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Newspaper Page Text4 The Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Wed., Sept. 21, 1955 Published Daily Except Sunday by the News-Review Company. Inc. Eottrtl hb iu nfttttr Mar i. list, At ih tti tiffe i CHARLES V. STANTON, Rdittr and Managtr Mtmbar of the Asseciattd Press, Oragon Nawpapar Puoiishers Asi4ciarin, the Audit Burtau of Circulations Kpritnled mf WEST-BO LLIO AT CO., INC., fllCM Im Sam Ttrk, Chic!, Ban rrkoeliea, L.i AatUi, ttillU. Prll4, tr SUBSCRIPTION KATES--!.-. OrfH Br Hall Pr Taar. IU.W: tls maalka, IS.ttr Ihraa mantha, IS.la. Oatilda Of-By Hall Par T.r, .: ill manlha, 7 00. ibraa manlha, H.fta. Br Nawa-Rarlaw Carrlar far Taar, Ill.M (U atlvanca), lhaa aaa ft. 991 ananlh, Il.tV TELEPHONITIS Charles V. Stanton A most enjoyable reception was presented last Friday night celnbratlnff installation of Roseburg'g 10,000th tele phone. Speakers extolled the great progress in the Held of communications and complimented the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company on its constant research and in vention. Speaker after speaker waxed eloquent in tracing the development of the telephone. Prophecies were made of things still to come. Seated at the head table during the festivities, I shud dered to think what might happen to me if called upon to express my opinions. If there is any one device that may be pointed out as the bane of civilization, in my opinion it's the telephone. Our medical authorities tell iw that heart disease claims more and more victims each year; that hyperten sion has become a national curse. Blame it on the telephone! I sit at my typewriter, concentrating on solutions to the problems of the world, and the telephone rings. About the time an idea begins to germinate and a couple of par agraphs have been written, the telephone rings. Then, aft er a lengthy conversation, I have to go back to pick up my train of thought and make a fresh start, whereupon the telephone rings again. Then, when exhausted by effort, I get home and try to relax, the people who couldn't get me during office hours, call up to voice their complaints or seek informa tion. Too Much Progress We wouldn't need as many telephones if the commu nication scientists would quit their researching. In the "good 'ol days" you went to a contraption hang ing on the wall, turned a crank and, when the operator answered, you told her you wanted to talk to John Jones. You didn't have to monkey around with five figure calls and have an engineering degree to work a dizzying dial, only to have operator chime in to tell you that the num ber has been changed. Instead, you either got John Jones, or a half-dozen other parties on the line. If John wasn't home one of the neighbors would deliver the mes sage. You could leave word that you'd pick him up at 2 o'clock to go fishing, and, sure enough, he'd be waiting with his cane pole and a can of worms. Now, however, they have "The Voice." That's a gadget you hook on your telephone to record all the in coming calls. When you return from the coffee break it gives you all the accumulated trouble. But when we had the phone on the wall you didn't talk long because your legs and feet got tired. Then they brought out the desk stand. You held the transmitter with one hand and the receiver with the other. When your arms tired you quit talking. Now they use these doggone French phones, for which you can even buy a device hitching them to your shoulder and you can talk for hours without exertion. So, because people talk more, we must have more telephones. Worst It Yt To Com And now they're talking about more "progress." It won't be long, we're told, before any telephone in the world can dial any other telephone in the world. Thus, in stead of the guy in some oilier town passing up a chance to tell me off for my editorial policy because of the diffi culties of a long distance connection, he'll be able to grab his telephone before he's had time to cool off and dial me direct Furthermore, they're crossing telephones with televi sion. Soon you'll see as well as hear the person you're talk ing with. Think what'll happen then when you're called out of the bathtub! How easily history could be changed by impulse. Just suppose, for instance, that upon receiving that summons from Alexander Graham Hell, "Come here, Wat son, 1 want you," Watson had obeyed the impulse which overtakes most of us at some time or another with regard to the telephone. Suppose he had responded to the call packing an axe with which he smashed the infernal con traption and the head of