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'We're Absolutely Sure That We're Not Sure" V In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) 4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Sot., Nov. 1 1952 Fubliiritd' Daily Exeepf Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. hiatal alaaa Mlltr . J. IMS. at .. " Boaabarg. Orafea. aaeat acl af March S. ' CHARLES i. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP J Editor " Member of the Auociettd Pran, Oretwii Nmpapar Pvaliihara Auoclotian, tha Audit Buraau of Circulation! RE-ELECT ELLSWORTH Charles V. Stanton " Candidates for state and county offices at the forthcom ing general' election seem to be the forgotten men and women. , , The public's interest has been focused on the center ring of the Big Top, where the candidates for the presidency have been putting on the performance. Spectators have i ifhn Win oiHo rinim nnfi thp secnndarv tierformers. ueeu ncici. luir mix .. - Oregon, it sems to us, has an exceptionally fine slate of candidates this year. That is true at both the state and county levels. The Democratic ticket, in particular, is of far higher caliber than in any election of late years. In fact, from top to bottom of the ballot to be placed in the hands of Douglas County voters, it is possible to vote for almost any state or county candidate with the assurance that the vote can't go far wrong. ' This newspaper previously has made, .no recommcnda- :-, tfnUnn .onrlirlntna fnr olthsr urate cniintv offices IIUHO .. . V, We can see no reason for recommendation when acceptable candidates are offered for every post. We do, however, have our personal preferences, and it is on one of these we desire to comment. Our comment constitutes a recommendation. Return Ellsworth To Congress Our particular preference is seeking to succeed himself gon's Fourth Congressional District. We are wide open to a charge of personal prejudice. Wa admit it frankly. ' But we believe our prejudice for Ellsworth has solid foundation. We think we KNOW Ellsworth. We believe we know him about as well as one er. - We believe that if all the people in his district knew him as we do they would share our liking. We worked unde,r Ellsworth for a number of years when he was editor of this newspaper. He still retains a financial interest in The News-Review Company, although he has nothing whatsoever to do with editorial policies or business management. But we know him as an honest, conscientious and ca pable employer. We know his deep sincerity of purpose. For many years he has been a fishing companion. We have traveled many hours together on the way to and from " fishing spots. We have talked on many subjects while on those trips. He has told us of his burdens, his problems, his desires and ambitions. 1 We know that Harris Ellsworth is earnestly striving to do a good job for the district he represents. We know that in the same position we would be flailing with both fists at some of the unfair, untruthful, carping and irrational .critics who have plagued him during his successive terms in office. We could not begin to maintain even a fraction of the tolerance and patience he has shown. Has Understanding Of Needs Ellsworth hBS tried diligently to familiarize himself .with the needs of his district. Knowing and understanding those needs, he has given his utmost endeavor to serve them. He has an outstanding reputation for personal serv ice to his constituents. We do not always agree with Ellsworth in his political views. But this would be a poor and static world if we had total agreement on every subject. We know he is hon est and sincere in what he says and docs and that's enough for us. , But, aside from friendship, confidence and highest es teem, there is another and a very practical reason why Har . ris Ellsworth should be retained in Congress. It is seldom that a man from any western state is ever appointed to the Rules Committee of either House of Con gress. Ellsworth is now serving on the Rules Committee )f the" House of Representatives. He is the only western man on that committee in the lower House. No western man is on the Rules Committee of the Senate. The Rules Committee is one of the most important in Congress. A seat on that committee is one of the most coveted posts. It is a place in which a man can be of great service. It can be obtained only by a man who has high seniority and who has the respect of his follow party mem bers. The fact that Ellsworth now holds that position and will continue to hold it, if reelected, is a break for Oregon and the entire West Letters from overseas are so interesting. And like Hie ripples from a pebble in the still waters