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4 The News-Review, Roseburg,, Ore. Tuos., July 1, 1951 Pabllihtd Daily laws U4i " News-Review Company, Inc. un ! miinr M.r 1. me B.Mk.rf. Orfa. ! Ml .1 aure. t, U1S CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L KNAP Editor Maaaiar Mambat at Ika Aiiacialad Prats, Or.fM Nawtaaaa' Paklrikara Auaclariaa, Audit luraaa Clicl.ltM ' 1.. rrwclM.. Lra A.f.l.i. ..111., r.rll.... 11. L..U UBICaiPTION BATES Ol.f. B auu r.r T.r, llt.M: III nlkl. Mil lk. B.nlki, .. Br Kawi-Sl.w C.rrl.t Far Taar, III.W la t.mofl, laai Tt.r, par ,11.11 Outalda Or.fon Br MU Far laar, Ill.Mi ill . . Ufaa aiaalka, II II. PARK SYSTEM PRAISED By Charles V. Stonton Douglas County's unique public parks program has en tered national politics. It may affect national legislation dealing with development of recreational facilities on pub lic lands. At least, Douglas County's plan has been com mended before Congress. Forrest E. Cooper, legal counsel for the Interstate As sociation of Public Land Counties, appearing before congres sional committees, pointed to Douglas County's public parks program, the only one of its kind in the area, and urged that Congress encourage development of recreational facilities on public lands by making federal aid available to co-operative counties. Attorney Cooper appeared in opposition to two current bills designed to make revenue available from national forests for recreational development. One bill would author ize the U. S. Forest Service to earmark 10 per cent of all . forest revenue to a recreational program. The other would set up a fee system for use of the forest, similar to charges made for entrance into national parks. H.R. 565, the so-called Tackett bill, would permit the Forest Service to retain 10 per cent of all revenues, amount ing to approximately $7,000,000 annually, to construct, main tain and improve recreational facilities. This bill has result ed in much controversy. It has been given enthusiastic sup port by many sports groups, such as the Izaak Walton League and the National Wildlife Federation. It also has met widespread opposition. Violates Congressional Policy ;. - The bill is a violation of congressional policy. Congress controls the nation's purse strings. It insists upon its right to place safeguards around national expenditures by making all departments come to it for such money as may be needed. Giving any department or agency power to collect and spend funds without congressional approval is held to be a danger pus policy. . Congress has been negligent in supplying funds for rec reational development on public lands. During the days of the Civilian Conservation Corps many campgrounds, picnic spots, recreational roads and trails and other such facilities for public use were built. But no appreciable money has been spent since CCC days. Facilities built by the CCC have deteriorated. The Forest Service has been pleading with out avail for money to rebuild and maintain existing fa cilities and to extend the program. The Tackett bill was of fered to meet this request. There also . is much sentiment in Congress that recreational use of the public domain should be self-supporting. This sentiment has resulted in H.R. 7000, which proposps to impose a charge upon all people en tering the forest. The latter bill has resulted in vigorous re monstrance. .... Western counties oppose the Tackett bill because of its effect upon local income. Counties receive 25 per cent of gross forest revenues. A 10 per cent cut by the Forest Serv ice would lower the county income slightly. County Supervision Proposed Cooper proposod to Congress that it adopt a policy simi lar to that obtained by cattlemen for range improvement. An annual appropriation is made for that purpose. He ex plained Douglas County's public parks program and said that a congressional policy shouki be set up to encourage self-reliant counties. "Congress," he said, "should provide that if the county elects to do so it can take over the entire rural recreational facilities program upon its national for ests and that the Forest Service turn over to it each year the amount of money it would otherwise spend upon such an activity." He added that: "Any money flowing to such a county should be paid over in like manner as is the existing 25 per cent lieu tax money with no dictation attached." Cooper announced that he would submit suggested legis lation of this type to the Interstate Association's annual con vention and would endeavor to obtain opinions from other in terested groups. We can see many complications in a program such as Cooper proposes. Putting the load of recreational develop ment on public lands in the hands of the individual counties has obvious advantages. On the other hand, it could be dan gerous unless the counties had definite assurance that Con gress would provide continuously adequate and proportion ate appropriations. Otherwise we might find ourselves in a position of building up facilities only to have appropriations cut off. Facilities then would deteriorate, as is now the case, and counties would take the rap. Playing With Fire? FromMw, MEHDIHG BASKET The 'Scrap' about shoeing oxen certainly brought in a reader re sponse! Both by letter and ver bally. It was read by "Iwo ex New Yorkers" who live in Port land, and they looked me up the next time they came down this way with the intention ot bringing a set ot oxen shoes which an uncle in New York had sent them. Only Ihey forgot to pick up the shoes at the last minute, and said "We'll stop the next time we are down this way." We had a good visit anyhow. (I've wondered i( the un identified visitors on March 21 could have