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4 Hi Newt-Review, Rouburg, Published D lly Exctpt Sunday by the News-Review Compony, Inc. (Unl M Mot. lira mmf tur 1, list. ik iiiIm Iwklffi Or(B 4r Mi ! Mktch I, lilt CHAKLIS V. STANTON Editor nd M.rMfl.r Member f the Associated Pratt, Oregon Nawteaper PublUh.r. Association, the Audit Bur.au f Circulation IdmnM kr WIIT-HOLLIDAI CO., INC.. Iflau la Niw Tark, Cblc.M. am fnmoUoo, U. AnfviM, SMttlt. Portland, Denvar uasoomoN bates-ia onm-ii - i. i-i montm , thm moaflu, HI Outatda Oralon B7 liul-Pat Vnr. SHOO: tlx monttu, fT.QOl ttlTM umoCsj. 3.90. ( Br N.wJUvi.w Cnir Fc Vnr, S1J.00 U tdvuiMI, M Unn Ml ur, par month, tl.28. PUBLICITY WEAKNESS ' . Charles V. Stanton . f It is a rather peculiar situation that the practice mak ing Guy Cordon one of the strongr men of the United States Senate has weakened his position as a candidate lor reelection. . Cordon has sought no headlines. He has consistently hIIowpH other members of the Senate to take credit for his work. He has worked for. legislation sponsored by name on measures lor wmcn ne was plugging, xie ms seldom been in the news, although he stands high in the Senate in both influence and prestige. His willingness to let others pose in the spotlight while he does his work off stage has made him many friends anions' the members of the Senate. Cordon has been ex tremely helpful to his associates. He is constantly being BOUgnt 10 leao IlOOr WOrK On legislation, run limueilte 111 evident on both sides of the aisle. His self-effacement has earned great prestige. His counsel is sought by Republi can and Democrat members alike. Nor Cood Polil-iet While Cordon's avoidance of the spotlight has been a most valuable factor in building up his strength in the Sen ate it has proven poor politics, for reelection. Few Oregon voters are aware 01 trie great amount of work he does, his high rating in the Senate and the importance of activities to which he is assigned. His supporters are aware of this weakness. They have recently organized a publicity office in Portland from which news of Cordon's work is being distributed. Cor don's office In Washington also has yielded to tirgings from his Oregon supporters and is giving out more news. The Senator's name will appear with much more frequency in the future, we anticipate. . We imagine this sudden pressure lor publicity is per sonally distasteful to Senator Cordon. Having had much direct contact with him in past years, when he served in county offices and as a practicing attorney in Roseburg, we know he lias always avoided publicity, insofar as possible. He' has neve liked headlines. In the Senate this trait has worked well to advance his own position, and with it his in fluence on behalf of Oregon. Because of personal friend ship, and because of obligations on the part of those Sen ators with whom he has cooperated, he has been able to swing a good manjf nieces of legislation to the benefit of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, Is In Strong Position Muoh of the work Cordon has done for the region has gone unnoticed because! he sought no publicity. In fact, he has permitted others to either claim or infer credit to themselves for projects he developed and engineered. . And we find some politicians who are not averse to claiming undeserved credit for anything they think may be to their advantage. , That Cordon's backstage policy has been advantageous to the region is obvious. He holds positions on committees carrying the greatest influence. He has frequently been named to some of the most important projects in the Sen ate. He has been sent almost around the world to investi gate affairs in Europe, statehood for Hawaii, administra tion of insular affairs, etc. Now that he is a candidate for reelection it is entirely possible that the very policy which brought him to his pres ent high pinnacle may be a serious weakness in his candi dacy. Perhaps there is time left to get his record before the voters. It will be with extreme personal reluctance tliRt Cordon permits himself to be centered in the political spot light, but it is evident that his many aggressive supporters will endeavor to see he has his name more frequently be fore the public ahead of the November election. ItJtttMkBHWMMBMMBMI 1 NEW YORK (. Once upon a time there lived a king who fell to brooding. He had everything a king needed to make him happy a gold throne, honest tax collectors, a big palace, a fat treasury, a five-day week, and a beautiful queen with a minor throat ailment that made it impossible for her to raise her voice in anger. Anyway, since she wat per fect queen she never wanted to criticize him. (Thit is a fairy tale.) i But the king, as he sat upon his gold throne, did not feel like a king at all. He brooded because hit people seemed lo be unhappy. So he called In his favorite wiso man and asked: "Why do not my subjects laugh and sing? I am a good king with a gentle heart. 