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4 Tha News-Raview, Roieburg, On. Tuei., Aug. 1, 1950 Publithtd Dily Ixcvpt Sunday by th Ntwj-Revitw Company, Inc. Islri4 wit cliu mtiur Uy t, tltli, at tfe fttea tl Stt -, Orfa, Bt Ml f March t. 111! CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manigtr Mambar of tho Astociatod Praia, Oragon Nawipapar Publithara Auociation, tha Audit Buraau of Circulation ftapraaaaUal by tf KST-HOLLIDA t CO.. INU., fflen In Tarfc. Chieafa, a rrantiiacs. Lot Anlt, saaUla, frlHn, a I. Laail atlBKLHIP I ION A IKS In Oragon By Mail fair $. an moat ha $4 At, Ikr manlhi It.M Hf Cllr Carrier r yi IW.aH (In tUanrta), laaa titan ana vtcr. par month tl.no OnUltla Oragan By Hall Par M ma alba Ihrta mantha 11.11. MACHINERY AND JOBS The Jeering Section By Charles V- Stanton Travelling to Klamath Falls last week we found the highway construction work in progress south of Canyon ville to be startling in its immensity. The landscape is being remade. Feats of engineering and construction in progress there appear almost impossible. One cannot help but think back to the days when roads were laboriously scooped out .through use of horse-drawn Fresnos, surplus dirt shoveled into wagons, with much of the labor performed by pick and shovel men. Today huge bulldozers tear down mountains. Great carthmovers scoop up surplus and haul it away to fills. Air compressors rattle and roar as they drill holes for powder, replacing the old hand drill and sledge. A competent driver of a bulldozer, the operator of a power shovel, a jackhammer handler or any other work man operating equipment will make more money in a day's time than five men would have received in the old days. It is not because he is stronger or more intelligent. It is be cause he has TOOLS. The contractor has invested money in equipment and has employed good men to operate his machinery. Because the machinery will do more work in a day's time than could be done by antiquated methods, the contractor can pay better wages. Investment Deserves Consideration We read recently that it costs an average of $20,000 to give a workman a job. The $20,000 investment buys the machinery or tools necessary for that job. Because the "boss" has spent his risk capital to make low-cost produc tion possible, he is able to pay higher wages. In late years there has been an increasing school of thought that profits are evil ; that the man who performs the labor should get all the benefits. We wonder how many of those who stress the evils of profits ever consider the amount of money required to furnish a man with employ ment and the right of the investor to a fair return for the risk he has taken. Of course, there can be extremes. A workman should be compensated as well as any job will permit. Excess profits should be distributed. But, on the other hand, draining away profits, or holding them to an unduly low level, will destroy inducement for risk investment and thus reduce employment opportunity. Machinery Makes More Jobs ' It has been amply proven that labor saving machines create more jobs. Because we can build more miles of highway through use of power equipment than could be constructed by hand labor, we find more people buying automobiles. As more vehicles are placed on a road, it becomes necessary to make it more nearly adequate. Then, with improved traffic facilities, more people use that route, buying more vehicles for that purpose, so, again, we must do more building. The same cycle is true in any industry. Yet we find great numbers of workmen who fear new production methods, new processes and new machines. Wc find widespread "makework" and "fcalherbcdding" prac tices developed through fear of unemployment. We find resistance to every new production method because work men might be replaced. If that resistance had been successful in the past, we still would be building roads by the pick-and-shovel method. .We still would be hauling freight by railroads and horse drawn drays instead of by motor truck. We still would be hand-picking type for newspapers. n The Day's News .By FRANK JENKINS. (Continued from Paso One) wh have in uniform only ONE Is carrying a gun and shooting at the rncmy. The other five are back in the rear, feeding and supplying the ONE who is doing the shooting. Competent observers o n the Jiround in Korea arc telling us that or each soldier in the front line the Communists have NOT MO UK THAN TWO SOLDIERS IN THE REAR! If you'll figure that mil, either on your fingers or on your adding machine, you'll find it gives the Commies more than TWICE as much fire power for each hundred recruits. How