been they? I vasn1 able to answer the door that .lay, three rings were neithbors; t lie fourth is still a mystery. "A man in a brown suit, and a lady out in the car") Last week a Roseburg reader wrote "By the way, my husband aays there is a plje of oxen shoes in Coos Bay, ones that were really used!" The writer enclosed a let ter to be forwarded to Mrs. T. In Long Bench who wanted a cor respondent in Roseburg who would answer questions about the area. Today a letter came from Mrs. T, saying how delighted she was1 to receive the letter! Another reader tells how pleas ed she is with the idea of sending magazines overseas to help pro mote world friendship. She had written the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce for the stickers and directions. Says she Is so glad to have a good use for magaiinrtt with too much Interest in them to be burned. She also added: "Your Mending Basket. . . .is always a welcome visitor even MY Mr. Bilwuns reads it!" (Well, I don't know how I'd ever get it written sometimes if MY Mr. Bitwuns didn't help me write it, said help being entirely IN voluntaryl) How glad I am when a reader's letter will contain some thing I can quote. That doesn't mean I fail to appreciate the ones too personal to quote or the inspiring letters that just tell why they like the Mending Basket letters I can't quote without seem ing to 'blow a trumpet'. . .but which I treasure in my heart! On reader wrote she and her Fulton Lewis Jr. WASHINGTON I propose to examine the so-called In dependent voter who is being courted with such fanfare by the supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. In his hands is supposed to rest the fate ot the Republican Party and, if you listen to the Eisenhow er camp followers, the defeat of Senator Robert A. Taft, should the Ohioan secure the Republican nomination. If you are an independent vot er you have ' lots of company, there are supposed to be 5.000,000 in the nation, if you believe the tipsters, pollsters and political pundits. And not a single one ot them has yet made up his mind whether he will vote for a Demo crat or a Republican in November of this year. In fact, if the fiction is carried to its illogical conclu sion, no independent voter would be caught outside after dark with a political opinion until the GOP and the Democrats have complet ed their nominating conventions. Eisenhower Is alleged to have great charm for the independent voter, Taft none. And the reason is that the independent voter,. a political hybrid, is supposed to be a rousing internationalist who sees nothing but good in the Demo cratic foreign policy, except that maybe there's some waste in it, and nothing but sorrow in any can didate who opposes same. In 1948, Republicans lost the na tional election to Pendergast's playmate by 2,135.747 votes. The political pollsters tell us the inde pendent voters put us in our pres ent fix by voting Democratic that year. That's quite a burden to bear, and the independent voter is wel come to the blame. A logical question, that never seems to get asked, is where was the independent voter in 1944 and 1948 when Gov. Thomas E. Dewey ran the "mc-too" GOP campaigns for the presidency? Dewey en dorsed the Democratic foreign pol icy to the disgust of Republicans everywhere, but few If any in dependent voters responded as they are supposed to do. The Stale of California, natur ally, is a haven for so-called in dependent voters. As such, since Gov. Earl Warren is both a Dewey and Eisenhower supporter, it would only be natural for Cali fornia voters to flock to the gov ernor's banner. Nobody could ev er accuse him of sincere objec tions to Mr. Truman's foreign pol icies. And Warren is an out-and-out Eisenhower supporter, which made his recent race as head of the California GOP convention del egation a doubly juicy prize for the independent voter. Strangely enough, however, the independent voter again failed to respond on schedule. He helped vote instead a 1.75.0,000 majority for Senator William Knowland, who ran far ahead of the governor. Knowland campaigned on strict ly anti-Fair Deal foreign and do mestic issues. In fact he roared up and down the California coast, ripping Mr. Truman and his hench men for the thievery at home and the give-aways abroad. There are other examples of the independent voter failing to re spond as the pollsters are certain he will if Eisenhower gets the nomination on a 'platform ot sup port for Mr. Truman's foreign pol icy. Senator Taft either got the in dependent voter or won without him by 450.000 votes in Ohio in 1950. Senator Nixon, of California, did the same, with over a million votes to spare, in 1950. Senator Everett Dirksen, Republican of Il linois, trnmped all over his oppon ent in the same election year. Not one of the three senators endorsed a Truman foreign policy idea, not a one endorsed his han dling of a domestic problem. All three campaigned and won over whelmingly with loud demands for Taft and he might win the elec a major nouse cleaning in wa.sn- t nn. The rank and tile voters the presidential aspirants. Abso lutely nothing to get excited about. They excel at slinging mud and making evasive campaign speeches. How about Ike? From his speeches I have heard enough to convince me he will be one of those do-nothing Presidents. H t does not believe in tampering too much in government regulations as the law stands. Hoover was like that. When his administration ended in a nationwide depression Hoover refused to act. Just sat and twiddled his finders. Ike is just another dyed-in-the-wool con servative. And Taft? Absolutely impos sible! Here Is a man who has been in power too long, being a senator for 20 