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4 Tht Newi-Rtvl.w, Roieburg, Ort. Woo"., March 14. 1M1 I 9bo 31cw$Hemew Publiihtd Doily Eictpt Sunday by th Nows-Rviw Company, Inc. Enttrt it fantf clan milir Mar 1. 3. at tb tt fflct al ttabnrg. Uragoa. attt ftcl March 1, Uli ' CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L KNAPP Editor Manager Mtmbar of th Associated Pratt, Oregon Newspaper Publithert Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations ftrrtn4 kr WHtt-HOI.LIIMlf CO., INC.. IIUa la Kw Tart. C'Blrai, Catarc Hat an) Claa Mallrr Mar 1. IV-'". OIHce l Raarburg, Ort(an, Vn4ft Ari af March S, 111. an rfanrUco, Lea Angrlai, Icatlla, Parlland, St. L.uU. tUBSCRIPTION RATKK la Ore fin Br Mill Par Year, ItO.Mi U manlhi, f 6.VJI: thraa monlha. tt.TH. fir Nrwi-Revlrw Carrier Par Yrar, SIS.ne tin ad vance), lata than ana rar, par month, SI. Oil, Oalilda Oragon Br Mall Par Year, Ill.OOt ale tnanlha. 14.50; Ihrae montbi, 3.0t. COMPOSITE VISITOR By CHARLES V. STANTON The president of the National Institute of Life Insur ance, Holirar J. Johnson, told newspapermen at a meeting in New York that the newspaper in "the greatest composite visitor" to the American home. Do you enjoy a visitor who speaks authoritatively on any subject a visitor who can tell you all the news of the day, at the same time interpreting those items you might otherwise find it difficult to understand? Do you enjoy a visitor who knows everyone in town and can tell you who is getting married, who has had "blessed events," who has been in trouble with the law, who is going on a visit or has just returned? Do you enjoy a visitor who attends all the meetings in town and tells you what transpired? Do you enjoy a visitor who is acquainted with all the town's busi ness houses and industries and can give you all the infor mation you may desire about prices, styles, services, etc.? Do you enjoy a visitor who can draw funny cartoons, tell stories, show pictures of current events, people in the news, athletic events and matters of human interest! You certainly would delight in having the visitor we de scribe in your home. It would be impossible, of course, to concentrate all that information and ability in one human being. But you do have such a visitor in your daily news paper a visitor combining all the talents enumerated, plus many more the knowledge of what hundreds of people want to buy, sell, rent, or trade, what has been lost or found, what services are offered, or the prevailing prices on used automobiles. The definition of the newspaper as a "composite visitor" certainly is apt. J . THE 38TH PARALLEL ' News from the press wires indicates we are being con- -ditioned for a halt in Korean fighting at the 38th parallel. It is rumored, in fact, that a "deal" has been made with ; Great Britian, that we will not cross over into North Korea. Our own State department is giving us little information but apparently is proceeding, in its usual roundabout way. to feed us propaganda designed to build public sentiment favorable to the 38th parallel halt. We certainly want an end to fighting in Korea at the earliest possible date. We want an end t the tragic cas ualties of the warfront. But should we be content with half a victory? We have previously made the grievous mistake of stop ping short of total victory. When we stopped the first World war without invad ing Germany, permitting her to escape any serious punish ment for her crimes, we paved the way for the second World war. When we failed to halt aggressions by the Axis powers, stultifying ourselves by appeasement, we opened the door to history's worst slaughter. When we fell for Soviet trickery and deceit, failing to use common sense in following up our second World war victories, granting concessions at Potsdam and Yalta, and speeding demobilization, we set the stage for Russian ag gression and the mess we are in at present. If we stop in Korea at the 38th parallel, we will have achieved only half a victory, leaving the Reds in possession of stolen territory. Russian had no right in Korea. Her joh was only to accept the Japanese surrender in that area. But she stayed. To stop short of the Manrhurian border is to admit Russia's claim to satellite control over North Korea. Halting at the 88th parallel indicates willingness for appeasement. It puts us right back where we started. Much as we dread the thoughts of prolonging a war, we believe it is time to show tough