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o - 4 The Newi-Review, Roseburg, PublUhad Daily Exctpr Sunday by th News-Review Company, Inc. InlaraJ as ltc.na elaaa miliar Ma; 1, IBID, tl lha poll Itlo .1 RAUbnrg, Orai.D. jndar set March , !?. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Managar Mambar of tha Aiiociatad Pratt, Oragon Nawtpapar Publithara Association, tha Audit Buraau of Circulation! (praualia bp WEST-HOLLIDAT CO., INC.. alflcaa la Naw Tark, CklMI. SaB rraneUa. Laa Aufalaa. Scaltla. Partlaiit. Danvar aUBSCKIPTION RATES In Oracon Br Mall Par Yaar. 1IS.00; alt m.nlba. tt.Sti Ibraa Mentha, IS.25. Ontslda Oraion Bp Mall Par yaar, 111.00; its aaaalha, I7.l ttaraa u.ntba, sx.50. Bp Nawi-Ratlaw Carrlar Par Yaar, IIS.00 lib adpbbea), laaa Iban .a. paar. ar moalh, fl.ss. TIME FOR COFFEE Charles V. Stanton The editorial desk of a newspaper is piled high each morning with "junk" mail. If you have reason to contact the editor of any news paper at an early hour in the day, you're apt to find him grouchy and short-tempered. This condition probably results from his bout with the morning's mail. After he has filled "File 13" with the postal garbage comprising about 99 per cent of his mail, and has had two or three cups of coffee and an aspirin tablet, he may begin to act more like a human being. Most editors develop a slow burn, increasing in inten sity, as they go through the pile of letters and documents on their desks. Publicity has developed into a skilled art and we use .the word publicity in the sense of trying to chisel free ad vertising space from the newspaper. Many concerns employ publicity firms to mail out "news" items, skillfully salted with advertising material. These concerns pay large sums of money to distribute their material with the hope some newspaper somewhere will use it. But try to get them to buy legitimate adver tising space! Free With Advi These publicity scientists use the dodge of advice and information to convince editors their offerings have merit. For instance, here's a neat little number from man ufacturers of plumbing fixtures who in several hundred well-chosen words point out the error of keeping home construction costs down by installing only bare minimum plumbing facilities. Did you know there are 5,000 names for red, the names being manufactured by makers of lipsticks, and that lip sticks contain oil? An oil company wouldn't mind hav ing its name mentioned in an article telling the ladies how to use Iinstick. And here's an article telling in two or three columns of type about the Mexican government's inauguration of a grain storage program. It's very interesting reading, including the name of the manufacturers furnishing the pre-fab buildings. A half-dozen or more announcements are received daily from corporations announcing changes in personnel, as if our readers would be interested. Another group contains statistical material comniled by this or that independent research organization (Name in canital letters, please). Then there are "releases" from a larqre segment of the nation's popular magazines offering "digests" of the interesting articles in issues now on newsstands. Couple these with nolitical letters, copies of speeches, reprints from Congressional Record, etc., from politicians, policy statements from organizations, government agen cies, bureaus and departments, toeether with advertising material from manufacturers distributors press nssoria ' tions and syndicates, and you can understand why the editor is a cantankerous old goat before his morning cof fee break. Tough Decisions Some of the articles are so cleverly written thai the editor has a hard time to decide whether or not they con stitute real news. Particularly is this true in the case of releases from automobile manufacturers, to rile one example. Their publicity, dealing with new models, engineering ehanges, statistics on power, controls and operation, carry informa tion to every person interested in automobiles. P.ul, if the newspaper gives away advertising space on which it relies for revenue, how can it cpntinue to function as a service to the public in the dissemination of news? The editor's mail nuts him on the spot every morning. He must hew to the fine line separating news and adver tising. He is under constant pressure, to use publicity material, not only from the manufacturer but frequently from the manufacturer's local representative. The local merchant gets an item accoinaiied by a personal letter saving that the "editor will be rlad to have this information." So the merchant, a friend of the ed itor, and a good local advertiser, conies in with 'ho pub licity material, lie goes out irate and determined never to put another ad in the newspaper, because the editor wasn't at all glad to get the item and blew his top about "those (deleted) chiselers." Now, for