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Case Against Big Corporations
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
' The Justice department'! anti-trust division is said to be gunning
now of the United States Steel corporation. It is predicted the govern
'ment will seek the company's break-up into smaller units.
If this action comes off as forecast, it won't be based on claims of
monopoly, U. S. Steel accounts for slightly less than one-third of the
total U. S. steel output. Monopoly charges would have made much
sense yean ago when the company did 60 percent of the Industry's
' business.
Today the government has a
new idea: that the old, crude ways
of monopolizing trade have been
supplanted by smoother, more
subtle devices. Anti-trust officials
contend that nowadays a leading
company or a Big Three can re
strain competition just as surely
as any monopoly.
The tame reasoning has been
applied to the pending A. and P.
case. The A. and P. docs less than
7 percent of the total business in
lis field. Yet the government wants
to split it into seven parts on the
ground it is limiting trade.
Having already won a criminal
suit against A. and P., the Justice
department is confident it will win
the split-up suit. And presumably
its hopes will be high if it opens
fire on U. S. Steel.
But should it fail in these at
tacks, there's some indication it
may urge that the anti-trust laws
be made stronger.
A call for new legislation un
doubtedly would be followed by in
tense congressional scrutiny of the
whole issue. Yet why should an
inquiry wait until such a moment?
There's need for it now.
The Justice department is ad
mittedly practicing a new theory:
we have only its own word that
this notion fits the language and
aims of existing laws, its attacks
on bigness is actually or potential-
ly "bad" for competition may real-
Experienced Personnel, Adequate
Equipment Will Be Ready For Duty
In Present Oregon Fire Season
SALEM, Oregon (Special) Over 1,000 men will moke up the pro
tection personnel of the stale forestry department and Us cooperating
protective associations during the present forest fire season, according
to George Spaur, state forester. According to the forester, these ex
perienced men will form the core of the organization set-up lo protect
. approximately 13 million acres of timbcrlands coming under the state
supervision. The men will be established in their field positions by the
first of July and include office personnel, permanent employes, emer
gency fire camp crews, wardens, smokechascrs, lookouts, headquarters
crews and maintenance crews.
Preparatory step in getting this
large organization into shape for
the season's work was made by a
scries of training schools which
was Initiated by an instructor's
school held in the Salem office.
At that time the various men were
given instruction in the methods
of conducting the schools in the
field, how to instruct and what to
instruct. Don Maus, forest training
officer, handled the instruction
and establishment of the fire
schools for the forestry depart
ment. Administration of the schools
- was handled by the various forest
protective districts throughout the
state. In general, (he schools are
divided into two units; one ad
vanced class for the seasoned and
experienced fire personnel and an
other for the new men who are
being given training in the basic
requirements.
Classroom work consists of in
struction in the various phases of
protection, including a brief state
ment of the policy of the Mate
forestry department, cooperative
features of the work, motion pic
lures and studies of fires and fire
control.
Field training is also given in
map reading, the job of the look
out, how to locate a fire, with an
actual problem of using a com
pass to locate a simulated fire,
lire line construction, the use of
the axe and similar work neces
sary in carrying out the summer
work.
Ample Equipment Ready
All the men in the various emer
gency camps throughout the stale
will go through a period of condi
tioning which will include wood
cutting, trail construction, tele
phone work and work of a similar
nature.
The Saltm office of the state
forestry department has gone on
a 24-hour day and is ready to co
operate in all critical situations
in sending out men to aid in di
recting the firo fighting or to send
needed equipment.
Spaur said that the well trained
corps of elite fire fighters would
be fully augmented by mechan
ised equipment. Every effort will
be given, stated the forester, to
see that these men are provided
the means of using all of the latest
improvements and devices which
will make fire fighting more suc
cessful. Spaur pointed out that during
the recent flare up of fires in late
May and early June, 22 bulldoz
ers, 50 power saws and dozens of
tank trucks were used on one par
ticular blaze. During the fire,
many milej of fire breaks were
constructed and more than 55,000
snags were felled by private and
slate forestry crews.
Twelve million ff.lllnn. nf nnrnn
Juicewere frozen in 1!48-'49 com-
fiiTi. 266,00 g,llon, in U
1945-4 season.
Or. Tuet., June 20, 19501
ly be unwarranted under present
statute.
An impartial study by i group
of high-ranking lawyers and econ
omists would be a help in getting
the answer to the legality of this
approach, long before the Supreme
Court would have any chance to
pass on it.
If the theory docs go beyond
the law, then new legislation would
indeed be necessary to support the
government's assault on bigness.