the great inventor. But why go on dreaming? Only Ike CanPulftHe'Ruq From Under Him Coon Can't See Reason To Review Columbia Plan BAKER t.f Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore) said Tuesday he could see no adequate reason for a complete review of flood control plans in the Columbia Bajin merely be-: cause of a lower height proposed for the John Day Dam. Coon, who has sponsored legis-' lation for the John Day Dam to: be built in "partnership" between the federal government and local 1 interests, said he favored the low er height. He said the lower height was more practical, had manv advan-: tages and would not flood up stream sites around Umatilla. ' Coon was here preparing for a series of debates against Sen. Neu berger (D-Orc) on the merits of the proposed "partnership" dam at John Day. He said he could not agree with Xcuberger that the situation was being complicated by loss of the Hells Canyon site for a high fed eral dam. Coon said he could see no special connection between Hells Canyon and John Day. ' They are two different things," he said. d3ruce d3io55at I I I A ft I I jy 1 NEW YOKK t.W PriK'tiiHlly everybody alive today sooner or lator will nuvt a millionaire ami fol wor ried about it. It was feared for a time that millionaires would die out in this civilization, that they would jto the way of the dodo or the extinct passenger pigeon. Happily, it hasn't worked out; dial vnv. The millionaire class has proved a har.lv breed If mil n "'' w Iryin to get at Immures aren't quite mulltptvinn ,m mnnp'. nd lt,e he know like the rabbit, thev are at least'0" a!;pn ! 100 ?. A .maUer of i ih rcnsinn faster than the whoon- fac1, hp " PhabIV nh Wh ini! crane ew'r n,, millionaire without the T. ,',,. (Hi. vvl,( secret hope he could help the .Jn,r .V maKr P4'"0"). hVs Mlw share the burden o Im Homy lo meet a millionaire for wealth' l the first time, finds his heart sud-1 ,, denlv beatniK a bit faster. I 111CTT rf 1 fpw time tested tips "How shall 1 act- he asks J ehow l ,lonR w,,h m,ll,tm--What shall I say to him?" I , Vht,n ym fir. shjke ham(!t Nervously, he thumbs through I with him. avoid staring at his his wife's etiquette book. He finds right hand hip pocket. It will only no help there. Oddly, no etiquette i make him more nervous if vour writer ever Hunks to include a ! eyes uo instantly lo where vou chapter m 'The Care and Proper 'think lie keeps his wallet (You'd Treatment of Millionaires." i be wrong anvwav. All vfrran mil- This is a xlrange oversight in-; lionaires carry their wallet in their deed. The etiquette writers seem 1 inside coal pocket, where they can to have the idea that you should ' reach in and pal it gently 'from treat a millionaire just as you . tunc to lime ) would anv other social equal. They i 2. If you are at a bar. insist are on the nqlit track here, but ' on buying Ihe drl round of drinks tnev don't go far enough. Million-1 ourself This will throw him off aires are even more equal than 'guard, and he will begin to relax your other social equals. 3. Talk about harmless topics A helpful thing to remember is I like politics, sex and the weather that, while you are uneasy at the ; When a millionaire wants to talk prospect of meeting the million-1 about monev. he likes to be the im-. ne may ne even more un-one who brings up the subiect easy over meeting you. A million- 4. Don't make ridiculous re aire always has the uneasy feel- marks like, "Well, after all, money Though it is customary for pol iticians to announce what the is sues will be in an election cam paign, saying it doesn't make it so. No one who is whollv candid with the public will pretend he can forecast with finality what matters I will deeply concern the voters more than 12 months hence. The most that can honestly be said this far ahead is that one fiarly or the other has certain prob pihs which may develop into de cisive issues in 19.56. For the Re publicans, one of these is the gen eral slide in farm prices and Hie consequent drop in crop-and-livestock income. Such income has been declining for several vears, indeed, long be fore the ('.OP took the White House in 19."2. But since the farm : era cannot now penalize the Dem ocrats, the Republicans nalurallv fear they may be held account- j ! aUr at the polls. ' The figures on agricultural in- j I come are not in the realm of dis- j ! pute. Krom time to lime they have , j leveled off or turned slightly j upward. But always they have re-; sumed Iheir descent. It would be absurd to underesti- J mate the political peril in this sit-j ualion for any party in power. Evi- dence from the 