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Setting The Styfe Sen. McCarthy Jeers At Senate InCfbterPlan Fulton Lewis Jr. 4 Th Newi-Reriew, Roseburg, Ore. Tuai., Sept. 25, 1951 Published Daily Eictpt Sunday by lha Newt-Review Company, Inc. 0 InUrH ncond clan muter Mj 1, IM9, l the pmwi (Met ftt Boitbarf, Oreton. Hotter act af Mrch J, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON tDWIN L KNAPP Editor Manager ' Mmbr of the AtMciated rel, Origon Newipaper Publiihtrt Auociotion, the Audit Bureau of Circulation! Beprtttotld by WEST-IIOLLIDAV CO., INC., office! In Ntw lark, Chleafa, Ban Fraaolioa, l.oa Antelaa. Hll. I'arllana, Bataraa ai fierana Clait Matlar Mar 1. 1'. th pal Ofllea at Baaeburf, Orrgan. Under Aot at March S. 1111, UBSCRirTION EATEI la Ori-r Mall Par raar. f ID.MI ill ""br. t.t! Ibraa manlha. fi.H. Br Nawa-Baalaw t'arrl.r Par ear, llt.M (la ai. raneal. lata tban ana rrar. ptr manlh. (1.00. Oalilda Or.I.a-Br Mall Par Taar, U.aoi all manlha, (5.40; Ibraa menlbe, (5.00. HIGHWAY SAFETY By CHARLES Aroused by the mounting highway death toll, the Astorian Budget declares that "We neea more severe laws and strict enforcement of them." Among corrective measures proposed are "ground ing" of offenders, particularly after repeated offense; automatic speed governors, and, most drastic of all, mak ing it illegal for anyone under 21 years of age to drive. Says the Budget's editorial writer : Too many accidenti art caused by irresponsible kids to whom speed stems to be en intoxicant. We don't consider youngsters ready to vote until they are 21, yet we allow children the respond blilty of wheeling those death-dealing juggernauts along the high' ways when they plainly are Irresponsible. , The general public, we believe, is deeply concerned with the problem of highway safety, yet we continue to pile up a daily toll of dead and injured in traffic acci dents. We organize safety councils, issue warnings, ad vice and instructions, yet accidents continue. Certainly the situation calls for some sort of drastic action. But we wonder whether the proposals of the Budget's editor would give us the solution we desire. Young Learn Quickly It would be a irrave mistake, for manv reasons, we believe, to deny youtur people access to automobiles, prin cipally because they learn much more rapidly and thoroughly at that age in life. We are known as a ration of mechanics. Mechani cal ability of our young men in the last war not only astonished the world but surprised even our own military leaders. Our production lines turned out war materiel at an unbelievable rate. The reason for this accomplishment is found in the fact thai we grow up on wheels. Before a child can walk he is in a wheeled stroller. He has gone throiigh tricycles, scooters and roller skates before he enters school. He starts pleading for a bicycle before he has lost his milk teeth. Before he is old enough for his student permit, he knows the mechanics of an automobile, the various makes and models, and can desig nate by name and type every airplane overhead. As a driver, his reactions are faster and surer than those of his father, he has better judgment of distance and speed, and usually knows where to find the trouble when something goes wrong with the machine.. He is, however, often reckless and careless. He is overconfident and lacking in fear. He is unimpressed by the lethal potentialities of the vehicle he is driving. He is easily distracted from strict application to the task of driving. . " But if we are to have good drivers and good mechanical knowledge, training should begin during youth. The suggestion of automatic speed governors also has its drawbacks. Every driver knows that power and pick up frequently extricate him from what might be a serious accident. To limit flexibility of the power plant can be dangerous. The idea of "grounding" offenders has much merit. . Safety Training Needed It is far easier to learn to fly a light airplane than to become a good automobile driver. Any normal person can learn within a few hours to take an airplane off the ground, control its flight in the air, and return it safely to the landing strip. In the air .the flier has virtually unlimited space in which to ma neuver. He is confined to no narrow ribbon of pavement with its yellow center line. Danger of collision with an other aerial vehicle is very remote. There usually is ample space in which to recover from skids, without hitting mail boxes or telephone poles. The flier is far safer in the air than is the automo bile driver on the ground. But the flier is safer especially because ho has been more adequately trained. Despite the fact that