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4 Tht Newt-Rtvitw, Roieburg, Or. Tuts., Jon. 24, 1950 published O illy Exoept 8unday ly th Newi-3evie. Company, Inc. lateral at wa4 elau matter Mf I, ItMe, at lb psil afflea el ftaaabarg. Oragta. andat aet ef March S. U1S CHARLES V. STANTON .sflJW EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Sifcf Manager . Member of tha Aisoolated Praia, Oregon Newspaper Publlahera Aiaoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations sreMaua bj WHT-HOLLIDAr CO. INC. arricti ca ! Vara, chloaia, Baa Fraaolaaa. Laa AnftJca, Brattle. Parllaae SI. Lanta. irtvui uiii-iift. , - n.MnH Mailpai ll.M. ill raaatha tf.ae. Ihraa maaiai ft.H B Clt Carrlrr Pal raac lle.oe (la adraaca). Ian Ibaa aaa real, aaf maalh 11.00 Oatilda Oreiaa B Mali Tar raar law. i" ttanthi ft.3S, Ihraa maalba It.lo INCONSISTENT POSITION By CHARLES V. STANTON We have long been puzzled by organized labor's endorse ment of CVA. An act which denies workers civil service protection and benefits, which permits labor to be per formed on force account and without contracts or agree ments, and allows employes to be discharged without cause, is so entirely foreign to all the principles for which labor has struggled for so many years that it is difficult to un derstand how labor could give such unqualified approval, It is a little easier to understand the farmer attitude, although, strangely, farmers and farm organizations are widely divided on the CVA issue, while labor spokesmen are virtually unanimous in their support for the project. But because agriculturists represent such a large segment of the national voting population, administrations for many years have tried to cultivate this vote. Politicians have point ed to the farmer as the downtrodden, underprivileged man until the farmer has learned to believe it. The government has kept the farmer bankrupt by loaning him cheap money. The "poor farmer" has been exploited for so long that he can hardly be blamed for looking to the federal government as the source of all things. It would pot be surprising to see the farmer and his organizations actively supporting CVA. But the CVA proposal is so inconsistent with labor's tenets that the reason for labor's endorsement is incom prehensible. James T. Marr, executive secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, endeavors to explain labor's position in a guest editorial appearing in a recent edition of The Oregon Journal. He says that CVA "is the best mechanism economically and efficiently to develop .the unlimited resources of our great region." He lists "more low-cost hydroelectric power, more resource development, increased jobs and a higher level of prosperity," as some of the benefits to be expected from CVA. But the bulk of his explanation seems to be that labor is for CVA because business is against it. He makes a long tirade against "these enemies of Northwest development," particularly attacking the Pacific Northwest Development association," and refers to the "propaganda deluge" which he estimates has cost around $250,000, charging that 90 per cent of the funds to fight CVA have been furnished by public utilities. , Marr concludes : ' Organlied . labor la as Jealous of Its liberties as any group perhaps even mors so because It has been forced to fight harder for Its rights. If the malloloua propaganda against the CVA had any partlole of truth to It, we would, be the prat to be against CVA. But It Is so far-fetohed that It Is ridiculous to any person In possession of the faots. Organized labor representing so many of the region's I people Is vitally concerned with the Northwest's future. We want to see the Job done and done right. We believe that a CVA, located here In the region where It will be olose to the grass roots, Is the right way. We cannot understand how CVA would produce more low-cost hydroelectric power, more resources development increased jobs and higher level of prosperity. Labor is getting more pay on the average in the Pacific Northwest than in any other section of the country, in eluding the much-vaunted TVA. We are developing our hydroelectric resources as fast as it is possible to get equipment- Some of our installations still are awaiting ma chinery to harness water ready to be put to use as soon as turbines' can be obtained from manufacturers still years behind on orders. The only way we can get more money to develop our resources faster than at present is to in crease deficit spending, and with a $5 billion deficit staring us in the face for the next fiscal year, we don't think even labor wants to hike the public debt. It is regrettable that utilities and business have been forced into the position