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4 The Newi-Rerlew, Roieburg, Published Daily Iicipt Sunday fc tha New-Review Company, Inc. Sauna (. tu.t mail" M" I. i '"' Salbol Orta. anr set at aUfcB t, 111 CHARLES V STANTON IOWIN U KNAP Miter Manatee Mtmbir at tha AiMclatad Pratt, Orajea Newipapet Pualilkara Association, tha Audit Bureau of Clreulotiant ,,lll,i , rsr-H()Li.iDA c o. inc.. tiric. i. Ntw lata, Ckleaia, Vraaflaca, Anall, iaallla. rIlla. " Ibaa r.t r.ar. .r m.MH. 11.00. O.I. I. 0.....-B, M.ll m Taat. Hl.Mi all aaalbt, It.lti Ikraa Malta, II . BIG TIM B CHARLES V. STANTON Having tested U. S. reaction to ransom demands, Russia now proposes to cash in on its findings. The Reds have proven to their own satisfaction that Uncle Sam is a sucker when it comes to ransom. If he is willing to pungle up dough to hoodlums who kidnap his na tionals, how much will he pay to promote peace during a period of political emergency V The administration is in trouble serious trouble. Elec tions are at hand. Something is needed to draw public at tention away from political scandals. An achievement to which the administration can point with prida is vitally nec essary. . ., The a lministration has been begging Russia to permit it to save lace in Korea. The Korean war is not popular. The general public is well aware that our State Department blundered. Thousands of American lives have been sac rificed to the department's appeasement program and its vaccillation. Americans have no taste for "police action." They cannot understand a war that goes on endlessly, seem ingly without purpose. The British would be more tolerant, for Britain has experienced countless police actions in its colonies, India being a good example. But a war having no victory ns its ultimate goal is not popular with Americans. Ransom Offer Hinted The administration realizes that the Korean situation is a decided obstacle to political victory at the forthcoming presidential election. It would like to get the matter settled. Then it could claim an achievement. We promoted armistice talks. These talks have achieved virtually nothing and premise nothing. We have been given the run around time alter time. The Reds, who lik nothing bitter than to build up hopes and then dash them to the ground, have found the talks an excellent propa ganda weapon. They also hac used our peace efforts as an opportunity to build up their military strength. Meanwhile we go on in futile bargaining with an enemy who has nothing . to lose and everything to gam by continuing the parley an enemy which has no intention of making peace except on its own terms. Those terms are now being offered. Russia proposes an end to the fighting if we will surrender Formosa to Red China and seat Red China in the United Nations. This, jays Russia, would end the fighting in Korea, Indo china, Malaya, and elsewhere and would establish peace in Asia. Russia' Wants Defense Buffer ' What is this offer if not another ransom demand? We surrender the people and territory of Asia to the Red ma chine and we can have peace. Will our State Department pay the price? In the light of past action, we wouldn't be surprised if it did. Dollar-hungry Great Britain, panting for resumption of trade with China, probably will use its in fluence on the administration which has been very suscep tible to British suggestions in the past. Why is Russia so anxious to bring Asia into its zone of influence You will find the answer to that question if you will look at your map or globe. Russia's underbelly is exposed to China's border. Russia cannot wage war on Europe until Chinese territory is secure. Before China is secure as a Red defense buffer, Russia must be able to penetrate our outer line of defense, based on Formosa, the Philippines and Japan. By gaining Formosa, Russia would have a dagger pointing toward the heart of that defense line. Will ve pay the ransom the unconditional surrender of Asia to the Russians? Will our administration attempt to salvage an election the retention of power for its corrupt political machine by selling Asia's millions down the river? We've paid ransom on a small scale; now how far can we be pushed ? Did you ever swing a pail of water or milk! around your head without spilling a drop And did you, too, have a triumphant feeling as you did it until maybe the pail accidentally hit a tree and spattered you with the spilt milk? I guess every youngster achieves that feat, and maybe the terrible letdown that conies with that "now I've done it" and "what will my mamma say?" I was just reminded of the time I used to