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4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Or. Mon., Aug. 18, 19S2 Paolitli.d Daily lep Sunday ky Ma Newt-Review Company, Inc. latartl at Meaae ctau raaltrr Nr I. afflaa al Kartaarg. Oragaa. aagrr ael af March t, 171 CHARLIS STANTON IDWIN L KNAP Miter Maaaiar Manser at Ida Associated Pratt, Oraaaa Naviaapar Pablithara Auoctetiari, the Audit Buiaaa al Circulatiaai Innmut ar wur uoLLlDAi co. ir, arriati la N.w !. Cklcaia. Saa FraaaUct. Laa Aagtlaa. Saaltia. rarllaaS. at. Laala UlIl'lirilON lAtri-la Oitg.a-Br Mall rar Taar. tlt.ta: ait aiaalka. till: Ikraa raaalki. tl.ll. Ir Mawa-.lw C'arflar Par Taar. til .at la at vaaatl, laaa lata aaa rair. aar laaatli. SI M Outilda Oregon By Kail" Par Taar. Ill.at. aia aaaalat. ttti Ikraa aaaalka. tt.at. AMPLE FOOD SUPPLIES By Charles Statements emanating nize. Some administration officials are wailing about in creasing prices on foodstuffs. Republicans in Congress are blamed for removing a part of the economic controls on foods. But while all this anifuished moaning about the plight of the "pecpul," is done by bureaucrats and politicians, the U. S. Department of Agriculture gives a factual appraisal of 1952 croos. showing that the overall food supply will be larger than in 1051. A bumper grain crop is expected to assure ample meat supplies. "Les" Nielsen, Roseburg grocer, tells us that reports of better than average food supply also come from all major retail food organizations. Vegetable crops generally were harvested in drouth areas before serious loss occurred. Packers are said to be work ing at capacity. Food prices are certain to go up. Food, like any other commodity, reflects increased cost of raw materials, wages, transportation, etc. The administration has encouraged wage increases, while complaining bitterly about higher prices, knowing that it is impossible to keep prices down when the cost of wages must be added to the sales price. Profit Arguments Heard We hear many politicians and labor leaders declaring that higher wage costs could be absorbed by reduction in profit margins. There is a limit to which profits may be cut. In many instances we seem to be below that limit. These advocates of profit cuts quote earnings in millions of dollars. Seldom, however, do they speak in RATE of earnings. A company may have a seemingly large income in dollars, yet the rate of earning on money invested, re mains low. Large corporations are finding it increasingly difficult to interest investors in their stocks and bonds be cause the rate of earnings is too low to be attractive. Thus v money for expansion is not available and the worker suf fers because potential jobs are lost. Competition is a natural brake on profits. Every re tailer, faced with strong competition, must keep his prices at the lowest possible figure because his rival will grab the sales if prices are not comparable. In no field Is there more competition than in the food business. Food p'riccs need no controls. They will remain as ow as possible because of competition. But when we interrupt natural balance through economic controls, we pre vent competition from following its true course. ' Consumer demand is the most effective control' over prices. When the price goes too high on one particular item consumers quit buying that item and purchase a substitute. We can't, of course, quit eating. When ALL foodstuffs ail- vance in price, as they have, we become victims of cost of ' living increases. But the fault lies in cost of production items. So long as we have parity prices, increasing wage scales, higher transportation tariffs, more taxes, etc., we can expect high prices on food. Scar Technique In Evidence Competition and consumer demand cease to become brakes on high prices when people become fimrful of short ages. Scare buying causes prices to soar because the cle ment of competition is removed. Administration politicians want higher prices. They want the public to become dissatisfied and confused. Then the finger can be pointed at Republicans in Congress who voted against controls. So, when they cry about imminent price advances, they are endeavoring to bring about scare buying and thus create a politically favorable position. I Even more important than winning the presidency is win ning control of Congress. Congress holds the purse strings. Faced with possiblity of a change in administration the Socialist-Democrats are driving hard for congressional seats. Propaganda is directed toward discrediting Republicans in Congress. Scare technique is an effective way of winning votes from unthinking and timid voters. One of the easiest targets for scare propaganda is the nation's food supply. So the administration spokesmen wail loud and long. There isn't anything sensational or emotional in a dry, statistical analysis by the Department of Agriculture, which tells us there is no danger of our starving to death. But it is easy to get worked up over the frantic moanings of a politi cian trying to perpetuate authority, or a bureaucrat endeav oring to save his lush job. However, all reliable studies show there will be plenty of food for everyone, providing the government leaves us . enough money, after taxes, to buy