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4 The Newi-Review, Roseburg,
EDUCATING FOR
By Charles V.
We Americans are mighty
ernment. The representative
is nroclaimed bv the majority
perfect form of government.
countries to have a democratic
abhor dictatorships, state-controlled governments, imperial
ism, directed regimentation. Yet, when some countries
seek to throw off the yoke of dictatorship they reveal they
are not capable of self-government. Immediate trouble re
sults. The situation in the Congo offers opportunity for re
flection. Removal from colony status has resulted in the
emergence of would-be local dictators. Soviet Russia is
trying to Infiltrate the area with a communistic type of
government, a slavery far worse than was experienced by
the people while protected as a colony.
A democratic form of government requires that the peo
ple who are to run the government be literate. When peo
ple still are so illiterate and ignorant that they haven't the
least understanding of the operation of government, nor the
ability to govern themselves, they fare better as a colony
than under the rule of despotic dictators.
Education Essential
A great deal, of course, depends upon the country by
which an area is colonized. The example furnished by the
United States, for instance, would have saved the situation
we now find in the Congo and in Cuba had other countries
used the same method.
The United States took the Philippines under its wing.
It sponsored education. It trained the people in govern
ment. When the people indicated an ability for self-government
they were given independence. They have made the
mistakes to be expected of people taking their first steps
in democratic government but, withal, the Philippines have
demonstrated an ability to govern themselves.
But when we turn to the Congo we find that a vast num
ber of people still are in tribal status ; that they still battle
with spears and clubs. Many can neither read nor write.
Only a very few are capable of intelligently governing a
primitive people. Because the intelligent class is so lim
ited in number, I believe it is certain that ambitious dic
tators will seize control and that the plight of the people
will be far worse than it was before.
The inability of people to govern themselves is not con
fined to the Congo.
The picture in Cuba today is far more threatening to
our own peace.
Question Of Policy
Rather than being able to show responsibility in gov
ernment, the Cuban people, to date, have been emotionally
swayed by a rabble rouser, one who is opening the door
to communist-governed nations to set up military bases.
There is some evidence that the Castro government will
be overthrown and that there is a sufficient element of in
telligence on the island to establish a government. Again,
however, we may expect a government by dictatorship. It
is most sincerely to be hoped that the dictatorship to follow
Castro will be a benevolent dictatorship, one responding to
the needs of people and sympathetic toward its neighbors.
.But whether a benevolent dictatorship can exist is ques
tionable. People of Latin America have a history of un
stable emotionalism. They govern by bullets rather than
votes. Revolution is frequent. Because of that fact despot
ic dictatorships have developed.
Many people, including the congressman from our own
district, hate dictatorship in any form. But the situation
in Cuba indicates thnt even a friendly, despotic dictatorship
is to be desired ahead of a communistic dictatorship which
enslaves the people and is even more cruel and bloody
than the preceding regime.
It seems to me that Borne measure of judgment should
be shown in determining the ability of a people to govern
themselves, before taking the position that all dictatorships
must be overthrown and free governments established.
Hal Boyle
Life Is Measured Also By
What You've Left Undone
NEW YORK (AP)-Your life is
measured not only by what you've
done but by what you haven't
done.
What kind of a person are you
really?. Your achievements, if any,
speak for themselves. But what
about all the things you didn't
achieve, perhaps becauso you
never had a chance to or perhaps
because they didn't interest you?
If you sit down some evening and
write out a list of all the things
you haven't done, you might
learn some surprising facts about
yourself. At least it would afford
you an unusual portrait ot your
life up to now and give you a
look at yourself from a different
angle.
Here's one man's catalogue of
"nevers" as he nears the half
century mark:
Never learned to drive a car
or tie a bow tie.
Never wore a pair of Bermuda
shorts.
Never shot a man, a maid or a
robin.
Never bought a house, a share
of oil or uranium stock, or a
carton of cigarettes.
Never had an appendectomy or
asked for one.
Never been in a Jail except to
Visit friends.
Never planted a tree or a
flower, or harvested any crop
except a few mild wild oats.
. Never drank bourbon, rye.
scotch, gin, vodka or absinthe
'not out of a milk bottle, anyway
Never interviewed Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, Bernard Baruch.
Winston Churchill, Queen Marie of
Komama, trie Johnson, Carl
Sandburg, Jayne Mansfield or
Harold Stassen.
Never attended social event
that required the wearing of white
tie and tails and never hopes to.
Ore. Wed.. Aug. 17, 1960
DEMOCRACY
Stanton
proud of our form of gov
republic we call a democracy
of our citizens as the most
Consequently we want all
form of government. ve
never iook a spanking as a
child himself or gave one later
to his own child without feeling
that, in the end, it was painful.
