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4 Th Ntws-Rivltw, Roteburg, Or. Thurj,, Dae. 29, 1949 Published Dilly Exoept Sunday I y tho Naws-Ravio Company, Ine. Mini oUm mtuei Hsr 1, ' ' lilt Evwbarf. Ortf.a. aM.r set f tUreb S. U1S CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor SS3 Manager Mambar of tha Asaoolatad Preaa, Oragon Nawapapar Publlahara Asioolatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Clroulationa inninlil WERT-MULLIDAIr CO., INO., rflo. ( N.w trk. CklMfh tnaolM. Lh Anr.l". iMtUa, r.rlU.4. II. Lnl aimiiiiifikM'ififti I - nv.Hn II M I ta , Ta.r II.H. ill msflthl H.il, tkrM In.slh. M.M B Clti C.rrl.r P.r Ttr 110.(10 (In idnml, Ijm " fic, pa- moalk II. ot Oul.lil. Or.i.n By lull Tar ' I'M. n.atha 14.11, Wiaa aaaalhi . y FiaJUat 5. JorWn YEAR OF DECISION By CHARLES V.STANTON The year 1950 should be one of the most exciting periods in our history. It will be significant in many ways, we an ticipate, for during the ensuing 12 months we will make decisions either for war or peace, will determine our political future whether socialistic state or representative democ racywill lay the foundation either for continued progress or economic bankruptcy, and establish a pattern for con tinuation of free industry or progress further toward a controlled state. The year 1950 undoubtedly will be a crucial one for it will be difficult to deviate later from the socialistic course if the trend is permitted to continue unchecked through an other year. - Closely related to political determination will be the mat ter of war or peace, and the turning point doubtless will be found in events occurring during the ensuing twelve months. ' Altogether, we believe, history students in coming genera tions will be able to point to the year 1950 as one of the most important, historically, of all time. Perhaps the most vital decision affecting world history will be found in our political action. Socialism has obtained a firm hold upon this country's affairs. It is the creeping, or Fabian, style of socialism, which encroaches gradually and insidiously, always holding forth promises of benefits and security, while leading a gay procession down the road to economic suicide. Because the great mass of votes rest with people In low income groups, socialism promises aids and benefits to bait voters into support of its schemes. But history shows that the so-called "welfare state" eventually destroys a country's wealth, drains away power to produce, and eventually leads to enslavement of people and a bare existence standard of living. -v - ' The pattern already is obvious in Great Britain where labor is being herded into government-controlled channels, where, benefits are being reduced because of huge deficits, and where, despite confiscatory taxation, the economy is bankrupt except for false support furnished through money borrowed from the United States money which doubtless never will be repaid. v Britons were led into this political situation by promises of "welfare" benefits to the underprivileged. Consequently, the promisers were given the underprivileged vote, which always is in the majority. But today those underprivileged voters, who were given benefits while national economy per- mitted, find that they must work at employment selected for them by government, must conform to government edicts governing production, must go without necessities of life that such goods may be exported, and must take less and less in the way of direct and indirect benefits', while, at the same time, nationalized industries are going further and further into debt, causing increasingly high taxes. Britain's' only choice for survival is the long, hard road back to free enterprise. The alternative is the police state and eventual communism. In this country we are following exactly the same course. Socialism is advancing in exactly the same way as in Great Britain, which now stands on the brink of disaster. We pos- sibly can hold out longer than Great Britain because we have more abundant resources, but eventual disaster cannot be avoided, for socialism has no end other than economic suicide. We are buying votes with gay promises of benefits. We are bribing the mass vote by catering to so-called "welfare" idealism. We spend huge sums of money while accumulating . a mass of debt. And millions of people disregard the omens of disaster because they are able to revel in a false economy. If socialism