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4 Th Newt-Rvlw, RoMburg, Of. Mon., Moy 29, 1950 1 . . Yet Shall He Live" St. John, 1 1-25 Published Dally Ixeept Sunday by In Newt-Review Company, Inc. Dlvil M Mcn elaaa ! Mar 1. !. a. elrlaa BMtbarg, Oi.faa. aalar Mi el alafea ft. Ull CHARLIS V. STANTON IDWIN L. KNAPP Idltar Manager Member t the) Associate) Press, Orafon Newspaper Publisher! Asteciatlan, th Audit Bureau of Circulation Iwiimil kr WE8T-BOLLIDAT CO., lC, afll.M I HlW '. Calea-a, ! rraa.laaa. Lm Aafalaa, aaaltla, r.rlUaa, at. Laala DBaVBIPTION BATES la Ortfaa r Mill rr ym MM. aaalaa MM. tfera aaaataa St-Sa. Br City Carrier Far yaar III.M (la aaaaua, Iih laaa at Tsr. Btr ninth !!.4a. Oattita Ortsaa By Mall Tar yaar . als auaUu li.fi, thraa raaalaa 11.11. MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD By CHARLES V. STANTON Tomorrow the nation pauses to remember its honored dead. The annual Memorial day observances will be particularly directed to the men of our armed services who gave their lives in supreme sacrifice for their country. Mixed with our tributes will be serious thoughts concerning the possibility of another armed conflict, the shadow of which already hovers over the globe. Our hearts turn cold with the thought that we may be forced into another war a war transcending anything that has gone before in ferocity and destruction. To avoid war we have sacrificed our national dignity time and again. We have tolerated insults that only a few years ago would have produced war in themselves. We once, for instance, would have allowed no nation to hold an American national a prisoner. We have, at times, shown threat of force to rescue nationals illegally held in foreign lands. . A few years ago no nation would have dared shut us off from territory to which we had rightful entry. But we permitted Berlin to be blockaded for many months and ab sorbed a cost of billions of dollars while we went about de terminedly but with a red face performing a modern air lift miracle. Not too long ago we would have been at the throat of any nation that imposed an economic picket line around our trade area, but today we swallow our pride and meekly accept expulsion from valuable markets. Will Meekness Preserve Peace? Will our humble attitude before a swaggering bully be conducive to peace, or are the humiliations being heaped upon us destroying our prestige and effectiveness as a world power? Are we courting war, because we avoid a show of strength and determination ? ' When we face an enemy bound by no rule of civilized conduct, an enemy who worships power and power alone, are we on safe ground when we meekly retire before all bullying and threatening, absorbing insult after insult with no retaliation? , 1 True, we want no war. But are we less apt to have war by demanding rightful respect and civilized neighborly relations than to be constantly giving ground? i These are puzzling questions'.'4 Denied the truth, fed on propaganda, apprehensive about the true patriotism of seg ments of our leadership, cognizant that higlV officials place party welfare above safety and honor of the country, we can only hope and pray that our course is right. , . Shirking Responsibility And while we tread lightly, carrying a swagger stick instead of a big stick, we are dashing the hopes of millions of suffering peoples throughout the world. When forces of aggression were swept back into their foul lairs, it was expected by oppressed people that the United States would bring fo them the freedom it enjoyed for itself. Their ex pectant faces -were turned in our direction. We have fed and clothed some of them, but we have denied their souls the food of freedom. Instead of binding aggression, we have permitted it to escape to again spread its pollution ' over larger areas and more people than in its previous sweep. We have hopes that our enemy may weaken himself by his efforts to control' the world. We may believe that time is working for our side and that we can afford to swallow our pride until the force of aggression has spent itself in its expansion effort, bringing against itself a resistance born of desperation, t 1 i What Would Be Our Message From The Dead? If our honored dead were able to advise us of the course we should pursue, what would be their message? Would they tell us that loss of honor is worse than death? That right should never quail before might? That a struggle once begun is never ended until the goal has been reached? Throughout the ages man has been striving constantly . upward. Our wars have taken many forms. But each war is only continuation of the struggles that preceded it. From each bath of blood the world has emerged, cleansed of some of its black spots of oppression. We believe our dead would, if they could, speak from the grave .to tell us that the struggle must go on until all men are free. That we are God's chosen people to carry the banner of freedom into battle. That freedom should be ad vanced by peaceful means if possible, but by war if necessary. That we should never permit the battle flag of freedom to retreat 1 