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4 Th Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore.- Mon April 7, 1952 Published Doily Except Sunday by th Newt-Review Company, Inc. Bstrt at Mfsnd elm matter Mar 1, W. at ihm peel ffle ft Easabarg, Orefea, under Ml ( Harck t, 1171 - CHARLES V, STANTON IDWIM L KNAPP ' Editor Monojtr ' Mombor of tho A no do tad Pran, Oregon Nawipaper Publiihtr Association, tho Audit Buroou of Circulations Baprtitotcd by WEBT-HOLL1DAV CO., INC., offices In New Vtrk, Cfalcafa, ma Franc lie o. Lot An re lee, Seattla, fttrtlaod, St. Laala "' SUBSCRIPTION RATKK la Oraon Br Mill Per er, 18.00; lis monlhi, 14.30; Ibraa monlhi, 12.50. By Newi-Bevlew- C'arnar Par year, II (.00 tin 4 Tnc), leis than ona year per month, l.0. OaUlda Ortfn By Mall : Par yaar, 19.00; als month!, fl.l&i tbrea moot hi, 12.15. NEW WEAPON NEEDED By CHARLES Financial losses running affecting every individual are widespread strikes throughout in Drosxess in many businesses and industries. The impend' j ing steel strike would affect many operations dependent upon steel. With steel already in short supply for both dom- estic and defense purposes the strike, if long continued, could handicap our national economy for many coming years- Here in our own community, for instance, the State Highway Commission is proposing to reroute the Pacific Highway. Three bridges will be required at Winchester, Roseburg and Shady point. The commission is finding it difficult to obtain steel for normal requirements. The Rose- bur rtroiect already has been quate steel supplies. If the critical, it may set back the area by another two or three It is also to be expected ' the steel industry are granted, strikes will occur In other industries to obtain similar or even larger benefits, so we may anticipate prolonged trouble, heavy financial losses, added taxes and increases in living costs. We do not propose to judge the merits of any contro versy. It is not our purpose to say that either side is right or wrong. We do believe, however, that it is time both labor and management started working on some plan to settle differences by something other than strikes. . "Kill The Umpire" Even though strikes probably cannot be eliminated, the situation could be materially improved if we could get rid of the "umpire." One of the worst things that ever happened to manage ment and labor occured, in our opinion, when the federal government put itself in the middle. Since the government entered the picture, strikes have been more prolonged and costly. If labor and management were left to their own devices, they would be able to end their fights in much shorter time than now is involved in appeals to the various federal agencies with their armies of investigators, inspectors, referees, supervisors, clerks, etc., all maintained on salaries paid by taxpayers. The Congress must also kick around labor legislation, adding to the length and cost of sessions, with decisions in volving more politics than merit. In our opinion, the government's position in the middle of labor controversies is an expensive; complication adding to economic waste. Neither labor nor management ever is satisfied with decisions. Strikes usually continue longer be cause of government interference. Delay is caused by ap peals and studies. The NLRB ducks decisions which might be politically embarrassing. losing money at a double pace, because of the work stop- pages or cut-backs, while paying a heavy load of taxes to support a worse than useless Organized labor reached mature strength before the government entered the picture. There is no reason why it should lose strength or weaken its position if it returned to independence. The political tained is an expensive luxury. Protect Bargaining Rights Labor should never be deprived of its rights for collect ive bargaining, nor should those rights ever be impaired in any way. There seems to be a defensive weapon. Many effective substitute. ; Yet the morally wrong. It is economically wrong because it benefits neither side. Labor and management both lose in any strike. The bene fits won seldom repay, the money lost by laborers. Morally, a strike is little different than a holdup at the point of a gun. From an ethical standpoint we can see little distinction between using a gun to take a man's pocketbook, and using economic force to seize his capital. Labor has every right to fight for a just and equitable wage and for suitable working conditions. It has a right to seek a fair share of the profits for which it is responsible. There currently exists no method or procedure other than a strike when its rights are threatened. Management, on the other hand, can rightfully chum in many cases that demands made upon it are unfair. This leaves no alterntive other than a fight in which everyone loses. We suppose, under existing conditions, that strikes are inevitable. Labor should not be deprived of a defensive weapon. It would seem, however, that the time has come for both labor and management to make a sincere attempt to devise some method for handling differences rather than by procedure which violates both economic and moral princi ples, while seriously damaging national economy. Mrs. W.B.H. of Eugene, Oregon, writes: "I had the pleasure of read ing the "home newspaper News-Review, and your timely article in the Mending Basket on your visit with E. H. McBride at the Ump- qua Lignt. une senli-nce stands out: 'The law doesn't demand that the life-belts must be worn, but it Is my conviction that they should be.'" I had been quoting E. II. Mc Bride, C.B.M. U.SCG