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4 Th News-Review, Reicburg, Ore Wed., Aug. 17, 194 Published Daily Exetpt Sunday ty th Nwt-Rvi Company, Inc. Hunt at Hr dm aiiui M.r 1. it; u in ; ! Mbar Off, mrnitt Ml Miek . IMS CHARLES V. STANTON mgTim, EDWIN U KNAPP Editor m&jr Minagtr Mimlwr of tht AHOclated Preu, Or.gon Nwpapr Publlthtra AMoelation, tht Audit Burtau of Circulation lltniUUl my WtST-HOM.IDAt CO.. INC.. alllraa la Haw Tart, Calcata, a IrixIKt. Lai Aaialaa. laallla, ratllaa. St. La a la. UBI IIPTIDN Trala Or.,..-aa Hall rat T.a, tiaa. .11 aaaalta St.. araa aiaaUa 11 M Br CH, Carrlar Par r, lia aa ; a aaaaa' .1. Ij.a la.a aaa ,aar. aa, aaaala II.M oatuta Ofafaa Br Mall Ta, faa, ta M. ala aaaalaa Sl.la. Uraa aiaalha ts.la HOUSING UNITS NEEDED Giving The Little Girl A Great Big Hand ATT 6W. By CHARLES V. STANTON Action by the Douglas county court In petitioning for 100 public housing unit should meet general approval, we believe. Personally we do not favor the principle of public hous ing. It is our opinion that private interests would provide better quality homes at considerably less expense. Any federally-directed project entails additional cost and lowered efficiency and quality. But public housing appears to be the current and accepted method of meeting the need for homes. So long as no other system is immediately available, we should take advantage of any opportunity offered to meet one of our most pressing problems. The housing shortage still remains critical. Although some persons are pessimistic because of the current lumber market situation, major lumber concerns are still expandinj their plants, adding equipment, and preparing to turn out a better product, all of which means more jobs, more popu lation and more demand for homes. At the same time we are losing existing emergency hous ing, due to the operation of the statute of limitations, plus the fact that some of the installations are beginning to fall apart. We will have urgent need for dwelling facilities to replace the units now being abandoned. Klamath Falls Editor Taking Ntw Post Malcolm (Mac) Epley, managing editor of The Herald and Newt, Klamath Falls, Is leaving our sister newspaper In the near future to accept an editorial position with the Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. We regret Mac's departure from the field of Oregon edit ors and will greatly miss his brilliantly handled column In The Herald and Newt. Epley has had remarkable success in welding unity and cooperation of spirit and effort in the huge Klamath basin. He has worked unceasingly for improvement in every line of activity and has been largely responsible for many im portant gains in the community served. And, In addition to missing Epley's charming personality In The Herald and News, we'll also miRS the opportunity for continued back-and-forth jibes on the relative merits of Highways 97 and 99. County Raeo Mctt and Fair The Douglas county fairgrounds will draw race fans from all parts of the state this week and next The Umpqua Jockey club, sponsoring the 10-day event, has assumed a most ambitious undertaking, involving great expense. The meet can be a success only if it enjoys near capacity attendance each night Naturally, we are anxious to see the race program en tirely successful, not only from an entertainment standpoint, but also because it will mean many visitors and much com munity revenue. We cannot expect adequate financial returns if we de pend upon attendance from exclusively local population. We will need visitors from outside the county. Because sponsors have been so busy with the thousands of details connected with the first large scale race program here construction of facilities, track lighting, etc. pub licity and advertising have been somewhat neglected. Every resident can be of assistance in helping overcome this publicity and advertising weakness by inviting friend to attend. Write or call friends or relatives living elsewher in the state. Tell them about the scheduled events, which end with the revival of the annual county fair, Aug. 25, 2( and 27. Invite them to visit with you during the next ten days. They will enjoy both the visit and the entertaincment Senator Morse Labels Reply Of Hawaiian Employer To His Criticism As "Vicious Lie" WASHINGTON. Aug. 17-.T-Senatnr Moine (R-Orel Tuesday accused Pwlght C. Steele, presi dent ol (he Hawaii Employers council, ot "grow misrepresenta tions." In a statement, Morse said Steele was resorting to "polltlral smear tactk-s" In criticizing the Oregon senator's propositi in the Senate lor arbllralion ol the 109-day-old Hawaii dock strike. Steele voiced his