4 The Nw(-Rvlw, Reiaburg, Or. Sot., Sept. 24, 1949 Published O illy Exeept Sunday !y ths Ntwi-3vie Compony, Inc. SataraS i.r.n ilia aillir Mar ' "' ' aaaabarg, Orafea. aadar act al March S. U1S CHARLES V. STANTON .T-W EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor m&jr" Msnjgar Mtmber of ths Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assoeiatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations llinailll at HeST-HOI.LIBAT CO.. INC. afflrai la Naw Tafk. Celasie. Saa ttixlxi Laa Aatalta. Stallla. PaMlaaS Si. Laa la. SUa lienoN aArrs la Oraaaa Mall ear Taat W.S. alt aiaalha 14 araa aiaaia. 1t.5 Hi Cllj ( arrlar far ror lll lla aStaaeai. I?" aaa jaar. aaf maala Sl.es OalilSa Orafaa Bf Mall ra, laa, Mae ai I la raa aiaalha Si 1 FIGHTING SLOGAN NEEDED By CHARLES V. STANTON Why is the Department of Interior campaigning so vigor ously for CVA? Why are its high level officials spending go much time, effort and money endeavoring to force re gional authorities upon the American people? We can't believe that motives for all this work are en tirely altruistic and that leadership has in mind only the welfare of the region and its people, as we would be led to believe. Maybe we're too skeptical, but we can't help believing there is something "smelly" aabout the proposal. The Department of Interior has been power hungry for many years. The yearning for authority antedates the New Deal. We can recall, for instance, how the Department of Interior, through the National Parks service, has tried for years to get the Diamond lake recreational area away from the U. S. Forest service. Jealousy and rivalry have long marked the activities of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the Interior department, and the Army Engi neers a conflict which has much to do with the CVA proposal. The Department of Interior's hunger for power has grown steadily in late years, and the ambitious scheme of valley authorities furnishes an excellent political vehicle by which that department, if successful in its schemes, can take over and control virtually all federal activities. The Department of Interior, if valley authorities were extended to the ul timate, actually would be the government. Congressional control would be by-passed. State governments would lose autonomy. All opposition could be beaten down by the un limited power and weight of the vast federal authority. By controlling employment the authority would have suf ficient voting strength to perpetuate itself. Testifying before a Congressional committee, Governor McKay of Oregon said recently: Proponents of a CVA, and especially those who are on the government payroll, are very Impatient with the proceeaes of representative government. They dislike having to oome to Congress with their requeets for money. They seem unwilling to sit down around the table, like ordinary. citl tene, and work out difference of opinion about their plane and programs. In brief, they don't act half as Interested in trying to make our present system of resouroe develop ment work better aa they are In setting up an entirely new ayetem which they, and they alone, will control. There Is no short and easy method of self-government. Every nation that has attempted to take short outs away from the winding path of democracy hae wound up with state socialism and dictatorship. The short cut never leade back to the trail! CVA proponents paint a bright picture. They show us a vision of regional development, industrial expansion, in creased employment, outpourings of federal expenditures, improved conservation, utilization of wood waste, and many other benefits. They are endeavoring to bribe us with our own money to put all our wealth and all our future in their paternalistic hands. We should never forget that "something for nothing" is a myth and that we will pay for whatever benefits might accrue from CVA. No one will deny the need for coordination of federal ac tivity and improved regional planning. But Editor Robert W. Sawyer of the Bend Bulletin says: There are, for Instance, the Interior department'e proposed Inveetments In power. Private enterprlee would be willing to make them under fair terme and proper regulation. If they were permitted, scores of mllllone would be saved in taxation and perhaps even more might be had for the coneervation agencies. We believe there is need for both public and private power; that there is no need for competition between the two, but that cooperative planning could greatly speed re gional development and industrial expansion. Regional development can be obtained without creation of valley authorities. We can see no reason we should place a noose around our necks simply because the holder of the rope says he doesn't intend to pull on it. If we follow the recommendations of the Hoover commis sion, we can obtain all the benefits offered by CVA and still retain the Constitutional plan of checks and balances. The Oregon Territory, for which we once almost went to war with Great Britain, originally embraced Oregon, Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming, closely paralleling the area proposed for