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! , 4 The Nw-Rtvlw, Roitburg, Ore. Monday, July 23, 1951 PublUhatJ Daily hct Sunday hy tfc INewi-neview company, inc. r - (a; liter) Iim !! Mar 1. M'A ...k... ni auii at March 1. ill! CHAILIS V. STANTON EditM EDWIN L KNAFP Manaaar Mamkar at Hi Anodatri PraM, Oraa Nawiaapar Publiahar Aitaciarioa, Ha uin suraau at .irtuiiion B.aru.al.J ar WIT.HOLLIDAI CO.. INC.. .Illc. I. N. t.ra. Cal.ai., .pr.t.... . 4.1MM. aula. P.rllma. !. "-';. !!.,. .. "..! CI.., M.lt.r U.r 1. ItM. a. tta ' OlM.a l S.alf. Or.f.a. lla..t Act M.rca I. IMa. itTBirilPTIOM lATB-ll t,.,..- Mtll-P.r T..r III.Mi "' Ikr.. ..nib,. .. B, KmmM ""'Vi. M.f . Iiii Ib.a fr. r m.oia. Il.ai. OalaMa Or.i.a Bj Mall rat r..r. III.MI a.aUi. " IM- LET'S NOT BE GREEDY By CHARLES V. STANTON A few of the Oregon land grant counties, in our opin ion, are taking a very greedy and possibly dangerous posi tion with regard to 0. & C. grant land revenues and con troverted lands money. Fortunately, th.e association of coun ties is less greedy. Demand that counties be paid the 75 percent of forest income, as originally planned, coupled with insistence that controverted land money be distributed immediately, may lead to serious consequences. The federal government should be given credit for what it is doing, and should be encouraged to a higher degree of cooperation with the public domain counties, instead of being antagonized. . Because some residents may not be familiar with the controversy, perhaps a brief explanation would be in order. The federal government, many years ago, encouraged construction of railroads by giving railroad companies grants of lands. Most of our western railways were financed in that manner. The Oregon & California railroad company, later pur chased by the Southern Pacific company, was given every alternaie section of land for a distance of 20 miles on each side of the right of way along the line from Portland to San Francisco. When the railroad company took possession, it found that homesteaders and squatters already had occu pied some of the grant lands. To offset these losses, the government later awarded an additional 10-mile strip on each side. The original 40-mile strip (2U miles on eacn side of the right of way) is known as O.&.C. lands, while the 20-mile strip (10 miles on each outer limit) is known as controverted lands. Government Regain Possession It was stipulated that the railroad company must sell its grant lands to settlers at $2.50 per acre. Because the Southern Pacific company tipped the price on some lands and refused to sell other holdings, particularly timber lands, the federal government brought a successful suit to reclaim the grant, paying the railroad company the $2.50 per acre to which it was entitled. The O.&C. administration was set up later being ab sorbed by the Bureau of Land Management to administer the property. Counties, which had beeVpaid taxes by the railroad company, demanded tax payments from the gov ernment. For many years the government paid to the coun ties the sum of money the railroad companies would have paid in taxes. President Franklin Roosevelt, however, set his foot down on tin's policy, which had resulted in a fed eral deficit. He secured legislation providing that counties should be paid 50 percent of revenue from the O.&C. grant, with 25 percent going to the federal government for adminis tration and 25 percent to retirement of the deficit. This year the deficit will be paid off. Under original leg islation the counties should receive 75 percent of revenue row that the debt is paid. But CongrlQ is objecting. Congress contends that the federal government must administer the lands, build roads, provide fire protection, etc. If, says Congress, the counties want the disputed 25 percent, let them build tJ roads and provide fire protection. Legislation Offeree! O Senator Cordon and ReprcOntative Ellsworth have pro posed legislation permitting the governmentto retain 50 percent of revenue, instead of 25 percent, hvi lipping the amount returned to forest improvement. Controverted lands are so-called Wause both the U.S. Forest service and Bureau of Land Jtanagempnt seelQul ministration rights. 