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4 Th Newi-RiWew, Roieburg, Ore.- Tuei., April 29, 1 952 Publishtd Doily Eictpt Sunday by tht News-Review Company, Inc. BnltMtl iteund elm mtttr Mmj 7, !, l Ih fatt (fle Eoaobutf. Orrfon, ndar cl ( Marcb X, 1I7S CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L KNAPP Editor Monafftr Mombtr of the AiioctaUd Pmi, Oregon Newtpopor Publithort Association, tho Audit Bureau of Cinculotioni BertitDll by WF8T-HOI.MDAY CO, INC., officii In New Trk, Ckcg: Sftn Francises. Lot An ft let, flaittla, Porlliod. 81. Lila SUBSCRIPTION RATKS In Ofegoii By Mall Per Ytar. 1I.W; alx monlbi, IS.tS; thrto monlbi, Br Nwi-Belew Carrier Per Year, $11.0 (In V nce. Itn than oni year, prr mantb, ll.W. Oaliid Oregon By Mall Par Vr. 111-00; tlx ffiontbi, f&.&0; Ihret, menlfae, fil.OO. SINGING FOR SERVICE , Charles V. Stanton The Roseburg Chapter of the Society for the Preser vation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America is deserving of commendation for a public serv ice in bringing to this city its annual Parade. This society is a unique group. Its membership is numbered in the tens of thousands. It embraces all walks of life and all ages. Its by-laws permit no profits. It is organized for the self-interest of its members and the spreading of good cheer, through the medium of music, to the general public. Perhaps we are prejudiced toward SPEBSQSA be cause we so thoroughly enjoy the singing of male quartets and choruses. Tastes in music differ, but the attendance at Saturday night's Parade, and the demonstrated pleasure of the audience, proved that we have a lot of company in our appreciation of that particular form of music. The public, however, sees only a small part of the pro gram of this unique organization and only the minor part. Could the public have been present at the "Afterglow," the get-together following the concert, and the Sunday morn- ing breakfast, staged by the Roseburg Chapter for the visiting group, it could well understand why the society has grown by leaps find bounds until it now reaches into cities, towns and rural communities throughout the nation. Sing For Own Pleasure Persons attending Saturday night's concert had good reason to believe that the singers had exhausted themselves physically and would have nothing left in their repertoires. But a visit after the show to the Umpqua Hotel, where the groups were headquartered, would have furnished contrary proof. Getting together in their hotel rooms, the singers entertained themselves for hours. Then, still going strong, they were back at their music making at the breakfast session. "Barbershoppers" sing because they like to sing. They sing for their own pleasure. And, because they get so much fun for themselves, they like to spread some of that joy to the general public, achieving that purpose by their Parades. But in their local communities they perform an even greater public service, for they are always ready to con tribute their singing as a part of the entertainment at all sorts of public meetings, a service which every program chairman, as well as audiences, can appreciate. The Klamath Falls , Chapter, for instance, left Rose burg early Sunday to give' a concert for the veterans at Camp White, Medford. Profit Toking Prohibited The society's rules prohibit profits from public appear ances. The choruses and quartets appearing in Roseburg Saturday received only their expenses. The Klamath Falls group even paid for its own transportation, All profits from the show here went to the Knights of Pythias Girls Drum Corps. . . . . . . One thing that impressed everyone attending the Parade was the wide range in age of participating singers. From Eugene came a group of 'teen-agers, a high school quartet of particularly sweet voiced singers who, we ex pect, will soon be a top outfit if they continue to work at it. In other groups were grey-haired men from all walks of life. The Parade furnished an excellent example of the common influence of music. The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America is truly a dem ocratic organization. It is performing a most valuable pub lic service. The Roseburg Chapter members should feel proud of their membership and their achievement. "Is your telephone off the hook? asked Mrs. Neighbor. Airs. Illtwuns was sure it wasn't bul she looked anyway. And discovered that the cord had slipped under the receiver pnoufih to make the same effect. Kir. iiitwuns had used the 'phone when he was home for lunch. "1 could hear you and Mr. Hituuns talking, and your clock chime. I was trying to net the operator, explained Mrs. Neighbor, laughing it Mrs. Bituuns expression. "Good heavens! Heard us talk