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4 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Sot., Aug. 23, 1952 P.bliih.4 Daily Uapt Sunday ky the Newi-Review Company, Inc. ! Mill! Imi raallar Mil I. th. ! (Ilea l birr. OtfB. nar Act at March 1, till CHARLES . STANTON IDWIN L KNAPP Hilar Maaaiai Member af the Aitecialed Prau. Oretaa Newipaaar kliikara Alt.ciati.it, (ha Audit Bureau at Circulatiam Innuiol kr wmt-boliidat CC INC., .ffiaaa la Nt lark. Ckltaf.. Ill rra.alaaa. Laa Aaialaa, I"U, rrlU4. !. La.li UBICIIPTION lAItl-U !.,..-Br Mall rar taar, lie.te: al '; , ": Ikraa .aaalka. It.K. Br (,.. i.w ( arrlar Far Taar, 111 ! .4 aaaca). laia lhaa ana r.ar. par aaaalk, tl. Outalda Oraion-By Mall Tar Taar. CI l.aa. ala aianiaa. II.": Ikraa maalka. Il-M. CAUSE FOR SUSPICION The Big Stick By Charles V. Stanton Normally it is pleasant to live "out in the sticks." far ' from the "maddenine crowd." But at times it is irustratinjr, It would take a lot of money to persuade us to live in the large cities of the East or Mid-West, but right now we would very much like to be able to spend some time in Borne of those cities. We'd like to do a little investigating on our own. We read a trreat deal about the rival presidential can didates. We must depend chiefly on what we read, what we hear, and what we are told. We listen to the candi dates themselves, it is true, but we know we don't get all the facts. Stevenson, for instance, says of hunseir that he is known as "a very hard man with a penny." But other sources say he is very loose with dollars; that Illinois state budgets have climbed enormously, taxes increased, and surpluses diminished since he became governor. If we were living in Illinois we'd be much better in formed concerning charges and countercharges. Out here we must try to weed truth from untruth. Perhaps we are overly biased and prejudiced by sus picion, hatred and fear of Socialist leadership. Maybe we wrong the Socialist-Democrat nominee by doubting the man's self-proclaimed purity. That's one of the frustrating things about being so far from firsthand sources of informa tion. But we can t rid ourselves of the belief that some thing "smells" in the Democratic pasture. Machinery Too Well Oiled The situation seems a little too "pat." The machinery is too well oiled. Is it possible that Stevenson is a "plant V" During New Deal days, "favorite sons" were sent out to' establish residence in various opposition states. They were "solid" party members. After establishing residence, usually in some position giving ample contacts, they be came candidates for office. The practice has been contin ued. We've seen it at work in Oregon. We may see still more of it. ' Stevenson, of course, didn't have to establish residence. But he was one of the fair-haired boys of the New Deal crowd. He held a number of very important assignments. He was one of the gang. Suddenly he disappeared from the national scene and went into state politics. He became governor of a state noted for its big politi cal machines, graft, corruption, crime, and gangsterism. He shows a remarkable record for reform. Either he is a miracle worker or word was circulated to the gangs to cooperate; and it's hard for us to believe that the Illinois political machines and the Chicago gangs would tame so easily, unless directed to do so. Could Be Long Range Strategy Certainly the bigwigs in the Democratic party knew that the "Washington .mess" couldn't be kept hidden for ever. They must have been smart enough to scheme their strategy far in advance of the first breath of scandal. If and when their graft and corruption became public ly known, they would want an ace up the sleeve. Stevenson was one of the "boys." He divorced him self from the gang. He became an advocate of purity. The tough Illinois machine folded like an accordion. The gangsters cowered under his lash. He became a reluctant "drag-in" when the presidential nomination was discussed. Perhaps Stevenson is sincere. Perhaps he is as pure as is claimed. Perhaps our suspicions are totally unfound ed. Perhaps we are doing him a great injustice. That's why we say we would like to have more firsthand informa tion. But, knowing the old "plant" system, looking with sus picion upon Stevenson's severing of diplomatic relations with the old gang, and then seeing the gang particularly Americans for Democratic Action and the Jake Arvey ma chine pushing Stevcnsons candidacy seeing also the rude manner in. which Barkley was shouldered aside and Truman brought to heel, we can't help feeling that the whole performance is a little too highly polished to be as spontaneous as it is supposed to appear. MEHDIHG BASKET Hurry, hurry, if you want to drive across Mill Creek covered bridge. One of these dnys Oregon cover ed bridges will be as scarce as such fascinating tourist attractions