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4 Tht Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Wed., Jon. 11, 1950 Published Oiily Naws-3evie Boaaborg. Oracon. nnditr Ml ! Marcb : CHARLE8 V. STANTON pt " EDWIN L. KNAPP : . Editor Staif Manager ' Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona apraaantad T WrsT.HOU.ID1 CO., INC.. oflleaa ID Nan Vork, CblC, Sao franolaoe. Laa Ancalea. Baaltla. Portland. 81. Lauia. UUSCKIP'riUN BAi'KS In orefon By Mall Pa, Tear fs.M. ala manlha ll.ftS. Ibraa maDtha .50 Bt Oily Carrier Per year $10.00 (Id adrance). leaa than aa year, par month 11.00 Oatilda Oregon By Mall Par year 10 00. ill ' uootba S4.13. three mootba 12.1ft LET LABOR LEAD THE WAY By CHARLES V. STANTON 1 .Secretary of Commerce Sawyer is quoted as reporting that the nation is failing to create enough jobs for its fast growing population. He indicated concern because of an increase of 1,300,000 persons in the ranks of the unemploy ed ;in 1949 as compared with the average of 1947-48. . , The unemployment problem, about which the Secretary is toncerned, could be quickly solved by organized labor if it would direct its influence into creation of more jobs. he solution would necessitate some changes from exist ing; labor policies, together with drastic alterations in the planned economy by our socialistic-minded administrative leadership. But the solution we believe, is obvious. i During depression years we submitted to a policy of con trolled scarcity. We endeavored to produce an upward trend in' national economy by limiting supply for the purpose of building demand. Labor adopted make-work and feather- bedding practices ' for the ' people on payrolls. The war.erided the necessity for controlled scarcity in pro duction and featherbedding on the part of labor. But fears remaining from depression days were not easily erased. Many people feared, and still fear, postwar depression. They are afraid to depart from the theory of scarcity and policies of restricted labor. John L. Lewis, for instance, is holding coal production at the lowest possible level to keep prices high, thus permitting him to demand better wages and working conditions for his miners. But because of this policy, fewer "miners are employed and they are working less hours. At the same time, coal shortages produce corresponding unemployment in steel mills, automobile industries, transportation, etc. Labor, naturally, should be interested in the most jobs at the best possible wages. But because of depression exper iences, and fearful of another depression, it is sympathetic to the theory of controlled scarcity. It cannot be disputed, however, that improved wages and working conditions are best assured when we have a con dition of full employment and competition for labor. If, instead of having 8,400,000 people unemployed, we could have that many unfilled jobs bidding for workers, labor would not be losing time on tion, warring on management. tions, would have everything because uncooperative management couldn't get workers. Labor, however, has seen socialist-minded political leadership directing planned economy. Planned economy is not compatible with full production. To keep production on a controlled basis, the federal government has imposed heavy tax levies on corporations. It has placed confiscatory taxes on profits. It has destroyed incentive for investment of risk capital. Yet venture capi tal is necessary to produce system. If private capital is not forthcoming to make new jobs, then it becomes incumbent upon the federal govern ment to provide employment through public works. Labor, ;in the meantime, must battle constantly to maintain adequate wage levels, thereby imposing heavy burdens upon the work er and reducing profits to the employer. If labor could shake off its. depression fears, and would free itself from the shackles of socialistic planned economy, it could, we believe, quickly lead the way to full employ ment and production. It would have to abandon its sym pathy for the "soak-the-rich" philosophy and work for re moval of obstacles to investment 'of 'venture capital. But with its organization and influence it could quickly achieve these results ' - Here in Oregon, as an example, - our economy is based upon the wood industry. Our rate of utilization is not more than one-third of the trees cut in the forest. Yet processes and markets are available to utilize virtually all the ma terial. But even if we converted only one-half the wood i actually cut in the forests into useful products, we would . more than double the number of jobs in our wood industry. ; Furthermore, we would more than doublo payrolls, for a '' great majority of the. new, jobs, would require skilled labor, drawing a better rate of pay than collected by common labor. The opportunities for new jobs existing in the timber industry may be duplicated in virtually any industry. Op ' portunity for full employment even for labor scarcity , exists through reversal of existing theories and practices. Labor, which is most vitally affected, holds the power to ' achieve the desired