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4 Tfce News-Review, RoMburf, Ore.-Tuts., Jan. 13, 1953 Ah, Yes, But Still an Honor Not Lightly Come By In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) . -ico PPT PvUWm4 Delhr Uit by tka Nnws-Rtview Company, Inc. latent m huh alaaa Mtut star . dm, ' tka aaai aitlae at K.M.irg. Ora.aa. adaff Ml al MiNh t, 1111 CHARLIS V. STANTON Idltor and Manager Mwk ei the Asaactoad Prats, OntM Nmaaaw PaWiikeni AuaclaHaa, Iha Audit hnw Clrculatlau ' (WWIHl kr WMT-BOIXIDAl CO IMO, aHlaaa 1 Nt f atk, CMaa.a, Ih rnsolaaa. Laa Aajalaa, SaatUa, r.rtUai, Ik laala UBDCUKnoil SATIS la Onion Br tkraa aaoMbt, 02.7S. By Nawa-aviaw Carrlar Tar Yaar, 111.00 (In at meat, law than ou yaw, par mentn, .1.14. outalda OragoD By Mail . ' Par Yaar, Oll.OCh alx months, as.M; Uiraa months, 03.00. THE CASE FOR THE JUDGE By Charles V. Stanton niruir. Judse Carl Wimberlv has created a sizzling: fu- ; mn with Ma fttatement in oDen court that "there have been too many Okies running loose ty, and if they'd all go home Wn are receiving a flood ment. Manv of the letters iha nnmpa nf writers are beintr . This is a good time to point out that The News-Review does not publish unsigned or anonymous communications Thirefore letters bearing no signature have been consigned to the waste basket. . It is not our purpose to defend Judge Wimberly in his statement, nor to argue either for or against it. We dislike, however, to see criticism based on mlsin fornretnlinn. and it arrears to us that our numerous cor respondents are overlooking the qualification the judge ' placed in his statement. . ' , He referred to persons "running loose with knives." : His criticism was directed only at irresponsible knife wield- ers. Use of the word "Okie" was perhaps ill-advised, but we will presume the word was intended in a generic sense to denote a class of people, rather than specifically people from the state of Oklahoma; the word havinsr in recent years assumed, through common usage, the definition of a particular type or person witnout regara to place 01 Dinn or residence. Weapons And Boost Not Compatible But we can join Judge Wimberly in feeling that we would be better satisfied if people who think they must arm themselves with knives, guns or other weapons while fre quenting taverns, or indulging erages, thereby impairing their judgment, were to move elsewhere. In our opinion, the habit of carrying personal weapons is becoming altogether too prevalent. That it is a most dangerous practice is evidenced by the list of homi cides resulting from drunken brawls in which participants were armed with lethal weapons. Regardless of place of birth, we would feel much bet ter if the person who can t hold his likker " and persists in going armed at a! time when his wits are befuddled, would move elsewhere. While sitting in a public restaurant recently we ob served a young man exhibiting a dagger-type knife which he tucked into the waistband of his trousers and covered with his shirt. One of our friends was telling us about wit nessing an automobile accident recently. An argument en sued. A crowd gathered. Virtually every man in the crowd, our friend said, was gun. :.' ... . Knives and guns have their place, but not as personal weapons, and particularly not when carried by drunken brawlers. Sign Of Changing Conditions The fact that the knife is becoming a common weapon In the West is evidence of how rapidly conditions are chang ing. There is an old saying to the effect that the law of the early West was the Colt revolver. The six-gun figured prominently in our pioneer history. It was the weapon of both offense and defense. Until late years it was uncom mon to hear of any weapon other than a firearm being used in the West. -.,- . he six-shooter is strictly a western weapon. In the South the personal weapon is a knife. The knife, in the South, carved its . way into history just as the revolver blazed its way across the Old West. The bowie knife, an invention of Colonel James Bowie, achieved its fame during the days of our border struggle with Mexico. It figured prominently in the War Between The States. During the last few years we have experienced a tre mendous westward migration. Douglas County has be come one nf Hia fnutoa ----------- - ' a'"'6 fn.vt.tvi. a vx uie JTHUIIIC Coast. It is therefore only to be expected that anion new 7 " i"e wno mrougnout ineir lives have learn ed to look nnnn thA IrrufA bi a y..., ..1 ... - . i old-time Westerner felt practically naked without his re- vdw uwj yy. u t-V JltS Hip. ' The Western pi Inntra imnn fV ,:. ...:.u r. whereas the Southerner, with iii. I I V , w wgemer ana men lought to the death with knives, hold the long-range revolver to be a sisiv weapon. Butt in our opinion we would be much better off if guns knives and automobiles, all lethal weapons, were kept "h-v p'-i'winii xiuiu uuuze. From With what Interest did I read that our incoming President will use the very Bible George Wash ington used. Loaned by tho Mason le Lodge which treasures it beyond price. And how grateful also to Warn from many reforenccs to the fact that this inauguration will be noted for its deeply religious tone, more to than previous occasions. Does It seem to you, as it docs to me, that men and women and ao, I hope, the children! are turning to the Bible and speaking matter-of-factly about prayer in a way that Indicates the world Is no longer aelf-con.cious about things of the Spirit, but thinks of religion at a practical port of hourly living? Speaking of the Bible reminds mt of the Chri.tmas Bulletin from the Braille Institute, a beautifully turned out piece of work printed In holiday green "inkprint," at they ciU what lighted people us Hill Par Yaar, (10.00; alx mental, es.a; with knives in Douglas Coun I'd be better satistiea. of mail protesting the state- are unsigned. Those bearing used. excessively in alcoholic bev armed with either a knife or me mutts wiiu aversion, a tradition in which enemies BASKET There was quite a bit about the way ma Braille Institute has been turning out Braille Bibles for the past thirty years. Always non-profit, often free, becjtue many peo ple love to give money that some sightless reader may enjoy the pre cious text in Braiile. Instead of waiting for a great organiialion to grow, the braille group used what they had at hand: a garage. They started out in 1919. printing in Braille on one side of the paper, and so consecrated were the founders that they outgrew J. Robert Atkinson's garage, and Siep by ttep they reaehed the present scope of the Braille Institute (741 No. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles). Originally (he Bible was printed in 21 volumes, each 13x14 and about 4 inchea thick. But in 1927 the In stitute perfected what they call the "InterpotnUnf system" which &fg?)) ML . J lPMhXr- INDIAN CARDINAL Migr. Valcriano Graclas, above, arch, bishop of Bombay, India, is the Ant- Indian to become a Prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Ha was named by Pope Pius XII to replace the late Msgr. Carlo Agostlnl, Patriarch of Venice, who died before he could receive the Red Hat, at the Consistory called by Pope Pius. permits the use of both sides of the page. The number of volumes remains the same, but the sire is more convenient, bout 11x11. Nearly 30,000 volumes of the Scrip tures in Braille have been distrib uted, mosUy free. The King James Version has been used. Recently the publishers of the Revised Standard Version gave permission to use their copyrighted text, so the B.I. will print SO copies (250 volumes) for free circulation because Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Warner have underwritten tne ex pense. What a lovely thing to do! Diversification Of Industry Need, Says Patterson PORTLAND :n Diversification of industry is the answer to Ore gon's unemployment problem, Gov. Paul Patterson told a civic group here Wednesday. The governor said the seasonal nature of the state's two major industries lumbering and produce packing is partly responsible for the unemployment situation, he said. Another reason he gave was that "people are just coming to us faster than we can handle them." He indicated he might ask the Legislature to set up an agency to deal with employment and re source development matters. He said it could cut down unemploy ment by serving as a clearing house for information on jobs in various sections of the slate. "Coos Bay could let Portland know Its situation, and Portland could let Bend nave any such infor mation it might want," he pointed out. He said the number of jobless collecting unemployment insurance on Jan. 1 was 23,000 compared with 19.000 on the same date a year ago. Patterson, who succeeded Doug las McKay as iiovernor last month, said he would continue the natural resources conservation program started by McKay. Mate depart ment heads make up the conscrva tion committee. The committee Is presently studying the Alsea River basin and should have a report In about year, Patterson said. Then It will begin a study of the Rogue River oasin. ASHENFELTER ACCOLADES NEW YORK IP Horace Ashen- fetter it sUll grinning and hapnv about hit winning chores in the Olympics. Horace won Ihe Olympic Steeplechase Championship and es tablished an Olympic record. His time of 8 45.4 was 18 seconds better than the old mark. Ashenfelter thus became the first American to win this event since 1900. In winninc he detested the Russian Champion, Katantsei. ""..MaaMih lit,, ' . JL BRINKS LOOT TRACED Joseph (Specs) O'Keefe (right), a gang ster with a 20-year police record, has been named by the FBI as a member of the gang which staged the fabulous million-dollar Brinks boldup in 