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4 The Newt-Review, Rettburfl, Or Tuei., Sept. 13, 1949 "Did You Ever See So Many Furniture-Minded Men?" LETTERS to the Editor fubllthtd 0 tlly Exctpt Sunday ry the News-Revies, Company, Inc. . in WW u aaraaa alaai llar Mat 1. Itta. laa (IflM al Eaaaaara. Oraiaa. aaaat Mt al March S. IS7S CHARLES V. STANTON - EDWIN U K.N AfP Editor Managar Mimbtr ef tha Aaaeeialad Preaa, Oragon Nawapapar Publishers l Asaoeiation, tha Audit Suraau of Clreulatlona i IiimuM WIlT HOI.I.inA t CO, INC.. alHaaa la Naw fata, Cklaafa. aaa Sraaclaaa. Laa Aagalaa. Saallla. Parllaa4. at. Laala. IUIII lfTIU BATrt la Oraiaa Hall rar tar all aiaalaa M laraa aaaalai K M. Of I II, rarri.r r.r aar lia.aa 'la aaaaaral. lata lata aaa raar. aav aata ll.aa Oat.laa Oraiaa Br Mall Fa, faar a, all aiaalha II la. Mraa aiaalka II la SEEK THE TRUTH By CHARLES V. STANTON City Manager Matt Slankard ha Informed residents of '.districts contemplating joining the municipality that they .will have equal part in city administration and will auffer no regulations which would change the normal pattern of activity. The manager's statement followed circulation of rumors in the affected areas that community activity would be af fected adversely should union with the city be voted. It is surprising how many untruthful and sensational rumors circulate during the heat of a controversal issue. ,During a previous campaign In West Roseburg a last-minute printed broadcast was credited with beating the pro posed annexation, although not one argument presented could be supported on a basis of fact. Had the broadcast appeared a few days earlier, the vote undoubtedly would have been favorable, as uncertain votes turned by mislead ing information to defeat the proposal would have been saved through rebuttal of the untruths. : Annexation now is being considered in several adjacent residential areas. It is to be expected that the opposition Will again circulate untruthful rumors, distorted allegations and scare propositions. The citizen sincerely desirous of casting his vote for the best Interest of the community will listen to these arguments and then endeavor to ascertain their truth. No person should rely on any unsupported statement If he has any question or doubt in his mind, he will, if he is endeavoring to act as a responsible voter, seek out the truth for himself. He will accept no argument from either side without determining for himself the accuracy of that argu ment. He should realize that in the heat of an election campaign 'many exaggerated statements are made and that they may come from either side of the issue. He should not permit his vote to be Influenced' by any scare propaganda, nor by any information, reported to be truthful, about which he may have the least doubt. He should, when doubt arises, go to one of the many available sources of fact and ask the necessary questions to clear doubt from his mind. The city manager has spiked one vicious rumor, but there will be many others. The responsible voter will not be in fluenced by future misrepresentation, although we may ex pect Irresponsible or timid voters, failing to seek out the truth, to be affected. Any persons sincerely In doubt con cerning any issue will find many reliable persons able to assist him in learning the truth. He should not hesitate to contact any person who may be able to furnish him the in formation' he desires. The Pattern For Wood UtilliatioH Crude oil, as It comes raw from the well, Is of no more immediate use than tree trunks fresh from the forest, or iron ore just out of the mines, says the Industrial b'ews Review, Portland. It adds that this explains why the petro leum industry spends upwards of $100,000,000 annually on research. The job of the chemists and other scientists is to find ways to shape raw petroleum into more and better products for everyday use and, of equal importance, to make it possible for them to be produced and sold at a price within reach of millions of consumers. Ninety years ago, it is stated, the products made from crude oil could be counted on the fingers of one hand they consisted of kerosene and a few lubricants. Today some 1200 products derived from petroleum are available. The success of the petroleum industry in developing new producU through continued research, points the pattern for the wood industry. Laboratory experimentation in the field of wood utiliza tion is of comparatively recent origin. Yet, despite the fact that only a few years have elapsed since scientific research was organized and that laboratories have not been arte, quately financed, methods of wood utilization have been de veloping very rapidly. Chemical utilization now is opening up an entirely new field which, in our onininn. will within a comparatively few years price wood out of usage for! timbers and boards. Our trees will be too valuable for con- j version into products other than lumber, just as crude oil i has progressed to the point where its original products have been supplanted by more profitable and beneficial! ' uses. I x- i. By Viahnett S. Martin Ij Did you read "Northwest Passage" some years ago? I could never forget that book. This year Doubleday St Com pany have published Kenneth Roberts' "I Wanted to Write" In which la included a diary like account of the work that went Into The North-west Pas aage. Anyone who has the slight est Interest In "writing" would find it absorbing reading. Two solid years of actual writ Ing, and re-writing, went Into the book; this did not include the many yars In which the book had been simmering In his mind before he wrote the first word. The author pays tribute, aa well he may, to the labor of love which his wife contributed in typing, and re-typing, the chapters which he wrote with painful thoroughness, only to re vise until the whole thing had