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4 Th News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Thur., July 13, 1950 Published Daily Except Sunday by tha News-Review Company, Inc.' letarai M aaean. elaaa Matter May f, lata, at laa aaat afflce at aaaabarl. Oragaa. au4ar act af March- t, Ull CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member ef the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher! Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations aaaraaaalal at WET-HOI.LIDA CO., INU.. alfleaa la tw ark, C'kMaca, ' rranclaca. Laa Anialaa, laaltla. Fafllan. SI. Laali SUBal eirilON ATr.S In Oralaa By Mail far Taar t ea an aaaalna M.M. VaTrl , aaanlha Bj CUT Carrl.r-f.r ar lie.ee lie aa.aaeal, I..1 i laa. "a ' r" ,., m.Mh 'll.ee O.l.Ua Urasaa-Br M.ll-r.r jaar. M. ala aaaatha S4.1S. ttaraa aaaataa St7ft. TRAINING FOR By Charles V. Stanton The news wires carry almost daily reports of youthful bicycle riders being killed or injured in accidents involving motor vehicles. Rosebur? has contributed its share of these tragic tales. We have had a particularly high proportion of collisions bfi tween motorcycles and automobiles some with fatal results. Despite the fact that news reporters see many scenes of violent death, no reporter ever becomes so hardened that he is not sickened by the sight of a child mangled in an accident. Every child wants a bicycle. If at all possible, he should have one. But he should be made to understand the dangers involved. The good motor vehicle driver of the future will start his training with a scooter, and advance through the tricycle and bicycle stages. The daily toll of life on the highway indicates how es sential it is to train drivers of motor vehicles in safety. Rules of safety learned early in life are apt to guide adult action. Parental guidance in the task of instilling caution and responsibility into the young mind will save lives, not only now but in the future. Where Small We Meet Again? Mrs. Martin, who writes the "Scraps From The Mend ing Basket" column for this page, recently sent us a clipping from the Long Beach Independent, published at Long Beach, Calif. The editor, Lawrence A. Collins, points out that catas trophes often result in tragic separations of families and that it sometimes happens that they are never reunited. No spot on the earth, he points out, is immune to at tack from the atomic bomb. There is much speculation that the Pacific coast would be subject to attack, possibly to in vasion, in the event of another World war. He continues: It Is somber thinking thet brought up the thought of how families might be reunited if separated by evacuation from a large aree. An atomic attack might mean a whole city would be evacuated and remain unteneble ror months or over a year. If members of a family were sepereted at time of the evecue tion they would have no wey of communication. Where would they go? How would they let their loved ones know where they were? He urges that each family make advance plans to com municate with some relative in the interior, or that a con gressman or senator's office in Washington be used as a "clearinghouse." ' ' , ' At first glance the editorial appears to be far-fetched. But certainly a little advance planning of the type proposed could do no harm and it might prove extremely valuable. American Indecision In Far East Paved Way For Uprising In Korea BY BRUCE BIOSSAT Our leaders' brave response to the Russian challenge In Korea should not blind us to the fact that America up to now has behaved in a fashion that would invite such a crisis. Neither President Truman, h 1 s topflight advisors or Congress can escape blame for political, military and psychological mistakes t h a t helped set the stage for commun ism's march against South Korea. No fair individual would argue that from 1945 on we should have seen the Russians for what they are. They were our wartime allies, and we could not overnight begin regarding them as potential enem ies. But at least since late 1946 we have understood that the Soviet Union is hent on world conquest. In the light of that knowledge, which has been continuously rein forced by events ever since, the United States has committed errors that stamp us as still immature and unrealistic in world affairs. For example, we withdrew our occupation troops from South K n rca 18 months ago. We did this because 1'resident Syngman Rhee of the new Korean republic r e quested it; because Russia was gaining propaganda advantage from her removal of troops from North Korea, and because our military men said the country was strategically indefensible and thus worthless in the broad Pacific de-: fensc pattern. We shrugged off