handling a light plane is less difficult than driving an automobile, he was required to have a certain number of hours of dual instruction. Hp passed rigid physical examinations. Even after he was permitted to go aloft unaccompanied, he was made to accumulate many hours of experience before- being allowed to take up a passenger. At frequent intervals he was given check flights. He had to master and thoroughly all the rules and regulations pertaining to Aviation, to learn meteorology, navigation, engine func tions and many other pertinent subjects. Perhaps if automobile drivers were given the same education and the same type of tests, examinations and inspections, we would have fewer accidents. In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from Page 1) ; gress APPROPRIATES. If bum- foozled patroits like Senator Jen ner succeed in estopping our gov ernment from raising more AP PROPRIATED money by taxation the spenders will chortle happily and BORROW THE DOUtill instead. Any private ciluen who thinks he can Hop the government from spending by refusing to buy bonds Is craiiior than a root. In that event, the spenders will grin and say to him: "OK, bud, if that's the way you feel about it, . we'll make the commercial banks ' buy bonds WITH YOUR MONEY." If both taxing and bond selling should fail to produce as much money as CONGRESS HAS AP PROPRIATED, the spenders will oil up the printing presses and turn ttiem loose printing paper dol lars. The way to stop government spending is congrgf s TO QUIT AP PROPRIATING ANY MORE MONEY. As long as congress goes on appropriating it, the spenders will go on spending it and there V. STANTON JENKINS won't be any 'way to stop them. That's something we should all get clear in our minds. The thing to say to Senator Jcn ner is this: "If you're seeking a last ditch to die in, you'd belter pick out the APPROPRIATIONS ditch. Only there can you sell pour political Ife effectively." For that matter, we all ought lo say to all of our senators and coagressmcn: "Quit stalling. Quit blaming the (resident for spending us into bankruptcy. Sure, he's a speil' thrift of the first water. Every body knows that. BUT HE CAN'T SPEND ANY MORE THAN YOU GIVE 1HM TO SPEND. "If you'll quit appropriating money, the President and his ad ministrative assistants will have to quit SPENDING money, lhat is why the bounding Fathers put the purse string in the hands of CONGRESS." Personally, I'm felt to the chin with members f congress (bolh representatives ao senators) who 'Q fr yell bloody murder about drunken sailor spending but go right on voting for appropriation bills. As a matter of fact, I'm begin ning to wonder if the only way to stop drunken-sailor spending isn't to VOTE ALL THE INCUMBENTS OUT, and make a new start. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Presi SCIENTISTS PREFER BLONDES, AMONG OTHER THINGS The Oregon Satesman We got nothing against blondes. Some of our best friends are blondes. Never let it be said we discriminale against blondes. Even dumb blondes. The same with scientists. Sci entists are okay. Most of them wouldn't hurt a fly. And often as not their activities are perfectly harmless. But we just wish scientists would leave blondes alone. Especially dumb blondes. Ever since Anita Loose observed that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes a statement immediately and ever since challenged by every self respecting redhead and bruntte, scientists oggling through their thick lenses and making marks on paper, have tried to find out whclher and why. They have made surveys. They have com piled statistics. Some of the ex perts concurred with Miss Loos. Others said she was all wet. Oth ers qualified and beat around the bush with assertions such as. Yes, gentlemen prefer dumb blondes for fun and frolic but they marry the brunettes who can cook and sew. Etc. Comes now the AP report on the latest study, something cooked up by a couple of jokers with I'll. D.s to prove we ain't figgered out what. The American Psycho logical Assn. convention was told last week that studies of 1700 men and women show, among other things, that dumb blondes have as good a chance lo get married as knucklcheaded brunettes and rat tlebrained redheads. Furthermore, the lightweights of whatver color hair have as good a chance to snag a husband as the gal (no hair color mentioned, maybe no hair?) "of greater skills and in tellectual attainments." In fact, said the learned men, the lests "show no pattern what ever." "Oh, what you said!" say we. Their conclusions confirm our su spicions about the value of the whole big flub. llarkon now to the other re markable findings: Students