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The Sentinel, Cotta*« Grove, Oregon Thun»., Aug. 26, 1!M8 Published Every Thursday at Cottage Drove, Oregon Established August 15, 1889 W. C. MARTIN ...... ............... Editor, Publisher Subscription raji*«, cash in advance. No subscription for less than three months. 6 Mos. 3 Mos. 1 Yr. In Lane ami Dougins Counties .2.50 1.50 Outside This District..... ........ 3.C0 1.50 Foreign Rates on Application. Entcred at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. THOUGHTLETS DOG DAYSI By Earl B, Balch The Bureau of Labor statistics has given out that the amount of cigarettes smoked in the United States last year was equal to 121 cigarettes for every man. woman and child in this country- 1 wonder who smoked my share. Here is one act of the State Department that has raised no NATIONALiOlTOWAL- ' voice of protest in this country, refusal of the federal govern- •itdoOiuisQrtt mao ASSOCIATION i ! The ment to release two Russian I school teachers to the Russian consulate has apparently met with the approval of the people of the THE $64 RUSSIAN QUESTION nation of all political slants. Just how great is the Soviet Union’s imhistial ami war po tential f That is the $64 question which has been bruited about The President of the United furiously during the past year or two. It is. of course, impossible States has seen fit to call the to atiswer it completely or with unquestioned accuracy—the Congivsskmal hearings, now going Russian security system has its leaks, but it is fairly efficient. on. "red herrings." This statement A good deal of pertinent information has become available for is open to debate. Whether or not these hearings are for political thus«' who know how to add it up. purposes. I do not know. It should Lifo magazine recently devoted 10 pages to “A Report on not be so. It seems to this humble Russia’s Strength.’’ It appears to l»e about the moot complete columnist that the information survey of the subject yet made available for publie consumption. about communism within the gov Ami it gives an interesting insight into the resources of the East ernment is above all political con siderations. as compared with those of the West. First of all Russia has the world’s largest standing army, If the Christian church had no numliering about 3.000,(XX) officers ami men. It has a huge air value there would be no hypo tyce. with 14.000 planes in commission. It is rapidly building crites. a submarine fleet of highly advanced design. And. so far as Did you ever go into a store and anyone can sec, its industrial expansion is keeping up with the ambitious objectives laid down in the current Five Year Plan. exclaim: "Oh, what lovely toma toes!” and later discover they As Life says. “These military and industrial prospectives were not so lovely. Some people sound impressive, but they are subject to tremendous qualifica are like that — only lovely to look tion, particularly in the relation of quantity to quality.’’ First of at. all. the Russian army is pretty largely on a garrison basis, ami is Many of us find that much of not prepared for an immediate major offensive. More important, in the long pull, is the apparent fact that most of the 14.000 value escapes us because we give cbm bat aircraft are left over from the war. and are obsolete it too little attention. by modern standards. An exception to this is a jet fighter which, Food and Agriculture advice to nations and regions and Most of us are unaware of how it. is believed, is comparable to the best American and British much A bumper crop is expected on carries out dozens y«f- similar we color the news because models of the type. It does not seem likelv that the Russians of our own opinions and preju the farms of North America this technical projects. have a really first-class big bomber. Their newest model is a dices. fall. In Europe, the harvest looks Another important FAO job version of our B-29. which they have developed as a transport as -------- like a good one. In the Far East, now involves recommendations well as a combat arm. In this connection, jt is an interesting fad ConHFGSS LibrarV some countries are predicting fine for international allocations of that the Russians “expropriated’’ one of our B-29s which was farm production for the first time scarce foodstuffs. Under this pro- forced down in Soviet territory during the war. The crew was ' ° 3n°W UFegOn since the end of the war. And gram, scarce commodities, like treated with all consideration, but the plane simply disappeared. Historical Exhibit still, say the farm scientists, the wheat and edible oil. are placed Russia has practically no surface fleet. Like Germany, she 1 On Saturday, September 11. the is concentrating her major effort on the submarine. Life says Library of Congress will formally world won't have enough food, under allocations by the govern- that she has about 250 of these underseas eraft in operation now. > open an’exhibition to commemoro because the earth’s population menta which export them in ac- . which • I» . .1. .. about L.. ..z v/v/v i v • • «•.