of the lake, the Influence gjes on and on. It is in individual under standing that the hope of world peace lies, don't you think If enough American women enjoy In terchange of letters with enough women overseas yes, let's in clude the children who write let ters back and forth by the thou sands now gradually the under standing will dissolve Hie fear, and all that conies from misunder standing. Miss I. W. thoughtfully shares a letter from Finland (docs anyono else have an overseas letter to share?) and a word of explan ation: "The writer, a housekeeper at a Seattle hotel In which I lived for some years while teach ing in Seattle, came to this coun try knowing no English. She at tended night schooi, became a great reader, and was a great fa vorite with a number of teachers living there. "She returned to Finland before is for Harris Ellsworth, who as representative from Ore person can ever know anoth iQehding BASKET World War II and could not get back during the war, and now. . . sickness in th; family keeps her at home. But that part of her let ter telling about her feeling for ! America when she hears tne Amer I lean broadcasts is most moving to me, and I am sure we all en joy knowing that some of our ef forts reach at least some of those ! people. . .She was very good to j me when I was quite ill, and has written nuile often from Pin. !lnnd." (Thank you so much, Miss W.) From the Finnish letter. . ."We are trying to cut hay these days but can't make headway because of rain and more rain 56 times a dav. The Olympic games go on and U.S.A. picks gold med als and most everything. In 1052 games, they break most previous records. I am so glad U.S. A gath ers up medals. . .Hurrah for your nation! U.S.A. hymn comes in air ever so often. Makes me happier than I can put in words." I wonder if the writer means by HlA tonu.Ua. la " Says Sen. Morse Should Resign Seat In Senate OAKLAND The editorial in the Roseburg News-Review of last Monday, concerning Wayne Morse was excellent. I wish to commend you very highly for it. It should be circulated far and wide. There are a few things I should like to say regarding Morse. Eight years ago this last spring, some were trying to get a then political unknown, Prof. Wayne Morse, dean of the School of Law of the University of Oregon, to become a candidate for the nomination of U. S. Senate in the primary, as a Republican. He played quite coy about the whole affair. Finally he stated that he would have to "see the right people" and then he would have a statement' to make as to his candidacy in the pri mary. Some days later he an nounced his candidacy. Who were the "right people" whom he had seen in order to help him make up his mind? It was rumored (to say the least) that he had contacted the leaders of the CIO and Longshoremen's Union of the Pacific Coast. Morse received the nomination for U.S. senator and was elected as a RE PUBLICAN. Now let's look at his record. The labor bosses look upon Morse as their spokesman in the U. S. Senate their tool and choreboy. And he has delivered to them. One has only to look at his voting record for Uiis. Some years ago there appeared in our magazines and papers an advertisement of one of the old gramaphones. It showed a grama phono on the floor, with the old fashioned horn turned to the left. In front of the horn and sitting on tlio floor is a little dog quite inter ested at what he hears coming from the horn. Title of tho picture was "He Heats His Master's Voice." Tho little dog reminds me of Morse he listens for his masters' voices, ready to jump through their hoop. Again: Having accepted the senutotship under the Republi can label the people would natur ally expect him to cast the ma jority of his votes with the Re publicans of Congress. Instead more than half of his votes cast has been with the Truman-Ache-son P.A.C. A.D.A. group. That 'hynm' the Star Spangled Ban ner which is used with overseas programs as tune-in aid as well as for patriotic reasons. The let- ter continues: "Finns probably get ! no medals because we have so few to pick off, but they are with , the rest of the nations and that is I the main thing for small nations. Medals arc a minor part if Fin ! land can show good spirit and good ! fellowship for the world. So much, I so we all feel pleased over their sacrifices. It is a monstrous under taking for small nations especially. That we nil know." The letter brought Longfellow's lines to thought: "Kind messages that pass from land to land; Kind letters that betray the heart's deep history. In which we feel the pressure of a hand One touch of fire, and all the rest is mystery." Poll Thus Far Gives Ike Lead In Popular Vote NEW YORK Ufl Three of