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!
Must Sell This Week
Two twin bungalows- each
a 6-room" all-modern home
with connecting driveway
and double garage. Locat
ed in downtown area, ex
ceptionally valuable prop
erty. These twin homes
are f excellent for rentals
. . . have lawns and shrub
bery lot size 90'x300'.
Furnace heat, ' hardwood
floors. Homes are free and
clear, we desire a cash pur
chase, $10,500 will buy all
. . '. an opportunity for you
to make an- investment
that will provide yo'tf with
a lifetime income. Phone
624-J for more .details or
inspect property at 165 E.
2nd Ave. South.
NEED CASH?
Swift Co. will buy Poultry and Eggs
Every Friday at the
ROSEBURG GRANGE SUPPLY
222 Spruce St.
Bank With
A Douglas County Institution
Home Owned Home Operated V '
Member Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
Douglas County State Bank
A COLT 13 BORN WrTH IMl "'" tht
SAME LENGTH LEGS AS HI WlLLcrets specialties you need.
ALWAVS HAVE.. .
Whether you desire blocks
for foundations, gas tonk
blocks, stepping stones, or
well curbing . . . the PRE-
MIX CONCRETE COM
PANY is equipped to please.
Place you order for our fine
4 . products at once!
J
.JUS
" -'!i!irr'
I