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The Way of Peace Day's News By Frank Jenkins oriai IP ci 4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore.- National Budget Questionable By Yesterday, we said the foreign aid - program should be analyzed to deter-, mine its effectiveness. The conclusion was that those forms of aid of questionable value should he eliminated. . The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has . pone a great many steps farther. It says not only should cuts of $1.3 billion in the President's proposed budget be made in the foreign economic assistance pro ' gram, but a lot of maior cuts can be justified elsewhere in the budget. The Chamber's recommendations weren't based, as so many are, on broad generalities. They were outlined in a bulky report resulting from an item-by-item review of the President's $98.8 bil lion budget. Using a set of logical guidelines de termined in advance, a group of 17 com mittees went over the proposed expendi tures and came to the conclusion that $4.5 billion could be pared from the 1964 proposed , expenditures without hurting the national security or necessary serv ices. It boosted those cuts to $9.1 billion by including requests for money to be spent in future years. Among the recom mended cuts were these : 1. $2.2 billion from the defense budget, which could be made . without cutting military strength. This could be done by such steps as (1) dropping 2,000 com mercial and industrial activities, as rec ommended seven years ago by the Hoo ver Commission; (2) further improve ment in supply methods; (3) closing in stallations kept open only because of political pressures. 2. $1.2 billion from the National Aero nautics and Space Administration by al lowing an increase of 25 per cent in spending authority rather than a 60 per sent boost as requested. - A man called this week to gibe this column for a slip of the typewriter. He pointed out that a recent explanation of just how much money a billion dollars is may be correct, but the report of how many of ; these billions the President Opinions From - ' .: ' .... Reconsideration Urged On Delegation By Reader To The Editor: ! We don't know who voted for what among the Douglas County contingent to the legislature. So ed as porsonal In any way, by ' Messrs. Flegcl, Leiken and Kclsay. Therefore, any references to the legislators below will designato them by a common name, "They." When "thev" met at Salem In January, "they" admitted almost unanimously that new taxes was the toughest . problem to face "them.". And "they" have been scrounging ever since for new tints tn inicct the tax-needle. However, as their first order of business, "they" raised their own salaries, with frlngo benefits, to a point considered by a majority of "us" as certainly not niggardly. The next order of business was to assure enough money to pay tho alary package. Then came ' the struggle and search for new rovenue. One item had been suggested by Gov. Hat field in his. message to the legisla ture. He estimated a 4-ccnt tax per pack of cigarettes would produce $15 million in a blennium, wotdd be easily collected, and would hurt nobody, since it is really a lux ury tax. Dut "they" killed that source of rovenue. Wo wonder why. Was It a political slan at the governor? Certainly "they" didn't take into consideration the harm ful effects of cigarettes on our youth boys and girls alike; tho increasing occurence of lung can ccr, heart trouble, emphysema and other health hazards. Already we hear alarming reports of the unfitness of our rising generations, with up to 25 per cent of the boys unfit for military duty for ono reason or another. This tax would n't stop many from smoking cig arettes, maybe, but even if it caused only a few to stop, or de cide not to start, it could be con sidered as a statesmanship ges ture. (However, we nolo In the news that the bill was revived from BUIIItt CUIIllIlllll'U Ul UMICl, aim may have another chance. We pray that "they" will reconsider). Another item. We paid our auto insurance the other day, and found w s. e Mam sr. Roitturg. Oregon Tfflephon ORclurd 1-V7I Entartd at acond class mailer May 7, ltTO. Jt lh pos' ofllca at Roseburg, Ore gon, under act of Aarch J. 1171. Published Dally Except Sunday by NEWSRF.VIEW PUBLISHING CO. J. V. Brenner Publisher The News-Review Is a member of tho Unite Press International, NEA Service. Audit Bureau of Circulation and th Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. National Adverllilng Representative It Newspaper Advertising Service Co., Russ Building, San Francisco Caiif, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier ano Roseburg P, O, Bonea ) month, I1.7J, e months, 110.50, 1 year, 121.00. By Mwl. In Oregon: 1 month. $l.7ji 3 month. U.SOi 4 months, $9.00; 1 year Jtl.00. Outside ol Oregon: I month, IMS, months, u.u, monlhi, HO.SOi I year The Figure Was A Little It Had been hiked another ten bucks or so. When we kicked, we were told that high incidence of wrecks, and unjustified expenses resulting, added to unrealistic awards by Juries caused the raise. One of the principal causes of Insurance liability is the drunken driver State Police may feel cer tain mat a driver is drunk, but they can't arrest him, or do any thing to prevent it happening