a cup of coffee! I!y STAN For II ROME Ui flout in tile nmoiiff the rich nf Italy mid "th jrovernmenl.s untold mill down, with limited success. The American taxpayer his a stake in this situation as he pre pares his tax r e t u r n with 111 cheating permitted for the April 15 dradine. Part of his 'axes t.ies for foreign aid. and he can ask: "Why should my money o to help countries where the rich otten dodge taxes?" The U.S. government ngirrt there's no justice in th.it. II has used its influence to encoi rage tax reforms in these .'eiintrus. The French and Italian govern ments agree loo hul look at their problems. Gina IllabrigMla is inluMy the highest paid film star in Eu rope. She declared an income of $4,800 last year. The government estimated her minimum earnings at $10,000. That's sheer gallantly if you credit a private sCm.ite ifl the film industry that she may have taken in as much as S'MO,. 000. Handsome artor-direct.tr Vit'i 110 de Stra told the tax man he earned $16,000. The collector thought ,., 000 was about right. An authon- Ore. Thur., Apr. 7, 1955 JJJ &,Je 1 i SWINTON ' ill l'mylc itu'ume tax is a natinnal sport r'raiuv. Mass cheiitinK costs inns. Each has tried to crack 1 tutive Italian source savs Pe S'c.i ' probably made $900,000'. Hlue-bliKxIcd Prince Alessnndio I T01011111 declared $17,000 income ! somewhat short of the $1.2,'I).SSH the tax man estimated. ' How do they ;et away with it; In Italy the present tax law has no piov.sion for sending tax dod gers to jail. In Fiance, cheaters who are caught get off with fimvi. almost invariably. Most neve- are 1 caught. : Rut the basic problem Is mora complicated. The income tax is old stuff in the Inited S'atc. which derives over 8(1 ter cent ol government income from individ ual and corporation income leties. Here the rich always have been powerful and most revenue comet 1 from hidden taxes, laxes that hit I the poor harder proportion .telt ;, than the rich. Only in recent dec ades has the balance of power shit ed and (he tax structure been mod ified. France collects only abou' ?T 1 per cent of national revenues from 1 income tax. Hidden taxes on in Political debate in America al ways hai had a fanciful quality about it. But seldom has it been more unreal than in the postwar years. All the most scruplous exports agree that election result:., opin ion polls and other guages show the great bulk of the American people U) be moderate - minded in both domestic and foreign mat ters. The two major political parties appear to have prospered lately in the degree to which tncy have put themselves in tune with the American majority's quite tem perate demands for action in gov ernment. This necessity for hewinji to a moderate line has brought the two parties quite close together in many policy questions, like the continuation and expansion of soc ial security, the development of an adequate defense, the building and maintenance of friendly ties with other nations in an atomic age. Yet the American politician finds this a painful dilemma. For campaign purposes he likes to be able to draw sharp lines and make hold distinctions, lie wants to blast the opposition. With every body hovering around a broad cen ter, this is really tough. The old pro doesn't like to con cede til at in many ways the only difference between himself and his opposition party is that which once was so well expressed in the play called "State of the Union"' "They're in, and we're out." Morse, Assuming Patterson To Be Opponent, Launches Frontal Attack At Hearings By A. ROBERT SMITH Nawi-Ravitw Correspondent WASHINGTON Sen. Wayne Morse is mapping his forthcoming campaign for re-elc 0140(1 on the presumption that his challenger will be Gov. Paul Patterson. And unlike most orthodox cam paigns staged by political incum bents, which call for ignoring the challenger as long as possible, Morse is beginning by a frontal attack on Patterson long before it is certain in the Republican camp that the governor W!ll be the GOP candidate. Morse and his associates have been carefully setting the stage for the first round in this aggres sive campaign for this week, when Morse and Patterson met in pub lic hearings at Portland on the Hells Canyon issue. Last week at The Dalles More publicly challenged Patterson to take a sUnd on the question of the high federal dam in Hells Canyon. Later in the week it was disclosed that the governor would be called as a witness in the hearings being staged by the Sen ate Interior Committee on Morse's bill to authorize (he high dam. Whatever the outcome of the Hells Canyon battle in Congress this session, the senator has un hesitatingly declared that the pub lic issue of federal vs private dams which the Hells Canyon de bate symbolizes, will he a namr plank in his re election platform next year. While it is being observed with