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4 Tht Ntw-Review, Roteburg, Oft. Thun., July 20, 1950 3bo giowsitcview Published Daily Ixctpr Sunday by th Ntws-Rtvlaw Company, Inc. rati ta elm natlir Mr 1, 111, al th foil ffto at Kalahari. Off n4tr act ( March t, lilt CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Man0r Mtmbtr t th AitociaUd Prtss, Ortgon Ntwipaptr Publithtrs Association, th Audit Buroau of Circulations SBrata4 r WEBT-BOLLIDAT CO., INC. fMcea la Nat Tark, Cklaa, aa Praaolaaa. Laa AnfiUa, tall la, Fsrtlantf, St. La a la USIt-KirriON BATES la Orafaa By Halt far yar II. M. all aiaatha MM. lara aaaatka II. Br City Carrlar fr raar IH.H Ha aaaacal, lata aaa raar, par aaaatb I1.M Oililtt Oragaa Bj Mall rar raar I-, at a aaaatha H-U, laraa ataataa St.1l, TASK FORCE COMING By Charles V. Stanton A study group, rewesentine the President of the United States, engaged in a survey of various government bureaus handling natural resources, is scheduled to visit the Pacific Northwest from July 24 to Alienist 14. The committee. which in advance publicity has been dubbed a "task force," will visit the Umpqua basin durinir its tour. The purpose, it is reported, is to gather information ror the executive office of the President concerning the various government bureaus handling natural resources. Chief interest will lie in the work of the Forest service and Bureau of Land Management, but a study also will be made of the activities of the BUVeau of Indian Affairs, Bureau ot Keclamation, Soil Conservation service. Fish and Wild life service, Bureau of Agriculture Economics, National Park service, Farm Home administration and others. The report is expected to influence the President's pro posals for reorganization of executive departments. In the group will be William Pincus of the Budget bureau, Hugh L. Stewart of the Department of Agriculture, and Charles M. Genaux of the Department of Interior. Opportunity For Improved Management Being generally skeptical of such surveys, we anticipate that the report will be colored by political expediency. It probably will beat the drums for a CVA and more centraliza tion of power in the executive branch of government. The survey, however does offr an opportunity to point up the waste, unbusinesslike methods, and inexcusable neg lect connected with management of the public domain. Actually, for the purpose we have in mind, the survey should be made by Congress which controls funds. If we could get enough congressmen to inspect our Western forests, so they might understand just how our natural resources are being wasted and damaged, we could get needed improve ments immediately. But too many congressmen know of trees only as they see them on golf courses and have no idea of problems involved in conservation and management of commercial forests , v If Congress actually understood the need for access roads, watershed protection, fire control, sustained yield, managed cutting and waste utilization, things would be dif ferent. If Congress could be made to see that a handsome profit Is available from the public domain under business like management, we would be getting action. But oo few Congressmen understand these problems and are jealous of funds appropriated for states containing large public domain acreage. ; : . Should Utilize Woita A 1:V r'Z''S- Even though the executive task force coming to the Northwest is chiefly interested in organization, it should not be hard to convince its members that criminal negligence is involved in the waste of resources belonging to the pub lic and over which the federar government holds authority. It is criminal negligence when we actually utilize only about 25 per cent,of the value from a tree taken from the forest. The public is entitled to the greatest possible economic returns from the. resources it owns. But because of the ab sence of utilization processes, we are losing millions of dol lars and thousands of jobs annually in the forest areas of the Northwest. . . . " Here in the Umpqua basin, as a good example, we are producing around a billion feet of lumber each year. This represents about 25 per cent of the wood volume of trees cut in the forest. The rest is burned or left to decay. Yet a tree could be used in its entirety. Processes exist to make use of every pound of 'wood fiber. These processes, how ever, are not available locally. It might not be economical to salvage all of the wood fiber from a tree. Transportation on small pieces might cost more than the profit from con version into commercial products. But if we even doubled our percentage of usage 60 per cent of the available wood fiber instead of 25 percent we could quadruple employ ment without cutting one more tree than at present because more man hours are used in secondary than in primary manufacture. Why should not the federal government, charged with trusteeship of the public domain, secure for the public the greatest possible economic value from natural resources in its charge? Why