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4 Tht Newe-Revlew, Rouburg, Ore M., Nov. ItSI Til Race You!' Puallih.a' Daily lieaat Sunday to the News-Review Company, inc. fauna ! " r ' " ,.',', luttlri, Oraa. aoaal aat .1 Marea I. U1S CHARLES V. STANTON "WIN L KNAP- Editor Meaeaer Mambar ef tha Aielarad frail, Of.fO NawMPa Publiihan Aatocletlon, tht Audit Buraau f Clrculatioat aaraaaalal If III r-HOLLIDA CO.. INC., alllcaa la Naw tart, Cklaaia. . eaaraaaaia, ' L Ao .aula, r.Ml.aa, aaea). lau laaa aoa raar, par manlh. I.M. Oa'alS. Otaaaa Bf ajaia tVl Taai. "1I.M1 ala naalba. -Ml ajaalka. II PRESERVING HISTORY By CHARLES V. STANTON We have just completed reading Martha Ferguson Mc Keown's new book. "Alaska Silver." To be released next week by The Macmillan company, "Alaska Silver is the ! third and last book in Mrs. McKeown's story of the life of ' her uncle, Mont Hawthorne. It is a complement to two previous stories, "The Trail Led North." and "Them Was the Days " " ' "Alaska Silver" is the e tory of the Pacific coast's salmon ' industry the transition from salting to canning salmon, 1 the exploration for sites, the growth of the independents, ' the formation of canning corporations, the war between in ' dependents and corporations, the invention and development ( of machinery to replace "Chinaboy" cannery crews. l But the story is more than a narration of the growth ' of nn industry. It is a history of exploitation of a newly- acquired, rich territory, its resources and its people, by greedy industrialists and a negligent inefficient gov ' eminent. It is a history told in the salty, vigorous language of Uncle Mont, whose itchy, feet could not rest while there was a place he had not seen; Uncle Mont who combined philosphy and psychology with his skill as a mechanic and a leader of men; who had a keen insight into the emo tions of people, white and Indian, with whom he made friends quickly and easily. Colorful Experiences Related ' We have a personal Interest in Mrs. McKeown's books. It just happened that we were close at hand when she re ceived word that her first work had been accepted. She simply had to "unload" on someone and we had the wonder ful and most pleasurable experience of sharing the almost hysterical joy of an author achieving success a measure of aucwitt" that has proved so much greater than even dreamed of at that time. ... ' : ' But. even without that personal experience we would find the life story of Mont Hawthorne "must" reading. We read in our histories of the reconstruction follow ing the Civil war, the westward immigration, the Alaskan gold rush, the development of Pacific coast industries. But we can't really understand and relive those days until we have their intimacies revealed by someone who, actually experienced them and who, with excellent ability for ob servation and understanding, makes us acquainted with history as it affected human life. - We know that we purchased Alaska from the Russians, but Uncle Mont tells us of the helplessness of the Alaskan natives who, having lived under the strict rule of the Rus sians, were the forgotten people after our government took over. How they had no schools, no churches, no em ployment. How Our government moved them from their village?. How', destruction of their totem poles was or dered, to be followed later by orders to collect those poles and preserve them as exhibits of native art. How polyg amy, to which nativos resorted when rigors and dangers of the North critically reduced the number of men in the tribes, was banned and tribes thereby virtually destroyed. How Indian fishermen vied -for places in the Salvation Army band. The sorry plight of the large half-breed pop ulation,. hunned by whites and Indians alike. The failure of our government to permit agricultural settlement of ter ritorial land. The employment of drunken young Indians by pelters to slaughter deer for hides. Need Preservation Of History Ve do not lenrn of these things In our history books. Yet it is the intimate knowledge that best enables us to better understand the events of the past. . ' 1 , . We have allowed too much history to escape. The ; West is full of historical romance. Every pioneer had in- teresting tales to tell tales that reflected the nation's pol- icics, economy, enterprise and independence. We have permitted too many pioneers to carry this knowledge with them to their graves without their records being p r e served for our -Information and guidance today. 1 Here In our own county we have a wealth of tradition littlo of , that tradition has been written into history. A few valuable contributions have been made. We have part of the Applegats story. George W. Riddle loft valuable memoirs. Wilfred Brown recently brought out a book of essays. Annie Kruse is doing a fine piece of research and soon will publish her history of Umpqua county. But we have lost a valuable store of intimate history and are losing more daily. , Martha Ferguson McKeown has accomplished far more than successful authorship of three exceedingly interesting books, She has preserved for all time the correlative his tory of on empire, woven around the life story of a lovable character who made valuable contribution to that history aF II -. ' f II ENDING BASKET Isn't it nice lhat each locality has Iti own boosters! In a charm ing letter from out Dlxonville way, the writer asks if I have ever been out there. The group of roll ing hills, she says, "Is lovely any time of the year. I believe it till belongs largely to the