again, unless the officer actually witness ed the wreck. The governor, the Highway De partment and the state police de partment had suggested tighten ing up enforcement with several ideas, Including permission to ar rest when the officer could get the necessary evidence, chemicol tests to determine a driver's condition, etc. "They" tossed this one into a committee, where it will likely expire. Auto insurance is the main cost of operation for most drivers. Our $100 premium for driving '5,- 000 miles costs us 2 cents per mile. And that's more than our gas and oil combined. Putting teeth. into our driving rules, allow ing our txalfic officers to protect us, might save a good many mil lion dollars to Oregon motorists. Why did "they" do this? Did "they" stop end think of the 100 fatality victims daily in our coun try? Did "they" consider the hun dreds of thousands of guest passen gers who will spend their lives in hospitals, some of whom would have been luckier to have joined the fatalities? Or, did "they" look at politics, and figure this another way to take a dig at somebody? Whatever influenced "them" to kick this one out, they should re consider their decision. There may, w- n w Token from the flirt 'N''','VreVVN'.VN' 40 YEARS AGO April 13. 1921 Roseburg is to have a humdin ger of a ball team this year. There is no question of this fact since the announcement made t h i morning that the management of the league team has been taken over by C. A. Lockwood, local auto mobile dealer, who is a live-wire, rabid baseball fan. It was announced here todav that negotiations between the Cali fornia-Oregon Power Co., and the Douglas County Light and Water Co., have reached the stage where the new organization is to make a thorough survey of the local plant and distribution system, with a view of reaching some agreement or plon for the opera tion oi local power and water fa cilities. 25 YEARS AGO April 11, mt A bill which would make steel head game fish in all Oregon SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1963 $9.1 Billion The Chamber committees reasoned that the agency couldn't wisely control expansion of such magnitude in- a single year. 3. $1.6 billion from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The bulk of this ($1.2 billion) would result from a rejection of the President's omnibus education program. The Chamber said this- program would lead to central decision-making and federal domination of the education system. 4. $500 million by setting a ceiling on federal government personnel at its pres ent level. The report points out that the administration is requesting an increase, of more than 47,000 non-defense govern ment employes, following a proposed in crease for the current year of almost 50, 000. The government, already the na tion's biggest employer, has a staff of almost 212 million people. The Chamber has done a painstaking job to use surgical, rather than "meat axe" methods in making its recommend ations. It reasons logically that taxation is becoming so onerous, efforts should be made to spend nothing we don't have to spend. This seems to be an economy-minded Congress, and pressures from the folks at home could have more effect than usual. Those folks at home are you, but, pour Congressmen will never know how you feel unless you tell them. Most peo ple would like to see an efficient govern ment, running as economically as pos sible, but the special pressures on a con gressman sometimes blur that fact. We should lend our voices, through letters and conversation, to that aim of econ omy which will not impair efficiency. High wants to spend next fiscal year is not: He was right. The budget calls for "only" $98.8 of these billions, rather than the $300 billion cited. The $300 billion is close to the national debt figure, not the 1964 fiscal year budget figure. Readers bo time to resurrect this. one. anrl show some statesmanship, and con. sideration for the terrible cost' of drunken drivers in life, security and, yes, even cash in "their" auto mobile insurance rates. Glen Wellman 10S8 NE Walnut Roseburg, Ore. Monday Midnight Date Okay For Income Tax WASHlWnXAM VTTDM m.- T- . ..... u j, 113 in ternal Revenue Service said Friday thni Inrnma tnv mlii.n. m.i marked by midnight Monday will cuiupiy wun legal requirements iui guiiiug uieus in on ume. Monday is the deadline and nor. mally IRS regulations would re quire uiai uie returns De In gov ernment offices on that day. Hnwevar the, cnruInA tiM u . laxed this requirement because ute uay preceding ine deadline falls on a Sunday and post offices are closed. "Internal Revenue will treat last minute return no. timnlu it thai, are postmarked by midnight of hum la, uie service said in an announcement. QUEEN DISTRIBUTES MONEY CHELMSFORD Fnolnnri MTPn Queon Elizabeth carried on the ceniuries-oio tradition of distribut ing royal Maundy money to t h e aged Thursday. The royal alms, given each Maundv Thiirsrlnv. went tn 97 man and 37 women the nnmhAi am,, el to the queen's age on her next Dirinoay. ------- -i-i-n-rii-i -irii-ii ui.rui.i of Tht Mewl-Review streams and would prohibit taking of tho species commercially, was proposed oy uie legislative com mittee of the Douglas County Con servation Council at the organiza tion's regular meeting here last night. Asserting that the power ques tion is not a political one. Gov. Charles II. Martin said he was con fident that Bonneville Power will be distributed for the benefit of all Oregon people. 