the really crit ical fact: that the departing Rus sians had left behind them a strong, well-equipped North Korean puppet army, while South Korea had only ill-trained, inadequately armed defenders. To be sure, the U. S. voted arms aid to South Korea, but it has been painfully slow in arriving. To pin hope on South Korea's ability to save Itself if attacked was ob viously a gross misjudgment al most devoid of realism. Formosa illustrates our failures, too. American military leaders disagreed over lis strategic worth, and those who rated it secondary won Mr. Truman's ear. Their views were underlined by Secre tary of State Acheson's belief that intervention to protect Formosa meant outraging Asiatics who art showing more and more desire to work out their destinies without western help. But now we have reversed our altitude on the ground that t h e Korean war alters the picture. It certainly does. But the threat of Korea was alwayes there. If Korea was originally considered indefen sible, and yet its possession by a hostile power is reason for us to safeguard Formosa, why shouldn't we have prepared lo defend the Island from the start? In keeping hands off Formosa we may have smoothed the nationalist feelings of several Asiatic coun - THE FUTURE tries; but on the other hand we did ourselves much harm by con vincing many leaders there that we had no intent In act firmly against communism in Asia. Our long indecision regarding vi tal Indo-China is in the same category. We have recently reaf firmed our purpose to aid the French in their hot war against Ho Chi Minh's Red forces. But we have been and still are dangerously slow in making that purpose effec tive. By these failures, by these with drawals and half hearted gestures of support, we have encouraged the Russians to move forward, probing Asia's soft spots. Had we appraised the situation maturely and realistically and acted with unmistakable firmness on the basis of such an appraisal, Russia would have been discouraged from ad vancing. Perhaps we can learn from this Korean war that the time to show our true fiber Is before a crisis develops. Not every showdown can be averted, nor should it be. But the wisdom and bravery that is now going into this one might bel ter have been expended in prevent ing ii irom arising. Four Actions For Money Are Filed The following suits have been filed in circuit court: Frankie A. Wallace, doing busi ness as the Bonded Credit company and representing Oregon Truck Sales, has lodged a complaint against Clarence I.. Dietrick for Slltifi.19, allcgely unpaid (or repair work and supplies. Abe Bean and Isadore J. Bean, doing business as Olympia Supply company, have filed a complaint against Jess Krusmark for $.S7.7S for logging and mill suiinlies and equipment. The plaintiffs also iV. mr imerest, costs and attorney fees. The above named plaintiffs have also filed a complaint against Mar vin A. Mcintosh, C. R. Mcintosh, C. E. Mcintosh, and Clyde Mcin tosh, doing business as the Four M Lumber company, for $269.41 al legedly unpaid for logging supplies and equipment. Interest, attorney's fees and costs are also asked. A complaint has been (lied bv T. J. O'llara against M. J. Ortis to collect $487.24 allegedly unpaid for merchandise delivered. ("nsi and attorney's fees are also being asked "Ain't No One . rgz ...... v III A lovely idea, which I shall al ways think of in coection with the city of Victoria, B, C, is the Book of Kemembrance. It is open upon a unique lectern, supported by three service rifles, right in the center of the corridor in the Par liament buildings which leads to the library. One must turn to the left or right or pause, as we imag ine all visitors and many local residents do, to contemplate the exquisitely lettered, alphabetically arranged names of "the Provin cial Civil Servants" who gave their lives for king and country. The Book of Remembrance was opened to the end of the alphabet the day we read in it; presumably the pages are turned in rotation, that all may have their turn. I did not know a single name in the Book of Remembrance, of course, but it warmed my heart to see it there in a busy corridor. I did not know a single one of the faces in the pictures on the corri dor walls the ones whose names were in the Book of Kemembrance but I liked seeing them there In In The Day's News .By FRANK (Continued from page One) half tracks and five eeps. Soldiers have to eat. No eat, no fight. That has been the rule since armies were invented. The kind of wheeled stuff we were destroying is the kind of stuff that brings food and ammunition to soldiers. It was smart shooting on the part of our air boys. Still more good news: A dispatch this week says: "The marked