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4 Th Naws-Rtvltw, Roseburg, Of. Mow., Sept. 12, 14 Published 0 illy Except Sunday ty lha Newt-Revie Company, Inc. latere hi( elaaa alllar Mar I. . f"' aaaabere. Oiegea, (liti eel ef March I. U"l CHARLES V. STANTON EOWIN L, KNAPR Editor "Wtjr Manager Member of tha Aesoelated Rreea, Oregon Newspaper Publlthon Aaioolatlon, tho Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona Besreaeaue kr WEsT-HOLLIDAf CO.. INC efflcaa la New Tare. Ckleate. a traaelaee. Laa Aafalaa, laatlla. rerlUp. at. Laaia. at'Bai airriUN SAT'I la Orataa r Mall ret Taar ia.ee. ala eaealae M M. Iht.. ataataa MM. Bt Clla Carrier P.r erer lie.ee la aeeeaeel. leae Ikaa aaa raar. ear aiaatk l ae OeLKe Orataa Or Mall a, tear l ee. la aiaalha 14. U. IHree aeealae SMe GIFT OR By CHARLES For the first time in JU history the National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis is making an emergency appeal for funds. The current week has been week. Voluntary contributions wide scale to provide funds with which to wage the conunu ing war against the dread disease. A. G. Henningcr, chairman of the Douglas County chap. ter, reports that no personal solicitation is planned and no organized campaign will be conducted locally. But everyone . is asked to make voluntary contributions. The U. S. Postal department is giving its cooperation by making it easy for conributors to mail currency or checks. A letter addressed simply to "Polio", Roseburg, Ore., will be delivered to the chapter. From all funds contributed, one-half will be retained lo cally. The balance will go to the national foundation. Some people may wonder why the polio fund has been exhausted. Eut it is easy to understand when it is realized that the number of cases this year is the heaviest for many years, and, that in addition to the cases experienced this year, the polio fund, both nationally and locally, is being used to care for victims suffering from attacks of previous years. j The Douglas County chapter, for instance, still is helping patients who were stricken by the disease a number of years ago, but who are showing benefits from rehabili tation efforts. Adding the holdover case load to the current drain, (Douglas county has had three cases so far this year) leaves the treasury in a badly depleted state. The National Foun dation has exhausted the reserve fund established to aid communities suffering epidemics. The emergency appeal for funds offers opportunity for an Interesting comparison with the widespread demand for socialized medicine. If we had socialized medicine, no requests for voluntary contributions would be made. The federal government would appropriate the funds and would assess the cost against taxpayers. You would be making your contribution by com pulsion. At the same time, there would be widespread chisel ing. The government would be wasting huge sums of money through employment of clerks, administrators, supervisors, agents and what-have-you, so that the total cost would be far in excess of any amount needed by the national founda tion, where the paid staff is small and all work at local level is accomplished through volunteer labor. We spoke of "chiseling." Officers of the county chapter could tell you that it is more prevalent than might be im agined by the uninformed. But local workers are able, through their knowledge of circumstances, to keep it at a minimum. Such would not be the case if wa had socialized medicine. How chiseling can defeat the purpose of an otherwise worthy cause is amply demonstrated by abuse of the un employment compensation fund. The principle of unemploy ment insurance is sound, but abuses undoubtedly will cause repeal of the Act within a comparatively few years unless corrections are made to provide benefits only to the deserv ing. The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis is ac tually a form of socialized medicine at work under a demo cratic system. Through volunteer labor and low-cost admini stration it requires far loss money than would be demanded by an administrative agency of the federal government do ing the same work. In reply to the premise we have stated, we can hear some of our readers saying, "but polio is apt to strike anyone and every person has an equal responsibility to pay into a fund for help, so why not raise the money by taxation?" It is a logical question and one which falls easly into the argu ment for socialized medicine. There is no escaping the responsibility of each and every person to aid in the existing emergency. But, realizing the waste and extravagance of federal agencies and the moral theory that charity should be voluntary, not compulsory, we believe that from both the practical and ethical viewpoint our present system is preferable. But, recognizing that under socialized medicine you would be compelled through taxation to pay for both actual help end wasteful administration, doesn't it naturally follow that you have an obligation to respond voluntarily to the current appeal ? How about mailing that contribution today to "Polio", Koseburg, Ore.? Information Need Led To Document On B-36 Bomber WASHINGTON'. Sept. 2.