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4 Tho News-Review, Roseburg, Ore.-Thurs., May 1, 1952
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ROAD ISSUE
Charles V. Stanton
The Douglas County Court, with tha approval of the
budget committee, has agreed to place a "substantial" sum in
a sinking fund for the eventual construction of a road con
necting Sutherlin-Oakland with the North Umpqua Highway.
We hope that by "substantial" the court means, as we
believe it does, enough money to permit construction when
once begun, to be pushed to earliest possible completion.
We are not overly concerned with the route to be cho
sen, providing it is one giving the Sutherlin-Oakland commu
nity reasonable opportunity for competition in transporta
tion of timber from the North Umpqua region. It will be
necessary to make exhaustive engineering studies before
any route is adopted. Such studies must take into consid
eration not only such things as grade, curvature, distance,
etc., but also include comparative cost, greatest benefits to
the greatest number of people, improvement of land values
and general rather than special usage. All these factors
must be carefully balanced in making a decision. Time
will be consumed in getting essential data. Patience should
be exercised while the court seeks to determine this site for
the road.
Court Shows Good Faith
The road issue has been a hot potato for several months.
Sutherlin-Oakland sponsors were insistent upon the so-called
"Short Route" while the County Court proposed the "River
Route."
The conflict in opinion became heated. We imagine the
members of the Court felt they were being pushed around
and, perhaps, grew a bit resentful. But sponsors came for
ward with a more conciliatory program. Now it is found
that a compromise route may offer advantages superior to
cither of the two original proposals. With tolerance shown
by both sides, the controversy now appears to have been
settled to the satisfaction of everyone, and the Court has
shown its good faith in setting up a sinking fund to be. used
in getting work started after engineering has been com
pleted. Perhaps we are being mellowed by old age, but it seems
to us the practice of pushing other people around is becom
ing a national pastime. In a period of pressures, emergen
cies and crises, people appear to be growing more intoler
ant and impatient. We want our own way ; and we want
1 it now, or else ! We organize pressure groups. If we meet
with resistance, we start pouring on the heat. We strike
sparks by creating friction.
Maybe it has always been this way. Perhaps we're get
ting older and valuo tolerance more than in our younger
years. But just as both sides found satisfaction in determi
nation of a local road controversy once the heat was off, we
believe that a great many of our problems and conflicts
could be easily solved if we would approach them with more
tolerance, patience and fairness.
DAYLIGHT TIME MESS
Oregon's time schedule is in a mess. We passed a fool
ish and impossible state law. It was supposed to provide
uniform time. All it did was put the governor in the posi
tion of making a decision unpopular to approximately one
half the population, no matter what he did.
There can be no denying the right of industry and busi
ness to advance operations an hour if they so desire. There
can be no quarrel with persons adopting fast time for their
own particular purposes. On the other hand, those who
want their operations on standard time have equal right to
follow their individual desires. But the two are certain to
come in conflict, particularly where some business houses
follow one practice, while others refuse to follow suit. And,
to top it all off, we have conflicts in radio and transporta
tion schedules, interstate transactions, etc.
We are glad to observe that advocates of daylight sav
ing time who, at first, were extremely critical of Governor
McKay's decision, have cooled off and now realize the spot
the governor was in. No governor should ever be placed
in such an untenable position. Oregon should promptly get
rid of its freak law and endeavor to substitute something
more workable and satisfactory, although how anything
satisfactory can be worked out of the dispute on time
changing is beyond us.
mi
Fromny
"We, of the Douglas County His
torical Committee, need dates and
facts, as wrli as human interest
stories of the various communities
in order to complete the narrative
for the pageant. Also I am doing
scripts in regard to the same for
KRXL. The Scoltsburg Story was
aired April 17 at 2 p.m. Now I am
working on a script on Elkton. and
one on Drain. Could you help me
compile some facts? History on
our great county is sadly larking.
Any material you have on hand
concerning this area, or any you
can gather from your neighbors,
would be greatly appreciated."
This request for help in tin com
ing Pageant came from Mrs.
f.Stf SwS V I
George Bacher of Winston. The ad
dress of the Douglas County Cen
tennial Committee, says the bright
red and green stationery, is P. 0.