Drain Sets 2nd Budget Election City Recorder Vern Thomas an nounced Thursday, June 22, as the day Drain voters will again oe asked to approve a city budget which includes $14,071.57 outside the aix percent limitation, A similar proposal was defeated recently by Drain citizens. At th.it time, an additional aum of nearly $5,000 was included in the amount in excess of the limitation. The June election will be th fourth in two years. City council requests to operate outside the six percent limitation have been defeated in all three previous elections. The total being asked in June is $4,835.71 less than in the pre vious election, with most of the savings noted by cutting in half the proposed grader contract. All labor accounts in the budget have been increased. Western Hillbilly Band Is Coming To Tri-City The Maddox Brothers and Rose, the western A hillbilly band are coming to the Melody Mountain Barn at Tri-City on June 2 tor a one time appearance. This is the band that played to more people in 1949 and 1950 than any similar type group. From the time they start at 9 p.m. this group puts on a show and dance that accounts for their nationwide popularity. They travel while on the road in four 1950 Fleetwood Cadillacs and carry a wardrobe of IS complete changei of uniforms. II - lffilMl.'i' I 111 ymk In the Day's News tContlnued from Page One) grateful that in the future they will thumb their noses at the nasty Communists and hereafter honey up to to good old Uncle Sam. I rather expect they will AT LEAST A3 LONG AS THE OLD BOY'S CASH HOLDS OUT. a CPEAKING of foreigners J The vigilant teleype informs us ; that "dark-eyed Egyptian Princess Fathia" and her Egytian com moner bridegroom (name of Riad Ghali) are honeymooning radiant ly somewhere along the Pacific coast after their Moslem wedding In San Francisco. BUT, the teletype clicks on: "THE FURY OF EGYPT'S KING FAROUK HUNG DARKLY OVER THEM LIKE A DESERT SANDSTORM." a a WHY should Fathia and her Riad be ruffled by the fury of King Farouk in far-away Cairo? Why don't they just thumb their young and pretty noses at him and laugh merrily? Well, it isn't quite so simple as that. Farouk holds the family purse strings and if he STAYS MAD Fathia and Riad will have to go to work. Going to work is one of the very worst thi.igs that can happen to these Old World aristocrats, a a a DR. Harold V. Anderson, profes sor of chemistry at Lehigh university in Pennsylvania, gets into print with a statement to the general effect that students of ihe present day are fully able to com prehend the fundamentals of atomic science. But, he says a bit mournfully, THEY CAN'T SPELL 'EM. The highly important atomic word "nucleus," or example. He has been compiling a list of the ways in which "nucleus" can be mis spelled and to date his list includes 68 orthographic boners culled from his students' work. The most exotic of the 68, he adds, Is "neucloughcous." a a a PERSONALLY, I hold to ' the theory that a well-educated per son will no more misspell words in fairly common usage than a truly tasteful and cultured person will wear a loud four-in-hand tie with his evening starched shirt and tails. But I'm continually amazed at the number of people and the KIND of people who confuse the spelling of princiPLE and prinel PAL. I've even caught college presidents mixing them up. Jpf By VitJmtt S. Martin jJfD Just now as I was running the vacuum, I was thinking of two famous rugs: one made by a Navajo, Minnie-many-horses, the second largest floor-covering in one piece in the world (so I am told); and the exquisite needle point "carpet" which was made in eight patient years of stitching by the Queen Mother, dowager Queen Mary, of England. The Navajo rug, last I knew, is in the Marble Canyon lodge in Arizona. The needlepoint rug is, of course, much in the news now as it is on tour here and is to be sold to the highest bidder. Minnie-many-horses, it is said, had twenty assistants in shearing the sheep, washing the fleece, carding the wool, and spinning it. But Minnie-many-horses did the weaving twenty-three months of work. The rug is 19 x 31 feet. Queen Mary sat on a straight backed chair for two hours every morning of the eight years, stitch ing on her rug while somcono read aloud to her. When the dollar crisis came up, the Queen who loves her country with whole- souled fervor, decided to give the rug for American dollars. There were loud cries of protest over there. After all, it isn't every day a rug made by a queen is avail able to collectors! But Queen Mary was adamant. The rug was to go to America , . . As I worked, I enjoyed contrast ing the two craftswomen. Both women planned their work and commenced it with the same thought, probably, every woman has when she starts a hooked rug, a crocheted bedspread, or what ever: a desire to busy her hands with what may well be called a labor of love I Both women re quired perfection in workmanship of their hands, and to have this, the pattern must have been a clearly defined idea, and the hands carrying out the work must have been self-disciplined by long prac tice and tireless patience. Both