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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore Tuti., Aug. 8, 1950 Published Daily Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. InUfi Htnl mil" MM 1. tut ! ltlr l Kuabirg, Or mnitt act t Mftrab t. U1I CHARLES V. STANTON . EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Managar Member af tht Associated Pratt, Oragen Nawtpapar Publithtrt Association, tha Audit Buraau of Clrculatlont .Milan J WHT-HOLLIDAt CO.. INI).. eMma la Nw Trt, CklUM, Sia rraaclM. Lu Anftlat, lultli, e.rllin. at. Lull uaamirnoN ait m lm-bt ami far r ae. tn aiaaini ra. Un Biolhi lt.se Bf CIU Crrlr err 7t tm.oa (I. !, Ifii r. pr manlb II. aa. Oalild. Orifan B7 Hall Par Mir a.M. ill M.ft, Ihraa xailka 11.11. WE'RE PECULIAR By Charles V. Stanton Americans are a peculiar people. They push prices up and then demand controls to get them down. They insist that waifes be high, but that cost of living be low. They demand personal freedom and liberty, but elect men pledged to socialistic policies tending toward the police state. They permit themselves to be panicked into foolish, wasteful buying, thereby affording opportunity for price chiseling. The list of American peculiarities could be extended to great length but we need mention only a few. War-scare buying has depleted merchandise in many Roseburg stores. The situation is the same throughout the country. Recalling shortages occuring during the last war, people scurried to buy and horde items they fear might not be obtainable later. By their action they have released into circulation many millions of dollars to act as a tidal wave on economy. A sudden wave of buying is inflationary. Already war-scare buying has boosted prices on many commodities and foods. This price increase is totally unnecessary and results only because people brought it upon themselves by their panic. Selfishness Damages Economy Hoarding is an act of selfishness. Because people take a selfish advantage, they bring penalties upon the popu lation as a whole. In addition to the inflationary danger produced by hoarding, we find another influence toward inflation in new wage demands by organized labor. It is generally conceded that if it again becomes neces sary to invoke controls, those controls will be placed over wages as well as prices. Consequently many unions are rushing to get higher wages before a freeze order is issued. Some of the demands admittedly are "unreasonable" but it is anticipated any control order will include machinery for adjustments and, if wages can be boosted high enough, the cutback still will leave an improved condition. But every wage boost is inflationary in its influence. , Every act connected with war-scare buying and panic wage demands is serving to hasten necessity for price and wage controls. Realizing that public demand will force controls before the situation gets entirely out of hand, politicians are taking advantage of the situation to write political expediency into price control legislation, thereby tightening the socialistic grip on the nation. Need "Golden Rule" Legislation It is regrettable that we can't write the .Golden. Rule into enforceable law. If we could eliminate selfishness, greed, covetousness and love political and social life we wouldn t be troubled with all these problems. Lacking power to make the Golden Rule a law, we can only hope with the evangelists that a spir itual awakening will bring more people into voluntary prac tice of Christian tenets. We're a peculiar and unpredictable people. We bring down all kinds of trouble on foolishness. . Allowance must be made for the fact that as a nation we still are young and that we exhibit the insta bility of youth. The older a nation, the greater its conserva tism. But its fun to be an American. What if we are un predictable? At least we're vigorous, excitable, and healthy. Life in this country is never monotonous. In The Day's News .By FRANK (Continued from pace One) doesn't want a bill that would compel imposition of wage and firice controls whenever the cost of iving eaches a certain point. That, he says, would he an invita tion to bid prices up to that point. I'd say that ANY bill that makes rationing certain is an invitation to bid up prices. Rationing means that you can't have what you want when vou want it. So you START BUYING IT NOW and squirreling it away so you CAN have what you want when you want it. All this hoarding business we hear so murh about is merely an effort to beat rationing to the gun. I have personal doubts as to whether realioning is any good in wartime. H lakes a lot of people lo make it work. If all these peo ple were IMtOIHH'lNG SOME THING instead of telling the rest of us how much we can have i t might work out heller in the long run. After all, in wiir or In peine, WH CAN'T HAVE WHAT ISN'T PRODUCED. That's always a good thing lo remember. Also, I have a cynical notion that about 98 per cent of all this rationing and control talk that is going on in Washington is based nn politics. The Republicans are trying In crowd controls that will rear back on the Democrats, who are in power and will have to do Hie administering, and the Demo crats are hoping to push the Re- fiuhlicans into a hole where n will (ok like it Is the wicked Republi cans who are responsible for all the mess. If we could only run wars with out politics, it would be wonderful. Fair Oaks Participates In Pomona Grange Meet Thirteen members of Ihe Fair Oaks