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THE BRITISH
By CHARLES
ill tha, faM that tha
Inz dissatisfaction with socialism influence voters In the
TTnitiul Rtntpa?
Personally, we fear it will
time will tell. At least, the question will be extensively
debated during the next few months.
Fabian socialism in Great Britain virtually has ex
hausted that country's economic resources and has reached
the stage where it can no longer produce promised benefits.
Consequently, dissatisfied voters nave cut ine jaDor party
vnoinritv in thai Tvnlnt nf ImnotenCC.
But socialism in the United
from whirh to draw for the
ments of voting populace through special privilege. While
these resources last it will be difficult, we fear, to halt
socialism in this country.
Perhaps our pessimism is unfounded. Many political ob
servers find a growing fear of current trends towara aencn
nanrlinir. hnreaiicratic extravagance, centralization of pow
er, handouts and give-aways. It is possible that public
awakening to the danger of .our political policies may at
least, as in Britain, reduce socialistic leadership to a posi
tion of impotence by increasing opposition strength. But
we fear the voters or this country are noi yei iuny awaKenea
to the dangers ahead and will not be willing to renounce
socialism while handouts may be obtained freely and
easily.
Iriraln Face Hard Task
British people face a period of continuing austerity. Yet
it is to the credit of the British voter that he has chosen
this course, the hard way back, instead of drifting down
the road to national suicide.
While Britain's socialists were not unseated, their posi
tion has been made so insecure that we may expect another
election soon.
In Great Britain an election is required at five year in
tervals, but elections can be called at any time a vote of
"no confidence" in the government prevails in Parliament
Thus, with seats so evenly divided, the smallest crisis can
bring about another election. With evidence of a tremendous
swing toward the conservative side, it is a safe assumption,
we believe, that another election would put the Laborites
In the minority.
Britain's Fabian socialists have been holding forth prom
ises of a glorious Utopia. They have nationalized industries,
socialized medicine and have introduced many other social
innovations. In so doing they have reached the point in
evitable in socialistic government, the destruction of eco
nomic surpluses, reserves, and resources. At this stage
they must begin reducing benefits because no sources re
main from which to draw money with which to pay those
benefits. With decrease in benefits and Increase in taxes,
public dissatisfaction begins to grow.
Few recipients of welfare have any love or loyalty for
the hand that feeds them, when that hand becomes a fist.
United States Still Has Great Resources
'Our pessimism leads us to believe that while we may
increase our opposition to socialism, the time has not yet
come when voters will reject it. ,
While we can still see strawberries ahead on the illu
sionary lane of something-for-nothing, we travel blithely
along the merry way. But when we begin to run out of
strawberries, when we feel the pangs of hunger, we will
be ready to do a little realistic thinking.
Certainly the rejection of socialism in countries having
had more experience with It should cause us to turn back
t early. We should profit from their experience.
But we still have abundant resources in this country.
We can continue to "soak the rich" for a few more years,
drag down corporation profits and manipulate resources.
Eventually, of course, we will have destroyed incentive,
eliminated venture capital and placed employment under
dictatorial control, as has been done in Britain. The revolt
will come then, if not before.
Welfare Program
Slash Planned By
Washington State
OLYMPiA, Frt. 27. (.? New
cuts now in prospect (or th itaie'i
Krneral assistance program may
lash Jobless persona capable of
working oil the roils without a cent,
an authoritative source indicated
here.
Unemployable; also face a dras
tic cutback a possible paring to
but 35 per cent of need.
Jobless employables now receive
grants sufficient to meet SO per
cent of need and unemployablea 75
per cent
The heavy (lash, blamed on the
drain by claimants seeking assis
tance during the high unemploy
ment of tha cold winter months,
may go Into effect April 1.
Grants In other classificationa, it
was indicated at a meeting of coun
ty welfare administrators and so
cial security officials, also are
scheduled to be curtailed. They,
however, probably won't be cut un
til May 1 because of technicalities
necessitated by I new cost-of-living
survey and a revision of com-
fiutation required by federal of
icials. Covered In the latter group are
auch classificationa aa old age pen
sions, aid to tha blind and aid to
ELECTION
V.STANTON
Rritiah election shows BT0W.
be of little effect, although
States still has vast resources
ourDose of bribing large seg
dependent children. Tha first two
probably will be given 100 per cent
of need under the May 1 program
but the need will be baaed on the
new cost-of-living survey which
shows approximately a five per
cent drop in prices.
