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EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT
Fulton lewis Jr.
avas9ffi2rs
By CHARLES V. STANTON
The Oregon Game commission has announced the ap
pointment of Phil Schneider as state game director. He has
been serving as acting director since last March and prior
to that time was assistant director with full authority over
all the department's research work.
No better choice could have been made, in our opinion.
We are glad Schneider has agreed to accept the position. He
was reluctant to do so.
Certain elements within the slate have been clamoring
for a "big name" game director. They had in mind someone
like Seth Gordon, formerly game director for Pennsylvania,
now with the State of California, widely known for achieve
ment in the field of conservation and game management.
We cannot agree, however, that a "big name" conserva
tionist is essential to proper game and fish management in
Oregon.
Schneider Knows Oregon .
Schneider has grown up with Oregon's conservation
problems. He entered the game commission's service follow
ing graduation from the school of fish and game manage
ment at Oregon State college. He worked in the fisheries
department until World War II, during which he served in
the navy. Upon his return from military service, Schneider
was assigned to the game division. Thus he has had prac
tical service and experience in all of the commission's var
ious departments.
Phil has proven himself to be a thorough and efficient
administrator. He has greatly improved the commis
sion's public relations. He has been extremely diplomatic in
the tough situations in which the commission has recently
been placed.
We believe we HAVE a "big name" director at least
one who has proved himself deserving of that classification.
A TRIBUTE TO WOOD
A unique tribute to the timber industry was presented
recently by Jimmy Durante on his television show.
As the event is reported by the National Lumber Man
ufacturer's association, Durante was called a "blockhead."
"When you say my head is made of wood you pays me
a compliment," Durante replied.
"Almost everyone," he said, "has been indooced to be
lieve that dis country is confronted by an acute shortage
of timber. This ain't true. Wood built America .Without wood
there could have been no America. Wood built the homes,
churches, stockades, corncribs of America. Wood endures.
Wood is friendly. Wood is economical."
While Durante continued his oration on wood, members
of the cast were scurrying on and off stage, carrying in hun
dreds of articles made from wood, which the television audi
ence saw piled into a huge heap.
As Durante began disappearing behind the mounting
pile of wooden goods, still orating, the cast began chanting
"wood, wood, wood," piling their merchandise higher and
higher while the show faded from the screen.
The association of lumber manufacturers wrote Durante
a letter of thanks on behalf of the industry and the men and
women engaged in wood production and utilization.
This letter pointed out that since the birth of the
nation, the country has produced an estimated 2100 billion
board feet of lumber. This is enough, it was stated, to build
52 million urban homes, 12 million farm homes, 2 million
schools and libraries, 650,000 churches and 450,000 factories.
Yet it would not include 6 billion cords of fuelwood, 150
j million tons of pulp for paper, 450 million telephone poles,
; 11 billion fence posts and 10 billion railroad ties.
; There still is enough saw timber, it was stated, to build
; a six-room house "for every man, woman and child in the
; United States with a substantial amount of lumber left
I over.
! As we ponder these facts, we can begin to realize the ini
; portance of southern Oregon in the timber industry picture,
; as we have here the largest remaining commercial stand of
Douglas fir, the nation's No. 1 structural wood.
ENDING
BASKET
During my packing up labors i herd's Life, Afoot In England and
how restful it has boon lo dip into so on. It scorns lo me the re
delightful prose in "The Best of turned Douglas county travelers
" W. II. Hudson," compiled by Odell
- Shepard. I had been meaning, for
" years, to read one or another of
liiiuwn . uwnn , Wi lli J MIMII l
tnem, ren t there? so this vol
ume has been a treat. Hitherto
I had known llitdson only by in
numerable quotations. I had asked
the State libary to send me "I'cd
lar's Progress" by Odell Shepard,
another booh on my must-list, and
also the new historical novel, "Jen
kins' Ear" in which the son, Wil
lard Shepard collaborated with his
father. Both books being out, the
library sent me "The Best of W. II.
Hudson" (E. P Dutton, 1949) and
how glad I ami
AjOyou know. Hudson's earlv
life was spent on the Patagonian
pampas, yet he always spoke of
.r.ngiana, still unseen, as "home.
