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4 Thi News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., Dec. 12, 1949 What Greater Sacrifice Sky-Born Santa's Parachute Hangs On Tension Wires Published Dtlly Exoept Sunday ly tho ., Nw-Rrl Company, Inc. - Iiienl inui tltu aiaiMi mr I. lets, u elttee -Imkiri, Orsfta. iliil Hl tf Msrek t. tilt CHARLES V. STANTON r"k . EOWlN L. KNAPP ,i Editor, a Manager Member of the Associated Preee, Oregon Newapaper Publishers Attoolatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Circulations BtaMMaua west-hoi, lidt co , inc., .nici i n lark, caioste, sneoiue. lit annus, ittie. rms. eh Lesis. idbsubu-mun oaths i onnn-Bi mii ri tr is.se. i hi M-e. Urn ttM. By Ciljr CsrrUr Pmr ri.r IIO.M (Is ?). ' rur, su mtmth Sl.se Oatilse Oniio Br Mill Tn r WOO. ill ollhl ll.li. Urn Math! St.! A "CUP OF HEMLOCK" : i BcbbtThaT i MAve &Jr ONE UPE -1561VET&PEFEAT By CHARLES V. STANTON Congressman Harris Ellsworth tossed up a change of pace when he spoke recently at the 40th annual forestry conference dinner at the Multnomah hotel in Portland. The congressman normally presents a conversational type of report on congressional and governmental matters, but at Portland he blasted with both barrels at the high-flying socialistic leadership in the "fight'n'ist" speech delivered during his few weeks in his home state. - The American people, Ellsworth declared, are being of fered a "hemlock cup," that they may commit political suicide. If more Republican leaders would take the aggressive approach used by EHsworth at Portland, instead of so much of the. "me too' type of argument, our political trend might be reversed. " 1 "What sjiould be a simple device is becoming a compli cated Frankenstein which we created but which we seem unable to control," Ellsworth said, speaking of the grow ing complexity-of government. He recited history to show that while memory, of oppression lasts, "freedom is guarded and actively-maintained." But as memory of oppression fades, people become concerned only with their own com fort, .whereupon free population, at the mercy of those poli ticians whose "generosity" with public funds, the "some thing for nothing", illusion, is lured into bondage." Ellsworth said: ' . .-';.' ' . When the Inttlnct for collective freedom becomea dulled v by the more powerful urge for peraonal advantage, brll Kant but radical minds and commanding pereonalltiee begin to" work. They exerolae their- Willi on the worda of law the meohanloa of frei government. Sometime! auch tinker ing la at flrat motivated by good Intention!. Alway It la advertised aa beneficial. No man or group ever ao- v quired control .over , a. nation without flrat convlpolng tha people that It waa far their own good. Often the tinkering and changing To motivated by tha deilre for peraonal ' power. Oooaalonally .auch effort la purely deatructlve. All three ntotlveeand typos of actlvltlea are alwaya preeent In a . free country, But wa find good Intantlona achieving bad and ultimately dlaaitroua reiulta. Wa aee the efforta of thota thirsty for power made to appear benign- by propaganda. The work of the destructive or mlsohlef-mpkere all, too , often Weara the label, of new or advanced thought and. aa beoomee attraotlv'a to many. Tha atudy of case. his tories of free governmente reveala that they have not lond survived the activities of tha tlnkerera after., their populations have bepome. too preoccupied, too Individually ooneerned with their own affaire, to pay proper attention : to' tha course of their own government. Tinkerers-with government are aa busy as "termites in a Douglas fir stringer," Ellsworth said,, adding that work of the1 do-gooders, selfish, and mischief-makers is so laced with propaganda and deceit ,"that: they cannot tell each other apart" Socialists and Communists supposedly are not on speaking terms,, he said, but it is a fact that Com munists are busy helping the trend toward socialism. Ellsworth . listed administration demands for controls over "agriculture, medicine, education, prices, buildings and materials,' commodities, the demand for regional authorities, together with more taxes, as tracing the pattern of the socialistic program. 