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4 The News-ReWew, HoMburg, Ore. Man., Aug. 1, 14 Publlahed 0 illy Exeept Sunday ry tha Newt-Ravie Company, Inc. fauril t.a tlaaa -aliar Mai 1. IM". etttoe Baukaif. Omn, ul Mle . l!S CHARLES V. STANTON -flf EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Prese, Oregon Newspaper Publlthera Association, tho Audit Buraau of Circulation lurmM af frEST-HOI.MBf CO.. INC, tltlm la Ka f ark. Calaafa. Saa Iraaoiaaa. L.i Aafalaa. iaaltla. r-arlUa. Sk Laala. OBIi aiPTION BATFS la Oraiaa Br Mall rat TaarlS.ee. al "'J" A.'!; laraa all.. Itll II , I II, arrl.r-r.r t.af tlt.M I. aa.aaral. I... U... aaa taat. aa' "aala. H OauKa Oiajaa B Mall Tat raar aa. ill taalki S4.1S. Witaa eaaalai St.U LEFS GET By CHARLES V. STANTON Dr. George M. Hunt, director of the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., speaking before a special forum meeting of the Roseburg chamber of commerce recently, told of the progress being made in wood waste utilization. We were very interested in his remarks concerning the molasses process, which, in our opinion, offers the best opportunity for utilization of wood waste in this particular area. Dr. Hunt made the statement that if every cow in the United States was given the recommended feeding of three pounds of molasses daily, there would not be sufficient wood waste In the entire country to supply the market. But molasses also is used to feed poultry of all kinds, as well as sheep and other livestock. Furthermore, molasses has hundreds of industrial uses. Thus it is evident that the market is unlimited. Dr. Hunt, however, emphasized the fact that information is lacking whether wood molasses can compete profitably with imports from Cuba and Hawaii, where we now obtain our molasses supply. Following his talk at the forum program, he was ques tioned further about the process and told how the Forest Products Laboratory is engaged in a cost analysis as an aid to two University of Wisconsin students planning to start the first molasses-from-wood-waste production plant in the country. The laboratory will endeavor to calculate probable production cost, transportation and marketing ex pense, and determine whether there exists opportunity for profit in competition with the imported product made from sugar cane. Naturally, the profit element Is vital in considering any utilization process. Dr. Hunt is a scientist and is guided by scientific thinking. The scientist must have convincing proof before he is ready to act Thus Mr. Hunt counsels caution as to acceptance of a new idea and operational formula still in the process of im provement. But what would have been our history had we followed this type of advice in other of our industrial fields? For many years boards were cut by hand, two men using a saw, one standing in a pit while the other worked from above. What if we had postponed sawmilling until we had first worked out processes in laboratories and pilot plants and every possible improvement had been made? The first automobiles were expensive affairs. But it did not take long to discover how to produce automobiles more cheaply and to build a market. Dr. Hunt probably did not mean we should wait on molas ses production until all the "bugs" have been worked out of the process. But his scientific caution might be dis couraging to the prospective investor. It is obvious that a tremendous market exists for molasses. This market can be reached and educated through advertis ing. Processes for molasses extraction are sufficiently re fined to assure a good product The supply of raw material is great It remains to be proven whether molasses, under existing processes, can be produced from wood waste and delivered to consumers at a price comparable with that of the imported product There is only one sure way of finding out That is to build a producing plant in an area where an abundance of raw material can be obtained at lowest possible cost, and Btart producing and selling. Just as every other industry has found ways to cut costs and improve processes and markets, we can expect betterment in molasses-from-wood-waste pro duction. Because the federal government has the laboratory ex perience, men with the scientific know-how, and engineers to etudy every phase of the problem: and because the federal government owns one-half of our Pacific coast timber; and because the federal government is especially interested in improved agricultural practices; and because the federal government's tax policies discourage investment of private risk capital in industrial pioneering, we believe a full-scale production plant should be built and put in operation by an agency of the federal government We also believe that Douglas county offers the best site for the experiment We would not want to see the federal government stay in the field of private industry, once the production processes had been proven. The pioneer installation should be so auth orized that private industry would have the right to step in at any time and take over, with safeguards, however, that operation could not be halted to eliminate, competition. Jacksonville Jubilee Scheduled August 6-7 Six of the quern contestants have been chosen for the Jackson ville Gold Rush Jubilee, Aug. 6 and 7, sponsored by the Jackson ville Lions club. A queen will be elected by votes. The Jubilee la In commemmora tlon of the finding of sold In Jacksonville In 1851, and there will be many attractions through out the two-day celebration, in cluding: Parade of persons in old time costumes with prizes given tor the most authentic ones, on woman, man, boy and girl. There will be pit barbecues, log burk ing contests, both hand and power machines, old-time fiddlers' contest, dancing at night In open air pavilion, church ar.