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WHAT'S A GOOD DEMOCRAT?
By Charles V. Stanton
"I'm still a good Democrat," Al Flegel told the Rose
burg City Council Monday night in announcing that he
would not be a candidate for reelection to the office of
Mayor. ,
We can't understand how Al can claim to be a good
Democrat when he acts like a Republican.
As a good Democrat, Al would not surrender his of
fice. He would stay in power forever, if possible. No good
Democrat ever voluntarily surrenders an office.
As a pood Democrat. Al would never have announced
so far in advance his intention of not choosing to run. He
would have kept everyone guessing until the last minute.
As a good Democrat, Al would have delicately hinted
that he might, under proper conditions, be "drafted."
As a good Democrat. Al would have created an arti
ficial crisis to scare the city's voters, even though the
crisis might have no justification.
As a good Democrat, Al would have introduced some,
thin? to eet everyone thoroughly confused.
As a good Democrat, Al would never (repeat) NEVER
have announced that he would give his support to ot all
uersons a Republican.
Having only recently participated in the Democratic
Presidential Nominating Convention as an alternate dele
gate from the Fourth Congressional District, Al Klegel
must be fully informed on tricks ot Democratic campaign
strategy. Yet he has violated all the rules and precedents.
Can he then lay claim to being a good Democrat?
Has Served Roseburg Well
Mayor Flegel has, in our opinion, served Roseburg ex
tremely well during what will probably go down in history
as the municipality s most critical period.
Al didn't want the job of mayor. He was a candidate
for city councilman. But lie was persuaded to run for the
executive post at the last minute. That was six years ago.
Roseburg was just beginning to suffer from growing pains.
Opinions differed widely on municipal policies. Much
friction and factionalism existed.
Flegel set a progressive course. He made use of a city
planning commission. He made wise appointments. . He
discussed issues freely with all factions. He obtained opin
ions and ideas. Roseburg's form of government was
changed to the city manager system. We built a long-de
layed municipal swimming pool, put in parks and play
grounds, deVcloped a strong recreational program for
youngsters. We made many city improvements, enlarged
municipal services, expanded our airport, and, in general
met the demands of progress in an efficient manner. Yet
our city tax rate has remained fairly constant. Although
our budget has multiplied many times, the millage rate
has undergone little change.
Yet Al claims he is a good Democrat, when the Demo
cratic policy is waste, extravagance, deficit financing and
boondoggling.
City Ably Represented
One outstanding feature of Al Flegel's service has been
his willingness to represent the city upon all occasions. We
marvel at the vitality and energy he has shown in filling
speaking engagements, attending meetings, conducting ra
dio programs, serving as official host, and performing an
endless round of services, while still conducting his offi
cial job and looking, after his own business. Yet with all
the pressure on his' time, he still spends hours with his
favorite hobby, pee-wee baseball, and umpiring ball games.
If Al and his gracious wife have had a doz.en evenings
alone at home during the six years he has served as may
or, we'll be quite surprised.
We're sorry to see Al quit the mayor's job. Yet he
surely has done his part toward serving the city and is
deserving of a rest. He'll still be in the thick of things
because that is his nature. We can be sure he'll be ready
to perform any tasks assigned to him.
But when he tells us he's a good Democrat, we reserve
the right to disagree.
Hut perhaps we're wrong. Maybe he is a good Demo
crat. At least, we wish the Democratic party had a lot
more just like him, particularly in the higher echelons.
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Wo parked down by the freight
house, as the ticket agent suggest,
ed, but mercy, my mother hud In
walk another five cars beyond thai
spot! Her roometto was the very
last window in the very last car!
A person needs good legs, or a
wheel chair, to go anywhere by
train! How different to a plane.
One door for everybody, and not
a block - long walk, past porter
after porter waiting expectantly
till his particular reservations have
been gathered in.
Of course as we waited for the
train, we talked of everything (ex
cept how we hated to have Mother
return to Long Beach for the win
ter I. We 'remembered when' the
trains started up wilh a yankely
yank, as each car jerked into mo
tion. We couldn't hear the Cascade
get under way. It just began to
slide along, as soon as the last
porter had disappeared, and the
train was one smooth caterpillar
of shining aluminum with no open
ings visible! Wonderful, really.
Isn't it?
I always find it exciting to watch
1 plane take off, or a ship sail we
used to do both so often when wc
lived not far from the airport in
Long Beach, and the harbor was
our favorite drive. But these sleek
diesel-powerod trains have an ex
citement, too, haven't they? And
they go regardless of weather that
sometimes keeps a plane ground
ed. We talked with a comlm'tni- wlm
was dead heading over In Klamath
Kails to bring hack the second
section of the Cascade. He had
many stars on his sleeve, and was
proud of his 46 years of service.
