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4 Tli News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Men., Jan. 16, 1950 9ba 3kus-teuiew Published O illy Except Sunday l y the News-Rovle Company, Inc. Mnl Mlm I. l barf. Oraiaa. mmft ol Marc S. llll CHARLES V. STANTON gm EDWIN I KNAPP Editor Hif Manager Member of tha Aaaoolatad Praaa, Oragon Nawapapar Publisher Aaaoelatlon, tha Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona llHHUM by WKBT-HOLLIDAT CO.. INCI.. afflcaa I; Njw tat. Cblo.ia, ' ail IVnulm. Ui wu Sa.lUa. r.tlUna. St, Laala. SOBSUSIKI'IUN KAir-l. orasan-Br alall-rai J.mr .. .Iw m.Blfc. . faai, ! mal SI.M. OatiHa Oraian Mill M-aa. antha M.H. Uifaa aiaalka H.la. SOCIALIST DEMAGOGUERY By CHARLES V. STANTON Oregon once had a vigorous Democratic party, truly de voted to its party's principles of government. It was a con servative party and, despite the fact that it was a minority group, succeeded in holding virtual parity with Republicans in state and county offices. In our state legislature party politics entered into few issues and, in fact, few people cared about party affiliations of their senators and representa tives. But now Oregon's Democratic party has been absorbed in the advance of Fabian socialism. This advance was evi dent in the last session of the state legislature where party division was a more important factor than in any session of recent years. The trend has been more and more appar ent as left-wing leadership gained control. That the change has been complete, and that the Democratic party exists in name only, is indicated in the platform adopted by the State Central committee at a meeting in Portland. The platform was written by Senator Richard L. Neuberger. The platform favors President Truman's Fair Deal pro gram for all of Oregon; it supports the CVA project, the Brannan farm program, repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and Oregon's 1947 "anti-labor laws" (which were not anti-labor but actually protection to labor from radical exploitation) expansion of social security, aid to small business, "equaliz ation of educational opportunities, legislative reapportion ment and "policies of liberalism." . The platform is about as thorough a piece of socialistic demagoguery as we have seen. Webster defines demagoguery as skill "in arousing the prejudices and passions of the populace by rhetoric, sensa tional charges, specious arguments, catchwords, cajolery, etc." Certainly this definition fits perfectly the platform penned by the talented senator-author, Neuberger, a ring leader in the capture of Oregon's Democratic party by So cialists and Fellow Travelers. : Let's look at some of the phrasing of the democratic plat form: ", ,, 'v';. Flrat and foremost, wa support enthuelastloally a' Colum bia Valley Admlnatratlon, to develop and proteot tha vast soli, water, hydroelectric, forest grazing and fisheries re aouroea of this region. Why not state it truthfully and use the words "exploit and politically dictate, control and manage" in place of the words "develop and protect" and also add "the people, their lives and property," to the resources enumerated? But "first and foremost" what business has the CVA project in a party platform, except as our socialistic, planned-economy advo cates hope to impose a communist-type government over the Northwest region by giving it a party label? Neuberger cleverly linked support for the Brannan plan, which has been rejected by all leading farm organizations by tacking on: Wa Insist that present freight rata discriminations against Oragon farmers and food processors must ba abolished. What a swell piece of arousing prejudice and passion! And how about these "catchwords," "sensational charges." "specious (deceptively beautiful Webster) arguments"?: t repeal of tha Republican-sponsored anti-labor laws of 1947 In Oregon. aid to small business and proteotlon for the con sumer through eliminating pries discrimination and mon opolistic tendencies. prevent humiliation of Oregon'a aenlor citizens and degradation of our dependent ohlldren. registration and voting procedure, made difficult by tha Republican party, disfranchises thousanda of Ore gonlans. liberalism In which tha people of our atata will feel that government belongs to them and not to a small clique which has ruled Oregon for many decadea. At first glance those phrases are appealing, but stop and analyze them for their truthfulness, catchwords, deception, appeal to prejudice, rabble-rousing. The pattern and phrasing of this platform is an excellent example of political demagoguery at its best or worst and a sad commentary on the enslavement of a once honest, conscientious and patriotic minority party through tho sur reptitious tactics of Fabian socialism. Dog From Japan Poses Expensive Airline Problem SEATTLE, ' P) If Tech. Sgt. James E. Lane would only atcp forward, please, Fudgy would have a home, air line ofClcals would be much relieved, and a trans-Pacific mystery would be cleared up. Fudgy, tne cause oi inn irou- hie, can t explain, iios a poocn. And even if he could talk It wouldn't do much good he's a "Suklyakl terrier," who was flown here from Japan a month ago and appears to have a very limited understanding of English. Sgt. Lane, or someone, must be pretty fond of him, too. The pre paid air freight charges from Haneda airport, Tokyo, were $53.04. He was consigned to Tech nical Sgt. Jamea K. Lane, gen eral delivery. Seattle. Air line heads surmise that Sgt. i, Lane Is (1) enroute here on a slow boat or (21 had his orders changed at the last moment and isn't enroute. The airline would like to know. They have the dog In a boardii.g kennel and they just got their first month's bill for $20. Non-Title Fight Set