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JtC 3teW$'fteUfetVi Publiihtd by Naws-Ravitw Co., Inc., Charles V. Stanton Editor George Castillo Addye Wright . Assistant Editor Buiinau Manager Member of the Assosiciated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation Enlerwi as second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office al Roscburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Hates on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The Newi-Review, Roscburg, A LIFE OF GIVING By Charles V. Stanton The sudden death last weekend of Rosa B. Parrolt will brinjr poignant, yet pleasurable, memories to the minds of many "old-timers" in the Roseburg area. Rosa was only four years with Roseburg High School but she left an indelible mark upon the pages of educa tion, both here and in Oregon as a whole. Teamed with her sister, the late Elizabeth Parrott, her contribution to education is has been extremely rirouu. The issue now before the Oregon people for a require ment of five, rather than four, years preparation for a cer tificate to teach school, recalls to the minds of old-timers that the "Parrott Girls," as they were affectionately known, started teaching school when they were 16 years old. Elizabeth Parrott, older than Rosa, was a teacher in the elementary grades in Roseburg for some 40 years or more. Many of the older residents of the area learned their ABCs. under her direction. Another sister, Abbie, one of the ten children born to Moses and Tennessee Parrott, who came to Oregon in 1852, contracted tuberculosis early in life and went to Arizona, where she was an instructor for many years. Teacher Of English - Rosa Parrott was a lover of English. After acquiring all the education she could obtain at the local level, she taught school briefly then went to the University of Ore gon, where she majored in English from 1897 to 1900. Then she went to the University of Arizona where she obtained her degree in philosophy. " (Only last week she received an honor from the Uni versity of Arizona which, in its 75th anniversary celebra tion, awarded medals to the outstanding student of each class during the 75 years. She was the last surviving mem ber of the class of '02.) . A Master of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers Col lege in New York and graduate work at University of Chi cago followed. , , Miss Parrolt became widely known for the quality of her instruction in English and Philosophy. Her teaching career, which started in the early years, embraced Crook County High School, Salem Normal School, and Monmouth Normal School as well as Roseburg High School all in Oregon. She authored several books which became text and authority in many schools. Her recognized ability led to teaching in Peabody In stitute, Kentucky; University other positions prior to her retirement, after which Bhe re turned to the family home in Roseburg. Pioneer Family Her death came suddenly and mercifully, for which those of us who knew and loved her are grateful. . We are grateful, too, for what she and other members of the pioneer family contributed to citizenship through education. . v There is in my philosophy only one standard by which we can measure success. A person is successful only if he has made the world a better place in which to live. In that respect many people bow in gratitude to the "Parrott Girls," for it was through them that they gained knowledge and inspiration. The sisters sprang from a family that was prominent 'In Roseburg's earliest days, The father was a shoemaker. He had one of the area's first shoe stores. He operated a large farm. He was the father of ten children Josephine, Charles, Eugene, Jack, Will, Abbie, Delia (Jewell.) . Elizabeth, Sarah (Casey), Rosa B. Of the ten, only three, Charles, Delia and Sarah married. The inspiration furnished by the lives of Elizabeth and Rosa, however, was reflected in their niece, Helen Casey, who was a teacher in the Roseburg schools in emulation of her aunts for a number of years, and presently by their grandnicce, Mrs. Worth (Betty Dixon) Davis, a teacher at Winston. We can be extremely thankful and grateful for the con tributions to education, the excellence and the inspiration to which our memory responds as we read of the passing of the last member of the pioneer family. Hal Boyle Wife Psychology Pays-Off For Poker-Loving Husband YOUnVILI.K, U.S.A. (AP) - It was after dinner. Wilbur Pceble, America's most average husband, sat at the liv ing room desk with a pad nf paper nciore mm. lie scriuiilca on It with a pencil. Then he frowned thoughtfully and absent-mindedly hman