It struck me. hi- had the same
kind of far-seeing blue eyes one
associates with a sea going man.
Such a man must be ready to give
instant decisions in emergencies
no telling from one minule to
the next what will come lo him in
line of duly!
All the time Mother was here I
had wanted to lake pictures of her,
and she had resided every at
tempt. Hut as she went from our
sight my heart snapped a lovely
picture ot her, smiling gamely
down at us, pretty while hair, corn
flower hlue eyes, and her favorite
hat with violets . , ,
To Mother
Now you have gone 1 dnrl my heart
Concealed a camera, taking
Pictures of you with loving art
A snapshot book it was making!
Well, Well, Fancy Meeting You Here!
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Greyhound Gains
Control Of Two
Westward Lines
CHICAGO I The Greyhound
Corporation said Wednesday it
plans to assume "complete con
trol" Oct. 1 of two bus lines link
ing Chicago and the Pacific Coast.
The lines involved are Union Pa
cific Stages and Interstate Transit
Lines, intercity bus systems oper
ating between Chicago, Los Ang
les and Portland under the name
of Overland Greyhound.
Greyhound Corporation, which
has owned 33 1-3 per cent ot stock
in the two lines, announced it has
purchased the stock interests in
the two firms held by the Union
Pacific and the Chicago and North
western Railway.
Interstate Transit operates be
tween Chicago and Los Angeles
via Omaha and Salt Lake City,
with connections to Denver, Kan
sas City, Mo., Sioux Falls, S. D ,
and Fairmont, Minn.
Union Pacific Stages run from
Salt Lake City to Portland, Ore.,
and Spokane, Wash.
Brother Against Brother For Medford Mayoralty
that his brother was a fine mayor,
h was going to try to beat him
MEDFORD Mayor Dia
mond L. Flvnn in his bid for
election has run into a petition-
nominated opponent who concedes
the mayor is "wonderful." The op
ponent is Thomas K; Flynn, the
mavnr'i hrnllipr.
Tom said that despite his feeling
There's a third candidate in the
field, too: Jack Swayze, I service
station man.
The filing deadline is Aug. 30.
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FOR FIRE: 2-2692
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Fulton Lewis Jr.
WASHINGTON' The National Education Association
is a vigorous defender and promoter of the United Nations
Educational, "Scientific and Cultural Organization.
NKA was established as i na-
In the Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
CHANGE IN THE NATIONAL
ADMINISTRATION.
As a prominent Texan, Jones is
necessarily a Democrat.
tional organization dedicated to
the betterment of teachers and
schools in Ai.erica. It has cs
tablished an enviable record of
success as such, but almost since
the inception of UNESCO in 1915.
NEA officials have adopted the
international organization's pro
gram as its own.
This is the first time in the na
tion's history that an organization
of leachers and school supe-in-lendents
have ever run such a
high fever over a group that in no
way has any affiliation with die
A.hcrican school system. The rea
son is worthy of examination.
Williard E. Givens. executive
secielary of the National Educa
tion Association, is a member of
the National Voluntary organiza
tion of UNESCO. On January 27,
lfl.2, Givens departed from his oi
ficial duties wilh NEA to defend
UNESCO, its aims, its procedures,
and, in effect, its interference with
the American school system.
Givens said that criticism of
UNESCO interference in our
schools is "a deliberate phase of
a concerted drive on freedom of
thought in America."
His views are an insult to the
thousands of American mothers
and fathers who have written to
me expressing their alarm at what
is being taught their children to
day in relation to world govern
ment, divided loyalties and Ihe
need for more international plan
ning to control our lives. None of
these parents have .-ny desire to
control thought in America: all
are alarmed at Ihe efforts of NEA
and UNESCO lo reject all criti
cism white attempting to mold the
minds of youngsters into total ac
ceptance of everything UNESCO
is trying to do.
Givens and the NEA have pub
lished at the cost of thousands of
dollars out ot fees and dues col
lected from schoolteachers hun
dreds of booklets, pamphlets anil
recommendations lo schools and
teachers on behalf of UNESCO.
Givens has helped promote anfl
used the facilities of NEA in lay
ing out UNESCO programs for
entire school systems in some of
the major American cities. In fact,
the NEA now behaves m general
as though the dream of UNESCO
had given it new life, new pur
pose and a new failh.