Sentence Of Ex-Nazi
Marshal Is Reduced
HAMBURG, Germany, Feb. V.
JF The sentence of former Ger
man field Marshal Epics, von Man
stein, imprisoned on war crimes
charges, was reduced from 18 to
U vears Imprisonment, tha British
army announced Friday.
"ha former field marshal waa
settenced last December for alleg
ed atrocities by his German troops
in Poland and Russia. At the time
German newspaera almost unani
r ouily criticiied tha sentence .
CUt PACK TO MAST
Riverside cub pack No. 40 will
hold Its annual blue and gold din
ner Tuesday, eb. Z8 at 6:Jtf p. m.
Guests will be scout commissioners
Jerry Willis, Mr. Friday and Earl
Ladd. principal of Riverside school.
Cubs and their immediate fam
ilies ara invited. Parents are asked
to bring a hot dish and a dessert
or salad, bread and butter and
table service. Coffee and punch will
be furnished. A movie for cubs and
their parents will follow tha dinner.
In
In the Day's News
(Continued from Page One
days for tha Republican party can't
aven be compared with what exists
in Britain. The roots ara different.
Our Republican party had its
origins in true and sincere liberal
ism. Tha issue that brought the Re
publican party into existence was
the issue of human slavery. There
can be no deeper or more funda
mental issue than that. Next after
human slavery in the creed of the
founders of the Republican party
came preservation of the Union.
The Republicans ateered our ship
of state through the stormy waters
of the Civil war and kept it on an
even keel through tha troubled re
construction period that followed.
It loat the confidence of the com
mon run of people only AFTER IT
HAD REMAINED IN POWER SO
LONG that exercise of practically
absolute power had dulled its per
ceptions and brought ibout the
abuses that always follow when -oo
much power ia held in too few
hands too long.
a a a
IN Britain, the Tories have no such
background. They are the party
of tha aristocracy and tha upper
classes. One of their fundamental
tenets ia the idea that people of
this sort ara BORN to rule.
On top of that, in this election
tha Tories were fuiiy. They didn't
feel that they dared to go all out
against Socialism. So they said to
tha voters merely that if elected
they would go no farther in social
istic directions and would under
take to BUSINESS-MANAGE tha
present degree of British Social
ism so that it could be made to
yield mora returns in the way of
social benefits to tha nation'i
people.
That is a rather colorless issue.
It doesn't give pople much to get
their teeth into.
a a a
YET
After five years of rather swift
ly marching Socialism, tha British
people as a whole are so Uttle satis
fied with its fruits that vast num
bers of them ara willing to forget
their hereditary prejudices against
tha Tories and vote tha Conserva
tive ticket in preference to the
straight Labor ticket.
These people simply HAVE to
Include msny Britains who in 1945
voted to have a go at Socialism in
a big way.
a a a
THAT, It seems to me, la signifi
cant. It goes back to the prac
tical reasoning that the proof of
the pudding ia tha eating thereof.
After five vears of eating Socialist
pudding a LOT of Britishers have
changed their minds about it.
That leaves in our minds this
thought:
Maybe wa won't like Socialism
after we get deep enough into it.
aa tne British have, to find out
what It is really like.
It
PHONE 100
between IS ana 7
p. m., it you hove not
received your Newa
Review. Ask f r Harold Mobley
The Middle As Usual
wy
During pleasant years in the
country we have coma to realize
aome of tha problems of a dis
trict, and the time and unselfish
service tha district school board
gives to tha community.
In town the running of a school
ia such a different matter so far
as the voter ia concerned. One
pays one's taxes; at election time
one listens to tha politics and the
promises of the candidates, and
than votes for tha one honestly
believed best for the school board.
Coire opening day of school there
will be a teacher in each room,
the rooms will be cleaned daily,
properly equipped ... as if tha
voter by his tax rubbed Aladdin's
lamp. But in the country it's dif
ferent. . '
In the country the school board
is made up of neighbors, all busy
people, who give their time as
needed, and philosophically know
that whatever they do will not
please everybody. When the pow
ers that be say the school must
have soma changes made or there
will not be the usual money forth
coming, the school board must go
hither and thither and get figures
Adult Education
Group Enlarges
PHILADELPHIA (.? The Jun
to, a non-profit school for adults,
has announced acquisition of a
major part of the S30 million Levit
town (N.Y.) home development on
Iflng Island, 23 miles from New
York City.
