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4 Thn Newt-Review, Roteburj, Ore. -Wed., Sept. 21, 194 aura aa NMii alaaa mallar Mar 1. ''. at 'k f aat alllai at eaaaaara. Orasaa. aaaar act al Maiaa a. U1S Published Diily Excapt Sunday fy the News-Revie Company, Inc. CHARLEt V. STANTON m. EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mimbtr of the Aaaociated Preaa, Oragen Nawapapar Publlahars Aaaoolatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Clroulationa iinniM r WrsT-HUI I.IBAT CO., INC!., arilm la Maw Vara. Cklaaia, aaa araaolaoa Laa Aafalaa, Baaltla. rartlaaf IL Laala. at'HX aiPTIIIN BATFS la Or.iaa Br Mall Par vaa, aa. ala ajaalaa M.M laraa maalha ll.aa Br fit, Carriar rr aaaf lia.aa (la aavaarai. Ua ikaa aaa raar, aar ataatb fl.M Oauiaa Orafaa Br Mall rar raar lata, all manltaa 14. la. tHraa aaaatka 12.11 TOO MUCH POWER By CHARLES V. STANTON C. Girard (Jebbie) Davidson, assistant secretary of the interior, insists in all his conversations about the proposed Columbia valley authority that the purpose of the proposals for which he is plugging so industriously is that of coordi nating federal activities in the Pacific Northwest. Davidson claims and will endeavor to prove (as he did so earnestly while we were having breakfast with him recently) that CVA, as outlined, adds no power or authority not already in the hands of federal agencies serving the region. Grouping of all major agencies into one organization under a three-man board of directors, he contends, serves only to "coordinate" federal activities. He insists that the provision requiring two of the three directors to be residents of the region is, in effect, a "decentralization" of govern ment by removing controls from Washington and placing them in the hands of a board of director with headquarters in the area served. Davidson makes out an awfully good case when he lists all the federal activities now in progress in the region, showing much duplication, lack of balance, influence from pressure groups, overlapping of authority, etc. He points to very obvious inefficiency resulting from lack of coordina tion of effort something no one can deny. He contends that the way to correct this condition is through CVA. Davidson answers the complaint from residents of the Pacific Northwest that there is no provision for representa tion from stales or their people in formation and operation of the CVA board with the theory that state and federal administrative functions must be kept separate. The CVA. he asserts, would be an agency of the executive department of the federal government. It would, he insists, deal with nothing except federal activities activities already opera tive but uncoordinated. Therefore, he contends, there is no constitutional method by which members of the board could be elected by the people of the states or appointed by state governors. To prove his point, he carries an attorney general's opinion that recommendations by governors of slates for appointments to be made by the President are not constitutional and points out that the opinion was given by the attorney general serving under President Coolidge and not by a New Deal officer. Mr. Davidson is a very brilliant and personable young man. It is a real pleasure to talk with him. He is an exceed ingly able speaker and an indefatigable worker. It is our belief he is perfectly sincere. But we also believe he is mis taken. We believe Mr. Davidson is mistaken when he says the CVA would grant no additional powers. As we read the bill, it vastly broadens power of land condemnation and, by loose wording, gives almost any powers the three-man board desires to exercise. It would, according to some inter pretations at least, permit competitive invasion of business and industrial fields an interpretation which Davidson in sists is incorrect. The bill sets up a corporation treasury, permitting the CVA board to spend millions of dollars with ! no control whatsoever from Congress. We are quite sure! that no such powers now exist for executive agencies. Con- j trol over the purse strings by Congress is set up in thej Constitution for the very purpose of keeping