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EDITORIAL PAGE
: The Newi-Review, Roseburg,
CAMPAIGN TOO LONG
f By Charles V. Stanton
I One very definite opinion resulting from the election
campaign just completed is that our campaigns are much,
much too long.
; Spending almost a whole year on the election of candi
1 dales serves no good purpose.
We start talking up a primary campaign soon after
the first of the year. We build up to a vote in May. The
nominees then start working for an election in November.
' Then we have a "lame duck" period until after the first
of the year, a period when nothing constructive can be
; accomplished.
It was quite apparent in this last campaign that we
could have cut the time period by a good many weeks
t and have greatly benefitted.
; Candidates can go only so long without repeating them-
selves. In this recent campaign they ran 'out of ammu-
nition and threw mud. They hashed and rehased. Peo
: pie who quite eagerly followed them in the early stages of
their campaign battle grew
- vorite westerns back on televison. They resented the in-
; trusion of political faces, arguments and speeches.
..Tempers Short
Residents of Douglas County indicated a good deal of
interest. 1 hey did a swell
' ions in letters published in
. somewhat overboard in giving free reign to public expres
; sion.
; But it became quite evident, as the campaign reared
a close, that tempers were getting frayed. It became nec-
. essary to clean some of the mud out of letters. Intol
I prance toward other- writers was indicated. People had
; little patience with anyone who might have a different
; political opinion. The letters printed in The Newt-Review
quite clearly indicated that the campaign had increased
' blood pressure.
" Most of the arguments were exhausted. When nothing
; remained to be argued, except from the standpoint of repe
; tit ion, candidates, speakers and writers resorted to name
; calling. Stimulation of choler isn't conducive to intelli
" gent, unprejudiced action.
'. Polls indicated that a vast majority of people had their
; minds made up early in the campaign. The closing weeks
; before election day were devoted largely toward a very
small percentage of undecided or unannounced votes.
The use of name-calling, abuse, distortion, ridicule.
mud-slinging serves little purpose for the country, the party
or the candidate. . The voter should have the benefit of
all possible legitimate argument and opinion concerning
- issues, but shouldn t be subjected to the repetition, bore-
,. dom, deception, rudeness and slander that enter into the
closing days of a campaign.
'."Expense Is Factor
I Another evil factor of the long campaign is the cost
Jto candidates. The system we use in this country is one
j.'which results in a great deal of expense trj one who seeks
to become a candidate. Millions of dollars go Into a politi
cal campaign. Most of the expense is borne by dona
tions donations from believers of a particular philosophy,
people and organizations seeking special privilege, believ
ers in a political party, friends of a candidate or issue.
I discount the number of candidates who sell them
selves and their future actions to any special group or pur
pose. We find that some candidates are willing to accept
jsupporr. in return ior iavors.
jl believe. Still we have enough of them to force us to con
sider the fact that some have axes to grind or favors to rmv.
'. Rut we should be seeking ways and means of shorten
ing the time required for a political campaign and, at
Jthe same time, reducing the cost to candidates.
Solutions aren't to be found easily. Amendments to
the Constitution will be necessary. Any limitation on ex
Cpenscs, which would affect individuals or groups seeking
special privilege, will meet much opposition. But it seems
-to me that we can't go on forever with our present expen-
-sive, nieiHcieiu ami somewnai
Editorial
; CHROMI SKIN DEEP
Z Saltm Capitil Journal
Who says highways, airwaves
and telephone wires have made
all communities the same? For
eign visitors, looking at externals.
1 declare that from New York lo
Oregon the main difference is that
progressive communities put fenc
es around their mountains of rust
ing car bodies.
We've been glancing over re
port prepared by a research outfit
for a Hc hunting industrial client.
Each city has Us own soft-drink
buttling plant, more drive-ins
than apartment houses, more serv
ice stations than churches as
charged hy critics of the American
scene. But beyond that differences
are far more in evidence than sim
ilarities. Let's lake Ihe extremes:
In one community the average
child romplctea Uie twelfth iiradc.
which Is quite a mark. In another
the average child doesn t even get
through the seventh grade, mean
ing that about half of all children
there leave before getting to junior
nign.
