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The Newi-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Tut.. Oct. bc 31ou)$-Ueuxcw FvbliihW ily Ixcapt Sunday by th Kw-Rtvitw Company, Inc. MM M will iUm BAIMr Hsf 1. tttt. U t ! ! lMkir, Orft, Mt f Mreb I, till CHAVUIS V. STANTON IDWIN L. KNAPP IdiUr Managar Mnbr th Anociittd Praia, Ortgon Ntwtpapar Publiihari AtMclation, tha Aoolit Burt9u of Circulation ftrtMt4 by WRST-HULL1DAV Ufl INU . fflett la Cfe rfaaoiio. li Angtu. tut, rrtiin. at. IVIIumriluN RATrft In Orfn By MH i"tr ?r . i ' Mr (in frit Mr Iltf Cirri r ft YM tlt.M f. r month II. It Oil.Ut Utfn By Mll rtr M tfei 14.11. tfcra Mania It.:. AERIAL TRAFFIC AIDS By Churles Radio operators at the the voice of a private plane 'for aid. He wag above clouds and had lost contact with the ground. II w unable to inform the Eugene station of his approximate location. The signals ceased. A futile search has been made for a plane occupied by two Mcdford men a plane apparently in wreckage on some mountain ocak. A few yeara h'lue (it could be now if funds were available) private or commercial fliers will have greatly ' improved navigational aids available to assist them in such emergencies Soon airlans will be marked by all-direction high fre quency radio signals. A flier will be able to follow a radio beam, just ns an auto driver follows the yellow line of a highway. Regardle.-s of his flight path, he will be able to tune in on a brum leading him to an airport, where additional aids will bring him safely into port through d?.rkncss or dense fog. Only a comparatively few years ago, while serving as correspondent for a nationally-published aviation magazine, we reported the installation of revolving airways beacons on the Pacific coast route. These flashing, rotating 'lights have guided plane.! through the darkness. Now we are told they are on their way out. They are to be replaced with radio beams as rapidly as funds are supplied to purchase neces-.ary e-iuipment. Already 271 "omnirange stations have been built in the country and plans are de veloping for a -(380-mile route through Missouri, Nebraska, Knnsas, Oklahoma. Colorado, Wyoming, Texas and New Mexico. First installations will be made in areas carrying , . if ln,.n,,UA utt travnl i litlit fllnnff Heaviest aerim uauit. iun -"- the Pacific Coart airway, compared with some other routes. it may tane cons'neraoie ume w i'miM-" facilities fir this area. But eventually there will be no necessity for such trfgedies as the one which occurred recently near Eugene. Ballot Measures PAY FOR LEGISLATORS ' ; By Charles V. Stanton From imt to fim w propoio to dieut in thii column tho varloui miurti ppring on tho ballot for th Nov. 7 gtntral lection. Our diieunion will bo opinionatod. Wo ailc no ono to accept our opinioni. Wo hop wt may itimulato itudy of tha meaiuroi, that votori will bettor underitand them when fhey qo to the polli. Todsv we will discuss the first measure on the hallot, a measure to provide annual compensation for legislators. At present Icnislatori are paid $8 ?r-r day with a limit of 50 days, he last session of the legislature ran 100 days, which Rave our slate senators and representatives the "munificent" sum of U per day. It is proposed that legislators be Raid a flat salary of $600 per year, o additional compensation would be given for special sessions. California pays lis legislators i3600, plus $15 per day while in session. Washington pays $1200, plus $10 per day expense money, during sessions. Only two states in the Union pay less than Oregon. Small Fraction of Cost Compensation paid legislators is an exceedingly small p.irt of legis lative costs. For instance, the 1549 session incurred $315. las in wages. But legislators receive! only $.. 400 $12,200 for senators and $C4.200 for representatives or slightly more than II percent of the total wage cost. Had the pro nosed annual compensation meas- sure been in operation during the last session, legislators would have received $72,400. or approximately i 2? percent of the total wage ex penditure. Compare the pay of legislators with the $92,425 paid Senate clerks ai.d $143,981 paid House clerks or i even the $22,744 paid ianitois. lt is a rather sorry commentary, in our opinion, that the State of Oregon pays a state senator less tl an a janitor or the senator's clerk during the period of the ses sion. Must Use Own Funds lt is surprising that the calibre of our stale legislature has re mained so high under our iinap-l Phony Doctor Reaches End PORTLAND i.