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4 Tht Nowi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Sot., Feb. 21, 1953 Published Doily Eicipt Sunday Hi News-Review Company, Inc. (una liu Btur mj 1, tt title Eknr. Orsa. anSii atl I Marek S, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON Editor and Managar ' Mambai ol tht Auocialad Prau, Ortfoa Nwiap f ubliihr Association, riia Audit Buraau at Circulations Bwmataa bj WSIST-HOLLlDAy cn INC. fliot la Maw Ink, Ckleo. Sin rraneiKS, Lot Anlcln. SttlUt, PorUalut, Oinvef BUBSCRUTlON BATISln Oncon By Mali Per Year, 10.00; ill montki. S3.J5: ih aumtHM. 2.7i Br Nin-Hnln Carrtat Par Vaar. SU.00 lia a- .. on. kit. ht p taar, SU.00; tlx monthi. SJ.30; WORKING FOR "UNCLE" By Charles V. Stanton m fl, trnil oon dfjirf. WOl'kinir fOf VOUr self You now are workinsr for 'tax collectors. You will continue to work for tax collectors until April 22, says the Chamber of Commerce or tne uniiea oiaies. Putting together all of the taxes imposed by federal, state and local governments, the U. S. Chamber of Com merce says, the sum comes to about $90 billion, or 30 per cent of the national income, which is anotner way of saying that we will work the entire first third of the year to pay our tax bills. : Those now working on reports due March 15 may think the April 22 deadline is conservative. - We may get a few weeks knocked off the period of tax . labor next year, lr lederai economies nuw i t;,.n Hnavwr w muHt carrv a heavy tax burden for many years to . . . i from extravagant living during me paai " c. must find wavs and means of financing an increasing y Jarge defense force so long as war threatens. Even should war tension be relaxed, it will be the responsibility of the United States to be the world's policeman. Thus we must continue a high military budget for many years to come, perhaps forever. Lower Taxes In Prospect Congress and the administration now are engaged in the old "chicken versus egg" debate which came first 1 Congress proposes to reduce taxes before we have a budget ,The administration wants to adopt a budget and then ad just taxes to meet anticipated costs.' Either nosition offers good arguments. Congress con trols the purse strings. It has the right to say how much .money is to be spent on government. The administration, under such policy, must adjust its budget within the amount . Congress says is to be raised by taxation. ; The administration, on the other htmd, is charged with ' efficient management of governmental operations. To do an efficient job of administration it must have money. It contends We should first ascertain the amount of money need ed to run the various departments of government, then lev . taxes to meet the cost. . - .; At first glance it would seem more desirable to kno what the administration proposes in the way of a budg then require justification for all proposed expenditures. ' cut in taxes first, then slashing the budget to fit, smacks ; playing politics to the galleries. Republicans are alread. working to enlarge their majority in Congress in the 1951 ; elections. It is quite possible that the current move to cut ' taxes, before budget requirements are submitted by the new 1 administration, Is politically inspired. We've had too much ' politically-inspired policy in the past. We'd prefer to see , emphasis placed on efficiency and responsibility for a I, change. Small Taxpayers Pay Bills ' We can agree with Congress, however, that taxes should ! be lowered. We also believe they can be lowered without impairment of governmental efficiency, particularly if we ; reduce the size of government, as seems to be President Eisenhower's aims. If the President's policies are carried ' out, there seems to be no good reason why the proposed tax reduction is not in line with an anticipated budget. Per haps Congress proposes to assure there is no reneging on the promised economy program. At any event, whether budget or taxes get first consid eration, it is still the small taxpayer who must foot the bill. We've heard much about "soaking the rich," but, as Look magazine pointed out recently, if Congress confiscated . all taxable income over $100,000, the additional revenue would operate the federal government only four hours. If all income above $10,000 were confiscated, the sum would be enough to run the government