who said he, himself "wouldn't dare fish from tome of the boats used by V. STANTON into the billions of dollars and in prospect as a r e 8 u 1 1 of the country. Strikes now are held back beacause of inade situation should be made more highway improvement In this years. that, if demands made upon In the meantime everyone is bureaucracy. support it has sought and ob no alternative for the strike as minds have tried to devise an strike is both economically and INDING BASKET fishermen . .and I have been around these waters for fifteen years . . .They go out with an out board motor and often NO OARS maybe no life preservers, and in that case we (the Coast Guard) can bring them In. The law doesn't demand- that the life preservers be worn, but it Is my conviction they should be. I tell you fisher men can't be too careful. Most accidents come from negligence. The time to think about safety is BEFORE they start out . . .") Mrs. W.B.H. continues with a i Fulton Lewis Jr. kf . r" T J , WASHINGTON Eric Johnston, who vacillates between doing chores for the Truman Administration and being boss of the Motion Picture Association of America, is taking Hol lywood underground in its fight against Communists if any. Johnston, few days ago, rallied a number of Hollywood movie mo guls into a secret powwow for ttie purpose of putting the heat on the American Legion, national com mander, Donald Wilson, who has encouraged thp Legion; Anti-com munist fignt. That fight now in cludes the picketing of a Washing ton motion picture house for pre suming a nnuywooa opus loaded with left-wingers and worse. Tfiis Is the Legion, first effort to picket a theater and it has Johnston anit his bosses gnawing on their finger nails. One other reason for Johnston momentarily abandoning the Fair Deal for the job he gets paid for, is that some movie producers are tuning sugniiy nan over me in rensuy of Howard Hughes anti- communist light. Hughes, boss of Hie huee wen Studio, is beginning to clip com munists off the payroll at an alarm ing rare, night now an ex-employe Of RKO. Paul .Tarriv, i. cm. ing Hughes because he refused to allow Jarrico's name to appear on a film after Jarrico refused to an swer the $64 question about his alleged Communist affiliations in lesumnny Deiore congressional in vestigators. Hughes has taken the FBI and other government agencies and congressional committees at their wora. lie minks Communists and the Moscow stooges who hiv. everything except actually join the puny are nangcrous to the nation's security. He has vowed to bounce them when he finds them in his shop, which is more than most of the studios have done. In fact it is almost unprecedented. Several of the notorious Hollywood ten wore fired, but in name only. Actually, they were allowed to go on writing movie scripts, in some cases, by using the simple subterfuge of another name. The Legion Commander didn't knuckle under. In fact, the Legion is considering an expansion of its picketing activities, since this hits the producers who love the Reds and their playmates right where it hurts in the pocketbook. The Justice Department has bor rowed one of Major General Harry Vaughan'a deep freezes to store reference tn ihe orinf .. into her own life last year through a fishing accident "I have hiig been of the opinion that fishermen Roing out In boats should wear ...viM-ua now many lives would up auvvu ii sucn were required by law. It Is a subject very close to my heart, having lost my brother. John Allen Adams and my nephew Donald Smith of Elkton Oregon last May while they were fishing What can we DO to arouse our men folk to the dansor of negli gence about wearing lifebelts while fishing? Lot us hope that many read the article and heeded the warning there." I too, hope many read and heed ed Mr. McBride's warning words, and the warning also in the text quoted from bright red placards put up by the Lower Cnipqua Chamber of Commerce in another Scrap about the same time. The number of sports fishermen who lost their lives in the Bav area last year totalled eleven. This in spite of every effort made bv the U.S. Coast Guard, efforts not al ways appreciated by the venture some ones who are so sure they know what they arc doing. For President, That Mill P2t7fin ilk Lvj iui k' a hot potato tossed to It by the Mccarran internal security buD committee. It involves John P. Da vies, who does Secretary of State Dean Acheson's thinking on Far eastern attairs. uavies was recent ly cleared of security charges by I'ne State Department after being suspended along with Far Eastern Expert O. Edmund Clubb. Clubb quit after Acheson said he was only half of the story.' Acheson dirt nt mention that the State Depart ment's Loyalty Board had found Clubb a security risk, and that Acheson brought back a retired dip lomat for the specific purpose of overruling, that decision. Davies, testifying before Hie Mc Carrun Subcommittee,, denies that he ever wanted to get a string of Communists jobs in the central in telligence agency. A former em ployee of the C.I.A., Lyle Munson. a New York city publisher, testified otherwise. It is a pat example of lying by somebody before a con gressional committee. So McCar ran shipped the record to Justice, to sea which one was playing fast and loose with the truth. That was several weeks ago. Munson would like to drop in on a grand jury and tell his story, but the Justice Department, . when asked about the case, hasn't done a thing except act embarrassed. The State Department now has four employes under investigation as loyalty suspects. The strange tning about it is that