And then it would be the turn of
Congress to consider the wisdom
of more powerful anti-trust weap
ons. Mass production is acknow
ledged as a great factor in our
high living standards. Mass pro
duction and large producing units
have tended to go hand in hand.
But the question is: can the bene
fits of mass output be gained with
out getting into super-companies
like U. S. Steel, General Motors,
General Electric?
This is the real issue. The pub
lic has a tremendous stake in it.
The prices of most everything it
buys will be affected by the deci
sion whether to break up the na
tion's mammoth industrial firms. -
It's much too big a matter for
a handful of Justice department
lawyers to try to decide among
themselves. The country's best
minds ought to begin tackling it
without delay.
Hose Saves Man
From Suffocating
ELKHART, Ind., June 20. -B
A 33-ycar-o!d father of six who
undertook to dig a well on Fa
ther's day spent two hours trap
ped by a cavein with only a hose
to breathe through.
The well digger, H. Millon Ran
dall, survived through quick action
of a neighbor and was pulled out
unharmed by Elkhart and Goshen
firemen.
Randall and the neighbor, Ver
non .Sysinger, were digging (he
well at Itandnll s suburban home.
They were down 18 feet when a
pipe broke, and Sysinger climbed
out to sol a wrench.
The sandy earth caved in, bury
ing Randall completely except for
nis leu nann. with it Kandall point
ed lo his head. Yelling for help,
Sysinger scooped the dirt away
from his fare and got a eardeh
hose to him. Randall breathed
through the hose.
His wife, Judy, called the fire
department. They replaced Iheir
hose with a regular fresh air line
and began lo dig. The six chil
dren, the eldest 11, stood nearby
cryingf
Firemen dug for almost two
hours. Finally thev lowered a rope
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his arms. Slowly hcy drew him
out.
Japs Face Trial For
Criticizing M'Arthur
TOKYO, June 20. (. Four
Japanese went on trial Monday
before a United Slates provost
court for distributing an open let
ter to General MacArlhur criticiz
ing the occupation.
Adverse criticism of the occupa
tion is forbidden by a MacArlhur
directive and Japanese law.
Japanese newspaper reports des
cribe all four as members of the
Communist parly
The letter first was read at a
leftist rally on June 3. It protested
the trial of eight Japanese found
guilty of assaulting five American
soldiers in a Memorial Pay dem
onstration. Sports Staff Quits Over
Communist Directive
BERLIN - (.Pi The entire
sports staff of a Communist con
trolled east Berlin newspaper
three editors and a secretary
have resigned in protest against
what they termed "orders to wrile
sports from the political view
point." The newspaper is the National
Zeitung, organ of the national
Democratic party. This is a party
P'rn with the announced "purpose
I of enrolling former Nazis
loimra unner t omniums! ails
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KISS OF DEATH A seemingly harmless little peck between twi
starlings (inset) proved fatal to themselves and 200 others. Thi
starlings were settled on two electric wires which sagged close to
gether. When -two birds made contact in tht kiss, It caused a shor
circuit on the wires, electrocuting the entire flock.
.
As a great freight truck with its
trailer sped by us one afternoon
on the highway, I thought of a
paragraph in a delightful little
book I had just finished reading:
Yoncatla, tht Home tf tht Eagles,
by Anne Applcgate Kruse, a dc
scendent of the Applegates s o
prominently identified with Ore
gon history. (The book is most
attractively printed by the Drain
Enterprise Printing company and
has a number of page-sized repro
ductions of photographs by Gus
Peret. li50).
The author had been picturing
vividly the early days in (he Yon
calla area, and was telling about
the grist mill east oi Yoncalla on
what is now Halo creek.
The mill did a thriving business
from the very first. It not only
supplied the needs of the settlers,
which had been its builders' inten
tion, but being located on the pack
train rem I e from Srotftburg to the
mines, it soon became an import
ant trade center.
"It has been said that somelimes
one had to wait a week or more
for his 'grist,' and as many as
5O0 mules would be gathered at
one time for the loading. They not
only carried auay flour and grain,
but all the other surplus farm prod
ucts, especially fruit and vege
tables ..."
The "fruit" Mrs. Kruse mentions
in her history of Yoncalla was
grown on trees for which "as early
as 1851 settlers were traveling to
the Willamette." And also, little
(ruit trees set out so hopefully in
1851, bearing fruit In three years,
w''lLK all
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By ViaJuuU S. UarUnt
were threatened with extinction in
"the tragic year of 1855 when a
horde of grasshoppers descended
upon the valley and stripped it of
every green thing ..." Half of
the livestock perished too. "Seven
of a hundred apple trees planted
in 1858 are still living and bearing
fruit after ninety years!"
