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4 Tha Nawi-Ravlew, Roseburg, Ore.--Sot., Jon. 14, 1950 3bo 31ows-lteuiew Published Oilly Exoept Sunday l y the Nwt-Revie Company, Inc. latere wen lin mailer f 1. I?", al tbe f"J elllae ' Batebarf, Orifve, aedar Ml el March S. ult CHARLES V. 8TANTON TFlm EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor . Manager Member of the Aasoolated Preaa, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Aaaoolatlon, the Audit Buraau of Clroulatlona aareieataa by WEBT-HOLLIDAT CO , INC. et'lrai la Haw ark, Ckleefe. a Vraaclaoe. Lai Aoialas, aula, rartlaai. SI. Leala. . SUBSUBI1TION CATFS la Or.ion-H, Hall r rear M.at. fla aMlto thrae aiaelbr Hat Hi Cltr Carrltr-r.r j.u Ilea la a'ataae), aaa raar par mo. Ik ll.et Oililde Oiaiaa Br Mall Tar . ! ealha ll.il, thrae aiaallia lt.lt The Last Piece Of The Set FAULTY TACTICS By CHARLES V. STANTON Meier & Frank company, Portland, is reported to have withdrawn 14, scheduled pages of advertising from The Oregonian recently and to have limited later space pur chases to one page. Press wires report that the action was taken by the company because The Oregonian published a front page news item from the National Labor Relations board, charging Meier & Frank with unfair labor practice in resisting unionization of its employes. ' While the same information was printed by The Oregon Journal, an afternoon paper, it "broke" later than in The Oregonian, a morning paper, and was less prominently dis played. . No reprisal was brought against The Journal, which, in fact, appears to have been given an increase in Meier & Frank's advertising lineage. Every newspaper experiences reprisals or threats of re prisals from advertisers from time to time. An advertiser becomes "peeved" because of some unfavorable publicity, news or editorial policy and cancels his advertising schedule to "punish" the newspaper, thereby attempting through intimidation to force the newspaper to tailor its news or policies and grant him special privilege. Foes of a free press have tried to convince the public that newspapers permit news and editorial policies to be influenced by advertisers. Nothing could be further from the truth. But snipers, particularly New Deal, Fair Deal and left-wing leaders, do their utmost to discredit a free press by continually peddling the propaganda line that newspapers are subservient to advertising pressure. We wonder if advertisers really understand what they are proposing to do when they threaten a newspaper with financial reprisal ? We wonder, for instance, if they realize how seriously they would impair the value of their own advertising if they could control a newspaper's news or opinion? Confidence is the most important element in advertising. A prospective purchaser must have confidence in the pro duct being advertised. He must have confidence in the advertiser. He also must have confidence in the medium used by the advertiser. Advertising is affected by the com pany it keeps. Advertisements from the most reputable firms, advertising a product of the highest quality and value, would have little appeal if printed in a publication for which the reader had no respect. No reader will long hold respect for a newspaper which permits its policies or news columns to be influenced by friendships, political or economic threats or pressures, or any other form of coercion, Intimidation or persuasion. A newspaper must report the news impartially and honestly if it is to maintain prestige. It cannot shield its advertisers or any' individual from unfavorable publicity, when that publicity concerns legitimate news to which the public is entitled. When it shows partiality or submits to influence, persuasion or intimidation it immediately loses the con fidence of its readers. Once that confidence is lost, the news paper ceases to be of value to the advertiser. Thus, when an advertiser attempts to coerce a newspaper into suppressing or tailoring a legitimate news item because it might be hurtful to his business, he actually is proposing to lower the effectiveness of that newspaper in serving him as a medium for his advertising. XW-l V W$. STATE Wit , t xinH,:. fM$ By ViaJinett S. MartinjjS was time or the "Well," said EJ, looking up. "It from the News-Review with that 'and 1 mall The advertiser and the public should ever keep in mind that