if the Loyalty Board should find against the four, it will make a total of 57 "turned up" as Communist sympatylzers since Senator Joseph R. McCarthy first started his attack on the De partment. You'll recall that the senator saia there were 57 ques tionable characters in ttia State Department. Recent executive session testi mony before a Senate subcommit tee revealed the facts concerning the 57. Conrad Snow, head of At'.ie- son's Loyalty Board, had to make a number, or such embarrassing confessions on behalf of the Secre tary of State. It hurt. The Lovaltv Review Board says the Depart meat oi si ate nas never tired anyone for disloyalty. Snow says tha 57 were "turned up. When the secret testimony is made public, I think you'll find he means "turned out " Thus Snow and the State Depart ment win come clean wtth us and Hie Loyalty Review Board. About time, huh? Hear Fulton Lezvis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. All Sixe A-Bombs Can Now Be Delivered WASHINGTON W Tho Navy has planes which can deliver big or little a'omic bombs, says Vice Admiral John W. Cassady, deputy chief of Naval Air operations. Cassady testified at a closed door session of the Senate pre paredness investigating subcom mittee Friday and part of his testi mony was made public. He said: "All Naval attack aircraft and all long-range fighter aircraft for which we are asking funds will be able to drliver the smaU atomic bombs. We now have in our car riers planes capable of delivery of the big bomb. Is In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) the boys in the shop said to me: "Any good news today?". I answered flippantly: "There hasn't been any GOOD news in years." I was wrong; The copy I held in my hand contained a dispatch re lating that Racketeer Costello who for years has beaten efforts to put him behind bars was CONVICTED last night of contempt of the senate and faces ten years in prison. That is good news. It is ALWAYS good news when wrongdoers are punished. Only bv punishing WRONGDOING can we maintain a moral society. But there was a FLY in the oint ment. The dispatch telling of Cos- tello's conviction contained this paragraph: ''Government Prosecutor Miles J. Lane, who finally tripped the Italian-born racketeer, hailed the jury's verdict of gulty as a 'turn ing point' he said it is proof that no man, 'no matter how cunning or powerful he may seem to be, CAN BE BIGGER THAN THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF." I wish he hadn't put it that wav. I wish he had said: "NO ONE man can be bigger than THE PEOPLE." I'm frankly scared of a federal government that i s BIGGER THAN ANY ONE MAN. I can't help, thinking of Gainza Paz, the enlighted and liberal editor and publisher of La Prensa, who was driven Into exile after his great newspaper had been confiscated by the dictatorially powerful (TOO powerful) government of Argen tina. This dispatch is from New York and if you read it understanding ly you will agree that it is signifi cant of tho times we live in: "Everybody STOOD AROUND In the stock market today (Saturday) and did virtually nothing. Prices moved over a range covered by a major fraction either way. Many leading stocks held unchanged throughout the session, and many more didn't even trade at all. "The approaching steel strike was the cause of the doldrums. The strike is set for midnight Tues day, and the steel companies al ready have started shutdown op erations. They're wondering if STEEL IS TO BE NATIONALIZED as in England for the government has threatened, you know, to SEIZE the steel plants if their owners refuse to meet the terms laid down by the government for settling the strike. In England, nationalizing of steel and other industries followed a vigorous political campaign in which NATIONALIZATION was frankly and admittedly the Issue. There the people deliberately CHOSE SOCIALISM by their bal lots. Here socialism is CREEPING UP ON BY STEALTH. Our federal government alrady holds the rail roads and has held tbem for a long time. By this time next week, it may hold the steel industry. That would be a long step toward socialism and yet the American people have NEVER signified by their votes in an election in which that was frankly the issue that tney want socialism. Here in the West, the federal government already owns approx imately half of our total land area. In the frightening Santa Margarita case down in Southern California, it is reaching for ownership of the WATER, without which ALL of our land would be valueless. The federal government already has seized the railroads. It is threatening now to seize the steel industry. What industry will be the NEXT to be seized? I, for one, don't like the trend. It scares me. The word "Yankee" was first applied by the Dutch to a shrewd, tricky fellow, according to a gen erally accepted version of its origin. Fish And Floods Or Action That Could Wipe Out Both, Issue On Hell's Canyon Dam ' . By JOHN KAMES WASHINGTON (AP) Is it better to have fish and floods or to take action that could eliminate both. That question-always a controversial one-probably will come up when House Interior subcommitte resumes hear ings in May or June on a bill to authorize federal construc tion of the Hells Canyon Dam in the Snake River. Indians, sports fishermen and commercial fishers always ques tion any proposal to build dams on Northwest rivers where salmon spawn. They maintain that many dams cut off salmon runs to spawning grounds. . An engineer testified Thursday, shortly before the week-long hear ing recessed, that the Hells Canyon site on the Idaho-Oregon border isn't