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4 The News-Review, Roseburg,
INFERIORITY COMPLEX
By Charles V. Stanton
Is the United States growing an inferiority complex?
Have we become ashamed of our past? Have we grown
so pitifully humble that we'll permit ourselves to be push
ed around? Have we ceased to be proud of our citizen
ship? Are we becoming timid? Are we sitting in sack
cloth and ashes? These are some of the questions we
must ask ourselves as we compare current day affairs with
our history.
Once upon a time, when pirates demanded money, we
sent out a punitive force with the declaration: "Millions for
defense but not one cent for tribute." Today, however, we
cower and tremble before the vocal outpourings of a rabid
mind. Like a red bull running from a Pomeranian puppy,
we flee the "bark" of Fidel Castro. Not too many years
ago we would have sent in the marines who quickly would
have had "the situation well in hand," and would have de
livered Castro the spanking he so badly needs.
We took the land away from its original inhabitants,
the Indians, and put them on reservations. We slapped lit
tle Mexico around and took what we wanted for territory.
We proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine, and scared off the Eu
ropean powers that would have colonized South America.
We knocked over Spain when that country started throwing
its weight around. When we couldn't find some other en
emy to battle with, we divided our country north and south
and had a fight all our own.
Growing Ashamed
But now we're growing ashamed of our past bullying,
it seems to me.
Although Russia boasts that she'll catch up with the
United States economically in the next 12 years, which as
sumes that we'll make no advances in the meantime, our
eggheads get all hot and bothered and want us to subju
gate our educational system to dictatorial management be
cause that's the way Russia does it.
One of the chief causes of our last World War was the
fact that we permitted Germany, Italy and Japan to en
gate in acts of aggression. We .allowed them to impose
military might on helpless people. We tried appeasement.
What are we doing today when China, with Soviet
blessing, expands its boundaries? Why do we permit an
uneasy truce in Korea? Why do we let our nationals be
imprisoned when it was less than a lifetime ago that un
justified imprisonhient of an American national was equiv
alent to an act of war?
Have we grown soft? Is our national spine turning to
jelly?
Of course we don't want a fight. We would prefer to
avoid war. But which is the best preventative of war,
strength and determination, or weakness and cowardice?
Time To Be Tough
There once was a time when the United States prided
itself that it was "tough." Some nations didn't believe we
were as tough as we sounded and acted. They learned the
hard way. Our participation in two world wars was enough
to convince everyone that we have the ability to get tough
and be tough when necessity demands.
It Is time to he tough again, in my opinion.
While the policy that we will not interfere in another
nation's internal affairs is a good policy, such policy does
n't require, I believe, that our nationals be slapped around,
that our government be abused and reviled, that property
belonging to our nationals be stripped from them without
recompense, that we be held up to ridicule and our back
door opened to enemy infiltration.
It is a sad commentary that a congressman from right
here in our own district should have given a hand to a rab
id radical, but it is even worse that we will not defend our
own back yard, I believe.
It is time the United States looked at some of its own
history, in my opinion, gathered courage from its past, and
let the whole world know that we don't stand for being
kicked around and abused and that goes for anyone who
might be so inclined!
Editorial
THIS IS NO AMATEUR
POLITICIAN
Pendleton East Oregonian
Few Oregon politicians in this
century were more able than Earl
Sncll. He was Oregon's governor
when a plane crash took his life
and that of Secretary of State Bob
FarreU and President of the Sen
ate Marshall Cornell. Certainly,
had he lived, Mr, Snell could have
been re-elected governor or could
hav gone to the United Slates,
Senate had he desired.
When he was secretary of stale,
Earl Snell showed the politicians
how that office could be used lo
the greatest advantage by the man
who wanted to go places in poli
tics in this slate. Almost every
adult Oregonian had something th
his billfold that had Earl Siiell's
same on it.
Mr. Snell wrote hundreds of ncr-
sonal letters. People got 'em on
ineir ninnciays, alter weddings,
graduations, deaths, etc. And he'd
speak to any meeting, anywhere
in the stale, no matter how incon
sequential the business of the
meeting.
There hasn't been anybody In the
secretary of state's office since
with the political know-how of Earl
Snell. But there's a man in office
now who has, we think, dons con
siderable research on the Snell
formula.
