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Thun«.. June 15, HIV»
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MILTON. ORE.: Th«' recent "Why
1 Should Trade at Himu*" contort
sponsored by the Milton-Free
water t.'hamber of Commerce,
drew a big response, with eight
U h il high sehiHil students writing
> prize-w inning essays.
Such sentiments as “People do
not realize that the business hous
es in then district are required to
pay a tax that goes for wages of
local high school teachers" and
It everyon«* would trade In his
own home town the quality of
giHsis would increase, and the
price would d«x-rease" were ap-
plauded by the local merchants
-.ponsonng the "trad«' at home"
essay contest.
• • •
ManasUls Keillor
X.lvertlein« Muias«
*»rt»ty Kdltor, Pbnwn hOlY.
55«
Kenneth Cushman
(HU.. Manin
Mn. Miriam Adkin»
Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter.
NATIONAL
EDITORIAL
IT MAY BE A WOMAN'S WORLD
The traditional lament from the so-called "hen pecked
male” is growing louder as more and more women are invad
ing the employment field and infiltrating where it hurts the
mucc,. in the nation’s job marts. The employment of women
says a recent survey, which suffered a two year post wai
slump, has come back with a bang as 18,000,000 of them
now collect regular pay checks and now account for 29 per
• cent of the nation's work force.
.
According to a Wall Street Journal survey the number
■ of women job holders ami job seekers has jumped 24 per cent
in the past ten years, while the number of men workers has
. crept up a scant 7.7 per cent.
’The trend may be a worry to a lot of men. but to the
jnatidh's shopkeepers it may mean good news and ring a
• lot of cash registers as it shifts more purchasing power from
men to women.
GETTING INTO POLITICS; A NEW HEADACHE
This community has never enjoyed the distinction of be
ing a county seat town, which partly explains the apparent
»lack of interest in politics so far as county politics goes and
Iperhaps the lack of interest may even extend into state and
«national fields. At any rate we have missed a lot of head-
| aches.
But occasionally we do have a candidate for a county
lor state office and we have to have candidates for city office
•although the candidate is more often given a sort of a back
hand push to get him in the latter job, since a city job carries
a lot of responsibility, but little or no pay. An active candi
date usually finds the job carries an unusual amount of
•headaches, for those who may give him or her the most
Encouragement to start with often desert his camp. Or he
finds a lot of voters who may be free with promises, but
seldom make these promises good. The majority like to vote
*for the winner if they can judge who the winner might be
and have no scruples against breaking a promise to support a
'certain candidate, if they think the candidate may fail to be
The winner.
As a community institution which is supposed to be the
mouthpiece of the section it serves." a newspaper does not al
ways escape the unpleasant situations which may arise out
of the campaign. We either don’t support the candidate
Vigorously enough or recite his abilities and sing his praises
enough to suit his friends or it might be that we have failed
io assume the attitude of a dictator and tell the people how
o vote which incurs the displeasure of the candidate or his
friends.
. - <->
A^ver the years of our newspaper connection we recall
two instances where we were foolish eirnugh to open
the columns of our newspaper for the prospective candidate
to xtiscuss the issues involved and after donating several col
umns of space, wound up by making an enemy of the candi
date. Now we know better, but these same instances show
how easy it is to get excited over trivial matters and per
haps hold a grudge for years.
All of which leads us to the conclusion that when a
campaign ends, forget it.
MORE TH AN ONE ALARMED AT FEDERAL SPENDING
More than one organization and individual are alarmed
at the current rate of federal spending. Under the title of
"Federal Spending Facts”, the Council of State Chambers of
Commerce deplores the fact that new taxes would hit the
low income groups and says in part:
“If all personal incomes in excess of $10,000 a year were
confiscated by Uncle Sam, it would barely give him the addi
tional money needed to wipe out the $5 > 2 billion deficit and
finance the $1 billion first year’s cost of the new Federal
spending programs proposed in the 1951 budget.
- “Since the nation faces a choice of submitting to higher
taxes or reducing federal spending if Uncle Sam is to live
within his income, the Council of State Chambers of Com
merce today pointed up some of the difficulties in increasing
federal revenues.
