4 The Newt-Review, Rotebur), Crt Tue., Aui. H4 Published D illy Exeept Sunday ty th Nwi-Rvi Company, Inc. bltnl M aaeaa dan Mtitr Mar . aaaaaart, Orasaa, aaSaf a4l March S. Ull CHARLES V. STANTON IOWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mimbtr of th Aaaelatad Praia, Oragsn Nawapapar Publisher Aaaoolatlon, tha Audit Buraau ef Clroulatlena arataau r IrT-HOLl.lDAT CO.. inc., alli-aa la Ka Tark, Cklaata, Saa rraaclaaa. Laa Aajalaa, Baattla, Parllaa. SI Laaia. aua airTION BATKS la oraiaa Mall rar rtar , ill aiaataa K M araa aiaalaa II.M. Br Cllr C'arrlar ear raar lll.aa lla alYiaoal. Ij laaa aaa raar, par raaala 11.1 Ouuiaa Oraa Br Mall Far raar II M. all taatha 14 11. Uiraa aaalaa (1.11 WORTHY By CHARLES V. STANTON Today Is the birthday of the nation's only livinj ex-Presl-dent Seventy-five years of age today, Herbert Hoover is the first ex-President since James Buchanan to reach this age. For more than 35 years Herbert Hoover has served the public as humanitarian, administrator and executive, yet he has been most rudely and ungratefully treated in repay ment for unselfish devotion to the ideals of humanitarianism end good government Made a scapegoat by political opportunists, rn artificial and unreasoning hatred was deliberately manufactured by propagandists, who found ready acceptance from persons seeking some subject upon which to concentrate blame for misfortune. Much of the criticism against Herbert Hoover has been unjust, unwarranted, and contrary to the normal American spirit of tolerance. It has been kept alive by mali cious propaganda, partly communist-inspired; but despite the fact that no public servant has ever been more unjustly treated, Herbert Hoover has exhibited no bitterness and is presently engaged in one of the most important tasks ever assigned a private citizen, that of planning governmental reorganization. No Horatio Alger hero of fiction compares In rapid rise fo wealth and fame with the real-life story of Herbert Hoover. His father, a village blacksmith, died when Hoover was six years of age, and his mother, a Quaker minister, passed away four years later. Hoover was taken in by rela tives In his native state of Iowa for two years, then came to the home of an uncle at Newberg, Oregon, where he spent five years. Working as an office boy at Salem, he saved enough money to attend Stanford university at the age of 17 years. He worked his way through the univerrity, gradu ating In 1895 from the school of Mining Engineering. He had. immediate success in his profession and when only 25 years of age obtained a job paying $15,000 per year from the Chinese government. Through successful in vestments and services as a consultant engineer he had amassed a considerable fortune at the time he went to London as a partner in a mining firm. An employee mis appropriated company funds, and, although Hoover legally was responsible for only $50,000 of the loss, he paid out more than 10 times that amount to preserve his own and the firm's honor. Although he was forced again to start from scratch finan cially, his business activities, services, and various invest ments had resulted in a personal fortune estimated at $6, 000,000 by 1914. At the start of the first World War, Hoover was still in London as commissioner of San Francisco's proposed Tana-ma-Pacific exposition. Called upon by the American embassy to aid in feeding starving people in Belgium, Hoover's ability as an organizer went into the task of relief, which occupied his efforts for seven years. He was made American Relief Administrator in 1917, and carried on this work until 1921 when he was appointed Secretary of Commerce. He exhibited exceptional powers of organization and ad ministration in the various public capacities in which he (served, refusing all pay for his humanitarian labors. Then in 1939 he was elected to the presidency and brought upon himself opposition from party leadership because of his liberalism. Ironically, his successors took credit for social reforms he had planned and turned them against him in the tragic days that followed. Propagandists have made the Hoover name .ynonymous with the depression which started during his term of office. Personally, we will always believe that had Hoovor remained s President we would have avoided the disastrous bank holiday, the period of depression would have been short lived, instead of being prolonged, and we possibly would not have been involved in the last World War, because Hoover, with his knowledge of Europe and European affairs probably would not have countenanced appeasement and lemporization in dealing with aggression. Nearly any other man, treated as was Hoover, would have withdrawn from any connection with party or govern ment Instead, he has willingiy responded to eery request for help or advice, showing the spirit of forgiveness in