executive de- partment spending under control. Nor does any federal ' agency have power to control state, county and local fi nances. Congress, it is trtie, could upset the balance of local finance, but no such power exists outside Congress. The CVA board, through exercise of the offset benefit clause of the proposed bill, could bankrupt the State of Oregon and each of the state's land grant counties and, through the valuation freeze provision, strangle state finances slowly and painfully. There are many other provisions of the bill which, in our opinion, give more power to the CVA board than may now be exercised by any of the federal agencies operating in the region. We fear Mr. Davidson is so blinded by the forest that he can't see the trees. Rose-Colored Magnifying Glass mum tmwC By Viahnett S. Martin jJfJ UMPQUA VALLEY, OREGON I All Oregon Auto Licenses Expire Dec. 31, This Year Confusion among any vehicle ownera regarding expiration of their 1949 automobile license plates, haa prompted a reminder from Secretary of State Newbry that all present licenses will ex pire on December 31 aa In former years. Newbry said his office has Is-1 sued renewal schedules "overine j the permanent plate, staggered registration systm approved by the last legislature. These sched ules show the different fees and expiration dates for 1950 plates, both of which are determined by the number of the 1949 plate. Many owners have concluded, however, that the expiration date shown on the schedules refers to their present plate rather than to the 1950 registration. Seeking to dispel this confusion, Newby emphasized that ail laau plates must be obtained before the end of the year. The fees and exnira lion dates for these plates will then vary according to the printed schedule. Registration forms showing the amount which must be paid will be sont to each vehicle owner, the secretary pointed oi't. When the 19.J plates ha.e been obtalnd, they will remain on the vehicle for five years. Each subsequent renewal will fall due every year in the month shown on the plate, at the regular $10 fee. A current year tab will be added to the li cense to keep it up to date. Senate Htarinq Slated On Mtnron'i Appointment WASHINGTON, Sept 21 L The Senate Judiciary committee has ordered a public hearing next Tuesday on the appointment of Judge Sherman Minton to the Su preme court. Members decided, at a closed session, to listen then to any wit nesses who wish to protest Pres ident Truman's selection of Min ton to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. There was no talk of calling Minton himself to testify, mem bers said. Ordinarily, ' Supreme court nominees are not asked to appear. Senator Ferguson (R-Mlch), a committee member, said he wants full hearings on the nom ination. Minton, former Indiana sena tor, is now a federal Judge in Chi cago. He and President Truman developed a close friendship in their Senate days and Republi cans may revive their attacks on what some of them have called "government by crony." Why do I live here when my heart retains The loveliness of England In the spring; The changing seasons on Atlantic Coast; The tropic flow'ring of the land to South? My heart has found contentment, happiness. In this green valley tucked between steep hills, Wherein so softly falls the misting rain About the shoulders of the shelt'ring heights; Where winter brings so light a shawl of tyiow It scarce seems winter - but to emphasize The cheer of warmth that comes from blazing logs. Hear that glad sound, through window-framing view: "I'll music of spring water running fast To union with the l.'mpqua, then the sea; A Joyous trav'ler is our Seeley Creek So uas the sailor lad whose name it bears. . . . Ixok up the trail, from out the kitchen door. Where dappled shade may screen a pausing deer; See mounting Douglas firs, close-ranked to crest Where pointed caps are edged against the sky From whence, twice yearly, comes a message clear To listening heart that hears the flight of geese. Their southward flight no sadness holds for one Who has, with patience, learned the upward way Of trust In Him who charts the compass flight. . . . Why do I live here where the busy hens. Ignoring golden grain, prefer the woods Perhaps we did that, too, rejecting those Advantages that city life can give, Preferring woods. I hope that here we stay. But if My Dear should feel the urge for town, I've stored way, aa squirrels do, a hoard To nourish me, when absent from these woods; No box It needs, no cartage, and no space My heart is packed with treasure from this place! - Viahnett S. Martin In The Christian Science Monitor. