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4 Th Nowt-Rvlw, Roseburg, Or. WtdJuw 11, ffil iblilhtd Daily 9ict Saaday ky tk News-Review Company, Inc. ' launl win uui Mar t. " Eabrs Ortsaa. aatfat al Mafafc t. ISIS CHARLES V STANTON IOWIN L KNAPF (ditor Mmumt Maaihw at tha Auacnrtad Press. Orate Nwmm Plisra A.oti.H., Hit AuWrt luraan Circyltii ,,nmnl 1 WIST-MOLLIO CO.. If.c. ' ' c'"' aa rraaclaca. Mut. mi. r.nu... SI. Laala. .. Sara. (I... M.ll.r MM 1. IKJ. al la "" Both Cocked L'BlCBirriON lh too vaacai rr Ttr, .. lt. Br Nwi.tflf Crrur rr tit. (I " tb . fr. .r ...- l O.UU. Or.,. Bf III Mi id .! ' FUTILITY OF CONTROLS By CHARLES V. SI ANTON The price war on "fair trade" items has reached Rose burg. Buyers are getting a break. Many people doubtless will take' advantage of reduced prices to stock up on some of the brand-name goods, or to buy items they previously were unable to afford.' . News from other localities indicates that the public is jrreatly interested in the battle being waged over items which previously carried a fixed charge. These were items which the manufacturer specified had to be sold at a certain uniform price. Retailers were forced to azree to this "fair trade" price before being allowed to stock the merchandise. The supreme court recently held that these contracts were not binding, opening the way for retailers to make drastic price reductions. Small merchants are complaining bitterly that the ex isting price wars are unfair competition; that they can't meet prices on many of these items and, consequently, may be crowded out of business by the chain outfits. All over the nation, the price war is attracting much attention, interest and participation. Retail sales are soar ing, following a prolonged "slow" period. It is interesting to note that the number of s.-rtes items, or "leaders," are lim ited. The customer attracted to the store by a bargain, usu ally buys other articles remaining at normal prices. Inventories Being Reduced The current war on prices is looked upon by many ob pervers as beneficial to national economy. Warehouse inventories are extremely high, particularly on durable goods. Production is setting new records. It Is reported that May stocks of durable goods in the hands of retailers increased $150 million in 30 days. Manu . facturers' inventories of home furnishings rose $1.9 million during May. At the same time the number of employed workers in May was 61,193.000, leaving unemployment at 1,609,000, low est since the end of the Second World War. The fact that so many people were employed showed an extremely large purchasing power. People have money. Rut slow sales indicated that the money was being hoarded, .is frequently occurs when the public mind is filled with fear and uncertainty. People presently are fearful of the in flationary spiral and are protecting themselves against fu ture rises. Personal income, it Is calculated, amounted to $211.4 bil lion during the month of April, an increase of $1.5 billion over the month of March. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page U freakish rather than beautiful. They are merely dresses on hang er, and there's nothing inside the dresses. Why should women want to imitate these shadows?" And then Meltsner hauled off and delivered himself of a bon mot: 'Women today reflect the indus- ( r Fulton Lewis Jr. mm hflping Chiang get his attack un derway, recommended that the U. S.: 1. No longer accord favored treatment to Chiang. 2. Not regard with indifference the opinions of the Chinese Com munists and other liberal parties. As a postscript, according to one of Chiang's intelligence reports, Service wrote that "any new gov ernment, compared to Chiang's, can better mobilize the military might of the masses." There was only one other "new" government, and that was Com munist Somebody should ask Acheson if he ever read this contirbution to peace and dp jot-racy. Service is right handy in the State, depart ment, so the senators could get ;f first hand, even if it makes i liar our of Service's boss. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P.M. The loganberry Is named after Judge J. H. Logan, on whose ground the hybrid fruit made an appearance in 1881 at Santa Crui, Cal. to be caught in anything milder ; trial a?e so much that the slang 1 1(lln , (.adniar. mat would dam- r""V - ""v ning the gantlet in the senate. It, age -the presuge of the United11'- By. ,ne 'e" stacked.'" totals up lo the ralher consider-1 states I What is the basic reason why able total of two and a half BIL-1 c ', n . . ,,,, women refuse to look like them- LION dollars. (The actual figure ' Sen,or. thinks we migh j f,v(s? r ,h. 70 Z - V Ta i.ih. ! "Tn whole trouble is they don't of the 79 new car. proposed in the . . . , one of the top claims made by the manufacturers is that no one knows how long a Cadillac will last, because nobody has ever worn one out yet. i FROM THE NEWS OF is SZ.528.33S.000, but what s a mere matter of $28,000,000 in Washing ton, where billions are batted around as children bat softballs in their play?) Two and a half billion dollars is a right smart lot of cash, and some of the senators are a mite afear'd some of the voters could get peeved by some of the items in the bill. So there is talk of chipping the total a bit. One of the senalnrs who thinks we might be possibly able to get along with a little less in the labor- federal security kitty is Senator basic insecurity." said the artist, i "They think foreign styles must be ; right because they come from an ; other world." ies of amendments to the bill which he thinks might trim as much as fifty millions out of it. One of his amendments would cut annual leave for federal Price Reduction Temporary Economists tell us that the price war will have several good results. It will serve to reduce inventories of merchandise in the hands of retailers and manufacturers. It will clear ware houses for goods rolling off production lines at unprece dented rate. Circulation of money will make it possible to continue the record rate of production, thus keeping national income at high level. Maybe some fingers will be burned, and profits cut, but the general result, we are told, will 1 lneficial. The war, however, is expected to be of short duration and normal prices will be restored maybe a little higher than before. The price war, at least, is giving us a good drmonstra-! critical eye at a proposal (con finn nf hour froo snlm-nriu rnn mi .;ini;. ; ;,.! laineo in tne i.iboririleral sreur '"l". - r.,. .,.,.,,.-, ntnK n.-i .- rMHiiiiiiy. n nnimn us, um. in- nmiiiy ni price controls, tnt ,hp usf , ,h, Washington mm un-ir expensive administrative payrolls, wnicn upset, rather than balance, our national economy. So, Senator Douglas reasons, we might be able to get along in this critical year without ANY new cars at all so far, that is, as the labor fedi'ral security appropriation is concerned. Senator Ferguson of Rhode Is land not only goes along with him Douglas, of Illinois. He has a ser-j on that but goes him one better. Senator Ferguson proposes that we CUT OUT SALARIES FOR ALL CHAUFFEURS at least the chauffeurs that would be employed with the money contained in this ployes down from the present 26 labor federal security bill now be- orc ina urnaie. But. If I were you. I wouldn't pay much attention to this Sen ator Ferguson. He's a Republican, so of course all he is trying to do is to get the Democrats into hot water. cut annual leave lor leileral em days to about 20 days. He fells, ap- i parently that in a period when we are fighting a cold war and draw ing our belts tight for what mi-'ht be the hottest war since war was In-' vented, federal workers might be able lo get along at least for a ; while with only three weeks per i year away from their wearing 40-hours-per-week duties. i Senator Douglas also cocks a yy?1 Bv Ywknrtt S. Uartm l,'-r One rainy February night in 1890 filled it hip deep with water. It was Vnah Colwcll had lust returned hard to make one s war throimh it But Senator Douglas of Illinois, ia another matter. He is not only a relatively high-up Democrat. He is a smart Democrat. Not only that, but he is a Democrat in whom you just can't help feeling a ity bill) to buy 79 new automobiles 1 certain amount of confidence. And Senator IXiuglas is trying to reduce expenses to the extent of cutting out 79 new cars for the boys who ride around Washington brass that is high enough up the laddt-r to rate a company car. Since a lot of brass these days is high-up brass, we may assume I at government expense. 