satisfaction in the Morse camp that there is no visible scramble underway among Republicans to lake on the hard-punching convert to the Democratic party, this is also a weathervane which Morse and his crew think points to Pat terson. For, they ask, who elsj is there? This question is coupled current dustry, food, sales and the like make up the rest. Italy picks up about one-sixth of the government income from di rect taxes. The bulk comes from a three per cent tax on every transaction m the country, nation al monoHilies on salt and tobacco and similar levies. Leaders in both countries recog nise that income taxes are a rail way to apiKirtton (he cost of gov- 1 einmenl on die basis of ability to pay. The public is hard to con vince, however. Latins prefer pay ing in dribs and drabs. Actually it costs them as much or more under the present sys tem. The over all lax burden tn Italy is 27 per cent of gross na tional product. In Franco it's 31 per cent. There is some excuse for the rich duckiiiK taxes. If an honest man paid all the indirect laxes and the full income lax, he could go broke. The tax rate anticipates cheating in declarations. In France, for example, income tax rates for the middle and upper brackels are higher than in America even tie : spite (he tremendous additional ' burden of indirect taxes The tax collection ststem en courages bribery and etasion, too. i Many a tax collector ,s a $130 ; a-nionth civil servant. Tempta tion is great. Moreover, Europeans don't talk about their incomes the way Amer icans do. Nobody ever really knows how much a rich man oas. Complete hooks are rare. Jtten the honest collector estimates wealth on the basis of the number of yachts., grand pianos, Riviera villas and sports cars he can trace to (he tax payer. It's a grim picture but not a ' hopeless one. Italy expects to have a new law on the hooks this summer insti tuting jail sentences of up to six months for major tax evadcr. ; The average taxable income de clared by Italians tripled between t'.i.it and 1954 strong evidence the higher income groups are being j more realistic in their rirclara iliors. The number of returns rose i (lin ing the same period. I France has had less if a crack down on income tax paymen's I but both countries are trying to 1 extract more of their (axes from i the rich. Each is meeting resist iance from the citizrnr). So, lately more than usual, he has taken to manufacturing all sorts of differences in the effort to create iisucs that will impress the American voter. In the last years before the Re publicans captured the White House in 1952, their exaggerations on some issues suggested they were going to remake the entire government from top to bottom,, and sweep away our then existing form policy at a stroke. When the GOP moved in, they found that the steel wrecking ball had no place. They have been able to do some useful remodeling and a good deal of wholesome broom work. But essentially, tha house of their predecessors still stands. Now it is the Democrats who are scrambling to make themselves seem different. The artificiality ol some of their argument is possibly a little harder to take than some of the old Republican guff, since the Democrats were in office only three years ago and are presum ed to know better. They keep chomping away at present foreign policy as if all our alliances were crumbling, Rus sia was at the gates and we were doomed. In Iheir hearts they know full well if they had the reins the difference would probably be mere matters of emphasis, timing, and the like. American politics being what it is, talking about this isn't going to change it. But maybe it will enable some of our citizens to hold fast to their calm in th3 face of the loud snorting of the old politi- cal fire horses. ly with the observation that dur ing this Easter congressional re cess, when many members of Con gress take occasion to build new political fences in the grassroots, only one Republican in the Ore gon congressional delegation plan ned public appearances in the state. That, was Rep. Harris Ells worth, who had several appear ances in connection with his ' p?rt. nership" bill for construction ol Cougar and Green Peter dams, all within his own southwest Ore gon district. Rep. Walter Norblad, who was regarded as a leading senatorial prospect by Republicans last year in the event ex-Sen. Guy Cordon had decided not to run, is making it plain he has no urge to tackle Morse. His recess plans called for nothing beyond a personal visit with his parents at Astoria. More over, Norblad has discontinued a I weekly radio broadcast which in recent years was carried by a string of stations, some outside his northwest Oregon district. Rep. Sam Coon, the third Re publican, is sticking close to the capital during the spring vacation period. Morse, however, with frequent trips to Oregon