who go to college did better in high school English than those who don't. Students in engineering schools are sharp in mechanical reasoning. Girls who work as stcn ographers and secretaries were better spellers than girls who got jobs as clerks but the clerks were better in clerical speed and accuracy. Boys who became med ical students usually got good grades all around, in any career group there is a wide variety of talent. Etc. Now we admit that these earth shaking conclusions represent a great deal of wasted time by the scientists and the 1700 guinea pigs. And we further hold that a little common sense and little ordin ary observation would give you the same conclusions the scient ists labororiously rached, only quicner. Afler all, anybody can see that if gentlemen really preferred blondes, the race would be grad ually turning lowheaded. Instead, scratch a "dumb" blonde and often as not you'll find peroxide. W ish the scientists were a I smart. The modern Olympic Games were first held In Athens, Geeece in lSfMS. Thry are generally (hourtt to have stemmed from GrecK athletic games held during annual festivals aravnd 700 years before Christ. j ?igoyW-- Wouldn't one answer lo the prob lem of vandalism, about which I have been reading in the News Review lately, be to emphasize in the minds of school children their individual ownership of city, county and state lands and prop erties? Make them realize the park I belongs personally to each child, and surely he or she does not want to damage his own prop erty. Sometimes that goes a little deeper than "Johnny, don't!' Chil dren are reasonable if we take the time lo make things clear to them. Of course we can't expect results from teen-agers unless we begin with the nursery age child. I heard a friend describing a hectic afternoon she had spent, recently, as hostess to two chil dren. They had come with their father who was talking business with her husband. They ran wild, the children, 1 mean, all over her house, made free with anything eatable, pried into drawers and clipboards, went in two directions at once, making it difficult for the harassed hostess to keep an eye on both Just why she en dured it, I don't know. Surely po liteness does not require that we stand idly by while a child raises havoc in our own house. Wasn't she somewhat at fault too in fail CZECHS SQUEEZED Economic Pressure May Force Release Of Oatis By BRUCE BIOSSAT Willard Thorp, U. S. assistant secretary of state, is in Geneva, Switzerland, continuing the Amer ican government's efforts to put painful pressure on Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the imprisonment of A. P. newsman William Otis. Normally this Geneva meeting devoted lo tariffs and world trade, would be a routine somewhat dull. But Thorp's goal, to isolate the Czechs from the trade benefits of the free world lifts it above that. Thorp's instructions stem both from presidential direction and congressional admonition. By res olution, Congress called for sev ering of trade ties with Czecho slovakia. While that action lacks the force of law, it is strongly influential. If the government succeeds in tightening the noose about the Czechs at Geneva, the anguish in Prague should soon be acute. The most effective step thus far is the Western powers' blockade of the Czech Air Line, which now is barred from flights into r ranee and Britain and over Western Germany. Since the cost of round about flights to other western na tions is almost prohibitive and the returns insufficient, this to all practical intents puts the Czech line out of business internationally. The Czechs are formally pro testing the move as "open dis crimination" against their "re public." It is indeed tnat. and no nation involved in the ban makes any pretense to the con trary. The Communist puppets in Prague know, of course, that tfcoir protests will fall upon deaf ears in the West. They are merely shouting for the record, and to try to stir a little sympathy in those corners of ttle globe which still pay any attention to Commu nist words. Actual; they understand that to get rid of the air ban and other restrictions they will have to release Oatis. Publicly they declare this impossible, and Mos cow has even joined the refrain. ENDING ing to require respect for ber ow properly? Do you think we have to put up with something we wouldn't put up with something we would n't let our own c.iildren do) I heard a hostess moan one day when she saw a car driving in. "Oh," she said, "I love my sister-in-law, but I'm a nervous wreck by the time she leaves be cause that youngster of hers is a holy terror, and she lets him do whatever he wants to do." I