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4 The Newe-Revlew, Roseburg, Ort. Mon., Junt 19, 1950 Published Dally Except Sunday by the Newt-Review Company, Inc. Illml M elm aattar mm 1. ' aifica " Eaatbarf, Oracaa. mair act al March S, 1171 - CHARLES V. STANTON , "WIN L. KNAPP Editor Sa Manager Member of ho Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, Hit Audit Bureau of Circulation! taaraaaalai by WIST-HOI LIDAT CO., INC., aftleta la NaaJ fafk. Cfclaaca. Saa rraaclaca, Ln Aafalia, Bialtla, FaMUM. at. Laala SUBStftllTION RATES la Oracaa Br Mail Par yaar li.at. tls naalha S.M. Ura ai.nlb. It.sa Br Cllr Carrltr Vr ri Sia.M Ha aOaacal, aaa rar. par aiaatb ll.at OaUlaa Ortfoa By Mall Par Mar S.aa. ats aaaalba la.la, Uraa wantaa SMI. IDEAS FROM READERS It's Going To Be Tough Digging By CHARLES V. STANTON ' Readers of The News-Review frequently write letters or call at the editorial office offering constructive ideas. We are pleased to get reader opinion, especially when a sug gestion is offered which might result in some needed improve ments. Not all suggestions are practical, but others have merit. Frank L. Taylor, Reedsport hardware merchant and civic leader, for instance, asks why agencies spending large sums for unemployment compensation and relief shouldn't use some of their resources to prevent unemployment. He conducted a personal survey of industries in the Lower Umpqua community. He found that seasonal unemployment is due principally to the lack of adequate logging roads to permit winter operations. With improved roads, winter unemployment could be materially reduced. He offers the suggestion that it would better to use public money to build roads needed to supply employment than to pay unemploy ment compensation. Loan Plan Might Be Developed Mr. Taylor did not offer a detailed solution to the prob lem, other than the bare idea of cutting down relief costs by providing opportunity for more work. We believe, however, he has the germ of a sound program, Many millions of dollars have been accumulated in the unemployment compensation fund. This money is in the form of a trust. It can be used for no other purpose. The reserve, however, keeps increasing as the country remains prosperous. No immediate prospect exists for above average withdrawals. A plan might be worked out whereby Congress would authorize loans to state highway departments, permitting a state to build purely commercial roads where such roads would provide additional employment. Repayment could be made over a period of years by diversion of license fees and gasoline taxes accruing from the use of the particular roads built with borrowed money. It certainly is a sound suggestion that it is better to use unemployment compensation funds to reduce unemployment than to pay out benefits which might be avoided. Obviously : a better access road system is imperative to this area, vitally dependent upon the timber industry. Shortening the season of unemployment would vastly improve general economy. Businesslike School Administration Another suggestion which has some merit has been made by a Neivs-Review reader who prefers to remain anonymous. He proposes that our school laws be amended to permit employment of a district business administrator. He says he intends no criticism of present school ad ministrators, but that in large districts the task of super vising the educational work while simultaneously handling finances is often too large, a task for one man. It also is his contention that training for the teaching profession docs not contain sufficient education in the field of financial administration. He would set up one man to handle the dis trict's business administration and another to conduct educational policies and program. The idea, we believe, has many commendable points. On the other hand, unless the two men were of exceptionally cooperative character, a serious state of conflict could result. The business manager might take a dim view of some ideas the educational administrator felt were vital. Rising costs of school operation, however, make it essen tial that we trim expenses to the bone. It might be that conditions warrant drastic measures, even to the point of risking conflicts between business and educational policies. Cuts In Post Office Service Will Remain, Officials State By DOUGLAS LARS EN NEA Staff Corraapoadtnt WASHINGTON (NEA) Post office officials' ay that U. S. citi zens had better resign themselves to having the postman only ring once a day from now on because thry think the new cuts in service are here to stay. That is, unless Congress forces Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson to cancel his economy order. Furthermore, they say, taxpay-1 ers had better stop taking for firsl.tit m,ii netted $82.0fi5.000, In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) General MacArthur Has Medicine That Cools Off Communist Fever By BRUCE BIOSSAT At various times in his long career as a soldier, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur has been the object of criticism. The general more than once has been charged with being autocratic, with treading