knock ing the pencil against his lower teein. His wife. Trellis Mae, knitting on the sofa, looked up in annoy ance. "If you must use your teeth for a xylophone, she said, why don't you knock on your uppers for a while? You're missing aome of the best notos." "Sorry." said Wilbur Ile re sumed his outer space stare. This was even worse. If there is one thing that makes a wile uneasy, it is a small child or hus band silently doing something on his own without her help. "What are you doing?" Trellis Mae demanded. "Making a list of New Year resolutions," replied Wilbur. "But it isn't easy." "What have you put down to far?" inquired Trellis Mae. "Well, they're kind nf family resolutions, 1 guess." said Wilbur. "I resolved to cut down your household budget so we could save a little money. "1 resolved to quit taking you nut to dinner ao often so as to help you slay on a diet and get back your figure. "1 resolved to fire our once-i-i 545 S.E. Main St., Rostburg, Or. Ore. Thurs., Jon. 5, 1961 one of which Roseburg always of Alabama, and numerous week cleaning woman. A lillle mure exercise ought to make you feel less flabby, and". Kul he got no further. His outraged wife's vocal cords sprang into instantaneous action. Kor a full quarter hour Trellis Mae in one nonslop sentence de nounced Wilbur as the world's low cut form of husband, and paid tribute to herself as history's most patient, sacrificial and long-suffering wife. As she finally paused to lake a breath. Wilbur deftly shoved he fore her glaring eyes the paper he'd been scribbling on. "Head what I actually wrote." he said softly. His wife read these words : "I resolve that in 11 my won derful wife and 1 will have even more fun together Uian we did in , taw. "I resolve to give up plaving poker on hriday nighls as it is wasteful." ! The anger died in Trellis Mae's ' fare as she flung her arms around ' her husband. "Oh Wilbur." she wept. "Oh.' Wilbur. How could 1 have said all I those mean things to you?" i Fifteen minutes later she said. I "Wilbur. I don't really want vnu lo give up poker. If you want to i play with the boys tonight, go anean. "I'm broke," answered Wilbur. "I'm not," said Trellis Mae. "Here, dear." She reached in her purse, handed him over a $2 hill. Half an hour lalcr as Wilbur In. The Days News By FRANK There's NEWS as this is written. We break relations with the Cas tro government in Cuba. What does that mean? It means exactly what it says. We call home our diplomatic rep resentatives. .We Urge all Ameri cans remaining in Cuba to get out. It's much as if you had a neighbor with whom you simply COULDN'T get, along. The time would come when you'd have to break off all relations with him. That's what we've done in Cuba. Our ambassador to United Na tions, James Wadsworth, puts it about as well this morning as it can be put. ile says: "The United States has worked hard to prevent the leaders of Cuba from choking off our friendly relations, but that is what they seem determined to do . . .Over nearly two years they have piled insult upon injury to a point where our diplomacy could not function any more." That's about the long and the short of it. What's in the wind? This is the best guess: Soviet Russia, which is the spear head of world communism, is seek ing to gain a foothold in the West ern Hemisphere. Cuba is the chos en spot. Castro is the chosen tool. Kor evidence supporting that con clusion, let's go back a few months. On July 10 of last year (1960) Cas tro declared that Guantanamo (our big naval base in Cuba) belongs to the Cuban people. The next day, Mr. Kroosh got into the act with the statement that the U.S.S.R. would SUPPORT Cuba in any at tempt to OUST THE UNITED STATES from the big base. He added: "We consider that the Monroe Doctrine has outlived its time. . .that it has DIED." James, Marlow Ike's Congress Message Might Avoid Suggestions WASHINGTON (AP) This is that shadowv time when the out going president's statements look more like historic documents man words which have lo be, acted on and the incoming president is speechless until he takes office. Yet, no matter what cither man thinks or says President Eisen hower or President-elect Kennedy the future is going to be shaped by events abroad perhaps more surely than anything they could do at home. Before Kennedy assumes office Jan.' 20 Eisenhower must send Congress his State of the Union message, his budget message and finally his economic report. But Congress is run by Demo crats. Kennedy has ideas of his own. Eisenhower's State of the Union message will be dutifully read but not acted on. Because this is so, Eisenhower may avoid suggestions