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4 Tht Newi-Review, Roseburg, 3bo 3kwsfteuiew Publiihtd Daily Exctpt Sunday by tht Ntws-Rivitw Company, Inc. lBtin it Hronl elm mtir My J, ir.. i tft mt fft-t U Rote burg. Orrgon, vadar icl f Marck t. MttS CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Mngr Mtmbtr of tht Asiociattd Press, Dragon Newtpaptr Publiihara Anociation, tha Audit Buraau of Circulations SUrtRtt4 by fVEST-HOLMDAIr 4JO.. INC., fMc IB Nw farh, CHuti, Sim Prtnulict). Lot Anftlti, MUlt, frtUn. 81- baaia UllSCttll'llON BATtS lit Ofion Bt Mail I'm ar H-fft all mollit At, tbra month tt.69 By Cilv Carnrr fr var Stn.M (I advancal, laia ibi year, par month fl.M Oultlda Or agon By Mail Per ?ir t.ttt. ai oaaolba 14.1ft. tbraa nianlba lt.15. Stronger Spy Curbs Needed By SUMNER AHLBUM NEA Editorial Writer As is usually the case with legislation destined to ride through Con gress in some form or other, no matter what, because of its vital na ture, all sorts of hich-hikers tried to climb aboard the Defense Pre duction Bill. Most persistent of the would-be free passengers was the Mundt Ferguson amendment for control of the Communists. Like most of the 70-odd other hopefuls, it wound up walking. j The free-ride tradition is a po- litical form of lobbying based on the philosophy of "Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours." Many times it is the only way meas ures detoured by a lot of fensc straddling can get back on the road to passage. There could have been no argu ment for straddling, however, even among the most vote-conscious congressman, in the bill for de fense production. The public was ready lor some form of economic control when the lawmakers on the Potomac first began hemming and hawing. Such a measure certainly de served to be driven home by it self, without the confusion of a lot of sudden stowaways. By the same reasoning, any bill for the control of subversives, whether their luggage is labeled Communist or any other form of potential treason, is far too im portant to America's future to ie tossed into the same legislative baggage compartment with other measures. In The Day's News .By FRANK (Continued from Page One) the so-called laws of economics. "They have BETRAYED our trust." He continued: "I think our trouble started when we turned away from the teachings of Jesus. He showed us the way to human happiness. He told us how to live." I said : "You mean the Golden Rule?" He answered: "No, the Golden Rule, in Itself, is not enough. No mere RULE can guide men to happiness and satis faction. There must he something DEEP IN MEN'S HEARTS if hap piness and satisfaction are to be achieved. Rules involve merely the disciplining of men's minds." I said to my friend: "You mean, perhaps, that before men can follow the Golden Rule they must have the MORAL STAM INA that enables them to under stand that only by conducting them selves toward others as they wish that others would conduct them selves toward them can human be Looking through a box of old photographs I came across one of an Episcopal rector who was a family friend, and also the friend of everybody in the village. Hack cast, places of 4,000 inhahilarts call themselves a village. T h c ' word has charm! Nowadays they have the usual printed leaflets in best chamber of commerce fashion but they're still villages. I was wondering why this partic ular man was so Inved by his fel- low townspeople. He was a big, husky person, with a booming ' laugh, fond of a joke, and always hoping to be high scorer at the weekly whist tournament at what was called "The Hose Rooms." The club was made up of active firemen who would ruin a good suit to answer an alarm quickly; and many other men were con I tributing members, from the man who stood up one night and sadi, "Mr. Chairman, I'll donele a car load of flour" to the young man just starting out hopefully in busi ness , . . The rector was about sixty when we moved away.. It was common knowledge that he could have had a larger church, and, loo, a high office in the Masonic order, but he wanted to stay in the village he lovod. I remember a story told by one of his parishioners, quite a well-to-do woman: She had become indignant and went to the rector whom she had known since she was in the pri mary class, I guess. ". , . and Columbia Fishermen Demand Price Increase ASTORIA (.Pi The Colum bia River Fishermen's Protective union has demanded "not less than 20 cents a pound" for salmon caught after the commercial sea son reopens Sept. 10. At the opening of the fall sea son a year ago packers paid 11 cents for chinook, Yi't for silvers and 13 cents for steelbcad. Henry Niemcla, union secretary told packers salmon would be sold on the open market unless the price Is met. Ore. Thun., Aug. 31, 1950 Nobody douhls that communism slartcd war rolling in Korea. No body not even Malik and his back-seat drivers in Moscow have any illusions about what Russian communism rs trying to achieve in the UN. Here at home the American pol itburcau, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow our form of govern ment, is at large on bail await ing appeal. At home, also, we have just nabbed the eighth person in recent months to be charged with giving away our atomic secrets to Kussia. We