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' Q 4 Th Newi-Rtvlew, Roieburg, On.WiK, Stpt. 8. 1951 & Publiihid Dolly (scape Sunday by Iti Newi-Roview Company, Inc. iduni ! "" " ' ,;,',"' " itbrg. Ornsa, inder ftct tf SUrch t, 1S7I CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN l KNAPP Idilor Monoftr Mtmkar of tlit AitoeloUd Prow, Oregon Newipopor Publiihora Allocation, tho Audit Bureou of Circulotionl ErtnnU 7 WEST-HOLLIDAY CO.. INf.. In T.rk. Chief.. " , , AnKlti, etr. TarlUnd. I.l.r.Y .. .".nd'ci... M.u.r M., 1, lJ. ;t Ollleo -Roibrs, Orsgon. L'ndtf Act ! Mrch S, ISU. thru atnlbl. .. Br Nwi-HYlw t'rrltr Par '. SIS.M l -r.r r..r, lll.QO! ail m.nlbi. .0i Ibr.. m.nlb.. II.W. 0 A GOOD TIME TO START By CHARLES V. STANTpN Labor day marked the beginning of the Defense Bond program. " ... i -u Through September and October American people will le urged to buy savings bonds. During the late war the people of this nation bought billions of dollars worth of bonds, inspired chiefly by patri otic fervor. But acquisition of bonds did not stop with the end of the war. Many people found the payroll deduction system an excellent method of saving. Bonds accumulated during and after th war were set aside as a financial cush ion" against possible depression days. , It had been rnticipated that people would rush to cash their bonds when tne war ended. Instead they bought ten billion more bonds th?n they cashed during the five-year period following the close of hostilities. While redemptions have been slirhtlv higher than sales in recent months, bond buying still remains at high level. The public continues to hoid more than $5? billion worth of bonds purchased since 1941. During the same period savings deposits in commer cial banks have more than doubled. Since 1945 holdings of saving bonds have increased 14 percent, while savings de posits in commerci.il banks have increased 17 percent. Socialistic Fiscal Policies We hear today much dissatisfaction with government fiscal policies. People are fearful of inflation. At the same time there is greater fear of depression. Savings bonds and savings deposits offer us our surest protection against either inflation or depression. Our federal government follows the socialistic idea of taxing away from the people their surplus income, per mitting the government to spend that money in channels which, theoretically, will reduce inflationary dangers. Our master -mind economists contend that people have too miti:h money to spend. If they spend this money in com peting for consumer goods, which may be short in supply, inflation will mount. Defense production, we are told, will cut the supply of consumer goods. Thus we must drain off surplus money to keep it out of competition for merchandise, the government contends. While we cannot agree with the "papa knows best" theories of the administration, it is a recognized fact that Inflation results when too much money is in circulation. There might be better excuse for the government's .pro gram if the money taken from taxpayers actually were used in fighting inflation, instead of going into unessential gov ernment spending, tending to increase rather than decrease inflation. We have faith in the ability of the average American to handle his own affairs without the necessity of having his pockets picked by socialistic economists. We don't believe it necessary to load the American public to the breaking point by taxation, while the money so obtained is used for all sorts of agencies, bureaus, departments, authorities, administrations, and other unessential func tions, using, at the same time, still more billions to finance a world vide WPA. Best Finanial Insurance Many people, finding a hard struggle in making the inflated dollar mett the steadily mounting cost-of-living, will argue that there is little surplus left to be siphoned away from the public. But it also is true that we still have a record national income, despite the smaller margin between income and cost-of-living. The srnart individual is one who is salting away all that he can. The money he puts into savings helps reduce inflation. If recession should come, as so many people antici pate, the accumulated savings will soften the impact and prevent a severe depression. Should financial conditions worsen, money would be released from the storehouse of savings. As this money went into circulation it would bolster production and thus limit the downward trend. Thus our financial protection, against either inflation or depression, lies in a large accumulation of savings. We near some people complain that it is foolish to put dollars- into savings bonds, only to have our currency inflated. The dollar obtained from the sale of bonds then would have even less value than at the time of investment. There is. however, greater possibility that a dollar invested today will be more valuable upon bond maturity than at present be cause of deflation. But buying savings bonds cannot be regarded as a gamble, no matter which way the dollar may go. Bonds offer the best possible financial insurance. We may be nlnched between higher living costs and rising taxes, but thrift is still highly desirable. For manv people the payroll deduction plan of systematic bond buy ing offeis the easiest method for accumulation. Those not now following the system might well consider n start dur ing the cirrent campaign. All-Purpose'Credir Card For Travelers Coming ' Is This Trip Necessary ? o o i I "N . CONGRESSIONAL GIMMICK IN CONTROLS BILL HELPS MAINTAIN HIGH PRICES By BRUCE BIOSSAT Whenever price control measures have come before Con gress in