and just review his eight years. Within a few weeks after Eisen hower departs Kennedy will prob ably send Congress his own State of The Union message, just as Eisenhower did after taking over from President Truman in 1953. Eisenhower didn't follow up Tru man's budget message with one of his own it's too complicated to be put together in days or weeks but quickly ordered his govern ment agency heads lo keep spend ing below Truman's figures. Kennedy, who has shown less rigidity than Eisenhower in mon ey matters, isn't expected to be as light as his predecessor. But the Eisenhower budget figures' won't be forgotten as soon as the Slate of The Union message: They'll serve as a yardstick for Kennedy's critics to measure him any time his programs get more expensive than what Eisenhower had in mind. This may make Ken nedy a little self-conscious. It will not necessarily deter him. As for Eisenhower's economic report Kennedy has argued the rate of economic growth under Eisenhower has been too lillle. He doesn't have to send this kind of report to Congress in his first year. His ideas will unfold as he goes along, so, in the sense that Eisen hower's two messages and his re port will be road but not acted on, his remaining While House days are a shadowy time. Kul there's another area of shadow, too. Eisenhower, like any president with a concern for the country and a sense of fairness, must be re luctant to launch the United States in a course of action on foreign affairs which will bind Kennedy to follow it because of ils deep com mitment. 11 can bo assumed, therefore. Hint Eisenhower thought it abso lulcly necessary to break off dip lomatic relations with Cuba before Kennedy came in. Kennedy isn't apt lo complain. ) But if Eisenhower got the United j States involved in shooting in i Laos, Kennedy could hardly then j pull American forces out. Kisen hower has been hesitant about , taking drastic steps in Laos. Still, in the remaining- 15 days before Kennody is sworn in, Laos; may become so explosive thai Ei senhower will feel compelled to act in a way which Kennedy lalrri could mil repudiate or abandon Hut Kennedy is coming into uf. fiee al a time of revolution and increasing turmoil around the earth. His ideas and Eisenhower's on what this country should In duing may be rendered obsolete before the year is out. Then any present differences be Iween Kennedy and Eisenhower on defense, spending, foreign aid. and entanglements will seem linv by comparison with the efforts this : lossed the $20 on the poker table I lo be changed into chips, one of his friends asked: ; "What happened, buddy buddy? j Did you lind a gold mine?" ' I "Something heller than a gold mine." said Wilbur. "Psvchol-1 ogv " j Moral: The only way lo win over a wife is lo iet her win oeri herself. I JENKINS That just about tells the story. What shall we do about it? Seeking an answer to that ques tion, let's go back about a century in our history. In the early 1860's, when we were up to our ears in our tragic family quarrel, our War between the States, Napoleon 111, Emperor of France, was schemeing to do what Mr. Kroosh seems to be scheming lo do now that is to sav, to OBTAIN A FOOTHOLD IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. He backed a puppet, Maximilian of Austria, as Emperor of Mexico. He supported Maximilian with French troops. Maximilian and his French Military supporters went to war with Benito Juarez, president of the struggling Republic of Mex ico. By the beginning of 1865. Max imilian appeared to be on the eve of complete victory. But fate inter vened. Our tragic family war came to an end, and backed by a large and seasoned army we ordered Napoleon III to GET OUT. He sized up the situation and came to the conclusion that he'd better get out. What shall we do now? We'd better tell. Mr. Kroosh what we told Napoleon III. Last July, Mr. Kroosh said: "We consider that the Monroe Doctrine has outlived its time. . .that it has DIED." Well. . . WE DON'T SEE IT THAT WAY. As we see it, the Monroe Doc trine is the historic keystone of our foreign policy. If we permit organized communism to get a lootnom in tne western nemispnere that is to say, if we permit the Monroe Doctrine to die we'll be in hot water from here on out. country will be forced to make to combat communism and trouble. Oregon City Newspaper Joins Scripps League OREGON CITY (AP) E. P. Kaen, owner of the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier, announced to day the sale of the daily news paper to the Enterprise Courier Corp., formed last Friday. Duane B. Hagadone, president of the new corporation, said the