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A 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore Frl., Aug. 19, 1949! Published O illy Exeapt Sunday ty the News-Reviear Company, Inc. gsierse eeeeeS elase lr May . IJ. el lee feel elt(ee el Besefeerg. Oregon. Baoer Ml e( March 1. MIS CHARLES V. STANTON rpj EDWIN L. KNAa Editor "fit Managar Mimbiril th Asaoeiatad Prm, Oregon Ntwipapor Publishsrs AHOolotlon, th Audit Buroau of Circulation! fttrtMat,4 It WIKT-HOl LinoT CO.. INC. eHlcae la Mee '. Chicago. Ss raclece. Lm aagelse, (unto, refllaoe. SI Limit. SOB siction utri.li Oregon Be Mail r, rear . ' .. UfN ...lli. It.M Bf (II, lirrl.r-ri( year lle.ej a ee.ence.. le.elhaa w, see flea oataiae Oregee Br Mall rer aar tl M. all Mentha I4.U. three eaealae 11-1 FUZZY By CHARLES One of our good friends is a new house. He is doing much carrying and piling lumber, digging ditches, and help ing with some of the rough carpentry. His personal labor contribution to the job will result in a reduction by several hundred dollars of the total price of construction. The federal government recently voted billions of dollar for public housing projects. Demand is now being made for widened benefits and more appropriations. Does anyone think for a moment that one of these public dwelling units will be constructed as economically and ef ficiently as the home our friend is building? President Hoover in his talk recently, commented on "fuzzy" thinking. His description, we believe, may be ap plied with especial aptness to the current trend toward paternalistic government. The private builder to whom we referred has saved dili gently to obtain money with which to build his home. By doing much of the common labor himself, he is reducing his total cost But, when he comes to pay his taxes, he will be paying a part of the salaries of numerous administrators, clerks, supervisors, agents, and others, in addition to his share of financing the cost of public housing projects built with little regard for either economy or quality. Nearly every doctor of our acquaintance employs a re ceptionist. In some cases the receptionist doubles as an office nurse. Other doctors have both a receptionist and a nurse, or, perhaps, several nurses. We hear much demand for socialized medicine. If we get socialized medicine, each doctor will be forced to employ one or more additional assistants to handle re ports, claims, records, statements, etc., demanded by the government, while, at the other end we will have an army of administrators, supervisors, clerks and inspectors. Each patient case, therefore, will involve the labor of several more people, some of them entirely unnecessary, and the cost of each case will be much higher than at present, whether the expense is paid by the patient or the public. The InduRtrial News-lieview, Portland, points out that: According to tht Brookings Institution, which makes . authoritative aurvoya on various problems, medical care eosta th average Amerloan family about four peroent of Its Inoome. By oomparlson, taxes, direct and Indireot, take 20 to 30 percent of that Income. Furthermore, th compulsory Insurance echeme would eaus a very heavy Increase In the tax burden. No n know how much It would coat. Government official hive estimated th annual bill at $4.000,000,000 and estimates such as this are almost always low. Other analysee place the cost at $,000,dOO,000, and more. At best, the medical bill of the American people would be doubled, possibly tripled. And th fact that we would pay far It through payroll and other levies, Instsad of by writing out a check to the doctor, wouldn't make It any leee burdensoms. Contrast this with the nonprofit medical care plana, which now cover some 59,000,000 people, and whleh are growing at healthy rate. An average plan over the nation, giving aurgieal, medical and hospital protection, ooets 12-50 a month for an Individual and IS 50 for family lass than most of us spend for such non-esstntlala aa eigarate. And thai voluntary plans don't put politics Into the practice of medicine. Anyone with even average Intelligence Inows that gov ernmental spending is both wasteful and inefficient: that any activity or project could be more cheaply and efficient ly handled by private enterprise. Yet we find many people favoring