One community has seven times
more engineers and scientists than
another of similar sue.
One community has 45 times
more of its sons reierled for the
draft for mental reasons than has
another community.
Crime rates in one city investi
gated are 40 times higher than in
another.
' Twenty-two per cent of one ar
ea's residents voled in Ihe 19.JI
general election, in another 77.3
per cent voted.
The accident death rale is four
times greater in City B than in
City F.
So it goes. There's more to a
city than lis chrome plating or
lack of it. And more to national
averages than meeta the eye.
Ore. Fri., Nor. 18, 1960
tired. They wanted their fa
job in expressing their opin
The Newn-Review which went
But they are few in number,
dangerous system.
Comment
GOING FORWARD
Charleston Empire Builder
Quite t lot has been heard dur
ing the election campaigning about
"going forward." This didn't make
much impression on us. This coun
try is going forward no matter who
is President. In the United States,
it's the people, not the President,
who furnish the motive power and
determine the pace. They do, that
is, if they retain the freedom lo
make their own decisions and to
take the Initiative.
The same holds true for all elec
tive offices, national, state, county
and city. The majority vote of the
people has elected Ihe officials. The
majority rule is quite acceptable
lo citizens of the United Stales.
They will back their elected offi
cials as long as they believe those
elected are carrying out Ihe wishes
and will of Ihe citizenry..
The only danger, when "going
forward'1 becomes a political issue,
is that we will automatically as
sume that the elected of finals will
do all Ihe leading and will take
necessary steps to achieve the
goal. The officials and the citizens
! lth forget sometimes, that the of-
finals are there with the respon
sibility to do what the majority
I wants done.
! In other words, the people need
to constantly tell Ihe elected olfi
Icials what they would like to see
i accomplished and the officials must
Just as otlrn call on Ihe cilizenrv
to find out how they ran hcsl
serve the best interest of Ihe people
in their community, county stale
or county.
If this Isn't done, the off trial ei
ther willingly or unwillingly, be
comes a dictator. It's really up lo
everyone of us I
In The Days News
By f RANK
This modern world note:
James Merson, head of the agri
cultural engineering department at
California Slate Polytechnic Col
lege at San Luis Obispo, tells farm
ers attending . the 42nd Annual
Farm Bureau federation conven
tion now in session at Berkeley
that mechanization is inevitable .in
these days but warns them, before
going in too deep too toon, to take
a good look at the future and what
it may hold.
Once started, he said, farm ma
chinery engineers have an unlimit
ed field. Nobody knows what they
may come up wun.
For example:
A possibility of the not too dis
tant future, he told his hearers.
is an electronically controlled ma
chine that will follow along down
a row of plants, AUTOMATICAL
LY AVOIDING THE PLANTS
THEMSELVES while stirring the
soil and plowing out the weeds!
now;
It's simple. Implant RADIOAC
TIVE ISOTOPES in the seeds.
These isotopes will remain in the
growing plants and will warn the
machines when the cultivator
shovels get too close. An electronic
jigger will then take over and
move the shovel blades away from
the plants.
Hmmmmmmmm.
I wonder how many modern
farmers (or ex-farmers) ever plow
ed corn with a one-row walking
cultivator and a team of mules.
In those long-ago days when we
got the mules trained so 1 hey
would turn almost by themselves
at the end of the row, we thought
we were going places.
Now look what's happening!
What of the future?
Who knows? There may be de
vices that will permit the farmer
John Kolesar
J
ersey Devil
Born, Sustained By Myth
The screams (hat residents of
Dorothy. N.J., have heard in the
night and those big tracks in the
earlh they have seen are probably
caused just the way the state
troopers have said by Halloween
pranksters.
For the Jersey Devil is a mon
ster born and sustained by myth.
press-agentry and reporters, yen
for a good ghost story.
The myth has it that the Jersey
Devil was born in 1887 in Estcll
ville, a little community about 15
miles west of Atlantic City and
5 miles east of the hamlet of
Dorothy.