ing!! Mrs. Bitnuns tried to recall just what she and Algernon had been talking about. "I heard Mr. Bituuns ask If he had a clean shirt, ntl you told him the green one was clean, and there was a while one, too. Mrs. Neighbor was enjoying this. "And I heard you say you had wished for a bis clothes hamper ever since you wcro married." How utterly absurd that must have sounded to anyone who didn't . know what was back of the re mark. Mrs. Bitwuns had been ru minating about problems In other houses. . .the bathrooms loo small for a hamper and the hampers built in that would smell damp; and the Sreen socks that had run when a usband chucked a wet towel in top of them In the hamper. . . . hampers! Now she had a whacking big hamper in the hall, too far for a husband to bother to cany a wet towel! "And I heard you say, contin ued Mrs. Neighbor, happily, "that this house had just about every thing you had ever wanted except a few trees, and you guessed if you stayed here a few years you would have the trees, too." EIIDIMG BASKET What woman does not accumu late through the years if she has lived in a succession of houses a mental list of the things she would like in a house if ever in this world she should bo able to start from tho ground up! However Mr. Bit wuns was distressed to think peo ple on the line might have been in convenienced (and entertained) by their 'phone bein" open. And she kept thinking - well what would YOU have kept thinking If It had been your telephone that was off the hook? Under-18 Ban Placed On Packing Plant Jobs SAl.EM Lfl Several jobs in meat parking plants will be closed to children under 18 years old beginning May 8. State Labor Com missioner V. E. Kimsey said Mon day. The order was issued by the U. S Department of Labor, whose orders are enforced by Kimsey. The prohibited jobs include those on the killing floor, in hide and cur ing cellars, all boning operations, operation of certain power-driven meat processing machines; push ing, dropping, handlifting or carry ing carcasses; recovery of lards and oils; and tankage or inedible rendering of dead animals. Kimsey said, however, that the majority of meat parking jobs still will be open to youths. He said that two years ago, a 15-year-old Salem boy lost an arm in the sausage machina of a whole- sal meat company. 91 'Keeps Looking Better and Better for Me' Fulton lewis Jr. I Vfr L-J WASHINGTON Former President Herbert Hoover's second volume of memoirs is on the bookstands and it should be required reading for all the footloose bureaucrats mean dering around Washington this spring. Dealing with his years as a cab inet officer and as president, Mr. Hoover's book details with good humor the daily clash of person alities who seemed In those years to operate the nations government with far less fair-brained activity than occurs today. And it might be added at this point that despite the propaganda-lacing Mr. Hoover un derwent, the problems he dealt with were of no less Importance, or fewer in number, than those confronting the present administra tion. Now, however, each interna tional exchange, each administra tion contact with Congress is a crisis, entailing the mobilization of administration mouthpieces and press agents to rally the nation to another phony emergency. In recommending the Hoover memoirs to Washington bureau crats, I particularly have in mind tho Moscow stooges and economic planners who have convinced a new generation of Americans that they and they alone are deft and decisive in handling interialion.il relations. The fact is, however, tha Mr. Hoover handled the Soviet union, as an example with all the patience and firmness that Secre tary of State Dean Achcson and others are prattling about today. The difference, of course, Is that Mr. Hoover was not outsmarted at every turn in the process. In 1921, just as during World War 11, We were feeding, clothing and supplying machinery to the Russians and just as during and since World War II, the Russians in the ItiaVs infiltrated the conn yty and tried to lake over con trol of our efforts. The difference is that today's Washington bu reacrats let themwere even an ximis for the Russians to do so. It was different under Mr. Hoover's direction. The Russians were slap- fied Into a corner where they be onged. For instance, In 1921 the Ameri can people were not too enthusiast ic about saving starving Commun ists, but various religious and gov ernmental organizations could not resist the appeal for food from starving children whoever they were. Mr. Hoover sought a coord ination of Russian relief efforts governmontal and religious. He didn't trust the Muscovites. But that didn't stop them from sending a Communist agent to Washington named