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0 o 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thurs., Oct. 4, 19!jfr) Publlihtd Doily Esmbi Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. iDUnl mod alaia mallar Mar t. loa a.il allloa al KatabiKf. Oregoa. andar act af March 1. Mil The Watch On The Thames CHARLES V. STANTON Editor EDWIN L KNAPP Msnagtr Member of the Attoeioted Preai, Orejorl Newtpeper Publubere Asiociotion, the Audit Bureau or Circulation! praaamra br 'KM r-IIOLLIDAV CO. INC.. aide" In i Naw Terk, Cklel., h.n rr.nclno. Loa Aofalaa. .lllt. 1'arllar.d. talared a. ..on CI... Mailer Ma, . Its. al lha f-.;t Ollle. Bearburf, Orei-ao. Coder Ael ! March X, 1111. IUBSCI1IPTIOJI RATFR la Or.f. Br M'll-P.r J1' ""'"fl'?.' Ibr.a mania.. I3.JS. Br New..B..lr ""' r,,,,! r.nctl. I Ih.n ana T.ar. ptr manlb, 11.011. O.l.ld. Ortf-Br Mall Par Year. Ill.uOl all manlb., I.A0 Ibraa mantba. IS.tl. NOISY DAYS By CHARLES V. STANTON We were rending recently in a trade muguisine the story of the man who heard that a factory was interested in buying bttllfroi? skins. He wired the company he could supply any quantity up to 100,000 on demand. Needing the skins bad'lv, the factory promptly wired back to send in the whole j 00,000. About 10 days later a single dried frog skin came through the mail with h rather pathetic letter: "Cents: I'm sorry about this, but here's all the frog skins there were. "The noise sure fooled me." The American public, we believe, is being confused by "wise," as was the man in the story. The croakinf.1 of impending disaster emanating from our radio speakers, the propaganda drumbcating by polit ical parties, pressure groups. Communists and fellow travelers, scare talk from military departments wanting more money, bureaucrats seeking more control powers, and many others, certainly are conducive to general con fusion. While obsnrvin? National Newspaper week, Oct. 1 to 8, it mitfht be well to take a look at the stream of informa tion furnished the American public. No People Better Informed No people in the world have access to as much infor mation and opinion m do Americans. We read more than 55,000,000 newspapers every day We have almost as many radio sets in the United States as are to be found in all the rest of the world combined. We lead in the number of motion picture theaters. We have more magazines carrying information and opinion. We lead in television. But we also have a tremendous amount of propaganda. Given more information than any other people in the world, Americans have a greater responsibility to eval uate and analyze that information. Obviously, when differences of opinion exist, one opin ion is right and the other wrong. We also find much ex aggeration and distortion in the things we hear and the things we see. Jt becomes a duty of every conscientious citizen, therefore, to attempt to sift out the truth in the in formation he receives. He must learn to distinguish propa gnnda from fact. He must recognize exaggerations and dis tortions as being used for a purpose. Sensationalise in news) and opinion is common. We find that some of wr radio commentators, who, to retain sponsorship, must maintain a large listening audience, use the sensational or "scare" formula. They must com pete with Spiko Jones; Jack Benny, and Superman for their audience. Consequently they try to hold their listening p'lblic by dramatization and sensationalism. Not all com mutators, of course, are to be so classified, but we have altogether too many of that type. Nor is the- press entirely free from the same con dition. In fact, some of the worst offenders on radio also write newspaper opinion columns. Free Press Means Freedom Yet, despite propaganda, exaggeration, distortion and other "pollution" in the stream of information, we should allow no controls or censorship over the mediums through which that information is disseminated for the most vital of our freedoms is freedom of speech. Only by preserving the right of free speech can we rmintnin rur freedom. A free people should accept the responsibility that accompanies their freedom. They should endeavor to learn the truth. They are aided in this process by their newspaper, which nas an advantage over other means of dissemi nating news. in the fact that it is possible to more carefully study and analyze the things we read, whereas the things we hear and see are not. subject to review. Wo cannot denv that we find propaganda in our news papers. When the President of the T'nited States makes a speech, he fills that speech with political propaganda. It becomes tlip responsibility of the newspaper to print that speech exactly as it was delivered. The same is true of talks by bureaucrats and newsworthy people. Activ ities of various groups and organizations often are staged for propaganda effects. These