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EDITORIAL PAGE
4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thur., April 13, 1961
POOR PUBLIC RELATIONS
By Charles V. Stanton
The battle between the Southern Facific and the Santa
Fe over control of the Western Pacific railroad has resulted
in a number of railroad officials visiting this area during
the past few days.
The Santa' Fe proposes to take over Western Pacific in
an end-to-end expansion. The SP, on the other band, is
seeking side-by-side control of a competing operation.
Representatives from the three, anil other interested
rail lines, bave visited recently with local shippers. A "de
bate" in which both sides were ably presented, was held in
Roseburg Monday before members of the Chamber of Com
merce. iWhy should the Roseburg area be interested?
Roseburg is in an area over which the Southern Pacific
holds monopolistic control. One of the greatest blocks to
industrial expansion in the Roseburg area is a lack of com
petition in the field of transportation.
Industries and business locate in areas where competi
tion exists between transportation concerns. Perhaps the
competition is between rail and water. Maybe it's between
rail lines, but the only industrial operation Roseburg gets
is that industry depending upon our great natural resource.
That industry can't go elsewhere.
Monopoly To Remain
There isn't much possibility of any relief from this rail
monopoly. At Monday's "debate" a representative of West
' ern Tacific introduced quotes from a high official of the
SP at a hearing before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in which we were said to be "happy" with mon
opoly. Privately he offered to back up his quotes with a
tape recording. The SP's opposition wants us to convince
the ICC we aren't "happy." '
Rut, even if Santa Fe is successful in getting control of
Western Pacific, SP's monopoly into southwestern Oregon
won't be broken. We'll still be in a monopoly area. Why
then should we be wooed so desperately?
It is pointed out that the fight for control will be car
ried before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The
Commission will be influenced in large measure by public
opinion as indicated by expressions of that opinion. There
fore, both sides want favorable opinion from southwestern
Oregon, particularly the Roseburg area where the Southern
Pacific gets almost a quarter of its business.
The Southern Pacific tells us how good it has been to
us. It also uses "scare" technique. Railroads are "pricing
themselves out of business." The only way they' can stay
in business is to cut down operational costs. SP could save
some five and one-half million dollars by control of WP.
It would be in a position to pass some of this saving on
T the 'shippers through rate reductions. The intimation is
21 that there can't be any rate improvement if the sr's aims
are not achieved.
Discrimination Charged
Rut. on the other side, representatives of WP and the
Santa Fe say that the SP has discriminated against south
It western Oregon, has had annual car shortages (which the
SP nays could have been averted with cooperation and
which could be stopped by control over WP), that we'd be
naive to believe in any possibility of voluntary rale ralur-
lions, etc. But the strong argument is that, while we would
remain in a monopoly area, the fact that the "gateway"
U would remain at Richer would pose a continued competitive
2; threat and would, reduce the SP's monopolistic hold on the
jarea.
I admit I'm at a loss to know which of the two projects
ST has the best long-range advantage for this area.
ZZ 1 do know, however, that the SP has two strikes on it
j'wlieii it comes to wooing anyone in this territory. It lias
been "booting" Roseburg and southwestern Oregon "in the
2 pants" for a good many years. Competitive points have
IS passenger train service. That's something the "Friendly"
JSP killed off here. Much new industry has settled in com
Jpetitive points nearby, but. not in Roseburg. Oilier places
got cars in time of car shortage when we couldn't get them
SI until we put on pressure. Now, the "Friendly" SP comes
JT around and wants our help. We're told what a good rail
21 road it's been and how much it has done for us. We're
jj expected to let bygones be bygones.
Perhaps the SP is correct in its contentions. Possibly
, we would fare better by endorsing SP control over Western
J2 Pacific, rather than favoring the Santa Fe. I don't know.
2J P'l't 1 rather imagine the SP's lousy public relations and
2; it go-to-hell attitude of late years will come back to haunt
it.
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2. Hal Boyle
H Remarks Many Houscwivc
Grow Weary Of Hearing
2. NK.W YORK (AP) Remarks
" that housewives get tired of hear
ting: "What in the world do wives
Xl" wi'h all their spare tune?"
