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Regionalism One Of Top Elements Of American Life Help Preserve It By BRUCE BIOSSAT AMERICA Is a land of 3,000,000 square miles, with probably more variety of climate, terrain and resources than any area of similar size anywhere. Yet life in ths country is cast into an amazingly standardized mold. For this we can thank the mo vies, the radio, the automobile, the railroad, the airplane and now television all the influences that draw us together and tend to level out our differences. Insofar as this still-widening COIUM1IA illWtlMIS, INC. TACOMA, WASHINOTON Distributed in Roseburg by Bate! Candy Co. ADVENTURES OF LITTLE CHIEF . v 60 TO SCHOOL I I ' ZA A Wv LEAM RED WINS Tz?fo:f SEAMLESS BACK ) JjQcJ -A 1 lilt SEAMLESS BACK SCHOOL SHOES FOR BOYS Built especially to take ihe hard wear of the school nlavaround and week-end chorea. Brown Elk unpen ... seamless back . . . brass hexagon hooks and eyelets . . . plain toe ., . 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No nation as big in territory as the United States has the unity of spirit we have. Most of us think and act as Am ericans first, and only secondly as people of a particular region or state or city. This unity, this mutual under standing makes for the free flow of people, of ideas, of resources and goods across state lines. The result is the general enrichment of the whole country. Contacts beget the more common under standing. But there Is another side. Many potentially rich ingredients of American life are blotted out by the uniformity that spreads itself through our entertainment, ouh social activity, our daily habits. The high school girl in Vermont too often has the same basic tastes and interests as the high school girl In Texas or Minne sota. Now we can't throw all our modern inventions into the d i s card and go back to living 1 n ignorance of each other's prob lems and interests. These pow erful Influences for unity a n d standardization are here for good. Still, a lot of social scientists think the American people ought not to succumb completely to a process that could rob their lives of all real social individuality. These scholars believe that what they call regionalism is a strong and necessary counteracting forte Suit Yourself at Joe Richards "China Challenge," the sound color documentary motion pic ture which graphically tells the story of China's physical and spiritual problems, will be shown for the second time in Roseburg, Wednesday at 8 p.m., at the North Roseburg church. This 40 minute film was photographed in natural color by Bob Pierce, pic tured above, during seven months of travel across the length and breadth of ancient China. The public Is invited to the showing of this film. The North Roseburg church is located at 2043 Vine street, between Ala meda avenue and Prune street, Just west of Cloverdale Park. which should be developed fur ther If we are to avoid a barren sameness In our living. Regionalism is a term meant to express the bond in habits and ideas that exists among people of particular sections of the coun try. Those who put great store in this notion explain rts possible role in America this way. They say that even though standardization has made heavy inroads, striking differences per sist in every distinct region of the United States. The wise course, they add,- is to preserve and develop these regional traits so they will not be wiped out. Regional folk music, art, and literature; habits of cooking and eating; manners of speech; un usual social customs; religious practices; distinctive educational features; these are samples of the characteristics the scientists have in mind. But they don't want to exalt these traits and particular reg ional problems above national needs. They believe regional life should be thought of as contrib uting richly varied detail to the big national canvas. Without i t the picture will lack the bright variety it could have. 