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12 Th Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thuf., Aug. 25, 1949 End Prisons, Kill Convicts, G. B. Shaw's Crime Cur LONDON, Aur. 25 i.V) George Bernard Shaw Wednes day proposed a sweenlng cure lor crime: abolish prisons and put their inmates to death. The 93-year-old playwright set forth hU views in a printed post card mailed to editors from his home at Ayot Saint Lawrence. "If we find a hungry tiger at large or a cobra in the garden, we do not punish It," Shaw said. "We kill It because, if we do not. It will kill us." "Fleas, lice, locusts, white ants, anopheles mosquitoes, Aus tralian rabbits must be extermin ated, not punished, "Precisely the ame necessity arises in the case of incorrigibly dangerous or mischievous human beings, sane or insane, hopeless idiots, and enemy soldiers. 'The kindest method so far known is to let criminals go to bed and to sleep as usual, and then turn on an odorless gas to prevent them ever waking. En emy soldiers we have to kill how we can." LOCKER LICENSES GRANTED PORTLAND, Aug. 25 -OP Locker licenses have been issued to seven fraternal organizations by the State Liquor Control com mission. They include the Moose at Eu gene and Elks lodges at Pendle ton, Klamath Falls and Grants Pass. What is believed to have been the earliest surviving piece of glass was produced about 5,000 years ago. Recovery Pace In Europe Slows WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (.? The Economic Cooperation ad ministration today reported a slackening in the rate of Euro pean recovery. In a sober report on Its first year's operations, the agency said the dollars earned by the nations of Europe during the pe riod were enough to pay for only one-fifth of their imports from the westprn hemisphere. "This was the critical problem which the participating nations faced as the European Recovery Program (ERP) entered its sec ond year," the ECA said. However, the report added, the program's "ultimate obiective of a 'healthy economy independent of extraordinary outside assist ance' remains as a difficult but attainable goal." I Ex-Gov. Lehman To Run In N. Y. For U. S. Senate ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 25 (& Former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman definitely will run for the U. Senate this fall, a high Democrat ic source said today. The informant, who declined to be quoted by name, indicated Lehman would accept the Demo cratic and Liberal party nom inations for election to the seat resigned by Democrat Robert F. Wagner. John Foster Dulles, veteran GOP foreign affairs authority, now holds the seat by Interim appointment from Governor Dewey. He will serve until Dec. 1. Dulles has reiterated that he does not plan to run for election. Aristocratic families in ancient Rome bedecked their pet moray nsn witn jewels. AT WE OUTDOOR STORE . . . 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He plays so well that he was given a $500 scholarship, awarded by the International Guitar League to outstanding stu dents of the instrument. wielders of influence. It is more important to understand them and the atmosphere that produc ed tnem. Are we dealing here with weak figures of men? Or are we seeing the corrosive effect of power power perhaps held too long by one group? The nation needs to know. The true story of the five percenters, set in Its full frame work, may govern voters in elec tions to come in 1932 and beyond. For if these are indeed the cor ruptions of power, the American people might decide that Thomas Jefferson's idea about rotation in office is pretty sound stuff. Gen. Waitt's "Double Entry" Deal Seems Like Alarming Symptom By BRUCE BIOSSAT MaJ.-Gen. Aldcn II. Waitt, suspended chief of the Army Chemi cal corps, now has confirmed by his own Senate committee testi. mony that he dictated a secret memorandum branding as incom petent eight men who were eligible to succeed him. He says he prepared this docu ment in the office of James V. Hunt, alleged peddler of influence among government officials. It was turned over to Maj.-Gen. Harry Vaughan, 1'resident Tru man's military aide, presumably for the guidance of the President in picking a successor. Waitt declares this memo was his "honest evaluation" of his subordinates. But it was in vio lent contrast to the praiseworthy accounts he set forth in official army "fitness" reports on these same officers. Furthermore, he says he sat as one member of an army ao noinlment board wiiich recom mended three officers as his suc cessor, including two of tiie eight he had secretly criticized. This strange resort to a sort of "double entry" system of ap praisal, tliis combination of out-in-tlie-open maneuvers and oe hind the scenes techniques is per haps the most shocking revela tion yet to come out of the "five percenter" inquiry in Washing ton. The "double entry" evldenje was what led Secretary of Army Gordon Gray to suspend Waitt, and we think with good reason, Waitt will not find it easy to con vince authorities in the Depart ment of Defense that he should ever get his old job back. Apparently that is what he wanted most another four-year term. And he may actually have been the best man for the post. But his devious methods of soli citing favorable consideration ought to have eliminated him permanently as a possibility. Of course there was more to the incident than simply Waitt's ambition to stay in office. He has confessed to the committee that he was using his influence to ex Hawaiian Strike Still Deadlocked; Cargoes Unloaded HONOLULU, Aug. 25 .V Prospects were slim today that chief negotiations to settle Ha waii's 117-day old dock strike would be resumed immediately. In Washington yesterday, U. S. Conciliator Cyrus Ching urged the seven struck stevedoring companies and the CIO Interna tional Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's union to get togeth er. Employers, union officials and iederal mediator George Hillen brand were to confer today on side issues disputed in Hawaiian ports outside of Honolulu. The union is asking a wage in crease of 32 cents an hour over its present $1.40 cents an hour scale. The union earlier had post poned indefinitely any renewed negotiations in Hawaii. It had Russia Advised To Drop World Domination Dream i ne pedite" a contract desired by one I 5aiH all developments awaited the of Hunt's clients. That Hunt and ! return here of union president Vaughan were closely linked with j Harry Bridges who is in San Waitt's job maneuver makes it Francisco. Word was received particularly questionable, for tes-1 yesterday that he would not re timony has thrust them both deep i turn soon. in the influence game. Employers want to do their We cannot stop at merely de-1 talking in Hawaii. But the unior nloiing the activities of these has indicated it would prefer th MEMO Try a Ride in -tne new Go Wen Anniversary Packard ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS 06 BARCUS Sales and Service Highway 99 North Phone 1354 MIAMI. Fla., Aug. 25 Phillip C. Jesup, American am bassador at large, called on Rus sia's leaders Wednesday to give up their "dream ol world dom ination." History records that thi am bition has led "such blind dream ers" ti destruction, he said. The United States is prepared to offer Moscow a full share In international cooperation if the Russians will work together in peace with other nations, Jessup declared. He added, however: "We are not going to exchange armi for empty promises." Jersup, one of Secretary of State Acheson'i highest ranking assistants, made the remark in a speech prepared for delivery Tefore the national convention "f the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The address bristled with denun ciations of Russia's past tactics. Russia'! leaders. Jessup tald, believe in the tactics o. "dom ination and dictation" In dealing with other nations as did Hit ler." Jessup said that in contrast, the United States li fighting with like-minded nations for "freedom and a good life" for all people of the world. About one-third of the continen tal United Statet Is forest land. negotiations be resumed In Wash ington or New York. That was the suggestion from Ching. 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