"Hey. Mom. where is my blur
sweater? I know 1 left it right
.teller on this chair only two days
-ago."
"(ice, Mom. I'm already late,
and if you don't drive me to
school. Ill be marked lardy
and ''
"This is Mrs. Cbiiinley of the:
J'TA. I wonder if you rould help
us address and mini a few lei
(Jlers? II will only luke lour or,
i-live hours."
"What do you need a new dress
for'. Didn't you buy one last
year"" j
"I'll bel as soon as I bead out
that noor for work you'll hop
right hack in bed for a two-hour;
. nap. All wives do that." i
"Why should I help you do the '
, uisiies' mats woman s work 1
"Hello. Hello. MargeT I missed
,tlie S:M train home. Humped into
, Joe Hurch and we stopped off for
"" couple. I ll cateh the 8 48 or
,'inaylw the 7 14. or Hie I 12 at
the very latest."
By FRANK JENKINS
Editorial Comment
From Washington:
Evidence that Russia has tripled
its arms lift to Laos caused grow
ing concern here this week that
the Kremlin may be stalling on a
cease fire in order to Bl li.U LT
COMMUNIST J'UHCES there. He
liable diplomatic sources reported
that the Soviet military airlift to
Laotian communists has been three
times its normal size in the last
day or so.
There was speculation that Rus
sia has been rushing in supplies in
advance of the Monsoon season,
which is due in the next few weeks.
(The point is that the heavy Mon
soon rains would hamper supply
activities. If the truce ends in a
shooting ruckus, and if Russia is
well supplied in Laos with arms
and ammunition and we aren't. . .
POOF! In that event, it would be
just loo bad for us.)
"I know I promised to lake sou
out toniclit. Marge, hut I had an
other one of those tough days at
the oflice. Can t we make it an
other night1"
"Yes, I think mv daughter ran
baby sit for you tonight. Marge.
But I guess I d better warn you
-her rale has gone up to $i .25
an hour."
".Sure-it's a nice locking hat.
Mom. Hut don't you think it s a
bit. uh, youthful, lor you?'1
"I know I should have given
you more warnins, honey, but
these guys re just a couple of
lonely old barnelors at the oltut.
anil they'll eat anything. So don't
bother to In anything special."
"Marriage is for women and
children.''
"Why, Mom! Client what'
You've got Ihree more gtay haul.
Isn't that funny?"
"I'll tell you what makes mod
ern wives so nervous. Life is loo
easy for them. They don't have
enough to do to keep them busy."
"Yeah. I know I promised you
yesterday I'd do it todav. Marge,
nut I'm tired. 1 II do it tomorrow
for sure.'1
Along the same line
Admiral Arlcigh A. Burke, V. S.
chief of naval operations, said in
Chicago this morning that totali
tarian communism MKiHT con
quer the world because of what he
termed Yankee optimism. He add
ed: "Americans olten indulge in
wishful thinking."
Admiral Burke obviously fears
that we may be putting too much
faith in this Laotian truce business.
He seems to be warning us to
LOOK OUT.
To back up Admiral Burke, let's
quote another authority Hud; aid
Kipling in nis ine iruce ot tne
Bear:
"Make ye no truce with Adam-
zad i
'The bear that walks like a
man."
A thought:
l.et' hope we don't get so ex
cited about the current Russian
feat into space with a manned sat
ellite that we send an American
astronaut into the mysterious yon
der TOO SOON.
That would be rough.
It would also be inexcusable.
For example:
There is the case of our Dis
coverer rocket that failed to de
tach its capsule in such a way
that it would come back to earth
to be picked up somewhere in the
ocean, as the others have been.
Instead, it TOOK OFF INTO OR
BIT AROUND THE EARTH or at
least that was so reported in the
news. Suppose one of our astro
nauts had been inside the capsule!
doing into space with a man
wouldn't be worth a tragedy of
tnal magnitude.