walk down a maple-shaded path every evening to a farm house for bur milk, when reading that "Enough milk will have been produced in tho United States in J051 to fill a river three thousand miles long, 40 feel wide, and three feet deep. "This 'river.' " says the Na tional Geographic Society article, "has nearly 25-million sources the number of cows milked dur ing the year on U. S. farms, tt flows at an annual rate of Mi-bil lion quarts, a quart a day for every man, woman and child in the country." My gracious, that's a lot of milk, isn't it! I don't care' much for statistics, unless served up in terestingly as in the milk river illustration. It's a far cry from thc old days when, I have read, a cow was sometimes driven along the village street and milked at the customer' door. Speaking of milk reminds me of thc time 1 had been sent for some rream and warned "not to spill it." My little , container was filled so generously Or. Tuei., Jon. 8, 195 RANSOM ENDING 'BASKET .so it needed care if I were to gel it home cream and eggs were different those days! i When I came to the railroad sta j lion in the tiny village, 1 kept right on across thc track, quite sure thc big freight engine Hum idering along at the other end of j the station would miss me. The station agent, who was fond of me, saw me disappear. . .and ' promptly had a severe heart at- tack. My poor dad, standing in the door of our null, had an ngo Inizing moment .How little children I realize what parents go through, i sometimes, until they themselves are parents. ! I never spilled a drop of the cream, but was scolded roundly for making such a close thing of it with that train. Life can be so confusing to a child. I couldn't understand what all thc fuss was about. I might just as well have spilled the cream! H. J, Hash Re-Appointed To County Park Dept. II. J. Hash was Friday re ap pointed to the Douglas County Parks department board of direct ors by the county court. He is the first member of the board to come up for re-appointment under the staggeredlerm system. Hash has served one year on the hoard and was reappointed for another term of four years dating from Dec. 27, 1951. He was originally appointed to the board Dec. 27, 1950. In The Day's News By PRANK (Continued from Page 1) stored up surpluses from the pe riod of fat production come in handy. That calls attention to this little dispatch from Portland: Idaho po atoes climbed 50 cent. cm the Portland market yesterday to i new high of S7 a hundred-1 weight. Oregon Russets also went up 50 cents, and were quoted at It sounds wonderful for t h t nntQfjk ni'iiti-np.anrl in 1 1 a a thic year is concerned it IS wonderful. ! But it portends a probable head ache for next year. Fabulously high prices for potatoes (or tny oilier pcrishablo crop) almost in variably bring two things to pass; 1. INCREASED production. 2. LOWERED consumption. Hence the next year headache. While we're on this subject of prices, here are some figures from Washington: According to a department of agriculture report, food cost now represents 25 percent of the aver- ace familv's disposable income! ("disposable income" is an econ delivered every month by the post omists" term meaning the money 1 man for the rest of your life, you you have left over after paying ! belong to another breed of cats. your taxes.) In 1950, the D of A says, food cost also represented 26 percent of your disposable income. It re presented 27 percent in 1948 and 1949 and 28 percent in 1947. But away back in 1946 food cost repre sented, on the average, only 26 percent of average disposable in comeor EXACTLY the same as now. Let me tell you a secret about this stuff that is handed out by our federal government bureaus, It is all politically slanted. If it doesn't sound good for the admin istration in power, It lust isn't handed out. All good Washington Air Force Authorized Is Far From An Air Force In Actual Existence By BRUCE BIOSSAT When President Truman's budget appears in January, it is expecttd to call for a 1 13-group air force, substantially greater than the presentlv authorized 95 groups. mere is nine nount that Con gress will authorize this new goal. But it is important for the Ameri can public to remember that, for a long time, It will he only a goal, not a reality. Thc people dare not slip into a mood ot complacency induced by the thought that the votes of Con- i gross have automatically assured i them a great striking air arm ine way is ion? betwen the S establishment of ;oa.s and the de - lit..... nr ;iri.Aj .i.A..r 1 .Mfi.i .... n.r,i nHi. I chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, recently