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Th New-Rvlw, Rotabyrfl, Ore Wed,, Oct. , 1952 Pabllfhtd Dolly Ip Samday by th Newt-Review Company, Inc. tara ntnl tliii maim Mar 1, IKt, aal " Raaabarf. Oracaa. MSaf Ml al March t. nil CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L KNAP Editor " Mtmbar of the AiwclotiJ Tint, Oro Nowipopor PwlMliafi Auociariort, tho Aatrt Bureau of CircnleHont Baaraaailai r WIST-HOLLIDAY CO. INC, alllaaa l New Tark, Calcaia. K rruclaia. Laa Anfaiaa. laallla. rarllaal, II. Laala DBSCIimON BATE Otafaa Br H.ll rar Taar. lli.M: all manlha. .; Una nalht, IMS. Br Nawa-Balew CarrUr far Ta.r. Ill.aa l al- aaaaal. laai Iban ana yaar. Bar far Taar. II1.M. air anaulaa. aa.5: INSULT TO By Charles V. Stanton One of the most disgusting spectacles of the current presidential campaign is President Truman's road show, according to our way of thinking. If Truman were either truthful or honest It might be different. He is neither. He is insulting the intelligence of the American people. Yet many voters doubtless will listen and applaud. For once we appreciate the lousy train service we get from the Southern Pacific. Harry won't be visiting Rose burg. Let's look at a few "quotable quotes" from his whistle etops: Stopping tho Communists In Koroo coit money end the live! of many of our finest young men but It checked the plane of the Kremlin for world conquatt end blocked their conspiracy against this country. The Republicans tried to spread alarm and panic, misrepresenting the facts and stirring up resentment end frightened lot of people so much that they mode gains In the 1950 congres slonal elections. t Old Guard Republicans led the clamor for demobilising the armed forces after the Second World War and even as recently as last summer were voting to cut appropriations needed to make strong defenses. t They want to get back In power to that they can make thlt country the happy hunting ground that It was for millionaires end so that the former and the working man can be left out In the cold agein like they were back In the twenties and the early thirties. Misrepresenting The Issues Truman In the quotes used above, typical of his various harangues, misrepresented issues and misled the minds of his listeners. Few Republicans opposed our entrance into Korea after the invasion started. Complaints were directed at the poli cies which led us into the campaign. The State Department, ignoring advice from the mili tary, ordered withdrawal of our forces from South Korea. It issued false propaganda about the strength of the South Korean forces. It lied about the equipment furnished. It deliberately invited the Communists into South Korea. Of course we had to resist the invasion. But there would have been no invasion no Korean "police action" had we had even a minimum of realistic thinking in the State Department.. Then, after we had virtually won the Korean action, erroneous intelligence from the State Department forced us into one of our most disastrous retreats in history at a tremendous cost of money and lives. Nor did the Republicans protest appropriations of money actually needed for defense.' Truman had been given a defense budget so big he couldn't spend all of it. Money was left millions of dollars. Rut he came back to demand still more for the next budget. It has been shown how money .was wasted. Republicans demanded only efficient use of the money furnished. Running Against- Hoover Again Then Truman props up Hoover as the straw man can didate of the Republicans. He implies a Republican regime would bring about return of the Great Depression. He knows better. So does any other person who will u.e his head. Let's recall that the Democratic party was known as the party of depression until 1932. Truman blasted Eisenhower as the "front nlan for spe cial interests." He belittles Ike's ability. He challenged his knowledge of foreign policy. Now let's recall that only a few months ago Truman was using his every effort to get Eisenhower to run for president on the Democratic ticket. Eisenhower was his man. He Raid so publicly. He said Eisenhower could have anything within his power to grant, "even the presi dency." We believe Harry was sincere when he said that. We do not question Truman's patriotism. We believe he actually, and secretly, wants to free the country from the strangle hold of the Americans For Democratic Action, the Socialist-Labor coalition that has held the administration captive. He be lieved Ike was the man to do that. But he is above all loyal to party. So now he is out blasting the man he worked so hard to obtain as his successor. And we're supposed to believe that Hurry is truthful and honest! From Yean ago when I wat invited to become a member of a Writers Club I met the