events must be reported by newspapers if tliry are to perform their jobs faithfully. The reader, however, has a better opportunity to eval uate what he reads than what he hears. The written word mill r-s less appeal to the emotions than does the spoken word. Furthermore it is less subject to misinterpretation. Then, too, the newspaper's editorial columns and in terpretative reports aid the reader in making his eval uations. Just as long as we preserve the free press and the right of fiee expression, we will maintain freedom The moment those privilegp. are abridged, we are in danser of enslavement. f jam I ;.ft--TfF!pGmtmkmMKtm)i In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Contifiied from Page 1) have come quicVly to the conclu sion that mink coat and deep freeze data in connection with RFC loans should be withheld. The RFC's idea would have been that such disclosures can do great harm especially' to the people who gave and got the mink coats and the deep freezes. We have to keep in mind that governments as well as individ uals are apt to be Impressed by the reasoning that' wrongdo ing isn't so bad IF YOU DON'T GET CAUGHT AT IT. If our federal agencies are made the sole judges of what the pub lic ought to be allowed to know, I'm afraid the public will never find out much about such things as mink coats and deep freezes and their possible effect on the loan policies of such government agen cies as the reconstruction finance corporation. Much as I dislike censorship, I have to admit that there are things the newspapers must not be a 1 lowed to print in time of war either hot or cold. When we tip our enemies off to our military plans and our military movements, we are needlessly throwing awav the lives of American bovs. Such things as that are CRIMINAL. But While we're at it, we might as well remember that it wasn't out of the press (newspapers, maga zines, etc.) that the Russians got their knowledge of the atom bomb and how to make it. That came from a renegade scientist who had free run of our atomic installa tions, both here and in England. Wherr he had found out all he needed to know, he jumped the res ervation and went over to the Rus sians. And it wasn't the press that ped dled secret papers out of the State department to Russian agents who hustled them off to Moscow. That was done by trusted agents of the State department, such as Alger Hiss. Camp White Considered In Reconstruction Plan MEDFORD (. The army delayed work on plans for recon struction of Camp White until it could decide what kind of an In stallation should be built there. That was the report of a Med ford delegation which had con ferred with Lt. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, commanding 'flieral of the sixth army, San Francisco. , The general told them the army had not yet decided whether to make the camp an infantry di vision training center or a re placement training center. When the army last week Issued a stop-work order on the reoutfit tine of the camp, Medford resi dents feared the camp reactivation program had been shelved. Speaking as one individual, I just haven't confidence enough i n out federal agencies will be willing to see them given the power to de cide what I ought to know about wnat is going on in our govern ment. . JNewl-Revlow m has not been 1 I delivered by I 1 4:15 p.m., prions I 2-2631 bstwess 4:15 and 7 p.m. M ery set from dusk to dawn. At midnight the Rebekahs or the cir cle, as the case might be, served a bountiful chicken supper, which netted them as much as forty dol lars , . ." An advertisement of Bccklcy Brothers announced "We carry the best. Fancy thoroughbred spring hats, neckwear, both la dies and gentlemen. The latest prints in calico and outing flan nel. Shoes on the bargain coun ter . . ." The Yoncalla Independent said: "Old Mr. Bell has a horseless carriage which he drives through the rough city streets with a se ries of explosions, balking and stalling, at the speed of ten miles an hour, scaring the horses half to death but always sure of an audience. Mr. Bell, whose experi ence in driving over the narrow steep roads of the countryside was not happy, had a jill poke fas tened to the rear axle of his vehicle with a string passed up from un derneath and fastened to the steer ing handle so that if and when climbing a steep hill the motor pe tered out, he merely cuts the string and the ji 11 poke falls, the sharp end digging info the dirt and the car is saved from going over the bank." I recommend "Yoncalla," re vised edition and the original edi tion, too, to anyone interested in Douglas county, or for that mat ter, lo anyone Interested in the "old days." Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M.C., 4th District, Oregon Lending Next lime as you skim thrones . Hies In Inner rMina- .ii.t. the Vvncnlla area, remember this picture linm " . nncall.i" hy Anna Kruse (Dram Knlerprise. print eis), the revised edition of which has just yearned me. Delightful reading, indeed. , "At the rlnviOf it, . ... ,,lv ii mm j on side saddles, over the countryside. Occasionally a mother with a baby in her lap and one. or two ether little ones riding behind came a do:en nuli or mote lo chunh. "I!anra laata.1 (h... .1....!. were Ih'hlivl lm !..,,.. I .U..1...1.1 1.-11.. . .. '. I'imna u -,.. 1 1j -, o" 1 'fc1" ruir.3 I'ainr oy nurse- " " " nrrpiaces and . hark Inn hi. every Ljuispwjfp did her own hak mg. hoads were narrow, rutted mill sometimes impassable- knee deep in mud in winter and' about equally so in diul in summertime. r.jeivnne riw horsebaek. La 1 buggy, hack or even four horse wagons from twenty nnW around lo participate. Numliera were called so that each genlle The countries which, with our help and leadership, banded them selves together in the North At lanlic Treaty Organization (ab breviated to NATO) were nearly all defeated and war-weary na tions. After the war no one of them alone represented power worth mentioning either economic, military or spiritual. No one of them stood out as a strong in fluence, a leader around whicn the others might rally to promote collective strength and security. Each was vulnerable if not helpless in a condition due in part t olack of confidence, or what might be called .spiritual decay, on the part of privalely owned wealth in the several coun tries. Meanwhile the Russian dictator was on the march and well on his way toward achieving the 30-year-old Soviet dream of world conquest. In less than five years they had expanded their political and economic control to include more than 800 million people or nearly one third of the popula tion of the world. During this pe riod, and until as recently as last year, our own government, the Truman administration, looked the other way disbanded our mil itary power and kept up the pre tense that the Russian rulers were our allies and potentially good neighbors in the world. About ail that we did during those years of Russian conquest was to pour moncv Into Europe t hr o u g h UNNHA and ECA but without in sisting upon unification or even internal cooperation in Europe. Since 1916 we have been deeply involved in the affairs of Europe. By tne end ot World War 11 we were the strongest power and the obvious leader of the free world. We cannot escape or avoid our responsibility. Clearly our re- stHinsibility as the leader in the cause of freedom demands that we gather together in one cohe sive and effective force the other free but weakened governments and thus present a powerful and swept gracefully 'united front against the predatory aggression of the Kremlin. At long last thirt is what the United States Government is do ing. Economic success and pros perity follows peace insured by adequate milituy security. The significant fact is that with the building of what is called the Fulton lewis h. WASHINGTON Socialists in Great Britain have re tained postwar control of the government by asserting that they have improved the lot of the common man. The claim is strictly phony and it may be that the British people will upset the Labor government in the forth coming general elections. An upset is far from certain, how ever, because nobody knows how long it takes the common man lo jet a bollyful of having his life controlled by social planners who have never sweat a day in their lives. the British people, just as we have in this country, will get one more chance to restore a little san ity to their government If they fail to take advantage of these elections, the next step for the So cialists will be totalitarian control and maybe even amalgamation with the Kremlin. Most Britons are aware that their standard of living has dropped sharply under Socialist beneficence. Prices are higher, food scarcer, and government in terference more troublesome. Instead of raising the standard of British hearth, farm and factory, the Socialists have exported huge chunks of British production to Russia and other Iron Curtain countries. In fact, large quantities of ECA goods sent by the U. S. for British use have been trans shipped to the Soviet Union. Hugh Gailskell, British chancel lor of the exchequer, in recent fi nancial talks in this country, blandly informed the American Eisenhower European defense sys tern, we-ind the Europeans are ereetingci unified wall of secunl man had his plare on the floor. I behind wnirh capital ventures can Girls wore long skirts, plenty of be mad and people can live and them, and bragged Ig, dancing v- I build homes and look with at least a little confidence into the future. Without a collective military de fense system even Ihe billions we quale poured into the various European countries did not remove the