CVA. The Oregon Territory came into existence under the militant slogan, "54-40 or Fight." It is not our purpose that we meekly cede that great empire to a dictatorial CVA. We need a new fighting slogan. "Love Triangle" Blamed For Crash That Killed 23 MONTREAL. Sept. 24 (.Ft Definite proof that a woman placed explosives aboard a Cana dian Pacific airliner which crashed Sept. 9 is in the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they announced Friday. The crash killed 23 persons. Inspector Renr Belec of the R.C.M.O. detachment in Quebec i City said: j "We have definite proof that ' explosives were placed alma id the , plane to get rid of a woman and 1 we Relieve we can prove who, did it." i The announcement came after disclosure that R.C.M P.. investl- fitting the likelihood of sabotage n the Sept. 9 plane crash, were guarding a woman, said to be so ill she may die in a Quebec hos pital. Three lop New York execu tives of the Kennecott Copper corporation died In the crash. They were President E. T. Stan nard, President-designate Arthur S. Storke and Vice-President R. J. I f arKer. Inspector Belec said a search was on for a man who was de scribed as the ailing woman's lover. I The woman Is In serious condl- lion from an overdose of a drug ! Or B Sleeofnff nntinn ) The Inspector indicated that ! behind the crash was a double-1 .barreled plot Involving a "love I triangle" and $10,000 worth of Insurance. ( The announcement that the ! mystery woman her age was given as 40 or 41 w as under ; guard in the hospital came from Inspector bolec in a telephone: call to Montreal. I A By Viahn If you like the sea, the moun tains and mist, rugged country life, all with courage and laugh ter and a touch of Scotch dia lect, then "Mac's Croft" is for you. Duttons dressed the little book in bright tartan colors as i a hint of the contents. It Is the story of an adventurer in primi tive living in the Scotch high lands, In the years 1939 1943, written by Wendy Woods. The word 'croft' means an agricul tural holding; crofters are, of course, tenants on the croft. "There is no road leading to our glen. A bridle track, In places too tough for a horse, runs five miles through the woods to our nearest road, and ten miles in the opposite direction along the side of the loch, to the nearest railroad staticn. In lieu of a shop we have a store that collects the rations by boat, and for all else we must send by post (sixpence postage for a shilling's worth of meat!) or take the train 35 miles, which does not Include the ten miles to the station." But Wendy Woods, and her husband. Mac, the crofter, loved Editorial Commenf From The Oregon Press Signs ... of tht Times The Oregon Statesman I'se of language distinguishes a man from an animal, but com munication is not restricted to speech. Persons still communi cate in sign language which doubtless is far more ancient than intelligible oral expression, unless it be the grunt or the cry. When the Modern Language ass ociation met recently at Stanford university. Prof. I.. J. Davidson of the University of Denver read a paper on "Some Current Me thods of Nonverbal Communica tion." He had quite an impress ive list of current uses of signs. Railroad hrakemen still em ploy hand signals to instruct the engineer. Football referees have signs to describe rules infrac tions, and the Jerk of a n um pire's thumb is bad news for the team at hat. There is a sig nal code for motorists (which the driver in front of you often ig nores, so you sayt. longshore men, construction workers, log gers, convey their messages to wincn and snovei and itonkcv engine operators hv motions or hands or arms. At trading posts millions o f dollars worm of business Is done day in. day out. by 'inger ges tures which are Greek to the no vice observer. Religious attitud es are indicated by signs kneel ing, bowing, making the sign of the cross. And the deaf depend very largely on sign language for j their conversation. There are signs of contempt and of Insult and the ho v hood signal to go swimming (or has it passed out of usei. A nod or shake of the head means yes or no. In fact when the list is writ ten down it mite lengthy signs still are practical means of com munication, quite imlespensable in many cases. An Oregon Failure j The Dalles Chronicle I Oregon has a number of state , Institutions but unfortunately none of them serves one group ; which badly need's aid-the older I teen-agers who have committed i crimes and need rehabilitation. ' Some ot the worst criminal of fenses art committed by young Shot In The Arrri, But- VJHffWoU REALLY ) ) KEE0 6CONliNU67 I WJJlj JXEBCKE WiTH- jr- iahnett S. Martini lt! Both had been country-born; in 1939 they were living in Glas- gow;' their children had left the parental nest; why not go back to the land? Their eagerness to escape the strain and stress of city-living made them deaf to' the outcries and dire predictions of their friends. They found a tumbledown place "with more or less whole roof." Wendy cleaned off the big dresser and realized her dream of a place to display her collec tion of old Delf only to find it "was no fun to have to wash the