1 quite that most of the 79 new cars would i agree with turn that in times like be Cadillacs. Alter you get highlhese the boys could drive their enough up the brass ladder, it cars another year without hurting would simply never do for you anybody much. from having final hHik at a sick hor.se in the barn some 400 feet higher up the hill, when suddenly as Mrs. Ruth iWm.) Perkins of Drain tells it "he heard a terrible sound of trees crashing in every direction, and a perfect cannonad ing of boulderi thundering down the mountain. "Mother and all of us children were in bed asleep. If my laiher hadn't gone to look at that sick horse, he would have been, loo! As it was, he told my mother to get ui, up and that we must ail get out of there right that minute! It was either an earthquake or a terrible slide. We might go into the river, house and all!" When the noise first hurst upon their startled ears, Mr. Colwell opened the front door of their log hiuse and stepped out He fell Into a crevice, t deep v shaped nark, right by the door! He shouted for help, and Mrs. Colwell brought the lamp there was no wind, whu-h made the noise of the trees falling everywhere seem more astonish ing and frightening The family hurriedly started up the path past the barn that would take them to the river settlement known as llardans' but. said Mis. Perkins, "the cracks were so wid,. and so many, my father said we must take the other trail. So w hurried hack in the dark and the rain, with the lantern as our only light, past the house to what we ra(ta)l the lower trail that came M' "at McC'lay s place. 'Once in a place where-Vie land dipped to make a gull.rwilh a creek running Vough, my father said it would Tie a place where ' the childisVf could be protected by what blankets they had brought ; . .then it was decided to keep j onHuy-vMcClaya', (That gully dis-1 appemrd during the slide, and the I tlideJilled it sttaighLacross! ) I ' in we rOied(C slashing."! aid "Sits. Perkins, "irV)river had 1 lt 1 dry. in the daylight. At night, it seemed impossible! My father was carrying me on his back - I can still remember his, 'Hang on tight. munier lie was carrying r.dna in his arms, and helping Judy, 1ft. I and Telhe (Kslella) . as best he I could. They were terrified and crying! i (to he continued in tomorrow's column) Washington State Liquor Profits Up SPOKANE (.11 Washington state's liquor profits, increased iMi'nrwnsi uv state ouvina in- . . , ... ... , tal-d more than $2.000 .000 in the - d' '"hty hJ r1ixlic oul prirea first three months of 19M. American Women, Showing Machine Age Trend, May Soon Be Obtainable On Coin Machines, Artist Declares l!y HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AT) Will American women ever be tockrd on coin-vending machines just like candy bars and cigarets? A well-known artist fears they are becoming so stand ardized that this is a possibility. "They reflect the factory age so much," sighed Paul Meltsner, "that 1 look forward to the time when you can go up to a machine marked 'woman,' put in a coin, and select the standard model you want." This form of mechanical court- i : snip might attract the average man, charmed by its convenience. , But it is gruesome for Meltsner to i contemplate, because he believes American women are losing the in- Register Papers For Oregon Bonus War Vets Urged ! The VFW runes all World War II veterans who entered the serv ice from Oregon to register their discharge certificates and separa tion notices at the earliest possihle date. The county clerk should be requested to provide a certified copy of the discharge and separa tion notice. Under Oregon law there is no charge for this service. These papers will be necessary when ap plication is made for the Oregon World War II bonus. Each veteran is cautioned to per sonally inspect his report of sep aration to determine whether 't shows specific dates of departure from and return to the United Slates. In the case of service ahoatTd ship, the name of the ship alone will not be sufficient. The specific dates of departure and re turn are essential. If this infor mation is not shown, army vet erans, should write to; t'S Army Records Administration center. De mobilized Personnel Records Branch, St. I-oms 20, Mo.; coast fiiuid veterans to: Coast Guard Commandant, US Coast Guard Hd clrs , Washington D. C: navy veterans to: US Navy. Civilian Re adjustment Office, US Navy, Se attle, Wash.; and marine corps veterans to: commandant, I'SMC, Hdqtrs. US Marine Corps, Wash ington. P. C. Eligible veterans re encouraged to ret immediately before a vol ume of registrations accumulates in the office of the county clerk The local bonus committee of Post No. 2488. R(v-btirg. Veterans of Foreign Wars, is made up of T. F. Holmes. A. F,. Williams and Rich ard L. Preston, Reit H. Calhsnn, liquor hoard member, reported the figure at the mcfting of the State AM.ciatinn of Comity Commissioners. He said profits for the