left soon after, but not before the small boy had plainly indicated he felt he was cock 'of the walk, and he certainly was "into everything." His mother seemed complaisant; the auntie repressed her emotions beyond a "pleeaase don't-!'' Seems to me the auntie would have shown more real love if she had talked it over frankly with the young mother. The two of them could have worked out some kind of plan whereby there wouldn't be jam on the aunt's books, and smears on the rugs and uphol stery! What do you think? Do you think a hostess has to grin and bear what is actually a form of vandal ism in her home? And how would YOU prevent it supposing you have a child visitor inclined lo run wild? I'd really like to know! But privately the story is very likely a different one. U. S. officials consequently have carefully avoided tying their var ious moves directly to the Oatis case. They want to leave the way open for a Red backdown without too great loss of face. Washington therefore officially blames the worsening of relations upon "manifestations of Czecho t Slovak ill-will-toward the United I Slates." Prague shouldn't have uuuuie iraiiMaung uiai 11110 spe cifics. The American government's ac tion up lo now has been com mendable, as has been the coop eration of other Western powers. Would we do as much for a sin gle Frenchman or Britisher? To be sure. Oatis still languishes in prison. But he has been there just three months. It took 17 to get Robert Vogeler out. With the Com munists, everything takes time and then more time. Defense Demands To Require 35 Percent Plywood TACOMA (.) Defense de mands for plywood will probably require at least 35 percent of pro duction during the months ahead, the National Production authoritv aeal v hmt not swan I alalivered by 1 J I S p-m., pkone I ' A 2-2631 brM fclloiNi7p.n. J --'"r aim ii Lj WASHINGTON Anyone Inclined to strike a blow for freedom these days couldn't do better than to send a check to Hiwassee college, Madisonville, Tenn. Hiwassee Is a church-supported college with an enrollment of 300 students who are unable in most cases to finance an education by themselves. It is short on build ing and living space two new dormitories are needed but long on its distaste for Socialism or any form of federal paternalism. Dr. D. R. Youell, president of Hiwassee, in February, 1950 star tled Washington bureaucrats when he rejected an offer - of free sur plus potatoes. Here is what he said: "Yes, we need potatoes, but even more, we need to preserve our integrity. An economy of waste may be expedient but it is wrong, and we will have no part of it." He went into the open market and bought potatoes for the college cafeteria. The surplus potatoes, of cours, were some salvaged from the mountainous piles the department of agriculture was destroying by covering with kerosene. Dr. Youell's independence and belief in principles went right over the head of Oscar Ewing, federal security administrator. For some unexplainable reason, Congress gave Ewing $300,000,000 lo give away to colleges for housing pro grams. Thr ar already 19 agen cies in the government dealing with housing problems, but Ewing got the cash and set up an office of education to handle the hand outs. Hiwassee college got a note from Ewing stating that the FSA was ready to cut it a slice of taxpayer's pie. Dr. Youell exam ined his principles again and told Ewing: "The government offer to lend us money at something like two and one-half percent over a pe riod of 40 years is quite a mirage. The taxpayers not only will have to provide the $300,000,000 for the loan, but it will cost Ihem 10 to 20 percent to administer that sort of thing what with the salaries, paper work, etc., that will be necessary. "I'm not going to morgage this college and let the next gener ation pay the bill." Needless to say, neither the National Education association nor any other agency dominated by the bureaucrats has asked Dr. Youell to expand his philosophy j for the benefit of other college I presidents or teachers. j Dr. Youell believes that self-, sufficiency and work towards solv-! ine the problems of Hiwassee, in-1 stead of opening the door for the bureaucrats, will not only keep So cialism off the campus, but is the American way of doing things. He said he needs money but that "a federal loan to a church college would give the government a cer tain amount of control over the institution.'' He doesn't think that Hiwassee should sell its liberty and Independence even at two and one-half percent. (old West Coast plywood manufac turers Friday. The information was contained in a letter from the NPA received by O. Harry Schrader Jr., man aging director of the Douglas Fir association. The NPA said the 35 percent figure would be required provid ing current budgets were approved and that plywood purchasing planned for the last half of 1951 was completed in the next three months. The NPA said three develop ments at the nation's capital have compounded the demands for ply wood : 1. Defense needs for plywood are piling up because military buying agencies temporarily are out of money because Congress has de layed the new appropriations bill. 2. A defense directive requres the military to make efficient use of available plywood 6y tailoring specifications closely to end-use re quirements. 