- ■ ■ - is a device ' ate'the centennial of the estab has grown faster than the pro- cordance with FAO recommenda of 100 _ are snorkel-equipped. The snorkel lishment of the Territory of duct ion of food, beeause ineffi- tions. Thus, fair shares of scarce for permitting the sub and its crew to breathe under water, and Oregon. Luther Evans, the Librar cient methods of production are food go t<> countries which allows a diesel-powered eraft to run below the sea for as mueh ian of Congress, announced today. used and because the effects of need them most. as 15.000 miles. It was developed by the Germans, and Russia This will be the eighth in a series the war are still I holding back FAO and the U. N. Economic got a number of the Nazi U-boats when the last war ended. of major exhibitions at the Li farmers. Commission for Europe are work Going on, Soviet production, by her standards, is doing brary commemorating important Getting enough food for the ing together to plan the best ways well. However, she is far liehind the United States. As an ex anniversaries in the histories of people of the world is an inter- to gain economic recovery on Eu ample, she will produce less than one-quarter as mueh steel this States. It will include rare books, national problem and since the rope's farms. Such problems as year as we will. She hopes to produce 250.000.000 toms of coal in manuscripts, maps, prints, photo war, governments have increas markets, agricultural machinery newspapers, and music ingly tried to work together; and exports are involved in this 19;>0—and we passed that level 45 years ago. She is giving every graphs, from the collections of the Library A similar program is car thing to upping her output, which is one reason why the stan- together with items from other through the United Nations to I work. ried out with the U. N. Economic find international solutions. The | dard of living of the Soviet citizen is even lower than in prewar Federal agencies in Washington, main instrument of world Coop-, Commission for Latin America. «lays. and from governmental agencies eration in this field is the Food Improving the lot of the labor- Finally. Life deserilies Russia’s incredibly comple.x plan and private and civic institutions and Agricuture Organization of ers who work the worki's farms for moving much of her heavy industry liehind the Urab, to in Oregon. The exhibition will be j the United Nations, which has 57 Is one of the tasks of the inter- national Labor Organization Siberia, where it would be as remote from attack as possible. The described in a catalog to be pub members. in time for the formal open- I FAO's first big job is to help <ILO>, which reports several in- naive began in 1930, and it has been greatly accelerated since the lished ing on September 11. This will end of the w ar. To that end, she is developing every resource as contain the text of an address on the world raise its food produc- ternational programs affecting tion. To do this, FAO has al- agricultural workers now in prog- swiftly as she possibly can. the history of the state, as well ready sent missions and individ* f***8- Fnx|uently, parts of the All in all. Russia is a major military power. She is becoming as a complete catalog of the exhi ual experts to many nations to l°«n8 made by the Intermit tonal a major industrial power, though she has a long way to go bition, and illustrations of 18 of help find better methods of ag- Bank for Reconstruction ami De before she ean be compared to this country. As Life puts it. “For the 341 items. riculture. It has explored the use vclopment go for agricultural history is peculiarly rich of new types of forest and farm purposes, while the monetary a peaceful nation this great internal expansion could make in Oregon pictorial materials. An ex- Siberia a rich treasure house of progress. For a nation lient on ample will appear as a forerunner sources, which might furnish stabilization work of the Inter- war, it could produce an industrial fortress capable of supplying of tne main exhibition, in the Li large supplies of food. It has national .Monetary Fund may vast military forces and subject only to difficult, long-range brary's Exhibit-of-the-Week to be brought together nations of a re- have an important bearing on attack.’’ Which choice the Russians will make is the principal displayed August 14-20. That gion, like the Far East, so that I f°°d exports. t/iey could work together in de- The work on problems affecting problem the world faces. week will mark the centennial of veloping rice, fisheries and other food and agriculture involves the signing, by President James specific food. It keeps statistical participation by all appropiate THE BASIC CAUSE OF INFLATION K. Polk, of tne Act of Congress tab on production and food pro- agencies of the United Nations, The President’s message to the special session of Congress establishing the government of duction and makes studies of with the U. N. Economic and So- dwelt at length on rising prices and the high cost of living. But the Territory of Oregon. August I , specific problems so that the ciai Council as the coordinating it did not touch at all on one of the basic reasons for inflation 14. 1848. ! farmers of the world can find out agency. The picture as it stands The Exhibit-of-the-Week will be —the high cost of government. a fine colored lithograph, entitled about their own positions in the today is one of a fight on many Since 1939, according to government figures, the cost of "The American Village," showing market and so that governments fronts to feed the world - first, living has risen 73 per eent. But in the same period the cost of Oregon City on the Willamette can plan ahead. It gives technical i enough, and second, better. the federal government has risen 337 per cent—from less than River, as it appeared in the 1840’s $9.000.000.000 in 1939 to nearly £40.000,000,000 for the fiscal just before it became the capital year of 1948. To put it another way. the cost of government, of the newly created territory. federal, state and local, has increased at a rate nearly 4% times The sketch was made by the Brit as fast as the cost of living, and taxes now constitute the largest ish Captain Henry James Warre, in 1845 was sent to survey single item in the budget of the American people—larger than who conditions in the Oregon country, the nation’s bill for food. then under joint British and This undelines the folly of trying to find a scapegoat for American occupation. It is one of high prices. They aren’t the fault of manufacturers or retailers several drawings which he made or any other group. Industry, taking it as a whole, has raised during the expedition, and was prices reluctantly ami only when no other course was possible, published in London in 1848 in because high prices ultimately reduce sales. Our whole govern his Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory. ment fiscal policy is of a kind that makes more and more infla tion inevitable. MT. VIEW It is a gross deception to argue that the cure for higher Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Johnston prices lies in controls and roll-backs to the level of 1946 or some and son of Cottage Grove were other year. Nothing would do more to discourage production, visitors at the Walter Dowens GUARIR 3210 and to give this country a taste of w’hat a police state is like. home. •«temati« «Il Iqulpped wMl Jeanine Voss accompanied her Quakertrel. Talking too much and thinking too little has spoiled many relatives who have been visitinf a career. at their home to Vancouver. Ori their return they left for their Smith: “ I I’m in surprised that you permit your wife to go home in Fresno, Calif. The Victor Worley family have around telling the neighbors she made a man of you. You don’t sold their home and will move to IiPtir mv hear my wifo wife onvino saying flint that. 99 Washington. Jones: “No, but she told my wife that she had done her Mr. and Mrs. Leo Riker and two children motored to the coast Sunday. They reported nice sunny Another trouble with our country is that too many people weather there. who have nothing to say go right on saying it. Bob Worley of Washington .is visiting at the home of his father, One way to get a good, lasting finish on your ear is to try Victor Worley. Mr. and Mrs. Nord and family to beat the train to the crossing. of Baltimore, Md. have been visit Grandma knows what she's talking about. ing at the home of Mr. Nord’s iOfJSTjr She knows that with quakek oil heaters DORENA brother. They returned Monday you just turn the dial and let the mar- The Dorena H. E. club met with to their home. & velous, new quakertrol unit automatl- Mr. and Mrs. Milton Turay and cally make oil and air adjustments fof Creswell H. E. C. at the W. A. fk M* ' PMV” ™rning at every fire »tage . . . two sons were overnight guests Hemenway grove. A potluck din on any chimney! at the Walter Dowens home Sun ner was served to the 24 members day and left Monday for Washing what ’ s more , Grandma knows that only QUAKER heaters offer you present. During the day the club al) these plue features: ton to make their home. voted to make this an annual Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peterson BIS UTT. • • trim, modern cabinet finished in smooth, rich, brown enamel. and family attended a family pic affair on the