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Newspaper Page Text4 oburq. .-Mdoy, Aug. 22, 1951 1 'You're Kicking In to My Fund, Too, Ain'rcha, Chum?', Radio need repairing?? SEE OR CALL Fvbtlihad Daily Iiaept Sender A News-Review Company, Inc. I.r. at ami ! aaatlar MT . "'."' ' t.a.b.if. Or.f.a. Ml ! M.r.b I. Ull CHARLES V. STANTON IOWIN L. KNAPP Editor Meaeger Member of the Auecioted Praia, Oroee Newapopar Publiiherl Allocation, tha Audit Burooe at Circulation! B.BrM.al.a 7 WET-BOLI.IDT CO. INC .(I.e.. la N.w T.rk. Ckltll.. iaa rraaelwa. L.i Aafil.fc 1..HI., r.rll..., Ik Laali U,H lb.. U.K. Br N.w....l.w .rrlir-F.r T..r. Ill.ae II. "."".11... Ib.a j..r. ' tlb.l is Oulrtd. Or.,cm-Bf M.ll rr T.r. ill J. ! Hint. Illl: Ikraa OUR SHRINKING DOLLAR By Charles V. Stanton Many citizens of the United States are chagrined be cause the Canadian dollar is worth more than our own. This unprecedented situation is leading to many complica tions. Our neighbors on the north, having had no previous experience with superior currency, are fixing various rates of discount, particularly on hard money. But they are working out methods of exchange and are beginning to get their program on a fairly stable basis. Hei;e in the States, where we have previously discount ed Canadian money, our merchants are still somewhat re luctant to take Canadian currency at par, and still more re luctant to give it its true value, according to reports. Newspaper publishers are still more confused. Cana dian paper mills raised newsprint a few months ago be cause Canadian dollars were below U. S. dollars. Then when the Canadian money went ahead of ours they boosted the newsprint price again. Most of us probably feel a little humiliated that Cana da's money is better than our own. The U. S. dollar for many years has commanded a premium throughout the world. Now it is inferior. Here we are in the world's richest and most productive country, yet our money is not worth as much as that of our poorer neighbor. Increased Value Predicted Our dollar will be worth far less than at present if we are to believe Coleman Wheeler of Portland, president of the Santiam Lumber Company, and a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers. Wheeler says in a formal statement that if the purchas ing power of the dollar continues to decline at the same rate as in the past 13 years it will be worth only 28 ecnts by 1965. The dollar which had a purchasing power of 100 cents in 1939 today is worth only 53 cents, he asserts. He attributes the decline to deficit spending policies and the in crease in national debt from $41 billion in 1939 to some ?260 billion today. Oregon's share of the national debt is more than $2.5 billion. He points out that a monthly income of $250 today will not buy as much as would $130 monthly in 1939 and that "moreover, the wage earner has nothing to show for his in crease in experience and skill during the past 12 or 13 years." He adds that "startling as it may seem, the burden of federal taxes, direct and indirect, has become so great that today the average Oregon family pays more in taxes each year than it pays for food, while millions of Americans are fighting a losing battle to get along on savings, pension and insurance dollars worth little more than half of their 1939 vnlue." "Prosperity" Said. To Be Illusion Wheeler continues his statement: It li trua, at tha politician! lay, that ptopla navar had is much monay thay hava today. But at comparativa figures show, much of our iO'Callod prosperity It an illusion. No trua, sound presparity it achiavad by govornmant policiat that continually choapan tho valuo of tha dollar. Tharo mutt ba an and to tha fadaral government's wasteful spending of dollars it doesn't have; deficit spending Inevitably spells more inflation. Few people are interested in economics. There is a fascination about a fat paycheck, even if it won't buy much. Inflation is attractive in its early stages. The fact that every man, woman and child is in debt to the tune of around $1,600 doesn't worry many people. But pride often is of more influence than reason. The fact that for the first time in modern history the U. S. dol lar is not at the top of world currency may result in more popular demand for fiscal reform than all discussions of the economics of inflation. Being competitive people, we re Bent having another country best us in anything. Regardless of the political