it. Everybody write these days (Except EJ lie just buys tamps). If the response to an Inquiry In the Drain Enterprise it any Indication of the interest in verse writing in Douglas County communtics, there should be a group in every place. Word got around that the "teacher" I men tioned would he myself imas ine that when I have trouble enough cutting and fitting words together for my own attempts at poetry, which are, thank heaven, lew and far between. I heard a famous poet tell how ha worked on each tossed off po em until he felt it was ready to send out. Cheered me up. Krom what I can gather through years of reading writers' magazines and hearing talk on the radio, one should view with suspicion the poem that pops up like toast out of a toaster. Another thing I learn ed a good many years ago was that the difference one differ ence at any rate between an amateur and a professional writ er is the attitude toward criticism or any adverse comment by an editor or teacher. To be sure one doesn't have to V. Stanton from Washington don't harmo ENDING BASKET I do whatever is suggested by way of a change, but the professional considers the suggestion dispas sionately and adopts or rejects without emotional reaction ex cept, perhaps, a thought of ap preciation that a busy editor took the time. The amateur sometimes is likely to resent or "feel hurt", and even think of the rejected work as unfairly handled inslead of just adding it to the rest of the rejects and, whenever time permits, taking it out and having i another look before rc-mailing. I One should open a relumed I manuscript. Twice I have open ed such an envelope much later and have found a very kind re quest for a revision or change: once it was to be returned "if j convenient" for use in the next I issue. 1 opened the envelope six months later! bo it doesn t pay to assume that a relumed man uscript is a reiecled one until you've had a look, does it? I well remember how I used to fairly shrivel at sight of my own writ ing on a long envelope but now ha! "Bring me another sheet of stamps, EJ and oh yes, some envelopes, two sires. , ," 1 ,fll( fcv: ",r ?.':. I-'rar llmWMm WM 1 1 ise n Vv:V -' J? K A.7J Wm if Fulton lewis Jr. WASHINGTON Col. V. S. Hsiang, who didn't cross the border into Mexico when Chiang Kai-shek asked Hsiang's boss to account for $4,000,000 claimed by Nationalist China, wound up with the same attorneys who represent columnist Drew Pearson. Hsiang acknowledges that Pear son and the Washington Host were sympathetic to his cause. Hnlh have made minor careers of bolt ing Chiang Kai-shek. But just how Hsiang wound up in the clientele of the Fearson law firm, Roberts and Mclnnis, which collected $4-1, 000 for fees and expenses, was the subject of considerable, sworn tes timony before a congressional committee on July 10 of this year. Hsiang was asked by an in vestigator ii he knew Pearson. He said he had met him and re ceived an invitation to Pearson's house. Q "Did Attorney Roberts tell you that Drew Pearson wanted to talk with you?" Hsiang: "No, I knew him before 1 met Roberts." Q "When thus litigation came up, how did you come to engage the firm of Roberts and Mclnnis?" Hsiang: "When I was fired, the column was written by Pearson, and I didn't expect such things to happen. So I met Drew Pear son. I was working desperately for an attorney because 1 never met any attorney in this country, and I could not ask the consulta tion of the attorney of the Chinese Air Force. Then I consulted Mr. KlILston, the chief editor of the Washinston Post, who helped me to clean up our government, and Mrs. Ellislon suggested I get this is the reason 1 met Drew Pearson, now 1 recall. He sug gestcd, he said. 'How about get ting in touch with that man? He might help you'?" Q "Did Pearson make a call from his house to Roberts?" Hsiang: "Wait a minute. The connection Is not very clear. Thi first contact was not through Pear son. The man working under him, Jack Anderson." Q "You got in touch with Roberts through Pearson or An dorson?" Hsiang: "Yes, Anderson." Frances Yuan, a close friend nf Hsiang's and former employee of den. Mow, who was arrested last week in Mexico, subsequently went to work for the Roberts law office. She also knew Pearson, according In Hsiang's testimony. Later Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press THE PILOT ROCK STORY Pendlaton Eait Oragonian It has been a long struggle since Elmer Kerns, Al Moltke and olh ers decided to build a waste wood products plant in connection with Ihe operations of the Pilot Rock Lumber company and Kerns to., Ltd., at Pilot Rock. That was more than a year a?o. They w ade. I through acres of government red tape before getting a certificate of necessity from the national production author. ly. And that was barely the beginning. Financing, acquisition of machinery, etc., were major problems. Now. we have word, via a news story in last Friday's paper that they expect the Oregon Fibre Products plant to be in operation about a year from now, September of 19M. This operation probably is the most important single industrial development in I'matilla county history. It must be considered s.f because tha addition of this plant "Yipe!" fern 3 Hsiang was asked if he knew Al