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- 4 The Newt-Review, Retebure, Ore. Tua., Aug. 2, 1949 bo em-Review Pubtlihtd Otlly Except Sunday ty tht Ntws-IUv.ft Company, Inc. tale) reel Httil lau attar May ?, W, at tkt sail ffl at BMrg, Oraiaa. 4ai at ! Mftrca S. Ull CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor t Managsr Mtmbar of tht Associated Press, Oregon Newspsper Publlshtro Auoelitlon, tho Audit Bureau of Circulation Idiimiki r wtsT-noixipAf co.. inc.. tars, caicaia. Saa traaclMa. Laa Aafalaa, Saatlla. rartlaas. St, Laala. tClS( aiPTION lATrs t Oraaaa Mall ret Taar IS M, III aaalai S4.M. laras maallii II.M. By raw Carrier rr yaar SIS.aa la aivaara), Itra Ifcaa aaa rear, par aaarata Sl.at OalalSa Orefaa By Mail Par yaar IS SO. als eaealks H it. Mraa aiaalka lt.lt PARADE OF By CHARLES Within a few more weeks States a group of priests carrying a ten-foot wooden cross. Volunteer Roman Catholic crossbearers will carry the cross on foot from the Atlantic to Built by monks at Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre, the cross itarted its journey on Good Friday, April 15. The first stage of the trip was along the Via Dolorosa, the course inside Jerusalem's old walled city, Jesus carried His cross to Calvary. ' From Jerusalem it was carried on the shoulders of wcr shipers trudging on foot through Syria, Lebanon, Italy, France and Belgium. In Rome It recently arrived in England from whence it will go to Ireland, starting Aug. 4, and States. . We find a peculiar fascination in this slow, prayerful journey around the world a fascination aside from the purely religious symbolism and Is there connection between this holy march and the troubled political state of the world? Does the toilsome, arduous advance, chafing the backs of devotees, have any special significance in current events? Will future histories . find in this event a milepost in its record of ideological struggle? The Catholic church is waging all-out war against commu nism. Russia is finding increasing difficulty in controlling eattelite countries, evidencing the fact that the leaven of resistance introduced by the church is beginning to work. ' The recent excommunication edict by the Pope reportedly is decimating the ranks of the Communist party in pre dominantly catholic countries of Europe, amid loud outcries from the communist press which can find nothing tangible to combat. Fancy paints a picture in which the background is a mural ' of nations spending billions of dollars to construct more and more deadly atomic weapons; silver planes traveling beyond the speed of sound and bristling with weapons of destruc tion; missies guided by electric waves into the vast, dark voids far above the earth, hurtling onward across continents and oceans, aiming their blasts against combatant and non . batant alike, threatening lives of innocent men, women and children. And before this background, hued in forbidding tones of threatening, lightning-filled storms, streaked with high lights of blood and smoke, there passes in the foreground a pilgrim bearing upon his shoulders a crude wooden cross, before which multitudes kneel in prayer. Nations may boast of their strength. They may invent and produce weapons which strain the imagination. They may worship the whirling wheels of industrial power. They may boast of wealth and position. But down through the ages The Cross has made slow, troubled, arduous progress. Before it has fallen nation after nation that defied or under estimated its authority. It has been borne upon the raw and bleeding backs of sorrowing people. It has moved pace by pace while above it flashed planes approaching the speed of light. Undeterred by power, by wealth, by threat or bribe it has moved on and on. The skeptic may deride and mock the power of a simple, hand-hewn cross as a symbol of war, as he sees passing in review, with great pomp, an exhibit of a nation's military might But history tells how The Cross has triumphed over the sword time and again, and we have the words of proph ets that it shall never be defeated. So, in fancy, we can see far more behind this event of the cross from Jerusalem being carried around the world by plodding pilgrims than the simple display of a religious symbol, as a means of raising funds to feed refugees. For it is a parade of faith faith far more powerful