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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1947)
8 Thur»., Dec. 18. ltM7 WITH DIGNITY AND CONFIDENCE The sole throat to the pdace of the world lies in the deter* Published Every Thursday at oration in relations between the United States ami the Soviet Cottage Grove, Oregon Union. and the inability of these two powers to reconcile their Eitabllshed August 15, 1889 .. . ................. . .............. .......... Editor, Publisher policies. That problem will not be solved by "tough talk”—nor by Subscription rates, cash in advance. No subscription for less than 3 Mrtffltrtr A mm # months. 1 Yr. 6 Mos. In Lane-Douglas Counties ..2.50 1.50 Outside Thia District .3.00 1.75 Foreign Rates on Application. bitered at Cottage Grove. Oregon, as second class matter. 3 Moa. implications that wv can he just ns war like as Russia. And it 100 will not l»c solve«! by building up. among our own people, an almost pathological fear of Russia. 1.50 HOW NOT TO GIT THE HIGHWAYS FIXED , The folks up Row River way have had to endure s«n -e bad highways the last two years, but evidently the stat«« police are not very sympathetic as tn what motorists from up th«« river endure. Some weeks ago a trucker from the Row River Lumber t/Ompany tried to do a good turn anil repair a few of the rougher spots. But unfortunately h«‘ met a member of the stat«« poliro and the state police threw the book at him, assessing a fine for throe or four different counts. The most common complaint against any officer is the failure to use common sense. It appears that the officer who lined this truck driver was no exception It is bad to l>e fined by the state police, it’s doubly so w hen you are trying to do something neither the state nor the count v can or will do. Within theiv limitations, the Soviet leaders are realists They are iinpiTsse«! by de« ds not by nonls. And that is true of all the European countries which sooner or later will have fc make a choice Iwtwwn a totalitarian government ami some form of democratic government. Th«« influence ami prostige of th. United States will grow in direct proportion to what we di rather than what we say. We must, of course, maintain our military strength. W< must also show by demonstration that our system can out produce any other system. We must prove beyond the shadow of a doubt our faith in free enterprise at home before we hop« to "sell" the merits of fro«« enterprise abroad. We must «leal with all powers. Russia included, with dignity ami confidence. That is the only possible roa«l to a peaceful solution of world problems. AN HONEST PRICE One unfortunate phase of the price problem is that everyone seems to be looking for a pat solution, w hich will solve it in one fell aw«mp. The fact is that the problem is simply th«' sum total of in numerable other problems ami forces, some of them of extreme complexity. Eor example, high wages contribute to high prices. Foreign aid contributes to high prices. Government fiscal policy, which is still strongly inflationary, contributes to high price's. Our record national income (increased printed ihoney), which no one wants to redu««e. contributes to high prices. The worst illusion of all is that a return to price control of the OPA type would solve the problem. The government could • set a low price for an article—but it couldn't make anyone pro- duce that artid«« if the price involved an operating loss. Price control would drive goods inexorably into the black market, which would then become the real market. Most dangerous of ' all. price control would I»«« completely impossible unless it in volve«! the strictest kinds of wag«« and other controls—an«) sub-! jecte«l the nation to some kin«l of an economic dictatorship. During the next year, prices may go up or they may come i down. No one knows, and. as the experience of the past year or I two shows, the forecasters are almost invariably wrong. But. in a free economy, where open competition exists all along the commodity line, down to the chain or independent sjore from which you buy your goods, the price will be an honest price. It will be an accurate reflection of present-day costs ami condi tions. And that is all that anyone can expect. To All Our Customers and Employees Coilins Laundry and Cleaners 1019 Eart Main STATE DIX7UNEN CAMP WHITE OFFER Chas Miller. hx'al carpenter and Tht> State Board of Control contractor is more or less of a Monday abandoned plans to tak<< crack for safety, but was caught over Camp Whit«« Hospital near at th«« switch Sunday when a Medford for us«« as a stat«« mental stairway gave way on him anti Itoapital. • gave him a black eye. Where