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CLEVER SIDESTEPPING
, ; . By Charles V. Stanton
' i Was it smart politics on the part of General Eisenhower
to spurn President Truman's invitation for a White House
briefing on the military and international situation?
i. By rejecting the President's offer, he opens himself to
criticism from the opposition that he is endangering national
security. ; Had he accepted the invitation, he would have
been charged with being a "Truman man," a label the Socialist-Democrats
are endeavoring to hang on him. Either ac
ceptance or rejection would supply ammunition to his oppo
nent-", i , :. . ,
It is interesting to compare this situation with accusa
tions Contained in Herbert Hoover's memoirs as recently pub
lished in Collier's magazine.
Hoover relates that after his defeat at the polls, and
pending Roosevelt's inauguration, he invited the president
elect to conferences on policies to speed recovery from the
Great Depression. He says he urged that Roosevelt join in
fixing interim policies. Roosevelt declined the invitation.
Hoover charges that rejection of his invitation caused a re
lapse in recovery, already underway, and that Roosevelt, after
his inauguration, proceeded to set up the very .machinery
Hoover had urged months earlier, plus costly boondoggling
projects. The ex-President says Roosevelt's refusal to coop
erate cost the country millions of dollars and materially de
layed economic recovery.
Eisenhower On Spot
, ' Eisenhower's refusal of Truman's invitation could have
similar repercussions. Should he be elected and find sudden
emergencies arising, he could be accused of endangering the
country's security through failure to accept briefing. Thus
he might get his administration off to a bad start.
Eisenhower, of course, carefully protected himself on
this score, expressing willingness to "instantly change" his
decision should a grave emergency develop. He based his re
jection on the grounds that he wanted to be free to criticize
the administration. Administration spokesmen, however,
pqint out that Eisenhower was informed he could bring along
his press, secretary and other members of his staff and would
not be bound to secrecy, except on security matters.
Perhaps a newspaperman can understand General Ike's
position a little better than most people. Just what consti
tutes "security," and how far would Ike's freedom to criticize
extend had he accepted the President's invitation? News
papermen have had experience with that problem.
Of f-The-Record Subterfuge
, 'j The administration, and particularly its bureaucrats, .has
used the "of f-the-record" dodge very freely. A. spokesman
from Washington or an administrative agent, speaking be
fore a civic club, such as Kiwanis, Rotary or Lions, or when
addressing a convention, will announce that his remarks, for
security reasons, are "off-the-record." This means that
newspapers cannot discuss or criticize in detail. By use of
this subterfuge, speakers endeavor to throttle the press. Cer
tainly any statements which can be made safely to a group of
50 or more persons are entitled to general publication. News
papermen have blocked this subterfuge by announcing their
presence in the audience and declaring publicly that they will
not be bound by secrecy where supposedly "security "matters
are discussed before a quasi-public body.
Eisenhower, in refusing the President's invitation, side
stepped the off-the-record subterfuge the administration has
used quite effectively in the past.
Had he attended the conferences, and had he then of
fered criticism of policy, he immediately would have been
accused of releasing "classified" information, Charges
, would have been hurled that his discussions of policy were
placing the country in jeopardy.
Actually, Eisenhower doesn't need the offered briefings.
No man in the country today has more knowledge of the in
. ternational situation, Ho is fully informed on existing pol
icy, because ho was forced to work under it. He knows its
strength and its weaknoss. He has superior knowledge, too,
of Communist policies. He could, in fact, contribute more
to conferences with the President and State Department than
he could receive.
His rejection of the invitation, in our opinion, was a
very clever piece of strategical sidestepping.
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izi A.S is. Jr. 1
"Zarephath" Ihr word caught
my ear as I (uncd across the
dial. But I heard no sharing of
joy In what the word had come
to mean to the speaker. She lived
in a town of that name. . . well,
it was a name out of tho Bible.
When prodded further she said,
' "Well, some people In the Bible
had trouble at a place called Zar
ephath . . ." Evidently the radio
interrogator didn't know anything
to add?
As I went on wilh my work I
kept thinking about Zarephath
. (II Kings, 17). Bible stories are
like packets of seeds, aren't they!
' One finds each time one thinks of
o Rihl alnrv. nr rends one acain
new meaning, new inspiration
added food for thought, lust as,
walking in a familiar garden, one
notes new blossoms, new growth,
and promise of more to come.
During the depression a little
family was having a rather diffi
cult time due to the fact that the
earthquake, or rather fear of an
other earthquake, had emptied 13
houses within a block or two. Part
of their living had come from
those rental commissions. There
wre simply no real estate sals
then I
The parents made every effort
to keep their own anxiety away
from the children, and most of
the time they, themselves, had
faith that all would be well. But
one morning was, especially, a
tesling time. There was no money
whatever In the house. . . none
"in sight," and there was need of
it.
