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4 Th Newt-Reviaw, Roseburg, Or Tuet., Jan. 10, 1950 Published D illy Except Sunday ! y the Newt-"?evie Company, Inc. tent ei lecond eleit metier Mar 1, l0. le peil efMoe Roieburs. Oregon, ander eel ef Merob S. IH'I CHARLES V. STANTON -am. EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Assoolated Preee, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations eereeerileS tj we8T.HOLl.IDA CO., INI), otflcee in New '. Chloess. . Vrerjeleoe Loi Amelee, Seellle PorlC.nd SI Lenie. SUUSlBlrTIIlN BATHS In Ureton-Hj Mree tltOBine U SD 11, 1.117 uerri, M reer, per monlh 11.00 Oulilde montbf 14.70. mree otODtne e.ie WHO'S FOOLING WHO? By CHARLES Congressman Harris Ellsworth has sent us the text of a joint statement by House Republican members m Con gress regarding President Truman's message on the State of the Union. The statement refers to the speech as being mislabeled, saying it should be called his message on "The State of Socialism," . The joint statement, naturally, is quite critical. It de clares that: In the broadest view the President has again given notice that he Is wholly committed to the eventual socializa tion of America" and elimination of the traditional Amer lean competitive system which made this nation the greatest on earth. The thesis has been repeatedly set forth that, as In Great Britain and the other socialistic nations of the world, we In the United' States are being taxed Into Socialism. With the American housewife, worklngman, farmer and businessman now demanding tax relief and government economy, the President's message contains blunt notice that there Is no hope at any time In the foreseeable future for this to be achieved under his administration and his pro gram. ' The, word "economy" is noteworthy for Its complete omis sion from the text of the message. The recommends . tlons of the Hoover commission, which promised ef ' ficlenoy and a $3,000,000,000 reduction In governmental ' costSr-are Ignored completely. On the contrary, the President lists programs, all of which entail large immediate outlays and even greater spending In the future. The statement points out that the only tax relief given the American people in a generation was enacted over pres idential veto by the 80th Congress, which lowered income tax rates. ' ; ' A large portion of the message Is devoted to painting the outlook for the year 2000 and he traces our future oourse through the next SO years under the all-powerful State which he envisions. This glowing picture will fool no one. It Implies an ever-expanding tax system under which the American people will send their money to Washington so that the planners and bureaucrats may send back whatever Is left to them accompanied by rules, regulations and edicts to govern even the smallest part of their lives. Clearly, the President would put the Amer ican people on the treadmill of sooialism. Here and there he pays a ourtsy to traditional American freedom; here and there he bows politely to American love for Its tra ditional Institutions, Its free markets and Its free men. But In reality he la embraolng black reaction In new glad-rags. Are the Republicans as naive as their statement would indicate when they say ."This glowing picture will fool no one?" The American people have been falling for the same line of tripe for 18 years. Why expect them to change now? The guy who promises the most usually gets elected. Americans have been promised almost' everything, except the moon with a fence around it, but about the only promises kept were those of "tax and tax" and "spend and spend." President Truman at least had the good grace to talk about the year 2000. Certainly very few of today's adults are going to be around to see whether his predictions come true. But the Republicans are only fooling themselves if they think the President isn't fooling a large segment of the country's voters. The Republican statement closes with these words: The world today Is witness to attempts to govern by police state methods on one hand and by profligate gov. ernment handouts and bureauoratlo controls on the other. The Communists have chosen the first course. President Truman and his followers have chosen the second course. The Republican party, convinced that either course ends In eventual enslavement of the people by their government, stands boldly against both alien systems and reaffirms Its belief In the baslo freedom and dignity of man and the Institutions which preserve his prosperity and liberty. We shall relentlessly oppose the headlong rush towards social ism in America, and we shall examine each and every measure which comes before this session of Congress with that objective In view, We hope the Republicans will compromise. It will not be a result in another defeat at the it the right course in the current state of world affairs. LETTERS to the Editor Identify Information ROSEBURG I do not wish to discuss taxes in this letter, but would like to clarify one very important matter about a letter printed In this paner on Jan. 6Mi I am not the "B. Roach" who signed his (or her) name to the letter. Mistaken identity might be embarrassing to either partv. BEULA (Mrs. M. II.) ROACH 