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4 Tlit Nawi-Rovlew, Roseburg, Of. Tui., May 9, 1950 They May Yet Get Out Of The Woods Meet The CANDIDATE Carl C.Hill FOR... SERVICE... EXPERIENCE... CO-OPERATION . . . Investig. j the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operoted" bank. Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUN TY All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member. Federot Da pot it Insurance Corp. Publish Dally Incept Sunday by tha Newt-Review Company, Inc. latarae hui! altar Mar 1, im, ! fil t Eaaakars, Oragaa, a4ar act af Marcs s, UlS CHARLIf V. IT ANTON "WIN L. KNAP" direr aaa"" Manager Mam bar ef tha Associated Press, Oratan Newspaper Publlthara Association, tha Audit Buraau Clrculatiana aaala ar WrsT-rlol.LinAT CO, INC.. .Kir., la N.w Y.rk, ctltasa, aaa fraaclaaa. Laa iihi, Ilia. rarllaaa. II. Laala UBaCBIFTION RATES la Orasan Br Mall Far r SB .aa, ! aiaalai S.M. Uraa ataalka ISM. Br Cllr tarrlar rar aar lla.ae Ha aa.aa.ai. " ana raar, p.l raaatk ll.aa. IMUIll Oraaa j Mall rar aar ., ala aaaalha S4.1S, Uraa aaaalka St.)4. fTha Information for tha following ttory waa aubmlttaa by tha candldata la tha primary alactioa. May la. and doaa not nacaaaanly Minify oadoraa eaarrt by tha Nawa-Bavuw.i TEACHING THE THREE R'S iiaHHaai J tjiv ' i By CHARLES "Lef get our schools back to the three R'e." How fre quently do you hear that thought expressed in these days of hig-h school taxes. Throughout the country protest is heard i against modern educational - for a. "return to the fundamentals." What are the "funda mentals" of education? Is it drilled in the rote of readin,' the purpose of education the intelligently the exigencies of life? Life today is much more complex than in the past. Until a mere 25 years ago our economy was largely based on agriculture. Our temno of living was slow compared with that of today. The three It's preparation for life in grandfathers day, but grandfather wasn't too much concerned with neon lights, motion pic tures, automobiles, airplanes, radio, television, motor buses, streamlined trains, stratocruisers, jet planes, atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, guided missiles, juke boxes, radar, sub marines, and Einstein theories. World Shrinking In Timt And Space , Grandfather's geography concerned far away places. But there are no far away places today. Any major city of the world is. only a few hours distant. Grandfather's history was a collection of dates, names and places. History today is a living thing, closely related to everyday life. When grandfather was graduated from school he entered a business field in which the general merchandise store prevailed. Production lines in industry were virtually un known. People lived at a slow pace. The proprietor or man ager of a business had time to train new help. Ability to read, write and "figger" fitted a man for a job. In today's business and industrial world a job applicant has little opportunity without preparatory, specialized training. Social Changes Burden Schools Grandfather's father was a stern disciplinarian. He taught grandfather to be a God-fearing, upright and honest citizen. He taught him the use of tools, how to build, and how to do a man's work. Grandmother was taught by her mother to sew, to cook, to manage a household, to rear children and perform duties demanded to set up her own home. But then came electric lights. The family no lunger re tired when darkness fell. Young people began to stay out late at night, convincing the older generation that the young sters were the most worthless the world had known. And then came motion pictures and automobiles, further de teriorating the American home. Father is too busy today with clubs and committees to train Junior, while mother is too occupied with her bridge clubs to teach Suzy the intricacies of the electric kitchen, or the operation of the electric sewing machine. So our schools have introduced courses in manual train ing, agriculture, home economics, etc., taking over the re sponsibility formerly resting upon parents. That the kids are getting good instruction, is amply demonstrated at any community, county or state fair, where they walk away with sweepstake prizes. . But the spiritual training, once given in the home, still Is not furnished in the schools, which may, in part, account for he rising tide of juvenile delinquency. Fundamentals More Than Three R's Today's youth needs far more in the way of education than did his father or his grandfather. No longer can we say that the three R's constitute the fundamentals of edu cation. Today's child must 1ms educated to live in a world of power. Where his grandfather worked with his hands, or had available the strength of a team of horses, a workman today deals with motors of many horsepower, multiplying by thousands the strength of his hands. In the business or industrial field he is a part of a highly organized, competitive operation. .Science, further than in all the previous years of man's history. Time and distance have become almost non-existent. The tejupo of life Is accelerating daily. Our modern schools have introduced many things some people call "frills" but how many of those so-called frills have become necessary to a well rounded education because of the changes in our social and economic structure? Do we want our children educated in the three U's only? Are they the exclusive fundamentals of education? LETTERS fo the Editor Sees 'Extravagance' In Money-Spending Plans ROSEBURG I wish to protest the