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I 0 4 The. Newi-Review, Roseburg, Or Fridty, Jon. 5, Publithitf Djly littpt Sunday by lh . Nw$-Review Company, Inc. E nit ft 4 trnna rlait HUtttr Mar T, It?, at tht pail afdrt at ' Raiaburc Orrfan, untltf et Mnrrb S, 171 CHARLES V. STANTON DWIN L. KNAP Editor - i Manogtr ' Member of the Associated Preii, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Rtprtttnltct ky WFRT-HOI.IJD A V rO., INT., fllrta In Nw Yark, (hkaf, Kan Franrlsra, Ln AnUi, tcilllt, Pi.rtlan4, HI. Laaia I BK SIPTIOV RArmln ()rn-ll Mall Pr var, (; sit manlha, SIM: thru month 1 5. Ml. By N Rrvlv Carrier fr ar. lit M ) ad vane), lata than ana war. ?r month. il.M. Outtlita Oreie-n Br Mill Par year, 19.00; ad mantbi, I1.1A; ihrca maniha, PROSPERITY By CHARLES V. STANTON Perhaps you have been wondering why your newspa pers and magazines are so thin. However, if you Mop to recall previous years you will remember that this is an annual occurence. January and February are low months in the publish ing business. Advertising, which governs the size of newspapers and magazines, usually takes a nosedive immediately after Christmas, then climbs back to normal level in the early spring. That is why newspapers and magazines have fewer pages at this period of the year. Having completed intensive sales efforts during Novem ber and December, merchants have the job of putting away unsold Christmas surplus goods, taking stock inventories, getting merchandise on the shelves for the spring season, handling tax matters, and transacting the large accumula tion of year-end and new year routine. At the same time consumer buying is at low ebb. The holiday season has drained the family exchequer. The pocketbook needs a little rest and recuperation after Christ mas bills have been paid. .With but little exception, buying is confined to the es sentials of food, shelter and clothing. Under these conditions, the merchant is not inclined to large advertising campaigns, unless his business falls into one of the essential fields. Christmas Buying Heavy . While we are' not acquainted with conditions elsewhere, we know that Roseburg merchants were, for the most part, pleasantly surprised' s by. the heavy volume of Christmas business. Karly buying was above average but volume for the last 10 days exceeded all expectations. Sales were so good, in fact, that many merchants became worried that their stocks would not last through the season. It is the common practice to hold January clearance sales ahead of inventories.' Hecause inventories are used for tax purposes, merchants like to get their stocks down to a low point before listing their assets for the assessor. It is standard practice to follow Christmas sales efforts with special bargains designed to move remaining winter goods ahead of inventory and before the arrival of spring merchandise. ; This general practice is proving somewhat embarrassing to several Roseburg chain firms. Head of fices are sending out clearance sale instructions, hut the Koseburg stores haven't enough surplus merchandise to t justify sales of tha-magnitude ordered by headquarters. One local store, we are informed, already has exhausted most of its January quota of merchandise, yet is receiving instructions for a clearance sale. Advertising Level Affected The situation in the merchandising field directly affects all advertising mediums. In large cities, January 1 usually means layoffs for many printers and pressmen. Smaller newspapers do not normally reduce their staffs, although workmen are not under normal production pressure. Newspapers govern the number of their pages bv the amount of scheduled advertising. One thing readers do not realize in that connection is that the news matter in a newspaper varies in total inches only slightly from day to day regardless of the number of pages. Typesetting machines are capable of producing a fixed amount of type daily. They usually are operated at full capacity. tte gardless of the number of pages printed, a newspaper sets . a minimum requirement for news spnee and will not go below this point, even though the paper may contain vir tually no advertising. Thus the reader get.s his news and features even though the paper may be lacking in adver tising volume. Newspapers do not like this seasonal aspect of their operation, but it is something we can't avoid and it happens every year. This year it may be a little more noticeable because people around Roseburg had more money to spend at Christmas time than had been antici pated. But. we're certainly not going to find fault with that condition. . Range Grazing Fee To Be Boosted WASHINGTON - (.VI - The In telior department announces il will raise the fee western stockmen must pay to graze livestock on .public lands. Effective at the start of the cran ing season May 1, the fee will he inn-eased from six to 10 cents an animal unit month. An animal unit month is the amount one horse, or one cow or five sheep will eat or graze in one month. Secretary of the Interior Oscar i Chapman said the new fee will go! into effect in