0 YEARS AGO April 11, ltS Completed installation of 23 two car parking meters on Glendale budiness streets set off a hot ses sion at the City Council meeting. The North Umpqua District of tho Umpqua National Forest will, be split into two districts this sum mer ir, anticipation of new volumes of Umber opened up by' the ex tension of the North umpqua Road to Steamboat. I as j wmi mmm aaa r ivm ' ss isia,bsi it M MET' AND IS BPZED wirj SHALL BE The President of the United States is quite possibly not aware of it, but he just pinched an idea for which I have been hustling for years. This is the establishment of a snob system similar to that of the British, in which the rather loose ly defined Freedom Medal will be converted into tne nation s nignesi award at an annual honors list. It is a beautiful carrot for the donkey, in any languoge, and we have long lacked a knighthood sys tem. This gone will be called the Pres idential Medal of Freedom, and a 10-man board will decide, along about the Fourth of July each year, who has contributed significantly to American life." I imagine some title will eventually be worked out. such as Excellency, or some such, maybe even a resumption of the title "Squire." Life Changes A man's life seems to change, once he pins a little rosette in his lapel, and it Is certainly helpful in the customs. We have been sore starved for titles in America, which is why there are so many colonels in Kentucky. We don't even admire to see a man hang onto his ex-military designation. In Britain anybody that made cap tain still calls himself "Captain So-and-So," and Britain owns more majors than Texas has honorary Rangers. British knighthoods may Have started out in the field, when a fellow put on a tin suit and went out to lay waste the wicked Sara cen, or comported himself so well in the service of his liege lord that a swipe across the shoulders was necessary to impress the peasantry that old Giles, a former no-good-nick, was now Sir Giles, most ex cellent and most illustrious. Knighthoods Parceled But British knighthoods get par celed out today like presents in a Crackerjack box, and to the un- likeliest of people. I don t think they ve dignified any bookmakers yet, but they've knighted jockeys, cricketers, a raft of actors, and quite a few folks who could get it for you wholesale. They make lords out of newspaper proprietors, and any general who didn't get captured in his pyjamas eventually makes Bar on. When they kick out a Prime Minister they generally hang a good substantial gong on him, as well. They were about to hang Tony Eden for Suez, but it didn't keep him off the Garter list or prevent the fine title of Lord Eden of Avon. I think the whole idea is won derful for America, which has al ways dearly loved a lord, and which in other, more easily im pressionable days, used to send its rich daughters barnstorming over seas with Papa's money to snag penniless Russian princes. French dukes of obscure title, and Italian principes who were currently cut ting hair to eat. Target High It is easy to visualize, with pleasure, a Sir Samuel Davis Jr., or a Sir Francis Sinatra, who have been so good about raising money to keep the political sinking fund afloat; a Sir Pierre Salinger, for his extreme talent in confusing press issues; a Sir Oleg Cassini (he's already a kind of a court. or prince, or something) for mak ing pretty dresses for Jackie, and right on down the line. Man, it would give a fellow something to shoot for or to shoot at. For one thing it makes firing the help so easy. When the axe eventually falls on Adlai, he be comes Lord Adlai of Doubletalk and feelings are thereby soothed. And It also keeps the wishful no blemen In line. Write a nasty piece about Bobby's swimming pool, and I SAVED sfflBEi w, in r mmsm U. S. Needs Snob System With Title you don't get no bloody medal. Criticize the Cuban policy, and, man, your chances of a new squig gle on the coat of arms is as dead a Republican candidate in Bos ton. Just A Start The Presidential Freedom Medal could be just a start. Apart from the usual honors, and the awarding of baronies to old generals and the upper class of retired colonial gov ernors, the British also have the special Order of the Garter. It is not yet too late for us to step up THE LIGHTER SIDE: In By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD "I didn't raise my boy to be a folk singer." .How often I have heard this lament from some poor mother whose son. the pride and joy and light of her life, has rejected his environment and turned to banjo plucking. As they say in show biz, "There's a broken heart for ev ery guitar off Broadway." Why are so many of our young people taking up folk singing? Be ing a parent myself, I have made an earnest effort to find the answer. I have interviewed the leaders of virtually every folk singing gang that has appeared in Wash ington, give or take the Smothers Brothers. I even learned the tenor part to "Foggy Foggy Dew" so that I could speak their language. Sad to say, no' clear cut solu tion has emerged from my studies. Folk singing appears to be a world-wide problem and should