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HOW TO BUILD A BAND
By CHARLES V. STANTON
This column made inquiry last June 30 as to why Rose
burir could not support a. larer municipal band. Lem liitner,
who has been directing; the band for the last four years, has
written us a letter answering our questions and dumping the
problems into the laps of the people of Roseburir.
We believe Lem's letter deserves equal presentation
with our questions, so we are using it today as a guest
editorial.
Lorn writes :
In answer to your editorial regarding what has hap
pened to the Roseburg Municipal band, as band leader for
the last four years, I would like to try to explain what has
happened and is happening to our band.
We have the musicians, the instruments and the music
to have a wonderful band, one that could be invited to par
ticiple in any state function. But the vital spark that makes
a band is missing. That little spark is in reality a big bonfire
when properly used and it is nothing more or less than civic
pride.
I em not a pessimist, nor do I avoid complaints and criti
cism when due, but I would like to state a few facts as I know
them and have seen them since 1942.
When 1 first joined the band I received a cap and nice
looking uniform that had so many moth holes in it I nearly
had to wear black underwear to keep the holes from showing.
Needless to say, none of the members wore uniforms except
at concerts. Since that season the moths have finished their
work. I doubt if you could find a whole uniform in the city.
A nice uniform that will last two or three years with
care vill cost about $45. The band canriot afford to buy
uniforms with thp mnnev allotted to it.
Since 1925 the highest band budget allowed was JUiOO ;
n t i i j i j ., ,
per year. (This was all I could find, so could possibly be
mistaken a lew dollars one way or the other. ror two
years it was cut to $365 or $1 per day.
In the last three years we have been paying members
of the band $1 per rehearsal and $1 per concert during the
concert season, which ordinarily runs eight or nine weeks
through the summer months.
A twenty-five piece band, paid $1 each for one rehear
sal and one concert per week, costs $50 per week and $200
per month, or four times the amount of money allotted us
each month. Last year we played nine concerts and our band
had enough members to cost us $759 or $159 more than a
year's allotment.
Many times we played some really good concerts in Li
brary pBrk and never had more than 75 in the audience. Lack
of civic pride?
The firemen and the polite all of them good fellows
go out of town for music for their dances, thereby sending
out of town several hundreds of dollars that could have been
better spent here. We have just as good musicians here, but
there !sn't enough of that kind of playing to warrant the ex
pense of organizing and maintaining an orc hestra. The high
schools, who have some darned good musicians in their bands,
send out of town for music for their dances. All of these
things reflect lack of civic pride In what we have right here
on out own doorstep.
Surely we have in this city twenty or more businesses
each willing to hire a musician, hold a job for him, allot his
working hours so he can attend rehearsals and concerts and
the ff" civic affairs that the city would like to have a band
play lor.
We would l:ke to have a marching band, but when there
is only about ten or twelve, you have to keep them close to
jjether on a truck or they wouldn't sound as good as thev do.
Our hand is composed of about ten steady, dependable
men who meet and play for the pleasure of playing and, de
pending on the time, are ready to play anytime for monev,
marbles or chalk. During the summer we pick up a few high
school musicians, and some of the boys returning from col
lege. Without these boys we would not be able to put on con
certs, other than circus style ballyhoo.
Give me 20 jobs at livable wages and I'll fill them with
the tyie of musicians who can make a band and, at the same
time, hold down their jobs as well as anyone else.
To have a good band one that will attract musicians
as well as interest I feel that we should do three things,
and the present band will help in any capacity it can:
Appropriate money or provide some wav to buy good
uniforms.
2 Supply enoiiKh jobs at livable waitp to entire good
band members here.
3 Show erotiKh civic pride to turn out w hen our band
is playing: concert.
Kirni now i won in HKe to tnaiiK our clnof of police for
the njrht of way on Kose street for our concert, unit the park
department for cleaning our band shell, fixing benches and
cuttinrf the grasa.
I.K.M 1'ITNKK, Conductor.