have no idea how many others got away. But what has happened so far is a clear sign that we must strengthen our espi onage laws. It must be done wi'h out hysteria legislation that nei ther grabs a free ride nor carries any other free riders on its tail board. Otherwise we are likely to back track to the witch-burning days of Salem while the sell-outs ride off with the secrets of Los Alamos. JENKINS. ings hope to get along happily and satisfactorily with each other?" He replied: "That may be it although I think I prefer "moral faith" to your term "moral stamina." Anyway, I'm sure that science, politics and the so-called laws of economics have failed to produce for us the happiness and the satisfaction with life, that all normal human beings crave." I answered, a little cynically, I'm afraid: "1 think you're getting science into bad company. Unscrupulous politicians ana screwball "econo mists" have led us into the belief that by means of science we can live without work and when we find by hard experience that this isn't true our faith in EVERYTHING is shaken." He nodded thoughtfully. "V afraid you may be right," lie said. Odd things for a couple of busi ness men to be discussing in the middle of a busy day, aren't they? Well, people are wondering about a lot of odd things in these strange days. if you're going lo encourage that girl to sing in our choir, well, I'm just going to stay away when she does! Why, everyone knows what she is!" "Was, my dear, was!" The tense was corrected firmly. "My dear, I have it on good authority that (here is 'more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repcntelh, lhan over ninety and nine just net-sons that nnfri nn rniwnl9nin 1 j "I'hcy that be whole need not a I physician' . . . Now, my dear, I hope you will not stay away, but , if you feel sure that you are I 'whole'. . . and he chuckled, confi dently. The nexl Sunday (he well-to-do parishioner was in her place. And so was a young woman with a lovely but untrained contralto vnirf uhlf-h ntlilnit In lh, ,!,.,, of the service. Anyone who heard the story would verv likely think, "Just like Mr. Blank!" Cigars Going to Korea, Thanks To Hal Boyle SEATTLE l.l'l Note lo Hal Boyle, somewhere in Korea:thc cigars are coming. The Seattle port of embarkation said 108,000 stogies were heading west for the cigar-hungry (lis. Associated Press War Corre spondent Boyle wrote that the smokes were so rare in Korea they were being passed around "almost By tenderly as if they w ere letters from home." The Red Cross provided all but 7.500 of the total shipment, the rest coining from private citizens. Newark, N. J., and Tanpa, Fla., chipped in 3,000. There'll be some mighty good smoking among the soldiers who are lucky on the draw. Some of the stogies are three for a dollar, retail. The ribbon-tailed bird of para dise has a tail three times as long as its body. 'Now Then, Do Diversion Of Highway Funds To Counties Limits Advance Of State Board's Program Since the beginning of 1920 up to September 30, 1950, the various county governments of Oregon have had allocated to them for the con struction and maintenance of purely of $60,643,278. This has been in from, funds used by the state highway commission, including federal aid funds, in the building of primary and secondary state highways, and federal funds spent in the construction of forest roads. Prior to the establishment of the highway commission by the legis lature of 1017 all county roads were financed mainly by direct taxes levied on the tangible prop erties of the different counties through road levies set by the re spective county governments; (hough before the commission's creation the realtively small net returns from motor vehicle li censes were divided among t h e different counties. The 1917 legislature shunted all the net motor license fees into (he slate highway fund, but two years later the lawmakers gave the coun ties one quarter of the net fees leaving the highway commission the remaining three quarters. From June 1933 the highway com mission was given all the net reve nues and the counties were given $1,600,000 annually. This lasted four years. In 1937 (he Associa tion of County Judges and Com missioners persuaded the legisla ture to increase the take of the counties (o 15 7 percent of the to tal stale highway income, with the provision that I lie aggregate total should not he less than $2 million annually. Thai plan endured un til! the allocation lo the counties was increased lo 19 percent i n 1947, where it now stands, Aids County Estimating The practical effect of this ar rangement has been to give each county court assurance that it could figure, wilhin a few dollars, on its annual allocation from the highway commission . for use in building and maintaining county roads which are not on the stalo 1 highway map. j The sum allocated to each county acls as an offset to county road ; taxes of an equivalent amount. To j what extent the funds thus ad- j vanced have served lo solve (he j necessity for local financing, mi i whole or in a pari, is uncertain owing to the fact lhat the law makes no provision for any re port back by the county lo the highway commission, or lo any j stale agency, showing the use to : which the funds were put. T h e j commission's records show the various allocations as made, but the-c Ihe record stops so far as it is concerned. The converse effect of the 19 per cen( allocation procedure has been In vhm-trtn hk'hM-au nm ni ic.