Grange motored to Kellogg to n 1 1 end Pomona Grange meeting Saturday evening. A pot lurk din ner was served by Kellogg Grange of power from our economic, our own heads "by our own JENKINS. members preceding the meeting. The session was presided over by Master Howard Cracroft. Slate Overseer William Howse was pre sent and gave a short talk. Fair Oaks members present were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cra croft, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Briscoe, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert llibbard, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brauninger, Mr. tnd Mrs. Lester Harrison and Miss Barbara Brauninger. The attendance prize was won by Fair Oaks. Lt. Rhule Transferred To Duty At St. Louis FRANKFURT, Germany 1st. I.t. Walter A. Rhule, whose par ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Rhule, reside in Rosehurg, will leave Eur ope shortly after a three-year lour of duly. LI. Rhule has been an instructor in Ihe army finance school in Frankfurt. A grnilunte of Coquille high school in 19.lt, I.t. Rhule entered Ihe service in 1340. During World War 11 , he served in the China Rurma lndiu (healer with the air force. I.t. Rhtilc's next assign ment will he wilh the army fin ance center in St. Louis. Mo. .lohn G. Rhule of Coquille is I.t. Rhule's brother. Tenmile Ry JULIA BRF.1TKNRUC1IER Mr. and Mrs. Brian Gosselt of Ashland visited the Klbeit Smith and B. R. Smith homes on Sunday. Mr. Gosselt is Mrs. El bert Smiih's nephew Mr. and Mrs. .!. P. Hahn and Mr. and Mrs. Dell I'iersol spent Ihe weekend in Grants Pass with Mr. Halm's sister and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Abbott, i Verlon and Arden Rolh of I.os j Angeles visited over the weekend at the home of their brother, Don ftoth and family. Their parents. Mr. and Mis. Charles Rolh, and family of Florence were visitors I on Friday. "Meeting Will-Come To Order To AO A i its b ZmS'- J i Mrs. G. was "just a little tired" last evening. She took me down into the basement to see why: one whole side of an 18-cu. ft. deep freeze filled with neatly wrapped beef. "I ve been working on it three days, because the menfolk seemed extra busy. I just cut it up the way the government chart shows it should he done. "All yourself?" I said the words without any thojght of question; I was a mite slu.i.ierl. But Mrs. G. took it literally. "Well, I did send the trimmings to the butcher and have him grind up the ham burg" she said, as if she were correcting too broad a statement. "He did the whole thing for forty cents and I hate to think how long it would have taken me!" I looked at the fruit, vegetables and so on, in the other half of the eight-foot-long white box; then I looked at the rows and rows of fruit in glass jars on shelves with lots of empties waiting. Said I: "You make me think of the wo man in the Bible, that chapter in Proverbs, 'She riselh while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household. . .She Inoketh well to the ways of her household and cateth not the hread of idleness.'" When I came home I refreshed THE WORLD TODAY By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst American military reinforce ments are landing in Korea and rushing to the support of their hard-pressed comrades and that's big news. Meantime, oddly enough, half a world away at Lake Success a bat- lie which may have greater in fluence on the outcome of the Ko rean war has been joined in the United Nations. I refer to Soviet insistence that admission of Communist China lo the U. N., be made a requisite to action aimed at achieving peace in Korea. The United States, backed by the democracies, has been calling for Korean peace ac tion first. What the thing really boils down to is that Moscow is Hying to ne gotiate a horse deal. She recently ii dicated that she would be willing to use her influence on the North ern Koreans to cease their attack provided Red China got that seat at the expense of Nationalist China, one of Ihe Big Five of the late World War. That is the background of t h e scrap over procedure wilh which Ihe security council opened its Aug ust sessions recently under pres idency of Jakob A. Malik, Soviet representative. Malik's presence was in itself an indication of the importance which Russia attached lo the occasion, for the Soviet had been boycotting U. N. organizations since last January. Well, now, let's take a look at this Soviet proposal to see whether it has any substance back of it. Naturally the democracies aren't going to agree to any such bribe to buy off Ihe aggressors. How ever, it is a military fact (hat the North Koreans have overrun Ihe major portion of South Korea de spite American intervention under V. N. auspices. True we have no reason what ever to doub( that the U. N. forces, with America carrying the main burden, will win the Ko rean war and evict the invaders. SUM. that is an eventuality, where - as Ihe Northern Korean successes are an accomplished fact, even though (hey may not be long lived. Under (hese circumstances there is no reason for us to be surprised to see Moscow try lo make capital out of the situation. If Russia could Mm my memory on that lovely descrip tion (Prov. 31) of the perfect housewife, or home-maker as I prefer to say, regardless of Uncle Sam's dictum on the use of the word. To be sure, our modern farm wiman docs not spin and weave (a few of them do!) and she no longer makes candles and her own soap of necessity. But