501 S. Main Street Roseburg, Oregon NO TAIL LIGHT; FINEO Claude William Dean, 20 Grants Pass, charged with oper ating a motor vehicle having no tail light, was fined $10 in lus tice court Monday, Judge A. J. Geddes reported. M.ll rei tMils.ee. ' '' J; rw - . . o nn .1. Oregon Br Hell e'er reer l 00. li V.STANTON stick to that pledge without popular position nnd it may polls. But history will prove Man Stabbed Trying To Stop Battle Of Women ALBANY, Ore., Jan. lO-W Clifford Brown, 40. of Route t, Corvnllls. Is in critical condition here because he ti led to stop two women from fighting, Police Chief Ray Mnddy said. Brown was hospitalized with a Knue wound In the abdomen. Maddy said the wound was suf fered Sunday when Brown tried to stop two women from a hair pulling fight in the downtown area. Maddy Identified the women as Betty McCce and Mrs. John Lee Huckaby. He said he was holding Mrs. Huckaby's husband on a charge of assault with a danger ous weapon. Mrs. Huckaby suf fered a cash on one arm !n the melee, but was not hospitalized. It Is estimated that American shipping has spent $6,000,000 on radar equipment since the end ol the war as an aid to navigation. You're vueuTfieyiNSisiec ON RlPM3 IT TO death Well," said E J, coming back in with the shotgun, "that beats climbing a tree!" A maple branch, weighted with snow, hung heavily on one of the three wires coming in our place. It was too high, ol course, to reach In any way we had until E J shot the branch back of the place where it rested on the wire. That did it! The limb fell in a way that relieved the wire. Next he surveyed the sagging wires leading across our front yard to our neighbors up on the hill. There Is a stretch of two hundred feet or more between the pole by our garage, and the first pole on the hill; the wires were thick with snow, and sag ging about six feet. Alarming. Littlepages were going to have a down-wire? Well, E J couldn't shoot that snow pff! But he got the sledge and tapped the pole not very hard either. At the very first tap down came the snow from one wire the entire length. The other wire slower; wonder why that was? How that first wire did bounce up, resllently, for a good six feet in the middle of the sag! -.ii W-ir -iHtf V" BDUNP Afr N -GOh-fUCE! Ef''' ( BuTainTcha 1 aTW GONMA SUPPLY I ... jS ., A'-J ME WITH H .. Jft l ji ' - i 1 Threat Of Bankruptcy Facing Uncle Sam Topic Of Speakers At Junior Chamber Meeting The country is going to the poorhouse, three members of the Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce opined last night at a Jaycee dinner meeting in the Umpqua hotel. Leo Seavv, Irv Pugh and Bill Tipton, members of the Jaycee gavel club, a speech-making or ganization within the Jaycees, warned that unless the recom mendations of the Hoover com mission report are adopted by Congress, the country may find itself "bankrupt." Seavy stated the government Is spending more than it is tak ing in. He quoted figures from The Readers Digest magazine, which showed that In 1932, the cost of government was $44 billion dollars, while In 1950, the expected cost Is $45 billion, or 10 times, more. "The chaos of duplication is listed by the Hoover commission as one of the government's pri mary faults," Seavy said. Pugh revealed that all the prin ciples of good administration are being violated today. Tbese prin ciples include (Da clear line of responsibility fromtop to bottom; (2) a staff of experts to help the chief executive arrive quieklv at the many decisions with which he Is confronted; (3) good admin istrators; (4) freedom to exer cise initiative, and (5) a top flight budgeting system. Costly "Incompetence" . "It costs the government on the average of $34 to spend $10," Pugh lamented, because of the paper work and time that It takes to process a governmental pur chase. He pointed up the Incompetence that prevails in government by revealing that "no one noticed that a misplaced period added 30 million dollars to budget esti mates In a certain department." Consistent underestimation of costs by the Interior department was given by Pugh as another costly feature of government. "Federal hospitals cost the government from $21-51 thousand per bed, while private enterprise can do the Job for from (12-16) thousand per bed. On Your Own Now, Bub! Power has been off seven hours at this writing . (Saturday the 7th) and of course the radio is off, too, and we don't know what the . trouble Is. But at least we helped a bit by' clearing away hazards here.