-'-tn j revenues available for use in con structing and maintaining stale primary and secondary highways in an amouiK equal to Ihe total of county allocations made each year. ! Staling it in another way, in the i period starting with KIM and in I eluding to September of the cur ! rent yei,f the slate commission ! would have been able to devote approximately $70 million more io (he ad anecincnt of (he slate pri inary and secondary highway pro gram than has been possible due to Ihe diversion of the allocated totals to local use. South African Planes To Aid U.N. Forces In Korea WASHINGTON i.1) South Africa's offer of a fighter plane squadron for the United Nations lorcas in ivurea nas ncen lormaliy accepted. In a ceremony at the Pentagon, Secrelary of Defense .lohnsnn ac cepted it "on behalf of Ihe Initrd S(a(es government and of General MarArlhur," the United Nations commander. I, Or Do I Not, Get county roads an aggregate sum addition to, and entirely separate Senate's Crime Investigation Shifts To Chicago CHICAGO (PI A. II. S enate committee investigation of crime conditions has turned t o Chicago as committee agents hunted individuals and corpor ations for service of subpoenas. George S. Robinson, associate counsel for the committee headed by Senator Kefauver, was i n charge of the investigation here, lie was being assisted by employes of the Chicago Crime commission, an independent citizens group or ganized lo tight crime. Robinson did not disclose t h e identity of individuals and corpor ations named on the subpoenas. However, subpoenas reportedly have been issued for about 30 per sons and 35 corporations or com panies. Robinson said the committee had public testimony from the crime commission "which might give leads as to whom the committee would wish lo question." Some named by the commission testimony were former members of the old Capone gang. Corpor ations mentioned included slot machine manufacturers, race wire services, liquor and beer firms and juke box makers. Robinson said no arrangements have been made for a (otiuuilt',e hearing but that persons being served will be required to tur'i their records over to Ihe coinini'- lee. Robinson told newspapermen he was interested chiefly in the wire network by which race news is distributed all over the country from Chicago. The committee has held hear ings in Washington, Miami, St. Louis and Kansas City. More Library Books For Rural Areas Desired PORTLAND U A plan to provide more library books for isolated rural areas was discussed here by librarians from the (our northwest slates and British Co lumbia. The librarians hope to set up a system whereby small libraries can draw on book supplies of well stocked city sources. Miss Anne M. Smilh, president of the Pacific Northwest Library association, said. Methods of obtaining local gov ernment support for the program also were discussed by the 2."0 delegates to a three-day con lerence. Czech Exile To Attend Willamette University SALEM CP) A 23-year-old Czechoslovakia!! exile, Jan Hajda, will attend Willamette unive.-sity this fall on a scholarship, the uni versity said. He now is working in a tuber culosis hospital for refugees in Italy. He studied political science at a university in Prague for two years, and will resume his studies here. Hajda plans to become a news paperman. He is sponsored by the .Masaryk institute in New York. Another Czech, Leopold Pospisil, was at Willamette last year. This year he will lake graduate work at ihe Uni versity of Oregon. What I Went?' Episcopal School To End Friday The "Parents' and Visitors' Night" will mark the closing of the second annual Vacation Church school (his Friday night at St. George's Episcopal church. The program will begin at 7:30 with the service of worship. A choir from the school will sing. A review of the activities which have taken place during the week will follow which will end with a reception in the Parish hall. Hand work and olher projects will be on display. A scale model of the church which is being made by the oldest class will be on display. This school has been under the direction of the Rev. Alfred S. Tyson, rector of St. George's with the assistance of David W. Gordon senior student at the Episcopal seminary in BerKeiey. Olher teachers have been Mrs Adeline Adams, Janet Branson j Mrs. Barbara Rich, Hallie Bond oaruara tsrana, ana sally Adams A committee of mothers furnished refreshments under the direction of Mrs. Norman Siefarth and Mrs. Van Svarverud. The public is invited lo the clos ing exercises Friday night. The Virgin Islands are being stocked with white-tailed deer from Texas. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC DUE TO HIGHER COSTS OF PRODUCTION, PROCESSING and DISTRIBUTING MILK - - - and to GENERAL WAGE INCREASES the UMPQUA DAIRY and ROSEBURG DAIRY ANNOUNCE An Increase of 1c Per Quart EFFECTIVE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 After September 1 Milk Prices Will Be: Pasteurized Milk 21c quart Homogenized Milk . . . 