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,- ,. -n y Political Campaigns This Year Not
In the. Pay's News To ,ncude Tax-Reduction Pledges
III Wind for Senator'Taft
4 The Newi-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Tuei., April 1, 1952
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Int.r.J II i.cond i-L.i mitUr M.y 7, IflJJt '"
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PROTECT FARM WOODLOTS
' . By CHARLES
A vnn a Douirlas County farmer? And do you have
' If you can make an affirmative answer to those two
questions, we suggest you think seriously before you part
with one of your trees.
" Or, perhaps you are a farmer with a considerable acre
age of submarginal land, now producing little more than
' tax receipts. If so, you might well consider putting that
land into forest.
Wo i,av on nriiinrl.incfi of
a farm int. seems a verv
' t.ha vast forested areas surrounding us. But the time is not
' far distant when that woodlot
inmmn if nronerlv manaeed.
You may believe that planting idle acreage to trees
could not be profitable within your tifetime. But if you
have life expectancy of 10 or 20 years, you can expect to
realize a profit from those acres.
If soil, drainaee and exposure are average, your sub.
marginal acreage can be made to yield marketable Christ
mag trees within from seven to ten years. Following the
Christmas tree stage, a woodlot will produce fenceposts and
pulp logs. The next stage is poles and small piling, followed
by large piling and saw timber. Each thinning operation
improves the forest and adds to its rate of wood production
on remaining trees. The thinning harvest can proceea an
. niially for from 75 to 80 years, after which managed sus
tained yield cutting will be possible continuously.
We have many thousands
land which could be turned to
farm forests.
Woodlot Importance Growing
Saw timber is growing progressively scarcer. Yet ac
' cording to latest records, the nation has a steadily increas
: insr number of acres growing new forests.
For many years the timber industry was engaged in
"mining" forests. Today it is
ber industry, until recently,
moving from one timbered area to another, cutting the vir.
gin forests, then moving to a new location. Today, however,
there are few places to which the industry can move. We
are in the last stages of the in
settling down to permanent locations.
We also are developing
cesses. Until late years, wood
boards and timbers. To cut
, needed big trees. We have learned, however, as saw tim
ber became limited in quantity, to make use of wood pulp,
We tear a piece of wood apart, convert its fibers into pulp,
- rearrange those fibers and press or mould them into sub
stitutes for lumber. Thus we find on the market today
many types of hard and soft board, insulating board, sheath
ing materials, wood and plastic combinations, panerboard
and numerous other products
be extracted from small trees.
comes an annual source of
larmer systematically thins his tree crop.
Pulp Industry Coming
. We would suggest that any farmer having a woodlot on
his property procure a copy of Col. W. B. Greely's book
"Forests And Men." Col. Grcely, former chief of the U. S.
Forest Service, records the history of the timber industry,
tells of the transition from mining to growing timber, and
' tells of the place of the farm woodlot in relation to the forest
industry of the future.
We have no pulp industry in Douglas County at present,
but it is coming soon. Several board plants are in process
of development at this time. More will follow. We also
anticipate one or more Kraft paper mills in Douglas County
within a few years. We now have ample waste materials
to support a large pulp industry."' Eventually, however, we
, will have exhausted most of our private commercial forests.
Except for private forests managed on a sustained yield
basis, we will be dependent entirely upon the annual allow
able cut from public lands about one-half our present cut
ting volume.
At a rough guess, that time is perhaps 12 to 15 years in
the future. SoiGjWtnrs believe it will occur sooner,
. possibly within five to six years. ;
When we reach that period, the pulp industry will be in
; the market for all the pulp logs available from our farm
; woodlots.
; The farmer who starts preparing now to take advantage
of that market will ultimately have a valuable crop from
which to realize annual income.
Forest Pest-Rust
Control Funds'
Slash Advised
WASHINGTON Ml Hie House
Appropriations Committee Monday
recommended cutting from eight
million dollars to $u,55o,0O0 funds
for forest Insect pest and rust con
trol in tlie year beginning July 1.
A committee report said that of
the total proposed $3,300,000 would
be used for control of the white
pine blister rust mainly In Idaho
and California and 2 V million
dollars to fight Insect pests, in
cluding Uie Englemar spruce bark
be'tle in Colorado.