years. I still re member the hard times and un employment while his father, Wil liam Howard Taft, was president. Robert Taft is the gentleman who advised cinching up our belts and eating less meat: that if price con trol were removed the old law of siiddIv and demand would low- er prices of meat. Steak was then 65 cents. Now it Is from 70 cents to as high as $1.18 per pound. Senator Taft has voted against every single piece of legislation which I considered would De bene, ficial and desirable. Among the Republicans, in my opinion, their best man for Ue Di esidency is Gov. Warren of Cali fornia. The next choice would be enator Wayne Morse of Oregon. le would poll more votes man In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) ' path away back in 1912. Economie note: Midsummer heat last week re-! duced the supply of livestock com ing to the Chicago market to the lowest numbers since last August, and pricei reacted HIGHER accordingly. Supply and demand, you see. still do have something to do with pricei In this country. We aren't COMPLETELY regimented yet Cost of government note: The joint congressional commit tee on reduction of non-essential federal expenditures (more briefly tabbed as the Byrd committee) reports that i civilian employment in the executive branch of the government increased by 10.655 during the month of April. The total number of such civilians -on April 30, the committee said, was 2,579,71. That almost twice the total population of the State of Oregon. That brings up another thought. The State TTnemolovment Com pensation Commission estimates in Salem that during May 439,700 persons were working at non-farm jobs in Oregon. That's 6.000 FEWER than were similarly employed during April and 15,900 fewer than were em ployed in May pf 1951. Do you reckon there could be a connection between MORE gov ernment employes in the city of Washington and FEWER em ployes in private Industry in Oregon? It could be. Every needless GOVERNMENT employee has to be carried on the backs of those. who work in private PRODUC TIVE industry, for needless gov ernment employees PRODUCE NOTHING. The last figures I saw Indicated that every five persons employed in private pkuuuctive indus try now have to carry on their back one non productive govern ment employee (meaning by that ALL government federal, state, county, city, etc.) That's a pretty heavy load to have to tote while you work. Another interesting, but far from comforting, thought: You must have noted that Presi dent Truman sent to Congress a budget calling for federal expen ditures totaling approximately 85 billion dollars in the next fiscal year. That's nearly $600 for every man, woman and child in this country. That's good thing to remem ber when you pay your taxes. It explains why they are high. It's also a good thing to remember when you buy your groceries, your shoes, your blouses, etc. Taxes have to be added to the cost of production, because they ARE A PART of the cost of pro duction. So they have to be added onto the price of whatever you buy at the store. Considering the astronomical height of taxes, it's no wonder prices are so high. NEED A NEW OUTLET? WE'LL PUT IT RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT IT. BUILDING A NEW HOME? REMODELING AN OLD HOME? t.tim... 0. W'""f' 131 North Jackson Dial 2-2606 jfOUWAHTED MORE COLORS m SPUED ... Here They Are: WONDER COLORS Nee-Streaking Deep Colors Washable Bright Colors Scrwbbabl light Color: Deroble Soft Colors . k losy-Te-Apply Cay Colon k Fast-Drying Neutral Colors See Demonstrations of the WONDER PAINT with the Famous 100 latex Emulsion Base DENN-GERRETSEN CO. 402 WEST OAK ST. PHONE 2-2636 ington. They appealed to Ameri cans fed up with Truman nonsense, and they won. Maybe the independent voter again will vote as he has been vot ing in California, Ohio, and Illinois against everything Truman stands for not just half of it. Hear Fulton Leivis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. Ultraconservative Not Wanted For President ROSEBUKG I am a regis tered independent voter. Ilow will I vote in the presidential elec tion? I will vote either for a Demo crat, a Republican, or if he is worthy of presiding over the des tinies of the United States, I will vote for a Socialist. What about Ihe United States have time and again proven that they prefer a do-something, liberal, broad-minded president. Remember Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unbeatable champion? I know little about the Demo cratic aspirants. Would prefer Ke fauver to either Ike or Taft; or would vote for Harriman, if nomi nated, in preference to the ultra conservative Republican candi dates. I am first and last for liberality and justice. That is why I am an independent. An ullraconservative president cannot possibly represent fairly the entire population of the United States. Does a nation like the U.S. need a rock-bound, narrow minded, single-track, hard-boiled individual in the White House? What is desirable Is someone who can do something other than keeping us fed up with cold war propaganda. B. AMES Roseburg, Oregon BOY ORATOR WINS CASH LOUISVILLE, Ky. A 12-year-old Oregon boy, Dan McCall of Eugene, won the Optimist Inter national speaking contest at the group's annual convention here Saturday. He received an award of $1,000. husband were looking forward prayerfully to the day, soon now, when their son would be home from Korea. "He wrote to have the refrigerator full of Ice cream be cause he hasn't had any over then." There must be many moth ers and fathers. . . .waiting pray erfully. And Sons counting the days May His blessing rest on them all. 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