Southern Oregon Newt Review, Ashland, Ore on. Ih u n d n , \ |i v 19, 1949
W hite ( ’ane Means Stop
SOI THE KN
OREGON
NEWS REVIEW
Some tim e ugo 1 made m en
tio n o f the fact tlu it A lg e r lliss,
indicted by u New Y o lk grand
ju r y s h o rtly a fte r the firs t of this
year had not been brought to
tria l. I fu rth e r stated that his
tria l was being postponed tim e
a fte r tim e and expressed tin 1 o-
pin io n that he w ould never he
brought to tr ia l unless the p ub
ic demanded it. Just recently.
A tto rn e y G eneral Tom C la rk has
issued another
postponement
T his is an outrageous situ a tio n
Tom C la rk and high a d m in is tra
tio n o ffic ia ls seem to he deter
m ined to prevent the tria l of A l
ger Hiss if possible. I have my
ow n opinion as to w hy I believe
they are a fra id to try Hiss and
that opinion is not fla tte rin g to
the present heads of the execu
tlv e departm ent of our govern
ment.
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WENDELL LAWRENCE. Editor
LETTER FROM
WASHINGTON
by Harris Ellsworth
I I
Entered as second-class m ail m atter in the post o ffice at A sh
land, Oregon. F ebruary 15. 1935. under the act o f Congress of
M arch 3. 1879
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OPPORTUNITY DRIVE
. . . THE OPPORTUNITY DRIVE of the Treasury
Department for 1949 got under way this week. Reason ,
for the drive is to increase the reserve money which |
folks in various parts of the country might need some
day.
The drive, which has as its purpose the sale of bonds,
formerly known as war savings bonds, will also help
do away with the threat of inflation.
Also, as the amount of savings in a community in
creases. the stable economy of that community becomes
better.
Buy bonds. It’s a good investment, for you. for your
community, and for the country.
bers voted "n o ” but the am end
m ent was pussed on a te lle r vote
Now here is the revealing p a rt
o f the story The opposition to
flu ' am endm ent
(a d m in is tra tio n
forces D ID NOT ask for u record
ed ro ll call vote on th a t am end
ment. It seemed p re tty obvious
to me (hat they were w illin g and
anxious to vole fu rth e r control
over the farm ers If they could
do it anonym ously but when it
came to having th e ir names p r in t
ed in cold type in the Congres
sional Record as opposing the Idea
of a fa n n e r b u ild in g his ow n s to r
age b in -that they did not w ant
to do!
In these letters I have endeav
ored to avoid re fe rrin g to the in
tent of the T rum an a d m in is tra
tio n as socialistic. The p a tte rn of
legislation sponsored by p ro m i
nent a d m in istra tio n members and
tlie pattern of statem ents by the
President him se lf is becoming so
clear in th a t direction, th a t I in
tend to devote a fu tu re le tte r to
that subject. 1 th in k the para
graph above is in d ica tive o f the
trend.
The House has been consider
mg ro u tin e und m in o r legislation
for the last several days. T his
constitutes a welcome "breather
a fte r the s tra in o f more lhan ti
week o l debate on the Labor-
Management h ill.
This is a stop signal! Any pedestrian carrying a white cane is par
One little Incident w hich oc
tially or w holly blind or otherw ise seriously handicapped. State law
curred
w h ile a b ill was being
ACCOUNTING
requires that all motor vehicles must come to a full stop and yield
read
fo
r
am endm ent was as re
the right-of-way to persons carrying these canes. Drivers are re
. . . WHAT is the cost of war? Now, at a time when minded of this fa ft each year in connecticn with Oregon's obser vealing as it was interesting, in e
W ord has been received by Ash-
b ill had to do w ith g ifln tm g a u th
many people talk almost glibly of the possibility of a vance of National White Cane Week. May 15 to 21.
o rity to the C om m odity l redit land friends of the m arriage of
third world war, it is wise to attempt to assess the cost
C orporation to provide w a re M y rtle Moore, fo rm e rly of A sh
of the last conflict. Nothing resembling an exact ac-1
house space fo r gram. C ongn ss land, to John C. Brasemann. of
The
man
John P h illip s of C a lifo rn ia A lbequrque, New Mexico.
counting can be made—there are too many imponder
offered a sim ple am endm ent the cerem ony took place at the home
National
White
Cane
Week
has
been
designated
as
the
week
from
ables and intangibles, which permit of only an inform May 15 to May 21.
force of w hich was to a llow t h c , of a daughter of the groom in
ed guess. One of the most thoughtful efforts to arrive
I wish to call attention to W hite Cane V’eek because of lhei fo l CCC to loan farm ers money so Arcadia. C a lifo rn ia , where the
they could b u ild sm all storage couple Is w e ll known. A large
at the cost of World War II appears in Harper’s Maga low ing reasons:
bins fo r themselves— the loan to reception follow ed the cerem ony
1.
Because
any
person
carrying
a
white
cane
is
either
blind
<.<
zine for April. It is written by C. Hartley Grattan, who seriously handicapped and many people who recognize this will be be repaid from current crop p ro L ater M r and Mrs. Brasemann
has long been a student of the economic implications inclined to offer them assistant* in crossing streets or giving them ceeds. The result w ould be a sav le ft fo r th e ir new home In Albe
information that w ill be helpful.
ing o f m any m illio n s of dollars qurque.
of war.