be tackled on an international level, possibly under the auspices of the United Nations. Talks With Mitchell Just this week I had a talk with a young man named Chad Mitchell, who at the age of 26 is already a hardened folk singer. He and two companions are dis pensing the stuff nightly in one of the dimly lit corners of the Shoreham Hotel here. In other respects, Mitchell is al most a model youth clean cut, personable, hard-working and all like that. There was nothing in his background to suggest that he was susceptible to folk singing. At the time he got hooked, he was a pre-med student at Gonza ga University. I am certain he would have made a fine doctor, and at medical conventions he could have led the group singing of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." Without letting him suspect my purpose, I attempted to elicit from Mitchell the reasons for his withdrawal from a medical career in favor of the minstrel life. Part of Trie Mitchell, who forms one-third of the Chad Mitchell Trio, told me that he does not consider himself a true folk singer. That, however, can be disregarded. They will all tell you that. Folk singers like to pretend that folk singing isn't habit forming ; and that they can give it up any- i time they choose. I Mitchell's case history is more i or less typical, being unusual mainly in the fact that he sells ! more record albums than most i folk singers. Most folk singers can only sell their albums to other , folk singers. i m m i.fi if. a m as.Da some sidebar awards, such as the Order of the Hatchet, to be ad ministered to friendly pressmen who lower the boom on people who are too delicate to be fired out right; or the Order of the Leak, for exceptional services rendered un der the controlled-news system. They might even have a kind of reverse-English order, to be call ed the Order of the Boot, devoted exclusively to outstanding critics of the New Frontiers. For that I think I might be able to qualify without breathing very hard. (Copyright 1943 by United Feature Synd., Inc.) Heart Is Broken For Every Guitar He got started en the stuff at a tender age and was still in high school when he formed his first quartet. From then on, it was the old familiar story of one folk song leading to another. To Mitchell's credit, he has not yet reached -he stage where he writes his own folk songs. That is the point of no return, so there is hope for him yet. The Almanac Today is Saturday, April 13, the 103rd day of 1963. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1846, the Pennsylvania Rail road received its charter. In 1S6S, Union General Sherman ended his famed "march to the sea" by taking Raleigh, N.C. In 1934, Harry Hopkins, chief of the Civil Works Administration, announced that 4.7 million families were on relief. In 1941, Russia and Japan signed a five-year neutrality pact. A thought for the day: War cor respondent Ernie Pyle said: "If you go long enough without a bath even the fleas let you alone." No Radioactive Matter Found In Sub's Debris WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Navy said there was no evidence of radioactivity in tests made of the debris from the scene of the submarine Thresher's accident and of samples from the ocean bottom. Vice Adm. H.G. Rickover issued this statement: "Measurements for radio activ ity on samples of debris recov ered from the scena of the Thresh er incident have shown no radio activity Samples of the ocean bot tom have also been obtained by the oceanographic ship, Atlantis II, in the vicinity of the incident, and have likewise shown no radio activity. Additional samples will be obtained and measured." FOOD MART OPEN EASTER Sunday As this is written, the Canadian election is still up in the air. The Liberals (Pearsons party) won a majority of the popular vote and a plurality of the seats (meaning more seats thin any other party) in the Canadian parliament, buti they failed to win a majuhixy of the 265 seats. - Under the Canadian system They are unable to "form a gov ernment" that is to say, a govern ment composed entirely of mem bers of the Liberal Party. To form a government, the Liberals would having to havo a majority of the 265 seats in tne Canadian parli ament, which would be 133. They have only 127 seats, with complete returns missing from only one dis trict. i So a total of 128 seats is all they can hope for. That is five short of the 133 seats required for a ma jority . Under the Canadian system, which is based on the British sys tem of parliamentary government, incumbent Premier Diefenbaker COULD step aside and allow the Liberals who have won a major ity of the popular vote to form a government. This, however, he so far refuses to do. Unless Diefenbaker reverses nis decision, Canada will be left in a state of uncertainty until its par liament can convene late next month. When the parliament con venes, what is called a "coalition" Government could be formed by a combination agreed upon between the Liberals and one or more of the three other parties. We are so close to Canada, and have so MANY things in common with our Canadian neighbors, that we are inclined to think of Can adian eovernment affairs as basic ally similar to ours which, basic ally, they are not. The Canadian system of government is based upon the British