criticism In a lctler to Morse which was made putile in Honolulu yesterday. Morse said the lctler was '"full of gross misrepresentations of the Hawaiian employers' recoi-d In the dispute and falsification ftf mv motivpa Intent anil mil-. pose in urging arbitration of the dispute. Morse characterized as "a vic ious lie" Steele's charge that Morse's arbitration proposals had been made on the basis of representations by only one par ly to the dispute, the CIO Inter national Longshoremen and Warehousemen union headed by Harry Bridges. The Oregon senator said he w ill answer Steele further In a Senate speech later In the week. "I repeat to him and to the public of Hawaii and the I'nlled States that the proposal of the Inlted States conciliation serv ice that both the employers and union should arbiiate 'the Ha waiian dispute is a proposal which carries nut the American principle of government by law" Morse said. "The resort to economic force by both the union and employers in Hawaii is absolutely inexcus able and Steele cannot falsify his way out of the failure of' the Hawaiian employers to place the public Interest above their desire to break the union." Smear Effort Charged Morse said that "Hawaiian em ployers are no more opposed to the left-wing philosophy of Harry uiinKcs man i am. "However, there is a great dif ference between us. I believe the wr to handle such lett-wlneeis as Bridges is to bring him before i ine lair and impartial Judicial process of arbitration and answer his demands with facts. "The Hawaiian employers as evidenced again by Steele's letter show that they would attempt to smear those of us who believe In the law and order of arbitration with the charge of trying to help the communists when what we are trvlng to do Is substitute rules of reason for the settlement of labor disputes rather than eco nomic fore which has been re sorted to in the Hawaiian dis pute. "Steele's letter Is a good Illus tration of the type of employer who manufactures anti labor Two Changts Mad In Statt Gam Ptrsonntl PORTLAND, Aug. 17. CP) Director C. A. Lockwood of the State Game commission an nounced two administrative change Tuesday. John McKeen, formerly chief of upland game, was named chief of operations for the game divi sion, succeeding P. W. Schneider. Schneider will be assistant direc tor of the commission. Dr. h. J. Rayner, formerly In charge of disease control and nu trition for the fisheries division, was named chief ol fisheries operations. business eoes on hrlnrlno- new development to the state, as has been the case In recent years, and will turn to CVA'i and similar experiments in near - socialism ONLY 11 private business falls down completely on its Job. I think Navv Secretary Mat. thews, who is of the high com mand ol the Democratic party, which wants to stav In Dower and hopes that talk ol schemes like tVA win nelp to keep It In power, is doing some wishful thinking about what the people of Oregon want. No 4th Round Wag Hikt, Sttel Exteutlv Vows NEW YORK. Aug. 17 CAP) i testimony before the three-man President Arthur B. Homer, board. a president of the Bethlehem Steel i Corp., told a presidential fact finding board Tuesday his com pany "cannot and will not be a party" to a fourth round of wage increases. "This Is no time for further con cessions," Homer declared. 'The facts do not Justify any more wage increases, and, In the na tional interest, the ruinous in flationary spiral of wages and prices must come to an end." The head of the nation's se cond largest steel concern wis the opening witness as the in dustry began Its fourth day of Phone 100 If yeu do net rclv your Ntws-Rtvltw by l:1S P.M. call Harold MjbUy btfor 7 P.M. Phone 100 ftffit Vfahnett S. Martin ' TV ' Does the word Rayon mean to you "a word with a split person ality?" Do you know the differ ence between "regenerated cellu lose fiber and cellulose acetate (really estronl? Well, I didn't. And labels didn't help much be cause both types are likely to be labeled RAYON.