5 far each agency administers por tions of the area, each requiring the consent of the other on administrative detail. Congress .ns not agreed on final ar rangements for administration. While the controversy con Unties, $5,000,000 has accumulated from revenues and is held in escrow. If the O.&C. wins, counties will get 50 per cent. If the Forest service gets the nod, counties will receive only 25 percent. A resolution by the state legifijitiire asked that O.&C. lands be turned over to ike State orOregon. The land grant counties at their meeting last weelOvoted against lis pro posal. Only four counties remained adQiant in their tlpier mination to secure 75 percent of revenues from O.&C. lands. Fourteen favored the legislation iQiposeciQjy Cordon and Ellsworth. The Association of Counties, how ever, is asking immediate distribution of 25 percent of the funds held in escrow from revenue off controverted landsO It would be far better, in our opinion, the counties would waive their claim to the money now heliin escrow, with the provision that it be matched by foresfiiicss road money, and the entire sum used to huiliyoads to tiinber not now accessible and needed to properly market timber fQn the public domain. The Home Front Acheson Warns Against Let-Down After Korea War WASHINGTON UP) Secre tary of State Achosen haj cau tioned that if the country allows itself to be lulled into a letdown by Korean armistice talks "we will be hit within the next six months to a year with a much tougher blow somewhere else." Acheson also said that ''the whole heart and essence" of the policy the Truman administration has been following is not to force a showdown with communism in Korea and not to permit the Reds to force one there. He made the remarks in an off-the-record talk here June 29 to a group of magazine and book pub lishers. The State department now has made public a transcript, ex plaining that it did so at the re quest of several persons who were present. Two senators, a Democrat and a Republican, agreed meanwhile j that any peace negotiated in Ko rea must not leave North Korea "a festering sore, a threat to South Korea and a knife in the back of Japan." The words were those of Sen ior Bridges (R-NH). Senator O' JHahoney (D-Wyo), who appeared with him on a television program, concurred. O'Mahoney spoke . sharply against "any permanent j reiUKmuuii ui u'e ooiu pdiaucj a. North - South Korean boundary and urged a united Kores. Bridges said if Korea is to re main half Democratic and half Communist, American troops will have to stay there "indefinitely" because the Communists could "be at the throats" of the South Ko reans again any time. Ultimata Aim Told In his talk,. Acheson said that I it it is possible to bring peace to Korea, "it will h because of Uie efforts which we have already made and the sacrifices of the men in Korea." He added: "The succss of our policy will mean only one thing, and that is that we have held off this con spiracy against us and that we have some time which, if used wisely, will give us the power and give us the union with powerful allies which can deter World War III. "If we do not do that, if we al low ourselves to be lulled by Ko rea, I can assure you that we will be hit within the next six months to a year with a much tougher blow somewhere else. "If we do not make the efforts now, we will be unprepared for that blow. 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WASHINGTON There has been considerable discus sion as to the most effective way to meet tb)threat which tiie Communist party, USA, presents to the welfare end security of the United States. Many suggestions have been proposed covering a wide range of counteraction from the one' extreme of unprecedented action to the other extreme of passive toleration, While the details of 'lui basic philosophy of Communism may not be understood by many citizens, there has developed i nhtsi coun try during the past few years, as a result of the prosecutions by the Justice department of the Com munist party leaders and the ex pose of the party's activities, a healthy consciousness of the per fidious conspiracy which Commu nism represents and a growing demand by the public that some- thingr-iie done to neutralize wis thread Q With Communism we are deal ing with fanaticism in the extreme. The Coi.O,unist party, USA, is comparatively small in the actual number of members, but each member is a zealot and he goes about the job of promoting Com munism with such