1950. The FBI laid that $60,000 of the loot wai traced to the home of O'Keefe's sister, Mrs. Mary Hooley (left), in Stoughton, Mass., 20 miles from seene of nation's biggest holdup. lufJUlsokifo. i1 Copyright 1 952, WASHINGTON W As of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted atomic bomb traitors.' is undecided. Whatever their fate death in the electric chair or a commutation of sentence to life impris onment the fact remains that this husband-and-wife team of Soviet espionage agents grievously damaged the nation s security. Much remains to be done, how ever, irrespective of how the Rosenberg drama ends. Atomic spies are still at work in the united States, although their ac tivities are believed to be under federal scrutiny. The authority for the fact that the Kremlin still seeks to learn the latest details of our atomic progress is Irving Saypol. now a federal judge. Saypol, as a U.S. attorney, successfully prosecuted the Rosenbergs. In April of 19S1 Saypol 'slated: "We have gotten now sufficient Information so that we are em barking on a series of srosecutioiis to stamp out this crime." He was referring to the Rosen berg espionage net. But the' em barkation never materialized, at least so far as I can learn. No arrests were mace, no new es pionage grand juries convened. Tnat was two years ago. It is now timely to inquire U the atom spies referred to by Say pol are still at large. He was pro moled to a federal judgeship short ly after the Rosenberg trial, so he cannot be held accountable if there is a dereliction. Saypol did not say wheUicr there was one or more or three more Soviet spies loose. He said a "series of prose cutions" was forthcoming. Where are they? For years Ihe Federal Bureau of Investigation has devoted much of its energy to tracking down and keeping under surveillance in dividuals, both American and Sov iet, who were part of the Moscow Washington axis. Some were left to roam at will, leading to others engaged in Ihe conspiracy. Oth ers, however, were caught with the goods. FBI agents witnessed scores passing documents back and forth and prowling around atomic installations. Case after case was submitted to the Depart ment of Justice, ready ,'or prose cution, only to die in the files, nenlectcd by politically minded at attorneys general. With the advent of the new Con gress, Representative Kenneth B. Keating takes over Ihe House Judiciary Subcommittee job of in King Feoturet Svndleott this is beine written the fate vestigating the Department of Jus tice. One of his first requests to the new attorney general, Herbert Brownell, or his assistant, William William Rogers, must be for a review of espionage cases neglect ed by their predecessors. There are other cases in Justice Department files bordering on es pionage that must- not be over looked. The most flagrant involv ed the publication of a highly se cret cable from Gen. Douglas MacArthur to the Pentagon. This occurred at a crucial point in the Korean War. The contents of the secret cable were published to em barrass Gen. MacArthur. The FBI. ordered to investigate, ar rived at the conclusion that the nation's espionage laws had been violated, nothing was done by At torney General J. Howard Mc- Grath, who was later fired by President Truman but not be cause of his failure to prosecute In this instance. In fact, McGrath informed Sen ator Arthur V. Watkins of Utah, a Republican and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that the publication of the secret cable violated tne espionage act, but that he could not take the principals to court because too many were involved. He mention ed the figure 300. McGrath implied that a new standard of jurisprudence govern ed the Truman administration Seemingly, singular guilt was ac ceotable for court presentation. but mass guilt was above the law. The facts in this particular case, which will be detailed at length in the near future, are that one individual not 300 published the secret data. The espionage law specifically holds that publication of secret information is in itself a violation of the law. It says nothing about automatic find ings, of not guilty if one or more persons aid in obtaining informa tion so published. , But more later. This is one I don't want Rep. Keating to over look. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. Remark About 'Okies' Evokei Criticism SUTHERLIN While reading the Thursday evening edition of the News-Review I was quite surprised at the word of a man who holds a high position in the eyes of the community. They were the words of Judge Carl Wimberly. It teems he was not pleased with the findings of a jury in a recent murder case. He expressed a great concern over the number of murders by stab bing! in Douglai County. . , , Now certainly Judge Wimberly has a right to express his opinion and surely au law aoiaing cmzcua deplore the increasing number of barroom brawls and murders in this county. Vet it seems the hon ored judge stepped way beneath the dignity of his position In at tributing all these murders to the "Okies," as be called them, and his further prejudicial statement against a group by stying he wished they would all go back where they came from implying that Douelas County would then be a law abiding county. At a tima waen America u striving for the unity- of-ita peo nU anil the abolition of class and race distinctions, such a statement could only act as an impairment to this attempt at .inlty. Now the judge may have looked upon the term "Okie" as a certain type of people, irrespective of where they might have lived in the past But he apparently didn't have this in ho further defined his statement by saying that he wish ed all U1S "UKIC3 WOUIO go vara to the piace they cime from. This indicates tr.at the judge oud be happy to see all the forn'er resi dents of Oklahoma leave. Oregon and go home. I cannot neip dui oeucve many of the solid citizens o Oregon, who have done much to help in the growth, development and prosperity oi mis bicoi "" I.-.. kat farmer residents of the State of Oklahoma. I further think that Judge wimDeny owe3 a puu lic apology for such an unguard ed statement, and, if one is not forthcoming, I am sure that all who are unfortunate enough to have been born or lived in Okla homa will remember the judges words in the election teveral years helKe' REV. EDMOND L. REV Sutherlin, Oregon. Apology Declared Due From Judge Wimberly GLENDALE I am writing in regard to' a statement made by Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly. - I have followed the Staggs' case in The News-Review very .intalv T aeree with the jury on its verdict. I was under the im pression that a )uoge gives in strnptions to the iury before they leave the room. Am 1 ngni: wnen the jury returned it found the man not gumy. . Anmrrtme tn rine news-neview. Judge Wimberly mate a very de grading remarn concerning uic Okies, ' as ne cauea uiein. I would like to state that I live in this little sawmill town that is made up of a lot of south ern people. However, they are not all from Oklahoma. Some of the very finest neigh bors I ever had, or ever hope to have, are, as juage wimoeriy states, "Okies." Also some of our best workers in the local lodges are his so-called "Okies." As to having them go back home, this is a free country. Our tons are dying every day to keep it that way. Some of these boys are "Okies," wno are iignung ana dying that we may live in this free country and criticize their parents. ' I truly believe Judge Wimberly owes these so-called "Okies" an apology. MRS. JOHN R. DANIELS Glendale, Oregon Statement Of Judge Declared Not Fitting SUTHERLIN May I say a few words about the remark made by Judge Wimberly in the Staggs trial pnnrernine the nenDle from Oklahoma? I do not feel that Uie statement was exactly fitting a man in his position, as he is to have prejudice for no one, re gardless of the state they were born in. There are many families of us here originally from that state. They are decent, law-abiding, tax paying citizens, with sons and daughters in our schools and sons fighting and dying in Korea by the side of the boys from the other forty-seven states. In my opinion, the state you happen to be born in doesn't make the difference, as there i3 good and bad in all of them. So why judge the many of us that are clean-living, decent people by a few that aren't? This Isn't a criticism, but I am merely voicing the opinion of many that feel as I do. HAr.EL SOUTHARD Sutherlin, Oregon. A Funeral Personal Chapel of iie Ixodes ROSEBURG FUNERAL HOME Funerals phone 3-3445 Oak A Kane St. Roseburg, Ortgon Exceptions Expressed To Comment Of Judtfe ROSEBURG In regard to re cent court statements in the ac quits! of Ezra Staggs: The re marks we are laing excepton to are the ones inviting the "Okies to return to Oklahoma," and that there are too many of them run ning around with Buns and knives. Neither of us composing this letter are from Oklahoma or have ever been there, but definitely feel that the judge showed very nnnr iudffment. ' Judge Wimberly seems unable to realize that Roseburg is no longer the sleepy little village of his long past childhood. He seems unconscious of tbe fact that ele mentary school enrollment now is nearly the tame as itoseourgs entire population only ten years ago. Nor does he seem to compre hend that most of these people have never been in Oregon before, as we have never been in Okla homa. We recognize the fact that in all groups of people there are ootn gooa ana oaa, even uregon ians; and we feel no man has powers enabling him to judge an entire state's population by the few bad ones he happens to come across because of the nature of the position he holds. In any thriving