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! 1 4 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Mon., Oct. 31, 1949 : Published 0 lily Exoopt 8unday ly tha News-Beyle Company, Inc. Bnurtd la lerond data mallar May 1, 1110, si lha pmt ofrlot at Roiaburg. Oratoo. aDOr aet Marco . IH.3 CHARLES V. 8TANTON g&fr, EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager isii ijher of the Associated Press, Oreoon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Eapraaantad by WEST-IIULLIDA t CO., INC. ollrn In NJ fork, Cblcaia, Sab rraoclpco. Lot Ancalaa, Saallle. Portland. 8L Lauia. Simscmi-TIUN BAIKH In Urefen By Mall rr Taar !.. al month. .. thraa monina M.JO ny Clly Carrier I'ar year I1B.H0 (In adTanca). leu itbao na rear, per month 11.00 Outilda Oregon Br Mall Par rear 10 00. l ' months 44 1-V lVa mentha 12.711 Comes Now Saturday Night ST VITAL ADMONITION By CHARLES V. STANTON ! A certain fraternal organization has a spot in its ritual which, admonishing members concerning any secret election within the order, uses the phrase, "look well to your ballot." If that admonition, with all its implications, could be given wider application it would have a profound and beneficial influence on the trying conditions confronting us today. . Strictly obeyed, it could conceivably cure many of our in ternational ills and domestic problems and favorably in fluence local affairs. ' If every voter would look well to his ballot, he woulc" exercise his independent and conscientious judgment. He would not use his privilege of franchise selfishly nor as a part of a pressure group. He would be concerned with the welfare of the majority. He would, in other words, follow the dictates of good citizenship. We have not followed the implications of that admonition in recent years. We have voted selfishly and carelessly, per mitting ourselves to be influenced by prejudice and pres sures. We have listened to promises from demagogues, know ing full well, if we but stopped to reason, that those promises were vain and idle, impossible of execution. Through hopes ' of selfish gain we have permitted trends alien to our long established form of government, to become firmly en trenched. We have used ballots as weapons of prejudice, striking at persons and laws limiting privilege. If the phrase "look well to your ballot" were to guide the United Nations we could be assured of world peace. But, instead, nations' jockey for places in the game of power politics. In domestic affairs we find pressure groups and seekers of special privilege using mass voting strength to gain selfish advantage, thereby permitting socialistic isms to be come strongly entrenched, threatening our constitutional form of government. In organized labor workingmen freely vote strike powers and thus endanger our national economy, whereas more care and responsibility in balloting would doubtless force settlement of disputes by negotiation or arbitration and thus benefit the laborer and the national economy. Our last national election indicated a selfish farm vote fearful .lest parity and support price formulas be altered to the detriment of the agricultural industry. The election also produced a labor vote protesting . unacceptable leg islation. Many persons casting ballots at the last national election did not vote their independent thought or convictions but permitted their ballots to be used in mass effort to obtain special privilege or benefits for minority groups with which they were concerned. . . "Look well to your ballot" is an admonition every voter should take unto himself if we are to have good govern ment. Ills of government may quickly be cured by a sincere, careful, informed and unselfish electorate. No demagogue c.an flourish when ballots are cast conscientiously. Local elections are to be held tomorrow on an issue of grave importance. We doubt that few people in areas in which elections nre to be held Tuesday on the matter of annexation can conscientiously contend that union with the municipality is not beneficial for the community as a whole; that annexation is not desirable for the greatest good to the greatest number. But no voter can overlook the personal factors the sel fish interest. As he marks his ballot, he cannot help but think, "what's in it 'for me?" A great many votes in Tues day's election will be based upon a purely personal and selfish basis with little thought to the matter of community and public welfare. We are not overlooking the fact that many opposition votes will be cast sincerely and conscientiously and we in tend no insinuation that all opposition votes are to be classed as selfish, but we believe it to be obvious that some voters will be influenced by both selfishness and prejudice. . As we stand on 'the eve of an election most vital to the general welfare of this community for failure of annexa tion will result in a costly error, impossible to correct for a period of at least 10 years we would like to repeat that most significant admonition: "look well to your ballot." - I AZ. 11V .Vfl5 I. JUNIOR) cjl CLEVELAND -iffi CDHVaNTlOtf j By Viahnett S. Martini REEDSPORT Mrs. Swatmctn Dies At Eureka , My S. S. SMlt.KY Ncw-B-Revtcw Cnrrcapondent Mrs. Cora Svvatman, (i.'l, resi dent of Oregon for over fill years, riled mondiw Oct. 24, at Kureka, Calif., following a long Illness. Mrs. Swatman was active In the Three Rivets Heliekah Indue at Reedsnort and was a memher ot the American Leplon Auxiliary at Kureka, whore she has resid ed the past three years. She was born Aueust 23, ISSti. nt Alsea, Ore. Mr. Swatman pre ceded her In death in 1928. Sur viving arc four daughters, Mabel Dobbins, Long Beach, Cnllf.. An na Slricgel. Long Reach: Mvrtie Decker, Take