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4 ., Th Ntws-RsWtw, Roieburg, Or. Tues., Dsc. 13, 1949 , - Pub-llthed D illy Except Sunday I y the Nwi-Rvl Company, Inc. 4 l.ttri ! aiattir May t. use. at tha nil lllo BMtbarf, Orttsa. aadar eflt at Marek a. U7I CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor as Manager Member of the Associated Prats, Oregon Newspaper Publisher! Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations IlltMUlX ay WHT-MOLLIDAt CO., INC., aftleai la Naw T.r, Ckloata, lu Vnulm. L Anitlw kaattla. f.rllaoa. II. Laala. gUBBCKirriUN SATKB Ja Uratan By Mall rar Tiaf M.aS. maalaa yaar, m.alk ll.ee OatilSa On-Br MaU Tar yaai Mae. li ajaalaa S4.7(, Uiraa aiaalbf lt.i NO "SURPLUS" WATER , , By CHARLES V. STANTON Bureau of Reclamation engineers have held "preliminary" talks with Governor McKay of Oregon, while planning a meeting of. governors from 11 western states to talk over problems of water ' supply. Paramount In the forthcoming conference doubtless will be proposals to divert water from regions with water surplus to areas experiencing water shortage. Suggestion has been made through a Department of In terior official, that surplus waters from Oregon be di verted to California. Discussions have revealed existence of a plan for a "ladder" of water diversion of the Klamath river,.. to the Sacramento river, replenishing the Klamath from-; the Rogue and Umpqua, supplying the Rogue and Umpqua from the Willamette, and adding to. the Willam ette Jfrom the Columbia. It is an engineering project worthy of the .federal agencies so anxious to improve on the Cre ator's work and ttt erect monuments to their own genius. Little thought is given to the fact that water, like forests and soij, , is a "renewable resource one that can be re stored, 'through1 conservation practices. "Renewable" re sources differ from exhaustible resources, such as iron, coal, oil, etc., in the fact that they. need never be ex hausted, given proper; management, whereas, minerals, once mined, are gone forever. . .)..' ' , . ' ri:l,)V' . J?;' t Bu .whe're caVwe? find "surplus" water? True, the Pa cific, Northwest has more water than it is currently using. But the. Willamette vialley's water table is dropping rapidly. Summertime flow fn'many 'of our rivers is dangerously low. Central' and' eastern Oregon 'need' more water for irri gation. Some of! our. Oregon cities actually are suffer ing water shortages..North Bend and Springfield are short in water supply shortages that can be remedied by in creasing storage facilities. .. Oregon's population is growing faster than that of any other state. New industries many of them requiring large volume of water are locating in Oregon. Thus, it may not be long until Oregon, too, will have its water supply prob lem, b . ! i ;M- . . "-i".'-'. If ;thB Bureau ol.JReclamation would study California's water, problem frortr the standpoint of conservation and re storation, rather than trying to improve on God's creation, it would find that this restoration probably would be no mora Expensive than its ambitious "ladder of rivers." i':i;v' ..." ". Artifacts recently uncovered during archaeological re search, in the great , southwest desert, reveal that a . tribe of Indians managed to exist for more than 100 years after neighboring tribes had been forced to move because of arid conditions. It was discovered they had built huge cis terns and reservoirs to capture and holr1 runoff water. Archaeologists still are endeavoring to learn what caused the tribe's; removal from the land, for evidence exists that sudden evacuation of. villages was not due to lack of water. Yeh, We Get It! In many parts of arid California there once was an abundance of water. Huge debris piles were built up through many centuries1 at the mouths of arroyos. Brush and debris of all kinds washed down the narrow waterways, spread out over; the vyajley floor, rotted and turned to humus.' The spongy material served to. capture flood water and hold it in the soil. , But these lands were extremely rich in agricultural values, and were 'taken' over for farms and orchards. Wells were drilled '.(V' provide .water for irrigation and water was taken faster: than' it could be' stored, thus lowering the water table? until, in-some places, wells, going deeper and deeper, have reached salt water. ' ' , , . California could have much more abundant water,' given proper conservation. Barren hillsides could and should be planted with forage and tree crops that would retain mois ture'jand slow run off. Every upland canyon and arroyo shou&j have numerous small reservoirs from which water would filter dut; into the soil; Check and spread dams should be built to spread-flood water over valley floors to seep into ; the soil Instead of speeding to the ocean. More up land, rainfall could be produced if hillsides were kept cool and greeny thus encouraging precipitation, instead of dis sipating clouds because of heat induced by the existing brown and barren condition. If the Bureau of Reclamation wants to truly do a job, let it work on restoration rather than diversion of sur- plnses-surpluses which rapidly are disappearing or being absorbed. . ' f By Viahnett S. Martin i t ' Many years ago I clipped from a