the 58 grazing dis-1 tricls of 10 western slates. The present range mprovemcnt I fee of two cents an animal unit: month will remain unchanged. It is an additional charge to the graz ing fee. Chapman said stockmen using the range recommended the i n crease. ,. "Ranchers of the west have rec ognized the need for conservation and improvement of the public, ranges, and are willing to pay their shore of the costs," he said in a ! statement. I The present grating and range ; improvements fees have been effect since Aug. 6, 1947. U. S. AIDS FILIPINO RELIEF MANILA lF) President HI pidio Quirino has announced that $l.50,000 soon would he available frum the United States for relief purposes. President Quirino has set up a committee to find new homes for families in Manila's slum districts. The slum clearance committee will conduct a survey and draft de tails of a relief program. DRAWBACKS Baby Killed As Children Play With "Toy Guns" ' Kl'GKNK (VI An 18-months-I old baby was killed Wednesday in a game of "toy guns" with two other children in the family. The baby was .Kerry Sue Knee- land, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Kneetand. of Route 2. Eu gene. Coroner Phil Bartholomew said the little girl was dead on arrival at Kugcnc hospital, with a neck wound, caused by a shotgun. I The children were playing in an I utility room while the mother was doing the housework and the father was in bed with the flu. Bartholomew said the parents were unable to explain how the children got the gun, or why there ' hrll in the chamber. U.S. Sacrifices Must Be Matched, "Ike" Says WASHINGTON - (.1" Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower says the European democracies must make eniiAl inrrilirAi i&'ith Amm-ira il (on es are lo he built up capable of defending Kurnn nrt taining ra?e. Preparing to le;ve for his com- hined Kiiio'an command, he told news rnnieri'nre "If every smritice h? America is not matched by equai sacrifices of the European democracies this thing cannot win." FIRE-WATER SURPRISE KLAMATH FA1.I.S (V L. C. Gilder dug a new well. He got water from it and when he held a match near the faucet, a five-foot flame leaped out and singed his face and arms, lie con cluded natural gas rose from the i well. What the O M ( Nil 1 yi4mk Ms' h mmmM h ' n The. Day's News By FRANK (Continued From Page One) choosing our leaders, we paid too much attention to pure politics and too little attention to statesmanship and patriotism. If we had had wiser leadership in the years that are past, we would be better off now. But ln the United States of America at least, that is a buck passing an swer. It invites this searching ques tion: Were we. the voters who dil the choosing, anv better than the! i,.nH,r r-hnai.1 I THEY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ELECTED IF WE H A D N'T VOTED THEM INTO OFFICE. So, you see, we're all in the mess together. We won't set out of it by flopping around like a chicken with Us head cut off, cry ing and wailing and blaming our leadership for what has happened to us. You can get into a mess that way, but the only way out of a mess is to work your way out. Like the frog in the milk can. He kept kicking until he churned him self a lump of butler to sit on. There's an odd little tale in the British institution known as ,he New Year Honor List. The 1950 honor list was published in London today. It is headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer (we call it secretary of the treasury.) He was picked be cause of the AUSTERITY PRO- GRAM which for five years he has ! forced on the British people. Atis- i Since the teachers of the future , must come from the children of c, :u . today. -and since something or tary teachers, 325,350 high school someone .must "sell" those chil-1 teachers, 20,000 college, 00, dren on the idea of taking courses i 000 kindergarten and 25.000 admin which will prepare them for teach- istrative personnel. ing, iew ork States Columbia j university is going straight to the 1 rnmiren oi :y i or wnn a in-: pae iwoKiei in a origin oiue cuvrr : anrt w illustrated bv students Ro called "The Story of Me." i hort Steinmenu and William (Juile in the language of the child Gambling. Published in 195(1 by the himself, the "Story of Me'' begins ' Metropolitan School Study council, in kindergarten, purportedly told : a research atfiliate of Teachers by junior when he discovers him-1 college, Columbia university, self ihere It continues in fourth , ,illmor ra, ,h( lpal.her as a V. grade, and so on until junior finds , , P Mce) for , brj(,f 5,,ell jn himself graduated, and in a boy's ; hl, ophomore vear: '"I don't camp where he becomes friendly i know ,., h,ppen.,) life's so with a group of men who are teach- j AM ,nd niy Cher's so stupid. T'V j Everything's dopey at home, too. Of course, junior, whose decision I Dad wouldn't let me have the car on what lo do with himself after the other night just because 1 didn't leaving high school has been de- laved, now finds that teaching is the real goal he wishes. He con cludes the "Story of Me" with I - Labor Official's Death In Car Labeled Suicide . EVERETT (.P -A director for the Western Conference of Teamsters, Fred J. Englert. was found dead in his brush hidden car I Wednesday. Snohomish countv Coroner Ken i B.iker said F.nglert. about 54, died of carlwu monoxide poisoning. 