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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.