effect, however, we are in formed that the switch in dollar values is having one bene ficial effect in the United States. More Canadians are tak ing advantage of the situation to visit the U. S. for their vacations. In fact, Canadian tourists coming to the U. S. outnumber U. S. tourists going to Canada. "The squall pave plenty of warn ing before it turned Into a big blow (the old sailor told the em bittered young friends of the love ly girl who had been drowned) I was down to the inlet where it truck the hardest, and I had plenty of time to get into safe harbor. Hilda had her chance to jump clear and swim to shore if she was a mind to. If she'da tak en I few seconds to ask God what to do, He'd told her not to try to reef sail in that wind. "God didn't have thinir to do with drowning our friend. She wasn't having any dealings um God that night but only with the boat she come near to worship ping. . .She'd want you all to learn something from her so she would n't have died for nothins. . .you can always hear God's voice over the biggest kind of blow if you listen fur it and let Him sleer your boat." Lilian Lmifi'ily, who was Bea trice Fairfax for seven years, and the author of four novels, num erous radio shows (including Big Sister), uses the above illustration as one of the many with which he inspires the reader of her new book "God Keeps and Open House" (Bobbs Merrill, 19.12.) The blossoming of a forsvthia bush will have a lovely associa tion, too, for the reader who i n- i joys the book, for it was by a for svthia bush, one bleak wintry day. that Lilian I.auferty "found God". She writes: More than thir ty years have passed since that bleak day when I was as desper MEHDIHG BASKET ate and defeated as some of you who have read this may think you are. today. They have been good years, productive years, years of growth." At that time, she says: "My own problem was as devastating as any that had ever come to me in one of the five hundred letters a week which was my average mail. I didn't know (he answer to the problem; I didn't even believe there was an answer." It was thn she head ed for the lake. . .and was stop- pen Dy message in the forsvthia bush. Miss I.auferty writes with deep praetiral sincerity. She gives il lustration aller illustration which surely will encourage the despair ing. Her love of and reverence for the Bible stands out in her enter tainingly written chapters. I be lieve you would like the book as much as I did. It occurred to me it would he a good book to give a young girl starting out for her first year in collrse, or for many another gift occasion. (The copy I read rame from Slate I.ihrarv. but 1 should like to add it to our shelves ) COCKTAILS KILL FIVI NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y. i.H-An overdose of cocktails nude of shel lac and sherry has caused the deaths of five men here since Mon day, Niagara County coroner reports. Fulton WASHINGTON Tho I.os Angeles city schools have been the target of a major selling job by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In 19.rl, Superintendent Alexand er J. Stoddard authorized the pub lication of a series of expensively printed booklets on UNESCO. In the foreword, Stoddard wrote: "In order to cooperate with the participation of our country in the United Nations and UNESCO, we must have definite plans and blueprints for teaching about UNESCO, for putting into oper ation the ideals of UNESCO for building peace. We believe that in all schools the UNESCO pro gram should be school-wide an I continuous, permeating at one time or another all departments and all activities." It must be presumed that the superintendent of the public schools of I, os An clcs was merely pontificating, surely t'.ii public schools in that city nave been teaching the things Stoddard and UNESCO suddenly assert sre essential to the welfare of the pu pils. But in the year 1 !." I ther.; is set forth for the teachers and pu pils, under UNESCO auspices, Ihe following list of things to be taught: "Know and undoraland how other people in oilier lands live; maintain an interest in world af fairs: appreciate the contribution of all people lo world civilization, work for a fair and just world or der with security, freedom and fair play for all people." We have just recently concluded a world war for the security, free dom and fair play for all people. We are now engaged in another. In a report from one of the pub lic