22c quart Premium Milk 23c quart UMPQUA Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M.C. Every legislative body in our country seems to have one ser ious weakness. Bills (which be come laws) are rammed through in too much haste at the end of a term. Congress is no exception. Congressman Norb.ad wrote at some leneth on this subirct in in article in a recent issue of "Amer ican Magazine." The 81st Congress is not far from adjournment so bills are zipping through the House at a rapid rate. Apparently this last minute rush does not often produce much legislation which can be classified as bad. but I can assure you that it is pretty nerve wracking for a member when the House is legislating at time a year ago the unions had m a statement by the CIO's ex such high speed. I switched from asking higher pay ' ecutive board: "Labor enters the As this is written, some heavy arguments are going on at the leadership level. The present ma jority piit;' is trying to figure out whether u stay in session until mid-September or lo'-'er, finish important pending legit 'tion and formally adjourn the sion, or go on a temporary recess basis and return later for adjournment. The decision is pureiy a political one Incumbent Democrats are un der mighty heavy fire this year. There is a very real chance, as things look now, that they will lose control -of the House. The leaders and the campaign chiefs on the Democrat side want to let their House members go home and mend political fences. However, with the war in Korea in a critical stage they fear the voters might not want Congress to adjourn. But the other alternative might be worse. If members are at home when Congress is still technically in session will the voters under stand that it is perfectly all right for them not to be in Washing ton The Democratic candidates for Congress have a lot to answer for this year. Their administration has brought the country into war, their non-military expenditures for gov ernment are 4Ii billions higher lhan during the 80th Congress, and there is strong suspicion that Com munist sympathizers or worse have been and still may be in fairly high places in our govern ment. I have introduced my freight car bill. It is H.R. 9480. It may not receive committee attention this session but I shall naturally make every effort to have it considered. This bill attacks the problem of car shortages on a fundamental basis. If it is enacted into law and the program provided for is car ried out, there never need be an other car shortage. The press reports which went out on the news tickers when the bill was introduced were in error in one important respect. The press service news story that I saw stated that "cars would be leased to private railroad comna nies at their request," which makes it sound as if the govern ment were to be put into the busi ness of building freight cars for the railroads. That clearly is not my intention nor does the bill say that. The purpose of the bill is to provide a reserve fleet of freight cars under the ownership of the government and in control of the Interstate Commerce commission (o be used ONLY when an emer gency arises which a reasonable and normal railroad ownership of freight cars cannot meet. The gov ernment cars would, of course, be recalled into the reserve at the end of the emergency. DAIRY Rising Living Costs Stir Up Wage Increase Demands In Four Leading Industries By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (Af) War-Born inflation is fathering still another form of scarce buying. Labor, restive under the threats of wage con trols, appears out to "buy" another round of pay boosts before all-out war could make them scarce. Rising living costs are stirring up wage hike demands among workers in the steel, rubber, auto and electric industries. And some observers see another wage-price inflation spiral in the making. Just as the Korean outbreak ; gave a new pattern to prices, it I strike Dec. 31 if its wage demands appears to have given a new as-; are not met. pect to the labor picture. This ! Labor's position now is set forth 1 to demanding security in the form of pensions and "fringe benefits." In recent days, however, the soaring cost of living hss brought forth demands for still another round of wage boosts on lop of the four general rounds since 1945. In tne latest packet of news are these items: 1. Philip Murray, head of the CIO Steelworkers union, says it's "a very good assumption" that steel workers would ask for wage increases this fall. 2. An immediate cost of living wage increase was . asked of the Ford Motor company by some of its tool and die workers. 3. Demands for a wage increase were made on the General Elec tric company by the head of the CIO International Union of Elec trical, Radio and Machine Work ers of America. 4. Union and B. F. Goodrich companv oflicials are conferring on the CIO United Rubber Work ers' demand for a 25-cent hourly wage increase. These four industries steel, auto, electric and rubber have us ually set the wage pattern in tne postwar years. last year the steeiworners struck to get a health insurance program and a pension plan, ineir basic wage is now $1.65 an hour. Under their contract, as Murray says, the wage question can be reopened November 1. 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