from the capital, and more frequent radio talks, is I seeking to build upon what he and his political advisors believe was a vole of confidence for Morse last fall in the election of Sen. liichard I.. Neuheiger, for whom Morse campaigned. In short, though Republicans are uncertain who their candidate may he. Morse has become con vinced it will be Pattersonand lie is off and running in the long- 1 est and toughest race of his 11- year political career. IN THE DAY'S NEWS By FRANK I (Continutd from Page One) ; For whatever reason, there is rel i atively little across - (he - border trade at these twin towns, and th i hulk of whal (here is is accounted for by Mexican people who romu over the line to buy American goods. . In the block nearest to the iiil"' nalional boundary in Calexuo, prices on goods displayed in the windows and offered for sale in the stores are quoted both in pesos and in dollars. The signs and price tags are in Spanish and English. In Mrxirali, the prices are limit ed in pesos only and the signs are in Spanish only. The rale of ex change is 12'i pesos for a dollar, and when you ask what the price is in dollars most of the sales people have a curiously round- i about method of arriving at th quotation. They pick Hie price in dollars oul of their minds and multiply it be eight. If the result: ing computation conies out the . same as the marked price in poos they tell you what it is, and tl it doesn't come out even they do the problem over again. I One can't help being reminded . of the ancient tale about the tourist who was riding through Nevada in the parlor car with a Nevada cai tleman They passed a vast herd of cattle, and the tourist asked tlie native how many animals d.d he reckon were in sight. The cat tleman did a quickie on his fin 1 get and answered: "There are exactly 4.822. counting a couple of runt calves " "How did you count 'em up So : quick?" the tourist asked, j "Oh, that was easy." the eartle- man explained "1 just counted 1 the (eel and divided by four." i In N'ogales. they are anxious to : make sales, although the visiting ! Americans aren't given any rush ' acts. I stale Win as a general rule, i bul it has its exceptions. The ex ; ceptions are the small fry who : swarm all over the place with liox : es of chewing gum and importune one to buy at anywhere from a ; penny up to whatever rhey think j the prospect is good for. They have Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH. M. C, 4th Oregon District Just before the April 1 deadline a bill to .continue corporation tax es at 52 percent rather than allow them to drop to 47 percent was passed by both Houses and sent to the President. That same bill also prevented a drop in the excise tax es on liquor and other :tems. The extension of those taxes allows the Treasury to collect $2.8 billions which would otherwise oe lost. This was the bill to which the "$20 for everybody" political rider was attached in the House by a close vote. The Senate removed the rider. When the Senate version of the bill the simple extension without a rider came back for final House action it was approved by a vote of 38 to 8. Those who had fought so valiantly for the $20 gimmick when it was voted in the House had obviously lost their en thusiasm for the idea. The cold mathematics of the Mil itary Pay Adjustment Bill which Congress approved would appear to indicate that the cost of main taining our Armed Forces has been increased by nearly three quarters of a billion dollars annual ly. Actually that is not the case even though the actual salary cost docs go up by that amount. The increase is the first one in several years and amounts to an average of 6.7 percent. But the important and money saving part of the leg islation is Uiat it adjusts numerous inequities and is expected to step un the percentage 01 re-entistmen; and save the resignation of expen sively trained officers and men Testimony given before the Rules Committee by the Chairman and ! Members of the House Armed ' Services Committee who wrote the bill clearly indicated that the sav ing in training cost which runs from $5000 per man up would save the amount of the increase even if the number of re-enlistments encouraged by the bill dropped far below estimates. Not long ago I spent a day out at the Army testing grounds at Aberdeen, Maryland, and saw new Army equipment and weapons. The weapons are complicated and amazing devices. The automotive equipment is fabulous. The Army is no longer just a marching and rifle shooting organization it is a highly mechanized lighting ma chine of which every man is a trained and skilled part. In these wceky letters I seldom pontificate on the subject of for eign policy or attempt to tell the President what to do or not to do in handling the tense world situa tion. 1 think those who do are just plain foolish or worse. Sunday