Junto Attorney Edward S. Morris
said tha school hopes to use in
come from the 4.(190 homes it is
acquiring in the deal to spread its
adult education work. It offers
courses in subjects ranging from
By ViaJmtt S. Martini
I together for the voters to conider
'at a meeting. They must steer a
I course between tha Schylla of over
eagerness to give the children all
possible improvements, and the
Charybdia of exorbitant demands
upon the district pocket-book.
They must solemnly decide how
many times they can expect the
young janitor to clean the floor for
the money alloted him in the budg
etand then find somebody else
when it seems too many to said
young janitor. They must listen to
the ones who say: "If it was good
enough for us, it's good enough
for our children"; also tha ones
who say, "we ought to do this
and that and the other!" The
school board finds, as does the
housewife and the businessman,
that two and two make four in
a budget and no amount of wishing
will make it anything else.
Then there's the poring over of
applications from teachers, usually
strangers, and the necessity of
choosing the "right one" ... no
easy job and all the other duties of
a school board in the country! But
somehow or other things do work
out, don't they!
antiques and archery to farming
and architecture.
The deal, disclosed yesterday, ac
tually was completed Dee. 27 when
Junto officials borrowed $1,500,000
from the Fidelity - Philadelphia
Trust Co. This waa paid to Levitt
k Sons, builders of tha Nassau
county development. A stock trans
fer and a federal housing authority
mortgage of about $25 million com
pleted tha deal.
The I.evittown homes were built
to sell for $7,990 each, or to rent
for $&S monthly. Real Estate men
estimate tha Junto will net about
J7S.000 yearly from the investment.
Junto is a Spanish term used to
Local
News
Meetlne Planned The annual
Camp Fire council public meeting
will be beld at S o'clock tonight,
Feb. 27, at tha Methodist church.
Sponsors, parents, guardians and
all persons interested are invited.
Reports on activities of the year to
be made. Social hour.
Rummage Sate Women's So
ciety of the First Presbyterian
church ia holding a rummage aale
in the basement of the church
March 1 and 4. Anyone having rum
mage for the sale may leave artic
les at the church basement or call
144-L or 135-Y. ....... . .
Cardan Dept. Ta Meet Tha
Garden department of the Rose
burg Woman'a club will meet at 2
o'clock Tuesday t the home of
Mrs. Kenneth rord in Laurelwood.
The topic discussion will be on
slips, tuberous begonias and prun
ing. Members of the Woman's club
interested in gardening are invited.
Meeting Announced The Busi
ness and Professional Women's
club will meet at 8 o'clock tonight,
reo. Z7, at the Lpiscopal pansn
hall on East Cass street. Clyde
Carstens will show colored slides of
flower collection. Lee Marsh and
daughter, Barbara, will provide in
strumental numbers.
Party This Ivenina Florence
Nightingale tent No. 15. Daughtera
of Union Veterans of the Civil War
will honor members having birth
days in January and February at a
party at a o ciocg tonight, reo. Z7,
at the home of Mrs. Ruth Plumer,
1162 Military street. Potluck re
freshments. Ta Organise Club Myrtle Creek
will organise a Zuleima club,
Daughtera of the Nile Tuesday,
Feb. 28, at a 12:30 o'clock potluck
luncheon at the 1.0 O F. hall in
Myrtle Creek. Roseburg Zuleima
club members are invited and
those desiring transportation are
asked to meet at the Hotel Rose
at 10:30 a.m.
Glide
By ELIZABETH ORR
The New Drop Shoulder
Glide residents are expressing
concern over the sudden drop and
shift riverward of a newly graded
"shoulder" on the North UmDo.ua
highway, just west of the bridge.
Heavy raina have caused a drop
in one place of about one foot
Surest spring sign in this area
is the return of great red log trucks
to the roads. Logs hauled from
high areas are still snow crusted
when delivered to the mills. Rob
erts Mill, which started operation
at Glide last fall, is now cutting
lumber again as are several oth
ers, after long winter lay offs.
Four-foot snow drifts, remains of
the "big snow," still line parkings
in the neighborhood of N. E. 116th
Street, in Portland, according to
Marilyn Keckler, Glide, who has
just returned from an inspection of
her property in that location. Mrs.
Keckler reports that during the
worst of the storm, drifts in her
yard were from 12 to IS feet.
Mrs. Willis E. Ragland and sons.
Bill and Dick, returned Saturday
to Glide after spending the past
week visiting Corvallis friends.
Ragland is U.S. timber manage
ment officer stationed at Glide. ,
The Tom Noland family have
again opened their North Umpqua
home after spending the oast fall
I and winter months in California
and other southern states.
