4 The Newt-Review, Reuburg, Or. Sot, Aug. 13, 1949
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A NICE COMPLIMENT
By CHARLES V, STANTON
A communication received in today's mail gives us much
pleasure.
Mr. Frank J. Dietsch, visiting from Los Angeles, writes
The Ncice Review as follows:
A few daya ago I eama up from Loe Angalaa, where I
have raaldad alnea 1931, to visit my mother and former
frlenda of my childhood daya In tha South Umpqua valley.
I am impraaaad by tha eourteay ahown by drivera of auto
motive vahioles to pedeetriana at tha erostwalka. It la
batter than I am accustomed to.
Tha only car that forced ma to Jump out of my tracks
bora California llcenao plates.
I think, after I have returned to tha Southland, and
opportunity presente Itself, I ahall advise discourteous driv
ers to go to Roseburg, Oregon, and pick up soma good
pointers there.
Speaking for Umpqua Basin automobile drivers, we thank
Mr. Dietsch for his compliment.
Automobile courtesy has made exceptional progress in
Roseburg in recent months. Furthermore, the improved
condition has resulted from voluntary action. No educational
campaign has been conducted, nor has there been any
pressure exerted by police department officers.
Perhaps no one thing gives the visitor a better impres
sion of a town than respect by the motor vehicle operator
for the rights of pedestrians.
Bend is one city which has become widely known for
automobile courtesy. The visitor immediately is pleased
when he sees Bend drivers stop even before he has stepped
off the curb. There also must be a close relationship be
tween the courteous operation of cars in Bend and the fact
that that city has one of the lowest traffic accident records in
the state.
But courtesy works two ways.
While Roseburg drivers are steadily improving in the
matter of courtesy, pedestrians are not reciprocating.
When narrow streets must carry such a heavy load of
travel, as is the condition in Roseburg, pedestrians should
endeavor to cause as little interference with traffic as
possible.
But pedestrians take advantage of motorist courtesy by
sauntering leisurely across intersections, stopping to hold
conversations in the center of the street, jaywalking and
also dashing out in front of cars, confident that the vehicles
will stop at the pedestrian lane. One of the most difficult
situations Is the continuous flow of pedestrian travel at
intersections. People straggle across streets, causing cars
to pile up a block or more deep, without giving traffic an
opportunity to clear.
If pedestrians showed courtesy equalling that of motor
ists our traffic situation would bo greatly relieved, we
would have fewer, accidents, and nerve strain would be
lessened.
Visitors to Hawaii tell of the extreme courtesy shown in
The Islands, where motorists not only yield to pedestrians
but go into an Aiphonse and Gaston act with one another
over the matter of right of way for cars. Everyone drives
leisurely and with extreme courtesy.
Courtesy by motorists is one of the first things to be
noticed by a visitor and, as first impressions are .the most
important, such courtesy can be a most valuable publicity
factor. If, at the same time, the travelling motorist finds
pedestrians thoughtful of his problem in moving through or
about a strange town, he too will be inclined to mention that
town favorably.
Mr. Dietsch's letter to The Xeivs-Revirw indicates the
visitor's reaction.
It becomes quite evident that a little thing like courtesy
can be made to. pay off in a big way.
A Good Time To Make Him A Suit That Fits Properly
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By Viahnett S. Martin If
In the Day's News
(Continued From age One)
I wish I could copy In its en
tirely the four-pace History of
the Umpqua River Light sent me
by the U. S. C. G., a history which
was compiled from records In
the National Archives. Continu
ing from yesterday's column:
It Is interesting to know the
exact location of the light on this
earth's surface: 43 39.8' W, 124'
11.9' W. It la 165 (pet ahove the
water. The white conical tower
Is 65 feet ahove ground, and Is
visible for NINETEEN miles on
a clear day. The day we stood
Inside the gallery the fog had
closed In so we could barely soe
the nearer tree tops on the edge
of the bluff, and the water not at
all.
'The light flashes 2 white
flashes of 2 seconds each, then
3 eclipses of 3 seconds, followed
by a red flash of 2 seconds. It Is
listed as No. 825 in the Pacific
Light List." The revolving lens
sends 210,000 candle-power
thrusting Into the night. With
the Installation of electricity it
became automatic.
It la interesting to read of the
troubles they had getting it built
In the 90s. The metal work was
completed March 12, 1892; ma
terial was transported to the site
by the lightship Manzanlta. Cost
$5,000. But when "an attempt
was made to put the lens and il
luminating apparatus into place
it was found that the stand which
supported the lens would have to
be raised 15 inches. This would
cost an additional $200. Also
$2,400 would be needed to finish
the station. The whole appropria
tion of $50,000 was used up, no
funds were available!
