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4 . The Newi-Rtvlew, Roseburg, Of. Sar. July 19, 1952 Ntlhlied Daily Ufpt Smear k Hie News-Review Company, Inc. I.IIIH ! " . I " .bMf, Oragia. Hi ! March t, Itll CHARLIS . STANTON IOWIN L KNAPP loiter Maeor Momker tha Aitoolated Piau, Oroten Newtpoptr f ubli.hara Anocletioii, the Audit turaaa at Circulation! anaiul tr west-bollioat co. inc., oinm la Njw t.rk, Cklut W " rii.elM.. L. AaillM. ..III.. r.HL.rf. 11. L.ili Ure. b.iUii. Il.lt. Br H.wi-Btlw trrlrrr T..r. ''' ' A." I. 1ST T..r. .r "' 1.U OuLld. Or.lon-y UII r.r Tr. (Il.a. ,lm -..in. M.Ui IkrM ..lkh ti ll. LET'S BREAK By Charles y. Stanton Considerable work is being done, we are informed, to turn out a larger number of voters for next Tuesday s spe cial city election than participated in the two previous elec tions on the municipal budget. It is very much to be hoped that the effort will succeed. The issue deserves a represent ative vote. It Is not our purpose to say how anyone should vote. We do say, however, that more people should express their opin ions. The conduct of our local government deserves atten tion of all our citizens. We cannot have good government without voter participation. We often wonder how many of the people who complain about municipal services vote at city elections. Does a per son have a moral right to criticize if he neglects his own re sponsibility? Is a person justified in saying that a police man, for instance, isn't doing his duty when the person mak ing the charge neglected his own duty as a voter? Can we expect city officers, the council, and others connected with city government to be enthusiastic in their work when less than 10 percent of the qualified voters attend the polls to vote on a critical matter? Election Coils Too Frequent We realize that failure to vote at local elections does not necessarily imply a lack of interest in local affairs. We have so many elections that we grow tired, careless and negligent. We have an exceptionally busy community. Tak ing time to vote often is an inconvenience. Yet voting is an essential and vital part of government. In fact, it is the most vital factor, if we are to maintain our democratic forms of government. V But every year we must attend several elections for school districts and municipal governments requiring author ization for tax levies in excess of the six percent limita tion. Then we have bond elections, votes on candidates for school director, and special issues from time to time, until it seems we are being called to 'the polls almost every week. Frequent elections are penalties for living in a com munity experiencing boom growth. Certainly most of us want growth and progress, so we must pay for it by giving more time to solution of problems raised by expansion. Personally, we're mighty proud of Roseburg and Rose burg people.. Looking back a few years we can see that we have vastly enlarged and improved our municipal services. Our expansion problems have been well handled to date. Troublesome , Times Ahead Naturally, we have made some mistakes. Cut mistakes have been far fewer than might be expected when we have had somany problems with which to wrestle. Looking at the whole picture we've done well and without waste or extravagance. On the whole we have been conservative and practical. - . We need to do some serious thinking about the future. We must plan ways and means of meeting problems now looming on the horizon. Our traffic situation is becoming almost intolerable. We must begin planning for more bridges across the river. Our sewage disposal facilities already are inadequate in capac ity and population continues to grow. We rejected one pay-as-you-go plan for enlarging sanitary facilities, but we'll be forced, in the very near future, to take some positive action. We need a new city hall. Better facilities for our public library must be provided. We should have a civic auditorium. We could use more parks and playgrounds. For safety, health and orderly development, more suburban ter ritory should unite with the These are only a few of the problems ahead. We can hot meet them without serious consideration by tho public and decisions expressed at elections. But what chance do we have for representative decisions if less than a 10 percent vote at special city elections be comes a habit? Tuesday's election, after the two dismal showings pre viously made, offers us an opportunity to show that we DO have an interest in municipal affairs and are willing to do our duty as citizens of a progressive, growing community. , or We were just laughing about the tlma I fixed a very attractive talad for the PTA potluck, and not a