first quar ter ef;iial more than $2 per capita on IS to population figures. After .June, he ex pinned, the liquor mo nopoly profits will he riitrihutc4 to tide and counties on the basis of the 190 census. fa 11 nun said liquor hoarding is about oer now, but that sales from tCbter to April ere increased by si.ire buying. Callison reported the state sold MKWrtnn g.illons of liquor valued at J.Ff 000 .KM tut year. For com pjri'on, he noted that the state's apple crop in 1!W was worth $t,. INHI OOU The commissioners elected W. O. Piulfel of Whitman county as presi dent, succeeding A. W. Hodue if Kitsap county. Other new officers itiflftie Arhe Thompson. Pacific o-t(y. Vice president; Angus () l..lv..-IJ V-l ... ' iu iuntiKi, laftima rmimy, serrr' tar jr. and Fred G. Evans, Clalln, county, treasurer. lie s,is thev camouflage them selves so much now that it ts aU most impossible to do an honest portrait of them. "The artist is in a peculiar posi tion." he sitd. ' If he paints what he sees, a lot of people simply on t believe it. They will regard it as an anatomical absurdity. He cause women no longer are what thev seem. M'hey are walking examples of atl Hint tl average ners$ finds ohiectin'iialile bi so-called modern istic art. Their faces have a qual ity of abstract art a dead look, out of this world." Lets Palsies Needed Meltsner. whose studies hang In a dorat muteuma here and .ibload. said Aiuericen women "need more indmdu.il analysisand Ic.isialste propaganda. O "If our country were In lhe aanif-vshape its women areO.t wni.td'tw hard to fn'.l out what hie it reallv was iir .Basically. r said iW trouble is womenMlavr- bci-iin slavish robots, of the fashion'world. A ) worrit of natural beauty ruins it by makeup, wrong hair col oring. Wrontf ehineinff nf hr nnr. mal figure all to fit current hospital. vogue. I "Many married men must look .11 their wives, changing from year to year with the dictates of fash ion." he said, "and wonder whit happened to the original girl he married." Meltsner himself doesn't have to wonder. He s a bachelor. line of his pet peeves is the ga-' telle type females displayed in high style fashion magannrs. "They have been an insidious in fluence on other women, who ruin their healfh by a over-dieting to achieve the same shape." he ob served. "But these fashion model types aren't even women. They are Brother Kills Sister In Gun Accident Ashland I.V Alice Jean Gass away. 10, was fatally wounded Kri day whil her brother was putting away a gun he had been using 10 hunting squirrels. She died en- route from her rural home to a Secretary of State Dean Acheson's constant references to the happiness enjoyed by Chiang Kai-Shek as a result of Russia's taking over Chinese ports and railways is hogwash. Chiang wasn't even invited to Yalta where the U. S. and Russia sliced up China to Soviet advantage. This was only the beginning of the sell-out. Chiang fought a losing war in trying to keep the Chinese Communists out of his backyard from then on. The reason is simple. The State department boxed in the Nationalist Chinese leader with a crew of wild-eyed Russian lov ers, including Henry Wallace, who had somehow gotten himself elected vice president. Wallace was wandering all over China with hay in his hair, explain ing to Chiang that all he had to do was cooperate with the Soviet I'n lon and the Chinese Communista in order to have peace. Standing on the sidelines and put ting io their two - bits worth f happy talk for the Communists, were John S. Service. John Carter Vincent and the Baltimore Bugle, Owen Lattimore, who was always running off on State department miasiont. Now, of course, nobody at the State department, from Acheson on down, seems to remem ber just who you mean when you mention Lattimore. To really appreciate this crew you have lo read the report they aent back to the State department as result of their working over Chiang to persuade him to be nice to the Reds. Every time Chiang would shake .his head over their gabbing about the peaceful inten tions of the Communists, Wallace and his gang slipped in the knife with a gentle reminder that if Chiang failed to play ball U. S. aid would dry up. Notes on the Wallace - Chiang conversations, with the Baltimore Bugle doing the translating, are replete with occasions when Chiang balked only long enough for Wal lace and his crew to come up with another warning. The Russians also played up to Chiang during this period. Every now and then some State depart ment official would trot