11c I lir.tcd the death as suicide, A hose mn'from the exhaust! pipe into 'he car through a rear j window. A farewell note to his j uifc, I'earl. was found at his side. Ivite, I'earl. was found at his side. Kaker said Mrs. F.nglert told him 1 i her husband was worried over business and financial troubles, j which .she investigated after his ; J disappearance and found to be imaginary. O Slate of the Union JENKINS terity can mean doing without now so you can have more later. It in volves hard work and sacrifice, which are never popular but are often worth while. worth depends, of course, on what Another name on the British previous year is taken for a corn honor fist is tlrat of H. .1. Sum- parison. Families of moderate in mers, a creamery worker. He come in large cities paid prices on broke the world record by churn-, Oct. 15 last, according to figures ing M tons of butter in a single released by the U. S. Bureau of day. , i I.zbor Statistics that on the aver- Still another is W. T. Gedden, a "Se were almost 80 percent higher Umdon railway station master i '""J1 Pnces Pald for similar goods who maintains British tradition by wearing "Tradition." silk hat on din v. Tradition," you snort? "What's i goon about that?" Tradition' is Hiving up lo your standards, even when the going gets tough, Another British honor award on the list went to 88-year-old Mrs. F. Home, who shocked eight acres of barley in one long working day. The British? They're old and worn out, 'we hear. Wait a minute. The British now have 20.000 men fighting alongside us in Korea. They started with a brigade which is roughly around 5.000. As the going got worse, they SENT MORE MEN. That, too, Is AUSTERITY. ' London, however, wasn't AIX t-nly last night. How many of you ETO ex-GIsI remember Piccadilly Circus and its little statue of Eros that was all covered up with concrete during the war to keep it from being smashed by German bombs? Well, they boarded it up again on New ear's eve to keep it from being climbeU over and damaged by drunks, F;i Yiahnett S. Martin statistics: there be needed in the next ten years 1,197.561 clemen The text was prepared hv the local steering committee of the Manhasset. L. I. public schools. and finish mowing the lawn. Ill get job this summer and get my own car I II shoiV em! The booklet doesn't say if junior got his car but by the time he is in his senior year, the world's all right again: "You stop all this kid grousing stuff like thinking the teachers are down on you. instead of knowing they want you to suc - ceeji ana are .ymir mends. 'Its a little like ashing your hands and neck yourself instead of having lo be practically lassooed to the water faucet by Mom. Ot course, school work still hangs over you, even as a senior. Hut Mrs. Jones' seminars make you look for things rather Ihan fight assignments. ..." It's a live v tittle honk Hot "Story of Me". It might even tn-1 fluenie another junior to journey along the way that is not crowded; and the reward of a teacher, on looking back, can be very satisfy-1 ing if I may judge by what 1 have read and heard. in Should Be Editorial Comment From Th Oregon Presi Medford Mail Tribune What the dollar Is worth today compared with what it used to be : f. services m m.i wncn worm lvar 11 DruKe 0111 m turope. t This means that for such families me aonar on uci.- is was worm in purchasing power about 56 cents of the 1939 dollar. It was worth cents of the V-J Day dollar that is, of the dollar at the end of World War II. But it was worth 96' cents of the dollar a year ago. How much the dollar is worth today in comparison with the dol lar of the past depends also on who is spending it. The dollar is worth more, comparatively, for the farm family that raises most or much of its own food than for the city family that has to buy all, or almost all, of the food it consumes. (Food prices have risen more than most other prices.) The dollar to day is worth more also for the family that owns its own home ihan for I lie family that has In nav i rent. (Rents in large cities have i risen, on the average, about 20 percent since 1939, 15 percent since the end of the war.) It depends, too, on what you are buying. For foods in general the dollar is worth a little less than 45 cents of the 19.19 dollar, and for meats- of atl kinds, only 38 cents. When you buy clothing and other wearing apparel, your dollar is worth 52 cents of the 1939 dollar, 50 cents of the 1939 dollar when you buy house furnishings, 47V cents when you buy coal, healing oil, or other fuels. But t1-' dollar on Oct. IS last was worth $1.02i cents of the 1939 dollar when you paid your electricity and gas tills (public utilities industry, take a bow.) All Ihis means that the average family with a NET income of $3000 in. 1939 needs one of about $5400 today -to be able to buy the same goods