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4 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Wed. , Nov. 16, 1949 Published 0 illy Exoept Sunday l y th Newi-Sevie Company, Inc. grd cond edit maltvr ftfay 1, t tht pntt cMot l Roiebarg, Oregon, nndnr at ! March I. 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON -f EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor ajy Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newapaper Publisher ' Asioolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulation, aapraiaatad b, wesT-HOIXIDAt CO.. I NO., afflcea Is Na '. Chleafa. Saa traaolaea Lai Anitlaa. SaaMla. Partland SI. Lmutt. OBai.KirrlON RAIFS In Or4on-B, Mall rar Taal W.M. III aaaalaa H.. thru moalhi tt.30 B, CHt L'arrlar Par jaar III.H (la adaeap. Ijil ilau at Mir, par meatb H.oa Oalilda Oregoa Br Hall Par raar If Oa. l monlha 14. 1 ihraa manltaa COMMUNITY CHEST LAGS By CHARLES V. STANTON Roseburg's Community Chest drive appears to be bogging down. i The situation is not ouite as bad as it seems, for the canvass has not yet covered all assigned territory. Some teams have not made the contacts allotted them. But the fact that many contributors are not donating amounts expected amounts necessary if the campaign is to be sua cessful is causing the leadership much anxiety. Discrepancy between individual gifts necessary to success and amounts actually given indicates a lack of realization or -acceptance of Community Chest aims, revealing the weakness inherent in the Community Chest plan and point ing up the importance of increased educational work. Businessmen are accustomed to solicitations. Seldom a day passes that the head of a business is not approached with a request to donate to some worthy cause. He grows into the habit of a more or less standard donation. Every solicitor gets a check for $5, or some other sum, until the amount becomes virtually a habit. When the Community Chest soli citor comes around he, too, gets the standard treatment. The contributor does not take into consideration that the Com. munity Chest Is a combined effort representing 20 organi zations. His contribution, if he were to give his usual $5 to each, would, therefore, be $100. But, actually, it should be more, for he is being saved time and effort which otherwise would be consumed by 20 individual solicitations. Results ' reported by teams of solicitors make it obvious that the com bined status of the Community Chest is not adequately considered. We believe that any of the 20 Community Chest organiza tions could raise its, budget by independent solicitation. Each organization would get the same amount many people are giving to the Community Chest. But through the Community Chest plan of lumping 20 worthy causes into one financial solicitation, time and effort are being conserved for contri butors and workers, for it is the same contributors and the same ' workers who would be involved in individual solicitations. The Community Chest campaign also is more efficient and economical than separate drives, for each effort involves considerable publicity and administration expense. By lump ing these costs into one solicitation, contributed money actually goes further in meeting the budgets of the partici pating organizations. " The Community Chest problem is ' - r Rose- burg. Other cities report the same di... ' 'eon actual and deserved contributions as reported i-- ew have raised their budgets with little apparent difficulty, but, for the most part, these are towns in which the Community Chest has been in operation over a long period of time and residents have a better appreciation of the work. Roseburg fell short of its goal last year, greatly handi capping the work of participating groups. In fact, supple mentary financing, through another approach for financial aid, became necessary for some. It would be extremely unfortunate, we believe, should we fail for a second year to achieve the Community Chest budget, which represents a minimum of operating require ments for the several agencies. Should this occur again it probably would end further Community Chest organizations, because few of the affected organizations would again par ticipate, particularly when they could raise their own funds by independent drives. It is to be hoped that the solicitation can soon be completed and that more realistic contributions will result. It also is to be hoped that many contributors, already contacted, will reconsider and add to their donations. Th. On U Snrr of Worn Out! I 1 MfiM) r mrx . a.&$ rs may fwaws L . . - S sS I RmvIiIou Pntaait Uie r,,em"8 -"nge 01 ,ng as lmposlsble R Editorial Comment ' ' Front The Oregon Pren LETTERS to the Editor Teacher's Explanatory Address Given Praise ROSEBUKG I don't often write comments, but I think tliRt too often, when somothliiR we like comos nlonR, we sit back anil let It fio unnoticed. As part of the Inst Fnlleiton P.-T.A. meeting, Mr. Eddy, the Fullerton principal, discussed ed ucation In Roseburg. I have been a little worried about trends In education. But after listening to Mr. Eddy Rive the farts on Rose burg education In a short concise report I am convinced that we are lucky to have our children In the Roseburg schools. I have for quite a while been at a loss to Interpret grades on my chil- difns' cards. Mr. Eddy didn't beat around the bush In general ities about education but went right to the point and explained what each grade meant and what reasons would bring about that type of grade. 