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4 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Fri Feb. 1, 1952 Publithtd Dolly licvpt Sunday by h NwiReviw Company. Inc. Uritf ettt matttr Hay t, IM. at lb ! fflaa al Batabuig. Urtfa. nrtar act f Match t. Ult CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L KNAPP Editor Monogor Mam bar of tho Aiwciotad Prtss, Oregon Nowtoooor Publlihon Association, tho Audit Bureau of Circulations ft ( 4 by Hfcttr-UOIXIDAr CO. INC., ffica la Saw ffark, Cfclefcf. Haa rraaclsta, Angalai, atlla, Prtln, latar1 aa be. nd Claaa Mailer May 1. 1KQ, al ttaa rail OffUa al Baitbars, Uresaa, Untlar Aet af March S, ItU. UBimiFTlON RATFA Is Orafaa By Mall Par taar, flt.Mi als aaaatka. H-tlt tferaa maalha. ft. 1ft. By Naeri-Eavlew C'arrlar Par Vaar, tll.M (la a. noa), lata Ibao ana rear, par maalh, 1 1. at. OateleH Orafaa By Mali Par Taar. 1 1 1.00) all naalha, t.80i Uraa ntaatba, Careful Now! DonYLet It Get Out of Control! A GOOD DECISION FRIDAY By CHARLES V. STANTON The Roseburg Rod and Gun Club has voted to keep its grounds open lor public use. This is a choice that will be welcomed by hundreds of Roseburg residents who have found much enjoyment in use of the recreational site in past seasons. The organization has been giving much study to the possibility of closing the grounds to all except members. This possible course of nction was proposed because of continued vandalism. The club has suffered heavy dam age from persons who have deliberately wrecked tables, benches, fireplaces and buildings, stolen ornamental trees and shrubs, damaged boats at the moorage, littered the picnic grounds with debris, carried off topsoii, and in many other ways abused the use privileges granted by the club. Only last week, in fact, someone forced en trance into the storeroom at the club grounds and carried off a quantity of ammunition used for trapshooting. Normal maintenance of the property taxes the finan cial ability of the club, despite the fact that a major part of the labor is' donated by members. When the cost of replace ment and repair is added to maintenance expense, the organ ization finds it extremely difficult to keep the property in shape for use. Fine Recreational Asset The 105-acre tract belonging to the club is an excep tionally line recreational asset. Located at Winchester, the property fronts for 3,500 feet on the North Umpqua River. The waterfront area has been developed for picnic purposes. Throughout the summer months it is crowded- with picnickers. The grounds also are used expensively by other organizations for outdoor gatherings. Bathers and fishermen take advantage of access to water. Alto gether the property is extremely valuable for its recrea tional uses and will become increasingly .important as population grows. But a few hoodlums are endangering the continuation of public access to this facility. Unappreciative of the courtesy granted them, unmindful of property rights, and lacking even common decency, their acts have forced the club into serious consideration of a policy of closing the land to all except members. This suggestion was submitted to the membership sev eral months ago by the board of directors, with the re quest that it be considered from all angles pending a vote on policy. That the membership gave the matter much thought was evident from discussions when the is sue came on the floor for determination. Public Service Paramount To purchase its property, the Rod and Gun Club sev eral years ago issued certificates of indebtedness to ap proximately 80 persons, thus securing the money with which to buy the land at an extremely favorable price. The majority of persons holding these certificates have surrendered them to the club in return for life member ships and have been issued handsome, engraved cards in token of their cooperation. Thus, little indebtedness remains. ; But, because of this public cooperation, the club feels reluctant to place restrictions upon use of the grounds. It is felt, too, that the purpose of the organization, while primarily that of conservation of natural resources, is to encourage outdoor recreation and" the preservation and use of the abundant recreational resources of the area. It is recognized that the problem of vandalism faced by the club differs in no respect from that of other land owners; that disrespect of property rights involves only a very small minority of the general public, and that the majority should not be punished for the acts of a few irresponsible persons if it is possible to avoid it. Con sequently, the club will endeavor to keep its grounds open, hoping that some means of controlling vandalism will bo found. The club, we feel, is to be commended for its decision. Tho problem of vandali.