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4 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Published Dilly Exospt Sunday ry the Newt-Revie Company, Inc. - , .' lateral seosns ol.il MIlH 1, f " CHARLES V. STANTON .rfp EDWIN L. KNAPf Editor tjP" Manager Member of the Associated Preet, Oregon Newspaper Publlshere Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations EssresSalsa b WaT.BOLtlO CO.. INC., afflces l New tera, CklMC. Vrsaxlsoe. Lit ..assies. Ssallle. Perllead. SI La a is. Ihr.i mill It.M. B, Cltj C.rtltr-P.f '', '"ii'""1- ,5V, see rear, pr meatb 11.04. Omlll Oree Bt Mll r reae s ntns ss.m la. thrse moDtbi IZ.fa LONE CAMPAIGNER By CHARLES V. STANTON A one-man crusade to secure extension of social security to all employed persons is being; most aggressively waged by C. L. Hathaway, Cave Junction. Hathaway was in Rosebiirg this week to consult with U. S. Senator Guy Cordon and other persons interested in : social security and pension matters. , At his own expense, he has prepared petitions and has sent them into every state to be signed by interested per sons. The petitions will urge Congress to extend social security to agricultural workers and others, numbering in all about 25 million persons, not now eligible to benefits. He has communicated with labor unions in every state, has contacted newspapers, commentators, broadcasters and others, endeavoring to promote pressure on Congress to widen the social security program. Hathaway contends that enlarging social security would not add to national cost, as states would be relieved of the present welfare load. Hathaway is a civil service employee, who has taken leave from his position with the forest service to devote his time to his self-assumed campaign. Many people doubtless will call him "radical." He un questionably is jousting with windmills. Like many would-be reformers, he is concerned with a worthy program, but is unable to offer practical corrective methods. Everyone, naturally, favors extension of social security to every individual, but the method of achieving this purpose involves most complicated economic problems. The point is, however, that Hathaway, as a private citizen, convinced that an improvement can be made in govern mental procedure, is willing to take leave from his job, losing thereby considerable income, and, out of his own pocket, pay costs of promoting his program. If more of our citizens would concern themselves with affairs of good and clean government, not necessarily as reformers or campaigners but as responsible citizens, a lot of our ills would be cured, and cured quickly. Planning Future State Capitol Area Virtually every Oregon community can point to problems resulting from earlier day lack of vision. Roseburg, for instance, has narrow streets and no ade quate city park because in years past public realization of future needs was lacking. Because shortsightedness has complicated growth in all parts of the state, it is interesting to study the plan of development recommended by the Oregon Capitol Planning commission established by an act of the 1949 legislature. This commission, headed by Robert W. Sawyer of Bend, has made a most exhaustive survey. It has endeavored to envision Oregon's growth and need for buildings to house state government. It has detailed a long-range program of land acquisition, landscaping, building construction, park ing space, and other factors. Recommendations are made for action by the legislature, state departments and the City of Salem. Naturally, the details of zoning will more directly affect the City of Salem, but the program is one that should interest the entire state, for the Capitol belongs to the state as a whole. The commission has developed a fine report. Some critics doubtless will call it visionary. Some people will contend that the territory proposed to be acquired is too large. But when we consider mistakes made in the past, by failure to envision future needs, and the provemenls are made to property upon which public access must be provided, it becomes obvious that the precaution of spatial planning is a real economy. P. 0. Dept. Erases Ban On Christmas Tree Replica CHRISTMAS, FIa Dec. 2. UP) The post office department has oowea to ine spin: oi unnstmns. The little Riven tree will be stamped again on letters mnlled. nuruiR me YUletuie season from this small Florida town with the holiday name. The post office department ruled earlier that the familiar stamp could not be used this year, but pleas by post mistress Juanita S. Tucker and Sen. Spes sard L. Holland, of Florida, have induced high officials to change their mind. For years Miss Tucker has used the green tree stamp on letters sent here by thousands of per .ins to be mailed with the "Christmas" postmark. Reversing Its earlier order, the Post office department his ruled that the cachet could be used nealn this year If there Is a spe cific request