on basic human rlghU. This isn't the place to weigh the justice or these accusations. They may pr may not bo well-founded. But certain it is that MacArthur is a man who knows how to handle Communists. His methods seem re markably suited to that annoying but necessary task. An allied commander in occupied Japan he is currently engaged in giving the Communists there some Hjintcd instruction in how not to tehave. On Memorial Day Jap Reds sparked the first violence against American occupation troops since the war ended. Men were beaten, kicked and sinned. MacArthur promptly ordered a military trial for eight Communists accused of these acts, and they were con victed. Itcds In Japan called for a gen eral strike in protest against the trial but it flopped. Nevertheless it was apparent the Communists were bent on pursuing a more militant program of trouble-making than heretofore. The general did not view this as time to walk softly. He ordered that all 24 members of tho Com munist Central committee in Japan be expelled from public office. Later he purged 17 key men on the party's newspaper, Red Flag. One of the 17 was a member of an eight-man group the Reds had ting 'em on the head and bringing out the candy sack when they're good rather than using the hair brush or the slipper when they're bad. aaa I THINK there's a flaw in his theory which he doesn't mention. If you spoil a pigeon by pamper ing it in order to get it to perform as you want it to, you can make pigeon pie out of the pigeon and dust the whole business off your hands. But a spoiled child is handi capped throughout its whole life. a a FROM Washington: "A proposed economy drive in the senate to cut government costs APPEARED TODAY TO HAVE BACKFIRED ON ITS FIRST TEST." aaa OF course it has. This is an election year, and the politicians all believe the way to be re-elected is to promise the vot ers to spend MORE MONEY rather than less. aaa PERSONALLY, I think the politi cians are mistaken. I talk to a lot of people, of wide ly varying political beliefs, and I find most of them as scared as I am over the present spending poli cies of our federal government They think (as 1 do) that we ought to have, with government help if they can be obtained in no other way, all the advantages and all the comforts of a modem industrial civilization THAT WE CAN PAY FOR. But they re worried over the modern political tendency to BUY ALL THESE THINGS ON THE CUFF, and leave it to future gen erations to pay for them in taxes and inflated prices. a a a BUT you can't tell the politicians that. In the enchanted Shangri La that is the city of Washington the opinion prevails that what the voters want is high, wide and hand some spending NOW with the fu ture left to take care of itself. That being the case, ALL ECON OMY DRIVES are foredoomed to failure in this election year. J? By Viaktutt S. Martin MIT i Kicked up to supplant the 24-mem-er Central committee. Thus Mac Arthur kept the Communists from regaining their balance. His letter to Prime Minister Yoshida was blunt. He called the paper a mouthpiece for the most violent elements in the Communist party, adding that it was guilty of false and inflammatory appeals in its effort to provoke defiance of the constituted government. Measures so severe as Mac Arthur's could not be excused were the Communists a legitimate po litical party In a nation we arc try ing to teach the ways of democracy. But the Reds are essentially a branch of the Russian government a weapon of Soviet foreign policy. As such, Ihey are a destructive element on the hopeful Japanese scene. Following Iho global Soviet pattern, they are promoters of un rest and enemies of healthy econ omic revival. Risky as it may be in the explo sive Far East, MacArthur's way is a language that Red gangsters everywhere can understand. The methods of democracy they simply corrupt and distort to undermine democracy. They don't deserve its rights and privileges. They do de serve what MacArthur is giving them. On previous trips through Tilla mook I have been talked out of seeing "the world's largest cheese kitchen" but this time I stuck to my guns, and E J turned back he had me a half a mile past! and in we went. What beats me is, the way a husband has to be prac tically dragged to see something he enjoys immensely in retrospectl Stitistics never stick in my head, but I do remember they make fifteen thousand pounds of cheese a day, and this was the most interesting point to me 00 to 1000 pounds of butter from what they "used to throw away." Not only butter the curds, formerly thrown out, are ground up and sold for calf feed. Our guide was a vivacious little woman no bigger than a minute. Yet to help out just now on their ranch on the Wilson River, Mrs. Burris "milking two cows and stripping four" before she comes to work in the office. That came out when she was laughing about the way the can-tops were put on "The milk cans are sterilized with live steam. Makes me mad, sometimes, because I have to use a hammer to get the tops off of ours. Oh, yes, we are mem bers of this association no, we don't like to use the word 'co-op erative' although we send