The Nentlncl, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Cottage ©rovo Jimtiwl
Thur»., April I, IH48 !
Published Every Thursday at
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Established August 15, 1889
—___________Editor, Publisher
Letters to the Editor
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES
Po the Editor:
To me Walter Winchell’s insult­
ing addresses to P h '. lor Stalin,
». C. MARTIN
his childish, egotistical lectures to
Subscription rates, caah in advance. No subscription for less than 3 President Truman, and all the rest
months.
1 Yr.
Mos. 3 Mos of his hysterical w ,n-mongoring
should be barred irum the air For
In Lane-Douglas Counties
..2 50
1.50
1.00 any American citizen io Confim
Outside Thia District _____
.3.00
1.50 ually insult and lahibrtst the ruler
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of another country during peace
Foreign Rates on Application.
is inexcusably vulgar and stupid,
but during such an extreme in­
Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter.
ternational crisis as we are now
undergoing, this babbling becomes
IALEDITORIAL— dynamite in the hands of the ir­
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responsible. and should be treated
^ASSOCIATION as
such. The measure of Walter
LIS
Winchell as millions of us see him
is given in tho Feb. 28 issue of
Collier's. A I I Americans should
read and ponder the splendid edi­
A LONG WAY TO GO YET
torial in tho April 3rd Collier’s It
As a matter of reconi most of the old timers know that in hits thj; nail on the head. We
the course of the past fifty years a good many publications have Americans do a lot of talking
b«‘en started in Cottage tlrove to be absorbed by the Sentinel, about "teaching the rest of the
are nut relating the past history of the newspapers started world democracy.’ but for the
here or those of the surrounding country in a boastful wav be- past three years, or at least until
rsfee we had nothing to do with it. having appeared at a latet very recently, we have sacrificed
<lat<“. But in the moving operations the past week we had mea. everything to our own political
Paul DeVaux
sion to handle and glance at the old files of the Western Oregon, game. If dui ing the next few
we fail to see and prove
the Bohemia Nugget, the Cottage Grove Leader and the months
to ourselves and to the world that
Ever since President Truman's
Sentinel. The problems then arc much the same as tiow despite there
arc other things more im­ speech to the Congress when he
the fact that the past fifty years have been the most marvelous portant than whether we elect a asked for enactinepi of U.M.T.
opes in making the United States strong and unified and tht republican or a democrat to be and re-establishmenCof the draft.
world a one world.
President of the United States, Americans have been formulating
Except for the fact that we no longer tote pistols for our then we can't complaih if other their opinions and taking a stand
protection as men of the old west did. we quarrel and bicker nations turn Uwir backs on our for or against it. To form an un-
about as much as we ever did. In this respect we have made little hypocritical “democracy" and em­ biased opinion we must review
events from V. J. day to the no-
or no progress and the world outlook for peace at the present brace commumsw
Mrs. Ethel Gabrio.
torious actions in Czechoslovakia
time la about as dark as it could lie. They say good government
and Palestine. When reviewed
starts at home and the same logic should apply to world peace.
Cottage Grove with honesty we may find many
It would be a splendid idea for a start here for instance ami in
March 27, 1948 mistakes and evasions that can
this connection we might add that we have been invited to Editor Sentinel,
be traced to our own complacency,
participate in what might be terminated into nasty sectional Sir: A recent editorial in the general disinterest and perhaps
scraps We could see no point involved where we might perform Sentinel quotes Senators Ball and over-optimism in the influence of
a real community service by entering into some of these scraps. Bridges as stating that federal ein- the UN. But now that we have
rather we have felt that there might be some mudslinging at the ployees have too short a work left events drift to a dangerous
bottom and that we might come out a bit muddy, which would week, too much vacation on pay. tow. we like to place the complete
blame on someone else and Russia
not do ns any good. We do not flatter ourselves when we sav we 110° liberal a rick lenie.
is a sea pegoat because her leaders
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Surely
a
member
of
congress
might have been instrumental in starting a little civil war.