When the orlgirial contractors
had failed to carry out their con
tract, their bondsmen were Tiotl
fled. They refused to accept the
responsibility on a technicality!
But they were held liable, and
taken into court for $2,371. Money
was found, meanwhile, by an ap
propriation act of Aug. 18, 1894,
permitting the station to be fin
ished and lighted aa soon as pos
sible after that.
Do you suppose any of the
ships wrecked during that delay
might have been saved by a light
completed as per schedule? The
exact date of the first use of the
light Is not given.
More Food For World Objective Of
United Nations' Fight On Malaria
By ADELAIDE KERR
IAP Nwafalura
LAKE SUCCESS The United
Nations is waging war on malar
ia in the ho of getting more
lood for the world.
The world's population is shoot
Ing up about 25 million a year.
But the food supply is lagging
and thus creating one of our most
acuie problems.
One of the causes of the lag
ging food supply is malaria,
which takes heavy toll of vie
Urns' working energy and produc
tive ability. An estimated 300 mil
lion people in the -vorld suiter
from malaria and since most of
them live in agrlcullural areas,
this strikes directly at food sup
ply. Greece alone is estimated to
have lost 30 million man daya a
year on her (arms as a result ol
malaria, until U. N. heled her
save this lost work. In India the
losses to individuals caused hy
the disease amount to S-l-H mil
ium a year. And in the I'mled
States malai la has cost millions
in treatments and loss of crops.
U. N.'s Economic and Social
Council, now meeting In Geneva,
is studying rcorts from two ul
I. N.'s specialized agencies jn
work already dore which record
some telling successes and fu
ture plans to continue the fight.
The World Health Organ!.
tlon, of which Uncle Sam is a
member, has worked with Italy,
Greece and other Balkan couii
tries, supplying health experis.
sanitary engineers and advice to
governments on how to destroy
the malarial mosquito. It al-iii
took over the antimalarial fight
of the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administra
tion, after UNKKA was dissolv
ed. DDT Major Weapon
The main weaxns were mos-Qtilto-kllling
DDT and new eoulii-
mcnt to use it. L'NRRA pro-!
uitot anu Italy with mo
torcycles and jeeps (or anil ma
laria teams which took sprayen
and supplies from village to' vil
lage. Small planer were used to
spray 0ien mosquito breeding ar-1
eas.
The WHO report states that aft-1
er I'NRRA's tlitee-vear DDT 1
campaign in Greece, malaria tie-!
cllne from one million new cases i
annually to less than 50.000. It
says the program had the effect I
o( adding 1(H) thousand (ull time'
workers to Greek farms.
The Food and Agricultural Or
ganirxtlnn. or which Uncle Sam
Is also a member and whose re
port also lies before the council,
concentrates Its anti-malari.il
fight on working farm practices.
They Include methods o( Irriga
ting which will not attract mos
'Hn.oes, and draining marshlands
to prevent further breeding. FAOi
is now working In the Teral re-!
sion of the Himalayan foothills '
where a fertile valley was ahai
doned because malaria dealing j
mosquitoes hied there. It la also
working wiih Slam farmei on i
their problems. 1
China's National Regime Breaks Up,
But Red Rule Not Yet Fully Popular
By JAMES D. WHITE
Associated Press Foreign News Analyst
What is there left in China, by way of unconquered areas and
leaders, to combat communism?
American planners reportedly are looking Into this question
as they form a new policy toward China. The picture is roughly
like this:
The refugee national government at Canton, rejected as hope
less by the white paper, is breaking up as predicted. Its fragments
may keep going for some time. I
The real source of central auth
ority, Chiang Kai-shek, is repair
ing to Formosa. There he will lie
safe for the time being, as the
communists have no navy or air
force. Their Influence may grow,
however, among restive Formo
sans w ho dislike Chiang's rule as
much or more than they did the
Japanese.
Canton and Kwanglung prov
ince appear to be led more or
less open to Red conquest. Gen.
Pal Chung hsi. defense com
mander, is pulling his troops off
Into his native province of
Kwangsi. He renorteillv had ask-
to the corridor running through
the Moslem country toward Sov
iet Russia and in the far south
west, Yunnan province's gover
nor Lu Han is nominally loyal
to Chiang Kai stick. but one re
port says he has stopped remit
ting taxes.
Government spokesmen
in Canton say there ire two
areas of antl communis! activity
behind the Red lines. One is in
central China, allegedly due to
Red misrule. The other Is said lo
be among central troops who ear
lier had deserted to the Reds.
me central i nin erouo
en iniang ior money anu m.-u sounds uke remnanis or central
defend Canton, and did not get armies whom the Reds bypassed
them. Cantonese militarists m Ihe of ,h(r advance
through that region.
