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
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Columbia Basin Rush To I Movlt On China Dated
At N. Roseburg Church
Outstrip Oklahoma Dash
EPHRATA -km The rush to
settle the Columbia basin project
will make the Cherokee strip
rush in Oklahoma 50 years aRo
look "like child's play," Recla
mation Commissioner Michael
W. Straus said here.
At Spokane, the Reclamation
commissioner refused to be
drawn into the controversy over
the proposed Columbia Valley ad
ministration bill.
"I am promoting the Reclama
tion program. I am not comment
ing on the CVA," Straus said.
contact among Americans leads
to deeper understanding and
greater tolerance of people, it Is
a healthy gain. 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
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"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.
The scientists distinguish ree-
lonalism from sectionalism, de-
lining tne latter as a narrow con
centration, on area interests at
the expense of wider concerns.
To use this force calls for con-
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Officers Elected By
Christian Youth Council
SALEM P) The Oregon
Christian Youth council ended Its
three-day convention here by
electing Wallace Klcnes or Tur
ner as its new president.
utner new onicers are Ann
Otto, Portland, vice president;
Joan Wood, Portland, secretary;
and Douglas Van Dyke, Salem,
treasurer.
The organization includes
youth leaders from the Metho
dist, Presbyterian. Congregation
al, Disciples of Christ, and Bap
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Rogue River Valley Escapes
Hailstorms During Aerial
Experiments With Dry Ice
MEDFORD, Ore. VP) A couple of pilots, armed with dry Ice
pellets, reported that they have apparently staved off damaging
hailstones during an entire summer season from a rich agricultural
valley.
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.
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known as the Urocyon cinere-cargenteus.
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scious effort. People In New Eng
land, the South, the Middle West
and else where must look closely
at their way of living now and as
it once was. They must try to
single out the unique elements
and develop them-vigorously, but
they must be characteristics of
real value today.
Only thus, says the regional
experts, can these fine influences
be made strong enough to resist
the constantly encroaching stan
dardization which finds its way
into most every corner. If t h e
effort isn't made, much of the
remaining variety in American
life may some dqy be buried be
yond salvaging.
RUDIE RITZMAN
1703 Brown Ave.
Phone 1066J
Roseburg, Oregon
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