requirement of bringing "proof of sincerity in the desire to write" by offering timid ly at the first meeting I attended a story published in a national magazine. Some of the membeis, I learned, had never had a tiling published! But they were earnest ly trying, in whatever way they found best to turn out salable writing. Others had sold much. Well, I loved those evenings of shoptalk. I came home stimulated, encouraged. I could do with It, too, because I had to slide my writing, most of it pot boilers for postage ex pense, and children's stories, in with keeping house, patching the knees of overalls my mending basket was always full. Which by the way is how this column start ed twenty years ago. I had a pen cil and pad in that mending bas ket and jotted down ideas as they came. If you don't, you lose them. About that time an editor asked me to write a regular column. What about? Well, garden, or any- !,. usmui tbraa inaBlba, t.X. AMERICANS MENDING BASKET thing. So I began. . .thoughts about gardening, and one day 1 handed in my column with: "Well, here's what came out of my mending basket for this week" The editor said, "Thai's it! The Mending Basket. . ." But where was I when I got side-tracked? Oh yes, what does one "get" out of a writing club? Well, it depends iirimarilv on how much one tilVKS to a writing club. On one's mental attitude. I could meet once a week with a group of 'teen agers and find it refreshing, stim ulating and fun. After all, ideas IDEAS - can come to one anywhere! As one pecLs potatoes, scrubs the floor, if one's mind is open. A woman left with four children to raise was scrubbing another woman's kitch en floor. A poem took form In l.er thinking, a poem about God who was giving her strength. She sent the poem to a possible murk with the idea of (JIVING. . ,t brought a cheek. . .later it became a loved hymn, a hymn In which Adfai's Speech Praised In Flood Of Telegrams SPRINGFIELD, 111. (A Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson's campaign headquarters said Tuesday thous ands of telegrams are flooding in on the Democratic presidential nominee in response to his ad dress in Chicago Monday night. Stevenson told the American people by radio and television that squarely on their shoulders rests the awesome task of keeping up the fight against the "monster ty ranny" of Communism. Aides said the address had pro duced the greatest reaction of any address since the Illinois govern or's speech accepting the presiden tial nomination. There were many telegrams lik ening Stevenson to Abraham Lincoln. Some contained prom ises of campaign contributions. A few came from persons who said they had intended to vote for the GOP presidential nominee, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower but now will support the cause of the Illinois governor. An aide who said he had leafed through about 500 of the messages said he found only four or five un favorable ones -i complaining about such things as "high phrases and no truth." Stevenson himself asked to see the outpouring of messages, then made this one sentence statement: "I have tried to tell the truth about our world as I see it and I am grateful that so many people face it." DRUNKEN DRIVER RAPPED Jeff Austin Gwinn, 56, Indepen dence, Ore., was fined $500 and giv en a 30-day jail term Tuesday in district court after pleading guilty to drunk driving. He was arrested by state police. Fulton Lewis Jr. WASHINGTON Political slush funds are far from new. In one form or another, politicos have been gathering in money on the sidelines, frequently to their ultimate em barrassment, ever since this country was established. They probably will continue to do so far into the future. Most people nowadays know about the cyebrow-liftinij activities of Harry Truman and his cohorts. A good many ppople still remem ber the tS28 deal whereby John Jacob Raskob, then chairman of the Democratic National Commit tee, and a group of wealthy friends. picked up the tab for a. $250,000 note owed to the Warm Springs foundation by one Franklin D. Koosevelt. Al Smith, the Democratic presi dential nominee that year, wanted FDR to make the raq for the governorship of New York. Roose velt at first refused, saying he had to meet the Warm Springs debt and that he therefore could not afford to get into politics. Smith prevailed on Raskob and Co. to wipe out this objection in the manner stated. Going back quite a bit further, there's another ease about which few people remember much, if anything. For Daniel Webster has gone down in history as one of the nation's all-lime outstanding ora tors, a respected legislator, a great statesman. But Webster had his troubles, too financial, that is. Like a certain young Califotnian named Nixon, Daniel Webster was an impecunious gentleman with no financial backlog on which he could draw while in public life. Like Mr. Roosevelt but unlike Senator Nixon, Webster used his position and reputation as a lure to bring in cash for hi: own per sonal use. Tho story involves an active law practice in which Webster made frequent appearances before the Supreme Court, acted ss attorney for the Bank of the United States, and even allowed friend.