magazine (which one?) a little story about a Mrs. Farnum who had discovered In herself a gilt for sculpture, and this was what she said: "The age when most women think their hopes are all dead and the chances for expressing themselves creatively are . all gone, is just the time in which they could best develop their tal ents. There really Isn't any age limit. It's just a state of mind. "Sometimes a woman will shut herself up In her home to mope, or she will spend her time de voting herself to her children, who may be perfectly capable of running their own lives, or she espouses some fruitless public work. "But when my friends say sad ly, to me, 'Oh, I have always wanted to try my hand at sculp ture'; and then fall silent, as if to hint that God had rebuked them by visiting a husband and family on them at the only mo ment In their lives when they might have tried their hand at it, I get all out of patience. . . ." Mrs. Farnum, the clipping ex plains, did not discover her own talent until she was In' her for tiesa patient in a hospital, us ing her long hours of quietude to work with her hands. Once I listed the age of each woman novelist in Grant Over ton's Women Who Make Our Novels. Most of them began their real work In writing in their late thirties and forties; many in their fifties. In other fields' of en deavor, too, note how many are finding means of self-expression in the years after their Job of motherhood seems ended so far as one phase of it is concerned, It makes it easier, too, for the mother of married children to remember that like the marl- time law which forbids boarding even a ship in distress unless in vited it is sometimes well to limit her efforts to what at sea is called "standing by," ready to give aid if asked, otherwise an interested observer. Gospel Duo To Present Program At Green School A gospel team, Bob Mohler and Dale:Frankllnj will present an en tire program of films and songs at the Void Green school, five miles South of Roscburg on the old 99, highway, Thursday, Dec. 15,' at : 7:30 p. m. Mohler and Franklin, students at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, are cur rently on tour. , -The two films to be shown are. "I Am the Bible" and 'Higher Flight." The Jatter is a mission ary story.' " ' The program Is sponsored by the Greein Community Sunday school:Which extends an mvira Hon toeveryone. There will be no admission-charge, but a free will offering will be received. A I FINE8 REPORTED Justice of the Peace A. J. Ged des reported the disposition of the following cases this morning: Mabel Marie Garrlck. Camas Valley, fined $25 on a charge of larceny from a store under $35. She was arrested Saturday bv city police on a shoplifting charge. She nleaded euiltv to the chaise nui iom tne court sne nad not in tended to leave the store without paying for the merchandise. She gave as her reason, worry iver the condition of her ailing motner. Ellen Beatrire Biackledge. Rose burg, arrested Saturday by city police, posted bail of $40 on a charge of being drunk on a pub lic street. Boiled grasshoppers are said to taste something like lobster. Jaycees Elect Officers, Plan Yule Activities Highlighting last night's meet ing of the Roseburg Junior Cham ber of Commerce was an elec tion of officers for the coming year. George Mcintosh, who has a long list of service to Jaycees and the community Deiunu mm, among which is Included the chairmanship of the first annual Southern Oregon AAU swimming meet, was elected president ot the organization on the first bal lot. Other officers who will take over the leadership of the young mens civic group, starting tne first of the year, includes Gordon Carlson. Internal vice-president; Leo Sevy, external vice-president; Sid Moon, secretary; Du ane Baker, treasurer and Rod Dotson, scrgeant-at-arms. Elected to the board of direc tors was Walt Brlttell, Irv Pugh, J h n Hardiman, Tom Gum, Wayne Crooch, and Sig Fctt. Glenn Scott, Incumbant president, automatically becomes the sev enth member of the board upon retiring from his present otfica. Christmas Activities The Christmas tree committee, headed by Sid Fredrickson, and Including Willard Reitman, Sid Moon and Tollie Tollefson. will add more lights to the tree, lo cated on Cass street, between Jockson and Main. Bill Evans selected the tree, which was brought In by P & B Wrecker Co. The Mt. Nebo cross, a Jaycee sponsored annual feature, was lighted by a committee including Reiman and Mel Hegge and head ed by Don Gum. Christmas enterprise, soon to be launched for the second time in two years, Is the "Hello. Santa" project for children of the city. Chairman Duanc Baker said chil dren who may wish to talk di rectly to Santa In ordering their Christmas presents will have an oppotunity to do so. Baker said a special line has been installed Horn Koseourg 10 me ncarara gent's home at the north pole. He will take orders starting sometime next week. In the 17th century. Swiss watchmakers frequently made timepieces in tne shapes ot doga. lions, rabbits, pigeons and other animals. Bible Students Date Series Of Programs A gospel film team from the Bi ble Institute of Los Angeles will present a -program of films and songs at the First Conservative Baptist church, Roseburg ar