black cloud of fear of military attack. Capital went into hiding. Fright ened people simply cannot create a prosperous economy. Not long ago I visited the head quarters of General Eisenhower near Paris. I came away with an entirely new hut an accurate un derstanding of what the General and we are doing in Europe ill a military wav. Our iob there is clearly one of leadership. Our government is Ihe unifying agency or as tney say in cnemisliy the catalyst which is drawing the forces of eleven other govern ments together for their common defense defense against the Russians or any other power. We are, of course, putting in some troops, some naval units, and some air power. We are helping to provide arms, but the most im portant contribution we are mak ing toward the security and Deace of Europe is the leadership of General Eisenhower and the fine people in his organization. With out that leadership, which is ac cepted and liked by the other governments, such money and military force we might contribute would be mostly wasted just as quite a few of our ECA dollars were wasted before NATO was formed and before we began to help put a military defense sys tem together. Remember the stories of the Old West in our country? There was not much future in cattle raising or other business ventures while the highwaymen and cattle rustlers were knocking off one ranch at a time. But when the peirpi'e wit toaether and brought about law and order and a col lective defense system against crime, the situation was reversed. There then no future for cattle rustlers or hinhw.iymen, and farming and business prospered. Oysters can and do change their sex from male to female or fe male to male in middle age. o people that Britain had to trade with the Communists. He said Britain sent finished goods to Russia in exchange for Communist grain and timber What he failed to mention, how ever, is that British exports to Rus sia surpass Soviet imports into Britain by a wide margin. They could cut their exports to Russia in half and still more than pay for the Communist grain and tim ber they are importing. In other words, more than half of Britain's sales to Russia are for the pur pose of getting Russian gold in re turn not for the purpose of get ting economic necessities. If these excess sales-for-gold-profit were eliminated, the British people would be able to retain, for their own use, substantial quanti ties of machinery, household sup plies and foodstuffs now going to the Soviet Union. Their standard of living and the efficiency of their production would have improved instead of degenerating over the past five years. British lood production is mane- Yet in the lasi year ior which statistics are available, Ihe Socialists shipped 57,600 tons of hay bailers, binders and small combines to Communist and other foreign countries. It can be as sumed that the export total has increased in porporlion to in creased U. S. shipments to Eng land. The British, just as we are, are short of machine tools. The lat est statistics reveal that Ihe So cialists shipped from England 51, 000 tons of finished machine tools and component parts all to Com munist or other foreign lands. I'rimc Minister Attlcc's Socialist government just as the Truman administration did in the U. S. stripped its country of its defenses on the assumption that Russia would lay down and play dead just as soon as she cleared up the rub ble from World War II. Having promised peace and plenty on this assumption, the So cialists here and in Britain were caught with their policies down. After winning elections by promis ing a brave new world of plenty, the economic control artists had to produce. About halfway down this road to bankruptcy Russia got tough. And nobody scares like a Socialist when things get loud around the Kremlin. Instead of peace and plenty, with free wits, free false teeth and two chickens in every pot, the Brit ish Socialists and their compa triots here had to rearm their countries or get booted out "of of fice. Attlee's government, too far down the Socialist road to -creeping ruin to turn back, is now trying to convince the British people that Russia is to blame for their eco nomic plight. Well, it wasn't the British or American people who wanted to lie down with the Rus sians. The people were too smarL It was just our leaders. IUar FuItofyLcii is Dnily On KRXR, 4:00 PM. And 9:15 P. M. pwHtu. - ' mm Rev. Joe Bril Rev. Joe Brill Special Meetings SEPT. 30th THRU OCTOBER 14th Hear this Dynamic "Youth for Christ" ' SPEAKER Each evening at 7:30 GREEN COMMUNITY CHURCH OLD HIGHWAY 99 SOUTH NEAR HAPPY VALLEY ROAD Rev. Ralph Knauf, Pastor IKKSSSSX r y I how about making a right smart V change, Mom, to a new f XrV a i 'X Okeefe & Meiot AUTOMATIC GAS RANGE "in&dt Mime, son, Cxdzoru. 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