schools in I, os Angeles, it is obvious that UNESCO is making headway in selling its program. This particular school has a facul ty and student UNESCO commit tee. It has a UN day each week wherein some form of observance of UNESCO was carried out: spe cial UNESCO editions of the school newspaper are published: UNESCO charts and posters and a UNESCO banner are displayed in the school huiltlinc: panel dis cussions on UNESCO are held frequently. It must be borne in mind that industry development. Curry Coun UNESCO is an international or- i ty's payroll totalled $1,323,851. com ganizalion. allegedly designed to 1 pared io Sf.53.841 for the same per reduce illiteracy, improve teach ing standards and disseminate in formation on a global basis. As UNESCO emerges in practice, the nation with the best public school system in Ihe world is the prime Iar;et; not Ihe nations with thous ands of illiterates or those with no public school institutions at all. The Los Angeles school board i matched in its affection for UNESCO by an organization call ed Ihe Kansas Commission for UNESCO One of the organizers was Milton Eisenhower, brother i of the Republican nominee for Lie presidency. Milton Eisenhower was president of Kansas State College at Manhattan at the time, and a member of the U S. Commis sion for UNESCO. The State of Kansas was chosen as a workshop for UNESCO, just as Ihe NF.A and UNESCO chose the Los Angeles' public schools for a workshop on j techniques of propaganda for schools. The methods of promoting UNESCO on a state wide basis in Kansas are set forth in the news bulletin published by the Kansas Lewis Jr. Commission: 1. Give UNESCO non-partisan status. 2. Need for worldwide organiza tion. 3. Strength must come from grass roots. 4. Work through local organiia tions only. 5. Work particularly in schools and libraries and churches. 6. Organize every county, reach every person. 7. Priority on mass participation. 8. Radii, television. movies, press must he used to help propa gandize peace. II. UNESCO to depend to a large measure on efforts of state and local groups to carry message lo people. 10. Must have publicity program. I repeat, UNESCO is an inter national organization largely fi nanced by the U.S. for helping backward areas of the world. Why Ihe feverish sales program in America? Here we need a renew ed interest in national elections, when less than 50 percent jf the eligible voters go to the polls Let's enthuse our young to vo'.e in our own elections and participate in our own government at all lev els before filling them full if ideas of global governments and Ihe need for their participation in these schemes. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. Payroll Perct. Gain Puts Curry County In Lead SALEM i Curry County, in the southwest corner of Oregon, more than doubled its total pay roll during the past year to lead all Oregon counties in percentage of increase, the State Unemploy ment Compensation Commission reports. In the first three months of this year, due to an inereas? in lumher iod last year. Dam construction in Umatilla County helped raise that countv's payroll total from J5.821.107 for ; the first quarter of last year, to i $S. 301. 802 for the first quarter of this year. Other counties gaining more than 10 per cent since Ihe first quarter of 1951 were Harney. Clat sop. Wasco. Coos, Hood River, Jefferson. Tillamook and Douglas MY PAPER HASN'T ARMBD m mi KTWEEN 6:15-7 PM mr- i mj In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) It isn't improbable that Ihe So viet limousine is being readied for a new driver. They 'seem to be making quite a to-do of it which is strictly in the pattern. The critical hour in dictatorship is the hour al which one dictator SUCCEEDS another. Then, if ever, there is danger that the dissident elements may step in and cause trouble. The idea, possibly, is to organize the change of drivers so smoothly and so efficiently that there wiil be no chance of a ruckus amonj the WOULD-BE DRIVERS. It has, of course, its sinister as pects for us. Why do thev want a new driver NOW? Why not let Old ,loe die in peace? Do they think war may he near? Do they fear Stalin is loo old to run another war Are they readying a new and younger leader in advance? They call this business they're cooking up an "all-union congress of the communist party." the last one was in 1M9 and 1939 was a YEAR OF DECISION. In 19.19, World War 2 was