Never able to keep weight down
after getting first job enabling
mm to cat uirce meals a day.
Never wrote the great American
novel but only because couldn't
decide on its title.
Never put wife on budget be
cause she cot there with own
budget first.
Never asked for a promotion,
wiped away a widow's tears, slept
on a park bench more than three
days in a row, stole a hotel towel
or been thrown out of a night
club.
what i on your list? What Is it
you have never done that makes
you amount to what you are?
Portland Shoppers
Harried By Bombs
PORTLAND fAP) - Stench
bombs were set off at the height
of the Monday night shopping rush
in two big Portland department
stores.
"Most nauseating, permeating
smell I've ever run across," said
detective Rudy Bowman.
The stench bombs were set off
within a few minutes of earh other
in the big Meier and Frank Co.
department store in downtown
Portland, and the J. J. Newberry
Inc. store in the new multi-million
dollar Lloyd Center on the city's
cast aioe.
At the Meier and Frank store,
the liquid was unleashed in two
corners of the street floor. The
odor wafted up as far as the third
uoor.
In The Day's News
iBy FRANK
From Vientane, Laos (you'Uithe surface of this earth
probably have to look that one up sible.
on your map, and may have a
hard time finding it): (perhaps understandable.
Prince Souvana Phuoma formed
a new government today dedicated From Washington:
to ending the civil conflict with I "B1 Director Hoover reports to
the communist guerrillas. He was: day that there was a STARTLING
brought to power by Laos armvlnine per cent increase in the na
rebels, who deposed the previous ' tional crime rate during the first
pro-American regime which had'5'" months of this year. He said
aligned Laos with the United11"5 upswing " crimo was tpieau
States.
The new head of the government
announces that under his adminis
tration Laos will follow a NEU
TRALIST policy. Repercussions
were feared from the U.S.. which
has been PAYING .MOST OF THE
KINGDOM'S BILLS and training
its 30.000-man royal army in jun
gle tactics to fight the commun
ists. Ah. me. I sometimes wonder
why we Americans don't go neutral
and chant melodiously with the
poet: "Let me live in my house i
by the side of the road and bei
,J ?1
It would be WONDERFUL un-day
ui, j , 1 f 1UMS " m i
gobbled us up along with aU the
ouier neutralists.
From Alamagordo, N.M.:
Captain Joseph Kiltinacr set a
world record today for manned
balloon flight and a new parachute
jumping mark by leaping from an
open gondola 102,000 feet (a shade
under 20 miles) above the earth.
He got so far up that it took
him 13 minutes and eight seconds
to get back.
Hmmmmmm.
Everybody seems intent these
days on getting as far away from
James Mario w
When U. S. Is Prosperous,
Congress Gets Cautious
WASHINGTON (AP)-Since this
is the foot-in-the-door period of
American history, that may be the
kind of medical care program for
the aged Congress will produce in
1960.
In time of national crisis, ur
gency and emergency, you can
look to Congress for fast, drastic
and far-reaching legislation. When
the country is prosperous, as it is
now, and pressures are mild,
Congress gets cautious and con
servative. It limits itself pretty much to
foot-in-the-door legislation which,
while it may set out down a new
road, won't be extreme. What it
does hs open the door for more
extensive legislation later, usually
bit by bit.
Congressional action under
crisis and pressure was demon
strated in the New Deal days of
the 1930s when the country was
stopped dead by depression and
Congress passed the social secur
ity Jaw, the 40-hour week, the
Wagner labor act.
Under the stimulus- of the Su-
fireme Court's 1954 decision out
awing public school segregation,
Congress in 1957 passed the first
civil rights act of the 20th cen
tury. This was a comparatively mild
piece of legislation which, while
it angered white Southerners, left
Negroes and northern liberals dis
pleased because it didn't go fur
ther.
This was the typical foot-lnthe
door type of legislation when there
was no national emergency. It
was hardly moro than a begin
ning. But, it opened the door for
more action later.
This year Congress passed an
other civil rights act, still rather
mild and limited. No doubt it will
bo followed in the years ahead by
more civil rights legislation, each
piece opening the door a little fur
ther. For several years the idea of
providing some kind of medical
care for the 16 million people
over 65 has been growing in the
national consciousness and in
Congress.
The Cartoonist
-itli
JENKINS i
as pos-
Everything considered, that is
throughout the United States, but
was highest in the West, where
crimes ot violence rose 19 p e r i
cent and property crimes went up
15Pr , . j
Police, Director Hoover said, re-
ported a total of 462,396 offenses!
again property, an increase ui
more than 40,000 over the same
period last year.