recent years, a curious economic theory has reared its head. What it amounts to is taking virtually all the risk out of doing business. Sometimes this notion has been shaped into a "guaranteed profits" proposal. That was suggested iack in 1946. and again this year. It would assure businessmen a pre scribed level or percentage of prof its. Tha arrangement occasionally has called for tht extension of this principle to every line a manu- SI'OKANE (.11 - An "all-nur.i nnsp" ProHif mrrl tl,nt u.ill mil travelers to charge their eat ing and sleeping bills in 200 west ern holds, restaurants and motels soon will be available. This new credit idea was ex plained by Edwin L. Mays of Port land, president of National Credit Card, Inc. It will permit travelers to go nbout without carrying large sums of cash and also will help guide them to the best places for eating and lodging, he said. Both ho tels and clients will be screened "very carefully." "Several largo companies have Indicated they will have their salesmen use our cards," Mays said, to eliminate expense account difficulties. "Some salesmen probably won't like that," he added with a smile. He said establishments in 11 western states will be in'rliirlnl in the system. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page 1) BEEN FOUND and the sources quoted by the Herald made no such statements as those attrib uted to them." This is the point: SOMEBODY licdl . Who was it? At this point, I'd like to set forth my own reactions. I DON'T BELIEVE EITHER SIDE. I'd like to add that things have come to a pretty serious pass when one can't believe either the British foreign office or a great newspaper like the London Daily Herald. Let me carry these confessions a bit farther. In our OWN coun rty, in disputes involving political considerations, I find that I don't believe either side. I just shrug my shoulders more or less uncon sciously and say to myself: "Oh, heck! It's just politics and NO BODY BELIEVES A POLITI CIAN." What is politics? The dictionary defines politics as "1. The science and art of government. 2. The theory or practice of managing affairs of public policy or of political par ties; hence political affairs, prin ciples or the like." Question: How are we to have good gov ernment if nobody believes any body in matters concerning poli tics? Another question: Where are we headed if we haven't got and can't get good government? That prompts the BIG question: How are we to GET good gov ernment? Government we can BE LIEVE? Government we can TRUST? If w are to have better gov ernment in these days, govern ment more nearly approximating the ideal of the Founding Fathers, it seems to me that we the peo ple must have higher standards of private and public morality. In democracies such as ours, WE are the SOURCE of govern ment. A river can never rise higher than its source. If the source is polluted, the river itself will be polluted. : If we have dishonesty in govern ment, it is because we the people TOLERATE dishonesty in govern ment. If we are to be able to be lieve men in public life, we must get back to the simple conviction that LYING IS WRONG. In his column in the Klamath Falls Herald and News the other day, Deb Addison made the tre mendously significant statement that the way to make sound de cisions is first to decide what is RIGHT and what is WRONG and then choose the right. The whole business can't be put much better than that. ENDING BASKET Human Rights Covenant To Be Part of U. N. Creed GENEVA -(.V) The United Mates delegation has scored tri- mnph in Its campaign to have the I'mted Nations write I human rights covenant listing civil and political rights. The U. N. economic and social council adopted an American backed resolution requesting the general assembly, which will meet in Paris Nov. 6, to reconsider its decision directing that the pro posed covenant include eco nomic, social and cultural righls as well as those of the civil and lt)tical field. I The United States delegates con tend tli the U. N. should com plete now a covenant covering civil and political rights, with the others to be included sometime later. The Soviet Union UM insisted that all rights should be container! in eae covenant an, that a na tion's signature is "tantamount to implementation." In other words, in the Soviet view, any articles loosing to enforcement of the rights should be eliminated. A IrilnmMAt- mnuaU ten njuoid r,hiv.O IVVVJ If those Bitwuns don't watch out, come Oct. 15, they're going to find themselves a-sitting on their hillside, surrounded by their lares and penatcs not to mention their goods and chattels, with maybe a tarpaulin over the whole works. For entertainment there will be a Greek chorus of "I told you so's" echoing in their ears. But! could they help it if other jobs came ahead of theirs on the build ers agenda? (Yes, they could!) However, Matilda Bitwuns, who is definitely not a rolling stone at heart, found a cheering thought in the fact that although they may have lived in a succession of apartments and houses here and there, they have never had more that one real home.,Jsn't that so? One can rent a house or apart ment, but can one rent a home? One can sell a place, but can one sell a home? Matilda comforted herself by remembering Alger- i non'i answer, one time, when she 1 had said something about his at titude in regard to a hoW Said Algernon, in a surprised sort of way: "Why.aiy home is wherever you are." Matilda real ized a lot about where herjiome was. too, as she thought that over. Being together that was home. So even roughing it on a hill side, she and Algernon would have a