further socialization. Many advocates of paternalistic government labor under the impression that they are getting something for nothing. Such thinking indeed is "fuzzy," as proven by the steadilv mounting tax bill. Nor are the taxes paid by the rich, as some politicians would have us believe; for the rich have methods by which to include their tax cost in the processes of the businesses or industries in which they are engaged. It is the consumer who pays both directly and indirectly. Public housing, socialized medicine, public make-work na tionalization of industry, authoritative controls, and the many other innovations of the welfare state are excessively costly. It is time we were shaking off our "fuzzy" thinking and looking at current trends realistically. Oregon Firms Supply Materials Worth Millions To U. S. Under Contracts Act In 6-Month Period PORTLAND, Aug. 18 -4V-Commoditles worth $7,1!S9.741 were supplied by manufacturers and dealers of Oregon to the fed eral government under the Walsh Healey public contracts art during the first six months ol 1949. This figure brought to $14.6Vk. 257 the total value of goods bought by the government In this state during the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1919. These totals were revealed here today by Madison R. Smith, Investigation supervisor for the Wage and Hour and Public Con tracts divisions, V. S. Depart ment of Labor In Portland. The commodities purchased during the first half of 1949 were: Wood products and furniture, St, 592.175; machinery other than electrical, $1,346,384; electrical machinery and apparatus. S1.27S 808; food and kindred products. THINKING V. STANTON presently engaged in building- of the common labor himself $1,105,348; metals and basic met al products. M7J.0:tO; transporta tion equipment. $Jt6.4!S: paper and allied products. M77.il4; stone, rlay and glass products. $108,730; coal and petroleum products. Sti9.752: and miscella neous products. $34ti,7S9. Year's Totals Alia Listed The totals for the fiscal vear. he said, were: Wood products and furniture. $4,4S.8.5.'G; metals and basic metal producis, $2 :209. 009; electrical macnlncry and ap paratus. $2,177,804.: food and kin dred products. $-'.118,518: ma chinery, other than electrical, CI. 834.759: transportation equip ment, $511,890; paper and allied oroducts. S4.V3.188; stone, clav and glass products. $275,074: coal and petroleum products. SJ12.10J. and miscellaneous products, $381,487. Smith pointed out that Ihe act applies to government contracts which exceed $10,000. 11 contains Eruption, x-" S?- i Have you ever baked-for-two in your deep wpII cooker? It 'rk me to turn on 4700 watts Just to bake a small pan of biscuits, when that pan of biscuits is all I want out of the oven Just then. I keep thinking T, will try using the deep well for baking then I hestltate. After all, it would be a pity to ruin the cooker. I Just came across a letter from a home economist, Lillian War ren, who was at O. S. C. then. She wrote as follows: "It can be done. I frequently do It myself when I want Just a small pan of biscuits. Leave your cooker and rack In. Elevate the rack about one Inch. Turn the heat on to high. Bake for 20-30 minutes. "Even though your cooker lid may have vent hole, the bis cuits need a little more ventila tion to keep them from getting soggy. I use a kitchen paper towel folded In eighths to prop the lid open Just enough. "The biscuits will, turn out fine and will be golden brown on top If rack Is elevated." When Lillian's letter came I was about to try the Idea. Then a friend said: "You can't do It with every kind of deep well ..." I Congress By Harris Congressman. 4th The House of Representatives Is Just about ready to adjourn for this session. Remaining leg islation on which it has not acted consists mostly of very large and controversial hills such as the socialized medicine bill and the Hrannan farm plan. Such propos als will require weeks of hear ings and long and complete de bate on the floor of both Houses of Congress. There will lie plenty of lime for full and complete con sideration of them next year. There will always h pending tie fore any session ot Congress sco.