reminded that "six j to nine years are required to de sign, test and produce an aircraft ' I which can survive and w in in ' modern aerial combat." j Thirty-one of thc planned addi-1 ! tional 48 groups would be com-: ' bat w ings. Of thc 31, some 20 j arc scheduled as either tactical , aircraft or fighters, fighter-bomb-! ers and light bombers. Strategic i bombers like tho B-47 and B-52 i jets, plus some reconnaissance : units, would make up the other i 11 wings. The B-47 is In production but Is ' not yet available for operational litn RlllAnAf L'c nH i-.rtain ' mechanical "bugs" have delayed I deliveries. This aircraft is heavily relied on by the Strategic Air ' Command, especially since the j Korean war ha, indicated the vul-1 nerability of motor-drivf n planes ' like the B-29 and B "3 to :t U- tereeptors in d cht raids. The huge B-52 thus far has been produced only in prototype, and is only now beginning to undergo "State of tRi" Union i JENKINS reporters are fully aware of this situation. ' The purpose of this particular handout, for example, is to say to you AS A VOTER that in spite of all the nasty cracks about inflation that are peddled by the wicked bacKk jnt0 r the conof in , prSporlion to your , , L.V ,,.-.. lepuuucans wno aie irying 10 get total hak ;' ,, h(lf' ,f,. RI(? in natl(m ,, 0, " Under wa y. mfvimn nvnnl u Ik. i In other words, Mr. Truman and I his Fair Dealers have seen to it ur wa,g" n,a.ve bcfn ,raised just as much as the cost of your lood has been upped. If you are a worker, whose wages have been raised over and over, or a business man whose prices have gone up year after year, these figures about the cost of your food in proportion to your total income are probably not far off the facts. But if you are a widow or an orphan, relying upon a legacy, or a pension, or liie nolder oi o.iu ot these policies under which you re tire at 50 and live the life of Riley on your insurance check that is In that event, the cost of your food (along with the cost of all your other necessities) has gone ha, STOOD STILL, it's the widow, ! re neies.sary. and the orphans and the pensioners u 1 marlow thurs rg9rw215p 2, and the insurance policy and an- j Jhe WO.om collected for the four nuity holders and such that are ! American fliers can t compensate being rooked by the spenders who!,he, Communists for the hatred, are resoonsible for the steadilv contempt and revulsion stirred up spiralling inflation. If you have followed the figures you are aware that people living j on fixed incomes of the sort here described are very, very large in number. They are the VICTIMS of our politically-inspired inflation. tests. It will be many months be fore this ship can be delivered in quantity, assuming it proves out In test. The United States has several fighter planes of which it is rea sonably proud. But the superior rZ..... ' . .".".u.""" uriinni.nianu III rVUlf, iUlMW lafll U-a miiet nnh knifi -it'll.. develop new and even better ; IVDe " I Rl'M now we do not have anv-' thing resembling a real tactical force. The projected expansion in this phase of military aviation is perhaps thc most vital envis ioned. But, inevitably, much ex periment In plane types and ope rational techniques will have to accompany any increase in tacti cal activity. On top of all the normal lass that can be anticipated in devel oping new planes, today we face certain special handicaps which magnify our difficulties. Materials, tools and aviation industry man power arc short. Particularly is there pressing need for more engineers and technicians. Even if we should have settled on all the major plane types we want, bottlenecks might easily delay realization of our goals for years. There is no occasion for gloom. We are making progress. But neither is there any occasion for gun assumptions mat congress in 1152 is going to equip us magic ally with a giant air force of crushing power. If it voted the Air Force loo billion it still could not do this. Truce Huddle At Deadlock, Declares Vishmsky, Urging Security Council To Step In PARIS (AP) Soviet . Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky said Monday the Korean truce talks at Pan munjom have reached a deadlock. He urged a high level Security Council meeting to neip DrcaK it. He said the Soviet nrnnns.l wn..M i - i 1 !Cot brea.uP 'he talks at the front , iof helping get them out of the rut ! wh,'ch lhey have !"" numl" T". cring for six months. Such a Council meeting, attended by foreign ministers or chiefs f state, he said, would not delay the talks at Panmunjom and would not have the effect of shifting the ne - gotiations from Korea to Paris. Both British Minister of State Communist Action Hardens American Desire To Oppose By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) The Communists are playing it stupid.