1 do not cut off their heads, and t (ax them fairly and, well, maybe ever so litt'e more." "Maj-he they got troubles," said the wise man, who had some o( hit own, "What troubles could they have, considering 1 got this good, gontii heart?" asked the king indignant ly. "I can't understand it myself," aid the wise man, hedging Im mediately. "Why don't we ap proach the problem scientific!!)? Left go out and poll the people." So the king difguiscd himself by putting a thin (but not too thin) piece of cheese cloth over his crown, and he and the wise m.m went out among the common foik. They halted the first three fnced one they met, and received Uieso complaints: "I want to buy lollipop, and my piggy bank won't give," wept small child. "My wife wants new home. and I don l 'tve the dnugn. groaned middle-aged man. "I don't mind being old. ugly and broke," whined a wrinkled lady beggar. ' But I did want to to to my grave in style, so that my funeral would be a credit to the community." "The king decided this wit n Ore. Wed. Apr. 21, 1954 industriously time and again others without putting his now that he is a candidate ample cross-section of the public mind. "Money Is what makes all mv people unhappy." he said. "I think I'll abolish money." "King, you took the words right out of my oracular mouth," said the wise man So the king abolished moncv. He ordered his people to bring in all their ali o,,M .n.,.,.. ...,1 jewels. Since he assured them he Had a good, gentle heart (and they ne iiau an armvj me peopie brOUffht him nil thai- ......lit. ,,:f V" "v.i .vcaiiii. King, you better let me take a ! this out-nf-Hntji ti-avh nft 11,, it in a hole somewhere where it won i icmpi people." said the wis iimu. nn ine King said it was okay with him. What good was money? Rill th nnnnl. i In tact hlat m..L.A.. ... everywhere and they had mor ivuuim man ever. So the king announced. .!' Ke the peonle need some- ,,,. ,ne piace of monPV I will issue me an edict savin that from now on kind letters from an employer, recognizing lov ! servire by an employe, will pass in my kingdom for monev " 'Groat idea " said the wise man Where wotud wo be without a minn use yours?" This system worked well for throe days, For the first time in hislnry a man could exchange a kind note from the boss for a bot tle of milk at the giwrv stors Then the new order collapsed ut ter v. It mi r,,nrf ii... ., - i , ........ ,nit nun i np bosses had nut all their relatives on the payroll and out of in letters thv wr.iiA to memhers of their own family. -a win nave to use the honor Our Motto Anything Can Happen and Probably Will (Janice $$io5$al While Dr. J. Robert Opponheim er is being gauged at a seonnty risk by a special panel, we per haps ought to get clear on what sort of man it is whose life is now. for the third and fourth time, un der the investigating microscope. It has been emphasized that he Humane Society Extends Thanks For Assistance ROSEBURG The members or the Douglas County Humane So ciety would like to take this op portunity to thank all our friemis who helped make our recent rum mage sale a success. It is gratifying to know tlu't DeoDle from all over the countv realize the importance and ncrt of a humane society and an animal shelter in this area. We were un aware before mat how many D'lii- lic-spirited people there are who 'avc at Heart tne many hurt, nun cry and abandoned animals in our nrca people who realize that n;i county can call itself "first-das'," without the presence of a human? society. To the storei and businesses who donated clothing racks, ts blcs and materials in gcneraI;'to the radio stations and newspapers who publicized the sale for us: lo the men and women who gavn generously ot their time and ef forts; lo the many people who con tributed rummage for our sale, wc numnne society memibers lay "Thanks thanks a lotl" We're nearer our goal, and witn cooperation such ax this we will someday have the facilities in this countv that we need. MRS. HAHR1SOV WINSTON ROSEBURG, ORE. system," sighed the king. "From now on each man will write hi own money, but I flatly forbid him lo do so except to reward himself for doing a fine job or performing a gooo need lor a stranger." By twilight there wasn't an tin signed piece of paper left in the country, and everybody but the king had his arm in a sling, suf fering from wr.ter't cramp. Riots broke out the next morning, a gen eral revolution by poon, as every man lost faith in his neighbor'.! signature. Dig me up that