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4 Tli Newt-Review, RoMburf, Ore. Tues., May 6, 1952 Published Daily Exctpt Sunday by tkt News-Rviw Company, Inc. Cntarcl M-on cUm mtUcr Mr t-5 t tht pM fflaa t Roitburf, Oregoa, ander act mt March t, JI7I CHARLES V. STANTON Editor Mambar of tht As-ociarad Prats, Orafan Nawtpoaar Pwbliihtr Ato.iet.on, tha Audit Buraau af Circ-lattons -M-i-lt. WFBT-HOI.MDAT CO INC.. .fires in New T.rk. C-ieftf-, Ib Fran -lee. Log AngaUt, allla, Per , It. L..i. iUBSCRlTTIOW BATES la Or.n Br Hall Par Taar, ) m.nifci, ...H: hra raanlba, ft.TI. By New-JUvtew Carrier Par Taar. III.D (la nc.. I... than ana year, per mania, tl.2 Outalda Oragon By Mall Par Yaar. ll.Mi sis. maaltaa, SS.M: three, aaaalha, 91. M. . DELEGATES Charlei V. Stanton Republican voters, called upon to elect ten delegates:at large to the presidential nominating convention, will make their selection from a list of 50 candidates. Two dele gates will be chosen from the Fourth Congressional District, where 12 candidates seek election. Delegates from Oregon, except those who filed their candidacy by petition, are pledged to vote at the convention lor the candidates approved by Oregon voters. Six candi dates, reportedly favoring nomination of Senator Taft, filed by petition, invoking provisions of an obsolete law, and, there lore, are not required to respect the will of the voters. If the delegates find at the convention that th candi date winning the popular vote in Oregon cannot be nomin-i ated, they then are free, after using their best efforts to carry out the wishes of the state's voters, to support any other candidate. A political convention involves a great deal of manipu lation, trading, bargaining, compromising, etc. It is, therefore, good strategy on the part of the voters of a state to select candidates who have soma knowledge and experience in political matters and who can hold up their end in the "business" of the convention. There is no lack of good candidates in the Republican list. If a voter favors a particular candidate for president, he can find candidates for delegate sharing his opinion. List Well Divided The six candidates who filed by petition are reported to have taken this course to be free to vote for Senator Taft, regardless of the expression of voters. This is not to say, however, that they necessarily would not respect the majority wishes. But, if the convention failed to reach a decision in the first few ballots, they could be expected to throw their in fluence to Senator Taft. The six who filed by petition are Lowell C. Paget, Ore gon chairman for the Taft Committee; Robert A. Bennett, John R. Latourette Jr., Phil Metschan, a nephew of the de ceased Portland hotelman of the same name; Mrs. George T. Gerlinger, a veteran party worker, and Irving Rand. Dellmore Lessard of Portland, having filed by declaration, is pledged to vote the people's choice, but expresses prefer ence for MacArthur or Taft. The Eisenhower crowd has a long list of candidates, some expressing their preference in their ballot statements and others reported to be Kisenhower supporters. All are filed by declaration and therefore bound to follow the popular opinion in early balloting. In the event of no im mediate decision, they would doubtless turn to Eisenhower at the first opportunity. Those who state their preference are Frank E. Fowler Mark 0. Hatfield. Catherine Holt!!, J. 0. Johnson, Mrs. Charles E. Miller. Senator Wayne L. Morse, Gordon Orput, Talmadge F. Staley. Reportedly in the Eisenhower camp, but not stating their preference on the ballot, are Robert Or mond Case, Samuel H. Martin," E. Granville Maudsley, Wm. M. McAllister, Governor Douglas McKay, H. Clay Myers Jr., Alf 0. Nelson, Lamar Tooze. Candidates preferring MacArthur include F. E. Epton, Marion W. Epton, Douglas R. Gerow. Paul F. Mytinger de clares himself for Warren. District Candidate! Listed Delegates expressing no preference and not claimed by any group include Howard C. Bclton, Harvey S. Benson, G. Cyrus Bishop, Zylpha Zell Burns. Ralph P. Cowgill, U. G. Dubach, Robert A. Elliott, Albert M. Epperly, John H. Hall, Don Harmon, Joseph E. Harvey, Albert Holder, Rufus C. Holman, Graham Killam, A. W. Lafferty, James F Lonergan, John C. F. Merrifield, Merrill B. Moores, A. W. O'Connell, Charles L. Paine, William F. Patterson, Leslie M. Scott, Sid ney F. Woodbury. From 12 congressional District candidates, voters will elect two delegates. Seven are either avowed Eisenhower supporters or are claimed by the Eisenhower group. They include Ed G. Boehnke, Eugene, a veteran partv worker; Gene R. Brantley, Jackson County; George W. Hall, Myrtle Point publisher; Max M. Landon, Albany; A. A. Lausmann, Jackson County; 'Lars P. Peterson, Coos County; Senator William E. Walsh. Coos County. Eugene A. Springer. Roseburg creameryman, has ex pressed a personal preference for Taft. Richard Franklin Draper, Linn County, wants Warren or Morse. Those stat ing no preference and unclaimed