His wanderings afoot or on horse-
ck over the pampas early (aught
him (o enjoy solilude, and to love
birds, ob.ve animals, and find
keen interest even in serpents and
bats. He later went to England
and there found continual satis
faction in the countryside.
"Hie StU'pard compilation has
grouped passages from Hudson's
writings under such headings as:
Birds In Town and Village. A
Traveller In Utile Things, A Shep-
who journeyed abroad this sum
mer, and who had so brief a time
to savour the English countryside,
might complement their own ob
servation by enjoying further
walks with Hudson in his book.
Hudson wrote somewhat as a
psychologist as welt as a natural
ist. He refers to the "wilderness
WASHINGTON The generosity of American taxpay
ers in rebuilding foreign merchant fleets should cease as of
now.
Besides selling at bargain rates 1,113. surplus merchant
vessels to foreign countries, U.S. taxpayers have financed
through the Economic Cooperation administration almost
$150,000,000 of repair work to rehabilitate merchant and
fishing fleets of foreign nations. There are additional mil
lions that have been handed over indirectly in payments to
foreign shippers for hauling U.S. -produced ECA goods to
their own countries.
In addition, we have shipped to
ECA countries thousands of tons
of steel plate and other material
earmarked for production of other
machinery, but some of which un
doubtedly went into shipbuilding.
Similar aid is now being extended
to North Atlantic treaty countries
under the guise of making those
nations strong militarily.
There is no question but that
the hundreds of millions of dol
lars poured into foreign shipping
has had a beneficial effect on the
economics of the recipient na
tions. It has been so effective,
in fact, that a number of thCm
can now afford to use steel plate
and other materials for building
ships for the Soviet Union.
Denmark, for instance, is now
constructing eight trawlers for
Russia; Belgium is building five
cargo ships and seven trawlers;
Italy is constructing two passenger-cargo-ships;
Sweden 12 trawl
ers and two tankers and The Neth
erlands is building three cargo
ships, six tankers, 10 whalers and
(wo suction dredge hulls all for
Russia.
And just to forestall (he usual
denial from the State department,
copies of "Shipping World" are
being sent to Secretary of State
Dean Acheson. The publication
lisls the shipbuilding-for-Russia
activity on the basis of data furn
ished by the ECA countries doing
the building. This will be one
time, at least, when Acheson won't
be able to say he can't find any
reference to it in his files and
therefore it isn't so.
NATO countries under the
shadow of Soviet guns will be the
beneficiaries of some $6,000,000.-
000 more of U. S. taxpayer money
that has been voted by Congress.
We arc also turning over addi
tional fighting and cargo ships to
practically any nation that steps
up with its hand out. We will also
send tanks, guns and machine
tools to NATO countries who plead
that they do not have the steel
for constructing the weapons and
machines in (heir own countries,
but they do have (he steel for con
structing ships for Russia. And
what they are doing in effect is
to take steel from "U. S. consum
ers so they can collect a pile of
Soviet gold.
Ever since 1946 the administra
tion has treated foreign shippers
as preferred customers. In the
past three years alone, the ECA
has shipped about 25,000,000 long
tons of material to foreign lands
I on foreign merchant ships. In ad-
(iii ion, 56 million tons of ECA
cargoes have originated outside
the U.S. that have been shipped
on foreign cargo vessels, at ECA
expense. This is "hidden" ajd lo
foreign merchant shiplines that
does not show up on the account
ing sheet as direct aid.
Italy, for one, has received $19,
700,000 in direct cash to help re
build its merchant fleet, plus steel
and other ma(crial for repairing
and rebuilding damaged vessels.
But Italy now has enough material
to build two passenger-cargo ves
sels for Russia.
Where Italy and the other ECA
and NATO nations get the cash
to build ships for the Kremlin is
anodier interesting story. Taking
Italy as an example and it's
the same story in any ECA coun
try it works like this:
An Italian merchant or manu
facturer pays his own Italian gov
ernment for (he cost of ECA ma
terials shipped into Italy for him.
The money is put in a separate
fund, a so-called counterpart fund,
from which Italian firms can bor
row to construct ships, factories
or machinery or 'for other worth
while projects and then export
the goods to other countries.