-vices, Sun day morning, big grand parade at 1 d. m, transportation parade during the two days showing old and new methods of transporta tion (entries solicited). Rial gold nuggets will be STARTED "planted" along the streets, for the puhllc to dig for and It will be "finders keepers." Thf ItlhUnA D..la nff li m .I.H at 10 a. m. Saturday and con 1 tinues through the two H:,v- Anv. one v ishlng to enter contests or parades is asked to write Jackson ville Lions rllih hMHnitarlr. Jacksonville. USDA Purchases To Aid California Markets PORTLAND, Aug. l.-.m Orrpnn frnll mnn uhn ha.... i. ed the government to buy pears and OPSehps. heard KfllltrHnv that the L'SDA is beginning purchases to help the sagging market in California. The irSDA official. W. J. Broad head, Portland, said the govern- mna U'rw i rl hnv lint!!..!! nn - and Gravensteln apples In Califor nia. The fruit will go to school lunch programs and Institutional uses. INDUSTRY Looking through the Index of beautifully arranged Quarterly entitled, "The American Bard," I found the name of a poet well known in Douglas county. Her verse Is called "A Word Port rait": Eleanor Roosevelt Beautiful knitter stepping down always somewhere from today's plane, softly apologizing to reporters for not hearing with ears full of motors and flashbulbs, you tell of Tennessee and Trieste In terms of knitters and knitting. In your work-bag you carry the tangled skein of the world. With beautiful patient fingers you straighten the knotted yarn, shaping a warm garment for an orphan of nightmare years. Elinor Henry Brown The American Bard Is pub lished by Rexford Sharp In Los Angeles as a Living Memorial to Clarence Alexander Sharp, hit S tS All Free People Have Interest In Vatican's War Against Communism By BRUCE BIOSSAT The Catholic church and totalitarian communism are locked In bitter struggle throughout the world. The chief battleground right now is eastern Europe. But why should a religious organization be fighting the advocates of a political and economic system? The answer Is that commu nism, like any totalitarianism, cannot limit itself to the purely practical realm. It fans out Into I he spiritual sphere and seeks to supplant or destroy the regular religious authority. Catholic leaders therefore see their historic guardianship over the spiritual life of millions of Europeans not to mention oth ersthreatened with extinction. The Vatican has trlrd for a long time to arrive at an ideologi cal truce that would allow Cath olicism and communism to live side hy side. But the Mindszentv affair In Hungary and the cur rent attacks on high churchmen in Czechoslovakia convinced the Pope an accord Is impossible. These events led to a papal decree ordering excommunica tion for all Catholics who Join or support the Communist Party anywhere. It is the heaviest weapon the church has ever brought into play against a to talitarian system. Why do Communists In the pre dominantly Catholic European countries feel It necessary to en gage so stubborn a foe? The answer Is. of course, that a dictatorship like communism ran brook no opposition whatso ever. It demands one single over riding lovaltv to the stale. Ties ! of allegiance to church, union. social organization, all these must be severed. Kor any one of these minor loyalties could serve as a rally ing point for opposition to the regime, a nucleus for the forces of rebellion. Above all, Communists are bent upon maintaining them selves in power wherever they enjoy It. What is more sensible, then, than to keep the people In a great shapeless, helpless mass' Revolt takes organization as well as weapons. It should be evident Immedi ately that the Catholic Church is the toughest possible center of resistance to communism in east ern Europe. Because It has manv milliona of followers, Catholicism wields a power far beyond Us i mere spiritual guidance In one i Getting Into The Act 1 1 Jt,s!,J By Viahnett S. Martin father who first published It as "The Country Bard." It is obvi ously a labor of love for It is non profit, depending upon "member ships" of interested patrons. It contains more poems than many a published book! Humor is not missing: A World War vetern, remarks in verse: Poets Aren't Sissies Poets are people, believe It or not. People are varied and polyglot. Some are virile; some limp lilies; Some are Intelligent; some are sillies: Poets are Mr.'s, Mis', and Misses,; Some are he-men and some are sissies. Some are thinkers; some are dreamers; Some are Innocent; some are schemers; Some have hearts as high as a steeple; Believe it or not, folks, poets are people. Don Blanding country or another. The fact Is all we need to re member as we watch the Com munists work relentlessly to crush this force In Russia's Eu ropean satclliles. For the sake of Europe's Cath olics and all free-worshipping men everywhere. let us hope the Communists somehow fail to marshal the strength they need to achieve full success in this effort. Lieut. Dewing To Compete In Navy Rivalry Lieutenant (Jg) Lawrence A. Dewing. CS.V. husband of the for mer Shirley Shields of Rosehurg. has been selected bv the com manding officer of navv attack squadron 191 as a member of the squadron's