from each peton sending n letter to be mailed and if there is no extra cost to the government. Members ot the Orange county and Christmas Chamber of Com merce are trains to nltch in and help dress up the letters with the little green tree and the words "Glory to God In the Highest, 1949 Liver oils from the fresh water fish called the burbot yield seven to eight times more in vitamins than cod livrr oil. Ore. -Frl., Dec. 2, 1949 cost of acquisition after inv National Guard Total Reaches Record High WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-UD The strength of the National Guard has reached a record high of 391,165 officers and enlisted men. Announcing this today, the Na tional Guard bureau of the Army said the record strength resulted from a two-month recruiting campaign in which 45,196 were appointed or enlisted. The goal was 45,000. The greatest previous strength of the guard was 380,095 at the time It was called into federal service during World War I. The National Guard Is compos ed of state militia organizations, It mav be called Into federal service by the president in case of invasion or threat of, invasion, rebellion or danger of rebellion, or if the president Is unable to execute fedeiAl laws wun tne reg ular forces at his command. NEW SOVIET "FIRST" LONDON CP) Russia has an nounced it has Invented the first parachute in the world for use underground. Moscow radio said the chute was developed as a safety device on the lift cages which lower miners into the pits. If the cable snaps, tne parachute will open and waft the cage to the bottom of the shaft. The broadcast added that the Invention has been tested suc cessfully 68 times, with animals playing (he role of miners. ! Over KafeMjijjflg-. snaTssisis Tf Suppose your son had been "missing" for three years; ever since the Philippines were lost. You had no word nothing. Then suppose one morning, right out of a clear sky, you heard he was In a hospital in San Francisco . . . and a plane couldn't get you there fast enough! Then suppose you learned that he had a wife and a little son and that to the family of the girl he had married he owed his life . . . that Ihcy had sheltered him for all that time in their village in the wildest part of the islands. Suppose she was wretch edly covered with the only clothes she had found possible to wear over on the boat; ob viously a "native." What would you do? Well, this happened to some parents several years ago. They took that young woman and her child, their grandson right into their hearts. They outfitted her In pretty things. She could speak about a half dozen words of English then but she learned fast In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) that picture as anybody. He drew cartoons of plug-hatted poohbahs back In the days when big bus iness was more or less run by a few men, and In addition to put ting white vests on them he drew In dollar signs on the vests. His cartoons stuck in the public mind. They're there yet. ro- J In any contest between big business and the common people (universally depicted as a wor ried, hen-pecked little guy with untrimmed whiskers and scrawny neck) we can see only one side of the story. We're FOR the little guy. BELIEVE It or not, things have changed. Big Business Is no longer owned by a few Big Wheels. As of now, some 13 MIL LION people own shares In American corporations. Of this number, six million, or 45 per cent, are women, A very, very large number of these women bought their stocks as investments for the life Insurance left them by their deceased husbands. ET'S take a recent case. I. When U. S. Steel balked at pro viding pensions free for Its workers, we all harked back to Homer Davenport and conjured up in our minds a picture of a big, fat walloper in a plug hat thun dering a brutal NO at a cringing little working man who had dared to ask for a pension for his old age. WELL, It wasn't quite that way. According to the latest fig ures available, the U. S. Steel Cor poration has 166,823 stockholders. I don't know how many workers it has, but not a great many more, I Imagine. You will recall that around a half million workers went on strike, and U. S. Steel the Hill to the Poorhouse By Viahnett S. Martin I fTs-' So did the child. And after a bit the son was released from the hospital. The thing I was most curious about was: how did it happen she had learned so little English after the American had been In her village, hidden in her home, for nearly three years? Then it dawned on me. Informers, hearing a word of English, might suspect . . . and that meant death by torture for not only the native family but perhaps the whole village? The surest way to pro tect the child was to keep Eng' Hsh from him? I lost track of the story years ago. But somehow I am sure they 'lived happily ever after,' aren't you? About the same time an Amer ican service man in Hawaii mar ried a beautiful Chinese girl, a