1 Socialism leads to suicide by free government,' he said, adding that "if the people of our country innocently, and ST believe ignorantly, swallow the suicide dose of fered by the Socialists in the guise of the so-called Truman program if the last act of our great drama is played out as written by the do-gooders, the greedy, and the mischievous--we shall become a controlled people." Pointing to the diminishing percentages of voters actively participating in elections, he said: 1 have obee'rved that some think It amart or sophisti cated to declare an aloof nesa to politics. The atudy of gov- ( rnment, especially In the younger portion of our population, aeema all too often to. be oonflned to tha reading of left-wing ' dootrlnea and propaganda. Thla Is aupposed to prove them to" be advanced thinkers Intelligentsia. Mental lailnesa causes many, to dismiss a lack of knowledge of ourrent Issues by declaring them to be too complicated or too technical. . We wish more Republican speakers would-follow the theme Ellsworth so ably presented in his address at Port land. Maybe voters would awaken to the danger that con fronts us. " ' " fllff By Viahtutt S. Martin fj-f-D Mercy me, I hope there are not many people who have forgotten the real reaion for Christmas, like the woman whom Edward Wegenknecht quotes In his de lightful anthology, A Fireside Book of Christmas Stories (Bobbs Merrill, 1945). He said he heard the remark In a Pacific Coast city! ' The woman "passing a depart ment store window In which the Manger Scene had been set up as a holiday offering, was heard to exclaim: 'Can you beat that? There's the church trying to horn in on' Christmas!'" - ' - Laugh as we may and I cer tainly did! there Is a potent re minder here of a noticeable trend of the times .'. . Isn't there? The author, however, has not forgot ten why we have Christmas: he leads off his' Christmas stories with the ones from Luke and Matthew. "Renan was certainly right when he called Luke's Gos pel the most beautiful book ever written; and surely no part of It Is more beautiful than the Christmas , Story:" "I have given these stories," says Mr. Wegenknecht, "In the King James version. The old lady who rejected all modern trans lations of the Bible on the ground that what was good enough for Saint Paul was good enough for her, was weak in history, but her literary taste was excellent." It was because I could not find my copy of The Other Wise Man, Henry Van Dyke's lovely story, that I sent an S.O.S to the State Library. They not only sent It, but thirty-four other stories with It, some familiar and loved, other new tdfme put dellghtful-all in the Fireside Book of Christmas Stories. In the "plum pudding and holly" section Is Dickens' Christmas Carol (the abbreviated version which Dickens himself used later) because, says the auth or, "to omit The Carol Would be like a production of Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark on an American' tour." 1 There is in this 659-page volume a suggestion for a story-reading for almost any type of program, and best of all,. for fireside read ing aloud. Call For Blood Donors Brings Immediate Aid SPOKANE, UP) When the Rev. Lee Teufel, S. J., chaplain at Gonzaga university, appeared in the student dining hall to make an urgent appeal for blood donors, he got an immediate re sponse. One student promptly fainted but 36 others lined up as volun teers. "So many students went down to donate, the blood bank called us and asked that we hold up for awhile," Father Teufel said. "About 25 were typed and nine gave blood. The others were plac ed "on call." Dolores Brewer, 17, sister of a Gonzaga student, needed whole blood transfusions for a serious spleen condition. She is reported FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla OP) Santa Claui parachuted In to town Saturday, got hung up In high tenalon wires and waa rescued as hundreds of kids wept and cheered. - , There were oohs and ahs a s Santa hit the silk over the edge of Stranahan field In mid-city but happy outcries became yells of concern as the red-suited visitor caught in a brisk wind, was blown into power lines. The field was jammed with several thousand kids and their parents, horrified children saw Santa swing hard against a util ity pole as the chute tangled, then dangled helplessly ,45 feet a Dove ine ground. Jack Niles, 22, the chutist, was shaken up but unhurt. His des cent knocked radio station WFTL-WGOR (FM) off the air for a time, but miracuously none of the electricity struck santa. ' Mommy, Santa Claus Is trar ped," was screamed by hundreds of young throats. 