unrelenting leal that the efforts of few bear the results of many. The very phil osophy he propounds teaches that the end juslilies the mGy.s even if it is by lying, cheating andJii ceiving to further the Comnumiat cause. papers" and to Russian sources in tburo member Lazar Kanganovich, was named as the groom. Svet lana, 27, has been married before and in 1945 had a child, but the reports of the new marriage made no mention of her first husband, first opposed the marriage because The . Rome newspaper Momento Sera said the Russian dictator fist opposed the marriage because the groom was Jewish, but that SValin later relented and ended up hosting a $900,000 wedding. The Sunday iQtpress said Svetlana's wedding dress cost $280,000. Svellana and her groom now are honeymooning in the satellite coun tries of Romania, Bulgaria, Hun gary and Czechoslovakia. Local Communists there have been or dered to spare no expense in en tertaining them. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page 1) Ida, whose crime enforcement record smells, refuses to testify under oath before the U. S. senate cime committee. He had chal lenged the committee's authority to subpoena him. saving it was aists. Progress has already been i attempting to invade state's Wide in both of these. The press of the nation has done and (G)cioin a magnificent job in enligniening the public making it possible for the citizens to know and understand the true character ol Communism. Once it is seen in ilf) naked ugliness, no one will aiijn be deceived by its gaudy wrappings or misled by its false hood and sham. It is imperative, I believe, that every loyal Ameri can acquire this understanding. Prosecution by the Justice de partment of the Communist party leaders, its deportation program, its prosecution of espionage agents and olher measures have been a body blow to the progress of Com munism in the United States. We have seen its membership start to dwindle as the halfhearted and the uniited were shaken from its ranks. We have seen the Communist apparatus tighten its oum, stQirity with growing alarm asSv;nesses were exposed which it er dreamed existed. We have seen many ot us sources o unaa The question h, been raised-, " - "5'" .MarS .M rP the Uniled States hope to suc- MHpUlliy inrri nils ivyr ui nun, Arrntigh established democratic procedures? I am convinceiLAhat it can. The Federal Bureau fi Investi gation, as part of its assigned re sponsibility, has closely followed the activities of the Communist apparatus over a period of years We liJe watched its zigzag course III Mlltl aluumi rrtlll ii.niuiini i.-t.-tui:. had their eyes opened and they realized how they were being played for "suckers." We have watched these things as they oc curred and we know thi they have been brought about by the operation of democratic processes. But the battle has by no means oee j Wn. ,. merely oee yo , rill " - rights. He had offered, however. to confer with the committee, but not as a formal witness. The committee announced yes terday that since Warren "refuses to testify under oath" and it didn't want to hear him otherwise, "we have no alternative but to termi nate this phase of the matter and pursue it no further." ?????? That, I'd say, leaves it up to the Florida voters. They can either retain Fuller in office or they can throw him out at the next elec tion. After all; it's UP TO THE VOTERS to say what kind of gov ernment we shall have in this country. They, and they alone, determine whether our govern mental standards are to be high or low. If rascals get (Frio office and are RETURNED TOFFICE BY THE VOTERS,' we will have rascally goverr ment. If, as soon as they are spotted, the voters throw the ras cals out, we will have decent gov ernment. That's about the long and the short of it. Nothing can be truer than this: In a democracy, the elhical and moral l(?yls of gov ernment will never rise higher than the ehtical and moral lev els of the voters. Tuilay we are contend 6 with the haul core of the Communist We have observed it take up cause i parly. We know that in the fight Sometimes when trying to clear way the papers that pile up on my desk, so I can see the desk lop, I am too hasty--) I had a let ter from someone rn Bend about "Don't shoot the hawks" not that I personally ever shot a hawk, or intend lo do so inter esting information about