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4 Tho Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Mon. Dee. 21, 1953 qtw Slewsltetricw Published Dolly Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. . Coloroi 00 ooeool oUo. "OII.I Moj '. ' ' tort HIM X ftebarf. Ortf.o eno.r Oct of Morek t. 1011 CHARLES V STANTON Editor end Monojor Mombor of tho Associated Prow, Oregon Nowipopor Publlihert Aiioclotlon, tho Audit Buroou of Clrculotloni ' eoroMOUd by WEBT-BOU.IO CO. INO, ollloot 1 How lork. CMeooo. Son rrancUco, Loo Anuli. Soottlo. Portland. Dinvor LBSCRlKriON RATES In OrolOD-BT M.U-fot Yoor, 010.00; ll montU, IOJS; tbroo ownilu. OZ7S. By Newo-Reflow Corrtot-Por Yoor. 13.0 11a od oonoo,. leu thou m oor, por montB, elJJ. Outilao Orofon-By Moil For Voor. 011.00: olz months, w S tnroo QMnlho. 03. og MACHINE VERSUS HANDS "Obviously, the United States Wants War" C2f Charles V. Stanton The fine letter by Mr. B. Ames appearing in Friday's xr,.,.,i?;. imrinnlitprtlv was of trrcat interest to readers. Mr. Ames, a frequent contributor to the Reader Opinion column, expressed the belief that the trend toward robot machines is dangerous; that we are throttling our economy bv our "frenzied rush" for labor-saving machines. It was his opinion that by replacing hand labor with machines we are reducing job opportunities and thus lowering demand for consumer goods because unemployed workers cannot be consumers. The opinions expressed by Mr. Ames represent a very extensive school of thought. Our so-called machine age has met with much resistance. Some labor organizations, in particular, have fought vigorously against new machines and processes. - some sucn organizations nave rau make-work and featherbedding because of fear induced by labor-saving devices. Arguments are plentiful on both sides of this long-standing issue. There is no dearth of champions for either side of the debate. But it might be well to take a look at a few phases of the controversy. Machines Boost Pay Rate We have always liked an illustration we read a number of years ago. We can't give credit because we've forgot ten the writer. But it was pointed out that 1,000 men, onuinnorl with tpasiioons. could rouirh out a few yards of road in a day's time and could be paid 10 cents for their labor. One hundred men, with shovels and wheelbarrows, could build more and better road in one day and could be .... -n . .' ll 1 1 1 .1 nnDfH.1rtf n nairi xi. Kiir nrtn mun. wiLn h uunuuiei. tuuiu wunouuv, a ,n,- ... r.. ........ - , icw Lmi un ureamy, great deal more road, and on high standard, and could be poetry-quoting Harlow Fraden and paid S20 - n's writer friend, Dennis Wepmat., . Thus one man, with a machine, would replace 999 but Friday were indicted on first de- would be accomplishing much more work and much better work. The men who got only 10 cents per day would find ex istence difficult. At $1 per day, the laborer might manage bare necessities. But the man making $20 per day would have a fairly high standard of living. Because the man with the bulldozer could build a lot of good road, more people would want to travel his road. So they would buy more automobiles. The iob of building automobiles would create additional jobs. As the builders of automobiles would be skilled workers, thev too would have sufficiently high standards of living and would want overstuffed furniture, radios, refrigerators, etc., thus crea ting more new jobs. The workman sunplicd with a shovel and wheelbarrow costs the boss only $10 or $15 for investment in tools. But the bulldozer operator is in charge of a machine costing thousands of dollars. Thus he must be paid for both skill and responsibility". It coats on an average around $20,00(1 to supply tools and machines for each individual worker in the industrial 'field today. The worker must have a hicrh rats of production to pay back the Investment on this machine. , Standard Of Living Raised - Opposing the argument by Mr. Ames is the school of thought that each advance in industrial tooling actually creates more jobs. Furthermore jobs so created, requiring higher skills and increased responsibility, promote higher standards of living and a reflecting cycle of demand for consumer goods