Most Orcgonlans were astounded
In January of 1959 when Gov. Mark
Hatfield appointed Howell Ap
pling Jr. as secretary oi state. Ev
erywhere, you heard the question,
"Who is Howell Appling Jr.?"
Since then Oregonians have
learned who Howell Appling Jr. is.
And how! We are beginning to
think you could count on your fiW
gers the communities in Oregon
vhere Mr. Appling has ji&H ap
peared as a speaker. We wonder
if he ever unpacks hit suitcase.
Gov, Hatfield may not have
Lnnivn mni-h ahnnl ihm mialifire.
" . ------
Ore. Mon., Mar. 28, 1960
Comment
Hons of Mr. Appling as a secre
tary of stale when he tapped him
for the office last year. But it has
become plain the governor knew
he was not gethng a political nov
ice. Maybe Appling learned t h e
ways of politics in his native Tex
as where they know the game well.
W herever or however, he has work
ed the secretary of state's office
for a great amount of political
mileage in a very short time.
ATHLETIC PROGRAM
Pendleton East Oregonian
There's an Interesting story he
hind the slory of that Marslifirld
Medford basketball game of last
Saturday night for the slate cham
pionship. After World War II, Ihe super
intendent of Cons Bay schools,
Leonard Mayfield, made it known
that he intended lo have winning
teams at Marshfield High School.
His first move was to him a full
staff of coaches, led bv Pete Su
sick In football and Hill Borcher
in basketball. The staff was of suf
ficient sue lo give elementary
school youngsters good couching
in football and basketball funda
mentals. Mr. Mayfield's program soon be
gan to pay olf. Thrro followed a
siring of state championships or
near championships for the Pirates
in football and basketball.
From Coos Bay Mr. Mayfield
went to Medford. There he put into
operation the program that had
been so successful at Marshfield
High School. Medford Il'gh School
alhlelirs weren't at the low ebh
Mr. Mayfield had encountered at
Marshfield. Medford track teams
were dominating state high school
track meets. And Medford basket
ball teams MM getting to the
state tournament. But there was
much to do, and Mr. Mayfield got
it done. The pay off ramewthis
school year. Medford High School
In The Day's News
, By FRANK
As this is written, drawings are
being made in the Irish Sweep
stakes for the Grand National
horse race to be run at Aintree
track on Saturday. The Grand
National is a world event of con
siderable importance, (or a large
number of people, it probably out
ranks the Geneva conicrence in
interest.
Why?
Well, for the lucky ones, it-involves
easy money. Easy money
in large chunks.
For example:
The Irish Sweepstakes this year
is reported to contain a record
kitty of $9,760,000. It will yield 29
first prizes of $140,000, 29 second
prizes of $56,000 and 29 third
prizes of $28,000.
There will be I raft of others,
including 1334 that will be worth
$1,825 each, 1600 that will be
worth $280 each and 4350 conso
lation prizes that will be worth
$66 each.
Lucky foreigners, you say?
Not necessarily.
North Americans (meaning res
idents of the United States and
Canada) are estimated to be hold
ing about 90 per cent of the big
tickets.
So
Vou see .
The Irish Sweepstakes is a big
event on this side of the water.
Bad business?
1 suppose so.
Still
James Marlow
Nixon Must Break Silence
Soon; He Has Big Problems
WASHINGTON (AP) Vice
President Richard M. Nixon's en-i
viable position of remaining i
practically speechless while run
ning for ihe presidency will soon
be coming to an end.
He has been able to stay quiet
so far because he has been in a
doubly happy spot. He is the only
one in sight for the Republican
presidential nomination and he
has been given President Eisen
hower's blessing.
While this carries some advan
tages they may be more than off
set by the problems ahead once
the campaign starts next sum
mer. Democratic Tide Flowing
Here are some of the obvious
advantages:
1. Since he seems sure to get the
Republican nomination he doesn't,
like the Democratic hopefuls,
have to scramble for delegates to
the convention or wear himself
down in state primaries.
2. Because he has been so close
ly identified with the highly popu
lar Eisenhower, he can hope, but
that's all he can do, that voters
will have some of the same re
gard for him.
Here are some of his problems:
He must buck a strong Demo
cratic tide. In the last Ihree elec
tions 1954 56-58 the voters
showed a clear preference be
tween parties by giving Democrats
control of Congress.