rugs fit in the category: "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever It's loveliness increases ..." Katharine 'Brand Acknowledged In Special Write-Up Katharine Edith Brand and her work which has contributed largely to a knowledge of the World War I president, Woodrow Wilson, were the incentive for ao article by Lil lian Porter Say, Journal Washing ton correspondent. The story ap peared in the Oregon Journal, Fri-! day, May 28. Miss Brand is the daughter of Charles A Brand, of this city and 1 niece of Justice James T. Brand of the state supreme court. She , attended th local schools nd con tinued her education at Smith col lege in Northampton, Mass., where she studied English literature. For 15 years Miss Brand worked , with Ray Stanard Baker, long-time ; friend and associate of Woodrow 1 Wilson. He was head of the Ameri- can Press bureau at the 1919 Paris I Peace conference and said of Miss Brand, she was "an invaluable sec-1 retary and later research assist-1 ant." . t She assisted Baker on his biog- i raphy of Wilson and did much re search into Wilson's day-by-day life from newspapers and personal in terviews with friends and co-workers of the World War I president. Upon Baker's completion of his eight-volume biography and editing of six volumes of his oublic pa pers, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson gave the Wilson papers in her posses sion to the Library of Congress. Mrs. Wilson asked the Lrbrary of Congress to put Miss Brand in charge of organizing the vast col lection of documents in the Wilson room at the Library of Congress and then to act as custodian of them. She has been with the Li brary ever since. The Washington Journal corre spondent said "I saw results of the work of Katharine and her assistants. Neatly labeled and available to researchers (under certain restrictions) I saw some 1200 boxes of .Wilson papers." She is now in charge of the Li brary's "Division of Manuscrips." "Her field is now all recent man uscripts beginning with the Wilson period. The Josephus Daniels and Baker papers have now come in. The latter are under her control for 10 years. Her articles appear in the Library of Congress Quarter ly Journal of Current acquisitions. She has a chapter in a selected bib liography of Wilson's published writings and addresses. "Her contribution to the Library of Congress, now in its 150th year, is best expressed by H. C. F. Bell of Connecticut. His book 'Woodrow Wilson and the People' bears this dedication: '.' 'To Ray Stanard Baker and Katharine Edith Brand, benefac tors to all people interested in Woodrow Wilson and his work' " ' Miss Brand visited her father here two years ago. FUNERAL ANNOUNtEO y Funeral services lor mrs. name McAfee will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Grants Pass. Mrs McAfee died Friday night at a . Grants Pass hospital. A former Roseburg resident for 30 years, I she had been residing with her i daughter. Mrs. Oscar Powers, in Grants Pass. The accident left unblemished Colonial's record of 20 years of flying without a single death the best airline safety record in the world. 1 PHONE 100 between 6:1 5 and 7 p. m., if you hove not received your Newt Review. Ask for Edythe Brawn Don't Wait REFRIGERATE! New and Used Refrigerators at Ba.join Prieet Terms to Suit BERGH'S Appliance Service 1200 S. Stephe.ii FOR... SERVICE ... EXPERIENCE... CO-OPERATION . . . Investig 'j the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bonk Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUN TY All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Is Your Watch Fast? LETTERS to the Editor Ernest Black Is New Forestry Aide Here Ernest D. Black last week joined the Roseburg district forester's slaff of the Bureau of Land Man agement as a forestry aide. Black Is a graduate of Michican State college, where he studied forestry, lie is a student of photo grammetry. According to District Forester J. K. Slattery, he will assist in the (iunter road and Brush creek aerial photographic interpretation and analysis work. He will work with the cruising team to obtain a background of experience for the great deal of sample plot work necessary in the inventory of the units which art being flown this summer. Allotments Of Time In Poppy Sales Explained ROSEBURG Most of you won der why the veterans have so many flower sales and think it is a racket, but I would like to state now that is is not. There are four organizations of veterans who sell flowers the Spanish American War Veterans, the Disabled Amer ican War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Ameri can Legion, who all have a given time set aside to sell their flowers. May 26th and 27th were set aside for the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars to sell their flowers. A couple of weeks ago the Spanish American War Veterans sold their flowers, but the Disabled American War Vet erans won't know what date will be set aside for them until after their state convention, which will he held in Eugene, starting June 13. Actually the money derived from Ihe sale of all these flowers goes for