university graduate ... his par ents refused to accept her. His father made a big fuss. The son solved the problem by settling in Hawaii where mixed blood is so usual no one thinks anything of it. represents about a third of the steel Industry. HERE is the way it works out In these days: The stockholders of U. S. Steel, recognizing that steel Is a big in dustry and has to have big men to run it if it is to succeed, get together and hire a manager. This manager (at present a Mr. Falrless) speaks for them in their dealings. The steel workers, recognizing likewise that steel is a big indus try and that they must have a good man to stand up for them In their dealings with their employ ers, get together and hire them selves a manager at present a Mr. Murray, Both Mr. Falrless and Mr. Mur ray are well paid and both have a LOT of power. . THIS Is what happens: If Mr. Murray makes an ex ceptionally good deal for his thou sands and thousands of worker- comrades, they have more and the stockholders have less for the duration of the contract. If Mr. Fairless happens to put over a smart deal for his thousands and thousands of stockholder-comrades, they're somewhat better off and the, workers are somewhat worse off while the contract lasts. That is the long and the shert of it in these modern times. THERE was a time when An drew Carnegie meant Steel. There was a time when Jim Hill meant Railroads. There was a time when J. P. Morgan meant Banks. The world has changed. Now Big Business is made up of hundreds of thousands of little people who own the stocks of our corporations. Big Labor is made up of hundreds ot thousands of little people who work in the mills and ihe factories. BOTH SIDES hire smart managers to run their affairs. They are more or less equal in ECONOMIC power. I think It Is a good system. I KNOW It would be a good LETTERS to the Editor Free Information For Stalin Is Criticized BROCKWAY I wonder If an old lady, 75 years young, who is not supposed to have very much brains, could ask a few Questions of the mighty men who rule our nation. Why could we not draw a map of every large citv of anv immir- tance in the U.S., showing every pont where an A-bomb would do the most harm (something like the map shown In the Sunday Or egonian Nov. 20) and send it by registered mail to Stalin. It would save him a lot of trouble and expense if, and when, Rus sia attacks the U.S. They prosecute some men for selling government secrets and then our editors, who are suppos ed to have brains In their heads, print maps that they would be shot for in any other country in the world. They say Russia has had the A-bomb for two years. For all we are so smart, we knew noth ing about it. I wonder how many they have landed in the U. S. from their roving submarines while we have been asleep. I think when the brains of our politicians and leading editors nave turned to wniskey punch, it is time for the women to take over. They couldn't do any worse. They might do better. MONA ALLEN Brockway, Ore. Manner of Girls' Dress Blamed For Sex Crimes ROSEBURG Am again at tracted to the juvenile problem by Mrs. Munson's letter in Sat urday's News-Review. I did not see the article in Collier's, but there is enough crime by our al most babies and against the very young to alarm all. Crimes against girls has come with the immodest manner of dress of girls. Girls enjoy the freedom nf the wnv thai, nntii dress, but, to a certainty, this veiy ireeaom attracts tne atten tion of the moron, and I was told many of that mental caliber uirse uays. I would rather talk to mothers than WrltD fni- thA nnnura tin ,Via subject. The Divine Creater, when ureaiea woman, gave to ner the responsibility of caring for and training the children. Nn nn can take her place. There are certain responsibili ties that no school teacher or girls' club leader can assume or fulfill the mother's place. While we are considering our girls' training and the responsi bility therefor, let's not forget the father's duty and need to train the young boy. Both girls and boys need both parents. Girls should be trained In the home. The father is responsible for a certain amount of home training of his sons. No boy, six years old, should be interested In guns or know how to load a heavy shotgun. No policeman or troop of sol diers can undo the work of crime stories over the radio or the tons of criminal pictures ot all kinds, or even the funnies in our maga- system if the politicians would keep their hands off and let the people who own the business through ownership ot its securi ties and the people whose labor MAKES THE BUSINESS GO work out their problems without any more interference than Is needed to see to It that the power on both sides of the bargaining table is kept reasonably EQUAL. The trouble is that the politi cians are always trying to play one side off against the other in order to KEEP THEMSELVES IN POWER. Italian Reds No Longer