Box 1280, Roseburg. Any reader
who has anything of interest will
find, I am sjre, a welcoming hand
to accept it. It would be a pleasure,
of course, to do as I have al
ways done during the years this
column has been in the News-Review
anything I personally can
EDWIN L KNAPP
Manager
RESOLVED
LENDING
BASKET
do to capture In print some of the
interesting little 'human interest'
stories of the "old days" with the
hope that they will find some more
permanent form.
Because I live now on highway
.18. and because 1 love the Umpqua
highway above any other 1 have
ever known, items concerning the
area are of special interest to me,
but anything about Douglas county
anywhere has been welcomed in
this column and used whenever
possible. I regret that I have no
material "on hand." Because I do
not have the car to use during the
day many things have gone un
done which I have wanted to do,
such as accepting many invitations
to visit "old timers," or rather
their present day representative
and see some of the interesting old
souvenirs ot me past,
That Is why I especially appre
ciate the callers who are kind
enough to drop in and visit a
while about the "old clays" as they
remember them, or tell the stories
they remember their parents and
grandparents telling.
Suspended Animation
Congress Chat
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH,
M. C, 4th Oregon District
In the avalanche of words which
the Presidential seizure of the steel
plants touched off, facts have been
obscured and the deadly implica
tions of the act have been gen
erally overlooked.
It is the first time in our history
that a President has ignored and
refused to administer a specific
law, choosing instead to issue an
executive order based only on un
defined "inherent" powers of the
President.
When Congress passed the "La
bor Management Relations Act of
1947" it anticipated the situation
which developed in the steel in
dustry several weeks ago. Section
206 of the act begins: "Whenever
In the opinion of the President of
th United States, a threatened or
actual strike or lock-out affecting
an entire industry or a substan
tial part thereof engaged in trade,
commerce, transportation, trans
mission, or communication among
the several States or with foreign
nations, or engaged in the produc
tion of goods for commerce, will, if
permitted to occur or to continue,
imperil the national health or safe
ty, ho may. . . " and thereafter
the full legal procedure for meet
ing the situation without a work
stoppage is carefully spelled out
In the law. The President has used
these provisions of law successfully
at least twelve times previously.
He could and should have used
this law this time.
Why did Truman go outside the
law? That is the serious question.
I heard his explanation given in
his radio speech but it was no
explanation or reason for his ac
tion ft all. He said in effect that
he did not use the law which re
quires a total of 80 days waiting
time because the dispute had al
ready been i;oing on more than
1(H) days. That fact had nothing
to da with the application of the
law.
Why, then, DID the President
Ignore a law passed by Congress
and proven by use? Why did he
make his own law? I think the ob
vious answer is that he wants to
establish his way AS THE LAW!
Proceedings have been started
which will test the President's or
der in the courts. If the Supreme
Court upholds his order, the
broadest possible powers will be
thereby vesting in the President
as constitutional. That situation
could only be changed hy a con
stitutional amendment. The Con
gress could not correct it by law.
!f and when the Court ratifies
such broad constitutional powers
we will then be in almost exactly
the same position Germany and
the German Roischtag faced when
Hitler became the dictator of Ger
many by issuing a series of exec
utive orders which the German
constitution gave him the power
to do.
Am I merely seeing bogies? Am
I TOO agitated by the danger pre
sented in the possibilities outlined
above? 1 do not think so, and here
is wl : Although I was worried by
the seizure order, its full meaning
did not strike home until a few-
days later when the President, in
reply to a direct question as to
whether or not he could sene
newspapers and radio stations.
j clearly indicated that he considrr-
-.1 h. H,H ...h ,,. r if IN HIS
OPINION such action was neces
sary for the good of the country.
He made this answer in spite of
the fact that such an act is spe
cifically barred by the Constitu
tion. Note the reference to "his opin
ion." The essence of our free sys
tem of government is government
by laws written by the elected rep
resentatives of the people. We can-,
not tolerate government hy opinion
or perscil edict. We revolted from
that Ion ; g.
The Congress should now act to
crack down on the attitude of
mind so clearly revealed by Mr.
