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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., Jan, 16, 1961
IMPORTANT NEWS
By Charles V. Stanton
One bit of major news of the day should cause serious
thought, but I fear many people are giving it but scant
attention.
The Eyskens administration in Belgium has proclaimed
that the nation must tighten its belt. An austerity pro
gram has been ordered. ,
Belgium is facing a severe cutback in its economy be
cause of the loss of its African colonies. It can meet the
situation by deficit financing, or it can reduce public ex
penses. The determination of the government to invoke auster
ity has aroused a general strike. The strike, in turn, has
occasioned violence. Strikers have engaged in disorders.
They have thrown rocks through windows, have overturned
and burned vehicles, have damaged public buildings, have
injured people. They use the "scare" method to get their
way.
Why should we be concerned with what is happening
in Belgium?
Well, here in the United States some 30 years ago we
had a very pronounced economic setback.
We had a choice of stern recovery methods or borrow
ing money. Instead of an austerity program, as has been
adopted in Belgium, we borrowed money. We still owe it.
Debt Increased . .
Not only do we still owe the original debt, but when we
reached a point of reasonable prosperity we went right on
adding to the debt.
We criticize the Belgian socialists who create riot and
disorder and who refuse to accept dictates to tighten the
government's, economy.
But what do we do?
When a political candidate proposes balancing the budg
et, cutting back on an expensive government, exercising
fiscal responsibility, he is promptly rejected at the polls.
We elect people who agree to spend money.
Belgian socialists protest with rocks, fire, and disorder
any idea that social benefits should be cut back as a means
of producing needed improvement in government economy.
Here in this country we have many people who insist
that the person who isn't able to afford a good home, and
.who has only limited income, shall live at government ex
pense in a home as fine as the one occupied by the man
on a good salary. If a man hasn't a job, he shall be sup
ported by the fellow who is trying to keep body, soul and
family together while striving to do an honest day's work
and still meet his mounting tax bill. Our prevailing politi
cal philosophy is that the federal government will take cave
of everyone. The federal government means the people,
but gradually we have been pouring more and more burden
on fewer and fewer people, all the time saying about our
debt that we only "owe it to ourselves."
Thrift Ridiculed
If you loaned money to a person in rather tough cir
cumstances, and if that person after financial recovery lived
"high on the hog," splurging for everything he might want,
but doing nothing to pay back the money you had loaned
him, how, would you feel about it? Wouldn't you feel the
man should live simply until he had paid his debts?
But are we doing that here in the .United Slates?
Aren't we ridiculing thrift as being old-fashioned?
We are different from the Belgians in that when we
were "on our uppers" we borrowed money. We've been
splurging since. We've never paid back a nickel of what
we borrowed.
The government of Belgium, on the other hand, has
adopted the hard course. They're trying to get their ex
penses matched to their income.
But the socialists protest. They want benefits, regard
less. What would happen in this country if austerity was
proclaimed?
We find our labor unions today demanding pay increas
es year-by-year, even though every pay increase looses a
cycle of higher living costs. We read how our politicians
are talking about more and longer unemployment compen
sation benefits and the easing of qualifications. We hear
how it is proposed to build more houses, even though we
already have a surplus of houses. We're besieged with
arguments contending that the federal government should
put out money for schools, even though the federal govern
ment owes more money than all the school districts in the
country combined.
Our Nation's feet are on the wide socialistic path.
Would we have riots, disturbances, strikes, revolution if we
tried to turn to the straight and narrow? I'm afraid we
would !
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Decreasing Natural Water Sends Industry To Ocean
Prehistoric man note:
Archaeologists report the find
ing of a new cave in the Middle
East that contains much new and
interesting material bearing on
man's past.
Plans are being made for addi
tional excavation and evaluation
of the cave's material.
Hmmmmmmmm.
i-et's get closer home.
At a social gathering in Red
Bluff a few weeks ago, Monte
Snavely, of Tehama, related to me
that he has in his possession two
seemingly ancient stone carvings.
They are crude, but Ihcy clearly
depict an elephant. In both, he
says, the animal's trunk is unmis
takable. They were found, he adds, em
bedded in the ice in one of the
caves in the Lava Beds monu
ment. Why is that interesting?
Well, it might have a bearing on
the time when man came to the
North American continent. Obvious
ly, this primitive sculptor had seen
an elephant. Where did he see it?
It is known from fossil remains,
elephants once inhabited this area.