and services as 11 years ago. The rise in GROSS income would need to be even greater, inasmuch as income taxes are considerably higher now than then. Well, has the average dollar in come increased as much as aver age prices? Again', that depends. For persons on a fixed income from an annuity or a trust fund mostly in gilt-edge bonds, for in stance the answer, of course, is No. For factory workers as a whole, also for coal miners, aver age weekly earnings have more than doubled since 1939. and their "leal" wages ( in terms of pur chasing power) are up about one third. . Attack China Or Quit Korea, Sen. Bridges Says WASHINGTON -4,fC In a state ment on ranitnl hill today. Spna- ! ir Bridges (R-NH) proposed that t. in,ied Stales "should either . open a second front in China, by I h.rkinir rhm. Vaii.nhi in. vasion, or we should immediately withdraw our forces from Korea. "We have had enough talk and enough debate," Bridges said. "1 propose some concrete action for a change." The New Kngland senator said the cream of Chinese Communist mililary power i committed to i orea and added: "If we exploit this situation at once by supporting a second front the Communist gamble in Asia will ' fail and China can be re-won for the free world." Washington fm Report By FULfON LEWIS JR. (Copyright, I9S0 King Features Syndicate, Ins.) WASHINGTON I told you yesterday about a recent deci sion by the British Columbit court of appeals that being. Com munist it In itself good ni tuffieiont reason for barring pirson from- practicing Uw. Tho more I delve into this decision, the more unfortunate it seemi that lend-lease isn't itill operating. We might well have traded our own supreme court for that one at considerable profit. There are several interesting points in the British Columbia court's opinion, in addition to 'hose I noted yesterday. For one thing, the court made it clear that it does not regard the Late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and our own supreme court as quite so sacrosanct as do some Americans. It took several broad swipes at both. "The facts before this court and the known conditions existing to day," the British Columbia court's opinion said, "do not permit us to take the neutral and detached view of communism which the majority of the United States supreme court, as it was constituted between 1937 and 1947, persuaded themselves to adopt. . . . "We are compelled today to take a more informed view of Com munism ideology and practice than was generally prevalent in Canada and the United States prior to 1946. Up to that time, it was very dif ficult for people educated in Can rda or the United States to realize the true extent of the influence of Marxis philosophy upon what was happening not alone in Europe, but right here t home on the North American continent." That's in the formal language of the highest court in British Co lumbia. Tar.slated into every day language, it means that the court takes a dim view of the extreme lo which our supreme court carries the doctrine of individual liberties and. rights. The Canadian court makes it clear in other passages of its decision, that it believes thoroughly in that doctrine; but that it does not believe the doc trine should be carried to the ex treme point of validating the trai torous objectives of communism objectives cloaked in the guise o( being merely a political party, but in reality seeking the establish ment of a Communist government, bv force and violence if neces sary. The Canadian Court's opinion was even more specifically critical of the late Justice Holmes. It re ferred to him as "a judicial prag matist whom Mr. Justice (Felix) Frankfurter once described as 'so remote from the common currents of life that he did not read the newspapers'." , Then il quoted from some of Holmes' opinions, carrying the freedom of speech Idea to its ulti mate extreme, and added: "These statements do not reco ognize moral limitations; they do not recognize a distinction between propaganda as such, and reasoned statements founded upon historical experience. They push the rUht of free speech to a limit that makes Senator Morse Points Out U.S. Populace "Musts" WASHINGTON (JP Senator Morse (R-Ore) says the American people must mobilize their re sources, reduce their scale of liv ing and stop inflation if the United States is to survive as a free na tion. He said in a statement the no tion that the United States can be built up as a Gibraltar of defense for Americans "is but a figment of distorted imaginations." Former President Herbert Hoover proposed last week that V. S. forces be concentrated in forg ing a Western Hemisphere Gib raltar with forward outposts on Britain. Japan and Formosa. Morse said the curent debate on the nation's type of foreign pol icy "has never been surpassed in significance as far as the security of our country is concerned." "The American people," he said, "must make the choice between isolationism based upon the theory that we can build up defenses strong enough within our own country to make herself secure and forego cooperation with and aid to our allies