grained through his Quaker upbringing. The people of this nation rapidly are coming to a realiza tion of the wrongs heaped upon this patriotic servant. It is to be hoped that he will live long enough that he may be honored as he deserves. Action On Alaska, Hawaii WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. .Tt Chairman Petcison (DFla.l of the House public !:nd commit toe said Tuesday hi iiaa renewed his efforts to obtain house action on Hawaii and Alaaka statehood bills this session. Peterson told a reporter he Is making a new attempt to obtain approval of the two bills by the houres rules comiitee. At the ame time, he said, he Is conferring with various con gressional leaders to determine what would be th outcome of an attempt to call up the legislation under a special rule, bypassing the rules committee. The basis for his renewed ef forts, Peterson iai.1. is the re sult of a recent n.'wpaper poll of memhers of Con'resa on the statehood proposition. The result of the poll, con ducted by the Hearst newspapers, were printed in the Congressional OF HONOR Statehood Bills Sought Record Tuesday as a part of re marks bv Rep. Laivade (D.La.) 1 .arcade said the poll nhows that "Congress Is overwhelming ly In favor of granting statehood to Alaska and Hawaii bv a tabu lation of approximately 3 to 1." Both bills wei-e approved months ago by the House Public Lands committee. Peterson said that Mondav, Aug. 22. will be tti last chance to call up the bills under special rules, unless the rules committee acts meanwhile. He said he has asked delegates Farrlngton iR. llawaii) and Bart lett (IX-Alaskal io make inde pendent checks of M house sup port for the two measures If thev are brough up without rules com mittee approval. Nickel, used as an alloying metal, has been found to combine In some sono different wai with other metals. How to Win One of the reasons we took to (he woodi was to escape from all thla buainess of being up to the minute . . . so don't think It strange if it la news to us that there Is a "relatively new-fangled sport of slldlns down hill on a piece of waxed linoleum!'' Perhaps that sport is on rea son why we tried every city and town within SO miles, not so long ago either, begging with tears In our eyea for a small piece of linoleum . . . well, maybe not tears. At any rate there was a time In our remodeling which came to a stop when EJ took to a desk again to rest up, after he took to the woods to escape from a desk when we couldn't find a piece of linoleum big enough to cover a table! Remem ber the days? And now they slide down hill on It How do I know? The July Sunset says they da It. Right her In Douglas county! On the sand dunes. If th 'teen-agers read the article, and are not al ready provided with pieces Just hang on to your floor coverings, come thla weekend! Ours used to take anything loose at both ends, but the idea of sliding down Editorial Comment From The Oregon Prest OREGON'S 10 MILLION REFORESTATION PROGRAM (Oregon City Enterprise) Not to be overlooked among the long - range programs underway in uregon Is the start or the state's $10,000,000 reforestation project which was Inaugurated the other day by Governor Doug las McKay and a group of stale industrial leaders on the edge of the vast Tillamook hum. It was a ceremony to imprint upon the public mind that Oregon has a $10,000,000 program to run fif teen years to restore that once valuable burned-over area, a task typical of other that will be undertaken In the state. Oregon has 750.000 acres that need restoring, protecting, re seeding and the planting of trees. About 300.000 acres are In the Tillamook burn where more tim ber than is normally cut In the I'nlted States in an entire year was destroyed in lust one of the three fires' that devastated that area. In 19.19 and 1945. At Forest Grove the Governor said: Sheriff Fully Equipped For LONDON. Aug. 10.-.r Ex cowboy San Keener Is back again for the Mth time fully equipped down to a revolver and cartridge belt for "protection In rough country." Hawaiian Merchants Charter Tug To Gtt Food SEATTLE. Aug. 10. (.1 A group of Hawaiian merchants nave chartered the Anchorage Transportation company's deep sea tug Myrtle Wilson to cany 3.1X10 tons of relief food supplies by barge to Honolulu, the com pany said yesterday. The shipment Is expected to leave here next weekend. The CIO International Long shoremen's and Waiehousemen s union, on strike In the islands for 100 days, has agreed to un load the cargo, the company said. Friends and Influence People By Viahnett S. Martini hill on linoleum hadn't become a "relatively newfangled sport" then. The article also describes In pleasant detail the Coast high way, especially the lakes between Coos Bay and the Florence area. Pictures, too. Just the type . of article one likes to mention cas ually In a letter: "the kind