Mr. Ames pointed to the typesetting machine which booted him out of a job as a hand compositor. Yet the typesetting machine ushered in an immediate era of more newspapers and an overall increase in general employment, although admittedly thousands of hand compositors had to turn to other occupations. While machines may replace hand laborers, it is frener ally the case that they create employment in some other direction and result in an upward step in standards of living. If it is true that only by restricting the use of labor saving machines we can maintain a high standard of econ omy, then China, India and like countries, whore machines are few and hand labor plentiful should be prosperous, rather than the United States with its vast capacity for machine production. But we find the exact reverse to be true. So, in the light of this evidence, we must credit the machine, at least in major part, with the fact that the standard of living in the United States is higher than in any other nation in the world, particularly when coupled with the fact that standards of living appear to be directly pro portionate to the degree of machine-controlled industrial production of each comparative nation. " vhdSt tlPJv . u.,, -i-irnacgi Editorial Comment From Tho Orogon Prtio Youths Indicted For Murder Of One's Parents gree murder 'charges in the weird cyanide-champagne cocktail mur der of Fraden's parents. , The iDdictment came quickly aft er only a half day of questioning witnesses before a Bronx County Grand jury. now youths, an esthetic, studi ous pair who wear horn-rimmed spectacles, have admitted taking part in the bizarre slaying. For four months, the deaths were considered double suicides or mur dor and suicide. The 20-vear-o d Fraden was quoted by authorities Thursday night as saying he murdered his parens hecause his mother con stantly taunted him with being a "lairy." Bronx Dist. Atty. George B. De Luca said the youth claimed that ''as long as he could recall and before he knew anything about sex, his mother oalled him a 'fairy'. This he strongly resented." The parents, Dr. William Fraden, SO, a physician, and his wife, Shir ley, 48, a retired school teacher, died Aug. 19 of cyanide in cham pagne cocktails allegedly mixed oy their son. ft was not Until Wonman's eirl friend came to police with the story four montlis after it happened that murder was suspected. Wepnuin's version was that he and Fraden hatched the plot to get tcccss to the parents' $150,000 for tune. At the grand jury hearing Friday, it was brought out the assets totaled only $116,000. Wepman, 22, readil admitted a part in Ihe affair, hut it was only after hours of questioning that Fraden made a statement Thurs day night. Both youths were taken to Belle vue hospital for psychiatric obser vations. They will not be arraigned on the murder charges until results ol this examination are known. Even though the Russians' orig inal offhand rebuff of President Eisenhower's atomic oeace Dro- posal was later reversed, one finds it hard to digest the incred ible stupidity of their first response. As most of the world recocnized instantly, the President's plan was fresh and different, at once prac tical ano idealistic, me Kcas greeted it, however, with an as sortment of their weariest cliches. How they imagined a standard serving of Communist propaganda RADIO PERMIT WASHINGTON un A permit for a new standard radio station in Springfield, Ore, went to W. Gor don Allen last week. He alreadv operates stations at Salem and Lebanon. The permit from the Federal Communication! Commission is for a station on 10.'0 kilocycles, one kilowatt, daytime only. JU &,j(e Sec. McKay Will Abolish PAD As Recommended WASHINGTON un Secretary of the Interior McKay savs he ex pects to follow recommendations that the Petroleum Administration for Defense be abolished and its functions shifted elsewhere in the interior Department. McKay, PAD administrator, said in an interview before leaving for a Christinas holiday in Orogon, that he is inclined to follow rec ommendations of the National Pe troleum Council insofar as they can De wonted 0111 within the framework of government and le galities involved. These recommendations are that remaining functions of PAD