fred Friendly, a reporter for the Washington Post. HsianjS: "Is that the reporter in the Washington Post, Friend ly? He is a very close friend of mine, and helped me to reveal the wholo story in a series, how I cooperated with the U.S. govern ment in disclosing corruption nf the atommcrce international of China. I am indebted to him very much." In addition to the Nationalist funds, the committee is also seek ing several boxes of records. Hsiang, in his testimony, stated that Mow had full authority to act in handling not only the cash leit over in Chinese Air Force mission funds, but complete control of the records. He put it this way In his testimony: "It is no secret at all, as far as my understanding of that. Gen. Mow had two weapons on his hands. One is all the secret docu ments, the second is the money. The aim of Chiang Kai-shek was to try to disarm him because without one of these arms he could not struggle, fight for jus tice." A Committee Investigator then asked, "if Mow has full authority to act, why did he go to Mexico?" Hsiang said that Mow had no choice after American courts had assumed jurisdiction in the case. There are other aspects to the case of the Chinese cash and the armor-plated publicity campaign to discredit our Chinese ally on Formosa. Secret testimony before the Committee at present reveals a rash of installations of safes in homes of various Chinese resi dents In Washington, D. C. One was installed at considerable ex pense by the Mosler Safe Com pany, according to testimony giv en the Committee. A burglar alarm protects the installation and insurance company officials were considered pikers when they re fused to insure the contents for more than $100,000. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. will make it possible for the own ers to use all their timber resourc es in the manufacture of wood products. They will use the bark to produce fuel and the rest of the tree will go into lumber, furniture or hardboard. This assures th" maximum return from a natural resource both in manufactured products and employment. What Mr. Kerns. Mr. Moltke and associates are doing leads us in evitably to consider the untouch ed wealth of I'matilla county. How many of the county's resources are totally or partially undevelop ed? In agricultural production, in wood manufacture, in develop ment of products beneath the soil, in development of w ater resources have we reached total accomplish ment' Of course, we have not. If we did. what would it mean to th? county and all its residents in ad ded wealth? We can only guess. The I'matilla county court and the I'matilla county development commission have at various times considered employing competent 1 li men to make a survey of the coun ty's economy, to determine what could be accomplished to realize a full development of all th coun ty's resources. We can think of nothing that would be of greater service or value to all of us who live in Umatilla county. Either the county court should consider using tax revenue to get such a survey or the development commission should raise the nec essary fund from the commun ities which comprise its member ship. This should be done imme.l iately. We can think of no legiti mate reason for delay. The devel opment at Pilot Rock certainly is adequate incentive for setting that survey. Let's get it now. WHAT IS A CITIZEN EXPECTED TO BELIVE Grants Pass Courier It isn't surprising that, und-.T our current system of government by propaganda, the American peo ple are thoroughly confused as ti what is going on in other parts of the world. It was propaganda put in mo tion by major elements of the New Deal in Washington which father ed the idea of jetting Nationalist China fall to the Reds without it appearing that it was pushed. The Nationalist Chinese govern ment was just too rotten for us to be able to help it. That was the New Deal theme song, under tho auspices of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Lately, top official propaganda campaign has been leveled at Syncman Rhee, president of South Korea. He has been pictured as a corrupt old man who could not be trusted by this nation. A few days ago. the South Kor eans held an election to name its president. Some 85 per cent of the Koreans participated in the election, a far larger percentage of the voting population than ever exercises the right of franchise tn these United States, During the heat of the South Korean campaign, in which three other candidates vied with Rhee for votes, even the Voice of Amer ica belabored the Rhee adminis tration and sought to turn South Korean voters against him. How did the election come out'' Rhee received about five-sevenths of all the votes cast. What, then, is the average Amer ican citizen expected to believe as to the integrity and decency of this nation's official Voice of Amer ica program? ' Boxcar Shortage Hits Oregon Grain Growers SALEM Wi The mid-Willamette Valley's excellent grain crop, combined with a boxcar shortage, is leaving farmers in the area with an acute problem of where to put their grain. Although the Dallas Cooperative Warehouse is still accepting grain for storage, the Mt. Angel, Pratum and Silverton grain elevators are filled to capacity, with few boxcars