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4 The News-Revlew, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., Dee. 7, 1949 Published 0 illy Exo.pt Sunday fy the News-3evie Company, Inc. tatara. Moan, elan nallat Mar 1. I, al Iba foil aflloa al Baaabara, Orafoa. aadar aal at Marob I, M?S ' V- V: STANTON .Ww EDWIN l KNAP? ! i -1 Editor "sjta! - - . ftiafidyor 1 Member of tha Aaaoolated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Aaaoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulation earauattl 6r WEST-HUM.IDA CO., INO. alflcai la Maw '. Cbleaia. aa traaalaaa Lat Ansalaa. aula. Parllaa.. BL Laala. ttUMCM.Ir.llh lir.l llraan H H.IU.PH Tea. ll.aS. ill fliaBlbl S4.A., fbraa aiealbfl 41.6a Bt Cllr Carrltr Par Mar tlO.Oa (In advaaca), Ian tbaa aaa raar, aar mo a lb ll.oa Out.laa Oreiao Br Hall Par raar nontbi 14 IA ihraa moatht lt.14 PEARL HARBOR DAY By CHARLES V. STANTON This Is the anniversary of the most tragic day in American history the anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The intervening years have been few, yet even in such a short space of time we have forgotten much of the terror of that day. Statistics are dull, but we should never forget' the cost of Pearl Harbor eight battleships, 10 other warships, 48 Navy planes, 97 Army planes, and, worst of all, 3000 men killed or missing. Hundreds of bodies still remain unrecovered from rusted hulls in the historic harbor. Pearl Harbor and its mistakes should never be forgotten. Yet even in these few years we have allowed our defense preparations to lag, opening ourselves wide to another sneak attack, even as a careless boxer turns away from an aggres sive opponent. Pearl Harbor still carries deep scars resulting from that sneak attack. Debris from millions of dollars worth of de fense installations, destroyed by the air attack, still may be seen. Time has softened those scars. National prestige, which sank to its lowest level in our history, was restored in a mushroom cloud of flame over hapless Hiroshima. We proved to the world that we could absorb a terrific punch and still come back fighting fighting victoriously. , ( The peace we had expected, as we tasted final victory and revenge for Pearl Harbor, is today a precarious peace. War clouds hang ominously on the horizon. Yet, as our defenses slept at Pearl Harbor, so, today, we permit political bicker ing, interdepartmental strife and false economy to weaken our defensive strength. We are again subject to sneak attack. While the world waits for a guiding hand to direct it on the path to reconstruction, we fumble and bumble, as we place the welfare of political parties above the safety of the nation and the world. We refuse to measure up to stern realities, desperately clinging to a false, insecure prosperity, drunkenly staggering along the suicidal road of socialism, glorying in the jingle of dollars in our pockets but heedless of the debts we have accumulated; knowing that our dreams, induced by drugs of propagandamust eventually be dissipated, but postponing the inevitable day as long as possible, while we wallow deeper and deeper along the dangerous path in the pleasure of our revels. 1 Will it take another Pearl Harbor to bring us out of our dreams? Must we again sacrifice thousands of lives and millions of dollars before we awaken to the fact that some thing for nothing is but a dream and that we must pay and pay dearly for so-called welfare? Will we go on and on along the road of socialism until it is too late to return, destroying forever the form of government we fought so hard to save only a few brief years ago? Pearl Harbor was a tragic day In our history. We feel deeply the loss of the lives of heroes who died in that catastrophe. Yet thousands of lives are being lost daily throughout the world because we have failed in our respon sibility for leadership in world affairs. Our prestige suffered because of our defeat at Pearl Harbor, but our prestige, regained through victory, is de teriorating rapidly today because we permit abuse and humiliation of our nationals, by unjust imprisonment at the hands of those who seek our destruction. This is a day when Americans, recalling the unity which came from the shock punch at Pearl Harbor, should pledge themselves that their government shall be placed above the plane of political party, pressure power, and class favoritism. No greater tribute could be paid the heroes of Pearl Harbor than a determination to preserve the Constitutional government for which , those thousands of lives were sacrificed. Every Day Is Christmas II (Ut COFFEE. APLENTY By Vuthnett S. Martin Marshall Plan Nations Matching American Money PARIS UP) European coun- tries, says a U.S. government survey, have spent almost d, 000,000.000 of their own money on recovery under the Marshall plan. The money Is part of "counter part funds" which the European countries must put up. In their own currency, matching Mar shall aid from the European Co operation administration dollar lor dollar. The European money comes irom ordinary government iunni, raised by taxation and bonds, and from what European citizens pay lor Marsnajl plan goods. The ECA must pass on the uses to which these counterpart funds are spent. More than half oi tne inree Diutons nas gone to stimulate industrial production But Britain and Norway used their counterpart funds to retire national aeot. Other projects underway with the counterpart money Include these: THE NETHERLANDS to re claim land from the Zuyder Zee, providing new homes and new food landi for a growing popu lation. AUSTRIA harnessing of the Enns river to provide electric power. GERMANY power station In West Berlin (the Soviet zone sup plies the power now), coal mine developments and railroad build ing. FRANCE Investments In the steel industry and improvements In the coal mines and electric power system. ITALY drainage, Irrigation and flood control in the v.