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4 The Newt-Revlew, Retahure, Ore. Wad., Auf . 1, 14 Published Otlly Exoept Sunday ry the Newt-Revie Company, Inc. latere m aaraai aUM .tl.r Ha? t. IMe. at tae Mat eMIee at BtMkirf. Oiegea. aaiar Mi al Marek t. 1S1B CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mambar af lha Associated Preaa, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Auoelatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Clreulationa Betreeeawe ei WIlT-HOLLIDAt CO. INC, e'rieae la Maw ark, Calaata. taa Vraaalaee. Laa Aaselae. SaatUe. fartlaaa. at. Leela. IVOaiairriON aATSS la Orafee Br Mall rn Taat ai.aa. all ' tarae M M. Br Cll C.rrl.r r.r iiu lli a la aaaara. Ua tt.a aaa er, par faaalk Sl.af OetaMe Orataa f Malt Tar laar W 00. all aiaalka St.5. Ihiaa ataalaa lt.14 CONGRATULATIONS DRAIN! Spurned! By CHARLES V. STANTON Congratulations to Drain's American Legion junior base ball team! And not to the team alone but to all the people of Drain, because their civic enterprise, as demonstrated in their living war memorial, undoubtedly has had a pro found influence upon the youth of the community. How else explain the fact that Drain has won the district baseball championship three years in a row against stiff competition? Young people living in Drain are extremely fortunate, for they are receiving an inspiration that should make them most valuable citizens. They are absorbing a spirit of civic cooperation and enterprise of a magnitude seldom seen. Drain's achievement in building municipal swimming pool entirely through donations of labor and materials was heralded throughout the United States. The same co operative spirit furnished the community with a lighted athletic field. Then, in preparation for the regional Ameri can Legion junior baseball eliminations, residents of Drain erected a quarter-mile of cedar fence, with all materials and labor donated, constructing the fence in one day, after which paint company came forward with an offer to furnish paint to cover both sides of the new installation So Drain citizens will be out again with paint brushes to complete the job. W doubt if any other community of like size in the coun try can duplicate Drain's demonstration of civic enterprise and generosity in donations of time, effort and money. It is small wonder, when such inspiration is furnished, that baseball team is able to win three championships in a row. American Legion junior baseball came into existence shortly after the first World war. It was inaugurated as a part of the Legion's Citizenship program. Major baseball leagues quickly realized the value of the promotion and gave financial aid. In late years the Ford Motor company, through its local dealers, has been cooperating. A majority of-the younger players in organized baseball started their careers on American Legion teams. Baseball scouts seeking future talent closely watch the young per formers. Douglas county fans will recall how Glenn Elliott, a small, wiry, bespectacled youth from Myrtle Creek, pitched county teams to championships a number of years ago. And how h set colligiate strike-out records at Oregon State and later became the nemesis of Pacific Coast league bat ters as he toiled for Seattle, until he went into the majors. Glenn might never have made his wsy into a baseball career, had it not been for men like Tommy Ireland, Rudie Ritzman and others who brought him along so carefully in his formative years, patiently imparting the lessons which made him a great pitcher. Who knows what future baseball star will emerge from Barney Koch's squad of Peewees, who drew a near-capacity crowd recently for their intersquad preliminary and vic torious battle with Bashor's Bombers, the classy Portland outfit? Barney Koch, Frank Bashor, Homer Parks, coach of the Drain team, and the thousands of men throughout the nation who likewise are donating to the baseball pro gram, together with those who make their work possible, are contributing mors to good citizenship than anyone ever will realize. Because many men everywhere have joined efforts to promote the baseball program, and because people like the citizens of Drain are willing to give civic cooperation, large numbers of boys are being trained in sportsmanship and citizenship, while the feet of a few will be placed upon the ladder to success in professional sports careers. The Drain team is one example of the workings of this program. The Drain team goes this week to Albany to play for the state championship. It will meet tougher competition than in the regional eliminations, but fans