4 TM Nwt-RWw, Rottburg, Or Tuti., Fb. 21. 1950 Published O illy Cxoept Sunday I y th Nwt-"vi Company, Inc. Imiri leeeaa etii Mar i. r' " l4Mklr. Oresea. eater Ml el Mecca t. 111 CHARLES V. STANTON -JTfV, COWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manage Mwnbar of th Attoelattd Praaa, Oragon Newspaper Publlahar Attooiation, tha Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona IWWIUI eT IT.HOI.l.lOlr CO. INC. eftlc.i la N. T.re, Ckleeie. tee Iiihiim Ln Aai.ia. tMllla remee at. lAele iihi nii.1 ... ii . u.M ! maalhl ti leree i.'m ciij t'.rri.r r.r r.. tie.aa ue eaeere. '"" eee lur, ee aieeta ei.ee uei.iee "i , - alk 14 ) Mrs aeta 11 1 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-- 3f t 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. 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