Risrht now I would like to
.Local News
Visiter Mr Mrs Kay Sim- T Meet At Pollock The f. S
mon, of Monterey Park. Calif , is club will meet at a o'clock put
in Roseburg visiting her son and lurk luncheon Tuesday. July 17 at
daughter in law
flerry Oliver.
sir. and Mrs.
R ara rra Mi J.rse Til
Intsrin of I.a Graasl has rHirnl
tame folio in saint iil tit
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their home in Rosinnj folio, t(
a werVi vacation at 1 1 T(l.
Calif. O O
Bern' Hem Mr. and Mrs.
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"lurned towthtaV h"ny I4" a
combined business Ml sc?tion
trip to Winchester Bay and sV.her
coast points.
Or.-
-Friday, July 13. If SI
thank our chief of police for
the home of Mrs.
J. H. I'struk,
SI 7 Hourk atreet. c
Dais' Neighbors of
ceidrraft numbers and their fam
iliH si Invited to pirnic supper
41 I :ti o'ci.ek Sunday night in
iliHn it is horn of Mrs. Hat
s' el. 'i sms (ti?nilmg are asked
t t !"' vu
o
4t)"a fm tiuaf Major
Sri Ht K. ii.elratj,
M f i fi'tr left tor I'orl-
t, Iii!Iosm) KnDivks visiting;
a Vuvfitta) a ii h ihe lot iner s par- I
nd lh oiher rr!aties and j
fr Otils. He is the Hn ol J. K. I
Honehrskes. Mtor Itunehrske was
statiots-d in Julian at Ihe fsne of
the.Korean outbreak and served
w , V il. ,...!,,.. I v
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rcase torn overseas riuty -in eai-'or ,
rJune. we. is now assignpfl tn vo
A3 Wrr aqiiadttH in PortlaiW.
Fulton
WASHINGTON Every time a congressman tries to
shave a million dollars or so off an appropriation bill, pres
sure and insulu from big spending advocates leave him feel
ing like a drunken father caught with his hand in junior's
piggy bank.
We've gone beyond the point of trying to figure out why
a $5.400-a-vear bureaucrat gets a thrill out of spending
$200,000,000 more this year than the year before. What is
disturbing, however, is to find the virus infecting news
papers, especially editorial writers and cartoonists.
In Washington recently the Eve-
ning Star made a big joke out of
the fact that Senator Paul Doug
las, of Illinois, and Senator Homer
Kerguson, of Michigan, were try
ing to knock off a few millions
from the record S71 billion budget,
for the life ol me I can't work up
a laugh over anybody trying to
save us taxpayers that much
money.
What is so funny about saving
$1,000,000? That's a whole lot more
than most of us will ever see in
our lifelime, let alone save. Now
adays, in fact, if we can save a
few bucks to buy bread and butter
in our old age we'll be lucky. And j
if you think Im stretching a point.
wait unitl they start collecting the
new $7,000,000,000 tax bill that is
on the way.
Practically everybody in the U.
S. must be convinced by this time
that big government is here to
slay, whether we. like it or not.
But how big shall we let it grow?
That seems to be worrying a lot of
sensible citizens, including mem
bers of 21 state legislatures. These
21 legislative bodies have passed
resolutions calling for a limit on
federal taxing power of 25 per
cent of personal and corporate in
come. That would shackle the
growth of big government in Wash
ington, but good.
The current defense emergency
is soaxing up a lot ol dollars; so 1
lon " i Pnt wisely few of
us will complain. The tragedy is
however, that instead of curtailing
their demands the normal peace
time agencies are continually ask
ing for more cash.