may be sure that the Drain team will give a good account of itself, and stands a good chance to win the state title and the right to advance to zone competition, with the national championship as a a final objective. We know the team goes to the state series, carrying the confidence and best wishes of all Douglas county fans, and the friendship and respect of the opponents defeated in the series at Drain. So again, congratulations, Drain, and good luck! House Votes Added Powers For Defense Secretory WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-MV-House approval, by 356 to 7, ' Tuesday completed congresslon 1 action on a bill giving Secre tary of Defense Johnson new powers as doss oi ine armea forces. The measure went to President Truman for his signature. The bill would : 1. Tighten Johnson's authority over policies and operations of the services by making It direct authority. The jsht uninrauon law gives him only "general" authority. 2. Set up a civilian business manager over the services' mon ey matters. The new comptrol ler will be an assistant secre tary of defense and will be In charge of establishing -uniform budget ad accounting practices throughout the military depart ments. 3. Give the Joint Chief of Staff a permanent chairman. They op erate now without a chairman, except when one is asked to act temporarily as General Dwlfht D. Llsenhower was recently. The bill changes the present national military establishment into a new Department of Nation al Defense, with the three serv ices as military department un der It. This change was recom mended by former President Herbert Hoover, who headed a commission that surveyed reor ganization of the executive branch of the government. The secretary would broad powers under the bill, but would not be able to transfer combat functions on the services or assign officers and men in such a way as to alter their pres ent combat functions. U. . , if r AMU 1 Ik A sWAVh? Business men differ among them selves in their guesses as to what's ahead this faU for their factories and stores. But either way they face, they express strong opinions aououess Because iney are tanner out on me uring wrc than the rest of us. Here are the views of top men in their various industries across the country: By Viaknttt S. Martin 'I recall the time Robert Frost told ui that he, too, wrote for a farm-paper once," writes Mar garet Bartlett in her delightful column, "Mostly Personal" in a recent Author and Journalist which she edits and publishes, until he wrote of guinea-hens roosting In trees. According to the farmer letter-writers, guinea- hens NEVER roosted in trees. But I could prove that some did!'" Frost declared. Dear me, so could I prove guinea-hens roost In trees! Mrs. Guinea and her 12 young 'uns Papa Guinea, too, roosted in a fir by our woodshed last summer. It was a circus to watch them set tling down, come evening! First Mr. and Mrs. Guinea ar gued some point. Then one would fly up to a lower branch and keep hopping up . . . eventually the whole family would be set tled for the night Quiet. Until some unusual sound would dis turb them. Ever hear a disturbed guinea? Multiply that by 13. One night there was a real commotion. We investigated but could make nothing of It. But next morning one young guinea was missing. And when night approached, the guinea family headed across the road for a big maple. There they did their upward hopping, branch by branch, the leaves shaking to show progress. By then the whole family was tame. I had made the mistake of petting the bits of fluff when Mrs. Guinea first brought them In from the field. They grew larger and larger until my arms were scratched from their in sistent friendliness. By the time they had chosen the distant maple as a roost, they were half grown and could fly. They didn't begin their day as early as hens who will creep out at dawn and peer around. So usually they were still in the roost-tree when I appeared In front of the house. Here they would come! One by one out of he tree, running, flying, never stopping until they were all around me. I had to fairly fight them off my arms and shoulders. Talk about pigeons being tame! You should have seen the guineas. They flew like birds, too, thought nothing of a couple of hundred feet. Mr. and Mrs. guinea used to fly over the house, as casually as could be. Only Mrs. Guinea is left. Funny how fond one becomes of a pet! In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) toes on which he lived. But he never had much fun. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press UVS COUNTRY ESTATI Herbert Wehgarber. partner In the Hudson agency here, has pur chased the Joyce Ream country estate In upper Garden vallev. The sale w as handled through the Roseburg Realty company. Nsw Unemployment Flgurts I (The Bend Bulletin) I The Jehby Davidson argument that unemployment in the north west calls for the creation of a CVA was first advanced last spring. Our Inquiry to Mr. Da vidson produced the reply that his figures showing northwest un employment was three times the national average were for the month of February and to that there was the obvious answer that last winter's unseasonable weather, of course, raised hob with employment. He has since urged upon us that the record of several years past shows a con siderable state of unemployment in this region. We have yet to get at the true meaning of the statistics. We are wondering, however, if any sort of sound conclusion can be drawn. All of us who are famil iar with the economy of the re gion know, for instance, that win ter brings unemployment In the lumber Industry and the comple tion of harvest In berries, fruits, wheat, potatoes and hops means the end of work for many per sons. Do they then become a sta tistic In the records of unemploy ment? If they do It will be a reg ular and annual event and no amount of CVA power can change It. Since Secretary Davidson uses this unemployment argument he cannot protest if It la used against him and the record since last winter is somewhat devasta ting and becomes more so with the passage of time. Thus, as al ready noted In this column. Ore gon's unemployment record In May was below the national av erage. Tennessee was then In the worst position. Now our attention is railed to a new set of figures on a map in the New York Times for Julv 17. Thev are discussed In an editor ial from the Oregon Statesman. These figures go further to confound the Davidson argu ment though not, it seems to us. particularly with respect to the northwest. The northwest. It is true, hat had the greatest de crease in claims for unemploy ment Insurance since January but that results, without doubt, from the fact that those winter conditions to which we have re ferred caused the high mark cit ed by Jebby. Then, wiih the open ing or spring employment was resumed and the record shown on the Times' map resulted. The oecrease was natural. More significant than this showing, It seems to us. Is the fact that with the country enter ing a period of recession it is the Industrial east that suffers most. "The unemployment problem is greater In the industrial East than in the Midwest and West." sas the Times. The Davidson argument based on unemployment has no merit. We can secure the power for the Industry that will bring employ ment without any CVA. But In view of the record now in the making would Secretary David son say that it is Important to develop Industry. Do not get us wrong. We think Industry is important. But we think, too, that Secretary David son's use of the unemployment argument on behalf of a CVA is not well chosen. ROM St. Helens (up on the Columbia) comes a tale this week about a circus elephant that seems to get an irresistible yen to go on the loose when it reaches Oregon. Last Friday night, something stirred in the great pachyderm's brain (the beast weighs eight tons, the St. Helens dispatch says). So it pulled its stakes on the show-lot and fared forth on its own. Nineteen hours later it was located in a gravel quarry, was coaxed into a truck and hauled back. A few hours later it skipped out again, but again it was coaxed back to the circus lot. The St. Helens story adds: "The big animal is the same one that staged a similar run-out on the show in Albany two years ago." Forecasts Of Business Men Differ On What's Ahead For Their Factories And Stores By SAM DAWSON (better, a cooperative society i NEW YORK, Aug. 3. UP) j Iowa reports sales of its refrigera tion division "are currently run ning well ahead of the correspond ing period of last year contrary to the trend of the industry as a whole, which la scarcely holding its own." Others planning for bigger sales this fall include: ar. Ohio nursery,1 a New England office equipment factory, a Maryland I brush maker, a Chicago movie An ontimist in Ohio Predicts : pnuinment manufacturer, a Dis. a 20 rwr cent Increase In our fall trirt nf Columbia home studv sales.'' He is echoed by others in school. manv lines across the country. A pessimist in r-ennsyivaiun writes: My industry It sick ana the outlook for the next lew months is not at all encouraging." He, too, has his brethren here and there. In-between vlewt range