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4 Th Nw$-Rrlw, Roiaburg, uliliea Daily Isceat Saaday ay News-Review Company, Inc. .bars. Oraia. el SUrea I. mi CHARLES STANTON IDWIN L. KNAPP Idilar Me.efer Member a ha Aueeleled "reu, Orejea Newieaaei alleaete Asiaciatiaa, Ida Audit lareaa at Cire.latiaM (....' WIST-HOLLIDAt CO. IN. .Ml... la H.w T.rk. Cblult. -ess:: SHSSSfgSHS r""t. 111.". ell -.alat. ! READY FOR By Charles V. Stanton Next week the Democrats have at it. Another knock down, drag-out convention is in prospect. We have learned to expect that kind of a fracas when the Democrats meet. We found a real chuckle in Hal Boyle's column during the Republican set-to when he said of G.O.P. delegates : They had a rough week. They are rot used to fighting among themselves like Democrats." Democratic conventions, how ever, have been lacking their usual vigor in late years, this year it appears they will get back into form. The Democratic party has long been one of factions. In recent years an unhealthy condition has developed. Socialists have taken over control of the party machin ery and have reduced the opposition to a mere whisper. The Democrats this year Bre reaping the results of long suppression of political talent. . During the many years Franklin Roosevelt was presi dent any potential threat for the job was chased into ob- XT. ..-.. MAMaii lira rAtm iftoH tn cpr. his neck out security, nu mi iy inmiiuci n.. too far. Today the Democrats none who has Been groomed ior me juu m ut.i, i to the Truman regime. Ktfauver Has Inside Track Of the several potential nominees. Senator Kefauver apparently has the inside track. Kefauver came into public prominence through his crime-busting activities as head of the Senate investigating committee. He was one candidate who couldn't be shunted into obscurity, sent as an ambassa dor to a foreign country, relegated to a job lacking press agents, or otherwise put on a sidetrack. Kefauver has proven his popularity. He has been tumping the country in his own behalf and on his own initiative, taking advantage of the opportunity which came his way because of favorable publicity. He has made a good impression everywhere. The convention will be confronted with heavy pressure from the grass roots to hand the party colors to the senator. But it is obvious that the Fair Deal crowd doesn t want Kefauver. The five-percenters, who have made mink coats and deep freezers synonymous with Truman administration, will put a lot of money behind a candidate who won't shut them off from their profitable rackets. Kefauver, because of his "purity" campaign, wouldn't dare associate with the present hangers-on. Consequently he'll face some powerful opposition in the convention. Also to be reckoned with are the Dixiecrats who will be back this time stronger than ever with Senator Rus sell of Georgia as their candidate. Russell is an old-line Dem '' ocrat who would probably boot the Socialist a country mile. The Socialists wouldn't like that. Being in control of the machinery, they'll do their best to turn its power against both Kefauver and Russell. So, some stormy times await the chairman's gavel next week. Rivalry Good For Country From all this competition, friction, bickering and fight ing in party conventions we see a good omen for the future of our country. Too lonor has control rested in one party. Too long has a lio-ht clinue held the reins of been graft, corruption, extravagance, bureaucracy, and im pairment of public morals and spirit of personal indepen dence. If competition between parties is good for the country competition from within is good for the parties. We agree fullv with the opinion expressed recently by Frank Jenkins in 'his column "In The Days News" that we need the best from both parties and a fight that will arouse the interest and participation of every voter in the country, with the outcome in doubt until the last moment. That kind of an election in November would give this country a needed shot in the arm. We expect plenty of fireworks from the Democratic convention. We hope it is that kind of a convention. No more one-man control. Then, with the nominees of both parties squared off for the battle, we'll hope for a struggle all the way. Something I just read took my thought back many years to the time when our car was slopped at a state border seems to me it was in Arizona, but the actual place doesn't matter at the mo ment and the officer examined the car for any cotton. We assured him we had none but he had a good look anyhow and as he was about to wave us on. he remarked: "Folks say they don't have any cotton, but you would be surpris ed" Then he told of one car load of tourists who indignantly resented his search, insisting they had no cotton. Well, just as they were about to drive on, one woman remarked laughingly she did have one raw cotton boll in her purse as a sou venir! To her amazement the of ficer asked to see It. Yes, you guessed it. In the boll was the very pest he was detailed there lo prevent crossing the slate line. Well, I was just reading a story about what happened in Bermuda, where "a visitor brought not tour ist dollars but death to the Ber muda cedars. Where, prior to World War II, flowers of hibiscus and bougainvillea flamed against I background of cool, glossy, dark fireen, now much of the backdrop s the acre brown of dead trees. The cause of the blight, says the Of Thur., July 17, 1952 FIREWORKS . - ,. , . have plenty of candidates but government. The result has MEMDIHG BASKET National Geographic Society, Is I juniper scale from the United I States which slipped through plant 1 quarantines. Famed as the Ber muda 'cedars' the trees are In re ! alily junipers." i Removal of almost a million dead and dying cedars and com plete reforestation will take years to complete, and in the meantime to keep the beauty of the Rerniuda picture and to hold down the light tnpsoil, fast growing pines, palms ann oiner trees are being set out. The N.G. story goes on to de scribe re-planting operations and the first thing is to "remove the scale with the aid of a small bee tle, a scale parasite". . . .Finally the new cedars will he plante.l, grown from seed planted in Jamai ca from the few healthy trees not Infested". . . .Like Islanders every where the Bermudans are fond of the things t hey have always known and are willing to wait several decades for the new cedars rather than fast-growing substitutes. The men at the quarantine sta tions are doing faithful work for t'S, and they don't enjoy rummag ing through our personal belong ings! Surely they rale our friendly cooperation and appreciation as we remember Bermudan cedars. . . . and our fruit fly and boll weevil fights! The Two-Party System, We Fear, Is "REACTOHAIW" Fulton CHICAGO Candidates for LJ nomination are all lined up here in Chicago waiting for Pres ident Truman to start playing tag. Since the apparently conclusive withdrawal of Gov. Adlai Steven son of Illinois as a candidate, most of the others are hoping that the President will do his selecting in private. All he has to do, they argue, is to pass tne word along lo the political bosses on whom he wants as his heir apparent. Most of Uie candidates are con vinced that only a miracle could obtain the nomination for any one of them without the President's indorsement. The reason for their shyness in being named publicly as the President's choice, how ever, was expressed adequately by Stevenson. The Illinois Governor decided that a combination of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as Republican nom inee, and President Truman's public indorsement, would be too big a burden for any Democrat to carry. Stevenson is said to feel that anyone chosen by Mr. Tru man assumes in the public mind, at least the mantle of the President's blunders and his po litical philosophy. That is too much to expect of any loyal Democrat, he is reported to have reasoned in bowing out of the contest as rapidly as possible. Mr. Truman's hesitancy in nam ing his choice has resulted in a serious case of political itch on the part of some candidates. But a waiting game is the only safe one tor the President to play. He lust be certain that whoever is inded the nomination can be trusted. So far it appears that Mr. Truman has complete faith in only one man. W. Averell Harriman, Mutual Security director, who hasn't been working very hard at the job lately. The reason Mr. Truman has lo be careful is that his wing of the Democratic parly can't afford lo have the candidate tapped for the nomination, double-cross the Ad ministration. This could be done by tearing into graft and corrup tion, for instance, in an accept ance speech, or by holding out an olive branch lo Southern Demo crats after a tough civil rights plank has been rammed down U)e throats of delegates. The fact Is that hardly a Demo crat alive wants tn run on Mr. Truman's record. They all agree that there arc many adequate campaign Issues among the Presi- I dent's accomplishments, but they I can'l seem to forget Ihe deep ' freezes, the mink coats and the . lush lax favors for known gang j slers. The Ideal presidential endorse i ment would be a quiet word lo his i polilical bosses, a public state ! ment that he has no favorite and a quick trip out of Chicago. But most of Ihe candidates feel that . this Is but a dream. I The President and his While House cronies want a "safe" i candidate - one who will stick to the President s record, and one gracious enough lo reward the rinht people In event of a Demo cratic victory In November, The latter Is the overriding is- ' sue insofar as Mr. Truman's po litical pals are concerned. They want another slice of the polilical , pie if a Democrat wins. They i would also feel more secure in j know ing that many embarrassing White House would be in safe' hands. The very thought, for in- j slanre, of having someone in the I ! White House who might be filled I with revenge over past political . ' slights is causing many night-1 "RADICAL Lewis Jr. the Democratic presidential mare-filled nights for White House cronies. Assuming then that the Presi dent's chief aim in coming to Chi cago is to obtain a "safe can didate for the job, his choice is limited to two men