“This study revealed that if, for instance, the federal
government set $50,000 as the maximum income that could
be retained by individuals and took outright all income above
$50,000, it would get only about $843 million more than it
gets now from present taxes on those incomes. This $843
million would be enough to run the federal government only
one week.
"Or suppose Uncle Sam called $25,000 the most anyone
could have and took everything made above that figure. That
1 would give the government a little over $2 billion in addi
tional revenue. This is just a little less than the government
intends to spend on agricultural activities and subsidies alone
in 1951.
But, of course, Uncle Sam would never think of taking
such a big tax bite because he knows he would destroy all
personal incentives to earn that much again.
“The survey showed further that in spite of the high
taxes on incomes of $100,000 and over, Uncle Sam collected
only $1.2 billion from 10,844 persons with such incomes in
1947 which is the latest year for which complete setatistics
are available. This total was only 6V2 per cent of all income
taxes paid that year. And tax rates on incomes over $100,W0
that year ranged from 67 per cent to as high as 91 per cent.
“On the other hand, 51 million taxpayers reporting in-
‘ comes of less than $5,W0 in 1947 paid $8>/2 billion which is
48 per cent or almost half of the income taxes collected that
J year.
“The Council said, ‘There is no getting around the fact
that any additional burden of taxes must fall on the lower
income groups. They have only two choices: submitting to I
more taxes or demanding cuts in present spending with a ,
• halt to new spending’.”
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CLAFLIN, KANSAS, CLARION: “Payments of Social
Security old age benefits ... are not being paid out of the
money that was paid into the government treasury in payroll ’
-1 taxes. That money is gone—used up by the federal spenders. I
social security money which the government has borrowed.!
< All that represents it is government bonds issued for the
Interest on these bonds is used to pay social security benefits
. and this interest is paid by taxpayers, in addition to the f
money they have already paid in as a payroll tax.”
, “We have talked entirely too much about ‘security’.
ihere has been too much emphasis on ‘riskless savings’ and
‘safe future’. We should do more talking about people be
coming owners of business."—Emil Schram.
Washington Letter
Th«* women of the Friendly
Neighbors club will s|k>nsor a
lieneflt dance al Walker Saturday
night, Jun«* 17. The proce«*<l.s will
go to Hu* school district lor the
playah«*d fun«i. Lunch will I m * sold
in th«* old high school building
Around
«Ml wag cleared hum
the b«*ne(it dance given by the
Saginaw-Walker Omununily club
at the hall Sat unlay night.
Mis. George Getty s|K*nt three
■lays in Bend last week atlemling
a iHMdinasters convention.
Mr and Mrs. Georgi* Drink
water moved to Eugene last week,
where Mr Drinkwuler is employ-
ed.
Hal Callantine left for Montana
Sunday, where he will spend the
summer with lelatives
Bobbie Copp of (.'ullage Grove
Is visiting his father Sam t’opp
Ada Mao Kelchersid«* of Mount
View spent a couple of days last
week with Linda Bash.
Mr and Mrs. Tom Lane, newly
weds, left for their bom«* at Santa
Rosa, California. Monday after
spending a week at th«* II <)
Laird home.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Smith and
children. Marleen and Gordon of
Riddle stopped on their way home
from the Rose Festival in Port
land to visit at tlie home of Mr.
Smith's sister. Mrs. Lottie Kirken
dall. Marleen and Gordon playisi
in the Riddle band in th«* parade
at Portland. Mr». Kirkendall's
mother. Mis. Ella Smith and a
niece, Marie Mecum of Portland
who actompmiied the Smiths to
Riddle, were also guests at th«*
Kirkendall home. Other guests
were Mr and Mm. U*slu* Maugh
of Sutherlin.
T«*d Thompson who is employe«!
in Eugene, spent the week end at
his liome here.
W. G. McAtee. Waynne Hilton.
R. P. Bash and Johnny Bash *| m hi
the week end on u fishing trip into
eastern Oregon.
George Conley is proudly dis
playing a gold nugget which he
found at his m I n e on Sharp's
Creek.
MEAX ERR HI V JERSEY
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I M'NMVMIIIK GSEENIIOl’NEM
I HOM IIAROI.I» ( LARK
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ENLARGES, MODKKNI/ES
Mr
mid
Mrs.