- When the REA was putting power into our neighbors' place up on the hill, a man came in to warn us our wires would be taken down while they moved a pole or something. When I learned what they intended to do, ' I suggested that they go straight across our place and save trouble. Well, that would be fine if I didn't mind. It just seemed a neighborly thing to do, from our point of view. Well, he said, it would save poles, wire, time and trouble. With the speed at which they went at it I won dered If they thought I might change my mind. But the speaker had also said, without any request from me, while the wires were down they should be taken off our big maple to better our radio reception. The linemen saw it differently. The wires went back in the same place. Pugh repeated figures showing that the total cost of government from the country's birth to 1941 was $178 billion dollars. Since 1945, the cost is $191 billion. "In other words," Pugh said, "it cost $13 billion more to run the gov ernment in the last five years, than it has in the first 165. Youth Will Pay Bill Tipton warned that the youth of the country will pay the bill of "poor government." "It's up to the Junior Chamber of Commerce to spread the word of the evils of government spend ing." Tipton said the Hoover report shows where $S0 million can be saved In the Agricultural depart ment alone, without taking away any benefits to the farmer. Three million filing cabinets, covering an area of 18 million square feet, and costing the gov ernment $27 million per year to maintain, are too much, Tipton observed. "Centralization of record man agement, as suggested by Hoov er's committee, would save from $30-50 million annually." "Five billion can be saved an nually by putting the Hoover Commission recommendations in force," Tipton said. TORCH CAUSES BLAST SILETZ, Jan. 10 ItP) A blow torch being used to thaw frozen pipes touched off an explosion st a service station here, Injuring a teen-age boy. Ray Bittler, one of the opera tors of the service station, said he laid the torch down to answer the telephone. The explosion fol lowed, knocking out windows and cracking a wall of the build ing. Dewey Glddell. a teen-age onlooker, was burned on the face and hands. Proper distance for viewing a lfi-inch television set Is declared by experts to be six to ten feet In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) around the block and come back into Main street. He didn't do it that way. He made a U-turn. '( . .. OW it happens that U-turns are forbidden on the Main street of Cornelius. It also hap pened that at the moment when Grummons made his illegal turn the Cornelius chief of police was coming by in his car. He called upon Grummons to STOP. G RUMMONS didn't stop. In stead, he tromped down on the throttle. The police chief gave chase. Grummons' t speed rose to iu .mnes an nour. . At that moment there came a curve in the road. Grummons' truck didn't take the curve. It roared ahead, over the curb, over the walk and slammed into a house with such force that It crashed through the wall and came to a stop with the front end clear into the living room. Fortunately, nobody was In the living room, and by some odd freak Grummons wasn't much more than scratched. THE chief of police came up, dug Grummons out of the wreckage, hauled him off to the clink, locked him up and went off to find another policeman to help him question the offender. When the two cops came back, the dispatch telling the story re lates, THEY FOUND GRUM MONS DEAD, hanging by a rope that he had fashioned from a torn-up blanket! HY didn't Grummons stop when hailed by the chief of police after making a U-turn on the Main street? It was a simple offense. No moral turpitude is involved In making a U-turn. At most it could have meant only a minor fine. . He seems to have been a normal citizen. He 'had never been arrested before. There is no record that he had ever been even reproved by the law. He was to have moved that afternoon into a new home that he had jut bought in the nearby town of Hillsboro. Instead of stopping, when called upon to do so by the law, he slammed on the gas, raced away at high speed, with the prowl car in hot pursuit, left the road, whammed into the home of an Innocent citizen, partially wrecking It, and when arrested and taken to jail he was so over come by remorse and humiliation over what he had done that when he was left alone for a few minutes he tore up a blanket In the roll, made a rope of the pieces and hanged himself. AS I remarked at the beginning of this piece, many strange and unaccountable thnlgs happen in this world. The human mind Is a delicate Instrument whose workings can never be predicted with complete accuracy. Kits have been put on the mar ket to convert 10-inch television sots into a 16-incher. Slats destroy or contaminate 200,000.000 bushels of grain in the U. S. every year. Junior First Citizen Of Last Year Will Be Announced At Jaycees1 Banquet January 1 6 Plans to draw nearly 200 persons to the junior first citizen's banquet were completed with the distribution of tickets to members of the Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce last night at the Umpqua hotel. The fourth annual dinner-dance affair will be held at Kennedy's Dutch Mill Monday night, Jan. 16. Admission is $2.50 per person. At the banquet, the outstand ing young Roseburg man will be announced as the junior first citi zen, President George Mcintosh of the Roseburg Jaycees an nounced. He added that member ship in the Jaycees is not re quired to be eligible for the award. . Last year, Jaycee Wayne Crooch was selected junior first citizen and in 1948 Bill Black, Knights of Pythias Drum and Bu gle corps director, was so honor ed. Other awards to be made at the Verdict Filed In Action Over Note A Jury comprised of nine wom en and three men deliberated one hour and returned a verdict in favor of , Duard E. Peck and Marion A. Peck in a