four man combat team to compete aeainst other navy squadrons in the Alameda area for the air force. Pacific ship. Selected on the basis of squad ron eliminations Lieut, (jgl Sew ing's team is competing for the area championship this week, and if successful, will go to the finals to be held at the Naval Air Station. El Centra. Calif., during the first week of August. Rules for the championship re quire that each pilot of (he four man team make Iti dives at the 200 foot circular tarcet bv start ing his dives at l.VOOO feet. Although only the four-man team will be officially recognized as the best In the air force. Pa cific fleet, the pilot scoring the highest percentage of hils in the finals will be unofficially accord ed the title nf 'best dive-bomber in the air force. Pacific fleet." The dive-bombing champion ship, the first to be held sine before the war. was inaugurated by Vice Admiral H. R. Sallada. commander air force. Pacific fleet, to spur competition be tween squadrons and to promote teamwork proficiency. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) have hacked down the number of rich people to practically nothing than they used to be when there were LOTS of rich people? Personally, I douht It, aaa UNDER a successful free enter prise system, such as ours al ways has been, nearly everybody has quite a lot, and a few people have a WHALE OF A LOT. Un der socialism, nobody seems to have very much. The big appeal of socialism, as a way of life, is to people who are ENVIOUS OF THOSE WHO HAVE MORE. (The academic ideal of socialism is that every body will have exactly the same.) In practice, socialism seems to reduce the Incomes of those who have more, but DOESNT seem to Increase the Incomes of those who have less. Personally, such a system doesn't Interest me. aaa GEORGE Bernard Shaw passed his 93rd birthday the other day. Pressed by an Interviewer for a statement, he was reticent. He explained that the Interviewer would get money for (he Inter view, but he (Shaw) wouldn't get anything for it, and he added that he had never been much Inter ested In transactions like that. He did loosen up to the extent of telling the ambitious reporter that he had always liked money when he was younger and STILL LIKES IT now that he is older. a a Shucks! Everybody like money. One big trouble with the world is that so many people would rather take money away from tho- who have it than to WORK for it. It has always seemed to me that the big trouble with social ism is that It Is more concerned with taking wealth away from those who have it than with CRE ATING NEW WEALTH. aaa THAT, of course, brings us back to this fundamental question: What is wealth? How is it created? Ths economists tell us that wealth Is created by the applica tion of labor to natural resources. That Is to say, clay is a natural resource. Water is a natural re source. Wood is a natural re source. SEPARATELY, they are value less. But when somebody WILLING TO WORK comes along and mixes the water with the clay, molds the resulting mud Into squares. builds a fire with the wood and with the resulting heat bakes the mud squares into bricks out of which a house can be built, WEALTH IS CREATED. aaa IT appears to me that if socialism would give as much thought to CREATING WEALTH as It gives to dividing up wealth that some body WILLING TO WORK has already created it would get farther and do more good. OREGON MAN CHOSEN HARRISBl'RG. Pa.. Aug. 1. (V The National Star Route Mail Carriers association re-elected Frank E. Russell of Forest Grove.. Ore., as Its president. SL Louis was selected as the site for the 1950 convention. Melrose By MRS. NETTIE WOODRUF Mrs. W. H. Haire. Harrington. Kans., was in Melrose and Cal lahan Trail district, from Tues day to Friday last week visiting with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cory. She was accompanied as far as Grants Pass bv her daughter. Mrs. W. L. W. Smith recently returned to her home at Way Side farm, Callahan district, fol lowing a two weeks' business trip to Los Angeles. Mrs. Ralph Cory visited at Lookingglass Tuesday with her sister, Mrs. Susie Orr, who was recently discharged from Mercy hospital following an operation. She Is reported to be recovering satisfactorily. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lundeen of Sutherlin visited Saturday with Lundeen'i brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lundeen, and with Mrs. Lundeen's broth-er-lnlaw and sister, Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Woodruff. Melrose residents attending the Douglas county employes picnic at Umpqua park Sunday Included Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Busenbark; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cooper, sons Clyde and Darrell and daughter Marsha; Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cooper; Laura Belle Cooper; Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Matthews and daughter Ruby; Mrs. Ruth Sim mons, son Michael and daughter Cherry; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mat thews: Mrs. Nellie Myers; Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cloak; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Langholff and son; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stubbs and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Butler and son, George Jr., of Cons Junction were guests last week end of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cory and daughters Sandra and Vai ene Rawl, of