In any case, reports of such
large-scale resistance would t
more credible if more time had
elapsed for the Chinese involved
to learn what communist rule is
really like-and to get organized.
; Successful Wife-Seeker
Ad Followed By Second
ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. Aug. 13 .T
might get their troops to light
hut Kwangtung province is satur
ated with wi'll-establlshed guer
rilla outfits.
Hainan Island, off the Kwang
tung coast, might supply resist
ance In these two provinces, but
it has its own crowing guerrilla
,-. hi a I
The administrative shell of the
Canton government, under Pres
ident 1.1 Tsung jen and Premier
v- n-t-t.... i. t...iM ,.. ih
wartime capital at iniingKing r.i i. josepn s unmarried voung
Scechwan province. The folks j women- all astir last week over
there do not welcome Its return, the lad who obtained a wife
Situations In Other Areas lihrough a want ad got a super
Sechwan's northern f 1 a n k. i offer Friday,
meanw hile, is directly menaced i A Colorado rancher, name un
hy a Red field army striking it j revealed, is seeking a wife and
its northern border the historic ( his grand pn.e offer is a Ha
invasion route- from South Shen-lwaiian honeymoon. The rancher,
si province. Its chief commercial i'S years old. made his request
outlets, the Yangtze river ports in a letter to the St. Joseph News
of Ichang and Shasl. have al- Press, the nrupaper that pub
reaiy fallen to another Red Pshed the ad that resulted in the
army. i marriage of Charles IVnelson.
The only other areas of slgnl-: Donelson said he received more
flcanee are Yunnan province in 'h.in L"0O responses,
the southwest, and the Moslem ' The rancher save he prefers a
areas In the northwest. brunette, between 22 and 2t. and
in the northwest the Keels are points out that beauty isn't tm
within 95 mllei of Lanchow, key i portant.
money. As long as we can borrow,
the shoe won't pinch.
It is posterity that will reap the
harvest of our present policies,
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LET'S put it his way:
Suppose your father, after
working hard and intelligently in
his earlier years and building up
a large and solidly prosperous bus
iness, should start suddenly on a
prolonged spending binge.
First, let us suppose, he would
spend ALL of his income on non
productive projects (such as hell
ing around and having a good
time) instead of plowing a part of
It each year back into the bus
iness. In such a case, the business
I would begin to slip backward
j eventually, instead of going for-
ward as good, sound businesses
do If well managed.
That wouldn't bother you so
much..
But suppose the oid man, hav
ing acquired expensive habits, be
gan to spend each your MORE
than his income for that year. In
order to do that, he would have
to borrow. Suppose that instead
of paying back these loans he
Just went on making more loans.
a
THAT would worry you, for it
would mean that instead of
inheriting a sound going business
you would inherit only a mass of
debt which you would have to pay
off.
The old man, of course,
wouldn't be worrying much. By
that time, he would have become
a confirmed spender, and a con
j firmed spender has a wonderful
j time as long as his money and
credit last. By the time the money
and credit were gone the old man
would probably be gone too. You
would be left holding the bag.
That is what Mr. Hoover means
when he says that our present na
tional spending . policies, if un
checked, will ROB POSTERITY
of its Inheritance.
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THE trouble is that sober warn
ings like Mr. Hoover's go un
heeded in this generation BE
CAUSE THEY HAVE TO DO
WITH THE FUTURE RATHER
THAN THE PRESENT. The
stock answer to them is: "Well,
we're doing all right, aren't we?"
Sure we are.
Everybody does all right as long
as the money and the credit last.
The old man referred to in the
foregoing paragraphs is doing all
right because he is spending w hat
he accumulated in his soberer and
more industrious years, along
with what his father may have
accumulated before him.
It is the generation that comes
after the money and the credit
are gone that pays the bill.
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THAT is the way It will be with
v. zz cn
SPENDING as long as the money
and the credit last.)
FIRST WOMAN DEAN
SPOKANE. Aug. 134.piGon
aga university has appointed the
first dean of women in its 62
year history.
She is .Mrs. Katerlne Rickliter
of Santa Barbara. Calif. One of
her two jons is a Gonraga stu
dent. The university admitted worn-
I year.
Proper Touch And Timing Reduce
Toil In Home Garden Maintenance
Though many predict that cul
tivators on the farm may toon lie
entirely replaced by sprayers, us
ng weed-killing chemicals, culti
vation is far from out moded in
he amateur garden. There ia no
oractical substitute for the culti
vating tool in killing weeds and
breaking the toil crust, to insure
aeration of the toil.
