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4 Th Nowi-Revlew, Roseburg, Ore Mon., July 7, 1952 Fubliihia Daily ! Sanaa the News-Review Company, Inc. Ilberf. Ora. ! cl ! Monk t. CHARLIS STANTON (DWIN L KNAPP Editor M..9 Member of the Auocloted Press. Om NiwPr PublUhtrt Allocation, the Audit lunan Circulti.i Fir Ytr, lll.M, III mm. ! ' A STUDY IN PROPAGANDA '"It's Yours raj IF You Can Lift It" I By Charles V. Stanton As you listen this week to the Republican presidential convention, you'll find it interesting to follow the propa- gandNomtnation of the presidential candidate is only one business item on the convention agenda. Sharing equa irn portance is campaign strategy. The Republicans will be setting up plans for their effort to elect the candidate to whom they hand their banner. Careful analysis of the convention's propaganda line will indicate the pattern of the campaign following the two party conventions. Democratic strategy already is plain. The Democrats again are to run against Herbert Hoover. Since 1932 the Democrats have directed their fight against Hoover rather than against the current candidate. It is obvious from the direction of propaganda already pre sented that they intend to do so again. They will endeavor to frighten people into believing that any Republican administration will be a depression administration simply because we had a depression during Hoover's time in the White House. Anyone who has follow er! UnrWr. Hoover's recent articles in Colliers knows that Roosevelt appropriated Hoover's recovery program of pub- lie works as his own, embcliisiiea it wan a lax anu ienu policy, neglecting the fiscal protections Hoover had pro posed, and launched us on a spending orgy which Truman has recklessly expanded. It is extremely interesting to match the Democratic propaganda of Republican depres sion against the pre-Roosevelt national psychology that the Democratic party was the party of depression. Prior to the New Deal virtually all of our depression periods had resulted during Democratic administrations. We forget so quickly! Scare Propaganda Launched But already Democratic spokesmen are beginning to re fer to the Hoover depression and are giving the inference that the election of any Republican administration would return us to the days of the Great Depression. This ap proach has been highly successful in past elections. In fact, it has been so successful there is little use in develop ing new weapons when the old can be dusted off and brought back into action. - 4 ' People scare easily when they think their pocketbooks might be affected. But we find evidence that the public is becrinnintf to realize that- We nay checks don't always mean prosperity. People are becoming alarmed by stead ily increasing taxes. They are finding that while the pay check may be large it still doesn't keep pace with the up ward spiral of living costs. They are discovering tnat Dor rowing to produce prosperity isn't all it is cracked up to, be, These facts offer RoDublican campaign material. Republicans, of course, may be expected to center heav ily on corruption. Exposures of scandals within the aci ministration, particularly the Department of Internal Reve nue, furnish plenty of live ammunition for the Republican campaign while high taxes, increasing living costs, and mounting national debt supply targets for the propaganda cannons. Platforms Will Be Guides We wish we could have confidence in party platforms The conventions will adopt platforms supposedly promising party policy. Actually, if the practice of recent years is any criterion, platforms will be merely scraps of paper in sofar as policy is concerned but will be masterpieces of propaganda. From the Republican platforms the public will be able to discern the direction of the pre-election campaign and the strategy to be used in meeting Demo cratic blasts against Hoover. So, if you are interested in probing under the surface activities, you will find it entertaining to study the events of the next few days from the propaganda angle. You will find, too, that what the Republicans do in Chicago this week will have an important bearing on the Democratic conven tion to follow. The Democratic meeting has been overshadowed by the internal struggle within the Republican party. Actual !y, the Democrats have an internal fight fully equal to the crisis in Republican ranks. It has been less prominent in the news because of the sensational Taft-hisenhower duel We'll probably get much more enlightenment on the Demo cratic situation after the Republicans finish their meeting. In all events you'll find in both party meetings this month the hints of messages the rival candidates will carry to the "pee-pul as they square away for the November decision. In the Day's News Mon Lewis Jr. i vy BO CHICAGO New York's governor. Thomas E. Dewey, shellacked twice in presidential elections, fancies himself a dark horse candidate if Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Robert A. Taft are deadlocked for the GUI nom nation here this month. From MENDING 1 I do wish that every teen-ager as are the positions of the ocean might have a good look at a Pilot Chart! I so well remember the delight with which our boys pored over them when they were sea scouts. The one 1 have In front of me right now came in the mail the other day in reply to a question (more about that later) 