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Thum.. Jan. ÎÎ, 194«
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RUNAWAY
Modern N«-M»n'» Land
I nde Sam Sins
IN ACT ION
WirHOUT OUW SUPFORT IT FSIL«
.
Roth Die United Stat»» and Brit
aln claim Christmas island. ijno
miles »outh ot Hawaii It i> the
largest atoll in the Pacific, with ।
tm.oon acres, and is valuable as an
air base. British, on one end of the j
Island, and American soldiers, on
the other end, each sunrise raise the
Hags of their countries. Thia will
continue until ownership of the is
land has been determined by the
two nations.
Unknown Heroes
The United states army reports
that there are now It,CW unknown
dcud from World War II. The navy,
which lost about M to 00 per cent of
its total combat dead at sea, has not
been able to ascertain the number
of its unknown dead The "Unknown
Soldier of World War 11" will be
brought home from overseas late
in I84H to lie in honor in Arlington
national cemetery alongside the
"Unknown Soldier of World War I."
NATIONAL € DITO RIAL-
With only three weeks of the
MMO
ASSOCIATION new year gone by, the United
Nations is already going full speed
ahead on new programs.
Of all its new work, the U.N.’s
PERFORMANCE COUNTS
»„nr
“d,,re?s 0,1 ,he Enropean aid problem. Senator recently established "Little As-
J”’UP‘‘*0)8 Sf,ld: “! a’« convince»!, and th»» record bears sembly” has. perhaps, the most
important political implications.
tie out, that a frre economy will always prmluee ami provi»1e Set
up by the General Assembly
a higher standard of living for all the people than either a social- to deal with political and security
Row would von like Io write *
istic or goc rnment-planned and controlled wonemv. I believe questions not before the Security
j cheek tor Ft.4M.IM to yourself dated
that when economic freedoms an» liquidated, the other freedoms Council, the Interim Committee,
It's proper mid customary to show your appreciation
। New Year’s Day ISM? You can do
y;a,,d the socia,is,s hav<‘ ”l«ays had too mueh in as it is officiaiy. known, also will
exactly that fas signing your name
for hospitality with a floral gift.
study the "veto" powers of the
any time in January to an authorisa
common with the communists for my taste.”
tion form at >our bank whl«h will
i; »V
vcrP ¿i,,|c difference to a nation what label a Permanent Members of the Secur
permit them to take SIS.75 a month
dictatorship wears. The results are alwavs the same Th»» state ity Council The "Little Assembly"
from the fund* you have on depoait
dommates every phase of life within its borders. It buries everv is now mapping its rules of pro
and buy one SU Havings Bond for
you every month for the next I*
undertaking beneath a thick web of red tap», ami restrictive <»on- cedure and a plan of work for
the year.
’ years. The Payroll ScGnsa Plan—
trols. it destroys the initiative and enterprise of individuals
1704 West Main
which
Is th»- partial payment way Io
In Korea, a country divided be
and groups alike It stirs up discontent by making promises that tween United States and Soviet
buy SavingB Bund* where you work
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—Is equally powerful In producing a
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fulfilled. And. in the long run. it abrogates Union occupation forces, another
sir
able
nesiegg
out
ot
regular
aav«
“
an,d n‘Ore of th« ««Gon’s liberties in order to keep the new U.N. body is just beginning
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ruling class m power.
a pioneering task. The “Contmis-
•
j” *n»USt
kept in mi,ld by
American government slon
s”” on
° Korea", now organizing
-
its
,
Mace of the Government
in the development of our policy toward Europe We with oniv "ork’ "iH ,urn i,s attention to-
The mace is the only visible sym
a fraction of the world’s population, cannot indefinitely sunnort "ard set,'ng up frw e|erti°ns ami
bol of government authority in the
the world without ruining ourselves. Many seem to haw forgot
pinR ’° orKanAze un independent
United State*. It is an Institution,
ten that an essential of the .Marshall Plan in the beginning was^^^
no tax at all until his income rose । presidents, gave Congress a ticket borrowed from the British parlia
In
the
Balkans,
where
actual
that Europe must do all in her power to help herself. But so
above $3000.