should be the last one to talk have been stubborn, uncooper­
Again we might lie reminded of the latter part of Roman about
featherbedding on ative, and just plain insolent on
history, which parallels the downfall of some other civilizations the part alleged
of anyone els^'on the fed­ many occasions. However even
in that the -national leaders could not agree and the Roman eral payroll! Without, looking up considering the gross insults
•ivilization fell apart as result. We have thought perhaps this any statistics on the Subject it thrown on us by the leaders of So­
hit of ancient history parallels our own locality in many re- would be safe to say that rela­ viet Russia and the possibility
tpects. Yet our locality has grown in spite of this.
tively few people enjoy more ad­ that these leaders may be seeking
If we were to attempt to give a remedy for a condition vantages. privileges, and immun­ world domination, can we, after
if this sort, we would say that the first panacea we need to ities than they.. But apparently careful reasoning, bring ourselves
believe that we have come to
ipply would be toward developing more community pride. Show these two gentlemen think only a to point
history where we can­
is any community that is rapidly going ahead and we will show people in their class deserve a not solve in our
misunderstandings
good thing.
a citizenship with lots of homo town pride. Since coming If government workers have with the world and the Russian
i«re .we have heard at least ten times as much destructive crit­ any advantages it *s due largely to jieople without war?
icism as constructive criticism.
the efforts of their organizations.
Is it possible that our nation
We need to develop a personality the same as an individual Until they were organized, some that boasts of genius to develop
and not be a suburb of Eugene or any other community. Four government workers, especially the atom bomb, genius to evolve a
—is&e thousand people in a city and an equal number close hospital attendants, worked long system of mass production of gar-
iround it can be a thriving community, dependent on no one hours, for scandalously low pay. as gantuous potential, genius in in­
numerable fields has come again
To do this we will have to change our method of thinking over recently as 1939.
But while enemies of organized to the stone wall of war in less
hat of fifty years ago.
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labor like Ball would deprive gov­ than three years because our dip­
ernment workers and all other lomatic vision lacks the determin­
NO PLACE FOR EDDIE
workers, for that matter, of a ation and progressiveness that ev­
The Evening Banner, of Greenville. Texas, recently told, in proper method of bettering condi­ ery other part of our system
holds?
an editorial, the sad story of Eddie, an inefficient anil discour­ tions. by legislation like the Taft-
Hartley Act, congressmen can
It seems incredible that even the
teous clerk in a store. One day a customer noticed that Eddie vote
better seats and bungling of the past three years
wasn’t present and asked about him. “He’s just not working more themselves
elbow room at the pie I could drive us to place our civilian
here any more,” the proprietor said. "Got anybody in mind counter.
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I faith in the military that observes
for the vacancy!” the customer responded. "Nope,” said the
L ma d I eLong. everything from a military view*
proprietor. "Eddie didn’t leave no vacancy.”
point and apparently inspires our
As the Raimer added. "There’s no place for the Eddies
State Department to act as
because the days of competition have returned and customers
: though each gesture w-as from a
want to be waited upon .... they want to me clerks take an
! mistrusting suspicious people to­
interest in their requests, give them courteous, attentive service A thermostatically controlled ward a belligerent world.
and try to make them feel at home. That’s just human nature.” radiator fan which operates only Now the military is necessary
During the war. many a store had to employ poor and dis­ when needed and at speeds re­ and should be held at a respected
interested help, liecause nothing better could be had. But we’re quired for efficient Cooling has strength, but it should also as­
been developed by Ford Motor sume a role in proportion to its
getting back to normal now, and we’re seeing again that retail­ Company
constitutional limitations and be !
engineers.
ing is a career, that it calls for very special talents and mental Known as
the Dynamatic Radia­ responsive to the will of the peo-
attitudes and capabilities, and that it isn’t a job' that anyone tor Fan, the assembly provides the I pie who are the true governors of
can do. Many of the larger stores carry on highly developed engine with exactly the right the land.
training programs for their employes, and these are of service to amount of cooling air regardless It is difficult to believe that the
small stores as well, by raising the standards of retail service of load and temperature con­ American people are ready to
in general.
ditions. The ^peed of the fan is throw down the peace, so bitterly
The customer is entitled to interested nhd intelligent ser­ controlled by a thermostat as- won, or sacrifice their liberty and .
vice, whether Tie’s after a bound of hamburger or a complete sernbly installed in the radiator youth to an ever growing military
spring outfit, and retailing is giving it to him. That small per­ hose which vafe s the voltage on that undisputediy could usurp our
the dynamatic drive directly in ac­ democracy and turn it into a fear
centage of stores which takes no interest in this basic form of cordance
with the temperature of ridden dictatorship while forever
public relations won’t be in business long. And, like Eddie, the cooling
water and cooling re­ telling us of the horrors of com­
they’ll leave no vacancy.
munism. Military men of numer­
quirements of the engine.