-yn is not confined to the grounds of the Rod and Gun Club. It is altogether too general. It is useless to appeal to hoodlums to respect prop erty and property rights. They can be controlled only by police action and adverse public opinion. The gen eral public can be of much help in obtaining control. A few good examples, adequately punished, will serve as the best possible control over the small minority respon sible for acts nf vandalism. If every person who ap preciates the privilege of entering upon private property for purposes of recreation will report any acts of van dalism he observes and will aid in the apprehension and identification of those responsible for such acts, it will not take long to improve conditions. Fulton Lewis Jr. II 1 W si since It is highly unusual, to say the least. The Kremlin doesn't invite col lege students to Moscow without a reason. The obvious purpose is to help promote its propaganda. And it seems to work. The Daily Californian cooperates. I wonder if the Moscow University Bugle would reciprocate. I have reams of pro-American propaganda any time Russian college students want to read it. Only I'd label it. On KRNR, 9:15 P. M. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Pago 1) SO If (ha vnnvlft Inn nni thnt I.n. Why will he have to run? j,,,n, Truman can be re-elected Its about like this: mrp NO OTIIKK DEMOCRAT II : isnt just the Democratic party !c'A BE ELECTED, he will have that is now m power. It is a rAC-!i.. ,., ..,... n- .. . ...... i ...... TION of the Democratic party hih..r h i er Hess wants him to or not. He 11 the Sdcialistit-.iilv inclined, spend' lax-elect, welfare stale, votcour-selves-nch faction What we call "the administra tion," meaning by that the crowd that is in power, the bureaucrats who run tilings, the people who Rull the strings, all come from the ew Deal, Fair Deal (rapidly be coming raw deal) wing of the parly. From the standpoint of these "ins," it would be almost as bad if the party's conservative wing should gel control as if the Republicans came back into power. just HAVE TO that's all It is my personal conviction that he doesn't want to. 1 think he'd probably I.OVE to retire as Presi dent and go back home and be circled senator from Missouri. He liked the senate when he was it. The senale is perhaps Ihc'most reporters 1 Know LOS ANGELES - University of California officials ban Communist speakers from the campus, but that doesn't shield student from a steady dose of Kremlin propaganda. The Daily Californian, the Uni versity of California daily news paper, prints a lainy sieaoy stream of Moscow grist in one form or another. Just recently, in fact, the editors opened up the paper to a series of articles by students who have either been in Russia or in Soviet controlled na tions where ordinary Americans are not permmed lo visit, une thing the editors neglected to point out is how these students managed to part the Iron Curtain with such ease. One of the students spent some time at the Communist World Fes tival of Youth and Students for Peace, held in East Berlin. He never had such a thrill, he in formed his campus friends, through the courtesy of the col lege newspaper. He wrote: "We received gifts of letters written by Korean soldiers in the trenches asking the American people to impose peace in Korea and to remove all foreign troops. From talking with these young the Korean people as a whole want lo be left to seltlc their own af fairs, and that thev arc as a na tion bitterly hostile towards the United Nations (mostly American) troops who have brought so much destruction and grief lo their coun try.' That is, of course, pure Com munist propaganda, and if the Daily Calitornian's editors don't have sense enough lo recognize it, they ought to be replaced. Right now. University officials and members of tho Hoard of Re gents arc trying to find out why the University paper has to print Communist propaganda at all. It's a bit of research that needs doing and even though the cry of censor ship is being wailed on the campus, they should find the answer. The Communists have their own pub lications, so it doesn't seem nec essary for anyone else to help them out. In Russia, of course, our diplo matic officials just recently were restricted