for U. S. security and world re- ment and goes back U> the "fasces" :
tar Europe has done very little to lift herself out of th.. .Ld fighting is reported by the Greek
In
spite
of
propaganda
state-
construction
in his speech to the of Republican Rome the bundle of
drums As »in „»>, 1 »!» •
, ,he
i fa,,ure
,
In of
’
*' government
in its the
attempts
to stop
and an ax which was er ri led |
SE
r Ba!1
Seurilla attacks,
U N. Balkan
ments to the contrary, ’he 30 per Senate foreign relations commit- rods
British socialized eoal m.iustry to produce enough to make pos-; Commission is on the scene where cent reduction we passed and lee Monday His forty minute dis- by the Uctora who attended each
Roman magistrate as he held court I
««« resumption of exports to Western Europe. This has made it ’he battle is the thickest. The which was vetoed by the Presi- course, full of common sense and and
administered justice From this 1
necessary to devote much of Europe’s broken-down railroad.Commission has sent its oteervers dent is as good or a better relief ' based on practical methods, rolled very practical Instrument- the rods \
income
congressmen
’
s
backs
like
water
system to the job of moving coal from the Ruhr—a fact which is 1,0 ’^e se<?ne of the action for first for the small and medium
for administering whippings and the
at the heart of the European economic problem. .Mr Ball sug- hand reports, which will be con taxpayers than the forty dollars '»If » duck’s back. His plea for ax for beheeding--thc "fasces" de- 1
"nation before party” policy, was veloped and evolved into a symbol, i
gests that, as a condition of continued aid we insist that Britain
and ac,ed on 'n ,hc Com' for everybody plan.
not the tune that men of politics known as the mace. Thl» »ymbol i
supply a million tons of c.ial a month to European parts and miS!"On'S Salonika Headquarters,
want to hear in election year His was adopted by the house of repre- I
One
short
paragraph
in
the
thus alleviate the unbearable strain on the land transportation
7110 Sccuri,y Council has an
belief
that Americans want pence sentatives. April 14. 178» There is
President
’
s
message
seems
worthy
machine.
1
important new case before it. The
more than tax reductions and full no mace in the senate.
Lastly it is nn to n« in ah«,,
i
i . l
. recently-established Government of special note in view of what it production
prosperity mor»» than
free enterprise IvJem has
Europe, by example, that the of Indla has remaned that its seems to imply. He said: ”1 trust
neonb nf F
nor nor an ecniaL The ¡equally new neighbor. Pakistan, ’ha’ within the shortest ponlble boom-bust cycles seems reason
Typewriter covers for sale.
P 01 fcuroP* must realize, m the face of totalitarian propa- has aided an armed invasion of ’ime the Congress will make avail- able. "A two year peace produc
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tion drive in this country — to
ganda. that our system is the only one which is capable of Kashmir, in Indian territory. The
Try n Sentinel Wantad
TO THE GOVERNMENT work
for peace as we worked for
bringing a nation both material abundance and spiritual power Cquncil has heard arguments of, *’he emphasis is minei the weap-
war"
does
not sound unreasonable
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both
Indian
and
Pakistan
repre-
ons
’
^at
are
so
desperately
needed
and freedom. W e can best defeat communism by outperform
either .
ing it.
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sentatives.
|*n ’he fight against inflation.”
Does that mean that he and (
MAYBE WE NEED A NEW METHOD
look upon the Congress as a part
Recently we noted a sensible article jn a publication of the
of our government ? How far have LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
You riak your life painting her darned old wall
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i onng Republican Club on the selection of our public office
we traveled away from our true
and look what happens. It 's sad all right. But it
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OCT
holders. There is no doubt that we could improve in the manner i
representative form of govern
reaches tragic heights when doctor bills pile up
We had a good deal too much ; If you want quick service
of selecting public officers from the precinct to the president, j By Harris Ellsworth, Rep. in
ment since 1932?
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and
pay day goes by without a check Be prepared
Congress
from
Oregon
!
type
to
set
this
week
and
had
to
Too often we cast our vote for a candidate because we want a
for
every emergency with one of our accident
1 leave "Letters to the Editor" un
favor or have too little interes4 to even vote. Sometime ago
policies.
til
next
week.
We
hop»»
that
a
con
The
early
days
of
this
second
there was a poll made of a group of mothers on what profession
dition such as this will not happen
each mother would like to see her son follow. Not one chose a session of the 80th Congress have
Once
Over
Lightly
again.
*
been
uneventful.
Hearings
have
political career for her son. which to us indicated the public
Charles S.