money quick!'' the king told his wise man. "These people seem to want their old troubles back." But the wise man, who was a very, very wise man, had kept his own pockets loaded with gold coins all the time. He walked tn the bal cony, scattered a handful of coins to the mob and said. "Follow me. boys, there's more where that came from." The wise man turned and tossed more gold coins to (he king's body guard and sa;d. "Boys, 1 know you all got your personal woes, and you can solve them anvwav you want to. What you do next is no to you." The bodyguard troops immed iately opened the gates. The mon flooded in. cut off the head of the king, stuck it on a pole outside the palace gales, and everv man went home and bragged to his wife he had saved the country single-handed. The wise man took over the throne, married the former king'sl,enl- turned the task over widow, and Ihev both lived happilv ever after. But the new kin's never hired a new wise man. He didn't want to trust anv beginners. Moral: Only great quacks or great fools try to peddle a salve guaranteed to heal your ulcer, cure neighbor's child or freckles, and! make everybody on earth break out laughing at the same lime. ! was for long years totally unedu cated politically. But we should look also at the converse of that act. He was and it oao of this country's most brilliant scientists. Some of his colleagues, the top physicists in America, say flatly that Oppenhcimer more ihan any other single man ia responsible for the substantial lead this country enjoys over Russia in atomic weapons. Men like Dr. Hans Bethe, presi dent of the American Physical So ciety, declare that without Oppen heimer's genius we might never have had an atomic bomb at all. Therefore, if we do really pos sess any national security Decause of our stockpile of nuclear weap ons, we may very wall .iwe it to Oppenhcimer more than to anyone else. What curious irony there-is, then, in the fact that this man should be under suspicion as a possible peril to our sacurity. He is not, of course, charged with spying, with passing infonma. linn A thA jovial TIninn Ua ic nnt indeed, charged with any clear and1 unmistakable acts of subversion. The most severe accusation lodged against him for the pe-iod ot cne laie mimes and early Forties, when he was admittedly consorting with Communists, is that he contributed generously io tneir cotiers. During the time he headed the Los Alamos atomic laboratory in World War 11, it is charged Oppen heimer deliberately hired Com munists to work on the project. If proved, this charge might be one evidence ot a wish to subvert or spy. or at least blink at such ac tivities. But Oppenhcimer denies it flatly and it has never been substanti ated. No other accusation covering this period is of this order. All these charges, all Oppen heimer's history through the war, have been examined and dis missed as of insufficient weight by Lt.-Gcn. Leslie Groves, war time head of the a'.omic bomb project. They have also been dis missed by eminent follow scientists like Vannevar Bush and James B. Conant, and the present boss of the Atomic Knergy Commission, Rear Adm. Lewis Strauss. Since all this is old and has been gone over again and again, the real heart of the present inves tigation is the accusation that he tried to delay or halt the making of the hydrogen bomb. Oppenheimer denies he sougM in any way to interfere with H bomb work once former President Truman determined to start it. This matter surely is subject to prooi one way or another. Whether the objections he offer ed before the President's decision were the normal protests of a doubting scientist or the subtie ver bal salHtage of a subversive is what the security panel must de cide. The matter is delicate. N'o clear sign exists that Oppenheimer was speaking, in effect, for a foreign power. Were the panel to equate mere protest with subversion, it would have to stigmatize many other scientists, statesmen and lawmakers who also argued against the H-bomb. The real answer lies deep in Op penheimer's motivations, and these the panel somehow must proWe. delay Of Equipment Saves Life Of Baby NKWPORT. Ore. i - High speed relay of special equipment from Portland was credited Tues day with helping a premature baby survive here. Portland city police started the relay with the equipment, a vapor izing device used inside an oxygen to state police who sped to Mc- Minnmie where a physician from Newport was waiting. He wen' the rest of the way and put the vapor iter to work Monday niiilit. Tuesday at Pacific Community Hospital the baby was reported doing well and attendants saul ihe ! vanoruer had materially imornvrd the baby't chances of survival. International Atomic Science Meet