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FOR WAR
By CHARLES V. STANTON
On the threshold of a new year, our minds are concerned
with the possibility of another war.
Experts tell us there are no immediate prospects of war,
but they give no assurance beyond the next year or two. It
is admitted that war COULD start any time Bhould some un
foreseen "incident" occur.
It is our opinion that the year 1950 will prove to be a
turning point in the existing cold war. Decisions and events
during the next few months will determine whether we are
to have peace, a long postponement of war, or be involved
in another ideologic blood bath in the comparatively near
future.
Several possibilities are to be considered. Russia is losing
ground in the West, but is extending her influence in the
East. She has gained tremendously in populations and re
sources brought under the Red banner, but has weakened
her position with powers essential to economic welfare. She
has, at the same time, absorbed so much territory within her
sphere of Influence that her military organization must be
kept at full strength, thus taking much potentially produc
tive population out of productive work, while, simultaneously
increasing the levy upon the people at home to meet the
costs of the huge armies abroad. History shows that such a
situation has led to collapse 'of nations and civilizations.
Nations can support only for a limited time a large segment
of unproductive population.
Recognizing this well-established law of economics, Russia
is endeavoring to circumvent the principle by stripping
satellite countries of factories and industries, while utilizing
millions of political and conquered slave laborers to produce
for her domestic and military needs. How long this artificial
system can prevent collapse will be proven only by the ex
. perience of the next few years. But the Roman empire
couldn't do it, nor could nazism or fascism.
Another interesting thing to watch during 1950 will be
the result of the celebration by the Roman Catholic church
of its Holy Year an event occurring at 25-year intervals.
The Catholic church has declared spiritual war on Com
munism. The Church is a far more potent enemy than
nations armed with ; tanks and bombs. Already the Church
has given communism much trouble in its western zone.
Communist police and military authority have tried with
only partial success to destroy the influence of the Church.
Many Catholics, while not aggressively fighting communism,
are still obedient to the Church and, at heart, are unsympa
thetic toward communism.
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the spiritual
enthusiasm created during the Holy Year "will crystalize
in open resistance against communism. The Church even has
sufficient strength within Russia itself, if this strength
can be consolidated, to help in breaking down the communist
ideology.' '
It is anticipated that communist authorities will prevent
pilgrimages to Rome by populations from satellite countries.
The millions of people traveling to Rome will come largely
from the free states of Europe and from the United States.
But the very fact that devout Catholics in conquered coun
tries are prevented from obtaining the Church's indulgences
and blessings may add fuel to the fires of revolt.
It may be wishful thinking to believe that the cancer of
communism can be destroyed without a major operation
involving bloodshed. But modern medical science is treating
cancer today by planting seeds of radium or radioactive
substances within the malignant growth. It is entirely possi
ble that spiritual radiation from seeds of faith, stirred into
new energy by churchly revival, may destroy the political
cancer by action from within.
The encirclement of Russia, the economic blockade, the
action of the Marshall plan on European recovery, the
situation in China and the waiting, delaying and check
mating connected with economic warfare all are contributing
their part toward conclusion of ideological struggle. The
year 1950 will see some events of vital influence in directing
the course for future years a course that will lead either
to war or peace. The observer, who has so much at slake
as has every man, woman and child in the world should
find much interest and excitement in the things that trans
pire during this first year of the crucial 1950s.
Rice Valley
By MRS. CECIL HARTFORD
The Christmas procram hold
at the Rice Valley hull Inst Wed
nesday night was well attended.
A large beautifully decorated
tree with many gleaming lights
and surrounded by a host of gifts
to be exchanged, greeted the
guests as they arrived.
Mrs. Hartford was chairman
and Blllv LaMar was master of
ceremonies of the program con
ducted during the evening.
The program opened with the
audience singing "It Came Upon
a Midnight Clear," followed by
a reading by Helen Abbott: a
short comedy "liastus and Ru
ins" two negro boys, by Victor
Hartford and Billy Davis; A
men's quartet singing two songs,
by William Castor, Frank Kg
gers. Bob Crawford, and Harry
Abbott; a reading by Tressa Dun
bar; an accordion solo by Al
Fonken: a recitation "Two Snnt
Clauses" by Berncta Hartford;
Songs "Silent Night" and "Up
on the House Tops ' by the Hart
ford and Abbott girls; a reading
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by Lavada Crawford; a Christ
mas story from the Bible follow
ed by a reading, by Marie Rice;
second appearance of Rastus and
Rufus, two Negro boys; the pro
gram came to a close with the
audience singing "America."
