4 . Tht Newi-Revlew, Roseburg, OreWed., Jon. 16, 1952
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THE COST
By CHARLES
Aecrrpgsive Dromotion of
sin timber i urged by George Luoma, retiring president
of the Rosebursr Chambnr of
Luoma has completed a very concise brief covering
all the major essential of the access road program. Copies
are being prepared by the Chamber of Commerce for
members of the state's congressional delegation, state and
federal highway officials and other interested persons.
In presenting his brief, Luoma says :
We need n oven oraeter local level "awakening" and af
firmative action spalUd out with doggednoss that brings tuccan
in community effort. . Further, wo raqulro a doapor analytli
nd a mora forcoful presentation than that llluitrattd, as ona ox
amplo, fy tho enclosed raport. Too faw raaliia that our prat
ant level of .community proiparlty It exposed to aarlout dogres
alon, which will Inflict substantial losses en mott all our Batln
cltltant and rommunltlet unless our ganaral fsrattry problamt
aro solved. Wo mutt hive permonent atabllity and not an ex
tended boom.
In this statement, Luoma has summed up the import
ance of the access road program and the need for contin
uing local effort. While we might question his intimation,
made from a sense of modesty, that his brief is lacking in
forcefulness, we can agree fully on the need for deep an
alysis and vigorous presentation.
As Luoma points out :
The problem beglnt with watte of federal forettt cauted
by lack of adequate roadt for uta in harvettlng mature federally
owned tlrr.ber en a auttalnod yield batit. .The problem ramlfica
tiont, however, aro woven into a pettern of tremendout locel
atatt and national Importance. At tuch. It demandt the atten
tion of all government officials and Jhe cltiienry of all areat.
Revenue Losses Analyzed
An interesting approach to the economic phase of the
access roiid program is madr by Luoma in conservative
calculation of losses resulting from failure to harvest 110,
000,000 board feet of stumpuge availablo from the Umpqua
National Forest on an annual basis, but unharvested be
cause of the lack of access.
Based on average sales prices in 1950, it is pointed out,
the unharvested timber would have yielded revenue to the
federal government amounting to $1,700,000 had the timber
been mac'.'i available. Currying the study back to 1946 and
using average sales , prices for each year through 1950,
Luoma estimates that ; accumulated ' revenue loss, . because
of undercutting, amounts to $4,214,000, a sum which would
have paid a large part of the cost of the desired North
Umpqua Highway.
He lias obtained from authentic sources the production
costs in lumber and plywood manufacture and percentages
of material going into pawmills and plywood plants. He
estimates that the 110,000,000 board feet of stumpage, if
cut, would have produced logging pavroll amounting to
$1,850,000, sawmill payroll of $1,800,000 and plywood plant
payroll of $633,000. Thi, coupled with tho revenue loss
from unsold stumpage, would make a total of $5,543,000 po
tential revenue lost in one year because no adequate road
exists into the forest. When consideration is given corpor
ation taxes, income taxes, etc., it is Readily evident that
the federal government is showing a great lack of business
discernment in delaying construction of needed access roads.
Luonm's brief should be of great value in advancing
the access road program. It is a crowning achievement to
his very successful yeai as an efficient and industrious
president of the Roseburg Chamber.
iMrWITIiniJIilitt'SlMlVll JMJ kA:ilMIIIMIIM
Equal Opportunity
In Timber Purchase
Versus "Monopoly"
ROSEBURO Recently the
News-Review printed a reply by
R. T. Titus, our executive vice
president, to Mr. Stanton's editor
ial supporting the proposed co
operative agreement at Oakridge
which would give Pope & Talbot,
Inc. complete monopoly of all fed
eral timber wituin tne Middle Font
of the Willamette circle. Next day,
however, Editor Stanton came out
with another endorsement of this
scheme.
In his second editorial Mr. Stan
ton says that he is not interested
In "who profits from tho Industry
or who controls the timber." Well,
we definitely are interested and
the News-Review ought to be. Wo '
are interested, first, in seeing that
the public profits. Every man,
woman and child in Douglas Coun
ty owns a share in the national
forests and O & C lands; conso
auentlv we want to see that tim.
bcr brings tho highest possible I wcr important lumber towns
price, and that does not happen I before Pope It Talbot built at Oak
when competition is stifled. j ridge. The American way has been
nr. , , . . . .. , to let competition decide which
.. iLX', 'nc""f. further, In 'community is to grow and which
KELnh,h,,MD0UR,.1" Pun,yPr,0 l's-: operator is to survive. We don't
Why should we be shut out of this h. i- -
public timber, a lane nortion of i
f L ? o 9 s y' 1
i. , . 7 n'or us, or to male special dea s
r"r.'.h',r "nywht;re els?? " ou!'ith one concern to the exclusion
J I". . "V'V',U muiciurers 01 : of
forest products lo whom merchants
must look for business, working
men for jobs and the county for
taxes.