The fact that Eisenhower won
in 1956, while the voters turned
Congress over lo the Democrats,
showed how clearly they were
making a distinction between him
and his party.
Since Nixon does not have El
senhower's personal appeal, this
next election may be more a mat
ter of choosing between parties
than between men.
2. Nixon has conservative Re
Reader
School Site Criticisms
Believed Unjustified
To The Editor:
I felt like writing a letter some
time ago when the new Texaco
Service Station moved onto the cor
ner n( Harvard and Elizabeth and
cut down several trees. I was very
sorry lo ire those trees sacrifired
for a service station. I personally
felt there were plenty of other good
sites in Ihe area.
I didn't write then because the
trees already were gone. A letter
wouldn't restore them.
However, since reading some of
the letters written recently aboul
removing trees on the Veterans
Hospital grounds to build a scho.l
house, 1 couldn't contain myself
longer.
First of all let me make my po
sition clear. I am not at all in
agreement with some of the de
cisions made by Ihe School Board.
In fad, I voted against Ihe bond
issue the first time and only voted
for it Ihe second tinio because 1
felt it was Ihe heller of two bad
choices. However. I think the pre
ceding letters contain, or indicate,
some criticism of the School Board,
criticism that is not justified in
all cases, in my opinion.
I am unaware of any decision to
remove any of the trees on the Vet
erans Hospital grounds as prelimi
nary to building a school house.
Criticism isn't deserved if there is
no such intent. 1 also differ with
another criticism of the site, name
ly, that children would be in some
sort of danger from the patients.
In fact, 1 think the patients are
more in danger of being jeered at
by the children, if either of the two
see the other. I also believe it to
he ridiculous to cnticire the cutting
j down of trees for a school and not
; to criticize rutting down trees for
; a service station that 1 believe
could have as easily been located
i elsewhere
i Roger A. McKenrie
j 442 Myrllewood Ct.
j Roseburg, Ore.
teams have won state football and
basketball championships.
They'll he tough from now on.
The Mayfield system is well estab
lished in Medford and teams from
that city mil he ha d to handle
henceforth. By J. W. Forrester Jr.
JENKINS
. Think of all the hope that re-
sides in the bosoms of all these
j'housands upon thousands of hold
lers of tickets in the Irish Sweep
stakeshope that lives from the
moment when they plank down
their quarters and their half dol
lars and their doilar bills for tick
ets to the final hour when they
learn that this isn't the year when
they're going to be rich!
After all, you know, hope is a
wonderful thing.
There's the myth of Pandora.
Pandora, you will remember, was
given a box. It was given to her
by the high gods of Olympus.
They warned her strictly not to
open it.
But-
Curiosity got the better of her
and she OPENED it. Out from
under the lid flew ALL THE ILLS
THAT AFFLICT HUMAN BE
INGS. They flew out in the form
of noxious insects that stung Pan
dora and all her friends most griev
ously. Pandora slammed down the
lid. But her curiosity which is a
form of hope got the better of
ber and she lifted it again.
And
Lo and behold
OUT FLEW HOPE and touched
with her magic fingers the af
flicted ones and cured all their
troubles. Hope is a wonderful
thing. Perhaps the hope that lives
in the hearts of those who buy
tickets in the Irish Sweepstakes
is worth what it costs.
publican support but he will also
need liberal Republican and inde
pendent votes to win in November.
This confronts him with his great
est problem.
He must decide whether to trail
along on the Eisenhower record
or break out from behind the
President's shadow and stand for
something on his own.
This has been a very conserva
tive and in some instances a don't-rock-the-boat
administration.
Nixon will be up against a Dem
ocratand this goes for any of the
would-be Democratic candidates
in sight whose views are more
liberal than Eisenhower's.
Nixon Given Choice
Nixon can choose between be
ing an administration Charley Mc
Carthy or trying to match to some
degree the promises of the Demo
crats. If he gets too liberal he
could lose conservative Republi
can support without winning over
the independents.
And, if he goes much beyond
Eisenhower's thinking, he may
seem to he criticizing the Presi
dent. So he has to walk nimbly
there. He needs Eisenhower's ac
tive help in the campaign.
3. Nixon will not be just another
Republican candidate r u n n i n g
against just another Democratic
candidate, neither of them well
known. He has been in high office
long enough to have established a
record of performance by which
to be judged. The Democrats will
have his record to talk about.