Al Fonken played Snnta Clans
and helped distribute the many
gifts.
Those enjoying the evening
were Mr. and Mrs. Al Fonken;
Mrs. Rnlph Kmerson, Mr. and
Mrs. LeHoy Churchill. Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Rice and daughter
Karen. Mr. and Mrs. Ervln Rice.
Mrs. Harry Dunbar, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Kidwell, Mr. and Mm.
C.len Walker, Norman Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. William Castor,
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth LaMar,
Hilly, Bobhv and Kathv LaMar,
Mrs. Cecil Hartford, Victor, Ce
cil, and Berneta Hartford. Blllv
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Wales and children, Frank Es
gers, Mr. and Mrs. Hob Craw
ford, Mr. and Mrs. Harry At
bott, Loretta. Carol. Margaret,
and Maty Abbott, Mrs. Emmett
Churchill, and Mr. and Mrs.
James Shepherd and LeRoy.
Let This
On the Thursday before Christ
mas, although it was raining,
and the river was running quite
high, the Siuslaw was a slato-gray-grcen
in color, and even
clear where It slid rapidly over
sheets of rock. Such a lot of
white water! All along were
many, many fishermen! Some
were In small boats that bent up
sharply at each end and made
me think of the little rockers
children have. Just need a horse's
head and a hand grip of propor
tionate size!
Never did we see so little traf
fic on the road, either 38 or
36. Wonder why? Have the tour
ists gone home? No one stays
home on account of rain in Ore
gon! Maybe they were working
on Christmas packages and the
wind up of the Christmas cook
ies. The highway crews were
working as usual. Cleaning out
ditches, Illllng in tar and rock,
working on a bridge to replace
a covered bridge, manning a big
rock-crusher installation, doing
the never-ending jobs that know
no let-up here. It's a wonder the
roads are as good as they are
when you think of the mileage,
the open country, the sagging
Evasion Of Taxes
Costs Uncle Sam
Billions Yearly
WASHINGTON UP) Rep.
Doughton (D.-N. C.) said he be
lieves congress will give the
treasury "every agent it needs"
for a crack down on people who
evade their taxes.
Doughton Is chairman of the
tax-framing house ways and
means committee. One member
of that group, Rep. Forand (D.
R. I.), estimated earlier this week
that the government is losing as
much as $5,000,000,000 a year
through evasion and use of loop
holes in the tax laws.
Both Doughton and Forand In
dicated the ways and means com
mittee will be Inclined to work
on legislation to shut off this
leakage before even consider
ing any possible request for high
er taxes.
Doughton said in an Interview
congress should do sometntng
right away about excise taxes.
He said he hoped some of these
levies "particularly those that
slow down business and cause un
due hardships on consumers"
could be reduced.
But If these taxes are cut It may
be necessary to find other sources
of revnue, Doughton added,
of revenue, Doughton added,
on such things as light bulbs, lug-
Mge, telephone hills, pnotograpn
c supplies and railroad tickets.
Demented .Man Dies In
Human Torch Manner
BEND. Dec. 30. (."TV A Christ
mas day fire that caused the
death of a florist here was called
bv the coroner todav "accidental
suicide" while demented.
At the coroner's inquest. Mrs.
Ivan R. Pickett testified her hus
band had poured gasoline over
the living room floor ihorlly hefor
the house erupted In flame. She
said she fled just before a "ter
rific explosion rocked the house.
Pickett ran outdoors with his
clothing aflame and died on the
ground.
Be a Lesson to All
By Viahnett S. Martini
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from water undermining, the
slides, the everlasting winter
mud, the rain to make the work
less pleasant, falling trees, and
so on.
It seemed good, however, to
see the rocks with water slid
ing down their surfaces making
them look so black, and all the
little rills running down again.
