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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Thur., Sept. 1, 1949 Published 0 illy Exetpt Sunday t-y the News-ftevie Company, Inc. lltiHl Mtiiri alau waiter Mar I. alflaa Kaaaaarf. Oragaa. aaaar Ml al Maraa f. itlt CHARLES V. STANTON Tt EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor ty" Manager Member of tha Aaaoolatad Praaa, Oregon Nawapapar Publisher Aaaooiatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Clroulatlona lllimlil r WMT-HULLIDAf CO, INC. a'flcaa la Kaw lark, Calaaf. aaa traaciaoa Li Aasalaa. Baallla. rarliaaa at. Laala. atlBauair-I'lUN aAricS la Orasan By alatl rar Taar fa.aa, all taaalaa 4.a laraa MM B t'll; larrlar Par raar lia.aa Ha . laaa aaa Mar. at' aiaala IIM Oaltlaa Orafaa Bl Mall rar aar Vt ! taataa 14.1a. IHraa waalba li.la c COMMUNIST INCONSISTENCY By CHARLES V. STANTON The inconsistency of communist thought and action is being evidenced in New York where pickets are patrolling a federal court house in which 11 top "commie" leaders are on trial. ' Here we see a picture of an attempt to influence a court's decision through demonstration. Yet no people, as a group, are more vocal in their demand for legal rights and un corrupted courts than are communists. The communist is doing his utmost to overthrow consti tutional government, yet he stands on constitutional rights whenever cornered and appeals to the courts at every opportunity. Paul Robeson, who rightfully should have been divested of his American citizenship and forced to stay in Russia after his blatant expression of allegiance to Communism, is prating of invasion of his "civil liberties" because anti communist veterans prevented his appearance at Peekskill, N. Y. While we cannot condone the action taken by the veterans, nevertheless we do not feel that Robeson has any moral right to defense of his civil liberties from a country he has virtually renounced. How much protection do you sup pose an anti-communist speaker would get in Moscow, which even now is threatening war with Yugoslavia for the protection of communist In this country even a one-man though he has avowed his allegiance to a party pledged to overthrow constitutional government. But in Moscow, the only recognized "minority" either individually or col lectively, is a segment of the majority. There are no rights or privileges for those who fail in their allegiance to the party only a shot in the back or prolonged torture in a slave camp How can we understand people, who after pledging themselves to destruction of a form of government, will insist upon using every letter of law for their own pro tection? Or people, who, insisting upon protection of mi nority rights, are striving for a political rule which recog nizes no minority and purges its opposition? If Communism was not such a serious threat in this country, its inconsistency would be humorous. Incendiarisr Dtserving of No Ltnitncy The incendiary fire season is with us. ' Forest protection agencies report a number of fires de liberately set in various parts of the county during past weeks. We can think of few lower forms of criminal activity, aside from sex crimes. Incendiarism can be murder, for many firefighters have been killed while battling forest fires. Incendiarism is grand larceny, for it not only destroys valuable property, but it robs taxpayers of dollars by lowering assessed valuations, while stealing jobs and profits from workers and employers. Incendiarism is a threat to public welfare because it reduces productive capacity of watersheds, destroys fish and game, reduces recreational values, and promotes pol lution. The incendiarist is an individual who commits his crime with full premeditation, planning and stealth. If appre hended he is entitled to no leniency and is deserving of the fullest penalty permitted by law. Only slightly less deserving of court clemency is the person who starts fires through carelessness or negligence. The carelessly tossed cigarot butt, burning pipe duffle, the unextinguished match, an unguarded or unquenched campfire can cause as much destruction and be just as lethal as the incendiarist's torch. The law imposes penalties for criminal negligence and lvrlilrt rmrhnna uinin frtrwirtupu t inn aknuN Ka :n .' ' comparing a deliberate incendiarist with a careless or i negligent firebug, penalties, if should be sufficient to induce part of others. Washington Balks At Oregon Levy On Share Of Columbia River Span OLYMPIA. SeDt. 1. P The , survey nf It. fi-ii,im nH Washington Toll Bridge authority i tion. This will be returned when was In no mood today to pay th- bridge, to cost about $2,511, taxes on Its Longview Columbia 000. is built, he said, river bridge to Columbia county, Governor l.anglip said he be- ure. Instead It will ask the Wash- Ing Tax commission to make an investigation, if not too costly, of all the county's assessments to determine II the valuation of $1,100,000 placed on the Ore- gon portion of the bridge Is ar itrary and unreasonable. Asst. Atty. Gen. Lyle Iverson said the Investigation would be a necrssity for resisting a court fight by Oregon to collect