than any army or any weapon created by man. Soap Still Rich Man's Luxury In European Areas vit.MVA '.iv-soap la atlll a rich man's luxury In many Kuro- pean countries, tven In those countries where It is not rationed, the price la generally higher than low Income groups ran pay. Hospitals and other public Insti tutions still depend on charity shipments from abroad for the bulk of their needs. CARE offi cials throughout Europe report the use of inferior quality soaps In Institutions is a serious men ace to child health. An Associated Press survey showed France, Italy and the Scandinavian countries as the brightest spots on the Kurnnean soap map. Britain, Czechoslo vakia and Yugoslavia are at the other end of the scale. Between those two extremes are coun tries like Poland, Austria and Germany where you can buv all the soap you need If you have the money. In Czechoslovakia the snap ra tion la one bar of toilet soap every three months. There is also a small ration of laundry soap and soap powder. The govern ment had promised to put soap on free sale but the price will range from 50 to 60 cents a bar. The average British ration is seven small bars of toilet soap every two months. In Yugoslavia it id half a pound per month per person, and the supply is Irregu lar. In Poland a bar of toilet soap costs 25 cents. Austrian oap Is of poor quali ty. A bar of American soap on THE CROSS V. STANTON there will arrive in the United the Pacific coast. where religious history says it was blessed by the Pope, then will come to the United ceremony. the black market costs 50 cents. An Inferior type of soap is Mill rationed In Germany. To supple ment their one small rationed bar, Germans pav 30 cents a bar for American soaps which are on sale almost everywhere. CAKE officials In Vienna sav the real need in Europe is for better distribution of good snap to low Income families with chil dren and to public institutions. Col. Walsh Denies Aides' Attack Against Morse W VSHINGTON. Aug. 1. (T Sen. Wayne L. Morse has been artvisci, ny col. u. t. waisn, ciivl s'm army engineer, that Walsh had found no evidence o( attacks on Mors hy engineer personnel at Portland. Morse had charged that some of the personnel were indicating to constituents that they could not count upon Morse to help with flood control legislation. Walsh wrote the senator that "I have investigated this matter in my own office and have had a similar investigation made by the district engineer. I have not found any evidence that such an atti tude o'l the part of the oiticers or emploves exists." He also said that army engi neer representatives were under Instructions not to refer to mem bers of congi-ess by name, hut to peak of "your congressional representatives." frTv? tWf dVf ' K''.-A' .y By Viahnett S. Mart 'Just plain thoughtless, that's all," said genial Arthur Wool ley, our state fire warden, as he stood beside his Jeep, waiting for the line" to talk with a lookout. He had Just given us a permit to burn two windrows of grass and weeds. 'Now," said he, "the lookout will know, when she sees the smoke, what's going on and there will be no need to send someone to find out. But sometimes, folks newcomers ' to these parts, mostly don't realize what a lot of trouble smoke can make for Ihe service If no permit has been ssued. Just plain thoughtless, or maybe they haven't been here long enough to know better." Mr. Woolley has been interest ed In fires and fire-prevention since he first began working some 40 years ago. He knows his district thoroughly; and the people In It, for the most part. 'I remember one time in 1929 . a bad year . . . never had my shoes off for 10 days except to change socks. Napped as I could. Had four crews, and then we couldn't cover all the fires. Some never did have a man on them Douglas Farmers Receive Wheat Allotment Quotas For 1950 Price Support Douglas county's 19.V) w heat al lotment is 3.JU2 acres. This rep resents Pouglas county's propor tionate share of the national wheat acreage allotment of 6(.:i acres for the crop that will he harvested nex tyear, J. F. Bnne- nraKe, conservation committee chairman explains. The national allotment Is the acreage that at normal yields will produce an amount of w heat, w hich together with the expected carryover next July 1. will suiiplv contemplated domestic and export require ments and provide