-es of non-controversial and minor bills. This session is no different from any other In that respect, but the House majority leadership properly takes the po sition that such legislation should be handled next year. But the fact that the House has completed Its work does not I mean that Congress can adjourn. The House must sit around ami) mark time until the Senate is, ready to stop talking and get Us! work done. Our solution to this problem will he to recess but 1 continue In session technically ! until the Senate is readv to ad-1 Journ the session. j The 1. S. Department of Agri culture is apparently laie! enough for one of Us bureaus to forget the existence of another. The Knrest Service is charted wllh the task, among other hings. of helping stabilize the lumber Industry hy stimulating new uses for wood products. The Commodity Credit Corporation. In the same department. h.x charge of the grain storage and sections dealing with minimum wages, overtime pay. safely and health measures, convict 'labor and child labor. The child labor provisions, he added, fix an as sessment of $10 per day for each day a boy under IB or a girl un der 18 Is employed on govern ment contract goods. Kmployeis in the eight Western rtales paid $.'5,290 for child labor rotations under the act during the fiscal ear. Smith said. or Just a Lot of 17Z V fill Viahnett S. Martin intended to write again and ask further information. But I didn't. The lining of my cooker is black material: the cooker is aluminum. Well, fellow scribes, there's an idea for a pot-boiler! With this column to write land a little work on a longer effort) each day, it seems I can't get potboilers written any more! But it was fun! Maybe it's be cause I lack Ihe constant Inspira tion of having children In the home. Writing a column Is 'nice work,' but one doesn't pick It up and put It down as with the cro chpted tablecloth. Oh, no! A hus band may stand at one's elbow, waiting to get you out the door 1 on a trip but the column gets finished. Guests come In but ! somehow before mail time next I morning the column gets written. You may feel sick but you man I age to write the column. A dead- line doesn't fizz or bubble or come in pill-form, but it Is ( great ener glzer! I like It. One's friends suggest brightly: "Why don't you write a dozen or so ahead? Then when It isn't con venient to write one that day, you can Just mail an extra." Good idea only It doesn't work that i wav! Sidelights Ellsworth District of Oregon price support program. Accordingly, the lumber Indus try In the Pacific Northwest is still wondering why the CCC, in ila first call for bids on storage bins for Midwest corn, prepared specifications which required the use of all steel, thereby preclud ing the lumber and plywood mak ers from even competitive chance at the business. After strong protests from Con gressmen and Ihe Industry, the order was amended to include wooden bins but suppliers weie given only ten days In which to prepare bids and get them to the Nation's Capital. Incidentally, the CCC prepared its call for steel bins at a time when an Industry-wide strike n Hie steel mills was expected; if that had happened, could the steel bins have been erected by harvest time? Considerable publicity has been given the passage by the House .if a bill to Increase the minimum wage law from 40 cents an hour to 73 rents an hour. Actually this bill. If it Is passed h. the Senate and becomes law. will not be of much Importance In Oregon so far as the rate per hour is con erneii. People who are employed in our state are either working at much higher hourly rates or are doing work that Is not involv ed In Interstate commerce and hence not sublect to regulation by Congressional action. What we, are mostly concerned with is the fact that the pending legislation serves to clarify and make speci fic the old "Wages and Hours' law. There has been some doubt as to which businesses are coy. eied tinder the law and which are exempt. The bill passed hv Ihe House clearly spells out the matter of exemption . I cannot give details of the bill here but will be glad to answer any In onirics or send a copy of the hill to am one who wants one. A let ter or postcard addressed to me at Ihe House Office Building. Washington. D. C. will receive a prompt reply. Smoke? In the Day's News (Continued From rtge One) gift. No one likes to Incur such obligations In vast numbers. It is embarrassing. BUT, assuming