come? Well, it's this way: We feed and supply our soldier better than any other soldiers in the world, either now or ever in the past. We're proud of that faet. But this is tho point: Out of each six soldiers recruit ed, we have ONLY ONE ON THE rear. Out of each six recruited, the Commies have TWO on the firing line and only four in the rear. That's ono reason why they out number us so heavily ON THE FIGHTING LINES in Korea. Probably you're still puzzled by this front lines-rear area ratio. It's like this: The Commies EAT LIGHT AMI LIVE ON THE COUNTRY. All they need Is a little rice in their pockets and ammo for the guns. Our bovs eat well AND CARRY IT ALL WITH THEM. That's why the Commies are able In get Iwice as many fighting men on the fighting lines as w e can. Let's go back to Genghis Khan and his Mongols, from whom these Commies we're now fighting in Korea are descended. THEY ATE LIGHT AND MOVED FAST, and eating light and moving fast they licked the disciplined fighting men of the age of chivalry. Back in those days, the armored knights had to have a lot of men in Ihe rear to supply them. Gen ghis Khan's soldiers, who carried their commissariat tied on behind Iheir saddles, had nothing to do but fight. v v ;- , - ; .' fV Vi; Increased Labor Will Upset Reds' Claim, Forecast STANrORD UNIVERSITY. Calif. (T) The labor force will in crease about 0,000,000 in this dec ade in expanding production to meet Russia's challenge to capital ism, an economist says. Summer H. Slichtor. nationally known Harvard economist, made this forecast at the Stanford busi ness conference. "The need for the expansion of the economy," Slichter said, "is accentuated by the efforts of Rus sia to overthrow capitalism and to spread Communism throughout the world. "Resistance of the United States to Russia's attempt will absorb an increasing amount of production. "If the United States is to keep its standard of living rising, and at the same time is to keep itself strong enough to deter attacks, output must increase substantial ly." Slichter discussed at length the capacity of the economy to grow. The needed expansion in produc tion, he said, depends upon the increase in the site of the labor force. His estimate of an increase of 6,000,000 workers in a decade, he said, assumes an increase in the proportion of women workers. The needed growth, he contin ued, could be retarded by a lack of capital, but he doubted that this is likely. If -apital per worker now about $7,000 were to increase one percent a year for ten years, he said, the needed increase in capital would bt $50,000,000,000 or about two percent o" the net nation al product. In principle, it's the same as driving men, women and children before Hie Commies the nlher dav, KNOWING WE WOULDN'T SHOOT AT THEM. By thai trick, they got over the bridge. In the same way. by eating light and thus being utile to put TWICE AS MUCH EI IIP I'OWKIt ON THE E1GHTING LINE, they gain an advantage over u.s. It's certainly something to think about in this war we're getting into. MIDSHIPMAN ROBERT FREDERICK PRAMANN, USNA, ,on of Mr. and Mn. F. W. Pramann of Rt. 2, Box 91, Keasey Road, Roieburg, was a member of the 1950 Midshipman summer cruise, and served aboard the destroyer USS Warrington. Here Mid shipman Pramann is seen taking a reading from a sextant while, on tha training cruise from the U. S. Naval academy, Annapolis, Mr. Midshipman Pramann !i scheduled tn graduate in I9SI. S o Hi Viakntit S. Mnrtinff-J , ' If only our recent guests could been, a ranger. "Only getting stri have seen Ihe big Chinook wc saw pers here," he said. "Been taking Ihe other evening down at Cur- some big stripers when thev can tin! They never saw a fish while get the frozen pilchard." "Thev they were here except the ones i were not getting bait that day. I cooked from our locker. All our j ... ... . . .... . nephew eared about was "some .PPreclated lhc'r nl that Oregon trout." We had host- for lime was inipor.,1.... been sending nim literature and lc, had Ret back to McAlleu .,.. ; (., . before too lonii. He had been three "Come to Oregon and catch sonic ! wcpk '""ring then, and there" was i real fish"' 1 icllowstone and a few other i Of course thev catch fish in the ; Pces. The ranger did assure him !toe of Texas and thev looked quite,'"' "ild 'catch plenty m ellow i real in the pictures thev sent us. sl"ne- 1 hIct " ' nice about snapshots with flirt, his dad and 1,01 reminding me how 1 had pro two brothers holding same. Tnev I !"'sed I1' '"cpt for a few Northwest Fir Industry Ready For Role In War Oregon Legionnaires May Withdraw Bonus Backing have a fishing ramp in old lr ico; also are only t5 miles from the gulf, and the llaiitiigcu canal recently pictured in colors in the Satevcpost is not too tar from them. Hut despite all that 1 as- surea nim u ne would just "come nours in the Itogue, one siHirts man found little satisfaction i n Oregon this time. But he "will be back" and when he comes back he will get the fish "no foolin'!" PORTLAND, (.PI The Pa cific Northwest's great Douglas fir industry is prepared to absorb tremendous demands, if necessary for lumber, for military needs a spokesman for West Coast Lum bermen's association said. As military orders began pour ing in, H. V.