When the children had gone to
school, and her husband had gone
to make a business call I there
are knighls in shining armor at
such times, even if the visible
apparel seems blue serge shiny
from much pressing and wear!)
The housewife, alone, was free to
let down, to give up to a despair
that seemed overwhelming. .She
had done all she could, she
thought! No! She hadn't done all
she could! She reached her hand
out for her Bible and opened it.
It opened to the seventeenth
chapter of Second Kins. . . When
she closed the Bible some time
later she felt like a different wom
an. Her heart was full of faith
lighted confidence. She didn't
know just how the need would be
met but oh, she was sure, now, it
would be. All she had to do was
get busy making that "little rake"
and she didn't need a mixing
bowl and an oven for It. She met
her husband at the door with a
heart full of joy and gratitude
;tj . 'if
Stevenson's Huddle With
Truman Gives GOP Heads
Opportunity To Use Needles
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON OP It might not fit like a Brooks
Brothers suit but if a political candidate could borrow an
elephant hide for the duration of a campaign he wouldn't
twitch visibly every time the other side plunged a needle
in him.
Up to this time General Eisen
hower and Governor Stevenson
have been under the public micro
scope, undergoing the usual exam
ination for ideas, attitudes, prom
ises, personality, past performance
and all-around savvy.
The campaign is still a little too
young, and the things said about
them so far have been generally too'
mud, for anyone to have a positive
opinion about the relative thick
ness of the two men s skins, a con
dition which can be revealed only
through some sharp needling.
fcisenhower s running mate, Sen.
Richard Nixon, seems to have
shoved a needle a yard deep in
Stevenson when a week or so ago
he offered the public opinion, free
of charge, that Stevenson was the
"captive of the CIO and other
special interest groups.
It may have been only an optical
illusion if anyone thought he saw
the governor jump when he got
this jab. But at any rate he quickly
took pains to say he was his own
master.
Carbon Copy Question
One of the questions in the cam
paign from the beginning, of
course, has been this: Would Ste
venson, if elected, be just a carbon
copy of President Truman or
would he provide the country with
a fresh Democratic administra
tion? As if to demonstrate ho was
strictly his own man Stevenson
picked his own men to help him
in the campaign and made his
headquarters in Springfield, HI.,
many a country milo from Truman
and the professional politicians
who bow three times at sunset
every day in the direction of the
White House.
And suddenly, like a man who
had felt a slight chill, Truman said
now he was 'just a buck private
in th rear ranks." Although he
had been rarin' to set going on a
speech-making trip around the
In the Day's News
country, Truman now seemed to
be waiting word from Springfield
on what Stevenson wanted him ts
do and how.
Then Truman invited the gover
nor to lunch with him and his cab
inet at the White House. Wlien
Stevenson accepted it's hardly
likely the invitation would have
been announced if Stevenson had
not accepted no mind reader was
needed to predict that very shortly
somebody among the Republicans
would announce the White House
get-together was clear evidence
that Stevenson was under Tru
man's thumb.
Joint Needle Operation
And yesterday Stevenson had
hardly pushed himself away from
the White House table when Nixon,
who had about a week to polish
his needle, stuck it into Stevenson
again. He said Stevenson's White
House engagement made him
"part and parcel of the Truman
gang."
A few hours later Eisenhower
got out his own needle, which was
exactly the same as Nixon's ex
cept it was wrapped up in a little
more elegant language. The gen
eral said Stevenson's White House
visit meant he "is subservient to
the political forces which have too
long been in power in our country."
Eisenhower had swip?d mildly at
Stevenson once before but this was
the first real attack by the general
on his opponent.
He can, of course, ignore the
whole business. If he answers it,
it may provide the first test of his
statesmanship. Depending on how
he answers he could (A) look silly,
or (B) offend Truman who wants
him to win, or (C) make Eisen
hower and Nixon wish they had
kept quiet.
This gives him an excuse, if he
wants it or needs it, to let the pub
lic see what kind of skin the gen
eral is wearing.
Permit To Construct Fills
Or Piling On Lower Umpqua
River Asked Of Army Dept.
Applications have been made to the Department of the
Army for two projects involving the placing of piling or fills
in waters of the lower I'mpqua River, reports T. W. Rags
dale, chief, operations division of the Corps of Engineers,
Port land.
The Oregon State Highway De
partment, Salem, has applied for
a permit to construct fills for
highway realignment along the
south shore of the Umpqua River,
westerly (downstream) from Ihe
mouth of Koepke Slough at various
locations along Ihe shoreline over
a dislance of about 8500 feet.
