witn1 a variety of tastes
anu needs. Too, there is the
high cost of transportation,
mounting steauily since the war.
It costs more to service distant
markets.
Ignorance Can Be Costly
Other companies may have
strained to &ei customers they
can t serve pi oiitably, meanwhile
ignoring or losing some they
could all with the oDject of
making their business look big
ger and bigger, or setting ever
mgher saies records.
Many companies may not know
what actual uistriDUlion costs are,
product by prouuet, or how to
meak them down to look for
bugs. Ignorance can be more
costly than blissful for a business
man, the engineering committee
says.
It suggests that if some of
these companies reduced, 'hey
might discover that what they
lost was Ilabby flesh and that
they would look better in the
year-end profit and loss , state
ments. It's possible, these ob
servers say, that the country
might be better off, too, since the
business 'one company drops as
unprofitable may be done gain
fully by others.
However, there are many to
champion the cause of bigness,
to point out the savings and serv
ices of the large, integrated .com
pany. There are those who hold
that a company cannot stand
still, that it must continue to
grow or It will lose out. It's
still possible, however, that other
companies might find, If they
knew exactly what each opera-
Berlin Workers
Charge Soviet
With Reprisals
BERLIN, July 1 UP) The
anti-Communist Berlin Railway
Union charges that the Soviet
controlled railway management
has begun reprisals against men
who took part in the crippling
38-day rail strike.
The union said 375 men were
fired without notice. The 14,000
strikers reported back to work
this week.
The strikers had gone back to
work on the promise that there
would be no reprisals against
them.
Rail traffic remained stalled,
meanwhile, while crews worked
to repair damage caused by the
long stoppage.
The Russians released to West
Berlin authorities seven tons of
power plant machinery seized in
a truck convoy Tuesday. The in
cident had aroused a British
American protest.
The cargo was sent from Frank
furt to Berlin for construction of
a new power plant designed to
make West Berlin independent of
the Soviet Sector. .
The need was emphasized last
winter during the Soviet blockade
of West Berlin, when the Western
Sectors spent nights In darkness.
This had made the seizure an
incident which was out of the
ordinary.
prosperity Is ebbing. The jagged
rocks of stern reality are begin
ning to show above the surface.
Life is already rugged for most
Britons and Is getting ruggeder.
And the parliamentary elections
are still a year off. Unless the
Labor government can pull a
startling rabbit out of the hat,
realities will be sterner a year
hence than now. By then, there
may be no British Santa Claus to
shoot.
In that event, it wouldn't be a
case of swapping horses in the
middle of the stream because the
stream would have dried up. The
voters might then turn to the
CONSERVATIVES as having
something to offer, after all.
Phone 100
If ysu do not recilvo
your Newt-Rsvlew by
(MS P.M. call Harold
Mobley before 7 P.M.
Phono 100
Active Club Will Skip
Next Thursday Meeting
The Active Club will dispense
with its meeting scheduled for
Thursday of next week, as sev
eral members will be attending
the Active International conven
tion in Portland July 5 to 8.
Delegates will be Kenneth At
terbury, Arlo Jacklin and Leon
ard Mclntyre. Louis Adamski, an
alternate, will be the area rep
resentative in the public speak
ing contest. He recently won
first place in the area contest
held at Vancouver, Wash.
The club's next meeting, It was
decided at Thursday's session
will be in the morning of July
14 at the Shallmar. The inter
club picnic will probobly not be
held until late In August, it was
decided.
Kenny Whitson Gets
Offers For Top Booking
His appearance r on a college
television show in Los Angeles
about a month ago brought Ken
ney Whitson of Roseburg several
offers from booking agents,
who witnessed his performance
on the tele-screen.
Ken n y, a student at El
Camlno College In Los Angeles,
is singing at Playmor Gardens,
near the Pacific Highway bridge
at Dillard, this summer and stay
ing at the home of his brother,
Jerry Whitson.
In the performance which at
tracted the attention of booking
agents, Kenny sang and ac
companied himself at the piano.
Among the calls was one from
Benny Goodman's agent.
tion, product and market cost
them, that some of their bigness
cost them more than It was
worth.
Or, perhaps it's just that 'one
industry's meat is another in
dustry's poison.
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Neighbors Offer
Practically All
To Get Murderer
MISSION, B. C. July 1. (CP)
Neighbors of the Silver Hill kill
er, Ivar Johnson, have offered
a reward for his capture dead
or alive. ' '
Living In dally fear of their
lives, they have decided to offer
all they have which isn't much
financially in an effort to av
enge the lives of ' two of their
kin, and end the reign of fear.
Between them, the simple folk
in the Swedish community have
offered 10 chickens, a calf, $2, an
apple crop, and the yield of two
pear trees.
Another neighbor, Mrs. Anna
Tholander, will knit a pair of
socks for the man who finds
Johnson.
This reward is In addition to
to the $200 offered by the mu
nicipality. Eight days now have passed
since Johnson, a 70-year-old bachelor-farmer,
shot two of his own
neighbors, Mrs. Maria Lindberg
and Mrs. Charlotte Barrett. The
shootings climaxed a dispute ov
a road allowance. A twin murder
charge stands against him.
The organized search by police
and possemen has been called
off, and police believe he Is eith
er dead a suicide m- the dense
forest or has fled the district.
Southern Coal Operators
Still Mull Strike Threat
BLUEFIELD, W. Va., June 30.
The Southern soft coal pro
ducersand United Mine Workers
started their sixth week of nego
tiations Wednesday faced with an
ultimatum of reaching agreement
by Tuesday or having a strike.
The union told the operators
that miners will not Come back
to work at the end of their 10.
Han ,,annr,nn Tuoerfa,, If than, let
no new contract, President Joseph
E. Moody of the Southern Coal
Producers Association said.
A strike at mines represented
here by the SCPA would Involve
between a fifth and a fourth of
the nation's 400,000 soft coal
miners. ...
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