- Simpson, executive vice president of the association, said all have been absorbed im mediately for shipment. Mills have given top priority to such require ments. Douglas fir mills, which cut about a third of the nation's lumber, have sharply increased output since a'bondonment of government con trols 3' j years ago, Simpson said. Indications are that more than 10 billion board feet an all-time high will be cut in 1950. In 1945 production dropped to around six and a half billion feet, and the number of mills to 98fi. There are now around 1,700 producing mills in the region. "The great, renewable rain for ests of the Pacific Northwest, with a backlog of more than 400.000 000.000 feet of prime saw timber, are ready and willing to assume any demands of the government," Simpson said. "Racking up these vast stands of virgin timber are some 11 million acres of growing young forests, "We will pour into the nation's powerful defense establishment all the lumber for its foreseeable needs and still have left over bil lions of feet for the domestic from Americans Told Of 7 Ways They Can Assist FBI In Curb On Saboteurs, Other Enemies i WASHINGTON, UP) J. Edgar Hoover told Americans today how, in seven ways, they can help the FBI curb saboteurs and other domestic enemies in the present military emergnry. Th first and most important step: Call the FBI qoickly win any information you may have. Hoover emphasized that his FBI is not interested in malicious gossip or idle rumors, nor in "what a person thinks." But, he said, it most specifically wants facts on actions "which undermine inl'ernal security." President Trumaji called on the ! American public last Monday to channel any information on spy-, inc. sabotage or other subversive activities to the FBI. Like the White House, the FBI cautioned against private attempts to investigate evidence of such' activity, saying it should be left to the highly organized FBI mach- I inery which is set up for that pur pose. The FBI has long had special agents in each of its SI field of fices assigned to the specific task of sifting and relating such evi dence, with the Washington head quarters serving as a clearing house. The Hoover statement noted that a close systen. of cooperation be tween the federal bureau and law enforcement agencies throughout the natio.i is already functioning in this field. "The internal security of the United States can be assured," the director asserted, "with the cdop eration, aid and assistance of every law-abiding person in our nation." Suggestions Listed "I. The FBI is as near to you as your telephone. Tht first page of every telephone book in the country lists the nearest office of the FBI. You can communicate with the FBI by telephone, letter or call at your nearest pffice. "2. Feel free to furnish all facts in your possession. Many times a small bit of information might fur nish the data we are seeking. If you have any information of sabo tage, espionage, or subversive ac tivities, contact the FBI. "3. The FBI is interested In re ceiving facts; we are not inter ested in what a person thinks, but what he does which undermines our internal security. Avoid report-1 mg malicious gossip or idle ru-1 mors. , "4. Do not circulate rumors about subversive activities, or (Irav ' con-1 elusions from information you fur j nish the FBI. The data you po-1 sess might be incomplete or par-1 tially accurate by drawing conr j elusions based on insufficient evi- dence grave injustices might re sult to innocent persons. Nk Private Sleuthing "5. Once you have' reported your ' information ti the FBI. do not en deavor to make private investiga- j lions, mis can Dest De done by trained investigators who have access to data acquired over the years on individuals engaged i n subversive activities. "Hysteria, witch-hunts and vigi lantes weaken internal security. Investigations involving internal security require care and pains taking effort We all can contrib ute to our internal security by protecting the innocent as well as by identifying