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4 Tht Nwt-Ryltw, Rowburj, Or. Sat., Aug. 20, 1949 Published Dilly Exeept Sunday ty the Newt-Revie Company, Inc. SauraS ! mimi star i. "' BaMaart. Or,B. aaSar Ml at Hsrck 1. U.S CHARLES V. STANTON -ST- EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor SJLF' Manager Member of tht Associated eVees, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, tht Audit Buraau of Circulation IlimHUI T WtST-HOU-IIMt CO., INC.. afllnM la N fark, Cklaaia. aa Immim. cat a.i.i.a. a. .in.. r.m.aa si. laaii. StIBK aiPTION ATES la Orataa-H? M.ll-r.r tur M .! aMalki M.M. Ikrae ...... .. til, Carriar-Par tmlll" la aaaaea. J". Uuja raar, a.r at.alk ll.at Oaitlaa Of.,.. B, H.ll P.t ! ai.alk. U.U. IHfaa M.atki it. 14 ARMS FOR EUROPE By CHARLES V. STANTON ' The recent United States white paper on relation with China estimates that 80 per cent of the military equipment sent to the Nationalists has fallen into the hands of com munists. Now we are preparing to rearm western Europe, despite the fact that military experts agree Russia's armies could sweep through all of Europe with little difficulty. Thus we run the risk of furnishing even more military equipment to our avowed enemies. During the last war Japan hurled millions of tons of our own scrap iron back st us in the form of bombs and missiles. We equipped an ungrateful soviet force, which now has turned against us. We permitted Russia to seize virtually all of western Europe's military factories and move them into Russia, where they are operating with slave labor. Chinese communists have seized a quarter of a million rifles, American-made artillery, aircraft, motor vehicles and other weapons of war. A British cruiser is included in com munist loot. Rearming of western Europe doubtless is imperative, but we should be aware of the fact that Russia would have little difficulty in seizing most of the arms if it so desired. We should be on our guard against such an eventuality. Related to the arms problem is that of current treaty making. If we enter jnto treaties we should be prepared to execute them to the letter should necessity arise. The last World war probably could have been averted had various signatory nations kept their pledges. Japan would never have taken Manchuria had the United States and Great Britain kept faith with China. Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia and Germany's rape of Czechoslovakia were in direct violation of protective treaties involving Great Brit ain and the United States. Had the League of Nations, Great Britain and the United States firmly halted aggres sion when it first started, we doubtless would have avoided the most costly war of all time. 1 We reneged on our pledges because we had allowed our defenses to become weakened and were not strong enough to resist. Therefore, we turned to appeasement. Ws should know by nowhat a' strong military organiza tion is important, so long as the struggle between totali tarianism and democracy continues. We also should be con vinced that we should keep any pledges we make. Ws are entering into a North Atlantic pact designed to join forces against the communist bloc. When potential belligerents gang up and clench their fists they should be prepared to fight if someone calls their bluff. If we are to be sincere as a signatory of the Atlantic pact, we must be ready to fight if the terms of that agree ment are violated. Defense, like charity, begins at home. If we spend bil lions of dollars to rearm western Europe, we face the possi bility that, if Russia calls our hand, the Reds could quickly capture most of the arms and supplies furnished to our allies. Russia probably would not hesitate if she thought she could get away with it ' So, if we proceed with the rearmament program, we must, at the same time, make our own military organization so strong that Russia will not dare Interfere. She must under stand we mean business and are not bluffing. If we fail to make ourselves strong enough to back up our pledged word, we are only setting up the same sort of tenpins we placed on the alloys ahead of the last World war. In rearming Europe we must be sure we are not doing as we did in China, where we lost millions of dollars worth of war materials to the communists. And the only wav property can be protected from thieves is through an adequate and efficient police force. What a'Great Opportunity to Win Popularity iZxmx fwffiffi gy Viahnett S. Martin Jf-Js Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press SUBSERVIENT AND INCONSISTENT (The Oregonian) We think President Truman vebpment for the Missouri val ley, and at the picnic hit firm Indorsement of CVA ruled out a similar plan, already agreed up hill gone too lar In hla political , on, for the Columbia vallev. The enthusiasm for CVA In ordering ; 1'ick-Slo.in plan was the result of me M-vK-ioiii-a 01 me army ana, a -snotgun wedding between the "To one person the three month Oregon rain is a blessing direct from God. and he grins cheerfully at you through the