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4 The Newt-Review, ReMburg, Ore. Mon., May 8, 1950 Published OiHy Ettcopt Sunday I y tfc Nwt-Uvi Com pony. Inc. fltoft M llM , Mar . , Ik eWaWbarg. Qfgm. . Ml ! Mftrcfc t, 1I.S sfflM M CHARLES V. STANTON T EDWIN L. KNAP Editor Managtr Mimbtr of th Atsoolattd Prau, Ortgon Ntwapap.tr PublUhtro Auoolitlon, tht Audit Burtau of Circulation urMai ay waaT-HULLiDAf CO., inc., rn i n f rk, caicaf, VrsBOlM Lee Aalt. IU. rriUs4. It, LU. UBIlHirriDN BAIKaJa Urfa By Mail Pat Tetr M all aiaaUia M-t. arc ataatai vi.a. j tui tiintf-nr rar n. ii Cltt m aaai, aar aiaaia ft.M Ui atiUi 14.11 thro atitbi It. A DRIVE FOR PROGRESS Serenading The Neighbors By CHARLES V. STANTON This is "Round-Up" week for the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce. The campaign for new members will begin Wednesday. More than 150 proHpects are on the lint. Solicitor teams will be given names of non-member firms, professional men and individuals who should belong to the organization but who have failed to join. We're giving this "tip" concerning the forthcoming solici tation because some prospects may want to "beat the gun" and take membership voluntarily, thus making a call from a team unnecessary. In view of the fact that the prospect list is composed largely of firms or professional people recently moving into the community, ft is quite probable that the matter of chamber of commerce participation has been overlooked. Voluntary membership will save a good deal of time and effort for busy men recruited for solicitation duties. Growth Requires Strong Organization Continuing growth of the community makes it imperative that we have a strong chamber of commerce a chamber of commerce not only representative but also inclusive. . We are confronted with many critical problems in this expansion period. The chamber of commerce affords a place where facts may be gathered, opinions sifted and policies adopted. The Roseburg Chamber of Commerce has long been conducted as a very democratic institution. Any mem ber is privileged, urged in fact, to present ideas and opinions. The board of directors liolds no closed meetings members always being welcome to attend and open discussion is given any worthy proposal. The chamber's officials seek advice, guidance and opinion from the membership. If membership is only partial repre sentation of the community's varied interests, operations obviously are in danger of limitation. The larger the per centage of membership representation, the more accurate are the decisions. Guiding Influenct Required The Roseburg community is particularly fortunate in the close cooperation between its various controlling bodies. The county court, city council, planning commission and other organizations respect the chamber of, commerce and work in close harmony and cooperation. This situation does not exist in some other communities, where frequent con flicts occur between such groups. The place of the chamber of commerce in our community life is well defined. It acts as a coordinating influence. It has brought united action by official agencies to bear on current problems, has aided in uniform presentation and has voiced community opinion. The chamber of commerce has initiated many improve ments in civic affairs. It has encouraged new industry and new business. It has been energetic in handling numerous difficult problems connected with over-rapid expansion. Membership Invitation Extended The chamber of commerce now is inviting all non-members to join in the civic tasks lying ahead. Certainly the achievements of the past show the chamber to be de serving of fullest cooperation. Chamler of commerce mem bership is not expensive. Dues are comparatively low only enough to cover a modest operating budget. But it does take money to run such en organization and do the things people want done. , The work is performed on behalf of all people of the community. Certainly, then, everyone should cooperate. Tar-, ticularly should everyone engaged in business or practicing a profession take active part in chamber of commerce af fairs. Roseburg is a rapidly-growing, vigorous community. It anticipates continued progress. The task of advancing and directing that progress should be shared by every one. No one should be a hitch-hiker, seeking a free ride. If we want a better Roseburg and we all do the cham ber of commerce should be given our fullest cooperation. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) Threat Of Strike Confronts GMC DETROIT, My gw.'Pi-The CIO I'nited Aulo Workers union is sharpening a strike threat against the last big target in ill "fourth round" pension and wage hike drive. A costly, 00-dsy strike against Chrysler Corp was harly over when the I'AW threatened Sunday to cancel its contract with General Motors Corp, largest of the car industry's big three, unless "prog ress" is shown in bargaining talks. Slated to expire May 29. the contract will continue until 3fl-dav notice of termination is given. It has run for two years. The S9.0H0 Chrysler workers, who won pensions and other benefits in their waikout. headed back to their jobs today. The agreement was reached Thursday. The Ford Motor Co., other mem ber of the big three, granted pen sions last Scptemlier. The I'AW already has filed no tice of intent to strike against iM, as required by the Taft Hart- union could rail to keep our place in the world. IT has been done before. It was done by England begin ning about a century ago. AT that time, England tat on the pinnacle of world industrial development. Her factories domi nated the markets of the world. She was the WORKSHOP of the world. In time, the knowledge broke on her that if she was to sell the out put of her factories her customers over the world must have more money with which to buy. At the same time, her Investors buttan to discover that her industrial plant was so far built up that all their capital was no longer needed at home. So they began to Invest abroad. They invested HEAVILY in America, Our early railroads were largely built with English capital. English capital went extensively into our early factory development. For generations, the English in vestor bulked large in all our plans fo expansion. IT paid off. As these industries financed in foreign countries with English cap ital began to ahow a profit, the profit came bark to England. The economists have special name for these profits on outside invest ments. They call them "intangible imports," or something like that. At the beginning of World War I, these returns on outside invest ments bulked very large indeed in England's national income. In or der to finance World War I, she had to sell a lot of them. To finance World War II, she had to sell about all of her outside investments that were left. So she gets far less of these "in tangible imports" than she used to. That is one principal reason why r.ngland is so tragically short of dollars in these davs. fffflj By VuJmttt S. Martin jf--S "Mr. Churchill gave mother a copy of hit little book. Painting as a Pastime" Margaret Truman remarks (in her "Answer to Crit ics" in a recent Sateveoost, "Why Shouldn't I Sing?"). It made me want to run out and paint like craiy!" Mr. Churchill's enthusiasm for his hobby of painting as a pastime does have auch an effect, it would seem. In my case it not only made me want to "run out and paint like crazy," but it also inspired in me a great desire to see my husband do likewise. It so happened I was reading the little 28-page book aloud to him while he did a wearisome, long postponed job in the house. He likes to have me read aloud if he it busy with a stay-in-one place task not requiring measurements or hammering. As I closed the book I glanced up at him and said, "Oh, wouldn't it be nice if yew would try painting." His look stopped me right there. You see, he was standing on a atepladder, staring down at me, while one hand held a wide paintbrush, drip ping, ready to slap it again on the ceiling of our long kitchen. Weil, the book didn't last as long as the ceiling job did. I had to finish out the time with something else. Meet The CANDIDATE Sidney Leiken Bull Invade Drive-ln Theater. Payi With lifi Tht Information for tho following lory waa submitted by tb candidate in th primary alactlon. May IS, and does not nacetaarlly alfntfy endorae isent by the Newa-Keview.) Sidney Leiken, Sutherlin Rose burg mill operator, it a candidate for nomination for the ttate legis lature on the Democratic ticket. Leiken, 32, a native of Connecti cut, hat lived in Douglas county for 12 years and it now a resident of Roseburg. ' He is serving as a director of Western Forest Industries and on the advisory board of the OSC Douglas master unit. He it also t member j( the Roseburg Country club and Roseburg Active club. He is married and has three children, Peter 10, David 2, and Olivia 1. Leiken has been a life long Dem ocrat and in his first try for a par tisan office is seeking one of the seats now held by Paul Geddet and Robert Gile. The latter has announced he will not run this year. In announcing hit candidacy Lei ken pledged V would uphold the platform of President Truman and the Democratic party and jealously guard Oregon's timber resources. CEDAR RAPIDS. Ia.. May t.VtA bull fight was staged at the drive-ia theater here last night. The bull, a large animal with a quarrelsome disposition, wandered into the theater just as the show was starting, and created a scene when attendanti tried to get him to leave. He chased theater manager Ro bert Kenney around the grounds a couple of times. Kennery ran into his office and telephoned for help. Police, deputy sheriff! and humane society officials responded. Police officer Jim Shannon, act ing the part of matador, shot the brute between the eyes with a .38 ealiber revolver. The animal's chief ceaction was rage he chased Shannon back into the squad car. Then the bull left the theater. Another officer shot and killed the bull a few yardt down tho road. FOR... SERVICE ... experience:. . co-operation . . . Investig-'J tht services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bonk. Money