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4 The Newt-Review, Roieburt, Ore. Frl., April 21, 19S0 auiish Oilly Ixoeot Sunday !y tha Newt-evlee' Company, ln. t Mff M MalMf Hit I. tl Mil ffU at bMiri, Orasau. ae Marae V U' CHARLM V. STANTON -. BOWIN L. KNAPP Editor .Vus- Manafet Mimbar 0 the Aaeoolatad Prase, Oregon Newneaper Pukllthtm Assoolatlon, the Audit (ureau ef Clrculatlana etraaaaiaa i iiMrou.iMi co, ixu. efn-aa ra tarn, caianta. ft VnrtM Lm aasalaa kaaMt ranlaat Ik LaiU. euBScairrmft BA rra ! Ora-aa Or aiaU rat Taar l ala Mannas S4.aa . Ikraa auUi t. Or CM- Carn.-rtl IW III) "a aavaeaal. aaa raat. set -aaia Sl.a OattlSe Orataa Of Stall Tat ( at. aiaatat M l laraa waala- 11-1 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Don't Blame Anyone But Yourself By CHARLES V. STANTON We were talking: a few days ago with a Rogeburf man engaged in logging. "We woods workers" he said, "must recognize that our work is seasonal. We must learn to save during the period of employment for the time when w will be idle. We must budget for winter layoffs." The annual unemployment season In Oregon is a plague, It can never be entirely overcome while our economy is dependent upon logging and lumbering. It can be improved by better forest management, in which upland shows oper ate in summer, with low land operations conducted during winter months. But even then, without more hard-surfaced roads, we cannot expect full-time employment in the wet season, while work must halt during periods of extremely severe weather, regardless of road conditions. A provident workman will anticipate the expectancy of a period of Idleness and make advance provision by setting aside a portion of his income each month he works to carry him and his family through the layoff. Thrift Not Exclusivt Prlvlltgt ' Thrift appears to be somewhat of a lost virtue In these days. Unemployment and welfare lists indicate too few people are thoughtful of their financial future. The advice given by our logger friend certainly is sound, but should it apply to men in logging and lumbering alone? Is thrift to be recommended to one group only? ' We listened to an elaboration of that theme recently as we sat in a meeting of the county savings bond committee and heard plans for the forthcoming Independence Savings Bond campaign, scheduled to begin May 15. The speaker told how in one Oregon county alone a backlog of $178,000 worth of savings bonds, cashed during the extremely cold winter weather, sustained the populace through the long period of unemployment. Had residents of the county not had savings upon which to rely, suffering would have been much more acute. The forthcoming savings bond campaign will be directed especially to the country's wage earners. It will stress the virtue of systematic savings through payroll deductions. It would seem that Oregon with its peculiar seasonal unemployment situation, a condition certain to exist for many years to come, has special reason to promote ways of softening the impact of the annual winter slump by en .couraging the use of a savings plsn, either through savings bonds or similar method. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) Chiseling Of Public Fundi Penalized Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberiy has dispensed two-fisted justice to a defendant convicted of chiseling from public funds. The offender reportedly was drawing benefits simul taneously from the Industrial Accident commission and the Unemployment Compensation commission. The judge further has ordered a grand jury investigation to determine if other violations can be found. , We applaud the stern position taken by Judge Wimberiy. Unabuscd, the accident fund, unemployment fund, welfare fund, etc., are social benefits we can well afford to retain. They serve an excellent purpose. But that purpose is being defeated in many cases by abuse and misuse. Chiseling public funds seems to be a popular indoor sport, leading to much public criticism, particularly concerning distribution of unemployment compensation and welfare funds. Unde serving chiselers are imperiling the funds for the needy. Stern justice in dealing with offenders therefore, seems to be called for to protect the desening. WALKING EASY? Teachers Told Charm Pointers In Philadelphia By B1M.EE WHEFXOCK rmlADEU'HIA, (.