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4 Th Ntwi-Riw, Roseburg, Ore. Thur., July 21, 194t Patent Nostrum Salesmen In the Day's Hews Published Dilly Exoept Sunday l-y the News-Review Company, Inc. laltni ai tand elan natltr Hay 1, !. at tha pait afrlea at EoBCburg, Oragea. aadar aot af March I, till CHARLES V. STANTON f. . EDWIN L. KNA.PP Editor mikfv' Manager ' Member of the Aeeoolated Prest, Oregon Newipaper Publisher Aaioolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Clroulatlone apraiaaUd br WEST-HOI. MDAT CO.. INC., arfleea la Naw rrk, Chlcan. Saa braaoiaoa, Laa Analia. pallia, Parllaaa. Si. taala. UHSCKIPTION KATRS In Oraan B" Hall rar Tear IB.ee, all maallia N.M. . . .... , km ii -1 . P., r na.aa I f n advance). If ll than aaa Mar, P mania Bl.oa OaliKa Orafaa Br Mail fa, jaai I .H. all msBUia ai..a. inraa mamoa . CONGRATULATIONS, OREGON By CHARLES V. STANTON Appointment of former State Representative Carl C. Hill to serve as a member of the Oregon Game commission is, in our opinion, the finest choice Governor McKay could have made. - Realizing that we are open to charges of personal bias, prejudice and provincial pride, we nevertheless submit our opinion that no man in Oregon is better fitted, through knowledge and temperament, to fill the position of game commissioner. We know that sportsmen all over the State of Oregon, who have had the opportunity of knowing Carl Hill intimately, will join us in voicing confidence in his ability. : A native of Douglas county, Carl's first employment was jfith the U. S. Forest service. He spent 22 years teaching school, most of that time holding principalships in rural schools. i He was principal of the Glide schools for a number of years and, in addition to his school work, organized the North Umpqua Rod and Gun club which, while Hill was stationed in Glide, was one of the state's most active sports organizations. , Moving to Days Creek, to head the schools there, he was one of the organizers of the South Umpqua Rod and Gun club at Canyonville, and aided in civic activities which added much to community welfare. He served eight years in the state legislature and, we ex pect, could have remained there as long as he desired had he not refused at the last election to become a candidate for reelection. ; Among other public services, he was for eight years a member of the county fair board, a member of the county planning commission, the conservation council and the rural school board. -. . In the legislature he was continuously on forestry and game committees, either one or both, and was for a time chairman of the game committee. Because of his wi.'e knowledge of fish and game affairs, he was appointed a member of the legislative interim com mittee named two years ago to conduct a study into state game policies and management. In that capacity he visited all parts of Oregon and contacted sportsmen everywhere, adding to his already extensive knowledge of game matters. But his understanding of wildlife and its management is not confined alone to theory for, throughout his lifetime, he has been an ardent sportsman and conservationist. He is intimately acquainted with Oregon's fishing streams, hunt ing grounds and natural resources. His business is that of logger and mill operator and he knows the relationship be tween the timber industry and fish and game management, and will thus bring a better understanding of this problem into game commission affairs. His temperament and personality will fit well into the game commission for he Is a willing and sympathetic listen er, quick to understand problems, open minded, but always conscientious and unafraid in pursuing a course he is con vinced is correct. We could go on and on bragging about Carl Hill and citing reasons why we believe he will make an outstanding rec ord as an Oregon game commissioner but we Can perhaps sum it all up by saying we believe the State of Oregon, not Carl Hill, is to be congratulated on Governor McKay's choice. And, while we rejoice in Carl's appointment, we have personal regrets that the game commission is losing the services of some mighty fine men who have given loyal and diligent service to the State of Oregon. We have had some mighty heated arguments with out going game commission members, but we' have the deepest personal respect and friendship for each of them. While our theories sometimes differed from those of the commis sion and we felt we were not getting the service to which we were entitled, we have never lacked' for courtesy, a fair hearing, a ready argument, or a sincere-explanation. We found our game commissioners to be men most sincerely devoted to their tasks and very earnest and conscientious in discharge of their duties We give them our personal thanks for the work they have done and know that we express the sentiment of a very large number of Oregon's sportsmen. New FEPC Law Needs Wisdom Of Solomon, McKay Warns Commission s By Viahnett S. Martini There are several Roseburgs. There is the one tourists remem ber by the way they were served one evening In a coffee shop when they were tired but not yet ready to stop for the night. The soup was hot; the salad was cold; the entree was Just right; the waitress was really friendly, not smiling with just her face. (Al though perhaps after eight hours of It even a friendly waitress may feel like the nurse who said, in a book I read years ago, that she had smiled so long her face would crack if she smiled one more time.) Then there ' Is the Roseburg that Is the county seat, a nice town and all that, but another county seat is 12 miles nearer; it is so easy to turn left instead of right at the foot of the canyon. If only shopping Is in mind. Then, there's