money-spendinn-minded people who are it the head of some of the county and city offices. If they want to spend monry, Irt I hem use their own or move on to where there are like-minded people. It seems that extravagance is the only virtue in many of the projects proposed. The cost of building is entirely out of reason as, for instance, in revard to housing for Rose-burg. 1 think the amount they named for V. STANTON inns, ivemana is iucsih cnu enough that our children be writin and 'rithmetic, or is preparation of youth to meet might have been sufficient of her when the time came in 25 vears, has progressed a survey should build the houses. What is considered a reasonable rent for a workini! man? I believe rents in general are too hinh and 1 believe we, as a people, have at tacked the wrong end to reduce cost of living. And. in renard to strikes, it looks like the strikers are poutv kids. If there are to be strikes. I think U should be the consumer. If some of these producers, distributors and sinkers had to beg a little to sell their product and have a job, it might teach them a lesson J MI1.I.KR Roseburg, Ore. Guns Have Final Word In Political Argument MILLKX. Ga.. Slav 9 l.fl r. iiinii ami nis son-in. law got into a shooting argument a TIL.. .P-aIiI .... L . In the Day's News (Continued Irom Page One) CANT thing about the Florida primary is "that the big labor peo ple went down there to defaat Smathera because he was for the Taft-Hartley law." He adds: "The people of Florida were FOR the Taft-Hartley law, and I believe that indicates the attitude In other states." Jack Kroll. director of the CIO political action committee (which fought Smathera tooth and nail) views the Florida results as "the triumph of a sinister conspiracy to impose upon our country a cruel rnd reactionary program." ' He adds: "The tactics we have just seen in Florida will be used in every state, and this challenge will be met." aaa S MATHERS himself, by the way, calls the election "a victory of liberalism as opposed to radical ism." It is proof, he says, that "the people of Florida do not wish to venture off down the side roads of extremism or socialism." aaa WILLIAM Boyle, Democratic na tional chairman, plays the cards close up against his vest. He congratulates Smathera on his vic tory, and wires Pepper (who will be a voting member of the Senate until next January): We are still depending on you for support in the Democratic par ty's battle against recationary Republicanism." aaa WHAT about Pepper: Well, he Just issues a statement expressing appreciation to his noble, gallant army of support ers for what they did for him. He would have appreciated it m ire. I take it, if they had done MORE for him, out anyway he puts it gracefully. aaa ANE is reminded somehow of V '''march's story about Aris tides (called The Just) in his g political battle with Themistocles. On election day, Aristides was walking the streets of Athens when he was accosted by a strange citi en from out in the sticks. The citi zen couldn't write, so he asked Aristides to mark his ballot for him AGAINST Aristides. He agreed, but wanted to know why the citizen was going to vote that way. "Has this Aristides ever injured you?" he asked. "No." the citizen replied. "'Never have I set eyes on him But oh! I am so bored by hearing him called Aristides the Just." aaa THAT happened some 2,000 years ago. The underlying principles of politics, including why people vote the way they do, don't vary much, you aee, from century to century. Sunday over the respective merits of Gov. Herman Talmadge and former Gov. M. E. Thompson. The son-in-law was killed and the older man seriously wounded. The dead man was Scab L. New Ion. 57 year - old Newton county farmer. Newton's father-in-law, !.ee Proctor, was hit twice with bullets from a revolver. He was rciwrted in serious condition in a hospital. Deputy Sheriff Walter Johnson said Newton'a widow told him the men had been arguing about Tal madge and Thompson, bitter poli tical riva'i currently campaigning for gove.Ttor. Reading this in the May, 1870 Godey'a Lady's Book suggested to me that here might be the origin of the deep-seated aversion to green held by some women I had a cousin who would not be prevailed upon to "wear green," j but could give no reason for it ; and I have known of others, have-1 n't you? (As for me I love it:) ! Mig.t not the warning circulated by the editor of the Lady's Bonk have outlasted the need of it at the time? For there is no barm in green dyes now surely! "Green ball dresses are always much in fashion for the fair com plexioned ladies whom they siu't. But the bright green which looks so charming carries death with it, and the dressmakers who make up the dresses, and the ladies who wear them, suffer from the affects of the arsenite of copper which givea tha much admired dye. "I wrote to the firm who sup plied the sample I examined, and in reply they say, 'We are aware that the green batiste contains arsenic in the dye, and some time since we gave instructions to our assistants to mention it to all customers purchasing it and be Stockman Hits NW Freight Rates WASHINGTON (. Rep. Stockman (R-Ore) told the Uousc Saturday producers in the Pacific rvortnwest "are losing out" in I eastern and midwestern markets because freight rate increases are j made on a percentage basis. He said the overall average J freight rate increases since June 1948 have totaled 57 J percent. I "While freight rates have been increased all over the nation" .Stockman said, "the percentage 1 method of increases which bus hecn followed in creating for the ; Pacific Northwest a most unfair disadvantage that is beginning to stifle its economy." I Stockman said in a speech for I the House that he had made a thorough study of freight rates which shows that of all the 4 states Washington and Oregon have the poorest position from which to reach large markets. Producers in no other states, he I said, have to buy so many miles i of transportation to get thair I goods to large population and mar ; ket centers. He aaid he had urged the Inter state Commerce commission to find a fairer formula for freight rate increases. The commission replied, lit ! 