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4 Tht Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Frl., Jan. 20, 1950 9bo Otewslteiriew Published D illy News-Sevie IfMj aa aaeaati alaaa aialla RaMbarg. OragaH. aaaar Hi af March CHARLES V. 8TANTON -J!.- EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mtmbar of tha Aatoolated Preea, Oregon Newapaper Publlahara Aaaoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations pnuataa t wrsT-HOLLIDAT CO. INC.. arflaaa la Naw Tark. Chlcaia, Saa frmaolMa. Lai tinlu laatlla, rorlliaa. 11 La a la. BiiKHfiMi vtm bi , ........ Ra Ihraa maaiha ll.se ft Cltf Carrier a raar, par naalb Sl oe OaliUa Ocaiao Br Mall Tar Mar IS 00. Ill raanlhi I4.H. Uiraa aaaaUM POLITICAL STRANGLEHOLD By CHARLES Daniel L. Goldy, regional administrator for the Bureau of Land Management, reports that President Truman is asking Congress to appropriate $1,000,000 for construction of timber access roads in Western Oregon during the fiscal year of 1951. Goldy points out that the total 0. & C. program calls for construction of approximately 40 miles of timber access roads to tap an estimated eight billion feet of old growth timber currently inaccessible. Estimates are that roads to be built or started with 1951 funds, if the President's recommenda tion is approved, will open up $20 million at present stumpage prices. -: Construction of access roads is one of the most vital prob- lems faced by both the Bureau U. S. Forest service. Far greater efficiency in management of public lands and forests could be achieved if it were possible to remove the political bottleneck existing through necessity of going to Congress Access roads on the public the political pork barrel, but render any opportunities which may exist to convince the public of their efficiency, which the public has been educated over a- period of many years to measure by the amount of appropriations produced for their states and districts. Management of the public domain should be removed as far as possible from political influence and should conform closely to efficient business principles. But this cannot be achieved when appropriations vary from year to year, de pending upon political trends, attitudes and harmony, or lack thereof. . Goldy points out that roads to be built or started with funds proposefl for 1951 would open up timber worth $20 million. His figures are for O. & C. lands only. Here In the Umpqua Basin, at least, access funds spent on the Umpqua national forest would open up even greater values in timber for the same amount of expenditure on road construction as compared with O. & C. lands because the timber Is In solid forest instead of being broken into alternate sections. It is obvious that road construction should be carried on systematically and coordinated with timber management policies. Furthermore, roads ting of timber from high areas months, saving lowland or "face" timber for winter seasons. This more businesslike method of coordinating road con struction and forest management could be provided easily if Congress, instead of making year by year appropriations, affected by the political trend of the moment, would set up a revolving fund, and give authorization to loan money to the agencies, with repayments to be made from timber sales. Congress would lose none of its supervisory power or author ity, but the agencies would be in a position to provide orderly management and to open up which, because of age, state to private holdings, should be The chief objection to such procedure is that the poli tician would have no opportunity to point with pride to the appropriation obtained for his home district and would lose a set of figures with which to It is a very shortsighted expediency to throttle efficient management of the public domain. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) meat lor their conversation. In the background, a radio was mut tering Its way through a news broadcast. Suddenly one of them held up his hand for silence. "Did you hear what that guy Just said?" he asked the group. "No," someone answered, "what was It?" "He said," the first man replied; "that several thousand Chinese pheasants face starvation. Isn't that a hell of a note?'" "Aw, you're nuts," someone spoke up. "He said several thou sand Chinese PEASANTS face starvation." "Oh," the first one said In a relieved tone of voice, "That's different." a A DISPATCH from Albany (New Yorl ) says: "Mayor William O'Dwyer's plan to legalize gambling on all sports events was a dead duck in