Taboo, Calif; nor ths TJomsland, Keedspnrt; two sons; Fred and Bill, both of Eu reka; eight grand children and one great-grandchild. Funeral services were held Thursday from Ungor's Funeral Parlors. Interment took place be tide her husband, In the Gardi ner Masonic cemetery. Ship Loads Lumber The converted Navy craft (L CM), C-Coaster, owned by Cham berlain Steamship linos ol San Francisco, arrived Tuesday In Wmptiia harbor at the Umpqua River Navigation Co. docks ani took on approximately tiOO.OOO ft, of lumber. The lumlvr was trucked down from Florence, Cushman, and Mnpleton. Site loft Thursday for San Francisco, and will return next week. Visitor! From Nebraska Mr. and Mrs. Rov S. Owen are here for an extended visit with their son and daughter in law, Mr. and Mrs. I Van Owen, and two grandsons, Kenny and Torrv. They will visit another son, Rov S. Owen, Jr., of Portland, before returning to their home in Emer son, Nebr Loses Finger In Accident lVIe Totldahl, employee of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., had the misfortune to lose his Utile fin ger. The accident happened when he eaiiebt Die ftnpnr- ,i o Hr.iilmt, I engine. Visiting Sister Mrs. Jtattie Morris of Reeds- 'Some people collect stamps. Others garner Spode . . ." says Don Blandlng In his Foreword to Elinor Brown's latest volume of verse, Of Little Songs (Camas Press, No. Hollywood, 1949, $1.) "but I collect valiant people . . . who carry on with high hearts against the small, clamorous Insis tencies of daily life and the larger formldabllitles of human living. . . . Elinor Brown Is one of my 'collected valiants' . . . only those who know her Intimately can ap preciate what lies behind this de lightful book, Of Little Songs." I haven't- had the pleasure of meeting Elinor Brown, although I did plan to somehow fit In the time on my trip to southern Cali fornia. But because of The Mend ing Basket going Into her home daily, down there in North Holly wood, and her ties with Camas Valley, too, we have been en joying a lively Interchange of let tors. Missing my column in a re cent issue she said she thought maybe I had "skipped out to Texas?" Elinor Henry Brown's latest book of verse bears the title of the first poem In It (the book was published on Poetry Day, October 15, the day I really meant to chat about it In this column): with EHB's permission I quote: "Of Little Songs How silent all the fields and woods might be If no bird sang but one who sang the best. Who would be jury, judge, and what the test? One master singing In the tallest tree, Repeating his great solo endless ly, The gift of song denied to all the rest! . A 1 What of the fledgling In some humble nest, His eager throat unshapedf to melody? Let us be glad the lowliest may sing, Nor measure little songs from simple hearts Against the masters' deathless harmonies. The lark still rises on ecstatic wing; The choir of morning has a thousand parts, Rich blending of our small divinities." In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) stakes out a claim at a good spot before somebody else does. It was gold like that placer gold along with beaver fur that built the West. T HERE are raw and elemental things In this world. One of them is a wolf howl. One night, more years ago than I like to confess, I was sleeping out In a rude cabin In the general area of the Willamette pass then unscarred by either railroad or modern highway. The coyotes wore yapping when we went to bod, but it lulled us to sleep. Then Suddenly A TIMBER WOLF HOWLED! 9 Instantly the four of us sat straight up in our beds. We agreed afterward that the hair stood up on the back of our necks. We could feci our flesh creep. port is visiting hrr sister. Mrs,. tillle Thomas, at Tiernan, Ore. R times that size in dollars, and they've left me unmoved, but at the sight of that raw gold, lying there on my desk, fresh from the earth In which it had rested for goodness knows how many cen turies waiting for someone to come along and pick It out, the hair stood up again on the back of my neck as In the case of the wolf howl In the night long years before, and I could feel prickles running up and down my spine. llfE talk endlessly In these days It of SECURITY. When word of abundant beaver fur in the mountain valleys of the West trickled back East, men for got all about security and WENT AFTER IT. Many of them lost their scalps. Many LOST THEIR LIVES. But the risk didn't damp the bold spirits of those "who felt the call of tha beaver and the wealth that MAYBE lay at the end of the beaver trail. And so it was when gold was found. The lure of it dragged men on through privation, hard work and often death. A few struck it rich. More failed to strike It rich. But they kept on coming until the placer gold was scooped clean from the rilfles. Among them, they built what is now the West. AW gold has that same electri cal quality. Back In the early 30s, in the depth of the depression, a man named Burns was Dockot-mlnlnir in the Grants Pass country and I washed out one of the biggest 1 WOU'VE read In this and other nuggets ever found In southern I I newspapers and you've heard Oregon. Its value, as I recall it, jn 'he radio that AGAIN the bold weighed out about $3500 at the spirits are trooping to Fishwheel, then price of gold. j "P on the Yukon. They came In He was In my office a short planes now, but that is about the time afterward and when I asked on,' difference, him about It he reached In the I 1 wonder what will happen to side pocket of his Jeans Jacket and dragged out the big nugget and then fished around In his other pockets for other nuggets which he piled on my desk. They us as a people if we ever lose that spirit of adventure, that will ingness