determination. We have seen the result of leaving a job half done. This one should be completed. Ril Viahnett S. Martin With flower-books and a botany at hand. I sometimes feci a bit stupid when I end up by queryini! Dr. Helen M. liilkey, professor of botany and eurator of the O.S.C. herbarium. I wrap a specimen in wax pnper, and enclose a self-addressed postal loo. Once my query got "covered up" Dr. Ciilkey is snowed under at times! and she wrote apologetically some time later, after receiving the query: . . . "we do try to answer our mail the same year as we re ceive it!" Although Dr. Ciilkey is very busy person she is also most gracious one letter has lit tle sketches on It too better illus-1 trate her helpful differentiation in flower characteristics. So, after about three years of this, I was surprised and pleased to learn that my professor friend was the author of a "Handbook": 1 bor rowed from the Stale library, and thought it fine. When 1 mentioned my discovery to the author of the botany, I was told: "It is not very well adapted to your area, he cause the Umpqua divide sep arating I.ane and Douglas coun ties, brings about many differ ences in the flora of the two." Imagine that! Dr. (iilkey in her last letter mentioned a book she and hOr sister had been enjoying' I quote I'm sure she will not mind. " 'Driftwood Valley" by Thea dora S. Slanwell-Fleteher. true story of a young couple who went into the tar wilds of British Colum bia, spending a year or more, in cluding a winlwy isolated by deep snow from the World e x c e p t by skis. They collected biological ma terial for the university, hence in clude fascinating accounts of wild life in the region. The author's dc- (3 scription of the northern wolf's love song is one of the most stir ring things I've ever read." Needless to say, "Driftwood Val ley" was added at once to the list of books I hope to rend before too long, and a query dispatched at once to the State library. When one loves birds, animals, and the growing things around one, life can never be dull. 1 would wish for every child an early opening of his eyes to the wonders of the world about him. Then, the seeds planted, the rest will follow natur ally. I read a deeply moving ac count by a young U.I. of what it meant to him in the New Guinea jungle to study the world about him: the flora, fauna, and the lit tle creeping things he could watch, silently, from his hiding place. AEC Worker Fired For Tip To Land Speculator WASHINGTON (.11 The Aotmic F.ncrgy commission has filed an employee on grounds he tipped a land speculator it planned to build a big plant in South Caro lina. Gordon Dean. AF.C chairman, said the man discharged was W Conrad McKelvey, who has been i employed on hous'ing and other i community problems in connection with the Carolina hydrogen bomb I pIlMlt. j Dean said McKelvev bad given advanced information to Walter V. Pace, a grocery man from Utah, "to the effect that another person could profit by land buying" near the site. He said Pace made pur chases of property. Dean said the matter is being investigated by the KM. D - -v.. In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from page Onei ran hear, seem to he scattering their stuff all over the place. Speaking of bombs, a retired oil millionaire in I.os Angeles offers to be $100,000 that Kussm doesn't at tack us this year and $200,000 that she doesn't attack in l!)-ri2. He says: "The offer is worldwide. There are no strings attached. If I win, I'll turn over the money to the Boy and Girl Scouts of l)S Angeles county." It's a good net. If he wins, It will be wonderful and if Russia at tacks us and he loses and has to pay up his money won't be worth much, anyway. Huve you been following this pigeon business in Scotland? If so, you'll recall that a couple of hundred pigeons have been mak ing a mess of the city hall . . . The city council, after quite a lot of discussion and advice, fed the pigeons grain soaked in Scotch whisky, expecting to get them drunk and then catch them . . . The birds gobbled up the whisky soaked gram, soared drunkenly hack to their rooftop haunts in the immediate vicinity and teetered there until they sobered up. After that, they went hack with renewed enthusiasm to the job of making a mess of the city hall. That story encourages me great- Free Men Must Junk Neutrality Idea In Event Of U.S.