The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, February 21, 1950, Page 4, Image 4

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DANGEROUS DEFICIENCY
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Artificial reseeding of 22,200 acre of idle lands in the
Douglas fir region during 1949 is reported by W. D. Hagen
stein, chief forester, speaking before the annual meeting
of the Forest Conservation committee of the Pacific North
west Industries in Portland. At the same time, Hagen
stein told of the new policy of seed certification in which
, the industry is starting the practices of genetic forestry,
through seed selection.
In gathering seed, special attention is given to elevation,
soil types, form of parent trees, local climate end other
factors. Foresters believe that by taking seed from trees of
better than average commercial quality, with study also of
adaptation to elevation and climate, it will be possible over
a long period of years to improve quality of forests and,
perhaps, to secure more resistence to disease.
Hagenstein reported an increase of 8J percent, or 256,551
acres, in the Douglas fir area certified during 1949 as
West Coast Tree Farms, bringing the total to 3,270,692 acres
of taxpaying forests pledged to permanent management
since 1941.
Foresters are planting trees because those trees mean
future dollars. They realize that our timber supply is being
reduced all too rapidly. They are buying and planting idle
lands. In their new concept of tree farming, they are now
introducing seed selection and certification in the hope of
producing trees with higher market value.
But, indirectly, they are doing something else which, to
the general public, is much more important than the benefits
which will accrue to the timber industry.
Perhaps this can best be explained by quoting from a
feature article by Dr. Richard P. White, executive secretary
of the American Association of Nurserymen, writing in the
Providence Journal.
White says :
In nation ao favorably located at our climatically, people
ordinarily think of the weather at causing water ihortagea.
Thla it only partially true. Over a long period of time they
may In greater part be cauted by man.
Nature't original controli of water were maintained by vege
tation. A vegetative mantle providet natural ttorage of water,
praventa orotien, and helpt to keep retorvelrt, itreami and
harbore from filling up with tilt, which. In the cato of rater
volrt, lowera water ttorage capacity.
To meet the requirement! of a rapidly-growing country, hew
over, wo have ravaged the land.
Only in comparatively recent tlmea the latt three or four
decadet have wo realiied that wo mutt give back to the land
the treat, thrubt and gratiet which have been dettroyed over
aeveral centuriet. If we do not do thlt, the United Statot can
In time largely become a datert.
White continues to point out the fact that the fate of our
people is "unalterably tied to the land forests, shelter
belts, watersheds, farms, state and community forests, parks
and even backyards."
Although the figure may vary considerably, he says, some
30 percent more water remains in soil well covered with
vegetation.
Thus the planting of some 22,200 acres of idle land in
the Douglas fir region during 1949 assumes major im
portance. Not only does the planting of those acres assure
jobs and payrolls in future years, and give promise that
industry shall be continued instead of dying of starvation
and leaving ghost town cemeteries, but, while growing
and awaiting harvest, the trees conserve water, reduce
silting and benefit all neighboring agricultural and urban
property.
Vegetation, we are informed, is being removed from the
land one and one-half times faster than it is being replaced.
Yet we are extremely wasteful of the resource as we
remove it The timber industry, according to best available
statistics, utilizes only about one-third of a tree cut in the
forest. Here in the Vmpqua basin, where we have a rather
high percentage of disease and overripe timber, while few
manufacturing plants are equipped to do more than cut
rough material, our percentage of utilization perhaps is not
higher than twenty-five percent. If we could increase our
rate of utilization, we could reduce the rate of forest re
moval, until, under perfect conditions, we could begin to
restore the vegetative covering of the land instead of con
stantly, and dangerously, falling behind.
. Singing The "Blues" . .
1r a V--
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lfeNT By ViaJutttt t. Uarixn ffD
"It li uselest to resent anything
in this world; on mutt learn to
look upon whatever happeni at
part of one'i education in life and
make it serve a good purpose in
the formation of character." So
writet Eleanor Roosevelt in "Thit
I Remember" (Harper & Bros.,
1949). Whether the reader it one
of those who regarded the late pre
tident't wife with critical or friend
ly eyes, it would teem that the
book would be of greatest interest.
