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4 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore Wad., July 23, 1952 Published Doily Exctpt Sanday by Hit News-Review Company, Inc. IMnl t.e.na claaa maltar Mai 1. la " Hsitbarff. Oraiaa, aaai ael t( March t, lall CHARLES V STANTON EDWIN L. KNAM Editor Maaaiar Mambar of tha Auaclolod Pratt, OrtfaR Nawiaaaat Pablithan i Attaciolion, tha Audit Burton of Circuletieiii t.arataaiaa y wr.BLLioAT to. in;.. m", i '. Caiaata. San rraaclara Laa Aafalaa. laallla, rartlaaa, St. Laala aUBK R1CTION RATES la Oia.-Bj Mall Fn t.ar. tlt.ta: all mania, laraa aaaalaa. tt.7i. Br Nawa-Blw Carrlar Far T.ar, Slatalla ae aaaoal. Ian Ibaa ana raar, aar mania. (1.211 Oulalde Orefon By KaU rac Taar. til. 00. all BamBa. aj.aai Ibiaa manlba, is.ai. BUDGET WINS AT LAST By Charles V. Stanton : The City of Roseburg at last ia able to set up its fiscal program for the coming year. It required three elections, but finally we are able to form a budget. ; Despite publicity, pleas by the mayor and the budget committee, coupled with organized telephone and sound truck endeavors to get people to the polls, less than 25 per cent of the city's eligible voters responded. But that is a decided improvement from the less than 10 percent at the two previous elections. The City Council and Budget Committee will meet to night to canvass the vote and to hear any recommendations for changes in the budget as published. One change already has been pledged. It has been agreed that salaries shall be limited to an increase of five percent, rather than the 12 per cent Dreviouslv alarmed. This decision is a great disappoint ment to many city employes. Whether the raise will be suf ficient to meet competition and halt the rapid' turnover in various departments are still to be learned. It is to be hoped that we can soon put an end to these frequent budget elections. We will have opportunity this fall to vote on a consitutional amendment authorizing a tax ing unit by a majority vote of the people to adopt a new tax ' base at a level not higher than any one of the last three years. This amendment will not abolish the six percent limitation law. It will, however, enable corporate bodies that have ex perienced expansion, and which have outgrown their former tax bases, to adopt more realistic bases and possibly halt the frequency of special elections. These special elections, coming so often, apparently have dulled the sense of responsibility of our voters. Light votes lead to complications such as we have experienced. We are not alone in this situation. It is a general condition. Other municipalities have been forced to resubmit their budgets this year. Some are still in doubt. The reason, we believe, is that people become tired of traipsing to the polls every few weeks. ' If the new tax base amendment is passed at the fall election, and if the people of Roseburg will approve a new tax base adequate to municipal requirements, with a six per cent permissible increase annually, wa should be able to de crease the number of elections required each year. This, in turn, should result in more representative voting. Returning to the matter of salaries, we find one group of employes very unhappy with the pay situation. Members of election boards feel that $4 is too little compensation for from 11 to 14 hours of work. DEMOCRATIC LOYALTY PLEDGE Anything can happen at a . Democratic convention and usually does. One of the weirdest happenings was the so-called "loyalty pledge" which was railroaded through Monday night's session. 1 A demand that delegates accept sight unseen a nominee and party platform is rather peculiar. Yet, from a party standpoint, it has merit as a means of enforcing majority rule. But should any delegate consent to abandonment of the right of personal freedom? Should the trend toward execu tive control over the people be extended to include the party's delegates? Is it consistent with American policy to permit a President to hold dictatorial rule over a convention to the point of naming his successor and binding all delegates in advance to concur in his choice, without their even knowing who the nominee might be? There are, of course, other factors to be considered. Following the Inst convention Southern delegates bolted. They set up their own party in some states and refused to permit the name of the regulnrly nominated candidate to ap pear as the party nominee. They