Supposedly a Mrs. Leeds was
expecting her seventh child, didn't
like the prospect, and wished that
it would be a devil. When the
time came, it waa born a devil,
and immediately flew up the
chimney and out Into . legend.
Since then, it supposedly has
been seen a number of times.
What did the devil look like?
It was cloven-hoofed, long-lailed,
with (he head of a collie dog, the
face of a horse, the body of a
kangaroo, the wings of a bat, half
human, half-animal. Sometimes it
had 11 feet and exhaled fire and
smoke.
That may be a little difficult to
visualize, but you know how eye
witnesses are about these things.
So much for the myth.
How about the truth? Prof. Cur
tis D. MacDougall, of the journal.
Portland Airport Gets
New Runway For Jets
PORTLAND (AP) - The Port
land airport now has a second
long runway v for use by jet air
craft. It is an 8,000-foot-long runway
that eventually will be equipped
for instrument landings and take-
offs. Already in use is an 8.800-1
foot-long instrument runway.
The Cartoonist Says:
"Mr." Lumumba, I Presume?"
v nrs "sk j.i tin i w jt j i v . i i .i . r . i i: i i't.. i
JENKINS
to sit on the porch, sipping a cool
drink and watching a screen and
maybe twiddling a switch now and
then when something goes wrong.
And one presumes the next de
velopment after that would he an
automatic jigger to TWIDDLE
THE SWITCH.
Something like that could start
a back-to-the-farm movement.
More modern world ituff Liz
Taylor and her teeth.
Yesterday the outlook was grim.
It looked like they might all have
to be pulled. If they were all
pulled, she'd have to have a set
of false ones. Palsies might mar
her fabulous beauty.
Her personal physician wai rush
ed by jet plane from New York
to London and went to work on
the problem, aided by a team of
physicians and dental experts. His
report this morning is bright and
fuil of hope. He says: "Liz's tooth
problem is all solved. She is show
ing tremendous improvement. She
is suffering from a prolonged virus
infection complicated by mening
ismus, which means simply symp
toms like meningitis. A spinal tap
was necessary."
It looks this morning like the
worst that could happen would be
the extraction of one tooth.
Among those experiencing ex
treme relief, it is safe to assume,
is Spiros Skouras, president of
20th Century-Fox. which is pro
ducing the super-film in which Miss
Taylor is starring. He says that
delavs up to last Sundav had cost
MILLION'S OF DOLLARS. But
he's game. He savs Miss Taylor
and NOBODY ELSE will star in
Cleopatra and he will hold up pro
duction for her as long as may be
needed.
it's a rugged world we're living
in, mates. Nobody knows at any
minute what may happen i next.
Is A Monster
ism school at Northwestern Uni
versity, seems to have the most
logical explanation..
He says the Jersey Devil Is
the concoction of Norman Jeffer
ics, a press agent for C. A. Bran
denburg's Museum in Philadel
phia in 1906.
MacDougall, in his book on
hoaxes, says Jefferics ran across
the story of Mrs. Leeds in an old
book and decided to use it in a
publicity stunt.
Since Jefferies' past stunts put
him in low repute with Philadel
phia newsmen, he got a story
printed in a little South Jersey
paper.
The story said a farmer spotted
the devil near Ilia barn.
Next thing, reporters descended,
plaster casts were made of foot
prints, prominent South Jersey
citizens began stumbling home
after encounters with the beast,
and women were found in hys
terics on lonely roads.
Then Jefferies topped the whole
thing by arranging capture of the
beast in Hunting Park, Philadel
phia, and putting it on exhibition
at, by coincidence, the museum.
The museum's customers got
only a fleeting glimpse of the
beast. They saw a green and
white, kangaroo-like animal, with
wings. The curtain opened, the
beast leaped at them and the
place cleared out for the next
batch of customers.
The beast was a kangaroo
purchased in Buffalo N.Y. paint
ed green and while and harnessed
with bronze wings. The leap was
prompted by a small boy with, a
stick.