-' Each 'incident like the present one holding Ameri cans for ransom of one kind or another hardens and uni fies American thinking. It nreiiares feelint here for the most drastic mtaiiii-e: a)tainst Communism, when here. That Communism is bent on world conquest is taken for grant ed. But jailing and mistreating a j few Americans is hardly conquest on the grand scale. Each irritation like that is so minor and crude, against the larg er Communist plan, that one may ask: Why do the Communists stoop to this kind of gangsterism? Some reasons can be guessed at: Each such episode is a deliberate needle, a slap at American pres tige; and each provides the Com munist masters with another ounce of anti-American propaganda. That', the Communist view, the subjective view. It doesn't allow for the fact that each jailing epi sode may have an effect hero fr outweighing any temporary and small benefits the Communists think they get at home. Stupidity Guagad To see the depth of the Com munist stupidity involved in this since this is the one country ca pable of doing the most damage to Russia if war starts it's neces sary to ask this question: What'i the smartest tactic for the Communists where we're con cerned? It's this: To keep Ameri can opinion uiviueu un uie action to he taken against Lommunism, in kind and degree, and for this reason: The more united we are, not only on the need for action, but on thc need for strong action, the more dangerous we are. And there has been strong divi sion of opinion here. Last winter provided a good example in the debate on sending troops to Eu rope. There wa, wide support for the idea we should withdraw be hind the two oceans. This wa, the ostrich approach to reality, of course, since if we w ith draw, Europe's will to resist would be weakened. Europe would have been ducksoup for the Communists, if the isolationist, had won. American Opinion Welded American thinking has been di vided on other great issues involved in stopping Communism, and for various reasons, including obvious ' political ones. But American reaction to the jailing and mistreatment of Amer icans behind the Iron Curtain was instant and unanimous: A filthy, corrupt, vicious, unnecessary, in human performance. Fulton Lewis Jr. F3 si WASHINGTON As you might expect there is quite a stir in LaFayette, Indiana, where the city school sys tem recently dropped a textbook that was under sharp fire for its contents. The textbook is Magruder's "Amcr-' ican Government. The Greater LaFayette Cham ber of Commerce sponsored the review and eventual banning of the book in public schools in that city. In a letter from J. G .Mur phy, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, he says that now that some of the smoke of battle has cleared away the majority opin ion in the community seems to support the action. What the parents and teachers, along with a committee from the LaFayette Chamber of Commerce, discovered was that, in their opin ion, the textbook is "subtly slanted in praise of socialism" and contains a "disguised attack on the free system of our republic-Some time ago I raised the question about the fitness of this textbook as a public school docu ment, basing my indecision con cerning its worth on a scholarly examination conducted by several history professors. I reached no conclusion on whether it should or should not be taken from school desks, but even so t got quite a bouncing around from various groups who label themselves as protectors of our public schools. So I can only say to the LaFayette parents and Chamber of Com merce members that they are in c..i - iuj t,c r,i . uvinjii um'tu aim v.tJ. iv en.-: at Benjamin Cohen had charged that tiUUUUUII VI II IK aUVIL'l Uldll WUUI'l delay or disrupt the talks and, moreover, would probably increase rather than decrease international i tension, I They said Russia would use sueh ' a special meeting as a propaganda forum for attacks on the West, j Vishinsky answered: "Our sharp I words hurt you? Well, gentlemen, 1 you use some sharp words too." and if this government thinks It had the effect of uniting Amer icans in active hatred. If this hatred is intensified bv new irritations it will have far reaching effect on decisions made by the government for those de cisions, fanned by hate, will be more active, not more passive. Vital Statistics Diverc Decrees Granted