to be recopied by patient Mrs. Roberta. The author found outside nois es unbearable at times when working under pressure, so the Roberts went to an Isolated farm house in a mountain valley far to the northward where, he says "we split our wood, cooked our food, carried our water from a well supplied with equal parts of water and angleworms." "The only daytime sounds were the fluttering of leaves, the dis tant rustle of the trout stream below us, the twittering of swal lows In the chimney, the caw ing of crows ... in those peace ful surroundings I wrote the first four chapters; forged ahead j through the next twenty-seven . . . sure for the first time jin my life I had written some j thing satisfactory to me. "But I didn't know how I had ; done it, nor had I any confl I dence that I would ever be able to finish the fifty-odd chapters that lay before me, each one certainly destined to be revised or re written fifty or sixty times." Kenneth Roberts meant Just that. Fifty or sixty times! Yet his wife's confidence never wavered. It was her Job, too, to stretch the dollars through the lean times, and there were lean times Indeed! Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press culative rumors that mav have currency, based on this celebra tion, are without foundation." nai Kiey saicl nothing about pos- smie nittu-e plln, hevond t h e Sept. 23 date. CHASM LANDS PLANE Berkley Spikes Marriage Rumors . WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.1-(. Vice President Baikley scotch ed reports that he is going to at... J--..U.... r it..ji comely St. Louis widow, on her MRFHAR-'':,-'n-Pr. w. ,..,... o . stent t.. brown. Salem, r-rash- 'landed a two place private air-1 There have been publMicd re-! plane here late Saimdav He and porta that his engagement to; passenger. ArliUn Brown w Mrs. Hadley would be announce- raped Innjurv. Witnesses said the 1 ea in si. unuis on nrr niunna). i plane appeared to strike a power ; Asked about it, Barkley told a, line and lost altitude. It struck a TCporter: I wire fence In the landing and "It is true that Mrs. Hadley i overturned. The plane was en vill have a birthday on the 23rd j route to Pullman, Wash., from of September. I am Informed , Salem, that for ears she has celebrat- ed her birthday with a little: FLIERS TURN BACK party of friends. She will do so this year. I have been invited to attend NEW YORK. Sent. 1.1 i m Two Italian fliers landed at the A Mru i . I . n .4 . I . n . . . . , this celebration, if possible. But . n.k..:,.v... whether I can attend la proble- York flight heoause'their si'nele- maurai. depending somewhat on engine plane had Insufficient fuel. Hie legislative status in the Sen ate. "But whether I am able to at tend or not, no deductions are to be drawn therefrom. Any ape- On!. John Brondello and Cant. Camillio Barlogllo of the Italian air force had hoped to make the '.SOO-mlle flight to New York in 26 hours. "ME PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST (Crow's Lumber Digest) The tlmlier products industry Is moving Into the most competi tive era ever confronted, one which is certain to grow tougher from year to year. Time was when there were few substitutes for the product of soil wood trees. Take a look around and see what you find now. Start In with wood lath. Substitute pro ducers of other materials, not one hut many, that do a better Job than wood lath for less mon ey have taken over the demand to such an extent that it is now difficult to buy wood lath because all but an infinitesimal fraction of the wood lath-making machin ery has been Junked. Kven the manufacturers nl lath snow lence have a hard time in finding a sal lsfactory supply for this limited use. Look at the sad status of Red Cedar shingles. The value of a good Red Cedar shingle properly applied is not disputed by any body. It has long life, can be rt'it on by anyone and from an ar chitectural standpoint is so supe rior In appearance that all of the competitive materials constantly strive to imitate it in appearance but. . . .the Red Cedar shingle manufacturers went on a drunk en price spree and opened the door so wide for competitive ma terials, of which there are hun dreds, that today the call for Red Cetiar shingles has been cut down and despite the merits of this ex cellent product. It will never re gain the dominating position for merly held. here there is one man out pushing the sale of Hed Cedar shingles there are ten suc cessfully talking the builder into using something else. True, many of the roofing substitutes are of queslionaNe value but. . . . many others have been Improved In apraiance and quality and made available to the retailers and builders at a cost which will continue to make hier and tougher e-repetition for Red Ce dar shingles. Wood a-isii, and to some extent doors, are the next to be engulfed In competition which has already made deep inroads on a use for softwood that Is certain to have to give way more and more to the ingenuity of the folks who are making steel and aluminum sash and doors that have all sorts of sales gadgets and that are ex panding in use to the extent that even considerable frame business is being taken away, too. Plastic mouldings and base boards and other Interior trim are doing a good Job w hich. along with the great ly reduced use of trim of any kind, is cutting into what was in former years an im portant use of lumber. If vou doubt this, then take a look a't a good house built even fifteen or twenty years ago. and note the wide base boards and casings that are no longer wanted. Take note of the hundreds of thousands of hollow-block build ings that have been built during the last five years. Here you find a material that is doing awav with romtmin ffi.ilA. i.....u'.. that would otherwise be used in j wails and partitions, one of the : major markets for the product i of