4 The Newt-R.lw, Ros.burj, Of. Mon,, Jaw. 7, W2 Published Daily Ixoprt Sunday ky h. N.ws-R.vi.w .Company, Inc. .tar. OfM. i f Mftreb . U'S CHAKLIS V. STANTON IDWIN L KNAP UiHf M..t Mmr Hie Aioeltd M, Ort.M NiHMi PwMhkwt -weh:!'':':: & -- l" Tn. IIIM ! Ml ' " THE FIRST 100 YEARS Fulton Levis Jr. By CHARLES V. STANTON We often hear the phrase, "The first hundred years are the hardest." ' .... , ' If the nayinjr is true, Douglas county is entitled to an easier time from now on, for today is the county s 100th birthday. The county's political birth . occurred Jan. 7, laoZ, when it was created by the legislature of the vast Ore gon Territory, which embraced virtually all of what we now call the Pacific Northwest, including the present states of Oregon. Washington, Idaho and part of Montana. It w? s a sparsely settled country, with settlements principally along the coast and navigable streams. The discovery of gold in California led to widespread pros pecting of the inland and the opening of gold mines in Southern Oregon. Scottsburg became the point of entry for supplies shipped by boat from San Francisco, destined for mines in the Cow Creek and Rogue River valleys. People began settling along the transportation routes. Winchestsr was the ferry point on the supply line. Myr tle Creek, Riddle and Canyonville settlements were grow ing. Aaron Rose was promoting the townsite of the village of Deer Ciesk, later to become the City of Roseburg. There wag need for local government. So one of the first acts of the 1852 legislature was to organize Douglas county. County Rich In Historical Lor Douglas county had its beginning in the mining indus try. But within a comparatively few years agriculture, particularly stock raising, began to predominate and con tinued to lead the county's economy until only a few years ago when we began to "mine" the "green gold" of our forests, bringing the timber industry to the fore. As W6 enter upon our second century of progress, we find a promising era based on a timber economy, con trolled, at least in part, by sustained yield policies, and most favorably situated in time to conform to the new pattern of fuller utilization of the resource. The pioneer period of our county's history is rich in historical lore. Concerned with growing pains, we have permitted far too much of the intimate history of our first century to escape. We have available the broad outline. Of the minor events and the personalities who made that history information is meager. How many stirring tales of adventure must have been connected with the overland freight caravans that carried supplies, usually topped off with several barrels of whis key, from Scottsburg to Jacksonville. There is a story in the location and construction of the old military roads ana the historically famous engineers who built them. Who knows the story of the Battle of Olalla, the small-scale war between whites and Indians, historically reported to have been started by tli whites? What was the story behind Fort Flournoy? Why did Camas Valley split from voos county ana annex itself to Douglas county? These and thousands like them would be interesting tales if all the facta were known. Historical Material Being Sought The. Newt-Review is planning no special editions in connection with the observance of our centennial year except, perhaps, as a part of the official celebration scheduled for Labor Day weekend. We do propose, how ever, to publish, as epace permits, historical pages sim ilar to the one appearing in today's edition. We are ask ing the cooperation of our readers in furnishing us with historical material. . Many of our older families have old manes, letters and other data of historical interest. laies ot pioneer incidents have been handed down through generation. Interesting stories pertaining to historical epi sodes or individuals are known to many of our people. Yet these tales have not been recorded. The Xewt-Revicw, cooperating with the late "Tarn" murmur, appealed to Douglas county residents a few years ago for help in recording the location and name origin or aome of our early-nay post offices. The response was especially gratifying and the information was of great historical value and of rare reader interest. We are hopeful that this appeal for contributions to our historical pages during centennial year will bring forth mujh nrevinualv iinnulilialinrl liniKrtaa -,,i,. v,:,i ana we are asking the, cooperation of everv resident who haa atlf.1 . It.. ..no dui.ii mi iiinuuii. iv e hiso win oe aoie to use a lim ited number of pictures. Articles need not be prepared in form for publication. If authentic data is supplied, our "" can, me material ior tne historical page WASHINGTON President Truman's budget message to Congress will forecast a surplus in the U.S. Treasury