The first apple trees came as
tiny seedlings set in small boxes
of earth, brought with tender care
across the plains in a wagon.
"About half the trees with which
Henderson Luelling started were
lost during the long, hard journey,
but enough were saved to lay the
foundation of the fruit industry in
the northwest."
' Truly, I found Ytncalla, Home of
tht Eaglts, by Anne Applegate
Kruse, to be fascinating reading.
The book itself is a noteworthy
piece of work by a printer in the
neighboring city of Drain.
Exploding Fireworks
Routs Plant Operator
PORTLAND. June 20. (.P)
A fireworks plant operator dashed
madly out of hi small huilHins
east of Portland Sundav. Sec-
onds later, the plant exploded spec
lacuiariy.
Marion W. Hardesty, 42. explain
ed he saw what was coming He
aid he was working with elec
trical wires when he saw a spark ! Sunday morning. But a few feet
that tnurhed off urnri m.trhiaway the brakes failed, and the
a novelty that contains powder.
lie got u leei away netort drums
of powder went off. destroying Ihe
small building at a loss of $.S.ooo
Hardesty explained Ihe powder
produced a frightful explosion, hut
did little damage. Nearby build
ings were undamaged.
Timber Carnival
Dated At Albany
ALBANY. Ore.. June 20 (Spec
iall World championship titles
fame, and $3,000 in cash and prizes
will be at stake here in the sixth
annual running of the thrilling and
spectacular logging events that
make up the core of the Timber
carnival, July 2-3-4.
Wirn interest of Pacific North
west loggers at the highest level
in the history of the show, entries
are being received daily from Cal
ifornia, Washington and Oregon
logging camps, and men from the
liaikie Bros. Logging Co.. Ltd..
Campbell River, B.C., have also
signed up.
the following schedule of awards
has been anounced: World cham
pionship speed climbing, first
place, $225; second, $100; third,
$50; fourth, $25. Fifth and sixth
places in all events will be mer
chandise awards, which this year
include power saw and other log
gers equipment and clothing.
World championship topping,
topping, $225, $100. $50. $25. World
championship bucking, $225, $100,
$50, $25. World championship log
chopping, $125, $50, $30, $20. North
west championship log rolling, $225,
$100, $50, $25. Jousting, $15 cash
prize each day.
Rotating trophies that must be
won three times in succession for
permanent possession will con
tinue to circulate as in the past,
and smaller permanent trophies
will be awarded also to first place
winners.
All prizes are awarded on the
final day of the contests, July 4,
by the Timber Carnival queen.
Shriners Resourceful In
Meeting Strike Handicap
LOS ANGELES, June 20. -P)
Shriners have their own ways of
meeung i.os Angeles' transit strike.
The 200.000 nobles convening
here for the national shrine con
vention this week have brought
along:
Two hundred forty-three horses,
stabled in a huge tent city on a
downtown circus ground.
A dogsled, on wheels, from the
Anchorage. Alaska shrine.
And six( count 'em, six camels.
Bellamy Seals, Zor Temple, Madi
son, Wis., has the chores of look
ing after the humped and hairy
beasts brought here to highlight
shrine activities. He watches them
almost constantly.
"You have to." says Seals. "If
you don't, they'll spit on you. But
I'm awfully fond of them anyway."
Separate Peace Treaty
With Japan Urged On U. S.
LOS ANGELES, June 20. -.
A separate peace treaty with ihe
United States "Russia has no
intention of signing one" was
urged today by I'kio Ozaki. 92.
Japanese elder statesman who has
spent the past month in Washing
ton. "Russia still holds 400.000 Japa
nese prisoners." Ozaki said as he
boarded a Pan American clipper
for Honolulu and home. "It would
be foolish to expect that she would
ever sign a peace treaty."
Ozaki. when mavor of Tokvo,
presented Washington's famed
cherry trees to the national capi
tal. Youths 'Swipe' Poor Auto;
Result: They're In Jail
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I ANCOU F.R. Wash.. June 20
! -T'0 youths were in jail
i here '"d'Y because they didn't
pick out a good enough car from
me meet car lo.
Police said Pete Mscichowski,
20. and a younger boy started to
steal a car from the used car lot
I c,r crashed into a cleaning shop
and set off a burglar alarm.
Officers arrived while the boys
were Kill wondering what hap
pened. Slschichowski was char
ed with attempted auto theft. The
yminger boy was held for inves
tigation.
Wonders Of Science Big Aid
In Rehabilitating Cripples
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
AMoeUtfd PrM! Selene Reporter
NEW YORK, i.i For the first time in my life I have seen a man
in a wheel chair .who made me forget the chair.