There's trouble everywhere,
For
example:
In London, Antony Armstrong
Jones (husband of Princess Mar
f"? al J J, ? lJ" J",d ?PJ I less than the previous year'
"n,.Vf edge of loslngiNot all but most of this r
Rugged, isn't it? The news to-
sounds i,ke the incantation of
the witches in Macbeth
"Double, double, toil and trou
ble;
"Fire burn and cauldron bub
ble." I know this piece sounds terribly
cynical . . . and, in general, I'm
inclined to cast a doubting eye on
cynics.
But, at this moment in history,
what with politics, and rising dis
satisfaction with everything that is,
and a growing yen for the quick
buck, I'm not too sure but what
there may be an opening in our
country for CONSTRUCTIVE cyni
cism. It has taken two main direc
tions: 1. Provide medical care for
most people over 65 since most
retired people's income is a lot
less than when they worked with
the program paid for by a slight
boost in the social security tax.
This would mean a broad health
insurance program for . older
people.
2. Provide a much narrower
program by letting the stales set
up their own individual plans,
with the federal government chip
ping in through grants to help
pay the cost. This is the mild
approach and would cover far
fewer people than those who
would be affected undr No. 1.
Last June the House passed the
No. 2 kind of bill, estimated to
benefit perhaps 500,000 to one
million people a year. Then it was
up to the Senate to act. But in
between times came the political
conventions.
The Democratic platform called
for the No. 1 kind of program,
with most older people entitled on
a wide scale to health insurance
paid for in their working ears
through the added social security
tax.
The Republican platform was
extremely vague but can bo listed
under the No. 2 type of program
federal grants to states which
would set up their own programs
They probably would vary from
state to state.
Although the Democratic candi
datesSen. John F, Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson backed the
kind of program promised in their
party platform, they soon ran into
a bottleneck.
The Senate Finance Committee
cleared for action by the full
Senate a medical care program
which foil far short of the Demo
cratic platform promise. Its bill
was similar to the one passed by
the House in June.
There will be a fight on the
medical care program before this
session of Congress ends. Perhaps
the Kennedy-Johnson forces will
win. More likely the result will
be a mild, limited compromise.
Savs: ,
"Mine-All. Mine!'
Editorial
STILL ON SHORT END
Albany Dametret-Herald
Announcement was made 1 a 1 1
week that $16,268,578 derived from
sales of timber and other sources
by the Bureau of Land Manage
ment during the 1959-60 fiscal year
will be apportioned among the 18
Oregon counties in which Oregon
and California railroad land grant
Umberlands are located.
The counties are allotted 75 per
cent of the Bureau's total reve
nues. Douglas, most fortunate of
the 04C counties, will receive $4,-
ns2 5?9
or one fourth of this all-
time ; Bureau of Land Man
agement income. Linn county will
et J432 478
In addition to its share of OiC
funds, Linn county will receive
some $400,000 from the National
Forest Service. This represents its
share of proceeds from sale of
Willamette National Forest timber
last year.
Total income of the Willamette
forest was $10,590,551.61, slightly
s total.
revenue
was directlv lrom timoer sales.
The national forest income is dis
tributed at the rate of 25 per cent
to counties in which national forest
timber is located.
Thus Linn county will receive
more than $800,000 from federal
sources during the current iiscai
year. That is approximately the
amount budgeted as estimated re
ceiDts from those sources.
This looks like a great nig oonus
to the county. Douglas apportion
ment of O&C funds looks a lot Dig
ger, and is. The combined levies of
all property lax levying Doaies in
Linn county school districts, spe
cial districts, cities and the county
itself, is but two million dollars
lareer than Douglas' BLM income
And then Douglas gets national
forest money, too.
But let's analyze the situation a
Utile further.
Linn county's total area is 2,294
square miles. More than 41 per
cent of this, or 958 square miles,
is publicly owned, mostly timber
lands.
Linn county's 1959-60 ad valorem
tax for all purposes was $6,082,
125.62. The 1960-61 tax will be
somewhat higher than that. But
more than 41 per cent of the coun
ty's property is non-taxable. If this
publicly owned land were on the
tax rolls it would be yielding some
where between $1 million and $2
million dollars a year. At least its
yield would be more than the $800,
000 it is producing for the county
now.
The 300,000 or more acres of
privately owned timber, which is
taxable, are valued on the assess
ment rolls at about $12 million,
nearly 25 per cent of the total as
sessed valuation of all real prop
erty in the county.