- But I recently asked for a 26- page booklet, beautifully printed, and illustrated with double-tests of the two types of man-made fibers, both lumped together by the Federal Trado commission's ruling in 1037, and never revised, as "rayon." One material reacts mora as cotton does; one more as nylon. Each has Its advantages and Its limitations; both are fairly given. The reading of the booklet is an educational, really helpful, aid to the housewife. (A request to the Tennessee Eastman Corp, Klngsport, Tenn., will bring It to you.) For instance, one material Is much more sensitive to heat than the other, and to many other factors in use In the home or In garment-wear. The pictures show the reaction of the two materials In moisture absorption, drying, sensitivity to a hot iron, high dimensional sta bility, ease of spot removal, abil ity to hold a pressed pleat, tend ency to develop static in a dry atmosphere, ability to withstand sea-water, high resistance to mil dew and rot. There Is a differ ence In the reaction of the two man-made libers, a difference which a housewife might like to know when she looks at the label "rayon?" Of course we can ask the re taller: "la this liber cellulose acetate or Is it regenerated cel lulose?" That will take the 'guess' out of it somewhat, if we ourselves know the difference. But we can also take advantage of our privilege as a citizen and suggest to the Federal Trade commission, Washington, D. C, that it would help the housewife very much if tne labels were not arbitrarily "rayon" when two such differing types of material are sold with that label. It might be another case of "Just one" multiplied by a lot of other 'Just ones' accomplishing a worth while thing. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) Editorial Commenf From The Oregon Press. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE Bv ROBERT W. RUHL (Medford Mail Tribune) SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8 Came down this time via the 'Friendly S. P." And we MKAS friendly. No group could be more cour teous, considerate and obliging than the local S. P. force, from Messrs. Holmes and Rubens down to the baRgage man, and hack again. They do everything for a customer than anv common carrier could do following the example of good old "Rosoy" of fragrant and blessed memory. But we can t say so mucn tor the S, P. engineers that have the night-run from Dunsmulr to the Oakland ferry. Tcddv Roosevelt, when he rode on a train, always shook hands and chatted with the engineer, and sometimes even rode in the cab. This was not entirely a po litical gesture, although It never cost T, R. any votes with railroad Tabor. But Teddy, like so many other young Americans of 50 and more cars ago had a great ambition to be a railroad engineer when he grew up. and he never got over it. Which is only another way of saying that T. R.. in a certain sense, never did grow up. (The youth of this post-war age feel similarly about piloting air planes! ) We have ridden the rails many. m."iy times from Dunsmuir lo Oakland and have oden been tempted to shake hands with the engineer on arrival and compli ment him upon his rough-riding abilities. We would ask him. of course, if he had shaken hands with President Roosevelt the 1st. propaganda which plays right Into (he hands of left-winger, such as Bridges. It isn't too late for Steele and his employer as sociates to come on over on the S'de of those ol us who believe that arbitration of dead locked la bor disputes i much preferable to the Jungle law of economic force," Seems the engineers on that run are almost invariably dot to the pension age, and if they weren't members of T. R.'s Rough Riders, certainly were oualilied to be. In all probability they started as cowboys and probably won their spurs and share of honors at Pendleton "round up!" For surely "Whoopee! let her buck!" is the S. P. cab motto o.i this run. Probably the going isn't quite as rough in the cab when the train stops and starts, as back In the Pullmans, but we have an idea that unless the en gineer puts on the brakes with one hand, and hangs tightly to the "brass-rail" with the other, he would give his head. assum ing of course he hasn't lost it entirely, a terrific bump an.1 might even land somewhere the other side of the right-of-way. We hate to say it in view of their early pioneer record, but we are very much afraid all the engi neers on this tempestuous nigni run, "grab leather'' as the say ing goes, or thpy would spend loo much time in the company hospital. And no doubt It Is rather good snort, this slopping with a jerk and a crack-of-the-whip. as one envisions all the hoys and girls softly luxuriating in their Pull man beds, being brought sharply awake with a slight concussion hut usually no serious cranial fractures. And before they can return to the well-known arms of Morpheus, giving them another Jolt by starting up with a series of bumps and bangs that may bust a coupling or (wo but that usually results In nothing more serious than overtime for the brakemen and repair gang. If S. P. engineers could have a cold beer now and then, or a game of gin rummy, to pass the long mx'turnal hours (how tii'e some it must be night after night over the same tortuous route there might be less excuse. But engineers on the night run have no