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4 The Newi-Revlew, Roteburg, Or Wed., March 21, If SI .0 Publiititd Dtify Except Sunday by h Nttwt-Review Company, Inc. Salr Hrtnl dm nIUr Mir 1. . '": al Rstobtirg. Ortguk. Bn4tr rt ! March f, lltl CHARLIS V. STANTON IOWIN L. KNAPF Editor Manogtr Mcmbar or th Aiwciot.d Prn, Oregon Ntwipopor Publiihtrt Association, tho Audit Bureau of Circulations fttftrMaU4 fcf H k T-HOIJ.II AY CO., INC., HIi-m In Stw twrfc. fblf-ftf Enl.rc It.nd ( l.i fcUller Mr 1. h foil OfflM l Bcirburg, Orrfon, I'ndtr Art f Mirrb S. HIS. ftl rrcUci( Loi ADjelt. Illlt, fcrlUnd, HI. UBSCRIPTIOM It ATM Ip Oregon By MH Pr Vr, 110.00; tlx monlhi. $5.t: Ihrea nnlhi. St.. Br Nw-IUriw Ctrrltr frr Vr. I11.M (I tuci), Ian thin n rr, per moiilh, II.UO. Ou tilde Ott go nHf Mll Pr lr, 111.00; tls montbi, 13. SU; ihrtt month, J.Q0. IT'S A YIRUS By CHARLES V. STANTON Observing patients in the office of 8 doctor in these day of colds, flu and infection, one cannot help but be amazed by the woes and pains that afflict the human body. One sees the swollen eyes, the red nose and hears the hacking cough of the patient sufferer; senses the pain of aching joints as a wracked wretch awaits the ministering hands of doctor and nurse; squirming and fidgeting efforts to find a comfortable position, but ever without success. And in these days it seems the waiting rooms are always full, and one must wait his turn (while turning) apparently spending hours upon end with last year's ma gazines before his name is called. When we heard our name (yes, we're speaking from experience) we finally succeeded, on the third attempt, in getting our rubber legs to lift our aching frame off the chair and carry us, staggering, into the doctor's office. Finally we got it through our head, as thick as a Ixs Angeles smog, that the doctor wanted us to remove our shirt. Then with radar, sonar and crowbar, he went to work. He probed, pinched and pounded ; made us pant, cough and grunt, then, after searching thoroughly with a mine detector, came up with an exultant, "I've got it." And all the time we thought VK had it. He informed us he had located a virus. Shouldn't Bt Difficult If the mine detector the doctor was using was worth thirty cents, it shouldn't have been difficult for him to locate the doggone hobnailed gremlin that's been running footraces up and down our spine, driving crampons in ev ery vcrtabrae, using a jaekhammer on our shoulder and elbow joints, filling our veins with scalding water one min ute and ice water the next, while taking what used to be muscles out of our legs and substituting rubber bands synthetic at that not to mention the coils of barbed wire wrapped around our innards, to be yanked at fre quent Intervals. But it seems that jiiBt locating a virus isn't enough. He must be eradicated, or words to that effect. First comes hypos of penicillin and stuff. Then a pre scription. After mortgaging the home and arranging with the bank to make delivery of the down payment by armored car, we were permitted to take home a tiny box of capsules. Without police escort, we were scared to death to be trans porting such valuable cargo, but managed to reach home safely and hide our precious treasure under the loose floor board. Sura Cur For Insomnia These, warned the doctor, must be taken at "regular" intervals, "clay and night." That means we must wake up every few hours and swallow some of those Fort Knox ious capsules. Previously we had trouble sleeping, but right away the capsules proved to be a sure cure for insomnia. We al ways fall sound asleep just in time to be awakened to take our medicine. The doctor added that we must slay home for a few days and rest as if a guy could rest when he can't find a comfortable position, lying, sitting, or standing. We'll stay home. Yes indeed the wife was there and heard the doctor's instructions. However, if misery loves company, we know a lot of yeu folks, too, are lovers. Hut. at last, we know something. We know now what is "THE THING." It's a virus! Tti Viahnett S. Martin I j 2 I never tire of watching the birds. How much like people I hey are! At times they are few and far between, when food is plentiful in the woods. Hut when that snow came did they flock around our back door! Just as 1 was wonder ing what on earth I could find next to feed thcin, I happened to find a quarter of a barrel of wheat left over from the time we had five hens. 1 was as pleased as if Santa Claus had left it for me! I threw out that wheat hy the panfull and watched the perfor mance which was well worth the price. Vie had birds I had never seen before, and lots I knew. All day long that patch was busy. Then finally the snow melted, but 1 had the wheat why slop? So they keep coming. We throw out scraps, too. This morning there were three left over pancakes hotcakes, EJ said and what a show ! A lot of juncos took after one pancake; apparently tho other two cakes were invisible the whole time. They fussed and snatched biles and hopped around like craiy. Along came a varied thrush (new to me; bird book says "very accretive" and