taxes on Its portion of the bridge. The Oregon Tax commission previ ously denied the TBA's protest that the valuation was too high. Iverson said he believed the county could collect the taxes. The TBA gave its approval to construction of a new toll bridge across the Columbia at the Cov ington point site near The Dalles. Webb Hoover. TBA secretary. said the bridge would be built by Oregon. Washington put up $8,000 1 months has been engaged In to match similar amounts hy the bombing and torpedo training ex Oregon Highway department andlerclses off the coast of southern Wasco county, Ore., to finance California. minorities? minority gets protection the culprit be apprehended, a spirit of caution on the iteved Columbia county at Long- view was "takini? advantage nf a purchase price that is pretty well agreed to be excessive. They are exploiting tne people of another state to get themselves out of debt. "My feeling Is that If we don't resist this tax, it will be some thing we will have to nav for years and will affect other' proj ects." IN NAVY TRAINING Barry F. Laurance. airman, I'SN. son of Mr. and Mrs W. A. Laurance of Roarhurg. is attach ed to Navy Attack squadron 54. presently based ashore at the Naval Air station, San Diego. Calif. Squadron 54 is an air unit of the aircraft carrier I'SS Valley Koree and for the past several It you do not happen to have a free "Index to Topographic Map ping In Oregon" (or any other state In which you are Inter ested), you are missing some thing! A postal request to the Di rector of Geological Survey In Washington, D. C, will bring It. The Index Is printed on one side with detailed Information about all the maps and sheets available; on the other side the state map is squared off Into red "quadrangles" each known by the red-lettered name in its center. There Is a ROSEBURG Quad rangle the quadrangle maps cost twenty cents each. Contour maps In three colors. But the prize map listed is the one now spread on our living room rug, held open by the poker handle, two pieces of firewood, a reading glass, a book and the 45 inch heavy mailing tube In which It came. The OREGON map is 43x56, In two colors, with scale of eight miles to the inch. Cost? Twenty-five cents! No postage re quired. The mailing tube must cost more than that! It can be used to store map or if you have an inside stairway, and can find room for one more map, that's Editorial Comment From Tha Oregon Press SAH CAH - GAR WE - AH (Pendleton East Oregonianl The story of Sacajawra is au thentic except that the romantic writers have greatly exaggerated her services to the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her husband, Charbono, was an Interpreter but not a very valuable member of the party. Sacajawea's Import ance was due to the tact she was a Shoshone and had been captur ed by an enemy band of Indians east of the Rockies. But the story that she guided the explorers to the camp of the Shoshones is in correct. The Lewis and Clark party was a band of picked .nen under two very capable leaders. Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark. They had courage and determination but it was their ability In handling the party and In dealing with the Indians that made the expedition a suc cess. The explorers travelled up the Missouri by boat to the head waters and they had knowledge of the Columbia because It had been discovered and partly ex plored some years previously. The big problem the leaders fac ed was how to get horses to transport the expedition from the upper Missouri to the Columbia. Everything depended on that be cause without horses the explor ers would have had to turn back. Captain Lewis handled that business himself. Accompanied by two men he travelled on foot far anead of the main party 'or days in hopes of getting in touch with Indians living west of the Rockies. They had to act care fully because the Indians were afralu of hostile parties and it was not easy to get to talk to them. Kinally Lewis and his two companions encountered two In dian women and a little girl. One of the Indian women ran away but the old woman and little girl could not escape. Lewis knew the sign language and made friends with them by giving them beads. He rolled up sleeve exposing his arm to show that he was a white man. lie convinced the In dian woman of hli peaceful In tentions and persuaded her to Careful Now, Men! By Viahnett S. Martin a good place! I have them so I can ait on the stairs and find the information I want without both ering to open up or unroll a map. Oh yes, the small fry will play with that mailing tube from here on out! "Telescope" and other ideas.) There are nine "sheets," ten cents each, giving the topography of the Umpqua river in great de tail, simply fascinating! Scale i mile to the Inch. Contour maps showing lay of the land etc. Other rivers are similarly mapped. The index lists and describes them for you. There are two special' maps of Oregon features: Crater lake and Oregon caves. The latter is In the Grants Pass quadrangle. I have the Crater lake map: 25x34, price forty cents, pictures and history and geological discussion on back. Scale one