water-soaked air, on hit way home to write a lyric about It; to another this same rain la hate ful, and he drearily regards the slow weeks of it ahead as an un pleasantness next to hanging." That bit is from the pen of a professor of English. In case you want to take it up with him di rect, you'll have to find out which of the three authors of "College Composition" Is guilty: Profes sors Thorpe, Rankin and Solve, who are, in the order named, at the U. of Michigan, Carleton col lege and U. of Arizona. Well, my friend M, G. "couldn't stand the rain." The Gs moved to Ft. Collins, Colorado, a place that made the headlines last win ter on account of the snow. Well, If she likes her rain frozen nc can have It. I'll take mine in the form we have It here: "The gentle rain from heaven" re member that? You would, if you had been stuck with the role of Portia In your school days. "The quality of mercy Is not strained." Then there's King Lear's Fool who sings: "He that hath a tiny little wit With heigh-o, the wind and the rain Must make content with his for tunes fit; For the rain it raineth every day." And then in Twelfth Night. Olivia's Clown sings merrily about "the rain it raineth every day" too. They say Shakespeare got his ideas from everywhere. Would his much ado about rain be an idea from Oregon? Dear me, If it doesn't rain soon I shall ask for my money back. I was given to understand "it rained every day In Oregon" be fore we came up' here by Call- In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) the state of Michigan, the bulk of America's automobiles are made. Everybody wants an automobile. You'd think that -would result in draining all of our money into Michigan. It DOESN'T. The raw materials of which automobiles are made come from all over the country. To pay for them, Michigan sends money all over the country. With the wages they get for building rutomobiles, Michigan's workers buy meat and potatoes from the Klamath coun try, fruits and vegetables from the Rogue and Umpqua valleys, and so on. ... Ont of this two-way-street comes a healthy American economy. fornlans who had. and manv who had not. been here. Especially ' I ACKING such a healthy econ. the ones who had not! I like ; Lomy, Europe now is busted and rain. I don't like dry. cracked urd- wl ,av bu,ed and ground, and browned hills, and ured un"' lne oW heal,ny ,w leaves that rattle Instead of way street commerce Is rMstab- whisper on the trees, and bare places In the creek. There are tiny fish In the pools anyhow, so the creek isn't "dry." But the bit about rain I love Is the story of the little girl, who, when the villagers went to church to pray for rain, took her umbrella. National Republican Committee Meeting Uncovers One Live Wire By PETER EDSON (NEA Washington Correspondent) WASHINGTON (NEA) There was one significant para graph in the press agent's advance canned biography of Guy George Gabrlelson of New Jersey, new national chairman of the Republi can party. During the depression, the little Iowa bank run by Gabrlelson's father was forced to close. So the farm boy son, who had left home, gone East, got himself an education and become a big city lawyer, went down to Washington. . He took With him $1.10.000 that mnn definite hart heen don. hut he had saved up, laid It on the i they'd trv to develop a program desk of the comptroller of cur- of iniere-il rency. and said he wanted all john json, of Louisiana, his father s creditors paid off to d the Knrein.i Affair, mmnii. I . rf-U.. ..... K- . . . " the last cent. The job which Na lional Chairman Gahrielson now faces with the Republicans in volves every bit as much of a Horatio Alger finish. There is tee had nothing to report except progressive study of the subject. There was one exception. Axel J. Keck, of South Dakota, chali- man of the Committee on Agri- mortgage on the GOP homestead culture, actually filed a report nA thm aharl ft im a Iviiil ti. fnr. !til ' ... . . . and the sheriff is about to fore close. The last will and testament of Hugh Scott, Jr.. retiring national "a.h !h Jump 'nroUKh ,,ne hoop, army engineers and the burea j ! chairman, which he read In pait ...... ..... xiic-min-a i Kimu- ui reclamation, a division of prol- ture, interior and commerce. The i ecta anrt fnm-tinn. i.m tJi.. army aim navy are noi, or snouid congress to head off not be organs of the Democratic Valley authority. Its party nor of public power soon iors. The spectacle of the navy secretary, lawyer from Omaha named Francis P. Matthews, tit rating the Republican partv and CVA opponents, In a pureiy po litical address before the Ore Ron Democratic picnic. Is dis tasteful and disquieting. Secretary Matthews, in his de parture from the field of na tional defense to which he was assigned, sfid not, It is true, make a convincing case. He did not bother with discussing the re I issues, which are not political, but economic. He was not even consistent. He said in an Interview that the people of the Northwest should have a big say In how Colum bia river development Is to be