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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
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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
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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.
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