the legislature today . . . The New York mayor's controversial pro posal was embalmed in the state senate and assembly last night after Governor Thomas E. Dewey denounced It as 'shocking, Im moral and indecent." llfELL, legalized gambling Is If shocking, Immoral and In decent. But SO IS WINKING AT GAMBLING THAT IS FORBID DEN BY LAW. That kind of Except Sunday ly tht Company, Inc. Ma I. Itttl. al tha pail (flea at a. ia?a Mllia, fti fa.aa .1 maDllia I4.be. Par ra' SIO.M (In adraneal, laii Ihao V. STANTON timber worth approximately of Land Management and the for access road appropriations domain have no business in politicians are reluctant to sur should be so designed that cut would proceed during summer timber now inaccessible but of maturity, or, relationship made available for harvest, impress his constituents. policy which permits political gambling Is shocking, Immoral and Indecent because It tends to corrupt public officials. Illegal gambling (on anything approaching a wholesale scale) doesn't Just happen.' Without being able to prove suspicion In court, most of us strongly sus pect that somebody is PAID TO LET IT HAPPEN. If that isn't shocking, Immoral and indecent, I don't know the meaning of the words. Body Of Snow Victim From Oregon Caves Brought Out GRANTS PASS, Jan. 20. Men on snowshocs early today succecdci In bringing out, on a hand sleu, the body of Loyel Johnston, 19, who died from ex hauston Tuesday while trying to mnke his way out of the maroon ed Oregon Caves on foot. A group of men from Cave Junction, headed by Coroner Vir- Cll Hull and Deputy Sheriff Louis r.:nguette of Grants Pass, used snowshocs for three miles after snow plows had broken a road, iui im-iu a uisihucu oi nines. Uncle Sam Loser In Deal On Battleship Oregon WASHINGTON. Jan. lO.-ijn Rep. Angell (R-Ore) said to day that the government sold the old battleship Oregon for scrap for S35.0O0 and bought back from the salvage company material from the ship for $101,731. Angell said in the Congres sional Record the government paid Edward M. Rlcker & Com pany a tota'. of $101,731 for ma terial from the shiD. which It sold for $55,000. He said the Naw latet took the hull back-ai d now faces suit from the compan,' for doing this. Toss-Up To See Who Shares The Old CO IN THE ! : . ' dct.dJ-, commJ - The snapshots you are taking now please do not write in the middle of the back! You'll see why If you will hold the print up to the light, or an electric light. The light behind if not spoiled by writing gives a love ly three-dimensional quality to the print, a quality especially satisfying if a picture of a grand child one hasn't yet seen! I shall ask them not to write In the middle; only around the edges hereafter. If the children are snowbound, It might be fun to let them do a little spatter-printing. 'Our boy. did lovely spatter-work in school; I still have some of the sheets where they have pinned sprays of leaves, or a single leaf, on a sheet of white paper, preferably rough surface, and then, with an old toothbrush dipped lightly in Ink or water color, they "spat tered" over the plnned-down leaves by rubbing the toothbrush across a piece of screen wire. The wire should be tacked to something firm wood or heavy cardboard. When dried, take pins out, lift the leaves and there Is a beautiful pattern! One teacher I knew used to have her children "collect leaves" each year and gave a simple prize Editorial Comment From Tha Oregon Press Modernizing Election Returns Eugene Register Guard Meeting in Portland recently the editors of Associated Press newspapers in the state of Ore gon voted unanimously to re quest the Secretary ol State, county officials, and members of the Oregon Legislature to under take immediately a study of ways and means to medernize and speed up the counting ot el ection returns, suggesting that changes be made in ballot forms so that modern machinery for sorting, tabulating and counting can be utilized in this process. Members of the state of Wash ington voted to make a similar demand upon their public offic ials, it was pointed out that the present methods are not only ex tremely costly but subiect o dan gerous Inaccuracies. "wny not use voting machines as has been done In some states?" The objection to voting mach ines is that the eauioment is costly and complex and cannot De used lor anything except for voting which comes only once or twice a year. The editors be lieve that if a ballot lorm could be devised which could be run through sorting and tabulating machines we would have a