Was this primitive sculptor con
temporaneous with the elephants
that once roamed this land? Did
he inhabit the cave where these
carvings were found and chip them
out in his odd leisure moments?
It would be interesting to know.
Another question:
Did Melba, one of the great
operatic singers of all time, once
live for a period in our State of
Jefferson in Linkville before its
name was changed to Klamath
Kails?
There is a tradition that she did.
As the story goes, her married
name was Armstrong. She and her
husband are said to have lived on
the east side of Klamath's Link
river. The story goes that they
had an orchard and a garden
there. Leo Houston recalls that Mr.
Armstrong was i kindly man, gen-'
erous with his apples, ile pointed i
out to Leo the tree where the!
best fruit grew and urged him to j
u;.rnir riu n that !
ticip tiiuiMjii. uuicia leiait hi
the Armstrongs grew delicious rhu
barb, which they shared with their
neighbors. The impression was
Uiat they were well off.
The story goes that Mrs. Arm
strong was seldom seen and
ONLY in the summers. It was
vaguely understood at the time
that she was an important theatri
cal personage.
Was she Melba?
A recent inquiry to the Metropol
itan Opera Association, Inc., in
New York, brought this answer:
"In answer to your letter, we
must report that we have been
able to find no reference to any
singer by the name of Melba ex
cept the well known Australian
soprano. This artist came to the
Metropolitan Opera Company in
1895 and remained there at irregu
lar intervals during five seasons.
In 1888, she married Charles Nes
hit Armstrong, said to have been
the son of an Irish baronet."
There is another link in the evi
dence. Some time ago, Howard
Johnson bought a house out on
Hope Street in Klamath Falls. On
the back porch when he bought it
was an old cupboard, which he
moved into his garage. Deciding
later to move the garage, he re
moved the old cupboard. On the
back of it, he found a board nailed
on as if for a brace.
On the board, painted with a
brush such as shipping clerks use,
was this inscription, obviously an
address for delivery: "E. A. Arm
strong, LINKVILLE. Oregon, by
way of Portland." The initials are
different, but the shipping clerk
might have made a mistake. ,
Was Mrs. Armstrong THE Mel
ba one of the all-time greats of
grand opera?
Who knows more about this fas
cinating tradition?
James Marlow
Frustration Will Be Test
Of Kennedy's Leadership
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business Ntw Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - Water is
a pressing need . in manv fasl
growing parts of this country and
the world. And both industry and
government are reporting break
throughs in methods of extracting
usable water from the two great
remaining sources, sea water and
brackish water.
A home unit for desalting water
is being test marketed in the
Southwest. Big-scale sea-water
McKenzie Power Project
Engineer Officials Say
Cougar Dam Is Wettest
PORTLAND (AP) Corps of
Engineers officials here say the
Cougar Dam anH rpsflrvnir is nnn
of the wettest places their men
nave to worK.
Precipitation records for the last
four years at the site of the $49.-
200 000 ni-nippf chniv a Int .. I r
29.47 feet of precipitation. The
loiai ior isbu was 102 inches
The dam, a unit in the Willam
ette Basin development phin, is
now under construction. It is lo
cated on the South Fork McKen
zie River.
operations are in use or about to
be installed in such widely sepa- i
rated points as the West Indies
and Israel. ,
Costs have been the big 1
stumbling block. The goal is to get :
them below SO cents per thousand ,
gallons, which would make con-:
version competitive Willi natural
water in many areas. Research
efforts in both government and
private industry laboratories are
reported showing great promise
today.
Congress Aid Essential
The search for more water also
goes on in the older fields of
conserving rainfall and controlling
runoffs in rivers. Congress is
expected to be asked for more
funds for such developments and
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streams or for purifying them.
Industry's stake is high since
industrial use of water is growing
at a faster rate than is the
domestic use by the world's
China, Burma Sign Pact
TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) - The;
China Post today said Chinese
Nationalist intelligence sources
report that Red China and Burma
have signed a pact for joint war
fare against an estimated 15,000
to 20.000 anti-Communist guerril
las along their borders.
zooming population. Mining, plas
tics, chemicals and pharmaceu
tical industries are especially
heavy users.
A home unit using thin mem
branes and electric current to
dissolve and remove salts is being
tested in Texas by the American
Machine 4: Foundry Co. AMF has
a big electrodialysis membrane
unit in use in a plant of the
Libvan Public Development and
Stabilization Agency at Tobruk
which converts 20.000 gallons of
brackish water a day into drink
ing water.