Jefferies himself confessed his
part in the whole thing in 1929.
But the devil, it seems, is im
mortal. Residents recently reported
hearing screams and seeing foot
prints around Dorothy. Police say
ii was only jiauowcen pranK-
sters. But local folk know better
1 it was the Jersey Devil, Ihey say.
Weed Conference
Elects Crabtree
SALEM (AP) The Oregon
Weed Conference elected Ray
mond Crabtree, a Maupin ranch
er, president before closing its
ninth annual meeting here Wednesday.
Some 200 scientists, farmers and
industry specialist! attended the
two-day meeting.
Also elected were George Kitz
miller of Portland, vice president,
and Louis Olson of Madras and
Keith Sime of Portland, directors.
Speakers included P. G. Lauter
bach, a forester for the Weyer
haeuser Timber Co. at Centralia,
and Carl Bond, an Oregon Staie
College fish and game scientist.
Lauterbach outlined methods of
chemical brush control in timber
production. Bond explained how
weed control is applied to fish
ponds.
The conference gave its annual
award for the outstanding job of
weed control by a county exten-
sion agent to J. D. Vertrees of
Klamath County.
Bankers Note Major Part Of Gold
Outflow Still Remains Untouched
NEW YORK (AP)-Every little
bit helps. That's the first reaction
in financial and business circles
to President Eisenhower's moves
to stop some of the outward flow
of dollars and gold into foreign
hands.
But international bankers note
that the major part of the outflow
is still untouched.
President Eisenhower has told
federal agencies to cut their
spending abroad for foreign goods
and foreign services. He hopes
thereby to save as much as a
billion dollars a year. This would
leave the loss of dollars and gold
still running at more than S3 bil
lion a year.
This loss known technically as
the deficit in the balance of pay
mentshas been building up for
several years. It has mushroomed
in the last three years.
But it wasn't until the sudden
rush of Europeans to buy gold on
the tandon free market a month
ago because they thought the U.S.
dollar wobbly that the American
public paid any attention to the
drain on the U.S. Treasury.
Its gold hoard now is down to
S18 billion from a high of more
than $24 billion. The short term
dollar holdings of foreigners come
to more than $18 billion. Theo
retically if they all sought at once
to turn their dollar holdings into
gold, the Treasury would be
stripped bare.
Actually there to no such con
certed run on the Treasury either
Reader
Myrtle Creek Reader It Glad Kennedy Won
' To The Editor:
' Because of the similarity of
names, we've been getting blamed
for a letter written by Mrs. Evelyn
Owen and published in the News
Review Nov. 5. We had nothing to
do with the letter. We certainly
do not agree with her ideas. We're
all for Social Security and Unem
ployment Compensation.
I've seen the time we would have
been glad to get unemployment
compensation.'
My husband was hurt in a log
ging accident about a year and a
half ago. If his boss hadn't had
State Industrial Accident Insur
ance on him, we would have had to
go on Unemployment Compensa
tion. She also said that all the work
ing man looks for is a coffee
break and closing time. What
about the people who have no
time for coffee breaks? As for
closing time, I've seen many peo
ple who would give anything to
work a few hours overtime.
My husband is a truck driver
when he is able to work. When he
worked it was from 10 to 15 hours
a day. I've seen (he day he didn't
i If
Soil Conservationist Says Western
Water Policies In Need Of Review
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP)
The head of the Agriculture De
partments Soil Conservation Scrv-
j ice said Thursday that population
pressures require a re-assessment
of resource-use patterns in the
United States.
Donald A. Williams also threw
out a suggestion that western
water use and water rights poli
cies need review to see if they are
best serving modern-day needs.
Williams, fresh from a two
months study of India's land and
water problems, stopped by here
on his way to Washington and
told the National Reclamation As
sociation of his impressions.
He said soil and water resources
of India are not being used to
their full potentiality, with pat-
terns of land tenure and land use
largely ignoring land capability,
"Modern India is trying to deal
with these problems, to create
in action or expected. And if one
developed, the Treasury would
doubtless stop selling gold long
before any sucb assault on the
integrity of the dollar could get
far.