-Russian Struggle By BRUCE BIOSSAT In the councils of the United Nations, in the news papers and over the radio stations of free peoples in many Asiatic and European lands, on the streets and in the shops and factories of their cities, you hear the refrain: "If the United States and Russia want war. let them fight. But let us stay nut of it. Let us be neutral." No one can attempt to say ac- j curately how widespread these sen-1 others, shored up bv the Marshall timents are. Happily they are not piaIli narrowly missed, general. But they must be viewed From the moment Allied victory with sadness by all who appreciate how vital it is that free men every where stand together to resist the evil course of totaliarian commun ism. We know these attitudes spring more from emotion than from rea son. The emotion is fear, butt ressed by a sense of frustration and defeat. But in all attitudes rooted in emotion, men seek to find reasons to justify themselves. If these peoples are ever to muster fresh courage to see the reality of their j present peril, thev must be de prived of the comfort they are gaining from false reasoning about Soviet-American relations. They profess to see this as a straight-out I'. S -Russian struggle. Actually it involves every corner of the globe. No patch of earth is likely to be unaffected by the final! outcome. Tho nne meal r uhv the fn. I rus is on Russia and this country is that they represent the two poles of supreme strength in the world. ' We may thank Hitler for that, lie j so devastated Europe that the bal- aneing power of once-great France I and Britain was taken out of the' world scales. When the last battle was fought, only we and the Russians walked away from the field strong. What if the fates of war had decreed it should be BRITAIN and Russia? Can we doubt that all of Russia's venom and energy would today be pouring into a contest w it h the British? The viicuuna created by Hitler's destruction gave Russia its golden opportunity. It saw easy conquests looming up on every hand. Pros trate nations were ready to topple toward communism. Some did. Days For Uncle Joe .. . Jk JENKINS I ly. I thought we had all the screw balls over on this side of the water. I learn from the teletype this morning that one of the top While House problems at the moment is whether er not to fire the stenog who got the white mink coat. The normal political method is to fire the lower downs, with a great show of public virtue and the strong hope that the firing will distract public attention from the higher ups until the whole thing blows over. In this case, however, the firing of the stenog would be an admission that something was wrong some whereand that's what the politi cians don't want to admit. Isn't politics wonderful? In closing, this one comes from Paris: "The four power deputies (diplo mats from the U. S., Russia, Britain and France) opened their second week of. meetings today, fortified by a French lunch 'designed to ease the tension.' " The lunch was served at the Rose Palace in Paris. The Rose Palace is one of the places you go to see when you're doing the city. It's a wonderful place te describe to the Rotary club when you get home. The lunch, I take it, was in keep ing with the building. The incident confirms my person al oninion that if you're going to lave the world you can do it more romfnrlahlv as a rlinlnmat than as I a soldier. in World War II was assured, Rus sia knew this country would be the one real obstacle to its global ambitions. Russia not the United Stales made it a two-nation stuggle. The United States did not seek this fight. It did not seek leader ship as a world power. Both these things were thrust upon us by the harsh realities of Europe's post war ruin. The Soviet Union directs ils fire upon us because we are the onlv nation that needs to he defeated. How long would any other hold out against the Red tide if we were wiped from the scene? Far from this being "our" war with Russia, it is every free man's war. If we should go down, they would all go down. The notion that free people may somehow re- main neutral and free in a world swept by an all-devouring com mUlllSm is feverish fancv. a wild illusion born of nightmarish fear. II troubled peoples in many places do not soon awake from this dream, they will be shaken out of it rudely by the pounding tread of the totalitariah's boot. BERGH'S APPLIANCE SERVICE AUTHORIZED SALES and SERVICE MAYTAG WHIRLPOOL DEXTER WASHERS MONARCH RANGES IRONRITE IRONERS WerjService AllQMakei of Horn , Laundries and