'ire department ladder trucks were called, but before they ar rived, John W. Bell, a utility lineman watching the event quickly sninned up a pole 1 n bor rowed climbers. iieii fashioned a line over crossbars, swung it over to Santa Liaus wno unnarnessed nis para chute. A ladder meantime was placed under him and the not- so-Jolly St. Nick lowered him self and scrambled down to the arms of a mob of anxious youngsters. Santa Claus climbed aboard a truck, told the kids over a loud speaker that "all's well' now," and began to pass out candy. From there the program was as scheduled. The arrival of San ta was 'sponsored by the Retail Merchants Division of the Cham ber of Commerce. still In critical condition at a Spokane hospital. 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They mutter In their beards that If she'll stop hoarding the price of Java will level off. - - U. S. Not Worried Avers Groves NEW YORK (VP) Lieut Gen. Leslie R. Groves says that the nation today Is threatened with the possibility of "complete annihilation," but that the peo ple aren t really worried about The wartime head of the atom bomb project told American bus iness leaders that the public has not awakened to tne danger pos ed -by Russia'f possession , of the a-porno. v , 'Never before In history, Groves Said, "Have we been threatened with complete anni hilation.'' . But, he said, the American peo ple "are not convinced in their heart! that there is anything to worry about." . The retired army general told a closing: session of the National Association of Manufactur ers that the nation's security Is "not as sound as I would like to have It." He said that the mere threat that an atomic bomb might be used against this country means that a decision will have to be made on the question of decen tralizing the nation's Industrial plants. Cows Not Contented VALE. Ore. M1) Farmer Clarence Hill decided to try that new idea of putting music in the barn to make his cows contented. He set a radio up at milking time, and tuned In a number. Hullahalloo broke loose. He said he manaced to get the set turned off before the cows wrecked his barn. Now he lets h i wife lisp the set to lighten her household du ties. . . Tangerines are early varieties of the orange. ARKET .' reports - tell us this week that coffee prices have STEADIED, and many storekeep ers assert that coffee sales have dropped below normal as con sumers START USING UP EX CESS SUPPLIES they bought during the scare a few weeks ago. HERE the search for the villain In the coffee plot shifts to Brazil. Some of our U. S. govern ment officials think the Brazilians may have EXAGGERATED the effect of their drouth and started jacking up the price of raw coffee more than the situation justified. Brazilians, you know, DON'T VOTE IN OUR ELECTIONS, so It's politically safe to point the finger at them as the culprit. OTHERS (that Is to say, other government officials) put the finger on our friend the SPECU LATOR. It means, according to their story, that a while back it looked like the price of coffee might GO DOWN, so a lot of nas ty traders "sold short" (meaning that they . contracted to deliver coffee later at a lower price.) But the price went up, and the rush to "cover" (stock market lan guage for going Into the market and buying the coffee you've con tracted to deliver) sent the price zooming skyward. (That, too. Is relatively safe politically, as everybody knows J there aren't enough "speculators" to swing elections.) : N OTE: : Up to date, nobdy has paid any attention to figures showing we're drinking about three times as much coffee as we used to drink back in the olden golden days. When I was a kid in high school wrestling with elementary economics and later on a stripling In college going to the mat with tougher and higher-up economics, the quaint theory prevailed that prices were controlled by an econ omic dictum known as the law of "supply and demand." We were fed such guff as this: When de mand is large and supply small, PRICES GO UP. When the con trary situation exists, prices go down. It's strange what kids - will swallow, isn't It? , A New Year's . $edolutio n Start your preparations now to do your 1950 business with us. Complete banking services available, including safe deposit boxes and night depositories. 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