over to Chiang's house and slip him a little gossip about how much the Rus sian leaders admired him. Stalin, in fact, let it drop that in his opin ion Chiang was the only Chinese leader capable of unifying and re building postwar China. This, of course, also was the State depart ment line until Russia changed her mind about Chiang. Out State department acted just like anv other branch office of the Polit buro. Chiang suddenly became a thief and an incompetent militarv general, and was charged with lacking the support of his people. If he was nothing else, Chianc was probably the most confused human on earth by the time Wal lace and his entourage got through working him over. All the whil" Service, Vincent, Lattimore and Wallace were patting Chiang on the back and promising a lot of V. S. help, they were hustling off afte,- dark to visit Chinese Com munist leaders. ( hiang had his secret police keep tabs on the Wallace gang and what they found out must have con vinced Chiang that he was getting the business. But there wasn't much he could do. lie needed V S supplies and 'was smart enough to know that the only way he would get them would be to "cooperate" with Wallace's program. When a sentaor asked Acheson about all of this, the secretary of Sta'e said that nobody ever went to China representing this govern ment who was not wholeheartedly in support of Chiang and his poli cies. The secretary of Stale did not know what he was talking about. In October, of 1944, Service, who was political advisor to II. S military leaders in China, sent a secret memorandum back to Wash ington that left Chiang with knives sticking out all over his back. This was at the time when we were trying to get Chiang's fighting forces in shape to reopen attacks on the Japs. Chiang had only been fighting the Japs for seven years then, but he agreed that he could do them more damage if we sent along a few guns and officers to help train his troops. But Service, a political military advisor to American generals supposed to he Big Flattop Tops Mark On Return SAN FRANCISCO P The 27.0O0.ton aircraft carrier Philip pine Sea came home through the Golden Gate Saturday, setting a speed record for the Japan-S a n Francisco crossing. She has been serving in Korean waters for the past year. Alioard the big flattop was on of the navy'i crack flying units, the much-decorated air group two, 2.800 men strong, commanded by fmdr, Robert Rynd of Alameda, Calif. A swarm of navy fighting planes left the carrier's deck while she raced toward shore. They assembled at Alameda na val air station, where Ihe Phillip pine Sea berthed. The Philippine Sea bettered by some five hours the previous speed record set last year by the car rier Boxer, which made the cross ing in seven dayi, 18 hours and 38 minutes. The Philippine Sea, skippered by Capt. Ira Hobbs of Coronado, Calif., has been in Korean waters since July, 1950. How to Forgot MONEY PROBLEMS! Gt LOAN bom o "Square wp" old kill and ! mam 8 your mind. We advance, cash for this purpose areasptlyl Cosm m ot phone, CALKINS FINANCE COMPANY - Phone 3-5244 ' 307 (3rd. Floor) Pacific Blda. M-337 Slot. Lit. S-264 41 YEARS AGO f' t'nc' r, 'i ,l0'dc , 0'n c'"". lb,1' "o . - Th iu , e I 'drii ,at o, '"'erf " l.i "el February 28, 1910 Roxburg Review The only familiar nam in the 1910 newt irory above it Bellows w wonder whether Ihe Tercintki store was a forerunner of one of our retail tstabfishmenti. Whil pride of ownership it on of fh outstanding reasons we oil own to many articlet w can't help remembering thit tlogan "If it't worth owning it't worth insuring". IT PAYS TO INSURI IN SURE INSURANCE! DIAL 3-6166 I I p in. I tpfm Pet Offic Lrl "trim TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Cm (Ntir dew t i CH PtrtniM f KeM ke 1 I 4: 1 S pJ I ' 1-14 I BWM V exit aad 7 sun. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of th stockholders of th Umpqua Savings and Loan Association wtTl be held at 147 North Jackson Street, Reseburg, Oregon, on WedneseVr, June 27, 1951, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. for th election of direc tors and for th transaction ot such general business at may properly come before the meeting. 7) UMPQUA SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION y H. O. Porgettr, Secretary-Manager I TTrrT" tip" LONG & ORR MORTUARY Directors! Frank W. Long Jtwall M. Lena George I. Wright courtC&us DIAL C R0SEBURQ 2-2611 SINCUI Only hsetlcing Licensed Lady Funeral Director la Soother Oregoa REASONAILI ;g3 0