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) British pound will have a shat tering Impact on world business including ours. Since you are probably not familiar with all the details of foreign commerce j and foreign exchange, you will I probably wonder why. I So let's see If we can explain it here. aaa TO begin with, If you buy or sell goods In foreign countries you ! don't get your pay if you sell and ! nn. An na.rlnn If vmi buy IN AMERICAN MONEY. You use the money of the country In which you deal and convert It into dollars. That is First Reader stuff, but It is essential to an understanding of the situation. ERE is an example: hoes of a pretty good grade sell In Britain for about a pound. Up to this week, a pound was worth (approximately) four American dollars. That is to say, 12 American dollars would buy only three pairs of British shoes. But NOW a pound sterling can be bought for only $2.80. That means that for $12 you can now buy approximately four and a third pairs of British shoes. T HE effect of the devaluation, you see, is to CUT THE PRICE OF BRITISH GOODS IN AMERI CAN MARKETS. F only Britain were concerned. the effect would not be so far j reaching. But as these words are written similar cuts In the dollar value of their currency have been i made Ly Australia, South Africa, I India, New Zealand, Ireland, Is I rael, Norway, Denmark, Malaya, Burma and Egypt. It Is practical Plastic Material To Repair Collapsed Lung Is Developed By HOWARD W. BLAKKKLEE Aaaoclatad Praa Sclanca Editor DENVER (iW A new-snow-white, plastic lung material that does most everything except breathe was shown to the Colo rado State Medical society meet ing here. The white stuff replaces lost lung tissue when part of a lung is collapsed In treating tubercu losis at the National Jewish hos pital, Denver. Dr. Allan Hurst, medical director of the hospital, planned the exhibit. The plastic is soft as flesh. It is about the same weight as lung tissue. It Is odorless, tasteless, non-irritating and permanent. It is porous, with thousands of fine Irregular holes, closely re sembling real lungs. The lung's natural fiber grow Into the syn- ineui; auuiiicc awiu aiiiuMi u iu place. The result is a repair Jon mat mis out a oamagea lung 10 its natural shape. Without repairs of this sort, a person becomes slab-sided, with a hollow Instead of the usual chest bulge. . The new plastic is the latest of many medical attempts to solve the lung repair problem. It was Invented by Lawrence Height hoe, a Denver plastics company manager. He Is a World War I veteran, disabled In that war. Helghtshoe has a private lab oratory In Longmont, near Den ver. But he made the first batch of lung filler In his wife's kitchen oven. The new lung has been used on human patients, replacing bub bles of Incite, which are light weight plastic spheres about the size of golf balls. The substitutes lune problem Is world-wide, for lung collapse for tuberculosis alone is done on hun dreds of thousands. Cancer oper ations are adding more. tn k. r. . -i f -1 . i i. ,u , I ' - i - 1 . i 1 , 1 n Eugene Register Guard I McNally maps, by scale and they , wrta,n that France and other For many years Oregon editors , show a minimum of approximai- ; countries will follow along, have been twitting California ; ely .IV miles from the Columbia i That means that the price of about appropriating O r e g o n's j to the California line at the near-1 ,. n .,- ,ml,i Crater l.ake (for tourist promo-1 est points. i .. . ' . T.....; "Whaf, another 130 m 1 1 e , ' 1 1IN among friends and Calitornians?" MARKETS, ornlans?" 