may follow the same tactics at this convention. Northern leaders are trying to assure presentation of the party nominee as the Democratic candidate in all states. But there is fear that the Southerners may take another walk and again nominate their own candidate. That would virtu ally assure a Republican victory. Even worse, there is some talk that the Southerners might go so far as to name Eisen hower, which would be the fatal blow. So, as is the normal course of a Democratic convention, a wrangle starts at the very outset, despite pre-convention efforts to keep it a big, friendly family gathering. But don't be fooled. The Democrats thrive on intcr-partv fights. They've been at it for years. And for the last 20 years they've managed to have things very much their own way. IvIEHDIHG BASKET "And1 fairy fingers Closo unseen tiic pimpernels. ." Maybe so. But the way 1 heard It is that moisture in the air regu lates the opening and closing of "the poor man's weather-glass." At any rate, seeing clouds I went out to have a look at the exquisite little plants (don't you dare call 'cm weeds!) that grace the rocks In the parking space and everv tiny salmon blossom is shut "tight er than Dick's hatband," as KJ says. Just who Dick was and why his hatband was so tight I've nev er heard. Have you? Well, a few clouds look like rain so here's hoping it it'j all right with oiks who have hay and fruit picking to think about. The California pop pies are closed up, too, and it's long past their opening time. Sun time! When we had a really lovely gar den (and the pverlastiug work that went with it!) it always fascinated me to sec tho way the flowers of fered a kind of flower-clock. I would wait for the four o'clocks to open, and oh, never did 1 see such plants as those. Not even In Oklahoma where I thought the planls were enormous. The black seeds would drop in a black circle around the plants. I remember driving far out on the desert one day, and as we re turned toward evening, suddenly the desert was carpeted 'with ex quisite little white evening prim rases! They opened as if at an orchestral cue. Low, mat-like, and large for the plant that bore them. Untorgeltable. It was the samo way with a hillside of poppies suddenly, about ten o'clock one morning, the hillside was a blare of gold. In memory I can see-a small boy, squatting on his heels, a loaf of bread (for which I was waiting) clutched tight under one arm. , , I went to Investigate. What mother could have helped wail ing too, , ."till the poppy takes oil its hat?" Sure enough tho jreen cap eased off, the satin petals began to open. , .and a little boy's eyes shone with the Does the Poor Guy Ever Wonder If It's Worth It? OF BEER-Them COUV? CO 3ACK TO WORK. If HI i'-V.-'-i nt j r fl I ax "Willi OZACOLVCLAtf pitWi WE-M 'll M Vaj'LL 6eT ' ' CHAMPAGNE C 41 ,1 d I 4 -a1 Cl. .r - ! . " V -M.;-:aT Fulton Lewis Jr. fate of the convention pivots on the floor battle over the delegates. If ADA wins, it's just a question of which of its own candidates gets the prize, , - ; One thing Is sure: Russell will be through. For whatever force he may wield, If any, Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma will be teaming with' Russell in the preliminaries. He hates Kefauver with an almost pi ous cordiality. So does Barkley, but if the Veep has any hopes of getting the nod from the White House, which from all present in dications would clinch the first po sition spot for him, he has to stay in the good graces of the ADA. The Kcntuckian is an old-timer in politics and is not where he is by believing in political birds, bees and flowers. His weight probably will go against Russell. With .Rus sell out, the South is out, and with the South out, the traditional Dem ocratic party is no more. Q.E.D. Hear Fulton Leivis Daily OnKRNR, 9:15 P.M. In the Day's News CHICAGO The ingredients at hand, just before the opening gavel of this Democratic national convention of 1952, seem to constitute an unescapable blueprint for suicide. The party's biography reads like a textbook on crises, anyway, and (he experience of Philadelphia, in 1048, was itself a narrow enough escape. But the accidents of the past are being transformed here into the calculated patterns for to day. . The watchword no longer Is "the South may bolt." Hubert Humph rey, Herbert Lehman, and the pink hued northerners who operate through the Americans for Demo, cratic Action now chant the blunt and