advertising space in a newspaper is a commodity to be bought and sold exactly as any other merchandise. Either it gives value received, within itself, without reference to news columns or newspaper policies, or it is virtually worth less. Space is the commodity with which the newspaper deals. It is as important to the newspaper that its adver tising space enjoy a reputation compelling confidence from the reader as it is to the merchant that he hold the con fidence of the buying public. A newspaper cannot retain confidence in its advertising space if it permits its prestige to suffer because its news or editorial columns are suscept ible to exterior influence. Too obvious for elaboration is the fact that the advertiser who would use reprisal or threat of reprisal to suppress news is endeavoring to impair one of our most precious and vital privileges the right of free speech and freedom of the press. If the time should ever come that an advertiser, a public official or a private citizen is able to wrap himself in a cloak of immunity from unbiased reporting of the news through processes of intimidation, the newspaper will no longer be fit to circulate in the American home and its advertising columns will cease to be an effective vehicle in which to convey the advertiser's message. pleased expression husbands have when they've caught their dear, dear, I'd better start over That pleased look a husband has when he has caught his wife off base. 'I guess the ol' Rocking Chair done got you around Christmas time." I stopped rolling In a sheet of paper for a scrap, and wondered what on earth I had 'said' in the one he was reading? "What's the matter?" "Oh, nothing much. You Just shoved the Cascades over a trifle, and set 'em on top of Elkton tun nel. But readers, undoubtedly, will shove 'em back." "Oh, no!" I exclaimed, feeling pretty silly. "Says here. Unless you can pin It on the printer? Let's see your carbon copy I bet you did It." (Alas, I did. It's your turn to chuckle, Mr. Printer.) "That was the day before Christmas. I wrote three hi a hurry and" I skidded to a stop. No sense In telling him every thing that happened to those scraps. But Just whisper some thing in a husband's hearing, or stop suddenly In a sentence I told the rest! "I know." EJ nodded In that smug way a husband can have at such moments. "And you for got to address the envelope. The return-address on It brought It back I buy stamped envelopes, so It wasn't lack of a stamp!" "I didn't have a return address on either. The mall carrier just remembered picking up long white envelopes here so much and brought it back on the next trip after Christmas!" "And that was why you had such a desire to go to town that night as long as we were going to town, mall some letters! I thought there was something be. hind that ride in the rain." "Well, you like to ride in the rain!" He shook his head and re sumed reading for a moment. "What's that pioneer woman's name, Rozelle Apple-what?" "Oh dear me, Appleton is so familiar and Applcgate is new to me! I just slipped, I suppose." I've tried," said E J piously, "for thirty years to get you to quit 'hurrying'. You never gain a thing by it! Now If yor would Just" "Here we go again!" I thought, listening meetly . . . I hereby resolve ! In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) LETTERS to the Editor Lutheran Church To Seat Officers Installation of newly elected officers will be held at the Sun day morning service, Jan. 15, of ti. raurs Lutneran cnurcn, Corey and Military streets. William Miller was chosed pre sident of the congregation at the voters' assembly held last Sun day. Other officers elected Include: vice chalian, Richard Drffer ding; secretary, Jack Gorthy; treasurer, Dr. E. W. Carter; eld ers, Walter Nehring, Herman Hasbnrgen and Carlcy Bennett. Mrs. L. Wilson was asked to as sist the treasurer as financial secretary and bookkeeper. In addition to ihe election of officers, the assembly discussed and accepted the treasurer's an nual report and audited the books for 1919. It was decided to nrerjare enough copies of the congrega tional report for 1949 so thai raiei family would have a copy for .private study and consideration. Rogue River Project's Phases Are Discussed PORTLAND We read with considerable interest your editor ial regarding the economic pres sures being exerted in the "Rogue River