Insurance Agency
been
started
on
the
Marshall
Plan
XhXrtioS
And yet at(bills. The Appropriations Commit-
Paul DeVaux
Gclting Second Wind
It
pays
to
insure
in sure Insurance
Second wind, common with »th- I
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tee is at work on several regular
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Those
of
us
who
would
like
to
the world
s
biggest
business.
the
operation
of
our
government
letes,
comes
from
a
latent
storage
i
u iu legist ousmess, tne
government, appropriation bills—some of the
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The popular conception of the successful politician is that he minor ones may be reported to ru,-,™.,. .
¡» hard tn of energy, common in all people,
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Main
St.,
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Giove,
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must be a good promiserand promise if need be the moon, deal ’hp House shoitly. Other major | ih
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’ * exhit,ifed scientists now claim.
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controversial
bills
including
mili-
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of
edher
party,
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in generalities and hedge on the hot issues. Few if any employes
oi private business are chosen on the same basis as the average tary training and tax reduction- more disturbing is the fact that Loose Leaf Forms -The Sentinel
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1 hear a a lot . about _ what
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candidate.
In the year
1948, we expect to
brouKht to ’he FIoor at if we don’t stick to one of the
certain candidates are going to do. how they are going to aid any time’
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two there
might —
be , possibilities
certain classes by spending a lot of government funds and in • •^lth0.u®b cacb ’erm °f Congees- for sucb neo-communistic radicals
is divided into two regular ses- as Mr. Wallace and his Peace and
the same breath tell us that taxes will be reduced.
With a few exceptions all political activities are essentially sions, the break between the ses Prosperity third party. Intelligent
sions does not alter progress of
selfish.
e vote for two or three out of a slate of probably previously introduced legislation. American voters should never have '
been forced into this sort of pos-
thirty Or forty because we have been promised something or I>i other words, the progress of a ■ ition.
In a time when we need a >
hope to profit by the election of certain individuals. Usually we bil. introduced early last year con । firm stable administration with i
don’t know and care less about the remaining candidates. If we tinues just as if no break between men of great integrity we find our-
make a bad guess, it can’t be corrected under two to four years. sessions had occurred.
: selves being bombarded with prop-
A term of Congress runs for i aganda from all sorts of individu
Such policies would break the average business man in a few
years, but in government mistakes can be covered up and the two years. All of the members of als and groups surrounding them,
the House of Representatives and ballahoing their personal activities
tax rate hiked.
In view of this condition it should not be hard to under one-third of the members of the and indulging in personal invest
are elected in November of igations of their opponants.
stand why we can’t have a continuation of prosperous times, Senate
each even-numbered year—1944,
To open minded voters of the
world peace and a sincere effort to further stable conditions for 1946, 1948, etc. After each general West
Mr. Taft’s plans for cutting
world peace. Our system of government is the best that’s been election, a new term of Congress the income taxes and cutting gov
devised, but that doesn’t mean that it could not be improved on. begins. No legislation carries over ernment spending to such an ex
The fact that this is election year in the United Stars will be from one Congress to another. All tent that it would be certain to I
taken advantage of by Russia for Russia knows that we are too legislation previously pending curtail projects that are vital to
busy with election to keep her from grabbing more of the for must be re-introduced if Con- the expanding west, do not and
jgressional action is still sought. cannot set well. We find also that
bidden territory.
The present term of Congress is the republican plan to curb infla
PUSH BUTTON WAR
designated as the 80th Congress. tion is not strong enough without
some sort of price control. Both
With a favorable report from the house military affairs 81st Congress*^wifl convene r’
parties have picked up the slogan
committee, a vigorous effort will be made to enact a bill for
that price controls are police state
universal military training this year. It will not pass. It may not , Although I have made no for- tactics ™
wncre does that
,nal leave us
so where
even get to a vote. This is election year, and this is a hot potato i1™11 announcement of the fact, it with prices still soaring?
for _ meinbers
seeking
"7"'
-
_ reelection.
. seems to be taken for granted
..
- in i On the other hand the President
Most of the army brass endorses universal training and the Ty rtistrict that I will be a candi-; in his speech to Congress, opening
president has recommended it. The arguments for it are not aatc ^or rc*elec’'on—and ’hat is the door to reelection, in the State
convincing. All the talk is about a push-button war The day
hOpc 1 may havp
’he Nation address, sounded
of mass armies fighting as at Gettysburg u past. Specialization l
ry** 5°n" iyuch
the o,d New 0681 ,tae
is the demand for armies of today and tomorrow. A six-months | n^XmariCrin the^^
tW°
'
tremes the man in the street must j
course m training camp would be of value in teaching the funda-। gress. My formal filing will be f(nd a man to speak for him. Time .
mentals of army discipline, but that is about all. The supplemen- sent to the Secretary of State in is growing short and the world '
tai six months in national guard or reserve would be of only ’he near future,
awaits our decision ... on prob-
sketchy value.