-Vt- "Walk log is harder than you think." said the teacher as she prome naded up and down before loo other teachera who watched with edge-of-chair attention. On the blackboard in perfect Fainter method script was the tip off: "Charm School for Teachers " The promenader was May Sena who volunteered as an object les son on how not to walk. Miu Senk confided to her fellow instructors and charm school de monstrator Violet Hale, "my trou ble Is tenia knees." She and all the other marma young and old. tall and short were crowded into the small au ditorium of a Philadelphia grade school to learn how to be charm. ing in six weeks. Once a week in a two hour ses sion after school the teachera are being taught how to sit. how to stand, what to wear and how to use their hands and voices more effectively. Later on there will be an hour or two on makeup application, appropriate hair styles, and a fash ion show. It's a board of education pro ject aimed at making the ladies conscious or their eye-appeal. Each woman who completea the course will be given a credit which counts in salary increase considerations For the opener last week more then 150 teachera were signed up but lack of space limited the en ro'lees to 100. Then the word spread through- dreds of others said they wanted to come too. So a messenger was sent from school to school to tell them there wss no more room. This, said Principal Helen Blount who ia in charge, means the charm school has come to stay in the Philadelphia school system. Miss Hale of television station WEIL-TV, spent two hours talking and demonstrating the art of walk ing and silling. The teachers, took notes madly, craned their necks and didn't seem to hear at all the outside spring day noises of school children play ing baseball. Instructed Miss Hale: "Stand up, tummy in and up, chest up and out, chia up and straighten your backs." And the teachers followed through, point by point. miss naif, a well-put-together example of what she teaches, brooked no nonsense. When there was too much whis pering at one point she ad monished auirklv: "f.irls. I think you're being rude." But like students anvwher the teachers were just bubhlina Aver wun unrestrained enthusiasm. As Anna Rita Kteo, grade school teacher . counselor ex plained: "This is just what we teachers need something to make us mora attractive to the children. Boys and girls like pretty teachers." tationi on the suture of television, aaa AVER the yean of the recent II past, I've often wondered if radio isn't the most dangerous thing that aver came into the world. Gibbon, who waa a gloomy cusi anyway, tells us that Cicero was one of the most dangerous of the Romans. Why? Wall, Cicero was an orator, and like most profes sional orators ha tended to be t demagogue. (You may have ob served that the more oratorical a man Is, the more of a demagogue ha ia apt to be. I don't know why. Someone has said rather well that an orator la inclined to "become exuberated with his own verbos ity." The mora exuberated an ora tor become!, the more demagogue ha ia apt to become. There seeass to be a connectoa somewhere.) But what I started out to aay is that Cicero could reach with hit oratory only those Romans who were gathered within the range of hit voice. If he had had radio to MULTIPLY THE RANGE of hit I voice, he would have been, I'm ture, many timet more dangerous than ha wat. T,. ; By ViakmtH 8. Martini W. not-too-distant past how radio multiplies the charm of man who are dangerously GIFTED WITH A VOICE. If ia the future, at Sarnoff aketchet for us, the right kind of face, the right kind of necktie and the right kind of smile are to be added to the gifts which a politician must possess in order to be suc cessful, I'm afraid we're moving into a time when we shall be gov erned exclusively by ACTORS. When I contemplate that possibil ity, I feel welling up within ma the urge to get at far out at I can into one of these "wilderness areas" the forest service is setting up for ut and there build myself a cabin in which I sha'l dwell dressed in the skint of wild beasts and nourished on fruits and nuts and the flesh of such animals as I can overcome. WITHOUT a radio. And WITHOUT a television seL BIO WHS AT RANCH DIAL Document Po Costly . Government Problem WASHINGTON. (IA The head of the government'! housekeeping agency has appealed for a sharp slash in federal paperwork, ob serving: "The federal government spent $4,000,000 for filing cabinets alone in 1949." Jess Larson, head of the general services administration, told an inter-agency meeting he would like to see "positive steps for the 'birth control' of records." He said a million cubic feet of documents have been added to the national archives since 1933, with many mora waiting to get in. To continue, from yesterday s column, the story of John Tem pleton