Thus the fan runs only when ous times have advocated pre­
(•_E m -J a land because of abnormally large
movement and shortage of person- cooling is needed and then only at paredness as the prevention of
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| nel the department was unable to the speed required to do the war, but history tells us that it ,
proper amount of cooling. This re­ didn’t prevent, but only held it j
| check ail of these.
Department officials point out sults in increased gasoline mile­ up til] other nations felt they
that throughout the state live­ age, reduction of fan noise, faster were strong enough to overpower !
In a move to place the state in stock growers are increasingly warm-up, improved acceleration the pacesetter. Do we want to be J
a more favorable position to com­ conscious of the need to check on and greater power and flexibility the pacesetter, or are there alter-I
natives we have overlooked?
bat any possible outbreak of live- health of stock entering the state °f the engine.
In cold weather the fan seldom
stock disease, the state emergen- and for that reason feel that any
cy board, meeting In Salem March appearance of serious infection turns on. This means that warm- heat more quickly. The engine also
26, granted the request of live-, will be brought to light quickly, UP °f the engine is not retarded is heated more evenly, since the
stock growers and the state de- thus making it possible to put con- by cold air blasting through the fan is not forcing cold air on the
partment of agriculture for funds trol measures immediately into engine compartment, fuel is saved front of the block, causing it to
and the hot water heater supplies run colder than the rear portion.
to place three additional veterin­ effect at the focal point.
arians in the field.
They strongly caution all live-
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The emergency funds will be stock growers to question any un-
.’ -h is found in
used to bring the veterinary staff usual condition
to a more nearly adequate level livestock impor.
from other
to meet the load of work devolving states. The arrival of so many
upon it as a result of the currently animals presents a problem not j
extensive livestock movement in­ only in the possible appearance of
Remhder Hut strait forces are needed to
to Oregon, Director E. L. Peterson the dread foot and mouth disease,
states. He emphasized that foot but also in outbreaks of other in­
and mouth disease is not now fectious diseases not now present
Mak• America a power for lasting peace.
present in Oregon or in any other in Oregon or isolated to a small
state so far as is known, but says area.
the situation in Mexico makes it
Livestock leaders report that
increasingly apparent that the I the state police will assist in the
state must be in the strongest po-1 emergency by checking and re­
sition possible in event it should porting to t h e department all
appear.
j trucks bringing livestock into
In respect to cattle importations । Oregon.
Displaymg your American flag,
from other states, and especially . if lulls occur in the cattle in­
drouth areas, M. E. Knickerbock- Aspection activity during this emer-
er, chief of the division of animal Igency, the department hopes to
Attentag Army Day events and giving
husbandry, and Dr. Chas. F. utilize the additional veterinary
Haynes, state veterinarian, point force for bovine tuberculosis in-
out that even with increased per- spectionx in eastern Oregon,
Yer support to our men iu uniform.
sonnel it will be impossible to where several counties need to be
check every head of cattle enter- reaccredited, as the T. B accred-
ing the state, but it will be pos- itation standing automatically
siblc to concentrate on any point runs out at the end of three yeats
A STRONG AMERICA IS A PEACEFUL AMERICA
at which infection of any con- and in other livestock disease con­
tagious nature shows up to pro- trol activities.
VISIT ARMY DAY EXHIBITS ON APRIL 6
tert other livestock of the state
All private veterinarians in the
Officials point out that the total state have been alerted to the
known importations of cattle since possibilities of a foot and mouth
Space contributed aa a public service by:
January 1 of this year are 12,200 outbreak as well as appearance of
i—a of
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oim met
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head,
which 3,400
full 1 other diseases in the present situ-
health requirements; 8,300 did not ation, and they are cooperating
meet
full health requirements.