19M elections in-i dicated that farm distress most certainty was translated into Dem-t ocratic congressional victories in 1 some areas. The impact, however, ! was not general. j But there are aspects of the farm I I situation which, at least tempor- ' i anly, make it appear a good deal i hrighler than a superficial look at I i the generalized crop income fig i ures would suggest. I For one thing, while net farm in I come for crops and stock has tum I bled 30 per cent since 1947, farm I population has fallen 19. per cent i in the same period. This migration to the cities has softened the shock of Hie income decline for those who j have stayed behind. Second, many still on farms have ! found oilier sources of income to boost their annual earnings. In j combination with the population i factor, Ihis development has caus-' ed total income of farmers on a : per person basis to rise from $788 ; . in 1947 to $918 in 19.S4. , I Farmers have made the extra ! money by working in local factor-! ies,, mines and shops, mostly in ! ' the off season, of course. The pros- : : pect is that their per capita earn- j ; ings will hold up or even climb a j bit in 19.VV I There is no sign that these com pensating factors leave farmers won't hutf evervlhine " The mil- 1 i lionaire knows you aren't in a, i position lo say whether Ihis is : really true or not. He is. ! 5. If you have an inside tip on a new stock or a horse race, pass it on lo him at once. U will please him lo know you are interested in seeing him get ahead, fi. Never ask him where is the ! safest place to keep money. He j may he hiding his in the crotches I of trees and become suspicious I that you are trying to find out his i secret ! 7. If a millionaire tells you the! 'only road to wealth is by hard i work, don't laugh out loud even ' j though you know he inherited his 1 own riches. Look impressed, He ; I may be right, t If you don t think inheriting money is hard work. just sit down right now and try to j inherit some yourself.! ; 8 It is unwise to ask him how i many millions he really has. If he only has one. it will embarrass ; I him. If he has more than one, he, j won't tell you anyway. j I 9 Should you number several millionaire among your acquaint-; j anoeship. avoid mentioning the , fact. Kvery millionaire likes to feel, i be is the only millionaire in your ! i h'' ! I 10 Many people in the presence1 i of a millionaire feel an overwhelm , ittg urge to praise the income tax. r.ght down this temptation or .you'll find yourself all alone talk-' ing to yourself. There is one other rule worth j remembering; People who really , ;have money usually let it talk for mem. n a guy at vour dinner' table brags he's a millionaire, he sure to count the spoons before h leaves. i deliriously happy. They can hardly watch a steady fall in crop-and-livestock income without nusgiv- Nevertheless, these additional elements seem to have been over looked by politicians of both par ties. And they do make the pic lure considerably less grim than some of the orators have conced ed. They might even determine whether or not Ihe farm question really will be an important 19o6 isue with the voters. In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) STUD MILLS WANTED IN WESTERN MONTANA For Cutting 8 Ft. Cants For Further Information Write or Phont GRISWOLD & SONS BOX 638 DRAIN, OREGON Yrcka Ranchers Attempt To Bring About Rainfall YREKA, Calif, m Growers the ranchers in this thirsty area are getting ready to do something about the weather. Some of them met Monday night and planned a non-profit rain making corporation in the Shasta Valley. Tom Williams, regional chairman of the California Farm Bureau problems committee, esti mated it would cost from $300,000 to $400,000 for one year. Hain would be encouraged from October to April by seeding clouds with silver iodide. Money would be raised by acreage assessments. Car Assemblies Regain Tempo; Changeovers Set DETROIT i New car as semblies have moved upward again reflecting the quick change over by Kord. The faster tempo, however, prob ably will be short lived. Two of General Motors' divisions are down for their changeovers and the. re maining three should cut off 1955 model output within the next couple of weeks. Pontiac joined Cadillac Tuesday in new model production plan ning. Meanwhile Ford's Lincoln, Mercury and Ford divisions are shipping cars to dealers. The new Ford and Mercury lines get their public introductions this week. With its Plymouth division still down Chrysler is gaining momen tum slowly on Ihe production of its 1956 cars. The Chrysler divi