James Marlou)
United States Isn't Quite
An Innocent Party In Laos
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Kennedy has avoided shrill
notes ever since his show of
toughness last month when he in
dicated this country would act if
the Communists didn't stop trying
to gobble up Laos.
lie used a soft-pedal again
Wednesday. This may displease
those who want him to get tougher
with Russia. But the fact is he's
up against a tough situation and
he is a realist.
Since last month, when he
called on the Soviet-backed Reds
in Laos to agree to a cease-fire,
he' been waiting for the Rus
sians, who pull the strings, io hall
the Communist rebel attacks on
the American-backed Laotian gov
ernment. Two days ago a State Depart
ment spokesman said the United
States now is concerned about a
step-up in Soviet arms deliveries
to the rebels and about any fur
ther delay in a cease-fire.
This was tougher than Kennedy
wanted to sound. At his news con
ference Wednesday he threw cold
water on it. He said there hasn't
been a marked increase in Soviet
supplies and expressed hope for
a cease-fire answer this week.
These are some reasons that
can. explain Kennedys non-belligerent
attitude:
In the first place, the United
Stales is not quite an innocent
party in Laos. In a fashion it has
been doing on one side what the
Russians have been doing on the
other.
In a land where a majority of
the people reportedly are neutral
and apathetic about who wins,
this country has been backing
and supplying the right-wing gov
ernment. Russia has been doing the same
for the Communist-led rehels try
ing to overthrow the government.
The rest of the world knows this
and the United States has made
no secret of it.
If the United States persuaded
its Southeast Asian allies to go in
and light the rebels perhaps with
direct American participation in
some form Red China and North
Viet Nam Communists next door
might move in.
This rould become another Ko
rea, but under even worse con
ditions because of the jungle
mountain terrain. In short, the
United States might well wind up
embroiled in Asia.
This could have two effects,
neither of them good for the Unit
ed Slates:
1. With the United Slates up to
its neck in a Laotian fight, the
Russians and Red Chinese might
consider it timely to start a crisis
elsewhere.
2. The Asians themselves and
the neutrals everywhere might
later, if not right away, sour bad
ly on this country for a war next
door to them.
Further, if the United States did
get embroiled, some of the West
ern allies, particularly the French
might stand aloof.
Any weakening in the Western
alliance would be so much gravy
for the Communists who have
been trying for years to shake
and wreck the alliance.
Still further, if there is a cease
fire and the West seeks to create
a single government for all of
Laos, the Communists, who hold
half the country anyway, will al
most certainly insist on being
part of it.1
This would open the door to
continued, ' even though peaceful.
Red pressure from the inside and
perhaps their eventual take-over
of all Laos anyway. It's not a
pretty prospect for this country.
But the only alternative to it
short of continued fighting would
seem to he a splitting in half of
Laos, with the Communists hold
ing the northern half, a neutral
or American-backed government
in Hie south.
That wouldn't solve anything.
The United Stales doesn't want
communism to get another inch
of real estate in Southeast Asia.
Before Kennedy gets tough un
less he wants to risk getting this
country up to its neck in a war
in Asia he has to try for some
other, more peaceful way of end
ing the fighting. That'i what he
seems to be doing.
Tougher 'Krush7
Seen By Officials
WASHINGTON (AP) The lat
est space achievement by the So
viet Union is expected to harden
the diplomacy of Soviet Premier
Khrushchev and make him a
more difficult man for President
Kennedy to deal with.
U.S. officials have agreed pri
vately that the launching and re
covery of a man-carrying space
vehicle is not only an historic feat
but one which is certain to
strengthen Khrushchev's deter
mination to get his own way more
and more on outstanding issues.
Already the lines of a diplo
matic conflict are sharply drawn
at many points. Examples include
Laos, Berlin, disarmament and
the United Nations.
BILL OPPOSED
Grants Pais Courier
The Industrial Forestry Associa
lion, composed of lumber com-;
panies in Washington and Oregon, ,
doesn t favor the wilderness mil,
claiming it isn't necessary.
Action by the state legislature,
in House and Senate Joint Mea
sure No. 12 asks the Congress
not to pass the proposal as of now.