An with the department in the
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indefinite number entered without prompt reporting of any unusual
health certification of any kind conditions found in their practice.
24 N. 9th
Phone 19
Once Over Lightly
Controlled Fan
Ford Equipment
LlIICrECnCy rUHUS
Granted to State
William's Motors
World Newsprint
Shortage Slows
Information Flow
New York A woi Id w ide short­
age of newsprint, coupled with a
'markail inequality in its distri-
butionc is slowing down the flow
01 Vital mtmnialKm to Inillloiw of
newspaper readers. a rejxjrt pro-
pared by the United Natkin* staff
here indicates.
Ube widespread fuck of news
print, tho rather iw«N, inex|>cn-
sive paper on Which almost all
daily airtl weekly newspa|H'rs are
printed, shows up in everyday HP'
in most of Europe and the Far
East every time a reader buys a
paper. Often his journal will eon-
sisl of only two pages and rarely
nano than four not enough for
complete yrporta on today's cian-
plex news
Behind the shortage of news­
print. the report shows, is a grout
slump in production in all major
producing countries except Canada
and the Ihdted States Taken to­
gether. the countries which pro­
duced 90 j»er cent of the world's
.newsprint in 19.17 now are making
15 per cent less.
LAKE SUCCESS. New York
However, th** report points out.
Forty-five student-specialists in
world affairs will go to college Canada's production is 10 per Cent
by going to work this summer greater than it was in 1937. thus
here at Unite <1 Nations head­ providing North American users
with a relatively large supply
quarters.
To lie selected from universities Other lm|x>rtnnt producers, such
throughout the 57 United Nations, as the Scandinavian countries and
the studant "internes" will take Germany, meanwhile, are turning
over for eight weeks full-time out only fractions of their prewar
U N. staff jobs to supplement their supplies.
The report declares that three
studies with actual experience.
major
factors underlie the slump
In addition to learning by doing,
in production: wartime destruc­
the internes will dig into major tion of plants and of forest re­
U.N. problems during lectures, sources; shortage of foreign ex­
seminars ami discussion groups, change, making it impossible for
organized by the U N. Training
manufacturing countries to import
Division.
necessary pulpwood; and conver-
Training officials point out that gioii of machinery to pnxluction of
the interne program has been' rfidtc profitable types of paper,
working at U N. but has never and diversion of timber from man­
been tried here on an Interna­ ufacture of paper pulp to other
tional basis, line group of 25 stu­ uses.
dents and another of 35. all select­
ed from colleges in the United IM«» ROAD TO BE VACATED
States, have already furnished the
A county road surveyed and
experimental groundwork for the dedicated in 1869 and now com­
world program.
pletely overgrown, will lie vacated
The new international program s<»n, if a group of ranchers west
is being financed by voluntary of Creswell have their way.
contributions from the Rotary In­
They have petitioned the Lane '
ternational and the Carnegib En­ county court for such action re- I
dowment for International Peace. gnrding the old stage coach route '
Expenses are estimated at $300 so that they may fence across it nl
for each student.
several jioints The ranchers' petl-'
The students will be housed in tion has l>een supported with a
a dormitory to be turned over to . statement from County Engineer
the United Nations by nearby P. M. Morse that the trail has
Adelphi College for use during the been virtually forgrotten for 30
summer as an International center years or more.
for U.N. internes.
A public hearing on the matter
is scheduled by the county court
for May 5.
New Fiber fram Milk
Aralac is a milk fiber for blend­
The U.S. Air Force conducts
ing with other fibers to make cloth­
ing, blankets and interlinings.
three great classes a year in Avi­
Sales books — The Sentinel.
ation Cadet Pilot Training.
U. N. to Become
‘College’ for Group
Of 45 ‘Internes’
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Large Shi '.nent
of
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automatic roasters
Plenty of "hot meat” dnya left.
Buy yours now.
Only
$10 00 down and $5 00 per month.
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Cottage Grove, Ore.
Ph. 3D1
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