3. The secretary of defense has directed military specifying agen cies that plywood is included as an alternate for steel to conserve metal. Schrader represents 68 Douglas fir plywood factories in Washing ton, Oregon and California. Berchtesgaden was a health and holiday resort for vacationing Ger mans before Hitler built his fa mous retreat there. Wouldn't It?' Wouldn't it be nice to practice ' That fine way of thinking, too? You know something good about, me; I know something good about you. TJlie Chapel Roseburg Funeral Home Oak and Kane Street Roseburg, Oregon Funeral 2 People with money used to do nate sums to colleges. Now, of course, ordinary, gift and inher itance taxes have dried up the chief source of college bound money. The bureaucrats saw to that. But the need for outside cash for colleges has increased instead of diminished during the past few years. Like everything else, it costs more to run a col lege today. When the politicians got a little nervous about what they had done to the college they thought up tt." federal grant idea and brought in people like Ewing to handle the details. The idea was that money seized from philanthropists by high taxes could be routed through the U. S. treasury to the colleges just as well as if it went directly. The only thing wrong is that Ewing and the others are politicians, and few living mem bers of that cult ever give away anything for nothing. The president of Hiwassee col lege took one whiff and said "no." That didn't make Hiwassee rich, or Dr. Youell popular with the Socialists in the educational sys tems of that country. He he still has his integrity and a strong moral sense that the American way of doing things will work out best in the long run. Right now he needs money for these two dormitories. He ought to get it the right way. Hear Fulton Letvis Daily On KRNR, 4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P. 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Tata CANlAl, SUIMUJ AND ICSItVES OV1I $1. 7S0, 008 of tlie $o3eS WASHINGTON (JPt Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) says adminis tration forces "don't have the guts" to press for a showdown Senate vote on whether he should be ousted from Congress. McCarthy made the statement to a reporter in advance of a closed meeting of a senate rules subcommittee to consider a reso lution by Senator Benton (D-Conn) on the ouster issue. The resolution calls for a senate Investigation to determine whether there are grounds to expel Mc Carthy. If the matter came be. fore the Senate later it would re require a two-thirds, majority of those voting to force out the Wis consin lawmaker. "The administration people," McCarthy declared, "don't have the guts to push this thing to a showdown vote in the senate. "What's more, they have no In tention of doing so. This Benton resolution is just an excuse to give some of the pinheads a chanc to smear." Benton Contradicts ' Benton said in separate inter view "there is absolutely not one bit of evidence to support McCarthy's declaration there will be no showdown." He added: "I am convinced that there will be, and before too long. In , the meantime, McCarthy is again pre judging testimony which I haven't even presented yet to the subcom mittee. And he is prejudging the subcommittee before it evn hears the testimony." The group also has before it a McCarthy demand that he be per mitted to question witnesses at any hearings. The subcommittee recently is sued a unanimous report signed by three Democrats and two Re publicanswhich denounced as "despicable" the successful elec tion campaign conducted last year in behalf of Senator John Marshall Butler (R-Md). The report said McCarthy was "actively inter ested" in the campaign. Benton's resolution asks a more complete investigation of McCarthy's part in that campaign, and an inquiry "with respect to ' his other acts since his election to the senate." I 111 111 IU 10 Wl Could You Be ROBBED by a Title Defect? "n transit ... ) I L. L. POWERS O O (3 O ' 0 o