a safe re serve. Appeal Privilege Open "Individual farm allotments, hasted on acreage and production data collected over Ihe past sev eral months, have been estab lished. Honehrake stated, "and notices to growers will he mailed from the count v office bv Au gust 15. Any grower w ho is dis satisfied with his allotment nr who was overlooked when allot ments were established may ap peal to the rountv committee within 13 days of the dale shown on the notice of allotment. Acreage allotments are not an enforced limitation on produc tion, but provide a limitation on government expenditures for price support hevond the nation al interest. Bonebrake explains. Only those farmers who seed within their farm allotments will be entitled to price supporting commodity loans or purchase agreements on their 19.VI crop. "Although adverse conditions during the growing season have resulted In a smaller 1!M0 wheat crop than expected earlier, th's year's harvest will still be the third laigest of record and the sixth consecutive wheat crop in excess of one billion bushels." Bonebrake points out. "The av erage yearly domestic consump tion of wheat is only 700 million bushels, and only abnormally high exports supported by KCA allotments and army purchases for occupied countries has pre vented the accumulation of price- Upholding The Peace J It JSt" because the smoke got so thick the lookouts couldn't see . . ." I "Conditions have Improved a lot In recent years," the warden remarked. "More lookouts, for one thing. The public is better educated. But even so folks still toss lighted cigarets away, or maybe think they've ground one out and they haven't. Cigarets are the forests' worst enemy! They hold fire long enough to start a blaze. "Paper is bad stuff, too. A piece of paper, afire in one cor ner, will rise in the draft--go quite a ways. Start a fire pretty easy. Housewives can't be too careful about burning papers and trash! Camp fires, too, need care ful watching." I recalled, one wet day our first spring here, we were burn ing some old linoleum. Talk about smoke! First thing we knew we heard a plane, and I aliove the clearing in which the house sets we saw a plane circl- ing, one wing dipped low, while the pilot obviously! was hav 1 ing a good look at what was go j Ing on below him. Had we needed j help how grateful we should have been! depressing surpluses." Bonebrake emphasizes that if wheat growers comply with acre age allotments, thus adjusting production to expected require ments, it may be unnecessary to use marketing quotas lor future crops. Greece Winning Civil War, Truman Declares WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. (.T) President Truman told Con gress Monday that the Greek gov ernment, wiih American help, is making "solid progress" toward winning its civil war with the communists. He attributed this to improved Greek leadership, accumulating U. S. military supplies, months of training of 'Greek soldiers, and "determination, derisive less and aggressiveness' in the orders of the Greek high commtnd. IVspite the reported progress militarily and In the Greek econ omy, the president declared that guerrilla forces are still strong. The chief executive in a report to congress covering the first quarter of this year said that on March 31 the strength of the guer rilla forces was estimated at 19. fWl as compared with J6.000 a year earlier. j U. S. Embassy Attache In Belgrade Polio Victim I BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Aug. 2.-t.V -Robert G. Braden, 1'9, third secretary and vice consul of the I'nited States embassy in ! Belgrade, died .Monday. He was j stricken with poliomyelites (in fantile paravlsisi three days ago. I During Rraden's brief illness, j Yugoslav authorities dispensed with ordinary formalities In ord ; er to speed delivery of serum rushed here in an effort to save him. He was a native of Pasadena. Calif., and a graduate of Stan 1 ford university. 