mory, Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. Bob Mohler and Dale Frank lin, students at the Bible insti tute, will show films entitled, "I Am the Bible" and "Higher Flight." They will also show gos pel slides, give their personal testimony, and use recorded mu sic which is heard each Wednes day and Friday on the Bible In stitute Hour over the Mutual Don Lee network. The Rev. Edgar B. Luther, D. D., pastor of the Conservative Baptist church, Invites everyone to attend. . The gospel team will also ap pear Thursday night at Green school, and Friday night In the Glide Baptist church, Rev. Karl Faulkner, pastor. Petty Offenders Fined In Justice Geddes' Court Freeman Wlnslow, 51, Glen dale, charged with being drunk in a public place, was fined $55 in justice court and sentenced to 10 days In the county Jail, ac cording to Judge A. J. Geddes. Other cases reported by Geddes: Ellen Beatrice Biackledge, 39, Roseburg, charged with being drunk in a public street, released on $40 bail. Richard Adall DuBell, 17, Sutiv erlin, fined $10 for lack of an adequate muffler on the car he was driving. Racy Acy Archer, 49, Winston, charged with alleged overloading of a vehicle, fined $97.50. TITLE QUIETING ASKED Ernest S. and Faye Phillips and Richard and Cora foenhoff, plain tiffs, have filed suit in circuit court demanding that Umpqua Lumher and Box Corp. and oth ers quiet title on property near Smith river, with the exception of properties sold to Umpqua Navigation Co. ATTENDS SALES SCHOOL Band leader and musical In strument salesman C A. Ricket's returned Monday from Chicago, where he attended the Hammond organ sales school. Plans are to include the Ham mond line in the Ott-Ricketts Mu sic store. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) and upset and demoralized by the big money he saw floating all around him, he started knocking down on his office payroll. REPRESENTATIVE ANDREW May, Democrat, is in jail for selling his Influence to unscrupu lous profiteers who wanted war contracts at high prices and bribed May to get them. WHAT does that mean? . Well, it means that the evil of too much power in too few hands doesn't yet reached the point In our country where we condone STEALING FROM THE GOVERNMENT. That is one of the things that brought China to its present ter rible pass. There (for centuries) they synically accepted stealing from the government as a PART of the system of too much power in too few hands. REPRESENTATIVE Thomas, by the way, is a peculiarly loath some form of political vermin. While he was knocking down on his office payroll and putting the money in his pocket, he was bel of communism and by his witch hunting methods of chasing com munists he was discrediting the useful work of the house commit tee on un-American activities, of which he was the demagogue chairman. IN New York, where for years, in the face of warnings of what would happen If It continued, they used water at the rate of a billion gallons a day, they now FINE YOU if you wash your car or leave a tap running or put fresh water in your swimming pool. A lot of us old fuddyduddies think it will be the same way with the welfare state. Every thing will be lovely till the well runs dry. POLITICAL straw in the wind: In the by-election in England for the South Bradford seat in Parliament, which the Conserva tives had moved heaven and earth to win, the LABOR PARTY WINS OUT HANDILY. . WHAT does that mean? It probably means that we old fuddyduddies who hope the welfare state loses its popularity before the money runs out are merely doing wishful thinking. It is still true that nobody ever yet shot Santa Claus. Christmas Sales Still Low; Rush May Come At End By RADER WINGET . NEW YORK OR Christmas shoppers may cross up the ex perts by spending a record total of dollars this year but if they're going to chalk up any records they'd better get started quickly. Individual stores are setting some peak sales records, but a blight has settled on others, push ing them far behind 'n the race for Christmas business. Every year since 1938 there has been an Increase in department store saies ana in total retail sales. Last year was the all-time record. This year the general guess of the experts is that sales will be lower than last year by a mar gin of less than five Dercent. But Christmas is the hi? snend. ing season. Some merchants have been pulled out of the red at Christmas so many times they believe in Santa Claus. Last year the unexpected hai- pened. There was a final rush Christmas week that kicked the year to a record. It could happen again, analysts agree, but those dollars are going to have to roll even faster than they do now. The Federal Reserve Reports department store dollar sales the week ended Dec. 3 were eight percent under a year ago. Dun & Bradstreet says total retail sales for the week ended last Wednesday were only one to five percent under a year aeo. Anoth er independent survey indicates retail sales for the year will he off only two percent The biggest factor In the de cline is lower prices. They are off an average of three to four percent. That means the physical volume of business is lust about as good as last year, and people are getting more for their mon ey. The fundamental thing that makes