1 asked the Navy, and it takes in the North station vessels which observe weather and water and watch for distress signals. To one side is a small inset of the same area, also divided into 5-dcgree squares, each one show ing the reports from ships of gales, at the time of 'observation which is Greenwich civil noon. (When I Dewey freauentlv has disavow ed further presidential aspirations, Out Eisenhower s supporters are not so sure. The governor's pe culiar timidity towards public plat- torm appearances la Eisenhowers behalf is giving the general's high command the jitters. Dewey has. of course, stated pub licly that he is for Eisenhower. On his orders, his press secretary. Jamei Haggerty, and bis erstwhile campaign manager, Herbert Brownell, are in Chicago plotting Taft's coup de grace. Senator Cab ot Lodge, Eisenhower's campaign manager, la pleased that Dewey and his staff are engaged in this type of work at the moment, but there are lingering suspicions that the General might wake up with his political throat slit as well. Througnout the Eisenhower pre- convention campaign Dewey Brownell and Haggerty have hov ered over the General's headquart ers like political vultures. Occas ionally one or all three floated across the country, dipping into the political jungles of California, or stirring up the dust in Midwest GOP stronsholds. Nobody is sure what thoy are up to, but every body in the General's headquart ers hopes for the best. Dowey has always demanded to tal loyalty from his staff members. They are selected for their polit. ical wizardry and have, at pre vious conventions, made bums out of opponents. Unfortunately for Dewey, those talents have proved Inept when it comes to presidential election campaigns. Therefore, those who know Dew ey best are bemused by his sudden interest in Eisenhower's aspira tions. They cannot recall any oth er occasion when the governor has submerged his ambitions on be half of another politician. Dewey, also, lakes seriously his responsi bilities as titular head of the Re publican party. And alter dis. avowing gubernatorial ambitions in New York on past occasions, he has turned on the heat for the nomination, to the extent that one or two others eyeing the gover nor's chair wound up doubting their sanity. An attack of Dewev Itis is a shattering experience. For Elsenhower, 11-Day would he re corded as a skirmish by compar ison. The politician who has private ly raised doubts about the gover nor's intentions is Arthur Summer field. GOP national committee man for Michigan. Summerfield is probablv heir to more pioblems at the moment than all the rest of the politicians combined. While n i h Th ..h h I 1 hoard n American teacher say ...."".11 " j - iireen-wicn i naa no utea what Guayaquil, and Horned and Celt' bes on the southern corners. The first thing that will probably strike the teen ager as odd is the way the land masses, except for names along the coast lines, are blank gray. The, ocean is divided up Into 5-dcgree squares, with each square telling a story bv means of its four wind roses and other symbols. The Great Circle routes are In dicated. The one between Yoko hama and San Francisco is cross ed at one point by Ihc sailing route from Yokahama to Portland The islands are, ot course, plotted, place she meant! Hut radio and teacher-tours, not to mention the wars since then, have taiuhl us alt to say "Grennlch!") There Is a mass of printing in blue concerning wind and weather over this area in June (the charts arc Issued monthly; this one is .lunc) and a lot of other printing in red on topics related to the purpose of the map. The hydrogra phlc people are thrifty and cover the back of the big sheet wi'h more information, and charts. Girls looking at th chart will not that unnavigable are and trvina to keep track of what Dew. cy is up to, Summerfield also is Irvine to placate Arthur Vandcn- burg Jr., who has lost a Sot of enthusiasm for Eisenhower. Van denberg blames Summerfield for denying him the GOP senatorial nomination, and is therefore less than enthused about Summerficld's attempts at king making. Dewey and Vandenbcrg are bud dies. Dewey also is close to Gov. Alfred Driscoll of New Jersey, who would like to move to Washington after November, if a suitable posi tion befitting his talents Is unoc cupied. He wouldn't get across the state border if Taffgets the nom ination. The same applies to Gov. Earl Warren, of California. Warren likes Dewey's brand of politics. In fact he depends on it now, since h has fouled tin his own to such ?n extent that it is doubtful if he controls his own aeiegaics. mc man wno actually spilled the beans on Dewey, however, is Gov. Theodore McKeldin, of Maryland,. McKeldin. after visiting Eisenhow er in Paris, blurted out that in politics he always "follows Dew ey's lead." This set teeth to clack ing in Eisenhower's headquarters that won't slop until the nomina tions are concluded in Chicago, if then. I.ode thought all along he was leading McKeldin around by the nose. Any way you add it up, Dewey once again is a convention strong man. New York. New Jersey, Cali fornia, Maryland and chunks of delegates from Michigan and n.nn.vivmii will fall in line when he utters the command. The best Eisenhower and Lodge can do now is to hope that the governor u iho ripht marching orders. if tim first few convention roll calls don't decide the issue, Dewey might