when 1 see and hear what some of the ranch women do around here, I think the writer of that chapter in Pro verbs would change the 'ording a bit but keep the sense the same, to include our modern ranch wo men! There's Mrs. T who "rode the tractor" for several days, while her own housework was "keep ing" to help out in an emergency when hay and grain would not keep! There's Mrs. B. on up our road who worked on the combine and in the hayficld "to help out" ... .1 could fill a page with just the ones I know about. The thing that strikes me about them all is their attitude toward the "helping out". I glory in their spunk. I've heard many a town woman moan over a lot less. . .1 may have moaned a little myself. I get Red China installed in the Unit ed Nations, in exenange lor Mos cow's intervention to halt the Ko rean upheaval. It really would re present a double bargain for the Soviet. Why? Well, because (1) commu nism would gain much prcsticge in Asia through membership in the peace organization, and (2) because Moscow can see that ultimately the North Koreans will be defeated. There are many evidences that ; Moscow has on hand numerous projects for the spread of Commu nism. In some of them Red China could play an invaluable part. For example, take the case of Tibet which China has sworn to take ever. So. as remarked, the U. N. bat tle over Korea might easily rank among the decisive engagements of that Far Eastern conflict. LETTERS to the Editor Korean War Regarded As Preliminary Skirmish ROSEBURG I wonder how many readers of The News-Review read Don Whitehead's article in Friday's paper? If you did not read it, it concerned what World War No. 3 will, or can. be like, only ten thousand (imes worse. Remember, this Korean war is only preliminary skirmish. The belligerents might be likened to a bear (Russia) and an angry bulldog (the U.N.) chained near each (her; growling, snapping and straining at the chain to get at each other's (hroats. which will, or would, be a savjge battle lo the death. World War No. 3 will, or would, be a war of bitter hatred and one of extermination absnlutelv. Unlike anv other war as Mr Whitehead explains in his! letter. "Shoot on sight." he savs I even if it is a refugee." A ref - 1 "gee ? might be a spy. Who i knows? Multiply Ihe Korean war a tnoiusnci times and we can realize what world 19.S0 war may be like.' Remember what General W. T. Sherman said about war? -Mrs. Carolyn Ilansiler. Roseburg, Ore. Discuss Peace!" Pay-As-You-Go Basis For Defense Outlay Proposed BY BRUCE BIOSSAT There is little question Congress will enact a tax increase measure closely paralleling the $5,000,000,01)0 boost President Truman requests. The nation doesn't have any alter native if its huge new defense bills are to be met. Mr. Truman proposes that hikes on individual income levies be made effective Oct. 1 of this year, while suggested corporate tax in creases be made to apply to all 1930 income. Congress probably will accept the Oct. 1 date but may balk at making corporate increases retroactive to Jan. 1. Senator George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says July 1 is a more likely start ing date for business tax changse. Fair Enough This modification sounds fair en ough. Whatever the cost, we ought to meet the burden of added de fense outlays on a pay-as-you-go basis, but we shouldn't have to turn back and slap extra taxes on previously earned incomes, either corporate or individual. The pay-as-you-go idea was sug gested recently by Senator Taft, leading Republican. There's no way of knowing whether the President's proposals on this point coincide with Taft's by accident or design. But certain it is that Taft's views make more likely a solid congres sional front on vital revenue needs. Paying off our defense bills as they come has two main advanta ges. The biggest is that it will drain off substantial sums that otherwise would inevitably contribute to infla tion in (he period of half-mobilization we are entering. With (he econ omy already going full tilt, infla tionary pressures are sure to be terrific when defense demands are piled on top of heavy civilian con sumption. If there is any real hope of avoid ing eventual rationing and price controls, it must lie in higher taxes which will reduce the level of civ ilian demand. Secondly, paying out of pocket now for our added arms will mean holding down the public debt. That debt has long since soared to as tronomical heights. When a nation owes upwards of S25n.0O0.000.0u0, what's another $10,000,000,000 or $15,000,000,000. Answar The answer is. of course, that even though figures of such magm j lude are almost incomprehensible to lilt HvtMane iiiiii'ii, lit- lull panj understand (he $6,000,000,000 in in terest that must be paid on that debt out of taxes every year. The larger the debt, the greater tne in terest payment. And such payments go on long after the debt is incur led and the money spent. The word "interim" is being used In Hncfrihp ItiA PrnsiHpnt's lav nrn. posals. The clear intent is to ask ' for more money later. An excess profits tax on corporations is one item that may be sought. But it's worth noting that even the "interim" proposals would put tax revenues back just about where thev were at the end of World War 11 in 1945. Yet that level isn't in tended to support full mobilization for all-out war. as in 1945. It's meant to support only partial mo bilization and a "little" war. Nothing could illustrate better the