4 Thi News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., Dec. 12, 1949
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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.
Her brother called the school
to ask for blood donors. .
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Florida, and quite a few of Its
members are picking on the
housewife as the villain in the
coffee dream. They say when the
price b6unccd she began to buy
by the case instead of by the
pound. This buying ' bulge, they
allege, kited the price still higher.
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.) :
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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? ,
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