Most teachers, and surely most
insecurities, she must overcome
them or compensate for thera in a
constructive manner. The kind ot
person she is will do far more to
influence her pupils than what site
says or does. The teacher is the
emotional and attitudinal baro
The reporters caught him at the
dock, as he was disembarking aft
er a visit to Europe. In Europe,
he saw the Godawful consequen
ces of the ONE-PARTY political
system.
In Germany, the one-party sys
tem brought Hitler and eventual
ruin. In Italy, the one-party sys
tem brought Mussolini and event
ual ruin. In Spain, the one-party
system brought Franco and
everybody who sees Spain agrees
that the Spaniards are hungry and
hopeless.
Those are comparatively mild
cases of onepartvitis.
IN RUSSIA. THE ONE-PARTY
eter that reveals the psychologi-j SVSTEM BROUGHT STAI IN
cal climate of the classroom.
Teachers in the Los Angeles
city schools have been bombarded
wilh UNESCO propagands. The
NEA has helped. The expensive
booklet on human relations nut
out! by the Los Angeles Board of
Education for the edification of
teachers and pupils bestows its
indebtedness to the following or
ganizations:
Everyman s United Nations,
United Nations World, Inc.. Guide
to the United Nations Charier;
UNESCO and You, United States
AND KREMLIN COMMUNISM.
How did all this come about?
Well, in Russia it was PURE
FORCE. The communists seized
power after the Revolution and
have held it ever since bv KEEP
ING ALL THE GUNS IN THEIR
POSSESSION.
One - party government won't
come to America that way.
BUT
In Germany and Italy
and Mussolini climbed to
Hitler
power
Naiii.nii r-nmmieci.in inr liNi.xivi ! out of the demoralization following
nen.irlment nf State- Ihe I'ilizen World War I as the New Deal-
and the United Nations. League v'r Deal P"'? .?.rose 0,lt of the
of Women Voters."
The booklet traces the history of
UNESCO, with instruction guides
on how to sell the pupils on its
worth. It also contains a recom
mended reading list. Here are a
few samples:
"Little Pear," bv Eleanor F.
I.altimore; "High Solomon. Son of j
Liberty," by Howard M Fast;
"American Education and Inter- j
national Tensions," National Edu- I
cation Association; "You and the ;
United Nations," by Lois Fisher. ;
There are many others, some j
good, some bad. But ahvavs the
pitch is for UNESCO and the!
United Nations and a global gov- !
ernmenl. j
Hear Fulton Lewis Daily
On KRXR, 9:15 P.M.
demoralization following the Great
Depression.
They were gifted demagogues
They used the power of REGI
MENTED government to bring to
Ihe people a synthetic and regi
mented prosperity. Evcrv time
somebody tried to throw them out
of power, Ihev screamed:
DON'T LET 'EM TAKE IT
AWAY!
So they stayed in power until
their own towering ambitions ruin
ed and destroyed them and their
counlnes.
The basic defect of one-party
government is that it puts too
much power in too few hands and
keeps it there too long.
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Fishing Boat Rammed,
Sunk, Crew Rescued
NEWPORT, Ore. I A 60-foot
fishing boat, rammed in the 3 a.m.
darkness, sank in 35 fathoms of
water six miles olf the coast
Wednesday but her two-man crew
were rescued unhurt.
Sam Scolt, skipper of the Wase
ca, said his boat was at anchor
and he and his companion were
asleep below decks. Suddenly there
was a terrific impact which awa
kened them and thev lushed out
parents, have assumed all along ! to find their boat sinking.
The land north and east of Ihe
Great Lakes is rising making a
slow recovery from the great dim
ple pressed into the earth by the
weight of Ice during the ice ages,
says the National Geographic Society.
that the NEA was dedicated to the
highest principles of teaching, and
that it did not need an interna- j
lional organization lo chart its
moral, spiritual and intellectual
couc.e.
Teachers, of course, have hecn
the special target of UNESCO and
the NEA. The reason for this has
been expressed by John L. C. Cof
fin, supervisor of health educa
tion. Los Angeles City School Dis
trict. The Los Angeles city schools
have been one of the mo;t active
organizations embracing t'NESOO
and the t'nitcd Nations. Alexand
er J. Stoddard is superintendent
of schools. He approved the publi
cation of an expensive bmiklet in
1U.S0, on which Dr. Coffin, his
health education director, had this
to say:
"It goes without saying that the
teacher herself must be well ad
justed if she is lo foster peaceful
and harmonious relations among
her pupils. She too must know
herself and if she had handicap
pinj prejudices, frustrations, or
They jumped and were immedi
ately aboard the Pacific Queen
which, in the darkness, had struck
them. The Queen. 65 - foot, was
bound for port here.
The name of Scott's companion
was not learned.
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