whole display of peat-dust every two or three days, and as posses- (p , border cities slon of books, and more books, !,ike victoria, you must first cx. was a problem, we soon turned j chanKe your Amcrican money for the dresser Into a bookcase." The (h monpy of tne country ln whieh simplicity of their living is!you want 0 do your buying humorously set forth with text ' and the other way around in the and pictures. Icase of foreigners who want to Sometimes mines washed up buy things in America. In the loch and other things.! once that fact is understood. They gathered kelp for ferti lizer, and bracken, with courage testing, back-breaking toil, car rying their loads in creels on their backs. But in spite of the toil, they found peace and happi ness at Alt Ruadh. j persons. Many of the offenders ! foreign exchange who were swap are hardened violators who need nine one kind of money for other t.l'nr. mM-iu-li.-A ..a . -I-v. ' severe corrective treatment. The IUnitnnl13l'1 la n..il..UI. t those who' belong to this class. In most instances, however, the youth who strays into crime no1 n.v my means hopelesslv uneorrectible; he needs help in getting back into his former re spected niche In society. Some of these teen-apers are too old to he sent to the training school at Woodhurn and too young to become associated with the tough offenders who popul ate the penitentiary. The prob lem of what to ilo with offenders in this age class is constantly coming before our Judges, who have no choice hut to improvise arrangements winch are admit- tedly inadequate but still t h e best under the circumstances. Today's youth of IS is regard ed as more mature than his fa ther was at that age. But he lacks mature judgment and needs help when in trouble. Soc iety should extend it to him as an investment In future good citizenship. We are not doin I that and thus have failed to hear our full responsibility as a state. Blackmer To Plead Guilty To Tax Evasion Charge WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-l.-r: A Justice depart moot off'eial said Lr lrl ... . Ua tl... it m I ill settle his score ,vl. h the gov - eminent hv a cuiltv ile.- to one of the 21 year-old lax evasion in dii tments standing a;.iirst hitn. '"" government v.n men orep the five other Indictments, charg- ing tax evasion and penui v. this official said. The action, if carried out, would subject the SI-- year - old Denver millionaire, who h.w been in exile in Europe fo the last . t.. n,-,o..r, t of one year and a fine of S-ViVV. Blackmer. who fled to Franc" to avoid testifwng at enngressnm 1 Investigation, into the lY.ioot Dome oil scandals of the Hau'.in-j administration, arrived in Boston by plane two das ago. He er.tei cd a hospital there tor a phvsicil home in Denver. . ... vr...,. s .- In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) all concerned. T HIS is the point: 'such, it has in the past accepted American money as readily as Canadian. It was out of that fact that the contusion arose. If the visiting American tour-1 isls had first gone to the bank (or to some other money changer) and 1 naa purendsea wmui... " ! nt'lr American dollars all woum nave une n iiic-iniy aa a marriage bell and there would have been no confusion or mis understanding. . The "intricacy" of foreign ex change lies in the fact that before !you can buy goods In a foreign there is no further mystery in the business of foreign exchange, aaa IT may seem to you right off the bat that all this (s Just another complication added by modern living. That isn't true at all. You must remember the dramatic in cident in the life of Jesus when he scourged the money-changers out of the temple. These "money changers" were simply dealers in kinds of money. I Tn'1 swapping of one kind of money for another kind of money is as old as business itself. It has ... h ,. ith and it i w ith us still. It seems likely that it al ways will be with us. aaa HOW did It get started? Well, that's a long story. There was a time when gold and silver were the only kinds of AC CKITED money. But they were bulky. So merchants fell into the h-bit of depositing their gold and silver with people of accepted honesty and taking receipts there for. Since they were issued by re sponsible people, these receipts were accepted readily AS MONEY. Because they were eas ier to handle than gold and silver, the practice spread. That is how paper money got its start. How did it come about that the monies of different countries acquired DIFFERENT VALUES? That is another long story and a cynically interesting one. It 1 rtll,n ' WK governments very ong 10 discover that hy DEBASIM, the monev (or inflating It. or "de- I valuing it " w hatever term hap- , IO us0(1 to dp$oribe the, I , I P1"00' ,hl--v could make ,hciT I original store of honest money GO i i FARTHER, j H amounted to CHEATING, of ! . . ! lW,rs0- but ,he ,hpor' wa,l oromul cat ed verv earlv that! I GOVERNMENT (the king. In! those days! CAN DO NO I WRONG So vou see when pov. i ' "u n)n 0' ' crnment cheated hy debasing the. money it wasn't cheating, i aaa I . i, .. nri,j . i r,-,, .v. a governments ( kings, empr-J LETTERS to the