Refrigeration SEE US FOR RfrNTAL WASHERS 1200 S. Stephens U Dial 3-8348 Voluntary Credit Curb To Battle Inflation Begun WASHINGTON lPl The Fed : e r a I Reserve board moved j Tuesday to put a voluntary credit I restraint program into effect to help check inilation. The voluntary program will be j gin at once. The board and ihree other agenics are working now on recommendations to President Truman on ways to reinforce it, partly by compusory c 0 n trols aimed at holding down lend- ! ing. Loans by banks and perhaps by ! other types of lending institutions have increased at a record rate ! in the nearlv nine monlhs since outbreak of the Korean war fos tering inilation, the board con tends, hy swelling the supply of money. The new program ts aimed espe cially at choking off loans for buy ing up existing businesses where no increase in production would re suit and at halting loans "for spec ulative investment or purchases." j The board has appealed to "all : financial institutions in the United I Slates," and to commercial and investment banks and insurance companies in particular, to cooper- ale in the voluntary loan-restraint program. While government lending agen cies will not be covered, the board urged that they restrict their lend ing too. The private institutions were asked to "eliminate loans which ere not necessary to financing the defense program and are not es sential to the needs of agriculture, industry and commerce." The board said Attorney General McGrath had approved its pro gram, giving participants exemp tion from the anti trust law for ac tions they take in carrying it out. The program is intended to re lieve the lenders from feeling un der pressure to grant loans lest competitors pick up the business after they have turned it down. Its operation will be in ctargc of a 12-member "national voluntary credit restraint committee" to be appointed by the board with four representatives each from the lite insurance companies, investment banks and commercial (checking account) banks. This committee will "meet from time to time for the purpose of con sidering the functioning of the program and advising the board" regarding it. j Dr. Florence Blazier, i Ex-OSC Teacher, Dies I PORTLAND (.Ti Dr. Flo I renre E. Blazier, 62, professor 1 emeritus of home economics edu- cation at Oregon State college, died her Monday. ! She became ill while visiting ; friends in New York recently and i was flown back to Portland, where w he ' underwent surgery several days ago. . Dr. Blazier retired from her post at OSC in June, 1949, after 25 years I as head of the department. She served as chairman of the home economics division of the Oregon ! State Teachers and Inland Empire j Teachers associations. She was I prominent in educational circles throughout the northwest, i A sister. Mable Blazier, Port ! land, and a brother, Charles Blaz ier, Eureka Springs, Ark., survive. Fulton Lewis Jr. 1- 1 mi.. wm , WASHINGTON Secretary of 'State Dean Acheson s 1 1 -i. 1 TU.i: I : In I.it.iu 'Initio, xi-lint I amuassauur-Hi-iarHe, i iiiiijj dtasujj, j in a, ..- uf... cbmes naturally. He is busy scolding the Russians. As head of the U. S. delegation at the big four deputies' confer- of j,,, t0(ay aBout hundreds of ence, jessup is described as nav - ing wagged a finger at Soviet Deputy Andrei Gromyko. Grom-1 Nor is it compatible with the re yko, as usual, is spending all his ; . f wjdesread guerrilla ac- time beating our brains out with i his propaganda. Gromyko ignored Jessup. It's too bad we can't get the State department to do the same thing. I Most of the American people do. Gromyko has had a taste of Jes sup anger at other international conferences and knows it's all bark and no bite. In fact, Gromyko probably would lose a lot of hit gabby fighting trim if Acheson in , his genius didn't provide Gromyko with an international piatiorm ev- ery year or so on which to beat ine arums ui viuiii-duuu us. Along about now we ought to be sending in the first team of inter national wranglers. President Tru man has seen fit to bring in the first team of American industrial ists for the home front war. The same thing ou-'ht to apply to in ternational problems. The last time Acheson sent Jes sup on an errand was to the Wake island conference between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Truman. Not long after that ses sion Fearless Phil got the news from Korea that the Chinese Com- i munists had about a million troops