success encountered in Sunday's air action was attributed to the development of co-ordinated air and ground control of air opera tions." Let's see if we can untangle that mess of big words. When co ordination between air and ground forces is good it means that when a bunch of our guys on the ground are getting it poured onto 'cm pretty hot they get the word to Air llq and in about no time at all our planes beat il lo where thev are needed and POUB IT ONTO TUB ENEMY. We learned that trick from the krauts back earlv in the last war. I'suallv, in those davs. THEY WORKED IT ON VS. It was dyna mite. " All this, on the face of it, is good news lo us BECAUSE IT SHOWS THE WATCHING RUS SIANS THAT THESE AMERICANS ARE SMART AND HAVE GOOD WEAPONS. It seems quite likely that the Russians provoked the Korean ruckus in order to find out two things: 1. Will the Americans fight, or will they back away? 2. If Ihey fight, what kinds of guns and planes .and leadership have they got to fight with? I'm guessing (for what my trif ling littlp opinion is worth) that if we had backed away from Korea without fighting the Russians would have figured it was sa(e to march in and take all that's left of Asia. That's why we had to fight in Korea. If the Russians come lo the con clusion in Korea that our men and our planes and our guns and our leaders aren't too hot. THEY'LL BE LIKELY TO GO TO WAR NOW on the theory that Ihey can lick u. If they decide from what (hey see in Korea that we're too hot to handle, they may back off from war. There's a mystery in tha news: WHERE ARE THE NORTH lu- Here 'Cept Us Chickens Boss!" By ViaJmtt S. Martin that place of honor, secure from rain and dust and fading sunlight. Their 'names' are lettered not only in a beautifully illuminated book of missal-like lettering in Old En glish, but, it would seem, through familiarity of seeing them often, in the hearts of even the younger generation. I was so glad that I resolved to include the wonderful Provincial library in my collection of library-memories, because other wise I should have missed the Book of Remembrance. Another idea familiar to everone who visits the city of Victoria in summer is the sight of the pairs of big hanging baskets on each lamp post, flower baskets gay with color and contrasting greenery. Winter was ."unusual" in Victoria, too, and spring was late. So the baskets were put in place June 12, the day before we left, "the latest ever," said a troubled Victorian who, also "missed the baskets" and couldn't understand why tourists did not know, without being toid, that he unusual weather, and not the local park board was at fault. JENKINS. RE AN PLANES? For days they've been strangely missing from the skies. WHY? Well, it could be that the kind of planes the Russians are willing to show (mostly old Yaks from the last war) aren't good enough to stand up against the kind of planes we've thrown in, so they're keep ing their old stuff hidden instead of throwing it into the fighting to get shot out of the skies. If the Korean fighting is only a Russian trial balloon (as seems probable on the face of develop ments so far) the Kremlin boys naturally wouldn't want to lip its off to what they've really got in the way of weapons. Cloverdale Park Beauty Contest Prizes Slated Terminating a conies! designed to improve the appearance of homes and yards of Cloverdale Park, selection of (he three mot attractive residences will be made Sunday at 3 p.m. Judging of the contest, which began May 1. will he done bv Mayor Albert G. Fleeel. Harold E Schmcer, manager of the U.S. Na tional oanK, and H. R. Ketell, president of Roseburg Homes, Inc. The judges will take into con sideration the appearance of front yards and the planting of shrub beries and flowers. Prizes will be offered the three winners as follows: First prize winner will receive a complete pa tio set. consisting of a wrought iron table with a large umbrella and four wrought-iron padded chairs. Second prize will be a modern, comfortable lawn swing with a fringed canopy over it, and third prize is a set of garden tools con sisting of trowel, shovel, hoe, rake, hedge trimmer, lawn edger and other useful garden equipment. In addition, the company air plane will be in Rosebura Sunday. and the residents having the ten I best front yards, as selected bv j the judges, will be offered free rides. The airplane, which seats ! four people, will fly over the tract, ! giving the contestants an nppor tunny to observe it from the air GIRL COMMITTED I A 15 year old girl has been com 1 milled to the Ilillcrest school for girls on a charge of forgery, ar I cording to County Judge D. N. Bu- senbark . ... Majority Of Yets Aided By Gl Bill The G.I. Bill, passed