Of the eight million dollars origi
nally requested by the Agriculture
Department, four million was for
while pine blisti-r rust control and
four million to fight insects.
Of the latter amount. ti.R70.ftm
was proposed for the spruce bark
beetle campaign and $400,000 to
c.irry on work against the spruce
be hvorm in "Oregon and Washing
ton. In view of the committee's ac
tion, it was believed tlial the
reiuctions in amounts for specific
insect control campalnns will have
to be worked out with the forest
Service.
V. STANTON
'
timber in Douglas County now,
small unit when compared with
will be producing an annual
of acres of now idle farm
productive use if planted to
"farming" forests. I he tim
has been constantly in transit,
- transit phase. The industry is
some new manufacturing pro
was used almost entirely for
those boards and timbers we
from wood fiber. Fiber can
Thus a farm woodlot be.
supply for pulp mills as the
Church Council Starts
Drive Against Betting
PORTLAND Wl The Oregon
Council of Churches Sunday night
opened a campaign to outlaw nail-
mutuel horse and dog racing bet-
uhk in ine state.
The Rev. Ciilbert B. Christian,
council executive secretary, distri
buted petitions to oppose the state
betting laws at services in the
Centenary Wilbur Methodist Church
here.
Some 26,000 signatures must be
obtained on the petitions to put
the measure before the voters at
the November election.
Budget Of Farm Dept.
Slashed By Committee
WASHINGTON Wl The House
Appropriations Committee Monday
cut the budget of the Agriculture
Department for the fiscal vear
starting next July 1 approximately
d per cent.
In a bill sent to the house floor
for debate lat.'r this week it rec
ommended $724,033,699, a cut of
$24,412,129, for regular activities
of the Agriculture Department.
The committee approved the full
request for 229 million dollars in
loan funds for the Rural Electrifi
cation Administration and tlx
Farmers' Home Administration.
W tm'EM4. J. Jill H -"
Fulton lewis Jr.
WASHINGTON Gen.
a lot of time in Tokyo telling
the Communist party and its
in Japan. He ought to stick
100-year war.
Now that a peace treaty has been
signed and we are going to let
the Japanese run their own coun
try, Ridgway doesn't want them
to outlaw the Communist party. He
says it will drive the Commys
underground. What does he know
about it?
Ridgway is a good army general
but he wouldn't know a Communist
from an Elk or a Rotanan. In
fact, hardly anyone in the U.S.
army is capable of spotting a Red,
except a few experts In G-2, the
Army Intelligence Service. G-2,
however, seldom Bets a chance o
do anything about Communists In
the military ranks. Almost everv
time they catch one it becomes a
political issue and it is impossible
to bounce the Kremlin stooges from
the ranks.
The Jans, without Ridcewav's heln
can take care of the Communists.
Ihey have been SDarrlng with Mos
cow Reds for more than 25-years.
In fact, while our government was
buttering up Kremlin stooges and
U. S. officials were trotting to Mos
cow to find out what Stalin wanted,
the Japs were cracking Communist
heads and hanging Soviet soies.
They know their Russians.
It was back in 1935 that the Jan-
anese first began warning the U. S.
ana me British that Russia was
moving in on Asia with guns in
stead of butter. Our State Depart
ment "experts" and the pitifully
inept series of secretaries of War
and Navy this nation endured dur
ing that period all yawned at the
Japanese warnings. Some of them
were loath to even try working out
any joint operation to stop the
iieus.
A new book to be nuhlished Mav
12 will redden a few faces in Wash
ington and elsewhere in regard to
the Japanese situation prior to the
outbreak of World War II. It is
called the "Back Door to War
the Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1935
to 1941." It was written bv Charles
Callan Tansill, professor of Amer
ican diplomatic history at Georoe.
town University, Washington, D. C.
Tansill, by virtue of his standing
as a scholar, bludgeoned the State
Department into letting him look
"A little nonsense now and
then" was good for (he B. P. W.
and their guests recently. I was
one of the latter and did I have
fun! The Drain B. P. W. was
hostess club to the Yoncalla group.
Scene of the meeting was the base
ment rumpus room which extends
under the Chester Rydell home,
here on highway 38, a perfect place
for fun. Even a fireplace, with a
bright fire to add coiiness.
