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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.
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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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Woods Extremely Dry
MEDFORD OB A fire reported
Sunday in the Rogue River Na
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the Sc. jaw Creek area near Tallow
box Lookout.
Those entering the wood were
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