of scenery we look at:" the recipi ents of the letter should, prefer ably, live In a hot, dry country side, or are confined to city pave ments. They will at once take to the highway and drop In to thank you and say: "Why I thought It rained all the time In Oregon!" And you, of course, will seem amazed. There was an article about the Rogue river, and the boat trip from Cold Beach up to Agness, in the June issue of Sunset. It should have started a stampede there, sure enough! "The double climate of this re gion (Douglas county, If you please) has Its charms. When the fog overwhelms you, move In land a little way toward the heat until you're ready to go for a swim." H-m-m-. And don't forget your piece of waxed linoleum! "Oregon has taken a long bold step forward to Insure that Ore gon's timberlands will be main tained In full production. Just as private timberland owners in the past decade have been putting their timber house in order set ting up sound management pro grams, turning to sustained yield principles, to tree farming and better utilization and improved protection and applying the teachings of trained foresters, so will the state handle its forests." This is work the people have authorized and a reminder that the work Is underway is an in vitation to watch Its progress. Oregon. It is estimated sold $600,000,000 worth of forest prod ucts last year alone, a study butt ress of the state's entire econo my. This new $10,000,000 restoration program will be under the direc tion of the State Forestry depart ment and the Chief Forester. Mr. Rodgers, who has the confidence of men In the industry and Is hacked by the people In this great undertaking. World - Circling Trip The fil- year -old millionaire president of the Salem (Ohiol Engineering company flew In last night on the first leg of a round-the-world sales trip. White-haired Keener ("Just call me Sam"i stepped off his special plane with a badge under his coat and four gold bars on his sleeve. The badge is for being a deputv sheriff of Laramie. Wyo. Each bar represents 100.000 miles of flying. His plane Is fitted out with an office filing cabinets, a cinema, a washing machine one and a half tons of food. 20.000 cigarets and a large carved wooden horse bolted to the floor and complete with saddle. The horse was presented to him In America u a memento of his early cowboy days. "I sail kv riding," Sam said. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) will be pacing back and forth, back and forth, across the front of the cage, with a far-away look in his yellow cat eyes. Most of us, being basically sentimental, tell ourselves that he is thinking of the days when he was free as a bird and could follow wherever his fancy led him with no one to say him nay. We're so sorry for the poor prisoner that we could cry and sometimes we do shed some not overly sincere tears. The naturalists, careful ob servers who do not let their emo tions run away with them, tell us that this is all a lot of tosh. The caged cougar, they Insist, is not eating his heart out with longing for his lost liberty. His measured pacing Is NOT like that of the prisoner of Chillon, or Napoleon at St. Helena. The far-away look In his eyes is merely the glaze that comes over the orbs of those who have eaten to repletion, and he is pacing his cage to work off hit meal so that he can He down again without fearing that his skin will burst. I.V other words, HE LIKES HIS CAPTIVITY because It means that he no longer has to get out on his own and rustle himself up a meal every time he gets hungry. He knows that when mealtime comes around his captor will come lugging tne provender to him. That's what happens when you're taken captive. THE TIME COMES WHEN YOU LIKE IT because It means that you no longer have to get out and hustle for yourself. a DID you ever plow corn away back In the days when the plow was pulled by horses or mules Instead of a tractor? If so, you'll remember that you turned the horses out to pasture at night in the lush days of early summer, and In the morning you went out with a halter to catch them up again. You held the halter BEHIND you. The nag you were after wasn't fooled. He knew darned well you were coming for him to go to work again. At first, he'd act skittish and shy away from you. But HE WANTED THE OATS HE KNEW WOULD BE IN THE FEED BOX WHEN YOU LED HIM TO THE BARN. So, after cutting a few capers, he'd come and submit to the halter. Atfer that, he was YOUR horse. a a THE politicians who want to run our lives are nobody's fools. They know that after they've fed us long enough out of the govern ment trough we'll lose our love of liberty and COME RUNNING WHEN THEY CALL. They pretend to love us and to cherish us. Just as In our corn plowing days we always patted Old Charley on the neck when we slipped the halter over his ears. But what they have