For one thing there was an auc
tion! "no fair opening the pack
age until auction Is over!" So some
wild bidding went on. The fact
that the dollars were beans mat
tered not at all. If vou didn't have
enough "dollars," those around you
OOOPs
(LAST MONTH'S CARreon) fi.
Matthew Ridgway is spending
the Japanese how to deal with
spie3 and saboteurs now loose
to fighting the Korean or
at t few files and diplomatic
cables. Just like a lot of us, he
knew where to look, once he got
the Jocks off the administration's
secret files. His story, which will
be detailed here later, is a shock
ing recital of warmongering efforts
on the part of some government of
ficials who wanted us to get into
a war with Japan in the worst way
By now, of course, the Japanese
must consider us lunatics. For
years they tried to warn us about
the Communists, but we insisted on
beating their brains out before we
got wise. So I doubt if they'll pay
much attention to Ridgway. They
might even follow our example and
round up the Reds. Of course,
they'll probably have to fight the
Army and our State Department
in order to get it done, just as
we had to expose Alger Hiss and
a few other agents of the Krem
lin before the administration would
admit the existence of a Kremlin
lover on the payroll.
Ridgway, in cautioning the Japs
not to outlaw the Reds, noted that
the Russians had thousands of air
planes and thousands of trained
troops in Siberia ready to pounce
on Japan. On the same day Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, chairman of
the joint chiefs of staff, warned
the world that Russia would extend
Its aggression whenever and where
ever it thought it could win.
In other words, both generals
admit the dangers of another So
viet assault, but Ridgway insists
to the Japanese that this should
not throw them off balance. He
wants the Japs to realize the dan
ger of Russian legions, but to sit
on their hands while the Kremlin
builds up its fifth column inside
the country. He ought to quit lis
tening to the State Department
and the bleeding hearts and help
Japan get ready to fight. The first
step for Japan should be to clean
the Communists out of the coun
try, without delay and without wor
rying about Ridgway's shop talk.
Hear F.ulton Lewis Daily
On KRNR, 9:15 P.M.
ENDING
BASKET
chipped In to help you. Iva Cowan,
the Yoncalla BPW president, cap
tured a "pair of hose"; Madeline
Cool got the "book ends." Ann
Findlay who looks like Katherine
Hepburn succeeded in acquiring
the "2-way-slretch" In the familiar
tube-shaped package. She pre
sented it to her mother, Elsie
Huebner, with much ceremony.
Lavada Crawford of Yoncalla was
the auctioneer. The "pair of hose":
2 bits of rubber hose sewed on a
card. "Book ends": match-books.
Oh, yes. the 2-way stretch: two
elastic bands, looped, fastened to
a card.
The package everyone went mad
over, it sold for $320. turned out
mm.
--ST'
to be an onion. After this activity
the hostesses for the evening, Ma
rion Mcintosh and Laurel Jones,
provided each one with a card,
a toothpick and a stick of gum.
You chewed the gum as fast as you
.miM onrl ihon cl nl, , pari '.-Qk-
It
"Mbit" on the card with a lump of
gum. "Mo lair touching with fin
gers. Use only toothpick." Ever
try it? Sounds easier than it is.
Names are put on backs of cards
and then judges select the "best
rabbit." Edith Bush and Eva Tay
lor tied for the award, and drew
for it, whereupon the loser wailed
loudly.
A game that was lots of fun was
"BPW Cootie" drawing. Partners.
winners advancing to next table,
wun lime Being the essence.
Points were for each part of the
bug, but you couldn't begin to
draw until the dice showed a num
ber onel There were other games
and some dancing. My gracious,
think of me coming home at mid
night, to find my husband sound
asleep! Every blessed light in the
house, and the floodlights out
side, were on. Looked like a fire
from around the bend in the road.l
Consumers Shy
As Industries
Hit Fasf Tempo
NEW YORK 13 Basic indus
tries produced as never before
this week.
And as they kept the factory
wheels whirring with one hand,
they planned bigger plants and
more equipment with the other.
Government reports showed
American businessmen plan to
spend more than 25 billion dollars
this year on new plants and equip
ment. That's a new record. It's four
per cent above the previous peak,
which was set last year.
But all wasn't as rosy as the
overall figures indicated.
While government spending car
rid some industries to new
heights, the consumer kept a tight
grip on his purse strings and ci
vilian goods manufacturers suffer
ed. Oil, Automobiles Soar
The extent to which defense buy
ing entered the picture was re
flected in the key indicators.