irom a Minnesota underwear maker's that "sales will be slightly o.'f this fall, but not alarmingly so," to the huncn oi a cieveiana manufacturer of everything from food to metal products that: "Our business will be very good If the steel companies stand pat against a fourth round of wage increases." They wrote their views to J. B. Scarborough, publisher of the American Magazine, who had ask ed them: "What is the outlook for this fall In your business?" Here are some of the replies, from chairmen of the board, presidents, executive vice-presidents, or top men in sales, of a cross-section of American business life. They give you a glimpse of business you may not get from the news reports. Betterment Foreseen For example, some see business much better aiready than it was. A St. Louis manufacturer says "1949 will prove to be consider ably ahead of 1948 as a whole." A midwest automobile insur ance company official says "the outlook for our business this fall is excellent." An airline executive reports "the largest month in our history." The sales manager of a top elec trical products company writes: "We cannot help but look for ward to an increased volume in the appliance business this fall and through the holiday season." But going the big concern one Tha Chilly Side However, the immediate future looks far lest bright to others. An Indiana blanket maker says 'There has been little dis position on the part of buyers to place orders for fall." A chilling prospect. A Detroit chemical, firm re ports: "Practically all of the sales men who come in here, whether they are selling bottles, drugs or spice, admit they are having diffi cult times." An Ohio stove maker fears that e en this fall "consumers will not vet be convinced that prices have reached bottom." Sales will be bet ter next spring, he adds. A western railroad executive says "Th volume of our business is considerably off." Mosquito Control With DDT Harmful To Fish According to information from Dr. H. J. Rayner, division of nu trition and disease, Oregon State Game commission, the use of DDT and other Insecticides on log ponds, streams, swamps, or other waters It very detrimental to the fish life therein. Users of insecticides In the wa ters of the state should be ad vised of the fact that the lethal powers of such materials are not limited to Insects alone. Numer ous Instances have been reported where trout and other salmonoid fishes, bass, crappiet and blue gills have been killed as a result of an overdose of Insecticides in tended for mosquitoes or other insect pests. Some persons feel that if a "lit tle Is good, a lot is better." This is definitely not true In the above instance, and it it hereby tug. gested that the manufacturers' specifications for minimum dos age should be closely observed. Phone 100 If you do not receive your News-Review by S:1S P.M. call Harold Mjbley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 w HAT do you reckon It wat that stirred in the animal't brain cells? I don't know, but I'll risk a guess: I'll bet that every now and then the thought comet over the whole eight tons of him that he HAS GIVEN UP HIS LIBERTY FOR THE SECURITY THAT GOES WITH A CAGE AND A KEEPER. When nosalgic mem ories come to him of the way his ancestors wandered through the jungles, FREE TO DO AS THEY JOLLY WELL PLEASED, gorging themselves with bamboo shoots when bamboo shoots were abundant, going hungry when they weren't, plastering them selves with mud when, the flies got too bad, In general doing what they wanted to do and not doing what they didn't want to do, it may be that he just gets dog weary of the security that goes with captivity and gets up and gets out of there. Maybe tha free air of Oregon has something to do with It. Here we haven't gone all out (yet) for political security. We're teetering on the fence, of course, like nearly everybody else In this generation, but in Oregon there are still wide open spaces, and the wide open spaces are a fairly potent anti dote for the political security laudanum that drugs men's brains and causes them to forget the joys of personal accomplishment. Anyway, what this elephant does w hen he gets to Oregon may be significant. Fraud Charges Are Answered By Bulb Gardens SALEM. Aug. 3 (.P) Sherwood bulb gardens, claiming it handles only top quality merchandise. fought DacK Tuesday against me State Agriculture department charges that the gardens are guilty of fraud, deception and misrepresentation. i The gardens presented Its case ; by putting bulb growers and em ployes on the stand at the dc- Eartment's hearing. The owner, , E. Marcus, is