-nto region to reclaim much-needed farm land. The U.S. has appropriated about 59,000,000,000 for ihe Mar shall plan but not all n( It has been used to date. Thus the equivalent of only $3,030,000,000 In counterpart funds has been approved for withdrawal, Of this. 52.796,500,000 has been put to i use. When I write a letter to my my friend Mrs. Finney, I al ways think of the way she used to receive mall In the days when she lived 28 miles from the near est white neighbors, down in the Indian Nation. Mrs. Finney will be 94 years young this Christmas day; she was in her twentlps then. Mail days the young Indian runner would come into the kit chen and gulp down scalding hot coffee out of an extra sized cup Mrs. Finney kept for him. Mean while "Sha-pa-nah-she wa-ko," as she was known to the Osage, wrapped the outgoing letters in a tea towel, knotting the ends securely. This the lad placed In a fold of the blanket an Osage always had with him. Off he would go . . . "When he came to Salt Creek he would take off his blanket with out stopping his steady lope, plunge In, swim across, holding the mail high over his head! He never lost a letter; never got one wet." It seemed bred In a runner to keep up his steady gait which, as it has been proven for a fact, would outrun and outwlnd a horse. An Indian runner was consecrat ed to his task another time I will tell the story of the run ner who was shot. . . Towards evening, as Mrs. Fin ney watched the hill, an easy running figure would be silhouet ted against the sunset as the runner came over the hill. Let ters meant a lot In those days! By sending over to the Kaw ag ency where mail was brought down from the states by a special arrangement, the Finneys received their mall more often, sometimes two or even three times a week! The Finney's trad ing post was half way between the Kaw and the Osage agencies. "I'd fry extra turkey-breast for him when I cooked our supper. We never bothered to use the the rest of the wild turkey. Or maybe a good thick piece of veni son. Two or three cups of cof fee, always scalding hot! I never saw the beat, the way an Indian could eat when he set his mind to It!" In the Day's News X Continued from Page One) ered, that the more children the bigger the bonus per child. Any way, If the child continues in school the bonus will be paid up to age 23. - .. a a WHAT'S cooking? Well, when things like that happen In an area that for cen turies has had MORE PEOPLE THAN FOOD you can paste It In your hat that somebody Is looking for cannon fodder. ' Brazil Drought Rumor Untrue, Claims Expert WASHINGTON UP) Un founded rumors of drought in Brazil are getting part of the blame for sky-rocketing coffee prices. - i Countering coffee drought shortage reports with U. S. crop estimates, a government expert agreed with investigatori for a Senate agriculture subcommittee that sharp price Jumps are large ly the result of rumor rather than fact. Brazil, he told the Senate group, is expected to have a larg er crop of coffee beans for ex port next year than it did this when export was larger than last year. , a Albert M. Prosterman, com modity specialist for the Com merce department's office of in ternational trade food branch, answered coffee-drouth shortage reports with an estimate from the U. S. embassy In Brazil. 'That 1950 harvests will exceed 1949 by one-half million to one million Dags, ne saia. Senator Gillette (D-Iowal. chairman of the subcommittee trying to learn why coffee prices have soared, commented: "There Is no question there Is monopolistic control of coffee in Brazil, and Brazil dominates the coffee market." Safe Deposit Boxes Night Depositories Don't delay . . . See us today! ' .- Protect Your Valuables DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation . ' H Western Powers Score Victory Over Vishinsky's Peace Proposal By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON jD One of the strange chapters in the his tory of the United Nations now has come to an end. On Sept. 23 President Truman announced there was evidence of an atomic blast In Russia. And on that day Russia's foreign minister, Andrei Y. VIshinsky, got up and made a peace proposal in the U. N., which had been set up four years ago to keep peace. .... 1. He suggested a peace pact DRAWS DISCORD IN DEATH WASHINGTON (m Dr. Hans Kindler, former conductor of the Washington Symphony or chestra, requested in his will that he be buried "preferably on a hilltop." I definitely no not want my body to be handled by undertak ers, nor to have It exposed after the second day. Just a few ban dages will be sufficient," he wrote. For music at his funeral he wanted the slow movement of the Haydn quartet In C ma jor tthe Gypsy), and "any of the Doner cnoraics ot Barn. When he died, his funeral was rranged by undertakers, and the music requested was not played. The Musical Art String Quartet, which he wanted to play, is no longer in existence. COMBINATION STOLEN BRIDAL VEIL, Ore., Dec. 7. among the Big Five nations United States, Russia, Britain, France, China. 