for 16 days. When we get down to fundamentals, it is the guy with the small income who keeps the government going. There are not enough "rich" to make an appreciable dent in fed eral income. It is the great number of little taxpayers, each contributing a small amount, that makes our prodigi ous spending possible. That's why we'll keep working until April 22 to meet our tax bills. Anyono who has had to open nn nlri tinmen hnvm ,r r;l,i ....... records, or has had to figure ! whero they're going to put last I year's, must look upon micro filming as an answer to prayer? I waa just reading some figures I about storage space saved, given I in the N. A. D. A. magazine. A I honmore, N. Y., automobile agency "reduced about a TON of paper to 3800 feet of I ft mm micro film" (much of historical value even If not kept for Income tax) and now their yearly total comes to 79 of the hundred-loot reels. When one realii.es thnt s nmt sheets of paper 8(4 by 11, can be ! recorded on one of Ihc 100-foot I films, and In turn be stored in ! I box that is only 4x4x1 INCHES, ; twi idea can be gained nt why business firms are microfilming, 'i Li i-iries. two, and newspapers,) and schools. j If you, too, have rummaged i through an old box of filed away 1 stud, packed in tightly to save pace, no one would have to sell you on ihc Idea that "microfilmed records cannot get out of order and any document can bt Instant- ly located and viewed full lite on tht aeraaa." No arrora in such i montn. S1.2S. OutilM Ortson-Bj StaU- thrto nootha, S3 00. come as we Day off the debts J.1 t- OA vaAriMa Uln olort ENDING BASKET copies! And the paper records may be chopped up, if desired, for old paper! Incidentally the Chevrolet agency referred to abova in the N. A. D. A. magazine figures that their storage cabinet, at present rate of adding records, will serve them for 50 to 75 years, and guess how large it is? The file cabinet oc cupies a floor space of 22x28 IN CHES! A publishing house that uses microfilming for subscriptions and correspondence microfilms a mil lion letters and orders a year. An ordinary sized letter reduces tn the size of a postage stamp, and Uic spools of film arc stored in txos about the size of a type writer ribbon box, each one of the spools containing about 3,000 pieces of correspondence. An ordinary newspaper page re duces tn the sire of a postage stamp. Many of the large libraries over the country are keeping com plete files of leading newspapers. The possibilities of the method are endless, aren't they! Many firms rent a camera for a month or less. One bank keeps a microfilming bus-office travel ing from ona to another of Its "Confidentially It" Looks Pretty 'Good" , In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) Journal was founded a half cen tury ago by her husband, C. S. Jackson, who came down from Pendleton to do the job. I think it will be conceded by everyone who knew him that Sam Jackson was a character. He had vision. He had couragj. He had LlTTLiS money. It takes vision and courage to rt a newspaper in a metropoli in city when one's financial re sources are slim. But Sam Jack son had what it takes. He was a ood judge of character, and he athered around him a little group if able and devoted men. Among 'iem, they DID THE JOB. They were all individualists, and young Sam Jackson was the out standing individualist of the lot. They left their mark on the city of Portland and the state of Oregon. Sam Jackson wasn't the only Individualist in the Jackson fam ily. His wife, Maria (daughter of a Confederate cantata who was kil led in the Civil War) was another one. She still is. At 90. she is vig orous and vivid and colorful. She too has left her mark on Oregon. Courage? She has it. Of her fam lly. only a young great-grandson is left. Death has claimed all the others. But, at four score and ten she boldly and vigorously pro claims that the Oregon Journal will remain a home-owned Ore gon institution and will not be sold. My hat is off to her. Phil Jackson was an able news paper man and a warm and de pendable friend1. In Portland Inst Friday and Sat urday, the Pacific Northwest News paper Association was meeting. lis membership comes from five Northwest states and British Col umbia. Phil had suffered a heart stroke, and was in a Portland hos pital. He seemed to be recovering, and bulletins on his