arriving to take the grain to mar ket. Very few farmers have facil ities to store their own grain. The Southern Pacific boxcar shortage is the result of the recent California earthouake which shut off the normal flow of cars from California for a time. Safeway And Teamsters' Agreement Ends Strike SEATTLE Safewav Stores Inc.. and the Teamsters' Union IAFL) reached an agreement I Tuesday night ending the two day I strike which partially tied up the 40 retail units in Seattle. Stores, manned during the last ; two days by supervisory personnel only, were open on a regular basis. I Drivers and Warehousemen, given ! an agreement providing for a uni-; form starting time between tin. and 8 a m., won their maior issue for which they w alked out. The agreement is tentative and must he approved by a special committee set op by the Western Conference of Teamsters recently to riesl with the company on an industry-wide basis. Explanation For Ousted Police Chief Requested ROSEBURG I don't know Ted Mazac, but a lot of my friends know him and they all say he is a regular fellow. So I feel that he is right in demanding to know the reason he was fired. I don't like this one-man authority. Ted can't be too bad or too wrong, so why don't citizens demand an explana tion. It won't hurt him. At least he seems willing to face it. This deal seems kind of raw to the run of the people who never have had much to say. Bernard Baruch says inflation will destroy us. I say one-man authority will destroy us. DAVID H. SCOTT Roseburg, Ore. Korean Reds Get Sharp U.S. Reply On Phony Offer WASHINGTON I Branding a fresh Communist peace move as "nothing new," the State Depart ment Friday challenged the North Korean Reds to get specific about any proposals to end the Korean fighting. The department challenge fol lowed a statement Thursday night by Kim II Sung, premier of North Korea, that the Korean Reds "hope to get an armistice agree ment wherein there is neither vic tor nor vanquished." This remark, couched in a speech considered by some to be moderate in tone, attracted con siderable attention on the chance that it might mean a more yield ing attitude on the part of the Reds at Panmunjom. But the department statement said this government did not see anything new in the broadcast. And it challenged Kim to put any specific proposals he has for mak ing peace in Korea into the ar mistice negotiations at Panmun jom. Ihe department statement re peated emphatically this govern ment's stand against any enforced return of prisoners of war the key Panmunjom issue. This had the effect of telling Kim that if he wants an armis tice, he is the one who will have to yield along with his Red Chinese allies on this critical point. U. S. Attitude Unchanged The American attitude remains unchanged, the statement said, de claring that United Nations nego tiators have put forward "eminent ly reasonable" proposals for end ing Ihe POW deadlock. "These proposals have not been accepted by the Communists." the statement said. "We continue to be receptive to any proposals which promise further progress of the negotiations toward the solu tion of this one remaining issue. "However, we cannot and will not agree to any proposal that re quires the use of force to relurn unwilling prisoners to reprisals or death at the hands of their former Communist masters. "In addition, we will not per mit the Communists to reduce the negotiating table to a sounding board for their false and vicious propaganda." Oregon Ranch Option Calls For $1,250,000 KLAMATH FALLS I An op tion to purchase the 13,600-acre Meiss Lake ranch, one of the largest in this area, has been taken by Frank Hoefus, Nevada and Cal ifornia hotel man, for about a mil lion and a quarter dollars. Jim Stevenson, owner af the ranch for several years, announced the deal Thursday. Tne ranch is located in Siskiyou County, just inside California. It is planted to barley and oats, and grazes sev eral hundred head of cattle. This year's crops and cattle are not in cluded in the sale. Hoofus operates the Golden Hotel in Reno. Nev., the Bakersfield Inn, Bakersfield. Calif., and the Del Mar Club, Santa Monica, Calif. Commission Is Studying Roil Car Distribution Noel C. Cavendcr, service agent for the Interstate Commerce Com mission, is in Roseburg to study distribution procedure during the current freight car shortage. Cav- enner reports he is endeavoring to determine that cars are distribut ed equitably among shippers. He is investigating complaints from those contending that they are not furnished a fair share of avail able cars. His headquarters are at the Umpqua Hotel. Son of the late C. R. Cavender, a veteran Southern Pacific Com pany employee, Cavender was a resident of Roseburg for many years. He attended the Roseburg schools, leaving this city for Port land in 1929. Pendleton Carpenters Forego Retroactive Pay PENDLETON 11 Pendleton carpenters have decided not to accept retroactive pay increases allowed by a Wage Stabilization Board ruling. Members of Pendleton Local 1776. United Brotherhood of Jour neymen Carpenters decided that acceptance of retroactive pay would work a hardship on con tractors working on a fixed fee basis. The WSB approved an increase of 15 cents an hour to S2 40 an