to be seen only in depths of woods!) who chased off the little blackcaps. While he was doing that another thrush sailed in and had a bite or two. The two thrushes argued Ti out. No. 2 won out. No. 1 flew olf to a fence post to either sulk or plan strategy. Thrush No. S came down and No. 2 lost out. No. S chased No. 2 all around the snowball bush while a few juncos and a little striped sparrow darted in for a lute So it went even the blue jays mixed in, with angry screeches af the idea of sharing. Even two Alaska robins they have a white patche on the breast joined in. Vet all the time, two other pan cakes were lying there, forgotten and untouched as yet. Kach bird intent upon onething vetting all he could of the pancake upon which they all converged, l'lanty of wheat lay around, too, and other scraps. Was there any real reason for fussing and fight' ing, fearing and sulking, or going oft to plan strategy? There lay, in plain sight, plenty of food the trouble lay in a lopsided method of distribution. The divine l'lan is impartial. New Poster Racks Reapportioning Of Legislature Proposal Aim SA1.KM l.l'i -Rep. Robert Root, Medford, has intrcAltircd a proposed constitutional amend ment to reapportion the legisla ture. He would have the .Senate con tinue to be divided on a popula tion basis. Hut he wouM increase the AO member House lo members, giving each of the !t counties a representative, and dividing the I rest hy population. ! The constitution now says that ! both houses must be divided ac i cording to population, j Governor Douglas McKay has signetl into law the first of the bills to revamp the state s school i system. I The hills would have the ttnle boards & education snd higher education meet jointly, and legal ise the state department of evluca tion. The legislature will take Good Friday, Saturday and Kasler Sun dav off. the Senate voted 17 to tl toitake tha threeAlay holiday. Tha House votedf-Jo do so last week. Fulton lewis Jr. WASHINGTON All of the cheap fraud, chicanery and tawdry pilfering of public funds exposed in the RFC in vestigation were predicted in 194-48 by the Hoover com mission on organization f the executive branch of the government. j A group of prominent citizens, comprising a so-called "task force" for the commission headed by former President Herbert Hoo ver, took the HKC apart to see what made it tick back in 1H47 and '48. They came up with a rec ommendation that the agency be placed in the Treasury depart ment. Mr. Hoover, who first rec ommended establishment of the RFC to congress in 19.11, now fa vors abolition of the agency. Here is one paragraph of tha 1948 re port: "Direct lending by the govern ment to persons or enterprises opens up dangerous possibilities of waste and favoritism to indi viduals or enterprises. It nviles political and private pressure, or even corrupton. Kmergencies may arise in depression, war, na tional defense, or disaster which must be met in this way. But di rect lending should be absolutely avoided except for emorgoncis." Th RFC has developed into a short-cut financing agency, prin cipally devoted today to by-passing regular appropriations com mittees of Congress. It has ex pended in the past six years more than $12..V)0,0O0.HO of public money in the form of emergency loans, grants and gifts without even tipping its hat to Congress. Hy law Congress has control of the public purseslrings or did have until the legal eagles at the RFC stalled mining loopholes in the RFC enabling legislation. Some $2,4H9,000,(MH) in RFC funds were allocated to oilier fed eral agencies, many of which were refused funds n regular appro priation requests to Congress. Much of the money was used for specific projects rejected hy Con gress as unnecessary spcndingt of public money. Demands now to padlock . RFC moneybags meet with presidential and hair Deal resistance. 1 he agency has been used for so long as a grabhag by dollar-hungry admnistratton favorites that it would be like losing a rich patron if it were abolished. The RFC at one time was bossed by Jesse Jones, the Houston, Texas fnancier and former Roo sevelt a dministration stalwart. Congress had great respect for Jons' honesty and capability, and congressional trust in (his in- In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from page One) stance was not misplaced. But the Jesse Joneses in government appear all too seldom. His de parture served to sever RFC purseslrings, with the front page results we read today. Jones, like Hoover, thinks the HFC should fold up with a minimum of fuss and turn its lending business over to the II. S. treasury for collection of outstanding debts. A lot of proposals about what to do with the RFC have emerged since the mink coat scandal. On July 1, 1948 Congress extended the life of RFC for eight years. Lending powers were extended for only six of those eight years, with the final two years for liquid ation. lute in 1947 the senate banking and currency committee con ducted an "investigation" of the RFC. All the scandal, conniving and betrayal of trust simmered under the surface then. But senate banking committee "investiga tors" couldn't smell a thing. The corruption had to ripen before Sen ator Fulbright decided it was time to air out the building. Scandal and favoritism aside, the reasons for discontinuing RFC that were uneartherd hy the Hoo ver task force in 1947 are still pertinent today. They are: 1. A standby agency rots on the vine. Without live functions em ployee efficiency tends to disinte grate. 