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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
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The aniwon to votyday
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value of the property at the
time of loss and only up to the
face value of the policy. No In
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INSURANCE AGENCY
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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.
Edwin Booth is the only actor
who has been elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
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