that you were President, what could you do about it? You can't throw a proffered small personal gift back in that donor's face and say: "I don't want It. I won't have it around. Get It out of here!" Such things Just aren't done. They certainly aren't done by the leaders of our great political parties, who must be pictured to the people as "regular folks, Just like you and me." If any President started sending these little gifts back with a letter suggesting that "you can't get around me that way" his name would be mud in no time flat. WHAT about Ihe donors of these Ritts? Oh, they include all kinds of people. Some of them are sincere and genuinely want to make a gift, often one that Involves per sonal sacrifice, to a President whom they admire. Some of them are petty crooks at heart, and probably actually hope they can bribe the President of the United States Into doing them some small favor. Most of them are publicity hunters, A gift to the President of a whopping big watermelon or a prize turkey is nearly always good for a story In the papers all over the country. MY personal belief, which I stand ready to defend, Is that Harry Truman, as an Individual, is as square as they come. Mrs. Truman seems to be cut out of the same kind of cloth. Nobody is ever going to be able to bribe either of them. They Just aren't built that way. a SO much for Harry Truman as an Individual. His political ideas are quite another matter. As a politician, he seems to have embraced, as a device to keep his party in power, both the Wel fare State, Unlimited, and the spend It NOW-w 1th both hands. to the devil with the ft ture, let the next generation worry, political theories that are now so current. I'm so old-fashioned that I can't possibly bring myself to believe In this modern political Idea of squandering the estate that has been built up for us by our hard headed, hard-working forbears, going heavily Into debt and 3 't s ALIVE! Phont 100 If ru do not rocoivo your News Review ky :1J P.m. call Harold Mjalry btforo T P.M. Phone 100 Flower-Hobby Show Date At Sutherlin By MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK Newe-Bevlew Correspondent Final plans have been made for the annual flower and hobby show sponsored by the Associat ed Business Women's club ot Sutherlin at the Community hall Saturday, Aug. 27. Entries will be received from 8 a. m. to 10 a. m. Judging will start at 11 a. m. Doors will be open to the public from noon un til 8:30 p. m. Only three flowers of any kind are required for an entry. Cut flowers must be exhibited in glass fruit Jars, using quarts for tall flowers and pints for smaller flowers. One unique feature this year will he a display of hats made entirely bv flowers. No hat car, compete that is formed over a hat frame. Hats to enter must be all flowers, but ribbons for tieing will be allowed. Judges for the Flower Show will be Mra. Andrew, Mrs. P. C Christensen, and Mrs. J. I. God da rd, all of the Cottage Grove Garden club of Cottage Grave. Judges for the hobby show will be Mrs. Ethel Twohy and Mrs Lois Qulne of Rosehurg. Committees appointed are aa follows: Hospitality-Mrs. Cora Allan. Mra. ana 1. lll)n louni Ragiitrara Mra. Donna Daan Blake lay and Mra. Doris Stalnbach. Floral arranfamcnts Mra. Gladye Mi nor, Mra. Connla Smith. Mra. Ivana Halveraon. Mra. Esale Jones. Mra. Mar ian Buchanan and Mra. Olge Bielman Millinery display Mra. t.lna Tnrrev Hobby display Mra. Lola Retmen arhnaldcr. Mra. Batty Corrall and Mrf Halmia Burns. : - Officers Eltcttd By Sratt Labor Ftdtration PORTLAND. Aug. 19 (. The State Federation of Labor Thursday completed its mail el- ection with the reelection of J. B. MacDonald, Portland, a s pre sident. The only contested offices were three district memberships on the executive board. T. J . Cruickshank, Coos Bav, defeated J. C. O'Neil, Coos Bay. for the district 5 post; Rav McGinnis, Eugene, defeated Gliva Stewart, Eugene, in district 4; and Verna Coffinberry, Pendleton, won over Roy White, Hermislon, and W. I. Herman, La Grande, In district ! 