hour. The order was issued August 7. and the increase was made retroactive to July 22, All The Facts Before Voting , By WADE JONES The Truman landslide which completely buried Dewey in 19-18 also covered to the chin the country's top pollsters, the fellows who find out what everyone is going to do before he does it. . Some of them lost a lot of busi ness as a result of having picked Dewey as a shoo-in. But they nad company, and with so many people having been so wrong it was a case of forgive and forget. Since the poll-taking business de pends, for its very existence, on being right a good bit of the time, the pollsters have admitted their mistakes, overhauled their meth ods, and are all set to have anoth er go at it this fall. Some of the principal pollsters, notably Gallup and Roper, have admitted one of their big errors In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) command throw their caps on the ground and jump on them in anger and frustration when the political orders turning them back arrived. He was living with these same "problems" when General Patton hit the western outskirts of Prague, in Czchoslovakia, only to be turn ed back by political orders., The deal to establish the Iron Curtain on the Elbe river and the western boundary of Czechoslovak ia was made at Yalta and the political orders stopping our mili tary forces there, instead of per mitting them to go on and take all of Germany and all of Cechoslo vakia, were issued in accordance with the Yalta deal. Ike knows, as we ALL know now, how much better our situation in Europe would be if we had ALL of Germany l instead of only half of it; and all. of Czchoslovakia in our possession.- It's little wonder that he wants to stay free of political entangle ments with the Fair Deal admin istration, which followed the New Deal administration, which MADE THE YALTA DEAL. Good for you, Ike. You know a booby-trap when you see one. This invitation to bring you into Wash ington and "brief" you was a are fully figured out booby-trap. We newspaper people know all about that scheme. For years, whenever it has been desired to hamstring us so that we can't criticise what has been done, we've been brought into these "briefing" sessions. After we've been flatter ed all over the place by big shots who slap us on the back and put their arms around our shoulders and call us by our first names, it is explained to us that everything that has gone on in the "briefing" period is "off the record." It has been to'.d to us we are informed, because we are so big and so important that it is es sential we should KNOW what is going on. But we mustn't so much as whisper to anybody even an inkling of what we've been told. That wouldn't be kosher. It would be violating a costi dence. . That's the scheme they're try ing to pull on you, Ike backing you into a corner by giving jou all the intimate details and then tell ing you it's off the record and they're doing it all for your own good. The purpose would bo to make you feel that after you'd been handed the whole lowdown you just COULDN'T be so mean as to go away and criticise. But, thank goodness, Ike, you're nobody's fool. Y'ou weren t born yesterday. You know your way around. That's the kind of leader we need in these critical days. Utah Forgoes State Property Tox For 1952 SALT LAKE CITY JH Utah's state property tax was eliminated Wednesday for 1952. The reduction was made possible by record collections of personal income taxes and corporation tax es. Last year the state levy was 6.3 mills. OHrVfeo- MUTUAL SELECTIVE FUHI QottirVi STOCK FVNO SYNDICATE OF AMEJtO tinrtisinti services MINNUrOUS 2, MINNESOTA Or l Mf, cAp and met! tMpw Wm CL B K A O B lilt PUrrli.n aibnr. Or Ph. t-stlt FhM Mia riw tiiiMimiiu aw num. tfc MTMtMMI MOipMf tMUMN U Mini O lavtMen Mvraal hmlm Stowa. rwl O ltMMn Sil.nli. Wmmi D lavMton Srm. af "r I Aa Or Pre-Mix Concrete, Inc. MATERIALS: PIPE Culvtrt, Swtr, Irrigation PRE-MIX Mt Any Spcctficoi font EQUIPMENT RENTALS: P & H .'2-Yd. Shovtt D-8Cot LtTourneou Carryall Hough Diesel 1 !i-yd. Loader Ford Hydraulic Scoop end Ditch-Digger Pre-Mix Concrete, Inc. 449 2nd Ave. S. Uoseburg Phone 2-2694 was not continuing to sample vot ing sentiment right up to tha time of election.. As a result they badly misjudged which way people would go who made up their minds at the last minute la lot more went for Tru man than was expected), and they didn't take into proper account that a lot of people would change their minds at the last minute. As it turned out, sorno hints came up on the nationai scene at the last minute which changed a lot of people's minds. To take care of that possibility this year tha poll takers are understood to be ex tending their probing right up to voting time. Which is all very good and In the best scientific tradition. How ever, there remains with us a hopeful if ill-defined feeling that the American people will some how forever defeat attempts tn peg them down to the last decimal point. Those voters who in 1948 refused to make up their minds until the last speech had been made, the last newspaper read, the last fact examined, will always dodge be coming somebody's reliable statis tic. Here's to them. 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