left on deposit with us remoins in DOUGLAS COUN TY. All facilities availoble for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member. Federal Deposit Insuronce Corp. Painting at a Pastime (Whittle sey House, 1950) includes tome 15 or was it 18, beautiful reproduc tions, in colort, of Mr. Churcnill't own work; the pictures are beau tiful! I liked the one of the Gold fish Pool best ... it now hangt in my own private picture gallery where, in a wakeful hour, I can view it with all the othert treas ured up in memory, safe from thieves, moths, needing no packing if we move again, and costing nothing to acquire. . One also has a better under standing of why Mr. Churchill set up his easel in placet like Teher an, and in other placet where a world crisis was confronting the world's leaders. (I suppose Mr. Roosevelt found some such relax ation in stamps at a hobby?) The world may owe more than it real izes to the fact that Mr. Church ill could forget for a restful, re freshing hour, as he painted, the cares of his high office and his grave responsibilities, and then, hit brushes cleaned and put away, return invigorated and ready for whatever confronted him. Painting at a Pastime is, I ven ture to suggest, a book which any man might read with interest. At least, the one who listened, paint brush in hand, at it wat read aloud to him, liked it very muchl E now tit on the teat where England tat a century ago. We are top industrial dog in the world. The reasont that induced England to 1N KST ABROAD then apply w ith full force to us now. The l'nittwl . I r strike 30 davs " v"",u m after serving notice of cancellation i v """""" recognizes that fact. of contrail. ' tnd moves cautiously to approve From General Motors, the I'AW j the doing by us of the thing that is demanding benefits totalling 31 wa. jnn. h Vnoi.nJ i. ,k. j... cents an hour, it ask. $ia a month .' T 7 'ni,nd ' d pensions, including social security. 1 n tnSlnd sat where we sit a nine-cent an hour wage boost and now- wl!!;r"he0umon,.l1: American, begin an hour "package" plan. This pro-. ,0 lnv"t their capital and their yided for $100 a month pensions, know how abroad. On its face, it immuinx sini.ii security, plus looks a ihU Western Nations Can Unite For Peace If Communists Refuse To Cooperate By BRUCE BIOSSAT Five years ago the nations of the world were meeting at Ssn Francisco to draft the United Nations charter. Their mood wat opti mistic: great hopes were felt for this second try in 25 yean it establishing lasting world order. But from the moment the char ter took effect, if not before, it became clear our sights htd been set too high. The big nations, in eluding the I'nited Slates, hadn't been willing to equip the UN with any real power. F.verytning de pended on getting unanimous con sent among the lop five. And Rus sia swiftly proved it wasn't in clined to cooperate with the west ern countries. The gulf steadily widened and the differences between East and West became the cold war." The UN simply reflected this conflict. Turkish Dardanelles. Reports from I.ondon indicate the western powers are anxious to regain the initiative. Premier Geo. Bidault, looking ahead to the com ing conference of western foreign ministers, calls for an Atlantic high council" to unify the free West on military, political and econo mic matters. Predictions are grow ing that a tighter linking of At lantic Pact nations will come out of that meeting. An Atlantic council is undoub tedly a poor substitute for a work- Outlawing Of Rail Strikes Urged By Heads Of 2 Lines WASHINGTON, May 8 f.P The presidents of two eastern rail roads urged Congress today to ap prove a bill which would outlaw rail strikes. They said the present railway labor act has proved in capable of protecting the national welfare. The two officials Gustav Metz man of the New York Central railroad and Walter S. Franklin of the Pennsylvania railroad pre sented their views in testimony prepared for a Senate labor sub committee. The group is considering a mea sure by Senator Donnell (R-Mo) which calls for compulsory arbi tration as a last resort in rail disputes. Strikes and lockouts would be illegal. Franklin taid that tince 1941, rail unions have refused in five out of seven important disputes to accept decisions of a presidential fact-finding board set up under the railway labor act. The railroads have accepted the recommenda tions in-every case, he added. "In every one of these instances where labor has refused to abide by the recommendations of a fact finding board." Franklin said, "its refusal has been rewarded by the ultimate granting of demands and concessions in excess of those which the fact finding boards found to be fair and justified. "Naturally this experience has led railroad labor to look upon the recommendations of a fact finding board as only a springboard upon which to predicate additional de mands. "In the light of this experience, the conslusion is inescapable that the operation of the machinery of the railway labor act . . . has completely