this year different is that people are changing their buy ing habits. They are coming back to what the merchants hopefully call a normal pattern. Remember how it was before the war? You'd rush into a store at the last minute and do your Christmas shopping. The stores had everything. You could do all your buying at once. Changed By War Then came the war. You had to shop around to get what you wanted. It was first come first served, and late comers did with out. ("Don't you know there's a war on?"). But the war ended. Store stocks grew. Prices were lower. You could shop around. And you did. This year there is more and more of that type buying. This year department stores are making buying easier and more attractive than at any time since pre-war. Store hours are longer, advertising is being step ped up, window displays are stressed, and customers are be ing put in the Jingle bell mood by carol concerts in stores. There is no dearth of shoppers. Reports are frequent, however, of their cautious attitude. They want their money's worth. They are turning away in many cases from high priced lines of goods. Merchants anticipated this by stocking more heavily on the me dium and lower priced lines. LETTERS to the Editor Philomath Publisher Seeks Post In House CORVALLIS, UPi L. T. Ward, publisher of the Benton Lounty Keview, weekly newspa per at Philomath, has announc ed he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for representative from the First Oregon Congressional district. He said he was making the an nouncement early to help clarify the political picture. H c announced a Platform which included opposition to the CVA. called for repeal of the taft- Hartiey act, urgm elimination of federal farm subsidies when ever possible In favor of a per manent marketing plan, was op posed to a "compulsory" health insurance program, advocated expansion of social security bene fits and a continuation of the be partlsan foreign policy. Praise Bestowed On Christmas Decorations ROSEBURG Seems that as hlimnns uro .a 4 ......u .... ... piumpi in criticizing anything that we do uwi. appiuvc ui, uul let anyimng that meets with our approval Come forth nnri uo remain cilan, or we let our praises ring only very meekly. u tnere have been any letters in The NpWS.Rpvlpu nhnot thi. project, I haven't seen them, so ittiiuui. lemtun siiem any long er. I refpr tn tha wnnlarfiit nhut. mas decorating and Christmas "sii"is iimi our cuy sireeis are wearing. They are wonderful and the sponsors surely are to be most highly praised. I do not believe that any town the size of Roseburg can boast Of Anvtllfno- mnra hpai.tif,.! T have the full advantage of seeing a,, na ucuiy num nign up nere on North Jackson street. Mni-Q nr.. .ran .... ! Roseburg! MK3. WM. J. THOMPSON. 1331 N. Jackson St. Roseburg, Ore. CORTISONE COSTLY NEW YORK- urn -.i sone's new price, $150 a gram, nuines 11 TOSl BDOU ID lor a single dose for arthritis. Some Hrvepa Hmthln that Pni.,l... I u uuj.ii ..,. .w, iisuiic is me I ...... au.E.iui IIUII1IUIK VWUI.I1 6tops arthritic pains of the rheuma- um ijjjc 111 a lew uays. n ajso IS used for rheumatic heart troubles and gout, and some allergies, skin diseases and the type of can cers known as lymphatic. In arth ritis and cancer, daily doses are required for weeks. Roundtable Meet Slated By District Scourers Scoutert of the Douglas district will hold their monthly roundta ble meeting. Thursday night, Dec. 15, at the Riverside school lunchroom at 7:30 p.m. Troop committeemen, scout masters, pack committeemen, cubmasters, and den mothers are asked to attend. A "county fair" entertainment program has been arranged whereby a person can make up to "$1,000" during the evening, depending, on skill. Additional inlormation on me national Jamboree will also- be given at the meeting. Knights Of Pythias Will Hold flnight-Rank Night Bob Harvie, chancellor com mander of Alpha lodge No. 47, Knights of Pythias, announced Monday that a knight-rank night will be held Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 8 p.m. The Dokkie-rank team from Medford will be here to put on the work. All members are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served. , PLANES SPOT POACHER ' WASHINGTON VP) i- Fed eral game officials are using aerial photographs as evidence against commercial fishermen op. eratlng illegally In certain wa ters. ' The idea Is showing special nromise in Alaska, where roueh waters sometimes, make it im possible for a patrol plane to land. Albert M. Day, director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. says the plane has replaced th,e dog sled in Alaskan patrols to the extent that only 13 miles were covered by sled last year, against 134,329 by plane, 300 by helicopter and about 100,000 by other means. The "BBC" in radio means the YJL British Broadcasting Co. 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And by helping make mass pro duction possible, lowers the production costs, too. So advertising saves you many times that 160 per bottle. Advertising Department - Phone 100 i I mw A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. Roseburg Funeral Home "The Chapel of the Roses" Oak and Kane Street Roseburg, Oregon Funerals Tel. 600 Ambulance Service L I U L. POWERS