Forecast LOS ANGELES I President Eisenhower plans an international conference of scientists to explore "the benign and peaceful use of atomic energy" tays LrfWU L. Strauss. .The chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission made this dis closure in addressing the Lot Angeles World Affairs Council. He said it is the President' inten tion to ask a national American scientific organization to call the meeting later this year. No specific date was mentioned for the meeting, which would be the first conclave of its kind in the nuclear age, Strauss, in stating Its purpose, quoted the President' words: "To hasten the day when the fear ot the atom will begin to disappear from the minds of the people and the governments of the East and the West." The AEC chairman's announce ment came during his discussion of Eisenhower's Dec. 8 speech, in which the President called upon the world's atomic powers to set up an intcrnaUonal agency to de velop peaceful atomic pursuits. The nations participating, said Eisenhower, "must, of course," include the Soviet Union. Strauss, amplifying this point during a question-answer period following his address, said the nations par ticipating must include, under the President's plan, the three pow ers in the atomic energy area the United States, Great Britain and Russia. 'The United States proposal." said Strauss, "is not just another move in the chess game of world politics nor is it primarily a dis armament formula. It does not en danger the atomic weapons secrets ot any nation that now has or mav possess such secrets. It does not involve suddenly placing trust wnere yesterday trust could not be reposed." High Civilian Casualties Seen In Atomic Bombing WASHINGTON UH Mrs. Kath erine Howard, deputy civil defense director, said Tuesday an atomic attack on this country might pro duce more civilian casualties than U.S. armed forces have suffered in all the wars in which they have taken part. Mrs. Howard, in a talk prepared for the annual convention of the Daughters of the American Revo lution said no American city is now beyond the range of enemy bombers and that there is no sure way of stopping all the planes which might attempt a raid. "From one-half to two-thirds of them would get through to their targets perhaps three quarters of them, if the assault caine tomor row." she said. "As a result we civilians might suffer many times more casualties, in a single day, than our total armed forces have suffered thus far in all the years of all thj wars of our nation's history combined." Population Increase Seen For Columbia Basin SPOKANE tl An economist for the Bureau of Reclamation pre dicted Monday the population ot the Colombia Basin in Washington may reach 277,000 by 1980. Arthur L. Walker of Eohrata I said it will hit that figure if the ! irrigation system is expanded to cover 978.000 acres. He fnrcast a . population of ltw.OOO by uwo if the I project is limited to 5iM.uOO acres, i The basin population was 32 000 i in 1950. j Walker told a Chamber of Cora i merce luncheon the construction ! program now underway in the 1 basin will provide water to 594, 1000 acres by 1961 or 1962. I More than 100.000 acres of basin I land will be under irrigation this I year in Grant. Adams, Franklin ! and Walla Walla counties, he said. It's estimated that 1.781 farms will j be using water from basin irrig I Uon ditches thii year. Much Building Is Predicted Despite Slower Rate Today Of NW Lumber Production By SAM DAWSON PORTLAND, Ore. 11 The raw materials for America' homes are coming from the Pacific Northwest's forest at a slower rate today than last year. But lumber mill spokesmen aay they are stiH betting on at least a mil lion new bouses rising is year almost at many as last. The plywood industry, moreover, it going the lumbsnnen one bet ter. Despite declining shipment, it goet on producing at or near capacity, confident that demand from builders, wdi catch up in coming week. Lumber pricea. hipment and orders, however, at present are all running below this time l'st year. And numerous small margin al mills and logging operation! have closed down, because price dropped below the bresk-even point. The large concern are betting on a spring pickup in construction to justify their hopes that total production this year will finally come within i per cent of 1953's fat output. They point to an unusually good February home-building perform ance as one sign, and as another to the fact that in recent weeks orders have topped winter-retarded output. Prices of lumber and plywood, now down by 10 to 20 per cent from Korean War highs, ar ex pected to fluctuate with the ups and downs of the construction in dustry. And with tome typet of timber used by home