Editor Appreciation Expressed For Fall Opening Aid ROSEBUR G Our 1949 Fall Opening belongs to the past. The fine cooperation given by all who participated will long remain In the memory of its sponsors. It has been pronounced the most successful event of Its nature ever held in Roseburg. and I ask that you extend us the cour tesy of publishing this short note as an expression of our appre ciation to eacn person and every firm and agency lor the assis tance given. HALF. SIMS. Vice President Re tail Trade Association Elliott Recall Planners Claim Enough Signatures PORTLAND, Sept. 24 (JP) The committee seeking the recall of Sheriff M. L. Elliott said Fri day they had obtained enough signatures to assure a recall elec tion. It will be next week, however, before county officials will be able to check the last signatures and set the recall election. The sheriff could not be reached for comment, but his brother Deputy Jack Elliott said the decision to fight it out still stands. Richardson Brown, a businessman and personal friend of the sheriff, announced he wound head a campaign to keep Elliott in office. ors, khans, Caesars, big chiefs what .lave you) cheated on dif ferent scales. Some of them mixed less lead with the gold, some of thet. poured In the lead with a heavier hand. Anyway, it came about that the money of different countries had different values and so the profession of money changer arose. These money changers foreign exchange ex perts is the polite term) knew what was what In the way of value, and bought and sold ac cordingly. Boiled down to Its essentials, that is how this business of for eign exchange arose. You will ,h'nV? 'lAwTmvr-' "'hing SMEING j PHONE 100 between 6.15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Harold Mobley. BINOCULARS Like all scientific precision instruments, modem binoculars are designed to give best service for particular requirements. Where one type of glass will give you most satisfac tory service for daytime sports, another wi be more adequote for early morning. Glasses for use at daybreak and dusk must of necessity have high light-gathering power. These glasses are usually six or seven power having objective lenses of 45 or 50 millimeters in diameter or more. Because of the large objective lenses, how ever, they are bulky. At Knudtson's you'll find Sard, Carl Zeiss, Universal and Wollen sack binoculars and field glasses as well os other European makes priced from thirty five dollars. Come in now, before hunting season starts and choose the glass best fitted for your particular needs. across from Douglas State Bank British Labor Govt. To Risk LONDON, Sept. 24 P The Labor government has decided io 1,. , f nr - I'nt nf (XIH f i - dence in the House of Common.. parliament meeis in ai. session Tuesday for a three-day debate on the cheapening of the Pund- L, . a fllnu in fh Tahinet i IUUIVC llua. ' disclosed the decision by the gov ernment to lorce- a yuic v ......... dence. It the government loses, it must resign. That would mean a new general election immedi ately. Because of the Labor party s top-heavy majority in Commons Preference For Navy Cancels Marriage Plan vruf vnRt' Clenf 24 ( PI The scheduled marriage of Mrs. co.,i r:n,iid an hpiress of the ijay Gould fortune, and Lt. Comdr. Ernest Hoeler Jr., lsa, nas uern called off. The wedding plans reportedly were dropped because of Hoefer's refusal to give up his Navy ca reer and become a businessman in New York. Friends of the couple were quoted as saying Mrs. Gould had asked Hoefer to quit the Navy because she did not want him to be sent into foreign service. The couple was to have been married next Saturday. AUTO-TRUCK GENERAL LIABILITY FIRE VkajuuactjfV We have the following coverage of insurance for your home. Fire, Rent Income, Added Expense, Tree Insur ance, Explosive Insurance, and Extend ed Coverage Paul H. Krueger District Agent Si S. Stephens St. Roseburg Phone 218 Bank With A Douglos County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank make use in the evening and JCWELCS Life On Confidence Vote such a setback is unlikely. Labor has 393 of the 640 seats in Commons, the Conservatives, 189. The remainder are held by Liberals and Splinter parties. But there has been loud grum bling from its huge trade union wing over the prospect of a rise in the cost of living as a result of devaluation. There also is a big bloc of left wingers in Com mons who have been increasing ly discontent with party policy. Court Frees Soeedster ! r forced To Race Stork NEW YORK. Sept. 24. (,P I You can speed on New York streets if you're ricing the i stork. That's the decision of a i magistrate's court. 1 An industrial designer, Burton M. Sloane, was driving his wife, ,Mae. to a hospital recently. On Riverside drive, Patrolman j Francis McDermott stopped the car. I The designer explained where he was going, and the policeman ; led the way siren screaming, i But at the hospital, he handed 'Sloane a traffic ticket. A daughter was born. Magistrate Morris Rothenbers decided yesterday that a prospec tive father is Justified in step ping on the gas. He dismissed I the charge. the difference 3