the nation's top political poll-takers say that, as of now, it looks as if Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will command a slight lead in the pop ular vote on election day. But the pollsters Dr. George Gallup, Archibald M. Crossley and Elmo Roper say this prediction must be tempered by the question: How fast is Gov. Adlai E. Steven son catching up? The consensus of the poll-takers came out Thursday at a meeting of her home on East Lane Street, the New York chapter of the Roseburg, following a trip by American Marketing Association, plane to Milwaukee, Wise, to at and the dominant mood of all three tend the General Grand Chapter of them was: Caution. i of the Order of Eastern Star. She They were remembering Uie way ! represented Oregon and made the the voters upset their 1918 predic-! tions that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey would beat President Truman. And although they said they've corrected their methods since then, they still were wary about estimat ing the outcome. None was willing, yet, to predict what the electoral vote will be, although all said their latest find ings indicate an Eisenhower popular-vote victory. However, there has been a re cent trend toward Stevenson, they said, and they haven't determined to what extent it will count by Nov. 4. Crossley said the big headache is the undecided category. He estj. cnapier session in cerKe.ey, n.i a. mated 10 per cent of the voters Wimberly visited her nephew. Don are in this group. ' C. Wimberly, and family, and I en route home, stepped in Med- iford for a short visit with her doesn't sound like his being a Re- son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and publican. Mrs. carl E. Wimberly Jr., and Two years ago Morse was again family, elected and he accepted the elec-1 tion as a Republican. Now for two ! At Bubar Home Mary Anne events in the campaign of that i Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. year. The Republican Party was wanting to elect as many Repub icans to both Houses of Congress as possible. Morse, in his speaking campaign, went into Utah. He not only attacked the Republican can didate for the U. S. Senate in that state, he went further by ask ing the people of that state to elect Senator Thomas, the Demo crat candidate. The people of Utah answered by electing the Repub lican candidate, W. F. Bennett (no relative of mine so far as I know). Morse then went into Colo rado, attacked Hie Republican can didate for the U. S. Senate and advocated the cloction of the Democratic candidate. The people answered this appeal of Morse by reelecting Hon. Eugene Mil likan. Republican, to the U. S. Senate. The above shows Morse as being anything but a Republican. Summing up Morse's record as a politician during his senatorship. we cannot help but conclude that his political career has been a living lie. He has neither honor, honesty, nor integrity. He has fi nally shown his true color, when he, a few days ago, announced that he was resigning from the Republican Party. If he has an iota of honesty or honor in his being he would hand in his resig nation as a senator and let Ore gon have a Republican senator in his stead. He has made himself a political renegade, an apostate to the party that put him in the Senate. Some have called him a n d with reason a "Benedict Ar nold," others luve called him a "Judas Iscariot." There is this one very distinct difference between Morse and Ju das. When Judas recognized what he had done in the great betrayal, Judas had the good sense to go out and hang himself. II. OMAR BENNETT Oakland, Oregon , I 1 Local ; News Back From Salem Mrs. J. R. Wharton has returned to her home in Roseburg, following a week in Salem visiting her son and daughter-in.law, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. (Bill) Wharton. Mrs. Wimberly Homa Mrs. Carl E. Wimberly has returned to Presentation ot tne nag. Oregon delegates served as hostesses for an open - house affair honoring Lloyd K. McRae, Pendleton, who is Right Worthy Associate Grand L rairun. tuer stopping in lyimagu, Mrs. Wimberly went to Los An eeles for a short visit with her son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Healy, and family, be fore going to the California Grand Chapter session in San Francisco, where she was joined by Mrs. George Churchill, of Glide. As Grand Officers of Oregon Chap ter, OES, both Mrs. Wimberly, who is Worthy Grand Matron, and Mrs. Churchill, Worthy Grand Chaplain, made speeches at the barry waison, &ugcne. is ipeuu- ing the weekend in Roseburg vis iting her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Bubar. Physicians Talk Of Breast Cancer CHICAGO Ofl Three physicians