I forgot as I walked beside him, for two hours and nearly a mile,
in the veterans administratis,! hospital, the Bronx.
All that time he sat, and much
of it he wheeled. But what hs said
about the new medical ideas that
are changing 'cripples into men
able to work so fascinated me that
I had the illusion of walking along
side a bronzed, six-foot pioneer.
This is six feet plus. He is bron
zed. He is a pioneer. But five
years ago he became a cripple,
victim of a German bull during
th Battle of the Bulge. His spine
was hit and he was paralyzed from
the waist down.
Named By Truman
He is Dr. Arthur S. Abramson,
38, chief of the physical medicine
rehabilitation service at this hos
pital and one of the two physi
cians whom President Truman ap
pointed on June S on a committee
to review the Veterans Administra
tion hospitalization program, with
special attention to paraplegics and
amputees. Dr. Abramson is a para
plegic. At first he did not want to see
me. He asked me to talk with
Dr. Howard Rusk, New York, the
other physician on the committee
and its chairman. Dr. Rusk said:
"Abramson is doing a terrific
job. See him."
Dr. Abramson took me on the
rounds, through corridors, clinics,
research rooms, and work rooms
devoted to projects, ranging from
sticking type to art. I saw para
plegics, some flat and still help
less, other up in chairs, learning
good jobs. Once Dr. Abramson
stopped his chair in a corridor to
speak to a tall, handsome Negro
GI, on crutches, but nearly straight
as an arrow.
Arthritis And Polio
This man had arthritis in his up
per body, and polio in his lower
half. The arthritis was military,
entitling him to hospital care. The
polio was not so entitled, but the
new treatments do equally well
for both ailments. In fact for all
kinds of cripple's.
I saw arthritcs, apastics, multi
ple sclerosis, amputees, a blind
man and six other kinds of crip
pling. There was one roomful all
intently at work. These all were
men whose despair a short time
previously had made them mental
cases. Wherever they were, what
ever they were doing, no matter
how flat they were, these men all
smiled.
About 1200 men receive about
30.000 treatments monthly. The par
aplegics average about 50 of the
1200. Although the new idea stem
med from the desperate plight of
paraplegics, it will work for every
one. What happened to Dr. Abram
son outlines the story. After a
year at re-learning how to care
for himself, he went to one of
the veterans medical chiefs and
said:
"I want work . . . what can I
said: ,
"I want work , , . what can I
do?"
"Whatever you want."
Hard To Chooso
These three words are the key
The brutal fact is that the cripple
cannot choose just anything. He
has to learn what he can want.
Dr. Abramson had been a suc
cessful orthopedic surgeon, a de
votee of squash, tennis, golf and
horseback riding. None of these
pastimes would ever be possible
again for him. He chose physical
therapy and rehabilitation. Then
this physician, who had once done
five years work in -hospitals in
qualifying for orthopedic surgery,
went back to a hospital as a re
sident to start over again.
"We are dealing with philosophy
about as much as medicine," he
said, "as an example, some per
sons with heart attacks become
cardiac cripples. The trouble is not
so much with their hearts, their
minds are in bad shape.
"Our cripples have a similar
problem. They have to learn to
accept themselves as they are, and I
then to learn that they are capable
of a lot more than they thought6
they could do.
Zone of the philosophical pro
blems is how to get at them. Their
interest has to be stirred. We
are not a nation of lotus eaters
and we can't improve by laziness.
The American characteristic is pro
ductiveness. That is what we ap
peal to. We teach them to care
for themselves, and we teach them
jobs." 4
New Note Issue To Be
Offered By Government
WASHINGTON. June ZO.-i.Vi
The treasury announced it will
open books Wednesday for sub
scription to a new 13-month note
issue it is offering in exchange
for 12-month debt certificates ma
turing July 1.
The maturing i.ssue totals $5.
601,025.000. Both it and the new
note offer bear 1" percent in
terest. The largest business firm in this
country in the early 18O0s was the
American Fur Company, founded
by John Jacob Astor.
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MacArthur Urges U. S.
Assistance To Formosa
(Br the Associated Presil
General Douelas MacArthur was
reported today to have urged
prompt American materiel assis
tance to Formosa in high level
military talks in Tokyo.
The commander of United
States forces in the far east un
folded his plans to defense Secre
tary Louis Johnson and General
Omar N. Bradley.
The military leaders were said
to have discussed the possibility
of an early separate peace treaty
with Japan and the need for re
taining American bases there.
MacArthur reportedly descnoed
the defense position in the Communist-threatened
orient as seri
ous but not hopeless.
