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4 Tin New-Review, Roieburg, Ora. Thurs., Doe. 1, 1949 Published Dally Except Sunday ry the Nw-Reviaw Company, Inc. CsUrtC Hflntf elait nattar Mar 1, 1M, al tha fait aflloa ai liMbirf, Orasaa under aot af March t, U7S CHARLES V. STANTON g-Wfc,. EDWIN U KNAPP Editor SU' Manager Membar of the Associated Preaa, Oregon Newapapar Publisher Aaaoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona ' BaHU by rrEST-HOLLIDAI CO., INC., .ffloaa la Nair Yark, Caloara, Saa TraaotM. Laa Aafalaa, SaattK ParUaB. It, LaaU. UBSLKirriON SAT's In Orataa By Ball rat Taar fl.M, ill aanlha H M. taraa maalba li.M. Br Cltr Catritr Par raar llt.M (In aavaaca), laia loan aaa raar. Bar meals ai.oa. uaitiaa urafao r " -- montna 11.75, viraa mlbi iz.70. HIGHWAY CHANGE PENDING By CHARLES V.STANTON The plan for highway improvement in and adjoining the city of Roaeburg will cause much discussion. Many differences of opinion exist as to most suitable locations. Some business and property interests will not like the proposed division of through streets, while others will approve. One school of thought has been to divide traffic by way of Stephens, and Main streets, rather than Stephens and Pine. Others prefer something else. ! No change in; highway Jopation can be made without injury to some property. Considered from the standpoint of the greatest ' benefit to the most people, however, a change takes on a different aspect than when viewed from the angle of a vitally affected individual. Highway department engineers have been working for years on various routing plans. They have studied every factor, including future potential growth. They have sur veyed by-pass routes, some of which would leave Eoseburg several miles off the. main highway. .They have considered various streets for one-way traffic routing. Costs of right-of-way, and construction have been pondered as have mat ters of convenience, safety, etc. The plan proposed by the engineers represents years of study and months of detailed survey and mapping. Other experts notwithstanding, we believe the proposal submitted to , the City Planning com mission is the best solution to the traffic problem, consider ing all factors, including available funds. ' . Diverting, southbound traffic to Pine' street and using Stephens street for northbound traffic will greatly speed movement through; town and relieve a .critical bottleneck. Business firms on the present highway, in our opinion, need not worry about the division, because experience has shown one-way traffic to have little effect on volume of trade. Hardest hit will be those firms now using Pine street for . truck loading purposes. On the other hand, much property will be benefitted. ' ' ' . Separating through traffic from local traffic immediately north of the present city limits should improve business for retail outlets in that rapidly growing shopping center. These businesses receive little trade from through traffic, while exfistingvcongestlon ' discourages Aiany shoppers from risking the extreme hazard. Final and definite location of the highway will be followed immediately by installation of motels, trailer camps, cafes and automotive services dependent upon highway travel. Improvement to the highway north of town should be made simultaneously with the division of traffic through town, for it will do little good to improve flow inside the city, when a congested zone exists just outside the bound aries. Reconstruction at least across the North TJmpqua river at Winchester should proceed with as little delay as possible. And while the state highway department is working on the highway problem, we would like, to suggest that the City of Roseburg and county court start planning improve ment of Main street. If Main street could be connected with Second Avenue South at the north end, and with the highway south of town, grades reduced and surface paved, it would take a consider able load of local travel off the highway streets and away from narrow, congested Jackson street. ' Roseburg unquestionably must go to a grid pattern of one-way streets eventually. Cutting Main street through as an arterial would postpone, for . at least a few years, , the necessity for a north-south grid. It does not take a long memory to recall the controversy that raged when proposal was made to remove the highway from Jackson and Cass to Stephens street. But who, now, would want to change back? Doubtless there will be some opposition to plans now advanced, but the long-time, over-all benefits should be considered, together with realization that by-passing the city entirely is not beyond the realm of possibility. "Hey, You Fellas Wanna; Hire; A Good; Hand?" I SAW By. Paul-Jenklni '' mm0 luiaU JtA Ntiiai ,1 fj$j3) gy Viahnitt S. Martin jffj "The teachers of our children mold the future." That was all I heard as I dialed across the program. But the words stayed in my mind because I had so recently enjoyed part of a day long program with the Douglas county unit of the Association Childhood Education, and In pre paring the little talk to give as a guest speaker, my thoughts about teachers had been well stirred up. It so happened that the pro gram ran late. The meeting was scheduled to end at 3 o'clock, and many had a long drive home with early dark, and fog as possi bilities. The clock pointed a quar ter to three as the prcisdent of the group very graciously Intro duced me. I wondered what to do? Should I suggest that my part of the program be skipped because of the lateness of the hour? Should I pick out one of