1 aaa Perhaps that's the point. We ftN'E more point: AIX THESE cannot agree with Ed that the 1ICURRENCY DEVALUA tlonl so far as we know Oregon has never conceded. But some thing must have happened! For we find no less personage than Kd Aldrlch, of T h e Pendleton Fast Oregonian declaring that California may steal our Colum bia river, and "The distance from the Colum bia to the California border is only 200 miles, and Calitornians are already using water that is taken twice that far." Those California sons of guns. They must have moved the bor der up to Roseburg on this side of the Cascades or to Chemull on the east side. Wouldn't put it Daat 'em. at that! 11 w riim.-iilt to believe that the esteemed ed- ev'1 e;ion.il government is es- way to save the Columbia for TI0NS wnx RAISE THE ' Oregon and Washington s hungry ami-rii-an; rnnn5 acres is through a CVA over PR"-E OF AMERICAN GOODS which there will be absolutely no IN THESE MARKETS, local control If Truman and his i Se pals have their way. There is a ; The ne, resuU of wl ' non-sequltur as well as an anth-; meticai error in Mr. Aldrkh's ar-1 lnat we wul: gument. I 1. Buy more from abroad. Maybe if the people o f t h e 2- SEIX LESS abroad. I Northwest could have VOTING ! aaa I REPRESENTATION in the gov-' aa0U don-t have l0 toid wnat ermng board of CVA or what- . ... . ,! Atomic Secrets Exchange Topic Of 3-Nation Huddle WASHINGTON. Sept. 21 -(. The United Slates. Britain and Canada have opened negotiations for a new agreement on ill ex changing atomic secrets and (2i sharing the uranium from which the A-bomb is made. Their war born A-bomb partnership is al stake. The negotiations at this stage are wholly "exploratory" be cause President Truman has promised that he will not make ; any commitments until after con ; suiting Congress. ! American officials are closely i restricted as to what they can do or say about atomic energy information - even wilhin the con ference with the British and Ca nadians. They are reported anx ious to try to bring some three way understanding as to the prog ress each nation has achieved In atomic energy and atomic bomb ' research and development in the ! past two years or so. Yet their own hands are not free for such an exchange and presumably they would be un able to it'll the British and French, for example, the size of the V, S. atomic bomb stockpile or the power and effectiveness cf the latest model weapons. Displaced Person Proves Both Farmer And Scholar BAKER, Sept. 20 The Lutheran church asked for a Lat vian displaced persons family to come here and work on a farm. When the family, Mr. and Mrs. Valdemar Karklins, two children and grandma, arrived here last weekend the local group discov ered they had got something spe cial. Karklins. who wants to be call ed "Wally," is a farmer all right but he is also a scholar. Has to his credit an authorized transla tion of Europe's favorite Ameri can book, "Gone With The Wind," which has been published in Latvia. He said the only dis appointment about his arrival in the United States was that he would not be able to meet the author of the work. Alleged Teen-Aged Ring Investigated By Police PORTLAND. Sept. 20 - (.P County police have begun inves tigating a report that a group of teenagers named "The Multno mah gang" have been prowling stores and houses in the Metzger area. The report came from a 16-year-old, who said he resigned from the gang three weeks ago and said that, ever since, he has been threatened with assault from the other members. Police came across the boy when they found a stolen radio in his basement. The boy said the gang stole it and left it wilh him for repairing. A number of stores and houses have been robbed recently around Metzger. roi inai smcious IN YOUR jCUU'GUolU MINUS NO FATSatatW... i . I J HaA fs LOIS . ;f , COLLIER -Jt- "piutt Send lot new Di ' and Calorie booklet, "The Slender." lo fleaw Day, 'rT Boi 102;, Hollywood. Cal. HOLLYWOOD BREAD IS A DELICIOUS, WHOLESOME I NUTRITIOUS F00O, Hollywood Bread" ictir.ivt tormutt iftdudet Nittual Vitamin i, and minerali, tottM, hnem, iim, cakiiim and phosplwou., ta kelp balanta the Iwmc tulMboM. mwitmenit. Williams Bakery Have You Seen the new IVAN HOE HEATER? It's a beauty! Modern, com pact, powerful