system. : The parliament IS tne national legislature of Canada. As in Eng landand also in the United States it is composed of two houses. But in Canada senate memDers are appointed for life by the gov ernor - general, advised by t h e prime minister, who is the Can adian chief executive, similar to our President. But the prime minister is chosen by the members of his party in the parliament, and remains in oi fice only as long as he controls a majority of the parliament. When a prime minister loses the con fidence of his party, or another party becomes the MAJORITY , in parliament, ne must enner resign or aDoeal for the support of the people in a new general election. But mere is tnis aiuerence: In Canada, every member of the cabinet must be a minister, and every minister must be a mem ber of the parliament. In the Unit ed States, the President names his cabinet members OUTSIDE the congress. That is to say, the mem bers of our President's cabinet are NOT members of congress. Nor does the congress have anything to say or to do svith the naming of them. Our systems are quite different. The fact that they have operated more or less similarly is due sim ply to the fact that Canadians and Americans arc more or less the same kind of people, with more or less the same ideas as to the kind of government they want. fort PAY BY CHECK CHECKS ARE AS CONVENIENT AS CASH, YET MUCH SAFER! With a checking account, you have the cosh you need, up to the amount on deposit, at pen point. And, it's practically theft-proof! Let us help you select the checking account plan that best suit your needs and -budget! Douglas County STATE BANK ROSEBURG iirars OAKLAND gijg SUTHERLIN UNCLE AL'S STORY CORNER by Alan Knudtson of KNUDTSONS'-JEWELERS Chances are, grandma's diamond wasn't flawless. Better yet, nobody cared least of -all grandma! When grandpa decided lo buy grand ma the diamond, the. jeweler was not aware that any internal im perfections within the diamond, as long as they were' invisible, could possibly be of any importance. So, everybody was happy. All that was important was that the diamond was beautiful that it sparkled. This attitude was typical of all jewelers and their custom ers all over the world until about 1920. I guess you could say it all changed because of Madison Av enuism. Some bright, stylish young man in a high boiled collar, and a gambler-striped suit, the narrow pants of which reached just down to the. top jf ankle-high laced shoes with pointed toes, figured out an advertising idea that has got all of us jewelers peering into diamonds like backroom swamis looking for visions in crystal balls. "Be sure your diamond is as flawless as the girl for whom it is intended," ran the ads. "Every White Rose (an actual diamond ring company of those days) dia mond is guaranteed perfect!" Over the old Atwater Kent radio, whicli was available in two beauti ful decorator colors all black and black with brown dialing knobs (of which there ' were ten), the commercials came in relatively clear compared with the music, which ceased abruptly whenever the wind blew the 400 ft. aerial against the wash line wire. Since Americans are famous for running right down to the store as soon as they're sure the commer cial is finished, particularly if it is about love, getting- a mate, germs, or smelling nicetl the "perfect diamond" obsession was born. By 1930, no self-respecting jeweler would even admit'to his wife that he sold anything, but absolutely flawless "blue white" diamonds. In Europe the diamond business was good, too. In fact, it was even "gooder"! Cutters were sending all the carefully inspected (under magnification), top quality dia monds to America at high prices and selling the imperfect remaind er to Europeans who were bliss fully unaware that, according to American advertising, an imper fect diamond doomed a marriage to mediocrity, if not outright fail ure! It was a slap" in the face to the Madison Avenue boys that di vorce was increasing in America twice as fast as it was in Europe. By 1940, flawless diamonds were in such great demand, and in such short supply, that the prices were outrageously high. To remedy this shortage, some ! jewelers, who were too honest I to advertise imperfect diamonds I but too dishonest to resist the ! temptation to substitute the imper j feet for reputedly fine quality goods. 'had a hey-day! By the time the Federal Trade Commission found out about them, they were comfortably well off, andor well out of the jewelry business. ! After World War Ii, a few jewel ers "privately" began offering ; "slightly imperfect" diamonds for ; sale to customers- who were fa i mous for broad-mindedness and ! who intended to use the diamonds ! in men's rings. After all, anybody j knows a man isn't perfect most :of all, his wife and mother-in-law! ! Finally, both jewelers and the ' buying public succumbed to reason and began looking at diamonds the way they were ' supposed to be looked at as marvels of nature, !and things of beauty. To be sure. a highly imperfect diamond is not as pretty or snarkling as a flaw less one; but it is. still more daz zling than any other gem, and, therefore, has a place somewhere ! along the worth scale. Today, most jewelers stock all grades of diamonds. 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