or two points in the notes on a card I'd be sunk if ever I mem orized a "speech"! I Just Jot down some notes and think 'em over now and then ahead of time and hope for the best! Or thirdly, should I do what it seemed I was expected to do, re gardless of the clock, and the fact that a forty-minute feature was still to follow? A feature I very much wanted to slay for, too pictures of the Oregon Trail. Well, I thought it wouldn't be courteous to refuse to speak at all. I had a sense of humor so talked at' a rate of speed quite natural for me but not the much slower tempo I had resolved to use. And I tried to say In a few words how much real gratitude I had as this column must have Implied many a time for teach ers who have helped me more than once In a problem. I looked back twenty years to Illustrate the point that parental- it 5 PS. GEORGE TRAPALIS, manager of the state liquor store on Stephens street, as he was caught by the camera making a sale. I was about to say he was caught petrified by the camera, but I was thinking of a time a few years ago when I shot him as ho stood inside a lion's cage at a carnival showing here, with the lion's paw entirely too familiarly placed upon his shoulder. George is a charter member of the liquor store organization in Roseburg, having been with it since its start in March, 1934. He has been, manager for the last six years. I remember when he got the job. Times were tough then and there were 70 applicants for the position George wanted. After weeks of wire pulling, a representative of the state control commission came to town to look the applicants over and interview them. Plenty of their friends met and interviewed him, too, in between times, in their behalf. After two days of this (and most of the nights) he met F. L. Crittenden, local telephone manager at the time, and me in the lobby of the hotel. "Say," the commission agent said, mopping a furrowed and perspiring brow, .."who in h--l is this .Ceorge Trapalis? It seems everyone in Roseburg wants him to have a job!" Well, George gof it, too. It's a mighty safe bet that neither the commission nor his friends here ever have regretted it, either. If it can be truthfully said of anyone in the world that he hasn't an enemy and everyone who knows him is his loyal friend, it can be said of Ceorge Trapalis. teacher cooperation does .pay In better, understanding for the par ents; sometimes even the teacher gets a different slant by talking things over with the parents; and above all, the child, the most Important one concerned, is giv en greater freedom to develop because of team-work In the adults of his world. I hoped that every teacher present would share my convic tion that their work with children is planting of seeds that do live and do bear blossom and fruit even If the individual teacher never receives formal acknowledgement. Eugene High Band Sets Alaskan Concert Tour EUGENE, Ore.. .P The Eugene high school band's Itine rary for an Alaskan concert tour hi set. The 30 band plavers will board the Prince George in Vancouver, B. C. Pec. 26, and give their first concert In Prince Rupert, B.C. Dec. 28. Thev will plav In Ketchikan Dec. 29; trayel on the Princess Portland Nabs 4 Alleged Bandits PORTLAND, Dec. 1 Four men ' were charged Wed nesday with hold-ups of service stations, atter police arrested two of them In Portland and another two in Yncouver, Wash. Teams of police, checking ca fes in west side Portland for peo ple answering the description of hold-up suspects, arrested Vin cent G. McCormick, 18, Chicago, and EdWard D. Thostenson, 22, Lewiston, Idaho. Then Portland detectives went to a Vancouver, Wash, hotel and arrested John -Wander. 22. Chi cago, and William S. Berich, 29, Cheyenne, Wyo. All four were charged with as sault and robbery while armed. Detectives said the men came here together from Chicago a month ago. Police were checking reports of hold ups in Kansas, Colorado, and Utah, as well as four Port land robberies. a Norah to Petersburg for a Dec. 31 concert, with another on the same day In Juneau. The last two comvrts will be In Skacwav I Jan. 1 and Wrangell Jan. 3. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) in millions this time in HUN DREDS of millions. In spite of a reduction from last year, we have in Oregon MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF PROPERTY, THAT ISN'T TAXED. DON'T get too hot under the col lar all at once. I haven't the actual figures be more me, but I assume that the biggest single chunk of this non taxable property is made up of the federal possessions In Oregon. As everybody, knows, roughly half of all the land area of Ore gon is owned by : the federal government. Then there is church property, school property, charitable Insti tution property a whole long list of kinds of property we don't tax. There are doubtless good reasons for not taxing it;' At any rate, the reasons have been good enough to convince the legislature, in. most cases, and the electorate in those cases where the exemptions have been sanctioned by a vote of the people. Still, it is a little shocking to realize that here in the compara tively small state of Oregon we have , a half BILLION dollars worth of property that isn't taxed. It helps to explain why the levy is rather large on the remainder that IS taxed. . I DON'T want to be understood as being all steamed up . over this situation. It prevails rather generally over our country. It has grown up slowly over the years. In most cases, there have been reasons that seemed at tho time to be sufficiently weighty to war rant the exemption. STILL