2. No need exists for the govern ment to keep an emergency "de pression" agency aliv during non emergency periods. 3. The RFC cannot obtain first rale executivs during normal co nomic periods. 4. The RFC short-circuits con gressional bans on spending. 5. Agencies obtaining funds from the RFC that were in effect denied them hy congress, are not clearly responsible for the handling of funds thus obtained. 6. The Democratic national com mittee and White House favorites can function on a lowr subsis tence level than the multi-million dollar favors handed out by the RFC. Hear Fulton Leivis Daily OnKRXR.4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P. M. all the credit needs of the ex panding U. S. economy. Ihere ts do point in having the government competing in this field. But as it has developed In the capital, the issue goes well be yond the economic justifications for keeping or abolishing the RFC. Basically the problem has be come a moral one. What the investigation of Sen ator Fulbright's subcommittee has disclosed is a supreme example of the folly of government by crony "cronyism," as some hav styled it. Too often President Truman has placed in key government office not the most fit men, nor even well-qualiiied men, but sim ply men he knew and liked. Moreover, this attitude has been aggravated by his insistence upon regarding every attack noon a subordinate as fundamentally an assault Uon him as President. Thus he has tended to discount the criticisms as always political, never isncere. Senator Fulbri'jht may not be without political motive, but the facts unearthed by his committee cannot be brushed off as campaign fantasies. The expensive mink coat given to a White House secre tary, the free vacations for White House functionaries (and senators. too, for that matter) at the expense of a Florida hotel manager who won an RFC loan, the innumerable pay-offs through awards of high salaried business jobs to former RFC men, these compound into a sordid, immoral story. Apparently only the strongest men, administrators like Jesse Jones and Kugene Meyer, can keep a government lending agency from sinking into the morass of loans-by political-f-ivor. F.stahlish an insiitulinn dealing in billions passed out on fairly easy terms and you have a set-up suited to political machinations. Flies al ways collet around the honey pot. The result is not only a weaken ing of the RFC itself, but a gen eral lowering of moral behavior in many parts of the Administration, in Congress, and elsewhere. Mr. Hoover, Jesse Jones and ' olhers have called for RFC's de- and revolt some fine afternoon without us doing anything to pro mote it. But there IS a possibility if we handle ourselves right that the time will come when they will re volt. They revolted against ciar ism, and what people have Uone before they can do again. Foul as czarism was, present-day Russian communism is HJUl.hK. My personal feeling is that Rus sian communism is too foul a thing to endure permanently on this earth. The time is going to come when the Russian people and the stooge peoples living behind t h e iron curtain will say to themselves that they might as well be dead as living the way they are living. Such times breed revolutions. You will ask, of course: Aren't we DOING SOMETHING ALREADY to put into the minds of the Russian people and the iron curtain peoples the idea that the Russian COMMUNIST way of life is bad and the American way of life, in spite of all that is sail! from Moscow, is much to be pre ferred by common folk? Yes, in way. We have what we call our Voice of Freedom pro gram. It is run for the most part by our state department. I've lis tened to some of it that goes by radio and I've read some of it that appears in print. My feeling about it is that it's too STUFFED SHIRTY. I think that if I were a Rus sian or a Czech or a Hungarian or a Pole or a Latvian or a China man the kind of stuff we're send ing out over our Voice of Free dom program wouldn't get far enough down into my nerve cen ters to cause me to risk my life and the lives of my family and all my friends by revolting against Kremlin communism. I think our program just doesn't get far enough down into the grass roots for that. 1 judge from Gen eral Donovan's talk the other night that the feels the same way about it. As I size him up, he is pro posing that we do something to GET CLOSER to the grass roots of human nature. Euiopean side of the iron curtain and more are crossing every day. That, in itself, tells quite a story. If General Donovan means that we aren't properly capitalizing the immense human appeal that our way of life has to common, ordi nary people everywhere, I quite agree with him. Ik jNaws-Kavlaw L m hei not 1 I llivrod by I 1 4: 1 S p.m., pkena I 1-763 1 botwtn V t.ll m4 1 f.m. 1 Taking Snapshot! on Easter Sunday? Come in now and let Sid Frednckion show you how to get better pictures for lest. It's 0 pleasure! FREDRICKSON'S PHOTO LAB I OS E. Cot St. 