It probably will not be nice talk,
since many Democrats seem to
hate him for the tactics he used
in previous campaigns against
them. But the very manner in
which he answers the attacks or
ignores them will be a fresh yard
stick by which the voters can
judge him.
Opinions
Automobiles Designed
For Driving, Not Stunts
To The Editor:
I would like to pat the edilor on
the back for telling the truth about
some of the smart alecks and their
driving habits. He certainly is cor
rect. From the start of automobile pro
duction, the car has been designed
for dependable transportation, not
to demonstrate how many acro
batic tricks it can perform. Squir
reling, speeding, taking chances,
reckless driving, are not necessary.
They cause many accidents.
If more people knew what we old
lime auto mechanics know about
crystallization of auto parts, thev
wouldn't take these chances. I
have magnefluxed many of these
parts, only to find them crystal
lized almost ready lo break. Some
times this happens on nearly new
cars.
Our lives depend even on those
little rubber cups in our brake cyl
inders. I could name many more things
that would be exceedingly danger
ous at high speed.
Fast driving doesn't prove you're
a good driver only a foolish one.
Alva II. Wilson
Rt. 3. Box 972
Roseburg, Ore.
Basic Subjects, U.S.
Ideals Held Paramount
To The Editor:
This letter is to voice mv opin
ion, along with Judy Church, that
our junior tigh schools remain
academic in organization.
Rather than shops and home
economic equipment at this time,
I believe our school money could
he better spent for guidance dt-
rii'lnrt. ninro ritm.,lisl in.nh...
ior basic subjects; and why not
some classes just for understand
ing our American ideals and the
functions of ji representative form
of governmW.t?
Mrs. Leslie E. Brown
1064 N.W. Highland St.
Roseburg, Ore.
Lenten
Devotions
Text: John H:l-33
The disciples show that they are
questioning men, much as little
children who cannot understand
what is going on. What was this
"a little while and you will not
see me, and again, in a little while i
you will see me" business that
Jesus was talking about? They
wanted Jesus to speak more plain
ly, and plainly he did.
It is like a woman who eives
birth to a child, Jesus went on to
say. At the time of delivery she
certainly knows what pain is and
suffers tremendously. Yet, as soon
as she has given birth to her child
her pain is forgotten in the sym
phony of joy that floods her life
as she sees a new life beside her.
Out of agony and pain joy has been
born.
Jesus was saying in simple lan
guage that he was soon to be killed
by the treachery of men, and
that this would be an agonizing
time for his disciples. He and his
disciples would have to go through
me wnue-not lire ol guttering be
fore they were tempered with the;
invincible quality of God loyal!
men. -After his death there would;
be a life: after the bleak exper-i
ience of the cross would come the !
eternal sunshine of the Kesur-1
rection; after the cross would come
Easter. "I shall see you again and
your hearts will thrill with joy'
the joy that no one can take from
you and on that day you will:
not ask me any questions." j
Jesus is saying across the cen-;
turies in the newness of 20th Cen-j
tury language, "You, my disciples, j
wiu una mucn trouDie in me worid. I
It will not be easy at all to follow
me through fire, storm and desola-
tion. But, through it all. never lose
heart, for 1 have conquered the j
worm!" God is saving to us
through this same Jesus Christ, it
is not easy to follow the Master
of men. Complexity in life, pres-1
sures toward coniormity to the;
world's standards, materialism, de-j
sire for sensual pleasure all
these will confront the Christian.
He who would follow Christ today!
has the pressure to bow to other1
gods nationalism, secularism, the I
crowd, the dollar, shallow picas-j
ure. But Christ still speaks in
clear voice, "Never lose heart, L
have conquered the world."
William O. Walker I
DiUard-Winston Methodist
Church 1
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DIDN'T HAPPEN THAT WAY 0
Television Western Heroes Would Die
In Droves In The Real Life 'Old West'
By PAUL JENKINS
When 1 w as a kid the book stores
and libraries were glutted wilh
books dealing wilh Indian yarns
and Civil W ar stories. I loved them
and read hundreds. I reckon.
Then Owen Wister left his Balti
more habitat and began spending
long vacations in Wyoming, soon
producing that great western, the
granddaddy of them all "The Vir
ginian." Other fine wntfrs Stew
art Edward White, Rex Beach. Pe
ter B. Kyne and Hal G. Evans,
notably followed suit and I suc
cumbed to them, body and soul.