-1v A self slyled doctor is in jail here and police said he had left a trail of bad checks throughout the Northwest. His medical knowledge, Detec tive Arthur Schermerhotn said, came from service in the army medical corps and work at a drug store soda fountain. He w-as .jailed as Harry W. Jones, 34, Portland, Kit Srhcrmerhorn said his bride of three weeks thought he was "Dr Charles' A. Allen of Castle Hock, ash " A minor traffic uolaltnn at Cen tralia led to his arrest. Because he had no driver's license and knew he was wanted in Portland on a ba4 check charge, the de tective Wid. Jones lied when a Centralia policeman stopped him. : He took a taxi to Olyuttjia. char-1 tered a plane to PortlaiiaT and was arrested Thursday shortly after arriving at Troutdile airport. His wile was bryu:ht here for questioning but vtai released Po- of lice sain she had no knowlodne of her husband'! record of activi ties. Police records !Vr how ha mo V. Stanton EuKene airport recently heard operator frantically appealing preciative method of compensation. A senator or representative cannot begin to pay his expenses at even $S per day and certainly not at $4 per day. It is impossible, in view of the slate's continued growth, to keep sessions within tho 50-day limit. As population increases, leg islation becomes more complex. Thus a member of the legislature must be willing to sacrifice several hundred dollars of his own money at each session in addition to what he might be earning during the period he is absent from his busi ness or office. This situation makes it obvious that only men of more than aver age income can afford to serve the slate in its legislative depart ment. Kither that or a legislator must be subsidised by special in terest. Many well-qualified and in- i teresled men could be brought into ; the legislature if less personal sac- nfice were involved It is a certainty that legislative sessions w in oecome progressively : situation grows, the number of men able to afford legislative office will become more and more limited. On the other hand, the opportunity for subsidized legislalors will crease. Carried to its ultimate, this situa tion could eventually result in a legislature composed almost com pletely of legislators working for the selfish interests of pressure groups, subsidizing their expenses. A few such cases already are in evidence; fewer. howeer, than would he cected. We canntit ex pect that the hinh calibre of our 1 -Rislalure wilt he retimed much bngcr unless the personal sacri fice required of men who sere us is reduced. Of Trail Of Bad Checks stTvod a term in the CoIoimHo peni- lentiai-y for had checks and served ino days in the Portland jail last year on a similar charge CITY BOTHERS INDIAN THE PAS, Man i Vmd shadrs of lipstick uom by wn turn in this northrrn inun shockoil James John McPhrrsnn on his fust visit 'to riili?ahon". "Thry looked a if thry had cut thrniM'lx ps," said the .io-vrar. I old Indian. McPhn-sonv K a dnk for the HudWs Hay I'o at York factory. Hp nndr his firt visit to inp "outside" Jo spp the grave of his wile Hint iift in the Pas sana to-tum List April. Th Indian said he found if ditfrcult tirMing around town uith-urt tjpttinn lost. "The trouble i(t all ihrse buildings." he said. 'Thpv tf-n in thew jour v(mj." O The Boston halted bean is he- nevrn in n originated with iNeJ Englandjidiims. (J The Love That Passeth All Understanding Guest Editorial THE UNITED NATIONS ly DR. JOHN L HASKINS Manager Roiaburg Veteran! Hospital This week marks another birthday of that well known infant, tha United Nations, an infant born in the comparative calm that followed World War II, and an infant in whom we place tha trust that ho would lead ut to paaco among nations. That young ster has had a pretty tough time during his babyhood, most of the ills that could befall a youngster have been his in his first five years, his foes have treated him badly and his friends have done worse, at times. Many people have suggested that! his case was hopeless and that weitive petce mie 0 (ne action of the might aa well let him die, as his Assembly of the United Nations, elder brother, the League of Ns- we all remember how near we tions, died years ago. But he has',were t0 reai trm,ble in 1946 when not given up the battle for exis- Rui4 cr0SSPd the Iranian border. tence, and today ne seems to oe able to stand on his own two feet and start to take care of himself. In the past few months the young ster has begun to exert himself in Korea and to