reported Friday that 70 per cent of early breast cancers can be cured but cautioned there are no early symptions of the disease only early signs. Persistent scaling of the nipple, slight ulceration of the nipple, a discharge from the nipple, slight thickening of the breast, a tiny lump in the breast, slight thick ening of the nipple, or non-tender lump in the armpit. Writing in the journal of the American Medical Association, the doctors said: "Breast cancer is often described as beginning as a lump, creating the impression that the cancer has been present for a short time prior to the appearance of the lump. "In certain rapidly growing tumors this may be the case, but it is probably safe to estimate that the breast cancer has been present for several months or possibly for several years before the appear ance of the tumor." Women For Eisenhower Have 'Phoney' Program PORTLAND W Portland area residents may find themselves lis tening to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower when they answer their phones. A group of women backing the GOP presidential candidate started Friday dialing numbers at random, then after introducing themselves as having a message from the gen eral, they started a phonograph record going. The record bears a one-minute message to "my friends in Oregon," from Eisenhower. SITUATION there, he' good enough to be trusted to go to Ko rea. Incidentally, this is what Ike pro poses: Keep on training and arming the South Koreans until-they are good enough to man and HOLD their own front lines (it's THEIR coun try and THEIR liberties that are being fought for, you know.) Tlie ROKs are already getting better FAST. Then When they are strong enough Withdraw our .men from the front lines, put them in supply and re serve and go on supporting and SUPPLYING the South Koreans on the fighting fronts. Supply is the BIG problem of modern war. Held in strategic reserve, our men will be there for action in the pinches. But they won't be wasting their lives in the constant attrition of the daily fighting at the front. Do you see anything wrong with that I don't.' It's EXACTLY what the Rus sians are doing for the Chinese and the North Koreans and it's SMART. We'U be smart if we do the same thing. And if you aren't smart in war you GET LICKED. If we go on wasting our men's lives In front line fighting all over the world, we'll soon be bled white. I'm ALL FOR Ike's idea. Oregon's wayward Senator Morse blows off again. In Cleve land last night, he thumps his chest and says: "The trouble with Eisenhower is that he's whining because I HAVE PINNED HIM BACK TO THE RECORD." (Morse is referring to Ike's properly contemptuous crack yes terday about people who filch TOP SECRET documents from the war department's records and use them for political purposes.) Calm yourself, Wayne. Ike has dealt before with fair weather friends who DESERT when the weather turns foul. He was just expressing his opinion of people who go around snitch ing secret documents out of mili tary records. I doubt if he gives you another thought. He has more important things to think about. You're just suffering from de lusions of grandeur. Just for the record, let's take a look at this top secret docu ment. According to Oregon's fence- jumping senator, its second para graph contains this statement: "The joint chiefs of staff consid er that from a standpoint of mili tary security the United States as LITTLE STRATEGIC INTER EST in maintaining the present troops and bases in Korea." (That was back in 1947.) That is to say: The joint chiefs of staff (includ ing General Eisenhower), who are she professional military advis ors of the President, apparently felt in 1947 that holding Korea is not essential to our defense. So (presumably) they advised getting out. We got out. But When the North Koreans moved into South Korea wt went back in at a great disadvantage. Pre sumably on the orders of President Truman. I'm not too sure as of now but what we'd be better off if we had taken the 1947 advice of the joint chiefs of staff and had stayed out. Anyway, I see nothing wrong with the advice allegedly given by the joint chiefs of staff back in 1947. Failure to stick with it has cost us 123,000 casualties in Korea, and after two and a half years I can't- see where we've gained much. Final Oregon Rallies Planned By Both Parties PORTLAND Wl The Democrats will hold their last big state rally of the campaign in Portland Thurs day night. The Republicans will follow suit Saturday night. Sen. Hubert Humphrey, Minne sota Democrat, will speak at the Democratic rally in the Columbia Athletic Club. The party's candi dates for congress and state office are expected to