Craig and the McKcnrie Pass road: In concluding his dedi catory address Judge R. S. Saw yer of Bend paid this tribute to the indefatigable Craig by whose tomb near the summit he as standing. "His waa the vision and the urge, and were he alive he might say, in paraphrasing Kipling's 'Ex plorer': 'Another might have done it but Hit whisper came to ma' " District Ranger Brittain Ash of McKenzie Bridge also sent me a typed copy of an article by Mar garter Thompson, published orig inally in the Eugene Register Guard, I believe. From this most interesting story wa glean nora details, particularly Craig's em ployment in the postal service from 1865 on. He had two headquarters while working on the road: Rock House and , Craig's Bedroom (hollow cedar). When ha began to carry the mail over to central Oregon to Camp Polk, Craig built a cabin near tha summit where he might be aure of food, shelter and hest. Snow wat often ten feet deep. On hit last trip ha set out in the face of a blizzard. No one worried about him. He would get through! Didn't he alwaya? But via Portland from the postmaster many weeks later a message came at Camp Polk: Where wat John Craig and the mail so eagerly awaited by the soldiers there? It took six weeks for these mes sages to come and go. Finally after one party was driven back by weather, a searching party made Ut way to the cabin near the summit. There in the ashes in the tire place, with a quilt drawn over it, lay the frozen body of rural mail carrier John Templeton Craig. "There were matches nearby, but none would light." The searchers bid the body in a temporary grave, covering it with lava rock. It wat unmarked and neglected until 1923, when a state highway engineer erected a suitable marker. Then ia 1930 the Rural Mail Carriers association paid tribute to tha heroic effort of one of their number to get the mail through by making a monu ment of tha spot. "Nelthar anow nor rain nor haat nor (loom of night itaya thaaa courttra from tha swift completion of thatr appointed round, " Britain Cracks Front Of London Dock Strikers LONDON. April 28. (P) Brit ain's Labor government today cracked open the solid front of Lon don dock strikers idle !n what port officiala called a Communist-inspired strike. Faced with a government approved ultimatum to get back to work Monday or lose their jobs. 2,000 of the 14.000 strikers voted overwhelmingly to be on the job tomorrow morning. Other meetings of striken were called. It was the first defection in the ranks of the dockers who quit work 10 days ago in protest against the expulsion of three men from the general workers union. They had been kicked out on charges they were rnigleaders in the Communist-supported maritime strike last year. were awarded a judgment in a suit to quiet title to property near Smith River. The Umpqua Lumber and Box Co., its stockholders and heirs were named as defendants in the suit. Mental Ills Top Health Problem, Dr.Haskins Says Whs ft the No. 1 public health problem today? Cancer? Polio? Heart disease? Venereal disease? No, none of those. The No. 1 health problem facing the United State! it that of mental ills. Dr. John L. Haskins, Roseburg Veterans hospital manager, em phasized this fact in an address before the Rotary club Thursday noon. "A person it tick when he it mentally ill just the same as when be is physically ill," Dr. Haskins stated. "The degree of illness varies, from very serious to to illness that is no more se rious thsn a cold." There are five million malad justed persons in the United States, the hospital manager said, and one-half million in hospitals. But trained personnel and facilities for these people are sadly lacking. Pointing out the obvious need for aid of the mentally ill, Dr. Haskins said that each polio patient is now receiving 100 times more financial aid than each mental patient in hospitals. "More than one-half of our hos pital beds are filled with the men tally ill." he said, and the situation is becoming more serious. There has been great medical progress during the past 50 years, but care of the mentally sick has not kept stride. Understanding Needed Dr. Haskins, speaking in connec tion with National Mental Health week now underway, told of the present campaign of education which the sponsors the American Psychiatric Assn.. and the Douglas County Mental Health Assn are trying to promote. "We must re place shame with an intelligent at titude," the doctor told his audi ence. Such misconceptions as "of course, insanity is due to heredity" must be replaced with truthful in formation and