In mind Is WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THEM. What we can do for them is to keep them in offilce. They're shrewd enough to know that If they feed us long enough we'll come trotting up and slip our noses Into the halter whenever they whistle. Lustron, Despite RCF Loan, Going In Red, But Still Merits Fair Test By BRUCE BIOSSAT Senator Flanders of Vermont told a reporter recently that 'If Lustron tails, let us forever quit talking about mass-produced houses. He was referring to the Lustron Corporation of Columbus, O., the government-financed venture In- hornet. The Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation already has poured $34,000,000 into the com pany. Thit has not been enough, however, to launch the effort successfully. Lust ron currently It losing $500,000 a month. It It starting Unemployment Degree To Guide Federal Spending WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-4JP) The White House Indicated Tues day that government spending will be concentrated In areas where unemployment has reach ed 12 per cent or more. It made public a letter by Presi dential Assistant John R. Steel man. This said that an effort will be made to channel aid into the following areas where the bureau of employment security indicates such a situation had de veloped: New Bedford, Mast.; Worces ter, Mast.; Providence, R. I.; Wa terbury, Conn.: Bridgenort. Conn.; the Utlca-Rome, N. Y., area; the Scranton, Wilkes-Barre. Pa., area; Muskegon, Mich., and Knoxville, Tenn. Steelman, in letters to the na tional defense establishment and other government officials, said that he would report soon on ad ditional labor markets in which unemployment has reached 12 per cent or more of the available labor force. He said the Lawrence. Mass.. and Cumberland, Md.. areas prob ably "will fall in this category." The letter also disclosed that discussions already are under way In steps the military estab lishment can take to help relieve unemployment in tne critical areas. Steelman called for monthly re ports summarizing progress from the agencies Involved. Wage Case Has Bearing On State Lumber Industry EUGENE, Aug. 10.-tT)-A federal trial Jury here today be gan hearing evidence in a case, the outcome of which may affect long standing practices in the lumber industry. Oliver La Duke, of Cushman, Is defendant in contempt proceed ings brought by Phillip B. Flem ing, administrator of the wage hour division of the United States Department of labor, resulting from the employment of contract car loaders at his lumber mill. ! In 1941, the same court, United States district court for the dis- trict of Oregon, issued an injunc tion against La Duke, the terms of which generally required him to pay overtime for all work be yond 40 hours a week. The government now contends that La Duke is in contempt of the previous decree in that during the period from April to October of last year, he hired contract car loaders at the rate of $1.25 per thousand board feet, but paid no overtime. La Duke, represented by Eu gene Attorney Sidney Milligan, admits most of the allegations of the government complaint, but claims that the car loaders are not employes within the meaning of the fair labor standards act of 1938, but rather Independent con tractors who may work any hours i they see fit. 1 Northwest Systems Buy L British Columbia Power PORTLAND. Aug. 10. .? 1 Arrangements have been com- I pleted for five Oregon and Wash- ington power companies to buy 1 m 30.000 kilowatts of power from I the British Columbia Electric com-1 B pany. I Pacific Power and Light, Port- I land General Electric, Washing- B ton Water Power, Puget Sound Power and Light and Mountain I Slates Power companies Joined in the purchase agreement, a spokesman announced. I Transmission lines of the Bonne vllle Power administration and I Seattle City Light will be used. I The power was made available I by the recent completion of addi- ' tional generating facilities at I British Columoia Electrics big I nlant on Bridce river, he said The purchase contract runs to King's English Sounds Like Jargon In Australia SYDNEY (.in The k-w. rn. giisn, says Sidnev J. Baker, is ail washed up. The language, he says, will one dav hp renianH hy American-English. Baker is an Australian lecturer i nallst who has made a and Jour- study of ..,, .peero. - mis is an example he gave. "Shove this spin down south, and moie oown to tne rubhity for a tiddley's worth of bombo. My sort's rat bag cobbers are turn ing on a shivoo sarvo. Dice your Jacker and get your shop of" the rlonk. why don't vou? With all the galahs and dills that'll drag on this yike, ltd be ridge to have someone w ho's a wake-up to vabber with." This. Baker said. Is a free translation: 'Take this five pounds and hurry down to the hotel for one pound worth of wine. My girl friend's eccentric