Dixon family. This whole area is t lovely place to live in. The hills are not high enough to shut out much sun j rather Uiey seem to re flect it. "la the fall the short grass turns gold and the hills are like giant Jiaystacks. I think they pasture sheep there, which aceounts for the shortness of the grass. In the florins th rnnri from IlivnnullL to the North Umpqua highway is thickly lined with wild bachelor buttons, and, later, good old Cali fornia poppies. Even the fescue lining the fences bears purple blos soms resembling tweet pcuj but smaller and more luxuriant. We love our community. Most all the residents own their places, or are buying as wo are. We aren't fam ous for truck gardens like Mel rose, Dlllard or Garden valley, own use. , ." Isn't that 1 description that makes one want to head the car that way the very next free time? Wa shall do so, and shall also be sure to look up the writer who included directions for finding her but we have large gardens for our home. How I do enjoy letters like that one, don't you? I'd like to quote it all. Speaking of golden hills: back of our new place is, of course, 1 rise covered win short sras that makej me think some way of the ocean with.ua suggestion of il limitable space. I never bcfoie understood exactly what there was about ,lhe rolling prairie that S5ES r I'Maaanaiat ,.a.ia. i'ia - r a ar i.-r.-- - v r 'LLj.'ruWi Jl aai 1 laj ajn aSalaiJ T" '- Fulton Lewis Jr. WASHINGTON Edward W. Barrett, assistant sec retary of state for public affairs, has challenged the integrity and reportorial skill of a Scranton (Pa.) newspaperman named Frank Stout. Stout got fed up after working for Barrett's international press and publications division for eight months. He quit. He wrote a se ries of articles for the Scranton Tribune, charging that- govern ment waste is honeless. that State department spies - snoop around Congress and that, in general the Voice of America is timid; inef ficient, and wasteful. Barrett came up with the usual State department denial but later decided he would investigate his own department. He oujht to. Stout did for eight months and left holding his nose. But just to keep Barrett and his hatchetmen from making a bum out of Stout, let's take a look at the newspaper man's appearance and record. Stout is a studious appearing re porter, who has been in the busi ness since 1940. He started as a sportswriter for the Fitchburg, Mass., Sentinel; then worked for the Associated Press in Boston for three years. For four years h e was news editor of th Ports mouth, N.H., Herald, where he won five New England Press as sociation awards. During the war he was a combat correspond ent with the Third and Fifth U. S. naval fleets. Barrett will have a hard time labeling Stout a disgruntled hack, but hes already trying. When in formed of Stout's scries of criti cal articles, Barrett sent an arro gant telegram demanding that the reporter (cave his job and appear before State department high lamas immediately. The, wire read: '"I have sent 'i telegram to Frank Stout today, asking him to come to Washington immediately and report personally on his seri ous, but unsubstantiated charges against the international press and publications division. Neither when ho was In the department of State, nor after his severance from the payroll, did he make any com plaints of the sort that he is now writing as an employee of t h e Scranton Tribune. If he felt that any such complaints were justi fied, he was derelict in failing to report them to me or to other responsible managers of this pro gram." Robert J. Arthur, editor of the Tribune, promptly telegraphed Barrett to dunk his puerile arro gance in a cup of tea. He said Stout's charges are well docu mented but that Barrett could not order any of his staff men to re port to Washington forthwith. .Stout listed at great length In his series the goofiness he found in Barrett's shop during his eight month stay. He charges that gov ernment waste is hopeless and that he "met only one or two men who charms some people so much. It is their "ocean." 1 can understand now just what they mean. I stand and look up where the gold and the sky meet, and there is some thing about it that is deeply sat isfying. But I am glad that off to Ihe west and across the high way to the south there are trees. And a stone's throw from the high way is Elk creek, really a little river. But I shall always remem ber Seeley creek. . . and hear it in my heart. How glad I was that it began to murmur its song after that hard rain we had just be fore we moved. I had missed it all summer. would know 1 taxpayer If they fell over him." As to the spying on Congress charge, Stout says: "The State department's Inter national press division as a rou tine matter, has reporters cover ing both the House and the U. S. Senate to pick up news that Is of interest in foreign , countries. That's fine. "But on many occasions I could not even estimate the num ber accurately these men, and others, are assigned to watch com mittees studying State department propaganda appropriations hear ings. They have been under orders to report immediately to their su periors. What they report has no possible use as propaganda over seas, but is simply information for the bureaucrats who run the pro gram. They, in turn, use this in formation to build their defenses and lay their tactics for the lime when they are to ask for even more money." There It is, on the line. Barrett says he now wiil investigate himself. It is a congressional duty to prevent him from doing so. There is an appropriation subcom mittee for the State department that can handle the chore. It wouldn't be difficult to subpoena the record slips Barrett uses daily to assign his reporters to various chores at the capitol. That is, it wouldn't be difficult unless Barrett hides behind President Truman's ban against revealing executive department files. More, later, about reporter Stout's serious charges against Barrett. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P. M. and Lake Mead, and this lent it self to recreation of all sorts, in eluding fishing. but there has been DKUUTH in the Southwest and when I say drouth I mean drouth. Elephant Butte dam is now practically empty of water, and no water no fish. Fishing requires taclie and selling the tackle brought plenty shekels to Main Street. Mow no fish, no tackle. This is the principal reason why the population of Hot Springs has slipped since It changed its name to Truth or Consequences. Know ing fishermen, I'd say they'd be just as willing to fish in Truth or Consequences as in Hot Springs. I doubt if they'd even know the difference if, the fish were biting. Up to last week, precipitation in the Hot Springs (excuse the slip, I meant T or C) area had to taled just two inches since Janu ary 1, 1951. Came then a day when it rained for a day and a night and slopped over into the second day, and the grand total of it all amounted to just under an men. Ynu'H hnvA thought they'd rinse phe schools and declare a holiday. Did they? They did NOTI The grousing was something to hear. Several oldtime residents are reported to have declared dis gustedly that if this state of drip ping saturation persisted for an oter day they were going to pack up and get the hell out of the rain soaked place. That gives you a faint idea of the High Quality Athletics Seen As Morale Booster ROSEBURG Your editorial of October 29 stating a policy of the community on producing high quality athletic teams gives a boost to higher morale for all boys and their contributing follow ers. A well balanced and prop erly controlled athletic program will benefit in many ways in which the community can be proud. It la a beginning if taken from here that can give the community more pride and growth for its youth. Whatever Is accomplished in the athletic program can be parall el in the field of youth conserva tion. Why not furnish the same facilities to produce participation in citizenship, leadership, public morals, use of leisure Ume, and avocations? Plenty of criticism Is directed at the country's youth and mil lions are spent lavishly providing entertainment for them. The think ing is based upon the premise that youth will be satisfied with a pacifier. I can assure you that today's youth, when given an op portunity to assert leadership and work on a job where final achieve ment can be viewed and judged on its merits, will be a credit. The kids are full of energy; they are bright eyed and eager and steady nerved. In fact, they have the qualities necessary to do a good job. But if not given the opportunity these same qualities many times become directed into channels that do not produce de sirable results results that we are not proud of. And we find ourselves repeating the old worn out alibi, "what are the younger generations coming to. Sometime perhaps you may have an opportunity to use your newspaper's editorial column to propose such a laboratory proce dure in actual living experiences. Our young people want to make friends and be friends ' with the community. Again I wish to commend your good word on the athletic growth and desires for the people of Kose burg. . J. H. TUMBLESON Vice Principal Roseburg Sr. High School. IT'S FOOT -LONG HOT DOGS . . . THIS WEEKEND AT THE DRIVE INN 1 Ml. SOUTH ON HIGHWAY M ii Per Foot.. ...35c SCALE: !M7r ..!...........: PER YARD a a a $1.00 ....., store Southwesterners set by their sunshine. They don t mind it when the dust sifting through the, win dows grits in their teeth when they eat their meals, but TWO DAYS OF RAIN. That cooks their goose. T Nawa-Krrlaar , tf .'. he. aat been 1 I aj.Rvefeal hy , I 1 4:tSajau,a)liefte I 2-26 I Utwaea fclfaiaOa.a. lit W6 1 5 NEW PHILCO 3-SPEED TRIUMPH ITPIiM4 It ill 'ii Maaaaaaa- I rsi ' "1"' V m Hear, Compare this Philco Radio-Phonograph Now I Unsurpaased at the price in tone, performance and cabinet beauty. Complete enjoyment of all records, all sizes. Superb JM-AM radio. 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Tradi tion has It that in practically no time at all he'd be all limbered up and back in perfect scalping form. The biggest of the springs Is right in the center of the town, housed under a pagoda that pre vents occasional raindrops from thinning eut its health-giving wa ters. Elephant Butte dam on the Rio Grande Is in the suburbs of Truth or Consequences (nee Hot Springs) and until the federal gov ernment went on the binge that resulted in Hoover Dam, Shasta Dam, Bonneville Dam, and so on. Elephant Butte was one of the world a biggest water holders. A beautiful lake was stored up behind it, all same Lake Redding THAN COMPETITIVE FULl-SIZE STATION WAGONS -AND ONLY WILLYS GIVES YOU: The mileoge-stretching F-head HURRICANE Engine with the highest compression in its field 7.4 to 1 . Easier maneuverability In traffic and parking plus roomy comfort for six in its spacious body. Tall, wide cargo space 98 cu. ft. In size, 'i-ton capacity with big, strong, floor-level tailgate. 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