I Let's see if this makes sense to
you. Since World War II the fed
eral security agency budget re
quest has increased l.12 percent;
Interior department 123 percent;
housing and home finance agencies,
ISO percent; general services ad
ministration. 1K5 percent: TVA, 88
percent. M.HB, 88 percent. Some
wartime agencies have been liq
uidated; several including t h e
i Veterans administration are spend
ing less today than during the
war. But not th old line bureau
crats, who ar wallowing in a
quaginir of government tax col
lertions. In fiscal 947, for instance, the
FSA spent $1128.077.000. Kor fiscal
19.W it is asking for $2.1M.483.not.
Osrar r.wing, administrator of the !
FSA, might consider it bad taste !
to ask what we ai gelling for A democratic senator who de
that kind of money, but I think clined use of his nam told news
it is a legitimate question. What men he doubts any lax billwill be
does the KSA do for you? What ' approved finally by congress until
uvra ii im, iur any iieiwioor you t
know? Do you know of any poll
or election in winch Ihe American
people have demanded a 123 per
cent increase in sue for the KSA?
I don't.
Representative John Phillips.
Republican of California, recently
balked at voting for the $7,000,000,
000 increase in taxes. One of the
reasons is that the congressman
doesn't see much sense in contin
ually appropriating more money
just to make a roster full of federal
agencies bigger than thev are. He
wants to choke off the cash at the
source and let the bnreaucrats
In The Day's News
By FRANK
(Continued from P.ig, 1)
and the rest of it is on the scale
that inn ,,ih . ik...
home In addition, there are serv.
Ire quarters with another bath-
room.
They pay m a month rent for
At this point, ladies, hold onto
I .i""1- "' "o
! yo!' ."' . . , . ',
?.",;,"' ,? we'rv. : i
if, ,n, m,nfl, ij
"" rd ' in these modern dsvs).
n 'f ."nsists of three person, ,
a rook, a chambermaid and
what, in the old days when there
were such things in Americs we j
used tn call a second maid. Thev
are all happy and contented, like
their jobs and give every sign of
wanting tn kern them.'
The wane hill for the three tacks
up to the st.igcrring total of S-5 a ,
week I
. fo eating costs:
When you eat out. l.es says, and
are hungry, you get a filet mignon
sleak smothered in mushrooms.
nh all the trimmings that nor
mally go along, for the equivalent
nl CI 1,1 A
Kor "home consumption, a kilo of
tenuerioin ste:ik la kilo is 2 2
pounds! sets vnu bsck th peso
equivalent of il IS.
, A car wah Costa von 72"t cents
A shoe shine (including tip)
comes s cents. O
I mri to ak l.es about df).e
price ot hancuts, but forgot it.
How to get there"
Well, Mr. anil Mri stcbbins and
their three children drove from
Mexico City to H Pao in two and
a half comfortable days.
The road is paved all the way
and nin fine condition,
probably heard th same
Lewis Jr.
fight it out fur what is left. In a
recent house speech Phillips said:
"'.et me call your attention again
to the tact that these increases
are all post-World War II increases,
and that the rate has been accel
erating. So great indeed has been
the increase in government spend
ing for civilian payrolls alone that
today the total is at an annual
rate of $8,300,000,000. This is equal
to the rate at the peak of World
War II, when government spend
ing reached an all-time high."
That's the sort of thing that gives
our big spending bureaucrats
loud laugh. How funny do you think
it is? You're paying for it,
Hear Fulton Leicis Daily
On KRR, 4:00 P.M.
And 9: If P.M.
Dividend Phase
Of Tax Proposal
Target Of Blast
WASHINGTON (VP) A
spokesman for investors said to
day a house - approved plan to
withhold 20 percent of dividends
'or income taxes is "a police state
proceaure.
William Jarkman of New York,
president of the Investors league,
Inc., told the tax "writing senate
finance rnmmillea lh- n.....-.!
"Is not only discrimination: it U in-!
suiting to at least 10,000,000 loyal
Amercans.
"It says to this group, in effect,
I do not trust you to pay taxes
on the income which you receive
from dividends and interest pay
ments, "I believe you will chisel on
Untie Sam at this time when rev
enues are badly needed. In other
words I think you are a crook."