Enterprise-Courier will be affili ated with the Scripps League of Newspapers. The league operates newspapers in Oregon, Washing ton. California. Idaho. Arizona and Montana (including The Rosc burg News-Review). Hagadone is publisher of the Coeur d'Alcne, Idaho, Press, also an affiliate of (ha Scripps League. Kaen formed the present news paper in 1950 when he bought the daily Oregon City Enterprise and consolidated it with his own twice weekly Banner Courier. Kaen had owned the Banner Courier since his father's death in 1942. He had been a partner in the operation since 1928. Hagadone said Kaen will remain as production manager. Gov. Vandiver Queried Regarding Army Post ' ATLANTA. Ga. (AP) Gov. Ernest Vandiver said here President-elect John F. Kennedy called him Tuesday night to ask him if he would be interested in appointment as secretary of the Army. "1 emphasized to him that 1 had not sought Ihe post, was not i seeking it now and would not seek it." the governor said. ! But the statement, telephoned j from the executive mansion to. aides in his capital office, did not say he would not accept the job. ' The Cartoonist Morocco, Ghana Standing Firmly Against Nasser By JOSEPH E. DYNAN CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) King Mohammed V of Morocco and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana were standing firm to day against a proposal by U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser to send a joint African military force lo the aid of deposed Premier. Patrice Lumumba of the Congo. The king and Nkrumah, accord ing to reliable informants, blocked Nasser's plan to make his pro posal publicly at the opening ses sion Wednesday of the five-nation "African summit" meeting. In stead, the conference closed its doors lo public and press after the king's opening speech. The outlook was that Nasser's proposal would be finally turned down despite vigorous support from President Sekou Toure of Guinea and the open sympathy of tne government duels lor Lumum ba's cause. The conference probably will agree on a resolution demanding that the United Nations free Lu mumba from prison and reinstate mm as premier in Lcopoldville. Nasser's idea was for the five nations represented here withdraw their troops from the U.N. force in the Congo and put them at the disposal of the pro-Lumumba rump regime in Stanleyville. Nasser himself is not willing to lake such action alone. Nkrumah's plan for an African "high command" to replace the United Nations in the Congo or in similar situations also ran into op position and was not publicly pro posed. Pan-African Union Urged By Morocco CASABLANCE, Morocco (AP) King Mohammed V of Morocco has proposed a pan - African union to liberate the continent and expel all foreign interven tion, especially Western. The king, opening a summit meeting of five African nations, called for a program to unify the continent politically and econom ically. He said the program should be carried out by a per manent African council and an African consultative assembly. The monarch assailed Western policies in the Conso. He demand ed the liberation of ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba and the re sumption of parliamentary gov ernment. He accused the Western powers of practicing neocolonial ism in an attempt to maintain a dominant position in Africa and control the Congo's strategic re sources. Attending the conference are presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic, Kwame Nkrumah of GHana, Sekou Toure of Guinea and Mo dibo Keita of Mali; and the pre mier of the rebel Algerian re gime, Ferhat Abbas. FAA Approves Changes In Lockheed Electros NEW YORK (AP)-Eastern Air Lines said today the Federal Avi ation Agency has approved modi fication in the structures of Lock heed Electra airplanes and has authorized speeds of 400 miles per hour plus on all such modified craft. A 258-mile per hour maximum cruising speed restriclion has been in force on unmodified Elec tras since March 25. 1960. afler five crashes of the Electras. Be fore the restricted speed, the plane hit as high as 410 miles per hour. Eastern said lhat "as a result of the modification program. Ihe 'new' Eiectra will have compara ble structural superiority al the greatly increased speed for which it was designed. Says: Big Game Hunter Reader Says Cost Of Credit Too High To The Editor: It is freely said that we are glad we live now instead of in the con ditions as they were prior to the '30s. I can agree that all these gadgets that we have, such as elec tric cookers, washers, driers. boats, etc., are all very nice, but 1 wonder it the price isn t too high. In the old days the parents had the idea that it was their, duty to build up an asset to leave for the children to start life on, and it was very desirable to have no in debtedness . at the close of life and the politicians seemecf to take pride in keeping their domain whether it be large or small free of indebtedness. But now all that has changed. There doesn't seem to be any doubt that this country's whole economy depends on credit. The last report 1 have is federal debt around J290 billion, and mu nicipal debt around $250 billion, a total of $540 billion, or. around S3. 