much better result at much less cost. The same machines which would be used in vote counting could be used day in and day out for many different purposes such as sorting and classifying registra tion records, assessment records, and a great many olher details. It will not be possible to mnke any radical change until after the next Legislature meets i n lilol because it will require leg islative action to change ballot forms. It is proposed that In the meantime experiments shall be made with proposed ballot chan ges and the experiments in hand ling such ballots shall be con ducted In all parts of the state with the help of equipment mak-1 ers so that when the Legislature meets It will be possible to say: "Here Is what can be done. The process has been tested; the By Viahnttt S. Martin fj-J to the one with the best named collection. My doorbell would ring and a hopeful voice a series of hopeful voices! would explain the need. "You have so many things . . . Miss White said . . ." Out In the garden we'd go with my box of dressmaker-pins and a handful of slips of paper. The child had to do everything but name the leaf: " furnished the names. There were times when I sighed to myself and felt very much "Interrupted," but now adays I miss all those children whom I saw growing from baby hood to college age. I'm glad I never said "No, I'm too busy!" I never in my life failed to an swer a doorbell, if able to get to the door! But I was suggesting ways to keep children occupied! Some rubber bands and a shoe-box to stretch them over will give a musical instrument of many notes which may be re-arranged In order. Children enjoy that! Suggesting they make an al phabet line, placing articles in order ... on the floor. X for "ten" will do the letter X. And a florist's catalogue will help out on a pictured zinnia! Points for winner by adding "letters" each child puts first in line. This game can be wildly exciting! cost will be approximately s o much. By this method we can count an entire election In so many hours." The editors were told that I n California they had considerable success with these devices. Cali fornia experience should be inves tigaled. In our time in Lane coun ty we have seen election returns become slower and slower. We irsed to think we were slow If we did not have a tabulation on 70 precincts out of 120 by 10:00 p.m. It was several days before the entire county could be tabulated. It has become almost Imposs ible to get men and women to serve on counting boards because the pay is pitiful and they take a mental and physical beating try ing to handle the bedsheet b a 11 ols. Einstein himself could not be sure of getting an accurate count In any heavy precinct. If fifty editors can prod the re sponsible officials Into doing something about this condition, it will be a great public service. The Industrial News-Review If anyone wonders why the cost of the Federal government is just about the most critical domestic Issue we face, a tabu lation recently printed by Read er's Digest will make the reason clear. It simply shows the am ounts of money spent by each cf the Presidents from the begin ning of the nation up to Septem ber 30, 1949. In the early days. Federal spending amounted to peanuts compared with modern stand ards. Washington and Adams each spent a little more than $31.- ooo.OOO. Uncoln had a war on his hands, vet his budgets total ed only $3,252,000,000. There after, expenses went down again. McKinley, for Instance, spent Just over $2,000,000,000. The first reallv big budget came wilh the first world war and the Wilson Administration nearlv $47,000,000,000. Again ex nensea dropped, witn coounge and Hoover together spending Boy's Discomfort around $34,000,000,000. Then came the depression, President Roosevelt an. I the New Deal. During his first, eight years In office Mr. Roosevelt's administration cost some $67,500, 000,000. The grand total for all the Presidents through 1940 was $179,620,000,000. And that total, it must be remembered, covers more than 150 years of our his tory. Reader's Digest leaves out the extradordinary expenditures oi the World War II years 1941 45. It then lists President Tru man's spending from' the 1946 llscal year to tne end oi Septem ber, 1949. It add up to over $191, 000,000,000 nearly $12, 000, 000.