result. (State Capitol Board Wins Expansion Area ; SALEM, Jan. 11. IV) The : city council took steps Monday : to rezone four city blocks north of the state house grounds. The city move followed a de cision yesterday by the state capltol planning commission to . ask the state board of control tj . buy the four, blocks. The com mission .also sent letters to the Salem council and . the city' ilanning board asking for rezon ng of the four blocks wanted for Except Sunday ly tht Company, Ine. sole purpose of keeping more strikes, featherbedding produc Labor, under such condi its own way, without discord, fit to string along with our jobs under a free enterprise future capltol area buildings. The commission was spurred into nction by a city construction permit Issued to Portland build er Robert Coates who planned l seven storv apartment building at A4i N. Summer street. This is within the area of the four blocks Involved. Coates told the commission he was willing to abandon the apart ment project if he can be reim bursed for $31,000 he said he al ready has invested In the proper ty and plans. Netta-RtvlClV Clateltlod hrflna noautta. Phono 100. There Appears JjjffilM By Viaintt S. Martin jfj'";-' How long were you without power at your house? We had none for 34 hours; from 3:10 Fri day morning (our range-clock is our detective) till 1:30 Sunday afternoon. What a glorious sound is water gushing out of a faucet! However, E J could dip drinking water out of the spring a hun dred feet or so away; and dip pails into, a nearby tub that the roofs refilled quickly, for plumb ing etc. We had plenty to eat so should we complain? We thought of, and spoke many times, of the men who must be out in the winter night as well as day working in the cold and snow and wet . . as I suppose other users of electric power did too! Plenty of poles as well as lines down "cveryhere" the mall carrier said. He has a good bit over 20 miles, part of it over Lorane mountain. "Pit up the mall by flashlight this morn ing!" (Saturday). Comical to see our six N. H. Reds flapping and floudcring downs the path; the old hen in the lead tried flying . . . landed on a slippery board, sat down and slid. Astounded she Help On Housing Plans Offered Rural families who plan to build or remodel a home can have the benefit of a housing workshop to be conducted in Roseburg during February and March. Margaret Tuller and John Campbell, both rural housing spe cialists from Oregon State col lege, will work with Corinne Me- Taggart, county extension agent I home economics I and J. Kniand Parker, county extension agent (agriculture), in conducting the workshop. me purpose or the workshop Is to help families in vorking out solutions to the many problems of planning new houses and in remodeling old ones. Plans for new houses will be analyzed with the family to de termine if the house as planned will best mret the needs of the family. A flannelgraph will be used to illustrate the method of analyzing a plan. The housing specialists will also assist fami lies In sketching plans for re modeling or existing houses. Other sub ects. relating to the house, on which material will be presented are planning of storage' ureas, kitchen and utility room planning, home lighting, selection of a heating system selection of building materials, construction methods, insulation, cost esti mates, and water supply and sewage disH)sal. Colored sound turns illustrating the application of plaster and wall board will be shown. Anoth er educational film on "The Step SavlngU Kitchen" should prove popular to those families present. 1 amines Interested in nartlcipat ing In the workshop should con tact Corinne McTaggart, county extension agent (home econom ics), at the extension office or by writing P.O. Box 512, Rose burg. A limited number of families will be enrolled, and the same families should plan to attend ail four days. It Is desirable for both the husband and wife to attend, also any other adult member of the family Interested In the plan ning of his or her room. Dates for the workshop are Feb. 1, 2 and 23, and March 13. To Be Two Schools Of Thought ' ' " squawked, rose to her feet and rushed into the woodshed, all the others flapping madly after.. Sunday we thought we'd go down to see how the folks at The Hitching Post were doing if they were 'doing' and have a variety in our sandwiches. They were "closed" but beckoned us in and proudly offered to share their bacon, eggs and hotcakes cooked on top of a woodheater. We did that In the oil heater drum for breakfast! Going down the canyon we .saw two small fallen trees, and one humdinger, the roots . of which were on the high bank above the road, and the top of which . was. in. the. .creek , across the road. By edging over, cars could scrape through and I mean scrape. Someone had cut the branches to stubs to make a passage through. Thanks who ever you Were! So that was why the snowplow, usually so prompt, didn't make our road this weekend. It always makes us feel so cared-for up here ... no chance of its getting under that big tree! I wasn't very keen about going under it