and efficient. For one or two rooms, cot tages, offices. This oil-burning heater is made by the famous Perfection Stove Company. Model 2130 comes equipped with automatic fuel feed. Larger heaters also available to suit your need. Priced as low os UMPQUA VALLEY A home owned end operated store 202 N. Jackson Phone 73 IP 1 b. i....JA , mi ... mm Itor of The Kast OreuonUn roiild tarnished, we might have some American gooos win nave 10 come make a mistake. And hlin a for-1 chance to save the waters of the down If they are to compete with mer member of the Oregon State ' Columbia. But it is not the In-; ,,e oqoj. 0f other countries. Highway Commission at that. I """.n '' "authority at any- Kilh ,h t iU h- . Of course Friend Kd is ai euinu I price" enthusiasts to permit anv i or we wlu naNe 10 8 for a CohEibl. v2l W Amhornv demo.-ra.ic prore. Indeed back to the old isolationist system to save the Columbia from the 'ou ra" 80 back to the statement of prohibitively high tariffs. Callfornlana. We can quite agree ! ". lu""a U'K"" s,'me J" a witn nun when he says: I""-" "r ",r l"' 1 IIKRE nimiinpirvr ui auinorny: m World trade is OCT OK GEAR. RE is the long and the short' e .U B. st.- oniy way we can save r - ' P"1 I fiii :our birthright Is by using the! "Nothing less than a change At He Run Anniia Tm-L : water ourselves and we need it. i In the fundamentals of American i iviMiii'itri o . m m c "lc ps inu!i mm , , ..nn r-., P nave oeen selling vasiiy more WALLA W ALLA, Sept. 21.-CP) . ( Eastern Oregon and Washine- 130 years is proposed." .... fc h V....,' an . i- .. I . . iiiii c wt-ii imnig. inai o" " vaiuoirua. e oon I like that pa" ot it a iHnfiniiK- w a. Not counting the big counties bit. , tan t go on tndefinitelj. If we are which California has apparenth I' keep on selling goods abroad. lopped off. according to Kd. i ; we'll have to Bl'Y GOODS Of course Mr. Aldrlch may be, RETURNING ABROAD. Commerce is a TWO- Just a wee bit over enthusiastic. ! MIAMI .-(... Two famed WAY like so many of the proponents ! racing establishments. Mrs. lsa of CVA. We have checked t he i belle Podge Sloan's Krookmeaile What we are going to have to State Tax Take Increase Predicted By Gov. McKay ! SALEM. Sept. 21 (.W Gover nor Douglas McKay Tuesday pre dicted that state tax revenues I would increase in keeping with ! expanding industrial and faim activity. Addressing county assessors ! who met here for two days of training by the Tax commission, i the Governor said Oregon's popu i lation growth is creating new job : opportunities. These new Jobs, he said, will create new business and farm op j erations. which will lead to great er tax income. He praised the assessor's for the efficient way they are carry ing on their Jobs. Struck bv a truck as he ran Into the street, two-year-old Dick ie Fellows ua fatally injured here Monday. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Berton Kellous of Melton, Ore. Bill Mack of Tollgaie. Ore., driver of the truck, said the youngster darted into the street i official state highway maps and while chasing other children. ,ney , ,,v ,h, nUm-e from j Portland to the California line is News-Review Classified Ad 3M miles bv wav of Ashland and bring best results. Phone 100. about the same by way of Klam- I Stable and Mrs. Cooper iL i z take won't be palatable. CASTOR Whitney i Person's Llangollen olL 1SNT PALATABLE. But Varm, will return to llialeah in ... .. . ., , 19.XI after being absent last win- ,hel " ,imM whfn castor " l ter. j necessary. PHONE 100 between 6. IS end 7 p. m., if you have not received your Newt Review. Ask for Harold Mobley. FROM THE NEWS OF 36 YEARS AGO 4 e 'S ft a... 'fr- 'Kin, "4? S. Or.. Olv . A. 'e.w. r c. ' f ww 'fra il ft. Sr 1 Our, qo. -r n. Rosebur Review January 30, 1913. s"cB In 1913 the loss of the Roseburg Flour Mills was a staggering blow to the community. Do you remember the occasion' Perhaps you recall how H. R. Staggs & Son regretted their under-insuring their investment. If your property is worth more than it's insured better see us now. It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Cass t Next door to Post Office Bill Tipton Carl srmln 1 I