for mid-1952. The President's forecast will be correct, but only because administration planning for defense production is a 50 percent flop. With $94,000,000,000 to spend, the Defense Department will be fortun ate if it ha paid out SO percent of this for weapons, planes and ships delivered to the fighting forces here and abroad by the end of 1952. Air craft production, for instance, is 10,000 planes short of Ihe 1951 goal; guided missiles production is 60 percent below expectations and tank production Is 35 percent be hind schedule. Politics, bad planning and Air Force Navy squabbling are mostly to blame for the miserable defense production record of 1951. Pro duction of civilian consumer and heavy machine goods surpassed the 1950 level in most cases, by contrast, and is convincing proof that poor planning accounts for the lag In weapon production. The trouble is that not enough metal, rubber, fuel and chemicals have been funnelcd into defense production. And the blame lies with the politically timid in the White House, where the prevailing mood is that nobody should be hurt by the arms build-up, least of ill labor. To get tanks a few of the factories making pots and pant will have to shut down. But labor wouldn't like that, and it hasn't been done so far. The situation has left the mil itary with billions of dollars in the bank still unspent for weapons and with a White House demand on its back for another multi-billion dollar defense budget. In fact, the Defense Department trotted to the White House with a new budget- for (50,000,000,000 which military leaders are sure Is more than can be spent by the end of 1952. Yet the White House sent it back to the Pentagon because the political hirelings thought it was too low. The Defense Department pays for weapons only upon delivery. Nobody expects a 50 percent in crease in arms production during 1952, which is what it would take just to empty the till of 1951 money, ENDING BASKET "I guesi we go lo the other ex treme," said the mother of voune daughters one day," when w get to oe parents ourselves, we are so anxious to avoid what we think were the mistakes of our own parents...." "I never was allowed to loll my side of things,"said another mother, "and so when my children were accused by i neighbor or a teacher, I aways Insisted that they hear the accusation. It was sur prising, too, how often that very thing cleared things upl Why shouldn't child hear an accu sation? Wouldn't an adult wish n do so and speak in his own de fense?" "I always felt my mother did n't have any confidence in me," aid i third parent, "probably be cause she was always telling me about the penalties of doing wrong. So with my children I emphasiie my trust in tkem, and I don't hold up before them mental pictures of f all the bad things they can set Into Instead I stress the right and the rewards oi doing right." "Well, it was my father who al ways trusted me," said another. Often that feeling that Ididn't want mm to he disappointed in me In fluenced me when I had to make a decision. Then, too, I could count on his hearing me through in any thing I wanted to tell him. He had way of letting me feel I was making up my own mind, a quiet listening and a loving helpful suggestion. Not the big stick, do-as-I-say way of raising children. He explained things, too; didn t just command me to obey without knowing why. "I always ronfide in my dad more than in my mother." another said in Ihe group. "Probably because my mother would get all excited and begin to lay down the law, and arouse a feeling of resent ment in me. I like this idea of thinking of children as people, not chattels you own!" The root of the trouble Is still the old argument over strategic air craft, with one group in the Pen tagon convinced that all big bomb era should be junked as useless. The Navy wants more planes and bigger ones, and more air craft carriers. The Air Force in sists this is strategic suicide and is demanding still bigger bombers, with a tighter grip on the atom bomb. The Air Force has. how ever, cut back sharply on its plans for rimming Russia with strategic bombardment bases. The plan would have cost billions for air fields and maintaenance money that would have had to come from funds set aside for bi bombers. The nation is less secure because of the squabbling and indecision, but Mr. Truman's fiscal policies will look like good politics lo the voters because of the delays. With a surplus in the Treasury Admin istration orators will have a firm peg for a lot of high-flown oratory. But it will be a hoax. All the defense material now on order must be paid for sometime, even if it is a year late. New orders are coming up at the monthly rate of $2,000,000,000. So however juicy the June surplus may seem, it will vanish when and if the military