be transferred to the Interior Depart ment's oil and gas division and a revived Military Petroleum Ad visory Board in event the need for PAD ends. A final order will not be put on McKay's desk for his signature un til PAD officials have worked out detailed recommendations for a transition of Ihe functions. This is expected to take a month or two. The Council, an arlvicnrv avntm of the oil and gas industry ropre- M-NI.IUVOS. was asked recently by II. A. Stewart, acting PAD deputy administrator, to recommend who should carry on when the need for PAD ended. PAD'S work was cut sharply when government mater ials controls were lifted. Last week the council mrnm. mended that upon termination of luncuons he transferred to would be adequate for this totally new occasion is a mystery. They even called the plan a variant of the old Baruch plan for control of atomic energy, which is just exactly what it is not. The Kussians surely cannot se riously believe that these painful ly familiar propaganda devices are going to impress anyone at all. If they do think so, then they nave lost an coniact witn reality. Every word that has emanated from official White House circles about the President's proposal in dicates it is a serious attempt to grapple with the deadliest element in world tensions. Such an efiort demands a sober answer. Even neutrals predis posed to give Russia rather than the United States the benefit of any doubt want to hear something more than routine guff from tho Kremlin. 1 Unless the men in Moscow have taken loave of their senses, thev will fub'iU thoir later promise to give the Eisenhower plan "seri ous consideration." If they do, and if they agree to discuss the Pres- mems program in private con versations with all interested pow ers, the chances are strong, how ever, that the ultimate effect will not prove much better than if they should rest on the first fool ish utterances they made. For the Russians have never yet shown they are interested in the substance of real peace and real disarmament. They commit them selves to the appearance, only, since genuine peace and advanc ing prosperity would be enemies of the cause they seek to spread across the globe. From the Kremlin's viewpoint, the most sensible move would be to agree to atom peace talks and then stall them or bog them down in haggling along conventional Communist lines. That would re capture appearances, but yield nothing of substance. As for the United Stales and its allies, their course is plain what ever the Soviet Union does. Mr. Eisenhower's proposal to build a world bank of atomic materials and foster their application to medicine, agriculture, industrial power and other peacetime use should go forward with or with out the Russians. This plan has the grandeur of outline tor all its modest con UNIONS, PICKETS AND CONTRACTS Albany Domocrat-Horald Columnist David Lawrence in a recent article argues that the ac tion of New York unions in forcing suspension of all the daily news papers in New York is an inter ference, by invisible government, with the freedom of the press. "What the Constitution of the Unit ed States, through the "bill of rights" is supposed to protect the right to pilbhsh without restraint from any government, visible or invisible has not been protect ed," says Lawrence. . The "bill of rights" restricts con gress (the national government). Lawrence makes no mention of the 14th amendment, which applies to the state governments, saying ". . .No state shall make or en force any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of cit izens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any per son of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jur isdiction the equal protection of the laws." So we have the individual pro tected against tyranny by national or state governments. Both state and na'tion have the power to pro tect the individual in his life and property against private or quasi public organizations. Statutes are passed for that purpose. Lawrence points out that Congress exempted labor organizations from the pro visions of the Sherman antitrust law, passed to prevent "restraint of trade." This makes it possible lor a group of labor unions to pro-1 hibit publication of