Unlike Mr. Stanton, we are In
terested also vi.o- coiiiron tne
timber. The national forests were
established originally from forest
reserves which had been with
drawn from entry in order 'In nv
vent these areas fron: falling into
the hands of unscrupulous specu- j system. It is private enterprise
wtors. we want (Jus Umber lo re-1 which it building plywood and I
IDWIN L. KNAPP
OF NEGLECT
V. STANTON
access roads into Umpqua Ba
Commerce.
main In control of the public, un
der management plans which guar
antee free competition with equal
opportunity to all.
In discussing use of the co-operative
agreement to permanently
support tho economy of a commu
nity, Mr. Stanton overlooks tho
fact, pointed out by Mr. Titus,
that this can bo aenievd by es
tablishment of a federal unit re
quiring processing of all public
timber from tho area within cer
tain districts, still permitting com
petition on the part of all operat
ors in the marketing area. If there
is not sutficient raw material for
an, men sustaining oi one commu
nity will bo at the expense of an
other. Tho preferred operator will
do stabilized, the rest sterilized.
In this instance, what right has
Oakridge, a community of less
than 1,000 persons until 3 years
ago, to permanent status at the ex
pense of Eugene. Springfield, Go
shen, Cotlago Grove, Drain, Suth
erlin, Oakland, Roseburg or any
other wood-using town whose in
dustries need limber too? These
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mcnt senry d,cide whal
u olher, Mr, Stan,on ailmlls
he dislikes curtailment of free en-
terprisc, but he is willing to com
promise his ideals In this instance.
Wo nrc not.
Wo disacreo with the editor
his contention that "free enter
prise and open competition are
costing millions of dollars in
waste." Quito tho contrary.
Competitive enterprise has always
hfwn rmti-A Affiiilnnt Ihon nu n,h.,n
hardboard plants, pulp mills and
other factories to utilize material
which might be termed "waste"
but which is in reality raw ma
terial not previously subject to
conversion at a cost less than that
for which it must be sold. No one
has guaranteed them raw mater
ial, markets or profits. If there is
actual waste, it is not duo to com
petition nor to the free enterprise
system, but to the refusal of the
public to provide funds for con
struction of access roads which
would permit logging of timber
which is now rolling. It has been
estimated that we are losing sixty
million feet of timber a year in
Douglas County because we do not
have access roads.
Mr. Stanton thinks our reference
to "subsidies" involved in a co
operative agreement is exagger
ated and claims that the co-operator
would be "required to pay the
prevailing stumpage price" and
would have little if any advantage
over other operators. . . Surely
he must know better Uian that,
because under a co-operative
agreement the favored firm pur
chases timber at the anoraised
value rather than the market val
ue determined by competition. In
the past several years records of
the Forest Service show that the
price paid for stumpage is much
higher where competitive bids are
received than where there is only
single bidder. As Al bmith used
to say, "Let's look at the record."
The only co-operative agreement
now in existence is thai octwoen
the Simpson Logging Comany and
the Secretary of Agriculture in
what is known as the Shelton, Wash,
unit. Records on file in Uie
office of the Regional Forester in
Portland show in the period Jan
uary 1, to December 31, 1950 the
following information on timber
sales within the Olympic National
Forest:
million feet were sold to Simp
son at appraised values ranging
from $10.25 to $26.70 per M ft. for
Douglas firm and $1.70 to 3.25 per
M lor hemlock. In contrast, under
competition, other sales on the
same national lorcst brought the
higher prices shown below:
uougtas Iir
Appraised Price
High Rid
16.45
27.55
27.00
50.00
26.45
25.40
63.00
14.55
$ 8.30
17.90
9.65
19.55
9.15
8.95
21.70
4.15
Hemlock
S 3.30 9.25
1.30 b.'j.l
4.95 9.05
1.80 7.75
2.00 5.30
2.90 9.45
4.15 19.00
4.15 14.55
Expressed otherwise. Dougias
fir on the Olympic National Forest
brought 2d times the appraised
value when sold competitively,
hemlock over 3 times the apprais
ed value. On this basis, one can
calculato that during the year 1950,
Simpson Logging Co. paid us, the
owners of the timber, some $700,
000.00 less than we might have
received had the timber been sold
competitively. Does this look like
"little, if any supply cost advant
age" Mr. Stanton? And this agree
ment runs for 100 years.
W. O. KELSAY
Chairman, Douglas County
Section, Western Forest In
; dustrles 4ssn.
Gen. M'Arthur Honored
By Poor Richard Club
NEW YORK Wl The Poor Rich
ard Club of Philadelphia presented
its gold medal of achievement
Tuesday to Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur as "A soldier who did his duty
as God gave him the light to see
that duty."
