The Sentinel, Cotta*« Grove, Oregon
Thun»., Aug. 26, 1!M8
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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
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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
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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! Ask at your neareat Army and Air Forte KccrulUng
Station for full details.
U. S. ARMY AND
U.S. AIR FORCI
RICRUITINO SCRVICI
cangfdt with s fumivi
U. S. Army
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