it only four cans of milk. Thirty-seven big truck-trailers bring in the milk every morning. I wish you were not too late to see the milk emp tied and weighed quite a sight! It is tested too, and rare indeed is the can that falls below test." We saw the enormous vats, and white-clad men tending them; the molding; the storing racks where the cheeses stay for 3 days; the aging rooms where they stay, in numbered sequence, for time de sired; the cold storage room where the finished cheeses stay till shipped off in carload lots. Bu that time our guide was talking about millions of pounds. They were "out" of descriptive literature, so we did the next best thing; we sent off a 2-lb. cheese to California and one to Texas . . . and forgot to get one for ourselves. granted all the services which the Post Office has been furnishing at cut-rate prices lo these many years. They think that maybe the time has come for some brand new rules on how Uncle Sam should play post office with the popula tion. The problem of the post office running in the red has been steadi ly getting worse. This year the postal deficit is expected to set an all-time high of $545,000,000. That's about one-tenth of the total federal deficit for this year. And that's why everybody who has anything to do with it thinks the time has arrived to do something in the di rection of black ink. The post office is one of the world's biggest businesses. There are over 500,000 employes. The gross take is about $1,500,000,000. Over 43,000,000,000 pieces of mail weighing about 11,00,000.000 pounds are handled yearly. And 900,000,000 other special services are rendered annually, such as sell ing money orders and the handling of $3,000,000,000 of postal savings for 4,000,000 persons. Career Steady Deficit Since 1952 the postal service has been getting fancier and going fur ther in the red. After cutting the letter rate to 3 cents that year, free city delivery was started in 1863. Special delivery was begun in 1885, rural free delivery was launched in 1896 and parcel post instituted in 1918. The addition of other special services included reg istered mail in 1855, money orders in 1S67 and insurance and C.O.D. in 1913. Since 1852 the post office has been in the black only during 13 years. Practically all of them were war years. During the last war the great increase in overseas air mail accounted for most of the profit, which by 1945 had reached $168,000,000 per year. That surplus in operating expenses was due mostly to the fact that the services carried the mail free for the post office. Then came 1946, the first post war year, and the profit turned into a deficit of $129,000,000. It has been going up ever since for many reasons. Only a part of the blame for the postal deficit can be reasonably put on post office officials. There's not much you can do about making a business pay when you don't have any control over salaries of employes, costs of transportation or the rates you charge for your service. Only 2 Services Pay To offset these increased costs of handling the mail Congress up ped rates on some services which were only designed to bring in about $125,000,000 a year. Only first-class mail and postal savings pay for themselvs. In 1949 postal savings made $2,413,000, The biggest loser of all was sec ond-class mail newspapers and magazines last year. It cost the taxpayers $174,675,000. Other effi cient money-losing postal services included third-class mail circulars which lost $129,053,000; fourth class mail parcel post which lost $104,881,000; government and congressional mall which cost $47,- 773,000 and money orders which cost $28,410,000. , In all the years of the growing ' postal deficit, there has been no ! deficit in the number of sugges tions and plans for curing it. Any I number uf bills have been intro-', duced which would make a dras- ! tic raise in this or that postal rate as a cure. The Hoover com- j mission made many suggestions j for improving the over-all effi-! ciency of the service. 1 Brothers Saved From Death By Worker PORTLAND-;?! Two elderly brothers credited their rescue from asphyxiation to a bouse painter today. The painter, L. H. Saxton of Hillsboro, was working on the Ken ney house when he suddenly looked in the window and discovered its two tenants unconscious inside. Ha summoned help. Ford Kenney, 69, and Joseph Kenney, 74, were taken to a hos pital for treatment. Police said they had left the oven jet of their new gas range on by mistake. The first Colonial American author was Capt. John Smith, who in 1608 wrote "True Relation," the account of the Jamestown settlement. PHONE 100 between 6:15 one) 7 p. m., if you have not received your News Review, Ask for Edythe Brown FOR . . . SERVICE ... EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION . . . Investig ' 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. Federol Deposit Insurance Corp. Eight Of Ten American Women Called 'Out Of Shape' By CBAA Executive By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (.T) The world is.fict: Fletcher added still another dismal Rutledge Takes Post KLAMATH FALLS .r-vjerry Rutledge, who lost out in