starts getting real deliveries. The end result will be a Treasury deficit and demands for more taxes, in 1951 the biggest single tax in crease in the nation's history was saddled on us taxpayers. It amount ed to $9,000,000,000. And it isn't enough lo pay for all the spending when and if production catches up with Defense Department de mands. The need for new taxes, unless non-defense spending is cut sharp ly, is the honest political reality in 1952-not a temporary Treasury surplus. Some estimates are that w will have lo add $13,000,000,000 more to the tax burden to pay for White House plans. So keep this in Business Group Would Build P. O. In Swop Offer PORTLAND W A group of Portland businessmen want to do some old fashioned trading with the federal government. The businessmen propose to build a new two million dollar post office for the government. In re turn they want the government to give them a downtown block, ap praised by the government in 1933 at $1,750,000. The block they want is the site of the Pioneer Postoffice, which is in the center of the downtown business area. It la across the street from the big Meier & Frank Department Store, whose presi dent, Aaron M. Frank, is head of the group making the proposal. Frank would not disclose what use his group would make of the block. Postmaster E. T. Hedlund said the Postal Department could use a big, new building, all right. The businessmen offered to build it to government specifications on the city's East Side. Hedlund said that location would bt fine, for the big need now is a building to handle parcel post. The businessmen said negotia tions are being conducted in Wash ington. D. C. where attorneys are trying to determine whether the government has authority to make sucn a traoe. Of the three services, the Army is : mind when the oratory starts flow- in the best shape weapon-wise. The ing in 1952. Air Force and Navy, contrary to , reports, still bicker bitterly over iCflr FtlltOH Lewis DdllX who is going to spend more money n ,.,fVn O.IK n if for aircraft and other equipment. -" IWliWl, 7.1 J I . In The 'Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. (Continued from Page 1) done. Back in the grim days of the war between the slates, he said to a White House caller: "If you once forfeit the confid ence of your fellow citiiens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. "It is true that you may fool all the people some ot the time; you can even fool some of the peo le all the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time." President Lincoln, incidentally, was subjected to bitler and merci less criticism by his opponents. But he survived it Ml and carried our nation through its greatest crisis because the people BE LIEVED IN HIS INTEGRITY. Nothing could make me belive that Lincoln would have crawled out from under responsibility lor administrative scandals such as those which are rocking our feder al government now with an answer like Mr. Truman's statement that he knew what was going on all the time and would have fixed it him self if congress hadn't butted in. Winston Churchill, premier of Great Britain (in European govern- meniai systems me premier is the approximate equivalent of our President) is on the high seas en route to Washington for a confer ence with President Truman. He is reported to be traveling in a $500 a day suite on the luxury liner iuccn mary, I think if I were Ihe head of a nation in Britain's financial fix I'd make the trip to Washington in a simple stateroom. It would be a good showmanship gesture, if no thing else. Britain, of course, can stand the expense. In the staggering total of governmental costs, what's a thous and pounds, more or less? (A pound is worth $2.80 American, and the trip on Ihe Queen Mary takes about four days, so a total expenditure of 1000 pounds for passage moncv, tips and unavoidable incidentals would amount to $2800.) But if Winnie had taken a mere stateroom instead of his $500-a-day suite, it would have said to the British people that he Is willing and happy to share their austerity. I think that would have made them all feel better. 