understanding. striking at Uie complacency of many people who say "this has nothing to do with me," Dr. Has kins revealed that it costa about 1130 million each year to take care of the present patienta in hospitals. Therefore, every person who pays taxes is certainly involved. Outlining some things which can be done to counteract the growing numbers of mentally ill, the doctor said "the earlier the treatment, the better." The place to prevent or cure tendencies is in the schools, th. home and clinics. Schools have prog, ams for physically handicap ped children but none for the men tally handicapped. "And we need clinics throughout the state," he said. The speaker concluded by say ing that local aid can be rendered through the Mental Health asso ciation, which meets at the rec reation hall at the Veterans hos pital the third Monday of each month. During a short discussion which followed Dr. Haskins' speech, a Rotarian told of a bill that was before the last legislature which would have required jury trials for commitment of the mentally ill to an institution. A petition is now being circulated to bring the mat ter up again, he said. Dr. Haskins pointed out that it would be a big step backwards to adopt such a measure. It would be very detri mental to the patient to undergo such a "criminal" type trial, he said. All but three states have dis carded jury trials, a thing common in the past. President Leroy Hiatt earlier at the meeting in the Hotel Umpqua reminded members that there will be a meeting next Thursday night of the board of directors and all committeemen. Other Rotariana may also attend. Harold Hoyt told of "making up" the last two meetings in At lanta, Ga., where Bucky Harris of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Dixie Walker of the Atlanta Crackers were guests on the program. Truman Hits Back At Remark Of Jesse Jones WASHINGTON, April 28. UV President Truman taid yesterday that maybe the reason Jesse Jones wants to abolish the Reconstruction Finance corporation ia because Jones no longer runs it. Hit comment, delivered with a grin, came at hit newt conference when a reporter taid Jonet had tuggested that the RFC be abol ished. Jones, Houston, Tex., business man and newspaper publisher, headed the RFC for many years and wat later Secretary of Com merce under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. WINS A'TIR V LOSIM MIAMI. Fla.-4.P After 27 un successful Florida starts, Alfred Gwvnn Vanderbilt recently cashed i in with two successive winners at Hialeah park. Hit First Glance won I an allowance sprint and Discon solate scored in a $12,000 claiming , race. The latter returned I2S.10 for $2. Both colts were sired by Dis covery, Vanderbilt s great cnam pion of 15 years ago. It's Spring Time fa. paint and wallpaper. La-a a stack. ericas riahr. PAGE LUMBER & FUEL U4 L 1.4 Ave. S. Phone 24 OIL TO BURN For Dromot courteous meter- ad deliveriet of high quality itovs nt1 burner erl CALL 152 i MYERS OIL CO. Distributor! of Hancock Petroltum Product For Oouglat County Little River Business To Serve Camp Style Food Bill Hays announced that he has taken over the Old Mist Logging Co. camp on Little River and SPOKANE. April 2S.-4.in Pur. chase of a 8,000-acre northern Ore gon wheat ranch at a price of HSO.Ono was disclosed yesterday by has opened for business the Hays' ' B. Gillingham and tons of Spo-1 Boarding Co. kane. I He said his place will be open The property was iMught from I from S a.m. to ( p m., and he its former owners, Urgel Bell snd ! will serve logging camp style food. Harvey S. Bsrr of .acrosse. Wash. He will cater especially to loggers. I it located on the Columbia river I tourists and fishermen. The plica In Morrow and Gilliam counties is located 4ia miles from Glide Actor's Ei-Giti Friend Faces Marijuana Count LOS ANGELES, April 2.-P A former girl friend of Actor George Raft has been arrested by police on suspicion of possessing marijuana. She is Betty Jane Doss. 27. Of ficer Stuart A. Neale aaid lie 'ound a tobacco can of marijuani in a trailer occupied by Miss Doss and Norma Jasper, 2?. Miss Jasper and Patricia Farrell, 42, also were booked on suspicion of violsting the state narcotics act, but Mrs. Far rell later was dismissed. The others were held for trial May 3. Edward Raiden, a leyer, aued Raft for $300,000 in 1947, claiming the actor beat him in Miss Doss' apartment. Ha claimed he was try ing to help her recover KS.OuO worth of gifts she claimed Raft gave her and took back. The case later was settled out of court. Bishop Dagwell Here For Confirmation Rites The