But with the right touch and
lining, this once wearisome gar
len task can now be done as
?asily at sweeping the floor. The
-esearch scientists, in fact, say
'hat the secret of correct cultiva
tion is to take it easy. Cultivation
should begin as soon at the young
plants begin to grow.
At this stage, if the toil be
ween plants is stirred, it will be
fo'und to be full of tiny white
tnrouts, which are weeds, begin
ning to develop.
One easy stroke of a sharp hoe
n- cultivating too', will destroy
scores of them before they have
begun to compete with the ves
ta ble plants for available plant
food and water.
As long as weeds are killed in
Infancy, cultivation will be easy,
but once they are allowed to be
gin substantial growth, not only
io crops suffer, but work will In
crease, and the care of the gar
den may become a chore.
One Inch Deep EnouQh
It is seldom necessary to stir
Ihe ground deeper than one in?h.
This is sufficient to kill young
weeds, without disturbing the
roots of the vegetable plants. It
also breaks the soil crust, and al
lows air and water to penetrate
readily.
Deep cultivation will dry out
the toil, and mi.y disturb the
surface roots of your vegetable
plants, which mav do more harm
than the cultivation does good.
Besides destroying weeds in
the space between rows, those
which grow in the row itself must
be pulled when tiny. Th'.s re
quires hand work, and is always
tedious, but U attended to
promptly it takes little time, and
once the vegetables have become
Free air circulation in the soil
wcJJ established, hand weeding
wni be unnecessary,
has been proved to be a vital
lactor In the growth of plants. I.i
properly porous soli there is a
complete change of a!r to a depth
of eight inches every hour. When
the soil becomes corr.-acted and
crusted on the surface, this ex:
change is seriously hampered.
Crust formation can be checked
by various methods, Including the
application of a mulch, or by
growing a living mulch of fescue
grasses. But lacking a mulch.
frequent shallow cultivation it
necessary, especially after every
rain.
Gen. Lowton Named To
Be Army Staff Chief
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13-f)
President Truman Friday nom
inated Gen. Joseph Lawton Col
lint to be Chief of Staff of the
Army.
Collins, vice chief of staff, was
named to tucceed Gen. Omar N.
Bradley.
Bradley was nominated Thurs
day to the highest military rank
in the country chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Collins was born in New Or
leans. May 1. 1896. He was grad
uated from the military academy
and was commissioned a second
lieutenant, April 20, 1917.
He taw service in both world
wars.
LOW THE HOUSE U(
BAD KISSINGEN, Germany
.T The district president of KiJ
jingen urgently needed money
to build houses for refugees.
State fundi were exhausted, to
he got the 30 mayors of his dis
trict together and formed a ban!,
consisting mostly of trombones
and trumpets. This mavor't band
plays in all towns to collect
funds.
They have- already blown
enough for one house.
The Newt-Review classified ads
bring best results. Phone 100.
There are about 35,000 beet In
the average hive.
Phont 100
If you d net reealva
yeur News-Review by
6:1J P.M. call Harold
Mjbley before 7 P.M.
Phone 100
North Douglas County Residents:
As newly appointed representative for
RAWLEIGH HEALTH PRODUCTS
for this district, I earnestly solicit your patron
age and I will be calling on you in the near
future.
HUGH C. GIVEN ;
324 E. 2nd Ave. N. Roseburg
Bank With
A Douglas County Institution
Home Owned Home Operated
Member Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
Douglas County State Bank
r - . -
so your watch needs cleaning . . .
If you insisted that your watchmaker just clean yeur watch, chances are
it would cost yeu no more than a dollar.
There are two facts that every wotch owner should know:
1. The actual cleaning of a wotch is not so costly as the adjusting
of it during the process.
2. No watch movement is really cleaned by simply spinning it in
cleaning solutions. The wotch must be completely disassem
bled and every part scrubbed free of dry, gummy oil.
When you pay five dollars to hove your watch cleaned you ore actually
paying a dollar to hove it cleaned and four to have it adjusted. That is be
cause cleaning, although it is o skilled process, requires little time and effort
compared to that involved in making the necessary adjustments during ond
after assembling. For this reason no one should assume that just any watch
maker can clean o wotch that wotch cleaning is a simple process. Probably
no other watch repair job requires so much skill as does the adjusting after
cleaning. Without exaggerating, it might be said that shoddy wotch clean
ing will wear out your watch before constant running will.
Knudtson's give special core to the watches they sell. These come first.
Properly serviced through the years, watches sold by Knudtson's 50 yeors ogo
are still giving satisfying accurate timekeeping.
At Knudtson's you'll find Longines, Tavannes, Gruen, Wyler and Homil
ton watches.
Shop around for your watch, by oil means, but go to Knudtson's to com
pare SERVICES before you buy.
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From
Douglas County
State Bank
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