Counterpart funds, naturally,
would not exist in the first place
were it not for U. S. exports. So
tne end result is that it all comes
from the pockets of U. S. tax
payers, and whether we like it or
not, ECA and the State depart
ment officials sit on their hands
while U S. money builds ships
fbr Russia ships that may al
ready be hauling supplies to Chi
nese communist (roops m Korea.
Hear Fullon Leivis Daily
On KRNR, 4:00 P.M
And?; 15 P.M.
line nor silvery, but was like heav
enly sunshine translated into
sound, yet always at a vast dis
tance, falling, falling like a lucid
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Congress Chat
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M.C.,
4th District, Oregon
Deficit spending and gigantic
debt are not all of (he financial
(roubles of our greaf federal gov
ernment although (hey certainly
represent trouble enough. A fur
ther really big headache has been
caused by the fact that this
Congress has not been able to
tell seven of our government de
partments how much money they
can spend during this fiscal year
and the year is already nearly
one-third gone. (Fiscal year ends
June 30.)
At the time of writing this let
ter the appropriations bills for the
civil functions of the army engi
neers rivers and harbors and
flood control and for the legis
lative. State. Justice, Commerce,
Judiciary and Defense departments
of the government have not be
come law.
This failure of Congress to do its
ordinary duly on time is not only
wasteful, but it is inexcusable.
Waste and inefficiency result from
the fact that department heads arc
unable to make precise plans for
making the best use of the money
appropriated for them. They just
rock along at their rate of spend
ing last year and cannot settle
down efficiently until they know
wnat tneir nnancial score is
sion on- Sept. 28 calling for $5.4
billions, or nearly two billions less
than in the original house bill.
House and senate conferees have
been adjusting their differences
for several days. As finally agreed
upon by the conferees the bill
provides for tax revenues about
150 percent above the highest for
any year during World War II.
Speaking of appropriations,
(axes and public debt, I just
came across some shocking fig
ures. Leaving out figures on Rus
sia, which we annot get and
couldn't believe if we obtained
them, the total debt of our U. S.
federal treasury is more than
DOUBLE the combined public
debt of ALL, of the countries of
Europe including seven which are
nemnd the Iron C urtain. The score
U. S. debt $257 billions;, total
debt 22 European countries S11S
billions. But the per capita contrast
is even greater. They have a total
of twice as many people to help
pay oft half as much debt. Total
Europe pop. less Russia 320.
6H6.0O0.) Somewhere near a third
of our debt resulted from our
sending money abroad. How can
we continue on this course and
survive? I wish I knew the answer
to that question.
Missing Woman Found
In Cold Deschutes Area
BEND (.ft A woman miss
ing in the cold forests of the upper
Deschutes since Sunday, was found
early Tuesday, weak and chilled.
.Mrs. R. A. Petersen of Snrine-
field. object of an intensive search
With the nossible exrrnlion nf by 50-odd persons dirpcted hv Statp
the big Defense department appro-1 Patrol man William Hazelw'ood of
priation bill, which is more com- 1 Gilchrist, was semi-delerious when
plicated than usual. Congress
and that means the majority
leadership including tne chairmen
found
But hot coffee soon revived her
and sue was able to give a sketchy
of the annronriations rommiftneg account of her wanderincs since
of the House and Senate has no i becoming separated from her hus
band about 3:30 p.m. Sunday while
ucer nunung.
She said that to keep her feet
warm she had tried to dig holes in
the ground. Monday she heard
searchers hut was loo weak and
cold to reach them.
An ambulance, called from Oak-
of the mind" and "something I law thus far (his session. I ril,ge. : her (o a hospital for
ncyona Knowledge, and n I s j ui'MTvauon.
thoughts about (he wind, the rain-1 This may turn out to be almost i In addition to being chilled, she
bow, and above all, his great love; the longest continuous session of j d not eaten since becoming lost,
in birds, enrich the reader's store. ! Congress in our whole history. I J,r. Petersen, 30. is a stenog
Or so it scorns to me. : ting the end. As usual, las tmin-! rapher in the Mountain States
W ho could help enjoying Hud-1 ute frantic efforts are being made 1 0er company office in Spring-
excuse tor mis delay, the Presi
dent sent his budget up to Con
gress on time but Congress has
just been fiddling with it for
nearly ten months. Nor has this
session been too preoccupied wilh
other big legislation. Only five ma
jor legislative hills have become
In The DayVNews
By FRANK JENKINS
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President wanted to raise by taxes,
was sore because the Senate cut
down the amount the House was
willing to raise.