Dubrowsky, who was in structed to disrupt church and gov ernment relief efforts. The Com munists set up their own relief agency and started a drive for funds. Mr. Hoover in his book has the following pungent comment on the situation: "There was no assurance of hon est expenditure and I advised the public lo support either us or some one of the religious bodies cooper ating with us. At once 1 came under the usual rain of left-wing abuse. My critics, if I may use so mild a word, included many 'liberals,' Years afterwards, the Dies Com mittee unearthed the fact that the funds raised by this Communist drive, amounting to more than a million dollarr, was. with the ap IVAN EDWARDS lit Class Construction Contracting or Time and Material Ph. 3-7493 1251 Harrison proval of the Soviet Government largely spent on Communist propa ganda in the . United Slates again demonstrating the ethics of the left wing and its devotoin to the common man." Mr. Hoover notes, as an aside, that the Ameri can director of the Red drive for control was later executed for his failure. Also, for the benefit of those with short memories, it is recalled in Mr. Hoover's writings that his administration established the good neighbor policy towards bouth America that later paid large divi dends during World War II. He al so placed government emphasis on international conferences six be tween 1928 and 1932 at which many an aultiinatum was delivered to foreign governments bent on ter ritorial encroachment. By compar ison. Acheson's wrist slapping notes today read like protests from the entertainment chairman of a fra ternal lodge. The Hoover administration ever since, however, has been labeled "isolationist, and these efforts, as well as Mr. Hoover's domestic re forms, have been adopted by suc cessive administrations as original ideas. Uf this, Mr. Hoover does not complain, but simply points to the record. President Truman, as he so fre quently pointed out in his new book, "Mr. President,"-alludes to the crushing burden of his office today. Mr. Hoover was mighty busy, also, his memoirs reveal, and what he accomplished was done with con siderably less fuss and almost no complaining. By comparison, his perception of his chores as Presi dent more than ever leave many things to be desired in current op erations. The major difference is that Mr. Hoover saw his emergen cies when they were shadows on the horizon. The present procedure is to wait until the roof falls in and then start Issuing directives, no two of which ever seem to coincide. Hear Fullon Lexvis Daily On KRXR, 9:15 P.M. Dr, . THAT HIS OFFICE BUILDING WILL BE CLOSED AFTER MAY Sincere thanks and appreciation is hereby expressed to the many office patrons, and friends, who have recom mended our services to others thru twenty-two and one half years. All, office equipment is being moved to our home 356 LELAND AVENUE about Vi mile East of Court House-over East Douglas St. hill. Within a few weeks rooms will be made ready for patients in our home, and treatments given . Tuesdays -Thursdays -Saturdays 356 Leland Avenue In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) In a 364-day year, It's somewhat I more than half a billion dollars which is another way of saying it's better than a billion dollars every j two years. Our present federal ad ministration proposes a budget of 85 billion dollars IN ONE YEAR. This is the point: Our present federal GOVERN MENT OF SPENDERS tosses bil lions around as carelessly as our federal governments of only a few decades ago would have bandied PENNIES. I think it's high time for us to get a federal government that has more respect for a billion dollars. ; From Ottawa, Canada: Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard, flew home to The Netherlands Saturday night after a four-week tour of the United States and Canada. Was Juliana's trip a good Idea? I think so. She seems a semsible woman and Bernhard appears to be a level-headed consort. In her four weeks over here, she had time to see common, ordinary Ameri cans (Canadians are North Amer icans, loo, you know) in action. I'll bet she found them QUITE DIF FERENT from the OFFICIAL Americans that foreigners normal ly meet. I'll bet she goes home with a new and better and pleasanter and more reassuring impression of America and I'll bet also she goes home LIKING AMERICANS BET TER. It's too bad more foreigners can't get over here oftener and stay long enough to know the peo ple that are the REAL America. For that matter, it's too bad we can't get abroad often enough and stay long enough to get to know the REAL people of other coun tries. If we could, I'll bet we'd quit thinking of them as "foreign ers." From Washington: Figured in MINUTES, here is the