Were the publicly owned land in
the county assessed at the same
rate that privately owned timber
lands are valued they would aao
some $22 million to the county's
tax roll. Thus the county is de-
Drivcd of that much valuation
It was to compensate this that
the two government agencies, tne
National Forest Service and De
partment of Interior, under which
the Bureau of Land Management
operates, were required to divvy
up their revenues with the coun
ties. But the compensation is not
complete, as the above figures
show.
Therefore any attempt to take
away from the land grant counties
any part of their pumic lorest rev
enues for pooling with the state
school support fund will be eyed
askance by all of the O&C coun
ties, particularly those, like Linn,
in the lower forest income brack
ets. INITIATIVE TO EISENHOWER
Coos Bay World
President Eisenhower's attempt
to put the monkey on Congress'
back for extra-session program
ming was well worded and political
ly hep. It was designed to drive
Democrats further out on the limb
they designed when they agreed to
come back for a three-week ses
sion following the conventions.
What the President asked was
sound as far as it went, and it
Comment
went rather further than one would
expect. But the program was im
possible to accomplish. Whoever
wrote the message for him and
perhaps even Mr. Eisenhower
knew it.
This is the "political" tession of
Congress, designed to get s o m e
small matters of remaining busi
ness out of the way and to make
a lot of talking points for both Re
publicans and Democrats. Mr. Ei
senhower took tne political initia
tive with his message that asked
for enactment of many social and
civil reforms promised in both par
ty platforms: about two years of
legislative work to be completed
in three weeks time.
It is interesting to note that
Mr. Eisenhower included on his re
quest list a number of items Con
gress has already given him, but
which he vetoed, including a dis
tressed area bdl. How this can be
squared with reality was not ex
plained. Mercifully, the public's
memory is short.
The President continued h 1 s
strange preoccupation with "spend
ers" even as he asked for a great
range of legislation. In insisting on
programs which will cost billions,
he reminded Congress that if it
passes any bill calling for spend
ing, he'll veto it.
Far and away the best political
strategy was the top position he
gave to the need for additional civil
rights legislation. Both party plat
forms promised civil rights reform,
and the Democratic Platform was
very liberal on this point. Thus the
President declared passage of
rights legislation should be easy in
the next three weeks. He knows j
or whoever did his writing for him
knows that this short session
would be wrecked if civil rights j
legislation is seriously attempted.
A three-week liliiDuster, enoing
work on any business, would be
child's play for Southerners in the
Senate. And the Southerners, as
everybody knows, are listed as
Democrats.
Mr. Eisenhower suggested that
Congress might meet beyond its
planned adjournment in order to
accomplish his goals. "You should
tend to business now," seemed to
be the implication from the White
House. If the session goes beyond
three weeks, however, the Presi
dent will have a hard time finding
any congressmen at the Capitol
Republicans or Democrats. Four
hundred-thirty seven members of
the House, for instance, have ur
gent business at home beginning
Labor Day.
Democratic Presidential candi
date John F. Kennedy is correct in
saying the three-week session can
not be used to legislate Democra
tic platform's proposals. But one
must suspect that President Eisen
hower's challenge, like the similar
challenge thrown down by Truman
in 1948 when the Republicans con
trolled Congress, will be the most
profitable thing either party gets
out of the session.
The President can be heard
where Congress cannot.
TAPED BOOKS FOR BLIND
' Salem Capital Journal
The Library of Congress at Wash
ington has announced a national
project to provide talking tapes as
well as talking books for the blind.
The tapes will be produced as a
voluntary activity by women col
lege students in speech depart
ments as part of the national pro
gram of Zeta Phi Eta women s
sDeech sororitv.
- Kooert s. uray, cniei lor tne Di
vision for the Bund and Mrs. Mar-
jorie Gilchrest, national president
of the Zeta Phi Eta described the
new venture broadening the li
brary s 25 years-old free service to
the blind.
Mrs. Gilchrest estimated that be
tween 300 and 400 books would be
turned out on tapes by the 31 col
lege chapters during the coming
school year, based on the basis of
pilot tests this year in Seattle,
where the alumni chapter produced
"Arctic Wild" by Louis Crisler and
at American University, where five
books were recorded.
In the long established talking
book program Mr. Bray reported
about 350 new titles are turned out
each year on disks at a cost of
$3,000 for a minimum run of 200
copies. Production takes three
months.
New master tapes for one book
cost about $10 each. Production
takes only reading time. Reproduc
tions are made as requests come
in from blind readers. When a
book is no longer in demand, its
tapes can be erased and used over.