third Sunday in July SAVIS mil... 25% m fuel saving» over any natural draft heater nic supper at Mosby Creek Satur and invite the Hebron Grange guaranteed! That means free heal every fourth weekl day. Mr. Peterson’s sisters, bits. H. E. C. and the men of the COMFORT »ide Radiadon for "»pot" heat . . . built in hbat Ida Smith and daughter, also her circulator thit gently spread» warmth to every room corner . . . Granges. It was also decided to son John Smith and family of finger tip control . . . »nd many more QUAKER feature» to provide you hold the annual picnic in- the city Portland, and Mrs. Minnie Hen with unequalled heating comfort! path. riksen of Creswell were there. Kathleen and Stephen Gillispie Jeannette Kelly motored to Eu were guests at the Walter Dowens gene one day last week. home one day last week. Some of the Grange members Peggy Ketcherside and Baba met at the Grange grounds Satur "I told you before we were mar Mosley left Monday for Eugene, 702 Main day and Sunday and poured con ried that I didn't care for money.” Phone 73 where they will pick beans. crete pillars for the Grange hall. UNITED NATIONS IN ACTION BRISBANE ELECTRIC Unde- 'dmlnlstratlvc control of the Office of Naval Reseureh, 29 WKKM'N MUOTBi "1 don't believe you can build non-governmental scientific agen a just and lasting peace in ti , cies will spend »,»>,000 conduct- hungry world. Somewhere ing biological and medical re down the road is a gate marked search projects for the Atomic Freedom from Want. It is also : Energy Cbmmission. the gateway to peace. Once we pass through it. men and na tions will be able to do many things that seemed impossible before. It is up to our gener ation to find that gate and open It, and you can help to lead the way." Non is E. Dodd, Dtrectnr-Gvnern) of the Food and Agriculture Organi* Ration of the United Nations. ' Democritus. the great physicist of ancient Greece, was the first man to discover tin* atom and re port that It was the basis of all matter. You can sell through the claMiflsd. by GENE WARE Tired of dented and scratched fenders’ Scientists have already solved the prob lem . . . fenders made of rub ber. It might be a few years before you go "bouncing” along the highways with them .... but they'll be worth waiting for. The rublicr wizards are hard at work trying to make our lives a lot more comfort able Already rublicr is used in over 35.000 different items . . . but that’s only a starter, they claim. The latest rubber inven tion” is called ''cellular rub ber” . . . it's composed of mil lions of nitrogen-fillrd bubbles. An egg, dropped from 11 stories will bounce from it without breaking. Someday this rublier will be savlrfg lives, instead of bouncing eggs By stretching the imagination a bit wo can see rublier sidewalks that will put you on your feet m case you slip! Summer vacation and back to school days require smalt lug gage. The finest and most dur able will be found in our new luggage department which will be completed Sept, first. We extend a cordial invitation to each and every one of you to come in and see this new de partment. Five Pasadena. Calif, youths were arrested for starting brush fires. They said they did it because they liked to pul them out. Their ambitions have been extinguished for the present. Our ambition hero, at COMMUNITY JEWELERS, 612 Main Street, is to please you. We try our bust by stock ing only the finest in watches, diamonds and silverware. Drop in soon and see our beautiful displays. I’tionc:35L overseas pay • • • travel • • • sports • • • go with an Army job in Japan! |t>w th* Imve rhtuiued. Throe years ago. when our first victorious combat men left Japan, much of It was a siuMtiblra. Die Japane»» people were an dsn-d by defeat they dldn t know which way Ui turn Ths life of an Army man often had it» discumhirta. But look nt Mm today! He « helped to start the robulldln* of Japan. U> restore ronds and lallwuys, to ln.plrv a Urad nnd humiry people with the hope 1,1 Democracy. Under bls guiding hand, courts of justice, woman »uflraue nnd freedom of wondUp have been brought about Tn Japan there U only one soidiar for every too Jtipnww — Hie -maltrwl jmt capita < m < upalhm army In the world. The pay of a Private 1» 60% hlslmr Hum throe years ago. Urn another 20•* higher oversrna And almost every cent can be banked. None of It goes for food. huUalliK. medicnl or dental care, clothing, retirement annuity, or tlie opportunity to con tinue his education The Army turnialiei bun equipment for organized sports. While on leave, lie can ski Ui winter or vMt summer resort» at a fraction of what the»« actlvlUca would cost turn in lire U S. An Army career in Japnn In full of ndvanlagsa aurh as these Compare It with any Job tu runs the board you'll find It hard to beat! 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