open cry: "Throw out the South. We've won without them before, and we'll do it again." ' The strategy pattern they have adopted is a direct lift from the Dewey - Kiscnhowcr plan, which successfully blitzed what appeared to be an impregnable Taft - owned Republican convention in this same stockyards auditorium a fortnight ago. As the Dewey tacticians worked the issue of the Georgia Texas -Louisiana delegations to the con vention floor, where power politics could supplant the rule of merit, so the ADA manipulators arc forc ing the Texas and Mississippi del egate fights to the same forum. As the non-Taft elements of two weeks ago joined in a bone-crusher coalition to seat delegates and al ter rules lo the advantage of their own interests, so arc the Kefauv er - llarriman - Humphrey groups combining against Georgia's Dick Russell. The first test will come on the credentials committee recommend ation that the regulars from Texas and the Delta state be seated. If Humphrey and company can add those 70 votes to their coalition, their chances of wedging their civ il rights plank into the platform again will bo Ihat.much stronger. Russell's general staff thinks the delegates will go three to one in favor, of the regulars. Only a show down will tell the story, of course, but the bulk of curbstone opinion here is the other way, and in one important particular, the Humph rey crowd has won a preliminary, skirmish, ' The credentials committee de cision to seat all the surplus dele gates on a fractional vote basis plays into their hands in that it increases the mass of the appeals courl, and thus improves the chances of successful demagogic arousal. Humphrey played that technique at Philadelphia in 11)48. He's at it again here in Chicago. The present Intent of the South erners, however, is not to walk out of this convention as some of them did the last time. Instead, they will remain in their places so as to be able to register their votes on the presidential nominee, then go back homp lo state con ventions and nominate Ike and Nixon as Democrats. The consensus is that in most Southern states, the Ike - Nixon team would be successful against anybody except Barkley or Rus sell. The latter has intimated that he will withdraw his name if the ADA element gets its wav about the civil rights plank. Thus the thrill of it. 1 wonder, are there evening stocks in Oregon, too? Don't von love that exquisite fragrance that weights the dewy air of rvr-n'ne, when they are in blossom? Oh, dear me, I want a garden again! Maybe by next year. . , . (Continued from Page One) you vote for a daniyankee you're an outcast and a pariah. It was suspected (perhaps not without reason) that several Deep South delegations might go home and, using state laws, put Eisen hower on the ballot AS A DEMO CHAT. That is what started the shooting. The "loyalty oath" was designed to head that off. What about the "civil rights" business? Some speaker yesterday (I'vs forgotten now who it was.) let the cat out of the bag on that issue. In 11 key Northern cities, he sairi. the BALANCE OK POWER is held by the colored vote. The Demo cratic party needs to keep and tne Republican party needs to gel these key industrial centers. That's about the long and the short of it. As it comes up at the national party conventions every four years, there isn't an ounce of sincerity on either side so far as this compulsory "civil rights", business is concerned, If, by the power of moral recti tud we're to lead the world on to better days, we've got to get rid of racial intolerances and prej udices here in our own country. We can't command the respect anil the following and the cooper ation of the colored races through out the world (black, yellow and so on) if we're integrant and un fair lo members of these races here in America. But we can't solve that problem by shady political finagling every four years for the racial balances of voting power in our big indus trial cities. We'll have to go deep er than that. That's flat. As this is written, it looks like Stevenson is it. I don't doubt that he's a pretty good man. But I think this much is evident from the maneuvering that has gone on in Chicago: It is the POLITICIANS who want Stevenson. They're willing to take Stevenson to BEAT Kefauver. I still hope the Democrats name their best man, run him on an ALL OUT New Deal-Fair Deal platform and make it a clear-cut contest. I think these are days when we need to