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It Is certain that the Rogue River valley of southern Oregon, which annually loses heavy pear crops to hail, had not one hall storm this year. The scientists cooperating 1 n the weather control experiment couldn t be certain that it was the artificial work that did it. It might, of course, have been just a iluKe in ine weamer. But the results, disclosed by scientists and fruit packers, were encouraging enough to make them decide to go right ahead with their "stop the hail" scheme. It was last May when fruit growers, working with the U. S. Soil Conservation service, irriga tion districts, Oregon btate col lege experiment station, and the Weather Bureau, decided to try stopping the hail that had wreck ed nan oi one company s crop in 1948. Pilots Harvey Brandau and Eugene Kooser operated on the theory that hail comes from ver tical stacking of cumulus ciouds. Each time that the cloud for mations threatened to grow t o dangerous heights, the pilots flew over, dropping dry ice pel lets into the- tnunderneacis ana dispersing the high stack of clouds. The one-summer experiment Is not considered long enough to be conclusive. But it didn't hail once in the valiev the pilots were pro tecting. It did hail in the adjac ent, unprotected areas. Tne Iliers said tney Denevca they had stopped eight definite hailstorms. On Sept. 8 when the worst clouds appeared they spent seven and a half hour drop- Trapped Child Sleeps Through Rescue Effort GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. OB Tiny Susan Culp saw no reason lor ail tne excitement wnen ner foot became wedged in a cellar drain. So she dropped off to sleep while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Culp, three police officers and a doctor worked frantically to free her. They finally succeeded by knocking a hole in the cement floor and removing part of the drain pipe. Sixteen-month-old Su san slept right through all the pounding. tne was still snoozing wnen ner mother carried her up to bed. ping their dry ice. It didn't hall there. But there were terrific hailstorms 12 miles off, Irrigation Next Try Now the experimenters are going to try something else. They want more irrigation water 1 n the valley. So the pilots will seed strato- form clouds during the winter, over the areas which normally get very little snow. They hope 10 siarc snow railing. The snow depths will then oe measured by the official govern ment snow surveyors, to deter mine whether more has fallen on the seeded areas than on ad jacent regions. The fruit industry and Irriga tion districts, who are helping finance the project, envision limitless" oossioiulics. ii t-.en 2,000 more acre-feet of water could be obtained for irrigation, iney say, u wouiu rar more than repay the investment. cooperating in tne experiments are the Rogue River Valley traf fic association; the Medford, Ta lent and Rogue River Irrigation districts; Oregon S,tate college experiment station; the Irriga tion division of the Soil Conser vation Service, and the Weather Bureau. Tuei., Nov. 8, 1949-Th Newt-Review, Roseburg, Or. 7 Oxygen Treatment Reduces Polio Death Average INDIANAPOLIS, -UP The death rate of Infantile paralysis victims given early oxygen treat ment at Riley hospital has been only about half the national av erage, hospital authorities report ed. Evidence Is this must be due to a great extent to oxygen treat ment said Dr. Donald J. Casely, medical director of Indiana uni versity medical center which supervises the hospital. The hospital has had 277 polio myelitis patients and 13 of these have died. This Is about half the average death expectancy in the natiion and in Indiana as a whole This record was made despite the fact that the hospital took only serious or critical cases. Dr. Casely pointed out that use of oxygen was not new, but that Riley hospital has facilities to try the experiment on a fairly large scale. It has been common practice to give patients oxygen treat ment and place them in iron lungs only after the victim had shown a bluish color caused by lack of oxygen. But at Riley this year each victim was given the tests. At the first Indication ot lack of ox ygen the patient was treated with oxygen and placed in a respirator. Scientifically, the grey fox Is known as the Urocyon cinere-cargenteus. -INSURANCE-AUTO LIFE . AUTO FIRE State Farm Mutual Insurance O. U ROSE P. O. Box 489 Phone 288 116 W. 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He's Mr. Gene Ridenour of Trowbridge Electric. Gene It super visor electrician with a crew of 12 electricians, and has recently completed supervising such electric wiring jobs as Cloverdale Homes, Winchester saw mill, Green school . . . and City of Roseburg street lighting. Gene hat been an electrician for 21 years. He's married, has two sons and has resided in Roseburg for 3'i years. WHAT 132 MEANS TO YOU 132 means 132 years ... the sum total of the number of years experience of all electricians at Trowbridge Electric. Just think 132 years of experience . . . experience you cannot buy anywhere else in Douglas County equaled by few firms in Oregon. Have Trowbridge Electric install your wiring, phone 268 for an estimate on your electric needs. 3ff V UACKSCWSX TELEPHONE 268