home, the same home they have had over thirty years. Surprising how one's attitude can sweeten an exptrience, isn't it? It's all in the point of view. She remembers how unimportant the location and size and so on of a place to live seemed In those years long ago when Algernon was at sea and she was lonely. It wasn't so easy then, in World War I, to break away from well-meaning, loving parents. She wanted to do it! "But suppose " was dinned into her ears. So she waited in what seemed no longer a real home until such time as Algernon cam joyously in the door. Then she was "at home" because he was. A home is like a lamp which must be tended carefully but al lowed to shine beyond its imme diate area I uess, thouht Ma tilda, as ttis idea came to her, that is why I love to drive along streets or roads and see the lights in houses shining nut into the darkness. Or lights from a house far off on a hill. . . a little below the statt Q o facturer produces. In other words, it he happens to make stoves, ice boxes and vacuum cleaners, the ceiling price would he set to guar antee him a profit on all these items. This plan, however, has never actually been cast into law. The opposition always has managed to muster sufficent strength to defeat it. But an alternative device lean ing in the same direction did find its way into the defense produc tion act as renewed on July 31 of i this year. i It is the so-called Capehart amendment. It was fashioned at 3 a.m. one morning in a sen ate-house conference meeting on the legislation. The clause provides simply that anyone may obtain a price ceiling for his product that reflects all his added costs from the period before the Korean war to July 26, 1951. Ud until this provision was in serted and approved, government policy had been to set ceiling at pre-Korean levels plus all direct cost increases those for labor and materials. The Caphart amendment allows the manufacturer to toss in cost changes in overhead, advertising, selling, and the like. In so doing, it has greatly weak ened the price stabilization struc ture and immeasurably compli cated the problem of judging the fairness of manufacturers' cost claims. The business technique of cost accounting is so highly developed today that one firm, in an experi ment, got six different cost results on its products by figuring its costs according to six different account ing systems. The range in figures was great. Furthermore, most companies do not keep records which show accurately how their indirect costs (selling, etc.) apply to the cost of their products. For the government to check on cost data submitted under the Capehart amendment would be out of the question without a huge ex pansion of OI'S personnel. So there is little left to do but accept the figures and grant the ceiling prices requested. This will mean government pro tection of the highest cost pro ducer. Except In the extremity of actual all-out war, when cost is incnnsequental, we have never thus safeguarded the high-cost man. America built its greatness on venturesome risk-taking. A willing ness to btave the competitive struggle has been a hallmark of the U. S. entrepreneur. We in this country have never sought guaran tees of success in any field. We have felt we should earn it. The three a.m. Capehart amend ment is an affront to America's spirit of enterprise. And it prom ises to impose a nearly intolerable burden upon the consumer, the man who is touted in our free economy as the great beneficiary of our unrivaled enterprise. Fulton Lewis Jr. KB Old Roseburg Desired; Streets Narrow All Right ROSEBURG - Iiii fine pic ture of narrow streets in The kews-Review Aug. 29 and a nice tle wnte-ii about it. The streets are narrow alright, and so are the minds of a lot of people who drive cars. That is about all there is wrong with this little old town. I am surprised that It took some illegally parked ears to cause i picture to be taken when a build- a threat. I saw in many, many places the hammer-and sickle sign drawn on walls or billboards in cities and in the countryside, too. The Commies showed con- slderable strength in last spring's municipal elections, roughly re taining what offices they held be fore. But many Italian observers feel that they would fare far less well in an election for national offices. - These observers" contend that while the people might be willin; to vote for their Communist friend or neighbor for a local munici pal government office where they could keep a close eye on him, they would not be willing to vote that same Communist into a na tional office where he would have a direct bearing on the country's national policies. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P. M. ROSIE Benito Mussolini has been dead six years now, but his memory lingers on. The Italian people on the whole to this day think and speak of their late dictator with a certain degree of awe nnc' respect. And many of them will tell you they believe they were better off under Mussolini at least, up until the time he dragged them into war thati they are now. mere is no question but that he did do many things to improve the welfare of the Italian people, albeit at a terrifically high cost In terms of personal liberties. However, tho people also re member the bad side of the Fas cist regime the big military establishment with its forced serv ice, the strict regimentation of the people, the absence of any of the civil liberties that have been introduced since the war. And for that reason they do not want any part of another such dictatorship. Another recollection about Mus solini that still rankles in the Italian