ourselves! Californian Is Elected To Head Livestock Group MIAMI, Fla. UP) Loren C. Bamert of lone, Calif., was un animously elecled president of the American National Livestock association Saturday at the clos ing session of the 53rd annual convention. At 38 he is the youngest man ever to hold that office. The 1,115 delegates from 39 states also voted to hold their 19-11 convention in San Francisco. S. G. Hyatt of Hattville, Wyo., was elected first vice pres ident. Five second vice presi dents were reelected. Party Leadership Meeting Planned Party game leadership will be the subject for the recreation leader training meeting to te held at the Rivcrsdale Grange hall at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 19. Any organized groups are Invited to send a man or woman leader to the series of training meetings. Jcssalee Mallalicu. recreation specialist, Oregon State college, will work with Corinne McTag gart, county extension agent (home economics) in conducting the. meeting. A second meeting on party game leadership will be held on Feh. 23. Song leader ship will be emphasized at the meeting on March 23. and square dancing on April 20. The series of recreation leader training meetings is open to a man or woman representative of any organized group. Granges, churches, parent-teacher groups, home extension units, communi ty clubs, schools, and other or ganizations are invited to send two representatives. There Is no charge for the meetings. The same leaders should plan to at tend all four meetings if possible. Miss Mallalicu is coming to the county at the request of the home extension units. Improving the quality of group recreation in the county through better trained lenders is hoped for as a result of the series of meetings. Newa Hevlew Claaalfled brinfa ReaulU, Phon 1110. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) pen. As between that and bank ruptcy, I'll take bankruptcy. HE thinks we should spend 41 billions more for buildine ud Europe so the Communists can't take it over, l suppose we ll have to spend a lot in the course of time to keep the Communists from taking Asia over. If we get away with it, it will be cheaper than war. Also we're more or less com mitted to it. In addition, our President says, veterans programs and Inter est on the public' debt will take about 12 billion dollar.). If'vou add these figures up roughly on your fingers, without bothering with meticulous adding machine detail, you'll get a total of 30 billion dollars. THAT Is what we HAVE to I spend to cover the cost of past wars, our present cold war and possible future wars. That's IT. We just can't get away from It HAVING added up a lot of fig ures on our fingers, let's now do a little subtracting. Our President indicates that at our present rate of plucking the goose we will take about 371 bil lion dollars away from it In tax feathers. Thirty billion will be required for WAR COSTS past, present and future. Subtracting 30 billion from 371 billion leave us 71 billion WHICH IS WHAT WE WOULD HAVE LEFT IN CASH FOR RUNNING THE FEDERAL GOV. ERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES (including !arm relief, pensions, social security and all the domestic things we set so much store by these days) in our next fiscal year. SUPPOSE we were clear and free of debt as we practically were four or five years after the last world war. In that event, I'm not so sure but what I'd be all out for President Truman's picture of the future which he calls his Fair Deal and a lot of others call the welfare state. Properly BUSINESS -MAN. AGED, the swiftly growing me chanical revolution, with Its vast increases In production made dos. sible by the machine, could make visions such as the President's come true. Y personal point Is this: With present tax collections twhich are high enough to make the money hard to come by) we can take In only about 371 bil lions. We're COMMITTED to spend 30 billions for past, present and future wars and their side Issues and incidentals. That leaves us only 71 billions to run our domestic affairs with unless we raise taxes staggering ly or go staggeringly Into debt. We're already 257 billion dol lars in the hole. IT seems to me we'd be wiser to refrain from voting ourselves rich until we have more NET 1 Local News Meeting Thursday Pythian Sisters will meet at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, Jan. 12, at the K. oi f. nail. Lodge to Meet Three Rivers Rebekah lodge at Reedsport will hold installation of new officers Thursday evening. City Council Beta S'gma Phi City Council will meet at a 1 o' clock no-hostess luncheon at the Hotel Umpqua Thursday. Patch and Chat The Patch and Chat club will meet at 8 o' clock Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. J. N. Boor. Luncheon Meeting Rotary Anns will meet at a no-hostess luncheon Thursday from 12 to 1:30 o'clock at the Rainbow Grill. Meeting Announced The Nort side Sunshine club will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. E. Emmltt, 120 South Parrott street. Country Club Women Women of the Roseburg Country club will meet at