attend. The Republicans will put on a torchlight parade through down i'own. Portland in their wind-up A bonfire rally will follow in Holla- day Bowl, where Gov. Douglas Mc Kay will speak. Principal party candidates will be there Free Rides To Polls Offered Elderly Voters Even the Did voter's excuse, "But I have no way to get to the polls," won't hold water in Roseburg Tuesday. The local Rot ary Club is seeing to that. Any citizen who wants a ride to the polls will b provided with one simply by phoning either 3 5423 or 3 2462. As a "gctout-tha-vote" non-partisan service, Rot ary members will have a com mittee on hand at these numbers with cars to furnish transportation to and from the polls. Baby-sitters will be provided, too. Camp Fire groups have volun teered to watch children while busy parents mark tha ballot. Milk Producer Argues For Measure's Defeat GLENDALE The editorial on milk, by Charles V. Stanton brought some facts to my mind, not that I am finding any fault with Mr. Stanton, as he was only quoting, but the ideas were there just the same. Milk has food values that can be had from no source except the cow. Most of the people that are yelling so loud about this milk bill belong to a labor union of some kind or other, and I would like to ak what would happen to the price of a commodity if a labor union had so complete con trol af the supply? And suppose that commodity was so essentii. to the well being and health of the country as milk? And where is the labor union that would promote its members to work twelve to fourteen hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days per year at around seventy five cents per hour? And over time is an unheard of word, and paid vacation is also unheard of. His investment of J25.0OO. to $50, 000. or more is never expected to bring him a return. Of all the commodities that the farmer produces, milk is only one Uiat is protected by the producers, themselves. And that seems to be a terrible thing. But labor is pro tected from every angle, by them selves as well as by the whole government. And there is another thing that a very few people seem to know, and that is that tne farmer is the most important man in this whole wide world, as everything that we eat or wear is produced by him; and because our living cotsts are so high, we think that the farmer is getting rich. I would like to point out a few facts. The farmer gets around three cents for the wheat that goes into a loaf of bread that we pay a quarter for, and he gets five to six dollars for the wool that goes to make a suit of clothes that costs us fifty to a hundred dollars. If the farmer has any standing timber to sell, he can get eight to ten dollars, per M for it, and if he buys any of it back, it costs him eighty to a hundred dollars per M. The pro ducer gets thirty to forty cents for the cotton that goes into a pair of overalls, and those same overalls cost us two and a half and up. We could go on and on in this same line, but what's the use. Oh, yes, it is said that the pro ducer would be guaranteed a min imum price for his milk under this proposed law but it is not said what that minimum price would be, and you may be sure that price would be tramped to the floor, if ho loses his own pro tection; very soon he would be out of business, and in due time we would have a synthetic milk on the market made of chalk and water and whatnot, and the manu facturer, would prove that it con tained more vitamins to the quart than the best Jersey milk. The protection that a dairy farm er would get under this proposed law would make a monkey laugh. At the same time all labor and all industry are protected to the last cent that the trade will stand, and they are not yet satisfied. C. E. YOUNG Glendale, Ore. Proposed Bill Would Also Hit- One-Trucker ROSEBURG On the controver- sial Truck-Tax measure. I . knowledge the fact 5 per cent of me newspapers are against the truckers, but don't mislead the general Dublie mto helievinn ir trucks this tax will affect. It's go ing to atiect us plenty, too-the one-truck operaors of which there are 46.6 per cent P.U C. permit holders in Oregon. We have a log truck and we say vote 330 Yes. It's false to assume auto taxes will increase. The tax wouldn't go into effect until July of 1953, giving the state legislature plenty of time to adjust registra tion fees. Besides, the trucking in dustry is on record as opposing any tax which will Increase regis tration fees for private autns iin. der the present tax method some of tne money collected is never used to build and maintain roads; by voting 330 "Yes" the mnnev naiH goes strictly for highway purposes. vote am "wo". Because that is simply stated, a 35 