the Roseburg we enjoyed recently on a lovely Sun day afternoon. We shall long re member the picnic beside . the South Umpqua, which until then had been Just one more river to cross on the highway. The water looked so inviting! I wish I were one of the swimmers frollclng in the stream, but I enjoyed the sandy beach, real sand which could cover white shoes and leave them clean. - We had met, briefly, several of the group present under the shad ing my gracious, I must have had an extra special time! I can't think for sure what kind of trees they were! They must have been familiar or I'd have noticed that fact surely? Anyway they were big and made a perfect set ting for the picnic. EJ isn't as enthusiastic as I am about pic nics. But he was glad he was Invited to that one. Only one thing bothered me: I met so many pleasant people one after another and heard their names one after the other; then I spent the rest of the aft ernoon playing a mental game like "authors" does anyone play that game any more? trying to match up names and faces. Some times I did and sometimes I did not; but I was forgiven If I blundered. This column will be even more pleasure to me now. I can see so many faces as I write, but, dear me, I didn't quite finish matching up names! Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press SALEM. July 21 .-R David Robinson, Portland attorney wit h a long record of battling against racial and religious Intolerance, Is the chairman of Oregon's new fair employment practices com mission. Robinson, president of the Port land City club and a Jewish lead er, was elected to head the seven member group when It held its first meeting here Wednesday. The commission, which will ad vise State Labor Commissioner W. E.KImsey In enforcement of tni new law, elected as us sec retary Ulysses Plummer, Port land, the only Negro f.ttorney In Oregon. ' The law makes It Illegal for any employer, labor union or em ployment agency to deny a Job to any person because of his race or religion. Governor Douglas McKay told the commission that It must use "common sense to the utmost." He said it must prove that fair employment practices can bene- in an. The governor warned the com mmee to guard against perpe trating one Injustice in the hope of correcting another Injustice." "It is going to take the wis dom of a Solomon to meet some of these problems. But I feel this committee is capable of fair and Impartial dealing with all the sit uations It will be asked to re solve. 'This Is a great experiment. Oregon and civil rights are on trial, So I urge you to do a job that can be looked back upon as a monument to Oregon's far sighted approach to the task of bettering human relations." Oregon Is one of only tlx states to have an KEPC law. It was passed by the 1949 legislature. CVA RESPONSIBILITY TO CONGRESS (The Bend Bulletin) Contradicting an assertion by the Astorlan-Budget as to the top control that would be exercised over the directors of the CVA the Pendleton East Oregonlan says; "They will be responsible chief ly to congress because that au gust body hands out the wam pum. Any work contemplated by the CVA must be "included In uie annual Duagel program, or amendment thereof, approved by me congress (page 28 1. "If we have a CVA board the members will go to the appro priations committee for funds as do the men representing the corps of engineers, the reclama tion service and the Bonneville administration. Men like Walter Norblad, Lowell Stockman, the Oregon senators and other law makers will Judge as to what will be done, if they do not like what is going on they can change tne law any time they see lit or repeal it." These statements bv the Pen dleton paper suggest that there has been lack of careful reading of the CVA bills. This is most unfortunate because where con clusions are to be drawn It Is important to have an understand ing of all the facts Involved. Let us examine these para graphs reprinted from the East Oregonlan. The assertion in the first one that the CVA directors "will be responsible chiefly to congress because that august body hands out the wampum" is first to be considered here and we assert that it is definitely incor rect on one count and almost cer tainly so on another. Such doubt as exists lies In the Interpretation to be given the sen tence in Sec. 3 (a) of the bill that "The Administration shall be an Instrumentality of the United States under the general super vision of the president." It Is (he opinion of most experts that this sentence makes tne board re sponsible to the president rather than the congress. The opinion Is fortified bv various references In other sections to the relations that are to exist between the board and the president. Let us let that pass, however, and since the East Oregonian rests its argument on the matter of who it is that "hands out the wampum" let us call attention to Sec. 12 (h). We quote: "Receipts of the Administration for each fis cal year, derived from projects and activities for which advances are authorized, may be used for payment of the costs incurred in connection with such projects and activities." Elsewhere in this sec tion one finds provision for the establishment of a Columbia val ley administration fund into which unused income goes to be withdrawn as desired. This section is carefully devis ed to avoid what proponents have called the politics of the appro priate process and a reading will show clearly how definitely the board will be the keeper of its own wampum. In short the board will distinctly not have to go to congress. As generating ca pacity of the government plants increases with more and more kilowatts to be sold the boa'd in come will run Into tens of mil lions. The