2. He suggested the U. N, con demn preparations for a new war which he said were being made in the United States and Britain. The U. S. ambassador to the U. N., Warren R. Auslin, colled the VIshinsky proposal propa ganda. Later he said: If VIshinsky wanted to co operate with the rest of the world, the Russian peace pro posal was unnecessary; but if Russia didn't Intend to cooperate, such a peace pact would be a mockery. Still, the VIshinsky proopsal left the U. S. in a kind of box. How could the western powers counter the Russian move with some move of their own? On Nov. 14 Austin get up and proposed an American British resolution. This resolution was hardly more than what already Is contained In the U. N. charter or things the U. S. and Britain had said before: It called on U. N. members lo take part In the work of the U. N.; to restroin the use of the veto In the security council where Russia has vetoed majority de cisions 41 times; to settle disputes by peaceful means; and so on. So now the U, N, was going .o have lo vote on the Russian pro posal and on the U. S.-Britlsh proposal. This would give both sides a chance to show how many sup porters thev had In the U. N. (Pi Employes at the Union Pa cific depot wondered today whether to yell: "We wui robbed." Someone entered the depot Sunday nleht and hauled the safe outside. Hut he fled with the combination and now no one can open the safe to see If anything was taken. at least on this Issue. From the start It seemed cer tain that the U. S. and Britain would win. Russia's proposal was swamped and the western pro posal was approved by a vote ol 53 to 5. Lined up with Russia In voting against the western proposal were her four satellites: Czechoslova kia, Poland, Soviet Ukraine, White Russia. And what will be done about the western proposal that won? There doesn't seem much that can be done that wouldn't have been done without the proposal since it was a restatement of U. N. alms and previous American-British proposals. But it was a point scored by the west over Russia. So far, this has dealt only with the bare out lines of the problem. There were plenty of argu mentsbetween the time the proposals were offered and the nnal vote yesterday and not al ways on a high Intellectual plane. Fore example: The Soviet tTxralne's foreign minister, Manuilsky, told the U. N. that certain unidentified "war mongers" in the U. S. and Britain were "cockroaches, lice and beetles." VIshinsky denounced the U. S. and Britain and accused them ot preparing a capUalist war against Russia. Austin called Vishinsky's pro posal an olive branch surrounded by poisonouu thorns. Chile said the Soviet union was a sutier-capitalist, imperialist, to talitarian police state. Yugoslavia accused Russia of monstrous hy proclsy in talking peace before the U". N. while carryngi on a campaign against Marshal Tito. .small nations Dogged the unit ed States and Russia to end their cold war. rather than risk total war. And the Philippines railed the U. N. maneuvering a "deadly game -of chess." ERE'S something else you could call significant: A Young Republican John Tope, chairman of the Young Re publican National Federation says in an address to the Indiana Young Republican convention: "Young people are .becoming In creasingly dissatisfied over the position our party is taking in combatting this Democratic drive toward socialism ... It is too much to expect that THE MOST CONSERVATIVE OF USshould sit idly by and see elections lost by default as the result of party machinery being controlled by in dividuals who are Interested solely In PERSONAL BENEFITS or by individuals incapable of effective leadership." aaa YOUNG Tope's words are care fully chosen, but I presume he means to say that the Republican party Is now (and has been' for some time in the past) controlled by a clique of old fuddyduddies who are more interested in GET TING BACK INTO POWER than In saving the country from a threatened danger. I may, of course, be putting words into his mouth that are rougher than he means to utter. have expressed often enough the personal opinion that that Is what Is wrong with the Repub lican party nationally. So I'd bet ter add that I HOPE that Is what he means. Anyway, he goes on to say: "Our only hope for success lies In a revitalized Republican party. It Is up to us (he was talking to a convention of YOUNG Repub licans) to furnish this revitaliza tion through the Introduction of new methods, new leadership and new spirit." .aaa WISH he had added this one more thing: 1 It is up to us to provide a revival of FLAMING, FIGHTING FAITH IN THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE AS ENVISION ED AND OUTLINED BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS." That would be a cause worth fighting for. aaa I'D like to add, purely on my own, that It will take flaming, fight ing faith in the vision of the j Doukhobor Home Destroyed By Fire NELSON, B. C, Dec. 5 (CP) The home of the Doukhober who invited his followers to leave Canada earlier this year, was de stroyed by fire on Sunday. Police believe it may have been the work of his own people. Tne burning was tne latest ae- velopment in events which prompted a cracK-down oy tne British Columbia government fol lowing the dynamiting of Cana dian Pacific railway lines through the West Kootenay val ley. Police reinforcements were sent to the district during the weekend. The burning of the small shack- line home of John Lebedoff, lead er of the radical Sons of Free dom, followed a meeting at which police and railway officials ex plained the seriousness of bomb ing railway tracks. Hundreds of miles of railwway track are under guard today. Railway speeders precede each train, and all bridges are under special watch. Lebedoff called for 'a trek to Russia or Turkey early in the year, but he has made no ref erence to his plan in recent statements. 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