by any group are Bereth J. Hopkins, Jackson County; Hallie Huntington, Lane County, and Estelle 0. Morrison, Linn County. All district candidates are filed by declaration and thereby bound to respect the popular vote in early balloting. $ aLa VX Ever since I finished reading Tearl Buck's "Tho Hidden flow er," I have wondered what the ef fect of It would be on the thousands of girls who rend it and are of Josul's race or a kindred one. And also I have wondered If it could be considered a fair picture of the treatment other oriental girls, coming here as brides or young mothers, could expect. I wondered if, perhaps, Nobuko foronle, wife of the Alhambra (Calif.) corporal, read the story and what effect it might have had on her? The story, on page 5 of Thurs day's News-Review (May 1), said that Nobuko had outlined for her self a "Madam Butterfly" de nouement to her love story, but the young husband who had more stamina, or more real love than the Virginian aristocrat In "The Hidden Flower" put It squarely EDWIN L KNAP Man-far CLASSIFIED IHDIHG BASKET tip to his townspeople: he wrote the Alhambra Post-Advocate. As a result seventy letters, plus an editorial, assured the 20-year old Filipino girl, of Japanese along with her husband and expect nothing to fear, to come right Okinawan ancestry, that she had a welcome. (After so much nnh. .licily they're likely to give her the Keys to the city) One letter sent to Mrs. Coronel by the newspaper read: . . ."You wil find Americans like every type you have known. Some will be intolerant, bigoted, unkind, even cruel, but you will find many, many more who will be the kind of people you will want Mary Ann (the 20-months old daughter of the Colonels) to know. People who liv,. by the Golden Rule, who know God made all individuals, regard less of nose, color of hair, eyes, Fulton Lewis Jr. WASHINGTON A major battle between the Federal Reserve Board and the nation's consumer credit dealers is about to land on the steps of Congress. The issue will be over continu ation of controls on retail credit buying of major durable goods, such as refrigerators, stoves, household furniture, and automo biles. Under current KRB rules a IS per cent down payment with a maximum 18-month payoff is re- quired for household goods. One- third down is required for auto- mohil. n,irchinB mobile purchasing, The National Foundation for Con sumer Credit is prepared to tell the House Banking and Currency Committee that FRB controls on credit buying are a fraud. This organization, composed of retail credit dealers of high repute in the business world, says there is an abundance of television sets, radios, bedding, furniture, glass ware, carpets and automobiles. The FRB, with 150 paid sleuths, is attempting to police credit buy ing in the nation, an impossible task with 1,000 times the 150-man force. And there are indications that even the FRB knows this since hints are being dropped daily that the reserve board of gover ors is willing to tell the congres sional committee thai it will settle for standby credit controls. Credit merchants consider this as much of a fraud as the con trols now actively imposed on the business deals. They Insist that standby controls would create even more confusion than exists at the present time. At least now, the argument goes, they know the requirements, if the FRB con vinces the House Banking Com mltee that standby rules are ncc essary, credit merchants maintain that nobody, least of all the con sumer, will know when now and higher down payment demands are going to be imposed. The basic argument against con tinuation of consumer credit con trols beyond June 30. their expira tion date under existing law. lies in retail sales statistics from across the nation. The National Foundation for Consumer Credit nH ecniinmist William J. Lhey- ney state that retail buying is lag ging and that merchants ana manufacturers are being forced to store household items in already overflowing warehouses. As an example. Cheyney says that already two and one-half mil lion refrigerala.-r are on hand in retail store outlets, a million more than is normally held. In addition the Industry is Beared to produce an estimated five and one half mil lion more this year, with pros pects doubtful of selling four mil lion new units. skin or size. When you arrive in America hold your head up be proud of what you have to offer this country in return for citizen ship." What a fine thing to have brought the problem right out into the open in advance of the young wife's coming. The townspeople cannot say thev lacked an oppor tunity to sav flat out what they thought. I am remimh'd of a vnurn; Hawaiian, a very pretty girl I knew and liked in California. Neighbors made things so difficult for her she and her husband finally gave up on moved to Hawaiian Islands. Just Why the people of every race, and every mixture of races, all get along perfectly well in Hawaii, but create problems for themselves the minute they get on the mainland, sometimes, is something 1 don't understand. I Like These Battles I Always Win!" v Other examples: In 11 major ci ties furniture and bedding sales are 10 to 25 per cent below February of 1951; March television and radios 30 per cent under last year; floor covering manufacturers, 18 "'"l "S'V 1'",' ela"d' ?v"- 5,hl"f VJ" m - Birmingham, Kansas City, per cent. Surveys in New York Richmond and Indianapolis show toasters and electric irons. 