again in their move ments around the country. Now they can't travel more than a few blocks from the U. S. Embassy there. So maybe it was enws- worlhy to the editors of the Daily Californian when they discovered, of all things, a recent visitor to the USSR on the campus. They had her interviewed by a reporter. But (he reporter missed the point of the story. "While we were in Russia." the student traveler told the reporter, "we had complete freedom of movement. Before we began our tour, we were asked to list what we wanted to see most and that is what they showed us." That was right nire of the Com munists, but Uie Si4 qucslion is how come mere student at the University is accorded facilities and freedom denied the represen tatives of the United Stales liov ernment? That's the news I'd like to read in the Daily Californian, or any other newspaper. In fact. would have GOP Chairman, Ex-Demo Guide Draw Censure By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON m The Senate investigations subcommittee told the Senate Thursday Republican National Chairman Guy G. Gab rielson and William M. Boyle, Jr., his one time Democratic counter part, engaged in activities "bound to lead to charges of impropriety." Sen. Hoey, B-N. C, said the find ings were approved unanimously by the four Democrats and three Republicans of the subcommittee he heads. Neither Boyle nor Gabrielson was accused of any illegality. The report denounced the Amer ican Lithofold Corp, St. Louis printing firm, for paying fees to Boyle, several government officials and others in high places, and giv ing them costly gifts and "lavish entertainment." It recommended that "any firm or individual who seeks to bring improper influence to bear on gov ernment departments or who has a background of influence seeking should be barred from further busi ness with the government." Emphasizing that it dm not ac That seems the only decent thing to do, both in Moscow and at the cuse Boyle of anything "illegal or University of California. immoral." it added: . ., "Mr. Boyle's conduct was not Hear Flllton LeiVIS Dail such that it would dispel the ap pearance of wrongdoing. The subcommittee reported "no ENDING BASKET Just suppose you were looking forward to your twenty-first birth day with all the eagerness that ev ery young person views that event, and then the calendar was chang ed on you by government decree and you had to wait on past the day you should have been Twenty one. Well, that is just what happen ed to young George Washington! "He turned 20 on February 11. 1752, but he had to wait until Feb. 22, 1753" before he could call himself twenty-one. All because the British Empire a bit slow in the doipg finally adopted the Gregorian calendar just then. Well, when folks talk about changing our present calendar we maybe can view the idea more calmly if we remember George Washing-. ton and his changed birthday. Aft er all, this thing we call "time" and this thing we call the calen dar interesting thing to think about. ' i Julius Caesar arbitrarily appoint ed January 1 as the dajr the elected officers took over, "and until Cae sar set things straight," says the ! National Geographic Society, "it: was juggled considerably for the political benefit of one officehold er or another." (My gracious, maybe we shouldn't broadcast a thing like that with elections com ing up.) After a while It was dis covered that Caesar's calendar didn't jibe with the time the as tronomers used: "By 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII instituted the reformed Julian calendar in use today, spring's first day had gained 14 days on the stars. So Gregory in 1582 or 'dained that October 4 be followed by October 15, thus adjusting the calendar to A.D. 325, the year of the Church Council of Nicea. . . It makes allowance for the fact that a year is 11 minutes less than 365 1-2 days long by not only in serting leap years such as 1952 every four years, but also by omitting "leap days" in the even centuries divisible by 400, such as 1600, 2000, 2400 etc." Considering what a dither we get into when daylight saving takes effect, wouldn't we have fun if the calendar were changed! Phony Salmon Deal Itl For Army Reacts WASHINGTON ( The Army said Thursday 125.000 pounds of frozen salmon it ordered as high grade "silver" salmon has been proved by microscopic tests to be a lower grade "chum" salmon. A spokesman added that "pend ing results of action by the De partment of Justice, the Army Is declining to place further orders with the contractor.'' 