builders, prices may react to Canadian lumber exports and to overseas markets for Amer ican forest products. So far this year American ship ments of Douglas fir to Australia and South Africa have been top ping those from British Columbia with the rise of the value of the Canadian dollar in foreign ex change said to be giving the Amer icans a price advantage. But last year Canada lost part of its English market When the United Kingdom bought lumber from Scandinavia and Russia The Canadians then sold part of their output in the Eastern V. S. mar ketweakening price for Amer ican lumber, industry spokesmen here say. There are other problems bothering the Northwest's No. 1 industry. Booming postwar build-' ing brought many marginal mills into operation for a quick harvest of dollars. Wten production out ran demand and prices cracked, these mills folded and brought spot depression to some small commu nities. In some instances the easily available timber has been cut, and costs mount as the lumbermen go farther afield. A threatened strike could affect the production picture. The CIO Woodworkers' Union, representing some 50,000 workers in sawmills and logging camps, has set May 3 as the date for an industry-wide strike unless it demands tor wage Increases and other benefits are met. But those who sell lumber see their best chance of finding a million-home market for their prod uct to lit in possible congressional action to ease mortgage financing terms still more. Competition from other building materials it growing. The lumber men are fighting back with pro motional campaigns to induce more use of their product and with efforts to get building codes re vised. The mills are following In the footsteps of the meat packers who learned to use every part of their animals "but the squeal." M'l'.s have learned to cut more usable lumber out of a log, to sell cer tain types of their output to ply wood makers, to get the bark chips and branches to the pulp Crime Outstrips Population Rate, Survey Reveals WASHINGTON I The FBI reported Tuesday major crimet ic the United States rose 8 per cent last year to an estimated total of 2,159.080 offenses. "Crime is outstripping popula tion rite of growth 4 to 1," tn bureau said in its annual bulletin "Uniform Crime Reports." "The rise cannot be charged to the increase in population alone." the FBI said. "The number of persons residing in the United States increased about 5 per cent from the 1960 census to 1933, while crime totals rose over 20 per cent." Of the major crimes tabulated from police reports in all parts of the country, only murder dropped off from 1952. It showed a 1.2 per cent decline. Arrests of young people those under 18 rose 7.0 per cent in 1953, while adult arrests increased l. per cent. A sampling of data from 1,174 cities indicated that some four mil lion persons were arrested during the year. This figure includes per sons taken into custody for driving while drunk and negligent man slaughter involving automobiles, but does not include arrests for lesser traffic offenses. Although the crime rate contin ued to rise. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said only a few weeks ago that due to modern laboratory detection methods, the confirme-i criminal never stood a poorer rhance of continued success than he does today "Uniform crime reports" said more than 59 per cent of the value of -property stolen last year was recovered; of 4he 226.630 automo biles stolen (up 5 2 per cent from 1521, police reported recovery of vi m per cent CALL LUMBER BIDS PORTLAND uB Army Engi neers will open bids here April 2J for purchase of 107,252.670 board feet of lumber to go to military installations in the Pacific area. Lt. Col. George W. Hawkins, chief of the lumber procurement branch, said the lumber will be moved In several shipments from May 25 to Sept. 24. mills, to turn the sawdust into sal able products. Waste is too ex pensive for modern day lumber ing. The Northwest'! lumber falls in to two classes, each with its spe cial problems and uses. The West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. represents the Douglas fir indus try which flourishes from the Pa cific Coast to the western side of the Cascade Mountains, the great rain belt of the Northwest. Asso ciation spokesmen say they are "conservatively optimistic" for 1M. The Western Pine Assn. repre sents lumbermen in the 12 Western states where the ponderosa pine grows in the drier regions from the eastern slopes of the Cascades on east through the Rocky Moun. tains. The association looks for a slight drop in home building from the 1953 level, and a conse quent five per cent decline in lumber production. 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