show evidence that j fairs might have lead to serious there is more than a little hope,rmp(i conflicts, but in all eases that which his sponsors promised for him will be lived up to in the not ton far dislant future. U. N. Pattern There has been a tremendous , amount of misconception among us as to what the United Nations is actually. First, it is not a super slate, but it is composed of sov ereign states that have given it only limited power. It is not de signed to replace the ordinary ma chinery and patlern of two-way communication between nations, lt cannot adequately settle disputes safeguard collecive security or ef fectuate projects designed to re- mnv lh nf uir u ilhont th ! cooperation of Die countries that! where education is unknown, are;darndest to get convictions are of make up ils membership, and par-l always going on. Hunger, disease,'"0 avai if local court is ap ticularly without the cooperation of 'poverty, ignorance, and conditions ; athetic m enforcing the law. It the "Big Five", lt has, as vet, noiof social injustice are many times lakes the judge to back up the permanent armed police force to the underlying causes of war. Con-, field man and put teeth in the enforce its mandates ; qi,r uom nimm rortes inm., iiir i ,im-i, :awt,ii a se.t up for three basic purposes: - r-nst, to remove the causes of war creating conditions necessary tor peacetul and friendly relations among nations higher standards of living and wider guarantees of fundamental human rights. Second, to provide machinery for adjusting , differences endangering interna- tional peace when the normal ma-: chlnery of diplomacy should fall.! I'hree, lo provide collective secur ity against threats of peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression; and to use diplomacy, economic, and as a last resort, military measures, to avert hos tilities or prevent their spread." There hae been many factors that have worked lo prevent the full development of the ideas stated in the charter; fust it laced tre mendous problems before it was fully organised, the problem of atomic energy, the question of ref ugees, food crises in much of the world, dislocations of trade, unem ployment and the health situations. I'walucd problems such , ' " " iniinnrni, ,nr :, ,i iriunY in Kflinfis in naijon at mar ume. 1945 have now split into two great Five more Onward pupils also groups among whom suspicion, reported at Walton vhool. where fear, and mutual distrust have Turner ordered all classes held un done mueh Jo weaken the effective til the Onward rebellion ends. Tur action of the United Nations and I ner's consolidation order called for slowed progress toward w o r 1 d ! one township high school in Walton peace. and one grade school in Onward. Successes Noted Onward eiticns have been fighting Despite all of these hazards on since last spring to keep a high the road tn peace, much had been school of their own, even in the ccomplished before the Korean situation developed. T.efs look at a few or these before we think of Korea. Entirely Ihrouch the action ' of the United Nations w the fiEht- mi; between Jews and Arabs stop-1 pert in raicstine. the Indonesian maiion was one in unun the spark oi a terrific conflagration smouierefl, nut ine ecunty council Of the I'niteu Nations stepped in, w on necemoer z;. it, tne in- dependent Republic of the United States of Indonesia came into nema. tne near war between Pak- man inn innia. a er casnmir was avrrirn oy i nnen iaiioni action.; Ureece, which had been torn by V. hatlle for ten vears has romnara. ayna and Lebanon later com plained of British and French troops on their territory and in these cases troops were withdrawn short time. Any of these af the influence of the Assembly stop ped the fighting. The lifting of the blockade of Berlin was another di rect result of intervention of the United Nations. Those are the more spectacular moves, but there are many, many less dramatic actions going on constantly that, unless we sludy the records carefully, we know little about. We fail to realize that day by day special commissions are work ing to combat disease, famine and poverty throughout the world. Ef forts to care for the millions of refugees from political oppression. efforts to develop security for mil linns of nnnl tn pHuz-ala Ihnia flicts cannot be avoided as long as i,uun,ns ,,i ruJie mi noi nave, t-.ii, iiiiu Jims, , have no sense of security and are oenieo me fundamental rights and freedoms. On these problems is the l niteo isatinns working