'lb efirni was not identified. f Ims Mt ba(R I I Mnni by I I 4:ISp.aipMn I 1-263 1 Iwfcnw fctSwxi IfM. J evidence of improper Influence" by Gabrielson in representing Car thage Hydrocol, Inc., a Texas gas refining firm, before the RFC, but said: "Mr. Gabrielson should not have represented Carthage Hydrocol be fore the RFC after he became the chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee." It laid down a principle that "of ficials of the major political part ies, whether paid or unpaid, hold positions in the nature of a quasi public trust 'Taey must refrain from any acts which are illegal, immoral or patently improper but as expect ed of a public official they must also avoid the appearance of wrong doing by avoiding that type of ac tivity which might lead the public to believe or suspect that chicanery is taking place." The report was based on testi mony taken at public hearings last fall at which Boyle and Gab rielson each swore he bad done nothing improper. Boyle resigned his party post shortly afterward for announced reasons of ill health. WEEK END SPECIAL LUB and OIL CHANGE 5 QUARTS OIL VACUUM CAR $J Qr Friday & Saturday Only J FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY' CALL 2.9020 Doyle's Signal Service 1865 NORTH STEPHENS Coos Residents Aid . COOS BAY Itfl Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Weeks, who lost eight of their nine children in a fire last week, will get a new home from sympathetic residents of Southwest Oregon. The residents havo contributed more than $3,000 in cash toward the home. The BaU Lumber Co. donated a two-acre site near Mau ser. The AFL Carpenters Union voted to build the house, and 20 carpenters would tackle the job on any given Saturday. The car penters expect to do most of the job in one day. OF COURSE - SHOP AT YOUR CO-OP Garden Seed Garden Planters Garden Tools Garden Tractors Vigoro Fertilizer Morcrop Fertilizer Co-op Fertilizer Peat Moss Electric Deep Freezers Electric Water Heaters Electric Roasters Pruning Equipment Dutch Boy Paints Dorment Sprayt Farm and Homo Tools Plumbing Supplies BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS W. Washington at S.P. Track gpSEiSjgt Roseburg, Oregon FREE PARKING AT THE FARM BUREAU Why? The answer is quite simple. If the conservative Democrats got in, these New Dealers-Fair Dealers welfare staters would be thrown out of power. It is I'OWKR thai politicians crave, pleasanlest social club in the word. Its atmosphere is exactly the kind of atmosphere that a com panionable, gregarious, personally likeable individual such as Harry Truman craves. He was happy in the senale before, and he'd be happy there again. But President Truman Is no longer an individual. He is the SOUKCK from which come the power and the privileges and the perquisites and the pleasant so- cial surroundings of the men by whom ho is surrounded the bu ireaucrats and the others whom asked the question at the kick-off we term collectively "the admin istration." These men will tell him T11F.Y ARE TELLING HIM NOW: "You just can't do this to us, boss. You've GOT to run. You're our white hope. If you quit, WE'HK OUT!" That Is why if it Is generally accepted that he is the only Demo crat who can be elected Harry Truman will have to run, whether he wants to -or not. Co-operate In The Religious Census Sunday! Volunteer Workers Will Call At Your Home Sunday Between 2 and 5 P.M. They Are Giving Their Time . . . Won't You Kindly Give Them Your Cooperation? Religion is regarded os the sole bulwark against many of the Ills which beset the world. In order that Roseburg moy know its true strength in church-going people, this census is being taken Sunday, February 3. This census will give a true picture of those affilioted with churches and Sunday Schools and those who have no affiliation. ptei RELIGIOUS CENSUS CARD HERE IS THE INFORMATION YOU WILL BE ASKED TO SUPPLY Area Caller. Not at home Add' ess Declined information No religious preference , Family Nome Wh. . Negro Mex. ... Prefers El Age First Name.. Member Ar-ttends ... Oriental . I What Locol Church or Sunday School Where, if elsewhere? Mr. ., Mrs. C h I. .... I d 20s.. ,30s.. 40s.. ..50s... Arrange If Possible To Be At Home D uring The Hours Of Enrollment. Your Co-Operation Will Be Appreciated By Roseburg Churches! If you cannot arrange to be at home, PLEASE FILL IN ABOVE BLANK and attach to your door so Census-Taker need not make a return call. ROSEBM MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