mile to the Inch. Then there are aerial mosaics listed in the Index, and where to get photographs. There is a coal map 56x82, a geologic map, and oil and gas map. With the index they will send if asked a 9-page list of publications about water supply reports for the state of Oregon. guide them to the Indian camp. There Lewis told his story and his sales talk was that he was with a large government party enroute to the western ocean. The big purposes was to establish trade with the Indians so the redmen could obtain firearms and other supplies. Horses were needed and the Indians would be well paid for their animals. The Indian chief was coopera tive but some of his followers were suspicious and it took good headwork to bring the Indians Into touch with the main explor ing party. This was finally ac complished after several days and all turned out well. Captain Lewis kept a daily journal or di ary on the expedition and so did Captain Clark. In his iournal for August 17, 1S05. Lewis said: "Shortly after Captain Clark arrived with the Interpreter and the Indian woman who pmved to be a sister of the chief. Camea wait. The meeting of these people was really affecting, particularly between Sah cah gar we-ah and an Indian woman who had been taken prisoner at the same time with her and who had escaped and rejoined her nation." After meeting with the Sho shone band and trading for the horses needed tha explorers sought all the information they could get as to the best route to the Columbia. Their best bet was an old man who warned them against going down the Snake riv er through what Is now southern Idaho, telling them there was no game to kill in that countrv. Ac cordingly the expedition took a northwest route via the Lolo pass, reaching the Snake river at what is now Lewislon, Idaho. Sacajawra and Charbono ac companied the party to the ocean and returned with' them as far as the Shoshone country. The woman had a marvelous adven ture and the story is thrilling without any embellishment. The name Sacajawea. or Sac-cah-gar-weah. the spelling used by Cap tain Lewis, was given to her by the Minnetarre Indians. The name means Bird Woman. Her Shoshone name was Bo-l-naiv. meaning Crass MaioVn. SscaU wea lived to be 100 years old and In the Day's News (Continued From r"age One) tive branch of our government (the President) can spend ONLY what the legislative branch (the Congress) APPROPRIATES. Here Is what the amendment would have amounted to: IT WOULD HAVE RE QUIRED THE PRESIDENT TO REFUSE TO SPEND AS MUCH MONEY AS THE CONGRESS WAS WILLING TO APPROPRI ATE. a a IT would have passed the buck on spending from Congress to the President. Under such a scheme, every member of Con gress in whose state or district a huge wad of government money Is being spent could go home and say to his constituents: "Con gress (of which I am a part) PROVIDED THE MONEY, but the President isn't going to spend it" aaa LET break it down a little 'arther. In your family, you as the hrrariwinner are and ouizht to be I tha hnea at In U'hat will he snent. You know, of course, that your children LIKE TO SPEND. Suppose you said: "I want to be popular with you. So I am going to give each of you $10 a month spending mon-y, BUT I AM GOING TO REQUIRE TO REFUSE TO SPEND ALL OF IT." aaa ABSURD? Of course it's absurd. It's worse than that. It's ridicu lous. When the Congress of the United States falls so low as to try to pass a law that would com pel the President to refuse to spend as much as the Congress appropriates, this nation of ours has come to a pretty pass, aaa IT all goes to show that the mem bers of our Congress have the idea that what the people want is spending and spending and MORE SPENDING. As long as they think that Is what the peo ple want, they are going to spend. (Even if they have to resort to childish schemes like compelling the President to refuse to spend what they have given him to spend.) aaa HERE is all I have to suggest: If you truly believe that our Congress should spend less, write to your congressman and your senators and tell them what you think. Just take your pen in hand and write your honest thoughts. That is all you need to do. Just as soon as the members of our Congress become con vinced that the best way to be re-elected Is to spend less. Instead of spending more, THEY WILL SPEND LESS. But not until then. SERVING IN AIR FLEET Ronald C. Rees. fireman ap prentice. I SN. son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Ress of M v r 1 1 e Creek, is serving with Fleet Air craft Service squadron 7. based at the Naval Air station, Sen Diego. Calif. His squadron maintains and services carrier aircraft of the Air Force, Pacific Fleet. died at the Shoshone agency in Wyoming In ISSt. Map Banned From Public By Navy Discovered On Night Club's Walls WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. A high-level aerial photograph of the Washington area, plainly showing all military installations and withheld from general pub lication, was found today on the walls of a downtown night club and restaurant. George Bomze, proprietor of the "400" restaurant near the treasury, said the picture was Fumigating