for all prac tieal purposes. They are Harri man and Oscar Ewing. Mr. Truman does not trust Sen ator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma and his While House buddies are fearful of what Southern senators would do to their reputations if Senator Russell of Georgia got the nod. As for Senator Esles Kefauver, Mr. Truman considers him an in tellectual and political interior. machine . bosses never know how seriously Estes takes himself as a crime buster. They fear that he might even neglect patronage to appear on television again. At any rate, it will be Mr. Tru and Ewing may just be stalking a dark horse for the Democrats in control of the party. If so, neither can do anything but play his role politely. They have already said that whatever Mr. Truman wants is all right with them. The President assumes it will be all right with the delegates, too. We 11 see. Hear Fulton Leu'if Daily On KRrR, 9:15 P.M. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) tipped the scales AGAINST the av erage family, CUTTING BUYING POWER BELOW THE PREVIOUS YEAR." There's the story of inflation for you. Inflation gives us MORE DOL LARS that BUY LESS. In time, it CUTS our buying power instead of increasing it. That time is now here. New York: "Three cousins arrested early tis morning while going through the pockets of a man sleeping in a hallway indignantly denied they were Pickpockets. One of them ex- plained "Some money had fallen out of his pocket and we were trying to put it back." You know, it MIGHT have been true. There ARE good people as , well as bad people in this world. ! Personally, I choose to believe that for each bad person there are ten good persons. j But I One has to admit I Whenever some bad person does something bad, and gets caught at it, and it gets into the papers, he comes up with a high-sounding ) alibi that makes what he did sound ' good. I j As a member of the Fourth Es I tate. I'm cynically convinced that 1 a whale of a lot of people don t , wnrrv about WHAT THEY DO but WORRY FRIGHTFULLY when they ge( caught at it. By the way, who knows, just off- hand, the origin of the term Fourth Estate? It is supposed to have been first used by the gre.at English states- i man, Edmund Burke. In the course Here for Good war . of a speech in the house of com mons, he pointed to the reporters' gallery and said: "Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, more important than all the others. That leads to another quiz ques tion: What (in Burke's day) were, the other three estates? They were the three classes of people that made up the States General of France the clergy, or the First Estate, the nobility, or the Second Estate, and the com mon people, or the Third Estate. The Stales-General was France's first (quite rudimentary) parlia ment. It was formed in 1.1(12 and lasted until the French Revolution in 1789. It didn't meet at regular times. It was called by the king in times of "emergency," when he wanted advice, or MONEY, or moral sup port. Recalling the character of the King of France of that day, I imagine they called the States-General into session only when they needed an alibi. I'm beginning to suspect that if congress met ONLY on the call of the President, it would be used in about the same manner today. What Burke really meant when he referred so flatteringly in the house of commons to the Fourth Estate, was this: By telling the people what Is go ing on and why, the press enables the people to GUARD THEIR LIB ERTIES against encroachment by the demagogues, the self-seekers and the ambitious and unscrupu lous leaders who reach constantly for more and more POWER. Knowledge of that fact is what caused our Founding fathers to guarantee freedom of the press in our constitution, tatting the peo ple know is the high and sacred function of the press in a de mocracy. Any newspaper that consciously poisons the news it gives to the people is recreant to its trust and befouls the confidence reposed in the press by Burke when he termed it "the Fourth Estate more im portant than all the others." Centennial Princesses Dated For Rodeo Visit Six of the seven Douglas County Centennial princesses will partic ipate in the Cottage Grove Riding Club Rodeo Saturday. Leaving Saturday morning at 8 a.m. are Marlene Lutcy and Valarie Sparks, both of Rose burg; Marjorie White and Mari lyn Frentress, both of Myrtle Creek; Janis Dowdy, Winston and Margaret Ann Smith, Scottsburg. They will be escorted by Rose burg Paul Bunyans and chaper oned by Mrs. T. L. Goodwin of Roseburg. The six princesses, wearing their new Centennial cowboy outfits for the first time in public, will ride in the parade at 10 a.m. Saturday and attend the rodeo at 1:30 p.m. It Is believed that the real sur face of Jupiter cannot be seen from the earth, but that men look at clouds or vapors above the surface. Jupiter is slightly less dense than the sun. ALL MASONS ALL MASONS are cordiolly invited to attend the Annual Masonic Picnic to be held at Umpquo Park Sunday. Picnic dinner will be at 1 :30 P.M., July 20th. Pleas bring your family and hove a good time. Games and entertainment