5 . ?Pr .tuairoKi V vn v trsirrav a. ' ECONOMY M OLYMPIC K HOTEL nnm if.Hl.mJMW.WCTff. gy ViaJm U S. itortin J. ' lieve it now generally known by ladies, but feel compelled to keep it to prevent our customers going elsewhere'." "It is certainly not generally known by ladies that this green is arsenite of copper, and I am sure that a hint from you would save many a dressmaker from the evils to which she is now sub jected ..." So Louis A. Godey Included in his "Arm Chair" department this dire warning to his feminine read era who were risking lives to wear green, their own and the dress makers'! Godey'a book also included I hint now and then for the head of the house, such aa this one: "If people planting orchards would give orders to mark the north sido of the trees with red chalk before taken up, and when set out, havt the trees put in the ground with their north side to the north in tha natural position, a larger proportion would live. Ignoring this law of nature is the cause of so many transplanted trees dying. If the north side is exposed to the south, the heat of the sun is too great for that side of the tree to bear, and, therefore, it dries up and decays." said, that "the distant producer is now faced with the alternative of going out of business, of reduc ing his production to a demand which can be served profitably or of cultivating new markets." Stockman said lumber ratea from Oregon to Philadelphia were 38 cents higher than from Missis sippi to Philadelphia before the war but now are 45 cents higher. He quoted other pre-war and present-day rates to show how Washington and Oregon are "los ing out." He said the rate on canned fruits, for example, has been so disadvantageous that production in Washington and Oregon de creased from a pre-war 18.9 per cent to a present-day 14.1 percent of the nation's production. TIMBER SALE BILLED PORTLAND, May . (.PI Sale of 30.4fiO.0oo feet of timber from the Siskiyou national forest is scheduled for Grants Pass June 6 by the U.S. Forest service. The timber, mostly Douglas fir, is val ued at tm48 8S. HEATING OILS Diesel and Steve Oik Quality Oils For Every Purpose PROMPT METERED DELIVERIES E. A. Pearson, Distributor General Petroleum Product! Phono U1-J f Carl C. Hill. Days Creek, ia a candidate for the Republican nom ination as candidate for county judge. Hill, born at Wilbur in 1889 and a life-long resident of Oregon, was a atate representative from Doug las county for eight years. He was active in the 1941, 1943. 1945 and 1947 sessions of the legislature. He has been direcUy or indirect ly engaged in logging, timber cruis ing and sawmilling in Douglas county for 20 years and lived here more than 45 years. Among his past and present posi tions are: Eight years on the Doug las County Fair board, four vears on the Douglas County Conserva tion council, tour years on the Douglas County Planning board, chairman of the State Game com mission, member of the Rural School board, member of the Local School board and one year as dis trict ranger in the forest service. The candidate waa in the Forest service three years, the engineer ing department of the Union Pacif ic railroad at Portland for two years, an accountant for the UP railroad two years, county survey ing work two years and a teacher for 22 yeara. He is a member of the Masonic and Elks lodges. News-Review classified id I bring results. Phone 100. -INSURANCE-AUTO LIFE AUTO FIRE State Farm Mutual Insurance O. L. -s S. C Camebell P. O. Box 489 Phone 288 116 W. Casa Over Pnuglas County Bank Sportsman -Forester 1 Educator Surveyor Conservationist Granger CARL CHILL has all qualifications for office of COUNTY JUDGE DOUGLAS COUNTY Primary Election-May 19 MOTHER WILL LIKE THIS Xeirest Idea in Electric Ilnnycs 2 Nyis'' y proof of VAtUI tMgidoIrt medal ltM-33 M Cook. Mailer Oven Control, Caehog-To lama aod Utama Drawer tor eoiy UMPQUA 120 W. Oak tVrSj Send Her levcty jl V ifiSI ' ft V . Creating Cards- ( V nuV5rVw'tn " Mntiewnt f afaVVaV cf (n( red, red rota NOR'CROSS GREETING CARDS Roseburg 241 N. Jackson To insure a prosperous future for Douglas County vote for CARL C. HILL Republican candidate FRMDAIliE ThriftySO'- Its) Thrift? (aiaitt Ovra lion Clear Arrona! Here's a completely new and wonderful idea In elec tric ranges. A big rang In averything that counts extra ovan space striking beauty Frigidairs quality construction "perfectly siied for today's smaller kitchens, yet big enough for harvest meals. Ad this new Frigidoire "Thrifty-30" Electric Range is only 30 Inches wide . and sensationolly low priced I Model KM 40 for Only 'ICQ7 177 VALLEY APPLIANCE Next to Umpqua Volley Hardware Pharmacy Phone 7 Would you like Picture Windows? You con easily hove them for o lot less than you think, Come in soon and ask for free estimate. We'll make the complete window to your measurements. Carl C. Hill Paid Adv. Hill for Judge Comm. J. Amachcr, SC Phone 1218 1 V $w5