are elsewhere! b.ven the Mill Creek bridge is doomed. I inquired of the Travel Information Bureau of the Oregon State Highway Dept., hoping that they were go ing to block it off and LEAVE it for folks to gaze at even if not safe for traffic! But no "Mr. R. B. Wright, bridge engi neer of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads informs me Eric Berg man, Asst. Travel Director 0. S. Hway) that the old covered bridge will be torn down just as soon as the new concrete structure is completed in Uie near future. The reason given for removal of the old structure is the fact that it , would be dangerous to leave it j up since il would begin to disin tegrate even further within five years. The USBI'K believes that the absence of danger would cer tainly be worth more than the asthetlc value of the bridge and (hat the covered bridge has serv ed long lifetime of usefulness ", Well, 1 still don't see why the approaches couldn't be removed, and the guard rail put up, and the old bridge LEFT tor a few years at least. Can't do any harm it It's just there to look at. can It? 1 believe in progress, same as anybody else, but dear me, a cov ered bridge ! Why folks i keen about them. 1 still remem ber the first one I ever drove through. I was only a small pirl but 1 remember the thrill, Ore gon had 102 bridges a while ago, but they are going fast. If you wait more than a Sunday or may be two, you will miss your last chance to drive through the Mill Creek bridge, and that Is one of the SIGHTS of the Umpqua high way from Drain to IteedsporU Don't you think that Oregon is doing marvelous work in road building? Consider how much of Oregon is practically wilderness, or so sparsely settled! Flying over the state certainly does make that point viud as one looks down! It's worth the cost of the plane fares, just lo see how Oregon looks from the air. And the road building problems In Oregon have been, and continue to he most difficult in some places. A drive up the coast, or down, makes one stare in wonder at some of the en gineering feats suggested by the shelf like roads along the coast, blasted out of solid rock. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) else you may say about him, he's an extrovert little guy who likes to be himself. It irks him no end to be chaper oned by a squad of hawkshaws every time he steps out to take the air. Also There's this side of it: Suppose somebody came to your house as a guest and brought a couple or three private eyes along with their hip pockets bulging with regoligers and maybe a shot loaded persuader up each sleeve. Would you be happy about itv Not on your life! You'd be as sore as a boil. And you wouldn't think much of your guest, either. You d wonder where he (or she) was brought up and what kind of people his (or hen folks are. main wnat poor Margaret is going through. Here's where the rest of us come in: Margaret, touring Europe. Is a REPRESENTATIVE of the United States of America. All in all, she's a GOOD representaUve. She has humor and common sense. Here's a case instance: When her name was connected the other day by the gossips (he- gossips of the press I'm ashamed lo have to admit) with the name of Candidate Stevenson, she laugh ed delightedly and said: "Why, the poor man!" That was quick thinking ana kindly, courteous, thoughtful han dling of what might have been an awkward incident, in my noon, Margaret is all right, and I'll wag er you feel the same way about her. Still, we must all agree that her hosts in Europe (who for the most part are pleasant, cultured, NICE people) can hardly be blamed for wondering what kind of hillbillies we arc when we feel that we have to send armed bodyguards along with the daughter of our President when she goes visiting abroad. CnmminiJ It lin il was STUFF Pn KIlllITri Innihnhlv stuffed shirts in the stale department) who hung the secret service doo guards on poor Margaret. mere is geiung to oe inn mui-n stuffed-shirtism in too many of our high places. From Tehran: Iranian Premier Mossadegh has ordered the country's rich RUL ING class to PAY UP their back taxes at once or face jail and land confiscation. That's what happens when too much power is held in loo few hands too long. It is happening in Iran. It happened in Rome. It will happen here, sooner or later, if we permit too much power to re main in too few hands too long. There are limes when 1 find in myelf a huddin? respect for old Willie the Weeper Mossadegh. Washington bulletin: President Truman says he knows nothing about any "mess" in his administration. That was the only comment he would make at his news conference this morning on Adlai Stevenson's assertion tnat his record as governor of Illinois proves that he can CLEAN UP THE MESS IN WASHINGTON. Ike at Boise: "The government now dues too much. It is doing everything but come In and wash