harsh fact that Ihe postwar rise in the U.S. price index has made even minimum defense a vastly more expensive thing than we like to con template. Heart Attack Fatal To Buyer Of Failing Home OREGON CITY", (.V) An Independence. Ore., lumberman ldied in a hospital of a heart ail- ment here Monday after being stricken in his automobile Sunday night. He was Fred Swift, 45. who had just recently purchased Ihe 30 room home in Portland of Ihe late Mary E. Failing for $40,000. He drove into a service station here and collapsed. Doughboy, As In Past, Will Be Major Factor In Deciding War In Korea By HAL BOYLE WITH U.S. TROOPS IN KOREA, U H'l up to the doughboy again. Thit fellow with the bent walk and a timeless weariness in hit eyes it going to have to decide the saj issue in Korea. ine crucial light ing it urn iae ground fighting. They wrote the doughfoot off af ter the First World War and I said hit role i n battle was over. But they had to call him back by ihe millions in die second World And today it is American infan try that is most needed there in fantry equipped with modern in' fantry weapons in real quantity. The flyboys of the air forces have done a tremendous job of rear-area bombing and frontline support. But this is not basically an air war. Guerrilla troops such as the North Koreans make poor targets from above. Trying to bomb them into submission is like trying to wipe out all the ants in a pasture by peppering it at night with a scatter shotgun. Man with Riflat But many men with rifles can go through these mountain, ridge by ridge, and flush out the Reds, who lie hidden in the gullies and valleys. The invaders do have more tanks better tanks but it isn't lack of ground army that's chief ly hampered the Americans and South Koreans. The United Nations forces simply have lacked the man power to lorm a solid continuous line that can sift out the infiltrating guerrillas and sweep the Reds back north like a rolled-up carpet. And someone will have to blow a bugle that will bring scores of thou sands more doughboys into action or the present retreats will go no until the lines go down to the water. More modern tanks would be wel come. Especially the new powerful tanks. For tanks always bolster in fantry morale. But tankmen them selves don't see tanks as the final answer. . "This is no tank country," said Lt. John N. Roush, Harrisburg, Pa., who has commanded tank platoons in F.urope and Korea. "Y'ou can't maneuver. The roads are narrow and the bridges won't take much weight. If you get off the roads you bog down in the rice paddies. I have heard that the Russian tanks can go through rice paddies because of their wider tracks. But I don't believe it." And trained infantry armed with the right weapons know how to deal with tanks in mountainous ter rain. Only a few of the 19 tanks Roush's own company are still op erable after two weeks of combat. "The North Koreans often lead off an attack with a couple of tanks followed by infantry," he said. "But they don t get anywhere when they send out tanks alone." Rad Skill He has a high opinion of the skill with wihich the No.th Koreans in fantry fights armor. "lhey lie in culverts until a tank comes along and then they hit it with grenades wrapped with dynamite," he said, "or they try to ambush you in mountain passes. They set field guns in the hills and they put a man with an anti-tank rifle so it will go through any part of our light tanks." But the new U. S. 3.5-inch super bazooka has shown it can do the same thing to the Russian tanks used by the Korean P.eds. The front Umpqua Rebekahs Plan Centennial Celebration The Umpqua Rebekah loJge of Eldkton met in regular session at the hall Aug. 1. The following members were appointed to the finance committee: Mrs. Oliver Haines, Mrs. Gilbert Binder and Wilbur Garrison. Mrs. Robert Smith was nsked to remember Aunt Fannie. The charter was draped in honor of a deceased member, Fred Alldndge. The members decided to get the ball rolling on some form of a community celebration in honor of the pioneers who settled the Elk ton area 100 years ago. Com mittees appointed to work with all interested persons in the com munity for a centenial celebration were: Publicity; Mrs. Robert Smith, Mrs. Oliver Haines and Mis. Gene Lakey; program com mittee: Mrs. L. E. Vrice, Mrs. Mary Beckley and Mrs. Boyd At a late hour refreshments of ice cream, cookies and coffee were served. FAMILY HABIT LOS ANGELES, i.P) Will, inm Ranslem yesterday Occam? the sixth brother in his family to celebrate a 50th wedding an niversary. Ranslem and his wife. Emma, 73, were married in Fremont, Neb. 1 : ai HAL BOYLE Wouldn't this old world be better If the folks we meet would say, "I know something good about you" And then treat us just that way? -fr iiiiii Roseburg Ook and Kane Street Funerals Tel. 600 line troops have confidence In it. And wars are usually won more by men than metal. Somehow, too, they always have to depend on the guy on foot when the going is tough. He wears better in the mud. the rain and the bills than any macnine. Thai's the way it Is now in Korea. Victory waits on the slogging feet of the Doughboy more and more Doughboys turning the green hills to khaki. FOR . . . . SERVICE . . . EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION . . Investic . the services offered by your "Home iwned," 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 Member Federal Daoosll Insurance Corp. 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