newspapers whenever the leaders decide this should be done. Other unions pos sess a similar veto on the exercise of other rights of individuals. In the New York situation, a strike by one of the several unions among the employes of the papers, followed by the stationing of a picket line in front of the publica tion plants. was followed by breaches of contract by several other labor groups vital to the pro cess of publishing. The unions pre ferred to break .their contracts with the publishers rather than permit members to cross picket lines. Such action now violates no statute, regardless of what one may think of the ethics of it. Nei ther the Taft-Hartley "slave labor" law nor any previpus statute deal ing with labor has made it un lawful for a union to forbid the crossing of a picket line -when some other union has an individ ual strike in progress. The whole New York situation anas up to a practical veto un publication of any of the New York daily papers. New York's reading public may wish to read the pa pers, but it is not permitted to do so. What Lawrence suggests is that the antitrust laws be amended to deprive the unions of immunity from suit for violation of those laws. How serious such n action could be, from the point of view ot the labor organizations, is not hard to realize. It can happen if the un organized public ever gets suffi ciently tired of being pushed around. There might even be a lot of support inside some of the un ions. What we'd rather see would be an inflexible disposition on the part of unions to keep their con tracts. Perhaps legislation would be necessary to nake . contract keeping obligatory on those organ izations not responsive to the ob vious ethics of the situation. Both sides of a labor contract should be expected and if necessary forc ed to keep it during its life. We can't believe that reasonable un ion members see anything the mat ter with this. Is there any reason why parties to a labor contract should be on any different basis from the par ties to any other contract? HARDY SOULS SAM FRANCISCO About 25 As a warmup, the hardy swim, members of the Dolphin Club roers, ranging from ages 12 to 86, hopped into the chill waters of the rampe( seven miles from their Pacific Sunday in the clubs 55th beach annual midwinter swim. NEW YORK (vP) Those long winter evening commer cials on television have revived the lost art of reading. There is no better time to pick up a good book and settle back for a reunion with the printed word than during those cheery interludes on your video screen during which the announcer tells you how you can avoid body odor and pro tect your lungs by drinking only filtered beer, packed in a king-size refrigerator that can be thrown away after using only once. 1 "Durlttg one long commercial I ing" Sen. Joe McCarthy, road my way through three feet "The Boy who saw Tomorrow" . ,Vr; c'"m " "vc-ioot dook vice President Nixon, shelf, ' a man bragged recently. ..0ur Anima, Neighbor,"To the h. X. 'ft,. i' . "J1 ri family next door. Win-ton Churchill. Berle. hiss Me Asain. Strani!er"Frr Penelope, the Bronx Zoo's old maid! 'i of the NPC l'laiypus. "A Mingled Yarn" Qucntin 1 Cin I Reynolds. r I N3 1 wniu 1 an a Jian Believe?" f 1 Publisher Bennett Cerf. TOT IxICS mi- one 01 suspicion jiar- m ... lene Dietrich. II7S Miloc A.i. "Time and Time Again" Ava ' ...wj npau Gardner. . UmU Victory" - Adiai Stevr..) f 'The Future of Architecture" the oil and cao riivicinn ,,-i.ini. nn crated between World War II and ' ,cnl wmcn marlted the Marshall "ii- orginmng ol tne Korean con flict as a Peace-time npenrv anH a revived military advisory' board composed of industry representa tives. It also suggested continua- ' iVl'L. Rites Held snap rair Betty Grahle "Meet Me at the Premier Malenkov. 'Songs for my Supper1 L.UHl)HniO, Morgue" Guy ed beside her lover. Carl Austin Hall, was buried alone near here in a brief ceremony attended by alnit 15 persons. in ricasanlon, Kan.. 175 miles "Pocket" Guide to the Birds" -, inTfamdv nlo? TA," Your favorite politician. t"ry. y t'cn"" "The Borrowers" To the other real favor this ChrisE,; ! whyi "f""? ?"