- 000 more than all his &l prede cessors spent except for the 1941- l43 period. Here is a very revealing pic ture of the way the nation has gone. It is true that conditions have changed over the years. But it is also true that the government has expanded in every direction to a point far greater than most of us realize. Mr. Truman is now a symbol of tnat expansion, out ne is not a major cause. Pressure groups of every kind have grown infinitely more adept and powerful, and of ficeholders of both parties have fallen into line. The results are huge budgets, with recurring Federal deficits in spite of these budgets. A noteworthy development Is the concern over our fiscal af fairs which is being expressed by people who are not conserva tives. Speaking of taxes and de ficits, Dorothy Thompson says, "This appallng discrepancy be tween what is spent and what is raised occurs when the national Income Is near the highest in history! It is an absolutely reck less example of the spirit of "af ter us the deluge.!" A great deal more pressure, to cut the cost of government may be expected in the future than In the past. Klamath Falls Herald A News There's food for thought In seeing what happened to some of a group of men who met to gether In 1923 In Chicago. Each of them controlled great wealth. Since then: 1. The president of the largest independent steel company, Charles Schwab, died a bankrupt and lived on borrowed money for five years before his death. 2. The president of the great est utility company, Samuel In sull, died a fugtive from justice and penniless in a foreign lapd. 3. The president of the largest gas company, Howard Hopson, is now Insane. 4. The greatest wheat specula tor, Arthur Cutten, died abroad, insolvent. 5. The president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was recently released from Sing Sing penitentiary. 6. The membr of the presi dent's cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from prison so he could die at home. 7. The greatest "bear" In Wall Street, Jesse Livermore, died a suicide. 8. The head of the greatest mo nopoly, Ivan Krueger, died a suicide. 9. The president of the Bank of International Settlement, Leon Kraser, died a suicide. All ot the men learned well the art of making money, but not one of them learned how to live and how to use it. Johnny Ray Featured Entertainer At Moose Johnny Ray will be the featur ed singer five nights a week at the Moose club starting Satur day night, Jerry Willts said to day. The entertainer will be accom panied by Bill Blakely on the drums. Ray recently returned from Hollywood where he ap peared on the stage and in sev eral movies. "He is one of the most clever entertainers I ve seen in a long time," Willis said. Members of Moose are Invited to come and listen to Ray and bring along guests, Willis stated. Personal Plea For Polio Fund Campaign Support Voiced At Rotary By Roseburg Victim Roseburg Rotarians Thursday noon at the Hotel Umpqua heard a personal plea for support of the polio fund drive from a Roseburg polio victim, Mrs. Lee Marsh. Mrs.-Marsh told the story of the crippling disease a story in which she played a part and of the help that the polio fund has given to so many people. For years, she said, she and her family had made "the usual" donations through the March of Dimes. But now she really knows why all of us should put out a lit tle more effort to fully support the drive, she explained. Mrs. Marsh, who was stricken last year and was taken to the Holliday Park hospital in Port land, told of various victims at the hospital and her experiences with them. She told of the 45-year-old man who was complete ly paralyzed, who had no rela tives to visit him, who had to be waited upon all the time. She told of the young girls who game ly raced their wheel chairs down the hospital corridors. She told of the girl in braces who fell and bruised her knees while trying to walk but said, "What's the dif ference I took two steps first." She told of many others, but the stories all pointed to one thing: Most of the victims are determin ed to win their battles against the disease. All they need is the help they are receiving from the North Ro$eburg Church Dedication Set For Sunday Bishop E. W. Praetorlus, above, Northwestern area bishop of the Evangelical United Breth ren, will officiate at the dedica tion of the North Roseburg church chapel and parsonage this Sunday. The Bishop will speak on the subject, "A Man and His Church." The service has been moved ahead 15 minutes, and is scheduled from 10:45 a.m. to 12:15. ; Also participating in the dedi cation service will be Dr. C. P. Gates and the Rev. E. A. Fogg, superintendents In the Oregon Washington conference of the de nomination. It is expected that the occasion will attract out