the same purpose, vet it is still insufficient to sunnlv the rt. mand for a package of cigarets or a bar of candy to all of the patients in the hospitals. Many of these patients have drawn a pension or compensation for war time injuries, but when they enter the hospital their pen sion or compensation is cut off. Some years back during the Roosevelt administration (this is not any reflection on the Roose velt administration) manv of the veterans were cut off from their government check and the money went for relief so we might ail eat. This really caused a hardship among veterans, in manr cases they were in debt and had to make adjustments with their creditors. However, we did not hear much squawking from the veteran about it. Now many of these same veter ans are in the hospitals, looking at four walls or the ceiling, without funds, wondering what the outside world is doing; so what little mon ey you contribute in Ihe purchase of these flowers goes to make lite more worthwhile for them. These flowers are made by the patients in the hospitals who are able to be up and around. They are paid two cents apiece, which is little for the time involved in the making. Then the veteran who is able to be around and the auxiliary give their time to sell the flowers by standing on the street all day. It was my pleasure to talk with one of the ladies in front of the postoffice selling flowers, and as each person would pass, she would say "poppy, mister?" or "poppy, lady?" Some would shake their heads 'no' and keep on going. I wonder what they have in their minds that they object to contrib ute a dime to help the man who gave all he had for us? Is it that easy to forget? RAY C. LYNF.S Roseburg, Ore. Timber Harvest Tax Has Netted Over $1 Million More than $1,000,000 has been collected from the timber harvest tax since it was enacted by the 1947 legislature. It has been in effect less than three years. The tax, explained Commissioner Robert D. Maclean, in charge of assessment and taxation for the state tax commission which has the respons ibility of carrying the law into effect, is collected from the indus try for the purpose of aiding the lumbering industry. As originally prepared a 20 cent tax was proposed. This met with such opposition during the session that a compromise was finally made on 5 cents per 1000 board feet. No compensation is received by the stale tax commission for the collection and enforcement and all funds are deposi'ed with the slate treasurer with 40 percent going to the state board of forestry for rehabilitation of forests and 60 percent for research in the utiliza tion of waste resulting from har vesting, processing and manufac turing of forest crops and other expenses incurred in the forest products laboratory. A special section had to be cre ated to handle the tax business requiring office equipment, auto mobiles for inspectors to cover log ging operations, a staff of two women to manage the office de tails and two inspectors who are traveling auditors. The operating expenses since the law took effect amounted to $83. 1.19 18 on Aprl 30, the latest tabulation, at which time the gross revenue was $!. 002,421.70. The expense breakdown for the 34 months it salaries $3S,- Airliner Wrecked In Landing; Nobody Inji red NEW YORK, May 29 W) Thir teen passengers and crew mem bers walked away from a four-engine airliner that piled up yester day at LaGuardia field when its landing gear collapsed. No one was injured. The big Colonial airlines DC-4 gave a holiday crowd of airport sightseers an unexpected thrill when it swooped in and then skidded for 200 yards to a lop sided stop when the right wheel and strut buckled. The fuselage, a wing-tip and sev eral propeller blades were damaged. The plane came from Montreal. If it is, you're never surt what time it is. Why not let our ex pert technician make the nec essary adjustments. Rapid ser vice. Come in today! 1 Drive Out and Save Christie's Watch Shop Corner Chestnut and Walnut Streets. Riverside Addition Phone 137-J-4 436.25; GOM $16,006.59 and capital outlay $8,756.41. Tax collected from logging Is $983,864.28; miscellaneous tax $", 281.04; penalty and interest $11, 276.38. Over the period n.s.f. checks amounting to $316.01 were received and tax refunds were $3,312.03. NEW LOCATION! Dr. H. a Scofleld Palmer Chiropractor Rifle Range Road 410 ml. North of County Shops Offtea Houra 10-13 and S-S Salurdari 10-1S A. at . X-ray nauro-ealomatar aai ka (or aplnal corrnctinn. West Side Windmill Store 1645 Harvard Ave. OPEN MEMORIAL DAY Complete Fountain Cold Soft Drinks Groceries r Sundries Arden's Ice Cream Reg. Hours-10:00 A.M. Till 11:00 P.M. Sundays-10:00 A.M. Till 8:30 P.M. I LalllMnrV taw Maul Duane Baker Representative Phone 715-R-5 "Best Bit of Sowing Ever..." "Yes, son, I've just sowed a crop that will really bear fruit retirement assurance in the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. And the same policy provides inui ii anyirung nappens TO me while we still have a mortgage, the farm will be clear of debt for your moth er." 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