arrangement proposed by the CVA bill is in striking con trast to recommendation after recommendation In the Hoover commission reports that every spending agency come regularly to congress for Its monev. It's a super state that is pro posed with the congress abdicat ing In favor of three presidential appointees. That's one of the rea sons we oppose the CVA bill. MONEY SUITS FILED The following monev action suits have been filed in circuit court: J. E. and Hazel Sifers vs. Charles Close. , Plaintiff asks judgment for $256.38 for grocer ies allegedly sold to the defend ant and $150 on an assigned ac count. William D. Mayberry and El sie E. Mayberry vs. Ouard and Marion A. Perk. Plaintiffs ask judgment for $250 claimed due on a promissory note executed March 22, 194S. U $ if & (Continued From Page One) TAKES ECA POST W. John Kenney, above, 45, former Cali fornia lawyer and ex-undersecretary of the Navy, is the new chief of the ECA mission to the United Kingdom. He replaces Thomas K. Finletter of New York, who resigned. LETTERS to the Editor Comment On Editorial Regarding Conservation EUGENE Herewith a com mentary on vour editorial of July 12, concerning creation of conservation engineers to protect lorest lanas. I agree with your excellent sug gestion of conservation engineer and I agree with the qualifica tions necessary and manner of getting the needed work done right down to the seeding of cover to hold the soil in place. But I deviate from that point. I take the stand that it Is not the sole province of the timber people to pay for silt control water production, and retention, flood prevention, etc. It is rather a multiple responsibility. Let's take that grotesque Ro gue river project as a sample. There the planners plan to take all of the possible fruits of the river in power potential, some 85 per cent of the cost, and de liver it downstream to but a seg ment of the economy. None of the earnings flow up to this type job that you have blue printed. Oh no! None goes to perpetuating and improving wildlife habitat, to doing the land management for timber pro duction, to preserving the v e y y watershed that gives the project life, to furnishing the moisture factor that speeds the lorest pro duction and increases the board foot pen year production. So, let's rather call for sever ance tax for watershed purposes on all timber cut whether public domain or private. Let's ask that all timber lands be in districts as Soil Conservation Districts are on agricultural land. Let s have power assume a percentage o f power rate responsibility for up keep of river. Then let's' tax our selves on our fishing and com mercial boats as we do our cars and trucks on the highway. Apply these funds to the water shed on the agricultural, 1 1: e grazing, and the timber lands and we can begin to realize the full fruits of Mother Natures a- bundance. We don't need CVA or socialism or nationalized forests to do this. Rather it is the road to the greatest amount of private Initiative compatible with the public inerest. u we tan to do tne oo within democracy, the isms will one day get us. Thanks for the good editorial and thanks for the reprint from Astoria Budget on wood waste. British have to have). Bcvin added: "The United States Is as much a welfare state as Britain, al though in a different form." a a WHAT is It all about? Is It a case of the pot calling the kettle black? a . a , SPEAKING of Britain's welfare state, did you see the story the other day about tht Scotch dentist who earned $100,000 In a year car pentering teeth for his patienfs at government expense? V r PEAKING of Britain's "dollar J crisis," finance ministers of the eight British commonwealths have been holding a long meeting on what the dispatches refer to as a "common solution of their dol lar problem." There are Indica tions, a story from London says, that their final proposals (which will be presented to Washington in September) will consist of: 1. New American credits for the sterling (pound) area. 2. Raising the price the U. S. now pays for gold (most of which is mined In the British commonwealth). aaa THAT calls for a little explana-tlnn 'New American credits" is sim ply a high-flown term for lending the British more paper dollars with which to buy the products of our factories and our farms. Rais ing the price we pay for gold (most of which is produced in British countries) would merely amount to paying MORE PAPER DOLLARS for the gold that other people sell to us. This is the point: . In either event, we would be giving away the products of our industry and our agriculture to other people. aaa WE would hope, of course, that we would get It back some day. BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GET IT BACK. That is by taking the products that other people would have to sell to us. To a large extent, these products would enter into competition with our own. Will we like that when it comes to pass? German Diplomats Back In U.S. For First Time Since World War By PETER EDSON j: NEA Washington Correspondent " WASHINGTON. The first "Advance Country Mission" from the west German government was quietly brought Into' Washington last ' month. It consists of two men and a woman Edward Schneider, Herr Bantzner and Gertrud Keller. t This marks the first step towards resumption of official diplc- matic relations with the German people. Those relations were -broken when Hitler's Germany declared war on the United States. The three members of the new I r a . a THE underlying idea of the "wel fare" state is that those who have more must divide up with those who have less. If you will read carefully these British pro posals, you will see that we are leading up to a WELFARE WORLD. In a