But the loss of gold can't go on
indefinitely SI. 3 billion has left
the Treasury's hands since the
first of this year. Nor can the
United States go on sending S4
billion a year more overseas than
it gets oack.
That's why the President has
taken steps to dramatize the sit
uation by ordering a cutback in
eovcrnment acencv SDendine.
the step marks a sharp turn
around in U.S. policy followed
since World War II. For years,
the U.S. government has poured
billions into foreign aid to reha
bilitate war torn allies and to build
up underdeveloped nations. Such
spending presumably is to con.
tinue at about $4 billion a year.
Our exports currently are run
ning about S5 billion a year above
our imports a Dig spun in ex
ports coming this year while im
ports slackened.
But this $5 billion surplus of ex
ports over imports has been over
whelmed by our other forms of
spending foreign aid, investment
abroad, travel overseas or in the
Americas, costly bases on foreign
soil.
It's that deficit that the Presi
dent's rulings are aimed at and
that in large part still must be
solved. -. , . . , . , i
Opinions
make more than about $5.00. That
sure will not go very far these
day.
We certainly are glad Kennedy
won the election.
Mrs. Willis T. (Doris) Owen
Rt. 1, Box 206
Myrtle Creek, Ore.
Governor's Wanderings
Rapped By Reader
In your editorial about Cong.
Porter, Nov. 14, you seem to think
that Porter as a congressman of
this district should devote all his
time to the business of this dis
trict. But you never say anything
about the governor of this state
and his traveling off to foreign
countries on taxpayers money. Mr.
Porter is a Democrat and the gov
ernor Is a Republican. That prob
ably is the difference. Put this in
the Reader Opinions column if
you want to.
Percy Edwards
Rt. 1. Box 405
Sutherlin, Ore.
Editor's Note This news
paper consistently has held that
the work of foreign relations !
belongs with the executive de
partment of government, not
with the legislative department ;
of which the congressman is a j
member. The governor of a state j
heads the executive department
of the stale. The governor of
Oregon, however, Is not abroad
for the purpose of establish-
ing foreign relations policies but
is seeking to establish markets ;
for Oregon goods and to build
new industries a most worth
while objective. CVS.
Hunting Lodge Blast
Fatal To C. J. Kohler
THELPS, Wis. (AP) - Carl J.
Kohler Sr., treasurer of the Koh
ler Co. of Kohler, has been killed
in an explosion at his northern
Wisconsin hunting lodge near
Phelps. The sheriff's office said
it had no details.
Unconfirmed reports said that
the fatal explosion apparently took
place several days ago at the se
cluded lodge.
Kohlcr.55. son of former Wis
consin Gov. Walter J. Kohler Sr.,
and brother ot Walter J. Kohler
Jr., also a former governor, had
been associated with the big fam
ily plumbing ware firm since he
joined the staff as a research en
gineer in 1928.
Three White Men Held
For Rape Of Negress
YAZOO CITY. Miss. (AP) -Three
j)ing while men are be
ing held without bond after be
ing charged with rape in an at
tack on a 42-year-old Negro wom
an and her 5-vear-old daughter.
Dist. Ally. Bill Waller identified
Ihe men as Bobbv Smith. 18.
Charles Cofley. 20, and his broth
er. Louis Coffey, 22.
Rape in Mississippi is punih
able by either deaUi or life imprisonment.
,ew pattern, of: resource use
win iiiui. j jd ,
of her people, . W'lbanu. "' I
our resource-use pattern too. We
America uiui . ,
are a vigorous ana giuwius
lion. So far we have lived in an
environment ot aounuantc.
"But we can be sure that the
patterns of use that took shape
ET"Jlli7 Plenty will!
earva G U'P 1 83 UU1 uuuuio"""
grows and presses ever closer to
me iimus 01 uui i-"-- ,
He noted that in some of the
western river basins the entire
usable water supply is already
taken up, and asked:
"Can we say that the water is
being used to best advantage, or
SS "JS most mod
nrf tihir? Can we be sure that
patterns of land use and water
rignis esiaousneu w piuu
bv the first settlers to reach a
,iilpv will serve the best inter
ests 'of a populous community a
century later?