The witness told the senators "I
know and you know that our up
wards of 10.000.nno investors in the
United States are not crooks."
Th committee is studying the I
nouse-approvra dim to boost taxes
$7,200,000,000 a year. The dividend
withholding provision was put in
ot the measure at tin request of
in ireasurv which estimated it
would
produce $.123,000,000 an-
nually
fan
President Truman Wnlarw f
the Treasury Snyder and other
administration officials hav been
prodding congress to act swiftly
on th bill.
They want th hous figures In
creased so that the new rates will
raise $10,000,000,000 more a year.
And they want to collect high
current fiscal year which stsrted
percentage of that amount in th-.
July l.
So far more than 200 witnesses
have asked to be heard br th
finance committee and more re
quests are coming in daily.
JENKINS
, , , h,v, . . .
' w,'rd n rugged
roans, ihe vast distant, k-,
i ?p!!". pl''"- " bandits that
" .. f To' don't watch
" absence of garages, and
Ve, fust laugh,, and point. , ,h,
j ?' "mfortabl days it look them
. T...," ' r".,- ou "l 'md
a motel every hundred yards f
rse. he savs. But. eiieciil'v m
ohfe.cr:mod:,,;,,h'r P'CT
... "! k .' ,
J.?. ,hr' !'h"' instanc. a
1 ,h' ' ' ' ' ,h,e " ' very
icry nice hotel cost $.
One common tale he does con
firm the one about the Mexico
ily droers. They're fantastic, he
says. The way they can hop lanes
on a six. lane highway and still stay
alive is something to see. he re
ports. Her comes th very nicest part
of it
Throughout Mexico (he travels
widely as a Part of his job) Amer
icans are liked and respected. It
wasn't always that way, you know.
We've had some nasty spats with
our neighbor across th. m.
Ji"nilc' " ?0"'"
v read vour his.
toiy carefully and tnleramiv
you 11 have to admit that we delih
erately provoked Ihe Mexican f
as a war of conquest. W came out
of it with a i lot of booty not only
Texas. b..V California. Ana
New Mexico. Nevada. Vtah and
quite a chunk of Colorado We"e
been snooty. We've called the Mex
icans "greasers " And so on
through a long list of unfriendly
actions
B u, lis reports, all that is be
ing wrgotten and relations between
Americans and the people of Mex
ico are getting onto a basis of
friendliness and mutual f.pect.
Thai s certainly something that we
can hail as progress.
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Panic Potentialities
Seen In Display Crowd
ROSEBURG I attended your
fireworks display July 4 and saw
a grand display and also some
thing els perhaps others did not
notice.
First, I climbed up near the
top under the roof. Those up there
did not sec the display very well.
Some of it we did not see at all
th explosions and bursts of var
ious kinds which are most beau
tiful high above the ground. W
did not see the airplane stunts at
all, only beard it above the roof.
I have never seen such a crowd
at a similar July 4 celebration,
nor such awful congestion, both
in the stand and the parking area.
I have never in my lifetime any
where observed such an ideal
setting for a panic or stampede
with all its tragic consequences
than that I saw Wednesday night.
There was such a crowd that it
was difficult to move about when
people were orderly. It took us 30
minutes to get to our car. Then we
sat in the car 15 minutea before
we could get in line. Then, by the
clock, we were It minutes in mak
ing the Melrose highway, a dis
tance of one and one-half miles.
No panic or stampede may ever
occur. But what if one did occur?
Heppner, Oregon, did not figure
on being washed away by a Hood
in matter of minutes. But th
flood did come without warning.
Here in your grandstand it would
not take much to cause panic. A
fire, a terrific wind, or lightning
bolt, or even if some thoughtless
person should yell "fire," or
start any undue excitement below
or outside the grandstand. II any
things can start a stampede in a
building like that. There is hardly
any way of rapid exit. As I saw it,
it would be a horrible jam at
best. No imagination is needed to
picture the consequent result ot a
stampede under such conditions. 1
shudder at th thought of it.