constantly through various organizations, each set up with a special purpose in view. The day by day work is less spectacular ihan stopping a war now, but the lasting effect may be tremendous in the future, More Teachers Shifted In School Merger Feud I.OGANSPORT, Ind (.n -Another group of teachers is being pulled out of the m"rgpr-fighting ihool at Onward. Township trustee Virgil Turner announced three more teachers would have the choice of shifting from Onward to nearby Walton or else be fired. Previously Turner fired William Helms, Onward principal, o n grounds Helms didn't cooperate in nirner s plan to merge the schools of two Tipton township towns. Tor ner aiso iransierreo lour onward point nf standing off 40 state troop- ers on Ocv U, w.,Dtikir uue t.o. NURSING HOME TARGET PORI.ANP Court tmn was (ttken here to force the state boai1 o health to nmsprui nursin homes and hospitals nper - j in (ieon without lirraVs. i alma i A petition for rit ft manda- mus to l.arw- prosecution show cause why such prostS should not take place ts filed h a sroup of licensed pulsing horn operators ma pennon listed Tn hoitwaj as unlicensed. I O LETTERS to the Editor Court Leniency Toward Woods Firebug Deplored TACOMA, Wash (To The Edi tor) Your excellent editorial of September 15, "The Incediarist," was a much-needed indictment of a public enemy who has long been a deterrent to the practice of long range forestry. It is regrettable that in this day of enlightened appreciation of a forest's real value to a community. directly in payroll dollars and in directly in watershed benefits, we must still condone the skulking ac tivities of firebugs. As you point out, it is difficult to conceive any motive an incendiarist might have in this period of full employment, unless the culprit is purely a psy chopathic case, as many of them are. The desire "to see something burn" is frequently the motivating factor. Perhaps another item worth while checking is your law enforce ment record with respect to proved cases of incendiarism. In the '30's, particularly, local courts in many parts of Oregon were very lenient in dealing with incendiarisls who literally had been caught with their fire-brands down. When few con victions are secured in open-and-shut cases, it is difficult to arouse respect for the law, and violators consequently become more numer ous. Dealing with incendiarists re quires the full cooperation of fire protection ayencies and law en forcement bodies. An aroused pub. lie and fire guards doing their '" . .. e owe nun 11 i me iH-p ynv K"n v,rvn piifkiant " mi , ,,.-,, i-k public awareness of losses result- ing from forest fires. Let us hope that even the incendiarist will lis- ten to the message. WEYERHAEUSER TIMBER COMPANY By Albert Arnst Department of Public Information France Rejects Peace Talk Idea PARIS (.V) France's national assembly has voted solidly to turn down any immediate peace neco nations w ith Indochinese Rebels Leader Ho ( hi Minn and endorsed the Koprnment's policy in that key southeast Asian spot. In supporting Premier Pleven's Asia policy, the assembly heat hack by 408 to 171 votes a Com munist motion urRin.1 immediate peace talks with thf Moscow trained guerrilla leader. Instead the assembly adopted, 3T)3 to 215. a motion assunna the forces fichtin? the Indochina reb els of French solidarity and ex pressed confidence in the covern ment's ability to handle the situa tion, despite recent setbacks. In a speech before the assembly, Pleen said It seemed established that Red China has trained and armed a i;ood part of the Cori-mumsl-led Nationalists who are plastering the French in Indochina. If it is found that foreign troops hae mined Ho's forces, the: Prem ier said. France will have to loo!; for further support from her allies. This was interpreted as a threat - 10 (."r r"ited Nations aid.Q ' " o O o G3 In The Day's News .By FRANK (Continued Krom Page One) states represented a his Prsgue meeting surround Tito's Yugo slavia like a tent Tito is rank poison so far as the Kremlin is concerned because he refuses to take the Kremlin's or ders insisting on being a TITO communist instead of a Kremlin communist. That is heresy of a sort that mustn't be tolerated. It is fairly well agreed that the Kremlin would like nohing better than to liquidate Tito and his Yu goslav followers. If liquidation of Tito were decided upon, it would he Poland, Hungary, Rumania; Bulgaria and Albania that would be ordered to do the job. Here enters a horrible thought: What if