the log. Covernmcnt-promoted 'and financed construction of Jer ! ry built cheap homes also see; a rapidly expanding use of ce ment slabs for floors on the thou sands of houses being built that have no basements. This has al ready meant the loss of millions or feet of business that otherwise would have come to the manu ; factum- of lumber in the use of joists, sub floors and upper-grade flooring both In soft and hard woods. j The plywood manufacturers. .wnh a superior pixxiuct having both top strength and appeatamc have, to an extent vet to be de termined, done to their markets , the same thing that the Red Ce dar people did to theirs in that they as shamefully abused their field of consumption by pnem; themselves out of the picture while at the same time invitin,' and making easy competition fivm numerous good substitutes mat are going to make it touch . for them for ail time to come. ; The way baby producer of lum ! ber who came into the picture at a time when anything that the log would produce, put out in any condition, could he sold at i fairly tall prices, is finding him self out on a limb w hich la going Mother And Son Go On Trial In 'Hearts' Killing DOVER, Del.. Sept. 13-(V A mother and her son went on trial Monday charged with the lonely hearts killing of an elderly Virginia carpenter. On trial in court of Oyer and Terminer are Mrs. Inez Brennan, Elump 45-year-old brunette, and er 16-year-old son, Robert. Mrs. Brennan is accused of ordering her son to fire the shot that killed the Virginian she met through lonely hearts letters. The victim was Wade N. Wool ridge. 67, of Bedford, Va. Two other sons of Mrs. Bren nan, Raymond, 23. and George, 17, are charged with being acces sories. They will be tried later. The old English murder trial ritual to which Delaware still ad heres was followed to the letter. The plump widow and her tall, slender son were marched in be tween two tipstaffs who carried 10-foot black spears. The speara had pointed heads painted red on one side, white on the other. The white side Is held facing the court during the trial, sym bolizing the presumed innocence of the defendant. If a verdict of guilty is return ed, the red side is turned outward. Winter's Appearanet Aid !n Halting Idaho Fires SPOKANE, Sept 13 UP) Old Man Winter remembered himself to eastern Washington and north Idaho Sunday with a fringe of mountain-top snow and a general drop of the mercury. The hint of what's to come eas ed the fire danger in many of Idaho's blackened national for ests. Snowfall was recorded around the 8.000-9,000 foot level in the mountains. Japan's Jobless May Be Sent To Other Countries TOKYO. Sept. 13 (.P Some of Japan's Jobless may be sent to countries needing workers if mutually satisfactory arrange ments can be made General MacArthur's labor chief announ ced. Chester W. Helper made the statement at his final news con ference. He leaves for Geneva Thursday to head the employ ment and migration section of the international labor organization. The highest point In the west ern hemisphere is Mount Acon cagua in Argentina 22,834 feet above sea level. to bend more and more until he. too. falls to the ground with a sickening thud. There Is today a wide variance In the prices being realized for identical sizes and grades of common lumber. The reason for this is. the smart pro ducer is increasingly getting him self in a position to supply the buyer gixxi lumber carefully manufactured in assortments to suit his needs. There are too many saw mills and too much potential capacity now to supply a normal demand. The day is not tar distant when a survival of the fittest will begin and those who have been smart enough to see that it costs no more to make lumber right and merchandise it Intelligently will be the only ones to survive. Lumber is a good building ma terial and. too. to a conslderabl degree is indispensable for many uses. The outside competition of substitutes will continue to ex pand and. of even greater Important- when the field of consump tion narrows down as it is in evitable that it will, the Internal competition will also be a proo lem for those who are so dumb that they do not take cognlwince of the fact that you can take a good log and make bad lumber out of it. 'Angel' Not Needed For Pasadena Trip ROSEBURG Roseburg doesn't need some "angel" to come for ward with $11,500 to finance the high school band's trip to Pasa dena's Tournament of Roses. It is our sincere belief that there are thousands of "angels"living in and around Roseburg who would enjoy helping send one hundred young people to this in ternationally known display of skill and talent. Publicity and advertising gain ed are secondary in Importance. The paramount issue stands out in the fact that this talented young group should not be de nied the honor and privilege of being a part of such a gala even;. Lest we forget, the Tournament of Roses each year is witnessed by more than a million people. It Is broadcast to millions of homes through national radio hookups. It is televised from coast to coast. We who now live in Roseburg and have at some time watched a Pasadena Rose Parade know that words cannot describe the spectacular sight and beauty it presents. Surely it must be pos sible for our boys and girls of the high school band to appear in Pasadena on that great day and to carry with them a treasured memory for years to come. Dear Editor, we trulv hope that Roseburg's face will not be "red." Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ulrlch Roseburg, Ore. Cars Sideswipe; Result Two Fractured Elbows SANTA ROSA, Calif.-JP Two men driving in opposite di rections, with their left arms out of the window, are under treat ment for fractured elbows. The Injured men are Dorrance Sager, 28, Geyserville, and Adam Carley, 60, Millford, 111. 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