Feared; Strike Is Fizzles ROME, Dec. 2-UP) Millions of Italian workmen have demon strated the Communists don't care them like they used to. The bulk of Italian labor hand ed their country's reds their worst defeat since the Apr!!, ISIS, gen eral election by ignoring a 21 hour Communist-led general strike which ended at 6 a. m. to day. The strike was called by Com munist labor' union leaders to protest the death of two peas ants in clashes with police over farmland invasions' by ."squat ters." The strike was generally ob served in the heavy industries steel and automobiles fit north Italy, a Communist stronghold. But everywhere in this generally non-industrial nation shops, cafes and offiecs were fully staffed and most workers ignored the quit work call from the Communist-controlled Italian Federa tion of Labor. Public transportation was only partially paralyzed. Most of the ports were idle, however. Government and conservative party sources termed the strike a flop. They pointed out that two years ago fear of Communist re prisals would have kept shops tightly shuttered, offices unman ned and buses, trains and street cars idle. During Communist - called strikes in 1946 and 1947, most persons stayed Indoors and away from work rather than incur red anger. . . yesterday's almost-normal busi ness activity was another dem onstration of how Communist in fluence had waned since Premier De Gasperi's Christian Demo crats soundly defeated the reds in the 1948 election. 8CH0OL 8AFE PUNCHED RAINIER. Ore.. Dec. 2 UP) The Rainier high school was en- terea ana tne sale punched open Wednesday nieht. Loot totaled $380, Police Chief S. N. Camp- ueu suiu. zlnes on the news stands or else where. If we bring children into the world, we are responsible for their training. We should look over, or censor, all stories or pic tures; stories printed, filmed or broadcast, or pictures printed or filmed. We do not feed or allow others to feed our children poisoned physical food. Why should they have poisoned character-building lUUUf EMMA P. WOODS, Roseburg, Ore. Increased Haiard Seen In Short Deer Season MELROSE As a subscriber and reader of The News-Review, I noticed the article pertaining til "linshnt hnnt-e" anA ,hdin good chances yet. I know most cases are caused by so-called hunters who can't wait to see what makes the bush move and shoots first. But I do know there would be fewer deaths If the seasons were not so short. It stands to reason that if the hunting seasons were longer everyone who desires a deer wouldn't be out on the few days we have. It's a pity we couldn't have a. longer open season and save a few lives. I have lived where we had eight and ten weeks for hunt ing and there was no human slaughter as there is here. Why not get. together and get longer seasons for hunting, instead of having a stampede of hunters In the woods for a few days or a couple of weekends. I don't know if this is worth printing or not, but am an old hunter myself and know a change could save some lives with less congestion in the woods. EARL SNOW. Melrose Rt., Roseburg, Ore. Editor' Note The game commission's argument for a short sesson Is. In part, that experience ihowa approximately 90 percent ot the itate'e deer hunters do their hunting In the first few dayi of the eeaion, and that, even with a short season, very few hunters ere In the woods after the first week. Longer sea sons. It Is claimed, result In increased poaching by hunters, who. having killed their one legal, deer, go back after TbwtjoaKrww! The aniwon to votyday inauranr problems By KEN BAILEY QUESTION: Suppose I Insure my home for $10,000. Does that mean that if my home is total ly destroyed by fire, the insur ance company has to pay me the entire amount? ANSWER: No, the Insurance company will pay you only the value of the property at the time of loss and only up to the face value of the policy. No In surance policy allows the in sured to profit by a firs loss. s- tf you'll adds ess your own Insur ance questions to this office, we'll try to give you the correct snawen and there will be ae ekargs er esli getlesi ef aay klaa. KEN BAILEY INSURANCE AGENCY SIS Pacific Bldg. Prion. 398 Attempt Will It Made To Bring In Bodies McCHORD AIR BASE &)- Air force officials said an at tempt will be made soon to bring the bodies of six airmen down from the snow-covered, blzzard- swept sides of Mount St. Helens, The bodies of the crew of the C-54 transport, which was found wednesaai nign on muaay gla cier, are believed buried in the snow at about the 7,000 foot level. McChord officials said a six- man team from the 14th regi mental mountain combat team will be flown here from Camp Carson, Colo. They will be briefed and sent to the scene. Earlier, it was doubtful wheth er an attempt would be made to bring out the bodies now or wait until summer when the weather and snow conditions improve. 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