Truman. Such a tendency toward
WASHINGTON - The United States Senate has a de
lightful opportunity to save us taxpayers a lot of grief be
tween now and next March.
The House of Representatives has done so, in slicing
more than six billion dollars from the President's requests
for funds for operation of various government agencies dur
ing the 1953 fiscal year, which starts next July 1.
Unfortunately, however, the Sen
ate usually reverses action taken
by the House on spending bills
and then, in conference, browbeats
House members into accepting
Senate wishes. One hope in 1952
may be different: Senator Joseph
C. O'Mahoney, the Whoming
Democrat who inthe past seldom
interfered with White House spend
ing demands, recently jarred his
colleagues by stating that he might
look kindly on budget trimming
this session. Of course, this could
be no more than a soothing syrup
for the consumption of voters and
an effort to soften up House mem
bers who later will confer with
the Senate on the spending bills.
Of unusual interest in Congress
this year, also, is the action of the
Housj! in not only accepting House
Appropriations Committee budget
cuts, but in heaping further cuts
on top of them. This is air exact
reversal of normal procedure. Us
ually, appropriations committee
members have done the trimming
in a normal fashion and then had
to endure a day or two of torture
while House members some with
particular local projects in mind
and some simply blatant adminis
tration "yes-men" ganged up to
restore most of the cuts.
A compilation of House action
this session reveals an historic pre-IP'aycd by the House of Represen
cedent in this respect historic atitat'VPS- H's a sure lhinS that the
least, insofar as the past 20 years 1 bureaucrats and their boss in the
are concerned. For intance:
A total of $3,890,000 more was
sliced off the Treasury-Post Office
appropriations committee below
the budget requests.
Even more unusual, few House
members argued with a $172,829,
450 slash effected by the commit
tee in State, Commerce and Jus
tice Department budgets, and. in
fact added a $225,998,578 addition
al cut of their own once the bill
reached the floor. This record 18.1
percent reduction in this spending
bill must have caused many an
old-hand Fair Dealer a grimace
of pain. It was rank heresy in
days gone by to even suggest a 1
percent cut of anything involving
appropriations, including funds for
woodland dancers to keep defense
workers happy.
Almost untouchable, in the past,
have been Interior Department
funds. This tight little island of po
litical savvy usually gets what it
wants because it has something
for almost every congressman by
way of projects ranging in size
from farm ponds to gigantic pow
er and irrigation projects.
mis year, the House Appropna-
tions Committee knocked of $197.. Roman Catholics on the jury be
324,700, a cut of 21.3 percent, from i cause of the church's stand again.;!
the Interior Department monev re-! abortions. The state contended that
quest. The politically hep secret-
iii.v in interior, uscar Chapman,
barely batted an eyelash He had
been through this before. The
House as a whole would take care
government by men rathr than
government by law should be dealt
with immediately. These are the
reasons why I have publicly stat
ed that the Congress should con
sider impeachment proceedings.
Resolutions for this purpose, which
I shall support, have been intro
duced in the House of Representatives.
of this effort of insolence. But the
impossible happened, with the
House adding to Interior's pain by
slicing another $6,186,510 from the
spending bill. The final cut was
22.3 percent.
Defense spending took the big
gest cut in both the appropriation
committee and the House as a
whole. The cut was $4,417,945,216.
And, right or wrong, this is the
saving that the Senate will prob
ably leave alone. It probably will,
if it follows a normal pattern, re
restore some or all of the economy
cuts made by the House in non
military spending. But there is far
less politics in military spending;
far fewer votes to lose if a regi
ment of tanks or a squadron of
airplanes is knocked out of the
budget.
If the Senate really wants econ
omy it will accept the House cuts
in non-military agencies of the
government. This where the waste
is gigantic, the boondoggling fright
ful and the politics free wheeling.
Instead of shrinking since the war.
most non - military agencies of
the government have continued to
grow under the Fair Deal. It's
about time the Senate adopted
some of the common sense dis-
White House never will.
Abortion Case
Puts 7 On Trial
At Portland
PORTLAND im Questioning of
prospective jurors continued here
Tuesday as the trial of Dr. Ruth
Barnett and her employes went
into its second day. They are ac
cused of maintaining an establish
ment where an abortion was per-,
formed.