Remembering the crticism about
Mrs. Roosevelt going into the Pa
cific in the Red Cross uniform,
page 197 of Thlt I Remember was,
to me, of special interest. Briefly
the facta are that Norman Davit,
chairman of the Red Cross, specif
ically asked Mrt. Roosevelt if she
would wear the official uniform and
visit the Red Cross activities and
report to him upon her return.
However the Board of the Red
Cross (for an amazing reason!) de
sired that Mrs. Roosevelt neither
explain why she had worn the uni
form nor disclose the fact that all
of the money from her column and
subsequent articles about that trip
was divided equally between the
Red Cross and the American
Friends Service committee. "I
think it quite safe now to give the
facts," sayt the victim of the with
holding of the truth. Apparently she
thought it "useless to resent" that,
too. At any rate, the most unsel
fishly agreed.
"Thit I Remember" gives I pic
ture of a woman who met a mother-in-law
problem with patience
and tact How many of us would
be at gracioua at one's husband
struggled through the years trying
to observe filial respect and at the
same time wrest himself free from
a parent who, until the very last.
strove to keep him shackled by her
own domination?
When the bad news about the
President came, Mrt. Roosevelt
was attending a benefit for the
Thrift Shop when she was "called
to the telephone. . .. I did not ask.
I knew deep down in my heart . . .
Neverthless the amenities had to
be observed, so went back to the
party and said goodbye . . . then I
got in the car and sat with clenched
hands all the way to the White
House."
"Thia I Remember" it the story,
simply told, of a devoted wife and
mother who tried her very best
to fill the difficult position of First
Lady.
In the Day's News
Continued from Page One)
"Tick's" Tips On
Veterans Hospital
LETTERS
to the Editor
Sewage Plant Below
Vets Hospital Favored
ROSEBURG The ci'y council
meets tonight to propose plans fur
West Rosebars's sewage disposal.
City representatives can go in the
right direction only as far as we.
Hie cititens, request it.
Do we wish fillh in river and
streets? Shall streams be pol
luted, lives of children endangered?
One plan proposes Just that. It
proposes no cooperation with the
veterans hospital. The hospital now
dumps impure sewage into our
Umpqua river. The tame plan is
for pumping West Roseburg't tew
age into the present disposal plant,
lessening the amount of purification
occurring there. An increased load
would reduce primary plus secon
dary purification to primary proc
essing only. Should pumps fail at
any time, what would prevent sew
age from flowing in our streets
and yards?
The main pipe running east to
the upiHT pump would need to go
down hill to be a gravity flow serv
ing lateral lines. When Rosrburg's
growth calls for sewage to be sent
in the oppoMie direction to a plant
down the river, the sewage for a
ways would go up hill. That would
demand a pressure flow. All lat-
I erals would then have to be partly
aug up ana connected to a second
gravity flow pipe.
I deem it necessary to avoid
these evils by building now an ade
quate plant below the Velerans
hospital. This would Derm it the
hospital to go in with us, thus
keeping sewage out of our river.
Thia latter plan would allow sewage
to move down the river on gravity
flow.
We would be making the river
sate for luh and fishermen and
children. Today even the aalmon
escaping to the North I'mpqua nv-
By L. J. "TICK" MALARKEY
The Guy's name it Laurel. That,
in this writer'a bonk, it as bad as
l.eo. Anyway this is the troop: All
8 foot 3 of Laurel "Shorty" Nelson
it on this station and is over at the
occupational therapy shop under
the G.I. bill of rights taking an in
tensive course in this important
phase of the VA program. A 90-day
leave of absence from the Uni
versity of 1'uget Sound is in his
pocket and the fact that wife Lu
cille joined the lad in Roseburg
Sunday made his brief stay in
Douglas county the happier.
An inconspicuous purple heart it
in a coat lapel. It seems that this
lanky ex-foot soldier Hopped a slug
while with the 24th infantry divi
sion when the going was rugged in
the south Pacific. He doesn't limp
now. Here is the pay off: Uncle
Samuel gave the Nelson boy a bat
tle held commission and when guns
quit firing he was discharged a
first lieutenant of infantry. Not
many of that kind of brass around
those commissions are earned the
hard way.