Formosa s tall to tne imnese
Communists would be a serious
threat to the U. S. pacific's de
fense line which runs from .he
Aleutians through Japan and Oki
nawa to the Philippines. It could
be outflanked if the Reds were to
sweep over all southeast Asia.
Plane Wreckage Found
In Alaskan Region
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 20
(,P The wreckage of a light
plane wh.ch uisappeared last Nov
3 has been found 40 miles from
nere.
Ladd field authorities said the
"lane was sighted Friday. A para
rescue team dropped to the scene
and cleared a space for a helicop
ter to land.
Whether the wrecked craft con
tained the body of Lt. Alexander N.
Murphy of Kansas City, Mo., the
nilnt. was nnt known.
The crash scene is in a heavilv
wooded area 15 miles southeast of
nearby Eielson field.
INSANE ESCAPEE CAUGHT
GRESHAM, June 20. UP)
A dangerous inmate who escaped
from the state hospital for the
insane Wednesday was recaptured
here Sunday without incident.
City policeman Joseph Finiey
came across Vernon Pollock, 38,
in a railroad box car. Pollock still
wore his hospital clothes. He of
fered no resistance, and said he
had been picking strawberries since
his flight from Salem. He was
turned over to state police.
STRIKE SETTLED
PORTLAND, June 20. (P)
AFL laborers went back to work at
six Portland sand and gravel firms
Monday, ending a ten-day strike.
They accepted a two-year run
tract with employers, winning a
wage increase of 10 cents hourly
this year, 5 cents additional in
1951. That will boost minimums to
$1.65 and $1.70 this year.
PROWLER IN THE NIGHT
ROCK ISLAND, III. (PI Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Lcrch heard a
prowler in the house. They looked,
found nobody. Then, in the still
of the night, came the soft sounds
of feet stealing down the interior
stairs. They searched again, but in
vain. An hour later there was a
noise and a dim figure at the back
door. Police were called. The cap
tured the marauder. It was a rac
coon. The radio amateur must have a
general knowledge of radio prin
ciples to pass an examination for
a federal license.
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State Farm Mutual Insurance
O. L. "-it S. C. Compbell
P. O. Box 489 Phone 288
Ufi W. Cass.
Over Dnuelas County Bank
MOWER REPAIRS
Case Minneapolis-Moline John Deere
McCormick Deering Dain Adriance
And Many Others
Cutter Repairs for Most Mowers
HAY TOOLS
Tractor Mowers, Hay Forks, Pulleys, Hoists,
Hay Carriers, Track, Cable & Rope
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
Funeral Home
Rostburg. Oregon
Tel. 600 Ambulance Service
LETTERS
to the Editor
'Disaster Editorial
Draws Appreciation
ROSEBURG Your editorial of
June 15, "Near Disaster, aptly
covered a situation which was ex
plosive in nature. We of the Doug
las Forest Protective association
wish to thank you for your excel
lent editorial, which brought to the
attention of the public the extreme
seriousness of the situation we have
just experienced.
Only through the excellent co
operation received from logging op
erators, milt men, n-itmi, me
News-Review, supply-houses, as
well as many other solid citizens
in the area, were we able to cope
with the fires we had. Conditions
were very hazardous, due primar
ily to climatic conditions catching
us with our guard down at a time
normally not dangerous. Those of
us close to the situation will seldom
be more thankful for a rain than
we were for the fire-quencher, we
had last week.
Since the recent outbreak, we
have built our organization to near
ly 60 percent of full summer com
plement. We now have our strate
gic lookouts manned and have men
at all our fire suppression camps.
Maintenance work is going ahead
as rapidly as possible on trails,
telephone lines and protection
roads.
We hope that the early outbreak
is not a preview of events to fol
low. However, if it is, we will be
preapred to do our best. Douglas t'
county is undergoing a vast trans- '
formation in that the fire hazard is
increasing by multiples each year.
This increase must be countered
by increased vigilance by all per
sons concerned if we are to pre
vent "Disaster."
FRED L. SOUTHWICK
District Fire Warden
Roseburg, Ore.
Bicyclist, 65, Charged
With Drunken Driving
I WILMINGTON, O., June 20.
(tT) The bicycle he was passing
zigged when it should have jag
ged, so he drove his car into a
ditch, a Georgia motorist told the
highway patrol yesterday.
As a result, Kenneth Bosire, 65-year-old
cyclist of nearby Blan
Chester, is in city jail here facing
a charge of drunken driving on a
bicycle.
NOMINATION IN SENATE
A postmaster nomination for
Clinton E. Atherton of Canyonville,
replacing M. L. Elliott, resigned,
has been sent to the Senate by
President Truman, the Associated
Press reported today.
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