six years ago on June 22, 1944, has provided assisance to most of the nation's fifteen million World War II veter ans through its three major bene fits, the Veterans administration reports. These benefits are education' and training at government expense, government-guaranteed and insur ed loans, and readjustment allow ances to help tide veterans over periods of unemployment or slack self-employment. Here's the record of the G. I. bill for the past six years, as disclosed by the VA: Some seven million ex-servicemen and women have attended school or trained on-the-job or on-the- farm under the law's educa tional provisions. The program has cost more than ten billion dollars in tuition,- supplies . and subsist 1 ence allowances. ' Only four percent of all veter ans have exhausted their eligibility for training. Under the law, they must start their courses by July 25, 1951, if they want to continue after that date. Final cut-off for most veterans comes July 25. 1956. More than eleven billion dollars in G.I. loans have been, obtained by 2,100,000 World War II veter ans. Ninety-two percent of the vet erans' loans were for the pur- cnase ot nomes. veterans have been such good loin risks, the VA says, that only seven-tenths of one percent were defaulted to the ex tent (hat the VA had to make good the guaranteed and insured por- iiuns ui me loans, ine ii. 1. loan program has another seven years to go, ending for the majority of veterans on July 25, 1957. Readjustment allowances for un employment and self-employment ennea tor most veterans on July 25. 1949, although a few applications are being received from veterans who are still eligible. During the six years of the G. I. bill, about nine million veterans drew read justment allowances that total nearly four billion dollars. The VA said the average veteran found a job after being on the re adjustment allowance rolls for about a month and a half, despite i the fact that benefits could extend I in most cases for as Inns as 52 weeks. Marines Abolish Enlistment Quota The marines cast off q u o t a re strictions on voluntary enlistments July 7 and announced they are "wide open" for recruits. Oregon district headquarters in Portland has received instructions from Col. W. F. Parks, chief of western recruiting in San Fran cisco, ordering abandonment o f quotas and acceptance of all men who meet physical, mental and age requirements. Oregon's quota last month was 1 20 recruits. I Volunteers must be single and between 17 and 29 years of age. I Recently discharged marines with I seven years or more service who can qualify in the rank of ser geant or above need not be single to enlist. Col. Parks said the marines will attempt to reach their full authnr-' ized strength of 100,000 men. Late reports set the strength of the 1 marine corps a about 75,000. I As a result of the intensified re I cruiting drive, recruiting offices in j the Oregon district will be open I Mondays through Saturdays from 1 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Offices are I located in Portland, Pendleton. Sa lem, Eugene, and Med ford. The Eugene office is in room (, Post Office building. VITAL STATISTICS Marriage Licenses Issued DENNEY DURR Joseph C. Den ney, Sutherlin. and Arline Beverly Durr, Roseburg. HAREM REID David Edward Harem and Betty Lucille Reid, both of Roseburg. Congress Chat HARRIS, ELLSWORTH, M. C 4tta District, Oregon Once again we face the possibil it v that our normal supply of nat ural rubber will be shut off. This i blow will not fall ii mediately, if at all. but we cannot ignore the fact that when and if the commun ists control southwestern Asia including Malaya we will be back to the synthetic rubber days. We learned before that the loss of our rubber supply was not in tensely serious. We quickly learned to produce enough very good syn thetic rubber. There was only one big defect in our synthetic rubber program during World War II al cohol, the essential ingredient of synthetic, was made from tooa products including grain, sugar cane and potatoes. Food products also tend to become scarce when we are at war. The real answer, and the one fi nally arrived at by the War Pro duction Board, is to produce the needed alcohol from wood waste sawdust from our western mills. But with the same care-free aban don that characterized many of their other acts during that period, the boyish optimists heading our Federal government dumped the Springfield plant into "surplus" as soon as the war was over. Some of us here in Washington did some hard battling to prevent the out-; right junking of the $3,000,000 plant. Fortunately, it was not junked but was leased to people who are op erating at leas a part of it. The plow to our