come to the conclusion that i:n,.r.il hasn't got a chance. He can't stand the thought of ei ther Taft or Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur in the White House. That would hardly leave anybody ade quate except the Governor of the Slate of New York. Hear Fulton Leii'is Daily On KRSR, 9:15 P.M. landfast ice are marked with red blanket-stitching, and the sea and landfast ice navigable by un-rein-forced vessels by a string of red single-crochet. Icebergs and growl ers are red triangles. Even on this map for June the north is well decorated with red. The Pilot Charts are available at any hydrographic office. Near est one is the Courthouse in Port land, and are thirty cents each. One would make a good bark Sroumt display of books about the sea, don't you think so, librarians? Maybe you have already used them. A free yellow circular tells all the publications issued by the U, S. Navy Hydrographic office. Amazing what Is collected, core lated, and issued in connection with the sea and the air above it! (Continued from Page One) right to exercise sovereignty In such (free) waters over aircraft of another nationality." Those are brave and ' noble words, but I fear they will get no where. Soviet military forces can and do claim and EXERCISE the right to shoot down the aircraft of other nationalities over the open waters of free seas. They shot down some of OUR aircraft not too long ago over this time Baltic Sea. They will continue to do so from time to time unless they are deterred by fear of retaliation by superior military force. It's too bad, but that's the way is. Sweden's history is interesting. Back in the early 1500 s a great king arose by the process of re bellion against a weak and cor rupt system. His name was Gus- tavus Vasa. He was a military genius and a natural leader. He defeated his country's enemies and when he died in 1560 he left Swed en the strongest power in northern Europe. Three warrior kings followed him and they succeeded in turn ing the Baltic Sea into a Swedish lake by the simple process of con quering and gaining military pos session of the Baltic shores. That period was Sweden's hour In the sun. Destroyed Yalu Plants Aided Red War Factories TOKYO ( The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday night hydro electric plants in Communist North Korea were bombed because "they were supplying electricity" to Red war plants producing weapons being used against U.N. troops. The power plants had remained untouched by the Allies lot two years of war. Much of the power they produced went to Manchuria. Photographs showed widespread damage to 13 plants. The Air Force said the photographs estab lished that the plants were knocked , out. More than 500 Air Force. Marine and Navy warplanes hit the in. .tailaiinns June 23. The attacks continued three more days. Jf Nowi.fWvlew tf . k nt a 1 I 4XvrW by I I :lljeJee I 2-2431 botweea Public Opinion Restores Star To Police Chief BAKER ( The Baker city government bowed to public pro tests Thursday and reinstated Po lice Chief Fred Hunt. The 12 policemen who had re signed when Hunt was dismissed also were re-hired. Hunt's dismissal by ' the City Council last week touched off raging controversy, culminating in petitions, signed by about 3,000 residents, demanding Hunt s re m statement. The council, which had voted 6-0 to force Hunt from office, never did disclose its reasons for dis charging Hunt, although Bakei residents badgered council mem bers in two meetings, demanding an explanation. Hunt blamed his dismissal on his crackdown on gambling and prosti tution. A new city manager, David I Koester, inherited the controversy when he arrived Sunday. After studying the large number of pro tests three days, he announced the decision to reinstate Hunt, Mayor James Hanley, who had acted as spokesman for the council in dismissing Hunt, said the coun cil would go along with Koester in reinstating the police chief. Koester Issued a prepared state ment In which he said he felt the majority of Baker residents wanted Hunt reinstated. "I feel Hunt is a capable, honest and efficient police officer, and will provide the type of enforce ment desired," the statement said. He also said the controversy was marred by misunderstandings, not ing that some persons voiced be lief the issue was whether to make Baker an open city that is, one that tolerates gambling and per haps other entertainment. Koester said that was not what the council had in mind. "I am convinced members of the council do not want or desire a disorderly and lawless city," te said. Koester said council members assured him before he made his decision that it would be supported by them. It didn't last long. Along about 1700. the powers that Sweden had whipped got to gether. An alliance was formed by Denmark, Prussia, Poland-Saxony and Russia. This "alliance fought the Swedes until their coun try was exhausted, me snore-, lands which Sweden had conquer ed were taken away from her and the Baltic ceased to be a Swedish lake. Eventually, weak and worn out, Sweden turned to a policy of neu trality and under this policy she strengthened her economy and succeeded in gaining for her people an admirable degree of prosper ity and a high standard of living. But THAT period is now threat ened. Russia is setting out to make of the Baltic a RUSSIAN lake. I fear that unless powerful friends come to her aid Sweden will be trampled into the bloody mud as SHE trampled other nationalities into the bloody mud when SHE was making the Bal tic into a Swedish lake. ( Time marches on. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no peace for the peacefully-minded who have possessions that are coveted by evil-minded neighbors? Is there no hope? I think there is hope. In its slow and inexorable way, history points it out for us. If we are to have peace (without waiting through the millenniums necessary for the making over of human nature) some great and righteous nation with both the will and the Bower to establish and en force JUSTICE throughout the world must arise. That nation could be ours. But if it IS to be ours, we must become both a great and a RIGHT EOUS nation. Our motives must be both high and right. If we are to accomplish a task like that we must be able to say and BE LIEVE: "Our strength Is as the strength of ten because our hearts are Dure. In no other way can it be done. pLri MJTOAL Ornnon SELECTIVE Ft) HI OiUsiW STOCK ntn SYNDICATE ef AMERICA amisimi tciNus WWfArOUS 1. WHNMOIA o a l BiAoa ftviabirg. Or lb MMaMil mpar m P" hii M-ImI I..-IH Foal hmM S,lMi rai hfMM Sts. W Ah. Or- TALKING ABOUT A HOME? So many people do noth ing but talk about it! But if you really want to own your home, consult me ' now. Personal attention. Economical terms. Insurance Solicitors Ralph L. Russell Lms fl Inmratica E. V. Lincoln Mack I. Brawn A. W. McGuirt J. I. Boil.y Room 212 Phon. 3-431) Loon Reprintotit Equitablo Saving! Loan Au'n. Doualai County Stole Bank Bide,. NOTICE A SPECIAL MEETING OF ALL RESTAURANT OPERATORS WILL BE HELD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1952, AT 2 P.M. IN THE CIVIC ROOM OF THE HOTEL UMPQUA. i '' : - -V' Douglas Co. Restaurant Ass'n. But it would be wonderful if it WERE done. The benefits that would accrue to everybody would be beyond calculation. ROBERT M. STULTS and RANDOLPH SLOCUM Attorneys at Law Room 214 U.S. Bank Building have dissolved their law partnership effective July 1, 1952 Russians Free Seized Priests, V err. an Aide BERLIN LP The Russians late Thursday released three Chicago priests held 30 hours in captivity after they had been seized by sen tries on-the Berlin-Soviet jone fron tier. The Soviets handed the Catholic churchmen over to American of ficers in Karlshorst, east Berlin. The priests came to Berlin Wednesday by train for a one-day xni sucn false charges sight-seeing inp. . The resolution noted Russia Vetoes Germ Warfare Probe Proposal UNITED NATIONS I Soviet Russia Thursday vetoed an Ameri can proposal for an impartial in quiry into Communist germ war fare charges. The Security Council vote was 10-1 for an investigation in RH China and North Korea by the In ternational Red Cross. Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik had warned in advance that he would veto the U.S. proposal be cause the council refused to in vite the Chinese and Korean Com munists to take part in the debate. U.S. Delegate Ernest A. Gross said Malik's action in killing the inquiry definitely proved the falsity of the Communist charges. Immediately after the vote, Gross submitted a resolution call ing on the council to declare the cerm charges false and to con demn "the practice of disseminata In borrowed automobile that the Chinese Communists, North Ko- and pic with a l.erman secreiary-in erprei-; d R jln, had pr,viou!,y cr, they halted on the frontier be- d ff ( ,R Rcd Cros, , look into the charges. It pointed out that despite the American denials, the Communists had persisted in spreading the charges. The resolution declared that the Soviet campaign was "designed to undermine the efforts of the United Nations to combat aggression in Korea." tween the American sector Russian zone to take some lures. Eastern Communist police and a Russian guard forced them to drive into the lone and look them to a So' iet command post. The priests are the Revs. Mar tin Borowsciyk, Geor:e Gorski and Rronislaus Snkolnwski, all American-born of Tolish descent. Directors M. E. Ritter, Pres. G. V. Wimberly, V-Pris. H. O. Porgeter, Sec. -Mgr. A. N. Orcurt, Attorney V. J. Micelli, Treos. Edyth Gilmour, Asst . Secretory Directors G. C. Finloy Guy Cordon W. F. Horril B. R. Shoemaker George W. Neuner Philip Horth CONDITION OF THE UMPQUA SAYINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION ROSEBURG, OREGON At Close of Business June 30, 1952 RESOURCES Notes Secured by D. R. Loans $2,313,546.99 Notes Secured by Stock- Sales Contracts Federal Home Loan Bank Stock Government Bonds Home Office Building Advanced Borrowers Interest Receivable Cash on Hand and Due From Banks.. 1,618.11 226.13 36,600.00 150,000.00 24,000.00 475.03 -624.64 77,555.38 $2603,397.00 Investment Stock Building Account Reserve Contingent Reserve Surplus . LIABILITI Deferred Profit Incomplete D. R. Loans.. Other Reserves ES ..$2,449,950.97 14,600.00 92,205.02 12,524.35 1,928.79 29,925.38 2,262.49 $2,603,397.00 State of Oregon ) ) SS County of Douglas ) I, H. O. Pargeter, Secretory of the above Association, do hereby solemnly swear that tht above s'atement is true, to the best of m knowledge and belief. H.O. PARGETER Secretory - , ATTEST: M. E. RITTER President Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd doy of July, A. D., 1952. W.F. HARRIS . "' Notary Public for Oregon My Commission Expires: November 17, 1952.