administered. But at the picnic he said that cheap power Is Im portant to all sections of the united States, and to the military forces, 'not merely to the area In which the dams are built." In his Interview, he said he Missouri operation has been severely criticized bv tne noover commission. The s.ime kind of "shotgun wedding" w as arrang. d quickly by army engineers ard reolam.i lion bureau for the Northwest after CVA legislation was Intro duced, and opponent of CVA ail? Insisting that such a Joint pro- Kimm nianes ia unnecessary We fall to see how Mr. Matthew- can justify nis opposition to an MVA In his own area with his support of a CVA in ours. Hit position is discredited by its sub servlence to the president's order. The army engineers, who would before resigning, told the heirs and assigns just how bad things are. He characterized the partv as short of funds, shy of a plat form, lacking In vote appeal. All speeches by national com mitteemen and women at the one-day Washington meeting to elect the new chairman showed how right Scott was In his ap praisal. First order of business was to hear reports from the committee's strategy subeommlt- ' I tees. One after another the heads i of these groups got up and con fessed they had done practicallv nothing. George T. Hansen, of t'tah said the Civil Rights Committee had not established any policies. It was a controversial subject. he renlac-.d on Interior wafr. w Albert 1. Mllcnell. of ,f- CVA. have no liking for authority I M"' !."' a,,!i "J-,!1 . ' !'.,r. ,h'. nnl chairmanship if lnto Dower and we havt a deores- vuiiiiiiincT- vMiuui in-ill m i.anrie son would r.ihnrinn . . He had done some work. We will nave a complete program ready for the Sioux Citv, la., regiona'l GOP meeting Sept. 23 and 24. He's Worth Watching This Axel Beck missed being elected national chairman of the party, instead of Gabrlelson. by only five votes-47 to 52. But here is one Republican leader worth watching. He Is a well-to-do farmer and lawyer of Elk Hills. S. D. An immigrant bov, he is self-educated and self-made. His .ife Is a traditional American suc cess story and it has the earthy lished. As long as Europe stays bustsd and soured, WE'LL HAVE TO FEED ITS PEOPLE. Personally, I think we'd better get Europe's economy back on Its feet again. If that involves giving the industrious Germans the green light, we'd better give them the green light. Besides, there Is good reason to believe that if worse comes to worst the Germans will fight the Russians instead of fighting us. HERE is an Interesting slant on British politics. It comes from a Conservative member of the house of commons of the British parliament a Beverly Baxter, Canadian-born and now visiting in Vancouver, B. C. He says: 'The Conservative party will win Great Britain's next election IF THE AMERICANS KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF. If the Americans say they won't do bus iness with a socialist government in Britain, the Conservatives will LOSE. Such American pressure would anger so many Britons that the Labor government would probably be swept back into power." LETS put It this way: If, In 1948, Labor-Socialist gov erned Britain had Mid to us: "If you elect a Republican this fall we'll GO COMMUNIST." wed have elected Dewey if it busted a ham-string. At least, I think that's what would have happened. ERE'S something else I think- In 1948, the American people WANTED to elect a Republican toughness Republican leadership ! President and a Republican con- Th. .1. ! grKs. If ever a nation needed seem to hate tVw. some-1 buln management, it is this. tiling (O POnoitl. vmi-, auiu iiiwi SfPiTMiJHr itri .nam iv- One Drug Injection Case Diagnosed As COLUMBUS, U AUg. 20 t.W Mary Lou Barnes, stricken a week ago by an ailment which her' physician said he diagnosed as poliomyelitis, was back in class at Ohio State university yes terday. , Her rapid recovery began aft er the physician administered one injection of a drug. "She is feeling very good," said Mrs. Laura Barnes, mother of the 19 year-old sophomore. The doctor, who asked that his name be withheld, insisted that Mary Lou's illness was polio. Her right side from her hip to her toes became stiff and numb, he explained, and motion of the right wrist was affected; also there were other symptoms. THE REPUBLICANS WILL LET US STARVE. THE time has passed in this na tion when In periods of depres sion and unsettlement, when our normal economic processes are temporarily upset and out of kil ter, the haves can leave the have- nots to starve. Unless the Republican party can first understand and accept that fundamental fact and then convince the people that it WILL act promptly, wisely and humane ly on behalf of ALL THE PEOPLE in periods of stress. IT WILL NEVER AGAIN GET BACK INTO POWER, Take it or leave it That's what I believe. Quickly Cures Poliomyelitis But whether the drug caused her recovery well, he said, that could . not be slated positively. The fact remains, he declared, that she did recover, and any one can draw their own conclu sions. A spokesman for the American Medical association said in Chi cago that he had no knowledge of any drug that would prevent polio or aflect its course. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis chared the AMA viewpoint. Officials of the foundation said in New York that about half the people who get polio recover completely. This fact, they add ed, makes it almost Impossible to determine the effect of any drug if it was used on only one or a few people. EVERETT, Aug. 20 CP) Sno homish county's 19i9 oolio death toll rose to seven Friday night. It raised the state total of po lio deaths this month to six and the year's total to 13. Albert Proctor, 19. son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Proctor, of Ev- Phony War Akrt PuH LaGrandt Folks In pithtr LA GRAND. Aug. 20-P) This town's residents, were still feeling ' quite cheery . today he cause they aren't at war with Russia, after all. For an hour anH IS minutes Wednesday night thev thought they probably were, -and the city armory was flooded with exciting 1 telephone queries. It was all due to a iesi- oi me National guard defences. An lert was flashed on thaater screens, over the radio, and by a sound truck tourlng the city calling all guardsmen to report to the armory at once. , Ninetv-five percent of . thetn did. And so did lots of veterans, and doctors, and youths, who speculating that war must have begun rushed over to volunteer their services. . , . .' erett, died five days after being admitted to a hospital. Meanwhile, this - was the sec ond day in succession without any new case being reported in the county. Ministers of the city were called to a Saturday afternoon situation. ... If Axel Beck can he turned to i lively that the Republicans are ,oik with (.abnelson. they may better business managers than the he able to pull the split w ide-1 Democrats, open party together again. In thei interests of harmony. Beck had I But th'' w-ere held back by the offered to withdraw as a nominee fear that If the Republicans get meeting next spring. Nothing wouldn't. In the end Guy Gi hrlelsons election was 'made unanimous. With a sion and a lot of us get hungry plans. But Secretary of the Armv Gordon Gray gave pallid suppoi to CVA before a congressional commttKe --again, without dis- of the military establishments unanimous. I Love I'm In Love With a Won cussing the real Issues of ad- :they should stay out of partisan I "h a happy ending, and lots'derful Guy." It could be a theme ministration. 1 politics and economic contrlf peace instead of pieces. Mrs. none for the GOP in 19.V). As Neither Mr. Matthews nor .Mr. I versies. The armv naw and ale Charles S. Hickman nf Inu a t. lohin tinTMman rlarna Gray has contributed sincere suo- force belong to the nation, not pressed it in her seconding Brown summed It uo. "If we DOrt Or I (If if tO the 1'VA railed tn I h hmAM-BfU txat-tv r..M- iKd iiuwh tnf r.kri.lM,- ft... I- IMA . u . favors the Pick-Sloan plan of de It is our opinion that as heads 'president. ithe popular song title, "Tm In ! much use In trying in 19SZ" DRESS MAKING AND ALTERATIONS IVA PHILLIPS 421 N. Ross SL Phens SOS-R Bonk With h . A Douglas County Institution Home Owneo Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank More About China. Beginning in China in the 10th century, fine chino or porcelain, hat captured the admiration of an ever-increasing proportion of the world's peoples. A few of tht major reasons for this popularity are painted out here. Until the rediscovery of the old Chinese method of making hard paste porcelain (sometimes called true porcelain) by Johann Bottger, a German chemist, In 1709, the making of china was confined to bone china and soft paste types. Today some of the finest china is hard paste porcelain. Lennox, Rosenthal, Dresden and Syracuse are examples of this type. These chinas, though not quite so translucent as the true bone china, are more resistant to chemicals, heat, and are harder and more durable. Tha rather general belief that bone china is the superior china has induced many China manufacturers to introduce just a small amount of bone ash Into their hard paste types In order to cash In on this popularity. The Introduction of this small amount of bone ash serves no purpose other than allowing the china to be labeled . v "bone ehina." The true hard paste porcelain is admired because of its durability, Its lightness and thinness compared to the thick, heavy pottery. Because of Its trtnslucency. light falling upon it is filtered through the glaze giving a softer appearance than Is. displayed In the opaque potteries. At Knudtson's you will find Rosenthal china a superior hard paste German porce lain. The many patterns, three shown above, are all open stock. Shown above are the patterns: 'Winifred White." white with Dresden flowers, on glaze, decoration: "Cobalt,' a cobalt blue under glaze on white, with gold band: and "Rlgolctto," an on-glaze decoration in shades of green and coral with gold trim on eggshell. Across From Douglas County Stat Bank JEWCLCRS 9 7