Of Maragon Advised By Gen. Yaughan WASHINGTON. Sept. 1, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan said today that his friend John F. Maragon needs to be "washed up, fumigated" and probably no longer will have access to the White House . Earlier, the President's mili tary aide, in testimony to a Sen ate committee, had called Mara gon a "lovable sort of a chap." William P. Rogers, counsel for the Senate Investigations com mittee, said he didn't think Mara gon was "lovable" at all. He said he thought he had been "pretty despicable" in some of his deal ings. He asked Vaughan If It wasn't possible to keep Maragon, a cen tral figure in the committee's "five percenter" inquiry, out of the White House. "It's not only possible, but Its probable," Vaughan replied. The committee's hearings have developed that Vaughan, among other favors done for Maragon, recommended him for a Job with a U. S. mission to observe the postwar Greek elections. Yesterday, Vaughan told the committee he would still recom mend Maragon for the post. Today, Senator McCarthy (R. Wis.) recalled some of the testi mony about Maragon and asked: "In view of this, would you still recommend Mr. Maragon?" "No, I would not," Vaughan conceded. C. B. Crawford Of Reedsport Passes Charles B. Crawford, known to his many friends In and around Reedsport as "Ham," died at his home Sunday. Fun eral arrangements are pending but it Is understood that the bo;y will be shipped to Texas lor burial. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford came to Reedsport from Portland fol lowing ihe Vanport disaster, and he was associated with the Port Umpqua Courier of Reedspo't until illness compelled him to give up active work, and he was confined to the Veterans hospi tal in Portland for a consider able time. Upon his return, although warned not to do any work be cause of his health, he did do some of his favorite work, com mercial photography. He was often heard to remark humorously that "doctors can tell you so easily not to work, but they fail to follow through and tell you how to keep eating if you don't work." Mr. Crawford was born at Plum, Texas, on Oct. 24. 1S98. He was a veteran of World War I. and a member of the Gardiner Reedsport Lions club. Only known survivor here is his widow, Mrs. Lucille Crawford. The body is at the Unger Fun eral home in Reedsport. Letter From Germany Pleases Elkton Resident Donald Smith of Elkton was pleased Monday to receive a let ter from Heinz Deichmann of Rocke, Germany, who had gotten Donald's address from Miss Mar garet Alldridge of Elkton. Miss Alldridge is touring Germany with a group of Christian young people from the United States. Miss Alldridge drove to New York with friends and flew from there to England about the mid dle of June. So far this group has toured England, Belgium, Hol land, G er m a n y, Sw itzerland, Italy, and Ejance. They will re turn via England. Nature provides Ideal weather in lot sumrrter and early fall to build beautiful lawns. It's a sim ple task at litrle cost fed with SCOTTS LAWN FOOD and sow SCOTTS SEED. Statti. LAWN SEED Tor for fori ptonrlrnt. t9 1 raadfraa. kSpk claorwd. 1.000 000 tmnH par pound. I aa - il.45 S Km $4.93. SPECIAL PURPOSE BLEND aoda. I . l.4Si 1 Sn S4M. Se&U. LAWN FOOD Pfov tfJt najejv ftiHfntftt ndtd to Bto? Ipwit HcoHtia vtof ottd cota? a till a faada 1 500 aaj R. $1.S alraaa to 11.000 aaj h. Umpqua Valley Hardware 202 N. Jackson Phono 73 found in the cafe three weeks ago. It apparently had been left by some navy man. Liking the scene, Bomze said he had it enlarged and mounted prominently in his display of photo-murals of points of Interest around the capitol It attracted attention at once. Two admirals laughed heartily when they spotted it, Bromze told a reporter, but other navy offi cials demanded Its removal. Bomze said he refused, on grounds that any possible dam age to security already had been committed. The navy consistently has re fused to permit publication of the picture. The photograph was made from a navy Banshee fighter plane, a twin-Jet aircraft, from an altitude of 48.846 feet. Some navy officials believed .his was a new record for high-altitude photography. The camera used was a newly developed instrument, details of which are still secret. Within the single picture Is embraced the entire city of Washington and its surrounding area, individual buildings showing in sharp de tail. Why the picture was not re leased for publication was un clear. Security restrictions had been removed, releasing It for publication, but attempts by newspapers to obtain prints from the navy were unsuccessful PAINTS All Kinds PAGE LUMBER & FUEL V ii..2nd Ave S. Phnn' 212 JOBS AVAILABLE Wt hav Jobs for trained workers. If you rtavt rh training, we have the Job., If you don't have the training, come in or call tomorrow Fall enrollment now under way GRANT'S BUSINESS COLLEGE lit N. Stephens BEAUTIFUL KENTILE FLOORS Now Guaranteed for the Life ; of Your Home COEN SUPPLY COMPANY Everything For The Builder Floed Mill 8t. Phone 121 Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. 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