receives a "vote of confidence" in the 1950 elections, and more power is placed in the hands of socialist- minded opportunists, it will be extremely difficult to turn back from the dangerous road until untold damage has been i done. Wo will have another opportunity in 1952 but that may be too late. The year 1950 undoubtedly will be our year of decision. . Thursday before Christmas we drove down the Umpqua, around by 1 Florence and back via the Siuslaw and Eugene. Sunshine this side o the Cascades, but on the other side ot the tunnel we saw mist ahead and clouds low over the hills; soon we were in a line rain. Rain lasted nearly to the junction ol 36 and 99. Drain certainly was attractive ly decorated Ior the holidays. Each store window was alike with Christmas greenery from the woods framing it. The ef fect of the harmonious repeti tion of the decorative scheme was very effective. Entering Drain one was greeted by Merry Christmas, silver cut-out letters strung across the highway. Saw sheep In the highway this side of the tunnel. No other ani mals. Usually we don't see any on the road shoulder . until we have gone well beyond the tun nel. How nice the lights in the tunnel are! Such an improve ment. The RSs would have been glad of those lights some time back. Returning from Coos Bay late one night, their headlights suddenly quit working where were they? Right In the tunnel! No flashlight in the car either. The times we go out without a flashlight In the car! Do you? Oh how lovely the mist was below the shoulders of the hills: like a soft gray shawl! I wonder why mist on the hills Is a mat ter of such intense pleasure to me? I suppose the psychologists would think up a reason they think up a reason for everything nowadays! The Umpqua was brown with mud, but hopeful fishermen were all along. Many cars parked by the highway. Well, I've always heard fish bite well in rain. River has filled up a lot since our last time down our favorite drive I always think of the old stage coach days as we drive along there. The daughter of one of those drivers came to see me not long ago, Mrs. Rozelle Lawrence of Comstock. I enjoyed hearing about grandmother, Rozelle Ap pleton Putnam, and hope to hear more later on. Educator Questions Wisdom Of Forty-Hour Week NEW YORK UP) A Co lumbia university marketing pro fessor questioned here whether this country can continue a self- maintained and surplus produc ing economy under a 40 hour, ilveday work week. The point "has never yet been proved or demonstrated," Prof. Paul H. Nyatrom of Columbia's graduate school of business told the American Marketing associa tion at its winter conference here. "There has been no attempt to m asure that possibility," he de clared. "The effects of this arti ficlnl brake on our economy have never been assessed. The" unions, the government, the business men and the people of the coun try are living in blissful hope that this policy may not land us in the wreckage of a fool's para dise." The 40-hour week was conceiv ed as a spread-the-work measure during the depression, he declared. Nation's Miner.' Point To Safe Record For Year PITTSBURGH- This year iooks ime tne saiest in nistory tor tne men wno dig tne na tion's coal. Only a major disaster in the final week of 1949 can spoil what promises to be record year for safety in the coal pits. Coal men declared all the credit does not belong to the three strikes of 1949 which kept the country's 480,000 coal diggers idle ior varying periods oi time. spokesmen said safety pro grams, education ana equipment are paruy responsioie. Strlkea Contribute Strikes often contribute to Door saieiy records mrougn noDody s fault at all. Resumption of min ing after past strikes has been marked by big and little disas ters. When mines are closed, great care must be taken to prevent accumulation of deadly gas, to check up on roof supports which might sag or crack unnoticed and to bo over electrical eouiu- ment which could go bad during tne miners aosence. The National Coal association. pointing out the miners will work only lour days during the two nonoay weens, said: ir our industry can keeo alert in au or me mines ot tnis coun try, we can achieve a record never before attained; that is, of going through a complete cal endar year without a malor dis aster. The men resDonslble for the operation of the mines have done a remarkable piece of work In carrying us to this point." Disaster Defined The