You got to rub shoulders with a
guy and work with him before you
really get acquainted. Out here
every other week the hospital puts
out a paper; it is called "The
I mpqua Tidings." Patient report
ers are the principal contributors.
The last four issues have been
mimeographed by John Neff and
the job that this ex-construction
"stiff" did has been the finest yet
produced.
Thursday John Neff was dis
charged. Health restored, he is go
ing bark to hit native state. New
York, and resume where he left
off in civilian life. Thts reporter
is going to mist "Jawn" in more
er must swim in polluted waters
of the main Umpqua, and children
will swim, even in filt'iy rivers
Please do not delay to let the
city council know you will support
them in building a prortfr plant to
make Roseburg a city to be proud
of clean, prosperous and progres
sive. A job don correctly the first
time la cheapest, quickest, best.
EARL C. STEWARD
Roseburg, Ore.
than on. He will not elaborate
except to say S'Long, Irish Neff.
At a Veteran of Foreign War's
dance Monday of last week the
Melody Mountaineers were tend
ing the strains of a tweet waltz
to me rafters. Nurse MHtie Hack
had the duty on Ward 6; in fact
she it regular on "6", working
the twing shift. This old reporter
is not much at a dance but it
not too ancient to try and under
her protests Mittie Hack was wait
ed around. The tune:
"I Surrender, Dear."
Oklahoma is the native state and
Clarkston, Ida., her home town. St.
Joseph's hospital in Lewiston train
ed the pretty Mittie and during 1925
the Veteran's Administration ac
cepted her application. States of
Wyoming. Montana and Oregon
have been stops over this span of
years.
There are a lot of nice things
that the old reporter could say;
but as we waltzed she asked:
"Say "Tick" are you asking
these questions to put anything
about me in the paper? If you are
your next dose of medicine, when
I'm on duty, will be castor oil."
Well, "Pretty Mittie," castor oil
or no castor oil the piece has been
written. P.ie little tribute comes
from the heart because you rate
it. "Your Boys" as you call us
think a lot of you. Anyway, castor
oil was a sure eire for all ills
when my mother reached Into the
medicine cabinet at home.
Father Edmund Hylund of the
Roseburg parish was the "skv pi
lot" of the day last Tuesday. 'This
Son of the Old Sod it a busy man
and because of his many missions
throughout Douglas countv he is
not able to give enough of his time
to hospitalized veterans.
"Today," he said, "ther are
approximately 130 patients of the
Catholic faith here. I have asked
(or another priest to aid in our lo
cal work and if one is sent to Rose
burg it is my thought to devote at
least 20 hours full time each week
to tha boyt here "
Adrian Fisher, chief electrician,
came to the chaplain's office to re-
fiair the lighting tyttem The rhan
ain'a office it where some of the
copy is "beat out" for the "Ump
qua Tidings" when "Conrad" Mc
Donnell, secretary, it in the li
brary mornings assisting Miss
Hess. Chatted a moment and found
out that Electrician Fisher is a
mas Eve, 1933, when 160 were
killed and more than 300 injured.
That proves to us that train dis
asters are not confined to our
country.
AS to the grisly details and tha
crowd that gathered to look on:
In the grim spring of 1945, a Ger
man V-2 rocket fell in mid-London
on a building containing a whole
tale meat market. The building was
pulverized by the explosion. The
walls of surrounding buildings were
smeared with meat from the ani
mal carcasses and from the bodies
of the human beings who were in
the doomed building when the
rocket fell. ,
Within i few hours a crowd
gathered to look on. Curiosity, you
see, is i worldwide human trait.
It it present in all of ut.
WRECKS or no wrecks, people
will go on riding on trains.
They are wise to do to. In this
world we have to get from place
to place. We can't let ourselves be
bluffed. Besides, the statisticians
assure ut that MANY, MANY more
people are killed by slipping in
bathtubs than in train wrecks.
THE teletypes on this same morn
ing tell another story. As of now,
no deaths are connected with it.