broken down." Both Franklin and Metzman re ferred to the walkout now threat ening major lines because of their refusal to add an extra fireman on diesel locomotives. The unions contend such a man it needed for safety; the railroads supported by a fact-finding board deny it. Metzman said the threatened strike would result in the furlough. ing of 50.000 workers on the New York central alone. "It seems inconceivable." he said, "that any responsible or ganization, in order to provide 350 unnecessary jobs, would threaten so many other persons both in their own industry and in the other industries which they serve." . Low Cost Watch Cleaning Spring Squalls Deal Death In Eastern Waters NEW YORK. May 8 (.P) Treacherous spring squalls caught thousands of New York and New England boatmen without warn ing over the sunny weekend and left 20 of them dead or missing in lakes, rivers and salt water. The high winds, tail end of a midwest storm, reached 65 miles an hour at some points. In addition to the havoc caused on the water, the winds also fan ned forest fires in New England and blanked qut most private fly ing. The flames covered hundreds of acres of New England woodland. To insure dcpendobl service, your watch should be cleaned once o yeor. Low cost, ropid service, and only experts touch your wotch here. Come inl Drive Out and Save Christie's Watch Shop Corner Chestnut and Walnut Streets Riverside Addition Phona 137-J-4 J flame is Svenjtkmg! Isn't it true that when you mention a name yon instantly think of a person? Do something to cause that name to be remembered and by that act you have continued the influence of the person who owned the name. This is true whether it be a family or an individual name. Rainbow Granite Monumentt . Stay Beautiful Moisture or air impurities canoot penetrate the poltvhed turfacea of these hard granites. They Mar beautiful, unchanged through decades. BLAESING GRANITE CO. OF ROSEBURG S. L TERSTEGE RT. 1, BOX 165 CARL KOCH P. O. 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If Douglas county built an in superable wall around Itself with GATES OPENING ONLY OIT WARD (so that we could export BIT COri.DN'T IMPORT) wed soon revert to the status of the HOSPITAL FETt DUE COTTAGE GROVE, May 8 (T : Indians. To prosper, you have to TRADE. CottaBe Grove hosoital. The atruc-l "voivrt ouymg as wen as With membership approval, theUura will have 30 beds. selling. law. But it still has to mill 35.000 GM workers on a strike, as 1 Groundbreaking ceremonies will required by its own constitution ; be held Monday for the .'15.492 ano under Michigan law , Its usefulness repeatedly was sty-; w N,llon.:'Bu ; - . J i Dfluiv Deuer man a u. sta ed in to work under such a handicap j, , , mire umn. Through all its trials the 11 N ; stances we have no choice but to nevertheless managed to hold the j create what order we can in the support of many fervent backers. frP, world snd to oppose Soviet They saw it as a continuing guar-) global ambitions with all the phy- antee that hope for peace Was not : ical and moral fare ran mm. i to oe ananoonea. iney saw it. too, as a forum for th airing of dif I ferences that otherwise might smolder and burst into flaming war Communism's victory in China was a blow to these supporters In protest against the t'N's failure to admit Red Chinese into U N councils in place of established Nationalist representatives. Russia walked out of committee after committee. Since then the I'N has been practically immobilired. With western nations apparently ' adamant against admitting China's I Communists, there is no early end I of the dilemma in sight. I But the need for effective inter j national co-operation was never I greater. The Reds' sweep in China, plus Russia's gaining of the atom bonih. has restored the initiative to the Soviet I'nion in the cold !war. The Soviets' mounting bold- ness is seen in the shooting down I of an American plane in the Bal tic, in the rauscle-flexing around Berlin, in highhanded talk about I such hot spots as Trieste and the PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m., if you hove not received your Newt Review. Ask for Harold Mobley FURNISHINGS PERSONALIZED SERVICE FOR THE HOME Quiz Shows Easy Money For College Students NEW YORK, May 8 . Thar's gold in them-thar quit shows according to a band of young prospectors from Columbia university. They've already mined a little, and they're out for more. Last Wednesday, Senior Harold E. Emerson took NBC't "break the bank" for J2.1S5. He turned it over to the college drive for 1250.000 in scholarships and new athletic facilities. Now the student fund-raisers plan to enter all the available quit shows in New York City. "We've got the brain power." declared a Phi Beta Kappa sen ior. Alfred Arees. "All we need are tickets and a lot of hack. It shows the value of a college education.' Re-Elect LYNN V. BECKLEY Republican for County Commissioner Primary Eltction May 19 Economical, Efficient Administration Equal treatment for all parts of Douglas County Pd. Pol. Adv. BejcVky for Commission?" : -J l