Great recreation areas are already
established and, in the opinion
of backers of the joint measure
and the Industrial forestry Associ
ation it isn't necessary to do any
thing about the Wilderness Bill!
for at least the presnt.
The Association contends that in
set aside some 20 years ago for
study later, what is the rush in
getting the Wilderness Bill into
law? It is now in formative state
in a Congressional committee. If
it comes out of committee, the
prediction is being made rather
freely the proposal will become a
law.
Great forces are aligned against
each olher in the issue here con
cerned. The plea of proponents
of the bill-in-committee is that the
nation needs to protect vast acre
ages now in the raw or natural
state from development for mod
ern civilization from a recreation
al standpoint. In other words,
those favoring the proposal find it
a way to save our natural re
sources in their original state for
posterity on down through gener
ations as they come into t h e
heritage of things historical. It is
the contention of backers of the
Wilderness Bill plan that the peo
ple of America need the vast areas
of untouched forests, mountainous
areas, valleys in the mountains
and the streams that course
through them protected from be
ing other than they are now. It
harks back to the days when pi
oneers struggled to reach areas
where the Indians had been mani
fest for a long time in a drive to
wrest lands in the raw from the
red men to develop them (the
lands) and turn them to a means
of livelihood for the white man. It
was therefore a sort of fulfillment
of the law of supply and demand,
a little far-fetched, for the original
inhabitants supplied the natural re
sources they had been holding and
the pioneers demanded them, and
developed some of them.
On the olher hand we have the
; opponents to the bill who contend
a rush to keep timbering interests
out of the forests is ill-advised.
They contend, too, that a wilder
ness area would be denied use by
things modern, such as automo
biles, boats, mining activities,
orazinff riahls. etc.. unless per-
1 mission isv obtained for such ac
tivities from either the secretary
! of agriculture or the president him
I self; and who would be able to
! reach those dignitaries except over
i a long waiting period with a lot
1 of red tape involved?
Our national park lands as of
now, opponents of the bill explain,
contain continuous acres in plots
of 5.000 or more in an undeveloped
state, and they want to know if
that isn't sufiicient for the yen to go
into the inaccessible places which
are alreadv wilderness areas?
So the Wilderness Bill becomes,
as is ever the case when two sides
are presented, an issue whose
merits only time, will be able to
work out to a decision.
So the Wilderness Bill becomes,
as is ever the case when two
sides are presented, an issue whose
merits only time will be able to
work out to a decision.
Reader
Opinions
Post Office Criticism
Said Pure 'Poppycock'
To The Editor:
Several letters have appeared In
The News-Review again in the past
week relative to the local post
master appointment. These letters
seem to concentrate on the personal
feelings rather than plain common
sense. The reasons given for the
severe criticism is nothing more
than pur "poppycock," in my opin
ion. It is certainly hard for me to be
lieva that Dr. Mooers is unaware
that the postmaster appointments
have been "political plums" for as
far back as we care to remember.
When he shouts "political corrup
tions" he should remember that his
own party is equally guilty, as both
parties have taken full advantage
of an accepted custom for years.
The two ladies take Uicir own
parly to task for what Ihey call
fa very bad appointment." Their
prime criticism is lack of expel1:
ience on the part of the appointee.
If thev would put aside their per
sonal feelings for a moment, they
could easily find out that only one
Roseburg postmaster appointed in
more than forty years had any pri
or postal experience. Also for their j
information, Mr. jlnider was not
just a "log truck driver." Rather
ho was a contract log hauler, a
small business man, and one of the
more successful ones in this area.
It would therefore appear that he
would be quite capable of handling
the duties of the postmaster just
as successfully.
II is my sincere opinion lhat the
local postoffice slatf. many of whom
I know well, is "big" enough to
ignore any suggestion that they
go on a "strike" by not cooper
ating with Air. Snider.
Wouldn't it be far better to let
Mr. Snider prove lhat he is incap
able of his appoinlment. rather
lhan impeach him before we actual
ly know? Incidently. Mr. Editor,
1 have always voted Republican
and don't even have a 'kissin'
cousin" who is a Democrat.
Dwavne Rue!!
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Roseburg. Ore.
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