sions were the first to close down for this year's model changeover. Public presentations for the five Chrysler division cars start with Dodge on Oct. 4. They will be com pleted when Plymouth puis its 1956 models on sale on Oct. 19. The industry's U.S. factories al ready have built about 5,763.000 units so far this year. That total compares with 4,018,751 units in the same 1954 period. The figures include 2,972,774 car assemblies by (ieneral Motors compared with 2.117,585 in ihe same 1954 period; 1.548.856 by Ford Motor Co. compared with l, 279.886, and 968,8t3 by Chrysler against 459,363. Mother, Children Perish In Fire TACOMA I A mother and Iwo small children died Tuesday morning in a flash fire that de stroyed their two-story frame home at the Tacoma suburb of Steilacoom. The charred bodies of Mrs. Eve lyn Marcum, about 26. and two sons. .Michael. 5. and Gregory, 3. were found in the fire-blackened rums. A third child. Tylee, 7. was at tending school when the fire start ed about 9 a m., apparently from an overheated stove. Mrs. Marcum s mother, Mrs. Evelyn Baker. 59. suffered burns and cuts. She was injured when she tried to tear out a screen and break a window to rescue her daughter and grandchildren. Dr. Frank James, Pierce County coroner, said Mrs Marcum and her sons were asphyxiated. Mrs. Marcum's husband, Sgt. 1 C. Thomas B. Marcum. is serv ing wiin the Army in Korea. Among her surviving three broth ers is Ralph Baker of Olympia. No Power Shortage Foreseen By Bonne villa PORTLAND . The Bonne ville Power Administration report ed Monday that there will be no power shortage in the Pacific Northwest for at least three weeks. Rains that fell over most of the Columbia Basin last week have postponed possible cuts in inter rupt ible power loads. There had been talk of a cutback the last week of September. John P. Jolhffe. power opera tions chief, said interruptible pow er would be supplied at feast through Oct. 9 He added, though, that the situation might again be come critical in the middle of Oc tober if rainfall were below normal. that COULD be guarded against by BETTER DRIVING. Because they could be guarded against, they are perhaps more tragic than this one. The Free Europe Bulletin in Vi enna says guns and ammunition are being sent by munitions plants in communist Czechoslovakia to rebel tribes in French North Af rica, where the natives are engag ed in a bitter and bloody ruckus wi'h Ihe French. It addi thai pistols are being sold to the tribesmen at sharply reduced prices. Paste this in your hat: Wherever there is trouble In the world, you will find the commies tlirring the pot and putting fuel on the fire. Speaking of pots, there's always a dash of politics (in the.se days when another big political cam paign is getting under way) in the mulligan slew that we call the news Speaking at a SlOO-a-piate Dem ocratic party fund-raising dinner in San rrancisco the other night, Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov ernor Leader said the Democrats will be VERY HAPPY to take on I'residen Eisenhower in 1956. He edded: "President Eisenhower is NOT the best iiian for the country. "He is NOT the best man to set-k and keep the peace. j "He is NOT a great President. "He is NOT a leader." j One can't help being reminded of the fall of 1935, when the GOP politicians who were OUT and wanted very much lo get hack LV were laying pjns to take FDR tu the cleaners in 1936. History Lolls us they didn't get very far. Let's close Ihis hodgepodge with a tne about a boy and his dog and a porcupine. The boy and his dog were en- . joying an autumn ramble in the wooded hills near his home town. Suddenly a porcupine appeared in the trail ahead, waddling along in the uhat-the-heck manner that porcupines have. i Being a very small boy, and having been well brought up as lo guns in the immediate vicinity of t(.wns. he didn't have a .22 along. But he had been hearing about Porky s oepiedalions in the grow ing timber that will some day pro vide raw material for great pulp and paper factories in Southern Oregon (along with large and very acceptable payrolls ). and he felt that something ought to he done. Lacking other weapons, he pick ed up a rock and bounced it off Porkv's frame. But porcupines are durable, This one waddled rieht on. Another rock brought no bet ter results. That netlled our hero. He was wearing a pair of heavy new boot:, with stocky soles studded with hob nails, and he waded in to kick the stuffing out of Porky. The result" The net of it was that he RtT FD a pair of new boots. 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