of spending large sums of money to fight creation of federal dictatorship over a great region. The claim that CVA would be "located HERE where it will be close to the grass roots," is ridiculous. Is anyone so naive as to believe the three-man CVA board would not be under the thumb of the Secretary of the Interior and controlled absolutely from Washington? But, concerning expenditure of opposition funds, what other course is possible when the federal government is spending huge sums of TAXPAYER money to distribute propaganda and maintain continuous succession of "mis sionaries" in the field? Mr. Marr's explanation only serves to add to our be wilderment respecting labor's apparently inconsistent position. Soviet Blockade On Trains Ended BERLIN, Jan. 24 (P) Soviet technicalities crippled Berlin truck traffic to west Germany Monday and delayed three Am erican military trains during the night. The three trains were stalled with delays up to six hours at Helmstedt, on the Soviet zone frontier, by Russian Investigation of travel papers of three non American passengers. After a telephone call to VS. army headquarters at Heidel berg, Soviet officials dropped their Inquiry and the trains pro ceeded. Passengers riding in the Am erican military coaches were identified as a German, a Bra zilian and an Italian. They were not removed by the Russians. The harassment of Berlin high way supply lines appeared to he a Soviet reprisal for the Ameri can attempt to take over a Berlin railway building from Russian control last week. After holding the building for four days with German police, MaJ. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor. U.S. commander in Berlin, evac uated It Saturday. "A Plague On Both Your Houses!" (t fV, 1 yy. X y' By ViaJinett S. Martini Do you treasure In your home one of those lovely old coverlets woven long ago by your great grandmother? Please tell me about It! Just to give you an Idea what I'd like to know about YOUR coverlet here are a few questions: Colors? Wool and linen? Or wool and cotton? (The older ones were flax; cotton came later). How many seams? Those woven before 1826 usually had one or even two seams. Is there In the border any dis tinguishing name or date? Or a symbol Identifying the weaver? Is the border on two sides or three? (The top was suspended to be covered by pillows and was not bordered as a rule). Do you have a spinning wheel? Can you use It? Do you know anyone who could demonstrate the use of flax wheel or one for wool ? Who wove the coverlet, or first owned It? Do you know the date? How did she bring It to Oregon? (Mine was a hundred years to getting here!) Do you know the name of the pattern? If not, would you like me to try to identify It for you? I'd need a snapshot for that, of course. Is the coverlet In good condi tion? Do you know any little stories about the use of it, or the making of it, etc.? (Not long ago I heard that cov erlets were used to line the big coats of the Civil war soldiers, and that sometimes the dead were identified by the pattern of a familiar coverlet. . . . (Battle fields were not always far away then). Do you mind clipping this scrap so that If you should happen to know, a little later, of some one who has such a coverlet "you could, If you would be so kind, give her the cllpplng?- Do tell me just anything you think of about the coverlet! I'd love to hear about yours! For that matter, I'd enjoy hear ing about any treasured family heirloom. Silver and coverlets in terest me most. But other readers might be more Interested in some thing else. What Is YOUR hob by? Letters will reach me either care of The Roseburg News-Review or Lorane Route, Cottage Grove, Oregon, my Douglas coun ty home address. LETTERS to the Editor CVA Backing By Some Newspapers Is Cited PORTLAND I have seen a copy of your editorial branding the Democratic party's statj platform for 1950 as "socialist demagoguery." For your Information, the plat form was not written by me. I was privileged to serve as chair man of the platform committee. More than 40 representative citi zens of Oregon, from nearly ev ery county In the state, partici pated In a democratic meeting. I Dreslded at the meetinc but did not vote on the various Issues. I shall not take up your entire assault on the platform. I imag ine your own two columns must have pretty well put your readers to sleep. l am intrigued, however, by your attack on the proposed CVA as socialistic ana communist type." Recently I prepared for the Nleman Foundation for Journal ism at Harvard university a de tailed analysis entitled "The ress and the CVA." I find that the CVA Is advorat- ed by the New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chi