000 for every man, woman and child in the nation, or $12,000 for a family of four, and the debts are still increasing. Then there is the private credit of some $200 to $300 billion. I doubt if there is enough money, in this whole country to pay twenty per cent of the debt. In 30 or 40 years from now, when our children's children wake up to the fact that they have inherited all this indebtedness. I wonder what they will think of their ancestors' business ability. There arc many other conditions which I think are vastly worse than they were fifly or sixty years ago. One thing is this runaway inflation which is pricing our goods out of the world market, and no one knows how much subsidy there is on goods that we do export. Then Hatfield Plan Draws Support PORTLAND (AP) -Gov. Mark Hatfield's plan for removing state institutions from supervision of the state Board of Control, Wed nesday drew the support of Sen. Alfred Corbett, D-Porlland. Hatfield's plan calls for putting mental institutions under a divi sion of mental health and the penal institutions under a division of corrections. This plan, said Corbett, is "sensible and adminis tratively sound. , . .It should have strong support among Demo crats." The plan has been attacked by Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr., and state Treasurer Howard Belton as well as by Sen. Harry Boivin, D-Klamath Falls, who is slated to become president of the state Senate. Corbett added: "t note al though there is no specific rec ommendation lo abolish the Board of Control, the governor's reorganization plan leaves little excuse for the board's continued existence. Politically, this quiet withering away of the Board of Control is the easy way out for Hatlield, who once advocated ab olition of the board, and then shifted his ground to oppose ab olition. With one important addi tion, the governor now is pro posing changes recommended by Democrats in previous years and we are, of course, pleased to have his assistance again." SEAT0 Says Russ Aid Perils Laos' Neighbors BANGKOK (API The SEATO Council today said continued So viet and North Vietnamese aid lo pro-Communist rebels in Laos will imperil the security of neighbor ing countries as well as threaten the integrity of Laos.' Ambassadors of the eight mem ber nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization held their second long meeting this week on the situation in the neighboring Indochina kingdom. Reader Opinion there is the fact lhat a person has to pay tribute to a union lo De al lowed to work. The unions claim that industry is receiving more profit than they should, so they demand ' more pay. But higher wages is not the answer, as indus try just adds more price onto their goods and the per cent is the same, or maybe more. If labor thinks that industry is receiving too much profit, why don t tney make a fight to lower the price: Then in case they succeed, those out of employment and those on stabilized income would be benefit ted instead of being harmed. Ev ery time wages are raised tne employer seeks ways and means to lower his payroll.- Therefore some lose even tnougn wages are in creased. There is a liquor situation now that didn't exist before the '30s. Now there are nearly forty thou sand deaths on the highway and many millions of dollars of prop erty damage each year, and, the largest per cent is caused by al cohol. When we think of the num ber of lives and families ruined by drinking, we wonder how a country as enlightened as ours can pro mote the sale of the stuff. Booze never made a good man out of a bad one, but it has made many bad ones out of good ones. Alco holic beverages are good for noth ing but to destroy the judgment of a person, and if it didn't do that it wouldn I De worm Winy cents a barrel. There is a school situalion now that didn't exist prior to the '30s, and that is that every time a prop osition is presented for a vote, with the statement lhat it is good for the schools, it carries, so under those conditions, we, the people, have voted the control of the