soul touched it, to my great embarrassment. Seems the ladies were not accustomed to salad in a bowl lined with washed nastur tium leaves, and decorated with a little nosegay o blossoms tucked In the center. (I don't suppose they had ever watched thoir moth era pickle the seeds, eitherl) From that I led my mother on to taik about her girlhood. . . .she was born in London, in 1871. "The clock man came promptly at eight every Monday morning and wound1 all the household clqcks. My father wanted every one exact, and tliry were! He was a very stern man, but very just and kind. . .The French hairdress er came once a month to singe and trim the hair of each one in the family, I was, you know, the youngest of seven." What about food storage in those days? "Well, your grandfather al ways bought big loaves of sugar about so high (Mother held her hand about two fect'off the floor) in a pyramid shape, wrapped in blue paper. We had a cutting ma chine that would make tidy pieces of the sugar. We also had a heavy brown sugar called demerara which one does not see nowadays." (Dictionary says it came from THE HABIT municipality. Lending BASKET British Guiana) "Tea came In big square chests covered with straw matting. From China, of course I don't re member any coffee at all in those days. Mother always bought cloth for various purposes by the bolt, and a woman came every spring for six weeks to sew for the fain, ily. She also made red flannel belts for your grandfather an; the older boys; the belts were sent away for the finishing with leath er. 'Fine nainsook was used for underwear for my sisters and me, but never anything but handwork. I can see the fine lucks, now. all put in by hand. . There seemed so much more TIME in those days. . ." Mother .smiled: "I have heard your grandmother tell manv limes of the first shirts with fineiv tu.-k- ed bosoms she made! She ha j to make six, perfectly, without help, before her father would consent to her marriage. Her parents had not thought it fitting for a girl to be raised with brothers, so she had been allowed to come home from boarding school onlv at Easter and Christmas. Then when her mother passed on sud denly, the young schoolgirl was brought home to preside over the household. When the six shirls were none to her father's satisfac tion, she was married" Mother's Fulton Lewis Jr. Elf V-Tl itsf ik CHICAGO Negro leaders have informed Democrats gathering in Chicago that colored people hold the balance of political power in Ohio, Illinois, and California. They assert also that, along with other so-called independent voters, Negroes are potentially the balance of power in 14 other northern states with almost 300 out of the 531 electoral college votes. Tha reminder, Issued by Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, is expected to encourage Northern Democrats, such as Senator Hu bert Humphrey of Minnesota, in the fight for a strong party civii rights plank in the Democratic platform, Humphrey needs all the encour agement he can get, The same ferocious battle over civit rights that rocked the 1948 Democratic convention will be refought here next week. In 1048, Humphrey stampeded the convention into vot ing an anti-South civil rights plank. He was successful because of his oratorical skill and aggressive tac tics. Both are likely to prove less charming to delegates this time, but a slrong civil rights plank is in the offing nevertheless. Most of the Negro leaders now in Chicago talking to Democratic politicians do so with tongue in cheek when speaking of the Negro vote' as a bloc. They know, as do the Democratic leaders, that the Negro vole is not cast as a unit any more than is the labor vole. Senator Robert A. Taft proved this conclusively in Ohio in 1950. The Negro, however, has a se rious stake in both political con ventions. His reaction to parly platforms is the concern and rightfully of spokesmen for the colored people. No less important to his political welfare is the se lection of a candidate. The political situation in Chicago this year is not comforting to Ne gro leaders. They know (hat the South will not accept a candidate with the views of a Humphrey or a Senator Herbert Lehman. They know also that northern machine bosses secretly refuse to go that far on the race issue as they proved in 1944 by rejecting Henry Wallace for another term as vice president. At the same time the Negro Dem ocrat, like his Republican counter part, is interested in tho welfare of his party. He knows that a strong civil rights plank will not be re nudiatcd. Rut he also knows that the Democrats may well comprom ise on the issue in the selection of the two top candidates. The NAACP has already