coming to Uie boiling point. Do the communist leaders of Russia think World War 3 is ap proaching Ihe boiling point? Is that why they'ae calling another all-un on congress of the commu nist party? I don't know. I doubt if anybody outside Mos cow knows. But this I WISH: I wish our leadership was such that we had the jump on Russia instead of Russia having the jump all the time on us. It COULD be that way. We're the greatest in dustrial nation on earth. Modern wars rest upon a foundation of in dustry. It is INDUSTRY that turns out Uie machines and the weapons with which modern wars are won and without which they CAN'T be won. We have the machines and the industrial organization to turn out the machines. We have able, brave and competent people. We have the technical know-how to do the job. But our leadership has been fuz zy and uncertain. At any given mo ment, Russia has been able to put the bee on us instead of us being able to put the bee on Russia. Ev ery new move that Russia makes FRIGHTENS us. It shouldn't be that way. We should be calm and CONFI DENT OF OUR STRENGTH. We d be that way if we had leadership we felt we could trust and were willing to follow. Paste this in your hat: Getting that kind of leadership is Ihe big issue of this campaign year of 1952. Beside that issue, all others fade into insignificance. EXCAVATING Stwtr lints, wottr lint, StpHc tonkt, Ditch digging to S' 6" depth, Btck tilling, Truck ing. . : HOWARD NEWTON Statistics vs. Reality In Data On Food Prices ROSEBURG Reference is made to the editorial "Ample Food Supplies" of Aug. 18, 1952. Statements emanating from The News-Review don't harmonize. It isn't just the "administration officials" who are "wailing about increasing prices of foodstuffs." There are more than a few of us at the consumer end of the stick who can't restrain a wail at the current trend of prices of food stuffs. ' This "dry, statistical analysis by the Department of Agriculture" does seem to solve everything. Since we are insured a bountiful harvest, simple high school eco nomics illustrates very effectively that a normal balance must result between supply and demand and, as a consequence, all prices will plummet to a level dictated by this irresistible balancing process provided economic controls are dropped. Theoretically the divination is foolproof! Personally, I'm getting fed up with rationalization, ab stract speculation and long-winded digs at this political party and that. Corract me if I'm wrong:' it has been my understanding that con trols are based on the premise that the producer and retailer earn a fair price for their produce and that the consumer isn't gouged because his kids must eat. If any argument exists, it is with the method of establishing the eontrol price and not with the idea of i.ie control itself. Furthermore, to achieve this theoretical, bedrock, j competitive natural price level, postulated in the editorial, it is important to have a high degree of competition. Can we truthfully say, in the ngni ot very evicieiu business improvements, expan sions and current increases in new establishments, that our business people are suffering under our po. litical controls and that optimum competition exists. I shudder to think of the num ber of businessmen who will fall bv the wayside in the voracious, cutthroat, cut-pries pandemonium that will ensue when economic controls are lifted and competition is allowed to follow its true course. After all these little fellows have dropped out, the natural conclu sion would be an unbalance or competition. No competition, no balance, no price control. My, my! Give me the old motheaten price control to sink my teeth into (it's evident that they won't have steak) and less hot air about "com-! petition," "consumer demand." political meddling and the pato.s of the economist. ED ZA1DL1CZ ! "' Roseburg, Ore. Miss Honor A. Wilson, Glendale Native, Dies MYRTLE POINT. Aug. 20 Miss Honor Alice Wilson, 48, Myr tle Point, died Monday at the Myr tle Point rest home. She had been ill about one year. Miss Wilson was born January 13, 1904, in Glendale. She had liv ed in Myrtle Point 27 years. Survivors include five brothers, C L Wilson. Mvrtle Point; Har old, Sutherlin; E. M Coquille, Ryce Glendale, and Roy Looking glass'; two sisters. Mrs. Mary Ady lott. Roseburg. and Mrs. Josephine Wilder, Sutherlin. Funeral services were Wednes day. 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