cago Star-Times, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Washington Star, the Scrlpps-Howard Washington Dal ly News, the Pes Moines Register and Tribune. The St. Louis Star Times and numerous other newspapers. is It vour opinion that tnese great journals of American opin- on are trying tto foist a social istic communist-type" government on the Pacific Northwest? Are nil newspapers out of step except the Rosehurt? News-Pcvi"- RICHARD L. NEUBERGER Portland, Oregon. EDITOR'S NOTE Reolvlno to Senator Neuberger's ques tions In the last paragraph of nn letter aeovt, it IS our opin ion that inv newmjnrp aun. porting CVA Is advocating so cialistic, communist-type gov ernment. If tha papers named by the senator are advocating CVA, they doubtless have been misled, as have so many of our own residents, into the belief that CVA is a program for re gional development rather than a plan for political domination. Regarding The News-Review being out of step, we have found only ONE daily newspa per In OREGON advocating CVA, and that because of a prejudice against existing agen cies due to alleged discrimina tion against developments par ticularly promoted by the newspaper. 2 Wounded Men Held As Suspects In Theft Killing SEATTLE, Jan. 24 V A slender tape measure produced a clue which led to the holding of two wounded men Monday in connection with the robbery slay ing of a North end tavern opera tor. Sheriff Harlan S. Callahan said Roy Burnett, 34, was held in a hospital with a bullet-shattered Jaw. Louie Smutherman, alias Jack Eritt. 35, was in jail with an armpit wound. Both are from Seattle. The sheriff said they were held for questioning In connection with the death of Fred T. Long, 53. who was shot early Saturday while protecting $400 In his tav ern till. Burnett, Callahan said, walk ed Into King county hospital and asked treatment of his face, say ing he had been shot during an attempted holdup on a downtown st root. A checkup of his friends turn ed up Smutherman In nearby Kirkland. He also was wounded. Then sheriff's detectives got an idea. They checked the tavern. They found bullet holes behlno I.ond's body 64 inches above the floor. A doctor measured the distance from Burnett's armpits to his toes as Burnett lay unconscious at the hospital. It also was 64 Inches the height from which the detectives deduced he would fire a weapon in his outstretched hand. Smutherman, in a written In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) due to degeneration of the nerve cells In the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord." . I'D like to add a more under standing definition: INFANTILE PARALYSIS IS A TERROR THAT STALKS BY DAY AND BY NIGHT. It stalks children. IN all the world, there can be nothing as lovely as a happy, healthy child. It Is gay. It is Ioveable. It laughs. It runs. It plays. It jumps. It dances. Nothing on earth, not even a kitten, Is more active than a happy, healthy child. Its acti-'ity is its very life. POLIO can stop all that. It can turn the beginning life of a happy child into a life of tragedy and frustration. It is little wonder that your heart skips a beat, that your breath dies for a moment, that the gold of the sunshine turns to drab gray when you hear that polio has invaded your commu nity perhaps your neighbor hood. I ET'S go back a generation. L Polio was then comparatively little known. It existed, of course. As yet, however, it was not recog nized as a public menace. But there was another terror that walked by day and by night. Its name was diphtheria. a a DIPHTHERIA was a horrible thing. It killed by choking. There can be nothing more terri ble than a child choked to death. For a long, long time, the thought of diphtheria chilled the marrow of people's bones. WE might mention smallpox. For centuries, smallpox and wholesale death were closely as sociated in people's minds. That is no longer true. IIIIHY have diphtheria and small- II pox (to mention only these two) ceased to be the grisly ter rors they once were? The answer can be given in two words: Scientific research. Thanks to scientific research successful methods of treating diphtheria and smallpox have been found. That gives us reason for the belief that in time equally successful methods of treating polio will be found. THE purpose of the March of Dimes is to provide the money with which to PROVIDE THE RESEARCH that in time will en able us to handle polio as suc cessfully as we have handled diphtheria and smallpox. Great progress is being made. We are fully justified In believing that much more progress WILL be made. Only a little money is asked from each of us. Let's give the little that is asked. statement, said he came from a back room