Steel tonnage was at a record
high for the fourth straight week.
The mills worked at 102.4 per cent
of rated capacity to turn out 2,
131,000 net tons of ingots and steel
for castings.
Crude oil production hit a new
peak of $6,324,450 barrels. Automo
bile production was 131,191 units,
the highest since last September.
The needy textile industry was
asked to bid on some substantial
government business.
The Army was in the market for
about 40 million yards of cotton
duck and some 30 million yards of
cotton webbing.
The U.S. engineers asked for of
fers of 51 million sand bags to be
made from burlap or osnaburgs.
The civilian side of the textile
goods market was not as bright,
however. A bit of buying early in
the week was a flash In the pan.
Once over, the market lapsed back
into the doldrums.
During the week the government
authorized production increases of
passenger cars, washing machines
and other consumer goods after
July 1.
Faint luminous clouds of dust
and gas. hanging in space be-;
tween the stars of the Milky Way,
are being revealed for the first
time in the "sky survey" phot-
graphs being taken at Palomar ,
Observatory in California. j
LAUREL LODGE NO. 13
A. r. i A. M.
Roseburg, Oregon
SPECIAL MEETING
Wednesday, April 2, 1952, 7 P.M.
Work in M.M. Degree
W. M. Durward Owem
Sec William C. Woods "
(Continued from Page 1)
the white hope of his crowd. It
has seemed a practical certainty
that if he failed to run the Repub
licans would win.
But- .
There came then New Hamp
shire and after New Hampshire
tame Minnesota. In both, Truman
ran a bad second to Kefauver.
That changed the picture. No long
er was be the indispensable man.
Instead, it began to look like he
might be a liability.
So the pressure on him WENT
OFF.
His announcement Saturday
night that he will not be a candi
date for re-election was dramatic,
but, when the whole picture is tak
en Into consideration, it isn't sur
prising. So much for his statement that
he will not be a candidate for re
election. What of his assertion that
he will not accept a renomination?
On that one I'm keeping my
fingers crossed. These are hair
trigger times. What the picture
looks like today is no sign of what
it may look like tomorrow. Pub
lic opinion, I think (perhaps I
should say I FEAR), is still in a
state of flux. It hasn't yet solidi
fied into the hard metal of decis
ion. Its present apparent shape
could be changed by new develop
ments among other things, bv
a menacing new development in
the war situation.
So don't write Truman off yet.
If you're wise, you won't write him
off until the Democratic convention
is over and the delegates have
gone home.
Things misht haDDen between
now and then that would make
him the white hope again.
I'd like to add one more state
ment of personal conviction.
IF President Truman adheres to
the decision he announced on Sat
urday night. I hone he steps out
of the picture entirely and leaves
the Democratic convention free to
name its own choice with no pres
sure from him.
President Roosevelt chose Tru
man as his successor. If President
Truman chooses his successor
and if first his party and then the
people RATIFY his choice we will
have SET THE PATTERN OF A
DYNASTY.
By the new no third-term amend
ment to our constitution we hive
put a stop to the ambitions of
ONE MAN who might seek to be
come PRESIDENT-FOR-LIFE.
But if we permit each retiring
President to name his successor,
we shall have inaugurated the dy
nastic system which Is another
historic device for RETAINING
POWER TOO LONG IN ONE SET
OF HANDS.
That I don't want my grand
children to see, for I am sure it
would mean the beginning of the
end of their liberties.
CITY COURT CASES
The following cases were dis
posed of in municipal court, re
ports Judge Ira B. Kiddle.
Complaints charging drunken
ness were filed against the fol
lowing persons. Clara May Leroy,
41, Roseburg, sentenced to the city
jail for 15 days in lieu of a $30
fine; Robert Colvin, Box 62, Rose
burg, forfeited $30 bail; Magnus
vornik, 31, Roseburg, forlcited $20,
and William Earl Sargeant Coos
Bay, was committed for 10 days
in lieu of a $20 fine.
Dwain Orville Hall. 18, 1498 E
2nd Ave. S., forfeited $10 after be
ing cited for operating a car with
no tail light and faulty brakes.