mind is his personal life. Heavily influenced by the Catho ic church, the average Italian re gards family ties as close to sac red. Therefore they never did and still don't like the way he went in for mistresses and com pletely disregarded his own family ties. There is, of course, a small element that would like another strong-man government such as Mussolini's. But this is a small and relatively unimportant ele ment. It does not comprise the potential danger, for instance, that the pro-Nazi element does in Ger many. But the people recall that it was under Mussolini that a strong anti malaria campaign was under taken with the cleaning out of the Pontine marshes. They recall that he built many hospitals and pro vided better medical attention than Italians had enjoyed pre viously. They recall that the buy ing power of the lira that they earned in the 20's and 30's was much greater than that of the cur rent lira. And, oddly enough, several Ital ians have mentioned to me, with evident pride, the job Mussolini did in straightening out and im proving the Italian railroad sys tem. They point out that under his rule, trains rarely were late something, incidentally, which cannot be said of Italian trains today. Under the Fascists, if an engineer brought i train into a station as little as five minutes late, the engineer was fired within the hour. Things are different to day. On the whole, the Italian people seem happier with their current lot than do the people of any of the other European countries I have visited on this trip Brit ain, Holland, Western Germany, and Switzerland with the pos sible exception of Switzerland. In Rome, Florence, and most od the other Italian cities the people go about their daily chores with an appearance of content ment. Only in Naples, to the south, did I find any real reeling of dissatisfaction, and that seemed to be more of a feeling of re signed acceptance of the fact that southern Italy's non-industrial economy has been slower in re building than has that of the rest of the country. There is a shortage of housing facilities, particularly in Rome and some other cities, but other wise conditions seem fairly good. City streets abound with attrac tively clothed and well-figured girls and women. "Pasta" foods spaghetti, noodles and other macaroni-bnse DreDarations are plentiful. Wne flows freely, and cheaply. Sidewalk cafes and hole-in-the-wall wine shops are doing an excellent business. Communism, of course, still is Red Cross About Doubles Midwest Relief Fund . The local chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross is within three percent, or $71, of doublin its quota for the relief of Kansas Missouri flood victims, reports Mrs. R. Herman, secretary. The original quota was set at $740 and the amount received thus far totals $1409. Mrs. Herman says it will take $10 million to rehabili tate the area, and she urges those who are able tu contribute. The relief fund for the victims of the Hubbard Creek fire now totals $2,000, and Mrs. Herman ex pects an additional $3,000 from Ihn Red Cross office in San Fran cisco Wednesday. The fund is be in collected on a national scale. , Frtqutnt Fret ; BELT0NE CLINICS Art Held at the Umpqua Hotel . Wrira for Nt Data HEARING AID BATTERIES Milled Anywhere r or Any Mke Write S. C. MITCHELL Tft W Broadway. Eugene, Ore. (Member J N Tft AttocUtei of Portland Bellone lleorlnc Aids) Na Wl RvlW f hai net bran 1 I dafivared by I 1 A: 1 5 pjnH phon 1 2-2631 btwta 6:5rxJ7p.m. FOR..v 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 for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Mmbr Ftdtral Deposit Insurance Corp. Phone' for art electrician. Don't Fool With electricity i 136 N. Jackson St. Dial 3-5521 FROM THE NEWS OF ! 62 YEARS AGO in; has been erected in one of our narrow streets within two blocks of the town hall and the news of fice. No notice has ever been taken of it, although I talked some of I every kind of English to the tor- mer town manager and the for-1 mer chief of police and the in- I spector, and to the present chief of ' I lish in speaking to the present : .1 chief, because I really like him and I thought he could do some-! thing about it. But it seems he can t. ine lnspcciur ioiu me, ur latuei ; m. wrote me, that this building was ' I on skids and could be moved in j 24 hours. But I find there are no m skids under this thing and that it I is built on several cement founds- j tion blocks and the thing has tons of iron in it, I am told. 1 have several good pictures j taken of the condition of thai street at different times as the dates on them will show. I will be glad to allow them to be I printed. With all the advertising lioscburg has had there are sev-1 eral papers and magazines thai 1 would be glad to print the pictures 1 1 and the story that goes with them. I Does it really make a difference I who clutters up the street? 1 1 I had a section of a harrow lean- ing against the front of. my shop I and was told in rough English to get it out of there and keep it ' m out of the street, as the streets I are for the use of the nuhlic and , " not for any individual. ! For my part, this was a good little town until we got a city man ager. Yours for Roseburg like it used to be. DAVID H. SCOTT The Village Blacksmith Roseburg, Ore. LO CROSS-COUNTRY OSSrMNG. N. Y. CP) Sing Sing prison's 1.700 inmates held men annual u nt ann neia nay1 meet yesterday but there was no cross-country race. Q I f Roseburg Review November 14, 1889. . Did you know that the town of Hudson referred to above it the present town of Leon a? 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