a 12 oclock luncheon Thursday at the clubhouse, fol lowed by the regular contract bridge play at 1 o'clock. W.B.A. to Meet The Woman's Benefit association will meet at 2 o'clock Thursday at the home of Mrs. Earl Bridgess, 2245 Sun set Lane. Election of officers will be held. To Meet Thursday Lady Elks will meet at 8 o'clock Thursday evening at the temple. Hostesses include Mrs. Story lies, Mrs. Ray John, Mrs. A. Copple "and Mrs. Mitchell Moore. Pinochle and contract bridge will be In play. D.A.R. to Meet The D.A.R. will meet at 7:30 o'clock Monday night, Jan. 16, at the home of Mrs. William R. Anderson in West Roseburg with Mrs. C. L. Branton, co-hostess. Mrs. George M. Brown will have charge of the program. Joint Installation Joint Instal lation of Philetarian lodge No. 8 and Roseburg Rebekah lodge No. 41 officers will be held Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock at the I.O.O.F. hall, followed by instal lation of officers of Alpha Zeta Theta Rho Girls club. Refresh ments will be served. Community Club to Meet Deer Creek Community club will meet at the Dixonville auditorium Fri day, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m. The com mittee in charge requests those attending to bring either cookies or sandwiches and their own cups.. A program .will be pre sented. Club to Meet The Oregon State College Mothers club mem bers and those eligible to mem bership are invited to meet at 2 o'clock Monday, Jan. 16, at the home of Mrs. H. N. Jacobson, 935 Chapman street, Laurelwood, with Mrs. Earl M. Bleile, co-hostess. Postponed The Woman's Soci ety of the First Presbyterian church has postponed its meet ing from this week to Jan. 19, at 1:30 o'clock at the church par lors. The meeting was postponed on account of the annual church dinner to be held Thursday eve ning, Jan. 12, at 6:45 o'clock in the church parlors. Group -to 'Meet The Woman's Society of Christian Service will meet at a 1 o'clock dessert-lunch eon-Thursday at the Methodist cnurcn parjors with members of Circle No. 4 as hostesses. The topic will be "The Whole of Love Is My Answer." The worship will be in charge of Mrs. Earl M. Bleile and the program will be in charge of Mrs. F. P. Powell. . Son Born Mr. and Mrs. Don Forbes are parents of a son. born Dec. 29 in Sacred Heart hospital in Eugene. The baby, named Faur Scott Abeel Forbes, weigh ed seven pounds, three ounces. Mrs. Forbes has returned to Roseburg, and is now at the home nf bpr nnrAntc Mr nnH Mrs. Paul AbeeL at 1277 Umpqua 1 Ave. . riches to "nigger" with. That's why I can't get too much steamed up' with enthusiasm for the Presi dent's big spending program. - Woman Held In Shooting Of Husband Near Tacoma TACOMA OP) The Pelrce county sheriff's office said a Parkland housewife was being held on a charge of first-degree assault In connection with the shooting of her husband early Saturday. Detective Davy Ward said the Woman. Mrs. Gladys Lee, 49, confessed orally to the acciden tal shooting of her husband, Wal ter Lee, 49, while attempting to take her own life. County hospital attendants said Lee's condlion was fair. Ward said one shot from a .25 caliber Mauser pistol struck his groin and a second grazed his Back. The detective quoted Mrs. Lee as saying an argument develop ed after the couple returned home from a Parkland tavern about 1 a.m. Ward said Mrs. Lee called the sheriff's office imme diately after, the shooting. Bail for Mrs. Lee was set at $5,000. FIRST NEGRO CITIZEN PORTLAND, Jan. 11 Um Oliver E. Smith, secretary of the Negro Democratic society and a founder of the Urban league, was named the city's "Negro first cit izen of 1949" yesterday. The society said he was chos- A New Year's Resolution Resolve to do your 1950 business with '.'us. Let us help you co itidate 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. PLUMBING New Service . . . . Save on Plumbing Show us your job, we will cut and fabricate soil pipe and waste line to fit. Also vents, and water supply lines if desired you install and save. Complete set of plumbers tools furnished if needed. Can be purchased : on F. H. A. ' a W. MS AND ALL CO. 1804 N. Stephens FROM THE 60 Roseburg Review . February 27, 1890 - re to,, l"y- 7 Ppe9r h ' ' We'll bet a penny you wouldn't hesitate to insure your home against fire but we'll also bet you hesitate about insuring your possessions against burglary. YET THE CHANCES OF YOUR HOME BEING BURGLED ARE MUCH HIGHER THAN THE CHANCE IT WILL BURN. Something to think about, isn't it? And something to do about, too. A phone call brings us to your home or office with details about burglary insurance. It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Cass (Next door to Post Office) Bill Tipton MIDGET HEREFORD! (OLD PORTLAND, Jan. ll.r-tff) Three midget Herefords turned up yesterday at the Union Stock yards. ' The animals, 18 to 20 Inches high, weighed a total of 585 pounds and sold for 10 cents a pound. The animals had been consign ed by a central Oregon breeder, who wanted no part of the pub licity attached to the ownership of the runts. 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