I pouring across the South Korean I border. Every time he goes any where we get bad news. In business you'd be allowed two years of bad management at the most before stockholders and the labor union., would be hinting your services were needed elsewhere. Acheson and Fearless Phil go on forever, swapping mild insults with the Russians, then panling home to tell us about their witti cisms. The type we should send "to talk to Gomyko doesn't exist in the I high echelons of the State depart ment: at least, if there are any j of them rough and ready fight ' ers Acheson probably has them : shuffling red tape in Pauo-Pago. i Onetime ambassador to China. Pat Hurley, could do a job on Grom i yko, but the State department de bating society talked him right out of the department. Pat Hurley was the only man who ever hanged the table and ac tually yetlcd back at Stalin in a face-to-face conference. The inci dent resulted in a new respect on Stalin's part for Hurley and a new attitude toward the U.S. Angus Ward spent a year in a Chinese Communist prison because he wouldn't take their guff so now he's at Nairobi, British West Af rica. Jesstip's meanderings in China, along with some previous com ment in this space about John S. Service, his globetrotting comrade, stirred Chesler E. Shafer, a Mil waukee, Wisconsin attorney, t o write me about the fighting qual ities of Chiant Kai-Shek's troops on. Formosa. Unlike Jessup, Ser vice and Mr. Shafer. my informa tion is that the Nationalist hoops are pretty good. Good enouqht, at least, to give our boys on Korea a breather. Shafer says not. He was in Chi na as a personnel staff officer of the armv during the war. He thinks that out of 1, 000,000 able-bodied men on Formosa only about 20, 000 can do much fighting. He doesn't explain, however, why the Chinese- on Formosa are any less I formidable than the Chinese Com- i munists killing Americans in Ko rea. Same blood, same back ground, and even from the same families in many cases. One other point the ex captain from Milwaukee raises is that Chiang can't train troops. U. S. army missions on Formosa are lying if such is the case, and if they are the Pentagon should call them home for court-martial pro ceedings. They say that Chinese troops on Formosa are equipped and ready to fight. Shafer says that if the Nation aist troops ever do set foot on China they will desert and join the Communists. This hardly ex plains all the stories coming out 1 ;. LONG Directors: Frank W. Long q Jewell M. Long George B. Wright COURTEOUS mini v - if. v. - -a L , th0USands of Chinese cithtens re- belling against Communist rule. tivity in China against the Reds. Jessup and Service kicked Chi an? around for a number f years unUl he was beaten back on For mosa. Even then they weren't sat isfied. Just like ex-captain Shafer, who was in China, these State de partment aides are convinced that anti - Communist Chinese can't fight. Long-dead Adolf Hitler used to say that American boys couldn't fight. Adolf was singing a different tune a short time later while hot footing it into the dugout when , v s bombers were buzzing around overhead. Hear Fulton Leivis Daily On KRNR, 4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P.M. BLOW AT LIBERTY BANGKOK, Thailand P Austerity has hit hard at a sec tion of Bangkok's night life, A new law says all opium dens must close at midnight. Sales in Oregon retail stores amount to more than one and one half billion dollars a year, ac cording to the Census Bureau. FOR . . . SERVICE ... EXPERIENCE ... CO-OPERATION . . . Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned. Home-operated" bank Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNIY. All facilities available tor yeur individual needs. 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Cavanagh indicated the Pi mo line wumu nave irouole gets ring oiner pier space. t Eisler, alleged one-time No U. S. Communist, stowed awa aboard the Batory in Mav i!u and escaped to the Soviet zone r Germany. He had been free i bond on contempt of Congress an passport fraud charges. Since then, the liner has bee thoroughly searched by federal authorities each time it docked New York, the ship's crew ha been ordered to stay aboard whii in New York. J hmt not brt V 1 1 5 p.m., pnon f 2-2631 btwton 6:15 nd 7 p.m. Metal Weatherstrip Sash Balance 'til h ..1 LT- T- Only Practicing Licensed Lady Funeral Director In Southern Oregon REASONABLE i F.I 1 "V ml m 0 oo o