We are changing our economy. The idea of the "welfare state" i- intriguing our minds. We are moving slowly, but defi nitely, in the direction of so cialism. ' These trends will mean great changes in our way of life. a ELSEWHERE over the world (with comparatively few ex ceptions) populations tend to be divided into CLASSES. These tend over the centuries to become as sharply differentiated from each other as the layers in a layer cake. One of the tragedies of the class system is the fact that it is difficult to move out of one class Into another class especially into a class HIGHER UP. " ! This Is a historical fact: j IN THE CREATION. OF THIS CLASS SYSTEM, TAX EXEMP TION (or at least tax favoritism) I HAS, BEEN A POWERFUL FAC-; TOR TN THE ESTABLISHMENT : OF PRIVILEGED CLASSES. ' . ! WHATever we do In the way of "welfare states," "leave-lt-to-! papa-states," and so on, Pm sure ' we don't want to duplicate In America EVER , the ancient and depressing system of fixed classes. Anyway, we ought to keep clear in our minds that this whole bus iness of tax exemption plus INE-1 QUALITY In taxation has tended ' over the centuries of the past to create FIXED privileged classes. Chances Appear So Bright, Democrats Worry About Over-Confidence ' . By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Dec, 1, CP) Democratic chances in next year's congressional elections look so good to some party members they are worrying about over-confidence. That was the plain implication today In a sum-up of the political situation ph'n g renorter bv Senator Kerr (D-Okla). Kerr is a former governor and national convention keynoter who keeps h eye on the national barometer. "The people are so aware of the nation's progress both - at home and abroad under demo cratic leadership that I think they, will give it their approval in the 1950 elections," Kerr said. "At the same time, .they are so unaware of any constructive effort by the opposition as to be even less impressed than usual witn mat opposition." -Kerr didn't out it into words but there was evidence that he believes along with some other Democrats that things iook a little too good politically for their party. Some of them frankly, if pri vately, are afraid the Democrats may fall into the over-confidence trap they say was sprung on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New ork and the Republicans in the 1948 presidential election. . The feeling that the Demo crats are riding something of a political crest now seems to be shared by some of the Repub licans. These party members say privately they don't see any signs "Illusory Thing Called Security" Scored By Ike "NEW YORK. Dec. 1 m ' Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower says that "a man in Washington who wants to play the almighty with our money" is not his idea of liberalism. The "man in Washington" was not identified by Eisenhower, who has been busv again latelv sidestepping presidential booms. Auaressing a gathering of Scottish-Americans, the Columbia un iversity president endorsed the doctrine of Thomas Jefferson that the best government is the one which governs least. "As we face our problems to day and consider their nature," he said, "we measure the sever ity of those problems with the degree that we have drifted away from the simple principles with which we began. "We can recognize the decree we have changed when the de- iinition oi a liberal is a man in Washington who wants to play the almighty with our money. "We seek an illusorv thine called security. I wonder how many Scotsmen had the work 'security' in their adventures" during their fight for freedom. Speaking of the many white crosses he has seen in different parts of the. world, he said: "The men under those crosses were there because they believed tnere was sometning more than merely assuring themselves that they weren't going to be hungry at the age of 67. "They believed that man should carve his oun future for himself and his family, economi cally and every other way." This belief, he declared, was Jefferson's idea of liberalism. ONG Air Units Reach Full Strength; More Wait SALEM UP) Oregon's eight now of a GOP resurgence. GOP Defeat Hurts The result of the New York senatorial election apparently contributed heavily toward this attitude. Republicans made a re spectable showing in an- election where the odds were against them, but the point is they didn't get the victory that would have given them a lift. Ordinarily the opposition party can count on gaining seats in Congress in non-presidential years. The Republicans made such gains in 1946 that they sur prised even themselves by taking over control of both houses. GOP chieftains are scarcely hoping for any such result next year. Their task is especially tough in the senate, where so many of the majority party can didates are from the south where Republicans haven't any hope ot picking up seats. Spy Charges Hit Former Official, Others In Sofia SOFIA, Bulgaria m Former Communist vice premier' Kostov and 10 other have been indicted by Bulgaria's Communist-dominated government on charges of treason, spying and economic sabotage. They were accused of having worked with Yugoslav agents and American ana riusn . intelli gence services. (Kostov's trial on such charges long has been expected. Similar trials in other countries in the Soviet sphere have been aimed at weeding out "Titoism" sup- port of Premier-Marshal Tito ot Yugoslavia. Hungary recently ex ecuted her former Communist foreign minister, Rajk, convicted on similar charges.) , . 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