schools away from ourselves. Now the county and slate dictate lo the schools all the way from the amount of mills that shall be lev ied to the menu for the kids each day of the week;, I understand. And now 1 read that there is a movement on foot to persuade the legislature to pass a law that would require a would-be teacher to take five years training before he or she would be granted a certi ficate to teach the first grade. In the old days a girl could finish the eighth grade and go to normal six weeks in the summer and get a certificate to teach the grades. I know it will be said that those schools were no good, but the value of a school is the grade of citizens it produces, and it seems to me that the schools of that time pro duced a higher grade of citizens than the present schools do. At any rate there wasn't the amount of juvenile delinquency then as now, and our politicians were able to keep the country on an even keel. The country wasn't worried about the stability of the dollar. It was no crime for a man to have all the gold coin in his pocket that he could pay for. And now there is some agitation lo get the federal government in our local schools tod. I have stated only a small part of the prices lhat we are paying (or this easy living, and 1 still contend lhat the price is too high. C. E. Young Old Highway Rl, Box 21 Glcndale, Ore. Wrestling Fan Raps Sports Department To The Edilor: We were surprised, to say the least, to find no mention at all of Ihe Roseburg High School wres tling team in your lop sports stor ies in Saturday's Sports Highlights edition. Other wrestling teams were mentioned, but nothing about Roseburg. I his seems to be pretty shabby treatment of a team which has won 29 matches without a loss, won both the sub-district and dis trict tournaments last year and sent nine men to state competition, in which they olaced sixth. Indi vidually Doug Frisbie took a 2nd in the slate and Steve John and Bill White 3rds, and under White's picture in the paper no mention was even made of the fact that he was a wrestler. Also. Bob Eddy, one of last year's team, is wres tling with the OSC Rooks, a fact worthy of mention, although so far it hasn't been. I don't know why I said we were surprised at no mention of the learn, because that's par for Ihe course. The boys on the team last Editorial WHAT ABOUT BOBBY? Portland Orvgonian The Washington columnists who ; drooled over the greatness of John! F. Kennedy throughout the cam-1 paign Alsop, Childs, Lippmann, et 1 al and who have now planted themselves four-square in (he Ken-1 nedy-can-do-no-wrong cheering sec tion, have been using an unusual! number of words to justify Ihe ap-1 pointment of Robert Kennedy as . attorney general of the li n i t e d States. What's worrying them? What may be worrying them is lhat Bob Kennedy has never prac ticed law in his own right, has nev er represented a client in court, has never prosecuted a criminal in court. At the age of 35. when most lawyers are just beginning to realize that the law is a vastly complex licld. Ihe younger Kn nedv's experience has been solely as an investigator and questioner! lor congressional committees, lol-; umnist Child says this qualifies hin amply to be the government's hishest lawyer, Cabinet ntticer and administrator of the Department j of Justice (with controlling power, over appointment of federal judges and district attorneys). Perhaps it does, hut many will be entitled to their doubts. It must be evident, however, thai if Boh Kennedy is qualified to be , attorney general, hundreds of more experienced lawyers are better qualified. The rlurge nf nepo tism can scarecely be averted hy ' Joseph Alsop's touching account of Bobby's stubborn refusal for many , weeks lo accept the appointment on which his brother insisted. He , did accept it, didn't he" And in a political sense, he earned it be- causa of his skillful management year were quite unhappy with the small amount of publicity given them, and already this season a JV match with Glide was com pletely ignored. Although wrestling may not be quite as spectacular as football or basketball, it is one of the fastest growing sports in high schools to day, and with good reason, it is the one sport in which very small boys have the same chance lo compete as larger boys. Also, from 50 to 60 boys usually turn out, and during the season most of them will have a chance to compete, ei ther on a varsity of JV level. That's a lot of boys actually doing some thing instead of sitting on the side lines watching a few of the best play game after game, with may be a chance of going in if Ilia team gets far enough