25 to 50 per cent below the sales level of a year ago; St. Louis reserve bank figures show cash sales 20 per cent lower than in January of 1951; credit sales, twelve and one half p? cent. The House Banking and Cur rency Cj.ii..,...- . ... . . . decision. Manufacturers are in trouble in some lines. In Erie, Pa., a G.E. plant manufacturing refrig erators has shut down; in Mans field, Ohio, Westinghouse has cut back its refrigerator production 40 per cent. The three billion dollar-a-year wood furniture industry is running at 60 per cent capacity. The argument to be presented to Congress will dwell on the fact that merchants caught with bulg ing warehouses, as some already have been, face bankruptcy. Also, unless manufacturing plants can continue to produce, the list of job less will grow. Producers of household goods saturation. Potenlial demand re mains high, but would-be buyers lacking the required high down know they are far from a market payment funds are staying away from stores. Credit dealers say their research puts the blame sole ly on the Federal Reserve Board credit regulaions. From the noise coming from the FRB there seems more than a little trull in the argu ment. U.S. Envoy Visits Oatis In Prison WASHINGTON Ifl The State Department reported Thursday that the American ambassador to Czechoslovakia talked with Wil liam Oatis in a Czech prison Wed nesday and found him in good health. Oatis, an Associated Press re porter, has been interned in the Iron Curtain country since April 23. 1951. The department said the visit from Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs marked the first time since Oatis arrest that Czech authorities per mitted any American embassy of ficial to talk with Oatis. The State Department has de nounced his conviction on espion age charges as trumped-up. He was sentenced to ten years with a promise he could be re leased in five for good behaviour. In disclosing the meeting with Oatis, the State Department said: "Mr. Oatis said that his health was good and this was supported by his appearance. He said he had recently received dental care; that he is allowed to write and that ;he gets sufficient exercise UNLUCKY THIS TIME ROME, Italy wi The Italian Ministry of the Treasury announced Tuesday it had fined Charles (Lucky) Luciano, former New York vice czar, $4,000 for illegally im porting (57,000. , ' Present Day Conditions Not At All Satisfactory ROSEBURG-I just can't help squaling some mere. I. am like a pig caught under the gate. If I don't squeal like a pig, nobody will know lam caught under the gate and I will never get any help to get loose. After reading The News-Review I felt I was wedged under the ;ate for sure. It seems that gate gets heavier every day. I llstoji to some of the politicians tell of this great land of liberty where we all have a voice in the government, and how we should glory in the fact that we don't have a government like that of Russia. They yap about it as though they are the ones that gave us all these things. The truth is that our old folk didn't like the system of gov ernment they lived under in Eng land, so they came over here and started a government to suit them selves. People were consulted about every issue that had to do with government of the people. So nowwe are told of all the privileges we have, and while we are being told all these nice things, the pals of the tellers are fixing up a scheme to deprive us of some more of the liberties we grew up with. I just can't help but ask who gave the city council authority to overrule the governor? How many parents of school children were asked" if they were willing to get up an hour earlier so the children can get to school an hour earlier? Who gave the superintendent of schools authority to change the time? Are we all going to be plow ed under by just a few, or are we going to squeal loud enough so we can be heard? , 1 just read Clarence B. Randall' answer to Truman's crtargqs broadcast about the steel industry. He says it is not the President of the United States he is answering, but H.S . Truman. Now, we had a nice square gov ernment set up to start off with; the best in the world. But gangs of different kinds, all reaching for the same thing, have cut the cor ners so much that it looks like a slippery ball, likely to slide right away from us. In fact, a lot of us don't have anything to hang onte any more. If we don't belong to a pressure group, we are out. In stead of equal rights we seem to have very few rights. If any of you will come down to the blacksmith