night-life, it s all work, and yet they have to keeD awake, so-o-o-o What if the Pullman patrons are unable to sleep and have to wear football-helmets and knee- ernment in Washington, with our local governmental bodies having very little indeed to say about It, then we are headed for something that is radically different from what we have and have had in the past. PERSONALLY, I think our good secretary of the navy is mistaken. It is significant to me that he made his statement at a Democratic party picnic. The Democratic party is staking its hope of staying In power on the idea of the welfare state. The welfare state, il it Is to work at all, must be the whole show. The people must be brought to the point where they will LOOK TO THE STATE for EVERYTHING. 11 we are to look to the state for everything, the state must CONTROL every thing. Under socialism, the state does control everything. So socialism, in one form or another, lies at the end ol the Washlngton run-every-thing road. i aaa) MOST of the people I talk to aren't yearning lor a CVA. For that matter, most of the peo ple I talk to are as much worried by the present financial policies of our government as I am. Their common sense tells them that if you go on Indefinitely spending more than you take in you'll go broke in the course of time. They realize that this applies to govern ments as well as to Individuals. I think I ought to add here that I don't talk exclusively to big shots. I find that I can't learn much that way. If you are going to find out what is going on In the world, you have to talk to all kinds of people. This CVA business is big-time stuff. Few of us understand It, and most of us want to know all about it before making up our minds. But I personally find little enthusiasm for it outside the ranks of the professional politi cians who want to use it as a device to keep themselves In power. THE general run ol people I talk to are not at all poisonous in their attitude toward the "tired . . . big businesses" of which our navy secretary speaks so contemp tuously. Judging by the talk I hear, most of the people In most of the towns of Oregon would be immensely pleased If some big outfit would come in right now and start some big new business ! venture that would create a lot j of new Jobs that would swell the i population of their town and J make It bigger and more impor , tant than neighboring towns. aaa SO far as I am able to learn, the people of Oregon are going to be quite well satisfied if private pads to keep from being met bv a stretcher at the Oakland mole. All work and no play not onlv makes Jack a dull boy. but gives a veteran of the gallant charge up San Juan hill with the la' Teddy R. a case of acute nostal gia as well a a pain in the-neck. Moreover, when one has won the wild horse breaking rontest at Pendleton or was it Salinas? what can one expect from his ef fortsbeauty shop service with a facial thrown In? ft urns UifiJi Vie By SHERMAN PLIMPTON To folks who like to go down to the sea in ships, but can't stand that awful rolling sensa tion. Gar Wood, the ex-speedboat king, has come up with a ship that is as steady as a statue's gaze. For people who have crossed the ocean by rail this news is as cheerful as the first robin of Spring. Gar Wood's vessel is a twin-hull Job that'll go faster, farther and smoother than any other ship in its class. But the most im portant thing is that it'll keep stomachs where they beting. It'll take about -"nother year lo get the ships into full produc tion . . . but from here on it s clear sailing. STANLEY GLICK, Melrost Rte., wins on first class auih. orized lubrication this wek. Thero's a brak for both you and your car Mr. Glick. Com on in anytime. A Mansfield, Ohio, man sued for $100 in an accident in which his cow lost its tall. Imagine what a steak would cost you on that basis! If the high cost of your car up-Keep is ootnering you . . . it's time to come to CORK RUM MOTORS, INC, 114 N. Rose St. We have a complete repair and service department with latest equipment and factory trained mechanics. Now's the time . . . don't wait. Drive In or phone 408. FROM THE NEWS OF 56 YEARS AGO i . - I,e, "'ev "s . ' or m,ol "-VI. d A aa at to 7 Roseburg Review January 2, 1893 Who remembers Nichols and Shepardi? Does the Ump qua Lumber Manufacturing Co. still exist perhaps under a different name? Shews how events and names soon fade to the memory, doesn't it? Let us be your memory for your insurance program, won't you? It Pays ta Insure in Sura Insurance! Phone 1277-R I My TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE Ml Tipton 214 W. 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