1 wa vas glad to hear a principal who was not hollering about con ditions, but came out and said that with the new addition. Ful lerton was ready and able to do a Ilrst class Job. lie left me with the complete confidence that they are doing a good Job. If we could have more reports like this on what Is actually going on, I don't believe that the men would have to be dragged to I'.-T.A. E. A. WILKINSON - Melrose Rt., Roseburg, Ore. Artificial Larnyx Gives Speech To Mute People MELBOURNE, Australia (1 An engineer and his doctor have worked together to perfect a chromium larynx which gives speech to mute people. Ten years ago, llarry Shan non, the engineer, had his lar ynx removed and was told he would never speak again. But he made a thorough study of the larynx and used his engi neering skill to make an am ficlal articulator. His first im portant clue was the discovery that the vocal chords produce a constant tone, which Is modu lated bv use of the lips and teeth. When in use, his chromium gadget, which resembles an In haler, Is held in one hand, one end of the tube being connected to an aperture In the throat and the other slipped between the teeth. Now Harry Shannon talks like any normal person. By chang ing from one articulator to an other, he produces the voice of a baritone or a soprano, while he even has what he calls a "roarpr" for cheering at foot ball matches and a "whisperer" for more confidential moments. The artificial larynx has brought speech back to many other mule Australians. 'Most obstacles to the free flow of work were In people's minds. . ."' Maybe you, too, heard the pleasant voice of Eleanor Steph ens, stateMibrarian, the other day on the Clubwomen i Half-hour reviewing The Challenge of American Know-How, by Pearl Franklin Clark (Harper & Bros., 1949. Since Miss Stephens has over a half million volumes from which to choose In the State library the same half million available to you and me by mail It would seem that the book chosen to re view on KOAC would be signifi cant? I lost no time In reading; found It easy reading, too. Only 167 pages. Mrs. Clark writes about her husband's work In Europe where she herself spent twelve years with him. As she became an In tegral part of Wallace Clark's business, she realized that he was actually doing what she herself had been longing to do: Improve human living. But the efficiency engineer did not talk to the great leaders of industry about their workers, oh, , no, not In areaes where human labor had always been casually regarded. He stressed Increased production, greater profits, when he talked . , . but mostly he listened. "You only stopped listening when you were told that some thing "Was Impossible or un changeable. For here was another principle of this new way of planning: Consider nothing static or unchangeable and noth ing as Imposisble." As Wallace Clark studied the old methods "no person or mo tion was too Insignificant to be Included and respected. . Changes were to be made from the bottom up, a startling Innovation to the minds of his listeners, the heads of great Industrial plants overseas. As the production was Increased by labor-saving ma chinery and methods, the natural result was that, the living condi tions of the workers, even In their homes, were Improved. There Is a passage about 'real Americans' and the 'spiritual com pass by which they had set their course . . . They were in mines, ships, planes, factories, schools, laboratories, offices, kitchens," a passage I liked. Speaking of kitchens: The Chal lenge of American Know-How might even Inspire the housewife to look for "obstacles to the free flow of work" in her own dally routine, and finding one in her own thinking, to remove'lt. As I just did. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) cal crack, but it is an opinion formed largely out of careful reading of the news from day to day over the years. You can't do that without becoming impressed by the number of REPEATERS. a a ITS a big problem, I know. The public attitude being what it Is, how are men going to go straight after they come out of prison? Would you give a Jail bird a Job, on a fair and even basis with other employees? If you did, would those with whom he would work give him a fair break? Or would he be generally looked upon with the kind of sus picion and distrust that sour men and make them rebellious? I can't help thinking that If we arc to base our prison systems on the philosophy of rehabilitation, we shall have to change the pub lic as well as the prisons. a a a STILL, something ought to be done. Our prison system is a mess. I don't think anyone who follows the news Intelligently can haw much doubt of that. 11112 seem to have been incubat IT tng new Ideas at a rather DRIVER EXAMS DATED A drivers license examiner will be on duty in Roseburg Thursday and Friday Nov. 17 and 18, at the city hall between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., according to an announcement from the secre tary of state's office. lively rate during the past few years. In Portland a few days ago, Oregon members of the Asso ciated Press asked Secretary of State Newbry to study whether tabulating machines (voting ma chines) should be used to speed up the election count and save a little money while getting the news to the public quicker. Newbry says he is tackling the study Job. a a BEING a newspaper man, I'm of course all for it. In our bus iness, we have a notion that news is a highly