here to show w hy hit license thouldn't be re-1 voked. The hearing wat In ltt tecond day Tuesday. i Mrs. Lillian McLaln. Portland, I plant supervisor for the gardens at its main plant in Portland, said the company handles only quality bulbs. Her testimony con- tradicted state witnesses who said they received bulbs which were dead, diseased, or smaller than advertised. ! Mrs. McLaln said that when an order can't be filled, then: better bulbs are sent than were ordered. She denied delay in handling complaints. Mrs. May Morgan, Portland, swing shift supervisor at i the Portland plant, said all bulbs are first class and are as good or better than advertised. i Another employee, Elvin Dap-1 per. denied testimony that trees shipped by the company don't have roots. Four growert who send bulbs to ine company saiu mc? ci i - .u;nnu4 .nvihlno hut the ' Bonk With A Douglas County Institution ' Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank TIN KEN ROLLER BEARINGS Specializing in SKF, Timkh, Hyatt and New Departure Bearings and National Oil Seals for all Automotive end Industrial Equipment. ( H. L. PRITCHARD CO. GRANTS PASS, ORE. 507 '1st "G" St Phone 3646 MEDFORD, ORE. 126 North Front Phone 5227 7 - r.r" - - - - r i At Eugene the other dav. Dr. Paul Raver, of the Bonneville power administration, said. "Lack of power is fundamental In an unemployment depres sion." So that's why Tennessee had the highest unemployment figure hack In May and why the industrial east and mid-west are now suffering more severely from unemployment than any other part of the nation. Or is Dr. Raver trying to get In anoth er plug for a CVA? PICNIC PLANNED The Oregon State Emploves as sociation will meet Thursday. Aug. 4. at 8 p. m.. In the Knichts of Pvthlas hall. In addition to het nnalitv bulbs. William J. Warner. Meaiora. said tne company piuviura n outlet for $200,000 worth of south ern Oregon bulbs each year, and that without the company, these bulbs couldn't be sold. Late Monday. Lyle Janz man ager of the Portland office of the Belter Business Bureau, test ified that he has received more than 350 complaints about the firm from all over the country. FROM THE NEWS OF 30 YEARS AGO Alcoholic Problems To Be Discussed Saturday Any persons having alcoholic Droblems. problems which con cern themselves personally, their relations either as employes or employers, family relationships. or others, are invited to be pres-1 ent Saturday evening al tne Wnichta nf Pvthiaa hall. Speakers from Alcononcs' Anonymous Foundation will be I present to discuss topics of gen- I eral Interest, explanatory of al-! coholic problems and the AA plan I for recovery. No admission will be charged for the meeting. I which starts at 8:30 o'clock, and 0 A. P ry' s Reteburf Review August IS, 1918 IF we keep on drifting In the direction we're drifting now, we'll reach the point generations hence where we'll be like the elephant is now that is, we'll have security, but liberty will be oniy a memory mat win rise at ,h, orc,nization. times to plague us. The Roseburg chapter of Al Like the elenbanL we'll TIRF ! coholict Anonymous has momentarily of security no collection will be taken. Because of the anonymous re quirements of the organization, no advance identification will be made of speakers, it was an nounced, but they will be per sons having prominent work in Fire! Hot weather, low humidity, a dropped cigarette, and . , . FIRE! In 1918 Mrs. McGhahey traded $4,000 for $1, 000 . . . would you trade your home and its contents for J the amount it s insured? Don t be half protected, cover fire losses BEFORE the fire. been . j I crowing very rapidly, local lead- "nQ - ' uivral l.rV ul. hunger for freedom. We'll get to 1lfactoVy and pleasing caset of , thinking: "Oh. boy! How I'd love rehabilitation have resulted, to go out ON MY OWN, like my The local chapter meets each ancestor! prior to the fateful 50t s?'"rdavH v'Jllngf"' I? ,riC and 40s did." ol ,h' chamb": of commere' So we'll go temporarily on the loose. But EVENTUALLY our keep- reuular business. Dlans for theiers will drag us back to the forthcoming picnic to he held on i abundant hay and peanuts that the Rod Cun club grounds at wtth pUvlty. Political secur Winchester, Aug. 7, w ill be d t- u . . . . cussed. I'V work 'hat way. SCREENS Screen Doors Screen Wire Window Screens PAGE LUMBER I FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 mm It Pays to Intur in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R TIPTON- PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Cast (Next door to : Office) I I ill Tlptan Carl Ptrmln