improving con dition were relayed hourlv to these men with whom he had been long associated. He was not vet allowed to have comnany, but his nurse re norled that he was taking an act ive interest in what was going on and was expecting to be back soon al bis jnh. The last bulletin came about mid-oftcrnoon Saturday as the ga thering was breaking up. It was reassuring. Abou s o'clock, h dropped asleep. He never awoke. The news spread rnnidlv over Port land, and1 left a pall of sadness. Airmen Escape Unhurt When Bomber Burns ROSWELL, N. M. (jB-Twenty-two airmen escaped unhurt when a B36 cacght fire near the end of lis landing roll shortly before midnight and burned to the ground. A spokesman at Walker Air Force Base said the commander of the giant six engined bomber told him two engines burst into flame as the craft rolled to n sto;i. The big bomber, of the 28th Strategic Reconnaisance Wing, was on a routine training fight from Rapid City Air Force Base in South Dakota. PutillthM In Cooperation with Um RoMbura Poltc Department No vahicle shall bt driven over any unprotected hosa of a fira de partment whan laytd down on any street, to ba used at any lira or alarm of fira without the consent of the fira department. 53 branches. I was wondering if some enterprising 'G. 1.' had such ! a venture, thus serving many . small firms, much as some ac j counlants do with their book keeping truck-offices"? mmr mi ' el mm m mr i i i. 1 (Jt&Wf This article will finish the series on the Umpqiia Indians. It is also a summary of what we have ac quired from reading the account of these interesting natives, of their homes, their social customs, their material cultures. But if we read with a purpose, the story of the Umpquas should mean more than just an interesting narrative of a funny people. After all they were not a funny people, in an amusing sense. They were a primitive race on the way upward. Like a child that dies in its early youth, this race never had a chance to reach the adult hood which we call modern civili ation. But they do deserve a place of esteem in 'he modern mind. In the living pattern and ideas of the primitive Umpqua we see the pattern of our own cultured peo ples in the painful climb from sav agery to civilized men. In the Indian we see the parallel record of the varied races that form the common blood stream that flows to day through the veins of the av erage American. Ten to twenty tnousana years ago our own par ent races on the European conti nent, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, French and English lived tne same lives In the same (u us) funny ways our Umpqua lived his life less than a century and a half ago. it we are sincere students of racial history, as it applies to our own lives we should appreciate our Indians as open pages in the story of mankind s advancement. In the legends of the Umpqua we see the development of con science in the human mind as man emerges from the level of the brutes to a being with the dawning idea that there is a Divine Creator. This ancient one becomes aware of a God. He becomes aware of sin, forgiveness, resentence and love. These are new ideas on which he broods. He tries to or ganize his embryonic ideas of Di vine purpose and from this he de velops a crude srience of religion which we. today, might call prim iUve theology. How closely the Umpqua legend, "The Mountain with a Hole in the Top," parallels the story of the Garden jf Eden. Hero the serpent, in the Hobrew story, spoke to Eve. To the Indian this would seem quite reasonable, because he, loo. believed that men and ani mals spoke the same language in ancient times. In the Bible story, man sinned and was cast from the garden Later according to this ancient story, God destroyed the people with a great flood. Why? Perhaps because He saw that the living men were a hopeless lot. In the Umpqua story of the destruction of Mount Mnzama, man sins, by killing the animal people, which is against the decree of Old Man God or Tamanous, terms used by the Umpqua to designate the Great Spirit. Men-neoDle. under the lead- I ership of the evil chief, begin to usurp the prerogatives of the Di vine Being. For this sacrilege men people were destroyed by a fiery wind, according to this legend, and their souls were cast into the deep hole that is now Crater Lake. So we see here the growth of the idea of wrong doing and the inevitability of retribution, among men-people who spoke the same language as animnls and wore con fined in a bottomless lake for all eternity. Even the arch-sinner, the wicked chief was changed to an evii angel who ruled over the re gion of lost souls. Is this Indian story then, a fable that bv rhan.