of the tavern to find "lead flying In all directions," and had to crawl over Long's body to gjt outside. He said he Jumped in the car swung it around and picked up Burnett. Justice Of Peace Center Of Mess In Michigan Town GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan, 24. A 70-year-old Justice of the peace claims he is fighting a one man war against "rascality" in this community of 4,000 faced an ouster move today. Justice Charles F. Young's ad versaries in a feud that has split Grand Ledge into rival camps are Frank G. Weinert, 40-year-old weekly newspaper editor and young Police Chief William Car er. He had Deinert in Jail Satur day for several hours of a five day sentence. But a habeas corpus writ freed the editor, ac cused of using insulting language i:i the court roomj Young had threatened to take the same action against Carter, who he says has not been dis charging his police duties prop erly. Petitions urging Michigan Gov ernor G. Mennen Williams to re move the justice reported nearly ready to take to the state's chief executive. - They charge Young with ma licious prosecution and with act ing as judge, jury and complain ing witness. To that accusation the .veteran of three wars simply retorted: i ve just Degun to light. I have tried to be honorable and do ex actly what the law requires me to do." A week ago Young haled Wei- nert and Carter into court and charged the editor with writine a "scurrilous" article about him. lie sentenced them to jail but did not sign commitment papers. Weinert, 'called back Saturday, was jailed on a fresh contempt charge because Young said he made insulting remarks in the courtroom. A final hearing on the habeas corpus writ is scheduled for Jan. 31 before Circuit Judge Archie jvicuonaia oi Jiaton county. Gambling Case Is Starter The municipal ruinous started early this month when Carter ar rested tavern owner Robert Moore on gambling charees. Moore brought a false arrest suit. but did not press charges. However, it was reported later by Weinert, Justice Young later entered a $300 judgment against Carter on Moore's behalf. Weinert's printed editorial on that matter led to the first con tempt charge. Young, who conducts justice court in the antique shop he op erated, told newsmen he had been playing cards on the second floor of Moore's establishment at the time of the arrest. "Moore is a nice fellow," he added. "I never even heard him cuss." i Crocodile's "Innards" Yield Bottles, Rocks, Marbles AGED 3; RALSE TEETH SRATTT.F (JPi n,,lHln livelv 3 1.9 VPr.nlH unnnt.ir through dinner is no picnic even unucA ji u i in a t circumstances. Any parent knows that. Which Is whv Mrc V T. TTntf is happy to report that son Tim- uuiy uuesn i inane any iuss wnen she takes out or puts in his false teeth. The artificial n)irtrwn,-o ra-a Installed AS 9 Ipmnnran, maa. sure after dentists removed 14 of the youngster's 20 teeth. A new set of his own should grow in within two or three years. PHONE 100 between 6 15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Harold Moblcy CINCINNATI, Jan. 21 (. If Cleopatra Just could talk she'd wreck you with stories about her operation. But Cleopatra is a 600-pound Nile rive crocodile so she isn't saying much. In fact she's still a bit lethar gic from the anesthetic given her. But that operation produces six pop bottles, some of them brok en; 38 rocks, some of them as big as baseballs; several mar bles; a rifle shell and a China elephant. Cleopatra Is one of the reptiles at the Cincinnati zoo and, ser iously, the operation performed on her Thursday was one of the most unusual in natural history. Some weeks ago zoo attendants firgued Cleopatra had swallowed a pop bottle. Attendants said a crocodile's digestive tract is very small so they doubted if she could digest the bottle. Cleo began losing her appetite so an operation was deemed necessary. For three days they gave Cleo drugs to subdue her. Then six husky men were pressed into ser vice to help hold the crocodile to the "operating table." INSURANCE LIFE AUTO FIRk State Farm Mutual Insurance O. U ROSE P. O. Box 489 Phone 288 116 W. Cass Over Douglas County Bank Help Douglas County In 1950 Deposit your money with us and it will remain In 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. Betlxw Dont Know This About Advertising OuizNo. 10 What does it cost to advertise a quart of milk? Ml htl It a quart? W U &t : MILK Answer: itcoSts less than l10ff a quart to advertise the best known brands of milk. That's only half the story. Advertising lowers your cost two ways: . Cuts the selling costs. And by helping make mass production possible, lowers the production costs, too. 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