2. The W hite Cane is a signal to drivers of all type- of vehicles w hich w o u ld otherw ise h i“ spent
Mrs. Brasemann spent a week
Mr. Grattan concludes that about 10,000.000 mem that the person carrying it is without vision and the law requires by the governm ent to buy or v is itin g w ith friends in Ashland
that such person has the right of w ay in crossing streets and that b u ild warehouses. The fu rth e r re preceding her wedding. She sold
bers of armed
forces
lost their
lives.
The last war was , drivers
. ,
....
,,
,
,
w ill step their veh icles and not advance until the visually
s u lt w ould be to a llo w a farm er her home on Fox street and a t
Unique in th a t Civilians suffered a heavier m ortality j handicapped person has arrived at the point of safety.
have control of his ow n bus tended to other husine s m atters
than did men in uniform. The casualties from bomb- . 3- H “ important from a social point of view to call attention to to
iness
ra th e r than to have it con She had spent the w in te r w ith
.
,,
,
.
,
t
n( \
problems of the blind and this can most easily be done throuqh
ing; the planned extermination of whole categories ot some nationally recognized week.
tro lle d by the governm ent A ll her m other in Peoria, 111.
n by all citizens of Ashland that this Republicans voted fo r the am end
Civilians; the terrible death rate among slave laborers; Therefore
Therefore let
let it be know
known
Get your Job Prlntlnq at the
m ent and so did a few Democrat
w eeks is henceforth to be known as White Cane Week.
the losses in underground movements—these and oth
N ew t Review
members.
A d m in is tra tio n mem-
T. S. WILLIAMS
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Myrtle Moore Weds
John Brasemann
Proclamation
er causes probably were responsible for 30,000,000
Mayor, City of Ashland
deaths. Thus, the total human cost of the war was
40,000,000.
drove down to Ruch on the Applegate, and then they
To total the material cost brings the analyst to ex-I made their way to the Redwoods and the Oregon caves,
tremely difficult ground. The most obvious and easily-iand °n in*° Crescent City where they swam boated |
unearthed cost is the money actually spent for military and enjoyed the ocean life. Saturday evening they went
purposes by victor and vanquished. This is recorded in to a dance at Crescent City and then Sunday morning
national budgets. It came to more than a trillion dollars to church in a little rough hewn church at the mouth of
_$1,117,000.000.000. Next we must arrive at the cost the Klamath River. Sunday afternoon was spent driv
of the physical damage which was done during the long ing home. A vacation at the seashore and also in the
course of the conflict. Factories, power plants, trans mountains. All in the space of two days. It can be done
portation systems and whole industrial regions were here.
razed on a wholesale scale. Both sides concentrated on
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attacking dwelling areas—people who have no place WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?
to live especially in severe weather, are of small value . . . AMERICANS can lose the war with Communism
as workers.
Mr. Grattan arrives at the figure of
$2,234,000,000,000 (over 2 trillion) to cover the cost of if they don’t awaken to the fact that they must begin
selling Americanism. How, you say, can I combat Com
direct destruction.
But this is not all. There is another economic cost, munism? I t’s easy. Keep reminding yourselves, your
which is the most difficult yet to estimate. That cost friends, your acquaintances, your church associates,
is found in the depletion of natural resources, the dis your club members that America has a higher degree
organization of economic systems, the value of labor of culture than any other nation, that Americans have
and material seized and carted off by invaders, and the highest standards of living in the world, that
so on. Mr. Gattan places this cost at $650,000,000,000.
Adding all the costs up, we have a final, incredible fig America leads the peoples of the world morally and
ure of four trillion dollars—$4,000,000,000,000! And spiritually, that Americans own their own businesses,
this, as he says, leaves out the moral cost of war, which that the free enterprise system in America is success
ful and has been proven.
is beyond statistics.
World War II was seven times as destructive as If you do these things you’ll be enlisting in the battle
World War I. If World War III should come with the which .g preaently going on throughout the world. And
atom bomb there is every reason to believe that the
costs would be beyond calculation and civilization
;
wiped out.
1
Here is why the best minds in the world are now
devoted to the task of maintaining the peace.
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BAND SEATING
. . . IT WOULD be mighty fine to fix seats in the
amphitheatre style before the new hand shell. We’re
all for it.
We only hope that the seats don’t extend up the hill
so far that those folks who like to come and sit on a
blanket spread out on the grass have no place to go.
Then there’s the kids to consider, those who dash mad
ly about playing “run, sheep run” while the band con
cert is going on. What will permanent seating do to
ward their games?
Lots of problems arise when this seating is consid
ered seriously. There’s nothing that takes the heart
out of a good bandsman like a bunch of empty seats
at a concert. Let’s hope that no one has any grandiose
ideas and gets too many seats placed before the new
bandstand, cause then they wouldn’t all be full, and
this would break down the morale of many of the play
ers.
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VACATIONS
IT’S EASY to take a vacation in Oregon. We
know some folks who took a trip last year which could
scarcely be duplicated anywhere else in the United
States. Early one Saturday morning our friends arose.
At 4:00 a.m. to be exact. They drove up to Mt. Ashland,
enjoying the sunrise twice while enroute. Then they
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