Callahan Trail dis trict. Ace Jones will operate the car body and fender shop at Melrose formerly operated by Paul Bac lund. Backlund intends to work elsewhere. Sutherlin By MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK Mr. and Mrs. Matt Aldropp shopped and transacted business in Eugene Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Slack and sons, Marvin and Michael, en joyed a motor trip to Seaside, Astoria, and thence to Portland, where they visited with William Watson. The Sutherlin Fire Depart ment was called out Monday afternoon by a grass fire on Duke road, west of town. When they arrived the neighbors had the fire under control. Mrs. Lela Breedlove and chil dren shopped and transacted business in Rosehurg Monday. Milt Kelso of Portland, made several business calls In this city Monday. Glen Miller of Roseburg was a business caller in Sutherlin Tues day. Jimmy Crittenden was In Rose burg Tuesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Art Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trozelle, and Mrs. Leta Braucht enjoyed an outing over the weekend. Floyd Squiers has been con fined to his home the past week by illness. Albert Slack left Monday morn ing for Eugene, where he will transact business for a couple of davs. He will go from there to Greenleaf, .Ore., where he will visit with his two daughters and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wilcut and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Browning, for a week. Mrs. D. W. Beck was confined to her home for a few days last week by illness. Moscow Radio Lashes Back At Slave Charge LONDON, Aug. 1. (P The Moscow radio lashed back today at recent British comment on lab or conditions in Russia with charges that "slave labor exists in capitalist countries." The British delegate to the United Nations economic and so cial council made puhllc in Gen eva, Switzerland, July 22 docu ments he claimed prove forced labor Is an established legal poli cy of the Soviet government. Britain officially expressed the belief about 10,000,000 Russians, or 10 per cent of the country's working population, are in forced labor camps. Today's Moscow broadcast de clared that "the Soviet system corrects criminals, while the cap italist penal system destroys them completely." Man Crushed By Log Dies From Injuries MONROE, Aug. 1.-4.PV Henrv Brooks, Kirkland, passenger In an automobile which was crushed by a log which fell from a truck r.ear here Wednesday, died at the local hospital Fridav night. The driver. Charles Skinner, Seattle, and two other passengers Leitha BrooKS and Tom Brooks both of Kirkland are reported in a satisfactory condition. The truck was driven by Charles Goodrich of Goldhar. It was the Snohomosih coun ty's 17th traffic fatality of the year. PAINTS All Kindi PAGE LUMBER & FUEL E. 2nd Ave S. Phone 242 Phone 100 If you de not receive your Newt-Rev. ew by 6:1S P.M. call Harold Mjblry before 7 P.M. Phone 100 Reception Plans Will Honor New Baptist Minister MiLJ! Dr. Edgar B. Luther A reception to welcome Dr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Luther will be held by members and friends of the First Conservative Bap tist church Tuesday evening. The reception will he held at the armory, starting at 8 o'clock. Dr. Luther recently accepted a call to the pastorate of the church and, with his wife and three children, Larry, Jane and Mabel, has established residence In Roseburg. A son, Robert, lives in Jacksonville, Fla. During the past 28 years, Dr. Luther has been pastor of five Baptist churches in California and Oregon. He spent the last 10 years as pastor at Albany. He is vice moderator of the Con servative Baptist association of Oregon and has been active in Baptist work throughout the state for a number of years. He states that he Is very en thusiastic about the many op portunities in the Roseburg com munity and is appreciative of the warm welcome received. Phone 730-J-5 DOES YOUR TYPEWRITER NEED REPAIR WORK? If any of your office equipment needs re pairs or new parts, CALL KEN TODAY! KEN'S OFFICE 631 S. Stephens FEED-FEED-FEED FEED QUALITY AND PRICES ARE RIGHT FREE FIELD SERVICE FOR FEED SEED OR REMEDIES PHONE OR CALL Roseburg Feed & Seed Co. DISTRIBUTORS H I Centennial Feeds and Centennial Flour Oak and Spruce Sts. Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank WATCH REPAIRING AIL WORK GUARANTEED Open daily, Sundays and Evenings. Closed Saturdays. I market! HiCHWAY 99 N a DRIV?fW 3 z Save ri t -JOI WALNUT ffTSTREET 1 S an Baby Born With Bladder On Outside Will Live COEUR d'Alene, Idaho, Aug. 1. (P A month-old baby girl born with her bladder on the outside of her body ht gaining weight and strength and is going to live. Dr. E. R. W. Fox, who termed the birth "very rare in medical history", said a corrective opera tion could be attempted In a few years. He said it appeared that the child might not survive at first SWIMMER DROWNS PORTLAND. Aug. l,-PV Theodore Gaylor McFervan Jr., 17, Portland, drowned while swimming in the Columbia river near here Friday. For ops on Dralnboardi S Phil Durnam Linoleum Laying and Venetian Blinds 920 S. Main 1336-J Talking About a Home? So many people do noth ing but talk about it! But if you really want to own your home, consult me now. Personal attention. Economical terms. RALPH L RUSSELL Loam and Insurance Loan Represenatlve Equitable Savings aV Loan Assn. 112 W. Cass Phone S13 EQUIPMENT Phone 1261-R Phone i4 RIVERSIDE ADDITION I QiRISTK'SmTCHSHOP 60I IVslnut St.