Glide tiigh school teachers met
Thursday evening for a session of
fun and frolic in the school gym.
Plans were made to invite mothers
of school children to join in an eve
ning of games and sporta in4 the
near future.
designate an assembly, council or
organization. The Junto claims to
be the latest school of its kind in
the world. It'll organize a class in
any aubject if asked.
SEE - MEET - HEAR
William Stroh
Stimulating Sermons
0
INSPIRING MUSIC
Every Night 7:30 P.M.
March 1-12
first mhoM Church
Main and Lane Sta. Roaeburf
Coffee Racket
Studied In N. Y.
NEW YORK, Feb. Zl-UPt-A bi
scale coffee stealing racket, that
authorities say may have account
ed in part for tha recent coffee
shortage in thia country, has been
uncovered on tha New York City
waterfront.
Special police investigators said
SI million worth of unroasted cof
fee haa been filched from the docks
in tha last year.
One salvage merchant was ar
rested Saturday, and other arrests
were reported imminent. A squad
of detectives aome of them mas
querading aa longshoremen have
been working on the case for a
year.
Assistant District Attorney Louis
Andreozzi said the harbor racke
teers have been preying on coffee
cargoes brought from Brazil to
Brooklyn docks.
In unloading, ha said, coffee wss
spilled on the docks either delib
erately or accidentally and was
swept up and sold to coffee traders
at 40 percent below wholesale.
The spilled coffee cannot be re
sold in the U.S., Canada or Mexico
because of regulations against it,
but can be sold in other nations.
To cover up the missing coffee,
Andreozzi said, some public weigh
ers, insurance agents and steam
ship employes reported smaller
weights received than actually
were delivered. - J
Far the vary bast la
CONSTRUCTION
Coll Goodenough
kaae M2S-R-1
AN types at vara Saaa
ROLL ROOFING
10S Lb.
3
Coven 100 Sq. Ft. per Roll
THIS WEEK ONLY
West Coast Building Supply Co.
Phone 362
Bill Neighbors
Personal Property Tax
Reminder for 1950
Prtonil Property daclaratw forms ware Mitt out Jan. 1, 1930
with request for their return before Merch 2, 1 9S0. Pleete five
Hi it your immediate attention.
Section 1 10-34, OCLA 1941 reeds es follows . . . "The essestor
shell cause blenk forms for such returns to be prepared end dis
tributed but feilure to receivo er secure the form shell not re
lievo any such person menoeirtg oeont or officer from the obit
fetion of mekinf any return herein required . . All returns filed
under the prevision of the section shall be confidential records of
the Assessor's Office."
Section 110-608, OCLA 1941. "Any such person moneoinf eent
or officer who shell with Intsnt to evade taxation, reft.- er Re
flect to moke eny return hsretn rtauirad end to file ft with the
assessor within the time specified or es extended shell be sub
ject to penalty of Ten Pollers $10.00 pep doy -f the contin
uence of such rafusol or nefflect ..."
Household furniture domestic fixtures household foods and ef
fects actually in use as such In homos and Jwallinfi where not
sed for business er cemmerciol purposes are exempt from texe
fion and should not be reported on this form. Exemption else ep
lies to waarinf apparel wetches jewelry, and similer personel
effects ectuelly in use. .
Those forms may be obtained by cellinf at the Assessor's office
or will be moiled upon request.
Ned Dixon '
D.uglat County Assessor
OF LOS ANGELES
JlowyoiLtmoui!
Tbat answer to avarydajr
UMiratK proetanu
ly KEN BAILIY
QUISTIONt A short time ooo, my
husband decided to build on extra
room In the bosament. Ht went
to the garoge to get hit box of
tools which he hadn't used for
several weeks. The tool box wos
gone and we hove no idea who took
it or even just when it disappeared.
We had no burglary insurance but
I wondered if any insurance com
pany would have paid the loss
anyway since we were unable to
state exactly when the tools were
taken.
ANSWCft: Mott Raldntlal Theft
poIlclsM include e Myttertoue Disap
pearance clause which would cover
the law you describe. Under (his
clause. Insured article which dis
appear unaccountably are presumed
stolen and the Insurance company
settles the loss.
If you'll address your own Insur
ance questions to this office, we'll
try to lve you the correct answers
and there will be no charge or obli
gation of any kind.
KEN BAILEY
INSURANCE AGENCY
31$ Poeifie (log. rhont 398
Rolls
50
Mill and Mother St.
Jay Clark