!!, J'l' T To, favorite bartender. nui reiresn his ears ny giving mm: ' a heart wanning, old - fashioned "You Must Relax" Ditto. pieent-a hook? If he has forgot-! "Brother to the Dragons" The ten how to read, surprise him with' bo"' assistant. color picture book. ' I "Some Enchanted Evenings" June Locxnari. "I Reached for a Star" Frank I Sinatra. "Notes Without Music" John ny Ray. "So Noole a Captain' Mai. Gen. BUI Dean of Korea (presented I with a salute). "The Truants ' Arthur God- "HOW to IM.iv vnnr H..I njf all! ..t'.!.. n.i.L. ti..ii... tit. T;i. . i 1 nr 1.01110 diuiuo "f. "'" President Ike. Li Rosa. 1 racucal Guide to Job Hunt-I "A Pail of Oysters" another commercial.' To guide von in maVintf the rioht choice, here is our annual list of; tnristnias book suggestions Just i in jitet for folks in and out of! the public eye: "How to Make Doll Clothcs"- ourujn Monroe. 1 "All Done from Memory" Har-' ry S. Truman. - The ten-minute rxivmnnv f. Ul-ycar-old-old paramour was held Plan. It opens a now vista . of world development that beckons all men of good will. That vista should be explored with all those peoples who are willing to make the journey. Grcenlease's body last Oct. 7. Both Hall and Mrs. Heady plead ed guilty to kidnaping under the Lindbergh law and wero executed in the gas chamber at the Mis souri State Prison early Friday morning. About 40 persons gathered at the Pleasonton cemetery for Hall's public burial. There wore two floral sprays. One was provided by a funeral home. The other was sent by a friend of the Hall family. Mrs. Heady's request that she be buried beside her partner in the crime was denied. Gen. Grow Withdraws Request For Retrial WASHINGTON UH The U. S. Court of Military Appeals has allowed Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow to withdraw his request for a new trial on his conviction of violating security regulations. Crow's conviction resulted from the theft of his secret diary by Soviet agents in 1951. Excerpts from the diary were used in Red propaganda blasts against the United States. Grow was assigned as military attache at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow at the time his diarv was filched in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was visiting. A court martial convicted the general of improperly jotting down U. S. military secrets in his per sonal journal. He was sentenced to a reprimand and suspended from command of troops for six months. Grow. 59, was retired last Jan. 1 after 30 years of service. n.'h AiJin" - B"""l under the fold ... ....... rrtmrttnrir int ....at. -1 j . v,.-' ",u W1UI riusrn sines, Heart of 0, 2. Zl 1 1- the Lin"-Di,.o. i'sT Ka riy ng queers Irom Outer! it ,. i k.m, -( '. fingered officers dug up vouno Rnhhv PRE-YUUE TRAGEDY DAYTON. Ky. I Shock caused by a fire that started in a closet I filled with Christmas toys was 0 a chinnl 1, niamea tor me aeam 01 jits. wrth ,LS 'side'? ??rah Hastings Siepe, last night. .irs. oiepes was ncaa wnen iouna in the binning home. NOTICE The office of DR. A. E. DALROS will be CLOSED December 25 thru January 3 Space" To a butter waiter, "By the Dawn's I'gly Light" Fine for throwing at alarm clocks. Lite is north Living and "The COMMUTERS COLLIDE Din. -f n...;..... ii:-! - ; -.".. nuu un in .v-,.-. ... .i.rC iiiMiiK leiccinc commuter trains collided Buy em for yourself, and give outside a suburban Svdney station i 11 ..c.-ti ... .pu .'iiini,v. nuing at least one per- .uuton exercise. son. and injuring 70 others. General Hardware-Tools ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES- SPORTING GOODS UMPQUA SALVAGE 1947 North Stephens 1 Block North of Garden Valley Road Plenty of Free Parking reetttuT, From all of ul .. to all of you a Merry HoliJay Season, filled" to trie trim with ioyf of die YuletiJe. FIRESTONE STORE Jfolidgijs At this happy tim we wish to express our heartfelt thonks and appreciation for your patronage during the past year and to wish all our friends and neighbors a joyous Holiday replete with all he seoson's pleasures. Georgie Lee Shop "TOTS TO TEENS" 130 N. Jackson mm nappiness fir May this Holy Season bring la our many friends all Ihe tich blessings thai will make lor happiness and joy through out the year. --W-f-lo ! I i fetotJlK. 4t HORN'S Roseburg Refrigeration Mr. & Mrs. Al Kosel end the,Girls of DIANA-CRAIG'S