Distillation is a traditional,
method but too expensive in the ;
past for most areas. AMF now
has a small heat evaporator unit 1
supplying fresh water from sea 1
water on pleasure ana work ooais
and for use in homes.
Another method is to freeze the
salts out. Blaw-Knox suggests
using butane as both refrigerator
and melting agent, which it says
should bring the cost Way down.
Struthejs Wells and Scientific
Design Corp. have teamed in a
freezing process thty lay cuts
costs sharply.
Fairbanks Whitney is building
for the Israeli government desalt
ing units aimed at purifying 250,
000 gallons a day for that thirsty
nation at a cost they say will be
lower than any in previously built
big units.
Several other American compa
nies are in the water-purifying
business, including Westinghouse
Electric and Ionics.
Government agencies say aver
age daily use of water for all
purposes in the United States is
300 billion gallons, up from 200
billion 10 years ago. They expect
it to go to around 500 billion a
day by 1980. At present a dry
vear can bring water use restric
tion to as many as 1,000 U.S.
cities and communities.
We have available an average
of 515 billion gallons a day of
fresh water. This would be enough
if it were distributed evenly. But
it isn't, and many sections are
short now, and others are threat
ened with shortages in dry years.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Keening
his balance while in .motion will
be as much of a task for Presi
dent-elect John F. Kennedy- a
anything facing him these next
four years.
For him standing still would be
equivalent to failure. He has to
move. He promised it in the cam
paign. In trying to get things done,
Kennedy will encounter a thou
sand frustrations. The test of his
balance will come in how well he
avoids letting his judgment get
twisted by exasperation and im
patience. He wilt learn the agonizing dif
ference between 14 years in Con
gress and four in the While
House.
In Congress his was not a posi
tion of leadership, even though he
had both a state and national re
sponsibility. Most of the programs
he singled out for particular
praise or blame.
In trying to persuade other
members of the House or Senate
to his way of thinking, he had
the luxury of knowing that any
failure on his part had to be
shared by those on his side at
Ihe moment.
He will not have (hat luxury
any more. His now is the primary
responsibility for seeing that his
promised programs get through
Congress or are approved by al
lies and, sometimes, by enemies.
He will he open to criticism,
just as were his immediate pred
ecessors: Presidents Roosevelt,
Truman and Eisenhower.
Roosevelt had almost subserv
ient aitnnnrt f.-ntn fninrrn.. n tha
n-iria fn... tf tl. I.. K. r I !
viioia u'i ul uie cany ivvw jjedl.
He began to lose it as the sense
of emergency got lost in the sense
of recovery in the late 1930s.
Truman had firm support in the
closing days of the war but after
that practically nothing but cat
and dog fights with Congress.,
Eisenhower, working for most
of his eight years with a Congress
run by Democrats, got a lot of
his programs through but endured
a lot of disappointments.
Roosevelt, frustrated and exas
perated by opposition in Congress,
went to the extreme of trying to
purge fellow Democrats and en
large the Supreme Court.
The fiery Truman was truly ex
asperatedand showed it by the
roadblocks thrown up by Repub
licans, particularly the late Sen.
Robert A. Taft. His pitched bat
tles with them were famous and
often unproductive.
Eisenhower, the opposite of
Truman, remained calm, friendly
and non-personal with Congress.
But there were times when he
probably could have accomplished
more if he had fought harder.
With these examples before
him, Kennedy knows the great
trick in a successful presidency ;
is in somehow creating a mini-!
mum of personal antagonism 1
while fighting for and getting
what he wants.
Can he do it? He has been un
usually well-balanced so far. But
his troubles haven't begun.
Hal Boyle
Heart Attack's Most Dangerous
Hour 2 o'clock Sunday Morning
NEW YORK (AP) - Things a
columnist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
What is the most dangerous
hour of the week for heart at
tacks?.. .A medical survey found
it was 2 o'clock Sunday morning.
Maybe because of two much Sat
urday night celebrating?
Sign outside an air-conditioned
restaurant in Tokyo: "It's fleezing
inside!"
Even vegetables take medicine
now.. .A new tranquilizer for plants
is said to help them offset the
shock and strain caused by heat
spells, cold snaps and too much
or too little rain.
Science has (ound that 1 new
horn baby is 77 per cent water...
Most veteran fathers we have
talked to feel this figure is too
low.
Americans buy between I and
10 million used cars year...
More than half the automobiles
you pass on the highway or that
pass you have had two or more
owners.
Our quotable notables: "Con
ceil." said Bruce Barton, "is
(ind'i gilt to little men."