-, and polit ical supporters to supplement his government income with cash con tributions, while a member of the Senate. This opus Is not in the slightest degree any effort to detract from the great reputation of Daniel Webster. The story is in all his biographies. For the sake of sim plicity, I'll quote the story as told in the two-volume work, "Daniel Webster," by Claude Moore Fuess. "Webster," says Mr. Fuess, "al lowed his accounts with business firms to run not only for months but for years, and his relations with banks were usually very com plicated. . .at the Astor House in New York, and at the Revere House in Boston, he rarely paid for room or meals, and the man agers were accustomed to charge his bills off to good advertising. He borrowed money for casual ex penses from his friends, who, proud of their intimacy with him, were many people have found help In time of need. There is no monopoly of IDEAS, any more than anyone can monop olize all the three's or the four's in mathematics, for all true ideas come from tho (liver of all good But we have to listen, as that woman did on her knees without a heart cluttered with self-pity or hate, fcolf-pily usually memoes hate for something or somebody doesn't it? And once the idea takes form, the thing we call "time" will be found if e want It enough. Per haps we can't take hours each day for writing we wish to do. but we ran take minutes. . .It s surprising how fruitful minutes cm be! They add up into hours! I You Can - 6WM k?x: i "it OF GOOD CHEEK, ' a, CWN! WE'J?E COHHA L: CALL A SPeaAL- isisV 4V A-v opi?educim$ You- ts ityAJ At$ 3b Sure &k . livCjP YjY VouKTOENPi Ml Ja j3skJlS' Jtr NOvf SER " unwilling, in most cases, to mind him of the obligations." In 1846, Webster had been in private life for a matter of months when a group of friends sought to persuade him to return to thp hen ate. He said no, that he cou'd not afford it. However, he changed his mind after the friends raised a $37,000 kitty and arranged to have the income paid to him semi, annually. Webster's relations with the Bank of the United States, whicb he upheld in Congress as well as in the courts, were not confined to that of attorney and client. They covered the field of debtor and creditor, too. "That Webster himself," says Mr. ruess, "frequently took ad vantage of the facilities of the bank by borrowing money from it, is indisputable . . .the Wash ington Globe asserted, on August 23, 1832, without eliciting a denial from Webster, that the latter was, at the time, responsible al the Bos ton branch for $22,000 and at the Ccntrel Bank for $10,000." I might point out that 120 years ago, $32,000 was worth several times what it is today. It was a sizable sum. The Fuess book quotes docu ments showing that despite the press of official business while he was a member of the Senate, Webster's income from his private law practice was considerable. For example, it amounted to $13,000, $15,000, and $21,000 respectively for the three years beginning with 1834. His biggest fee during this period was $7,500 for arguing suc cessfully before the Supreme Court, as counsel for the City of New Orleans, that a certain strip of land belonged to the city rather than the United States. Webster became secretary of state, for a second time in 1850. But, says Mr. Fuss, he accepted thmpost only "with a distinct un derstanding. . . that money should be provided for his urgent needs." Actually, of course, there is no parallel between the Webster case nnd tne iiick rsixon case. cosier used his extra-curricular funds, ap parently without the slightest com punction, for strictly personal af fairs. Nixon has used his fund en tirely for strictly legitimate politi cal activities, not one cent of it for personal affairs. And as I said before, it probably will go on as long as does the United States of America. Hear Fulton Leivis Daily On KRSR, 9:15 P.M. . Vital Statistics Marriage License COLTTS-WH1TE Samuel M. Coltts and Bonnie Bell White, both of Medford. Divorce Suits Filed TEI.KAMP Nita R. vs Ever ett Telkamp. Cruelty charged. Plaintiff asks property disposition. FRICK Shirley vs. Adolph Frick. Cruelty charged. Plaintiff asks custody of one minor chilfl. $50 monthly support, $75 monthly alimony and property disposition. Easily. - Telblt's an. "Your Right To Know" it a sscred right guaranteed by the constitution. It is one of the