SEATTLE, (;T) -John L. Davis or Oakland. Calif, and lightweight champion Ike Wil liams of Trenton, N. J., meet here Jan. 27 i a 10-round non title match, promoter Jimmy Kitten has announced. Davis won three straight main events here before laying off to undergo plalstlc surgery for fa cial cuts which had brothered him during the scraps. mt.. .... "2jr ? BELLY BUSTERS Tha South Main street hill became a mecca for Roieburg'j small fry Satur day when it was blocked off to all traffic because of the slippery packed snow. In a matter of minutes, tha street was teeming with sleddars, equipped with everything from cookie sheets to fancy sleds. The daredevil pictured above is young Steva Duncan, age 6. An estimated 1 50 youngsters (and soma not so young I used tha course during the day. (Staff photo). "Well," said a pretty girl, air ily, to her companion, as the two girls waited for the light to change, "if I don't like being married to him I can always get a divorce, can't I?" As I walked along I thought of marriage . . . and wondered how much of the attitude Just quoted was due to the casual way married men and women these days announce In the public press that as soon as they are divorced . . . they will marry somebody else! And then I thought of Mary Extue, fui English nurse who had come over here, fallen In love with a young man who had plen ty of money, money which he himself had put forth no effort to acquire, money which in due time he lost ... Did Mary decide that the mar riage vow meant only half of what it said? Did she say, "Well, the 'for richer . . . for better' parts were all right, but I don't think I like the 'for poorer . . . for worse' parts. I'd like a di vorce." No, Indeed. They sold their really lovely home, and matching furnishings; they went to an Truman Has Rosy Program To Boost Everything Including U. S. Debt By PETER EDSON NEA Waahlnxton Correspondent President Truman apparently tries to spell out "a 50-year-plan for the United States" in his latest message to Congress. He says that the first 50 years of this 20th century were the hardest what with two world wars and everything. But the next 50 years oh boy and oh baby are going to be just dandy, as the man outlines it. There Isn't anything the Re publicans can cook up that will compete with this. They might as well quit trying. The Presl dent's message is as full of prophecy, uplift and noble inten tions as any collection of New Year's resolutions ever assembl ed. The script reads like a cer tain Sunday night radio oracle's predictions of things to come. And If the President s predictions also turn out to be 83.1416 percent accurate, whnt a great, wide, wonderful world It's going to be that your children's children will live In. This message will probably be criticized by the President's op ponents as being utterly fantastic cream stuff. But the man could be right. And at this turning point In the 20th century, when there Is so much to be scared and gloomy about, it is nice to know lhat the chief executive can look at the world through his rose colored bifocals and find that ev erything Is Jake. Shower of Blessings Mr. Stalin and the Moscow planners never offered the com rades anything nearly as good as what Mr. Truman promises. The Cle he puts In the sky would real I be worth waiting for, if it could be had by the year 2.000. In International affairs, there will be world peace. The atom will be under international con trol. The United Nations will be a going concern and will have forces to preserve International law and order. World commerce will he regulated under the new International Trade Organization. Olher nations will share Ameri ca's prosperity through an ex panded Point Four program of technical assistance to under-developed countries. All these blessings showered down on others will be multiplied hy three or four at home. The President predicts there will be a fairer distribution of wealth. Business will have greater in centives to produce. The farmers will have their in come supported by the Brannan plan or some such. Labor will produce more and get a greater reward. There will he Increased fivedom from poverty and drudg ery presumably through more pav for less work. The standard of living will rise. Middle income and low -Income lamilies will be able to get cheap er housing. Unemployment insur ance rates will be higher, ltd age Insurance and other sorjal security benefits will be greater. but Just as there is always one blemish on every peach, there is one thing that the President docs not explain In his forecast for millennium year of 2000 A.D. The Is how the country Is atnlng to pet rid of Its national debt of .'33.uij.uuiMiuu. in lact. tne President doesnt even mention By VuUuutt S. Martini i -r ft i r other state and were to start all over. But somehow James Extue we'll call him by that name became embittered. Not having what It took to look in the mirror and take stock of his own re sponsibility in the matter, he be gan to blame everybody, every thing else. Such corrosive bitterness could not fail to have an effect upon him physically. (The newspapers and magazines are running many articles now in which physicians of repute are giving emotional and mental causes for physical distresses, aren't they?) His phys ical distress was acute, and in time he was confined to a wheel chair. Has been, for years. He was still able to write bitter let ters to the newspapers; I read some of them years ago . . . and I, wondered sometimes at their being printed! ' To read his outbursts one would not know that his wife was cour ageously nursing each day, doing all the housework outside those hours, patiently giving her hus band all the loving care he need ed .. . Someone asked her once why she