-o I parallels the story of Eden, the tan of man and his ultimate pun ishment, as depicted in our Chris tian Bible, or does it prove that there is a Divine force working from within the consciousness of ait men and races and developing a lunsi-icnic.' In the legend of Wolf, who led the wandering spirits of the me maloose ullicums, or the dead, we (CMS BV WK. PEERV find the quality of pity develop ing within uie primitive mind. Take this passage from that leg end, "When Wolf comes back, he cries. He knows the spirits of bad people can see the happy hunting ground from far away. . . When Wolf cries on the north wind, it is because the Great Spirit placed the dead people there. We know he is sad. They must slay there for ever." Wolf was a minor god. But even as a God he wept for the people and the suffering they must en dure because of their misdeeds. Do we not have a parallel in our own Bible? In concluding the story of the Umpqua, perhaps we should give him an expression of thanks. Here, in a more serious vein, we read in his record the painful climb of the human race in the long strug gle upward toward intelligence and understanding, toward pity and tol erance and love. And hope. No Objections Raised To Press At Jelke Trial NEW YORK Ifl - Both the pros ecution and defense in the closed vice trial of Minot (Mickey) Jelke said Thursday they had no objec tion to the presence of newsmen in the courtroom when the defense opens next week. The prosecutor. Assistant Dis trict Attorney Anthony J. Liebler, said he expected presentation of his case would be completed next Tuesday. He saw no reason, he added, why the doors barred to press and public during the pros ecution's case should not then be thrown open. The defense has indicated it was uncertain whether Jelke would take the stand. Meanwhile red - haired Erica Steel, a 28-year-old alleged ma dame, took the witness stand in the closed courtroom to tell what she knows about cafe society vice. Complete Armor Plan For Troops In Korea WITH U. S. SEVENTH DIV.I- cmw L' - . n c a : naming; men in n.orea soun may oe sheathed in armor from neck to ankle. Armored leggings apparently are 1 next. j The latest item in the fast-de- veloping body armor program is the nylon-armor legging which will be attached to the shorts, j None of the leggings' have been sent to Korea, but arc expected soon. They are being tested by the quartermaster general's office in Washington. Bodies Pile Up At Gravediggers Strike NEW YORK i.r A grave dig gers' strike at 10 New York met ropolitan area cemeteries has stranded 571 bodies. Some employees have reported that in the three nonsectarian cemeteries affected, all vaults have been filled and 77 coffins hove been stacked in tents, with the rhill February winds their only refrig eration. Many relatives have due graves. ; then carried their loved ones to ; their last restin? place because ! hearse drivers refused to cross ! cemetery picket lines. KING ENOORSEO WAKUIW.tyiv in Th e...i. Interior Committce Thursday ap. p'' iuioiii.iujumv me nomina tion of Samuel Wilder King to be governor Hawaii. The nomination now goes to the Senate tor action. Sutherlin Group Hears Address By Missionary By MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK W. O." Pierce, Seventh-Day Ad ventist missionary from Africa, a former teacher of Cottage Grove, spoke at the Sutherlin Adventist Church on Feb. 14. Pierce) is a superintendent of schools in Africa. Pierce used for his text, "Ai ve have done it unto one of the least of these, my Brethren, ye have done it unto me," - In the afternoon le showed pic tures and told of the characteris tics of the people in Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce, have been visiting with Mrs. Pierce'i broth er and family, Mr. and Mrs. WU liam L. Miller, at Roseburg. Ill With Flu Mrs. Wesley Thompson, has been very ill at her home this week with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Smith, left Saturday for California, where they will spend two weeks vacationing and visiting relatives. During their absence, Mrs. Ethelyne Freeman, assisted by MarUn Norris, will op erate the Smith Hardward Store. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, who re side at Sutherlin Trailer Court have been ill with the flu. Mr. Wilson is able to be out again, but Mrs. Wilson, is still confined to her home. Landis Vaale, who Is employed at Martin Box Co., was called to Lake Mills, Iowa, by the death of his ff.lher last week. Mrs. Webb Sellars, who under went major surgery recently, and spent 31 days in the hospital, has been brought to her home in Suth erlin to recuperate. Mrs. Sellars will be confined to her bed for the next 30 days, but is reported as getting along niceiy. John Campbell, has been con fined to his home the past week with the flu. i ' Mrs. Florence Groshong, of Rose burg, spent a pleasant afternoon in Sutherlin Wednesday,, at the borne of Mrs. Olc a Bielman. Mrs. Mary Barker a member of the Theta Rho Board ot control, made an official visit at a meet ing of the Theta Girls, at Ashland, Tuesday evening. Washington Gl Awarded For Flood Heroism LONDON I Queen Elizabeth II Thursday awarded the George j com mitte "into cairn? off its fti Medal, one of Britain's highest ( vestigation of Communist infiltra civilian decorations, to American tion into the field of education." Airman Reis Leming "in recog - nition of his extreme gallantry" during Britain's recent flood dis aster. Thi Ic iho firt time foreigner has been awarded a George Medal in peacetime. Leming. of (202 South 8th St.) Toppenish, Wash., rescued 27 per sons from drowning near Hunstan ton before collapsing with exhaus tion. Although he couldn't swim, he donned an underwater exposure suit and pushed a rubber raft through the raging floodwaters. A Foreign Office announcement said: "As a coticauence of the Queen's visit to the flooded areas. Her Majesty has been pleased to award the George Medal to Air man 3rd Class Reis Lemine, the U. S. Air Force, in recognition of his extreme gallantry on several occasions in rescuing persons who had been trapped in their houses near Hunstanton." Hunstanton, Norfolk coastal vil lage near the big U. S. air base at Sculthorpe, was heavily hit by the storms and flooi which ravaged England and the low countries Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Some 30 people were drowned there including 1' Americans. Leming, a 22-ycar-old. six-foot, three-inch airman, is attached to the 67th Air Rescue Squadron at Sculthorpe. He recently flew back to America for temporary duty and will return to Britain later. His volunteer flood rescue work won nation-wide praise in Britain. Hunstanton's town council sent a letter to the government, sug gesting Leming be given an award for heroism. "He is a stranger among us, yet time and again he risked his life tn save others," Council Chairman R. S. Mudie told newsmen recent ly. "But for him, the death toll must have been very much high- NATO Council Ups Allowance PARIS lift The NATO Council in a surprise move has promised Gen. M.ittnew B. Hiilgeway 224 million dollars more for 19S3 European military construction money it denied him last December. Now the council has to figure out which country will pay how much. Allocation of the additional 224 million matching the same amount approved by the council meeting last December was an nounced last night by Lord Ismay, British secretary general of the North Atlantic .Treaty Organiza tion. The new allotment gave Ridg way, NATO's supreme comman der, a bonus. In December he said 428 million dollars was the mini mum needed for 1953 construction of air bases, jet fuel pipelines, communications and headquarters installations In Western Eurooe. The council then allocated only 224 millions. j Ten Men Smash Way , Out Of Texas Jail ; FORT WORTH. Tex. - Ten men. including badman Floyd Hill, smashed their way out of the Tar rant County Jail here Wednesday : nicht. Only one was re-captured, i Hill is one of three men charged in the $248,000 robberv of two Cu ban exiles here last Oct. 3 at the 1 lush Western Hills Hotel. ' Despondent Man Diet At Sweetheart's brave ST. LOUIS III A despondent 65-year-old maa brought fresh flowers to the grive of bis chile hood sweetheart here Wednesday, then apparently shot nimseii as be kneeled at ner resting pia.. The man. August G. Cramer ot i (juincy. 