should it not through loans and subsidies promote two or three paper mills, alcohol and molasses plants and other utilization processes in the Umpqua basin? This coming task force, of course, would be able only to recommend such a policy, but its recommendation might have some influence in obtaining recognition of the problem by Congress. Let's Be More Realistic In The Future rmSm Goomi ' " r SNA. tTPTVW" may MOMENT OF RELAXATION between long hours of rehearsals is welcomed by Rued! Vest, Ash land, Mary Jane Pitts, Portland, Bob Pender, Chicago,' and Herb Greer, Fresno, membes of the 10th annual Shakespearean Festival cast. All have parts in each of the four productions which will be presented this year August 2 through August 24. Coffee Prices Reach New High; Green Product Blamed NEW YORK, July 20 (.F Coffee prices have climbed to new record highs topping even the f icaks set after the buying; rush as! winter. The industry blames the latest spiral on the rising cost of green coffee beans, which have advanc ed about 10 cents a pound since early June. And green prices rose, trade spokesmen say, because everybody from consumer to importer tried to stock up on coffee at the same time. Consumer sales are soaring, stimulated by the war scare jml expectation of even higher prices. Some roasters say demand hns been so pressing in the past few days that they've had to start al- Rent Advisory Board Member Is Dismissed PORTLAND Mn A tenant member of the rent advisoiv board here was ordered removed from office by the national hous ing expediter. Area rent director Robert Iwe aid Bartlett Cole Jr.. Portland attorney, had been criticised by the state CIO. The union had de manded Cole's removal because Cole, the tenant representative, had favored decontrol in board meetings in May. The union informed natinnal ex pediter Tighe Wood that this was not in the interests of the tenauts Cole was representing. locating suppliers to their whole sale customers. A few are report ed refusing new orders altogether. Increases of from two to live cents a pound announced by lead ing store chains this week brought prices of several bag - packed brands as much as five cents a pound over the previous highs. A few of the r,mjor vacuum packed brands were priced one to i two cents higher at wholesale than the winter peaks. Several roa.iters ! have marked up their wholesale i prices five times since early June ' for a total gain of 10 rents a pound. Not all of this wholesale gain has yet been reflected in retail prices of canned coffee. n The Day's. News By FRANK JENKINS. U.S. Blocks Shipment Of Goods To Russians WASHINGTON, t.W The Com merce department has blocked shipment of more than $150,000,000 In war-potential goods to Russian dominated Eastern Europe in the last two years. Secretary Sawver told President Truman and Congress the action was aimed at preventing export of American materials and equip ment that would bolster Soviet military power. Mis report showed that stop-orders blocked shipment of 36 per cent of the J.'vW.ixki.OOO in goods which the Soviet bloc sought from this country after the U.S. adopted security" restrictions on exports in OIrch, 19. (Continued from Page One) the income tax bureau (as requir ed by federal law) average earn ings of the striking journeymen printers were $4,925.09. The News Review has always paid the top pay scale in its area. Now as to working conditions: The News-Review was among first newspapers of its class in the West to establish a mid-mornmg rest period for its shop employes. At this rest period, coffee is served free In a room built and furnished for that purpose. Coffee is avail able free to all employees from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The News-Review was one of the first newspapers of its class on the Pacific coast to provide paid sick leave for employes. It was one of the first newspapers of its class i in this area to give paid vaca ' tions. I Q. How about this "jurisdiction" ! business? j A. "Jurisdiction," as interpret i ed over years of practice, means I the right to represent employes in collective bargaining, or, as in this ; case, the right to represent inem j bers of the Typographical union I employed on all machines and pro ' cesses used in the composing i room (the department of our busi ! ness in which type for reading matter and advertisement is, set. As the I'NION used the word "jur isdiction" in its demands upon us. it means contracting away to them, our right to control the use and operation of our machines. V). Why is jurisdiction by the union over new PROCESSES dis tasteful to you? A. I leel (rather strongly) that management, which is responsible for profit, must be left unhamper ed in its application of new pro cesses in industry. Otherwise, in dustry will stand still instead of going forward. Q. How do you explain the ac tion of the central labor council in putting the News-Review on its unfair list? A. I'm afraid that is out of my field. Rut it does seem odd to me. In the