the enemies within our midst. "In cases involving espionage It is more important to identify spies, their contacts, sources of informa tion and methods of communicat ions than to make immediate ar rests. "6. Be alert. The greatest de fenders against sabotage are the loyal American workmen who are producing the materials and wea pons for our defense. They can be the sentinels of defense in every walk of life. "7. The forces which are most anxious to weaken our internal se curity are not always easy to iden tify. Communists have been trained in deceit and secretly work toward Uie day when they hope to replace our American way of life with a Communist dictator ship. They utilize cleverly camou flaged movements, such as some peace groups and civil rights or ganizations to achieve their sinis ter purposes. "While thev as individuals are difficult to identify the Commu nist party line is clear. Its first concern is the advancement of Soviet Russia and the Godless Communist cs.use. It is important to learn to know the enemies of the American way of life." Army Frees Woman From Specially Built Jail BREMEN, GERMANY,' '.'Pi The U.S. Army has released the woman for whom it recently built a special jail. Mrs. Maria Gisterek, Polish born wife of U.S. Army Sgt. F. R. Gisterek (home town unavailable) was paroled from her six months jail term for illegally buying army post exchange ration cards. An army spokesman said she was paroled because she was ex pecting a child and because of tier good conduct. A special jail had been built for Mrs. Gisterek because no quar ters were available in Bremen to comply with army requirement! for the confinement of women prisoners. PARKING by the month Why risk parking tickets when you con park all doy, every doy, ot our convenient downtown parking lot? Still room for a few cars, so come in or phone today. 120 North Kane Street Phone 48-R FOR . . . SERVICE ... . EXPERIENCE ... CO-OPERATION . . .. Investir . the services ottered by yout "Home owned, Home-operated" bank Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUN TY All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Memr-y Federal Derjosit Insurant Corp. 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That's the opinion of Samuel M. Howe of Grants Pass, state l.cnion com in under, who said the organization would Rive no active support to the bonus measure be tween now and convention time The bonus measure, placed on Ihe ballot as an initiative, will no before Oregon voters in the Nov pmher election. Lr-Kionnaircs endorsed Ihe bonus at their last convention, but flows sniri their proini.se to work with other organizations to put the measure on the ballot hail been fulfilled. He said the recent National Leg ion convention voted to withdraw support ol liny new veterans' be nefit legislation, except extension ol the til Kill of Rights to soldiers fighting in Korea. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, however, pledged continued back ins; of Ihe slate bonus. I.. It. Hen derson, of Portland, state com mander, explained: "If the nat ion is going In call World War II men back into service they will need this money more than ever." When F.J heard about the strip ei'S Oeini! SO rillmiiaStlC hP imt nil ! tnr hmitin. enmmn,-,a fai-m nJ ,u v,vk.... . . mine wiiu ii j me oiner morning i met, loo. industrial demand." a sportsman s collection of gear, hut went rmht hack in ii, If I I Now it was up to us. I did get a striper well. 1 prcfer- One resort proprietor after an- i red catching upon mv sleej). And other that day assured him "the! when F..I came home he wished trout aren't luting right now. thev just aren't catching anv. t'het, who fishes for fish, and not I tor fun only as I do, wasn't inter- 1 ested. rinally we came to sort w here (he owner w as or had i times he had gone back to bed, too. No bait. As long as he was there, he tisnrd a tew lours with what he had: "No bait and not even a cattisn: It goes that wav some- TRAIN KILLS MAN i PORTLAND (.PI -A railroad I Kngineer William F. Overholt said ralmer was lying between freight engine crew was onhl ,he ,rck nn" h' hi' Saturday night to slop a tram he- hinds ai If tn ward off Ihe on fore it fatally crushed Fd Pal-iromine engine. Police said P. mer, .12, Portland. mer died instantly. For Rent Business location with ad joining three-room apart ment on Main street, Myrtle Creek, Oregon. Rental $100 per month, writo P. O. Bex 248 ROSEBURS. ORISON FRIENDSHIP . Qianel of llie looses Ook and Kone St-eet Funarali Roseburg Funeral Home Ttl 600 Roseburg Oregon Ambulanc Service I ft, fray; v ( MRS. L. I. POWERS Lictnttd Lady Atttndont