per cent in crease in taxes to the alrpariv lav burdened trucker. No one in our family smokes, yet we're voting no on tne cigaret tax simply because it's a tar. Thp re r inn many taxes of all kinds already. wny aaa moreT were having a time trying to find out how the little dairv farmer feel ahniit tho milk bill. We want to vote to help him, the one who works for his money. By that same token, those oi you mat want to neip us, vote sin rtO. 3WJ Yes. MRS. KENNETH A. KITTEt, SON Roseburg, Oregon Crater Lake Park Has New Assistant Supt. WASHINGTON W The Na tional Park Service announced Fri day that Gerald E. Mernm, chief park ranger of Great Smoky Moun tains National Park. North Carolina-Tennessee has been appointed assistant superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, Ore. Cites Broken Promises Of Two Presidents" 1 ROSEBURG (To Mothers Yesterday we talked to a mother, a registered Republican, who finds it hard to decide whether to vote for Eisenhower or Stevenson. She admits that things in Washington are in a deplorable mess, and that corruption, hypocricy ' and graft are rampant. , But she fears that Eisenhower, being a military man, will immed iadetly plunge us into a third world war. She already has a son in the service. He volunteered. She remembers F. D. Roose velt's famous promise to Ameri can mothers in 1940; "We will never send bur boys to be killed on foreign soil!" She knows that Harry Truman sent our boys into Korea, vithout consulting Con gress. Yet she is afraid of a military president.- She doesn't remember that another Democratic president ran for the job on the slogan, "He kept us out of war," and immed iately entered World War I after election. ' Stevenson is running on the rec ord of Roosevelt and Truman. He endorses these 'two "wonderful presidents." He can't do anything else. Truman won't stand for it. Are you mothers going to vote for a man who endorses the party which has led us into the last three wars? Do they compare with the military presidents who preceded them, George Washington and An drew Jackson for example? Will you vote for a man who says the end of the Korean "police ac tion" depends on what the Krem lin says? We wonder. GLEN WELLMAN Editorial Endorsing Eisenhower Approved ROSEBURG I have just read the editorial in Wednesday's News- I Review and f;nd in it a clear, con jcise and forceful argument of why one should vote for Eisenhower next Tuesday. The issues in this campaign are so confusing and the statement of opposing factions so conflicting, it is difficult for people who take small interest in public affairs to make a wise decision. I feel that' if the editorial could be broadcast to the nation, ' it might clarify in the minds of many hundreds of thousands of voters the real situation, thus doing a great service to America. J. H. BOSARD Roseburg, Ore. Whiskey By Glass Bill Branded Foolish Idea GLIDE About this whiilce by the glass bill: . . Now we buy whiskey by the bottle and. I would estimate nnlir ten percent of the total purchased gets mixed with gasoline before it gets home. If we are foolish enough to sell whiskey by the glass for consump tion on the premises, close to 90 percent of it thus consumed would be mixed with gasoline before it gets home. Let's do it the smart way that others might live. L. B. PIERCE Glide, Ore. Bill Nye's Comment In Campaign Quoted ROSEBURG-Now that nasty ac cusations and misrepresentations J have helped materially to elect4 Ike. Pardon me if I relaia a Iian. pening of the past. This one- took place at Hudson, Wis. The participants Bill Nye and a loquacious office seeker. "And those are the inside facts," announced the loquacious one. "Y-a-s!" drawled Bill, as he gazed off across the terrain. "I have a friend who knows a hell of a lot of stuff. But most of it ain't so.' J. J. HOLMES Commends Editorial On Highway Measure ROSEBURG fTn Th KHiior I want to commend you for the line editorial, "Do You Want High ways?" As you so ably pointed out, much pressure is being applied on these measures. It is another case of some special interests and John Q. Public. One wonders who is looking after "John's" interests. The proposed constitutional amendment is particularly vicious in that it would hamstring the legislature forever more. We need better highways, par ticularly in this area. Keep up the good work. GEORGE W. NEUNER Roseburg, Ore. Cougar Pup.s Squash Idaho Freshmen, 34-7 MOSCOW, Idaho I The Wash ington State Cougar Pups turned in their second win of the season over the Idaho frosh Friday, 34-7. ( The Cougar yearlings held the f vauuais 10 six yams gainea on the ground, while running up 272 memseives. Both chalked up II yards through the air.