R
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Seaver
of
The office and display room of
the Sunnyside Greenhouses nt Cottage Grove hme purcliascd the
17<1| West Main is undergoing en registered Jersey. Viscount Lucile.
largement mid Is iM'ing iiHMlern- I rimi llmnld <'Im k of Creswell, It
ized Th«* floor s|NU*e in the build was miiumnced this week by the
ing will I h * enlarged Io aliotit twice Anu-rirmi Jersey Callie dub.
Jerseys ar«* reglsterc«! at th«*
its site and when eomplrted will
I h * Id by 22 fis*t. A modernistic national ultice of the club in Co
touch Is IM'ing added to tin* in liimbus, o^lo. Complete rwords
terior which is being finished in on a 11 registered Jerseys have
knotty hemhx'k Face brick will bi'cn kept by the organization
I m * used along the front of II» sine«* I KUH.
building. The remodeling is being i
EvcrylMidy reads Hie Classified
doni* by. Russi li Wolcott
OREGON - AT - LARGE: For
some mysterious reason the fc-
I male still excells the male in
scholastic accomplishment
at
least on the high school level.
In nearly every Oregon high
school, it’s the girls who give the
valedictory and salutatory ad-
dresaes at commencement.
In
Athena. Marita Carlson and Con-
nie Harris tied for top honors;
than our labor cost alone. U. S.
Reedsport Union high school’s
plywood, few example, costs 43 per
s.dutatorians are Patricia Ann
cent more to produce than plywood
Taylor and Ruth Ine* Miller, anil
produced in Canada. Since 11)47
valedictorian. Florence Rookard,
foteign flower bulbs have flooded
at Ashland, Joanne Downing and
the market here at such low
Kay Beck will do the honors, and
prices that our growvrs are driven
in Ontario it's Lola Margaret
out of business. But up to now. at
Brooke.
least, our State department of
Since science has not revealed
ficials who set tariff rates have
turped their tracks on United any superior intelligence on the
States producers and ap{>ear to part of either the male or the fe
think only in terms of aiding male, it is probably safe to as
sume that this apparent female
foreign industry.
superiority among hi^h school
I have not heard of any case
stuiients may lx* attributed to
wherein local producers are ask philosophy among the boys tha il
ing an advantage over foreign just isn't ‘smart’ to get good
goals. All that our jieople are ask grades.
ing is that tariff rates be so fixed
that foreign produce will sell at
prices that are reasonably near
competitive with domestic prices
based' upon costs in the United
States.
• • •
Shortly after the end of the war
our benevolent government went
ALUMIN relieves dhtreMlng symptom«
into the business of financing pre
of "Mrvoui «tomach"— heaviness aftsr
moab,
bakhing, bloating and coUe dua to
fabricated houses via a privately
gas. ALUMIN has boon scientifically
owned corporation known as Lus
tea tod bydoctors and found highly effective.
tron. The Reconstruction Finance
There's only one thing a person Moro than a % billion eold to date. Ash for
Corporation, which poured $37.- gets in life for nothing; a bad
ALLI MIN Garlic Tablets
500,000 into the Lustron Corpora
Cottagi* (Trove l’burmacy
tion. has bid in the firm for name. A person should not think
Cottage Grove, Oregon
$6,000,000. At the sale of the they’re smart. Let others think 63? Main
Lustron assets the RFC offered you are smart and you show them
the only bid, announcing it was
D. P. (Darn Poor! Potter
acting to "protect” its interests.
Lustron repaid the government
to Washington's Time
ynly $1,000,000 on the huge loan
Jn the days of Washington and
made to the firm. The RFC says Lincoln most people raised their
that the Lustron plant will remain own gr tin and either ground it
closed while it tries to resell to ■hcmselves or had it ground at a
private interests.
nearby gristmill. ’Hie houswke used
The annual shortage of box
ears on the railroad system which
serves the Oregon country has be-
gun earlier than usual this year.
The best estimate is that shoppers
ire now receiving only 70 per cent
if the cars they need. The princi
pal commodity affected is lumber.
Unless this condition is improved
<oon employment in the lumber
ind logging industry will be re
duced accordingly.
Ordinarily there is a seasonal
shortage of cars which occurs in
the fall when the grain crop must
be moved. Usually the condition,
hough serious and costly, does
not last more than a couple of
nonths. But this year is different.