There isn't even a broken bone.
But in pur blood-chilling quality
thit other ttory dwarfs the Long
Island railroad collision.
It comes from Budapest, in Hun
gary, and it tells of the CONFES
SION of Robert Vogeler, an Ameri
can businessman charged by the
Communist government of Hun
gary with spying, that he it guUty
of everything he is charged with.
In a seemingly calm voice, he
says yes, he is a spy, an American
spy, that he hat been gathering
Communism's secrets and trans
mitting them to his capitalist gov
ernment through the American
army intelligence, which is his
direct superior.
And so on.
HERE it the grisly part of it:
Hit wife, who lives in Vienna,
says when ah hears what has
happened:
".My husband is merely recre-
ating from memory a lot of lies '
that have been pounded into him !
for the last three months ... It
it obviout to anyone who knew
Bob at all that he HAS BEEN 1
DRUGGED OR SUBJECTED TO j
SOME KIND OF TORTURE TO
MAKE HIM SAY ALL THESE
THINGS."
BEFORE our minds comes the
trial of Cardinal Mindszenty . . .
We hark back to the RUSSIANS in
the early purges (when Stalin was
getting rid of those who differed
with him.) ... We think of all the
horrible instances In which men in
these Communist-conducted trials
have calmly confessed to the com
mission of crimes of every kind.
New GOP Platform Better Than
In '46 Despite Applesauce Content
By PETER EDSON
NEA Wafhlnfloa Comepondent
WASHNGTON (NEA Th new 1950 Republican platform is the
best thing of its kind th GOP hat don yet. It is far and away
better than th 1946" midterm platform, which aaid nothing. In many
ways thit 1950 job it even better than the 1948 platform it wat in
tended to supplement But it still hat a big helping of political apple
lauce, which is only to be expected in any partisan document.
The GOP 1948 platform put its
foreign policy planka asst. T h
new document putt them first
The Republicans now define and
lay they ar for what might be
called a nonpartisan or bipar
tisan foreign policy, without using
those adjectives. The GOP plat
form calls it a "united American
foreign policy." The Republicans
also say they are for the United
Nations, the inter-American sys
tem ana ine Norm Atlantic pacts.
In these respects they're jutt like
in uemocrats,
But on foreign aid. th Repub
licans teem to D writing a new
ticket. Their 'new platform tavt
they will be for aid to nations
fighting communism only on five
conditions: 1 If it it essential to
U. S. security. 2 If the American
economy can afford it. 3 If it will
be effective. 4 If the aided nation
can't aupply itself. 5 It there it
a program for progressiva reduction.
Foreign Policy Shift
How any Republican member of
Congress will be able to justify
further aid to Nationalist China
on the basis of those five "ifs"
will be something to see. And the
Truman administration's refusal to
aid Nationalist China it th on
foreign policy issue which the Re
publicans have been beating the
Democrats over the head with
hardest.
The Republicans also teem to be
backing away from their 1948 plat
form plankt on foreign trade po
licy. Two yeart ago the GOP
came out in support of reciprocal
trade agreements. The new plat
form digs up the old "Republican
principle that foreign products of
underpaid foreign labor shall not
be admitted to thit country o n
terms which imperil the living
standards of the American work
man or the American farmer, or
threaten serious injury to a domes
tic industry.
The domestic Dart of the GOP
platform outlines 23 main planka
under teven different headinga:
Th national economy, agriculture,
SNOW FUN
Glide Ponders
Letter Seen
On Mountain
A siant whit "G", which appear
ed Friday near the top of Scott
mountain, 20 milet east of Rose
burg, wat the subject of much dis
cussion among Glide residents, who
claim th 5,000 foot timbered peak
as a local lanamarn.
Because th "G" was discovered
at the onset of the county basket
ball tournament, the letter was
first attributed to Glide high school
students, whose spirit was running
high. A good look at the forma
tion, however, disclosed it to be of
snow.
John Orr, school superintendent,
said to be the first to see the
"G", said it reminded him of AB
mountain at Skagway, Alaska. The
mountain is so named because of
a huge formation in snow of the
capital letters "A" and "B" whicn
are always visible.