8. Other officers, elected without i opposition: Mildred Gianim. J Portland, first vice president : Cecil W. Jones, Portland, second vice-president: J. T. Marr, Port land, executive secretary, M. K. Steele, Portland, Ell McConkey, Astoria; F. J. A. Boehing. Sa lem: C. D. Long, Klamath Falls; Joseph L. Ross, Bend; Clifford Roberts. Oregon City, and Don Stansell, Medford. board m e (li ners. leaving It to our children to PAY the debts we are so recklessly creating. I don't think that Is a fair way to treat our children. a STILL, If we are to be fair to kindly, companionable people like Harry Truman, we have to consider ALL the circumstances. The pressure that is put upon President by the people who make up his administration, Is something fearful to contemplate. Here Is the plea that is dinned unceasingly Into his ears: "KEEP US IN OUR JOBS, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO." Nothing goes farther down into the roots ot human nature than loyalty to one's friends and asso ciates. No President Is ever per mitted to forget that If he leaves undone ANYTHING that will keep his party In power he is destroying the future and wreck ing the lives of all those who are dependent upon him AS THE LEADER. Constant pressure of that sort just does things to peo ple who hold responsible positions. In justice to Harry Truman, the Individual, we have to keep that In mind. Tht uniwfn lo wrrvday tnsuranr problem By KEN BAILtY at QUESTION: A short time ago. my husband decided to build an extra store room In the basement. He went to the garage to get his box of tools which he hadn't used for sev eral weeks. The tool box was gone and we have no idea who took it or even lust when it disappeared. We had no burg lary insurance but I wonderd if any insurance eomnany would have paid the loss any way since we were unable to state exactly when the tools were taken. ANSWER: Most Residential Theft policies include a Myster ious Disappearance clause which would co -r the losa yoj describe. Under this clause, in sured articles which disappear unaccountably are presumed stolen- and the insurance rem pany settles the loss. If you'll eddreee your own tneur ance aiteatlona to thia office, we'll Irr to give iou the correct, answer and there will be aa charge er ebll gallaa et ear alaa. KEN BAILEY INSURANCE AGENCY 31 S Pacific lldg. PftMM m Baxaar Mra. Bartha Dubai I chair man: Mra. War) I Ward and Mra. Mar garat Portar. ftefreehments Mra. Laura Welch chairman. Mra. Isabal Card. Mra. Ba!y Stamp and Mra. Esther Mnntaomcry. Formal labia eettlng-Mre. Florence Crnshong. Commercial display Mra. Beulah Al drop. C E Malitz. Mrs. JuaMta Hol gale and Peter Adams, This division 1 (or dtsplav only and no prises will be awarded (or this display. Bonk With A Douglos County Institution Home Owned Home . Operated Member Federal ' ' : '' Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank I d m. ... i , rvciu u new iiuinc ui f Ja(,i,wi I I You can't do it- but . . . for oi little as $53.26 a month including taxes and in surance you con buy o beautiful new ham in Clevar- !, i J I I dole Park. Very low down payments, too! Large view lots, poved streets, big view windows, fire places, neor school, a few minutes from down-town, fully insulated, individually constructed, FHA insured and in spected these ore just a few of the outstanding features of these outstanding homes being offered for as low as $7,990.00 with very small down payments. Over a hun-, dred homes from wi-.ich to make your selection. You can deduct part ef yeur monthly payments frem your income tax return. Rent payments are novar de ductible! These outstanding values must be seen to be appreciated. Come out to Cloverdale Pork today or phone now. Open 10 a.m. to 111- WALLPAPERS., : SjJli H Home FUpnishings V PERSONALIZED SERVICE FOR THE HOME HOME TOWN NEWS "This moy be a package from heaven for someone, but it's just a pain in the neck for me.'' It will never be a "pain in the neck" to stock tht wood and sawdust you need . . . just call the ROSE BURG LUMBER COMPANY for immediote delivery. ' Set Program Mrs. Jtnnla A mora, chair man. Solo Mra. Juanlta Holfale "An Old Fashioned Garden" by Carl Portar. - (nterlude ol music - Mra. Jennie Amorde. Duel Brlngte Bisters. Interlude of music - - Mra. Jennie Amorde. Solo Mra. Cynthia Maglli. "The Rose." b Joseph Clakey and ' irla," by Denial Waif ' - Duct Dtaie and Kay Lures. i cca ox? I I ! Phone Raseburg is buyers look for the Imperiol silver lobei that says the finest in wallpapers. 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