McINTIRE Dorothv from Lyle A. Mclntire. Plaintiff award ed custody of two minor children. S800 gross alimony, S100 monthly support money, ownersnip of fur niture and a $205 judgment. PEARSON Raymond from Al ice Pearson. THOMAS Hazel from Charles W. Thomas. Plaintiff granted cus tody of two minor children and $60 monthly support money. CLAPSHAW - Dale W. from Ardelle Clapshaw. Plaintiff grant ed custody of one minor child, property interest and possession of personal propertv. BATES Arthur V. from Nedra Rae Bates. ROUTH Burrcll Lindsey from Erma Aline Routh. Plaintiff grant ed custody of two minor children and possession of personal prop- HALL Edythe from Fred A. Hnll. Plaintiff rtranta1 ,.,l...!.. lot maiden name. PHIU.IBER Marria I., from Lewis W. Philliber. Plaintiff grant ed custody of one minor child, $50 monthly support money and prop erty settlement. Dedicated to the Service of Our Community Jlie Cliajjei Roseburg Funeral Funerals Oak and Kone Street for a considerable workout from these same sources. So far, however, the LaFayette citizens who sponsored the action do not seem to be frightened un duly. In fact they are making public inquiries, asking who put the textbook in the public schools in the first place, and are there any more like it? It's a good question .and I hope they get an answer. I've been asking th same one in Washington about who put the Communists on the public pay rolls, but nobody seems to know). LaFayette i, a thriving city, peopled by sound citizens who are the product of their own public school, and most residents want their children to grow up with the same regard for America that they have. So they examined a textbook. A textbook they are paying for with their taxes, that is being used by the school teach ers they employ. I can't question their right to do so. But a lot of people do, including the Na tional Education Association, which react, with high explosive propaganda whenever somebody questions a school textbook. Local school administrators in LaFayette were not criticized when the Magruder textbook was dropped. Nobody was castigated, nobody burned at the stake. In fact, not a single textbook was burned, although the Chamber of Commerce can expect to be ac cused in left wing and other publications of having done just such a thing. It takes experts, of course, to examine textbooks and determine if they are written in accord with the facts of American history. That is all most parents can ex pect, or want. But in this particu lar volume in use in the LaFay ette school, there are a couple of statements, one in the form of a question, that are worth repeating. For instance, the book asks: "Why i, the vice presidential office one of the worst features of our government?" I didn't know it was. And it seems that a textbook used in public schools might go into some detail as to why the conclusion is reached. Another statement in the text book criticized by the LaFayette parents, is: "The indirect method of elect ing the president ot the I'niled States is no longer of value." If nothing else the author of the textbook appears slightly opinion ated concerning these two suh iects. at least. More people in tne u. s. are tree to vote for a president than anywhere else in the world that I can think of off hand. We always seem to get someone elected presidnt, even if we non t HKe tnem after thev get in the White House. So it's a little rouch on Junior and hi, sister to tell them in a texbtook anybody's that the way we hold our elections i, valueless. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRXR, 9:15 P. M. 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Their movement also is affected by flood or extreme low water. The number of fish tal lied by the first of the year eivn little indication of the total run to oe anticipated, existing records show. In 1945. with 934 fish counted be. fore Jan. 1, the total for the sea son wa, 6.563. The movement prior tn Ian 1 .in. M 9 -I ....I But in 1949 only 7 nercent of th u ua. x naa it.t, uciluiii Ml IUI3I. run had been counted by the first of the year. Last year, on the other hand, with 1651 fish, a record number, through the counting sta ' tion by Jan. 1, the total for the season was only 4,188, making the Jan. l count 39.4 percent of total. Pitney', report also lists 1,508 salmon trout counted to date. ih largest number to be recerded since studies started in 1945. The salmon trout run is virtually com. plete with only two fish observed over the counting board during th last two weeks of December. 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