The toe of Ihe fill slopes will
lie landward from the low water
line in the east half of the area,
and in the westerly half of the
work it will extend channehvard
from the low water line into small
sloughs southerly from the main
channel and shoreward from low
marsh islands along the south
shore.
The second application is made
by the Gardiner Lumber Com
pany, Longview, for a permit to
drive piles and dolphins for log
raft moorages in the Umpqua and
Smith Rivers near their conflu
ence near Reedsport. Sites for the
proposed moorages are as follows:
1. In Smith River extending
downstream 450 feet from an ex
isting 3 pile dolphin on the south
erly side of the entrance to Butler
Creek, to an existing 3-pile dol
phin. Piling, spaced at 50-foot in
tervals, will be driven in a direct
line between the two existing dol
phins, which are on the left i east
erly) side of the Smith River chan
nel, 2. In the Umpqua River along
the northerly side beginning about
900 feet east from the mouth of
and he shared her hope. Refore
the day was over, in a way totally
unforeseen by either of them, that
problem was solved.
Never again did Ihe "barrel of Smith River, and extending up
meal and Ihe cruse of oil" seem , stream in the Umpqua River about
quite empty to them, although; one mile to the north-south town
there were other testing times. ! ship line common to township 21
There is no formula for finding south, ranges 11 and 12 west of
one's needed "answer" in a Bible Willamette Meridian. At this lo
story. but it is there! Wailing to ration the piling will be spaced at
unfold in one's heart as gently and 50 fcot. wilh a 3 pile dolphin every
as naturallv as a rose unfolds third interval. These piling will
never doubtl generally follow the low water line
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to get them. We can't leave those
guys for the goonies!
Who are the loonies? They are
the swarming red Chinese who
come on and keep coming on,
endlessly, out of that overflowing
reservoir of cannon fodder that is
red China, two more springing up
to take the place of each one
that is shot down.
And who are the pitiful THEY
the wounded, pain-wracked mar
ine in the hospital train was re
ferring to in his agonized screams?
They are the dead. Those for
whom the fighting is mercifully
over, for whom the long last sleep
is beginning. For them the horror
and the terror are over.
But their bodies!
Their bodies musn't be left for
the goons to trample on.
And
Awful thought
Among the dead there may be
those who SEEM to be dead, but
in whose bodies there still glows
dully the faint spark of life. They
mustn't be left to the horrors of
a communist prison camp.
Battered, broken, bloody, it
wasn't the blinding pain of his
own wounds that American boy in
the hospital train coming back
from the grim struggle in the Ko
rean hills was thinking bout. It
was the fate of his comrades left
behind on the field of battle that
was torturing him, even in his
delirium.
And there was Ihe 19-year-old
boy with the shattered leg. He
and his buddy were manning a
machine gun. They were jumped
by a BATTALION of red Chinese.
In his weariness and his pain, he
was muttering the story.
"About 20 goonies ran toward
us. We shot down a lot of them.
But those goonies were all around.
We knocked them down, and more
kept coming right on. . . One
goonic sneaked up behind us and
jumped in our trench. . . But he
landed on his own grenade. . .
It blew him to bits. . . Some pieces
of it hit my leg. . . I kept on firing,
but everywhere you looked goonies
were coming down on you. , . It
was AWFUL."
I The 19-year-old kept on fighting
all night. In the morning, when
the battle lulled he crawled down
Ihe hill, dragging his splintered
leg behind him, and found a front
line aid station.)
"Semper fidelis."
Faithful to the last. The motto
of the Marine Corps. These Amer
ican boys who are the individual
units that make up the Marine
Corps LIVE UP TO THEIR MOTTO.
What about us on the home front?
Do we do as well?
I doubt it. But I think y,e would
do better if we were as well led.
These bovs of ours over there in
Korea are led by DEDICATED
men. Men who govern their lives
by this rule: What is best for my
country? If it is best for their
country that they die in their
tracks, they die in their tracks.
Too often, here on the home
front, we are led by men who ask:
What is best for ME' What will
get me the most voles?
A thought in closing:
In this political campaign, in
this vear of decision, let's never
forget that the BIG ISSUE is get
ting as leaders men who will gov
ern their every act of leadership
bv this rule:
What is best for my country?
of the northerly shore.
Letters expressing views con
ccrnini! the effect of the work on
navigation on this latter project
I are requested from all interested
I parties by Sept. 2. in the office of
I the District Engineer. Portland,
I and on the former project by Sept.
i J.
Sutherlin Courtesy
Draws Appreciation
ROSEBURG (To Our Suther
lin Neighbors) We, the parents
of members of the Gene Smith ac
cordion band, wish to express our
appreciation for the courtesy and
hospitality shown us last Saturday
when our band marched in the
Timber Days parade.
Sutherlin should indeed be com
mended for its public spirit. The
whole town went all-out to make
its celebration a success.