past, members of three un ions have been employed in the News Review shop printers, pressmen, and engraverj. Th pressmen and the engraven have contracts with the News-Review. They are honoring their con tracts and are staying on their jobs. This is the oddity in the situa tion; Members of one union are or. strike at the News-Review. Members of two unions are remain' ing on their jobs. They are re maining on their jobs because they believe that contracts made in good faith should be lived up to in good fai'.h. Yet the central labor council backs up and supports the one union that is on strike and CENSURES the unions whose members remain at work in ac cordance wilh their contracts! It has always seemed to me that collective bargaining, if it is to succeed, must rest on the firm foundation of the sanctity ot con tracts. How else CAN it succeed? If a collective bargaining contract can't be depended on, if it can be canceled whenever the going gels rough, how is collective bargaining ever going to work? I hate to say it, but in this pre sent situation it looks to me like the central labor council is encour aging strikes and DISCOURAGING j the keeping of contracts made in l good failh. I don't believe that is the right way to go about strength ening the labor movement. Researcher Admits Lie In U.S. Citizenship Claim ' SAN FRANCISCO. July 20 -4!P) Dr. Bertha Barkan Luthy, form er Stanford university researcher in Biochemistry, pleaded guilty to day to a charge of falsely claim ing United States citizenship, and threw herself on the mercy of the federal court. Harold Faulkner, counsel for the 38-year-old scientist, asked the cour lor probation. I he government did not oppose the motion. Dr. Luthy is the wife of a Jack son, Mich., manufacturer, Seplember 15 was set for receiv ing the report of the probation officer. Conaress Chat Oregonian Carriers To Take Four-Day Trip t Oregonian newspaper carriers from Douglas county will leave here via Creyhound bus Tuesday. ' July 25, for a four-day expense ; free trip to Portland. These boys earned the trip, which is sponsored , by the Oregonian, by their pro , motion efforts. Included in the vacation is a league baseball game, a trip to ! Ml. Hood. Janl7cn beach and other points of interest in the city. Ho i mer Strickling, district manager, , will accompany the boys. I doing from Roseburg are Don ' aid Thornberg. I.aVerne Parker, I Donald Abbott. Ronald Frasier, and Eugene White. From Glrndale lis Arthur Clayton: Myrtle Creek, Donald White. Frank White. Larry ; Stevenson. Billy Johnson and Jini ' mie Graf; Sutherlin. Jerrv Slayter: Oakland, Billy Moss. Wayne Mc i Mullen, Bernard Fugate; Drain, Donald and Larry Brown. Burns Fatal To Aged Grants Pass Woman GRANTS PASS, July 20-PV-An elderly tire victim who saved her own life temporarily Monday morning by rollinii herself in bed clothes when her night clothes caught fire, died in Josephine Gen eral hospital Tuesday night. Martine McDonald, 76. who lived alone, donned her street clothing before going to neighbors for aid after she suffered second and third degree burns about the shoulders and arm. She also had put out a small fire in living-room drapes. Fourth Indictment In Hunting Tragedy Ousted ENTERPRSE. July 20-OP1-A fourth indictment charging Allen Gebhard. Medford, with negligence in the death of a deer hunter has been thrown out of court. The circuit court ruled, as it did in the previous grand jury indict ments, that evidence was not suffi cient to establish negligence in the fatal shooting of Reid Wade, Los tine, near Troy last Nov. 17. Gebhard was hunting in the same area at the time. HARRIS, ELLSWORTH, M. C 4th District, Orgn To better understand what 'Is happening in Korea now it is nec essary to review tome recent his tory. The Japanese surrendered August 10, 1945. General Order Number One. which General Mac- Arthur signed later and which es tablished the 38th parallel as a di viding line, was written the next day, approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by the President and was telegraphed to MacArtnur in Manila on August 15th. Meanwhile, on August 12th Soviet military forces entered North Korea. The Russian government later agreed to the 38th parallel line. General Order Number One, addressed to the people of Korea, was not ac tually transmitted to them and put into effect until September 2, 1945. The last paragraph of tne pre amble of the order reads: "By vir tue of the authority vested in me as Commander in Chief, United States Forces, Pacific, I hereby es tablish military control over Korea south of 38 degrees north latitude and the inhabitants thereof, and announce the following conditions of occupation:" The sole purpose of making the division line at that point was mili tary convenience for taking the surrender of the Japanese forces. And so. although GO No. 1 was never written for such purpose, that action of the conquering pow ers resulted in the creation of two new governments where only one should have been. Thus