unless they do exactly as we tell them to do "Or. on the other hand we have the choice of carrying out moral obligations we understood when we entered into the North Atlantic pact. "These obligations called for helping Europe rearm herself, but they call for working out with our European allies a mutual defense program aimed at checking Rus sia from seizing Europe. . . "The American people must face the ugly fact that if Europe goes down to Russia the security of America will be in great danger and we run the serious risk of war with Rjissia which will last for many years." The 82nd Congress, he said, "should declare a moratorium on politics as usual and dedicate itself to carrying out K full scale mo bilization program." "Russia will understand that language," he added. Sex Attack, Beating Fatal To Aged Woman PORTLAND (. A 76-year-old woman, beaten and raped here nearly a month ago, died in i a hospital Thursday. Miss Sofia Karlson. attacked iaK her home Dec. 9. suffered 10 fraiV tines about the head, police said. An autopsy will be held to de termine wheiner the beating caused her death. If so a murtler charge will he fjed. police said. Her attacker lOtill being sought. it only metaphysically distinguish able from an absolute right which ignores any attendant duties. "They would make it legally impossible to decide judicially when an abuse of free speech has occurred. They .would reduce loyalty to one's country to an im personal metaphysical abstraction, totally beyond the ken of ordinary mortals." Translated out of the somewhat labored judicial jargon, it means, again, that the Canadian court takes the very realistic and lo me at least, very sensible view that freedom of speech cannot be tor tured intu legalizing traitorous Communist activities. Some place there must be a limit to all things The opinion noted that our su preme court itself in several cases eventually adopted the views of Justice Holmes, and said this "may perhaps explain the supreme court's detached land one might say quixotic) altitudes towards communism ..." Another paragraph of the Cana dian court's opinion is in some what plainer language. It says: "Should we not hate what is wrong? Should Canada permit People to preach disaffection which may lead to consort with the enemy and the weakening and ul timate destruction of our own coun try? Such language and thinking can easily give reasons to Com munists to believe there is no limit to the naivete of the people of Canada and the United States." Thinking back on Alger Hiss, the simple Agrarian reformist Chinese ! Communist, the outright stealing of atom secrets by Russian spies, the bitter anti-American tirades of rhinAca rnmmiinicl rtnlontM ' before the United Nations tirades delivered within our very own j shores and scores of other inci- I dents, I sometimes wonder if there j is any limit to that naivete. I FOR . . . SERVICE . . . EXPERIENCE . . . v 'CO-OPERATION ... Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bank. Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNTY. All facilities available for your individual needs. 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SHOEMAKER, Preiidont. Subscribe1 and sworn te before me tbii Jrd day of January, A. D. 1M1. G (Seal) W. P. HARRIS, My Commission Tot Survives Fall oDown Sheer Cliff CHELAND, Wash. (Pi Atwn-year-old girl who fell ion feet down the sheer face of a cliff the day before New Year's is resting well at a hospital here. "It would make you hold your breath to see where she fell," her doctor, M. J. Wham, recounted. Susan Eve Brooks, daughter of Mi. and Mrs. Lee Brooks, was missing Sunday morning. Mrs. Brooks and neighbors searched along the high bank of the old Chelan river bed about 10 feet from the Biooks home, A dog led them to a certain area but nobody could see where the girl might have fallen over lh perpendicular clay bank. Don Dodson, 12, another boy, Jimmy Simmons, and Mrs. Brooks Eitked their way to the valley elow the cliff. "I was walking along when I Jieard a faint cry," young Dodson said. "I looked around and saw Susan lying there. I carried her to her mother, and then the three of us carried the little girl around the cliff and. back home." "Dr. Wham reported today Su san Eve has a fractured leg hut is in not too serious condition from her ordeal. She apparently slipped and rolled much of the distance before drop ping directly to the old river bed. She landed about 75 feet from water that now is released over a dam into the old river channel. BOY HIKER DIES VANCOUVER, B. C. (JP A 12-year-old. hiker, apparently over come by exposure when only a mile from his destination, was found Uead under a log on Grouse mountain. The boy, Norman Fielders, had been missing since,- Sunday when he left home to hike up the peak on the north shore of Burrard in let. A surveying crew found the body. GOT A KICK? If your paper hat net been received by 6:15 p.m., PHONE 100 between 4:15 one 7 p.m. ONLY DIRECTORS G. V. Wimberly G. C. Flnlay Guy Cordov B. R. Shoemaker W. F. Harris N. 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