Valley." We felt It was a most able exposition and criticism of something that ac tually happens, but something that should be a matter of more general knowledge. With the above In mind it was doubly Interesting to read the ed itorial page of your paper pub lished under dntc of Tuesday. De cember 27, 1919. May we commend your fair ness in reprinting the editorial from the (limits Pass Courier. It Is regrettable that the proponents of the proposed Rogue river dam do not use Ihe logic and set forth the facts, for all to read, that they so bitterly accuse you of Jail ing to do. It so happens the writer Is also a member of the Iznak Walton league and It was therefore flat tering to read of the concern re garding the opinions of this or gani7atinn exhibited by the tirant Pass editor. At the same time it was disturbing that in a plea for respect for the opinions of others, the editor does not heed the warnings of conservationists or attempt to understand the true and full meaning of conservation. The whole Rogue river matter could be a splendid demonst ra tion of the possibilities of enlight ened ALL purpose use and devel opment with conservation. There could be proper planning and en gineering to minimize damage to recreational, fishing, and wild life values, while at the same lime developing reasonable, we repeat, reasonable, use of water for agriculture and hydroelectric development. Everyone of those five uses have very Important economic values. Doesn't it seem silly. Is It not a very untenable position to b in, to say disregard all but power and Irrigation and then go about providing these in the most expensive and unsound manner within the ability of engi neers to plan. If the Grants Pass editor feels this is an overstatement, perhaps he should recall other ''marve lous" projects and the claims made for them at the same stage of progress. Does he remember when The Dalles was to be a sea port? Or has he recently checked the new metropolis of this state, Umatilla? Then there i3 also a little matter of Interest pertain ing to that 100 million dollars. How much of it will be spent for things made not only outside of Oregon, hut not even on the West Coast. The real increase in wealth In the Rogue river area will be very small indeed. As long as plans have been or can be devised to at least in some measure safeguard the in terests of all, plans that serve to promote the economic growth of the southern part of our state in all ways, It seems fair and rea sonable to say to those, who i t tost so vehemently that they want to serve the people of their community, they had best reex amine the position they are tak ing. Let them weigh well their regard and their plans for the economy of their community, state and nation, for today, to morrow, and for the generations to follow. JOSEPH W. SMITH Portland, Ore. Canyonville Lions Plan Ladies Night Program Fritz Snyder of Days Cerrk will entertain the Canyonville Lions club members, their wives, and invited guests by playing his Hammond electric organ at a special "ladies night" chicken dinner at Ford's cafe Mondav Jan. 16. at 8 p.m. Snyder recent ly appeared on the program of the Canyonville community Christmas party. He has enter tained at former Lions dinners by playing his Solovox. Ladies night was decided on by the board of directors In lieu of the regular first January meet- situation here. aaa LETS look facts In the lace. From the standpoint of public morals, which Is worse: 1. To forbid gambling by law, but permit It to go or as a matter of expediency? Or 2. To sanction it by law and supervise it? aaa I'D say that both are bad. Whatever may be said of gam bling for fun (If there is such a thing), gambling for money is an evil. Those who lose more than they can afford are apt to go hun gry. Worst still, their families, if they are bread-winners, are apt to go hungry. Those who win (or THINK they win; I doubt if there is such a thing as sustained winning at gambling) are apt to neglect their regular Jobs in the elusive hope of making a living as a gambler. Gambling for money rests on the delusion that something can be had for nothing. One of the surest results of trying to get something for nothing Is deterio ration of character. SO far as I am concerned. New York can do Its own worrying about the gambling situation there. It's a long way off. But we have a similar problem