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 COUNTY. All facilities available tor your individual netds Douglas County State Bank Mtmbcr Ftdtral Deposit Insurance Corp. i FROM THE NEWS OF After all, with all its faults, this America of ours IS WONDERFUL. ! If given the free choice, with trans-: Mri.iinn n,-nuirir.ri 1 rather imag ine that 90 per cent of all the peo-: I pie behind the iron curtain would I pull up stakes ano come nere un hesitatingly. Millions of them have already crossed over from the Russian side to the Western 53 YEARS AGO no real reason, decided that she did not want to go with her hus band to America." "These allegations have been put forward by her to put herself in the right and to avoid going." Nuns Falsely Blamed By Reds For Child Deaths HONG KONG f.W A Catholic priest saill five Canadian nuns, blamed bv the Chinese Commu nists for the deaths of 2,116 chil dren, actually had tried to save the abandoned tots. The Communists announced the nuns had been jailed in Canlon. Death is the penalty if they're found guiltv. The Reds saitl the children died in the oast 18 months. The priest, who declined use of his name, sahl: The nuns years ago had set up a receiving station for abandoned children. Most of the waifs were dying, freezing or so ill of com municable diseases that they could not be taken into the orphanage the nuns operated. The nuns sometimes were given an unconscious baby with a leg eaten off by Canton's hungry dogs. The nuns buried more than 2,000 in 18 months, It Seem Time To Ring Down Curtain On Bungling RFC Hy BRI'CK 1UOSSAT It soemeil fair to hold off conclusive judgment about the RKC until the Senate's inquiry was well advanced. Tha t M:Ke has now been reached. And the findings poitrt to just one sensible course: The abolition of the KKC. As everyone knows, Herbert Rut snmp thev saved. Thev mise. To abolish the agency would 1 brought more than 200 to some de be to set an example, lo start gov-1 s,ee 0f health and transferred ernment back up the road to sound moral performance. Hoover created the RKC as a de. j conliar, 50und UnAint pr,ctie. pression emergency device to help i .. ... ... . , . keep tottering big business going' ,N doubt this greater liberality in the dark days. It was never , had beneficial results, but I contemplated that the agency ; "iinoi oe aiionru lo ui scuie ! should go permanently Into the ! ,ht .senHal that the RH was ! hanking business in competition serving as a vast commercial jwith our private baling system. ; bank. On several occasions in ' But that is in (act exactly what d''. 'be RH s well-known liber ! haencd. More than that, the ! "I'ty enabled private banks to , HKC became a sort of court of last i transfer to that agency oulstand resort to which business firms ! ' ln lh banks rated as 'appealed after all regular banks P"or risks, had turned a deaf ear. Many such Tlje private hanking system is Wkirerns were granted loans, in pert lly qualfied. swept perhaps aWianc of what private bankers ' in exterme emergencies, to meet British Spouse Of Gl Loses Suit To Discard Mate I.0ND0N-4P A British judge refused here to dissolve the wed ding of an English girl and a 28-year-old former G. I. from Texas on the wifa's charge of cruelty. The plaintiff was 23-year-old Mrs. Violet Benncr of Purfleet. j She married Wilbert R. Bcnner of I route 1, Del Valle, Texas then a member of the U. S. air force sla tioned at Wisbech in August, ! 1944. They had a child four months j later and have had two since. j .ludge Harry Graebrook said j the evidence snowed the marriage , took place after Mrs. Renner, then : Ifi. appealed to Benner's com- ; manding officer. ; Mrs. Benner charged that Ben ner slapped her around on their wedding night and told her: "I have married the wrong woman." She contended he also beat her from time to time thereafter un til the final breakup of (he mar irage last spring. Benner denied he was cruel, al though lie conceded that "tw or three tunes" his wi(e provoked him to the point where he struck her. ! He -added that Mrs. Benner had ' repeatedly refused to accompany ) him to America. Benner finally ob'jined a British court order for ! custody of the children in May, I ISM). Mrs. Benner refused to give : them up until she was imprisoned briefly for contempt of court. She I then sued for divorce. Judge lirafebrook said he had decided that Mrs. Benner was not telling the truth about the way her husband treated her. I "I think the real explanation." W said, "is that Mrs. Benner, for them to the orphange. The Chinese RcAls are in the midst of a nation-wide ramnaign against the influence of the Chirs tian church on Red China. IF YOUR PAPER HAS NOT ARRIVED BY 6:15 P.M. DIAL 2-2631 M. ''OB, w '" 11 J1"' I : :?riK Ik "'e iV. ' July 7, 1898. 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