The car shortage began to be felt
n May and shows no signs of
iiminishing as the peak grain
oading weeks approach. What is
’he reason for the car shortage
low? The basic trouble is that the
ail roads own box cars enough to
landie the rail transportation
reeds of a population of 13O.000.V00
neople but not enough cars to
«erve our present pojiulation of
150.000,000. However, the off-sca-
son appearance of a shortage is
«aid to be due, first, to the upset
n our rail network caused by the
recent strike on a number of
bads. Secondly, Un prulongcd coal
it like caused the railroads con-
iiderable trouble the effects of
which are still felt.
I have spent considerable time
discussing the problem with of
ficials of the Interstate Commerce
Smallest State Capital
?om mission
here. They
state
Carson City, Nev., with fewer
frankly that they cannot figure than 2 5X1 inhabitants. Is the small
Hit a solution that will give any est state capital in the United
immediate relief. Cars cannot be Stites
I
produced by passing a law or
issuing an order. Apparently the
railroad officials are just going to
have to pull off their coats and
■step up their operating efficiency.
» • »
Potter’s
Patter
NERVOUS
STOMACH
June 13,11:30 A. M. Joshua Time
GtHulm-ss! Can't smuelHHly do »oiuHhbig? Thin cloudy
weather lia» »hortra«*«i our dai light hour». I liirni'il the clock
hands ahead some more—didn't help a I'll—then I turnvil them
baci«—«till cloudy. Maybe II we could turn one hand bachwards
amt the other forward It would help.
Well next Sunda.i we ulll han* to depart from our Id
hour n day open policy and «'lost* up for it three hour |M*rlixl.
t:IM> I*. M. to 3:<HI P. M.. w will he closed—three hour««—Why?
Well. Iitti I» getting married mi we want Io see the knot lied.
Boy, do you remember back to thu»«* day» of "Will you", “1 will”,
and "Ho you", "I Do”, All! thoiu* were the days.
4 mi took her In the hand, finally got up enurnge and
blurted out "Will ion marry me?” Iler hand tightened around
yours—you thuught It was hue, well »he probably was holding
on iifruitl you would gel away. Iler yolce qtinirrcd a» »h<* an-
»wered—"lei. I will,” 1 on thought that na» caused by tlmld-
II»»»—probably eagernrs«.
Anyhow now you can look back and m *>* why papa let
them ferii yon good company meni» and ahoiied Just enough
opposition to you as a prua|M<ctlvr son-In law to make you more
determined to get the girt. In fact you may In* doing the urne
thing lo »orín* young fellow'.
Well It I» great to rrnn'mlwr back uhm you felt that
you could lick the wurlìi Imre liaiideil and Ui«* girl bcllried you
could glie It two rounds to start.—but more eoiiifortlug to know
that although you failed to gilè Ilie world a proper trouncing,
the same girl non thinks it makes no difference whether you
libi or not as you gave It a good battle—all you had to giic.
Now «hr Is more Interested in how you feel anil what
you would like to rat.
Well, that 1» where we cam«* In to the picture. Mhe can
<l«a»i- oyer hen* most anytime betwrn 7 t. M ami II I*. M. and
get the pr««|M*r Ingrrdh'llts for a pro|wr meal. Still hale a frw
fresh fryers,
Cantwell’s ‘76’ Service and
Junior Market
lliwuy 9!) North — Phone 221 K — CottaKe Grove. On*.
LISTEN
To The Cottage Grove Hour
fresh whole-grain flour to bake the
bread and rolls for her family. In
this way. practically all the vita
mins and minerals of the grain
were present in the homemade
bread
Every Monday Wednesday Friday 7:45 8:00 A M.
Music - News thru the Courtesy of the Sentinel
KORE
Lately I have made appearances
before the Committee for Recipro
city Information on behalf of the
mib and plywood industries. The
committee with that fancy name
is not much more than a “wailing
wall" at which people may recite
their troubles. The troubles are
•aused by the way in which the
state department is
reducing
tariffs under the reciprocal trade
agreements Jaw. The bulb growers
and plywood workers are in the
unfortunate position of sending
their tax money to help build
up foreign industries which then
•hip goods produced by low paid
labor to this country. They can
and do sell their products for leu
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row.
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