With due regara
. .
lished rights under our system , w
WlllLS" ; IZ ne essary
compensation for any necessary
transfers, we must face up to the
needs of a growing population and
an expanding economy. .
Williams said a national inven
tory of soil and water conserva
Adoption Of Proposed Columbia
River Pact Urged At The Dalles
THE DALLES, Ore. (AP)
Adontion of the proposed Colum
bia River compact as the legal
vehicle for management of the
Columbia Basin's vast resources
was urged here today.
"Although it doesn't go as far
as one would like, neither would
it have the power that others
fear," asserted Cecil Hagen, man
aging editor of the Oregon. Wash
ington, Idaho and Utah Farmers.
Hagen told the Oregon Associa
llnn nf Soil Conservation Districts
" I that differences of opinion on pow
er were ironed oui wuuui y
compact commission.
Assuming both the United States
and Canada will ratify an aggree
ment for joint development of the
upper Columbia River power, he
said, the power shortage fears at
the bottom of much original disa
greement may be removed.
"Satisfactory disposition of the
power issue would enable us to
concentrate on other aspects of
best utUization of the Columbia s
waters, he said in his prepared
remarks.
"Farmers in the United Stales,
portion of the river basin are de
pendent on water for irrigating
approximately 5,100.000 acres of
their best lands. The U. S. Bur
eau ot Reclamation estimates that
by the year 2010 50 years from
now about 8.800,000 acres will
be irrigated in the basin."
Hagen said one of the things the
Columbia compact would do is set
a priority for consumptive uses
Workers Massacred
ELISABETHVILLE, the Congo
(AP) Thirty-three African mine
workers have been massacred by
rebel Baluba tribesmen at Mano
no, a representative of the Belgi
an mining firm, Geomines, said
nere.
ihe bodies were reported to
have been mutilated some cruci-
uea. omers decanitatpri
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'i'lie report is scheduled to ba
completed during 1961.
"It will show us, state by slate,
county by county, and watershed
by watershed, wna so, . .nu w
tcr resources we have, what their
capabilities are. and what conser
vation treatments they need," he
S He suggested that technical ad
vances have led Agriculture De
partment experts to estimate that,
under efficient new practices, by
1980 an additional 5'-i million
acres of land could be fully irri-
gated with 17 mdlionacre.feet less
water than was needed for the
acreage cultivated in 1954.
The conservation-needs inven
tory for the first time has shown
that in the 17 western stales
there are more than 6,000 water
sheds of a size suitable for fed.
eral aid water conseivauuii pruj.
. ...:tu , nnn nt iUaca naartinrf
w" ,?' 0 '
In thee watersheds, flood pre.
vention is a major problem af
fecting nearly 25 million acres, ,
and irrigation is a problem need
ing action on more, than 10 mil
lion acres.
of water. He said it would permit
a disappearance Of ud to 7 ner cent
of the river's total flow.
This section states in effort
that there is no substitute for ir
rigation water and that a fie.
crease in stream flow as a result
of using water for irrigation shall
be recognized as necessary,,", he
said.
Hagen said more stress must ha
placed on heading off pollution,
the Northwest Power Pool will
need to be expanded when power
available increases, industry wa
ter needs will need be met, and
the very real possibility of divert
ing Columbia Waters to other
area may face the region.
All tnese and many other con
siderations which we must face in
management of our valuable wa
ter resources might best be
achieved with a Columbia com
pact as a legal vehicle," H-agen
said.
Calling hydroelectric power (he
bellweather of much of the pro
gress already made, Hagen said
further development with coordi
nated planning probably could pay
maximum dividends.
"Should the compact be adopt
ed, it would represent a major
victory for local control and
states right forces as against pro
ponents of federal government
control," Hagen said. "I for one
should like to move its adoption.
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