afternoon I watched and listened to several "curbstone statesmen1' on the television. It was depressing. I do not want to be guilty of add ing to it. But (here is one important fact that seems to he overlooked in all of the discussion now raging as to whether or not we should assist in the defense ot the coastal is lands, Quemoy and the Ma'sus. That decision is a strategic deci sion. We clearly have the right and the need to keep Formosa from falling into the hands of the Communists. Congress has given the President the authority (0 do that. If, in order to hold Formosa it is necessary to prevent the Chi nese Communists from having the coastal islands as a jumping off place, we must assist in defending them. If those little coaslal is'ands are not strategically necessary to the defense of Formosa we neeil nol bother with them. Our deci sion on this point has not been made public. To da so would be to give undue advantage to the al t.ickers. JENKIK. discovered that nine times out of ten the American will shell out to get rid of them. So they crowd the technique hard, sometimes follow ing you for a block. Other small fry join in the game, and one soon has a queue of Mexican chil dren following him like the tail that follows a comet. In Mexicali, it is fairly obvious that the sales people don't like to be bothered by Americans. It is equally obvious that the merchan dise displayed is for Mexicans only. In Nogales the streets are full ot Americans, but you can walk all over Mexicali and see not over half a dozen foreigners. ' In Mexicali. the contrast be itween the two ways of life are j sharp and striking. Yet. as in .No gales, the soil, the climate and : the available natural resources are identical. Government, you see. has a lot to do with the welfare of the peo ple. If government is good, the plight of the people is good. And ' vice versa. There is every reason to believe that the present govern i mem of Mexico is good. But there , were long centuries when it was i cruel and unfeeling and altogether ' terrible. The sears ot those cen ' tunes still remain. Dog Bites Two Children; Owner Being Sought ! Warm spring weather brought I canine problems to Roseburg cuy 1 police officers. ! Wednesday afternoon police re moved a Pekingese from 502 S. Jackson St. after it had reportedly 1 bitten two children, according to I complainant Harold Hunnicut. ; The dog was taken to the city ; iHiurd. Officers were unable to inui ! the owner. I Later in the dav .lohn B. Rand all. Camas Valley Rt.. told police 1 a brown cooker soanicl ran out I ard hit him in the leg as hp walk ! iti down the too block on North Jackson street. Randall was unin- Hired a the do: d'd not b.te through his clothing 1 Randall told officers he'd "seen the hound on the prowl" on other occasions. Disposing Of Radioactive Substances Poses Problem By RENNIE TAYLOR Associated Press Seitnct Rtporttr SAN FRANCISCO Wl - Atomic power may be limited by the lack- of an effective way to dispose of the dangerous radioactive 3110 stances it produces, says J)r Glenn T, Seaborg, noted nuclear chemist. Nobody yet has come up with an ideal solution and it may require some original thinking. Dr. Sea borg Wednesday told an atomic energy conference sponsored by Stanford Research Institute and the Atomic Industrial Forum. This problem. Dr. Seaborg said, is an example of the need for "uninhibited thinking" in basic re search. In reactors uranium breaks down into other substances which are radioactive and therefore dangerous but which do not produce power. They have to be replaced. Also water, sodium and other materials used for conduct ing heat 'away from reactors be comes radioactive and has to be disposed of. Parts of reactors them BATTERY STOLEN Roseburg city police ThursJay were searching for the culprit who stole a battery from a Coen Supply Co. truck. Complainant Dick Coen told officers the thief took the bat tery sometime during Monday night. The truck 'was parked in side the fence at the supply com pany located at Floed and Mill streets. STYLE LEADERS IN to add the crowning LIGHT TOUCH to your MAYFIELD 4-STAR SUIT with ACCESSORIES styled for coolness Make accessories ptay a mojor rol with your new weightiest MAYFIELD 4-STAR suit! Start with m well stocked drawer of cool, lightweight dress srWrfi. For variety buy several of the newest fashion-styled colors and collar variations. For appearance-building character ...nothing is more important than the "just right" tie when you want it. Whatever your M k l: llJuU in our itor. 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The President made his informal comments before television and newsreel cameras in the White House rose garden just after he received official word that Chur chill had stepped down from the leadership of the British government. THE mi '1, : MEN'S WEAR MAIN FLOOR