rubber supply i will not fall for a while. It might , not fall at all. We have time to get ready for it. The government should proceed at once to get the wood-sugar alcohol process perfect ed and operating in the one plant. Then plans for quick construction of other plants, based upon the experience at Springfield, should be made ready for quick action. I have already started to haunt the offices of the defense procure ment people and the resources board urging such a program. Not long ago Senator Chavez, chairman of the senate committee on public works, told a press asso ciation reporter that as soon as the Senate had acted upon the appropriations bill he would sched ule hearings in the west on CVA. Upon making formal inquiry a few i days later, I learned that the com mittee had not taken any action on the subject and I was subse quently told that there would be no CVA hearings in Oregon and Wash ington this year. When the term of the special New York district court grand jury expired June 15th, it issued a lengthy and exceedingly interest ing statement. Distorted by left wing and pro-administration col umnists and commentators, this document never diu receive the public consideration it deserves. Its recommendation number e is especially worth, attention, so I quote if here: . ; -- "6.' The grand jury is not con vinced that the loyalty boards es tablished by the government are sufficient protection against the infiltration of Communists or of the Communist-inspired into govern mental departments. "It is further convinced that the security of the country is not ade quately protected if a loyalty board limits it inquiry involving govern mental employes to a determina tion of the individual's loyalty. Cornelius Vanderbilt Wnitney, on his retirement as secretary of com merce, called public attention to this inadequacy and stated that, since all governmental departments "today deal with secret informa tion," each and all their employes should be good security risks, and hence should be screened by stand ards that include "the company they keep and stability of char acter." "The grand jury endorses Mr. Whitney's position and recom mends that Congress study means to insure against the government's employment of any individual who is "a poor security risk"; and meanwhile repeats that no citizen is invested with the right to work in government." Senator Urges National Guard Call To Service WASHINGTON, JULY 13-fP Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) Wednesday urged calling all nat ional guard units and organized Inairi m'liiary reserves to active dutv immediately. He estimated this would provide 8.12.028 additional men for the army, navy,' air corps and mar ines. The recommendation was part ot what Johnson called a "mini mum" program for the defense of the nation. The armed services committee member told the Senate that never before has the United States "been in surh grave peril as it is at this moment." Johnson said the fighting in Korea has demonstrated that the nation is seriously outnumbered by its enemies He said American DON'T BUY HERE- . a . unlesi you want true "smiling Shell Service." We're to darned conscien tious about doing a good job wt wouldn't want you to want it otherwise. ROGER'S SHELL SERVICE m Mtlrasn Rm4 at S. intranet to Vttorant Hrtl NO troops are being sent to battle "with one arm tied behind their backs." "Our army divisions simply do not have the number of battalions they need to function efficiently and economically in combat," he said. Johnson's proposals reflected in creasing concern in congress over the Korean conflict and the poss ibility that it might turn into a long ana pernaps greater war. On the other side of the capitoL the house applauded a proposal by Rep. Bentsen (D-Tex) that Presi dent Truman warn North Korean forces either lo withdraw from South Korea or the atom bomb would be dropped on North Korean cities. Bentsen, a world war II veteran, said he offered this as a possible way to end the Korean fighting and prevent a general world war. BOYER'S MEAT MARKET Located In WALLY'S MARKET. Our Every Pay In the Week Prices: BEEF ROAST . . lb. 54c BONELESS BEEF STEW . lb. 59c BEEF LIVER . . . lb. 45c SIRLOIN STEAK . lb. 75c BACON SLAB . . lb. 45c LARD . . . lb. 15c Custom Slaughtering Wholesale and Retail Meats Fruit unM fit y iTURH tlu" AlyighcnewKucornaioiwniThics GErNSPoTinthcbig7.jerm Surprise pKk.ge' -7 drink, of golden. (Uvot fuU orange .t s prke thu s budgei e.i,! Hold your own Green Spot orange -premiere" today- m w - Pizza Patrons doit! ASK for light, dry &CMEBEER C "50 Aetna Srawarlal. Son froachra 1 m MSHURIZID FOR PURITY HOT CARftOMATie fy!7 fT J I I a BIG DRINKS ? MM oppeoxlmof.fy eo,,,