didn't put him in an In stitution? Her answer was to quote the marriage vow. the national debt once In his whole message. This Is strange, because this national debt is the most over powering monstrosly on the eco nomic landscape. Any realistic appraisal of the State of the Un ion today should take the nation al debt Into consideration and say something about it. It it can be assumed that the national debt, like the $255,000,- 000,000 national product, is to be iour times greater in tne year 2000 than it is today why then the national debt will be some thing over a cool trillion dollars. And If there's anybody around who wa;s to live or another 50 years Just for the sake of seeing what a 51,000,000.000,000 national debt looks like, he welcome to It. British Nations In Agreement On Major Problems (By Steven David) COLOMBO. Cevlon. UPS The British commonwealth's foreign ministers ending their conference Saturday announced their nations still agree on their approach to most foreign prob lems. A communlaue issued after the final conference session said the discussions demonstrated that "among all members of the com monwealth there is a continuing and substantial community of outlook In their approach to cur rent promems or foreign affairs." The conference agreed also, the communique said, that "there need be no inconsistency" be tween Britain's policy toward western Europe and the "main tenance or traditional links be tween the United Kingdom and the rest of the commonwealth." The communique said the for eign ministers had agreed on: 1. Recommendations for econ omic development in south and southwest Asia. These are to be submitted to the ministers' home governments. 2. Recommendations regarding conditions for a peace settlement with Japan. These, too. now go back to the individual govern ments. The recommendations for econ omic development have been de scribed as a program of self-help and mutual aid among Asian countries, utilizing credits and technical assistance from the commonwealth nations. British Foreign Secretary Em- est ucvin, speaking at the final conference session, sal.1 the con ference's work would be "undone by no other, though "the Brit- mm In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) to get Into Shanghai and says he if going to head for Tsiugtao. - - LET'S interject a word here about Tsingtao. It lies up the Yellow Sea from Shanghai and across the Yellow Sea from Korea. Back In the days when we were talking cagily about protesting the liberties of the South Koreans against com munist aggressions, our navy built up a big base there. There was a lot of talk about what our navy might do if the commies stormed Tsingtao some cold raw day. There was 'pecula tion that in such an event we might fight. Well, we didn't fight. We got out. Probably we were wise to get out while the getting was good. Anyway, the reds hold Tsingtao and that it where the Flyin Arrow is headed for at the moment to discharged her cargo. TWO American destroyers are hovering In the Flying Ar row's vicinity, with orders to help if she blows up or sinks or some thing but to GET OUT OF HER VICINITY as soon as she is sea worthy. A Nationalist Chinese gunboat is lurking in the offing ready to smack the Flying Arrow with more shells In case she does get seaworthy and doesn't blow up from internal pressure of her wet cargo or some other reason. To add to the general mess, the commander of the U. S. Seventh naval task force, which I.-, cruis ing around in the general vicinity of the ruckus, has ordered Ameri can ships PROTECTTD from Na tionalist gunboats WHILE ON THE HIGH SEAS. But The orders from Washington are for U. S. naval craft to stay out of Chinese territorial waters which are the waters Inside the three-mile limit. OUR navy, of course, could blow all the gunboats and other ves sels of the Nationalist Chinese navy out of the water in about seven minutes after the order to do so was given. But That might start a ruckus that would drag the Russians in, and nobody wants that. The idea is to let sleeping dogs lie as long as they are willing to lie. Meanwhile we mutter In our beards about Indignities to Ameri can ships engaged in commerce on the high seas Just as other nations have been muttering in their beards for centuries under similar circumstances. Muttering in your beard costs nothing and seldom stirs anybody up to 'the snooting point. Aren't "International relations" funny? WHY are we gettlg the news about the Flying Arrow so promptly? The answer to that Is easy. Wayne Richardson, 50-year-old correspondent of the Associated Press, went aboard her at Hong Kong Just to be there in case any news happened. He is still on hoard, dodging shells, keeping a wary eye on the swelling cotton and Jute that might crack the ship open at any moment and in between these activities he is sending out his dispatches for us to read. That's the way with these cor respondents. The only rule they know is that the show must go on and the news must be told. ish public may or may not like me to continue this work in six weeks time." Bevln referred to the British general eleclion Feb. 23, In which Britain's labor government will either be returned to office or supplanted. India's prime minister. Jawa- harlal Nehru, commented that though the conference might not have solved the world's problems, "we have learned what the prob lems are so we can face up to mem.. mmm. mm 4 .:-v: o Seizure Of Formosa By Reds Would Peril Defense Line Of America In Western Pacific By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO (JP The American defense line in, the Western 'Pa cific could be the springboard for powerful air blows at the out set of war, but it is not "Impregnable." This is the consensus of views of