In colonial America, families
usually gave a mourning ring lo
a preacher for conducting 1 funer-
al...A minister could measure his
lifetime popularity by the number
of such rings he received. ..Some
collected thousands.
Every human being is a crowd
ed strolling universe to lower
forms of life. ..The average per
son pastures about 10 trillion bac
teria on his 19 square feet of skin.
Want to present your best girl
a really unusual Valentine gift?...
Send her a mile of pennies... The
cost: $220 not including delivery
charges. ..But it'll prove to your
sweetie you're one guy with a lot
of common cents!
Everybody has 1 favorite old
saying ...Here's singer Tommy
Hazard's: "Taking the least line
of resistance is what makes both
men and rivers crooked."
(iem lore: In ancient days the
diamond was thought to protect
its owner against poisoning... and
aristocrats wore an emerald on
their forehead to cure them of
eye diseases.
You may bellev nature gave
you an odd anatomy, but vou
could be In a lot stranger sh.ip'c...
For example: A shrimp has its
heart and stomach in its head,
Ihe cuttlefish has three hearts,
and crabs have teeth in their
stomachs.
Reader Opinions
County Resident Seeks -Return
Of Pekinese
To The Editor:
I have often read of people losing
a dog or a cat but never thought
it would occur to me. I thought
such things happened only in or
near towns in heavily populated
areas. That isn't always the case,
it appears.
My four little girls received a
combination Christmas-birthday
gift of a little Pekinese puppy. She
is just three months old and very
small. We find someone else fell
as we did that she is very cute
and adorable.
She was stolen from our yard
or nearhv road between the hours
of 6:30 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
We live out in the country. Very
few people travel our road. So it
would seem obvious that she was
purposely taken away. We live on
the Cole Road above the L'mpqua
Store.
I am hoping that by writing
someone may have seen her or
know her whereabouts. If anyone
sees, has been given, or has been
sold a little tan-grey and white
Peke puppy within the last few
days, please let us know.
If the person who has taken the
Kuppy realizes the heartbreak they
ave caused to four little girls
and desires to return the puppy,
we ask that they just drop her off
in our yard again. I'm sure she
will find her way to our door and
the hearts of our little girls.
I My girls and, in fact, the whole
.family, grieve over her disappear
lance. The girls are two. six, eight!
I and ten years of age. The age of the 1
puppy also means much to them, i
I What are things coming to when i
a person must have everything
! under lock and key, even in our
homes in the count rv where few
I people other than our own neigh-
oors pass u :
Anyway, if anyone wants to re
lieve the ache in Ihe hearts of my
little girls, please return the puppy,
or if you have any information
call us collect at Oakland 3.MW or
contact Jim Raird at the address
below. We would certainly be re-
V
lieved to know where our little
"Klinkcr" was taken.
.Mrs. Jim Raird
l'mpqua Star Rt., Box 70
Cole Road, Oakland, Ore.
Here Are Some Answers
To Teen-Agers' Plaints
To The Editor:
One of the best articles we have
had the pleasure of seeing any
where in regard to the problems
of juvenile delinquency, come lo us
from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Here it is for your consideration:
Always we hear the plaintive
cry of the teen agers:
"What can we do...?
"Where can we go....?
"1 can make some suggestions.
Co home!
"Hang the storm windows, paint
the woodwork. Rake the leaves.
Mow Ihe lawn. Shovel the walk.
Wash Ihe car. Uarn to cook. Scrub
some floors. Repair the sink. Build
a boat. Oct a job.
"Help Ihe minister, the Red
Cross, the Salvation Armv. Visit the
sick. Assist the poor. Studv vour
lessons. And when you are through
...and not loo tired. ..read a book.
"Your parents do not owe you
entertainment.
"Your village does not owe you
recreational facilities.
"The world docs not owe you a
living. You owe the world some
thing. "You owe it your lime and energy
and your talents so that no one
will he at war. in poverty, or sick,
or lonely again.
"In plain simple words: Grow
up: quit being a crv babv: set
out of vour dream world: develop
a backbone, not a wishbone; and
start acting like a man or lady.
"I'm a parent. I'm tired of nurs
ing, protecting, helping, appealing,
begging, excusing, tolerating, de
nying myself needed comfort for
your every whim and fancy, just
because your selfish ego instead of
common sense dominates vour per
sonality and thinking 'and re
quests." Mrs. Ruth M. Springer
3173 NK Stephens St.
Roseburg, Ore.
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