These great story tellers were fol
lowed by many lesser ones and. as
the popularity of the "western "
grew, by a host of scribblers born.
I suspect, in an Atlantic seaboard
attic and who never journeyed far
ther west than the Alleshenies.
Their local color was acquired sec
ond hand, most of their stories
merely were atrocious drivel.
Now we have television, and tel
evision has western. How it has
westerns!
TV Stories Followed
The television western stories
have followed about the same par
tem of excellence (and the later
lacs or ii as me wnuen ones i
have mentioned above. Only, the
good material seems to have given
out faster. I
So manv disappointing incidents
Mistake In Hospital
Kills Three Infants
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP)
The rieaics of three infants in ;
Truesdaie Hospital was Blamed
today on the inadvertent use of:
boric acid solution instead of dis-j
tilled water.
Dr. Alfred L. Frechette, state
health commissioner, said Friday
night the boric acid was used mis
takenly in the infants formula.
He termed the mixup "a case
of human error."
Dr. Frechette said the boric
acid and distilled water were kept ;
in a central supply room and:
were properly labeled. The liquids!
are similar in appearance. Dis-
tilled water was used because it
is considered purer than tap i
water.
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crop up in these video shows. An in
stance: The hero, bearing a fa
mous frontier days name, is ac
costed by a friend as the former
starts to enter Hatty's saloon. "The
Hardin gang is in town," he is
warned, "and Tom Hardin says he
is going to snoot you on sigm. to i
is looking for you now." j
So what does our hero do? He
crunts contemptuously, kicks the'
swinging doors open, enters the sa
loon and seals himself at the near
est table. WITH HIS BACK TO
THE DOOR.
Well, maybe he has mirrors.
Then in another episode our hero,
who miraculously has survived this
bit of foolishness, is sitting up with
a sick friend through the long
hours of a night-watch, when he
is surprised by a pack of mangy
human -oyotes who throw a smash
ing volley' through the lighted win
dow. Does o ir Number One Hero
U.S. Engineers Seek Bids
On Columbia River Jetty
PORTLAND (AP) Army En
gineers have invited bids for a
two million dollar repair project
on the Columbia River entrance's
south jetty.
Some 2G5.0O0 tons ot sione win
be needed in the job, which will
require about one year to com
plete. The jettv is nearly 75 years old
and took 10 ; ears to build. It ex
tends from Point Adams about
6-a miles into the ocean.
Kennedy Next President,
Poet Robert Frost Says
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)
Poet Robert Frost, observing his
85th birthday Saturday, says the
next U. S. president will be from
Boston. ,
Frost was discussing topics
ranging all the way from birth
days to modern art, and from
bigotry to poetry, when he got
around to suggesting who the
next president might be, without
actuallv naming him.
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass)
is the only candidate for presi
dential nomination from Boston.
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Wash mil tllA licht. throw himcl '
on the floor and crawl hurriedly
behind the stove? Not he. Instead
he rushes to the door, throws it
wide, outlining himself nicely in
the lamplight streaming behind
him and calls out: "None of that
now. Drop them guns!" Of course
about this time he falls uncon
scious from the effects of a heavy
slug from a Sharps rifle, taken in
his vest pocket. If it hadn't hit his
watch with its heavy silver-plated
hunting case he'd of been a goner.
Shot Deserved
The attacking party should have
shot him between the eyes for be
ing so dumb.
Then there is the time when
Hero finds himself hot on the trail
of a desperate band of cattle
thieves as night comes on. He
camps, builds up a big fire, white
man fashion, then spends the eve
ning seated before it, smoking
Bull Durham or its equivalent and
gazing nostalgically at the blaze.
That he wasn't butchered there
was only because of the Lord a
kind intervention.
But he survived this further
carelessness along with a thousand
others he committed, carelessness
es which the original and real fron
tier lawmen, and badmen too, sim
ply couldn't afford to commit and
seldom did. They couldn't, and
hope to keep on living.
Maybe I've just watched too
many Westerns. Of course, that's
it; becoming cynical is the inev
itable result of watching too many
Westerns. Wouldn't it be funny i!
all the good guys and all the bad
guys met in a big shootout and
killed each other. This, of course,
never will happen. But a fellow can
always hope.
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