top ranking military officials In Tokyo as gathered by this correspondent during four years of conversations on defense problems. (In Washington. Senator Tom Connolly (D-Texas) quoted Secre tary of State Dean Acheson as saying that the United States had an Impregnable ring of defenses in tne western macule without Formosa. This was disputed by some republican senators at tending the Senate Forelen Af fairs committee session addressed by Acheson. They said that the secretary merely nodded when Connolly made the statement.) No responsible officer would comment publicly today on re ports of Secretary Acheson's tes timony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee. But key officials on the stjot have made clear this picture of western Pacific defenses: American bombers from JaDan. Okinawa and the Philippines could cover thousands of miles of Dotential enemy territory from southeast Asia to Sibera. 'We can eive a good account of ourselves, say ah- officers on tne spot. But. to remain useful, these bases must be defended against a triple attack enemy air assaults, possible combot landings and blockade. This would involve the combined defensive facilities of all three services. If Formosa Falls Japan and Okinawa are ringed now with Soviet or Chinese Com munist airbascs capable of launching short range assaults. If Formosa falls, the noose will be tighter around Okinawa, where the American garrison now con siders its mission is to get in as many diows as possioie oeiore being knocked out. World War II in the Pacific proved that no Island is defensible against a sufficiently determined enemy. American forces took everything they wanted. The cost was high for the Americans, but tnis lactor apparently Is far less important in Soviet military cal culations. Japan capitulated basically be cause of intensive bombing and the effect of a long and tight blockade. American supply lines for Its bases are far loneer than any the Japanese maintained. In time of war, the United States would have to supply its own trooos and import food for the Japanese and Okinawans to mini mize the threat of internal up heavals. Reds Strong In Suba The Soviet Western Pacific fleet now numbers between 72 and 100 submarines. It has been reinforced since the war and pre sumably will be Increased further Churchill Taking It Easier During Present Campaign LONDON. UP) Old war- rior Winston Churchill is taking n easier in mis year s political campaign than he did back in 1945 when his Conservative party lost to the Laborites. The former prime minister's plans were published as both par ties decided to take off their wraps and start electioneering at once. Britain's national parliamen tary election is set for Feb. 23. The parties have been marking time since it was announced Wednesday for fear of over-spending the limit the law allows them to lay out in any electoral cam paign. Made Tour Before Before the present parliament was elected July 5, 1945, Church ill made a 1,000-mile country wide tour by train and automo bile in his bid to return to power. This time he'll make no such tour. On his program so far are only four big public speeches. One radio broadcast is scheduled Jan. 21. He is expected to speak in Edin burgh, Scotland; Cardiff, Wales, and in central sections of York shire and Lancashire. Any other speaking plans are still obscure. The 75-year-old tory leader saw his first -deputy, Anthony Eden. He conferred with Lord Woolton, the Conservative party chairman Saturday. Woolton let reporters for Britain's conservative newspapers in on the old campaigner's plans at a news conference yesterday. Conservatives Act Woolton said the Conservatives have decided the campaign starts right now. They have covered u j old party posters to keep their cost from being counted as part of It. The law savs each party may spend only 450 pounds ($1,260) per candidate, plus two pence (two and onethird cents) for each rural and three half pence for each urban voter. Politicians lack legal opinion on whether that applies from Wednesday, when the election date was announced by Prime Minister Attlee, or from the date of the dissolution of parliament, due Feb. 3. But the Labor party also Is go ing ahead. The ruling party an nounced that the cost of a Lon don meeting Monday, at which Atlee and Deputy Prime Minis ter Herbert Morrison will speak, is to be considered an election expense. BROTHER SISTER RACE MIAMI, Fla. (. A brother and a sister may compete In Hla leah's rich Wldener handicap on Feb. 25. Sidney S. Schupper's Miss Disco and Alfred Gwvnne Vanderbilt's Loser Weeper nave been nominated for the race. Both were sired by Discovery out lot the mare Outdone. under the Red navy's intensive program for submarine construc tion. This force could raise havoc with American supply ships, as American submarines did with the Japanese merchant fleet; Against all this, American offi cers have confidence in the su periority of their man and equip ment. The United States, they say, should not relinquish any of the bases it now holds.. The original conception of the western Pacific line was a series of advanced bases which were considered expendable because they were not fully defensible. Now tha general view is that, in spite of potential difficulties, the united states has a moral obliga tion to defend demilitarized Japan. The American line, which has little chance of expending, is al ready partially outflanked by a Communist line nearly twice as long. If the Communists reach In donesia, they will completely out flank the American positions and perhaps make them untenable. HEATILAT0RS for efficient, smokeless fireplaces PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. 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