son's pages about the skylark? Let
me quote just a utile as an in
viting sample, if you hav not al
ready read it
to get bills to the floor and passed
However, the rules committee, of
which I am a member, will have
no mors tm'ptlncs and ui nut
"The hrthest notes of the lark i send anv more hills to the flour.
on tese hills may, 1 believe, be ; Such new legislation as may be
hoard three miles awav. . . As
the distance between listener and
bird increases the throat-notes an;
one by one sifted out. . . finally,
at very great distance as far
as anything nf the song is let
the shrill reiterated notes I have
described alone are heard. . .
like no earthly music. . . I have
listened to it by the hour, never
wearying nor ceasing to wonder at
that mysterious beautiful music
which could not be called crystal-
considered will be handled under
the procedure known as "suspen
sion of the rules." When a hill is
brought up under suspension, a
two-thirds favorable vote is r en
quired to pass it.
Back in June the,, House passed
a (ax bill. The President requested
some ten billions in new taxes.
The House dredged up provisions
for $7.2 billions. The Senate re
wrote, the bill and passed its vcr-
" Anyway, it's a Mass. But there
are so many messes in Washington
that I reckon one more won't
make much difference.
This, of course, MIGHT have
happened:
In the past few days, the mem
bers of the House could have been
getting a whale of a lot of letters
from their constituents couched
something like this: "I'm fed to
the chin with this drunken-sailor
spending, and from here on out I'm
going to VOTE AGAINST EVERY
BODY WHO VOTES TO SPEND
MORE OF MY MONEY."
If enough voters did that, It
would change the whole spending
picture.
The reason our government goes
on spending like a drunken sailor
is that nearly everybody in Wash
ington thinks that is what the peo
ple want. If the Washington crowd
ever gets the idea that public
thinking has changed and that
hereafter reckless spending is
POISON from the vote-getting
standpoint everybody back there
will suddenly get economy-minded.
This is the No. 1 Washington
motto:
ANYTHING TO HOLD OUR
JOBS!
Speaking of reckless federal
spending, which results in heavy
federal taxes AND HUGE FED
ERAL DEBT, Representative Har
ris Ellsworth, congressman from
our own Southern Oregon district
writes:
"I just came across some shock
ing figures on debt. Leaving out
figures on Russia, which we can't
get and couldn't believe if we got
them, the total debt of our US
federal treasury IS MORE THAN
DOUBLE THE COMBINED DEBT
OF ALL THE COUNTRIES OF
EUROPE, INCLUDING SEVEN
WHICH ARE BEHIND THE IRON
CURTAIN.
"This is the score:
"US debt, 257 billions.
"Total debt of 22 European coun
tries, 115 billions.
"Total Europe population, less
Russia, 320 millions.
"Total US population, 150 mil
lions. "That is to say, Europe has
TWICE as many people to help
pay off HALF as much debt."
One more point:
Somewhere near a THIRD of
our federal debt resulted from our
SENDING MONEY ABROAD. We
go right on sending money abroad
and aiMing to our federal debt.
What will the final outcome be?
Heaven only knows!
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and Mrs. Harold Hoyt have re
turned to their home in Roseburg,
following a week in La Grande,
where they were called by the
death of the former's father. They
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Knight, of Portland, will arrive
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Calif.. Mrs. S. L. Hebard and Mrs.
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of Eugene, have returned to their
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Audrie Roselund and R. Stephen
Healy.
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James Y. Rogers Jr., and daugh
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Carol, of Charlotte, N. C, are
spending a month in Roseburg at
the home of Mrs. Rogers' parents,
Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Church on
S. Kane street. Here for the week
at the Church home also are Mrs.
Charles Church and children, Mar
ian and Steven, of Eugene, while
Dr. Church and son, Charles
Church; James Y. Rogers Jr., and
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