time needed in each country to earn enough to buy one pound of each of the following products: La Russia Tea Beef Butter Potatoes Bread 49 31 30 2 860 132 270 S8 14 Something to think about: In Communist Russia, the gov ernment for the past three decades has been handling ALL LABOR MATTERS, including rates of pay, which the government sets, and strikes. WHICH THE GOVERN MENT OF RUSSIA DOESN't PER MIT. The table shows rather startling ly what happens to labor when GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING. NOTICE is hereby given to the many patrons and friends of R. L. Dunn IN THE MASONIC 1st. Phone 3-6019 Craft Suspected WASHINGTON Wl Congression al investigators said Friday they have uncovered new evidence of "improper relationships between higb rinklng government officials" and companies selling spare auto motive parts to the government. A House Expenditures subcom mittee report did not mention de tails involving high - ranking of ficials. But it cited increased govern ment business acquired by one company after employing a former ordnance inspector and another which hired a retired Army cap tain. It was learned that the group headed by Rep. Hardy (O.-Va.) is considering further action on a number of other cases. Subcommittee disclosures some time ago resulted in the removal of Brig. Gen. David J. Crawford as commander of the tank - auto motive center in Detroit and Col. Shirley W. Mcllwain as command er of the Rossford Arsenal. Crawford was sent to Turkey as a colonel after being accused of ac cepting favors from firms doing business with the ordnance cen ter. Friday's report recommended that the Federal Trade Commis sion thoroughly study the "legal ity" of trade practices in the auto mobile industry and take action if they are considered in restraint of trade. Competition Lacking The report specifically criticized the lack of competition in bidding for government contracts and the custom of buying parts through companies assembling vehicles in stead of those originally manufac turing the parts. Some parts mak- LAUREL LODGE NO. 13 A. F. I A. M. Roieburg, Oregon SPECIAL MEETING Wednesday, April 30, 7 P.M. Work in M.M. Degree Visiting Brothers Welcome W. M. Durward Owens See. William C. Woods ikit i 21 ri, v V3 ffc He will make every effort to bring the office closer to of the Clerk. ECONOMICAL, Paid Politicol Advertisement Among 23 cars entered in standard classifications in the 1952 Mobilgas Economy Run... finished P and 1 in aetata ?1 l 2SSQ I tBG""- IN rh. 1952 Mobilgas Economy Run, Studebaker successfully defended I its reputation for stand-out gasoline mileage over a tortuous 1415 mile course from Los Angeles, via Mojave Desert, Grand Canyon and SaH Lake City to Sun Valley, Idaho, at speeds averaging more than 40 miles per hour. The Studebakers, piloted by experienced drivers under A. A. A. Contest Board rules, made operating economy history. Each Studebaker had overdrive, optional at extra cost and used regular, not premium, gas. See your Studebaker dealer now. KEEL MOTOR CO. 443 NORTH JACKSON In Govt. Buying Of ers bid hich to avoid getting con tracts it said. 'RpDetitive costs and pyramid ed profits" the report said cost the government "untold Millions of dollars" extra in buying spare parts totalling around one billion dollars a year. It cited one case in wmcn ine Studebaker company made cylnid er heads for $4.04 apiece but the government paid $18.35 for them after the parts had passed through three middlemen. You Wanted IN SPilEQ SKlli Uhd ...Here They Are: WONDER COLORS NON-STREAKING DEEP COLORS WASHABLE BRIGHT COLORS FAST-DRYING NEUTRAL COLORS SCRUBBABLE LIGHT COLORS EASY-T0-APPIY GAY COLORS See Demonstrations of the V0NDER PAINT with the Famous 100 Latex Emulsion Base ELECT VICTOR J. MICELLI YOUR COUNTY CLERK HE OFFERS YOU THE BENEFIT OF: .' Over 30 years experience as an AUDITOR and an ADMINISTRATOR. He has been SUCCESSFUL in his own affairs and will use his ability to serve you. He believes that the PEOPLE, not some county offi cial, should select your new County Clerk. YOU WILL GET AN COMMON SENSE ADMINISTRATION. by Victor J. Micelli, 600 E. Washington, Roseburg, Oreg. CHAMPION. ..COMMANDER miSss por yfi Ion LOOK AT THESE SENSATIONAL STUDEBAKER GAS MILEAGES Auto Parts Tn another it said the Chrysler Corporation bought auto heaters from Tropic-Aire, Inc. for $33.74 apiece and sold them to the ov renment for $51.95 after adding "nothing to the heater but govern ment packaging." Chrysler spokes men testified the profit was only $1.45 apiece. The island of Man,v near England, was inhabited in early times by a people whospoke a spearate lan guage called Manx. ' More Colors those who need the services V - 8 PHONE 3-7422