the real value hawks hQe in control or ro dents, iis, Weft, until 1 can(J;nd some way to contact the writer I'll just pass along the idea given me: that the harm hawks ddo is lar, lar less than the good they do. Just suppose the Wright tfyS, lying on a hill watching haVks, hadn't had such birds to study! But I wasn't thinking about how much good hawks do when one swooped down wit designs on a tiny white kitten. You should after cause and cast them aside as soon as their exploitation values were spe'ir We have followed the activities Sif ils leaders and Wjose u'hn infiUr.ilpH ititn rritir-nl Went ft our national life. And I am Jlill convinced that Communism tn not hope to contend against the aroused and alerted forces of Democracy. I believe that two courses wage, holds . QOCl! be it will barred, for them the aecision has been made. It will be hand and claw, fist and tooth the fren zied assault of a desperate but coldly determined group of fan atics. Vith sn understanding of Com (fjliiisni's true nature and a de termination that its every trans gression of the laws of our so- .,f r action recommend themselves y : "ery oe met with vigorous ns-education of the public to the j prosecution, I think that everyone true nfPtye and aims of Commit- "f " be confident that this nism afhT vigorous prosecution of !'""'' b turned back and in vinlatmnt nf nur lam h fnmmii. ! the Process of doing it We Will not only give added dignity to the due I have seen the little (pother cat's eyes as sue croucnnrwith Ine kit i ten close to the trunk of our big .siiuuhall bush. i (Ine iff) whenCaVe had a pet hen I with a tiroej of chicks EJ said, i "I guest T II give them some ! fresher water. That nray be ! 1 warm." He stepped ttfl from under j I our high-roofed brrTeway, and j just as he did 1 11 never forget I it! a big hawk swooped down! within six inches of his head be- i fore it COIlld tin a Kiirt nf IfrV-nnter ! stunt ancMart up anain at a sharp an r(g) All EJ heard as the swish of Ms wings. llMiever did see the i bird, it all happened so fast. 1 guess that hawk was surprised all riKht. but so were vg)' i WherfMrs. Guinea was with ot, ! she would direct her litteen liny 00 er hear of thOci'V ork who used to sell the Brooklyn bridge regluarly to hicks from the sucks? Well, Uaiy'v been outdone by a city slictrer in Washington. His name is Mason. His racket is to pliict)a sucker, show hime the vast government buildings, tell him that fear of O atom bomb is going to drive the gnverQent under ground and then offer for a stiff considera tion to get him a cheap lease on some of the buildings that will be left empty. PEOPLE FALL FOR IT! His take is reported in the dispatches to have run well into six figures. HerU a wonderful touch: He Vis a Olowd-ouJ wooden leg in which he shes'the fold ing moneyo contributed by his dupes! Incidentally. I have not pity whatever for his victims. He tells 'em the price is high because he has to "pay otf(3Ymy people" to clear the way for leases on the buildings after they've been emptied when the government goes under ground. That, on its face, makes his deal a crooked one. and his dupes JOIN was standing, and light on my Reports of the wedding were pub- !":'' V.?. A? no,VriV rmt arms if I'd let them, and my , lished in the London Sunday Ex-i R , vi- FROF1T tVK shoulders. All because I had been . press and in three Italian publica-1 HEMSKIA KS. foolish enough to let them, when lions. The reports were variously i You can't have muchyijty for tiny, do that! I attributed to "Iron Curtain News-i cattle like that, q ' - u I, , i, . f, process of law. but we will bal s of fluff to hide in the grass. ,,.nRhfn our Democracy to meet a distance from them out in the , 0iher lfsl, which may come in the open. I guess she would "holler ' i future. for a good half hour! The hawk , ' w ould never comtQr!own tfwnre ! Mrs. Guinea was pTrforniing! A CiJn Cinncit farmer told me that guineas were; TQIIn JTaiJc5 "worth all the racket they make tOftrt ftrtrt Uf.JJ!ai to aeep the hawks away f r o m JYUU.UUU Wedding chickens." They rertainlv do make p r a a racket! But fascinating pels. fOT MlS UdUUflTCr 'CT were scared out of Ihfnree by our house one night, LONDON Russia's and one was missing next day ; Prime Minister Sta'.iiQreporiedly only feathers left. 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