The two year term served by lems that need immediate answers
Universal military training is too much on the order of Congressmen is a short time. In . . . . while party leaders while
preparing for World War III.—Oregon Statesman.
/Tegon, we have only fifteen away the hours making footballs
, months between the general elec- out of every issue. Nero fiddled
FINDING THE FARMERS
I ”on and ,hp Ume for
in ,he while Rome burrtbd too.
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(next primary election. The short-
Senator Wayne Morse seems to ;
ff you have ever tried to find someone living m surrounding ness of the term of Housc mem- me to be on the right track to the
communities, had a general idea of where the person lived andlbers (as compared with the six answer of one of these questions.
still could not locate him you can appreciate the need for a'ypar term for Senators) has its
The republican liberal, who has
better bystem in locating some farmer or rancher. Chas. Palmer disadvantages, especially to the vot»d time and again for What he j
<»f Thornton Corners tells of an instance where a stranger jmernbers’ but it gives
the ,.—
people
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,—.« believes right despite the party I
looking for one of his neighbors went east to Disston 22 miles, la” opportunity to completely policies, said, "I would rather go j
1(4*s/l fighting
Isrvtxfinrv for;
1
the Housc o{ Representa-1 out of office in i 1950
He thinks if the rural people would number their mail boxes
i tr a fl particular
rf
r no»»»
,.,..,i. much
.......i. j 1 '‘s every ’wo years which , my convictions on the floor of the
the taák of finding
person would 1..
be made
means a Congress more respon- ;Senate
intcl-
ijdie than
irifiii to
tu engage in ’ the
nc mu
’i-
casicr. It is being done in other parts of the state.
i sive to current thinking.
; Jectual dishonesty of a do nothing
We would also suggest that the names and numbers be
'policy that will lead to runaway
printed or painted on the mail boxes in type large enough to be
inrl'ilir»n l./.zrM
Except for his proposal for tax inflation,
boom, L.ioi
bust, depression
seen at a distance.
. reduction, the ‘State of the Union’ and war.” If we as voters with our '
I speech made by * - President
mind set QIA/Ul
about to
—.... Tru-
• - va convictions in min»«
llj i I
The American farmer represents only 2% per
U.
; man to the opening of this session letting our representatives know j
cent
of the world’s farmers, yet he produces approxb
■ was quite similar to his other re-j what kind of leadership we want (
5Ne arc better fed. better clothed, and have more
mutely 20 per cent of the world’s food supply.
J I cent messages to Congress. The
The ( , and where we stand on the vital
vì I r I
automobiles, refrigerators, telephones, and radios
"Forty dollars for everybody" re issues .they must, give us thin a
per capita than any other country.
duction he proposed may have its choice of men to carry out cur
Steel production also is an accurate measure of
advantages as political thunder, convictions. We still have Mme to
Why
?
One
reason
is
the
efficiency
of
the
American
living
standards. America, with only 7 per cent of
but is not taken very seriously be heard if we act immediately
farmer. In countries where farm production is low,
। here on the Hili. Under the Presl- and definitely. The party leaders
the world’s population, produces 50 per cent of th«
Automobile - Truck - Fire
( dent s plan, single taxpayers earn seem to forget the voter in the
the standard of living is low.
world’s steel.
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Standard Non-Assessable Policies
ing between $1200 and $2000 per mad scramble to place this fa >r-
| year would pay a much higher tax ite or that one on the ballot after
Special Low Farm Rate
than they would have paid under all the men elected arc s j po od
the
30 per cent reduction provided to be public servants ... A c we
Claude Arne, Agent
I in the bill which the President the public?
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vetoed. On the other hand, under
350 Fifth Avenue. New York L N. Y.
the Truman plan ,the head of an
Bernard Baruch, elder states
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average family of four would pay man and past advisor to many
Say Thanks W'ith
y/Olvers
Sunnyside Greenhouses
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Letters to the Editor PLUMBING
J. P. Walker
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Shame On You! A Grown Man
Deliberately Scaring A Baby!
Hall
a
Where Do People Live the Best?
Russia?
* England?
United States?
The answer:
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