The award was presented hv
Harold lo Due, tho club's president,
at ceremonies at the Waldorf As
toria Hotel. Motion picture cam
eras recorded the presentation. The
films will be shown at the club's
annual banquet next Thursday
marking the 246th anniversary of
the birth of Benjamin Franklin.
In The Day's News
By FRANK
(Continued from Page 1)
until 1952. So he is free to go after
another elected term if he chooses
TO DO SO.
I wish he had chosen not to do
so and had said as soon as the
antithird-tcrm amendment be
came effective';
"It is now a part of the funda
mental law of our land that no
man may serve more thn two full
terms as President. In 1952, I will
have served ALMOST two full
terms. (He became President by
succession in 1945, only a few
months after the Inauguration of
President Roosevelt for ii I s
FOURTH term.) So. in compliance
with the spirit of the anti-Uiird-term
amendment, I announce here
and now that I will not accept no
mination for a second elective
term, which in my case would
amount practically to a third
term."
That would have settled the
whole business, and I think we
would all have applauded his de
cision. While we are on that subject,
here is a paragraph from another
dispatch from Washington:
"On the Democratic side, there
were new indications today that
Senator Kefauver will seek h is
party's nomination, although he
has made no formal announce
ment. . . In Illinois, Ohio and New
Hampshire, indications are strong
that delegates pledged to him
will be entered in primaries."
I hope Senator Kefauver does
run for the Democratic nomina
tion. He is a good man clean,
"It Is probable the greatest
weakness in our democracy is the
method we use for choosing a
president There is even less dem
ocracy, or choice of the people,
in choosing our vice-president.-Both
are usually the result of po
litical trades in smoke-filled rooms
in some convention city hotel." So
begins an editorial in the Long
Beach (Calif.) Independent, "Who
Chooses President." To further
quote Lawrence A. Collins, whose
pithy editorials I so well remem
ber:
' The great majority of delegates
know nothing of what is going on.
They vote to name a party candi
date because the political head of
their stato delegation tells them
to do so. . . being pledged to a
candidate they become a club. . .
in bargaining at the convention. . .
"One (candidate) or both may
not have had a single state delega
tion pledged to him to the start of
the convention. That would mean
that not one voter had cast a bal
lot favoring that man as candi
date. But because of deals made
between small groups of pohU
cians a president is picked.
It , is even worse," continues
Editor Collins, "when it comes to
picking a vice-presidential candi
date. The man is forgotten until
the location is decided. If the pres
idential candidate is from an east
ern state the VP must come from
the farm states or Far West. It
would never do to pick the two
best men in the country if they
happened to come from the same
state. Result is, second-raters are
often picked as VPs only to find
themselves president through the
death of the first man on the tic
ket. When the conventions are over
the people haVe a chance to judiie
the kind of man picked for them.
It is then the party machine goes
JENKINS , V
new and apparently an independ
ent thinker. I'd like to see Sen
ator Fulbright of Arkansas and
Senator Douglas of Illinois and
Senator Byrd of Virginia and may
be Senator Russell of Georgia ALL
go after the "Democratic nomina
tion in dead earnest and with their
fists swinging.
That would be i healty situation.
Any one of these men would make
a good President. On the Repub
lican side, the present prospects
are Senator Taft, General Eisen
hower, Governor Warren and Ha
old Stassen. They are all good
men.
With good men competing for
the nomination on both sides, we
couldn't lose.
I want to keep my own thinking
straight. I'M FOR A REPUBLI
CAN I THIS YEAR OF DECIS
ION. We need a change. We need
it badly. To get the complete
change we need, we must sweep
the Washington bureaus out clean
and make a new start. We can't
get the change we need in any
other way.
BUT
If we can't get the complete
change we need, we ought to nave
the BEST WE CAN GET. A good
NEW Democrat will be vastly bet
te than another hand-picked Dem
ocrat from the old crowd.
Besides it would be good for the
Democratic party to get com
pletely away from this HAND
PICKING habit and get back to
the good, sound American free-for-all
system. I certainly hope a lot
of good Democrats get into the
race for the party's nomination
and get into it for blood.
EIIDIHG
BASKET
to work to make well known a
candidate who often Is virtually a
stranger as far as the people are
concerned. . . 18 weeks. In tht
short space of time we are asked
to choose as president one of two
men. Quite often neither would be
chosen by the people in a free
primary election. . . By compari
son with our local elections or
those for Congress our Presiden
tial candidates are responsible to
politicians rather than the peo
ple." (I sonder WHY we, the peo
ple, don't get busy and change all
this?)
Stubborn Child
Broadcast Topic
"The Ncgativistic Child," will
be the topic of discussion by a
group of-people of this community
on Thursday at 3:45 p.m. on the
Parent-Teachfcr "Talking It Over"
broadcast on radio station KRNR.