Sure there may never in a life-
, time be anything to start a panic
at the place, but the conditions are
only too favorable. The crowd in
Lh.e jj??' T?US b I'"""'
It
we could only move at a snail's
pace under normal and sane con-
ditions at best, what would it be 1
like during panic? Certainly it can-:
not discomfit us to consider the
matter.
Next year, if I desire to see
anything at the fairgrounds, I will
see it from outside the grand
stand. I have attended the St. Paul,
Ore., rodeo. July 4. several times,
and, while the crowd was as large
as the one here, there seemed
more room to get about quickly
and we simply got in our car and
was on our way in 10 minutes.
We enjoyed Ihe show you had.
It was well worth coming to see.
BF.N FRAMES
Elgarose Rt.
Roseburg. Ore.
STRIKE GRIPS GREECI
ATHENS. Greece (.Pi - Th
strike of 100.000 Greek civil serv
ants went into its sixth day today
with no signs of an early settle-
I ment. The strikers are demanding
a 50 percent wage hik to meet
inflated living costs.
The strike has thrown stat ma
chinery out of gear and paralyzed
the country's economic lit.
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In A
For o cor you'll bt proud to drive In tht
years ahead, and for a vacation you'll
always remember, go East by train, plan
or bus to Willow Run, and drive home the
car of your choice ... the brilliant new '51
Koiser or the smart, tough and thrifty
Henry J. Enjoy vocation and your new cor
for the price of the car alone; freight sov
ings will pay for the vacation of a life-time.
We'll make all arrangements here before
you start)
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You otso
ment on
Henry J
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Th new 'heading on this column I
was a nice surprise when I opened
Tuesday's News-Review.
1 n
Drain chamber of commerce
shouldn't mind a little extra pub
licity for Drsia?
It doesn't seem possible that The
Mending Basket begins its fourth
year her in Oregon on July
1. After we had been in Douglas
county a while it dawned on us
that we knew very little about
what was going on in our own
county, so we subscribed to the
News-Review because it was pub
lished in Douglas county. Then the
idea occurred to me to hunt up
som old clippings and send them
to the News-Review editor with a
query about using the column.
(When I dropped it I was con
vinced I was "never going to write
anything any more" but Oregon
and life her in the woods changed
all that.)
Well, when Mr. Stanton directed
me to begin sending copy we had
company from Texas. But com
pany or no, I started perking out
copy. Then one day J. W. (he is
EJ's brother, with the same no
tion about- using only his initials!
brought in the mail, and discovered
his sister-in-law's picture on the
front page, with the nice intro
duction to the readers of the News
Review. Well, a good time was had
by all, even if w had burned pie
as a result.
Th first word from a reader
was from another Martin, Mrs.
Mary Martin of Roseburg who
said she liked the allusions to the
Bible: had a radio program Good
News; and closed with: "May God
! bless you and inspire you as you
continue. . . I kept that card.
Other letters came, and how much
I have appreciated them all.
After all. a column is a two-way
affair. What would it amount to
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VACATION
FREIGHT on a
Colliers Engages
Dewey For Series
NEW YORK P Collier'
magazine says it has engaged
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to write a
series ot articles on his trip to the
Far East
The magazine's editor, Louis
Ruppel, announced that the New
York governor would do six ar
ticles on his impressions concern
ing the present situation -and th
outlook in Asia.
Runnel declined to sav when the
' articles would appear or how mue
i the governor would be paid. H
i did say, however, that "we (C o 1-
lier's) helped finance th trip."
Dewey, who now Is in Tokyo,
! will visit nine countries during nil
, nx-week. 29,000-mile tour.
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"ome here In her arms she held
' 23 lnch lon rublr ' ioU
! A neighbor found the child M
! feet down stream, still clutching
j the doll. He said the girl likely
would have drowned if she had not
had the doll. Its buoyancy kept th
1 child afloat.
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