right here in Oregon. Under our constitution, as well as our statute law, all forms of gambling are strictly forbidden. Yet, from time to time, with spasms of public morality in between, gambling devices oper ate here. Anyone with eyes In his head to see and a brain to think about what he sees, knows that. Whenever gambling goes on In Oregon, the law is being violated. Most us suspect that when the anti-gambling laws are violated SOMEBODY GETS SOMETHING for permitting the violations. That may not be true. But, naturally, one suspects that It IS true. aaa IF it Is true, or when It Is true, we add to the evil of gambling the further evil of corrupting pub lic officJr.ls. Oregon Is a splendid state. I think its standards of public morality are among the highest in America. Perhaps the very highest. How long can that continue If we go on w inking at violation of the laws forbidding gambling? aaa I LIVE In Oregon. I love and re spect and admire the state of Oregon. I want to see her an hon est woman. If we're going to keep her an honest woman, we'd better enforce our laws against gam bling or take them off the books. Personally I think we'd better enforce them. Lukemia, Blood Cancer, Being Arrested In Its Tracks By New Wonder Hormone. Acth By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE . Associated Press Science Reporter (NEW YORK UP) Acute leukemia, the fatal blood cancer, Is being stopped in Its tracks by the wonder hormone, acth, three cancer experts report. Five patients treated with the hormone all have made dramatic recoveries, Drs. O. H. Pearson, L. P. Eliel and T. R. Talbot Jr., of the Sloan-Kettering Institute and memorial hospital, announced. One child had a relapse thee weeks later, but again was brought back to health with atch. The others, two children and two adults, still were well one day to five weeks after getting the hor mone. Thev had almost no siens of the disease. They had received oauy injections lor 24 to 3U days. Whether thev will have re lapses isn't yet known, Dr. Pear son said. He said these recover ies still must be called temoorarv and incomplete. utner treatments bring tem porary recoveries in leukemia. But the best of these has hnen only about 30 per cent effective in children. Atch thus appears to be the best drug vet found to heln inese patients. j . Leukemia is a cancer of the blood, with the body making too i many white blood cells. Acute, or fast-acting attacks, usually kill In a few weeks or months, or in a I year. Chronic Cases Halted Chronic leukemia, which peo-1 pie may have for years, also Is '. halted temporarily by atch. It come back later, but then the hor- i mnnp ran hrinor romi,H11.iaa a en. ' ond time. This effect in chronic leukemia was reported a few months ago. The new results In acute leu kemia were described beore the New York academy of medicine in a meeting devoted to atch and cortisone. Acth is a hormone from the pituitary gland, and cor tisone is made by the adrenal glands. So far, acth hasn't shown any effect apainst nrhpr forms nf nan. cer, including cancer of the "icaai, icius anu aarenai gianu. In leukemia, it destroyed cancer tissue. The studies are going on in attempts to learn just how the hormones produce these good ef fects, and how to better the treat- Presbyterians To Hear Veteran Of Radar War Duty John Broger of the Far East Broadcasting Co., who has just returned from Manila after 19 months, will speak at the First Presbyterian church Thursday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m. according to the pastor, Dr. Morris Roach. Broger spent six years in com mercial radio and professional theatricals in New York City be fore he entered Christian work in August 1936. He entered the U.S. navy in 1942 and became a radio technician flnrl latoe an in. structor in radio and radar. Dur ing the next two years he wrote and edited 38 books for the navv on the two subjects. In October of 1944 he was as signed to Night Torpedo squad ron 91 as radio-radar officer and flight observer and joined Ad miral Halsey's task force 38. He participated in many strikes against Japan. When the Japa nese surrender came he was in flight over Tokyo. The Far East Broadcasting Co. was incorporated while he was still In uniform on terminal leave. Within three months he was on his way once again to the Orient in search of franchise to build Christian Radio