-i.V A young navy Uier Mated that a conuressman's request for Information led lo the prepara tion of the anonymous document which kicked up the B36 bomber Investigation. Lt. Samuel P. Ingram told a special navy court nf inquiry that Kep. Charles B. IVane UX-N.C.I asked for the Information from (Vriric R. Worth, a navy official, last May. Worth admitted at a house armed services committee hear ing last month that he prepared the document. He wa promptly TAXATION? V. STANTON designated Polio Emergency are being urged on a nation suspended as a special assistant to l'ndorci-retary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball. The navy court, headed hv Ad miral Thomas G. Kinkaid, is try ing to find out whether anybody else in the navv had anything to do with preparing the docu ment. The memorandum belittled claims the air force had made as to capabilities of the R M, its big inter-continental bomber, lt also aiigceited that polities and irivg. ulaiities weif mixed up In the air force decision to concentrate on the B-36 as Us prime air weap on. At the house committee's hear Ings, Worth backed down on most of the atatements made In the document. The committee found there was nothing in the bints of politics and li regularities. tffZjl Bu Viahnttt S. Martin JjrJ When I think of trut giving I sometimes think of a circle of Joined hands. To be sure the circle may b large enough to take In even people overseas by way of the many opportunities provided for such activity, but a circle nevertheless. Thus we may give with the 'left hand' . . . and In due time, maybe soon, maybe years later, the gift. changed In form to whatever we may be needing at the moment, cornea back to our 'right hand.' Giving is not exchanging, swap ping, mental book-keeping on what we do for others balanced against what the same ones "do" for us, la It? Giving Is drawing on the Bank of Good, using what we "have in the house" in what ever way It cornea to ua to use It, knowing full well that In due time It will come back to us in some way unforeseen, through a channel quite unknown at the moment of giving. Such a con viction frees one to accept as well as give, for we can know that the law of ever-operative Good la true of and for others as well as ourselves. Maybe it la because when I was about eleven I was given In the Day's News (Continued From iage One) invest a part of their capital abroad in England, among other plac s. aaa IN order to understand the reasonableness of that state ment, let's go bjck nearly a cen- tury to the years Immediately follow ing our Civil ar, w hich used up our accumulated savings exactly as World War II used up the accumulated savings of the British. The British then INVESTED THEIR CAPITAL IN AMERICA exactly as they are asking us now lo Invest our capital in Britain (among other places.) Railroads, factories, mines, farms nearly every phase of our economy that we needed to expand and develop - felt the Infusion of this new flood of British capital into our Indus! ilal system which had been debilitated by nearly five years of bloody and destructive war fare. aaa I CAN remember myself the aftermath of some of this Brit ish Investment In America. In our neighborhood In the rawer western part of the central Mis sissippi valley there was a large holding known coloqulally among us as the "English" ranch. In the general newness of the country. It was a lovely and FIN ISHED thing. The barns (I men tion them first because In that semi pioneer time the barn was of prior Importance to the house) were ample and handsome. They were carpenter-built Instead of National Emergency ' ' 'L " two small gray volumei of Em erson's Essays, and in time be came familiar with them. The essay on "Compensation" Influ enced my life from then on, as any good book Influences a grow ing child'i life, whether he Is conscious of it at the time or not. Fortunate Indeed the child who owns books! Companions with them! Haa them in hli own room or on hla own shelf, and haa learned to handle them lov ingly. Many a time thoughts from that essay came to me, In my teene and twenties, as silent guideposts, helping me discern the worthwhile from the glitter. It was Emerson who warned: "We cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be ren dered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to some body. Beware of too much good staying In your hands . . . Pay lt away quickly In some sort." 1 It was not until the woman of Zarepthalh overcame her fear and shared the little she had with the stranger that "the barrel of meal wasted not, nor did the cruse of oil fail." being thrown together by the farmer himself. They were kept carefully painted, as were the board fences of the lots for the handling of animals. The house was a low, rambling, eye-pleasing structure, and the grounds around it were LAND SCAPED. In those days, we thought it enough to build a house to live in (after the animals had been adequately housed.) Such refinements as the landscaping of the grounds seemed a painful waste In a time when all the available labor was needed to grow crops to feed us. aaa THIS is thi point I want to make: Our neighborhood benefited IMMENSELY by the example set by that ranch w hich was financed by the pounds of English Invest ors (in these days, it would be known as a "corporation" ranch, for it was run by a manager for the Invatlnn In lir.iuiv Vna. jlnd ) Not only were our esthetic Im pulses stimulated by the finished beauty of the grcDinds and the buildings. We LEARNED THINGS from these agriculture wire English. For example: We thought of anything having horns and hair as a "cow-brute" , and therefore fit for human con sumption when fattened on the j blue grass that grew in the pas ! tures and the corn that was grow n In the fields. These Eng- lish managers, long schooled In i animal husbandry, taught us bet j ter. They showed ua in ways that i we could see with our own eyes j that their pure-bred beef Short J horns