11 Sheep Breeds Registered For Big Albany Sale Eleven breeds Including 113 rams and 36 ewes have been eon signed to the ninth annual Wil lamette Valley Purebred Ram and Ewe sale which will be held in the Linn county 4-H club build ing north of Albany on Saturday, August 6, starting at 10 a.m. stan dard time, O. E. Mikesell, sale secretary and Linn county agri cultural agent has announced. All animals will be at the sale ground by 7 o'clock sale morning so that prospective bidders will have opportunity to Inspect the animals. A nine-man sifting com mittee will have passed on all animals prior to sale time. Ram and ewe consignments have been received from the fol lowing breeds: Romney, Hamp shire, Suffolk, Lincoln, South down, Corriedale, Columbia. Cotswold, and Shropshire. Rams only will be offered in the Dorset and Cheviot breeds. Sale catalogues may be obtain ed by writing Mikesell, Court house. Albany. Persons unable to attend the sale may place mall or wire bids, addressed to the sale secretary or to Harry A. I.lndgren. O.S.C. extension animal husbandry spe cialist, who heads the siftin? I committee. Other members of the sifting committee include O. M. Kelson, O.S.C. animal husbandry profes sor; Edward Oath. Salem: loyd T. ox, Silverton: Eddie Ahrens. Turner; R. V. Hogg. Salem; C. Stumo, Monmouth; and Dr. Charles F. Haynes, state veter inarian. Salem. All rams and ewes offered are guaranteed breeders, the sale committee has announced. Auc tioneer will be Colonel Earl O. Walter, Filer. Idaho. Elkton Bv PHYLLIS A. SMITH David T. Rickard. Corvallis, and Miss Marian Hugus. Eugene, visited with Miss Hugus' aunts, Mrs. Horace Cunningham and Mrs. Robert M. Smith of Elkton Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mode of Kellogg visited their son, Dale, Sunday, Dale is In a Eugene hos pital. Mrs. Cecil (Bob. Beale is In a Eugene hospital for treatment. Mrs. Wagner, LaGrande. is vis- j Iting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl Grimsrude. I Mrs. Harlev Woods. Oakland. Calif., is in Elkton to attend the I funeral of her brother, Claude McDonald. i Mi I and Mrs. James Chjlr. Al den'le. Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. werf visitors at the home of Mr. CI-Vs are from Mrs. Mode's for m" home town and are on a isjt-rveck trip through California, lifl'gon and Washington, visiting friends and various points of in- , terest. A large crowd of loyal Elkton I baseball fans attended the game at Oakland Sunday and saw the j Elkton team take a 10-5 w in. The ' game w as marred by a severe injury to Bob Cowhrough's finger j w hen he was hit bv a pitched ball. ! The funeral for Richard Gates. who died July 23. was held Wed nesday and interment was in the Elkton cemeterv. Donald and Patricia Smith were initiated into the Kellogg Juvenile grange Saturday night at the regular Grange meeting. Mrs. Robert M. Smith has re ceived word that her mother. Mrs. Roy B. Wright, Woodlake, I Calif.. Is in very poor health, j Emery Stewart, James Gates, ; Julius Repslarger and John Saw ' yer were on a fishing trip at ; Winchester bay Saturday. Gates is reported to have caught a 27 pound Chinook salmon, j Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith spent Sunday at Loon lake. The News-Review classified ads bring best results. Phone 100. In the Day's News (Continued From age One) time has arrived In the United States of America when WE MUST HAVE PRINCIPLES IN OUR POLITICS principles in which we believe so fiercely that we are willing to die tor them, if necessary. a a IDONT know this Marion L. "Mike" Elliott, Multnomah county sheriff who is in. hot wa ter. I never so much as laid eyes on him. But he it facing a recall election, and he claims that he is being "persecuted." Experience has taught me that a politician who claims that he is beirg persecuted is usually a phony. a MY Inclination (and yours, too, I'll wager) would be to go all out for anybody who really was being persecuted. Politically speaking, being persecuted amounts to the same thing as be ing the under dog. It is practical ly an ax'om of American Dolltics that If you can establish yourself as the under dog you're in the chips. NOTHING can stop you. ir.e same principle works In the case of "persecution." If vou can put it out and make it stick tnat you are being persecuted, you have no further worries In politics. All you need to do is to sit back and wait until the votes are counted. It sounds very much to me lika thai is what this fellow Elliott is aiming at. aaa DO you recall the fable of the boy who cried Wolf? As I remember it, they had him out watching a band of sheep. He got bored with the Job and one day a bright idea hit him. He took a deep breath and yelled "Wolf! Wolf!" at the toD of his voice. It worked. The