City. j Forest Industry Directory Issued j A directory of the Forest pro ducts industry of western North America has just geen released ! for distribution by The Timber-, man, an international lumber j journal, Portland, Ore. The 1950 edition listing approximately 9, 500 companies, their addresses, j principal equipment and key per sonnel, with a separate listing i of more than 12.000 key indi-1 viduals and their business titles, j Main listings include basic pro duftion organizations such as sawmill, logging, shingle, plywood ; and veneer, box factories, pulp and paper mills and wood pre- serving plants; wood products plants of all types, wholesale and I distribution organizations, trade , associations and forestry organic ' ations. I ments. Only small amounts of the hor mones are being made, from ox bile and from hog pltultarles. What re is goes to medical men for research on arthritis, leu-1 kemlan rheumatic fever and other diseases. DO YOU KNOW . . . that tha cauiaa of about f5 a all ailments may ba corrected by clnal and Uiteillnal traaUnanU with proper diet. Or. M. C. Cattail CHiBorEACTic mrsiciAN Ml I. Ceie lal MM PHONE 100 between 615 and 7 p. in., if you have not received your Newi Revi. Ask for Harold Mobley Ticket Winners Listed In "Task Force" Contest The 15 prize winners In the contest, sponsored by local mf chants In Thursday's News-Review, will receive two theater tickets apiece for being the first to report their findings to the local Navy Recruiting office, ac cording to ALC Arthur L. De Mott. recruiter. Tickets for the forthcoming production of "Task Force" were mailed to the winners Friday morning. DcMott said. Winners were Lucille Ellis, John Thomas, Mary Anne Back en, Mrs. Hazel Grove. Mm. A. P. Barker, Mrs. Ray W. Richard son. Mrs. Pearl Chidester. Bod Schindler, Harold L. Mobley. Ronald L. McAnenev. Frank N. Husak. Walt Allen," Mrs. T. N. Mariott. Jerry Parmeter and Mrs. Russell O. Nelson. Ing. The next regular meeting will be Jan. 30. During January a membershio drive is being held. Awards are being offered by the Lions Inter national for the members secur Ing the most new members. Pro spective members and their wives are Invited to the special dinner. . FIR PRICES RISING PORTLAND. Jan. 13 (.v Douglas fir prices are going up slightly, army engineers said to day after opening bids on 3.500. 000 board feet of lumber for the armed forces. They said prices were up be tween SI and S1.50 a thousand feet for fir dry stock. Pine prices were up about $2 a thousand. The engineers will open bids next Tuesday on 4.000.000 to S, 000,000 feet ol lumber. Help Douglas County In 1950 Deposit your money with us and it will remain Ity DOUGLAS COUNTY and go to work for you. Investigate our bank-by-mail plan, safe deposit boxes, night depository service and other banking conveniences. Douglas County State Bank Home-Owned, Home-Operated Member, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. 12 M arm ir REOPENING Monday, Jan. 16 We wish to announce that we will be open January 16 to serve you once again. Come out and bring your family, home cooked meals. DALE'S CAFE North Umpqua Road Rev. Delbert H. Burger REVIVAL is on at tha PENTECOSTAL j CHURCH OF GOD Winston, Oregon Rev. Delbert Burger of Cave Junction to ba tha Evangelist STARTING MONDAY, Jan. 9th Services every night, 7:30 p.m. Come One . . , Come All Rev. & Mrs. Roscoe Perkins, Pastors An Inspirational Program Sound Motion Pictures on the history and progress of the airplane. Lots of singing and other music featuring: Marimba Solo by Lillian Firman ' it Whistling Solo by Dorothy Mereen VOCOI Solo by Donnls Webb, 11-year-old vocalist VOCOl Duet by Mr. and Mrs. Ogren A discount on - it Civilization's Last Stand Everyday common horse tense observations that affect every man, woman and child. EVERYBODY INVITED Comt thake handt with your friend and neighbor FREE The Dixonville Community Hall 7:45 p.m. SUNDAY NIGHT Jan. 15 Promoted, sponsored and conducted by laymen, school ttaeher, farmer, wodsme'n, printer and doctor. DO YOUR APPLIANCES NEED A DOCTOR? Let us help keep your oppliances working. Whatever their age or condition w i will promptly put them in best possible working order, replacing worn parts, if necessary. Phone today for a service man to call and give accurate cost estimate. Jill 1200 S, Stephens BERGH'S APPLIANCI SIRVICI Phont 10