suit arising out of a complaint filed in circuit court by William D. Mavberrv and Elsie E. Mayberry. l ne plaintiffs charged non-oav- ment on a promissory note in volving tne sum of $250, plus In terest and costs. The defendants filed a cross complaint, charging they had paid $70 on the note. The cross complaint further stated that the defendants sold 25 tons of alfalfa to the plaintiffs, had done some work for them and had pastured one horse and two calves belong ing to the plaintiffs, to the total value of $702.50. The defendants asked that the amount be allowed as a counter claim, but that $180 be charged off against the plaintiffs' de mands, making the total recovery amount asked by the defendants $522.50 plus costs. The jury although favoring the defendants, nullified the money request. Members of the jury included Hazel E. Coffinan, Lenora Coop er, Paul L. Jenkins, Vera Moore. Nettie Woodruff, Emily Fergv son, Ray C. Lawrence, Ruby M. Matthews, Katie M. Conn, Ger ald Bacon, Ruth Bridges and Kathleen Wiber. Vital Statistics Marriage Licenses issued DeWITTE-PERRY James De Witte and Bernice Grace Perry, both of Bremerton, Wn. Divorce Suits Filed CLARK Bonnie vs. Walter H. Clark. Married April 6, 1948, Sweethome. Plaintiff charges cruel and inhuman treatment; asks that former name of Bonnie Carr be restored. MAY Mavis Y. vs. Bruce E. May. Married Sept. 24, 1948, Suth erlin. Plaintiff charges cruel and inhuman treatment; asks that maiden name of Mavis Y. Wold be restored. TOTTEN Clyde vs. Alice M. Totten. Married June 30, 1927, Torrence, Calif. Plaintiff charges cruel nd Inhuman treatment; property settlement terms sub mitted. PIRSCHEL Lillle'irom Hugo Pirschel. Married Jan. 19, 1945, Virginia City, Nev. Newlyweds Told To Stay At Home And Save Money BREMERTON. UP) A young-in-heart couple about t o celebrate their 70th wedding an niversary has this advice for newlyweds: "Stay at home and save your money." The spokesman was Mrs. Frank Houde, of Tracyton. Her husband as most husbands do remained h. he background and let "mother" do the talking. The Houdes will not reach their anniversary until next Tuesday, but held a family cele bration Sunday so that their five daughters, 15 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 14 great great grandchildren all could at tend. Houde, a retired carpenter, Is 88. His wife is 86. They were married in Hawick, Minn. On the subject of second honey moons, Mrs. Houde remarked. "We never did have a honey, moon; they cost too much. I still don't believe in them." RANGER TRANSFERRED MORTON, Wash., Jan. 10-VP) Transfer of Harold Criswell, federal forest ranger for the Ran dle district of Eastern Lewis county, to the Union creek dis trict of the Rogue River forest in Oregon was announced here. He will be located 45 miles west of Medford on the Medford-Crat-er lake highway. SERVICE Roseburg Funeral Home "Tht Chapel of tht Roses" Oak and Kant Street Funerals Tl. 600 banquet include the gold ' key award, to be presented to the outstanding jaycee; the plaque award, going to the outstanding new Jaycee member and the plaque award to the outstanding Jaycee committee chairman. Last night's Jaycee meetin? was highlighted with a short talk by outgoing president Glen Scott, after which he turned the gavel over to Mcintosh. . Scott reported last year as be ing "a most successful one for Roseburg Jaycees . . . thanks to excellent work performed by the various committeemen." - ; "We'll get a lot more done with less effort in 1950' were Scott's closing remarks. : New Jaycee officers will be in stalled at the junior first citi zen's banquet. ATTENTION, G. I.'S . . . Any G. I. interested in schooling under the G. I. Bill of Rights at the Grant Business College, contact Grant Business College Ola Grant Phone 2535-R or 1287-J A list is being taken for the spring enrollment. A New Year's Resolution . Resolve to do your 1950 business with us. Let us help you co ilidote your banking busi ness and arrange for the banking services which your needs require. Safe deposit boxes and night depository avail able at your home-owned, home-operated bank. Douglas County State Bank Member . . . Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. r Betlou Doiit Know I This About Advertising I Oak No. 9 What does it coBt to ad vertise a gallon of gasoline? I it li a gallon? 5e? 7c7 It costs less than l5fJ a gallon to advertise the most famous brands of gasoline. That's only half the story. Advertising lowers your cost two ways: Cuts the selling costs. And by helping make mass pro duction possible, lowers the production costs, too. So advertising saves you many times the cost of that 15 per gallon. Advertising Phone Roseburg, Oregon Ambulance Service Answer: II MI FIRE'S DOUBLE TOLL PORTLAND, Jan. 10 ) Sep arate fires in eastern Mulnomah county destroyed a service sta tion and a small house. The service station, owned by James L. Sandblast,- Troutdale, was at the intersection of Halsiy street and Arata road. Loss was estimated at $7,500. The small home of Robert Bratcher on S. E, 156th avenue was destroyed at a loss of $3,500. ... Dr. E. VV. Carter Chiropodist Foot Specialist 129 N.Jackson . 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