Rt. Rev. Benjamin D. Dag well, bishop of Oregon, will be at Si. George's Episcopal church to administer the sacrament of con firmation this Sunday evening, April 30, at 8 p.m. The class will be presented by the rector, the Rev. Alfred S. Ty son. This is the second class he has presented since coming to Roseburg. A reception for the group will be held in the Parish house following the service, so they can meet the bishop and other members of the congregation. Mrs. Van Svarverud is incharge of the reception, as sisted by Mrs. T. W. Bernard and Mrs. Fred Darby. The service is open to the public. Ex-Grid Star Fails In Pro-Baseball Efforts LOS ANGELES, April 2$ -(.Pi-Kenny Washington, former football star, isn't having any luck in base ball. ' The onetime backfield star at I'CLA and with the Los Angeles Rams was dropped by Los Ange- i Irs in the Pacific Coast league and today was hoping to catch on with I some other club. Earlier this spring Washington failed in a try out with the New York Giants. PRUDENTIAL LIFE HORACe C. BERG Special Agent 111 West Oak Offiea M2-J Ret. 871 J Fra-juanf Fraa BELTONE CLINICS r kld at Hit Umei Hotel. Writ) for nut HEARING AID BATTERIES M -Ileal Awert rr Amf Make Writ. S. C. MITCHELL n W Brsilwsr. E-tene. Ort. (Member I. N. left .?. tee t rrUn IUIUm tWtrlag Aide) out the achool system and bun- near Cecil, Ore. I junction. JUDGMENTS ORDERED Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberiy declared the defendants in two auits to be in default Thursday, and ordered judgments for the plaintiffs. The General Motors Acceptance Corp. was given the right to re possess a 1M1 half-ton pickup truck in the possession of L. M. Nemeye Ernest S. Phillips. Fay Phillips, Richard Denhoff and Cora Denholf HIGH HURLER WASHINGTON (. Tallest rookie f the 1&36 American league spring training season wss Jim Pearce. coming up to Washington from Charlotte, N. C, of the Tri State league The right-handed pitching hopeful stands six feet, six inches and won 10 and lost 10 in IMS. Tha largest group of Indians liv ing together east of the Mississippi are the Cherokee. 1.5O0 on tjualla Indian Reservation at Cherokee, N.C. News-Review classified ads bring results. Phone 100. PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m., if you hove not received your Newt Review. Ask for Harold Mobley For the second time in 9 months State Farm Mutual Offers SEWy drastic cuts in auto insurance costs! SEI US TODAY 0. L Rata Sam Coiaa!! AUTO IRI IIFI t. O. Ii 4lt Phaae 211 IIS W. Cass, Rataburf, Orafaa licawaad Afaars far Stata Farm Mutual Aiitemokile Insurance Camnaay V SEEDING TIME IS HERE BUY CO-OP SEED WHEAT 4 SEED OATS SEED BARLEY PASTURE SEED LAWN SEED GARDEN SEED FLOWER SEED FULL LINE OF FARM AND HOME SUPPLIES BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 98 Located W Washington St. and S P. R. R Tracks JjjHlj0NAJBAWON s. I FAMILY IN A SHOE? If your home is email ... or average . . . your family needn't be large to make it seem like you're living in a shoe. Two growing boys can easily make you feel like the proverbial wom an wondering what to do. As voungsters' interests widen they seem to require more space. Tha room sketched above la a pleasant ntadr-bedroom combina tion, tttardjr Maple furniture haa been winely chonesi to withstand a lot of battering about. Oak or Pine In equally practical. The double-decker bed pats the room In "character" for a pair of young adventarera, Ieavea npace for oth er farnitare, aad give that pre. cioan aenae of privacy to occo nantn. The two knee-hole desks have . ....... i t n knlH ffrvwl study lamps, dictionanet, type- 111 N. Jackson Phono 330 writer and radio. The deep hang ing shelves above the deskt dou ble lor DooKcases, save now space. Twin chests hold clothea and treasures. The group of natural wood pic ture frames has been fastened to the wall and left empty so that the youngsters can paste in pic, lures of their own choice . . . chana-e them as Interest widea and tastes develop. Here ts traly tbe aoya- owsi room a place to sleep, atady, play and pursue hobble. A airha where they have complete do minion. We'd like to share la your home-planning fun. Maybe wo caa help yoa. a notice: hova baaa appointed HEADQUARTERS far Iks Cs-oatry Store cf Beverly Hills HOME MADE CAUfOKNIA CANOIES Country Store condias ore oraporad from old-fashioned recipe that cod for oocHoa of doiry b-ittor, cream, eggs, chocolate, honey, and nuts. Seven nevm.wfllonnf. varieties. All mode fresh to our order the ruthed to us soma day made. Try soma today. ROSEBURG PHARMACY 241 N. Jackson Phone 7