Ruth Barnett is a Portland na
turopath. Four of her former em
ployes are on trial with her.
All five also are under grand
jury indictment on charges of
manslaughter by abortion. They
and nine others were arrested in
raids on a number of Portland
clinics last summer.
Tuesday's jury selection was
slowed by arguments over the re
ligious faith of prospective jurors.
Defense attorneys did not want
i 10 question a man's religion as a
basis for jury dutv was a violation
of the state constitution and the
American concept of justice.
Circuit Judge Martin V. Haw
king ruled that the defense attor
neys could not directly ask a juror
if he was a Roman Catholic. A
question regarding membership in
"organizations" which oppose
abortions was permitted.
Facing trial with Mrs. Barnett
are H C. Weigar, a chiropractor,
I tdith cigar, his wife, Billve Hill
I man, a nurse, and Mary Kimsey,
I Mrs. Barnett's housekeeper.
Scores Truman, Morse
In Steel Controversy
ROSEBURG Mr. Truman,
without any semblance of legal au
thority, has, in a high-handed man
ner, seized the private property of
all of the steel companies of the
United States. He claims to have
"inherent power," whatever that
may mean, for such action.
Senator Morse, in keeping with
his course of always following the
Democratic-Labor party line, says
that he agrees with Truman and
levels a demagogic blast at the
steel companies' profits.
Lawyers tell me that the con
stitution of the United States
grants to the federal government
and its officers only such powers
as are specifically set forth there
in. The tenth amendment says
that the powers not delegated to
the federal government are re
served to the states and the people.
Sections 2 and 3 of Article II of the
constitution set forth the powers of
the President. There is nothing in
either of them authorizing the tak
ing over of any private property
or business. Truman and Morse
must have gotten their idea of
"inherent power" from Roose
velt, who had no regard whatso
ever for the constitution except as
it served his selfish purposes in his
attempt to become a dictator.
Altho Morse claims to be a law-
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Elkfon -
By MRS. GRACE SAWYERS
"The Most Unforgettable Char
acter Jesus Ever Met" will be the
sermon theme at the Methodist
Church in Elkton Sunday morning.
The public is invited. The Rev.
Mr. Hamilton will read one of his
original poems on the theme.
Rev. W. J. Hamilton, Lyl'e Cle
mo, Margaret Price, Noreen
Compton and Nancy Fisher visit
ed Wesley Foundation House on
the University campus Sunday eve
ning. yer, he has never tried a case in
court. Attorneys tell me he didn't
even take the bar examination his
students were required to take
when he was dean of the Univers
ity of Oregon law school, but man
aged to obtain enough influence to
sneak in the back door. His opin
ion on the question of "inherent
powers" would be worthless.
Why doesn't Morse quit sailing
under false colors and join up with
the Democratic-Labor party, with
which he continually votes and to
which he gives his unswerving al
legiance. After continually voting
with the Democratic-Labor Party,
he has the nerve to ask the Repub
lican party to send him to its na
tional convention to help select a
nominee for president. Instead, the
Republican party should throw
him out,
GEORGE DAVIS
Roseburg, Oregon
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Camas Volley Play To
Come To Vet Hospital
Camas Valley High School will
take the play "Tobaccy Road" to
the Veteran's Facilities in Rose
burg, Saturday, May 3, according
to director Mrs. Everett Moody.
The play will be presented as
part of the Sally Hilt show sched
uled for that evening. Students in
i the cast are Dolories Parret, La
Iwanda Duncan, Wilson Roberts,
A1 Young. Billy Dunham and Wil
ma Thrush. The one act play i3
a hillbilly burlesque.
Indian Girl Will Reign
At Pendleton Round-Up
rtKULi lunir Lan uonner,
19. a direct descendant of the
famed Nez Perce Indian Chief
Joseph, will be queen of the Sept.
11-13 Pendleton Round-Up.
Miss Conner, a graduate of
Pendleton High School and sopho
more at Willamette University,
was chosen at Tuesday night's
wind-up of the three-day Root
Festival on the Umatilla Reserva
tion. Judges named by the Round
Up Association made the selection.
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