United States Bureau of Mines defines a major disaster as one In which five or more men lose their lives. The last such accident fire occurred on November 4 1948. The last major mine ex plosion took place in July of 1948. The fatality rate for the first 10 months of 1940 was 1.14 deaths for each million tons of soft coal mined. That rate, while low in comparison with nast years, represents the loss of 397 uves. Most of the victims died slnel' or by. twos and threes In acc dents Involving falling roofs or mine cars wnicn went out of con trol. Production this vear Is esti mated at around 430,000,000 tons of soft coal, compared to the pre-war production rate of around 400,000,000 tons a year when the accident rate was higher. Elgarose Bv MRS. THELMA HANSOM Miss Henrietta Johnson who at tends Oregon Colleee of Educa- tion at Monmouth Is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Johnson, for the Christmas Holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Woodruff have been confined to their home witn influenza. Mr. and Mrs. Howard MnlW of Monx, ure. are visiting with Mrs, Mullcr's parents. Mr. and Mr Gunnar Johnson, over the holi days. , Longshoremen Say Portland Cop Harassing Them PORTLAND, VP) A CIO Longshoremen's union committee secretary has protested to the mayor that a city policeman was Harassing union memoers. Francis J. Murnane, secretary of the ILWU's Portland commit tee for the defense of union presi dent Harry Bridges, sent Mayor Dorothy Lee a lUr on the aub Ject. Me saia policeman m. k. un con was guilty of "intimidation" of Longshoremen, particularly the forelgnborn union members, in what Murnane said was an at tempt to "find someone who will help frame" Bridges. Murnane wrote; "I cannot believe thnt an of flclal of your caliber in public me nas joined tne pack mat Is howling Bridges. I am wondering u m. rt. Bacon is engaging in this activity of his own volition or if he has the sanction. In his campaign of Intimidation and at tempted elicitat on of evidence. of someone more highly placed in the (police) department." Government statisticians esti mate that the rat population of the U. S. Is at least 140.000.000 about equally divided between the arm and city. Miss Helen Petterson who at tends the Laurehvood academy Is at her home for the Christmas holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Kaye Petterson. Mr. Bill Ray of the Walla Walla acad emy In Washington Is also visit ing mere. Mi Mary Hanson and niece, Miss Mable Wilkinson, are visit ing during the hollriavs with Ml Wilkinson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wilkinson, of Laurel wood. Miss Marlene Bartholomy and brother David are visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Goorge Freeley, Portland, during the holidays. Miss Patricia H o 1 m q u I s t, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Holmmilst, la home for the holi days. She attends the Northwest ern Business college in Portland. Arthur Backlund la visitlne with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Backlund, during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hanson In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) balked. Both say they'll go on fighting before they'll stand for Internationalization. . BUT let's get back to the 'two roads to Bethlehem. One leads from the Jewish part of the city of Jerusalem. The other leads from the Arab part. They come together at a line of demarka- tion that was set up by the armis tice that stopped the war last summer. - Here, the dispatch from Bethle hem that came off the wires said "Heavily armed soldiers of both sides face each other and the Bethlehem-bound pilgrims will be permitted to pass and return only at certain hours." T RAGIC, isn't It? But It isn't new. Let's go back some 800 years Into history and take a look at what was happening then.; - ALONG about the beginning of ft the' twelfth century (this is well Into the 20th) the First Cru sade was going on. We won't go into details here. It Is enough to say that the objective of the First Crusade was to take the city of Jerusalem away from the "in fidel" Turks, by whom it then was held, and give it back to the Christians. A spearhead of the armed forces of the Crusaders, led by Godfrey de Bouillon, reached the walls of the Holy City. Let's tell the story from here on in the words of Ernest Barker, one of the great British; historians. H E says: 'After a little more than a month's siege, the city was cap tured. The slaughter was terrible, The blood of the conquered ran down the streets until men splashed In blood as they rode. At nightfall, sobbing for ex cess of joy, the Crusaders came to the Sepulchre from their tread ing of the wine-press and put tlielr blood-stained hands together in prayer. So, on that day, the First Cru sade came to an end." T HIS piece is too long already. What I meant to say at the Deginning Is this: The spirit of Christmas isn't In Bethlehem. It isn't In Jeru salem. It isn't In the Holy Land. It Isn't In any geographical place. 