of town visitors from other E.U.B. churches, as well. Plans are be ing made for an over-flow con gregation. This Sunday, designated as "Bishop's Sunday," will be an Important day for the Sunday School, too. Ralph Arensmeier, Sunday School superintendent, announced that the goal of 100 enrolled and 85 percent present will undoubtedly be reached. The rapid growth of the Sunday school has been considered quite unusual for the four and one-half months it has been in operation. Children will have a prominent place in the morning church service, also. The children's choir, ages five through eight, and the Junior choir, ages nine through 13, will both sing at the morning service. West Roseburg's Insurance Rates' Status Explained Due to confusion In the minds of many property owners regard ing reduction of fire insurance rates in the newly-annexed West Roseburg area, the Roseburg As sociation of Insurance Agents Is sued a clarifying statement to day through the association pres ident. Tom Pnruptpr ManV rPSiHpntc nf that ot-Aa ar ! under the impression that they I have fire Insurance refunds com ing, now that they are within the city limits, Pargeter said. To clarify the situation he said that ; me associauon wisnes to state that, according to Oregon Insur- ance Rating bureau rules in j force, no reductions will be al- j lowed on existing contracts writ- i ten 60 davs nrinr tn th lanat date of annexation. Roseburg fire insurance rates will apply to the newlv-annexed areas provided the dwellings are H'"'". oy a mur-incn water main or hvrirnnr within vin r i he said. Otherwise fire district ' rates already published will ap- i ply. Reductions In existing pofi- ; CiCS Will not ho r.prmiftoH imln.. : written to become effective after j uci. is, inductions will be permissable on new or renewal ' DOlicipe that mMt tha .hn.,. ..,.1 i . ...... - - - - ..... aw.c UUU- ifications. The Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau's cnprinl bulletin : states In paragraph six: "Gener-1 al changes in rates are not ap- r'.ia.Mt- iu puucies issued to lake affect more than 60 davs prior tO the effPPtiv-P rintn 'nt c.h change. Reductions resultine from the extension of citv or district limits shall be consider-! ed as due to general change and the pffpptil-p rinta ahall 'mi the legal date of annexation." If possible, water houseplants with rain water or melted snow, i polio fund. Del McKay, Douglas county chairman for the March of Dimes, introduced Mrs. Marsh to the Rotary clubbers after he had briefly outlined the present polio situation in this county and throughout the nation. He pointed out that there were 42,000 new cases last year, as reported by the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis. He reminded those at the meet ing that they need not worry about their contributions "not counting." Fifty percent goes to the national foundation and 50 percent to the local fund, he ex plained. The national's 50 per cent goes to medical schools in the form of grants and to the po lio epidemic fund. The epidemic fund provides quick action to vic tims in case of an epidemic. County Goal $25,000 - McKay told of learning, at a regional meeting in Seattle last October, that when the answer to polio is found the organization can be turned over to the fight ing of another disease. Douglas county must raise $25.- 000, at least, he said. As the national chairman. Ba sil O'Conner, has said, the polio iuno must De ooosteu, or its lines of research must be cut. To cut the lines of research means the beginning of the end to the long fight by the American people against the dreaded crippler, Mc Kay reminded the listeners. This would be a terrible thing, now that research on polio causes Is "at the beginning of the end," the chairman concluded. Rotary President Leroy Hiatt promised full support of the drive, on be half of the membership. Earlier In the Rotary program, Warren Mack sang three selec tions, "Homing," "Rose of Tra lee," and "Somewhere a Voice is Calling." The last named was an encore requested by the mem bers. Fourteen Rotarians and Mrs. Homer Grow, accompanist, were honored at a "birthday table." liouse, Commercial and Industrial Wi:1ng Electrieal Trouble Shooting Motor and Anoliance Re pair Free Plck-Up and Delivery Service 17 Years Experience ACE ELECTRIC Licensed Electrician ;- ' 316 E. 2nd Ave. N. Ph. 1743-J Help Douglas County In 1950 Deposit your money with us and it will remain in DOUGLAS COUNTY and go to work for you. 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