shop, I will show vou what 1 mean. The Truman at titude has invaded Roseburg. We are being regimented and laughed at by the gang that is taking our little liberties away from us. There is no more sense in screwing the clock ahead an hour than there is in cutting a foot off one end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end. The only reason any merchant has any business in Roseburg is because the slaves of industry do the buying. So. if business is both ersome and boring to them, they can quit business. We can get along. True, stores are more con venient than the catalogue, but we canord er everything we need by mail, and the railroads are willing to haul it, even on standard time. Many farmers already have ask ed me if I was going to operate my shop on town time or standard MEMORIALS Largest Selection of Colon and Defiqns in Pacific N.W, NO LOWER PRICES V. V. Harphom 1702 I. Douglas Ph. 3-3141 In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from Page One) a career, record number of Amer ican young people are now mak ing this choice: RELIGION. Most church authorities aren't just sure why. " 'It's highly curious,' says Dr. Hermifn N. Morse, general secre tary of the Presbyterian national Missions Board, speaking in New York. 'We call this a secular age,' he adds, "and yet ther's an inter est in spiritual work among young icople that never was apparent jefore. Don't worry too much about our modern young people. If their EL DERS will set them a sufficiently good example, they'll turn out all right. If you want to ask yourself a serious question, try this one: "Who among us are making the greatest sacrifices in this period of national travail?" If you want an honest answer, I think you'll find this one will fit: "The greatest sacrifices are be ing made by the young men who are fighting in Korea, the other young men who are training to fight in Korea or anywhere else in the world where they may be cal led upon to fight and their wives and children in the cases where they have wives and children." You might add: ' "The bulk of the complaining is being done by the older ones." We're all stirred up just now I over tha sanctity of our federal constitution and what may hap- j pen to us it we stana Dy ana per mit It to be flouted. Give this a thought: A racing meet has just epened in Portland. People are betting on the races. A note on the teletype says the beltine on the opening day this year was much heavier than on opening day a year ago. The betting is done on pari-mutual machines. When you bet on a pan-mutual machine, you pay your money, you get a ticket and vou take your chance on winning or losing. Betting on pari-mutual machines Is permitted by LEGIS LATIVE law. But The constitution of Oregon (Ar ticle XV, Section 4) says: "Lotteries, and the sale of lot tery tickets, FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATEVER, are prohibited, and the legislative assembly SHALL prevent the same by penal laws." Webster defines a lottery as "a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot; especially such a scheme in which lots or chances time. So I told them of a beating I got in school many years ago. I was kept in during the noon hour for some liberty I was taking. The teacher got soft-hearted and turn ed me loose at five minutes to 1 o'clock (standard time then) and left the room. So I set the clock j back 20 minutes. But I found that j was not popular yet. I got my ears batted down. Maybe that made me allergic to time of any kind. But I never tried it again, and I don't ' want any one to do it either. ; Teacher said it wasn't honest. We used to have a ,?ood little town here. It took over 40 years to fill the first jail register. We just didn't have any locks. I don't know j if there was a lock on the jail. We had two police and a part-time dog catcher. He had a 30-30 and , the police had canes, and every body was bappy. j So somebody got the idea of i making the town grow. I don't ; know what for, but, anyway, they 1 started importing people and things. Then two hardware stores moved In with a big stock of pad locks and the police force began to grow. They started fining the people that built the streets for parking their cars in front of their own places. And the chief of po lice and the fire chief, having noth ing to do one day, came down to my shop and gave me a cussing for having one section of a harrow i standing in the street. It scared me , so bad that I sat up nights for a ) long time keeping the sparrows from roosting on the street side of i the shop. But 1 wish you would all r come down now and look at the , rest of the street. Just do like Governor McKay says Leave the cl-.ks alone. , There are a lot of things around town you can do to make this a better place to live in. That was quite a cry for about 10 days. I guess that was a prelude to trying tn make a liar out of my clock. Y'ours for government by the ma jority. . DAVID H.' 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