will be provided.. Please bring a salad, or hot dish, your own table service and a good appetite. - Rolls, coffee, soft drinks and ice cream will be furnished. REMEMBER all Masons and their families. Come as early at you like and make a day of it. However, nothing is planned for the forenoon, in the way of gomes or entertainment. Airline Pilots Plan Strike Over Court Decision WASHINGTON ! Pilot! of Northwest Airlines Thursday plan ned to strike but didn t say when over federal court mling that restored David L. Behncko to the presidency of their union. A spokesmen said the walkout may spread to other airlines just when there is a heavy demand for air travel to the Democratic convention in Chicago next week. Judge Walter J. LaBuy ruled la Chicago last week that AFL Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) members violated their own con stitution and bylaws in kicking Behncke out of office last year. He ordered Clarence N. Sayen removed from the post and Behn cke restored. Larry Cates, the union's top re presentative in Washington, was one of a group in the Washington and Chicago offices which resigned from ALPA's staff after the de cision. He told reporters the court de cision makes Behncke a dictator since the pilots cannot meet among themselves or deal with their com panies without Behncke's approval. Cates said the decision also de prives the pilots of union repre sentation and made legally ques tionable some 55 contracts the pilots negotiated with airlines dur ing the year Sayen was president. At Chicago, Sayen said plans were under way for most of the 7,500 ALPA members to secede and form a new union. While declaring that the strike was basically over the court ruling, Cales said the pilots have acum ulated several grievances against Northwest over grounding or firing of pilots, vacation rights, pay and other matters. County's Young Democrats Plan j Charter Banquet The newly-organized Douglas ! County chapter of Young Demo- j crats is planning to make its char-1 ter banquet an auspicious affair. I At the second regular meeting of the Club Thursday night in the City Council Chambers, the date ! of the banquet was tentatively set for Aug. 9. Also on the tentative list is the major speaker. The Club is rea sonably certain of drawing How ard Morgan, Oregon's new Demo cratic Committee chairman and Candidate Edith S. Green, nom inee for secretary of state. The Young Democrats also hope to study the program with additional state executives. High on the programming committee's list are plans to get first-hand informa tion on the Democratic national convention in Chicago. In discussing the convention, Douglas County Democratic Cen tral Committee Chairman Mrs. Christina Micelll urged the neo phyte members at the meeting to wire and write to delegates at the convention. "Demand that they re spect the wishes of the Oregon voters," she said. Mrs. Micelli also reported on her 'visit last week to the State Central Com mittee meeting. A final speaker on the meet ing program Thursday was Dick Whittaker, second vice-president of the Lane County Young Demo crats and member of the State Central Committee. As a final phase of the meeting program, Avery Thompson ran off films of a trip to the Orient he took on a round-the-world lour for debaters from the University of Oregon in 1927. V Custody Of Son Sought By His Divorced Father A petition for a writ of habeas corpus for return of a son the petitioner alleges Is held by his former wife, has been filed in Circuit Court by Edward Stanley Funderburk. In the petition, Funderburk asks return of Edward Charles. Funder burk the son whom his former wife agreed to allow him custody of. according to the petition. Funderburk said the boy is "wrongfully restrained" at 873 N. Commercial St. in Salem, by his mother, Nellie Funderburk. The petitioner claims his former wife was granted custody o( the child in a divorce proceeding and the custody was reaffirmed later in a subsequent custody hearing before the court. Later Mrs. Funderburk agreed to give the custody of the child to the father. Funderburk said Edward Charles remained with his father for two years. He was later returned to his mother temporarily, the petition claims, 'while the father moved his business and equipment to Douglas County. The mother has refused to allow the child's return to the father. SUES ON ACCOUNT G. T. Haupert, doing business as Tractor Sales and Service, has filed suit in Circuit Court against Earl Bliven for $975.63 allegedly due on account. It is alleged, and also refuses to allow the father to see the young ster. In the petition, Funderburk also asks the right to have his other son, Robert, stay with him for the summer months. PFAFF ROSEBURG SEWING 400 NORTH Naws-ftavtaw kaa aat faeea I I 4aVaret by 1 I I S a.au, oa I ,2-26)1 batwaa fclSaad-pje. SSH-S, finest" Randolph Slocum and John H. Horn announce their association as attorneys at law- effective Telephone 3-3015 HAWKINS0N Highway 99 North at Channon St. Phone 3-4298 AUTHORIZED HAWKINSON TIRE RE-TREADING Attention Builders! 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