criti cized Senators Russell of Georgia and Kerr of Oklahoma. On the Republican side, it has rejected the civil rights views of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, but has remained silent regarding the views of Sen. Richard Nixon. Nix on is popular in California among Negro voters. W. Averell llarriman and Sena tor Estcs Kefauver are the two can didates for the Democratic nomin ation who have been handled gent ly by Negro Democratic leaders Roth have associated themselves with President Truman's views on Negro problems. Kefauver, howev er, being from Tennessee, has to overcome the natural antipathy of Southern Negroes for a southern politician, despite the views of Ne gro leaders on the subject. The Negro vote in the South is near the 2,000,000 mark. This fact is of less importance to the Dem ocrats, who traditionally win. than to Republicans. The OOP is hope- blue eyes looked surprised "just a hundred years aso this December." Words ond Music by Harry Truman Bilk VJI MJ k tWtaa rBilaBaBr- B BaaaVaBtF-BBl ful that Eisenhower and Nixon will carry a number of southern states. The Negro vote will have a lot to do with fulfilling this hope. Where the Negro voter goes this November depends on what the Democrats do next week in Chi cago. A strong civil rights plank in cither party platform will not convince the Negro voter that he is headed for the equality he wants. His concern is the man who is named to carry out the pledges made for his welfare. In this re spect the burden of proof is on the Democrats next week in Chicago. Hear Fttlton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. Residents Urged To Visit Winchester Plywood Mill SUTHERLIN We have in our fair Douglas County one of the finest plywood plants on the Pa cific 'coast. Located in Winchester its beautiful setting strikes even tho tired travellers' interest. The pond looks so refreshingly clean; this pond has a great capacity, but it is now nearly empty of log, for the mill is shut down and for sale, . Let's take a look at it.- We are impressed with the pond of many acres, but the aluminum covered buildings compel our attention. These were built by someone who has had experience constructing such places someone who knew how to make motions count. As various men and their wives from all over v Oregon have in spected every part of the mill, all comments have been favor able. This is truly a beautiful set up. Many of those people have ex amined the plant well became they want to buy a share in the coop which is being ' formed. They all seem to have worked hard for their money, and what they have they want well-manjg-ed. You can see this in their earnestness. Two men are holding the option, until enough share-holders (1001 have signed up to insure the cop-op's being organised; they are the risk takers. Shareholders put $3000. down and $50 a month until $.V)0O is paid. Each shaie is a working share: they wish it to be a 100 per cent co-op with profits equally shared. Operated just long enough to be well-broken in. this plant is ready to go immediately. Costing more than a million and a quarter to build, the coop is in a position In get it for less than the original cost. Time is essential now as the In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) mie's hearts as the plane took off from the airport in Denver bearing away from them their hope of the future. , 1 How well do you know your Kip ling? Do you remember this one: "Judy O'Gradjr and the colonel's lady are sisters under the skin." "Well, there in Denver ,Mn. Dwight D. Eisenhower, wife of the Republican nominee for President of the United States, and all the mothers who ever said good-bye to soldier sons en route to the fight ing front were sisters under the skin and NOTHING ON EARTH can ever change the relationship. Maybe you're still class-con-scions. Maybe you're saying: "Oh yeah; but he's a major and a West Pointer, and his father is General Eisenhower. He'll do all right." Wait another minute Check back through the news and recall how many West Point soldier sons of soldier fathers well up in the brass have died in Ko rea. War is the great leveler. Inflation note: The interstate commerce com mission gives permission to the Pullman Company to hike its charges by about 23 per cent. Un der the new schedule, which takes effect on July 28,, standard lowers go from a minimum of $4.0.1 to a minimum of $5 and tourist lowers go from $3.20 to $3.95. Heck! It even costs more money now to SLEEP! More Inflation: The government of Australia orders an arbitrary boost of all basic wages to try to keep up with rising living costs, but Australians fear the new government adjust ment