community there is bound to be some of the bad element from any state. Many Oklahoma people have in the past few years purchased homes here, are paying taxes and voting: and many more, of such state ments might influence the good people irora UKianoma, wnen vot ng. We have had the privilege of doing business with hundreds of new people in Roseburg. These people come from Oklahoma, Tex as, Arkansas and other points all over the U.S. Why? Because thev have heard of a beautiful lumbering commu nity in the Northwest with plentv of opportunity for hardworking new citizens. And that is what most of these people are attempt ing to be. BARRETT "Bud" BRYCHA STANLEY BALDWIN Roseburg, Oregon Implication In 'Okies' Reference Resented ROSEBURG It was very dls gusting to . read in Thursday's newspaper where one of our aup posedly learned citizens made the unrestricted statement that all "Okies" should return to their former homes. Of course, this is an implied remark but we take it that he means to go back to Okla homa. This Is a very degrading attitude to take after having encountered a few undesirable persons and judging the entire state bv them Perhaps it would help to prac tice the Good Neighbor policy in Douglas County. One hopes that not too many people take liter ally the words of the late Phil osopher Will Rogers, "All I know Is what I read in the paocr." HOWARD , HAAS Roseburg, Oregon Roseburg Shrine Club Gets Canyonville Bid The Roseburg Shrine Club Is scheduled to meet at Ford's Cafe in Canyonville Friday night with the South Douglas Shrine Club. The South Douglas Club invited the local Shriners to make a "car avan" for the joint meeting. A bus will load the Roseburg Shrin ers Friday at 6 p.m. at the Rose Hotel. EX-SLAVE NOW 103 DENVER m She used to ba a slave shooing flics in the home of the Tennessee colonel who owned her but even now at 103, Mrs Chaney Myers sayt "I'm still at supple as a girl." After the Civil Wir freed her. she and her husband headed west to a roaring goldmining camn at Victor, Colo., where she cooked for the miners and her husband work ed in the mines. He died in 1922. Drs. E. E. and wish to announce the association of Dr. C. H. Babbitt, M.D. in the general practice of medicine and surgery. OFFICE HOURS: 1 1-12 A.M. and 1-5 P.M. Lindell Medical Offices 305 E. Douglas Home With Service they ire properly ' trained md armed. More power to them. On the home front: Republican leadeti declared aft er a conference with General Ei senhower In New York today that the President-elect hat agreed to clear all federal appointments in the future with GOP members of congress. The senate majority leader, Rob ert Taft, aaid this morning Eisen hower's announcement represent ed no reversal of policy, but his public statement would serve to end confusion regarding, the han dling of JOB PATRONAGE. (I suppose Taft means that Ike meant to do it that way all along, but this morning's conference puts his purpose into words written down on paper.) This word "patronage" upsets me. . ' - - -" i , It conveys the idea of paying off political debts, . whereas what those of us who enlisted In the Great Crusade want is to get Into federal policy-making jobs THE VERV BEST MEN AVAILABLE IN AMERICA, regardless of my POLITICAL debts whatsoever. I wish Ike and the members of his administration and the Repub lican members of the new congress could get together and agree to tost that ancient and discredited . word "patronage" into the ash- jL can where it belongs. Present-day life in England: A man in the little town of High Wycombe took off yesterday after a thief who had just raided a to bacco shop. As he went into action, he asked a woman bystander to hold his coat. When he returned, after nailing the thief, the woman had disappeared WITH HIS COAT. The authorities decided to' buy mm a new one. He deserved it, they said. . Present-day life in Oregon: On Southwest Front Avenue, In the heart of Portland, this morning, 1 deer ran into the side of an auto mobile driven by a St. Helens man, who apparently wai going about bis lawful business. - The cras'h CAUSED ABOUT $300 DAMAGE to the SL Helens man's car. The deer, a buck weighing 140 pounds, was killed. State game representatives came and took the carcass. The St. Helena man, presuma bly, headed for a garage to get his ear fixed. Let'i do l little guessing. He probably had a 150 deduct ible insurance policy. If it had been a privately owned cow that hit him, he could have sued the owner or at loast he might have been able to sell the meat for the 50 bucks he'll be out on -account of getting hit. But it was a deer AND DEER BELONG TO THE STATE. I'm not so sure but what the state owes the guy the 50 bucks. What do you think? LAUREL LODGE NO. 13 A. . A. M. Rattkiin, Q'iJM STATED MSETING Wad., In. 14, t:00 P.M. 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