1HE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS, IF CHRISTMAS IS TO EXIST FOR YOU, MUST BE IN YOUR OWN HEART. If the Spirit of Christmas is In your heart, Christmas will be real for you. PEARL HARBOR ECHO PEARL HARBOR. Dec ?9m Gun batteries dredged from the waters of Pearl Harbor, where they had lain since the Japanese attack eight years ago, were put up for sale as scrap vesterday. Included among 12 biff eun in- siHiiauons are me Datterlcs from the battleship Arizona, which was sunk in the first few minutes of the attack. The Army, which Is taking bids, estimated each battery originally cost $1,250,000. MEDICS' LEADER DIES PORTT A V n rvu. OQ m Dr. Otis F. Akin. 77. orthODedic surgeor. who has been president of the Multnomah County Medi cal society and professor of ortho pedic Surgery at the University of Oregon Medical school, died yesterday. He nad been ill a long time. nd children have returned to their home after a visit with Mrs. Hanson's parents. Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Grise, of Klamath Falls. KING TURNS LOVE PIRATE Farouk Steals Fiancee Of One Of His Subjects To Make Her His Queen NEW YORK Princess Fawzla of Egypt has been trying to dissuade her brother, King Farouk, from going through with plans to marry the 16-year-old fiancee of one of his subjects, the New York Post reports. The Post carries a Rome dls- nntnh hv William Attwnnti uihn left Cairo recently. This dispatch ouiJiic:iiieiiia news ul uic romance received by the Associated Press from A rpsnnaihlp onnrA TJauc from Egypt is heavily censored. Auwooa reported mat wnen ne left Cairo the police confiscated his notes pertaining to Farouk. The Post's account says: Farouk abruptly and caprici ously decided on Dec. 4 to marry Narrlman Sadek, pretty 16-year-old daughter of an Egyptian civil servant and fiancee of Zaki Ha chen, boyish Harvard educated economic adviser to the Egyptian United Nations delegation. The marriage of Zaki and Nar rlman was set for Dec. 8. Five days before that date, the king saw the young couple buying a ring In a fashionable jewelry shop, and the next day told the girl she was to be queen. Miss Sadek told the king, and later his sister, that she loved Hachen. Princess Fawzla urged her brother to call the whole thing off. The klna wai nhatlnafo an1 ya. portedly fixed the wedding for reo. ix, nis autn oinnaay. Mean while, the girl is being tutored In court etiquette. Hachen, forbidden to see the girl, is under a doctor's care. He is rearlv tn return tn hie n. at Lake Success "because I feel I'm going crazy here." He is 27. Farouk and Oupen Fsrlrin worn divorced last year. Since that time, the Post continues, he has become a lonely neurotic. Prin- tcss rftwaa is quoieu as say ing: "He can't mean If If mud he. a joke." The Post s correspondent adds that "it is still possible that what bepan as a uhfm mm, tnt ae a whim, especially If Farouk is confronted by hostile world re Morals Of Performers Guarded By Japanese TOKYO UP) Japanese bur lesque operators, worried about the morale and morals of their performers, have made some drastic changes. They limited the articles of wearing apparel a female per former may discard limiting her to stripping down to about what the wellclad American beach beauty wears. , - Bright lights, including spot lights, were banned. And finally, they ruled that the dancing girls have to really dance. Wailed one Tokyo columnist: "Burlesque will become like musical comedy." action." In that case, Hachen Is quoted, "Narriman and I will get married if she still wants me." PHONE 100 between 6 15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received - your News Review. Ask for Harold Mobley A HAPPY MEW YEAR MAY YOU BEAT THE COLD WITH OUR GOOD OIL FOR HEAT Our delivery service can't be beat. 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