basic rights and principles for which the American Revolution wot fought. Newspapermen, from the local legman covering town-council meetings, ta big-name syndicated eofumniitj, have one obligation. It is to you, their reader and to "Your Right to Know." Your newspaper reporter is 0 front-line soldier fighting suppression and control of the press. He it there because you and everyone else has a right to know whot it going on in the world. The newipapat of America are engaged in a day-by-doy battle to defend this privilege. Sometimes, in a dictatorship, it is taken away. It hat never existed behind the "Iron Curtain." Wherever special interests are entrenched, there you will find people who do not enjoy the priceless privilege called 'The Right to Know." Many of them move in Ignorance of whot their country's leaders are doing. There it no way for them to know. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) BACK BY POLITICAL ORDERS FROM WASHINGTON. Why? Well, it never has been told in clear and plain words, because it was a secret agreement made at Yalta, but by the process of put ting two and two together we know now almost as positively as if we had been told in words that the Western boundary of Russia was established bv the Yalta agree ment at the ELBE RIVER. So When our Generals in the field (unaware of the secret pgreemcnt) crossed the Elbe and were head ing for Berlin and Prague and a victory that would have left us in a SECURE POSITION In Europe they were called back on POLITI CAL orders. We know now, in the clear and sharp light of hindsight,, that it would have been VASTLY better for America and the Western world if our forces had been permitted to go on and establish our line where it SHOULD have been es tablished. That, Harry, Is the hindsight that really counts. Sure General Eisenhower was our commander in Europe. But suppose he had disregarded his orders and had gone on to Ber lin and Prague. Suppose he had told a congressional committee that our political leadership was all wrong in its attitude (includ ing the Yalta agreement) toward Russia? W hat would have happened? Well. General MACARTHUR told us in rather plain words that our political policy in Kor;a was all wrong. We all know what happened to him. He was BUSTED and brought home in disgrace. The same thing would have hap pened to Eisenhower if he had re belled against nis poimcai oraers. Give-'F.m-Hell Harry wuund up with this tirade: "Ike is a great general . ..but he doesn't know the first principle about keeping this country run ning . . .He has got a lot to learn and I don't think we can afford to educate him at public expense." He concluded: "The best thing for you (the vot ers) to do is to send bim back to Election Year New COWT VlOBSti.TAUIYOiiZ lABTmaAL Msrmot OF HOUMC, UP TARM PiceS YOU AZB -ALWAYS Ai$LR&A TAT IrKOME - fceeeT To tote ?or Your Movember; the army where he belongs." I can't agree, Harry. I think the best thing to do is make him COMMANDER - IN CHIEF of the army so that he can use his judgment unhampered by secret political agreements. DOES YOUR PIGGY-BANK RATTLE? Did you wive m much m you anticipated during the past year? How much have you saved in the pat ten year? If your mviniw plan is boczinn down you need a lyRtmatie mpthod Kmethine alon the lines of a Sun Life Endowment Pohcv. Start saving this sure way today. SUM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA MERIDITH WILSON SPECIAL AGENT Douglas County Stat Bank Building PHONE 3-8184 Glide Pep Club Elects Officers Glide Pep Club members were chosen by the faculty in a meeting Friday, Sept. 28 at the Glide High School. Officers of the newly formed club are: Pauline Magness, president; Delia Schleichert, vice president; Charlotte Wise, secretary and Dar lene Micheals, treasurer. Drill captain is Barbara Sand ers, who promises some snappy drills for home games; song queen, Marlyse Pummerton; assis tant song queens, Katberine Fer guson and Anita Watkins. Other members are: seniors, Barbara Sanders, Delia Schleich ert and Dorothy Schleichert; ju niors, Pauline Magness, Ruth Gas ton and Barbara Morgan; sopho mores, Charlotte Wise, Darlene Mi chaels and Margaret Anderson; freshmen, Judy Shurstedt, Emma Melton and Sally Hook. Alternates for drills are: Vera Stedman, Nancy Davis, Betty Woods, Georgia Townsend; yell queens, LaWayne McCue, senior and Elva Welton and Barbara Breedlove, juniors were chosen by the student body last Monday. Average per capita national in come in the United States was $1,584 in 4951. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEACHES REUANCE ON GOD ALONE ATTEND A FREE LECTURE ENTITLED "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE POWER OF THE WORD" by John J. 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