the dishes for the housewife." Heck! It will be doing THAT next vear if It wins the election this (all. How To Train Son For Presidency Knotty Problem For U.S. Mothers By HAL BOYLE -NEW YORK l Every American boy has a chance to grow up to be President of the United States. And many a doting mother would like to help her off spring get the job. "But how?" she asks herself, de spairingly. "How can I rear my boy to be President?" She knows how to train him to be come a doctor or a mechanic. But what every mother ought to know, she doesn't know how to train him for the White House. And if she sets out unguided she can waste a lot of time and effart. She might, for example, go to the trouble of getting him born in a log cabin, when this is no longer politically necessary. As a matter of fact, the average voter today is downright suspicious of a candidate who was born in a log cabin. He thinks that is carry ing the whole thing too far. What a wise mother can do, how ever, is to try as much as possible to make junior an All-America boy who appeals to all sections of the country. She might arrange to have him born in the rural area of a big farm state such as Illinois, sp?nd his boyhood in California, and be gin his career in New York. He should be educated in the South, say at the University of North Carolina, and then take a law degree from Harvard Univer sity. His vacations should be spent working at different jobs in dif ferent states on a ranch in Wyo ming, in an auto factory in Mich igan, aboard a shrimp boat off Louisiana. . Should Blow A Tuba Early in life she should teach Junior how to talk with his mouth full of pebbles, how to fish, and how to play some musical instru ment. The best one is the tuba, as every man secretly would like to be able to blow a tuba. .lunior also ought to always have a dog as a p?t, to show his love of animals, and made to marry t girl who likes cats, A wise mother will see that Jun ior does fairly well in school, but not too well. The voters are un easy about a candidate who is too intelligent, and contemptuous of one who is too dumb. The careful mother will also be aware of "the doctrine of prophet ic remarks." This is the theory that all Presidents, even as boys, foresaw the grave problems of the future. Parking Top Problam As the biggest problem likely to face most Americans in the next generation is where to park their motor car, the' thoughtful mother could well have Junior, as a lisp ing lad of five, look at a traffic jam and repeat after her: "Some day I am going to strike a real blow at all -this." This will make a wonderful anec dote for his campaign biography. Now all the mother must do be before launching Junior into poli tics is to have him enlist for three years as an Army private, then fi nance him in a small but success ful business that makes a modest profit and gives its employes nine weeks vacation i year and a bonus at Christmas. How can Junior escape the presi dency now? Everybody will love him fishermen, farmers, laborers, capitalists, war veterans, cat fan ciers, dog collectors, hobbyists, easterners, westerners, northern ers, southerners. No, there is one thing more. Jun ior will have to learn how to cook. It's manly today. And no house wife is likely to v'ote to send a mart to the White House that wouldn't know his way afound the kitchen. about seven million people there. There seems to be little reason why any community in the coun try can't at least consider the matter to the extent of rounding up all the facts necessary to an informed decision. Water Purity Cuts Teeth Decay By WADE JONES ' Every time we hear a piece of news like the following from one part of the country, we're surprised, and a little dis mayed, that we don't get the same news from lots of other places. The city of Newburgh, N.Y., re ports that toolh decay among its children has dropped 47 per cent bv fluoridation of the water sup- ply. The decline occurred during the period from 1944 to the oiiddle of this year, after one part of fluoride was added to each million parts of water. Any adult who himself has suf fered from tooth decay would go to considerable lengths to spare his children from the same cost ly discomfort. The extent of tooth decay in this country is well illustrated by the high number of men turned down for military service because of it. Now we have a means of fight ing it which is simplicity itself, and cheap. The cost for a city the size of New York would be only about $800,000. And there are RUDE NUDE BELMONT, Calif. I Two Bel mont ladies, both amateur artists, were quietly painting a clump of trees Wednesday when an ancient car pulled up and a man popped out. He quickly stripped to the raw and struck a model's pose in front of their easels. "We did our best to ignore him," the two women later told police. They continued to paint. He continued