1 suppose Winnie and Harry will CONKER IN SECRET. After Casablanca, Cairo, Tehran and Yalta, I don't think that's the way It should be done. It would be far better, everything considered, it the conference were held in a big public room, with ALL report ers present and uninhibited. I know, of course, that in such circumstances everybody would a le for the headlines instead of alking turkey. Thai's human na lire. But even considering that, Kwould be belter to have the "It all .i i. .. a f' ,..,si""'" Mil one of the group. That hit nftn wij M. In parental problems. Just Irving te see the children's side of it, and trying to "do unto them" as fairly as I can." whole affair conducted out in the open. I'm aware that such a suggest ion is radical heresy, but alter the last war and what followed t I'm gun-shy of secret conferences. Blizzard Fails To Halt Scout's Training Trek PORTLAND 11 Six bov scouts, just returned from a three-day outing on the snowy slopes of Mt. Hood, already are planning next year's trip. Two scout executives and a mountaineering expert accompan ied Ihe youths, all of whom were members of the Order ot Ihe Ar row, honorary scout camping so ciety. Camp was set up Thursday nicht about a mile south of Timberline Lodge. Bliriards on both Friday and Saturday failed to halt a snow survival training program. TrW-gvtw I dtflvr4 by I 1 4: 1 S p jn phone I 2-7631 twtwM. fcis Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich Mm "I've told you a thousand timet te throw away that an cient number list and look up numbers boforo you alll". . , Keep your personal number list up-to-date by checking it with th latest directory , . . Pacific Telephone. Corruption Will Ruin U.S., Ex-President Hoover Warns BOSTON (AP) Former President Herbert Hoover said Saturday the country has been exposed in the past year to mure dishonesty in officials and governmental de partment than at any time in history. And hi warned that unless this evil is atamped out "to the last "They are mainly selected by official concerned" the United political bosses. They are certain States will "decline and fall lik. f elected with their approval. The .. L . , determination of their fitness is the great republiw of the past." . Dr.tt, mllph u.., . )h. ,him The former President spoke on to get votes or rewards for doing a transcribed radio (WEED for-;'' um program. "Reducing the red-l."r Son,?"a" mn ,nln8s ...i IU..I.II.. w.,u.. t.. it.. wtre wron wi'h the present sys eral Wasteline, broadcast by the tem. 0ne obligation to local Massachusetts Committee for the bosses: two, lack of professional Hoover Report. competence and three, absence of Singling out for particular crlU-),lndr.dl..,,n,egri,jr-... clsm of tne scandals in the tax collecting agencies of the govern ment, he said: ! "I have no doubt that If the Hoover Commission's recommen 1 dations on collectors of internal revenue and other political ap pointees had been accepted two and one-half years ago when they were made these scandals could not have occurred." He said the dangers of corrup tion in tax collection weren't news to the members of the commission which condemned the present method of selecting tax collectors, and added: Commlnionc-r Urgti Election Of Judgts PORTLAND t Commissioner J. E. Bennett thinks city judges should be elected instead of ap pointed. And Friday he asked the city attorney to prepare a charter amendment on the plan which would go on the ballot for the May primary election. Commissioners appoint thi jud ges now. ' Bouquet From Veterans TOLEDO, O. t Catholic war veterans of the U.S. will present Pope Pius XII next week a spiritual bouquet of 350,000 offerings pledges of prayers and devotions. The presentation will be mad. by Donald J. McQuake of Swan ton, O., national commander in a private audience with the Pope. FOR SALE OR LEASE FOR SALE OR LEASE FOR SALE OR LEASE! IGLOO TA'VERN AND ROOMING HOUSE At RIDDLE, OREGON Set Bill Lawson on Premises 2 FOR SALE OR LEASE FOR SALE OR LEASE OREGON E II : till lull. jnnmim.irl 'Wk STATEMENT OF CONDITION THI UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK of Portland, Oregon DECIMIIR 31, 151 RESOURCE3 Cash on Hand and Due from Banka $ 139,775,942.79 United Stat Government Bonds 245,287,702.42 Municipal and Other Bonds 55,067,486.40 Loans and Discounts Net 185,580,690.99 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank -. 720,000.00 Bank Premise. (Including Branche.) 7.416,374.49 Customers' Liability on Acceptance. 386,225.41 Interert Earned 1,763,631.43 Other Roaource. 191,129.31 I 636,159483.24 i LIABILITIES Capital S 12,000,000.00 Surplua 12,000,000.00 Undivided Profit. 13.406,532.45 37,406,532.45 Reserves for Intereat, Tues, .te 2,087,760.53 Acceptances 613,623.22 Dividends Declared 300,000.00 Deposit. ' 694,087,668.21 Interest Collected Not Earned 1,622,109.50 Other Liabilities , 41,489.33 $ 636,159,183.24 TTiti itattmtnt include 40 bnneha in Ortgan Hiao Ornci: PORTLAND, OREGON 2 SAVE with increased interest and BAM safety on savings deposits up to any amount Deposits made on or before January 1 0 draw interest at the new rate from January 1. AND n Certificates of Deposit Deposit a certain amount of money, leave it for three years and then, at the expiration of that period, collect 2Wo interest per year. These higher interest rates are effective January 1, 1952. ifY.1 ROSEBURG BRANCH DIHCT IIANCM Of TMI UNHID STATU NATIONAL SANK OP rOITUN. i ogpitxD exxxxx) MCMin HOCKAl DCrosiT INJUHANCI COHK5HATION