and Herefords made more , meat with less expenditure of la bor and feed than our scrawny grades. Bull calves from the English ranch percolated out through the countryside and began to Im prove the quality of the native stock. So did the boar pigs. The beneficial Influence of that ranch financed by English capital on that one neighborhood in the raw, rich valley of the Mississippi was Incalculable. e e e I NEVER knew, of course, how much profit these English in vestors made out of their ranch. At my then tender age, I wasn't much Interested In such things. But I hope they did well, and I'm Inclined to think they came out all right. One thing, looking back over the decades, I'm sure of they didn't EXPLOIT us. They HELPED us. For every dol lar they may have made by their operations among us they gave us back MANY dollars in the form of know-how gleaned from observation of their better methods. a a e I'M sure It will work out the same way If, with our greater industrial know-how, we now be gin to invest In factories in Eng land. We are the world's top ex perts In mass production, Just as these English of that day were the world's top experts In animal husbandry. In that way, EVERYBODY will benefit. aaa SO, you see, It Isn't narrow and small and selfish when the English of today (hard pressed after two great wars Just as we were hard pressed after our bloody and costly war between the states) suggest that we come over to their country and Invest our savings there, bringing to them our techniques of mass pro duction as they brought to us their techniques of land and ani mal management. It Is Just good common sense. Net- Complete . . . without blown rock wool Insu lation. Protect yourself and 'ive comfortably with a fully insu lated home. Our fireproof rock wool pays for Itself within two years. Inquire about metal In terlocking weatherstripning for winter com'rt too! Ry-Lock Tension Screens Builder's Intuloting Co. "Chuck" Ed -jnds 230 N. Stephens St. Phone 1018-R for free estimate. A Roseburg busi ness serving Southwestern Oregon. Tourist Travel By Private Auto To Break Record This year's tourist, travel I n the United State by private au tomobile will exceed all past records In physical volume he Oregon State Motor association said today. Information gathered from AAA aourcea throughout the country, and verified by the U. S. travel division, Indicate the mo tor tourist volume to be from 25 to 30 per cent above that of last year, contrasted to earlier pre dictions of an increase of only around 15 per cent. The Labor day travel added substantially to the 1949 vacation season's percentage gain over 1948. the Association said. While the number of travelers has been on the upgrade, individ ual expenditures have declined somewhat, following fairly close ly the expectations expressed early in the season. Tourists have been selecting cheaper ac commodations and finding less expensive means of entertain ment, the Oregon AAA club re ported. "Reports from Oregon's famed vacation spots, including Crater Lake, the Oregon caves, Bonne ville dam, the coast area and interior recreation areas all show the aame trends s were report ed nationally," the association said. "While- tourist arrivals I n Oregon this year are expected to show new highs, expenditures probably will be down somewhat as tourists 'shop around' for ac commodations and vacation act ivities." The association said, however, that experience shows the I in port a nee of contacting tourists and giving them information o n points of interest within the state aa a means of stimulating longer stays in Oregon. 'Time and again, when the traveler learns of t h e unusual things to be seen In Oregon, he decides to spend a day or so long er man ne originally Intended, the motor club said. "Everyone coming in contact with tourists should make a conscious effort to sell them on vacation possi bilities they may not have beard of as it usually results in a long er stay in our state." Protect Your family with the B. M. A. Polio plan. Call Mr. Lincoln, 93S-J-4 c drop card to Box 108 Melrose Route. PHONE 100 between 6.1 5 end" 7 p. m., if you hove net received your News Review. Ask for Harold Mobley. 0 ) fast'Thrulimi'teds Oaiy Direct, Through Schedules No Local Stops e Space Reserved Air-Conditioned Super Coaches No Extra Fare Leava ROSEBURG 2:30 AM, :4i AM, 11:4 AM, 12:30 RM, :30 RM, 11:5$ RM ... TH.ta At A. J. Murray Ntw Dtlhi flogutd ly CattU Running Leest NEW DELHI, India .P Mu nicipal authorities are unhappy about the cost of feeding the hundreds of stray cattle round ed up In this capital city. The cattle are a menace to traf fic and to kitchen gardens planted under the government's grow-more-food campaign. Some of the animals sacred cows left to roam at will. There are also huge bulls dedicated to various Bonk With ' A Douglas County Institution Horn Owned Homa Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank JSP mm C30O Phone 1289 for prompt, metered deliveries of Standard Heating Oils FUEL OIL SERVICE 343 Seivee & iwet "'- - 7.00 11.60 344 S. Stephens TfaVs ASK US ABOUT W (r I -aa I f tenmles bv their owners. Finally there are the cows let loose bya their owners to graze on any grass they can find. The municipal committee must feed unclaimed cattle for two weeks before auctioning them off or freeing them outside the city limits. Those liberated usually come back to Delhi, however. A committee member estimates there are 2.000,000 head of cattle roaming wild in India. mm North Jackson at Douglas Day Phone 1289 Night Phone T047-Y OIL HEAT V Phone 586