The South Pole was discovered
by Amundsen 40 years ago, after
a 55-day trek with dog sleds across
Marble played an important part
in building construction in Biblical
times.
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No matter who occupies the White House next : January,
we are not likely to enjoy any early reductior , in , taxes From
the most conservative to the most liberal candidate for presi
dent, we are hearing pessimism on mar, sioie
Senator Russell or ueorgia, new
est entry in the presidential lists,
is also the latest to discourage
hope of a speedy tax cut. He does
see some chance of a materialslash
in the budget, but believes tax
relief must be deferred until at
least 1955.
Neither President Truman nor
any of the other Democratic hope
fuls talks of easing taxes. Their
emphasis is on the burdens facing
government.
On the Republican side, General
Eisenhower's specific views on tax
es are not known. It may be fairly
assumed from his general econom
ic philosophy that he would favor
reduction when it is practical. But
he is a strong backer of foreign aid
and rearmament, the two heaviest
drains on the federal treasury;
hence he is unlikely to consider
as practical" any tax trimming
that would endanger those pro
grams. Senator Taft advocates tax cut
ting in his primary stumping
tours. But he is trying to make
it IhnrAimhlv tinrtnrctniH that- he
does not pretend this goal could
be quickly achieved. To question
ers he declares the first order
of business is to chop expenses,
since they currently outrun rev
enues by several billions.
Taft sees no point in a tax re-
J.l!.n .,til anvarnmant niltlflVS
are below present receipts. He
Contempt Cases
Close Goodrich
Rubber Plants
AKRON, O. Wl Six B. F. Good
rich Co., plants employing 13,000
were closed Saturday as an after
math tn onntomnr convictions of
nine CIO United Rubber Workers
leaders. Another lz.uuu ruDDer
workers were idle at Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Co. many of
them in a sympathy protest.
Firestone and General and the
smaller rubber-making firms, here
were unaffected.
Common Pleas Judge Bernard J.
Roetzel, who sentenced the nine
unionists to 10 days in jail and
fined them each $250 and costs,
received a threatening letter. The
scrawled note said the jurist would
be taken for a "long, long ride."
The judge turned the letter over to
police.
George R. Bass, president of
Goodrich URW Local 5, and the
ei' ' t other union leaders remained
in'custody about four hours before
posting $200 bond each. Their con
tempt convictions were for violat
ing a court order by stopping trains
carrying supplies into the picketed
plants.
Father In Prixe-Winning
Picture Shoots Himself
LOS ANGELES Wl Last May
an alert news cameraman snapped
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ing up the attic or basement, be it an old
pair of ski boot or a late-model used car
"driven by original owner."
does not predict when this might
be accomplished, but rather leaves
the door open on the possibility
that the job might consume a cou
ple of years.
The American citizen thus
should realize that he will not be
voting for immediate tax cuts this
fall. At the very most, he can cast
his ballot for reduced government
expenditures. That is all any ma
jor candidate is promising as a
St3ItCF
Even if a presidential contender
should pledge himself to slash tax
es right off, he probably would be
forced by the sober responsibilities
of White House power to abandon
the plan. To move to pare rev
enues while they are well-behind
expenses would be a foolhardy ges
ture. It would push the govern
ment into heavy borrowing to
make up a deepening deficit, and
thereby drive the national debt
higher than ever. Somewhere there
must be a limit to this kind of
practice, even in the United States.
Most politicians are reluctant to
strain the country's credit to find
that limit. ,
So file away those dreams of
prompt tax relief. For quite a ;
while you'll be working for the
government unonicioi.j j
L .lav. week than you care'
to contemplate
n nlrnr of a grieving father
kneeling on the street beside the
broken body of his 17-month-old
daughter. ,
The dramatic picture by Schuy
ler Hixson of the Los Angeles
Times was chosen by the Associa
ted Press Managing Editors in a
tnot n the hest exam
ple of excellence for 1951. The
awards were announceu ouiiuay.
Fortunately, the child, Mary
Dahler, recovered from her critical
injuries. ....
But not so fortunately, the father.
Harold E. Dahler, 35, who also
had seven other children, grabbed
a shotgun early Monday and, po
lice reported, shot himself in the
stomach. He died instantly.
His wife, Mrs. Mary Dahler, told
Det. C. G. Riding that they had
been arguing about his drinking.
The children range in age from
13 to three months.
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