ahead. When these kids wrestle they like to get their names in the paper, not only as a statistic saying they won or lost, but in write-ups telling about the matches, and even the practice sessions. It doesn't seem fair when their best efforts go completely unnoticed, as in your recent spe cial sports edition. Many people here don't even know we have a wrestling team until their sons go out for the sport and they start digging into the sports section for th more obscure articles. We have had fine teams in the past, and, although we lost many varsity members to graduation last year, the prospects are good for a winning team again this year. The boys are determined and we have a fine coach in Walt Payne. Now we need to let them know the community is behind them and is interested in whether they win or not. They can be done in two wavs, let's have more publicity in the paper and then people who read about the team should come out to the matches and find out what they're writing about. They just might enioy themselves. Mrs. Earl T. Clark Rt. 3. Box 1815, e i . .. Roseburg, Oregon. Education Said Needed To Combat Communism To The Editor: Although many people do not realize it we are, and have for many years been engaged in a strange, but nevertheless deadly war in which the survival of our republic and the civilization of the world are at slake. This was not our choosing but we cannot es cape it. Over one hundred years ago Karl Marx wrote the communist mani festo which is the heart of Ihe communist creed. "Communisls-' everythwere scorn lo hide their views and aims. They openly de clare that their purposes can only hi achieved by the forcible over throw of the whole extant social order. Let the ruling classes trem ble at the prospect of a commun ist revolution. Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, they have a world lo win. Prole--tarians of the world unite." Very little headway in carrying out this' plan was made until 1917, when a small group of communists under Lenin and Trotsky seized control of Russia. Since then communism with the hacking of Red Russia has spread until more than forty per cent of the world's population is under communist rule, and the remaining countries have been in filtrated by the communists. The weapons used by our eneny are many and varied hut probably Ihe .most successful is the conquest of the minds of our youth. They produce a slate of mind among many of our students where they are ready to defend communist ac tivities and infiltration and are bit ter toward the agencies in our country that are exposing it. We face the almost unbelievable situ ation where treason is popular and patriotism is belittled and villified. The fact that the vast majority of those giving aid and comfort to the enemy are unwitting dupes makes not the slightest difference as to the results. We have spent vast sums of mon ey for defense but have neglected one of our most important defens es. Inform all our people of Ihe communist plans and methods of conquest, which only work when we are unaware of what is hap pening until it is too lale. I.vle Hartzell Sr. Box 35 Florence, Ore. Comment of his brother's campaigns. It seems the Kennedy-can-do-no-wrong school protestcth too much. Bobby probably will not be the worst or the best attorney general in history. We don't particularly care if his appointment is called nepotism, or not. Everyone knows that Bob Kennedy's consuming am bition is to get corrupt leaders out of organized labor, and particularly lo put in jail the symbol nf union corruption, James R. Hoffa. If he does that job. honestly and fairly, his appointment will be worth while. SAME OLD CONFLICT Astorian-Budgtt The conflict between fishery needs and hydroelectric power needs is not confined to the Colum bia basin, as the news from the Rogue River country indicates. A proposal for a 45 foot dain across the lower Rogue is getting many protests, and has drawn the oppo sition of Ihe governor's natural re sources advisory committee. The spokesman for Josephine county's Public Power Association, promoters of Ihe dam, doesn't even talk double-talk about getting salm on over his high dam. as do so many dam builders in the Colum bia basin. Ile says frankly that power is more important than lish. This point can he argued, and probably will be. The argument em phasizes the growing importance of finding an alternative source nf power lhat will make destruction of all our good fishing streams un necessary. All interested in the na tural resources of the Northwest should try lo speed the inevitahlt day when a'nmic power will mak hydroelectric dams obsolete.