to risk much to gain much, that readiness to take chances, and THINK OF NOTH- made a heap, as I remember. ING BUT SECURITY. about the sire of a large Florida 1 Ic" that f such a time ever grapefruit. The total value, he . comes we will quit going forward said, was about $8500. a nation and will begin to slip I've seen checks many, many J backward. Dillard School Schedules Open House Program By ROSA HEINBACH Nwa-Revlew Correspondent Dillard residents are very proud of their new school house and the progress and expansion the school has made In the last five years. The public Is invited to the open house Sunday after noon, Nov. 6, from two until four. The two combined buildincs now have-an enrollment of 352 pupils. One hundred and eighty nine are In the new building in the first four grades. One hun dred and sixty-three are in the old part In six rooms. All rooms have two classes ex cept the sixth and eighth. Last year the enrollment was 322 with seven teachers. Five years ago it was about 100. i A new heating plant l being Installed for both the old and the new buildings. The inter-communlcatlon sys tem extends from Principal Harry Krug's office all through the new building, and is to be LETTERS to the Editor Unions Usually Right, According To Reader ROSEBURG A cartoon In the News-Review, Oct. 24, made me wonder why newspaper folk al ways pick on the workingman and never on the manufacturer or businessman In fact, Big Business. You would think to see such cartoons Big Business was never wrong. Just look up the record of the steel strike of 1937. Then try and bo fair. Or better still, go ba.-k as far as 1900 and trace the un ion's struggle from then on to the present time and see if vou don't think that the unions have been right In nearly ail Instances. LOUIS B. EVANS R. 2. Rosburg, Ore. Danger Of Dog Tag Link Catching On Wire Told ROSEBURG I would like to call the attention of dog owners to the danger of their pets be coming fastened to wire fences or vines by the link which at taches license tags- to dog col lars. My own dog has been trap ped in this way on two different occasions. So firmly was the wire caught that even a strong man was unable to pull it out and the fencing had to be cut in order to free the animal. A dog thus entangled out in the coun try, where he might not be no ticed by passersby, could die of hunger and thirst before anyone discovered mm. I do not know if there Is anv better way to attach the license tag to a dogs collar, but I cer tainly wish some other method could be devised. My experience has. been that the tag always drops off sooner or later, even when the link is tightened with the aid of pliers, but the link re mains hanging from the collar, so small that if the dog is shaggy it may not even be noticed. This link constitutes an ever present source of danger if the dog is at liberty on a farm or any other place where people might not see him if he became fastened to fencing or brush. EVELYN BOWEN Melrose Star Rt. Roseburg, Ore. Historic Fireplace Of Colonial Church Found PHILADELPHIA t!P An old colonial fireplace that once was part of the First Reformed German Church in this country has been uncovered in a long unused storage loft, one-time site of the church. Now the Reform ed and Evangelical Church, it was founded in 1727 in a barn. In 1772 it began the erection of an enlarged church. During the Revolutionary War the Race street Reformed Church, as it then was known, had an honorable part in the struggle of the colonists for in deoendence. When the British captured Philadelphia and their troops marched by the churcii, the ten-year old son ot tne pas tor, the Rev.' Dr. Casper Die trich Weyberg, stood on the door step and shouted: "Hurrah for George Washington". The Hessians lmpnsonea ur. Weyberg and used the church as a hospital. In 1837, the city con tributed $15,200 to renovate the church as a historic shrine. BURMESE JUSTICE RANGOON. Burma, Oct. 31 UP) Unofficial reports here to day said 23 jail oinciais nad been executed by a rebel firing squad at Frome, 160 miles north west of Rangoon. The reports said the men, who included the head jailer, N. C. Paul, an Indian Christian, were sentenced by a "people's court" wmcn found tnem guilty ot ill treating political prisoners. 3oswelI Mineral Baths Chiropractic Physiotherapy ' Clinic , 1 Lady Attendants 1 Mile S. of Drain. Oregon i PHONE 100 between 6.15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Harold Mobley. 7 FLOOR SANDING and FINISHING Estimates Leslie Pfaff 11 J "Bra sr. 2WM Shaiu 1UII..I amnion , ,m expanded to connect both build ings. The lunch room program Is very attractive. There are two time cooks and two full - time helpers working in the cafete ria. They serve an average of 300 pupils each day. This room 40 by 100 feet, is used for an auditorium and also as the school gymnasiam. The school board has bought some fine, new play -ground equipment to be installed as soon as it arrives. The P.-T. A. has purchased a new motion picture 16 mm pro jector and plans to have some entertaining and educational pic tures for young and old. The public is invited to attend this "open house" and see what has been done for the benefit of the children. OjPERJAt III WALLPAPERS, : j Wise buyers look for the Imperial silver label that says the finest In wallpapers. Guaranteed to with stand room exposure without fad ing and to clean satisfactorily when Instructions are followed. J Home Fucnishings I PERSONALIZED SERVICE FOR THE HOME Get Ready Need Fuel Your Answer to: Quick, Efficient, Courteous Service fr Quality Richfield Furnace and Stove Oil k S & H Green Stamps with Each Purchase That's Easy Just . . . 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