Poland, Hungary, Ruma nia, Bulgaria and Albania, after watching Korea, should get the idea that afler being sicked onto Tito they might b.e ABANDONED by Russia if they made a flop of the liquidation business? That is exact ly what happened to the North Ko reans. When they failed to carry out orders, they were left to their fate. Tito has a reputation as a tough homhre. He has a trained and com petent army of a half million or pfeiij By Viahnett S. Martin i,-rS Dipping Into "Of Men and Mountains," by Justice William O. Douglas in the U.S. Supreme Court (Harper's 1950) which EJ is read ing with considerable enjoyment, I noted this passage on page 143: "This Indian was justly proud of his race; he had discovered an important secret of success. He knew that a Douglas fir cannot possibly become a cedar or a sugar pine; similarly he could not be recast into another image. He could be only himself. Once a man accepts this fact, his yearnings become geared to his capacities. He knows his strength as well as his limitations. "He may be unknown and un sung; but being wise, he has found the road to -contentment. Like the mountain laurel, or snowberry, or sage, he pretends to be no more than he is. By being just what he is, and no more, he contributes a unique and distinct flavor to his community. He is not likely to have a neurosis that produces physical ailment or social malad justment. Thus did I have a lesson in philosophy." Other tantalizing "dips" into this fascinating book showed it to be filled with nature lore, and Lt. Col. Irving Off To Meet I.t. Col. Robert L. Irving, who commands the 1st Bl. 18fi Inf. Ore gon National Guard, left Oct. 18 for Washington, D. C. to attend the National Guard association confer ence from Oct. 23 to 25. 'Other delegates from Oregon in clude Brig. Gen. Raymond F. Ol son, assistant adjutant general; Brig. Gen. G. Robert Dodson, com mander Oregon air national guard, and Col. Hugh Adams, United States property and dis bursing officer for Oregon. This conference is being held in lieu of the annual convention which was canceled due to the world sit uation and the inadvisability of having many high ranking national suard officers absent from their state due to impending inductions of units. Prior to departure. Col. Irving was notified that he will serve on the resolutions committee at the conference. Mrs. Iruing will accompany her 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? Wouldn't life be lots more happy If the good that's in us all Were the only thing about us That folks bothered to recall? O Jxc dluijicl tlie looses Roseburg Funeral Home rs Oak ood Kant Str,. Q RonburgH0'9 Funerals Tel0Q Ambulance Service O' JINKINS. more men which is guessed to be somewhat more than the COM TiI.NKD strength of the Poles, the Hungarians, the Rumanians, the Bulgars and the Albanians. More over, it seems likely that if Tito is jumped on we'll have to go to his rescue. It isn't surprising, you see, that the Kremlin might want to stiffen the backs of Ha stooge gangsters. It doesn't want them washing out on the job. There's another interesting little tale in the news this morning. A Frankfurt dispatch says: "Ukrainian sources reported to day that Lt. Gen. Taras Tschup rynka, COMMANDER OF THE U K R A INI AN UNDER GROUND ARMY RESISTING COMMUNISM, has been killed by the Russians in battle." What does that mean? The Ukraine is a part of Russia. The Ukrainians have an "under ground army resisting commu nism." This resistance army is BIG ENOUGH TO FIGHT BAT, TI.ES WITH THE RUSSIANS. All, you see, may not be sweet ness and light and brotherly love behind the iron curtain. That, if true, would be MOST important. my word talk about fishing! It's a textbook on that! Judging by what I have read so far, the above passage would not by any means suggest we should slump, be ap athetic, and "not care" nor spend i our days in regretful acceptance ' of a lesser achievement because i we feel handicapped by this, that, or the other. No, indeed! If any : body ever used his stumbling block I as a stepping stone, it was a boy named William O. Douglas. In his boyhood fight to over ; come the limitations of infantile I paralysis he most certainly did not I waste time on any Ifs! That part of the bonk holds for the mother of a child seemingly handicapped an enlightening picture of the effect of a mother's attitude upon I the very one whom she seeks to I help. The book offers to any con J valescent the challenging inspi I ration: "Well, he did it. Why can't : 1? 