(Seeley creek sang Its first song
the day before Thanksgiving:
were we glad to hear its mur
mcr again!) Oh, how bright
everything is! I don't believe even
Ireland Is greener. '
That makes me think: In the
mail the other day came an air
mail letter from Tippcrary, Eire:
The writer had seen the excerpt
from my letter In the Country
Gen'.lcman last April; His sub
scr ption had expired. The gov
ernment wouldn't let him send
money out of the country for
subscriptions. Would I send him
my C. G. and what English or
Irish magazine would I like In
exchange? I wrapped up our last
C. G.i and went on making cook
ies. Our R.F.D. mailbox Is better
than a bazaar fish-pond. You just
never know what you'll pull out
next!
Vital Statistics
Marriage Licenses Issued
SHORTLIDGE-HAWK Walter
Leland Shortlldge and Gladys N.
Hawk, both of Rosehurg.
PEPER-JACKSON Chester
Wayne Peper and Ella Louise
Jackson, both of Coos Bay.
AMSTUTZENW1LLER John
Amstutz and Edna E. Enwiller,
both of Seattle.
Springfield Advised To
Abandon Utility Plan
SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 30. .P)
A Mountain Stales Power com
pany attorney Wednesday night
told Springfield couneilmcn that
his company would not consider
selling lis power pi-onerty to the
Miller city for $510,000.
The attorney, Allan Smith, re
quested the council and the city
of Springfield to forget about
its S.SOO.000 bond Issue plans to
finance a city-owned power sys
tem, and to jet Mountain Stales
operate for a period of five years.
Two New Rotarians
Inducted At Meeting
Clarence Landis and Ellis Bar
tram were inducted into the
Hoseburg Rotary club at the re
gular mcvitng at the Hotel Ump
qua, Thusrady noon.
A short skit explaining the
purposes and ideals of the club
and the actual induction cere
mony were under the direction of
Claude Bowden. President Le
roy Hiatt welcomed the new
members on behalf of entire
membership.
EMPLOYERS REMINDED
SALEM. I.TI Employers
must remember to give their em
ployes forms showing the amount
of state income taxes withheld
from their salaries during 1943,
thr Stale Tax Commission says.
The employer must make thf"e
copies of the form. One goes to
the employee, one to the Stat
Tax commission, and the other
is kept by the employer.
Several thousand employers
didn't fill out these forms last
year.
of Us!
Lower Costs Of
Highways Loom
For Coming Year
NEW YORK. UP) Ameri
can taxpayers are expected to put
up a record $2 billion next year
for roads and highways. Today
they have the cheering word they
might save $200 million on the
deal.
That is because road construc
tion costs are down about 10 per
cent from their 1948 peak, and
may even drop another five per
cent, while highway productivity
is reported up.
The resulting saving on next
year's road bill could mean either
$200 million for more roads, or a
$200 million reduction in taxes.
However don't count your tax
savings before they arc hatched,.
Taxes often go up, rarely come
down.
Part of the cost of building
highways is done by taxes motor
ists pay. The annual burden of
state and federal gasoline and
automotive taxes now runs
"alarmingly close to $100 a ve
hicle," according to Baird H.
Markham, director of the Ameri
can petroleum industries commit
tee of the American Petroleum
institute.
Markham elaborates on a sub
ject naturally very close to the
institute's heart: "The gasoline
tax nationally averages about 33
per cent of the retail price of this
product."
Costs coming down.
From all parts of the nation
comes the cheering word that
while the United States launches
itself on Its greatest road build
ing spree, costs are on their way
down.
Massachusetts reports that con
tractors recently hid 2 to 30 per
cent lower than the state's esti
mate of road construction cost.
Colorado finds construction
costs down 12 per cent. Arkansas
rejoices In a similar drop, but
worries lest the minimum wage
hike to 75 cents an hour next
month may wipe out the gain.
California finds that by mid
year road costs were already
down 9.7 per cent from the peak,
which occurred nationally in the
final months of 1948. Richard H.
Wilson, assistant state highway
engineer for California, reports
on some reasons for the drop:
1. Increased labor productivity,
which he thinks may be due to
more competition for jobs.
2. End to uncertainties ready
availability of materials at guar
anteed prices, plus the stable sup
ply oi laoor. lets contractors cut
the contingency Items In their
bids.
3. The drop in material prices
for the first time since 1940. Un
der this he lists excavation costs
down 23 percent i-om last year;
class B Portland cement down 12
per cent; bar reinforcing steel
down 12 per cent; and structural
steel down 24 per cent.