Gliders are not expecting the
"G" to be visible much longer, as
remaining snow on the mountaia
it melting last.
DillardP.-T.A.
Hears Speeches
Dillard P.-T.A. membert hearl
three speakers Friday at the
schoolhouse during the February
meeting. Marble Cook of the Ore
gon Educational association, Roy
Crain of the Boy Scout association
and Dr. F. B. Price of the Veter
ans hospital appeared on the pro
gram. Marble discussed the education
problem in the state and urged sup
port of a forthcoming bill on the
jjallott to increase state aid to edu
cation lo aw per census cnuu.
Dr. Price showed a film relating
to the mental health program
which showed, how too much or
too little attention can ruin a nor
mal healthy child's complete life.
Roy Crain, chairman of the lead
ership and training committee for
Boy Scouts in the county, thowed
a film concerning the annual out
ing of boy scouts. The film wat in
keeping with the observance of
Boy Scout week.
A card party it planned for
March 3 at the schoolhouse. Ruby
Jones read a short summary of
the organization of P.-T.A. which
observed itt 53rd birthday Feb. 17
Mrs. Golgert and Mrs. Williams
were co-hostesses for th meeting
Community singing was led by
Mr. Corey. A solo was tung by
Miss McClennon.
busy man. Further discovered that
he is a past exalted ruler of the
Roseburg Lodge of Elks. With a I
ladder over the sturdy Fisher !
shoulder and vt of tools hung from
here to there thia lighting except
is mostly on the move.
"When lights go out they want
'em on and now," it hit summing
up.
"SO" Now 'Tick"
Instinct tell us rich thingt aren't
human.
Men in their right minds don't do
such things.
What dark, grim, secret terror it
possessed by these Communists to
make men over into something that
ISN'T A MAM ANY MORE?
READING of thit "confession" of
Robert Vogeler after three
months in the handt of the Com
munist inquisition leaves one with
t feeling of having walked paat
graveyard in the night and feeling
a blast of chill air followed by th
touch of spectral, bony fingers.
Such thingt at thes "confes
sions" which th Communists teem
to b abl to produce at will ar
out of thit world.
HOUSI ORDER TO JAPI
TOKYO LP) Th Japa
nese government hat been direct
ed to build 2,000 houses to be rent
ed to occupation military person
nel, Allied headquarters announc
ed Aug. 1 ia th completion date.
labor, ciiil rights, social security,
veterana and loyalty.
On other domestic issues, the
Republicans new platform ttatet
principles diametrically opposed to
th Democrats' ideas, and here
you can begin to tell the two par
ties apart.
The Republicans endorse the bal
anced budget, reduction of spend
ing and greater efficiency in feder
al government. The Republicans
are also for general tax reduction.
These things will have their appeal
particularly to business. Instead
of endorsing a much-needed gen
eral tax reform, however, th Re
publicans kist off this issue with
a proposal for a study of federal,
state and local government
sources of revenue.
The Republicans are against the
Brannan plan, but they are for
farm price supports. And they
come out for "development of ex
port markets for the surplus
crops." This is rather vague, but
it sounds something like subsidi
zed dumping.
They seem to endorse greater
federal grants in aid to the suites
at the solution for all social wel
fare problems.
While th Democrats now seem
inclined to tighten up on wast
in veterans' benefit payments, the
new Republican platform makes an
open bid for vet support by b a c k
ing up all their claims.
In calling for revision of the
government loyalty program, the
Republicans touch the Democrats
on a sensitive spot. But it is doubt
ful if the present FBI security i
check could be made much tough-!
er, and another $20,000,000 or to ,
spent in rescreening ali govern
ment employes would probably not
produc much of anything worth
th cost.
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about his gambling, he persuaded another woman to
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Later, Mrs. Do learned of the mortgage and proved
the forgery. Th lender, in this case, had had th
title to the mortgaged property insured. The title
insurance company took an assignment of the mortgage
and worked out a settlement with Jack Do and his
wife. Without title insurance, the lender would have
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