1 can!" To have a goal, an objective, is such a long step for ward when one is lying on a bed, helpless physically. "Of Men and Mountains" is a fine book! I wish every 'teen-age lad might read it. It would be a fine gift for son, brother, husband, dad, or friend. Lana Turner Again Loses Expected Child HOLLYWOOD (Pi For the second time in two years actress ; Lana Turner has lost an expected child. She and wealthy Bob Top j ping were married in 1948. Her studio said she slipped and : fell yesterday at her Bel-Air home I and lost a baby expected next Jan uary. A similar misfortune befell her in New York Jan. 1.1, 1949. Miss Turner's daughter, Cheryl Chris tine, by a previous -marriage to Stephen Crane, is now six years old. TWO DRIVERS FINED Two reckless motor vehicle driv ers paid fines Monday in the court oi Justice of the Peace A. J. Ged des. Floyd Carl Knott, 20, of Dil lard paid $50. and Roy Thompson of Winston was assessed $100. State police made the arrests. husband to Washington. They ex pect to return to Oregon the first week in November. 'Wouldn't It?' Wouldn't it be nice to practice That fine way of thinking, too? You know something good about me; I know something good about you. o O Youth Has Close Call Trying To Nab Cougar Cub SEATTI, E JP) A seventeen year-old Gordon Williams tried to pick up some "furred dynamite" on a mountain trail yesterday. Luckily he escaped with his life and a $300 reward. Young Williams, a Seattle boy. ' was walking up a Kittitas county trail in the eastern foothills of the Cascade mountains with his sister, Gail, 12, and brother, Paul, little baey cougars you ever saw." Moved by impluse, he ran to catch one when his sister screamed a warnipg: "Look out, its mother's coming." Gordon dropped the kitten and ran for a gun which he had left on a trail. He turned and fired at the snarling, tail-lathing "cat" when she was only 10 feet away anfl coming fast. His aim was true and the trio then shot the kittens. Then they claimed the $300 bounty for the four animals at the state game department office. John Biggs, assistant director of the department, shook a little when he heard the story and stammered: "I cannot imagine anything more hazardous than picking up a baby cougar. Whew!" Young Williams said that at the time he never thought about danger. It was only when other persons told him what an aroused mama cougar can do. The big cat weighed little better than 125 pounds and mea ured t feet 8 from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail. And any weserner knows that's a lot of cougar especially female. Roseburg Visited By South Korean A South Korean named Nee Too Pang was the unusual guest, Oct. 20, of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Pierson, former Roseburg residents who are staving with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. MabJey at at 1406 Harrison St. at present. The Piersons lived in Korea for ! many years doing missionary med- ical work for the Seventh Day Ad ventist hospital in Seoul. It was during this period they became acquainted with Nee Too Pang. Nee Too Pang, who is approxi mately 50 years old. originally came to the U. S. to attend a Sev enth Day Adventist conference in San Francisco just before the Ko rean war erupted. He has had no word since as to how his family of six have fared through the war. Dr. Pierson took the Korean to Portland Monday where Nee Too Pang will arrange transportation to San Francisco and board a ship to Korea. Sept. 8. The U. S. army h?s asked Dr. Pierson to return to Korea as soon as possible in order to get the Sev enth Day Adventist hospital into full operation again. His former colleague, Dr. George Rue, hat already gone back to staff the hos pital. Pierson will probably leave in the near future. Mrs. Pierson and her two chil dren will live in Portland until familes are allowed to, go to Ko rea. Dr. Pierson served as inter preter for a talk which Nee Too Pang delivered Saturday Afternoon at the Seventh Day Adventist church in Roseburg. Cobalt is used as an alloy for jet engines. GOT A KICK? If your paper has not been received by 4:15 p.m., PHONE 100 between 4:1 5 and 7 p.m. ONLY Wouldn't it be fine and dandy If each handclasp warm and true Carried with it this assurance? "I know something good about you." Wouldn't life be lots more happy If we praised the good we see? For there's such a lot of goodness In the worst of you and me. to ! e ' . ; 'rv"".J w ' M?m' . LA MRS. L. L POWERS Licn4 la4y Attvfldmt r 'O o o "So Oc:: c:c::: c:::c: o