the Rus sian puppet state, "The Democrat ic PeoDles Republic of Korea ."was formed in the north. The "Repub lic of Korea," sponsored by the United Nations and aided by the United States, was set up in the south. The Russians knew, or at least shrewdly guessed, that having been thus separated the two halves of Korea would only be united by a civil war. They proceeded at once to make the north into an armed camp. We, meanwhile, withdrew ; our forces and under the guise of military aid gave the southern Ko- j reans some small arms and ammu nition "for internal security pur poses." On June 25th, the well armed and well-trained northern ers moved southward. The daily news reoorts continue the story. Since 30 No. 1 we have authoriz ed $466,000,000.00 in economic as sistance to Southern Korea and a total of only $57,000,000.00 in mili tary assistance, which consisted of $56 millions in war surplus stuff and a million dollars worth of our old equipment turned over when our troops were withdrawn. To those who know the story it seem ed pretty obvious that economic aid unprotected by military assist ance amounted to fattening a lamb for the slaughter. Just a year ago, on July 26, 1949, the Republican minority on the House Foreign Affairs committee dissented from the majority view regarding further economic aid for Korea in a report which contains the following paragraph: i "If this is the case (that Soviet troops attached to the North Ko rean puppet government armies are In positions of command as well as acting as advisers; and there is no reason to doubt the report of the South Korean Gov ernment, the Soviet has actually entered the conflict along the fron tier. This development may well presage the launching of a full- scale military drive across the 38th parallel. Unless this nation is pre pared to meet force with compar able force, economic assistance cannot of itself Insure the safety or the integrity of South Korea. To the contrary, there is every reason to believe that the lending of economic assistance at this time will only enhance the prize to be taken by force of arms and in ternal intrigue." Now we are fighting in Korea. It is going to be a long, tragic and costly effort. We cannot turn back. Those of us who have ob jected to the Asiatic policy of the administration in the past are now giving full support .to the present effort. . Among other things, we attempt ed for years to make the Presi dent and the State department re alize that the Russian government is our enemy and cannot be trust ed to keep agreements. We at tempted, without avail, to advance the idea that any independent gov ernment of China which was friend ly to the United States should be supported against Moscow control led communists. Now we are fight ing because the Russians violated solemn agreements and, we are fighting against the greatest of odds because the Russian govern ment has the great power of the Chinese communist ariy against us. Now that they have learned the hard way that it might pay to lis ten to the views and opinions of the other fellow, I hope the Presi dent and the State department from now on will REALLY put for eign policy on an honestly bi-partisan basis. - Registration Dodgers Face Hurry Call Risk PORTLAND (JP If you are a young man born on or after Aug. 30, 1922 and haven't registered ed for the draft, trouble is looking for you. A considerable number of young man, who should have registered, haven't done it, Col. F. W. Mason, deputy director of selective service, said. They are running the risk of be ing called up in a hurry. "It may be necessary to instruct all local boards to immediately classify late registrants in 1-A and order them for induction at the next call," he said. SAVES WALKING UN VIENNA -P The city of Sail burg last year built a three-story apartment house to ease that com munity's housing shortage. The apartments are (till vacant. The contractor forgot to build any staircases. Failure To Stop At Scene Of Accident Charged State police reported that Knopp, headed south and driving a large private bus, sideswiped a truck of the Northwest Automatic Candy Co. of Portland, which was parked and unloading in Drain about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. Knopp continued on without stop ping and was apprehended in Can yonville by the state police. Edward Knopp, of Renton, Wash., charged with failure to leave his name and address at the scene of an accident, posted $50 bail upon arraignment in justice court, reported Justice of Peace A. J. Geddes. Composer Peter Tschaikowsky died in 1893 of cholera. WILLAMETTI VALLIY PUREBRED RAM AND EWE SALE Linn County Fair Graunas Albany, OrtgM Saturday, August I, I'M Salt Starts at 10:04 A.M. P.S.T. Offering 165 Head Registered Stud and Range Rama and Ewes from Top Willamette Val ley Flocks. BREEDS: V; Suffolk, Hampshire, Romney, Lincoln, Corriedale, Southdown, Shropshire, ' Cotswold, Colum bia, and Cheviot. Col. Earl O. 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