The script for the program this
week is again prepared by Mrs.
Hilda Peterson especially for the
Douglas County Council of P.T.A.
The information used on this
broadcast has involved much re
search and consultation with psy
chologists and psychiatrists so that
every statement made can be ver
ified, said Mrs. N. D. Johnson,
radio chairman.
The discussion will reveal that
there are proper ways of handling
a child who nppears to be stubborn
and ready to say, "I won't" to ev
erything. The voices to be heard on Thurs
day's broadcast will be those of
Mr. and Mrs. James Stone, Mrs.
A. L. Sevall and James Daugherty.
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WASHINGTON Yesterday I related an exchange of
conversation between members of the loyalty review board,
who expressed their amazement that the State Department
had never fired an employee for disloyalty. This is doubly
surprising, since the Department is one of the largest agen
cies in tho government and has been a target of Communist
infiltration for 25 years or more.
The Loyalty Review board has !
found that in the past three years
me average ot aisioyai employees
in all other federal agencies is S
percent. In the State Department,
with its present loyalty board, the :
score Is lero.
Lawrence V. Meloy, executive
secretary of the Loyalty Review
Board, thinks he has one answer
to the State Department's remark-
ahlA vantorl Th.p. n a n(ha. tmi.
sibilities I'll go into later, but here
is Meloy a conclusion, taken ver
batim from the record of a Loy
alty , Review Board meeting:
"This grows out of a practice
which the State Department has
pursued more vigorously than any
other agency. In our regulations
we provide that after the hearing
the agency board, under mitigat
ing circumstances and where na
tional security is not involved, may
permit the man to resign, rather
than have a finding of ineligibility
against him."
In other words, it the State
Department finds spy in its
ranks, and doesn't want the Rus
sians to know for reasons that
may affect the tracking down of
accomplices, it can allow the So
viet sneak thief to resign and
avoid the disclosures that would
be made at a disloyalty hearing.
But the State Department abused
the regulation.
Meloy went into that in detaill
"Now that, primarily, as I re
member it, at the time we put it
in the regulations, was so that Uie
service records of the government
would show a resignation, rather
than a discharge for loyalty, but
it has come to my attention that
the State Department, throughout
the program for two and one-half
years, has not discharged a single
person on the grounds of loyalty.
What they do is to bring the em
ployee in and say: 'Now, we are
going to file charges against you
unless you resign,' so the man re
signs." In part, Meloy's attitude is that
this is being used as a club to
get rid of employees unpopular
with the Department's top brass,
including anti-Communists who
don't want to go through the Worry
and expense of a loyalty investiga
tion as well as Reds who want
to duck an expose of their activit-1
ies. But there is another result of
the State Department policy which
is even much more damaging to
Uie nation's security.
The Civil Service Commission
rules and regulations are that
when an employee resigns, any
remarks relating to that resigna
tion are supposed to be noted on
his personnel action sheet. A copy
of this record is supposed to be
sent to the Civil Service Commis
sion and presumably, if the individ
ual seeks other federal employ
ment, it will be noted by the Com
mission. I
Meloy revealed to the Loyalty
Review Board how this operates
in practice in the State Depart-;
mcnt, and wherein it is dangerous
to our security: j
"When; they (the State Depart-,
ment) operate as they do merely j
showing a resignation of the in-1
dividual and he has this copy of
his personnel record from the
State Department he immediate- j
ly goes over to another agency
and says( 'I nave worKea lor me
State Department for five years.
Here's my personnel action sheet.
I resigned a few weeks ago.'
There's nothing on the personnel
action sheet to tell the personnel
officer that there is an investiga
tion on the person. He gets a job,
or the person may be interested
in him for other employment, and
has to go running around the gov
ernment to find out that there is
an investigation on the man."
Well, there you have it from the
feeduox. The State Department
would rather protect Achcson's
New Appeal Issued
For Wilson Brothers
PORTLAND Lfl Attorneys Is
sued a new appeal Monday to Gov.
Arthur B. Langlie of Washington
to commute the death sentences of
Turman and Utah Wilson, convict
ed of the kidnap-slaying of 18-year
old JoAnn Dewey.
Acclmpanying the letter of ap
peal was a booklet called "The
Truth About tho Case of Turman
and Utah Wilson," containing
claims that the Camas, Wash.,
brothers are innocent.
They have received three stays
of execution to grant the attor
neys Irvin Goodman, Portland;
Sanford Clement, Vancouver,
Wash.; and R. Max Etter, Spokane-time
to take further legal
action.
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reputation than the country's se
curity. The Department has been
getting away with it for three
years now. That's long enough,
And the best way to force them
to come clean is for Senator Pat
McCarran to haul the State Dc
partment's Loyalty Board Mem
bers before his internal security
suD-commiuee . ana lam:
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