111., died of a head wound a short time after he was found slumped over the grave. He was Identified by Mrs. Ed ward Boyent of St. Louis. She told police Cramer left St. Louis after the death of her sister, .Delia Decker, 64, in May, 1051. She said the couple had been childhood sweethearts but never bad. mar ried. ' - Canada Budget Reduction Is Proposed For '53 OTTAWA m Canada's govern ment announced a new budget Thursday to cut taxes an estimat ed 361 million dollnrs tn 1954. It in cluded, an 11 per cent drop in the income tax and reduction Jn cor poration levies. me new program aiso: 1. Reduced the cost of legal cigarets to 35 cents a pack by lopping four cents off the federal take immediately. 2. Eliminated a 10 per cent sales tax on newsprint for domes tic consumers only (no help for U. S. -papers). 3. Removed radio license fees. 4. Trimmed an estimated one million dollars a year in import tariffs on manufactured articles, most of them bought from the United States. The income tax cut is effective July 1. With that, it was estimated, approximately two-thirds of the Canadian taxes imposed following the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 will have been removed. Other reductions are effective pri or to jury, some as far back as Jan. 1. Chairman Velde Makes Apology WASHINGTON Wl Chairman Velde (R-Ill) of the House Un- American Activities Committee has declared publicly he was mis taken in saying Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer wrote a letter to a Soviet magazine praising the Russian people. But he contended in a statement yesterday that Mrs. Meyer, in a sneech which precipitated a row between them, hoped to coerce the j Mrs. Meyer, wife of Eugene Meyer, board chairman of the Washineton Post, criticized Velde j and plans for probes of U. S. col- i leges and schools in a Tuesday i address to the American Assocta tion of School Administrators, meeting in Atlantic City, N. J. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SALEM Wl The Senate Resolu tions Committee recommended de feat Thursday of a proposed con stitutional amendment to create the office of lieutenant governor To ;: : 1 .r, IT I I f. I i . I fir Ganz; Mortuary MYRTLE CREEK, OREGON ROSEBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERSHIP FORUM MONDAY NOON Civic Room General Subject: "Effects of Future City Planning" This Subject will be presented under the following titles: CITY PLANNING Future Planning and Property Values Earl Wiley The Effect of Future Planning on Permanent Invest ments H. E. Schmeer, Need for Future Planning From an Engineer's View point Art Evans What $6,000 Will Accomplish In Future Planning W. A. Gilchrist This program will be presented by Percy Croft This Announcement Is Sponsored a Service of Good Will To This Community by Adair's Associated Service 301 N, Main Street New York City 'City Of Terror1, ; Says Rep. Powell WASHINGTON l-Rep. Pewtu (D-NY) told House investigators . . t ,.N York Pit. u ., ,,. a citv oi terror ior mtnorttiei" and its police commissioner should be fired. "Every day he is in office Is i disgrace to my town and to my country," Powell asserted, Powell, av Negro, charged Hat' ' Commissioner George P. Monii. han made some kind of an agree ment with Justice Department of ficials last July to make the FBI keep hands off civil rights cases in New York. He said it prevented FBI agents from questioning New York policemen in casea alleging police brutality. Monaghan has denied the FBI ever agreed to Ignore . sue h charges. The FBI had no com ment. . i The congressman, testifying he. fore a House judiciary subcom mittee probing the Justice Depart ment, said' an agreement was reached after FBI agents inquired into the police-slaying of John Der rick, a Negro Korean War veteran early In 1951. He said Derrick was shot down on 8th Avenue by patrolmen in a police cruiser in full view of wit nesses. A police investigation, he said, resulted in a whitewashing. 11:30 A.M. SUNDAY We Bring Ton The Sew York Philharmonic Orchestra Dimitri Mitropoulot Condoctinf Fin Muiic Brought to yu by a Fin Car ckw Willys Guest soloists will be contralto Elena Nikoloidi and tenor Set Svanholm. KRNR-1490 The CBS Radio Network be ...to contribute to others' peace of mind by a willingness to compromise, not with ideals but with situations... this is a part of our treed. UMPQUA HOTEL 1