We hope to again be honored in
the Timber Days celebrations of
the future.
Signed: Mr. and Mrs. George
Goergen, Mr. and Mrs. Bjorne
Paulson, Mr. and Mrs. Gor
don Larson, Mr. and Mrs.
George Niday, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Gladwill, Mr. and Mrs.
Lsslie Pfaff, Mr. and Mrs. W.
R. Knaggs, Mr. and Mrs. i
James W. Watts, Mr. and
Mrs. H. D. Gladwill, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack C. Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. Mcrl Austin. Mrs. Fran- I
ces A. Young, Mr. and Mrs. j
Ward Cottrell, Mr. and Mrs. j
Dennis Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. !
George N. Kuhn. !
Grants Pass Planning
For Hardboard Plant
GRANTS PASS Plans for
a hardboard "plant here to use
wood waste, first advanced two
years ago by the Chamber of Com
merce, reached the money-raising
stage Tuesday night.
Charles R. Cooley, local lumber
man who heads a temporary or
ganization set up to arrange fi
nancing, said this was the status:
There is an option on a site
three miles east of here;
The plant, if built, would be a
year in construction and would turn
out 60,000 square feet of quarter
inch boards daily;
The state corporation commis
sioner has approved sale of a mil
lion dollars in stock and a half
million in 8 per cent debentures,
the money to be banked until the
commissioner decides if it looks
like enough can be raised to start
construction;
Lacking Securities and Exchange
Commission approval, which was
not sought, stock can be sold only
within Oregon.
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New Minister
Was Pastor At
'Sister' Church
The Bailey Hill Evangelical
United Brethren Church near
Eugene is a sort of sister to the
.North Roseburg Church both of
which were started under simi
lar circumstances about three
years ago.
The Rev. Kenneth Dooley, who
will succeed the Rev. E. Clark
Kobb as pastor of the Roseburg
church, comes from Eugene,
where he has pastored the Bailey
Hill Church recently.
Services for the latter church
have been held in a Grange hall
in the winter months, but like the
North Roseburg Church, has
been holding summertime meet
ings, out in ihe open on the future
building site.
The Rev. Mr. Dooley, who
takes over Aug. 24, will be assist
ed here by his wife, Vivian. They
have two children, Terry, 20
months, and Patricia, six months.
He is a graduate of Pacific
Bible College, Azusa, Calif., and
has done graduate work at the
University of Oregon. He is work
ing for his Masters degree.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Robb
will be honored Sunday night,
with a farewell party following
his final sermon at the church.
They are going to Spokane, where
the Rev. Mr. Robb will take over
as pastor of the Ledgerwood
Evangelical United Brethren
Church.
Coincidental, another Rose
burg minister intends to move
to Spokane soon. He is the Rev.
Willis Erickson, pastor of Faith
Lutheran Church, and Mrs. Erickson.
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MYRTLE CREEK, OREGON
Business Men Denied
Slash In Assessments
PORTLAND tff) Circuit Judge
W. C. Perry of Pendleton Monday
denied an appeal of IS Multnomah
County businessmen for a reduc
tion in the 1950 merchandise in
ventory assessments.
The ruling by Judge Perry, tem
porarily assigned to Multnoman
County, upheld the County BoardJ
of Equalization and the State Tax'
Commission.
The businessmen asserted In
their suit that inventories of their
businesses were assessed at 60 per
cent of market value while prop
erty was assessed at 30 per cent
of its sale value. They said this
was discriminatory.
The judge ruled it was not.
CHURCH TO PICNIC
Members of St. George's Epis
copal Church, Roseburg, will hold
a potluck supper at 4 p.m. Sun
day in Umpqua Park.
DITCH DIGGING
SEPTIC TANKS SEWERS
WATER LINES ' FOOTING
OUR DITCH DIGGER WILL GO
TO A DEPTH OF 8 FEET
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Rt. 4, Box 205 - Phone 3-847
Vi Mile West On Ola Highway Road
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Minister
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A Tribute To--THE
CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
This hard-working group of civic-minded
citizens deserves o lot of credit nobody
knows how hard they may be finding it to
get people to work for the Centennial's
success. Many are called, but few come
through. Even though the committee it
self may not receive all the recognition
it deserves, its work will still be a tre
mendous success for it will hove pre
served the priceless historical heritqge of
Roseburg and Douglas County. We salute
the following members of the Centennial
Committee, who work without compensa
tion: Lowell Rhoden, E. G. High, Roland
West, Albert Micelli, Stewart Stephens,
C. L. Bagley, and Mrs. Kenneth Ford.
These patriotic citizens ore assisting Di
rector Horace Robinson and May Mot
hews, secretary, in the preservation of
Douglas County's' priceless historical
treasure.
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