WILL ONLY MEAN HIGH ER PRICES. They must have been reading the news from the U.S. where we're learning the hard wav that that's EXACTLY what happens. One for the book: An arbitrator in New Bedford. Massachusetts, order wages in New Bedford textile plants REDUCED 8'i cents an hour, and the textile workers union agrees willingly to go along with the decrease. Why? It brings the cost structure In New England down closer to the competitive cost structure in the South. WHICH HAS BEEN GRAB BING TEXTILE MILI.S AWAY FROM NEW ENGLAND - AT A SHOCKING RATE. - Inflation, you see, not only robs I u tiuuugn me pocKeiDOOK put up fsets and reshuffles long-established industrial developments. Pendleron'r Former Mayor Harfman Diet PENDLETON i George A. Hartman, 75, former mavor and lostmaster of Pendleton, died Fri rlay in Oakland, Calif., friends vere advised here. , Hartman. long active In public iffairs, was mayor in 1921-2.1 and 'lostmaster in 1M3-48. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, serving in the Philippines as a leutenant-colnnel. He held a number of public positions here before retiring in 1948 and moving to Oakland. The widow in Oakland survives, as do a brother. Fred, in Pilot Roclo and a sister. Mrs. Charles Meyers, in Portland. option date has already been ex tended. Are you interested? Visit this place See for your self. Come to the plant Mondav evening, July 21, 8 DST. The Win chester Plywood Association looks like a wonderful opportunity. VERNA GEDDES Sutherlin, Ore. Eisenhower Must Plot Own Course To Inspire Voters' Trust In COP , By BRUCE BIOSSAT -Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican presidential nominee, has a great task ahead of him, A political novice and an amateur in domestic affairs, he must now develop a program and learn how to take command of his own political fortunes. , He won the GOP nomination be cause he was the most popular candidate. His popularity Is root ed in trust in him as a man, in his character and his motives and his qualities of leadership. In the, month he campaigned as a political figure, he spelled out no specific policies He talked in general terms, indicating broad approaches. Yet be was not taken wholly on faith. For the general had already proved himself ns a soldier, diplomat and (talesman in two of the most crushing as signments that any American has ever assumed. If is natural for many people to feel that a man who could do what Eisenhower hat done as a commander of wartime and post war armies might well master the art of domestic statecraft. It is natural too, that many are disposed to turn to a new face, a man without malice, who stands out so sharply against the tired old faces that today so heavily popu late both major parties. Politically speaking, Eisenhower is a clean sheet of paper on which nothing sordid or disheartening has so far been written. In his quest for the nomina tion, he had the further advantage of representing the moderate ele ments of the Republican Party. Since 1940, these forces have al ways proved strong enough to choose a presidential nominee, though they have not had the power to wrest control away from the more conservative wing in the intervening years. Curiously, Senator Taft it him self a moderate Republican in many important respects. But he has become a symbol of more ex treme elements. In campaigning he has not striven hard to shake this label. He has been content to let it apply. This association with extreme conservatives, plus some aspects of Taft's personality, underlie the widely held conviction that "Taft can't win," the devastating argu ment thai brought him again to Canners Assn. Voices Warning On Steel Strike WASHINGTON I The Nation al Canners Association said Friday that "continuation of the steel strike will make it impassible for the canning industry to process available but perishable" farm crops. It estimated sufficient cam are on hand lo preserve only about half the peach and tomato crops and proportionately less of other fruits and vegetables to be harvested later. Corn, tomatoes and peaches, the association said in a statement ".are in the greatest jeopardy at this time." The big bulk of the three crops, harvested during August and early September, normally goes into cans. j "Should the strike end today, a speed-up in can production might ' hold the loss of these perishable crops to a minimum," the associa- i tion said. j "It is obvious, however, that for each successive day the strike continues, the daily loss will be come increasingly larger." I Mobilizer John R, Steelman, in his latest quarterly report, said the nation stands to lose '20 million! cases of canned food for each week the