Th«« board's action cam«« after Charley slipped was when he built Attorney General George Neuner a temporary stairway to u storage ruled the board had no authority room over the woodahed sometime to use th«' hospital for that pur* ago He intended to make the pose. an«i the lioard said it must stairway safe when th«« material b«« bound by Neuner's opinion. was available, but did not. When | Th«« federal government had of- th«« stairway gave way Sunday h«« felt'd th«' hospital t«> the state nanagtM to throw a keg of nails to free of coat, provided the state us«> iafety, but went down with the it for educational or health fair- itaimmy. poses for 25 years, and if th«« stat«« We hesitated to ask Miller why agreed .to turn it back to the ‘he black eye until his explana government in th«« event of a tion. national emergency. Phone 44 for Small Appliances for Her Useful Gifts for Him Free Gift Wrapping for Men Give her a new Refrigerator for Christmas Woodson-Wicks Electric Phone 337 Cottage Grove Pharmacy 48 N. 9th 632 Muin l’h 211 rÿ^rv»O»«S t&Jll “Papa, why do they rope off the aisles at a wedding?” “So the groom can’t get away.” Notice To Our Patrons For your convenience and to make the task of shopping easier for you, we, the undersigned merchants, will remain open until 9:00 p.m. on Saturday and Tuesday, December 20 and 23rd. J. C. Penney Co. Petersen’s Brisbane Electric Nichols Radio & Appliance Clark’s Studio Men’s Toggery Smith Electric The Grove Hardware Western Auto Supply Co. Perry’s Dress Shop Arnest’s Dress Shop Woodson Wicks Electric Knickerbocker’s 5c to $1.00 Cottage Grove Radio Shop Coast to Coast Store Edwards Outdoor Store ^easier * Christmas TOYS BUSINESS WONDERS Maybe business should take to its storm cellars. The eeon-1 omists of the Department of Commerce have just comg out with | an optimistic prediction for 1948. Boom conditions will continue 1 in almost every American industry, is the prediction. This is the same department—though probably not the same men—who. in 1945. predicted there would be six million to eight million job- less by the middle of 1946. The memory of that prediction is likely to haunt the Commerce department for a long time to come. So business ean be excused today if it wonders what now inspires such an optimistic attitude by a source that, in the past, has used economic predictions for its own purposes. Anyhow, the department now expects a sustained demand thru the year for steel. It sees some help in the steel situation from ; the new facilities being brought into production. The automobile industry, it believes, will turn out five million cars any one million trucks. And just to top off the optimum of optimism, it thinks butter will be more plentiful. Letters to the Editor I UNSAFE STAIRWAY BACKFIRES To the Editor: I enjoyed reading the letter byj Mrs. Ray Weldon in last week's Sentinel regarding the Guy Smith ■ case, and I was pleased to know that there is at least one person' in this community who has the! courage to come out and say what1 he thinks when he knows he is in the right. I most heartily agree with her. Cottage Grove would be a better | town if there were more people in | it like Guy Smith, and it would । not be necessary then to import outsiders to run the town. If a sample of their work is the dis missal of Guy Smith then Cot tage Grove would be much better off without this type of city gov ernment. Anyone who knew Guy Smith personally knew he was "a man, among men." and that a great in justice has been done the man as, well as the town. I surely hope the city council can sleep well with a clear conscience under the belief of “a deed well done.” Clayton Simons Black Butte Route. LATHAM ELECTRIC Black Butte Route GREYHOUND Wish 2 was built for smooth HUSTED HONORED E. R Husted, local manager for Shell Oil Company, Incorporated was among those honored at a dinner at the Multnomah hotel in Portland, Oregon last night com memorating his completion of 14 years of service with the company. ! A total of 270 employees of the company's Portland Division, all of whom have more than ten years of service, attended the din- ' ner, according to G. V. Birkin , shaw, division manager. For Christmas Phone 702 travel like You | Yes, Greyhound travel is s-m-o-o-t-h... as smooth as the streamlined dog that to people everywhere is the symbol of the finest in bus transportation. Today, hundreds of new "Silversides” Super Coaches are in service... many more are being added to our fleet to bring you even greater comfort, convenience and dependability... at lower cost than any other way to travel. T^ere /Ire /Vo lower fores./ ’ —I I" - ? 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