welfare world, the NATIONS that have more will have to divide up with the nations that have less. Since the United States (thanks to its system of free enterprise capitalism) HAS MORE THAN ANY OTHER NATION, it will have to do the bulk of the giving up. That is what we are heading for. Are we going to like it? Motorcycle Trade Wars On Noise-Making Devices Oregon's Harley Davidson mo torcycle dealers have taken steps to outlaw the sale of noise-making devices for motorcycles, ac cording In n ronni-t r,-nn. 7 o fc A.uiii ,m : Maskala, local dealer. A state association of Harley j Davidson dealers in a recent j iiieeimg ai jweaiora passed an anti-noise resolution and request ed local and state police authori ties to crack down on cycle driv ers who persist in injuring "the good will commonly enjoyed by members of the motorcycling fra ternity." Maskala said Oregon dealers had resolved not to stock or sell "straight pipes" or any other noise-making device. He said that many of the nation's accessory manufacturers are cooperating by refusing to produce noise makers for motorcycles. I can see you drool over that one. MERT FOLTS 350 Fairway Loop Eugene, Oregon Wants Action To Curb Mosquito Nuisance ROSEBURG Have read the articles appearing in The News Review July 16 and 18 pertaining to mosquitoes. This district never suffered from mosquitoes until the mills came here and permitted their ponds to become breeding places. Now we must spend the night fighting them. We read where our county san itary officer has made a brief survey and tells taxpayers how much It will cost us to get a little sleep. Why doesn't he tell the mill companies to do the control ling and pay the expense? The Joelson mill puts oil on Its pond. I went there and found no mosquitoes. But if you go to the big reservoir belonging to Youngs Bay and their 17-acre pond, vou will find them alive with wig glers. The Roseburg Lumber Co, pond is so foul one can hardly stand to drive by It In the eve ning. This water' Is permitted to flow Into Deer creek and through Mr. Young's camp ground. No wonder there are so many complaints. We hope County San itarian Baker will do more than make a brief survev. D. B. BOONE Roseburg, Ore. advance German mission were hand-picked for their jobs by U.S. Military Government and Mar shall Plan officials in Germany. There was no secrecy about their coming. It just wasn't announced, apparently through some concern that there might be an unfavor able reaction against resuming relations with Germany before the new German government was set up and the peace treaty sign ed. First job of the new mission is to understudy operations of the Marshall Flan, as it relates to economic recovery of western Germany. To that end, the three Germans are undergoing a train ing program arranged by the U. S. State Department, the Army and ECA. The Germans have temporarily set up headquarters in a down town Washington hotel, but they are looking for other office space. In the meantime they have been assigned desks in the Pentagon. Head of the German mission, Edward Schneider, is a 53-year-old businessman with four years experience in the U.S. before the war. From 1924 to 1928 he was an accountant and personnel mana ger for Guarantee Trust Co., of Detroit. Returning to Germany in 1929, Schneider became chief of fi nance for Opel Oil Co. for seven years. Then he became chief of finance for Fichtel and Sachs, ball bearing manufacturers in Schweinfurt. These Schweinfurt ball-bearing plants were targets during the war. Since the end of the war, Schneider has been a trustee for the ball-bearing industry in the Schweinfurt area, working with the British-American Bizone mili tary government and the ECA mission working on German eco nomic recovery programs. Second member of the advance German mission, Herr Bantzner, 50. is an agricultural economist and statistician. Since 1947 he has been on the staff of the Bizone Food and Agriculture Adminis tration. The third member, Gertrud Keiler, a graduate economist, is serving as assistant to Schneider and as secretary of the mission. A similar advance German mission has been assigned to the" Paris headquarters for Marshall Plan operations in Europe. Autonomy Is Objective No schedules have as yet been announced for the arrival of oth er German officials in Washing ton, or Paris, though eventually these mission staffs will be in creased and other missions ap pointed. These developments will be the natural evolution in the long, slow process of turning over to the Germans the operation of their own government. Gradual ly, as Germans can be trained for specific jobs, more and more responsibilities will be put on their shoulders. ' - In the American zone of Ger many and to a lesser extent In the British and French zsnes, practically all local government functions have been turned over to Germans. Adoption of the new German constitution by German represen tatives of these three western zones paved the way for the first German "national" elections, now scheduled for Aug. 14. Eventually this provisional German government will have its own foreign office, its own diplo matic missions to other coun tries. There is a strong feeling among many American officials that be cause of Germany's importance to the whole western European economy, German representa tives must soon be admitted to full partnership in all Internation al conferences dealing with Eu rope's problems. Naming of the first German mission to Washing ton is a start in that direction. Phone 100 If you do not receive your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mjbley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 SACRIFICE! 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