Phonograph on which to play
talking books is furnished to a blind
person on indefinite loan by t h
library. Because of technical dif
ficulties and swift developments
npnmicina nptv nH oncipp tnplhnHs
in the tape recording field, there is
no such service on recorders. j
So to take advantage of the new
program, the blind reader must
own or have access to a tape re-1
corder. But 20 per cent of the'
blind persons queried said they had
such access. 1
The Library has issued a list of
titles in talking tape now available
to blind persons on request. The
books are issued through the li-i
brary's regional offices for the
services in Braille and long play
ing records. Other titles could :
quickly be made if there were suf- j
ficient demand. !
Vnluntppr reader will be fur
nished a free copy of the book they
will record ana ine raw tape on
which to record it. The tape goes
back to the Library of Congress
by the free mail accorded to the
program for the blind. It becomes
the master copy from which fur
ther copies are made.
The program costs less than $1.
000 a year. The entire annual cost
of the library's program for the
blind is $1,500,000. G. P.
Monsoon Rains Bring
Death In Luzon Area
MANILA fAP)-More than two
weeks of incessant monsoon rains
have flooded most of three cen
tral Luton provinces and brought
death to 42 persons and great
damage to public and private
property.
Philippine and U. S. Air Force
helicopters are shuttling food,
medicine and other relief supplies
to isolated areai.
Sound Alike Names Are Tricky
For Expert As Well As The Novice
NEW .YORK (AP) Picking i rubber companies are in Akron,
your way through the maze of cor- Ohio.
porate names that sound alike can But it's another Ohio City, To
sometimes trip you if you're anledo, where confusion could really
expert and throw you if you're a ; reign in the post office and the
novice.
As the number of companies in
the United States grows each
year, the sound-alikes multiply.
And the postwar trend to diversi
fication of products is the oppo
site of helpful.
Most persons have to stop and
think to tie the right end product
to the various glass companies
with the proper nouns, Libbey, Il
linois, Owens, Corning, Ford, in
different combinations.
Even knowledgeable stock trad
ers might stumble over the Ohio
Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co.
(Ohio). And many gasoline buy
ers get mixed up between all the
other Standard Oils Jersey, Cali
fornia, Indiana. Louisiana, Ken
tucky, Texas. Some Standards of
old have telescoped their names.
Example: Socony Mobil the So
cony was once Standard Oil Co.
of New York.
The various Colas can trip the
unwary Coca, Pepsi and Royal
Crown. How about U.S. Gypsum
and National Gypsum, American
Can and Continental Can, General
Foods and General Mills? Some
persons confuse B. F. Goodrich
and Goodyear, especially as both
Reader .
Opinions
Legion Official Seeks
Observance Of V-J Day
To The Editor:
It was a great source of satis
faction to me, as I drove from Rid
dle to Sutherlin on the 14th to see
flags being flown in so many places
to mark the day the atomic bomb
was dropped on Japan.
riags were 10 oe seen ai niauie
and Myrtle Creek, in honor of V-J
day.
Although Timber Days was be
ing celebrated at Sutherlin, there
was no general display of flags,
other than at the speaking stand
and the Community Hall.
The commander-elect of the Sutn-
erlin Post of the American Legion
has informed me that the post will
make efforts to secure future ob
servance of V-J day in that com
munity.
It is my hope that all commun
ities will make special effort to
observe the holiday in the future.
N. Frank (Ricky) Powell
Vice-Commander, Dist. 14,
American Legion
Route 1, Box 41
Riddle, Ore.
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telephone office, for three top
glass companies are there. Among
them, in varying combinations,
they sport all five of those names
Corning, Ford, Illinois, Libbey,
and Owens with all three sharing
Owens.
Each makes glass, but also sep
arate and noncompeting end prod
ucts. Out-of-towners can get pretty
mixed up between Owens-Illinois,
Libbey-Owens-Ford, and Owens
Corning. The Owens shared by all three
comes from Michael J. Owens,
who worked for Edward Drum
mond Libbey, and devised the first
automatic rlass bottle making ma
chine. The bottle company became
Owens-Illinois in 1929. It still
makes glass containers, but also
packages of plastic and paper, and
glassware for industrial, electron
ic and scientific use.
The two men also formed the
Libbey-Owens Flat Glass Co.
which in 1930 merged with anoth
er firm to become Libbey-Owens-Ford.
It makes flat glass for build
ings, autos, and so on.
Owens - Illinois and Corning
Glass Works of New York formed
the Owens - Corning Fiberglas
Corp. in 1938 to produce glass fi
bers and the many products from
it.
There are any number of com
panies with Ford, Owens, Illinois
or Libbey as first names, but hav
ing no connection with the glass
companies.
And way out, if you're really
confused, is Libby, McNeill &
Libby, known for its canned and
frozen foods.
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