know where we're at and where we're' going. It seems to me from all the talk in Chicago that the politicians fav. or Stevenson because they think maybe they'll be able to cam paign for him on both sides of the street. The professional . politicians aren't much interested in clear cut issues. What they want is to STAY IN POWER. I still think Kefauver would be tho Democrats' best man. He has what It is coming to take in these times which is the confidence of the people. He has demonstrated that over and over in the primar ies, where the people simply go to the polls anu vote their prefer ence and the politicians can't do much maneuvering. In the long run, as things are shaping up in this country, the confidence of the people is going to be more important than the back ing of the politicians. Idealistic? Of course it Is, But we're beginning to need some GENUINE idealism in this nation of ours. PICNIC DATE CHANGED Date for the Kiwanis Club pic nic has been changed from Aug. 17 to 24, announced Delvin H, Durham, general chairman. The place will be at the Rod and Gun Club grounds. Social Security Pay Hike Needs No Application SAN FRANCISCO W An esti mated 572.000 persons in seven western states and Alaska and Hawaii will receive higher old age and survivors insurance payments, beginning in September. The regional office of the Fed eral Security Agency announced Tuesday that the increased checks, for September, would be delivered early in October. The increased payments resulted from the' social security amend ments signed last week by Presi dent Truman, F. W. Hunter, regional director of the KSA, emphasized that no one needs apply for the increased payments. He said they would bs made automatically through the mail, The states and territorial! and number of recipients in each in clude: California, 383,000: Washington, 91,000; Oregon, 60,000; Nevada, 4,600, and Alaska, 2,400. Learning Comes First During Spring At OSC ' OREGON STATE COLLEGE - Thoughts of Oregon Stale college students turned not to "love" this spring but to the library instead. it would appear from the latest re port on term grades issued by the registrar's office. Grade averages for both men and women during spring term were considerably above the fall nd winter quarters when warm weather, spring fever and roman tic inclinations ware not such com plicating factors. The men posted an average of 2.63 with 2 points representing a C grade, 3 a B and 4ian A compared to a 2.57 average during the winter term and 2.55 in th fall. Women students during spring term combined to make a 2.80 av; erage. Iheir winter record was 2.76 and the fall, 2.68. Veterans continued to show their attention to book duty. Their av erage for spring term was 2.84. Follow the Democratic Convention COMPLETE COVERAGE ON K R X L Brought t Ym by Ywr , PHILCO DEALERS , JACK PARKS owl SON HASC0 ELECTRIC ' UMPQUA VALLEY APPLIANCE MNSEN FURNITURE ami APPLIANCE K R X L 124 ON YOUR , DIAL For News, 'Sports and Music OSC Students Attend Summer Military Camps OREGON STATE COLLEGE Some 320 Oregon State college stu dents have taken to the land, air nd sea this summer, attending summer camps and cruises de signed for training officer candi date material for the country's military branches. Of the 320 total, 98 OSC'ers are enrolled in the advanced army pro gram, 137 in the air force, and 8o in Ihe navy and marine group, ac cording to military officers sta tioned at the State college. Navy rsserve officer students might be considered more lucky than other military service cadets this year because they docked at several foreign ports on European and Carribbean cruises. Future military officers from OSC visited campuses from Geor gia to California and Maryland to Washington. Iim Ml btn ! daRvarad by I 1 aV 1 1 p-fn., pkoM I MM I bvtwaiM MSawd lf.n.f Meet Your Lockwood FORD MECHANIC ' .': ; - ; ; WHEEL ALIGNMENT ! SPECIALIST j ELWYN "DOC" . P0C0CK Elwyn "Doe" Pocock has , been taking the shimmy out of car wheels for four years in our shop, since he and his - family came to Roseburg from California. "i . . Doc uses the "Beam '" '. t J Alignment System" in our . '" shop t.o make your car sa-fer ." , nnd easier to drive. He knows wheels, their idiosyn- crasies and the methods of correcting their faults. He has been trained by Ford and Mercury mechanical experts, and he takes ' refresher courses on Beam Alignment machines. 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