perishable commodity and must be got to the consumer at the earliest possible moment. But I can't escape the thought that the way we make up our minds as to how we are going to vote is Immensely more Impor tant to the future of Oregon than the way we count the votes after they are cast. If we vote prayerfully and In telligently according to our best lights on every occasion when we are called on to vote, It won't mat ter greatly If we have to wait as much as a week to find out what happeneu on election day. a a a INURING the past few days, I've V run onto a couple of little stories about Oregon people that amused me a lot. One concerns a Portland woman who spent last winter In Mexico City. She had her Ore gonlan air-mailed down to her every day. It cost her about four bits per day, as I heard the story, but that was all right with her. She wanted o get the news straight, and she just didn't have any faith In any other newspaper. ST. LOUIS-W) Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley was driving around in a slick new automobile today, a wedding present from Vice President Alben W. Barkley. They are to be married Friday morning. The car, which cost around $3,000, Is a black convertible with red leather seats and a tan top. "I'm thrilled with it," Mrs. Had ley said. WHY THEY DIED The Bend Bulletin The traffic death rate has been falling In Oregon. For the entire state it ran less than one a dav in September, 29 to be exact, The figure is especially encouraging when It is realized that the period covered included the Labor Day weekend. The three day vacation is long enough to stimulate max imum traffic, short enough to suggest maximum speed to dri vers who crowd too long a trip into the brief time placed at the'r disposal. But for all this fatalit ies were down, averaging 5.6 per 100,000.000 car miles as against a similarly computed rate of S for August. Even more convinc ing is the fact that the Oregon death rate for the first nine months this year was 5.3 per 100,000,000 car miles, 2.4 less than that for the combined corr esponding period in 1948. The Improvement shown In the figures, which are taken from the monthly report Issued by secretary oi stale fan T. New- bry, may be attributed to var ious causes. The one which we would like to believe is the most Important is greater driver care. something that may have come about from the safety education campaign carried on over the years. The work done in the high schools which have made i r st ruction in car operation a part of the curriculum has, we know, entered into thr picture. The greatest, the most lasting results, we have always believed, are to be attained through competency combined with a proper accept ance of the principle of mutual ity in human relationship un derstanding of and respect for the rights of others, putting aside the demands and urgencies of selfishness. We .like to feel that an app roach is being made to this state. Idealistic, perhaps, but the ideal is. one that can be made to pay off in conservation of life and property and, of course, in happi ness. . There are some strictly mat erial factors, too, that are n o doubt involved in producing Ore gon's improved traffic record. Better highways, for instance, R. D. BRIDGES Savings Representative Equitable Savings and Loan Ast'n. Phone 442 Oakland, Ore. geared to the higher speeds and vastly Increased number of lat ter day motored units are, year by year replacing those built to meet earlier requirements. And there are the cars themselves, safer in design, more flexible as to control. Many of these are on the road this year, not onlv mechanically Improved but, i n their very newness, more dep endable than the worn machines which they have replaced. A special factor this year which Is not to be overlooked is the weather. Relative dry ness has lessened the wet pave ment hazard. Such things as this cannot, naturally be considere-1 in the continuing development of a safety program. Another sea son may be relatively unf-wor- able. There Is, however, the liklihood of continuing development in the month-by-month analysis oi acc ident causes, providing sound data from actual experience, not mere theory. Just for example, the September table of statistics shows that pedestrians accounted for nine of the total of 29 fatal ities. Two deaths were caused when drivers were blinded by approaching headlights. One In volved an unlighted car. Three fatal wrecks were motorcycles but one of these was caused by the rider swerving to keep from hitting a child. One came from the combination of a bicycle with no lights and a car with defective brakes. One driver was drunk. One driver fell asleep, and that was that. Three were driving on the wrong side of the road, one of them compounding the error by taking the left on a curve. Speeding In neutral, down grade, brought the consequences that may come to anyon who saves gas in this manner. Locked wheels caused one of the pedes trian deaths. Eleven of the 2 8 accidents (one claimed two lives) were after dark, three were In the dusk, 14 in daylight. Sixteen occurred on straight roads. Two wene on wet roads. There are many more details In the breakdown of causes and conditions but those that we have given serve to Indicate the thor oughness of (he report. In every instance (he statement of cause suggests the means of prevention. PHONE 100 between 6. IS and 7 p. m., if you have not received your Newt Review. 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