to mug. The women stricty landscape painters packed up and left. Ike, Stevenson Almost Alike On Farm Policy By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON Farmers may find little difference in the views of the two major presidential candidates on the question of price supports for agricultural commod ities. Statements made by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Repub lican nominee, and Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic stand ard bearer, at news conferences yesterday indicated that their po sitions on this issue, when finally outlined, may be quite similar. Eisenhower, at Kansas-City, said in reply to a query that if he were elected there would be no tamper ing with the price support law. He said he had received no sug gestions that supports be lowered. Stevenson ruled out the contro versial Brannan Plan which Ei senhower and the GOP national platform had sought to tie to the Democrats. The Illinois governor at Minocqua, Wis., (aid in effect that the Republicans, in trying to make the Brannan Plan an issue, were barking up the wrong tree. He said this, plan was obsolete, that it had not been endorsed by his party's platform nor recom mended by its candidates. Thus the statements of the rival candidates were open to the inter pretation that both endorse the ex iting farm prict support law. This law requires that basic crops wheat, corn, cotton, tobac co, rice and peanuts be support ed at not less than SO per cent of parity the level in effect this year during the next two crop years. It was passed shortly before Congress adjourned last month, with the approval of Democrats and Republicans alike. It has the effect of setting aside, for the next two years, a system of flexible supports which had been criticized by President Truman and Secre tary of Agriculture Brannan. mm jit wte" To be i''ii ...to advise from basis of . experience, not from self interest but in a spirit of ' genuine friendliness... this is a part of our creed. Ganz Mortuary MYRTtE CREEK, OREGON : Malenkov Likely To Succeed Stalin ' As Reds' Premier WASHINGTON I A solid clue pointing to Russia's next ruler may emerge from the full dress ' meeting of the Communist Party Congress in Moscow Oct. 5. And American diplomats will not be surprised if tough, 50-year old , Gorgi Malenkov steps up as Josef Stalin's personal choice as next Russian prime minister. In fact, some suspect Stalin's aim in staging the whole affair may be to give a formal, open hint as to who the next boss should be. This may be Stalin's way, they believe, of lessening the possibility of a bloody struggle for power within the Communist high com mand after he dies. Until they have more time to analyze Moscow's announcement of the calling of the first Com muiust Congress since 1939, Amer ican diplomats say their view is a theory rather than a considered opinion. But here is what they think: Stalin's heir apparent will be the man who is chosen to be chairman of the new Praesidium, to be organized at the meeting to replace the Politburo. The 12-man Politburo, now the top governing body, has no chair man or chief executive. But a Praesidium under the Russian set up generally does have one. Anyone picked for this job would automatically be proclaimed pub licaly as the most important Com munist In Russia next to Stalin. Citizens File Ballot Measure For Firemen SALEM (3 Salem fireman and their friends said Thursday they had more than enough signatures on petitions to place "collective bargaining" measure- on the No vember city bailot. A ruling by the city attorney and civil service commission said petition-passing by firemen is illegal. So a citizens' group took over the passing of petitions. . The measure asks that the fire men be allowed collective bargain ing rights with the City Council in settling their salary schedules. The firemen said over 3.000 signa before the deadline for filing Wednesday afternoon. Only 2.0S were needed. MY PAPER HASN'T ARRIVED YET I a )lFN0T. NkV' fa. ,w 1 BTWEN 6.I5-7PI4 ANOTHER RED FIRST MOSCOW J" A Russian named Z. Y. 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Parrott, whose father r came to Douglas County in 1852; Mrs. Maude Rast Kidder, whose grandparents came to Oregon in 1850; Mrs. Ethel Brown, granddaughter of Jesse Apple gate; Mrs. Ann Applegate Kruse, grand daughter of Charles Applegate; Mrs. Cynthia Germond, granddaughter of Jesse Applegate; Mrs. Ella Hill Brown, whose grandparents came to Oregon in 1850; and MrS. H. A. Crow, whose grandparents arrived in Oregon in 1843. Their families have taken a great part in the settlement of Oregon territory. Theirs is a truly greot heritage, and we salute them! i 97MQ-9710LC Manufactured and Distributed by Douglas County Creamery Established i We Salute Douglas County! Dial 3-3237 Eugene end Iv Springer Roieburg, Or eg or