steel strike continued beyond : July 1. - I Seeking to head off as much of that lost as possible, the National Production Authority directed the Weirton Steel Co. last week to direct its entire output of canning tinplate into perishable food chan nels. Blazing Woods In Northwest Still Battled By The Associated Press Thousands of acres of Pacific Northwest timberland lay black ened Friday and countless thous ands of acres of other woodland threatened to explode into flam ing fury under a cloudless sky und broiling sun. The weatherman saw no relief in sight. The forecast was for sun ny skies and temperatures ranging in the high 80s and 90s throughout Oregon, Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon. The two major fires still raging out of control Friday were both in Washington. One of the blazes still uncontrol led started Thursday in extremely heavy slashing between the North and South Forks of the Nooksack River, in Whatcom County six miles northeast of Wickersham. It had covered AO0 acres. The other major fire was locat ed near Ellensburg, in Clockum Pass. Severe winds handicapped begrimed firefighters Thursday as they battled to halt the 200-acre blaze. Other Firti Controlled Two major fires were controlled Thursday. A blaze that jumped from slash ing into green timber and claimed the lives of two loggers Tuesday was brought under control Thurs day after covering 3SO acres on Lookout Mountain in Skagit Coun ty. Two thousand acres were burned over by a fire that was controlled Thursday in Klickitat County, near White Salmon. That blaze started Monday. defeat in his third try for the nomination. Eisenhower U free of these handicaps. But he has a full set of his own. Up to now he has been acquiescing in political de cisions affecting his .campaign, rather than commanding. If he is not to be a mere creature of oth ers, he must now take hold and chart his own course. ; More than that, he must be gin to offer evidence to the voting public that the faith and trust the people have in him is not mis placed. With all Us corruption and de cay and internal disorder, the Democratic party is still a pow erful force in American politics. The political analysts who have troubled to examine closely the voting habita of the U.S. electorate are unanimous in concluding that the Democrats have a substantial majority. The Republicans are unlikely to wrest away any crucial part of this majority or to convince new vol ers unless they formulate a con structive program that offers all Americans real hope. It is Eisenhower's task, there fore, to translate the trust that is felt in him as a man into trust for the political party he now leads. Nows-IUvtow f hoo oet booo b I dotWody I I fclSpjMupMIMI I Mill ohoo iild7jB. KILN DRIED PLANER ENDS 16" SLAB WOOD 24" SLAB WOOD S Year Old Decomposed Sawdust for Your Garden or Flowers RED DIAMOND FUEL CO. Roteburj, Dial 3-4491 1 rXlt&3 DITCH DIGGING SEPTIC TANKS SEWERS WATER LINES FOOTING OUR DITCH DIGGER WILL GO TO A DEPTH OF I FEET " j. r. McAllister Rt. 4, lex 20S ' Phono 3-8447 V Mil Wosr On Ola Highway Road A Tribute To- FARM ERS While you ore still sleeping, a million ond more men ore up ond working with the good earth. They ore America's vast and vital ormy of Farmers. Upon their brood ond patient shoulders rests the lifeblood of our 155,000,000 people. They provide , . the food we eat. They provide the meat . ond eggs ond milk ond vegetables which' come to our tobies. Their products, won from the soil, go to countless manufac turers and processors who, in turn, make other foods ond clothing for us to wear. The Farmer, indeed, is the backbone of the notion. We solute him os one of our most importont citizens! FARM SAFETY WEEK, JULY 20--27 Manufactured and Distributed by Douqla$ County Creamery Established 1899 We Salute Douglas County! Iuni ana Dial 3-1237 Ken Bushey Wins Trip To Bermuda Ken Bushey of Harmony House, 230 N. Jackson, leaves for Ber muda July 30 on a trip he won from the RCA Victor Co. , The local record man had the highest percentage of sales among Oregon stores of RCA 101 Best Seller records during the three month period, April through June. This give him air transportation to and from New York, thip pass age to Bermuda and a short stay on the island all expense free. He'll be back in Roseburg about Aug. 15, stoppingin New York and Chicago on his return trip. Harmony House went about 200 per cent over the quota set for it by contest officials. Sales were about 30 to 40 per cent above the competing Oiegon stores, . said Bushey. The contest is nation-wide, with one store winning in each state or distributorship. 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