elders of the village came running. The kid told them a cock-and-bull tale about a big bad wolf that had threatened the sheep BUT HE HAD RUN THE WOLF RAGGED OUT OF THERE and saved the sheep. The elders made over him to beat the band and went back to their du ties in the village. aaa HERE'S the pay-off: The kid liked the fuss that had been made over him so well that he did It again and kept on doing It until the village lost all confi dence in him. Eventually a wolf did come and he yelled like a Comanche, but no soap. The eld ers, having his number, didn't come, and the wolf ate him up along with a lot of the sheep. THE rroral? Well, I HOPE the time will Come when we'll rrn these phonies in politics and when me jig Dad wolf really does come we'll sit tight and let them be eaten up. If we can't somehow get rid of the phonies in politics, our coun try and the way of life that we value will eventually be gone where the woodbine twineth. Troops Working Coal Mines In Australia Strike AuSBYIf EY- Australia. Tuesday. Aug. z (.n Australian trooi,, began working nine open cut a Z n?in New. Sou,h Wale, oday to produce the first coal in Au straha since the nation', 24 m miner, walked out five we Blaming Communist, for the in If r Kvern"i'nt has pledg ed o wipe out communism in Australia. The fact it i, mil winter south of the EquZr sharpened the crisis. 4 rJn e. use of ,mv anl air force ,akc . VIm m'.nprs slt more pay and a reduction of the work week from 40 hours to 35. k Calwerr,n,Hn ,?n'"r Arh'T i-aiuell told a abor rallv "mm them 'he army against tnem. the navy against them the air force against them." ' The Communist partv Is a tlm Political force in 'Xustralia and K?!,n ,h" fpd"rf" Parlia ment, but it is influential in trade unions. PROMISE YOURSELF: To think only of the best, to work only for the best ond to expect only the best. Roseburg "The Chapel Oak and Kane Street Funerols Tel. 600 Development Of Columbia River Basin Demanded By Security. Army Man States WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-4JPL National security demands firompt development of the Co umbia river basin, Secretary of the Army Gray said Monday. He told a house committee that how It's done through creation of a Columbia valley administra tion or some other way is for congress to decide. He said he did not believe that creation of a CVA was the onlv way the basin can be developed. I I But for himself, he added, he felt that the CVA was the best I approach. I Under any circumstances, he ! went on, "I urge that without de lay and for the interest of na tional security this great program to develop the Pacific northwest I go forward." j Testifying before the public i works committee, which is consid ; ering a bill to set up a CVA, Gray said the army long has been seri ously concerned with the need for full development 01 me river Da sin, and added: "It is essential to national de fense that the hydroelectric po tential of the Columoia river and its tributaries be fully realized and developed as soon as practi cable. The power of the Columbia is needed for aluminum produc tion and for atomic production." He said the growing industries of the Portland, Ore., region and of other cities require effective flood control and that the river's navigation possibilities must be expanded. t He praised the -vork of the army engineers and the reclama tion bureau in the basin but said their plans are not a substitute for CVA. 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Under questioning, Gray said he would be opposed to stripping the army engineers of their civil ian functions and that he did not believe military personnel should be transferred to the CVA. He said such personnel could be as signed to am ine iva. Seattle Chief Says Drunks Live Off City SEATTLE, Aug. 1. ( Police Chief George Eastman told the city council that numerous habitual drunkards get free lodg ing in the city jali while drawing state relief checks. The comment of Councilman Robert H Harlln was: "Quite a racket." The council asked the chief to submit a report on such cases. The cour.cilmen expressed the hope the city would uraw on the welfare funds to cover the cost of feeding the Jail Inmates. Phone 100 If yeu de net rscalvo your Nsws-Ravisw by 6:1S P.M. call Hareld Mjbley bsfsr 7 P.M. Phone 100 ft rJi -. ft .-4W '.7 ! irV' L. L. s ou eis. T ' . .- af