May pri maries as a candidate for the state legislature, was elected chair man of the Klamalh County Demo cratic Central committee for the next two years. Rutledge succeeds Frank Sex ton. Mrs. A. F. Condrey was chos en vice-chairman, succeeding Mrs. Joada Leonard. LaGrande Sets Planning I.aGRANDK .:Pv La Grande is going to do some city planning. City commissioners authorized City Manager F.d Ford to retain Frederick A. Culhbert, Eugene, for planning work here. An initial $,W0 budget has been authorized. Cuthbcrt would be paid $50 a day as working advisor for the project. PATIENCE PHILADELPHIA, June 17. (-Pi Thirty nine years ago the Phila delphia general hospital mailed out a bill for $262. The 1911 ledger was closed yes terday. In came a check for $262 and a note that said: "Cast thy bread upon the run ning waters, for after a long time thou Shalt find It again." out of shape today and so are more than eight out of 10 Amer ican women. This melancholy statistic isn't based on one man's roving obser vation. It comes from the Corset and Brassiere Association of Amer ica. Of the 55,000.000 U. S. women above the age of 15, at least 85 percent are overweight, or lack symmetry in the vicinity of bos oms, waist or hips," said Fletch er D. Dodge, executive vice-pres ident of the association. What depresses me about this estimate is that Fletcher doesn't even include the women with jut jaws, knoDny knees, bowed legs, suitcase feet, or blacksmith's biceps. No, all he surveys is the corset zone, lo correct nature's errors in this area the women of America in 1950 will spend $400,000,000 or more for girdles, pantie girdles. brassieres, bandeaux, corsets, cor seleltes, falsies and garter belts. fcvery year about this time the opening of national corset mar ket week Mctcher reviews the status of the American feminine shape. He is a stern critic and i variably finds something wrong with it. Here, girls, is his prediction of tne fashionable figure for this autumn: "An even slimmer, narrower hipline . . . waistline slightly less inarmed , . , mistime more soft ly rounded." And what about falsies? "More and more women will be wearing them." Dodge said flatly. "As a designer in the foundation garmen industry points out, 'wom en are no longer abashed lo admit they've helped nature along a bit. Falsies have come into their own." Fletcher says the American woman has grown taller and wider-hipped in the last five years, but that she still prefers the same shape that has been popular for the last half century. "If women want us men to watch their figures." he warned, "they have to watch them first." Here is his latest breakdown of the composite American woman: HeiRht feet 3 inches; weight, 133 pounds; bust, SS'i inches; waist, 29 inches: hips. 31 inches. And, I bit gleefully it seems, Of 1.661 women measured in a department of agriculture study, only 126 qualified as 'the perfect 36." Despite their reported gain in hip with, most American women appear to be more concerned with bosom problems. "Brassiere output has quad rupled since 1927, increasing from 25,000.000 to about 100.000,000," he said. "They will account for about $188,000,000 of the $400,000,000 spent for all types f foundation gar ments." His survey shows that Milwaukee is probably the most bra-and-cor-set conscious city in the nation. "There 96 5 percent of all famil ies buy some type of foundation garment," he said. Fletcher isn't so proud about the ladies on the West Coast. "Women in the Pacific Coast area are more likely to wear bras sieres and less likely to wear girdles and corsets than are those in other sections of the country," he said. from Greeley, Colo., was found on a lonely hillside near Boulder, Colo. "If there had been a case against Joe Walker," the attorneys said, this unreasonable questioning woum not nave been necessary. "He was ill and was refused a doctor for a long time. The case was conducted after the manner of a medicine show . . . "No inquest was held as reauired by statute. Some of the most vital evidence was not examined until three days before the opening of the trial. "The iury found a verdict of second degree after 47 hours of debate; the prosecution demanded urst degree or nothing. 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Ruston of Denver. It automatically extends the dead line on filing a full appeal for an other 60 days past the original deadline of June 20. i In effect, it calls on the district ! court at Boulder where Walker was j tried to provide a transcript of the i proceedings. That court is not j forced lo do so. It may provide one at court expense, at the ex pense of Walker or his attorneys or may refuse. No specific grounds were listed on the filing, but Burke and Ruston issued an accompanying state ment. They pointed out that Walker was arrested and questioned for 74 days after the battered body of the University of Colorado student )(e taie icaMtte in anncuncing ie cfienhtg. cfl a Portland Office on June 19th, with complete investment and brokerage facilities and direct private wire connections to all our principal offices. 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