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Local Equipment Company
Plans Annual Celebration
One of the big events on the
farm calendar for January Is the
annual John Deere-"Caterpillar"
day celebration to be held at the
Interstate Tractor and Equip
ment company store here Fri
day, Jan. 6, announced Joe
Chamberlain, Roseburg store
manager.
"Friday Is our day to play host
to the hundreds of farm friends
throughout Douglas county and
surrounding area," stated Joe,
"and we're going all out to show
them a grand time."
Feature of the program, Cham
berlain disclosed, would be the
full-length entertainment film,
"Roots in the Soil," a Hollywood
produced film dramatizing life in
rural America. Its action cen
ters around a small-town banker
In the Day's News
t Continued from Page One)
also "entirely in mathematics."
That is to say, it was only an
equation IMAGINED by him.
Einstein's relativity equation
suggested the possibility of the
splitting of the atom and you
know what the splitting of the
atom has led to.
So
Le's not laugh when we are
told that Einstein has imagined
another mathematical equation
that might lead in time to the so
lution of he mystery of gravita
tion. THIS is the point of this whole
business:
If we could find out what gravi
tation is made of, we WOULD
PROBABLY LEARN HOW TO
CONTROL GRAVITATION.
If we could learn how to con
trol gravitation
LET'S stop right here. We have
troubles enough in this-world
at the moment without opening
up such Pandora's boxes as con
trol of gravitation.
OWN where the perpetually
warm waters of the Indian
ocean meet the perpetually warm
waters of the South Pacific, the
Dutch colony hitherto known as
the East Indies ceases to be and
the United States of Indonesia
comes into existence.
The United Spates of Indonesia
starts off with some 77 million
people. When we broke off from
Mother England to start the
United States of America, there
weren't a lot more than a MIL
LION of us.
The Indoesnlans are tackling
the toughest of all problems on a
bigger scale than we did.
ELEANOR Roosevelt (whom in
many ways I greatly admire)
congratulates the Indonesians on
their new republic, and adds:
"With their new freedom GOES
RESPONSIBILITY, and it Is my
hope that the people of Indonesia
may grow to a stable and good
life."
I'M not trying to put myself In
I Eleanor's class, but I too would
like to add a thought on this his
toric occasion.
' I HOPE NO DEMAGOGS TRY
TO SELL THE 77 MILLION IN
DONESIANS THE IDEA OF
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.
That Idea and liberty never can
mix.
PHONE 100
between 615 and 7
p. m., if you have not
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First come, first served . . . Plan now to come
early celebrate New Year's Eve at the
Slia(unar
122 S. Stephens St.
and his family who play an Im
portant part in community life.
It combines comedy, suspense
and good music and features
Richard Travis and Rochelle
Hudson, supported by three of
Hollywood's best younger actors
and actresses and an unusually
fine cast.
Also being shown are a selec
tion of factory insights and action
pictures of the latent farm trac
tors and equipment that have
been designed to meet local
farming conditions . . . pictures
that will bring farmers up to date
on the latest trends in farm ma
chinery. A complete lunch will be serv
ed during the program and an
opportunity will be afforded at
tending farmers to visit with
each other and to look over the
equipment displays and the fa
cilities. Show is scheduled to begin at
10:30 a.m. Friday. Farmers are
invited to bring their family,
friends and neighbors.
Swedish Businessman
Gets Czech Prison Term
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Dec.
30 UP) A Swedish businessman
was sentenced to three vears in
prison Wednesday, charged with
smuggling Czech fols out of the
country and helping Czech citi
zens to flee.
Holger Hjelm, 29-year-old di
rector of a Stockholm importing
firm, was convicted with five
Czechs, including three women,
on general charges of industrial
sabotage. Hjelm also was fined
$200 and ordered to leave the
country when his prison term ex
pires. His property here was con
fiscated, Oregon Youth Killed In
California Accident
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30. (Pi
Fremont L. Slonitier, 9. Sweet
Home, Ore., was killed Wednes
day when the car in which he was
riding overturned on a steep road
in Griffith park. His parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George E. Sloniger, and
two other children were injured.
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Look ahead to 1950!
Let your New Year's Resolution be to do your
1950 business with a home-owned, home
operated bank. All modern bonking facilities
available, including safe deposit boxes and
night depository service.
Douglas County State Bank
Member , , . Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp.
at the Shalimar Room
Celebrate New Year's Eve at the Shalimar Room Rose-
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