acquantances are having a party this afternoon. Leave your work and take a share of the liquor, why don't you? Anywav. with all the unimportant people win, win nr mere, l wouia UK to have someone Intelligent to talk to." to cut back output from Itt pre sent 77 houses a dav wnen it needs to step it up to 35 or 40 to break even. In the next two or three months the RFC must de cide whether to advance further funds to Lustron In the hope that Keeping it going a utile wnue longer may put it over the hump. Thit It a matter of consider able importance to the country. For years many critic of the housing Industry have argued that the only way out of the low-cost house problem It mast production on the automobile pat tern. Lustron's steel house with the enamel finish represents t h e most striking attempt to put houset on a factory basis. Con siderable engineering and arch itectural skill seem to have been applied in itt design. Itt plant hat been tooled for big-scale operations. Lustron claims, for example, that it could produce 100 houses a day if it had three shiftt of men working. Yet the company hat been mir ed in trouble from the start. It encountered the tame high costs that plagued many another en terprise, to that It is now selling its houses for $10,000 to $11,000 instead of the $7,000 originally planned. It couldn't find sufficient labor fast enough, and when it did get its men, it had to train them for entirely new jobs in a new In dustry. Worse, itt dealert could n't get adequate credit. They had to pay $6000 to obtain a Lustron house from the factory. That runs into big money quickly. Loans to finance dealers until sale are made have been slow in coming. Also dealert have their own labor problems with erection crews who are handling an unramlliar product. Th e y face often serious handicaps ;h local building codes or varying regional conditions. The credit and the labor pro blems possibly can be licked by time. But meanwhile Lustron is going deeper in the red every day. Should it be extended further government credit? With so much money and effort already tied up in the venture it seems wise to keep the company afloat at least a little longer to see if it can set to the break even point. There teems to be an attitude in government that this it a 1 prime test of the factory house idea. If It It, left make ture It't a good, thorough test that an-; swers fairly the question whe ther the idea has any merit. I . Bonk With ; .J A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank FROM THE 32 . ; l'-r ." i. e.l'V'?Ao Roseburg Rviw January 3, 1917 If Roseburg scribes who were "tush-rushing" over the high accident rates of the new "gas car" in 1917 could hove I visualized the havoc caused by modern "gas cars" they I might have predicted the end of mankind! Highway ac- f :H,nt. :,,; s,:,;.. , ' TV w..iMu.i(jim.e ... an I ,ne more feoson why fully odequote insurance is the FIRST I I purchase you should make after getting YOUR "gas car " I Beware of "Old Roberts Mountain," too! I It Payi to Insure Phone TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE I 1"' 214 W. Cas (Next door to JHITWen Post National Meet Talked By Camp Fire Council Plans for Roseburg Camp Fire council members to attend the national conference of Camp Fire in Portland, Oct. 23 to 28, were discussed at the August council meeting held Monday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce office. Several members and leader are planning to attend. Thit It the first time that the national convention has been held on th west coast and offers an fPP? tunltv for many to benefit by meeting national officers. Edward Murphy was announced as a new council member. An at. tor'ney, he was active with youth groups before moving to Rose burg. Introduced et the July coun cil meeting was Mrs. Deming Bronson, new Roseburg resident, froi.i Cleveland, who participated in Camp Fire activities in that Ohio city. Mrs. Ralph Herman will head the committee to clos Camp Tye and will be assisted by Mrs. Mor. rim Rnwker and Mrs. James E. Conn. It was announced that Mrs. Hazel Gladwill Is assisting in me Camp Fire office at Miller's base ment part time. The budget for 1950 has been d re Dared for pre sentation to the local Community Chest committee. In attendance were Miss r-ar Mayo, Mrs. Ralph Herman, Bill Henson, Miss Helen Falbe. Mrs. , r Virginia Russell, Mrs. Morrit I Bowker, Mrs. Tom rargeier, nirs, Ed Tauscher, Mrs. Harold Hoyt, Mrs. Leonard Gibson, Edward Murphy and Mrs. W. H. Allen. Phone 100 If you net receiv your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mjbley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 NEWS OF YEARS AGO . n . l'J. I I I I in Sure Insurance! 1277-R Office) Popular Fiction II 50c each book H while they last II Miller's Rental I Library II IN Downstairs Stor II f r . Car. P.rrnln I