the best for power productoin and tlood control. Consulting engineer Holland Houston of Olympia, Wash., said dams at several other sites would be more effective. He said five dams in the Snake and one in Hie north fork of the Clearwater, a Snake tributary, could be built for 390 million dol lars, which would be the approxi mate price of Hells Canyon and a necessary power transmission line. Opposite Testimony But others say only at Hells Canyon can engineers raise a dam that won't block salmon on their way to spawn. The six dams would produce more power than Hells Canyon and do more to control floods far down stream in the Columbia, Houston said. ' The Idaho Power Co. wants to build dams at the five Snake River sites, which would be flooded1 by the Hells Canyon project. The Clearwater project, Kooskia Dam, has been approved by gov ernment engineers in their long range development program for the Columbia and its tributaries. Among other dams which Hous ton rated as better than Hells Can yon from a flood control standpoint is Nez Perce, below the juncture of the Snake and Salmon Rivers. Nez Pierce also Is In the govern ment's comprehensive development plan, which would cost several bil lion dollars. Houston said these dams would be better because the Salmon and Clearwater Rivers carry more flood waters than the Snake, which is depleted by irrigation. Another Substitute Advlitd Sen. Dworshak (R.Idaho), has suggested still another substitute for Hells Canyon. He wants the committee to consider Mountain Sheep Dam, above the confluence of the Snake and Salmon Rivers. Dworshak said Mountain Sheep Dam, a halfbilhon dollar job, would generate more power than Hells Canyon. When they return to the hearing for questioning by committee mem Puppet Shows At Camas Valley Successful By JEAN YODER The puppet movies shown at Ca mas Valley Methodist Church April 2 by their originators Mabel and Les Beaton played to a capac ity crowd. . Mabel Beaton, formerly Mabel Brown of Coos Bay, introduced each picture while her husband superin tended the work at the projector. Irwin Thrush of Camas Valley ran the projector. j At the reception following the pictures, many of the Camas Val I ley people met Mr. and Mrs. Beat-1 on, .who live In Rye, N.Y. and were visiting relatives in the Valley. Mrs. Beaton was particulary inter ested in seeing the new crop of cousins, many of them among the children in the front rows. ' ! An offering for the Camas Valley i Church was collected. Mr. and Mrs. j Beaton donated their time and the use of the films. j Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bertraw, 1 Camas Valley News Briaf: visited the Ernest Booth family Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Mrs. Booth plans to return i to fcugene with the Bertraws tor a visit. Senate Payroll Publicity Sought By Sen. Morse WASHINGTON M Senators got advance notice Saturday they soon will be asked to reopen their own Senate office payrolls for public inspection. Sen. Morse (R.-Ore.l. told a re porter he will offer a floor amend ment to the annual congressional appropriation bill aimed at full dis closure. 'The official Senate payrolls should be ooen to voters because they supply the funds," Morse said. "They have a right to know who Is employed and what they are paid by each senator." The official payrolls of all House members now are open to inspec tion by the public and reporters, but this information has been de nied by Senate officials since 1947. Morse and a few other lawmak ers have chided the Senate for in vestigating almost everybody else, in and out of government, and then dropping an iron curtain over their own offices. Public Suspicion Growing "This and other moves could do much to remove the growing pub lic suspicion that some few offi cials are not living up to ethical standards on public affairs," Morse said. Morse said he will offer a rider to the Senate money bill requiring that none of the funds be used un less Senate officials keep a public record constantly available on names and salaries of persons get ting the funds. , Morse would go even further by requiring public financial disclos ures by members of Congress and all other government officials earn ing $10,000 or more a year. bers, government witnesses cer tainly will try to disprove the testi mony of Houston, which was well received by the congressmen. They will present testimony aim eJ at proving their contention that Hells Canyon is the ideal site for And the fish problem, long a hot one in the Pacific Northwest, is a power and flood control dam. expected to arise as a sidelight to the main issue. Fish Safety At Issua Indians and other fishery inter ests have protested the building of dams which hinder or block the an nual movement of salmon swim ming upstream to spawn. One talking point for Hells Can yon is that facilities to carry the Snake River's small salmon runs over the dam could be built for five million dollars. A dam at Nez Perce would block off important spawning areas in the Salmon River. One at Mountain Sheep would keep salmon out of the Imnaha River, a Snake tribu tary that is downstream from Heil Canyon but upstream from Moun tain Sheep. Kosskia Dam also would ad versely affect fish spawning, its opponents claim. Government officials say that ways will be found to get fish over its dams as they are built Mean while they apparently are sched uling projects so those which would do the least amoiyit of harm to fisTi are to be erected first. V. Bus TRAILWAY THERE'S NO INTERRUPTION iN TRAILWAYS BUS SERVICE! 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